WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT t
VI lr wast and wither up with doubt
blessed fields of heaven where onee my
faith
I itself serenely safe from death:
JT 1 deny the things past finding oat,
Ur if I orphan my own soul of One
That seemed a Father, and make void the place
Within me where He dwelt in power and grace,
'What do I gain, that am myself undone?
William Dean HowelU in Harper's.
ANNIE O'BRIEN.
The Connaught Castle had arrived in
-3tew York. The cabin passengers had
fOM ashore. The steerage people were
being carried away by their friends or
try the boarding house keepers who al
vrja lie in wait for them. Those yet
'nc&lled for sat about the decks. Wist
fal eyes turned shoreward, unxious to
aee a familiar face and form among all
those strange ones.
Pat Nolan had come aboard in all his
tvery a new blue coat flung open,
that it might not conceal the shining
watch chain dangling from his vest
pocket, his hat tipped to one side in true
Connaught fashion, with a mighty Bhow
ef white collar and cuffs and bine neck--fcie,
and his boots for once polished by
.an "Eyetalian." He threw his shoulders
iMck and looked his best, for "didn't he
wane aboard to bring bis sweetheart,
Annie O'Brien, home, and wasn't she
the purtiest girl in ten counties, and
Ikadn't she crossed the ocean for his
aker
Pof fsult: as tTinncrh avarv nna urVti-a do xxr
him mast know his business there.
Standing still he looked about him, ex
pecting to see his little Annie somewhere
not far.
. '"Sore, an' wouldn't she be as anxious
to mate him as he would be to mate
Wit?' But strange to say he could not
Me her..
, He was a little late, for there had been
a delay of the train in which he came
' 4own from the place where he was work
. iax as coachman and trardener. But
rely Annie would never have gone
shore without him. He walked about
for full ten minutes, looking everywhere,
tat still mi suing the face he wanted.
Every now and then a gay ribbon or a
Wight coil of hair would make his heart
stance, but it was never Annie's hair or
.Annie's bonnet. At last he made up his
aaind that she had gone ashore; but in
that case she had left word for him, of
' luenielf. . ',
I be pardon, sir," he said, stepping
"bj to a man who wortfa gold, band upon
his cap, and was presumably an officer
I hf iz nardon. sir. liut I'm Pat Nolan.
la there a bit of a message left for me,
iyou know, sir? ' . : v -
- "Not that I am aware," the officer re
plied. "It was Annie O'Brien," said Pat. "She
came over on this steamer; she expected
ate to mate her. We're to be married,
yea know, sir, " and she'd lave word
"Where she is gone Annie O'Brien." '
The officer turned a curious, startled
Sane upon him.
"Annie O'Brien," he repeated. "A
steerage passenger?" . .
"In coorae, sir," said Pat "She's
nmn over to marry- me, and she s a
workin' girl. We're nayther iv us rich.'
The officer looked at him again.
"I know the name," he said.
"You couldn't help noticing the girl,'
rat, "ne's a purty crayther, is
Annie, wid eyes like the sky and goolden
hair, and a waist ye could span wid yer
two bands ban-in she wpuldn t permit
ye to do it and a foot light as a bird's
wpon the floor. A little jewel is my An
sae. You d not fail to notice her."
"Sit down a moment, Mr. Nolan,"
aid the officer. "I will make some in
quiries. Wait here for me."
"A mighty polite gentleman, though
he's as solemn as a funeral," said Pat to
himself. "I hope he'll not delay long.
Pm wild to see Annie. Oh, the divil fly
away wid the cars that kept me from
her! I wonder is she cryin' her eyes out
Jot not seein' me? It was what she had
right to expect the first one aboord.
The officer was returning.
He looked more serious than ever.
"Mr. Nolan," he said gravely, "the
captain would like to speak to you.
win . tage you to mm. we nave had a
wry stormy voyage, as winter voyages
often are.
"unt you ve come into port on as
pleasant a day as there is in the calen
dar," Pat said cheerfully. "A Christ
mas couldn't be brighter."
"But we have had a very unpleasant
voyage," sauF the officer gravely.
He opened the door of the captain's
cabin. Pat entered with his hat in his
hand.
xne captain, a grave, bronzed man,
with iron gray hair, sat at a table before
aa open book, on which his hand lay.
"Sit down," he said.
"Thank you, sir. It's as easy stand
. ing," said Pat, with a bow.
- "You had better sit down," said the
captain. "I may have to talk to you for
wme minutes. I have something very
particular to say if you are the right
xaaa. Your name is
"Pat Nolan," said Pat, begriming to
.feel astonished, but then perhaps the
captain, knowing that he was to be mar
ried that evening, wanted to congratu
late him, to offer him a glasb of some
thing, or perhaps it was the way of the
captains of ocean steamers to be slow
-aod solemn, not thinking how he kept
people from their sweethearts. So Pat
sat down, put his hat on the floor, and
sot knowing just what to do cracked all
Us knuckles one after the other as he
waited. ...,.
"Your name is Patrick Nolan," said
the captain again, "and you came on
'board to find a young woman a friend
. of yours? '
"My sweetheart promised to me. We
- re to be married today," said Pat.
"If God wills it," said the captain.
"Ay. sir; we can do nothing widout
- -that, r well know," said Pat. 'The good
- Xord above and Father Dunn will help
me; but Til do the best I can to furder it
sayself."
The captain looked down upon the
pages of the book before him.
"And the name of the yotuij girl you
are asking for?" he said..
"Annie O'Brien," said Pat, beginning
to think the captain very stupid "Annie
O'Brien. She's the Widdy O'Brien'e
daughter a dacent woman is the widdy,
and well respected. They are neighbors
there at home in the ould counthry."
The captain ran his finger down a long
column of names, and stopped at last
and looked at Pat again.
'We had a very unpleasant voyage, he
said slowlv "a very, very unpleasant
voyage."
'The other gentleman was telling me
that, sir," said Pat, wishing that this old
gentleman would stop talking about the
weather and tell bim something about
Annie. "Bad weather must be a threat
on the say," he said, in order to be polite.
And wid all tmm passengers to be
watchin' and carin fer worse than a
stableful of bastes!" ; -:
'Yes,'' said the captain, "we try to
care for our passengers, but the steerage
is a little crowded. They are often very
sick."
"Yes, sir. I was that sick myself 1
thought I be dyin'," said Pat.
"Some are severely ill," said the cap
tain. - '
This time Pat made no answer, but
stared at him with a hot flush rising to
his face.
'Sometimes they are so very ill that
they die," the captain went on. "Deli
cate women, you know little children
and delicate women."
Pat still looked at him in silence.
"When I said that we had a very un
pleasant voyage I meant," said the cap
tain, "that we had serious illness that
we had death on board. Two steerage
passengers died. One was William
O'Rourke, an old man coming over to
live with his sou.
'God rest his soul!" said Pat, crossing
his forehead.
"The other, who was very ill, was a
oman," said the captain, "a young
woman, and .very pretty. Mr. .Nolan,
we have to prepare for storms in this
life we have to brace up and bear them
as well as we can. They are very hard
to bear. I have had a great many my
Belf. At my age that goes without say
ing; but you are young and full of hope.
I am very sorry to say that I am afraid
you are about to suffer a terrible shock.
It is a painful task to tell you. Brace
up, my lad. x ne other passenger was a
young woman, and her name, as we have
it written here, was Annie O Bnen.
AH the color had gone out of Pat's face
by this time. It was white, lips and all.
He dropped his arms on the table and
hid his face on them, and great sobs
shook his frame. f
The captain wiped the tears from his
own eyes. -
"Talk does no good," he said. .."Time
only can comfort you."
"It seems as if I could not believe it,
captain," Pat cried, lifting his tear swol
len face. "Annie my little Annie!
Are ye sure it was Annie?"
"There was but one Annie O Bnen on
our list," said the captain.- "She gave
her name just before she breathed her
last. The only steerage passenger of the
name of O'Brien died on the voyage of
fever.' The doctor cared for her as
well as he ' knew how. The women
nursed her kindly. We buried her at
sea, and the burial service was said by a
Catholic clergyman who was on board.
You might like to know that, so I tell
you."
"My Annie my Annie at the bottom
of the say!" moaned poor Nolan. "An!
I'll niver see her again; niver kiss her
red lips; niver feel her two arms about
me neck! Ah, Annie, I won t hve after
you I won't live after you! Life is too
hard to bear wid that to think of. It's
turned me to a woman, sir, I'm thinkin';
but it's the worst blow I iver had in me
loife."
There was a knock at the door just
then. Pat hid his tear stained face
again.
"No admittance just now, cried the
captain.
"I didn't mane to come in, plase, sir,
said a sweet voice, "but I'd like to spake
to ye, captain, af ye'll let me. Pm
waitin' this long time till me frind comes
aboord to bring me home, and I'm get-
tin' anxious, fearin' something has hap
pened him. What will I do, sir? 1
know no one in -Americay. Perhaps he
might be on boord and me not know it.
He'd be aakin' for Annie O'Brien, and
he'd be Pat Nolan, that I'm promised to.
Would ye"-
But the captain had flung wide the
door, and Pat was on his feet, and with
a roar like that of a buffalo had flung
his arms about her.
"Glory be to God and all the saints!"
he cried. "You're not . dead at all!
You're alive! I've got you safe and
sound! They've been tellin' me you
were dead. God help the man that put
the thrick on me, for 111 lave but the
bones av him!"
"Quiet, there!" shouted the captain.
"Down with your fists, or 111 put you in
irons! What did you mean by asking
for Annie O Brien, a steerage passenger,
when you wanted Annie Bailey, a first
cabin passenger? That is the girl that
stands there. That is the name she gave
us Annie Bailey.
"Captain, dear," cried Annie, clutch
ing her Pat by the coat tails, "captain,
darlin', Pat niver knew he did not.
Since writin' him, my mother- a widdy
married again wid Mr. Peter Bailey,
that kapes A fome tavern in our town.
So long as I was goin' from her, and he
proposin to her, why wouldn t she? And
he, havin' money to spare, said I should
come like a lady, and paid me passage
in the fewest place; and out iv compli
ment to him being my mother's hus
band and so generous to me 1 sailed as
Annie Bailey. That is the way it was,
captain; and indade all the throuble
arose from it for I wanted Pat to find
me sated in the illigant saloon, and re
mained there waitin' for him."
"YouH excuse me, sir," said Pat, bow
ing low, "on account of what I've been
through."
"All right, my man," the captain an
swered; and then Pat threw his arm
about bis Annie and led her away, the
happiest fellow alive. Mary Kyle Dal
las in Fireside Companion.
THE WESTERN- BOOMERS.
Tens of Thousands of People Seeking
Homes in Far Off Regions.
The rush to the new lands that are now
open for settlement in several parts of the
west is going on, and there is no doubt that
it will be increased largely during the com
ing months. Nearly two years ago the
Oklahoma boomers were pushing their
way to the Indian Territory, and thousands
of them were camped beside their, teams
along the southern border of Kansas, anx
iously waiting for the opening of that re
gion to settlers.
Many of them crossed the line before they
had the right to do so, and as no crops could
then be raised there were hardships and
suffering among them. Some took refuge
in KVtngM, Missouri and Arkansas, some
were driven out by Federal troops and
others made their way to obscure regions,
where they lived for a time on such pro
visions as they had brought with them or
as could be procured from Kansas. The
boom had suffered - a setback, though
squatters still got into Oklahoma somehow
in considerable numbers. Last year the
government bad trouble with the Cherokee
Indians in its negotiations for the surren
der of their lands, and this continued till it
was evident that legal settlements could
not be made on these lands in 1890. -
Mau" boomers were again gathered on
the boMer at the close of the year, and
when the report came to them that nego
tiations had been closed several hundred
families struck out for the lands in ques
tion. As the report proved to be inaccu
rate, they had to return to the Kansas side
of the line. The trouble has not yet been
brought to a satisfactory termination, but
as the adjacent lands of the Sac and Fox
Indians are now open by treaty the new
settlers have begun to take up claims
there, though the land is not yet surveyed.
It is very certain that the movement in
that direction will be heavy during the
next few months, or till every acre of the
soil has its claimant. According to a re
cent dispatch, the "town lot boomers" are
especially busy there at this time.
It is not only to Oklahoma that the land
hunters are bound just now. Recently
printed dispatches from northern Wiscon
sin describe the rush to the big strip that
has been opened to claimants there. ' At
the land offices in Ashland, Wausau and
Eau Claire thousands of settlers have stood
in line awaiting their turn to file their
claims, and so highly have advanced places
in the line beeu valued that round sums of
money have in some cases been offered for
them. At two of these offices a short time
ago the homesteaders became so turbulent
that a company of infantry was needed to
keep order. It is probable that by this
time nearly all the claims in the big strip
have been taken up.
There is news also of a heavy immigra
tion to the state of Washington on the Pa
cific coast. It has been in progress during
the winter months, and is now very sure-of
enlargement. The papers there do all they
can to encourage it by publishing accounts
of the fine climate and fertile soil of the
state, especially those parts of it west of
the Cascade range and along the rivers
that empty into Fuget sound, which, ac
cording to the Seattle papers, beat all the
rest of the world for raising grains, vege
tables, berries and all sorts of "family gar
den truck." Nowhere else," so it is said.
'can man live and flourish on so small a
piece of land as in this attractive region."
New York Sun.
Birds That Are All Faathera.
The biggest of all really powerful flying
birds are, I believe, the wandering alba
tross and the South American condor for
the roc I reject outright as worthy only of
the most restricted Arabian and nocturnal
ornithology. Seen on the wing, or even
with the wings expanded merely, both
these great existing birds have a most ma
jestic and colossal appearance. But feath
ers in such cases are very deceptive; they
make fine birds out of very small bodies.
For example, our well known little En
glish swift, which looks so imposing in
flight as it, passes overhead with pinions
poised, is hardly as big when plucked ai
man's top thumb joint, and weighs only
half an ouuee. So, too, the albatross.
though its expanse of wing is said to ex
ceed that of any other known bird, amount
ing sometimes to nearly ten feet from tip to
tip, does not average in weight more than
fifteen pounds, . which is just exactly the
poulterer's statement for my Christmas
turkey.
As for the condor, while he spans from
wing to wing some eight feet, his length
from beak to tail is only three and a half,
and I doubt if he would pluck into any
thing corresponding to his magnificent
outer show, though I am bound to admit
that I have never personally tried the un
pleasant experiment. Cornhill Magazine.
How Some King Died.
Kings have died in mean fashion, i
suming the shape of indigestion. Did not
a dish of lampreys kill Henry I? and was
not overeating fatal to George If pallid
Death pressing upon him," as Thackeray
says, "in his traveling chariot on the Han
over road. What postilion can outride
that pale horseman?" Both Frederick III.
emperor of Germany, and his son, Maxi
milian I, died through excessive indulgence
in melons; Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem,
died of leprosy; Philip III of Spain, of the
etiquette which left him to be roasted be
fore a flaming brazier because the official
could not be found whose special function
it was to remove it, and Stanislas Leszczya
ski, king of Poland, of the terrible horns
he received through his dressing gown ac
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Antiquity of Man la America.
Professor Putnam, secretary of the Amer
ican Association, according to Popular Sci
ence News, recently made an interesting
discovery which furnishes .fresh evidence
in support of the theory that man in Amer
ica was contemporaneous with the mam
moth. In a communication to the Boston
Society of Natural History, Professor Put
nam describes a shell found by him in the
state of Delaware. Upon a portion of this
shell is scratched the rude outline of what
without doubt represents a mammoth.
The shell was found under peat, and near
by were human bones, charcoal, bones of
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"Yes," replied Miss Bmerson of Boston,
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