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With the* fejiown whoVp grit and pluck;
Don’t frown and scowl,
Look gin in and grow).
Stop prating about ill ltl' k.
Lift up your head.
Don’t M*«?m half dead.
Stop wearing •* wrinkled fare;
Clive ainiling hop**
fcuffk-ic*nt *cop»-.
And joy a will como apart.
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Mils. HI.I.ISON hail begun j
to feel that life was not I
worth living. She wish a
r rich woman; a fact which
goes to prove that money doe, not al
ways make up for other loss' s; nor
give supreme content. Married and j
w'idowed very early, she had formed
no new Ilea.
Tile yearn had come and gone;
paused at her town house and country
lioimcjn turns.- according to ‘.lie sea .
Mm. and varied by an occasional so i
JoifNi al Nfciv. Spa. or Kins.
I’.iit when slic bail reached the age
td fifty-five and realized that old'age
wad, no to say. within speaking dis
tanee, the loneliness of her existence
deemed oppressive, and she resolved
to make an end of It.
Ilow could tluil lies! lie done? .Mrs.
Klllson possessed nil excellent maid,
and very capable servants; but even
the very lies! domestics are not qmili
lleil lur the constant society of a gen
tlewoinaii.
She had tried a ••useful companion,"
tmd a “companionable lady," whose
adverlldcmenta in a l.ondon daily pa
per had been unusually striking. Hut
both experiments resulted In dire fail
ure.
one day a happy thought suggested
itself; lit’ liumm-She hoped it would
prove u happy thought. As a girl
she laid bibm fond of children, and
envied those of her friends who pus
Sensed brothers and sisters. As a
young widow, she hail often thought
how lmppy shi’ might have been as a
mol her.
So now, in her advancing age. Mrs.
Ellison resolved Hint she would adopt
s {-Itlid. As a matter of course it
in list lie a nice child, and well born.
Hie WOtlld prefer i| boy, lull she would
nut refuse a girl. If a pretty, sweet
naltired girl should he offered. And
It must be small. Not more than three
nr four years of age, when It would he
easy for the little creature to forget its
Itrst home ami habituate Itself to new
surroundings.
Mrs. KlHson -spoke of tier purpose
lo only two of her most Intimate
friends. Not bi cause she wished for
I heir advice (for she was the sort of
woman who acts upon her own Judg
meat and unaided). Inti because she
chose to acquaint them with her Inten
tion of cheering her home and her life.
"My dear."' said one an old maid
she was "don't llilnl. of it! A child
la the house means an end of peace
and comfort,"
"Do you think so?" answered the
widow, with a peculiar smile. "Well,
I fancy I have bail too tuueh peace
mill comfort, t waul a change.”
The other friend was the mother of
a .dozen grown and growing up hoys
sml girls. Sla- looked doubtful nud
suggested that there might he some
tlllHiatlty .in getting possession of just
tls’.r'ghl roll of eltllil
".I shall advertise," said Mrs. Elll
► »<!.
And n few day.-, later, the advertlse
lueat made Us appearance in several
papers, reading as follows:
"A lady of wealth wishes to adopt
a ehilil of gentle birth nut above the
age of four years. l'nexee|hionable
references will lie given ami required.”
• * u •
In the small, cheaply furnished si*
ting rccui of a house situated in a
fourth rate Loudou suburb, a young
woman cat ..cunning the advertise
meat columns of that day's Telegraph.
The eheerlcasuess of her surroundings
was aggravated by the fact that. ;
though, the month was January, the
|gr*|e wu* tireless.
The explanation of (his circumstance
was the comparative mildness of the
temperature The young woman, by
name Mrs. Latimer, would have found
n tire cheering that evening, but she
could dn without it And hers was one
of -tho*c sad fates which cal! for "do
lug without" all that Is not an Impera
tive neceoaity
The room was on the "Itrst floor
front,” as the landlady would describe
l . and opeued into a small bedroom
wliirh liad a view from its windows
over the back yards and out-buildings
of neighbor.ng houses
\\ Idle Kstelle 1 ait I titer studied the
ltuily Telegraph, her boy slept penn
fully in the hack room. Itis three
years of life's experiences had left
chubby «od cheerful Kven alsecp
when the charm of the brown eyes,
Ho like his dead father’s, was not visi
ble he was a handsome little fellow,
who hade fair to develop imo a still
tnorc handsome youth and niuuiiKod
Kstelle had married a poor citrate.
The! U|k ant to tisllt the battle o’ Hie
braids, sio by side. Hut unfortun
ately. Mr i it lull i succumbed to an
attack ol lit(1 i. -ti: a during the - . aid
\» .titer of tto'.i wedded life, ami the
yotfug s - t w
no future prospects and UttU laur
|, e to proi i*l and care so,
Her parent.' lo»d died, lea i:;g no
worldly behind them and of
near ri'lattr. • young Mrs Latimer
pi*s>'-ss, ,t u It she hr.it -y isms
tfif more ■ - tes* distant, ttiey jtw no
HEADS UP.
Out on the man
Whose little h;i in
In full of grief and gloom.
Always dreary
Never clicery
From trundle-bed to tomb.
Dive me the chap
Who, what’er may hap,
t,oolcs up, and is cheerful still,
Who meets a brunt
\\ ith a smiling front,
And nerve, and vim, and will.
—Success.
| sign of life. But this is no unusual
! experience for those who would rank
as poor relations.
Kstelle had taken n eh<ap lodging,
and gained her bread by giving music
or French lessons, to (he somewhat
| vulgar young people of the neighbor
' hood who, in this matter of education,
l wished to out-distance their fathers
and mothers. A laudable ambition
; and progress is the order of the day.
i But to a well-born young woman of
j refined taste, this close touch with
rough humanity is somewhat of u
t rial.
It is more than probable that Mrs.
I,a tinier might have been successful In
finding more congenial occupation if
flattriee laid been non existent. But
she could not leave him alone; nor
| could she afford a nursemaid, or en
trust him to the care of Mrs. Perkins,
lhe landlady, although she had hinted
at her willingness to make the "little
dear” free of her kitchen in the base
ment whenever his mother wished to
absent herself.
Ho, tis Estelle Latimer could not go
out to give lessons to better class
children, she must perforce accept
those who would present themselves
In her sitting room and thumb out
exercises, scales, and simple melodics
upon the piano, whose tone and quali
ty may be imagin ’d when the price
of ils hire (eight shillings per month)
is taken into consideration:
But the courage with which Estelle
bad set to work was melting like snow
itt sunshine. She uas, so far, not
getting on. Despite ail her economy,
ail her sacrifices, she was in arrears
with her rent —not much, and Mrs.
Perkins was not "nasty” about It—and
a few shillings were owing here and
there, the sum total being very incon
siderable, yet sutticient to cause
anxious days and sleepless nights.
Ho though Mrs. Latimer did not
often Indulge In the luxury of a pen
ny or a half penny—newspaper, she
had bought one for that January even
ing's reading, in the hope that it
would suggest something which she
might do ns a means of earning more,
and quicker.
It was as it always is plenty of
situations offered, and plenty needed;
yet few which seemed to present a
suitable opening to me person who
scans the list.
If Estelle had been eligible for mil
linery. or as a bar-maid; if slie could
have declared herself experienced iu
wiutlow dressing or in bookkeeping,
typewriting and shorthand, she might
have ventured a few applications.
But for just what she was and could
do, there seemed to be no demand;
and that penny newspaper would cer
tainly have been a dead loss. In her
ease, if she had not happened to notice
that advertisement for a child, which,
as we know, was inserted by the
wealthy Mrs. Ellison.
It was only noticed, and a very casu
al notice, at first. It seemed to her
mind “odd” that a lady of wealth
should have this desire for some
child not her own. Still more ‘odd,”
not to say heartless, if any mother
gave up her little one to a stranger.
With that she pushed tin* paper
aside with a sigh, and turned to the
correcting of a French exercise writ
ten by one of her pupils, who called
herself, and was called by her friends,
"Miss Maude 'Awkins."
Blit when it was done, and the day's
work xx as done too. Estelle Latimer
sat gazing into the tireless grate and
. also mentally. Into tDo dark future of
| her little -mu. Maurice.
How could she rear and educate him
on her miserable earnings, as his fath
er would have wished? Even if his
education was compassed, what lies
before a lad wlto has no money and
uo powerful friends - except perhaps
some ill-paid clerkship and a life of
struggling poverty to the end?
If only some one would take an in
terest in him: Such things-though
soinexvhat in the fauciful Hue of fairy
godmothers hail been heard of, and
proved true.
He was such a pretty fellow—so lov
ing. though a little quick tempered,
which was ever so much better thau
the stillenuess of some children,
though* Estelle, with a mother’s par
tiality even for the faillugs of those
who are her very own.
Then, with a half smile, she remem
bered again that advertisement for a
child. Would not that "lady of wealth"
i >’*’ delighted to get such a boy as
Maurice?
( Hut that xv:.s uot possible, for no
child quite so sweet or so handsome
would be discovered and* well, uo!
in .or ,-dl the money in the Hank of
i England would she let her little sou
I go frxxni her to an adopted Hint Iter!
W ith that, the subject ought natural
ly to ha o pt.ss.d from Mrs, Latimer's
miud. Km it did not. It returned
again and again and with such strong
. msisit t- ,» that s. > i-ould not sleep for
hours. Was her love for her hoy sel
ti-h.' That was a tormenting ques
tion.
’ 1 ■ ts;u: ..-d her .irate-hus-
band one of the cleverest men of bin
time. lie xvas not so. we may say in
parenthesis; but site thought it. and
therefore treasured up the memory
of such of his impressions and opin
ions as he had confided to her during
Ids life. He had often talked of love,
ideal love; the love of others before
self and self a long way last.
If Charles Latimer could speak to
bis xvidoxv noxv from the next world,
would lie put before Iter the love
which shrank from nothing for Maur
ice's future good, even if it meant the
giving of him up?
Jt worried her as she dressed the
child; she very nearly cried over the
task. Hhe looked so xvliite, so wretch
ed, so unlike her usual self, xvhen she
! went into the sitting room that Airs.
Perkins, arriving xvith the teapot and
Maurice's matutinal porridge, ex
claimed ;
“Lor! Misses Matimer, whatever’s
the matter?”
The ex cuse of a bad night was-a true
one; no need to explain the cause of
her sleeplessness. Hut she could not
turn it from her mind; indeed, as the
day passed on she grew so nervous,
so fanciful, that even through the reci
tation of a French verb in the most
nasal tones of “Miss ’Awkins,” or the
rendering of “Ah, che la morte,” by
one of her music pupils, she almost
imagined her dead husband’s voice
saying, “The greater love, is to give
up.”
By the time Maurice was asleep that
night, Estelle’s mind xvas all made up
to sacrifice.
The adoption of her boy by a lady of
xvealth would change all his life; the
bitter straits of poverty would lie un
knowu to him—she could bear them
better alone.
The advertisement should be an
sxvered and that answer posted before
she went to lied. It might be too late.
"I almost hope it. may,” said the poor
woman to -herself; "but I shall feel
that I did not Lola back from my duty
to my little child.”
It xvas a simple little Vote when writ
ten; her explanation was brief and to
the point, yet the sadness of her heart
could be read in it.
Mrs. Ellison hail other nnswers to
her advertisement, but she unhesitat
ingly selected the one s igned “E. Lati
mer” as the most promising. She
asked the writer to call and bring the
child.
When in after years, Estelle thought
it all over—the anguish of the deci
sion, the offer to give up Maurice, the
day xvhen she stood at the door of the
beautiful house xvhieh xvas perhaps
to become his home, and all the min
gled feelings xvhieh made her sick at
heart—she wondered if she had been
quite in her right mind.
For long after she could remember
the effort to be calm, to follow the
man servant composedly into that spa
cious drawing room instead of catch
ing Maurice in her arms and escaping
from tlie house, as a sudden wild im
pulse seemed to prompt her.
Then Mrs. Ellison came in—sorne
xvliat stately, yet so kind and so
charmed with the child as he, uucon
scious of xv hat all this meant, seemed
charmed xvith her.
“You's a nice lady," lie said, looking
tip into her face; and she cried, “Wlmt
a perfect darling!" and took him in
her arms as if he were already hers—
not his mother’s darling!
And at that Estelle’s self control
broke down.
"It is for liis sake, so that he may
never know any want aiid care,” she
cried, "(live nothing to me—l do uot
sell my darling; but give him love and
At that point Mrs. Ellison turned
suddenly and looked searehingly at
her visitor.
"If 1 were some years younger,” she
said, “I should think that a friend of
my early days was speaking. There
is a tone in your voice xvhieh reminds
me—something in the expression of
your face, too—of Estelle Somers.”
“That xvas my mother's name be
fore her marriage. 1 atn Estelle—aD
ter her. But, 1 never heard her men
tion a Mrs. i.llison.”
“Because she never knew me as
such. Ours xvas a close acquaintance
in our unmarried days, but our lives
drifted apart, by force of circum
stances. My dear." and noxv Mrs. Elli
son took the younger woman's hands
in both of hers, "it is indeed strange
that xve should thus be brought to
gether, but it solves a difficulty for
us. i need no longer b• a lonely wom
an, and you nee i not give up your boy.
For as soon as you have proved that
you are the child of tny early friend,
1 must adopt both of you."
That xvas soon done, and young Mrs.
Latimer's troubles were ended, and
Mrs. Ellison's Indian summer set in
"by advertisement."—Waverley Maga
sine.
Georgia's Glnni Sycamore Tree.
Dougherty County now lays claim
to the champion big tree of Georgia.
It xvas discovered several weeks ago
by lumbermen who were engaged in
cutting timber. It rears its head from
the midst of a thick swamp xvliero
hard-wood trees abound, and to this is
due the fact that it was not discovered
sooner.
This giant of the swamp is a syca
more. It is on a little knoll, and ex
cept in seasons xvli"i) a great deal of
rain had fallen its trunk is not reached
by water. A foot front the ground its
trunk is forty-four feet iu circumfer
ence. For twenty feet above th,
ground the body of the great tree is
round and symmetrical, but at that
(mint it branches Into four sections,
any one of xvhieh would make n g.ant
,roV if standing alone. The four arms
of the lug sycamore do no: spread out
as would seem natural, bm reach sky
ward, almost perpendicularly. The
tree is pronounced by all who have
seen it a cariosity, and places "iu tbi
simile” all the known trees In Ceot
gia —Atlanta Constitution.
F OR VILLACT (IMPROVEMENT.
Loth in Homo (.roun<U and Public
Grounds.
“In dismissing the method of m:;n
agement for our Village Improvement
Society,” says Ebeh E. Ilex ford, in
the "New” Lippineott, "we decided to
have everything about it as simple as
possible, for some of us recognized
the fact that success in undertakings
of this nature is largely dependent on
simplicity and directness. In order
to avoid friction and ‘running ex
pen.-: s,’ it is wise to have but little
machinery in a society of this kind,
and that of the simplest character con
sistent with effectiveness. We dis
pensed with a formal anti elaborate
‘constitution’ and ‘code of by-laws,’
for we did not think either was need
ed. We simply drew up a paper set
. ting forth the object of the society and
the few rules we thought necessary to
formulate for its operation, and when
we had subscribed our names to it we
were full-fledged, active members.
"In this paper it was stated that
membership was conditional on an
agreement on our part to devote ai:
least one day’s work, spring and fall,
to the Improvement of the home
grounds, and to give one day’s work,
spring and fall, to the improvement of
public grounds and vacant places be
longing to non-residents if cailed on
to do so.
“Each member pledged himself to
the payment of one dollar semi-annu
ally, the money thus secured to con
stitute a general fund to be drawn on
in meeting the expenses attendant on
the improvement of public places. We
had but three officers, a President, Sec
retary, and Treasurer. It was under
stood that the President was to have
supervision of all work on public
places, with the power of appointing
such committees as might be deemed
necessary whenever they were need
ed.
“At first we had not proposed to
take women into membership, but it
was suggested that they had as much
right in the society as men had. and
would, no doubt, take as much inter
est In It,—and quite likely a good deal
more. Accordingly it was unanimous
ly voted to admit them.”
America'** Superiority in “Expectation.'*
The expectation of life at a given
age, to use the actuarial phrase, dif
fers considerably, as might be expect
ed. in different countries, and Eng
lishmen may be surprised to learn that
they are not the longest living among
the white race. At the age of twenty
an Englishman in average health
may expect to live- forty-two years,
and any life office will grant lijm a
policy based on that probability. The
American’s expectation is for a slight
ly longer period. On the other hand,
a German lad of twenty can count
upon little more than thirty-nine years
and a half. It would seem, therefore,
that the restlessness attributed to the.
American temperament does not nec
essarily conduce to the shortening of
life, nor tlie composure of the German
to its prolongation. Fossibly the bet
ter feeding and clothing of Americans
in the lower classes of the population
arc the principal cause of their great
er longevity. Their position is, at
any rate, maintained in later as well
as in earlier years. The American
who has reached sixty may look to
complete fourteen years more, while
the Britisher’s, expectation is only
about thirteen years and ten mouths,
and the German's as nearly as possi
bly twelve months less. Both at twen
ty and sixty the Frenchman’s pros
pect is a little better than the Ger
man's and a little worse than the
Englishman's.—London Globe.
What is Xtwsf
The late Charles A. Dana was once
asked: "What is news?” The reply:
“Anything the people will read,” was
characteristic of the man.
What the venerable editor of the
New York Sun said years ago is quitt
as true to-day as then.
The definition was not meant to bt
taken literally, but for all that, a col
uinn might have been written on the
subject and little more of value added.
As a matter of fact this is the gen
eral rule that governs the newspaper
world to-day. It is, of course, true
that all newspapers do not print all
that might come under this head, but
it is true nevertheless that every item
of any possible interest to anybody
is sure to get into type somewhere.
The newspaper to-day gets up news
in the way its readers demand it. It
they are more interested in the latest
sensational murder than in a Wall
street panic, the panic must give way
in order that the blood-curdling details
may be played up to the Unit—
Fourth Estate.
A Mailbox Sleuth.
A now electric letterbox on exhibi
tion last week in Washington, if adopt
ed by the Government, would make
life anything but pleasant and com
fortable for the or unlucky
carrier. The electric letterbox regis
ters at the main postoffiee each time a
collection is made, so that it is impos
sible for a carrier in making his rounds
to skip a single box without being in
stantly detected. Worse yet. if on -
letter is left in the box the electric at
tachment promptly records that fact
at the main office, an t the carrier is
liable to thirty days' suspension for
undue haste and negligence.
How Dreams Are Wnntifai litr.-d.
M. Bergson, professor at the Coil go
do France, now calmly asscri; ilia: .>*»
l.a« discovered the stuff dreams rjv
made of. The circulation of the hi d
iu the retina and the pressure of
eyelid on the optic nerve, lie claims,
cause a color s t: a:,o,i. i’hr s
assume phantom shapes, which sca
the memory I»e<pir> tin- '. . ;
poets and *tnn-"ciats. \iys I* of,-.- -or
Bergson, there is i cthiug tie v .a- i j
j iug vagaries. Paris Corresj r ! i.re
New York Lie raid
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