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^ THE BEST OF LIFE. ;h the birth of love all life seems good, tlavbap yon will sleep less sound and long, Yet the day is lilled with the lilt of a son?, nd you walk with a world-wide brotherhood. Winning n love? Still a better life. The pulse beats faster with hopes and fears, And the heart looks on t<> the happy years When she shall at last bo won?and wife! Cut keeping a love! Ah ! that is best. The doubting, wondering hope is past. Deep trust and truth have brought at last The perfect life of love and rest ?Langdon Baliiuger, in Good Housekeeping. | Bound for Halifax. j t f X BY 31. CORBET*SEYMOUR. ^ Madeline Harding lay still and calm; I her face had no fear in it, no longing \ to grasp at life as it slipped away from her. She was 42 years of age, and she had known very little happiness. Nor had that little come anywhere near the realization of her childish dreams. On t'?e whole, when she knew that her time was nearly up. she felt glad. The only regret was that she could do no more to help others, and that some few might miss her as a friend?until they found one In her place. The end was very near, when a remarkable thing happened. A slow, fumbling footstep ascending the stairs was followed by the appearance of a stranger In the doorway who, in a hoarse tone, and glancing at the nurse in charge, said,? "I want Mrs. Edward Harding." His hair was long and as white as snow: so was his beard. His eyes were big and hollow and they had a harshness which made the nurse shrink back when they fixed her with a stare. "I want Mrs. Edward Harding," said the unknown, for the second time; but without moving a step forward from the door, which a startledt maid servant had thrown upon for him. "3he is here," responded the nurse. The old man turned to the bed, and his voice began tc quaver as he spoke. "Mrs. Edward," he said, and his hand shcok as he laid it on the counterpane, "it's mo?the man you saved . from a lot of misery! Me, Charles iirown, max; swore ne u t ome uuitk to prove he was grateful. Oh, you poor thing!" he added with a low sob. as light was given him to understand that this was a dying woman, "have I come just too la^e for you to know me? To be glad I've kept my word? Can't you speak to me? Can't you give me just a look out of those eyes that never turned away when I was in the very worst of my trouble?" .But not a word cair.e; not even a glimmer pf recognition flitted across that still, calm face. Then the whitehaired man sank down on his kneck by the bed. "She's dead, or next thing to it," ho moaned, "and I'm too late! It's just my wretched luck. And I've come so far and I knew she'd be glad, and now nothing matters." He tore open a packet he had carried in his hand and a little bundle of bank notes fell jut upon the counterpane. "I was so pleased to bring them back." murmured the man, "to show her 1 kept my word! And now I don't care for anything." With which remark he quietly fainted, there, where he knelt, on the floor. The brothers of the dying woman were looking anxiously at him when he recovered consciousness. But he. told them nothing, answered nothing that they asked, and with a dazed look upon his face gathered the bank notes together and replaced them in his breast pocket. Then, with a glance at the lifeless form of the woman who in some unrevealed trouble had probably befriended him, he went away. He was seen at the funeral, walking behind the mourners. Then he finally disappeared, and the little incident was soon forgetten by the very few who had known an\ thing about it. I was cue of those few; the why and because of that fact has nothing to do with the present story. A week or two later I took the train from London to Liverpool, and on looking round the compartment at my fellow travelers, I recognized the old man with white hair and beard, who spoke of himself as "Charles Brown" when Mrs. Edward Harding was dying. His eyes were fixed upon the window by which he bad taken his seat, but I am certain thai; he saw nothing?unless, indeed, he had some mental vision of his own past or his future. After a while we two had the car. riage to ourselves, except for one elderly lady whose capacity for sleeping soundly through a railway journey was nothing less than astounding. I took a vacant place nearer to him. and for the sake of getting into conversation, asked where he was bound for. "Bound for Halifax," answered the old mar., quietly, and then added, "for Canada, you know." "A fine country, and full of possibilities," I said. "I have sometimes thought I should like to emigrate." I do not think he was listening; he bad fixed his eyes again upon the outside world as soon as he had answered me. After an interval I made another attempt, asking if he had ever before ciossed the Atlantic. "Yes?five years ago," he said. "And X came back a few weeks since to find , fhe only true friend I ever possessed But I came too late." Another silence, .and then as If moved by some strong and irresistible impulse, the strange old man made me acquainted with his life story. .. Told briefly, it was this: He had been a small farmer, like his father before him, in one of the southern counties of England. For years all went fairly well; he married, had children. and was contented with his lot. Suddenly, and from no explainable cause, a run of misfortune set in for Charles Brown. Crops failed, times were bad, his wife and the two children died within a week of each other by an infectious fever, and at the year's end he found himself heavily in debt and on the road to ruin. Then, like many another unhappy creature, he tried the consolation of drink, which, as a matter of course, led him from bad to worse. Finally he resolved that to make away with his life ! was all that remained to be done. "And it was she?the lady who didn't j live to see I'd k^pt my word?that j saved rip," he said. "I had asked i one and another to give mo a helping j hand to get out of the country to j somewhere that would open a fresh j chance; but it was no use. One?a i parson he was. too. who /.ad married i me and my poor Annie and baptised I our children?said he never helped any ! but deserving ir.pn; another had too many claims?he was the nobleman of j whom I rented my farm. It was the same all round. No one ready to start j a man afresh, and that was how I j msda 2*v mind that, as t.hsr* i seemed no way to live, the best way out ot my difficulties was to die. So I cleared out of the old home, selling my stick, and all jbat was left me, and then, with a few clones done up in a burdie and a matter of twenty shillings in my pocket. I made for the sea. It was only a walk of >*. few miles to where the boats started to cross the channel, and I meant to tako my passage at night and just pitch mysell overboard when I got half way." "And this lady?how did she hell you?" I asked. "I'm coming to it," answered the old man. "As I've begun, you shall heai my story to the end. A dark nigh it was, though not stormy. There didn't seem to be many passengers and the few there were had all gone below. or at least I thought so. 'Now's your chance. Don't be a coward!" said I to myself, and I got away to the sterr of the boat, where there was no one to look and I was just going to take the leap when I felt a hand on m> arm and saw the fieure of a woman rising up from a corner where I hadn't known there was anybody. " 'Don't be desperate,' she said in a quiet, kind sort of way. 'At any rate, tell rae just what the trouble is. I'll help you if I can.' "At first I wouldn't; but she began persuading me and at last I found myself tilling her everything as though I'd known her all my life. " 'In your place, I would not give in without another try,' she said when I'd made a clean breast of everything, 'and I believe that for a new life there's nothing like a new country. Why not go to Canada?' " 'Because I can't/ I answered, and then I pulled out the few shillings which- were all I had left after paying my ticket from Dover. 'That won't take me to Canada,' I said, 'Dor to anywhere else that I know of. Better let me drown myself, ma'am? there's no coin wanted in the next world, I'm thinking, supposing there is a next world.' '"Oh, I can't let you be a coward!' said the lady, and so kindly! There wasn't any quoting texts, or preaching at me. or telling me I was a miserable sinner. I expect she knew it wasn't the right moment for anything of that sort. 'I live just a short railway distance from where we shall land,' she said, 'and though mine is only a little home, I have a spare room where I shall be pleased for you to sleep for a night or two while we arraDgo things. " 'I am not rich, but in three days i could lend you enough, money to go away to that big country where men like you are wanted, and are sure to get on. Will you go? When you grow rich you can pay mc back.'" "Will I go? Yes, that I will!' said I; and I felt a big lump come in my throat that choked back all the thanks that my heart was full of. "So she took me to her home and made me feel as welcome as though I had been one of her own friends, and in a week s time I was gone?with a right good will, too. to succeed and make something better of my life." "And did yju succeed?" I said. "Yes. I've nothing to complain of," answered the old man, "except that she didn't live to hear all I had done. Rut I had paid her back before the year wa<* out; and in two mor?* vars I'd squared up every debt I'd left behind me. And then, when money kept on coming in, I wrote to her that I was going to give myself a trip across the Dig herring pond, to show her I'd not been quite unworthy of her kindness, and to ask her if there was any other fellows as unfortunate as I ha^ been who could be set going by a fewr of iry bank notes. 'Jut I was too late." "And now what are you suing to do7" "I'm just going back again," answered the man. "There'* nothing else I can do. I've been reading over some of Mrs. Edward Harding's letters?she used to write to me every now and then. And I think that's what she would adv.se if she could speak to me. And the money I have her#*"?he touched the breast pocket of his coat? "and what I can make, shall go to help, thos that are down on their luck, saqae as I was when she held out her kind hand to me aboard ihat channe1 steamer." I had taken a fancy to this Charl?s Brown, and I lingered a day or two in Liverpool, and finally saw h'm on board the ship bound for aHlifax. "I'd like a few flowers put on her grave," were his last words to me. ":f you should be over there, perhaps you wouldn't mind seeing to it. I'd like to show her just a little of what I feel ?only somehow I fancy she knows all about it now." "I believe she does," was my answer as we clasped hands.?Waverley Magazine. PEARLS OF THO'JGHT. You never lift up a life without be ing yourself lifted up.?Emerson. To ease another's heartache is t( forget one's own.?Abraham Lincoln. 'Tis far better to love and be poor, + Vva wirtk t V* nr\ Amntv ft ? uiau uc iii. il v> i L 11 aii t ini". j uvui w. Lewis Morris. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.?Goethe. God doesn't care for what is on the outside; he cares for what is inside.? Rev. M. Babcock. Fruitless is sorrow for having done ^ amiss, if it issue not in a resolution to do so no more.?Bishop Home. The next time you are discouraged, just try encouraging some one else, j and see if it will not cheer you.?J. R. Miller. Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it, and the farther on we go the more we have to come back.?Barrow. Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and warm hand shakes?these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble, and are fighting their unseen battles.?Dr. John Hall. I'rofltnble Literary Speculation. Prices paid in the book auction rooms of New York and London throw strange light on the vagaries of collectors. A fine calf bound set of the old classics is knocked down for a few cents a volume, while the first edition fiends boost bids into the hundreds of dollars on a tiny pamphlet of Kipling's schoolboy verses. The man who c^n guess the popular taste of ten years hence has a chance to realize thousands on a present investment of a couple of dollars. He has only to pick out the fledgeling poet of today who will be in the first rank in 1912 and lay in a couple of copies of each of his works, not ignoring even the tiniest of pamphlets. His reward will be almost as certain as that of the real estate sharp who bought farm lands on upper Broadway in 1850.? New York Press. In 1900 the output of coal throughout the world was ahsut 7|?j000,O09 tonn SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Tn time past a lake existed in Switzerland near the Marshy valley. Wit either died up or disappeared through drainage or analogous causes. Now several cantons have combined, and will fill the ancient lakesite by water from mountain torrents now going to waste near by. The head thus obtained will amount to GOO feet, and will afford 60,000 horse power. The work will take three years to execute, and is expected to cost about eight million dollars. In a recent communication to the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, Mr. Leonard Joseph reported the following unusual occurrence: During a thunder storm a wild goose was seen to fall to the ground, apparently directly out of the storm clods. After the storm was over an examination revealed the body of another goose at some distance from the first. The only wounds found upon the birds were a narrow cut on the back of the neck of one and a small puncture at the point where the neck joins the body on the other. At these points the feathers were slightly sinecd. Both birds Droved perfectly fit for the table. The Smithsonian Institution is going to try to trace the migratory movements of American birds by a novel method. About a million small aluminum tags are being made, and thes are to bo sent to correspondents all over the country with the request that they fasten the tags round the legs of young wild birds before they are able to fly. The tags are to be marked and dated so that when the birds are subsequently captured or killed it can be seen how liar they have rarged from their birthplace. Hunters and others will be asked to forward to Washington the tags fram any birds so taken. Such a thorough plan nas never been tried before. The fact that the sun when poised on the horizon sometimes appears greatly distorted, or drawn out into the form of an oval, is well known, and the explanation is very simple, namely, the rapid change ir. the refractive index of the air near the horion, in consequence of which the lower edge of the sun apepars to be lifted with reference to the upper edge, and so the disk looks as if squeezed between ton and bottom. Recently Professor Prinz of the Brussels observatory has obtained several large scale photographs of the setting sun which distinctly show the deformation of the disk, and render its measurement very easy. In one case the vertical diameter is to the horizontal in the ration of 75 to 84. Sometimes the distortion is greater than that. The revelations of the spectroscope, which is capable of showing the displacement of stars toward or from *ne earth, make the starry heavens, to the atronomer's eye, appear almost as full of mazy motions as is a #loud of gnats dancing in the sunbeams. Every increase in the power of observing apparatus brings to notice new "spectroscopic binaries," which are simply double stars that cannot be separately seen, either because of their extreme closeness or because only one of them is a shining body, t is'the erratic motions of these wonderful stars that reveal thoir trno rharartor flna of fVio latest to be discovered is Eta Orionis. which hangs just below the belt of OriOn. Sometimes this start is speedmiies a second, and a few nights later ing toward the earth more t/an 40 is hurrying away with a similar velocity. Tho Canse of the Trolley* On one point the American is determined; he will not live near his work, says Charles M. Skinner in the Atlantic. You shall see him in the morning, one of 60 people in a car built for 24, reading his paper, clinging to a strap, trodden, jostled, smirched, thrown into harrowing relations with men who drink, chew tobacco, eat raw onions, and incontinently breathe; and after 30 minutes of this contact, with the roar ef streets in his ears, with languid clerks and pinguid market women leaning again him, he arrives at his office. The problems of his howeward journey in the evening will be still more difficult, because, in addition to the workers, the cars must carry the multitude of demoiselles who shop and go to matinees. To many men and women of business a seat Is an undreamed luxury. Yet, they would be insulted if one were to ask why they did not live over their shops, as Frenchmen do. or back of them, like Englishmen. It is this uneasy instinct of Americans, this desire of their families to separate industrial in/l cnfial 1 ifo fV?at mol.-no uuu ww ii*i uiv, uiai iuai\C3 IHC U1 (he trolley car imperative. and the street railway in this manner widens the life and dominion of the people, it enables them to distribute themselves over wider spaces and unwittingly to symbolize the expansiveness of the nation. I.ightning. No doubt because of the grandeur of the thunderstorm, the brilliant flashes of the lightning and the loud noise of the thunder, the large majority of the human race is timid and nervous and stands in fear of lightning. Notwithstanding the common belief that lightning is very dangerous, the total number of persons Killed in a given summer in this country is extremely small in. comparison with the population. The number also varies largely from year to year, the last year having witnessed an unusual number of deaths from this cause. The general average seems to be about one death to 200.000 of the population each summer from lightning. Thousands of people struck by lightning have been allowed to die for lack of attention. The rule is that artificial respiration should be brought about at once. The clothes should be loosened, and the well-known movements of the arms and chest made to bring about natural breathing.?Electrical Review. Tim Coming J'an. Professor Brunor maker, a startling prediction us to human development. He sees in the future man a being in whom strange transformations shall have taken place; a being in whom brain is master, ruling a body much larger than that of the present man; a body which lias lost its floating ribs. Its vormil'oam appendix and its little toes, and in which many other changes have taken place. lie believes the chest and upper and lower limbs will be larger and that the future man will be much taller than his prototype of today.?I.ondon Olobc. Some people waste a lot. of time preparing to meet an emergency, ar.d then don't recognize it wn.-,n it OOflMli Calling Out Members. "A rather curious change has taken place in the way we call out numbers," said the man who was or the lookout for the more novel things of life, "and it has completely revolutionize the old way of calling out numbers. Take the number 1,546, as an example: Time was when no man would think of saying anything but one thousand five hundred and fortysix. He would use seven distinct words in calling out the number. This rule is still observer! in the schools, but outside the schoolroom one rarely hears it called out after the old fashion. If it is a street number, a telephone number or any other particular place or thing designated by number wc will simply call it 'fifteen forty-six.' Do you'notice the economy in words? Here we use only three words, instead of seven, as of old. It saves breath and saves time, and anything that saves time is the proper caper these days. Time is the great element now. If the number should happen to be 1,090, instead of using four words .in saying one thousand Tim dicmloa fho nilTYlhpr iliiu IllUL'l > , *' V. uiuiiiiuu V with two woFds by simply saying 'ten ninety.' In the ease of telenho?? numbers in the larger cities where the duplication of numbers has been resorted to, with a final figure indicating the serial number, as, for instance, 1546-23, instead of saying one thousand five hundred and forty-six? twenty-three, we will simply call out to the exchange 'fifteen forty-six? twentv-thrcc.' Here we find the same time-saving principle. Yet if we hacl called numbers after this fashion just a few years back we would not have been understood at all. If you call figures in the old way now you are put down as worse than a backwoodsman. You are simply a jay, that's all. We do these things because we live In a hurrying age. We* want to get through quickly and pass to the next post."?New Orleans Times-Democrat A FINANCIAL COUP. "I wonder why the King of Spain desires to introduce horse racing as a national amusement?" "Possibly," said the man who doesn't appreciate money till it's gone, "he wants to help the treasury out by putting the cabinet into the ring as bookmakers."?Washington Star. COULDN'T MISS IT. Miss Hoyle?Yes, he kissed me when we went through that dark tunneh II don't see how he managed to find my mouth. Miss Doyle?That was probably the first thing he struck.?New York Press. WOO VIDMMIA ODANCC ITllOO vinumiH uiihiilu Tells How Hospital Physicians Use and Rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com. pound. " Dear Mrs. Pinkham : ? Twelve years continuous service at the sick bed in some of our prominent hospitals, as well as at private homes, has given me varied experiences with the diseases of women. I have nursed some MISS VIRGINIA GRANTS, President of Xurscs'Association,Wat6rtown,N.I. most distressing- cases of inflammation and ulceration of the ovaries and womb. I have known that doctors used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Corapound when everything- else failed with their patients. I have adviged my patients and friends to use it and have yet to hear of its first failure to cure. " Four years ago I had falling of the womb fi-om straining in lifting a heavy patient, and knowing of the value of your Compound I began to use it at once, and in six weeks I was well once more, and have had no trouble since. I am most pleased to have had an opportunity to say a few words in praise of your Vegetable Compound, and shall take every occasion to recommend it."? Miss Virginia Granes.?$6000 forfeit if above testimonial Is not genuine. Lydia E, Pinkliain's Vegetable Compound has stood the test of time, and has cured thousands. Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo- , men free. Address, Lynn, Mass, 11 lltof s NM^^^Foods l! ^ Cooked J-iut Exactly Right, then pat up in k<sropcning cans. Yon get thom at roar grocers ~"jn?t as they leore n*?dainty, delicious and ^ ready to nerve. Yon will never keep house with^ out lobby's Foom when you onoe try them. ^ , LIBBY, McNEILL I LIBBY, CHICAGO < Auk for oor booklet, "How to Maik Good , r T.ff lngb to Eat." It will be aent yon free. ^ ^ A AT !(?. (On. tL*-' DrugffcU Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold in balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell ''something jnst as good." "wanted 05O Young Men At or ce to Qualify for good positions which we will guarauteo in writing under a $5,000 deposit to promptly procure them. The Ga.-AIa. Bus. College, MACON, GEORGIA. ATLANTA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. Free Dispensary, only college In the I". S. op. eratlxc a drug store. Demand for graduates greater than we can supply. Address I>R. GEO. F. PAYNE, Whitehall, Atlanta, Ga. I Tim Work-bi?x 1'eople. "We go through all our work," The needles proudly cry: "But not until you'ro pushed," Is the thimble's apt reply. "Ours is a strong attachment," Whisper hook and eye together; "Yet you need as to secure you," Hum the threads, like windy weatl er. They all reproached the scissors, But the scissors didn't care: 'Twas his trade to cut acquaintance, And he did it w.th an air! Geiyly jesting thus, and boasting, Work-box people all at play! Silence, all! it is the mistress Coming from across the way. ?Christian Register. Cat on tho Payroll. Ten dollars "for lood for the postoffice cat" is, perhaps, the most curious allowance made by former Postmo.-tni Pnnni.nl Omitli Tn tho nnQt maoitx ucuv'iai uuixm. au b>*v office in St. Paul, Minn., is a cat that has endeared itself to the employes, not alone by its gentle ways, but by its ability to catch the rodents which infest the place. The postoffice in St. Paul is an old affair, and great caution has to be taken with the mails to prevent their being nibbled by the rats and mice. . Many efforts have been made to get a cat that would appreciate its official position and work in the interests of the government, but all failed until finally a cat came that evidently meant business. She was, however, enticed to a neighboring building, where though the atmosphere was less aristocratic, the fare was better. Numerous other specimens of the feline race came, tried the position of government rat killer and left, apparently dissatisfied with the existing pay roll. The mails did not contain eatables, and a strict diet of rodents was not to their taste. Any self-respecting cat demanded an appetizer in the shape cf milk or cream. Finally, the present incumbent appeal ec and has given such general sir slaetion that the government has in.nlc a special requisition in its favor, and it will be supplied with all the delicacies of the season. This is one of tbe few instances where a cat has been placed or. the payroll of Uncle Sam. Toggle*. Puggles' home is in Italy, in a clergyman's family, and he is the very prettiest "pug" that ever was. He always went in to dinner with the family, and after the plates were removed from the last course and coffee was served, he would mount the table from his usual cozy place in the lap of his mistress's pape, and gravely seating himself, would eat a bit of sugar and lap some coffee. One day, while a party of ladies and gentlemen were taking their coffee, Puggles' mistress took a piece of cake of which he is very fond, and laid a morsel before him, saying, "Stolen!" Puggles' nose was instantly elevated in the air, and he sat like a statue until she said, "Paid for," when he at once snapped it up. Then she laid a bit down, saying, "Monday we eat." He ate. She put another crumb before him, saying, 'Tuesday we eat," and he licked it up. "Wednesday we shake hands." He shook hands and ate Wednesday's piece. "Thursday we eat." He ate. "Friday is a solmen fast." Up went Puggles' nose, and be became still as a stone until his mistress said, "Saturday we eat," when he at once ate up Friday's portion. "Sunday we eat double," laying down two bits, and he ate them, amidst the noisy approval of all, while Puggles sat quite unconcerned. The performance was repeated, but as the young lady said, "Tuesday we eat," and Puggles' head was going down to the coveted piece of cake, a gentleman said, "Stolen!" Puggles's head went up, so he said, "Paid for," and Puggles took his honestly obtained sweets?Youth's Companion. A New Qnettion Unmc. Captains are chosen, and they in turn choose sides, as in an old fashioned spelling match. A timekeeper is also chosen, one has a watch with a secular second hand. The two sides sit opposite each other in two long rows. The timekeeper sits between the two rows, at the end decided upon as the head, and he holds his watch open before him. The captain sits at the head of his row and asks the first question. Any one on the other side may answer the question, but it must be answered inside of a minute. If no one answers before the minute is up the timekeeper calls "Time!" and the captain who asked me question calls any one from the other side to his side. If, on the other hand, the other side answer before the minute is up, they call one from the captain who asked tue question. Any one may be chosen from either side except the captain. Then the captain on the other side asks a question, and the same rule is followed, then the one next to the captain who first asked a question asks a question, his opposite follows with a question, and so on until every one on both sides has asked a question. Then the side that has the most on it is victorious. No one must ask a question he or she cannot answer. And if the other side fail to answer a question the one that asked it must give the oorrect ? ? HPV? rtiiAcfmne m net UIISWCI. i lie ijui.ouuiio uiugv uv such as "Who was the seventh president of the United States?" or "How many legs has a house fly?" or "Who was the author of 'Snowbound'?" or "What president owned a home called Monticello?" or "How much is eight times nineteen?" Any boy who asks a question which he cannot answer himself, or who asks a question which has more than one answer, must go himself to the opposite side. The ones that are called over go to the foot of the class.?New York Tribune. Playing Robin. Grandpa saw the two little girls walking toward the cherry tree. "Don't pick my cherries," said he, sharply, as he hurried into the house. The little girls looked soberly at each other, then at the beautiful cherry tree. "Let's go to the barn," said Jessie. "Let's play or der the cherry tree," said Beatrice, "we needn't pick his old cherries." The grass was thick and green under the tree. They sat upon it, leaning against the trunk. Birds flew in and out of the great tree, unafraid of the girls and the children envied the birds. "I can climb this tree," cried Jessie. "So can I," said Beatrice, "just as easy; let us do it and play we are robbins." They .'fetched a long fence board fend plucud eat tad tftinul the trtt and so managed to scramble at last upon the large branches. Here they sat, swinging tneir feet and singing for several happy minutes. But above them, high in the tree, the cherries looked red, much redder than they looked from the ground. "I tell you what," said Beatrice, "let's climb up to that bough yonder and we can reach up and eat cherries like robbins no. Then Grandpa will never know. I think Grandpa'is selfish." Jessie looked first at Beatrice and then at the cherries. "He is selfish," she said, and the two girls climbed higher and soon were pulling down the twigs with their shining fruit. It was slow work for the eager little 1 mouths to eat the pulp and leave the pits and stems on the twigs, but th?y ate a great many cherries. The breeze blew the branch out of their reach and stretching up to catch it one girl lost her footing and fell against the other. The slender branch snapped and down through the boughs they crashed to the ground. "Oh, oh, oh!" they screamed. "I'm most killed." wailed Beatrice. "My foot is all broke to pieces!" cnicd Jessie. They could not rise for pain. Grandpa ran to them. "Oho, I see," said he, sternly, but after helping Beatrice to the house he carried Jessie to her home. Each had a sprained ankle, khich kepf them indoors for more than a week. When Jessie came to see Beatrice for the first time after the accident the two little girls sat soberly 011 the porch. They looked at the beautiful cherry tree with its broken limb. "I don't want to play robbin, do you?" asked Jessie. "No," said Beatrice, "and I don't want cherries when Grandpa says rot. They were not ripe." "No," said Jessie, "I was awful sick of 'em." "I was, too," chimed in Beatrice, "I b'lieve I most died!" "Your grandpa wasn't selfish," said Jessie. "No, indeed," assented Beatrice. They looked at the tree and gave a great sigh. "Well," said Jessie, cheerfully, "let's go to ' e barn and play we are her.s!" and away they ran.?Brooklyn Eagle. reline Gratitude. The funniest little cat in New York lives in a semi-deserted flat on the West Side.. Her master goes away in the morning and does not return until late at night and all this time the little cat has to amuse herself the best way she can. As she is a sociable little creature her solitary life weighs heavily upon her spirits and she perches on the kitchen window sill, which gives a view on a neighbor's yard and watches eviously the free and happy cats that play there. The neighbor, being a tender hearted person, wrote a letter to the cat's master and received permission to introduce the forlorn puss to the pleasures of the yard and its merry occupants. Every morning the neighbor's servant lets the little cat out 01 the kitchen and turns her loose in the yard with the other cats. But the green grass has but a temporary charm for the little visitor cat. If anything interesting? such as the preparation of luncheon? is going on in the kitchen the little cat deserts her playfellows of the yard and establishes herself at the cook's elbow, purring contentedly and keeping her bright eyes on her so as not to lose a single movement. Her favorite perch is on top of the gas range, and Casabianca did not stick to his burning deck more stubbornly than this little cat sticks to her perilous post of observation. Even when the range is "in action" Tippy cannot be induced to budge from her position, and not until everything cookable is eaten or otherwise put out of sight will the little cat consent to come down to earth and interest herself in other things. Once a week the cat-loving neighbor sends a beef heart from the butcher's to be cooked for the pussies' dinnprs thrnnzholit the week. When the cooking of this "plat du jour" takes place Tippy behaves as a Kentucky cat who had attended barbecues in her native land might act under the same circumstances. As soon as the beef heart is brought into the kitchen she seems to know that something unusual is on foot and settles herself in her favorite spot on top of the gas range. The beef heart is put on to boil in a saucepan and left there two hours. All that time the little visitor cannot take her eyes off the pan or relax her attention except to stretch a little or to pillow her head upon her paws when she gets tired of sitting sphinx fashion, with paws primly in front of her. When the meat is cooked and put in a bowl on the window sill to cool she yawns from fatigue after her long vigil, but does not throw down her burden. She takes a position on the window sill, among the plants, and there she stays until the precious beef heart is put away in the refrigerator. ' At first the cook thought the visitorcat was a greecfy gut pure and simple, and then she came to the conclusion that she was a grateful creature that was anxious to repay, in vigilance and fidelity, the kindness of the hostess. The way the cok came to this opinion is interesting. One day, before the little cat had been brought into the yard, a chicken was placed on the kitch'en window for a minute while the cook was washing her hands at the sink. When she turned around it was gone. As the chicken was not a live one, but ready to be dressed, the astonishment nf Pridept. was Drofound. She looked around the kitchen for signs of sprites or banshees, but saw none, and then she went, out into the yard just in time to prevent one of her mistress' pets from disappearing over the fence with the fat and tender poulct au naturel. Cook administered a scund whacking to the thief and denounced him in unmeasured terms in her rich brogue, which never fails to bring the neighbors to their windows. As she was returning to the house with the mutilated chicken in her hand and angry words still on her lips she happened to look up at the flat house, and there siting on the window ledge, was the little visitor cat, taking in the scene with eyes that were almost popping out of her head with excitement. 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