Ligonier Banner., Volume 31, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 February 1897 — Page 7

THE M| Pl ESS - ol the a i Mine. or AWoman Interve NI

[Copyright, 1805, by Robert Barr.)

CHAPTER XIX.—CONTINUED.

. A glimmer of' a smile hovered about the red lips of a girl, a smile hardly perceptible, but giving an effect to her clear complexion, as if a sunbeam had crept into the room and its reflection had lit up her face. ' “I have come to apologize, Mr. Weniworth,” she said at last.. I find it a very difficult thing to do, and, as T don’t know just how to begin, I'll plunge right into it.” o » “You don’t need to apologize to mo for anything, Miss Brewster,” replied Wentworth rather stiffly. “Oh, yes, I do. Don’t make it harder than it is by being too frigidly polite #bout it; but say you accept the apology, and that you’re sorry—mno—ll don’t mean that—l should say that you’re sure I'm sorry, and that you know I won’t do it again.” = Wentworth laughed, and Miss Brewster joined him. | “There,” she said, “that's ever so much better. I suppose you've been thinking hard things of me ever since we last met.” A

“I'ye tried to,” replied Wentworth.

“I:Iow that’s what I call honest; besides I like the implied compliment. I think it’s very neat, indeed. I'm really very, very sorry that I—that things happened as they did. I wouldn’t have blamed you if you had used exceedingly strong language about it at the time.” , “I must confess that T did.”

“Ah,” said Jennie, with a §igh, “you men have so many comforts denied to us women. But I came here for another purpose; if I had merely wanted to apologize I thinlk I would have written. I want séme information which you can give me, if you like.”

The young woman rested her elbows on the table, with her chin in her hands, gazing across at him earnestly and innocently. Poor George felt tha’ it would be impossible to refuse anything of those large beseeching eyes. “I want you to tell me about your mine.” : :

All the geniality that had gradually come into Wentworth’s face and manner vanished instantly. ; i “So this is the old business over again,” he said.’ . :

“How can you say that!” cried Jennie, reproachfully. “I am asking for my own satisfaction entirely, and not for my paper. Besidgs, I tell you frankly what I want to know, and don’t try to get it by indirect means—by false pretenses—as you once said.” “How can you expect me to give you information that does not belong to

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‘I want you to tell me something about your mine.”’

me alone? I have no right to speak of 2 business which concerns others without their permission.” ~ “Ah, then there are at least two others concerned in the mine,” said Jennie, gleefully. “Kenyon iis one, I know; who is the other?” ! “Miss Brewster, I will tell you nothing.” .

“But you have told me something already. Please go on and talk, Mr. Weatworth—about anything you like —and I shall soon find out all I want to know about the mine.” She paused, but Wentworth remained silent, which, indeed, the bewildered young man realized was the only safe thing to do. ‘ “They speak of the talkativeness of women,” Miss Brewster went on, as if soliloquizing, ‘“but it is nothing to that of the men. Once set a man talking and you learn everything he knows—besides ever so mueh more that he doesn’t.”’? Miss Brewster had abandoned her very talkative attitude, with its suggestion of confidential relations, and had removed her elbows from the table, sitting now back in her chair gazing dreamily at the dingy window which let the light in from the dingy court. She seemed to have forgotten that Wentworth was there, and said more to herself than to him: “I wonder if Kenyon would tell me about the mine?” s “You might ask him,” “No, it wouldn’t do any good,” ghe continued, gently shaking her head. “He’s one of your silent men, and there are so few of them in this world! Perhaps % bad better go to William Longworth himself; he is not suspicious of me.” s

And as she said this she threw a quick glance at Wentworth, and the unfortunate young man’s face at once told her that she had hit the mark. She bent her brow over the table and laughed with such evident enjoyment that Wentworth, in spite of his helpless anger, smiled grimly. Jennie raised her head, but the sight of his perplexed countenance was too muech for her, and it was some time before her merriment allowed her to gpeak. At last she said: . “Wouldn’t you like to take me by the shoulders and put me out of the room, Mr. Wentworth ?” " “I'd like to take you by the shoulders and shake you.” i ~ “Ah! that would be taking a liberty, and could not be permitted. We must leave punishment to the law,you know, although I do think a man should be allowed to turn an objectionable visitor into the street.” o L - “Miss Brewster,” cried the young ‘man, e gt%;}i;ax‘;xon% over t,h;;:a table ‘toward her, “why don’t you abandon your horrible inquisitorial profession SR A el Wienia by

Jennie rested her fair cheek ugainst her open palm again and looked at the dingy window. There was a long silence between them. Wentworth was absorbed in watching uer clear-cut pro-, file and her white throat, his breath quickening as he feasted his eyes on her beauty. - “I have always got angry,” she said, at last, in a low voice, with the quiver of a suppressed sigh in it, “when other people have said ‘ihu.t to'me—l wonder why it is I merely feel hurt and sad when you say it? It is so easy to say, ‘ch—anything’—so easy—so easy. You are a man, with the strength and determination of a man, yet you have met with disappointments and obstacles that have required all your courage to overcome. Every man has, and with most men it is a fight until the liead is gray and the brain weary with the ceaseless struggle. The world is utterly merciless; it will trample you down relentlessly if it can, and if your vigilance relaxes for a moment it will sieal your crust and leave you to starve. Wlen I think of this incessant, sullen contest, with no quarter gi"\'en or taken. 1 shudder and pray that I may die before I am at the mercy of the pitiless werld. When I came to London I saw for the first time in my life that hopeless melancholy promenade of the sandwich men, human wreckage drifting along the edge of the street, aos if they had been cast up there by the rushing tide sweeping past them. They—they seemsed to me . like a totteving procession of the dead—and on their backs was the announcement of a play that was making all London roar with laughter—ihe awful comedy and. tragedy of it! Well, I simply couldn’t stand it! I had to run up a side street and cry like the little fool I was, right in broad daylight.” Jennie paused and tried to laugh, but the effort ended in a sound suspiciously like a sob, and she dashed her hand, with quick impatience, across her cyes, from which Wentworth had never talien his own, watching them: dim as

the light from the window proved too strong for them, and finally fill as she ceased to speak. Searching ineflectually about her dress for a bhandkerchief, which lay on the table beside her parasol, unnoticed by either, Jennie went on, with some difficulty: “Well, these poor, forlorn creatures were once men—men ‘who had gone down, and if the world is so hard on a man; with all his strength and resourcefulness, think—think Svhat it is for a woman tc be ‘thrown into this inbuman human turmoil—a woman without friends — without money—flung among these relentless wolves—to live if she can—or—to die—if she o ;

The girl’s voice broke and she buried her face in her arms, which rested on the table.

Wentworth sprarg to his feet and came round to where she sat.

“Jennie,” he said, putting his hand on her shoulder. N

The girl, without looking up, shook off the hand that touched her.

“Go back to your place!” she cried, in a smothered voice. ‘Leave me alone!”

“Jennie,” persisted Wentworth.

The young woman rose from her chair and faced him, stepping back a pace. .

“Don’t you hear what I say? Go back and sit down.. I came here to tallc business; not to make a fool of myself. It’s all your fault, and I hate you for it—you and your silly questions.” - 3

But the young man stood where he was, in spite of the dangerous sparkle that lit up his visitor’s wet eyes. A frown gathered on his brow. “Jennie,” he said, slowly, ‘“are you playing with me again?” The swift anger that blazed up in her face, reddening her cheeks, dried the tears. !

“How dare you say such a thing to me ?’”’ she cried, hotly. ““Do you flatter yourself that because I came lere to talk business, I have also some personal interest in you? Surely even your selfconceit doesn’t run so far as that!”

Wentworth stood silent, and Miss Brewster picked up her parasol, scattering, in her haste, the other articles on the floor. If she expected Wentworth to put them on the table again she was disappointed, for, although his eyes were upon her, his thoughts were far away upon the Atlantic ocean. “I shall not stay here to be insulted,” she cried, resentfully, bringing Wentworth’s thoughts back with a rush to London again. “It is intolerable that you should use such an expression to me. Playing with you, indeed!” “I had no intention of insulting you, Miss Brewster.” i

“What is it but an insult 1o use such a phrase? It implies that I either care for you or—" i » “And do you?” : “Do 1 what?” : : “Do you care for me?” '

Jennie shook out the lace fringes of her parasol and smoothed them with some precision. Her eyes were bent on what she was doing, and consequently they did not meet those of her questioner. : ¥ ! g

“I care for you as a friend, of course,” she said, at last, still giving much attention to the parasol. “If I had not looked on you as a friend I would not have come here to consult with you, would 1?7 .-

“No, I suppose not. Well, lam sorry I used the words that displeased you, and now, if you will permit it, we will go on with the consultation.”

“It wasn’t a pretty thing to say.” - “I'm afraid T'm not good at saying pretty things.” 4 : “You used to be.” The parasol being arranged to her liking she glanced up at him. “Still you said you were sorry, and that’s all a man can say—or a woman either, for that’s what I said myself when I came in. Now, if you will pick up those things from the floor—thanks—we will talk about the mine.” Pt e : ;

Wentworth scated himself in his chair again and said: e “Well, what is it you wish to know about the mine?” :

“Nothing atall.” . - “But you said you wanted information.” ' .

“What a funny reason to give! And how a man misses all the fine points of a conversation! No; just because I uasked for information, you might have Lknown that it was what I really wanted.” ¢ g - “I'm afraid I'm very stupid. I hate to ask boldly what you did want, but ~ “I want a vote of confidence. Itold o O e Sl e e

you I was sorry because of a certaiu episode. I wanted to see if you trusted me, and I found youdidn't., There.” “I think that was hardly a fair test. You see the facts did not belong to me a2ione.” - Miss - Brewster sighed, and slowly shook her head. : “That wouldn’t have made the least difference if you had really trusted me.” “Oh; I say! You couldn’t expect a man to—"’ ‘“Yes, 1 could.” ‘ : “What, merely a friend ?” ‘ - Miss Brewster nodded. “Well, all I can say,” remarked Wentworth, with a laugh, “is that friendship has made greater strides in the states than it has in this country.” - Before Jennie couid reply the useful Loy knocked at the door and broughtin a tea tray, which he placed before his master, then silently departed, closing the door noiselessly. “May I offer you a cup of tea?” “Please. What a curious custom this drinking of tea is in business offices. I think I shall write an article on ‘A Nation of Tea Tipplers.’ If I were an cnemy to England, instead of being its greatest friend, I would descend with my army on this country between the hours of four and five in the afternoon, and so take the population unawares while it was drinking tea. What would you do if the enemy came down on you cduring such a sacred national ceremoD&_ u')” ‘ «

“I would offer her a cup of tea,” repiied Wentworth, suiting the action to the phrase. :

“Mr. Wentworth,” said the girl, archIy, “you’re improving. That remarl: was distinetly good. Still, you must remember that I come as a friend, not @s an enemy. Did you ever read.the ‘Babes in the Wood?’ It is a most instructive but pathetic work of fiction. You remember-the wicked uncle, surelv. Well, you gnd Mr. Kenyon remind e of the babes, poor, innocent,:little things, and London—this part of it—is the dark and pathless forest. lam the bird hovering about you, waiting to cover you with leaves. The leaves, to do any good, ought to be checks fluttering down on you, but, alas! Ihaven’t any. If negotiable checks only grew on trees, life would not be so difficult.”

Miss Brewster sipped her tea pensively, and Wentworth listened to the musical murmur of her voice, which had such an entrancing effect on hini. that he paid less heed to what she sai.l than a man should when a lady is spealing. The -tea drinking had added a touch of domesticity to the tete-a-tete that rather went to the head of the young man. He clinched' and unclinched his hand out of sight under the table and felt the moisture on his palm. He hoped he would be able to retain control over himself, but the difficulty of his task almost overcome him when she now and then appeale:l to him with glance or gesture, and he felt as if 'he must ery out: “My girl, mv girl, don’t do that, if you cxpect me 10 stay where I am.”

“I see you are not paying the slightest attention to what I am saying,” she said, pushing the cup from her. She rested her arms on the table, leaning slightly forward, and turning her face full upon him. “I can tell by your eyes that you are thinking of something else.”

“I assure you,” said George, drawing a deep breath, “I am listening with in- ; o tense interest.”

“Well, that's right, for what I am going to say is important. Now, to wake you up, I will first. tell you ail about your mine, so that you will understand I did not need to ask anyone for information regarding it.” Here, to Wentworth’s astonishment, she gave a rapid and accurate sketch of the negotiations and arrangements between the three partners and the present position of affairs. i ; “How do you know all this?” he asked. ; Tl

“Never mind that, -and you mustn’t ask how I know what I am now going to tell you, but you must believe it implicitly and act upon it promptly. Longworth is fooling both you and Kenyon. He is making time, so that your option will run out; then he will pay cash for the mine at th® original price, and you and Kenyon will be left, to pay two-thirds of the debt incurred. Where is Kenyon ?” : , . “He has gone to America.” “That’s good. Cable him to get the option renewed. You can then try to form the company yourselves in London. If he can’t obtain a renewal, you have very little time to get the cash together, and if you are not able to do that then you lose everything. This is what I came to tell you, although I have been a long time about it.” Now I must go.”

She rose, gathered her belongings from the table, and stood with the parasol pressed against her. Wentworth came around to where she was standing, his face paler than usual, probably because of the news he had heard. On: hand was grasped tightly around one wrist in front of him. He felt that he should thank her for what she had done, but his lips were dry and somehow the proper words were not at his command.

She, holding her fragile lace-fringed parasol against her with one arm, was adjusting her long neatly-fitting glove, which she had removed before tea. A button, one of many, was difficult to fasten, and as she endeavored to put it in its place her sleeve fell away, showing a round white arm above the glove. “You see,” she said, a little breathlessly, her eyes upon her glove, “it isa very serious situation, and time is of great fimportance.” , “I realize that.” i

“It would be such a pity to lose everything now, when you have hard so much trouble and worry.” : “It would.” 4

“And I think that whatever is done should be done quickly. You should act at once and with energy.” . ;

“I am convineced that is so.” “Of course itis. Youare of too trusting a nature; you should be more suspicious, then you wouldn't be tricked as you have been.” : : “No. The trouble is T have been 100 suspicious, but' that is past. I won’t be again.” ‘ “YWhat are you talking about?” she said, lcoking quickly wup at him. “Don’t you know you'll lose the mine if____” 3 § ‘“Hang the mine!” he cried, flinging ‘hiswristfree and clasping her to hira before she could step back or move from ‘her place. “There is something more fmportant; tias thines or money” .

WHERE IS THE REVENUE? The Reciprocity Theory of High Proteection Visionaries, “Lleciprocity.” says a protection organ, “is free trade in dissimilar and non-competitive products,” ‘That is, one country will admit free articles which it does not produce in consideration of the other's letting in free what the latter does not produce. - J Then why was the third section of the McKinley bill called a reciprocity section? Thissection threatened retaliation by taxing sugar. molasses, coffee, tea and hides, unless the countries producing them let in our exports at rates which the president thought were fair. Are sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides commodities which we do not produce? On the contrary, we produce sugar, molasses and hides, three out of five of them. As no retaliation was attempted against countries producing tea, we may eliminate that and say that three out of four were articles which we produce. The definition quoted shows that the so-calied MeKinley reciprocity, devised by Senator Aldrich, was not reciprocity at all, since it was not mainly in products which this country does not produce. But suppose we let in free all the commodities which this country does not produce in sufficient quantity to supply the wants of the peopie. That lets in sugar free, both raw and refined. 1t lets in wool free, because we produce but little more than half the wool needed by the pcople. There is a varicety of other articles to which the same remark will doubtless apply, but these two are imported in large quantities. None of this class of articles will yield a dollar of revenue. Of course, then. you must get all the' customs revenue from articles imported that compete with our domestic products. : What is the result? Flfav'ing put the. noncompetitive article on the free list, you must get revenue by taxes on competitive articles. “So much the better.” says the too hasty protectionist. “since we can tiu's tax competitive articles all the higher.” = But they aré already taxed well-nigh up to the paint where importations cease. If you ptit on more tax importations will be smaller. and if vou go as far as the-pretected interests demand you will stop importations altogether and cut off all the revenue. The notion that higher tariff means more revenue is obsolete to a large extent. Many of our tariff rates prohibit importations in any quantity worth naming. Others are very near to the point of prohibition. and another turn of the screw will.-make them quite so. The theory that higher rates mean mere revenue applies only to noncompetitive articles, or others taxed much below the point of prohibition, and even they may be so high that the people will buy them in smaller quantities. As to articles produced at home, when the rate is already high, an increase of the tariff will be more likely to reduce revenue than to raise it. Then whence comecs the revenue 2—ULouisville Courier-Journal.

They’'re After Protection.

The republicans are determined upon an extra session for the purpose, they say, of perfecting a tariff measure which will increase the revenues of the United States. If this indeed be their purpose then they cannot reenact the McKinley statute of October, 1890, because that act was called an aet to reduce the revenuc. The republicans will go into special session to perfect a tariff bill on the excuse of increasing the revenue, but will take no sort of means to that end. They will meet for the purpose of increasing the protection already accorded overabundantly -to American manufacturers. Their policy is to make not a revenue tarift, but a tariff for protection mainly, and they are to-day, as they were when Harrison was nominated in 1888, in favor of levying prohibitive duties. Under such a tariff bill as the republicans in the extra session will pass exports will fall ¢ff and the tariff will not yield the desired revenue. There is pertinent and emphatic objection, therefore, to the republican hypocrisy involved in the statement that they desire an extra session of congress for the purpose of passing a tariff bill to increase the revenue. The party does not want a tarift for revenue, but a tariff for protection, and that is why it will have a special session of congress carly in the new administration.—Chicago Chronicle. !

OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

—--Having held the {ariff “gabfest,” the infant industries are impatiently awaiting the opening of the “gabfest” by Maj. McKinley.—St. Louis Republie.

——lf Foraker really desires to even things up with McKipley he will not oppose Hanna’s nomination to the senate, for if there is anything that will set the seal of doom on McKinley’s future political fate it is the fact that Mark Hanna is the power behind the throne.—Toledo Bee. d £ e

———The evidénce of insincerity inthe support of the policy of a protective tariff which certain manufacturers and producers are giving, as shown in the hearings before the ways and means committee of the house of representatives, lies in that most of them very readily consent to low tariffs in all cases but their own.—Peotia Journal,

——Chairman Dingley declines to go into thé cabinet because he could not personally supervise every branch of work in the departinent, and his conscience would not permit him to assume responsibility under other conditions. A rare bird is Dingley. He is wise enough to know that he is not built for executive station.—Utica Qbserver. 3

——DMaj. McKanley would do a sensible thing and a popular ope if he should interpose a veto on the proposed ostentation at his inauguration. The dignity of the president is not increased by a fuss and feathers imitation of royal pomp. This pomp has a meaning and a practical end when done by and for royalty which American imitations of it do not and cannot have until republican institutions have become a mockery.—Syracuse (N. Y.) Herald

——llt is estimated that the total appropriations of the ‘present congress will be congiderably in excess of $1,000,000,000 and will overtop the highest expenditures ever voted by any previous congvess by from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000. What the republican policy will be and what the republican how] for more revenue means are foreshadowed in these appropriations. The bigger the deficieney, the better the excuse to lay on the taxes for the favored bounty grabbers; the heavier the appropriations, the richer the plucking for the purty jobbers—St. Louis Republic,

! AS TO MR. SHERMAN.: Boss Hanna’s Fine Hand Again Becomes Apparent. There is consic’lemblc criticism of Maj. McKinley's selection of Senator Sherman for the post of secretary of state. It is a well-known fact now that the selection was made solely for the purpose of making a place for Mark Hanna, who aspires to be a senator of the United States, and while it may be presumed that the presidenti-elect feels tkat Mr. Sherman 1s in every way eligible for the pocition to which he will without doubt be appointed, it is still a fact that serious question is raised as to his fitness for the very delicate work he may reasonably expect to be called upon to perform. Of course, there may be a spice of partisanism in the criticism that is leveled at the proposed appointment, but it is doubtful that it can be fully accounted for in this way. The Washington correspondent of the St. ILouis Republic says among other things:

“The selection of John Sherman for the secretaryship of state creates the most profound surprise in Washington, and especially among the senators who have had to do with Sherman, day in and day ouf, for years. It is rather ungracious to say anything regarding a man as venerable in years as Mr. Sherman, and one, too, it must be said, who has rendered stuch conspicuous public services. But it isa matter of common notoriety here, well known to all the senators of all political parties, that Mr. Sherrhan has by no means the intellectual strength he had years ago. He has been failing for two years with great rapidity. Physically he is still strong and active.. Mentally he has been growing feeble for some time, and notably since the last session of congress.” -

It would seem, in view of this, that the exigencies of Ohio politics fall short of justifying the selection Mr. McKinley has made. There is a possibility that the real purpose of Mr. Sherman’s appointment will fall, as it is far from clear at present that Mr. Hanna can stceeed in his offorts to reach the senate, but the Mansfield statesman will ‘doubtless receive the honor intended for him in spite of the miscarriage of the plans for Mv. Hanna's exaltation. 1f the worst shall be realized in respect to Mr. Sherman it is to be hoped that the president-elect will be found to have been more fortunate in his selections of men to fill the other important placesin kis official family. It was broadly hinted some months ago by an eminent republican thut Maj. McKinley is a ‘weal, an impressionable man, and. if this is true, the president-elect ought to have some strong men -about him. Weakness from top to bottom of the administration would prove most unfor-tunate.—-Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader.

TAX-MADE PROSPERITY. The Protectionist Idea of Bringing Abont Better Times. ; “The immediute mission of the republican party,” remarks a republican organ, ‘“is to start up idle factories, to encourage investment and production, to furnish work at good wages to unemployed labor.” An excellent mission, but how is it to be achieved? Simply by the exercise of the taxing power of the government. Ncthing could be easier. Taxes are to be levied on things that the people need, for the benefit of the men with factories who can convince the leaders of the party that they ghould be helped. By the simple process of placing a tax on articles manufactured abrcad, the people are compelled to buy at home and the home manufacturer can charge the value of the article plus the tariff and thus be encouraged by huge profits to keep at work. These profits, of course, for the public welfare he will divide withthe men he emaploys. The production of wealth is merely a matter of putting a government’s tingers into the pocket of one citizen and transferring the money there to the pocket of another. Prosperity can be made by forcing all citizens to chip in and pay for the running of a factory which another citizen would like to run, if big enough profits are assured. lundreds of prosperous citizens, with millions, can be pointed out whe are living proofs of the effectiveness of the tariff as a promoter of prosperity. With a bounty on goods and a premium on idleness, factories will be-shut down, now and then, by wicked combines, but the taxing power is unlimited and the favored manufacturer never suifers for prosperity while the substance of his fellow citizens, who must buy from him at his price, holds out.. He can live in a castle, ride in a coach and have money to burn. But if it is the mission of a party, through the control of our government’s taxing power, to start factories and keep labor employed at good whges, why this indirection and the trouble and annoyance of making up discriminating duties? Why not have govern~ ment factories for the unemployed? If we must have paternalism, let us have straight, honest, up-to-date paternaiism, freed from the ancient folly and wrong of monopoly privileges. Let us be rid of the tax-made millionaires and give the money to the tax-supported laborers.—St. Louis Republic. -

Wolves in Shéep’s Clothing.

The political shepherds from Ohio are wolves in sheep’s clothing. They frankly said before the Dingley committee that the tariff they demand is intended to shut out foreign wool altogether. They admitted that their purpose is to double the price of domestic wool and give it a monopoly. They did not deny that this would greatly increase the price of warm clothing. They confessed also that their schedule is not intended to produce revenue, but rather to prevent it. This is all the public cares to know about the howl of the wolves for more ‘“protection.” If their demand shall be granted the voters will do the rest, as they did in 1890 and 1892. -—N. Y. World. The Effects Remain. “ A western republican paper says: “Those democratic editors who are Tiowling because good times have not arrived should devote several hours a day to é‘contemplation of the prineipal .causes of the hard times we have had and are still having.” The causes of hard times are not so much tha question as the causes of the continuation of‘hard times. These causes wege said to be “Bryanism” and the ‘*silver craze,” and as both were killed last November, according to the republican organs, one would suppose that, the causes being removed, the effects would disappear. They are not disappearing, however.—Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader. ——Trade suppression'is the Dingley idea, as it was the McKinley idea. But it is not the American idea, and the lgr;«%m SIl St sby B ee L R

! T . ; 3 ‘OOR YOUNG PEOPLE. FO G PEOPLE. PATTY-CAKE. .~ - . Patty-cake, pdatty-cake, baker’'s man! - Love is a jewel, and life is a span; Summer is here, and the morning is gay, Let us be babies together to-day. : Serrow’s a myth, and our troubles but seem, : B The past is an echo, the future a dream; Plenty of mornings to worry and plan! Patty-cake, patty-cake, baker's man! ; Patty-cake, patty-cake, baker's man! Roll it and prick it as fast as we can; Roses and lilies for baby and me. : Roll it and prick it and mark it with P, Roses and lilies and daisies that come Down from the garden that dimples are. from— Let us he babies as long as we can! 3 Patty-cake, patty-cake, baker's man! —aAlbert B. Yaine, in N. Y. Independent. AN ANCIENT DOLL. Brought from China by a Sea (,‘Aptain g 171 Years Ago. Oue of the quaintest and prettiest dolls to be seen anywhere is preserved at Reading, Mass., and here is where dolls have the advantage of real human beings—though she is the oldest doll in America, she does not show her age at all, except in the matter of dress, and is just as charming as when Capt. Gamaliel Hodges brought her howe to Lis little daughter at Salem, Mass,, when he returned froma voyage to Canton, China. ‘ She is now dressed in Louis XIV, style, but history does not record just how this tiny counterfeit of woman was originally attired. What we do know is that when she came to America we had no direct trade with any distant ports of the world, for everybody ‘here was a subject of- King George, and ro one had ever heard of the Star Spangled. Banner. ’

This little doll, therefore, has looked upon the most remarkable events. of modern times, and it has not even aged her. When the war of the revolution was inaugurated she had already passed through the hands of several generations, and was really entitled to all the

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WHERE WILLIE WENT.

Walnutting While Wintry Wisconsin Winds Wailed Wildly. R

“Wisconsin’s wild winds were whistling when Willie Wade went walnutting. ~ Warmly, wrapped was Willie, with woolen wrapper, wadded waistcoat, with warm wristlets. Winnie Wade wondered why Willie wouldn’t wait until warmer weather, when’ Winnie would walnut with Willie. ' [ Willie wandered where Walter West was wheeling wood, with wonderful wheelbarrow, wishing Walter would walnut. i : g .

Without wasting words, . Walter whistled: “Whew! Walnuts wili wait, while wood won’t.” ; Where walnut woods were, woodmen were working with wabbly-wheeled wagons, with worn, weary, wretched work-hdrse, which was wasted with weakness, which was well woérn out With work. ; e S, P

Woodman Wheeler waggishly wrenched Willie’s water-pail, whereupon water wet Willie’s winkers; Willie wept woefully. : Woodman was worried. “Why weep, Willie? Weak women weep with wee woes. Whistle, Willie!” il _ - When winkers were wiped Woodman Wheeler went with Willie where walnuts were. Willie’s wooden water-pail was well filled, while wee wrens warbled, wood-pigeons whizzed, Sk Wiilie warily watched while: Woodman waged war with wasps—which wasn’t wise. Wasps were waxing warmer, whereupon Willie, with waterpail, went where Widow Walman, ‘Winnie’s washerwoman, was who well washed woolens with warm water, with washing-machine, wringing with wringer. i

Willie went within wash-rcom, where Widow Walman welcomed Willie with warm wheat waffles, with wholesome whortleberries washed with water. When well warmed, Willie wandered where water was, willows -waved; where, when weather was warmer, white, waxen water lilies were witnessed. . . : Willie waded where web-footed wa-. ter-Wintnie, with well-filled water-pail, was witnessed. o Winnie warmly welcomed Willie. - When woods whiten with winter, ‘when windows wear wonderful white- | frost works, Winnie, with Willie, will welcome walnuts, will want warm wal‘nut cake.—Youth's Companion. = ' New England's Girl Soldiers. Lassell seminary, Massachusetts, has a battalion of girl soldiers. They are becomingly clad in an army-blue waist and skirt with soldier stripes down the ‘ side, a belt like that worn in the regular’ army, and a fatigue cap. They drill according to Hardy’s tactics, and must iu all things conform to strict army discipline. The object is physical cultare —to cause the girls to stand erectand FMOWeNR, L ~_ —The elephant is from ten to twelve feet in height huve been numerous, | SR N RTINS, AN Sl Sy demßalafoamat o s 2o € et RS SENEE S

'CARPENTRY FOR BOYS. How They Can Make a Neat Bookcass s« . . and Pretty Inkstand. ‘ : - These long winter evenings and stormjy Suaturdays are just the time for the boys to busy themselves with their joek-knives. - ~Any number of beautiful and useful articles cun be made for fitting up your room-or for decorating your home. : g Have you just a few books of your own that ‘you are anxious to have always near at hand—say at the head of the bed in your own room? Why not make a neat little bookcase for them? It is easily done, and the -':o.st-is,prac—-tically nothing at all. . The bookcase shown in the picture is of oak, but if you cannot get oak, use & : : 3 e i e ; e ,fifi s Z i L} 3 e :e N 9 e 'r END PIECES | OE s LN g D . w W 1 A 1 I -AT u L \ § £ : o Ll == i A IS T AUGHED. DOOKCASE. AR > S 0 A NEAT BOOKCASE.

hard. pipe or cherry or butternut, the last of which is especially desirable. ~As you will see, the bookcase is very simple in ecoustruction.. There are feur parts—two end pieces and two side pieces, or shelves. - Wood a halfinch thick will do very well. Have it neatly and -smoothly planed on both sides .and of a size large enough to Inake the various pieces of the dimensions shown in the picture. In the end pieces—the grain of the wood should run-lengthwise from C to D, thus preventing splitting. The height from A to B is six'inches. Draw a perfect diagram of the end pieces on the board, tzking care to have every measurement exzct. If you have a scroll saw you can readily follow the iines and cut out the end pieces; but if you haven’t, saw with an ordinary saw as nearly to the lines as possible and trim off the sharp corners with your jack-knife. The sides of the two small slits may be cut with a saw and broken out with a chisel. . - :

Next make two connecting pieces, orr shelves. As shown in the picture, they. are 18 inches long by 2!, inches wide, . and ‘when they are completed they should fit snugly into the end pieces and remain solid without nails. -The bookease -is now complete, so far as- : vour jack-knife is concerned. With bits of broken glass and sand-paper smooth off the joints and corners and | ‘polish the wood smooth. If you like, | you may give it a coat of oil or shellac ‘ varnish, and it may be still further or- | numented with a neatly carved design on the ends, ot studded with brassnails, . to suit your fancy. This makes an ex- | ceedingly convenient and handsoms bookecase, which will occupy only a | swuall space, and which in moving can. | be readily taken apart and packed. S ““Try it and see if you don’t like it. . Another very neat and pretty object which any boy can make is a wooden | inkstand and penrack. -To make it | get two pieces of wood one-fourth to :,{ three-eighths of an inch in thickness, ten . inches long by four inches broad. I'asten the two together with fine brads so as to form a right angle. Now, take aliother piece of wood of the sarne thick-

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