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MASTERY.-. Let not Ambition master thee, ' But be Ambition's master; u Thus rill Power thy servant bt. . And not thy soul's disaster. ; -The Criterion; -- r-.-; ftfs BMW flowers i 0 Bt Elizabeth McQeackeit. Mrs. 'Dale's fingers trembled, 'and her lips trembled, too, as she stood before her mirror, tying her bonnet strings and pinning her veil. Amy had usually tied her bonnet strings and pinned her veil. - It was almost a year since she had one iday folded Amy's hands and slip ped into them the last flowers that they ever would hold in the world, but she had not yet grown accustomed to doing for herself , all the r little things those once "busy hands had done for her. During the time that was almost a year she had missed Amy with that loneliness with; which a mother does miss the da;nter who goes away into the great, strange "silence just when she is old enough to be her mother's best fifld as well as her child. Mrs. Dale missed all those things that had, made np Amy's life, and, perhaps most she missed the little things that Amy. had done for her, and that now she, did for herself. ' Then, too, Amy had been her only daughter. Mrs. Dale's two sons were in college, and her husband was away from home all day. She had many in terests and many duties, too, yet she was very lonely.. She was much more lonely without Amy than even her hus band or her sons could know. As she stood before the mirror, ty ing her bonnet strings and pinning her veil, her heart was even heavier than it usually was. The next day would be Amy's birthday, and instead of pre paring gifts and surprises, Mrs. Dalo was about to go into the city to buy the most beautiful flowers she could find to lay on the girl's grave. Amy had; loved flowers, and the next day would be her, first, birthday in that other world, that world in which mother's are never left lonely. , Mrs. Dale was thinking all this to herself as she went into the city on the trolley car. It was September, and it was afternoon. The car went past fields beginning to turn brown, and between lines of trees beginning to show among their green sometimes . a red leaf, or a leaf of bright gold. The sun made the leaves all the brighter, and it gilded the brown, fields too, and madcv the trees cast long shadows. Amy had always been so glad that her birthday had fallen on one of the mystic days that come just before September slips into October. . Her mother thought of that, too. She thought of so many things about which Amy had been glad. She was a little less sad and lonely as she re membered some of them. She thonght and remembered all the time that she was in the trolley-car, and even after sheswas in the city, and walking along the crowded street to a florist's shop on one of its corners, v - ,j . cWhen she, reached the florists shop' she stopped, and stood looking at the flowers in the shop windows. - "What shall I get?" she said to her self. o"Roses, white roses; Amy,, al-. -ways loved them. Or violets it is rather early for violets, though. Or lilies I might get lillies." ' . For a moment she almost forgot that she was not buying them "to give into Amy's . eager hands.. She was not very rich and she began to consider. She compared in her mind the num ber of roses with the number of lillies she might get; She decided upon the ' roses. - ' ' ' ' ' ; ; . "They are sweeter and simpler for a young girl like Amy," she said to herself, gently. - . , She turned away from the windows, and was just about to open the door jpf the florist's ; shop when she saw "coming up the street towards her one of Amy's, girl friends. She paused and waited. She had always been very, friendly .with the girls, and now she felt even a greater interest in them. She had especially liked Elean or. Greer. . . v - The girl was comine so ranidlv un xhe street that she ;would hsty e passed the : florist's. shop wlthbuteeing-Mrs; Dale if that lady haJ not spoken-to jfMf -icauui, yuu:criaiuiy are In a hurry," she said. : ..,.,, in Eleanor came 6 a sudden stop Mrs. Dale4, dear Mrs. Dale, I am , so giaa to see you ! " ' She - took Mrs. Dale's hand and held it for a moment ' , "icftuui uau luvcuiAmy, ana sne,,too naa oeen lonely , without . her. She: .. xoo,. remembered , that f. the. .next iday would. have been Amy's birthday She ; said not - a word but she- held -Mrs. , 'pale's nand very closely and looked erstood the' unspoken synlDathy.'. : l"How" are you;' my dear 'child?" was' an that she said,' fcr she did not yet speak very often of the daughter who had died. . . "I am very well," Eleanor said, "and very busy. I read the history of music and teach children music just as usual, dear Mrs. Dale." She smiled just a little wistfully, Mrs. Dale thought. N.-. j Prompted by the thought, she asked gently, "Are -you happy, t Eleanor dear?'V . Eleanor hesitated for ah instant and then she smiled again and said, "Yes usually ara "JusVatpresent I am sighing for the luxuries of life." Mrs. Dale was relieved. She knew that Eleanor was too sensible to sigh very long ; for anything. "What do you mean hy the luxuries of life, dear?" she asked. , "Now really, Mrs. Dale!" Eleanor protested brightly; then, with more color in her face, she added, "Just now they are the ; eight concerts that the Beethoven Society is going to give." Mrs. Dale "smiled in sympathy, "They are certainly the greatest of luxuries to music lovers," she agreed. "And to music teachers who must spend their money for other things," Eleanor added, with a laugh. "Please don't think I am really unhappy be cause I can't afford to go,' Mrs. Dale. I'm not; I'm just croaking a little. It's such a help to any one to hear good music, especially to a music teacher, and such a joy But I'm not unhappy. about it; I'm glad I can do other things. . I don't feel a bit like croaking any more since I've seen you!" "You dear child!" exclaimed Mrs. Dale, warmly. She knew that most of the other things that Eleanor did were done for other persons, and done will ingly and bravely. "Youdear child!" she repeated. . - Eleanor pressed her hand closely. I must fly to my next pupil, Mrs. Dale. May I come to see you tomorrow perhaps late in the afternoon?" she whispered. The quick tears xame into Amy'3 mother's eyes. "Yes, do!" she said. "Good-by, my dear! " ;- Eleanor sped up the street to her next pupil, and Mrs. Dale turned to enter the florist's shop and buy the white roses. "Eleanor, is a dear, good child," she thought, "so brave and unselfish! It is a pity she can't go to those concerts. They would give her such help, and such happiness too! I wish I could give her a ticket to them. Amy would be so pleased; she loved Eleanor. If to-morrow were not Amy's birthday, and I were not going to get the flowers for her grave, I should be able to Jo that for Eleanor. She would let me because I am Amy's mother. I won der " ; She stood quite still. A pleasant new possibility came into her mind. She turned away from the florist's shop. In less than an hour she was going home, past the yellowing fields and sun-lighted trees. She had no flowers with her, but the look in her eyes was less sad and less lonely for Amy. In the last few moments of daylight she wrote a little note to Eleanor. The girl wept tears, half -happy, half -sad, as she read: , niTTT . m . jl xjx. ait, niiau: io-morruw, as you know, is Amy's birthday. If Amy were here I should give her something to celebrate it Amy is not here, but you are dear; and you are a girl like Amy, and her friend. Will' you not take the gift tor her, and" go and listen i to the glorious music that you so love' and can so well make helpful to your self and others? Come to see me soon, ana believe me, Your warm friend, v ; . i AMY SPENCER DALE. Slipped into the note Eleanor found a ticket to the Beethoven society con certs "Amy's mother had sent it very happily, but after it had gone she set alone in' the gathering twilight, wish ing that she had just one flower to take on the next day to Amy's grave. "Amy would have . liked me to do that," she thought, "but still on her first birthady " - She did not finish the sentence', for just at that moment little Marjorie Williams, who lived next door, came running in. . "O Mrs. Dale," she cried, "I've been to tne woods with father, and I've brought you some flowers! " She ran up to Mrs. Dale, and dropped into her arms, a , great mass of golden rod and plueautuni f dasies. Then she j kissjed her khd danced away .home. . , Mrspale gathered1 thVgbldenfod and dasies in her arms, and pressed ue. cneeK ,soitiyt; against, tnem. The next brning;sheftoo .them, ,on Amy's grave. ( Strangely; her heart ieltiigliter, than it had felt since f She did ngt know,, why. but when Eleanor ,ame, v later., In ..the .day, and kissed, .her ;ugaint "and ' again, - hnd; thanked her wjet eyes for the gif t,'she i began to " know'-iNevfef after . .dd she cover Amy's grave witn costly .quick:fading . flowers. f J, J .'i - ' 't r. .InstadV at, Christmas, and a Easter .and on Amyfs.birtay,she did-some. lovely kindness for some other' girl for; .Amy's -sake. .Sometimes it .was email, - sometimes it was larsre: but. alwaw ir was something, that niade the ; girl happier and better, and consequently more .valuable to the world. Youth's Companion. . - . - HEALTH VALUH OF SCENTS. Ideas of the Ancient to Which Science Jim Turning Aealn. Science at present shows a tenden cy to turn' back to some of the beliefs of the ancients regarding scents cen turies - aero: Scents ; were v accounted more than luxuries. r i : t; Odorous" " herbs, notably v vervain, warded40ff theevilt eyel l The Mosaic ritual is full of hyssop, nard and frankincense. Greece " set 'cliihamon. to its elysium, and surrounded it. with a scented river a hundred; Vcubits broad, which souls swam through and thereby purged, themselves of earth ly grossness. ' . . Pliny records 85 remedies derived from odorous rue, 41 whose base was mint, 32 balms from roses, 21 from lilies, bulb and : bloom, and 17 medi caments strong in the virtue of vio lets. Thus it appears that the violet cure for cancer, is among the very new things that surface science scorned because they were so very old. Now, say various experts, one must choose and use perfumes with an eye, or rather, a nose to health. So it is worth while to set down the proper ties attributed to various perfumesl Pure violet essence is said to be es pecially suitable to nervous people. But it must be obtained from the flowers themselves, not the chemical imitations. Chemically derived per fumes are irritant, poisonous even, to persons of especially sensitive consti tutions. True flower scents are obtained in three wa"y3. First by spreading 'fresh blossoms -upon glass thickly smeared with pure grease, letting them stand is the sun. and as they wi.t, replacing them until the grease is as fragrant as the flowers; second, by repeatedly infusjng fresh petals in oil, and-, third, by infusing them in ether, which is then distilled to a dry solid. As this solid sells for $250 an ounce, it is easy to understand why the ether process though far and away the best, is not commonly used. But the scented grease and the essences made bv steenlne it in mir.a cnirit are never cheap. After all the scent possible has been extracted from the grease it is still fragrant enough to make the ery finest perfume soap. All the citrene scents, bergamot, ne- roli, orange flower water are refresh ing, and in a degree stimulating, if troperly prepared. To make a lasting perfume some animhl base is essen tialmusk, civet or ambergris. Sun. llritain' Mrnt Fiippljr. In London the receiving stores havo storage for 1,750,000 sheep, and In the provinces there is as much again. In view of hostilities with a continen tal power, this large refrigerated stor age room would - naturally prove -of great value, and I do not think Lshall be guilty of any indiscretion if I say that the government is well aware of the facilities that could be afforded in this direction. From these centres nearly 20,000 sheep are on a average distributed , daily. As a rule, the meat is sent out from store in a hard condi tion, but a proportion is now restored to the normal temperature ,by a "de frosting" process before being dis patched. Then, perhaps, it may be in- teresting to turn to the statistical position, and compare home produc tion with colonial and foreign imports. In 1872, with a population of 32,000,-! 000, the consumption of meat in the United Kingdom was about 80 pounds per head of home production, and ten i pounds per head Imported. In 1901, with a population estimated at 40- 000,000, the consumption of home pro-i duce is slightly less per head, but im ported meat of all descriptions ' has risen to aoout nity-nve pounds per head. The total consumption of meat in this country is now 2,400,000 tons yearly, of which about 950,000 tons are imported in some form or other. Of these imports 23 percent come from within the empire from New,.Zealand, Australia and Canada and 77 percent from foreign countries, chiefly the United j States and the Argentine Re public. The Empire Review.' A Keal lliilooplier. A Battersea workingman was once possessed ,of a notoriously bad tem pered wife, who did not scruple, when the fit seized her, to lay, violent hands upon her patient , spouse. One fine .day he was observed by a friend, who saw him-entering a crockery shop lad- , en w ith an . armful - of cups - and sau cers. 4uHeUo, JohnI!; he cried. 'Selling up your homer' JhNo;" responaed John, "but t .really couldn't stand the"expense any .longer; :Xhese here; bnes ' break 'into Utile bits ; auu fj x ux . feuiug . tu cnange tnem Tbiiimy and Hit r.r : - Tommy-Ma, may ;I have ' Jimmy Bnggs over to play on-Saturday ? ,", ( Mrs iFoggNo, yourmake too much ' noise! .."You'd: better "'go down- to his nouse ana p lay. na-iJits. ? .; ' r iv' T. T V.'.: ?: .'.:. I .When- mony .Is 'your only .friend you naturally hate to 4 part with it. 1$ Better;Country niRhwayii. . AVING . had I considerable' ex- perience in road building as Commissioner of. Highways, I want to say a word pn how U - oadscli be nfuch 'improved before the great tidal wave of permanent improve reaches tip,: for, although : it is bound to come, we Kneed .not stand back knee deep' in the' mud, waiting; and what is done in the way of drain ing the first of s importance - and grading, and otherwise clearing up the sides, will all be so much gained toward the final finish. I will give a little experience of how I make a good earth turnpike on a level piece. First, I provided ample drainage. then, early in the spring, before the ground was thoroughly settled, I back- furrowed to the centre, then harrowed lengthwise and rolled, whlchi process I repeated -for the third time, the last time - doinsr a very thorough job of finishing with, harrow; and roller. Now, those that never tried it will be astonished to see bow high these workings will make a road, ana, con trary. to the "expectations of some," this road settled jdown hard and smooth, and made a durable turnpike, and without a single pam or backache, as caused by the old scraper method then in use.!'. Now. the modern wheel road machine would materially assist. My purpose in writing this is particu larly to deal with another phase of road improvement, suggested by art!- cles of ten published, that to, to relation lo convict moor m comyeuuou whu outside labor. The person that is for tunate enough to keep out of jail has no iust ' reason to complain. In -the first place the jail labor-would be em ployed to a considerable extent, if out side, or not in jail, which, of course, would come in competition with Indus tries in all branches dnd when men have forfeited their liberty there is. no good reason why they should be ted and clothed at the expense of the State, ror the express purpose or giving tne other part of the community markets for labor as well as produce. There Is nothing fair about itj responsible for their J As the State is :eepihg, it should be at liberty to use them to the best possible advantage, to compal them to help, at least, to earn their own living a new experience to many, I think Then the effect on the convicts them selves is worth any sacrifice to but'side labor, and it shows a selfish motive to even mention or bring up the question Again, mere is no person outside or 1dll in this country who wants a day's work who cannot get it, and at fair compensation. ' j As a matter of fact, manv commit petty offences for the express purpose of getting into jail, in! order to get their winter's board. If j they were com pelled to break stone, saw wood or shovel snow In a chain gang I am sure many would prefer to board them selves. As I have said, it Is a weak, selfish argument to jbe harping about tbe employment ot convict labor as in damaging competition with outside em- ploynient for the tax paid to support this Idle" class will more than offset the difference of being employed in jail or out : 1 . . '.y . ;: Criminals, eveni have some self-re spect, and If think many a young man, If loaded into . a wagon and carried to f -some distance and put to' work ditch- ing, or on other road work, where ' he would not be shielded"frompublitf gaze behind the bars, would resolve "If '.I live to get out of this. I will work but my own road tax asj long as I Hve.'f A. B. C. in the New York Tribune. Helping State ltoad Worlr. The annual report of Director Dodge, of the office of Public Road Inquiries, Agricultural Department, says that representatives of the office visited nearly all the States during the year and made scientific investigations ; re garding local condition, road materials, etc.-: - Severr.l State legislatures asked for and obtained assistance in framing new road laws. Farmers organiza tions, farmers' institutes, business or ganizations, schools, colleges, etc., peti tioned for co-operation and advice, and all of, them were accommodated as far as the, resources of the office permitted; f Never rbe?nre,- says the report, -has ther been so much interest manifest ed in the subject of road building, and; more actual work in that; line was done last; year than ever before.;; ;The object-lesson . methods ; of teaching practical roaid4 builditig, carried on for several years," became so valuable an5 were so highly; appreciated that' there wevej many t calls Jp$ Itheir extension. ; To;nipet;the constantlyjncreasing de ' mands. r practical assistance "and .ad- vice. the-director suggests 'the organ iza-,: tiUU . Ut I WO Or TJirPA niUtita -rr-niA --'- v J A. , A. U tvA I M. road Construction. ;,,The road materials would b?; cheerfully-furnished by local authorities, who would also ' tribute the common labor 'teams: and building machinery, tricludiqs rock crushers, screens telerk, ?road feradpfsl' etc'., to 'be Used-in illustrating -actual' fuel. This plan would mak pense , of building experimental sampi? roauu very easy to be bn and would .enable the Govern with a small expenditure," to plish much; practical benefit tt, mrnir ;ikkk iiiiii ' mid nnnnnn. .n the purpose be increased tn t $1000 for each Ste and Territory'1 Another Good Roads Train. fix-, puieuautc uj. iuc policy of (W guuu xuauz uiim ui ien cars la i Jioads Association. The train i0 7 stop at various points in the South uuuu oauiyic luaua uuu siir up interp among tne - residents on the sn Au uccwsuij iuau uuiiuiu machine uiea Dy a corps oi roaa experts, n will be well remembered that the in- nois Central ran such a train over it iiuus a lew iuoiiLiis ago. THE CRUMBLING MULE. He Can Do the Most Work, But" He Sth wry uouy ujr iua xarg. "The finest draft animal in the w Is the grumbling mule," said ono of tho drivers .handling the local mule shit be goiden all right, but it will not m,iJ as many tons on a cotton float or as tall a load of sappy sugarcane. Amo men some of the hardest workers have been notorious kickers, and their case appears to be something like that 0; the mule, who is so full of dynamic spirit that a little is always sloppy over in the shape of dissatisfied -gro Still good work does not always mat nn for n dissntisfipfi dpmpiPm- i fr . ""uii us l found out a couple of years agon near Plaquemine. f "I was working in a sugar house i the time, and the offices of the plant: tion were just across a passagewa from a warehouse into which sn was lifted in the old-fashioned way b a rope puney ana norse power. were all used to the squeak and gri; of the apparatus, but one morning, ii addition to the ) accustomed sound, there, was a series of groans and grunts which continued spasmodically throughout the day. Next mornim same trouble, and . by noon the entire ofilce force began to grow nervous and cursed the mule. "Somebody was sent out to learn the cause of the trouble, and brought back the information that the grumbling mule was the best puller on the plan- tation, and the only one powerful f enough to stand the particular work. We concluded to make the . best dt it and stood the noise for a couple more days, but by that time no one was o Rnpnkin? tprms tvitk anv one else ill the office, the manager and his assist ant had almost come to blows, and I was on the point of throwing up my job. The dissatisfied growl of the old mule had inoculated the entire force. "Finally the manager gave peremp tory orders to have the beast banished to a drainage pump on the back levee, and in a few hours harmony had .re turned to our 'camp. Two days later the man in charge of the drain pump came into the office and threw up his job. When -asked why he replied: 'Boss, dat mule ye done gimme am too confounded disagreeable.' V New Or leans Times-Democrat. An American Artist out American Art. Mr. Frederick William MacMonmes, one of the leadincr scunltors of tie . , -y X." world, born an American, has just come home to live and work in his native land. ; After se venteenyears' residence m jans it wouia oe natural to sus' a man of Parisian leanings. Not s with Mr; MacMpnnies. ' 'I have com back because I anThomesick," said H One must go, in his opinion; to the tot bed of his art or his ;profession, tro there a long time, always , study and "then with the training of in the best sohonl let the man tetm to his own country and apply whaOf has learned to its needs. The possW ities in this" cbuntry for sculpture magnificent. I. can't imagine anytbW finer. There is a snlendid. unmistaKS' hie movement in the United St.lteS tti ward, having -all that is-beautiful true. Some of the finest things in world's sculpture have been can forth by patriotism. There are no V pie in the world so patriotic as sound 0 if the Ameriean nation was coroPse of' money-grabbers and stock bro, alone, when we can remina selves of Abbey and Sargent and Monnies, and know they are all Aj Wns TKrhprAvor tl-iov ma v he. and I every now: -and then one or the Jspeaks ) thus of the outlook Mr bey. ; yesterdayV Mr. 3IacMonnies lay Mr. Sargent cr some one morrow-r-then there is mucfi to be of the future of American arts. A men ; have .sought the ' best PIace. learn, and jthey come home from ?V toiine to dpi work in their own 1 ;It,is :gi torday, and George ercdthj right.vWhen he' said t&a t ,soo'n--in .tvrfire . in fif tv Venrs the centre . ai'ive.jai would be 'in America.' 1 his tUe.1 i A woman, may not marry liie nr . con-Wno oronossr to. icr: but shcAVili r-3- "irood niGiimeni: as loW as sue
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