' S
REINCARNATION.
Her lustrous oycs.vlth their southern heat.
Look Indifference into mine.
And my pukes race with a fiercer heat
'Ncath her maddening smllo illvinc !
An Icy chill In her splilnxllkc lance
Seals forever my hopelcbs woe.
/ I my future staked on a loser's chance.
And her only word WHS "No ! "
.
In Bomo other world , In an UKO oulgrown
Say a million of years ago
We two must have loved as I now , alone ,
' While I never then told her so !
Clarence Miles Boutclle in Godcy'a.
AN AITEMOON CALL.
My mother's illness had kept us home
for months , but she was better and be
ginning again to take interest in mag
azines and newspapers. In one of the
latter she discovered this item :
"Miss Marian Ross arrived Saturday
from Sparkling Springs , Va. She leaves
next week for-Bar Ilarbor and other gay
centers. "
"Go over and call'Vsaid my mother ;
"perhaps she will give you a whiff of
the ocean. "
Before I could demur she had rung
for George to bring around the cart and
ordered mo out of the house.
I chose ti short cut to Ross hill , u
country road bordered breast high with
blackberry and elder bushes. There
was much up hill and down dale work
and many a loose stone over which to
stumble , but the pony was fresh , trees
shaded the road , wild grapevines waved
their sprays in our faces , and an occa-
sioual'breeze wafted us the fragrance of
the elder blossoms.
Crossing a bridge and looking down
through the tree tops to the creek far
below I could see the cattle drinking
velvet skinned Alderneys , whose grace
ful limbs showed pedigree in every line.
Skirting the base of Rose hill we
turned into the avenue and climbed
toward the gates , which formed a cres
cent and swung from huge stone pillars
almost hidden by woodbine.
The gates barred entrance to the drive
way ; otherwise the place was not in
closed by wall or hedge the great green
hill stretched away in its beauty for
every one to see. A rustic seat was
placed hospitably on the boulevard that
even a stranger might tarry and enjoy
the view far away over the hill and val
ley to that line of misty blue which
marks the end of vision. On my way to
the house I espied a hammock under the
. willow trees down by the spring. Surely
'a white dress was fluttering from it.
Bidding pony stand I ran down the hill ,
to be received literally with open arms.
" dear Harriet how did *
"My , 3011 divine
that I was longing for you ? But I did
not like to add myself to your burdens.
I am so depressing. "
"Oh , but my mother is better , and be
sides I am always glad to see you. "
"I am so tired of myself that I feel as
if every ono else must be tired of me too.
I was even grateful to my horse for seem
ing glad to welcome me home. We are
7 no match for dumb brutes in affection.
"We chatter away all our best qualities ,
our affection and earnestness , and that
reminds me , you were not at church yes
terday. I was. I sat in the pew be
tween the two doors , where the breeze
could fan jne and the green trees look in
at me ( there were very few other specta
tors ) .
"The j'ellow windows were framed by
the shadow of the ivy on the outside , and
the choir bo-s sang like birds. The ser
mon was so good all about oh , I for
get what it was about , except that no
said the word translated 'good' means
earnest to be good is tp be earnest. I
was afraid before that I never could be
good , but now I am in despair. e I never
realized how frivolous I was until Maud
married. She was always serious enough
for both of us. "
We were sitting in the hammock ,
which vibrated slowly , encouraged by
an occasional touch of her white slip
pered foot on the turf. Before us the
spring trickled from the earth and ran
away a tiny thread of silver , just water
'enough to keep the pebbles glistening
and to give drink to the ferns which
leaned over it. I congratulated Marian
on the luxuriance of the green fronds ,
knowing that the sisters were fond of
them , as they had been gathering- them
for years on their travels , and each fern
had its pleasant reminiscences.
"Now , " said Marian , "there is an in
stance of how serious Maud is. It would
break her heart to know that she had
half the associations attached to the
wrong ferns , but it only makes me laugh
when she hangs the California story on
a fern I know we brought from the Vir
ginia mountains , or when she tells how
she dug that one in an old churchyard
in Morristown , N. J. , near Washington's
headquarters , when Aunt Letty herself
identified it as one she sent us from Illi
nois , from the banks of the Sangamon.
"Didn't Lincoln'wade fish
or or some
thing in the Sangamon ? Yet I believe
Maud is happier than I am ; at least I am
sure there is something lacking in me
now that she is married. After one has
owned a sister so long it is hard to have
some man with no claim at all come and
carry her off. Whatever she has had I
have always had , until now she has a
husband and I have none not that I
want one , but she might have waited.
"Since we were little girls we had
planned that if ever there was a wedding
in the house it should be a double one ,
but when I reminded her she laughed at
he idea , said waiting for me was hope-
'riss ; that such an indecisive person as I
wouldn't know my fate when I saw him.
Then I couldn't help saying that if my
fate expected me to recognize him he
would certainly have to be handsomer
than her Henry. Of course there was a
quarrel , and after that I dared not sus
pect even in my own mind that Henry
was not an Apollo , and if I was exhausted
in preparing for the wedding I was
afraid to heave a sigh.
"I just fastened a smile on my face
and kept it there till all was over.
When I took it off after they were gone
papa said I looked like a ghost in my
own house. He offered to take me
somewhere , but I know pleasure resorts
are places of martyrdom to him. His
idea of recreation is to go fishing with a
lot of men and dress like an aborigine.
So I told him if ho could persuade Miss
Brown to bo my chaperon she and I
would iut a swath. Of course she
couldn't leave her sister and the chil
dren , but I whirled her of ! before she had
time to resign herself to stay at home.
"When we left wo were absolutely
lifeless she with overwork , I with en
nui. We went south to the gulf. Wo
were quite too listless to think. If home
ono would plan out a day , even an hour ,
for us , wo were happy. Ono of us would
say to the other :
" 'What are you going to do ?
" 'I haven't decided. What will yon
do ?
" 'I haven't made tip my mind. '
" 'I believe I'll walk on the pier and
wait for an'idea. '
" 'Oh , then , so will I. '
"There were men about too. One
perhaps forty years old took a fancy to
me. They teased mo about him , un'd I
hadn't even ambition to retaliate just
let them tease. At first I had a mild in
tention of transferring him to Misis
Brown ( they would have made a nice
match ) , but it proved too much trouble.
He would do anything for mo and noth
ing -for her , and wo needed some man to
devise amusement and do the talking
for us. llo tried to make us promise to
rcttiru some time , although wo hadn't
spoken of going. He persisted in trying
to make us promise , and wo were too
inert to oppose him. So one day when
he was out in a boat we stepped on board
a steamboat and went up to North Car
olina.
"Beautiful country ! Oh , the flowers
on the North Carolina hills ! I began to
appreciate the scenery , and Miss Brown
became so sprightly she alarmed me. I
told her if she couldn't help growing
younger so fast I should have to send
homo for an older chaperon. Then we
drifted about to other places Sparkling
Springs last and longest. We staid at
a private hotel fine old southern house
in perfect preservation magnolias and-
capo jasmine and pickaninnies. While
I think of it let me warn you if you ever
go south be careful. You will think
every man you meet is in love with you
they are all so devoted.
"There was one man at our hotel.
When I say a man I mean one who takes
your breath away. There were plenty
of apologies for men and several women
worth looking at. There was a j'oung
widow with a pensive air and a reper
tory of touching allusions to her dear
husband , which were very fetching.
She had more men about her than any
woman in the house ; in fact , she could
command all of them except the one I
spoke of.
"When I arrived he was dancing a
good natured attendance on a young ma
tron unhappily married and exceedingly
pretty , infantile type , theatrical tend
ency to nose. She had wrapped her
self about him like a vine and gave him
daily bulletins of her troubles. Just
think of it ! How can a woman ? And
what did that man do but come and re
peat all her confidences to me !
" 'Do not tell me , ' I would beg. 'I do
not care to hear her private affairs. '
" 'Neither do I , ' he would laugh. 'I
think you might share the burden of
woe which she thrusts upon me. '
"After I came perhaps he neglected
her or broke some of the tendrils she had
fastened upon him. It was only natural
that he should show me about a little ,
all the other men being occupied with
the widow. He was merely trying to
keep me from stagnation , I'm sure. It
was absurd for her to grow jealous , but
she did , and she a married woman ! Visi
bly jealous ! Perfectly preposterous , es
pecially when there was nothing between
us. Were only amusing each other ;
only passing away the time the days
were so long and delightful. "
As she spoke she kept nervously twist
ing a ring which I had never before no
ticed on her hand.
"When did you get that ? " I asked.
"Oh , he gave it to me , " smiling.
"So you are engaged. Please tell me
what he is like ? "
"You shall see for yourself. He said he
would come on this winter : * '
"Then there will be another wedding
at Rose Hill ? "
"What do you mean ? " with arching
brows and surprised eyes. "I do not ex
pect him he said so ; that was all/ '
"You mean that you do not care for
him to come ? "
To this she would make no reply , only
looked at me in a mocking way , and I
rose to go. We climbed the hill arm in
arm , and I jumped into the cart and was
about to touch the pony with the whip
when she leaned over , placed her hand
on the back of the seat and whispered :
"All that talk about Father Time is a
mistake. They ought to say Mother
Time. I always knew Time was a wom
an because time will tell. "
She picked up her skirts with one
hand , threw me a kiss with the other
and ran into the house. My eyes and
thoughts followed her until a tug at the
reins apprised me that pony had started
for home on his own accord , delicately
intimating that an afternoon call should
end before evening. Chicago News.
Intelligible Price Marks.
Very few stores now adhere to the old
plan of cipher marking. Experience has
proved that a majority of customers
prefer goods to be marked in plain fig
ures , no one liking the idea of two sets
of figures unless he is sure ho is among
the favored ones who get the benefit of
the lower scale. It is said to be the
practice with the medical fraternity of )
some towns to grade their charges to
patients according to the style of house
in which they live and the same idea
prevails so much as to retail stores that
ladies have been known to send servants
down to stores because they could get a
larger discount.
Other ladies are careful never to dress
very well when shopping , and this shows
how firmly the impression prevails that
a genuine one price store is a novelty.
The easiest way to get over this im
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in plain figures , so that the customer
may see that one price prevails for all.
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LIFELONGFEIENDS. .
THE STRANGE FRIENDSHIP OF EM
ERSON AND CARLYLE.
Their Views AV'cro Almost Diametrically
j Opposed Dissimilar In Tcmocrnment
and Tastes Disliked Each Other as
I Thinkers , but Loved as Itlen.
The friendship of Goethe and Schiller ,
I of Beaumont and Fletcher , of Irving
and Paulding , of Socrates , and Plato ,
i have often been noticed as among the
friendships of literary or philosophical
minds.
But perhaps one of the strangest lit-
I erary friendships was the lifelong inti
macy between Emerson and Carlyle.
This intimacy was not fostered by per
sonal contact , for Emerson and Carlyle
met each other only upon two or three
occasions. All their lives a wide ocean
of space divided them , and a wide ocean
of tastes and temperament. It would
be hard to find two men who were more
totally unlike. Carlyle was fierce , tu
multuous , the most terrific scold in all
history. Emerson was mild and benig
nant as an afternoon in September. Car
lyle frowned like a thunder cloud , and
Emerson glowed like a sunburst.
Carlyle seemed to despair of the fu
ture of the race and believe that the
crazy old world was rattling on the
down grade to destruction. Emerson
was one of the most persistent optimists
in all history. The past looked great to
him , the present looked grand and the
future looked grander. Carlyle's style
was jerky , explosive and smashed to-
Ijethor like : i railroad wreck. Emerson's
ityle was compact , smooth and epigram
matic. Carlyle wrote long histories like
"Frederick the Great" and the "French
Revolution , " which read like a long
drawn out series of spasms , as if their
author's pen was afflicted with the St.
Vitus dance. Emerson wrote short , com
pact essays , in which every thought was
packed in the smallest possible compass.
The views of these two men were al
most diametrically opposed. Carlyle , es
pecially in his later days , seemed to
believe in an absolute monarchy. He ad
mired the cz.ir of Russia. His great his
torical heroes were men who had ruled
men with a hand of iron. Emerson was
a firm champion of republican institu
tions.
Both Emerson and Carlyle were semi-
invalids all their lives. But Emerson's
invalidism only served to draw out the
latent sunshine of his nature. The more
ho was chastened by disease the sweeter
grew his disposition. Carlyle's invalidism -
ism made hint rage like a caged tiger.
All his life long he thundered lurid de
nunciations at his own stomach. Etnev-
Bon wished to be known as a lover of
men ; Carlyle called the public "mostly
fools. "
Yet these two men , so dissimilar in
their tastes and temperaments , main
tained a lifelong friendship , and in fact
Emerson and Edward Irving were about
the only men of this generation that
Carlyle ever spoke of with respect.
"Sartor Resartus , " Carlyle's first
lengthy work and probably his master
piece , was first brought out , in book
form , in America by Emerson. The
first words of warm appreciation that
the book received came from this side
of the Atlantic. In England it was re
ceived with gibes and sneers and COP
tempt. It was , and still remains , one of
the strangest books that was ever'writ
ten , but it is full charged with Carlyle's
volcanic and dynamic genius. Emerson
was one of the first to appreciate this
genius and help to find it a public.
All of Carlyle's successive books as
they appeared found a warm admirer in
Emerson , though he must have violent
ly disagreed with many of their senti
ments.
A perpetual .correspondence was kept
up between the two men. In this corre
spondence Emerson was at his best , and
Carlyle never was more characteristic
than in his letters to Emerson. He must
have , in his inmost heart , despised the
theories and thoughts expressed in Em
erson's books , for his whole life was a
battle against these theories and
thoughts. But in spite of this radical
difference of ideas there was something
tibout the man he liked. Emerson must
have abominated many of the expressed
opinions of Carlyle , and yet he was pow
erfully impressed by Carlyle's person
ality.
They both hated each other as think
ers , but loved each other as men.
This friendship ought to demonstrate
that the strongest attachments grow up
sometimes between men of entirely di
vergent tendencies of thought. Men
seek their opposites for friends as they
teek their opposites for wives. It is
easy for one man to like and respect
another man without agreeing with
him. It is possible , however , that if
Emerson and Carlyle had been thrown
Into closer intimacy they would not
have continued their friendship so long.
Carlyle was not an easy man to live
with , as his own wife discovered to her
sorrow. Ho became a chronic scold.
Be found fault with his food. He scold-
Dd if a draft of air blew too rudely upon
his cheek. He was mad if a dog barked ,
a cat mewed or a hen cackled. He hated
all his neighbors inversely as he ioved
himself. And genius as he was , his
fetyle seems to indicate that he loved
himself very intensely. Emerson , on
the other hand , may bo written as one
who loved his fellow man. Humanity
had so large a place in his universe that
there was no room for self.
Not a pleasant man to live with for a
term of years was Thomas Carlyle. It
is doubtful if the sunny temperament of
Emerson could have maintained its sun-
niness if brought in constant contact
with such a human bear. S. Watterson
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