LET'S PRETEND. I Let's pretend that you and I Have no real cause to cry At the stones that bruise us so in the pathway we are treading— Tired, weary feet are treading— Like we used to long ago, Let's pretend. 11. But can you and I rejolee With the echo of that voice, With its mournful and fall Calling, calling, calling, calling? Hope is dead-—can it be calling? “T'is no voice we hear at all, "Tis a lonely bittern’s call, Let's pretend. 111. Does it matter, when ‘tis done, *f the race ve lost or won? We have gained some thing, say I, If we've just been trying Thoush our heart burst 1 can lock you in the eye! It will come right by and by, Let's pretend. —Edgar M. Dilley in the Herald. rise New York ALICIA'S DILEMAA. mortal than 3 difficult to A more discontented myself it would have been find throughout the leng of England the morning I letter. Everything There gloomily, an weeks ago, had been have those and breadth got Bayly's me wrong with me coffee ee short Wao 1 oks, we discuss would n look- ing at papers Bayly had ser coming down for the might be « ly iz a cheerful & ly so, and on the should Hig that afterno ped tod be pleased to see always been a cherist that I get ms it must be a real disappointm him that I had broken off my engaj ment. hold snou:qa the cause would have 3 f possit od 1 I coul mother end ue had enough over a field Mushrooms! x ad 5€ii © traordinary exte the thing draws m enchanted. 1 buy them at a cl I don't care f er them I mu glorious sight thar smith's back, w and began fill as I could, I every available I could carry i and aon thoro who because, managin ate iy boring lemma. He on enlisted Carmaor Armen } smiled and ‘1 suppose it It was, of course, fying to be told so. work cut out, and there waste, One or assist, and a tramp Already she saw and began gently allowed and just as your hand tou her bridle, she was off like the wind. We ran and whistled, shouted and maneuvered un- der that blazing August sun till our tempers could no more. The tramp sloped, Ladysmith herself had betaken heraelf into another field, quite as large as the first, and here we had been exerting ourselves for some time when the farmer said: “Better leave it to us, sir, I think We'll get her for you in time, and I'll bring her I'll see ghe's all right.” I knew he would; he was one of my tenants, I accepted offer, and set off to walk home by the road. “What shail I do? What shall I do?" his hat two laborers came alan velit t » also volunteered what we were about, fo encourage us; she us to come quite close hed bear over the I started as If the rround had open- ed at my foet Alicia's voles: but where was she? “What's the matter?” I called Then I saw her She was standing in an opening of the hedge, pushing back the bushes with her hands, Her hat was at an extraordinary angle, and her frock was torn; thers were traces of tears on her cheeks, I don’t know why, but as soon as | gaw Alleia in this condition | made up my mind that it was porfectly ridicu. lous that wo should have quarrelled, and that the firet thing to be done was to restore our forrier relations, “Oh, 1s it you, Mr, Derra?” ghe said, looking at me over the ditch, “What have you been doing?’ 1 certainly did present a strange ap pearance, almost a disreputable one. Bits of broken mushroom drop- ped from me at intervals, and my coat was torn. But for all that I meant to iry. have you been doing?” 1 am sure something has Let me help you over the ditch.” “No, thank you; 1 can manage fit by myself.” And she sprang over, But the refusal was stiff and I felt 1 must proceed with caution. When she had cleared the ditch I saw she she had something tied up in her hand- in her hand. “Ah!” I observed, “I you have bes mushrooms. Very fine ones in that field are there not?” “Yes, and 1 hope I shall never them again,” replied, and, some- what to my astonishment threw bundle over the hedge. “If you had happened to me this you'd understand why I see 1 gathering see sae she morning just slipped through the £ began with seeing one in t and while I was out of horrid creature came and stole my bicycle; and here fifteen miles from home, and and I've lost my ma- will be such a she concluded, with vo f hedge 10 8 he bank sight along I am, hers, some and there row “Good gracious!” I exclaimed, "it must have been the tramp! He ceoer- tainly went early “What tramp? ain.” I never And 1 EAW did, at One, expl: ut { beanfeaste coming along re not such like you." Don't Jack!" So we drove home in the trap, and 1 don't suppose interest any one ly was standing step as we drove up the bald it shone I out, and the cry round ‘Jack! My bicycle!” “Your what?” [ said It was There i was, care fully propped up against the side of the porch We looked at each other and then at Bayly talk more nongense, our conversation would but Bay door ourselves on the front up, the &un patch his head till got down, helped Alicia went greet him, when from her made me on to true been here?’ | asked Bayly consulted his watch “1 rode it utes to one precisely.” he said, “and it is now twenty minutes to three” “Then you stole it?” sald Alicia. “I stole it to walk here. people chasing mushrooms, and tion, it was go [I walked on. Ladysmith, saw grasped the too hot At the next field 1 noize something on the roadside, then lay through the hedge. bound to meet presently, and thought er than you exvected. Was I right?” “The beet thing you ever did, Bay: ly,” 1 sald, “and you must let me con. gratulate you on Maing the only Indl. ever met who could re New Yark News vidual { have sist a mushroom!" MOSAIC EYES OF INSECTS. Adapted to the Wants of the Posses sors in Every Particular. We all understand that our eyes are somewhat like little photographic cam eras, with of with to cut off unnecess ing arrangements for everything else that is needed lenses, light, and hav and to form the little colored picture on the sensi tive retina at the back of the eye. The of all backboned creatures are indeed, so much lk cameras that photographs have actually been made through the eves of some of the large domestic animale, Put any who has examined insects at all must have noticed that th are very dif ferent from our For in the first place, each larger than all the rest of the head. There Is nc iris i sety stope Ary focussing eyes one eir eyes own eye lg often and no pupil. Then, too, an insect not have to head and straight at we de clearly. One ings that we notice about is that it is little does turn his look anything, as Cul uj surfaces or ‘a compound facets is at tube with blackened and the fisel iittie ONE OF THE CITY'S TRAGEDIES. Loser in the Battle Walks the a Pathetic Sight, treety said ob iitan worried an as he ion to the looking man mumbling half-audibly over If one catch NES ne real the meaning of vould of minutes these m hear, 1 the on lower can grores of whose lips moving in mum ech as they walk hurriedly with fixed eyes on the gronnd, dodging through the throng with some strange i guiding instinct in feet “Many of them are well dressed, but ! mogt are a bit shabby, and have the | sears of a lost battle on their tired | countenances. They are the crippled of the long campaign for wealth, who are now stragglers in the rear, led on by hope and memory to get into the { line for one more fight. They make a sorry spectacle when you stop tw scrutinize them a little, “Then there are others you will find around the stock tickers in cafes, hotels and other public places. The ticker seems a running accompand | ment to their dreams; they murmur familiar words of the stock mart; they | are back again in the whirl of things | where fortunes rise and fall like bat {tle flags. To me these are the most pathetic figures in this city of con trasts, . “There is a half humorous element, too. One night | was hurrying home in the rain. The murk of the storm was thick upon the streets, and few reople were out. In the soaked circle of light shed by a discouraged street lamp stood an old man, miserably clad and dripping from every stitch, He did not try to beg, and, I think, scarcely i noticed me, but stood In a helpless abstraction, muttering In a cracked | and quavering voice: i “'‘Grandpa’'s so wet; grandpa’'s so | wot; grandpa’s so wet.'"—New York Mall and Express, ! far 13 04 y ra ered v e+ IANCY thie trageds City Stand for a few Broadway and you men i are ape their TWO WAYS Vhen love's young dream was fresh and bright And life in all its glory, fe told to her one fateful day The same old, simple story nd now, when homeward he returns With dawn in all its glory, fe tells unto his waiting wife The same old, simple story. New York Times. HER DOUBT. “Aw, there {8 one tning, sy,” said young Bimley, “I aw nderstand, doncher know “Only Mis neredulous Miss Bud cawn't one?’ inquired ly.—New York Sun A FEMININE COMPLIMENT He } ig { irl? iri. Don't you think She Well, Sun. her ork DIFFERENTI “Are yo “Of u willing to course | am an jut eto 1K announce together diffe Star ngion MARKETED “Ne mal yur four expiaine gradual PLEASURE ONCE ve A CONDESCENSIH hear the cool word on't aay a she is gor hat when ‘teveland Plain Dealer CONTINUOUS We one were at till seven Gormon from -What able Dizer wer? Gormon--Why, it hat we had supper.—New dd. $id id you do after 1 aen iate York H was 80 SOMETHING LACKING “Paw.” said Ostend i t is wrong for people to call ‘wise old saw.'"” “Why, my son?” queried paw “Because a saw should have teeth n' grandpa hasn't any.”--New York ferald. think grandpa little SLOW Wabash—How long did it take you French Artist (proundiy)—I am en Wabash—Just as I thought You're over here. Why I've saw while wait! Philadelphia ut ye A TENDER HEART. Clara-—QGoing in for charity again, What is it this time? Dora—~We are going to distribute eg among the poor. Music is such n aid to digestion, you know.—New Tork Weekly, nil — A SHOCK. Chollie--1 went down to a rather in ormal affair last evening, deah boy, nd, gwacious! 1 was compelled to wit ess a dreadful right! “Horrors! What was it?” “A fellow without evening dress eat ag breakfast food for supper!”-—Bal more Herald, Wa The British South Africa Company ws decided to expend $10,000,000 om allways n the Dark Continent. di PRISONER IN BEAR PIT. Indian Policeman Makes Sure of De- tention of Suspected Man. All night in the bear pit at Silver 4 Lake and handcuffed, while two bears | poked their through the wide bars of the grating at him was the try- ing experience of Johann Vaelinski of Kent last night, Pete Bey, a full-blood recently BHOBes Indian who came from Canada, is doing special police duty at the Silver Lake resort opinion of the law's majesty i8 very elevated. When he found Vaelinski and other men noging around the cottages inside the grounds late last night gave Aa whoop and caught two of fellows to The Another Away was putting cuffs Where to put the prisoner the Indian for a while, but he thought of the bear pit. an entrance to the pit three feet, and with wide barred gates on each side. Into this the pris- oner was pushed and though he yelled with fear 28 ta? ears came trotting toward him it did no good. Jy put- ting their feet through the grating the within inch of visitor and they made seven and his two he the run, got before third egcaped while Pete: Vaelinskl. bothered at last There is by four they could start the on bears coulé come their interesting an touching things hours After Vaelinsii that he become for him for an investigation this released, it being man with morning found him had Cuyahoga - Cleveland Plaia was and the lost in going from Falls to Kent Deale Exhibition of Prebend Heal ary rit. $33 dann ) Peplo 4 3 W225 From Bugler The career of ward M Jack” to General. Brigadier Gene (familiarly know who has Hayes Hayes) promoted from Tt the ox infantry, is irteenth { as a private With army in a commission, since whi has made a most bri on the plains and pines. officer mC an 1 the 5 4 tion of the 186% lar lately Money in Poultry Raizing. a, recent contest for suggesting best way to make $5 the awarded (o a man who ad the be invested ir hatching. 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