- - . if I fl I I II 1 1 - -te
THE END OF
V , x - ". , BT WILLIAM HEBVKT WOODS. . " ..,
merte was' never a voice proclaimed the Then opened the gate, and lilies I saw .
Dkce " - 11 In the cool grass, nodding and i wavmgr
my..r. " j :.. -. a miinnnr rf lippawas home oatae breeze,
3"3fc n corner turned in the. Lane of Life,
- And, ere I could marvel I found it
wicket-gate in a moldering wall
With a wild vine over it springing,
Ituid a cowled shape on the low stone seat
' By the wicket, sitting and singing.
Sinart men of Araby, Pilgrim and PaIa-
sU ' " " :-' : :- . i ' v -" " : - ;. -1 . 7
Join in the goodly array '
Entghts of Plantagenet, horsemen of Sal-
.efftdin S
' Aa the world crowding the way.
In wonder I turned, and over the road
J had trodden, a mist was stooping, .
lAisdln it was thunder of vjiewless hoofs,
- Xpnitiltouous myriads, trooping . . -j
To that one portal: The ways of. the wond
vgrom afar and anear came to it, j .
And the gatekeeper sang as. one by one,
He ushered the travelers through it-!
-"Hreher rode Launcelot, , parted from
Guinevere ' - , , ' I
Somev Iike .a' Charlemagne, riding in mm
- lver, -, . I ....
Sortie in their gaberdines old.
F the thousands of Nortre
gians and Swedes set ufion
the prairies of Dakota twenty
years aero, comparatively few
read or understood EnlIshJ lit was
surprising; though, how quickly they
adjusted themselves to their new en
vironment White the women worked
2n the prafrie, fields "with the nife"n, while
1 all were tillers of the soil and carriers
of hurdens, they ' yet found time to
master much of the new tongue, to
open American schools and to pur-
AX7Tati iic?f Tr1 TTT?rf loma' moTl'wr
of the men and women willingly went
to school on such days as the blizzards
. permitted and pored over spelling
hooks and arithmetic with the - chil
dren. A brave people were these de
scendants of the Vikings. They were
pillaged hy speculators on one side
and fought by the elements; on the
other, but the thought of surrender
never entered their minds and they
conquered both ad
venturers and storni3
in the end.
In the Hay Meadows school djstriet
vra.9 worweslan ramllv bv tlio name
. w
of Torgeson. Thd mother, Anna, was
perhaps twenty-two or twenty-three
years old. The father was thirty. The
three children were toddlers, too young
for school and books. Nevertheless
;when winter school opened Anna Tor
geson, with one child at her breast and
two .at her skirtjs, forced her way
A s Mi. rfS ZS
GOING TO
across; the ; prairie
to the &od choo1:
"house and asked- for admission, v Tor-
m.wttW hat'' TTvl
-- iie- uii 'tuef M?r- wuu ouuuseu rtitv
effort to, haxig&tiie.f0jee:';'tbhigs
that had prevailed In the home land.
loaf :,ti!ei Attxra ', TTa wntilrl cno1- In
AO tongue but his own. He would go
, -to tL church but the '"kirk," and that
" jxo existing ;ri thd prairies .he : would
doithoufcworhi. a' ' -4 ,
7 lie .; wore i jiis :" peasea , nar, uis oiled
toat, his sklnJ trousers and avoided his
American neigiiDors except as he was
- fopced to trade with them. Although
' lie : soon : iindC'rsto od a few. words of
JEngiish when ' a land office collector
. came, for the last pay m ent . on his final
only In f',thc Noirse jtongue. Then the
'xstrofig airni of the Gjoverhment reached
V.-tiuiondTbrisesou "rt-as frightened. He
... - . I
THE ROAD.
.A-tinkle of rivulets laving.
Velvety banks where the riders reclined
Asleep in the untroubled weather
The beggar and king, the sage , and the
'Tight, light, ye gentlemen, cease, from
- your wandering, '
Won is the ultimate quest,
Images from counseling, fools from your
X maundering. ' ' t '
- Kcsteye well. Silence 13 best.
But when I would enter, that keeper gray
With a skeleton finger stayed me. --
"Not yet," ' be whispered His finger was
cold, v. : - -,.v(f:w.d---..Y:"
And the lobkof his eye affrayed me
" Twas fancy untimely showed thee the
gate "- 1
(She onlv the future may borrow),
Go." now; the feet of the galloping hours
Shall bring thee again ajid to-morrow. .
"Rest ye now soberly, striving is done for
you. .' v v; :- I
Finished the chase and flight
If ve were Wvinners or lowers is one foryon,
llode ye for wrong or for riht."
.. A. -..youth's Companion.
broke -his vows and spoke-in English
untjl the title to his land was clear.
But being conquered in thi3 fashion
angered him. He resorted frequently
to strong drink, and the entreaties of
his wife and his friends could not keep
him from it. "
m '
The Hay Meadows district was a
temperance community. The settlers
from the distant lands of the North
were strongly religious, hard workers,
moderate in all habits, kindly to all
who met them. ' That Torgeson should
be the only one among them to fail
to rightly accept the new life in the
Republic pained them. They earnest
ly labored with him, but he would not
listen. When Anna Torgeson made
known her desire to attend the district
school he swore loudly and at first
said she shpuld not go. Later he an
swered to her pleadings:
"Go if you will, but you put some
thing between us two 'you will never
get over. I am as my fathers Svre.
If you would be, different, all right, j
But it will go hard with both of us
later." '. , !
- Anna Torgeson was: straight of limb
and blue of eyes. . She. 'Was beautiful
when Torgeson made her his bride.
Motherhood had added to her charms.
She had mind, too quick-witted intel
ligence, a rare aptitude for knowing
the .best, and clinging to it. For her
children's sake she believed that she
ought to attend the district school.
THE SCHOOL.
;When Torgesoa finally gave bljrcdu
seat she wound ,:her amis aWut his
pissed him long hnt Tdr
gesort:pushedi.her away and growled
He would not surrender. ' rie came to
America but for gain; when that was
had, he would return to his folkland.
All -through November
her of that dreary winter Anna Torge
son made her way to the schoolhouse
and. worked for mastery of the Eng
lish tongue. Torgeson stayed at the
farm,, minding the cattle and tbelr
fodder, or brooding over his pipe and
cups. That his wife should not side
with him was the bitterest thing he
had to endure. He was not a bad
man-only a cruelly obstinWe one, and
having started on the wring path, he
would not turn back and ind the right
one. He. might bay mafie his m
winter n hrisrht one. He might have
taken out the! sledge and driven her
and'the children the short mile to the,
schoolhouse, but he J would not ; No
matter how deep, the snow and fierce
the winds he let them go alone, un-r
aided, unless neighbors gave them a
helping hand. - . .
When January, the worstmonth
cf the season, came, he made no"! eJ3:ort.
to assist them. So" wide was the gulf
between husband' and wife now that :
he cvcn let the New Year's- Day pass
without the home celebration they had
never Vmissed before. yen that-night;
when Anna Torgeson. came to where
he brooded in his chair,' and, weeping,
begged him to be the man of their first
days, he" pushed' lier "from him and
answered: , ; , j, V. ; r .
"I am not-of .- yours. I have not
changed. It .is you that has changed.
Let me be." - -
Anna Torgeson
went on with the
school, praying every night to her God
that her husband might yet awaken
anil be one with her again. In the
- i . ....
school she was the most apt pupil.
She was the first to learn to write
English, and the first to be able to spell
English rightly. , Her neighbors, many
of whom had known her before her
marriage, rejoiced over her progress.
"Torgeson will be prtfad W his wife;
yeti" . they said.; " ; : .
But Torgeson remained bitterly
against her. Only the babies gave
her love and comfort.
( A January day came when the sun
rose warm over the snow-covered
prairies and in. the air there was a
false whisper of spring. ' The Hay
Meadows folk on their way to the
school shook their heads. They had
learned that this beauty of nature," at
such a time, meant coming terror-of
blinding sleet and deathly cold. 'All
through the morning the sunshine
flooded the Interior of the schoolhouse
and the water dripped from the snow
covered sod eaves; but the pupils with
in did not trust the warmth. At noon
they- ate their lunches by the open
door, but none failed to notice the
growing grayness of the sky, in the
north and the change in the sweep of
the Wind. V .
When school closed a frightful bliz
zard was upon them. The thermom
eter had fallen to far below zero and
the air was filled with sleet that cut
the skin like chopped glass. The twelve
pupils of the school looked ay each
other In the growing darKnesS; Every
woman present had a man' to .guide
her homo but Anna Torgeson. Every
child had a man protector but the chil
dren of 'Anna Torgeson.
"The rest of you will go on," said
Anmt Torgrsan.. "There is some Tucl
here.. I and my children will stay un
til this is over."
Some offered to .guJ her home be
fore they went their own way, but she
said ithe storm was growing worse
every minute, 'and they must hasten
for their own safety. They scraped
together such food as they had left
from noon and gave It to her. It was
not rduch for four mouths, but for the
baby there was Anna Torgeson's .
breast. Ju3t as the others prepared to
lcave.j Anna Torgeson called to one:
'Stay a moment. Torgeson will
worry. I will send a note. Get it to
him somehow when you can that he
may know I am safe." '
And she wrote in English: v
"Dear Husband: I am safe in the
school with the babies. Don't worry
about aie. ANNIE TORGESON."
". ,. , : ' .
Late that afternoon, with the most
awful storm he hadever known howl
ing about his home, Torgeson got that
note, and the bearer did not dare leave
him for his life, so fierce was the blast.
"I can't read it," grumbled Torgeson.
So the other read it to him, and
then Torgeson crumpled It in his hand
and said: ;
"Let her stay there. She cares more
for the school than for me."
-He sat before his 'stttntl flrA hour after
jihour, tand once and awhile when he
luougnt he was unobserved; h would
glance at the writing of the note he
could hot read. At midnight he could
stand It no longer. lie was Torgeson,
the obstinate, but his wife and babies
were over in that schoolhouse without
much fuel or food. He took with him
the man -who had brought the note, and
they brought the horses out of the'
stable, and they fought as men - never
fought before .against snow and cold,
and they gained 'the . school, a mile
,away In two hour3,and Torgeson
beat tpcn vthe; door ' aiid the : blast ame
with M hini, but. the auger and the old
pain bad gone from hlm'foreveri. '
. . Bending over the, stove to keep her
self and babies alive, Anna Torgeson
heard his voice, knew by Its note that
out of I the; horror : he had ' struggled
with to reach her new lovo and, hope
had come, and she leaped to him and
was caught In his arms, never to bo
put from him agaln.H. I. Cleveland.
in tne unicago liecord-Herald. ,
I .Fish of Other Bays.
Tlie discovery In the siands of .Tort
anyage, at Woking, England, of well'
preserved examples of the teeth of pre
historic I sharks and, the remains of
other fish, is announced in Nature
The find Is regarded as an unusually
interesting one. and the materini hnrt
been turned over to the experts of the
jLsritisn
Museum, for eafitotlflnl-;;.
CURIOSITIES IN LAW BOOKS,
Case was Bevcreed BccauR of Volco In
fleciion cf tlio Judff
"Law' books are full of curious de
cisions," said - a member 'of the legal
profession, "and frequently the higher
courts. have reversed cases on the .most
peculiar grounds imaginable- But I
recall one case which is probably more
peculiar; than any other, cas? which one
may, ; find among fthe. mahy i reports
which have accumulated since tup ear-4
liest report ,Was handed down. As'
arrange as - it may seem, the ground
upon wlilch the Supreme Court- re
versed the findingof -the lower court
vas found in an exception which had
been taken , to the intonation of the
voice of ; the trial judge. It was in a
suit for damages, against a railroad
corporation. Action : had been brought
against the company by, a foimer em
ploye who had: been discharged and
blacklisted by employers during a dif
ference between the corporation and
members of the Switchers' Union. De
famation of character and loss on ac
count of being out of employment, ex
emplary considerations and .other
grounds were assigned in the declara
tion filed in the case. The trial came
on and : the eTideuce tended to show
that the man had been dischargetT and,
blacklisted without reason, and that he
had sustained positive damage on ac
count of these things. ; I
- "Eut when the time camp for the
judge to charge the jury and to give
the jurors the law from' the books,
as the saying goes,. the interesting part
of the yarn t egan to iinfold. The judge
was a deep-toned, deep-luriged fellow,
.and when he bellowed in earnest it
would sounil lie a-peal of thunder
from Mammoth Cave. -'But 'when, he
uade an effort to soften and modulate
his voice he could, make it as soft and
as gentle as an angel's whisperings.
This is exactly what he did, according
to the attorneys for the plaintiff. While
charging the law which affected .the
rights of the plaintiff, 5 his tone was.
mild, meek, scarcely audible. 'But,
gentlemen of the j iry,' he stormed out
wit!j thundering emphasis, 'if on the
Other hand, you find- so and so to be
the case, you will return a! verdict
in accordance with your swqrn duty
fcr the defendant.' ( Emphasis settled
that case. But the attorneys had been
sharp enougli to. note an exception
to the wray in which his honor charged
thcriaw, with particular reference to
tile intonLon of his voice. The mo
tion for a new trial1 was made on t!ie
exceptions toted, the. case appealed
and the Supremo Court finally took
the matter u The attorneys ex
plained the difficulties in the way of
giving the judges an adequate idea
of the effect1 of the trial judge's voice
on the jury, but they gave a fair idea
oZ it by saying that the law jor the
plaintiff "was charged In nonpareil,
while the law respecting the rights
of the defendant company was jhanded
down in bold-face box-car letters. The
Supreme Court reversed the i finding
of the lower court, the case was re
manded for trial again, and damages
were finally assessed against the. cor
poration." New Orleans Times-Democrat.
" -'" "' ' :
Domestic Ice Machine.
Periodically .' the question is
asked
why there is nothing available in the
shape of a small ice or refrigerating
machine for domestic use. That such
a machine Is' in wide demand and
would meet with a ready sale is gener
ally admitted, o that to many it
seemed all the o ore curious, no doubt,
that commercial enterprise did not long
agp. undertake -to solve the problem.
The whole question, however, may be
answered by the .statement that no
better method of refrigeration his yet
been found than the use of ammonia
or a similar system, vhich involves
the us of certain pressures and a cer
tain number of elements in the cycle,
such as compression; expansion and
condensation, regardless of whether
the plant is to turn:,out '"sl fraction of- a
ton or a hundred onsr Tbe; handling
of the refrigerating cycle and the safe
manipulation - of ' ; pressure requires
ski'lln fact, a sUill somewhat above
the average, and which cannot be ex
pected from ordinary domestics. It,
therefore, seems that the facts as they,
stand at present preclude the possibil
ity of small domestic. Ice or refrigerat
lag plants, and will " so continue until
some system may be devised differing
widely from those now ha use.-i-Cas-ier's
Magasslne.
, . Ooajt Get Blcbrapa.' : '
T:ie children 6f a-certain Tamil jj dcN
ing its prosperity, were left'in.the cms
sery in. charge or servants'. AVhen ad
versity came, the servants were dis
charged and the parents lived with the
little ones. One evening, when the
father had returned home after a day
of anxiety and business worry, his
little girl clambered on hl3 knee, and,
twjnins fcer arms around. hi3 neck,
said: . : , .
" "Papa, don't : get rich again. jXcu
t.id not come into the nursery when
you were rich, but now we can come
around you, and get on your kpees
and "kiss you. Don't get rich again,
papa." ... .
A man whose wealth keeps him frdm
his family, sleep, healthy recreation,
or tho time to enjoy the legitimate
pleasures of Mife, is managed -by
money. Success, r .
DAD'S WAYS.
Jnr?wCCai39e he.-fW "God bless W ;
-They, were made to make a noise
People say that dad's peculiar
. In hia-hrmoriTio' t v.
t l They don't understand bov nature
' That's, the trnnM!.ivi U1 i
"When rov boys break loose and holler
; Just to show they do no different
vFrom the way we used to do: ;
, v hen thy want to jro awimminff.
'' :4; I. find , time to go along; t t
Show 'em, how to dive and eide-stroke r
, : ; WhatCi right and what is wron "
: "ake em fishing and out hunting,
Join 'em in a game of ball,
Teach 'em how to find the muskrat
And to know the plover's call.
Laugh at all their trifling mishaps,
Let them laugh in turn at me;
Take iieir .Mars, from jumping fence
Round to sinning up a tree.
V So, we're jolFy boon companions, f'.
Best of chums my hoys and ;
Bond between us can't be broken;
Triple-woven! "da d , Savs he.
'"Better lead a boy than drive him;
It's by far the better plan. .
.'j; Tlien you need not fear the future V
When he grows to be a man."
- vi "',r v.. T W. Burscss-.
Cholly VI , think I maychange snr
mind." Miss Marbleheart -(earnestly).
:"I would if I were you." Judgei
1 "What Is a paramount issue?"- "It
the . particular - issue i that- a speaker
finds it easiest to 'discuss.4' Chicago
Post. ;::---'::";..v-;
They say that time is money. So
To luxury I turn
And count my ricfies here below.
Awn nmc iu uiuu.
: vf;.;.;... Washington Star.:
"Is the storekeeper honest?' l: "Hon
est! Well, rather! .Why, he'll let yon:
open either end of an apple barrel be
fore purchasing." Chicago Post.
Lady Sneerwell "Have your daugh
ters accomplished much in music 7T
Unfortunate Father "Yes tlie ten
ants below have moved." Punch.
"No wife by any chance could be :
v . As pleasant as a book to me," "
The bachelor said.
- r - 1 "A book once read
Is easily phut up, you see "
Philadelphia Record.
"You'd better spg fn .ToIitimp. flparv
said the wife ; "I think hefs chipping
off a piece of your cork leg to nmke a.
stopper for th molasses bal'rel bless-
nis cute iiiue soui: Atlanta uonsntu
tioni. . : -
ever gong to get up and. light the
fire?" Wederly "My , dear, I don't
mind hearing you talk, but I drawthe
line at these incendiary speeches."
Chicago News.
"Oo ! Oo !". exclaimed Johnny on his
first , visit to church" ."what's that?"
"'Sh,"'said his mamma, "that's the or
gan." "My! Is that an organ? There
must be an' awful big monkey that,
goes with that." Philadelphia Press.
"Tis a saying trite and true . .
That, pride goes before a fall;
'Tis easy piite to trip a man
:: j Who thinks he knows it all.
: : Chicago News. v
Miss Tour is te "You have some
strong and rugged types of manhood
out in this Western country, don't
you?"; ; Stage Driver "Yaas, miss, we
hev fmen out here thet don't think it's
nuthin t" hold up a railroad train."-
Ohio State Journal. v
i . Mr. Newly wed "The cashier of the
'Steenth Ward Bank informs me that
you have overdrawn your account.'
Mrs. Newly wed "What an Idea! I
frioirATi'f fnll rt onnl nVirmf if flrant Tlfr
Smith and Mrs. Brown, and I'm sure
t didn't overdraw the account a parti
cle." Judge. .
"But," hisseil tbe heavy villainv
"supppse our plot : should .leak out ?"
His ' nserablaccOuipllce ' shivered at:
the thought. "Bull it can't" cried ihof
low comedian, emerging at that mo
ment from behind a staga tree, "be
cause from now on the plot thickens,.'
.you know" Philadelphia; Press; r
C Bark J3or as V w bUe Speaker.
The most eloquent essay ' carefully
by one wantingthe orator's gif, hiajr
V. .4,: M.fn. rtttrA Unllrv.
Is ', perhaps the most -striking' examples
of this. Hm simply drove everybody
away. vThis isy wellvand amusingly
described by Iord ; Kraklne to the-
.AmerlcanAin Imssador, , Mr, Itush, who
had asked him fcbout 'Burkes oenvery
- IasyexecrabKf'
in the House of v Commons when he
made ; his great speech on ' American.
conciliation, the greaest nes ever maue
He drove everybody away. I wantedi
to go ; out with the rest, but was neair
him and afraid to get up, so I saueesed
myself down and crawled under tho
benches, like a dog, until I got to the
door without bis seeing me, rejoicing:
in my escape. . Next day I went to the
Isle,- of Wight. When the speech fol
lowed me there I read it over and overr
again. I could hardly think or any
thing else. I carried It with rie and
thumbed it until it got like .Tiraddinj
for my gun." Westminster Keview.
France's total Income from taxc-
ffas S54C8.it!. 20 in IKiiQ. .