The Living Dead. What shall we do with our dead? The dead who have not died Who meet us still in the very paths Where they once walked by our side, Not those that we love and mourn, At rest on a distant shore, But the lost yet living women men Whom we loved and love no more, There are shroud and flower and stone To hide the dead from olir sight, But these are ghosts that will not be laid They come "twixt us and the light; And the heaven loses its blue, And the rose has worius at the core, Because of the living women and men Whom we loved and love no more, -Edith Bigelow, in the Critic. Rain! Will it never Clover Beaver with an “Rain! raining!” stop HITE of the window upon the drenched tlelds and muddy roads. “No tennis this afternoon. and I had #0 set my heart upon playing with the new guest, Will the sun never come out again?’ A loud rapping upon the door was the only answer, “Come!” called Clover, petulantly, too, The door was thrown open and a girl, radiant in her youth and sweet beauty, rushed up to Clover, and, kiss ing her, said as she twined her arms about her waist: “I knew you would be consumed by the blues, dear, thinking how the rain had spoiled our projected pleasure, but I bring goood news.” “Good news?" said Clover, brighten ing at once, “what is it, Alice?’ “Just the nicest thing in the world! At the hotel we were quite as disap pointed as you, and while we sat about grumbling someone suggested that we have an impromptu fancy ball to-night.” “Splendid!” cried Clover. “Yes: we all jumped at the as the girls began to dresses | ran over to tell “You all smiles. the hotel and rather dress and their iden, arrange you n dear girl” exclaimed In five minutes she with Alice 4 gray morning gown costume, It was at burban resort. A ls center of iife and ber of beautifu these lived Clover Beaver idol, while Alice Hilton, er, mother and brother, staying at the hotel dies bad just « out of th and they vers and Clover dark The est of los WHS a young man had pected for several days. Clover get her upon and she was very therefore, to find went to the hotel friend and her Carlton Just close Harold into group of gushing with the news of the robbery of in the express office at a station eral miles away. He bad just heard the tale from the watchman office, who had been surprised by two robbers and bound while they their work. [Ie described them Harold as being most dashing and said they wore black cloaks, and with clanking spurs which a most brigandish appearance leader was particularly hand forma and feature, he sald, and fA very gay humor. As he went his work he quoted poetry, and philosophy, but lost two soon clatter horses, This story ntiractwd and talk about fhe interval until the assemble in the large room in the ov “Falka” there ablaze with diamonds whi wore rather in a joke to dim the imita tion splendor of the uapopular The brilliant flashes from the stones in ber Lair, in her ears were seen in al revels. Bhe had ‘cavaliers in plenty, but the most attentive was a tall Me phistopheles, Frank Carlton, Dance followed dance enade after promenade was in busily into a a fash ee about it changing “Falka" mable su hotel was the Were 4 num in one of her parents’ fath was CoOtiages, with her Harold, ath Olle were pretty, new gu whom ( erspoke who been ex- had him, surprised, after was an old Frank heart capitis much not ating long she that he ardent admirer day wi Hilton busy as the 1% drawing rusinesd SOWers to a the over a safe “ev of did large <louch hats, masks uigh gZase boots them £3 EEn in abont no tine, awny deen robbery fille i gay party began interest, io hotel's ening. hh she girl and had prom. passed together, fernal regions bowed over fair Falka's shoulder and whispered while the mod. est garbed convent girl seemed intense. ly happy and not at all dismayed at the presence of the enemy of man- kind, The ball was a grand success, By. eryone sald so. Music was crashing, lights flashing and the time when masks must be removed drawing near, For the first time Mephistopheles sep arated from Falka. After a lanclers he bowed over her hand and went Into the garden. He did not stay away long, however, but entering by another door made his way again to Falka's side. His sudden return attracted at tention and a great many eyes followed him as he crossed theroom. Many marked a difference in his bearing, he | walked with a wabbling gait and his’ whole air was a devil-may.care char: meter. Then, too, he seemed taller and | selves for having such ideas, it was | so nbsurd. i “Miss Beaver,” he sald, bending over | Clover, “please come with me for a stroll in the garden? The storm has been over several hours and the moon {and stars are shining beautifully: you promised me the next waltz, you i know." “How bad of you to come back)” whispered Clover in reply. *1 sent you away to stay at least three dances; and then to say that I promised yon the next waltz! I think you have had {quite enough. Did you carry my mes | suge to Miss Hilton, Queen Elizabeth?” “How can you ask? Your requests are commands me." “What was her answer?’ “Come into the garden and 1 will tell you, Please come, there ig some- i thing else that I very much wish to tell you and this 8 hardly the place to do it; come under the shining stars ‘and the glorious moon, even If for | ever so short a time.” He bent close to her, his voice tender and low as he urged: “To please me, (C8) was this once, come: it is “1 ought not do anything for dizobeyedd me in coming back, but as you are so persistent | will go with you--but for a very short time, remember “1 could not stay Pray forgive men. Ing so kind.” “What in the world makes your voice 0 strange?’ asked Clover, as they moved from the room, “It sounds very you away from you. I thank you for be- reck- yon ane He laughed. less laugh, mean,” volo" Throwing a lght shawl about her shoulders Falka passed into the garden with Mephistopheles. The Batanic tieman grew poetic ander the stars and quoted tender passages while Clover It was a careless, “1 do not know whnt he said, “1 never had but gon. “Now tell: answer?’ “You you what was Miss Hilton's she said, after a time, shall have it after | have told something sald her com- panion that rustic bower yonder " ola “ome to : it Is not far The spot designated was almost out of hearing distance from the hotel and the middle of a thicket trees. A road passed on one side a wood beyond it lon had manger and that she mads« hut last request bower and the SOMSOns, “Now, in of shade with compan wl her with his tender brill humor, little objection to his They were in the Mephistopheles peered road as though looking for while Clover asked will you not tell me word my friend sent? He turned qui toward her and his eyes gleaming behind his mask ran over her figure, from her jeweled head to her tiny gd feet: then he said ile} careless way I must really you to pardon me what 1 & i £ todo Itis tefo 0 1 ind 1 dislike en not Clover's entrand ant his “0 KOON down what kly » Hppere in a iherate yot ask very tn or ots gh you, do cried Claver “Take it te go when with ile He thre around ber ne and her =i Ww wk aver month, pressing her to his side With his he deftly unclasped her diamond jewelry in a twinkling. The action was amd unexpexted. that winx dazed finished and swootesl A few turned with ther irresistible strength #0 auiek {lox L 5d but partly recovering as he she gave onhe piercing shriek minutes ter she to » slowly re amd found a from the hotel with lanterns Frank Carlton, his mask thrown from hia face, CONKCIOURRPER abont her wax on his knees beside her, with endearing words that «he speak to him “It was not you?’ she no, it was pot you.” “What yon citeddly “The other Mephistopheles the rubies answered asked of him: do mean?” they asked my dia- he went that way.” shies weakly pointing down Then they int a would fowls notiowd woman had have at Were and for the first heen time there once-—her costly They then under nto the road, only hoofs that wlio sen Rone spr stood ang away and a reckless laugh The party returned slowly back to hotel, and there, Clover recover ing from her agitation was able to tell the at the truth. The daring rob- introduced himself the night heen at work again, Attracted by the of the dismonds Clover wore which he had seen from a retired point of observation-and noticing the intl macy between her and Mephistopheles, he had attired himself in a similar cos. tume, and, awaiting an opportunity, presented himself the first time Frank Carlton left her side. This accomplice, with horses, awaited him In the road near the summerhouse, and thus he quickly made off when he had finished his work. The scheme was bold and reckloss to a fascinating degree, and the hotel guests could talk of nothing else for many days. The girls all sald they envied Clover for her adventure, but none was heard to remark that she would like to have puftered the loss of her Jewels, —_ hi A Gentle Mint, He-lda, are you interested in ath lotic sports? She (who has walted) Yes; I am very much Interested in the ring just ow,~Chieage News. A JACKASS WHO PROSPECTED, Richest Lead Mines, “Mining is the most fascinating bus. the sun,” said Joseph I. of Spokane, Wash, “Once the the ac puts an end his as a prospector, The stories of some of the findx and (be fortunes made thereby are really won For instance, take that of Blalre and ‘Datel’ Jake, who variety house In Spo Together they grub Kellogg and ‘Phil’ O'Rourke to a miner's outfit, and a man named Peck staked them The tales differ as to how the discovery was actually made. The fnckass, in any event, got lost, and one story Is to the effect that when he was pawing the few strike, or, in some COaRes, oF un labors ‘Harry’ ire running = today. stuked N. Ss. fo nn found mn ad haut NOTONs earth and had The that cule overed the mines, ol hen wore probable Is for the inckass they outcrop of these that are the greatest lead mines in the world: or , lead mine, since they have been consolidated. Kellogg, how. allowed thet ime for the filing of the record of the location to elapse and then he and O'Rourke anew, calling the other the O'Sullivan mine. They tried to freeze out Peck, who had grub. staked them to the jackass, Riory i ing the mines rather Byer, claiming that be was en titled to an interest in the mines, Peck won his suit, the Court in his favor is fa hout the West, It reads follows: ‘Inasmuch as Phil” O'Rourke and N. down by something jackass, ax " ae DIFFERENT FROM OTHER STATES, Texas Has Paid Alleglance to the Flags Six Nations. Beareely another State in the Union hag as remarkable and interesting » history as Texas, In one respect at least it occupies a unique position ip the history of American States, Since its discovery six different governments have at different times clidmed its al legianee, and as many different flags have waved over it, those of France Spain, Mexico, independent Texas, the United States and the Confederate States, The foundations of Texas statehood nos al thirteen States. Its first settlement back more than 200 years, and American colonists went there terms and conditions dates its first and institutions they total There never there never conld be, any sympathy between first American colonists and the Mexican Government under the old re gime., Separated by vast wilderneases from the people of the Unltd States, and unaided save by the individual ef forty of sywpathizing brethren, independence, and for repubs were Wis, these established it with the sword, nine years maintained & stable Texans was neither purchased nor conquered for the Uni Annexation to the United States was accomplished i and O'Sullivan mines, we find that the The le Peck for belonging to the jack fendants compromised with ENO 000 and later sold the $700,000, and today they millions, “To hi= honor It LANE, are is held in moemors grazing on the finest mesdow lamdes of Oregon, at a mwouthiy £29 to Kellogg.” expense of The Bible Among the Aborigines. The Zulu Bible, published by the American Bible Society, is a factor in South Afric affairs and more influ ential than more conspicuons in international politics. Whatever hap Transvaal, it will not cease its work. On the w= of Africa Bible transiation has proceeding for half a the Benga thint an many pens in the to do const silent ert ent Bide, in but te dwelling on wenn nury. and the sheets of i only to tribw ribs have been Missing % of the soci in Now finished tinb ty wotit on thelr wot and Corieco mis % 0 #1 jus the Bi lately a knowledgmoent § onsignment of full -Liooaded € hax ia Xenecn BINDONE Choctaw vho number 12.006) Mohawk Hiithwn aw and Cherokee, and and what a polyglot under ach all these! Yet they nother, t kota, Arrawack ind Mu mking it i= to rr hed in Rometimes there their interest in the book them. A Cree in the Northwest Years one way or wre read come back marvel lous tales of that is brought and his son, in the winter traveling on snow-covered plains, called “the of heaven” fishing time, BOM snow shoes across book in their hunting ground 140 miles distant from the fishery, that the hind left behind, One of went on his track, Si) through regain his treasure Leslie's Weekly. book been them the wild forest Dr. John Fox, miles The Phantom villages were wild with of the Pature The Every Lerner cottage wns closed, and the , fearful of the least sound that disturbed the awe-stricken gilence, Then there was the sound of hissing suit of some hunted rabbit. The wibi- which grew louder and louder, was followed by the whirr of wheels, and the faint perfume of petroleum crept into the village streets, The noise increased In volume, And now were heard loud exclamations of anger and despair, “Take eare of pump!” eried one. “Take care of the stocks!” yelled ane other, “Keep to the right!” “Keep to the left! Babel seemed to have broken loose for a moment, and then the whirling of the wheesls and the hissing of ser. wits decreased and died nway. urrant I The shout came from every throat, Shutters disappeared in a twinkling, doors were opened in a trice, and the laborers resumed thelr toll. The bells of the church were chiming now Iu token of universal joy. For «the automobile had passed through the village, and had gone far, far away Collier's Weekly. A Misnomer, “Whe ia that man who spends all his days digging away In the library and all his nights writing for dear life? “He? He's one of we busiest peo. ple alive. He writes those long chat ty chapters signed ‘The Lounger." - Washington Star, sentatives and ratified by the free saf No other State in the Union has had such varied periences or sailed through stormy seas into the haven of peace and prosperity.—8t. Louis Globe Dem oorat, ex Recompensed In Time and Money. ‘ext to do alli at “It takes the glorious old W business,” said tl h the gator grip st. Paul. man wit gs he boarded the ‘We of the East train are “Anything to of the passengers as he woke up words, | York to Chicago with a st looking girl. At Buffalo | Detrolt we od Chicago " queried one “Just a few New aving Was fae ized iw had =et the wrote her 3 here to At Were eng we reach ul date I returned love loti i 1a Hime married “Bhe decid home, Gut that she would me another. She estimated the my time at f of £ Koi nnd and drow me the worth my ks fers at SUK broken he fo art my a chook for S10, her her here 1 business snd Yes, and full thers here it ix Gave to date, kissed ood-bhye, and There's the YOu are nm bit one West check way knows is for of yon Boller Dismissed the Guest, Buller Vive in Daw person who will allow any dinary fron how onsiderationas (0 swerve ii is hisz duly was # nN at a dinner in his house not long A rer ent, well Know told 0 man sjote Wis un which that the ladies were sively displeased and distressed, When dinner was over Bir Redven rang the bell “Mr. A. « butler not wa bad tain pros and Anes “xX 0% irringe.”” he ordered whet EEE arexd expect Mr. A. finance tedyers did not reply, Mr. A. by the into the hall go." went i do my brougham and in nis eves early” there gleam of Nir “It is quietly, time and for you wu he said his gues The Fruits to Eal Prunes afford the highest nerve le isy ¥ feeding. They shoule avoided those who suffer the liver. The great majority of small are laxative All «tone fruits amd should be used cautiously, Apples supply the higher nerve ane but do not give stay. and feeling good if the liver is out mnscle food, Oranges are refreshing but are not order. Lemons nnd tomatoes should not be geed daily In cold weather: they have a thinning and cooling effect. o The Auctioneer’s Assurance. There wae a carions Incident at the snle of the Prang collection of picture the other day. A picture of the lat Hamilton (iibson was put up for sale One of the possible purchasers ex pressed some doubt about the authen ticity of it. Now, of course, there wa no reason to doubt this, for if it ha not been genuine, It could not possi bly have been in Mr. Prang’s collee tion under that name, But the sue tioneer promptly said: “The gentleman seems to have som doubts about the genuineness of this picture, If that is the case, he coax at once be unt into communicatior with Mr. Gibson and have his doubh removed.” Ag Mr. Hamilton Gibson died In 1806 it is assumed that the anclioneer mus be a friend of Mra. Plper.—Bostor Transcript. ——————— ena. After wating otlions Sitch 1 Speig 0 parsley dipped | in vinegar, NOTES AND COMMENTS. Now that Hawiii im 15 have a trolley the Hawalinns will have give their lazy, indifference sort of learn how to dodge, 10 ite and The Boers have shown not only splendid fighting capacity strategy thao they possess and artillery were pot dreamed of, but resources Bacteriologists, after scientific tests, declare that a singie quart of Boston atmosphere contaims 200,000 microbes This cerninly looks like overcrowding The government of Bweden has abolished vuriety theatre and variety music halls in the kingdom, on the ground that such resorts were morally injurious, especially to the young the Jewish Im niladeiphia show mmigragion to this past year was 57, more than the Figures gathered by that the Jewish country during the 000, which was 9.000 year before Georgia Is waking up She is about to institute some means for cornstalks, An agricultural expert gays the farmers ought to realize full £.500,000 each year out of this product, which has heretofore been wasted, New York has 490 public scuool buildings, 8.544 aohers and a dally average attendance of 347.670 children, It bonds last 1 school spring buildings, aud equipment, and total expenditures of depart during ferred additions, sites the the the year amounted the that Maine il manage are be The Sex retary of Agriculture ranches in fo myy large cattle never he herds profit mnst freezing to of half unnoticed on the but Maine ft under Prose inimals The death of a few hundreds cattle 5 the West kiy bring for the plains of ution in of Iaws protect i San Juan hill =» heavily for ular troop intest #8 0 nal tified and rally strong defend armed tive position, reg the who were with and most destruc Yet our carried modern Ameri assault war un i i fan soldiers direct The war in South able for the mous British Uns regiments without fered, none of 1 tation for % that chan hy asl he | never likely Fit Hartford this Why should of insurance in rk Wi y si centre of the copper i= no copper within Hub, Why should a maj 3 made at Lynn? We derstand why Pittsburg should Ix of the iron JANA 3 CARn try, sitting the heart of the ore and but why should she make all of our glass when there Is Why is Prov making city? indus she does in better sand elsewhere? the at jewelrs mre Modern farming and mining ng the agricul: through givis turist an exact knowledg i= adapted. It tells apply renew ation it elements to to an erishod soil to its productive. for the correction of extirpation pests in plant §ife beast, It makes his occupation as ex act and reliable as the fluctua the seasons will permit it to be ¢ 03 The winter orders disconting Offices Hardly are sotnvtimes had the to Lightfoot discontinued. Three days later the department discontinued an Izsoe, in Maryviand, a Plane in Oregon, and a Chestnut in Virginia, and this suggestive order was promul- gataed concerning a Post Office with the enticing name of Kisecmee: “Sap. piy Rissemee at site authorized.” A few days afterward it ordered that mall should no longer go from tarnest to Lax. Was was By a recent ruling of the Yale Uni- vergity authorities, professional color. od walters are to be substituted in the college commons in place of the am- ateur undergraduates who have for years filled the positions. In defense of the change it is urged that poor men can nowadays carn their way throngh college without performing menial service, The exports from Spain to Cuba have averaged about $20,000,000 a year and consist of flour, vegetables, preserved fruity and foods, boots and shoes and other leather goods, paper and sta. tionery, firearms and smmunition and all sorts of miscellaneous merchandise which could be furnished by our mer. chants and manufacturers. The ex ports from Spain to Puerto Rico are of similar sorts and have averaged about, $8,000,000 a year, The ‘exports to the Philippines have been about the same in value and character, and this indicates what may be expected by our merchants from the new colonies, hose manufacturers who construct machinery are buried the deep beneath the avalanche of orders which bave made memorable the past says Iron and Steel. “Activity machinery belongs exclu class, and is shared in by all, but while all are all have not to an equal jegree contracted for their future out Tool ullders can able deliveries on the smaller products of their factories, but sold many months ahead on the machines Those engine bullders sold farth into the future who make the powerful types of power, In all lines of iron snd steel machinery the same sgtrenous demand Is noted for the lar It is observed that de mand is greater for special machinery ihan the standard forms, with de liveries correspondingly belated.” heavy out in the trade sively to no one rich measure Kept busy, pt make reason are Inrger nre ut ost ger products, for The ile In Rochester Democrat and Chron prompted by the course of Africa to ask the na this interesting lke foothold nck weak little distant land tepublie, what sort of other first-class powers, without American foothold at all, be likely to have in invading an enor mously powerful distant land like the United The the great foreign powers ponder this query the lon eligible re Routh heyond the if a first-class ritalin, broad NER (juestion power with a Africa, ireat in South has such poor in invading a like the luck Boer would any States? more their convic mighty unamiable stronger must grow Uncle Bam is a to cultiy with, not ate The Chicago News gives a partial eX the during opera in it “while New subscription of Mr. Gran planation of poor receipts of 1 the that « reel seRsOn grand ity by saying paid up wherewith and hiz company, it may be mentioned of subscriptions are Chicagonians, who did not the Auditorium perform silve ins a to cheer that sixty these Ithy buy boxes for This to the wounded feelings of ide pee tod by wen be a The ttle ganees EXCise may News % it reflect a the puldiec spirit of ial and artistic not on Chicagoans standing wea thiest Hier mam ity, when the ong them use merely as a they Chicago mney in, New York? to make mu whie to spend it in sndency of late ith corporal punish i held brutal , and doubtless iflictor of punish her unfortunate should blows Years to he iN RO, the vi any because it on » avoided iy any mistaken supposed 5 be A blow only a is fol irevents ini jur brain beneath, it inflict often COTS 1d rious ix often the cause of deatn Lis Dien severe a fracture. Where this a drop of blood works it the skull brain surfaces beneath curious fact that the If the seat of all sensations, permeated by n as are body that are not so well tod But if blood finds it way through the skull or through a frac ture and then presses upon the brain, it will canse a tumor to form that will after a time result in death when it reaches some vital part of the system blow pressing upon brain Ing Cry es, parts of the Drala the belief of some historians that pame “Oregon” is Aragon disguise, that it was given 1o this coun try by the early Spanish voyagers, and that American explorers so interpreted word given them by the Indians The theory ig at least plausible, and The Spain proudly brought to this to the West years later to on the le thought De Fuca says the Oregonion when he sighted coast in 1502, that some day it would build a warship which, under the name of Aragofi, or Oregon, wonld foremost in the battle that marked end of Spain's dominion in the It i= the in the three hundred the power of Spain Litt Indies destroy the Preparations for emergencies, it emergencies must come, wonld best be made along the path eof plodding. everyday experiences, The spirit of self-control can be cultivated amid the peity cares and trifling risks of ordi nary life until it accumulates as it wore, into a large reserve fund of cool calm resource, observes the New York Observer. The man who learns to control his wits when a horse shies slighty on a road, or the woman who gets the best of her nerves when cross. ing a street will be apt to give good account of himself or herself if later some dire catastrophe occurs, Self. mastery needs to be practiced on a hundred and one small ocmsions if it is to solidify finally into a sturdy hab it of mind and of action which will fit its possessor enccessfully to cope with the gravest perils or the most dis concerting situations, Social Distinctions. “She Ix Inclined to assume a great deal of importance,” said one young woman. “But I don’t know that I can blame her” : hy you married a European Sou But she married an ean coal baton,”
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