(LITTLE MISTRESS SANS-MERCL BY RUGENE FIELD. Little Mistress Sans-Meroi Trottoth world-wide fancy froo; Trotteth cooing to and fro; And her co nog is command — Never ruled there yot, I trow, Mightier mona ch in the land; And my heart it Heth whe eo Mistress Bans-Meroi doth fare, Little Mistress Sans-Merci-— 8h. hath madea alive of me! *(3o!"” she biddeth, snd go— Come!” and I am fain §» come Nover mercy doth she show, Be sha wroth or frolicsome; Yut am I content 10 ba Slave to Mistress 8 .ns-Morcil Little Mistress SansMerci, 8he hath grown so dear $0 mo That I conut as psssing sweet All the pains her moods impart, And I bless the litte fo. t That go tramping on my heart, Ah, how lonely life would be Bui for little Sans-Merct! Littls Mistress SBans-Marei, Cuddle close this night to mae, And that besrt which all day long Ruthless thou hast trod upon, Shall outpour asoothing song For its bost beloved one — Al Little its tendoruess for thee, fistress Sans-Merci! —-{ Ladies’ Home Journal. MISS BAXTER'S BLINDNESS. The dimming car was in a shimmer of light. The dead white of heavy linen, the opalescent glare of glassware, and the quiet gleam of silver trembled to- gether in the swift motion of her berth, dropped into a seat and leaned back a moment, dazed by the lavish waste of Of color, sunlight toek liberties with the dull with coquettish gold. Thea she hastened to draw the curtain and table, sighing as she settled down again, and all the painful scene of the evening before came surgiag back. She fel on the glaneed ring--his misty. t half a table snd cry outright. She down ring—while her She wondered whether should have kept the ring, now thatit no longer meant anything. The ques- tion was ye! undecided when she pulled herself together with a visible tremor and turned to the menu card. Dining-car breakfasts were not timed to wait on the settlement of subtleties in ethic ularly after the steward has made his “last call.’ In the been in the car she bad not noticed companions. As she raised her head she was startied to see a familiar face dimly taking shape across the table. She had removed her glasses and was about to eves grew she put them resolutely on again and looked fixedly through their misty crys. tals, “Mr. Woodson, from?” she demanded well-known features gradually to before her Wood son did not speak at once, was ot Lic ina n down in wayward ringlets in sj efforts to keep it staidly back, her checks persisted in dimpli ever resolutely she shut her lips Then he “a did 1 where you gome ength, as his k shape He yw her hair would tumble at ite of her how ng, bow together, and * PrYrL FOU my dress suit York, of course. Does look as though I'd boarded the train in these rural precincts? | thought you kuew the cut batter.” *‘Do you mean to say that you've been on this train all this while—after—after —jast n £7” Miss Baxter asked, with slightly heightened color. claimed, taking from her hand the one she was making a sad mess of. “Harry, 1 never can forgive vou for doing this,” Miss Baxter conciuded, after a moment's contemplation of the whirl- ing blur of green through the car win. tdow, “Well, I never could have forgiven myself if 1 hadn’t—and there it was,” he asserted dispassionately, laying the pulpy, broken sphere of the orunge before her. It is quite a jaunt from Manhattan to Manitou; but one morning they ex- changed the cushioned weariness of the train for that blue hollow of the hills, with its gayly-colored roofs and gables showing here and there up the canyon like a scattered troop of butterflies, Then Ile became one long breath of de- light. What color there was! The earth seemed hung in some rarer medium than common air. The yellow cactus blossoms were like flakes of flame, A | scarlet flower fairly burned into the i sight, Grace developed a new enthus. | iasm every day, and piled her palette with cobalt and chrome, Even Fleming, who had preceded them, grunted out now and then, “Put in your loore pure, fake her jump.” So they painted from morning till sight, keeping two or three studies un- 'r way at once-—putting in blues where Yoodson saw greens and purples where » saw nothing but nondescript sand, of the luministers, Woodson couldn't paint, parriecd Grace's { glances by explaining that he | gotiating to go into the cattle business a man was going to bring him a herd on trial. Meanwhile he arrayed his figure in cowboyish top boots, blue shirt, | and slouch hat, which became sat He He by and chaffed. He wouldn't smoke was of abe. idea tennis suits Grace was One day an “Grace,” | among the blazers and summering Manitou. sorbed and satisfied. | struck him. seud won't I'd like to have { home, you know. yout” “Why, of course. { Fleming." “Oh, hang Mr. Fleming!” Woodson broke in. “Fleming is all right in his way, but I waat you—your sketch, you Kno wy," The place was quite a distance away, over the mesa. They set out for it next | day. “Here it is,” Woodson exclaimed, after a long tramp, pointing over the burping plain to where a row of cotton- woods were banked against the sky, tremuious in the vibrant air. “There, do that; call it ‘A Hundred in the Shade,’ | or something like that.” *‘It doesn’t seem to compose very well,” Grace murmured, holding the tips of her fingers together and inclosing the pi ture in a rosy frame through which she i gazed, half shutting her eyes in truly artistic intentness. “Well, never mind that: get the char. acter of it. You know Fleming says character's the thing. That's what | | want-——the character-—-the true character of this beastly country.” Bo Grace donned her big blue apron and set to work with her biggest brushes, But somehow she had trouble. quality of that sky, burning with light and yet deep in hue, did not seem to re- side in cobalt, however fresh from the tube. The value of the stretch of plain, tremulous under the flaring heavens, dis- turbed her, too, and when she came to put in the airy wall of ¢sttonwoods alon the horizon the whole thing ended in painty muddle, “Oh, I do | Grace exclaimed, petulantly, wiping her troubled brow with the back of her hand aud leaving a streak along her forehead that intensified her puzzled look. “Why don't you put those trees in green I" Woodson asked with a serious concern, a8 Grace renewed her struggle with the regulation blues and purple. “But I don’t see them 50," she mur. mured, in a moment of absorbed effort. vou sketch--to You'll do it, I'll speak to Mr. thy the cant “Can't you help me at all?” “Of course I can, small girl; you're all right, Nothing shall touch you,” he reiterated as his arms closed tightly around ha, “Oh, silly, can't you see I've lost my glasses?’ she excluimed, pulling away from him and flushing red among the greenery, But he held her tight, “You don’t want them ; vou see better without them, blue eyes, Confess, now, you never really saw before. Give up trusting in those wretched glasses and trying to be independent. Come, sed your career through my eyes.” But still she held back an arm's length really deflant. His fingers left a white chicle where they clasped her wrists, She seemed ready to ery and then smiled in- stead: “You'll get my glasses if I prom- set" He nodded. liked neck she said: ‘I always 3 either lid, eyes,” aud pressed a kiss on ‘Maybe you were right she added seriously, “Dut interfere, need it?” ‘Interfere! Why, I'll tell that that I've decided not to take his cattle, and we'll turn the whole herd into paint,” Melville Upton, in Kate Washington, i, POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES, A Berlin chemist claims to have dis covered the art of reproducing colors true to nature with the camera. It is a popular test of the power of ap To ascertain the | limit of a small telescope, having object i glosses of 2 1-4 to 2 3-4 inches in diam eter, try to sight the rings of Saturn, To form an idea of the experiments | that take place abroad in the way of | testing new devices in warfare, the sta i tion at Liege, Belgium, consumes nearly four million cartridges and forty tons of powder a year in testing fircarms, Bis axp Larrie TeLescores. — ‘Great : was the subject of an ad | dress delivered recently before the Chi | cago Academy of Sciences in the Athw neum building by Professor J. E. Keeler, formerly astronomer at the Lick Observ atory, now director of the Allegheny | Observatory, Allegheny, Pa. A larze { and attentive audience, composed chiefly | of professors and scientists, listened to the lecture, which lasted more than two | hours. “The popular idea of telescopes,” said the professor, ‘is wholly ETTOneOUS, There is no use of increasing the magni i size, Telescopes tude of the lenses bevond a certain {| Nothing is gained. 1 have frequently been able to do more and better work on a clear night with a little two-inch lens of my own manufacture than was possi- bie on a ‘twinkling’ night with the great Lick telescope. The only real sdvan tage possessed by the great ts lescope § is a much higher resolving power through the great lenses astronomers are able to distinguish an appreciable dis- tance between two stars so cluse together that they have always been regarded as “The Ligk telescope was an ex | periment, and the Chicago telescope will be a further experiment in the same line In atmospheric conditions Chicago have to yield the palm to Calif although I do not doubt that the observatory, taking advantage of past experiments, will be the most complete and perfect in existence that is, one, will wna, new : Mongolian Camels. The popular idea regarding of the desert” is com; applied to the camels of Mongoli Pechili, Juvenile natural histories talk of the soft padded foot for which this animal is so distinguished, as if a “sandy bottom” were the only surface upon which he could walk with comfort. But the greater part of mercantile transport in North China is performed by camels, i te HI He lel BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, Overlooked the Bait — Couldn't Be Anything Else—~Cause and Effect. Difference in Name Only, Ete, Ete. OVERLOOKED THE BAIT. Ciara (fishing for a compliment)—This 8 yoer fourth dance with me. Why don't you dance with some of the other girls? Charlie- ~Well, the fact is I dunce badly I hat® to ask them. BO COUDLN'T BE AXYTHING “*What is that that Maud and playing on the piano?” “Tag, 1 fancy."—|Buflalo Quips. EFFECT ELSE. Jack are CAUSE AND Now through the woods the partrid wild On whirring wing doth fly, And huntsmen in our gilded bars Parade the sporting lie. wi New York Herald, DIFFERENCKE Adorer—May 1 oq & IN NAME ONLY. be your | ’ : | | A HOPEFUL VIEW OF NIA CASE, A AA HAA A Remarkable Lightliouse, One of the most wonderful light. He is constantly changing his mind.” “ All the better, Jy constantly changing his mind, he may get a miad some day that will have some sense jp in” ~-{ New York Press. DOWER 710 BED ROCK. He (fiercely)—Didn’t you promise at the altar to love, honor and obey me? Bhe-—Yes, but I can’t perform impos- sibilities. I can obey you-—that's all.-— [New York Herald. HARE PRESENCE OF MIND, “That woman over there looks as if she were painted” *‘Sir, that is my wife!” “I had not finished my sentence. looks as if she were painted by taphael and had just stepped out of the frame," — (Truth, ACCOUXTS FOR THE DIG BLOWS, She “You came near having a prize fight “Do ye mean to say,” said Farmer Be | | ‘“*Yes, indeed, They called the “W-a-al, that accounts fur them on. of life? Fair Widow --No, dear-—but you may be my second mate, —{ Buffalo Quips. FISHING ARD RELIGION, Parson—1 have heard, Mr. Pettijohn, that you would like to attend my church, but « Www? Pettiiohn-—Yes, sir; my large and my income is small Parson —But your wife tells me that it costs vou $1.50 to go fishing every Sun- day. Pettijohn—Well, that's all she knows about it. It costs me at least $2.00, Judge, annot afford to pay anything for a cxpen RCS are LPF AND DOWN She-—The butler is becoming very im- Pp ye ut, dear. Hi gruilly She (anxious! f1 dol 11 him down. I, call him And what will Wel ap 5 you do, deur, i Heal DOOMED TO SILENCE. ! 1 KNEW VHIEKDS, That Christinas time is near at hand Btrong evidence | find, For a Of il the girls I know have grown late exceeding kind. —i New York Herald. A LAET RESORT, Slitone—Do you notice how has fallen the habit of himself on the street? Chatter— That's ly has to get in a word since he ried. into the on {Chicago Inter-Ocean. A DIP “Has the she asked, thought” “Yes,” he said, “Whenever [ sec it | wavs wonder where in the world all the INTO THE PAST, oCean no charm for you? “Does it g not sugges BOTH TO BE PITIED. Woman (to herself to death to at he'll do next drive thi wl i wins ne id Horse woman drivir nt {10 into evervihing GLOOMY don’ It tal edian now to bi Perhaps ihe r if EF PR M audiences mre MRgey En LC h $4 it New York Weekly, FROM WHAT SHE SAID Wool-Chapley went to Fitz and found her ill Van Pelt— What was the tr Wool-—A ppearances indicate had gone into # decline is boun I expect tos papers any day “Why. I didn't know he was specially talented.” He the isn't, but he's patent World-Herald DIFFERENT a 1 medicin EHADYS “Very preity sunset,” he remarked, she rep ied. 3 100 1 “Yen wonder shades wt £1 LON people write al I had no idea ti 14 evening i shades or many matched so nice ore Were so that { Washington Star different they iy. A CURIOUS ANALOGY. A correspondent vouches for the a curacy of the following said a preacher, “such a man is lik XIPPED IX TH I know your face,” said § ' office seeker, A SERIES OF COMPLI ATIONRS Hair pins are cated machine, ated « Journal, made by y are used by a ver a Yery comp : COM Pi Lon SO i ot § 134 calure, SUBJECT YO DUTY. Mrs. Gummey <1 learn that the cus. hicer wanted to Miss F Mrs, Gargovie—Gracious! Mrs. Gummey ~He sid & work of art toms « collect duty on tura from Europe. What her con IYPp on her re fori 3 a ipiex Detroit Fre On Was Press “fo i with his mother t “He bh longue 18 mad New York Press a8 No 1 wre thar YERY COMMOR THINGA “John,” said Mrs. De Porque, you will not tell tha have a cold.” “Why not ‘It doesn't sound select. 1 tol Feathiergilt about this morning, ar 1 BAYS 4 lds are dreadfully common sie Just now | Washington Star 05Y one ¢ise 34 it Ledge, near Boston, 5 history has been one of romance. ‘The greater party of its foundation is under water In 1347 askeleton light- iron was erccted there on A furious hurricane burst upon the coast in April, 1851, acs anxious watchers from the Cohasset shore thought the structure had been carried away. jut, as the sun sank, out shone the light across the storm. tossed waters, AL 10 p. m. the lighs a8 seen the last time. At one hotir after midnight the fog bell wis ¢ ior daybreak the blank: the lighthouse was gone. Knowing that no help eould reach them, the keepers had lighted their lamp as a warning to and their lives had gone out with it A granite tower now ovccupies the spot. So difficult was it to lay the foundation in the sur! that only thirty hours’ work could be done dur. ing the first year, but the tower stands to-day as cnauriug as the ledge itself the wa swayed like a t ong winter months all s shut off. ers. Ab ocean was a GILNCrs, issiated pile Dy the £ an of stone amid x +} ie Which it is Dur. COM. Vos, ie ing Lng Unie ation with the summer the visitor is from his r, and from red by pul- IVS 10 convey one or another of 1 n oisted in boat by Time i the rye ie Reveral of five keepers on them have be gone life tells them they have than one has attemp A Welcome Change. There used to be a such a fur when pe stead few years ago eclocution thas ple m the street in- asking each other “How do the usual senseless form o they inquired, “How do 3 " Men and women paid 106 be alle to read or ions with facial contortions Were stuinnosed 20 31d the ! ing exhibition of a i fon “o ieatures wr ab 1% et on of You do?” atdroess elocnte? ¥ one ul ous prices two that fext, and 1 try! Senet Hustrate reader Ane iis f a landscape rprefation which i thers the mo expression d She could iines. Now this the new with the child and CXproes- sion in as a post-graduate accompiishiment. 3) pi tudies generally breath Yarious In Se tpecial is > parts of their oil one May sweet oil on the thorax or back of a wasp: it very soos dies. For this oil has been found one of the best things to use for the destruction of insects " oon I Can't Satisfy Him “No.” said the housemaid, “I don’ throug DOES In i a iid body, and if these are closed by they are suffocated lest this by dropping ny feason +3 captain of a crewless vessel on a shoreless ses. Happy would such a mas be could | : . : he bring his men safe to land.”—{Tid| DPriggs—Just for a joke, I told Miss Bits : | Elderly the other day that when she {laughed it was all I could do to keep . : { from Kissing her, Mr. Bronson- ~Did you have an inter- | Griggs—What happened? esting subject presented for your consid- | RBriooe The next time I saw her and, except in the immediate neighbor. hood of Peking, is an unknown | luxury to this much enduring beast, How vast is the number of camels thus employed may be guessed from the fact that during our day's journey we passed more than eight hundred wending their “*Guessed it the first time,” exclaimed, hitening. +1 {srace, you should have gone iaw instead of art. You'd great on cross-examination.” “Never mind, Mr. Woodson, vou seem to forget that 1 prefer to make my Woodson | READY POR HIM. tell you, into the have been apologize to a man when I throw a bucket of water down the front steps to wash em and he comes along and getsdrenched. I've tried apologiz- ing, but I've found there's nothing you can say to a man will satisfy “Grace,” he blurted out almost before he Knew it, “I don't believe you see any- thing. Excuse me, but [ don't ‘ youeverdid 1 don't believe art: I don't believe your career; | don’t believe in your independence! You're simply spoiling the nicest girl in| sand § believe in your WHAT ABSORBED HER. $e ii she own career—we ve discussed that before, however. And so you've been on this train ever since [ have? she concluded, reflectively iv. “A . little longer, in fact. the clothes. But now, see here, small girl,” Woodson went on with great de- liberation, shaking out his napkin into his lap and gazing into the blurred, blue depth of Miss Baxter's glasses, “See here, now do you suppose just because a girl jilts me—" Miss Baxter here inter repeat it a girl _.its me, and I have reason to be lieve is going to the ends of the earth to get where she will never see me again, that my sense of responsibility ends till go?! No, I've made New York unishab- itable for you and 1 shall make what nmmends I can by chaperoning you to Colorado or Kamchatka or wherever it is you are going. Now, what shall I order for breakfast!" ‘Harry, you're cruel. You know Mr, Fleming was going out there for the color and I thought it wouid be a good chance to continue my outdoor work," “Fleming? That prig! Well, 1didn't know before that he was going. [I see there is still more reason why I should £0 now -—and stay." “But I forbid you doing any such fool- ish thing.” “To tell the truth, Grace, I thought of staying all the time—of going into some business there,” “Why, you never told me of it be- fore.” “Well, I never thought of it till after 1 left you Jant night,” Tatu it occurred to me that I might nto sheep or cattle or somethin like that, - “At Manitou?” “Why not?” ‘it’s a summer resort.” ‘So much the better, I'd only want ~ #0 be there in the summer, anyhow,” Te maar ph gaphon + 1 can an an wif you'll allow a ox the world with it. You see everything through Fleming's eyes. You see things blue and pUeple because he does; aud | ho—well, he sees things that way because There, now, I don't believe in it, 1'v0 said it, come.” But it was not arranged that he should finish what he had to say. He had looked down to the ground where he sat ins he spoke of Fleming. When he looked up Grace was several feet away from him, hurrying down the hill, with | her head bow od “I'm a brute—a miserable brute!" | Woodson remarked to himself with con. | siderable. force, as he watched her strid - {ing toward the half-dry creek. *' But | some one ought to have told, Her att is tall foolishness. Look at Fleming, even. where he'd be if it wasn't for his teach. ing. But I'm a brute, just the same——a heartless brute,” There was a plum thicket along the creek, and after watching Grace disap. sear within it Woodson set about pick- ng up her sketching kit. This done, it occurred to him that it would be a proper penance on his part to wash her Washer ~hie had always hated dirty brushes so, Gathering them up he started toward the creek. When he got there he could seo no signs of Grace. Could it be that any- thing had happened to her? The thought made him catch his breath for a moment. He knew she was impulsive—capable of any rash move in a moment of excite. ment, Then he beard a stirring in the plum Siuleiiut aod he Shine face to face upon her ina little opening, crying softl TL. pening, crying ¥ “Grace,” he called, “why, what's the matter? I know I'm a brute, but I didn't think you'd take it so.” “Oh, can't you help me?” she pleaded, and began ping about and feeling aimlessly with her hands, ; He saw that her hair was loosened and that her wrists and face were scratched and bleeding in a Pg “Why, what's the r 1" he queried again, as she came g toward him aad stumbled mn the plains of Chili, soda-soap, a Kind of animal alkali or lye found on the borders of Mongolia, and i pounds. At no time is the camel & pre. possessing object. But here uature pro. vides him with so shaggy a covering that ‘his ungainly form becomes even more hideous. for padding clothes, is an article of con. | siderable { blasts, the herdsmen of shear their camels by a process which | preserves the merit of extreme simplicity, i pulling out by hand whatever has not we shed naturally, Many animals are | wool, but the amount obtaisable from huge bulk of the producer. A heavy fleece taken from a full-grown chmel will seldom average over seven dollars, while eight dollars is a high price for the picul of 183 pounds. — [Century sia Milk Powder, The recent invention of a German agriculturist is attracting attention as a convenient substitute for condensed milk. He claims to have solved the problem of p serving milk in a solid state for an ndefinite period. His milk powder, specimens of which have been exhibited at agricultural exhibitions in Germany, is Jrepared from skim milk, and it is said to contain about thirty per cent, of albuminous matter, or about seven per cent. more than meat of good quality, powder is easily soluble in four or fe) of hot ar: and ean be used with great case for reparation of cocon aud other Devore] or incor porated with flour for confeo. tionery and the like. In case the invention turns out to be all that is claimed for it, this will create au in. creased demand Jor lik and lauugurate new industry that o but prove advan 9 the farmer, —{ American Dairyman. eration this morning at church | Mrs. Bronson—Very., But] make couldn't Record. SHE SPORE domesticated. She That's just it. If had hysterics. —| Life. The Loves of Arabs The Arab loves as none but an Arab can love, but he is also mighty excitable An Arab sees a girl would ments, COXCLUSIVE PROOF. Bulfinoh—1 met your old friend Grey- neck the other day. Wooden-—1 want to know! Is he married yet? Bulfinch—-Well, yes, I guess he is, He said I'd find him in the office almost every evening.~| Boston Courier, PROBABLY XOT. Tom-—~When you promised to be a “gister”’ to me, did you mean it in a Ethel-How would that be ? Tom-—To love your brother as your. self. —([Truth, THEY DO NOT SPEAK ANY MORE She yawned, looked at the clock, pre. tended she was sleepy, and in other ways had given him to understand that it was time to go. He felt nettled on observing these signs of her desire to get rid of kim, aud determined to have revenge, “Won't you sing something for mef” he asked. ' “Sing at this time of night! Why didn't you ask me boforet hy do you want me to sing now{” “Well—er-~the fact is I want to be reconciled to leaving you."—[ New York Pw FOR A RAINY DAY. Little Tot—Mamma, let us do out and our money. ‘ Mamma No, dear; it's ng. Little Tot—But did't you aay We Should save up for a rainy dagt- [Cloak a He thinks of nothing else, cares dreams of nothing else but the girl ection, he pines and dies, In order to commence his suit he sends for a member of the girl's tribe 'who has access to the harem, and first insuring his secrecy by a solemn oath, confesses his love and entreats his confidant to ar. range an interview, The confidant goes to the girl, gives her a flower or blade of grass, and says: “Swear by Him who made this flower, and us also, that you will not reveal to any one that which I am about to unfold to you.” If the girl will not accept the proposal, she will not take the oath, but, neverthe: less, keeps the matter perfectly secret from all. If she is favorably disposed to the match, she snswers: “I swear by Him who made the flower you hold, and us,” and the place and time of mecting are settled, The oaths are never broken, and it is not long before the ardent lover becomes the happy husband. A A The Hogshead, It has been that as skins and hides formerly ! ry 4 hditien and vessels for carrying liquors, or hogshide was Sh same capacity us a lquor-containing ves. sel made of the skin or hide of a Others tiiink it may have been ‘ox. i from which the word was derived As the Dutch and Scandinavians called this kind of a cask by some equivalent of oxhide, there is probability that a terribly weak condition Ny appetite was all Wit tired all the time, had disagreeable noises in my in my stomach. shout Hood's Sarsaparil. All the disagreeable ef. ¥e8 W.looa. and aches, and believe Hood's Sarsapariils is HOOD’S CURES surely curing my catarrh. 1 recommend iL te Gro. W. Cook, 8t. Johnsbury, Vi. MOODS PILLS cage Constipation by restor ing the peristaltic action of the alimentary canal, Young “MOTHER'S FRIEND ™ Roby Confinement of its Pain, Horror and Risk, srEaiee