HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD.

Home they brought her warrior dead; She nor swooned nor \ittered cry; All her maidens, watching, said, "She uaist weep or she will die."

Then they praised him, soft and low. Called him worthy to bo loved, Truest friend and hoblest foe. Yet she neither spoke nor moved.

3tole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stept, rook the face cloth from the face, Yet she neither moved nor wept.

Roae a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee; Like summer tempest came the tears— "Sweet, my child, I live for thee." —Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Mrs. Middlerib's Letter

Story of a Wife Who Exasperated X Her Husband Unintentionally. <•>

Mr. Middlerib paused with his coffee cup raised half way to his lips, as his .wife took the letter from the servant. She turned It over once or twice, gazed earnestly at the address, and said: "I wonder who it can be from?" She looked at the stamp. "I can't make out the postmark," Mrs. Middlerib said, carefully studying that guide to the authorship of letters. "It isn't Perrysville. It looks something like Tonawanda, but I don't know anybody In Tonawanda. I wonder if it isn't in tended for York? Cousin Ann Jackson used to visit in York. Why don't they make the postmark plainer, I wonder? I believe it's Indianapolis, after all! Then it's from Eleanor McPherson, whose husband you met last summer in Canada. It isn't Indianapolis; it's iLaeon. That's where Lilias Marshall lives. That isn't an L, either. No; It's New Philadelphia, Ills. I can make It out now. Don't you remember? Uncle Abner Beasis went out there in the grindstone business. I wonder if any thing has—oh, pshaw, It's—what is it? It's R; R-o-ni—oh, now I see—R-o-m-e, Rome. Why, it must be from—oh, dear me, it Isn't Rome, either. I can't make it out at all." And she turned It over and looked mournfully at the receiving stamp on the back.

"It was received here at 7 o'clock this morning," she said finally. "Now, where would a letter have to come from to get here at 7 o'clock? If you knew that, we could tell where it came from."

"Let me look at it," mid Mr. Middle rib, who was beginning to fidget with impatience.

"No," replied the wife, turning back to the postmark once more. "I can see :what it is now. It's Spartansburg, Ky. Sarah Blanchard went there after she married. I expect she wants to— It isn't Spartansburg, either; it's Gridley. (That's where Cousin Janie Buskirk lives. Her husband went out there and bought a grist mill. I wonder if she's coming on this summer? I hope, if she does, she won't bring the children. But it isn't from her, either. I think that it Is Mount Pleasant—oh! it's from Aunt Harriet Murdoch, and I know they've all been killed In that dreadful cyclone. I can't open the letter, my hand trem bles so. Do you know the last thing I said to her when she moved out west? I said— It isn't Mount Pleasant, ei ther. There are only five letters in it. I can't make anything out of it."

"Perhaps," said Mr. Middlerib, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in his inflec tion—-"perhaps we'd better send after the carrier who brought it. He may know."

"But It Is so tantalizing," complained Mrs. Middlerib, "to receive a letter and thett not be able to tell who or where it is from." 

"Did you ever try-opening a- letter to ascertain these facts?" asked her hus band.

The lady looked at him with an ex pression of speechless disdain upon her features and half whispered, "If that isn't like a man," as though any wom an ever looked into a letter until she had guessed all round her circle of relatives and friends and clear through the United States postal guide to decide whence and from whom Ifcaroer This particular postmark, however, was too "blind" for the most ingenious expert to decipher, and at last, with a deep sigh and a little gesture of despair. Mrs. Middlerib yielded to the inevita ble and resignedly opened the letter, pausing once or twice in the act, how ever, to look longingly back at the tan talizing postmark. "At last," groaned her husband, who by this time was burning up with curi osity. But she laid the envelope down and looked at it a little while before she turned to the unfolded letter in her hand. Her husband by a desperate effort controlled his rising wrath, and in a voice hoarse and strained besought her to read the letter, as it was late, and he should have been down town half an hour ago. She did not answer. She opened the letter, turned the first page to look for the end of it, went back to the first page, settled herself in an easy posi tion and said: "Well, I will declare!" Then she read on la silence and Mr. Middlerib ground his teeth. Presently she said: "3Ptn!" She read three or four more lines .with eager eyes aad noiseless lips, and suddenly exclaimed: "I don't believe it!" Then she. resumed her voiceless pe rusal of the document and a moment later astonished her husband by look ing up at him and asking: "I wonder if that is so?" Mr. Middlerib replied in mocking tones that "it must he so or the post naark wouldn't have an id it:" hnt l>or

eyes were glued to the page once more and she nmde no response. "Oh!" she fairly shrieked. "Did you ever?"

The writhing man at the other end of the table said he never had, but he ( would if this intellectual entertainment lasted much longer. "It's too bad," murmured Mrs. Mid dlerib, turning a page of the letter without raising her eyes. "Well, what's too bad?" he broke out wrathfully. "Who is the letter from, and what Is it all about? Either read aloud or make your comments as men tally as you read." "I've half a mind to go," she said, in firm, decided tones. "Oh, have you?" he interjected with mild, sarcasm. "Shall I go and pack your trunks while you finish that let ter?" "I don't see how they can do It," she said, after an interval of silence. "Why don't you look at the postmark, then?" he growled. "Maybe that would tell you." She read on, silent and unimpressed, for two or three lines further, and then with an exclamation of astonish ment said: "How very low!" "Ah, well," her husband snarled. "I'm glad to learn something about that letter at last It's about your un cle Marcus' family, isn't It?" She did not hear or heed. She glued her eyes to that precious letter and went on ejaculating at irregular inter vals: "H'm!" "Oh, that must be lovely!" "It can't be the same!" "I never heard of such a thing!" "Oh, my goodness!" Finally she concluded the persusal of the important document, sighed and with profound and exasperating delib eration folded It carefully and replac ed it in the envelope. Mr. Middlerib looked at her in blank amazement. "Well, by George," he said, "you are a cool one! Here I've waited full 15 minutes to learn what that blessed let ter is about, and all I know about it is that you couldn't make out the post mark. By George, woman"— "Why, whatever is the matter with you?" she exclaimed, with unfeigned surprise. "Here It is If you want to see it. I didn't suppose you cared to hear it." "Didn't want to hear it!" he shouted. "What do you suppose I waited here and missed my train for if I didn't want to hear that blessed letter?" "Why, it isn't a letter at all," she said in the tone of a superior being 1 commiserating measureless and inex cusable ignorance. "It's a circular from Wachenheimer's about their mil linery opening next Thursday"—

"Why, it isn't a letter at all," she said in the tone of a superior being commiserating measureless and inex cusable ignorance. "It's a circular from Wachenheimer's about their mil linery opening next Thursday"—

The bang of the street door cut off the rest of the sentence, and Mrs. Mid dlerib became aware that she was alone and that her husband was the angriest man in the state.

"And what had occurred to vex him," she said to her neighbor, who dropped in during the morning, "I can't for the life of me Imagine. Everything about the house had gone on smoothly, and I can't recall a single irritating in cident or circumstance. Men are strange animals," she sighed, "and there is no accounting for their vaga ries and peculiarities."—London Even- Ing News.

Popularity of Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin has received one sort of monumental tribute to a de gree second only to that of Washing ton. More towns and postoffices have been named after him than after any other man, even Washington himself, although the bestowal of the name Washington on the capital of the coun try transcends, of course, any of the similar honors accorded to Franklin.

Thirty-six places In the United States, in as many states and territories, bear the name of Franklin simply, and 34 others bear names into which the word enters in combination, such as Frank linton, Franklinville, Franklin Falls, and so on. As against this there are 27 Jacksons in the country, 30 Wash ingtons and 25 Jeffersons.

Thirty-one counties bear the name of Washington, 24 the name of Franklin, 23 the name of Jefferson and 22 the name of Jackson. The naming of the first town for Franklin was regarded by him as a great honor. This was in 1778, during the Bevolutlonary war. The town of Wrentham, Mass., was divided, one paribvf It taking the name of the cele brated diplomatist and philosopher. In recognition of the honor, Franklin pre sented the new town with a bell for its church.-—Youth's Companion.

The Manila Pig.

One Nof the curious sights to an Amer ican vfsiting the Chinese and native quarters is the ever present pig; but, as pigs are not allowed at large, they have afl ingenious method of tying the pigs by the ears. They cut a small hole throitgli the pig's ear, one-half to an inch In diameter. Through this hole they | insert a rope, with a large knot on obe end. This rope securely confines the pig's liberties about the premises. The same sights are seen often on the native boats and even on the swell steam launches plying on Manila bay. Transporting pigs through the streets of Manila always attracts a crowd, although the sight is com mon. The legs of the pig are tied to gether securely, and the pig is then suspended on a long pole resting on the shoulders of two native earners. The pig, with his legs up and head down, makes about as much noise while in transit as the pig under a gate in Missouri and never fails to hold tho crowd. —Manila Freedom.

The Only Word She Had.

"Don't tell me you won't," said an east side citizen to his 5-year-old daughter. "Well, papa, what must I say when I mean I won't?"~Ohio State Journal.

TH^ ASSBTTnTON" 4UAHt)IAN^^pONDiY, MAY 21, 1900

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