issuers-them
hirsute lead when “
_ none.
- ”too; the eyelids slow. so
lists routine to and fro.
flocking softly to and fro.
Baby will sleep and the baby will grow.
,, Deer little finser tins day by day
hernia: of mischief and loving to play.
lanes and restless and froliesemo feet
il'rsrniiiluz'tibe farm lsnds and treading the
. s as
on. how fast does baby
Rocking. rocking. to an fro.
”Rocking softly in and fro.
. here would defend you and on you so
That the days of the years that are all iobe
. Irons sinnlnu and shame should stand
- sweet add free.
Oh. if love could make it so
‘, Rocking baby to and fro.
, n-Aiiriils Flu-her in Minneapolis Housekeeper.
down. ,
summers have
slow.
3; ‘ MISS NAN.
. Slender, but not thin. with soft, hazel
eyes and long lashes, pale complexion,
light brown hair, with here and theme
, strand of gray, not pretty, but attractive
looking, simple in manner, speech and
' drew-that was Miss Nan.
, ,2 , {that she was an old mold was beyond
‘ " dispute. Her most intimate friend would
not have denied it if he could. Though
' for the‘mattor of that he could not, be-
longing, as he did, to the feline species
and not being blessed with the power of
, speech. She was “turned" \35 if she was a
, day, and the most hopeful of that social
scourge known as matchmakcrs had long
since scratched her name all their list of
possibilities.
Miss Nan lived in her own cottage, and
the lawn in front of it was the neatcst in
’l‘iflln, as the little parlor inside was the
tidbit. The three cats that monopolized
thshearth rug in the parlor of evenings
Were as sleek as could be and exceptional-
ly well behaved for cats. The furniture
was of a quaint pattern, but the easy
chairs were comfortable in the extreme.
and if the little earthenware teapot was
half as good a brewer as it was a singer
I don't blame her for indulgingin its con—
tents rather freely.
That Miss Nan had a good heart and a
kind . one I can vouch for, and so could
manya barefooted urchin and many an
overworked factory girl. There was no
Sunday school teacher in Titlin asbeloved
by her scholars, and they all knew the
flavor of her famous cookies. Iwas not
surprised to hear one day that Miss Nan
had had a bit of romance in her life, so
long ago that the younger generation had
never heard of it and the older generation
had long since forgotten it.
There had been a certain handsome
young man who had courted ln-r in the
old days, and not unsuccessfully. lie had
been practicinginw for three or four yours.
and his prosper-ts worn unusually bright.
He was genial in his way, but proud to a
fault. Hohad noverhm-na lmly’smnn,
and despite the fact that many jnunty
caps had been not for him he had almost
been not down for a young baclwlormn-
firmed in his unywnrdnvss until ho mot
Miss Sun at a church festival. From that
evening the predictions toppled over like
cardhuuses, for. though shr- did notnppnr
ently reciprocati- at first, he was a dolor-
mlned wooor| with youth, gmd looks and
awinning tonguo“ to back him. Hoot last
she melted—of course she did, for what
else was that Woman's heart of hers cro-
atedh—‘hsnd the gossips began to wonder
when the day would be set and to surmise
among themselves that it had been sot
and was still a sot-rot. lint. whvtht-r it
really had or had not been Silas (iranth-y
knew and Miss Nan know, but the gos-
Blps never did find out.
L 0f tho inairiinonlnlly inclined young
ladies who had not their caps for Silas
Griintloyiwforo tin-fatvl'ul church footi-
Viil none had set llli'lll so artfully, so
hopefully an Lizzie Minks. She was a
pretty hit of a wmnnn ilong since tho
wife of a honiwckod husband), with spar
kliiig black eyes, sharp features and a
tight little figure that. she was “mill to
dock out with tho gnyvst ribbons imam
liable. Hho hnd Spanish blood in her wins
and was proud of it, and broad of her
temper too. ’i‘houuh Silas had nowr paid
her any serious attention. she had up
pcnrmi attractive to him until ho inot
Miss Nan. If it had iiotlwon fortbnt.
therein no tolling what might not how
happened. Miss blinks was notn yomu.r
lady to submit to such a total m-iip...
calmly, and the truth was that sho nvwr
had any intention of submitting to it at
all. One day about the limo that tho gos-
Jipa had with-d it. satisfactorily among
thbnwlvrs that “tho day had finally boa-n
lot," the i‘illlll! totht- conclusion that that
tern had pl‘ilifl'i'rin‘i‘il far i'liulixll and mad:-
an ufu'rnoon nail on Mr aurm'ssl'ui rival.
She left lli‘l' prt'tly nlr-i and grows at
home with hot gay ribbons that morning
and was a and enough figure when Mr
hostess ueiu-mi iwr lliiulhn pinion—tho
some little parlor, though Minn Nun's
mother was living tin-n, and it was bright»
or to her than it was in after your». Lizzie
Mink» told lli'l' story we” and Wi-pt. hitter
tears over it too. She told how Hilas bod
wooed her and Woo her and had promim!
to marry her. and how llw day had I’m-n
nann'd. anti how ho had ki‘pt up the cruel
deception even iiflmr ili' hull mot Mimi Nan
herself, and how heartlossly ho had lluul
ly thrown horovor and inughmi at bur.
Then when shootiw that the girl at iwr
side appeared mlnrly troubled she immune
reintirsofui and vowed that she ought not
“have told her. Then she grow hysh-r
ice] and rsdrd against all men and do
spiced herself for an idiot to have i-wr
trams! one of them. [for auditor was vary
quiet throtmh it all, but Lizzie blinks
know that iwr shaft had born a straluhi
mend Wont imnm exultlng. After she
had gone, Mini San did what many an-
other girl in her plmm Wmliil have done.
Bits had a hard cry. She did not tell her
mother. Sin! t'nz-ill not have told any one
830 hated willink that own Lizzie Minks
known» man she loved in such an altered
light. Butihe mert‘facitof thinking of
him loftenoil her, anti she hots/always, in
disloyalty of her heart, aim trusuad that
‘Billl had lmrn misumlorstmsl. There
should he no misunderstanding betwvron
them. She determined to tell him that
Milli. when he called, all that she had
M But tangled through her'trouble
‘ *0 i lose feeling of disappointment that
“could havocren carelessly triiled with
' woman. and e feeling, too, of an.
' in the thought that
the force after he had
«to Mothsrwmld have touched'hls
hand. I said that Silas Gran was
proud. and if even [madman was hu-
erproof than her own voice could have
made him think that this woman could
have believed fora moment such a blue
falsehood against his manhood. The feel-
ing of deep injury and indignation was
uppermost in his mind. Without a word
he rose and turned to go. At the door he
paused an instant to look at her, but only
for an instant. There was aquick, firm
step on the gravel walk the gate shut
noisily, and he was gone. Frmn that night
Miss Nan never saw Silas Grantley again.
Never. saw him againl Never saw him
again? How many times she saw him in
that doorway, when the feline family were
purring oeutentedly and the iittioearthen
ware teapot was singing cheerfully on the
hearth, only Miss Nan know. How many
times that last reproechful glance looked
in upon her on the lonely nights of the
long years that followed, when the whole
bitter truth was before her, only Miss Nan
know. How utterly dreary the tidy little
parlor was at times during the long, long
hours, when the thought of that last
night came back to her, how often the
soft gray eyes wept hitterly when she
thought of the wrong that 'she had done
him, and that she never could undo now,
Miss Nan, and only Miss Nan, knew.
And that was the story of her romance.
A late train West bound carried Silas
Grantley away that night—carried him
away so completely that Tillin neither saw
not heard of him. again and soon forget
him. She lived her life as best she could,
and before her little world the thorns in
her path wore troddm. uniliuohingly.
Wherever a Woman’s hand was needed,
there was Miss Nan: wherever charitable
duties wore the hardest, in the hardest
winters. among the hardest class of peo-
ple, there was Miss Nan, and though her
purse was not a large one it was open
constantly. I think it was this constant
doing of good, this constant healing of
minds and hearts and bodies, that kept
the hard lines oil her face, even when the
early gray strands glistenod in her brown
hair. if thorn was one weakness for which
she had no compassion, it was the weak-
nose of drunkenness. If there were any
mondicaats who left her door empty hand-
ed, they were those who went there with
the fumes of alcohol on their breath. Tru-
ly the drunkard in her eyes was detestable.
And so the summers passed and the
winters passed until the time when my
story opens, and Miss Nan had become an
old maid beyond question or dispute.
New lives came into the little town, and
old lives went out. Girls in pinaforos and
small boys in short trousers grow to be
men and worm-n, married and set up for
thomsolvm and had children of their own.
but to Miss Nun one your was but a rope-
tition of nnotlwr, and it noun-limos soon)-
od to her that she was continually going
around in u circle that. had long since bo-
oomo monotonous. lf Miss Nun ovur
thought that sin- iuiuht have made her
life happier, slu- guarded the thought well,
and if the spilling nuitrons ovt-r occasion
i‘il ihoslightvst onvyln bor brunet they
could as i'ilhll)‘ have li'nrnod it from llli'
exterior of tho imitt‘ottago as from its
prim inlnirrsn.
()m' wintry March morning she started
out with n basin-t on her arm to visit a
sit-k family, who!) ~ln- noticed a small
crowd of men and boys a short. distance
from hi'l‘ unto. 'l‘bo gibi-s that rt-nohod her
cars and the incoherent profanity that fol
lowrd thom told her that a drunken man
was hilt‘l'i‘llli'l‘ilf the group. Sho kin-w
sin-would bu obliged to pass tin-in, but
with tho dotrrminntlou not to is- dotorml
from her purpose by such an unworthy
(-aiieo slu- hold for bond a trifle higher.
involuntarily tin-w bor skirts closer about
lu-r and walked on. As she noun-d the
group sho saw that tho man it: fooling
lie was a “‘l't‘fi‘liml looking rntaiii‘v. with
long lniigh'ii hair. ll iiii'ly board, it iniitor
mi ri'mtumtol u but and ranged violin-s
that hung loosriyon tho thin shin-ring
flour". Him took one glance at him, and
tho buskc-tdroplwd from her arm. Hb‘i-
Walkml straight up to him. laid hvr hand
on his frayed aim-wand lvd liliniolu'r own
gain and up iiu- gran-l walk and into the
Hunt litiio collage and into tho tidivst par
lnr in all ’i‘lilln. How site iook on owr
hiiu, and vrivd over him, and bathed his
face with rold ('ologin- water, and bad old
Mrs. Young, Ilt'l' ancient maid of all truth,
rook him tho (lnlnilvst breakfast Imagi-
nablo! \l'lmwouid hnvo thoughtitof Mimi
Non? And what Would 'l'iliin say? Little
vaml Miss Nan whnt'i‘iiliu would say.
For all her trot-z. thorn was not a lightvr
bum. in the world that day than Miss
Nun's. lf thorn had boon one bright simt
in hot loiwly lilo, it had llN'll this hope of
his ri-mrn, and on tho empty yours mum
anti wont shv hml minoiimvs felt that ido-
washoplng against. hope. And now ho
had come back. What did it matter how
ho ioul (’omv? ”4- had mono, and that was
enough for Miss San.
At first Silos was dam-d and insonslble
to his surroumllngs. but when the break—
fast was brought in lohlm hoamllkou
rniulslmi doc. lire. Young, wiuo woman
that the was, had hrswvd some black cof-
fee, so stmngthnt its wry aroma might
have had a sobering iniiuonm. and when
lilies had drunk two big sum of it. strain
lug hot, llo “Pull" in look around him.
The little parlor had not t-lmnuml so wry
much in all ”law yours, and remembering
ili'sl how ho had imniiwd iiiiu 'I'illlii tho
nhrht lwforo it iu-gnn to dawn on him
where luv really was Then his eyes rosin!
on Miss Nun. and i’knvw it all. He bur
ll’il his law in lilxlmndsnntlsubbed. Thou
anlIliiil's ornm vwru ulmut tho mum"!
must. and tho tin-d hood was on lwr breast,
and tho tanglmi hair was anointed with
her heirs.
llid they marry? What a «nominal (if
murw lhoy li‘ul. fillns ”mutiny rv‘formod,
and with l‘l {urination some health and
shown, 'i'iu-rv lli‘wir was a heiwr hue
band, and tho lmpplmt wife in Tlllin ls-
Miss l’ioti.--»lmwls Vital llouy in 0mm a
Worrk.
Rossini.
limeilil was intolornbiy Felons of all
his musiml r-onmntmmrios. and particu-
larly of Meyer-law. in lfiiioim heard"’l‘ho
llama-nuts." and on listening to thcper
fornmneo from the lmgiunlng to therml
he made up his mind that Ml-yerlmu had
enrolled him and don-rulinmi to write an
more, lie lived until isos, but pnslucod
nothing for the lyric stage. ills 82 years
of Mimliwnt were swat in the pleasures of
avoiuptnary. lie was particularly fond
of good eating and drinking and sauna
bled shim him the youngest and gays-st
soohrty he could attract to his heuse.~iit
fouls Glob-Moor“.
WW.
”I” get with a foul.”wss
“mm emulsion-its!
film‘s-oestrus mm his.
ufl'flmm M ”use
i . ‘ ‘
miiiated that man was himself. No othv“
Business Pacesecre as serum?
sssusucms m censuses.
Obstacles to Be Faced by the American
Producer and Manufacturer~llo Indul-
gence In Luxuries For the laborer.
American floods blast Be Displaced.
There can be no reasonable doubt
what the sheet ‘of the new tariff law
willheupon both the productidn and
the purchasing power of the American
people. While there may be a tempo:
rary revival of business and an apparent
increase of production, the level will
soon bereached, and then the evil efs
facts of the legislation will become ap-
parent. The American producer is to
face the problem of free wool and free
lumber and a tremendous out on agri~
cultural products and manufactured
goodsof almost every description. It
will not take long for the American
sheep raiser to discover that-he cannot
compete with the climatic advantages
and cheap labor of Australia and South
America. and wool growing in the
United States will practically cease.
The men engaged in the lumber busi-
ness will transfer their capital to Cana-
da, and that country will get thobene- “
fit of free lumber. Our farmers and
manufacturers will be compelled to en-
gage in sharper competition than over
before with the Dominion of Canada
and the countries of Europe and Asia. .
Reduced duties on foreign goods will
inevitably result in increased importa-
tions and a lessening of the product of
American mills and American work-
shops. As a consequence wages will be
reduced in the endeavor to compete with ,
foreign cheap labor, and the purchasing
capacity of our people will be corre-
spondingly curtailed.
The workingman who has been re-
ceiving ‘2 per day and indulging in
some of the luxuries of life will on $1.50
per day be able to only buy the com-
mouest necessaries for his family. and
thus merchant and manufacturer both
will feel the effects of reduced wages in
the inability of the masses to purchase
as heretofore.
It seems to the that this will be the
inevitable rut-suit, and that all classes of
our people, whether connected with pro-
tected or iionprotootod industries, will
be made iosul‘l‘vr through the cilant-
mont of this act of “poriidy” and “dis-
honor. ” Ii oannot result otherwise than
doiriiiicniniiy to :‘tuivriu'uu intervals,
and in duo limo iii: Wilson-(lormaii
bill will ho (wrrthrown by tho :iroiisoii
indignation and :m'akouod ("'Ill'4f‘l("ll(‘l‘ of
llll' Amorit'nii pooplv. Failitiuily yours,
.l. ll. “inhuman,
United Status Senator From New Hamp-
thin.
The theory of tho tariii‘ roionm-rs and
of the iron traders, whom: vivws are
but partially carried out in tho Wil-
sonsilorman ttitiil’ hill. is that American
production must- bo tim'nrasmi. Tho bar-
on robin-rs and nuinufartut'rrs who haw.
boon pulling.’ their hands limbo pockets
of tho tn-oplo must it-strit‘kvn down.
which inn-um that the produvtxon of
Anu'rivan inunufzurfuros must. ho dw-
('n‘iifii‘ll by the :vimission through iowor
(lutivs (if for-lull gililil'i.
The many millions of dollars' Worth
of such goods in the custom lioiiru- im-
awaiting filli'll iHWor mini. it may luv,
llllill'l' the ruling of Swn-tary ('nriisio
in tho t-ouw'ruviiou of this bill, that
such wind-l will born to ho rn-oxportod
and X'l‘lilliliil‘li‘fl in orthr to iii'Clll‘tl tho
lowrr ruiv, but to u batowr t‘Xli'lll
tin-so Iowvr duties pormit of larger ini-
imrtaiions to tho saun- extent will Aim 1'-
ivan prmluction lmiiapiavvd. ’l‘wo bod-
ios cannot «woupy the some space at the
sumo limo. livery foreign prmluot will
dispbu-o an vouivaiunt Aixwrioau prod-
uct. and tho fon-ign wngo i‘ill’lli‘l‘ will
to that rxlrnt displace the- Amorimn
Wiigu i'ill'ili'l‘. To iluv sumo i'Xlt‘lll will
iho purchasing pow-r of tho Amvrlr‘an
people be ill-crottwd; to that extent will
our general wuifaro and our power of
purchasing in- dm-roawd.
it remains to be soon how much out-
foreign markets will be t-itlargml by '
this hill. The theory of the from trader
that We can he admitted to the forvigu
market by lower dutimi can only be
realised by an absolutely English frm
trade policy, and not by tho half and
half bill which has lmoiionzuztmi. Mirth
ovrr, tho thvory is a dvlusion.
ANTUUSV liliullNH.
moo-o Stair-s i-ivnator From Delaware.
“Heine‘s-Is l'ndrr IN-nnwnry.
The loss of trade in tho linitmi Naive
during July. as it-lli-uimi by bank rlonrv
lags, was llama H.713 as nommirmi
with July. mm. lint i'oliipdi’iiig it
with two year» ago the loss of trade in
July c-xomlwi li,ooo,ooo.ooo.
In ilio- 'fflfhllllh'll I'll.
President i'lvi'niand infornml vou-
areas and the triple, ”trough the l‘atoh-
lags nit-diam. that he would not [svrmit
himself ”mime-wraisd (rim: my par.
it.” No, it" Will not. He will sink,
M and head first, into .the bottomless
pit the: he has been meningitis Denice
m during the past it mills. Titty
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V They are built on honor sndzwlll
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The Bennecticut General Life in-
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If you want good goods that can’t be
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Fine No. l Mackerel, at 10¢ each.
Canned Soused Mackerel and Canned
Fish of all kinds; Elam and Tongue.
As to ilour we have the host that the
market can furnish. Will guarantee
every pound of it.
Tone and Coils-es of the islet, but no
presents.
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