FORGIVENESS,
It I should die tonight,
And you should come to my cold bler
and weep
While I lay there asleep,
purple white,
Like some silent marble
pressive of great might;
statue
My heart would yearn for you
With such unutterable tenderness
If I should die tonight,
With longing for an
CAress,
And you won!'d bend o'er me in tears,
my far-off soul to bless!
DR. T. W. WILDES.
an InerMinating Pin.
olden-time
“Aubrey, it's getting late; put away
your book, dear, and talk.”
My wife came the
where I sat, and laid ner hand
ly on my shoulder. Then she glanc
at the
and said, with a laugh:
“Oh, those awful
Whatever ‘curare’
brey?"
“It isn't Latin, darling; it’s an adap-
tation of the native of a deadly
poison used by th Ameri
Indians to smear on ir arrows
Curare, though, is an
as a poison, 1
fs used i
the surgery
X added
you wi
thing
dare sa:
“Yes,"
my side.
is going
Ravensdale.”
“H'm; tl 1
ing man we met
at Barmouth
“Yes.
smitten wi
now it
ing ever since,
I've heard y
particularly communi
“What Mr.
sion?
“lI am
owns
how, just
on his presen
dale saw
gion to bec
Arthur
satisfactory
iy.”
“Ah!
brother
room to
ing-
vd
ACTrOSss
los
volume bef
ponderous
names!
Au-
Latin
does mean,
name
he South
an
the
antidote as well
quantities
some
seems
i8
not quite
nd in
i
lan l
Arth
some i
¢
1
we
»
NDAave
Mr
FS (EH)
not im
Walesa
perhaps,
boli
who lived
thur, a small
our own, Arthur Ver
engineer on a
the Canadian
present away fi
Ella feit
for the arrangements
wedding. She
matter with an
endeavored, not altogether wgth
cess, impart me I p
receive Ravensdale
in London. 1
better than
doubts unexpressed,
Then came a surprise: Ravensdale
suddenly informed Lena that he had
sister of whose existence he had no
hitherto spoken, and suggested that it
would be a good plan for her to
up her abode with his financee until ti
wedding. Lena could
nothing, and, to my wife's evident an-
noyance, Mildred Ravensdale arrived
next day. A week passed without any-
thing particular happening, then, as we
sat at dinner one evening, Ella start
tne by saying, hotly.
“lI hate Mildred Ravensdale,
could almost kill Lena. |
near either of them till Arthur eomes
home, They don’t want me and their
wishes shail be respected.”
“Have you been offended so deeply
as all that, dear?” 1 asked, after
brief pause,
“Yes,” she replied; “my advice
ignored by Lena and scorned by Miss
Ravensdale.”
“When is your brother Arthur ex.
pected 7”
“Not till a day or two
wedding.”
“Oh! Have you heard anything mors
precise about Ravensdale's property
yet?”
“Not a word
“Nor where he proposes to live?”
“se talks about leaving that ques-
tion till after they return from their
honeymoon, which it seems to be a
long one.”
1 said no more then. I {ait inatinet-
ively that Eda had n+ told me all
that she knew or suspected, : ough
she hed revealed enough wo rencer me
profoundly dissatisfied with the poai-
8 =
herself
threw
enthusiasm
to to
when bh
114 A 5 4
liked him,
before, thoug
tale
axe
refuse
16d
eq
and 1
won't go
a
3
before the
a child; she was 27, ana her proud
and headstrong temperamen. would, |
was aware, lead her to resent any in-
tervention on my part.
The wedding day was fixed to take
place on a Thursday, and, on the mora-
ing of the previous Tuesday, Ella ask-
ed me to inspect the present which,
despite thelr disagreement, had
| purchased for her gister, This con-
| slated of a very handsome
| leather lady's toilet
she
cage,
| combs and requisites, all in ivory.
to arrive till
would
Lena be
personally
the
| ship was not expected
{ next day, but that
| from her resolve not to visit
his return, so far as
{to take her the present in
| of the afternoon,
sne
fore
surprised
interview
that | was hardly
| she told me that her
| he» sister had been far from pleasant,
“II never gave her the present, after
i all,” she explained; “I put it down on
| the hallstand, and forgot about it, We
{ both angry, and 1-1 sald things
about Mr. Ravensdale and
Lena declared she'd never
Perhaps I was wrong, but I have every
to distruss them, and so has
but he won't see it. Oh, she
4a”
arrangements
| 80
got
his sister
forgive
is
mad, m
“Are all made for tl}
weddl a”
They don't want
fixed for
they're
8 o'cloc
going to
station
and
the railway
mustn*t intrude
viniy
range
word
ougat
woman
r aho
me
ia
me back
ashe
now today, when
she
there
moment came a
¢
followed
tell
+
n
as pac g exci
unting room
Cranleigh,
use my abruptness, but you
me at Your
Lena is
ry
wn
come
ust
e wiie's
sudden
with
Miss
onc pister,
Vernon,
ABCIOUS
if un
10 4 moment to
stop to tell your wife now,
would only alarm her
summoned
Are you,” |
oie
can
tp n if 1
ef Ou, ik ue
essary.”
gasped, * Mids Ravens
ome, come!
hat, and
id,
onal
briefly, “you can give
particuls id
replied. “1 had
0 the House,
m, where |
as | have said
She scemed to have been
intness walle dreasing;
events her hair was dishevelied
to bring her round, but my ef-
quite furtile. 80 I cailad the
gervant to remain with her, and came
off for you.”
I asked one or two further questions,
but she added nothing of importance,
and a few minutes more drought us to
the house,
The girl who opened the door said
{ there was no change in the condition
‘of her_mistress, and we made our way
immed ly to the bed room.
rs
she
irning t
pod ve
unconse
hf
wiih Ia
al
I tried
at
forts were
iatel
lena, her luxuriant hair awry and
window, so still that at first I feared
she was dead. But even as 1 crossed
the room her whoie frame shook in a
sudden, convulsive movement, which,
however, only lasted a moment. [ bent
down to examine her more closely,
pushing back some of the
i tresses which strayed over ner white
{ forehead. My hand coming in con-
| tact with something moist, caused me
| to withdraw it quickly. Then I start-
ted violently. My fingers were smeared
| with blood!
Lena's brow, long,
trembled involuntarily.
were those of «
above
scratch, 1
Lena's symptoms
rare poisoning
a
1-
torn from
my note book, gi it the
servant who answered summons
told her to take it immediately to my
surgery, hand It my and
| walt a reply.
do, 1
Ravensdale, who sat silent and compos.
ed on the chair near the couch,
“This falutness,” 1 ventured, at
“seems serious, alarming
“Indeed? 1
be? Fallure of
“No,” 1 rejoined,
her; “I should rather
of poisoning.”
met my
tare,
on a sheet
of
and,
words paper,
VIDE to
my
to assistant,
say or turned toward
last,
even.”
am so sorry. What can
the heart?”
looking fixedly
it
it
at
say is a case
with
gave
She eyes a
but no
“Did you ever hear of a poison called
teurare?’ 1 went on.
“Never,” she answers
I reflected a moment
her what Ella had
challenge her to de
credulous 8
d,
calmly
Should |
me,
No, not
1e
revealed
ny it?
to
hafing
Eo,
No
them
the room.
stopped; on |t
the will
tomorrow
was signed
», too late!”
front
rath-
16 WAS Wrong
She was too |}
erday
here
In & dream, a ni
sr, 1 ran 4 d., admitting
the servant-maid, took fre the
syringe furnished with an injection of
which I had
from my assistant.
I returned to the bedroom,
avoiding Miss Ravensdale's inquiring
look, made an incision in the patient's
arm. A | while, and 1 noticed a
slight, natural movement of hers mus-
cles
“Thank Heaven!
strychnine has proved
hoped. Lena will live now.”
“She—will-live? Mlidred
dale ran from the roo,
was a loud ring at the
¢chtmare
door 2
« an
m her
{
demanded
girychnine
ttle
I exclaimed. “The
Ravens-
not till long afterward I round out he
to bring them to justice,
tion to enable me
ty definite notion of the Ingenuity of
the scheme which my superior know-
ledge of toxicology had fortunately en-
abisd me to frustrate,
to draw through her own hair the
hour earlier, was explained by the fact
| that she wore a wig. —Tit-Bits,
(Greatest Monument to Man's Hasdiwork.
| “The greatest structure ever raised
| by the hand of man,” writes William
| George Jordan of “The Greatest
| Things in the World,” in the Ladies’
Home Journal, “is the Great Pyramid
| of Cheops, founded 4000 years ago, and
| measuring 740 feet square on the base
{and 440 feet high. It took twenty
| years in construction; 100,000 men
i working for three months and being
| then relieved, were succeeded by an
equally large corps. The massive
stones were brought from Arabid, 700
miles away. The cost of the work is
estimated at $145,000,000."
A NEW RIFLE BULLET.
Recommendation is in its lo:
creased Property of Malming an Eaemy.
An inventor comes forward with an
bullet that, it is claimed,
a combatant in thé same
monner as would the explos
fve bullet that has been barred by the
law of nations, and yet be within the
rules prescribed for the use of projec-
tiles in modern warfare, Edwin 8
Field, of Springfield, Mass, describes
his new bullet as follows:
“My projectiles resembles the metal.
covered bullet of small caliber, and
bullet
by the United States Gov-
ernment to be used in the army rifles,
instead of the heavier .045 bullet, for-
merly used in the Springfield musket
the
ammunition,
the
goes further
or firing
aim than the old
The metal cover
in the rifling of
ro-
keep
the
ad
dier to carry more
greater ‘velocity increases
range and the bullet
the ordinary sighting
the shoulder without
heavier
takes the quick twist
the and
tary motion hold it
it going in a straight line
object almed at
bullet will not
and 1} the
the gun and marring its accuracy
bullet did
barrel gives the necessary
and
toward
to up
The naked or les
take the quick twist
of fouling
The
ronal er
gieniel
disadvantage
metal the bullet
LWO Or
the disadvantag:
$s uF
graphing Wit
Privy Counsellor Dr
lottenburg, Germany, cont
article ,
Dr.
«Xperime
th
Lhe
Century an
egraphy.”
of
without
German
nding
cin
813
ferias
use of
Emperor.
his article
I have often been asked
and what field the
spark telegraphy might be employed
Our knowledge of the phenomen
question is so far a very mécest t
the very opi
rections
sty in
On ia
hing,
ning chap-
0 paint pic
1 beileve 1 can
state with emphasis for certain
g the new telegraphy is ripe to-
va n
we are really Ir
I do not purpose
tures of the future, hy
it
that
day.and well worthy of consideration
The most | tant appear to me to
Besieged fort.
advancing armies which
between them, could
m por
resses, and
have the enemy
communication. The
ag surely on a
night and in fog,
in case were
since the
method of
system works just
bright day as by
balloons can be employed,
and high trees were used would hard-
ly suffice in ogses of this kind.
Quite as important is the usefulness
of the discovery for the navy. Ex-
perfectly certain the possibility of
using captive balloons on the high sea.
In place of balloons, without doubt,
one might use the modern Kites,
brought to such a pitch of perfection
others. 1 owe it to the Kindness af
an aquaintance in New York that |
know something "of these excelient
ly adapted to the carrying of thin
wires.
telegraphy for lighthouses and light-
ghips. The receiving apparatus can
easily be made in a handy form, not
bulkier than a chronometer. On the
approach to a lighthouse it would not
only give signa but would tick out the
name of the lighthouse; it appears even
posnible to provide the receiving ap-
paratus with a regulator, to be adjusted
at will according to whether a greater
or smaller sensitiveness is desired,
whereby the distance of the lighthouse
ofh be read off.
An undeniable weakness of spark
telegraphy is this: every telegram is
imparted to the whole world; every
l receiver can take it up. Owing to this
reason for the present, its application
will have to be confined to particular
canes For practical purposes, if one
desires to protect one’s self from hav
ing despatches read by others, there
remains only the use of signs arranged
beforehand. In war, be sure,
would 1 impos: ible
hostile generator
permanent disturbance
very interesting
the waves of
tele
as
to
graphy ecome
00n ax Aa spark
should «
of the characters A
battle might occur in
ether.
WHERE DO THE DAYS BEGIN ?
ause a
Somewhere in the Pacific
Ocean.
Apparcatly
Where do the days begin? They
must begin somewhere, and by a clev-
er line of argument a writer in an
English weekly figures out that tho
place where the days begin lies some-
where the Pacific A
does not define the place
Ocean
out
straight line
it runs,
in a zigzag
according to this theorist
among of the islands
that broad expanse of
BOme
red over an
y the followl
determined b
Seeing that
tire pte arlier i ad
Lilns § i r an
as one moves
f To#
having
civili
from
zed
arrive on Monday
living 80 near the
few mi ¥
an find yesterday.
ple
EOIing
0G
3
a ies thes
Blossoms That Gleam at Night
gl hh is given out in the dark by
var g kinds of fungi, 1 tha
ommon everyday blossoms frequently
gleam in the night time is not go well
known. The ordinary nasturitium is
a simple illustrationof the peculiar
irregularity. The marsh Illy,
Rrows fbundantly in the marshes
light after the rain. The light inc
in intensity during July and
and appears half an hour after
South Africa,
culiarities,
yw whi
1tthe
mit the fact
whi
Ql
presents the
Swedish naturali
A
property of luminosity belonging to
some plants that we employed a night
watchman to roam his garden to re-
port to him any and all cases of glow-
ing blossoms. The scientist, after a
good deal of study, announced that the
plants shine with espgeial briiliancy
after a sunny day, while there is no
vanishing at dawn, Haggren went so
far as to subject the nasturtium to a
microecopic examination to discover
| .. any animal life were responsible for
the phenomenon, but no foreign sub-
stance was found on the plants he ex.
amined. Later scientists have discov-
ered that the glow extends to the nas.
turtium's leaves, as well as to its pet-
ale, The common marigold has been
geen to glow brilliantly, the light seem.
ing to play over the petale with quick
changes. The fraxineila, of which there
i are three varieties in our gardens the
white, the red, and the purple, seem
| excell all other plants in the quality
luminosity. This plant secretes in a.
bundance an essential oil which in
times of great heat spreads in a thin
layer over the surface of the petals,
where it volatilizes, impregnating the
surrounding atmosphere with its va.
por. This vapor possesses the proper.
ty of becoming luminous inuarkness, -
New York Times,
of
Fish can be quickly scaled by a new
instrument comprising a blade sgeured
Lto a handle with a removable casing
to slide over the blade and guard its
edge to prevent it cutting the Sesh as
it slips under the scales,
History spends balf its time ig re-
peating itself and the other half in get.
ung itself revised,
EI
Waews, Ga
“Having obtained a box of Terrexing of
Hanter & Wright, of Loutaville, Ga , which | used
of a case of Iching plies of five years stand
ing. | spent 8% for different kinds of rems
dies and the skill of doctors, all for no good,
until I got the TErrexing. | am now well. A
cept thanks Yours WwW. R Kixg
y wall for 5c. to stamps by J. T. Bhuptrise,
Bavanuab, Ga,
More than one of God's thoughts are writ
ten in every good life,
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lersigned, have kn
& Co., P ops
years And
How Are You
This Spring ?
sd, nervous’?
5°t get rested?
ured with bolls, hur
is not strange.
mulating
and it has bscome
the experience of mo
inke Hood's
heir Dood Lo sprig
daughter was run down
and 1
her Hood's Barsapariliia, whic!
1
blood and
have 1
fied har built her ug
Ts we
I bgve
and s!
»
now getting well and stron
Hood's SBarsaparilia
g taken
myseil with
te
resy il
aliment
&nd Waehev
or
we resort t
keeps me in good
and makes me
has been taking B
pever found any be Jikea
Jexxis Prauvzonsr, 4M
woud 's Pile, and
well
Warren
na
tpg
Recernwn ber
Sarsa-
parilia
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is
LA
Amerios's
(ireatest
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| Hood's Pills 27,
Vedic
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Hoods
{ I Kissed the Cook.
11 kissed t
{ Cheeks peschy, dark br
i as wine:
he cook—ab me, she was
Wi eyes,
g spron with a bow,
p as white a8 snow
lot
npting; so, | kissed t
wok,
this angel
iid not take her by st
was mean, | will allow,
if iW xe the. vow
i
Her hands
She
{ My Sunday suit, and
dare pot spoil, ve
u kr
know,
#0 | kissed the cook.
the cook, 1
strong,
k immed might have been
more
But then I goess it wasn't very wrong
out then EB BE 3 ng
For,
The cook's my wife, is she,
Ra I'd a right. you see, 10 kiss the cock.
~What to Eat
TO MRS. PINKHAM
just ‘tween you and me,
chogue, New York.
Mrs. Bron, in the following letter,
telis a familiar story of weakness and
i puffering, and thanks Mrs. Pi
{ for complete relief:
“Dear Mus. Pixxaas:—I think it is
my duty to write
to youandtell yon
what Lydia
E. Pinkham's
Vegetable
Compound
has done for
me. 1 feel like
another woman.
1 had such dread-
ful headaches
through my
temples and
on top of my
head, that I
nearly went
crazy; wasalso *
troubled with
chills, wasvery
weak; my left
side from my
shoulders to
my waist pain-
ed me terribly, 1 could not sleep for
the pain. Plasters would help for a
while, but as soon as taken off, the pain
wonld be just as bad as ever. Doctors
prescribed medicine, but it gave me no
relief.
“Now 1 feel so well and strong,
have no more headaches, and no
pain in side, and it is all owing to
your Compound. 1 eannot praise it
enough. It is a wonderful medicine.
E
ta
kham
Sa