THE DOORWAY.
En the heart of the day I strayed to
the heart of a tangled wood,
And there, like a dream, before me a
decolate portal stood.
Btrange and solemn and sombre fit
stood—and [ was alene;
Mystery fell like a fog; rear swept
by lke a moan.
It was belted strongly above, and
bolted below again,
And one of the bos was Sorrow, and
the other bolt was Pain.
Two dim lights hung in the shadow,
two red and misty spheres,
And my soul sank as [ saw them, for
I knew they were Blood and
Tears.
was lost behind back
ward I dared not go;
1 beat upon the portal, and my heart
broke with the blow,
The
way mae,
and
d the bolts to move
through the dreaded
and the other side was
Bruised, and bleeding,
I fore
1 passed
way
Love!
~Ella Heath,
rms"
g Cupid’s
| Mechanism
a
daoor-
in Lippincott’s.
BY WALTER RICH.
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He stood listening. It w
most delightful sound that can reach
a8 mus own
compczitions being played
pleta stranger. It is all the
lightful when the composer
titled to the adjective
has not often submitted
perience.
On cr two people, who Ene
they ware talking about, uss
that if Charlie ard had
born se enormously rich,
have achieved
ble in musical
had written
merit, which, however,
signed to tickle the pm
known only to a smal
noisseurs.
He stood
smile of pleasure o
piece was bein
gble accuracy
snd his hands
time to the ry
nodded approval.
He had come to Switzer!
ramble, and had not
greeted by the
own works.
céased, and,
same out of
Sounds had
gracefully
susly Ameri and unds prat
ty.
the
iclans’'s ears—one of his
Bar
something
art. As {it
one or two pie
being
ear, were
band of con-
not
blie
:
i
i
there
inconsciously
thm,
“Married,” reflected Charles Bar-
sard, “but wond thought—"a
widow.”
Their eyes met. In a small
hotel it is possible to speak even to a
prétty without an introduce
tion, if gives one a decent ex-
cuse,
Her eyes, in addition to being
bright and intelligent, were agreeable,
and bowed. I fancy I have to
fhank you for an unusual! pleasure.”
he said with a smile. “It isn’t often
P hear my c mpositions played so
eharmingly. In fact, io
truth, it isn't often that I hear
played at all”
She looked at him for a moment in
doubt. Then her face flushed a lit
tle with pleasure. “Are you, then Mr.
Charles Barnard?” she asked.
“l1 am that much neglected individ.
wal,” he said.
& very fortunate person.”
Swiss
woman
she
he
tell the
them
munity of interest, which
young people mistake for love at first
sight. They were not exactly very
young; she was perhaps eightand-
twenty, and he was about seven years
plder; but they were instantly aware
of the community of interest,
“I am very fond of music,” ghe said.
"1 think I may say, without affecta-
tion, I am passionately fond of it, and,
pf course, I admire your ‘Danse des
Fees.” 1 suppose everybody
who knows it.”
of cheerful cynicism.
R is admired by about a score of inti
mate friends.”
She opensd her eyes widely.
® not popular?” she asked.
“Never likely to be.”
“Why”
“Heaven alone knows!” he sald
sarelesaly. “Between ourselves I sup-
pose it isn't good enough.”
“If you were not so delightfully
frank, I should believe you were prac.
YHeing the piscatorial art.” she sald
with a laugh.
“1 admired your playing of it.” he
remarked bluntly,
She looked at him with a pretty
#ttle pucker of doubt. “Please don't
bake game of me,” she sald. “I had
0 idea the composer was within sar
thot.”
He insisted on the excellence of her
Jlarins. and she continued te look
btful, as If she were not quite
pure that he was not making game of
, than which nothing was farther
his méad,
But ther became friendly. There
were mountains to be climbed, and
“It
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they climbed them together. Mrs.
Weston was active and unaffected.
She climbed quite as well as he aia,
and sesmed to enjoy it.
Musie was tabooed from
versatlion, at bis request,
“I Hive in an atmosphere of music,”
he said, "and I have come to Switz.
erland for fresh air. I write stuff
that nobody wants to hear, and you
play stuff written by me So we are
bound together by the bond of eccen-
tricity.”
She looked at him curiously. He
was not the first musician she had met,
but he seemed to be quite different
from her notion of what a composer
ought to be. His hair was not long
and his was not venly. He
barrister or a doctor;
and very like a man
man puzziad her. She liked
apart from music As
became intimate, they be
more confidential. Mr. Bar
rd all the late Joseph
RBPOKE
the con-
dress
like a
clean, cheerful
This
him
they
looked
quite
nore
CAMS
avd has
nard hea
168 yt
with sin
let him know,
y oaly possible
ymen, that she was wealthy.
“You don often hear of a man
making a fort by music,” he sald.
She and
thirty
1
ty or
with a
hand on my
smile,
heart
SVar sarncl as
lot."
npathetically.
many
Her
face
a music les-
use he was not
himself
le to bo obliged
wers and energy on
n one has
she
LW ROO were
struggling for fa
midst of
Know
might turn
work if he didn't
ing.”
And
her heart,
poverty. “I
who
none man
excellent
earn a liv.
treasured the saying in
thinking it applied to him-
nearly a
tel—for It
ordinary
re neces
Men
But it
g 3
in 18
w® as » rod
his arm. There
othar visitors
about an hey it out on the ver
anda and gaze mountain they
had climbed
He
and
red
put her arm
she submitted
to him to dc
and if |
have laughed at hin
to order. But the psychological mo-
ment had arrived When she wished
him goodnight, he kissed her. She
laughed at him softly, but not a word
was sald about a deep, dignified pas
sion
I'm
getting
afraid this mountain air is
into our heads.” she said.
“Makes one feel ripping, doesn’t
ie?” he said unpoetically.
But the following morning he spoke
being married as {f it was
all arranged.
“Ara we golag to be married?” ghe
asked, raising her eyebrows.
“We are, if you think you can trust
yourself with me,” he observed
“I think I might be willing to do
that,” she sald quietly, “If you really
wish it."
“1 do,” he replied. “I have never
before told a woman [ loved her.”
“You haven't mentioned it to me
yet,” ghe sald with a twinkle in her
eyes; “but I think [ understand what
you mean. What about your career?”
He looked at her in astonishment.
iis career? He had never heard of
it, and would not have thought of
using such a word.
“Perhaps my-~my money may help
you to make a name,” she said, rather
timidly.
Then he understood. It accountea
for one or two odd remarks she had
made. She beliosved him to be a
struggling musician, fighting long
odds,
“But I Rope you don't reckon on
my becoming famous,” he said. “1
don't know that I have ever tried
to be, though 1 will buck up, if you
wish it. But you ought ro understand
that I have not been hampered by
lack of funds.”
Then he gave a rough idea of the
very satisfactory state of his finances,
“What a shame,” she said, “1
thought | was going to help a strug.
gling genius.”
“You may help a struggling man.”
he said gravely, "but not a struggling
genius.”
“I had accepted; you insisted upon
it,” she said laughing. "But I'm not
at all offended at hearing the true
state of affairs. At least we can
newer suspect one another of being
mercenary.”
Whey were strolling bagk to the
hotel after a morning ramble.
of their
“Suppose we go in and have some
music,” he said “Isn't it funny, 1
haven't heard you play since the day
I arrived?”
She turned scarlet from her chin
to her brow, but he did not observe
it.
“I remember standing and listening
to it,” he continued happily. “I be
lleve my heart went out to you at
onee, Hullo! What's the matter?”
She turned white. “I have de
ceived you horribly,” she said. “But
really, 1 hardly gave it a thought. 1
can’t play the piano at all.”
He looked at her in astonishment.
“Then who was (t?” he asked. “I'l)
swear there hasn't been any one stay-
ing at the with a touch
that"
“It was mechanical
things," “You know,
you wind them up and they strike
It-—it had been gent to the
was taken
happened to
when you
playing
hotel like
one of those
she gald weakly
nots i
hotel on approval and
AWuy the n I fay i
put in your piece, and
choose to think I had been
it, I—I-l let you,”
She was nearly crying, becauss
understand his expression.
‘I'm awfully sorry,” she whispered
didn't
fact, I meant to
she
with trembling lips. “I
to docelve
mean
you in
tell you, but
They had seated themselves on the
seranda to drink tea and he had toss
Now he reached for
it and stuck it on his head-—askew
as usual,
“Waoere are you going?” she asked
putting down her cup
“I'm going town,” ha
if that jeweler chap has anything
You haa
into said, "to
SO
nt in the way of rings
with
er come me.”
aid mee}
here,” don't
that the
between one of those me
look
tell anyons
lifference
enanical
But I'm rather
enough,” he said
vou like
Queen.
14 nn ryey od
giamonas
FIRST AMERICAN COINS.
Copper Half Cents Were Issued From
the Mint in 1793.
The Treasurer of the United
May 6, 1903,
cent pleces. This is the
in the history of the country
any coins have been
for redemption. It is more
century half-c
Is nearly fifty
.
States
redeemed two half
first time
that
presented
than a
such
since the first
was coined,
the
minting them
Possibly not noe person in a thou
sand now living in the United
ever saw a half-cont piece
The last annual
rector of the Mint,
that 7.885 hewne coins.
geniing
and It
since Government
States
the Di
82. &h
TET rt ¢
IWS
page
t
tee Was the coln
enjoys t
denomination ever
h
r the first
first wh
discontinued The
tes Mint
nd copper
do
was established
and
Half the
total number of half-cents {ssned were
1810, after w.ich
year thelr coinage, with few excep
None was coined
for circulation from 1812 to 1824. nor
from 1836 to 1848. Finally, in 1887
their coinage, with that of the big
cent, was discontinued On
haif-cents
cents were [ssued in 1783.
coined previous to
inst years of their coinage, they prac
had disappeared from the
channels of trade
The neads of adopting the half-cent
as the lowest valuecomputing fac
tor for a coin were made in the early
days of the Republi Colonial half
cents and British farthings of the
same commercial value were then in
circulation, and many
priced and solf in half-cents. With
the progress of the nation values
rose and the needs for a half-cent dis
appeared, and their use, following the
decade of the century, was al
most entirely confined to multiples.
While all other discontinued types
and denominations of United States
found oblivion, the half
is the only one of which the
articiea were
fact has
been ene of frequent comment and In
quiry from mint and Treasury offi
cials,
Large quantities of half-cents are
to be found In the stocks of coin
dealers. The commonest dates are
sold at a good premium and the ex.
tremely rare ones are worth their
weight in gold.
Ferran Zarbe, of 8t. Louis, was the
man who sent the two-hall-cent pleces
to Washington for redemption. He
now prizes highly the little voucher
calling for "one cent,” which was sent
to him with that amount of current
coin in exchange for the two half
cents he had forwarded,
To Keep Away.
“Now that [| am engaged,” said the
young man, “l suppose it is up to me
to resign from my club”
“Not necessarily,” replied the sage
from BSageville, “&!l you need to do
is koop away from it until after you
marry and settle down again. Chl
cago News,
.
Wooden plows are still in use |
Paraguay,
J a ee
WOMANILY DEVOTION
Dorothy Wordsworth
Mendelssohn are
sorthy instances of 8
80 they were, But
four Is sald to have
to her brother In
hearted a fashion, says the
Tribune. Although a small,
woman, she manages her brother's
tates, engages and manages his serv
ants and as his busine
generally. At the
companion,
and Fanny
often cited as
sterly
Miss Alles
devoted her
Bal
quite as
acts
game time she is his
always ready to
play to him, to tramp a dozen miles
around the golf
with him in his a
own brother
much
from
links or take a
io Probably
pin
her
how
him
BCAr
petty wor:
NAVAJO BLANKETS.
are
roving
Navajo blankets nade
gquaws
wash, dye and spin the
being woven on looms
designs, largely geometrical
noticeable fact that no two rugs
exactly alike, many
dreds of rugs have been made by
women of this tribe. After the
has been prepared it takes a month
of steady work to weave a rug four
by six feet. The patterns of most of
these are ail, the leave quite cl
ana one that, al
though the have never
of this
into
i
are
although
the
wool
urious fact is
Navajo: been
the design of the
Haven |
n ip
Christianize
is {requently use NEW
“Ler
OLD MAIDS
ing
BRTA
have an
tha 4
having
When
toward
prospect
abroad for a
two she wi i
fri and,
that ber
nds as a widow
may subpect !
husband gted
imagination of those who
mn is useful
never ex
im, yet the flict
status In wm
avoid the
tions
ing.”
“unappropriated
OVE
the vous
4 Drove it
not
does In
Europe
dominate
Ameries
Japan's
tures
Saxon
One n 1
in Japan, not even
hahy { tid
tenderness
with
om soas a
human
by
the one impassab)
fixed between
which is endeavori
become one of us
are happy, with
piness that is
atmosphere
never thrills, the Western
Eleanor Franklin's Japan L
Leslie's Weekly.
ng so earnestly
And yet the pe
a simple
charming It
that mi
sweet
RED COAT. WHITE
“Angela’
Sphere: 1
red
SKIRT
The London
the fashionabie
& popular abroad
with well who
wealthy enough to possess half a
dozen coats and at Harrogate inst
week f wellknown woman was wear
ing one with a white cloth skirt. The
coat in question had quite a short
fitting basque and was nt
abruptly from th
writes. in
spoke of
ing
dressed women
coat as b
are
AWAY
¢ part below the bust
where the narrow tapering r«
met. At the waist and on the fronts
were two dull gold buttons a
Iarger than those which fastened
double-breasted white cloth oat
which was cut very low to show the
lace chemisette. As emphasizing the
favor shown for short
fitted Into the coat in question reached
only to the sibow. but were fairly full
and finished with a Joosely-plaited
frill that was cut narrower at the in
side seam and widening out
the elbow at the back. From beneath
it came a second frill of lace meeting
the long white gloved, whilst the
toque was composed entirely of white
lace with an osprey and bunch of
bright red carnations.
vers
size
Fh
if
waist
sleeves those
PROTECT BABY'S EYES
It ia recognizable that an increas
are under the
glasses. It is very natural for us to
attribute this weakness to strenuous
habits of study, to overtaxing the
aye, ote, and by applying this casual
explanation we are very likely to stop
thinking further. In this way one
may quite unconsciously close his
eyes to other more subtle and far
reaching causes of this weakness, To
fllustrate this point the writer haa
taformation from an elderly lady of
observing tendencies and of long
practical experience. This lady says
much of the weakness of young peo
ple's oyes must certainly Le the re
IWant’'s eyes from bright 1xht. Little
Caps va oldfashioned sunbonnet
for the baby; the baby buggy much
taken out into the sun vs erib in
lights burn-
night va. economy's restful
these are some of the fea-
considered This {a3 but
a single theory where many doubtless
the
the
exist, but it is a very reasonable one,
{reorge P. Wiillams, in The Epi
tomiat x
NEW TEA TABLE FADS
With the approach of the
town importers and
Japanese and other Oriental wares are
forth a tempting array of
for table or cart
offering the
tea
réeded
social sear
dealers In
sstting
tea
The
broad,
VErY newest
low, shallow
has entirely sup
high
the
cups neretofore as
tea services These
as broad as or broader a
than the ordinary famil
and not
inches In
in the
exceedingly
ing
than an
They are
eggshell patterns, with
fine and translucent
Wedgewood is alse
witn
more
height pret
For use these COM es
Spoon, almost 8 smal as
coffee spoon n fa
tg her
CAn employ the smal
already uses for demitasse
the hostess sele
she
years the vogue hag been
odd and widely
cups, but
plete sels
The lat
Satsuma ware
laid work
BOPNeR,
tion of
now the demand is
HOW
0
“yer
rived
curred
and tallors
of the
iners
dresg problen
ybiem,
Paris
ATAART
while we Americans
correspondent
ing always
influence of clothes, wou
,
Against
ak of © ' ly irreproa
haracter icoats and
powerfully in
judgment ac
reward of my
roped
Yad vs 24 )
bindings shal
the final corded
on ha » 1
and the mortal
Can you believe we will have zhort
overskirts this fall?
Next to white liaen there is hardly
any material for immddiate wear as
#atizfactory as white mohair for suits
lace are let im
8 waist of em
or pannier
Medallions of ecru
effectively to
broidered white lawn
Broderie Anglaise, or
broidery, Is a trimming for linen
gowns that is growing in popularity
amazingly, and for linens it is ex
ceedingly appropriate
Withia the past two or three years
there have marked im
provements in {runks, particularily in
the way of trunks whore contents
even at the very bottom can be gotten
at without least troubl
Now while the fashion prevails for
going without hats every woman will
be interested in the new back and
side combs, both mounted and un
mounted, amber, shell and the parti
cularly pretty fashionable white ones
Brown is to be a very good colot
this fall—all shades in all kinds of
vory
eyelet
em
been some
the
Plain colors and smooth cloths are
SeARON
Don’t get a lavender veil
haven't a lavender dress to
if you
wear
Hats have a big velvet bow on top
of the crown,
Skirts pleated on yokes are shown
again in the autumn models.
are very smart looking and wear well,
Now is the time to lay in a stock
of really pretty jewelry.
Glass Writing Surfaces.
Glass is used as the writing sur
face of the deaks in the new postoffice
at Southampton street, St. nd, Lon.
don, England. It answers its purpose
well and js easily kept clean.
HOUSEHOLD TALK.
Cucumber Pick es. Pack
very small cucumbers in glass jars.
Mix one cup of salt, one cup of sugar,
and four quarts of vinegar, and pour
into the jars until full Put a
of horseradish root and a little red
pepper on top and seal tight.
Small
piece
Tomato Soup—Put
threequarters of a
and
LOmMAalo
into a saucepan
pound of toma
tender, or use 8
Add the onions
tho
toes, boil till
tin of pulp
. proceed
soup, and
t
same way, omitting, however, the po
tatoes, and adding a bouquet of herbs
Fs) “ £3 42 ¥ 4 o
and a teaspoonful of Iga
he sat and
preserving xett
WHO «
Green
ream
B
: 3 .
keeping a shoe
ubbers to make
Kness
newspapers, they can be safely stored
without fear of rust
Alum, the size of a hickory dis
solved in a pint of starch, wil bright
en the color in muslins, ginghams and
calicoes after washing.
Grass stains on linen should
soaked for a few moments in
seme, then washed in very hot
with a generous supply of soap
If non-rust hairpins are used to
fasten them down, curtaing can be as
nicely dried on a good thick grass
plot as in regular stretchers
Several thickness of newspapers
aid between the bed springs and mot.
tress are equal in warmth to another
mattress. Lald between the blanket
and quilt they equal an extra bianket.
Clean ¢nameled ghoes with sweel
milk after all dust and dirt have been
removed, allowing the milk to remain
on for a minute, then wiping with a
soft, dry cloth
Medicine can easily be administered
to a cat by mixing it with lard and
rubbing it on the forelegs near the
shoulders, where it can be licked off,
but not rolled on.
A fair substitute for maple syrup
ie made with equal pants of grann-
lated white and very dark brown
sugar holed with onehalf the quan
tity of water until of the desired
thickness, When old two or three
drops of vanilla extract is added.
There is now made a “frying
shield,” an appliance which fits onto
a frying pan, preventing all possibil-
ity of the fat running over on the
range and causing the disagreeable
odor of burning fat.
it may take a very few more min-
utes in the preparation, but the effect
is sufficiently attractive to be worth
the effort if escalloped codfish is
cooked in individual baking dishes
having buttered bread crumbs on top.
In fact, all creamed dishes are at-
15 #
nus,
be
kero
water
in frying croguettes in deep fat be
sure to plungs the wire basket in the
hot fat before the crogqueties are
placed in the basket, otherwise they
may adhere to the wire and fall apart.
when lifted. If food to be cooked.
in deep fat is warmed before put lato’
the fat, the latter will not be cooked.