Terre Haute Daily News, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 April 1891 — Page 4

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And soWr from a farther root* C«bm: "Ne« I tar roc down to sleep." And, aomebow, with thai BtUe peajw.

And Um sweet trrlrteln my «r», Mr UxxurhUijp teat to distant rears Ind ttaaer with adearoa And linger with ad*arone ther* And. a Immr th* child's umc,

Mj mother's faith eomes beck to me~ Couched at b*r side I sewn be, And mother holds tar bands a«&in. Oh! for an boor tn that dear place!

GUI ft* the peaee of that dm timet (Hi! for thst ebUdisb trust subline! Ob! for a attmpse of mother'* Hoe! Yet, the Sbadows round me creep,

I do not seem to b# alone0weet magfe of Owl treble tone— And "Now I lay me down to &+p." -fffecMMJneUL

The Onlu Out ftDout Htm

Bat Sn the first gray of the morning the horses were pat in, and white tho others still lay on their hemlock boughs tho team was making its way oat again. "I hare found tho lay of the land by the way the «targ were going," ho said to the mother and before long they were in the open road—dawn flashing all the heaven* above, the snow below, and trailing tho whole forest into a twinkle of rainJx»w»—and on the way to a safe end of their journey. "Ho!* a man worth k»jping,M said Mrs. Sibley to her husband. "I wouldn't lose sight of him." "He'« brought home the heaves all right," said Mr. Sibley. And ho took John home with him that night, .and found plenty for him to do next day in the groat warehouse of supplies, and listened to various suggestions that seemed to occur to the youth aa a new comer there, kepi him busy, and when spring caxnoeent Mm behind the Morgan colts with a wallet foil of money to pay off the men in camp. "He's a treasure, that lad,* said Mr. Sibley, when John returned with his vouchers all correct. ''Luckiest day's work I ever done when I come acrost him. Saved me hia keep s'ready in small leak*. He's too good to last. Some out about him somewhero. Durnd ef I can find it though." "I don't believe in crossing bridges 'foto you come to them," said the fussy little man's wife. "I don't believe you'll ever como to this one. He's as good a boy afl treads sole leather" "Ajs good a boy as hasn't been found oat. Well, yoa spread your saving grace over him, mother, and less see if he'll want abetter home 'n this is."

And in his few spore half hours John was invited into the sitting room, and presently if anything was wanted by the homo people it was to John that they went instead of to the busy husband and father, and it was taken for granted that on Sundays ho ahouUl have a seat in the family pew. And thus one year passed and another, and tho third year found John Dean keeping Mr. Sibley's books and his bank account, collecting his moneys, making his payments, going and coining between the lumber camps, ongaging and paying off the men—in short, the trusted and faithful intimate of his business, always firm and strong and xcuidy, always bright and gentle and obliging. Mr. Sibley used to say it was as good as an open fire and a mug of cider to see John's face on a gloomy evening, and there was many a rosy young girl in the Port who thought no losti, and looked shyly askance at his face once so bleached and now with a healthy tan and a ruddy color beneath the white brow, at hi» wholesome mouth, whoso bright laugh was not hid by the tawny shadow of, the recent mustache, at the sparkle of his happy eyes, at his shapely shoulders and his easy bearing.

Hut of late this cheeriness of John's that Mr. Sibley liked was going under a cloud. Mr. Sibley thought he must bo tired, and was for giving him a vacation. Mrs. Sibley thought ho was HI and was for dosing him with herbs. Annie Siblay, if she thought anything about it, only showed her thought by a heightened color on her cheek and a brighter star in her eye when his name was mention* ml, or when she saw him coming up the garden walk.

Certainly an unknown young fellow who had found a place almost without asking for it, had been taken into his master's confidence and into his family,, and had every reason to think Mii future secure and fortunate, ought to have worn a gayer faoo than John Dean was wearing now. It is true his good nature was continually the same on requirement, but gradually all jests and quips and drolling, as Mrs, Sibley called it, hml ceased, and he went about his work pale and preoccupied and silent, and Sundays he strayed off over the fields instead of listening to little Annie staging in the choir, or walking home with her aa he had been used to do* Perhaps it did not occur to him that any two might be troubled by this pefhags he was not aware of it himself ho certainly did not 9m the paling of the bloom on Annie's cheek*

But Mrs. Sibley 'did, and it smote her heart to seethe girl's eyt» follow John ami fall again, she taking *hame to hereof that they did, to nee tiw* unconscious, pwtty ways in which she tried to win him out of his gloom. "She might do worse," said Mr. Sibley, when his wife spoke to him about itaa good wife should. "He* a likely fellow, rm go ing to raise Ms salary tfc* &*t of the year. And hell boa rich mm

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"But ™fatber-~ycfti—yon wouldn't be willing to let the first comer have her— and he* as you may aay» a sort of--of-* hired man!" "Hired man be—t mean,* taid Mr, Sibley, who didn't allow swearing, "he's say confidential man of basinewP "But we deal even know where ha came fromf "Steady as a dock, faithful as a dial, some out about Wm mmwhet®* of comae, but I cant find it* P*rh*po that's it. 1 guesa we can find out where he came fnm. FU ask him, don't never want ter know, though, a mite moreen I know about him. Always under our eye, and thia the third year. What's she pale about? Deww she think I wouldn't like i& Yoa t*a her I aay ahe might go farther and fare wocae!* "Oh, fath«r, I couldn't speak to bar about itr «Wtiill* tfcsa. yon bam tmtm*«® tw *»toep,an'lat the Lord take care of it 2:yrm I MM two young totka s-making

I Ocot beltefa I can tmpwvaoa natnr^ I^Mrhaps Umj mother ba«i wane tb.' nntm*. f«r Aante.to tar«««

innoamce teat imas^isaar# 8Sfe watcb«d ber gtjing about her^itrtple-du-tiesand pleasaree like acmietliing jngt above the -earth but not mn it, E*mj one in the Pert had a tench of thhaame feeling about Annie Sibley—the old wenaan to wliom she%tnee an qjnn caa the Jtreet, the little child whose 'btirt she sodtfced, the aick |bi with whom she mtched. Even ^te sailors in ber father's lumber schooner counted it luck if they saw her sweet face before sailing, as other people do when they see the njoon over their right shoulder. She had tbo gen^» word, the gentle deed for all people, the tender judgment, the unfailing p»ty. "Annie Sibley," said old Peachblow, voicing the sentiment of all the community, "she's as nigh perfect as they make 'em."

It would have been no wonder, then, had despair fallen on John Dean when bo found that he, too, was under the spell, and that he would rather be condemned for life to the solitary with bread and water than paas that life without h&r. And what was he that he should dare

As he sat there on the doorstep his head fell forward cm his knees and a sob escaped him full of anguish. In the next moment some one s^t down beside him, a hand stole into his, and Annie was whinnering some indistinct, comforting murmur. How could he help returning the clasp of that little hand with an unconscious strength of grasp that was almost pain, suddenly raise it to his lips and cover it with kisses, and as suddenly fling it from him as though its touch had stung him, and then, seeing her withdraw, startled, grieved, hurt, turn and snatch her to his wildly beating heart and hold her as if they were one body and one sonL "Oh, what have I done, what have I donel" he cried, as he opened his arms and released her. "I love you! I love you! mid I must leave you. I must go away from here, for I can never marry youtjv

But for all answer little Annie had only clung to him the closer, her face upturned on his shoulder, with its appealing eyes, the red lips parted, the blush going and coming, the trembling smile melting to one of tenderest sorrow.

I ought to have gone before it came to this!" he said. "I have been meaning to go, day after day. And I could not, I could not! My will was strong, but it could not drag my feet after me!" He disengaged her clasp, and took her face between his two hands, his great gray eyes looking into hers long and passionately. "Kiss me!" he said. "Once. J?or the last time. And now forget me!"

He told Mrs. Sibley that night that as soon as Mr. Sibley returned from his western journey ho should have to leave them. "Leave us, John!" said she. "What for?" "It's about time," he answered, carelessly, "My traveling cap is on." "But John—why, John! Are you dissatisfied? Isn't Mr. Sibley doing right by you? Has anything—has anything made you unhappy?" "Unhappy?" he said, with an air of surprise. "Oh, I'm not unhappy," bo answered, with a look in his eyes that insula lua Aclut- ...

But Mr. Sibley's journey was a long one, into tho timber district of a western state. When he came home, six weeks later, he found a very different condition of things from that which he had left. Tho men were in the woods, the campssupplied, the new year promising to open well, and all had been ordered and attended to by John. But John himself was sleeping in the counting room, and as he did not go up to the house any more Mrs. Sibley was sending dinner down to him and Annie, his little wind flower, looking as if the wind could blow through her, had grown into the white shadow of herself, large eyed, pallid and frail, not as a flower, but as the ghost of a flower.

They were alone in the warehouse next day, the porter and the boy having gone homo for their nooning. "jPv© been waiting for you to come back, sir," said John, in a voice meant to be calm, but which sounded in his own ears as hollow as if it came from an empty shell. "Because I must take my turn now. It's tho close of the year. I find that I cannot be with you another year." "You mean you want a little rest and change? Certainly," said Mr. Sibley fussily. "Certainly. That's right Fvo been advising it, you know. How long, sayf* "For—for good and all, Mr. Sibley. I —I can't work here any longer." "John!" "No, sir You see yourself Pm only good at anything for about ao long. I've grown reckless. I must go." "I don't see anything of the sortT roared little Mr. Sibley. "Yea, air. I thank yon for your goodmm to mo. It's been more than you think more than you can ever know. It—it breaks mo all up—to go. but I most," "Look herer cried Mr. Sibley, "I always said there was an out about you, if

I could only find it. And hero it is! What is this bee in your bonnet? John -ia it—ia it Annief he said in a different tone, one that had all a father's tenderness in it "Because if it Is*—aa there came ftd aasw^p—^HhaTs all right* «I—l cannot—marry her, sir,* with down hung head. "You can't marry my daughter, sirf began the maater. and 1m stopped, fchtmka?etruek. to comprehend the statement Then, "You cant marry my daughter, «irr ho cried again, lashing himself into a rage. "I ehould like to know what's the reason yow cant marry-my daughter! Bo you mean to say that you came here* & young whippet saapper from iwwberv, a a rsobody, and break my it«r*» heart and ruin her life, danght amtfV" "Stop, Mr. John, aa white a# a»befc "J ouJdr.. her lifts iiHleed, stayed.*

Awaited a moment law nlojvrfull in the ffcee—as Mr. o*uiey afterward Used as if he a i» ma*fcl»*maiig all tboee bate# and feamK "I meant to

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yutt," h* said presently, rafting h& lips s» if with aa effort. "I meant to t^}^M*woMywbe*pmtobe»good tome. And then I fdtit was my only chant* in life* and I cmOdat I too, it would give yoa a pate—a mau^a punttfame«t pursM» him all hb life, yxm sce-aadl hated to. And I hated to the look yon wouldbave togtvaiae when I told rou, mr^T—

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yon'weuid never know—it a thonmnd mike away. And #. along. And when I found I was ning to care for her, I made up my mind that I must go—and it was hard—and

—I never dreamed of hor caring for met 1 would as soon have dreamed of an angel out of heaiwa stooping to me! And when I found out that she did, I felt rare she would get over it with me out of the way—and—and I only waited for you to come back" 4

VWihat in thunder are you driving at?* "A man who helj* the helpleu gave me & suit of clothes, and I worked my paasagtrdown hem. When you gave me that tearqi to drive I was just a fortnight ut of priun for theft" "That so?" said Mr. Sibley. And he turned oti his heel and went into the little counting room and shut the door.

How,many minutes, how many hours, John stood immovable, just as he had been taft among the tuna and bags and boxes, he could not have said. All thought, all emotion, seemed to have been wrung out of him he was not even suffering. At last one of the hands returned. John nodded to him, took his hat and coat and went up to the house to put his things together.

They were few—Ms possessions there— but his hands trembled so that it took him acme time. When he was through he heard the murmur of voices down bolow. Should he leave the house, where h&had been so kindly treated, without a word? He went down and hesitatingly turned the handle of the sitting room door, Mr. Sibley was there toe. "I—I—only came—to say goodby. Oh, sir, I would give my right hattd if' "You can give your right hand now, John," said Mr. Sibley. "Yon can give your right hand to Annie. Ym willing. Her mother's willing. She's willing. As for what you said in the store, we won't consider that Fm glad that's the only out about you, You couldn't have been anything but a boy when all that happened. You're hardly more than a boy now. I don't believe there's ten men alive that .hasn't taken pennies, or apples, or something that didn't belong to them, sooner or later. You got into bad company some way, I suppose, and a temptation came that was too much for you when you were weakened. You've grown since then—grown tho right, way strengthened. If you'd been born crooked you've bad every chance since you've been with me to feather your nesk You could have run away with a handy capital for a rogue moro than once.,- "Jfou're an honest man by nature, John^'^vV: "Oh, I am! I am! I mean to l^!*€lied John, with shaking. voice*

"We're forgiven our sitia^said -Mr Sibley solemnly, "when, fw&yo become so that nothing on eartli cot^d make' 3$ commit them again'. The Lord forgavo you long ago, John when tlio.possibility of doing that wrong again was drowned out of you. I defa't know why I should set up to be aitfy better'than the Lord. Now, we'll never speak of. this again. Well never think of it again. Well begin the year by puttrng -the old things behind us. You're as honest a man as mo, John. Your mo^dr an' me go together here, We believe in you. We're going to pispvo it by giving you the dearest ramgTOTl7artn ^nac*8 veers, it smar be anew year for all of us. It shall givo me what I wanted all my life and never had, and that's a son, and if I picked the world over, John, I couldn't find one more to my mind than what you be, John. Come, now," said Mr. Sibley, putting up his bandanna, "you ain't going to have time to think it over.. Old Peachblow's in tho kitchen, just down from the woods. I'll send him for the minister. Mother, there's some black cake in the stone jar, ain't there? Well, we'll haVe a quiet wedding here this afternoon and settle things, and then you and Annie can go off for that little change wo was speaking of. You go to Annie in tho west parlor, now, John."— Harriet Prescott Spofford in New York TalMmtm.

Souvenir Decorations for Room#. An effective way of treating the walls in your own den is to make a border of photographs just above the wainscoting. Other souvenirs can be added, a bit of embroidery, favors, apiece of a gown, manuscript music, anything that has an association. The more irregular the more picturesque the effect will be. All these souvenirs may be framed in laths stained with some favored color, or they may be arranged in panels. A certain newspaper woman has taken all the pho* tographa she haa received from the various piofossionals she has interviewed and made a double panel of them for a corner of a sanctum, and tho effect is very pleasing. Another woman I know has made an entire frisseof photographs. Califk»BDia redwood is tho latest fad for a dining room wainscoting, and in the space between it quite strongly resembles mahogany. A narrow shelf for pottery finish** tho wainscoting, and in the *pace- between it and tho celling old china or the effective blue and white

Nankin, which is so much favored just now, is hung.—New York Gear. Chicago Herald,

Omt &ribda'i Cold Haiue*. Oaring the winter the American traveler through Scotland and England is sure to be distarfced by the low temperature of the houses. It tajparticularly true of Scotland thai the grates, which are tho universal heating apparatus of modern.axed structures, are cottatrueted with tfeoMea^#teveatingtl»coasttmpUonof coaL In a *pJeadid private house wfckhwo vMted, despite the insurious appointments in otber ways, it was forbidding becaua»of its low temperature.

Itiaanytttxtgijwtagreeable to «pen^ an evening ia a drawing room iO fee* long and wife ia which to only one grata with an lSHiteh basket SpteadMnain&nfraon the walls, artistic furnishinga, beautiful stateatyaad all the ^uipitt»teof luxury and wealth cannot compeoittto.for the lack of aboot 10 p«r cent additional beat Wo all faugftf the grate, .appeared as ^beeeym pom^k and xtsttted*^.—Indiaas^cdi# News.

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A Frwctr painting which ee*d for $18, waaisnliUed "Oettteg Baa4y Hanam." AAama wai *et*eseatcd ting up frdtt *»-.** whew fe*J passed the ni«fat uaier a tree, aad it wasaaAmtetioaa who first calliedat^Li tmtkm^oiheiact ttei he

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BOft, pretty colors. IMen don't always know what it ie that] pleases them, but they are pleased wim bright, cheerful colors in a woman's (Jresa. You should wear the wrapper for fjhe ^sake of husband and boys." 1 "Oh, as for Dr. Kendall, the dear mac! ne nr uo BOSOrOBU tb would never know whether I was robed in sky blue or grass reen, or dandelion ellow, or poppy red—bless him! As for 'nil and Teddy, they are rampaging boys, too young to know or care what anybody wears while Max and Howard are young gentlemen of such fastidious tastes I'm sure they'd laugh to Bee their new old mother trioked out like a young girl. No, my dear friend, I know my duty better." "But what will you do with the wrapper?" "Ob, 111 keep the lovely thine, and once in awhile I will take it out ahd remember Cousin Mary, and delight my eyes with looking at it It is a delight to the eye."

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So the wrapper was folded away, and the next day it went with Helen Kendall to her new home.

Time passed, and in the aosortion of her new duties and fitting herself into her new place, the box and its oontente were almost forgotten. One day, in making some changes, the box happened to be brought to light and the wrapper was taken out to be put in some other place. Before it wsa disposed of Helen was interrupted, and it lay upon a chair in her room all night.

The next morning was dark and rainy. She was lat?, and in hurrying her dressing ahe remembered that her ordinary gray morning dress was not in repair.

Hesitating a moment, her eye caught sight of the card with "A rainy day wrapper" on it She smiled at the ridiculousness of wearing so oh a thing on Buoh a morning then, as she paused, a sudden inspiration came to her, "What if I should I I declare! Til do it!" sheexolaimed, and in a spirit of mischief she hastily threw it on. A glance in title mirror assured her that at 48 the color was becoming to her clear, dark complexion and brown hair aad But die went out and took her plaoe at the breakfast table, a little ahame-faoed-ly, it must be oonfessad. "Oh, mother, how pretty you look!" the greeting of Teddy, the youngest and privileged pet of the household, aa he came around to give her the good morning kisa. "It's bar pretty dress,** commented outspoken Phil guess it ia," said Teddy.

veying it sritioally. "It's so rosy, did you gat it mother?" "I've

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only I thought it waa too gay for tha mother of such big boys to wear. "Ob, it isn't," protested Max* Mm oMaat a young man of 21. "It*a good to ia U»simtchad£ dull morning, fwiah you would wear it every time it raina." •"Making sunshine ia esfeedy plaos," quoted Dr. Ktndall, miaebievooriy, bat tboking at his wife maanwhtk with ad-

wSPatserrybraadfass,spifcof the pouring rain outaide, and, after tew fcoabc&d sad boye had awparatw *m»r •even! emptoymeati, Batea K«m*« aw acme eerious thinking. The boye* e*ident pleasure in the arevwaUoa tober. any difference ta dressed? Waaitaot petaal brawny aad area of different aksdea night bsoMae a trifii aenoka®® aatt aaprnaiBg? Aad aapeoialiy iMtaiai. wliaa it was aa aaqr to rtrfka

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lifted a oh«amare |rrapper from a box in which it had bean packed and ^ook out iUaoftfoldf?,

It was beaaiiful^in truth. Hie ground wsa a lovely rose color, over whioh meandered a delieatevine, with sprays of wild rasaa and buck of adaeper taut, and faint green leaves. A little, not too much, soft laoe finished nsck aad sleeves, while one or two bows gave piquancy to the whole. It was a bridal present, whioh had just come to Helen Austin on the day before her marriage. "It la just like Cousin Mary," oon tinned the bride-elfat "floe, dainty, ex qnisite but it would be utterly out of harmony with my blacks and browns and grays. I oould never wear it in ths world.** yf "But, my dear, ia there any law compelling yoa to wear only blacks and browns and grays?" asked Mrs. Lind ley, the friend to whom she was shoeing it "Certainly thore is the law of fitness, of propriety. An elderly spinster who marries a doctor of divinity and his four boys, keeps his bouse and does her share of pariah work ought to be attired with becoming sobriety^ "But theoolors would be so blooming to you,n plsaded bar friend, "Yes, I used to wear those colors in my youog dayB, and if I were 18, or even 28, instead of 48, as I am, it would be jast the same thing. Bat will you look at the label: 'A rainy day wrapper?' What ever does Coug^a Mary mean??-?: "Just what she .says, Helen. She wants you to wear it in your new home to brighten the dull* rainy, depressing mornings for your husband and children.'* "I "I thought CjU3ia Miry had a batter S8DS3 of correspondences. Naw, if I oould ever bring, myself to put on this dainty thing, it Would besoms cloudless Sunday morning in ^arly Juoe. I should want to Bit u£|p4 iHer piazzs, with the flowers blossoming, and the birds singing, and the blue sky overhead, and everything in harmony. Even then I'm surd I should feel like a little brown sparrow in the feathers of a bird of paradise. A rainy day wrapper, indeed! No, 'thank you, My gray one with the Persian trimming will djo well enough fpr rainy days." "My dear, you arafwrong, believe &e, and Cousin Mary is i&ht She ^lived in a house full of brothers all her life, and knows, that the maiouline delights

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.^rapper whenever there should be oooa sion. OaoasioHS came In plenty. Once when Teddy was sick he asked beseechingly if his mother wouldn't put on the "roey drees," aad when shs did he quited down and went off into a refreshing sleep.

One morning before ehe left the room there was a tap at the door, aad on opening it a oraok Howard whispered through "Mother, won't you please put on your *rqsy wrapper' this morning?"

Wonderingly, she oomplied, for it was a bright morning, and it had oome to be understood thai the garment was for dull days. "Pm all out of sorts, mother," Howard explained, "got a desperate fit of ths blues, and I thought a sight of that 'rosy wrapper* would do me good."

Happily Helen waa able to provide a more effectual remedy in her ready counsel and sympathy still, she bad no doubt, the wrapper did its part in bring ing sunshine back to the clouded face.

Oae time Dr. Brown was visiting thsm. He was an old and dear friend, and one whom Dr. Kendall was specially desirous to honor. In the morning her husband said to Helen: "Don't you think, my dear, you had better put on your pretty dress this morning—that one with the roses all over it, I mean—the one you look so beautiful in, you know."

She put it on, feeling hali vexed and half amused, but the visitor was wholly charmed, and was never tired of telling his friends aftsrward what a lovely woman Mrs. Kendall was, and it what exquisite taste ehe dressed, hearing which, in a roundabout way, Bhe was fain to oonfees thst ths wrapper proba biy did it all "Mother," said Phil, as he came in one day before supper, "Qaorge Sanson and Harry White are coming over this svening." "Are they? All right iBhallbeglad to see them." ''Pail wriggled about and twisted him self into all jjorts of shapes on ths arms and posts of his mothsr's chair, until she convinced he had something on bis mind. "Can I do anything to help entertain them? I can est out a little epresd of spples and nuts and cookies, it you would like. Will that do?" "It isn't that!" Phil burst out. "It's— it's—say, mother, won't you wear your rosy dress this evening?" "Why, Phil, that is only a wrapper for mornings. It will hardly do for an evening." "Ob, yes it will! The boys won't know the difference." "But why would you like me to wear it?"

Bsoause, I was over to George Benson's yesterday, and his mother's new dress was on the sofa, and it was all bows and laoe a 3d filings, and it was green or blue or soms color—I don't [enow whioh and George said wasn't it tfiiejprettiest dress 1 ever saw, and I said no,*my mother had one ever so muoh prettier and he said he didn't believe it, and I said for him to oome over and see it himself—so won't you plsase wear it to night, mother?"

Here waa a situation, but Hslen was equaltd it Her boy should not be put to shame,fend sb? promised him to wear the wrapper. Attired in it, with an extra bow or two pinnecfon, she did the honors for the admiring guests, and nobody but herself knew her secret terror lest some of the session, or of tKa session's wives, should drop in and findjher. trioked out

to declare that the rosy dre® w&g "a stunner," and Eoil was triumphal. This incident gave her food for father thought, and resulted in the purct^gg ot a deep ruby wool, which had made up as tastefully as possible for horns afternoons and evenings. The boys often importune her to wear it to ohuroh or down town, but there she draws the line and stands firm. Her husband deolares that she haa grown ten years younger since her marriage, and she retorts that, ifsinoe shs is made to dress like a girl of 20, she must be expected to act like one but that she will keep her gayety and giddiness for the home circle, and not expend it on the parish.

The rosy wrapper, like other mundane things, began to ahow signs of wear, and Helen waa anxiously contriving how she could renovate it, when, on the first an-

attaohed to it was a card bearing the inaoription: "To mother, from herboyB.

OPPOSED TO TIGHTS ON THE STAGE.

Professor Swing Gives Hts Views on the Present Minnesota Crusade. have seen Annie Louise Cary in tights," said Professor David Swing with unblushing candor in conversation with a reporter for the Chicago Herald. The topic of talk was the anti-female-limb-display bill just passed by the Minneaota senate and the threatened outbreak ot a "movement" to the same end in Chicago. "Yea, indaed, I have seen Annie Louise Cary in tighta," continued the oracle of Central Musio hall, "but I don think that the tighta added to her suoceaa." "Did they detract from it?" was asked. "I cannot aay that they did—she looked quite well, as I remember, bare seen women ia tights on several oooacsions, though ae*er purpoeely» and, indeed, I may say wholly unintentionally. in every iaetanoe a ballet baa been brought in—forced in, aa I Soughtafter the feahion of a catch card for a questionable pakwiga ^i1*008' tutAee introduced by Itviug and Barrett were very near tbe ideal. The ballet ooatumes should be respectable, Md to that extent my a/mpaihy is with the

Minnesota senate. It would be an ad vantage to comic opera if the fact were notorious that the oortunwa were all going to be refined. Art ought notbe culgmr, and in this connection I believe that a great many bills, aa aoma peopla call them, should be auDOtasssd, tor they are mm ply stod£tow5r&. I do cot think thst tbe fact of appeanng in ^btawill ^d anybody lotto bad

whirling about in the waltz the ailken oorda snapped and her frock dropped to her waist. Do you know that 1 oould but think that 'some great catastrophe,' aa the paper put i* just like that migot occur in many a ball-room. The demand for reform at the upper end of woman's dress is a just demand aad ahonld be acceded to. Fashionable eooiety ought Certainly to pull its dress up at the throat and down at the knee. .. nude in art ta different from anykave mentioned, and particularly is it different from the semi-nude 'art' whioh we see on the stage. The figuree

mart galleries are not forced on the pie, but the theater is a popular institution. I would not object understand you, to tights if they were necessary, but I insist that they are not neosssary. Suddsn reforms, however, have never been in favor with me." "1

AN ELEPHANT'S SAGACITY.

Thla Tusker Knew the Difference Between Nineteen mad Twenty. In 1853 a regiment was marching from Peahawur to Kopulvie, and was aooompanisd by a train of elephants. It was the duty of the mahout in charge of each elephant to prepare twenty ohupatties, or flat cakes mads of oourae flour, for his charge. When the twenty ohupatties were ready, they wees placed before the elephant, who, during the process of oounting, never attempted to touch one of them until the full number was completed. On one oooasion one of the elepnanta had seized the opportunity of his mahout's attention being distracted for a moment, to steal and awallow one pf the ohupattiea. When the mahout, having finished the preparation, began to oount them out he of oourse, discovered the theft and presented his charge with 19 in place of the usual number.

The elephant instantly appreciated the fact of there being one less than he had a right to expeot, and refused to tuoh them, expressing his indignation by loud trumpetinga. This brought the oonduotor of tbe elephant line on the scans. Having heard the explanation of the mahout the oonduotor decided that the mahout wss in fault for not keeping abetter lookout, and ordered him to provide the twentieth cake at his own oost When this was prepared and added to the pile, the elephant at onoe accepted and ate them.

It is incredible that an elephant, sagaoious as he is, should be able to oount up to twenty. At the same time it is difficult to find any other explanation, except one whioh would imply the possession of a still higher degree of intelligence, namely, the consciousness of his own delinquency, and an expectation (justified by the result) of what would follow when he oalled the conductor's attention by trumpeting.

J|A UNIQUE SILVER SERVICE

Description of the Testimonial to Be Given to Senator (torman. The tsatimonial to United States Senator German is now rapidly approaching completion, and will be presented to him at a general reception to be held about May 15. Tbe testimonial consists ot a fall dinner service of solid silver, numbering thirty odd pieces. The whole service weighs about 1,000 ounce?, and will oost from $4,000 to $5,000.

The service oomplete is formed of a oenter-pieoe for flowers or fruit, and salver soup tray and waiter, terrapin n. taar vegetable dishes, a meat

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four oompotes, Wo water pitchers, with tray, celery tray,

waiters, bread four burnt almond olive dishes and ibl?0?* vThe testimonial piece is inches long, 10 inches across and JM inobea high, and of oval

creeses, aquatic signs.

think

that aotore aad actresses would Hod that dresses more ncova orofitftbla. The bast, the moat fnnmly patioaiaed ballet ever ee« la thie country was that thaeoa* tomes reech^i to the feet

Pi-ofsseor Swing wsa asi^ whrtba owintttkt at amendment that bad Mumeeota bOi toMTaambamof teadia* aitiaeae ot 8t Paat that aoy aoDeannt in aociety ia a decollete should be bsanly fioed. -iMPPoeetbatwasdonessasortof sSmad tba dWae.'W ifao*

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I protwunoe its j^ke iatlwrigbt i£ I laagMI qaita haariHy at a pamgraah which I aaw ia aa Sahara

etf two tiny silk cords While ibe

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water produots of the

rich re^e ^'Jmomal is wrought in

plant, tlit?.® *ork» ahowing the tobacco corn and g»»«more oriole bird, wheat,

oelery grass, caVlise, water growths separate land other aned de

Bnallsh Jastlce.

At Bowdley last week the mag* sentenoed a girl aged fourteen ttas day's hard labor, to be followed by tti ears in a reformatory, for having atoJUn Cuba is being largely directed from our mothly parts of a magazine, whictfew York, she pleaded that she had borrowed in order to read. Oa this there was suoh an uproar in the oourt that the magistrates altered the monstrous sentence into one binding the girl to oome up for judgment when called upon. But does not all this show how utterly unfitted such a bench ia to administer justice? [London Truth.

It Settled Casey.

Bed hair has again gone out of faahion in Chicago. At least this ia a fair inference from the fact that when Morris Kennedy asserted thst Mrs. Casey, his landlady, had red hair, a %bt ensued, that e^ded in tbe murder of Mr. Casey by Kennedy. How thia eettlwi the question as to the oolor of Mm Caaev hair does not appear.—[Philadelphia Ledger.

One of lt« Kin* Perhaps Curio Dealer—"Here's a skeleton ot George Waahiogton'a pet oat"

Collector—don't want one ao large* What's this small one?" Curio Dealer—"That's a skeleton of tbe same eat when it was a kitten. —[American Stationer.

Bad X* Ie Mas.

A cigarette fiend who died raaaaily turned green after death. He probably bad the coloring mattw In him at tbe time that be formed tbe vicioua habit. -[Philadelphia Press.

He—I shall never love aay girl but you (rapturoualy). 1 teU yon, darling, yoa*ia oat of eight!

She ftboughtfa»y—Yee, out of Bight, out of mind!-[New York Telegram.

Tbe Georgia editnr who has twenty three children doesnt seeaa to have much trouble la fl^tyag oat copy.

Philadelphia Hmsa. Why We uwgt A nleseiec £eat ore of an Itailaa war ec«*«th£ aldaof ^wf«r iatb^ nobody gate 0B«ad.-lWaal*iagtoo Star a 9fa§mt Orirt.

Euripides coos remarked: baliwve a woman even when aha speaks the

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express PACKAGES. Jv TKB WWOB or TBI »'»nrn fmnr. Tb» deepsct depths Use ocean bold*

Mi} be both plamtwd and catved. The Mxboat mountain top and Dealt Hy dartns aeated and ttamd. mi wbere'a tbe plommetUiat can aoon

With aQ the aid or art. The oaverni of tbe human bnut Tbddarkwajolttwbeart?

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At tho' each were a 1 Tho' not award nu «iUd For seldom had Uut barbershop

Seen soeh a fearful sight, For be »w having his b&lr cat on A crowded Sarurdaj nteht. —t Philadelphia Tlmea, There are 1,500,000 Gypsies in Europe. Electric cabs run on the streets of Stuttgart

A mirror brought to this country in 1776 stands in the window of a Chester, Pa, furnisher store.

The county jail at Somervilie, N. J., was entered by burglars the other night and a pocketbook stolen. ,Two society women of Albuquerque, N. M, are eaid to have become insane from th« use of cosmetics on their faces.

A oitisen of Cedar Bluffs, Neb., had the novel experience, the other morning, of shooting a wolf in his dooryard before breakfast

A Lancaster, Pa, man recently received $50 through the mail, with a letter stating that it waa stolen from him forty years ago.

A resident of Jasper, Ca., killed a hawk a few days ago of great size. It measured 5 feet and 17 inches from tip to tip of it9 wings.

A Wellington, Kan., couple, who were married |m two weeks after they met, were separated in just two weeks after they were married.

At the exhibition of the Royal Botanio society in E jgland this spring the blue primrose was tbe flower that attraoted the moet attention.

An itinerant blind fiddler who met with an aooident at Stockton, Cal„ and had to be taken to a hospital, was found to have $1,200 on his person.

There is a movement among the society young men of Jefferson City, Mo., to have just one more danoe before new onione appear in the market.

Among the spring repaits notioed ia that of the famous winged lion of St Mark, in Venioe, whioh haa become jured by recent intense frosts.

A few years ago the great Sslkirk glaoir.r in British Columbia was pure water. Now it is grimy from ashes soattered by the wanton burning of forest trees.

It is a mistake to suppose that polar research has oost enormously in human life. Despite all the great disasters, ninety-seven out of every 100 explorers have returned alive.

The lowest body of water on the globe is the Caspian sea. Its level has been gradually lowering for centuries, and now it is eighty-fire feet below the level of its neighbor, the Biaok sea.

The New York Supreme oourt has decided that a man who abandons his wits without just cause must still give her an equitable share ot his income, even if Bhe of mearm of her own.

English ollloers are aghast at the pro-

wor^ b.y

numerous I the army. Major James,

whi°h th«

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tbe superior ollloers of

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Mention is mads ot a child born at Hartford, Conn., last month whioh weighed only two pounds and three ounces when it was three days old.

What island was discovered by Columbus on his first Amerioan voyage is sltll unknown. Ths popular idsa that Cat island was ths one was exploded long age.

the Six-

teenth Linoers, started the idea. k™'? PRPe,r Proposed to send the most popular minister to Europe, but the ministers deoounoed the offer hf«foteUrt^u?

10 thelr 8Ror6d

Oflioe and

insisted on their names not being used in that connection.

S® Judges in one of the wards at Wiohits, Kan., had to wait five

the Maryls^?° ^od and on one side is The salver^ of arms. of the ChesajftTPieal of the produots rich repousse b?P bay. Around the back terrapin and^r are the diamondcanvas back duckiorab, with swan, Oyster boats aresdd hsh near by. I old, who had used tobacco^' nirhar7 sportsman is knookin^redging and a I has discarded the weed this winter She oanvas-baoks. Waterer the flying I hasn't given up work, though, as she ?"k^i'J"rU,',ll"llt

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!!^i, °,ufc,of bar pocketbook, and then she handed in a receipt for making sweet pickles.

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tomatoes are tak-

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C^ jf is associated, ss nee8'^1^r.^®neral Gordon, of oomt0od ax-Governor Tsvlor of Tenrailroa^®° ^Dd"*trial aevelopment and to s«P W»500,000 capital, to build

A patitil^P ."cd quarries the German'01to practice mtoantly brought before unsuccessful, alg to enable women brought against The petition was the privileges aot the arguments led to the spread ot that in Rsesia trices.

women had

A lady came to the pSJonary dooKan, who refused a tick. doing them out aay ing •tSoott, ticket already prepawd. Sh thoae ed to have her own sweet way, her the ballots were oounted ont h-w. tration ticket, with her name letters, turned up all right

Wooden nutmegs were a Yankee., tion. but the masufacture of aatifici. coffee beans ia a German industry. These beana are intended to be need in trade for mixing with the genuine article, eo that fastidious customers may beta the whole roasted and ground before their eyee without suspecting the trend.

It Ss a mistake to suppose that the weather ie cooler the further north one goes. The northern pole of greateet oold la only aqout three hundred milee northeaet of Yakatek, Siberie, where the mean annual temperature to a little lower than ia thehigh^ tatUJides reeobed Nares end Greely 1,000 milss furthM north.

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