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01’ all 't‘ ii man whom I‘ndmire
'l'lier -‘s not a one who may aspire
'1‘.» «11:11] as high. and none who can.
1' s 11- t5 the truly "quiet man."
1:.” .111 '1 being on the earth
Us 15 1.- iodit far beyond his w ortb.
'l 11 1.1. one can be none other than
’1‘ .. is nnobstrusive "quiet man.”
No matter what’s within his head , ; 1; "
His silence is interpreted (
To be a sign that wisdom lies t
I-‘c hind his inex'pressive eyes. ‘i
if so he drops a word or ten
His 11 1en .is w ill search them through and
tlliough
'l‘ v meanings deeper in'intent
Than c‘e'rthe speaker thought or means.
If St). by chance, he takes a stand,
Assumes position of command.
Surprised approval greets him ti on,
And you shall hear from other "1211:
‘ some weighty reason lay behind;
An act so foreign to his kind."
When things go wrong his moveltss state
ls credited to scorn of fate.
So softly to himself he swears;
. , ’ l‘zs thought he murmurs pious prayers.
He’s so misjudged. his flaws at length
Are twisted int.) points of strength.
Poor humankind awaits command
From all it doesn’t understand.
And he may work his own sweet will
Who has the art of keeping still.
——Chicago J ourn'al.
A LITTLE WHITE CA.“
BY MARGUERITE L. SUMNER.
The cap had a character of its own. It ‘
was not the fact that its wearer was
young and slim, that her checks were
pink and herlihair was golden, that
made it unique; but this doubtless add-
ed to its interest. Not another nurse
in the big hospital had a cap like it,
although all were made of the same:
material, after the same pattern. This
one of Theodora’s always seemed fresh-
er, whiter, than any other, and strang-
est of all, it arranged itself to suit the
changing mood of its owner.
Whenever the matron approached
The-o, her cap would take a defiant
jump and perch on the side of its own—
er’s head in such a provoking way that
that worthy woman fairly fumed with
wrath. There was very little love lost
between Theodora. and the matron. The
latter was, tall and angular, with a
pointed nose and hard mouth. Shh
seemed to have an especial antipathy
to Theo, perhaps because her words
had so little effect on the othei’ s light
heartedn-ess.
When Doctor Ford, the youngest, the
n1errie-,st and at times the sternest, 01
the hospital staff of physicians, first
made acquaintance with the cap, it
was almost falling off in order to join
in its mistresses sympathy with 011: .
Mrs. Brown, in the charity ward, who
was blind and pain-racked.
were. standing together when the ma-
'ltroil rustled up, and the doctor’s eyes
twinkled as he saw Theo’ s cap rise in
antagonism.
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“Nurse Yorke, you have more thas
done your duty here,” she said. “Be
kind enough to stop coddling the pa-
tients and you will accomplish more
You are due now in- the diet kitch-
cn. ”
The cap stood up serenely high and
cillm.
“Yes,. madam, presently. Doctor
this woman ought to have an opiate.’
There was an unmistakable sneer in
the matron’s voice as she said,—
“You hiive'taken an odd fancy to the
patient. Nevertheless you may go a!
once to the kitchen or lose your recre-
ation heur.”
The cap never stirred, neither dic‘
Theodora’s fine gray eyes.
“Very well,” said the matron. “YOL
see my trials, doctor.” ‘
She turned abruptly, and shaking hex
skirts, rustled away.
“A most disagreeable woman,” mut-
tered the doctor.
Theodora’s cap nodded assent, then
bent ove1 the patient once more.
Doctor Ford’s attention Was again
called to this cap when, a few days
later, a little cross from loss of sleep,
he entered the children’s ward, ana
caughta aflashing gleam of white far
down the room, dancing merrily to the
motion of a golden head over two fly-
ing feet, while a. sweet voice sang a
comical nursery rhyme.
Baby eyes of blue and gray ano ,
brown, full of interest, .were fixed upon
the dancer. All had for the moment }
forgotten their pain. Had the doctor 1
not been tired, this scene would have
pleased him. Now he walked over to
the girl and said sternly,——
“Nurse Yorke, what is the meaning
of this frivolity? I have observed you
frequently of late; you are sympathet-
ic; that is about the only qualification
for a nurse that you have. I am sur-
prised that you undertook the work.”
Theodora was sensitive; quickly the
hot blood swept up into her cheeks; '
but she was also proud; from her gray
eyes she flashed him a' look which he
could not soon forget. Then she
walked down the ward, the back of hex
cap expressing injured dignity. The
doctor gazed after her.
“What a beast I was!” he murmured
“That cap utters a. scathing rebuke.”
He felt his moroseness vanishing to.
give place to amused interest.
On his next visit Doctor Ford found
himself watching furtively for a
glimpse of a certain little white cap. :
But when he saw it he started in sur~ I
prise. Its wearer was leaning upon a
windowsill, the cap tilted disconsolate-
ly down toward her eyes. The encount- '
er startled both into words.
“I beg pardon!”
“Doctor Ford!”
“You are in trouble.”
The cap took an oddly fierce po-
“Oh, no—only pricked by pins. The
matron and I don’t get on."
“What now?". .
NIGHT
(REFINSUCIIT‘
“She goes out of her way to annoy
me; sends me where I am really not
required to go; makes 'me smart under
her cutting words. Yet I have my
small revenges," laughingly.
“Yes, trust woman for that! She is
a bundle of petty revenges at her best."
The doctor’s eyes were grave. It
was whispered about that he was grow-
ing cynical where women were con-
cerned.
“Let.me give you a chapter of Mrs.
Whitten’s life," he resumed. 1“A few
years ago her only son, a wild fellow
when I knew him, but the pride of his
deluded mother’s heart, went away to
sea; the vessel was wrecked and all on
board were lost. Your matron told me
not long since that the only comfort of
her 1011er life was the thought that
her boy died a pure, good man.’.’
The doctor glanced at his listener.
How bad that cap managed to assume
such a pitiful pose? His glance fell
lower; Theodora’s eyes were tender,
luminous. Suddenly he straightened
himself. -
“Pshaw! Well, that story may make
you pity her a little in private—and
give an added zest to your revenges.”
“Doctor, do you think so poorly of
women as that?"
“I do from necessity. I 'have never
had occasion to hold another belief.”
“I am sorry.’
When she went away the cap was
drooping; the doctor stood and watch-
ed it out of sight.
Not long after this a patient in the
last stages of consumption was brought
to the hospital as a charity case. Now
if there was one disease above all
others which the matron feared and
dreaded, it was consumption—perhaps
because it was hereditary in her fam-
ily. At any rate she had as little to do
with consumptives as possible. This
new case was assigned to the one pri-
vate 'room in the ward. The sufferer
was in a frightful condition; dissipa—
tion and the dread disease had done
their worst for him.
Mrs. Whitten, after hearing the
story, suavely delegated Theodora to
take charge of the new patient. ‘
“You like charity people,” she said
scornfully.
The girl went, her cup bravely erect;
entered the little room amid the curses
and raving of its inmate, went to the
bedside, took the burning hands in hei
soft, cool ones, and bent her clear eyes
upon the young fellow. Gradually he
: grew quiet, wept a little, then poured
into her sympathetic ears his miser—
able story. After that he soon settled
. again into a delirium from which ht
never awoke.
Theodora mounted guard over the
room, allowing no one save the phy‘
sician to enter it. Mrs. Whitten, full
of malice, noiscd, it about that the man
was Theodora’s lover. '
After a few days the matron decided
to step in and look at the dreadful new
patient. Going to the room, she was
met at the threshold by Theodora.
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ter, madam.”
“Stand aside, nurse!” '
But instead of doing so the girl step»-
ped outside and closed the door.
“You shall not enter!” she cried,
while her eyes, determined,
held the other’s hard ones.
Reckless and formidable the cap
seemed actually to stand upright. The
matron turned.
“You have defied me, Nurse Yorke--
take the consequences.”
She had not cared greatly about end
tering, but wished to irritate the girl.
Now she had an excuse to be rid of
her. I
With wide open eyes Doctor Ferd
had witnessed from a distance the
strange encounter and its ending.
Was it true, he thought, that this
pure-eyed girl loved that sodden
wretch, as had been hinted about the
hospital?
Biting his lip he strode away after
seeing Theodora disappear within the
room, her sweet face pale and drawn.
“Just like them all—some hideous
skeleton to hide,” he muttered through
shut teeth.
SIR JOHN MAC DONALD’S ADVICE.
The Reporter Had a Proud Moment oi
Expectancy.
Sir John Macdonald was the guest 0!
honor at a banquet in Montreal one
evening and was expected to make a
speech of much political moment. The
Star sent a short hand man with in.
structions to take down Sir. John’s
words exactly as they were uttered. It
was a great banquet and wine flowed
freely. After the speech the reporter
hastened to the office to transcribe his
notes. For the life of him he could not
make out what Sir John had been talk
ing about. He hurried off to the pre-
mier and went over the speech careful-
ly with him and straightened it out.
'Thanking Sir John most gratefully, he
was about to rush back, when the
statesman, taking him by the hand,
said: “My dear friend, you are young.
The world is before you. I am old and
have seen much of life, its trials and
temptations. Let me venture as one
full of experience, to offer you a few
words of advice”—it was the proudest
moment of the reporter’s life. He was
all expectancy. “Be sure, always be
sure, my young friend, that when you
try to report a speech you are quite so-
ber.”—New York Press.
If you wish to be miserable you must
think about yourself, about what you
want, what you like, what respect peo-
ple ought to pay you, and then to you
nothing will be pure. You will spoil
everything you touch, you will make
sin and misery for yourself out oi
everything which God sends you; you
will be as wretched as you choose.
——Charles Kingsley.
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To D111, NOT TO LIVE.
AaAssi GIVES THE ONLY REASON
wmusws GO TO PALISTINE.
They Have No Desire to Make Their
Homes There and the Bussaln s and Ron-
manians Long for the Advanced and
Civilized Countries of the West.
The Jewish Congress which met in
Switzerland in the latter part of Aug—
ust, with the object of securing Pales-
tine for recolonization by the Jews, has
attracted widespread attention in this
country, and has given rise to much
In refer-
ence to the matter the Rev. Dr. I. M.
Wise, rabbi of the Plum Street Temple,
Cincinnati, had this to say:
“The ancient kingdom of Judea was
overthrown in the year 70, A. D., and
the- people became merged into other
nations. Judea had ceased to be a na-
tion, and all the heroic attempts to re-
store its nationality were signal fail-
ures. Those who voluntarily left Judea
previous to the fall, or were carried
away as prisoners, became subject to
the laws of the land in which they
lived, though remaining faithful to the
laws of Moses. These wanderers from
Iudea saw that their brethren to the
east and west of them were steadfast
subjects of the land to which they had
been migrated, and still remained
steadfast to their religion, so that the
conviction soon grew upon them that
their religion was not dependent upon
the preservation of a national G‘overn-
ment.
“Of Jerusalem, its temple, altar, and
the ancient cult they had only memor-
ies, but of their religion and the obed-
lence of their brethren to the laws of
me land of their adoption they had
living examples. The religion, and
their history therefore, became the
center, to which the scattered particles
of the nation gravitated. For eigh-
teen centuries the Jews have lived and.
thrived on their religion and their his«
tory without social or national auxil—
laries.
“So long as the Jews enjoyed equal
rights with the other inhabitants of
the country they were loyal citizens
and true to their religion. When driv-
an to desperation by persecution and
intolerance they sought consolation in
their religion and the ideal that a re-
deemer would come to lead them back
to Palestine. But notwithstanding
their hopes and prayers for such a con-
summation, they never evinced any
particular desire to go back. They
migrated from land to land, but not to
Palestine. Some extra pious souls
went there to die, but very few went
there to live.
In Russia and Roumania, where the '
Iew was never treated as a human
being, and his every ideal trampled un-
ier foot, the morning of redemption
dawned under Alexander II. But un-
der Alexander III, the Jews were again
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their fathers of old, they fell back upon
their Messianic'ideals, in theory, and
emigrated to all countries—except Pal-
estine. One million Jews have left
Russia since 1881, of whom certainly,
'not more than 25, 000 went to Pales-
tine.
“These facts prove that the Jews
even of Russia and the Balkan States
do not wish and will not go back to
Palestine under a Government of their
own or any other Government.
“The so—called Jewish Congress in
Basel was, properly speaking, neither a.
zongress, nor Jewish. It was really a
conventiou of some voluntary advo-
sates of a plan for the relief of the
Jews in the Orient. It was not Jew-
ish because it represented neither the
sentiments nor the religious propen- '
titles of the Jews as a body.
Fhe entire proceedings of the
:onvention, as given through the
press of this country, are that there
were 200 delegates present, Dr.. Herzl
and Dr. Nordau were elected presiding
afllcers . and a. telegram was sent the
Sultan, thanking him for the kind and
rust treatment accorded his Jewish
Subjects. .
“Throughout the civilized world
there is no desire on the part of the
Iews to return to Palestine, under any
:ircumstances, and those who have had
the best opportunity to return, and for
whom the whole movement was origin-
ally planned, viz., the Russian and
I‘loumanian Jews, are the last to take-
advantage of any such offer. 0n the
:~ontrary, they strive to get as far away
from the Orient, as possible and seek
the free, advanced, and civilized coun-
tries of the West.
“The whole plan is a dream of ro- - .
giants and impractical minds, and will
re forgotten as soon as the newspapers
become tired of using it.”—Cincinnati
Gazette. '
The Queen u. Critic.
The Youth’s Companion relates an
nursing story of ‘W. H. Pre-ece, the
-.v..=;l—l:11€wn electrician, about the ear—
: days 01‘ the. telephone. That the
Queen might test the new invention,
’16 put Osborne, Portsmouth and Lou-
lcn in ccmmunication, and arranged
that a band should play while her
fulsjc-sty was at the other end of the
netrument. ’
The Queen was detained, and before
arrived. the band had been sent
But a happy thought struck
VIr. Preece. Why not himself act as
he band? He stepped to the instru-
ment and bummed into it "Goo Save
— 1e Queen, " and asked if her Majesty
1eccgr ized the tune.
Y es,” she said; "it was the nation-
11 anthem—but very badly played!"
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0111- Uhjrctinn.
“How intense are the fires of love!”
.ajaculated the poet.
“Yes,” answeied the father of six
nalringeable daughters; “but they do
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I dream of you by night; ‘
I wake and would you were here, love,
And tears are blinding my sight,
i hear a low breath in the lime tree,
The wind 13 floating througl
And oh! the night, my darling,
ls sighing, sighing for you. Is
2.
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Und send' dir meincn Blick,
1 [in schlugst mir die tiefste VVundc,
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3.
0 think not I can forget you,
I could not though I would,
I see you in all around me,
The stream, the night, the wood,
The flowers, that slumber so gently,
The stars above the blue;
Oh' heaven itself, my darling,
praying,
praying for you.
3.
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