SING ON, OH HEART! ———— Richard Wightman. sing on! the drought By Dh Heart, long, birds SONg: The typhoon marshalls in the plain, The air is hot, no sign of rain, But still, Oh Heart, sing on! is The are panting--stilled their Oh Heart, sing on! somewhere bides She Who lives, thee [ know not Shall end, rest, But still, Oh Heart, sing on! and hopes, and waits for when nor where thy quest and thou shalt find thy Sing on, Oh Heart! the summit far Is topped by light of yonder star; The climb is sheer, nor paved with ease, wind still, Oh The But is mournful in the Heart, sing on! trees, Sing on, Oh sing Holds sure the And And Heart! that thou canst promise of the spring, fruition full and long, own height above love's thine throng — And so, Oh Heart, sing on! From Success Magazine. the 2¥e 7a We »Ye WarTes%e »e ve sTarTer’e My Silent Partner BY ALBERT W, TOLMAN PYASTEITENTENTENTOTENT Ne ERLE RLA READE E00 w A DLE DLADLE DED ADRAC DIED IAN *I never see a deaf and dumb man,” | said the engineer of the dredge, ret- | rospectively, “without thinking Charley Cassilear. In thirty years | I've had to do with all sorts of men | and machinery, good, bad ang «ferent. About some things my ory’'s pretty but I'll never for- | » | got into waen 1 was | chanic of the Record King | hematite-mine in the Marquette re-| gion, with Charley as assistant “Charley was just turned twenty | one: he was literally a ‘silent part. ner,’ being, as | have said, deaf and | dumb. "T'was a bad handicap, but he had drains and grit for a dozen. He knew more about boilers and steam- | pumps than any ordinary chanics. 1 guess he put into study | and thought the hours men with ears | and tongues waste {n talk that doesn’t amount to anything. He was quick, too: drop him into a hard place, and he always fell on his feet “Well, Charley and I slid comfortably for two years We of indif- mem- hazy, master n two me had other perfectly. ing about ing, mind prising how of When a man's work: machinery, actually work loafing, it’ real need you, not little 8 Ssur- he hes his tongue “One cool Saturday night September the Number 6 pump in Shaft 3 winze went on strike It was a hurry call for the doctor; so just before midnight Ferguson, the engineer, shot Charley and me to the bottom of the shaft in the ore bucket “A hundred vards along the main drift, a rightangled turn, forty more through a crossdrift, and we hit the wine “At its end lay the well, ten feet square and twenty deep, half-full of black water, with a plank running it niche where the pump wag placed. [ started across, Charley close behind “Now accidents happen five hundred feet underground as well as the surface. I could almost put my hand on the pump when a little rock slip ped out fromm under the plank end, and the plank tilted a bit. Of course { didn’t want to be dumped into the pit, 20 1 jumped for the ledge, for getting for a second that the top of the niche was lower than that of the winze. [I was reminded of it pret. ty aulck. “Bang' It seemed as if a pile driver had hit me. 1 tumbled back. ward in a rain of fireworks, and went down into the water “1 caught a sidewise glimpse of the pump jumping for the roof. In the polished black mirror leaping to meet me were two men, candles in caps, tool-hags round necks, arms out stretched. Then with a mighty splash the glazs shivered into a million pieces, and 1 p'unged through it into fey Ink. “For a late in over tO a at little 1 threshed der the surface, almost Soon, however, the cold water brought me to; and I realized that the stars | saw were in my head, and nct outside. 1 threw the tool bag off my neck, began to paddle, and came quickly up. My hands touched iron: it was the threeinch suction-pipe of the pump. “My skull was splitting. What had hit me? At first 1 thought 1 had been struck from behind. But 1 felt a bump on my temple Instead of on the back of my head. Then 1 understood. “Reside me rose a wheezing and splashing: <harley Lad fallen in, 100. 1 reached out, clutched a shoul der, and dragged him to the pipe. There we clung silently, neck-desp, fingers locked round the chill iron. 1 never knew before that it could be so utterly dark. “Drip-dripdrip! about un- stunned Save for that, ab solute stillness. Drip-dripdrip! It was no place for warmblooded mortals. We must bestir ourselves. “The pump was but ten feet above. We must climb the pipe. 1 groped for Charley's fingers and put them on my lips; he could read the words as I shaped them, though he could not hear “I'm going low me.’ “He tapped sign that he pushed off to climbing. “Twisting my legs round the pipe, 1 took hold high above, and partly raised my body A few efforts should bring me the where tube turned at right angles and in horizontally toward the pump the iron was oily, and had, ! that greasiness which hematite parts to everything i, 1] just clear the water splashed. “Again I again I well that three ing worse to climb the pipe. Fol: my arm three times in understood Then he give me free space for to elbow, ran But 1 wesides, im round was when Of tried: and and like the slipped back he took again was in the two 8 8 for every Only 1 whatever up, exhausted his turn, Things b¢ noe gain “1 gave it Charley took and succeeded no better Ous. “In that a gan {0 00K ser ket pitchy under little pox the tree roots, engine-room so far off that shout wis as helpless as whisper to reach were absolutely dependent ourselves. We could not rem long. The cold and drown us “Might not the rough place up which we could clim Charley started paddling round pit to the right and I the pawing at the hard ore. But the ers had done their work too well; the sides neoth We passed met the pig of mile t our loudest the faintest we water wou! walls afford to o> g Wore s oa h again at , dis. and wouldn't appointed “But it up pipe was too sli itire weight; ho! ling eet against the only eighteen inches off. At it was worth trying two the slight with “About my feet water ledge above fingers found a Graspin mn ing the pipe I rested little she on this than half an inch wi foot my the away, | entire pressed hold I took a higher hold myself up against acing rock to body rose, grasp: off slipped my heel My that “Four times 1 tried, and failed boots were so slippery “Could 1 do better barefoot? “It was a hard get those They stuck as if they were Charley helped, as with both and wrestled, part under water At and exhausted, 1 kl el Job to of the time inst, ked myself free this what If we didn't "By time we knew get out pretty scon, we should drown like rats. And safety yards away! It was maddening! my bare lift ed myself toes on the ledge, and once more “It was a bitter climb, hard and deadly slow. The pipe seemed a hun dred feet high Just as my fingers touched the off slipped feet, and down I slid rible disappointment. strength to try it elbow, my It was a ter I hadn't the again. il felt we had exhausted every resource But it seemed ridiculous for two able bodied men to drown in a hole that. 1 had seen some tough steam boating on the Lakes, and here | was in deadly peril from a few hogshead of water. “As feeling my sleeve excitedly. He plan. What could it be? “Patting my arm in sign that | should walt, he pushed away from the He could swim like a I heard a splash: then silence ley had gone down. Why? “1 waited. Seconds passed, un broken save for that dripdripdrip! What could he be doing? 1 imagined I could feel watercurrents against my body. Still he stayed down. | began to grow anxious Something must have happened to him. What if he never came up? 1 should go stark mad alone in that blackness, “Suddenly” I heard the low burst ing of air-bubbles. Wavelets lapped the walls. Charley was coming up There was a little splash, like a fish breaking water, and I heard him puff ing. A moment later he had hold of the pipe. He pressed my arm twice; whatever it was he wanted, he hadn't got it yet. in the Charley there blue, I hung pretty gloom, clawed had a pipe pike Char “For a while he clung there, breath. ing hard. Then down he went again What in the world could there be at the bottom that would helpus to es cape? 1 hoped he hadn't gone crazy. “He stayed longer than before. Ex. pioring ten feet under water couldn't be much fun. But at any rate it couldn't be any darker there than it was at the top. The deepest spot was right under the pipe. 1 felt something strike against it, and knew he was fumbling round there Then his head touched my foot, and up he popped, gasping, “He wan almost played out, but he pressed my arm three times, and chuckled. So | knew he'd got it. He pressed my hand against something, and 1 saw what he had been after ~his toolkit, “Fingers had to take the piace of eyes, ears and tongue, He hung the ling in it | a coll of small rope. He made mo in the air: and at last I understood he “If that over the the wrench could be of the pipe, so that hang down on each pull elbow rope would up “But in it wasn't tho ea: that pitchiness, dre on a crack Charley he Over jest thing to The wrench, sipped man's skull, it crockery So rot ready to make his and 1 side of the do if 100, i 1 Ke motioned me away, to the other h! went rmng later 1 the wrench it “Swi rone, ang kling! the on the second splashed “Charley f i began Presently tick ick! tic) Charley snappe ¢ . nal wr, LO RIEDA “You to 1 meezing hands rone kK shoulders “Ha 3 driving him a wonder 1 didn’t As it hurt couldn't ang 1 srl ould water. neck was, it throw, do his his arm so he had to see what | « putting 1 hie n we one the Alte iried off went down again Companion. 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It foolish to him to spend a big sum on a mere leads fishers im there have improved seems novels paper, four the Paris in sufficiently well bound- or The best men write them. and they make just as much on extra large sales us they would on smaller at a higher price A prominent English house started year ago with a book, out in get excellent publishers ~large and fe a irancs ty De, | for 80 Thacoent with it that another 25 ent output, it hopes. ers are wise enough to know mere cheapness will not do must have attractive matter it iz going to knock off cents and double its pres These publish that They 80 of the leading English novelists, given them thumping retaining and promised them even greater profits than ander the old three-volume sys tem. with its almost prohibitive prices The American publisher who will do likewise is likely to be rich be fore he knows it. But he will have to go about it the right way One man has sent out a book of stories of French life, made up in the French way, and selling at the French price of 75 cents But it's fiction by an unknown writer, and it is making no sensation, But to take the favored author on its list, the man who sells 100,000 coples at the regulation price, and issue his next and his bert novel at 50 cents, the sales might ®alloon to a million fees, readers in they are constantly prices, transaction of this sort, the Iimagi nation ean play legitimately on the result, Cleveland leader. a — Penitence, “l suppose you're sorry now? asked the prison visitor, according to the Philadelphia Public Ledger. 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This saves trouble getting out board and ro'ling pin, Keeping vegetables in the cooking water after they are “done” both looks and taste, water off return to fire for a minute to dry off before dressing. Mashed potatoes should pin eru enough of be run boiled After dressing they should td beaten with a fork until light Some housekeepers add a tiny pinch of salt to cream before whip and churn should be ice cold before starting. In summer it is well to pus them in a bowl of cracked ice while whipping. Use egg beater rathed To test beef press it down with thumb. If it rises quickly the meat is good. A pood cut of meat should be fine grained, bright red in color with streaks of whitelooking fat. Unless there Is an abundance of fat the meat is apt to de tough. When pouring medicine or any quid from a bottle always pour from the side opposite to that upon which the bel is pasted. The label will then be kept free from unsightly stains and discoloratigps. If it is medicine bottle, the niinber and date of the prescription will not be de stroyed. GLORIOUS PIC BTICKING. Of all sports the most exciting, the most wildly exhilarating, saves a writer in Balley's Magazine, is surely plg sticking. While walting in every nerve and muscle, but it is nothing to the tension attendant on the edge of the jungle surly manner, and proceeds to cross Then the gathering and the fresh of your of your up Erasp --NOW in the direction of the captain of the hunt for the signal to go, now to the animal itself, inwardly praying that he may not turn back into cover, And then when the word “Ride!” is given——the mad rush, the utter in- ability to see stop you, the overpowering anxiety to beat every be it your greatést friend or greatest enemy, and get first spear. Your heart ig in your head. . fs nothing the world yon lanky gray away in front Your to run him through in moments one animal, wish in the hoth doing ify. In no other sport perhaps is there 80 much real say, accidents are really very have ridden in id blood : fully—over gro i comrades 1} ue anything to one, There but at vridine striding in to you r antic desire Hours are lived Your horse and von with are unfulfilled world, a wish you your very utmost to but one are oy yoy # grat- 5 danger, yet, strange to few. 1 ~~ Y@ry care- that 1 and my iden over helter skelter after pig previously, and to eay that I have been astonished is but to feelings in the feeblent How the horses kept their fooling It is Impossible to say. All 1 know is that they did. ave ri describe my very way. WHISTLE CORD SAVES HIM. Headed by deputy sheriffs, several posses of farmers and employes of the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line are searching the Western and Southern part of Laporte County and Porter County and one negro of men n the steam shov- , and then chucked fire-box of the boiler, dead, and hoping destroy of Was all evidence their crime Wiseman is in a critical condition, but the attending physicians believe that he will recover Wiseman is twenty-two years old, and was in charge of the steam shov- el] during the night, vhen two well dressed white and a negro ap- peared and demanded a drink of whisky He had none, and so told them. They then wanted money. He refused this, whereupon, the men at. tacked him and beat him until he was insensible. Then they opened the door of the firebox and shoved him in, The fires had been banked, but they set fire to his clothing. 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