O Roe of nil the roses,
Who dwelt those flowers among.
In pleasant puaicr&l (.'lose.
Where hlrrlB their carols sung!
They alng to thee, now sleeping,
blight dew thy rest begem.
Dear Roue tA all the roues,
Plucked early from tby torn.
O, flower that knew no fading.
Transplanted at a touch,
Ere sorrow could come shading,
That face we loved o much.
A few fair years of sunshine,
That scarce knew pain or toll,
Then, Hose of all the roses,
Safe, safe In God s own soil.
O, flower of all the flowers,
To see thee was to love,
And In the heavenly bowers,
Thou bloomest yet above!
While memory, like faint perfume,
That breathes thy tender grace,
O, Rose of all the roses.
Makes sweet thy vacant place.
O, Rose of all the roses.
Why should we ween for you.
The Gnrdencr plucks Ills posies.
To bloom again anew.
Not carelessly, hut gently.
He culls Ilia flowers below,
Pear Hose of nil the roses.
Because He nwes them so.
Lilian Claxton.
1 "
Mm,
Her Ideal.
BY F. H. LANCASTER.
(Copyright, 1001, by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
She had often spoken to him of ber
various ideals, so It wag not surprising
that she should begin to enlarge upon
one of them as soon as they were com
fortably seated.
"My ideal river la dim and deep and
silent she said. "I have small love
for gurgling, splashy streams."
"Why. I don't know," ho objected
with wide tolerance, "the little fellows
may not accomplish much, but tbey
work hard."
"That Is why I object to them. They
create such an atmosphere of wasted
energies. As long as they are In sight
one baa to keep thinking of every fool
ish fad she ever followed."
. "Good Lord:" he commented. "You
ought not to take nature so seriously.
Rest assured she will never return the
compliment.
"No. that is true. She makes a Joke
of us from the cradle to the grave."
"I've often wondered," ho said lazily,
"what your ideal man is like. must
be a bird."
, "I believe It waa Plato who declared
that the only difference between men
and fowls lay in the cut of their
clothes, she remarked loftily.
"Yes, Plato," he assented. "Rum old
chap, that. No end of sand. Wasn't It
Th Area u who made the other distinc
tionabout the way the knees bent?"
"No, not Thoreau. Some friend of
his made the distinction and he chron
icled it," she corrected.
"That so? I do remember something
about it now. How do you like Tho-
"Why, well enough. He understood
nature better than most men. It was a
love affair that drove him to that wlld
anlmal life In the woods."
"I know. Always struck me as rather
pitiful the way he tries all through his
Walden to convince himself and every
body else that he was' perfectly happy
and contented."
"I wonder," thoughtfully, "why that
sort of thing generally happens to gift
ed men."
"Need it to bring out the best that
la In them."
"But Ruskln aays it doesn't do It
That only appreciation and happiness
can bring out the best in any human
being."
"He had been through the Are and
ought to have known. It waa his wife
that went back on him, wasn't it?"
"My Ideal rWer Is dim and deep."
"Yea; wall, aha fell In love with one
of bla friends, and he allowed her to
cat a divorce."
"Should think a thing like that
would knock a pretty big hole In a
man's life." He turned on his aide and
looked at her. "Queer thing, love. Isn't
It? All aorta of faahlons, but the aame
thing."
She nodded assent and quoted ab
ently:
" 'As he la the whole world over, waa
this Cupid In the clover,' "
Then coming back to earth with a
rush:
"I've a picture of a river over my
desk that this one reminds me of. It
Is a girl drifting cut to sea In an old
boat; the river is dim and deep with
sedgy banks and the way the moon
looks down on the desolate gjrl and the
forsaken river Is wonderfully sugges
tlve." All dead things together."
"Oh, I say," he exclaimed, sitting
ud. "don't say things like that. You
make me wretched." '
"How absurd," she commented
"I dare say," he agreed, getting up
and brushing off the clinging straws.
"Did you mean It?"
"If this strikes you as so lugubrious,
let's go elsewhere."
"Not at all. I And this delightful."
"A lot of dead things together?"
"Oh, well, you will find that every
where. Among the haunts of men It is
dead hopts, impulses and energies, and
In the by-ways of nature "
"It's dead bugs and beetles. I wish
you wouldn't taik that way. I tell you
it troubles me. People do not see death
with their eyes unless there Is sorrow
In their hearts. It would hurt me more
than I can tell you to think that you
were unhappy."
She locked at blm for a moment
with clear eyes.
"Don't trouble yourself," she said
and smiled.
"I'm not a stricken deer, yet."
He sat down beside her. "I hope
you never will be," he said after a long
pause, "but you are bound to fall In
love some day. You wouldn't have been
given such glorious eyes unless It waa
intended that they should be lighted
up."
"Now, I wonder, she murmured
thoughtfully, "if that could be called a
compliment.
"I object to Ideals," he said; "they
narrow one."
"I wager you have lots of them," she
ventured shrewdly.
"Well, and If I have?"
"You at least don't bore other people
with them, and I do."
"You never bore me "
"Now that la a compliment. Do you
know it is the first you have paid me
in ten years?"
"Would your ideal man pay compll
menta?"
"Yea. I think so. A few. when he
happened to think about It."
"What else would he do?"
"Well, really I don't know. You see
my Ideal would be a man that I could
not possibly hope to understand."
"An enigmatical sort of a fellow."
"No, but broader than I am, so that
I couldn't trot around and put my Bn
ger on all the points of his compass.
"And you expect to marry your Ideal
Don't you think you ought to tell me
a little more about him so that I will
be able to recognise him and know
when my time has come to take a back
eat."
The girl raised her eyebrows at this,
but aaid nothing. When a man has
been making love to a girl ever since
aba V M In pinafores It Is rather an
noylng to hear him speaking cheerful
ly of taking a hack seat
"do on," he Insisted; "this conun
drum of yours is to be handsome and
gallant."
He isn't at all gallant," she Inter
posed rather warmly.
Isn't? Oh, then, you have- met
him?"
The girl seemed absorbed in the slow
flowing river and made no response,
but when be turned to look at her
he saw that the tips of her ear3 were
lowing."
See here," he said quietly, "if you
have, I want you to tell me. When
you rejected me last winter I passed
over because I thought you were
too young to know a good thing when
ou saw it.
Not at all conceited."
Conceited enough to believe that
. , M ..1
my love is unserving oi careim con
sideration. I assure you that it has
never been carelessly bestowed. I may
not be an ideal man, but my life has
been clean and honest, and I have
never neglected anything entrusted to
my care. As my wife you would be
protected and petted, but I don't want
you to marry me unless you love me."
I should say not.
But I want you to learn to do that.
Go to work earnestly and learn to love
e every bit as much as I love you
It will not be an easy task but I want
ou to put aside all this Ideal nonsense
and go honestly to work at it.
"Anything else?"
"Yes; when you have done that, I
expect you to marry me and live for
the rest of your life a happy, content
ed woman."
"And suppose I fall to fulfill your
expectations?"
He sat so still for a moment that
her resentment began to die away.
Suppose I have already fallen in
love with my ideal, how could I put
all that 'nonsense' aside?"
"Have you?" he questioned gently.
She nodded slowly.
"I hope you will be very happy," he
said nrcsently. then after waiting a
moment for her to speak, arose and
walked away to the bank.
The girl watched him wistfully as
he stood with his hands in his pock
ets staring down at the dim, deep
water. Her lips parted once or twice
but closed again In silence.
Well," he said, turning around with
a smile, "we must not keep the ideal
waiting. I had better take you home.
Someday," he continued, extending a
hand for her assistance, "someday you
will Introduce him to me, will you
not?"
The girl put her hand into his ana
arose deliberately.
"f think." she said carefully, that
you know him."
Do I?"
I think so. You are such a grave
man I could scarcely believe that you
would neglect the excellent advice that
Cicero gives. Wasn't it Cicero wno
enlarged so upon the desirability of
knowing one's self?
"Do you know what you are saying
The, flush "leaped from the tips of
her ears to spread over face and neck
She turned back and made an uncer
tain step toward the river only to find
him in front of her.
"Did you mean it?'
"I wanted to have another look at
the river," she explained witn engag
ing frankness.
'Perhaps you did. But. you are go
ing to tell me something first "
"No; I m not. Not a ining. i nave
told you too much already."
"Very well, we will have a look at
the river; but first
'Please," she pleaded, drawing back
against his detaining arm.
He paused with his eyes close to
hers.
'Can't you understand how badly I
need it, even if I am not at an gal
lant?"
Later on they stopped and stared
down at the river but neither of them
saw it.
Richard Has rail.
Charles Belmont Davis, brother of
Richard Harding Davis, Is the manager
of Weber & Field's music hall. The re
semblance between the two brothers Is
remarkable. At a recent performance
Richard, conversing with friends in the
lobby, waa a main object of attention
from the young women and their es
corts. A short distance away was bis
brother, the center of another group
of gosslppers. . The likeness in figure,
voice and face waa much commented
upon. "For heaven's sake," exclaimed
one young woman, "my Idol baa feet
of clay." "How'a that?" asked her es
cort "Well," replied the girl admirer
of the author, "I always thought there
was no one In the world like Richard
Harding Davis, and now he's but com
mon clay, for there stands his double."
New York Times.
Tha "Keystone Stat."
Pennsylvania is called the "Key
stone State." Two explanations have
been given of this name. According
to the first, the Declaration of Inde
pendence waa trembling In the bal
ance, six colonies having voted for
and six against It, the vote of Pennsyl
vanla was cast in favor of the declara
tion, and thus a majority waa secured
According to the other explanation the
name was purely an accident. When
the Rock creek bridge was constructed,
near Washington, the stones of the
great arch were Inscribed with the
names of the states, and when it was
finished the discovery waa made that
the name of Pennsylvania waa on the
keystone of the arch, and thus waa ap
plied afterward to the state.
Whn it cornea to drawing convey
ances, lawyers are almost as good as
satdonkeys.
Dr. James Y. Mitchell recently eom
pleted a quarter of a century as pas
tor of First Presbyterian Church, Lan
.caster, Pa
The Diamond Bracelet
By MRS. HENRY VOOD.
Author of EmI Lyune, Etc
(CHAPTER IV. Continued.)
It cannot be lost," returned Lady
Sarah. "You are sure you put it out;,
Alice?"
I am quite sure of that. It was
lying first in the case, and "
"Yes, it was," interrupted Hughes.
That was its place."
"And consequently the first that I
took out," continued Alice. "I put it
on the table; and the others around
it, near to me. Why, as a proof that
it lay there "
What was Alice going to add? Was
she going to adduce as a proof that
Gerard Hope had taken it up, and it
had been a subject of conversation De
tween them? If so, recollection came
to her In time, and she faltered and
abruptly broke off. But a faint, hor
rible dread, to which she would not
give shape, came stealing over her,
and her face turn:d wh.ts. ana sne
sank on a chair trembling visibly.
Now look at Alice!" uttered Fran
ces Chenevix; "she is going into one
of her agitation fits."
Don't allow ycu s;lf to ba agi
tated, Alice," cried Lady Sarah; "that
will do no good. Besides, I feel sure
the bracelet is all safe in the case;
where else can it be? Fetch the case,
Hughes, and I will look for It myself."
Hughes whisked out of the room, In
wardly resenting the doubt cast upon
her eyesight.
"It is so strange," mused Alice,
. . i 1 -i
"that you did not s?e me uiacmei.
when you came up.
"It was certainly not there," re
sumed Lady Sarah.
"Perhaps you will look for yourself
now, my lady," cried Hughes, return
ing with the Jewel box in her nanas.
The box was well searcnea.
bracelet was not there.
"This is very strange, Hughes,
The
ut-
tered Lady Sarah.
"It's very ugly, as well, my lady,'
answered Hughes, In a lofty tone,
"and I'm thankful to the presiding
geniuses which rule such things that
I waa not in charge when it never
would have taken place, for I can give
a guess how it was.'
"Then you bad better," said
ladvshlrj. curtly.
her
"If I do." returned Hughes, "I shall
offend Miss Seaton."
"No you will not, Hughes," cried
a lino "Sav what, vou Dlease; I have
need to wish this cleared up."
"Then, miss, if I may speak my
thoughts, I think you must have left
the key about. And there are strange
servants In the house, you know, my
lady; there's that kitchen's maid only
came in it when we did, and there's
the new under butler."
"Hughes, you are wrong," interrupt
ed Alice. "The servants could not
have touched the box, for the key nev
er was out of my possession, and you
know the lock Is a Bramah. I locked
rhp hox last night In Lady baran s
presence, and the key was not out ef
mv pocket afterwards umu you iuu.
it. from thence this morning."
The key seems to have had noming
to do with It," lnterposea rranc
Chenevix. "Alice says she put me al
mond bracelet on the table wun me
rest; Lady Sarah says when she went
to the table after dinner it was nui
hir- so It must have been in the
intervening period that the the-dis-
annen ranee took place.
And only a few minutes w
. . J- i
iw.uiated T.adv Sarah. "What
IU. , j
mvHterv!"
It beats conjuring, my may, iu
. , i i .
Hughes. "Could any visuor uvs
tinatalrs?"
"I did hear a visitor's knock while
we were at dinner," said Lady Sarah.
i- romemher. Fanny? You
UVU I. jv . -
lrrvVpd nn as If you noticed it'
Did 1?" answered Lady trances, in
a rnrp.lpHfC tone.
And that moment Thomas nappenea
n nter with a letter, and the ques
ion waa nut to him, "Who knockea :
nia answer was ready.
Sir George Danvers, my lady, wnen
I said the Colonel was at dinner, Sir
nAnrcn-began to apologize lor caning,
but I explained that you were dining
u. than iiBiial because of the
cm I " I -'"-
opera."
"Nobody else called:
"Nobody knocked but Sir George,
my lady."
"A covert answer," tnougni Alice
"hut I am glad he la true to Gerard."
"What an untruth!" thought Lady
Frances, as she remembered the visit
nf Alice's sister. Thomas memory
must be short."
All the talk and It wag much pro
longeddid not tend to throw any
. . ' . , . . .. .1 Alli li n.
light upon me niuuei, i
happy and 111, retired to her own room
The agitation had brougnt on a ner
vous and violent headache, and tUt
sat down In a low chair asi bet ner
forehed on to her ha&dG. One belief
alone possessed her; that the unfor
tunate Gerard Hope had stolen the
bracelet Do as the would she could
not put It from her; she kept repeat
ing that he was a gentleman, that he
waa honorable, that he would never
place her In S3 painful a pofcltlon. Com
mon aense replied that the temptation
was laid before him, and he had con
fessed his pecuniary difficulties to be
great; nay, had he not wished for this
very bracelet that he might make
money
CHAPTER V.
a ww.ir at the rinnr. Alice lifted
hat sickly countenance ntA bade the
intruder enter. It was Lady Frances
Chenevix.
I came to Alice how wretched you
look? You will torment yourself into
a fever."
'Can you wonder at my looking
wretched?" returned Alice. Place
yourself in my position, Frances; it
must appear to Lady Sarah as if I
I had made away with the bracelet.
I am sure Hughes thinks so."
"Don't say unorthodox things, Alice.
They would lather think that I had
done it, of the two, for I have more
use for diamond bracelets than you."
'It is kind of you to try and cheer
me, sighed Alice.
"Just the thing I came to do. And
to have a bit of a chat with you as
well, if you will let me."
"Of course, I will let you."
"I wish to tell you I will not men
tion that your sister was here last
evening. I promise you I will not.
Alice did, not immediately reply.
The words and their hushed tone
caused a new trouble to arise within
her one which she had not glanced
at. Was it possijjle that Lady Fran
ces could imagine her sister to be
the
"Lady Frances Chenevix!" burst
forth Alice, "you cannot think it! She!
my sister guilty of a despicable
theft! Have you forgotten that she
moves In your own position in the
world? that our family is scarcely in
ferior to yours?"
Alice, I forgive you so misjudging
me, because you are not yourself Just
now. Of course, your sister cannot
be suspected; I know that But as
you did not mention her when they
were talking of who had been here, I
supposed you did not wish her name
dragged into so unpleasant an affair,
and I hastened up to say there was no
danger from me that it would be." t ,
"Believe me, she is not the guilty
party," returned Alice, "and I have
more cause to say so than you think
for."
"What do you mean by that?" brisk
ly cried Lady Frances. "You surely
have no clue?"
Alice shook her head, and her com
panion's eagerness was lulled again.
"It is well that Thomas was forget
ful," remarked Lady Frances. "Was
it really forgetfulness, Alice, or did
you contrive to telegraph him to be
silent?"
'Thomas only spoke the truth. At
least, as regards my s'stsr," she hastily
added, "for he did not let her In."
"Then it is all quite easy, and you
and I can keep our own counsel."
Quite easy, possibly, to the mind of
Frances Chenevix, but anything but
easy to Alice, for the words of Lady
Frances had introduced an Idea more
repulsive and terrifying even than the
one which cast the guilt to the door
of Gerard Hope. Her sister acknowl
edged that she was In need of money,
a hundred pounds or so," and Alice
had seen her coming from the back
room where the Jewels lay. Still she
take a bracelet! It was preposterous".
Preposterous or not, Alice's torment
was doubled. Which of the two had
been the black sheep? One of them It
must have been. Instinct, sisterly re
lationship, reason and common sense,
all combined to turn the scale against
Gerard. But that there should be a
doubt at all was not pleasant, and
Alice started up impulsively and put
her bonnet on.
"Where now?" cried Lady Frances.
"I will go to my sister's and ask her
and ask her If she saw any stran
ger here any suspicious person in the
hall, or on the stairs," stammered
Alice, making the best excuse she
could.
"But you know you were In the
drawing rooms all the time, and no
one came Into them, suspicious or un
suspicious; bj hew will that aid you?"
"True," murmured Alice, "but it
will be a relief to go somewhere or do
something."
Alice found her sister at homo. The
latter instantly detected that some
thing was wrong, for her suspense, ill
ness and agitation had taken every
vestige of color from her cheeks and
lips.
"Whatever Is the matter, Alice?"
was her greeting, "you look Just like a
walking ghost."
"I felt that I did," breathed poor
Alice, "and I kept my veil down in the
street, lest I might be taken for one
and scare the people. A great mis
fortune has befallen upon me. You
saw those bracelets last night spread
out on the table?"
"Yes."
"They were In my charge and one
of them has been absfcted. It waa
of great value; goUl links holding dia
monds." "jc.rectea!" uttered the eldest
irter In both concern and surprise,
but certainly without the smallest In
dications of a guilty knowledge.
"How?"
"It Is a mystery. I only left the
room when I met you on the stair
case, and when I went upstairs to
fetch the letter for you. Directly aftar
you left Lady Sarah came up from
dinner, and the bracelet was not
there."
"It Is Incredible, Alice. And no
one else entered the room at all, you
say?. No servants? no "
"Not any one," Interrupted Alice,
determined not to speak of Gerard
Hope.
. "Then, child, It Is simply Impossi
ble," was the calm rejoinder. "It
must bave fallen uu the ground or
j hoen mislaid In gome way,
"It Is hopelessly gOM. Do you re
member aeelng it?"
"I do remember seeing amidst the
reet a bracelet set with diamonds; but
only on the clasp, I think. It "
"That wa another; that ! all safe.
This was of fine gold links, Inter
spersed with brilliants. Did you see
It?"
"Not that I remember. I was tier
scarcely a minute, for I tad only
strolled into the back room Just be
fore you came down. To tell you the
truth, Alice, my mind wag too fully
occupied with other things to take
much notice even of Jewels. Do not
look so perplexed; it will be all right
Only you and I were in the room, you
say, and we could not take it."
"Oh!" exclaimed Alice, clasping her
hands and lifting her white, beseech
ing face to her sister's, "did you take
it? Jn sport; or in oh, surely yon
were not tempted to take It for any
thing else? You said you had need
of money."
"Alice, are we going to have one of
your old scenes of excitement? Strive
for calmness. I am sure you do not
know what you are implying. My
poor child, I would rather help you to
Jewels than take them from you."
"But look at the mystery."
"It does appear to be a mystery, but
It will no doubt be cleared up. Alice,
what could you have been dreaming of
to suspect me? ' Have we not grown
up together in our honorable home?
You ought to know me If any one
does."
"And you really know nothing of
it?" moaned Alice, with a sobbing
catching of the breath.
"Indeed I do not. In truth I do not
If I could help you out of your per
plexity I would thankfully do it. Shall
I return with you and assist you to
search for the bracelet?"
"No thank you. Every search has
been made."
Not only was the denial of her sis
ter fervent and calm but her manner
and countenance conveyed the Im
pression of truth. Alice left her In
expressibly relieved, but the convic
tion that it must have been Gerard
returned to her in full force.
"I wish I could see him!" was her
mental exclamation.
And for once fortune favored her
wish. As she was dragging her weary
limbs along he came right upon her
at the corner of a street. In her eager
ness she clasped his arms with both
her hands.
"I am so thankful," she uttered. "I
wanted to see you."
"I think you most wanted to see
a doctor, Alice. How ill you look!"
"I have cause," she returned. "That
bracelet, the diamond that you were
admiring last evening it has been
stolen; it was taken from the room."
"Taken when?" echoed Mr. Hope,
looking her full in the face as a guil
ty man would scarcely dare to look.
"Then, or within a few minutes.
When Lady Sarah came up from din
ner it was not there."
' "Who took it?" he repeated, not yet
recovering his surprise.
"I don't know," she faintly said.
"It was under my charge. No one
else wag there."
"You do not wish me to understand
that you are suspected?" he burst
forth with genuine feeling. "Their
unjust meanness cannot have gone to
that length!"
(To be continued.)
A STRONG PEOPLE.
Innnlts of Alaska Are Classed Among
Very Bogged People.
It now seems probable that not all
the Innuits of Alaska are so smalll as
has been supposed. Indeed, if one is
to believe the tales of travelers who
visited an island south of Bering Sea,
these Indians must be classed among
the tallest people In the world. The
travelers' story Is given In Popular
Science News: On King's Island In
dians were found who by their phys
ical characteristics belong to the In
nuit or Eskimo family, having small
black eyes, high cheek-bones and full
brown beards which conceal their lips.
The majority of the men are over six
feet high and the women are usuallly
as tall as and often taller than the
men. These women are also wonder
fully strong. One of them carried off
In her birch bark canoe an eight-hundred
pound stone, for use as an an
chor to a whale boat. When it reached
the deck of the vessel it required two
strong men to lift It, but the Innult
woman had managed It alone. An
other woman carried on -ier head a
box containing two hundred and
eighty pounds of lead. Both men and
women are also endowed with re
markable agility. They will outrun
and outjump competitors of any other
race who may be pitted against them.
Their strength is gained from very
noor food, and they frequently travel
'thirty or forty miles without eating
anything. They live on carrion fish
and sea oil. The fish, generally sal
mon, are burled when caught, to be
kept through the winter and dug up
as consumption requires. When
brought to the air they have the ap
pearance of sound fish, but the stench
from them Is unbearable. In the mat
ter of dwellings these Eskimos are pe
culiar. Their houses are excavated
in the sides of a hill, the chambers be
ing pierced some feet ln'o the rise,
and walled up with stonei on three
sides. Across the top of the stone
walls poles of driftwood are laid and
covered with hides and gra is and last
ly with a layer of earth. These odd
dwellings rise one above another, the
highest overlooking perhaps forty low
er ones. Two hundred people live la
the village.
Forget the good thou hast dona, tad
do better.
He who Incurs no snvy pots esses
no happiness.