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Show hero UNCONSCIOUS Eleanor Lands-ber- g said, as she crushed the cluster of fresh American Beauty roses she held in her clasped hands with painful intensity, as if they were some-t- o what blame, I cannot marry you, O, f't ' r -- you are not hero. . I exist out of novels, Holmes! with that Morris that good breeding gives I possessor; I cannot fight for my as the mediaeval knights did, the wars, in these degenerate ao not ,,JIer I i.t m !eC t e v. 12 per-f.fflecti- on Eorfly10 i2en he a soldier if peace; there arediswars... be waged (that need Be anything but a dplined soldera silken skirts of society. fcffdler on the that because you have in yon believe v, it c: daily r, i us ifi f t.. 5. tpd sweat Jf their brows, idle in the lap of lux-,- ,I to lie are t vou Morris Holmes! When I ',1 Shame, j wfti choose my; husband from Long the ranks of the people; my Hero JJst do great deeds ndt dream them, tlr, a f tarrh BY. 6d 5 mter, -- 113. err.al. 1 long socialist dear jly familiarity of lonk Listen to reason a anl said Morris with acquaintance, if moment you will Le that with money you can remedy a many evils; without it you are . O. e5 tactically a jaIasi e it to res Iai. great many people do, sir said the conductor. Theres old Judge Skinner and his wife; they are both going- to sit up But my man telegraphed for a section. They were all taken then, sir. Morris Holmes had donned the plain dress of,, the ordinary business man and ware a hideous gray ulster that concealed his elegant personality, and was on his way to the mining district, where a mine was located of which he was part owner; not a gold mine, but one that brought in gold a bituminous coal mine, known as the Little Summit. Morris had taken little or no notice of this branch of his wealth, the management and details being left to his agent, but when he left Eleanor Lands-ber- g on the occasion of her second and final refusal of his offer of marriage, he suddenly determined to take' a trip to the mining country and try his hand at heroism, in the way of improving the condition of the men who worked in Underground chambers, a work to him, the embodiment of hardship and privato-nig- ht. tion I Would not make a good soldier, and I certainly am not a hero, he said to himself, and then he thought of Eleanor, and fancied her soothing the troublesome, crying child In the further end of the car, and gaining the confidence of the g parents, were poor and tired. (who At the next stopping place he went out to catch a breath of fresh air, and bought a bag of cakes for the an act of generosity that the tiredbaby, mother appreciated with a smile. He talked with the father and learned their story. Two children left behind with relatives because they mean-lookin- ill day St ni a that other men earned a fortune ffvou hy the f iCA A helpless. How many evils have you remedied, ' Morris? Answer me that. But, Eleanor, Few, as yet, I admit! , oacLla: well give him a warmer welcome hounds that they all are! The miners, dirty, black! and complaining, bad gathered around the foreman, and although they hated him, they were bound to him by a common grudge. Tell them to come and get filled with warm lead wed heat it fur the casion, said a burly miner known as OF MORRIS HOLMES. f 99 lather left me this were too poor to take them along, but .9? Listen, dearest. I may call they had the promise of work where i so once. Why not help me to they were going, and, then they would almoner? At least I am not send for them. If Morris helpedKhem he did not let his left hand know wjiat prorogate. his right was doing, but I do know Pardon me, returned the young the children followed their parents that the heart from a rose a weeks later. a few 'krinance which made the. sensitive Morris prepared for a night of vigils, "ns wince I think you are profli-- a fell into a sound sleep curled up v itb time and influence, and all then of the car seat, and when corner a r good things which you waste by in a my tault tnat my be-th- is ilar to T slot. i wo-teari- ng i: -- How will them on yourself. a for wasted opportunities, account :1 talents folded ay of 8 was in in a napkin, when reckoning comes? very handsome, her strong lao a reformer, tat would you s very attrac-- 5 young womanhood; the fad of the hour. have me do to prove a hero? asked Morris Holmes Sently patronizing air, as if he speaking to a child, and which a InteJ Eleanor. ske repeated with withering anything to show the world are a man, and at least capable pa Sing your own affairs. Lif is p retractions, but you have never one of its lessons. You have do 1 keen a dreamer. r Intenseprofitable and angry, and at last 4 housed. have pJ 4 one lesson, I hope Ca find your hero he will love truly as I have done- - as I will to do. if you do not forbid me.' good hy. We part friends, IIS'S vex taught me I shall not forget. as - &Q ", answered him Eleanor so doing dropped the f.ow-bee- n holding. Mcrri3 them up, when instantly ter small, imperative foot ? crushing them to the floor, t her shocked and wounded. i v,. w 1 hopeless it is that you JP , Understand me, she said have more consideration weed3 than for the 3 around you. You hurt by your indifference to but you are sorry for se r qO& t. , 1 by, Morris! , j : 1 . 1 k , he awakened it was early morning. A more desolate place than that in Which the Little Summit mine was located would be hard to describe. The mine that poured wealth into the cofby ill? fers of Its owners was conducted paid, sodden men, scrubby- boys and half blind mules. The foreman wa3 low brutalized by a long course" of .sursordid and expenses wages, heavy roundings. It was a word and a blow with him, or an oath more demoralizing than blows. When a stranger appeared he was received with sullen and susthan half picious silence, being more out bread the Suspected of wanting shocked was Morris some other mouth. almost out of recognition of himself by he this unexpected state oftothings, for He felt himself passively on blame. the shouldcould not lay the odium asked never ers of his agent, for he had mine, a single question concerning the of the welfare or the moral or physical from revenue men. He had taken the It as part of his patrimony, indifferent as to methods. He had been helping the to grind women and children into His in luxury. dust, that he might lollwith reproaches him conscience stung make him to which were inadequate suffer as he deserved. to Your hand, friend, he had said scowl, the foreman, and noted therefusal with and determined air of which the man drew back. and how 'Taint as white as yours; was do I know that you are my friend, the surly reply. need, aad I am hero to see what you me, will help you It yu will let swered Morris gently. A spy of an overseer, like enough. of these quarters The sooner you get out If Health. the better for your the bloomin mine ta In the sleeper, sir. Jon I nubt have a berth Ole Geordie. They dassn't come nigh their own property, said another, theyre white-livere- d cowards, and not worth the powder to blow em to thunder! Go gack to your master, and tell him what his lovin workmen says, said the foreman contemptuously, an get a photygraff of some of the hungry children and dyin mothers, for the family album. My missus will give you hers. Men, said the stranger, unbuttoning his heavy ulster, and throwing it open, have you ever heard of Morris Holmes? A groan and a series of yells saluted him. . Aye, an of his father afore Mm, Its that he might lie soft and eat fine food, that we gets lost in the choke an damp. If he sent you, go back and tell him to come out here himself. We hev a long account to settle, an the Aggers -- is waitin. spoke. It was Old Geordie who I am Morris Holmes! I am here to right your wrongs, but I demand protection at your hands. I demand your confidence, and that of your wives and children. I have the right to ask this. For the present that is all I ' have to say. A few cheered him, others remained sullen and discontented, good news being received with caution and suspicion. ' 4 Eleanor Landsberg had no word from Morris for six months. Then she received a paper marked in red ink, which had a paragraph that interested her. It gave a plain statement of the great improvement that had taken place in the Little Summit mine, and went on to describe the comfortable homes of the miners, the new1 machinery which had been put into the mines to take the place of child labor, the comfortable stables above ground that had been built for the mules, the improved social condition of the mens families, and ended with a glowing tribute to the "noble energy of the young and athletic mine owner, Morris Holmes. In a few months she received a second newspaper, published like the first, in a town adjoining the mines,' and giving the news of that section of the country. marked paragraph, It also contained awas irregular black hut .the marking on the borand lines, of jagged pencil, a rude hand, pointing to der was drawn the notice, and the badly written but legible name, Old Geordie. Eleanor read in a few intense words the news that had been sent to her. There had been an accident in the mine. The roof of an entire chamber' had fallen and buried twenty miners beneath it. The men were' rescued withi great difficulty, and borne of them were badly injured. When all were supposed to have been saved, there was a wailing cry, and the wife of Old Geordie struggled from the hands of friends and tried to throw herself into the mine. Morris Holmes, pale and out of breath, called for men to go down with him to rescue Geordie. No one responded. The men owed their lives to their families, and they knew the danger of a falling roof. So Morris, with one look at the blue sky above him, swung into the cage and was lowered silen.e alone amid an into the bosom of death. There was not much, more to tell. When the signal was given there were willing hands to help deliver the two men from the wreckage, but only one came up alive. The other had succumbed to the fatal followed, but damp. A long panegyric it meant little to Eleanor. Her eyes rested on four hackneyed closed the that story; they would lines, never leave her; For whether on the scaffold high,' Or in the battles van,tf The fittest place for man to die. Is where he dies for man. Lh -- U night, and Morris rJ at the thought of such oft-quot- STUDIOUS MAIDENS OF A MOUS HIGH SCHOOL. ed, i She had found her hero, never again He had returned on his shield. to lose him. GRAINS OF GOLD. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning Is perilous. FA- Quaker Clubs for Pupils Special Organizations of Bright Young Women for Intellectual Enjoyment and Improvement Outside of Regular Classes. Philadelphia Correspondence. HAPPY thought prompted the sculptor to carve above the archway of the Philadelphia nor- mal school a bust of Minerva. Day by day thebe c o n s k goddess through the clear light of the November morning xo the hundreds of girls who seek the portal; and at afternoon, when the students, arm in arm, chatting gaily in groups of twos and threes, retrace their steps, the chiseled face, bathed in warmer radiance, still smiles upon their way. Coming or going one marks the springy step, and the eyes that see the future through spectacles, Youthful optimism is as yet undimmed. 4You who have never looked into the faces of these seven hundred girls as one can see them every morning at 9 oclock in the assembly room of the Normal School, will still muse 6n, marveling why the ancients conceived of wisdom as a woman. No school means more to Philadelphia than does the Normal School the crown of an unhrpken system of free education which leads from kindergarten to college and university door. Even In America the continent of liberty, or, as Emerson defines it, Another word for opportunity education for women has been accomplished only after hard struggle. It was one hundred and fifty years after Harvard College was founded before any pro- all-wi- se rose-color- ed by-and-- by, all-reveal- ing after school hours. These organizations are not the outcome of the suggestions or the direction of the faculty. They seem to have developed out of a desire for increased knowledge which the spirit of the school seeks to stimulate. While the societies are of spontaneous growth the faculty of the school are not unconcerned In their organization. Some of them depend for their of the existence upon the teachers. Each of the Normal School Clubs ha3 an individualitj of its own, but by right of age and the number of its members the Hobby Club stands first. For simple, unconventional enjoyment the Hoby Club is unique. Its name suggests its purpose. It aims to allow each of its members to air her hobby at least once a year. IS your hobby absurd? Do friends intimate politely that it is a bore? In the Hobby Club it receives respectful serious attention. The flourishing membership allows of no end of hobbies. They canter, they trot, they pace, they gallop and run from light and frivolous volumes of Darwin and Spenser to ponderous newspaper paragraphs on the new woman. As a rule the meekest-face- d girls scorn any but the most vigorous hobbies; leaving humble confessions of weakness to their apparently strong minded sisters. Everything about the Hobby Club Is ion males. ,The annual commencements of our Girls High and Normal Schools are as welcome as the June roses. The American eagle spreads its wings in pardonable pride whqn one after another pretty girl mouhts the platform to deliver a graduation thesis. Yet only fifty years ago Lucy Stone was shut out of the New England College, to which her brother was admitted, and, journeying to Oberlin, extraordinarily liberal in governmental policy for those days, when she graduated at the head of her class, she was awarded the honor of a commencement essay, , provided she would agree to let a man read it! She didnt! Fifty years ago is a long way off. The world moves! In Philadelphia tohundred students atday twenty-thre- e beautiful building dedicated to Philadelphias professional school for the training of young women in teaching 725 more names are enrolled. Every phase of the life of a large school is interesting. It has been well said, however, that the character and influence of a school may be pretty, accurately determined by the number and character of the independent organizations of the students which grow out of the work or the play of the school. If the atmosphere of the school Is stimulating and the teachers inspiring . the students catch the infection and supplement the work of the class room with that of special organizations. In many professional schools apart from intellectual or social gain, demands such organization of students. Clubs, quizzes and societies are a familiar adjunct of medical and law schools. Often the pure love of learning born of contact with the school whose spirit is intellectually stimulating determines the number and character of the students' organizations, or simply affection for the place that Intangible something that makes the students love to linger about its halls and delight In pleasant memories which are apparently aroused by the rooms themselves. Of the seven hundred and twenty-fiv- e students who daily attend the Norf, mal School perhaps, are members cf various organizations, which hold their meetings in the building self-intere- st, one-hal- r,'r:;cv. hnt cLcratirr cf r.r. mLation is the umffr the of the teachers cf phj'-icaculmeets which ture, uh WMrn day in thp nninasiua. The e are the tpcclal students who aspire to hero me kMcrs of divisions of their own c1 co that have of the may they charge v.crl; ar:1 instruct their classmate ?, They era practically being trained for cMcer-shipto become, in fact, first lieutenants of the teachers of physical culture, who are glad to find helpers among tho students themselves. This Is a voluntary work, as Interesting as it is enjoyable. The students who join thi3 class aro strong and vigorous. It is a pleasant sight to witness them going through this special athletic training. Some have become expert in very difficult exercises and beside any of them the young lady of the old social novel whose smelling bottle was the most Important belonging of her outfit no longer exists. She has vanished with the salt tears and the "crystal tears of the poets Ideal. Athletics have no little to do with the growing self reliance In women. The work which the girls of the Normal school do will, for grace, agility and daring, astonish those who think athletics are the prerogatives cf the masculine part of creation. ' ci - -- o- . - di-u-M- on l -- s; Stufdents who thirst for higher springs of literary culture are many. The Shakesperian society has arisen spontaneously out of the students own aspirations for these better things. This organization i Is made up of devoted Shakesperian students, who read and study the plays of the myriad-minde- d dramatist. The plays are cast with the good readers, each reader being assigned one part. From time to time the one who presides, who Is Miss Corinne Sickel, the clever daughter of J. F. C. Sickel, assistant superintendent of schools. Interrupts the reading, and an animated discussion ensues as to the Interpretation of the text. Miss Jean McGrath is the leading spirit In the organization of the society, and hasgeneral managerial charge of the cast- vision was made by Massachusetts for the education of girls, and public schools were established in Boston for years boys one hundred and thirty-fiv- e before girls were admitted to learn reading and writing for a part of the year. When Mrs. Willard, in 1821, presented to the New York legislature the first plan for the higher education of girls proposed in the United States, she very scrupulously stated that she fe.wished to produce no college-bre- d Christianity is not a new system of tend the Girls High School and in the nor .a new assort-met- n theological reasoning, of phraseology, nor a new circle of acquaintances, nor even a new line of meditation but a new life. The trouble with a good many men is that they spend so much time admiring their own ability that they dont let other people have a chance to see that they have any ability to admire. The man who has begun to, live and work by artificial stimulant never knows where he stands and can never count upon himself with any certainty. He takes into his castle a servant who becomes the most tyrannical of masters. There he many who mourn the want of opportunity, and yet endeavor to conform to the disposition of their Master, and to carry themselves wisely and when well, wht will wake up of the in the presence they stand Eye, with sweet surprise and adoring gratitude, to see how, much more their life meant than they themselves thought. Free Silver Knight. All are born alike in this that they have to begin and find out the ways of life. The equipments and means hy which men may learn these ways are better in some than in others; hut all have to learn all are obliged to gather experience for themselves; and although the experience of parents can unguard children so long as they are and although they der their authority, them very influence powerfully, may for any not parent tc possible la it of whole his the experience transmit e,fe to his children. him, too, that , GIRLS. - awe-strick- en HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE NORMAL iyTtfe,en unique even the manner of conducting the exercises. Before the particular hobbyist announced on the program speaks each member of the society is required to name the particular hobby which she thinks best suited to the speaker. The guesses set the meeting in a glow of geniality, and that they frequently fall short of the right answer adds all the more to the merriment. The officers of the Hobby Club are Miss Blanche Levi, president; Miss Carol Massman and Miss Sue Stuart, vice presidents; Miss Helen G. Lovett, secretary and treasurer. Upon these slight shoulders rest the responsibilities and trusts of this novel organization, whose delightful meetings are among the brightest pages in Normal School annals. In one of the finely equipped laboratories, which to every visitor are a delightful and inspiring revelation of the educational advantages which lie within the reach of the women of one comes upon the serious and dignified special , physics and chemistry class. This organization, which meets each Tuesday and Thursday, is composed of students who, desiring to pursue these studies beyond the limit prescribed by the school curriculum, have persuaded Prof. Skidmore, who directs the department, to give them more of his special subjects. Prof. Skidmores long experience with girl students has made him wise and he has cheerfully given them the freedom of the laboratories. Among them is the right to use the fine apparatus which the professor himself employes in demonstration, and which has, up to the present tiifie, been limited to his use. The man who thinks that girls are not so fond of research as men and less enthusiastic as scientists, should visit this class of busy special workers enthusiastically purtheir suing under the guidance of beare which teachers Investigations to inyond thoce generally supposed has not terest young women. The class Found it necessary to have officers. to-da- y, ing of the plays, a work which requires tact and taste. The organization Is very successful, both on the literary and social side, and promises to be a great agency for culture in the school. The class meets each Monday afternoon. The tale Is t&M in the Hobby club how one day the tall figure of the principal of the school appeared in the doorway. The students set him In the midst of them. Then they tried to guess his hobby. They guessed long and they guessed frankly everything is bon camarade between principal and students. One said English, another Neckties. It will be no violation of the secrets of the Hobby club to divulge the right answer. Mr. Cliff freely confesses that his supreme hobby is to make the Normal school a power In the civic life of Philadelphia and 725 girls are trying their best to help him ride it to success! Rose Thorn. LongeTlty Stories Told in Georgia. Two remarkable casea of longevity were recalled recently by a conversa- tion between several gentlemen in Athens, Ga. They were discussing the death of the Rev. George McCall, the veteran Baptist preacher, when It was authentically stated that Mr. McCalls lived to the ripe old age of 127 years. He was a bachelor at 100 and took a notion to get married. He carried out his idea and was married. Three sons were born to him, and h lived to see the oldest son old enough to vote. This was considered remarkable, but a gentleman in the crowd whose character and standing, religiously and socially, are above reproach, told an authentic account of the life of his great-uncl- e, who was one of Georgias pioneer citizens. The old gentleman lived to be 130 years old. He lived in-- a log cabin, In the northern end of which was cut a square hole. The old man turned the head of,hls bed to that hole and slept that way In the warmest and coldest weather. His wife died when he was about 90 years old, and for many years he lived as a widower. At the age of 115 he cut a new set of teeth and at the age of 123 one morning he saddled his own horse, sprang into the saddle and rode thirty miles to address a widow and ask her to be his wife. He was evidently rejected, for he rode hack that day and lived seven years longer. Atlanta Constitution. great-grandfath- er , -- Beglnninff Elfe Over. Christs invitation to the weary and a call to begin life over heavy laden Is new a Watch principie. again upon my way of doing things, he says; follow me; take life as I take it; bo meek and lowly and you vlll find rest. Henry Drummond. |