+*p qrr "'^^'^^n^r^f^j^^^m^^^^Mftw-fi^m^ f^^^^T*?? rv v^ffev J*5 ri="v~ He was glad when he found himself approaching CLOVEB. Mow a Boy Goes on an Jimurik a fact. He'll get sicK enough of his blown, Mr. Moore was waiting at bifl another farmhouse, and if he bargain before spring, but it will do him gate. As the wagon came along Mr. Bessie Moore was out in her father's blew a louder blast than usual on his horn There are so many bright spots in the good." Thyson saw him, and didn't feel at all pasture, back of the barn, picking blackberries, i nobody but himself knew that it was to life of a farm boy that I sometimes think like just bowing and passing on. No! he Tom filled his hand-cart with the feed, when she was startled bv the give vent, if possible, to emotions that I should like to live lite over again 1 felt lite stopping, staking hands and getting and, tving the rope around Clover's neck, blast of the horn. A look of anxiety came wer aSe-e getting too strong for him to man- should almost be willing te be a girl if it \l out to see how his men were doing. started again to take her back. I don't over her sweet face as she ran quickly and were not for the chores. There is a great know what the people along the r^ad "God bless you, sir!" said Mr. Moore. climbed the fence to see if Mr. Thyson, comfort to a boy in the amount of work Tom was very quiet all the way home. thought io see the calf going back and "You have given me the best medicine the "meat-man," who blew his horn he can get rid of doing*. It is something He seemed to be thinking very deeply forth so oiten. But Tom didn't care. He I've had. I believe it's going to save my twice a week to announce his coming, astonishing how slow he can go on an errandhe about something, but when occasionally kept straight on and carried the calf to life. I don't knowhowto thank yombut I was to stop. She watched the horse who leads the school a race. he did speak it was sure to be some innocent Bessie's door. know that I feel like a new man?' The world is new and interesting to him, climbing the hill and when she saw her remark about Bessie or her father, "Here she is, Bess, and here's enough "So do I, Friend Moore. So do I. and there is so much to take his attention mother come to the back-door and swing which only gave his father's conscience a to feed her one week, anyway, and I'll But don't thank me. It's ail Tom's doings. off when he is sent -o do anything. Perhaps a towel she threw herself on the ground fresh prick and served to irritate him still see that she has enough all winter, unless I thought I was teaching him a he could not explain himself, why, and sobbed as though her heart would more. So by the time they got home ha I get sick, and I don't feel very sick now. great lesson, but, bless you! he was teaching when he is sent to a neighbor's after break. She knew full well that it was was, as his wife said, dredful grouty.' Don't catch me backing out of this me a greater one, all the time. Well, yeast, he stops to stohe the frogs he is not to buy meat that her mother had As they were sitting at supper that scrape! No, sir-ee!" the Lord has great suprises in store for not exactly cruel but he wants *.o see if signaled for Mr. Thyson to stop, for, although evening Tom burst out suddenly: us sometimes, hasn't He?" And with a All winter Tom was up betimes in the he can hit 'em. No other living thing she was but ten years old, she was Father would sell that calf?" fervent shake of the hand, Mr. Thyson morning, fed and watered the cattle, can go so slow as a boy sent on an errand. aware of the fact that there was no money Yes, and be glad to get rid of her, if got back into his wagon and drove home. groomed the horses, and did whatever His legs seem to be lead, unless he happens with which tc buy it. O no! She realized I can get my price." was required. He carried Clover's feed From that time Mr. Moore's health to espy a woodchuck in an adjoining that the event she had been dreading "Well, I'd like to buy her if I've got over every week or two, and never once steadily improved, and from that time, lot, When he gives chase to it like a so longwas to happen nowthat her pet money enough in my bank." complained. His father watched him also, Mr. Thyson was another man. It deer and it is a curious fact about boys, calf, Clover, her only playmate, so white You! What do you wan't of her?" curiously, and every week congratulated was the beginning, but not the end, of his thar two will be a great deal slower and so fond of her, was to be sold. Week Oh, something. Will you sell her to himself on the good lesson he was teaching kind deeds. about doing anything than one, and that after week she had heard her parents discuss me?" him. A few years later, when Tom and Bessie the more you have to help you on a piece -'I the subject of selling Clover, but Yes, I suppose so. Yes, you may At last spring came. The tender grass commenced housekeeping on their of work the less is accomplished. Bovs week after week they had heard the have her for ten dollarsjust what I began to sprout, and Clover could keep own account, and Clover lowed contentedly have a great power of helping each other butcher's horn blow and had let the paid." heiaelf, from the pastures and meadows. in her new home, Tom remarked to do nothing and they are so innocent wagon go by. But affairs had been coming And do exactly as I please with her 1 he farmers were all p'owing and barrowing, with a merry laugh: about it, and unconscious. "I went as to a crisis lately. Her father, who father?" and getting the ground ready for "You see, father, I was longer-headed quick as ever I could," says the boy. His had been sick all summer, was too feeble planting. Everybody was busy and in a than you thought. 'Twas all in the family, His father hesitated. He suspected father asks him why he didn't stay all to work, and the small stock of money he hurry, as usual. Mr. Moore was improving, after all."- Christian Union. what Tom was going to do, and he saw a night, when he has been absent three had saved was rapidly going. She knew but was still very weak. His affairs dificnlty in it for him. However, he replied hours on a ten minutes errand. The sarcasm that he could not afford to feed the calf looked very diseouraglng to him, and his at last: has no effect on the boy. An Eeaster Poem. through the winter, and she knew that depressed state of mind did much to retard Yes, Tom, you may buy her and do Going after cows was a serious thing Mr. Thyson wanted her and offered a his recovery. exactly as you please with her upon one in my day. I had to climb a hill which BT MRS. C. WHITON. large price for her. He had bought the farm where he was condition and that is, if by buying her was covered with^eild strawberries in the living only the spring before, after the Bursting from earth in air of earlv spring, you get yourself into a hard scrape you season. Could any boy pass by those ripe I found a lily growing sweetand wild planting season was over, expecting to Mr. Thyson was a man who wanted to will work yourself out ot it without berries? And then, in the fragrant hill And plucked the blossom, snowyfair, to bring, earn enough by his trade, that of a carpenter, possess all the rarest specimens of cattle, help." pasture there were beds of wiutergreen As a type of resurrection, to my child through the following season to and he had been very anxious to buy this Mr. Thyson thought by binding Tom With it to show with red berries, tufts of coluiibine, roots enable him to buy seed and to thoroughly calf, which was to be the handsomest to that promise that he should have a How out of death nivinest life might grow. of sassafras to be dug, and dozens of plant the whole place in the spring. creature, in color and shape, ever seen in good chance to teach him a valuable lesson things good to eat or smell, that I could I told her then what Easter meant, and whv Instead of that he was taken sick sooa Loudoun county. He was a selfish man, in shrewdness and foresight in mak not resist. It sometimes even 'ay in my There seemed such gladness in the world to after he bought it, and had been obliged withal, and was very ready to take advantage ing a bargin. way to climb a tree to look for a crow's reign to sell his stock to get money to live upon. of Mr. Moore's misfortunes to get Why clear-voiced choirs sang so exultantly nest, or to swing in the top. and to trv if Tom readily promised, for he could And now, right in the busy season, The joyful anthem -'Christ is risen again!" her. He was known throughout the I could see the village church. It'be not imagine what scrape he possibly That, dying. He when every hour seemed worth a day at country as a man who always got the best came very important sometimes for me could get into by buying Clover. So the Had taken from the grave its victory. any other time, he was taken sick, with of a bargain, who thought more of making to see that steeple, and in the midst of bargin was soon concluded and the money no money to buy seed or the necessary money than of anything else, and who "Because 'He died and rose again,'" I said, my investigations the tin horn would paid. farming implements, or to hire the needed "The dark and shadowy vahey none need never worried himself about his neighbors' blow a great blast from the farm house Meantime, Bessie had dried her tears help. With his mind overwhelmed feai tioubles or felt it is duty to share or relievo which would send a cold stream down my and gone home, trying very hard to be The little brother that to you seemed dead with discouragement he sat one evening them. He had one child, a boy back in the hottest days. I knew what Was only on Christ's bosom heavenly near cheerful but as soon as she had eaten in the doorway of his house, and looked about fourteen years old. named Tom, and it meant. It had a frightfully impatient There is no tomb her supper she crept up to her little bed hopelessly on his still unemployed land. Can prison or hide the soul's immortal bloom.' he was determined, if possible, to teach quaver in it, not at all like the Bweet note and sobbed herself to sleep. The next At the same time Mr. Thyson was riding him to be as shrewd in business matters that called us to dinner from the hayfield. morning she felt braver, and though she O! impotence of words! Who can explain slowly along, having made an unusually It said: "Why on earth doesn't that boy as himself but so far Tom had not shown This wondcious mystery? And yet, perchance, would try very hard to forget Clover. good trip with his meat, and was reviewing come home, it ij almost dark, and the much progress in that direction. He often Her father usually lay on a lounge by the in his mind with great satisfaction Through one white lily on God's altar lain cows ain't milked?" And that was the went with his father as he rode through sitting-room, window through the day, the prosperous condition of his affairs. My child may grasp the flower's significance, time the cows had to start into a brisk the country with his meat, and was advised and for several mornings Clover had been As he passed he saw Mr. Moore sitting to,lwT,tch sharp," for he pace and make up for lost time. I wonder by him in the habit of coming there and put And, kneeling, sav, there, and noticed that he looked very if any boy ever drove the cows home would soon be old enough to take the "A little child doth yield her heart to-day!" ting her head in to be caressed. So Bessie pale and worried. A feeling of sympathy la*e who did not say tnat the cows were Wide Aioake. business himself. And Tim did "watch made a point of getting a basket of fresn took strong hold of bim, and he was at the further end of the pasture, and that sharp," and his large brown eyes grew clover-blossoms, with which her father tempttd to stop and have a talk with "Old Brindle" was hidden in the woods moist with tears to see his father take would feed the calf while Bessie and her him, but those fields waiting to be plowed and he couldn't find her for ever so long! Bessie's calf away, for he knew how Bessie HUSBANDS AND WIVES. mother were at breakfast. But the morning and sown, spoke to him so plainly The brindle cow is the boy's ecapa goat loved Clover, and that it was only necesity after Clover left Bessie sat down to and reproachfully that he concluded he many a time. that made Mr. Moore sell her. Meantime the table with a heavy heart, for she MRS. CHARLOTTE E. FISHER. would better bow and go along. Bessie had climbed the pasture fence missed Clover then more than ever. Sbe A Nice Wedding Present, I'm sorry for Moore," he said to himself I do not say the husband is always to and crept quietly behind the barn, where, had haidly taken a mouthful, though, "that's a fact I'd be glad to give Another Jew's daughter and her ducats blame. The wife often makes home unhappy through a big crack, she saw and heard before her father called out: him a lift, but I've got my own family to have been transferred to Christian hands. too often both are in fault. Yet all that passed. Then, as the wagon "Bessie, just bring me a basket of look out for. If I had always given The strict member of the synagogue dont I think the husband is more apt to become turned to go out of the yard, she went clovers, won't you? Clover wants her away to my feelings I wonder where I like to see this continual transformation careless and neglectful of little attentions back, and, running across the pasture with breakfast." should be now. O no! no it never will of the daughters of Judah into Christian soon after marriage than the all her might, climbed the fence on the Bessie sprang from her chair with a do. No!" wives, the more so when they carry in wife is. A trusting, loving girl gives up other side, ran along the road to the corner bound, exclaiming: "Why, papa, you've But as he drew up to his own house their hands gifts so rich and rare as her freedom forever and goes out from which she knew the wagon must pass, forgotten! Clover's gone 1" the sight of his broad acres so carefully those which a Rothschild can command. under the sheltering roof of the old home, and waited for it. As she saw it coming But no! there was the aweet face peering planted, and the neat, thritty appearance Hannah de Rothschild, the wealthiest to bless and brighten the new. Goes to she waved her hand for it to stop, and, in in at the window, and there, holding of all the surroundings, did not give him daughter of her race, is now Ladv Roseberry. be his own in sicknens or health, for "better a trembling voice said: her by a cord, stood Tom Thyson, his the feeling of satislaction he was enjoying It was remarked by a friend of or worse," until one of the twain shall Oh, please stop a minute. I want to face covered with smiles. before he met Mr. Moore. As he mine who was present that the Hews were rest from all earthly labors. ask you something "Why, Tom!" screamed Bessie, "did went into the kitchen where his wife was only represented by one prominent personage Before marriage he was all attention as Mr. Thyson drew up his horse3, wondering she run away?" busy getting supper, he said, glancing at the breakfast, and he was Baron to his personal appearance eager to gratify what child it was in such apparent "No I bought her of father, and out of tho window at Tom, who was having Ferdinand Rothschild. The only speech her every wish. He admired the rosebud distress, for he didn't recognize I'm going to give her back to you. She's a grant frolic with his dogs: on the occasion was made by the Prince she selected to wear on her bosom, Bessie at first, as, in her haste to reach the yours again now. Good-by and before of Wales, who proposed "health and happiness "It does me good to see Tom playing. but thought his own chosen rosebud turn in the road before the wagon came Bessie could express her thanks Tom was to the bride and bridegroom," to He has had a hard winter of it. But I'm much lovelier. He admired the dress she along, she had fallen down in the dust, gone. which Lord Rosebcry briefly replied. glad I let him go through it. It has wore, the ribbon in her hair, truly she and then, wipping her tears with her taught him a lesson he will never forget, [Now, although the return of the calf uMy friend, who was behind the scenes, could do nothing to please him that failed stained hands, had smeared her face so tells me of one little present which was I guess." brought great joy to Bessie, it brought of its objects. And he told all his as to be hardly recognizable. Her long made to the bridegroom that has no mention equal concern to her parents, for the Yes I think very likely," gently answered love and admiration in actions, and what flaxen hair was blowing in every direction, in the long lists of diamonds, silver, question arese how Clover could be fed. his wife but I have thought was still pleasanter, in words. and her hat was lying on the other side iewelry, and other treasures printed in Mr. Thyson had foreseen the difficulty many times, father, that Tom was teaching Now they are wedded, both sure of the of the pasture fence, where it had fallen the newspapers. On the evening of the from the first, but Tom in his eagerness a more important lesson than the one other's love. The days are full of light when she climbed over. wedding Lord Rosebeiy received a package to get (he calf back to Bassie, had not he was learning. But come, supper's and joy, she knows a shadow can never Oh, please, please, Mr. Thyson," she from the bride-elect. It contained a thought of it. He thought he would see ready." She then stepped to the door darken their home for is she not his screamed, you won't kill mv calf, will small gold box, and in a separate envelope how Tom would manage. and called Tom, and the subject was not darling his own happy little wife and you?" a pretty gold key. No letter accompanied Toward night Bessie's father called her continued. As Tom came in breathless does he not tell her so every day? She Father," said Tom, that's Bessie the gift, nor instructions of to him and told her that, although Tom from play, his father remarked: does not believe any change"will come after Moore. Why, Bessie, what's the any kind. My Lord, however, did not was very kind and thoughtful to bring "That's bettor fun than working Clover's marriage unless it is greater and more matter?" hesitate as to the use of the key. He Clover back, she couldn't stay, for he had board and carrying it over to her, perfect love and trust. Years puss. Have Oh, I am so afraid your farther will opened the box. It contained the last not feed enough to keep her through the isn't it?" they carried the bloom of life with them? kill my Clover. You don't know how I check which Hannah de Rothschild would winter, and no money to to buy any. "Yes, sir. But I'm afraid, if Mr. He has business to look after, but he loves lovejher and I ean't help crying"*and here ever sign as a spinster. Beautifully So thy next morning Bessie started to Moore doesn't hurry up and plant, Clever his wife just the same, she will not believe the 'poor child broke down and sobbed written in her own fair hand, it was drawn take her back to Tom. It was two miles will be marching back here in spite of otherwise. Yet, sometimes when he goes bitterly. Then, as she saw Mr. Thyson in favor of Lord Risebery$1,000,000, away, but it was a lovely morning, and me, next tall. I wish I was a rich man. to his work, with only a hasty kiss and draw up the reins to start, she continued: payable to his order.London GOT. N.Y. Bessie enjoyed the walk very much. I'll bet I'd make tilings look different never once noticing the lily buds in her "Perhaps if papa gets well he can buy Timet. Tom saw her before she reached the house over there in no time." hair, or that she has on his favorite jewels her back, you know. So you won't kill and ran to meet her." Mr. Thyson made no reply, but finished sometimes, I say, a feeling of disappointment The Blue-Bells of Scotland. ner, will you?" his supper and went out into the yard, 'I know you've brought her back," clouds the joy in her heart. The No, no, child I won't kill her. where he stood leaning on the fence, apparently Norman llaoleid. 'f said he, laughing healthily, "because full glory is dimmed. He continues to She's too pretty too kill. I will take How long has that bell been ringing in deep thought. As Bill, his you hayen't any feed for her. I forgot she grow more neglectful. She wears the good care of her, and you can come and its fragrant music, and swinging forth its Head man on the farm, came along, he would have to eat,but do not worry, Bess. colors that used to please him she strives see her whenever you want to." unheard melodies among Brackens and stopped him. and they had a quiet talk You shall have this calf for yours,"if you to beautify his home in every possible "Then I guess I can stand it better. I briers, and primroses and woodroof, and together. have to wait till she 's a cow," and then manner, but he speaks no word of praise. came out here so that papa could not see that world of poetical wild scents and they both laughed to think she wouldn't He even finds fault with her once in Meantime Mr. Moore had gone into his me cry, for that would make him worse. formsso manyso beautifulwhich a be much of a calf by that time. "But, awhile but what pains her most is his house, utterly unable to throw off the I knew I should cry when I said goodby tangled bank over a trotting burn among you see," he added, "I'm in a scrape, constant indifference, and he has too, gloomy thoughts which filled his mind. to Clover." And sure enough, when the leafy wood discloses? Spirits more whether I give her to you or keep her a habit of putting her second instead He saw no way out of his difficulties. the horses started her tears started again beautiful than fairies behold these scenes, myself, for I haven't any feed for her, of first in nearly everything. The faith and hope which had kept him too, and there she stood in the dusty road or they would waste. That bell was ringing either, and it never will do to ask father Occasionally, when he does happen to up till now seemed gone. He went to weeping and watching the wagon until merrily when Adam and Eve were for any. I'll go to bed soon after supper notice her he wonders at tne worn face bed early, but did not sleep for hours. it disappeared behind the next hill. married. It chimed its dirge over Abel, and think it out." So Bessie left the and quiet manners and doubtless thereby, Toward morning, however, he fell into a "Queer, said Mr. Thyson, as they drove and has died and sprung up again while calf, and Tom took part of what money she has become very careless of home deep sleep. His wife quietly darkened along, "that she should feel so. Well, I Ninevah and Babylon have come and he had and went to his father to buy some enjoyments and love. Does he never remember the rocm and left him. The sun was several can't help it. If I hadn't bought her gone, and empires have lived and died feed for her. He was determined not to the many times a gentle woman hours high when he drew aside the aomebodj else would. It's the way of forever! Solomon, in all his glory, was, ask him to give him any,and his father was stood beside him, lifting the hair from curtain to look out. What a sight met the world. It don't do to give way to not like these. pleased to see that Tom was sticking to his brow or parting it with soft fingers, or his eyes I Men were plowing, harrowing, little things like this you know, Tom. It What an evidence have I in this blui his promise not to ask his help. caressingly laying a white hand on his and shouting to their horses. Part of the you do you will never get ahead. They drooping flower of the regularity and en-*' head. He used to kiss that same hand The next morning he said to his father: ground was already prepared for planting, couldn't afford to keep her and had to durance of God's will since creations^ holding it in both his own, and say many "Father, have you anything you could and there, in the barn door-way, sat sell her, and that's all there is about it." dawn. Amidst all the revolutions of kindly things. Now she lingers Hear hira, hire me to do this winter? I"am going to Tom and Bessie, cutting potatoes, and But if it was"all there wa9 about it" it heaven and earth huricanes and earthquakes but he never lifts his eyes trom his book carry the calf back again this morning. chattering like blackbirds. it made him.very uncomfortable. In floods and fires invasions and^ to the face beside him,"or finds one little I atn not going to give this job np, now "What does it mean, mother? What spite of all his reasoning he couldn't help dispersions signs in the sun, moon, and word ofendearment for his wife. that IVe started. So I am ing to earn does it mean?" said he, as he opened the thinking how easily he could spare feel stars perplexity and distress of nations enouglv to feed her this winter myself." kitchen door. enough from the leads of hay and stacks Oh, if the walls ot her room could nothing has happened to injure this "Ah! So you are going to work for the "It, means, father, that the dawn has of grain with which his barns would soon speak, would they not echo the words fragile blue bell. This is the centraH'r call's board, are you* Well, if you want come. 'Twaa very dark, you know, last be overflowing to keep the calf for that had so often been spoken to them: piece subsisting at the heart of the end-\ to take Jim's place here you can earn her night. Those are Mr. Thyson's men!" a time. How happy that would make "Oh! God, what have I done? What have ess agitation." board and something beside. You could "Thyson's men! Thyson's men! Why! Bessie, and how it would lighten her I failed to do, that life is not as it once The blue-bell swung in breezes tem-^JF^, do bis work before and after school if you I don't understand." parents' hearts I He couldn't get the sick was? Ohlhavel frighted away all the pered to its strength centuries before theA*#| were smart and got up early." "Well, nor I, and the men say that they countenance of Mr. Moore out of his tender words all the caresses that once children of Japheth spied the chalky "Well, I'll take it and try. I'd like to don't know what has come over him, mind, or the tired, wir face of hi3 wife were mine? Oh! why did I not die when cliff of Dover. It has been called by buy feed enough now to keep her this either. But he told Bill to take men and or more than all, little Bessie standing every word and action were full of love? many a name from the days of the printed week, and after this I canearn it and horses and come over here and plant whatever alone, in the dusty turnpike, watching Betterfar better, to have gone away *J| warrior to the days of Barns but it 8 carry it over.'V j^JII you wanted, and he'd provide the him as he took away the only pet and from earth ere the bridal rosea faded has ever been the same. It will siner on His father smiled at Tom's businesslike seed and they are working hike, bearers, playmate she had. than to have lived until my heart calls with the spirit-song until time shall be way, and thought to himself: "Well, I tell you." It annoyed him, and it was something out vainly, day and night for the glory of no more. The blue-beil may sing the Iamteach|ng.Jo^agwd.lesson, that's new for him to be annoyed in this way. The next afternoon, when the horn was departed days I" funeral knell of the human race. wis. ^*l*Wiiftaft*w^ 3u&y~. ~.jm-*, ^^a^MSffi