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CITY OFFICIALS,
MAYOR M. A. MILLER.
RKCOl:VKU F. M. MI1.LKR.
TKKAHI'KRR J. A. ROBEKT8.
1UKSHAL. .P. W. MOKUAli.
f ED. KELLESBERGEE,
X. S. UALGLEISH.
GityCounc meets on die first and third
Tuesday evenings o eacn niontn.
sabina rams.
UiasSabiiia had finished her morning
fcties. had dressed the battel, swept
the hack purch and turned the broom np
in the corner, aeneatborisekeepere do, had
gathered flowers and aeed and eggs and
bow seated herself by the window to
crochet .
Bat the fingers moved l&ggardly. She
was clean sickened out of fancy work,
ef nursing the rack, sitting np with other
people's children, going to funerals and
to church picnics to see voting people in
lore enjoying themselves. 8be was tired,
too, of being asked why she didnt get
tarried. She had been literally joked
to death on the subject.
But to look in the little room where
Hiss Sabina sat one would think she
right be tolerably happy. Old Puss
warred kindly at her feet, ready to fol
low every step. On the mantel stood
vises of gay flowers, and between them
a old clock, ticking and striking the
koors softly, out of respect, it may be
supposed, to the sensitiveness of Miss
Gahina, who fain would linger awhile
longer at the ray gate to the temple of
tone. On a table lay the family Bible,
h winch, however, was recorded one
date that saddened Miss Sabina ber age.
Kear by hong a birdcage whose occu
pant, with head askew, perceived his
owner's melancholy and forthwith began
toeing.
Between the windows stood an old
fashioned bureau, whose mirror kept
Hiss Babina informed of all the changes
in her face, which she prayed Father
Time to touch gently, as it might yet be
her fortune.
Feeling lonelier than ever before in her
life, she looked about ber, sat for some
momenta in deep meditation and then
exclaimed:
"Is this all there is in the world for
me?"
Here was the key to ber discontent
Hiss Sabina was right pretty, hadn't a
sharp tongue nor a long neck and was
well oS. Now, why did she have to live
alone? God's original plan must cer
tainly have included her happiness. Why
not? What could Providence possibly
have against her? She had never harmed
anybody and never talked spitefully of
mena remarkable thing in a single wo
man of 40. When Mies Sabina contem
plated the shrews, theredheads, the femi
nine scarecrows, that were flourishing
tike green bay trees with husbands, and
with children to spare, she just settled
it that there was a hitch somewhere
something out of gear in the world's
marriage machinery and it never oc
curred to her that it is always darkest
before day.
As Hiss Sabina sat musing on life and
its inequalities she beard the sharp whis
tle of a train which passed right in front
of her bonne. Something moot have hap
pened. The whistle did not usually
sound so far from the station. Looking
oat, Hiss Sabina saw the train at a
standstill, men running back on the
track and passengers looking excitedly
from the car windows. Seizing her sun
bonnet, she dashed down the yard to
And out what bad happened. Four men
were approaching, bearing gently a gen
tleman who had been hurt. Attempting
to walk from one car to another, he bad
made a misstep, lost bis balance and
fallen. The result was badly muti
lated foot Hiss Babina's boose being
the nearest one in sight, be was taken to
it, a surgeon summoned from town and
the train moved on.
Amputation was at once pronounced
necessary, and David Ware would not
preach the next Sunday in the city to
which he had accepted a calL He lay
moaning on a cot in Miss Babina's neat
little parlor. Bhe never had anything to
touch her feelings quite so much in her
life as his sufferings and bis big brown
eyes, which she caught sight of now and
then through the door. David Ware's
foot was taken off, and a trained nurse
employed to attend him. Hiss Sabina
bad nothing to do in the case but to fur
nish fresh flowers and dainty edibles to
David. She was relieved of much em
barrassment when she heard that it was
a minister tinder ber roof. People
wouldn't be so apt to joke about a man
being in a bouse that never bad such a
thing before.
As David, in his pain, saw the little
woman moving through the hall and
heard her giving orders for bis comfort,
he thought of the cloud with silver lin
ing about which be bad so often preach
ed. A realistic vision was passing be
fore him. The third day that he lay in
the little parlor, the nurse left him while
he was sleeping and engaged Miss Sabina
in cjV;7greatton on the porch. It was
pranks played bj that David was an tm
ttie companies, the Aftr flowers
ly supposing that ef etm, the
toward the north, wfl4 mm Jr.
f fact he was i.teery0'1 more
I
brown. Woman's wiles often bide un
der just such covers.
David, when he was not sleeping, spent
most of his time watching the door.
Babina, when she was not cooking or
making bouquets, spent most of her
time gliding stealthily by the door, for
of course the was too modest and prop
er to enter It except occasionally with
neighbors who called upon the unfor
tunate minister.
Mrs. Tabitha Topp, a neighbor and a
great believer in the law of compensa
tion, made Sabina brash herself nearly
to death by saying: "Well, Sabina, the
Lord took the minister's foot, but he'll
sure to give him something in place of
it You've been good enough to let him
have the little parlor yon dont enai
open for most folks, and maybe you'll
get your pay in some manner you're not
expecting." Sabina pretended not to be
thinking about pay, but she was already
thinking about possibilities.
Well, there's no situation in life but
changes sooner or later. David Ware,
minister, could not lis forever in that
little parlor being waited on, and Sabina
Wilkins could not go on forever broiling
chickens and arranging aweet flowers
for a strange man.
David was at but able to limp out tc
the porch, where he caught Hiss Sabina
sitting under the vines. The nurse was
down in the village; fiex was asleep on
the doormat Sabina blushed like a girl
of 18 and was afraid to sit with the minis
ter far fear a neighbor might come and
catch ber. She was afraid to get np and
leave for fear she would bs losing an
opportunity, and a woman at 40 can't
afford to be reckless.
David rocked; Sabina rocked. Theu
be said, "Pleasant evening, Hiss Wit
kins." "Yes, very," she answered.
David rocked; Sabina rocked. Then
he said: "Sweet little home for yon here,
Hiss Wilkins. Suppose yon never get
lonely, do you?"
"Yes, very," she answered him. II
announced to him that here was a ten
der, loving woman robbed by some bro
ken law of the love and sympathy to
which she was entitled. Modest and re
fined as David was, he was suddenly
moved to an outburst of admiration that
filled the very air about Sabina with
music and light and fragrance. "Hit
Sabina," he said, "I think you're the
sweetest woman I ever saw. Why dont
you get married?"
Poor little Sabina felt for her salts bot
tle. She had never been attacked that,
way about marrying! And she never
dreamed that love and courtship could
be condensed or reduced to one sentence.
Recovering herself, after a prolonged
quiver of joyous surprise, she came back
at David facetiously: "Mr. Ware, I
think you are the nicest man I ever saw.
Why dont yon get married?"
"Because I cant find a woman with
my name in her hand. Hiss Sabina."
"Oh, my! What do you mean, Mr.
Ware?"
"Dont yon know, Miss Sabina. some
palmistry philosophers claim that every
woman's hand has a man's initial in it?"
"Do tell!" gasped Sabina, with eyes
aflare and palms instantly upturned,
while blushes chased with burning hope
over her cheeks and throat. "Would
yon mind my looking at your hand,
Hiss Sabina?" David asked, construing
favorably her excitement. Sabina ex
tended her hand. David examined it
closely, looked np into her eyes, then
spelled slowly, "W-a-r-el There it is!"
Sabina gasped, held her salts bottle to
ber nose, having jerked ber hand from
him with a coquettish way that said,
"Take it again." "Yon mustn't fly in
the face of Providence, Sabina. Be
ware!" A pun and proposal in one
word. Seeing that Sabina was unspeak
ably happy, David continued: "Only as
my wife, Sabina, can I repay your kind
ness. You and I are a pair of scissors,
divided and lonely. Come, let us unite
and after this 'cut the fabric of life to
gether.'" Sabina's bead drooped, Bex barked,
and the minister and maiden kissed.
Cincinnati Post
DISAPPOINTMENT.
Us hoetmflmn of human hearts am
Okkr thu ah U UOm at tin Mil.
I've seen the hopes of proadest men reoaA
And expaclAlloo pale M I panuad by.
Ail lands azeminel Of people low and htgst
I sslner tHtnu. Of his daUr toll
Met ra if axs whea I take the tpoO,
Though bnaaing hearts axe vainly wondering
whv.
Yet. when I've ojowedaboot the roofs of pride,
mows with my sokl winds till weak talth was
strong,
Drenched till the heart wae moleUffnid through
and through
And all its power of fraltfnloMS were tried,
The hearts of men from sighing torn to eonc
lor Ufe gains meaning that they never knew!
-Christian Register.
Bousseau was a type of the melancholic
temperament assuming sometimes the
symptoms of a veritable pathetic insan
ity. He sought to realise his phantoms
in the least susceptible circumstances;
be saw everywhere enemies and conspir
ators, frequent in the first stages of in
sanity. Once, coming to bis sailing ves
sel in England, he interpreted the unfa
vorable winds as a conspiracy against
him, then mounted an elevation and be
gan to harangue the people, although
they did not understand a word be said.
In addition to his fixed ideas and deilr
iant convictions, Rousseau suffered from
attacks at acute delirium, a sort of ma
niacal ucitation. HA died from an apo
plectic attack. New York Times.
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