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FATHER LOVE.
0 earth is full of lovely things i
Which our dear Father-God has made,
01' buds and blooms and gleaming wings,
And bursts of light and depths of shade.
0, thick across the purple skies
The wondrous flashing stars are strewn,
And bright with cherub-children’s eyes
‘ The glowing world is overgrown.
But never, in the woods at noon,
0r underneath the stars at night,
Or in the low sweet vales of June,
Or on the mountain's upper height—
0, never thrilled my blood so much,
' And never leaped my heart so wild,
As when I bowed my head to touch
The sweet lips of my first-born child.
Ah! and I know that evermore
I have held higher talk with Heaven,
In deeper whispers than before
That large new blessedness was given.
I could not part her precious hair,
Nor look upon her sacred eyes,
And not within my full soul swear
To mark herflsteps in Paradise.
I hear her low voice in the hall,
Her liquid laugh among the dowel-3;
And pulse leaps unto pulse, and all
My life goes seeking her for hours.
And when she rises to my knee
And lightly nestles toward my cheek
With love that clings so utterly,
I clasp her, but I cannot speak.
0, mid the tumult of the town,
The care, the canker and the doubt,
And when the flaming sun goes down.
And when the holy stars are out;
In the great stillness of the night,
And in the front of garish day,
She wraps me like a robe of light.
And turns to spirit all my clay.
God bless my child! I never lmév‘i‘
Life's vastness until she was born.
God bless my child! and keep her true
Through all her deeper-widening mom.
0, reach Thyvhand out thr p h the years
And hold her near Thee u’ efiled;
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And give her oil of joy for tears.
And, Father, Father. bless my child!
—-Richard Realf, inCongregationalist.
IM JENKINS is dead. Aneta. Ovideo
is dying. Jim Jenkins died in In
dian territory. Aneta Ovideo is dying
in Cuba.
. Every day she creeps down to the
water’s edge and drops a knot of cape
jessamine into the- ocean.
If the waves bring the knot of cape
jessamine back to the shore Aneta
Ovideo cries—that‘ means that she will
live another month. If the waves carry
the ,knot of jessamine out to the open
sea Aneta. Ovideo smiles a pale little
.smile of happiness and peace for that
means that she will die before the
month is out. ~ ‘ .
Her sweetheart is- dead; dead and
buried out in the snow in the west, and
she is all alone down in Cuba; alone
with the moonlight and the waves, and
she wants to die.
She is a. Cuban. Her father was-a rich
merchant- of San Juan.
When. the Americans entered San
Juan Aneta. decorated the squat, square
house with wreaths and with great. knots
of cape jessaminc. And she and the lit-
tle colored maid stood at the easement
and clutched each other and cried and
laughed and tried to'sing the strange
marching song which brought the
Americanos into the city. _
The rough riders came up the nan
row streets of San Juan. They were
dusty, and their clothes were torn.
The troops caught sight of the-knot of
jessamine, and one of them swung his
Love ANS DEATH
A‘ Romance of Cuba
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I-IE TOLD HER THAT HE LOVED HER.
great hat and made a sweeping bo-w up
at the window where Aneta and the
little colored maid were.
A few days after that Aneta visited
some friends. There were strangers
visiting them, Americans, and one of
them was a tall man dressed in "rough
brown clothes. ’
When hesaw Aneta he rose and made
her a sweeping bow. He wore. a knot of
cape jessamine in his coat.
The trooper’s name was Jenkins. Jim,
the men in his regiment called him.
“MeesterChenkeen,” Ancta said, “you
are fond of'the so sweetjessamine of my
country?”
“That's what," said Jim Jenkins.
“Prettiest flowers I ever saw. and they
look just like a beautiful woman tome.”
Aneta blushed and fanned herself.
One day Trooper Jenkins went to the
Ovideo house to call. .
Aneta’s father thought the trooper
too presumptuous upon slight acquaint-
once.
The two men quarreled, and the hot-
tempe'red Guban would have killed the,
trooper if Aneta had not clutched his
hand before the knife had time to deg.
scend. '
After that Aneta. saw the trooper
often.
Henc'vcr said anything about the jes—
saminc again, but he always wore one-
in his coat to match the knot of them
in Aneta’s shining black hair. Aneta
could not understand him. He laughed
so much, and he would get hertothrum
her guitar and sing to him by the hour,
and he would sit and stare and stare and
stare at her, and never speak for long
hours ata time. . -
one evening he spoke. '
He told Aneia that he loved her. He
said that he was a rich cattle owner,
end that he-had great ranches in the far
west. '
Aneta closed hen shining eyes and
smiled, and when she went in she told
the little colored maid that she was so
happy she was afraid she should die.
As soon as he went home, the trooper .
Iold Aneta, he would be mustered out,
and then he would send forher, and she
should come to his hacienda and be mis-
tress of a houseful of servants and of a
much that waslike a little kfiigdom.
Aneta. liked to hear about the range,
and about the wild flowers, but when he
began to talk about the money she
said: -
"0, si, si, si. I know. Now, sir, tell
me, if you will, please, about you.
Where were you born? How old do you
realy be? Have you a brother or a sis—
ter? No? Were you a good little boy
when you were emu-11.? Have you the
picture of you. yourself, in the long
dress? No? It is too bad! .I like-to see
you—all ways—when a baby and when
a boy, as all ways. And do you love the
music like me? I do! Si. That is good.
Everything is good in these days.”
Butone day the troopers were ordered
home. - .
Aneta’s trooper had to go with the
rest. . .
Aneta pinned a. knot of jessamine on
his coat, and made him go into the little
oratory with her and kneel before the
li ttle. altar.
But. when the great troopship was
gone, she \i‘ent into the little oratory
and staid on her knees half the night.
_ The first steamer brought Aneta. a
letter from her troopen.
- It was a kind letter, full of affection,
but there was. some-thing in it that made
Aneta’s heart grow cold. .‘
It made her feel as she did when he
laughed so much and made his 'gray
eyes look like cold steel, with the moon
glittering on them.
“When will you be free?" she wrote.
"When shall we be married?”
The trooper wrote. back a long letter,
full'of his fine ranch and his money and
the beautiful home he was preparing
for Aneta.
“I do not care about the ranch,” she
said, “or about theTfine home. I want
to be with you.”
On Christmas day she wrote him that
she would kill herself if he did not write
to her.‘
“They are laughing at me-here,” she
said. “They are telling me that you
were joking with me, that you never
cared for me. If I do not hear from you
In four weeks’ time I shall kill myself.”
Just two weeks ago Ancta Ovideo rc-
ceivcd an answer to her letters. “Jim
Jenkins is dead." said the letter. “He
died a week ago. He spoke your name
with his last breath." .
“I am so glad.” she said. “I am so
glad. Now, I shall see him soonagain.”
And every day she throws the knot of
jessamine into the sea, for the charm
must be worked for twice seven days
before she will know surely how lon
she will have to live. ~
Henry Harmon lives out in Indian
territory.
It was he who wrote Aneta and told
her that her sweetheart was dead.
In all his letter chry Harmon wrote
just one sentence of truth, and that was
that JimJenkins-was dead. All the rest
was a lie. ' '
Jim Jenkins was not a ranch owner.
He had no home prepared for Aneta.
He was a cowboy in the same outfit
with Henry Harmon. He did not die
with Ancta’s name on his lips. He did
not love her.
He showed her poor little letters to the
cowboys on the ranch and made fun of
them.
He roared with laughter when he read.
the one in which Aneta. told him that
she would kill herself unless she heard
from him.
He died very suddenly that. very
night, and left an unfinished letter to
Aneta.
"I never cared :1 cent for you,” the let-
ter read. “I’ve been having fun all the
time. But now I’m getting tired of it.
The boys are making a fuss about your
writing so often. and I wish you’d stop.”
Henry Harmon. cowboy, I X L outfit.
read the letter aloud to the “boys” who
had heard Jim Jenkins read the other
ones aloud.
The “boys” did not laugh at the joke.
I‘hey sat still.
“Fellers,” said Arizona. Ike, the head
of the outfit, “this ain’t no time fer the
truth. let’s keep on a lyin’.”
So Henry Harmon wrote the lying
l-ctter to Aneta Ovideo, and a poor little,
soft-eyed girl will die happy for his
pains—N. Y. Journal.
Minutes and Seconds.
At least 25 centuries B. C. the Baby-
lonians used a scxagesimal system of
notation, consisting of sari and sossi,
of which we have vestiges when we
reckon 60 minutes to the hour and 60
Seconds to the minute, or 3,600 seconds
——that is, a saros of sossi——-to the hour.
That we count 12 pence to the shilling
and 20 shillings to the pound, 12 inches
to the foot, 24 hours to the day, 300 de- -
grees of longitude around the equator.
90 degrees of latitude from the equator
to the poles, and 60 miles to a. degree,
may also be traced to the same duo-
decimal Babylonian system of numerai
tion, which originally reckoned (ii)
shekels to the mina and 60 miuas to
the talent. All these numbers are fac-
tors or multiples of 'the sums or =60.
Our measures of time, money, or linear
and angular space, are all derived from
the Greeks, who obtained them from
the Babylonians, probably through the
Phoenicians.~—N otes and Queries. '
Immense Power Plant Findlhe-d.
The longest power transmission sys-
tem in the world, that which supplies
the city of Los Angeles, 08.1., with elec-
tricity, With power developed at the
head of the Santa Ana river, 80 miles
away, is completed. The system has
occupied several years in building. The
wires enter the city in underground :
conduits. . .
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Seventeen Hundred” Men Land
From TranSport Sheridan.
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MANY NEGROS ROBBERS KILLED.
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. A Letter Received-From American
Prisoners—Well Treated, but Anx-
ious For Liberty—The Zeal”-
dia Has Arrived Safely.
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MANILA, July 25.—Gencral S. M. B. ‘
Young, with 1,700 recruits, arrived here:
yesterday on board the transport Sheri-5
dan, 31 days from San Francisco. The
Sheridan experienced rough storms after
entering Philippine waters. I
Two Augustine friars and one civilian, '
having in their possession communica-
tions from the Filipino junta at Hong-
kong to Aguinaldo, were arrested on
their arrival on board the Hongkonz
steamship Yuensung. . I
A Spanish prisoner who escaped from
the Filipinos entered Manila, bringing a
letter to General Otis from Fred Heppe
and Charles Blanford, the two ofiicers o!
the hespital ship Relief who, with a
boat’s crew, were captured by the in-
surgents off Paranaque on May 30. The
officers said that they were Well treated
by their captors, but begged that they be
rescued.
The floods are slowly receding, but Ma-
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lolos is still submerged and San Fernan- .
do is an island. The isolation of Imus by
the floods is still complete.
Killed 150 Negros, Robbers.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—General
Otis has sent by cable, dated July 24, the
following additional particulars concern-
ing the fight last week against the rob-
ber bands in Negros:
“Campaign against mountain robbers.
Negros, more successful than reported.
Byrne, with his 70 men, killed one-third
of the 450 assembled, including their
leader, a Spaniard or Spanish Mestizo.
Pursuit then made by Lieutenant Evans
and detachment Sixth infantry, who kill-
ed three and captured one of the robbers;
captured 100 head stock, many spears
and bolos, large quantity provisions, and
destroyed ten huts. The two casualties in
Byrne’s fight are Privates David S. An-
derson killed: Albert C. Jerks, slightly
wounded, both K company.”
General Otis has reported to the ad-l
jutant general the arrival atManila of
the transport Sheridan, without any cas-
ualties on the voyage. The Sheridan
sailed from San Francisco on June 24
with Companies D and H, Fourteenth in-
fantry; Troops A and F, Fourth cavalry,
and recruits.
He also reported the arrival on Satur-
day of the transport Zealandia. There
were no casualties on the way, and the
troops on board enjoyed good health, ex-
cept for a few cases of measles. The
Zealandia sailed from San Francisco on.
June 22 with Companies C, E, G and I,
Twenty-fourth infantry, 7 officers, 406
enlisted men and recruits—a total of 590.
Kentucky Democrats Oppose Goebel.
BO‘VLING GREEN, Ky., July 25.—
The anti-Goebcl meeting here was large-
ly attended. Ex-Gongressman W. C.
Owens sent a letter condemning the nom-
ination of Goebel for governor and criti-
cising the work of the Louisville conven-
tion generally.- The meeting adopted
resolutions condemning the movement
inaugurated by so called Democrats in
eastern states to abandon the principles
of the Chicago platform and indorsing
VI-‘illiam J. Bryan for president and charg-
ing that the state convention in Louis-
ville which nominated Goebel “was per-
verted from its true purpose by corrup-
tion, fraud and force, by intrigue and
treachery, by infamous rulings of the
acting chairman, thereby setting at
naught the time honored principle of
Democracy that the majority of the peo-
ple shall be the governing power.”
Our Coast Defenses.
WASHINGTON, July 25.——G_eneral
Wilson, chief of engineers, has been re-
ceiving reports from the engineer officers
upon the fortification work accomplished
during the past fiscal year. The reports,
which show gratifying results, cover
works upon the Alantic coast, the Gulf
of Mexico and the Pacific coast. Besides
the regular annual appropriation expend-
ed upon fortifications there were availa-
ble funds from the appropriation of $50,-
000,000 for national defense just before
the war with Spain. These appropria-
tions‘being available, the engineer corps
has been able to make rapid progress in
the way of completing fortifications
which were under way and in beginning
new projects. The coast defense of the
United States is now in such a state as
to make the country well protected.
Fredericksbnrg Battlefields.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—Colonel D.
D. Wheeler and Colonel Charles Bird.
the two army officers who recently visit-
ed the battlefields in and around Freder-
icksburg, have submitted their report to
the war department. The result will be
a new bill which will be presented to con-
gress at the next session. The changes
will omit the proposed purchases of land
in Stafi‘ord county and the streets in
Fredericksburg and extend the Salem
Church battlefield some distance to the
south. The boundaries of the Chancel-
lorsville field have been modified, and the
point where Lee and Jackson held their
last interview has been omitted.
Two Boys Drowned.
HARTFORD, July 25.—Morris Cave
naugh, 13. and Charles Walthouse, 12.
were drowned ih the pond at Skinner’s
Hollow. North Meadows, yesterday. The
boys went fishing in a small rowboat,
which upsct. Cavcnaugh was a good
swimmer, but lost his life in trying to
save his companion. The body of Cave
naugh was recovered atv2:30 p. In.
Women’s Conference Closed.
EAST NORTHFIELD, Mass, July
25.—Thc last day of the summer confer-
‘ence for young women was observed yes-
terday with services which partook in
some degree of a farewell nature. The
.ectures and meetings were devoted to a’
general summing up of the topics thCh
have been under discussion, and the gen-
eral verdict seemed to be that this ad
been one of the most successful con :-
ences ever held here. ’
Mrs. Rich Given Up to Mexico.
EL IPASO, Tex., July 25.—Mrs. John
D. Rich, who is accused of her husband’s
murder and has been in El Paso’ jail
since last May, was delivered to the
Mexican authorities at Juarez yesterday
afternoon by United States Marshal Sie-
brccht. who came. here for the purpon
from San Antonio.
'ucuusurulu‘ A BIG ‘IllVIIlENIl.
T‘he Gilbert 6. Bennett 00 In-
crease Capital Stock
$200,000.
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OFFICERS ELECTED.
Annual Meeting Held in Georgetown on Tues-
day.
The annual meeting of the Gilbert &
Bennett Manufacturing Company was
held in the company’s office in George:
town on Tuesday. ,
A dividend of 10 per cent was declar-
ed, and the capital stock of the com-
pany increased from $300,000 to
$500,000.
One Of the mostimportant acts of the
meeting was the increasing of the
wages of the 400 hands in Georgetown
and Chicago ten per cent.
The annual election of officers was
also held and the following named
gentlemen were elected:
President and Treasurer—Edwin
Gilbert.
Vice president and Secretary—David
H. Miller.
Directors—Edwin Gilbert, David H.
Miller, Samuel J. Miller, George H.
Brown, Edward F. Jones.
STAFF'OFFICERS.
Col. HendrieAnnounces His Personal and Non-
Commissioned" Appointments.
The following appointments of his
personal and non-commissioned staff
have been announced by Col. Hendrie:
Frank R. Coates of Stamford, to be
adjutant, with rank of captain, vice
Gilhuley, resigned.
Frederick Schavior of Stamford, to .
be assistant surgeon, with rank of first
lieutenant, vice Brownlee, resigned.
Private Alexander Weed, Jr. Co. C,
to be sergeant major, vice Teele, dis-
Charged.
Lorenzo G. Wood of Stamford, to be
chief trumpeter, vice Vreeland dis-
charged. '
Official communications will be ad-
dressed to Captain Frank R. Coates,
Adjutant 4th Regiment, C. N. G.,
Stamford, Conn.
RISK r6 PROPERTY.
Derby Hotel Sued for Operating Acetelyne Gas
Machine.
Lawyer W. Sydney Downes of Derby
pi‘Ocured an injunction Saturday from
Judge Studley directed against Mr.
and Mrs. Dickgreiser, proprietors of
the Columbian House in Derby, re-
straining them from operating an acet-
ylene gas machine. The property be-
longs to the Home Trust company, for
whom Royal W. Bassett is agent. The
claim is made by the owners that the
operation of the machine is a great risk
to the property and in violation of the
regulations of policies of insurance now
in force.
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Tenth C- V- Reunion.
The annual reunion of the Tenth C.
V. will be held at Woodmout, Sept. 21.
It. is expected that Senator Hawley
and Rev. E. Clay Trumbull, the fight-
ing chaplain of the regiment, will at-
tend.
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Walking Gown 0t Ecru Veiling.
A very charming treatment of euro
veiling is represented in the mam-ri-
tion print-ed herewith and {alien from
Harper’s Bazar. The skirt shows lines
that suggest a double 0Vcr-dl'ess. In
reality there is but one long ox'er-
drapery, the second line being formed
1 by a fist flounce adjusted to the main
? The over-dress “10595 at a point INST! at I stitched with green silk of the same
skirt. The latter is a tight sheath in
form, and allows for a ten inch train
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sleeves are cut to the form, but are g'
‘ shaped about the lower forearmby 10.19;
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; for lining of the bands and for the roll-
linc tucks. marked on the pattern. x
The fulnese of these tucks forms a. nar-
row ruffle that. sets like a. ruching about
the band. The belt is shaped to the
figure, and has rows of stitching like ‘
th’o.e :eau on the band trimming. The nj
3. leaf ."
green iufi'eta. and this was employed i
ed collar. The tucks and bands were
' the left. of the center of the from, and | .h,,d._-._ The high (3011,“. and chemi-Jr .
j buttons.
is fastened by two large rolled-gold
The fiounce and over—dress
are trimmed with stitched
bands, patterns of which do not. ac-
company that of the skirt. The bodice
: has a. very pretty roiling collar. with
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The back is seamless, with a group
of vertical line tucks extending across
the shoulders, and reaching only to an
ordinary yoke line. The slight fulness
from these tucks is gathered into a
central point at; the waist line. The
veiling.
sette were of deep yellowish cream silk
under white lace, and a slight jahot of .
the latter ornamented the edge of the
front. fastening of the bodice. A very
pretty efiectis given by placing the
centre of the back of the over-dress ‘
pattern upon a. fold of the goods. In \
this way a habit effect. may be easily-
secured when veiling or cashmere or' V,
any wide width goods is employed. v
To make this costume as shown in
the illustration 10 yards of veiling
44 inches wide will be required and 14
yards of taffeta.
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