6 OL' TIME HTTEKIN' BEES. llcm'ry often takes an outing Kram the present passing show, Spreads her pinions and goes scouting To the scenes of long ugo. Back unto the fun and frolic Of the rural sports and plays; Pi nsures charmingly bucolic That were ours in younger days, And the very chief of these "Were the country liuskin' bees. On the old barn floor we'd gather, Boys and girls and older folks. Hearts as light as downy feather, lilps all ripe with rustic jokes. Air just sparkling with our laughter As the. guy hours onward sped Vniil every cobwebbed rafter in the shadows overhead S« i mod to quiver and to ring .As a high-keyed tiddle string Now and then the air was riven With a shout t'd wake the tb ad When the fates had kindly given Som.' fair girl an ear of red. Then would come the kissing struggle 'Mid the husks upon the floor, After which the girl would snuggle To him closer than before, Blushing; to her finger tips From the thrill upon her lips. How the jolly picture lingers . With us through the fleeting years Of the way the toll-scarred lingers Snatched the jackets from the ears. Of the Hashing lanterns hanging Hound, and 1 casting flickers o'er Merry dancers who were banging Dust from out the old barn floor, As the tiddler jerked his bow Musically to and fro. Kvery day 1 hear the singing Of some simple country ode, Melody of youth days ringii g Through our mountainland abode, Arid my loving glances wander To an aging wifely face That I learned to love back yonder In that far east country place- Caught her with a red ear, see? At a country huskln' bee. —James Barton Adams, in Denver Post. I THE SHADOW OF HER LIFE I| ByJ ' n ' WILLIAMS j (Copyright, UM,b7 D»llj Storjr Pub. Oo.) BROWNE gazed in astonishment at the girl beside him. What could she mean? Was she really in earnest in telling him this ridiculous story? In the sad eyes that looked steadily into his there was nothing but the most in tense earnestness. Perhaps—but he thrust the thought, from him; lie could not. would not think the girl he loved mentally unbalanced. During the last few weeks he had watched her change from a bright, glad-hearted girl into a nervous, despondent woman; the eyes once so gay and frank had now a shift ing. haunted expression, which pained him inexpressibly. "Judith." he asked, "how long has t his creation of your imagination,—l beg your pardon, dearest —this companion of yours been known to you?" "Ever since I was a tiny child," Judith replied wearily. "A child! How very strange!" "immediately after my mother died, In those sad days when 1 was alone and desolate, Henri began to visit me. He was a beautiful boy, as bright and full of spirits as I was melancholy. He changed ray life, Charles. I believe I should have gone insane but for him. You know I always was a very nervous child." "And now " thought Browne, "she is a very nervous woman. That is the only explanation possible for this strange idea of hers; her extreme ner vous temperament and the morbid state of mind brought about recently by her father's death." "Yes, Judith, I remember well what a pale, sensitive little creature you used to be, but after your step mother came, you changed wonderfully. I believe you were happier and more healthy after that, were you not. dear?" "Yes, very much happier. Mamma has Indeed been a blessing to me. From the I ime of her coming up to dear papa's death I was perfectly content, and dur ing that sweet, happy time, I had very few visits from Henri. In fact, he stopped coming altogether, and I had given up all hope of ever seeing him again until about a month ago." "When you were a child, and he visited you so frequently, did anyone else see him?" "No. Charles. That is the strangest part of it; he never came when others were about, and everyone laughed at me. and thought me crazy w hen I talked of him." "Well, dearest, I am glad you told me this, for I want to know your past life and all your experiences. But Henri does not affect our life at all; he has nothing to do with your love for me nor mine for you." "Oh Charles, you do not understand! He affects our life very much." "What do you mean, Judith? Has your heart changed toward me?" "Oh no. no! It will never change toward you. dear," answered the girl, ■Willing steadfastly lnlo Browne's eyes, while nerown were full of love, and yet of a deep sadness as well. "Well, dear one, can't, you tell me w hat is the trouble then?" asked Browne, draw ing her closer to him. "Charles." she replied, "when Henri and 1 were growing up, in those days when he was everything to me. I prom ised to be his wife, to wait until the timo came when he could come for trie from his home in France, where he was poot and unhappy and misunderstood. You understand now; I am engaged to H'T.r dear." "Oh Judith. Judith! Can you let a phantom, a hallucination, come between us? How can you use me so?" Browne's face w is full of agony. "Charles, don't speak so! I'd give the world if it were only a phantom. Wait a. moment." And Judith drew from ner neck a chain, and Browne saw, suspend ed from it, a simple little ring, set with a few tiny gaiT«*s. "This is our eugage ment ring." she continued. "TTenrl has one from me just like it." "Oh God!" groaned her lever, "what can be the meaning of all this! Her mind is unbalanced through her grief!" But Judith's eyes were quite sane and full of womanly tenderness as she tried to comfort him. "Be patient, dearest." she said. "I shall try to be true to you, and when | Henri comes, a-- he will soon, I shall ex- ; plain it all to him. and it may be he ■ will release me from my promise. I did not mean to be false to him; oh. no! I j never meant that! But after papa's '• second marriage, when I was so happy with mamma, Henri seemed to leave me altogether, and I thought he had for gotten all about me. And then you came, and 1 loved you so!" And now it was Browne's turn to offer comfort, j as Judith buried her head in hisshoul- 1 der. sobbing piteously. "When Henri visited me again." she continued after a few moments, "just. a short time after papa died, he was much changed, lie was a boy when we j parted; now he is a man.and a rich one, J at last, but he is lonely and needs me, ; he says. Oh Charles, it. is so strange \ that no one else knows Henri! I cannot understand it! But it w ill all be clear. Henri is coming for me soon. He will arrive on the Nereus." "The Nereus! That is due next week! And if he does not come, Judith, what then?" "He will come. Charles: I knew he will!" she insisted, and nothing Browne could say could shake her confidence in the arrival of her mysterious friend. "The Nereus is in. Judith," Brown? remarked, as he greeted her a few days later. "Yes, I know, dear." she replied quiet ly, but her voice trembled with excite- j m°nt and her eyes burned feverishly. "I am expecting Henri every moment. Don't ]oa\e nie. Charles. I am a little nervous to-day." "Sit down, dear. Wait for him here." j "Oh no. I can't sit down! 1 can't stay \ still! Come out on the porch with me." ( "Soon it will be all right, dearest," Browne reassured her. as they stood to gether looking out on the street. But I although his tunes \\ 112 re quiet, lie was | as excited and anxious as Judith herself, i for he felt his life and hers depended I upon the issue of the present crisis. A few moments passed in silent waiting. A cab came siowlv into view. To Browne's surprise, it stopped at the pate. "Does Miss Clermont live here?" the cabman inquired. "Yes," Browne replied, "have you l news for her?" The man did not reply, but lifted out and slowly bore up the steps the un conscious form of a handsome French man. For a moment Judith seemed ! stunned, then .she quietly led the way to a bed room, and asked that her mother ! and a physician be summoned. A for- 1 eigner who had assisted the cabman In i bringing in the body remained in the j room, watching the scene, his face full ■ of sadness. "Who is this?" Browne asked him, | pointing to the quiet form over which Judith bent. "He is my friend. Henri Le Blanc." ! answered the man in low tones. "We came on the Nereus this morning; he is , to be married. Henri is a good fellow." j At this moment. Mrs. Clermont en- j tered with a physician and for hours they labored over the unconscious Le | Blanc, Judith moving about as in a dream. "He was struck by a wagon," the for- 1 eigner explained to Browne. "He did 1 not see it coming; he seemed to be in a dream. He never was like other people. If he were not so good, I should think he had a devil in him! he is so queer. ; He talks when no one is near him and acts so strangely. But. Henri is a rich man now. so no one speaks ill of him. When be was poor,—ugh! no one would associate with him then, —said he was crazy!" "Have you known him long?" asked ! Browne. "Oh yes. all my life. He made me his slave, but 1 love him! He always was good to me. 1 wish to drink, to gamble; ►he stops me when I am a hundred miles away from him! lam about to commit a dreadful crime. I have to give up and goto Henri, and he all the time far away from nie! Oh. Henri has saved me j many times! Then he made nie come over to America with him to see him marry this young lady here." "It is no use." said the doctor. "He Is gone now. He seems to have bean all nerve and brain, and no vitality, poor 1 fellow." "Henri gone!" cried the little for eigner. "Mon Dieu, I must go. too!" ■ And his small body rocked in a paroxysm ! of grief. Gently Mrs. Clermont led him j away, and Browne and Judith were alone, j looking down at the quiet face and ! folded hands of the dead Frenchman Suddenly Browne started. "Look. Judith." he exclaimed, "the same little ring you wear! See, five lit _ tie garnets!" But Judith did not hear him. For a long time she knelt beside the inani-| mate form. Browne watching her with . ever-increasing riread and anxiety, i Finally she raiser! her head and looked \ into her living lover's eyes. "It is ail over now, dearest." she said. I a light breaking over her face, "nothing ; is between us; the shadow of my life > has disappeared." What was it? Who of us can tell? What is doubtless the larsest meteor- j ite "in captivity" is now on exhibition j in the Museum of Natural History. In New York. It weghs about r>o tons, j Commander Peary found it in the arctic ! regions, and brought sout h a lew years j ago, says the Youth's Companion In- j til recently it was stored in the Brook lyn navy yard. 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Poltava is sunk and that the battle ! ship Ketvizan is listing heavily to ! port. "Observations taken December 6 covered the results of the bombard ment of December 5. Since December 2 we have daily bombarded the enemy's fleet lying south of Paiyu : mountain. From that point only the | masts and funnel tops of the battle i ships Pobieda, Retvi/.an or the cruiser | Pallada could be seen, but it was im ! possible to count the number of our | shells taking effect. "On other ships explosions resulting from our shells could be seen, but ; owing to their positions behind hills . it.was difficult exactly to identify them. "On December seven shells struck the battleship Pobieda and about 3:30 p. nt. a big explosion was observed south of Paiyu mountain, resulting from the effect of our shells, evidently on a powder magazine." Japanese troops occupied Akasaka Hill, fronting on Port Arthur, Tues day. The Russian armored cruiser Bayan is reported to be aground. RUSSIAN WARSHIPS IN BAD CONDITION. Tokio, Dee. !>. —As the result of the Japanese bombardment from 203 Meter Hill the Poltava has been sunk, i the Kel vizaii is listing to starboard and her upper deck nearly submerged; the I'eresviet, according to the report of the commanding officer of tlie naval land battery received at Tokio Thurs day, has certainly been sunk: the Pal lada is beginning to list to port and is still undergoing a vigorous bombard ment; tile Pobieda is seriously dam aged, listing aft and submerged to the I stern walk, and the Mayan is aground and burning. Thus two of the five battleships have been sunk, two have been seri ously damaged or in danger of meet ing the fate of the Poltava and the j Peresviet, and the fifth, the Sevasto | pol, seems to be somewhat out of the j Japanese range. Of the cruisers the ; Bayan seems to have been altogether I disabled, while the Pallada is listing and is a special object of the Japanese fire. Mukden. Dec. !>. —The Russians con tinue to bombard the Japanese posi tions with both heavy and light artil lery. The Japanese response is feeble. St. Petersburg, Dec. 9.—Russia has no intention of sending the Black Sea : fleet to reinforce Admiral Rojestven sky's squadron. It, is, however, Rus | sia's purpose to send a third squadron from the Baltic as soon as possible. FURIOUS FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR. Headquarters of the Japanese Third Army Before Port Arthur, November i 28, \ iit Tien Tsin, Dec. 10.—The gen era! assault on Port Arthur began at | noon November 20. In the first series of assaults an attempt was made t» 1 capture the forts at Ribbing and Kek i wan mountains by penetrating the i principal line of fortifications stir : rounding them and to envelop- the : city from the east. At the same : time a strong force pushed up the gorge of Shishi valley between two fortified ridges and attacked the sup ; porting fort in the rear of West Rib bing mountain, officially called Sung shn mountain, with the intention of enveloping tlie city from the west. The attempt failed after the most, furious fighting that has been wit i nessed since Port Arthur was invest ed. The lighting lasted from noon of November 2ti until after dawn of the following day without cessation. The assault began in the early morning with a tremendous bombard ment of the forts on the western half of the eastern fortified ridge by a bat tery on the crest of a ridge to the rear, j For hours the whole western half of the fortified ridge was deluged with heavy shells. At noon the principal line of fortifications was a perfect hell of bursting shrapnel and the spectacle was more wonderful than anything previously seen. The fighting of the afternoon and nighi was the most desperate and san guinary since the siege began. The opposing forces were so close together that only the fort walls or a few yards of level ground separated them. The struggle front start to finish was at close quarters, with bayonets and | grenades and rifles used as clubs. The awful struggle continued until j 2 o'clock in the morning. London, Dec. 10.—-According to the morning Post's Shanghai dispatches i the Port Arthur forces, with the ex ception of those manning the forts, have already retreated to l.aotie , mountain. The Japanese casualties at 205 Metre Hill alone exceed the total of the battle of Nanshan, according to the Daily Mail's Tokio dispatches. Cannot Recover Damages. Laporte, lnd., Dec. 8.-—Judge Tut hill, in the superior court, has made a i ruling that damages cannot be recov ered for mental anguish alone. 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