FAITH,
sn m—
She sat where daisy blossoms tossed
Their heads beneath an elm
shade :
Her hands upon her knees were crossed
My bonny, laughing, goid-haired maid.
tree's
n lover's tone of fond command,
1 said, while sketching at her feet,
“Pray take a daisy in your hand
And make yourself a Marguerite.”
“These foolish
tell,”
She answered, blushing winsomely,
“Your lips have said, ‘I love thee well,’
And that's the oracle for me."
—Kate Field's Washington.
flowers have naught
fd BUNCH OF VIOLETS.
BY V. ETYNGE MITCHELL.
cups and open-eyed daisies, over hills
on which the lights and shadows of a
summer morning were playing hide
and seek, through valleys where
drowsy cattle were grazing by the
side of idle brooks
train known as “The Wild Irishman,’
running between London and Holy-
head.
Seated in one of the
riages, which had no other
than herself, was a X
face had the exquisite coloring of a
portrait by Titian. Large brown
eves shaded by curling lashes were in
strange yet pleasing contrast to the
golden hair which fell in wilful little
curls about her forehead.
As they neared Chester, the only
station at which the train stopped on
ng journey, the young lady
leaned forward and watched with
slight interest, the eager crowd of
men and women who awaited the ar-
rival of the cars.
“I wonder what fate has in
for me in the way of a traveling com-
panion,’”’ murmured, and the
answer to her thought came
immediately, as a gentleman
the
much bronzed face,
partment.
Selfishly regretting the disturbance
solitude, the woman
opened a book, which she had drawn
from her taveling bag, and appeared
to be entirely absorbed in its perusal.
3
proceeded
center car-
occupant
girl whose
young girl
its long
store
she
of a traveler
ered
costume
ent the com-
of her young
The newcomer at once
make
away parcels and umbrella, and
ily taking possession of
of the
barely gl
himself comfortable, stow-
to
a seat at
r, facing
end ca
*r, DUl
Anc-
ng at her,
Only the sound of
or the whirof a
turbed the quiet of the
the busy wheels
passing train dis-
journey. The
e example of
it a
stranger had followed tl
a reel
having
{ having
1 +
was soon i
taken ot
if
st in its ¢
3 by a mischievous south
rind, blowing with i
iliarity through th
disarranged
from under the girl's hat.
the offender
mpertinent
fa-
window
ne open
the flufly curls peepis
She rose
impatiently to shut out
but fate ordained that t
should stick, whereupon she glanced
with at the
man who had dropped his paper and
was looking full at her.
For the first ti
and a bow of coldly formal
tion passed between them,
Miss St. John,”” he murmured
‘I hardly expected to meet you here.
Allow me 2. And,
window, he quietly returned to his
former position, while she, having
expressed her thanks by an inclina-
tion of the head, resumed her novel.
The constraint of their
was uncomfortable to the couple, who
had evidently met and parted on
some occasion which had either left
them unfriendly almost as
strangers,
From under his heavy eyebrows
the young man covertly watched his
companion. She was holding her
book upside down. A smile broke
upon his lips as he observed this, and
rattling his newspaper noisly to at-
tract her attention he leaned forward
impulsively determined to break the
silence by addressing her,
““ May I inquire how your sister,
Mrs. Arlington, is? She raised her
head, but not looking at him replied
with freezing discouragement of
tone.
** Thank you;
quite well.”’
‘“ Ah, and your mother (with quiet
perdistence), I hope she is better,
Miss Bt. John. Am I correct in ad-
dressing you by the old name? You
may have changed it."
‘You are quite correct,” she re-
turned icily.
ii
he
winaow
; ort
feminine helplessness
me their eves
closing the
or
Mrs. Arlington is
clover, bounced with a noisy jocular-
ment, strove to escape from it by fly-
ing with spiteful buzzing sgainst the
stantly suppressed,
tipathy to bees ’’
young man, placidly folding his arms
and smiling;
changed.”
“Among them your disagreeable
habit of teasing,’’ replied Miss St.
John, and turned her attention to
some russet-colored cattle that
lifted their heads from the tall reed
sos to gaze in open-eyed wonder
at the passing train.
“Don’t you think,’’ suggested Mr,
Dennison, when the silence again be-
cama Sppressive, ‘‘that, ss we are
likely to be shut up together in this
compartment for two full hours, it
might be more philosophical—not to
say agreeable~if wo raise a flag of
truce? We can confine ourselves to
sommonpluaces—-the weather, ecatch-
-
ing bees, or other harmless topies.*’
Oh! confine yourself to catching
bees, by all means,” she cried nery-
| ously, as the insect in question re-
{ minded them of his presence by
| bouncing against the ear of the
| young iady.
of remarks about the
{ weather,”’ she added more genially as
she watched Dr. Dennison chase
3
interchange
{ offender through the window.
| his throat a little nervously, ‘‘it
a charming day.”’
son."
‘“Ah, yes; perhaps we may have
rain, which was slow in coming.’
look probable to me.”
Having delivered herself of this
| brilliant speech, she arched her neck
[with extravagant courtesy to exam-
| ine the clouds.
“We had thunder last week,”
tinued the young man, desperately.
“Is it retorted Miss
St. John, “that you should turn your-
necessary,
which he sent by mai! with a bunch
of Parma violets."
Well 2"! whispered Miss St, John:
well?”’ It was easy to see that she
was at last deeply interested.
“Mr. Dubois asked her in this letter
if she still loved him to wear his
flowers the next evening at a dance
meet, He called
her his ‘little gueen’—he was madly
in love with her.’
‘“*And then?’ the girl's
sounded as if she were crying.
“Oh, then, he went to the dance.
She was there, radiant, smiling, beau-
But she did not wear his vio-
Her gown was white, but upon
bunch of crim-
son roses—which had been given to
voice
lots,
me reports of what has been?
to the present or future.”
“There is no future for
her companion, sadly.
pantly, as if anxious
words, he added
“Pon't ¥
to the—weathbr
me,’’ said
Then flip-
to recall his
is a limit
Sup-
there
for a topic?
pose we try something else,”’
“We have talked long enough,’
returned the young woman, severely.
1] prefer to read.” And she
lutely opened the novel.
‘‘Is it interesting?’’ he persisted,
ou think
reso-
after a pause
‘Intensely,
“It must be rather difficult to read
upside down. Is that an acrobatic
feat you have learned to accomplish
in the four vears of
my absence?”
the
length of time has not improved
Miss St.
It goes without saying that
ners said
accepted in silence
i but
left
nis companion
moment of hesitation he
1
If in the
ed himse
he whispered
glance of angry tol-
reach Holy-
histle-downs we shall
1 will
again. We were very good frieuds—
aver
JUst at
once-—hut ourse that is sll
inlly detest me.
are wishing me
I did not ss 5, the
with flashing eyes
thought
exclaimed
continued that
» and enable you
antagonism {oo my
ke to hear the
stories. Possibly
'
I
Pp 5
3 I wrote a book
you remember ths
words from her I rememixn
hat. Itis
entertain me
Mr. Dennison
on his fingers |
[ov
ging in you to
your plot
ye oun to
hat is
econnt
Ss dramatic ps
Miss Maude Vivian
There is
iress
Mr.
stricken artist,
Mr. John Halifax—very hand
very rich and
icular.
~~
}
ie
Henry Dubois—a poverty.
nothing in par-
ene-—Central Africa.”
‘Your scene is 18 and |
your combination of characters im-
probable,” complained Miss St. John
“Truth is not necessary in fiction,”’
responded the story teller.
““*Oblige me, then, by not romane-
ing any more than is absolutely
1ecessary.’’
“Miss Vivian was fair and lovable.
Consequently when she met Mr. Du-
bois at a lawn party he fell in love
with her and she reciprocated his af-
fection.
‘A lawn party in Central Africa!”’
expostulated the young lady. .Pray!
are you telling me a romance among
the Manyemas?'’ :
“The color of the skin is immater-
replied Mr. Dennison, ‘but as
preposterol
rope—England will do. All went
well with the lovers until, like the
snake in the Garden of Eden, a third
person stepped in, Mr. John Halifax.
Well, one eannot blame Miss Vivian
if she preferred the corn and wine of |
Egypt to love in a cottage with pov- |
erty." i
There was a pause, which Miss St.
John broke by exclaiming irritably :
“You are not entertaining at all. |
No
“Why not?’ (politely). “Have!
you never known of a similar cage?’ |
‘“ No, never, except in some absurd |
‘* By and by," continued the young |
man, ‘Mr. Dubois decided to ‘win or |
lose it all.” He asks Miss Vivian to |
marry him at once and share his |
modest income, which is, however, a |
He~-made a fool of him-
self.”
“ Most
girl.
“That is true, otherwise women
would not care for them ; but in this
case the lady shared his folly.”
“In what way?’
‘“* She threw aside a loyal heart.”
‘* Probably she had good reason for
so doing.”
‘It oczurs to me that you espouse
her cause very warmly.”
** Possibly the young man was over-
bearing and impertinent. She very
properly declined to be a slave, It is
a Briton's privilege.’’
‘1 grant it. But suppose that Du-
bois loved her deeply and truly ; that,
realizing that he had spoken hastily
and regretted it, and wrote her a lot
ter full of entreaties for pardon,
men do,” murmured the
¢
i
The voice of the narrator trembled,
but he did not glance at his compan-
ion.
Already they were approaching a
tunnel which heralded the end of
their journey. Miss St. John realized
it and was thankful, for she hoped
the semi-darkness might hide her
falling tears.
“That night,’’ continued Mr. Den-
nison, ‘he met a friend who was to
sail for Africa on the following day.
with him. He four
years."
“Did it ur to him,”
the young girl, reaching a
out of which she drew a small jeweled
was away
O0e
box and laid it
Miss Vivian m
the letter until
ight not
after the
i
and impetuous lover
call. Besides
was beyond re-
she might
With such
but
for his return.
flows like Solway
tide.’ 's y
Already they were at the mouth of
the tunnel. The whe
the train sounded like thunder,
plung
Mis
John pinning with trembling
men
ebbs like its
3
revolving
revolving
an instant before the engine
into darkness Dennison saw
a bunch of faded flowers to tl
af he
box ¢
ly he
n her bosom
ling diamonds in
f the carriage lan
All
have held you ir
these words waste i wher
these
n, drawin
od me
mi
she
he whis
Darling
enough. I
these «
CAN nev
wi § 3 YO 154
loyalty again.
Fiying Machines.
Benjamin Franklin
pare the balloon of his day t«
who would presently to
He thought the aerostation
embryo, and it due time would
do marvelous things. But his aspira
One Imay now say, were
sanguine, =
Our aerial achievements
literally ** in the ai
our best aeronauts
They are * blown about with every
wind.” It is true that the parachute
has been brought to considerable per
fection, but that is not but
falling. Itis samething to be able
to fall softly from a great height. but
it is not much, It hardly
worth while to go upso far in order
to come down again.
This reflection applies to the very
latest improvements in the science
The winged man of Steglitz has, we
are told, *'' accomplished a journey of
250 yards,” bnt this merely means
tower he has
built for the purpose with a spring
board, or from a steep hill, he hae
flown down that distance.
As for the aerial machines of vari.
ous kinds that are to ** revolutionize
by dropping dynamite
over cities and armies, they may be
marvels of mechanieal science, but
come
was in
tions, to
are
are involuntary
flying,
seems
casion,”’ or even risen at all. Even
the ** Maxim’ invention has, I un.
derstand, ‘‘never left the rails,”
which, although a great virtue ina
locomotive, is very little credit toa
flying machine.~{ London News.
Nickel and Silver.
Some authorities say that the
prices of nickel and silver will event.
ually cross each other. They argue
that nickel is more useful, is scarcer,
and is not so readily produced, and
that as silver is used more asa
symbol of wealth its value in that di-
rection will gradually depreciate. In
such an event there is a long road,
because silver has in it the tradition
of ages, and the poorer classes of the
world would be actuated in its use as
the rich have been, and for elong
time the downward course would be
stayed by this sentiment alone.
[ Hardware, i
Wool is now manufactured into nearly
22,000 different Kinds of goods.
THE
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
Ready to Begin~--Better Than Elec
tricity ~~ Modest Willie ~~ Early
Depravity--Ete., ete.
READY TO BEGIN.
The Governor—Now that I've paid
your debts, Harry, you can make a
new start,
Harry—Thank you, father; please
lend me a hundred. —{ Truth.
BETTER THAN ELECTRICITY.
Agent—Wouldn't you like to have
Mr. Binks—Don’t need it, I've
a wife.—{ New York Weekly.
WILLIE,
got
B LR
MODEST
‘“No,”” said Willie Wibbles, “I'm
not a bit afrail of a bicycle,”
“You brave
YOUng woman,
“Oh not
Willie modestly.
wide one,
said the
are quite
necessarily,” rejoined
“You see,”] nevah
EARLY DEPRAVITY.
‘Papa,’ asked To
‘who was Cain's wif
mimny Goodman,
a9
Rev, Dr.
pause,
the
an, afte an omi
ill you please
Caroline
HOous
room
thw how
i TIE
Ch
— ICAO
AN IDIOTIC BIRD
I have
ats every word I
¥
a parrot at hom
utter
of a
. '
bird ejacu
cus. —{ Harper's Bazar,
Mamma
—\} hiatt i% 3
onnny’
as “lye
table
(v1 3
nny —- Anvth
mamma. - Newport Ne
Ww
$
PRACTICAL VIEW
yv say the Wolf
heir door.”
Well 1 don't ow what
there for—they never have anything
in the house,” = New York Press,
OF IT
is continually
ki he is
OUT OF SIGHT
Investor—] see you have a railroad
mapped out here, but where's your
town? a
Land Boomer—-Well, to tell you
the truth, it built yet; but
there's six candidates for Sheriff in
them gallberry bushes, one moonlight
distillery, three Prohibitionists and a
pond for baptism.—] New York Press.
ain't
TOO POOR.
“Lend me ton, Fweddie.”
‘Can’t do it I have just been
jilted by a girl worth half a million.”’
ef Life.
A DIALOGUE FROM LIFE.
“Where are you going?’’
‘““To the chemist’s,”’
“Is it for yourself ?'’
“Oh, no, fortunately-—it's for my
wife. "=f Le Soir.
ABSENT MINDED,
Benson—1 have a literary friend
who is so absent-minded that when
he went to London recently he tele.
graphed himself ahead to wait for
himself at a certain place.
Smith-~Did the telegram have the
desired result?
Benson«-No. He got it all right,
but he had forgotten to sign his
name, and not knowing who it was
from, he paid no attention to it,
{Pearson's Weekly.
FEELING I8 BELIEVING, TOO.
Teacher] don’t suppose any one
of the little boys here has ever seen a
whale? .
Boy (at the foot of the class)-~No,
gir, but I've felt one.— [Brooklyn
Life.
THE GENIAL PORT,
“Ha, ha” laughed the poet,
“Here's a good joke.”
“What is it?’ asked his wife,
" Why," returned the genial bard,
“a fellow wrote to me for my auto.
ph the other day and I sent it to
im. Then what does he do but copy
it on a check and try to get some
money at a bank. Tried to get good
wish, my dear, with my name on a
check, Ha, ha!’ = [Philadelphia
BOCIETY ORNAMENTS,
De Snapp~—I congratulate you, old
Miss Purkey's face is rather
plain, but she is worth $200,000,
De Muttinedd—Thanks, dear boy.
You are right. It was her figure that
HER BOCIAL TRIUMPH.
Mrs, Gossip—I hear you attracted
much notice on your appearance in
the social world abroad.
Mrs. Numoney—I should say #0. I
On an average
$35,000 of diamonds every ball I went
to. — Chicago Record.
WAS AWARE OF IT.
witness,’ ly
sharply
Gi ;
for the defence
lemember
Yyou are on oath.”
There ain’t no danger of
nlied
made $4
CRSC. Gn
Know it," =
FOR
GROUND
She-You
vou know you are
" He=lamd sing nothing of the sort
I can get angry if
She—But I don't
angry except when 1
to.~{ Indianapolis Journal.
A Wonderful Cliff.
you wish me to
wish you to ge
don’t wish vou
*
Jeffrey's Clift, located four miles east
of Hawesville, is a natural
and a wonder. It consists of a huge
cliff from 200 to 1
around, and looks as
had set a huge boulder down
face of the earth,
the top of it from ten to thirty {eet
deep, and before it was partially
on the
adorned it. There is probably more
than a hundred acres of good land on
top of it. Nature left no way for a
man with modern vehicle to go up it,
but at an expense of hundreds
of dollars a wagon-way has been
cut through the solid rock and
the dirt graded up to meet it.
provided for the lone tray-
eler.
On this wonderful natural produe-
tion the towns of Cloverport, Cannel
place, sail half way down the sides
of “Salt Peter Cave,” and other
points of interest make up its pecu-
liar wonders. There is an aperture
in the cliff on one side, about a foot
wide, that sends out the year round a
cold breeze. The warmest, sultriest
day that can be imagined in Auguss,
this constant flow of cold air greets
the sightseer. It sits in the middle
of the upper bottom, and the Ohio
river curves more than half way
round it at a distance of a mile and a
half away. Truly this is a home
wonder. «| Hancock (Ky.) Clarion.
BH 5 PA AAAS.
Boston has 446,600 population ana
858 police, who last year made 39,008
oy
8
A ——————
Mew Very Delightful,
“What charming weather,” we all say in
the opening days of the early spring ; then
off go the wraps and up go the windows to
lot the balmy alr coms in-—with it comes in
numerous things that ought to be kept out,
We feel sore from stiffsned limbs, and many
zo tottering sround with lame backs. Mr,
Harry Willlams, Greenville, Cal., under oath
writes onthis subject us foliows . “A lady suf-
fered so severely with pains in the back for
two days that she could not sit up, One ap-
plication of Bt, Jacobs Oil gave the suffsrer
a good night's rest, sad in the morning she
was well.” That was charmiog,
An underground railway up the Jungfrau
Mountain is one of 18 of the
Bwiss engineers,
the late
Proje
Donfness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach the
Alneased portion of the ear. ‘I'here is only ons
ry to cure Deafness, and that Is by constitu.
tinal remedies. Deafue-s is caused Ly an in
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Fustachiss Tube. When this tube gets in
flamed you have a ramoling sound or (myer.
fret hearive, and when it is entirely clawed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam
mation can be taken out and this tubs re
stored to its normal condition, hesring will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out ten arm
‘ ed oy eatarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces,
We will give One Hundred Dllars for any
case of 1ialness (caused by catarrl) that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send fog
culars, free,
F.J Caeser & Co,, Toledo, O.
S¥ Bold by Drugrists, 75.
mated that the ralls on the various
rajliways of the « altogether 83. ~
O06 O00 tons,
v .
it is esti
842.5010rva Farm Wagen.
be had for
YOU Witt
to the John
The
$42.9
best wagon in the world can
a barrel cart for 83.5), Ir
CUT THIS OUT AND BEND IT with 5
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red mammotl
will
yon
A
Palzer Se la Crosse, Wis, vou
sive their nlalogue, whers
his wagon
umes body
ayy dps d
nenis,
The Skill and Knowledge
f the most per
and popularisaxative remedy kuown have
Calif Co. to
reput ation of
Figs, as it is concedes
inxative. For sale by aB
Essential to the
produc
{ect
ensbiel the wnis Fig Syrup
achieve a greal success inthe
its remedy, Syrup of
fo be the universal
druggists
Men Wanted,
good men, men of
iy 10 represent as.
are many of the
werica, and parties
nd a splendid busi.
yids iment That
f the firm KB. F.
Via. stated the cose
ment it & Jake
The Hest
“Yes, sir; we want
class character and
our representats
ETE
RKowt
Bern in ta
hllimer
2d Kidney
TAI ple
soratory
1 8 PASO.
attain.
Shilah's Care
it eures Incipiont Con.
oc,
I AR ENaran tes
ion; itis the B st Cough Cure; Sik
SCE
#0.000 pins
affections,
) have
7 TVRs
MADY Years.
Tested ny Ting, ’ ronchia
he, ete. *) é
i their efficacy by a test of
e 25 cents
ug
rie eomotive beadlighis
gain favor,
1f afMicted with sore eves nee Dr. Isase Thomp
son's Kj e-water. Druggists sell at 2c per boitle
Electric irons are usad in laundries
BEYOND DESCRIPTION
The Misery Before Taking
The Happiness After Taking
HOOD’'S.
p— o
=~. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.»
“Dear Sirs:~1 have been in poor health for 30
or 25 years, and have been taking doctors’
medicines more or loss all the time. [did not
and my system was all ran down, [1 thought {
must die. but noticing several testimonials in
the papers in behalf of Hood's Sarsaparilla i
bought three bottles and found that it did me
so much good that | continued taking it. | waa
without appetite, slothfully sleepy, and had a
eadache most all the time. In fact | cannot
escribe my feelings, After using one bottle of
Hoods Sarsaparilia | found it was doing
Hood's*==Cur
vine boo mi
In fact | think ‘e Sa
life.” R. H. Bisnor, Box 60,