oh nba ii adil heavens oft wore rs for his iden, Mia al the Voices af the m on fv Though h pains ma rack bis mortal frarne, gr hous oot his hopes are trod, He welcomes all, as kindly tests. To prove. es worthy of his God. lendid pnd sublime self love! tion. b ape and friendship fail, Bat thy fair Tight till leads the sal, , unconquered, through the Yale! > Louis Globe Demaocrst. put his head in st the “Cabin passenger, alr, No, 18." be reported, with ike brevily. “Very bad" tier with him 7 Uncommon bad.” 1 “rt All right” ‘withdrew, and the doo d to finish the first para. . letter he had been writing , not precisely an urgent letter, » bad no Intention of doing any- Hh it until the ship arrived at ; but it was a letter that re- : was in tnost things Phieg- he was 3 impatient to have it all Ye ey Dut lute € Arrive less than haif a Pamengers were in bed s he made his way be- bis patient. t shone from the wall of him a haggard man on the bunk apparently a Fyoungiah man—not much thirty, anyway. His features gaunt and tanned with hard live rough weather, and his hands ened as with manual em He slept uneasily and his was stertoricus and dim fle the doctor was taking this pre. Tm the ‘doctor. You sent for me. r + + « I didn’t know, I've felt awfully knocked up ays past. and thought I could it off—but I can't. My head's and my hands, too. Feel 1 took bis hand and laid a his pulse. The hand was . the pulse was galloping 4 and a brief examination was 0 diagnose his ailment. of pneumonia,” sald Yalden, t ® more care of your you've been doing lately. You it At to travel; you must have e Fou started.” 10 get home" the other wearily, “I've been away see what we can arrange bg,” the doctor concluded. Ou some medicine; you've constitution, and. with clire, 1 pull round all right” 5. . . . He mustn't be loft, The doctor turned to the Somebody will have to sit him tonight. I'll see bim e I turn in, and I'll get the , to let you bave some assist fulfilling which latter duty he | to his cabin and resumed the Is composition of his letter. pee of what he was writing Ave amazed any man who - For to everybody who with one possible exception, iden was & matter-of-fact. rather thetic, wholly unromantic nearer fifty than forty: where. Jetter that was slowly develop is pen might almost have Fritten by a sentimental young Di the rapturous agonies of first Nobody would bave credited the I* with possessing the smallest EX of sentiment anywhere in his t, substantial person. He never it himself even until] three ago. Tee years ago he met in London girl he told himself he had been bg for all hin life. Sbe was nearly | ; ity years his junior, but what did that matter? Her people had been nd proud. and now. through re- it financial disasters, they were poor prouder, but what did all that mat. br, either? He loved her. and eared Yor Bothing else if she could only love had been imnelied to tell her =o: is Ingrained hardness and self-re. strain had fajled him at the first touch this bewildering passion that, so a-coming, subdued him utterly at She heard him with pity In her but not love; and she told him with only pity in her tones, that the ved was dead and her heart ele id the story tnat lay - Words, and 2awW more hope If than she had given bia ving love of ad Versthing cent to her? You'll fod ber « address. tarrupted harshly. “You've talked too much already. . . . , Come alang. Barrow.” be balled the advent of the steward with ineffable relief. “Call me if he is worse in the night” He was dazed and stupefied by the knowledge that bad come upon him se naexpoctedly, and yearned to got away and be alone where ho might think of it. Yet hs could not think of It even when he was alone, for every thought L {As it touched his brain Samed Into in due tim or away from the memory of n dead rival. Beginning to flatter himself that she was already relenting toward him, he had appealed to her again before be last left home, and she had seemed to waver-she silenced him tremulonsly, and had seemed to hesitate; apd feeling that each new day put a barrier between ber and her past and removed one from betwist himself and her, be would not take her answer then, but begged her to think of all it must mean to him and let him ask her for it, once for all when he came home from his nest voy. age. He was speeding homewnrd now, and the letter was to prepare ber for bis coming. He wrote it with so many pauses for reflection that by 10 o'clock it was stil] unfinished when, mindful of Lis pa tient, he relocked it In his desk. No. 16 was awake, but drowsy with sheer wenkness, “The chest's still troublesome.” he answered, with a feeble cheerfulness, but I'm a trifle better, thanks” The doctor was not so sure of that. "We've got to keep your strength up. somehow.” he sald; adding to the stew. ard, “Get some beef tea for him, Par row. 17 stay bere while you're gore.” | The dim, stuffy little cabin was silent | for mwhile, except for the labored res piration of the sick man, who present. {1y, becoming aware of the doctor's ruminant scrutiny, roused bimself to speak. “If 1 don't pull through this, doe top>" “Don't worsy about that: you wilL” “But if 1 doo't—Um pot afraid of dying. I've been near it too often for that; and yet, now, it seems harder than it ever did before ~ "You'd better not talk. I don't want you to exeits yourself” “Not me! What I mean Is, It would be hard luck to die on the way howe. I've beens away nearly nice years, | went away es poor as a rat, and I'm coming back rich. That's something, su't nt “It's a great deal” “To me it ls. 1 didn't go out because I'd got the gould fever. eax UH wut to the Klondyke I've been, doctor; away beyond Dawson City, up the Yukon - Lord! it's the kind of country You see In nightmares. [I've been see. ing it over and over tn nightmares ever since I've been {11.7 “Don’t think of ft—" “I wish I coulda't'™ He Inughed. Hut there was a feverish brightness in lis eyes, and his volo quavered with sup. pressed excitement. “I haven't had time to think of it til] now.” He went on talking, and Yalden lis tened absently, with strange doubts troubling his mind; and, so listening, he half-unconsciously fashioned from the other's words visions of vast snow Wastes stretching into the night or the day, now silent and lonely as death. now blurred, and whirling, and howl ing with the fury of a storm. and al- ways deep in the desolation of it, a des. perate little band of adventurers strong. gled forlornly, chasing a dream, stary. ing and falling, and drying, some of them, in the track of it: and here, at last, with the unimaginable terrors of that bleak wilderness Jeft behind kins one of the few survivors had cme reed trinmphant, with his dream reall Zeid, Triumphant, so far. The doctor eyed him glootully from under a frown. “And I'm not dead, though I'm Op. posed to be!” the other chuckled grime ly. “One everlasting, terrille winter We were snowed up miles away from anywhere, and we were put down ns done for, The wonder ix that we were not. Osly two of us managed to worry through, and we wandered heaven only knows where, and we Hved—well, we didn’t live. But we worried through—and I'm going home.” His eyes closed, and he rambled on dreamily: “Nine years! Lut she'll he waiting, I told her thar it wouldn't be more than two—and she said, ‘It's till you come, Ned: and if you never come I shall walt, til] I meet you, at the end.” He lay quiet a moment, and then opening his eyes and finding the doo tor regarding him fotently, be con- tinued; “We've never written to each other. We promised her people we wouldn't. She was to be free to change, if she would; they sald it was best. I had ne money and no prospects, but if I went back a rich man and she had not changed. I knew she never would. Whether 1 lived or died. she said she would never change-and she won't” “Did you say your name was Edwin Ashton? The doctor was startled by the allen gotind of his own volce, The sick man nodded, and, pointing | across the eahin: “Her portrait’s in my bag, doctor he said. “Do you mind getting it for me? My will's in there, too. I made It as soon as I struck my first luck, in case. . , . . Oh what I wanted to ask you, doctor, was—if I don't poll | madness and became an Incoherent flicker that dazzled and bafed him, One thought only burned to a clear and fiercely steady blaze-a sinister, | dinbolieal thought that he dared not face, and could not extinguish. “My God!” be muttered, pacing his erampid room like a caged animal “It's more than 1 can bear™ He Jost all count of time, as A man does when he sleeps, Lut when the steward summoned his hurriedly an hour after midnight he bad evidently not been in bed; a light was burning in his cabin, he was still dressed, and his Ince was wan and his eyes heavy as if in pain. “Mr. Asbton's worse, sir. Edwards is with him, and he called me to fetch you. He can't sleep. Keeps sitting up, Fdwards says, staring as If he conid fee people, an' talking very singlar. Delirious, 1 expect, sir.” “We must try & sleeping dranght™ rectly.” Barrow being gone Lie bumsied him self in the medicine cupboard, and hastened after him, carrying something inn glass, Drawing near to No. 16 he could hear the sick man lLabbling monotonously, and the very sound of his volee stung him and quickened that fire to a he caught a word of what the man was sayiog--merely a name, but the utters ance of it checked him instantly. as if a band bad plucked at bis sleeve, He stood trembling. and in that game instant saw, shaping white In the darkness before him, s sweet, sad face, grown pale with weary years of Jong- ing~the pure wistful eyes looksd into his, and their calmness calmed him, and thelr sadness made him ashamed. He was sane again; be could not go jon, but yielded to gentler {mpulses as readily as if the utterance of her name had conjured her there In very reality to turn back, and be regained his bets ter self in ber presence, With a something breaking like a sob in his throat, he swiftly retraced his steps, pausing fn the unlighted saloon to open one of the portholes and fling the glisx he carried far out Into the dark. Thereafter, he sat ti] well into the day watching and tending the man she loved and bad loved mo Jong. He shrank from trusting himself alone | with his own thoughts again yet: and, because she loved him and her happl ness was bound op in his 1ife all that unhappy night he fought with death for the man he hated. Going on deck in the morning he leaned over the side to tear up the letter he had written and scatter its fragments into the ses. It was the burial of a great hope that had died in the night. As he walked away, the captain, com. ing from breakfast. met him and ln gered to make inguiriea. “ ‘Morning, doctor; bow’s the patient? You're not going to make a funeral of it, I hope?” “Not quite,” Yalden langhed careless. (iy. “He has taken a turn for the better” —Black and White, Forests Destroyed by Goats. Sheep and goats when numerous are Hable to cause widespread Injury, pars ticularly In forested regions. An Ine structive example of the damage done by goats 18 afforded by St. Helena, which is a mountaioous and scarcely afty square miles In extent, its highest summits reaching an elevation of 2700 feet, At the time of iis discovery, about the beginning of the sixteenth century, it is sald to hare heen covered by dense forest; to-day it is described {as a rocky desert. This change has been largely brought about by gosta, first introduced by the Portuguese in 1513, apd which multiplied so fast that in seventy Hive years they existed by thousands. Browsing on the young trees and shrubs they rapidly brought about the destruction of the vegetation which protected the steep slopes. With the disappearance of the undergrowth began the washing of the soil by trop ical rains and the destruction of the forest, A——— 55 AAS ASI a Which Got Her? What appears to be a triangular elopement In Indiana is disclosed in the disappearance of a father, son and a pretty girl to whom buth had been paying attention. For some months Purdum Lucas, aged sixty, has been paying court to Miss Nettle Rivers, a domestic. His suit won favor, until a week ago, when Lucas’ son, Henry La. cas, appeared, and he, ton, paid court to the young woman. It developed the trio disappeared during the night. The puzzling question now is did the girl warry the father or the son, or either? All three boarded the same trajn and have not been heard from since. —Ohi. cago Inter Ocean, aan or EE kamen sm isn Instinet of Wid Animals, It has been stated that animals in. stinctively avold any vegetation that { might be harmful to them. This may bg true to a certain extent of animals in a wild state, but even they in times of dearth will devour saaything that comes within their reach, while domes- tic animals show very little discretion at any time. In some parts of this a thousands of catile and pouls try parish yearly from eating polsonous round, will you nave wy bag Lo er. planta, “Yes, yes. But not now.” Yalden In: said Yalden dully. “I'tl be there 4} | 1 lound TIME TO DUN. Flouseholder — “There's something wrong with this bill. It's too big!” Grocers Clerk-~“That's why the hose scbt me to collect It." —Brooklyn Lifa, 3 4 ; THE AUTHORITY. 3 “She isn't at all vain, although she bas some cause to be” “Huh! Why do you say that?” “Because she told me so herself. Philadelphia Press. NOT ACQUAINTED. fiercer flame within him; till seddenty | J *iiave you any poor relatives, Per or “Nome that 1 know, old chap.” “I see, old fellasb—then you must have some rich cnes™ “Yas, ba Jove! but note that know me New York Times, THE PROFITABLE PART. Yeung Mao—*1 desire to study law, Do you think I conid make a Hving ns ity 011 Lawyer—"Hardly. You might, however, by studying your clients” Baltimore American. EEMUNERATIVE. “Van Malor has made a fortane 'n the automobile business.” “I didn’t know be manufactured that | elacs of vehicles” “He doesn’t; he repairs them.” Cine cinnat! Commercial Tribune, PATRIOTIC RESENTMENT. Mr. Knowsome—~"“Those are coples of the ships in ‘which Colombos safled from Spain to discover America ™ Mr. Hojack—~"Go on! You'll newer make me belleve that any foreigner discuvered our great country.” Chi cago News. NOT HIS AFFAIR “How do you socount for the rota. tion of the earth on its axis? asked the professor. “Well,” answered the young man who is always at a loss, “I suppose tlie earths bad to rotate on something ~ Washington Siar. HE DARED. Parke—“Peterkin has a lot of moral courage, hasn't he?” Lane—"How do you know? Parke—"Why,1 got half waythrough a stury I was telling him when I asked him if he bad heard it and he sald be had. "Detroit Free Press, ECONOMY, “You're going out to waste 2 lot more ronsy in shopping, 1 suppose? “Oh, no, papa. I'm going to save money today. This is bargain day, you know."—New York Journal, THE COST OF NEGLECT. “I need a vacation badly, tut I can't take it now,” sald Dr. Price-Price, “Muay of my patients are in such con dition that I can’t afford to leave them. They need constant nursing.” “Ah, yes,” veplied the man whe knew, “I guess there are certain pa tients who, {f you quit them, get well the frst thing you Ky." -Catpolie Standapd and Times : hadn't begen tn “turn” It ix sald by the Elf otricinn that low terigion electrical currents, say under 120 volts, are more deadly than those | having ten times the voitage Dr, Bert. | taill and Professor Prevost have made | the remarkable discovery that high ten sion currents are capable of restoring the action of & heart that has been A rested by a low tension current, The floral world has been finaly shown to owe ita beauty snd magni. ence to cross fertilization: the animal world might likewise be shown to ba fndelited for Rta vigor and variety te Intercrossing. So might # bo proved that most great advances in civilize | tion have been originated hy the blend. ing of two stocks, the Immigration of individuals from one society to another. ion 844 one-bal? the bulk of u int AN. ke & iron are in taken from : Lake Saprrior iron are ls taken ’ | longer, until the fruit is very | Btraln through a jelly bag Fog bea 5 the mines, all of which are on the sar: face. by steam shovels, and is bandiad exclusively, in masses of a ton or more, by eranes until it reaches the $904 ; Ry of the American furnace or the hold of | 80 eign trade. Same of bei. Bottle and seal. Toi to en A ship In the foreign trade. Rome © WAT require sume off : If the bottles have been % boiled Before pouring in ihe Juice there - Wil be tio danger of souring. the steel tow barges on the lakes carry ROMO tons of ore and cargoes of 000 babel of wheat Baws ceased to atiract notice. A Prignettes made with such coments as dextrin molasses, lixiviated cellulose | & little decoration. hadypsgis making s hammock look gay snd piel 1a 10 Jake 4 shart South & by Richard Bock, a Saxon engineer, | who simply heats the finished bri | 4 or rexinate of ammonia have the fagit of dissolving fa water. A plan of mak ing them waterproof has been devised quettes until carbonized, when they be come tjoite Inscloble. If the coment in liable to ignite the healing ninst take place in an airtight case or hy meand | of hot gases. Professor J. J. Thomson's latest sug- gestion on the subject of the source of | the energy emanating from radium is that there are a few atoms in esech mass “in a condition in which stability ceases, and which pasa into some other configuration, giving out as they do very large quantities of energy.” The energy of the radiations of this sub stance is 80 great that one of the elec trons thrown off by it If zet In chase of a Mauser ballet, would pass through It as though it were standing still. An altogether eective way to “pas teurize™ milk, rendering it “sterile” ia to set a pan of cold water on the stove and put the vessel containing baby's milk into thix pan. Jus? 3s soon as the water comes to a boil fake it off. Add 8 pinch of baking sda to the hot wilk —a little less than half a teaspoonful to a quart. If she milk waa sweet and it will kenp sweet for twenty four hours or move, even in het weather, if put ln a stop peered Part tie, The Line Juier Iatand, Nearly all the Hume -iulce gen iz the world comes from the tiny lalsnd of Montserrat, in the British West ladies, The lime grows wild in many West In. dian Islands, bot only In Mootsernat is it ned commercially, That ixland is} one vast garden of limatrees, and Dow where in the world le there a finer sight than its thirty miles of archands aden with the fruit of the lime or fragrant with {ts blossoms The fruit is gathered by negro vom en, who carry it dows the hills te the shipping port in big basg#ts upon their heads. Like all West Indisns, they are remarkable for their ability to carry hesvy weights in this manner, Once, the company which controls the Hime jules industry souaghy to lighter the burden of is laborers by intpehicing wheelbarrows. Ths negroes filled the wheelbarrows readily sponzh, and then carried them on their heads as they had been used to earry the bakets Many a negro woman will camry = hondred weight of Toes on her head for a distance of a wiles or more. ~New York Press. An Unhappy Family. An Armourdale man who visited that | : lp for a screen look effective done in town yesterday sald thar he had seen an oid hen wilh 8 brood of little hicks quarters] ou top of a piano daring the sweep of the flood there, A mat aind a dock, he sald, also used the (natrunent as a refuge. The refugees bad nothing | in common, however, and each kept! aloof from the others. The hen noth er, mistress of the top of the Mang, kept a close watch on Her little ones, She woud not permit them (0 Po too pear the edge of thelr roost. Ose of the brood, a precocious little Hack feathered rooster, kept the old hen busy. He would first trot to ons end of the plano, then to the other. The dock and rat were seated on the key board, and it seemed to delight the Ut- tle black chick to lean over the edge and chirp at the rat, seated sadeysd amd lonely and watching the mater which had meade him take to the tall spol. The old hen Rept the othe two members of the animal Kingdom at o safe distance, and the dock, wheever the rat moved around at his end of the keyboard, quacked loudly. — Kansag City star, Baved Her Duoge. A woman came willing and dmost hysterical out of one of the wscue boats sent to North Topeka durisg the recent disastrous foxds in the West, She clutched to ber bosom a undle which every one thought contabed a baby. But when she reached dry land she carefully unrolled the bundb and displayed a female poodle dog with four young puppies.—New York Come mercial Advertiser. A Natural Mirror. A woman often casts reflectioxs en her husband by reflecting him.-New York Times of it fx that ® Jemon from W bas been squeezed does | NA an & trushily eut one. — ccpper In clean, hot water and 603 ab polish with a clean soft clots, MAKING FRUIT JUICE, The tasking of fruit julce at home i. KD easy matter, and one haw the ses ance that she han the material fou dainty desserts at hand in an € gency at no great cost, To each of strawberries, currants ov | best In a double boiler for one hour of TO DECORATE HAMMOCKS. Hammocks are greally improved by chains ordinary bammeek BE Cr I het of a asual way. A small silk ruffie on either #idn of the embroidered sallicioth serves as 8 Anish. —Philadeiphia Telegraph. i DAINTY BEDSPREADS The busy housewife who has a taste but no time for embroidery, yet wonld Uke to have pretty bedspreads, tolleg covers, screens and other dainty thingy in her bedroom, will find a few sugges thot useful, An extremenly pretty bedspread is made by taking a pew linen sheet, and with a diner plate and small dessert plate or saucer make intersected elpe cles with a hard lead pencil at regular Intarvals over the spread. When this is Gone, the foundation lnes are made for a pretty design of wreaths, on which it is easy to draw fSowers or leaves One wreath of wild roses or another of {alslew han & good effect. The small. er circle of green leaves, and the larger of any simple Sower, Is & good Glen. When the flowers have been sketched stalin them the color desired with a fast dye, There are several dyes that will stand careful washing, violet ink or ted ink, for instance, After the designs have been stained outline them with single sephyr worst. ol, which washes admirably. Wash silk fs pretty and dainty, bar {¢ 1a Bot 80 effective and takes more time. The easiest cutline stitch Is ts sew Round the design with simple, ran. ping stitch, and then golng over I¥ pg catch each stitch in overand- fasion. This gives a ropes offect eh looks well baretu cover to match the spread oe in the same way with smaller elrcion, would be decorative, and pan- this way. —New York Journal Anparajus In White Saoce--Boll as parsigus in boiling salted water until tender; cot In loch pleces: add It to 8 white sauce; allow one cupful of sauce for wach bunch of asparagus. Stewed Cold Potatoes — Cut cold boiled potatoes In large cubes: put thera In the frying pan with a little boiling water; let simmer: add a large lump of hutter, salt and plenty of pep per: let cook until the potatoes have thickened the water; serve very hot. Pineapple Filling—Carefully remove the outsile and “eyes™ of a pineapple, then grate the flesh from the core. Sime caer until well reduced. To each cup ct reduced puip add three-fourths a erp of sugar and cock to a marmalade. When cod spread between the layers of onke, Sweet Cucumber Plokles—Lot small Rreen cucumbers stand two days la a brine that was poured over them hot. Drain, wipe and put in jars, pouring uver them a spiced vinegar, made by adding one tablespoonfal of celery | seed, mustard seed and pepper corns, j 9¢ pod of red pepper. a little ginger apd horseradish root, and two pounds of brown sugar to three quarts of viges gar. Heat the vinegar and spices on thiren consecutive mornings, cover with horseradish or grape leaves. a plate, and weight, and in a week they will be delicloun,
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