Still Waters, Hore, dreamily, with soft deceits, The pool repeats A summer sky; bright clouds that pass Gn this brown glass. Here imaged is the phantom moon Of afternoon And a swift bird that dips its wing, Home hastening. Soon, yonder, where the path is laid In hush of shade, A glimmering gown, a dusky tress, My sight will bless; I'll lean above an olive cheek, So cool and slick, And eyes where veiled reflections shine Of love in mine, I. C. Cook in Harper's Bazar. Little Heroine-Cat. BY LEANDER S. KEYSER. They were ‘‘thrashing” over at Neighbor Shanewalter's that after- noon. The Shanewalters lived only half a mile from the the crow or the bee flies; but around by the road, as men walk or ride, it was more than three-quarters of a mile, As Katie Benson stood on the por tico, looking the intervening Bensons as ACTORS i i i could see the straw-carrier of thrashing machine pointing obliquely upward out of the door of barn, while the straw floated in rs Hl ged-edge of from its back 1 la ral} ¢ioudas Vellow i upon the great round stack where three about to trample down the straw Now and then a cloud chaff would pour out of the driven by the fres! and pletely enveloped the worl stack. At machine would reach Katie's ears. ( of the men i building that she was over there ing about on the springy straw But it 's duty home that aftern Liza, two years Neddie, the years of age. Mrs. Benson had “Now, girls, 1 help Mrs. Shanewalter to cook for the thrashing to the house all the go away for anything care of Neddie.” “Yes, of cour where about th *“‘And mayn't little Li a “If yon a few rods from door, breeze, com : val } } 3 intervals 1é¢ hnm was her father the stack herse if was “ba hands And take good wagon out in the road? 1 promi “Oh, we promise, Katie n« enough, bh ded hen there were trying to suppress emotion, ; “What' mother to stay somed ont cheeks and |} the floor ere itradicton “You needn Katie,” said Mrs. n the assurance she could in atraid Benson, ““There isn’t an ** Oh, Katie's such a scoffed Liza ‘* She'd be mouse’'s shadow, was alone, little snake in from her, and did ? screamed as | till I got a stick Pooh !| It woul “3 can't help ¢ things,” Katie sobbed “* What's the us boasted Liza I'm of anything I woul be fraidy-eat as Katie is ! 'd spunk !” Liza’s lofty way of heroism in contrast RCAre 20 she wonld, day she AAW TH y I'he other p i. two roddls away she auch a AYE more idity stung her little sister to the quick, bringing hot tears to her She knew fraidy that was just what made her to her sister's jibes, For awhile after gone, Katie could her courage. She portico, and gazed longingly across the valley at the thrasheys Every sound about the house and barn startled her, and she had visions of tramps and robbers galore, if not of wild and savage beasts pouncing down upon the un protected children left alone in charge of the large, rambling farm-house. Liza guyed her for awhile, making her weep still more. But presemtly a game of hide-and- seek in the large, bushy yard drove all the little ** 'fraidy-cat's ' fears ont of her mind. A jolly afternoon they were spending, sometimes putting Neddie into his small wagon and pul- ling him back and forth along the road in front of the house. The wagon was an old-fashioned, home-made one, with a rough box and pole and heavy littie wheels hewn out of a thick board ; but it was strong and serviceable, and no doubt pleased the chiidren fully as well as the trig express-wagons of to- day please our own boys and girls, At about half-past three they were playing with the wagon in the road. Katie began to feel a little tired with her vigorous romping, and presently she said to Liza : “ I'm going to sit on our post and rest awhile.” She opened the gate and stepped inte the yard, and then followed a little path winding through a thick clump of rose bushes and berry stalks £ves and sensitive she was a cat,’ her mother had not on revive stood the i { to one corner of the ywrd, where » couple of steps enabled her to climb to the top of a large fence-post. was a favorite perch for the children when weariad with their play. tall, sharp pickets prevented their climbing down on the outside into the road, but made a convenient for a tired back. Perched the post, Katie watched on top Liza and at the looks roly and laugh often ringing out poly little fellow's comical conduet, But suddenly there seemed to be a their surroundings A the in change in all strange obscurity was falling over landscape, wrapping everything gloom. ‘““ Oh ! oh ting dark !" Such really seemed to be the case. A kind of flickering twilight enveloped the earth, filling the children’s hearts with dismay The chickens began to fly up into the trees, intending to go to roost, as if they thought the even Brindle and Spot, the at the began to !" eried Liza, ‘‘it's get ing had come, two gentle milk-cows bars of their low. “* Look, look at the sun!" Liza, growing pale with terro: Sure enough, the sun had red, oh! oh !—a black sphere was slowly o its disk and out its The children had talked about the end of standing pasture-field, screamed turned hnge eeping aver and blotting light often read and the world and had always filled them with awe I'he cried “The world's coming to an end! to oh! 0-0 h! Come. cone, world's an end!” ‘Oh! Katie, let's ran over to Shanewalter and find papa and mamma Liza seized Panic-stricken, of the wagon, in the t 1 then she ran, as { feet conld carry her, ¢ for un the fence-p Katie was almost darknes the slope, but the to elimb st die and lad I obeved mamma Kens began to crane wonder, and, fin ling 0°01 day ight had to ne Again, down the ground, and i i ab 3 their picking and scrate was bravely recover ing from ; 3 when she saw something that made her pulse stop beating. A rough looking man in i stealthily through the \ $21 seedy clothing came front gate, and ooking snspiciously this wav and that, along the path to the front Through the aperture in the screening bushes Katie saw him glance around narrowly, then turn the door knob, and slip into the house, closing the door quietly behind him For the timid girl this was the eli max What in the world should she do? The man was, no doubt, a rob- ber He might steal something valu able from the house one of the best suits in the closet, her mother's silver spoons just bought a week ago or her father's gold watch, which she had heard him say he would leave at home lest it might be broken at the rough work of the afternoon. Should she run over to neighbor Shanewalter's and give the alarm? Be. fore she could do that, she reflected, the thief wotld have ransacked the house. Couldn't she—her pulses beat quickly at the thought—in some way prevent him from carrying ont his thieving purpose? It frightened her half to death to think of it; and yet if she could not foil him in some way, no one else could. Everything depended on her coolness and courage. She knew that. walked door dropped behind the bushes again, the heart leaping into her throat. great, heroie resolve had taken posses. sion of her frail frame. She would be a “fraidy-cat” no longer. She would prove herself a heroine. Now was her chance. On er hands and knees she crept, along the edge of the bushes, keeping herself viell sereened. until she reached | the kitchen door. Slipping through it, ske stood still and listened breath lessly, but could hear no sound. Evi dently the robber was in a distant part of the nouse With trembling hands she pushed open the door leading into the sitting room, and then stood still again, lis tening intently. A moment later she almost out with terror, for { she could hear the muffled sound of a footstep in the next room, which was the spare bedroom, and then the creak of an opening drawer reached her ear. ‘““He's getting at the burean,’” she thought. ‘Papa's watch is in one of the drawers, 1 think The musn't find it; I'll not let him!" sho added, a of heroism through her bosom She hesitated no longes. being screamed robber wave sweeping Her whole by ane supremo father's gold noiselessly she mastered her and WH to save Swiftly into the of which hung her father's shot-gun on stout wooden hooks She knew that it loaded Under the cir- cumstances she felt justified in touch although she had never dared She purpose watch, glided hallway, on the wall two Was ing it, to touch it before Sprang upon a the pointed directly the I DUrgiar wns piying ni standing beneath WEeRpOT, muzzle 16 top of the whic over door of room in Yes, he could took reach out a momen mer, as she had do; then, bra AU ental ef § Orelnger agains Horses’ Keen Instinct. orse ha a strong tionable water, however intelligent by the Tit- Bits says, will gallop wildly about a pasture over the fairest hands without striking the surrounding The 1t= fence Others w Hi, to them of proximity from the gate of bars opening to thei tomed feed-grounds, The browsing, is guided to proper food entirely by its Blind horses do not make mistakes in their diet In the temple of Olympus s bronze horse was exhibited, at the sight of which real horses experienced the most violent emotions, It is said that in casting the statute a magician had thrown hippomanes upon it, which, by the odor of the plant, deceived the horses, and therein is the secret of the miracle, when loosened stable, go ACCUN horse, choice of nostrils, ils An Interesting Butter Experirment. An interesting experiment has been recently made by the Queensland gov- ernment in regard to the export of but- ter to Great Britain. Hitherto the pro- dnet has been shipped in a frozen state, which, in a great measure, destroys the flavor of the butter. In the present case the shipment had a pecially pre- pared cold chamber fixed on board the steamer, the temperature of which | conld be kept at a uniform height ol thirty degrees. The result if said to have been eminently satisfactory, the butter having been delivered in splen- did condition, Residents of Jefferson street, Tope- | ka, Kan., have been victims of a | trained or perverted dog, which stole | their newspapers and took them to its | master ‘WHYR THE CREEKS LOSE. A Side Light Thrown Upon Their Panics in Thessaly, Aversion to mechanical discipline, writes Professor Wheeler in the North American Review, itself in the drill of the Greek troops, as would be naturally expected from all that know of them outside the army Aun people they always create the impres shows we sion of disorderliness, Men who walk together the do keep step. A Greek funeral procession pre sents to our eyes a most disorderly on street not and individualistic appearance. The people who compose it go on foot, and each one seems to be stroll ing along his own On arriving at the grave there is likely to be no fixed order of procedure If there is, not to it. Every what to him Absence of previous plan on necount conform pe ople do ole does Heels good of sense for order is apparent on every hand. If there the proceedings through any uncertainty occurs a halt in or lack of preparation a debate m Three out of four of the bear ers will prove to be orators There ay else no one person in authority Five or six different making The wherever ones are giving orders or HERes + at the pop trait masses of people Any single man is s hal and mas same tune ae shows sembled tial and evelop nt WArning All sented ua HIATS ' 1 HRY « this repre Hint The Smallest Men in Congress. A senile Ha s generall FRliAnD Hm } ut n in Hq r traits of $5 niready Fuge } land proposition is to establisl on all of the different isle Hawaiian group, beginning first Hawaii, Maui, Kanai and Oahu means of fast-flying pigeons messages Can from Honoluin the towns and plantations on the different be sent to all islands, and vice versa, It is believed that not less than fifty plantations will contribute to the scheme Wild Horses of Montana. Almost anyone may own a horse in Montana If he has not the 85, 810, 820 or 850 necessary to pay for the blood and culture with which any par- ticular animal may be endowed he may, if he has the necessary agility, go out on the range and take one, for there are plenty that don’t belong to any one else ] Since the prices on horses fell below | the paying point many ranchmen have | neglected branding their stock or keep- | ing any track of it, and in fret, there | have been a good many local efforts! made by the owners themselves to ex- | terminate or drive the horses off the | immediate ranges that there might be better grass for cattle and sheep. It is very repulsive business, to a Western man more especially than anyone else, | to shoot a horse, and a man who is | capable of it is regarded with rather | more circumspection than one who has | killed his man. So, being protected by a spark of sentiment, the herds of wild or mave- rick horses are really increasing and a right royal breed of animals they are. When the business was good, a few yoars back, the Montana breeders were | the most energetic and progressive of | any in the west. They bought sires of [thoroughbred and trotting blood in Kentucky and turned them loose with { their herds, Others who desired size rather than endurance went to Illinois and Canada purchased great Norman and Clydesdale stallions. While the prices ruled high the two classes bred separately but of late years they have heen to run into one uniform and were allowed and homogeneons herd, The new breed is of good height and strong-boned, with lung power and endurance that are suggestive of a greyhound. If conditions to the same for, say, a period of thirty years were remain longer, without any new admixture of blood it is to that these herds would gradually assume a uniformity of size, shape and color to i# noted in any Record, reasonable expect as great an extent as other wild animals Chicago Combs. of zation combs the earliest found Egypt Ancient Ro man combs were made of boxwood, or of ivory, or still mote recions . ' Among the relics + t forme of civil are seed world old YERTS Ay They were thousands of ms have been of and sin rred wuried Pompeii The Europe were equally terns; long more barbarous races Bleaching the Hair rR Pay Railway Rails of Paper * Secreta v of Siate, » desert, and of fatigue statements won according to recent has been much exaggeration on this subject Une writer asserts maintained longer than two hours at a stretch. A Champion Came Slayer. Earl de Grey holds the championship among the world’s hunters for the quantity of game killed by one man, He is now thirty-five vears old, and during the past twenty years has aver. aged 25,000 head of game each year minutes and killed all He has killed eleven number of elephants and gants in three Baseball Birds. Harry B. Keech goes to the Reading baseball grounds every day with nine It takes the bird two minutes to get to his store, where Mrs, ~~ Philadelphia Record. For the Happy Pair. In a country district of Germany “pay weddings” were in vogue until recently, each guest paying for his en- tertainment as much as he would at an aside to set up the happy pair in their new home, { i i i | WONDER WHY 2" Thos ¢ query of to me, thinks 1 ought Nes a From one know, I'he helght The And childish form, with With parted lips and pleading eye the “Wha I wonder why?’ who to depth of mystery “wherefore” f the "it and in 80." bated breath, 8 waiting for answer to ‘What give The fern Nhy doth ti Its Why grace? to trace? the CEB e lon DIOOT ETOW and Yarns Ma x ven ind satisfaction in 1 asked Ler dearest giri friend FAMILY Jans Tyres — Have you nam.d your boy yet? Spokes— No, my wife and | can’t agree. She wants to name bin after ber wheel, ind 1 want to name him after mine. POWERFUL FICTION. Hostess - [et me return your book to A charming story. Author — But 1 see you have not cut the pages Hostess Well, you see, the story so entranced me that 1 forgot sil about cutting the pages Indeed TOOK IT BACK. Tom Singlcton—I hear you're engaged. Congratulate you, my boy.” ; Fenny Uictus-—You didn’t bear it quite tight I'm married Tom Siugieion—Ob excuse me, ola man. ques sneer, isn't BY “What's queer®™ jo. quired another. “The night falls” “Yea,” * But it doesn't break” No,” “The. day breaks" “Yes” “But it doesn’t fall.” “No.” “Queer, isn't it:™ And he was gone. HOW SHE APPEARED. Something whizeed by. as minglement of steel spokes and red bloomers. “What is that there! asked Uncle Hiram withdrawing his gaze from the high buildings to look after the vision “That is the pew woman” answered Lis nephew. “I'he nex woman? Looks like the old boy."
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