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Tno Braok'i Son, Through all ths drifted uok y In taping music flows The durk, unlilied brook. ' While winding swift along I Upon its ley way, C' Its son ft in but the song , It sang io rosy May. Ah, happy brook, to sing. While winter days depart, The melody of spring That ripples in its heart! R. K. Uunkittriok in Harper's Weekly. He Finished the Prayer. The Rev. W. H. Holmes, of the Meth odist church of South Evanaton, was notified whileconducting- prayer meeting Tuesday night that a burglar was ran sacking the parsonage next door, bat he did not let it disturb his devotions. He bad left his 5-year-old son alone in the houses and the boy was lying on a ofa when lie saw a strange man enter, fie maintained his presence of mind and pretended to be asleep until the man had passed oat of the room and gone upstairs. Then he jumped up and ran to the church. Mr. Holmes was in the middle of a prayer when he was startled by the ex clamation: "Papa, there's a strange man in the house!" The minister hesitated for a moment nd then calmly finished the prayer, be traying no sign of excitement. Mrs. Holmes, however, harried out of the church, followed by three young men of the congregation. They hastened to the house,, but the thief evidently saw them coming, for he departed by the back door as they entered the front. The young men gave chase, however, and overtook him, but failed to hold him He broke away from them after a strug gle and succeeded in making his escape. The party then returned to the prayer meeting and continued the service' The thief was interrupted before he had secured anything of value, although he had gene through some of the draw ers of a bureau that contained many val uable articles. Chicaaro Tribune. Druggists Who UlHSgme. A correspondent of a St. Petersburg contemporary has published the results of an inquiry he made into druggists' charges, and by so doing he has caused fear and trembling among the apothe caries of the city, who dread some gov ernment order on the subject. The in quiring individual presented to fifty nine different apothecaries a prescription for a solution of boracio acid 1,000 grammes in quantity and 3 per cent, in strength. For this he was charged vari ous prices rrom tnirty icopeu&s up to a Table 1100 koner-JcsV and mmi nn ts nna sable seventy-six kopecks. And he made uie eoiuiaon at noma tor aoous two or three kopecks. This was bad, but worse follows. 1 hero was as great variety in strength as in cost, for out. of fifty-nine drnggiets there were eight different ways of reading 3 per cent In the 1,000 grammes of water there was anything rrom naif an ounce to three ounces of boracic acid. London News. Because Willie Went Skating. Parental solicitude is natural and proper, but it has its ridiculous phases. It wasn't very long ago since Willie went skating. His mother was filled with apprehension, and spent about half the day standing in the front door to see wnetner ne was coming home sun! and cold on a shutter or otherwise. His sis ter waded through the snow to tell his father, and the old gentleman got his feet wet standing on the mIito nf pond trying to make his son bear his command to come home. Nobody but wiuie naa an appetite for the evening leal. His mother now Inn lrn after- t)u hired girl a little when she can leave her room; ma lamer naa sucix a cold in his head that he cannot talk, and his sister has such a cough that she is afraid to leave the house, and when any of them wants any medicine Willie goes out and bays it. Washington Post. WHmm Hill KILu. .. 411 In Chertsey, writes a correspondent, is a house which, if rumor says true, is of immense interest to readers of Dickens, and it is for sale. It is believed to be that into which Bill Sikes put Oliver Twist for burglarious purposes. The house is a good one, and ought to fetch a good price apart from its value of asso ciation. If any one of a philanthropic disposition and a keen admirer of Dick ens were mindful to erect yet another memorial to his genius, a purchase and endowment of this house as the home for destitute boys would be in every way suitable. London Star. Time They Were Tapped. Mr. Francis Davis purchased a pair of boots twenty-two years ago to be worn at his wedding which are now in good preservation and are good for further service. They have been in use for party wear during the entire time, and this week were improved by the addition of a pair of taps Gloucester Times. Rudyard Kipling is coming to this country in the spring to enjoy a bunting tour in the west before he goes to India, where he expects to spend much of his time during the next few years. Mr. Kipling's father is a clever artist, and has prepared a series of elaborate illus trations for his son's book. - Blankets are loaned to the poor daring the winter months, free of cost, by a kind hearted citizen of Brunswick, Ger many. They are stamped, to prevent them from being sold or pawned, and they are returned at the close of the cold weather. , : It is proposed making engines of alu minium to develop thirty-four horse pow er, to be used for directing the move ments of a French war balloon of 8,000 -cubic meters capacity, experiments with which are to be made in April next. The Weimar Society for the' Circula tion of Good Literature has distributed since last March 300,000 copies of whole some tales and novels. At the same time it has increased its membership to 5,000 and has laid by $10,000. AN ACTRESS' HARD LOT. SHE HAS TO WORK HARDER THAN MOST PEOPLE DREAM OF, With from Seven to Nine Performance! a Week, Traveling ana Dally Rehears als, She Has Little Time Left for Pleasure The Story of One. "Seems to me it must be lots of fun to be an actress. I should so like to be one. You have such nice times traveling around, and then you see so much of the wona." it was a sweet little bit of in genuosity with large brown eves whe made this remark. Her vis-a-vis, whose name is well known to the theatrical world, looked at her a moment much as a fond parent listens to the sometimes startling chatter of a child and rophed, half sadly, "You have much to learn, my -dear.". Then, after closing her exquisitely curved lips over a succulent Blue Point. Bhe poshed her plate from her and added: "But don't try to learn the truth or fals ity of your belief by experience. Put full confidence in me, little one, when I tell you that this time you are very wrong. There is very little fun in the life of an actress none that she might not have in some other vocation and as for seeing the world, by which you doubtless mean taking in the sights of the different cities in which mha nlno well, listen to me a moment, t REHEABSDJG. "A week ago Sunday night in New York, after rehearsing for three hours in the afternoon a play which we had been producing nightly since the beginning of the season, we took the train for Boston. We got there Monday morning, and after breakfast rehearsed at the Globe theatre till naif-past 1. Then we lunched and took the 3 o'clock train for Worcester. where we arrived just in time to get to we ineaire and dress for the play. It over, we reoacked and took . train tha next morning at 8:30 for Albany, where we amvea ai a o ciock m tne afternoon. We rehearsed till 6 o'clock, got supper ana rusnea DacK to the theatre to dress. My cue comes a few moments after the curtain goes up, and that night, owing to a delay in getting my trunk, I was late in getting dressed and kept the stage waiting not quite nrteen seconds, for which I was fined $5. We rehearsed two hours the next morning, and the after noon was spent listening to the manager read a new play and give his directions as to how he wanted the different char acters interpreted. "That night after the nlav w trnfc the 1:35 a. m. train' for Rochester, where we arrived in time for breakfast Then we rehearsed the new play till noon, and in the afternoon we rehearsed the eld one. The hotel we stopped at was a poor one, and the meals were worse. My dressing room at the theatre was so cold that I got a sore throat We took the 2:20 a. m. for Buffalo, after almost freezing to death at the hotel, and in order not to mar the even tenor of our way there was no fire in the car. "We all counted, however, on being able to get some rest at our hotel in Buffalo. But immediately we had break fast we were ordered to report at the theatre for rehearsal. We rehearsed till 1 o'clock, and were told to be back at 3 to rehearse an act of the old play. I lay down for a moment after dinner and did hot awake till supper time. Of course I missed the rehearsal, and of course I was fined $5. ON tub road. "The next day being Saturday the manager was good enough to leave us to ourselves in the morning. But, my love, you may be sure that if unv nna mont the time taking in the sights of the city n was in -ms areams, lor no one got up till dinner time, and after dinner we had all to go to the theatre for the matinee. After the evening performance, which was cut at every possible point, we packed as quickly as possible to catch the Chicago train at 1130. I had an upper berth over some old man who snored so I couldn't sleep, and when we reached Chicago Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock I was worn out. But I managed to snatch an hour's sleep at the hotel: then I had to rush to the theatre, for in Chicago, you know, we play Sunday nights. No, we don't play in many other cities on Snniiav. nnlv fn Wn rw leans and St Louis, but in the after noon wo must always nave a long re hearsal, which is about as hard.. . "Well, because the nlav wrfnt a HfH badly in one or two places Sunday night (and it was no wonder, considering that most all of ns were nearlv lnasl tn-r mant of sleep) we had to rehearse it twice on w a ... . jaonaay, once in tne morning and once in the afternoon. TnnulaT wa k,mmji the new piece twice, and on Wednesday xuuiiuug we renearsea it again. In the afternoon we had a matinee. This mora ine We had to rphrR a-nti -aja K.J other matinee this afternoon and when we nave finished our supper, little one, I must hurry back to the theatre to play. "Is this the way I always work? Yes. And too. as I exnect to hnin r nnrV long as I remain on the stage, and as most all whom von see rmfnrft tha fnnt. lights with smiling faced and who, you uixoM, must nave sucn lots of fun and see so much of the world, h&va mnrt Now, do you like to be an actress?" The little one stunned for the moimnt 1 w death of her ideal life, looked mourn fully into the face of the actress, then slowly shook her head. Chicago Herald. Bis Opinion. The m&trimnninl atnta haWn. k. said to have been extravagantly lauded, either explicitly or by inference, by the bachelor who exclaimed, "I'm glad of itf when he heard that an acquaintance of his was just married, and then, after moment's reflection, mused aloud, 'And vet I don't know whv I orionM Via. he never did me anv harm " ah hl Year Round. , Making- Duty Pleasant. Sheriff (to culm-it whom h hu w arrested) This is a verv unnleanKnt Antnr to me, I assure yon. Well, make it pleasant for both of ns by letting me go." Epoch. MAKING DIAMONDS GROW. It Is Not Very DLmeaM If Too Tarn Then Over Often Eaaugh with Profit. "Look at this stone," said a young journeyman jeweler in a street car the other day, removing a tissue paper wrap ping from a piece of white wax, in the center of which a beautiful diamond blazed. "That is worth at the least 180." "How is it that you can afford to buy such a valuable stone as ' that?" asked one of his friends who knew his circum stances." "I will put you on to the snap," said the jeweler. "That stone has been grow ing for a year, and I think it has got its growth.-" . . ' - t "What do you mean by a diamond growing?" asked the friend. "I will tell you. Yon remember the little spark I had in my scarf pin Christ mas. Well, this is what it has grown to in less than a year. That little stone cost me a dollar and the pin cost me 3.80. I sold the pin for $8, and bought an eight carat etone a. litt.la nff .i.. v a trifle over $5. I bought a stud setting. x ou mow you can get those things quite low now. Thev are marie tit. w tha thousands by firms which do not taJta finished goods. Well, I put the stone in the setting on a srriral and sold it t.h same week for $18. Then I went to the office and bought the best stone 1 could get for $13 and mounted that in the manner. I wore it a. Tnmrr.h anil then sold it for $30, and I put $35 into another stone. It was a little beauty, and I traded it for another one of about the same size, and got $5 to boot. That put the stone down to $20, and I put it into a setting wmcn cost me $3, and sold it a few days later for $35. I got another stone for $30, and had it two months be fore I made a turn with it; then I cleared $12 and put the money into a beautiful stone, which brought me up to $60, when I sold it in a handsome stud setting. J.nen i got a chance to sell a ring for $75, and 1 made it to order, putting in a stone wnicn cost me $112.50. I put the wnoie 57a into another stone, which I carried around for a while, and harl fully made up my mind to keep, but a putcner onered me $100 for it and I sold it to him. It was in a crown setting, which cost me $6.35. For the hundred I got a dandy stone, and I was sure I could keep that one, but I have had four better ones since, and have got up to $180. I can't go much higher than that I guess, for there are few men among my acquaintances who can afford . to tempt me with a profitable offer for it I wouldn't sell it to-night for $300, be cause I know that I have got a bargain. I'm a pretty good judge of diamonds. and when I put-v that stone into a nice ring 1 will mak-e it look like $350 worth, and I don't think that anybody can per suade me to sell it for anything less. In all the changes I don't think that I have put in more than $16 or $18 of my pocket money. The rest has all been profit on the stones and settings." New York Sun. In Mortal Peril. . Dr. C. C Abbott, in "Outings at Odd Times," tells a tragic tale of an advent ure which once befell an old lady, "long, long ago." The spot where she lived was almost a wilderness, and was beset with the perils of a new and scantily set tled land. The now almost forgotten Camden and Amboy railroad was in operation, but though scarcely a mile distant it was as nothing to her. She knew nei ther what nor where it was. But where the best whortleberries errew. in th bar-.lr swamp, that was knowledge worth her piKKKaaouig. Althoueh herconain A ViiiaK Viul IrillaA a bear there during the winter, she did not stop to trunk of that, bat one day started for berries where few men would care to follow.. With a light heart she gathered and gathered, until at length an ominous shrieking fell upon her ears. . "Could it be another bear?" thought sne, and turned her face homeward. Her big basket was not quite full, and there were such loads of fruit within easy reaeh! This was tantalizing, but all her doubt vanished with the second shriller, more unearthly scream. The path was no longer plain, nor was she surefooted. As she pitched reck lessly forward the berries were bounced by handfuls from her basket and finally in despair she threw aside the basket itself. And still sounded through the swamp the terrible screeching of that angry bear. At last she could see her cottage through the thickly, set trees, but not so plainly the tortuous path. One misstep and she sank waist deep in the yielding mud of an old well, and there she stood screaming until her husband came to the rescue. "Do be still, Hannah," was his first re mark, after she had chokingly called his attention to the still audible cries of the bear, "that's only the new f angled steam ingine whistlin'!" "And to think," the old lady was wont to remark, on concluding this story, "to think' I lost all them beautiful berries!" , , Wanted Lymph. One of the local churches furnishes a calendar every week on which are an nounced the various services and meet ings during the week. The pastor usu ally has a hand in getting up these cal endars, and a few days ago he described a new "disease" which affects church members, and he calls it "Morbus Sab baticus." He describes it thus: "It at tacks church members; comes suddenly, on Sundays, morning and evening. The patient sleeps well on Saturday night, awakes refreshed, eats a hearty break fast, perhaps reads a Sunday newspaper, but at the ringing of the first church bell (10:15) the sickness begins and con tinues till the service ends. ' The patient is then well enough to eat a hearty din ner, after which a walk or a rida in m. joyed. Returning home the supper is greatly relished. But about church time there is flTinthor nf-fur-lr rf AiaAn MWU. A. U 1J J attack the head of the family at first, but uio timureu soon are anecxea Dy tne con tagion. "Springfield Republican. J. M. 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