Come on, fellows, he That will set the skies ag And a load of Chinese era With a heathen snap ar Stop with all this argyly Toss you For I'm bent on jul And on nothing ir balls and And it ain't n That there's And a lot of w Jut, consarn it al Neither makes n If my bird had be I'd have never se 10ts8 » never pu | shed my fences, el'ared my land, «i doer herded, 1 Cities tand ars now my budding harvest vth the warm wind’s sway, 1 I Lave worked, (rion as, nt ™— gown light by the leaning her talking with wom » jealous if I hadn't another He you don't, and von'd hate to spoil the yuldn’t you? Why can't eve, says he won't excursion, we you go?" “Mr. and Mrs. Halliday have ar ranged to spend the day with their married daughter up in Beverly,” said Leah, dejectedly “They always go every Fourth of July.” “Oh, the selfishness of old people!” said Flora, indignantly. “And leave yout poked up here alone, when there's an excursion boat stopping at Tanhas- set Dock, with a band and awnings and all, and you never were on an excur- sion in your life! Oh, I don’t wonder -~it's enough to make anybody ery!” as a big tear-drop or so coursed down Leah's cheek and splashed on the sweet -brier leaves below, Leah! go anywhere or see anything- sy in her heart. ‘‘The are just as good dearly. 3 much with the young folks hereabouts, count, you know, in the factory and down at the rubber works." “Fiddlesticks!” said Flora Plimpton. Leah, you shall go! Now listen to me! Once get "em fairly started off with that old rattle-trap of theirs, with the one-eyed horse’ —she laughed jeering- ly—*‘and then you come down to the ock and wait for us. the boat don’t go off without youn.” Leah drew a quick breath. life,” said she. “But, Flora, to deceive them.” ed Miss Plimpton, get your rights all intents and pur- d loved them with a timid, | shrinking devotion. Bat Flora eroased her orbit, that bold, dashing | gil, who was a ‘‘tryer-on” in Holt & Hanneford’'s big cloak and mantle store in New York, a disturbing ele- | ment had risen into her heart since Plimpton had I a long- | ing to see world, to mingle with the gay throng of whom Flora told her, to drink a draft from the cup of | britaming, seething life that other | people drank George Annis, the head carpenter of the rubber works, had seemed delight- ful company up to this time, but now he appeared tame and countrified be. side Mr. Dave Ferguson, black-mous. and scarf-pinned, who had | deigned to east a gracious glance upon her rural charms. All her little system of existence was troubled and upset. Leah scarcely knew why. Hitherto she had been serenely happy, like one of the twit. | tering robins in the thicket; now a | vague sense of wrong and discontent took possession of her as she entered | the and went up to her room. “It is quite true what Flora Plimp- | ton says,” she thought. ‘I never go! anywhere, or see anything!” “Who was that talking over the gate with you last night, Leah?” Mrs. Halliday asked, the next day, as she | helped Leah shell the peas for din- ner. “It was Flora Plimpton.” “I wouldn't set too much store by selled the good woman, reaching for | another handful of the emerald pods. | “The Plimptons always had a bad zame, and I never heard no good of Flora, even arter they went away from A girl like you can't here, be too Leah was silent, but she shelled There are times when advice ms to produce fn directly t Opposi “" is intended, and Mrs. only served to resolve to have effect of what Halliday's words her own way for “1 shouldn't wonder,” added the old WOMAN, uly ff Annis were to come up this way Fourth once with a smile, George o' July, arter me and father's gone.” Still the rattled into the pan like a miniature fusilade of artillery Leah never looked up nor spoke “And I don't see as there'd be m in your askin' him to stay to din pe added Mrs. Halliday “He'd be "company for you don't want any company!” burst hi “If he BAYH anytl ing more ; Halliday, ask him ['d rather be alone.” “Why, child, said Mrs, Halliday, in surp Le ah ISWwWer peas 113t 1 HOT LO « what's eco made 1 a1 f Ferguson's quare chin, Annis enough, “Style was mitate ' v 1 gi The drum rolled the shrieked joyfully, the paddle wheels plashed again, and the bright flags floated away, while Leah fled tumult- nously back through dew-dripping long stretches of sun- steeped meadow, The money! the money! It seemed as if her light feet were weighted -—as if every pulsing, sunshiny second were an hour. The money! the money! In sight of the old house, she stopped aghast, The west window was wide open, its veil of climbing Michigan roses torn rudely away, a ont, if to sacve as a step to some one who desired to effect unlawful entrance, muflled sounds, as if of hand-to-hand combat, then a heavy fall. “You villain!” roared a voice, so hoarse that at first she did not recog- now!" She rushed frantically in. “‘George—Greorge, what is it?” she eried. With a clothesline which he had snatched from a peg behind the door, George Annis was binding the arms of a man who lay panting and pale on the floor--the arms of Mr. David Fer- guson, "Tis Independence Day, cannot : 1 everyon gay Young America again Hears Unele Sam's brave story, how we won our freedom, and Flung to the breeze Old Glory 4 i An ois d “Not that Ferguson is his name at 11!" said George, hotly “It's Dave who broke open the factory and slipped of! heavy 06 Years nada only he REO, wore 8 beard then, and was dressed like and now he's ring man, HILAR a silk The { to that in counles | in couples with hat and a scoundrel! nd he's marrie Plimpton girl Leah hurr The other room Duteh cabinet It was empty! 1s in OY the open both drawer of | forced han in an OM- Hand Way Wasted iso yon ar the lighted fireoracke pocket?” Little J¢ the biggest one 1 N bid yhnny The Versatile ther fim Small After the Crisis. “rd like to have Manager “Come around Fourth and I'll talk with yo His Last Fourth uffed his cannon are his 1ittie ver Knew which way 3d he'll never see ano as ——————————— wr — | — NOTES AND COMMENTS, Professors of Paris medical of the students a heavy drain on their re them § (ht rate from the provinces for the use been shipp the fre less sources, have ing ne smoked bacon, which is much has put all France into hy A Kentucky straw profit ti berry gr port a clear Q7 HE, ‘IR of children who 720.63 on seven acre ground Numbers of women and wonld have earned money in no other two dollars i Another ¢ reports hi way made one or picking berries grower of firaw } Ciear profit to ®.3 Sd A) on two acres to make a dog worl AlIRWers United States is and France is dium i delle aorainst against In “ here season, the from all saves that it the ns tream of Wari s water co ing into 1t between ane as Con NOrway gtantly running ou Spitz bergen and Greenland also through Greenland and America, All enormous of heat the north, the latter causing the intense cold of Canada and thaton the east side of Greenland and North wi the narrow the first con oe Yeving sou toward America It is estimated that there are 1,000, G00 blind people in the world, or 1 to every 1 Latest re porte show 23,000 blind persons in England, or 870 for each million in habitants. Blind infants of less than five years, 166 for each million; be- tween five and fifteen, 288; between twenty and twenty-five, 422; betWoen forty-five and sixty, 1,625, and above sixty five years, 7,080 for each mil lion. Russia and Egypt are the coun- tries where the blind constitute the largest proportionate number of total population, in Russia on account of the lsock of experienced medical atten. tion, and in Egypt because of oph- thalmia due to irritation caused by movements of the sand by the wind. L000 inhabitants Superintendent Smith of the Men- agerie Bureau of the New York Park Department has reported that the twenty-five Luffaloes lent to the city by the late Austin Corbin estate have eaten most of the grass in Van Cort- landt Park, tramped up the rest and destroyed the shrubbery. He says the city will have to buy food for them. The city was to have one out pack of lawyers may whether it “n call ich which minke ie calf end of the city’s bar- : of the 11Y nDih« 1 has died. A have to be hired to settle eutats wl Ar other thing i ing he buflaloes Bald Headed Men N There sa a Mis there that his favor irely bald it that there iz something abnormal with not shiow that there 18 Indeed, all him, but it does any trouble with his lungs the another with consumptives, and 1t is woman's saying that a man or woman will hair consumptive will die before his or her hair becomes gray, and it. is a rule to go by My observation is, and the many consumptives have a very ful of hair; indeed, if one looks into the matter with any care, it will be noticed that their hair is very heavy in com parison with others.”— Washington Star, % lungs are thing in connection shows that There is consumptive never comb then gray. By this is meant that the safe it's sane with others, that growth Ingenious Way to Filter Water, A supply of spring water at Kiel, (Germany, is so strongly charged with iron at to be unsuitable for use. Teo improve it, the authorities first canse it to traverse a system of metallic channels and cascades, then to pass through a bed of coke ten feet thick, and finally through sand Slters, each about sixty-five feet long and forty. nine feet wide. The treatment has proven successful in removing ail iron, leaving the water unobjectionable in color, taste and smell. The bed of coke in divided into eight compart. ments, which are washed frée from iron once a week by isolating a com. partment at a time, and the sand $i. ters are cleansed by replacing a this upper layer with clean sand.
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