v THE HAPPIEST HEART, Sho drivés tho horses of the sun Shall lord it but a day; Better the lowly deed were done, And kept the humble way. The rust will find the sword of fame, The dust will hide the crown; Aye, none shall nail so high his name Time will not tear it down, The happlest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. —John Vance Cheney. A NEW MEXICAN EPISODE. —— daylight BY CLAIRE POTTER, The sun shone hotly on Anita ranch, which lay like a small excrescence on the dun-colored earth. The adobe house, the fences, the corral, all wore the sun-baked shade of the level ground. The silence was not a strange and dreamy thing, as is usual in soli- tude: ‘twas a hot, flerce, aggressive silence, which seemed to challenge dis- turbance. No or flying buzzed in the air, and, as far as could reach, no shade came between the flery sun and the flat gray mesa. The wind, always defiant, blew bravely across the sagebrush, carrying with him the remonstrant breath of the sun, who protested against the per- sisent rivalry and would not give him full sway. Their competition gave life to the cattle on the range, to the suf- fering cowboys, and to the small group of people on the ranch-house portel, The sloping roof gave shelter the sun's rays, and the wide-open doors through the long hall caught every whiff of the erratic wind as he, still warring with the sun, blew here and there. . A low hammock occupied the most shaded spot, and in it swung a girl. Her face was dark and small and her “ittle head was covered with a thick, short crop of black curis; her eyes were very large and darkly gray. All else about her was small—the tan-col- ored shoes, the slender hands scarlet mouth—and she tock but a speck of room in the wide hammock, forming a piquant contrast to the two men beside her. They were both tall and athletically built; their skins were of the same color the house and earth. with a liberal dash of added red. One was pronouncedly dark; the other blue of eye and yellow of hair. Even before they spoke they were pro- claimed Englishmen. The darker on~ Frank Farringden, turned toward the girl and said: “Well, Jack, when did Harry he'd come up from Santa Fe? that fuss Ortegas, and son, the manager, gone, you'll quite alone, won't you? “Oh, yes; but only for My brother is coming back on gay; theres no one to bother. The girl put one toe to the floo swung forward, showing the which graced the carved Mexican This belt held together the « skirt and white duck blouse; silk scarf was knotted throat, and buckled sombrero iav on the floor side her. Looking out over the me she said: ( “The sun seems to be standing stil You should have visit? your cousin earlier, Caplain Charteris I'm afraid you'll take back luric counts of his adopted land.” The Captain replied with the decp, mellow voice of his country “Well, really, Miss Delancey, country is beastly bad; but Fran geems to find the people all right.” “The people!” pleased mockery in the shrill American voice. "That must mean us, for we are really the only people about here. Well, Harry, is a nice boy, but Slawson and Au- gusta Victoria can't be called social ornaments. Then there's myself; but [—— Now, Captain Charteris,” ris- ing in the hammock and swinging for- ward directly in front of him, “will you tell me if I am different from Eng- lish girls—very much worse, 1 mean? Now please tell; I want to know truly and honestly.” “Oh, really, Miss Delancey, girls are about all alike, you know, only Eng- bee aye from the as Sav Win Slaw - ¥ taf ue i828 over at LwWO ordur around heavily ¥ ue brown a large +d ' i out there. 1 the w ground, and that sort of thing.’ lish girl lost her father and mother when she was only three, and had had to live out here with her brother, be- and she wasn't—well, wasn't real deadly strong herself, would she have been very different from me?” There was an appealing earnestness terest in the dark eyes. Charteris tion at another time. She sank back haif-dissatisfied and hummed a song. When the sun showed symptoms of descending the men mounted their horses and rode away. Farringden turned in the saddle and called to the girl, “We'll stop with the mail on our way home.” - * - > ® * How different was the old adooe hot grayness had all gone, and the parched, unlovely earth looked cool and soft in the clear light. The sage- brush and cactus plants were tempo- rarily given a tint of silvery green, and the wind, fickle fellow, seemed conquered by the gentle moon, for hand in hand they searched every nook and corner, blessing all living things as they went, The portel seem- ed another apot, as it lay in a floud of milky rays; the chairs, the table, the dusty hammock-—all seemed fresh ly covered with shining satin. The girl was in the same position, but the corduroy gown had given place to a white one, and the scarlet kerchief had been smoothed until it lay in dusky light had whitened, and the tender rays turned to pink the two scarlet gpots—were they of expectation?— burned beneath the The sombrero’s place on floor was taken by a mandolin, whica she horse, one more intently was but one rider. The expectancy was ended when Capt. Charteris slid from his horse, tied it at the gate, and walked toward the idly swinging the leather mail he came. under the portel, the floor and sank into a low chair beside the girl “Poor Frank went train for Sania Fe wrote and urged it. ride from Ortegas!” The man broke the silence. “Sing something ~-gomething Spaa- ish Listening knew there house, bag Aas on to catch the Your brother Bah! it's a nasty chord on the gerenad. and Jack played soft mandolin and sang a tender inished he leaned over her said gently: “You have the ar the tion of this afternoon How other women, a As she shall 1swer 10 ues now. can I compare you to you who are so strangely different, 50 {ntoxicatingly charming?’ He leaned nearer and took, unrebuked, the tan- ned fingers in his own. “You are the result of this strange life and cli- mate, and I—oh, you know how I feel! You have shown your power over ma since first those 19 face: and the raised when [ hear you sing, + know you hold me, body, as no woman ever did You Kk it. don’t you, you eyes en you soul and before, now Jack? Unclosing her eves as from a dream of bliss, she laid her hand lovingly upon his “You don't understand me, Captain I suppose I am not like and it takes a long, long shoulder Charteris hid a smile with his hand the The pleading voice was in his ears ith him. the eyes shining unconscious e in his face, and the moonlight, the wind, the echoes of the red mot near and put 3 slow senses around her he whispered ng vol Jack, do you l her and mur- There was no shyness in rant face, as she drew nearer mured [ do would love you neverl stand The smile grew broader on the Eng kissed moon incau- of tenderness yes, while the vibr with head on the moon g 14 worshi i ned v 1 Few 3 ¢ & . et iishman's face ¢ ardently her, and tiously threw mistaken a glamor into the st at- ing his 3 ealy iittie her . gosh Pt ag ot el hear accepted blandishments, and on illness of the summer ask for musi and the mandolin toward her slowly that sweetest Spanish 4 ’ “Media Noebe.' The intense st ight seein to geemeda 10 drew While her finge: strings, Charteris, aft Car querida chi her ear and again the gate and his She sat still, a of color in the vivid moon- waving were on the whispering quita” in issimna, willing strolled to £5 gr mounted horse rode she played uick hands sending of which sounded in his ears long, after the agile broncho had borne hiin from view. as he hat as he the strength in AWAY, went, with + 1 ai her a flood melody long She slept to dream over the last act of her life, and awoke to redream it as she wandered restiessly about the ry and Farringdean would not return for two days. “Surely Harcourt” name blushingly come again.” Seeking shelter from the heat in the long hall, her eye fell on the forgotten mail bag; for occupation she unstrap- ped it. There were no letters for the Anita ranch, but several for Farringden, she wispered the to herself, “would been opened, read and refolded. Sh: aimlessly unfolded it, glancing paragraph attracted her eye. This read. “The marriage arranged last winter June 20 at St Square. George's, This marriage will be an ex- ing to the prominence of both bride and groom, the former being the sec- ond daughter of the Earl of Alwyn and the latter the prospective heir of his uncle, Lord Walforth, of Waiforth House, Surrey. Captain Charteris will shortly return from the American completely restored his health.” The paper was still firmly grasped in her stiffening fingers. She did not change her position; the brown face turned a sallower shade, and the eyes had a glowing flerceness. She neither cried the paper and replaced it in the bag. Night came again; the moon came back to the old portel, and with the wind played a sweet duo in the accus- tomed way. But there was no appre- clative grace in the heart of the small creature who sat here. With wind- burned face and raging heart she looked out over the broad stretch of prairies where only last night all had | seemed a vision of beauty, Suddenly ghe leaned back her head and odlled, sharply, "Augusta Victoria!” A sib-like Missouri girlthe domes- tic pivot of the ranch, appeared in response, “Well, Migs Jack?" The black head lowered, and the tan heel struck the floor several times be- fore the question came “What was Jose up here for this af- ternoon. and why did he slink away quickly lifting her head and looking into Augusta Victoria's eyes, “is he still here?” ing to the blood-stained hand, “What shall I do for you?" “I am past help,” recklessly. “God is good; he has sent this—if not enough, the stream in the canon wiil be a roaring torrent in May.” She started toward the gate, swiftly following. “Jack, Jack, let me go with you!” “No: but you can go across the range,” pointing southward, “and shoot Lorita—I couldn't do that,” cov- ering her eves with her trembling fia- gers, She mounted: he followed, and they rode slowly toward the trail, he ‘No, he ain't here now; but you know Jose and me are keepin’ com- pany; so why ghouldn’t he be here?” queer, and I am sure I heard him men- tion—mention Captain Charteris’s name.” “Well, yes, he might "av," foot to the other Jack arose, went Victoria, and grasped the shoulder. “You know [I have Jose, and now I know thing wrong. Teli me well, you know what I can do.’ “Oh, dear Miss him! gave Jose! save us all!” over to her firmly never there is tell me, or 1 Jack, save she fore hs Hurriedly, disconnectedly told the trembling little woman be the Charteris had had a rel with Mexicans on the lower Peco story. quar- that in saving his own life he had shot his that the dead man cousin with his assailant; Was a Jose, who broth left to were all to right the wrong That they were and were going to Charteris would oh! ers to meet at Ortega Farringden’s ranch, Was be sh they where settlement dear, started Without a the « lLorita, oh, Jack Her Was 800 word less, for orral broncho y gir they were off over the mesa, t led horse fairly maddened as the end of the quirt flanks with repeated blows giruck tle mistress seemed after mile flew Over as mile by the tral, but where quicksands mon not the TFAagge and prairie dogs’ holes were to the galloping horse's feet goaded to frenzy OD) the shrill voi and raining ranch fr r blows The Farringden lights were in and Jack her heart a triphammer 1 shout treacherous gave a fina but a the horse's « throwing the rang to he COYOie Over determined » continued Oue be There is not a moment to ss and his brothers are with puique x (zOnz me. They are Nerce revenge Never! I'l Mexicans!” “Harcourt a deep Come, come face the wall spairing passion in her voice I love the life God has for the Heaven arms vou, dearest, with all given me, and | sake of your hope and mine in to ! to me Her shielding were againaround him. and fifty kisses Harcourt, of you beg isten were pressed on his lips sweetheart, do my will just this once this once!” And he obeyed Through the rear door of the house they went. With her hand locked in his, they rushed toward the canon Jack guiding the rebellious English- man. At length she stopped. “I can go no further,” and pulling the red her lips “What shall with you court? They wil. kill you!" He took the has at her side red with blood. The galloping horses and Spanish voices reached them as Jack rushed into the clear light “Jose Gonzales, is that you?" “8i, senorita.” The girl advanced to where the three horsemzn had reined and talked Me Har- "Twas excited then low and pleading, finally soft and consenting, She walked back to Charteris. “Come!” she said. How differently the voice from an hour before! She said no more, but started forward. Charteris followed. “Jack,” he called—"'dear little Jack-" you have saved my life and [| am a coward.” “Don’t speak to me,” she replied, bit. terly. “Saddle me a horse. [I'll wait for it inside.” Jack stood, not as she had so short a time before, panting, glowing, reck- jess, the embodiment of love and brav- ery, but instead, a pallid, sombre eyed woman, whose strange quiet was a terror to the man before her. “They have given you your jife” she said, “because I promised them that in the early morning you would go. I told them this; they believed me; you must go." “Yes, 1 will go; but you—you who have risked your precious life—have “Jack,” he whispered tenderly, “why have you given me my life and turned it to bitterness like this?” She rode nearer and laid her hand “Do me, Shoot With her will die your memory of these days, I have read the London Times, and I not dare to follow ® & * - . When Anita Victoria Harry Delancy returned to ranch the weeping Augusta him in the portel, A rude emblem of black swung from the knob and inside the the mistress lay still and silent, at “The old and had ended London Times met door house little trouble” all, announced forever the new one that Hanover married Captain Har court Dene Clifford Charteris and Lady Maud McClure's The on June 20 at St. George's Square, were jarksworth A) i} % Monthly MAGIC WROUGHT BY RAIN, Australian Plains Suddenly Trans. formed. Barren f Au people appear to 3 tps » interior « stra- traversed by riv- Finke, ining hose of the Bu Warburton, all dra than the triking y and laldwin ~ afford may he every- "HE CULTURE OF MUSHROOMS NOT IN SUBURBAN PASTURES BUT CITY CELLARS. How the Spawn is Planted, the Soil that Is Prepared and the Profits of the Undertak- ing-~A Woman's Success in Raising the Edible Fungi. “Don’t those look fine?’ asked a restaurateur of a Washington Star correspondent, directing attention to a basket of toothsome and succulent mush! coms, whose white caps and pink bellies ghone in alternating col- ors in one of the front windows of his ecang house, “You may le disinclined to what 1 am going to say, but those rauitgoms wate grown right cere in Philadelphia. No, not out in some of the suburbs, where they are vacant pastures, and where they are somes times found in their season—Ilate sum- mer and early autumn-—but in the thickly populated districts of the city, where roomy yards are a luxury and a lot big enuogh for pasturage is un- known.” “Mushroom growing is getting to ba a fad in parts of Philadelphia, and those who have experimented in even a small find that it not only an interesting work, though ne- sitating considerable care, but prof- believe gOMme way is Ces f+ al) table well, Those mushrooms you gee in the window are West Philadel- phia products, and they were by the wife of a man who is a well-to- iis man as business down town “She was an invalid for a number of a0 during which time the only di- on she had was the » plants. The first ¥ Years, care ear of her ill- i amily doctor, was compelled to con- orm to a diet that excluded the heav- jer foods. The u t returned from an early morn- hunt the sick friend was convaleseing, a dish of us mushroom in yrepared for her the y from the delicious fungi This struck a responsive chord invalid, and fre ready ma When 1t i ' compeiied appetite of the + found a ‘ket very ushrooms r day he sen Was she canned product principally from atisfaction house « son waned she to de- whica France, pena upon imported not give as most delicious and raf then of at the raising home itself. { France could grow do it? she was OOM suggested people 1 why conid not she he charac istic re ae She set range appeared and bright with flow ala all dec) n ance dry ter perhaps a few days. the rains the waters quickly confined to the river channels, sc bed uring t holes here and there, where a small after the cegee and ome supply will remain for a time parts have dried up As the water disappears everything returns to its arid state, and it is only those animals and plants that have succeeded in reaching a sufficiently far advanced stage that have any chance of surviving The weak- linge among the plants kly killed off.—Pall Mall Gazette ail shallower of growth qui are | county a gent back by the last term of the State Supreme Court for retrial, wanich rivals Dickens’ celebrat- ed case of Jarndyee ve, Jarndyce. When the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was built through this country over forty- 1 five years ago, Chardies Venderwerker | did some of the grading. The settle | ment of the contract led to the grader { suing the Baltimore and Ohio in the courts of what was then Virginia. Since then the case has been four times {in the Supreme Court, having been | sent back last week. Vanderwerker is still living, but he {is not prosecuting the case how, hav- | ing assigned his claim to one Nye. Van- | derwerker is an old man and has been kept poor paying attorney's fees, The first judges who tried the case are long since dead, as are most of the supreme judges who first heard it. The full amount of the claim now, with inter- est, is less than $10,000. —Phijadeiphia | Press, case, Doctor's Ruse. An envious young lady called a phy- sician for a slight ailment, which she magnified into a serious one. “Run” said the doctor toa servant, giving him a prescription, “to tho nearest chemist and bring back the medicine as quickly as you can.” “Is there much danger?” replied the young lady fn alarm. “Yes,” said the doctor, “if your servant is not quick it will be ase- less,” “Oh! doctor, shall I die?” gasp- ed the patient. “There is no danger of that,” said the doctor, "but you may brought on this fearful thing,” point- g6t well before Thomas returns.” and carpenter was the "rench i thot it th a box bed ¢ i # ff +) LAS orion of § t cuse was transformed » mushroom hot-house, her of rolls ing Cellar pen beds mushrooms, ig the months profit ants of her family and ifts to 4 if her 3 Her success has been the means of en- re in it 1 do not mean in it for a business, in are cultivating house plants and requires after the beds are cellar is once placed in little more care, made and the condition I think I fifty cellars in Philadelphia, a few of them most fashionable part of city, mushrooms are raised of season They are all the re- of the experiment of the woman I spoke of. And in early every case the beds are looked after by the ma- tron of the house. It iz a work that refuires some patience, and we men, you know, are possessors of that vir tue only in a small degree The mushroom beds are made of the fermenting manure, built up solid- ly and large enough to paintain a heat of about 70 degrees Fahrenheit A bed being of proper temperature, bita of an imported brick containing the an safely say there are in the the city, where out wit and when the spawn is growing rap- idly or runs, about two inches goil is placed on the bed, and it then covered with straw Water applied, if necessary and should Iv warmed to the temperature of the bed. “The mushrooms appear in six to eight weeks, and are collected in the button state, as those shown in the window, as large as required. Yes, the mushroom growing fad is rapidly gaining in popularity in Philadelphia. in sddition to those I have spoken of, 1 know of several more persons who are going to have mushroom farms-- that is the right name for them-—in their cellars. “Few people seem to know the valine of many of the fungi, and somn of the very best mughrooms in country pastures are generally considered ‘worthless toadstools. 1 know of some progressive farmers in the vicinity of Philadelphia who have been carefully studying mushroom growing, and are coining money through their foresight. “Mushrooms resemble flesh in flavor more nearly than any other vegetable, and they contain all the particles of spurishment that are in beefsteak. A space about ten feet long in some dark place, with shelves covered with earth, is sufficient to produce far more mush- rooms than enough to satisfy the de- mands of the most ardent mushroom lover. Ee When the Czar Travels, For days before the Czar travels along any cailway line the latter is pa- trolled on both sides by sentinels, who are stationed at a distance of two hun. dred yards from one another. They keep their eyes open, but otherwise ars allowed to take it easy, taking what is called the “first position,” the rifie being slung from the shoulder. Bix hours before the passage of the im- perial train they assume what is known as the “second position” — that is to say, they shoulder their ri. fles and march briskly up and down, with every mental faculty on the qui vive, An hour before the imperial train passes they assume the “third posi- tion,” standing with their backs toward the line and the train, and allowing no one under any circumstances to ap- proach within a hundred yards of the track until ten minutes after the Em- peror has passed, Should any one at- tempt to approach they have orders to challenge, and if the individual con- tinues to approach in spite of the chal lenge and warning, they have orderg to shoot to kill Sad to relate, not even the spoldiers that ig to those of the ordinary line regiments, who are employed for the sentinel! duty slong the rafiroad— are entirely trusted by those responsi- ble for the Czar's safety, and what i= known as the “third position” has been devised not only for the purpose of pre- any harboring design approaching of pre- jm- doc- rifie it rumbles SAY, a ne- the venting I farious giranger from venting any one of the sentinels Nihilistic or Bocialistic train as twenty-five-mile imper slowly rate ie at by a of ida speed. —lLondon An Anecdote of Banting. the When tl late Princess Mary of Teck first became stout, says an Eng- sent for the celebrat- She was surprised to see was still extremely bulky, and ivil preparatory remarks said “But ¥ 1 has not you thin, Banting me. madam.” said Banting— proc eeding to unbutton his coat, large over which the garment fitted the janting, inca an- coat “This, madam, id he, sa satisfaction ed Banting. that he a few ¢ she our system made very Mr nd e disclosed a wire structures Inside was real gize before 1 He then nimbly himself of frame - and stood before the royal lady his cage, ‘was my hig nls jed to nothing but good Duchess of to the end interview amusement, f the very Teck of her ia ently the or remained stout days. Honest Sweden. is an event, Theft Honesty is 1 quality of the race, is ial q recognized and official respect 1 a crime very In Sweden yarticularly rare Y v In this t show a confident he Stockholmers care les strangers and is always a surpri to them un- easiness. In and concert hs are large cloakrooms, wh sre without which Be i ess CAURCE some the theatres there and furs are left the gmaliest safeguard. The performance over each one takes possession of his nor does an “accident” inhabitants a reciprocal probity in life 5 ever oc- r are accustomed the of everyday tramways in have been dispensed with. himself in a till placed at the behind the pon Stockholm deposits ten ora of the ve. New York passenger end driver.- To Can Dried Fruit. During the late Hamburg exposition board of trade maintained a school where practical demonstrations given of the proper methods of cooking dried fruit, which are likely to result in much good to the stale, as is evidenced by a letter received yester- day by Secretary Fiicher It is said that the California process of cooking dried fruit has just been patented in Germany, and a company with a capi- tal of $25,000 has been incorporated to conduct the business on a large scale, It is proposed after cooking the dried to can There is a high duty on canned fruit, but the dried article pays but a light duty, so that an agent will be sent to this coast to pur- chase a supply of dried fruit in order that the new cannery may be run to its full capacity all through the year.—S8an Francisco Chronicie Origin of the Peach. The Japanese, who claim to have first discovered or utilized the peach, have a quaint legend as to the fruit. A pious old couple, stricken with years and poverty, subsisted by begging. One day on the highway, the old woman found the beautiful ripe fruit. Although most famished, she did not seifish.y eat the Juscious fruit alone, but took it home to divide with her husband. As the knife cut into it the fruit opened and an infant sprang forth, who told the astonished beggars that he was the god Shin To, and had accidentally fall- en from the orchard of the apanese heaven while at play with some other gods and goddesses. For extricating him from the peach Shin To gave the Japs its seed to plant and told them its product would make them wealthy. This is the crigin of the peach, accord ing to the Japs.—Boston Journal Novel Bill Collecting. A man in Norway, Me, to whom a small debt iz owed bas taken a novel way to collect it. After blowing ths debtor up on the street in the pres- ence of passersby and street loafers, he accosts him whenever he sees him, Irs the debtor notices him he credits him with so many cents for recognition. If he doesn't notice him at all it is one cent credit. After each meeting tha ereditor sends a new bill with tas the state were fruit it. proper credits.—Buffalo