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% VAN SLTKE, Editor and Publisnar. ILLINOIS McHENRY, piilWi pfp . . . . 4"',;" , tip* r W5 MIX YOU COVE MI: \7HKJS 1\M BAJUD? ^There's a question I would iiioatto# ' r: ;* If you'll listen, w'ife, to me, i. -h • JPor a fearful apprehension .. j(v Now and tbeu creeps over me: ^ ri ^\'heri our lives lmve rciwliotl iht sunQ&ut, i" And the tuniinp-jmiut is called, i: ' - Ar.il old ago begins to eye us. ^ _ i. Will you love me if l'ui bald? *1 When no more your gentle flngwni • Wwnier thrmitfh my waving llMI1,' ** i'l 3B"t go proving through tlio vastneas •i, i. ' (if the whnroness ol' the w<hatr); v't" %Vhen Old Time's fantastic finger* O'er ui.v face bin navne has borawlod,. J>o you think that you can love m« " "tk; Just the same if I'am bald\ Vhen my brow shall shame the toinbatWl* , As it rises bland and hare. XViitc thereon ; "Thin slab is sacred ;.**' To his late lamented bnir.n take agriuning skull I II haunt Vtra ^ Till your senses stand appnUea; JBan you brave the test, mv darling, ,, Will you love me when I'm bald:' ^When my present jetty ringlet* Have not dyed, but gone befoe#,' • JjUid until I go to meet rliem They will come--ah !--nevernttrBi • • '*iVhen the flies of fifty summer* 1 V Oe'r mv helpless pnte have crawled, .Ami 1 have to wear a nightcap, 1 Will you love me when I'm bald? i* v . ^ Sr. • F0RG1YEN. BT EDWIN ltOBI>'S<?JC ,> little nook is certainly the safest retreat in the world. No one can find you here. But, auntie, dear, can you never forgive your husband? Would you not be i%r happier if he were with you ?" "I have forgiven him long ago, Cecil," answered Mrs. Field, in a broken voice. "It is not that--you do not know--it is he who will never forgive me. . He swore that he would never look in my face again. He believed me false to hint. Oh, can I forget his look as he cast me out from his home ? His angry eyes burned themselves into my heart; and even now I tremble as I think of that dreadful day." "There, there, dearest auntie! Don't think of it now. Just try and rest," said Cecil, striving to obliterate, with loving kisses, the bitter memories her words had called up. And Mrs. Field, who coqid not resist her pretty coaxing ways, smiled, aud promised to be good. Cecil was very happy at Brookside. eyesight), and Cecil. It seemed a por* feet haven of rest after her years of restless wanderings, and life was brighter than even in the first days of her wedded bliss. Her husband was her lover again, dearer, truer, and bet­ ter loved than ever before. "Murried lovers," Cecit calls them, and declares, laughingly, that some day she will write their story. But perhaps she will have her own to write first, for the night before Charlie Penfield went back to Oxford she sang to hity:' "Better lo'ed ye canna be ; , WiU ye no coine back again ?• » fc' ' . The Coyte Ahead. ^iSe night in the early day# Iiin- boln, Neb., an Eastern man arrived with a fair-sized dog at his heels, and it was plain enough to everyone who looked the canine over that he was a fighter. After supper we began to chin the man about liia dog, apd the way he did brag that animal up was something wonder- FACTS ABOUT TllE BABIES. ful. It was so wonderful that some of Out in the woods she sang like a bird; the boys conspired.to put up a job on him, and by and by one of them led off with: "Stranger, did you ever see a coyt ?" "No, I never did." "Do you know whatthey are like?" "Why, I've always understood that _ they were a sort of wild dog, and very vanity she had decked herself, and I cowardly." smiled at the dryad, who smiled back j "You wouldn't wiffKo match that at her from the limpid brook--one had ! dog of youra agaiiist a coyt, would merry and free as the feathered song sters themselves. One morning she had a listener. Two gentlemen had wandered down from the house on the hillside to the cool shade of the trees below. Seeing her there, leaf-.crowned, a very wood nymph--for in simple fW.i, '» * JTo a quiet cottage at the foot of one 6f the Hampshire hills came Mrs. Field, With her companion, Cecil Brand, for the summer. It was very lonely there: that was why Mrs. Field liked it. Mrs. Strvker, the landlady, with her grand­ daughter, Bessie, and one servant, were the only other inmates of the cottage; and there was but one other house in sight, beyond on the slope of the hill. IVIrs. Stryker had had summer boarders before, but none like these; •o grand, yet so gentle: rich she knew, from all signs, yet so simple in their tastes; real ladies, if ever there were any, she declared to Bessie, her only confidant. And Bessie, who felt the charm of the ladies' gentle voices and gracious words, eagerly assented. Mrs. Field was no longer young, but beautiful with a beauty that time had only ripened and perfected; though the lovely face had deep shadows upon it that sorrow's cruel hand had graven there, and her eyes had a far-away, wistful, yearning look, as if seeking the lost happiness that had once be^n hers. Her companion was a fair young girl, bright and winsome, and light of heart; . "whose pretty, caressing ways alone seemed to have power to soothe and help her friend. For Mrs. Field, though not ill, was worn almost to a shadow by some secret, brooding, gnaw- ; ing grief. Her story was a very sad one. She had been a great beauty, and from among a host of lovers had chosen and married, when in her thirtieth year, Charlton Penfield, a gentleman some . ten years her senior. It was a true "heart marriage," and no wife ever looked forward to a brighter life than did Mabel Penfield when her proud husband installed her as mistress of his beautiful home. For awhile they were happy--as perfectly happy as it is granted to mortals to be; till jealousy-- that dreadful jealousy which is crueller than the grave--crept into their para­ dise and destroyed it. It would be hard to tell how Charlton Penfield let this foe enter his heart and drive out lite great love for his wife which reigDed there. That she was true to him in •every thought and word did not matter; •he was so blinded by this cruel passion that he had no pity for her, aud one •day he cursed her as the destroyer of his honor and happiness, and drove her, « pure, sinless, loving woman, out into the bitter world. She was not penni­ less, for her own fortune remained to 2ier; and, too proud to let the world, ° which once had courted and caressed her, see how she suffered, she went abroad at once. five years passed--lonely, wretched years. She loved her husband truly> yet, in spite of all, and the memory-Of • . the past was alike a pleasure and a • pain. f . The world is not so wide but that . friends and foes meet in time, no matter how far sundered: and in a chance meet­ ing with some old-time acquaintances, Mrs. Penfield learned at last that her ' husband was seeking her. Then began her weary, restless wanderings: for r fears stirred her heart, and made her ^; ' dread that he should find her. . She was not alone now. In London ((he had become interested in a young :*• Orphan girl. Cecil Brand, who had done some eewing lor her; and finding her, by birth and education, far above the | position in which poverty had placed •> 'V Jier. adopted her as her niece. , She had never regretted that act. . Cecil had become as dear to her as a ' , daughter, and in all her wanderings p-i'-. had been her loving, devoted attend- lvV mt. *,«. Mrs. Penfield had dropped a portion |of her name, and, as Mrs. Field, deemed ' herself so secure from her husband, I | l • ' that she had dared to come back to her jp ^native land. She knew not why he sought her--knew not if now, after the lapse of these eight long, weary years,! jji&L! he did, indeed, still seek her; but the J 1 "fear and uncertainty remained. %•.. "Oh, I want rest!" she cried to Cecil. 'C < , T^^n Cecil had diligently studied the papers, and Reeiug Mrs. Stryker's modest little advertisement, answered ; iit. and, a\l arrangements speedily com- ^Pteted' had taken her Aunt Mabel to Brookside. $•' "There, auntie dear!" exclaimed Ce­ ll cil, triumphantly, the morning after their, arrival, as she settled Mrs. Field fy comfortably underneath one of the if.,'. great shady pine-trees; "could you find <'• r a prettier place for your summer rest? p .Just breathe this fragrant piney odor; W'f it is better than all your medicines. , Listen to the ripple of that silvery little ^ •" brook; it is so merry, it fairly seems to ' laugh at the sunbeams that come steal- gif ; ing down through the trees to admire Wj- . themselves in its clear surface. And see yonder tl^e swelling downs, with the fos; deep shadows chasing each other Over |§^ them; and here comes little Bessie, with 'i% , a foaming jug of fresh milk for you. |L4 Isn't it delicious ?" ik,, "Yes, dear, delicious," answered Mrs. ||p" Field, taking a deep draught of the delightful health-giving beverage, which ^•V'l' the kind landlady had sent out to her, and knowing well that Cecil's "de­ licious" was not meant for the milk. Dismissing the bright-eyed little country maiden with a gentle smile, Mrs. Field turned to Mabel, and said, sadly, "If only I could feel safe here, how happy I should be!" "Oh, Aunt Mabel!" cried Cecil. "Surely you need not iiave no fear now? Think how far you have traveled, hid­ ing, and almost losing your identity at ^aohsyw rdBting-flfKWj fchiff hastened back for his sketch-book, that the charming vision might be trans­ ferred to its leaves. Their footseps made no sound in the soft, leafy carpet, and Cecil, looking up, was startled to find herself not alone. On the trunk of a fallen tree sat a gentleman of perhaps fifty years of age, with a noble face,* crowned by iron-gray hair. There was something strange in the earnest, fixed look of his dark eye3 which puzzled Cecil. She rose from the bank where she had been sitting, and turned away. Then the gentleman spoke. "I hear you moving. Are you going away ? Do not fear me. I am blind." There was an indescribable pathos in his voice that moved Cecil deeply. She paused a moment, then went shyly up to him, and laid her hand on his arm with . a pitying touch, as a daughter might have done. "I came to hear you sing," he said. "My nephew brought me here, but he has gone back to the house. Child, who taught you that song you sang?" " What. 'Bonnie Charlie ?' " asked Cecil. "I do not know; but my Aunt Mabel loves it best of all songs, though it makes her weep." Mabel!" exclaimed the blind gentle- you?" , "I don't want to insult my dog, sir]" "Well, now, mebbv you don't w^nt to see your dog get licked into the grass in about three qunutes 1" "Bv a coyt?" "You bet P v • "For how much?" * "Say twenty dollars." ' K " Where's your animal ?" "Down behind the barn in a pen.* He was captured only two days ago." "I'll go $20 that my dog licks him in­ side of two minutes." "Done!" The hotel man owned a Newfound­ land about as big as a calf, and to dis­ guise him the boys had dashed I him with Hour until he was as white a3 a sheep. He was in a dog house back of the barn, and when all was ready we took lanterns and went out. There was a rail pen about twenty feet square in the rear of the barn, and it was agreed that the stranger should turn his dog into this. "You see," explained the chief con­ spirator, "a coyote must have room to maneuver. He may want to run and he may want to tight." "Oh, he'll want to run fast enough," replied the owner of the dog. <"> The dog in the house was looking out. He made no move until he saw the man. starting to his feet, arid stretching other canine. Then he shot out like a out his hand, as if he were groping for some one -- "Mabel! What is her name? Tell me, quick, for Heaven's sake!" "Field," said Cecil, startled by his ap­ parent excitement. "Field! Oh, not Penfield? Are yon sure? Oh, child, my wife loved that cannon ball, uttered one roar, and the little dog was flung five feet high. When he came down he took leg bail aud circled the pen, yelping in fear and dismay, and when he found a place where he eould squeeze through he wriggled out. It all occurred in less than a minute, and as the stranger song, and sang it to me in the days I realized what had happened, he gasped: ...1. v. 4.1. a i "fTrent S(>aU' Unt IVia nnvntn linn when we were happy together, and now --it is Sw strange! Mabel Field, so near! Oh, I must find my wife!" "Why do you wish to find her?* inquired Cecil tremblingly, a light breaking in upon her. "To ask her to forgive me for a cruel wrong I did her; to beg her in pity to- come back to me, to the home that is so desolate without her!" "Do you love her yet?" caked Cecil softly. And the look of rapture that came to his sightless face was answer sufficient. Then Cecil cried, "Wait here; I will be back!" And before he could question her further, she was gone. Mrs. Field sat by her window, won­ dering so sadly if happiness wonld ever be hers again, when Cecil came in to her. "Aunt Mabel," she said, "the woods are lovely. Come out to your resting- place under the pine-tree." And Mrs. Field went gladly, for merry Cecil would exorcise all sad thoughts, she knew. But now Cecil was unusually quiet arid thoughtful. At last she said, "Dear Aunt Mabel, won't you sing Great Scots', but the coyote has licked him!" "Square and fair," added the con­ spirator, "and I presume you are ready to give up the stakes." "Oh, certainly, certainly, but «" ""Out with it. This is a square deal." " Well, I see my mistake, I had got things mixed. It is the grizzly bear which is a skulker and a coward, while the coyote is a holy terror to anything. The m6ney iB yoars, gentlemen, but you can bet they doa't eateh me on this lav again. Why, your (turned coyote is big enough to eat up three dog» like mine!"--New York Snti. Quickly Americanized. Whatever may be said of the evils of immigration, it is a fact that many im­ migrants who came from foreign shores to this country to live-, pick up the1 ideas, language and methods of doing business in the United States with great rapidity. An example of this is fur­ nished by the itinerant venders of flow­ ers, bananas, dates, suspenders and other articles, who are especially nu­ merous around the Citv Hall Park and; the entrance to the bridge, says a New Bonnie Tharlie'"Tor }ork, PaPer- The>: aref ^bidden by­ law to occupy one place for amy length of time, and the approach* of a police­ man always means- a general moving eight vears ago," sighed Mrs. Field. ~ among the venders, most of whom are "Ah, sing it now for me," pleaded i Itaiaus and, Gr1eeka- wh(} ̂ not beeo Cecil | in jfchis country longi And Mrs. Field did sing. Hor voice faltered sadly, as the hitter memories "Oh, child, not thatt I have not sung it since I sung it to my husband Bow They Imrn to JLnujcti, Talk. Walk •nil lSemuiuber W hat I hey 8»>e. The Academy of Anthropology was jntertained yestardav afternoon at Cooper Union by a paper on "The Baby's Mind; Studies in Infant Psycho­ logy," prepared and read by Dr. Eliza­ beth Stow Brown, of New York, says the New York Times. Dr. Brown declared that the most poetio beauty of human life is to be found in infancy, and referned to painting, sculpture, music, and religion for evidence of the elaim. She said also mat the study at biology had paid its tribute to babyhood. The scientific papa had invaded the nursery and found there the greatest wonder evolution has to show. The lecture dis­ closed extensive observation and close study. This observation and study began with birth and covered every stage of babyhood from the first cry uttered to the full use of language. Dr. Brown's conclusion agreed with that of other scientists in that the lower ani­ mals disclose instinctive movements earlier than human beings. She then took up all the movements of babyhood aud analyzed them. She said that the inability of a baby to hold up its head was not due to the weakness of the neck, but to the lack of development of the will power. The act of standing Mas instinctive and initiative, while facial expression and gesture were due almost wholly to imitation. A baby's smile, she said, was the most misunderstood thing in infancy. A real smile must have an idea behind it, but the expression resembling a smile, which is so often seen on a very young baby's face, was without an idea and was due to the easy condition of the sjtomach or to some other physical satis­ faction. The smile with an idea does not appdar earlier than the fouth week. So, too, with the crying of a baby. The contortion of the features is due to physical causes. The baby sheds no tears, because the lachrymal glands are not developed for several weeks after birth. The chief pleasure of all chil­ dren is to change from one condition to another by their own efforts. This is the beginning of the development of the will power, and is often attested in what bas been called the "imperative intention of tears." This is not dis­ closed until after the second or third month, A baby tests everything1 by its mouth, its sense of taste being ths surest and most reliable guide it has. Touching on inhibikive volition in babyhood, the lecturer cited the case of a child of eleven: months who tfcok the greatest delight in throwing down-stairs every­ thing he errnld get his bauds on. His mother tried in vain to break him of the habit, until she finally whipped him. Tim resalt was satisfactory, and tlie offense was never kmown to be repeated. ' The attention of all young children is difficult to attract, and the » must attain considerable-age before they begin to notice. Then colors and sounds are most potential. Fear has been known to be manifested by % baby only three weeks old, and in all cases the sensa­ tion is produced' by sound more than by sight. Children of luxurious and carefully guarded* homes are almost wholly without fear, but the chaldron of poor and exposed parents always manifest it. • Jealoasly a*id sympathy t begin to manifest themselves in the second year. Curiosity also begins to- develop here, and proves to be a. self- feeder throughout childhood. A little later the ego begins to appear, and! the baby has the first consciousness of itself. The ego first appears as a muscular sense, and the infant gradually learne to distinguish itself from surrounding objects. It is first the hand that i& distinguished, and then the foot, and finally the whole body. Memory does not appear before the child is two years of age. All the reasoning of children is primitive and elementary,, aud develops* slowly. Darwin noticed1 an association of ideas in the mind of his child when it. was only five months of age. The lecturer related babies with the first view allowed that their actio conditions were sin anthropoid apes mingled with the strains of the song, but it gathered strength and sweetness as she sang. So absorbed was she in the thoughts the melody brought back, that f-he did not miss Cecil, who had quietly stolen away; and when she heard a soft footfall behind her she still sang on; and the plaintive refrain to the old Jacobite song-- "Better lo'ed ye canna be; Will ye no come back again?' had never sounded sweeter to the lis­ tener's ears. But it was not Cecil. A voice long unheard sounded in her ears, "Mabel, my wife, forgive me!" and turning, she saw--her husband. With a wild shriek she fell fainting at his feet; and Cecil, rushing to her aid, cried, "Oh, I have killed her!" Just then Mr. Pen field's nephew came When one of the* crowd) sees a bine- coated officer hurrying toward him with mischief in his eye, instead of warning his comrades in his native tongue to de­ camp, he calls out "Cheese Tum." This is as near as he can get to the expres­ sion of "Cheese it," which he has picked up from the-street Arabs. People who do business with newly arrived immigrants also notice how quick they begin to Americanize. This' tendency, in fact, causes no little incon-1- venience to the cashiers of savings banks, which have many immigrants among their depositors. Some of the larger institutions of this kind have many hundreds of depositors, ami it k neces­ sary to exercise the greatest care in seeing that the signatures oiy orders or checks for money are exactly the same as the one which- is kept on inference. A Hungarian, for instance, when he and she now has but little trouble, ttl few days ago a pasteboard apparatus was placed around her neck to keep off any undue strain from the broken joint. She now walks around apparently as well as ever, and can go out when she chooses to press for a dismissal.--PAi- ladelphia Press. They "Stuck Together." A Western Senator who was much interested in having a young woman ap­ pointed as typewriter in one of the de­ partments said, after he had used all arguments at his command in her favor: "Well, Mr. Secretary, I hope Mrs. S- will be appointed and if you and I stick together I think she will." "That expression makes me think," said the Secretary, "of an old friend of mine, a courtly lawyer, very clever he was, sharp and bright with akene sense of humor. He was at one time arguing a case before a jury of his fellow towns­ men, The lawyer on the other side and the judge were both from the city. The Judge was a fat, sleek, pompous sort of a man, possessing just the characteris­ tics most irritating to the provincial. The lawyer, a conceited, egotistical snob, had all the law points in his favor, and he imagined the case would be a 'walkover* for him and that the trial was only a matter of form. It was a case of a corporation against a private individ­ ual. The city lawyer represented the corporation, and my friend the individ­ ual, who was a neighbor of his. The lawyer for the plaintiff handled his case in a bullying sort of away, talking over the jurors'heads and tried to astonish them with his knowledge. My friend made all the foolislj points possible, knowing theyjvould be overruled, and did his utmost to irritate the Judge, an irascible old fellow at best. The city lawyer he put in the most ridiculous light possible, poked quiet fun at him. mimicked him slyly and had the jury laughing at the visitors most of the time. After he had finished his argu­ ment he said: " 'Now, gentlemen of the jury, this city lawyer and this city Judge have come down here to win this case. From the rulings and from the points made I guess they think that no one else knows anything about here, but gentlemen of the jury, if you and I stick together I think we can beat them yet,' "It is needless to say that notwith­ standing the Judge's charge in favor of th6 plaintiffs the jury stuck to their fel­ low townsman and fonnd for the defend­ ant."-- Washington Cor. New York Tribune. A Good Story by Damns the Elder. Dumas the elder often laughed at. English stiffness and reserve. One of his stories was this: "One day Victor Hugo and I were invited to dine with the Dukte of Du- cazes. Among the guests were Lord and Lady Palmerston--of course this hap­ pened before the February Revolution. At midnight, tea was handed round. Victor Hugo and I were sitting side by side, chatting merrily. Lord and Lady Palmerston had arrived very late, aud there had, consequently been BO oppor­ tunity to introduce us before- dinner. After dinner, it seems it was forgotten- English custom, consequently, did not allow ns to be addressed by the illus­ trious couple. All at once young De- eazes came up to us and said: " 'My dear Dumas, Lord P"almers- tom begs you will leave a chair free between you and Victor Hugo.' "I hastened to do as he wislieck We moved away from each othen, and placed a chair between us. Thereupon Lord Palmerston entered, holding, hand of lii» wife, led her up to. invited her to sit down o: chair--all this without " 'My lady/ ho si time- have yon "She loi Badly Mixed. In a certain Western newspaper offioe the gentleman whose business it is to record the fluctuations of the live stock market sits across from a young man to whose lot it falls to report wedding ceremonies. Both are graphic writers and enjoy that latitude of expression characteristic to Western journalism. Both use the same kind of paper, and their penmanship is not unlike. Not long ago the wedding reporter was sud­ denly called out of the offics and left in the middle of the table several sheets af paper on which was a description of a fashionable wedding. These sheets were gathered up by the live stock writer when he finished his report, and the two stories became mixed. This is what the zealous care of the proof­ reader saved from reaching the public eye: "The church was elaboratety decorated with holly and evergreen and the altar was a wealth of flowers. Out of the re­ cesses rose rare tropical plants, and from the ceiling hung 15 Western vea'a, which at this time of year are scarce and correspondingly 'dear at 6@8ic $ lt>. There was also an active demand for choice lambs, and farmers east of the Mississippi river can profitably turn to sheep raising and take the bride who wore a gown of white corded silk, a cre­ ation ot Worth's with pearl ornaments. "Then came the maid of honor, the cousin of the bride, Miss Henrietta Blower, of Chicago, wearing a dress of white tulle, with diamond ornaments, and she was followed by a small bunch of Montana sheep, which vbleated most piteously as they were driven on board and shipped to the winter hotels in Ber­ muda. They will there be cut en train and slightly decollete, and after the rest of the party had reached the rail the minister turned and usaid im­ pressively :, 1 cannot bid more than 6J cents for State veals, bnt cablegrams from London quote refrigerated beef at a price that will enable me to pay $4.90 for a car of choice Indiana-beeves, and hearing this there was a lush for the young married couple, and the bride leli into the arms of her father, who is known to bear a striking resemblance to--a Connecticut ox weighing 1,875 pounds. The mar­ ket here took an upward turn, and the guests, who numbered about 200, were served with a sumptuous dinner at the house of the bride." conditions. Indei occasion several noon to emph; action of mals. nces of a"ud ew of like found after- irity ot the* lower answ Wctor le great minister, at this day at thirty- past twelve your were ween Alexander Dumas and ngo--an honor which you will probably never enjoy again in your life­ time-.' "Then he offered his arm again to his wife, and took her back to her seat without saying a word to us, because we-had suot been presented." Properties of Charcoal. Although charcoal is very combusti­ ble, it is in some respects a very un­ changeable substance, resisting the ac­ tion of a great variety of other sub­ stances upon it. Hence posts are often charred before being put into the ground. Grain has beeu found in the excavation at Herculaneum which was charred at the destruction of that city 1,300 years ago, and yet the shape is perfectly preserved, so that you can distinguish between the different kinds of grain. While charcoal is itself so unchangeable, it preserves other sub­ stances from ohange. Hence, meat aud vegetables are packed in charcoal for kmg voyages, and the water is kept in ca»ks which are charred on the in­ side. Tainted meat can be made sweet by being covered with it. Foul and stagnant water can be deprived of its bad taste by being filtered through it. Charcoal is a great decolorizer. Ale and Porter filtered through it are prived of their eoj decolorize tin means of ch( liite sugar, /j ek„/is"the ough' only •coal, the other nine-teuths being e mineral portion of the bone. Charcoal will absorb, of some gases, from eighty to ninety times its own bulk. As every point of its surface is a point of attraction it is supposed to ac­ count for the enormous accumulation of gases in the spaces of charcoal. But this accounts for it only in part. There must be some peculiar power in char­ coal* to change, in some way, the con­ dition of a gaa which it absorbs ninety times its own bulk. back, and seeing Cecil's distress, has- i opens his aceount, will >-ign his name £ }0r , ' » iV'-f ' tene<l to her assistance. Together they laid the poor lady on the soft, mossy bank, and with water from the brook revived her. Starting up, she cried to Cecil, "Is my husband here, or is it some awful dream?" "He is, indeed, here," answered Cecil. "WiU you forgive me for letting you meet so abruptly ? I thought per­ haps when you saw him you would be glad. And, oh, Aunt Mabel, forgive him! Something so dreadful has hap­ pened that he needs all vour love and pity." "What is it?" gasped Mrs. Field. And Cecil sadly answered, "He is blind!" Then a great wave of tenderness surged over the wronged wife's heart, and rising, she said to Cecil, "Take me to my husband." "He is here," replied Cecil, for Mr. Penfield had followed the sound of his wife's voice, and now he knelt beside ner. "Oh, wife," he said, "forgive me! Let me feel your hand in mine, for I cannot see you; I am blind! God has punished me. I vowed never to look on your face again, and He has taken from me the power to do so." "Charlton,"' said his wife, tenderly, "I forgave you long ago, and--I love you!" Then she lifted his face to hers, and kissed first the sightless eyes; then, blushing as deeply as any maiden, she kissed his lips. "So, love," she said, "let the past be buried." She was very happy when, later, she went back to her luxurious home with her husband, his nephew, young Charles Penfield (who had been his most de- voted attendant since the low vi hi* Josef." In a short while he finds trouble in withdrawing any money, be­ cause he has changed' his name to "Jo­ seph." Heinrich. in the same way, be­ comes Henry; Pierre, Peter; Doro­ thea, Dora, and so on. The paying tel­ ler gets no rest until he has the signa­ ture which is kept on record Ameri­ canized. A 11 let t» Anglers. The angler should take care of his fish after he has caught them. It is discreditable to fetch back a lot of sun and wind dried trout, all curled up and stiff. Put a handful of grass or ferns at the bottom of the creel, and kill the fish as soon as caught by hitting them a sharp blow on.the back of the head. If the weather is hot clean the morn­ ing's catch at noon, and every few hours dip the creel in the stream. The best way to keen trout to take home is as follows: Clean them thoroughly, tak­ ing care to remove the gills and the blood under the back bone; wipe them dry, inside and out, but do not wash them; sprinkle them inside with black pepper, but on no account use salt. Pack in cool, fresh grass, and keep them in the shade. If ice is used it should be put in a tin can, or at least at the bottom of the creel, for it spoils the flavor of trout to have them soaking in water.--Forest and Stream. THE danger of "trusting" is being illustrated every day. The man who gets away with the biggest pile of monev, is always a "trusted" clerk, or a "trusted" teller or a "trusted" .book­ keeper. To be on the safe side, a cash­ ier or clerk who can't be "trusted" should he emptagred- iken Neck. will soon* be from the- Pennsyl- she may consider cky, as she came into the >ne cold day last September neok broken. The cervical the bony covering: of the rd, was fractured and dislo­ cated, bnt by some lucky freak the spinal cord itself, that organ on which life depends, was practically uninjured. Last summer with her husband and their fourteen-year-old son, she was living in Blue Anchor, N. J. There- was a cfierry tree on the ground^ and one day she was up in the tree picking fruit. A particularly fine bunch hung just above her head.* She reached out to pull them, missed her footing, and fell to the ground. She wa» stunned for a few moments, but "boon regained consciousness, and getting up» went off" about her household duties,, apparently none the worse for her fall beyond a slight stillness in the neck. When fall came, with her family she moved to Philadelphia, taking a house near For­ ty-second street aud Haverford roads. Her neck gave her no pain and she was apparently as well as ever. One day, late in the fall, she was cleaning some windows. To get at the- topmost panes she climbed upon a high step-ladder, stretched out her hand to rub a, soeck of dirt off the glass, and, as on The- Doctor and the Beauty. A fashionable'doctor having a- house o»,Fifth Avenue, New York, prides himself, says a Boston Herald corre­ spondent, upon the favor with which he- is regarded by women. In this h^.ija..deeidedlv. J. W. Crist Net te Be Outdoue. Hospitality is the crowning virfoe of the Turk. He would scorn to be thought behindhand in this respect when compared with any other race of men. Mr.. Bark ley tells a story in his "Bulgaria Before the War" which proves that the Tturk will not allow himself to jbe outdoue even by any of hi» oonn- re~ Itrvimen. 3l friend- ol mine was one day shoot- | in the vineyards at Pnstchuk, when ;was stopped by an old Turk and told *t trespassers were not allowed, and ,t h<* must clear oil at once. ly friend turned to comply, but be- i looiving said in Turkish, "What iner of man are you ? I have shot these vineyards for years without a d being said to me, and to-day I e passed over many miles and kon to many owners of vineyards, you. are the only one who has ad the slightest objection. The •yafd is yours, aud you have the .t to object to my being here, so I I leave your ground, but I never re- bd such treatment from an Osmanli K1! as*, vnd sTORY & McK bor mid out me, th he toldiv *«, anaTdeeided to give him an the tree, missed her Sootiug ana tell, opportunity to .form my acquaintance^ When they picked her up they found f _L_ e Turk, who, up to this time, had squatting on the ground, jumped nd, with a marvellous display of began protesting. good fellow," he eried, "you not say so! Others have shown lospitality, and I will not be be- them. Go where you like, eat DEALERS you like, carry away all you like, all the vineyard is yours to do as ike with." Englishman thanked him, and it in the two squatting down and ag a feast of grapes together. i us 'ENER.AJ.HAI that she was hurt. Just what was the matter no one knew. Her head wab­ bled around and fell on her breast as though it was fastened on to the spinal cord with a ball and socket joint. She Mongrel Bogs the Most Knowing. The most prominent experts in dogs in America are firm in the belief that thoroughbred dogs are less intelligent than mongrels. Nearly all the dogs was put in bed and stayed there for six exhibited on the stapje are cross-breeds weeks. Her husband wanted to send for a doctor, but she persisted in saying that she could get well without medical aid. When sitting up with her head hanging down she could eat nothing, and was only able to take food when lying down. After six weeks her hus­ band persuaded her to go to a hospital and dogs of low lineage, if they can boast known parentage at all. Dogs that turn somersaults, walk on their fore legs, jump through hoops, waltz, sing and perform other standard tricky are never crossed with a strain of thoroughbred blood. So, too, the dogs which are most thoroughly admired They tried the Presbyterian, but that ' anil caied for in private life are apt to was full; so one day she was bundled 1 \>© lowly born. Aristocratic dogs, like up, her head bandaged in position, and I the aristocrats of the human species, they came down to the Pennsylvania, are often distinguished by a plentiful There she was examined by the pliysi-1 lack of brain. cians in charge, and it was decided that i T , -- cervical vertebra was dislocated) .It dePf"f *P°n... ftnv y 1 giver whether a gift possesses any virtue. If a man gives with a view to the cervipal vertebra was dislocated' " --the intent of the and fractured, but the spinal cord was appaiently intact. ! receiving, and decides what to give and in one of the wards, and has remained. , ^ .. • „ She had a head-rest I ^ what h® receive' lt wa br,fltl? there ever since. in her bed, but she says that when she sat up she could only keep her head erect by holding her hand up to her gift. SPECULATORS in eggs and poets trav­ eling in a foreign country try to get the lay of the land. In Santo Fe. First Society Belle--Well, I see Cali­ fornia Jim is vet paying you very marked attention. Now, Pearl, in ail confidence, has he got to the point yet? Second Society Belle--No, he is still » little offish, but I reckon I can fetch him around. Say, Kate, lend me your *ix-shooter, and the next time he calls I'll get the drop on him, and make him sv«iue to time, you bet -- Yankee Wad*. "LOOK here, Mary, didn't that voung man kiss you while you were standing in the hall just before he left?" asked the old lady, looking over opectacles at tlio blushing vision of sweetness she a ad been more or less responsible for during the past eighteen years. "I cannot tell i lie, mamma. But it was only once." 'Only once? Lord, how different the foung men are nowadays to what they were when I was a girL" A.QTTEEB thing about a wheel is that ao matter how small it is, there is al­ ways room enough to go ronnd, and it s no sooner retired than it begins its vork again. i\ WHERE COURTESY WAS LACKISO.' A- Man Plcki Up a Fallen PseWace, bat the Owner Bofniwt to Take It. There have been a good many letter* written to the newspapers recently, and consequently no little discussion, about the "decline of courtesy"--wo­ men's neglect to show gratitude for men's little civilties and men's unwill­ ingness to sacrifice themselves for wo­ men who are strangers to them. A favorite example has been that of yield­ ing seats in horse-cars and elevated trains. Perhaps some One had jurt been reading one of these letters. At any rate, the conversation turned toward this subject and each man began to give his views on the subject. "I don't know how other people feel about it," said the senior of the group, a man about fifty years old, of dignified appearance and conrtly demeanor, "but I find that when I am tempted to keep my seat and to see a woman stand I am ashamed of myself. Something makes me feel cheap, so that I haven't the courage to look her er anyone else in the eyes. For my own peace of mind, therefore, I prefer to give up my seat and stand, however tired I am. I must say that I have seldom met women who failed to recognize this little compli­ ment to their sex by some sign of ap­ preciation, a pleasant nod, u graceful smile or a quiet and conventional 'thank you.' Perhaps this is because I am get­ ting old, but that is neither here nor there. "I can say, though, with perfect troth that I have had one experience where >- well-intended act of courtesy not only did not elicit any word of thanks, but on the contrary, caused the woman evi­ dent annoyance. And I could hardly blame her, although I was terribly em­ barrassed by her curt manner. "I was in Boston at the time (dont smile you self-satisfied New-Yorkers,) and went to the Boston Museum to get seats for one of Booth's performances. There was a long "line before the box office when I took my place at the end. The one in line before me was. a woman, handsomely but quietly dressed. The people moved so slowly and the wait was so wearisome that we kept no di­ rect line, but were turned, some one way, some another. In this way I could not fail to notice the woman's wonderful complexion. It was dazzling in its delicate tints ef rose and white and one could almost see the roses in her cheek fade and blush by turns. I am afraid that I found her complexion so perfect that I was impolite enough to v. stare at her a moment when I thought she was not looking my way, for she turned her head and after that I could only see the pink and white of two deli­ cately fashioned ears. " When she reached the box office and selected her seats and was opening her pocketbook to pay for them a small package slipped from her hands. I saw it and grabbed at it to catch it before it struck the marble of the floor. Of course I missed it and as it fell I heard a slight crash of glass. Picking it up hurriedly, I offered it to her, but she crisply declined to touch it, saying: 'Please let it lie on the floor.' "I stood there rather sheepishly, holding it, when I felt a cold, cream­ like mixture steal between my fingers. Looking at the package, I saw, to my horror, that the wrapper bad been torn enough to show on a bottle's side just two words. 'Face Enamel.' The woman had started feu- tlie stairs with a crim- cheoks that no enamel, even the jnost highly opped the bottle with a : like a coward, not wait- t ing for my tickets. As I made my es­ cape, I heard several snickers. They were all women's."--New York Tri­ bune. The Seven Bibles. The seven bibles of the world are the Koran of the Mohammedans, t^ie Tri Pitikes, of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta and the Scripture of the Christians. The Koran is the most recent of the five, dating from about the Seventh century after Christ.. It is a compound of quotations from both the Old and New Testaments and from the Talmud. The Tri Pitikes contaiu sublime morals and pure aspirations. Their author lived and died in the Sixth century be­ fore Christ. The sacred writings, of the Chinese are called the Five Kiners, the word "Kings" meaning web or cloth. From this it is presumed that they were originally written on five rolls of cloth. They contain wise sayings from the sages on the diubies of life, but they cannot be traced further back than the Eleventh century before our era. The Vedas are the most ancient books in the language of the Hindoos, bnt they do not, according to late comment­ ators, antedate the Twelfth century be­ fore the Christian era. The Zendavesta of the Persians, next to our Bible, is. reekoned among schol­ ars as being the greatest and most learned of the sacred writings. Zoro­ aster, whose sayings it contains, lived and worked in the Twelfth century be­ fore Christ;; Moses lived and wrote the Pentateuch 1,500 years before the birth of Christ; therefore that portion of our Bible is a least 300 years older than the most ancient of otliei* sacred writings. The Eddas, a Semi-sacred work of the Scandinavians, was first given to th6 world in the Fourteenth century.-- Philadelphia Dispatch. Lincoln an Inventor. Abraham Lincoln was a patentee. A patent was issued to Abraham Lincoln in 1846. It was issued for a device to enable a river boat to relieve itself from a sandbar whenever it should run aground on one. The model was cer­ tainly an ingenius contrivance. "Abe" had evidently made his own model and • prepared his own papers. The device was a large bellows-like apparatus made of leather and iron, which would be at­ tached to the bottom of the guards on ! either side of the river boat. When I not in use it was folded and formed part I of the guard. The idea was that when I a boat was grounded the pilot, by press- ' ing a button, could open air chambers, ' which in turn would inflate with air the arrangement attached under the guards to an extent sufficient to raise the boat and allow it to be driven to deeper water. In his youth "Abe" was on the rivers in Illinois to a considerable ex­ tent, and was familiar with all the in­ conveniences of river travel, and his in­ vention was the result of spending con­ siderable time on a grounded boat on a sandbar. . SOMEBODY really must murder most of the reporters and half the editors of this town, for remarking every five min­ utes: "The reason is beca'ise.*-^ Judge. • THE butterfly is a greedy creature; no p sooner does it come from grub than it . , - gowlor^mb.