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long fringe it's got. Oh, my! don't go to cryin'! Here comes Orville." She stepped aside quickly. When her husband entered his eyes fell instantly on his mother, weeping childishly over the new shawl. She was in the old splint rocking-chair with the high back. "_Mother!_" he cried; then he gave a frightened, tortured glance at his wife. Emarine smiled at him, but it was through tears. "Emarine ast me, Orville--she ast me to dinner o' herself! An' she give me this shawl. I'm--cryin'--fer--joy--" "I ast her to dinner," said Emarine, "but she ain't ever goin' back again. She's goin' to _stay_. I expect we've both had enough of a lesson to do us." Orville did not speak. He fell on his knees and laid his head, like a boy, in his mother's lap, and reached one strong but trembling arm up to his wife's waist, drawing her down to him. Mrs. Endey got up and went to rattling things around on the table vigorously. "Well, I never see sech a pack o' loonatics!" she exclaimed. "Go an' burn all your Christmas dinner up, if I don't look after it! Turncoats! I expect they'll both be fallin' over theirselves to knuckle down to each other from now on! I never see!" But there was something in her eyes, too, that made them beautiful. THE SUN'S HEAT. BY SIR ROBERT BALL, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge, England; formerly Royal Astronomer of Ireland. There is a story told of a well-intentioned missionary who tried to induce a Persian fire-worshipper to abandon the creed of his ancestors. "Is it not," urged the Christian minister, "a sad and deplorable superstition for an intelligent person like you to worship an inanimate object like the sun?" "My friend," said the old Persian, "you come from England; now tell me, have you ever seen the sun?" The retort was a just one; for the fact is, that those of us whose lot requires them to live beneath the clouds and in the gloom which so frequently brood over our Northern latitudes, have but little conception of the surpassing glory of the great orb of day as it appears to those who know it in the clear Eastern skies. The Persian recognizes in the sun not only the great source of light and of warmth, but even of life itself. Indeed, the advances of modern science ever tend to bring before us with more and more significance the surpassing glory with which Milton tells us the sun is crowned. I shall endeavor to give in this article a brief sketch o
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