7E pLACE CALL MY H0M6.
, ??c"..-l.v.l upon by .yund.
! i i " V.emory of a U-ar
' iVo.Vt .w.-t M-t of which alone
' I...,? tin -W.IU c-ruiiil.llny wnll
! J,Yln v Uf:.l.l It. '" h
' V. i rniio alor.o untr
L'd.Lr w r- all n,y treasures are;
: T i hlicii rh of heaven's dome
f. or tl. plHce I call my home.
JEnn-u. A. flecker. In Th. ChrUtlan
Science Journal. ,
. ..4-
f "Simple Simon:
His
Simple Life.
I I I I 0 I it
The church clock at the top of the
hill struck elven. IU deliberate tones
..'.. wer the house-tops and
across the field to where William Dodd
in hla narden. A gleam
-was w"ft,uB - "
of Batlefactlon came over hla face. Ho
stood upright, hla knuckles at what
might Lave been called by courtesy the
small of his back and stretched him
self. Then he got together his fork
his boe and his wooden garden basket
and went off to the house, '
He was round and short an4lderly.
Forty years before his pink face, wldo
open eyes, and .air of innocent be
wilderment had earned him the name
. of Simple Simon from bis fellow clerks
at the London bank at which he had
been employed, and middle age had
only served to mane n uuuio fii---
lie had on a pair of striped trous
ers, very baggy at the knees and a
tall ccat of a greenish hue, still black
In pieces He was wearing out the
clothes he had at the time of his re
tlrement. When the time came to buy
another suit, It would be of the pattern
called pepper and salt.
It -was a hue sunny morning In May.
'Lark were singing, poised somewhere
m the blue over the meadows. Simple
Simon had been aware of them during
the tour in which he had been weed
ing He bad also taken notice of the
fresh sweetness of the country air, of
,i iho earth, of the vigor
ous emeu w . ;
.. j .ih ihiif was going on,
OUS SpilllS -- - .
almost visibly around him, of me
bright colors of th uowers uu i"
. -. vi.. aaatallA irround.
He put his tools away In the shed he
had built for their accuuimuu. ,
cleaned his boots on the iron scraper
outside It. and then went along the
bricked path to the back of the house
and called out. "riow, iue.
ieven o , :,.
. t-..i ni.onrix! at the door nn
jura, uuuw i1"' .
a tray upon which were Jug, a glass,
' i Cha inn.
a hunk of brea'd ana cneeno.
was stout and round, and ber come
ly face wore the same look of placid
contentment as ber husbands. She
had op an Immense apron over her neat
stuff dress. ,w"
"Been mailing the arbor, father!
she asked as she deposited the tray on
' a wooden bench by the door.
Arbor?" echoed Simple Simon, tak
ing; his seat beside the tray. Why.
your wits have gone wj
The arbor's from eleven till one. Qo-
g to start on it now. What have you
been doing?" t,i- to
"Counting the wash and trying to
knock some sense into that girt,
head. Now I'm going over the glass
and oblna cupboard till dinner time.
Ab you'U like, that Lor, what a
life It la! N"er a moment without
something .Pleasant to do and no-
ton you iu -
mother, is It a. good as we figured it
ou.H.or'.'" replied Mrs.
n.,dd "You know well enough what I
-you know well enough, wmu
hluk. I can't atop talking here all
lb! into the house
1Ipr husband finished W. morning s
n.freshment, ana sai mi
rttresnnieu , knee3
utes. riuuins . i,i
H face turned toward be sun, that
had already begun io wi-. ---he
B"t up briskly and went to his shed
for another set of tools.
'-mi,r;e pimou was In bis usual po
,(.V,' n 'ot i.avl,S'alUed a UfeJong
,d n? Laylnlt Fine(l as much
tiatlsla-tl...a Uomt as he had antlcl
pat-d.
When l. haJ married thirty years
Ix-fore, with only , the salary of
vourg b"K ci.-kupou which to .
,,0,t hln.srf.lf. his wi.ffl and a possible
t .... i i.iiv KPt-med out o.
rVat h.8 promts wouH )
l,ave cn.l-lcd il.n to buy a 1'"
ouc with a larte garden In the
n:ry,.I livuin it for the yea
,i,at remiiinod to Mm after his
lloull to lin.sl-o.1. imt that wmi
e c'd that he and W "
'IV all o,h th yrar. of ,on h
. middle s: d ;"d
l,ee:i arr.iii.!'!'" ''' - ' ,
llev had suv-.l a little ev.-r,
. , f evrt in the : 111
,, , .. r .-.k v:.r li.
; ;r ;.:;.;.
' . ,. .: l.-t 1 'T. As ""'t "'
' " , " ' . , .,, ' 'V 1'irtel. .1 ,
'"" ' , '.-.. Y n
something to the store. For even)
shilling they denied themselves the;
pat Ion.
Simple Simon, upon his marriage,
had gone Into a little house In a quiet
but poklsh street In Kentish Town,
and he had lived In tbat little houso
for ttiirty years, until be bought his
own In the country.
He thought of those years now, as
he measured and sawed and ham
mered in the spring Bunshlne, with
tne peace 01 trie country surrounding
him.
They had not been bad years. Tbc
lHrlA hmiRA at thn pnri nf ttiA dull
street, under the high wall, had al
ways been clean anacozy witnin, ana
It In summer time It was disagree
ably not ana airless in me tmast 01
these miles of streets, and as dis
agreeably cheerless In the bad days.
there was always tne great emancipa
tion to look forward to and take on
a brighter aspect by contrast with
nrARttnt anrroundlnes.
And there u'Aa Hnmmtead Heath
nnt far nff nntl tha nlpanantpr suburbs.
In one of which 8Imple Simon might
even then have been living if he had
not set his neart upon someining
still better In the years to come. He
and his wife and his little girl made
exDedltlons together on holidays and
r.y. aummnt. Avonlnira TllPV WO I H
known In the street In wnicn mey
lived as "The Happy Family." uui
they kept much to themselves.
It seemed to Simple Simon, as he
worked away by the blossoming lilac,
that thoso years had covered a very
knri inii.ii nf tlma. There had been
scarcely any change ia them. Thero
would have been none, year nuer
year, if It had not been for the grow
ing up of their daughter.
8he supplied the landman, m
this year she had scarlet fever, and
they took her to Lowestoit ior a now
day; In that she Brat played at the
school concert; In that she gained
her scholarship at the academy; In
that he was so 111; In that she got
her appointment as music xeai-ii
the big school In which she had been
educated; in that she was married;
In that her child was born.
Simple Simon's face sortenea as u
thought of the child.
Yes, she bad been a good girl. Lire
In the little bouse In Kentish Town,
even with the great emancipation to
look forward to, would have been du.l
without lu. .
And perhaps It was just as well
that ber husband, who had been the
drawing master at the school, was not
very well off. Simple Simon had
been able to help his girl, and was
helping her now. There was plenty
" ti. mnthnr WOUld not
ior n
be so contented as they were If they
had bad nobody but themselves 10
.ti.. r,rt onnnri their money on.
mum
The church clocK siruca uu.
, himself uo again ana
pie oiiuo" u.v - -
gathered his tools together. It was
time to go in auu -
bis clothes. In the afternoon, after
. .... hoii- In the dining
cap in iu """"" , ,
room window, framed In honeysuckle
ho would occupy nimsBii
lighter phases of garaenmis, v"""-"
r. .. . h.nw nf hast and a pair
fg M until tea Urn.
After tuat ce ana ui
for a stroll by Ireld paths and coun
try lanes, and return In the evening
IXJ it. 1 hnnifl.
to their quiet, pieasaav ;" -"-".
And bo me days ana mo - -pass,
and they would grow old to
P :Z' .n... and contentmonj.
trVherrchTld and their child,
child to ward from them the desolate
loneliness of age;
A thrbsh sang in tne inaa.
breeze blowing over a bed of wall
flowers wafted fragrance. The sun
shone on a clump 01 urn -
Simple Simon lifted bis gray bead
and looked round him. HI. eyes were
moist "I don't know what I ve done
to deserve to be so happy, he sald.
London Mall.
FOILED BY QUICK WIT AND COURAGE.
BURGLARS ROUTED BY ERAVE WOMEN.
.Presence of Mind Displayed by Admiral's Daughter Army
Officei'. Wife Wound. Intruder.
whll Shaving.
The Bishop of London says that he
cSci. hi' sermons and addresses
while be la dressing, and that his
bVa In seem, to work n sonlshing
...... I.. uhavine. He al-
manner f" - t. h.
so says that he does noi -
could flnd time otherwise to prepare
U8u:rrerr last is an answer to SouU,
Js attack on shavers for wasting
M,e Southcy calculated mathemat
canv that the average shaver be
ginning to operate every day he
Z twenty years old. and shaving for
rny years, will consume 2.730 ho,rs.
a " ufl ident time for acdtilrlng a com
ment knowledge of seven Janguages.
bey ve only nine minutes dally
U i the slaver. If the shnver should
10 . Ia p .lav lii stropping his
Z"r . w,ld waste 304 hours ten
. u in fifty years tlmo encniph
ror..S.h anga.--ton He,
;ihl.
The Frei'jht.
Kll(k(.rV,h:,t Is the piOM-.ert for
',...s nrnund t'. ni.le.-NeW
j .,v.y ho ri;,l.l ei.r I l-'"'
I r, ar, the !' fi.
Hv nuhllalied by
Mrs. Charles Gllpln'a encounter with
burglars and of her bravery and pres
ence of mlud In putting them to flight
with a toy pistol recalls inai wbbu
Ington as well as Philadelphia ba.
cause to be proud of the courage and
resourcefulness displayed by a Wash
ington woman under similar condi
tions. She Is the wife of a major general
In the army. Her encouuter with a
burglar occurred during the summer
Just before her marriage, at her falh
or's' country seat, In Northern New
York.
Tha hnniiA una lnrfi and rambling In
- --. ' f -
architecture and her room was on the
third floor, where uo one except her
self slept. One sultry night she went
to her room about 10 o'clock. On ac
count of the heat she did not light both
lamps. Shu put on a wrapper. When
Bhe went to a closet to find a pair of
slippers and felt about the floor tor
them bar hands encountered a pair of
thoes which would not moi'e,
Thnnirh mueh frlchtened she con
tinued to search tor the slippers, which
she finally found. She picked them up.
and anting nn Iha bed tried vainly to
think of some way to obtain assis
tance without letting the man hidden
behind her dresses know that she was
aware ol bis presence. '
The closet door had no lock, the
latch was broken and It would not
Pino hnt Thn woman had seated her
self on the side of the bed fiorcing the
closet, and when she glanced Into It
she looked directly Into the eyes of
the burglar. He promptly stepped out.
"There Is no use for further conceal
ment," he said. "I knew you had dis
covered me. If you utter one sound
I nil will vnn " Ho raised a revuiri
and pressed It against her head. "Now
he commanded "walk over to your bureau."
The woman obeyed, and the nurgiar
put her rings, bracelets ana pin.
his pocket. .
"If you have any money give It to
me," be ordered. She handed hloi
ibout 100.
A Successful Ruse.
Hn vmini woman, vou've got to
jhow me the quickest way out of this
house, and remember u you atmnm
try to trick me I'll blow your brains
out." . . .t
Bhe walked down the stalls, witn xne
burglar at her heels. Bhe took a turn
leading to the front of the house, and
In the dim light the burglar did not
notice his sflrroundlng.. As she reach
ed the first floor she pointed to the
front door and said, loudly:
That ia h onlv way to leave this
house. In that room" pointing to her
iff wham a door stood a ar are iuy
father and brother, t advise you to go
The burglar knocKea ner wm
dashed to the front door. But her
voice had reached her father and
brother, who rushed to ber assistance.
Tney pursued the burglar, and near the
i. nonrinnli and caotured him.
1UUS 6"'v"" " ....
Some year, ago the young daughter
of an admiral met with a similar ex
perience in her Washington home. She
bad gone to her room late, and wb.la
undressing dropped her watch. A. she
a nirv it nn Bhe tlanced cas-
ually under her bed and saw a man .
figure undor it. HH oaca wu.
her She went on undressing. Then,
remarking aloud that the was thirsty.
ii.. .,r, tumhlor and went out
BllB yiLivcu . - ,
of her room. She ran to her father .
bedroom and awakened mm. ine po
lice were called, and on their arrival
the burglar was nauled from under
the bed.
The late Mrs. James B. Hicketts, well
known In Weshlngton society, bad a
deserved reputation for coolness under
trying circumstances. The story of
her spending three months in Llbby In
1th her husband. Gen
eral Ricketts, and twenty-six offlcere
.-j n.n u well known.
Jutst before tho civil war she accom
panied General Ricketts to a ironuer
a r.r M,Bir arrival the general
POBL. - -
went on a scouting expedition and she
was left alone In their quarters. The
iv. nf" hla absence the retired
early. Bhe had been a!wp some time
When suddenly t,ne became m. "
and conscious that some one was look-
In at her. She rcls'! ner in-an
glanced about the room, which was
fairly well lighted by moonlight. Her
attention was attracted by a shadow In
one corner, which she became aware
was caused by a crouching figure.
Shot the Burojar. '
che slipped her hand under her pil
low polled out her revolver, and olm
r'h in the ellre.tum ol the ihadow
culled:
. i lve y,Hi cv:e minute to leave the
with an uncomfortable adventure year
ago this June when she accortipanled
him to the Jamestown exposition. They
took the night boat to iNorium uu uv
cupled separate staterooms. She found
It difficult to sieep on -
lumpy inattress and went to her nus
band. A. she left the stateroom he
locked the door. Bhs asked her hu.
a . wu wlih her. He rang for
the steward and they entered his wife .
stateroom and dragged me ui..
off the bed. Tbey found a ouriy oe.ro
A norov unrlfif If.
. uvw Kw Vnrk wldOW WtlO
-ma tim In Havana last Jan
jyvub B""v , .
uary aeveral oaya Deiorw
sail lor New York went put in a car
x maifA farpwell calls.
lnS -v "-
o n 1K1 iarrlHirea in riltvttua m
built like broughams, but Instead of
windows In the bacK nave niwo.j
i --a . nrtiin. As the carriage
was rolling along, she heard a .light
noUe behind her, ana mruius
. norini in through the
opening. He was evidently standing on
lllO UBtR oiinuB. .
w Atxnoht hnr around me
throat, and holding her securely be
gan tearing off her Jewelry with his
right hand. He tore a diamond dog
collar from her neck and seized her
Then he released nis
wen uwi-u iium...
hold and dropped on tne ca.rr.s. -wheels
made so much noise that the
half strangled woman had great dlf-
ficulty in atopping we couvu...
had been unconscious of what was
transpiring behind bis back.-New
York Tribune.
PBWBROOK FARM. CU03ED TIOHT.
The Pfmhronk farm Is ahut up IUh.
The pallock'a huiiKln' plain in ais"
I ...la vi'MT.
.in in.aiucii iw'-n ..... y - - -
Thi-y won t nn galivantln up
All uewn ini'in i,in..-.-i ,
No orlnery bulidos pup ....
'LI iiiuKa my ne" I"""1"
Ijiit year they ot a hold o' Jl".
An lirnu nun w
fhey madu a liufr out o mm ,
inn nr jr r'iiu . " -
Thy anld Mmlura ougluur ten
Aa I'M a ivoniimy ..
6he J'-ln'l; d... tin hlgliland King
wuth thur
ATHLETICS IN BRAZIL.
Hammer Throwsr GilH. Telia the Ena'
llsh About 8port. In South
Amsrlca.
Arrnrnlnir to Simon P. GIlllS. the
New York A. C. hammer thrower, who
has arrived in England, tbe Influx of
Americans and Englishmen Into' Brazil
will In due course create a love of
athletic, there. Glllis has been In Rio
iia Tanolrn for the last two yeri and
went thereto England for tbe purpose.
01 competing in uiw tiiumyiunoui!,
Olympic' game, and other big nieeis.
By the mall which leaves for England,
this week Gllll.' entry for the English
championships will be forwarded by
the New York A. C. Since nis arrival
in-England Gillls has been extensively
Interviewed over the chanQ.es of the
American team at the Olympic games.
He has told the Saxons tbat American.
will be strongest in the spnnis.
.iv,t. ami naiA vault and lumping
event. In general. In giving his view,
to Sporting Life on Brazil, Gillls said:
"Brazil has a cllmato that doe not
stimulate a love for athlotlcs. It Is hot
and humid, with plenty of rain, and
there Is practically no life In the peo--i.
irk. aiklotlo Ufa r.f Brazil I.
chiefly confined to the British and
Americans. There is an English crick
ik -i itin de Janeiro, and tbey
have a splendid ground. Thero were
. imaririii battleships In
S cuuyic v. -
the harbor last June, ana a lean-.,
was arranged, at which I did ome
hammer throwing.
"Don't tbe people show more energy
when you get away'from the coast?"
"At Sau Paulo, which Is more than
2.000 feet above sea level, the climate
Is not nearly o enervating and a few
Brailllan. do take part In athletics
there. Generally speaking, however. It
I. very bard to awaken their Interest
In games of a strenuous . cam
They prefer aommning mm "
demand much physical enui i.
"Have they not a national punm....
The majority of nations are noted for
at least one game." .
"They are intensely Ketn on "
fighting, but that Is scarcely a pastime
according to our way of regarding
things. The uraainan. mo - -
supporters of the automobile and hey
have tbolr horse races. Ever body ride.
and tbey get wildly "
racing Some of tbo more actUe
Brazilians go In for rowing, and a few
may be seen out a. runners at Sao
PVi'th ao manw foreigners In Brazil
,g there not a probaMHtT ot.
. .,...,u.d In athletics!
terosi DH...S - ..
.... hIi- - a fit II HI IDIJ
' "U Will ' .
at all.' British and German p- -
Incrrastnr in nun.bcrs .- -
time move the
athletics, but thre are iui.h. i-.-i -
a present. We arranged some base
ball games there, and 1 don't summss
. couple of hundred Brazilians took
fhe trouble to attend them. How Uir
foror.t to th.nr bull, flghia. which I
confer to be very cruel. I don't re
"". . . .n ,uh eood bull litshteis
bull where., la Bra ;, ey
In voredyvull IcxJay.
Our darter Tlldy fnlli-r'd suit .
Deuhun ahe had iha Kl't .
O' lanjns un' tho torni to boou
(sav. now ine is aurm.
A-itaniiln "In the wlnU.-n an. .
A-inowIn now Hum paini ki.i
Renews olo ch.ilr; her smile ian
cnuii o apne hiiii.
"They wnnted to lt Lemuel.
l er unciL', uui n hhiu ...
He'd ruiher aiay thn aide o wii,
i ney cuuian iitrn ma nc.
An' ma. ho klckrd ag in 'era stout
li nen irity nil mini w
Hpr name; they inlj ahe was about
inur yropr amn mi wwiv.
"Tin radlock'a hangln' on tlA fate
To shunt thi-t crowd this '"r- ,
I'll plug the funt cuhb, aur aa rata.
W ho inoiipyi 'round h' re.
A-WOOin Iia lO HIM lll mini
J lit? I t Rooa enuii lur iir.
But tlii! Eol lll cllllUlun
cl.arm,
An' took 'rn ofT, b'ge!
-Horace Seymour Kuller. In tht New
Voik Times.
W' C3WHM,
w pr
W(j TfeWOrLD'
M'jLVGfWlTrtfo
"Do you ever buy poetry?" "Well. 1
did buy a copy of Tennyson once," ad
mitted the editor. Philadelphia Ledge-.
',
Plgot'e "I've got my eye on a nice
little home, for us when we get mar
ried." Piggy "You've got a ty la
your eye, so to speak." Life.
"Well, what's on the blll-of-fare
tr.tfii-r1 innnti-cil tha eeuiol drummer.
"Beg pahdon, san AU guess dey's fly
specks. Ah'll git yo' anuddur, sab,"
Judge.
Conley (reading paper In Feeney's
saloon) "What's a dead reckonla.
Dlnny?" Feeney "The bar bill l
$7.80 I have agin yer late brother
Mike." Puck.
"The editor of a humorous publica
tion has to be famUUr with all tba old
la from palming
off new Jokes upoST him. I 'pse?"
Louisville Courler-oJurnaL
"Did you ask that man why he paid
rent Instead of oHfig hl" own home?"
asked one real e' V agent. "Yes,'
answered tbe other. " hie said he did
n't He kept movins" Washington
Star. ,
"But remember, my dear, tbat you .
and I are one." She looked at hlra
scorLfulIy. "One!" li 3 echoed. "Non
sense. Ve are 10. 1 m the one and
you are the clphir."-Clcveland Plain,
Dealer.
"You can't buy happiness," exclalm
.a ,h Dniimoninliat. "No." answered
"the man who Is sternly practical. "You
can't buy happiness. Ana bi me
time that fact doesn't Imply that your
comfort Is enhanced oy being broke."
Wr.t'utagtcn S'.sr.
Us?He (to JV.ts. Jutl returned from
vo.r'i ntudv In London) "DIs done.
Jules qu'et-ce quo c est done que cos
trols R's dont on parle en Angleterre?"
Jules "Ls trols It's? N" sals pas
liens 'la me r'vlent v'lal Bolten,
Klppln, et Right 0."-Punch.
Boru. (strussllng uthor)-"That
last book of mine agreeably surprised
you. did it? 1 am glad to bear that."
v7'... niiararv editor) "Yes; 1 ex-
IIH6(, t...-,. .
pected to devote an enure cieun.
reading It. It put me to sleep In Dvs
minutes, old fellowr-Qhlcago Tribune.
leisure clawis In this
country follow the bounds at all, Ml
Penprey?" asked the visiting uiumu
nobleman. "No." replied Miss rep-
prey "the hounds usually lonow wie
leisure claas here. We always try to
keep tbe hohcea on the move." Phila
delphia Press.
"Gee whir!" sold George for th
twentieth time, "it makes me mad ev
ery time I Ihlnl; of the 1U I lost loduy.
1 'actually feel ns If I'd ke to have
somebody kick me." "By the wr.y.
George," said Ibe dear girl, dreamily.
. . i. .... ..r,.. ihint vou'd better speak to
father tbls ,veulng?"-PhIlsde.pV.U
Press.
rociiii ; thi n I Ate. I -ew Ym'k Sun.
Wl,b a ...ut.d th- man ddfheJ to the -
. ... i ... Uui. Ili.'vl i.
i mil '1 he t ';. tnu-'-u I'"
,t .-uii. '1 he t !:
' . ., , . v, .. i n'll. Vtv raw ur
t i o l;;. IrVS 1
: . ., .'..'. r.
The -. Ife ol a v "'' er 1
t lUs the M-'n-
. i...v iii-i-sis ni'Miisr tfi tn'KO nn-
1 , , ' . 1 ,.il.er hoy l " t.
iiim n i.i in in " :
i v;;-.e J 1 ' I ''
The- Queen of Silence."
- Mrs Inaac Rlca ot Ne,r YolJ;
known In society In nearly all the
capitals of Europe as the "Q'teen of
,rihnce," has n"uimed ber crus.n!e
aolnst' undue noise and will spem!
'll. suinnier In this advocacy abrr-ad.
Her lm:i.eliae 1 oi e Is to ort-rn 1e
rnil iu.-si- .sivle-fi "1 "vry cai.li -1
Hi Kurcpe; '' m,ifid-rt tbat one
.nteret la i;:.;-'.l rit'.'iitlnn
...iad um :l hr aim Is accoinplh he"..
J-K'trsnH t'f.y ,I-"itmi.
. 11 U is Oil"!.
Iji Paxot'y T"'u ''
St.vll i F- ' 1 -
u ..1 '.I.- h ' 11 ''
(Vil'S.
i-.lly e:l -
m-ys of '