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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1896)
! WHEN NANCY MOWN. ' fro wss the ta.sU doth math the cum urf saocers wroth; the pepper boses are overtnraao. The ntk ana biscuit both at bomed, Tk cuffs is u thick a mad. And through th room th kittens mi When Nancy frown. The grocer fe( his order wrong, Aad bring ua batter thst U strong; The coal gives out, the wood U wet. The children o'er their playthings frvt And just a true and cure u fate, The dinner is an hour late. When Nancy frown. The afternoon sees things still worse; The mistress rannut find her purse; Some not o'er welcome neighbor calls; The baby from his high chair faila; Roue ag-nt ring and will not go, Till be is fifty times told no! When Nancy frowns. Nancy whom I have written "bout I our domeatic, strong and stout We dare not let her go as yet. For fear a worse one we may get That'a been our record in the past. Each one ia still worse than the last, 80 let her frown. Boston Globe. AT A BARN DANCE. I made up my mind to do a really awful thing when I went to the Hay Tbeslger's ball. I am the only daugh ter of one of the richest commoners In England. I came out two yearn ago and I had not been out very long be fore I began to hare offers. I once read a book called "How Men Pro pose." Pome day I shall write a ceqnel to 1t I am competent to do so. What's more, I could add a chapter to say how women do It, too, when they are driven to desperation, though that part Is a treat secret. I am not exactly a beauty, but I do know bow to dress. A woman who baa that knowledge and the means to use It needs no more. I think I can say without vanity that my eyes an good. They are gray and sparkling and long, with very curly lashes. Vet there are plenty of Jealous people who ay that It la only "lea beaux yenx de ma cassette." that makes me popular. I do not care any more. I am Idiotical ly happy because I know perfectly wtll that In the eyes of one man I should be Just as charming If the "Bellfleld patent" had never "revolutionised the cycling world." I quote an advertisement, but though we advertise we are not vulgar. In deed, grandpa was a younger son and did not work for his living, preferring to drag up his family on a small al lowance. Papa's tastes were different, luckily for me. He being merely a .younger son's younger son, the family dignity bad dwindled and hardly seem ed worth while supporting at mch pains. 80 Saranna Bellfleld Is a catch and rmlght hare married a lord two lords and a knight's eldest son, though that 1a beside the mark. My admirers aald I was cynical, for sometimes I laughed at them, I couldn't help It I decided sit 19 that I had no heart, and that I would accept the first really eligible party that came along. It sounded easy. It waa easy, nutll I went Into the - country to stay with a friend of mine, married to a clergyman who was an honorable aa well as merely reverend. I was sick of being the Miss Bellfleld. I persuaded my friend to let me be a f rat cousin of hers, down at Cherring-ton-oo-Tara. She Is a good, easy soul. Bis reverence had gone away to a con ference. I overpersuaded her, and -well, I bad a lovely time as Miss Kitty t It was such an Innocent sort of name. I took no maid and dressed the part to perfection In pink ginghams and mus Una. Cberrington-on-Tarn Is a very quiet spot; the seasons there consist of two school treats and a flower show. At sll throe I met the one man. He was the doctor's son at home 00 a holiday, and be fell In lore with ins directly, I thought He Is tremendous ly clever; they think all the world of him In his hospital. He Is good looking, I think. He did not propose to me, though there were opportunities. Jesse waa absorbed with a baby, and she bad do Idea bow often Miss Kitty Bent met Hugh Maydwell. At flrst I did It for fun, bat when I got back to Ixndon and Major Petle Pnrqaharson began to be attentive, then I knew how much happier Kitty Bent was than Saranna Bellfleld. I did not give way to my feelings. I rather hated to realise that I bad asy. House sur geons of big hospitals don't go la so ciety. I dare say, they flirt with the nurses, horrid things; bat that'a all. Then Major Farquharson came on my borhwB, very yonng to be a major at II, and very handsome. Luckily 1 found bow utterly selfish he was other wise, aa Dr. Maydwell had apparently entirely forgotten Mlaa Bent: Mamma la a dear, kind-hearted thing, and when I announced that I Intended to go to Mrs. Hay Theslger s with that horrid Mrs. Ewart Vane, she let me do It 1 told Major Farqaharson to be there; and then I told mamma lie was going. It wss naughty, bnt one day I got Mrs. Hsy-Tbesiger to give me a blank card for a friend of ours, and aent It to Dr. Maydwell. I wanted him to see me In my glory, and I wanted still more to see If I should like him la ballroom as much as at Oherrlngton envTaf. I treat warily to work. I Mi a abort not with the Invitation, ami I wnald be there, signed It K. Beat, aad wrote oa plaia paper with ae address! Very fcahf tad nawemaaly, bat what waa I w aa? I kaaw at tike Kitty; If Kim, way art faraaaa Catbertaa? It waa k Swfnl artde cai laaaaiaa- tHI ftaaill bMUHM iiai ' 1 Oat ta Man sever t f!-i to marry mm aatll as 2) - 2 Msas. C9mc.JlZZXZ2r 9&m&4 the possibility that she might have was as to supply that There waa a lovely rose at C herring ton In the vicarage garden, Revo d or. I used to woar the buds in iny white gown. I got a dress for the ball of their exact shade. I wore one In my hair, quite In the old heroine style that has come back again, and I had a very simple posy to match, instead of carry ing Major Farquharson's big. rather vulgar creation of orchids. There were not five people who were In society at Mrs. Thesi get's. But the bail was thoroughly well done, and ex cept Major Farquharson no one appr- ed to be at all sensible of the fact There was a girl there who lived quite near his mother lu the country; the two fami lies were intimate, I knew. The girl was not very young any longer, though she waa certainly plowing. She had a few partners, and I noticed that when Victor Farquharson paiwed her with a smiling bow she looked dilapidat ed. Years ago that girl had had what people call a disappointment She had loved someone who did not love her. Perhaps she was all the more pained by the marked neglect of an old friend I saw a touch of sadness la ber eyes, and It made me realize sharp ly that the attentive cavalier who was askfng so humbly what I would give him had no real good nature. I knew by signa that he meant to be even more empresse than usual, tie was so handsome that sometimes my heart had beaten quite fast when he had made love to me. He was standing beside me with that devoted air be can put on so well, when I suddenly saw Dr. Maydwell. He looked older and rather Jaded; neat enough; but cer tainly not fashionable at all. He waa very grave when be saw me. I sup pose the young person In radiant gold en brocade was not quite the same as Kitty in her Liberty hat He Jum glancKl at Major Farquharwon, and was obviously going to pass on witlioart even acklng me for a dance! Then It flashed across me that be had a founda tion, and that he was angry. He looked quite stern. I dismissed Major Farqu harson unmistakably: "Ten and eleven, If I am here." I did not care for his annoyance. He had made Elllce Wedderburn unhappy, and he was showing Mrs. Thestger how exclusive and superior he waa, by be ing thoroughly useless. Just to make me a Pelle-Farquharson by marriage would be a supreme honor, he evidently imagined. My own opinion was rather different I was not going to pay for his hunters and other amusements In exchange for that dubloua privilege. Then I held out my hand to Dr. Maydwell. "Have you forgotten me altogether r He did look stern; b-.it It rather became him. "I expected to meet a lady who Is not here. Miss Bellfleld," he began very coldly. "This sort of thing la not much In my way, and I think I bad better say good-night. I could not resist a ch-mce of meeting Mlaa Kitty Bent again, but as that la Impossible the sooner I get back to my work the better. It was absurd of me to come at all." They were Just beginning the barn danee, with that Irritating persistent rune. I fixed my eyes on the swaying figures, tome of tbem so awkward. There was a lump In my throat, and I really couldn't speak. The remem brance of the river at Cherrlngton, and the sunahlne on It came across me. He had looked so brows and ao cheer ful in his canoe; be waa so pale, and so evidently Indignant now, that I could hardly get the words out I had never been afraid of a man before. I was now. He evidently meant what he said. "If I aak you to stay and alt oat the barn dance you will, surely. 1 I want to tell you something." He acquiesced so Icily that I felt all my courage vanishing. We found a lit tle room that waa empty and ant down. I caught him looking at my rose, but be pretended he was doing nothing of the sort. It waa be who began, after all, to the Inappropriate accompani ment of the barn dance music. "So yea were playing In a little com- edy down at Cherrlngton, and the MIm Beat 1 knew waa a purely Imaginary person. Surely tt must be pleaaanter to be Miss Bellfleld. sad to have all Iioedoa competing for your favor." Major Fsrquharsoa had passed the open door and given a surprised stare at us, as he aald this, and I felt I haled him for such rudeness. "I waa sick of being myself, that was why I did It People pretended to like me. and made so much of me, and I knew It was merely money, money." "And were you successful la finding out If you were charming enough to captivate without it?" Hla manner waa chilly aarcaam Itself. A memory of all the things he hsd said and lookel overcame me. "Ton ought to know," I whispered. It waa dreadful, but you see I saw now that If he once went there would only be misery for me. He did not even smile. "Ton sought to break a country heart for pastime ere you went to town," waa his rejoin der. Quotations are not In good taate made like that He hurt me; be misunder stood me. I have my faulte. but I am not heartless. I have only deae as other people do In fact, less thai moat of them. I plucked up courage and tried again. "I think, Dr. Maydwell. yoa are mas querading aa much aa 1 was, or else yoa really have become quite differ sat; yoa never talked like that when yea were boating oa the Tarn." "5a. I made a fool of myself by talk lag aeaaeaee; meat people da when It daaaat ratal la Augaet." Naw, eaaM anything be ataptder? Hart waa Hagh Maydwell -a maa waa bad gat goM maaabj la paystslsgy, ar path slaty. amatalag caadaetlag a coavsnatlsa If he had aot fwa Ideas ta Ma bead "At any rata yea were very mack ast civil to Kitty Bent than you are to Baraaaa Ballfleid, yet they are oae and the sum." Indeed, they are nothing of the sort," he broke In hotly. "The one was a simple country girl full of pure thoughts and high ideala. She was as poor as I am; we met on the same level. With Miss Bellfleld, in her fashionable splendors, with her great fortune, I have nothing, can have nothing to do. Your trick was an unfair one; you took advantage of my Ignorance. Only a woman would be clever enough to put on another manner, another nature, with a big hat and a pink gown." Somehow I was cheered by hla re membering the color. It waa a Paris drt-Kd really, and had cost a frightful amount For that adorable simplicity they know how to charge. I daresay he thought that if he married somebody on nothing a year she would wear frocks snd hats of that pattern. All the time the dancers were In front of us and that tune kept buzzing on. "I did not put on another nature . I couldn't If I tried. I think you are most crueL I suppose you think I change my friends as easily as I do my clothes?" "The wsy In which Miss Bellfleld treats her friends can be nothing to me." He was hateful, and yet every min ute I felt I could not could not let him go. Quite suddenly I knew that I loved blni; that nothing In the world mattered, because I knew that he loved me. How did I know? Oh, I can't ex plain, but I did. I grew bolder. "You cared once about being my friend, or at any rate you said you did." "Miss Bellfleld, I think I ought to offer you my congratulations and to say good-night That Miotic barn dance Is over." "Congratulations?" I said It with a whole string of notes of interrogation. "I mean upon your engagement to Major Feile-Farquharson." He rose as he said this and was turning quickly awcy when I stopped him. He told me afterward I spoke quite passionately. "I am not engaged to Major Farqu harson or any one else. People have no right to say such things. Down at Cher rlngton " "Down at Cherrlngton the village goeslpa might have fancied that a pen niless doctor bad been Indiscreet enough to aak a penniless girl to watt for him for an Indefinite number of years; they were Just aa far from the truth, probably much further." All my security vanished. I felt wretched so wretched that my eyes were full of tears; one even fell oa the roses In my hand. He aaw that tear, but be was Just aa obdurate. Just aa angry; apparently not even reliev ed to hear that I was free, when I might have been Lady Randellion but for htm. I didn't care what I did or what he thought "She would have watted all her life." How I got out those aevea words I wonder still. More tears fell aa I aald them, and there waa an awful silence. Then be began la such a different voice. "You cannot mean what you are say ing." He waa standing and looking dowa Intently. He has the best eyes I ever saw, they are so honest but I could not face tbem after that deed of daring. '1 mean It with all my heart." "Yoa make It hard for me," be con tinued. "When I let Kitty guess I cared for ber I thought perhaps a time might come when I could claim the right to ask ber to be a poor man's wife; you are a great heiress, snd If I am poor I am proud. You force me to tell you that I love you, not to put the foolish question that baa bnt one possi ble answer." Then I revolted once for sll against the tradition of what la maidenly and right "Hugh, can't you understand, must I tell you that all my money, ia nothing to me and that I only want yoa?" He told me later that It was too pa thetic, that be bad always dreaded to see a woman cry. But he kissed me, and somehow It all perfectly right and natural. Half an boar later. Just aa we were so happy, that horrid Major Farquhar son came for hla two dancee. "Take rata of one of my rosea till No. 11. Dr. Maydwell," I aald, "and come here then to find me." You see, I waa reckless, and I wanted the major to see bow things were. Hagh took the flowers obediently and went off. Positively they bad put la another barn daace. Major Farqaharson wanted to att It out, but I knew better. He must have been obtuse not to have guessed. I felt so utterly content I thought every body would notice my face. We danc ed. There Is something hopelessly sen timental about a barn dance. 1 waa In mad spirits now. Mamma and papa are dears and quite managea bis; there would be scenes, but I should have my way In the end. Providen tially the Maydwella are a very old family, and mamma, who came of no family at all, so to apeak, Is Tery par ticular on that point Hugh's mother had a pedigree that would bear the moat searching scrutiny. To face the parents wss a minor af fair. Indeed, after the awful ordeal I bad come through. My partner was very gloomy. He did not respond to my liveliness, and waa as stiff aa a poker la the daace. Ha took me lato the con servatory la the Interval and I let him aay Ma my. He said It most conde scendingly. Ixird Randellloa bad been earafal to let ma realise what aa honor be was data ma. bat area he waa earthing ta Major Farqaharson. I Ha toaad with a sort of aatisfactioa, aad than I tafaaad Mm point blank. I bad aa waat of flasacy nr this case, bat I bar Barer Maa aay created aa m wak at amaasd aa aa did. famaa seam baator. rat t abaaVamty reveUd In the prospect of toOlaf Hagk this aa- currenca. I glanced up at him aad added costly: "The fact ia, I am engsgod already." "That being the case, there la aotatag mors to be said, except that yoa have behaved heartlessly to ma." He tried to put on a disconsolate air, but It waa a dead failure. I smiled: "Yoa cared nothing for me, ao I need not say I am sorry; yoa must have a wife who will admire you, and I never did." He waa very angry, but far too dignified to show It And I went back to Hugh. We were married at tbe end of the season, snd I am the happiest woman in England. I thought I would write this In case any other poor girl Is bur dened with a fortune, as I was. I read a atury once about proposals from la dles. One girl In It told her friend that 'It simply wasn't done." She was wrong, you see. Blsck and White. About the American Voice. The American voice has won an ua enviable reputation for Its supposed disagreeable quality. This reputation is la part deserved, for no careful ob server can fail to notice that mauy of our people in ordinary conversation are constantly In error in regard to their natural pitch and utterly fall In purity of tone, says the Boston Transcript. They speak in -either too high or too low a key and the tones are more or lens forced Into a disagreeable mixture of the nasaJ muscular quality. Apologists have attributed thla defect to the Der vous temperament of the people and to the disastrous effects of a variable cli mate. But the true explanation is found In a lack of proper training. Tbe American voice, when properly edu cated. Is no lens melodious and agree able than that of any other nationality. Bad quality of voice Is due simply to bad habit In Its ue. Correct the habit and the voice Is changed, snd become what It was designed to be by tbe Crea tor. It Is amazing that so many young men spend, after a long period of pre paratory training, four years In col lege and almost an equal period there after In professional schools, and then go to the pulpit or the bar totally unfit ted vocally for the successful prose cution of their Ufa work. And It Is even more amaxlng that multitudes fitted by their culture to adorn social life de stroy rhelr chances of success by a lack of vocal training. They might have been good singers, readers or reciters bat for their own neglect If a correct system of vocal physiol ogy and technique were engrafted Into our public school system there would be an Immense gala to the culture of tbe nation. Not all are public speakers or read era, but everybody talks, and to converse In a well modulated, melo dious voice la an accomplishment worth striving hard to obtain. Keep Away from a atrwte4 Hawser! "It's a good thing to do to keep away from a hawser whea there's a strain on It" mid a South street stroller, "aad well away from It Tbe other day I at a big steamboat start out holding aa ta a bow line to help pull her head around against tbe strong tide that was running. It waa a big hawser, but somewhat worn, and the strata oa M was tremendoua. It creaked aad creak ed aa H stretched and shifted oa the spile aa tbe boat moved out and the men standing near all moved back. Presently bang! It went parting over the atrlngplece, and away blow tbe free end out over tbe water toward the boat Tbe loop remaining around the head of the spile, freed from tbe grant strain UpOB It recoiled a foot ar two. "Tbat would break a man's lag If It hit It" said one of the men on tbe wharf, and be told of a cans In which a man's leg had been broken by tbe recoil of the loop of a parted hawser. Thla loop, wateeaoakad. and with lu fibres pack ad hard under repeated strains, waa solid and heavy. It was easy ennngh to Imagine that It would have broken a man's leg If bad hit It. It la a good thing to keep well away from a hawser when there's a strata ea lt" New York Sun. Why Rice lea's ra tbe MM. A bosk beore us sare: "Eire as mentioned In tbe Bible, aa M did aot grow la tbe countries la wfcJcb the Bible hanoesilnaTB sswurred." Wa tmnk the author la mistaken. Taa fact that tbe word "rVre" does not appear la no evi dence of tbe non -existence af a product that In tbe Bible era waa feeding the majority af tbe world's people. From the earliest ages tbe blanket expres aton, "corn," baa been aaad to cover all manner of grains and seeds aaad for food. In England tbe ward aaw ap alias m bartoy, ry. oata, and more parinoally wheat; In Scotland It usual ly means oata, while here It only refers to malm. Tbe ward "corn" frequently occurs In the Bible, and when wa soci al der tbe enormous commerce of Pal estine, particularly In tbe days af 80I onxia, It Is natural to suppoae mat rice was among the Imports, and tbat, like wheat and other grains. It finds she! tor under tbe market terra, "earn." Aber deen Examiner. a be Knew Him. Henry Irving, whose face baa, through advertisement and Illustration, become familiar to many people, waa one day at a seaside resort, when be noticed a little girl looking at him fixedly. "Well, my dear." said ha, "do you know who I sin?" "Tan. air," waa tbe shy reply. "Wall, who am I, then?" "Yoa are one of a pllla." And, Indeed, his face bad figured In aa advertisement of taa widely ayread pills -Mia neapoile Journal. A VataaMa lte Haarme Tbat bmhill player yea took aa last wsek aay aaad? Imrart Tar mm Taa, ladeod. Ha catenas every agg tbat g tarnwi at aa. Ufa la fall af wa kaow lawrars was ara aladafU. THK SENATOR'S BLUNDCR. ' eSsbebia aaVl Coaaattneaa, Back ta taa TPs. waaa fact Chand ler waa at taa band of taa Interior De partment a young maa frees one of the W astern States came to Washington to try clerical Ufa la one of tbe depart ment, says a writer In tbe Washington Star. Ha bad been quits a ward poU tielaa la his Wean em home and Imag ined both the Beuators from his State would be glsd to do htm a favor. He spent several days taking In the sights at the capital, then went up to the Ken- ate one afternoon and sent up bis card te Senator Blank. Tbe Senator re sponded promptly, had the vlairor shown Into tbe marble room, and for some time they sat on the sofa to gether, talking of home news and borne crops. Then tbe young man broke tbe ice by Informing the Senator Just what kind of a place he wanted didn't care much what department It was in. "Well. 1 don't know," said the Sena tor. "Puch places are not to be found every day, and there are hundreds here from about every Bute In the Union looking for almost anything In Uio shape of an appointment "Come up to my house about 8 o'clock to-night" said the Senator, "and we'll talk tbe matter over." Promptly at the appointed time he pulled the doorbell and was ushered in to the library, where be found tbe Sen ator pu fling a cigar and looking over tbe evening paper. "Ah, good evening, Mr. ; I was Just thinking of you," said Senator Blank. "I have written a strong letter to Secretary Chandler requesting him to give you a position In the Interior Department" picking up an unsealed letter from his desk and banding It to the young office seeker "snd I would suggest that you call at bla office and present It about 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. I have also mailed the Secre tary a little personal note, letting him know that when I want anything In hla office I want It bad." The young Westerner waa bowed out of tbe room with smiles and a hearty handshake. At his hotel be sat dawn to think over his good luck; then he thought of tbe Senator's latter aad pulled It out of bla pocket and read: "Dear Chandler Some time to-mar-raw morning a young dtiaen af my great and glorious Stats will call on yon with a strong Indorsement from me far a clerkship. I have ao earthly Interest la him, so I torn him over to your ten der mercy. Let blm dowa aaay. Years, "BLANK." Tbe young man dropped tbe letter, aad a big sigh straggled up from un der his watch pocket "I wonder what be aaki In tbe little note be mailed to the Secretary T" thought the young can didate. Then he realised that the Sen ator had given him the wrong letter, aad be at once dean mined to call at the Interior Department taa aaxt morn ing and see what taa next chapter would bring forth. About 10 o'clock the next forenoon the colored messenger showed tbe young maa Into Secretary Chandler's office. "Senator Blank told me mat night be bad written yoa and advised am to cail oa yoa tMa morning," said the young gsotlsenan. "Ah, yea," smiled the Secretary, good naturedly, picking op from hla desk aa opea latter and glancing over H. "Tbe Senator speaks of yen la the highest terms, aad la vary argent ta bts re quest for your appointment Watt a moment" and. touching a ball be sent hat messenger for the ebtof clerk. Aftar a moment a conversation with tbs chief lark tbe Secretary aald: "Too are fortunate. There la a $1. 300 clerkship mads vacant by resigna tion thla morning, and I bare ordered your appointment to the place." A month later Senator Blank waa walking through the patent office, and In tbe earrldor met tbe new clerk In hla emea eoat Tbe Senator was surprised and a trifle disconcerted, bat be shook hands with his young friend tad aald ha was glad to see him there. -Well rm glad to be here," respond ed the clerk. "And, Senator," potting Ma band Inside Ma vast and looking sqoarely In ms other's eye. "tight la my Inside pocket I keep that tittle personal Bate yea thought yoa mailed to Secre tary Chandler, toUtng Mm wbea you waatod a thing yoa wasted It bad." , Bxplaaationa ware nnnsrssaaiy. Tbe Senator want oat of public Hfe tad died tans ago, bat tbe dark managea ta sqneese along through the bard tlmea ea bla I1J00 a year. Old Km Rene's Tom. Taa loog-forgottoa tomb of good King Rene aad Isabella of Lorraine, bis flrat wife, was sadden tally brought to light tbe other day In tbe Cathedral of Angara. Isabella's tin coffin waa not opened, bat Rene's was. A crown, a aoapter, aa orb the Insignia of hla vain sovereignty over Naples were were found In Rene's leaden coffin. As they were covered with green oxide, tbe gold aaad In making tbem must have been well alloyed with copper. Saott la down on Rene In "Anna of Geiereteln." But be to not leaa mis taken In Judging him than In "Pevertl of tbe Peak" making oat Charlotte da la Tremollle a Catholic af tbe deepeat dye. Charlotte waa, to tbe end of bar days, a stanch Protestant, aad waa a "goad ereatara." Rene was aa exqui site artmt aad a philosopher. Ia re spect to pbUaaophy, bo was greatly la sdvaaes of his time. Waa It aot bettay to go sa with hla painting of a partrtdga thaa ta maa ay arms wbea be asard that Loato IZ4 at taa band af a great force, had eaaM to ataman Aajea? Ha kaaw that nmamaia waa ami tea, aad waa aa aatag to frot aaat what ha aaald Bat hats. Santa mtxdataras ha aalaatd ara aow abawa at ths rtattanaJ Library, aad act agsisim. K)$ ttal aw lylnff m bar am to 1. and haeoloa. She thrusting him aad herself Into - mis irsii wife, Jaaa Laval, was a congenial spirit Thay both aaad to wander ovsr bill and dam m search of poetic Inspiration. Baasa ballads were worthy of being lUustxaa mA k himself. "Bea-nant et JeannetoBi ou. Lea Amours d'nn Bergar at d'nne Bergeiwaac," are an eclogue wws - f key. Rene waa tbs shepherd, and Ma v Jeanne the shepherdess. Paris corre spondence Loud&n Truth. SHE NEEDED A CHANGE. Got Tired of e Consieat 6e.lt Meet Iiet. When Mls Young went to teach school In district Number Seven, a imall community In Maine, she wss told by many frieudt and relatives that It was too lonely a place for ber to remain la contented; but ahe waa of a cheerful disposition, and undertook ber new du ties with a hopeful apirtt So m;i a Youth's Companion correspondent, who proceeds to tell bow the expert meut resulted. On Miss Young's flrat visit home It waa noticed that she look ed p.le, but to all Inquiries she re plied tbat she waa as well ss usual "Now, I want to know, Fayette, what la the matter?" her aunt aald one day. soon after ber arrival "Is your school too hard for you? Don't you like the people? Or what Is the matter?" "Are you going to have beefsteak for lunch. Aunt Susan?" waa tbe aoma what Irrelevant response. "Yea, but that lan't answering my question. I waat to know why jaS dou't like your school" "I do like It Why, the children are the best tehaved little things you eve saw, snd so quick to lea ml Did I tsB you sbout little Nathan Ash?" "No, yon didn't Well, then, doat the parents like you? Or la It ths folks where you board ? Don't they treat yea well? If they don't I'd change." "Oh, yea, the Smiths are tbe kindest people In the world. I don't suppaas I should have come home Just aow M the Smiths bsdn't killed their calf," aad Miss Young sighed. Her aunt looked at ber In evident aa tonlahment "For the land takes, Fayette) I bops you ain't ao poorly as to be apast by a thing Ilka that! I declare ta M you're worse off than I had. any Idas of." "No, not exactly; but I ha rent tasted meat fresh meat that la. aad 1 watched that calf hopefully." "Pity sakssr "Yon sea, op there they doat K53 vary efton. When they do, the waam neighborhood shares In the meat M ao happened that tbs Smiths bad a eaal to sacrifice, and I watched that laam coot animal from day to day, aad anal ly waa told that the butcher had nes formed hla work. i 1 listened to the elvmtoa af thai aa mat hungrily. Sncb a neighbor waa m have ss much, another a saisMst as larger quantity; hot by carefal sasn. potation I found that half tbe aataam waa to be kept for family use, aad 1 want to scboel cheerfully. "Bat at dinner do roaat ar Blanks, aa I had fondly hoped. Finally I amda torn Inquiry aa to what disposal was made af tbe ealf. and waa told that what meat they kept thay had aaamf down for future use. That waa the final stroke. I gtepb had to coma noma As long aa I mam sea the calf I had courage; hot aftoJ that failed ate, I feH that I needed a va carton." Tba atortgaam. A mortgage makaa a maa tt keeps him poof. It Is a strong I tivs to action aad a wholesale 1 af the fleeting saontha and yearn tt S fully aa symbolical n Ha meaam tbe hourglass and seyths that death. A ntortgaga represents mdsa try because It to never Idle night ar day. It Is like a bosom friend, baeaaat the greater the adversity the rloaar It stick to a fallow. It la Ilka a brave soldtos, for It never hesitates at charges aet faara to dose ia on the enemy, it to Ilka taa sandbag of tba tting silsaa ta application, bat deadly m saTeet It It Ilk the band ef Providence H spreads aver all creation aad ttt tngaaaee to everywhere visible. It to Hla thai af tba devU-nab-tbe longer n the greater Its strength. It wOl eias faebta aaarglaa and toad actrrttx. to a alaggtok brain, bat aa ma taw haw debtors work tba atortgaga harder attll a martgaga la a thing h have to a family praitdsd al ways It to la somebody eiee's famay Truth. Kitted the Hawk. na asanas ra over east k 1 Ua canal brldaea the other da the sudden appearance af two biaeh potato In the sky at a considerable dis tance away, which developed lata rwa docks. Behind- tbem, at a tower level, flew another bird, which suddenly rase into the air above tbs ducks, aad thaa shot down opoo blm Ilka aa arraw. One of the ducks flew sideways to ward the Thlergarten; tbe other, etosshr pursued by lte enemy, flew slanting In to the canal, and, reaching tba water exactly behind tbe bridge, dived, while the hawk, In bis blind haste, strasfe against tba bead of a statue af Bar rules and fall, once mora pytg Hi great wings, dead oa tbs pavssneat af the bridge. Tba bird was a spfcadai , SDedmea. the wlnaa Ksvi panel on of mora than thres feat. A Swtaa laaavaaton. A dry goods Sim la lama, Swhaaa land, atvirMsaa thai darlag ma aa. Bant fair, saw batag held thara, It wft gtra a good emaar ar aapaar free m af Mfraamr weea tt -V-.V.