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Dear. it is twilight time, the time of rest; -
Ah! cease that weary pacing to and fro;
Sit. down beside me in this cushioned nest,
Warm with the brightness of our ingle
glow.
Dear, thou art troubled. Let me share thy
_ lot I
(M shadow at: I _ shared thy sunshine
hours.
I am no child, though childhood, half-form
got. _
, Lies close behind me with its toys and
flowers.
I am a. woman, waked by happy love
To keep home’s sacred altar fire alight!
Thou hast elected me to stand above
All others in thine? heart. I claim my
right, -
Not wife alone, but rgate and comrade true.
I shared thy roses, let me share thy ruel, '
Bitter? I know it. God hath made it so:
But from his hand shall we take good
alone,
And evil never? Let the world's wealth go.
Life hath no loss which love cannot
atone.
Show me the new hard path that we must Ii
tread— \.
I shall not faint nor falter by the way—
And be there cloud or sunshine overhead,
I shall not fail thee to my dying day.
But love me, love me; let our hearts and
lips
Cling closer in our‘ sorro’w than in joy;
Let faith outshine our fortunes in eclipse,
And love deem wealth a. lost and broken
' toy.
Joy made us- glad, let sorrowfind us true;
God blessed our roses, He will bless our
rue.
—All the Year Round.
AN UNCLE" m KITTY
By W. J. Lampton
prettiest girl in the town of Bran-
IN MY opinion Kitty Clarke was the
don, and Brandon was famous for its
pretty girls. The fact that she was 18’
and I was 40 may have intensified hen
beauty to me, for I can remember now
that on one or two occasions I came
very nearly marking three or four per-
sons ’ofi my list of acquaintances be-
cause they had spoken rather slight-
ingly of my taste in feminine beauty.
As I have stated, Iwas 40 and Kitty
was 22 years younger, but what is a
little thing like time in the consider-
ation cf al matter which lasts for eter—
nity, as love surely does? Not thatI
was in love with Miss Clarke, butI held
her in such lofty esteem that love it-
self could not have been a very great
improvement upon the condition of‘
my feelings. As for her beauty,,I must
confess that masculine. eyes 40 years
old are possibly somewhat more sus-
ceptible to feminine beauty aged 18
than would be true of the reverse prop-
'osition. ‘
I had known Kitty about a year, and
beingr rich, as wealth is computed in
towns the size of Brandon, and Kitty
being poor, as pove1rt-yis computed al—
most anywhere, I was received with
more enthusiasm perhaps than might
have otherwise obtained. Even then
' there were times when I have seen
Kitty smile on a nephew of mine. who
.was my cashier, in a fashion which
forced me to wonder if she would have
' done so had he been 440 and rich, in-
stead of 25 and nearly as poor as she
was. But I did not permit trifles of
[that sort to worry me long, for I felt
.wit-h the sublime faith of a man in my
position that when I was’ready to ask
Kitty to be mine Kitty was going to
-be ready and waiting to answer af-
firmatively. .
There‘was not another girl in Bran-
don who‘wouldn’t have been glad of
Kitty’s opportunities, and why not
Kitty? '
“Why ndt, indeed ‘2” I chuckled, well
satisfied with myself;‘and I went
about my aifairs whistling with much
content.
011 such occasions my nephew was.
wont to look up from his desk as I
passed along, but he would say not-h-
1n .
Next after Kitty my most particular
admiration was the Widow Price, her
aunt, with whom she lived and in con-
junction With whom she taught a small
private school. whereby they managed
to eke out a fairly comfortable exist-
ence in a community where existence
came cheaply.
Many is the time I have intimated to
Aunt Price that some day life would
be easier for her, all on account of Kit-
ty. and it was only necessary that she
wait. a little longer with the same
beautiful, patience which had charac-
terized her life even when the shadows
were heaviest. Then I felt an over-
whelr-ning desire to put my arms
around her plump and pretty waist
and let her rest her tired head on the
bosom of her devoted nephew-in-law-
io—be, but I always restrained myself,
though the-re were times when there
were tears in her eyes, and I have ob.
served that when women weep they
weep more satisfactorily if they have
a manly bosom to sob their sorrows
out upon. .
Incidentally I might say that Kitty’s
chaperon; was a dozen or more years
older than her charming niece and
'showed very plainly on every line of
her face and graceful curve of her fig—
ure 'where Kitty got her beauty, and
this was a comfort to me, for I was
. fairly possessed of good looks, as had
been my father and mother before me,
and their brothers and sisters, so that
I had an ancestral predisposition to
hereditary traits along the“ beauty
lines, .as it were.
One evening I called upon Kitty with
A.
.. 'w _ THE [EVEN in e GA‘Z’M IE
wheels, dying away down the street.
'1 though; l saw a look of painin Kitty's
face, but 1 did not speak of it. The
trap would be hers in a few months
and then the clear girl would never have
: 10. sit at home for loci. of her own ve-
.my mind, fully made up that I would i
propose to her on that occasion, as I 7
had been growing more and more fre-
quent about the Price cottage, andvpeo-
ple would soon begin to talk openly, as
- they had already begun to whisper.
Dick, my nephew. was there when I
arrived, but as he had been there many
times previously and always obedient~
ly arose and departed when his uncle
came, I gave the matter no thought
and cheerily told the boy he mighttakc
my trap and go driving‘With some of 1
his friends, as I would walk. home.
When the‘front door closed and short-
' ~ly thereafter we heard the noise on"
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Pennsylvania. and the T ird artillery.
hicle.
For an hour or more I talked to
Kitty much as I had done on other
evenings and then l asked her tobe my
wife.
, I waited a moment when i had asked
this important question and was sur-
prised that-Kitty (lid not throw herself
in my arms, or, at Least, with a shy
blush. wait for me to take her there.
On the contrary. she began to cry, and.
asking me to excuse her, she went out.
of theroom. - .
I do not know that any man who
reads this story has eve-r asked a wom-
an to marry him, and then have her
walk out and leave him sitting alone
with his thoughts. To him I need not
state how I felt: to‘any other it would
be impossible. .
Ten minutes or perhaps a. , dozen,
though it seemed to be a week, had.
passed and then the door opened and I
arose to meet Kitty and receive her af-
firmation of my suit. the dear. nervous
little creature. ’
But it was notKitiy. ,
“My dear madam,"[ stainmered, as
Mrs. Price entered.
“Good evening, Mr. ,Filkins,” re-
sponded Kitty’s aunt, coming forward
with her hand extended, which Itook.
for, as I have previously said, I liked
the Widow Price. “Be seated,” she
added, with a wave of her soft white
' 3 hand toward the chair I had just left,
at the same time seating herself in the
chair Kitty had just occupied.
I was entirely unbalanced at this
procedure, but I obeyed.
“Will you be kind enough- to ex--”
I began, when. she interrupted me—
“It is no more than is due you, Mr.
Filkins,” she said, “under the very ex-
traordinary circumstances. Indeed,
Mr. Filkins,” she went on, getting more
excited every minute, “I don’t see what.
ever possessed a man. of your age to
talk as you did to a. child like Kitty.
You are old enough to know better,
and I’m sure if I had had any idea you
were not to be trusted, I am very sure
‘I would never have permitted you to
have seen her except in my presence.
Why, you are the last man on earth I
would have thought would be making
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yrs;
I MAMME’RED.
"MY DEAR MADAM."
love to my niece; and Kitty thOughtso,
too. You are old enough to be. her
father and ought to be ashamed of
yourself, and it wassuch a painful sur-
prise t-o Kitty, too.” . '
By this time I saw I had made a mis-
take, for I‘do- have. sense enough to
know beans when the bagis open, and
:I tried to stop Mrs-Price and explain
and apologize, but nothing can, stop a
woman when she once gets a start, and
the widow had it.
“Why, Mr. Filkins,” sbo flew'along,
“Kitty had no more idea of ybur
wanting to marry her than she, had
thought of the man in the moon. 'She
never thought of you asahusband, and
she always talked to me about you as
the loveliest uncle—”
“St-op there, madam.” I thundered,
rising in such majesty and might. that
she was forced to silence. “Stop there.
It. is her uncle I want to be. Will
you—H
It was now the widow’s turn to be
embarrassed and she broke in on me
with wild impertuosity.
“I don’t don’t mean that," she ex-
claimed. ‘ “It’s Dick .your nephew.
Haven’t you ever discovered that they
are in love with each other? Are you
blind or just plain stupid ?”
Goodness knows how I ever got out.
of it, or the Widow, either, though she
didn't altogether, for she is now Mrs.
Filkins and Dick and Kitty live just
around the corner, as happy as two
bees in a honeysuckle or —-- as their
uncle and aunt are. —— Detroit Free
Press.
Editor Fighting Man In Philippines.
Gen. Harrison- Gray Otis, who com-
manded the brigade which so gallantly
captured Caloocan, has been for many
years proprietor and editor of the Los
Angeles Times. He comes of Massa-
chusetts stock, and. made a name for
himself in the volunteer service in the
civil war. President McKinley made
him abrigadier general of volunteers
and his brigade was sent to Manila
from San Francisco to reenforce Dewey
last fall. It is made up of the First
Twentieth Kansas. Tenth
The Helmholtz Medal.
Prof. Virchom is the fifth scientist
on whom the physico-mathematical
class of the Royal academy of Berlin
has conferred the gold Hgmholtz
medal. Its weight is 620 grammes, and
it was struck in memory of Helmholtz‘s
seventieth birthday, in 1892. Herr Vir~
chow’s predecessors were Helmholtz
, himself, Dubois-Iieymond. Weierstrass.
' end'Lord-‘Kelvin. ‘
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{GREAT TRUNK ROAD.
Cecil Rhodes Plans a Wonderful 3
TrausportatiOn System.
Famous South African .Spcculatm
IWould Connect Cape Town and
Cairo by aLBritinb-Egyptiau
Railway Line.
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Mr. Cecil’Rhodes, known throughout
the civilized world as a speculator oi
stupendous ideas, has again indulged
in. a. sort of day dream. lie has sprung
on the British and South African pub-
.lics many startling schemes-some of
which, as his. bank account would
doubtless Show, have been: surprisingly
successful. He now comes to the front,
however, with a project so‘far surpass
ing all of his previous games. that with
the possible exception of the plans of
the De Les-seps it may be said to be
without a; parallel in Latter-day engi-
neering. It is no less than] to build; a
line of railroad from Cape Town to
Cairo. '
As past experiments have shown, the
scheme is not altogether chimerical.
Part of the proposed system is already
in. act-ion, anrd styled the Mombasa-
Uganda. railroad.
It runs through what but a score of
years ago was for a white man the
most unhe-alt-hful country in. the world,
missionary teas and kindred civilities
being in vogue. This Line now does a
paying business. Besides this, in va-'
rious parts of the continent, and
stretching in. a general direction from
north to south, there are 2,334 miles
of profit-able lines in operation. Con-
sidering these facts, Mr. Rhodes’ plea
that even if his road doesnot pay forit-
self for the first ten years, it cannot
fail to .be amply profitable in. the
end, seems quite plausible.
Mr. Rhodes has submitted his map to
the British public, and even now ensures
the British parliament to aid him in his
project. The government. has already
been instrumental in furthering the
extension of the O'mdurman line to the
' Sobat- river, while it is under its own
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Sc ieme.)
steady pressure that the line to Ruin-
wayo is being pushed forward so rap-
idly. The-re is little doubt that. in the
end royal countenance will be extended
to the South African, too. His line- of
extension is most congenial to British
ideas of progress, as the majority lies
entirely within British or Egyptian ter-
more than amply repay its projectors.
As shown on the map, the bed must
lie along the Nile for many-hundred
miles; seemingly an 'obsta-cle to an ob-
server at this distance. The rich, and
yet almost- undeveloped iron, and coal
Central African are to form one of the
sources of revenue, while the theory
that in the next 50 years Africa is cer-
tain to double her population is expect~
ed to keep the-stock at par. Engineers
will. doubtless watch the progress of
the scheme with intense interest, as the
funds involved are an appreciable por-
tion of the world’s wealth. In spite of
even the. most~ sanguine expectations of
Mr. Rhodes himself, h’owever, it will be
some months yet before the bonds are
on the market. But. if the road is oper-
ated within 10 years, in view of Mr.
Stanley’s experiences but two decades
before, it will be marvelous in. the ex-
treme. The world goes rapidly in these
times. America took 300 years. to wake
up. Africa. being a much “warmer”
land. may take but 30. '
Early English Gold Colnnge.
Henry III. issued the first current-
go-ld coin: in England in 1247. It. was of
pure gold, passed for 2t)l pence. and was
called a gold penny. The next current
gold coin issued—the florin—was is-
sued.by Edward III. in 1344. Guineas
were issued by Charles II. in 1663, and
continued to be coined until 1817,,when
they were superseded by sovereigns.
Henry VII. Though the coining of
money be a special prerogative of the
crown, yet. the ancient Saxon princes
communicated it- to their subjects, in-
asmuch that in every good town there
was at least one mint; but at London
there were eight; at Canterbury, four
for the king, tva for the archbishop;
one for the abbot at Winchester, six at
Rochester, two at Hastings.
President as a Horseman.
The president is a good horseman.
and he attracted the axillmiring attem-
ttion. of all the coachmen and jehus on
the street by. the! masterly manner in:
which be controlled his spirited team
and the skill with which he guided! his
cutter through fashionable K street
one day recently. The sleigh ride of
the president and. Mus. McKinley was
the greatest surprise to fashionable
Washington, for not since the days of
Grant, a. correspondent says, has the
Capital city seen. a president driving his
own span through the streets in' ap-
parent enjoyment of doing what isal-
most universally left to the coach-man
in the city of fashii uni until reserve.
ritor‘y, and could not-fail, when the time '
of its prosperity should haveloome, to
districts in the Zambesi and British,
The gold sovereign- was first coined by I
‘ BY SURGERY.
Any Criminal Can 50 Alter Himsclfi
.. if You Feed to Increase Your Weight,
In Stature we to Entirely Defy
Recognition. ' V
. One of a party of gentlemen lounging
in the office of a wellaknown New Or-
leans physician a. few evenings ago
propnunded a. curious question. apro-
pos of a conversation which had-taken
a turn toward the bizarre. says the New
Orleans Times-Democrat. '
A"Doctor." he said. “wou'ldn’tit be pos-
sible for a man who had committed
some crime. for instance. and who had
, strong'motives fpr concealing his idem
t—ity, to permanently alter his wholeap-
pearance by modern surgical meth-
ods?;
“Certainlyfi' replied the doctor. ‘ffle
could easily reduce his height. to begin,
with, by the. removal of a couple of sec-
tions of bone from his legs. The opera-
tion is often performed in ordinary
surgery, and a. man who was, say five
feet. eight, would. look very different
when. only five feet. six. But— he could
be changed beyondnrecognitionl by work
on the face. alone. His forehead could
be made high and hold by the. electric
needle.
stand out. or' lie flat, just as he deSired,
and his nose molded into any shape
from a. pug to a high Roman. The en-
tire expressiom of the mouth can be
altered by putting deep wrinkles in
each corner, and: the eyes equally trans-
formed by modifying the general direc-
tion of the brows. All the operations
would be of a min-or character, and' two
months would be sufficient for the job.
At the end- of that time a man’s own
mother wouldn’t. know him. and he
could revisit- the- scene of his: crime with
impunity. The thinrris perfectlyfeasi-
ble, theoretically, but fortunately a
few little things stand in the way o-i
its practical operation—such things as
time and money, and the difficulty oi
finding secluded quarters and: a skillful
surgeon willing to lend himself to the '
scheme."
Newfoundland Ministry In Trouble.
ST. JOHN’S, N. _F., March 11.—Th(
colonial ministry is distracted with in-
ternal dissensions. Sir James Winter,
the premier, refuses to recall to the cab-
inet former Finance Minister. Morine,
and the latter’s following, 15 all told,
will withdraw its support from the gov-
ernment and probably form an alliance
with Mr. Morris, who leads an inde-
pendent party of four. Sir James Win-
ter, with the remnant of the govern-
ment, numbering eight, will probably
form a coalition with Mr. Bond, who
has eight in his personal following. The
premier hopes to continue in power in
defiance of Mr. Morine. The legislature
is likely to meet on March 23. Should
the government be defeated then on a
motion of confidence Sir James Winter
will advise a dissolution, to be followed
by a general election.
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