TWO DREAMERS. Under a tree two dreamers lay, And unto one did the wind’s voice say, “Castle Pleasure is building fast; 7 heard the hammer as I flew past.” But to the other the wind's voice said, “Hill Endeavor lies just ahead.” The dreamers rose. The years sped by, And the wind blew out of the changing sky. He who wrought for his brother well Came to the castle of Joy to dwell; He who turned from the toilsome hill, Seeking his castle—is seeking still, JAMES BUCKHAM, OUT OF THE DEPTES. A TALE UF THE MINES. ‘‘Is that your last word, Kate?’ “My $m “You nave no love to give me?" me?’ “But it that I have looked into your eyes and that they have given me a different answer than your tongue. Deny it or not, Kate, your eyes have looked into mine and told me that I had a small place in your heart. 1 have seen it, say what you may, and though your voice was silent, your eyes, Kate, have whispered soft promises that caused my temples to throb and blood to rush to my head. until I half mad with joy. She. a stalwart English lass, brown as a berry, as handsome of a working woman ever laugned. It was a musical ing laugh, but it sounded like a death- knel! to the man who stood before her, with face aflame with passion. He was a tall n the Saxon type of miner, with arms like a blacksmith and t of an athlete. Kate was ter of the captain of the came from the same part of England to America when the mining industry here was almost in its infancy; when there was no over-production of any ore, and fortunes were more easily made than now. For time Feoffry had been suitor for her hand, and Kate had played and loose until at times the demon of jealousy raged so furiously that he was almost beside himself. To see his Kate, up- right as a sapling—Kate, whose every movement was the majesty of motion —with the figure of a woman, and the heart and caprices of a maid; with the soft eves of and the tongue of a shrew—to soe Kate, the embodiment of cal development. in the arms of an- other at the dance, with no word for him, was torture, keen and exquisite And then when he approached her, the angry flush face. there was “balm in in the soft glance she shot at him, and he forgot his resentment ir fof her face. And now at twilight time they two stood just without the door of her father’s cottage going down in a on the ocean. [It aun, though so near its restin but a sun of silver, bright ing, in harmony with the snow-covered surface of the earth and the gray sky. Above the hills the shaft-houses were sharply defined against the sky, and in the forests — those noble Michigan forests—seemed like a dark fringe around the scape. The man drew woman, “Can you deny, Kate, that eyes have told me you might care for me?’ SOPs my bonnie seemed as specime of he legs and thighs the daugh- s0me fast { 8 deer noble physi- upon his Gilead’ the contemplation The sun was haze like that seen was not a golden g place, ne distance t nearer to the “Don’t drive me too hard with your tongue.’ ‘Next time wou think to win a sweetheart, learn how to treat her.” “Kate, something oppresses me. Something is going to happen on the morrow. Should you care if 1 met | my death in the mine?” She laughed lightly. ‘Not at all.”’ Without a word he turned and] walked away. She watched his figure i vanishing in the light of the silver sun, “Fool!” she said. ‘‘Has he not yet learned that no man on earth may drive me?’ | Then she went into the house and | stood thoughtfully near the window | where were many flowers. She heard | a step behind her and began to hum | softly. ‘Art light-hearted, lass?’ said her father's voice, and the next moment | she was in his arms. He looked at! her proudly, with her noble figure, | her strong arms and her broad, hand- | some face—a true woman of the people, a daughter of the mines. | ** Weel, thou art no featherweight, went into the kitchen, where he heard her moving about, still humming to herself. There was a knocking on the window. Turning she saw the Norwegian and smiled pleasantly. Then he came in and asked permission tosit down and watch her preparations for supper. This she granted and his eves bright- ened as he followed her with his gaze. The light fell upon her hair and there was a strange look upon her face, “Will y stay to supper?’ she from him. Mi not He assented eagerly. Half an hour later Geoffey, passing by, saw them three sitting together. chatting With a euarse he turned away 11 gil or = ily. in the darkness. * » - * ® w On the day following, Geoffry and were working on the the third tier from the out the fourth tier un- portion of the mine the year previous and the rooms were filled end the more or less erushed, that great care was necessary in taking out the pillars, They had worked out one lot of sets on the east side of the pillar and were engaged on the one next to In mining these crushed pillars sets of smaller dimensions are used M1 level minin or derhand. T : = iis Osis 80 is is. tim- soft the + put was nearly be opened at one time without ber. Here was that laths were driven to support back until timber could he in “ular and support prop 2 a plank laid the ng of the set below. Geoflry and the Norwegian were work- i bu and gazed furtivels each other. heart of the En full insane jealousy and he was not him- if that After walk th ng before he had dran and with th his mad de- the ground & Ny the This partic set I out and a prop erected to the lnths, 1 een this restin on HOTORS lags 1 > ft now then at rlishman they The ' Of ing silently was f 4 Ls y 5 =e fnOornaing. iis on e eveni fo # wl until i dayli liquor working in now ) Drain . ‘ f 3 : gires chased one another through his mind and he regarded the Norwegian with the glane yok latter to the greatest er once did he turn his e of a wild beast—g | that impelled the caution. Ne back to the Englishman: was his attention detracted from his danger, filled with savage impulse, the primal wish worked side by side in the narrow place. The Nor- wegian moved to the other end where $ 1 v never once Like two dumb brutes they he slipped. With a hoarse ery the Englishman sprang forward with up- not mean.’ with me,” “Oh, 1 do not say so.”’ “Kate, take care.”’ “Of what 7’ ‘You are playing with fire, lass. My love must have its way—vou must be mine.’ “Must? Indeed! You have pleasant manner of winning a woman. Surely I may love whom I choose.’ “Yes; and you love that Norwe- gian. looked at him—how you encouraged him, while 1 stood aside with the rage in my heart to kill you both. Before that scoundrel came between US two" antagonist, when suddenly there was a crashing behind them; the frame- huge masses of ore and rock descended with a rumble The Englishman like a statue. When he recovered his senses he heard the groan of the Nor- wegian and saw that he was pinned to the earth by masses of ore. tening to him, removed the as best he might, he ore from the crushed man behind his back. wif he were here It is cowardly Defiantly : “‘And if it were true?” He grasped her arm with a cry. ‘It cannot be, Kate. You must ove no one but myself. You belong $0 me, lass, and | p. ‘Let go my arm.” “I will not.” “Coward !”’ ‘“Perhaps.’’ “I shall hate you."’ “It is as well since you do not uy. me.’ ‘‘At last I understand you. #pise you now that I know you. joel =F arm. ‘‘It is the part of a man to exert brute strength over a woman. | be- lieve you are coward enough to strike & woman.’’ “What !"’ ; He released her arm and stood be- fore her, pale asdeath. One hand he nervously through his hair, while his features worked convulsive ly. Bhe, with figure erect and blaz- ing eyes, confronted him, “If that is your last word, good- ,'' he said. “Tell your Norwe- to look out or I will kill him,’’ ‘Perhaps he's » better man than I de- Let * bore to the other end of the chamber in which they were literally tombed. The Norwegian was groan- ing in the greatest pain and Geoffry lifted his head and pressed his flask to the lips of the dying man, whose never even in his agony left those of the other. While before the to annihilate, now it was a picture of that human brother- hood which lies deep down beneath all evil desires and toward which the young world is struggling and strug- gling, Into the eyes of the Norwe- gian the Englishman was gazing. Both were members of the same fraternal working order. The breath of the dying man eame in gasps, shorter and shorter; the light faded from those deep-set eyes and the form be- came stiff, Geoffry’s rival was dead. The Englishman, shut up in that horrible prison, threw himself upon the body and wept. How long he re- mained thus he never knew, for what are periods when anguish annihilates time—when the lines of the t, ‘‘out of space, out of time,” give a certain divinity to numan nature. Geoffry did not suffer from suffoea- tion. Although shut out from the world by what seemed a solid wall, a draft of air was apparent, and it was evident there were crevices some. where, Meanwhile the news of the disaster had spread far and wide. The ea tain was busy over his books tn his little office and near him sat bonny Kate, Why did she come? Was it love, then, so impatient? A man covered with dirt and grime rushed into the office. “An accident, captain-———" “Where? “On the third tier. The Norwe- gian, Bnorgson, and Geoflry were working there.” Kate gave a ery. Her face was the color of the pallid landscape now, and she sprang up like a deer shot to the heart, while with quivering lips she gazed at the messenger of evil, ‘“‘Is he—are they killed?’ she “There isn't much chance.” Now in the mine the men were working with a will, clearing away the enormous masses of ore and rock. The only chance for the men was that they were imprisoned, not the best. Among the throng workers was Kate, who herself worked until her strength was exhausted. Gang relieved gang and still the great mass seemed to become but the more impregnable. On the second day the men heard something. They listened in- tently. It was a faint rapping on a timber. “They are alive—at them.’ shouted a mi with a will, Then Kate ane least, ner. “To work men aroused from her stu- por ers “*Back, lass," said her father, “A stronger arm is needed he “*My arm is father,” said. They her way Her sweet of the men. Yes: the Norwegian, On the third day the tapping was fainter and then it Next morning they reached the men, The Englishman was apparently Both bodies were taken At the wonl had fallen one of t over the Englishman shouted There's life here The captain knelt 1 heard the faint beating of “Carry the lad commanded, When Geoffry came was lying in a { pon { Bending ov Someone held lips were pressed to kindly, sympathetic and their tender | re wt rong azed at her and let her have or heart's there,’ said one ceased. dead to the surface Kate, worn out suddenty be “dead Uneonscions he men who had been nding his side and 3 7 the heart to my house 114 to himself he small room near indow sill him was hand forehead es gazed inte window hie flowers woman. his his “5 his, him. Kate! eoflry “It is vou, sweetheart? It is I, dear What did me Was nd resting on her womanly bo His 3 « Dosa this WwW broad, of this wo- man of the people. 1 his w hispered How do vou feel In Kan bad 1 POR 11 em Hush, dear sake, For yours Yes Then YO nnn F Yes negver Kate you for mis Love You My sweet lass : t heart did little Oo Conia Try Geof] know Kats thought t6drive her? Y mand me—your j not foree to be ¥ye may lead me to the end of the world There, your You worn weary. Creoflry We You your 80 not com ealousy me irs-—hut 3 close and eves are have been misery. fered, darling, while you were in that tomb. Then I knew what my for you was and in my arms and beg you to take me {and cherishme, 1 prayed that you might be saved so that my devotion could undo the harsh words of the ipast. Do you forgive me, my own, my treasure?’ “Lass, lass, pray God I might die again to hear such words, “There, there! Speak no Geoffry. Rest, rest. The doctor said you must sleep. Close your | eyes, for your Kate is watching over you.” “As 1 may some day watch over | you, Kate?" | **While this life lasts, if you will.” “Kiss me, dear.” For the first time she pressed her { lips to his, and then he slept peace- | fully, witha flush upon his cheek. | When her father entered he looked at them in surprise. “Is it 80, lass?’ “Aye, father.” “*I thought it was the other.” But she only smiled and gazed fondly at the sleeping man. The silver sun went down that night again in a silver haze. Over the hills in solemn procession the miners with bowed heads, carried the Norwegian to his grave. No funeral hearse, no carriages were there. Sadly the sil- ver sun sank out of sight. More viv. idly the shaft houses were defined, marking the places where human beings went down seeking that which is in the earth, where they are born and where they must die. There is no happiness not tinged with sorrow, But in the small room a woman, whose face was touched with silver light, bent over the man with the solicitude that a mother displays while looking on her slumbering child. Sink, silver sun; fade, light, from the hills; come, darkness, with ebon shroud; murmur, gloomy voices through the whispering Michigan pines! There is no night when comes the day-dawn of the soul! For mines may give out, external things may change, but there is that which en. more, to catch a glim of the Norwegian as he swarged thom the shaft? os dures forever, «= [The Detroit Free THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY | MEN OF THE PRESS. Not Well Equipped--Fourteen Dol. | lars Difference--Her Reply-~A Dis~ sembler~~Ete., Ete. ONE ‘No,"”” said the young man, in re- ply to his old tutor's question, *‘I haven't begun my life work yet, but OF A LARGY. CLASA. ‘I'm afraid, young man,” said his tutor, severely, “I'm afraid your ex- cessive and arduous labors in the fu- ture will always keep you from doing anything in the present.’ —{Chicago NOT WELL EQUIPPED. you think that Dr. | Bolus is a pretty good physician? | Briggs—(iood physician! Well, 1 should say nol. Why, that man couldn't cure a ham !=—Somerville Journal. Griggs—Don’t FOURTEEN DOLLARS DIFFERENCE. “Paw, is there any difference be- “If the doctor calls it a cold, the | bill is about $4. If he calls it influ- | enza, it's about $18. The difference! is $14. my son. = Chicago Record, HER REPLY. You look said Josh Sassafras to sweet enough to eat iri hix best g You just wait till supper time vou'll see me eat was her reply A DISSEMBI i. Bragg] KNOw a thing « Seapelyv——You sly dog AN EXCEPTION. Watts—Large bodies m Potts—Iid vou ever see a fat man slip on a banana peel ?—{ Indianapolis Journal. RIO A £4 ‘oad Man found out that that cow we had for had not given ans mer Smartt—Yaas: that's so Now sir {such a what hi rh value « right ! ne that Wall, vou see #s |/ CUrnosity, MITIGAT ED CIRCUMSTANCES. ia § Bab Keyworth was paying af tention o a rich widow in Harlem. Madam.’ he her a bouquet said, ax he offered rot rotting getting you are More and more beautiful every day. You exaggearte, my dear sir,’ ex- claimed the lady, very much flattered. Well said then, let us say every other | Joh. —{Texas Niftings. TRYING TO THINK. 2 beth was ind was sonr- fi Very un- fare asked | nase something What thi lnoked befo ~= Washin vt iy ¥ - 4 TENTION years)—You an old mag old people tf the minute i Chicago Herald FIRED was fired by love of ired and then fired Free Press Hix heart The But wid man had ret soon he ambled in ¢ The rest of him was we! Dot roid A QUESTION * Time and tide wait for no man’ ['vea question apropos Of that I would like to know Don’t they have to wait for u wo- | man 7 Puck i A LONG RIpay ‘I'm ready now,” called Mrs. Swiz- | zles, down the balustrade, to her hus- : band, who had been waiting half an | hour to start for the theatre. “I'm ready, all but my hat.” “Well, tell Maria,” shouted back Mr. Swizzles, as he stretched himself | out at full length on the sofa and | composed himself for a nap, ‘'tell] Maria to wake me at 9 o'clock, any- way. '=={ Chicago Record. I i HOPE ‘4 told the minister you were | troubled with insomnia,”’ said Mrs. | Manchester to her husband: ‘‘that | yon were nearly dead from loss of sleep, and he said he'd come and see you." “Well,” replied Mr. Manchester, with a sigh of relief, “‘if he only thinks to bring one of his sermons along, I will get some sleep at last.” ~{ Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. WHAT HE LEARNED. AT LART. Mother—~Well, Georgie, have you learned anything new to-day at school ? Georgie—Yep. Mother—What was it, my son? Georgie—Tom Harper has the measles an’ I've been playin’ with him all the afternoon.—{Chicago Inter. Ocean. A REGULAR THING. I'he Hostess (apologetically at lunch. eon This being Friday, Mr. Castle- ton, we don’t have as much as on other days. Castleton—~Neither do I, as a rule, The Hostess—Why, do you fast on Riiday because you think it right to 0 so? Castleton (go Jeon, no. Be- cause I'm os ow York Herald. A BAD TRUISM, Marichy==This shall never happen Friend-~What? aNavicby—1it is my fiftieth birth. ACCEPTED, She—You want me to be your marry the best woman in the world, He——But I've changed my mind, if York Press. ’ 51 YOu id HEROIC TREATMENT, Servant——Mrs, Youngwife g you to send up five gallons of mustard right away. 2 use so much mustard for? Servant—The baby is sick and the doctor ordered a mustard bath for it? —{ Puck CAVABLE. Crallup—Do vou think I can safely a business secret to Banks? | nearly $ should say so i fi vear azo, and he hi breathed ¢ Around to my tailor's ii The frie: overcoat WHAT You ci ; exclaimed a Testy wi rous husbene Yes, I can I can keep still i BODY fo in 1 2 never WErgent my dear ti Rev, yers A PARD WwW 11t Mlk One thing sl Hangon's bes sermons, he uses the terial. I don't exactly understand “Jerusalem, cent any ma Ocean, A NEW APPLICATION says with a grain of salt, Katie—~Why, isn’t he truthful? Mande—Yes, but he's so fresh. { Detroit Free res, MRS. YOUNGMA EXPLAING. Young Son---What is bricks made of? Mrs. Youngmwa-—Bricka are made of “But clay is noft, ma.’ “After the cley is shaped, the bricks “Oh, yés; IT know now. biscuits, "=i Good News, Like your BAROMETRIC INDICATIONS. Senior Partywer—One thing I like about our new clerk is that he is re- liable. You can always tell what he is going to do next, Junior Partner—And what is that? Senior Partner—Nothing,—{ Truth. Football in Sumatra. Among the Malays foothall has been in existence from time immemo- rial, says the New York Times, but it is, with them, essentially a game, as, for instance, baftledore and shuttle. cock is with us, and it is not a con- test. The football ix rather smaller that that used at Eton, and is made of wicker work. Those who join in the game arrange themselves in a wide circle and kick fie hall from one to another with the inside, or at times with the flat of the fost. The object of the players is to keep the ball ing about without its ever touching tho ground or the hand of any one. Great dexterity is shown in its per By apelin height, a very respectable fight. There seems to be no penalty to be exacted from a player who may kick THe SWEET POTATO. E———— Made Into a Pie, Fried, Escalioped in & Deep Dish. Ordinarily th: sweet potato fs sither roasted or boiled. When it is recooked, it is generally fried; but there are several other ways of pre- paring it, according to the New York I'ribune. A method that is almost unknown at the North is to fry the raw potato in bot fat. For this pur- pose the potato should be peeled and cut in thio lengh-wise slices, and laid in a broad spider of hot lard, deep enough Lo immerse the slices As they brown on one side and rise to the top, turn them and let theus hrown on th: other, as the under side of an article immersed in boiling fat browns before the upper side. A nice wav to prepare cold boiled sweet potatoes is to escailop them. Slice them in thin circles, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, and put them in a shallow dish which has been well buttared Muisten the potatoes with a little brown stock or gravy, thin: ed with water, and add i few bits of butter. Continue till the dish is full Then set it ina very hot oven for ten or fifteen min- utes to brown Few Northern housewives are acjuainted with the sweet potato pie of the South. This arerubbed through asieve in the same strained potato add a pint of lwo eggs, a sallspoon of salt, teaspoon of nuticeg, inpamon, with sugar enough to iweeten the pie. The amount will lepend largely upon the sweetness of the potatoes Bake in an under crust Ike a pumpkin pie I — Precaution Against Cold. Mrs. Inchbald had a child-like di- rectness and simplicity of manner, which, combined with her personal loveliness and halting, broken utter- ance, gave to her rsation, which was both humorous and witty, a most omical charm. after travel- ing all day in a pouring rain. the dripping coachman offered her his arm to help her out, when she ex- ciaimed amusement of her feliow-travelers: “Oh, no, no! Y-y-y- wili give me my death of cold! adry man.” RR —— milk, half a 4 teaspoonful ot ONY ince, to the you Do bring me a-a-a- Habit, statistics two-thirds of of the riobe the many wii The latest tha “* Tobacco The more prove male population bacco in which it Catarrh Cannot Be Cured With local applications, xs they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional discass:, and in order to cure i you 1 t take internal remedies. Hall’ Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts di- re nn the blood and mucous surface, Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack med It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics Known, 0om- bined with the best blood purifiers, acting di. rectly on the mucous 8 srfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what derful resuits in in one of some is taken, cite, te 1 A rod noes such Won pr ¢ wend f {ree J. 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