n sxjEsg - I LOVE YOU 6I1C climbed upon my willing knee And softly whispered unto me I love you Her dainty arms wore round my neck Her sunny curls were in my face And in her tender eyes I saw The kouI of innocence and grace And like a sunbeam gliding through The clouds that hide the skies of blue Her smile found access to my heart And bade the shadows all depart O moment of apocalypse In which I saw the stately ships That erstwhile sailed away from me Come riding back across the sea 1 would you might return and stay Within my lonely heart alway -God bless the darling little child Who looked up in my face and smiled And wrought into my heart a spell More sweet than songs of Israel O angels listen while I pray That you will make her life as sweet As that brief moment was to me Wheneer I heard her lips repeat I love you -Family Mail Bag THE CHAPLAINS STORY liSi rsmm liJ Ira W It iK IM BOURN and I were boys together at Westminster we went to Oxford to getherto Balliol we took our degrees together in the Classical Honors School and were ordained together by the Bishop of L as curates for his diocese Here our paths separated for some years and when next we re newed our old friendship I Avas the vicar of the town still single at 34 and Jim was the chaplain of the fa mous jail in the same town and mar ried We were talking in my study as in plclen times Somehow the conversa tion drifted to the subject of a recent newspaper article Ought Married People to Have Any Secrets from Each Other I said No Jim said Yes We both smilingly stuck to our text It was not often that we differed in iminion but this was one case anyhow Why Jim said 1 you would have been the last person I should have ex pected to take that line for 1 am sure from what I have seen that if ever two folks were happy and loving they are Ella and yourself I cant conceive of your having any secret which you would not wish Ella to know Ah retorted he -with a peculiar smile thats just it Well Howson Ill tell you one if you like though he added it must remain a secret be tween us two I have never spoken of It to any one in the world and never shall except to yourself Thanks Jim you need not fear me as you know 1 am only curious to know the case and I assumed an attitude of eager attention to Jims story 1 was the chaplain at Lowmarket hs you are well aware before I came here It is a pretty place and one won ders whatever made the government build a jail there However there it is and there was T The amount of so ciety that one got in Lowmarket was perfectly astonishing nad I had the time and inclination for it 1 might have turned out a regular society clergyman As it was I hud a full amount of lectures soirees parties and entertainments Among the people I got in with none were nicer than the Yorks Miss York a maiden lady of 50 lived in a large and beautifully fur nished house called The Cedars in the best part of the town She was known all over the district for her charity Kindness of heart and pure life Every body had a good word for her Nor was her niece Miss York any less pop ular People in Lowmarket fairly wor shipped both of them I was 2S when I first saw Ella York and at once succumbed to her charms For weeks her praises had been in my ears and now on acquaintance I found her beauty her manners her kindness of heart not one whit less than report stated I loved her Of course I could not say so at once and whether after two or three meetings In the course of my work for Miss STork the elder took great interest in our sphere of labor she guessed my love and reciprocated it I could not then iiy I found upon judicious inquiries that Miss York Ella had lived with her aunt from childhood that she was now 24 that her mother was dead and her father lived on the Continent for his health also that she was her aunts pole heiress These facts were of course only learned by degrees as one cannot go to the fountain head for such snformation After much heart searching and de bating within myself I thought I saw that Ella York was not wholly indiffer ent to me and I resolved to ask her to be my wife I need not go into details as to how I did it beyond saying that it was one summer morning rather more than five years ago when having gone to see her aunt who was out I met Ella in the grounds and after talk ing as we walked along on various sub jects somehow it came out unexpect edly and almost before 1 could eoin preliend what it all meant Ella York had promised to be my wife subject to lier aunts consent But her auht didnt consent I re ceived a dainty note that night how tenderly I regarded it Howson from Ella saying that she had spoken of my visit to her aunt and had told her I was coming to morrow for her ap proval Miss York had been very kind but acted rather strangely and said she would see me but she eotdd not T JL consent as she did not wish to lose Ella My dear girl went on to say that she had in vain tried to get from her any more than this I was in a curious frame of mind as I went next morning to see Miss York I was destined to know her objec tion As I approached the lodge the porteress met me Oh Mr Bourn this Is shocking I was more puzzled than ever Why my engagement to Ella should be shocking I couldnt see and I no doubt expressed it in my looks So sudden too sir said the wo man Nobody expected it Whatevers the matter said I Why havent you heard that Miss York is dead No Oh dear Poor think had a fit In the night doctor says was quite unconscious when Miss Ella got there and died at 9 oclock this morning My heart sank I felt faint and giddy It was some minutes before I could move You will never know how it feels Howson unless you should have such a blow which I hope you never will But I am bound to say that my one thought was My poor lonely darling Ella There were no more details to be learned about Miss Yorks death She was buried in Lowmarket churchyard Ella was ill for weeks and could not see even me When she was well enough to attend to business it was found that she inherited all her aunts money and as she had already accept ed me we were married a twelvemonth afterward She had been awfuly lone ly she said since Miss Yorks death but no couple have ever lived happier and been nearer and dearer to each other thau Ella and I May God bless her Amen said I solemnly and rever ently Ella and I pursued Jim could never give the remotest guess as to her aunts objection to our engagement and it would probably have remained a mystery to me as it has to Ella even now had it not been for the following circumstances Some time ago I was sent for at the prison to see a rather desperate character whose end was very near He had been sent to seven years penal servitude some three years before for forgery and after serving two years at Portland had been trans ferred to Lowmarket His appearance was superior to that of the ordinary convict even when a forger Although I had seen him several times and cer tainly been struck with his face and appearance we could not be said to be friendly as he had been indifferent to all my advances I found him living in the hospital and I soon saw that he would not live xery long You seem pleased to see mo I said Yes sir replied No 152 T am glad youve come I hardly expected you would considering how standoff ish Ive been But I wanter to see you as the doctor says Im not likely to last much longer I talked to him about his soul and spiritual things That we may pass by Howson I believe he was thor oughly penitent I asked him if there was anything I could do for him Yes sir there is one thing if you will Its such a curious one I hardly like to ask you His eyes looked eager ly at me Go on I said Ill do it if possi ble Ive had a queer life sir said the convict I might have been somebody and done some good but I got led astray after marriage and broke the heart of my wife who died soon after ward Yes Ive led a bad life and its precious few friends Ive had lately anyhow But I hope I may be for given as you say God will pardon even the worst of us And if youll promise me to do one thing when Im dead I shall die happy Ill promise as far as I can said I What is it Its to take care of your wife an swered No 152 Ah said he smiling I thought that would astonish you Take care of my wife I gazed at him In amazement Why of course I shall But what is that to you A great deal said he Why Because shes my daughter 1 looked at niin in terror and aston ishment and was about to send for the nurse and for the doctor feeling sure he was rambling when be said slowly Sit down sir please I cant talk much longer You need not send tor Dr Darton Im all right I feared it would gve yor a shock sir as it gave me one the firnt lime I saw her here with you Ella York you see I know her name all right was taken when quite a child by her aunt who dis owned me and never told the child what her father was In that she was quite right She changed her name from Wilson to her mothers name of York and completed the disguise Whenever I desired and oh sir I did often desire to see Ella my darling Miss York has always threatened me with the police and I knew better than to have them on my track if I could help it Yes sir I see you cant realize it yet but youll find Ella Wilsons birth and baptism in the registers of Northfield and I give you my word it is true I sat in dumb silence What could I say Ella my wife a cccvicts daughter Please sir dont tell her said he She has never known dont let her know But I felt I must tell you sir and youll not think any worse of her and his eyes looked pleadingly and wistfully at me My senses had somewhat returned No said I of course not I am hflJx dazed but I feel what you say is trae But Ella is my own now and always shall be -while I live I wish I A had not heard this but It cannot alter my love for Ella Thank God he said And sir theres one thing more The doctors say I shall sleep myself away Do you think it could be managed for my darl ing to give me one kiss ere I die just one Til try Yes said I she shall if youll leave it to me T will God bless you Mr Bourn I left him When I got home Ella thought I was ill and indeed I was Overwork I pleaded In another hour they came to tell me he was asleep and would not wake in this world I took Ella with me to the hospital Ella said I a prisoner who is dying and who has no few friends told me to day how he had seen you and would like you to kiss him ere he died as his own daughter would have done Will you Certainly my darling And with eyes furl of tears she did The unconscious form rose the eyelids half opened the face smiled She didnt know did she I led her away weeping my own heart full I afterward verified his story But Ella has never known any more Howson and never will There is sometimes a secret which should not be shared between husband and wife Howson isnt there Youre right dear old Jim said I as he grasped my hand in silence but with tear dimmed eyes Youre right old fellow and God bless you both- Grit In parts of China hogs are harnessed and made to draw small wagons About 2000000 canary birds are an nually bred in Germany and sold for 3000000 The only animal that is really dumb is the giraffe which is unable to ex press itself by any sound whatever A snake does not climb a tree or bush by coiling around it but by hold ing on with the points of its scales A snake on a pane of glass is almost helpless The eye of the vultmre is so construct ed that it is a high power telescope en abling the bird to see objects at an al most incredible distance During a bull fight at Carabancel a suburb of Madrid the other day a bull escaped and rushed into the streets where it Injured a number of persons before it was killed by a gendarme Several efforts to re establish the beaver in Great Britain have been made within the present generation but in each case have eventually been unsuccessful A fossil extinct mammal somowihat larger than a rhinoceros and of a spe cies ihitiherto unknown has been found complete 500 feet below the surface in a coal mine at Kymi in the island of Euboea Greece The horses of the Boston fire depart ment are to be envied of their kind The commissioners have decided to send each horse owned by the depart ment out to country pasture for two weeks every year Great damage has been done lately in the Ibaraki district of Japan by mon keys In some cases the animals in furiated by hunger even attacked hu man beings In repairing a cable off Cape Frio a whale was found entangled in it by the cable ship Norseman but the cable had not broken The whale must have been there for two or three weeks and had been bitten into by sharks A man in New Jersey has established an ostrich farm and has already re ceived a consignment of the gigantic birds from California He has built a large steam heated inclosure in which the ostriches will be sheltered during the winter Thinking four kittens too much of a litter George Varner of Clay Center Kan took two of them away from his cat and disposed of them The next morning he found the cat nursing the two remaining kittens and two little cottontail rabbits A Problem Play I believe you describe your new piece as a problem play said the friend Yes replied the theatrical mana ger thats what the author said it was going to be and for once he knew what he was talking about Making the re ceipts cover the railway and hotel bills keeps me doing arithmetic twenty foun hours a day Washington Star Why He Thought So Mr Bright reading paper Im sur prised to know that a married man writes the fashion notes for this paper Mrs Bright Why dear how do you know such is the case Mr Bright Only a married man could have penned this item There will be no change in pocketbooks this season Great Promise This baby said the fond father as he turned for another lap along the room Is going to be a great actress one of these days What makes you think so inquired his wife Just look at the way she can shed real tears and bring an audience to its feet Washington Star TJp to noon a man Is very hopeful ox the great things he will do to day Af ter that hour Is passed he puts them off until to morrow i - i WtMTgrramttVi mm - - jtt t n rt m iw t JfV nrnTifrn imti rn T SfcSSCtSSr BMMWWh il - I - WS ittv io - fcjfe Mr Perkins visiting his wifes rela tives in Maine says Life attended church one Sunday The sermon was long and Perkins went to sleep The sermon came to an end at last but Per kins slept peacefully on The deacons began to take up the collection When the hat passed to Perkins his wife nudged him and Perkins sat up with a start Gazing in a bewildered manner at the extended hat and then at the deacon he shook his head sleepily and said That isnt my hat Mine had a blue lining When ladies Avore their top knots ridiculously high it occurred to Row land Hill to admonish them from the pulpit and he did it by means of the words Top knot come down which he evolved from Matthew xxiv 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down It was almost as bad as Swifts uniquely brief discourse on the text He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord My friends said the dean as he closed the book if you approve of the security down with the dust Once when General Sherman had been uuder the care of a physician for some time he said Doctor I dont seem to be getting any better for all your medicine Well General re plied the doctor jocosely perhaps you had better take Shakspeares advice and throw physic to the dogs I would doctor replied the sick man as he turned his head on the pillow I would but there are a number of valu able dogs in this neighborhood On one of the Loch Lomond steam ers a tourist met a native drover who was conducting some of his stock to a sale which was taking place up the loch After some necessary remarks about the weather scenery etc he in quired what price the cattle were like ly to fetch Och frae sax tae eiclit pun What Is that all Why if you had those in London you would get double that sum Ay ay that may be true and if ye had Loch Lomond in h 1 ye might get sixpence a glass for it A story is told of an encounter be tween Millais and an unappreciative Scotchman Avho might have been one of the weavers in Mr Barries town of Thrums The painter was making a study for his well known Chill Octo ber among the reeds on the banks of the Tay near Perth when a voice came from over his shoulder Man did ye never try photography No never Millais replied Its a deal quicker the voice continued Ye es I suppose so the painter admitted And its a deal liker the place James Payne tells of a well known singer many years ago who in the pride of his heart greatly exaggerated to the tax collector his own assess ment The fact is he confessed to the commissioners I have not a thou sand pence of certain income But are you not stage manager to the op era house Yes but there is no sal ary attached to it But you teach Yet but I have no pupils Then you are a concert singer True but I have no engagements At all events you have a very good salary at Druxy Lane A very good one but then its never paid Under these circum stances the tax was remitted An apt and witty retort was made to the colonel of a regiment on one occa sion by an old Quaker aunt to whom he was complaining He was an unpopu lar officer filled with a sense of his own importance and most overbearing in his manner to his Inferior officers who disliked him heartily in return and in consequence shirked their duties when ever opportunity offered I have a most unsatisfactory set of men under me complained the young man stand ing before the little old Quaker lady in a pompous attitude I am practically forced to do all the work which should be done by them a great part of the time I am my own major my own lieutenant my own ensign my own sergeant He stopped and frowned upon his listener And thee is thy own trumpeter also William I fear said the old lady with a twinkle in her eye After the war General Robert E Lee when a college president was a vestry man of Grace Episcopal Church General Pendleton his former chief of artillery was rector and General Smith superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute was also a vestry man The latter wras not on agreeable terms with the rector and complained to the officers of the church that the cadets among them his own son were deserting the church of their fathers and that no persuasion could keep them from attending Dr Pratts church Presbyterian The doctor had a very beautiful daughter Grace and while General Smith was pushing his objec tions to the rector General Lee with a twinkle in his eye said to Smith Gen eral possibly the magnet which at tracts your son is not so much the doc tors eloquence as the doctors Grace The point silenced General Smith A student of Yale College who be longed to a chemistry class before the members of which Professor Silliman was going to experiment with laughing-gas knew a little about the effects of the gas and he explained to his com panions that since under its influence no one was responsible for his words he was going to take the opportunity to tell Professor Silliman what he thought of him Unfortunately Pro fessor Silliman overheard the conver sation When the professor remarked that for the purposes of illustration he should like to administer the gas to some member of the class the plotter of mischief at once volunteered The - T leather bag was connected with hit mouth and he soon appeared much ex cited He began to abuse the professor and to say many things which he would not have dared to say except under cover of the peculiar circum stances Professor Silliman allowed him to go on for some time and thex casually remarked that his young friend had become prematurely irre sponsible for the gas had not yet been turned on OPIE READS MENTALITY His Information Covers an Astonish ing Range of Subjects Those who read Opie Reads books may think they have some idea of the mans mentality but it cannot be ob tained in that way One must be per sonally acquainted with him He is one of the most interesting conversa tionalists to be met in a lifetime As sociation with him is a literary school and yet he does not talk shop He seems to have read everything and re membered it He shows this in his everyday conversation and without the slightest pedantry or affectation No matter what the subject under consid eration he talks of it glibly and wise ly from the standpoint of those who have niade it a study seasoned with common sense and logic lie is not a politician on the contrary rather dis likes political affairs but he talks of such matters with a clearness strength and spirit that would lead you to be lieve he had made a special study of parties their men and measures for centuries and that he was altogether past master of political economy It is a part of the mans wide curriculum He is entirely at home in what is best for one to eat and is versed in hygiene but he suffers from indigestion He is informed upon the conventionalities of high life and yet avoids conventional society He gives strong reasons for pessimism and yet he is a practical op timist He loves literature but would not allow the greatest author in the world to read his manuscript to him He is actually fonder of music than any other man I ever saw and knows not a note of it though he will catch an air the first time he hears it He loves art especially in painting but he doesnt even write a good hand He is an ardent admirer of women but does not dance attendance upon them With al he is great in body mind and soul Womans Home Companion Summed Up It is estimated that the human fam ily living on the earth consists of about 1450000000 individuals These are distributed all over the world but so unevenly as to be worthy of remark Asia contains 800000000 people or two thirds of the human race but it is not the most densely populated having only forty six to the square mile That however is pretty dense when compared with America with its 100 000000 and only six and a half to the square mile Still Europe carries off the palm for crowding Three hundred and thirty millions on her 3892234 square miles is an average of eighty four to the square mile The continent of Africa harbors 210 000000 an average of seventeen to the square mile while Australasia brings up the rear with an average of only one human being to the square mile Of the worlds peoples about 500 000000 are well clothed and live in the houses furnished with the appoint ments of civilization 700000000 are half clothed and live in huts tents and caves that is to say are half civilized and the remaining 250000000 wear next to no clothing and have nothing that can be called a home It only remains to add that the rela tive proportion of white black and mixed races are five three and seven and there is the world in a nut shell Couldnt Redraw His Picture An amusing story is told of the early engraving days of the venerable and lamented Sir John Gilbert Half a cen tury ago or more he was commission ed to illustrate a short story for a Lon don weekly and was handed the proofs to enable him to select the most telling situation for pictorial representation When he had finished the work the edi tor remarked Why Mr Gilbert the story says an escort of infantry soldiers and here on the block you have given us mount ed ones Dear me so I have responded the artist but I havent time to do an other drawing now Cant you make an alternation in the story to make It fit in The copy was handed to a subordi nate to make the requisite alteration but that gentleman forgot to delete the chapter describing how the soldiers gained the summit of a steep moun tain parts of which they were obliged to scale with ladders Horses could not have been got there unless by the as sistance of a crane Afterward shoals of letters from subscribers wished to know how the cavalry got there Lon don Telegraph Grounds for Divorce Singerly to friend recently married Why old man you look sad and de jected Have you met with a disap pointment in your matrimonial ven ture Wederly Alas yes My wife cannot sing Singerly Cant sing Why man that ought to cause you to rejoice I think you are to be congratulated Wederly But the trouble is that she thinks she can Her Suggestion Since leaving college said young Softleigh I am at a loss what to do with myself I wish I could find some thing to take up my mind Allow me answered Miss Cutting to suggest that you try blotting pa per SUBSTITUTES FOR PRAYING Parrots and Prayer Wheels Amonjr the Kalmuck Tartars Finally if you spend most of your time as I did among the natives on the hurricane deck your attention will be attracted by a third class of worship ers namely the Kalmuck Tartars who live In felt tents or kibitkas along the lower Volga and who wander with great herds of cattle and camels over the steppes of Eastern Europe and Western Asia These flat faced ill looking nomads are all Bud dhists and not only do they pray but they may fairly claim the credit of hav ing reduced devotion to a science Pray ing five times a day as the Mohamme dans do or even twice a day after the custom of the fire worshipers seems to have been too severe a tax upon the energies of the original Buddhists and they set their ingenuity at work to de vise some means of lessening the labor The first expedient that occurred to them was teaching parrots to pray and then claiming the credit of the prayers thus said by proxy This answered the purpose very well at first but teaching parrots was troublesome and besides that the parrots in spite of all precau tions would occasionally pick up scraps of profane learning which they intermingled with their devotions in a manner not at all edifying So the Buddhists finally abandoned the in struction of parrots and calling in the aid of applied science invented the prayer wheel Nobody it seems to me but the laziest of Asiatics would ever have thought of introducing labor-saving machinery into the realm of the spiritual but the Buddhists not only thought of it but put the idea promptly into execution The prayer wheel used by the Kalmuck Tartars on the Lower Volga is a small wooden cylinder six or eight inches in length and about two inches in diameter turning upon a ver tical axis the lower end of which is ex tended and thickened to form a han dle This cylinder is stuffed full of short written prayers and every time it is turned upon its axis all the prayers that it contains are regarded as duly said Could anything be more simple or satisfactory There is no shutting of the ejcs no getting down on the kuees in uncomfortable positions no facing in any particular direction All that the prayer has to do is to give his wheel a twirl and it grinds out prayers with a rapidity and fluency Avhich leaves nothing to be desired But from an Occidental point of view the whole performance is of course an absurdi ty I could feel some respect for the prajers of the Mohammedans and of the fire worshipers but the wooden wheels of the Kalmuck Tartars excited only contemptuous amusement Inde Dcndent Shakspeare in London Now Shakspeares London says Dr Fiske in the Atlantic was a small city of from 150000 to 200000 souls or about the size of Providence or Minneapolis at the present time In cities of such size everybody of the slightest emi nence is known all over town and such persons are sure to be more or less ac quainted with one another It is a very rare exception when it is not so Be fore his thirtieth year Shakspeare was well known in London as an actor a writer of plays and the manager of a prominent theater In that year Spen ser in his Colin Clouts Come Home Again alluding to Shakspeare under the name of Action or eagle like paid him this compliment And there though last not least is Action A gentler shepherd may nowhere be found Whose name full of high thoughts tion Doth like himself heroically sound Four years after tins in 1598 Fran cis Meres published his look entitled Palladis Tamia a very interesting contribution to literary history The author who had been an instructor in rhetoric in the University of Oxford was then living In London near the Globe Theater In this book Meres tells nis readers that the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey tongued Shakspeare witness his Venus and Adonis his Luerece his su gared sonnets among his private friends etc To suppose that such a man as this in a town the size of Minneapolis con nected with a principal theater writer of the most popular plays of the day a poet whom men were already coup ling with Homer and Pindar to sup pose that such a man was not known to all the educated people In the town is simply absurd There were proba 1 bly very few men women or children in London betwen 1595 and 1610 who did not know who Shakspeare was when he passed them in the street and as for such wits as drank ale and sack at the Mermaid as for Rallegh and Bacon and Selden and the rest to suppose that Shakspeare did not know them well nay to suppose that he waa not the leading spirit and brightest wit of those ambrosial nights is about as sensible as to suppose that he never saw a maypole Royal Pet Names They are fond of pot names in the oyal family The Duke of Fife is call ed Macduff the duchess is called Her Royal Shyness because she Is so very retiring in disposition little Prince- Edward of York is known as The Xew Boy and Princess Patricia of Connaught who was so christened after her father and because she was born on St Patricks day Is affection ately dubbed Paddy Princess Pad dy is a cheerful child aged 11 rears Tid 3its When Jewelry Was de Regie A Roman woman in full dress in A D 300 wore bracelets from wrist to j shoulder gold bands on her ankles and t a ring on every finger and on every toefi iO 1 s J I 9C ir irZiJ r M Y r I A f