“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-