IF.
[If all the skies were sunshine,
/ Our faces would be fain
To feel once more upon them
The cooling splash of raim.
If all the world were musle,
Our hearts would often long
For one sweet strain of silence,
To break the endless song.
If life were always merry,
Our souls would seek relief,
And rest from weary laughter
ia the quiet arms of grief.
-—Henry Vandyke.
——————
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“There
holm Manor.
tips of the
the gloomy
there.”
We all leaned {
with eager eyes
pointing finger.
Ther:z it was,
the black firs, in
of Cornwall.
Miss Treshman
head, with its abundant
in a melancholy way.
“The most uncanny old
girls,” she said, “a second
Grange,’ for all the world. 1 always
dread our annual visit, though [ ¢
tainly love godpapa very dearly;
it is such a weird old place.
girls, there is a haunted chami
too!”
“A haunted chamber,
all cried, in a breath.
“A veritable haunted chamb:
‘crimson chamber,’ call it
is the grandest room in the house;
yet I've never seen it but once ir
my whole life. I can’t bear to go near
it. I remember dimly how vast, and
grand, and dark it looked, all aglow
with crimson and gold. And oh! girls
such an awful legend connected with
it. Mrs. Sinnot, the housek told
it to me herself.”
“Trixie, dear,
“I can’t tell it,
I'll do my
time of the v
down from the Nor-
THE HAUNTED
CHAMBER.
By Fmma Gurii on Jones.
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it ts, girls; there's C
You can just catch the
grim, gray turreils over
fir off the left
hes.
hills to
and followed
Tresham's
orward,
Miss
dimly defined beyond
the weird old county
her
shook pretty
bronze tresses
place,
*Moated
Beatrix?"
r--the
they and it
eeper
tell us!”
Sinnott
Centuries ago, in
first Ch ims
heshol
as Mrs did,
but best:
the
and they came
man chiefs, you know, ever so
ago-—theye was a brave knight
Geoffrey Chesholm, [ think they called
him. He :
the bravest
England He
story runs, a lovely
TY
long
Sir
was a great
handsome
woad and
candir an
and
i to her Ki
with eves like st tresses
goldsn h reache
He married her, and
to olm Manor, and the cri
room was r bridal chamber.
“Well a week after they
home to the manor Sir Geoffrey
called away He parted from
lovely bride with great reluc
and many tender caresses, {or
excessively fond of
“Owing to some
which I do not remember, he retu
much than had anticips
and reaching the manor one stormy
midnight he himself in with his
night key, and hurried to the cham-
ber of his bride, thinking to find her
in bed and asleep
“But lo! when he reached the crim-
gon room he found it in a glitter of
wax lights, and on opening door
tie saw his young wife ail arrayed in
hier best robes, with diamonds in her
golden hair and on her white ..roat;
and a feast was spread out, wines and
fruits and other dainties. And who
do you suppose this fair, false crea.
ture had to keep her company? An
lover, who had been Sir Geoffrey s
rival.
“Well, he killed her then and there,
and his rival, too, and cancealed their
bodies in the secret passage, into
which they say the crimson chamber
jeads. That was centuries ago,
to this day they come back at mid-
night and tap against the oaken pan-
els, hoping that some one will come
and liberate them. Mrs Sinnott avers
that she has heard th tap-
ping again and again. She would not
sleep a night in this haunted room
for worlds. No one ever
Sir John, and scouts
story.”
“Oh, how awful!
how delightful!”
We drove up the firshadowed drive
and reached the grim, gray front of
he old manor just as the darkness
fell. Sir John was on the great stone
terrace to welcome us,
“I've brought a lot of young school
friends to share my visit, this time,
godpapa,” said Beatrix, when the
greetings were well over.
“That's right, Trixie; the more tha
merrier. You didn't know we had a
ball on the tapis, did you? Nor that
young Major Farleigh was sat home
on furlough elther--hey, Trix?"
Beatrix blushed divinely.
Farleigh was her betrothed lover. The
old baronet pinched her glowing
cheok,
“1 planned It all surprise you”
he said. “But come in, young ladies,
we've no time to lose. You must sat
your dinper in a hurry, and then dress
for the ball”
Dinner over, w> it our candles and
hurried up to dress,
“This way, please, mademolselles”
ealled Sir John, and we followed him
into his quaint old sitting room.
“See there, Trixie,” he said, point.
ng toward the sofa; “there's a ball
dress fresh from Paris, Would you
Ars
ir that
brought her t
Chesh mason
thel
came
was
his
tance,
he was
her
circumstances,
he
gooner
Fat
the
ol
but
is ghostly
he the whole
* we all cried, “and
to
i
lixa to have them—-I mean dress, dla-
monds and all?”
Oh, godpapa-”
clasped hands,
The dre was
cried Beatrix, with
of silken tissue of
the loveliest pink, trimmed with price-
lace, and adorned with tufts
moss rosebuds, and the diamonds were
such blinking, gleaming stars——tiara,
necklace armlets and a girdle, like a
belt of living light.
“They're yours, Trixie"
Sir John. “Major Farleigh is
to admire you in that rig-—hey
Well, they're yours, and, moreover,
when marry the major, | mean
that vou shall come and live with me.
old man now, and a bit lonely,
and I think I shall make the major
my heir.”
“Oh, Sir John, dear godpapa!
Beatrix, with swimming eyes.
“Stop, Trixie,” interrupted.
“Wait till you hear my condit
don’t thank me yot—I've made
mind to do all and to giv
this trumpery here, provided
illing thing.”
“I yoii
good,
s8
loss
likely
Trix?
you
cried
he
ns
up my
you
are
this,
you
to do one
1 do anything
2 jear godpapa,”
with eves on the glittering gems
“Very well, must the
crimson chamber tonight.”
“Alone? fal.ered poor
ing white
“Nay, you may
enter
the
wish, you
answered Trixie
}
Her
you sleep in
Beatrix,
Brow
but
as
remain
all together,
the
g0
erimson re
ends, and
If you can
ghostly
for your
roll must ON
as ball
till dayligl
night,
stand
pair do
bridal
the
eat you, | mean it
chamber when you
marry.”
the
and the major
sald
what do you
do it."
Beatrix,
say
»s Off,
and Beatr
her diamonds
Wa be
ball dress
tled the
ha came nigh
major so complete]
Es
that osing his wits
At
marched in sol
the haunted room. Mrs
lowed us with an ashen face
“For Heaven's sake, young
give over this mad folly!” she
treated; but Bs
in we went,
A cheerful fire blazed
marble hearth, wax lights
and corner aling
rtions of the room, and the
minute, we
the door of
fol-
wk, to the
smn file to
one ci
Sinnott
ladies,
en-
aatrix silenced her,
every niche reve the
Vast propo
and glowing
hangings and antique
grand richness ©
crimson
ture
“It is a
such a handsom?
reed.” sald Beat
“1 hope
nervously
catafalque of a bed, w
and concluded t
before the hearth, Two o'el
hoarse old clock a
heard roar of the
Cornish coast, and
i of the wind mid
and the
suspended
pity, as godpapa
apartment to
wa surround
BAYS,
De
riX. as
hearth we shall come
ul victorious
at the
with its
great
mson
We glanced
cri
a ¥ Ye teh
CAnopics, 0 Keep wale
ock chime
the
bove
from the
stables Er) the
by by with
beating brea
we heard und.
Tap, tap, against the
pane! Beatrix became
death, and glanced ov:
with a shudder
- #h
another
tap oaken
as
“Q2iris, they
pered the
are
false bri
coming
fo
lover."
We
the
clung together,
grate Tap, tap,
again. One of our party, a |
miss from the Sussex hills,
to the floor in a swoon.
and then a faint, rust
Beatrix thought of her
bridal night, and rose
trembling dsperation.
“Who's there?
that shook
Tap, tap. tap! No other answer but
that faint, rustling swish
A sort “of heroism, born
red upon Beatrix. Her
flamed, her brown eyes glowed
"T'l this my she said,
"1 berate this ghostly pair.”
And straightway she marched
across the crimson carpet, and lifted
the crimson velvet arras. Her hand
shook like a leaf and her
whitened again, but she pr
finger upon little inob
moved the sliding panel
Tap, tap, tap! again, and then the
carved, oaken panel slid slowly aside,
and friends, not the ghostly pair came
forth, but a great, gaunt, gray old rat,
Beatrix fell down in a faint, but she
had won her diamonds; and she slept
in the haunted chamber on her bridal
Rigite-Now York Weal,
TRANSPORTING SOIL.
ver
came
ittie blond
fell gently
Tap, tap, tap,
ling movement
major and her
to her feet In
huddling
tap, t
sha demanded, in
a voice
of despair,
white cheeks
solve stery.”
cheeks
L.er
which
sxned
+h
the
ing Shipped by the Car Load.
The soil that made Newcastle fa-
mous as the American Beauty rose
city is being brought to Indianapolis
to enrich the beatuful and vigorous
Indianapolis rose, which, like
of the
J. Hasselman,
correspondent
New York Tribune, W.
Plant Company,
cern, that has large greenhouses jast
north of Central avenue and Thirty.
fourth street, shipped two car loads
of the wonderful Newcastle rose pro
ducing earth to Indianapolis last year
He is
more car
now being
benches,
The soll that is
It is a dark colored
kind that farmers eall
its peculiar
its adhesiveness
state, It can
characterise Is
when ia a damp
worked until! it lcoks and feels
but when dried out f(t lies a
compact mass that holds well any fer
hat may
Newcastle
ealeal ruse
be
like
be used on it.
think
producing soll
Iman today
the clay that
the gree
prepared to
At
re
“The people that
is the &
the world,” said
he handied some
was being unloaded in
houses, “but 1 am not
whether that Is true or not
given the
sults in ruse growing of any soll found
Indiana and has also New
national reputation as a pro
of roses that cannot be sur
d. Newcastle roses have taken
and other prizes in na
shows. We are shipping
it is the
Hass
as of
has best
given
passe
Iadian BUSe
taal we
A008
avle, and
We can get it ir
sol! avail
much as
that are b
is about as cheap e
even if we sent t
ym the sir
Newea
arth as
nproved in
sas
and found a ;
found
country here
lay We have
north of Broad Ripple that
have good ro goil, but
made
BErOwW
suffic
that it will
Newea
ng
not int experiment
have
ain
Al
in
and
know why the car
¥ resi
India
Sia
ation likes
go well bre
diana
Indiana
erhaps it Is
likes t carnation equally
has produ mor
standard
any othe;
of the flov
the fore
Hasselmar
Carnatlio
red
be f.
one, is as pretty a flower as can
yund in the carng yn family He
other
the third year
silage
WOrking on several new spe
and has them in
ir development
WHY STARS TWINKLE.
The Effect Produced Upon Them by
Alr Waves.
ean over
infinite mull
aerial
up of an
The great
heads is made
tude of moving currents and stream
of vary density and temperature
all in process of continued change and
ng
adjusts iue to the
heating
atmosphere by the sun
ion at night
ye Baltimore Sun. The
day and cooling by radiat
Atmos
is full of little stream
es of somewhat re
in a shallow
over gravel
stronomer will point
on a bright star and
as to
Waves Or
ng mass semb
i airea
And if
his tole
remove
directly
m
sCUpe
Bound
the evepiece, 80 ook
i
luminated by
thew
upon the object glass |
the light of the star he may see
dancmg in all
these little
gireaming cu
their complexity is
air which
twinkling of the fixed stars
WAVES are passing our
they act like prisms, deflecting
light first this way and then that, pro
ng flashes of the
and sometimes almost
the stars, hat momentarily
appear go out. In hgh, dry «
tries where atmosphere is quies
cent, these are generally dimin
shed in importance and astronomers
noticed that
in such
scintillation of the stars almost
coanes Th the air is quite free
from agitating currents, and
tronomers can make good
tiona
It i=
the
con
matters
of them
by
waves in the cause the
As the
before eyes
th
the
spec tral
extinguishing
they
duel colors,
80 t
to oun-
the
Waves
have localities
the
ere
the as
observa
remark that bu
of the sky the
layli Even as
gome of the brighter
ter sunris
where
dark
worthy of
i hiness
I be =oen
tand
have
explorers in high
the air is very clear
blue 44 could above the at
mosphere the sky ild appear per
black and stars would be visible
trono
bright stars in daytime
using longfocus tel the
dark tubes of which cut off the side
light; and persons in the bottoms of
deep wells have noticed starz passing
overhead. the side light bring recaced
by the great depths of the wells.
A Hard Critic.
A clergyman was rebuked by one
of the ruling «.ders for sauntering on
the Sunday along the hillside above
The clergyman took the
rebuke in good part, but tried to
show the remonstrant that the ac
tion of which de complained was inno
cent and lawful, and he was about to
cite the famous example of a Sabbath
walk, with the plucking of the ears
of corn, as set forth in the gospels,
when he was interrupted with the re.
mark, “Ou sye, wir, | ken weel what
you mean to say, but for my pairt 1
hae nefer thocht the better o them
for breakin’ the Sawbatth."—Geikie's
“Scotch Reminlseences,”
for three hundred years the Obl.
nossa hava mada watarproof paper.
brig
in ght
beon seen af
mountains,
and th
gO
win
s sky
we
by RCOpes,
Why College Athletes
Come Very High.
It Takes Two Hundred Footballs, Four Hundred Hane-~
balls, More Than a Hundred Pairs of special Shoes
and a Lot of Board and Traveling for a ©
By Arthur Camp.
HAT college athletics com e high in these modern
wally Taat theless have them is
positive argument of the majority students fa
Without entering into the discussion, contemplate
CaMmOrk.
is gen
the
days
understood, mist nevel
We
AMONg and uities
with
for
report
of
one may
thelr cost
general
nd
The
interest the new details concerning supplies
the athletics of a great Eastern university
yf the treasurer in this instance reminded Lne wi ter
budget of some small city, considered as a matter of fiscal magnitud:
forth receipts reaching up nearly to $100,000, with total expenditures
the same imposing sum
Of outlay, about two
and the thres athletic teams,
$10,000 for board at “training tables” $7,000 for aporiiong
traveling, hotels and meals, $2,500 for “trophies,” and so on
Hers was what entered into consumption for the football
a single season: 107 pairs of ik ankle supporters, 170 oy
167 uadarjerseys, 20 canvas jackets, guards, leather bells, 9
of “pants,” 70 sweaters, 32 shin guard headgears (leather caps), 431
and ghoulder pads, several hundred leats, 10 “charley-aorse guards
15 silk knee-caps, 189 pairs of hose and footballs
It should be axplained tha! the football squad at the university referred
conslats of about fifty men, including the large and defined
the “regular” ven Each one of the squad during gegson
about $87 in his supply of sporting goods
The smaller baseball squad averaged for the
consumption of sporting goods, wi nearly 400
The high consumption of footbal connotes the
those ovolds, costing about $3 each, ar di
spring and summer, partly tou home pract] It
two of use the has a tends y to '
In catching punts player pract
risk of the deadly fumble anew 1 used in
a fresh ball must be
ovoid is Impaired
“Charley
of the large frontal
harley. hruis
sometimes
Lae
It set
of about
the Crews
figures an
$14,000 fo:
the expenses of
rotund
gOOds,
went for inning
indeed such items in
thirds
and
in
squad du ing
undershirts
shoes, 28
87 n 76
17
shoe (
One
#1 DOW
Si
of
ged
well nucleus
ale the AVETA
man
mi
ein
$100 per
vivid It
Season almost
haseballs 88 a
fac: that some fifty of
stributed to candidates durfag the
appears that after a day of
" and le ts othodox shape
rounded ball only at somes
game, and thus
in
ball Ed
the ’
the match
as the normal are
BUDS Aoon
aorse
Tricky players
metallic guard at
menns thal
ritating eraption
horse’
adopted eal that
The ample stock 170
for frequent changes, to avoid
A supply of 107 pairs of shoes, made 10
a pair, certainly seems liberal on the fa
football man must hie him to a fresh pair at
and a wet day and match si gu oR 1a
carded by the wh with mo
chequer —The Outlook
& &&
Have Geniuses the
Right to Marry?
By Nixola Greeley - Smith.
CORDING to a a
of New Yor
idershirts
an ir
order, an
las Te U
first symptom
iry still
i“ Of
$ s abe
Masale, jisastrous resuils to
&
+ 1
a6 QO
time in
a vi are
temperameat
be absolutely
Undoub
stitution
from the
you )
your wonderful
bell were to
would we not
to
of
LUre
mina—gor
Ble
to be be
Qa
oy
PDOREARRES
oved
far
rules, is you
that of al
If a man who
neighbors wish that
with hia beat
does it—in the name of the
If an amateur tographer
ant spell, or a tendwent’thirt” actor
a self-respecting wease balk at
artistic
bad
the few
Rever
they woul
friend's wi u
artist temperamen
posing As an
out
ho
ar
pho
that would
and because of his
It would be ! n 1
genivs should bar real an fortuns ORES ES yf it from marr
and infil upon the human race the inav¥able . joration that must
from the limitation of its joys and sorrows
it is true that many unquestioned
But they did not do so because t
intelligence does anyihing for
afford
The lives
too however
ane
ne
hey
that reason
tn
of ording
them ready-made ause ;
thinks he would
himself out properls
are hey gat
When a genius comes
measure, and in orde
commandment and
recognize his handiwork
Generall he is vary
life ia decidedly the best one to De
marriage. which has a certain disciplinary value
New York Evening World
&F &
Advice to Young Writers.
By W. A. Alden.
ghould hesitate t i pat to ¥
his style thr
all, find himself, and annot
of another's labyrinth, beg
form is of the spirit, and
takes
until! Moses
into
pula gusset int another
tisappointad in the
bad nd
much
ng write ‘he
He
yrmat ton ©
rou of
approved model first o
do
A 13
in
ing fiom
each wrile: rm i g h in
apirit. The young writer's first object in 1 ing is
not artistic equipment, and he sel works
stroagly appeal to his Imaginalive sensibility hooks he reads simpe
fo- information-—the more of them the better knowledge of natur
and of human history is an essential part of his equipment, the material
which hia imaginative faculty reacts. The initial moment of his
that in which his ows individual note is disclosed to him, known and felt &
his own and not any other's-—the key-note of a harmony which, if
not as to the fu'fiiment of a destiny, will never be taken up by another
Mentors and models have 00 within the charmed circle of this con
templation. The writer has found himself, aad the world awaits a disclosure
This individuality is not laniation: the new harmony takes its place in thy
line of continuous human culture. Bach star shines by its own light, but #
a part of a consteliation —Harper's Editor's Study.
i &r
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By President David Starr Jordan,
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schools have done their” bes: The scholar knows some on
thing thoroughly, and can carry his knowledge into action. Wit):
this, he must have such knowledge of related subjects and o
human life as will throw this special knowledge into prope |
perspective, Anytaing less than this is not scholarship. Th |
fnan with koowledge and no perspective is a crank, a Susuiba |
of the peace, who needs a guardian t5 make his knowladge useful
who has common sense, but no special training, may be a fair pA but t hl
can exert little influences thal makes for progress Thore may be a wisdon |
not of books, but it can be won by no easy process. To gain wisdom or cdge
Th
jividua
inspiration
ects which mos
Other
since the
those
ups!
career
plac "
in school or out, is education To do anything well requires spscial knowledge |
and this is s¢ holars p whether attained in the university or in the school o
life. It ia the man who knows thal bas the right to speak.~The Atlmatic,
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where goods can be pun
chased the
prices, and if a merchant
at lowest
does not advertise and
keep the buyer conven
sant with his line of
goods, how can he expect
to sell them?
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THINK OVER THIS!