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
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said,
all
Well,
all
I undertook
» rudils
v.'! 1 be
have
un ‘I
ndeed, I
amiable
Ve you
much
9? ‘1
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own town
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