SUNSHINE. A pocketful of sunshine Is better far than gold: It drowns the daily sorrows Of the young and of the old; i It fills the world with pleasure In field, in lane, and And brightens every prospect Of the mor that street, tals we meet, sunshine world akin rrow backs of sin; wwledge life; A pocketful of Can make the And lift a From the burdened Diffusing light and Kk Through thorny pat It gilds with ining The strife, load of s« hs of silver 1e storm clouds of A pocketful of sunshine To the silent, gloomy Irradi: pathway To the And w With We'll bask in hes And grave; ites our silent, gloomy grave, hen our race is finished, angels far above, venly hine love Wa T= ANAANANSNANANASNT The 01d Tian Across (he all IARTW suns everlasting shington Star ever Ww behind ber, ! ccupant { that “large chair rose hi et nnd in duiged in a low, but Inugh. “Bless her dear ittle heart! ¢ Jae ulated, old sick Ha! ticorge, is you?’ The door-knob turned: the swung open, and a young man » tepped | into the room, “Come in this moment, earty, Lie “She thinks 1 am and ha! Hello, George, I've * you about. It all comes Dan's visit to my ‘den’ day and--my elocution.” “The Iden of your taking this horrid room, anyhow!" sald George, helping himself to a chair and a cigar, “It's darker than a pocket here, you light up?” “Have patience, my dear fellow. 1 love the darkness, you know; but I'll light up now.” of Uncle with with =n do you along asked “How get youu George, “I thought 1 was progressing finely,’ “but 1 First, 1 and rented the working hearing his have to companion; give it nla people fit guess dis up. home, here among wople, hoplug to be out of But the rom e one I care about, girls vers pretty Across seen them?” but 1 heir “Hay © you “Not exactly; know voloe agains in the { but paused as he “I'bey must have =een Uncle Dan fie cain roo it Lnele ry word of would not He the girls found a fornia fruit and costly £1 inornmng of al beautiful arti arranged, thelr door-knob, The card attached to the handle of the basket had these | words, written in a masculine hand: “With Uncle Dan's compliments,” “Why. Jennie, he must be rich, after Maggie, her brown hnsket among which tically We have not space to relate the pro- cess of Paul Leonard's woolng with pretty, tender-hearted Maggie Wells, whom he considered a “pesrl among women,” and whose loving heart he soon won for his own. Suffice to say that the evening on which he returned the plate was not the last one spent in that bumble room across the hall, He persuaded brown-eyed Maggie] that his life would be miserable un less spent with her, and the heart! vhich was touched by old man’s noans yielded man's i and not les un to a young en she became his wife irn of her mistake regard to Dan and Paul's sutton until she had been his wife for She then ascertained “Uncle Dan” knew kindness: but her and treasured for her treaties, She did in Unele elo several weeks, that the genuine her act of ippreciated it, is little wife all the more loving endure the thought d from her not friend, wad been comp and her “struggle for happened that tion ' days of Jennie guest at the Maggie a permanent house, over which pre nistress Paul Leonard parlors irge Howard, met he g “blue eyes, for all the world like country pansies.” He forgot wt ten hind he lost terest their owner since the day One moment hind not for blue those floes AL is ver MES located wedding was parlors de and People who W Upon heap Coods iol ese “oly wholesome bad Hew CRs practice to sell pure ar there ived. ex he obtain unalterable A trier of the cheaper x IS appes in gat- will in The of a of molasses ¢ 10 danger of being dece mach mors the propensity f the to dl artic average can seriminate in favor provi nee _yerage « onsumoer ixed article every time the ng of molasses forced pure a fe ef has therefore been pon the distributors frat, by the altered system of manu. facture on plantations, and, second, by the unwillingness of consumers to pay the price of the pure articlo.--New Orleans Pleayune, A Test ot Courage, You may talk about your cannons’ months and all that, but the suprem- est test of courage Is to reach to the foot of the bed in the morning for more cover. New York Press, The finest plece of amber ever found off the English coast was recently picked up by a traveler near Lowes- toff. It brought the lucky finder the sum of $137, BRIQUETTES FROM COAL. WAY OF UTILIZING WASTE FROM THE MINES. NOVEL of Powerful Crushers—Mixed With a "Einder" and Made Into aiPaste Molded Under High Pressure. in Europe onl briquettes nsively are familiar which of on the Travelers with the « used exte are in ordinary h England nent, and the they emit has most Americans they adoption In amount of feld when burned pl 1006 coil in bot aid Cont sinoke inpre unt would be slow yrnize this country Ihe smoke which the brig Yeies wrily 3 due partl rior sort of stoves in common ‘urope for heating purposes and fact that soft coal dust $8 used manufacture, with a Ii briguett dust thelr and from and dust freedom handled, conl ins Conl i wisle In has been enort temperature ird tank With these Ir mixer perforius formula. With for each ingredient he itumen the io grodients hand his weighing Work ss rding apparatus fills another holding a the different re ceptacle, capable bon sand pounds, obtained La the steed ¢ of potinds, with t con pouna ia 1 yin the onsistency is the whole proper mi iH is ghiy portant that measurements should exact, and work is perf under the supervision of experts this gigentic mixer the the binding material automatic machinery, have been properly they fall through room below, unt right « Of fons i iH sing im prog EIEN of these Ingredients, the he the armed In conl amd thrown by and when they stirred and mixed an opening to the where the powerful dust unre suitable sized briguettes, The mixture, which is now about as thick ns paste, molds arranged on a wheel, pockets a indentations to correspond to the first. The two come together so that an enormous pressure Is exerted, and the briquettes are squeezed by a force equal to five tons to the square inch. This great pressure molds the brie quettes into selld, compact masses, and when they are dropped out they are nearly as hard and firm as bricks. At present the size of these briquettes equal to small egg coal, and between five and xix They are ndapted to use furnaces the size and however Ary, sitit the demand of apy furnace, molds und tuted for ixily in is about they weigh and form, and FRNges, grate. The merely enn be open are nrbitr the molds made to or New special grate subst the sim wheels of the Present ones ply a matter ind putts 5 “11 Oe CUNNINC OF CAME, Wyoming Elks Much More Wary Now 7 a Few Years Apo. Hy one win You will y 2 months gh to ut you purcha don’t said iis Here were no a purchase “Well When | along luded 1 how easily Mroent 1Ho found without could the could get COM got i lunches, 1 along 1 3 ust as easily gold watch, watch and lot Companion and the house into a Youth's RIOWINK now.’ The Practical Sidewof It, tif gnid he, “life lonely is lonely t Is sometimes,” sh i Ww ered “Wouldn't it tie colin be sweet to have a it ge covered and wouldn't it?” with ivy, and hon eveuckle, “Oh, “And when a tired from business, little wife to meet with a Kiss?" “y PO “And then the summer nights: the windows open, the sunset just giving light enough in the cozy parlor, and -you-<1 mean a wife at the plano, singing in the gloaming. It would be roses” fellow fo him tomes hone have a nice at the door " “Lthink-ite “And then - At this point a ecareworn woman would—be-—nice, twins in a perambulator. A dead si. lence fell upon the air for a little, Then they Changed the subject, Over $1,000,000 worth of diamonds are stolen every year from the South African diamond mines, bh IRED nd se FRANSFER HORE 13 ruffled, wien WH uf fled Hecord SIDERA SURPRISE Id MORAL LESSON. said ving for forget when givers boy.” OI don't OT prove unkind.’ The boy see meaning dad,” ones io giruggle to catch he smiled. “rioh ght! med Then “That's right he cried; out of = wax nd Main pi I Dealer R AUTHORITY. to-night, remarked in the ON BETTE “You are looking handsome Flite,” Bagster of Mr the dance Smythe told me a few min {only remembering that hated rivabhh Well, yon anything that chump Philadelphia Thimos. Bagster his wouldn't believe woud you? WHAT HE SAID. “My wealthy uncie spoke very nicely of you, Henrietta,” sald Mr, Meckton; “yery nicely, indeed, I'm sure yon would have been flattered if you could have hoard him.’ “Todeed!” “Yes, Iix tribute to your personal charms was most graceful, and at the same time his recognition of your store of information, such as most people need a lifetime to acquire, was convincingly sincere” “1 should like to know precisely what he said.” “i can recall his exact language” Mr. Meekton went on, in gentle innp- cence. “He sald you looked Ike twenty-five and talked Uke sixty.” Washington Star.
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