MOM
SINGING IN
Tell me, -what's the use of fretting wbnn we think that things go wrong?
It never makes them better; but 1'vo heard It snirt a song x
Makes the heavy load seem lighter, and will cheer tho troubled heart
Till It quite forgets Its worries, and Its vexing cares depart,
As tho wind that sweeps the marshes whero the fog hangs, chill and gray,
Moves the mists that mar tho morning till It blows them all away. ,'
Bo, whenever storm clouds gather till they hide tho suu from sight,
And it's darker in tho morning than It ought to bo at night,
Then let's sing about the sunshine that is on tho other side
Of the darkest cloud, my comrades. Let tho song ring far and wido .
On tho listening car of others who climb the hill with you,
Till tho rifted clouds are scattered, and tho gray old world Bcoras now.
'tJiHs of gladness and of beauty. Let the faith that cannot fall
Jthe great external Goodness over fear and doubt prevail.
As tho robln'B song sounds sweetest when wo hear It In the rain,
80 this song of ours, my comrade, in a time of tears and pain
Will to those who' grieve a messago full of hope and comfort bring.
Bo, look upward toward the sunshine, though It's out of sight, and sing.
Eben E. Rcxford.
I Hod Turner's Mortgage I
8 L gj
GAIN Aunt Martha and I were
on the broad, pleasant veranda,
sho in her sewing chair and I
in tho hammock. Not oven an invalid
could have taken cold that day, so tho
patchwork quilt was neatly folded and
laid on a convenient hassock, in readi
ness for use if a sudden brcczo should
spring up. Auntie was busy, as usual,
not darning stockings this time, but
putting a neat patch on a shirt that
looked much too small for Uncle John
or either of my two stalwart cousins.
Dear Aunt Martha! I suspected sho
was earning a blessing from poor over
worked Widow-Austin, who, with her
Ave children, lived "down the road
,a piece."
I lay passively watching her flashing
needle, longing for a story, but hesi
tating to suggest even lingual exertion
l&n so enervating a day. Presently,
TELL HE AUOUT THIS ONE, PLEASE,
AUNTIE."
however, glancing up and catching, I
jsuppose, a wistful look in my toll-
Sale eyes, Auntie seemed to divine my
unspoken wish and smiled indulgently.
"A o.ory? Well, choose a block and
jvc shall see If there is anything worth
iull'ng about it."
Delightedly availing myself of the
tlndly offer, I loaned over tiie edge of
tho hammock and scanned the folded
niillt for an interesting-looking block.
A dark- blue ono with flue lines of
Nrhlte caught my eye.
"Tell me about this one, please,
Auntie."
Aunt Martha laughed. "Why, dear
child, that is a piece of one of my
kitchen aprons. The only story eon
nected with that is prosaic enough
Three word tell lt baking, churning,
dish-washing. 'Try again."
"Well, then, tills dainty little pink
and white stripe?" A glance at Aunt
Martha's face told me I had not chos
en wrongly tills time.
"All, that! You, l can tell you some
tiling about that, Let me tliink
minute, and sho dropped her work
in ner lap and rocked Idly back and
K forth a few minutes, summoning mem
ory to her aid. Soon sho resumed her
work agalu and tilie story began.
"When i was a Utile girl a family
named Larkson lived near my father's
home. The hurfband and wife were
u thrifty people, but very poor, and they
j had a large family of children. There
were seven of them, between the ages
of 12 and 3 years, and It used to bo a
mystery to me how they all mauaged
to live in their tiny story-nnd-a-lialf
cottage. The fact is, they didn't live
In It. tliev onlv Mtnviwl thmu hIb-IiIh
'ih At all other times, summer and win-
u-i, nun or mime, uicy lived out ot
doorx, iind a happier, healthier brood
It would have been hard to ibid.
"My story principally concerns the.
youngest of these children, littlu Hoy.
He was rue beauty of the family.
With hi pansy eye and tightly curl
ing, golden hair he was an animated
sunbeam. 1 remember how sweet he
used to look In that little pink and
white dre.su. IIIb mother gave mo
piocif of It for my quill.
"Aeros the road from thin family
lived tho village oddity. ' Horace Tur
ner, faml(Ja,rly willed 'Hod.' He lived
all alone, without so much as a cat or
THE RAIN.
dog to keep him company, and his
arge, gloomy-looking house was a
striking contrast to the little beehlvo
opposite. Ho had the reputation of
being cross and crabbed and not one
of the older Larkson children would
have dared venture Inside his stern,
white picket fence.
"But little Roy was different. On
the day he was 3 years old ho toddled
sedately across tho road aud straight
Into the house where Hod Turner was
reading his paper. Hod glanced up
in astonishment, his sharp gray eyes
gleaming under Ids bushy brows, at
the pretty picture of little Roy In his
pink and white dross, hands clasped
behind him, a pair of stray sunbeams
playing tag In his hair, aud his solemn
baby eyes scanning with evident ap
proval the grim man before him.
'Man, Roy turn to see '00,' he an-
nounced gravely at last.
'Oh, he has, has he?' grunted Tur
ner. Well, take a chair, sir.'
"That was the way the queer friend
ship betwen tho two began. Many a
day thereafter Roy might havo boon
seen trudging 'sturdily at Hod's sldo
as the latter walked about, superln
tending the work on his largo farm
They seldom spoke to each other and
Roy never complained of weariness,
110 matter how long nor how rough tho
tramp. But once, when they had been
walking a long time, Hod glanced
down and saw tears standing in tho
baby's eyes; tho ltttlo Hps were press
ed tightly together to keep back the
sobs. He quietly stooped, picked up
the little chap and carried hlrn.
" Wiio knows what dormant in
stincts of paternity were awakened in
tflio man as ho felt the small, soft form
cuddled against him and heard the
sigh of content with which Roy
dropped his head upon his friend's
strong shoulder?
( r .. . . .... .
.tinm-iB woiix on nae uue ror a
year. Then trouble begun to rain upon
the Larksons. First n severe Illness
attacked the husband and father. No
sooner had he recovered than their
one cow, which furnished. a large part
or their living, died, aud their horse
soon followed. Another horse and cow
they must have, but how to get them?
Mr. Larkson's illness had oatou up all
the MJMtfl savings which the closest
economy had enabled them to make.
In this extremity, Larkson bethought
mm or his well-to-do neighbor, uml at
last, with much reluctance, decided to
ask for a loan.
" 'What security can you give?' sale
ed Hod Turner.
" 'None but my note,' replied Lark
sou. 'As you know, I do not own the
place where I live, and so cannot
mortgage it
" 'Just so, just so,' grunted 'Turner,
and was silent, while hope died in
Larkson's breast. But presently Hod
said abruptly:
" 'What would you SHy to mortgag
ing 0110 of your chlldron?'
"Larkson starod In amazement, then,
as it Avas borne in upon him that
Tumor was in earnest, ho rose from
his ehalr and with an air of dignity
Unit ennobled his careworn, work-
lined fscc, 'Good-evoning, sir,' was all
he said.
" 'No, no,' Tumor criod, eagerly, 'sit
down, man, lt down, and let me ex
plain. You wouldn't bo selling your
child. I'll lend you what yoUwant
and you can pay me Interest, Tint If
at any time the interest lapses for two
year, why, the child just conies over
to live with me. He'd be yours Just
the same,' Turner paused a moment
and then continued, almost bashfully,
'It's llttlo Roy I want, you know. 1
I'd be good to him.'
"Lark son hesitated. Tils need was
great, but. could ho do tills thing? Ho
glanced at his companion. Tumor,
waiting for his answer, was watching
the children at play across the road,
and Lilrksou saw the look of deep nf
footlon and longing which came into
tho older man's eyes as Roy's clea
laugh rang ,put. Ho 'suddenly fart
that ho, not the man before him, was
tho richer of the two, and an Impulse
of gonoroslty come to him. But ho
said only, 'I'll talk to the boy's moth
er.' "In the end it was arranged as Tur
ner had sugosted, though not without
many tears from tho mother, and
many sighs from tho father. For, In
spite of Turner's assurances it did
scorn as If they were selling their
child.
"For some time all went well and
tho Interest was paid regularly. Then
another little Larkson nppoarcd upon
tho scene, typhoid fever attacked tho
two oldest children, and Anally two
years had elapsod since any interest
had been paid on the strango mort
gage. "Roy was 7 years old when Turner
foreclosed aud took tho boy to livo
with him. By this time tho Larksons
had become accustomed to the Idea,
they saw they never could pay their
debt In any other way and know,
moreover, that it was doubtless a for
tunate thing for the boy to have won
the love of tills man who could do so
much for him. And really, it was not
so very html to bear, after all. Hoy
was at home as muoli as ever, the only
difference being that at meal times
aud at night he went across the road.
His mother cared for his clothes as
usual, but Turner Insisted on paying
her for it.
"A change had geen gradually com-
lng over Hod Turner. Tho child's love
seemed to have made another man of
him and he was now as genial as ho
had formerly been gruff. He lived In
the boy, made plans for his futuro
ana spoke of him ns his son. As for
Roy, he was quite contented and hap
py with tho now order of tilings.
"Ono night the climax of tho Iirk-
sons' troubles came. Tltero was a cry
or 'Are!' that awoko Turner and Roy
across the road, now the tiro had
started no one know, but before It was
discovered It gained such headway
that there was barely time for all the
family to escape when, amid walls of
grief and dismay, the roof fell. Not a
thing Avas saved.
"Then Hod Turner gave proof of the
change wrought In his character. He
opened wide his big house and took
in the homeless family, to slay until
they could And some other home.
"Mr. Larkson at otico sought anoth
er larm to rent, without success. As
the weeks Avent on, Turner found that
tho merry family of children bright
ened up his gloomy house amazingly.
Mrs. Larkson's cooking was better
than his own, and Larkson had more
practical Ideas of farming than his
foreman had, and sowell, as tho vil
lage Avag put It, "Turner might as
avcII have had a mortgage on tho Avhole
family.'
"Turner nod no longer, but by
somo indefinable change of feeling, Mr.
Horace Tumor to the Avhole village
lived to a good old age Avltli his adopt
ed family, and -when at last he died no
one Avas surprised to And Roy, little
Roy no longer, his sole heir."
Tho sun Avas setting, the shirt was
mended, tho story Avas tolil and it Avas
supper time. Aunt Martha paused a
moment Avhen sho had folded her Avork
and 1 am sure 1 heard her murmur.
And a little child shall lead them."
The Homestead.
A rim iioe'u MurroiiUer.
In Recollections and Letters of
General Robert E Lee," Captain R. E.
Lee describee his father's return to
private life after the surrender of Ap
pomattox. He aays:
"A day or two after tho surrender
Gen.1 Lee started for Richmond, riding
Traveler, who had carried him so Avell
all through the Avar. He was accom
panied by wine of his staff. Ou the
Avay h-e stopped at the liiiueo of his
eldest brother, diaries Carter Lee, Avho
lived on tho upper James, in Powhatan
county. Ho spent the evening In talk
lug Avlth his brother, but when bed
time came, thoygii begged by his host
to take ..tho room and bed prepared for
him, he insisted on goin to Ids old
'tout, pitched by tho roadside, and pass
od the night in the quarters that lio
AVas accustomed to. On April 15 he
arrived in Richmond. The people there
soon recognized him. Men, women
and chlldron crowded around him,
cheering and AvaA'ing hats and hand'
kerchiefs. It aviib more llko the avoI
come to a conqueror than to n defeat
ed prisoner on parole. He raised his
hat In rospopso to their greeting and
rode quietly to his home on Franklin
stroot, Avhero my mother and slaters
.Avore anxiously awaltlnt: him. Thus
ho returned to that prlviiui family llfo
for Avhich ho had always longed and
became Avhut ho always desired to bo
a peaceful citizen In a peceufnl land."
Haofjlotr h Keytho.
As a youth Daniel Wobstor Avas
somewhat opposed to physical labor,
but ho Avas quick at repartee. While
moAvIng ho complained to his father
that his scythe was not properly hung.
"Hang it to suit yourself, Dun," replied
the paternal. The boy Immediately
hung it on a tree near by. "There,
father, it's huug to suit mo hoav."
"Tho men generally," said a snappy
Avoman to-day, "seoni to be In favor
of us Avomen living tho Simple Life:
because they think It would live them
Jt .tS32$Bf
Ono of tho most rcmarkablo opals
In exlstonco is supposed to bo a fossil
fragment of tho clnloUasaurus, which
once lived in Australia, roachlne a
longth of forty feet, Tho specimen,
lately brought to Now York, Avolghs
1,1150 carata.
Tho successful producer of rubles.
by artificial means, Professor Vorneuil,
has concluded that it Is not posslblo
to make artificial emeralds by any
process of fusing tho essential constitu
ents, and avo can expect this peerless
gem only as supplied by nature.
On the shores of British Columbia,
says Conway Mac.Mlllan, grow somo
remarkable examples of dwarf trees,
They are found among tho rocks close
to the seashore, but beyond tho reach
of the surf. Among those examined
Avas ono about a foot tall, which had a
trunk ono inch in diameter. The rings
of growtii showed It to be OS years
old. Anotiicr,- less than a foot tall,
was SO years old, and the ago of a
third, which had attained a height of
less than 21 Inches, was OS years.
Tho broad steel tracks for vehicles
laid several years ago In Murray
street, New York City, have been re
moved, and the street Is, to bo paved
with wooden blocks. The steel tracks
Avero not regarded as a success, prin
cipally because of the crowded condi
tion of the stroot, which proven toil
their regular use. Tho Scientific Amer
ican contends that tills test Avas not
conclusive, und that such tracks should
be tried on long country hills and In
districts where smooth, hard roadbeds
cannot readily be maintained.
Addition and other mathematical
processes arc performed by labor-saving
machines, and avo are next to havo
mechanical reasoning. Tho logic ma
chine of Professor 0. H. Richer, of
the University of California, is an Im
provement on that of Stanley Jovons,
tho English logician. In the "circle
notation" of logicians all premises havo
separate symbols, and conclusions are
produced by a combination of theso
symbols; and on pressing the keys of
tho noAV mnchlne something like an
adding machine a manipulation of
circles and electric lights throws Into
relief all formulas that aro posslblo
answers to logical questions. Tho
proper keys have no chanco of error.
To determine the number of iish In
the sea and how they locate their set
tlements aro obviously problems not
easy to settle. The study has been bo
gun for the benefit of tho fisheries In
tho Irish Sea. Tho first experiment
aro made to learn the extent and na
ture of tho migrations of solea aud
plaice, and hoAV great an effect fishing
has In reducing the marine llfo over a
given section of tho sea. About ono
thousand fishes mostly plalco and
soles aro returned to the water after
being marked with brass labels held
by silver wire. ROAvards aro offered
for tho marked fishes that may be cap
tured -particulars concerning location,
etc., to be given nud the Investigating
commission oxpecta to hear again from
about 2o per cent of these spoelninis.
Carlo Baose, of Florence, has Invent
ed a process for producing bas-relief ii
uy photography. The basle of tho in
volution Is tho property possessed by a
film of chromium gelatin of swelling
In proportion to the intensity of the
light falling upon it. Tho swelling is
greater avIUi Ioav than Avltli high in
tensity, so that the light passing
through a photographic negative pro
duce upon a chromium-gelatin plate a
positive In distinct relief.' The trans
parency df an ordinary negative, how-
over, Is no truly proportional to tho
relief of the original model, but by an
Ingenious automatic device, Involving
a double exposure, this difficulty Is
avoided, and a negative is obtained
having its lights and stunles corroftly
graded to produce tho effect of relief.
CONCEALED THEIR TREASURE.
FortuiitM Found in CurloiiH Plnces-
A Pillow Hid $J 0,000.
It Is only a few Avooks since M. Rous
sigue, a Parisian, discovered a nice
little trensifro concealed In 0110 of tho
very last places Avhore lie would havo
expected to find It, says London Tit-
Bits. Ho had Inherited from an aunt
a small statuette to Avhich ho attached
very little value, but Avhich neverthe
less ho placed an nn ornament in ono
of ids rooms. As luck Avould havo It.
his maid, In dusting tho statuette ono
day, dropped It pn the floor and, presto!
out rolled from Its hollow Interior
package Avhich yn examination proved
to contaiu notes of the Ynluo of il.000
francs, ns well ,as a costly diamond
ring.
This Is by no means the only occa
sion ou.AVhlch a statue has been made
to servo tlio purpose of a bank. A
1'oav year ago an art collector of Khar
koff, In RuHsla. purchased a stutuo of
the Apollo Belvedere, of which he Avas
vary proud. Ono day his children, Whon
playing, upset tho statue aud broke it
beyond all possibility of repair. Tho
father, avIiou he saw his prlssed statue
in fragment, was furious, but conso
lation came to lilin In a most unexpect
ed form, for on examining the frag-
3
mftntu lift fotllirl fr nr at ! in tinttn
limb a roll of Russian bank notes of
tho vnluo of 8,000 rubles. With tlm
notes was n momorandum by a Chovn
Hor Prokhoroff, datod 18-18, to tho of-
feet that the concealed money Avas thd
fruit of gambling, and that It was lil
intention to use It in tho building of a
church.
A still moro curious hiding place for
troosuro Avas that cliosou by Pore Ah
toluo, n hunchback beggar, avIio used
to hang about tho church doors ol!
Paris soliciting alms. Whon tho hunch
back died his nephew applied to tho
authorities domnndlug that a post
mortem examination should bo made.
Tho request was granted, Avlth the re
suit that It was found the hunch avuh
false, and that In Us fraudulent Inte
rior Avero stored tho beggar's savings,
amounting to INJ.OOO francs. Pero An
taluo, It was also discovered, was an
ex-convict, avIio owed his freedom to
tho Influence of a AVoll-knoAvn deputy.
An Inquest held at tho St Pancraa
coroner's court some time ago on Wal
ter Samuel Mott revealed another
treasure a small one, it Is true con
cealed In a most remarkable placo,
Mott had a wooden log, and an exam
ination of this limb revealed ten sov
ereigns concealed In It. Tho precau
tion Was a very wise one, for It came
out In evidence that for some avcoIcr
tlio deceased had been rarely sober,
and It Avotild havo fared 111 Avltli Ida;
treasure If it had not been so artfully,
and effectually concealed.
There avuh considerable method ln
tho parsimony of an old lady, avIio,
wherover she Avent, carried with heij
an old box, apparently full of odill
pieces of scrap Iron. Tho box Avas a
subject; of Jest and ridicule among Jiui
neighbors, but tlio old lady could af
ford to smllo at thoir Jokes, for It was,
In fact, the most valuablo box any.
Avhero In tlio district. When sho died
tho box A'as found open to any ono
avIio cared to Inspect It, and under the
surface layer of old Iron Avero, found
3,000 golden guineas,. tho snvlnaa of a
lifetime.
In another case known to the Avriter.
after tho death of an old womhh in
tho north of England who l. r,i
years been In receipt of on
from tho parish, a sum . .
found In a number of .
scattered about hor one 1; .
Miss J . a notorious i
miser, died it Avnn found thai ,
low contained securities aiu!
notes of tho value of , over 1 '
Avhlio at an auction sale of. the ft.v
of a Lewlflham lady of mlaerJy m
stlncts the purchaser of hor piano Htl
found a Binnll mine of gold in tho
horsehair stulilng, and a gentleman
avIio bought her bedstead discovered
1)00 hidden aAvay In one of its hollow)
logs.
OJI on tlio Cohoo.
The cup of black coffoo had on lis
surface a little, oil. This oil shine
mcred. It gave forth dollcato, chang
ing colors, llko oil on water. Tho man
who Avas about to drink tho coffoo civJ
cd at It with delight.
'"Tho oil," he said, "tells me all I)
AA-ant to know about tiie coffee. Now,
Avlthout tasting it, 1 am sure it Is su-1
porb.
"Tho Avhole secret oC making coffee,"
ho Avent on, "lios in extracting and re
taining this oil. This Oil it Is whh-h
give coffoo 1U nromatlc and delirious
taBte. This oil it is also which stimu
lates ycu, which makes you feel after
you havo drunk strong and gay.
"Good coffeethe kind avIHi oil
afloat on it can only be i ndo by ex
cellent cooks. In million ' res' hous.
or In. hotels Avhero tlioy enu loy From h
chefs you ure llkoly to get it. But UieJ
average American housewife dooa not
knoAV how to make Hits ly kind of
coffoo at all." PhlbuM;.' i Bulletin..
Under Other Cotiu.i ion.
A young medical student came faco
to face Avltti a dear, k.ui, fatherly
looking gentleman, with Ayhtfce halv and
of highly respectable appeav.lfice.
They both stood trjinBflta. Tho
same idea flashed across both of them.,
"Your faiitf Is familiaf-very farall-'
lar; but I can't remember where we)
havo met so often."
IIoAvover, tho friendly Impulse was
carried out.
They slutffk hands warmly and do-
parted, Htlll ignorant of each other's
name and occupation.
But tho young man avhs determined,
to solve tho problem, and ho seized pa'''
a Avaltor and said to blm:
urn. .11 .....It.... ...!. t.. ltotl.1'
1 ' " - CTi-l ' I
gulshed stranger with the Jong iy.liuojf
hairV" , .' 4&
And tho waiter whispered lowly:
"Ploase, sir, that's tho pawnbroker."
Tho I'ooIIhH FJhIi. '
Deacon Good Don't you think It
cruel for you to draw n fish out of his
native element by a sharp iron hooLV
Flshor Boy If a1' no fault of nnue.
When I'm Just gtv,,1 a worm 1 .ilt
Avater bath, Avhat does a fish A,mt to
hook himself on to my line for'. It's
no buslnoss of his. Bostou Tr.f v . t.
vltH Proper, Pine.
Assistant Here's . a letter
smells a's If It had -n sample u
burger ghee.se In it' add
Postmaster- Novo', nilud fin
that
hi.i-l
d'
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dross. Send it to the dead leiM of
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