Following heavenward

IT was raining drearily, and but few people were abroad—that is, few comparatively speaking, though the streets seemed full of hurrying, dripping mortals. In the large dry-goods...

SETTLED, that is, so far as the class of boys in the corner would permit the use of that term. They had not settled in the least. Two of them indulged in a louder burst of laugh...

THOUGH they rushed out with even more noise than usual, every boy of them knew that the noise was to cover a certain sense of shame-facedness, because they had actually been beg...

IT was not a "pet" name. Poor Mart Colson would not have known what to do with a pet name. Her life had not taught her how to use such phrases. How she came to be named Martha,...

"I DON'T suppose you can go into details just now," she added, noting young Reid's hesitation and embarrassment; "but I was wondering if you could give me some general idea of w...

"THAT Black Dirk is a case," said Policeman Duffer, turning hastily away from an unusually stupid man who could not be made to understand where a certain street was. "He is the...

A RIOT! Not among men, which is sufficiently terrifying, nor yet among women, which is worse, but that most awful of all sights and sounds of sin—a riot among the children. Swea...

"It is not scheming, Evan; I am only trying to set about the work for which I have been chosen. I'll tell you how it all came to me. I was reading—my morning reading, you know—a...

IT is well that Mrs. Marion Dennis felt entirely safe in her friend Flossy's hands, for her affairs were very thoroughly talked over that evening, and sundry conclusions arrived...

OTHER business was transacted that morning which brought results. A curious habit of Mrs. Roberts's—one which, perhaps, most strongly marked the difference between her ways of w...

"No," she said promptly; "we haven't had a bit nice times to-day; and as for liking you, I haven't done so to-day at all. If I had the least idea that you meant often to treat m...

"THOSE two people can think and talk of nothing but those dreadful boys," said Gracie to herself, half annoyed and wholly interested. She found herself that very evening turning...

ONE feature of the hour was not only entirely new to the boys, but gave them a curious feeling, the name of which they did not understand. When the last one sat back in his chai...

SALLIE CALKINS sat in a common little rocking-chair and rocked; and while she rocked she sewed, setting neat stitches in a brown coat which was already patched and darned, and w...

This was the question which Gracie Dennis asked of young Reid as he stood beside her at the piano. She had been playing, and he had come to the music alcove for the purpose of t...

BUT the question which would keep forcing itself an Gracie Dennis was this: "If he really knows of nice books, full of 'the beautiful' and 'the ennobling,' that would enlighten...

"I don't believe this part of the programme will work," Alfred said confidently, the moment the door closed after Mrs. Roberts. "Those fellows will all be afraid of Mr. Roberts,...

YOU are not to suppose, because this first Monday evening (which, by the way, was concluded with sandwiches and coffee) was a success, pronounced so by all concerned, that there...

"WELL," said Mr. Reid, "we should want to have one of our number not 'on a level.' How would it do to appoint you, Dr. Everett, to give us a few lectures in hygiene? Popular lec...

"I don't want to argue with you, dear, and I couldn't if I wished—you know I am a dunce about all such things; but I just want to ask you a little question. You need not answer...

DR. EVERETT was driving rapidly through the city—at least, as rapidly as the crowded character of the streets would permit. He was out on professional duty, and had just been co...

HAD Dr. Everett desired in a few words to show Gracie the gulf between herself and the man who had been the girl's companion for the afternoon, perhaps he could not have formed...

"I MUST call at this house," the doctor said, suddenly drawing rein before a quiet little house at the foot of a wide lawn. "The gatekeeper of this American castle has a sick ch...

THIS was the thought: Suppose Dirk Colson should want to take his sister. Sallie did not believe it in the least probable—she had not that amount of faith in Dirk Colson; but su...

"DO you know," said Mrs. Roberts, addressing Gracie Dennis, who, with young Reid, had waited in the hall for her to join them (they were ready for the lecture, and were to take...

SHE found her standing before the mirror. By reason of the fact that she understood no pretty trick of braid or curl, her long yellow hair hung just as nature had made it, with...

Much prayer had been made for Dirk Colson, but few had thought of his sister. Sallie Calkins, it is true, had come with trembling steps into the light of Christ's love, and had...

Dr. Everett was summoned. The wretched bed, with its distressing rags, was turned out altogether, and a comfortable one took its place. Broths and teas and jellies and physical...

YOU think things are taking very rapid strides? Well, don't you know that there come periods when they do just that thing, or appear to? Why, even the buds on the trees teach us...

IT was Monday evening, and there was company at Mr. Roberts's home—not the usual Monday evening gathering, but quite a large party of well-dressed men and women, many of them yo...

THAT was the beginning of a new effort. There were certain young ladies becoming well known to Mrs. Roberts by reason of a similarity of tastes which drew them to her.