S A N A 3 FROM "MIRTH'S MINSTREL. TOLi) O A PRAIRIE SCHOONEI my hour fur gettin' home from here few deductions were made for having AUGUSTUS. She told her all, and the woman been late or having spoiled something. with a big drink of whisky behind my listened. A strange look was on her One of the girls burst into- tears and A Night Visit to an Emigrant Train face a strange light in her eyes. He W a a S a I a on he Kansa Plains. "Well, you want to look out torj was led away sobbing by a friend, who "I used to read novels when I was a (TO THE "TIEED POETESS," P. S.) sitive to Be Pleasant, yourself or you'll certainly get killed..* whispered at "it was a shame," as girl," she said. "This is stranger than White and whirling the first snow of ^Strike softly, my grief-laden Polly, they passed the wall against which "Don't you worry about me! Jist Among the odd million of very small a novel. Yc 1're a good girl—good! wras The harp that was fashioned by pain the year falling on the bluffs of Bell had been crowded. crack on steam and let'er go and "Let life be the day-dream of tolly, We'll share the money, Bella—Bella boys who make life moderately exciting Northern Kansa3. Occasionally the never mind where I am If my ole But usually the coming and going And, scorning ambition's mad tram, Belt. You look like me, too don't in some hundred thousands of storm lifted. Then became" visible Harp the measure of sweet melancholy, went on without delay, until the end hoss can't beat your biler on wheels you, only you're young and—pretty." The wailing of grief and the murmurs of was nearly reached, then— New York households there is one I'm willin' to be»histed." fences outlining winding roads, and She took Bella's hand. They sat so mild tnisanshropic disdain! "Lizzie Petrel," called the paymistress. "I was no use to talk to him. particular small boy named Augustus, here and there amethystine spirals of awhile, the money on the stone between was bull-headed and conceited and the Yet why, sweetest songster of sorrow, them. smoke. David Glennon's substantial who at present is not popular with "Lizzie Petrel is dead," cried a shrill very next run he was there again. Thus hai on a chord not thine own? f. "Let us go and get something to his papa. During the four years of his house, flanked by outbuildings, bade Oh.why wilt thou labor to borrow voice. spoke to the conductor a it and* m^ eat," said the woman, at last, and Melpomene's echo-caught moan, glad young life Augustus has developed "Good Gracious, how suddenl" defiance to the elements. Glennon, 1 believe some of the officials sent the they were rising to go when something And tell us thou wakest each morrow screamed anotifer. an word at he must stop or seated by the kitchen stove, while his so many talents at his parents To rind that the spnit of rapture who formerly arose from behind a great, rusty "She was drowned at a picnic last they'd have him arrested. didn't cheered thee is flown? boiler at lay near the steps at wife moved briskly around preparing have blazoned his fame even into the night," said the informant. stop, though. was there on myrun petrified both women with horror, a supper, was the embodiment of What is there, dear maiden, to grieve thee? distant family circle represented by "In the midst ot life we are in death," as regular as clock-work and he tramp red-taced, with long, trouseled What phantom to shadow thy heart' satisfaction. said the paymistress, in aformal manner the fourth assistant deputy cousins. always had a fling and a laugh at me. hair and beard, with filthy rags upon Was it Iriendship that fawned to deceive A knock at the door. The woman as one who feels something is expected This had been going on for more a figure at resembled at of a Last Sunday Augustus' uncle came thee opened it. Blackly against the snowy of her. I trust you will all than a month, when one night, as I By practicing perfidy's part? gorilla, and the soft, heavy footfall oi to town to visit Augustus'fond father. twilight loomed up a gaunt form. remember this. If the poor girl has was trying to a up for lost time, I Did ingratitude labor to weave thee his kind. He had heard of the heir apparent's "Our wagon's broke down yonder, The nettle-wiought crown that betokens parents, the money will be paid to caught him right in the centre of the Silently the two Bellas, young and the woith of her treacherous art? an' my partner's sick. Kin we stay them. Some one let them know mental luminosity, and rendered appropriate track. old, clung together as he leaned over here till sun-up?" please! Bigonia James!" Was it scowling adversity clad in "And at was the end of him," I homage to him, much to them, his hot breath on their faces. The woman glanced appealingly at The hues of Plutonia's dove "I'm to fetch it to her. I'm her sister. observed. "Give us the money," he said. Give the delight of his progenitors. That entered thy poi tal to sadden her husband. rose angrily. "W She's got married," said a small, "I was a queer thing," said the us the money. You have the money. A spirit whose fount was above When Sunday evening arrived the ain't got nothin' tor tramps. bright-looking girl. engineer. "Th horse and buggy were You had the money give it." The trifles that darken and madden9 mistress of the house, who is a strict He slammed the door in the stranger's "Very well, sign for her," said she. flung clear over the fence, killing the Or art thou, oh art thou, a loser in the Then he saw it, seized it, counted it, church member and a fanatic on the face. at night when he was "Rengenuna Jones, step up here." heart-breaking lottery of love? horse instantly, while the old an dropped the change, picked it up. point of Sabbath observance, prepared sleeping the sleep of the selfish his wife "I'm to take hers home. I'm her went forty feet high and came down struck a blow toward them, hibting Yet why, like that rhymer, Calypso, to sally forth to prayer meeting, called her own son. Together they sieter. She's got married," replied a on the roof of the fourth car back. nothing, and stumbled away. Woo the tone of a sorrowing muse9 but, strange to relate, her husband plodded through the storm to where very small girl, near the desk. We came to a stop and found him and Oh, why lit thou ceaelessly dip so "Thank God!" cried the two women and brother-in-law suddenly succumbed the ribs of the prairie schooner gleamed "Very well, sign for her and take In an urn of Astyi ian dews, got him down. had just about a together. Then they looked at each to violent headaches. Menthol ghostly as the pallid skeleton of a And frown at the spirits that skip so it," said the lady at the desk. "Bella minute to live. recognized me other piteously hungrily, and began and other remedies were freely, but mastodon. Hilaiou«ly to the measures Teipsichore Belt'" and signed at he wanted to speak. to cry. vainly, used, and finally Augustus' pleases to choose? A man pushed back the canvas in Bell gave a start. When I bent over nim he whispered: "It's not safe here," said the elder mamma had to depart bv herself. She the rear of the wagon. He took her "Bella Belt," repeated the paymistress. There may be a pleasure in sadness, -Did it finally, didn't ye, but do woman. lett her husband in the library inhaling gifts of warm food. He got out and Anda chaim in her musical song, -'I shan't wait here all nipht you know why? Th ole hoss had colinc spirits of hartshorn and reading "If we could get into the factory. •But mine is the hm paring of gladness, stood talking to the boy. In the for the last girl on the list. Is Bella an on/d 1 nrocs wa 4n\rrx five ftiaf't. fee cslrtwT slow!"—Detroit.TlofvAlr' Fox's "Book of Martyrs her brother-in-law And to capers of joy's merry throng We might do it old Peter, the Avatchman, dimly lighted interior a man lay Belt dead or married? Some one answer. Free Press. (Though themes that excite but your madness) sat in his own room with a doesn't always lock the gate at stretched on a pallet. Suddenly she She must be a new hand. I've towel tied around his fevered brow once. Up among the machinery we drew herself up and leaned towards The mirth-breathing harp of niy muse and never paid her before. Bella Belt HIS SINGLE O and an expression of intense suffering might have all Sunday, and even find him: Their eyes met his dazzled with her liveliest measures belong! come get your money." upon his face. a scrap or two to eat of lunches left the supreme splendor of unexpected .s*h The girls looked about them. Some An Old Physician's Experienc With Come with me to the fountain of pleasure, over. We'll got the gate." joy her shrinking in the bewilderment When the door slammed the two oi them stared at Bell. Disarm the mad phantom of care, a Mother's Darling of half-terrified recognition. men vanished into tne library and a in hand they made their way "Wha is your name?" asked one. And whilejoy wing the moments ofleisure, locked the door. Augustus, alone and to the little wooden passage left open "Speaking of the ruling passion, "Mary!" he murmured. And rapture and beauty are there, "Bell Belt—Isabella Belt," replied for Peter. The old man sat with his forgotten, roamed the halls. We will drink oflove's cup in full measure, She gasped, gave a frightened strong an death," said one of New Bell. And laugh at the hurrying clouds that were back toward them, eating his supper. At breakfast on Monday morning glance towards the two talking without. York's swell physicians iecently, I "Well, go get your money you must hued by the hand of despair' They crept past him, and up and out Augustus was unusally scintilla nt and be stupid, cried a girl. met an odd example of it a short time of sight. In a room overhead they was given all sorts of opportunities to L. S. HELENA. I meant to come back soou. Bu I "I don't think she meant me," said ago. In a family wherein I have a sat down near a window, and the display his brightness. was jailed all hese years for a crime Bell. "Now, Gussie," murmured his mamma, couple of regular patients there is a elder Bella, leaving her companion Ii never did. I couldn't get word of BELL BELT. "Here she is, Miss Alberts," cried there, searched everywhere and found at the close of the repast, "tell small boy who has lived four brief but you. I was on my way East to find the girl. "She don't quite understand." a few crackers, a fragment of cheese, a me what papa and Uncle Joe did last you. Ho is the—little'lad?" exciting years. I have no hesitation half eaten apple. night." The words came brokenly. She "You are to come here, Bell Belt, in saying at he is absolutely the "Better than begging." she said. "They wented into the library," lifted her apron. She wiped the sweat BY MARY KYLE DALLAS. and get your four dollars and fourteen worst child^I ever met. His ingenuity chirped the prodigy," and thev flirted." They munched the scraps, and night from his forehead. She groaned cents. The rest of the five is deducted in all forms of infantile misbehavior fell and the moon arose, and they aloud. for absence. Hurry! I want is marvelous, and, left to himself, he kept beside the window and close to "What!" exclaimed the questioning •'Mother," cried a boyish voice. BELL BELT. you to sign your name," cried Miss each other. one. With furtive passion she pressed her can devise an endless number of unique Alberts. "Es they did," continued Augustus, After awhile the elder woman asked lips to the white lips below. One word ways for getting into hot water. knewr Poo Bell! She at there was "I heered 'em frew the door. a pa of love. She was gone. at was the name pinned to the a question of the younger. a girl in the factory at bore her About two months ago he began an kept saying, 'You're shy,' and Uncle "Hav you a mother?" she said. "You a long time talkin' to •skirt of the baby found in the basket name, but it occurred to her at she open warfare on the grand piano which Joe would say, 'No I ain't shy,' and "There's a wicked woman somewhere, at sick camper," grumbled her son might be dead, or married, as the two at the baker's door, in Fiftieth street stands in his parents' pallor. filled then this"—he rattled his ivory napkin if she is not dead, who left me as they entered the kitchen. "Wha others had been, and she was hungry, —pinned by an old-fashioned cameo holder on the plate—"an' once the legs of this unfortunate instrument on a doorstep in a basket once," Bella are you cryin' for?" tired almost without power to fight papa said 'I'm Pat papa' name fcrooch, with "B B. cut on its back. answered. "A good old woman took "Nothin." full of dents, and then began to against her faith. One pushed her, ain't Pat is it a a me in. She is dead." I want the baby called Bell Belt," Thanksgiving Day dawns divinely. rip the ivory coverings from its xkeys another pushed her. She stumbled It was Dennis for some time afterward—New ad you anything your real mother David Glennon, coming home from against the desk. whenever occasion offered. His was written in pencil on the paper. York Commercial Advertiser. could know you by?" asked the older church, stamps the snow from his "Your name Beit?" asked Miss delight in this was deep rooted and all I too poor to keep it. God bless Bella. feet. Alberts, in a flurry of impatience. absorbing. those at will. I shall know ho "My name and a cameo brooch "One o' them wuthless campers "Yes, ma'am, but—" began Bell. FIVE FEET SLOW. A sudden change in the weather, "they are. marked B. B.," thegirl answered "bu died last night," he announces, cheerily. "I can't help the' deductions," said however, laid this incorrigible intnnt she never wanted to know me not "Dinner mos ready, Mary?"— The baker's old wife had no children, Miss Alberts. "I' deducted myself low with a first-class attack of pneumonia, she." Chicago Tribune. 4 if I don't do as I ought. It's business. The Old Farme Would Haye Been and the baker let her do as she chose. and the piano was given a rebt Then silence fell, and .after awhile Don't talk to me about it here, take All Right But for His Horse. She kept the child, and it grew to be a and a chance to recuperate. One evening the two •women gathered together Ten Anxious Minutes. the pen. Sign your name there." "Three or four years ago," said the I came to the conclusion at girl of 1 5 before the old people died. some cotton waste and canvas and Bell took the long red handle in her While Captain Anderson, author of engineer as we fell to talking, I was there was no hope of the child's lite lay down to sleep together. They had petted her, had her taught fingers and wrote "Isabella Belt" on "A Cruise an Opium Clipper," was and as tenderly as possible conveyed running a passenger train up North. "Do you pray? asked the elder the line indicated, and instantly four trading in Formosa, he had been something, dressed her well, but there at fact to his parents, who for five Bella of the younger, as she drew the Every other night at 8 o'clock we dollars and fourteen cents wereputinto to the shore with some of his men, on was no will. Relations from Germany days had never left his bedside. In a canvas over her. were due at a certain country crossing. her hand. The book was closed .A a wild and almost unknown part of spasm of grief the mother lifted the trooped down on the property, nothing "Yes,' sighed Bella. with a slam, and Miss Alberts dropped One night I just saved a horse the island, to rescue the crew of a boy from the bed and hysterically "Then pray for me," said the other, was thought of Bell, and she found from her high stool and stalked Dutch schooner. On their way they —•.'}, and buggy at the crossing, and the clasped him to her bosom at action "pray for me, a sinner." herself with a trunk and a little purse out of sight. had fallen in with a band of native man in the buggy seemed more than saved his life. The shock set the Later, two tramps, sodden and hideous, "Little Greeny, you'll never get on wreckers, and had been compelled to of money—very, very little—thrown half drunk. On the second night I blood, which clogged his lungs, in circulation staggered back to the factory if you don't look out sharper for fire upon them. The Dutch crew was again, and another possibility upon her own exertions for a livelihood. barely mi&sed him again, and on tne side and lay there smoking. yourself," said a good-natured young rescued, and Captain Anderson and of saving him materialized. A« I third occasion I do believe we knocked Later yet a policeman heard a shrill giantess at her elbow. "We have to hismen started on their return to their was hastily giving my orders for some She was not clever, nor educated, old voice crying "Fire! F.ire!" and a spoke out of his hind wheel. Next jump pay-day, I tell you. own ship. medicines at would be needed at rushed to meet a feeble old man, with onl pretty, and mild and timid. The day, on the down run. he came up Others giggled at her, but with a once the boy's eyes opened languidly Our way took us in single file through work she found paid ill, and stopped a lantern in his hand—Peter, the horrible consciousness at she was a to the engine as we lay at a town and he looked around the loom with a narrow pass, and as I entered it at •at last altogether. watchman. thief, making her heart throb like an e.xTjression of unuttei.ible weariness.. about three miles from the crossing, the head of my men, for a second my "It's Breeze's factory'" he cried. A hard old landlady threatened to some strange engine within her, shaking heart almost ceased to beat at the waiting for the express to pass, and It's blazing. I just got out with my her out of half of the bed, in a her whole frame, making her tremble startling sight at met my gaze. says he: "Give him anything," I cried, "anything little hall bed-room, and her good life—no more!" in every limb, she crept out The pass was lined on both sides "Look-a-here, ole man, ye can't do he wantt.' clothes went bit by bit to pay her "Any one there?" asked the policeman. and away, and sat down on the steps with ferocious-looking natives, armed it' Ye hain't smart'null with your old A gleam of interest shot into those way. of the closed factory to come to herself. with pole-axes, spears, huge knives, snorter to run over me' tiled eyes and the weakest of voices At last, wearing shoes that clung to "Thank God,* not a soul!" said and many other death-dealing instruments. "Are you the an who crosses rit piped. •her feet only by a miracle, her marvelous Peter. Trying to comfort her conscience, she Dean's at So'clockeveryotlierni^ht?" "Please,, mamnri can I keep on dark-eyed beauty clothed invaded But up in the room into which the repeated these arguments over and Although I was taken flat aback by I a3ked. 9 bustin' the piano "—New Yoik Com- garments, patched and frayed and moon no longer shone, where the air over again to herself. the sight, spme instinct carried me 1 I be. I'm the very chap. It'siest mercial Advertiser time worn, she went about asking was dense and thick with black smothering "I never said a word I'm starving. forward sword in hand, looking to the work and receiving only denials. She smoke, two women felt their way I should sleep in the streets if I right and left with a cool, staring eye, was so handsome, so shabby, that toward a window. didn't pay Mrs. Trewjer to which seemed to curb the revengeful they had doubts ol her—the snug people "Do you hear me?" asked th,e elder night. The other girl did spirit of the natives. sitting in their trim warehouses, Bella. not come. Perhaps she's dead perhaps On arriving at the other end of the They chose to employ plainer girls in' "Yes," said the younger. married. It' not likely she defile, I stopped, turned round, saw better clothes. I don't think we can be saved. I needs it as I do. all the men safely through, and then One hungry Saturday came the must tell you, Bella, I am your mother, But still she sat where she had told them in unmistakable English to re at of dismissal from her poor the wicked woman who left you at ft thrown herself down, incapable of going make a clean pair of heels for the ship, home hanging like the storied sword the baker's door. But Bella, I loved to spend the money at it seemed while I brought up the rear at a sharp we all know of over Her head by a single you. I was starving at woman had to her fate had made her steal, pace as soon as I had got a little way thread, and she found herself at a good home and. loved babies. I The shadows grew longer. The side trom the entrance of the pass, so at 1 he entrance of a great factory. meant to come back for you, but it's of the factory with its many closed the natives might not see us in too "1 been poverty, suffering, misery ever She crept in shyly, seeking in vain windows, looked down on a street Cl great a hurry. since—ever since—ever since, Bella, he persons who could give or refuse at was no thoroughfare. No one a Bakin is absolutely re How they let us through without her work, and turning first to one that's why I did not come. I thought came at way out of hours. Opposite touching a hair of our heads, or once for I have so found it in a tests, a for you rich and happy. I never knew— door iand then to another, finding only was only the storing ground of a making a motion toward us, passes Bella—" an old an who swept up some and the S. Government he a a lumber-yard. Great boards, piled one my comprehension. A kind Providence scattered rubbish with a great besom, "Mother!" sobbed a faint voice in in is the purest a above another, constantly threatened had certainly watched over us until suddenly, from a dark passageway reply "oh, mother, I believe you and to topple down into the road below, reliable Bakin Powde offered to he public. for at time, and, shame to say, not rushed a crowd of girls, of I love you." And they lay clasped in but never did. Solitude as deep as one of us returned thanks to God for women, large, small, old and. young, each other's arms. E N A O can be found in a city reigned there our pieservation. who, in their hurry took no notice ot They found them so next day clasped after work time. Late Chemist for U. S. Government. her. She was pushed against the in each other's arms. The tire had Great Severity. So Bell, staring up the street, wall, and watched them as they not touched them, and their faces were A chemical tests to which I a submitted it A very estimable widow has a son watched without interruption a ranged themselves in groups and almost happy when they laid them who is far from estimable. Evil'companions a proved the a a in Powde perfectly woman's figure at came hurrying turned their eyes on a tall thin, welldressed side by side together.—New York Ledger. have corrupted the good down at its best speed, now and then healthful and free from every deleterious substance woman who carried a leather manners he once had, and the ravages putting its hand to her heart, and bag in one hand and a red-accountbook I is purest in quality and highest in re of of dissipation are already becoming pausing, but running on again the in the other, until she had A Lofty View, a Bakin of* which I a visible. His poor mother is nearly faster afterward. I came to a pause mounted a high stool before a desk. A German merchant in London has broken-hearted. She was confiding opposite the great door and glared at W E E M., and opening the book, commenced a her troubles one day to an old and it then sank down, with its face in its a servant who at first was very forgetful. sort of roll-call. Late Chemist-in-chief U. S. Dept of Agriculture$ trusted friend. fir hands. This fault was especially annoying Bell was too well used to factories Washington, D. C. "Closed! Closed! Closed!" it moaned. I am afraid," said her friend, at to know at it was pay-day and at meal-times, when something "And I tried so hard to get here! you are not firm enough with John the hungry eyes watched what went essential was sure to be lacking from he strength of he a is shown to be 2 3 I tried so hard—so hard!" you are too easy with him. on with the envy the penniless must the table. One day the family were It was a middle-aged woman, once cent, greater than a other. "On the contrary, I am sometimes •feel at the sight of money, in a world seated at the table, and the bell was pretty, still not plain, with gray in her afraid that I am too harsh." where money is so much. The sum A a result of my investigations I find the a rung as usual. The girl hurried to hair, at had been of a splendid "Why, what have you ever done?" paid to each was small, and as the a in far superior to he others. I is re glossy black—a woman shabby as the dining-room. "Maria," said Herr "Oh, I haven't done anything, but I signatures were made certain deductions 1 contains me ingredients, a is of 1 Bell herself, and with the same sort of have talked to him a great deal." B., just run and fetch the big stepladder were spoken of. One or two delicate, swaying figure. As the girl "Wha have you said?" greatest strength 3»irls cried over theirs, and were comforted down from the attic and bring looked at her, she,-locked up and "Why, I have said, 'John! John!' by their friends but the rollcall, it here. Maria, who ad been disturbed A A E spoke: 4HC and other severe things." the signatures and the payments at her dinner gave a grunt of dissatisfaction, "Public Analyst, Ontario, Dominion of Canada** "Hav they all gone home?" went on very regularly on the whole, Colic In Horses but ran up the three "Yes," said Bell. -until one lady at the desk called The latest investigations by the United States flights of stairs to letch down the Colic so frequently fatal in horses or •'Then there's no chance of my getting ,v, if not so, is made fatal by administering and Canadian Governments show the Royal Baking ladder. In about five minutes she re my wages!" sighed the woman. '^1 "Ligzie Williams.'' all the-abominations of a drug 1 rit'd to get here, but I've been sick turned to the room, panting with her Then a girl's shrill voice answered: Powder superior to all others in leavening store, can be cured if taken in time by and fainted. I shall starve unless I exertion. "Now," said Herr B., put "She's dead, Miss Alberts died yesterday.'' simple means without any medicine. beg—starve!|BDo you work here?" Hr it up at at end of the room and Strength. Get the horse down on his side, let "No," replied Bell. "Will you tell "Dear me!!" responded Miss Alberts, climb to the to Maria did as sin one hold his head down so he cannot me your name, please?" v\ cottP*1 Statements by other manufacturers to the •with-the air of saying what was ex•pected waa told, when she was at the rise, then with the doubled up fists "Isabella Belt," said the woman. of her. "Ho sudden. In the Herr B. quietly observed' "Mariifc knead the bowles between the hip a I W at was coming to you?" asked Jmvy have been declared by tlte official authorities [midst of life wear in death Let us lower ribs, as you would a mass of you have now got a better view an Bell. .-'' ^rff all remember a Will some one dough knead vigorously. The animal "Not five dollars but it was "life to we have just look round and tell us tiotifyher relatives at the money will quickly show its appreciation me," if you can see any salt on the tabltf. will be paid to them?" of the kindness by laying perfectly Bell put her hand in her pocket. I *"One after the other the slim lady My wife an 4 I could not find it." Th*. still. The wind will pass in a few a your money," fihe said. called the girls' names and mentioned settled the business. Maria has never moments and tb.3 worst is over,— 'Bella Belt,' they called. I'll tell the amount she gave each aloud, as a forgotten the lesson. Germantown Telegraph. ^A] f^) you the truth. fews A .signature.was made in the bpok. A,