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Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.1
BROKEN - FLIGHT.
1 saw a bIrd-iIJght winged , cay , ,
Leap from the earth in circling ( light ,
I saw , it cut the clouds of gray
And Bart into the drifts of light
And'l I envied and I yearned ,
Like it , to break the bars of fate
"While fierce the flame of longing burned
To do and dare but not to wait.
I saw a bird beneath my.feet ,
_ Laid in tlje dust with broken wingv
All hushed the minstrel musiu sweet
A. crushed and wounded , dying thing.
Ah , me''notthosa who cleave the sky
Are safest when the storm pods jeer-
Not those who fret and fump to ily
Are always fitted for that'sphere.
Ah ! well that o'er our judgment weak
A heart oJ mercy throbs for all
To hold from us tSo hurt we seek.
And , pitying , note a sparrow's fall.
Mattie Bonner In Philadelphia Ledger.
DOCTOE'S INHEETTANCE ,
Two gentlemen , both past middle age ,
were seated beside a glowing grate fire ,
chatting as old friends will who have
met after u long separation. The hour
was late , nearly midnight , but no sign
of weariness was on either face. . The
room was u library , with well filled book
cases on all sides , a large , business like
table in the center and deeply cushioned
chairs scattered about. One bookcase
contained only medical works in sub
stantial bindings , and with marks of
service plainly visible.
Dr. Thornton , host and owner of the
handsome house in which the room was
situated , was a man past 40 , with iron
gray hair , strongly marked features , a
tall , erect figure and an expression at
once kindly and resolute. You read
prompt decision in his dark blue eyes
and a sympathy in the pleasant smile
that often crossed his lips.
His companion , heavily bearded and
bronzed by travel , was a far handsomer
man , but with a weaker face.
"At last , " he said , stretching himself
lazily in his deep arm chair , "I find you
alone and disengaged. Give me per
mission to stuff a towel into that ob
trusive office bell of yours , BO that no
whining woman or squalling brat can
summon you away and make me un-
happy. "
"Can't be done , Tom. Make the most
of me now , for the claims of the whin
ing women and the squalling brats can
not be denied. "
"You know what I want to hear. I
left you twelve years ago a poor man
with a struggling , almost wholly gra
tuitous practice , a sworn bachelor , and
almost a hermit outside of your profes
sional duties. I find you wealthy , with
a chaming wife and a popular member
of society , and yet your practice is , as
before , almost entirely among those who
could not fee you if they would. From
what relative unknown to me , your own
cousin , did you inherit your fortune ? "
"Did it ever occur to you , Tom , that
there are romances in real life all about
ns , quite as improbable as those found
upon the shelves of the circulating li
brary ? My experience will convince
you that I speak with authority. Twelve
years ago we are getting old , Tom I
was , as you say , a poor man , studying
hard , living hi a stuffy house in a poor
neighborhood , hoping for better times ,
more profitable practice and a fuller
purse. I was a bachelor because I could
offer only poverty to a wife ; a hermit
because my studies were engrossing. In
my small house I kept one old woman
servant , who cooked for me and kept
things tidy. Having no carriage I
needed no boy , for Martha could write ,
and I had a much larger office practice
than that outside.
"It was late , one bitter night in Janu
ary , when I was roused by the office bell
and the sound of excited voices under
my window. Hastening down I found
several men carrying upon a shutter the
unconscious patient I was to aid , if pos
sible.
" 'An old man , sir , knocked down by
runaway horses and run over , ' said one
of the party , as they gently deposited
their burden upon a sofa. 'Badly hurted ,
I'm thinking , doctor , but not dead ! '
"Badly hurt , indeed , I found him , and
my examination convinced me that any
further motion would result fatally.
Keep him I must , or risk his life by 're
moval to a hospital. With the assistance
of two of the men I undressed him and
put him into my own bed , noticing then
that he wore no coat.
" ' took it off ' told
'Somebody , they me ,
and apparently somebody kept it , as it
never appeared again. In the trousers
pockets were only some trifling articles ,
a' bunch of keys and a handkerchief , but
nothing to give any clew to the identity
of my patient and uninvited guest.
' "I will not enter into the details of the
injuries that excited my interest as a
physician and surgeon .as much as they
called for my sympathy as a man. There
were complications in the case that
called upon all my skill and knowledge ,
and the patient endurance of great suf
fering made me respect my unfortunate
guest from the first.
"It was nearly a fortnight before he
recovered from the brain injury suf
ficiently to speak distinctly. When the
sufferer could speak he told me that his
name was Fanshawe , but said nothing
more of himself , and I supposed him un
willing to confess to poverty and the in
ability to pry me for my services.
"I do not take much credit to myself
for my hospitality or devotion-because
I interested in the ' '
was so deeply 'case ,
professionally considered , that I would
have lived on bread and water rather
than have it taken out of my hands.
"As he became stronger my patient
became my friend , and interested me
deeply by the variety and depth of his
information , Ms experience of travel and
charm of conversation.
"K"ot until he was convalescent and
iiad been an inmate of my house for four
months did I know that he was a man of
wealth , living in the house I now oc
cupy.
"To cure him was beyond human
skill , but through two years I attended
him , alleviating great suffering and
often accepting his invitations to 'spend
an hour or two with a lonely old man.1
"When he died he left me his entire
fortune , which I supposed to "bo mine
only because he had no direct heirs or
near relatives. He had never spoken but
once of his family , and then said briefly
that he was a widower and. had lost his
only child.
"I had enjoyed my inheritance for
more than nine years when I fell in love.
I , who had never cared for female so
ciety before , became deeply attached to
the mother of one f my patients , a lady
nearly my own age , the widow of an
artist , who died in Rome some four or
five years before I met her. She had
sent for me to see her boy , an only child ,
slowly dying with an incurable disease
of the spine.
"Mrs. Eastwell know before she saw
me that there was no hope of saving the
child's life , but she thought I could ease
the pain and restlessness from which ho
suffered. She was herself an artist ,
working in water colors for the large
stores that dealt in fancy goods , and em
broidering most exquisitely. But her
child claimed much of her time and at
tention , and I knew she worked\n hours
when she should have shared the boy's
slumbers.
"Patient , self sacrificing , gentle and
refined , she filled my ideal of pure wom
anhood , and I loved her with all the
strength of the first love of years. I gave
ner a man's devotion , not a boy's infatu
ation. But I knew that it was useless
for mo to speak while the child lived.
She would have thought it a sacrilege to
give my love consideration while the
mother love in her heart was the ruling
spirit. Love mailing while her child
was dying ! I could see how she would
shrink from the mere suggestion.
"So I tried to be content with winning
the place of trusted friend , delicately
trying to make my presence a comfort
and a help to her , and doing all that I
could to make smoother the hard path
the childish feet were pressing.
"One afternoon she came to my office
to ask some questions about the little
boy , and , as the waiting room was full ,
I took her through the parlor to the
front door. As we passed by the mantle-
pi ce of the front room she suddenly
gave a cry of pain and surprise , stopping
short before a lifesize portrait of Mr.
Fanshawe. Her face was white , her
whole form trembling , and before I
could catch her ehe gave one cry of
'Father ! ' and dropped in a dead faint.
"It was the old story , Tom. She had
loved her husband better than her fa
ther , and eloped with him , never win
ning forgiveness. The home she had
left was broken up , and Mr. Fanshawe
removed to another city , so that for
years she had not known where to find
him , and had never heard of his death.
Her husband had taken her abroad soon
after their marriage , and she did not
know whether her father had ever tried
to trace or follow them.
"You may imagine how like a thief I
felt when I could calmly consider this
story and think of my inheritance I
living in luxury and she toiling for
bread ! And the money was hers by
every claim of humanity.
"At once I commenced to arrange for
restoring the property to her , and know
ing her pressing needs instructed my
lawyer to supply her with readjr money
and inform her that as soon as it could
be legally done her father's fortune
would be restored to her.
"Tom , she flatly refused to take it.
She had offended her father and had ac
cepted her punishment , and she would
not listen to any proposal to accept his
money. In vain I urged the justice of
her cause , the burden that money so
wrongfully willed away from her would
be to me. She threatened to leave the
city and never return if I persisted.
"While nothing was settled her child
died. She grieved as only the mother of
an only child can grieve , and yet I think
I comforted Lf-r. I dropped all question
of the disputi inheritance in those long
months , when her loneliness led her to
turn to me , her true , loving friend.
"And so , Tom , when a year had pass
ed , and the little life was a sacred mem
ory , no longer a passionate pain to re
member , I asked her once more to ac
cept her father's fortune and Lis heir
with it.
"We needed no lawyer then to make
the transfer , for I won my wife without
losing my inheritance. "
"And there goes that confounded of
fice bell ! " said Tom rising ; "so I am
off. " Anna Shields in New York Ledger.
Hotels and Housekeeping1.
The other day I heard a prominent
merchant say that the building of so
many elegant hotels uptown would lead
trade to follow them , and that the day
was not far distant when Fifth avenue ,
below the Cathedral , must be given up
wholly to stores and club houses. It was
with this thought in mind that I went
into the Plaza hotel and looked at its
parlors and dining rooms , its cafe and
restaurant. While wandering about I
came to the conclusion that American
women are fast becoming , indeed that
they have already become , indolent.
The new hotels afford beautiful resi
dences for people who can pay for the
high cost of living in them the man
agement at the same time taking upon
itself all the cares of housekeeping.
Fashionable women , as a rule , detest
housekeeping , for it interferes with their
society duties , and I thought , while re
flecting upon this subject , that the time
may soon come when there will be hotel
cliques composed of rich families that
belong to the same set. Such family
hotels will have no transient custom , but
will be constructed solely with the view
of meeting the needs of rich , indolent
women , with a ballroom and private
dining rooms at their disposal. In such
a hotel a family could maintain a pri
vate establishment and pay only one
bill the landlord's for which individ
ual , by the by , society may yet invent a
more elegant title. Epoch.
Bottom Facts.
"That court house of yours is a credit
to the town , " remarked the stranger in
Boomopolis.
"Humph ! " returned the man-who-
cduldn't-get-away , "if you was payin'
taxes here ye'd think it was a conBarned
sight more of a debit ! " Puck.
IP III
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It is the Part of Wisdom
In making purchases of appropriate gifts for the approaching
holiday season that the idea of usefulness be kept in view.
It is to this end that NOBLE so early calls special attention
to the variety and richness of his stock of articles both
USEFUL & BEAUTIFUL
which "will delight the heart of anyone and be ever useful in
the home as well as ornamental. We have but to mention a
few articles to fully arouse the reader's interest and centre
his or her attention. As a starter , how would a : : :
"We have an assortment of plain and fancy sets that are rea
sonable in price , excellent in quality , pretty and stylish in
decoration and design. We can show you a large variety of
From the handsomely decorated and more expensive to the
plain and cheaper sorts. , And best of all they are being sold .
at figures within the reach of the most modest pocket book.
Besides we have an endless assortment of smaller articles , as
Decorated Cups and Saucers
And many pieces of toy waie for the children. In connection
with our queensware and crockery we have a large stock of
Comprising many articles which would be very acceptable at
this season. But we have not exhausted our list of attrac-
tionsHjy any means. Our display of : : : : : : :
MEQING END STEND LEMPS
has no equal in this section. You should make your choice
early and thus secure the most attractive bargains. Our
supply for the holidays , this season , of fresh : : : : :
will be all the markets afford and this insures a variety aud
quality and quantity sufficient to meet every demand.
C. M. NOBLE.