= ; ins rise. “Bome day, some “he murmurs, Joy ai es = mine "up thers, SOrTOW never enters And all the days are fair” His eves may never Beyond the Bi He goes with faith tn br ai many a it still n | Dennis. 1 think on fate must have . dropped you from the clouds!” she sald, ‘with s smile. He looked at her and tried to hide a | the look of admiration that had crept ted to sin that the b-| taily. polit by ses water | to his eyes. Bhe seemed more gloricus st | Iy beautiful than ever. He made soioe vague reply, and she went on talking I It was Intoxication f.}to him. He had fallen desperately In love at first sight, and he wondered about the yacht. what * would all Jena 10. » The est ov drs casas) delight- He had several couversations with ber—indeed, she seemed altnost to welcome 88 opportunity of speaking with him. The more he saw of her, the more convinced was be that he bad t | made no mistake. This was po fleet ing fancy; he was really iu love ~ Then came a ‘bitter shock of disap run of Alexandria, and be was about I's|to go on deck. As be raced up the Sead will bare to get fo Sains: fn Gibruitarr sald. touching on 10 overhear. 1 eath. a the figure before | enit. She saw a tall, : shaven man in wet, th the ‘collar of his! an engineer?” whe asked, e you to Alexandria fo t was interested. feller, got _papers 10 i | the two together on the yachh { chair, studying a book. brett’s Peerage” | bitter, ix | Hillmarch came on board. peer kept out of the way until they | with a start. bronzed {aoe of the lieutenant of the .| companion something white on one of the stairs caught his attention He n, | picked it wp and found it was & tele gram. Glancing at It be saw that it { was the cable that had been sent to ber | at Gibraltar by her father, unconsciously he read the few words: “Get Scud to Alexandria by 224 with. as | ont fail-Lord Hillmarch has promised | to come with os to England.” Almost He stood staring at it supidly; then, as the meaning of the words dawned 1 npon him, a fierce wave of unreasona- ble resentment swept over Lim, Od Jewison had run scrozs lord Hil { march, and, consilering him an eligi ble son-in-law, bad schemed to bring The 1 old, stale srrangement— American Deir. esses and the English aristocracy. ‘Wonld they never tire of fi? With a frown on his face, be made c- | his way slowly on deck, the telegram {still In bis hand. A few yards sway Mise Lewison was sitting in her deck Bhe looked up as the engineer appeared and 5 smiled. He crossed to ber and bold out the telegram. : “1 found this on the stairs,” he sald shortly. He caught sight of the book | #hie was reading, and saw He felt it was "De exceedingly He remained down In the engine root the rest of the time-he felt al most sulky. The next day they anchored off Alex. sodria and old lewisen with Lord The engi» went into the saloon for lunch, then be | seized the opportunity and went ou | deck. He leaned over the taffrail and | gave bimself up to his thoughts. An other hour or so and she would have passed out of his life forever. In Lis th of abstraction he had not noticed a tor pedo destroyer that was oat for prac tice. Bbe was going at quarter speed past the yacht. Ruddenly a voles broke on his ers, “Why, it's Kenyon, by Jove! are you, old wap” The engineer awoke from hie re verle A few yards away the destroyer was langhing at blm. “Can't keep away from the sid game, i I mee—Incky chap to be able to choose your own fancy boat! Wil you cone round and see us to-night” The destroyer was some distance away by now, and the last words came in a shout. The engineer nodded and waved bis hand, Then a slight noise behing hig made Lim swing round. He saw Miss Fay Lewison and Lord Hillmarch standing at the open door of i. | the companion, The girl was watching 5 ¢ him. ny old messmates bail me.” 11 a jerk of his finger foward the de- | stroyer. “He called you Kenyon,” she said, wonderingly. Lord Hillmarch stepped forward. He ‘was an almost middle-aged little man, with a kindly face. He held out his y | hand to the engineer, “That happens to be his name, you kpow— Dennis Kenyon,” be said, with a smile, : . a Lewison was still more bewil | dered. "You know him?" “Slightly,” he replied. “You see, his a| estate adjoins mine at ocme.” “But he has been our engineer!” she There was a pause. Lord Hillmmarch 4 | shot a little alert look at Kenyon and . | stroked his mustache. The walting for an explanation. girl stood Kenyon gave & nervous laugh, “There isn’t really much to explain.” {he said. “You see, before an uncle died and left me a bothering lot of | money and ap estate, I was an engi neer in the navy—you just heard one of He gave “You know the rest. I was idling about Gibraltar when 1 acci- dentally on troulile About the fnily. poet peasety i ROR How | tal. and lumbering.” other critically. then 8 sHght smile crept over his Insignificant little face | He pulled out his cigarette case. “Supposing,” he observed, dryly, “we | ail be delightfully frank with ong ap other.” The two turned to him with a start, | I jost love frankness! sald Miss May. “Phen, as & beginning” he said cool 17. "Vil remark that I don't think TB | cone to England in the yacht with you, | I rather fancy, you Kpow, that being | thirty eight, and somewhere about 6ve | fest two in stature, ‘with a bald bead into the bargain, 1 will adhere to my old resolution and admire nothing but my own charming self! How's that for frankness?’ “(yigantic” said Kenyon. The little lord smiled. “Then Til Jeave you to do your share.” he observed, and strolled away, Iy: then suddenly they both langled. “I's sil very ridiculous’ said Miss Lewison. Kenyon grew sober again. “1 suppose,” be said. slowly, “1 must be leaving the ship pow, unless" He paused and looked at her intently, “Unless by 8 remote chance you also have" His voice died sway Der- Yousily. “What? she said, with her ey 00 the deck. “A strain of romance somewhere In your composition” He finished io al mont 8 whisper. Khe Hied her send snd saw him Hooking at her pleading. There Wag a vagoe something that appealed to her. And be was undoubtedly very mach in | love with ber, half smile. “I'm not certain” Then her eves met his “Why got give me a little time to find puts” she sald frankly. Her lips parted in a He did—and eventually Ascorered | that there was Mal Bly About Prope. AT LE EE Tarnips and Feats. ing education with apy frills and | raf fox, | Nhe opm each of iho OLpHEITHING ent, (rne 1 vipat of the schol teraad tie HIGH oni v5 aiways fond pins whe WIE Ri oe five expressed Dar sent fired eras, levy § we arn taught’ = disregard the Way an With and she fet of tat that they don’t koow when they have Aphy. fx in Groom, and aid that the teacher had stopped in the middle of a singlog lesson, right tn asi how | in the middie of a song many turnips were In 8 peck.” “You mukt be mistaken” exouned i the astonished principal. MERE $6 33 Tie, and aid Bessle'n niothes “No, matan. Bessie never tion with a complacency that Irritated the aimosphers, The teacher was sent for, nied that she had interropted a oasie lesson to mstisly her enriosity In re gard to turnips and peoks. She went back to 0 room whith vakindly ferlinge smiling. “1 know now what she meant,” sald she, TI meked the obildten how many heats were in a measure —Lippin { cott's Magazine, Drawing Out the Mean Man, Robert Carsiek, ote of the richest bankers of Bootiand a {ow generations ago, was as mean as be was wealthy. Being ute day vig Siierting & hospital 3h hd he sired for two guineas, #1: the smalipess of the “Really, I dann disappoint inant ainount, be ssud, afford mon” largest manulsciurers cried: af the the city, who, on seeing the list, “What, Carrick only two guineas?” When informed of what the banker | bad sald, Wilson replied: “Wait: T will give him a lesson” i : Taking bis check book, be filled Ina : check for £10000, the full amoont of | tiis deposit at Carrick’s bank, aud sen? | ft tor immediate payient, Five minutes later the hanker ap peared, breathless, and asked, “What | {8 the matter, Wilson?’ “Nothing the matter with me" re. plied Wilson, “but these gentlemen | informed me that you couldn’ afford more than two guineas for the bospl Halla? thinks © if that's the case | there must be something wrong, and | I'll get my wioney out ag son A% Pos sible” Carrick took erased the two guineas, tuted fly, on which Wiser lininedds ately tore up the check —~TitBits pe OR AAR A A A the sabseription list, Primary Occupations. Down town some time spon examination, and sang the ques tions propounded to the hopefuls was the following: “What are the five priciary occupa- tions of man?” The proper an? authorized is something like this. fishing and Lunting, mining. But one of the small | boys at whom the question was tired | got off this answer: _ “Poiitics, keeping a store, working for the troliey sempany. apd being a Lord Hillmarch lighted his cigar Cette. tring friends who own a large ranch ! about seventeen miles above Albu Saturday the children asked permis : f sion of their mother © go to a corral The two stared at one another blank. | Pand on the other side of 8 koall that phecured the corral from view to play. (afternoon frolic. Roon the little sisten wearied and the sider brother proposed Hires the younger loother. Emerson, t older brother took kis sister to the | Bouse, Akad i bin playing st the corral” said the boy. fhe Little fruant. f ger came back. panting from his hur Ee wae nol al the corral she said, doubt | 96d there found the repwrt of her boy i to Lis roe, | Lat could Bind no trace of the missing tliad taken a dipoeiay What he should bave tabien, sod the Sa hifiraened Mrs 80th was not n favor of adorn aera \ the introduction of fe aml her and igeist- cial 3h prin. : i wl bts ins GR sich shied i , 15 no meas | 5 3 hos se ond alas children © & phvinlal | diplomacy. | Pheir piudies five 80 jumbled together | weary seared ov finished with srl meth and ken op The other day Bowle-she you Esow-carse home ht went on, and TE ono elie to the : tlerer | repeTte that were [brought ber only added ta accenniate | ter suffering. followed for a distances of twelve miles find then seemed to double upon them. | s .. melvex and finally be Ele de | Hut rest the searchers continu what seamed their hopeleny gust 1° * The thought of the poor Hottie tor belong | LAYER Upon the dreary pis = out shelter or fool, wandéring en with! but three thinutes later she camt back | Lie iy ipangs of bunger and thirst. wae sir Cpiy maldening ‘friends seeming so belpless to termi tinued, and early Monday morniog Hi father, who had been tragedy. was wired (Gay and added his untiring ited by a deppiation iptions towards 4 new Ci find one of the gentlemen expressing apd substi clase, strange-looking ™ 5 Yo i ange look wii in physical geography wis godurgring : #:BE Xp | except that ht Answer : i 2 hod ¥ bein at $Y § REVApRae. “Agriculture, | sie be tracted by the sirange pte herding | Lost In the Desert. "HE family of Mr. Godfrey j« Hughes, a mewber of the firm of assayers owning the customs assay office, recently went to spend the summer months vis | querque. The family consists of the niother, two zone and a daughter. Last same 300 yards away from the house Permission was granted and the} youngsters bounded away for thelr that they take her to the honge To ohio was only six years old. demurred, ae he wished to play more So the pwn arrival there the mother: Where ‘x brother?” “We left The mother then sent him back for: Shortly the mesiséhn. | fled roreing. snd eselained that his brother was Bowhere to he found; that The fright. end misiher hurried aver to the cori She senrolwill and seatehed ¢BikL. Ar last she cane opon Hohe | Title footprints, shaving that the ohild srine the apposite to ther becaine more and ‘Some the fae that Ler nizvy Caliouldors te his finger ends *t lay thers Apire: it. for threes ies! wee dark nee was Bayer RER poReriens | Vis BO As Fa ars $ aly & Ravel Tory ry WAR SURED od anid & eepite the oncoming of Wig #1 out le guert of the bellies Through that SETLONInT wight the Umea, And the nest trained Seriides of seventy i tay hs five Tedians weve impressed. and all Gay the march Wan my ef the Levon oon. The contiiped disesnmain from tive tO time Wong Bed trys ing The grief apd wn A » allie tod firey J wd OR Toe tracks vould be | With i fo for Fost. ins glone, with i the helplessness of the lout, with frighs, srying pos tra nteel har the | to the poor mother and i Bate the trying situation. All of Sunday plehs the search cone lrsnrant of efforts to) those of tha large parte already gut } To think of the dreadful pathos of it) The poor ohild was ned found un! til Wednesday morning. 1 was then ‘found by a Mexican, who carvied the exhausted little form ; Where the child logered The deputation next visited Wilson, | Ee to hia ead far three hours and then passed away. The er | The remains were taken ! back to the ranch and next day were Interred In the cemetery of the neigh Snake © Chased Crew. : Captain William F. Jameson and the erew of the towboar Juniss, | related an exciting experience with a! : big snake above Lock 4 on the Monon | gahela River. her boilers inspected a number of rive Cerioen, including Captain James Morven, | George W, Atkinson and others. went Cmboard ber and it was {n explaining to i them the condition of the vessel afr, | which gave every evidence of having been sublected to great heat, that the | story was told as fol The Juniata ow: had been ar work all day towing YHarges up the river snd en the return trip the members of the I ETeW Were taking things easy witty fe Laroond on the deck. Some one saw : th 16 river LER tha ‘to have been i similar bo a1. about six fest long and in anpearaney to a rattlesnaks Sil net herve rarities | | The men an the fowhent commence { to throw stones and sticks at it. BYES | Jocking rentile A lump of ecal which struck very near | | It seem to enrage the snake, and rais- fug its head two feet out of water, it made stra ght for the boat. It seemed | to have a charmed life. for nobody snc. | ceeded in hitting it. The captain says it climbed the rudder to the rodder post | ‘and came on deck. plunging through a Balch Wis the hola WF the bons att) lant strange reptiles went fa a uystery, for | ous reptile. fn He arrived th pat Do avross and managed Log ut deal had been beyond the little one's! i . CNR back Pepdurance. i roc, : of the | American Steel and Wire Company. | When the steamer came | ( to Pittsburg Tuesday afternoon to have : ons, lacerating Te swimming in| It te sald, § the hatch was closed and a stem fer wes morned into that part of the ves § sel. For three bours the place was | steamed, to make sure that the snake wonld be kled The hear was so ine § sense that the far of the oakom i the § foor. was melted. When an investigs, tion of the bold was made thers was no trace of the strates snake The re: pining of 8 few scalded rats were all edd he found Whete the fr was ihought by the crew that they Sad ft A priscoer Captain George W, Atkinson ways he thinks the seake was what it known on the lower Misslesippl River a6 nt cote ton-monthed moccasin, a very paison | They are seldom Heard of | inn the waters around Fitisburg. si though they are ksown to have been carried Jong distances in barges mdes | with frait They resemble a rattle spake very closely. Thr mouths are large and when opesed are white Pittsburg Times. A Thirst That Could Met Be Suthetind. i ¥ From the story of Chief Officer Root, | of the Rorsima, fn Leslie's Momthiy: You resd shout that fellow dowa fo hades looking op and asking for water, says Chief Officer Beott, telling of the | Joss of the Roratmn at Martiniqoe in . Leslie's Monthly for July, well tliat Is | alist as near as I can come to descril- | img it, but everything that Bappened | sticks in my mind like & nightmare, 1 i enn see pow one of the passengers & man. lying on the foc'wle deck hill sonsly mcarred, erying for water. When we gave it to him be could not : drink jt It would not pass down his ihrost As soon oes bogaly to cruwl after Bim fur water like # dog. The man's tongue was literally burned out of his bead Hin srs rere erally burned from his mosning aloud in rsortal gory one of the natiors bappered to pot a bucket of salt water near Lim. The man plunged bis right arm Into it | i 8: 1a relia Ye the sesliling pain, hte skin bolle strafght rovod biz shoul » got steinped off hie ave 40 It bong Ke a lady's opera glove turned Inside ont from the ting of his Sogets. Bat | Cthe worst hmrng teete interns) The fire 451 non seem 10 penetrate lothing, | | bat burpel] the exposed flesh merci jeasly, Both Men Were Moroes. Tanning over the roof of his housa, Hghted by the fSazsen from a3 Birsing - building next door. John Walsh, of Ch. cage. pasas] 0 Ble wife, who clang to [the ed ge of a window below. twp Jitte i children whase from the fre at the risk of lis own. Hees he i Another Jobin Wally, a pollvenian from | the Chico avenge station. wax lead. ing two