THE COLUME1AN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. A LAUGH IN THE CHURCH. Ihe a.t on the wilding cush'on, ,.' ' Tha daar ( womiin of four; . ' Bar fet In their shiny slippers, Ilunp daniltna- over the floor. She meant to te wood: hail prrtrilwl; And so, with her lilg hrown eyes. 3he stared at the muetlnK-hoiise windows And counted tha crawling files. She looked far tip at the preacher: But she thought of the honey bees Droning away In the blossoms That whitened the cherry trees. She thought of the broken basket, Where, curled In a dusky heap. Three sleek, round pupplus, with frlng ea rs, Lay snuggled and fast asleep. Buch soft, warm bodies to ruddle, Such queer little hearts to beat. Such swift, round tongues to klra, Such sprawling, cushiony feet! 31ie could feel In her clasping linger The touch of the satiny skin, And a col l, wet nose exploring The dimples under her chin. . Then a sudden ripple of laughter ') Itan over the parted Hps, So quick that she could not catch It With her rosy tinner tips. The people whispered, "Hless the child;' As each ore waked from a nap; But the dear wee woman hid her face ; For shame In her mother's lap, New Orleans Times-Democrat. A BUNCH of mrropiLs. "Where aw you golns to spend yotir Easter vacation?" Little Mita made het way between property boxes ami scenlo shrubbery to where the contralto was waiting. "At home, dear; I spend all my vaca tions at home with the children. Poor little things, It Is so seldom they see their father and mother that we never let an opportunity go by for being to gether." The contralto's sentences, like some of her strong notes, were long, but they were as pure In thought fis the notes were In expression. "So you are going home for Easter?" Miss Jewell's step was light and they had not heard her approach. The treadth of carpet spread from her dressing-room to the stage to spare her daintv srnwnn nnrl U'hlra utinna Huad- ened the sound of her footsteps. Her question was an idle one, asked sole ly for the sake of saying something to the contralto, whom she liked. "Yes, I was saying to Mita that the children hardly know they have a father and mother. It always seems a pity to me that parents and children should be parted, though of course It is necessary sometimes." There was a careless smile on Miss Jewell's lips as she came from her dressing room. She knew that the au dlency was anxiously waiting for her to make her appearance; she knew Just how the applause would ring out when the curtain went down and how an usher would come down the aisle bearing a bouquet of her favorite roses, or, perhaps, a basket heaped with pur ple and white violets. She loved the flowers, she was proud of the applause and she had a child's fondness for the color and light that were always about her. "Where will you spend your holiday. Miss Jewell?" It was Mita's question. One always forgave Mita for asking questions on matters that could not possibly inter est her; she was such a childish crea ture. "I have not made any arrangements; I shall probably stay in town." A rather thoughtful expression came to Miss Jewell's face, for she remembered a letter she had received only that morning from a little town among the hills. "My daughter," the letter ran, "your father and I would like to see you. I hope we may soon." Who but a mother could write like that? She had folded the note and put It away in her desk. It would be Im possible for her to go to Dale for the short vacation of Easter week, and she knew it would be almost impossible to get away from Dale after a stay of only a day or two. And then the Allyns had asked her to accompany them to Old Point, and he had made up her mind U they insisted she would go. It had been a long time since Alice Jewell had paid a visit to Dale. Last Bummer she had been in the West; one week's vacation last winter had been spent in New York shopping; summer before last she had been yachting with the Bainbridge-Gladstones. In one way and another it had been three vears since she had felt the clasp of home hands and received the warm kiss of those who loved her best and whose pride she was. To be sure, papers with notices were always sent home; each birthday and holiday was marked by appropriate gifts; the father had a warm coat for Christmas and the mother a shell comb and the other trifles that mothers love, but the daughter's presence had been lacking. The audience was waiting for the fair singer's appearance. The basso and contralto had sung their song and little Mita had addtd her bit of color to the scene; then the gracious beautiful singer came softly on in her creamy robes and was singing her song as the lark sings es he rises up ajid up from the meadow in earliest morning. Tri umphant in its strength her voice rang out, and when the curtain ran down the applause ane, sounding to those be hind the scenes like the snapping of a brisk fire in underbrush. The curtain slowly rolled up and an usher glided down the aisle, as she kuew he would, and the leader leaned forward with her bouquet in his hand. Then us the applav.se continued the leader tapped the star. with his baton and the rir:.i viona took up the air of the song she had sung, and she repeat ed the refrain and the curtain went again, with her standing there with the flowers in her urr.-.s. They were not roses this time, nor violets fresh as if rain-washed, but great, yellow daffo dllls, creamy at the tips of the petala and deepening to the richest yellow la their cup-like hearts and exhaling an odor like nothing else upon this earth a combination of springtime scenta, a suggestion of cowslips and springing grass blades, on damp moss in the woods. Holding the flowers In her arms, she passed back to her dressing room. She pushed aside the articles on the Bhelf under her mirror and laid the flowers there. It had been hen wont to fasten some of the blossoms she re ceived each night in tor dress and hair. Some one out there la the audience hnrl sent her flowers every evening for weeks and had stayed on this side of the water long after he was due In poli tical circles at home, waiting to take the fair girl's promise back with him, but she delayed long In giving It. Sho pulled a few long-stemmed blos soms from the bunch and held them In her hand looking at them. It had been ft long time since she had held daffo dils in her hands. They were the flowers that hedged the garden path leading down to ;? i street from that little cottage In Dale. When the last snow was melting under the hemlocks li the ravine In the spring It was time for the "daffys" to be It. bud, the little, sharp points of green that stand like lances to grow and swell and burst into rich bloom. They were the first flowers her child ish fingers gathered; they were the flowers that always decked the table on her birthday. She remembered with a start that the day after to-morrow was her birthday, she had quite forgotten it until now. There is something that conies to one at times; one is not conscious of Its ap proach until It Is an actual presence. Some call It sentiment, but whatever It Is it was surely designed by all-wise Providence to touch and redeem the heart when It becomes world-hardened purse-proud, seltish and forgetful. The blase man of the world will sneer at his fellow-men and will pick up a tramp on the corner and take him where he can get a hearty supper. The modern Shyiock, holding his purse strings with finders of steel, will put a coin into n begger child's hand be cause she has eyes like some one he once knew. These yellow flowers, fresh as if just plucked in the prettiest gar den in Dale, brought back sweet me mories to Alice Jeweil and old-time acquaintances as If she had met them face to face. She remembered how the little mother would say when there were guests at the cottage: "Alice, get some flowers for the table." And on Sunday morning before church, they always made a tour of the garden to see what roses were in blossom, what flowers were budding and how long It would be before the "cups and saucers" and em peror pansies would be In bloom. She and Walter Hale, the boy who lived next door, and sown pansy seeds In the autumn under the north win dows and had gathered the blossoms In the spring when they were children. Walter was so fond of flowers and of her. Then when they were older he came to sing with her, and when she left home they had written to each other often. He was a student then In a distant city, but he said In one of his letters: "As soon as my graduation is over I am coming to the city to hear you sing." He was a full-fledged M. D. and he told her her mother was falling and had grown very old In these past two years. "I think it would do her good If you would go home once, Alice," he had said, and she had answered that It was impossible then. She had promised to go with some one to the seaside. He had looked very grave and seem ed disappointed. He reminded her then of a promise she had made him, but he said: "I do not expect you to keep it, Alice. Good fortune has come to you in such a way that you cannot leave It to become a village doctor's wife, but It was the hope of cy life and my spurs In college days." She felt rather piqued at his giving her up so easily, and when he left the city and sent her only a formal note of good-by, she had cried, a little and her eyes were misty now. Strange, what a train of thought these few flowers led to! Then she remembered the letter she had re ceived this morning. In that her mother had spoken of Dr. Hale, and said he was living alone In the old home with only Nancy, the old house keeper, for company. The plea of her mother for presence stung her. Self reproach is a bitter thing, but happy Is the one to whom it does not come too late. Her dressing room was filled now with the peculiar odor of the flowers; the call-boy had knocked twice. In another moment the stage would be waiting. She touched the flowers caressingly and then laid them down, p.:id in the moment that she was cross ing from her dressing room to the stage she made the great resolve of her life time. There was a dark man In the au dience, who was deeply disappointed when he saw sho was not wearing his flowers. He called her a coquette and felt that she was trifling with him. She gave no glances in his direction, and as she entered her carriage after the performance a note was handed to her. The writer was sorry he had made such a miserable choice of flowers this evening, as they were the last he would have an opportunity of sending; he must sail In a day or two. Would she kindly honor him on the morrow with a few moments' time that he might re ceive her definite answer? This, be thought, would settle the matter. When she found ho was really going she would not let him slip through her fingers. She read the note by the shaded light en her desk when she reached home. Her white cloak was still about her shoulders as she took up her dainty silver pen to answer it. "Yon never sent me flowers that touched Uie to much," she wrote. "Daf fodils r.re my favorites, and I shall keep thiH bunch always. I am sorry that I will not sea you again, for by the time you receive this I shall be out of to.vn. I am going to take a long vacation. I wish you bon voy age and tocd-by." the fiit that it was little to say, af ter ho hid been co kind, but It was bet t( r so. Another little note went to Mrs. Allyn: "It w:ll be in.poasible for me to ac cept your kind Invitation to accompany you to Old Point. Another engagement will prevent." Then she read over the letter again, beglning, "My Daughter." Between the lines she could read all the long ing and all the love and the tender ness, and she kissed the page where her tea. -s were dropping, and she said, "Never iiilnd, little mother, I am com ing." Lhe would not let them know; she would walk in upon them when they least expected her, Just In time for her birthday dinner. She wondered If Wal ter would be there. She supposed he wa3 busy; then a sudden resolve seized her and she took up hor pen again and wrote: "My birthday is the day after io-morrow. I am coning home for awhile. I do not know how long i shall stay perhaps as long as you all care to keep me. Will you help me gather Easter posies for the table ns you UBed to do?" She folded the note and scolod It with her dainty monogram and addreond it In her bold, dashing hnnd to "Dr. Wal ter Hale." And then when the maid had taken the letters to be posted, womanlike, she l rated her head upon her desk and cried as If her heart would break. With those tears she washed away all the ambition, selfish in Its intensity. that had compassed her round, and when she raised her face it shone with a pence and humbleness ns If "the voice that breathed peace to the waves of the sea," had spoken to her and she had heard. Exchange. To Tele h ne to the Moon An electrician has expressed his be lief that telephoning to the moon Is within the bounds of possibility. He argues that the ether which binds the planets together with an iron hand Is, while firm and solid, Infinitely clastic, an Ideal medium for the transmission of vibrations. The vibrations which constitute light come to us from the sun in eight minutes, travelling at the rate of 192,000 miles a second. It is iiosslble to produce waves moving at this enormous velocity by electrical j means. A pulsation of electricity causes i on ether wave, and In the telephone the Movement of Infinitely small waves produced by ether disturbance spread out into space, radiating; further and further in gigantic circles until swal lowed up In its immensity, like ripples on the ocean. If an Iron mans be In the vlci.-.ity of these pulsations it will give out a buzz or hum, ns shown In the passage of a current through some systems of street lighting apparatus for the transformation of high to low pressure. The moon undoubtedly con tains its proportionate amount of iron, and li.erefore the theory Is advanced that if we can send electrical pulsations io the moon, we can make things hum on its rugged surface. Such an experi ment would Involve "the use of a gigantic coil, mounted vertically, with its axis In line with the moon." The projector of the scheme adds: "If lives exist upon the lunar surface, if the murmur from the earth be heard, they will listen with sadness; they will feel that utter despair that brooks no con solation and stretches out Its arms in vain." It is to be hoped they would not take on In that way; it would be poor thanks to the man who built the gigantic coll. New York Times. Orlfiu of Hnkey l'okry. It Is an actual fact that old ice cream ts bought up by Italians and venders from restaurants and Ice cream stands, frozen a second and third time, and again offered for sale, to be consumed by the newsboys and general public un der the alluring title of hokey pokey. Almost every night these venders make the rounds of all the hotels, and buy up whatever has been left over from the day previous. This cream has all melted more or less to its orig inal consistency and If It is still frozen when they get It there is little left but fluid by the time it has reached Brook lyn and the Italian quarter. This melting process is the cause of all the danger. Cream once having been frozen und again melted very readily turns sour. In this stage it is poisonous. The vender of hckey pokey cares little whether or not the cream is sour. Quickly upon his return to his quarters he freezes all this mush, and packs it away for the next day's use. The few cases of poisoning that have come to the public notice are In all probablllv not the only ones that have occurred, for physicians say that many cases of poisoning have occurred in the districts where the hokey pokey ven ders are that could not be accounted for, because of the suddenness of death. It has generally been understood that certain establishments are putting out large quantities of hokey pokey and supplying the venders, but this is not so. The Italians and their families are the only ones who manufacture and cater to the consumers. New York Herald. . i What Shu Wanted. "I swear " he cried, passionately. "Don't," she interrupted. "It's wrong to swear." "Why mock me?" he asked bitterly. "I am old, it is true, but I love you fondly, truly, devotedly." "Prove it," the suid coldly. "I am young and beautiful, and have had many men at my feet young men in the flush of manhood. Y'ou are old enough to " "Stay!" he cried. "Do not think of my age! Think only of my love! Think of all I would do for you, all I would give to " "What would you give?" she inter rupted. "Anything, everything. I would give my life " "I don't want It." "What more can I do? What would you have?" "Well, I was thinking of your insur ance. How much Is it?" Then he knew that she was not for him; that there was something about the heart he had been after that made It resemble an automatic lightning cal culator, and lie went badly out into the cold world, although the thermometer registered S5. Chicago Evening Post. YVoillrll IH.V if I Mine Slitneil, The new woman will not black her own shoes. No one has discovered that quicker than the Loolblncks. Accord ingly a sign new to the streets Is springing up in various part of the city. One lu outline id In process of construction on a tasc-ruont window in Wabash avenue. It leads: "Ladles' Shoe Polishing a Specialty." Down below stairs cushioned chairs 6tand In a row on a white marble rostrum. Dainty brass footrests are placed in front of the chnlra ani the whole is concealed from the male portion of the establishment .by a fancy Japanese fccrecn. The plttce is net f:r from the Woman's Club and is ner.r the Wo man's Exchange, the Noonday Rest, and the new Suburban Club for women, and promises to Uo a good trade. Chicago Tribune. Alu'Hj the &:ime. The new woman! Nonsonse! Let hei rig herself up as sho pleases, let hei talk as she will, sho Ik and will alwayi be the same dear old firl. New Yoili un. ALEXANDER DEALERS IN Cigars, Tctacco, Candies, Fruits and lints SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Maillanl'a Fine Caudio. Fresh Every Week. 2Pjlv:z?z Gooso j Specialty, SOLE AGENTS FOR F.F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Solo agents for the Haniy Clay, Lonires, Noma!, Indian Princess, Sarr.sor., Silver Acb Bloomsburg Pa. Thrift is a c:oocl saving results from cleanli ness and SAPOLIO B. F. Sharpless, Tres. N. U. Or- BLOOMSBURG LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. Capital Stock, $30,000. Plotted property 13 in the town. It includes also nart of equal in desirability for residence purposes. CHOICE LOTS are offered at values that will be doubled in a short time. No such opportunity can be Lots secured on SMALL Mans of the town and of plotted nronertv fiimishp.l m htJ . t -4 j "I- plication. Call upon or write to the Secretary, or J. S. "Wnnda Am. tjeui, or auj memoeroi tne BOARD OF B. F. Sharpless: C. AV. .Neal, A. G. dr. ii. w. JUcKeynolds, THE POSITIVE CURE. I ELY BROTHERS, 64 Wvraa 8U Ken York. Price 80 cU. THE SOUTH CENTEAl CCSSOLIDATED GOLD MH1J3 INS MILLING CO. I.NC'OHKHATKD.) CAPITAL STOCK - - - $2,000,000. Mtiareii ll oo eacb. Fun Paid ana Mot.Aesnable. HftallAft In nnvmant tor t . I . , . General Offices, 712-713 National Bank ot t, no. TREASURY RESERVE STOCK, $300,000. In Shares of $1.00 Each, Full-raid and Non-Assessal.ti.. GOLD. vice 1'hra'T cnt .1 W L.'mmT,'?: KomV!YHdV co it E- 1 . 1 nil ot Hit nirpi'tnr I Tl.'fiwl-uvij vi. 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