A JINGLE OF .JOY.
Ain't this life we're livin' blest?
Honey in your month!
Green corn in the winsome west,
Melons in the south!
Oh. believers,
Hear the bugle's eall,
Green corn in the summer time,
Punkins in the fail
Ain't this life we're livin’ jest
Brimmin’ full 0’ joys
Fiddles goin’ south an’ west,
Swing your sweethearts, boys
Oh, believers,
Hear the
Melons in the summertimae,
bugles eall,
Punkins in the f:
THE GHOSTS EYES.
Mrs. Robert Livingstone was a
woman of superb dignity Yet any
one of her city friends would scarce-
ly have her in the rather
lumsy ing and stumblin
ip the rough canon road that
from the lower bean field t
ranch house. Her black ski
not held 1 i Howed
hittle snd
tar weed
Nothing of
have forced
far to fi
all
Chicago Times- Hera 1d
wf.
Stanton, in
r
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A
1 t all
DOuL ail
inate
PAL
or
ignt,
loom of the place tor-
erves. A little
scream over
, :
to | !
’ be right out
roo
vaguely
shou nbl
and secretly !
him to face the irate Sin
Allen Livingstone was 17,
accu«tome having
tempered
timid aud not
Livingston, lavished upon
yearning and
hopelessly crij
Visi
every
for him, he was natt rally
ed. Mrs,
him tha
that =a
g s nail
# iitiie spoil
tenderness
pied child calls forth
from a mother's pity. He was at
once her idol and her sorrow and his
slightest wish was law.
Dinner at the ranch house was
even more quiet thgn usual that even.
ing. Mrs. Livingstone appeared tired
and preoccupied, while Allen fretted
childishly over the rather warmed up
flavor of things on the table.
The offending Chinese came and
went in sullen routine, After the
coffee, Mrs. Livingstone put her arm
lovingly over herson’s shoulders and
they went out to the parlor thus.
she said. ‘While father is away I
think it would be nice for you
come over and sleep in your
sociable and we can play we are both
young again, What do you think ?
“I don’t mind it,” 'saidAllen,indif~
ferently, lighting a delicate cigarita,
tive Spanish structures, built of
adobe, one story and three sides facing
an open square--very pleasant and
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It had been a trying time for Mrs
Livingstone, when her husband had
insisted that Allen should give up
his little bedroom next theirs
which he had always occupied, and
The boy was no
to
oo neross the court,
longer n baby, he said. and he had
always needed that room for his own
private use. He wanted a place for
his desk und books and the big safe
derable sums of gold and
in coin rather than by check in the
usual way.
But his wife had never beon recon-
ciled to having her delicate child out
sound her voice at night,
f
Of
win-
listen at his
durling
in the darkness to
to that
and
adoring worship, as
pale
dow see her
a well,
sleepin
her eves {fo see the
the pillow. “1 will
la now; dear
y
she strained
on
face go
she
smoke
then
said, as Allen
your things for
very f and
lovely to have you back.”
The chill air struck her
antly opened the
shuddered a little and drew her shaw!
18 yrtable
1
as she
closer,
*WWhat fog!’ she exclaimed.
be again delayed.
wnflict of hay-
in New Et:
“The beans
It
making
land.’
Wii
$i
8 worse than the c¢
3 5 a
1O0Wers
her son's room
with her arms
WAS
tartle
SLATLI ed
ness she ¢
Mary Living
she
her boy fast
and
it she de-
juietly pee
asiesp She
iss the white hes bi
ae {
stoop
he waken him.
walked
nied her
Nearly
tl
1a door sie
room a few mo-
this and
res
ments
ess'y abo ier
aimlessly touching
looking at that
of
She
the
down
little, soon
tried to read, but
ench other under
known tongue
Bible, and even that
no word of peace.
Something as people in great peril
go over their past life, fell to
thinking of hers. but she was soon
brought back face to face with the
present. The thought that she was
her
int boo
she |
took aceon ont
ggled dress
oo i
worn
he eanon and over a
putting
K
dra rad
t looked it
g it aside. She
the weeds followed
her eyus in an un-
She up her
seemed to hold
took
ahie
fill her soul with an irresistible fas-
covered and cool, and the little court
always full of flowers and sunshine,
but not so convenient and practical
for everyday comforts as some more
modern plans for homes. The main
part of the house is taken up by the
living rooms, leaving the sleoping
rooms in the wings snd far sepa-
rated.
not try to put it aside.
had awakened suddenly, being con-
scious of a noxious presence near, and
slowly there had grown from it two
dark, glittering eyes close to her own,
tentness. The evening in the canon
they had been there before her all
the way, and she
cumbed to their terror,
lina, What did it all mean?
end was not yet. What would it be?
Piano thoughts seemed to enthrall
er,
It was nearly 11 o'clock. Would
it come to-night? Outside, the
night was so deathly still, and so
Why didn't the wind blow!
| Anything that would break the spell
upon her.
she turned
threw herself
she wns.
With the first stroke of the
at midnight she woke from a troubled
sleep. In a moment became
distinetly conscious of a sinoky odor,
the unmistakable scentof a Chinese’s
clothing. A slight noise the
floor caused her to sit up quickly. A
man’s head and shoulders were
slowly emerging from under the bed,
One sickening moment she wavered,
then sprang out upon him,
down for an instans;
and there
those same eyes--the
of her and
Sing.
down, and
the bed as
the light
wearily on
clock
she
on
him but he
vision the mun
him in
Many
She grappled with
human strength, how
struggling
It seemed an eternity
wus uttered. saw
sngth gain in
the end. He constantly tried to
reach for knife, which fently
was caught in some way, for
to gol :
At
super-
desper-
ate, she
Knew.
a word
his superior str
moments
Not
that
She
must
avi
}
ne
a
fail
in his ht
Allen heard
t y
tiie noise and
yr, almos
t faint-
last,
fricht
mother
t-h-8 a-X
“(30 to bed
The boy had pr
around, as there
doors in the way ti
The Chinese
side assistance
‘Me catches
You gib
key—me
plazzas
anon
garret
When Mr
rot
ret
an
stone irned t
their
open arms
being to the manor
0 jin
ir comed
friends wel
It wns hinted
born
stone had not covered himself
glory or lined his purse with gold |
his ranching sch but it was the
change in Mrs. Livingstone that ex.
cited the most oc The snowy
hair, the restless, hunted expression
and absent
stupendous change from her old self.
To only one trusted friend did
aime
ymment.
her two fierce, hard eyes, which
would not turn till she was
beside herself with horror.
Character Readin> From Teeth.
Character reading from handwrit-
ing, from shoes, and from the face,
has now been succeeded by a char.
acter reading from the teeth. A
dentist asserts that a careful study
| of teeth will reveal the fact that they
invariably indicate, according
| their shape and setting,
perament of their possessors.
observations on pointed, projecting,
| short, square, tangled, even and
| pearly dentures. Those that are long
and narrow, we are assured
| vanity; those that are long and pro-
jecting indicate n grasping disposi-
tion; treachery is shown by the pos.
session of small, white separated
teeth, and inconstancy is revealed
| by overlapping teeth.
| tenth sentury, B. C,
WAR AGAINST INSECTS’
Secretary Morton Talks About the
Work of His Denartment,
The compilation by Professor Pan-
ton, of the Ontario Agricultural Col.
lege, of the figures
annual loss from the worl
tive insects was discussed by
tary Morton, of the Agricultural De-
partment He said
These figures are
from American sources
from publications of the
States Department of Agricultur
and they serve a good purpose in
recting to the
for active
nomic
thay are somewl
lividual
ul
concerning the
of destruc-
NOC roe
drawn
and mainly
mostly
fittention
work
entomology 1 in
one way
misleading 1
farmers, and
1at
losses to in
less restric
are freq
in JIIATS
of a more or
portion of the country
ly very great, summed
8, yot the actual money loss
wuntry
un
up
at large is by n« MNS CXDresse
these
reason
the
1
indoubt
unaoubieda
in th finge th is oft
! ory used to by
of Paderewski that he could c
pane of French plate glass half
inch thick merely by
hand upon it, as if upon a piano key.
board and striking it sharply with
his middle finger.
Chopin's last study in C minor has
a passage which takes two minutes
and five seconds to play. The total
pressure brought to bear on this, it
is estimated, is equal to three full
tons. The average ‘'tonnage’’ of an
hour's piano playing of Chopin's
music varies from twelve to eighty-
four tons. Wagner has not yet been
calculated along these lines.
placing one
A Preventiva of Scalping.
A Ban Francisco (Cal)
grapher claims to have completed a
levice by which every railroad ticket
may be made to bear the photograph
ventive of scalping.
cess of taking the picture, develop.
ing the negative, and printing the
portrait on a portion of the ticket
can be done. he says, while the pur~
chaser is paying for his ticket, or in
one minute at the longest. The ap~
paratus is elaborate, but the in-
ventor thinks that it is infallible,
and that railway companies ought to
be willing to pay a good price for a
perfect method of preventing scealp-
ing Ly making tickets nontransfer-
able.
Utah, including the improvements
made by the Mormons, is worth $24 «
775,279.
THE LARGEST TELESCOPE.
A Remarkable Lenz Made by an
American Firm.
Ww
The Clarks have accomplished what
has long been regarded as an impossi-
ble thing and one which no European
manufacturer could
duced to attempt. This is the mak-~
i perfect lens of more than
feot the face. No one
manufacturer ever
twenty-six
of lenses
net
but the American
thought of exce
Iss
inch lenses whic s at several
observatories 1 | h continent
at the Nava
i 8. ONE
at \
Mr. Hall dis-
t {
satellites ol
servatory ash-
ington
covered ti
Mars an
1
stars.
yosed
hatEq
t {
ited
JTOpEAn
anyihing
lens have
MAY BE KING OF ENGLAND.
This Baby is His Roya! Highness,
Frince Edward.
There is nothing in the «¢
of the face or in the attitude to indi-
cate the slightest mental defect. It
in regarded as a little remarkable
that, in case the boy be deaf, the in-
firmity wus not discovered
months ago, as he now is more than
a year old.
The Duchess of York has not been
seen often in public recently, and
those circulating the reports regard-
ing the Prince say that her reclusive.
ness is due to her grief, This, how:
ever, is bare suppositivi
As yet no effort has been
xpression
tos
some
made to
although the curent gossip
must have reached the cars of His
Highness’ parents and grandparents.
An Old Pioneer's Fiea.
Commissioners in San Francisco,
pioneer of the famous valley, with
tears streaming down his face,
until his death in the
he bullt over thirty years ago and by
ter are buried. The Commissioners
had leased the cabin
around it to the neighboring hotel,
but the old man’s tears moved them
and they gave the use of the houzs
and one acre of ground to him for
the remainder of his life.
Odds and Ends.
r
At Vi
rooms for
have been
From the ti
teenth cent
land was t
How Buvros Find Water,
he Mexican burros have good
they know in a ‘dry
land’’ where to dig for
correspondent describe.
lose observation of the surface
ground and subsequent dis-
We had found in an arroyo
quantity of water te
when we observed three
water. They
horse
and thirsty
water A
their ¢
of the
covery
a sufficient
make coffee
burros searching {
passed several damp places, ex-
amined the ground closely, when
the leader halted near us and com-
menced to paw a hole in the dry
| hot sand with his right forefoot.
After a while he used his left fore-
foot Having dug a hole some.
thing over a foot in depth, he backed
out and watched it intently. To
| our surprise it soon commenced to
fill with water. Then he advanced
and took a drink, and, stepping
{ aside, invited, I think, the others to
take a drink; at all events, they
| promptly did so, and then went away,
{ when we got down and took a drink
from their well. This water was
cool and refreshing; much better, in
fact, than we had found for many a
day.
World 's Hose Ree! Record.
sense:
ye
.
The world's record is 2laimed by
the Dirigo Hose Company. of Ells.
worth, Me., which the other day ran
210 yards to the engine house, then
| 288 yards with the hose reel, coupled
i the hose to the hydrant and the noz.
zie to the hose, all in 1 minute 1§
' snconds.