CALLADE OF HEART'S DtSIRE. T THOMAlS WOOD STEVINS. , , With fame upon the bugles blown And waves of lances on the plain. Men harvest where the fields are sown With death, and tears are like the rain; ' By pomp and craft and high disdain They build and pass, to sleep with Tyre, V ho spend their souls to seek in vain The glory of the King's Desire. And men there are who stone on stone ! Uprcar unto the lord of gain . High temples that they call their own While rortnne smiles before her fane; Who tempt the seas nnd lcara to reign : lAbove the spirit of the tire, And driving still, may still attain The worship of the World's Desire. And some who hold for fleet and throne No homage and no homage feign, Who kneel before one shrine alone, Who know one love, and one love's painj For them the winter in the lane Chills not the sjiring-song of the lyre; 1'or them one law, onV dream, one chain The guerdon of the Heart's Desire. L'EXVOI. Sweet, when the tyrants all are s!airt. The temples dark with Fortune's ire, Still in thine eyes let me regain I The glory of the Heart's Desire. 1 The Criterion. J& J& THE MAN WHO GOT OVER IT. J& J& J& J& sjo HE elder of the two men , was still young, but somo- O O tljmS llnd "'os8''1 hi flU J. as a fire crosses a forest, tOtC sweeping out .he lines nnd look mat had been. The younger was bright, buoyant, self-satisfied, in love ,wlth himself nnd the world. The elder bad n newspaper In his hnnd, nnd he carelessly rolled and un rolled it with nn intentness that might have been given to the calculation of eclipses or to the evolving of new sys tems of philosophy. The younger leaned lazily back in his chair with his bands clasped behind his head. "It was good of you, Howard, to hunt me up as soon as you came back to the city," the elder said, for the third time. "I have missed you I have needed the old companionship I somehow. 1 have seemed to be rather rather alone of late years." There was n hesitation in his speech that the other found very curious. "You've been sticking to the office too closely, Morrison," he said, kindly. "Of course, ambition and building one's Belt op, and hard work, nnd all that are nil right, but you've overdone the thing. It's taking a good deal out of you." A wintry smile flickered around the lips of the elder mnn as he unfolded the paper and looked at it critically and then carefully rolled it again. ; "Ambition?" he said. "Yes I used to be ambitious, didn't I? nnd rather tal ented, too, people thought." "I hope yon haven't, thspwn it all away," cvled Howard, with a shocked face. "Thrown it away! Oh, no! Rome men would have done that. But I had a great deal of self-control. I remem bered, afterward.' that I had been am bitious, with certain objects in view, nnd so I put myself at the old tasks nnd have gone plodding, plodding at them with set teeth ever since. I nm a plodder now, where I used to run iwlth my soul on fire." "What in the world lias happened to you, old man?" asked the younger, with troubled eyes on the face the tire bad swept. " The elder rolled the paper into a tighter roll, and held it in both hands, jis though it were his self-control nnd It might escape from hliu at any mo inenr. "I am glad you came to me as soon Its you reached town," he said again, always with that curious hesitation in his manner. "I have thought of you many times nnd have wished to warn you yon are so very young. Howard fully three years younger than I :and I know that I ought to warn you agnlnst women!" The younger, who had bent forward, leaned back rgaln, and from this time on he did not take his eyes from his companion's face. ' ' "Agnlnst women," he repeated, mechanically,- still holding tight to his 'self-control. "For you are young. With a sensitiveness and delicacy of spirit which I often noticed wheu we ' were boys together. If such an ex perience came to you why it might iwreck your life. Yon might never re cover, I doubt if you would even liv? through it. I have thought of that often. As for me, I am not sensitive ' nor delicate; nnd you see I have lived. Not only that, but I have entirely so covered. You could scarcely believe that I can even lau-h now wheu I think of it." He laughed then to prove it, and at the sound of that laugh (he face of the other man grew white. "Dli! yes, it is all over long ago," lie added. "I thanked heaven many times that I was made of coarse fiber, and , could triumph over such experiences. But as for you, my boy, don't ever try It. Keep away from them from women. They will not wait to see if you are the kind that that lives through It. They will break you heart as a child breaks a doll to see what Is Inside and though your heart bents afterward, the quickness Is gone from your spirit and the fire from your brain. That is, it would be from yours, You can see for yourself that I have entirely recovered entirely." . He waited until be bad unrolled the (taper and, looked at it on all sides, and swiftly rolled It again, before he wenl dn. t "It was three years ago. Just after you left town, that I first met her. I will not tell you her name you would not know her-but she was young I was young then, too nnd she was so beautiful that all men were attracted to her. "Da yon smile to think that I was attracted, too? True I had not lived the life most men live. I was a stu dent, and had lived among books and dreams. She was the embodiment of all that was pure and lowly In litera ture and fancy. I had worshiped her afar off until she called me to her. Howard, she sent the others away nnd called me, at a queen calls a courtier, and I weut." The paper was growing ragged at the edges. He held it up a moment nnd looked at it, then clasped his fingers around it till they were white from the pressure, and went on: "For weeks I saw her every day. I found that I could say brilliant things to amuse her I, the recluse, the silent. Other men, wealthier, well-known, so cially, stood off and were amassed, but I cared nothing for them. Through all the ages, through all the impossibili ties of time and space, our two souls had been coming together. Missing her, I would have gone on, a solitary student, to my Journey's end. I shud dered, sometimes, to think what my life would have been if I had not gone to the house where I met her first. "Missing me. she would have laughed and Jested with the crowd of suitors, until she wearied of them, and they fell away, one by one, and left her still heartwhole and alone. "My life was filled with sneh dreams as these, which seemed so true, so natural that I felt it necessary to speak to Kllnor, for she must see as clearly as I." The flood was carrying him on he resumed hurriedly, with his eyes on the paper: "One evening I went to her home. Elinor was alone, with a shadow on her face, and something took posses sion of me, nnd I I spoke. I see you are disturbed for me. You need not lie troubled it was all over, long ago. I have lived through it. I can laug'j now. when I think of It ha, ha, ha! She laughed, too, at the time, and "aid it was the strangest thing that a girl could never be friends with a man but that he spoiled it by wanting to marry her. She leaned back in her cushioned chair there was something made of silk nnd Ince behind her head. and and she looked so fair and dainty and gentle but she was laughing; and she told me that she liked to have me near her for several reasons. In the first place, I was tall, r.nd she liked tall men. Then I could talk to her about books, and that enabled her to talk about them, too, without being at the trouble of rending them herself. Then, I was so dellciously serious, and ' that refreshed her anil above all, she knew she was perfectly safe with me, for no one would ever be insane enough to dream of our marrying. "She laughed a great deal, yet she was vexisl that I had spoken and spoiled it all. She had broken her doll, and. finding nothing- but heart's blood inside it, site threw It away. Hut men were all alike, she said; they all took themselves so seriously. And then I laughed also, nnd went out into the night. A little while after she left London nnd went abroad; and I I sat here at my desk and lived. . ' "Yes, I am quite recovered fortun ately. With some men It might have been a very serious thing. There are men, you know, who put fo much of life into a thing that what is left he- hind isn't worth considering. It wou'.d be so with you, Howard. I have thought of you many times, for I knew whnt might come and I wanted to warn you. When yon are pouring out your soul 'they are tolerating you be cause beeanse you are tall. It would ruin your life, my boy. Don't let thorn do it." "Wait a moment," said the pale- faced younger man, with his hand on the other's arm. "Never mind I would not have heeded it no man would but your warning comes too late. I was married last week. I am on my wedding tour. I thought you know." The elder paused, with the paper held out in both motionless hands, and stared at hlra vacantly. "Married!" he whispered. "And to whom ?" "To Miss Elinor Vanconr." The paper dropped to the floor with a crash, and in the pause that fol lowed Howard heard his watch tick. Then the man who had outlived the tragedy of his life arose and heard himself saying, formally, a long way of?: "Allow me to congratulate you." Illustrated Bits. Imitated Tspa. A little girl, before going out to a tea party, was coached lu conduct by a fond mamma, "You may take caks twice if it is "offered to youj but if you ore asked a third time you must say. with all possible politeness, 'No, thank you!'" Ou her return home she gave assurance she had remembered and followed the maternal instructions; "but," she added, "the servant brought the cake to me n fourth time." "And what did you say then?" in quired mamma. "Oh," was the start ling rejoinder, "then I thought of what pupa does sometimes, and I said: 'Take it away and don't bother.' " Crazy Woman Wins Prise. A woman Inmate in a Minnesota asy lyin for the insane has won a prize from a Boston magazine for the solu tion of a rebus and the writing of an essay. The chief difference between her and a lot of other successful au thors Is that she is denied ber liberty. ACCEPTABLE TO MOST WOMEN. A dainty nprou is acceptable to most women. A new idea is a work bag and apron combined. It is so constructed that while doing fancy work you ap pear to have on a pretty apron with a pointed bib. Wheu you stop you pllo all your things in your lap, untie the ribbons about your waist and the nprou draws up into a bag. MEDITATION'S OP, A SPINSTER. Judging from some of the awful things seen on the. late Hallowe'en, women ought to go down ou their knees fasting and give thanks that they are permitted to wear women's clothes. It's queer that It is much harder to be Just plain than It is to be saintly and pious. Silence, In some cases, speaks much louder than words. It makes a wife real envious to see the way her husband can forget the children when they are both away from home. When a woman has won something on an election bet she cannot see why some people think bettin gls wrong. THE HARDANGER EMBROIDERY. The Hardanger embroidery, or Swe dish embroidery, as it is sometimes wrongly called, which, is now so popu lar in the simps in embroidered shirt waist and centrepieces, gets its name from the town of Hardanger in west ern Norway. This embroidery, while new to most parts of the United States, has been In use for generations in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In these coun tries the children are tai.ght to do Har danger work at school; and In the little town of Hardanger in almost every home are to be seen curtains, counter panes, pillow shams nnd table covers ornamented with this beautiful and durable embroidery. The women of Hardanger always wear little aprons trimmed with Har danger insertion. In fact, this custom is so associated with the village lire that even on her wedding day the Hardanger maiden wears an apron. WHY nER SHOE LACES UNTIE. "Why is It that a lady's shoe becomes untied so much more frequently nnd apparently easier than a man's?" re peated J. V. Ladd, the shoe salesman, after me. "Well, I don't suppose I would be in any better position to ar swer a question than any one else had it not been for the fact that a few days ago a couple of ladles, customers of my place, were discussing that very point, and their deductions appear to solve the riddle perfectly. "It Is not that a woman's shoe. laces Will not tie in as firm a knot as any other's; the reason for the frequent an noyances to' which women are sub jected is apart from that. In the case of high shoes the trouble is altogether In their height. The shoe laces further up on the leg than a man's, usually fits more snugly, and therefore encoun ters a greater strain on the knot when a woman is walking. The result is that it becomes loosened with a very short time, whereas, a man may walk nil day without the laces of his shoe becoming untied. Where low shoes are worn the skirts flapping round the ankle do the work of loosening the knot." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. HINTS FOR HATS. An entirely new hat, that lias no pedigree, but is distinctly pretty, hasa low bowl top covered with a mara bout pompon. The four-inch brim curves up with reticent grace at the left. It is covered with row upon row of narrow plealed lace, and bound at the edge with Japanese mink. The bowl hat often hast a crown of roses, with fur binding always In ef fective harmony. The lace is usually pure white. ' But little laeewlll be used on the handsomest hats. Fur and flowers nnd fur and tulle or embroidery are the swagger things. Felts are fashionable in spite of the craze for the made velvet bat. The handsomest are the satin felt, not too stiff, with the brim showing the pleas ant outline of the mushroom. A handsome feather used to be a treasured possession for one or more generations. It was treated with re spect and placed on the hat in a digni fied, upright position. But what is tra dition to the modern American girl? Just something to be stumbled over once, to be uprooted, smiled at kindly and the fragments scattered by a little humor and a little scorn. CHEAP IMITATIONS. Cheap imitation of good things is seen a great deal, and gives a tawdry look to gowns. Avoid laces and rib bons unless they are good, says the Boston Sunday Herald. False Jewelry Is always bad taste, and yet women wltii beautirul Jewels cf their own go mad over imitation ones. It you can not have the real, do without. Nothing so stamps a woman. Walk along the street some, day and look only at the feet of the women you pass. Yon will be astonished and hor ned to find perhaps only one whose feet are well shod. Every one can afford to bare a pair of trees, as skeleton shapes can be bought and will tit any shoe or slipper in that size. Start with a good outfit of shoes, one pair for wet weather, whether boots or low shoes with cork soles; another for ordinary wear, and two patent leather pairs, for Rtreet and for dress occasions; the latter with high heels and thinner soles. That amount is ab solutely necessary, apart from brown shoes or slippers. Keep them on trees and well cleaned, nnd not only will you be well shod, but you will save tre mendously. One pair of shoes will not do for everything. They not only look bad, but the constant wear nnd tenr soon finishes them, (live up other things, if you have to, but try it once and you will never go back to your old way. NECKLETS FOR GIRL3. The smart clH Is a very interesting young person to behold these days, for 'she scarcely lets a day go by that she does not introduce you to n new fash- Ion and greet you with a new fad. Knriv In the summer U was a long chain that she was wearing, of beads or Jewels, according as her purse al lowed, Now the long chain Is looked upon as being entirely too popular to be worn by the girls who lead, Instead of follow, the fashions. It Is the neck let that is the smart thing to wear right now a dainty little chain, some times of one strand and sometimes of three, which falls Just below the throat. From the necklet dangles the fair wearer's birth stone. The neck let is invariably of fine gold chains of tiny pearls. Amethyst drops make effective dangles, and baroque pearls are also much the mode used in tills way, says the Woman's Home Com panion. Very often the necklet consists of one line gold chain, which fits snugly about the collar. From this but one dangle will depend, but It will be a large and expensive one. Strings of enameled beads Just long enough to encircle the throat are a fashion of the moment. They are very dainty and attractive In pale blue, be ing strung In such a way that n small (Milestone alternates with each pretty blue bead. Big coral beads are also worn, but they must fit closely about the neck. Instead of swinging away below the waist line. COSTUME FOR BUSINESS WEAR. This year, for the business woman, the smooth-finished, mannish mixtures are In high favor for tailored suits. A vest of contrasting color, not too light, may be Introduced, or a snug, semi fitting, double-breasted coat, somewhat suggestive of a Norfolk Jacket, Is equally within Dame Fashion's laws. The sleeves are plain and snug-litting. The skirt should be built on strictly tailored lines, no ruilles or shlrrlngs, nnd if trimming Is used at nil, it should be in the form of strapped seams or very flat, closely woven braid, which wlli not harbor dust. This skirt should clear the ground by at least two Inches. With It should be woin n tailor hat, with no ostrich plumes or flowers, but a breast of coq pompom may be used for trimming. Many well-dressed women in business wear a rather stilt felt hat of good, quality, trimmed with bands and big 'rosettes of ribbon, or velvet of the same shade. The business woman who is much on the street should own a complete rainy day outfit and keep It for that purpose. This because for rainy weather she should have a skirt and long coat well removed from the ground. Many a long coat of waterproof cloth does more harm than good to Its owner because she has It cut too long. The best tailors say that the rainy day skirt and coat shonid clear the ground by four inches. If the water proof coat Is long, the material of the skirt beneath is not all important, and here the business womnu may employ a made-over. FANCIFUL HATS FOR WOMEN. Among the fancy hats many are wo ven of thick chenille, the coloring chos en being usually rich. They nre at their best In deep claret and maroon, purple blue and plum shades. A largo fiat crowned type and a medium sized hat, the brim rolled so as to suggest a tricorne, are both very suitable for chenille. The trimming for the former may consist of a r.oW or roses of the same color, set against the upturned brim, while for the latter, wide ribbons may be chosen for the outside trim ming, nnd a big bunch of roses for the bandeau underneath, tilting it slightly to one side. Shapes crowned with plumage are always more or less of a fanciful char acter. One may generally expect to see a certain number among" season able novelties, but those shown this year are certainly an improvement on former productions. A picture hat in light peacock blue .plumage particu larly took my fancy. The feathers were not quite flat, but curled slight ly, so as to form a low pile like that on a nielusine felt. Bound the high crown was arranged a sort of staudup fringe of the blue and gold strands surrounding the tail feathers of tho peacock emerging from a folded band of glace velvet of the same tone. Moro simple, but very pretty, too, is a big toque, the crown of which' is covered with white plumage, and tho rolled brim by a quantity of soft black, cock's feathers sweeping back from the front on either side. Paris Letter to the Millinery Trade Review. A MAN-SATINC HORSE. Itorjr of si Beautiful Stallion That Had - ' Killed Two Men. A fearful beast Is a bad horse. One really has more chance against a tiger. Geronlmo stood seventeen hands high nnd weighed over l'MX) pounds. When he reared on his hind legs and came for you screaming, his teeth snapping like bear traps, his mnne flying, a man, seemed a tiny antagonist indeed. One blow from those front hoofs and your troubles were over. Once down he'd trample, bile and kick you until your own mother would hesitate to clnlm the pile of rags and Jelly he lcrt. Ho had served two men so already; nothing but his matchless beauty saved his life. Nowhere could one find a better ex ample of the satanlc than when he tore around his corral In a tantrum, as lithe and graceful as a black panther. His mans stood on end; his eyes and nostrils were of a color; the muscles looked to be bursting through the silken gloom of his coat. Hl3 swift ness was something Incredible. lie caught and horribly killed Jim Bax ter's hound before it could got out of the corral and a bear hound is a pretty agile animal. We fed and watered Geronlmo with a pitchfork, and In terror then, for his slyness and cunning were on a par with his other pleasant peculiarities. One of the poor devils he killed entered the stable all unsuspecting. Geronlmo had broken his chains and stood close against the wall of his stall In the darkness, waiting. The man came within reach. Suddenly a black mass of flesh flashed in the air above him, coming down with nil four hoofs a inl and that's enough of that story. Henry Wallace rhlllips, In McClure's. Blrange Cnurt-Mnrtlnl. After a two-days' court-martial at Devonport, England, Color Serjeant Instructor of Musketry Walter Jefferles of the Second Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, was acquitted on Satur day of a strange charg?. This was that he made a false accusation against Lieutenant Lynch In a report, which contained the following: "Lieutenant Lynch commenced talk ing about Lieutenant Hope's course. He said, '1 have seen the Colonel, nnd he told me that Lieutenant Hope has to get through this time by some means or other,' and also said that It did not matter if his scores had to be altered, as It meant a lot to that officer if he failed," and further, "Lieutenant Hope also done practices 4, 5 and (J on the same day, nnd the scores actually ob tained were 5, 3, 10 points, nnd I, under the Influence of Lieutenant Lynch, the previous night altered the points of those practices to IT, IS, 10, which Is now shown on the musketry transfer return and on the register of Lieu tenant Hope." Lieutenant Hope had previously com pleted one course, and failed to get his qualifying points to enable hi m to ob tain promotion into a line regiment. Loudon Mall. T.Hrgest Auto In the World. The largest automobile ever built Is a harvester and "auto" combined, anil is used in Southern California. It Is equal to sixty horses, ami goes at the rate of throe and a half. miles an hour, mowing a swath thirty-six feet wide, putting up the grain in finished shape, threshing, etc. v The machine Is sixty feet long and thirty feet wide. The motive power is furnished by oil. It is su h an expen sive "harvest hand" thai one farmer can not, of course, own It nlone, but It is the property of a company, nnd goes troui one farm to another. Eight men nre required to run it. As 1 lie machine starts olt the grain begins falling In sacks on the opposite sid: from where it is cut, and the- straw drops into a cart behind. Three machines sent to Russia for work on tho steppes were delayed In China and captured by the "Boxers." There they remained for two years, but they are now In Iiuia. und con sidered an American wonder. It Could Knt lie. Mr. W. W. Keen, the Philadelphia surgeon, has a number of serapbonks tilled with anecdotes about physicians. These anecdotes are odd, from the fact that they all throw upon physi cians a most unflattering light. To il lustrate their character. Dr. Keen quoted one'of them recently. "A physician was driving through the street," he said. "A friend stopped him." " 'Doctor,' said the friend anxiously, 'have you heard that horrible story about Williamson?' " 'No,' said the doctor. 'What stoty Is that?' " 'A story to the eU'ect that he was buried alive.' " 'Buried alive?' said the doctor. 'Impossible. He was one of my pa tients.' "Collier's Weekly. ' Measuring Space. James Whitcomb Riley, who occa sionally visits country schools in the Hoosier State, once gave a brief nd dress on tho subject of the stars. At the conclusion of his interesting talk, be said: "Can any of you boys toll me what space is?" The bright-faced young sofi of a cona try editor promptly raised his hand. "Well, my lad," said the poet, "what do you think space Is?" "Twenty-five cents an agate line for display matter, sir," he piped out. Saturday Evening Post. Her Thoroughness. "Now, there was iny aunt Philenda Pine," rumlnntingly remarked the Old Codger. "She was such a careful, painstaking woman, with a nice little knot of hair like a borsc.-cbestnut on the back of ber bead, that when little Oscar bad the measles she counted em."-lNick. New York City. Dlroetoiie styles are always attractive with their big pointed revers and are to be noted among the latest and most desirable shown. The very stylish waist Illus trated Includes also the fashionable vest and sleeves of the latest model while It is extended below the waist In A Late Design basque stylo. The original Is made of copper-colored broadcloth with revers, cuffs and belt of velvet and the vest of white cloth enriched by embroidery, the little shield being of lace, but vari ous combinations might be suggested. The waist consists of the fitted lining, the fronts, backs, side-backs and un-der-arm gores. The fronts nre laid in tucks at the shoulders which extend to yoke depth, providing fullness- be low, and the back in two that extend for full length. The vest Is faced on to the lining, a little turn-over collar finishing the neck at the buck, but the chemisette is separate and nrranged underneath. The revers are pointed and so shaped as to give a Jabot effect. The sleeves arc large and full above the elbows, snug fitting below with the flare cuffs that always are suggestive of Directoire styles. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is six and three-quarter yards twenty-one Inches wide, five and three-quarter yards twenty seven inches wide, or three nnd a half yards forty-four Inches wide, with ftve elghth yard of cloth for vest, one yard of velvet and five-eighth yards of lace for chemisette. A Dinner Gown. A pink chiffon dinner gown of the moro elaborate sort has a long skirt with 'a full foot ruffle edged with a As to Panels. Panels are seen in many guises. The figure Is In the shupe of a waistcoat, and they are In the form of the entire front gore of a shirt. On a lovely princess dress there's the panel effect from top to toe. . Separate Blouse Gone. The separate blouse as a dress gar ment has ended its career. Be It ever so bumble, a gown Is a gown In these days, and Dot a skirt and waist. BASQfH WAIST. ruche which Is dotted every six Inches or so with deeper pink and green chiffon flowers. There is a very deep pointed oversklrt, also finished, with a flower-decked ruche. The same ruche and flowers trimmed the decollete of the simple bodice. The sleeves nre of the elaborately draped order, a full puff and draped double ruffles caught up with clusters of flowers and foliage. tllrl's "lln.tcr Brown" Dress. "Buster Brown" styles have taken a firm hold on the girls as well as the sninll boys, and dresses for the lattcr's sister, made after that widely-known youngster's nre among the latest shown. While of necessity they differ from the original lu detail, .they retain certain characteristics and are so truly charming and simple as to be amply worthy of consideration on the ground of their own merits nlone. This one Is made of natural colored linen with white collar and cuffs that are detach able, but all simple, childish materials, wool as well as linen and cotton, are appropriate, and collar au8 cuffs can be of the same or white as preferred. The dress is made with front and back, the front tucked, the back box pleated and the skirt portion laid lu additional Inverted pleats at the under arm seams, and Is closed at the back, an opening being cut beneath the cen tre pleat. The sleeves nre simply full and both neck and wrists are finished by May Monton. with bands to which the cuffs can be sewn, or attached by means of buttons nnd buttonholes as liked. At the waist is a belt of the material that Is slipped under straps at the tinder-arm seams. The quantity of material required for the medium size, eight years. Is four and a quarter yards twenty-seven Inches wide, two and five-eighth yards girl's "Br8TEB brown" DUE SB. forty-four Inches wide or two and a half yards fifty-two inches wide, with half yard of white linen for collar and cuffs. Saw Shopping; Bats. The newest shopping bags, almost square, are carried by means of a strap, through which the hand slips easily. Inside are places for the small change purse, memorandum book, etc. Th Elbow Sleeve. Faquin's latest creations for recep tions and fine wear show the elbow sleeve to be more the mode than ever. Velvet costumes especially show elbow sleeves. ' IpIi R
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