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Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE PAIN. Thou drear companion of the slow night hours, - Thou sharpener of the soul, long, long had I Waged weary oombat with thee, though my cry Of anguish only cheered thy mocking powers, As thrcugh the years we strove, no respite oura, , Till, lo, one day each breathed victorious sigh, The master, thou, of my mortality. But master who beneath my spirit cowers, Its slave forever. Now fast friends are we. My vanquished victor, pain, and much I owe To thy stern fellowship. Through thee I see With quickened sense all things both high and low. For knowing all that I can never be. Tutored by thee, all wider life I know. Elizabeth West in Century. A BOAT RACE STORY. ' Jack Davenant was the stroke or tne Cambridge university eight He was a man greatly to be envied. Wealthy his father was a large mine owner in the north popular, good looking and thought to be one of the best strokes turned out from either university for some time. Last, but not least, he was engaged to be married at Easter to Ruth Meynell, as bonny a lass as need be, with whom he had been in love for some years. It was the afternoon before the great event when the following telegram reached him : Meet me. King's Cross, 6:80. Davbhant. Jack was delighted, for it had been a great disappointment to . him when his father had told him that business of im portance would prevent his witnessing the race. When the train glided slowly into the station, you may be sure that a cordial greeting was exchanged be tween rattier ana son. But jacK was startled to see how greatly altered his - father's appearance was from what it had been three months before. "Well, how do you think I'm looking, dad?" he exclaimed presently, when they were seated in a private sitting room in the Great Northern hotel. "We are all of us in good form, I believe, and shall make the Oxford lot do all they know, I'm certain. There's only one thing I can't make out Have you no ticed how strongly the betting goes on Oxford? It was '4 to 1 on' in this even ing's paper. If it were not absurd, I should think that there was some plot on to damage our boat or something, only that's impossible. But anyhow 1 can't help feeling anxious. Those 'book ies' are generally right in their odds on this race, and there is nothing in our respective form and times to warrant the long odds. Do you know, I feel that I must win this race. I'd willingly give five years of my life to be certain of it !" Here Jack saw his father turn ghastly pale. He darted out of the room and was back again in a minute with some brandy, which he made his father swal low, and waited with intense eagerness to hear what was the matter, anxiously requesting to be allowed to send for a doctor at once. "No," said his father, "that is no good. I have already consulted one about these heart seizures, which are common enough just now. My doctor says that any intense excitement might carry me off like the crack of a gun. Those were his words. But that doesn't matter, Jack," he added. "Brace yourself for a great shock, one which will try even your strong nerves. Jack, my poor boy, your words went through me like a knife just now. Mine is a dreadful er rand up here to see you today. Jack, I have come to tell you that we are utter ly ruined. Fool villain that I am, I have, urged with the desire to leave you vast wealth, speculated largely and lost" At first Jack thought that his father had taken leave of his senses. The shock was tremendous, but varsity strokes are the material of which the leaders of forlorn hopes are made. His strict train ing and strong nerves soon came to his aid, and he tried to cheer up his father by the usual commonplaces of hoping that it wasn't so bad as his father dread ed it to be. And then the thought of the great event in which he was to take such a prominent part on the morrow rushed across his mind, and be couldn't help saying: "But if you love me, as you say you do, how could you bring me such ghast ly news at such a time as this, when the fact of my knowing it one day soon er or later could make no earthly differ ence to our circumstances? It was wick edly cruel not to keep the news till after the race." "Stop, Jack," his father replied. "You mustn't blame me unjustly. You have sufficient reason to blame, yes, hate, me without that Listen! I told you I loved you, and I do. It was for you that I have acted as I have done. As I just said, I am a doomed man. At the outside, I am only given one year to live. And time being so short, and my. affairs so shaky, what was I to do? , Draw closer to me, closer, Jack I A whisper heard would be fatal. " Jack bent down his head, and his face became as white as his father's. And this is what he heard : - . "Jack, 1 have put every halfpenny I possess, and more 50,000 on Oxford for tomorrow '8 race." . For a moment Jack looked at his fa ther. He was fairly staggered. Then, , without a word, he took up his hat and left the hotel, haunted by his father's ( pale, entreating face, and made his way to the training quarters. The day of the race broke bright and fair, and London turned out bar thou mm Powder sands of holiday makers, as only London can. The race was finely contested throughout, and it was only in the last quarter of a mile that the light' blue flag forged slowly ahead, and after the most exciting struggle ever witnessed if we except the memorable dead heat Cambridge won. Ruth Meynell, who was staying with some friends in town to witness the race, had no doubt been one of the most in terested and excited of the spectators. At the point where' she had seen the crews pass, Oxford happened to be lead ing. So her delight was proportionately great when the news of the light blu victory reached her. Surely a girl was never Bo happily situated I Loving and beloved, and her sweetheart who had promised to spend the evening with her friends the hero (for the moment) of the whole civilized world. ' We left Jack on his way to the hotel where the Cantabs were staying. It is impossible to describe his feelings, tho shock had been so great He had loved and reverenced his father so much, and always thought of him as the soul of honor. ' And now there was only one course open for him, either to do or die, though to help to win the race was to help his own utter ruin. And then Ruth? What of her? Oh, he mustn't even think of that The race and winning it must be his only aim and object. Small wonder, then, that it was remarked at the start that Davenant looked "off color. " We have seen, however, that he had literally pulled the race out of the fire. Strong man though he was, the severe mental and physical strain told on him, and he had to be lifted out of the boat at the finish. But he was strong as iron and quickly recovered. How he wished he might not 1 For what had he to live for now? The shouts and cheers seemed bitter mockery. He recalled his father's whisper and saw again the imploring look. Jack knew that he was a beggar. Making his recent indisposition an excuse for not dining with the crews that night, and refusing the many kind offers of companionship, he drove to the Great Northern hotel, where the fame of the victory had preceded him, and made inquiries as to his father's move ments. His father had ordered dinner at 7 and was going northward with the mail that night Jack decided to wait for him, and having had light refresh ment sat down to smoke and reflect on the events of the last two days. Presently the waiter brought him an evening paper, and on running his eye over the news he saw a paragraph head ed, "Death From Excitement at the Boat Race. News just to hand that at the conclusion of the race, the finish of which was extremely exciting, an elder ly gentleman in full sight of the finish was seen to stagger and falL Medical attendance was speedily obtained, but life was pronounced to be extinct The remains were removed to the mortuary awaiting .the inquest From letters and papers on' the deceased it is feared that he was G. Davenant, Esq. , father of that brilliant oarsman, who today strok ed the Light Blues in such a gallant manner. - Our readers will join with us in expressing the hope that this may prove to be a mistaka" Jack never knew how he got through the next few days. He did all that was necessary in a perfectly mechanical manner. He had his father's remains buried in the family vault Also he wrote to Ruth, telling her that "he could never marry her, though it almost broke his heart to say so. " And then, as might be expected, the overtaxed brain and body gave way, and Jack Davenant lay in his father's stately mansion sick unto death at the very time that Ruth Mey nell not knowing of his serious illness and scorning to wear her heart on her sleeve had arranged to tour with friends abroad. And so these two young liv,es, which but a few days before seemed so full of life and hope, were blighted as it seem ed at their very outset ' ' , In due time Jack pulled through. And then, for the first time for many a sad day, the light of hope shone upon him, and he understood what before had been inexplicable namely, that instead of be ing the pauper he feared he was, he was really immensely rich. His father ' had certainly lost money in the troublous times of strikes, but not sufficient to impair his princely f ortune. Business worry, telling upon an enfee bled frame, coupled perhaps with nat ural excitement about the race in which his son was to take such a leading part, had brought about that dreadful hallu cination from which he had suffered, for, in fact, he had not bet one farthing on the event The most learned scientists cannot un dertake to explain the subtle working of the mind diseased. But it was suggested that since those interested in the result of the "varsity boat race" are often guided in their hopes by the state of the betting it might be inferred that Jack's father had been too intently watching the odds. London Tit-Bits. An Ascetic Sentiment. "It's a shame," said the ardent patri ot, "that our girls should be married away into Europe as they constantly are." . - "Yes," replied Sinnioker, "but It might be worse. " "How?" , "They might insist on their husbands living in this oonutry. "Washington Star. FOR LITTLE FOLKS. A FIVE-YEAR-OLD POET. She Has Never Learned a Line of Verse, but Composes It Cleverly. There is a Hoboken tot who will some day shine among the women poets of the land if her precociousness at the present time counts for anything. Ger tie Walker is the little girl's name, and all day long, from the time that her big blue eyes peer lazily from behind her long brown lashes, to the moment when the sandman comes scattering his slum ber potions, Gertie is busy making rhymes not mere childish nothings, mind you, but good, sensible rhymes about the things she sees about her the sky, a dog, a trolley car, a ferryboat everything that goes to make up her narrow world. . The gift for versifying came to Gertie quite naturally, and some of her simple childish stanzas put on paper make very pretty reading. Indeed you would never suspect that the verses were made and originated by a mere babe of five short summers. You see, little Gertie has never learned how to read and could therefore never know just what poetry means. Just the same she goes on making her rhymes almost always in perfect time and always about the beautiful objects of nature. At no time is tho bright lit tle damsel more happy than at night fall, when she sits in her, tiny rocker and builds air castles of verse to the amusement of ; those who are listening to her. We may all hear from this tot over in Hoboken some day.. New York Recorder. ' A Brave Little Bugler. Every war brings out stories of hero ism that last long after many other in cidents of the conflict are forgotten. Boyish bravery in the heat and smoke of battle in particular is always told of and seems to have more distinction than that of the older soldier, who is trained to do his dnty under all circumstances. From the Japan-China war has come a story of a brave little bugler that is like ly to be told over and over again. It was on one of the battlefields, which were not frequent in that war, when the Jap anese troops were somewhat panic strick en and were retreating before the Chi nese, that the little bulger was mortally wounded. Stricken and dying as he was, the brave lad did not forget his duty. He saw the troops flying and knew that the Chinese were gaining a victory. With splendid courage he raised himself, and grasping his bugle sounded a loud and stirring "charge." The troops heard and rallied under its message, charged valiantly in obedience to it, and the day was theirs. But the little bugler had died as they fought and did not even know that his effort had been successful His comrades knew, however, what he had done, and they bore him from the ield in triumph, and already the "uta," a poem of honor, has been written in , his memory, while his mother has ar rayed herself in robes of state and honor, and wound her hair with flowers, the proudest woman in the empire, that her only son should have thus distinguished himself. New York Times. A Good One. How is this for a conundrum from a boy of 5 years old : "Mamma, what is it has four legs and only one foot?" Mother It must be some strange ani mal. , Boy Give it up? Mother Yes. Boy A bed. The boy was using the foot of the bed for a horse, which suggested the conun drum. Louisville Courier-Journal. Little Ben's Request. Little Ben lives in a new house, one of the most modern of modern houses, where light, water, heat and other things are all to be had by turning a knob or touching a belL He lives in a state of perpetual marvel over these things, and the other night when suffer ing from a headache the little fellow said to his mother, who sat beside him "Please turn on the dark, mother. My eyes hurt me." . . Frank and His Shoe. Frank slid his foot hastily into his button boot and shouted : - "Quick, mamma, hand me the shoe key. I want to lock my shoe. ' ' Youth 's Companion. ; " . Ana, Mana,' Mona, Mike. In an empty room we three Play the games we always like And count to see who "it" shall be . Ana, mana, mona, mike. Bound and round the rhyme will go Ere the final word shall strike. Counting fast or counting slow Barcelona, bona, strike. v -. - - What it all means no one knows, Mixed up like a peddler's pack As from door to door ha goes Hare, ware, frow, frack. 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