d ho moss. And By storms ti re often ead, But I'm glad that I've gathered no moss. L'ENVOL M ince, you may call this bombast on a sy Aas don't me gions, grasae Dl ne Tie bat Vee ? uthered no moss. 3 hs ~<hicige News, mming with a . have ex: f dest fo 7 be fr for t ber—a little Bote 1 sw Bow fondly 1 cher: t ie hateful letter out from him to-day. te : dd out ber little Bands im : £ I took them in mine, and 1 | kissed them while wy heart was break. ing. “Forgive rou, my darling.” I sald. *1 would forgive you if you killed me, 1 think. Don't grieve, Aunle. | will try to bear It.” We parted at her uncle's without an. other word, and I went home to the | motherly beart that I kuew wonld suf. { fer with me, but whose tender sympa: thy would uphold me in this bour of bliter trial The next day I sent In wy resigna- tion, for my mother and | agreed to {leave the village where we had passed #0 many quiet years. It waa in the afternoon of the same day that the letter of which 1 have spoken, that I now know was from my rival, attract. {vd my attention. 1 took It up reluctant. iy-1 telt 1 would as readily touch a to put the postinark on it when | saw | that the address on it wus insufficient. The envelope slmply bore the words, *Mr. Joseph Norris, Treat Hall” “Rir. i mingham” should have been added, but { was omitted, and the letter must be | consigned to the dead-letter office. With n thrill of savage delight I flung It Into the box appropriated to the reception of such castaways, and went on with my evening's work, With that work 1 it- | were not agreeably employed. with B my § letter + wns 3 other as © put the letter out of my mind. missive she bad received. But it should be long before he would get it-get it too late perhaps for an explanation; for {| misunderstandings between fovers had often arisen from a slighter cause than the non-arrival of an expected letter. 1 1 pictured him walting and longing for the Jetter that would not come, and she, poor girl, bow her tender heart would be tortured by hiv Imagined neg. # | Jeet, when no answer would be forth { coming. She, 1 knew, would suffer in silence, and I fondly hoped be would do the same. Ko 1 sealed the mail bag and walted for the messenger 10 carry it to the station. The express would pans in an hour and a half, And then a struggle began In my heart. The Jot- ter seemed to whisper 10 me that one little act of mine could send I unime | peded on its mission, No one, 1 believe, unless he were In my situation, actuated by the same despairiog, selfishly hopeful feelings that were overtnastering him, could | understand what a base {mpulse 1 con 1 quered, when at last, after an bour's 0 | temptation, 1 took the letter from it» communicate the good t. She was strangely quiet, nd there was an troubled ne eyes I had never seen while a subdued feel. Lanie’'s dlaquiet tself to us. 1 was hopes. ang my mother, my thoughts were, left Ir most of the evening, but fled me. It was only when 4 me i saying that 3 bier silence that | ; for no one conld be in ber congratulations 1 answered that my good Id be valueless to me un | share it with the girl I you love? she repeated 1 tremble on my arm. I love,” 1 answered, in sh might have interpreted, to be a happy woman,” . “May I ask If I know you know her™ I erled. “If you tT Ob, wio eould she be but drew her hand quickly away y arm, and stood quite still be Oh, did you say me? then I saw the moonlight falling and it was not the face of in Bappy confusion when prefers. It was pale and then she bid it from me and burst into tears. p Bo other answer. 1 knew resting place, wrote in the one needful word, opened the mall bag, and let it £0. Then after it was done, sotie hot tears rushed to my eyes. It was wy | hope, and I could not help indulging In fome weaktess over its grave, Isfaction of seeing the results of ny good action In a letter in the handwrit. ing of my rival, addressed to Anule, making its unwished-for appearance, os 1 knew it would, ard shortly after, Dr. Merrill took it away with him as he ealied for his letters, Loungers came in and out of the office and went away, finding me little disposed for conversation. Nothing yet was Known io the village of my aequl- sition, so I was spared the pain of in no mood to hear. When I went home that evening 1 was surprised to find my mother absent, and still more surprised when, on opening a note she lad left for me, I learned that she was “1 with Aonle at Dr, Merrill's, and that I was to follow ber there, Hopeless as I felt, the prospect of seeing Annle again promised we only a painful pleas- ure, but still the thought of being near ber had a sweet and sad fascination that I could not resist. When 1 reached the doctor's 1 found himself apd my mother seated in Lis office, so tnfent on the moves of chess men, that a niere pod gn my entrance showed thelr consciousness of ny arrival. An. fie was bot tere; I found her in the parlor standing upon the hearth rug, the glow of the firelight shining on her golden hair, and a look of eager, happy expectation In her glance that was new to her sweet face “1 am glad to see you” she sald, giv ing me Ler hand. “1 have heen impa- tient for your coming-and 1 will tell you why, There Is a question I want you to answer, It perplexes me, and somehow I think I ean lock to you for its solution. Youn remember a letter 1 received In the early part of the week 1" Bhe besitated and cast down her eyes, “1 have too good reason ever to for- get it.” I answered, bitterly, 1 saw hier face flush; she went on, “I answered that Jetter next day, It fwas of vital importance to me that 1 never | when I wrote it, and addressed It at | iny uncle's desk while the messenger was walting to take it {o the post. I 1 was called uray ter a minute while it should go then. 1 was troubled poisonous snake-—-and was just about went on mechaniealy, but my thoughts That, then, wns the answer to the ] Three days after 1 bad the poor sat-| listening to congratulations that I Was YY, forge 8 Wis unfinished. 1 Getting no — gnawer for two days 1 wondered what | bad happened and suddenly remem | oo | vered my mistake, what the fate of my letter must have been. Judge, then, how relieved 1 felt | when my uncle brought we this tak- | ing from the mantelpiece the letter that had come that morning. Her eyes searched my face, ber hands In my own, “Annie 1 took ake, but I did it. I knew it must be it answer to that letter you spoke of few nights ago. It ought to prove 0 you how unselfishly I love yon, my riing, when 1 addressed it and sent n its way to him, 1 never thought would find it out. I did it to spare rou A moment's uneasiness. If the man You love eares for you as much as | do. he will make your life a bappy one." “How can I repay your generosity 7 she said, In a voles tremulous with feeling. “Yon could not have acted better {I you had had a peep at the con. tents of that leiter. But your reward may be clalined when you read this” Bhie handed me the missive, and glided out of the room. 1 took It over to the shaded lamp and read the fol lowing: “Dear Annle: When beside your father's bed we entered into an en. gagement of marriage, I felt, as he did, that the interest of the firm In which ke and 1 were partners would be best sustained by our union. “1 wrote to you notifying you of my readiness to fulfill wy part of the agreement, and requesting von to be ready to return with we on Sunday as my wife. not comme. There is but ote explana- tion In this refusal, and that ls that you have some one who pleases you better than your hamphle servant. It is mt natural, child; 1 cannot blame you, The young should mate with the young, and I am too much your senlor to expect to awake in your youthful heart feelings that have Jong been life. less In my own. “1 telease you from a promise that I am now aware was made Ly you un- der the pressure of the sad circum stances, Hut this fact can never affect the fatherly regard 1 have ever enters tained for the only child of my dear old friend.” 1 read po farther. Here was my re ward. by the desire of gratifying an ungener. ous impulse. Annie has since assured we that had Joseph Norris arrived on the day designated, so great was her awe of her father's old partner, that she never would have had the courage to contend against her destiny. In- deed, the circumstances of having made the mistake she did fo addressing { the letter seemed to her troubled mind significant of a deep meaning, and that even beyond the grave her father | sought to control her actions, “Annis did sot return to the parlor, 1 found her seated In the doctor's office, apparently interested in the gatie which just at the moment of my en- trance be brought fo a victorious con clusion. “Choe R ws" “Mate” I erled, finixhing the word for him, and catching Angie In my arma, heedless of the axtonishment of the elderly pair. 1 demanded my ree wird, Well, John Norris, grey:haired, com- mon-place, and undemonstrative, cams to Greenwall to other nuptials than his own. He gave away my dear one with the best of grace, and after the mar- rigge congratulated me on my admis sion nto the firm. My ignorance of his meaning was so apparent that with a grim sumille he enlightened me. With my bride I acquired the balf Interest in 8 huge Lusiness concern in Birming- bam. If Annie had chosen to appear as {an orphan, dependent on the bounty of her uncle, she had the after-satisfac. tion of knowing that the Jove she won was offered to herself alone, and not to the golden store that atiracts go many suitors, “My dearest,” I sometimes say to her, “who would think that In a great measure we owe our happiness to one Hittle missing word ¥'—New York News, “A Pend Give Away." When Mrs. Dean went out to see If the cherries were ripe enough for plek- ing she found one of her neighbor's children perched aloft in the tree not only belping hhmself, but also filling a pall with the fruit. Bhe called him down, and was about to administer a stern reproof when his mother came hurrying over to apologize. “1 ftry every eans to keep Leslie out of that tree,” she said. “But he is bound to get into it. 1 shall punish him severe iy.” Much appeased, Mrs. Dean was ahout to offer her neighbor some of the cherries when the little boy tugged at her arm. “Say, Missns Denn” be sald, “do you know last year mother had to boost me into that tree, but now I'm sa big 1 can climb into it myself.”— New York Times, Hygiene of Ilare Feast, “When I go away this sumer 1 ex pect to trot around barefoot most of the the,” said a wan who was planning his vacation. “It makes a man ten years younger to go without shoes. Some persons believe the ulce sea alr and bathing are the things that restore one's constitution. That may help, but running around barefoot is the prin. cipal factor. If people went to the seashore and didn’t go barefooted they wouldn't get half the results they would in stroliing around without shoes. To my mind there is a therapeutic lesson in Whittler's ‘Barefoot Boy.'"—New Xork Press. I knew too well said 1, “1 believe 1 comld 3 make po one understand what it cost } | my jealons heart to rectify that mis You say to me that 1 must And bow pearly 1 had Jost it _ HE trainman who ax night I swings bis lighted jantern bigh In air, sending a def ‘nite message to the engl : "peer several hundred yards away: the keeper of a lighthouse on a dangerons shore: the man who finches trom ship to ship or from ship to land a beam of Mght, all afford iuterestiug eramples of the adaptation by man of a remarkable signal language possessed and employed by many animale that are volevless or without other means of communication, That this janguage | will ever be transisted or perfectly understood In very doubtfal but the fact that it is a langaage Is sufficiently remarkable to those familiar with it and who have watched the marvelous signals Onshed across field sud pasture in the lands where the lightgivers live, That light 1s a sigual the doubter ean easily determine by taking one of the largs beetles po common In the South and holding it up to an open window at night, when the signal will be answered by some free lightgiver, who responds to the call and hovers about with brillinnt Hlumination. Re cently the writer watebed the brilliant fuminons becties jn Texas As night eatne on ad the darkness becane mare iutense, flashes of Hight appeared here and there, lke dismonds against a Black sky, then ax meteors Hashing across the field of vision, followed by others, until a veritalide rain of fire appeared as a swarm of lightgivers farted tn a given direction, Tt occurred to some oue fo capture otie of those Ughtgivers, and, as previously de scribed, expose it before an open win- dow, as one would bold a lantern. It was vot loug before the signal was an. swered: another lightglver from out of the darkness flew toward it. demon strating beyond question that the in sect had signsied and bad Leen ane swered. The nsture of these signals or flash Bghis is not well understood, but in variety, color. and power they are re markalile, There are over fourteen different species of Lanipyros which possess [his janguage of light, found in the Bouthern States, on the Islands of Cuba, Jamalea and Sante Domingo, especially the latter, in all their bean ty. Souie sppeat to give a permatient fight; 10 others, it is Atul, all phases of change being observed. In these ine sects the light is situated in the last segments, and It is so powerful that when It Js “turned on” at “full pres sure,” thie entire surface appears to be Memined, a blaze of ight. The lights differ in colar. One lwetle flashes a gleam of rich orange when flying, but under artificial Hght 1 appears to we yellow, This Iv not constant, but in. termitteat like the flash of a light house, In one known as FPhoturis versicolor the Jight Ix a remarkalie imitation of sotoe Hghthouses, It appears asx a minute spot, Incress ing griclually in volume and beauty, until it bursts forth in all its splendor to gradeally fade away and disappear, being ertirely under the control of the Insect. ‘This ight Is a brilliant green, and that it conveys sorae meaning is well shown by experiments, iu which the Hght was responded to by other individuals. It might be sesonied that the lights are possessed by the male alone, Lut such (8 not the case, boih sexes having them, In some the Hele emitting orguos are larger in the male than in the female. Thus {0 the oie known ax Photinus the light appears to cover all the lower or venirnl seg ments, from the fourth to fifth {ocly- sive. 1a the ope known ss Lampyie the ght tn the feaaale appears to be steady, ‘while in the male it is variakde, and at 11x full development a splendid brilliant green jight, The larva or huperfveet form of shoe of these iusects is remarkable for iis lights, ope baving thres—one upon the bead, one at the tail, and the third ar the base of the head and prothoray-—so that from any position the litle creas ture could exhibit its signal here is also a difference in the time of ex posure, suggesting the hellogruph which flashes its signals. An observer counted the flashes of Luclola and found that there were thirty-six a min ute, cach fash lasting about one-fourih of a second. The insect collectors of Vera Cruz un derstamil so well that the lights are signals that they employ light to cap fure the beetles. A burping cond is fastened to the end of a long stick. which they wave to and fro, in a short tire attracting the fire floes, which are easily cuught in a hand pet. and thade obrerved bye the writer emit ted a wonderful green light so vivid that by holding it close to printed mai. | could be read. The siz tA; ter the latter uals or lights are vellow 3 Back of the eves, while another Hal glenms from the Brey abdoming] soy went, Joven the eggs of tlds insert a laminous, emitiing a bhided light Hp s stances, 1 Yon, us this woul > wonder they Tie larg est of tiese lightelivers Is Prroplioros That § yo In another the yellow greem Hight is in the eye, the animal seeing and signaling with these organs, aily a fiery wtur; gteddy from one portion fo the other, seemingly at will, until the active shimal blages out as 8 star of fire Peering down (nto the sea, the observer sometimes becomes witness to the sige nals of various spbroals. The writer was floating on the Hay of Avalon one night Jooking down Into the water when be otwerved a light the size of a ten-cent piece directly beneath. Grad. ually 4 increased in size until it be} came inoa short hme px large ax 8 disper plate when it remained for a moment or two a striking abject, toon gradually dininishiog to the original dimensions; it rose from the bottom tir the surface, where it soon began fo giove about in oa sinpotic conrse, the Heht mo Intense that it resembled a ooal of fire, throwing off phosphor. erence of Iumitons mwntler which formed a train several lncbes behing i, sean apparently attracting otlers, which pursued it. The water was in- tinsely dark snd dotted with {hose Hghts, which appeared to be chasing exch other on the surface, This Hing light was a mingle worm almost invisible to the naked oye, The worming are noted for thelr strange Hebts, In some the Ilvht emitting or gas are the feet, and revern] worms nye lights of different colors. Ony of the fistivs Lins two Hghte upon its head, ahi green, the other yellow, and that these strange beams do not have a special weaning or sigaificadioe io foe Hie of {hese orestarss 0 i dileuit to Haugine, Nearky ail the marine anbnals sre mire Gr Jers phosplaresortil, Wave the hand through the water at night and A blaze of fight appears. The surf fa frases of Light as far as the eye fag ge, and the writer has wilpessal the sind so filled with juwinesity that every footstep left 8 flery imprint, or siraping the sand aroand {it aronsed saeh a blaze of phosphoresosnoe that print conld almost be read Ly In The jeilvfisbes fash myriad rays of Hebt to their comrade in the wea, The delicate Calpae jo red, blige and yellow tints blaxe their way along while the Hirge Pyrosoma is a veritable column of light, each member of the cue munity contributing a gleam the ron centration of which produces one of the roost remarkable displays of Jight hi the animal kingdom: a sigoal that penetrates far through the Lloe depibe uf the wpeean, burdened with ts gu inown meaning ~Xew York Times At the Ginn Counter, A weedy looking castoiner, with ap Arkansas mustache, 8 WHI West beard of three days’ growth and an Indian Territory look in bis eye, was buying a Six-shooter Ja an uptown Hoearm #tore, Thie ope ia BTN" wll the colori, and Hs 8 good gun for the maser.” “Cant you come down a little on that?" queried the buger, looking 8p nnder his shaggy eyebrows and rusty aotabrero, Being answered in the nega fice, Lie paid the price thrust the gun Inoxely inte bis trousers pocket, got ® FpEY of cartridges aml went ent. “1 don’t care what he does with that fun.” carelessly remarked the derk, “hut 1 koow very well he has po ine tention of snide tnred anvibivg about the price, If be ad. He says he boards on the Bows ery: place ix tough hoking, Lat the best Ire can afford, and Le wants the gun 10 farotect Blmeell, Tm quite sure, any- way, there's no idea of sujcide running through bis esd Folks of that sort fife edsy to pick out. They Lave an ager, excited manner that gives them away, and they fre mostly wotisn, I refused to sell 8 gun to one anly the other day, Oh, there's not so very pany of them, but Us dead eavy to know them when ons has Bad a lite experience. New York Press Bedouine and Water, It ix pot uooesusl to bear a8 Badopin Upon resching a camp where water is ifTered him refuse it with the remark, “1 drank only yesterday.” On the Bee douing” long marches woross dry coun {ries the size of the water shins {x plese Iv caleulated to jest outlast the Sours ney, and they rarely allow themselves to break the habit of abstemingeness J be sive to make their ieXt water fast ail the hander. They fire gecustomed fron Infancy to regard water a8 a most precious commodity ned use it with religious economy, They krow every hollow sad nook io the mountains where water tuasy be found. Their camels and goars, which they take with them on thelr marches io supndy them with milk and meat, ilive pripvipally on the scanty herbage ad follnze of Neither men nor than {or the thorny wiinosa, animals drink sore y-aight hours, No fen subsist where fuemds «New Yigrk Tribuge, a A i. Ji Cronin . faye fs guiekly i risk An Army Cinderall shiv £3 ia tha “Clinader Fel Es un in Leaves steps of ber hos mnt rassing Ly Fox a. He the light has a definite meaning as a sizn language of nature ig shown Hts almost universal presence among a large number of anlmals which cannot centipede, 3 ¥ a utter shpunds. A eertaln often vatght by the writer, bias a light at its head and one at the tail which Cs gleam like emeralds. The insect is al most invisible to the naked eye, yet so brilliant is the light emitted Ly several that the writer would almost think that the grass where they lie was afire, Among the crabs lights are very cowmn- mon. In some the light pervades the sntire body; again, it Is confined to the was not a Kitchen iy ome recently wearing Glamansd ring. A sensation siwnite he ¥1 ung Heutvnapt when he omer to ses hor” A Much.Riatued King, Up to dute 318 statues of William LL of Gerwany have been erected in Gers ian towns at a total cost of about §.» ‘One | tof the starfish is a bisze of light, liters pot comsiant, bout} | forte He woakdn't beve | Jat eh Clewevinn Ottelothe. i To freshen the oileloth, wring 8 soft loth out of clear warm water, dip one corner of it fo kerosene. rub iret with the wat eloth, then with the ofled core per. Uwe no soap~~The Household Ledge: Pe — To Pastenrine WITH, Any lousewife ean “pasteuries’” milk, making It sterile, if she cares to £9 to a little trouble. Place a pan of coll water on the stove and put the vesntl containing the milk into this pac. Just as soon a8 the water comes to 4 boil take It off. Add a ploch of baking sods to the hot milk, the pro- portion being a little less than half a feaspoonfol to the quart. If the milk Is sweet if will remain so for twenty-four Bours even in the hottest weiither if put in a stoppered bottle. Physicians recommend this method of treating milk for the nee of babies in supbiir ~ Xetr York Press. A Swimwer Playroom. Wherever there is an available piece af praia attached to 8 house, 8 tome porary 10cm aay be erected for bot- weiter purposes, Fig Into the ground four poles where the corners of the roam tee to be; connect the top by Plates of sekatiing: the walls and roof sve made of India or Chinese matting. Eriict a poi in the contre of the room extending two foot out of the top, over which the mattiog Is stretched, thus RiFing 10 toa tentiike appearance, Thy rough wood sides can be hidden hy ching cotton draperies. The fark tare af (hid sumeer house consists of a tubie, a for lounging chairs and a bainmnok, The atrupant's taste and ingenuity world dictate any further furnishing GF fecoration, bot the simple room as dewcribed iu a delightfully alry, com fortable haves from the heat of stuffy rontd and thick walls—Amerioan Inn eS Whitentog Whites Paint, White paint is cool and clean and fresvlooking and it is the most suite alde thing for summer cottage rooms, fat it bee ite disadvantages. One of them {8 thal it most be constantly looked after, as Jt shows up every spot nul speck. hax Lavoe dirty, procure a basin of warn water, a sancerful of whitening, anil a flannel, Din the flannel in the Waker, squewite it yearly dry, take up As rauels whitening as will adhere to it, and apply to the painted surface. Very gintie rubbing will remove any grease or dirt, Rinse over with clean water, and ilry with a soft chamois featlier. Paint cleaved in this way will look ss well as the day it was Inid ot. White stairs show up black to thir crevices in a mest annoying mane ror if pet dmted very carefully. A Ht. tie whitening dipped on & rag snd robbed over, after sil possible dust Bar beep got rid of, remedies this dew «New Nork Cowsmercial Advem iden Sm al ow oo RECIPES . Currant-aml Raspberry Sherhet Bot a quart of water and a pint of sugar twenty mingtes, Add a teaspoonful of gelatine, softened in cold water snd stralg. When cold, add x cup and a nll of corrant Jaice and half a cup of ved raspierey juke and freeze as usasl To clean paint that 2 ® 5 fe 4 io Hismwherry Cream—Mix half a eup of sugzyr, & cup of strawberry pulp, and a pint of dogble cream. Beat with wr ogi-beatler until solid te the bottom of thier bowl, or wee 8 “whip chur” and take off the froth as it rises. Serve, thoroughly chilled, fn glisieg or In meringne sbeils, Riss and Chesse~Rice may be cena with cheese making a dish equal to neaearonl, Boll and drain thie pli and place i In 8 buttered bake ingr dah la abesnative layers with grated cheese. Sprinkle the thlekiy with bread crembs, dot the baller, welsten with milk and bake in 8 gqulck oven Mustiird Cream Dressing -Ste te gritlier one cupful of wik, yolks of thre o oni tie tableapoontal of mins 4 « taldespoonial of sugar two ew wufuls of melted batter and two level mbtdespoontuls of cornatared; add 10 this ¢ae coplfel of hot visegar; cat in 8 desble beoller patil jt thick ens If too thick when cold add cold BEL op Creal. Vegetarian Cutlets— Prepare mashed polatues 8s {or the to impaled onlon, and fry it brown in erarh butter to brown, Mix with tie potatoes, Por six pefatoes fairs & doen tiny mew carcots and Eve sway sould whine taenins, boll sens sretely in ited water, cop Che: wdd y the potatoes with a few Snely Jed steing bens, 8 Httle parsley a9d sail and pepper Ww taste, Form {nt dat, oblcig pes, dip a se tots erg and bre ad ergnile and (oy gt fat. Reve with brows op B15 pin dileud he 10a A sg; Satis Ww te sqoae, With alr Bitex Butter— giv. ; iB. leaving a Hitle of the wl 4 by wikdb the stalks na) bandied. Serape the scales frown the lower part of the subi or pare off the skin. Tie in smal} ipatlen yey compactly asd cook i boitog salted water until tender, woo welt, from Giteen to thirty wate. Remove with 4 skimmer apd dinjn. Then dispose on a hot dish, ote with a perforated rack of some sort being preferred. Serve at the same time little dishes of “black but ter.” inte which the stalks may tw dipped while eating. La he; grate a med o Cut Be »
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