My Toast,
Not to the queen of fashion;
Not to the jeweled breast;
¥ot to the slave of fashion;
Not to the royal crest.
Not to the brow that’s fairest;
Not to the eye most bright;
Not to the genius rarest,
Ihe toast 1 give to-night.
Not to the rich, almsgiving;
Not to the lips most red;
Not to the great ones living;
to the sacred dead,
.
Not
My toast is far more cheery
[0 every man with eyes,
Who hears the drama, weary
Behind a bat of size.
i lift my goblet foaming,
To that
Who
sweet girl, so sage,
takes off her hat,
ite and pat,
t us see the stage.
her 1 lift the 1
Brimming with sparkliog
And quafl full measure,
To each new pleasure,
Her bare head gives to rine,
OAKer,
wine,
REIS.
WINNING A PRIZE.
lignity to maintain,
an
and
pack up,’
COO] OF
goes, Of
two
ay
aid Mrs
nite ell
1, by half,” said Almira.
her head. “*Anvhow
h a fuss about it that Mr.
esson has got to Although Mrs,
ta word of fault to find,
his way as regular Sat.
comes around, and
i cooms tos. But Mr. Pon-
wouby Hunt says that don’t prove any-
hing common folks that
rood day's wages, will pay any money
rowd themselves up among
ipper ten! And she as good as said she
was afraid ber Berenice would get in-
terested in Mr. Cresson if he stayed teo
¢. because Berenice was young and
y, and he did talk so pleasant and
about his travels in Egypt, and
And,” added
I o>
i go.
Brow
Lia Lis Ix
i as
irda might
has one
f 1h
Lod
{ y aot
these el
the
i
h
with her shin
wen, “Mrs, Ponsonby Hunt says she
most knows that he was one of the
masons sent to Alexandria to find out
tbout the removal of the Obelisk, when
t was brought here. ‘Otherwise how
would he get to Egypt?’ she says.’’
“Do tell!” cried Mrs, Chatter,
red to tell him she wants her room,”
went on Almira, “And the Smith’s,
wiry for him, mother, he looked so be-
wildered and lonesome, and so I told
vim be might core here for four dollars
y+ week! s0 let's go right upstairs,
mother,” added breathless Almira,
ee me AAAI
“and see if we can’t change the carpet
get a little varnish and shine up
furniture a bit, and
Almira flew up the stairs, with
Chatter slowly trudging after.
“But Almira,”
Mrs,
pleaded the pool old
'
with a boarder!
in my life!”
“There's
[ never kep’' boarders
{oy do, mother.”
cried Almira, “Only make him feel that
he is welcome, and do all vou ean to fill
We are plain people
but I did feel awful sorry when 1
while Mrs. Brown
3 >
the Ponsonby
BAW
ng
that
in the same ly
1
He mayn’t ¢ rent
ippel
I'ma sure,
arm with a
‘‘swhat makes vou
.}
e-mason teller?
an interest in
13% fn
iS SLO)
LOOK
as might
Haver
change pi i
Mr. Ponsonby
3
JUTO
immer?’
cent smile.
“Mr.
wh
OW
{ress n!
Kt cou
nter-que
“Impudent fellow thi
to our Berenice jus
taught him
place, 1 Mrs. Brown
any peace until him away”
nodding triumphantly at the landlady,
who was wailing Mr. Ponsonby
Hunt's late .o'Did 1, Mrs
Brown!"
“My dear, my dear, what are
talking about?’ cried Mr. Ponsonby
Hunt, dropping his knife and fork in
dismay. “Mr. Cresson! Our bank
president! Why, when 1 heard he had
been at this house" “Mr. Ponsonby
Hunt vou must be out of vour senses!”
exclaimed Mrs, Ponsonby Hunt
acerbity. “This was quite a common
the
foundation stones of the old Lighthouse
never gave
she sent
On
supper
You
the man who has purchased this whole
tract of land!” exclaimed Mr, Ponsonby
“He is the president of our
I never have seen him, but I'm
told that he Is a very plain, unobtrusive
gentleman, who never puts on any airs,
and" Mrs! Ponsonby Hunt burst into
tears,
“Why didn’t you tell tae?” she wail-
ed,
“Beegase, my dear, I didn’t know it
myself until I came back from Eu-
rope,’’ sald Mr, Ponsonby Hunt,
“Only to think,” almost screamed
Mrs, Ponsonby Hunt, “that our Bere.
nice might have attracted him. if it
hadn't been for that bold,
audacious waitress!’
“But here,” as Mrs. Drown after-
ward told her particular friends, “I
couldn't hold my longer,
{ And | Ys
| deed, ma'nm, 1t was all yourown doing!
And there hain’t a soul along the beach
{ here but is heartily glad th ag
| pretty girl like Almira Chatter has go
a husband worth having!”
Mrs. Brown was right. She had but
| expressed the voice of public opinion.
As for Almira, she said but little,
“1 love him? uttered. uf
couldn't do more il vorth a
| millions of
undred
tongue no
00d,
$
she
he was
i money!”
-— re -
A CEYLON COFFEE ESTATE.
wee Profits---The Leal Discase
The
flist thing a planter who was
| going ing
to start coffee planting on
own account in Ceylon had to do was
to look out for a suitable “‘block’’ of
gle, by which name all virgin forest
jung irgl
is known, in contradistinction to forest
allowed to
his
which had once felled and
grow up again, which is known
chena, All the forest lands are in
possession of the British Government,
and when planter had located a
suital t in his application
y» government, which then
veyor, who surveyed it
ounding jungles as well.
up averaging
and was then advertised to be
public at neares!
ment generally Kandy,
)
1
I as
the
the
ile block he sen
An
into blocks
h
Lille
auction
Kaci i
mountain
nce }
nex eared,
This
ors whose mode
was have it c¢
was let ingalee contrac
LO say
axes or cut
they 8
When the estate is
have cost the planter for 200
altogether say 235.000 to 840,000
state in full bearing would
in unkeep say $12,000 per annum;
a very average crop would be 500
weight of coffee per acre, which would
net $25 per hundred weight, This would
give a clear profit of $13.000, but the
usual crop was nearer eight hundred
five. When leal disease
set in, however. the crops were reduced
to about one and two hundred weight
an acre, sometimes as low as one-haif
| hundred weight; while the cost of un-
keep, owing to the dearness of money
bearing
J acre e
ist
greatly increased, so that ualess a
planter had the purse of Fortonatus it
| did not take many years to ruin him,
After the estate is once in bearing
coffee planting becomes more horticul-
ture than agriculture,
and manured. The manuring is
most expensive part of coffee planting.
On some estates large numbers of cat-
brightness of
§ Redfern
In the waning
old trysting-place alone,
ring—her wedding
rig
finga, She touched
11s,
is vour wedding
She looked «
4 ¥
flown at her linget
start. her heart fail her at h
“Why, Jack,’ flushing and
with embarrassment, *'it
finger. I hope 1 have not lost it
Her husband threw het
with a muttered exclamation,
strode but of the house without a wor i.
Il though the Spring night, from the
rising to the settu g of the stars, Phyllis
waited, but Jack did not return, She
no
ME
8 tone
peaking
Was on mn)
from
| but in addition to cattle a large quan-
{ tity of patent forcing
| used, This was especially so arter leaf
| disease made its appearance. When
| that scourge first began seriously to
| threaten Ceylon, the planters spared no
ill over his cruelty.
Morning came at last and
fern. Jack's mother, appeared,
Mrs, Red-
SHR
newborn babe was heard I
* said Phyllis, :
wd he may nes
--
Fell Pure Water.
LO
———
Andover
Woman.
HSE
HO
NOTES.
~30llah and Alcads are being
backed heavily for the Kentucky
Derby.
to Ken-
stand at
—Phallas will not be taken
tucky, but will continue
Racine,
After a one day's experiment at
New Orleans, Sunday racing has been
abandoned,
to
ft
— Mike Dwyer left for the Arkansas
Hot Springs ast week, accompanied |
Lis little daughter,
| Lady Haven |
—P, MeCarney is driving ¢
a 4-year-oid 144
dam the Brustar
DY 4 Bon OL 33X
HATE,
Bonner
0 for Maud 8.
ay another
I I anouiel
J
yw valuable a star
when out
per had
sh +4 |
hed the s
biaad
performed
interest and
phenomenal
would have given
next dav to have been able to re-
store Harry Wilkes to what he was,
But Harry, as a stallion, might never
have attained the fame he has reached
as a gelding.
$1000
~The breeding farm of J. B. Hag-
gin, Rancho del Paso, California, is
undoubtedly the most extensive estab-
lishment of its kind in the world. The
—-—-—
Unsolved Mysteries,
Mystery
stand on a cold day,
1 up and
Vige
jy
How a
wil
her head
h her
bare,
across the
and not think
sit ina
an «
sleeves
and visit w neighbor
fence fifteen nite
of taking ] and yet cannot
cold half wrapped in
furs and plushes, without shivering all
and sneezing a week to pay
church an hour,
letter from Jack in her hand,
“Your husband has returned the opal
| Thousands upon thousands of dollars
| were spent in experimenting with
| every kind of known fertilizer. Agri-
i eultural chemists of standing were
.
letter will explain the rest,’
Phyllis read the letter, and then, with
a pathetic ery, *‘Oh, Jack! come back
|
| money might just as well have been
| buried in the ground instead of the fer-
tilizer, for all the good it ald. The
disease hind come there to stay, and it
| is there yet.
i
The happiness of your life depends
therefore guard accordingly, and taxe
care that you entertain no notions un.
suitable to virtue and unreasonable to
nature,
The tulips had bloomed, and were
withering on their stalks in the garden,
of death. On her white, thin finger
Hearmg of
|
{
{
i
the evil he had wrought.
the truth about the ring.
too late. Jack was gone,
“10 find him, and bring him back to
her, if it costs me my life,” sald Rob,
in remorse, und with a last look at her
death-like face, he departed.
But it was
Another--How a young man can
stand In front of the store, bareheaded,
and buzz his girl for half an hour with-
out a struggle, and yet can’t even go to
the postoflice without piling on ali his
clothing and then Kicking about the
beastly cold weather,
Another—How a little girl can go
and slide down hill with the boys all
when ber throat was 80 sore
school,
Another—IHow a boy can walk four
miles and skate until after dark the
same day his back was so lame that he
coukin’t bring in a scuttleful of coal
for his mother,
a AI —
The Lord takes up none but the for-
saken; seeks none but the lost; makes
pone healthy but the sick: gives sight
to none but the blind; makes alive none
but the dead; sanctifles none but sin.
stock contains the names of 154 brood
mares and eight stallions, The latter
include three sons of Leamington
Hyder All, oul of Lady Duke, by Lex-
ington; Warwick, out of Minnie Minor
(dam of Wanda), by Lexington, and
Milner, also out ot a daughter of Lex.
ington. Then there is the imported
| Irish horse, Kyrle Daly, the two cele-
brated Australian racers, Daredin and
Sir Modred; Ban Fox (winner of the
Coney Island Derby), by imported King
Ban, dam Maud Hampton, by Hunter's
| Lexington, and John Happy (a full
| brother to the great George Kinney),
by imported Bonnie Scotland, out of
Kathleen, by Lexington. The brood
| mares represent a large expenditure of
| money and include many distinguished
| names, among them Maud Hampton,
| dam of Ban Fox and King Fox, that
cost her owner $10,000; Miss Woodford,
the Queen of the Turf] imported Age-
notia, the dam of Pontiac and Pontico:
Explosion. dam of Dew Drop; Bonnie
Kate, dam of Bonnie Lizzie; Katie
Pearce, dam of Lizzie 8. and Ballard
Letola, dam of Unrest; Lou Lanier
dam of Katrine; Lydia, sister to Barnes
and Runnymede; Second- Hand, dam of
Exile; Vandalite, dam of Hiawassee,
and other producers of winners and
distinguished racers themselves,
The soul of man is not a thing which
comes and goes, is builded and decay!
like the elemental frame in which it ir
get to dwell, but a very living force, =
very energy God's organic will
which rules and moulds this universe