CRCHARD LANDS OF LONG ACO, The orchard lands of long ago! Oh, drowsy winds, awake and blow The snowy blossoms back to me And all the buds that used to he! Blow back again the grassy ways, Oh, truant feet, and lift the haze Of happy summer from the trees That trail thelr tresses In the seas Of grain that float and overflow The orchard lands of long ago! Blow back the melody that slips In lazy laughter from the lips That marvel much that any kiss Is sweeter than the apple is. Blow back the tw The lisp, the thrills and the words Of merriment that found the shrine Of summer time a That drenched the it In orchard lands of lk n { tter of the birds; glorious wine leaves that loved =i) ag dg Oh, memory alight and sing Where round and rosy plppins cling | Aud golden ru glint and gleam As in the old Arabian’ m The fruits of tha: end The glad Aladdin re And drowsy winds, My blood as when it Ak In orchard lands of long James Whitcomb Riley. A QUIET LIFE it was the third of December fourth was fixed for For some weeks the bitterly cold, fall of snow, then a frost, and now with large feathers o'clock, when 1 went wearied both was nearly dark. My uncle's house, of which I had been inm for many or 1 aun orphan—was Cambridgeshire, town, and it what an event a i quiet village myself, the hard for days beforehand bad little idle Two or three guest as be done exceptin was sent up when INN wnted tree hbed for me! awake amd fan overran cart ripe as the apples grow, HEgo ind the my wedding day wentl had been er had had oue heavy few Wwe days of hard was au filled finkes, tom nd tiie air ¥ Own room, and body, It out in ml au ate yYears--{ was im a five may 1 bride elect, sympathy for there now seemed to entertain them, 1 until my intended = y stairs to rest seven o'clock, husband and The dog-eart was to them at Eldon stati miles off, I found the unusual bright fire burning in my grate, and an sasy-chair cosily drawn up to it. For 8 moment or two | warmed my froz fingers, and then I went up to the dow, and leaning my f against the colder pane, looked out upon the dreary landscape Now th ment was come to realize position. For weeks | 4 passive, along, as It seemed, others to a certain end my wedding day 1 awake, Could there, spite-nothing to hope f “Ab, Harry! Harry!” ‘1 exclaimed, “where are you now Why this long, long time without a word? Have | not, in spite of taun entreaties, waited the seven years I promised and more? Was it not only when t of charity grew t means permitted own livelihood mained of seeing gave way?” Twice 1 had refused Mr. Denton's hand. What could 1 do when le offer. ed it the third time? Heaven koows | mean to make him a good wife, | am grateful to him, for should choose me—a girl without a penny, and no heart worth They say | have a pretty face: [ suppose it that. Harry used to like my blue oye and wavy hair years ago “This is the last night | may think of you. Harry. the bonny lad 1 loved so welll Where Still be yond the wide Atlantic, the money to they would wish me I am in sore distress bound up as we wer my spirit can hardly without stirring some 0 yours wherever you may be—whether in far America, or in that still stranger apo more unknown country from whence no traveler returns? “God help me,” | eried in my anguish: “God help me, 1 sorely need it!” i Then I opened the window and looked out over the flat country lying so still | in Its white shroud: and I gazed up into | the gray. stony sky, but it was ob | scured by the flakes of snow. which | came down thicker and thicker until | at last nothing else was to be seen in earth or heaven. ; Ten o'clock came, and the groom had not returned from the station. Old | Wilkie the gardener, who had man. | aged to struggle in from his cottage about a hundred yards’ distance, gave it as his opinion that they would not come that night. “Lot’ bless you, sir.” he said, “James knows what he’s about, and he'd never risk crossing Eldon Moor such weather as this; it's as uch as their lives are worth.” My uncle kissed me again, “Never mind, Nellie” he said. “They won't hurt in the station for one night, with a big fire, and we will have them over the first thing in the morning.” and so at last we retired for the night To bed, but not to sleep. A new hope had sprang up, which 1 hardly dared acknowledge to myself, If the storm wottld only continue until after twelve o'clock the next day. so as to make the wadding impossible. who could tog expected to about were be Jia, his groolmasman sent meet tlires $s ry ’ iaxury of a 1¥ win- orehead in which my had been hopeless now on the eve of felt miserably then, be Lo re or? ts and be bread and no earning my hope re again-—that | oo bitter, me for when you no why he having? Wis are you now striving for marry? to believe, dead? Harry in enable us to or, na Surely ane another, be chord | thus moved what might bappen next? 1 might he taken IL. Had [ not had pains in ing already ¥”’ Still snowing heavily, could see. In the morning table A few unsuccessful at the meal, but when it was over all was except an occasional whisper of the anxious tl faces at the trying vainly to peer through One white vell, wis useless to dress all had wrapped in a large shawl That it nnd, Ten o'clock At the half hour my heart al. beating. ‘T'welve o'clock s0 the reprieve had come Lad the d-servant eleven ist stopped Iasi rardly mn it and sounded the stroke when a mal burst into room there is a messen “Come quick, sir; ger o My quickly. and uncle followed her I rose also, but staggered and the aunt 3 ’ aii fs back on sola still, ary oe sank “ikl . ' " Sit Nellie, ‘ sald my bridesmald and tell + ran after them, M 2 : you all about it.” followed Ivy the They seemed a long time away, in a dream hen, other guests and got up and like one ay to the kite a large, gh that morning without, h roped mv ow nny place at Of there wi the panes snow: only the I'Lie rut group before nu tail, exhausted HICKS Ie Blrong navy evidently much elting snow My aunt, hearth, 1H | around the wiki end I1 AOSWer «1 I nudes “He is dead” 1 said, and 1 fell hear » % . - ily on stoue oor It is about years since | wrote for 1 and diary fem now 2 Ly 1ttend to it much in the LR ry strroundit are igs 4 India, and it was arranged $4 y y " her only child to rety his rendered presence &ven NeCessnry and made dear old A scheme he had formed for the mutu More easy and doctor to proposs henefit of wife and myself kindly put it It f COMPA ni we tn them lve with t} and? never had children and his wife was a con With te he ax or n 1% Ww 313 honsekeeoper, in fact daughter, for they of their firmed Own new home and I had lived in a world th ht one obiect ana eiw, 1 thought I tried to do invalid, this health returned 'y mind For some of my 1 one ena years own. wi inv to bear patiently the monoto- of my my duty nous routine my uncle's house—not to reply t aunt's hareh words, 1 taught i schools, made flannels for the poor, and set | lived reslly Anda for pathy for me trily myself, with bot little «vm those | around mediately There Terent br. Fan *tmosphere | His noble k and suffer. 1 wonder and admira 1 the patience and nneel n hone nn mig the si 1 gentle, ladylike wife. whe news of his had been nest to her couch with a OY spinal eomplnint for many In a few mn Came great trial The strong man fell sick. i nursed him to the last. and vears onths, however a and died I promised never to leave his poor wife, It was a =ad hlow to her at first, but harne with her nsnal quiet resignation Now he cheerful again 1 know che thinks her time here will be but short, and the hope of a happy faa evveitn wilace. 1. too, am resigned and happy. The doctor's will has removed one source of anxiety as to the future, and I am now eight and twenty, and feel that state of life in which it has pleased God to place me. the bell, and*a note. To my great sur. prise it was from Mrs, Leedon (Harry's the afternoon. WYWhat could she want? Nine years ago she and my aunt broke off the engagement between Harry and me, After our early dinner | made the In. valid comfortable for her afternoon nap, and started for my two-mile walk, A bright, winter afternoon, clear, pale sky, hard roads and glittering hoar reached Mrs, Leedon's cottage. She looked, I thought, much aged and there was an uanosual nervousness in her manner. After a little attempt at conversation. she sald: "Ellen, 1 hope what happened some Years ago you gave me, at east, credit for conscientions motives?’ “Mrs. Leedon,”™ I replied hastily, “that time Is long past, and I have no wish to recall it.” “But, my dear, you must ses gow % An engage. would have heen 1 rose to 20, “It is all over, Mrs, Loedon, I repeat, Right wrong, what wax then done can never he undone,” “Stay a moment, Ellen. What I have to tell you is of such Importance that I must beg you to hear me patiently.” took me by the hand and drew » sofa by hey 1 acted, as 1 still thin', for » but two years ago, 1 fear I made a your aunt and | Soon after your engagement to Mr. Denton, 1 received a letter from my san, considerably after date, inclosing He told me that he pur few months, appointment marry, he Io return with uncle 1} Lie or She thine mistakedthat IN, one for i and, as you «oming home in a he bad now would enable him to to per you his send « an which hoped hin bi unde wife, As raed correspondence, ns your any letter for you in mis fest ly STA dden seve] thie IL sprang to my feet, “And why did 1 ter ** “Be ¢ not have that len ROIS Indeed, no I took my letter and alm, iy dens very your 143 uncle and aunt, tr tor advice J the Ti ey the their ught yi and happy, and, ha avold sue ne You Oo meet tll eve Don Were to for me x Vazd * WAR 0OKINg earnes few step ying g »1 4% wr, Arlswood ¥ looked at him rily held out my hands, "iy and od to his hreast clasped in a wns ire 4 & I answered softly And so woe after many long years. never to 3 § ry in Hidden Treasure, Adventurers who seek gol” art mere should $ ii Without reference to fry to Pero Fo begin with, the remainds i Incas’ ransom is buried somes We mountains between Caza We nat it has not been disco and Cazen may ronfidentl ANNiime § vores! for if put into $4 circulation market would have whereas {1} at iI inoney heed convualsed ie finders wound have had the ros official no reascn for keeping SOT As fo? Pi comrade Tolirn tow the got safel ¢ thes ¥ to Europe evidence depos t re is Tr report that his nntil They walt full impa- o murder their captive, though isl y 1s the was tient t were too they knew that the bullion levied upon temple at Cuzco was on its way, transported by 100000 lamas, each carrying 100 pounds of purest gold. The figure not ineredible, seeing how much remained when the condguista dores sacked Cuzco, Nows of the mar the the mountains: forthwith the priests Every one concerned in the expedition who could not be iden. Such Is the contempo- rary account. But we observe that tained some information during his memorable expedition to Peru. He states, as if it were well known in the neighborhood, that the caravan left the highway at a spot now called Azan- jaro-—a name which people derive from the Indian “Asuan carn” meaning more distant. “Away from the road! cried the priests, “Further away!” One always feels the strongest reluc- tance to a<«cept derivations of a place. But it is not impossible nor Improbable that iu the course of centuries some bint of a secret which must be known to many Indians should have leaked out. This clue does pot carry one far, however, among the peaks and caverns of the Andes, even if it be trustworthy. 1+ +14 The universities and colloges of Ape tria afford employment to 180 profess Ors, : 3 UNWELCOME OALLRIL Jack Frost cams to the win low. pang Auld softly tappal with Lis leiele cane vlxens ms” | said, “the tight Anl I'd rathsr you woulda't come in to tht.” ~0 he serat doors are i - the gin heard ched his na ne Overs Aod the pais DALY Aue tl as she COUNTS. CAT arthmetie being capable of count. A writer that hs used to hold cul's nose aad draw sullenly, slway rpeating thy Tha eat is loss thao the dd FA ing farther than six Anima Friend say ee Oo meat to hi expert in not in or inp it nway BC 100 OVE Lines He # FETT FLAK Lhe morsel secusionel to the Wuded with Lhe sixth offer sprang up and willl her teeth For Lis exper) meal AOMe wees nin | the ext did nmisig ie \ How repe ited Bol make 0 Rit} rie ‘ver He tried LO ner sie | DY mak an! retr: Mise never saw a thy gave su ‘Moo as sou down RAND agaresea This traveler nam» Wo Was given by an imazy wou lsrial coin so fre naive ths fe +f i wihiriing ssnl that sre jeatly seen on the greal plaine of Central Adia Fancy what a terrible countey 1 ney through For m Hunaroxen siretch of dreary san i, nothing to break the ar to rest ihe eyes, un'ess one of thas fantastic ec. wich, kao dia and the dagger iraveler would 10 ani miles our | PP Ope mo yolony noth hibitions, iWin: the a not see, takes place follow iF the Blows Fhe fire signal is a pull of wind 3 i by disturbances the it ai il a legion o called fro 1] iny columns of aan | Zrow iarger an i lar rer and rise wigher, Sin dbad caldron various sight roun Iabo it and | jose soil har ler, ev things 4 . F 3 center of t ifs is fied the he earth, 1 lie 1s sel vos fas Higher an i {ike the misly giant ator loosed from the great found io the sea Ii pests and all tie wavi 1 singbas motion those err ble se columns form of ser of Someti they will a hight of filty mod, if we may believe the testimony Writers, even two hunlired They swept over immense s rely times singly, sometimes in gro ing size and force as they go as the winl dwindle into n lingnoss ut for th: terror of being caught in one of these sandstorm, and being blown and beaten about, and having one's sight an { hearing almost destrove |. the phen. omenon would be almost x« gran | as any in nature. One could fancy the wv. spirits of the world at play. writhing, twisting, wrestling, and exercising their mighty strength un the playground of the desert. crealures, nee rise io a oof sme feel. fied, some. ater fd then diminish, ani ips fowera A BANDIT OF THE JUNOLE. One of the residents of the jungles of | South America is a huge, hairy baadit | that makes its living by killing aad suck. | ing the Blood from all kinds of small birds. A collector who was dows there recently lind a startling » Iventure in Cap. turing one of these forest robbors, ie | was looking cue day for a new kin of | bummingb rd, when a fluttering an | faint | cheeping close by his sie attracte | his | sitention. A small hollow tres was near him, with an opening io tee side about eigit inches neross aud spread over this was a dense white web. The upper part of the web was broken a little, anid se. | curely fastens | in it wan deal hamming. | bird, of the very kind the explorer was i seeking. It bad been deal but a little while. it seemed. for itd head hung limp aud motionless, Near the bottom of the web un small gray bird was entangled —a | tomiit speading its win er among the tropics, only 10 meet such a fate as this Irs wil 1 futtorings hal entangled it more and more, bat the huge gray monster, bnck in she darc, evidently fearing hat as prey would cicape, lid waited its 5 & ¥ AI SAA AA SAAN | portunity, and just as the traveler looked | wround Ib sprang full upon the poor bird's { breast, cusped ts hairy arms around (he little fluttering boly, aad buried ite horrible fangs 1 the tender throat For instant the observer stood still, much startle! to little head of the bird droope | heipleswly re prepared iis nigh it graduall the creature on I until it was quite dea | TT Its ins THE JOKERS’ BUDGET. /ESTS AND YARNS OF THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. nn 160 ove willie ihe und it ceased to sirug sie ins ehlorof then wer. | His Companien--No Room For Doubt-He Cets It «. Mother-in-Law « While You Wait---Often Enough.--Not to Kill, Ete’ himself, he hastily aod intent wa iin br nent Hot Hing that it ers relaxed 0 ia bir not sttempt to escape ] but fungs remained buried in the bird's throat, He had iid 8 lllie presently, gtroll go el tired of “Last night with tbe one | love best “I should walking by yourasel! nz Wor | Lhe aud so it died and was caught, the of the trunk « arefully cut 81d below the openinz. and that in is cabinet now, with web, the two poor litte entangled it, and the clinginz to the "er releasing This Mygale aviou ih sections KLOVeY stan is strong while birds hairy breast of their hold mater, 18 known Its body is 1 14 great less section fhe withered Arthur Jack you > her 1 had po O Marry on HE 1 ine f } WwW Ooves in ‘Yeu great spider sul money t fangs tath Lhe one, iis nev couldn't borer “even in Be two hairy m Fhe titled to { doing.” He inrin inches long and iq I Teal cover an expanse of seven es, t has terrible fangs folded ant when in i, I it me under ‘Yes, and OWES more its hea pursuit of prey or Brgere Wii leap great distances and than ink Lhese fangs in the ob ect of its al. | Mother | cropping ye EAORT BEAR STORY. { TORY make it full fortune to Bon in fe spend ow ol my | in a region re quils numer nt of the Detroit Free Press mmunity f I we ¥ fo { way | prefer 1 was olten thr ii - Ind very wn that some fre ml was mv last Typewriter. gird rl our issi word AS IMPORTANT Traveler (in § That We are 1 reso #1 village | Cia naAUsiry ’ Porter Embalming AX ALTERED ARE strate — [Do ¥ BAY &UChH that i: mean to Ma } he {8 physical wreck as is gave you { L eve ! 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MARTY for i I st Ay #0 page 103 oursel| Bn view song there just AMENITIRS ’ 3 Ww +1 3 } ar j | haven very bud taste in mv mouth ? 10 retreat as fast as possible, | oid. we made de ben j € mn plained Mr . * Your bad taste is not op { mouth, ™ ed Mrs “That's pe 1d Hin my selection © MAE Ie the 3 confined to your Shag ls { also displayed wr came lo iy rep tre we mustered iri R01 100K behind us ie bear coming righ We you may be sure SAME “Mabel, ie through life (ii “Now Spo my amp.” i not loo OLD PERSECUTION ime iy if we could “ would very fow father's Kited breath »t mt moments we burst inte yr and when we coul exclaimed A bea bear black bear chased us, and ight up here! ogsther ? fn. i you're g to be sake turn dowa the tre0orge yng {or oon TT or goodness al big he's r SDICATED “] want to see he said to the chief bookkeeper, as be entered the oounting room “You'll find the typewriter in that little room 10 the lef” repliel the man of figures, THE PERSON { bears the as we expected be but when father went down the he found the bear's tracks ia the rowland following them up, he found where the | fellow hai entered the fiell and taken his supper. Shortly afterward he was shot near the same place | that night we dreamed of wa did ast come home, nor did the boss’ come after us would neximoraing ole STILL LACKING Railroad Presdident—1 am delighted to hear that you tok a trip on our Great Western limite | palace car barber shop-library.bathroom- Pallas Nothing lacking was there? Old Friend (who hal an Yes—elevators wn hote eX press. “ Electric Tugs. proposed new departure in the trrova 1 fn of tugs by electricity on the upper berth) Nie, at iin, is assuming al sha deme 8 to es A DIFFRZ LN: KIND the “That” said the Buffalo man financial sehioal on-| Just then a couple of aldermsn came { out, each whom would weigh 250 pounds “I'm glad you told me,” said the Roch. ester visitor *] shouid have takes it for a school of whales.” tugs on seven the river which | capital, by © The ng the distance i= £7.05 estimated that the aid dlectricity this charge will be reduced about one-half. The of such a scheme would be quickly reflected in this country, where the use of electric launches for both pleasure and commercial por poses has been retarded from the fact of the scarcity of charging stations for the renewal of the necessary stor age batteries. As soon ax people begin to find that they can be fairly sure of being able to recharge their batieries line of to a trolley for coveri is by BOTH TWINS Most mark’ ble two children, RUCOPsSs Chatty old bachelor likeness between those nurse Nurse — Yessir: twins, sir Old gentleman. —~ What, both of ‘em? ANCIENT WIT. Jinks—Can you give an instance of female wit mentioned in the Bibe? Blinks — Yes. lierodias, when she go & bead of John the Baptist NO DANGER Now, Mr. Spoonwmnre (im the patior)—Wha. what is that noise overhead, Miss Agnes’ Miss Agnes (listening a mo neat jIts papa, Mr. Spoonam re, but you needn't be scared. He's snoring. NOT A REAL ONE, ““Greal colt!” shou'e | the dime mu. seum manager, us he starte | uprigat from sicep. *‘l just dreame | of a three headed girl with seventeen toes 01 each fool.” “Hush, my dear.” said his wife, sooth. ingly. “you will wake the neighbors Timt was only a freak of lsacy.” Made to Look Like Marble. It is said that by giving plaster fig. The bath of water into an agate kettle with one ounce of curd soap and one ounce beeswax, cut into small let this dissolve over -a slow fire, and when all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, tie fine twine around the figure and dip it into the liquid. Take the figure out and hold Quaint English Regulation. No part of a tree can be removed from the grounds of Holyrood Palace without the permission of the Queen of England. One, dating from the reign of Queen Mary, was recently blown down, and before the gardeners could touch it, a photograph had to be for warded to the Queen, who formally ordered its removal The number of inhabited houses in Laudon is sald to be JAlaut 44.500, again dip it into the liquid: Jet the figure dry for a few days, and then rub it with a soft flannel; a brilliant gloss will be produced. a SRA SAAN The rallways of Japan transported J 39.000,000 passengers last year, Japan has forty-one cities of over 16,000 inl abitants,
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