SOME OTHER DAT
There ar» wonderful things we are go¬
ing to do,
" 1 '' 1
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. iv i i f • , ,
'“' "'"sore . other day.
Willi foi'tftil , ,, hands j. the ai „ oars that .* traiJ,
.
We ... watch and . wait for , a favorite , .. ga e la
*• . , , , •
i
We know -e must toil if ever we win,
Some other day
But we say to ourselves there’s time to
b'
Some other day.
And so deferring, we loiter on,
Until at last we find withdrawn
The strength of the hope we leaned
upon,
Some other day.
And when we are old, „ and . our race .
ru n,
Some other day.
We fret for the things that might have
......» done
Some other day.
Wo trace the path that , leads , us
"here
I he beckoning hand of grim despair
Leads us yonder out of the here,
Home other day. ’
ClCCIIvV.
“It’s the fault of there being such
a large family, dear, that is all.”
“And a very bad fault, to,..”
“Dick’ Don’t you like the family?”
“Not as I like you, child, and not
enough to like them to monopolize
you and take up all your time and
thoughts and interests, so that I,
w l.om you are going to marry can
hardly get so much as a word or look
,ro “y°" i
“Who is with . yon now, T Dick? .
< ( Yes, for three minutes at the gar
den gate, because if I come inside |
you will be mimJurided by the whole
lot of them the next moment, and for
anything might we want well to say to opposite one an
other we as be at
poles. You mayn’t mind it, Cecily
you don’t seem to do eo, at any rate
—but, l.„* upon my sm.l soul, it it’s s bttr,l har 1 1in«« lines
on a man who loves you."
It is ari evening in April. The land
is all aflush with the pink blossoms
of the almond and the white blossoms
of the pear.
He is rather handsome always,
rattier angry now, my lover, hut I
know that the anger comes from love, ,
and sol think more of the first fact
than the second us I look uj. smiling
lykuto the brave blueses, and
ft pasMoimle broad, gleam,
how well the square cut
shoulders and shapely head stand out
against the golden glory of that even
,
I ask. “I’m sure you get your fair
lliare of at.ention.’’ |
“1.0 I he savs gravely. "When
r wait a whole week for the chance of
one walk with you, aud when the
promised 1 dav comes you coolly send
me word that you’ve got something
,.|s.. , t„ do and tit are too busy even to t
l »“ght have claimed your
prom iso , to marry me two Summers
ago, and a in last Autumn when l
was red the making of that new
cause
8o soon
ami I could not bear to go away with
out you but now there is this other
job o the same sort in Perthshire.
nod they say l ean have it for the ask
mg 1 he w orks are to begin in July
and .fwe are married in June-dear
Cecily, my ow n darling love, do say
that we shall be; do give me what
ask. Tfi.mk how long I have waited
for yeti already and how badly I want
you, and come to me. Cecily, dear¬
est, ifvou love me say you will. Hay
it now.”
“In Juno!” I repeat, my eyes wide
with dismay, and drawing myself still
further buck. “Diek, you promised
not to be in a burry anythmp of he
••I never promised had done l should
sort: but if 1 so
have Ac pt my promise over and oyer
again. Cecily, wi.l ton e'.r iia a
lover who has waited as long as 1 one
done already ' And yetjou talk v my
waiting on for another year still: 1
yon loved moiu the least ;>» wo .
<** Dre.l of these delays as I am
but you don t, and 1 ■. * y tv '^
plainly. You don't even know waa. . 1
love Yon ”
is. -
“HuHabullero, hullftlmlloo! Cecily.
(’is. where are you ?” shouts a boy's
\ r o ui the laburnum bushes be
lnnd. Dick. Let
“Don’t bo wily m go
lmm. \ v but I have no need to re
.
peat t i qm-st. At me urst - -
: :l ' dropped my
*“• ' “F.-cood if von like 1
hl expt'y » v ill ir^Utat some dav.
,r' 0 arlssamr <truling
' uuderthe
°\?5 i" h.wv
milk white blossom*of tii ,'ssoms of the toe thorn tiurntre.. trees
withom .-other word
dr;; don’t really -e- “to h^t ma.
it is too had; and the s orst of it
.
that I dare not show my t- exation.
Poor Dick’s spurt of temper is for
gotten, and tea proceeds I without bear fur
ther allusion to him. cannot
Dick to be angry with me; Dick, who
r f hiH 'J uk4: - * er J Ilature | i8a f
gentle as a woman m general with
*■> i 1 1
those ■ he loves, ami i who has been , so
tender and . true to me allthe.se ,, years,
........... t-h.
one forget that those who give much
k '.V‘" U Imtryin'
tbit CtT emtnt i« » L
'
'ofth„ .min ie
, tbit se " most ^ concerned
« t s a t, eu he ou
-«•&-> ward expression m* of it and bring about
coolnesses, and 1 is trying rr°' too, iron.
tlie fact that the longer it lasts the less
consideration or sympa by i seems to
allied l^and who, when
th e first eclat of the affair is over, are
e^aged t ’hnment t Dick and S,t,r I have jZt be-u
before mother died; and he was ready
and waiting for me when he was first
taken ill, nearly a year before that.
I don’t see him often. He is a civil
engineer and qaieTvTnage; too busy to pay frequent
vi-i* —--— Imt during I
this ono his patience has been tried
more than usual.
is Is there mere ever ever a a gaver gayer, gladder gm mer time iime
tn all the year; or a gayer, gladder
morning than this when I rise and
'’ ok across the frothing snow of pear
blossoms and meadows paved with
golden buttercups to the red roof of
Jhe village inn, half hidden in elm
trees, beneath which Dick lodge..
Perhaps he may be striding across
„7a bun^h'ofTioTets 7
has done "°“? so once vTsitois or twice but
t i ‘ lUp ^ at break
out’at af ai q has fouud it
ut an an v T rate rate ’ he be does to ,s not l u come me to
<la v > a “<* s0 1 8° do "' 1 to ,reak aa ’ !
. “,JHttfeJiator
ast to assist ri y i 1
} through » ola her « laborous efforts at wading
up the scale on the piano when ie ,
maid has brings just me from a letter the which inn,and she I j
"ays come
see it is from i< • .
thankful I have have been been since since . ,
and -- 1 we ----- nt 1 away’ -----| ■ 1
to read it by myself; for even the first
words seem to daze and dazzle me! .
It begins, “My dear Cecily,” aud then
I sit and read and re-read therest over j
and over again, how long I never
knew, with eyes that see, yet see not,
and a heart which beats, yet refuses
to comprehend. Dick is gone, aud
this is what he tells ( me: me: ;
a letter aWI. W .. ••• Don the .
contractors for that Canadian railroad
«» " 1 »<’ h ho 1 '“ <l to 1,1 1,ef < 7’ U
liberal . offer, . he
"as a very am was
still very hot and angrv. On the spur
»»B the letter, repented of what he had
^ ue - Pe rha P a Ue remembered how
><>'*8 , had loved . one am, her aud
"^t bitter pain purling would be; at
any rate, he put the letter in his pock
al ‘ d came up to the vicarage to tell
me again that if I would marry him tn
.jiifiD d l " Jit* would still Accept the sniftll*
, illtm( . nt in lieu of this; or, if
twere re y imposs.lde, J would ar
« eo f m , in
{'*“ a “* n ,^ wife, and
t „ 0lina a„ with him.
'/ * 1 brought * him hack; my ;.
' 1 n h me> , nille! ._ th
11 ty / hau , aiding
v . bi . h a8 amusing a set of
‘ 8 boT „. “ A „d so,” he
’"’Vo awaT , a! „, I write this
t ^ bid vou good-five. and^I Mv eves !
#ve b opened at last, see
only too plainly that the years which
have only intensified my love for you
have w ithered yours at the root, that
visits have been a weariness, my
‘ ‘ J*' Perhaps some day I
yt b „ thankful that I have
tlus 1( , SPOU even so late, but 1
a . ;uot " do K;1 vet. nor can I bring my
, , )u , pain of meeting
■- lodging
j Kl , back to mv ■ - ,
. ^ and P:l ii for fanada had told this week, the
b( . a w u vou me
mefroll , you before,
) ut , , not blame yon for not doing
^ You were always gentle at heart,
and I believe vou could not hear to
hur! m< , , , fa , v .“ And then he
i, ad e God bless me, aud signed him
so!{ ..y ouls ever faithfully, Kichard
Meredith.’' I
I out the meat and serve the pud
din ti.at dav at dinner, and though
I cannot snv one word, and there must
ft ," soutethuig ui mv • face which
ft thev stare at
C ' f
( H>< , Ui j ne ver
''
u ,, ,. . until the
I as [ write to Dick the
words as fas; as they are penned. have
For of course 1 answer Urn l
rea l .u no' Is of girls who. when
they have hurt or angered their
lovers, are too proud to write or say
.........!. a f rar ,i 0 .. ; but I am not
wo d.^.y. .tupid
M I -7 h.T. P-v.d it. and
and shy a« I have been of showing my
affection byloutward signs. I am oo
sure of hisfive for me to let any fa se
shaite or no- understanding rest .e
tween us; and so I write and just tell
him the whole truth about that luc *
ie *» Beene, t*U him how dealr he is to
me, and beg and numoiv love au v still.
i„-. tears a a„ to iortf‘»< t ~,rivp me ™ 1110
his iournev, (if ... he , has
r not a x, to rr give :—.. up un nis journey,
he,) but at least come to neoe 1
thaf ^ ^
my promise at whatever time he I
wantsmel will be ready to be his
wife whether he can come back for |
me or I havb to go out to him. Other
women have done tliat much for men ,
& Dmk, *, who^lw^anea rAt 01 rj£ « I
Jj ^ |
1 i« .‘faithfully” still? and
ac,oithe ^ finishe<1 at j wt> s
I walk fields myself (I will
not trust >t t» any other hand) put
Stilt*. wait patiently indeed daily '
but with a dm’v lessening hope, a ,
failing heart; for Dick does not come,
nor is the* tvny answer to my poor
tear-blotted, letter. .-tins rise and
suns set. f>mk before has left to me stretching. His lose,
tried
snapped TWre the forced merriment
had of that not foflp tW heart laugh; to and say because so he has he j
good. held hj.sJgeace F and gone; gone foi ,
a V I
-
"j “ 8gaia % now; W the second !
g -1 g Ter left Twice
hajewe -at “j t! c j, nrt .h with ivv J i !
f
have^&oe vica rage hall.
I lHL up to London to buy
----- oa w ..vv .istera and on
■ ha^.een , jfe, t j u business; but these i !
duties achieved; and , now,
before I go home again, I am bound on
an errand which, though 1 would not :
dare own it to any one, (for indeed I ,
know it to'4 ,,.| both vain and foolish,)
$ 33 j n „ on my heart ever .
aiuce i\ e home with a yearning '
persistence to which, even though it
, be nnmaideulv ttnmaidenly, 1 I cannot cannot choose but
y !
H m to vfimt ,i,; t ni.v, Dick s i i ni iinnm 1 i 1 where "^ e
he always Rt. d 'alien he as m Lon
ani V .'' '
known known by by heart heart this this , many many a a year. year. ...
I I * g,» g,> there there and and make make my my little little ex- ex
cuse about wanting to see the rooms
for a friend—I hope it is not very
wrong to say so—and even manage to
get out recommended his name as them the to person That jyho
once me.
proves an “open sesame,” however,
Mrs. Brown beams with smiles on
the instant, and begs me to walk up j
stairs, “ 'wth ■ Jfh fortunately fortunately the the rooms rooms
Mr. Mr Me. .-j,th was~n.cW iselr for
tunes ™ TS and jjgaintH> <J» * d 7°? saidtome. ^" Now,,
- n flnV
be, these aml^^Bver ro^; /or I eomforbler returns . , to Jjomlon » i
if so he re a friend of that dear
gentleman s . perhaps you can give me lj
hts address. 1 here s a lette, been
lug ere for him this ever so long It
,
come about,six mouths after he left,
inclosed ’ou«.. sjtTjrag in ^ note whoever to the owner o had the
as ,
po^box <lroi)p#u it into h between and tlie j
and the inside of the wall,
Dim,, it 1*1 stuck, no one finding it
tV/I oW before.”
I am sta; Ung there in Dick’s room,
theroo,, * he and worked and
,,v sat
from me ar
vet I cannot look at it. I cannot think
of it. A hi 1 ze has come before my |
eyes, and a numbness over my brain, lies |
for there on the table before me
my letter, tl 0 , verv letter ftUmnled blotted with
tears and s posted ilftt with | !
age, which I with my hand
two years as o. aud which-all! 1 see :
it all now, h 0 ; could I think him so ;
hard, so nnf prgivu , T 0 u"iit = to
have known hts nature better-which , ., , ;
he never ree lived at all. i
1 I must be very weak, or the shock ,o
is t >o great: for as Mrs. Brown leaves
the room I s ^ it quietly 1 down and faint
away, |
It is ouh - for a minute, however, I
The sunbeai as which w ere shining ou
a fiot of veil >w crocuses in the window
have not molved a hair's breadth; aud j
faintlv on th e clear cool air I can
beftr ’th b eills from some tlistant
ehttrch whi h were calling the people
a saint’s lay service when I came
b i.
There i a step af the door; but
though T kn _>wit is Mrs. Brown I can
not -look up Jot raise my head from the
hard deni t dde where it is bowed.
All my long self-restraint ail my puiu
fill, pitiful bwfvery efforts at womanly retie
ence and have broken down at
the teat - L limliug i ng held back break
forth in a iJ 1 rain, and my face
is hidden my hands. So it ha P -
pens that spine oue coming in sees
uia.n n : , fi. prise
“I bog your pardon, .. . he adds ,, very
q^chiy old landlady Imi.j has been came telling ui )ee& me some- se ..
thing abou a le er, am a . . y
And there a* breaks off. for I have
x_. x# --f ^e.
ther# u a cry.
“Cecily'. Cecily! Is it you? Oh,
my darling, my love, what good angel
of you!” 'am^soLehow " soinlbow^in
one moment, a.1 the pain and grief ami
weariness, all the bitter bravery of
days when “the burden laid upon me
seemed greater than I could bear a.e
gone, blotted out like breath from a
glass; and there is nothing J but joy
and. peace and rest, rest perfect and
and »*,
^ ,. am in my , over , s armS) mj
tired head is drawn down upon hts
breast; and I hear his voice, the dear,
tender voice of old, murmuring
prayere for forgiveness mingled with
such words of love and fondness as I
sz ^ ^ ^ ceased to chime
.
The yellow crocuses bend and shiver
before the sharp cold breeze, but we
two
the
white hyacinths in -^east is no
brighter twoheartsonh.s than that which the tm„ntens sweetes
our
springtide of our lives.-All the Year
Bound.
AN ANCIENT MEXICAN CITY.
a Curious Le^encf-Relics of the Empero
Maximilian.
Queretaro was a town b belore { r the t
Spanish conquest, and was made a
city in 1655. A legend of Queretaro
is that an Otomite chief, Fernando
de Tapia by name, undertook to con
vert the city to Christianity in a way
that seems novel to us, but was com
mon enough to his day. He came
from Tula with a challenge to the peo- ,
pie of Queretaro to a fair stand-up
tight. If he won the people surviving
were to be baptized The challenge
was accepted, but while the fight was
in progress, a dark cloud came up,
and the Blessed Santiago was seen in
the heavens with a fiery cross, where
upon the people of Queretaro gave up
and were baptized. They set up a
stoue cross to commemorate the event
^ ^ ^ the preaent church of
Santa Cruz. There is scarcely a
Hntrch in Mexico which has not a
q{ )hia kinJ attacbed to it .
The town is identified with the history /
of Mexico.
Here the treaty of peace between
the United States and Mexico was rati
fied iu 1848, and here Maximilian made
his last stand in 1867, was obliged to
surrender and was shot. Everybody
is interested in Maximilian mainly on
account ai of poor Carlotta, who by the
w . ay, has just obtained permission to
revisit Mfdco Maximilian was exe
w&fiJ ^enekVdttffa^ wd
The place is marked by three
er osses of stone. The two gen
erals were killed at the first volley,
Maximilian, who had requested
,, .. , •
. ' xhe
^ d km him
- M ^lieve that
P to
dea d. She became insane
ffom ^ ^ waa kept in an as ylum
1V 7 years, 7 but she still lives, aud
, husbaudand
JttJinioB ^ Thft United
states government protested , , t agams • a x
tUe execution of Maxim lian but in
I au1 Juare f, fusing to spare him.
’ Maxt
rhere are all kinds , t ie cs o
nnl.an in Mexico. The It, rb de t ea
whose remains were subsequently
»cmt to Austria and buried at Miramar.
1 confess I do not share tn any senti
nient of pity for Maximilian, who was
adventurer without a shadow ot
right in Mexico and took the chances
of war. He was it is true, a victim
“f Napolecm and of his own ambition
and w-as very scurviiy treated by those
"l l ° bad induced linn to set up Ills
throne; e but to have released him
’ laim
been to ePtal)lish a e
ant for the Mexican * throne. It was
-
that this should , i ate v tlm. nn
better man
that thousands should be sacrificed m
the wars he would surely ha\e
fomented if he had been allowed to
live.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Successful Skin Crafting.
Ten-year-oltl Newark, Trisctier N. Orter J., alter is at
ber home in a
four months' stay at the German Hos
pital, i:i that city. The girl was
frightfully burned on February 20 by
failing into n fire at the coal dock'* on
Pacific street. For a time her iife
—
was despaired of
Her burns gradua.Iy healed, except
one spot four inches in diameter,
above the right knee. This refused
to respond to ordinary tieatment, and
decided to S
Strips of skin were removed from the
other leg and bound upon the unheal
e d .pot They adhered, aud gradu
ally over-spread ike whole sore and
Franco has again not only to report
# decrease in tUe birthrate, but o!
^ number of foreigners S who became
natllrllli2ed in 1836 The number is
twenty-tw ,_f .^ c per cent, less than for any
^ -„ r? tV T Te 0 r tbe
1 ||nillMllutt „ m l8aa ,
j j THE JOKERS’ BUDGET.
Jests and Yarns Made and To!d b V Fun "
Men 0T the Press '
Trr.NED TOE OTHER CHEES.
■ £ k j ssed | lightly the cheek,
ier ou
j qjer face blazed Up as I could see,
1 thought iu scathing terms she'd speak—
&be turned the other cheek to me!
SO FAR AND VET SO NEAR.
“Can you tell me how far it is to Mug
gleton going it’s about
“Well, the way you're
25,000 miles."
. Nor HER OWN.
** >” *“ —"
& noticeable improvement in ray appear
snee ?
Nutte—Ye-es; but 1 fear it’s patented.
I , Optimus—I ONE CASE don’t WHERE think IT that DOES. the world
, u always willing to believe the worst
# ^ ej , and 8e ,
A GENTLE UINT.
Mr. Kashbocks—My money is a lot of
trouble to me.
Miss Wayting—They say every man his
ought to have some- woman to share
troubles.
switching him off.
Mrs. Youngish—Oh, Bob, what shall I
for Baby is crying because X won't let
aim pull * ail the fur off my new muff.
^ Youu-dsh—Well " e “’ that’s all rh'ht.
Give him the cat!
THE TEMPTATION TOO GREAT.
Ellen —Why don't you put a couple of
oysters ou those black eyes o’ youru?
Tom — I did. I tried ittwiced, but some
how 1 can't never get them no furder up
than my mouf.
not a sensitivh plant.
, r fa a hardy ro3e busll ,..
, g one that doesn’t mind your wife
pulliDg it up b y die roots every few days
.. 0 aee if it has begun to grow yet.”
a kecipe.
Dick-One is so apt to lose sight of
one's friends,
narry-Thafs not necessary. Min#
stick to me with touching fidelity,
Dick-How do you manage it/
y-Oh, 1 borrow money of tnem.
a modepn models soiiEnERRZADE sciieiiekezade.
'Meeker,” observed a friend of
- amUv ' ,. Ua very superior woman.
gb(J cau C0 QVerse intelligently. I believe,
ou a t |, 0US and different topics.”
••Yes,” sighed Mr. Meeker, “and she
does.”
A DECIDED HINT
Mother—W hat in the world ever pos¬
sessed you to give Mr. B:ngo a shavirg
set?
how Daughter—He ftnfiit r my f' never is. scenes Jk> realize^
i e
HIS TOOL9.
Nonie—They found nothing on that
dead cashier in Canada hut a cake of soap.
Laura—That’s probably what he cleaned
up the bauk with.
KNEW TflEIR DUTY.
“How did the passengers behave after
it was discovered that the vessel wa3 ou
fire ” panic
“Admirably! They got the
itricken crew into the boats and then
subdued the fismes.
ARTFUL AUDACITY.
“=o Boracks is going to marry tliat
J n girl . j. , ie /
=. { lbe funny part of it is that
^ ^ ^ Ufi wanted to marry her on
Qf ^ £ortuue ...
-sj.—
SOME EXCUSE.
uii n us— “The paper says the Czar is a
yer>r nlilerate man/ .
j NViuks _ up in the classics, eh?”
| Blmks—“Worse. They say his letters
are tuit of errors in orthography.”
| Winks—“But. my dear sir, just tliiuk.
, 1Ie has to spell m Uussian.”
| A W ARNlNO.
, “It seemr to me ” said tli e living skele
ton. as he reached for the plate of beef
steak, “that your business is falling off.’
“So is yours,” hissed the manager, as
a e au ickly remove ® t the disii from liie
iau e, r be doi ju .,
.
had heard it befobe
lie arrived home at 3 a. m. and told hi#
wife that he bail bceu sitting up with a
sick friend.
“Do you expect me to believe that?”
she inquired. think I would tell bare¬
••Do you a
faced lie .” he asked, with au injured air.
■ ‘Certain!' - not,” said she. “that one
is so old it has whiskers.”
No Respecter of Persons.
k . lw5ral de Horsev. at Port
. •. » nivrht his'wav*to retmiin^ to hia
fiag-s..^ „ > J the boat
•
led across r'.i.j.wL , i black
*twdH i n .tia red
'. hatted him at the . gate w tth. “Who Who
meuts
, dat
^oyancetofind -“<•* / ‘ ’ >a ^ , ^edto .
the pa • . warLmn
tnow ^kpouslv; nohod '“you v, sar,” replied the sentry dar.”
can’t go in
« -S' \vhr I'm Llmiral de liorsey!” Ve
vou :-aa> go ir..” was the
p , “I don’t cure if Vo.t’s Adnifrai
‘
De Du — ., 1 -- -L
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