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with blooms and fragrance a child up
on a rustic bench with a lapful of
flowers and a busy Bcrious face a boy
on the wall above morosely watching
her these aro what the Juno sun
shono down upon long ago
The childs eager fingers had deftly
put the flowers together and one hand
dragged tho pink ribbon from her hair
With an effort of generosity she select
ed a sprig of heliotrope from the rest
You may have that Tom she said
tossing it upon the wall
The ribbon tied about the stems and
the arrangement held out for a mo
ments anxious inspection she sprang
to her feet and running down the path
and up the steps of the veranda
pushed open the green shuttered door
of the hall
At the farther end her father was
taking leave of a two days guest a
young man in a scarlet uniform and
much gold lace whose horses and ser
vant stood at the steps The little girl
went forward swiftly and hold out the
flowers to the visitor looking shyly up
ipto his face
The young soldier took them gallant
ly This is indeed an honor he
said with a quick smile a posey
from the fairest lady in all this fair
province Mistress Betty may bo Bure
they shall be among my treasured pos
sessions that I shall keep them al
ways
The child drew back and ran to the
big window to watch tho departure
straining her eyes to catch tho last
glimpse of the red coat as it disap
peared through the trees a spot of ex
citement burning on each cheek He
had been pleased a real soldier who
had fought tho Indians he was going
to keep her flowers forever
La child you havo worked your
self into a very fever the voice of
her governess exclaimed Go out for
a walk with your cousin do and cool
your cheeks And be sure you dont
turn back until you reach the gate
Betty got her hat obediently Tom
was cross he didnt like her hero
but nothing could mar the beauty of
the day for that proud happy little
heart
The grass was checkered with shade
and sunshine all down the avenue
Near the end the blue bay with its
dots of white sails came in view
They had reached the great stone gate
posts and between them lay her flow
ers in the dust
The boy picked up the soiled ribbon
Never mind Betty he said though
his eyes were full of anger Hes not
worth crying for
The little teeth shut down sharply
on the red lip Im not crying she
said
Eight peaceful years had passed and
then another wherein there wbb no
ivace for the colonies were shaking
themselves free of leading strings
But in the little water lapped city
there were no signs of the strife The
June sun was shining down again se
renely on the garden and the flowers
were giving out their lavish mingling
of odors on the still air
In the morning room through the
open windows of which tho garden
sounds and scents were drifting a
white capped spinster the govi ness of
yore was pouring out a continuous
flow of tea for herself and grievances
to the morose young officer before the
fire place
I never go away she protested
injuredly but something happens
The whole town has greeted me with
questions about Bettys new beau and
I with never a word to answer Bet
ty tells me nothing but only laughs
She has gone off now to make the
black and white cockades that the
commander-in-chief has ordered in
compliment to our French allies and
he has followed her Your uncle I
suppose is satisfied For my own part
I believe he is a lory nis refusing a
commission is certainly suspicious
though to be sure his manners are
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The boy picked up the soiled ribbon
charming and I confess he seems not
to have aged a month since he staid
here before ten years ago What is
your opinion of the match captain
The young man put down his cup
His manners as you say are his
ctrong point he answered contempt
uously but my cousin of course will
choose to suit herself and taking up
his hat he turned from the room
The woman sighed and poured hcr
eelf another enp of tea -He is as
taciturn as ever she murmured
thcush considering the dance Betty
has led him all these years he takes It
remarkably quiet poor boy
The object of her pity had paused
outside the door aid then aimlessly
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A garden in old Annapoli3 crowded
crossed the hall to his uncles Btudy
but before his hand had touched the
knob the door opened and their visitor
came out and passed him his usually
bland face wearing so black a look
that the younger man stopped to
glance curiously after him Then ho
pushed open the door
A girl sitting by a little sewing table
lifted her face as he entered a face
not beautiful but which had worked
untold mischief In its short career
What is the matter with Peyton
Betty he asked abruptly
We had a discussion said tho
girl with a laugh and I told him the
story of a certain little bunch of flow
ers as a moral which ruffled his tem
per
Her cousin came nearer and looked
down at her sternly
You have danced with him and
ridden with him and led him on un
til the whole town couples your names
together and for a childish grudge
Betty gave a little shrug He
spoiled one day for me she said
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Looked down at her sternly
one of the happiest of my life I am
not likely to let him spoil another
Then her whole manner changed
Now Tom she said impressively
prepare to be sufficiently grateful
Im going to give you my colors to
wear to the war
But the young man flushed darkly
No you will not he said through
his teeth You have had all the
amusement at my expense that you are
likely to have madam You spend
your whole time making fools of men
you are not worth
A pair of brown eyes had been raised
mockingly to his and kept there For
a moment or two he held out then the
old charm proved too strong and he
put his arms around her
Betty settled her head with a faint
laugh against his shoulder You al
ways were a bear Tom you know
she said softly Then she flashed
another glance into the intense face
above her Do you want to know
what made me tell him about those
flowers she asked very low I
helped Chloe pack your boxes yester
day and I found that old hair ribbon
in your desk
POPE DID NOT WANT NEW GOWNS
IjOOs Disinclination to Spend Money for
His Own U os
This story is told to illustrate the
popes dislike of spending money on
himself The other day Pio Centra
his old and tried personal attendant
opened the discussion while dressing
him in the morning by remarking
that his gown was not as new as it
might be I suppose I have yourr
holiness permission to order your
gowns for the jubilee he added
What gowns for the jubilee re
plied Leo XIII sharply I have three
sets already and certainly require no
more Why should I spend good
money for what I do not want
But holy father protested Cen
tra who knows his masters weak
ness supposing some one of the
great personages who are received by
your holiness should notice a defect
such as this pointing to an invisible
spot on one sleeve He might think
you had put on your old clothes not
considering him worthy of the best
After a pause Leo XIII said with a
sigh Well perhaps you are right
Order them but only one mind you
and my poor people will have to go
without so much bread How dread
ful to be obliged to spend so much
money on ones clothes
Whon Lord Rnglan SponlM
The idiosyncrasies of orators pro
vide an almost inexhaustible Gtudy
says the London Leader One of the
strangest habits of a speaker is as
suredly that possessed by Lord Rag
lan The habit is only observable at
post prandial functions at which the
moment the son of the famous field
marshal rises to speak he arranges on
the table in front of him everything
within his reach just as if he were
playing an intricate war game
Bottles of every size and shape
glasses salt cellars knives and forks
and even the very table decorations
themselves are pressed into the ser
vice and by the time the noble lord
resumes his seat the disposition of his
imaginary troops which is productive
of no little amusement to those around
him is complete
Fortunate is the man upon whose
face nature has written a letter of
credit
THE VOLOANOES
OF KAMCHATKA
ravn Flows and Earthquakes
Disturb
I inni and Sos
Kamchatka has many volcanoes tho
only one3 In Russian territory that
aro Btill active They are unusually
impressive Their summits are al
ways smoking and often glow with
molten lava though they are clad in
eternal snow and are covered with
glaciers
The volcanic eruptions are very
grand but being witnessed only by a
few natives or Russian officials they
awaken but little attention in the
west About forty of the mountains
are of volcanic origin but of these
not more than twelve are still active
One of these remarkable eruptions
occurred last fall at the Avacha vol
cano 8210 feet high on the southeast
coast of Kamchatka The eruptions
were accompanied by subterranean
rumblings that were audible for six
ty miles These phenomena are often
attended by violent earthquakes which
sometimes raise the waves to a great
height flooding the coast and sweep
ing away the tents of the natives
This was the case during the recent
eruption
The accounts that have been sent to
St Petersburg of this eruption say
that a more magnificent and awful
spectacle was probably never present
ed Lava flowed in deep streams
down the sides of the mountains The
streams looked like wide molten riv
ers From fissures in the earth nox
ious gases escaped destroying animal
and vegetable life near the mountain
Even fish were killed by thousands in
the neighboring streams
The volcanic eruptions in Kamchat
ka probably surpass those of any oth
er part of the world in violence and
duration An eruption mentioned by
Krashmeninnikov lasted four years
from 1727 to 1731 and that of 1737
which was far more violent dis
charged vast lava streams melting the
glaciers and sweeping avalanches of
ice and water into the surrounding
valleys
TEARS OF BENEFIT TO THE EYES
Ones Sight Is Clearer After a Coplons
Flow of the Salty Liquid
Tears do not weaken the sight but
improve it They act as a tonic on the
muscular vision keeping the eye soft
and limpid and it will be noticed that
women In whose eyes sympathetic
tears gather quickly have brighter
tenderer orbs than others When the
pupils are hard and cold the world at
tributes it to one s disposition which
8 a mere figure of speech Implying
the lack of balmy tears that are to the
cornea what salve Is to the skin or
nourishment to the blood
The reason some women weep more
easily than others and still more
readily than the sterner six has not
its difference in the strength of the
tear gland but in the possession of a
more delicate nerve system The
nerve fibers about the glands vibrate
more easily causing a downpour from
the watery sac Men are not nearly
so sensitive to emotion their sym
patheteic nature the term is used in
a medical sense is less developed
and the eye is therefore protected
from shocks Consequently a man
should thank the formation of his
nerve nature when he contemptuously
scorns tears as a womans practice
Their Consolation
They were tossing about on the
wild and restless ocean in a small
open boat at least 100 feet from the
beach He was struggling manfully
to battle with the surging waves and
to pull for the shore she was sitting
in a heap in the stern of the frail
barque holding on like grim death
and mentally vowing that she would
never again be tempted by her lovers
daring spirit to venture so far from
land
I know ve shall go over she
shrieked as the boat gave another
lurch Oh George try and Manage
it
I will replied he firmly I could
get along splendidly if the waves did
not make it go all ways at once Dont
be afraid Sarah Were getting near
er arent we
A little Oh George what shall
we do if the boat is lost
Dont you worry yourself about
that my dear said George soothing
ly You mustnt worry yourself
about other peoples ousiness It isnt
our boat
And he continued his fight with the
cruel remorseless waves
Precedent Established
A beginner in newspaper work in a
southern town who occasionally sent
stuff to one of the New York dailies
picked up last summer what seemed
to him a big story Hurrying to the
telegraph office he queried the tele
graph editor Column story so and
so Shall I send The reply was
brief and prompt but to the enthusi
ast unsatisfactory Send 600 words
was all it said Cant be told in less
than 1200 he wired back Before
long the reply came Story of crea
tion of world told in GOO Try it
New York Post
Americans In Burkes Peerage
The names of five American naval
officers appear in the 1902 edition of
Burkes peerage Admiral Schleys
daughter married a brother of the
present earl of Wharncliff the daugh
ters of Commodore Price and Magru
der became respectively duchess of
Marlborough and Lady Abinger Lieu
tenant H T Stockton married a
daughter of Sir Matthew Onslow and
Paymaster Rodney married his cousin
a granddaughter of Sir Hugh Owen
Of the naval officers named only
Schley and Rodney survive
There is no love without jealousy
NATIONAL BIRD OF GUATEMALA
It Ts tlio ynotral and Is Said to f refer
Death to CnptlTlty
Tho republic of Guatemala deco
rates its coat of arms Its stamps and
its official documents with the pic
ture of a beautiful parrot The bird is
of a rich green color with tufted head
and a long tail which frequently
grows to a length of four or five feet
The Guatemalans are very proud of
their national bird and havo written
many songs and poems about it Tho
parrot was selected for the national
emblem because it was found very
hard to catch and because tradition
says that when once imprisoned it
always kills itself rather than remain
in captivity
The quetzal lives in the wildest
parts of the mountains and never
visits the neighborhood of the towns
or cities The only parrots ever
brought out of the forests are caught
by the native Indians
The parrots are too wary to be
caught in a trap The Indians first
watch the parrot sometimes for days
at a time until they discover their
haunts Then they smear the limbs
of surrounding trees with thick glue
The parrot perches on the sticky
limb and is held fast
No parrot has ever been brought
from Its forest home alive They
struggle desperately when caught
and whon they find they cannot es
cape they kill themselves so it is de
clared
The natives say that the birds al
ways commit suicide in the same way
by pecking at their breasts until the
jugular vein is exposed But no one
has ever succeeded in keeping a speci
men alive in captivity New York
Sun
SHE GOT A STYLISH HAT CHEAP
Colored Woman Got n Bargain but a
White Sister Monrni
A Philadelphia woman moving in
good society has been cured of a
mania for attending rummage sales
but it took a heroic treatment to ef
fect the cure The other day she
went to a sale of the description
named in aid of a worthy charity
in which she is interested and came
away with minus a 25 hat It hap
pened this way A feature of the sale
was a counter filled with untrimmed
hats advertised Your choice for 50
cents Now the North Thirty third
street woman didnt really want an
untrimmed hat at fifty cents but
there was one that caught her fancy
by reason of its odd shape and she
simply couldnt resiBt the temptation
to try it on She took off the hand
some hat she was wearing placed it
on the counter and picked up the
untrimmed one Then she looked
around for a mirror There was only
one and that away at the other end
of the long room She pushed her
way through the crowd and in the
mean time a fat colored womans
eyes were glued to the hat she had
left behind on the pile marked Your
choice for 50 cents It was a golden
opportunity not to be missed Count
ing out 50 cents in dimes nickels and
pennies she shoved them at the inno
cent young attendant and made good
her escape with the fashionable wom
ans nat
The Gladstone Library
The library erected at Hawarden
by national subscriptions to perpetu
ate Mr Gladstones memory is rapid
ly approaching completion The site
is the one chosen by Mr Gladstone
himself for the temporary library in
use before his last illness It stand
near the church on an eminence
overlooking the Dee estuary There
is in addition to the building fund of
10000 a library endowment and
the original library placed there by
Mr Gladstone has been so greatly in
creased that the number of books
now available for students is nearly
35900
There are two large rooms or halls
one devoted to theological and the
other to historical and other works
These wil be known as the divinity
and humanity rooms The foundation
stone of Aberdeen granite bears the
following inscription In this build
ing erected to his memory by a grate
ful nation is preserved the library of
William Ewart Gladstone who emi
nent no less as a theologian than as
a statesman established the founda
tion for the advancement of divine
learning New York Evening Post
Snail Eating In England
The statement at a meeting of the
British branch of the Church pastoral
aid society that poverty drives girls
to collect and eat snail3 as food is
based on a misunderstanding Among
the poorer classes of the west coun
try writes a correspondent snails are
esteemed as dainty and nourishing
eating They are euphemistically
known as wall fish
During the autumn and winter men
go from garden to garden collecting
snails for sale and food The usual
mode is to boil the snails and crack
ing the shells to ea them spiced
with pepper and salt with bread
Their flavor is very delicate By ath
letes and footballers inheriting an
cient ideas of training they are speci
ally favored as strengthening the
wind and stamina
Indeed the medicinal value l
snails in respiratory affections rests
qt centuries of belief Dr Bulleyn
u3sr physician to Henry VIII wrote
thl Snayles broken from their
shelfs and sodden in whyte wine with
oyle and sugar are very wholesome
forstraightnesse of the lungs and cold
sough London Chronicle
If you want a man to praise your
judgment all you have to do is to
agree with him
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A woman would be willing to die
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