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"Yes, my swevtneart: but perhaps for you In the winter? It was a silty lit the nightingale’s got such a pretty tle thing, but it was all I could do for At the Castle of Men's Sorrows, in the home, In the warm country where be the dear. Aud it did her good. You llall of Wasted Things, lives, that he can't make up his mind to said so.” Are broken old betrothals, and old be come here.” He turned aside his head, exhausted. trothal rings, Rose's eyes were full of tears. “You “Ob, Sissy, he must cornel i can't lie And long-forgotten kisses, and old letters still all the time unless he comes! Do stayed in that wood all night, every never sent. And heartstrings of young lovers that please ask God to tell the nightingale night? You imitated the nightingale liow badly I want him. And, Sissy, put in all the wind and rain? And now----- ” faithless ones have rent. And long since burnt-out passions, and out the night light. Perhaps be doesn’t She bad crouched by the bed, and lay the tires of wasted loves, like to sing till lie's sure I'm in bed, and ing her head on her hands she sobbed And cast-off maidens’ ringlets, and pairs he couldn't know I’ve got broken, could aloud. of maidens' gloves, he?” “Don'L" be said, feebly; “it was And smiles that men have treasured, and “No, my precious, no. Try to go to nothing. Just a little thing to please sweet glances gone astray, And broken words of lovers, and hours of sleep, and Sissy will wake you If be the child.” She lifted her face, flushed ami dis begins to slug.” many a day. But Vynie could not sleep, and by torted by her violent weeping, and laid Now with these I'd fHiu deposit some few morning the fever was high. She talked It gently against his. He put up a fee things of my own — and moaned and laughed, but always ble hand aud touched her neck. Some paltry, wasted trifles that some one her cry was for the nightingale. "You’re sorry for me,” he whispered. has outgrown; “You needn't tie. I can't even lie un "Master Tom, miss, to inquire.” This tiny, battered locket, and this bit Hose went down, trembling with happy after this. Your face—your dear of gem-set gold, want of sleep, haggard with anxiety. face—I don't in the least mind dying And the love I've left unspoken, and the I Site took the great basket of roses her now.” love I may have told: She sprang up. “Dear Tom—my own May they lie and be forgotten, where the friend had brought, and, holding it, told him how the night had passed. “They dear Tom! You're not going to die. I gray-robed angel sings— The Angel of Oblivion, in the Hall of were singing like mad down by the sta shall send nurse to take care of you. Wasted Things. tion,” he said. “Confound the brutes! Now promise me at once, that you will —Life. __ _ 1 expect your nightingale isn't coming get well, because Vynie and I cannot possibly live without you. My dear, tills year.” “Don’t,” said the girl. “I believe dear, dear----- ” Tom did not give the promise, but he Vynie will have no rest If he doesn’t. | THE NIGHTINGALE. When she heard the church bells tills did wliat was better. He got well. When first lie saw Vynie. now walk morning she told me to send to tlie cler gyman and tell him to explain to God ing cheerfully with the crutches that that she couldn't do without the night would soon be laid aside, she told liim HE suburban road was gay with ingale. oh, my own little girl! Oh, about the nightingale. “And, do you know,” she said, "Sissy the plumes of ¡lowering lilac and Tom, she's all 1 have.” Tom was not sucli a fool as to say, says he never sang after you got ill. I the bright promise of laburnum. “You have me.” He only said, "Yes, I suppose God was so busy taking care The red buds on the May bushes bad of you that lie hadn’t time to bother not yet uncurled. The water cart had know,” and pressed her hand. naughty nightingales that "You are good,” she said, and went with Just gone by, leaving a pleasant scent of wouldn't do their singing. The night back to the child. wet earth. A little fitful sleep came in the long ingale sang very nicely, though, when She was leaning her arms on the gate night hours of that terrible Sunday, but he was made to. Only I thought after ami looking away from him. "So It’s no use?'' he said lie also was it was broken and feverish, and at ev a bit lie seemed a little husky.” “Perhaps he caught a cold,” said leaning on the gate. The road was very ery awakening the little voice, growing Tom. "Some of the nights were very- quiet except for [Missing tradesmen, ever weaker, said: “Isn't It dark yet? Won't God send wet.” whose carts now and then flashed along "Perhaps he did—like you, you Its silence. He had culled to bring her the nightingale? Oh. Sissy, 1 do want know,” said Vynie cheerfully. “Well, a book, and she had walked with him to to hear him.” The old servant, who had been with he was a naughty nightingale. But if the gate, lie had not meant to apeak them—had Indeed rehearsed many a tlie two sisters since Vynie's birth, two he had a cold 1 hope he had some one time a declaration to lie made in very months after the father's death iiad as Nursey and Sister to look after him. different surroundings but she looked cost tlie life of the mother, insisted on like they did you.” “I think he had.” said Tom. so dear in her blue morning gown, the sending Rose to rest, and sat by “Anyway. I shall always love him, breeze of spring played so charmingly Vynie’s side. "Nursey,” whispered the child, "come even if he was naughty, because he with that hair of hers that quite sud hel[>ed me to get well.” denly he bad spoken, and sbe had said close. Will you do what 1 say?” "It would make him very happy if he “Anything, my precioty».” said the old ••No.” "It’s no use?” he repeated, for she woman, holding the hot little bauds in knew that.” "Do you think he does know?” still kept silence, and her eyes were far her smooth, withered palms. “Yes. I think so.” "Well, kneel down and tell God 1 away. “Well, whether or no." said Vynie. “No, It’s no use," she said. “I couldn’t shall die if I'don’t have the nightingale. marry anyone unless I was so fond of God will attend to you because you al comfortably, "I’ll go out Into the wood him that 1 couldn’t bear my life with ways remember to say your prayers. 1 ami tell him all about It If he sings In out him. That’s the only excuse for forget mine sometimes, even when I'm that wood next year.” But the nightingale never sang in that not very sleepy. Oh, nursey, I shall marriage.” “Then I'm not to coine here any more never be sleepy any more. Do tell God wood again.—Collier’s Weekly. all about it.” —I suppose ?” THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. The old woman knelt by the bedside, "Oh, dear!” she said, drawing her eye brows together with a worried frown, and with a faith simple and beatuiful Awful Suffering: of the Victims of the Truffle in Humanity, “why did you go and spoil It all? It was as the child's own "told God all about Every one knows how wearisome it ■ 11 so pleasant! Can’t you be really sens It.” The dusk was deepening. Tlie child Is to lie for any great length of time ible? Let us go on Jiihl as we were, and lay with cheeks scarlet against the in one position, even on a well-made pretend Hint nothing Ims happened.” “No,” lie said, “I shall go away. white pillow and shining eyes tixed on bed. We must needs turn over when When one lives In lodgings they may the slowly darkening squares of the we are awakened in the night. But us well be In Putney or Kew as here.” window. She moaned with pain ami the slaves were chained down naked on the planks of the decks and shelves— She thought how dull tennis and the misery of sleeplessness. "Open the window, nursey, my dear,” planks that were rough just as they dance and picnic would be without him, and said siltlly, “Just as you please, of she said softly when the night had al came from the saw. and had cracks most falleu. "I think I beard some between them. No one could turn from course.” side to side to rest the weary body. Then her face liglitts! up as the rattle thing.” When the window was opened Vynie They must lie there on their backs for of hoop and hoopstlck and little patter ing feet drew her eyes to the other side held her breath and listened to a silence eighteen hours at a stretch even In of the road. where a little girl In a sear that after a moment was softly broken pleasant weather In port. Hard as that fate was. new tortures let frock came quickly along the as by two or three mellow notes. "Is it oh, is it? Nursey—Nursey---- ” were added with the first jump of the phalt, her brown luilr Hying behind her. “It's the nightingale, right enough, ship over the waves. For she must “Here's Vynie —” The child saw her sister and her my pet," said the old woman, as Rose roll to the pressure of the wind on the friend, for lie was a friend to all chil crept Into the room like a ghost in her sails, so that those on the weather side found tlielr heels higher than theft dren, and struck the hoop so that It white dressing gown. "Oh, Sissy, my own! It is—it Is! God’s heads, and when the ship’s angle in boundisl on the curb and tlew Into the middle of the road. The little scarlet not forgotten me. lie’s going to let me creased under the weight of a smart figure followed it. Then, In a flash, a go to sleep, and I shall hear the night breeze the unfortunate sometimes sag butcher's cart from a side road, a clat ingale even when I’m asleep. Listen!” ged down to leeward, until they were Again the full notes pierced the soft stopped by the Irons around ankle and ter, a scream, n curse, and the butcher was reining In bls horse thirty yards darkness. wrist. They were literally suspended Rose gathered her little sister In het —crucified In their shackles. down the road and looking back over Even that was not the worst of their bls blue shoulder at a heap of scarlet arms, and together they listened— ■ nd brown that now hud crimson mixed Vynie to the song of the nightingale sufferings that grew out of the motion with it. and over which a girl In a blue and Rose with a full heart to the of the ship, for she was rarely steady gown and a man iu a gray suit were breathing, gradually more even and when heeled by the wind. She had to tranquil, of the little child she held roll, and as she did so the slaves some bending. • •••••• times slid to and fro. with naked bodies against her Itosom. "She’s asleep," said the nurse, softly. on the rough and splintery decks. “Her leg Is broken. They have set It. "I won’t move,” whispered Rose. "I'll There was never a voyage even In the It will be months before she can walk. But they say she will be all right again stay here. Oh, thank God, thank God!” best ships where the slaves did not Tom came every day to Inquire, and suffer tortures from mere contact with then.” The two were standing at the gate It seemed to Rose that he grew paler the slave-deck. To the sufferings due to these causes again, but now there was no fresh rose and thinner In this anxious time, and lu her face, and In Ills eyes no light of every night the notes of the nightingale were added other torments, when the sounded from the dark wood through weather was stormy. For then It was [Mission. “My poor dew,” he said and she did nights radiant with clear moonlight, necessary to cover the batches lest the not resent the words “let me do any ami through the black darkness of waves that swept across the deck pour The slaves thing 1 can. Forget all that folly of night wild with wind and rain. And down and fill the ship. this morning, and let me help my [n>or Vynie grew stronger and ate and drank were confined In utter darkness, and and played dominoes, and was on the the scant ventilation afforded by the little Vynie.” hatchways was shut off. Serious as “I will you shall,” she said, looking high road to well being once more. Then came a night when the nightin that was, still worse must be told. The at him through swollen eyelids red with weeping; “but there Is nothing gale did not sing. Vynie did not miss negroes were made violently seasick any one can do. It Is horrible! When it; she slept so sound o’ nights now. more readily than white people even— I told her she would have to lie still for And on that night followed a day w hen they sometimes died in their convul a time she tried to smile, and then she Tom did not come, and then another sions. The heat and foul air quickly said. 'Don't cry. Hissy. I will be as good day. and another. Rose missed him brought on more serious Illness; but as gold;' and then sba said she should miserably. On the first day she was there the slaves were kept in their ■l<s*p all day. and lie awake at night to angry at his absence; on the second, chains for days at a stretch, wholly hear the nightingale. She lias never anxious; on the third she sent the old helpless and wholly unattended.— nurse to see whether he was III. Scribner's. beard It yet.” , . _ . . . . • “You'd best go round." said the old He remembered bow he had listened He Addressed the Jury. woman when she came back from her to the nightingale In the copse liehlnd A man who had never seeu the In her house on many a summer night mission; “lie's more than ill. l*t»eu- side of a courtroom until he was In when he had w alked lonely In the fields monla or something. And he keeps ask troduced In a caw* pending In one of the to see her light In the window and her ing for you. Go you; I'll stay with the Scottish courts, on lielng sworn, took shadow on the blind, and he sighed, and child, lie's got no one with him but a position with his back to the Jury and his landlady, a feckless lusly. if ever ■aid: began telling his story to the judge. “The nightingales are singing bravely there was one. Go now. my lamb." The judge, in a bland and courteous So Rose went. In the wimh I beyond the station. I'm glad manner, said: His face showed ghastly in the frame she lias thought of something that "Address yourself to the Jury, sir" of hia disordered hair aud of a three pleases her. |s>or darling.” The man made a short pause, but, \ ynie, lying still and rigid In her days' beard. notwithstanding what had l>een said to She came to him and took hia hands. splints. with wide-open eyes, watched him, continued hia narrative. the day die. Then the lamp was lighted, "That woman says I’m dying." he Tlie Judge was then more expllc’t. ami presently In Ita turn gave place to whispered; "but Vynie’* all right. Isn't and said to him: "Speak to the Jury, air; the yellow glow of the night light. ami she?" the tueu sitting behind you on the "Yea. yea; but what have you l>een the great shadows It cast. benches.” "Are you asleep, ttlaay. my own?” doing? oh. Tom. It isn't my fault la it The witness at on -e turned around, Tom? 1 didn't drive you Into folly? ■aid the little voice. and. making an awkward bow, said "No. my darling.” Hose bent over the That woman says you've been out all with perfect gravity: bed. “Hoes It want anything. Will It ntglit—every night since Vynle'a been "Good morning, gentlemen."—Buf IU. Hay It wasn't my doing.” have some utllk nice flzay milk?" falo Courier. "It was for Vynie," he said. "I was ••No—yea; but I want to hear the A woman's wrongs are of mor* Un- nightingale. Sissy Why doeau't he be the nightingale, dear. Don't yon re member bow 1 used to call the robins l portAuc* than her right» gin? Isn't It 1st« enoughF THE HALL OF WASTED THINGS. | r &> T °s TEACHING REDSKINS. llke them. The children of our aborig inal land holders are now wards of the nation, and in the minds of most right- thinking people they are entitled to METHOD OF EDUCATING INDIAN kindly consideration.” CHILDREN. WHERE IMMIGRANTS LAND. Progress Made by the Introduction of Extensive Quarter* Being Built on Ellis island, New York. Munual Training Into Schools—Grati fying Results of an Experiment Tried Early next year the immigrant who arrives in New York Bay will make his by Alisa Estelle Keel. migrant» entering througu this port a wooden building 750x250 feet was erected on Ellis island as a station at an expense of between $500,000 and $000,000. It was opened on New Year's Day, 1891. On the night of June 15, 1897, the big nondescript building, de scribed at the time as a veritable tin derbox. was burned to the ground, for tunately without the loss of a life. The immigration office was moved back to its original home in the barge office and preparations were made for the construction of a series of fireproof buildings to replace the old buildings. The cost of these is over $1,000,000. first landing on free soil in one of a set Since her appointment as superinten of spacious buildings which are now in dent of Indian schools Miss Estelle Keel course of erection on Ellis Island, New York Bay. The new immigrant sta has accomplished wonders by the intro tion, when completed, will consist of duction of manual methods iu agency Too Many Fried Messes. the large examination and office build schools scattered throughout the West Dr. Jacobi, writing in the Medical ing, a restaurant, laundry aud bath ern States aud territories. Early in house, a power-house and a hospital Record, says that in the. United States her career as superintendent she be and a physician's house. All of these there is one physician to every 000 peo- came convinced, as she herself express es it, that "among all children, Indians aud whites alike, the shortest road to the brain is through the hand.” lu a perfunctory way manual training had been in operation before Miss Reel re ceived her appointment, but since then it has received close attention aud the results have been gratifying lu the extreme. In the early days of the re public most Indian teachers sought to lift the aboriginal mind to the plane of I Christian enlightenment by means o»' texts ami sermons, catechisms aud in junctions, aud too commonly their ef forts ended in the sad realization that the seed was sown on stony ground. Half a century ago some teachers be gan to realize that the chief need of the Indian is for practical education involv ing manual training and actual intro duction into tlie arts aud industries of their Caucasian neighbors, aud the ef IMMIGRANT HOSPITAL, ELLIS ISLAND. forts of those teachers who adopted this [dan were always more or less are to be fireproof. The government pie—proportionately twice as many as fruitful. It was not until the advent . does not intend that tiie catastrophe in Great Britain, four times as many as of Miss Reel that the system was given which destroyed the old station on the France has, five times as many as Ger a really fair trial. The result has beeu night of June 15. 1897, aud threatened many has and six times as many as so satisfactory that doubtless the work tlie lives of between 200 and 300 immi Italy has. Aud Dr. Jacobi might have will be still further developed in fu grants, shall be repeated. No wood gone on to show that we take an inter ture. Observe« of educational prog has been used iu the construction of the est in patent or proprietary medicines ress are Impressed with the increasing main building except in the floors of and in various other forms of extra-pro ly practical character of instruction in tlie offices on the second story and in fessional treatment which is almost our own schools; the kindergarten has the trimmings. non-existent iu Europe. There must be some explanation of passed the experimental stage and be The architects have adopted a color come an Important educational factor; scheme in red brick, Indiana limestone this American craze for doctoring. Cer manual training has been substituted and Maine granite. The design is pick tainly it is not that we are a sickly and for the dreary grlud of word drill, to ed out iu the light stones and accentu an ailing race. On the contrary we are the Immeasurable benefit of pupils, and ated by the contrasting tints. The big exceptionally hardy and enduring. nature teaching is rapidly replacing the building is further accentuated to the It may be that our backwardness in busks of dead knowledge iu every uni distant passer-by on the water by four the art of cooking has a great deal to versity and in all the better normal towers. The exterior in some respects do with it. Outside of a few highly- schools and high schools, as well as in suggests an exhibition hall. Owing to favored centers the efforts of cooks are many of the primary schools through the absence of any buildings not in har directed chiefly to the concocting of out the country. mony with it in dimensions and design, sundry fried messes that are interesting In speaking of the benefits accruing the eye does not convey to the mind to the palate but productive of that from this system of education Miss an idea of its size. It covers one and lumpy feeling In the pit of the stomach Reel said recently: "The benefits of one-half acres of ground and is 105x400 and afterward of all manner of disor ders. from a general sense of gloom and this educational revolution to the chil feet. EDUCATING YOUNG LATTER DAY SAVAGES. dren aud youth of America have been very great, yet the advantages of the modern method nre incomparably greater to Indian children than to their Caucasian contemporaries. Allowing for exceptional cases, the Indian child is of lower physical organization than the white child of corresponding age. His forearms are smaller and his fin gers and hands less flexible; the very structure of his bones aud muscles will not permit so wide a variety of man ual movements as nre customary among Caucasian children, and his very Instincts aud modes of thought are adjusted to this imperfect manual development. In like manner his face is without that complete development of nerve and muscle which gives char acter to expressive features; bls face seems stolid because it is without the mechanism of free expression, and at the same time Ills mind remains meas urably stolid because of the very ab sence of mechanism for its own expres sion. In short, the Indian Instincts and nerves and muscles and ls»nes are ad justed one to another, and all to the habits of the race for uncounted gener ations. and his offspring cannot be taught to lie like the children of the white man until they are taught to do In order to provide greater Isolation dissatisfaction and need of some sort for the hospital and furnish a basin for of medicine to complete collapse and a the anchorage of the steamers used in tierce struggle with death. transporting the immigrants, a new A good cook can come pretty near to island, about three acres in extent, has keeping the doctor out of the house.— been made southwest of the main isl New York World. and and parallel to it The two are connected on the Jersey City side by a Carrot Works Wonders. crib. The hospital is being built on Perhaps the new claim made for the the Jersey City end of this new rect carrot will add to the popularity of that angle of land. The physician's house is i somewhat prosaic vegetable. It is said to stand on the southwestern extrem | that not only is this a wholesome and ity. The other buildings are on the sustaining article of food, but that main island, the restaurant, laundry when partaken of in the morning, reg and bathhouse adjoining the main ularly and plentifully, it has a beautlfy- building on the northwest end and the I Ing effect, surpassing that of any com power-house occupying the north side pound sold at the beauty factories. Car of the island. rots make the skin smooth and clear, All of tlie buildings and the landing the eyes bright and the,hair soft and piers aud ferry slip are to be connected luxuriant. “Carroty hair” has been a with covered passageways, so that term of derision, but under the new from the moment he lands on the isl interpretation it is a thing of Joy. Eat and until he leaves it the immigrant Is carrots and grow young is the motto of not once in the open air unless he is those who have discovered the hygienic permitted to walk upon the broad prom merits of this lowly vegetable.—New enade on the roof. There nre no loop York Press. holes by which he may leave without the consent of the officials. Seedless Apples Ellis Island has been used as an im A fruit-tree propagator has produced migration station since 1891. Shortly a seedless apple. These new apples are after Congress relieved New York State superior in flavor to the ordinary kinds. of the supervision of the European im High prices are being paid for the trees. FASHION PLATE OF OUTDOOR GOWNS FOR AUIUHN WEAR. Tbrw-quarter Coal. Cloth Frock TiimmeJ with B.«alaaa Silk. S m oq * le Costui»« of Light Clotfc. Viaitag Walking Coatui»<