WIHKN AUTUMN PASSETHA BY. ‘When purple elderberries vie With shumach’s crimson stain, A flood of mellow minstrelsy Overflows the winding lane, A myriad insect voices flute, And rival throats reply, No tree, no tuft of grass is mute When autumn passeth by. A perfume rave of ripening leaves On zephyr pinions floats, And oft the scout of browning sheaves Blends with the ericket notes, Each hanging bough a censor swings Beneath the dreamful sky, And at her feet rich fragrance flin When autumn passeth fly. The spiders thread their gossamer With jewels for her head! The thistles strew their That softly she The When'er her feet draw nigh, Aad gently drones the yellow bes Yo hen autumn passeth by. down for her may tread; brooklet stills its summer gles Strange sorceries the spirit ! And work a hannting spell; Weird voices echo on th Aud whisper b At evamtide a lon Come: forth to mou » wind And shed Wher « its quiveris 1 avium passel veetes ft song that ever SOrro wv in its stran t Jv that morta Yr Genes } usband, ¢ to be t an i the inspira Une v ¥e at, went by like some rich melody, wt a single note of discord to break its divin and then the trouble eame, remembrance of it bl lthe wife's 1 made her breath painful gasps. At the ort. happy year of her wedded life ber husband informa- gion concerning the ane ss of an only brother residing in California. He was dying of a slow but sure disease, and wished to see his brother's face once more. Harry Merlin did not hesitate an instant. The path of du- ty was plain—lie must go. Maud en- treated to be permitted to accompany him, but he was inexorable. The risks and hardships were too great. her h he Arn that rare withe ¢ perfection, The bare anche checks an quick, Sat sh L come in close of received an ti >. give way to despondency. It was her nature to keep her face to the sun. She kept herself busy with the duties of Hoe household, and at last the dreary aays went by, tidings ‘rom Harry came. safe ut the journey’'s end, brother was dead, leaving but his Harry, able fortune. Just as soon business matters could be arranged, Harry wrote, he would start for home, Boon after a second came, bringing Harry, in company with quite a party of brother travelers, had set out, taking the overland route, Maud counted the days with throb- bing impatience. The parting had been so long. She pined to see his dear face and hear his voice once more. 8he worked from morn till night, filling the rooms with little ornaments and getting up little sur. prises against his return, She culti- vated the flowers he loved and san the ballads he admired. Never di woman count the passing moments with such loving expectation. At last the day came. She had received no intelligence, but she fois. sure Haut he would come, The evening was in spring, genial | I and balmy, their little homo aw i1- | derness of blossoms. She prepared his supper with her own hands, she adorned the rooms with the flowers he loved, and even laid out his gown and slippers and drew his armchair beneath the window. Then she went to her chamber and put on the dress he liked hor wear, a mauve silk with inca at the throat and wrists, jet and gold orna- ments, her brown hair held by ays of heliotrope and sweet verbena. Burveying herself in the mirror, she smiled an 1 blv ished, words when she dre tO see dainty and flossy Spt his had first Worn the ‘Oh, Maud, you are so beautiful. Always wear this dress, darling, when ICRSC ne SK, wheeled lower and last went down, leaving n thedusky mists beran to grow the'lamps in the went to the He surely would ie would not disappoint her! The May sun lower, and at the earth wrappe di of imp parior poren come ; twilig! a atient. out the wild, fds mind the went sh ng over the wan souls in agony. Her alinost insupportable, so hard, yet f boy's lure and live on. she looked down at her sable gar- ith hot, blinding teara., Bix and she was robed in gems and blossoms. His face, his very voice, scemed to come baek to her and she fancied that his spirit must be near her No matter how high above her, how happy, she knew that he loved her still, and his glorified spirit may have left its homes of bliss to keep with her that sacred anni. versary. The fancy consoled her be- yond expression. She glanced over at the sleeping boy with a dim hope that his father loved and watched over him. Then a sudden impulse shot across her mind, Bhe would not | keep the anniversay of her wedding day in the garments of her widow t hood ; she would put on the robe he loved, It hs knew 1 or sae the £ ot Yi ments w years ago : | eredly she remembered and observed { his simplest wishes. Stealing up to her chamber, she took out the mauve silk and the { dainty laces, growing yellow and | timeworn, and a pretty jet and gold ornament, and arrayed herself as in days gone by, and the old bloom eame back to her cheeks and the bright- ness to her eyes, and she seemed to drop her years and her widowhood, and to spring out afresh into the rare beauty of her early maidenhood. Thus arrayed, she went down softly and seated hersell before the blazing fire, her face tearful and expectant. It his soul was near—she clung to the hope that it was as she ¢lung to life ~=He should see how tenderiy she re- membered him, The anniversary night wore on, wild and dark with storm, and still the poor wile, half dazed by her ter. rible sorrow, sat by her lonely heartiigtone, robed without, 2 sharp, ‘impatient step on the gravel, but she did not hear it. A weary, travel worn man, bronzed by exposure and pale with long en- dured grief, came up to the front “ne. trance and paused beneath low window. Through the p cur tains shone the ruddy fir r= vealing the warm, attrac FOOTE] me the old, familiar room upon the wall and his nmieerschaum the moved had left tl the kitten purring the little curtain b and the dear, tears, and the dress he days, that seemed toon far ba arted ie aht, tive with his hat and lifi- books mantle, revealed and e distance wel on as ne em; the ed in ti face, on rug sweat with loved in happy y k to the poor wanderer to be real Was it all a dream Was that wife from whom he had so been parted, whose face had with him through his lone of peril and hmpri waiting the been all nt? Was she and watchir Kee hig home briecht He left the porel door. He 5 3 the Window 1 and raised Sasod in Railway Trav! run- an hont irack at the herefore appears that existing tracks are not Mi a apted to such rapid transit ne the buadrel-miles-an-hour enthu- sinsts are talking about. The prob. abilities are that the elevated track in some of its forms and the tunnel are the solution of the high-speed problem. Only by bridging valleys with trestle work and cutting through hills can the average level be reached and curves be dispensed with. It would be necessary to run snir-lines without regard to intermediate sta. tions, leaving these to be connected by ordinary roads. It would take something over a mile in which to stopone of these flying trains, and the nerve required to run it would be something far beyond that possessed | by the average engineer.—[ New York | Ledger. first curve, the present at all ad Value of Peanut Meal, European governments have been i experimenting with peanut meal as a food substance for the use of the armies. As this nat has a large i amount of nitrogenous matter in it, and nearly fifty per cont, of oil, it is a very rich food, being far more nue tritious than flesh meat. The oil cake after two-thirds of the oil has been expressed, is found better than the whole nut, and when mixed with flour and made into biscuits is very palatable, and takes the place of pre- parations of menl. This meal is now coming into use as a food for dairy cows, for which purpose it is far better than any of the oll-cake meals. ~{American Agriculturist. oh ONE GETS LEFT. gain, you know, He—Yus: but only one gots | NOTES AND COMMENTS, : Devorees of the dance take timely warning! While Richard Schlingen- scipen, of New York, was waltzing with a young lady at a past y the other night she fell pi is noav in the hospital ¥ A’ on lec Dox’t delay mountains of M. 3 aeclooia eologiat and a brok he Tt notnbie the ns» to nil th? world ns de Lapparent, the French estimates that mountains will be worn down to the level of the surrounding i 500 000 years. Lvs KO01 possible, nil fire in & Boulder County (Col. ) h burning aren wits ame Tis cond or thirty i y mine Has peen Vif 110% covers an numer Ti Mont Spain, are this partic granary dur tion. A ie master wisl tion again, and vi ills ACTS Ww hy ywned building, po remove it. answer was ut pected. The peasa “assumption’’ of the his pulled street and beat hi citement soon { people in the haml i mob of howling me { children gathered abo | the Mayor. This doughty ruler brought order out of chaos by order ing two of his servants to chase the gshoolmaster out of town. He will not teach the young idea how to shoot in Montillana this winter. in 2 wrote letters 1 the grain in litely ti 1 1eX- angry at tl stormed into the The ex- to nil and a large n, women and ut the house of fits, 0 fellow, house him out he riled Tue people of New England have taken a great interest in the recent occupation of old Fort Ethan Allen, near Burliagton, Vi, by four troops of United States cavalry, ment to build this started in post was Congress while Senator Proctor was at the head of the War Department, and was pushed along under his successor. It is held that the best way to protect the northern frontier of the country is to have a the chain of greatdakes. As the past history of the country shows, the Lake Champlain region is one of great strategic importance, whether from offensive or a defensive stand. point. The Plattsburg barracks have necordingly boen enlarged so as to ae commodate a regiment iostead of merely a company of troops, and this new post established is on the eastern side of the lake, Ox of the oldest boundary dis. tes in this country is shat between 4 and Delaws BOIS Now New Castle and for apove and below, insists shat her jurisdiction the middle of the river as elsewhere, while Delaware jurisdiction at that New Jersey to about the yoenr Delaware pe- SDeCInIIY gave point shore, II. granted his brother Duke of York, of the he grant 1654 nine % portion iin. T tin tile ast isl ands Cire ie nguage above New ( fil r falls and seemingly the bed of the land to Innd afterward Delaware upon of nt that Del urisdiction over the w te New Custle brought before ti from the two ithin the the in the rive ir ow from the stream gnve William Penn, and this became tl State rh je ) any this gra are J rie} jot At th in the the En introdu Horticy glish bin od by the iitural Review, caused h 1 yi in the horticultural world. KE ari’s { ‘ourt, shortly afterwards, ue bean was the f at. the pavilion devoted 1d flower shows dishes containing the rtely tinted pods were displayed r thronged throughout the day by an enthusiastic erowd of amateu: and professional gardeners, all bent solving the mystery of the blue The secret of the blue bean’s no man knows, It is of a most exquisite tint, the skin of the pod is both evenly and perfectly dyed. Inside, the flesh and seeds are of the usual green tint, and from a culinary point of view the bean is everything that could be de- sired. «= London Daily News. proprietors of mac centre « 10 the table the being Hn pean. blueness Valuable Deposits of Salpeter. Deposits of saltpeter that promise to be the most valuable in existence have been discovered in Cape Colony, South Africa. They are claimed to be true potassium nitrate, which is one of the chief ingredients of gun- sowder, and is worth about $80 a ton. he principal supply at present is from Chile, but the "Chile saltpe- ter,”’ aa it is called, has to undergo a costly chemical process before use. Nitrate of potash is found in but small quantities as a rule, as it is soluble in water, and is therefore washed out of the soil by the rain. The dryness of tho South African climate is supposed to aceount for the richness of the Intest find, which, it is stated, will reduce the price of \the mineral one-half, Now York Mail and Express. Tse Electric Light, It is probable that large numb the German soldiers will slecirie half pound, it, and the iL Vv 10 about powder ‘8 be bat. of teries weighing about A small lamp goes with invention wiil be the men employed magazines. ‘They are a'so 10 be used {or signaling from balloons at night, and can be fixed to the {met when the men have to dig tren flor dark. “a of gre Lue he (es 4 ——— This Veads Strangely. A primary school at Nazareth bas been opened — creer Ioan sth Falih Taos very co furisis, seli-satisiiod 0% woaen the naurance s tary fall In Glden Times riance of per vere satisfied Fihat tis gen. PET Hise we ins inxatives, ¢ the y injur B.00 NDeward., 81600, The readers of § res 8 oonstitution Cure is taken n- $ ¢ blood and ie Hut oO Cure. Good Men Profitably Fmployed, i t Ie OM No 1 ne over Boot, shiess ar Ald cures consti se great blond purifier, i clears to ihe comp ox pation, BH ota, Mos BN ves fre ona «20 Cali nia sa pers othing Sy up for chi he gu reduce in Cures Wiha oou lama. , Ze. a bottles lays the year around . aj an. aMicted wit u's E e-Waler i sore eyes use Dr, Isaac Thom Praggists sell at 2h per bottle, Candy should not oe alen SRS A LOW WATER LEVEL In Rivers, Pounds, of drinking water malarial germs, belore just Just Wells, and other sources threatens danger irom This condition is usually found in the Fall, ani! #t points to Hood's Sarsaparilis as a safeguar i against stiscks J. Frreoesary, Mass. of disease, Hool's Rarsaparilia makes pure blood, and thus guanis the system from ali these perils. Ii creates an appetite and gives sound ani robust health, “I bawve ood’ 00d S Saree parillc been using Ne i's Sar- sapariily ocoasionily ures for the Inst three years, 1 bave suffered from malaria fever for five years, nn have fried many kinds of medicine, bat found no relief till I commonesd 10 take Hoods Rarsaparil. la. I have all confidences in it, and believs Pr. 121 Ninth 8t., So, Boston, Get Hood & and ouly Hood's, Houd's Pills cure all Hiver lia a © conta, For Breakfast To-morrow s Buckwheat. MAKES Delicious, Wholesome cakes, at a moment's notice. ¢ No Salt, Yeast or Baking Powder roquired- Nothing but Water. ‘
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