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NE evening as I sat in my room at a private house, where I fortunately had been able to procure board and room for a short time. I was for once unable to concentrate my mind upon my life-long friends and companions, books. iA.s a rule I am able to so place my mind upon their contents as to be utterly oblivious of anything which might occur beside me but tonight the howling winds and falling sleet made the night seem so lonely that I felt the need of human companionship. . After trying for some time to shake off this lonliness I, at last, donned my raincoat and hat and started for the home of Rev. Ham­ ilton where I knew a warm welcome would %wait me. I was not mistaken for I was received with smiles of good- cheer and ushered into their cosy sitting-room/ Outside the wind might howl and wail and sleet and rain fall in torrents but here all was cheerful and cosy. * In the course of the evening's conversation I spokeof how sud­ denly the weather had changed, for until sunset th$ day had been exceedingly bright and sunny. ' 'Aye," replied the reverend gentlemen, as he stooped to ca­ rets the house-dog lying at his feet, "I could not but think .of the familiar adage, 'happy is the bride the sun shines on,' as.I watched the sun rise in its glory this morning;" "Bride," replied I, "who was the happy bride today? I have heald no wedding bells." • ~ "Have you not? Did you not know that John Smith's only daughter, Alice, anc^Pred Tucker's oldest son, Charles, were mar­ ried today?" : t* John Smith's daughter and Fred Tucker's son married! Why, is it possible? Were not they the families Whom you told me of who were bitter enemies from some trifling cause, I forget what?" * "'Yes, they were the families which I spoke to you of, but whe have today shown to the world that hereafter they are to be the greatest of friends." "But what," asked I, "has happened to bring about this hap­ py ending of their fued?" "The Providence of God," he reverently replied. Scenting a story I asked him to relate the circumstances. With a smile, for the dear old man dearly loved to tell the ways in which the Providence of God is bestowed, he began. "The bone of contention which was the Cause of the trouble between Mr. Smith and Mr. Tucker is a narrow strip of land which jutted out from Smith's farm into Tucker's, thereby causing Tucker the annoyance of having a field rendered hard of cultivation be­ cause of its irregular shape. Tucker had several times tried to buy the land of Smith but the price which the latter asked for the strip was deemed by the former to be too much and as both men are what is known as 'set in their way,' neither would give in to the other, and partly due to this and the remarks made by the usual gossips of a neighborhood the men became bitter enemies. But through tjie irony of fate Alice Smith and Charles Tuck­ er met at a party given by a friend ^nd rapidly became friends and for some unknown reason this friendship was allowed to continue by their parents. Both Alice and Charles had too much common sense to mention the trouble which existed, and it gradually became a common thing to see the two together at the merry makings of the community. " One evening when Charles came for Alice she was not ready so her mother ushered him into the sitting-room and then excused herself saying that she had some work to do which had to be at­ tended to at once. A,fter she left him he arose and went to the table and sat down on an old creton covered arm chair. Pulling out from his pocket a long folded paper he placed it on top of softie other papers on the table and proceeced to turn up the 'light but as he did so he accidently piished several papers from the table, some falling on the floor, others in his lap. and on the chair. He picked them up and put them on the table and began to study the paper, here and there placing a mark with his pencil. But hearing a step he hastily folded the paper and just as he was hastily plac­ ing it in his pocket, not Alice as he expected, but Mr. Smith en­ tered. He noticed a rather odd look on Mr. Smith's face when he entered but thinking nothing of it he started the conversation. "Finally he said to Mr. Smith, ' Sundays/father's birthday and I would like to give him as a birthday present the deed to that strip of land which he has tried to buy of you, and so tomorrow night if you will kindly have the deed for me I will pay you your price for the land.' " 'Well, Charles,' replied the elder man, 'I have begun to think that perhaps I did set a little too high a price on that land, but we will arrange that tomorrow evening. It will not take us long and after business why you will have a little time to talk to Alice which wouldn't go again the grain, eh, Charles?" «'Alice entering, cut short the reply which Charles was about to make and in a short time they were started for the social. ' 'Late that night when, Alice carefully and noiselessly entered the hall, her young heart beat joyously, for on the way home she had heard life's sweetest story from the man she loved, and of his hope of making peace between their respective fathers. "But those were the last happy moments she was to know for a long time, for as she entered the room where she had but a few short hours ago left her father seated, in his favorite chair, drawn up to tl|e table, where earlier in the day he had emptied a box of legaldocuments in his search for a certain note, and with a look of contentment on his face she had »ot seen for years, she now beheld him, angrily pacing the floor with such an expression on his face as she had never seen before. "For a moment she was uftable to move but finally she sum­ moned up courage and advanced to her father whom in the blind­ ness of his rage had not seen or heard her. uIn reply to her questions a^ to what was the matter he told her that he considered that Charles Tucker had stolen the deed and in fact he himself had seen him do so. "The sudden change, from joy to anguish, was too much for Alice and she fell, fainting, to the floor. "This was followed by a long and severe illness, and when she recovered she was but a ghost of her former self. "In vain Charles tried to speak to her father and try to gain permission to see her but her father would not speak to him only to tell him never to coma to her home again. "Alice gained sjowly but her mother who had watched over her untiringly during her sickness, now began to droop. f ••••• MHHM HMIMI --Will Mil-->11*1 • LITERAR YNO TES { MEMORIES OF DWIGHT L. MOODY. It was the wish of the late Mr. Moody that his biography should be written by his son. Mr. W. R. Moody who has in his possession all of his father's papers and is preparing a very complete life of the great preacher, has consented to write especially for The Saturday Evening Post a series of anecdotal pap­ ers on his father's life and work, profuse­ ly illustrated with hitherto unpublished photographs. The first of these papers, entitled "Moody as Boy aDd Business Man," will appear in the April 7 num­ ber of the Saturday Evening Post. ARE OUR MINISTERS IDLERS? Ian Maclaren is going to answer the question, "Is the Minister an Idler?"' In the May Ladies' Home Journal. This is a 'sort of companion article to "Should the 014 Clergyman be Shot?' which he wrote some time ago, and in which he advocated a more humane dis­ position of aged clergymen. It is more uhan likely that he will be able to find •wine idlers in the pulpit, but it may be set down as a certainty that he will be able to establish as a fact that minis­ ters as a class are among the busiest of professional men. . WHEN TULIPS NEARLY OVERTURNED HOLLAND. The ancestral bulbs of the tulips, vhich give our flower-gardens of to- lay such graceful form and superb c >lor, once came near overturning the little kingdom of Holland. The nation­ al fad for tulips reached the stage of madness, and nearly all other business was neglected in consequence. Every- l)otly was frenzied with the fever to speculate in tulips, and as much as three thousand dollars was paid for a bulb--the equivalent of many times bhat sum to-day. "The'Flower that •Set a Nation Mad," recalling the tulip craze in, Holland, will be one of the features in the May Ladies' Home Journal. . ' MRS? RORER ON THE SERVANT-GIRL PROBLEM. Mrs. Rorer's solution of the servant- rirl problem will be presented in the May Ladies' Home Journal. She will veil "How to Treat and Keep a servant," fixing the responsibility for the un­ satisfactory domestic service that makes housekeeping such a hardship to-day. It is Mrs. Rorer's contention, and she thoroughly maintains her point, that it is no more difficult to secure efficient employers in the home than it is for any other kind of work. But the point of view of mistress and maid must be materially changed first. Charles M. Harger, who contributes "Singing'The Messiah'on the Plains" to the April Ladies' Home Journal, is editor of the Abilene, Kansas, "Re­ flector." He has written much about the various phases of Western life, and his articles have been widely read. They have brought to people of other sections a better and clearer under­ standing of Western life than anything else that has been written in a long time. BARRIE AND THE REAL THRUMS. "The Real Thrums of Barrie" is to be one of the features of the May Ladies' Home Journal. It is a most charming picture of Mr. Barrie and his beloved Thrums, penned by Miss Mary B. Mul­ let, a writer whose profound admir­ ation for the author led her on a pilgri­ mage to Thrums. She chatted of Barrie with his neighbors and with the proto­ types of his characters in "A Window in Thrums," identified the scenes por­ trayed in that book, and caught a glimpse of the author himself. She writes of these with a freshness and enthusiasm which bring Barrie and his home into realistic view, a picture full of spirit, atmosphere and action-- literally a moving photograph of the people and place. KIPLING'S NEW ANIMAL STORIES. Rudyard Kipling is going to tell of "The Beginning of the Armadillos" in the May Ladies' Home Journal. Of course, Mr. Kipling brings to bear an irresistibly funny, but withal a highly ingenious, philosophy in describing the peculiarities of the armadillo. He evidently found enjoyment Jn writing these stories--he calls them "Just So" stories--for he has interwoven more inimitable humor into his account of the way by which the armadillos came into being, and the others of the series, than in anything else that has come from his versatile pen. The author of "Bandanna Ballads," in the April Ladies' Home Journal, is one of the newer singers of negro folk­ lore. 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