THREE KISSES, The purest kiss In the world is this The kiss that a mother lays On her child's frosh lips As he blithely trips # To meet the world and its wars The In the world is this— swopntost kisa The first long kiss of love, When time is not, And the An Eden drops from above, earth's forg The saddest kiss In the world is this kiss on nnanswering When dead lips tell Wo 1 he dawn must sol of the tAZER BOY! My Au county not a had observed it at that time escaped my own with mortification Sunday before ti I had Cr the Court red moro man sitti foot v of my sk pretty, th at } whit of note, thoug that ied aloud in House «vo sh as ugh truly a 1 my maid Jane g them mother ane ado in they were a great me the who member burned, tho ping from tl father li heads of ranged i and never jy on party mice, said somethin morrow, kissed both much mother was wont to sertations upon of sexes, hol were unholy things, eve fending infant, but Aur gave me v peppermint, which + 1 sufh cient h When grandmother's royal silk rustled in at the front gage (grandmother gr cious of a Sunday) Henry Lytle's long legs had girdled the garden fence at the rear for an instant, and he was gone Monday was a great day at the “Elms a day of clearing away the and imaginary cobwebs that had gathered over Bunday, that being the only day in the calendar, excepting Christmas, where- in the whisk and dust cloth were not used with mental and moral vigor. Upon that particular Monday grand mother was summoned to attend a dying friend, a friend of her own girlhood Now, grandmother believed there was a time for all things, even a time to dance, which she afterwards spite of the ties of years of association, approachi the to ms del i the promise tion the holdin Washington 3 a3 to my discretion Was more literal take to dying of a Monday, she averred, However, duty was duty, and as such my * out delay, the family carriage was fetched, and special admonitions to Aunt Wash- now in a state of preparation, with a rustle of silk and as whiff of lavender, grandmother was driven away, leaving the household world to Aunt Washington and to me. My ideas as to our respective oceppa- tions for the morning are not very clear at this late day. 1 had an allotted daily task upon my sampler, into which pats tern grandmother had stuck a pin to mark its limitations, and I remember that my Auut Washington was unusually busy. My sampler was very exasperating and my crewels snarled unmercifully. The | axt wre, “Honor and Shame from No Condition Rise,” 1 had gotten through the basket of primr wos with cross-stiteh and into “Shame,” and now [ was slip ping my canvas in a most s,ovenly man her, wishing that I was a boy or a buttes dy or somcthing not required by grand mothers or nature to work samplers, when my senses were assailod by voicos trom the Kitchen, as well the aroma of boiling quinces, My intuition told we that it was Henry Lytle, an I had Wo time in satisfying that sense by proof Ho was standing by one side of the brass kettle, and Aunt Washington on the other, with a wooden in her { hand. They were arguing about some. thin Aunt Washington looked half laughing, half-frightenecd. Henry Lytle—in my kitchen! Alas! Alas! such indecorum and he had dared, and Aunt Washing won had da: ! crandmother grandmother ! ns big Spoon , and grandmother's % ' Oi d something more about kled under the Aunt Washington sent particul require of 1 th sticks of cinnamon. Once upon my mi ity Of my se Vi In 3 It must when, guiltily unl he said 1 cl me me, pite of the I forgot to re On, in CATS, n inmediately have been hour or in the } i unpieasant odor departur Barrister th was the triumvirate in whose atte ions were null ere brought and a for grandmother's boudoir, a bottle 4, SMTVIeD ceremony i important usine SRCiions Upon his departure I encountered Bar- ister Quills upon the piazza, whereupon he patted me on the | i and Hed he patted me on the head and calle mo a very clever child, taking unusual notice of me Affairs were very quiet in my grand mother's house, but my grandmother bye came suddenly aware that I was in need | of an education, so a governess and music-master were provided for me, my pantalettes were made a little more or a most miserable little creature. One day, Jane, my maid, revealed the cause of all my woes, She was curling my hair for my daily presence in my visitors), when, my hair { in some way entangled with the cane, for it curled naturally, I eried out. | “Lal!” said Jane, “‘hain’t you ‘shame, { when Ole Miss done sot you up fur er again, at which my tears continued {flow. “When Ole Miss done cut S'rena out'n de will, lack she done cut Marser Leo, and ‘mek you de heir! Hain you "shame, when you oughter be proud an’ high!" : “What, Jane!” I cried, aghast, “Won't grandmother have Aunt Washington for her daughter ever any more?” “No,” said Jane, ‘‘she done taken you in her place,” “Mel” “Yes,” said Jane, with a cautious sake Of her finger, “an' you oughter have fitten ter your ‘sition, Miss Frances, Dey do say, Miss Frank, as how miss S'rena is dat happy wid Henry Lytle she don’t keer,” “Where is my Aunt Washington?” 1 demanded, © to Miss “Tush! I hain't hes Cousin Doreas',” said Jane, ‘but none uv us fum here hain't ter her er ter speak ter her, Ole Miss say so,” “1 won't have her place, and T'1 tell grandmother so!” 1 eried, stamping my foot, as was ¢ nstomary with me in those days, on a sudden rise of temper, “I'll just tell grandmother so, so there!” ‘Better leave Ole Miss lone,” aad Jane in an awestruck “ESL she wantor leave you all she can't ‘top hit,” My grandm had disinherited my Aunt Washington, as she had my Uncls l.co, the before 1 born, nnd who had never returned from Fran el Co Ll rit a over ter vor Cb tone, or 4 got, You other Mt i! wns it eventful I riod, and 1 an , 08 I deemed it, my bor- My father returned ard until I skipped Indian princess, for I feared i tomy father without advice, wird that there was another use of my Cousin Dorcas, d and tiny, and I ind silent ¢ Time wore on, Unensy ns lence wor rowed dignity, about was not happy, to went ind dre any, as she sat givi giving mo at In nis vine, ony whirled, little n. wheells 2 took back Too frig rein and flattened mywlf neck, holding with all 4 hildish strength to the rising and falli through the brake ane ', scraping me almost from my seat, rightened animal sped ; on, on the edge of the town eves I heard the shouts men, the scream of the women to “‘save little child!” I thought of ms father, my grandmother, Aunt Washing ton, the little baby 1 had never known All now would go on without me; they would never know how 1 tried to make them happy. They would never know that it was not a childish prank and I would have diced, in vain, in vain rainst his On, on, OW Wit of the } iH back to i the nil » % * * ® » I must have been dreaming: I thought my own little Somebody sat at my bed. Was this my grandmother— and lip? She stirred, 1 closed my eyes Kisses rain as 1 had murmured caresses, sending ten der thrills to wake that part of my young For many days I balanced life and death with fever, bruises and a broken night grandmother's hand in mine, and then they came from far to ask for me and shame me with a fair tale of my bravery. "Twas wonderful, they said, for such a child as I to sit so firmly and so long. One day when all were gone and 1 could creep ubout like a small ghost from chair to couch, from couch to chair again, my grandmother had set down a tiny table right before my chair, and on it Jeoffry placed the seed-cakes and the wine, I breathed the very atmosphere of ceremony, us my grandmother took a seat across from my wan self. When I had drank and choked acd, halt in lear, kad nibbled a cake, my grandmother leaned upon her arm and looked at me, “Frances,” she said, in tones both grave and slow, speaking for the first time of my cacapade, ‘it wns a naughty thing of you to take your father's horse, a wild and vicious thing he hardly dares to ride; it was a wicked thing to steal away alone without permission, though vou must have had your reasons, child, for you are nota fool. What were they, Frances; why did you got’ The gray eyes were fixed upon my own keen hard, : I moet have surely dreamed they ever looked in love, 1 hung my head and whispered: To fetch Aunt Washington home” “And what afl of 3 to intermeddle? my grand. mother. With all my than 1 could bear, inquisitive, uncompromising now ir was it ours demanded weakness, this was more I fell upon my knees my grandmother's ski unhurt arm, “Because don’t want Aunt Wa he and with my sobbed, “1 ton's place: 1 { laspe i don’t want to lady, as Jane says I must any lessons, any music, anvtl and the little baby, the little baby tint EE I Jang s all be happy, her back, mother nin her drew I ma with yes, for he room felt that 1 jerhit nat, . Mr Io yr pinion I rose unwithering ap of my Kindred, Speed of the Fly. 1 of a fly is something « had great know,’ 1 J. A. Basco tock, Ark., at the Lindell its flight is faster than that of winged creature, for it is no thing for the tiny insect to dash its life out against a wall or tree, so great is its {momentam. I had a splendid opportu I nity a few weeks ago to witness an exhi [ bition of the fly's speed, by which it {could be approximately measured 1 rode out of Little Rock early one morn ing over the Little Rock and Meniphis Railroad, My business necessitated my occupying a seat in the engineer's cab { The air was chill and crisp, and as ww | passed through a stretch of sw amp 1 noticed that great swarms of little grocon flies that abound in Arkansas were attracted to the locomotive by its heat, They appeared almost froz mn, | When we stopped for a minute they flut. tered around the smokestack | boiler, and soon seemed to get thawed out, When we started again they flew along close to the engine to keep warm, Going on a down grade of 45 miles in length, we ran a mile a minute, The fice easily kept up with us,and, in fact, really went faster than we traveled, for every little while they would fly away from the engine and then come back tous, 1 am confident their speed was greater than a mile ‘a minute, and 1 will venture the assertion that they dido't reach tin limit,” have alway Curiosity sale ymb, of any olher uneromnes SW AAA A NAN Most of the opium smuggled into this country comes through the region arvuml Puget Bound. The wild country in this neighborhood offers great uatuml advan tages for smuggling, and these have boon supplemented by the coming to “his roggion of the shrewdest smuggler the wield knows, | CONTAINS MANY FLEMENTS OF THE PICTURESQUE. Outlived Thelr Americans That Have Most Miners ~Prospectors’ Luck, Booms are Life in a mining camp bears an ideal d whether situ. 4 the dark { some rocky ited in BIMIOW © Ne Noisy, rocky and stalls $ POURILY i . } carching every seam an gold is full of altern lency, and many a mar ork has fin lly laid de in heart and body in this » the most ex wsperating ‘1 that ever lured men And if everthe gentle Godde wu ry} Hope transforms herself into a demon it is when she beckons with her alluring finger through mountain fastnesses while her victim plods with weary ever searching, step by step, {for which he will never on to step, that find, Man may be learned in mineralogy and may be able to tell at a glance the pature and quality of ore. He may ex plain to you the difference between tellu ride and tellurium. He may know all the different strata and formations and mountain to an inch. learned man canters gayly along, fully equipped for a successful prospecting tour, some poor tenderfoot the ground as he rests in the shade of a pine; and, lo! the precious metal is in sight. The tenderfoot may or may not know that the rusty ore beneath his feet is worth $1,000 per ton, The smart man may ride along and offer him a fair price for his find or hoot at the idea of its value and eventually get it ali; and again, the finder may be smart enough to hold on to it. These things are just as they happen, and nature herself seems a selfish and capricious parent, pouring into the laps of her favored children vast streams of gold from her veins and cruelly withholding from others even the smallest portion of her wealth. Such is the feverish and overwrought life of the gold-seekor. {Omaha World. IR White crepons come in patterns or robes beautifully embroidered in colors, There are wide borders of scattered daisies worked in fanvy silks, or of vio. lets in their own color and in yellow, while narrower bands of the embroidery are provided for the waist, { The Look Yas Good, To Nustrate the lack of business niethods, even among our most highs ly wducated ladies, says the St. Logis HRepublie of the Mound City’s millionaires deli in telling the following on his , although pledge of secrecy regards ing names. “I got tired,” said he, signing checks for wile's pin money, so one day 1 deposited 85,000 15 her credi Then 1 gave my wife a check book and explained her how and indorse a i stut Six was one he goxacts a “of Dats vo fi ete che mon trea Lo of the bank of lay, ‘do you that you 3 account is drawn? uch?’ | woud Le anda I surprise, cashier know OVE said, all Well, all I undertook » rudils v.'! 1 be have un ‘I ndeed, I amiable Ve you much 9? ‘1 } KNOW. Yar pap : i mace iv C8 and UOHOK WAR nan? I own town You oft How the Engagement Was Hroken. Wher suspenders, maw?” J ip pi e for years been od with distress in my stomach and Indiges. tia When I to ok Hood's Sarsaparilla the effect was surpris- ing. It gave mo great p relief, and I now eat = we without that terrible dis. Wm, Wade. tress. I also rest well at night and am in good general heaith, for ali of which I wink HOOD'S SARSAPARIL. ve M = Shoe dealer, 17 - Fs Hood's Pilla cure liver ills, constipation, bil. sick headache. Try them. oustoess jaundice and DRKILMER'S H {idney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, meen Sir nek Uke wring, nent n yravel, Rleomtion or oatarrh of bladder, . disordered Liver 1 rod a gout, billious- headache, ‘Wa MP-ROOT cures kidney difioultios, la Grippe, urinary trouble, bright's disease. 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