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Show THE COUNTRY SCHOOLHOUSE. Br own itnin the angle snugly set, here two loug yellow highway met. And aap.ing planted hero and then About tha yard and hosed with ear A u to typify, in turn, Ihe youngster caught and caged, to learn. feABItr. With basket and with pail equipped. Clear-eyeand Athwart the pasture, down tha road. abode; They trudged to learning's Th pink sunbonnet, broad ned straw; The ura brown feet that knew no law Of fashions last; ilia bundled form That laughed aloud at cold and storms. Around, the rolling paiture apreaiL With woodland patch garlanded. From which the oreem gladly bora Sly invitationa to tha dour. Am the lilla the bee' aoft bum w a mingled with tha muttered sum. And from their covert in th vale la plaintive pleading piped tha quafl. What tales the Marred desks might relate Of triumphs gained with book and slate 1 What lore the clapboards loos possess Of feats at noontime and recess! And doomed how oft th panes to sea. Back up tha road, and o'er the lea. Haste boy and girl, new worlds to tua, Tha little sehoolhouse left behind. little country ichoolhome A Remember of counc it; yon do! you Xw berry-liupe- d 1 0 little country Mhooll In vain hold May critics you in disdain. The greatest lessons that you taught Were not by chalk and peneil wrought. As oped your door on fields and sky, Fo, likewise just as wide and high. You opened to the eyes of youth The principles of love and truth. Youths Companion. line, only to find that they had already been secured, or had concluded not to "work out this summer. He put the horse into the barn and went Into tbe bouee rather slowly. Wbat would hie mother say? And how would they get along? It was very unfortunate. A whiff of boiling coffee and broiling ham floated out to him aa he neared the kitchen; and a vision of his father laboring over the stove and polling the supper, brought a smile to hia face. A moment more, and he stood In the kitchen doorway, staring In bewilderment at the scene before him. Cora, with her blue lawn replaced by a darker gown, which was by one of Mrs. Marsh's cheeked aprons, was turning the broiler over the coals with one hand, while she lifted off the potato kettle with the other, her fair cheeks becoming reddened by the heat The table was carefully set; the pile of dirty dishes which had been waiting for the hired girl had disappeared; the floor bad been swept and the stove had been polished. Mr. Marsh sat In a corner, surveying the Irreproachable kitchen, and tbe little person who hnd transformed It with quiet satisfaction. He chuckled at the sigh: of his son's astonishment. We was a little mistaken that time. Burt, he observed, approaching and your mi speaking In an undertone and all of ns. If ever there was two more girls than capable, them The Inner door opened gently, snd Della tintoed In. Thera wns an odor of camphor and liniment about her. "Shes asleen! she annonneed, triI knew I could get her to umphantly. alerp, ruhlilng her head, and I did. I think she's better. Suppers ready, said Cora, calmly, putting tlieMnst potato into the dlh. It might have been because Burt was so hungry, or It might have been because Cora was the cook, that he thongh the snpper by far the best he bad ever eaten. But as Mr. Marsh, comparing notes afterward, expressed the same opinion, there must have been some foundation for It. A ypar or more of experience with the little gas stove at home bad taught Cora a good many things worth knowhalf-cover- o o A Weeks Vacation open-mouthe- d By EMMA A. OPPER. d ELL, did you find out?" "Yes. I cau take a week O next month. And you?" I can have a week oa oou as I like." Lena Freeman and Cora Gregory stood looking at each other in the New York elevated railroad station where they had met with such utter delight In their faces that the boy at the news-tabl- e stared, and the muu at the ticket box, as he lowered their tickets with a Jerk of the handle, concluded that something remarkable had huppened. It waa nothing very great, after all,, which the two glrla discussed In animated tones all the way up town, almost missing their station in their absorption, and which they were still talking over so eagerly at to forget to take off their wraps when they stood in the plainly furnished little third floor back they called home nothing very great, only the prospect of a weeks vacation. But to two girls, who had bent over a typewriter and stood at a glove counter for a year without a rest; who bad got up early every morning to prepare their breakfast over the little gas stove, taken a sandwich or two for lunch for economys sake, and come home to get their dinner wearily, with the help of the gas store again, and who had eomehow managed to make all their , dresses between them to these girls a Weeks vacation was a great event A weeks rest, a weeks freedom from the toll of the glove counter, a week's forgetfulness of the purple ink of the typewriter. We'll go as far into the country ns our money will take us, Dell," said Cora, raising her bright eyes to the face of the elder girl, as they sat poring over a column of country board advertisements after dinner. Wont Earn be lonesome, though? she added, with a laughing glance at a photograph on a mantel the pleasant face of the young head of the dress goods department and at the ring on Della's band. I presume he'll live through it, Della laughed. Oh, Cora! wont it be nice? I don't know how to wait!" e e "Theres the baggy, Burt. said Mrs. Marsh, joining her stalwart son at the front window; they've come! She spoke In an awed tone, and Cased apprehensively at the two young ladles who stepped down from the dusty vehicle, looking about delightedly at the pretty yard before them, with Its scattered maple trees and Its blooming flower beds. Something of her distrust was shadowed In the face of the young man as he went out to help his father, who had driven the newcomers from the railroad station, to carry In the small trunk they had brought I dont know but we've done a foolish thing, Mrs. Marsh had observed. In troubled tones, when It bad been fairly settled by letter that the two young ladles from New York were coming for a week. Whatever were going to do with em is more than I know. Kolhlng'll be good enough for 'em; nothing'll suit em: they'll Just it around with their hands folded and complain of things between themselves. I rather guess we've undertook more than we ran manage. And that had enme to be the general conviction of the family. Burt 'Marsh, however, forgot his prejudice for a moment, as he looked Into Cora Gregory's blue eyes Della Freeman had tripped up the gravel walk, and was talking pleasantly to Mrs. Marsh in the hall forgot It so far as to take her little traveling bag from her hand and walk np to the door with her, Inst"d of helping his father with the trank forgot it so fnr as to it next to her at the dinner table, nnrl carry on a lively conversation ; might have forgo.ten it entirely. If his mother had not recnlled him to himself. Of all things. Burt Marsh! she aid. as she pi. ireil a dlpncr of hot water over the dinner dishes, dont get to thinking too mill'll of them girls either of 'em. Do yon s'pose they'd look twice at yon? And If they would, v at kind of a wife wonlil one of them g farmer? make for a She pointed to where Look at 'em! ' the two girls were bending over a dump of sweet clover in the yard. "Look at that dress and that hat! In hard-workin- dicutinging Cora's trim form. IIow long do you s'pose you could keep her In such things as them? Dont do nothing rash, Burt! The dress, a pretty, d lawn, bad cost precisely one dollar and six cents, buttons and linings included: the hat, a rough white straw, had been picked up at a bargain for twenty-thre- e cents and trimmed with a piece of mull and a few pink buds, carefully preserved from last summer. LW CUld Mr1, Xar8h know blne-flgure- that? And how could Burt; with his utter inexperience of such things, do other, wise than accept his mothers view and gaze at Cora In her blue lawn as he might have guzed at a princess in her silks and velvets? Yes, they've come. he said, with a igh, as he leaned over the fence to exchange a word or two with Bradley Harwood, his friend and neighbor. Theyre very nice looking. Dont say so? said Bradley, smiling. Ill be over. Ho was over that very the four sat out under tbe evening and on shawls and footstools, maple trees and enjoyed aUd 0ft war braes?0011118114 -- Burt sat near Cora; Bradley, aftei one admiring look at Dellas flark head and sweet brunettesmooth, sat down at her aide and semeed face con tent to remain there. I dont know what I shall do. salt Mrs. Marsh, anxiously, addressing hei husband from tbe window where sat watching the group under she the trees, if Burt goes to a fool of himself with that girl.making What kind of a farmers wife would she make! She couldn't lift a finger. She'd set down and curl up her hnnds and waul a maid to wait on her. Mrs. Marsh was almost In tears a: she finished; she w: s quite In teara when she went to Br.t in his room her warnings. ' and I told her she needn't worry, said Burt; when he reported this Interview to Bradley Harwood next day. know what I'm about as well as the next one, I hope. Of course, theyre Pretty girls, and bright, and ladylike, and all that, but they wouldnt do for plain fellows like us, with our livings to make even If they'd have us. No, of course not, said Bradley, promptly. But he came over that night and sal mnPleB Kh Della again, with Burt and Cora not fnr away; and he brought his new d buggy around the next afternoon, and tbe four went off for a long drive through the leafy country roads Della and Cora were quite carried away with enjoyment of their beautl tul surroundings, and Burt and Brad, ley were guiltily happy In being with them. It was on the third day after her boarders arrived that Mr. Marsh came down with a sharp attack of rheuma. tism. Rheumatism was what the do-t- or pronounced 1: but Sirs. Marsh wai firmly convh ed that If was the fore runner of a brain fever, brought on by worry of mind. It was too much for me, she said to her husband, who stood over hei bed In helpless distress, to see that boy getting more and more took nr with that helplesi little critter! I couldn't stand Wbal lt with the extra work and all, it'i brought me to this! If I die, she went on, solemnly, promise me you'll do your best to keep him from marry, lng that girl, that would make hli life a burden to lilm! I could dl( happy If I was easy about that Mr. Marsh promised. Well, then, said his wife, coming back to praetlesl subjects more cheer fully, tell Burt to harness the horsi this minute, snd see If he can get i girl to come and stay a week or two till I'm over this. The work can't hi let go. with them here!" Only those unfortunates who hart traveled and relraveled sparsely settler rural districts In scnrrb of s hired girl," can appreciate the miseries Burl endured that day. Suffice to say that he returned, to ward night, thoroughly tired out ant ravenously hungry anil alone, having rapped at the doors of a score or st of houses which had been supposed t contain rare treasures in the domesth a,tbe two-seate- g, ' ing. I never wns so bent, I declare! aid Mrs. Marsh, when her hnshand come to take Della's place at her bedside that evening. (Bradley Harwood had come over and tbe quartet were on I never wns quite so far the porch.) off from the right track before. Why, that girl Is a regular horn nurse. You never saw nothing like the way she done for me. And she slicked np the room In less than five minutes better than I could have done It myself. And to think of that little rreetur getting nnper, and all! Well, I am beat! Mrs. Marsh concluded not to have brain fever, after all. She felt so much better the next day that she Insisted on getting up and doing the work. Bnt she wns not allowed to do much. The young Indies from New York, hav-ln- g got tlielr hnnds In, and thoroughly enjoying the roomy kitchen, and Hie plentiful supply of milk and eggs, and cooking materials of nil sorts, continued to "fuss, as they termed It. over the stove, and produced a grant many delightful things, which Mr-- . Marsh regarded with awe, and which Burt and his father grew enthusiastic over. What do you think of 'em, now? they were continually asking her with sly laughs and winks. Well, I never was so beat! was all Mrs. Marsh could say. The week flew by very pleasantly, and all too fast. Della and Cora rapped the climax by presenting Mrs. Marsh with a new calico drassto remember them by, they said and making it themsrlven with a speed and skill that took her breath away, and won any small part of her heart which might have bran nneonqurred. Bradley Harwood called several times a day. Strikes me they wouldn't be so far out of the way for farmers wives, after all? he remarked to Burt And Burt laughed, Their last day was the softest and sunniest one of their brief week; and d buggy Bradley brought his around for a last drive. It has been perfectly lovely, hasn't it Dell? cried Cora gaily, when they stood In their room that night they were to start the next morning. Yes. said Della, rather slowly. What Is It? said Cora, regarding her thoughtful face sharply. Well, I was obliged to tell Mr. nar-woo- d about Sam, said Della, reluctantly: about our being engaged. "What a coincidence:" cried Cora, I was obliged with a happy laugh. to tell Mr. Marsh that that I'll come hack In the fall and stay for good. Do you know. Dell. I don't understand light-heartedl- y. two-seate- CHILDRENS DEPARTMENT. Jro Ths Japanese have discovered a of producing artificial pearls, which no one cau tell from ths genu to article. seibod ;The average educated person can not retain more than perhaps six or eight sords of the exact phraseology of a Speaker at one time. A CIRCUS TRICK AT HOME. Cut a long atrip of carJboard aa wide as the Inner part of q spool, or muke the horizontal strip a wide as tbe qiool and bend the edges as shown in the Illustration, Bend the imp of paper to a loop (see Illustration). Fasieu one end with a pin to tbe top of a large hook or ledge; standing upright. Fasten tbe rNodlum la obtained by means of new method of electrical ioiiUatlou. It is an industrial metal much lighter than aluminum, with a coloi sheen ami grain very muen like those of steel. i Lelpslc, has with animals that systematic exposure to already known to lie harmful to the skin. ! also very damaging to the InDoctor neinoke, of ptoved by experiments s, ternal organa. A satisfactory test was made at Fort Worden of two new Colt signal lights with acetylene gas. Tbe nincblnea are of SOnO candle power ench and are available fm signaling and searchlight also standing upright. Now your loop is already to be purposes fur a distance of nine miles. All you need is a common looped. The regenerative faculty which the ordinary spool. Start it at the higher human body possesses, as documented end, mid it will rush around the loop by tbe healing of wounds, the restor- without falling off. An improvement can be made by conation of destroyed tlsue, and the knitting of broken hones, la developed to structing a small car out of two spools, as shown In the Illustration. a much higher degree lu animals of lower order. TIIE LITTLE HOY WHO FI SITED. Kerr nil lag. Tbe little boy lived a long, long time It Is a significant fact that there Is ago. He went to school iu a rough log no lack of recruits for service In the sehoolhouse, and sat on a high board retfiuents serving in the Uhilippliies, bench, without any hack to lean where llicro is always possibility of n against. And the bench was so very fight, especially In the southern Isl- high that his small feet could not ands, whpro the Muro is giving the touch the floor. And, too, he bad no Army considerable trouble. Mcu will desk on which his teacher could put apply for such service when they will pretty picture and bright blink and not consider a tour of duly in the sticks for him to play with, lie never States. This certainly shows that the sang pretty motion songs, nor marched spirit of adventure is not perceptibly to sweet music One day, while he wan twisting on the decline. Tbe troops in the Islands are always maintained at their about ou his high seat, he spied a little full strength, sometimes above that number. The applications for transfer from home regiments to regiments bound for tbe islands mere than fill tbs vacancies In the riiillpplne regiments, a large percentage of the men ordered home requesting transfer to regiments remaining there. The lack of recruits is confined to regiments remaining In tbe United States. The negro regiments, the Ninth and Tenth nnd Cavalry, and tbo Twenty-fourt- h to dance or perform tricks for ths amusement of the duke's friends, but if at any time he swung his shaggy head out of the door of bis hut and bowed bis loug, sharp teeth, no ons dared to go near him, for bs had killed several attendants. But one night, after he had passed a particularly 111 tempered and surly day, tud had swallowed most of bis upper with a few saraga gulps, mall barefoot boy, who had lost bis way In the dukos forests and was crying with cold, stopped at tbs door of the hut. He had once seen tbs hear iierformlng in one of his pleasant moods, and did not know how ferocious a beast it could he. So Into the hut hs walked and cuddled close to tbe great animal's shaggy coat. Thus tbe two slept the night through, and In ths morning Marco cheerfully shared his friend. breakfast with his For days tbe boy lived comfortably with the bear, fearing to show himself until tlie snow was over, lest soma of the dukes men should send him away. One of these, however, who lingered a moment after depositing Brain's meal, noticed tlmt the bear ouly sniffed at the food, and kept look lng back into the tent aa If waiting for (omething. Then be tried to draw the food away again, but an ugly snarl from the hour warned him off. Curious to kuow the meaning of all tlila he secreted hliuself and watched. To 111 amazement nnd horror he saw rhlld crawl out from the darkness and sit beside the hear, with his arm about its neck, while the two sts peaceably. The duke wns brought to the hut to see this wonderful pair, snd soon the story of the boy and the bets new-foun- t Careful Mother Puzzle. Twenty-fift- h Infantry, are an excep- tion. As a rule men who enlist for these organizations do It again and again nntil tbe retirement age Is reached, with the result that these four organizations have a much greater old soldiers than any others in the service, and vacancies are usually at a premium. As a result these regiments are among the best In the service Army and Nary Journal. of . Thidonj the Frlrn.l, The following estimate of Thackeray the man and friend la quoted from Miss Lucy W. Baxter's in trod uct ion to Thackerays Friendship With an .American Family," hitherto unpublished loiters of the great novelist now running in the Century: In all our intercourse with Mr. Thackeray we saw only the kind, sympathetic, loving side of his grant nature. It was nlways impossible fur us to feel afraid of his cynicism, his sharp criticism, of whici others speak. He could not help seeing the weakness of human nature, but he did tbe fullest justice as be would say, he took off his hat to whatever was fine or noble In man or woman. lie was, too, very patient with weakness of character, hut he hated and despised pretense and humbug. All tills ha been said before, bnt I feel I must add my confirmation of such a view of Ids character from our personal experience. Taka tha Pennant. Captain Alexander McKay. F. R. G. S., Commodore of the Cunard fleet, sailed his last voyage on the Lucauin before his retirement. He has been at sea forty-eigof years, thirty-fou- r them in the serrlce of the Cnnard Company, fourteen of whose vessels he has commanded. For one with so long an experience his record Is probably As he puts It himself: unique. I have never met with a disaster In my life, never lost a ship, never grounded, nnrer ran anybody down, never was run down by anybody, havent even brl my feet washed by salt water since I went to sea." Loudon News. Is Violent Dentil Painful? injurlea to the boily are .Severe ad- don very painful at first. The severity of the nervous shock seems to paralyze tlie nerve centre where consciousness o.' pain Is situated, and in fatal cases at I rather first that they It thought disliked 11s or mistrusted us, or some- Here is often no sense of pain, even when death Is delayed a day or two. thing, didnt you? I think, said Della, who had In luch cases it may be supposed that watched the course of affairs shrewdly tiir shock not only paralyzes but even I think we have overcome a ridic- d strays the nerve centre. It may be ulous Idea or two they had concerning (iicipared to a lightning flash along tli" telegraph wires, which, although us, by a natural and easy process.' " Hie same nature as the electric tele, of Saturday Night. graph current, is yet so intense as to dr.strey life. Knowphnpa Tor Horses. Over the light crust that forms on How Indian Sprnil Money. the snow In the dense forests and deep The Northern Idaho horses of the plethoric Otoe Indians, those gulehea of the winter mail carrlera make their tLit sold high priced Inherited allot-n- . nts, ere putting on all kinds of ridicway on snuwshoes, and wooden snow-shoe- s, at that. These are made with a ulous style. They are buying the most double thickness of inch boards, the costly horses and carriages, and sevwhole about twenty Inches long andj eral of them are buying very expensive fourteen Inches wide. An Indentation tattoo marks. to fit tbe horse's foot Is branded In One of them recently had his little with a hot horseshoe, and an Iron daughter decorated in the fuoe by an clamp, secured by a screw bolt, holds expert tattooer. and he paid about It to the hoof. $.:00 for the indelible iusignia. This careful mother warns her child to avoid the neighbors' two doga Find these canines. Detroit Free Brass. gray mouse peeping out from a hole in the corner near him. He almost laughed out loud. Then he quietly pulled a piece of line out of his pocket uud tied ou u bit of cheese from his dinner basket Then be threw the line out as far as he eouid toward the inousie's floor in the old floor. It was nut loug before the teacher aw him. Jimmy, she said, what are you doing? Fishing, ma'am, little Jimmy answered, frightened. What are you fishing for? For a mouse, ma'am. The children all laughed, but the little Jimmy didn't for he saw that the teacher looked very sober. I will give Very well, suid she. you Just five minutes to catch that mouse. If you don't get him In that time. I'll bare to punish you for playing in school. jimmy sat very still, holding tbe line, his heart thumping very fust and such a lump in his ibrout! There was perfect silence in the little log sehoolhouse. Every childish heart was full of sympathy for Jlmuiy. No one thought of laughing. Pretty soon a pair of bright eyes peeped again out of the hole. The baited string lay so near, and tbe cheese did smell so good! So tbe poor, foolish mouse out he crept, nearer still, and nearer, all unconscious of tbe eyes watching him. lie took a dainty nibble how good! He took another, and another, and Oh, ma'am, I've caught him! Here he Is! shouted Jimmy, flirting the dainty mouse up lu tbe air, his tiny teeth stuck fast in the hard cheese. Then tbe children luuglied and clapped their bands, so glad that little Jimmy wouil not be punished. I am sure the teacher was glad, too. As for Jimmy, with the teacher's permission, he took the pretty mouse outdoors aud let him go, and lie never fished in school any more. Flora U. Brown, in Little Folks. A BEAR'S KINDNESS TO A BOY. Duke Leopold of Lorraine was very fond of annuals, uud especially of a huge, ficrco bear whuui be called Marco, uud kept in a but in a corner of hia park. Sometimes, still fust to a heavy ebuiu. Marco would consent spread through the country. At hia new friends command Marco would perform as never before under tbe prodding- - of underlings, and though the boy mnde many friends In Ills new home, for the duke Insisted be should live with him, none were truer or more loyal than the fierce old bear. Indianapolis News. SACRAMENTO DREDGERS. tbe shallow headwaters of ths Sucrauiento River, In California, there are a numlicr of families who are living on steam dredges snd making money In quite a novel fashion. Some years ago an old miner in a houseboat upon which he had a steam dredging machine erected. It was, In fact, a suction pump, which sucked up tbs sand from the river bottom and dumped It In a series of rifled shiirs Iicxes, through which It was washed by the water that came up with 1L Tbe enterprise proved very prosperous, for the river sand was richly streaked with gold. Others soon followed his example. Several farmers sold their lands and Invested In dredges. Their families went aboard and found the life more pleasant than on the fnrm. At night the dredgers are tied up to the hanks; wood Is taken almard and the mea hunt game for the following day'a On d meals. The women do their cooking aboard the furnace fires which drive the engine. This engine also revolves a stern paddle, which propels the boat upstream when necessary. by 01.1 Man Fnnla.1 Em. A good many years ago Uncle Jimmie neylan, then a resident of Illinois, deeded his farm to two of his living nephews in consideration of a life annuity of $009. Tlie nephews expected Uncle Jimmy to de soon and thought that they had driven a good bargain. But the old man fooled them by moving to Kirksvillc, this State, and getting well, and he hns nlready collected The nephews $10,000 In annuities. would have liked long since to havs backed out of the bargain except fot the fear that almnt the time they did so the old man would kick tbe bucket Kansas city Journal. |
