ABSOLUTION.
By Arthur Ketchum.
Whan all the
And the
Night
steady stars are Ht
light sleeps
stands
spread
To give her pardon und to
Earth creeps so near to heaven
That s¢ may
mark
they
with pit
ing
arcely one
Where are twain
The benediction of tt
Ainslee’
1
.
o52seseseseseseseseses?
An Old
2 -
HOLT LT ATA TL.
eh
LTATAT
max The two
angry, with blazin
one another,
but
can't
but
can't ———
“You
you
gince
what
wia
pend
sau
what you
never
haven't
we
moon.
€iranger
six month
of me
happ
erable
r for a
face, he
in the
Then a .
his heart. If
could leave
did not, never
“You will
course,” he
remain with me or I
are still my wife-yvou ¢ «till Bound
be good enough not to
jean
proud i
she could
him, then,
had loved
him,
please yourself,
whether
me
answered, but
you
10 Ime,
that”
lien soarcely
Crotaed he
het
against her,
‘Bhe
kis
with 2
ad
never:
sald
her
never lov me” he
bimsell, “never, go!
He found his way to his study, sat
bert
him for
papers |
his
and his
before
his
floor Then
staring blankly
a while, and scattering
heedlessly on the
head dropped upon his hands,
aves were wet
As
trembled
Mary
the
him
the door closed
accepted
he did
S expected plead
ng wiat had
forgive him: she had thought, indeed,
hey might
"He loved
herself did
him hi RO
indeed, not
had
ons;
situation!
she meant to
begin again
never me,” she sald to
not mean to leave
now: 1 owe
my pride to go now
She dragged her steps to her
she must things
Where
know
put her
should go she
and did it matte:
th him sl Hd
There
tant
oney
not
How
woul
miniature I
pret face wi
heard
seen
would have
wore
worag
imbled acy
wad sOm
while
Mand Meadows
CURIOUS HOBBIES.
Man Found a Fortune in Pursu
ing a Fad at His Home
{ the aame
in a
small
)
curious
thea
mee near London it
ing mirrors of all kinds
Bruit this form of
lighted bia friends
invention, if oh
COnn
of
#0 au
can be called,
was turned to sreial
and
purposes,
found very much in demand for
shops and restaurants
An enthusiastic Sheffield dentisi
has preserved a monument of his
sikill In the dental art, in the form
of a pyramid covered with the teeth
of his patients. One thousand eight
adorn this strange obelisk, in men
Another tradesman’'s hobby is that
and trieveles in his
time, all the parts being made of the
wares In his shop. Galvanized von
| duetor piping makes the frame of a
bicycles
the
bias
forms wheel
tin
the
pipe rims, the |
ting spoons, a
bell; nul
and clothes pegs |
pokes are pit |
forms plo plates,
1 h $44
his novel hobby
tion was that of
Oakeley, the
mu
jan, who had a complete set of
cathedrals of the world
tructed eminent architect,
an
and delicate are
15 of noble buildings
supervi
much
work,
RE KISSING 18 UNKNOWN.
Diff.rrent
Endearment.
kindly touch
How Peonle of
press Feelings of
A cir t kis i
Bad Break
tha
dolla
and hope
made up bel
One of the lay
the remar)
the
with
good work with $25.
hame,
‘but
your bo
tart
brother,
God
ho
don’t know
the
YOu,
your
gald chairman,
bless and may
doubled during the year”
Much his a
laughter followed
hall, which
a brother up in front
platform and whispered
“Why, Mr. Blank, a promi
nent undertaker of the town" Lip
may
uginess
tonishment, a burst
any in
when
4]
of
the
from m
war oxplained
the
that's
To Get a Splinter Out,
When a aplinter has driven
{nto the hand it can be extracted by
steam, Fill a wide mouthed bottle
nearly full of hot water, place the in-
jured part over the mouth and press
it slightly.
The action thus produced will draw
the flewh down, and in a minute or
two the steam will extract the splin.
ter, the inflammation Tey It
and convinced. ~~Natlonal Maga.
tine.
boon
algo
be
In France for the privilege of wear
ing men's trousers the government
imposes on women a tax of fifty con
| mes por annum,
SIDELIGHTS OF NEW YORK
REE
a
NEW Yourx Ci
commissioned
will be opened
hool in Washing
outse 16 contin
Injures North Careliea Cotton.
Va The
two weeks are reported
{ Special) heavy
y have seriously injured crops in East-
n Virginia and North Carolina, par-
icularly cotton in Eastern North Caro-
fina, and it is feared that cotton grow-
srs in that section will lose heavily as
x result,
New York (Special). Sweeping re-
ductions in the salaries of-various offi
cials and employes of the Equitable So-
jety were announced by Chairman Mor-
The decreases will amount to 20
per cent. on all salaries over $15,000 pet
wnnum 3 15 per cent. from all annual sal
ries between $0000 and $i5000, both
inclusive: and 10 per cent. decrease from
all salaries above $2,500 and below $0,000
per year, These changes become operas
tive on August 1 next, and effect a sav.
ing of from $150,000 10 $200,000 a year.
i 5 n
20.000 fs. at Cal
yunted to $16,000,000 in 1904, of win
3,000,000 worth went. to
States
has erected a huge building
gidis, »
~whoile fami
wided for. But t
advantage of this hospitaliy more 1
five times in three months
ple
pra
\
hay
The Zuni Indians will not eat bread
that has not been crushed and ground
ap by stone implements, They say tha
the grain by itself denotes goodness and
the stone means truth, so that it
by a meeting of the two that the fullest
benefit comes,
There are about 25000 persons om
ployed in the watch {actogics of Swit
land, not including several thousand en-
gaged in the “house indusiry i
are G27 factories, 218 of wh 3
facture complete watches, hands, sprin;
jewels. ete
HEALTHY TOWN.
wale palientiiy,
once again,
DEFINED
ropy,
my son,
ue SOMO
prompts
relieve
PHILANTHROPY
Ww fo--What is
Father-That
which We
tad"
Gan.
1and
feeling,
we
awfully which
1 spl $
akl somebody elise 10
New
body
ug Io
him Yorker
HAVE BEEN WORSE DEFEATS
feel 0
who is al
of
“Rojestwonsky edn’t
bad.” remnr)
tizen
sorry for the misfortunes
WAYS
othere
“Why
“Well,
boat. Dewey
ws ud 9
not
lost a
1% »
didn't
Togo
small torpedo
even do that"
BADLY MIXED.
“Gentiomen of the jury,” queried
the clerk of the court, “have you fully
agreed to disagree?”
“We have,” answered the foreman
of the bunch “The lawyers have
tangled the case up so that we don't
know any more about it than they
do Chicago Dally News
Homeless children in parts of Aus
tralia are sont to board with neigh
boring families, the authorities pay
ing for their maintenance.