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13e frieuel to One tlel
theUttI MU of ways.
Do Wet atend ground life'e corners,
Just to ,gether words 01 :praise
For the mighty things, you've finished,
Anti of which you have a share --
Measured by Material luterests—
Worit that coat but Wiling care.
Down along the iroe4 are many
Whom a little turn will bless.
It may 'oet; but, oh, the Interest
It will earn in easiug stress
.luat to read in Anxious faxes
Hoed the world wears on the heart
Of the cOnilllea eort of people ,
Who -were hampered at the start.
Help them from the store you carry,
Serve a kindly word or two.
Stlitelt life'a (leaky seams 'With K145111110;
Be A friend, sincere anti true.
Tarry for a, little moment,
Though your claims Call loud and long;
For tile very beet of richee
14e in)Uig others sarong.
"not Pase bees y&tt never
Ind this sort of were. before,
Leern to keep or other mortals
Love and sympathy in store;
Stoon 'within each day to leave theta
Where within the Iteurs you read
The sad and oft told story
Of a weaker gout's sore need.
Manch Chambers,
TiALLY TO TUG eiVOGle.
(M. McGregor.)
The world (it nature &mins ot be organized
on tne plan of. periods ea rmt followed by
Periods of activity. There is ex course tory
muss of the great nanchinery of the uni-
verse ttet moves no with stately and never-
coteing malestY from age to age. The stars
do not halt 10 then* courses, nor does the
aim oer show signs of wearinees, But in
vegetatue and animal worlds this un-
eeasing activity Is impassible. The winter
months are the vaeatiou time in Me vege-
table world when nature is recuperating her
scent tomes aml preparing for the glorious
outburst of the Spring when everything re-
joices and reeponds to the new forces which
are then liberated. There is no titne of tbo
year when, the resurrection •activity is go
merited everywhere as in the period which
succeeds the sleep of winter.
There is no time 01 the day when the heal-
thy berlY is )nore charged with energy than
In the morning, when for several blessed
hours the mental and physical tension has
been relaxed. and the forces spent by toll
have been recuperated and renewed by na-
ture's sweet restorer, sleep.
It would not do to press any analogy too
far. and to say that what is a rule tor tue
"ronIty,geal and the mental should bo the rule
for the spiritual life. The idea there is rather
that of quiet, steads, uneeasiug growth and
develomnent, going untiringly forward as the
shining light which shineth more and more
e unto the perfect day.
For good or ill the vacation habit has be-
come fixed, and while the period of midsum-
mer rest should not involve any break sn
our Christian living it does make a serious
inroad upon our normal congregatioual at-
tivities. In the rural cougregations it is Vthe
time at greatest stress and strain when
church work is carried on with less 'Mgt
than at other times. In town and city, eon-
gregations as many are absent that th4 work
iti sorely demoralized and a good mayy parts
or It are dropped altogether.
This is the rallying time for mist of our
young people's societies. The members are
back in their accustomed place% and the
leaders are planning the work for another
Year. It le important that t work ,should
be resumed with new vigor and enthusiasm
anti with a, deepened emir i of consecration
that will insure success.
THE GLJtY OF MAN.
(Rudolf Steigha n. la Boston 'Transcript.)
I know not hove. the grief of mind.
The fevereVoubts and hopes and fears,
enifig in the lapsing years;
,‘,.sil-sesiVI hold that God is kind;
That smiles from sorrow's tears will grew,
And harvests from the sower's eeed;
That each self-erucifying deed
Will bear fruition's bloom of snow.
To dream of glories yet to be
Embodied forth in perfect thought,
That in the cycles will be wrought
Into the temple's majesty;
To look from attic caseme,nts, where
The went, shoreless seas of night
Gieam with sidereal voyagers bright,
And guide the wayward fancy there.
Amid the musiC of the spheres,
Is more than wealth or conquest gives;
Our dreams, in which the epirit lives,
Are golden towers that it rears.
The pallid, care-sev,med, yearning face
Turnet„avenward w subllme unrest
-- yere-goug....7tearth.s.• —
Or carved .soine statue's perfect grace.
And It may be some deed of love,
Sorae llent sacrifice of mine
Will, like eve's jeweled planet, shine
Eternal in the heavens above.
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Since the refusal ot her relatives to
assist her, it 'became necessary for Ellen
to reflect, ai4 edeviele-aor rather for
Vather Goodrich to reflect and decide
for her---apon what ehould be done for
the support of the family. Ellen was
skilful in various kinds of needlework;
she was also Et good scholar. After
much consultation, it was arranged that
Ellen should give up her home at the
end of the next quarter and remove to
town, and that, in the meantime' Father
Goodrich should go thither andtry to
interest some of the ladies of his congre-
gation in his poor young protege. So,
after having remained in the neighbor.
hood for a fortnight, Father Goodrich
took leave of Ellen aud returned to
town. And the young widow was left
with her children in her sylvan home to
be nursed back to health of mind and
body by the holy inspirations of religion
the peaceful ministrations of nature, and
the healing influence of time.
And thus nearly three months went
by, when, one evening, the seveuteenth
of July, Ellen sat on her doorstep,
soothing her still delicate boy to sleep,
and herself soothed into peace by the
beauty of the sylvan scene, and the still-
ness of the evening. Suddenly a shadow
fell upon her, and she raised her eyes.
le7orali stood before her. With an ex-
clamation of surprise and joy, Ellen
sprang up, put the boy down, and
caught the wanderer in her arms, cry-
ing:
"Oh, mother! is this you, sure enough!
Oh, mother! I am so—so
And Ellen burst into tears. Norah did
not rettun her embrace. Norah could
not; her aims were locked tightly
around something that she carried on
her bosom; but she -said, faintly:
"Ellen, move out of my way at once,
and let me come in and sit down, for 1
am almost dead!"
Anil Ellen, With 'affectionate and anx-
ious trepidation, pushed the door wide
open and drew forward the old cushion-
ed chair, And Norah sank into it heavi-
ly, and with a deep groan, and uncov-
ered the sleeping child an& laid it on
her knees. Ellen drew near and gazed
with surprise and curiosity and tender
interest, end then exclaimed interroga-
tively:
"A baby, my mother! Why, -where
on earth did you get it from? Whose
is it?"
But instead of answering these ques-
tions, Norah only sighed and groaned,
,but presently said:
"Ellen, if you have got a fan give me
one, for this poor little wretch is nearly
suffocated with heat."
The violets know mot thet they give
A sweetness to the common, air;
Nor sunsets dream their glories rare
Have made the glowing eanyas live.
Then do thy work, my soul ! Thou'It see
The earth -born spirits reap the gain,
What matters here to strive in vain?
Thy meed is immortality!
GOD'S OMNIPOTENCE,
The secret ot power is the consciousness of
our weakness and of the omnipotence of God,
atvl the assurance that If our weakness offers
Itself to His service, He will put forth His
omnipotence through us. No mere self-con-
fident power, relynag upon its otvn ingenu-
ity or determination or resources, can equal
or overmatch the etrength of weakness allied
to God.
Our very idea of God involves His omnipo-
teece. 11 some one else le stranger than God,
then that some one else would be more than
God, then that some one else would be more
fled than our God. Our God is infinite, be-
yond all earthly limitations,. the creator of
heaven end earth, maker of all things. All
Power hi His. Our 'hearts can be absolutely
at rest in the reaseuring knowledge teat He
that is /or us is owe than all that can be
against us. ThireiNKs the ever -comforting
,...faith,pflgrael. are; in the darkest hours they
were oustaideerby it. Their God was strong-
er than ar their foes.
And God , is not only so strong and able,
but He is streng and able to help us and
to answer our peayera. Paul states his con-
viction on this point in the strongest pos-
sible terms. Our God, he says, is able to do
for is: he is able to do what we ask; He is
elle to de' whet we ask or think; I -le Is able
to do all we ask or think; He is able to do
above all that we ttek or think; He Is able
to do abundantly above all that we ask or
thiek; Be is able to do exceedingly abund-
antly' above all We ask or think. How could
Wore than this he said ?
13111 1± God is all-PoWerful, we cannot help
asking. Why dose lie not destroy evil and
the evil one, aud the fearful temptations
which play such havoc with life 7 If God,
can. why dew Ile not at once ptit an end to
sin and establish the kingdom of righteous-
ness ? Well, there is a great mystery here
which we pelmet eselv,e,-ethe old mystery of
evil. tut we do not escape .from the mys-
tery of evil by denying the power of God.
We Merely deprive ourselves of our o.ne hope
that sane day 'we shall eto the end ot the
ruyetery in the triunaph of God, and of the
goodness of which non is the source and the
crown, We cannot deny that the evil le here
and alto that God is /strong, and we know
that sortie day Ile will prevail.
And if God is Oki to do exceedingly abun-
dantly abeve all our (prayers end deSires,
why, We eartnot hell) asking, does Me deny us
our meat eager and Importunate ereeers
lier,ause we mutt believe, Ged is strong in
lose, ate wen as in power, and the strength
of .1Is love is greater than the mere strength
et Ills Might, Ilather, Ills Might is the
Might. of love, and Ile ean tIO only sviust is
*erre-ells, loving stid pertectle good. While
lie is infinite And ewer/game our faith in
1118 fetherheod holds that Ile is not naked,
unprieeipled sower, but liVesand reigne 111
rigliteoutmetre and love, rtnd that knewing
vrhet le best for Us, He dote what is beet hi
answer to our prayere,
But will Ile not do what is beet lit exer
calla.? Truly Ile Will always act in love. But
neat et the mystery of Ins goverement
men as not only the mystery of pain wid
evil, but also the mystery of our freedom
and strength, through which, and not cruel, -
lax whin, lee will do for U.r.
l,lone but an eninheritent God tould he 811-
h:wing and all -wfa.
bath InOoal Smoke,
Now that the German medical men
have diecovered that the breathing' of
cod smoke predisposes the lungs to
tuberculoode and even Mord violent
lung trouble, snch 0111 pnemnonia, the
effort to get rid of our local; smoke
nulsanee beeonees more than s Matter of
oteethetkei. It may be it matter of life
Or death for not a few peeple.
Ellen's only friend in the city was Fa-
ther Goodrich, and it was through his
kind offices that she obtained as Much
needlework as she could possibly do.
And she worked steadily from the ear-
liest down of day till twelve or one
o'clock at night, while old Abishag took
cram of the house, the children luta the
lunatic grandmother, But, alas! alas!
what could one frail pair of Nvoluan'S
halide do toward supporting a family of
Nix, when house rent, and fuel, and
lights, and food, and clothing were to
be purchased for them all? Ellen worked
very hard, but without making her fam-
ily comfortable, without doing more
than just keeping their souls and bodice;
together.
Toil and privation are long in doing
their work, and so three years of
wretched penury passed away before El-
lerfe health and strength utterly failed.
It was the year that the great pesti-
lence broke out in the city. And. that
autumn found Ellen herself in the in-
firmary, her children in the orphan asy-
lum, her mother-in-law in the lunatic
hospital, anti poor old Hag in the aline -
house.
Ellen took down from the mantelpiece
a spread turkey wing and handed it to
Norah, and, while the latter was fan-
ning the child, Ellen kneeled down by
it to take a nearer yiew.
"Poor little thingl how pale it is,
mother! Is it sick? Whose is it?"
"Her mother and father are both dead.
They died with the fever that broke
out on the ship in which they sailed
from Irela:nd. They left no other chil-
dren, only this baby, and I took it to
save it from the poorhouse," said Morale
And as Ellen still looked astonished
and wondering, she added, impatiently:
wa'n't going to let my nephew's
child go to the poorhouse! You would
not expect me to do such a thing, would
yen?"
"No, surely not. Hush, hush, my dar-
ling baby! You shall go to your Minnie
by-and-by (when you go to Heaven)."
"Well, George Grove was my nephew.
You have hearci me talk of George
Grove?"
"Yes—no; I don't know!"
"Oh, yes you have! You forget! Well,
George Grove, poor fellow, with his wife
and child, were coming over to this
country, and they took the fever and
died, and when the ship got to A-
1 took the child to keep it off the par-
ish, as I said. And -another time I will
tell you more about it. I am too tired
now. And there comes the old woman
with the milk," said Norah, in a wearied
tone.
And Ellen, who, of all human beings,
was the most simple and credulous, and
the least suspicious, took the babe with
her, *and went for the fresh milk. And
Norah, who f elt no remorse for the
theft of the child, experienced a pang
of wounded pride in feeling herself forc-
ed to invent a falsehood to conceal that
theft.
Days passed, ;luting which little Maud,
infant -like, at intervals suffered to bo
amused, and then remembered and
moaned for her mother. But at the end
of the week the vision had faded in the
baby's memory, and in another week
Ellen had won her love entirely to her-
self. And from thie time the child's
vigorous organization rebounded into
fine health. The time drew near
when Ellen was to leave her
sylvan horae. Ellen spoke of it
to her mother-in-law. But Norah war
totally passive and indifferent; she
seemed to have lost all care for all
things in life. Her looks anhi manners
gave Ellen great anxiety. The wretched
woman would sometimes sit for the
whole day without speaking or eating,
and, when night came, instead of going
to bed, tehe would wander forth into tho
forest ansi be absent till morning. Anti
Ellen at last noticed, with startling tex•
ror, that these eccentric habits alwayt
recurred upon the chatige of the moos,
increesing in erraticism toward its full
and abating with its wane. And the
poor young widow could no longer doubt
that her wreathed mother was a, lunatic.
She wa,s a harmless one as yet, but as
her malady increased Ellett feared very
much what might be its consequences to
herself and others, especially as there
was no one to look after and take etre
of her except Ellen's eelf and old Abi-,
!shag.
Ellen deferred her departure for still
another quarter, upon account of the
autumn fevers that prevailed in the city,
and to which she shrank from exposing
the children. This second delay brought
the first of November, by which day all
was arranged for the removal of the lit-
tle family. Her landlord kindly assisted
her in settling up her bueinese in the
neighborhood, and tratteporting her fur-
niture to the city. And .thet good priest
—"good shepherd of sheep," indeed--'en'
gageda small, ehestp house in town for
the poor widow and her children, anti-
c:one down into the country to attend
them thither.
By the middle of Noventher they were
eettled in their humble new home. AM -
shag had insisted on coming to town
with the youfamily, that were ail
dear to her as if they had, been her own
children, :tad, indeed, it would have been
very diffieult for Ellen to disponee with
her ,erviets.
CHAPTER XI.
The pestilence Was at its very height.
The city was emptied of half its popu-
lation. Private business was Stopped.
Not only the theatres and eoncert-roorns,
but the very schools and churches, were
closed. Death and his consort, Terror,
reigned. Only the drug store, the hos-
pitals, asylums and infirmaries remained
in hill and in active operation—only the
heroic ITINIICR1 faculty, the devoted Sta-
ters of Charity, and a 'few benevolent
gentlemen and clergymen, continued at
their posts in the plague -stricken city,
Among the most devoted to the suf-
ferere were Daniel Hunter and Augusta.
They went everywhere—into the most
squalid alleys of the city, into the most
crowded wards of th.e hospitals. They
were withou.s fear. Nor, indeed, for
them was there any danger—their phys-
ical organdzation, their strong and
steady nerves, their fearless souls, efec-
tually repelled the influence of conta-
gion.
The fury of the pestilence was already
abating, and people were lifting their
panic-stricken head e with something like
a feeling of security, and the terrified
fugitives from the city were thinking
of returning, when one day about this
time, Daniel Hunter and Augusta went
together to visit the infirmary attached
to the alms -house. ln passing through
the women's convalescent ward, they
noticed a little, fair-haired, blue-eyed
child, who was certainly out of place
there, yet to whom no one seemed to
pay the least attention. The little one
was sitting flat upon the floor, and
looking &rotund with a half -curious, half -
frightened expression of countenance.
.Augusta stooped and patted the child
encouragingly on the head, and inquired
of one of the women whose it was. The
woman could not inform her; she eaid
the child had arrived with a new set of
fever patients that morning, and that
the superintendent had not gtet seen her.
Augusta was looking at the little one
with deep interest. It was si beautiful
and interesting child, with a very fair
coxnplexion, delicate features, dark -blue
eyes, and clusters of pale, golden hair
curling around a broad, fair forehead,
find its innocent gaze was raised with
full confidence to the lady's pale sweet
face. Augusta's eyes were sLffused
with gentle tears. •
"She reminds me, somehow, of little
Maud," she said.
"les," replied. Daniel Hunter, looking
tenderly and thoughtfully at the child.
"She is about the age our sweet Maud
would have been had she lived, and she
has also her complexion, but Maud's
features wee° cast in a nobler mold
than this little one's."
Deniel ilunter attempted no tioneala.
tion beyoud preesing iter hand.
But Augusta felt Iter dress softly
eitteped by Infant arms, and, raisiag her
head from its resting Om and looking
down, Ole HMV ti).0 little child WIC em-
bracing her, and lifting Ha sweet,, sympa.
thetic Mee to hero, She driest her teem
and placed her hand in, !wiled:ea:toe on
the little bright head.
"Poor little one," she :said; "sweet lit.
tie one—with all her poverty aud ettifer-
ing, ehe has kuown nothing but love;
for see how sympathetic and how fear-
less ehe ie—that also remit:41e me of our
Maud"
Daniel Hunter was looking down upon ao. You cannot learn dress-malang
the child also. as
thorough as this course teaches if you
ewhat MIL be done with tide orphan, work in shops foryears, Beware of imita-
Sister Martha?" he asked. tions as we employ no one outside the
"She will remaiu at the ahne-house un-Ptihecoannlyade:d
p.aeorieenxeceedllDedresbys
til she is old enough to be bound out, Cs tottel.g SchoolThsi is n
none In any other country, Write at once
like the other pauper children, I auppose,
sir," answered the Sister, sadly,
Daniel Hunter and Augusta were both
contemplating the child with deep in-
terest. On Iteariug this reply, both rais
edl their eyes, and their earnest, ques-
tioning glauces mot — the identical
thought was in the minde of both—both
spoke at once.
"She is fatherless," said Daniel Hun -
"She is motherless," mid Augusta.
"And we are childless," eoneluded both
together.
They looked again in each other's
foam Augusta's heart was palpitating
aneelotuely, her color came and went.
The child's gentle bands still clasped her
dress, while she looked up with innocent,
Unconscious eves to her face.
"Will you take her, Augusta?" inquir-
ed. Daniel Hunter.
"Take her! May I? 011 MT. Huuter!"
exclaimed the lady, grasping the hand
that etill held hers, and looking anxious-
ly, entreatingly in his face, end hanging
with hope and fear upon his next worde.
They came very sweetly through
gravely smiling lips.
"Most certainly, Augusta, if it will add
to your happiness."
"Lmay take her! Can you be in earn-
est? 011' thank you, Mr, Hunter! Oh,
yes! I will take her, indeed, poor or-
phan!" said Augusta, stooping at once,
and lifting the child. to her bosom.
LEARN DRESSMAKING BY MAIL
in Year SPAM UM() At home, or
TAO a PerS0ea100UrSe at S011001.
To enable ell to learn we teach ea
cash or instalment plan. We also teach a
personal close at schogai once a month.
Class zommencing last Tuesday of each
month, These lessons teaches how to 'tit,
fit and put together any garrneut from the
plainest Add waist suit, to the most elabor-
ate dim, The whole family can learn from
one course. We have taught over seven
thousand dress -making, and guarantee to
give fiVe hundred dollars to any one that
cannot learn between the age of le and
"Yes, but she has the same colored
hair and eyes and complexion, and I
hate to see her here in the poorhouse,"
said Augusta, lingering, still lingering,
and looking back a.s they passed the Jaz
child. They went their rounds, spending
two or three hours in going from ward
to Ward, visiting the patients, advising
with nurses anhi consulting with physi
clans. And on their return they passed
once more through the convalescent
ward, where the beautiful child still re-
mained. A Sister of Charity, who was
the daily attendant of this ward, ap-
proached to welcome and speak with
Mrs. Hunter. When they had exchanged
their greetings:
"Can you tell me, Sister Martha,'who
is this little child?" inquired Augusta.
"Ahl it is a very sorrowful case,
madam. A whole family brought in this
morning appareatly dying of the pesti-
lence—this little one the only member
left unstricken."
"A whole family!
had hoped to hear
cues."
"A whole family, madam; a wretched,
starving family, found abandoned in the
last stage of the fever, and brought here
by the commissioners this morning."
"011, Heavenl How many of them
Were there, then?" inquired Daniel Hun-
ter.
"Five in all, sir—a woman with three
children, and an old colored nurse"
"And what is their preeent state?"
"The sick woman and the two ehile
dren, sir, are already removed to the
dead ward—the old negress is recover -
leg: This child, as you see, has not been
etricken yet,"
"And what, is the name of this wretch.
ed family?"
"O'Leary, sir! It is altogether the
greatest case of suffering thats has come
under my knowledge during the reign
of the fever. This poor woman was a
widow, sir, the widoW of that O'Leary
who was executed."
A stifled shriek from Augusta arrested
Sister Martha's speech. Augusta had
started and shuddered at the first
breathing of the mane, and now she es:
claimed:
l'Ellen O'Leary! 011, God! Olx don't!
don't! don't say it was Ellen O'Leary!"
"That was the poor young woman's
name, Mrs. Hunter. You knew her?"
"Site WAS ten old tiequaintance I just
Godl How terrible are the trials arid
-vitiettitudeti of life! Where is Ellett rued
her children? Are they still living?
Let me go to them at onee," Said Au-
gusta, isa greet agitation.
Bat Daniel 'hinter silently drew her
arm in his, and Sister Martha answered:
"Not for the world, mama nluet you
go to them. They, are already removed
to the dead ward."
Aliguata dropped her head on her hos
-
band's ehoulder ana wept aloud.
Sweet Heaven! 1
of no more such
"I will speak to the superintendent
enhi commissioners upon the subject, Am
gusta, and 'in the meantime you had bet-
ter leave the child in the care of good
Sister Martha, until you can have what»
ever is proper prepared. for her."
"Yes'but see how she hugs me," said
Augusta, unwillingly, relinquishing her
child to the Sister, and promising to
come back in her carriage to take her
awey in the afternoon.
They returned home. And Augusta
woulhi have been happier than she had
been for a long Gine, but that her heart
unjustly smote her for •the Adoption of
the orplutn, as it had been en infidelity
to the memory of sweet Maud. But she
Boon reasoned herself out of the irra-
tional and inhuman feeling, and gave
fhaenrts,elf up to the anticipatedpleasare of
cherishing and loving the motherless ea -
And in the afternoon she went and
brought the child home,
CHAPTER XII.
It is dangerous to take anything for
granted. Augusta had received several
high probabilities as truths. In the first
place, she had not considered it possible
for the Sister of Charity to err in the
smallest particular of her account of the
O'Leary family. And yet the Sistee was
mistaken in supposing that the children
of Ellen O'Leary had been conveyed to
the dead ward. It is very true that El-
len had been taken to that place, and
that in regard to the children such had
been the first intention of the overseers,
but their purpose had ben changed upon
furthee observation, of the little pati-
ent% and they hasi been placed in the
sick ward, when their fever soon took a
favorable turn.
And in the second place, when hearing
the report of the medical bulletin in
coming to the very natural conclusion
that each one who had been taken thith-
er to die was dead and buried -'had left
the dead warhi only for the grave. It is
true that all the eecupants of the dead
ward save one had died and were buried;
but Ellen O'Leary VMS that one. It is
also true that she lay many hours as
one deaa, but she revived from that
coma and gave signs of returning life
and coneeloueneses and when her nurse
knew that the dread crisis was past and
that she would live, she was conveyed
into Inc sick ward.
A few days after this Mien was well
enough to be removed from the sick to
the convalescent ward. Here she found
two of the children running about and
amusing themselves, only very gently
v.nd quietly, as if the hushed air of the
place subdued them. But *here eva,s the
third? Sylvia Grove; but where, chi
where was her youngest born, her darl-
ing child Honoria? Dead, pee -haps, and
they would not tell her! The pang that
seized her heart at the thought almost
threw her back into illness; it was only
,for an instant, and she calleSister Mar-
tha, whose hour of attendance it happen.
ed to be, and in faltering tones asked for
her youngest child, adding, as she bent
eagerly forward, and fixing her pleading
eyes upon the Sister's,face:
for particolars, as we have cut our rate one..
Mird ter a short time, Address ;—
MOW DRES$-CUTT1NO SCHOOL,
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The Ancestor Papers.
The report of the Historieal Manta
scripts Commission op the papers of the
Earl of Ancestor, preserved at Grim-
thorpe, eontahte many interesting ex-
tracts anterior and subeequeat to the
reign of Elizabeth. One of these, writ -
tee. by Lord Howard cif Effingham to
Lord Willoughby the year after the Ar-
mada, is 'valuable as showing the indom-
itable spirit and the pasionate zeal which
animated the patriotism of the day.
There is also a letter frOnl the Princess
Elizabeth, third daughter Goorge
the Third, describing in a ;shaming fem-
inine style to the Duchess of Ancaster
how the Royal family had been apending
a holiday at Weymouth. "The King,"
she says, "was never better in his life,
which makes us all happier than you
can imagine. Mama really ie a little
fatter, which is a great advantage and
aleeses us very Much, as we thought she
wanted it. You may easily believe that
the time we spent, there ware extremely
pleasant, as We had no forms nor noth '
ing that was formal." So much for the
relaxations of Royalty when George the
Third was King—Neweastle Chrorucle.
AS TO SPARING VIE ROD.
It Ail Depends an the Way YOU
The It.
We hear a good bit about moral ewe.
elm?, and the perils of punishment once
in Vogue. As a matter of fact, the worst
pert of a whipping is that the average
mother gives it when she Is out of tem -
Per, instead of when her child deserves
it, The following by Mrs. J. 0. F. in the
New York Elriming Teleffrilln, is inter-
esting;
Love and duty is all that is needed to
govern children. I have seven, and do
all my own work. 1 did the same with
all. Baby was the first work of the day.
He got his bath aed his food and took
his nap, When he got old enough he
played by himself. Ile west obey. If he
did not 1 took the good old cat-o'-nine-
tails and gave hint a dose and told him
what he got it for, and the same when
they got older if they told ii"story or
deceived me in any way. I have three
that Iteve graduatecl from school and
work with their father. I have never
known any of them to tell me is lie or
give me any impudence. 1 love my chil-
dren and want to see them law-abiding
eitizena.
Don't think I had to use the cat -o'-,
nine -tails but very seldom; only when
really neceesary.
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Even when the horses were released
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horse's home, and is the only place in
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Once there he will remain and burn to
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out by something he dreads more than
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"Tell me, oh, tell me at once! Do not
keep me in suspense, even if ehe is dead!
I have suffered so much that I could
bear even that."
But Ellen's throbbing throat and quiv-
ering lips a.nd pale face dontrad4cted her
words, and the Sister hastenedto say:
"She is not dead, poor dear; no, by no
means. She is very well; ehe has not
even been click."
With a deep sigh of relief, Ellen sank
hack in her ehair, inquiring:
"Where le elle?"
"Where you can get her agent if you
wish her, my dear, though / would ad-,
vise you to let her remaie where she is."
"Where?"
"A wealthy and mod estimable lady
Of the highest rank, who has no children
of her own, has taken her away, with the
intention of adopting her, my dear."
Without my leave" excleimed Ellen,
all the mother's instinct of possession
flatehing from her eyes.
"My dear, yott can get hot again if
you want her—of course, you can. When
the lady, took her from this plaee you
weTlret—e Siliter etteltIon'ar paused; slat eouicl
not tell Ellen that al. the moment the
"You were very low. We—the—lady
—it was very kind in her to wish to take
the orphan, you know."
"You till thought that I was dying,
and she wished to adopt the destitnte
ehild: Yes, it was very kind! Ohl
it was very kind," said Ellen, deeply
moved."
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Stealing Elephants in Siam.
Tho stealing of elephants seems to be
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owners of elephants do not appear to
find at all humorous. The industry in
which the elephants. that are stolen aro
so largely used is the teak timber trade,
and it has been reported by the British
. Consul that the thefts are interfering
with the profits of the work, The ex-
tent of the trouble may be gauged by
the simple figures conveyed by the facts
that in a space of a little more than a
year one firm had twenty-six elephants
stolen, of which fourteen were recovered,
and another twenty-two stolen and thir-
teen recovered. The crowning insult
appears to have been the stealing of
one of the Consul's own transport ele-
phants belonging to the British .Govern.
want, which has now been missing for
nearly a year.—Country Life.
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Suicides' Bonnets.
Mr, Walter Schroder, the North Lon-
don Coroner, who has had, a very exten-
sive experience of inquests on suicides,
has drawn attention to an interesting
psychological fact which has probably
not previously been noticed. While hold-
ingan inquest on the remains of a eidor
woman who in it fit of frenzy jumped
into one of the Hampstead ponds, the
fact eves °Heated that her bonnet was
found, on the bank, dry. This led the
Cormier to observe that a woman when
about to take her life usually removes
her hat or bonnet and places it carefully
out of the roach of damage before cotn.
nutting her rash net, and he instanced,
the recent case of a young womaa who;
before jumping in front' of a train not
only took off her hat, but deliberately
put something on .it to keep it from
blowing away. This curious behaviour,
which is not merely casual, but as far
as Mr. Schroder's observation and ex-
perience goes, invariably reveals a pe-
culiar twist of •the female mind and may
be taken as a striking instance of the
pierles.valence of the ruling passion even on
the brink of eternity.—Newcastle
In a Dileenma.
He was a quiet and unobtrusive young
man, and he had called upon the same
girl regularly for five and a half years
without in any way divulging his future
plan of campaign. , Not unnaturally, the
damsel had grown weary of this, and to
clear the air she at last decided that
Henry must ,he firmly dealt with. So
one evening 'She Field, without any ad-
vance on the young mart's part: "No, no,
Mr. Bottlewash, I cannot marry you, so
it is useless for you to call upon me any
more." "Alas!" murmured the youth,
"what shall I do? What shall I do?"
"Oh, do not take it so hard, Henry! I
will reconsider—" "It isn't that,"
interrupted the man, "but what shall I
do for a place to go to during the long
evenings of the coming winter?"
Is universally popular in the' studios is
surely it. His talent is not limited to a
faculty. for posing. In fact, it would be
hard to fix upon what is the Emit. He
can do anything from chopping up pic-
ture stretchere for firewood to landscape
gardening, a,nd if the only available tools
ave a navy cutlass and a palette knife
he will endeavor to make just as good a
jou of it with them as if he had a full
carpenter's kit.
He will mend anything from a broken
easel to a broken electric wire, he him
been an actor, a carpenter and a sailor,
and now upon occasion eombines all
three and "do" poses besides. In sum-
mer he is always to be found at the
conntry place of some one of the illus.
trators where he poses when he is need-
ed and inakes the garden when he is
not.
But what is conceded to be his record
is that he actually posed every day for
evhole week in the month of Augirst;
he persevered with the thermometer
hovering somewhere in the near vicinity
of ninety, clad sometimes in it suit of
oilekins, than which there is no hotter
garment made, except, perhaps the fur
overcoat, cap and boots with, Which the
oilskins were alternated, while the artist
made pictures of Russian sailors in an
ice -bound harbor.
When a man can do that and still re-
main cheerful he is approaching as near
the angelie state as is safe for him to
get. He has discounted Job.—From "Be-
ing a Model," by Charlet; F. Peters in
the Bohemian for October.
4 •
Uses of Dead Timber.
Since the principal defect of fire -killed
timber is cheek, it has been need largely
in the round for mine timbers, coal
props, telephone poles, railroad ties
and fence polite. The chief use to which
dead timber is now put is for mine
tinthere. For this purpose it ie Mien
better suited than green timber, because
it is perfectly seasoned ana is light. It
is estimated that mines of Leadville,
Col., use emit month 350,000 feet B.
M. of dead timber. There are also many
other large mining camps that use it in
wholesale quarttities. In these camps it
is decidedly preferred to green timber,
Wedding Ring as a Prize.
At the annual shooting match of the
Volunteer eomptiny ab Tieehuret, near
Tunbridge Wells, Miseee Eden offered a
wedding ting ets a prize to the 'unmarried
men making the highest score, on condi.
tion that the Winner shOuld marry with-
in a year or return the ring, The suecees-
ful competitor was (tolor•Sergeant
--London Daily Mail.
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Undermined London.
-Few have any conception of the vast
network of pipes and cables there is be-
neath tho streets of London. In the city
alone, the engineer to the corporation
reports, the total length of the mains
and mochas in the subway extends to
13 miles 887 yards. The gas mains
total 2 miles 603 y'ards, the water mains
1 mile 1,638 yards, the electric light
cables 2,1442 yards, the hydraulic power
mains 1,056 yards, the pneumatic tubes
of the general postoffiee 1 mile 1,353
yards, and the telegraph and telephone
wires 2 iniles 1,145 yards.—Pall Mall
Gazette.
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ISSUE Di O. 48 1907.
THE SIMPLE LIFE IN LONDON.
The Ariatocracy li Eating Om* and
Drinking Barley Water.
What with caravanning, camping out,
renouncing Meat and 'wine, and buying
ready•made frock, a good many qf us
are trying our beat to lead the simple
life. It is doubtless better for the next
generation that the young «11 -Is of this
eau seareely be induced to touch the cup
Oat inebriates as Well as Cheers.
Even young men, sayre the Gentlewo-
man, Neville Lytton among them, are
vaunting the virtues of fruit, nuts and
vegetables as food. And. barley water,
aetually barley water, is beeoraing popu-
lar es a drink. airs. Earle, of " Surrey
Garden" fame and aunt of the present
Lord Lytton, is an ardent disciple of
vegetarianism; so, too, although lees
dogmatic a one, the Princese of Rutland
—aye! and Lady Plynaouth and the
young Lady Lytton and the 13aronne de
Meyer besides,
Anyhow, it is quite a sign of the times
that the Duchess of Portland gave a
luncheon party some time ago at the
Eustace Miles restaurant, and her guests
included Arthur Balfour aud Lord Revel-
stoke and the Duchess of Marlborough.
Kansas Hospitality.
Only forty-five persons set down to
dinner at John Armstrong's home near
DoMphan Sunday. There was no special
attraction or occasion, and those who
were there say there ems nothing un-
usual about it, and that as high as sixty
persons have been to the Armstrong
home for dinner at one table. There e,re
fifteen persons at the Armstrong home
who are there all the time—Mr. and
Mrs. Armstrong, eleven children and
two hired hands, The rest of those who
were Present Sunday at dinner were kin
who, dropped in yithout notice to spend
the clay. Nothing was said about the
large crowd, and to those present it
eeemed as ordinary as a family gathering
of a dozen or less. Mrs. Armstrong has
a great reputation as a cook, and it is
said that any one who eats of her cook-
ing is never satisfied until he is back
again.—Wathena Times.
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AN AIM.
Give me a man with an aim,
Whatever that atm may be,
Whether it's wealth or whether.,It's fame,
It mitten not to me.
Let him walk the path of right,
And • keep his aim in sight,
And work and pray in faith away
With his eyes on the glittering 'height.
Give me a, man who says,
"I will do something well.
And make the fleeting days
A story of labor tell."
Though the aim he has is small,
It's better than „none at all;
With something to do the whole year through
He will net smith • or fa 5,
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Simple Arithmetic.
Perhaps she read the statement nte.de
by the Department of Agriculture that
the value of the eggs laid by the hens of
the United States in a year would be
enough to pay off the national debt, or,
maybe, says Harper's Weekly, she "juet
thought it up," but, anyway, this pretty
little Baltimore girl was convinced that
she had everything all fixed. She has.
been engaged to a very nice young fellow
for some time, but to most people the
amount a his present salary would ap-
pear an insurmountable obstacle to mat-
rimony. This was the view of her father,
but when expressed she met 11 with a
happy smile.
"Oh, I have thought that all out," she
declared.
"You have, eh?" papa asked, knowing
something of his daughter's business
"Yes. And it was so easy," she bub-
bled. "I was passing the market the
other day, and I saw a dear little polka-
dotted hen for only sixty cents, and I
bought her. I read in a poultry paper
that a hen will raise twenty chicks in a
season. Well, next year, we'll have
twenty-one hens, and so of course there
will be 420 chicks the next year, and
8,400 the next and 168,000 the next, and
3,360,000 the next. And just see 'what
that amounts to -why, selling them at 60
cents each would give us $1,500,000 in five
years, and that won't be BO long to wait
for that much."
But Satan weaves a snare
For the foot of those that strew',
With never a thought or care
Where the path may lead away;
The man who has no aim,
Not only leaves no name
When this lite is done, but ten to one
He leaves a record of shame.
Give me a m,an whose heart
Is fliled with ambition's fire,
Who sets his mark in the start,
And keeps moving higher and higher,
Better to die In the strife,
The hands of labor rife,
Than to glide with the stream in an' idle
dream
And live a purposeless life.
Better to rise and climb
And never reach the goal,
That; to drift along with time,
An aimless, worthless soul.
Aye, better to climb and fall,
Or eces, though the yield be smell,
Than to throw away day after day,
And never strive at all.
• • •
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
Mrs. Reader (making a call)—And
does your husband interest himself in
books? Mrs, Neuriehe—No. Hiram
keeps three bookkeepers.—Boston &-
core.
Tact is the ability to get yourself out
of a hole as smoothly as you jumped in-
to it—Florida. Times -Union.
Village schoolmaster (explaining "bi-
ped" and "quadruped")—Now, Jones,
what is the difference between me and
it pig'? Sones—Couldn't tell you, sir.—
London Opinion.
Some people aren't goifig to have a
very good time in heaven unless they
can have their breakfast in bed.—New
York Press.
"Do you find it more econonlical to do
your own cooking?" "Oli, yes. My bus.
band doesn't eat half so mueli as he tilted
to1"—Rehohoth Sunday Herald.
Wise men cultivate the art of taking
things easy.—Chicago News.
The parson—Ah, my friend, 1 never
see you at church. If you are not care-
ful you'll go to a place where you'll
never get a chance of hearing a server:as.
The reprobate—Well, sir, it won't be for
lack of parsonsaasSloperet Half.Uoliday.
Whom fortune favors the world favor&
—Gertnat.
"My feet everen't really so small," eta
darted ClInderella. "Bet the Peine
thought Se "Yes, 1 was the only OA
in town Who didn't Wear spats.---Lome-
ville Courier -Journal.
• • s -e
Melcitig Hee Of the TelephOne.
"The telephone is a Wonderfully use-
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"Yes," answered the investment pro-
moter, "I 1180 it it great deal in my
business. The reminder of what is little
money invested in the telephone years
ttgo would have done is my best argu-
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Washington fithr,
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Familyof Blind Musicians.
A concert as pathetic as it was inter-
esting took place lately at Hamburg. The
concert givers were a sister and two bro-
'
thers all blind; a fourth brother, who
is studying composition at the Berlin
Academy of Music and whose works have
already been very favorably commented
on, being similarly afflicted. The sister
possesses a fine and well-trained soprano
voice of considerable eompass, while one
brother, who on this occasion acted as
her accompanist, holds an appointment
at Muhiheim.analer-Ruhr as organist.
The third brother is a 'cellist of consid-
erable talent. The family are nativers
of Muhlheim.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Mniard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
Railway Men's Working Hours in
Japan.
In the opinion of the Japanese Imper-
ial Railway authorities the frequency of
railway accidents of late LI largely duo
to the excessive working hours of the
railway staff, in view of the feet that
the accidents occur usually at night
time. According to the vernacular pa-
pers the railway staff are on duty for
twenty-four home consecutively and are
off duty for the next twenty-four hours.
The authorities are said to be busily
investigating a proposal to change the
prIteseeenetnisiyyastemr.as
ponsible official of the
railway bureau travelled by train to var-
ious parts of the country late at night
and found most of the station staff
asleep. In Europe and America, it is
stated, the working hours of the railway
staffs vary from twelve to fifteen. Even
twelve hours is considered excessive,
and a proposal is on foot to reduce the
working day to eight hours. In Japan
it is stated the hours can be reduced to
twelve without greatly increasing the
present staff, and the railway authori-
ties are making investigations to that
end.—From the Japan Chronicle.
On the Other Hand.
The preacher was offering his felicita•
tions to the newly married couple.
"Young man,' he said, "you bave
gained one of the fairest maids in the
community; and you, young lady, have
won a. stalwart partner, whose good
right arm will level every olestaele that
stands iri the way of your SUOC4198 in
life."
"Left, Mr. Goodnum, i It," corrected
the bride, with a proud look at the
sinewy athlete by her side. "George is
a southpaw, you know."
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