THE DANCE. The Iamp of silver and the lamp of gold Make all the shifting and bright, We meet, we gaze we hold, Ve clasp and move together Hght, laughter, talk, shall be done We may not linger mark, must depart, or sun, TR prospect fair When and movement past the hour's We unhelped by moon dark. Edward Lucas White Mazaz ter in Alnslee’s ine. Frazee RBRAPAPREMI NBA RB RGR 5 {THE OUTCASTS GRATITUDES | A TALE OF THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. & The Hardimont was Aix, his young Duc de in in Savoy, for the of famous mare, Perichole, up since the cold she had taken at the Derby. He finishing luncheon, when, casting a careless glance at the paper, he read the news of disaster of Reichshoffen. He drained his glass of Chartreuse, flung his napkin on the restaurant table g his valet orders to pack; two hours later he took Paris ex- press, and, on arriving, the recruiting office and In spite of having led, teen to twenty the enervating life of a creve—the word then current—of having brutalized himself on the race course and in the dressing rooms of ngers, stances like these recalled foreibly him that Enguerraud de had died of plague in the same day as St. Louis de Hardimont had Grandes Compagnies lin; and th mont was ing with Maison-Rouge though he was imbecile the prima risiennes.” ing that a French on rush to his hideous impression of a face, Thus is was that early In ISTO, having was ave the hastened enlisted from nine- 80 five, petit operetia si to Tunis on the that Du at Francois Henri de killed at the Gues- Hardl- charg- Done up under Fontenoy, by his s«¢ liaison with Lucy donna of the the young duke, battle had been French soil, felt on learn- lost by his experienced blood head ar blow in the Novem. returned Paris longing to de Hardimont, ind to De See redoubt o hastily fortified position the ns f the Bicetre 1s v 1 it Was 11 i ook ng planted protected by fort. spot muddy of the an aband« arbors lished Laer fighting where Brans¢ of bore of the look of had vedd nad caved Abs cent rabbit, wo tiled crosswise by a ri thing popular amu days. And over all ter 3 clouds At Stood motionless, his Chasse over his shoulder. his down his es hiz numb in pockets shivering ander ing himself up to his sombre the soldier of defeat gazed wit broken evgs at den in fog, whence rose ever: minute with a sullen detonation the white ball of smoke of a Krupp gun Suddenly he discovered he was hungry Kneeling, he drew from his haversack, lving against the wall near by, a big bunch of army bread having lost his knife, he used his teeth. and took a bite. But a few mouthfuls were enough; the bread was hard and bitter; there would be no fresh supply tin then Allons! fering was not all pla And fortunately at moment, suddenly he was vividly reminded of what he used to call his hygienic breakfasts when on the morning following a sup. per of a heating nature. used seat himself near a ground-floor win- dow of the Cafe Anglais. and order, mon Dieu! the lightest fare! an asparagus omelette waiter, knowing his habits, bbon recalled with eruel iro sements of angry, hate the tavern door t slung shoved ¢ hands trousers, Yield reverie, kept on the oR of his red - heepakin h heart hid- ’ al oO . & the slopes, haif tomorrow, if gold 1n- this he ty ville, comfortably Fichtre de fichtre! Good old days! He would never, never get used to this pauper’s fare, And, in a moment of impatience, young man tossed the rest of bread into the mud. At the same instant, a ped out of the tavern: picked up the bread, walked a short distance, wiped it on Md sleeve, and began devouring it greedily. Henri do Hardimont, already ashamed of his fastidiousness, looked pityingly at the poor devil who showed such a good lying in its basket, soldier step. appetite. He was a long, lank, ill built young fellow, with fever-hollow- od eyes and a hospital beard. and so thin that his shoulder-blades stood pote, “You are hungry, comrade?” said the other curiously. “As you " returned his mouth full, and the in fellow, no wise see, me If I had known my have been of use to yon, thrown it away, “Excuse bread could I would not sald the duke. “There's no harm done,” “I'm not so particular.” same,” sald the gentleman, of me, and I am soggy mustn't carry opinion of me, and as good cognac in my flask, We'll drain it together.” man had finished eating; and he drank a swallow; was an have “All the was stupid But you “ it a bad some bleu! The the the “And your name? “Hardimont,” replied the duke, pressing title and particle. “Et toi?” “Jean Victor. I've only lately been transferred to this company. I'm § I was wounded was well off good Chatillon Ah! 1 hospital. What broth they give you there! But it a scratch: dismissal, and ing begins again you like, comrade, all my born days.” The speech startled who had su himself a regretting the cuisine Cafe Anglais The duke gazed at companion in horrorstricken amaze ment. The so ed awkwardly, his white the widst of his earthy face, he understood that a confidence of him: “Tenez,” he said, ing to “ti and “thou” was starv- me if nungry The lieve here 1 For I've am! bel been the voluptuary moment of the rprised ' 3 idier smu wolfish teeth, suddenly ceas oe’ “tenez, let to warm our fortupate— us and down a bit I will tell never Victor feet, and things My nan Jean—Victor, and nothing am a foundling. My only You you heard before re is further, for 1 the Hospice our little jest childhood, In sheets were white on dormi y: we the gar quite in the tor played den, there was oung, dying and sister, as wax taper—she of sumption to walk with the other hil used to and her brow uit at was whose pet with her better than to pl because RY iren, against her hot hand after skirt my first ne put thin, on twelve, my the wretchedness began communion, ministrasis aad pu ne out to of The ad apprentices! hair-seg rs the Faubour; trade at can't suspect month istration know ev that the Ah! you and doesn’t are being exploited. surprised to see me pick bread up out of the mud! Allez! I'm used to it. I've picked many a erust out of the barbage heaps, and, they were too dry, | them night in my wash-bowl times there were finds, to be half-nibbled buns from schoolboys’ baskets—I used to hang around the schools when on errands. And, when the apprenticeship was there was the trade that, ag 1 you, doesn't half feed its man. I tried other things, 1 warrant von. I put my heart into my work. I've been shop-boy, mason's boy. floor.-pol- isher—God knows what! Bah! One day the work would give out, the next I'd my place. In short. I never ate my fill-<thunder! what tortures I've felt passing a bakery! Luckily for me at such moments I always re. membered the good sister at the Hos. pices who so often told me to be hon. ervthing iren are let goak Some. aver, told Oh, loge on my forehead I enlisted: sou Finally, at eighteen, know as well as | Now it's almost laughable—here come siege and famine! You see, 1 wasn't lying just now when 1 told you I'd always been hungry.” The young duke was good-hearted. fellow-man, by a soldier whose uni form made him his equal, moved him deeply. Fortunately for his clubman’s reputation for sangfrold the night wind dried in his eyes something that threatened to dim them. “Jean Viet. or,” he sald, “if we both survive this terrible war, we shall nraet again, and I hope to be of some use to you. But for the present, as there 8 no baker on the outposts but the cor. poral, and as my ration of bread is twice the size of my appetite, you as * AN VY comrade must share with me, fiettied.” The two men shook hands heartily; then, as night was falling, and as they were worn out hy long hours and con. stant skirmishing, they re-entered the tavern, where a dozen soldiers were lying on straw; throwing themselveg down side by side, they sank into a heavy sleep. Toward midnig awoke—hungry, had swept moonbeam, That's ht, Jean Victor probably, The wind away the clouds, and a slipping through a hole in roof, lay on the falr hair of the young duke, slumbering like Endy mion. Still at his com rade’s kindness, Jean Victor was gaz him with naif admiration, when the sergeant opened the door and called the flve men whose turn it was to relieve the sentinels of the outpost, The duke was among them, did not wake when his name was called. “*Hardimont!" geant, overcome repeated the ser “lf said you've no objection, sergeant.” Jean Victor, rising, “I'll take he is sleeping so well, and 8 my comrade.” “As And you please.” when the five men the snoring began again. Half an hour later, shots hasty and at hand were heard. In a second man was on his feet: the sold- fers left the tavern, stepping cautious ly, their fingers on their trigger peering down the road, white in a moonlight ‘But what duty tonight,” sg id Some one replied vour place.” At this running down “Well? they as halted, breathless “The Prussians tack; we are fall doubt.” “And “Phay Jean Victor “What?" cried the vA were gone, every ia $7 1 the duke. , “Jean Vict time was on for went in nt was seen them. he mome a soldier toward when the road ked him, an at the are making on re- back sentinels? except other the are coming-—all poor duke, bullet | the head groan.” o'clock one night last ub with his Comte de Saulnes; hb hundred and Toward two winter the neighbor, had lost a had a headache “If you have we will wa me good “Ag duke left the cl the few louis 3 ol Andre, io jection, the no Ik home; alr will vou like, old horrible thet CITF 6 coupes h hays COLIATS, ordered up the toward They turned started anda Sud ir overt the Madeleine something boot th we vl coated w zement eyard in the worl sey # Couns, faintly An re French of slat ‘ Franc THE CANALS OF MARS. ir Existence as a Proof of Life on the Planet. been gaid.” | a in his article Mars,” in McClure's has s0 far was The Walde “What We About when our earth Know pnhabitants will de ily upon the water su ¥ the Arctic ip ; ort means ’ melting i and snow of Antarctic be conducting Oceans, a gigantic eff to the floods to and devise some polar spring the parched zones. To polar seas is made will of and equa Mars the unlocking of the of much moment the annual inun iation of Egypt by the Nile Assum that Mars is inhabited by beings ourselves, it is rea infer that they would dig guide the freshets to those regions most sadly needed would fmd signs of Martian gence, we must accordingly trenches and sluices “In the hands of Schiaperrli, Lowell Pickering, and a few others, the tele scope has revealed to us long, dark stripes which Schiaperrii called ea nals, and the discovery of which may well be numbered among the most noteworthy astronomical achieve ments of modern times, They are in truth the life lines of the planet, Their existence was doubted for years be cause no astronomer, with the excep tion of Schiaperrli, who saw them first, had been able to catch even a glimpse of them. Long after, a few painstaking observers at last succeed ed in discerning them (for they ap pesr only in flashes, as it were, by reason of the currents in our atmos phere), their reality was doubted Some of the very men who had seen them refused to believe their own eyes, arguing that the stripes were merely optical illusions induced by eyestrain. Two years ago, Mr Lampland, of Professor Lowell's staff, performed the very remarkable feat of photographing them, thereby for ever disposing of the assumption of their illusory character.” ——-———- An English sea captain who died the other day at 80 had crossed the English channel 30,000 times in his 63 years ef service, as as sonable to huge tre the water is nches to where If we intelli look for poles CH OUSE S£410LD, n/YO 7E. 5.#] Aare UMBRELLA. when CARE Always jot In use, ind dry. ile down. sracking silk, OF THE an umbrella After it becomes wet open When dry with han This prevents unroll stand method VHITE WALL All-white watered has proved to be the women fastidious the over-flowered cretonne exceedingly and nerves, says of which white PAPER paper for relief sought taste papers walls by the that io of from tiresome “Vogue,” the walle furnished character, became so the eye effect of a are papered is with cretonnes of a is charming room and choice MAHOGANY old made oil, the and lastly, tw alcohol, Ver should b POLISH FOR excellent furnizure may of olive vinegar, of pure preparation polishing being after soft dus Indian ma of BAL An polish for hogany wineglassful quantity of tablespoonfuls little of this used at a time, ward effected by ter old News be “y means of & or silk handkerchief apolis LINEN mending TABLE idea quicke: MENDING Here is a good table linen that is satisfactory than darning by hi Thread sewing machine 100 hoops cloth for and more ind. Ww ith fey ¥ yous 4 ” \ vr yf cotton: siip a pair of embroi the e the rang the under foot: ai where hetween hoops, to the worn flat side machine the , and as them thread of the comes next bed of the Do not hoops hold ma with urp lower foot Take wou run the and forth then t work back the the cloth other way be surprised wi and work You cloth is will en the laundered at the the job faction of knowing new smoothne atness of and that f life lease of have taken on a napkins clothing ma) linen Breaks in tears in unde; isfactorily ~lndianapo USES FOR SODA A weak solution of the Keep pinch of soda in color in a flowers fresh the a 1ittle %¢ a litle nuts ce, covering onnaise dressing Plain { brown one-quarter of a 1 of pint teaspoonful of butter two tables fuls of molasses: boll for thirty utes, stirring all the th dropping in cold wales Fils vanilla, Turn into pan and squares Poor Man's Cake—To a scant « sugar add one egg, tablespoon of but ter, two cups of flour, of baking powder, half cup of water and flavoring. 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He slung and put on mot At away ferry 101 rest in ping ¢ the India them raging po; in q Y. back on Bu iver, the man whom Joe wa riving said, “Yo had better us and hurry on inte Oregon. getting ail there a certaln in journey leave Provisions are scarce We shall for the children “All right I can take ¢ self.” Without a morsel of food Joe Watt and Elisha Bowman struck out with their rifiles—and Joe's boots “If we could only eat the boots! gighed Jare to the need are of " Joe the lacerating sagebrush. “How are you going to get down?" inquired the boatman, when every the Hudson Bay Dr. MeLoughiin, stood Joe Watt, to get down?” “I don’t know." “Have you any provisions?’ “No, nothing.” “Can you sing or tell yarns? “Yes, both.’ “Very well; that boat.” Bo they started. “Well, Figurehead, the present demand. With sad and solemn eves, without a smile, Joe sang, told stories. Every. body laughed. The weary emigrants needed entertainment, and Joe was a born comedian. 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