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THE HE.VRT OF THE TREE,. What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants a friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high; He plants a home to heaven anlgh, Tor song and mother crown of bird. In hushed and happy twilight heard The treble of heaven's harmony The3e things he plants who plants a tree. What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the forest's heritage: And seed and bud of day3 to be, And years that fade and flush again; He plants the glory of the plain; ne plants the forest's heritage; . The harvest of a coming age; The joy that unborn eyes ahajl see These things he plants who plants a tree. What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants in sap and leaf and wood, In love of home and loyalty And far cast thought of civic good. His blessing on the neighborhood, Who in the hollow cf his hand Holds all the growth of all cur land. A nation's growth from sea to sea. Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.. H. C. gunner. A PKACHOAL JOKE. BY ITEIiEN FORREST GRAVES. 'ISS AURICULA Pendham was neither young "nor beautiful. In the world's eyes she was long past the age of romance. But in the heart of a true woman there is always a soft spot where youth and hope bloom eternally." She lived in a little hall bed-room, in one of those great, unhome-like boarding house?, where people are packed together like sardines in a box, and worked for Mademoiselle Vicini, the fashionable milliner of Playport. She had a speaking acquaintance with Mrs. Bloom, the plump widow, who eat opposite her at table ; Kitty Sup ple, the pretty shop-girl on her left, who despised homely people, and thought no one oughi live after she was past thirty ; antj Mr. Mills, the foreman in the printing office of the Playport Eagle, who 6at at the corner beyond, and that was all. During the day she worked hard at the store ; in the evenings she sat at a window, with a shawl across her shoulders, and mended her clothes and read her Testament, and crocheted on a black worsted mat, which had I een on hand for a year' at least, be cause Kitty Supple generally had beaux in the parlor, and audibly de clared that 'she thought old maids had no business to be peeping and prying 1" And upon the very lively life. Mr. Mills, up front, was. as doubt. 0 out whole, it was not a in his seoend-story solitary as 6he, no But ho was a man. He could to theatres, reading-rooms, cness cm us. aliss I'enonam was tempted to wish at times that she was a mac. There was such an utter loneliness in her heart, that when Billy Parks, the landlady's little boy, brought his mittens to her to mend early on the morning of the first of April, he was glr.d of the chance 10 talk to some body. "I say, Miss Pendham," observed this artless youth, "why don't you et married.' Miss Pendham colored. Or was it the reflection of the red yarn where with she was threading a slender darning-needle. "Everybody doesn't get married, Billy,' said she. "Ye?, that's true," remarked Billy. "Mother, she says 6he wishes she'd never gone and got married, when father goes on a spree. But Miss Sup pie, she says, you'd have got married to old Mills long ago, if vou could have caught him." Miss Pendham was silent a moment. She was used to these Eatirical stings of Kitty Supple's vivacious tongue; but all the same, they smarted. "Miss Supplo ought not to talk 6o,w said she. "She knows that Mr. Mills is nothing to me." "Mother says that Miss Supple wants old Mills herself," says Billy. "I don't like her. I wouldn't marry her, not for a hundred dollars ! She told mother about Ae comic valentine I sent her, and mother - gave me a licking. But I'll be quits with her yr I'll April-fool her, seo if I don't ! Did you ever get April-fooled, Miss Pendham, when you was a girl? Or April-fool other folks?" "Sometimes," said Miss Pendham, a moisture blurring her vision as she remembered the great, fragrant barn at home, and the slim girl could it be possible that it was herself ? fill ing the hens' nests with empty egg shells and deceptive chin' eggs, to de ceive the laughing little brothers who were dead and gone Ions: ago. "Wasn't it fun, though?" said Billy, with a chuckle. "I mean to April- fool everybody in the house. Thankee, Miss Pendham !" And snatching the mittens from her hand, he scampered cheerily down stairs, three step3 at a time, finishing up v with a prolonged slide down the banisters. While Miss Pendham tied on her bonnet, arranged her little gray shawl and went to Mademoiselle Yicini's, with a bandbox in her hand, which contained Miss Helena Montrose's wedding bonnet a marvel of white tulle, orange-bud3 and point-lace upon which she had worked late the preceding night. And Kitty Supple, who was late at the store, tripped after her, with fluffy, brown fringes of hair escaping from under her turban hat, and blue eyes sparkling with"mischief. But she had a pale, frightened look when she got to the store. "Of course I didn't mean it,' said Kitty; "and I don't suppose it signi fies anything. But the parcel was just slipped in under the Etring tnat tied the bandbox, and it was the easiest thing in the world to pull it out. I couldn't help laughing to think how astonished she would be to find it gone. Ana 1 opened it and peeped m to see what it was. Elegant point lace, that must have cost five or six dollars a yard ! And I put it in my pocket ; and when I next felt for my pocket handkerchief it was gone. Now Pve walked twice over the road, and asked every one I met if they had seen a parcel, wrapped in brown paper and tied with pink twine, and no one had. I wish to goodness I hadn't touched the old thing. But Miss Pendham will never know who took it that's one comfort." And Kitty Supple cried at intervals ell day behind the counter. The joke had not proved so jocose as she had imagined it would be. "Gonel" shrilly shrieked Made moiselle Vicini. "That point lace! Miss Montrose's elegant Point d'Alen con, imported directly from Paris fey her wedding hat gone! Of course you know, Miss Pendham, that I shall hold you responsible for the twenty five dollars which those five yards of lace were valued at. Nor do I care to retain in my service a young person so exceedingly unreliable! as you have shown yourself to be. You will be good enough to provide yourself with another situation by tlmday month." So Kitty Supple was miserable, and so was Auricula Pendham; and the only happy person concerned in the point-lace transaction was Master Billy Parks, who was the scamp who had abstracted the parcel of lace from Kitty's pocket, as she stopped mo mentarily to look in at the window of a print-shop, and taken instantaneous flight "Lace, eh?" said Billy to himself. "I was in hopes that it was her young man's photo. . But Til settle her." When Kitty Supple took her purse from her pocket, at dinner-time, aa she sat down at Mrs. Park's table, well spread with beef stew and baked pota toes, with a oubstantial bread pudding ! to follow, out tumbled a flat, paper joyous up time !" she have possi- parcel. Her ;heart gave a ward leap. "So it was there all the thought "How could I Vll-TT m?5Rflfl it?" She opened it, surreptitiously, while the green eyes of Master Billy, gorg ing his noontide meal, were glued to her face. It was filled with ccarse, common cotton batting. ! And in that one second Billy Parks tasted the sweets of unlimited re venge. a I heap ! guess said he to we're even "Struck all of himself. "Well, now !" But the piece of lace had- not tul filled its mission yet. j When Miss Pendham went up to her room she found a letter under the door, but she had no spirit to open it. "It's one of Billy Parks's April jokes," she thought, as she pushed it aiide with her foot. "Oh, dear oh, dear ! I wonder if I shall ever laugh again? Twenty-five dollars to pay for that lace, and I have twenty-five cents when my week's board is settled and ray pew rent paid! And discharged from Mademnisello Vicini's, too. What is to become of me?" It was growing dusk now a sweet, purple, April dusk, full of faint ecents and sounds of spring even there in the city streets. . She lighted her lamp and sat down with her head resting on both hands. Just then there came a soft "tap, tap!" at the door."- .1 "Come in!" said Miss Pendharj The door opened, its hioges revolv ing with a diffident squeakiness. "I hope I don't intrude?" said Mr. Mills. "Dear me, Mr. Mills, is it you?" said Miss Auricula. "Are you ready?" asked Mr. Mills, hovering on the threshold, like a re spectable middle-aged genius. "Ready?" faltered Auricula. "For the concert," explained Mr. Mill?. "We had some tickets sent to the Eagle office. I thought perhaps you would enjoy the muaic. Didn't you get my letter ? I slipped it under the door." . "Oh!" cried Auricula, suddenly stooping for the neglected envelope, which still lay under the table. "I did see it, hat I thought it was one of Billy Parks's April fools.' "But you 11 go, won't you?" pleaded the forman in the Playport Eagle office. "I should like it very Auricula, feeling herself roots of her hair. j "And, speaking of April- fools," slowly added Mr. Mills, fumbling in his pocket, "when I was on my way to the office this afternoon, one of our devils I beg your pardon, Miss Pend ham; that is an entirely metaphorical apellation told me that my coat-tails were festooned with something white. I didn't mind it much, because I had three different labels pinned on my back this morning ; but when I came to look, it seemed very nice lace. Per haps you can use it for something. I'm sure it is of no service to me !" Thus speaking, Mr. Mills drew from his pocket the five yards of point-lace, which matched Miss Montrose's bon net. Miss Pendham gave a smothered shriek of joy as she clutched at the disorderly parcel. ! "Ob, Mr. Mills!" she cried. "I never was so glad of anything in my life. Oh,. Mr. Mills, how good you are!" And with sobs and tears she ex plained to him the history of that piece of lace. j They took it at once to Mademoiselle Vicini before they started for the con cert ; and somehow this little incident seemed to establish a mutual under standing between them. "I always thought Miss Pendham said ever much," said color toithe wa3 a woman. superior younsr Mr. Mills. "I am more than convinced of it now." j "Mr. Mills is really very sensible and agreeable," thought Auricula. "After all, there is something in the printer's profession that broadens and enlarges the mind," j So Master Billy Parks 'succeeded in "April-fooling" everybody to his hearts content, and Kitty Supp!a breathed more freely when she heard that the point-lace was safe. ?'But I'll never play any more prac tical jokes," she thought. She turned np her pretty little noa when she heard of Mr. Mills's engage ment to Miss Auricula Pendham, afev weeks later. j "Two old things like that setting ir for lovers ! How utterly ridiculous !' she said. j Bat Miss Kitty Supple had yet to learn that life's blo&soming-time doe not always come in April Saturday Niffht. Hypnotism and Crim?. It is possible that special legislation will have to be resorted to ia tha matter of the connection of hypno tism and crime. Two murder "cases have brought a general belief in the necessity of importing medical ex perts or scientists into such questions. In Kansas recently a ! man, Gray, was convicted of murder j for putting an other man under hypnotic control ta the extent of killing a neighbor. The verdict was set aside-by the Supreme Court fyit experts hold that it vas sound. The Hay ward-Ging case, at Minneapolis, is associated with the same sort of surroundings. In Bjorn strom, one of its jmost able men, Sweden ha?: probably the best Euro pean authority on hypnotism. Ha says: - "But that persons cm by positive suggestion be compelled to criminal actions is not all; ; by negative sug gestions they can also be made to neglect their duties and to omit what they ought to do. Thus they can be prevented from writing their names and even be made to; forget them, and to forget their duties ; fears have even been expressed thai marriage could in this way be prevented, if, for in stance, by suggestion a rival com pelled a bride to say , 'nay at the altar. It has been sufficiently proved that it is possible by hypnotism and sugges tion to use others as willing tools for the execution of criminal actions of almost every kind, j The danger of this is greatly increased, partly by the fact that the somnambulist upon awaking does not remember the contents of the suggestion nor who gave it, while at the same time it is irresistibly and faithfully performed at the appointed hour; and partly that there are persons, but fortunately those who have been hypnotized many times, who, even in au apparently entirely wakeful state, are susceptible to hypnotism." Some European Nations have al ready passed laws i restricting tha , practice of hypnotizing to medical men, and rigidly defining the condi tions under which even they shall use it. M. Bjornstrom is of opinion that hypnotism is aai dangerous a3 a deadly poison, and that the; public should 13 guarded against its general use. Si. Lou Star-Sayings, j How Troy's Great Industry Slartel. T have tried to learn how this collar and cuff industry began and centred in Troy, N, Y., writes Hi L. Stoddard in the Peterson Magazine, but without result Like Topsy, it appears to have "just gr owed;" The original collar and cuff maker, it is said, was a Troy woman the wife of a blacksmith. While washing and ironing her hus band's linen she noticed that hi3collar and cuffs were badly; soiled while the shirt was still clean, j She then evolved the idea of separating them. The wives of the blacksmith's neighbors saw in it a saving of labor for them, and their husbands had her make col lars and cuffs for them. Soon the es tablished herself in business, and from that the industry developed to its present proportions When the sew ing machine came it aided in central izing the business there. The for eigner, would not have the separation of collars and cuffs from shirts, hencd the Troy concerns prospered because they created arid suppl ed a home de mand for separate collars and cuffs. Then, however, came the great strike of the Troy workers and German ani French 6hirtmaker3 went to making i collars and cuffs to meet the scarcity here caused by the strike.
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