"Senor Barrow, I congratulate you," Morale said, in his native tongue. "A woman who cannot be won away by passion or by chance, is a woman of gold."

GERTRUDE B. MILLARD,
in On the Ciudad Road, The Newsletter, Jan., 1899.


AT THE PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO.

The rose and honey-suckle here entwine

In lovely comradeship their am'rous arms;

Here grasses spread their undecaying charms.

And every wall is eloquent with vine;

Far-reaching avenues make beckoning sign,