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V - ,- I i. - r I Si m AND FOREVER. ) czr ova forever, Ood taketh j a beyond our vision, but ow J tad them out ' ' j to alt accomplished, and '"-7 shadows lift, 7 b Klreu for frrieTing, and the tf God for doubt. ' : t' a waiting Mtter and count the . :h we are doit, and Ha pltietn i fJ'Jt hat grown to fullness and ehanjred to song, '". i the fruit of patience and shall r not agaln. : I 3 heart, who dumbly In dark- jaadallaione ' :'r j a dear lost presence and the 7 of vanished day, rUd with this message, that our c ra are forever our own, I Cad, who gave the gracious gift. He f : It never away. l Coolidg, la Sunday Sohool Times. 22 TO THE RESCUE. H WIUJAK GHAUT. iTie drawing-room ol General Law- t nBtrr boose, person nis niece. ' Lawford. a very Dretiv Kirl ol , tJ, silm, earnatton-obeefced, with a zzzXj o yeuow gum niur. HE was dressed for going out, and had just finished writ ing the direction on a letter. She rang. The bntler oame. "This for the post, please," said Lonise, plainly, "lea, miss." Louise sighed , t :.t ont by the door which com ' 1 34 with the conservatory. Ten ';j passed. j long room remained silent, - clock struck fonr. a the door from the ante room ) : i.isd gently, and there entered 1 1 jam, having changed her oos i 1 Earely it mast be Lonise? tzm this charming puzzle? 1 V tbe slimneu, the features, .Jzf complexion, the dark jf;-C gold of tbe hair, the effect, were identical in 1 Lwent out and the girl who fiWaair there had been quiet, pensive, gentle, ! , MIU y.i WWt.MTO IUUU T i A IT. And ATkikA wifK 'aatness under a black sailor the style of her dress 1 completed the idea it (sober. Jomer, from dainty head to f, had one word written all coquette. Cupid curls ;risp .ribbons challenged, d, flowers stood ont, dim ay, glances bewildered, the f spoke, the red lips knew, f was a banner, the figure ,e hand a mischief, the smile (-ed the letter which Louise K tlie butler, and which he jwn oh the slab in the ante Jfxu addressed to Miss Bose tare of Mrs. Canningford, 1 "'.two orphan nieces. Twin Km.se and Bose. The girls 3th alike as Venetian alaases r.VTUas mould, filled both with - V.: t . iL. iiuo, uui we uue wiue is the other still. down and opened her let- Bote" she murmured. kd "h'm, h'm, hm dear ' rout first for two months p-eh 1 what's this?" Mnterest increased. She sat , ; mie, Louie, my little Louie 1" ysage wmon excited tnis ex- was as folio its : o not said much to yon about tralian, Mr. Saumerez, who is ith nude. He is rather nioe nioer than moat of the men He writes, and his poems iught a good deal of by the He looks distinguished, has ul eyes and is very near-sicht- - Him ill -2 a. v 9 7 if. -Stf b ' , V. vara ofrAflf. fvianfla fl.ti ; i now the more I feel I like him, ) more disagreeable I seem to get. w , "c-s't isclp sv -1 am t rare he must be- i ta hate me, and yet he does not '. always look at me as if he did. . .I he is so diffident, and I think he : . ,ls my having plenty of money, be c tie he has not much. Though bo ! yfiij, bis poetry is not so particularly I . citable. He can't afford to stay in .ticrica as he would like to do ; he t 'i to go back to some horrid business i j Aostzaiia. and he leaves us to mor xr i norning, having a visit to pay to 'ti,: -Tied sister befoi e he Bails. I am t ) of his seeing how much I till his going that I should think I tzrcely appeared civil. Oh, Boee, darling, if yon were but here t Yon could help me, I am certain. Of coarse, it is perfectly probable he has tever thought of me in that way, only I don't know. This very afternoon I a-a going to a meeting of the Q. O. iL, Q. at the parsonage. I didn't like ' ) I'.'y at home, lest be should guess ; i V? for tbe sake of a last talk alone ' i Lim. Some people are coming - " . liaer, so there will be no ebanoe , and he is to be off by 7 a. m. I can be in snch utter misery Vii ill I cannot understand, for I r.l7 knoas him nix weeks. r ! jane, darling, don't think ine ! Ji k'.i lira. Canningford's t cizzz-hs, laaUl bored with five flirtations, en Impending offer from her boat's eldest eon, three new Rowns in all of which she was disappointed and the prospect of a week fall of dancing. To Mrs. Can- ningford she had said that she was wanted at home. Now fib tamed troth. Lome did want her. Boas, the capricious, had left hex boxes at the station and walked up through the lanes. She took the abort out across to the boose by the orchard and tha Kaar Field : the homely old doors stood open and not a soul bad seen her arrive. - She enjojed the aenaation of bains: present in the bnnae. as it were, incognito, it made her' feel, she decided, like a spirit.' ' She walked to one of the windows. Some war oft. sauntering dismally on the lawn, she perceived an nnknown man. He was big and good looking. Boee was relieved. She had feared that the exterior of an Australian poet would be something almost zoo logical. As ehe observed him he eame closer and looked up. From behind the window curtain Bose showed a bit of her faoe. ... , Hia eves net hers. He made kind of salate. He took her for Tjnnie. The exporter maiden, perceiving his quickly averted glance, instantly had her mind set at rest on one important point. Why, he's got it tery badly in- deed," she said to herself as abe left the window "as badly as Louie, every bit Poor little things I Poor Babes in the Wood I What's to be done?" BimlesB double eyeglasses, lying on the ohimney piece, oaught her at ten tion. General Lawford's vision was as keen as a hawk's. Obviously, there fore,' the owner of these things owned also tbe beautiful sbort-sigbted eyes mentioned Iby Lome. At onse Bose bad an idea. She laughed ; then grew grave J slipped the eyeglasses into her pocket, and ran upstairs to oome down again in ten minutes Louie complete. ' One of her sister's plain white ging ham gowns did something towards the transformation, the arrangement of the hair more. The sanoy vine ten' dril tresses were straightened back under Louie's large , brown garden- hat; till that gold seemed trying to hide itself: and when, too, tbe witon, as she strolled out into the garden, drooped her eyes and drooped her neck. A soft veil stole, over her pro voking oharms ; Bose ishness and rogaishness were exeroised, flown like a pair of butterflies, while towards the huge canopy cedar-tree, ijouies ia vorite haunt, this sweet cheating fig are glided thoughtfully and met Sau- marez. He stopped with an awkward air, "Starting for the parsonage. Miss Lawford?" "No. For the cedar tree." "Not going to the meeting?" "Beally, it is too late." Saumarez looked a little bit brighter. " .suppose you haven't noticed my eyeglasses anywhere? be went on. "1 can't lay my hand on them." "Never mind now, "4 said Bose gent ly. "Why not oome and be idie." May I?" Bose merely walked on. Louie's manner of going, like a dove's, just brushing tbe ground with modest feathers, was maintained to perfeo lion. And when Bose was seated with Saumarez to one side of her, but not too near, the madcap felt safe. He sat silent, with his eyes on the ground. v "Louie would have imitated him, suppose," said Bose to herself. "No wonder the affair didn't get on." She watched him cleverly, and the first time he glanoed np she was ready with a smile. Not one of those conscious, oonfldent, arrowy, brilliant, killing affairs, whioh in her own char acter she would have produced for the benefit of the Australian : but a smile it was that soaroely showed, slyly hov ered, suddenly faded. Saumarez, how ever, oontrived to see it without his glasses, and it emboldened him to say "I bad no end of a good time'here." " "I am so gladl" 'A sigh." ' "1 shall never forget this place." "It's nioe of you to think so, at any rate." Silence. Bose, impatient, kioked out her skirt: then reflected that Louie never did so, and sat ostenta tiouslystilL "Have you had any inspirations lately? she inquired after a time. "Oh, not much." "I m sorry I I do so love your poems. "Then hang fame 1" He turned a delighted look upon her, "Why," said Bose to herself, "Louie has simply starved the poor thing I'll throw him another , fat little bit, that I will" "Lots of them I have by heart," ehe remarked aloud.' "No, Miss Lawford !" "Yes, Mr. Sanmarei !' "Say me one. Yonr voice Do please dot" Bose gave a loud screnm. "What's the matter?" : "A wasp I" , ' "Where?" "On me!" "Where on you?" "Hand. Oh, it's gone! Oh! am stung?" Stiffly she extended her band, the fao-Bimile of Louie's in form. Sau marez, trembling, reoeived the pinky little marvel into his broad palm, and looked at it closely, so closelv that Bose thought but he didn't. "Aml?"Bheeried. "No. no!" The hand was softly withdrawn. It had done, its work. Saumarez drew his ehair closer and easd resolutely ; "Miss Lawford." "Ye." iV. "You sever r-ait ririn tit mine," . . ..- . , THE NC3KASKV 1 ean't recite poetry when I've just been etuog by a waup almost." But you remember tbe evening oi the day before yesterday V "Of eourse." , 'When we were in the boat, yon know, ou the lake, and the moon was rising?-" "Heavenly I "But you weren't heavenly." . "Don't be hard on me, Mr. Sau marez. "It is you who are hard. Why did you refnse me what i assea oi job then?" Bose turned away her head. "You had a perfect right to do so," Saumarez continued in mournful ac cents, "but I want to know why yon objected so decidedly to giving me one." "You shouldn't think so much about it," murmured Bose. "Bnt it would have made me ex tremely happy." "I am sure I wish you to De nappy. Then will you be kinder now?" This was very eagerly said. "Now?" 'Well, I haven't much more time for begging and praying in. Come ! I do want one badly. I believe you're yielding ! I see you're yielding I... May I choose which sort I will have?' Sortl Mr. Saumarez, i reaiiy The dreamy or the earnest, mean "I aan't quite " "Miss Lawford, I hope you don't imatrine. bv-the-bye. tbat I go about asking every young lady for her pho toirraoh? Yours would not form one of a collection. A light flashed into Bose's face. She turned it full on Saumarez. "That was just my difficulty," she said. "In an ordinary way i i aon c give my photos to men. uirls do, know. My sister Bose, for instance, she scatters hers freely among her among man friends ; bnt, somehow, I ean't like to do it, Mr. Saumarez." ; Exauisite acting. , "Yon think me very old-fashioned, I dare say?" she 'added, looking up, looking down, blushing yes, blush ing. the minx I "I think you i thing you" stam mered Saumarez. "Old-fashioned? Perhaps. You soaroely belong to these blatant times. You're Miranda; you're Imogene! 1 '-'' ... "Yon shall have the photograph," said Bose, quietly. "You see how it was, I didn't know if yon really oared-" "Oared! Cared I Miss Lawford! Louie! Louie" "Stonl" Guilty, excited, pale now, she put. np a hand. "It is not Jjouie, Mr. saumarez not ijouie, out her sister nose. one wrote to me I oame home unexpect edly and found the letter. She poured out her heart in it, she was in a deffi oulty about you, she's so distrustful of herself. She Look, here she comes? I'll slip into the house. Tell her yon love her, and you'll have the best, the loveliest,, the dearest, tbe happiest girl in Amerioain your arms ; and then youtl forgive mer She vanished. v - "It was, indeed it was a very wrong thing to do, my darling Bose. - "Did he remember to say again that you're Miranda Imogen? "Hush I Oh, such joy I" "All I want to know is, what hap pens to afflicted pairs, like yon and Mr. Saumarez, when they haven't a Bose?" Modes and Fabrics. Men's Perseverance. It is commonly said that women are more patient than men. Perhaps this is bo as regards the bearing of unkind ness, illness or privation,though the important admission must be made that, when a woman is impatient, she is ten times worse than a man. But if we oan endure pain and anxiety better than our lords and masters, there is one thing we do less ell than they, and that is to wait "If a woman wants a thing she wants it right away," A man will toil for years, scheme, en dure rebuffs, fight his way through obstacles, going on with dogged pa tience from year's erd to year's end in pursuance of some vnbition, some end in life. He will not look to right or to left, nor grumble at the drudg ery whioh he takes almost as a matter of course. But a woman, if ehe will pAraAvera,. will do so at the cost of an amount of nerve, wear and tear whioh would be incomprehensible to him. We are capable of. heroic acts on the spur ot the moment ; when we are strung np to the effort we can stand fatigues that would overoome many a man. . What we cannot endure is mo notony. How many men are there, who, after thirty years of hard, rou tine work and worry are fresh and hale still? Whereas a woman, unless she have change, either breaks down alto gether or becomes prematurely aged. It is this radical difference in the tem perament of the sexes that seem to op pose nature's "non pnssumus" to the theory that all employments followed by men are equally suitable to women. Philadelphia Times. A One-Legged Joker. "I saw a funny thing at one of the recent political gatherings," remarked a well-known politician yesterday. "Every one knows Charles Thorpe, the city salesman, but it is not every one who knows that he had the mis fortune to lose his limb on the rail road some time ago. He attended this meeting, which, by the way, waa crowded, and stood throughout A man at his Bide accidentally stepped on the cork foot of Mr. Thorpe, who made grimaces aa though he was suf fering exoruoiating pain. The man was profuse in his apologies, and the laugh waa on him when he wae in formed that the genial salesman had an artificial foot" Columbus Dis patch. INDEPENDENT. MANY TIMES IN DMGEH 8ZYX9 ATTBXPT UABB C3T TzcToxiA'a Lira. The British Ruler Has Had More Hairbreadth Eeeaparrom Death Than Any Other Sovereign JT SINGULAR feet about Queen Y Victoria is that she has not f only always enjoyed exoep C tionally good health, and that even at her present advanoed age she ia unusually strong and well, but that she has bad more hairbreadth es capes than any other sovereign in his tory. No fewer than seven attempts have been made on her life, and there have been many occasions when the Queen has seemed to be faoe to faoe with death. Hyde Park was the scene of the first attempt on the Queen's life, which a msde by youth of seventeen, who, on the 10th of July, 1840, fired at Her Majesty with a pistol. The Prince Consort, to whom the Queen bad been married a few months be fore, happily saw the youth in time to draw his wife down beside him,so that the ball passed over her head. The mad youth waa for some time eon fined in bedlam and was afterward al lowed to go to Australia. Only two years passed away before the second attempt, when, almost on the same spot, a man named Francis fired at the Queen as she was again driving with the Prince. The shot missed, and Franois waa sentenced to death for high treason, the sentence being afterward commuted to trans portation for life by desire of the Queen. - . Strangely enough, on the very day Per Majesty's clemency became known, a hunchback named Bean a mere youth, made another attempt to injure the Queen. He was transported for seven years. A bricklayer was the next seeker after notoriety. He fired at the Queen as she rode in her carriage, on July 9, 1849, but his pistol missed, and he was sentenced to seven years' transpor-1 tation. : ' Less than a year after this, as Her Majesty was returning from a visit to1 the deathbed of her unele, tbe - Duke of Cambridge, an ex-captain of hussara rushed forward and struck her on the faoe with a small stick. The blow' caused a wound, but the Queen was not seriously hurt" It was 1872 before another at-! tack was made. In the early part of tbat year a boy ran np to the Queen with a pistol and a petition. He was' arrested before he could fire, ' how ever, and was djgqlared insane. Ten year later a madman, named Sobers Maclean, aimed a pistol and shot at the Queen as she entered her carriage at Windsor railway station. On many other occasions the Queen has been- within an ace of death. When a child, six months old, she was at Sidmcuth, on the Devonshire coast,; when a boy shooting sparrows acci dentally discharged bis gun at the win-; dow ot the nursery in whioh the prin cess was playing. , The shots passed; close to the baby's head, but did not, fortunately, do any harm. When Queen Victoria was four years, 'old- her life was saved by an Irish; soldier who happened to be passing! when the royal carriage was over turned. But for the soldier's inter vention the carriage would have fallen on the Queen. Half a century passed away before the soldier knew whose life he had saved. A yachting excursion was the occa sion of an alarming accident when the Queen was a girl of fourteen. The young princess stood on a yacht watoh ing a storm that had suddenly arisen, when the topmast became dangerous. The pilot quickly oonveyed the prin cess to a sate place, and, the next min ute the mast fell with a heavy crash on the spot where the royal passenger had been standing. Twenty-one years ago, when the Queen was. crossing to Gosport from Osborne, there was a fatal collision with the royal yacht, in whioh three persons perished. But onoe more her life was preserved. On many other occasions the Queen has been in great danger, such as when, in August, 1851, Her Majesty was in a railway accident, and when, soon after her accession, the horses attached to her carriage bolted. On each of these occasions the Queen's self-possession has been remarkable. New York Journal. A r'ish Aids Science. There appears to be no limit to soi entiflo euriosty, especially in Ger many. Beoently Herr Begnard at Leipsic, wishing to ascertain whether fish are warmer than the water they live in, stuck a needle connected with a thermo-electrio oironit into a living i fish in an aquarium. The needle iormea one , element oi ine oiroui., while the other element was immersed! in the same water that contained the; fish. The latter was not seriously in-a jured by the needle, and quickly be- oame indifferent to it. Then, as the fish swam about carrying the needle, i . ! A 11 ' . the ingenious savant closed the cir cuit and kept watch of the galvanome ter. It showed no deflection whatever, , from whioh he eonoluded that the fish and the water were precisely equal in temperature, for had either been warmer than the other a current! would have been generated in the oir ouit The Bepairlng Egg. The uses of the egg are as numerous, as the ways of cooking it A late, recommendation for making old: leather-covered books look like new is, first to clean the leather by robbing; it with a pieoe of flannel, then to fill; np anv holes with a little paste or very thin leather. When this is aoeom. pliahed beat the yolk of an eggwelL rub the cover thoroughly and if the leather has been a smooth one past a hot iron ove? it Jj , ; E UK 03 OF THE MT. Nothing is more dicourgiog than unappreciated sarcasm. Life. TMh"Vnw. TummT. tell me what ruminating animals are?" i'oro my "Them what chews their cubs. -Judge. Leldnm Fedd (at the door) ---"Kin I tee de lady of de house r Hennypeck whose wife is out wheeling) "I am be." Pnok. "Mr. Duffington- hasn't any society sinners whatever." "Is he awk ardr "No, but he doesn't like tea," Chicago Beoprd. "Mr. Duffington hasn't any society . aa . m-9 1 1 manners whatever." "is ne aw srard?" "No, but he doesn't like tea." Chicago Becord. Anarchist "The land should be as !ree as the water." Goldby Ter laps ; bnt would you use it any mora nan yon' do the water? irutn. 'I didn't realize how short he was intil I heard what Miss Finkerley nid about him." "What was that?" 'She said he was every inoh a gentle nan." Puok. "It is, indeed, hard," said the mel- inoholv srentleman. "to lose ess a elatives." "Hard?" snorted the gen- ileman of wealth. "Hard? It is lm- (osaible." Cincinnati Enquirer. "Willie, what was Jthe preacher's ext?" "Somethin about bavin' faith ike a grain of some kind" of seed, an' ayin' to the mountain 'git a move on our an' It 11 git." unicago xriouue. ,'wo souls with but a single thought, ; ('T were better had they none) 'or the thought they had was the old, old thought. That two can live as eheap as one. Detroit Free Press. , He "Well, did you hear anything ibout that Jones-Prown affair?" She -"Oh, yes! I can't begin to tell you til I heard." He "I suppose that neans you won't be able to stop. Puck.' :. Artist "I flatter myself this last uoture of mine is an excellent one. another Artist "My dear fellow, you lon't flatter yourself half as much as . , . .' -r, 1 . rou Hatter tne picture, noxoury aazette. Bunson (amazed) "That your un do! Why, man, you told me your ancle had both his legs carried away it Sedan." Jimson "So'he did. He sarried them away himself, pretty last I tell youJ"-Tit-Bits. ; "What a liar Feathethorn - is I" Eh?" 4,Now that everybody is go ing about saying 'I told you so, Featherhorn is pretending mat ne never had any idea how the election would go." Indianapolis JouanaL "But what real objections can you have to women riding the wheel, Mr. Srowellf ' "To tell the truth, I don't mind admitting that I objeot to it mostly because eo many of them ride better than the men." Cincinnati En quirer. .';-T ' ,:' ':. "And you, my friend," shouted the itreet corner orator, ''are you a sup porter of our American institutions?" "Me?" answered Weary Watkins. "Lord bless you, mister, no. The institutions support me." Indianapo lis Journal '',;-'; ':"'' Little Ethel "I wonder why men like to talk about their old sohool days?" Little Johnny "I s'pose after they got growed up they is al ways tryin' to find out where the teaoher lives, so they oan liok him." Oomio Outs. Tfold by the Yard. The beating of the innumerable lit tle square pieoes of gold which are used to oover domes and signs, and so an, forms a distinct industry iu the gold trade which employe a large number of hands and requires no small amount of skill. The long, low building in which the work is carried on is filled throughout the day with the sound of hammers. On every side little boxes containing tiny rolls of gold are to be seen, which, although only measuring an inoh and a half in length, are each worth about 60, The gold is reoeived in bars one-eighth of an inoh in thiokness, an inoh in width and weighing 240 pennyweights. This is rolled out into a ribbon thirty yards in length. It is then givan to the workmen in ttrips measuring seven yards, eaoh of whioh is out into 180 pieces. These are now ready to be beaten ont by band. They are plaoed (proteoted by fine skins) in a tool known as the olutoh,' and are thoroughly pounded ont on a great granite block set iu the ground in such a way that there is ab solutely no vibratory movement. The process is repeated several times, the gold as it spreads being continually subdivided until it is of the exaot di mensions required. The skins m which the gold is beaten are so delioate that they will tear as easily as paper, nevertheless they are of so fine a quality that they will with stand the oontinual hammering for several years. The gold, which is finally beaten down to 200,000th of an inch, is rubbed with "brine" be fore being plaoed in the skins, in order that it shall not ad 'cere to them. Easy as this work of fc eating out the gold may seem, it i in reality, an art of a very delicate description. The workman must know to a nicety pre cisely how hard or gentle tbe blows of his hammer must be, and also tbo ex act spot on which they should fall. Accordingly a very superior olass of men are employed in the business. Pearson's Weekly. - It Is a wet Wonderfw.1 The time the Union Pacifio "Overland" I ast u ail No. 8 makes to Ogdea, Salt Lake, Butte, Helena, Portland, Seattle' oan rancisco ana axm Angelas. This Daily Mxtbok has the finest eanlnment consisting of Pullman Palace and Upbol tend Tourist Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cars, and Diner. For full informa tion call on or address E. B. Slosson. unnerai Agent, Ave u o, or). T. Mae tin, a T. A. , i-rninni l'flWiin c- IKUUIwii- The Dreaded Jonsump tion Can Be Cured. SeU-tUt, Offer, to Sed Free to th. Afflicted, Three Bottle, of His wly Discovered Bemedle. to CureCon.umptlon and all Lung Trouble. Nothing could be fairer, more pbilan thropic or carry more joy ' "'J than the offer ol T. A. Slocum M. C, of 183 Pearl street, New York City. 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