AS THE YEAR GROWS OLA Time whisks away the fleeting cUys, Tha year is growing sad nud old« And Night gets ready to unfold Htr sublu cloak ere yet the blaze Of noon has died upon the hili. Up front the deeps the mists are rolled, .£nd ull the fields grow gray and cold. Where radiance thould be dancing still. lAnd I that once had time to spare Look np from tasks, but just begun T» sigh because the is past, feel Night's breath upon the air And know that which is still undone Must now remain so till the last! ■»_S. E. Riser, in Chicago Times-Herald. A WILD RIDE. I It was the third week of our trip Across the plains. e were now just 75 miles from Fremont, and expected to make it very shortly; but on rising I was disgusted to find that one of the horses —we hud only two—was dead lame. He hud cast himself in the night. I was rubbing the strained tendons when the professor came aud stood beside me. "How long before he will bo ready for work again?" "I don't know," I said shortly. "Hand ine that oil." "What is a near estimate?" he in quired with a touch of mild irritation. "Surely in these days of scientific ex actitude so slight a matter as the length of a horse's lameness may be computed with reasonable accuracy." "I just wish you'd try it then," I said, sulkily. "He may be ready to morrow—we may have to wait two weeks—unless you want to ride tho mare in. I dou't mind walking." "And leave my specimens to tho mer cy of any Yahoo that happens along? My dear Curtis, I could not think of It! Since there's only you and I we can make ourselves very comfortable. But I do hope the creature will l>e all right in a short time. I am anxious to be in Fremont to study the collision of the comet with my colleague there." "Collision of the comet!" I repeated, straightening up. There's nothing so tiresome as rubbing a sprain. "Certainly! That brilliant comet, to which I have called attention for several nights, will surely collide witli the earth, in a few days at farthest. 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