HAPPY LIVES, She tossed the curls from her blushing face; Bhe softly sighed with a girlish grace, “I'm weary of life-~it's no commonplace, “Weary of music, forever sweet; Bick of rose leaves beneath my feet; Tired of the days that themselves repeat.” Faded the roses, the music stilled; Change has come, as the maiden willed; Borrow the pulse of her life has thrilled Borrow too deep to be sighed away; Where is that wearisome yesterday, Bright with beauty too fair to slay. Into the silence that sits apart, Keeping watch o'er the aching heart, Steals a thought like an arrow dart, “Through the swift cycles of time and space One is the {ate that befalls the raco— Happy lives only are commonplace,” - Hattie Fay Townley, I —— - GATHERING APPLES. Ea LOWERING sun- rise had turned into a bright day after all; a October wind was shaking down the red leaves on the hill, and Lisbeth Lockwood stood at | the door, looking thoughtfully around, while Bar- bara, sister, boiled break- : rd | her QUE A ui the coffee on the stove. ,” said she, with a curve of her lip, *‘thisis the baronial hall—this tum. le-down old farmhouse, with a few acres of stony soil!” “‘And this,” crisply retorted Barbara, ‘is the banquet—a baker's loal a week old, a pipkio of oatmeal Rio coffee! But you'd better come in and partake of it.” “Bab,” cried Lisbeth, her tawny yellow tresses, so disappointed in my lifa!’ Bab shrugged her shoul “My opinion exactly ‘Here, all our tragically uttered Lisbeth, ‘‘we've heard of our Uncle Hopkins and Hopkins Hall! » looked forward to | to egzram tion day that our Uncle paid the debt of nature, an to take j + “Of our inheritance!” serving out a blue-edged saucer of coarse oatmeal and deluging with milk. “The tumble-cown farmhouse end stony acres, the old red horse that neither of us know how to drive, the cow that we're both afraid of.” “Bab.” cried the are we to dol" “Tib,” responded younger, ‘‘I haven't the least idea.” Lisbeth reflectively sipped ber coffee. fast (‘dO comin 1 AWeil )SSCR=i0on it he we and elder sister, “If we hado’t put on such sirs about being heiresses,” groaned “and boasted of going home to Hopkins Hall to lead a life of luxurious lease, we might have secured one of those nice situations to teach, t Misa Primrose got fo she, ue examination composit said it showed great t take up literature" ‘I sent that to three different editors,” interrupted Tin, sardonically smiling, “Not of 'em would have a word to say to it. It's up stairs in my trunk row, in case we should need. kindling paper.” Jab whistled—a soft little whistle of dismay. “Evidently.” said calculated for a career, instead - of we could farm.” Don't “Oh, if! tifs,” ” impatiently ciied Tib, ean we do! There's ti passed ye " not If we were boys un she, we're girls, this have any more “What * question.” her pretly pink fe around the blue edgo of the plat her, with downcast eyes and just a tinge of rising color, “Well, since you ask the said she, ball smiling, **1 thi ug could perhaps marry.” “For a liviag!" scorolully Tib. Not that, of said Bab “Merely in the course of human events.” +*You mean Roll Woburn?" “i do “He's a nico Tib, indifferently. business!’ “Lisbeth!” cried ladignant “how can you speak so coarselyi” “I'm only regarding things from the career point of view,” said provoking Tih. *‘To-besure, the fact that he has followed us out here might be construed to mean something. At first he natu. mally supposed us to be the beiresses that we supposed ourselves, But,” with a comprehentive wave of her baad, ‘‘he has seen Hopkins Hall, He is undeceived by this time. If ever there was a dis. interested passion Lis is one.” “Tib1" Bab's eyes sparkle] wrathluily, “Have some more coffee, Barbara! Not a drop?! Well, I don't biame you; it's poor stufl.” +Tib,"” almost sobbed poor Barbara, “if you don't like Rolf, I'll give up the idea.” Lisbeth rushed around the edge of the table to give Bab a hus and a kiss. “You darling!” she cried. Do you suppose I'm such a jealous monster as sll that! I do like Rolf Woburn as well as I can like any one who wants to take my Bab away from me. But ws fer thinking him good enough for you, why, the President's son woulla's be that 1" badd iet's 8 AD osiore demanded course.” Lo" enough,” said “Il he really means fellow Bab; brisk and a pot of | «Of course,” faltered Bab, wiping her eyes, ‘I've no reason to suppose—" «No, to-be-sure not,” nodded Tib, “That's one of the disgbilities of woman, She's got to wait until she's asked. Well, wait, Bab, dear, But in the mean- time, I've un idea that I picked up in my before-dinner walk.” “A money-making idea?’ said Bab, her blue eyes shining wistfully through their scarcely-dry mist of tears, “Yes, n money-making idea. There are those big sweet apples up in the or- chard dropping down like a red rain— nice table.apples, too; not the poor stuff they pick up to make cider of feed to the pigs. “em at Baker's Falls? Miss used to pay three dollars a barrel for apples no better than those.” “Are there many there, Tih?" “Thousands of em!” responded san- guine Lisbeth, is easy work We'll pack them so carefully that we shall | be able to command the very best market price. They're not common, cheap fruit, but round and rosy and full of rare, sweet Get your hat, Bab, we'll go right to work.” In the cool, frost-touched mir of the | old orchard, gathering the lovely red | spheres of sweetness into crimson heaps, | both girls soon forgot all but their occu- pation, juices, | Their eyes shone, their cheeks were rosier than the apples, and the blew the silky tendrils of their hair to and fro as if bent on a frolic. “You're never going to climb the tree, Babt" must "cried Barbara, lightly swing. { into forks, *‘or else I hose beauties up at the very the basket, Tib. Oh, imagine how perfectly lovely wind the me fortune as one “Bi it have made your of Baraum's acrobats,” said she. 1 4 . (reyte t you are going ’ r Wi basket, I've got in s barn for another.’ Light as Atalanta’ cown Lhe DOwe wank bridge which ’ self she sped y the dreary old edar trees, “‘How provoking!” she erie 1. here! Well, it's sheep pasture to Mrs, Haw- ley's, and lead Mrs, Hawley is always ready to oniy a step she'll me one, I'm sure. lend While Bab, up in the breezy tree top, was forgetting her task in a sort of jream, she overheard these words: +‘Just exactly here!” said a deep, and “See that old curb beyond? ine is project. d ay inmelodious voice. ste And the we . Well, that's where the ad not 1" ne stile? ! Il ] flutter known Rolf Wo cen in the Desert tf etll ame 80!” drawled “And the station to put it pretty near here, of “You-don an unct hey'll have rite Sat IGS WOO. had} izhed li btly. anywhere io 4 put it else ’ otner man. chuckled women, y much nothing,” two is “+[t belongs to worth, Nobody has, and nobody will have, until the new railway is heard from. We can buy at our own terms, for a month ) at least and [ can buy cheaper than sny one else.” ‘How's that, eh!” The oily voiced man was lighting a cigar. women, are they! Oh, you sly dog! You're at your old tricks, eb—making love to the girls! Is it one of them or both—hey! And what will Miss Vate mar sayl"” Woburn laughed a low, amused laugh. “Miss Vatemar will never know,” said be. **All this, old fellow, is in the way of business, The Lockwood girls wre very pretty and agreeable, and if they choose to draw false interferences, I can’t help it, can If You don't need your measuring line, Hale. I can tell you the number of feet to a nicety. Just, here, you see, ani" “= The voices died away, under the slope of the hill. Barbara Lockwood, nestling up among the boug'ss like some fair human bird. drew a quick breath Her eyes ne like stars; hor checks blazed hot ariot { they've no idea what it | or tw “If we choose to draw false infer. ences,” she murmured, under her breath, “But I don't think we shall choose to do soything of the sort, I'ib and [. So we are to be used to help on a speculation, aro wel Perhaps there may be two opinions on that subject.” And to the last day of her Jarbara Lockwood never knew quite how she drifted down from that tree among the rel apples that covered the short grass below, She was there, That was all she could tell, | «I've brought the basket!" T'ib, from the stile beyond. ‘Never mind the basket,” said Bar. { bara, ‘I've something else to think of just now.” And two conspirators in the days of [ the Guelphs and Ghibellines could not bave held their heads closer together | than did Bab sod Tib on the way back | tu the old farmhouse that day. When Mr. Woburn sauntered in, on the edge ot the evening, the sisters were | packing red apples carefully into a row | of barrels on the kitehen floor. | He smiled that soft, caressing smile of | his, and proffered assistance at once, | “No,” sald Bab, in a businesslike | way; “we're just through now, Mr, Adams is to take them to town for us to. | morrow, It will probably be the last money we shall ever make out of the | Hopkins Farm,” “[enliy 1” life, called Why shouldn't we put 'em in bar- | rels——there are lots in the barn—and sell | Primrose | “And picking up apples | —work that women can do. | to take our only handled | “Young i Mr. Woburn lifted his brows. +‘We have sold it,” said Bab, ‘to old Doctor Russell for twenty thousand dol- lars. It seems that a new railway is to run right through the old sheep pasture” —she syed him keenly ns sho spoke— “and they're thinking of locating the depot at the north end of the orchard. Doctor Russell is a good business man, and thinks he can make a fair financial arrangement out of it. And we are quite satisfied with the terms. Don’t look so amazed, Mr. Woburn. You see you were mistaken when you believed that yon could get this place for ‘pretty much nothing’ because it belonged to two wo- men who didn't know what it was worth.” “EL” gas ped poor Woburn, in sore | amazement, “Yes, "wickedly added Tib; “and now the best thing you can do is to go back | to Miss Vatemar, whomever she may be, and tell her that the Lockwood giris are not in any danger of drawing false in. ferences from your agreeable attentions, knave, Mr. Woburn, is the of a Oh, no ex- A shallow silliest sort knave. planations, ple we | you a very | good evening ! | And so Rolf Woburn's g land speculation fell through, and railway Lockwood escaped heartiree, «And if we're not heiresses, said cheerful Tib, wd that's quite as good."-—Saturday tht. al ter 1 we're independ: Ni Stranze Eyes of Bees. toness of the bee's fl proverbi The shortest tween any two given points is called a Many observers think that the ith which the tis assist if they do not en. the arrowy straight. through kinds of The distance bee-line. immense eves w insed furnished gre: ness of its passage the air, has two eyes, t | two large compound ones, | either side, and the | hemispheres, on p will h Each compound ~that is times mes crown Cc mposed of 3500 facets reflected Every ote ect 1s aoUV of these fw of a hexag ! tected wa of hairs along the | the junction of the facets. J eyes ars suppose to have been given above its head bea intent upon gathering honey from growing bee to enable see w the cups of flowers, Probably this may be one reason, but it is likely there are other uses for them not yet ascertained, A bee flies much in the same way as a pigeon—that is to say, it first takes an upward gpiral flight into the sir, and thea darts straight for Now an experi covered a bees the object In View, menter on insect nature nmple eye with paint and sent it int’ the air: instead of darting straight off rising, it contis hen, these to direct after ascend, Appareatiy, t SOMB MOASUTS a's Weekly. Tuventions of the Hour. A machine for n glass, A tallor's measuring plumb bob attachmeat, A printing press operated by sa elec. tro-maguelic mechanism sumatic cushion to be placed on the ends of telephone receivers. A process for making artificial sheets for electrical insulation. A paper kaife that is especially adapt. ed to cutting the wrappers rolled papers, A stop for w indow shutter blinds, so that they may be arranged at any desired angle. An electri being kept red hot by means of an ele trical resistance, An electrical light hanger that is ad. justable to any angle by means of a uai- versal joint, A door lock so constructed that when key is turned it the Lights in the room. A mat formad of sections, each section having a loop of rigid material ngs of rope surrounding it, the sections imbedding wire square with a mica on branding stamp, the type he switches on with r ng clamped together, A gravity motor for pumping pur poses, the weight being lifted to the top of a derrick, whence, by a clockwork system, it operates a pump as it slowly descends, An automatic medicine stand for the homampathically inclined, consisting of two cups, two spoons and an index that automatically marks the next cup from which medicine is to be taken. ct ——— Our Continenl's Many Names, —— In these quadro-centennial days it is worth while to recall the fact that the continect now named America has gone at one time or another by a great many pames., The notion that Columbus held | of finding a westward passage to India by way of the Atlsatic is recorded by | the name New Jodia and India Ocel- dental, found upon old maps as indicat. | ing the land discovered by Columbus. America Mexicana was an old name of North America, ss America Peruvians was of Bouth America, Then Brazil was for a time the name applied to the | Southern continent, | Fmally the origina of the name | America has been vely disputed, though the weight testimony leaves practically no doubt that it comes from the Christian name of Amerigo Vespuool, Some early authorities, however, gravely contended that the name came from the Peruvian word Amaru, meaning the sacred symbol of the cross, made of a sorpont and a stick, and the suffix oa, meaning country, Thus derived, Amerioa moans the land of the holy aal« mal New York Advertiser. | SOMETHING A BOUT ORGANS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORGAN BUILDING IN AMERICA. Differences in the CQonstruction of American and Foreign Organk-- The 'Koho Organ—Cost of Organs, RGAN building in America be- fore the Revolution most entirely Germans and ling, Klem, Tannebergor i- wns the hands of Bwedes, Hosse- and Harttafel in can makers, and their tell the story of their nationality, Klem and his names of their churches, organs are still in had no chance to compete * with for rather doubtful sb church European our f were at makers, best at the propriety olf Even time of building the music, a8 recently, comparatively, Lhe Grace Church, ing as fin country as and som ber for the ken many vears be! American 1e makers us inl str TW wn Keys are CaADD bolly and the : ebony. Every piece of entire organ is placed vered with from wih white with in the and is ¢ to protect coals of shella ure These are only mechanical super ities, but they are among the first th to attract the attention of an sional person, excepting always the tric appliances, which, if American inventions, have been br The el to sit w unpr sir to perfection here, tr key board enables the organist his manuals in any part of the buildis far away, if desired, {rom the instrument This kas its advantages in any organ, but it is almost indispensible where an is used, The echo organ is most unmusical part of the moved from it, is put is the loft and the roof, but the best authorities recommend that it be kept in a room built expres for it well up toward the ceiling, wit! openings to permit the sound to reach the auditorium, but always higher than the main organ, because its voles follows the dying notes of the great organ like an echo, and the best effect is somethit groat Sometimes it between the ceili or . I were the answering voice of nagels, The beautiful idea of the echo organ is not new, for there 1 one In Harlem organ, which was built in 1735; the echo organ is new, and it is the only way in which the echo organ can be used to perfection without an entirely separate organ and organist, With the electrical keyboard the organist plays the echo organ from the keyboard of the great organ, both together if desired, but w.ually separately. One of the first electric.action organs built in this coun try wa exhibited at the American In stitute Fair in 1860, It was made in this city. It is loteresting to know that organ Is were invented by Bernhardt in 490. Ttis also well to know thet a groat orgas of five manuals contains within its case six complete organs, the dsl attachment being a full instrument y itself, having sometimes 100 pipes of its own, “The largest organ In the world" hae an unfortunate habit of sprosding itsed over a groat surface, It is in Boston, in | movements to bring were prominent among the carly Ameri- | { Tae echo organ ulone has comrades are almost forgotten, but some use in old | The early organ builders here | the | \ yrefathers | that io the {| that sells for ¥10,00 : Liven when the echo descends, as though it | { defeat nature, | and day; the catch the great | but the us® of electricity for playing | | taken, Haarlem, in a dozen other Kuropecan cities, in Gurdon City, Brookiyn, in Chicago. The great Haarlem organ has sixty stops and 4088 pipes, Fifteen of these stops and 1098 of the pipes are in the organ, It much strength to play this orgau that the or- gunist is said to be comnletely uxhausted after a performance. The in the Brooklyn Tabernacle has 110 stops and 1445 pipes. Toe organ in the Chicago Auditorium has 109 speaking stop ries and ped imber to 176, Xty mn echo takes so Oran snd acct th enough mechanica 4 cn and 7124 pipes, besides si ine bells, 12 pipes. idea of that irterest If you have any buying organ alter learning centaur will , it that you can buy ope in th between #500 and factories v ’ } takes bast fas York Time price {ow —— - SELECT SIFTINGN. lo and even -— —— m— Fist Wheels of the Colu nbia River f Fish whoeols ar iw Kind maximum oa 1 tweaty.four hour bs the authority writes ls, and, Lolew rael . Ww BL | OC i something is done to allow a larger per. entage to pass up the river, it will be hardly possible to get enough fish in tho ipper waters for propagation » and does run night st night, and it has boon aptly said that those in. terested have nothing to do at that time but to lie in bed and listen to the salmon dropping into the boxes or sounds that cannot fail to be cheering to those whose financial success is thereby assured, "weNow York Times, a I cnt A Cow in a Bear Pit. A comic scene took place a short time ago at Berne, Switseriand, A peasant from Ostermundingon was driving a cow into the capital, and had arrived at the Muristalden when the animal bolted, and, jumping the mils round the well. known bear pit, arrived at the bottom without injury. The proprietor thought that his sow was lost, but he was mis. She attacked the bears bravely, who, utterly routed, retired inte t oelr den, foto which she would have fols lowed them had she not been prevested hod Th 171 | § Ww wheels Tals automatic me is chiefly BOOTHE | by the keeper of the animals, who let "duwn the trap door, Thea the cow woot to the slaug! ter house and fuldiled her vesting, New York Times, | but did me no good | speak aloud umbia | | conld not sleep 1 | kinds i neighbor T got one of Russia Appreciates the Sunflower. The sunflower could not have been first cultivated in Russia or other coun. trices of Europe, for it isa native of American and unknown to the eastern world, It is quite probable however, that the sunflower was cultivated here for its seeds thousands of years before the ai. vent of Europeans, for this plant 1s found widely distributed over North and Bouth America. While the cultivation of the sunflower being in this country in many As well as in China, for feeding The oil in neglected , it is on the Increase European countries, The pigs, pou try, cous are highly valued sheep and « ttle. expressed from the seed is oil for almo Hny irg hE, In the soe ¥ in the nus are equal to ol plrecls As sold hers New York Buu. A ———————— Coals of Fire oa His Head r sent to bleed a In ty, did the oper Mr. Geo. W. Turner SIMPLY AWFUL Worst Case of Scrofula the Doctors Ever Saw Completely Cured by HOOD'S SAPARILILA > SAR- ’ Worst Case of Scrofula var simply awful! ake Hoo - . al fhe SOPES Wore re Ah had taken 1+ tari nk what a r™ ™m A thousand sands. For the ties, ten do Iars! st tl Te many th - percent ? net 4 ar . i no sores, | Work all the Time. Before, | could do no work, | ks what t0 say STORE ¢ ah 10 expres t e to Mond's Saraaparilia are \8 iT RANER for m3 Farmer Hosd's Pills and tome the “Augus Flower Eight doctors treated me for Heart Disease and one for Rheumatism, I could not Everything that I took into the Stomrch distressed me. | had taken all Through a your books, I procured a bottle of Green's Aug- ust Flower and took it. 1 am to-day stout, hearty and strong and enjoy the best of health. August Flower saved my life and gave me my bea'th, Mrs. Sarah J Cox. Debance, O 9 } of medicines Drugglsts Sell It. SWIFT SPRCIFIC 0O., Drnwer 3, us, On »
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