i The Paths of Destiny,
(Go your own way; let me go mine:
For us the differing day-stars shine
Across the shifting water-way
That links to-day with yesterday
And kisses with regretful lips
The sands and the departing ships,
Whose top-masts, sinking in the sea,
Return no more to you and me,
Go your own way: each has his own
For us the differing day-stars shone
Above the hills that hurry down
The valley from the inland town,
Where bovhood's changeful vows were
traced
In drifting sand, thus here effaced,
(io your way; let each man's soul
Maintain its purpose and its goal.
The times are dead that called
friends;
Our lives have different aims and ends.
Careers which satisfy like thine
us
That ache, that break, vet still afar
Pursue fame's fair, elusive star,
Until, beyond the realms of night,
Toil rises, star-like, avatar.
A god incarnate from each line
vige,
Across the hollow-sounding lakes
Whose low, recurrent thunder shakes
The sand whereon our pathways part
Mine to the height, yours to her heart
For us the dif
Go your own way: let me go mine,
—John Bennett, in the Criterion,
A BRIDE BY TELEGRAM.
ny
ering day-stars shine:
Mrs. Whitney.
“Send me
for Friday evening
ley Station.”
That
Miss Betsey
read it over
once.
the
rec
and, u
off the no
paper.
But Mi
1d
down
inient
engag
busin
She w
gram wi
put it
ried In i
thusa and sliss Pameln Blytl
was goin
wu all
"sald
an't be possible.”
who can the bride
Batsey, back
rot's the
day is to be the
“Which Frid:
Miss Arethusa.
“Why. Friday
nounced Miss Pamela.
to-mo COUrse:
been a deal easier an
inate
Bee?”
staring
in
wi
this
rrow, of
ried on
“He's always maki
calls ‘sup
“Well, 1 never!”
“Who the bride,
“If she's i
tar
won't
over
iphed around
‘kage of drs
“Some
married,”
emphasis
“It's Jessie Mordnunnt
cided Pamela
and off with
three vears,
waz foolish
trap!”
“Si
Harold
but I didu’t supe
enough to fall
Km
Mari
“Or perhaps it's
fiddded Miss Betsew
been making up a
with tablier fronts and a train
fat Mise Needlepoint
me 0 herself, And 1 can believe
amount of folly of the Shelt
Wnce th changed that
from Mary Ann to Marian.’
“There's the three Misses MacKenzie
every of ' ; :
Miss Arethusa,
“No,” Miss Pamels
You be quite certain
Jessie ey
think she'd
like that!”
“And I dare say.” vindietively
Miss Arethusa, who was the clide
ter of the three,
to favorable
“they
oret’”
“Walkley Station is only three.quar
ters of an bour from New York.” said
Betsey. “Let's go to the wedding!”
“And.” added Miss Pame
chuckle, “let's notify all om
go!’
For the three Misses Blythe were not
pleased that Harold Smith should pre
fume to take so Important a step as
that of matrimeny without their con
gent and advice. Hadn't they known
him as a curly-headed Ind before he
ever went into college? Hadn't he
played many a practical joke upon
them, In his wild, rollicking way
didn’t they know perfectly well that
SBhelton's,
on
girl's
Ofer
sani
may
's flighty enough for anythin
rather enjoy an
and the loast a
ews of human
an
npratire
v
think it's unfathomable
' p
la. in na
friends to
her around in that majestic fashion!”
eried Arethusa. “But, girls, T'll tell
vou what we will do; we'll go and call
on the Mordaunts.”
Mrs, Mordaunt, a pretty, full-blown
rose style of matron, was doing crew el
work. Jessie, her daughter, who cor-
was painting a vase of purple pan
They did not an
secret. looked } rr inn
+ sub
ject of impending marringes, and
and they stared when
Afiss Arethnsa asked if they hadn't had
“We always do our own sewing,"
Mordaunt., “Jessie can fit a
dress as well as Madam Mondini her-
“But for such a very, very important
occasion as this," smirked Miss Are.
“We never have any important ocea-
laughed Jessie, “Look, Miss
Blythe; do you think my pansy is as
os
And when the three old maids had at
taken their departure,
1 at her mother In amazement,
mingled with mirth
“Mamma,” said she,
old women mean?”
“1 think. dear,” said Mrs,
th i
Joasie
what do those
Mordaunt,
unsettled
in
their min just a little azy, you
And away,
it of
which
ald
* that thers
aut for you, Oh, 1 insist
upon your staying to tea.”
feakettle in the hotse
+
35 Ono.
wT Pn
tt into the not,
fo the mini
cake
stand,
shiit on
maids ran, ole
and
the oyster
and the
and-erumipet store bakery,
which,
for
eliter
oie polite
the olor to
junckily, wae fot vet
And kind Mra
her guests with fract
tha
Smith
night
tained
nesx,
But there waz no wedding and no
Misses Blythe went back to New York,
lous, disappointed old spinsters?
And now that they had come into
possession of one of his choicest, dear.
nature not to be revenged, fully and
entirely.
“Do you suppose she'll go out in the
cars?’ asked Arethusa.
“In full dress! What nonsense,” re.
torted Pamela, “She'll drive, of course,
in a carriage!”
“8he'll get her death of cold.” said
Miss Betsey, with a shiver. “Driving
fifteen miles in ‘full dress!’ ”
And that was, perhaps. the most de
thenceforth, to the eleventh command.
ment.
Prevent and Practice,
“1 hinve been very much palaed,” sald
the man who always has a regretfol
look in his eye, “to observe the Ameri
cin eagerness to make money.”
“1 understand that you have written
a book on the subject.”
“Yes. But I am not going to publish
it~-not until I can see some wethod of
making It pay.’ Washington Star,
A GENUINE BAD MAN.
HOW A LEADVILLE DESPERADO
PLAYED HOSS WITH TWO
TENDERFEET.
Fhurston Lillibridge n
of the Wentern
was
Type Man-Killer-—-
He was 8 Blusterer and a Braggart
But Had Sand, Nevertheless,
“You often hear and read yarns
the general effect that bad wen are al
bad
ace
that there is no such a thing as a
man the blusterers,
cording to these stories, being all cow
ards.” sald Jared McAlbert, a well
known Montana mining man who vis
ited Washington recently.
varus make me
bad man almost
who blusters,
ed BT smile.
regular is
also on his own confession,
deeds, the bra
nounced with
wolves, but who were always ready to
stand for anything they sald, drunk or
sober,
bad
know
whoops that they ate
man's
that he
the crac
as bad, to yelp it out
king of his guns;
roar it out in the middle of the
between
whenever the fancy struck
aver, announced
Wore
that
you bells
on invest
bad men
L
.
i him
men
iO0eY
didn
£1
INS,
fairly well loaded up
aroun to Nat
made more
Lillibridge, quiet
har
hem
when
the fir
LIEIT ST
dressed
but w
Why?
ak
up his trousers,
play froma,’
“Hah? sald the t
quiringiy.
“Hoss, Li
‘We're I want
find out if you can lope in harness as
fast as you can talk.’
“A% he spoke he suddenly al
rope over the two young men's shoul f
i
eh BILE
Hibirldge,
I snial
negoin’ to play hoss,
shouted
to
threw
ders, hanging on to the two loose onds |
himself, holding them in his left hand, |
With lis right he reached for one of |
his guns, and planted a ball about an
inch from each of the young men's
heels,
“iit ap!” be howled, and the two
Camden boys were out of the door in a
second, Lillibridge right Debind them
with the reins in his left band, and
still Kicking up the dusi at their heels
with the gun in his right,
“io a-hompin’! Shake it up! Jost
hit the high places? Lillibridge bawled
after them between the cracks of his
gun, until they fairly dragged him
along, swift runner as he himgelf was,
go fast was the pace the per
suaded them to take up. Up and down
Malin street he drove them, the town
taking it in with howls of joy.
“iWhon, there!’ yelled Lillibridge,
when he had brought his team “wack to
their starting place, Lillibride> un-
wound the rope from them, and then
ed for the return of his wind.
“You Shetlands are not bad on
talk, And want
when and
run like you ean
to learn how and
unship your guns from your purty new
en
you
you
where to
to pack
around with you. Why didn't
me up some?
“The young fellows looked
but nothing. LAllibt
them under his protection
night, and in time they learned how to
gheepish,
took
that
idee
said B
from
good,
Thurston Lillibridge was
the only man who ever had the drop
on that quick trigger man, Bat Mas
He crept up be-
hind Masterson one day, and with a
quick movement grabbed both of the
Marshal's guns out of his belt, Mas
terson wheeled around and found him-
by Lillibridge with
He stood stock still, ex
two balls in hl
ad several
Lillibridge
handed
“This same
covered his
head,
with
the
Mas-
4
1
I growls
lowered
for had
Lillibridge,
guns and
he
them back to
terson,
“
U's up
a-gunnin’ for un
HOW FU
NSTON
So Truth
Shaw
in
Him
the Pletnres Whigh
Waving a Sword,
flow Jewelers Identify Gems,
is
it
si
number,
ler as it
of
iE Sv
his registry books, Ww
ption of the setting and each
Examine your rings with
and the numbers will be
Whenever an article of
a ;
iher, with its repair re
i on tl 5
ae
jowelry is
paired this nun
enterey
hook wherever is felt
of all ariicles of jewelry, but is partic
larly in the repair
watches, Every tin 8 watch
cleaned its new number ls seratehied
somewhere on the inside of
One can never deceive a jeweller as to
the length of time since the wateh was
Iast cleaned, as Lie has it registered in
his books,
If you cannot make out a jewelry de.
soriptive list yourself, your jeweller
will fill out the registry for youn. Your |
chances of recovery in ense of robbery
are greatly Increased,
i
is
ld
noticeable of
1 is
the ease.
How to Give Children Castor O11
Children who refuse to take castor |
ofl make no fuse if it is given in this
way: Take one cup of milk, ane of |
treacle, half a coup of sugar. half a cup |
of castor oll, a teaspoonful of carbon.
ate of soda, two of ginger, a little and
enough flour to make a stiff paste,
oll out, cut into shapes and bake in a |
quick oven. One or two are as good |
#8 a dose of oll~Woman's Life,
CALIFORNIA RAISIN-MAKING.
gional Sights in the Niate,
The gang woves in a bunch, clipping
off translucent
tels, arr
shrink
the sun
we
the clusters of museca
anging them upon the t
ata shrivel under 3
into the concentrated delicac
Behind them the
bi
the
know
honestly
Oiaid by t
i ’
in, one on either s
tray over the full one
ously reversing it, then, carrying
upper ith
Process
one WwW
row, It is at this
that the
on down the
stage in curing is
most delectable,
The
Ay
grape
amber changing through
gh rua
i wun
anges io
balls
#1 the
and
of
nethyst
wil are drops honey
mel
distilled], so sweet they make
for the
» gunl
wit
iS
acres but en
pa
forty
and go on eating oe
ast
your
away, you L,
while 1
ate is cloying » Weetness
ther
WW
Him,
Cured
Civilisation and the Brick.
oer of burnt of
Chaldean In
Heuzey, of
Acaden
ted greatest |
rudely
shin
v1}d
mania
thout a
arched, eacl
Of
maker's
found
ry lowest
wt
h and Nippnr
ent Bonsai
these came th
iy of Sirpuria,
of that «
Zany a
And 80 wy
lion's head.
stamped and
like Eannndun.
wionia some four tho
ity.
are our to the d
1
iE Ana
era
glazed ones
ent
A Sleep-Wnlking Reernit's Dangers
ous Freak.
When sombpambnlisis take to the use
of firearms, people with thelr wits
about them must needs be wide awake.
About 11 o'clock on Tuesday night a
recruit belonging to the Becond Bate
tation, King's Suropshire Light In
fantry. stationed at Victoria Barracks. |
Portanouth, England, got out of bed |
and fired off 1 round of balleartridge |
16 a crowded barrack-rooth, which was |
in darkpess. When the lights were
turned up the recruit was standing
with the smoking rifle In his hand and |
arrested he stoutly maintained that he
was asleep when he fired the rifle, aod
For.
rifle was directed up-
wands, and only the ceiling was dam-
aged, The recriit will be tried for be.
tng in the unlawful possession of ball
dhrividge. Ten roumis of ammunition
were found lying near another block of
puildings. They had evidently been
thirown awny by men who feared in-
in consequence of this af-
is thought that the ammuni-
brought back from
the men who had been exer
vestigation
fair, 1t
tion was
down by
wrown-
cising In musketry there
Mad
Half way between
third castle
King's Hoom,
Munich and
Hy Frenne
Ludwig .
Heol
been, ne alone
bedehn could not
luplicated for less than $1,000,000
is one ut
rounded
of
the
id «
ory
ROQ
ered with a score
mural paintings,
{ of hammered
| and even the floor is
tern
gestion of the Fri
The only sug 3
SAMY IMM Frind,
is wonderful room is the
magnilics
I throne
had
table, which
floor wi
t than
Int
erected
dropped
wis
# CANOPY Mors
pat
n
COVErs a rega
gorgeous room
disappearing
igh the COUTTS
3
Fiy.
pe
fussing “Measinh.™
Forty Horseshoes in an Hour,
by X
neg
have fairb
in
Pleciricity Gilnssmn king.
Ar. Bod Hale, a farmer of the B
pelghi hood, put a In
had died with a litter of hound
It at
appeared to enk
mh wi
i Olive 1
and 3
them very mach ag companions. They
have enough now to begin to
ran after rabbits, and the Inmb stays
the dogs oe
grown
fonees with almost as much ehise as the
young hounds, It rans the other shoep
and they are ax afraid of it ax they are
of the dogs. Harrodsburg (Kyo Dew
Spain's Queer River,
Extraordinary qualities are possessed
by the River Tinto, in Spain. It bard.
and if a stone falls into the stream
and alights upon’ another In a few
months they unite and become one
stone, Fish cannot live (nn lis waters,
EL RA AML SLs
Parrot Lived a Century.
One of the longest lived birds o;
reson died recently in London. ft
was a parrot named Ducky, the poop-
erty of the Prince of Wales, afid was
sald to be a century and a quarter