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THE NATION’S VOICE. Ov-*r th« pl»lna and the meadows— Out of the lights and the shadows, There’s an echo that thrills In the rush of the rills. And rings from the hearts of the founded hills: “The star-spangled banner, Oh. long may it wave O’er the land of the free And the home of the brave! n Over the roar and the rattle— The clang and the clash of the battle, There’s a song that shall rise And shall ring to the skies— ( firm- Where the patriot lives and the patriot dies: “The star > tangled banner, Oh, long may it wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave! ” —Atlanta Constitution. on. So I sent for ephew Frank to come up to town at ce. That light hearted young g< leman held his sides with laughterlien I explained the situation. “So I'm to court] used to be a pret take her off J fcAA AofrtA ArfbA A AA A ^ Playing at Sweethearts. “Why, I’d rather marry her my- »elf,” said I. Nothing, in truth, was further from my thoughts. Amanda’s mother regarded me cu riously. “Of course,” said she, “if that were the case, it would make a difference.” “But I don’t really mean it*” I cried, hastily. Why, the idea tfas absurd. Just when I was in the mid dle of the book on the “Cerebral Con volutions,” too. “Then,’’said her mother,closing her hard,thin mouth with a snap, “Aman da will marry Mr. Plutus. There is no one but you w ho has any right to a voice in the matter.” “There is Amanda,” I suggested. “Amanda! She is far too young to decide. I am the judge for her. Amanda shall do as I bid her and marry Mr. Plutus.” “I shall do my best to stop bei\” “She shall not see you.” 1 knew she would try to be as good as her word, and my heart went out in a great pity for poor little Amanda, who was so like her father and had been a pet of mine ever since she was a child. “if I weren’t too old—” I said, half to myself. “Nonsense. Why, vjrou’re no older than I.” She is 43. “Too much buried in my books and in a bachelor’s recreations—” “Marriage would soon alter that.” “I could never make that child happy,” I sighed. “Nonsense! She’s devoted to yon.” “Not in—in that way.” I believe I blushed. “You’d soon make her.” “Do you really mean it?" I couldn't let old Tom’s daughter be married to that Plutus. It would de lay matters, anyhow,if she became en gaged to me. Meanwhile, I might find some one else for her. “Why not?” she asked, coolly. “Very well; I will speak to Amanda about it,” I s^ 1 -',“lowly. “But there must be no ■ - » «—> part.” I had a sudden inspiration—being a man of quick thought. “I should like to have your consent in writing. To be candid, I do not trust you.” “Very well.” She sat dowu to her escritoire. “What shall I write?” “I consent to the marriage of my daughter to Mr. Frank Austen,” I dictated. She wrote it accordingly and signed it with a flourish. My name is the same as my neph ew’s. I’ll have him up to town, and if he doesn’t fall in love with Amanda he’s a fool. That was my idea. “Well, now I’ll talk to Amanda,” I said, feeling rather uncomfortable. And I did. Amanda is 18 and stands 5 feet 2. Amanda has golden brown hair that will get loose and tumble about her cheeks and forehead. Amanda has big, dark eyes and long eyelashes and cherry- wouldu’t you? To pretend prop erly ” “Ye—es. Oh, yes, of course.” Whatever would become of the “Cere bral Convolutions?” “But wouldn’t it be rather a bother to you?” “Not more than to you.” “Oh, it wouldn’t be any bother to me!” she cried, excitedly. “We’d go to the Tower and the stores and the Crystal Palace and the Zoo and the exhibition—and have tea in the gar dens—and the opera and ” She saw my face fall. “I qnly meant to some of them,” spe ex plained. “You always do take me to the academy and one or two places, don’t yon?” / “I shall like to take you 1 * 0 \ some, my dear,” I assured her. “I arrays enjoy myself when I do. But know I am finishing my book jui your ance of £500 a j< his eyes; “£500 —£400 apiece.” “Exactly!’’ I “You always w Frank.” “But, my dear won’t have me? sure, but I thi gone on Nellie I don’t card for y ( “She’s couldn’t he my doleful “Then,” you marry “Hit a c fender with —too settl Frank,” I sa| know—I’m “I believe in the world over the tal honest, unsel so fond of hir good to her. “Well,” I honest with the child—v thought that »or fiancee—she [little girl—and for an allow- he said, wiping I £300 make £800 Id, approvingly. Ismart at figures, fie, suppose she ssides, I’m not I’m jnst a little shant? Suppose fAmanda?” lice, Frank; you I was surprised at “whyever don’t [elf?” Irummed on the •r. ■‘Tm too old bachelor ways, itfully. “I don’t if it would do.” be the best thing ” Frank leaned neatly. He’s an that’s why I’m |d I know he’d be ripe lips and the dearest little dimples in the world. Amanda has soft, white hands—she generally gives me both— and tiny feet whose rush I could rec ognize blindfold. She came in quiet ly today, and there were dark marks under her eyes. “Oh, Coufein Frank!” she cried— cousin is my brevet rank—“you won’t let her make me—marry that horrible man!” “No,” said I. “Mandy, my dear, I won't.” Then I kissed her. If only I were sure that she wouldn’t disar range my study! “You kind old Frank!” She took hold of my arm and squeezed it. “But your mother insists upon your getting engaged to some one, my dear,” I said, ruefully; “somebody who is fairly well off. Are you in love with anybody, Mandy? Tell me, there’s a good little girl.” She opened her eyes wide and looked at me honestly. “Oh, no, Cousin Frank! Only—only—I think perhaps I should like to be-some day.” “But there isn’t any one vet? Truly?” “Truly. No one at all.” “Well, look here, Mandy,” I said, sheepishly; “your mother insists that you shall be engaged to some one,and I can only find one person. “Not Mr. Plutus! I won’t!” she cried, vehemently. “No,not Not any one who will an noy you, dear, or whom you dislike.” “Whoever—” She looked up at me quickly and half let go my arm. “Just till you find some one you like,” I apologized, turning as red as a poppy. She held on to my arm again and looked down on the ground. Then ahe laughed. “How very funny. ” “Would you mind, Mandy?”’ “No—o,” she laughed again. “I think it would be rather—fnn. Yon wonld hava to take me ont a lot, now. “Objyes! I won’t worry you,Cousin Frank. And—and—I could help you with it, couldn’t I?” I almost groaued aloud. Amanda on “Cerebral Con volutions!” “I’m afraid it’s rather too dry for that. ” “I might learn the typewriter and copy it, "she pleaded, anxiously. A man is only a fool, after all, however much he studies and learns. Do you know I suddenly bent down and kissed her, and she blushed like a carnation. “I won’t let you blunt your finger tips with a typewriter,” I said, gal lantly. “But you shall copy some pieces for me—till yon find some nice young man and your engagement ends.” It was best to have a clear understanding, I thought. “Ye—es,” said she, thoughtfully; “but—oh, Cousin Frank—suppose I didn’t find any one else?” “Then I shalf' have to marry you self. It would be better thau old •-anjowrerd r'mte-—*.,. couldn’t bear to think that you had sacrificed yourself to me. I should be such a bother, shouldn’t I?” I looked down affectionately on the rumpled hair and inquiring eyes. “I think—I think, Mandy,” I said, gen tly, “I could put up with you very well, ^ut we have been so used to look upon one another in a different light that it’s rather late to change. You see, dear, I have grown into a fidgety old bachelor.” “You’re not really old, and you’re never fidgety with me, and I owe you so much.” I’d merely paid for her schooling and pocket money and so on. I prom ised old Tom—poor old Tom!—that I’d take care of his girl. That’s nothing to do with it, Mandy,” I said, slowly. “You see, I’ve a lot of interests which you could never share.”* She shook her head, doubtfully. “And I like to rush off, when I’m not working, to men’s rec reations—to play cricket, to watch football or ” “I like watching football,” served, eagerly. that way—I’] .chance it. Bui )6 as an elde| I pause chielfe-“8he woi do; So it busy fii of Amanda her every day, 1 like him better like her better This arrange night, but no! ourselves. Mi silent. I coul with the book, wrong with my Frank grew a the end of the upon me in the busy with the tions.” “Look here, un flinging himself r taking one of my ass!” slowly, “I’ll be ank. I’m fond of d, indeed. If I on Id like me—in ged if I wouldn’t only looks upon ther. Some day, blow my handker- nd out. It wouldn’t [Idn’t do.” that I should be [book and see less Frank was to see out if she would or if he could ellie Merchant, sted for a fort- us seemed quite grew staid and t do anything right ' something seemed •r. Even cheerful d-tempered. At ight he burst in ing, when I was rebral Convolu- said he, cooly, an armchair and figars, “you’re an myself. ringing my hand > with a thump, “That,” I obsar^ed,mildly,“is very strong language, tfrank. ” “Well,” saidJK* l^eNellie ever “Then,” said down ou tile “you’re a fool!”^^, “Amanda,” slid he, firmly, dull as dishwater." I took off my reading glasses and glared at him. tithe’s the brightest little creature in the world,” I as serted, resolnteiy. He took a Icjg draw at the cigar rings—a thing I is as and blew sr never could continued, ii “is dull—be<5 I let my a crash. * souuded stri “Why, wil alive! You pretending | breaking^ Il< seco went. When room ‘Amanda,” he matter-of-fact tone, Ise she’s in love. ” ! drop on the floor with whom?” My voice to me. of course. Man You’re for her and »r little heart.” in silence for a few ;ot up and fetched my out,” I told him,and be blind! loirt care “I’m used to having meals please and going ont when {"like and coming in when I like. -Of course, I couldn’t do that if I bad a wife. It wouldn’t be fnir.” “It would be a little lonely for her,” said Amanda, wistfully. “So.” I continued, resolutely, re sisting an absurd impulse to kiss her again, “though I think you the nicest little woman in the world, dear”—she smiled just like the snn coming out— “it wonld be better for you to find some one younger and less crotchety.” She tapped the grot nd rapidly with one little foot. “Meanwhile, we’re engaged, you know, and we must live up to it. Where shall I take you to morrow?” “Oh, no! You must do a lot of your book tomorrow and give me some copying to do—about brains and spines and things.” “Nonsense, child! Don’t I always take you out when I come to town. Shall \ve go to the academy?” She laughed her old childish laugh. “And lunch at a restaurant?” she inquired, delightedly. “And go to the Crystal I’alace afterwards and have tea in the gardens and see the variety show and dine on the terrace like we did last year?” She squeezed mvarm in her old way. “Won’t it be jolly?” * The next day I took her to the Zoo and smiled to see her langh at the monkeys. The day after I took her to the exhibition and up the big wheel and put my arm round her be cause she was frightened, or pretended to be. I squeezed twice for good night. Then I began to see that it would be bad for the “Cerebral Con volutions” if this sort of thing went d at their drawing as sitting ou the rug, with her flHlgaiust the sofa. She had drojAr book on the floor and looMIto the fire with her nd, and I could t ee SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Au aseptic barber shop has been started in Baltimore, where all objects that touch the face have been steril ized. Asiatic cholera was first supposed to have originated from the consump tion of unsound rice, and was called the “rice disease.” There are several varieties of fish that cannot swim. In every instance they are deep sea dwellers, and crawl about the rocks, using their tails and Jins as legs. Experiments with locomotives on the Wheeling aud Lake Erie railroad show that a slight addition of graph ite to the oil used for lubricating pur poses promotes economy. It has recently been claimed that iron ships fitted with electric plants suffer rapid deterioration of their pipes having direct connection with the sea, due to electrolytic action. It is said that every thread of a spider’s web is made up of abont five thousand separate fibres. If a pound of this thread were required it would occupy 28,000 spiders a full year to furnish it. A case of leprosy in its worst form has been discovered in Londofe. No hospital or home for incurables will take the patient in and no means of isolating hiih from contact with other persons has been found yet. According to a German publication, a chemist of that country has prepared a fluid that has the power when in jected into the tissue of a plant, near its roots, of anaesthetizing the plant —not destroying it, bat temporarily suspending its vitality. Recent investigations by Dr. Lin- den-Kohl have shown that the princi pal source of the gulf stream is not the Florida channel, but the region between and beside the islands of the West ludies. At Biuioui the volume of this warm water is sixty times as great as the combined volume of all the rivers in the world at their mouths. 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The song service will be conducted by Mr. Wolfsohn, wbo is associated with Dr. Broughton, of Atlanta. For handsome thirty-page, illustrated hand book and guide to the convention call on or write to any representative of the Sea board Air Line, or to T. J. Andebson, General Passenger Agent, Portsmouth, Va. There' are 8,000 persons in Great Britain wbo pay tax on an Income of more than 150,000 a year. was cheek o: tears in She j eager 1 the ‘O' ‘HaJ “The eating I to meet me with an >;h. “What! Deserted >ns?’ ” Convolutions,.’ ” I said, xey’re awfully uninter- ~ with you, Mandy.” tl Then they must be round her waist and d rew Jfr 1 ^ me. “Mandy,” I said, Mutely, “my dear little girl, ■Je’’een. playing at sweet- heartjBon>ugh; shall we begin in earn^V id( nothing—only laid her headBo\u my shoulder with a hapwlitiob.—J. A. 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