Tlie Symphony of Nature. In all the grand procession of the Years, The seasons wim their changes, subtle, sweet, The too brief summer and the win- ter's sleet, My heart has found the chord ef bliss and tears. brightest hours of all my were set In starry eves, or moonlit summer nights, Or in a golden glory dies thé day, delights, Whose passage left me memory and regret, The life 80 when the east is flushed with morning's rose, Or in a golden dies the day, The folded leaves of memory close And bear me with their magic far away. With sighing wind and wave [ wan- der free— The beauty of the earth gives wings 0 me. Ninette M. Lowater, Sun, un- seSeSesesesasesesesaseaesesasdse The Golden 3 Wedding Gift § Franceska, mentally to put herself in the bride's place, eyed her grandparents with unusual interest To this girl of sixteen fifty years seemed a long time to be married “Do you kmow,” Mrs. Wilson had said that morning to her husband, in Franceska's hearing, “that your father no: mother remember that will be thei; trying your to three weeks today day?” “Father never versaries,” Mr Wilson “Time and again ['ve fairly speechless with because father had forgotten about her birthday. He's always as good as god her, but | say that he's neg fearful ber of opportunit to celebrate.” ‘But,” pursued Mrs. Wilson, estly, “when people have ried fifty thing ought to done like to give them a golden The Farrels did for 1} parents the Bishops—" “Give them it's my opinion it heforehand, woods.” Franceska, her book on the big locked up later, at a prim little flv upright backed chair Her feet touch the floor, but ful precision on the footstool that he: lid remember had replied seen mother been {0 must lected a jes earn- been mar » ne about it. I'd wedding years seems as if FET 18.4] two If vou like if i that ) father'l] mention to the you take Bes elbows flanking living-room tab to gaze ctivils old lady, sitting s in her favorite did Four of the neatest at keep in place. short white curls hung the old lady's thin, countenance, while a high she held a small knob securely in at the back of her head. Grandma Wilson, who, without spectacles, was doing the finest of drawn-work, did not look seventy-two years old. Franceska turned investigating eyes upon her grandfather, who re. clined comfortably in the big rock- ing’ chair. He, too, was young for his age, but if his hair was neatly brushed it was only because Grand ma Wilson had insisted that it should be. Even as Franceska gazed the door bell rang, and the fastidious old lady reached out suddenly to tweak the soft necktie from under his left ear to its proper place under his chin. For the next three weeks there were mysteries under the Wilson roof. It seemed certain that the alert old lady must suspect, hecause <0 iittle that happened ever escaped her; but it was different with Franceska's grandfather, [It was unlikely that he would be aware of the extra loaveg of bread in the pantry and the extra dusting of the parlor. “lI bave begged everybody.” ed Mrs, Wilson, ‘not slve presents; we're not giving this party for the sake of presents. And I've asked them all to refrain from sending anything until the evening of the twenty-fifth.” The golden-wedding day dawned. Although the family watched intently for signs, neither the golden bride nor the golden bridegroom gave any token that the day differed from oth- or days. “It Is very probable,” pondered Franceska, at breakfast time, “that my absenl-minded grandfather has forgotten the date; but surely grand- ma, who remembers the birthdays of every one of her sister's amazing number of grandchildren, has never forgotten her own golden-wedding day! The idea 1s absurd. But why, if she remembers it, doesn’t she men tion it? It seems so strange, Per. haps she suspects the party, and is going to pretend to be surprised.” At noon, except for several large cakes concealed in the dining room closet, the day was still as other days. Yet there was one other dif: ference. QOrandfather Wilson's tle had skewed about until it threatened to dangle down his back; and entire- ly contrary to her usual custom, his bride of fifty years permitted it to dangle, At three o'clock, Mrs, Bain, a well. meaning but bungling neighbor, who never missed au oportunity to blune dor, tere the Wilsons' houses In of side of il comb place dW False [ golden-wedding attire. Within the olrele of her plump arm she carried a glass globe of goldfish, “Now this,” she sald, presenting the gicbe to Grandma Wilson, who was threading a fine cambric needle for nearsighted Franceska, “is what I call a bright and shining idea.” “Yes,” sald Grandma Wilson, in her precise way. “It is, Indeed, a most appropriate golden wedding gift, I shall never see these little fish without thinking of you.” Franceska chuckled silently. Mrs. Bain was not unlike a plump, stupid, blundering fish, but it was clear that the bride was not thinking of this re- semblance, “She does know,” whispered Mrs, Wilson, “But why hasn't she mention. ed it?” But Mrs. Wilson guessed few minutes later, when Mrs, had been disposed of, “Elizabeth,” said Grandma Wilson, in whose cheeks blazed unwontesl spots of scarlet, “I suspect that you have been making plans to celebrate our—my golden wedding. If you have, it unfortunately, too late to undo them. [I'll have to ask you to do one more thing. Bring me my check book.” “There!” sald why a Bain is, ghe, signing her name with firm, determined strokes, “l want Franceska to cash this. Then [ want her to take the money to some jeweler's and buy me a breast-pin— a gold one. Such a pin as a man would buy. Now give me a plain white card. There! Put this beside the pin when it comes and place them both on the table with those goldfish. This is for Mar benefit,” The card read, in a tation of Grandfather Wilson silly very fr : er peculiar hand: SAMANTHA ELLEN WILSON, From her loving husband, NATHAN WILSON. 1856—19%06 “She's angry all through,” sald Mrs. Wilson, on unusual at hey the way errand, has forgotten anything the grandf: he day. She if 1 to remind him of it that forgive me—she wouldn't e she kant going that Maria Quinby know that father forgot the gol day Nothing SAYS do ither, gossiping grand len-wedaing to let you: only have.” happened eming ths rose she'll ever during the din. Nath Wilson, dav 1 his bushes hour to an had spent inlaw’s was eating his golden-wedding dinner now dangled in two shoulder. bride let who pruning #8 neckiie forlorn strings between his blades, and the it dangle, At eight o'clock They, too, resentful the had hit t upon the “Why,” son, excitedly, “this is a complete Fa “But exclaimed Grandpa rumpling his surprise’ | declare his suddenly through the the hall, “Don’t tell forgot,” she whispered let me fix your necktie” A moment later Maria bustied in. She, too, brought fish. Afterward came other with other gifts, goldfish predominated. o'clock the Wilsons were prised possessors of eight goldfish. “It looks.” son, “as if we'd have to have breakfast. And bless my soul! comes Mrs Doty with another globe!” “And there really isn’t anything,” whispered Mrs. Wilson to Frances- ka, “that one can do with goldfish, Al most anything else can be made over, or altered, turned to account, but goldfish" “You see” explained Maria Quin by, amid gales of laughter, “we all read the same list of “Gifts Suitable for Golden Weddings’ in the last number of the Ladies’ Friend ™ The merriment over the goldfish kept the guests from noticing that Grandma Wilson kept as far away as possible from her husband, whose necktie presently worked loose and dropped unheeded to the floor, for he, at least, seemed to be enjoying the occasion thoroughly. But realized that her grandmother not getting out of her only wedding day the pleasure she was entitled, Presently the girl edged closer her smiling grandfather, “Granddaddy,” she whispered, “did you ever see grandma looking any prettier?” “Franceska,” exclaimed the old gentleman, eagerly seizing the girl's round wrists, “I've been trying to get hold of you for the last half-hour! She does look pretty, my dear, but she looks pretty mad, too. 1 haven't lived with her for fifty vears with- out knowing how she looks when I've been stepping on her grass. Now you £0 look in the drawer where I keep my shaving things, and bring me the little box that you'll find back In the left-hand corner.” Five minutes later Grandfather Wilson was stealthily presenting his gilt. It was an old-fashioned brooch containing a curl of golden hair, “Samantha Ellen,” he whispered, “I cut that jittle curl off your head the day we were married. [I've saved it for fifty years against this day." “I've been an old goose for a whole month,” beamed the bride, beginning to suddenly fumble among the laces of her bodice. “I've stayed awake nights, worrying for fear you'd for. get. Here's what I have for you-a locket with my pleture in it.” Shortly afterward Grandma Wilson drew Fraoceska behind tha parlor into anybody Quinby gold- guests By the sar globes of or was io to door. Go,” sald the old lady, in a hushed whisper, “and hide that wretched card. I'm ashamed of my- self for doing such a thing. It would hurt your grandfather's feelings if he saw that card. Be sure—" “1 understand,” whispered Frances. ca. “I'll put it In the kitchen stove.” The guests declared afterward that pair than the golden bridal couple, seated side by side at the supper ta ble, holding hands under the cloth, But Franceska in the pantry whispering to her mother, “fit hadn't been for those blessed, ridicu- lous goldfish everybody would have known that grandmother was wishing hard that she's never married grand father." Youth's Companion, DOG KNEW A SPORTSMAN. Setter That Gave Up in Disguat and Went Home. visiting some last fall relatives in during the “I was North Carolina quail season,” sald a Washington man. “Game was plentiful on the plantation, but as I am a poor hunter and a worse marksman I didn’t par- ticipate in the dally shooting. One fine day, however, my uncle insisted that 1 should take his gun and his crack setter Belle and go over the game preserves, a m'le or so back of the house, and try my hand at the quail, which, he sald, were so plenti ful there that if 1 shut my eyes and let the charge go haphazard with Belle's assistance I would bound to come home with the bag filled. “He handed me his gun, { of cartridges, called Belle ghade of a convenient tree, and, point- me, talked to her as If the inderstood every word he sald, up his instructions to her that he relled upon her to | pilot me right and to bring me home i agaln with lots of birds. From the way the setter looked fromm her mas | ter's face into mine, blink- | ed intelligent and barked i a couple of affirmative yelps, I am free that 1 she under stood every word of the t as well either of us ‘At any rate field with every piloted through the and evinced the in me all the fleld Here » lady on the gpot for { birds flew up in { followed two or three flelds and banged i right and left, ing down. During this noticed that Belle would | WOrk frequently { an inquiring way even came up to me, | my face, gave a litt] | and then started | flushing the birds or “Finally, just as I had about ex all my ammunition without i hitting a single bird I saw Belle sud | denly stop, take az long look in my direction, as though some dog idea of hers had been confirmed Then honnded toward me, gave a few barks when she got near, andoubtedly expressive of the deep | est dog disgust for me as a sports man, and away she gcampered as be ame with a lot from the | ing to | dog | winding i by saving vawned, het eyes to say believe alk | as tarted for manifestation of the pines live. the doz # the joy, and me brush, way over Belle was sure. for the drections 1 interest the quail all over the at birds one could | fasillade | her and look at me in Once twice she looked up into bark two back and worked at with renewed vig flocks away the but not MH 2101 op 0 © or i pended i ashe { and through the woods to the house “1 followed a little later very much crest-fallen From that hour never pald the slightest me during the remainder of my visit, and no cajoling on my part nor com | mands of and discriminating setter | even go much as look at me just reasoned It out that I was a fraud so far as a sportsman was | ra and was | beneath her notice, EBver since then { I have believed in the discriminating | intelligence of | Star, ———————— | of the Entire i Plant, According to the chemical investi gations of Dr. Robert R. Roberts, of Washington, D. C., plant Utilization i is a fiber that can be utilized. | Dr. Roberts has been quietly employ { ed on cotton fiber work for the past five years, and has just reached the stage of his Investigations which would justify results of his discovery. lint cottonseed in five minutes, hand without injuring the germinating qual ities of the geed, nor does it affect the value of the manufacture of oil In this delinting process Dr. Roberts claims a saving of seed waste in planting, eliminating defective geed, which will enable the Southern cotton planter to use the drill machine in planting, obviating, in a manner, the enormous expense of chopping out the surplus cotton stalks, his delinting process will effectively destroy the boll weevil, whether the egos or larvae are lakd in the germin ating point of the seed or hibernat ing in the form of a beetle in the loose cottonseed. The sced can be delinted, he says, for about $8 per ton. Cotton stalks, after the ordi nary process of reduction to a pulp, become by the new process in thirty: four hours a fine fiber, not as long as cotton itself, but similar in texture This fiber, he claims, will make the finest paper in the world, Scientific American, Weaving <stton in Africa is slow and dificult work. A skilled workman THE BAC HIE] OR'S To wed, not to wed; That is the question, Whether ‘tis better To remain single, And disappoint a few women For a time: Or marry, And disappoint one woman-— For life? Lippincott's SOLILOCN OF POLITICS "Does husband faults?" "Mercy, has your admit his let Free I never — Detroit no! him know he any.” Press, CLASSIC SCRAPS ancient Greek and were sald to wage among themaelves.™ I've often read of the mills gods." Washington Herald “The deities battles “Yes of the Roman terrific ABOUT EVEN ‘The scrappums have ‘What's the “Why BaVs separated.’ matter?” she called him dog he *troit she's Press RETIID. MPa “1 spent twenty year long poem.” sald ‘And it didn't “Oh, ves—took IN he take? all 1 had.” tion COUNTERFEITS bill and a good all a vou think Le. $ 3 14 " mocx irtie gQoves “That's Then COD binff’ they are Cour Louisville ADJECTIVE houted the irate This “ HI hore boy laws XN TODE Evers and Haltimore tum EMBARRASSING Remember, the ©1908 viv answered Senator Sorg what Yes hum “that's worries ely watched In cant get Washington man BO Cle times away tha: he Star RAINY DAY MONEY f« vour hasband putting thing f« a rainy day? asked prudent relative I think * answered young Mrs ki him mention sev vesterday that sald best on a muddy track.’ Star by any 3 #0, ‘1 heard ral horses he always run Washington THE WISE MAN. popular fiction is all Tot the girl's father seldom ob the man of her choice.” You're wrong there. He eften ob but he's uvsually wise to 435 anything.” —Louisvill Courier Journal This life io real jects jocts, too é* AGREED is no use denying” said with the high brow, “that problem is a serious af fair Now, down South——" “Dat's straight talk, fur fair” in the man with the loud clothes, “no matter wa't system o' bettin® you foller, yer bound ter git ‘rowed down some time. —Philadelphia Press TO THE of yours,” getting very “There the man this race put BOSS said the long and UP beard “ia “That merchant ugly.’ “Yes, sir” replied Adam Upp, hie bookkeeper: “I'd like to shave it off” “Well, why don’t you?” “Well, you see | made a vow some years ago that I wouldn't shave uatd [| got a raise in salary.”—Catholic Standard and Times, ASSURING, “Pardon me,” sald the er on a marketing expedition, are these eggs strictly fresh laid?” “Absolutely, ma'am,” replied the grocer promptly. “The farmer [ pur chase those eggs from won't allow his hens to lay them any other way.” —~Milwankee Sentinel, housekeep WHEN HE WANTED HER. . 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The male part of the insur | gents were urmed with pistols, cut: | every other weapon necessary te break open my brother's house; and the women were all of them armed | with their aprons full of paving | stones. The ferocious and furious mob began to throw showers of | stones into my brother's coach, at his | coachman’s head and his horses; they wounded my brother in the temple, sheltered himself by holding his great square official purse before him he would have been stoned to death before he arrived (through the back yard) at his own house, where, with several smithy sledges, they were working hard to break into his hall door, while some others of them had ropes ready to fix up his lamp iron to hang him the moment they could find him-—when 1 arrived disguised in my kitchen maid's dress, my blue apron full of stones. ff mingled with this numerous mob and addressed a pale sickly man, saying: ‘My dear Jjew’l, what'll become of hus! 1 am after running from the castle to tell yeas all that a regiment of hos is galloping down here to thrample hus, ete. Oh! yea, yea, where will we go?" Then they cried, ‘Hurry, hur. ry--the hos is coming to charge and thrample hus! 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