A Son of Harvest, | pg a song of harvest sing it, ring it sweet ; Set it to the music of the ripple of the wheat! Sweetheart, sweetheart, Reaping as we go, A kiss amid the music And the wheat would nefer know! Sing a song of harvest ing it, ring it true! Symphonies of sunlight and mysteries of dew; Sweetheart, sweetheart, Summer sighs to go A kiss amid the music And the wheat would never know! Sing a song of harvest—of many a golden tithe; Set it to the tinkle and the the sevt he wt } twinkle of Sweetheart, sweetheart, Love's a reaper, too [Love i8 in the music And the thrilling heart of you Sing a song of harvest like the ripple of a stream, Till the shadows kiss the meadows and the stars above un Sweetheart, sweetheart, Summer sighs to go A kiss amid the music BARD VS. BOXER Ferdinand de C opinion, the f being Ne ion in right « r poet. livia ither vill 1 modest defi WAS ¥g 6s andl Th Al oro pPalr; and it Lady Laelia had y to the been led like a lan + altar solely by tl lomitable the ine A= it turn yur vears af will of arent lie ter the wedding, and jaft very her ¢ edd ont old {reorge « Laelia was of twenty-four a iandsome jointnre to begin life the view of some enjoyment out of it As the wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer had bored to death by serious people at an age when she was utterably incapable of appreciating When free, she flew to the opposite extreme. Ferdinand de Cruza may be regarded as one of the symbols of this revolt, He gave her new and pleasurable sen- sations which she only half under- stood, which were delightful to her. He had sufficient acuteness not to descend too low in her presence, She openly declared that she was devoted to * dear Mr. de Cruza.” Now Ferdinand, in spite of his po- etic temperament and habit of railing at the sordid practice of money-grub bing, was a capital man of business, It ocenrred to him that Lady Laelia, with her large jointure, would be an excellent investment. At the same time, her beauty was not only grate- ful to his senses, but would constitute her a trophy of no ineonsiderable value to higsself-esteem. Also it would be far preferable to be master in a house which he econld style his own than to continne the social free lance with the duty of earning his dinner. These circumstances may account for the fact that little Lord Hounslow, who was calling on Lady Laelia, was by no means pleased when the door opened and Mr, de Cruze was an- nounced, ; a widow with I over again with getting she been them she was da ———— Little Lord Hounslow was honestly He she had not had a He had stated her with as much ion as he | replied coldly in love with La iy Laelia wonld have married her if penny in the world his sentiments to conld Coin that Hg, should added, that & wo fervor of expres nand She ha she did not intend and that if she marry a little man to Arey she not She did, grat she thought t to she could not look up to and respect \t this she drew herself up to her full height and towered a head and should him Also declared liked him very much as » and off red to ister to him At which he had uttered a bad word, but had immediately apologized with the venta ally, hike another person, he went When he had cooled ded that he i uitonsly, that man ought no a man whom i LHHIArrY above she ors that friend, she he i utmost abasement K AWRY in a rage, down a little he deci wonld never give hey up Therefore, Cruze intima: hie heard of the 1) felt mangie th he an unholy l and atl eminent He La ly 1 aelia could acti 8 toward man that any tender feeling } whose conld not really believe " tv 1 side-slip De He wore Cruza a coat, orange trousers to mateh the coat, hat, patent leather shoes and tie of a new and wonderful shade of red. Instead of the usual transfer the main tube of the machine his own sig- waistcoat, a white broad-britnmed (Jameson on lower nature sprawled in gold. Richmond Park It was deserted save by the deer. The heavy woodlands shut out the horizon, the houses, the busy life which teemed all around at such a short distance. It was possible to imagine oneself in the heart of a delicions desert of oak and fern and chestnnt, traversed by excel lent roads, tempered only occasionally by low hills Lady Laelia most unwisely called a halt by a clump of towering trees. The pair dismounted, and, abandoning their bicycles, gat down on the com fortable bank to rest was at its best The spirit of the scene, of his art, of the divine passion, entered the breast of the poet. Hand in hand came the thought of that exeellent business speculation. Here in the wilderness (that near town), under the open sky {just ten minutes’ run from a first-class hotel), he wonld declare himself to Lady Laelia proposal should be a veritable poem in prose. It should thrill her to the very soil, and reveal to Ler, as in a light. ning flash, what manner of man he was, was sO passioned tenderness, Lady Laelia turned toward him, and by that movement fate willed that her | eyes should catch a sidelong glimpse i | \ i close company against a tree “Oh, M Lie Cruza, excitement what 1 bike?" isgusted 1 she great that man doing to my Mueh terruption, this turned il prosaic ihe hi 4 head je direction indicated poet impatiently \ distinctly nal wus ruffinnly and unkempt in tanding pieions the na Lady Laelia to he feet with the 1mpetuosity of a mother child My with far more delibera mdoubtedly proximity to iprang divi in chines who het in dange De Curza rove tion, CRine Rees uneasiness be Crood and a feeling of fest his wns there going to be an al mun in breast, heavens! tereation with a common, low, uncul who would probably nse How How excrucia tured person the odious! most unrefined language? How unpoetie! “ese the common person appeared thick stick, Irishmen do tingly discordant to the artistic Besides, to which ther carry an ugly, he se ly HM they enll in pieturs dy Laelia thought the stick without even of ‘Hi [ the new arrival Hounslow, and condition dodged wonld Hed countered heavily put in one straight from the shoulder left. completely knocked ont Whereupon Hounslow naturally took possession of the ¢lnb and pitched it far When Lord Hounslow repeated his proposal to Lady Laelia, which he did AS BOON Ax possible without the small est delicacy, she owned that she had somewhat altered her views, not only on the subject of moral suasion and the dignity of being in the right, but also with regard to the question of height as a gange of respect. She said that she realized that what a wo man wanted was a man who was thor- onghly able to protect her, and that did not know any one who was wore completely competent for the purpose than the present aspirant, Therefore Mr. De Cruza was not at the wed: ding. Nor did he call on Lady Laelia either before or after, He had many engagements, you see. London World, have fe an ox, dar ted with his right, Over the other went, with his of time ashe ————————— AA Soft Foods. Habitually eating softfoods, even soft bread, to the exclusion of every- thing that is hard or crusty, is not only weakening to the digestive or- gaus, but it leads to rapid decay of the teeth. When these are not used in the mastication of harder foods, | the teeth become covered with a tar: tar and sometimes loosen in thor | sockets, or the gums will bleed. — The ! Home Doctor, | NOTES AND COMMEN y floated Stripes by kites a mile Pike Peak, point ever and above the summit of and 0 India voluntarily f prisone on J returned thousands jail 1 Have Of the from 1 bile Day, KOO 0 jail, while others are commitiin nrg fence In lary and other the des p-water i, the Navy to establish several of of Naviga order notifying order to reach Departinent has decided sintions fhe The in cities Burean that born offi re re recriting native Ameri fave The | Ls Cini iH i nish and it parro crea Provines g that he eed rapt Hy of the of Onta rH inisance to them, and they 1 hounld be exterminated possible He drives away and singing oirans § VYOrons nothing » compen fle lopment o an was called with A Liverpool medics m in to a patient cholera cramps as the res drinking, and f{ attend of exces found together about a dozen persons, mostly young women. in a room with full glasses be- fore them, a three-gallon jar of strong gle on the table, and several botties of whiskey, which from time to time were replenished. This remarkable session was kept up for five days. It was in celebration of a wedding, and all had saved np for weeks in anticipation of the The father pawned his watch, and most of his furniture; one young fellow pawned his coat, hat and watch. The whole party, twenty or thirty in number, slept together onthe floors, or anywhere, the house being a amall three-roomed cottage in one of the streets of Tox Teth Park. When the five days’ revel was ended they all “proceeded to the house of Father Nugent and signed the pledge.” sive event unique fatality in the Treasury De- partment at Washington. The vast accumulation of paper money and coin was being counted, an incident in the change of United States Treasurers, the departinent building. It bags was toppling, and at the ery of warning the six men in the vault had barely time to escape before the mass came tumbling down with a crash. The bags were broken in the fall and the bright silver eoin was heaped on the The store ere prog ured and counted elled up, new bags » i" the money was carefully « peg lng way of the money Major Rose, the of Agri ne cottonseed from distributed among KO BELO iture Per of Southern Texas ton does i than once ey stalk standing through the winter and green in the lke It wa » cotton would spring thought probable row equa ¥ HE hint Southern Fexas thoroungnu periment proves failure Among otl eed from Maj Antonio ui is prote cted by a formidable armor of the hardest possible wood, bois de fer, as a protection against the pressure of At her bows she carries a powerful steel spur for cutting her wav through ice floes, The interior arrangements are cleverly made with a view to comfort, warmth, and econo- my of space, for not a single corner 1s wasted. The cabins and saloons are heated from the engine rooms, and as an extra precaution layers of felt are inid in between all the partitions to prevent the heat from escaping. The latest implements and machinery for whaling are on board the Belgica, whose appearance ia unique, and whose barrel, perched on the top of her mast for the “lookout,” catches the eves of the curious. The Belgica registers 250 tons, and makes seven | knots with her 150-horse power en- gines, though with sails set she can easily make nine knots. There is on board the usual stock of arctic cloth- ing, snow-shoes, or ‘‘skis,” and a { splendid collection of the most modern scientific instruments, of which Lient. | De Gerlache is extremely prond, handsome little vessel Her id antarctic woe Look After the Cellar. One of the first things to receive at- tention at this season isthe cellar, and | throughout the year it demands care. | No part of the house is so neglected. | It is usually dark and illy ventilated. The air is impregnated with foul air and refuse that is damp and mounldy THE JOKERS’ BUDCET, lests and Yarns Made and Told by Funny Men of the press, Mi . XOTE He When vou abroad, Miss Pare Low did ke the Mant ¥y 4 erhorn? ve | hes mam mag they make & »f a feather i never Lave ORT. COMPARATIVE « Bar —Y¢ very good one, but it « to mine Why, Great I paid & bundred and eighty dollars for mine. You paid only ninety for yours Scorchleigh—That's all true enough, but you must consider this fact: Besides that ninety dollars 1 have paid over one bundred dol ars for repairs thus far this BOASON. mr wheel he may a lite come up Handel 1 it can’t g Spr ckets ‘ New Street Sweeping Apparatus, A Berlin inventor has constructed a new street sweeping apparatus which combines the construction of a earpet- sweeper with that of a tricyele. Itis worked by one man, who can cover as much ground with this machine as four men working with brooms and shovels, Compared to the street sweepers propelled by horses, the cost of covering a given ground is smaller; moreover, tha new machines are widely superior on hygienis grounds, since the dust and sweepings are not thrown into the air, but ab- sorbed by the machine and dropped in bulk into boxes specially provided for the purposes, which are to be sunk in the ground at different points and covered until called for during the night when there is least traffic in the streets. TL.» new sweepers are in- tended to travel through the best streets at a fair rate of speed several times a day. and the receptacie for the sweepings will hold about forty pounds before it becomes necessary to empty it. Sidewalks and footpaths in the parks are to be swept by similar but somewhat smaller machines,
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