I THE MEETING TIME.
' Oh, bitter Is the sorrow
When hers we part In tears.
And heavy Is th burden
, ,- ' Of long and lonely years!
But what will be ths meeting -When
life's sad Journey's past.
Within l ho Katlur's keeping
Ws find our own at lasll
At mists that cloud the morning-
As shadows of the night
Forgotteu In ths glory
Of noontide's radiant light,
Ths weury years of waiting
As nothing then ahall seem.
The pain, the Ions, the Burrow
Keraembcred as a dream.
Oh, what will bs ths meeting!
No words Its Joy may frame!
When face to fare ws sea them
Immortal yet the aame;
When dear, long-silent, voices
Shall speak our names ones tnore
. And smiles of welcome greet us
As fondly as of yore I
" Oh, blcsped thought of comfort,
I When thoas we love have guns
To seek a better country.
And we sre left alone I
Shall we not wait In pat I ones
A little longer here,
As those who know that dally
The meeting time draws near?
Mrs. J. E. Lyrnan. tn N. Y. Observer.
vohw i '
I wil!
here."
muI sweet, for alif said: "No,
i with you; 1'aradite is
.PARADISE
M VIA.A T... TT,, re.
ft jjy uioise jans tiuirc
9 'Wrft'w'w-ftU-wyfwVt''.
(From Ih. Nw Orleans Times-Democrat,
br Permission.)
THE young mother bad been into the
dim shadows where Death and
1,11a struggle, and win or lone. Juat at
the happiest, sweetest, fullest hour
which bad been hera, when love took
on a new and tender unselfishness,
when Its lilting, dancing mensurrs
broke into the deep melody of an an
them, and, as all e drifted linck into the
light again, thus It waa that she half
wished and half pruyed In her still
childish way that Death would never
take thla woman-child of hers as long
as Life held llapplnesa thut lore of
Llfo should be a talisman to stay the
band of Death.
Thrice In the woman's threescore
years Death had come to woo her from
bis brother Life out into the far be
yond, that unknown land, that here
after which he called l'aradiae, and of
which he apoke with wondrous elo
quence and a great witchery,
When first he came it was just at the
dawn of day, just as the east wns Duall
ing In the faint rays of the riaing aun
and the birds twittered In the trees;
shod with alienee he glided through the
quiet balls and still hushed household,
among the watchera with wet faces and
terror-touched eyes. All unseen,
thongh they looked for his coming, he
' went In tr.e gray of the spring morn
t lug Into, the sweet sanctity of the girl's
, chsiaber. , l'auslng on the threshold,
as if loth to enter an unbidden guest,
be noted all its whiteness and its iliilnty
simplicity; noted, too, on Die muslln
draped dressing table a tiny silver
frame, with the pictured face of a
youth, an earnest, grave face; and
Death smiled at the story It told. Hut
be went to the bed where she In.v as one
asleep, until she seemed to be already
Death's own. He stood beside her and
looked with sad eyes and cold, Impas
sive brow at the child who was his for
the taking, and It wna in tenderness
and with a love and pity surpassing the
human that he gated on the fair young
face, like an untouched Illy leaf, the
unwritten brow, the sweet childish
mouth, upon which the klsr.es of love
had left neither song nor sigh, the slen
der little hands, so weak and fragile,
and he stooped and touched her with
hie pulaeless fingers as he said: "My
child, you are ready, you are willing to
come with me? for I am your friend,
and will give you eternal mini and
peace, a gift which human love nnd eare
cannot bestow, I will take you to a
land where you will never lose your
youth; I will save you from Life. Look
into the faces of the aged, my little
maid, and read there of nil that Life
writes upon faces once as fresh nnd fair
as yours; all that love entails; all that
lengthened years give to those who
wait too long fur nie; the fever that is
ambition; the delirium that Is love; the
chill that Is regret; the crimeless an
guish of sorrow and disappointment
that dims the eyes fixed upon the things
of this world."
Ills voice had almost the wooing and
the pleading of a lover, as he saw in her
awakened eyes the cloudless, uu.
troubled soul of a child.
"From all this I will save you. Com
with me now lie fore Life baa taught
you to yearn for me, for I come not at
your coll, however sorrowing and
loud."
The girl gased upon him with a great
wonder in her gentle, dove-like eyes;
she quietly unclasped his hold and laid
her fingers rnresslngly upon some fuded
roses on the bed beside her, and she
snld, as one repeats words of a foreign
tongue, all unleurncd In their meaning:
"Itegret, sorrow, disappointment
what are these 7"
"Death went on: "Come, my child;
come with me to l'srn.llie, to the land
where all Is serenity, all Is Joy and con
tent; where the daj s aro all one as an
other In their rhangeleaa, trampii! hap
piness." And then, as Denth became
the more imperative, as ho again
touched her with his Icy fingers, she
looked across the room until she met
the pictured face, and something like
firmness gathered ami settled upon her
childish features. "That Is 11..I Para
dise of which you tell me." Then she
hesitated, but, looking straight and
direct Into the close, stern face of
Death, a little faint flush creeping Into
her cheeks and a sweet, unafraid wom
anliness growing upon her in she
spoke: "That Is not l'nr:idiie. Para
dise is here, because John i here."
aou veatn went nu wav with empty 1
row. And when she waked the natch- '
ere said that sjie wandered, still he
It was nnon, a still summer noon
when IVuih came again, meeting, as
he glided through the solemn quiet of
the waiting, pruying. desolate home, s
man whose fuce wnt us pule and set as
Death'a own; whose eye were heavy
with unshed tears: children with a
atrange grief upon their J. .arts. Out
heedless, uiipKying Deuth punned them
by, and went once again for the one
who was brought into the shallow of
his wing. But it was a different scene
that met his eyes as he paused for an
instant at the door; it was a mother's
room now, wide nnd spacious. Over the
mantel the pictured face of a innn, a
scholarly fuce, pure of outline and di
rect and firm of expression, seemed to
dominate the room, and the groups of
children's portruits, little shoes upon
the floor, little stockings in the great
wide workbusket, schoolbooks and
slates on the desk by the window, nil
typified her life, with its broad, un
selfish, womanly Interests, its loves
and its cares, its duties and its pleas
ures, Oi.'t again she listened to
Death's pleadings, and s he looked
upon her, he a linnet envied Life the
beauty he had written upon her fuce,
louth and freshness were gone, spent
as a generous giver does mere fold, in
loving service, glad to he the poorer;
but there w as grace und loveliness p;. su
ing that of form or color irv the tiii t
Mudonnn-like eyes, the thoughtful
brow, the mouth kept sweet and mel
low by sunshine and rain, the words
of love and the crooning of cradle
songs; all was there, all the Life from
which lie had warned her teurs nnd
laughter, moments of joy, hours of
sorrow and grief, years of sweet, culm,
even-paced content, hope, patience,
anxiety, realization the story was nil
written there, and it was gain, not loss;
beauty, strength and all lovetome wom
anliness, but Deuth denpuired not, even
though he saw more of happiness than
of sorrow.
".Vow you are ready to come with me
to I'uradise; you who have known grief
anil loss, fori have taken jour children
from your anus, and they bloom there.
lou hare seen all thut Life imposes
you hare known weariness; you hnve
felt the thorns nnd briars along the
path. Life has not spared you Inbor or
care. To you. and such as you, f come
as a deliverer; one who bestows rest
after long toll. Ail Life's burdens will
be lifted, and you will forever fold your
hands in eternal peace. Come with me,
you who should greet the coming of a
friend who will give you 1'aradise,"
But she looked up Into his face, into
the passion-pure, marble-like features
of Death, nnd, as the glow of the
Northern Lights flushes Into roseate
hue even fields of lee nnd snow, so the
face of Deuth became Illumined with
all but human beauty nnd expression,
as she snld, her voice not the timid,
fulterlng tones of Uie blushful maid
who iiad onco answered IiIh plea, but
the full-rounded, melodious accents of
a woman: "(io your way. Death. I
know all that life means, all t hut love
gives und tukes, and again will I any,
after all these years, i'liritdisc is not
with yon. 1'aradise is here, happiness
is here, for John Is lure!"
And Deuth trailed his ghostly gar
ments through the house und went
alone, w ith almost a bitterness against
his brother Life, who could so hold
out and so charm. When she waked
shu said, as one who had routed and
conquered foe: "What does he know
of I'uradise? 1'aradise is here, for
you, my beloved, are here."
Evening ahadows were gathering
when euth came again. The room
was all in half lights; a mother's room
still, but no longer thnt happy mother
of little, children. Nu little shoes
upon the floor, no little stockings in
the work basket; the low rocker
where so many lullabies had been
sung wns gone; the little pile of
school hooks and slates was put away;
the lessons to be learned ill mother's
mom were not to bo conned from
books, or written upon aisles. The
man's fuce still looked down from the
mantel, but the pictures around It
were no longer of children, but of
men and women. All wiim changed,
all the childish life was folded awuy,
but the anxious onea us he passed
them looked with eyes that stirred
his memory, the fathomless, ages-old
memory of Death, with n recollection
of two other faces the child and the
woman, neither of whom would go
with him In these burled yenrs.
Itut now he had scarcely wiued by
her side when she said to hi in as one
who greets nnd welcomes and half
chides n friend who has tarried too
long: "Why hnve you waited such a
weary time to come for me? I have
been watching and praying for you
oh, so long! and you let me linger."
And. as he gueil iinm her out of the
depths of the past he remembered her,
although it was an old and worn face
thnt was lifted so wistfully to his,
white und lined, framed in snowy
hair, tired and grief stricken, but the
voice was the same, though nil its vi
brant tones were stilled, that volcn
that always took on a softer measure
at one iinnm. So it was that whin
they found her, the men and woman
who called her Mother, on her face
was a strange, sweet peace, nnd a
smile almost of triumph and much of
youth; for it came when she placed
her hand in that of Death, mid wild:
"Yes, I will go with you to rnrmlisv,
for John is there."
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Where ths 1'alnl Went,
"I thought you were working on Jay
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In the dormitory and the nest was
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Lieut. Alcock advertised for cats and
few of the residents in the vicinity
gave the services of their house pets
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members of the colony were routed.
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niseu to iiise orders from the cats
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the station.
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geant snys that he witnessed several
engagements. After one battle he
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he snw five of them run out through
the front door ami since that time, he
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An Knglish officer in Malta stopped,
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ask:
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"No."
"Do you know Arabic?"
".No."
"Do you know Italian?"
"No."
"Do you know Greek?"
"No."
'Then ym f,vur fools. I only one!"
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QUAHTER of a century nifo, when
Die (alleys m il but tdin liinils of
nsylvuuiu were ilecked in the abun
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days when a contractor could choose
his place of residence are prnctk'iilly
past, and so it was that "Hank" Bell
man was rcdrced to the extremity
lust full of erect i up his slianty nnd
starting operations in the heart of the
Jungle-like forest overlooking Kittle
Creek. The camp is titled into a lit
tle patch of clearing ground fur oer
the mountain top. A narrow turnpike
winds up to it from the highuuy hun
dreds of feet below, and beyond it, ex
tending Into the wilderness, great
wastes of fallen trees, stumps and
piles of hemlock bark show whnt the
woodsman's ax has been doing nil win
ter. Uircctly surroiindii.g the shanty
the trees have not nil been removed,
und on the frosty winter nights, when
the snow hangs in great layers upon
the heavy brnnelies und the air is so
crisp iiinl kern that sound travels
through it with ns much precision as
though shot from a megaphone, the
panthers und catamounts climb up
into the tall timber and wake the
slumbering echoes of the forest, ns
well as the boys In the camp, with
their wild and dismal howling..
One of those nights came nliout a
month ngo. The panthers and wild
cats yelled more furiously, it seemed,
than they had done before during the
winter, and added to their woeful wnil
Ings wns the voice of the north wind
as it tossed the snow ngaitiRt the
weather-beaten sides of the shanty.
For that night the shanty was gooil
enough for the hoy.. When supper
was over and the storm showed no I
signs of filiating they all gathered to-1
get her In the big "lobby," w hich is
home, club, society nnd Sunday school :
to them, nnd prepared to make the1
best of a night indoors. Now these
woodsmen are not the sort nf men who
can spend nn evening over n book or
enjoy themselves at any tiin.e diver
sion, and on this night even jack
poker had no charm for them. The
fact is that they were just In the mood
to listen to one of Hill Itlake's stories
"Say, Hill," said one of the woods
men, "what tnrnal ciisseducss ever
possessed you to lenve the good job
you had In the Slate IJun cnnip last
fall nnd come up to this pesky hole?"
1MI1 llliike putTed contemplatively nt
his pipe for a moment, after which he
suid:
"Well, mebby I hud a purt( good
reason, if 1 wanted to. tell. '
Then he laughed quietlv. Nobodv
spoke, and when Itill had finally gone
the details in his own mind, he
continued:
You see I'd never have gone to the
Slate Hun job in the first place, but
for one thing. Onwn nt the city,
where 1 had n lovelv suit as coach
man for a rich lady, I got knocked out
In n love affair. You ticedn t grin.
Shorty. 1 kept myself party spick-nn'-span
on that job, nn', if I do say
It, thev wa'n't manv han'soincr rib-
sllngers drivin' down the pike.
Wall, who the gal was don't matter.
an it liu.n t no one s liusincss who
the dude was 'nt cut me out. 1 only
mention the incident for the sake of
cxpluFliin' why it was 'at I ever went
back to the lumber business nt all.
You see, everything went sort o'
eontrnrv with me in town after that.
got sick of the whole hiiHincv. an'
all the time while I was drixin' tliem
spankin' bosses through the streets
toy tntnil xonld keep a ruutiiu' h :ek
to tho old camp l;fe, where 1 kmmcd
they wa'n't like to be no dudes nor
no cals to plav hide-nu' seek with a
it's heart. So buck 1 e;ors to the
old Slate Kun job, where I was well
known un' only hud to whistle to get
work.
"Wall, the very (list night I spent
in the ennin 1 made nn mv mind it
for nn' to trv to get
gtN i:;-M i'i that
JI1"-'V l'-: US
Id
.' i 1 ' I a'oro
ii ' ' i' they
ih.n place
pnrty soon
w a ii t no iim'
nw :iv from the c i
anin tliev was f u
you ii r;i I e I o mv ce of
w ifc. 1 i;mcv H'V'i'in' tl'.ir. t '
too, for llo ir !u .:!'; I fou: ,! o
was in t 'ir i'.n:ri rv I n r
as a little too heVi'iv f.
I it W Us. all' n "' sec
what undo tee tl;::.l. so.
The dan.M'ls start.
ftirtin wit i re. a': f'.'v w i so
som at 1 forgot n I nivict t ' c f
richt awav. I niot 'ion ! '' e, ;
the flirtin' came nn' it
at was in clover Tin1 o
was nil geifn jea ous
tho irals was strain' 'rop
it
loud, sort o' pleasant like: 'Oh, 1
thought you'd change your minds,
pnrty th sries!1 But they wa'n't no an
swer, an' I begins to get kinder mad. I
was jest stai tin' to look over the fence
an see what was the matter when
heard a growl behind me an' turned
"round quick. Lands o' rattlesnakes.
boys, what a sight met my eyea! Thar
was a big. ugly-lookin' cinnumon b'ar
standin' under an apple tree an' a-look-
in right at me. Wall. I'll bet those
beautiful locks of mine stood on end
like porc'pine quills. They wa'n't no
use feelln' for a gnn, 'cause I k flowed I
didn't hove any. not even a Jnekknife or
weapon of no kind. It was a leetle hot
ter proposition than I wanted to tackle
jest then, ao I bade Mr. Ilruin a hasty
farewell an made for the fence.
"Hut now, boys, come the trouble In
earnest. It was an easy enough matter
to get over that fence, but when it come
to gettin' bock, why that was a dif
ferent thing. I seen I couldn t do it
nohow, an' so I jeBt stood nn' turned my
back to the fence nn waited. Uruin
was within three feet of me then.nn' he
riz up onto his hind feet an' stood thnr
movin his head about in a threatenin
manner an' motionin' at me with his
big, ugly paws. The moon was sliinin'
out bright an' clenr above us, r.n' as he
stood thur between nienn'lt lie was one
of the most :keery-lookin sights 1 ever
seen. He didn't appear to be nnrvous
or discontented In the least, on' I made
up my mind I wouldn't be nnrvous
either. So. lookin' straight into his face
an' reekonjn' the distance, I picked out
a spot on the big feller's under jnw an'
give him such a kick with my big cow
hide boot 'at he yelled with pain.
"You enn bet I didn't wait to see the
result, but I jest took it across thnt
o'chard as If the devil wns at my heels.
l.ordy, how my feet did welt the
ground! At last I seen a hole in the
fence whnr a board was gone, nnd at it
1 went; 1 renched It all right, an' wns
Jest nbout half way through whin I
heard a shuRlin' on' puntin' behind me
'nt made my blood freeze up In knotty
leetle lumps. Hoys, did you ever know
a b'ar could bunt? Well, I have had the
fact drilled into me in a purty forcible
way; for what knocked ree through the
fence ut such a lively gait thnt night
was nothin' more nor less than thnt
b'ur's head. I was knocked into a heap
on the outside of the fence, an' thar 1
lnhK huggin' the ground nn' shiverin'
an' expect in' every second to find Druin
on top of me.
"Willi, I was purty sore when I got
bnck to the camp, but I didn't sny noth
in" 'bout thnt on' the gnls put up a nice
leetle story, tellin' tne how when they
snw the b'ar they wns so skeert they
couldn't say nothin'nn' jest ran bnck tn
the house. I took in everything they
said, an' the next night when they nsl
me if I wanted to go 'long down with
I 'em nn' explore the old mine, I was jest
I tickled to death to get the ehance. We
took an old mlnin' lamp with us, an'
! when we got thar I started in nhcndi,
curryin' the light. Thenld drift hadn't
! been worked for yeara, an' dirty waTer
! was drippln' from the roof an' covei in'
I my best coat ns I groped my way in.
; never doubtin' 'nt the gnls would ful
ler. I hud otriy got & dozen feet or so,
i fin' wns jest turnin' 'round to see if the
damsels was gettin on nil right when
I stumbled over Bnmethin' an" went
sprnwlin". The light went out in the
flurry nn' the fust thing I known) they
was n deep growl 'at echoed through
the mine an' somethiu' had holdiof mc
by the bootleg.
"It wns pitch dark In the hole, but a
flood of moonlight to one side told tne
whnr the openin' was. With nn awful
effort I jerked my leg free nn' scrnm
bled to iny feet with the intention of
mnkin a dnsh toward, thnt Hood of
moonlight. Wal, I lind only j( M. nicely
got onto my feet nn' tunud nroond
when I felt sotruthin' shoot h-twoon
my legs nn tip me back. 1 clutched
wildly in front of me nn' got mv both
hands imbedded in the shaggy hair of
Ilruin for I knowed right well by this
time what It was. The b'nr shot out
of that drift at an almighty mpid gait,
an I didn't dare drop otT for fear of
buttiti' niy brains out against the sides,
so I jest laid flat an' hugged tight,
wat chin' for a good chnnce to make a
leap.
"Wnl, I kin alt here now an' laugh
with the rest of you, when I look back
nt it; but -you kin bet they wa'n't no
fun in it fer me jest then.
"Itight outside the mouth of the drift
was n liltle decline, nn' nt the bottom
of it wns n pool of water that was madr
by the leetle stream flowin' out of the
mine. 1 was all ready, an' ns soon ns I
seen 'at I was out in the open nir again
I jest slid oh", easy as you please, from
the b'nr's buck nn' struck right In that
pool of water. Wow! Hut I did get a
nice duekln' an' no mistake.
"The first thing I done was to cuss
myself for bein' such a blamed fool ns
to drop in that water, an' then I pulled
myself up onto my foot nn' prooeodul
to look myself over. Never Icttin' up
on my rusaiii' for n minute. I mean
dered back to the eninp nn' jest nieaked
in nn' went to bed without savin' noth
in' to nobodv. It was n li:tlc late when
I jot around the next mornin', nil' jedge
iny Ku'prlse. fellers, when I went be
hind the fence nn' seen one of them
blamed gals feedin' nn old b'ar outen
u tin pan!
"1 si i n how the w hole thing w as In a
second. Them gals had been nuikin'
game of nie ::'l the time, an' tin b'nr 'nt
had bice -i . k in' nie so much trouble
was noth-'!' . nt a taineonc 'at wouldn't
hurt notioi V I'ust I had a not ion to go
In an' get m . shooter an' put an end to
the 'tarnal thing for spite, but 1 con
cluded it was best to curb nir temper
an' let it go. The fellers had all gmie
to work, an' I know.d if I waited until
they got back I licv'd be onto t he t fling
nu' have an cwful leg on me, so I jest
got mv toirs together an' scratched out
as quietlv as I could.
"Yes. this is a lonesome, neskv hole,
an' no mi-' J r. but they ain't no dudes
here nor ' . to play hide-ntl'-go-sook
with a 1 , r. heart nil' he pnyin". I'm
durn rhi.f n' it "
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