CONTENT.

Had I a chance to shape my life anew, The sense to know the shoddy from the true, I could not hope to gain bo fair a bliss As lavish fortune gave me, dear, in you. I could not hope bo fair a bliss to gain, The lack whereof would leave existence vain, Wherefore have I no shadow of desire To blot away my penury and pain. My penury and pain to blot away— Ah, comrade of my spirit, who can say That he has pain whose unavailing pangs So soft a hand is lifted to allay? And penury? Why, that is but a name To whoso feels divine affection's flame. Better the glow of mutual love beside The humblest hearth than loneliness in fame. I ask no more than just to bide with you. To blend a little gladness with the rue, And, when my clay is mingled with the dust, To dream of our delight the ages through. —Frank Putnam in National Magazine.

A DARK MISTAKE

It Is Unsafe to make liove With out Seeing the Object of Affection.

"No use burning all these lights down here. I'll just have to fill them in the morning, and no use making me work for nothing," and the old sexton turned down the one lamp burning in the chandelier in the room end went out, leaving the door ajar. The light flickered for a few moments until an outer door was opened, and then, with one bright flash, it died out.

Up stairs there was much laughing and talking as the busy hands put the finishing touches to the church decora tions for the morrow.

"There. I think that is as well as we can do," and Nellie Collier stepped ; back to survey the work. "We need a I small piece of rope to reach across that seat yet, doctor," she said, turning to Dr. Graham, who was standing beside her. "Two of those letters in that cen ter motto are crooked. You straighten v them, please, while I get the rope. I I know where there is a piece that will just cio," and she hurried down the stairs and ran against Mr. Pitcairn as he was entering his study.

"Whew! Dark as can be," she said half aloud as she entered the small an teroom and felt her way over the closet under the stairs.

Mr. Pitcairn went into his study, his thoughts In a tumult. For months Nel lie Collier's laughing face had been haunting him, and he often found that his eyes rested on her when he was preaching.

He waited a few minutes and then met the little white robed figure as she was about leaving the room.

"Nellie, I want to tell you some thing," he said, taking hold of the hands which were full of rope.

"I have been wanting to tell you for a long time that I love you. I don't think that you can be surprised, for you must have seen that I love you dearly, and I hope that it has not been distasteful to you, has It?"

There was no answer, but there was no attempt to withdraw the hands that he held.

"I am not an adept at lovemaking, darling. Will you be my wife, Nellie?"

"I never thought that you cared for me," she murmured. "You never no ticed me much, and I thought you cared for others," came in a low voice.

"I must have hid my feelings more than I thought, but it was because I loved you so that you thought that I neglected you. A minister is watched so much and has to be so very careful. But can you love me, darling, enough to be my wife?"

He could scarcely hear the answer, but he suddenly clasped her in his arms. No matter what happened for a few minutes. It was the first time that he had been in love, and the room was dark. He remembered afterward that he even then felt surprised to find that she was so small.

"I must be going, darling," he said at last as he heard some one entering the nest room. "There is a commit tee meeting in my study. I will come up stairs as soon as I can," and, giv ing her a last kiss, he hurried from the room.

He was in no humor for a business meeting, and the good brethren must have thought that their young minis ter was growing frivolous, he seemed so light hearted and laughed several times when they were discussing im portant business. The truth was he scarcely knew what was said or done, and as soon as the last one had depart ed he hurried up stairs. Nearly every one had gone, but Nellie, "his Nellie," was busy arranging some last flowers in a vase, and Dr. Graham was stand ing beside her and whispering some thing to her while she just shook her head and laughed.

Nellie merely glanced up as lie ap proached.

"What do you think of the decora tions?" she asked.

"They are fine, very fine," he answer ed, trying to meet her glance, but she had turned back to Dr. Graham, and for a moment he was angry.

"Pshaw! How unreasonable I am," he said to himself. "How much more thoughtful she Is bo as not to attract attention."

So he walked away until he saw her preparing to leave.

"Are you ready to go now?" he asked in a low tone. "Do you want to take this basket along?"

"Why, yes—but," she hesitated an Instant, "Dr. Graham will help me with my things."

He suddenly dropped the basket. "Why, Nellie, it Is my place, not that fellow's," he exclaimed.

Nellie Collier's face flushed. "I do not see how you can claim that right any more than you have to speak of Dr. Graham in that manner," she said haughtily. "Why, 1 Nellie, I think that what pass-

Ed between iis this evening would cer tainly give me the right."

"Why, Mr. Pitcairn, what could pos sibly have passed between us? You must be laboriug under some mistake," she exclaimed in surprise. "I saw you when you came into the church and had scarcely spoken to you until you came here a few minutes ago."

"What do you mean, after what was said in the anteroom when you were after rope?"

"Mr. Pitcairn, If you had any conver sation with any one down stairs it cer tainly was not with me. I went down after rope, but I was not gone two min utes, and you must remember that I was not the only one who had been down stairs after things, and if you have made any arrangeanents to ac company a young lady home this even ing it was not with your humble serv ant," and her black eyes danced merri ly, and he knew that she was enjoying his discomfiture. Mr. Pitcairn grew pale. "I'll forgive you for calling Dr. Gra ham a fellow if you don't do it again, for he is"—she hesitated and blushed— "a very particular friend of mine, and you and I have been such good friends that I will tell you a secret—we are en gaged."

"Oh, you little torment! I might have known that you would try"— he ex claimed, his face all aglow.

"Why, Mr. Pitcairn, how could you have known it, when we did not know it ourselves until this evening? And I don't know what the doctor will say to my telling you."

Mr. Pitcairn staggered back against a seat. "I—l wish you every happi ness," he stammered, then he turned to examining the flowers until after they had left the church. He felt dazed, and he certainly pinched himself to see that he was not dreaming as he went down stairs to his study.

"A pretty kettle of fish I've got into," he exclaimed, as he threw himself into a chair and kicked the footstool which Miss Reynolds had made across the room. "Lost the girl I wanted and en gaged myself to something I don't want, and I haven't any idea who it is!"

He lit a match and went over to the anteroom. There lay a piece of rope on the floor and beside it a daintily per fumed handkerchief. He picked them up and went back to Ills study. He re membered now that he noticed the scent of violets as he held her In his arms. It cost him a struggle to give up Nellie Collier. He sat and thought un til long after midnight. He studied over all the Nellies of his congregation. There was Miss Reynolds, but she was too stout, he thought, with a great sigh of relief; Miss Mattern was too tall. It was some one whose head just reached his shoulder. He had called her Nellie, he was certain of that, with some love epithets thrown in. She was small and dainty and, whoever she was, evident ly loved him.

If he found she was some one who would not suit him, well, he would have to get out of it in some way. But, whoever she was, her presence seemed to haunt him as he sat there. He could foel her arms around his neck and the pressure of her head against his shoulder, and he felt an intense longing to again hold the little white robed figure in his arms and feel her warm breath on his cheek. And he—dignified minister that he was— picked up the handkerchief and kissed it passionately.

He scarcely knew how be got through the nest day. He was thank ful that the services were such that he did not have to give a regular ser mon. He studiously avoided looking at the choir, where Nellie Collier was sitting, until near the close of the evening services, when, while Elinor Vandever was singing a solo, he turned that way, and for a moment their eyes met, her voice faltered for an instant and then rang out clear and sweet. He nearly let the hymnbook he was hold ing fall to the floor In his surprise, and a sudden feeling of relief came over him.

Elinor Vandever! He had never thought of her, and yet he knew that her pet name at home was Nellie. She had always.'been so reserved that he had never sclrearaed that she would care for him, but there was no mis taking that look.

"What a dear little thing she is. I don't'thlnk that I will want to give her up. I—l have been very fortunate," he said, to himself as he met her at the foot of "the stairs and drew her little nanc^pn Ijis arm. "Last evening you didn't'*— He paused a moment. "Xou—you were not angry?" she wijispered^angiously. "You were busy talking to Nellie Collier, and Aunt Min nie was re,ad,K to go, and I didn't know how to get-out of riot goipg along with her. I thought you would understand it."

"Well, if I didn't ha,ve you last night I have #ou tonight,' 1 lie said tenderly,„ pressing the little "hand to Ms side.—•* Chicago News.

A Grasshopper For Luck.

Should you be reposing in summer in a meadow and a grasshopper happens to jump on you by no means drive him away. Welcome and cherish him, which is best done by perfect qui escence.

Whether his usual merry disposition or his blithe hopping over all sorts of difficulties has any association with the notion we know not, but the popu larity of the grasshopper Is ancient and distinguished enough, the Greek species having been favorites with all the poets from Homer and Hesiod to Anaereon and Theocritus. So much did the Athenians admire them that they were accustomed to fasten golden figures of them in their hair, and they were always addressed by the most endearing epithets. The sound of the grasshopper Is always welcome and naturally of good omen, alluding, as it were, to summer and sunshine.—Gen tleman's Magazine.

THE ASHBHeTON OUA.RDCAN .• MONn*.Y, /ML 9 } 1900

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