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Show . v i . yi AT un. made a plan It was simple It was to tell her that Newfaltln. kirk was dead That would leave the And, to the winds fiom unsunned field clear In her moment of bereave-mespsoes blown, 1 I hear fsr voioea out of darkness oall-- I would naturally be the one Inc man to whom she would turn for conto unknown My fast , paths solation Tbe rest would be easy. I broke the sad news nbou who hast mads my homa af llfa so to her one day ' pleasant, while Leave not Its tenant when Its walla cliffs we were strolling along the She didnt take It much to easy, heart, and I feared (or my success. (0 Laws divine O Helper eer present. Be Thou m strength and stay Women are so much more coufiding &e near me when all else Is from me In times of grief. It was too late to change the plan then I did tbe beet drifting Earth sky, home a picture deys of I could 1 held her hand I pressed It shade and shine to my Hpg, I muttered things so tender And kindly fates to mv own uplifting that they escaped my articulation. The love which answer mine When I thought there was nothing O have 4 but Thee, Father1 Let Thy proper left for me to do but Jump Spirit Be with me then to comfort and up over the cliff and hope they would never find my body, she turned to me hold, ft No gats of pearl no branch of palm I with an expression of tenderness In merit. her great brown eyes that filled my Nor street of shining gold soul with joy Bufflc It If my good and 111 unreckened "And you love me, Madelalne? I And both forglten through Thy aboundsighed. ing grata, "I hive loved you with all my heart And myself by hands familiar beck-- 1 for a long, long time, John, aha oned Unto my Suing place whispered. There we plighted our troth. Tb Borne humble door among Thy many ' Wbsn on my cay of Uf the citadel, 1 ntM li enough ut , mansions, Boms sheltering shade where sin and striving cease And flows forever through heaven s gresw expansions The river of Thy peace fhere from the music round about me teaJtng I fain would learn the new and holy song, (And find at last beneath Thy trees of healing, The life for which I long John (J Whittier For Love ol Madelalne. BY JAMES OSHAUGHNESSY. ((Copyright, 1900. by Dally Story Pub Co ) Although I had been a frequent r, caller at the home of Madelalne aa I had a right to be, I had never Charles Newkirk there. whom Current iTopics $&& &&& Mod I T'otvn "Built by Ejcprts. One of tne most lnlerrsting experiments now in progress is that being made at Bellemead N J where a model manufacturing town Is being built up under the dtreiUon of Dr. Joslah Strung and William H Tolman, respectively presideat and secretary of the League for Social Service, Not long ago the land ou which the town stands waa entlrel) unoccupied. It wraa first laid out by an eminent land, 3 W & $ C: v HrleutenFewer - , , -- V 5 She gave a scream and threw herself tainting in my arms. birds sang sweeter than ever they sang before. The sun shone brighter; the lake gnd the gky were bluer and the air was perfumed as we slowly paced along. We forgot the dinner hoar and didnt care, for we were happy. It was late In tbe afternoon when we returned to the hotel. We were sitting in the cooling shade of the great veranda. Another boatload of visitors hauled up from the wharf were being discharged from the hacks and we were studying them as they passed into the hotel. , My eye fell on one Of them and it heart stop beatmade my love-lading. Madelalne taw my sudden emotion. .What is the matter, John, dear? she exclaimed in affright - , t, VI could not find words af that but she followed my fixed stare with, her terrified glances until she, too, saw the cause of my attack of momentary paralysis. She gave a scream and threw herself, fainting, in my arms. There, among the new arrivals, stood Charles Newkirk, back from the grave In which I had so recently placed him. What doee this mean, Newkirk? I demanded as savagely aa 1 could when I recovered a part of my senses. Whatever answer be made was lost to me, for at that moment Madelalnea mother came shrieking to her daughters aid. A score of other women rushed In upon me. I surrendered my fainting loved one to their more skillful attentions, and extricating myself from the hysterical concourse, I went to meet Newkirk face to face. Madelalne Was mine at last and I had nothing to fear from him. As her protector 1 felt It to be my plain duty to punish him for his Impertinent Intrusion. He was gone from the veranda. I went Into the hotel rotunda looking for him, but he was not there. I went to the clerks desk. Wjiere did that Insolent fellow go? I demanded. Whom do you mean? asked the apprehensive clerk. Why that fellow Newkirk. They have gone to their room. "They? Who are they? Newkirk la the only one I want "I mean Mr. and Mrs. Newkirk. They Just arrived on their wedding trip, I believe. I looked at the hotel register and there was hfewklrks' familiar handwriting tracing the words: "Charles Newkirk and wife. Shall 1 Bend up your card? asked the clerk. No; I guess I have made a mistake, I said softly. Then I hurried back, to eee It Mad-elalhad recovered. She was sitting Reside her mother looking pale. I sat on the other elde of her. She leaned over to me with a faded expression In her erstwhile lustrous eyes. "Was it his ghost John? she asked in a hoarse whisper. No, dear, that was his wife yon saw with him. I said calmly. But you told me he was dead she said, with a tone of deep injury in her voles. Well, arent yon more surprised to hear that he is married? Why, no. He told me he was going Bast to marry some other girl when I Jilted him the week before last en uno-mea- '4 t && Rebelled Against the Trust. Miss Henrietta Crossman has late!) been plavmg Nell at tbe Havoy theater, Nea York As the play wai Ujn x .. !!-'- ' 1 V y. dth" fi & eJ-,1- er "Reheard for Missing "ifoutb. MRS. CAPT, SAMUEL REBER. alive in helping sick and suffering wrriora, and her recent marriage has vise dlifimed her interest In this resect She Is an officer In tbe New York branch of the associations Its. Reber la a charming young her circle of friends extends fa! beyond the hundreds of Unde Sals soldier boys who have come unier her watchful and tender care. -lu 4 4. -- the CT hat Wtchtta Woman. action of a lone woman in winking the bar in the Carey Hotel at Vlchlta, Kaa Is reminiscent of the crusade, -- during which a Wither of saloons were Invaded by wonen, whose seal In a good cause soBCtimes led them or their sympa-tbl- r to destroy property and other-wi- n break the law of the state, aays as exchange. The experience of the Kiasaa reformer is also an Illustration of the advantag of being a woman when work of this kind la to be undertakenIf s man, for instance, bad the bar of the Wichita hotel and b to throw stones through Tillable mirrors and paintings he rolfht not have been shot but he have been badly beaten. A it was, the attendants were so start-- : W V the eight of a Well dressed wo-uc-h damage that they stood Mlent until the damage had been do Then they called the police, at whose pollt invitation the crusader finally consented to accompany them W Ther ke waa &pp&1e5 band of sympathisers and de- en-tei- cer-taia- ly Archbishop sf Csatsrbaiy, The Archbishop of Canterbury recently entered his eightieth year, having been bom on St Andrews day, 1821, at Santa Manra, in tha Ionian island!. It is generally stated he waa bora in Sierra Leona, of which hts father, Major Octavius Temple was governor. tht The history of mankind is an mense volume of errors. i 5 7 nutrition Wil-Ibm- ne The vary tight of him quickened my sense of envy. .each other. I was glad we were, for I feared my Impetuous disposition ! would have spoiled my chances. J Fortunately I was able to preserve Ian unruffled demeanor, bat I was j watchful and determined. Newkirk had attain of business that called him often to New York. I heard also in the club goealp that he had an affair of the heart there, too. From that .moment I was resolved to put a literal construction an the maxim: All Is ir In love and war. Soon attar this Newkirk went East, jto remain a month, he said. In happy jcolnddenoe the Zimmen left the very next day to pan the summer session (at Charlevoix. The day following I sailed for Charlevoix to pan my vacation. 6he welcomed me there with (evidences of delight It was a period lot supreme happiness to be near and ko know that Newkirk would hot for a whole month. L Then was my time, it ever, I realised, to win her. As a wise general (would 49 preparatory to assanltlng a ap-pp- rs and unsanitary V-This statement Is now Y-.corroborated with rather startling s, In a report by Surgeon one of the assistants under the iv.f; recent military regime. In which he aa?s that the most harrowing stories bum" Porto Rico have understated rtther than exaggerated the truth. He MOs Of laboring families. Industrious pwple, who were in a state of starvation even-- during the Issue of relief WILLIAM J. ROBINSON, town differe from Its predecessors In supplies, and who are now In a pitithat It Is being directed by men who able plight : . have made a life study of factory and social conditions all Over tha world. Ae Army Angtl. of Gen. Miles, whose ZJ flu ! Samuel Reber, Is art , Crhnd fpt. The statistics of homicide In the uanef on Governors Island, is a lead United States for 1900 are not encour- er In the work of army relief, and has aging. From 189$ toi'899 there was s i wsrm spot in the hearts of the sol-fiSteady decrease year by year, the toboys, for whom she has done so tals falling from 10,500 to 4,225, but suet. , this year the reports show a totals of As Mias Miles. Mrs. Reber was most 8,275, an Increase over last year of If this year the figure Increase 2,050. proportionately the first year of the new century will be aa largely marked by crime as was 1895.' From tbe present outlook the Indications are that the record of the passing year will he even darker, foShuman life waa never held cheaper than at the present time, and hanging and lynching make little was impression. Rudyard Kipling not far out of tbe way when he said that murder was the national crime of the United States. News comes from Providence, R. L, that Robert Callender, who is known to many Yale men In the West, disappeared In that city on the last day of the old year. Five hundred dollars reward haa been offered by hla father, Walter Callender, for information as to his whereabouts. Young Callender had been suffering from Insomnia, and It la feared by hla parents that hlfl mind Is temporarily affected thereby. Robert Callender, who waa graduated from Yale In the class of 98, Is 24 years old, 5 feet and 7 Inches In height, and weighs 155 pounds. He ha brown hair. Inclined to curl, light brown eyes, and small, regular features. When he disappeared he wbre a black derby bat, a dark sack suit, and an overcoat. On bis Httle finger was a gold seal ring, and he carried a gold im- R'OBERT CALLENDER, hunting case watch. In college he wu a member of the Kappa Sigma and Delta Kappa Epsilon, and the Senior Society of the Wolfs Head, the em- to Governor Bt blem of which be is also thought to fnl her hare worn pinned a &l - y" i Skeleton. the skeleton within Oh, let the music and the dance begin pair inftVnhd ST? The The house Is gay with guebts from near and far. But, oh the cloeet door has swung ajar, peretary of the Interior attention was called to the fact that tbe death rate In Porto Rico was still high In fira! places, notably In Ponce and Afiuntas. The commonest cause of says Secretary Hitchcock, to be anaemia brought on by 1 J Fnenn And lest the) glimpse Starvation in "Porto "Rico. Jlo ihe last annual report of the V' borne Fiehee THINGS Tber Cheng 1 heir Color to The! of Their Surrounding. Mehtug Thee-elve- e Procthnlly InrUtble. scape gardener provision being made for factory sites, public buildings and homes, parka and driveways The land la owned by William J Robinson, whose principal objeit is to do something in a practical way to relieve the congestion whlth U now the problem 'of the great cities Incidentally Mr. Robinson expet ts to make money In the operation, as he does not believe that any reform can hope for general adoption until it is put on a paying basis He offers free sites for new factories, and under the direction of Dr. Tolman, who call Strong and Mr social engineers, every themselves provision Is made for the comfort and wo welfare of the working men MISS Cft98MAN men employed. Every cottage will about to begin the other night, she have a flower and vegetable garden tipped before the curtain, and In a attached, and all kinds of technical speech to the audience announced that schools will be established for the thl play would not be given because benefit of the children The new model h could no longer bear the petty trust persecutions of the theatrical seKlaw managers, A who Erlanger, . Yi j -e cured control of the Savoy since MlsS , ! T Ciossman began her engagement there V I had never at her home, for that matter, but faet fact that Newkirk and I never happened to be callers In the luxurious bouse of the Zimmers at the same time la worthy of mention. This was lh Newkirk who was In love with Madelalne. His tenderness for her was hardly within my knowledge, as he had never told me of It, but it was so firmly a matter of belief with me that It Interfered with my ease of mind. I knew be called to see her; that was sufficient to make out a plain case of rivalry against him. After that when- I encountered him at the club or receptions the very sight of him taulokened my sense of envy. His handsome features, hla rakish mus-tach-e, his correct clothes and his graceful carriage had the distressing street of putting me in despair of win-j&iMadelalne so long aa he was In the field. For that reason I was glad !l .bad never met him when 1 was pay-da- g my devotions to her, as I 'felt I Would euffwiy, by COM parlson- - la- her eyes. i If he was hkndsome and dashing, ha was devoid of some of the essentials for a good husband. I knew this. 'Madelalne, I was sure, did not know It. E'herefore, as one who loved her with of his heart that was sensible to passion, I felt a double purpose tin my wooing to save her from him jand to win her for myself. I wanted to tell her what sort of a fellow at heart Newkirk was. Being his rival, however, I dared not.- - I (knew from tbe discoveries LeBruyere made In dissecting tbe souls of women that it would have a contrary effect Newkirk never spoke of her to me. I never spoke of her to him. She never mentioned him to me. Still he kept calling to see her. So did I. Still jbe and I never met there. When he called I stayed away. When I called he did not come. It might have appeared to Madelalne we were dodging -- & AND CURIOU9 AND EVENTS. QUEER Indeed, there were many other young men of pay acquaintance ta & m & & iHS v!k: : t- Zlm-gne- pet IN THE 01)D COHNEE. jbt appear all the dancers laugh and shout and. sing, let them fill th house with rois- tering' the crack is widening still ' more' Go Join the dsnee, and 1 will guard the door. see. The last note dies upon the dark. The feast Is over, and day climbs the crimson Fast The last late guest is gone. The dance Is done Come, you and 1 must face the skeleton! Ethel M Kelly in Christmas Smart Set Fish wad Thlr tolur Habit. It a familiar fact that among fishes there are many that have In a marvelous manner and tq a marvelous degree the power of changing their coloring to that of their surroundings, thus making themselves practically invisible there except at close quarters, and so helping them to escape notice from their enemies. Th commonest Dottom-teedln- g kinds or ihe duiier-cdior- d fishes of northern waters may change their colors, for Instance, from dark brown or gray to light, and back again from light to dark. Many at the bright colored tropical fishes change In a similar manner; some in shades of color, and some of them from one color to another, as from red to yellow, or from yellow to red. The tropical fishes In tanks at the Aquarium are likely to be, when new here, more or less affected by the character of the water, as to its saltness Tbe water of New York Bay Is fresher In tbe spring and early aummer, when the greater volume of fresh water la emptied into It from the North river, than It la at other seasons; and when the water la fresher tbe tropical fishes, susceptible 4o this influence, are likely to be of a lighter ahade in their coloring than they are when the water Is ealtest. They become in a measure acclimated, and show this difference less krith succeed) year. There Is In' the Aquarium a Very ielutifurUflg. fish that has now been there three years and a half, and now maintains a virtually uniform beauty at all seasons throughout tbe year. Something of this may be due to the tank It occupies, which te cement lined and dark colored. The bright coloring of the fishes le likely to be better preserved in a tank with a dark lining than in one lined with white tiles; certainly fn tank tbe fish shows to the dark-line- d greater advantage. The most vividly colored of the Aquarium' tropical fishes are the green parrots; the brill lent and beautiful coloring of these flshee te remarked many times a day. Through the day the parrot flshee are likely to be sailing about In their tank In full view; after the visitors have gone they are very likely to lie down on the bottom of their tank and to colors greatly. Their c binge their back and the upper part of their body become then almost black, shading out on other parts of the body to a lighter shade of green than they wear when in full color, thl lighter colored part of the body being now more or less mottled in color. The green parrot fish, when very ilck, grows plainly paler in color. Dead, Its bright color comes back for a brief time, then again to fade. New York Sun. 1 -- fitw'i t Worn A(4 JOS. Mrs. Margaret Anne Neve la a remarkable old lady living In London in good health and the full possession of all her faculties at tbe full age of 108 was born In tbe Island of yeanL-lSb- e on May 18, 1792. That was Ouerasey tbe year in which George Washington was elected to hla second term as president of the United State. In that year civil rights In England were given to the Catholics for the first time since the reign of Henry VIII. In that year was formed the first European coalition against France, and In that fear England made certain of her Indian empire by the capture of Seringapatam and the submission of Tippoo Sahib. It waa the year before Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette died on the ecaffold. Mrs. Nevee maiden name was Harvey. Miss Harvey was a girl of II when the battle of Trafalgar was fought. When the battle of Waterloo was fought sha was two years past her majority. Her memorise of that time are clear and definite She saw much of the exiled French General Charles Francois whd conducted the celebrated caaonnads de Valmy, and he waa one f the many admirers of her wit and abe married beauty. In Waterloo year of InKentish gentleman a Mr. Neve, with went .him and dependent means, on a continental tour, which1- laduded Sh to the historicotbri-11Wbterlbo what Staked noon the F tn her most cherished poe- iauas belt buckle worn by one ' ofthe Imperial Guard. When Marshal Blncber went to England after Water- -' loo Mrs. Neve was presented to him and showed him the buckle. Her wed r ding tour was the prelufie . j a long series of travels, and when, after twenty-five years of married Ilfs, Mr. Neve was left a widow she continued her Journeying with Mrs. Iltjyshe, her a arm friend Mra. Huyihe waa a great oollector of curios and antiques. Almost th whole of Europe was traveled over by these two energetic women before the days of railroad, when traveling meant something of effort and discomfort. They were In Spain in 1852, when the Alhambra waa being restored, and Mrs Neve has a collection ct tiles and original decorations which she secured at that time from the mine of the old Moorish palace Nothing, perhaps, shoe her love of travel more "forcibly than the fact that In 1852, at the age of 90, Bhe made the Journey to Cracow Poland, to see the memorial erected to Koacluako. New York Press Arthu Not A r raid mt ehoU. Greenwich, Conn., New York Sun: Four correspondent artists are 11 v. lug In a haunted house at North Ml-an- within slgh of Henry O. Have-meys mansion, and defying ghosts which are said to appear nightly. Tha artists are Louis Loeb and Albert Sterner, famous Illustrators, Ernest Ben-eo- n, water colorist, and W. O. Schneh der. noted miniaturist They have lived In the house for nearly alx months, and yet their nerve are steady and the work they produce bears n suggestion of the character of the placw, sf their loll." The house is a three-stor- y farmhouse and wing, with a stone wall In front and near It an The main house 1 wellsweep. double, with rooms on each eld of a broad hall, in one of th rear rooms,, years ago, a man of the narqe of Cr- penter cut hla throat with a raxor. He had become doubled up with rhenma-! tism In his old age, and, being with- -, out relatives, committed aulcid JB d- Pair The bloodstain remain on that floor to this day sad no amount ori scrubbing will remove them. After hla death the house waa unoccupied until the artists hired It last summer and set up their studio therein. No ghost talk could scar them, they said, and from their alienee since then it 1st judged that they have not seen many er P'rH fronrtbg outer world." The story told by North Mlanusites1 Is that night after night, at a certain! hour, there comes stealing across th threshold of the door tbe shadowy form of the old man, and that it itsssts! over the gory scene witnessed only by the four walla of the room and ths Prying moon peeping In at the a. There are those who profess to have seen the ghoet-H- k form, and others who express their doubts at the spiritualistic seance. The artist have little company to annoy them, and so look, upon the story of ghosts blessing in disguise, , win--dow- Nnlffhlnt mrirrimii-w-rcrauz KMfttimit, era; their union ie threatened with dissolution; waiters must look for oth- er employment.-wiT.hM U ., taurant of jOcpsrttu-may be faq . v, jmwmu, Neb' slot-machi- ne hs-U- ... on In-t- nt m N. Y. ute by sli slot will U. -- 3 5J f, ploy mr restHla'SlS 4 awei marks house, v, other klrnfs 04 rants In the country. The chahlam of the restaurant by v, the quick service Is obtained Is In ths basement Th patent, besides doing! away, with all waiters, makes Useless! the services of cashiers. No one handles the money; the check system Is wiped out; there are no milk, water and coffee urns; no shelving nor drawers; no dishes except those from which the meal Is being eaten. The only furniture of the restaurant are 'tabled, and chairs. When a customer enters the eating house and is seated he finds in a metallic frame In front ot him a bill of fare, arranged In a new kind o slot machine, made for coins of all denominations from 5 cents to fL The price of each article of food is stated! on the bill of fare, as In other restaurants and opposite each article la tbe appropriate slot, enabling th customer to know the price of what he, wants and to insert a coin of the prop--' er denomination. If he wants coffee or pie he drops 5 cents In the slot opposite the word pie or coffee on the bill of fare. In a few seconds a lift) appears before the customer and wlthj ' hla own hands he takes off th artl-- 1 cles he had automatically ordered. , Chicago News. . Odd Dinners in Hnw Twrk. It is a very unimportant part of the! civilized world whose existence Is not, celebrated by a dinner in this city at! least once a year. Australians living! In New York are the latest to fan Into line, and they propose to dine together! in a few weeks Every civilised nation, ts represented here by a dining society.. Nearly every state In the Union baa ltd society here, and at least n dozen counties of this state are also represented by societies. New York Bun. IprM fross I(luA Swtlto We are obliged to import all- - of oa fin mistletoe from England, hsuauss, though plenty of the plant grows In this country. It is poor stuff compared with the British product The latter has glossy leaves and berries four times as big as those o the Amerlcan variety, whose fruit Is Small and easily knocked off In handling Washington Post thick-cluster- t Necessity may bring . a man latoi court, but it knows no law. I J |