YOUTH AND LIFE, What would the world be If by chance Youth held it futile to advance, Futile to dream of loftier days Than those it sees, of sweeter Ways Beyond its common paths, of flights Bevond the measure of its nights? Ah, then the heart of youth would beat | With little of its passionate heat, And hope would move in weary wise, With listless soul and unlit eyes. But youth is mighty with desire, Untiring in its faith and fire, And enters where the seasoned Falters and darkly looks behind; Where tottering age bends low and WeeDs, Finding no profit where it reaps, If youth were not as youth must be Strong with the strength of earth and sea, Strong with the glory of the stars, Deflant of any will that bars The long road winding to its goal— Then Mfe would be a cruel whole, mind day. And I have seen her every day. | § would be going out, and I would meet her on the way to the ground. Or she would have finished her lesson and be when 1 would be just How did 1 know the time so exactly when to be there? In look out window | and than corner that Now) do you see why 1 el though the light is not so good where it is? And some days 1 would walk a few blocks with her. “Her father didn't like the fr 1 idea of her g | I starting home the morning the will Well, every day she comes ¥ tiie vou Sie oF Tht she PARAOS corner moved my ens even nz to see Ler i 1, id. “so it was better that I did not call until IT met her other vay But time I walked ith her and every time 1 spoke to her the hlood surged madly through my ve til 1 could hardly Keep from teliing he 8a SOme every Ww n n ns much I adored her What right has a poor artist Hke me to tell a girl as poor as himself that he to her? Why, I ean wants marry But look That arches with prismatic glow The heaven of youth,that heaven which lies Wide as the world-} There's promise in the sprin there's promise in the bow wgetting skies, ¢ flood i Of youth's tumultuous, thrilling bloot And there is burning, bri en 0 life Amid the clashing steel of strife. ng Ah, days of youth, they speed too fast But they are matchless while they | GEORGE MONTGOMERY. in Har “s Weekly. 151 per % H1JI-BR-R-R-ICK.” Miji-br-r-r-ick rascal! W fore the fire o ! Miji-br-r- and purring as can be, while Oh, 3 storm? ou needn't come against my of peace to me ness and contentment sleek, dignified, fat and Oost the exact of alt I 0, take slippers : to the now, ting you, petied, I “Mmman m Now, what I meet her’ like me fortune, gel di pluck from « ther but ox] from i the other day when hall for a run about, fat hosing + Oy 1 aon h a mouse and = going? I were you rich thie intance with won't Know 4 e to live You Miji-br you proudly walked thr like a caged tiger that day: 8SO0n th vaded by the tiniest de she NOW It was then that your sleek fur stood on end; and you spit as io your that your gen though vot t the taste of a be But raid of you. the attack and you ha¢ fight hard. at that Mrmr came off victor. Why, of course you die You great, big bully. He wasn't half your size. You him run? Yes, and he ran right under the skirts of the prettiest lady you ever saw, just as she was coming by the door. 1 heard the racket, the whole house did, for that matter, and I looked to see what it was, when in you bounded. The little dog gie, seeing your flight, took up the pur suit and darted between my legs. In an instant I saw that vou had been in the wrong and took off my eap to apologize for you. What did this vision say, but that it was all the fault of Grp. Gyp ~indeed! As if I dida’t know better. How could anything belonging to her. living about her. do anything wrong? But any way, we made an acguain- tance with each other, ge 1d 5 touth the lite} not a made she with Cen in me. I learned that she sometimes came here to give music lessons to a above. I didn't know until then that there were any floors above. | thought when I came up this far that I was surely directly beneath the vault of heaver, and when the tress asked me, “Did I wish ‘o look further?’ I gasped out, “No. indeed! My clothes are not fit!” for I thought she wanted to @troduce me to 8t. Pe- ter. You don’t know It. for I have kept it fddden from you, but I have been see- ing her every day since. I suppose her friend must be making great progress myself, let alone a woman She is a music teacher and plays the plano di vinely, noon for 1 have heard her of an after that haven't painted much of Well, 1 begin she is is the reason 1 late {OmMorrow Perhaps [Listen } . er for to com Oh, what 1 half wild with del Mrow-ow-ow Mrr-row I wonder when ir or two, should been hard at work wwhat a bustie hie was in ties morn ‘he place was all upside down Her dark Will cold (len im her enrs at h tea after Are my I haven't smelt tea I eame to this place; that Is, ex- some evil-smelling stuff the por. tress sent up one day when he was sick, He must have fallen heir store! fo sone gro cory Of course she will have a What does he do but swing a couple of pokers across the fireplace Now I know why he had no fire this morning. He was making a niche hold these pokers. From them he sus- kettel, a little the worse for vear, but polished, oh, so bright. prefer to make it this way.” be is say- ing.” “although some prefer an alcohol lamp.” The sly dog. “It is so nice.” she murmurs, “here in this warm. bright And then they talk of other things--the weather. musie, art and all the rubbish that mortals in love usually talk about. Mortals in love, did I say? ' cup of tea! to pends a ¥ room." much to me, and my eyes tell me the Of course, he doesn't see that she loves him. i told him myself, her, and how she don't look at him when she talks to him. But when he grows enthusiastic and tells her how he fought his way through Europe: how he was half fed, badly clothed, ill treated; every man's hand against him the schools of painting, had worked early and late to perfect himself, and had now come to this country, hls na tive land, here to carve himself n niche in the temple of fame, and incidentally to bring to the surface few gold-bearlng quartz In all this ti how she looked at him from under her Lis i tons of Hie of gin his evelds, smiled at his story dent pranks, and flughed at of stern And how Hmpid, eves filled he the struggles he had been through id he 9 Of course he didn’t see it { 1 deter on ceed those with tears when told ser it had, he would have Ww a do As it like a blundering to the place where h what he thought of her, and turned toward the window, into the street where were beginning to fall He missed the sweetest sound ever he idiot until he should have ] wis along CHIE told $ Oolit looking shadows no heard in those rooms, the sob that enme from swallowing the lump which gath in the flicts those whom we love he did tint ers throat when the sorrow af see that it he So Wis his world, an vit had fl to paint Own # her this Cone again? In to-morrow she 1 until Foolish maiden, cture The Mind in Disease. NOTES AND COMMENTS, and Cuba is will be prosperous Free Cuba progressive Cubn., never Hkely to be either prosperous ol Spanish 8 Ti progressive, sententiously observ New York World, How in Washington form the leading musienl feature of hrist Endeavor Cod in July. This « “The Cony vaolees 18 of Process of organization A chorus 4,000 at to ational ( inn HOTUR 18 1 win "i ention is Chorus.” is fairly well repre United States Congress Newspaperdom the engaged sented in by well by those whose duty it the of the There twenty-seven who slon those in makng law as is 10 report procecdings lnwmakers, editors, nine the profes are have been engaged in fut one time, and four others who followed the printer's calling in former secmed « Rontgen value t AB BO newl Mi Aas it HIiSCOverd of x perim prove to In fossion « many with With oeeurred Finally it juded ght and put into they stomach out greatest relief, and said she hoped they were satisfied that all of ber complaints had a reasonable Toundation. From that moment began to improve, and wae in a short time completely re. stored to health. This may seem like an foolish affair. but it is only stance in many in which the mind has marvelous effect on the physical condition. Strong men have died from the results of imagined in juries. No doubts that persons have been frightened to death, and it is that ridicule of and unbelief in statements of this sort came to an end. The influence of mind upon matter is a subject that calis for the closest in- vestigation and the profoundest study. There is no question whatever that mental agitation and irritation ag gravate, if they do not actually cause, Delicate people and invalids should be carefully watched if they into health, and a tiny frog was a tube with which lavation of When the frog was thrown of the tube the girl expressed the oan were attempting the whe extremely one in most ine time Many a child droops and dies because it feels that it is unappreciated or ne. glected. Many who survive merely drag out a miserable existence, instead of being full of joy, hope, energy, works of art, and had studied under in the world, to English on that ¢ feos people, for hey ronsider them subject also to the erown it the-way villages near Gibraltar espec of Spain 1¢ been found in out-of ally, where the English occupation of that fort is still looked upon as a tem porars offensive 1 «= on Spanish soil, tl and intrusion of eign at the whole tone of the that a American when it English birot hor people will change tourist is pot ‘Ab, grim-browed villager ia found but 1 bave a in Havana.’ a fay, with an inflection that implies that interiocutor must of ne- cossity be from Cuba too” Ww his American Never let your passions get the better of your judgment. The following story will explain the propriety of this ad- A German farmer took a load of potatoes to the city to sell them. The jobbers offered him seven cents a bushe. That made him mad. Bo he drove down to the river front, backed vice! the back board and dumped the whole load into the stream. Now, while this relieved the farmer of his wrath, Hke- wise his team of their load, and made it unnecessary to haul the potatoes back many miles to his farm, the act-of depositing vegetable matter in the river was in violation of a city ordinance, Dr. W. H. Dall, a member of Lue Alaska to Investigate the mineral re sources of the country, has prepared a by the Geologienl Bur thant of { nok H ihlished Pr, Dall says xlensive seams Iw Dp many valuable al exist about inle is CHARS fl « harbors in aid else it to ming steamer iu n few to run a The Alask: nough in & color conl Is what ty it not brown, but when sermntehed it ex tes tn funown as the brown vari streak, The finer qual anthira hibits a brown ities of this conl are much like brooks i CUROR ire br betty and the difference ole The conl and the anthraci Viren has a larger matter, Dr. Dall sa} at field for a mining cost of mer per it the transportation ty the steamers wonld nes nnll on account of the nearn mines to the coast nount of nm Depart His, which the needle, 't # and ' of oT vf i wages paid in those iow, | largest IVS needlework. As demand for buttons in and taxed, making of steel anes man's inventive was machines wer for the bmss, plated and lacquered buttons, and late: for the rapid manufacture of buttons T by last were made silk, lasting, brocade, twist, ese cover: mohair and various cloths metal disks which have been previously cut cet-iron and melded w of this button of sheetdron, piece being slightly convex a small round hole in through which a tuft of canvas is pressed. This is for sewing the button i the cloth, The upper disk i= also slightly convex and made a little larger { than the lower piece. The edge of the | upper disk is turned down about a six. { teenth of an inch in the medinmsized buttons. These disks are cut from the | gheet, formed and made ready for eov: fering by one motion of the “fly press” { or punching machine. For covering another machine is used simple in construction, but capable of turning out a great many buttons in a day woen operated hy an expert. Chicago Record. The minute hands of Big ont of s&h ith dies The f two consists of the under and having the center, raise pieces { to Ben, lu OKLAHOMA BOOMERS. I'he House Passes as Bill Giving Bona Pide Bet. tiers a Gratuity of $15,000,000, The House of Representatives Monday of under One of the most im Mons res suspension of the rules, portant was that known ss the Okishoma of $15,000,000 to the bona fide settlers on the Neither in the the arguments were report upon 4 bill nor in od rensons brought territory paying the nment innd rangiog this usual 1] The Govern- promised to pay the bis reservation $14,000 000 After paving that sum, the the bill that | phssed irn this land over to the set. ssession upon ”" re, hus Government will, if i6t i rushed in and took 1 he opening of the territory he Goverg- nent will not be reimbursed for all Mr. McHaes, of the biil, ImeRsUre was prac] this ex. Arikan stated candidly who advecated dint the aiiy 8 gratully Atiers, her important bill passed was that fn. eC. 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