DON’T LET THE WORLD KNOW. The wild is wide, remember this, ~ N or. shrink from Fate's deep furrowed frown: Woo Fortune with your brightest smile—~ Don’t let the world know when you're down. It spoils your chance for future deeds To frame your face with dull care’s frown: Brace up, and higher hold your head— Don’t let the world know that you’re down. The world will bow in servile zest To one who swaysit with a frown; Toss up your head and flash your eye-— Don’t let the world know when you’re down. If scandal’s lip would seek to stain The name you hold as honor’s crown. By your own life refute the lie- Don’t let the world know when you’re down. If bare your purse, your beartmost sad,| Your life near crushek by sorrow’s crown. Then mask them well with jest and song—— Don’t let the world know when you’re down. ’—-Kate Marr. IN A TOY "SHOP. He walked into the toy shop with the uncertain air bred by unfamiliar- ity. He was not old—perhaps 50; he may, indeed, have been younger. The lines about the mouth and the crow’s feet about the eyes, told of a life that had been none too easy, and yet there was that subtle air of prosperity about him, too, that in turn told its tale. -Outside in the street the sun beat down on the white sidewalk with a glare that réfieoted eveninto the care- fully shaded shop. Behind the coun- ters the young women stood or sat in little groups. They looked cool and pretty in their light summer frocks. On the counters were toys. Heap-s piled on heaps, it seemed to the man, although the arrangement was orderly enough, For a moment he stood in the door- way. After the glare of the street the shop seemed almost in darkness. Gradually the forms of the young woe men were outlined to his sight, and then he saw dimly the things on the counters. ”An ofl‘icious, and obsequiou-s young man came forward rubbing his hands. Within a minute the man was in charge of a cool-looking young woman, with a pretty smile and a gracious manner. Almost before he knew it the man was talking with her and explaining things that needed no ex- planation. ' “I want to“ get a er-er-er, a toy, you know,” he said. “Yes, sir,” said the young woman. “Here is a very pretty doll. How would that do?” 'and she brought out a wonderful creation with eyes that opened and shut, and long blond curls. It was dressed in a pale blue silk gown. , _ “How do you like that?” asked the young woman, holding the doll up for inspection. Then she pressed 3. 'hid- den spring. “Mamma, mamma, papa, papa!” said the doll. “Gr-eat Scott! what’s that?” most shouted the man. “I was making the doll talk,” re- plied the girl, “Do. they make dolls that talk?” asked the man. “W'hy,” said the girl, with a pitying smile, “they did that ten years ago.” “Did they?” said the man; “well, you see it’s a good many years since I’ve seen any toys.” . “Shall I send it home?” asked the young woman. .. “No,” said the man; “I don’t think that would do at all. I suppose you thinkl’m a pretty old man to be buy- ing toys,” he continued, irrelevantly, “but, you see, I’ve been so busy try- ing- to get rich that I never had time to think about getting married till about tvto years ago. Been outWest all the time,” 'he continued, half sadly, “and, somehow, I didn’t see things like that out there.” ‘f ere is something else that you might like, sir,” interposed the young woman, as she brought out a wonder- ful locomotive and train of cars. She pressed -'a spring, and the engine bell rang, the whistle blew, and oil the train started on the circular track. “Is that what they call a my ?” asked the man. “That is certainly a toy,” replied the girl, with a laugh. “I wish I could remember some of the things I had to play with when I was a boy,” mused the man; “I don’t suppose you could get me a Noah’s Ark, could you ‘2” he continued doubt- fully. “I’ll see, sir,” said the young wo- man, “but they’re awfully old-fash- ion .” . “Mebbe so; man absently. The young woman walked to the rear of the shOp and soon returned with the toy in question; Yes, there it was. The Noah’s Ark! I-t hadn’t changed a bit in all the years that had fled. The same old galbled roof, one side of which Opened like the lid of a box. The same square walls, with the little green windows; al- mebbe so,” said the the same narrow ledge around the bottom, and the picture of the dove, bearing the branch of olive, painted on the side. Slowly the man opened the box and began to take out the little figures. His hands actually trembled with de- light. The wonderfully made green trees, standin g on the little brown bits ‘ of wood that are meant to represent mother earth. The quaint figures of men and women; their little wood-en staffs. And then the animals. Where has their like ever .been seen before? - . He spread them out before him and looked at and beyond them-and the shop, and the glare of the sidewalk without vanished from 'his 'vision. Green fields stretched before him, and deep in their hollows nestled the lit- . Lie white house. with the bright'green h-iiztzl-s and the red chimney. 1:: front of the house was a narrow any little walk bydered on each side with mvee't'peas in bloom. How they smell! 4"". ’ , -. -' \ the soldiers, with . ‘,a_ lighter one, ornamented with small I ostrich tips. ' it as E v c He could even smell them here in the shop. Then he looked up. The girl was wearing .a bunch of those won- derful blossoms at her belt. He had not noticed them before, and he had almost forgotten how— sweet those blossoms can smelL There. is .a.litt~le lad running up the narrow walk to- ward the house. One arm, broken' by a fall from a tree, hangs limp by his side. A sweet-faced: woman comes rushing out to meet him, and with a cry of tender lpve gathers him into her arms. He lies in her arms, sobbing while they rush for a doctor. And as he lies there, bearing the plain as best he can, the little sister comes tod- dh‘nrg up with something in her hand for him. - ' . , - “Take dis, Tommy; oo hurt,” and she hands him the choices-t treasure of all :her treasures, the little blue camel from the Noah’s Ark. And here, almost half a century la- ter, he stands with something warm and sticky held in this hand. He opens it, and lying in the palm is the blue camel from the Noah’s Ark. In all these years that he had for- gotten them «the little blue camel and its companions have not changed. They are the same now as then. “I’ll take that,” he said shortly, as he turned away. . t t O - t it At home his wife laughed when she saw the toy. ' “Baby is too young for a Noah’s Ark,” she said. ' “Why did you buy it?” “There is a little blue camel in it,” he said vaguely. PROVIDING AGAINST: CREDITORS. Money Left in Trust to One’s Descendants Can be So Insured. The real plut-ocracy, the most dan- gerous, is that class which contrives to hand down family fortunes from generation .to generation, the sums constantly growing and so tied.- up by legal restrictions that the heirs could not break up the‘ continuity if they would. Says a current writer: In many, if not in most of the states, it is possible for A to provide by his will that the income which he leaves in trust 'to B shall be free from all claims by the creditors of B; so that even although B goes into business and becomes bankrupt. or is a spend- 2 thrift and contracts debts which he 3 l cannot pay, nevertheless, his creditors ; cannot touch even the income which he i derives from the trust estate. It is only of late years that the practice of leaving money in trust for one’s descendants has become common in the United States, but it is very com- mon now; and its'consequences, for good or for evil, are likely to be ser- ious. Since the civil war, great, private fortunes have rolled up in. this country upon a scale unprecedented in the history of the world; and the same conditions which have made this pos- sible in the past are almost certain to exist, perhaps even they will be intensified, in the future. 4! A Test Necessary. Without a test of capacity, no one knows their own strength. Many a genius has passed through life with his talent undeveloped; simply be- cause the requisite circumstances have not presented themselves. The individual himself, or herself, certain environments, lack of means, ill health, or others of a hundred and one things, may be the cause of this, but our principle remains the same in all cases. Many an obscure individual has ewornied- through an uncongen'ial and uneventful life, Who possessed the genius of a poet. Innumerable old scraps of scribbled up paper may bear silent witness to this undeveloped or hidden talent, and perchance the file of some" country newspaper may show to what extent his genius. was brought to public attention, when for the absence of the descerning eye of a flair critic, it was wholly unappro— cia'ted, insofar as its future promises for greatness to its author were con- cerned. A Lesson from Nature. Nature performs her simple experi- ments in miracles. Examine the structure of a leaf. See how nature separates the leaf of the oak from the leaf of the maple. See the vast dif- ference between the two. Yet the trees rooted in the same soil and grew up side by side, rocked by the same breeze. You can tell the character of the tree from the leaf itself, and even on the same tree there are no two leaves just'alike. The aim of every teacher should be to encourage indi- vidu-aliuty.‘ The greater the individual- ity the more diversified will be the needs and demands of the world; hence increased prosperity. Guarding the Bank ( fEngland. The bank of England is watched nightly by a guard of about fifty men from the Household troops, under the command of an ofiicer, who usdally march from Wellington or St: George’s barracks. They patrol the spacious quadrangle-s of the bank and do sen- try duty over allotted spaces till the morning, when they are relieved on the arrival of some members of the bank’s staff. The ofiicer in command is allowed dinner for himself and a friend, including [the provision of a bottle of the bank’s special 'old port. The men are also supplied with "the need'ful re-fection. The Queen ’24 flat. The Queen of England has for the past twenty years made 'little or no change in the manner of dress. state occasions she wears capes of cloaks of very rich black silk, while for ordinary use she selects plain black broadcloth. All her subjects know her simple black hat, which she never exchanges, except for some un- usual festivity, and then it is only for For " GRADY’S cOWlNémc tacos, How He Forced a Merchant to Ackndwl- ' ‘ edge Peo ple Read Advertisements. , A correspondent of the Atlanta Con} stitution says: I was reading‘Wallace Reed’s pleasant reminisCences of Henry Grady in last Sunday’s paper, aw it carried me back to the hard days when Henry .was struggling against fate to make his paper a suc- cess. The merchants had, not then learned the value of advertising, and Henry pleaded in vain for a more lib: eral patronage. A leading merchant who claimed to be his friend stubbornly declined to give him a big “ad.” and said it would be money ~. thrown away for nobody read them. . “Don’t read them i” exclaimed Henry, “don’t read them! Well, I will show you.” Next morning’s paper contained a short editorial on cats, and told how cat fur had recently come into great demand in fashionable circles in New York, and how the long, coarse hairs were eliminated and the real fur was made into tippets and mufi's, and every fashionable lady wore a feline, etc. Not far off in another column wasa display advertisement that said: “Wanted—1,000 cats, for which 5t each cents will be paid.” The merchant’s name was signed to the “ad.” - By noon the cats began to roll in. Small boys; white and black, brought them in baskets and bags. For awhile the merchant enjoyed the joke, but soon got tired and went away to dinner. . By the time he returned the boys and rlarkies from the suburbs were coming in, and the sidewalk was blockaded. Hem-y had laughed until he was ex- hausted, and sat on a window sill across the street, threatened, he said, with a cataleptic fit. Neighboring merchants and their clerks gathered around and laughed and shouted and cried at every new arrival of cats. As fast as the merchant drove ofi one crowd another filled their places. He armed himself with a. big stick, but at last he closed his doors in sheer despair, and night relieved him from the pressure. But the next morning the catastrophe was worse. The catalogue was not ended, for the country people had heard the news and brought cats in on :heir wagons and under their buggy Mats, and tied up in cotton baskets ' the chickens; Henry took his stand near by, and leaned against a telegraph 3.016 for support. He and the folk -, he loved fun were all there, and while :3 was fun to the boys and death to the firogs, it was such a. rare and racy joke that the merchant couldn’t get mad, and finally surrendered. He made an appropriate little speech to the crowd, and told Henry that if he would prom- ise never to do so any more he would give him the biggest~“ad.” he had ever had in his paper. Henry promised, and the “ad.” was given. Human Nature in Conductors. The general impression in regard to the manners of the average Street car conductor is that he has none. It is, therefore, not remarkable that during the meeting of the Christian Endeavor- ers in Boston the politeness of the con- ductors to the visitors attracted much attention. N of. only were the visiting passengers civilly spoken,» to, but all their inquiries as to sights, locations, etc., were even politely answered, and the Endeavorers’ appreciation of Boston culture was thus immeasurably height- ened. One paper expressed the hope that the conductors would continue :their urbanity after the departure of the guests. Another paper suggested that if Bostonians would imitate the manners of the pious *young people from the four quarters of the globe they would probably reCeive the same kindly attention. This is possibly near the truth. Another phase of street car conductors’ manners has been brought out in Montreal. The members of the street railway convention recently held in that city were much struck with the politeness and pleasing demeanor of the street car conductors, who were of French extraction, which: was all the the more marked ' when compared with the roughness and ill nature of the Englsh Canadian conductors. The contrast was spoken of to one of the ofiicers of the street railway company, who replied: “Yes, we know it is so; but there is another side to it. In winter, when the snow covers the tracks, and inter~ ruptions are frequent. the Anglo-Saxon element comes out. At the first block- ade, the Frenchman smiles, shrugs his shoulders, and sits down to wait for help. But if the other chap gets stalled he pitches righs in and has the track cleared inno time. He is not gracious, but he is mighty useful in a snow- storm.” Hanoverian Etiquette. One of the minute points of etiquette upon Which the King of Hanover in- sisted was that he would not receive visitors for a first presentation to him except in uniform. ‘ Sir Joseph Crowe ~had no uniform, and he comments on “the fact that a. King who was utterly blind could not see (sic) unless the per- son he Wished to honor was in uniform.” An American journalist was once te- fused an interview with the same King on the same grounds; but he .was ulti- mately more successful, for, pleading that he was an American Republican, and therefore could not do, otherwise than appear without a. uniform, he was received, the King commenting himself at the beginning of the interview upon the special ground for the exception—I The Athensum.‘ - She Had Reformed. , Ethel—Molly told 'me yesterday, Nell, that you had resolved to giVe up talking slang. ’ I Nell—Yes, I have- that even if the young men do seem to like a. girl whose talk is bright an‘d: alangy,when it comes to getting married . she simply isn’t in it. — Somerville Journal. . , ' ‘ ' of a furnace has much to do with its success- ‘ ' ful distribution of—hcat. a large steel plate radiatorso constructed that every point is subjected to a powerful heat. 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