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Yesterday aivd To-Day Yesterday, God's day, I spent In holy thougnt. In calm content. Amidst the ferns and grasses sweet; Where, here and there, about my feet, 1 found this little flower. I'd longed for such a day to be— When ev'ry vine and bush and tree Should don its robe of verdant hue; Then I should gather, dear, for you, This little purple flower. And now my joy has passed away; 'Tls but a memory to-day— My happiness to you I lend. In that these violets I send May brighten up an hf 'r. As with all joys, their reign is short— No pleasure that hath e'er been sought; No happiness, however great. Did permanently satiate— We’re happy but an hour. The Ransom of an Overcoat. BY JAMES BUCHANAN. (Copyright. 1902. by Dally Story Pub Co.) Mr. E. Wilbert Marsh sallied forth one morning, with a brand new light overcoat thrown jauntily over his left arm. About half way between his lodging house and the station where he was wont to climb up to that abominable inconvenience, the “ele vated,” he observed a young lady dart down the front steps of one of the most Imposing and least flaked of the veneered brown-fronts. She carried a letter In her hand. On her head was nothing but a great glo rious mass of piled-up saffron hair. 8he was strikingly pretty and strik ingly conscious of the fact, if one might judge from her make-up and manner. It was evident that she was bound for the nearest letter-box. Hardly, however had the little kid slippers of this pleasing damsel trip ped along the pavement a dozen yards when, with the exasperating un expectedness which nature sometimes displays In her most perverse moods, it began to rain. The attractive fig ure stopped short, wavered a mo ment and then turned back—Just in time to meet young Marsh, struggling to raise his umbrella over his $25 overcoat. With a silvery laugh and, apparent ly the most perfect unconsciousness of any Impropriety in thus accosting a stranger, the girl exclaimed: "How sudden!” E. Wiibert Marsh smiled, and rais ed his hat with a gratified blush. "Would you have the kindness to drop my letter in the first box you pass?” asked the girl, putting the little square missive into the young man's hand, aud gathering her sklrtB preparatory to flight. The next in stant she fled, rustling and laughing, back to the shelter of the brown stone front, and E. Wilbert Marsh found himself saying "With pleasure!" to the empty air. The young lady look ed back as she was vanishing and nodded. “I wonder if she would rec ognize me, if she met me again?” mused Marsh. Then he walked brisk ly on. The rattle of an approaching train fell on his ear. He had Just time to reach the station and catch it. There would not be another train for five minutes, and it happened that he was somewhat late that morning. With an inward vow that he would mail the young lady’s letter immediately on leaving the car, he made a wild dash for the stairway and rushed upon the platform of the nearest car just as the guard was closing the gate. Then be slipped the letter Into his over coat pocket, and straightway did what *11 men do under such circumstances -—forgot it. Presently another young man left his seat, came up the aisle, and stood smiling down upon Marsh. ”Goir.~ to the ball game, this afternoon?” he asked. “Why. hello!” replied Marsh, recog nizing a chum in whose company he had aforetime done his part toward hoarsely eulogizing the national game. “Yes, I want to go. Shall, if l can get away. You going?” “Not much chance of it. Two hun ired and fifty pieces in last night s mail! Don’t know how much larger "How Budden!" this morning’s mail will be. But say. Will, if you can go. you want to. It’s going 10 be great ball. Hutchins will pitch for our fellov s. The champions play us, and are only just a uotch ahead, you know.” By the time E. Wilbert Marsh left the car his head was completely full of the great game which was to come off that afternoon. He w?.s planning how he could get away. He kept planning all the morning. In the early afternoon he got away. He just went. It was a glorious day and a glorious game. The rain had let up. Every body was there. The grand stand was jammed. The bleachers groaned. The entire field was shut in by black parentheses of humanity. The visitors began to score briskly in the first inning. They made four runs in succession, with out a man out. At the end of the fifth inning the score stood six to two in favor of the champions. Walked away against a drizzling rain. Then it was that an eager face was upturned to E. Wilbert Marsh from the tier of seats below. “Three to one that the Chicagos win!” “I'll take you,” replied Marsh, with a fierce, desperate thrill of pride and confidence in the home team. They would win yet! Anyway, it would be cowardly to go back on them in their extremity. He would try to turn their luck by betting beyond his usual figure. "Let it be X’s!” he exclaimed. “All right!” responded the eager voice below. The Chicagos won. “I’ll trouble you for that X.” said the young man sitting at Marsh’s feet, as the bleachers rose with a howl, at the completion of the last inning. The champion of the home team be gan to search in his pockets in a dazed way. He finally gathered to gether a handful of coins and two bills. “I’m stuck at $4.75,” he said, ruefully. “Didn’t suppose I was so short. Ought not to have bet. But— say.” He looked desperately at the resplendent overcoat lying across his arm. “You’ll take this coat in pledge, won’t you? I’ll meet you here to-mor row afternoon—right here on the bleachers—with the cash to redeem it.” The other young man hesitated. Then he took the garment which E. Wilbert Marsh tragically handed to him, and disappeared in the crowd. A few hours later, the temporary owner of the new overcoat pulled a letter out of a pocket of the garment, and stared at the envelope with startled and flashing eyes. “I’d know her writing anywhere!” he muttered. "And addressed to my rival, Sam Nle baum. Confound it! I’ll open it!” He impetuously tore open the en velope and read: Dearest Sam—What a shame that your invitation to the theater, to night, came just after I had accepted as a dernier ressort, one from that odious Fred Crombie, who has been persecuting mo with attentions of late! I should not have accepted his invitation, anyway, if I had not been just dying to hear that particular play. And then came your welcome but tantalizing note. What a con tretemps! But, Sam, I will go with you, and I will tell you how we will outwit Fred and give him the slip. Do you be at, or near, the head of the stairway at the Brooklyn entrance of the bridge at 7:30 sharp, to-nignt. I will drop my fan over the stairway, as Fred and I are going up. He will, of course, run back to get It. I will then seem to be pushed upward by the crowd. Meet me at the head of the stairs. Then, adieu, Mr. Fred. Lovingly yours, OLLIE. Mr. Fred Crombie did indeed run dutifully back for the fan that even ing when Miss Ollie dropped It from the bridge stairs. But instead of re turning, he buttoned his coat, raised his umbrella against the drizzling rain which t ad begun to fall, and walked away to ?. street car. Of course. Miss f'llie found no “dearest Sam" awaiting her at the heiad of the ■fairs, since he had never vrcirfved her letter. She rushed frantically about, got into a jam. had her opera hat crushed out of shape, her purse stolen, and the better part of her indignant wind squeezed into gasping protests. Finally, she got free, but having neither umbrella nor money, had to walk home unsheltered from the rain. She arrived in a drenched, disgusted and hysterical condition, and sneaked up to her room like a truant child. Next day-, E. Wilbert Marsh pre sented himself at the bleachers, as hi had agreed, with the ransom money for the overcoat. After the game he found precisely the same sum in the pocket of that garment, together with six of the choicest flfty-cent cigars ever swaddled in tin-foil. No wonder he thought the world must be growing bettor! He had totally for gotten that he did not mail a certain letter that was handed to him by a young lady. He will never think of It again, for the evidence necessary to recall the matter to the masculine mind had, in his case, entirely disap peared. CHINESE AND HIS PEN. Little Anecdote that Shows Deftness of the Oriental. A certain newspaper man. who was induced to "try" a stylographic pen, got it out of order by reckless treat ment, and took it to a pen shop for repair. The man there soon showed him that thera was nothing serious the matter with it, the only trouble being that he had neglected to do some little thing in using it. Then he began to take the pen apart for the newspaper man's instruction, so that he might see how very simple a thing it is. “Simple!” cried the indignant ownei of the instrument, “it is as complicat ed as a Chinese puzzle! I don't won der that I can't make it 'go' when I want it to!” The penman laughed. “You remind me,” he said, “that there is a Chinese in this town who used a stylographic regularly. He came here to buy one several months ago, and when I showed it to him he began to take it all apart. I hurriedly stopped him, supposing that he would do it an injury, but he at once pul down the value of the pen, saying that it was his. and then continued bis dissection of it. I give you my word that he handled that pen more deftly than the man who made it and in five minutes he had it put to gether again, so that it worked better than it did at first. Those fellow-a beat the world at understanding little details. Now, an Irishman or an American—I beg your pardon—could never have done that; and, remem her, it was the first pen of the kind the Chinese ever saw.”—Philadelphia Record. A Child’s Faith. One of Philadelphia's politicians who was a looker-on in Harrisburg during the recent convention told a group of friends an incident that il lustrated his wee daughter’s firm faith in his all-around ability. The crescent moon had excited her amaze ment and wonder for the reason thar theretofore she had always assocl ated Luna with a round and cheese like fulness. So, she rushed into the house and informed her mother that the moon was "all broken up,” and that only a very small piece of it re mained. The mother, not thinking the child old enough for an explana tion of the lunar phenomena, simply muttered: "Too bad, dearie—too bad!” The child seemed downcast for :i moment; then, her face illumined with joy, she leaped up and ex claimed: “O! it will be all right when papa comes home, mamma—he’ll mend il again.” Thorough Paced Economy. A young man living in Cincinnati is a close worker in money matters, that is, he stays close to the shore with bis expenditures. He had the good luck to marry a girl whose parents are quite wealthy, and is at present living with his wife in one of his father-in-law's houses. One day not long since, while dis cussing affairs with a friend, the lat ter asked: "Did the old gentleman give you that house?” “Well-er-no, not exactly,” was the answer. "He offered it to me, but J wouldn’t accept it.” "How's that?” asked the friend. "Well,” answered the man who had made the lucky matrimonial venture “You see, the house really belongs to me. I’m living in it, rent free, an«i I’ll get it when the old man dies. H i accepted it now I’d have to pay th? taxes.” A Unique Procession. A correspondent of the London Graphic writes: "The Church of the Madonna del Rosario at Valle di Pom peii, or, as it is called, the Madonna d! Pompeii, is the best known shrine o. the Madonna in the south of Italy, on account of *he wonderful mlraclei which are supposed to be performec there. People from all parts, far ano near, come on pilgrimage from th* far distant mountains, and even from Sardinia. Soma most wonderful cos tumes are sea* in and about the church. The contadini come on foot or in carts often drawn by white oxen singing and playing on musical Instru ments, tambourines, pipes, etc. Oftei in a case of illness, girls with theii l.alr down and barefooted go in pro cession to tne church to intercede with the Madonna for the sic* person.” If there be a want of concert among members of the same family other people will take advantage o. 1 it to injure them. SUICIDE ON THE INCREASE. Death Seems to Have Few Terrors In These Days. The mania for self-destruction Is on the Increase. Life certainly presents, in most countries, many more agreeable fea tures than it did a generation ago. Yet the desire to abandon it increases yearly. The total number of suicides is swelling enormously. Is it because of the greater prevalence of nervous diseases? An English alienist, Mr. Styles, has been at some pains to investigate this subject, with wholly discouraging re sults. The story of his discoveries may best be expressed in figures. Some forty years ago the average number of suicides was, in Sweden, one to every 95,000 inhabitants; in Russia, one to every 35,000 inhab itants; in the United States, one to every 15,000 inhabitants, and in the great cities, like London and St. Petersburg, one to every 21,000 inhab itants. It is plain that we made a dismal showing even then. In France, chosen for illustration because it offers the most startling revelations, Mr. Styles found for every 100,000 inhabitants, during the years 1841 to 1845, 9 suicides; from 1846 to 1850, 10 suicides; from 1861 to 1870, 13 suicides; from 1871 to 1875, 15 sui cides; from 1870 to 1880, 17 suicides; in 1889, 21 suicides; in 1893, 22, and in 1894, 26. From 1826 to 1890, tne proportion of suicides in Belgium has augmented 72 per cent; in Prussia. 411 per cent; in Austria, 238 per cent; in Sweden and Denmark, 72 per cent, and 35 per cent respectively, and in France, 31 per cent. IS GOOD FOR JEWELERS. Ping-Pong Hard on Watches, and the Man Who Makes Repairs Profits. ‘ Ping pong is a fine game,” said a jeweler, who does a lot of repairing, to a New York Sun man. ‘No outdoor or indoor sport has ever given us so much to do. It is surprising how many persons have broken their watches since the game became a fad. “You see, people play the game with out removing their coats or waist coats. In the excitement they forget about their watches, and the first thing a man knows his timepiece bounds out of his pocket. Sometimes it strikes the table, but wherever it does fall the watch is damaged. ‘ That is not all. A player may tie his watch to his pocket, but still it gets out of gear. The constant jump ing around and the swinging of the arms disturbs the works so the watch has to be brought to us to be regula ted. “I have had as many women’s watch es as men’s to repair. The women are even more careless than the men. Their watches dangle from their shirt waists, and as a result the watch jumps around like a weathercock in a gale of wind. "Surprising as it may seem, my in come from repairing watches has al most tripled since the craze for ping pong began.” Would ‘‘Dam the Hogs, Too. The Ozark Mountain (Mo.) News tells a story of an ex-Kentucky colonel of the “quality folks" sort whom he once met In western Kansas. “The colonel was an enthusiast on the irri gation scheme that was sweeping over Kansas at that time. He was so posi tive in his theories and so high-tem pered that few people cared to dis agree with him. One day as he was standing in front of the office talk ing with several friends. ‘Pink’ Bar clay, that lives over on Snake creek, came along, and after shaking hands around turned to the colonel and said: ‘Colonel, I’ve got forty acres of land lying close to Snake creek that I want to irrigate and I would like to ask your advice about It.’ ‘Very well, sah,’ responded the colonel, ‘My advice is dam the creek.’ ‘I did do thaf,’ said Pink, ‘and cut a ditch down across the land, but I couldn’t got rise enough.’ 'Then I would dam the ditch, sah,' replied the colonel. ’That’s just what I did do,’ said Pink, ‘but the hogs rooted holes In the banks. What would you do about that?’ ‘What would I do?’ snorted the colonel. ‘I would dam the hogs, sah! I would dam the hogs!”’ Had His Nerve With Him. “I had a nervy one to-day,” said the bartender, according to the Phila delphia record. “A country looking yap, who had seen the free lunch sign outside, came gawking in, and as soon as he got his bearings made a dive for the solid food counter. In a minute he had made the pickled tripe dish look like thirty cents and had put the crackers and cheese out of business entirely. I glued my eyes on him and sung out, ‘Hey, there! Have a beer?’ He was too busy to talk, but shook his head no. ‘Mebbe some whisky,’ I says. ‘Nope,’ he says, with his mouth full of corned beef sandwich. Well, say, he was so busy over there that I thought it was up to me to put a stop to it, so I says, sarcastic like. “How about a bottle o’ wine?' ‘Much obleged,’ he says, ‘but when I left home I prom ised the old folks I wouldn’t drink nothin’,’ I was so stunned I let him get out without leaving his card.” Good for Her. 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