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"Why, no; you must remember that I have been •weltering in the interior of Cuba for the past three years, and that I have heard nothing. and with the exception of you fellows, whom I met by chance this morning. I know nothinc of the doings of the old crowds whatever.” "Tell Tremont the story. Henry," said Charlie Tatee, turning to me. X watched the brandy burning on the £&?-, jm! A. Mus * g He walked up to Eleanor. spoon in my cup. and as I felt in just the mood. I told the story. “You remember Eleanor Metcalf? Well, after you left, her popularity Increased, aMhoßgh it really seemed that she would never loose her heart to any one of the numerous hang ers oci wbt courted her and tried to win her love and her father’s millions. "As you already know. Theodore Fletcher came to town to settle up the Mercantile bank affair. He had no sooner arrived than he was sought by all the clubs and societies and was received into the most exclusive of homes—tn fact, he became a sort of Chesterfield to all the girls and women In our set. gained the respect and admiration of the older busi ness mkn and was the,most popular man in town. "Eleanor Metcalf had received a college education, and two years abroad had giv en her a traveled air; there wasn't a man < in town who would not have thrown him self at her feet, even had she been a seamstress or governess instead of the spoiled child of fortune that she was. She was really so dainty, so pure, so beauti ful—l was tn love with her myself, and sometimes think I can never love any other woman on earth. "Well, some one took Theodore to call . on her one evening, and the mischief was done. He fen head over heels tn love with her and she with him. Os course,, all the other fellows pulled out of the race, and we watched the society columns each morning to see the announcement of El eanor's engagement to Fletcher. "After Fletcher had been one of us for perhaps seven or eight months, there was a hop at the country club, and while each one of us made bold to engage the com pany of the proud Eleanor, each was*ln turn sweetly told by her that she "was awfully sorry, but she could not accept— she was going with Mr. Fletcher.' "About this time Edward Metcalf, the only son. and in whom old Metcalfs hopes were centered, was expelled from Tale, and coming home was placed in the bank • under the supervision of Fletcher. Strange to say. he never liked Fletcher and was more than once heard to say at the club things that were insinuating and deroga tory to Fletcher's character. Young Met calf was not popular himself; be was rather weak, and his habits were none of the best. "The night of the hop, Eleanor came tn with Fletcher rather late. I think I never saw her so beautiful and so regal; there was a look in her eyes that I would have given my soul to know had been inspired by me. and I'll venture there wasn't a fellow in the room who had not the same feeling. She danced with each and every one of us. but her eyes followed Fletcher, and she seemed sweeter and more far-off from us than ever. "It was about 12 o'clock, just as we were dancing the last dance before going into supper, when I saw a tall, dark stranger standing tn the door looking about the room. Finally his eye caught Fletcher's and I remember how Fletcher Md his partner to a seat and walking up to the stranger spoke to him in low tones. THE NEW YORK WORLD THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION. Almost a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. The presidential campaign is over, but (be world gees on just tbs same and It is full of news. To learn this newt, just as it is—promptly and impartially—all that you have to do is to look in the columns st The Thrice-a-Week edition of the New Tork World which comes to the subscrib er IM 11mee a year. The Thrice-a-Week World’s diligence as a publisher of first news has given it circulation wherever the English lan guage is spoken—and you want it. The Thrioe-a-Week '.. orid's regular sub gerlptlon price to only 31.00 per year. We effer this great newspaper and The Seml- M'oekly Journal together one year for Q.M. The regular subscription price of the two papers to S2.OL "After a few moments* conversation Fletcher continued the dance. When if was over he walked up to Eleanor, who was surrounded by a little court of admir ers and drawing her to one side he said: “ T am sorry, but news has just reach ed me of some important work at the bank that must be attended to at once. Would you mind very much going home now. or will you prefer going later with some friends?' "We did not know at the time what he said to her, but we saw the sweet light tn her eyes as she answered him and pres ently hooded and cloaked she left the danee with Fletcher. "The tall, dark stranger sat on the box with the cabby, and as it was a long way out to the Metcalf home from the coun try club. It must have taken them a full hour to reach it. What they said, what they talked about on the way no one of us will ever know. But when they reach ed the door Fletcher banded her a great bunch of roses and bade her good-night. “The next day the papers were filled with the story of the defalcation of Theo dore Fletcher, the receiver of the Mercan tile bank. 'He had been the people's idol,’ the papers said, 'and he had fallen from the pestal on which he had stood and which had been erected by the people.’ Edward Metcalf was brought on the stand at the trial and testified against Fletcher. At the club he said, 'I told you so,’ and his most scathing remarks were directed toward Fletcher’s action at tha dance. ’Just to think,’ he said bitterly, ’of a thief having the nerve to take my sister home as if nothing had happened, and daring to ride home with her with an officer on the cab.” . a "We were all too excited to say much, and yet we all admired, secretly, the tact and delicacy which Fletcher had shown in the manner in which he had taken his arrest. "Fletcher was sentenced to two years' hard labor; Edward Metcalf remained in town, swaggering and threatening what he would do to Fletcher on his release, and Eleanor went abroad with her parents. “The world soon forget these things and after a few months it was talked of no more, n ‘One day last spring I had occasion to visit ’ the penitentiary at Kewanee. While there I thought of Theodore Flechter and asking to see him, I was shown into his cell. I found him read ing “Les Miserables" in the original French; his hands were white and his nails were pelished to a nicety that any society belle might envy.. "He greeted me with the same old Chesterfieldton manner with just a toucih of frigidity, I fancied, and it stung me to notice that he did not onoe speak of Eleanor—although I should have felt it sacrilege for him to have mentioned her name; Eleanor whom he had soiled with the gossip of having been her sweetheart. Finally disgusted with his evident sang froid. I left him. and as I went down the narrow corridor that led to the entrance, I met a woman coming swiftly down the ball towards me. She turned her face from me as I passed her, but I saw that it was Eleanor Metcalf; Eleanor Metcalf, whom every one believed to be in Europe; Eleanor Metcalf, the cold, the proud, the pure. "I was stunned for a moment, and even when I reached the fresh outer air and sunshine, I was still bewildered and thought that I must have been dream ing. Yet I could not mistake that regal figure, that proud poise of the head, those beautiful eyes. "After a stiff drink or two I tried to forget, and from that day to this I have never mentioned tne subject before. "It seems strange that this topic should It wag Eleanor Metcalf— have come up today, for the morning pa per tells of the suicide of young Edward Metcalf. "Three months ago Theodore Flechter was released from prison; two weeks af terward Eleanor Metcalf married him and they went west to live; can’t you fellows deduct a logical conclusion from what I have told you? ‘You knew the Metcalf pride, of which Eleanor possessed more than is usual—l mean pride in her family, love for her parents and her high ideals of a child's duty. You all knew too Ed Metcalf, his weakness, his perfidy—and you all knew Fletcher.” I paused long enough in my narrative to notice the little flutter of excitement and understanding from each of my friends at the table. Charlie Yates held up his glass. "Here’s to Fletcher, boys.” And no toast was ever more heartily given. Tax Reduction is Required. Louisville Courier-Journal. Notwithstanding the reduction recently made In the war taxes the month of August shows a surplus of >6.041. OS This money Is needed to conduct the business of the country and Is not needed by the government, which thus withdraws It from circulation. Clearly a still further reduction of taxation Is required. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901. IN THE EDUCATIONAL FIELD CONDUCTED RY HON. M. R. DENNIS. $ HAULING CHILDREN TO SCHOOL. A Means to An End. The unvarying and unanimous favorable verdict of every state, county, neighbor hood and hamlet in the United States that has given the matter of hauling children to school a trial, so far as this department has been able to ascertain, Is sufficient, it seems to us, to convince any fair-minded, unprejudiced person of its importance and economic value. Why, any one who has devoted to the subject rea sonable consideration should hesitate to give it his approval is more than we can understand. There can be no rational, business excuse for opposing it. Prejudice or a foolish sentimentality is the only thing under which they can find any sem blance of protection for their opposition to this the most satisfactory solution of all the exlstihg evils growing out of the present Insufficiency or inadequacy of our school system, ever before proposed. Pa ternalism is the only argument of any consequence that has ever been advanced against the system. But if this is to oe condemned because of paternalism, then, why not for the same reason condemn the whole system of public school education and go back to old methods? The proposi tion to primarily one to carry free edu cation to the masses, and secondarily, how to do so effectually at the smallest expense. The proposed system of hauling children to school answers this, and, to our judgment, answers it most com pletely. The terse but sensible answer given re cently by Superintendent Brittain to the question why Fulton county’s board of education had decided to inaugurate the hauling of children to school struck me very forcibly, and clearly illustrates Su perintendent Brittain’s practical turn. His answer, substantially, was that from a purely business standpoint, it was more economical—that it was a matter of dol lars and cents, and a purpose to secure better educational results, and not senti ment, that prompted the board to take the step. • From this standpoint should every board of education in the state weigh this growing question, and in its disposal be governed by good business judgment. We venture the assertion that there is not a county in all-the state but has conditions that such a system would finally and profitably meet, -and at the same time render the county system more efficient. Apropos of this train of thought, we cheerfully give below a strong paper on this subject, written by Superintendent John N. Rogers, of Washington county, who speaks from personal experience. We will soon give in this department an ac count of the results obtained by other localities and states in hauling children to school. M. B. D. CONSOLIDATION OF COUNTY SCHOOLS. By Supt. John N. Rogers, Washington County, Georgia. Short terms, ungraded classes, insuffl- How Many a Good Man Goes Wrong. , I —■ I BY GEORGE ADE. ■■ J ♦ (Copyright, 1901, by Robert Howard Russell.) Once there was a Landmark of the Jobbing District who found a Berth for the Son of an Old Friend. The Boy arrived from the Country wearing what to known as the Peaceful Valley Dicer, with a Buckle on one side, and he had his Money sewed up in the Lining of his Coat. In his Tel escope were some fresh Crulls, a Copy of Tupper’s Proverbial Philosophy and three Shirts made by the Women Folks, with the Buttons attached. When the Boy struck the Wholesale house he was welcomed by the Main Shaft, who gased on him with Com passion. “So you have broken Home Ties and come up to get Citified, have you?” asked the Senior Partner. “Tell me, ’ have you been properly warned as to the Dangers of the Metropolis?” "Oh, yes, sir,” replied the Colt. “I have read about them all my Life and Ivx BIZ/ I lui II / ' I what I didn’t read the Minister told me about just before I started. I ex pect to go out after Supper to find out if all the Stories were true.” “I have noticed tnv.t most of our Bright Young Men from the Corn Belt are moved by the same Spirit of In vestigation,” said the Old Gentleman. "From the time that the Boy is push ed into the Infant Class, he Is told to beware of the Old-Fashioned Cocktail, the Gaming Table and the immoral Play-House. And no sooner does he slip the Hard Knot in the Apron Strings than he is out trying to corroborate all ' that he has heard about the Pitfalls. So I am not going to take up your Time with any Remarks on these hackneyed Topics. What I wish to do is to point out some of the more in sidious Dangers not mentioned in the Books circulated by the Christian En deavor and the Epworth League” "Shoot your Dye-Stuff,” said the Youth, assuming an easy Attitude. "Nearly all of us here in Town came from up in the Woods,” said the Old Gentleman. "When you hear a Deuce of a Chap complaining because he can’t And a good Restaurant, you may set it down that he went Bare- > Footed up to 14 and tackled a Boiled Dinner every Noon. As you begin to circulate here in the City you will get the Impression that all these small Johnnies with the pearl-gray Gloves and the baggy Trousers were brought up in the Lap of Luxury. Later on you will drop to the Fact that every Pheney Aristocrat with a Rhinestone Front and a Plcadllly Regalia was DENTISTRY. Write the Southern Dental College, Atlanta, Oa., If You Contemplate the Study of Dentiatry. This is one of the oldest and best schools in the country and teaches all the Im proved methods now used in dentistry. For information write S. W. Foster, Dean, Inman building, Atlanta, Ga. cient funds, are the main obstacles that prevent country schools from taking rank with town schools, and any plan by which these can be removed should receive ear nest consideration and a fair trial. Longer terms may be had by bringing more pupils together in one school. Fewer classes may be had by limiting the num ber of grades taught by one teacher. More funds may be had by giving those who are really in earnest about the edu cation of their children a controlling in fluence in the selection of teachers, the lo cation of the schools, the time and lengtn of term, etc. In a territory in which were located five schools, three to four miles apart, it was determined to establish one high school and restrict the wora in the other four to the grades in the elementary studies. The patrons of the school se lected for the advanced work agreed to advance the salaries of two teachers, or more if the attendance demanded it, for the private term of Jour months. The en rollment at three of the schools had been from 35 to 60, there being pupils above the fifth grade in all of them. The larger and more advanced pupils were brought to gether tn this central school, making the number of pupils much larger in the class of each grade ip the high school depart ment than was possible when each school attempted to carry but a full course. In this school the patrons who assumed the responsibility of the teachers’ sala ries have the privilege of selecting and contracting with them. The county board ratifies the contract, and, in making an apportionment, of the funds In the terri tory covered by the five schools, account is taken of all pupils above the fifth grade, and their number augments the appropriation to the central school. At the end of two years’ trial two of the primary schools have been abandoned. A majority of the patrons having pre ferred to send their children to the cen tral school, Where the work is divided among the teachers according to grades, and the individual pupil receives more at tention from a teacher specially prepared for that grade of work. The patrons of the other two are satisfied with the limi tation placed on the work to be done by their teachers, as thereby more attention is given their younger children. Their more advanced ones being thrown into larger classes are much more Interested in their studies than would be the case at home. As an Inducement to those who do not live within walking distance of the cen tral school the entire term of nine months is made free to all pupils living beyond a radius of two and a half miles. This Is not a typical case that can be applied to the average community. It so happens that near this school there live four pat rons who are determined, by the grace of God and the sweat t of the brow, to give their children an education. That is a larger number with like minds than is usually found in walking distance of one country school. once a Bundle Bdy and carried nis Lunch in a Tin Box. And if you’re not careful you will get to be as Low as any of them.” *■■■' / ' ' ■"Heaven forbhtl” exclaimed the Country Boy, withal Shudjler. "We go to an Inch at a Move,” said the WfiMur Farmer. “The simple Villager ccfliei into the Board ing House full of Stylish Resolutions and the first thing he knows he is playing the Slot Machine and has Lil lian Russell’s picture on his Mantjl. Then he begins to study the Base- Ball Scores and ye|p on the Bleachers, and unless a Hand is reached forth to save him he next falls a Victim to the Coon Song Habit. The Curse of Strong Drink to not a Marker compared to tha Roste-Posie Habit.. There are close on to 175 new ones every Week and one who Is in the Toils must jflek them up as soon as they come out or he is not Fly. So he is led into the Continuous Habit. The Song entitled 'Go Away Back and Sit Down’ gets mixed up in his Mental Machinery with a lot of Jokes by Johnny Kernell. He begins to think in dialect Rag-Time and Rea son drops very low in the Gauge. Yet he does not realise that lie is in Dan ger. In fact, when he pauses to con sider that the Folks out in Clinton County do not know the Words and Tune of ’Coon, Coon. Coon,’ he has an ineffable Pity for them and the glad Knowledge that 'he is a pretty hot Pigteon. “It must be awful,” said the New Boy. “It is, but there are lower Depths.” said the Ancient Jobber. “After the Intellect has become thoroughly des sicated by the Base Ball Score, the Slot Machine, the Coon Song and the Variety Pun, then the Unfortunate takes to the Red Vest Habit. This comes in the same Category with Co caine and Hasheesh. The Red Vester looks at himself in Drug Store Win dows and whenever he sees a Tid Bit with taffy-colored Hair, he thinks that she wants to leave Home and follow Wm. ’About this time he begins to edneeal the Story of his Early Youth and he pays 32 to have his Face treat ed by a Skin Doctor.” “I never would do that,” said the Country Boy decisively. “That’s what you say now, but I have seen so many Nice Young Fel lows go Wrong, that I would not put a Guarantee on the best of them,” said the Old Gentleman. "But to re- WW r\ • IB sume. You might think that after a Man got to be an Imitation Sport and wore a Red Vest and smiled back at Lemon Cream Soubrettes, that he had touched Bottom. Not so. Sometimes he gets to wearing a'Sash. About the time he forms the Sash Habit he dis covers that he is drawing about one fourth the Salary that is due him. He learns that there is a brutal Con spiracy against him. Ordinary Skates who don’t know any of the late Coon Songs and have no standing tn Blonde Society are being promoted while he is being threatened with the Chute. Sometimes he hangs on and some- The average case is a large number of schools because of a large number of per sons wanting to teach and a clamor from the patron that the school must be near his place of residence. This demand is strongest from those who are the most Irregular patrons and who never do any thing to supplement the term paid for by the state. When the selection of teach ers and the location of the school are left only to such patrons as will do their duty in all matters educational, the mat ter Is much simplified and a neucleus Is established around which may be devel oped a first-class school. After the location is fixed by these help ful patrons and the county superintend ent, and not until that time, lay out the territory to be embraced in that school district. Unless the section is quite sparsely settled it is better to have the boundary so drawn that all pupils on two or three sides are in walking distance. This would make a district of say five by nine miles. In such a district only the pupils from one end would need to be hauled. The most economical way to do this is to hire a horse and wagon from some patron in that immediate neighborhood who has a boy large enough to manage a team. This driver, being a pupil of the sdhool, saves expense on that ■ line and places him under the control of the teach er. In most Instances it is more satis factory to use one-horse teams. If more pupils are to be hauled than one horse can pull use another similar team. It usu ally requires a route too circuitous in order to make up a load for a two-horse team. Ten children is usually the limit to each wagon. Six miles is about as far as satisfactory hauling can be done, though where roads are good and patrons enthused we have some pupils that ride seven or eight miles morning and even ing, and they are keeping up with their classes. These wagon pupils usually make a better average attendance than even those living near the school. One dollar per pupil per month Is the price paid to the school or the patron who furnishes the team. Except in rare cases, the county board that attempts to inaugurate this system simultaneously throughout the entire county will meet with complete failure. It Is not practicable in all communities but there is on an average one central point to every one thousand school popu lation that offers conditions propitious to the plan. With such schools established not more than ten miles apart., they could be reached by all such students as are hungering and thirsting for educa tion, yet whose means will not permit them to attend a boarding school. This applies to many of our most deserving boys and girls who are deprived of a high school education under existing con ditions. The greatest gain that comes from con solidation and longer terms is in the bet ter class of teachers seeking employment in the schools. The enhancement of farm values and the moving in of desirable families is sufflcinetly marked to win over those who will be Influenced only by mercenary motives.—Atlantic Educa tional Journal. times he doesn’t, but always after that he is Percy with the Grievance.” "How shall I avoid this horrible Fate,” asked- the new-comer. "By starting back to the Farm the D 1 ■ I Kj u minute you feel a Hankering for a Red Vest,” was the Reply. MORAL: A Roast in Time saves Nine. CASTOIYIA. Bean the Kin(l You Al * a F s Boi W TALLULAH FALLS EXPOSITION. On Tuesday of next week, September 17, the Blue Ridge and Tallulah Falls exposition will begin at Tallulah Falls and continue four days. The exposition will be the result of co operative effort on the part of six Geor gia counties. Union, Towns, White, Ra bun, Banks and Habersham, Macon ano Clay counties of North Carolina and Oco nee county, South Carolina. Every one of these counties is remarkably rich in mineral resources and hardwoods of fine quality. The collective exhibit of the best spe cimens of these sources of wealth, which has been arranged for the exposition at Tallulah Falls, will surprise even those who believed that they were familiar with the regions which are to be illus trated. The people of the Georgia and Carolina counties named above have taken a lively interest in this enterprise and a large number of them will contribute to its success. A special program has been arranged for each of the four days. It will cover I a variety of popular topics besides those which relate especially to the material development of one of the richest sec tions of the south in natural resources. Many popular amusements have also been provided. A large attendance is as sured. The railroads have granted low rates and there will be ample accommoda tions at Tallulah Falls for all who may come. The exposition will be unique in character and will have an abundance of attractions. We have no doubt that it will help greatly toward the development of a ter ritory in Georgia and the Carolinas where splendid opportunities await capital and enterprise. The exposition will be opened by the governors of the three states directly concerned and a number of other distin guished speakers will make addresses on subjects of timely and general interest HOW TO SUBSCRIBE. if you want The Semi-Weekly Jour nal go to your poetmaster, buy a post office order for one dollar, send It with your name and postoffice to The At lanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga. Look over the paper, select any premiums you desire and tell us In your letter the one you have selected. Some one has started the question, “Do Insects reason?” In the case of the mos quito it must be intuition. Else why does he fly away just as you make up your* mind to give him a whack? A Chance to Make Money. -j. .r~ Cor CR we will ship this perfect cooking ’MI OIUiUU stove and all the necessaty rarerivv Made of very best material. We buv in large quantities when tne _ . JwkAyjhM'ymanufacturers need money, therefore sell cheap. Dealers Would Charge You sl7 for This Stove. Has double covers, sectional long centers, cut top, back shelf, out jf r’T IT W side oven shelf. Fire back warranted 10 years. With reservoir for 115 95. Send us 310.65 by PO. or express money order and we will 1/ —send to you by freight, understanding that '*■ - If not Perfectly Satisfactory you Bre to return to us and We Will Refund Your Money. As to our reliability we ref er you to anybody in Savannah. Send today. Chfaner stoves from 35.00 up. R. L CLANCY & CO,. 113 Whittaker St.. Savannah. 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It is built of rough upright planks covered by a board roof which shelters one room that is bare of all furniture or ornament, except two split bottom chairs, a narrow cot and a small pine table. Its color is faded brick-dust red. The site of this dingy little house is a triangle so narrow that the scores of trains which crawl or dash past it every day barely miss it. It is the office of the yard-master. A yard-master has to be near his business and from that point of view this partic ular yard-master is ideally located. His official home is in the center of the realm of which he Is the master. He can sit in his front door and almost pat the huge engines that go by, or stand puffing, wheeling and groaning in his tiny side yard. They bedew the walls of his petty palace with their steaming breath and shower their hot cinders on A FEW FACTS About the New Catarrh Cure. The new Catarrh Cure is a new depar ture in so-called catarrh cures because it actually cures, and is not simply a tem porary relief: The new Catarrh .Cure is not a salve, ointment, powder nor liquid, but a pleas ant tasting tablet containing the best specifics for catarrh in a concentrated, convenient form. The old style of catarrh salves and oint ments are greasy, dirty and inconvenient at the best; the new preparation being in tablet form is always clean and con venient. The new Catarrh Cure is superior to ca tarrh powders because it is a notorious fact that many catarrh powders contain cocaine. The new catarrh cure is called Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets, a wholesome combina tion of blood root, beach wood tar. guaia col and other antiseptics, and cures by its action upon the blood and mucous mem brane, the only rational treatment for catarrhal trouble. You do not have to draw upon your imagination to discover whether you are getting benefit from Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets; improvements and relief are ap parent from the first tablet taken. All druggists sell and recommend them. They cost but 50 cents for full sized pack ages, and any catarrh sufferer who has wasted time and money on sprays, salves and powders, will appreciate to the full the merits of Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets. A little booklet on cause and cure of catarrh sent free by addressing F. A. Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich. § By F. H, £ Richardson R! Its roof and into its diminutive door and its two narrow windows. Just in the rear is a coal chute, from which the wind takes up clouds of black dust and sends them whirling into the mouth and eyes of the tiny house. All about there is in summer the glare of serried steel rails, the stifling sense of'closely crowded engines and cars, the throb and smell of machinery and an air laden with coal dust. In the winter the icy winds sweep down through the long railroad cut, whistle and howl at the door and through the crevices of the yard-master’s office. A most commonplace and unlovable.lit tle house this would be but for one thing. A woman’s hand has touched it and made it noble; a womans love has adorned and consecrated it; a woman’s thoughtfulness and devotion have wreath ed about it the fleeting emblems of spir itual and Immortal beauty, t When the time for flowers came the yard-master’s wife went to see him one day and in front of his bare cabin planted I a profusion of morning glories. More I uncongenial soil for anything with ca pacity to bloom would be hard to And. but the woman’s, love and hope and skill worked wonders in that arid waste. The spring rains washed the tender shoots and timid leaves clean of the grime that tried to choke them, and every day they felt the nourishing care of one who loved them. Under it they lived and flourished. No flower ever grey to its best, even in the mellowest soil and the most auspi cious air. when it failed to And and feel tenderness and affection in the eyes that watched and the hand that trained. Having these influences the morn ing glories in tne hard, black old freight yard grew to wondrous perfection. They clambered up about the door of the dreary shack, clung to its bare planks, mounted and half covered its rough roof. After they had embowered and beauti fies its grim face with draperies of green they began to glorify it with a wealth of luxuriant and varied blossoms. The ugly front became splendid under its cover of pink, purple, snowy white and rich green, all bejeweled by the dew which flashed like the diamonds In the crown of a queen under the soft kisses of the morning sun. Then it was that we fell in love with the title house. Who could help loving it, nestled there where all else was bare and forbidding, displaying daily a miracle of nature’s ben eficence and the mightier miracle of a wo man’s devotion? * u - All summer long these clustered morn ing glories have greeted and cheered those who come that way to the toil and heat and worry of their tasks. Many a hot morning have we been put into better spin by their frail and brief beauty and the better thing it betokened, a thing more « eternal than the greatest of the golden stars that looked down at night upon the drooped and folded blossoms which ' were to reappear all fresh and sparkling in the morning, God's best blessing to ' man—a woman’s perfect love and unfor- j getting solicitude, 7