AT THB 8ET At the set of the sun, When our work is done, JVlth all its tnnnled web; When the cloiuls dvitt low, And the stream runs slow, And life Is at Its ebb, As we nenr the goal, When the froklon bowl BhflU he broken lit its fount; With what sweetest thoiiitht Shall the hour be frnuKlit, What precious most shall we count! Not the flnme of tho sword. Nor the wealth we have stored In perbhahln tliliiKS of earth Not tho wnv wo have trod With the intellect broml, Though that were of precious worth, LISETTE'S By HELKX FORREST GRAVES. "Of course I shall not marry him!" Mid Lisette Norman, haughtily. , Lisette was just the kind of girl up bn whom a little hauteur sits with not unbecoming grace; tall, well-developed Md featured like a Greek statue. Ernestine Grey, blue-eyed and soft voiced, was as unlike her as possible, as she sat there, her delicate cheeks Hushed and her restless fingers work ing nervously at the fringe of her scar let shawl. "But why not, Lisette?" she asked, timidly. "He is noble, refined, well educated all that a man should be in this exacting age of the world." "In short,' laughed Lisette, mocking ly, "he is a perfect gentleman. Why don't you say so, Ernestine, and done with It. I do believe you're In love with Henry March yourself." Ernestine's face grew as scarlet as her shawl. "I respect and admire him, Lisette," he said; "a woman may do that with reference to any man." "So do I respect and admire him," laughed Lisette, mockingly. "Then why do you refuse him?" "Ernestine," said Lisette, proudly, "do yon think I would marry a carpen ter? Are you mnd enough to Im agine for a single instant that I would become the wife of a common me chanic? No, Indeed! When I marry It will be to elevate mys"elf In the so cial scale, not to sink among1 the pleb lan herd." "Lisette," pleaded Ernestine, "I think you are wrong. It is the man you marry, not his social position or rank." "They can hardly be dissociated." "But, Lisette,' went on Ernestine, "1 have not given credence to the report up to this time, hut people say you are receiving the addresses of Mr. St. Ar mand." "Well, and supposing that I am what then?" "Oh, Lisette, he Is a bold, had man." "Nonsense, child; he's no worse than other people," said Lisette sharply. "He drinks, and he gambles. I know It, for I have brothers." "Every one takes a social glass now adays, and as for gambling, why, I've Done of the stiff, starched New Eng land prejudices against an occasion al game of cards. He Is a younger son of the St. Armands of Worcester shire, and if his elder brother, Leon 6t, Armand, should die, Hubert suc ceeds to the property, and" she added with a conscious smile, and a slight deepening of the carmine color on her cheek "I shall be Lady St. Ar mand, of Armand's Hope." "Lisette, has it gone so far as that?" ' 'Vw ""hat, you tiresome little lect urer?" "Are you really engaged to that sinister-faced man?" "I really am," answered Lisette, de murely. "Then it Is of no use for me to argue further with you." "Of no use In the world. My flilnd is fully made up on the subject, and no amount of arguing will move me. I have some ambition in the world." Ernestine Gtey went home, sad and thoughtful. True, she had seen but lit tle of Hubert St. Armand, hut In that little time she disliked him with al most lnstinctice antipathy, and the Idea of her lovely, wilful friend casting her lot with his dark fate was repulsive to her In the highest degree. She was sitting alone at her sewing when Harry March was announced the young carpenter whom Lisette Nor man regarded with such Inveterate scorn. He was tall and handsome, with a face whose frank, pleasant expression seemed in itself a letter of introduc tion to the world around him. Ernestine's welcoming smile and blush were an earnest of her pleas ure in seeing him. He sat down beside tier work table, and began to play carelessly with the scissors. "I suppose yoj have been to see your friend, Miss 1,'orman, today?" he said. "Yes." Iaa:sYandl ciaidHashrd s sh etaoseta "You have heard, of course, then, what a fool I've made of myself!" he aid, with slightly contracting1 brows. "I have heard that she refused your offer of marriage, Harry," she answer ed, with gentle remonstrance la her tone. "I wb3 a fool, Ernestine," lie said, gravely. "I can see it now, myself, as I look back over the course of events. Lisette Is lovely and fascinating, but she would have made no fitting wife for me. I think I must have been under a spell for the last few weeks, cad fthe glamor has at last passed away. It was a severe lesson, but I am thank ful for it, nevertheless, and I shall profit by It, Ernestine, If you will allow r' e." . "If I will allow you, Harry?" 'It Is all In your power, Ernestine. OF THE SUN. Nor the irnlfl we achieved Through the hearts we have grievea. And left unhelped by the way, Nor tho laurel of fame, When, for worldly acclaim, We toiled In the heat and the fray. Ah, no! 'tis' not these Will give our hearts case, When lire sinks low in tho west; But the passing sweet thougha Of the good we have wrought, The saddened lives we have blest. And the love we have won, And the love beckoning on From His islands far and dim; Love out of the light. Shining into tho night, The night which lcadeth to Him. From Boston Transcript. MISTAKE. Will you accept a second-hand lover? Lisette has rejected me will you do the same?" "But, Harry," began Ernestine, pale and breathless, "do you really love me?" "I was fascinated with Lisette Nor man, but I love 'you, Ernestine. Can you return the feeling even in the slightest degree?" And then Ernestine Grey burst Into tears, end confessed to Harry March how long and how entirely her heart had been his own. So' they were married very quietly, and the cozy little cottage which Harry himself had built, received for its mis tress a blue-eyed girl, shrinking and shy as Lisette was self-confident and haughty. Miss Norman arched her pretty eye broks when she heard of this marri age between her former lover and her friend. "I dare say they'll be happy, how ever," she said, "Ernestine Grey hasn't a particle of ambition about her, but I should not think even she would have stooped to marry a common carpen ter." "Must be deuced low!" said Mr. St. Armand, who was smoking a cigarette, with his heels on Lisette's work table. "It won't do for us to visit 'em, when we're married, Lisette." "Oh, no, of course not!" said Lisette poutingly. "But now, Herbert, tlell me more about Armand Chase, and Us delicious old towers and splendid turrets, and the lonely ghost In .the unused wing of the house. It's exact ly like a story." "Well may it be," inwardly reflected Mr. Herbert St. Elmo St. Armand, "considering how much of the element of fiction It contains." But he was particularly careful to keep this sentiment to himself, and went on with a flowery description of some old chateau he had read of In some novel, greatly to Lisette's de light. The courtship progressed most fav orably, and one day, about three months subsequently Mr. St Armand came in, looking flushed and excited. "News, Lisette!' he cried, "great news!" "What?" "My brother Leon has kicked the buck I mean, he has departed this life, and I must start for England at once. "At once!" "Yes; but don't look so grieved, my pet! We must be married immediately, or the gov I would Bay, Sir Grey will be sure to have some high-flying match or other picked out for me on the other side of the Atlantic." Lisette's face brightened. Here were disinterested love and devoted affec tion. "And can I go with you?" "Of course that's the main Idea! Do you suppose I would igo back fo the ancestral halls of the St Armands without my wife?" "Dearest Herbert! I might have known the generous impulses of your heart!" cried Lisette, Bmillng and blushing, as she thought how soon she should probably become Lady St. Ar mand. What would Ernestine Marsh, the carpenter's wife say! What would be the curious verdict of all her little world! And Lisette's heart leaped tri umphantly within her at the mere Idea. "Yes," said Mr. St. Armand, "but the fact is you see, Lisette, I've had no remittances of late, and In his dis tress and confusion at Leon's death, Sir Grey has forgotten to send me his us ual drafts on the br.nker. It's very em barrassing, but " "Oh, Hubert!" cried Lisette, generous by nature, like all women, "don't let that annoy you for a single moment I have money of my own that Aunt Pa tience lent me a thousand dollars. It is all at your disposal. You can easily pay it at any time after we are mar ried." So Mr. St. Arniond pocketed Lisette Norman's thousand dollars, and a bril liant wedding followed, to which, by speclr.l favor, Mr. and Mrs. Harry March were honored with cards. The St Armonds took passage for' Europe in the next ste.-a-.13r, and Ernes tine said softly to her husband: "Well, I suppose we shall never see Lisette ;again.' But, Harry, it may all be an unfounded prejudice, but I would rather have seen Lisette dead than known she was .married o that man." "You see, my love," said Mr. March, "you are not ambitious." Mrs. March was mistaken however, in her supposition that she had seen tLa last of the future Lady St Ar mand. It was a dull, rainy night In early April, some two years subsequent to these events, when a low knock came to the door. Ernestine, who was sit ting beside the cradle of her sleeping babe, ran - open the door, Imagin ing t:-r it was her husband. But It was not the young meohanlci who was now on the high road to wealth. It was a bent, bowed figure In a shabby Jacket and worn Bilk dress. "Ernestine, will you let me In?" "Lisette!" "Yes, it Is I. I am homeless now, Ernestine!" She spoke with a bitter laugh, more sad by far than the wildest burst of tears would have been. Ernestine March led her in, exchang ed her wet draperies for dry, comfort able garments, administered food and drink, and established her In the easy chair before the cheerful fire, ere she asked any more questions, and then Lisette told her melancholy story. She had been the victim of Impos ture all through, falling Into the glit tering trap that was laid by a villain's specious representations. The heir of the St. Armands had proved to be a bankrupt liquor-seller from one of the small seaport towns, and after squan dering poor Lisette's money he had heartlessly abandoned her to her fate, and she had continued to work her way back at last, wearied, poverty stricken, and worse than widowed. "If you will only let me stay with you a little while, Ernestine," she said, piteously, "I could help you to sew and take care of the baby, and and I must starve else. "Dear Lisette," said Ernestine, whose eyes were sparkling with sympathetic tears, "you are welcome to a home with us." So said Harry March also, when he returned to his fireside and found his old love wan, faded, and weary, sit ting at his wife's hearthstone. , The warmest welcome the kindest consid eration proved to poor Lisette that she had still friends left in the world, and it was not until she was wrapped in slumber in the pretty little "spare chamber" of the cottage that Harry said to his wife, with a curious arch of his brows: "I wonder what Lisette thinks now about the grand mistake you commit ted, Ernestine, in marrying a carpen ter!" New York Weekly. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. . An express engine consumes on an average ten gallons of water per mile. It costs the New York City Rapid Transit Company $101,400 day to op erate its lines. A Missouri woman of means found her affinity in the poorhouse and mar ried him in 17 minutes. Connecticut leads the list of states In the number of patents granted dur ing 1907, when 920 were issued to Nut meg inventors. The past season's seal catch was the smallest that there is any record of. It amounted to less than six thousand about half that of the previous- year. Jackson Russell of Waldoboro, Me., cut an oak itree In his pasture which was 110 years old, measured three feet across the stump and made three cords of wood. Twenty-five New York policemen have volunteered to take a course in foreign languages, so as to be able to converse with New York's cosmopolitan population. Recent experiments on Bhallow-draft stern-wheel motor boats have indicat ed that the stern wheel is a much more efficient propeller in shallow wat er than the screw propeller. What is said to be the largest pro jectile ever manufactured was made at the Krupp works for the czar's govern ment It weighed 2605 pounds. It was made for a gun which is placed in the fortifications at Kronstadt. Fishes have no eyelids and neces sarily sleep with their eyes open; they swallow their food whole, having no dental machinery. Frogs, toads and serpents never take food except that which they are certain Is alive. ' A curious barometer used In Germany and Switzerland consists of a Jar of water with a frog and a little step ladder In it When the frog comes out of the water and sits on the steps it is said infallibly to foretell rain. A novel spectacle of a convicted counterfeiter filling a Christian pulpit is to be offered today at the First Congregational church of Wheaton, III. He is Rev. James R. Kaye, the pastor. He and his congregation contend that morally he is Innocent Mrs. Ellen Toothaker ' of South Harpswell, Me., has as a keepsake an apple that was thrown at her In a kind ly manner by a young man while she was returning from church one Sunday afternoon fifty years since. She picked np the apple, took It home and filled it with cloves and today it is very small, bat well preserved. Composition of Joss-Sticks. The composition of the candles call ed Joss-Bticks, which are used in all the religious ceremonies of Buddhism, has long remained a mystery, the preparation of the sticks being en trusted to certain persons chosen from a limited class. Messrs. Decker and Hurrler have recently leiirned the manner of making Joss-sticks la Indo china. A stem of bamboo is rolled in a preparation containing 14 differ ent odoriferous drugs, two of which are significant, as showing a knowl edge of chemical and physical proper ties. These are aconite, which serves to protect the sticks against the at tacks of rats and mice, and camphor, which causes them to burn steadily without being periodically extinguished. A Surprising Reserve 0 i Tmi narl Hi By Day Allen Willey. T was a wise provision to include military tactics In the curriculum of the agricultural and mechanical college wlilcti the nation has endowed for the higher education of the boy and girl of the farm, for of the total number pf cadet soldiers graduated In the country yearly, these Institutions contri bute nearly one-half. From the fifty colleges come about forty-five hundred; of thirty-five thousand (students fifteen thousand aro enrolled In the cadet corps. The fact that these colleges represent thirty-two slates and territories) in I dicate the national scope of this Influence. The public high schools of princi pal cities have also introduced military tactics to such an extent that nine thousand boys aie cadet soldiers .the most notable command being the High School Cadet Brigade of Boston, which represents several public academics in the city and 'suburbs and has at average membership of two thousand. But of strictly military Bchoola there are- one hundred and seventy-five throughout the land. Nearly every state has at least one, New York has thirty-two, New Jersey nine, Pennsylvania eleven, , North Carolina seven, Texas nine, Wisconsin four, California nine and Illinois five. These states are quoted merely to show how wldtly distributed are the centers of soldier making. And the means are within reach of any reputable school that can muster a corts of one hundred and fifty or two hundred boys. Under these conditions the Federal Government will furnish field pieces and caissons for the battery and arm the corps with saber and rifle. It Is only necessary for the school authorities to give bond to return the equipment In good condition. Thus with weapons of actual warfare the routine of the regular army may be faithfully followed. Ten thousand young men coming from these Institutions every year mean an addition of a hundred thousand men In a decade to the class of American citizens available for the country's protection. From "Training Our Minute Men of the Future." in the Outing Magazine Forest Slaughter Nj T By Samuel E. Moffett. T O the future historian the report of the Forest Service on the lumber cut of the United" States for 1906 will ho a Ti document of melancholy interest. It will be like a contem- I porary description of the slaughter of the last great herd I of buffalo In 1875. In 1900 we slashed from our disappearing 1 forests about forty billion feet of lumber, worth seven hun dred million dollars.' before. It seemed as standing tree, and had to turn the last remnants of our woodlands into barren wastes of stumps in the shortest possible time. In some kinds of lumber the hand of destruction Is already stayed by the lack of anything more to destroy. In the seven years between 1899 and 1906 the cut of white pine has been reduced' by over forty tiercent, and oak by nearly as much. The average value of lumber of all kinds has increased In the same period by forty-nine percent, an eloquent commentary on the progress of exhaustion. The stumpage values of the principal varieties of trees have doubled and tripled in seven years. Yellow pine has Increased from $1.12 to $3.16 per thousand feet, oak from $3.18 to $6.62, ash from $3.03 to $7.68, and white pine from $3.66 to $8.09. The line of devastation has swept across the continent, until now the older lumber-producing regions are eclipsed. Washington has now become the first Btate In the volume of Its cut and Louisiana the second. Wisconsin has gone down from first place In 1905 to third lm 1906 and is still declining. The rapid exhaustion of the finer woods is bringing poorer varieties to the front, but It 1b only a matter of a few years before a tree of any kind will command the respect due to rarity. Collier's Weekly. The Rhodes Scholar's Future By Sherman Peer. 14 F the uses of a Rhodes scholarship, three may be mentioned P -..,ttn1 ..nln nnr no nontillnr in fWfnrri Flrftf. R the X X P"1'8"11 ot stu'He9 and research preparatory to teaching his i I tory, tho classics or English literature; secondly, following a line of study preparatory to Journalism; arod, lastly, the taking up of studies In view of entering our foreign consular or diplomatic service. In this list, History migni wen ue given tho leading place, inasmuch as the history schools of Oxford are celebrated for thoroughness, for the scholarship of the Instructing Btaff and for the excellent methods of teaching. Supple mental to this Is the historic setting in and about Oxford, and the proximity of the continent, so rich in historical libraries, great living historians and cities and battle-fields famous in the annals of the past. In the classics, Ox ford has long stood first by reason of the marked ability of the Instructing staff, the class of undergraduates Interested In Latin and Greek texts and the original methods of instruction adopted in this field of study. She is with out doubt the stronghold of the classics, surpassing Cambridge in this respect, though both universities possess, as somebody has remarked, the "classio at mosphere." The third place in this list Is assigned to English literature. One might expect it to lead, but though in process of development this line of study has not yet attained the reputation of the schools of history or the classics. Curiously enough, the Rhodes scholars are now bringing this school to the front Putnam's Monthly. TV uangerous & i By Henry B. LMOST all efforts by regulation to reduce the danger Inher ent in automobiles have had in view the identification of the par nnrl thn chauffeur and the imposition of a limitation UD- 5V I on speed. I As a rule, three S I of speed: ten miles gested city districts, fifteen miles for ordinary settled lo calities, and twenty miles for the open country. Such lim itations are very crude, for In each class the speed is hab itually exceeded by skilful and careful drivers without accident or even dan ger; and, on the other hand, in each class, careless drivers may keep strictly within them, and yet continually expose other users of the road to risk of Injury. This defect In the speed-limit regulations is recognized in automobile laws, which usually declare that the mere observance of the limits of speed does not free the driver from liability in case of accident, if actual careless ness is proved. In other words, the principle Is established that at all times the driver must adapt his speed to the conditions on the road, and that these may. and do frequently, require a substantial modification of the speed grad- nations as fixed by law. This latter matter of dangerous driving as apart from exceeding the arbitrarily fixed' speed-limit la habitually disregarded In all attempts to enforce the law. Tho Century. ran Xnlrliorxi i It was more than we naa ever cui if we could not bear the sight of a been seized with a frenzied eagerness J Deeding 4 Anderson. 1 classifications enter Into the limitation an hour being the general rule for con w m. Truth and Qualify sppeal to tho Well-Informed In every i walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accor- ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna Is the only remedy of known value, but ono of many reasons why it is the est of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, iwitfituni unit reltnvM tliA Intornnl nrmino on which it acts without any debilitating titer cITects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection able substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sole by all leading drug gists. Will Hold 70,000 Spectators. London has completed the steel structure of its great stadium where the Olympla games are to be held this year. It Is designed to accom modate 70,000 spectators. An English minister says that Lon doners are developing Into a race of dwarfs, owing to smoking and riding in tramways. What Cnuses Headache. From October to May, Colds are the most frequent cause of Headache, Laxative Bromo Quiniuo removes cause. E. W. Grove on box. 25c. Making Perfumes. Perfume manufacturing of Italy every year consume 1,860 tons nr orange blossoms, 930 tons ot rosif, 150 tons each of jasmine and violets and 15 tons of jonquils. How Her Life Was Saved When T5lt- tcn by a Large Snake. How few people there are wh not afraid of snakes. Not long a a harmless little garter snake fell oi the wheel of an automobile which was being driven by a woman. The woman promptly fainted and the car, left to Its own resources, ran Into a stone wall and caused a serious acci dent The bite of a poisonous snake needs prompt attention. Mrs. K. Mjw FIshel, Route No. 1, Box 40, Dlllifl burg. Pa., tells how she saved her life A when bitten by a large snake. "One August 29, 1906, I was bitten 1 on the hand twice by a large copper head snake. Being a distance from any medical aid, as a last resort I used Sloan's Liniment, and to my astonish ment found it killed all pain and was the means of saving my life. I am the mother of four children and am never without your Liniment" Rolling 8tonet. The "rolling stones" of Australia, placed on a fairly smooth surface will soon roll together in a group. They contain a magnetic ore. DOCTOR PRESCRIBED CUTICURA-,, After Other Treatment Failed RavM Eczema on Baby's Face Had Lasted Three Months. "Our baby boy broke out with eczems on his face when one month old. One place On the aide of his face the size of s nickel was raw like beefsteak for three months,'' and he would cry out when I bathed the parts that were sore and broken out. 1 . save him three months' treatment from a good doctor, but at the end of that time" the child was no better. Then my doctor recommended Cuticura. After using a cakrj of Cuticura Soap, a third of box of Cutf cura Ointment, and half a bottle of Cuti cura Resolvent he waa well and his face was as smooth as any baby's. He is now two yean and a half old and no eczema hag reappeared. Mrs. M. L. Harris, Alton, Kan., May 14 and June 12, 1907." New Use for Potatoes. A substance made rf. replaclntr wood for nencifma is cheap and Is more easily sbaf ea tnan a pencil or wood. Many Professional Mel, clergymen, teachers and singers r Brown's Bronchial Troches for cur ing hoarseness and coughs. Insects, as a general rule, have lit tle or no sense of sound. The anf Is the insect with the best developed hearing organs. To inshfs the direct and quick eleansiij ft tat syatem take uameia lea. toe l lerb laxative. It purities the bU radicates disease and brings i The atmosphere of Natal Is so cIpA that it is sometimes possible to sel thirty miles. 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