A SONG OF TOKENS, ——— » — ere’s 5 sadness of sound in the flowing Of the billows that break on the bars ; da cloud ip the aky that is throwing 4 A vail on the faos of the stars, ere's a note that is missed in the singing Of songs that were tender and sweet, d death in the daisies upspringing : From the meadows that dream at our feet, And life sooms a wearisome story, I But ite griof, like its gladness, will cease ; For ft drifts with ita gloom and its glory { To a baven of infinite peace! Atlanta Constitution. | ——— A DOUBLE STORM. BY INDA BARTON HAYS, tHE Ridgeway House, Peaks of Otter, had guest this sum- mer in advance of the season, Left by the death of han with no near relative, generally have—plenty of friends These advised the usual panacea for grief —extensive travel and change of Beene to bring forgetfulness, i “No,” Meda had sad where my father and I spent our last saranier, ond where the mountains, silent and uuchangeable, shall keep me in remembrance. I do not wish to forget!” Arrangements were accord- ingly made for her early departure; and one misty evening when the clouds were as somber as the habiliments she wore, and gave little promise of brighter days as her sa! the yonng recluse alighte d at the ragged mountain station. When she entered the hotel parlor, however —with its hooded furniture and general air of lone nessa familiar voice i and a man's dark eyes pleased recognition as he meet her, “Miss Cabell!” was his surprised ejaculation, ““This is an unexpected leasure!” ‘And to me, Mr. Dillson,” Meda murmured brokenly, his earance there recalling the form Rad last seen with him. ‘‘I had thought visitors were here.” ““There are none as yet,” Mr. Dill son explained, ‘I am looking up some as fana cheerless SOmMo- ACCOS i lighted in sprang to land claims, and,” ho added, “may re- | main some time.” Hugh Dillson had been kindly attentive to Meda's father the previous summer. A man of fine presence, fluent in conversation, and of party afliliation with the aristooratic old ( nel, he was soon a high favor ite Meds, also, had liked him. No on« else had been so often singled out in the mild gayeties of the mountain place—no other escort so frequently invited when she drove about with her invalid father, These first sad days of her return to Ridgeway, Meda (who had brought ber own riding horse) passed in long rambles among the i hills ; every i nook that cted x with her father filling her hoart with bitter-aweot mories, Always unsttended-—a AWAY, spiritual look deepening on he face—Mr. Dillston watched her with growing interest. Too well-bred, not too politic, to presume his former privileges, he was yet unob- trusively polite, and 1 his solicitade for her comfort in number- less little ways. *“It is not well that you should be so much alone,” he remonstrated, evening as he helped her dismount, “I do not feel alone.” Meda an swered, ‘and nature is such a comfor fer that I am happier in its solitude.” “Yet human sympathy id not be repelled I, too, admired your father,” Dillson said ton “Do you remember the Doby's Glen?” he morning we climbed the Knot paps waited nt the gray rocks?’ “Oh, ves,” she sighed with falling tears. ‘How could I forget? Though I Rave not ventured far away as yet." Recalling placesknown to each other, and incidents happily shared together, it came about that Mr. Dilison once agein Meda's companion. onsy, friendly attitude cheered without startling, Asthe weeks passed she brightened. The hopeless weari- ness gave way to a look of interest chastened but real, and the fresh winds brought the light to her oyes and the roses to her chek, Mr. Dillson noted, and trusted to youth, and the sweet springtime, and golden opportunity, to do the rest. wooded * Ne Ie f. r r lovely on shiowe one shou naked #0 Was His her One suuuy evening, when the early | verdure was yielding to the summer's softer luxuriance, and the air was freighted with sweel scents and sounds, Meda—who had not intended riding — and the exhilaration of a gallop. his reins with a toush of her old buoy- ancy as she oantered down the long valley. The road was red snd beaten, and the fields and woods indeseribably beautiful in the tender green of their young foliage. When her horse lagged to a walk | Moda rode dreamily on, watching the shadows on the mousisin sides change with the moving clonds; and she let Retus go his own free way. She chatted with an old mammy in a eabin by the waysido-~turned into a lane whitened by dogwood blossoms spurred through a forest where last your's pine tags carpeted the way and the new lenved trees overarched, and sha eame oat she know not where, No feature of the landscape was familiar, a i u“ wlopos 0 an the rich strips of finld snd meadow- land at base, it grew dark. A rumble of one | in refusal. | ‘Rather wili ¥ yo back to Ridgeway, | | inquity, i house, felt a suddon longing for the saddle | der and a flash Then another reverberating peal startlingly close. The first big drops of water splashed on her lifted face, and blinding, driving gusts of wind and rain—the quick gathering of a mountain storm. Meda looked around for shelter. Across the fields of wheat and corn was a large mansion, half hidden by orchard trees. Toward this she urged her horse, heading for a barn nearer than the house. There was a dazzling flash and a terrific juss Bs nha ad tha licens Jam alae WAASA RACAL A Lied rr refuge of a low shed at its back. thoroughly frightened to think wet cap and retreated as near the in- ner barn wall as possible. The storm was at its height as to rain, but the flashes came presently at longer inter- vals and the thunder rolled sallenly away among the rocks, In the lull, through the wooden partition, she heard voices. And, to her wonder, the name of Hugh Dill- { son, followed directly by Dillson's own her father sn or- | Moda i Cabell had yet—as fortune's favorites | voice, Thinking gladly of his protec- tion, she was about to assert her proes- ence, when something in his tones re- strained her. ‘“ - waiting too he long,” Was | SAYING. “Sorry you waited," answered a cool voice, *‘Couldn’t lose my best loal.” “Blast your loads!" grumbled Dill- son. ‘Pretty fix—in the storm. I've come out here to know what this means,” with the rattling of paper. “Means!” the firm reply. ‘Means what it says, of course. That in any such busi Was I refuse to engage ness," “You refuse?’ echoed Dillson grily. ‘‘And, pray, what bécomes of your bargain? You'll business my way, y or “Stop !" commanded the other, 1 your property here, be ransact my ung man, “1 we manage Mr. son, n I" sh “Ordered them back uted Dill mm. “*And what right had you, you meddlesome— 2?" y : “The right every man has to pro eutin the clearer ton } 3 ' 08 neigibnors, rnificant. y—*to ch And" — signi honesty.” “Dishonest!” faltered parently choking. “Yes, dishonest. I conld be bought licit gains! Yom Dillson, put on my land while I can it. t CE Dillson, ap- a tool for your il- sea, 1 know you, prevent There was a momentary pause, Dill- on was seemingly gathering strength, for he burst out with : “Your land! When the very roof that covers you is Fours on That last note ours, young straight-lace, is over I'll teach you to balk me! It's it my farm, Thursday,you mt mercy.” i the other the widow Br The sufferance ! “You Wn out ; Hp ake th a 4 oti VOR Morrel with nvi ¢ beggared gods, what 1 have is you hustle!” } YOUnDnZer man was no waint. There oaths and horrid threats of from vengeance Dillson, and the banging of a heavy door Meda couched elose to l ald Her 1 deseription snd then Rotus. Not been dis- feelings Doubt its after re she have chaotie » she realized her tlement from turned her to King of prop i~exX wor friends which had Dillson, first with the | but which his sympathetic devotion was fast softening to a warmer fecling With a woman's intuition her heart divined the question Dillson waited to nek. Hot drops of mortifi- cation brimmed her eyes as she ad mitted to her conscience that this astute lover might have read his favor able answer in the {trusting intimacy : | of these last few weeks And whose voice was the other? Somewhere Meda seemed to have beard its full, manly ring-—-changed though it waa, She looked out. country, green and luxuriant as a gar- den ; with picturesque old homesteads dotted about--the road she had left winding among them. The rain was still falling gently “Anywhere but here,” thought Meda ns she rode swiftly through the open farm gate and on toward the nearest | A portly old farmer answered | her “*haloo,” and two pretty girls, as | like as peas, met her at the open door, She mounted Retus and shook ont “Why, it's Miss Cabell!" they ex- claimed in surprise, “Yeu, it is,” said Moda, 1 know you, but." “We met you last summer,” said one. ““At the picnic of Bubble Spring," finished the other, “Oh, yes!” smiled Moda *“And you “I know ~-1 remember pow--you're the Wat. | son twins!” “And I'm the twin's papa,” lsughed the old man. How it all eame back to Meda as the pretty twins ministered to her with hot tea, and dried her habit by the blazing fire! That y day-and then like a flash came the recollection of the puz- zling voles, But she q mkod, “Whose Ince is that vith the big gray Se sono’ * replied the farmer ( A “Ned Tavenor's.” Too | of | venturing farther, Moda patted Retus's | trembling neck, took off her dripping | And yon thought | No distillery of yours will be | was a rush and a souffle, | This was a futile | of lightning came. And then she remembered Ned Tay. | enor ; tall and handsome, sun-burned and square-shouldered—her especial nie day. Even now, crept to her curly bangs as she thought of Ned Tavenor's open admiration, and parrind the twin's jests on his remem- bered gallantry. Medan resisted all entreaties to pass | the night. “No, no,” she reiterated, “I eannot stay; but if your paps will | Lemida ma to the road forks T promiss to come again when I am not lost,” They waited on the porch while Mr, Watson saddled his horse. “I have seen no country so fair as this,’ she declared. For the skies had cleared, and between the mountain ranges with fumid erimson, and twined the raindrops on the trees and flowers to seintillant rubies, When Mr, Watson parted with Meda at the eross-roads, she ended a serious conversstion with few last in- junctions, “It saves trouble that yon know the smount, Go over in the morning and offer the in your Come to me Wednesday evening st the Ridgeway and I will have the money ready,” Mr. Wats 34) promised. “Ned Tav- fellow,” he said. “The Tavenors were powerful big folks in the old times, an’ that boy's an’ paid off every cent but this, 1 Hugh Dillson ! He's been In hankerin' after that place old Dave gave the mor'gage ROMO whole sum name, enor's a fine worked know ever since He's a coon, is Dillson, but we'd scotch orl wily him this tims And the old farmer chuckled. No trace of Hugh passion rea Dillson's storm he met Moda and tends rly chided her for being out with mors of mined when so late ; than usual earnest. ness confessing his own loneliness It was a little ominous that Mis bell took tea in her ro As well all Wy Ls ri ded 1. of his nature 10 loved the orphan girl whose beauty and fortune propitious fate had seemed to hold in abeyance for 1} He had lost how, he neve r exac ly knew. Ned Tavenor's note was paid in full Thursday morning, and Mr. Watson kept Meda's secret. The preity twins drove in to Ridge- way and carried her home with them. There were parties, ‘“‘pro- tracted mectings” and sight-seeing: and Ned Tavenor was Meda's constant attendant More Hugh Dillson traveled in a cironit to avoid these excursionists as they returned from some delightful expedition. And, out n Wiches' day, where the summer sun threw little fle cks of gold, and the mountain breeze mbrageo Ned Bo It came to that Meda nor place and the Tavenor Detroit Freo Press egotism nnis than onee ' Glen one is pins ®, n—— A Dangerous Paper, A German genius was very much dis- Appoints d Inte ly when he applie ifora patent an invention of his to have the patent refused, and the manufac ture and sale of ntion forbid. is a paper so prepared that on his inv den It any writing on it, made with any known sort of ink, can be easily and quickly erased by the simple application of a moist sponge. The paper was made of the ordinary ingredients, with the ad- ditic a of asbestos and parehment gine. I'he paper pulp, after rolling, was im- mersed for a short time (fr #ix to twenty-five seconds, sceording to the thickness of the paper to be prepared from it) in concentrated sulphuric acid at twenty degrees, diluted with ten to fifteen per cent of water It was then pressed between glass rollers, passed successfully through water, ammonia solution and a second time through water, strongly pressed between rollers and dried on felt rollers, and finally on polished and heated metal rollers. The finished article is said to be precisely like ordinary paper. Its sale has been prohibited on account of the misuse to which it ean be put. Cost of Superstition, “Don’t you know this haunted. house idea has a tremendous hold on people's minds?” said a dealer in resi dence property. “I have several houses on my hands for either rent or sale that somehow seem slow to take, and 1 now know at least one reasons. There ym was &# murder com occurred in another, and when abuyer | some galoot of a neighbor will stick his head into other people's business {and squeal shout the happenings in those houses, and no matter what the | i prospective enstomer thought of the | property that settled it. People | don’t want houses where murders and | suicides have been committed, "Cin. cinnati Times Star, RL ——— A Lucky Boy. {A little boy, the son of 8. Barker, | who lives on White River, near For- | sythe, Mo, was playing on the river bank a fow days since, when he saw some rusty tin cans in the sand. He investiga sd them, and found that they contained $1600 in gold and silver, minted between 1840 and 1850, No one in the neighborhood has any ides of the ble owner, and it is sup- the money was buried there one Jurisg cavalier, who had won the tilter's prize | and crowned her queen that jolly pie. | an little blush | | every nook and cranny, | should have the soot and dust brushed shifting | clouds the setting sun dyed the close | mitted in one and several suicides have | | with the left hand, and with a silver or renter goes to look at these houses | | pieces, leaving the core whole. the shredded fruit in a serving dish, | apr ankle generously with fine granu- HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. ECONOMY IN JOOD DRUSHES, One of the most useful of articles in the house isa brush made of good hair, If properly eared for it will last for years, but buy only the best kind with | the hair wired into the back. The chonp brushes have the hair glued in and will not stand water, stove brush should be of the best, whether for outside or inside, Choose one with a short handle and it hid nse will aloan and avase af Advat Coie ae. aia DYE A anaes Btove ovens out every day.—American Agricultur. ist. CARE OF MATTRESSES, A bright, clean mattress is the house. keeper's delight, writes Mrs. E. H. Cooper in the American Agrienltarist, The question 1s how to keep it so, Some use slip covers of calico or mus- in to protect it, but this is un ightly and unsatisfactory. Of 0 A tack f some sort may be used to guard the top from possible harm, but it is the rubbing against the slats or woven wire that so soils and darkens the tick- ing. I found the following method free from sll obje tions; sn piece of sheeting or strong muslin, i six inches 1 cour have Take BOTH arger each way than the At yrner attach a twelve-inch plece of tape, sewing it by the middie so as to form strings six ] long, Lay this over the slats springs Straps, formed of pieces of mattresses | i ger than the dep sewed by their rner of the mattress, each o nehos shesting in heeting KIni¢ 1 or 1 Jothly +} wii mats Fraps pass one corner, tying in desired, the knot s matiress turn INE remo making pon Ayspepsia number have arisen teachers without cal language, tried to bring al era of good bread-making. Bot bread tinnes variable in its quality. he first place, the flour be tl Good flour is soft yellow in color Mit-an X usd i mod when plunged tints and with- I'he water : stream if ranning 1 not be mixed with th the water kneading used should i en cess, neither ve ry fast nerd are + Maa 1 wa method a B " sken from the on exposed to fresh New York World, hous When ¢ bread should | until quite cold RE Baked Corn Bread of er Take one teacup juarter teaspoonful of sods, one cup of flour, butter the si of a walnut, one eup of sugar, one Indian meal, Granulated meal is the best Baked Bananas piece of the skin fin loosen the ong 76 cup one egg from with } the Strip Then from your § skin LA] 1¢ ® of the fruit ; dust well with granulated gar, and bake in a haif an hour hot in Ivory Blane Mange Cover box of geistine with quarter cold water ; soak fifteen minutes; put pint milk over fire in boiler ; add two bay leaves and grated rind of half a lemon; when hot add gelatine and half cup sugar ; take from fire, strain and tare into a round mold ; when cold serve with a sance made from sweetenad raspberry juice, Frieaseed Eggs Boil a dozen hard, remove the shells and slice; take a cup of white stock, season with salt and pepper; brown a teacup of stale bread crumbs in butter ; put the gravy in the ssucepan and set on fire; dip the slices of egg in melted butter, then in flour, and lay in the gravy until hot ; take up, arrange on a dish with the fried “read and pour the gravy over. <ineapple Shredded-—Select a ripe, moderate oven the skins quarter cup of Lat] ETE denubl on« La of the | Inicy pineapple, remove every bit of the skin and all the “eyes.” Then lay the fruit on a platter, hold it firmly fork tear off the pineapple in small Pat Isted sugar, cover and let stand in the ive chest an hour, if possible, before serving, Saratoga Cream Hashed Potatoes Belect a light, not soggy, variety of potato, and boil till nearly but not uit cooked. Set away in the chill ing room for twenty-four hours, Cut in chunks the size of a walnut and put in a double pan inclosed with hot water. Pour over them rich, thick cream, (that from a Jersey cow is best) in the proportion of a pint vo three pints of potatoes, and season with salt, white pe and butter. While they are stewing chop them constantly with a silver knife fill they sre the size of a pon, ec cmem—— A graphioal reporter of a Boston Jupst in das ibing anuioido says: “It certain that he was unmarried 1 SABBATH Even the | | frst” | groater? | God revealed from faith SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 1. | Lesson Text: ““The Power of (ie Gos- pel,” Romans i., 8.17 Golden Text: Romans 1., 16. Commentary, 8. “First I thank my God through Jesus | Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken | Of throughout the whole world, Unr inst | lesson In the Acts found Paul at Rome preaching Jesus to all who eame to him, but | from verses 11 to 18 of this lesson it is evi | dent that he had not as yet been in Bome | when be wrote this oplstie, bond slave of Jesus Christ, set apart to pro- | claim the glad the Bon, and anadresses his letters to all the beloved of God in Bome, called saints, By receiving Jesus we become saints, He becom. ing our righteousness, and this being the case we are therefore to live Wen not told how the gospel was first preached | 8t Home, but thers were at this time tras bee levers there to wii Paul wrote this great emphasizing in the very beginning of great troth of the resurrection (verse 4), ww faith in God glorifies Him, snd be Omnes known sbroad to His honor 9. “For God is my witness, whe With my spirit in the gospel of His Bog, that without ceasing 1 make mention of you Aiwa my prayers.” Paul's God, whose | am , 48), and It man pleaser (Gal, | Hl, 22), but real he sight of God, whom hs I Thess, ii bf a% saints eprint le it the Saves } Ons of mott : Ory Acts xxvii 'd service as a Thes if 4: Col and whom | was n { WOrk as in tin withess ie rile I Thoss prayed f Thess, ii , And |} } everything (Phil asl he preached he pract 10, "Making rv if by as ength I mie Eg § fi ot " .h fH Will « ’ wardly we have in writing to § said th nani sffoctaal by the sok: i thing that is io us tn Ch of 1} whol : y us through the r ir Baviour Jesus F.very belie at th nina at the ung ne RY web a fe NE An the iy will get & re Vo are sire Is writte { Bev, xxu Hu (iitus 0, 1 [he same w teachings with sp eivrences to His ERAT Main tL) XY 10 Pavia ss peo; uM t > SOrVADLS Ae reacy t 0 whatsoever the king, shall appoint Il Sa Row much more should we say it to oF 5 the Sav ing Ring hy my lord v.. 16 say not ashamed is the power of God unto sal. vation to every one that believeth <10 the Jew first, and also to the Greek.™ It ia oalled in verse 1 the Gospel of God and in verse § the Gospel of His Bon It is also ealled the glorious Gospel of Christ | glorious Gospel of the Blessad God (11 Cor. fv, 4:0 Tim, 4, 11), yet many preachers to. day have become ashambd of it or else seem to think it has lost its power, for they preach | anything and everything but the good news concerning Jesus, They surely seam to for. got Mark villi, 38. There is no benefit from the Gospel unless we believe or receive it of the Goepal } ‘ of Christ, for it | (Hob, tv,, 2), and receiving it we receive Him He writes as a | mm I serve | The Austro-Hungarian Crown, | The Hungarian crown worn at their | accossion by the Fmperors of Austria | as Kings of Hungary is the identical | one made for Stephen and used at his | The | i FTO Murs six fourteen coronation over 800 years ago whole is of pure gold (except and (nlmont Ths of H3 a 4 | hire ¥, I emerald and 838 pearl poticed that ther {hoes POOR - 43 3] weighs nine exactly pettings nbov « | tings), ounneoes | pounds), to consist wilde Jd 50 rubies I be Bre ficie DO ainin:e BION naorumonts, This for by quoted story of Stephen's aversion is accounted the oft to a thew St. Louis Republic es —— —_ such gems be omiine he conmiders “undue ky." tidings of God concerning | Though western Australis nine times the Kingdom, its population wa in March last at but 50 00 more size Of “he TIK { InRies than ivr nounosd it a loos: disease, ar remedios, snd by coum with local treat nr Relenoe has proves nnd disease and al treat ment ufactured by F. . the only consti # taken Interna F.J1.Caexey & | - B—— We Cure Hupiure, Hood's Mra. Burt, i AR ar a H Kends wi HOOD'S a d's: Cu Hood's Pills cure sick headache “August Flower” I have been troubled with dyspep- sia, but after a fair trial of August Flower, am freed from the vexatious trouble—]. B. Young, Daughters College, Harrodsburg, Ky. I bad beadache one year steady. One bottle of August Flower cured me. It was positively worth one hundred dollars to me—J. W. Smith, Merchant, Townsend, Ont. I have used it myself for constipation and dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the best seller I ever handled—C. Rugh, Druggist, Mechanicsburg, Pa. ® Joe C CRupriONS ON SKIN Beauriries #CompPLE » pel An : Taxstive and X' Tow, BE Ey mal Hc. 80 and §LO0 per package. Bam free. " XO NO Zits THE KIND THAT CURES THE Io and the | | (John L, 12) and thus become the children of | | God, I! today, as In the days of the apostles, we gave more head “to the Jew might not the blessing be much 17. “For therein is the righteousness of to faith, as it in written, The just shall live by faith.” Our own righteousness, which fa only flithy rags, is opposed to the rightecsusness of God and must be laid aside before we oan enjoy the perfect rightecusness of God, which = Christ Himself (Isa, Ixiv,, 6: II Cor. v., 21: Rom. x., 8, 4). This complete and spotioss righteousness was wron out wholly by Christ and becomes ours | simple faith in Him-or, in other words, by our receiving Him (Rom, #16. 21, 22). “Tho just shail live by faith." «Lesson Helper, —— More Popular than It Once Was, The first forks made in England were manufactured in 1605 Their use was ridiculed by the men of the time, who argued that the English race must be degenerating when a knife wnd a spoon were not sufficient for table use. Last Py \ h 4 CHARLES SIMMOY Cobos, NX. ¥ , A MARVEL IN COHOES | Juar a Shefliold firm made over 4,000, i a —— Tux malleabllity of gold is so grea that a sheet of foil, It is sald, oan Be Dutisn aa thin a6 the slice of ham io a Wor r sandwich, — Kansas City Journal. = WHO TrEYeI* OF SOOTY CUMS 18 — ne wiwaye getiing oto scrapes §
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