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.