SOME OF THESE DAYS. Bome of theso days all the skies will be brighter ; Bome of these days all the burdens be lighter: Hearts will 5 happler, souls will be whiter Some of these days, Some of these days! Some oi these days in the desert upspring- ing Fountains shall lash while the joy-bells are ringing, And the world shall go singing with its sweetest of birds Some of these days, #ome of these days! Rome of these days! let us bear with our SOLTOW ; Faith in the future, its light we may borrow There will be joy in the g Some of these days, 8 iden to-morrow me of these days! Frank L. Stanton. GNATURE. CENE—A private | piazza on the third story of a seaside hotel. nn — SECOND SI DRAMATIS PERSONAE Morley Lapham Miss Hardy's guardian 30 summers Colonel Robert Bar govne, with cavalry | -33 (unineum- bered) summers Mrs. Alice Mordaunt, | mlessed) summers, -30 summer ra 30 (eo »» Hardy, an The Colonel orpaan seated alone and look- ing down the beach)—‘Yes! It is Mrs. Mordsunt. What a handsome Wor What a dashing woman ! (Lapham e his rubi- ecund handker chief. Lapham—‘“Whew-ew hot! Hello! Hello, oks down the What is it? A fire?” The C “Oh! N-n 1 Why, | nt niers , mopping countenance with his beach.) 3 OIouac it's it be a oh bathing, He's caugl ! gray hairs and lieve th l ley) Ahem for you, did campaign but "it's day like Lapham 't complain. until weigh a hundred and seventy-fiv Th olonel button) (pushing an electric “You make me thirsty. Will you have a ler nd seltzer?” Lapham ~*‘*Very apropos! The quicker the better, Bob. I simply made time in order to get down here. Hotter it 18, busier I am. I sail for London to-morrow at 11 for the Atlas’ Company. Capital ten million and they've made me their attorney, Bob.” The Colonel {endeavoring to be en- thusiastic)—‘‘Lncky thing comes your in chances. Lapham —‘‘Where Eunice was? dog! Every Way. We poor chaps get such the army any did y millionaire | His fall.’ Lapham to see Eu matter, yr her practically out own pocket becanse of her dead brother can see him n head of his men, and I can 1} there in the his do IH down ! YOu w wear him saying as he lay dust with that red imp's bullet in “Go on! G ya! Ruanthe Don’ her about me!’ breast ab I, principally about the eyes). Lapham —**No, not that. Youn didn’t understand me. I made a very lucky investment for Eunice —very lucky in vestment—very, Bob, Whew-cw! Bat it's hot!” The Colonel —* Yes.” Lapham (suddenly ard anxiously) ~Don’t you ever let Eunice know a | word—"' The Colonel (rising in his chair and with emotion) — “Lapham, after knowing me all these years, do you think I am that sort of a man?" Lapham --*‘No, no, dear old fellow. I spoke before 1 thought. You see, Bob, I get very lonesone in my bach- elor quarters, and—" The Colonel (aside) pected. He's after her, too. (To Morley) —Yes--yes; I'm listening.” (A piece of paper flutters out of a window directly overhead and lands at Morley's feet; but neither he nor the Colonel sees it.) Lapham-*‘Alk! You see, Bob, my care for Eunice bas brought me to tow" The Colonel—'‘Mrs. Mordaunt?” Lapham (sbsently)—*‘A fine woman ~-very fine woman, Bob, Whew! bat it's hot!" The Colonel‘ ‘Er-er— yes." Lapham —* ‘Superb chaperon!” The Colonel-—‘‘Unrivaled! Er-—or —~you wouldn't be lonesome with Mra, Mordaunt, you mean?" Lapham (aside) ‘Oh, I see! (To sho Coloncl)~No, no, no. I bad never thought of her in that respect. Besides, I ean see that your military | bearing has won her already.” The Colonel—*Ob, no! Won't you | have another lemon and seltzer, Mor- | | ley if that waiter ever comes. That | Atlas Company affair is the stroke of | your life. (Jumps up and vigorously | shakes Lapham's hand.) I am ns | happy about it as you are. It's great -simply great, and you deserve it. Deserve it all and more.” Lapham — ‘Bob, it's Fuanice of whom I wish to speak to you. Let me say it { frankly: I eame down here to ask her | to be my wife, | less she wants me, and if ehe should | accept me because of what I have done for her and not because she loves me, when I found it out I should be mis erable. You have seen us together, Bob. I am much older. You know 1 have never cared for society, and I'm a sort of back number in the art of courtship, I dare say. But, Bob, old fellow, do you think-—she for me?" CATCS The Colonel —**You want the truth?” Lapham (with emotion) ‘‘Nothing else-——annd all of it.” The Colonel Bradsleigh constantly. they are engaged.” Lapham — “I don’t him! I--but if she rightt Why, Bob, sulking.” (Eunice enters —a beautiful picture in a boating costume, ) in surprise) with People “She is young say it! To him, it's, @ stuslly believe loves I Was Eunice -*Mr. Lap- ham!" Lapham — “You didn't gi gram!" Eanice—‘‘It may be in I have been out all day, 1 “It is very warm.” “Very. You must co The water 1s pe rect. mel —‘If you | me, Miss Hardy, I'll why that lemon an walters are so warm and tired! rour dip first and you will be cooler, and you ean tell me in better fashion. After dinner I will listen to the advice of my guardian— shaking her parasol at him)—my ir- reproachable guardian. I just ran up to get my purse, you know. } to the boathouse is in it, Mr. Bradsleigh I would harry. will forgive I promised So vou untill ainoer 7 4) Apa ut to n a shaking uj lirectly. Bs y Lap to smii on't try t f{ I Old man, Re to her? this up on the ham smile | You eax yu are sufl Lapham --' a " floor ring. at Yi (Lapham passes the note to the Col- onel, who reads it and pasdes it back.) The Colonel—'‘By George, sir, this infamous. Such a girl as she at tached to thatspendthrift fool | Never | I'll speak to Mrs, Mordaunt.” Lapham (going over to the Colonel and laying his hand on his shoulder) “No; vou will not. She 18 a sensi- ble girl, and if she loves him, let him have her. 1 know that if I were a | young man of his age and she loved me, and one got in our way, I would " 14 The Colonel—'‘Find your way to the nearest church?” Lapham —‘Yes, I understand that you will not say a word to Mrs, Mor, launt ?” yo vo—— The Colonel «Not 1) word." Lapham -—*1 can’t bear to see her again just now, I'll go at once.” I'he Colonel—'‘1 wish you would | met her all | stand down at the beach. { dies from her for my youngsters there, I do not want her un- | | drops. i | obtained, Lapham (trying to smile) just getting cooled off.” The Colonel—‘Exonse me, Miss Hardy, but Iwill go down and bring up that lemon and seltzer myself.” (Exit the Colonel.) Eunice— ‘Carrying that baby made you ill! It wus Mrs, Miller's baby. on the walk and she told me about it. She keeps the little I buy can- and we gossip between bargainings. The train was suffocatingly hot; she was tired and the baby eried. You took it on your lap and winked at it that wonderful wink of yours—and it { went to sleep —twenty pounds of it in your lap twenty miles Lapham (uneasily) don't talk about it.” Eunice (assuming defianace)—‘‘But [ will! Mrs. Miller is going to send you up some of her wonderful lemon {Langhs.) You see one never gets into these things that one doesn’t get in deeply.” “1 didn't you this but now you are here—I will,” (He passe the note, which Eunice “Please—ah! intend to give that —that her Lapham note, reads, ) “14 i's she (blushing Mr. Brad- Lapham (choking a [ found it under not help open little) chair. ing it. wish Joy? you joy Mr. Brad- not the It's his Eaniee, who is out in California. He 1 and told me how she } vbation, $1 F Teck! Laughs.) Eunice. his co ROT iad put um on I keep him from h he {The Colonel kisses Mrs. Mordaunt just as the waiter having the lemon and seltzer elbows hin The Colonel (to the waiter) n thunder are you d Eat - “What ong here, man? ice, having finished writing, he note to Ling ham. =e 41 } zr Handi H H ATTN +] eonld have told 3 if you had York Press placing her asked American “Teeth Factories,” Nation has recen ’ i Of som agent at 1 transia boarg has sent part of State the 1 of a repori on a i merica that the worst te found, which accounts f riificaal teeth : 1% in nr multitude Ame ALL i espac American fabrications appertaining to the art of f it is possible to be lieve an documents, the ¢ of an artificial tooth at the factory in the United States should not exceed thirty or thirty-five cents, One of these fac tories in New York sells not less thao 8,000,000 of these teeth per annum The teeth are pore Jain, covered with a special enamel, the which is so delicate that there are no two teeth which are tinted exactly alike. Moreover there are about fifty different tints which are artificially corresponding with the thot (44 yal application ol | color variations of natural teeth, The | imitation is carried so far as to stimu ! | | : stay, but it is not becoming to urge, I | ali! You will be out at sea to-mor- row, and that will brace yon up.” Lapham —*‘Ye-es, (Looks at watch.) Ican just eateh train,” (Picks op his hat.) The Colonel are you going to do with it!” | Lapham-—'‘1 have thought that out. {I will bribe a servant to put it on | Bradleigh's table. We ean keep the secret, and neither of them will be dis- | tarbed. Explain to Eunice that I was suddenly called away. I'llget hor the best present in London, 1 can af- ford.” (Lapham starts toward the door and meets Eunice coming in.) Eunice—‘"The key wasn't in my purse. It must have dropped upon the floog=~, Mr, Lapham! Are you ill?” his the next ‘But the note? What | late defects, which render the illusion more complete. EE a .. A Rather Cool Spot, J. C. E Barker, the well-known mineral man of Neihart, while con: versing with a party of friends on the veranda of the Park Hotel the other day, told of a pretty chilly place to be ~-'“Ag 1 snes | know how I should feel if—puh-puh- | found near the famous Benton group of mines nt Neihart, “On the northern slope of the ‘Big Baldy,’ at an altitude of about 10,000 feet, Dutro Creek eoreeps through a basin on its way to Snow Creek, and it is in that basin, an acre or more square, that the sun never shines for three months December, January and February,” said Mr. Baker. “In that basin the ground never thaws, even in the hottest summer days,” he continued, “I have spent many years in tho mountains, but never saw such a frigid spot before, Last year wo ran a tunnel near this basin, and when fifty feet in the side ot the mountain struck seams of solid joo in the formations. The ice had probably been there for centuries, ' Great Falls (Wis. ) Leader. ' quent and dangerous than a ~No= | CYCLING ACROSS CHINA. THE REMARKABLE JOURNEY OF TWO YOUNG AMERICANS, Threading the Desert of Gobl on the Silent Steed-Money Hidden in Pneumatie Tires, “THE liflienlt portion of the remarkable bieyele jour- ney across Asin made by the G two Americans, Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, was the crossing of the Desert of Gobi. They describe this part of their tour in the Century. At Kuldja they were detained, awnit- ing the arrival of the necessary pass. ports and supplies. They utilize d the time in stadying the lan- guages, and in giving the final touches to their ontfit, most Chineso “Our work of wit principally a process of elimination We now had to prepare for a fore ] march in ease of necessity. Handle shortened to lsather bag frames of Ives preparation bars and seat-posts were the in the the machines, which we ou patented before leaving England, were replaced by a couple sleeping bags for us ont of woolen an Chinese oil d canvas, The entting ofl of buttons and extra parts of clothing, as well as the save weight, and even gage carriers, fitting Pied of made BOAWILY 01 saving ol . :. 3 heads and faces, wos also 1 ied our friends in the list of curts For the nein imen r f SAME reason one 03 ] alway carried our backs, and refilled at night under the bed-clo | ; phot graph r room for an extra Provis “And most perplexing said the Russian ine, Ww Western NOw he money 4} vil Ia, wy sufficient money to rather, as much as to that point; for the weg Chinése money nec2asary for a jo 3 of over three thousand miles was, as the Rassian OC thought, the greatest of ur out ban] I & yasal almost yuntabie ob de Ihe re } Sing in the inter wer uldia all the sil ] iT We ver and place the nese inguisitivens We are BE that no sftempt a discovered, aithough tion were frequent, and will appear, of a seriou When the young? the desert, their real reteh of cil Oa yk us six hours to WAS t shir Macing lad to £ root worse, “One st fift it to formidable as any part man desert along the Trans Railway. At an altitude hundred feet the ing to our aneroid barometer, neath the rays of a July sun which even our felt caps were much protection, we were hall drag- ging, half pushing, our through a foot of sand, and snapping at the mosquitoes swarming upon our necks and faces. These pests, which thronghout this low country e the largest and most numerons we have over met, are bred in the intermed. iate swamps, which exist only through the negligence of the neighboring villagers. At night smoldering fires, which half suffocate the human in mates, are built before the doors and windows to keep out the intruding in. sects. All travelers wear gloves, and a huge hood covering the head and face up to the eyes, and in their hands een Cover, WANs of the Tark WEPLas of only BRENOT i. and b n above Ben, rainst nos x 3 wheels Ar carry nn horse tail switeh to lash back | and forth over their shoulders. Being without such protection we safferad both day and night. “The mountain freshets all along the road to Urumisi ny wo have yet encountered. Toward even ing the melting snows, and the con- densing currents from the plain heat. { one of which was almost torn i no longer fit for use. were moro fre | | ed during the day, fill and overflow | | the channels that in the morning are | almost dry. ! branches, i | i 1 | \ i One stream, with its ten swept the stones and boulders over a shifting channel one wile in width, It was when wading through such streams as this, where every effort was required to balance ourselves and the luggage, that the mosquitoes would make up for lost time with impunity. | Some i “With constant wading ard tramp ing, our Ruasian shoes and stockings, off by the sly grab of a Chinese spaniel, were In their place we were now obliged to purchase the short, white cloth, Chinese string sandals, which for mere eycling purposes and wading streefms proved excellent substitute, being light and soft on the feet and very quickly dried. The oanlves of our legs, how- ever, ft bare, obliged, for state to retain and tion of our old ing to this se that we were ligeidl when tal bath by the sida A quick was h of our on wet to dry, or it to flutter from the handle-bars as we ro It was astonishing to little a required yond the pale of Western con socks nnd Aan being ] Wi were oocasions, at least, utilize the upper por- tocding It was ow- ntinéss wardrobe O ing fh roa slreams inet to mako and put it allow even how man alities, “From Manas to { to strike more Maize, wii but rather low an ni, Al ——— WISE WORDS, . 3 ' Few men work hard old enough to know x L vers love poetry t hampered b The nnmeant mischief servading and irremediable, oy 5 of fools 1» 1 aii Cr —— Sell Help. is nothing which is so trivial Nothing which will so ruin a boy's life. We do not mean hat it 1s best to sit down and not bet. ter your condition; any healthy mind yiust do that, but be glad while yon doing it that you can it, and lo not east an envious eye al an ther Look at him only to i nere y discon ns do man's progress learn something The man who pines for other peo ple's lives is not only silly but stupid, The world you covet was not ma le by discontented people, who are always looking about for something botter to do. You may want to travel, to see great works of art, and beautiful cities, Do vou ever realize that these things wera eroated by people who stayed at home and did their proper tasks and did it gladly and joyfully? You have the same world to live in that other men have had, and what yon do of vourself connts, and every bit of as sistance which you take from anotber weakens yon so much and makes yon small in the eyes of men, —Atlante Constitution, An Aluminnm Vielin, Before the members of the American | Suienve Association, in Brooklyn, Dr. Alfred Springer, of Cincinnati, pro- dused an alaminum violin, which was played by M. Scheele, It produced an enormous volume of tone, fally five times that of an ordinary wooden in- strament. There were a variety of opinions as to the quality of the tone, musicians declared thet tho quality was not ns good as a wooden one for solo work, but that it wonld prove good in orchestra wort. Others took the opposite side oa the question entirely, —Atlauta Constitution. Artificial Gems. | Beience is playing some peculiar | and interesting pranks on nature. She { takes some of the most common ma- {terial and by her subtle processes | converts it into the most costly. Per- {haps the most striking instance of this 1s converting sugar into dia- | monds, common earth into rubies and making pearls of chalk. In fact, the chemist has successfully produced about all the precious stones in his laboratory, and each year marks a de- cided progress in simplifying and cheapeuing the process. | The dis mond, Possess] value or utility ig no intrinsio of its own, is esteemed solely on account of its rarity. While, owing to its great oost, chemists have for centuries been laboring to pro- duce it, yet until within a very few years this most costly of gems has baffled their efforts until clever young French chemist, Moissan, has, with his microscope, discovered the process of nature 1n making the stone, and by his furnace succeeding in com- pressing carbon into pure diamonds, absolutely identical in and appearance to the Until iv, 6 AATYANDOG fu Pe ¥ composition natural gem. the in. purpose unavailable, d is pure carbon; so is graphite, and so is charcoal, the only difference b Z a matter density. The purest cs y for makin obtaine Pl th in electrieit tense heat required for this 6300 Fahrenheit The diamon Was hardness bon avail- is 15 until : entire g artificial amon 1 fron i iron 1 SUgAr by all the water and hydrog bas 3. 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