IN THE GARDEN OF LIFE.
ST CHARLES BUXTON QOIN, IN SUCCESS MAOAEIttl.
Ah, -when I first began to plant -Life's
garden cloae, I did not know
(For I was young and ignorant)
What choice of seeds I ought to sow.
'And many things I planted there
Alas! turned out but barren seeds,
And others died for want of care,
And many more proved noxious weeds
But in the midmost place of all
A little slip grew, unaware,
And it had burgeoned fair and tall
Before I knew that it was there.
Around its head the sunlight drew,
The sweet earth drew around its root,
And fairer still in form it grew
To bud, to blossom, and to fruit.
And now, so radiant it grows,
The garden is a magic bower
Bpaces of perfume and of rose.
Soft-veiled with beauty ana with flower.
A PLOT FRUSTRATED.
By HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
It. looked like a pretty lllumlna
tlon, the French cottage-window,
with the shaded lamp burning on the
centre-table and the muslin curtain
blowing backward and forward In
the lilac-scented breeze; and the tab-
' leau of two young lovers sitting to
gether on the sofa-was prettier still.
Leslie Brown wa9 a beautiful girl
of seventeen, dark-browed and rose-
Upped, with a skin like the velvety
cream of a magnolia leaf, dark-gray
eyes and long, luxuriant hair coiled
In a mass of heavy braids around her
head. Montagu Lacy was seven-and-
twenty, with Saxon features, curls of
a deep, golden hue and a silky brown
mustache twisting roguishly up at
the ends.
"But I say, Leslie, you will answer
ine to-morrow? ' pleaded the young
man.
"I don't know, Mr. Lacy It's so
sudden."
"So Is everything sudden In this
world."
"I don't know what mamma would
ay," hesitated pretty Leslie.
"Shall I take measures to ascer
tain?" solicitously asked Mr. Monta
gu Lacy.
"Certainly not," Leslie answered
firmly. "I have not decided as yet
myself."
"Yes, hut Leslie, It's confounded
ly hard on a fellow."
"Perhaps It Is, perhaps It Isn't
Tou'must go now, In any event."
"Must 1?" Mr. Lacy arose with a
comical grimace. "To-morrow, then?"
"I won't promise."
"Then you are a cruel, hard
ilearted, girl, and that's all I have to
ay on the subject. However, I shall
try my luck, whatever may befall."
And, bending lightly,' he touched
bis lips to the rosy dimples of her
finger-joints as he went away.
Miss Henderson witnessed the
whole scene heard all the words
spoken In the murmurous silence of
the summer twilight from her vantage-point
behind the hedge of pink
blossomed American laurel. She bit
her Hp, and, If the "baleful eye"
could blast like the forked flash of
summer lightning, Leslie Brown
would have been at that Instant smit
ten to the ground.
"You are so sure of him, my
young lady, are you?" said Miss Hen
derson to herself. "Just wait and
see. There may be two words to that
bargain."'
One' Instant Malvlna Henderson
stood thinking. To let Pretty Leslie
Brown run away with the prize for
Which she had schemed and plotted
so long was entirely opposite to all
Irer long-conceived policy and yet
"I have It," said Malvlna, to her
self. "Yes, I have It. Nothing short
f death or madness will part them,
and jealousy Is a species of mad
ness." Hurrying through the shrubbery,
already wet with dew, as swift and
noiseless as a gliding wreath of white
mist. Miss Henderson met Montagu
Lacy at the front door, just as he had
found his hat and lighted the cigar
which was to accompany him on his
long evening walk.
"Mr. Lacy oh, please don't throw
away your cigar,'' she said, coaxingly,
and Malvlna Henderson could assume
a charmingly pleading air when she
choBe, "but I've walked so fast up
from the lodje, for fear you should
be gone and I've such a favor to
ask you."
ii K vri tt .1 n t.
t a xavur, xieiiuersun :
"There, now," said Malvlna, with
a sweet little laugh, "I knew you
would be surprised, but remember!"
holding up a taper finger, "It's a pro
found secret."
, "Oh, certainly."
"Well, It's leap-year, you know,
and we glrlB are going to send Joe
Thorneycroft a love letter just for
a joke, you know and we don't
know what on earth to write, and
and won't you Just give us the
rough draft of one for us to copy?"
"I!"
. "Yes, you. You know you've read
Such lots of delightful English novels,
and you can give us just the right
idea."
"Beg your pardon," said Mr. Lacy,
laughing, "but I think you young
ladles need no suggestions."
"Mr. Lacy, you won't refuse?"
"Refuse? No, not If I really can
be of any use; but "
; "Allow us to be the judge of that,"
cried Malvlna, with gay imperlous
bess, as she drew him Into the library
and reached for standlsh and rose
colored paper. "Now you must write
genuine love-letter."
. "How shall I begin It?" said Mr.
laoy, good-bumoredly yielding the
point without betraying a vestige of
the impatience he really felt.
"Oh, any way. 'Dear Malvlna,'
Just for fun."
"Very well."
And Mr. Lacy's swift pen scratched
away over the paper, dashing off the
lines with ready inventive genius.
"How will this do?" he asked, and
read over what he had been compos
ing. Miss Henderson clapped her hands
exultlngly.
"Charming perfect!" she cried.
"How poor, dear Joe will be victim
ized! But you haven't signed It
what ought we to 'wind up' with?"
"Oh, that Is simple enough.
'Yours devotedly, or 'Yours until
death,' or some such rhodomontade,"
he said, hurriedly scratching off the
glowing words.
"Now sign It; I am so stupid, you
see; I need all your good nature In
counseling me."
"Just the initials in my case It
would be M. L."
"How can I ever thank you
enough," said Malvlna, rapturously,
as she folded the little pink billet.
"But you'll never let Thorneycroft
si
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Pat's Pathetic Passion.
POLICEMAN PAT peruBes picture puzzle prize proffer.
Premium promised person purchasing, placing painted
pieces, producing perfect pictures.
Pat ponders, purchases paying prodigious price pre
pares place, puts pieces promiscuously, pursues particular
plan, pompotiBly prophesies prompt performance.
Pieces proceed perversely. Pat pauses perturbed. Prob
lem perplexes. Prolonged perplexity produces panic. Plen
tiful poteen potations prove pernicious.
Protracted puzzling produces profuse perspiration, pant
ing, pain, pallor, palpitation. Pills procure partial palliation.
Pat persists, perseveres, protests perfection possible.
. Punishment pursues pertinacious policeman. Poor Pat
pays penalty, perishes pitifully, prone, prostrate.
Parents provide proper pall.
Priest publicly pronounces panegyric.
Paper prints pertinent paragraphs praising popular prom-
mciiv jj wi ill a u.
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Pat planted permanently.
know that I had a finger In the pie,"
laughed Mr. Lacy.
"Never never, upon my word!"
fervently asseverated Miss Hender
son. And, if smiles were sunshine,
Montagu Lacy's homeward way
would have been one illumination
that evening.
Five minutes afterward, Malvlna
entered the room where Leslie
Brown was deluding herself with the
idea that she was reading.
"Leslie," she said, earnestly, "I
want your advice."
Miss Brown looked up, rather sur
prised. Although they were Becond
consins, she was not particularly
partial to Malvlna, and she had rea
son to suppose that she herself was
not a favorite with the fading passe
brunette.
"My advice, Malvlna?" she re
peated doubtfully.
"Yes," laughed and blushed Mal
vlna, "about getting married. I am
going to confide in you, my dear. I
have had an offer."
Leslie arched her fair brows, inno
cently, and Miss Henderson went on,
with a well-affected air of pretty con
fusion. "From but you can never guess
from whom, if you were to try for a
hundred years. From Montagu
Lacy."
Leslie Brown grew pale, and then
scarlet.
"You must be mistaken, Malvlna.
He"
And then she stopped.
"Oh, I dare say," said Malvina, a
little maliciously; "but you'll tell
Quite a different tale when you see
the letter I received from him to
night."
Leslie smiled; what else could she
do, secure as she was In Montagu's
adoration of herself. She could only
pity her cousin's monstrous delusion.
But Miss Henderson was prepared
with testimony to back up her words.
She unfolded the note and laid it on
the table.
"You will believe his own words,
If you don't believe mine," said she,
laughingly; and the blood seemed to
turn to Ice in Leslie's pulses at the
sight of the well-known handwriting.
"My own darling," it began, but
she could decipher no more. Her
head swam,' her Hps quivered.
"I do not wish to read it," she
said hurriedly. "I I have no wish
to pry into the secrets of others."
"But that is entirely a mistaken
Idea, Leslie. We both wish you to
know our plans. Let me read it to
you, it you will not look at it yourself."
She murmured out the flowing sen
tences of love-smitten rhetoric which
the unconscious victim , had penned
so merrily not fifteen minutes before,
but Leslie Brown scarcely heard
them. It seemed so Impossible se
monstrously absurd that Montagu
Lacy should dare to make open love
at one and the same time to herself
and this black-eyed, vindictive old
maid! That he, whom she had
deemed the very Impersonation of
everything that was noble and chlv
alrlc, should be so utterly false. If
he were untrue, then what and who,
In all the world, could be pronounces1
real? t
Miss Henderson's cooing, hypocritically-sweet
voice broke harshly In on
the thread of her reflections.
"Do tell me how to answer him?"
she murmured. "You see how he
presses for an immediate reply. What
shall I say?"
"I I don't know," said Leslie,
pressing her hand on her forehead.
"My head aches I don't think 1
am very well this evening. Som
other time, Malvlna, I will answei
your questions."
And Leslie Brown, whose self
command bad barely extended to the
uttering of these Incoherent sen
tences, hurried out of the room.
Malvlna watched her with a sly,
cat-like smile.
"I think I have done for you, young
lady," she thought to herself, "with
all your rosy cheeks and big, gray
eyes! A little maneuvering, and I
shall bring Mr. Montagu Lacy to my
feet, now that this dangerous rival la
out of the way."
Mr. Lacy's astonishment, the next
day, on receiving Leslie's Indignant
message of "not at home," was ex
treme.
"What does it all mean?" he mut
tered. "I will see her. or "
And he sat himself resolutely down
on the front piazza, thus laying regu
lar siege to the unconscious Leslie
a line of tactics entirely different
from anything Miss Henderson had
supposed him likely to pursue.
"Here I sit until midnight or un
til she comes out!" he told himself.
Presently she came, but not alone.
Malvlna Henderson was with her.
who was rather more discomfited
than Leslie at the sudden apparition
wnich confronted them. But he did
not notice the elder of the two ladies
at all.
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Camilla 3. Knight, in Life.
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lass
"Leslie," he exclaimed, reproach
fully, but Leslie shrank back, color
lng violently. "Leslie, you have no
right to deny me an answer thus."
"Do not call me 'Leslie, " she
cried, indignantly.
way should I not? You
scolded me for It before."
never
You owe all your sweet words
and familiar expressions to this
lady," said Leslie, drawing back, and
motioning to Malvina.
"Do I?" said Mr. Lacy, with rather
a puzzled air. "Well, I really wasn't
aware of it. Will you please, Miss
Brown, to explain yourself?"
Malvina felt as if her veins were
filled with molten fire Instead of
blood; she would have given worlds
to escape the explanations that she
foresaw was coming.
Leslie caught from the dainty ruf
fled pocket of Miss Henderson's silk
apron the note which had pierced
her heart like a sword, and extended
it to Mr. Lacy ere Malvina could
snatch it back.
"This will be sufficient explana
tion," she said, haughtily. "The man
who can write such a letter as this to
one woman, while he is making love
to another, scarcely deserves the title
of gentleman."
Mr. Lacy eyed the document with
amazement.
"I did "write this letter," said" he";
"but it was to no woman. It was
written to Joe Thorneycroft."
But Malvina Henderson did not
stay to await any further develop
ments. Murmuring some incoherent
sentence about a forgotten engage
ment, she darted back into the house,
and fifteen minutes afterward she had
the mortification of seeing Leslie
and Montagu stroll past the win
dows In all the radiant abstraction
from the outer world that belongs, of
right, to true lovers. ' .
For Cupid had befriended his own,
and Malvlna's shallow plot had utter
ly failed in breaking two hearts.
New York Weekly.
Character in Chins.
The minority who have square
chins and big lower jaws Bay that we
of the reoedlng chins have neither
will nor strength of character, which
Is absurd, as any one may know who
remembers that General Wolfe and
Mr. Pitt had practically no chins at
all, to say nothing of living soldiers
and statesmen. To Judge a man by
his chin Is no less foolish than to
judge him by the bumps of his skull.
London Spectator, . , .
The Fun of Aeroplancr.
By Francis Arnold
,N the boy's calendar nowadays the earoplane season comes m
with sledlng and runs all through skating, marble, top, kite
""T-Sjl flying and bicycle time. The delights of all the old games
T l&l Beem t0 be found ,n tnl8 marveloUB new i0J- The fun ,n tnrow
I ISjX I ing a top cannot compare with that of launching an aeroplane,
MaJLasV while kite flying is a very poor substitute for the actual con
quest of the air. To watch one of these fascinating little snips
of the air, which you have fashioned and built with your own hands, actually
rise from the earth and soar aloft with a swallow's swiftness, is perhaps
the greatest boy's sport in the world. Certainly no new game 6r toy has
ever taken such hold of the boy's imagination, and In so short a time en
rolled such an army of enthusiasts. St. Nicholas.
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Words, Words, Words.
By Hildegarde Hawthorne.
sbp- T is truly wonderful, when you stop to think of it, wis power m
'IXI words just words printed in black on white, without even the
III help of the voice, without any appeal at all except to our imagi
Jaaaas nation. Here they are, grouped in various ways, and as our eye
travels over them all sorts of pictures arise before us. Our
hearts grow sick with pain and sorrow, or we break out into
laughter. We toss about on high seas or languish in fetid pris
ons, we are old or young, poor or rich, as the words choose. And we have
only to rearrange these words to produce a quite opposite impression. Surely
it is an amazing thing, more so perhaps than anything the words succeed in
telling us. St. Nicholas. (
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By the Shape of Your Nose
By Dr. Wood Hutchinson.
HERE Is a tolerably close
1 I high-minded. The nose is
J 1 broad sense Is our moBt
and shrinkage of jaw have been the two great correlates wnion
have accompanied human progress. The moment, however, that
we endeavor to go beyond these broad and loose generalizations,
we find ourselves In trouble. This, from the fact patent to every
one who has kept bis eyes open, that we find noses of practically all shapes,
from the pleblan pug to the aristocratic aquiline, In individuals of the same
race, and even in members of the same family, although the long and straight
or convex noses would be far more numerous in the higher races and the
abler families. It Is comparatively seldom that a great man has a small nose,
or even a short one, and Instead of applying such terms as "proboscis,"
"beak," "carrot" and "beet" to a large, long aggressive nose, It should be re
garded aB a mark of breeding and as prima facie .evidence of good blood and
possible capacity. Success. '
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Plato on the Sexes.
By Emily J. Putnam.
E erant. he urged, that a
A I regard from a long-haired
y Y I men may become cobblers,
larly, it we are sending tor a doctor, snail we try to get one wno
excels in professional skill, or one who performs this or that
function in reproduction? "None of the occupations which com
prehend the ordering of a State belong to woman as woman, nor
yet to man as man, but natural gifts are to be found here and there in both
sexes alike; and, so far as her nature Is concerned, the woman Js1 admissible
to all pursuits as well as the man. Shall we then appropriate all duties to
men and none to women? On the contrary, .we shall hold that one woman
may have talents for medicine and another be without them; and that one
may be musical and another unmusical; one woman may have qualifications
for gymnastic exercises and for war, and another be (inwarlike and without
taste for gymnastics; there may be a love of knowledge in one woman and
a distaste for It in another. There are also some women who are fit and
other who are unfit for the office of guardian. As far as the guardianship of
the State Is concerned, there Is no difference between the natures of the
man and of the woman, but only various degrees of weakness and strength.
Thus we shall bave to select duly qualified women also, to share in the life
and official labors of the duly qualified men, since we find that they are com
petent to the work, and of kindred nature with the men." Putnam's. '
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Underground New York.
By Maurice Deutsch,
a, HE rock surface of Manhattan Island slopes from north to south,
I I and passes below the tide level at about Tenth street. From this
I point; south and below the- water level the lBland consists ot a
great blanket of Band and silt deposits built up on the underly
ing rock by the tides and currents of recent geologic times. Beds
of clay and sand. vary in thickness, and In some places the clay
1
. does not appear at all. The sands vary to a considerable degree
from the coarsest gravel to the most treacherous quicksands.
To give an idea of the fineness of this Band some samples were passed
through sieves with meshes of various sizes, and finally through a 200-mesh
sieve, the openings ot which are about .035 of an Inch In width. From 20 to
37 per cent, passed through the 200-mesh sieve. Little may we wonder then
that such fine material, when saturated with water, should flow as readily
as water itself, passing through every crevice and seeking its level Just like
any liquid. Herein lies the reason for the difficulties encountered in exca
vatlug In quicksands; or, should pumping be resorted to in order to drain a
pit ot water, this fine material will Invariably be pumped with the water, and
if the pumping be continued, will finally be drawn from under adjoining
structures, eventually undermining them.
What Is probably the oldest piece of wood In existence was found over
lying the bed rock at a depth of about forty feet below the street level, on the
site of the United States Express Building, in Greenwich street, and was
covered by a stratum of hard pan about eleven feet thick, above which was a
layer of quicksand and muck about thirty feet thick. The specimen of wood
Is slightly brown in color and is believed to have belonged to a now extinct
species of cedar. As there was no way in which the wood could have been
brought Into this niche in the bed rock after the hard pan stratum had been
deposited by the glaciers, it is evident that the tree of which this specimen
formed a part had been growing before the glacial epoch. Harper's Weekly.
For Beautiful Hands.
Mrs. Jamleson, the well-known au
thor, was a great admirer of beau
tiful hands and thus expressed her
self on her favorite "point" in a
woman: "A white hand is a very
desirable ornament, and a hand can
never be white unless it be kept
clean; nor is this all, for if a young
lady excels her companions In this
respect she must keep her hands in
constant motion, which will cause
the blood to circulate freely and
have a wonderful effect. The mo
tion recommended is working at the
needle, brightening her house and
making herself as useful as possible
to the performance ot all domestic
Collins.
racial narallel between high-nosed and
not only our most human, but In a
Intellectual feature. . Growth of nose
bald - headed man Is very different in one
man; Bhall we then say that If bald
long-haired men may not? And simi
The Baby's Medicine.
The mistress of the home had been
to a concert, and when she returned
she was mot by the servant with:
"Baby was very 111 while you were
out, mum."
"Oh, dear!" said Mrs. Youngwife.
"Is he better?"
"Oh, yes, mum; he's all right now,
but be was had at first. I found
his medicine in the cupboard."
"Good gracious! What have you
given the child? There's no medi
cine In the cupboard."
"Oh, yes, there is; It's written on
Jt," and then the girl triumphantly.!
produced a bottle labelled "Kid Re
viver." Lipplncott's. '
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Corset Reflection.
The wonderful endurance power ot
women is evidenced again by the fact
that a husky New York college man,
who was rehearsing in a girl's part la
a play, fell in a fit and remained un
conscious for some time, and for no
other reason than that he had been
wearing a tightly laced corset for a
couple of hours. Topeka State Jour
nal. Try Murine Eye Remedy
For Bed, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes and
Granulated Eyelids. It Soothes Eye Palo.
Murine Eye Remedy Liquid, 25o and 60a.
Murine Eye halve, 25a and 4 1.00.
Hearst fears that he is not going to
he wholly satisfied with Gaynor aa
mayor of New York. Chicago News.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take aa candy, regulate and invig
orate stomach, liver and bowels. . Do not
gripe.
23
Progress In the South.
There is no disuputlng the reality
of the South's prosperity. The "Man
ufacturer's Record" presents an im
posing array of building contracts for
Dixie. Atlanta is going to have a $1,
250,000 office building; Tampa Is to
have one worth $200,000; San Antonio
one at $500,000, and Houston one at
$400,000. Richmond1 is building a
$250,000 addition to Its best hotel, and
Lexington, Ky. (which needs it), is
raHelng a new hotel to cost $300,000.
Birmingham and Louisville are to have
new Young Men's Christian associa
tion buildings, at $250,000 each, and;
Little Rock is equipping Itself with a
new court house. The Southern rail
road Is preparing to spend $6,000,000
on improvements and the Chesapeake)
& Ohio is to follow suit iw'th $o,00D,
000. About all there ia left of th
Bouth's old doece far nlente ia coo
fined to the "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
shows. Waterbury American.
Among Papuan Cannibals.
It is well known that New Guinea
is the home of cannibalism, and that
the natives have murderous tendencies
of a pronounced kind. Yet It may
honestly be said that the life of the
ordinary settler or traveler in Papua
Is rather safer than In Sydney or Mel
bourne. You could not, in Sydney
or Melbourne, sleep on your veranda,
In a house that has no doors to speak
of and windows that are never shut.
You could not If you are a woman,
wander alone at night in solitary
places, secure from all annoyance.
You could not spend a day in the sole
society of leg-Ironed conrtcts, and find
them good company, decidedly polite
and obliging. Yet you may do all these
things In Papua the Impossible. Wide
Wold Maenzine.
A Taste
A Smile
'And satisfaction to1 the last
mouthful ,
Post
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Served right from the pack
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sometimes fruit f r e s h o r
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