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«\¢ hy ESQUE & = A SILENT SHY DIVINITY ¢ pICTUR a | ¢ 1 OiLLM OF tr a. mM. A Story of a College Settlement al Sian @ Girl. ty ince Me | us V. | 30000000006006000000000008 be 950 at all & wkatores. x ¥ me" P| Rs The eyes of Lena Scarff were of the 4 teak op F. Oe ‘olor of purple violet, but they looke ‘Tyetratea : {/, ‘ I pic id ley ooked ~ ees interesting Souvenir x out upon the world in much bewilder- bie jsisd * ate sv |} ment for the reason that their observa- Me for soar” “—- m4 tions were supplemented by an audible ee ee ETE TS as message. In other words, the little child yex® had no voice with which to speak her 5 ——— =" thoughts and no hearing by which the —— thoughts of others could reach her. She ue _QHARLOTTETOWN | was one of a big family, and all of the Ca, rest were without physical or mental de- W fect. They were indeed a robustious fam- ] ily, intelligent, frugal and industrious. The neighbors thought well of them. “ i re FGA bss the een of being si, ad the best housekeeper in the block. Jo- h Scarff, a contractor for ornamental! is, LOCAL TIME.) , 8eD i cont qd. ( 2 stonework, was accounted a successful ey +...) and fine workman. The boys and girls 1; Py qnd Departure of Trains’ were bright at school. They were sent . privat to the turners for physical development isfs. at the earliest possible age, and they 6 and Steal j were conspicuous among the pupils of a f ali * dancing school popular among the well ~ } to do Germans in their community. Moreover, every one of them could make of TRAINS music of some sort or another, and the west...... 835am.]} front room looked more like the musi- _ poe west.. 950 pm.]| cians’ practice room at a theater than Byres? 8°?’ the the parlor of a family. “a jgoomodation leaves for 410 pm. But while the Scarffs appeared to have be pees See the a number of homely virtues and to be 4 scompodaticn leaves ‘ citizens of which any city might be A 600 pp ; Resserssen voccnooes soogoooeoe |=” proud the fact remained that there was or wert Se . the ¢ jeemodation arrives from 5 a certain hardness about them. They Wettvesssene rennensen soenes cece +1055 am found it impossible to forgive incapabili- Aqgomodation arrives from the ty, which they seemed to confound with Neethsuumsenesscescescceesesees 2 aD PM. laziness. The boys invariably spoke for the east...... 705 am.] with contempt of a schoolmate of theirs . Express leaves P .910am.] who was lame. The girls openly com-

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CAMPANA.

Arrives from Montreal and Que- bec every alternate Friday... . Leaves for Quebec and Montreal ine following Monday evening.

CITY OF GHENT.

Arrives from Helifax every Thureday afternooa ......... . ‘ Leaves for Halifax every Friday JACQUES CARTIER.

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PERRY BOATS.

“Hillsborough”—Leaves Ferry Wharf for

Southport every half hour.

“Bitio”—Leaves for Rocky Point daily at 630, 8,9, Ll,am; 1,2, 4, 630, m, locai time. Sundays at9a m, 12.45, 434pm. Returning 1.15, 2.30, 3.15 and 5 pm.

“Southport”—Runs up East Rive: every Tuesday, leaving at 5.30 a m, and 3

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HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

Fee the benefi: of tourists aad othere We publish the followiug list of hotels and ‘ag houses in Charlottetown and Mewhere :— Charlottetown — Hotel Davies, Queen » Revere Hotel, Eureka House, ia House, Railway House, Le page

Dane ' McFadyen om Finlay House,

Wmmerside~ Clifton House {uss wel, Campbell Hotel, Perry House. uris—Sea View Hotel, Ocean

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Tracadie—Acadia Hotel.

Stico—Sea Side Hotel.

whope—Clitf House, Mutch House. ley Point—Shaw House.

All emace ?Seaforth House, Albion Bbore — House, North

mrl-- Florida Hotel, Dominion Veraon River Bridge—F inlay Honvee.

ities. House, Tapper

Tiptieh rg Lanedowne Hotel. Bete, Raiiwer —— House, Be|levue saloon Hotel, Conmmer-

Onlague—M ecdonald House oa Carte Hotel; Man-

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miserated any of their friends who were plain. Joseph Scarff never had much use for any man who was out of work, and his wife was more apt to be irritat- ed than sympathetic if one of the girls was tound to be ill im the morning and not able to perform her share of the household duties.

So Lena, with the purple eyes and the ears which would not hear and the sensi- tive mouth which uttered no articulate word, came as an unspeakable mortifica- tion to the Scarffs. She had been such a pretty baby that at first she had been made much of, but when the discovery of her misfortunes was made nothing more was said about her. She was kept in the background. When callers came, she was hustled into an upper room, and, as she was a singularly patient child, more and more she was left by herself in a room at the end of the up stairs hall, which had been set apart for her. The place was warm in winter and cool in summer; bars were put across the win- dow that the child might be in no danger of falling out; the room was thoreughly cleaned once a week, and Lena was look- ed upon by the family as being well enough treated. A few toys were got for her. but she seemed not much interested

in them, and after a time her relatives ceased to make additions to this stock. She was dressed in sacklike frocks of dark blue calico, and her hair was kept

shaved close to her head in order that there might not be trouble in combing it. In short. no earesses were given the little one; no one held or comforted her or played with her. She became, as time went on, almost as solitasy as a hermit. Much earlier than any of the rest, she learned to care for herself, and she in- stinetively hastened to her bare, sunny little room the minute a meal was over. In time work began to be required of her. She was set to wiping dishes, to dusting rooms and to sewing. She did whatever she was taught, patiently, without tears. But the droop of the sensitive mouth grew greater, and there was a look of hopelessness in the purple eyes which nothing ever banished.

What thoughts were struggling in that inarticulate being no one cared to think. There was no curiosity felt upon the sub- ject. The family went its prosperous and well satisfied way and let the soul, silent amid sociability, starve for lack of the food of human love.

There was, not far from the héuse of the Scarffs, a certain college settlement enthusiastically sustained by a number of disinterested young men and women, and one of these women heard by the merest chance of the existence of Lena Searff. But to reach her was a task as difficult as that of the Prince Charming to find the Sleeping Beauty. The Scarffs might easily have thought themselves fit persons to augment the working force of a settlement, but they would never “ave admitted that they could be its ben-

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Miss Allport, the young lady from the settlement, had need of much diplomacy before she could as much as catch a glimpse of the morbidly shy, pale crea- ture, only half human in her comprehen- sion, who clung to the safe solitude of her room. And when, after much adroit persuasion, she gained the consent of Lena's mother to visit her, she found a yet more serious obstacle in the sullen

, suspicion of this timid wild creature, who

hugged her prison and feared all humani- ty. Miss Allport brought flowers and put them in Lena’s room and went away with a smile. She left sweets in the same way and toys of a constructive nature—blocks and pieces of bright cloth or pictures or the paper Japanese flowers that open in winter. Finally she came to the room and sat there sewing on some pieces of gay embroidery or painting or stringing beads. And at last, confidence won. she persuaded the child to go with

her and placed her where she could have instruction such as is given to the deaf.

The Scarffs were glad to be rid of this mortifying incumbrance. They said now it would be possible to invite guests to the house without constant fear that they would encounter that dreadful little crea- ture,

The family was given permission to visit her once in three months, but they did not avail themselves of the opportu- nity, and Lena, when the brief vacation came, seemed unwilling to go home. Neat clothes were sent her by her moth- er and plenty of pocket money, and with that it appeared that she felt her full duty done, At the end of two years, however, Mrs. Scarff, moved by some be- lated maternal tenderness or by curiosi- ty, made a journey of 200 miles to see her daughter, and she returned with a somewhat puzzled look upon her face. Lena was growing rapidly, she said, and could read and write and do carving in wood, besides sewing and dancing and housework. The Scarffs opened their eyes, but were more or less incredulous. Besides, it didn’t matter; the child was disagreeable to them. They disliked even to think of her.

Wive years went by, and one day, in company with an attendant from the school, Lena made her appearance at her home. It was in the early evening, when the family had just finished dinner and were sitting in the parlor among their musical instruments.

“She was so anxious to give you a sur- prise,” said the attendant, “that I could not deny her.”’

The Scarffs were feeling distinctly be- wildered. There stood before them a tall, graagful girl with a face of inde- scribable refinement amd appealing pa- thos. Her purple eyes shone with a ten- der light; her abundant golden brown hair was coiled upon her head in smooth braids; her complexion had an exquisite delicacy. She was perfectly at ease. In- deed, though it seemed impossible, it was actually a fact that she seemed to be surveying her family with a critical eye, and her manner as she greeted them was anything but cringing. And, while they would not have used that word, yet in reality a cringing attitude was what the Scarffs would have expected of this un- fortunate.

Joseph Scarff was moved to something like shame for his long neglect.

“I hope you have come to stay, Lena,” he wrote on a sheet of paper. She thanked him with a kiss on his cheek, so charmingly given that the Scarffs started in amazement. None of them could have done anything so spontaneous.

“I would like to have my old room, if you please,” she wrote.

“That little old room! You shall have a larger one,” her father replied. But she insisted upon the old one and made herself at home there. The family went to bed that night with mingled feelings, chief among which was that of the diffi- culty of the situation. This beautiful girl could not be hidden as the seemingly half witted child had been. So far from intruding upon the family, she kept rath- er exclusively to her own room, which she had fitted up with a divan, which she made into a bed at night, and with the bench and tools of her woodcutting craft. On the wall, with its fresh tint of cool green, were hung the patterns she used and many a specimen of her clever handi- craft. There had been cabinet makers in the Scarff family, one of whom was fa- mous, and artists were not unknown ei- ther. Moreover, in this way, Joseph Scarff was an artist too. So there was ability to give a true appreciation to this work, and ihe Scarffs began to wonder if they had not a genius in their midst.

Later; when the news had gone abroad that this original young wood carver had come to town, those who had taken note of her work at certain exhibitions began to call. Bhe asked to join a society of the arts and crafts. Stories of her beau- ty and spirituality and talent went out Artists of many sorts came to msike her acquaintance and te .complimeat her upon the beauty of her work. A Bohe- mian circle was open to her, and she be- gan to delight in the friendship of dis- tinguished men and women. The little hall room was often crowded to over flowing.

The Scarffs began to talk much of their gister and to make capital even of the difficulties under which she worked. They entered into a plan suggested by her father to build a studio on the back of the house which could be entered from the street and where she could entertain in the evening when she pleased. And they offered to add to the pleasure of these evenings by furnishing music on the piano or violin or flute.

In brief the Scarffs found the greatest cause for pride which they had ever knows in the girl whom they had once despised and treated with cruel neglect. But it sometimes puzzled them and caus- ed them honest chagrin to discover that, however courteous and kind this silent sister of theirs might be, it was not to them, but to others, that she gave glances of undisguised affection. She remained, so far as the Scarffs were con- cerned, remote, alien—no satellite, but a beautiful star, moving proudly in its ows erbit.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Some British Regiments:

The Eighth hussars (the King’s Royal Irish) preserve the memory of the brave deeds of their regiment by a peculiar mode of wearing the sword belt. Instead ef being worn about the waist & is worm ever the right shoulder. This ts in com-

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oot COS PANT conduct vor tue at the battle of Saragossa,

hen the belts of the Spanish cavalry vere captured. The nickname of “Cross Helts” will always stick to the regiment.

he officers and staff sergeants of the Welsh fusileers are allowed to have what is called a flash on the back of the neck of the coats. The regiment used to wear pigtails until about the year 1807, and the supposition is that, having re- t:ined them after other regiments had iixcarded them, they were allowed to re- ‘aia the flash on the coat collar as a mark of distinction.

One regiment always wear white plumes in their caps in memory of their gallantry at St. Lucia in 1778. The men plucked the white feathers from the hats of the Frenchmen and put them in their own,

“The Rammiggur Boys” is the name of the Fourteenth hussars, which in 1848 defeated the Sikh army at Rammiggur.

The “Buffs” enjoy the privilege of marching through London with drums beating and colors fiying. — Leslie’s Weekly,

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“Oh, George,” tearfully exclaimed his wife, meeting him at the door, “that par- rot you brought home the other day!”’

“What's the matter with him?” asked Mr. Ferguson.

“I don’t know. He won’t tell me. When I ask him what the trouble is, he just swears dreadfully!”’—Chicago Trib une,

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We have an unusally larze and well selected stock. Here are a few lines we are selling quantities of just now.

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Men’s Underwear.

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Men’s Natural Cotton Shirts and Drawers, well finished, feel like silk, well worth $2.50. As we have an extra supply of this line we have reduced the orice, the suit......$2.00

Natural Wool, Medium Weight, although the manufacturers price is advanced, we will seli atold price ......++e0$2.25

For those who cannot wear cotton we have very fine and light weight made from Australian wool, the suit.......-$4.00

Men's Colored Shirts.

In this line we have the larzest stock of up-to-date patterp found in the city.

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