“Ir If trouble were a feather A breath might blow away, And only sunny weather Came to us, day by day, We'd laugh away the wrinkles That tell of life's decay, If trouble were a feather A breath might blow away. If maids would set the fashion Never to answer ‘nay,’ When love, the tender passion, Spoke in its pleading way; Then through life's leafy byways In lovers’ mood we'd stray, If maids would set the fashion Never to answer “ney.” If fame were worth the striving And all were in the race, And each of us were driving A horse well backed for place; Then round life's race course speeding We'd set a merry pace, If fame were worth the striving, And all were in the race James King Dufty, in The Puritan. THE THO LOVERS talk to me rthope, in- have ot the world why yon me as to “*Yon have no right to like that,” said Mabel Con dignantly. ‘‘Just be known each other so long least reason in the should presume to dictate to my friendship. It's “Hum SOrrYy, Mabe i Todd, humbly, ‘but I was only think ou. and I don’t like Reginald ause we 1 short little | ‘I am sorry I cannot be ¢ . . . 4 likes and your dish does not object Bulwer, 1 1 14 t don't ake me to task.” Jim know why I should; replied QO you i any J . Mo [t seems things h Mabel Courthop the : into night, invito es an boat. It was the bitter disappointed hope which voice the dislike whie stinctively for Balv quarrel allowed himself to be drawn into with Mabel Courthope. It only added to his dejection to perceive in the backward glance toward girl that she already seomed to have Another had ocenpied and Mabel, was too 111 Jd..the first quarrel the first i last the he cast forgotten him. the post he had as she leaned over the vacated; fence, intent to give him another look Yet Mabel was not alto- gether at ease with herself She liked Jim immensely, and, until the advent of Reginald Bulwer, had fan qed gelf in love with him jut when wer appeared, Jim was e lipsed com- It flattered the girl's vanity to receive the attentions of the dark, handsome man. None of her girl friends could boast such a suitor, and half the pleasure she found in his so ciety was due to the envions glances of her feminine acquaintances. Be- sides. at the most, Jim wonld be able to offer her a suburban home, while Reginald's life would have andreamed- of possibilities. She was so sick of the suburbs, she told herself, and the bolder, freer life of Mayfair seemed to be opening its doors to her. She ac- cepted implicitly all Bulwer had told her of the society which seemed so far away from Brixton, and his position in the land of promise. She wondered and became tremulous with delight at his flatteries, when he told her that among its queens there was none to compare with her when he hinted at his hope that he soon might venture to ask her to accept her right position among them. her thoughts for a while from the daz- zling future of her dream something very like regret was apt to crop up in her mind. Jim was not brilliant, but he was very tender. He had no great ‘ourthope pletely had rather die than give her a mo- ment's pain. Like most girls of 20 with a pair of lovers, she was a verit- able bundle of indecision. She had spend the week at Healey under the chs yronage of a lady friend of Bal- wey thap she began to regret that jolly 1=, which she knew she would hes. aad inJim's company. However, she had decided, and when she set ont for Henley, on a cloudless July morn- ing, her regrets were nod suflicient to pucker her fair brow in the slightest degree, There was no doubt but she made a very attractive picture, and Reginald Bulwer could not help being proud of his companion, Many a keen inspec than audible comment reached the “Bulwer a little girl is?’ man once Aan girl's ears, rain [ wonder who that at the remark con they embarked landing stage. But the veyed nothing to her was far too busily engaged in noting the life and bustle around her to spare a thought for anything else, Mabe! had been on the enough, but Henley was new and the full brilliance scene became clear to her eyes she could only gasp out her | pleasure, “Oh, it is lovely! I did not think | anything could be so bright in this gray England of ours,” she exclaimed. | “All England not Brixton," ex | claimed Bulwer, lightly. “I hope | that we shall Many scenes | bright as this together,” and | spoke a light flashed into his eyes as he bent them upon her, heart trembled with pleasure. She thought that ast to ask her to share his lot in future, and wotly silent. But Bul- further remark, i and with the sculls, pad- say, ns river often to her, of the dazzled when 18 see as as he and at he was going remained disere wer made no settling to work dled the boat de Presently he broke the silence again, sy ud the people we are stay ing different fr we Brix- it In tonians, will be wi the stream ou will fi with very t Mabel,” anite a new experience of life f i om tl gd or you." he aid at a loss to ex- ply to the girl's where the differen f very referring pare to be shocked in Br views of life ixton people } Men as plied Bulwer, vaguely Mabel began to wonder a little, She ] wl stil more during the next uton ‘ rd the boat igh it had breakfast was time to take the punt way to a point of vant- an hour and it was time Then the punt again, honseboat, and finally s river and a reposeful ) the hackwater before Hambledon ek before dinner After din gossip and music, with- ont and within, filled the evening, to remain open That was the order of things and make their th Re on the course, SSCArcely seemed to pass to re turn to lunch. tea at another drift dow: ta half-he nr until eyes refused longer until the last day of the regatta Meanwhile Todd had been going disconsolately about his busi- ness in town, At first he had deter- mined to remain away from Henley altogether; but, as each day passed, he repented of his intention, and at i last, on the morning of the last day, i he donned his flannels and followed the rest of the plessure-seekers. At least he would be able to get a glimpse of the girl who had thrown him over. Jim was not a particle of malice in the whole of his body. If she seemed un- i happy, well, he wonld bear it as best he might, and take up loyally the | position of friend, if he were allowed to do In spite, however, of the | fine day and the life and movement Jim Todd felt the reverse of happy. The general gayety only increased his gloom. #0, glimpse of Mabel. So at length | and music, he got out his seulls and find some secluded spot where he | fnight rest and brood over his lost | happiness, to find than he had anticipated. | Every sheltered corner had its boat and its pair of lovers, | tantalizing to Jim, in hit particular seood. He went on, however, pull- | ing doggediy until he reached at last | a little backwater which promised re- | tirement, and there he pushed his boat in under the shade of a tree and made it fast to one of its branches. He was not undisturbed for long, however, for within hallan hour # yards of him, and, though the leafy screen prevented him from seeing who the occupants were, snatches of their | conversation reached his ears. He | was about to move, when suddenly he | heard a woman's voice mention the | of Mabel Courthope coupled naine lay his Llood began to boil in anger. But not for long did he Le quiescent, Putting the scraps together convinced him that his suspicions | than correct. He pushed his boat out into the river and once more settled himself to the seunlls, A shout made | him look over his He had been working off his anger by strenu ous exertion and driving his light rigger fast against the WARS straight back and the Irene to confront Mabel In saw a punt narrowly escape being were more shoulder. ont current, He to Henley Julwer and y going to take home, one glance he run down by a big launck only to be in the swirl of the water and ignominiously capsized Half a dozen vigorous Jim to the spot. Brief bad been, he recognized cupants One of them, the intent only upon his own preservation, striking out for the bank, the girl not to hesitated caught ok the the Oc strokes t thougl rh time man, ! WAS be seen. Jim Was not but, balsneing himself { s light craft, dived into caref the a very few Hiiy river he caught search, Another dow n * Vin Jim been and the afely nd were making DLADY. WORRIED THE L in the Wrong Business. i ratting 1 getting petite iid new She traught, ‘You must with withering sarcas “You bet I am,’ } other Eugene, as he vour said began i twin, } Ie the nearest dish, “Young man, you'll have apoplexy, and I won't be ha Anybody gorges hims two suppers ought to die who Eugene understood in a he only said demurely “Wait I've eaten maybe I won't need any m« The new boarding-house keeper went through the apartments in a fury, looking for the Balders to inform them that their son was eating himself to death. The first one she saw was the boy himself playing checkers with his father. Her eyes grew round. “How on earth did you get here before me?" she asked. “Oh, that was dead easy,” said Harold, who saw the usual complica tions, and was happy. ‘I came up as soon as I finished my supper.” “But you had just begun all over ' again,” shrieked the tormented and perplexed woman, and then Father | Balder came to tbe rescue and ex- | plained about the twins. But the awe stricken head of the commissary department said that she should sell out. for she thought there was some- | thing uncanny about the business, — | Chicago Times-Herald. until this one re,’ ——-— The late James Aram, of Delavan, Wis., bequeathed $20,000 for a public library for the town, in memory of his | daughter, and £20,000 for a heme for superannuated and indigent Methodist ministers, in memory of his father and mother. He also gave 81,000 to each | of the churches in town and $2,000 for the improvement of the local cemetery. : The best time to kill weeds is when they first appear above the surface. It is easier to kill a thousand than one tough old one later in the season. Weeds are prolific seed producers— some producing as many as 50,000; it is therefore folly to allow them to reach maturity and seed a crop for pext Season. NOTES AND COMMENTCL —— It is now roughly estimated that in the college and university graduations for this year about one half of the en tire output are women. Fifty ago only about a half of one per cent of college graduates were women, years Queen Victoria has thirty great grandehildren, all of whom are living, and nineteen of the number are boys Matronly honors are gathering also the Queen's oldest daughter, Fre lerick, who grandchildren, on the Em seventeen press has boasts that had a storm the other day in which the | Kansas it 1 y Hav stones were as large trichs’ egus, and 1t is said that enterpri farmer filled his cellar with the and | ice AR ON ric one “10 Lone ith sawdust, will sell them to families covered them w that nee The proudest man in the State of Washington at the was Mr. J. RB. minty, of Lat AN, whom foul Know, kune c« to has been born, One of thes and him the happy father Roger 3 ‘th State after A rece authority, five and thi ally 1 mported but something Marie Cel weed by a Paris tn n jel cent bunal t« at hard v tween labor mister sensibiig onate { of w h. hi been W. Bokaseff, of quoted in The Russia, is thns Washington Post: *‘] have come to America to study your methods of farming and dairy ness, and especially to look into the cultivation of the sunflower plant in this country. I am a sunflower far- mer at my home in Russia One of my family was the first person in Rus. sin to obtain oil from the seed of the sunflower. It is one of the leading agricultural industries in the Czar's dominions now, and the people can clear more money from it than any other crop. If the soil and climatic conditions are right in the United States, and I ean find a suitable loca- tion, I may enter on the cultivation of the sunflower on a large scale, and al- so put up mills for the extraction of the oil.” pus Over 20,000,000 packages of vege- table, flower and field seed have been distributed by the Department of Ag- riculture during the past spring. This distribution has given to each member of Congress 40,000 packages of seed at a total cost of 8130,000. Over a mil- lion of these packages were flower seed and nearly 300,000 field seed, the balance being a great variety of vege- tables. In the entire distribution nearly every variety of vegetable known to the agriculturists was dis- tributed. There were 32 varieties of beans, 10 varieties of beets, 23 wvarie- ties of eabbage, 11 varieties of carrots, 19 varieties of sweet corn, 18 kinds of eunctmbers, 30 kinds of lettuce, 19 va- rieties of muskmelons, 17 kinds of watermelons, and 15 varieties of on- ions, | i | times the size of the Districe ot Co- Inmbia. This is the largest distribu. Department of Agriculture, and 1t 18 sald that nn- seedsmen all over the con try are c« molsining that they do not make sales to farmers and others be cause they are getting all the seed of Agriculture Says the New York Time cident 1 i of the (vx, Har been 1nd of hi #: ““An in- late f+ reed the care: ham has tunries 1s that obi pe Senato ris #0 illustrative that ibrance most character and reme sderacy fell there (rovernor of Ten 313,000 in gold belon fund sympathizer, of it de Zi As an ardent Har school (rovernor desirons preventing of i 1 and the other of mney from falling into the hands Brownlow the refore > peared there absurd bundie « was Landseer's Impudence in life. anxions solicitnde after Fleece if the little fellow ran whach he fre- quently did, and never gave it up un- til he brought Fleece again in safe conduct LWAY, home Battles were raging all around them and one night the firing was so near and incessant that no one slept. The next morning Hugo and Fleece were missing, and while the children searched for them Hugo wearily walked through the gate, carrying poor little Fleeces dead body. He walked to his mistress and laid his burden gently down at her feet, then with a look of unutterable grie’ jaid himself down beside it, nor contd they coax nor drive him away. Lit:le A stray bullet had ended his happy little life and the children wept over the sorrows of war, realizing as never before what it meant. They had a most elaborate funeral and buried Fleece with military hon- i and they marched to the grave to the beat of a toy drum, with Hugo, who followed close, as the chief mourner. When the little mound, flower covered and draped with a flag, was finished, Hugo laid himself down mcross the tiny grave and refused to be com- forted. He would neither eat nor GREAT DESERT OF AFRICA. it Occupies OnefFifth of the Entire Cone tinent. The desert area of Africa is estima Ravenstein at over 2,250,000 of which but a small of “, pauare miles, nll ' 1 ' we mmitained i thie tract fraction 1s ¢ SHar land popularly known IAL MeCiure iren wh schoolteact for of the Bal wonld be BYCTInys Invalides also i 3 the archite st Te Oo 3 cture © rity between New York tomb wherein the remains gican repose; and there is a similarity in the position toward the gazer of the casket of each warrior No pilgrim to Paris from a French province visits his capital w ithont early visiting Napoleon's tomb; aud none will ever come to New York from any portion of the Union without a pilgrimage to the Riverside tomb, — Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly Mow Potatoes May be Spoiled, In a bulletin issued by Professor Snyder, of the Minnesota State Agri- cultural College, he makes a point of interest to the housewife, He shows that where potatoes are peeled and started boiling in cold water there is a losa of 80 per cent. of the total alba- men, and where they are not peeled and are started in hot water this loss is reduced to two per cent. A bushel of potatoes, weighing 60 pounds, con- tains about two pounds of total nitro- genous compounds. When improperly cooked one-half of & pound is lost, containing six-tenths of a pound of the most valuable proteids. It re quires all of the protein from nearly two pounds of round beefsteak to re- place the loss of protein from improp- erly boiling a bushel of potatoes. A ——————————— A I————. An ambitions youngster in Marion County, Oregon, tried to ride on a cow's back and was thrown and suflec- od a broken clavicle, 511 ia the d the edifice an 3 th res t Cor-
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