THE FAR BLUE HILLS.
lift my eyes, and ye are ever there,
Wrapped in the folds of the imperial air,
And crowned with the gold of morn or
evening rare,
OQ far blue hills,
Around vou break the light of heaven all,
There rolls away the Titans splendid ball,
And there the circling suns of midnight
fall,
4
O far blue hills,
Wild bursts the hurricane across the land,
Loud roars the cloud and smites with
blazing brand:
They pass, and silence comes, and there ye
stand
O far blue hills—
Your spirit fills the wide horizon round,
And lays on all things here its peace vro- |
found,
Till I forget that I am of the ground,
O far blue hills—
Forget the earth to which I loved to cling,
And soar away as on an eagle's wing,
To be with you a calm steadfast thing,
O far blue hills;
While small the care that seemed so great
before, i
Faiut as the breeze that fans your ledges |
o'er;
Yes, "tis the passing shadow, and no more,
O far blue hills.
{The Critic.
good chance, and has been keepin’
comp’ny for a long time, it does seem
hard to give it up for the sake of
takin’ care of the old folks, And
then your sister M'randy gettin’ bed-
rid. [I ain't sayin’ she could help it;
but we all know that some gets bed-
rid’ easier'n others; and your havin’
to bring up her children, and then |
and lookin’
out for nobody but themselves when
times was the hardest with you.” |
“They're all real well provided for, |
and that's a comfort,” said Miss
“Some folks always ig,’’ said Mrs,
Peet, crisply. ‘‘M’randy, she was one |
of that kind. Now, Rumy, amongst
neighbors, I be goin’ to say—that, up
lost without her,”
“I'm dretful
from the wrinkled corner of her eye,
“And then Nahum bringin’ his |
folks right on to you when he got all
run out and had a slack wife and, |
then gettin’ the farm away from you,
Lizy Ann says when we was talkin’ |
yesterday, says she, ‘we've all fit and |
struggled, but there ain't none of us
as Rumy Battles; and it does seem
last, with nobody to do for]
herself. and enough to live on
and but.
she likesto do.” And
place at
but
tonhole makin’
ISS RUMY'S VAGATION
BY SOPHIE SWETT.
A square of sunshine lay unheeded
on Miss Ruhamah Battle's new sit-
ting room carpet, and two flies buzzed
unmolested about her green paper
curtains.
Miss Ruhamah
ingsinher old-fashioned rocking-chair
sat darning stock-
and rocked uneasily as she darned.
An odor of burning from the
kitchen grew very pungent before it
reached her usually vigilant nostrils.
When at last she dropped the stock-
ing she was darning and hurried to
the stove, her nearest neighbor, Mrs.
Priscilla Peet. met her at the kitchen
door.
“‘GGood land, Rumy! I says to M'ria,
‘I can’t be,’ says I. ‘I've lived
lilo to Rumy Battles for
thirty and 1 never
anything burnin’ her
You must have something
more’ n common on your mind.
“If I hadn't I shouldn't never have
baked that said Miss Rumy
in a kind t dismay,
drew a blackene from
stove oven. ‘I don
pastry.
t hat
most
11
smelled
VEears,
in
“us
patien
EEL
}
S€L mucs
3
odd
t know what
*OIMes SO
don
Miss Rumy was a large we
slow of motion. Mrs. Peet,
angular and wiry, watched her as
moved heavily about,
care of all tha
“It must
nobody but ye
said. *'I tell ) hat it is, Rumy
you're all wore out. If I was youl'd
20 off somewheres and take a good
long vacation. It's time you had a
chance to be like other folks.”
The two women had
the sitting room by this
Mrs. Peet, in neig
took up the stocking Miss Rumy had
dropped, and went energetic: to
work upon it.
Miss Rumy looked about for |
vaguely, and then folded her hands
in her large lap with a | l
ture, and the heavy folds
quivered.
Why, Rumy, you be r
said Mrs. Peet, sympathetically.
“You ain't had anything new to upset
you?’
Nothin’ but what you was talkin’
about. I've got to have a vacation!
The doctor been
aince I had the influenzy in {
and Nahum's folks they're
it: but I'm sure I don’t see how I can
manage it. It's a dreadful upsettin’
idea.”’
“Land 1
can go jest I should
like to know what's to hender you,
with no folks, nor hayin’
anything on your mind, now Nahum’s
got the farm; and you've earnt a va-
cation if ever anybody did.”
““ Josiah's folks up to Hebron have
always been in’ me to
said Miss Rumy; “' but seems
twas a good ways, and my
crop of peas is comin’ on, and the
fastenin’ broke on the buttery
window, and my hens "=
“Now, Rumy, if you
reckon up
one
18 Die.
to have
3
she
moved into
and
fashion,
time
hborly
FE
ges
wore out!’
he's sayin’ so ever
he spring
set upon
1 1
sakes, lattles, vou
Rumy
1 $1
#i8 Weil BS hos
men nor
come,”
as if
second
is
begin to
like that,
you'll never go. [I know jest how "tis
with some folks; and some can
off and leave everything at sixes and
gevens, and never think anything
about it. There was Emerette Smal-
ledge, that kept school here when we
was young. Do you remember how
she went off to England in a sailin’
vessel that some of her relations was
captain of, and never waited to close
her school?’
“Emerette never did seem to have
a realizin’ sense,”’ said Miss Rumy.
“Why, I never thought, Rumy,
that she was the one’ ~
“yl
dif’runce that she was the one that
Luther Merridew married,’ said Miss
Rumy, with a faint glow upon her
soft and seamy old cheeks,
“Rumy Battles, Lizy Ann and |
was talkin’ yesterday, and we both
of us said we never see anybody that
had done so much and give up so
much for other folks as you have!”
Mrs. Peet spoke impulsively, and
held her needle suspended above her
stocking in an impressive pause,
Well, 1 don’t know,” said Miss
Rumy, smoothing out imaginary folds
tn her purple ealico lap.
“OTisn’t that I think it's such
great things to get married, goods
wess knows! But when a girl has a
hindrances
oy
-
mite if she was better off
she been
3 d got for
Meoerridew of
flares out. (I know it
feelin’s to have me
now we're of
have
would ‘a’
married ;
Wis
than
one
them that
don’t
say it
hurt your
Rumy
along
ths all
that ail
in vears, and got af
sense of what men folks are.)
us
realizin
Of course Luther wa'n't
havin’ a
give up studyin’ to
nor for havin’ s
with him, nor
when he tried to
t hat of
Kin
: 1
bring anvthing to
to blame
had to
minister,
sunstroke, so'st he
be na
hool keepin® disagree
burnt
store:
out
but
for
men that can’t seem
pass
wearin’ to their
he'd had a real
Rumy, thin
diff runt—beats all how queer this
‘ell, if E
4
i wished her cake was 31
women
turns out! merette
boii ha ise?
edge hain
before this time, 1
You never
after they moved «
miss mv
heard i
anything
it
Rumy?’
No,” said
Year or two i
Miss |
tar th
they were ki
Well
3
ool DOW
a mind
should feel
\ ;
VOur hands
Miss Rumy
Seems as
be here to look after things;
'# dreadful thin
on raliroads, all oti
nothin’ like your
own bed
one to fi
g« happenin’
me. and there's
victuals and
night But 1
i
Cis
Own
your
ain't
The doctor says I'd ou
I'm goin I :
many tevin’ thi
came :
ich when duty
go, and
through so
* oUt now,
I about it
I had your
Weis 5
illa.” Miss
: i :
ie touch of dig:
Mrs.
said
Peet haste make 1
offers of ond
CANArY
advice
the sed
%, the hens, the
i of pes
bird, and to give practical
about the buttery wine
I haven't writt
I thought I'd like
prise, and, "ie
tell what may happen
next Monday
"twas a good because
urday and
nd of
low,
on to Josiah's folks
to take "em by sur-
't never
start Neems as
you cai
have tl
get all ready Sat 1
sabbath to k
mind.”
jut Monday came
Rumy had not
She was
compose your
and poor Miss
com posed her mind.
ns of perturba
and unpacked
wshioned carpetbag a
dozen times—not nn her grim de-
ination and sense of duty could
ify Miss Rumy to the extent of
ing a trunk, and three times after
evervthing was settled she went over
to Priscilla Peet's to give her more
minute instructions about the care
of the hens, and the vigilance
sary to guard them marauding
skunks,
And, after all, she was ready, with
her castle well defended. an hour be-
fore stage time. It seemed to Miss
tumy that in all her anxious, toil-
life had known so
long an hour as that.
The stage left her at the Carmel
Rtation. It was a hundred miles to
Hebron, and there were two changes
upon the way. Fora while the perils
of the journey absorbed all Miss
Rumy’s thoughts; but by the time
{ she reached Cherryfield Junction,
i where the first change of cars was to
| be made, her anxious mind had re-
in such
tion that she packed
her great, old 1;
tax
NeCed-
from
some she never
{ ened her deserted dwelling, and she
{ longed wearily for a cup of her own
{ tea,
{ There was another woman waiting
{ in the station at Cherryfield Junction.
| She was ** very much of a lady,” Miss
Rumy said to herself, regarding with
a little doubt her own attire, which
had been chosen for durability and
In the sewing circle at home she
had been earnestly advised not to
make acquaintances on her journey ;
but she was nevertheless very ~lad
when the lady spoke to her, begin aing
with a comment upon the weather
and the uppleasantnesy of traveling
flout, und “lie Was soi¢y % hear that
direction. Miss Rumy’s overcharged |
heart was longing for sympathy. |
There was an hour and a half to |
wait, and Miss Rumy invited her |
companion to share the substantial
lunch which, with much thought and
vided. Under the influence of the
luncheon, and of some tea which |
they procured from the station rest- |
aurant, the stranger, who had been |
somewhat reserved, grow confidential.
She had not been in this part of the |
country for years; she was going to
to visit relatives, and she
hoped they would remember her.
“Land sakes! Why Corinna joins
Carmel where I live,” exclaimed Miss |
Rumy, conscious of a pleasing bond.
“Then perhaps you know Cap'n
Bijah Lord's folks?’’ |
There was a quiver of anxiety in |
the woman's voice; and she sud-
denly threw up her little dotted and |
frilled veil her looked, as Miss
Rumy afterward said, like ‘a hunted
cretur’'s.’
“Land, I guess
Bijah, he died a
ago, and his wife
and went off to Vermont to live with
her nephew. The boys, they fol-
lowed the sea, and Laban settled way
off in New Zealand, and nobody ever
knew what become n
“They're all gone?’
woman. I'd ought
out before 1 come clear on here.
Now that her veil raised
Rumy could see that her face
wrinkled and and its bl
which had impr Miss Ru
very beautif was too evidently
ans
fYes
I did. But Cap'n
consid'able spell
she was took blind
of Timothy
faltered the
to have f
alund
was
worn
wsed my t
ficial to her
eyes,
most all
lace
ry were cheap
Ambrose ' folks
1
t all
mM Drose
+4
iY
Ambrose, he Kin
Miss
$9 1.
said
tumy
express hers iieat
matter of her ne
And Mary Olive
hard
off from
ner
HicHK
Ig th
— pt ROME ho iv Ww
poke
dker
lace-trimmed han X
He passed AWAY Seven
raised h
to her eves,
years ago. Luther
spirited
made
been 1
rasp
inter.
was
A~Vis-
Ther WHS WHS
mouths to feed
Hs y
Rumy’'s
leave me real
“f wish't twas so 1 wan't
' said Miss Rumy.
pleased to have
make me a good long visi
makin’ yi
Seems I
1 #8 vaca
should be
come and
I was
* said her friend
unfortunate that [ve
and I don’t know as I've got me
enotgh-=with me :
“It’s what I'd ought to do to take
you right home with me! *eried Miss
Rumy, joyfully: and there arose be
fore her eyes a serene and lovely vision
of her own cup of tea and her own
bed. ‘Now, don’t you feel a mite
bad about my losin’ my vacation, be-
cause J don’t. Come to think of it, 1
ion
real
lott
in aon
visit
come So
forgot the pleurisy pills that I made
Priscilla Peet when that good woman's
astonishment had sufficiently sub-
gided to allow her to listen. Miss
Rumy had established her visitor in
her cool and dainty spare chamber,
where she was speedily resuming all
the airs and graces which had struck
Miss Rumy on their first meeting,
“You do beat all, Rumy Battles!"
was Mr. Peet's breathless exélama-
tion. ‘She's got old-fashioned cone
for as long as she lives! You'll toil
and slave for her jest as you did for
all the rest!”
“Well, I don’ know,’ said Miss
Rumy, vaguely. But as she bustled
about her cheerful house her face
was full of serens joy.—[The Inde-
pendent.
A Famous Old Clock.
The Grand Lodge of Masons in this
city has just come into possession of
a very interesting relic in the shape
of a grandfather's cl
the hours for Yorktown Lodge in the
troubled days when George Wasl
Lafayette and other officer
of the Continental Army used to visit
it and
ock that struck
ington
attend its sessions The lodge
1812, and
lv sold with 1
It
pawnsh
exist ir
was
as much
if the air above the
enough, the whole
time be made into ic
Perhaps the most
of all for produacit & 10%
: hat of
by means of a
wrought iron
is forced into
ti jes IR 1 On
{
CcYiin
the
out the heat it contains to
ing oh et
& colder than itsel
foal
qt
s
n allowed to expand
tires thix heat ones
anything
a vessel of water is held in
from
therefore
the stream of air issuing from such a
wrought-iron cylinder, the water loses
heat the expanding air and
gots frozen. This process
on vessels bringing the
sheep and bullocks from Australia
America, ~ Atlanta (
its to
is in use
and ‘onstitue
tion.
American Timber Becoming Scarce.
‘em. 1 ean send ‘em
right along. There's more’'n an hour
now before the train goes
consulting the time table on the wall
wis needin’
cemetery there pointing across the
{ where some white
through the trees.
{folks that used to
moved over here,
| wonder if some of ‘em was buried
| there, Anyway, it's always real
| pleasant to walk in the graveyard.’
They spent an hour delightfully,
finding the graves of Lyman Peters
live at
upon the probable fortunes of his
second wife, and in re niniscences of
{ other mutual acquaintances of their
| youth. As they settled themselves
{in the train Miss Rumy said tha
| she ‘had had a beautiful vacation.”
The supply of timber available for
lumber purposes will be entirely ex-
hausted within a few years. [It
becoming very difficult to buy really
desirable tracts of timber land now,
and if the ratio of building operations
during the past twenty years is kept
up for the next twenty, the present
woods cannot be obtained. There in
no section where there is any consid.
erable extent of virgin forest, and,
while as yet a second cut on lands
once culled is fairly profitable it is
because trees are taken now that
would not have been deemed worth
Walnut
is
pine has been very perceptibly de
appearing. There is no replanting
done and no attention paid to im-
proving the size and quality of the
smaller growth of trees, ~{8t, Louis
Globe-Democrat. ¢
AMBER AND AMBEROID.
Hardened Gums of Trees that Flours
ished Millions of Years Ago.
A. Becker, of East Prussia, a mem-
ber of the firm who own and operate
the greatest amber mines in the
world the Anna and the Palmnicken,
located on the north coast of the Lal-
tic Ben, said recently
Our firm supplies over 90 per cert.
of the amber and amberoid sold in
the markets of Europe, Great Britain,
Asin, Japan, China, and America.
Amberoid the result of small
pieces of amber compressed into one
solid mass by hydraulic pressure
We employ in our mipes and manu-
facturing processes about 2,000 peo-
ple, who prepare our products for the
market, ready for the manufacturer.
We make no manufactured
Our output is the crude material and
amounts annually to about $1,000,-
O00) Mr. Becker then exhibited an
elegant cigarette holder of whitish
amber ornamented with gold.
holder he,
mounting, is worth $8 Continuing,
he said Very little of the real amber
shipped to the United
Most of that which is called
here is only amberoid,
Amber isthe gum of a conifer, bu!
of what speci It be-
vegetn-
is
goods.
said
States,
GR NO One KNoOows
longed to the first period yf
tion of the eg rtl No
what
one knows in
and
hem are left forthe
is not improbable that
d were stately
Dr. R.
the highest au-
they produced amber an
trees millions of vears ago
: or bye 4
the world
2 000 different varieties
is subject in
there
cts found imprisoned in
i
‘arrect es
8 re
KAVS
amber
age In
e us be-
iy
riod of which
nid
Prus-
e JONNY INN)
SUR
Gambier
Ma-
was a
tried
ubordination on
wiio was
wis
of
by two
neipal thing to be
actually
a man this name, who
accompanied
tion to Captain Gambier’s theory
hat France
claim to
tion a wd di
has
which
entific inven
overy that can be named
been known to put forward
the discovery of
1 Perhaps after this she
Pall Mal
The Canary's Mirror,
assiduously
inys every s«
never
a pretension to
Americs
will, ee | Gazette
Not long ago my wife purchased a
canary at a bird store. It had been
accustomed to companions of its Kind
gi the store, but at our house it
entirely The pretty
songster was evidently homesick,
would not sing, it would not eat, but
drooped and seemed to be pining
away. We talked to it, and tried by
every means in our power to cheer
the bird up, but all in vain. My wife
was on the point of carrying the bird
back to the store when one day a
friend said, “Get him a piece of look.
ing-glase.”’ Acting on this sugges.
tion, she tied a piece of a broken
mirror about the size of a man’s hand
on the outside of the cage. The little
fellow hopped down from his perch
almost immediately, and going up
close laoked in, seeming delighted,
He enirped and hopped about, sing.
ing all the pretty airs he was master
of. He never was homesick after
that. He spends most of his time
before the glass, and when he goes to
sleep at night he will cuddle down as
close to the glass as he can, thinking,
very likely, that he is getting near to
the pretty bind he sees 50 often,
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat
was
Jittie
It
alone
DZATH ON CHOLERA GERMS.
Tobacco Boon Destroys the Baciiil of the
Deadly Oriental Pisgue.
Some Interesting Investigations
have been made on the vitality of
cholera organisms on tobacco Ly
Wernicke, says Nature. Small pleces
of linen soaked in cholera-broth cul-
tures were rolled up lo various kinds
of tobacco, and the latier ware made
into cigars. At the end of twenty-
four hours only a few bacilli were
found on the linen, and none on the
leaf. On sterile and dry tobacco
leaves, the bacilli disappeared in one-
half to three hours after inoculation.
On moist, unsterilizad leaves they
disappeared in from one to three
days, but on moist and sterile leaves
in from two to four days When
introduced iuto a 5 per cent. tobacco
infusion (ten grams of leaves to 200
grams of water), however, they re-
tained their vitality up to thirty-
three days, but in a more concen-
trated infusion (one gram of leaves
to two grams of waler) they suc
cumbed in twenty-four hours. When
enveloped In tobacco smoke they
were destroyed, In broth cultures, 48
well as in sterilized and unsterilized
saliva, In five minutes. Another au-
thority describes a series of experi
ments in which he prepared broth
cultures of different pathogenic mi-
crobes, and conducted through them
the smoke from varicus kinds of to
bacco. Out of thirty-three separate
investigations, in only three were
the cholera organisms alive after
thirty minutes’ exposure to totacco
fumes. But in actual experience the
apparent antiseptic properties of to-
bacco have not frequently been met
with; thus, duriog the influenza epi-
Visalll mentions the
remarkable immunity from this dis
characterized the opera-
tives in tobacco manufactories; that
in Genoa, for example, out of 1,200
work people thus engaged, not one
was attacked: while in Bome the
number was so insignificant that the
works were never stopped, and no
precautions were considered necessa'y.
RRO
A Folly of Fashion.
The quantity of rouge worn during
the recent Ascot week was the sub-
ject of much comment. The fashion
of painted cheeks and lips bas been
revived with much intensity this
season, and the coloring seems to be ap-
plied without discretion. so paipabie
is the artifice. It has been suggested
that the very numerous and brilliant
tints combined in dresses and on hats
have induced #his method of playing
up to them, in order to prevent the
from completely extin-
guished by bright The
effect. however, is far from pleasing.
—————
os hin
ia Ce
being
the colors
Man's Fall,
Rince the original fall of man we have had
pome signal examples of great falls not t
include Niagara or ths immense fall in
which the times have br
ag abou? -
naiures
times,
Lord
stairs
accidents which wayiay men at
that of Mr. George W,
says he fell down
ir weeks with a sprained
Jacobs Oil completely
loesder, 609 8. 17th Nt.
Cine sush is
Olanta, s., wh
wd suffered fo
he use of Bt
Mr
, Mointes
back
cured hin
Omaha, Nel
bis sugine in coiling
bad sprain !
for weeks
G
that he jumped from
‘
an and sustained a very
158 8 Cans
buy
y his ankle ; he bad 10
at was floally cured
Jacobs Oil, Never (all out with so
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Blood Poison
After Approach of Death, New Life
by Taking Hood's.
Mr. Wm. E.
Baltimore, Md.
“For four years | was in intense suffering
with an abscess on my thigh. It discharged
freely and several times
Pieces of Bone Came Out,
Last February | had to take my bed for four
weeks, and then it was | began to take Hood's
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chronic blood poisoning and gave me little hope,
1 returned home and continued taking Hood's,
1 have nsad six bottles and the abscess has an
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{ know if 1t had pot been for Hood's Sarsaps-
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