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A CRY FOR WORK- n
Bod! give me work! To thee I cry.
The busy millions pass me by;
They have no need for such as L
O God of life, hast thou no need for me?
Worthless to them, have I no worth to thee?
Not of thy children, and yet doomed to be!
I cry to thee! Dear eyes upon me gaze,
Dear loving eyes that slow with hunger
craze.
O Father God! a father to thee prays!
To work! only to work! with hand or brain,
In sweat of brow, with labor’s toil and
stain, for pain.
The worker has his joy every
Bee, Lord—the useless hands are raised on
-high. hearts is the
From eut despairing wrung
cry; passing by!
Oh, listen ye—forever
—Charlotte Elizabeth Wells, in The Outlook.
EVE and
an APPLE.
Eve and an apple overcame an an
castor of mine He would not have
wanted the wa^xh annle lie said 'case but for
Eve La e. That I hat was exactly lv my ly case.
Eve lived at No. 52 and I at So.ol
o'fCtwr I.
on a high branch over No. 52’s gar
den, but it tatted on the soil of No.: H,
for which I paid rent.
If was Eve, of course, who called
my attention to it. I heard her voice
through the open window. She has i
an attractive voice.
“Oh, look, my'apple. mother!” she cried,
“There is ”
“Hush, dear! It isn’t your apple
at all; It belongs to the people next
door.”
“He isn’.t people,” objected'Eve. I
dm a bachelor.
'she the apple is his.”
“Is it?” tossed her head. Sue
has a graceful way of tossing her
head. “Then he shan’t have it. Air.
Lavton gave it td me every year.”
Mr.'Layton was my predecessor. “You
know he always lent me his ladder to
get it.” I feit inclined to offer my :
ladder there aud then, but the time,
like the apple, was not ripe.
• As the summer went on the apple
the apple, and I watched Eve. She!
was so nice to watch that I did not
garded it as a hostage for her regular
appearance.
“Look at its rosy cheeks, mother!”
she used to sav, teasingly. “If it gets
much-bigger it-Anilst drop.” She
made fr motions ejUT-e ; ssm"_va!jtn.ve..
'“E\*e; dear,” 'her mother protested,
“you know.it isn’t yours.”
“It would be if I had a ladder.”
Then she would give a merry little
, laugh. She has a charming way of
laughing.
The apple still hung on, however,
and grew and grew. In tbe dusk of
evening Eve tried to reach it with a
clothes prop—at least it looked like
Eve. I knew it was a clothes prop,
because she let it drop over my wall,
and it smashed three panes of a
cucumber frame. Next morning she
bappened to be iu the garden, so I
returned it with grave ceremony.
“I—I’m afraid it broke something,”
she apologized.
“Not in the least,” I assured her.
“I’ll tell Alary Jane not to stand it
up against your wall again,” she
promised mendaciously.
After that the apple blushed more
furiously than ever. It was so ripe
that it was marvelous how it held on,
I heard her say. She was probably
unaware that I had climbed up oue
night and secured it with fine wire.
Nextjshe tried knocking tennis balls
at it. Of course, she never went
within a couple of yards. I picked
up nine balls next morning and re
stored them to her.
“I thought they were windfalls
from my apple tree,” I said, and she
fied indoors.
“I believe he was laughing at me,”
I heard her tell ber mother. “Now,
I will have it.”
“No, no, dear! I forbid you to
touch it. It’s no use looking like that,
Eve. I shall be really cross if you
do.”
AA’hen I came home that evening the
apple was still there, in all its glory,
but when it grew dusk I noticed
maneuvers with the prop going on
once more. Finally I heard a cry of
triumph, and the rustle of her skirts
as she rau indoors. Then I went out.
I climbed the tree, gathered about
a gallon of apples and sent them iu
• with a note.
“Hear Aladam—I trust you will
accept a few -apples from my tree
overhanging your garden, as I notice
that there is only one upon your side.
“I have, however, a special reason
for desiring that one. May I enter
your garden * to gather it? Yours very
truly, Frank Newton.
In a few minutes Sarah Ann re¬
turned with Airs. Parker’s thanks, and
an asswranee that she would be
pleased liked. me to So, gather after The putting apple
whenever I
the ladder'over, the wall, I Went round
to their shown front into door and ^nocked. sitting-room. I
was a cozy , pleasant¬
” Mrs. Parker reoeivedane,very
ly, but Miss Eve was rather quiet, as
a young lady should be.
“You will be surprised at m
bothering you about a single apple,
I said. “The fact is I want it for some
one who has particularly admired it.”
“We have noticed,’’said her mother
with a side glance at Eve, “that it is
a singularly fine apple.”
“An exceptionally fine apple,” I
agreed. “It would be almost impos
sible to match it.”
“I should like to see ft when you
have picked it,” Mrs. Parker eon
fessed. Eve said nothing. She ap
peared to have become absorbed in a
, ,
uools "
“I’ll bring it in at I promised, .
once,
I went through the French window
and ascended the tree. No one vvas
looking, so I gathered another fine
apple from my own side. When I re
turned Miss Eve had disappeared.
“It doesn’t look quite so large oil
th® tree.” I suggested, placing the
apple upon the table.
“No,” said her mother, examining
R critically, “I scarcely think it does,
but it is a very fine one.”
“Perhaps your daughter would like
to see it. J ”
“Ye—es.” She laughed. ‘I am
afraid it will make her ieel rather
serv fa 111 ®- ”^sk^MIss miss Ete^o J-Ae
come lor , a moment, please.
which Aftel Mrs. ’ a Parker discovered wftith ? that ? nnn we *
a ^ mutnal frien Jb> aud asked
Eve reappealed, looking guiltily de
nant ’ •
•
“Mr. Newton wants you to . see his
^PP 1 ®, Eve, dear. Isn’t it a beauty?”
Ev ® flushed and gave me a swift;
glance.
“Ales,” she said, hesitatingly. She
seemed to be studying the floor rather
than the fruit,
that “It tempted might be Eve!” a fellow I observed, to the, With one i j
a smile. She Traced a pattern with
her foot. :
“Adam was also tempted.”
“By Eve, I believe? I don’t fancy
he wanted the apple much, did he?”
She blushed again.
“You could not have a nicer apple
than this, anyhow.” She looked right
at me at last. Her eyes said quite
plainly, “You needn’t tell mother.” !
As if I had any such intention! [
“I am glad you like it,” I said, ■
“because I want to give it to yon, if I |
may. I could not help noticing that
“There, Eve!” said her mother. “I
told you that everyone would see that
“I—I am sorry,” she said,in a sub
dued little voice. *
“Please don’t say that, or you will :
Spoil my pleasure iu giving it.”
“Then—I am not sorry.” She tool,
itjKi.ih SoJft aJumh. . -
aftevWwd I went, assuring
Airs. Parker that I should soou avail
myself of her kind invitation- to call
again. I hope they did not hear me
laughing when I got indoors.
The next day was. Sunday. In the
afternoon Eve sat under the shade of
my apple tree reading a book. So I
strolled out and looked over the wall.
“Eve,” I remarked, “was turned
out of paradise for stealing au apple.”
She looked up and smiled. Then
| she “The looked annual down. apple this side has
on
always belonged to Eve,” she asserted
pretending to cut the pages of her
book. They were cut already.
“She might spare a tiny piece for
Adam,” I suggested. She glanced at
I me out of the corner of her eyes.
i “Adam was better without the
j apple, you know,” she assured me.
“Adam,” I declared, “needed no
: pity at all.”
j She rested her chin on one baud
and looked at me inquiringly with her
big eyes. I would put down bow she
looked, if it were possible. It isn’t,
Alere ordinary charms of feature or
coloring is common enough to have
words. Real prettiness is unique, un
nameable; little wilful curves of the
j features, little waves of the hair—
and “ways.” She is pretty like that,
: “Adam,” she remarked, “lost Para
j I dise and the apples.”
“But he had Eve.”
She studied her shoes, aud I seated
myself on top of the wall.
“You have plenty of apples,” she
said; “and you are not shut out of
Paradise.”
“Then,” I replied, promptly, “I
will come in. ” I did.
“How do you know this is Para
j dise?” she asked, demurely,
“Eve is here.”
She looked at me saucily over her
book.
“Poor Eve was much to be pitied."
She simulated a sigh.
“Because she lost Paradise?”
“No; because she kept Adam.”
“Did she mind, do you think?”
“Well—you see, it was just a very
little bit her fault that he ate the
apple. ” would have
“She eaten every scrap
herself if she had been a modern
Eve.”
She looked up at the desecrated
bough and laughed. A stray sunbeam
danced in her eyes, like the dazzle of
diamonds,
“I think she could be persuaded to
share it with the modern Adam,” she
stated.
Thereupon she dived under the
chair cushion and produced it.
“Now you have Paradise—and the
apple,” she tokl me.
“They are nothing,” I said, feel¬
ingly, “compared with—Eve.”
But Eve—my Jainty little Eye—is
T
coming to No. 54 in the spring. It
will save any further dispute, she
says, about the apple.—Owen Oliver,
iu Madame.
DEFENCES OF PRETORIA,
Johannesburg Mined—So Are the Defiles
That Approach the Capital.
Now that the British have taken
Bloemfontein everybody is waiting for
tbe attack on Pretoria. It is taken
for granted that her majesty’s forces
will not march into the Boer capital
without the hardest fighting of the
war _ Nobody who has not seen them
jj as an y comprehensive idea of the
elaborate preparations the their Boers have
made for the defence of capital,
Not j on g a m a n now in New.York,
w h 0 has inspected more than once the
fortifications of Pretoria, and who
negotiated the purchase of many of the
g Ulls w ]jj c |i will be used in defending
j$ oer capital, told to a reporter of
The Sun about the Pretoria fortifica
tions and the plan of defence should
flag British invade the Transvaal, and
this is what he said:
“There will be a great surprise for
anybody, and particularly theBritish
army, when Pretoria is attacked,
Then will be seen defensive warfare,
which, I believe, will never have been
^ » T d You must remember that
SKBS? take this warkinadvisedlv hall
We
U)? foi . it ever since the Jameson raid,
and for the past two years the pvepa
rations have been pushed with all eare
to completion.
“AVhen the war began the Boers did
not hope to keep the British from the
Transvaal as long as they have and
they expected to have to do their
hardest lighting in defending their
capital. Accordingly the plan of de
fence was all figured out and the de¬
fenders have been ready and waiting
and not one of them has taken any
part iu the fighting solar. Pretoria
is practically surrounded by hills.
Between the hills and through them
are narrow defiles. Every hill about
Pretoria is fortified by the best modern
guns that can be made by tbe best
European gunniakers, outside Eng
land. The guns that were not con
sidered good enough for the wjbfjch defence
of our capital are the guns we
have been.using in tbe field,'. There
fore you may get som.Q,-'notion of the
were selected. ''They were mounted
under the diction of skilled military
were nufiCie and I very much doubt if
tliere/ave mounted better or more solidly
gun8 in' any fortifications in
* 'e world.
Ui:;R VThese guns have been so placed
«,oj- .lojwj-approach fo
the capital, Each gun is supplied
with its own ammunition vaults, hold-’
ing enough shells to feed the guns for
at least two years. And, what is very
much to the point, these ammunition
vaults are full, not a shell having been
taken from them since the war began.,
Owing to the topography of the eoun
try, a comparatively small force of
artillerymen cau serve these guns and
they will be so protected that one life
will be the equal of about ten, were
the guns placed in less favorable
natural positions. Aloreover, the na
ture of the Country is such that we
have been able to place the guns so
that they will not be easily located being’ by
the enemy. We have figured on
able to annihilate a larger army than
England has in South Afrieaat present!
ami still obliged surrender. ’
not be to
not “Bat the only the fortifying fortifying of our have hills done. is| |
we
AA r e have paid particular attention to,
the defiles in these hills, through'
which au invading force would have
to send a good part of its troops,
These defiles have been mined and,
should the necessity arise, should a
British force attempt to pass through,
the explosion of these mines will fol
low and England will then be able to
count the cost of war. Our home
ground is Dot so very large, but is
quite large enough, we believe, to de¬
fend and preserve our capital.
“But it must be remembered, of
course, that, the first act in the de
fence of Pretoria will be the destrue
tion of Johannesburg. This will only
be done as a last resort, on account of
the value of the property there. But
Johannesburg cannot be defended to
advantage. Little or no attempt has
been made to fortify it. Therefore as
soon as the British get within striking
distance of our metropolis, we will
first cut off the water supply and then,
when tho enemy is within the town,
it will be destroyed by fire and by
dynamite. question
“Of course, the of supplies
will enter.into the defence of Pretoria.
The defenders have made provision
for a long siege, and, so long as the
crops do not fail, so long as there is
no drought, we can hold out indefi¬
nitely. If a drought comes then we
will suffer. If it continues long
enough may be we would be com¬
pelled to surrender. But we have
considered these questions and we
have come to the conclusion that, iu
the event of a drought, the Boer
would be living to tell about it long
after the Briton was dead.”
As a Substitute.
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horrid pet monkey for?
Mrs. Dixon—Well, you see my hus¬
band is away more than half the time,
and the animal keeps me from getting
lonesome.—Chicago News.
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Mistress—Now, I am sure we shall
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New Cook (with a superior smile)—
Amazing what optimists there are in
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The Victims.
Cora—What a lot of cats and dogs
that young married woman has.
Merritt—She must have some one to
eat up all file things she cooks.—Har¬
lem Life.
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