LIGHT IN NIGHT.

Bleak winds across the meadows, and the night— 1 No star shine# from the blue, But over all the unforgotten light In the dear eyes of you.

In what strange pathways may your footsteps be I may not dream or know. Only this joy comes in the dark to me . ■ That 1 have loved you so 1

It was not much to love—O heart of mine, All that was pure and bright I— Bobes of red wrath and crimson to resign For raiment that is white.

It was not much to yield earth's gold and dross : For realms with joy replete lAnd in the darkness, clinging to a cross, , Find mercy at your feet.

So night la never night when the sweet though* Of love is with us still. If to love'a cross our Bcourged, satf limbs are brought, Lo, love is with us still!

,0 winds across the meadows and the night i 0 stars that leave the bluel Jhfire shines, sweetheart, the unforgotten light \ In the dear eyes o( you!

—Atlanta Constitution.

CUPID WITH A WOODEN HAND

"It is." said my uncle, snapping for

How a Bachelor Outwitted His Sister and Got Handed.

In his youth my Uncle David, accord ing to my mother, was a flower of beauty. He may havp been, but when 'he came to live with us he had faded and was a short, thick man of 50, with scorched eyes, the whites being streak ed yellowish brown, a knotty face and a wooden hand strapped to his right wrist. But, as he had done well op the sea, he was still beautiful. As I ,was his heir presumptive, I was like wise assistant custodian of him, for my mother was ever one to guard her treasures.

My duty was to go abroad with him and see to it that no woman had private conversation with him, my in structions being, if they endeavored to do so, to hurry him home, resorting, if necessary, to pretended cramps, a sickness to which I was predisposed. 'And my office was not an easy one, for he had in his day been quite a blade and had never lost his edge, and the vigilance I had to exercise to- keep him from harm would have saved a congregation of ordinary sinners. He .would always wink his scorched eyes at the girls we met and occasionally stop to speak with them, despite my tugging at his coat and having cramps. !All his transgressions I would report at home, and my mother would then iblacken the characters of the young la dies in question to a degree that satan •himself would not have associated {with them without wearing an amulet.

By these and similar means we saved ; hini for a year, and might have saved him to the day of his death had I not fbeen taken down with my first love affair and become correspondingly mushy. How true it Is that lovers are the tenpins of the gods! Being mushy, I fell to pitying his isolation from femi nine charms and was thereby led, on the 14th of a February, to sending him a valentine—a pair of plump red hearts spitted on a golden arrow. It I duly posted, and later it was* delivered to him. That evening, being a Wednes day, my mother went, as was her in yiolate custom, to prayer meeting, leav ing me on guard. As the door closed behind her, Uncle David got out of his Chair and went to the window.

"She's aboard," he said, jjgering out. "There's a light on her port side." : "A what?" said I, knowing I must report the remark. He made no reply, but came back to his'cliair. "Bennie," he said presently, "did you ever get a valentine?" j "No, sir," said I faintly. "Did you?" He did not answer. "Do you know when you are going to .wear a watch?" he asked suddenly. I was going to say when he died, but thought better of it. "I do," he went on; "tomorrow- It is in my chest. It doesn't go, but when you want to know the time you can run home and find out." ' "Of course," I exclaimed joyfully. "Why not?" ' "Answer yourself," he said. "To morrow It Is yours. Tonight we are going out. Fetch me my feathers." i I got between him and the door. t I "Come to think," he said, eying me JBn&rply, "the watch does go, and there jis a chain to it." lJSve got only an apple. What would ■he have done for a watch? Without a jiword I brought him his best suit, ,which he always spoke of as his •feathers, from the press in my moth er's room and where she was keeping ■It against his funeral. ] "You can't get them on," I sa&3 'hopeftally, noting their size.. ; "No more have I for 30 years," he ■answered, "but I can pull in. If you •hear me ripping, look sharp and turn I [me the other way. There Is a charm ito the chain." | He shouldn't have mentioned the Sharm, for the rapidity with which I 'got him into his clothing damaged his Iwind, but when I had him crowded j Into them he looked fine, barring alarming symptoms of suddenly com ing out of them at all points. As jsoon as he was dressed we started, taking along his great coat, to be used ;ln case of accident. | A square down the street we stop ped. Then my heart beat comfortably. 'If was Miss Hannah Baxter's house, Jand I did not consider Miss Hannah ■at all dangerous, she being my moth er's bosom friend and with a reputa- Jtlon as a man hater, having once In public meeting prayed for the saving |of men, whom she designated as de .throned devils. In response to my itmcle's knock, Miss Hannah opened ithe door. I. "The Lord save us!" she exclaimed Inhospitably. "Is it you?"

f breath, being much blown from walk ing and the tightness of his garments. "It is. As I said, I'm doing." Though I saw that she did not un derstand the speech, she let us into the sitting room and asked us to be seated. It was the one thing my uncle should aot have done, for as he touched the settle there were ripping sounds, and I | knew I should have trouble in getting him out of the house. He was but lit -1 tie affected. "She's let go all over," he said calm ly and then, "Hannah Baxter, come here!" "I won't," said Miss Hannah, stand- Ing on the other side of the fireplace. "I won't! Why should I?" "Because you have done it again!" said my uncle. "After 30 years you've ione it again, red hearts and all. You know what I said I'd do if you done it again." Miss Hannah started. "I never!" she exclaimed. "I never i" i{X"ou did!" shouted my uncle. "Ben nie, fetch her herel" I hesitated, but suddenly remember ing the watch, I sprang upon her and, catching her around the waist, began pulling her toward the settle, my uncle encouraging me by cries of "Bravo 1" and by pounding on the settle with his wooden hand. She was no match for me, and so, though she fought valiant ly, I soon landed her on the settle. Then, to my horror, my uncle grabbed her and repeatedly kissed her on what ever part of the face came convenient ly to his lips, for she still struggled, though hardly as a virgin of 50 should have struggled. Seeing this brought me to my senses, and I flew at them and tried to tear her from him, but as she evinced no desire to be liberated, and as my uncle beat me soundly on the head with his wooden hand, I desisted and took to* cramps on the floor. This had no effect whatever, so I recovered, and, rushing from the house, ran to the church where my mother was, and, dashing up the aisle, whispered to her the dreadful news that Uncle David was kissing Miss Hannah Baxter. Never will I forget the look that over spread her face.- Ever a woman of prompt thought and action, she then and there boxed my ears and, this done, hurried out and ran as fast .as she could to Miss Hannah's, I follow ing.

But we were too late. The doors and shutters were locked and all in vain did we pound for admittance. Not a word, not a sound, came from within the house. My mother's agitation was terrible. I was glad when she left off beating on the door and fell to beating me, for I knew that she would feel bet ter for it, and that I would have so much less to receive later on. Not withstanding, I cried lustily, and, church having been hastily dismissed, a crowd quickly gathered, and as I was crying "Murder!" the rumor got afloat that Miss Hannah was murder ing Uncle David. Some of the men were for breaking down the door and would certainly have done so had not my uncle, flanked by v Miss Hannah, bearing a lamp, appeared at an upper window. "David Hamilton!" streamed my mother on seeing him. "Come out of that" "I will not!" shouted my uncle de fiantly* "You shall!" screamed my mother. "Come home!" For answer my uncle deliberately put his arm around Miss Hannah and kissed her. My mother fainted, but no sooner had she touched the ground than she was again on her feet. "Stop itl" she screamed. "Stop it! You ain't married!" He again kissed Miss Hannah. "Break down the door!" commanded my mother. It was an exciting moment Al though half of the crowd were laugh ing, some of the men threw themselves against the door. My uncle leaned over the window sill. "We ain't married," he shouted, "but we're going to be, and there isn't any power on earth can stop It, because I'm not coming out," and he shook his fist in the direction of my mother. "Hannah Baxter and me," he contin ued, "has been fools for over 30 years. The why is no one's business, but we've got over it, and there ain't no power on earth can stop it, because I'm not coming out," and again he shook his fist in the direction of my mother, who was now hammering on the door. "Is the preacher athong you?" he shouted. The preacher was pushed forward. Realizing that if the day were to be saved, I must save it, I fell in a pre tended fit under the window. When I got back, drenched and shivering, from the pump, whither kind hands had conveyed me, the crowd was cheering, and my uncle and Miss Hannah were bowing from an upper window. As for the rest, I never got even the watch.—Cincinnati Commercial Trib une.

She Paid the Fine.

The Boston Herald says: "A man was brought into the Springfield police court the other day charged with neg lecting to support his wife. He plead ed guilty and was fined §20. Thereup on his neglected wife stepped up to the clerk's desk and paid the fine, which was promptly refunded to her under the provision of the law relative to nonsupport cases, which provides for the payment of the amount of the fine imposed on the husband to the wife when the court so directs. The law ap pears to be based on the right princi ple, but it operates queerly sometimes, as in this case."

A Fraction.

"What is a fraction?" "A part of anything, sor." "Give an example." "The sivinteeath of June." —Mel- bourne Times.

THE ABMfetJETbN fIOABDIAN; FBIDAY, MAY 18, 1900

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