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TttrrortaieaftTOVtae air
Aai settlleae was rife.
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Tke Mir stayed btklad.
Afeweteodararelrlelkeir
Dark ike f tret's ateata,
Beadls tke prlatad newt fsrtfc
Of eack day's woe aaddeeta,
A little ted ctM to tkeai tkere.
Aat told Bis seba fcetwcea.
Bow "Mother Jlmw kai died tkat
Hit tether, aged tereaieea.
. "Pleat? put It la tat; aaaer, air.
For bo waa always ceod,
. Aad. sura ear fatkefadeetk, tons
la fatter" place kaa steed."
Next day ke cam wtttwistfal face:
Tale tiaM m Disk aad Jee,
They will babanedia eta (rare,
.. Far tteyare.twlas,yttkaew."
Awesiijaeedby; kecaaeacaiat
WltWBat "Excaee ate, attv
BataeJ4bae! Icoalda'tkelB
attentat about ker."
Once aaere ke caae wltk weary step,
Cllabed tke steep atalr, aad aald
Wltk ejarrertsc lip aad falteriac vetett
"Please tell them Brother's dead l"
Oe turned about with puzzled look,
As it some questiea vexed,
Taea BHuraaared aoftly to kuaself:
"I woader who'U no aextr , .
Vew auay stm reaular' aaM OM
Wko apake wltk klad latest,
Wkito aa tke peer key's tronbied fact
A pitylBf look he beak
Tke weU-wera cap was palled to aide
A face twas sad to see
Oa oae so youaj: ekecklac kls soke.
Be said: There'S-OBlyaer
-MraC H. N. Tkeaw. la Good Heat eep fag
A GLACIAL PERIOD.
Which la Followed by a Decided
and SatisflBOtotT Thaw.
"Here I am, mothers Ilooadall
the doon opeo, so walked etrahjhtnp
to my old room. A fellow doesn't
stand oa opremony when he hasn't
eeea his maternal relative for a year.
Bereft your boy, mother."
Balph Wakefield threw his valise In
a corner, and walked quickly toward
aa elderly woman who was standing
just Inside the door of a pretty "mid
dm chamber." ,
Balph Wakefield! How yon do
ttkfe to snrprlse folks. Twodayssoon
r than yon promised! Well, well!
How your pa aid be set up."
Just this, and a hearty handshake.
Kothiaff more. Doubtless, Mother
Wakefield's heart would have thrilled'
with anew joy had the fallen on the
neck of that handsome, manly son,
and covered his face with kismet; but
then the would have thought the act
"rather silly." On Balph's part, had
moh a salute been offered, he would
have returned it with interest; but'
there would have crossed his mlad a
d&n suspicion that "mother was be
ginning to fail."
Illey lived in Connecticut
"IVs in the field, and Bnth u woods-
ng BumowaeroL xou are going to
nave the spare room and be made com
paiqror. Ruth has taken yoiirs."
Who, pray, is Ruth?"
"Bath Wist I wrote you about
her.
'So you did. mother, so you did.
But I thought the visit would be
ended before 1 came. An overworked
School-teacher, the daughter of an old
gIrMrlend of yours; come here for
ftSl and change. I wish she hadn't!
Mother, Tm disappointed; Vm vexed. '
JfeTBl frustrated. Tvo worked hard
over those old law-books in the dingy
city for more than a year without
a play-day; and now that Vm fairly
inside the. bar, and a firaclass part
nership awaiting me in September,'!
wanted to have the sVtaln let up da
too entirely. I wanteft you and father
ami the old farm all to myself this
Vocation."
She'll mrtb!n your way, Ralph.
She almost lives out o' doors.0
flat why did you give her my
,A9ecMse sho said the sr.aro room
ts too nice to dry ferns in, and to
aep mosses and rocks and toad-stools
a a- Fungi, she calls them, So I gave
her your old quarters, that are used
to rocto things. Take a peep at her
books. She thinks 'cfce -woria ana all
of them few books.''
t Mother Wakefield, what have
you donef
Balph, whose Intra 3 sense of pro
priety had restrained his eyes from
wandering 'Abtfat the loom no longer
his own, bow allows d them to rove
over the titles of tho volumes neatly
arranged in the caall book-case.
Bomeahiag between a sigh and a
whistle was his first comment
Climatic Theories! Buckle, Mill,
Same Edemtifiqt -Deep Sea Ex
ploratloas,1 Spensor on the Unoondi
ttoned., OafwhV's 'Kxpreesion in Ani
mals.' Great Egypt, what a list! Wise
by name and wise by nature, I per
ceive. Mothei.-, one thing is settled; I
shan't like hen"
Nonsense, Balph! Tou read all
these things; why shouldn't sho?"
"fto reason, of course. Only I don't
prefer masculine tastes in a woman."
"She's no masculine tastes, Balph.
Sho's bright and capable, and full of
fun. And she's as handy to help in
tho kitchen as if she'd always lived on
a farm. And sho likes to talk about
dress as well as any girl."
"Talk! Oh, you haven't heard her
tall: jr.!. Science l; her vocation, and
metaphysics her recreation. Philology,
ethnology and tho cosmos for break
fast; pro-historic innn for dinner, and
the survival of tho fittest for mipper!
Mother, I wanted a good time. I
wanted to work with fntlier In tho hay
licTI. and Co eat my dinner without n
oat, if I felt liko it. 1 wanted to cat
iiio between meals sometimes, and to
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go to sleop afternoons tm the lounge.
Tee, indeed," said ayanaanetio
Both. "And there are flylagnaohlnet
to be perfected. Then think of faith
cure and hypnotism!"
"Humbugs!" groaned Father Wake
field. 'But there art mysteries which are
not humbugs; every thing connected
with electricity is mysterious. Think
of the photophone, and all other
phones. What a mystery is the phono
graph; and oh, to many other
things!"
"Name some of them, please,1 said
Balph.
They can hardly be named,", she
said, with a sort of reverent hush in
her voice. "I call them the Reserves
of nature. They are to fine, so subtle.
What hints there are in what Buskin
calls the "Choices of the atoms,' shown
in crystallization. What miracles are
the lovely singing flames, as Tyndail
shows them, and the light waves that
have their choices, also. Think of the
musical sounds that lie outside the
gamut of our hearing, our present, this
world hearing."
She stopped, her face radiant, her
eyes sparkling. Balph could not think
of one sarcastic word to utter, but
smiled upon tho young enthusiast with
heartfelt sympathy. And in spite of
the fact that again, in their walks to
gether, she treated him to the blankest
of statistics, geological, paleontolog
ies! and historical, the acquaintance
ripened and mellowed with the golden
days of the late summer in a very sat
isfactory manner.
One afternoon Ruth had gone to the
wood alone, and returning, near sun
set, to the meadow-bars, was surprised
to find Balph waiting for her in the
shadow of a spreading mapla He
held in his hand a New York paper.
"Laden, at usual,'' he said, looking
at the bunch of greens in her hand,
amongst which wat sprinkled a brill
iant red.
Only some Lobelia Cardinalis,"ahe
said, and a few sprigs of Artemisia
Santonica, commonly called worm
wood." "I came to find you," he began, ig
noring the high-sounding names, 'and
to read to you an account of a most
extraordinary discovery. Greatest
event of the age, and quite in your
line. Transference of brain from one
cranium to another. It's going to
prove the great renovator of human
ity. Transfusion of blood not to be
named in comparison. Now listen.
I'll just summarize. A Prussian sol
dier condemned to death for the mur
der of his Colonel; left in charge of
surgeons; they remove his brain;
chloroform, of course; did not hh htw.
Next thing, introduce the brain of a
wine merchant who had died suddenly
of heart disease, with brain in perfect
health. The thing took root, grew,
felt at home; man recovered; escaped
execution. The best of it is that he
was never afterward profane. Had
the wine merchant's memory; used to
ask old customers to buy of him.
Mixed entities, you see. I hope you
comprehend, Miss Ruth."
NdW it happened that Miss Buth,
having cautiously picked up the paper
from the piazza floor, where it had
fallen while Balph lay asleep on the
bench, had read the identical story;
had also ascertained by the editorial
note appended, that it was doubtless a
clever hoax, and that the great name
of Vlrchow, which g plausibility to
the story, had no right there. She
was, therefore, entirely prepared for
the onslaught
"I can comprehend, but can not ap
prove," was the cool reply. "Would
it not be a great Impertinence, could I
help, indeed, regarding it as 'a great
wrong, if I, on departing from ty
present scene of action, were to be
stopped on the threshold, turned back,
and set to work again in a new organ
ism? Tho Immortal spark again im
prisoned la tke dark koase of the body.
cooBiaf vietaais, Ufhtiag ares,'
to eke out some other person's indl- I
viduality? Never will I countenance
such a nefarious scheme never!"
"But," said Balph, "take another
view. I have arrived, we will say, at
the age of fifty. My brain, from severe
study, and the heavy responsibilities of
public life, it beginning to show slight
symptoms of weakness. I call in two
skillful medical men, impecunious, but
burning with scientific zeaL 1 ac
quaint them with my wishes. They
have access to the hospitals. A little
management brings about the desired
result 1 pass a few days In retire
ment, with head bandaged, we will say
for neuralgia. I recover, and go out
Into the world, a man happily renewed
and enriched by the presence of a
young and healthy brain in my
cranium. I am good for another
thirty years of distinguished useful
ness, Blessed science!"
"But you should consider the victim
ized entity. Go back to my own case.
Think of tho fine gray matter of my
brain stolen to inform the sluggish
protoplasm of an indolent, selfish or
merely fashionable woman. Think of
the struggles of my poor brain to be
certain whether I wat myself or the
other woman. Imagine my part of the
ego trying to assume entire control;
would not the other woman, through
habit, association or some tendency in
the blood, be continually thwarting
me? Sho might even wear bangs!
Could my brain do any worthy work
or have any enjoyment of itself behind
bangs? Nov fond aa I am of science, I
could never abet it"
They talked gaily together till the
an shied an arrow at them from nn-
the lowest branch of the arrant
pie, and Buth rose to go.
neasesita little longer,
Wfited fot dayf J
"Please sit a little longer, Bnth. I
chance to
I think I'll spend most of my timo in
tho barn: tal:e my meals on tho back
porch; baked apples and milk, boans,
any thing you may havo to spare. I
can't faco a young lady who prefors
cave-dwellers to ordinary people, and
who will look a whole Glacial Period
at me across the table."
"Ralph, you ought to havo moro
sense than to talk so. Folks' might
think you wero afraid her lcarnin'
would put yours in tho shatle." sug
gested Ralph's mother, wickedly.
Then she reminded him that it was
two hours yet till tea-time, and that
there was a berry pic cut i:i tho pap
try, along with some nice root-beer
made by Ruth's own hands.
"Root-beer! Ah, Sanscrit .roots, 1
suppose."
"Try it You'll taste dandelion
and burdock plain enough, I'll war
rant" They went down-stairs to
gether. And then and then, in tho cham
ber they had left, a little dressing
closet softly opened, and a neatly
combed head -was thrust out
"Oh, how small it makes you feel
to overhear people 'talking, even when
you can't holp it! If I had only been
dressed, and could havo walked right
out! And to think he never once
looked at the upper shelf where the
poetry is! How ignorant of him to
suppose I can not enjoy these precious
books without being a stiff, angular,
strong-minded' old thing! I wanted
to like dear Auntio Wakefield's only
son, but now I can not Such a nar
row, conceited fellow! I've half a
mind to fool him by acting the part of
a frivolous, fashionable girl, without
an idea in her head. I could do it
But he isn't worth the trouble. Bet
ter leave his majesty entirely to him
self." Nevertheless, it was a very cour
teous and agreeable young man whom
Buth found when, two hours later,
she descended to the tea table and was
formally introduced to Mr. Balph
Wakefield.
For several days their acquaintance
made little progress. When not en
gaged in household duties the young
lady wandered in tho woods and
fields, as had been her wont or sat
in her little room holding sweet com
panionship with the slandered books.
When she talked with Ralph, it was
usually about the dressing of a salad,
the relative merits of currant jelly and
raspberry jam, or tho kind of gerani
ums that always prospered best under
her care. Once when she asked his
opinion as to the trimming most ap
propriate for tho caps she was making
for his mother whether he preferred
quilled ribbon or muslin frills and he
answered that ho know not one from
the other, she was moved to tell him
in the most Innocent manner that she
had some books up-stairs which he
needed to read for instruction. All the
young man's attempts to draw out any
opinions she might have ended in
failure. He received hut the shortest
and dryest of answers. Yet there was
at such times something in her
eyes and in her manner that puzzled
him. She could not school her tell-tale
features into proper immobility, and
after a time Ralph's wonderment be
gan to bordor on enlightenment
Finding himself growing more in
terested in her every day, in spite of
her reserve, he changed his tactics
and entertained her with common
place topics his life in the city, his
law studies, his ideas of jurisprudence,
the acquaintances he had made, his
outlook for the future. Gradually the
amiability of each found full play; in
terest and confidence grew up on both
sides, and, in spite of her grim re
solves, Ruth found herself almost un
consciously acting once more some
thing like her real self. Still, she
fought against the change, and might
have continued to fight until
"October, wltk nerkair aflame,
FlBsked brow, aad purple finger tips,
Across the Soatkera orchards came,
Aad toveked tke apple wltk ker Una w
I had not an accident a veritable acci
dent happened to her sewing-ma
chine.
Strangely enough, Buth began scold
ing, not the machine, but the work.
"Oh, the supreme folly of modern
dress-making! I am so tired of hems
and tucks, bands and ruffles, puffings
andflutings! And now that the hem
mer will not hem, and the gatherer
will not gather, what can I do with
this mass of trimming? Auntie, I
hope that if I ever come into this
world a second time a great wave of
reform will have swept away all such
flummery as muslin puffs and ruffles."
"Same of potato-bugs," murmured
Father Wakefield, sleepily, from his
chair.
A voice from the door-stop. "I
have no desire to re-appear on this sub
lunary stage when the curtain falls
upon my present mortal existence; and
I have no faith in Belchenbach's ab
surd doctrine of re-Incarnation." It
Balph.
Buth, who had believed the young
wat at the post-office, a mile away.
gave a' great start that threatened to
overturn the unfortunate sewiag-ma-
But the waa not to be diaoon
and answered proraftly :
" Are yon sure of that? Now, I can
not give this old world up so willing
ly. I like it It is the only world I
know any thing about Iwanttoknow
what will beeotno of the Anarchists;
aad how long England will remain a
monarchy. Then there is Japan, grow
ing e interesting; aad aad the Nortn
Pole."
T I excuse the North Pole," aald
Ralph, "but I do feel an interest in
Pasteur's discovery, and the Bacon
Shakespeare cipher. And I confess to
a yearning desire to know how the
m.u....ii.t. n..wi:.u..:i: :n i-.t.
fafcaa completed.1 '
iiiiwiwumi. x uwv uuiimiiiia wmhhh i
tell you something, and you would not
givo it mc Will you, now?"
' "I will listen, yes a fow minutes."
"I want to toll you how much I have
learned and am learning from you.
You havo given mo now eyes. Yon
have transfigured Nature for mo. and
made mo in love with her, and, Buth,
you and Nature aro so much alike,
that in loving her. I havo learned"
"Indeed, indeed wo must go homo."
"Ono minute, Ruth. Stay, do you
know I sometimes think I almost be
lieve that you havo been, in a man
ner, deceiving me a little? Acting a
kind of part; making mo think you
could never love any thing biit
science Now, is it so?"
A ros' flush swept over Ruth's face.
hut sho only shook her head and
reached across tho grass for her sun
hat "You aro not kind, Ruth. You know
what I want to say. Tell me, am I
right?"
"I don't know, Ralph. If any ono has
deceived you. I think it must havo
been tho tho other woman." Sho
pulled desperately at tho grass-blades,
but would not look up.
"Well, then, if I wero to tell tho
other woman that I forgivo her for
fooling me, and ask her forgiveness
for Having misunderstood her, tell her
that I love her love her dearly, and
ask for a littlo corner of her sweet
hemrt, I wonder if this woman's lips
would answor mo?"
It is supposed they did answor, but
for several minutes tho voices wero
too low for tho birds to overhear.
Thon louder: "And Ruth, you do caro
for people in other, ways than just as
aggregates of molecules, don't you?"
"Oh, certainly. Those who are any
thing else."
"And you don't caro for ultimate
particles?"
"No. But I dote on tho fourth di
mension "
"Hush! And you've no faith in such
absurd, unchristian stuff as reincarna
tion?" "Well, really, 1"
"At all events, if you roturn to this
globe two times, or two hundred
times, you will be just the same Ruth
that vou aro now."
"If I can."
"And marry me every time."
"O Ralph!"
Tho tea-table was laid on tho cool
piazza, as two unconscious-looking in
dividuals walked up and took their
places with apologetic smiles.
"Mother," said Ralph, when the
meal was over and ho had followed
that busy matron about tho houso un
til ho could obtain private audience?
"mother, my predjudices aro gone, de
composed, dissolved, precipitated, tak
en up into new combinations. Ruth-
and I have agreed to climb tho hill of
science together."
Tm not surprised," the good lady
replied, wiping her spectacles with
an air of triumph. "I've been
thinking for some timo past that the
Glacial Period was about ended."
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