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Show Youre not engaged to him, yon are engaged to me, and you shall hava that letter back by night. "How can 1?" "Well, It's easy enough. Ill take the night train back to New York. I always sort the mall and Ill commit a criminal offense, for you, Joan, dear. He ended with a little laugh, and rose from the seat. As Joan, too, stood up, he drew her swiftly Into his arms and kissed her as heartily as if no Mr, Lloyd were Inexistence. The morning train' carried a polite but very decided negative to the Important question. Nevertheless, Joan was ill at ease all day until at dinner time a special delivery letter lay at her plate. It was addressed In Robert's scrawl and contained her own letter of the night before, and a little note from him. Only a few words, but they brought a happy flush to Joans cheek. LET ME WALK WITH THEE . O Master, let me walk with Thee In lowly tui l ha of service free; Tell me Thy secret, help me hear The strain of toil, the fret of care. lfelp mo the Blow of heart to move, lty Home dear, winning word of love; Tench me the wayward feet to day, And guide them In the homewurU way. Teach me Thy patience; mill with Thee In closer, dearer company, To work that keeps faith sweet and strunir, In truat that triumphs over wrong. In hope that sends a shining ray Far down the future's broadening way, In pe.u-that only Thou canst give, With Thee, O Master, let ate live. WHEAT AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR lly LA ETA M. IIAUACK. Copyrighted, toon, by Tht Author! Publithing Company V: x . early girlhood there had been no time for such things In her ambitious life. She had grown to consider herself unattractive, for she was a very modest woman In spite of her success. Her school days had been at best Her teaching had haphazard ones. been a miserable failure. Therefore, tho fact that Mr. Lloyd wished her to be his wife seemed a great honor. Joan laughed her soft, little laugh as she noticed that he bad signed himself John G. Lloy'l & Co. Restlessly she walked back to the window and leaned her head against the cool glass. After all. It Isnt the house, or the servants or even the children, dear little souls, hut do I, can I honestly love him? I could If " She shivered a little as Robert Dentons face seemed to sinlle at her out of the darkness. Robert, with his tall, figure; bis hearty, ringing voice and merry laugh, seemed like a figure of Incarnate youth be- good-humore- square-shouldere- - pen. Then sh lighted the gas and laid the letter which had been troubling her all day on her desk. She walked across to the window and leaned ber head against the sash. The warm May night was heavy with the scent of hyacinths and magnolias growing In the square. ; Hateful things! No more southern blooms for me!" she muttered. "One dusty New York park fa worth All this luxuriance." As she stood there, she thought It iall over her life. When still a mere ;chlld she had taught In the western country schools. She had worked her fway, finally, Into the public schools of a large city, only to find the drudgery ja shade worse than in the rural districts. How she had hated it all, but It had been the only possible thing. Then with the death of those dependent ou her exertions she had come to New York to carve a career for herself. It had been hard work, and slow. But now, after three years, she had gained a certain foothold, and held a position with a prominent publishing house. She had been sent down here to wrlto a aeries of articles on the In progress. Her great exhibition material was all collected, amt she was ready to return to New York, filled with pleasant memories of her southern visit. Now this to spoil it all! Why must ho write now. Just when she was so happy over the Idea of re- - Iti facts things even some amusingin the Enabout the Chinese language From "Books cyclopedia Britannica. and Reading." in St. Nicholas. The Happy Life. How happy Is h born and taught That served) not mini liar's will: Whose armor is his honest thought. And Simula trull) his utmost skill. Whose paxsIonB not his master are. Whoso soul Is still prepared for daatn, Untied unto tho worldly care Of public fame, or private breatn. Who orivlex none that chance doth raise. Or vice; who never understood Ilow deepest wounds u re siven by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of goou. . FIELDS OF CANADA. Who hath his life from rumors freed;. Whose eonscleiue lx Ills strung Whose state can neither flatterers feed. Nor ruin make opprcssui'8 great; Manitoba Can Produce Twice at Much Wheat as Russia. God doth late and early pray, Manitoba Is the prov- Who More of his gi.iee than gifts to lend. ince of wheat. Westward of Winni- And entertains the harmless day With a religious hook or friend. peg, when the fields are yellow and almost ripe, you may ride for a day This tnan Is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall'. and a half with nothing between your Lord of himself, though not of lands. And having nothing, yet hath all. eye and the Bky line but wheat a Sir Henry VVulton ( boundless sea of wheat, rippling to tne prairie wind like waves to the A Good Watch Trick. run of Invisible feet, says the Chautau-quan- . Will some one be kind enough to The tall, red towers of the let me have a watch? Thank you! elevators rise where settlements have clustered Into a village, but across the fenceless reaches Is nothing but the yellow wheat. The province Is only In Its Infancy. Only one tenth of the wheat lands are occupied; yet that tenth yields more wheat than Great as much as the two Britain, one-fiftUussias, twice as much as Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Belgium together, a third more than Austria, a fifth more tnan Ron mania. When all Manitobas wheat lands are occupied this province alone will be producing twice as much as Germany. At each little prairie station hosts of settlors go out from the colonist ears of the train and look with wondering eyes on the vast fenceless I take this sheet of paper (a page of fields that seem to begin where the make a cornucopia, and a newspaper) sun rises and end where the sun sets. I the watch. But how It Is a new world a world of promise in which place watch has disappeared. is this? The to them, from the stifled countries I unroll the sheet of paper, and nothot Europe, a world where land hunger of the timepiece. ForIs no crime, and land to be had for ing can be seen a sprig of the AusI possess tho taking, and success awaiting ripe tunately which I Insert in watch tralian tree, to the hand of toll. How the eyes that !c a chance to to a flower give pot; have dug themselves out In an eastern I will cover it up with a simple root. sweat-shomoisten at sight of the So. Before boundless prairie. And the back bent cover made of paper. will be found clin;-Hiwith toll for a pittance that meant long your watch to the root of this little sprig. slavery draws up to the straight stat- There! I return the watch with many ure of manhood. found quite InThere Is so much room! There Is so thanks. It will be tact. much free air! There is such plain, This above splendid trick can be palpable, boundless opportunity for done with ve-- little preparation. The every man! newspaper used for the cornucopia Is not a plain sheet of paper, but a sort BY WORKS, NOT FAITH. ot bag, made by pasting half a sheet of newspaper to the sheet. leaving The Saving Graces of a Deceased Genthe iop open. When the cornucop'a tleman from Kentucky. is being made, begin at the corner of Samuel W. Moore, a prominent lawthe top of the bag, and the double of to on Kansas yer City, returning will give you a division his home from Arkansas a few days sheet of paper (see W In Fig I) which can be ago, told a good story concerning a to one side or the other. The distinguished attorney In western Ar- ' pressed former slps the watch Into tho kansas, Judge James E. Read, who pet has disapwas born and lived In Kentujky be- ' pocket, R, and the watch sheet of paper is unwhen the peared fore moving to this state. It runs this folded. But how can we get the way: watch to cling to the flower? "A man living near Fort Smith Fill a flower pot loosely with dry died. This man was comfortably well off in worldly possessions, but he had earth, not quite to the rim, and make a hole in the center. Any sprig Is been neglectful of his spiritual welfare. He had never joined any church fitted with a hook made of wire (see and had little to do with religious ad- - Fig. II), and stuck into the ground vlsers. The time for his funeral ar- - close to the center hole. Taking up with the rived, and although a preacher bad the sheet of uewspaper, In the watch the performer pocket, agreed to be ou hand, an unavoidable accident had delayed him. The house turns it in such a way that the openwas out of town, and as the friends ing of the bag is toward the flower pot. the watch slides into the hole of the departed brother were all asarrow sembled. Judge Read was asked to In the center. Indicated by the make a few remarks over the body of In Fig. III. The performer folds the as shown In Fig. IV. his friend, who also had once lived In sheet of paper A and B together. sticks and (See Kentucky. The judge consented. cover is laid aside and This V.) Fig. "My friends. be said, "we are gathIs planted In the ered here to pay a final tribute tho watch tree sprig to our friend who has already solved flower pot; at the same time the ring Is hooked to the little the mysteries of the great hereafter. of the watch Is covered with He did not have the reputation of a sprig. Then the plant which Is removed the cover, paper religious ntan. and yet he lived the Immediately; the sprig Is pulled out life of a noble Kentucky gentleman. of the ground with the watch hanging He had good bosses and he ran em. to it. Seattle He had good whisky and he drank It He had good game cocks and he fit Sign Language. em, for such is the kingdom of heavA young girl who keeps a small en. Arkansas Gazette. pocket dairy has Invented a clever device for saving space. She uses a set Chickens Come Home. At of simple symbols for entries that You may take the world aa It comes and would be likely to occur over and goes. over. Thus for the entry. "I took my And you will be sure to find Tliut Kute wilt square the accounts shs music lesson," she puts In simply a owes. Whoever comes out behind; drawing of a little harp, and for the And all things but that ,i man has done, she , words, "I wrote a letter to lly whatsoever Induced, lt turn at last to lii.n, one by one, draws a tiny envelope In outline, and As the chickens come home to roost. fo on. Then on the Inside cover of Sow u!i you will. thiieM a time to reap. the diary sho writes a list of theso For the good and tho bad us wll. with their explanations. This symbols, And cotisi ii'tuo, whether we wuk or Is an adapting of a scheme used by a Sleep, lx a In avert or hell. German scholar to save space in a Ami every wring will tlr.d It place, For the word Atol (very pax-io- n little encyclopedia. loosed Dtlftx back ami meets you far to face a for "died" a he used 'horn" star; Like chli kens that come homo to roust. for "astronomy" he printed a dagger; Whether you're over or under the sod little comet; for "law" a pair of 'I lie lesuit will be the (tamo, Ymt esnnot ex, ape Hie hit mi of God, scales; for "writer" a pen. You can You mnxi boor your m mu! ahum. readily see that by these little deNo matter vvliutx carved ou a tmirbls vices a great ninny lines of print were slb. When tb Item's ar all produced saved; but without a suggestion you You'll tin, I that St. 1elcr was keeping "tab," nay not notice thnt this "improveAnd that chicken cam homo to roost ment is really going back to the days tlowat Ptesii, Luporle City when the alphabet was not yet InYet hieroglyphics, or Ideovented! Be a Not Lots. at Would ns these pictures are called, graphs, bea recent conversation During some very valuable qualities. tween District Attorney Jerome and have several members of the New York ear They are brief, simple, plain, and being equally reference was had to tho sharp prac- never need translation all nations, Just as the tices of a certain notoriously shifty understood by Arable figures are the same In Engpolitician of the city. lish, French, German. Italian and Is never at a he loss, "Certainly Thin consideration raid Mr. Jerome. "Do you know, I other languages. to suggest that an ted author recently really believe thnt if thnt man were Is written In tbe-- a cast on a barren rock In mid ocean he Chinese (which should be adopted nx a would make money if there were Ideograph) ilnlver-n- l lntuinnre. Now rock. on man the York another You will find mute very Interesting Tribune. g She felt happy. sldo Mr. Lloyd's terribly settled mid-dleag- e. Yet Robert had never said anything to show her that ho cared for her. He worked at the desk near hers and had many a time given her a helping hand In hard seasons. He spent one evening every week with her. Occasionally he took her to a concert or an opera. Why did this come, Just when 1 was so happy 1 It makes me feel queer 1 aud discontented," she sighed. dont care for Air. Lloyd. I don't care for Robert Denton. And yet It would be so nice to have a home and I am growing Just terribly old." There was a little sob In her throat. She turned to study her face severely, critically In the glass. 1 must decide. I must," she said to In rsclf. There Is no use In putting oh the evil hour. She sut down at her desk and wrote a little note to Mr. Lloyd. Even when she began it she wax not sure Just what its meaning would bo. But the words shaped themselves into an acceptance of his oiler, almost before she realized it. "Now I must mail It or I shall be chnnglng my mind every hour, she said, feverishly. Sho slipped down to the door and out to the nearest letter box. As she remounted the steps a man's dark ligure beside tho door startled her. Then came tho start of recognition. 'Mr. Denton, she exclaimed. "Joan," he said, and the word told her everything. "My book has been accepted, and they've given me an order for another. I couldn't wait for your return. I hut come over to the square, where wo can talk." Jomu went mutely. They sat down (n one of the benches In tho deserted park. She felt very happy, twnult-ou-lso, Then nil at once she drew heck from the shelter of the arm be had placed around her. "Oh, that letter, that dreadful letter," she cried. "What lciti r? What do yon mean?" "Oil. Robert, why must It he so? Why dldn t you speuk hetore?" "lieeauso I hadn't a solitary thing to offer you. dear Tho moment I had. I came to you." "Oh. why had I so little faith?" u (inrued Juan. And sho told him tho story of her indecision and answer to Mr. Lloyd's note. "If 1 had only waited five minutes to mad that letter! Oh, dear, what have i done! What shall 1 do?" "Never mind, dear heart," Robert aid. cnrcxxlnjy. '(ill. you must not," said Joan. "Don't you sec I'm ns good as engag-e- l to another man?" y Laid the letter on her desk. turning to New Vuik Unit she could rot decide whether her independent life was a happy one or not. It was from tho editor, the great editor him-seland It was neither a cheek nor a reprimand, tho two things to lie expected from him. It was a love letter. Sho thought of the big homo, the servants and the carriages, she adored luxury, and had never had nny of it. She thought also of the llgulrted man, not old, but very and wise. Wax It pxdlde he cared for herT No one bad ever been la love with her before. During the strenuous days of her l, gray-hatre- o tapering one, and have a glazier cr- 1 oft the bottom for you. That Is first step In preparing for the feat You will need two corks, one to tho mouth of the bottle, and the ott a flat cork that will float evenlv Game for Little Folks. The company Is divided In two parbe ofties, and as many prizes may fered as desired. One party stays in the room, or any and the other given place on the lawn, sound. Then and of out sight is party 1 decides upon one or sevNo. party eral places to which the others are to hop, and decides also In how many are to he hops the desired places reached. These decisions are set down on paper to prevent future misunder2 standing. Then party No. is called. Those on this side may look about, choose points and hop toward them in as many or as few hops as they think It adds to the fun ntay be desired. to have the nearer places take more The hops than places at a distance. prizes go to tuose who go to the right places with the nearest correct number of hops. After party No. 2 has a trial party No. 1 has Its turn. Points noticeable to all should be chosen and no impossible number of hops required. A i '' the water. Now get a pall of water say v, to full put the flat cork on tho auVfar and on it place a short piece of CaJ' or a snail taper, lighted. Having ! the other cork in the bottle tightly that no air can get In at the mou!" place tho bottle over the candle am press it down until the level of tb water In the bottle is below that the water In the pall. The floating cork, bearing the ca, die. Is thus carried apparently k neath the water, but the candle cor tinues to burn because the air In tt bottle keeps It alive. After letting remain thus submerged for a momet raise the bottle gently and the lig yi r .i let 4tl ees ire Jo1 A r f 9. j r Queer Fly. t, New Zealand boasts of a fly that feeds on spiders. This fly is black and wasp-like- , and, like the wasp, lives In a nest of clay built In a crevice, preferably In the :n3 TO ar; upper folds of heavy window curtains. This is one of the great annoyances of the tidy housekeeper In New Zealand. Try as she will. It is almost Impossible for her to keep these flies from setting up homes at the tops of her curtains. These nests of clay are made up of a series of separate cells, usually from five to eight In number. When the nest is built the fly goes after spiders. It has no trouble in conquering the spinners of silky webs. They succumb more easily than do the American flies which are so unfortunate as to get tangled In a spider's weaving. The fly carries the spiders to its home and imprisons each one in a cell. Here tho fly lays a single egg, and when the grub hatches out It eats the spider that has been provided for It. When Its food Is all gone the mother fly goes out and catches another spider, and she keeps this up until the young fly Is old enough to catch spiders for Itself. i i The Flame Under Water, will come up still burning. If you e it stay too long, the light will g0 or for It will soon consume all the v In the bottle. The use of a cut off bottla It rind ab h et ! hi trl because that will conttja t enough air to support the flame of th candle for some little time. The ex v y periment ntay be made on a rtl with a glass tumbler, but In the Ut case the light should be quite sma! e ( for the larger the light the more rap:, Tie .y will it consume the oxygen in tl ire 1 smalle-scal- :.ir. rtf Vi Bachelor's Kitchen, d) This game can be play- J by i nt number of persons, who sit In arc dr all except one, who goes from play e; to player, asking each what be e ITS., bachelor's to kitchen the give n ail have a:.si.crcd the lead re each all sor of questions. The or. FI questioned must give as his 't name of the article he agreed to other u contribute. If he gives any r swer, or laughs, he must pay a forfeit At is succeeded When tho questioner has ib making any one laugh, or Is satislk t that he cannot do so, he goes oo ti iv tne next. - ansiu-th- Needle Book. Take a piece of cardboard and cut four small hearts about two and a half e ? tb Conundrums. t What letter gives courage to lb' k aged? B makes the old hold. What will make merchandise o' ll those who are no longer young! Tb Tb old are sold by s. a What will make aged persona mb UF dew? M makes the old mold. n What will cause old people to don Tl ble up? F makes the old fold. at By what letter are the aged to ft formed? The old are told by t What keeps aged persons from to' hi or VI tlrtg go? 11, because it makes the hold. m C 't Why Is a man carrying a basket loaves on his head sure to ba it ili Because he is unl' rt mannered? i bread (underbred). ! What Is the name of the boy b k can bo set at liberty by a totter n bred will be freed by e. h What letter will make a boy t A will make Ernest earnest What Is the difference betww n! fault we have barely succeeded who t an and Immigrant conquering an landing? One Is Just overcomeYouth u v the other Is Just come over. a Companion. 1 ' I 0 :t j to-da- 7 IrX J Juj p old-tim- L-- ? ). Joaa climbed wearily up the stairs to her third story room. She seldom the whole world felt tlretl, but looked criss-crosShe was a stranger In the city and among people who gave her no thought. She had been that many a time In many a place, yet never before In her tweuty-slyears had the thought so oppressed her. Sho had bailed with delight the chance of work hero for a few weeks, as giving ber the opportunity of seeing the place the had long desired to visit. Hut the weeks had grown very long. In spite of her pride and beauty of health and vigor, she was essentially a womanly woman, dependent upon her friends and surroundings for her happiness. Caring for herself had not robbed her of a certain femininity. In general sho was somewhat feared at the New York ofllco, feared because of her ability to do admired for ber Yet even bright, successful ways. there she had her true friends. She slghcr, wishing herself back In her accustomed room In the great apartment house where sho lived. It was Thursday, her night at home. It would bo just time for her evening callers and she would be dressed in one of her few, dainty, evening gowns. 1robably Mrs. Massey, dear, old Mrs. Massey, whose presence was necessary to the well being of the simple refreshments, would bo there; and schoolGerald IJurton, her mate, who still kept a brotherly eye on her; and a few clever men and women like herself, trying to earn a living by that uncertain weapon, the ' xr t Inches long and two Inches wide. Then cover one side of each with silk and Join two of the parts together so as to make one. Then cut four hearts the same size out of white felt. Then Join all together with baby ribbon. Light Burning Beneath Water. If you should say to a party of friends that you can make a candle burn under water, they would be likely to scoff at the Idea of such a thing. But If you will follow the directions here given, you can do It, and without the least trouble or fear of failure. Got a straight quart bottle, not a 1 0 lu-- r An Important article of furniture for the doll h house is the eouoh, and 1 wirf now show you the way to mako it. The patterns below you stick on esrilhoard, rut out and bend at the dotted lines. If y Wttnt ,t t0 b larger you mut draw Patterns Just like these, only hmrer. With every' thif.i; in the ante proportion First bend naeu the oblong part of he eouelt upon vtblt-Hie doll Sits or l'ex, letting the two front legs nnd Hie front Of Ihe head remain upripht. Then turn up th- - hack f t h cotirU Ui ini i. own the two hark legs. K The slip at the font Is also down, tho little piece at tha fron ing turned Inward and stuck to tnll In front. . x. The only other thing t u bend pattern II. round yottr finger ns to give It a graceful curve, tho right hand end under the or"1' near where tho pillow goes, and W n"'T Unity lora each side. and hack downward, to the ! head. The Util back, Lidlnm of each hg nre tent th to that they may be s'ufk T i i ! |