MORNING AND NICHT.
A little plea
A little space of pai
And then the solemn
And
space of
then-—the
A little song and story
In sunlight and in rain;
A little gleam of glory
And then-—the dark again!
The darkness,
gleam of
And so it g
And
And so, life
With
then the light;
is good morning,
night!
titufion
sad thoughts of good
Atlanta
ne iser's Secret.
(‘ons
for whom
they had
farm during
left to take care of itself and produce
whatever crop it saw fit; consequently
the fertile
dense growth
The stock had
a time,
1
covered
of weeds and
been sold off, a fes
only a small number
acres were
briars
sinntil
uni
horses remained
broken-spirited
which to cultivate the patches
sit
gity forced them to till
As the years continued to sli
Mrs. Furgis Albert
lowed her.and the two remaining chil-
dren were left alone in large,
caving house. Harold and his
continued to work the patches
the house, and vear after year mort
gage a few acres of land for mony to
pay taxes, not daring to sell or rent,
for fear their treasure would fall in
other hands than their own. Through
the long years of foolish and profitleas
died. Secon
the
gigter
about
it did, was not acted on, that in the
farm they had a fruitful and unfailing
source of revenue,
One day early in June as Harold
gat on the moss-grown stoop, gazing
dreamily out on the luxuriant and
tangled undergrowth, a peddler cross-
ed the stile and labored slowl” beneath
a pack along the paved walk.
“Would you like to purchase a di-
vining rod?” he asked, placing his
pack on the ground. He held out a
polished metal rod that flashed bright-
ly to the sun.
How is
to retain his curi
The peddler carefully
manner of operating it,
Have sold many?’ a
old
“Not near
ter
Gael
you
here,"
reached this sed
returned
“have just
Name
lot,” sald
low est
Harold
vOUI figure for
tire jmpatiently,
promis not any more
{ nty, and them
A
an end he con
mounting a chair
holding
Harold was
when
kab
at his side,
candle
and cobwebs
» 4 groan, the «
came to the door and repeated it
harsh s
dilapidated
note; there was a
the
in a heap. There was a shriek
Ow
ing
tumbled
and
the sputtering floor
ran guilty thir
They stood in the em-
moment, panting
peering turtively into
hastened to their apart
candle I« to the
and the
from the
hall
fright
dark
ments
two like
FOOL,
nty with
the
for a
and
then
Morning was stealing gray and shad
through quiet old building
when Harold stole down the stairway
to where lay scattered the wreck of the
old clock. He searched amid the de-
brig, and brought to Hght a bit of yel-
jow, time-stained paper. He brushed
the dust from it and read, in a cramped
handwriting, the words, "To my wife.”
At last. There was no hurry now,
Harold ras perfectly calm as he
pushed the paper in his pocket and
stepped to the stairway to call his sis-
ter. She came down presently,
heart ail a-flutter with agitation.
“Harold, have you found #7"
asked, huskily.
He bowed his head, and the giow of
triumphant satisfaction on his face
OWS the
rimsc a
(4), i
Wii
perhaps a greater
ow all am sare y
I will be brief
left an orphan
couple nd
which bones
gine; the dust from sawing
ie bones is food for cattle
ind poui-
try: the smallest bones are made into
boneblack arh foot vielde a anarter
pint of neat's foot oil; the tall
goea to the soup tha hrpneh of
hair at the end of the tail is sold to
the mattress maker. The choicer paris
of the fat make the basis of butterine;
the intestines are used for sausage cas-
ings or are bought by gold beaters.
The undigested food in the stomach,
which formerly cost the packers of
Chicago thirty thousand dollars a year
to remove or destroy, is now made into
paper. These are but a few of the
pyducts of abaticirs. All scraps unfit
for any other use find welcome in the
glue pot or they do missionary work
for Jarmers by acting as fertilizers.”
of a
while
Culengo experts, after a few years
ment, sav it is equal to granite ana
much better than asnhsit or cedar
block paving. Tt 13 cheaper, too.
»
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
Mr
from
Henry M
the matrimonial
At last Stanley
emerged hs
which y plunged some
Years ogo
Indl
overed
Madis County
that he ha
1, he'd
before it
on
A farmer in
ana, announce (din
iL new corn better look
{ after it a little becomes Loo
troublesome,
now twenty-sey
United States membership
on descent from an
pends
distinguished themselve
who
to America an early
ng partici
luncheons
method,
| cold enti
mati and
{ perience that they
france in
potatoes
11 cooked;
If-bot
supply a
and roll, and
will extract
plate
cold meat, with salad
nickel of ten centimes
piece of bread and butter and chesse
Besides all this a nickel
i of hook
excellent gl
vessels in
or a ‘brioche.’
will draw an
from one of the
the centre of the cafe
arg
large
”
two
Again the important question, "How
long are Women Beautiful?” is dis-
of beauty does not reach itshrdiudiu
cussed in an English journal, one
writer maintaining that “the fullness
under the age of thirty-five or forty.”
This claim is disputed by another
writer, who cites the opinion of women
themselves, ag chown by the undoubt-
ed fact that "any woman who craved
admiration on the score of her per-
sonal appearance would be vastly more
pleased were her sge to be guessed as
being thirty rather than forty.”
it all depends, as Pitti * ing would ob-
serve. The race aw the
must be considered
shriveled or fot nnd enspoless grand
mothers before they reach the age
vel eianli
which i
beauty
POBBCHEION
Monthly the cele
announces
In the Atlantic
brated African explorer his
return to the literary worksh
gome length th
the dark contin
AEO
of central
ODBervi
sidewalks
them o1
fower
serve
would be
persons nudged in the
protruding and sharp elbows
There is nothing t
participants and nothing more laugh
able to the spectator than fo
persons dencing np and down and tak-
ise both
the
more annoving LQ
iwWo
Oe
gids
each
nig a series of steps 1
started lo pass other in
wrong direction
The bicycle ig unconsciously teach-
fg peonie how 4 {
each other's way. Any one who does
not think the result is sure to be bene-
ficial ought to attempt to stem a crowd
coming from a theatre or crossing the
bridge at rush hours. There will be
no polish left on the rash individual's
shoes, there will be mud staing on his
garments, and a feeling of deep, hitter
resentment against all mankind in his
bosom New York Journal
besl 10 ey
out of
In 1806 300,000 visitors, represent.
ing forty dicerent nationalities, paid
admission fo the house in which
Golf was invented by a lonely
Scoteh shepherd, who had nothing
than knocking
ad
York Expires Suddenly,
to the Strain Incident to His Exciting
Campaign—His End Was Peacetul and
He Passed Away With a Smile on His
LipseSketehh of His Varied Carees,
{
attained a worid
In 1838 Mr. George ra r Mayor of New
York, i and polled
coming in second in race,
Last year he was an upporter of
William J. Bryan. He we nominated for
Mayor of Greater New York by the Demo-
eratic A we and other associations of
Democratic and free silver clubs. He was
naking a vigorous campaign when sud-
denly stricken down,
consi GRO—
the
nt =
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Animal's that Da Not Graw Thirst
How long would you be contented
without a drog yf water to drink?
There are many different kinds of ani-
mals in world never in all
their lives sip so much as a drop of
vater., Among these are the llamas
of Patagonia and the gaselles of the
far east. A parrot lived for fifty-two
years in the “Zoo” at London, England,
without drinking a drop of water, ata
many naturalists believe the only
moisture imbibed hy wild rabbits is
derivex] from green herbage, laden with
dew. Many reptiles—serpents, lizards
and certaln batrachians-live and
thrive in places entirely devold of wa-
ter, and slothe are also sald never to
drink. An arid district in France has
produced a race of non<rinking cows
and sheep, and from the milk of the
former Roquefort cheese Is made,
There i¢ a species of wonsy which has
established {tzeif on the waterless
plains of western America, and which
flourishes, notwithstanding the ab
sence of wmelsture.
the