FATE.
——
Two shall be
world apart,
And speak in different
have no thought
Each of the other's being, and no heed:
And these unknown seas to un
Known lands
Shall
death;
And, all unconsciously,
And bend each wandering step to this
one end
That day
shall meet
born the whole wide
tongues, and
o'er
cross, escaping wreck, defying
shape every act
one out of darkness they
eyes
And two shall walk some narrow way
of life,
So nearly side by side that should one
turn
Ever so little space to left or right
face to face,
And yet, with wistful eyes that never
meet,
With geoping hands that never asp,
and lips
nephew of thele nearest neighbor was
Wwtroduced to her, and during the
Bright sweet hours she spent in his
companionship, while they read, sang,
drove and walked togetner, Myrtle’
this man, who, with his graceful ath
| courtly manners seemed to her a very
| King among men,
Myrtle did not the statues
{ que blonde beauty of her sister Hosa
POSSesE
the
sweet,
more charming of when
looked Into her piquant
| face, with its apple blossom like com
{| plexion, sparkling golden brown eyes,
| the two
#3 .
they
| and its frame of shinlug chestnut curls
To Leigh Carrol
than charming, and =a y angel
among women, as in her mist like
white summer draperies she stood with
she seemed more
very
him at the close of a perfect summer
They seek each other all thelr
days
weary
¢
And die unsatisfied: and this is fate,
Jigrie’s Faimsr Lover.
By FANNY MAY.
mbine your in-
uce papa to
New
port. Liv-
Ingstones
for the to
. 1 pected to return
from abroad and join them. You Know
how j
handsome son, Is
exp
be admired me wi
Society last
port—it
me to complet
heart and
Rosamond,
answer
speech
Laugi
what an
4
to sped
stead of
Rosevale,
do."
“Rosevale,
mond with a
golden head, and
turquoise
“Why.
ued, “the
makes me si
I will permit myself be
of sight of the
and dreary countrs
was the }
sister to be born, and
sompelied
wealthy en
City home here,
blue eye
she more carefuliv contin-
mere nt of the
on place
wadder, and if papa thinks
burisad out
iat
worl nt obscure
where It
and
we
misfo my
were
before | became
ur elegant
taken i
and
have determined t
to Newport |
to accomp
go to Rose
panion. It
pany him,
awkward
will §
shionable
fhe agrees with
[\
Fale the
Sarid m
JOPR
A few hour
‘a Rosamond
Whers consent
the summer at
At first
listen to
at
all his
Rosamond with
would sneceed in
Mrs
and Over
requ
aril} » ') 1" : 1
ville last won the v
ruled object
that
beauty
heart of
whose princely
most valued
market,
“let them Myrtle, dear” said
Mr. Melville, while he tenderly patted
the cheek of his favorite
daughter. “While they are wearing
their lives out in the many dissipations
of fashionable society, you and 1 will
enjoy ourselves huge'y in the dear old
farm house loved well as a
child, and that bas always been more
of a home to me than this elegant city
house I bought to please your
and your sister Rosamond.”
® - . - » -
HE
winning ti
Earl Lis
fortune
handsome ingstone,
him
wtrimonial
nade the
prize in the m
ory
-~ ’
younger
You #0
Three weeks later found Mrs
ville and Rosamond on their way
were whirled away in the direction of
Rosevale, their picturesque country
of New England.
The sun was just setting as father
and daughter drove up to the ram-
bling farm house with its pearl white
walls thickly covered with nodding
ruby red roses, and the sky was all
one glowing flash of gold, against
which stood out bold and clear the pur-
ple amethystine tops of the distant
bills.
And as down from their heights
swept the fresh mountain wind, the
roses did not outrival in hue, the flush
on Myrtle's cheek, or the sunlight the
spark In hef wine brown eyes, as
drawing a deep breath of rapture, she
smilingly exclaimed: “How lovely It
fs here, papa, [It seems like a dream
of fairly land”
Beautiful indeed as a dream of fairy
land did the days seem to pass to
Myrtle after that,
For Leigh Carroll,
tke handsome
i
turesque farm house,
And while the like
twinkling lamps of gold in the purple
tinted sky above, amd the roses, heavy
with nodded softly in the
them, and drew
him and
stars swung out
S West Hess,
breeze all about
to
her
whispered In
ear,
“The sweet od tale, that though so old,
“"
t of men by
} bhrid
to become His Dae,
“Myrtle, my peerless love, sweet
murmur.
back
star-
" he tenderly
walked
f tl
re of ine
1
ed when at last they
through the golden #
light toward the farm house, “are you
sure you wil never regri
the wi
only a country
“I am
anything,
sure tin
Leigh,’
answer,
face,
your
The following day
interview with Mr.
mained closeted with
Myrtle,
nee to
was he
with downcast
“it 1 am only
love”
ken
flushing
with
eit
Meds
who was
learn
er lover
consent
happy smiling
her father
or to
yatied
8 COs
LEME AAAS
TYR 1 1
SUrance « i
nead wh guiet
at
sister
Maly
tie read
once, and
ind of
Mr
more when My r
fully
10 aer
1 §
ille chu
aim the
hor
worded answer to
penned by the haughty Rosamond,
Myrtle”
and papa
“You have disgraced
1s,
wrote the proud beauty,”
must surely be insane to encourage you
your mad folly to wed one so far
beneath you
consent to
country bumpkin
band, wisle
her determin
neg
broken
aunoun
SUFOrise
I
Rosamond, wh
ter
ontaining
for we will soon join you
did not
letter to Myrtle, Rosam
ail
For
leading
sea, and countless
before the
handsome
Although she
averse now to leaving
sdthough she
bell
sdmirers hae
of ler i
rare beauty,
Earle Liv.
their
shrine
ORINg
kingly le
ingstone did not make one of
number
“Earle
four
answer,
most bitter
heart, questions
er's absence,
“For,” adds! Ethel
long promised visit
join for three or
was Ethel Liv
Llosamond,
disappointment
d ber about her
will not us
weeks’ stone's
ng
when with the
her
broth
in
“he is
to the
hoge of a favorite aunt, whom it
his chief delight to visit when a boy.”
Soon after sending the telegram Mr.
by Myrtle and
her lover, Leigh Carroll, were on their
way to Newport.
When at last they reached it they
were shown at once to the elegantly
furnished room where Mrs, Melville
| andl Rosamond were anxiously await
i ing their coming.
Mrs. Melville, with the proud, cold
{ alr of an offended queen, was waiting
paying a
country
was
| the open window with her eyes stead.
| fastly fixed on the gleaming sea waves
nore even the existence of her sister's
betrothed.
his wife Myrtle's intended husband,
uttered the familiar name of
Livingstone, Rosamond quickly turn
ed and then stood like a figure carved
in marble, while the shining waves he.
yond seemed chanting a requiem for
all her bright hopes of happiness and
love that died then and there a cruel
death,
For standing before her, looking most
radinntly happy with her sister Myrtle
mond herself had learned to love as
well as her selfish nature was capable
of loving any one, and whom she had
80 vainly schemed to win,
If Mrs, Melville's and Rosamond’'a
surprise was great, Myrtle's was still
| greater, as heard her handsome
lover addressed as Earle Liv
| ingstone, whom had heard of as
the most wealthy and talented of men,
Then to the
questioning look she cast
she
farmer
sles
in answer astonished,
in her fath
Melville sald:
ne
{ er's direction, Mr.
“There can be time better than
the present for an explanation of what
vou all. This
Earle, “came
long promised
his aunt, Mrs.
he learned that his
nearest neighbor, mamely myself, was
a millionaire, a charming daugh
ter, determined
Leigh Carroll, his absent counsin, and
farmer,
woiid
must seem strange to
| gentieman,” warning
Rosevale to pay a
to the home of
Carroll, and when
'
to
i to
visit
with
he to be known as
common
who
he could
him for
not for
believed so
had
soe if, a8 a
love
and
as he
win a wife
alone,
fortune,
among
sweet sake
hils princely
many others the fair sex
done."
“He succeeded,” added Mr. Melville,
twinkle in his
little Myrtle here learned to
ns 1
farmer,
with
“for
a rogulshly CYOR,
my
igh Carroll, the
and 1,
and did
love him poor
country too, believed
him to be such not guess
the
to
ANKg
Myrtle his
had
truth un consent
make fe tnd confessed
Ww
to me that won her love Lwog
nito.”
NOOn n
bride
won
ftor Myrtle happy
of her king like lover, who
Wer! lone.”
Bake
forced to
agony and d
ber for “love's
and RHosamond was
her heart
1
“SHNPO nti
while most
er Ww Hosevale
FISHERS OF TURILE.
The Tennessee the Greatest
Turtle Stream in the World.
The Tennessee River is the gr
fresi-water tortle strean
the ‘umberiand is
field. The
ifie turtle
source in the mountain
4
rough a rocky
its way th
perfectly
$
be
ng
epth
11
though smaller
der
d urtie of the
are won
the
the marketx than
the muds
tnrtie
whe
There
Tennessee Rive
are huge
them are kept securely
tarred. Some turtles
fron the Tennessee
which
fv
i
woul
Tlhwess
and
selling the smaller
York fur
many a
terrapin
rivers the natives
we m 0) to GIN 1x ds
wil
enormons catches are r the
money is made
by
Ones Washington and
nish the markets
Che
Tent
diamond. backed
of the fa caterers ally
from
The
fool and
00s Came
Tennessee
small turtl ¢ captnred
th
shells, of many domest
cles are I'he heaviest haul
rame the
lof a bayou. Ti
shallow
fraps set :
Wo LeETO
=
tart wifting in wa
ydes in after him with a fork
They
IOs mad
3 $4
tease the turtle until
pokes ont
stick
and
the sbell
ontright
off
pol
COIR
then scraped sod
pearl
the
Thousands of them
Hunters throng rivers
every summer are
of the mussel, fresh
he
gathered
Miss
ar
ar
shells of several va
the ton and
to the
by
i tases! fs the K¥int Figg
shipped up the % pi River
pearl-button factories There are a
dozen varieties of the mussel, but only
two are valuable to the factories, Rome
Years ago an Anstrian button n
facturer accidentally
value of the American
linols
found that
ior to the shells dug up from the Dan
ube, The has until an
army of collectors are strung out along
the big river from New Orleans to La
manu
the
Il
He
super
discovered
shells, in
an
fown
on the Mississipi
if anything, it was
trade grown
Along the river are shacks in scores,
in which the families engaged in the
hunt find shelter, Outside are long
troughs mounted on brick foundations,
and the shells are boiled in
Punts, rafts, flatboats and skifls are
i used in the catch. A trap made of
' heavy plumbers’ pipe ls placed over
each boat, To the pipe are strong lines
set at six-inch intervals, whieh run fore
and aft. Four-prenged hooks made of
old wire are fastened to the lines. The
boat is pushed ont from the bank for
. work.
The fresh water clam points his nose
upstream and invariably keeps his
He lies on the river bot
fo come
along, when he will greedily seize it
i and never let go, The trap with the
| dozens of hooks ls tilted over the side
{of the punt lying upstream and the
| clams at once lay violent hold upon it,
these,
ins many as can get a grip on a prong,
| The fisherman hauls them in until his
| boat is filled, At the factory the shells
{are soaked In a fluid for some days,
The shell goes through a half-dozen
| processes before It 1s finished as a poarl
| button. The shell must be thick
| enough to stand the trimming to the
| proper size. ~ Chicago Record,
ne cabital of the United Stats
located at Princeton, N. J. from Juoe
80, 1753 to November 20, 1783, *
OUR YOUNG FOLKS
- In the Meadow.
I'he meadow ig a battlefield
When summer's ariny comes,
Each soldier with a clover shield,
The drums,
Boom, and
honey bees with
rat-ta! They
The captain tree,
march,
who stands
Saluting with a sword of grass
And
Pass
giving them commands,
"Tis only when the breezes blow
Ad hills,
They shoulder arms, and to and fro
March in their drills
rat-ta! line
Wive
ross the
womly
full-dress
loom, they wheel in
And
thelr gleaming spears,
cries the « ving
Charge’
Rign;:
And every soldier rheers
Aptain, gi
But, when the days are growing dim,
They
And sing
Around
Rat-ta-ta!
all
I Lope
To Keep
i
gather In their camps,
a good thanksgiving hyoin
the firefly lamps,
bugle no
to the sky:
the os
“goodnight”
they all have oy
Crows Steal a Dog's Dinner.
In the inn gars
to (mr
1
Ivy sald
ut be wrote
ony 1% en
en’ suffi
from
1 rts
sigan
when he
to
there i
I rend his ob ter from
1't keep her becan or finger
nails wonld turn her down anywhere ™
member of a law firm to an
wry ae #2 bout
tiher
CGI
hoe
but he
r nails
jers, and the sub
r Appi
4
:
t Hike
in
halancesd
troeloss about
Her
needs
ful enough to
ettoers binrred: ber mac)
If she
clean he
were
«d cleaning wasn't care
i fiyYpewr ter
of
when writing a letter gnch
be
in her everyday work.”
I'd as lief
man about a
in his
import
herself, she would ature to
ince to
be slovenly
. .
“1 can't
UZZ- saw
stand his voice
said a
ho applied for a
hear a 1
boy w position
office
“Tell that
fake her
can’t
Make up a good sounding
story if you can
FOUng woman we
She wears too many
rings for ns”
said an editor-in-chief to
ate, speaking of a lady who
was seeking a position as sub-eidtor.
One £0 indefinitely
cases, Trifles, perhaps
foe young man or woman may call
them. Bat in there are no
trifles, and in the business world noth
ing i= trifling. Even straws may serve
to show which way the wind blows
A. L. RR, in Wellspring.
his associ
might
similar
on quot
ing
reality
Assistant Farmers.
turnips, beets, tomatoes,
my! 1 guess I'll have as
an garden as grandfather's
“Onions,
peas, celery
grown up
in!"
named over the different seeds he was
going to plant
“corner lot” ready for the Leds,
Suddenly he stopped digging, and be.
gan striking his hoe vigorously into the
soft soll,
“What's the matter, Willie?’ called
have you found?”
“One, two, ten, twenty-why, hun.
dreds of them, grandfather! And they
will eat every seed 1 plant!” exclaimed
Willie, excitedly, ns he began to cut
the soll with his hoe more vigorously
than ever.
“Hundreds of what? And grsnd-
father raised himself slowly from his
knees,
“Worms, grandfather; apd Ul not
have a single thing come upl*
The little fellow's face looked a very
picture of despair, as visions of early
home, suddenly disappeared
“Why, I never call them worms."
“But they are
grandfather.”
“Yes, but | call them
Ianghed grandfather at the serious lit
te face
istant
worins, angle-wormes,
o”
Hever Ry
“1 eall them farmers—my as
and the mo
better |
Worms {
grandfather
farmers:
I have for them, the
“Farmers!
Why,
squirm
Iriners
work ? all they di
and w ee.”
{ ver}
1% Pow bd
“Certainly: that's thelr work Don’t
way through
| you see they angle their
Hight
little
soil, too, as t
the soll, and so make 0 and
loose, They are regular ploughs
fertilizing the wy
plough
‘But
the
“No.
don't
“ir tO speak "
but, grandfather, don’t they
ent seeds while they’
indeed:
destroy
my
1 Lier y
erop-raising.”
“1-1 didn’t
have
know
KO IT as
when yon
gave
he
Inughed
resting
ts mournf alin
You're mas
face, Hobby
KY Was a
Mother savs
wen a bh
ida’
Hke
1te
wo
to stop
ing fighting.”
“io folks alwars stop fus
aske
what it me
the hatehet is
“Of
rot
buried?
oures: that's it
the
ground with thoughtful face
ed back to the house by Rob's
watched smoothing of the
and walk
gide In
unusual silence
The family had finished dinner when
Fred
to the door with a sharp
Rob's senjor by two years, came
call
“Rob, where have youn put the axe?”
“Nowhere, 1 :
Rob,
had 1°
But
“You
if you'd
haven't an
promptly
satisfy Fred
must have had it
think. You're
swered the re
{ply did not
have, You
only take the trouble to
always carrying things off and forget
ting where you put them ont
and hunt It ap!”
Fred gras in a hurry, and decidedly
impatient; and Rob's face flushed at
the order.
“Hunt it np yourself, if you want It
I tell you I haven't had it. and 1 don't
| know anything about it"
you
Come
{in the tool-house, and 1 know 1 left
[it there,”
| “You know a good many things that
| you aren't sure of,” retorted Rob.
This sort of jarring was far from un.
common. Fred was inclined to be die
| tatorial on the ground of being the el
der; and Rob was =o dedermined not to
ritating and disoblighng by way of
raowing his Independence,
“Boys!” interposed the
| grieved, reproving voles.
mother's
Bat any.
was drowned In a wall from Dot.
“It didn’t do it! 1 tried, and It xn’
true! Rob sald. If you buried a hateh.
of, folks wouldn't quarrel any more. |
couldn't find any hatchet. Se |
—_—
it
boys fuss
down, and buried
Aud you
drageed the
‘side of Chicky.
axe
oor
The boys looked nt each other with
# shame faced smile gradually displace
uf
“Where did she put 17’
that
“1I'H show von,’
The
HE the
ing the flush
anger.
asked Fred,
in A tone had lost its sharpness,
Hob answered
re very little
WX trouble in find.
missing implement, for Dot was
Fred
1 lvedd
a success at digging Then
his brother's
“I'm
OUgn
and Ia
afrald she Aldn't get it
¥
for al 1s “OP But 1
¢YPs,
deen
Ray,
yh, we migh
without
if you w
to this day, »
'n household
#11't time to +
it about
CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT,
Specimens of Some Serial Stories That Are
Real Thrillers.
two
aped
I have
the rivsl
and gia
sworn 1
amen t
red
prang
tigerish gros
i so00
\ die Is
jo ix to take
id the muzzle
#
Tt
all Dao
next number
Know
nies t
We left our hero hanging to the ro
lot us nN
Was gom
ands wet
La
§
of a seven story building
%
turn to him His strength
he realized that his
numbensd A# he made one more dda
effort to draw Limself up u
eves encountered the mocking face |
The villain had
the death agonies of
and a
peraie
1
John Johnson Co
to gloat over
man he had wronged.
“Have you no mercy? gag
died
perl i a
20, the how
“Not a bit”
“Must 1
“You
Then Lorenzo closed
as
die?”
must.’
called
Hig DYDS,
next moment
(What happened next moment and
for several moments after that is vivid
iy related in our next. Don’t miss a
good thing. Washington Post.
EE ———-
Chinese Servant Took te Forgery.
When Lord Charles Beresford was
in China one of the best servants it
was his lot to have was a certain
Fat. Unfor-
vote his nndoubted intellect to worthy
objects; he learned to imitate his
master's handwriting so cleverly that
he forged checks amounting to over
£10,000 in two years, Amd on one 00
casion, when lord Charles was pro
fessing a spirit of very broad tolera-
tion towanl the heathen of all de.
nominations, one of his friends venturs
ed to Inquire what he thought wonld
be the ultimate fate of his Chinese ser.
vant, whereupon Lord Charles instant.
ly replied, “That fat will certainly be
ia the fire" ‘ a
sy