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HKENSIBE BY MRS. MARY J. HOLME8 at "Sara Omm." "TV CntlM Orhj.i," Bamfi m lb fllll" "Lm ''MtiMwVwt," " Traifart saa Saaaktea," "taaala Ml ' Thousands of American women In our homes are daily sacrificing their lives to duty. CHAPTER XVIIL (Continued.) Bow chatty and social ha was, trying to cheer Maddy op and make her forget that mich a thing as death had so lately tound entrance there; talking of Jessie, bf Alkenoide, of ths pleasant little timl they would have during the vacation, and 9t the next terra at school, when Maddy, u one of the graduating class, would not be kept In as strictly as heretofore, but allowed to see more of the city. Maddy UH as If she should die for the pain tugging at her heart, while she listened to him and knew that the pictures he was drawing were not for her. Her place was there; and after the breakfast was and Flora had cleared me aisnes so that tney over t i -i ' t ah shut the door. and pretty, the children well dressed might be alone, ana, . weakness or mspiucei.ciii, . r . . d.,.in- means her to escape what she felt to be an lm for peratlve duty.. Guy had expected some thing like thla and waa prepared, as he i,it to combat all her arguments; so when she had finished, he replied that Of course he did not wish to Interfere 4. h.- Antv. hnt there mlcht be a ques tion as to what really waa her duty, and it seemed to him he was better able to nA.m ftf that than herself. It waa not U..V w- bromrhton and they suffer in silence, drifting alonfr from bad to worse, knowing well that they ought to have help to overcome the pains and aches which daily make life a burden. . It is to these faithful women that LYDIAE.PiNKHA.VrS VEGETABLE COMPOUND comes as a loon and a blcKsin, as it did aiiar tuic. i jjoya,oi neaver raiis, m,wuu bay . , Mtmfa i. wl was not able to do tnv oivnwork, ' km. nnM aha lmnrove them In Hone- nwlnir to the female trouble from which I j.i.. v..Mm br rrandfather did not ex liuffered. Lvdia K, Pinkham's Vegc- r'her to stay. Guy had talked with jUbleCtompound helped me wonderfully, 1 wWle ih, waJ asleep, and ths matter Suid I am so well that I can do ns big a i .a . . mmnetent woman Kay's work aa I ever did. I wish every fc u d uk, charg ot the do- Uok woman would try It 1 7 t.Deemento, and if It .earned de- iFACTS FOR SICK WOMEN, '.irable, two ahould be procured; anything I For thirty years Lydia E. link. J7 Maa7 r ir. to Mrs. Y. Ellsworth, r, ducaUon was unflnUhed. when an- .. i." "-'0ther could do as wen. tier bui... ren to her to improve, ana ...ntxl tn thla wlll- fcam's Vegetable Compound, mado i "m ."i," . throb of &mrootsKand herbs, Las Ix-en the , 'hoSft. 'TfjJ? iat tne grano- "-."""J "" J Quy could not answer tl dhas positively cured thousands of utj7on.ented willingly women who have leen troubled with lie thinks it best. When he comes displacements, inilammation,ulcera- 'btck u can Mk nim yourself," he said. Won, fibroid tumors, irregularities, 1 At thg pot Grandpa Markham came jperlodio pains, baekaclie, that lear-1 j( ana t0 him Guy appealed at once to Jng-downfeeUng,flatulency,indigcs- . n'ow If he were not willing for Maddy lon,dizzlne8S,or nervous prostration. return to school. rVVhr rton't. vnn trv it -r ..1.1 h mlrht If she thought best, , j . - -.. ... . ni.i.k... -11 -ii. ' w.. . ti,. v.niv. a-noken ao aaaiy uiui iuir iurs a AtiAiiiiiiA iiiui:n tin hilu - . - . . Srotnen to write her for advice, dy's arms were at once twinea arounu mho hai truided tliousnnrt to the old man's neck, while sne saw w Ibealth. Address, Lynn, Muss. htm: : I ''Tell me honestly which you prefer. MBVTTara't.VannerNrW LAW obtained TM tlka ao much to to to school, hut nirvcinva "',z?l:!Z TT.' ii St ' am not sure 1 should De nappy v""i M. MJ.J.1JM.-L - . . . . Kr at Knowing now juunj uu " - home. Say, grandpa, which would you r.tw now. honor brluht?" and Maddy tried to speak playfully, though her heart-beats were almost audible as she waited for the answer, Omndija could not deceive. He want- CAMS TO STAT. ttvfmra f tk Prod I cat wltk Moner ad his darling sorely, and he wanted her mm La rare Cheek. to be happy, he said. Perhaps they Old home week had come, and the a.nnM ret on lust as well without her. returned ions end grandaona were When Mr. Guy waa talking It looked as .gathered together. One after another if they might, be made It all so plain, tbey rose and told with 1 pardonable but the sight of Maddy waa 1 1 comfort. ,.rld. their achievement. In the great She was all he had left Maybe U 1 ,, . . , . . ehouldn t live long to pester her, ana Ji world, . impressing their mportance on h, lwayi fee, n th. stay at home. At 1-cgth Mr. hftT,n ,Uyd wlth her grandpa T" -Jameson apoke; I He looked very pale and thin, and his "I went away from here twenty ji, WM white as snow. lie could not years ago a poor young man, with only UTa many yeara, and turning resolutely -one aolitary dollar In my pocket I from Guy, who, so long as he held hec walked the four miles from my father'a eyes, controlled her, Aiaaay ma. arm to the atatlon, and there I beSKd hoMn nc fr. -1 11 . . .i. z,' . with trandpa Ull he dies," and with a a. ride to Boston on a freight cor, Last night I drove Into town behind; aplrlted pair of horsea, and my purse guess how much my purse holds In money to-day, besides a largo check," and Mr. Jameson looked about him with a smile. "Fifty dollar, r j "Serenty-flve I "A hundred I" shouted the boya, filled with admiration. I "No," said Mr. Jameson, drawing a jlarga flat purse from his pocket when convulsive sob ahe clung tightly to his Deck, aa If fearful that without such bold her resolution would give way. It waa In vain that Guy strove to change Maddy'a resolution. She was wholly decided, and late in the afternoon he rode back to Aikenslde, a disappointed man, with, however, the feeling that Maddy i had done right, and that he re elected her all the more for withstanding the temptation, CHAPTER XIX It waa arranged that Flora should for Tempter whispered to her that though she did not love him aa ehe ought to love er husband, yet a life with him waa far preferable to the life she waa living, and the receipt of one of hie letters always gave her a pang which lasted until Guy came down to see her, when it usually isappeared, Agnes was now at Aiken slde, and thus Maddy frequently had Jes- ie at the cottage, but Agnes never came, nd Maddy little guessed how often the proud woman cried herself to sleep after listening to Jessie's recital of all Maddy nd to do for the crasy man, and how pa- iently she did It. He had taken a fancy that Muddy must tell him stories f Sarah, describing her as she was now, not as she used to be when he knew her, but now. "What Is she now? How does she look? What does she wear? Tell me, tell me I" he would plead, until Mad dy, forced to tell him something, and having diRtinctly In her mind but one fashionable woman such as she fancied Sarah might be, told hlra of Agnes Rem ington, and Uncle Joseph, listening with parted lips and hushed breath, would whlnper aoftly, "Yes, that's Sarah, beau tiful Sarah j but tell me does ahe ever think of me, or of that time In the or chard when I wove the apple blossoms in her hair, where the diamonds are now? She loved me then; she told me so. poes sho know how sick, and sorry, and foolish I am? how the aching In my poor, aim pie brain is all for her, and bow you, Maddy, are doing for me what It is her place to do? Had I a voice," and the crazy man now grew excited, aa, raising himself In bed, he gesticulated wildly, had I a voice to reach her, I'd cry shame on her, to let you do her work, let you wear out your young life and fresh, bright beauty all away for me, whom she rum ed." The voice he craved, or the echo of it. did reach her. for Jessie had been pre ent when the fancy first seised him to hear of Sarah, and in the shadowy twi light she told her mother all, dwelling most upon the touching sadness of his face when he said, "Does she know now sick and aorrv I am?" The pillow which Agnes pressed that night waa wet with tears, while in her heart was planted a germ of gratitude and respect for the young girl doing her work for her. All that she could do for Maddy without going directly to her, she did, devising many articles of comfort, sending her fruit and flowers, the last new book, or whatever else she thought mlrht please ber, and always finding a wlllinc mesaenzer In Uuy. lie was mis erable, and managed when at home to make others so around him. The sight of Maddv benrlnir her burden so uncomplain in.lv almiMt maddened him. Had she fitted or comnlalned he could bear It better, he said, but he did not see the necessity for her to lose all her spirit or Interest In everything and everybody. He mothered his Impatience, and determin ing to heln her all he could, rode down to nonedale every day, insieaa oi iwiai a week, as he had done before. Attentions so marked could not iau to be commented upon, and while poor, nnausnectins- Maddy was deriving so much comfort from his daily vlsita, aeeming that dav verv lone which did not Dring him to her. the Honedale gossips, of whom ,i,.r. tzror manv. were busy wltn ner affalra. talkina them over at their numer ous tea-drinklngs, discussing them In the streets, and finally at a quilting, where they met in solemn conclave, deciding that, "for a girl like aiaaay iyae h aia not look so well to have so much to do with that young Remington, who, every body knew, waa engaged to somebody in England." The wife ot Farmer ureen, Mauay s warmest friend in Honedale, did her best to defend her against the attacks of those whose remarks she well knew were caused more by envy than any personal dislike to Maddy, who used to be so mucn ot a pet until her superior advantages separated her In a measure from them. Good Mrs. Green was sorely tried. Without In the said re the frla-hteiied Flora, who came Uncle Joseph's call, and helped ber young- mistress up to bed. "She would be better In the morning, and ahe would rather be alone." So Flora left her there, but went often to her door, until assured by the low breathing sound that Maddy waa sleep ing at last. I can't see him, Flora," Maddy said. whea the latter came ud with the mes sage tbat Mr. Remington wae there with his buggy, and asked if a little ride would not do her rood. "I can't see him, but give him this," and she placed in Flora's band the note, baptized with eo many teare and prayers, and the contents of which made Guy furious not at her, but t the neighbors, the Inquisitive, envious. meddlesome neighbors, who had dared to talk of him, or to breathe a suspicious word against Maddy Clyde. He would . - . ... . i . . ree ; ne would make them sorry lor u , they ahould take back every word; and they should beg Maddy's forgiveness for be pain they had caused. All thla, and much more, Guy thought, as with Maddy'a note In his hand, he walked up and down the sitting room, rag ng like a young lion, and threatening vengnance upon everybody. He must see her; he would see ner; and so for the next half-hour Flora was the bearer of written messazes to and from Maddy e room ; messages of earnest entreaty on the one hand, and of firm denial on the other. At last Maddy wrote : "If you care for me In the least, or rot my respect, leave me, and do not come again , until I send for you. I am not insensible to your kindness. I feel It all; but the world la nearer right than you suppose. It does not look well for you to come here ao much, and I preier that yon ahould not. Justice to Lucy re quire, that you stay away." That ended It That roused up Uuy . pride, and writing back : 'You .hall be obeyed. Good-by," ne sprang into his baggy, and Maddy, listen ing, with head and heart throbbing alike, heard him aa be drove furiously away. Those were long, dreary days which followed, and but for her grandfather'. Increasing feebleness Maddy would almost have died. Anxiety for him, however, kept her from dwelling too much upon herself, but the excitement and tne care wore upon her Badly, robbing her eye of It. luster and ber cheek of it. remaining bloom, making even Mrs. Noah cry when she came one day with Jessie to see how they were getting on. Maddy was glad to see her, and tor a time cried softly on her bosom, wnne Mra. Noah', tears kept company with her.. Not a word was .aid of Guy, ex cept when Jessie told her he wa. in Bos ton, and It wa. stupid at home without him. W1A more than her ordinary discretion. Flora kept to herself what had passed when Guy was last there, so Mrs. Noah knew nothing except what he nad toia her, and what ahe read In Maddy's white, suffering face. This last was enough to excite all her pity, and she treated the young girl with the most motherly kind ness, staying all night, and herself tak ing care of grandpa, who waa now too ill to sit up. There seemed to be no disease preying upon him, nothing save old age, and the loss of one who for more than forty years had shared all his joy and sorrow. He could not live without her, and one night, three weeks after Guy', dismissal, he said to Maddy, a. she waa about to leave him : "Sit with me, darling, for a little while. If you are not too tired. Your grand mother seems near me to-night, and so doe. Alice, your mother. Maybe I'll be with them before another day. I hope I may if God is willing, and there's much I would -say to you." (To be continued.) AFRICA BUSHMEN DOOMED. HISTORY OT? THE POTATO. the clamor had subsided, "none of you he preaent at lea remain at the cottage, least blam ng Maddy, U. . ' ..m t.AA. ti,. vinrin... mta. troubled at the frequency of Guys visits baa guessed right. When I had paid the 20 cent, to Ozy Bogg. for my re- freahlnj drive in the coach I had, be idea my trunk check (which I retain ed for financial reason.), exactly 4 aota. I have come back, my friends, to etay. Any little Job. of .awing and putting will be gratefully received." Woman'. Home Companion. Changed Ilia Htad. ' "Wen, what are you doing there?" jcaked the lady, addressing a tramp who jfcad Just climbed a tree in time to ea eatpa a aavage bulldog, j Madam,' replied the hobo, "it waa any intention to ask for a hand-out, but in the Interest of humanity I now re quest that you give any surplus food jrou may have on hnnd to my canine friend down there." ' A aaan aummoued at Guilford, England, far non-payment of taxes gave his occa yatlea a. "making of antique furniture." FIT THE GROCER Wife Made the .uaseatloa. A grocer ha. excellent oportunltv to know the effect, of .pedal food, on , kl. customers. A Cleveland grocer Iimv a long Hat of customer that have been helped in health by leaving off colTf and using Poet urn Food Coffee, i He aaya, regarding hi. own ext'rl ence: "Two year, ago I had been drink ing coffee and must My that I whs al most wrecked in my nerves. 1 "Particularly in the morning 1 was no Irritable and upset tbat I could hardly wait until the coffee was served, mi l I had no apietlte for brenkfnM and did not feel like attending to my atore dutlea. , "One day my wife suggested that In anrach a. I wa. selling ao much ; Postum there must be some merit in It .and suggested tbat wa try it. I took i home package and .be prepared It according to directions. The result wns . vary nappy one. My nervousin-t isTraduslly disappeared and to-day I am all right. I would advise everyone Affected la any way with tiervouHiii'mt or atomacb troubles, to leave off eu.tee nd use Postuin Food Coffee." "There's a Reason." Read "The Uond to Well Tille," in iikga. Ever read the above letter? A stew ono appears from time to time. Thay are jtcno'ne, true, and full of aman latcrest. fully. She had become so much accus tomed to being cared for by Guy tbat ahe ' almost looked upon it as a matter of ' course, and did not think of what others , (night possibly say, but when, In as dell 1 cat. a manner a. possible, Guy suggested , furnishing the cottage in better style, even ' proposing to modernise it entirely in the ! spring, Maddy objected at once. They were already Indebted to him for more than they could ever pay, ahe said, and ahe would not suffer it. So Guy submit ted, though it grated upon his sense of the beautiful and refined terribly, to see Maddy amid so humble surroundings. Twice a week, and sometimes oftener, he rode down to Honedale, and Maddy felt that without these vIbIU life would hard ly have been endurable. During the vacation Jessie spent a part f the time with ber, but Agnes reso lutely resisted all Guy's entreaties that ahe would at least call once on Maddy, who had expressed a wish to see her, and who, on account of her grandfather's health, and the childishness with which Uncle Joseph clung to ber, could not well oome up to Alkeuslde. Agnes would n6t go down, neither would she give other reason for her obstinacy than the apiar- ently foolish one that aha did not with to see the crasy man. Still she did not ob Jeot to Jessie's going as often as she liked, and she sent by her many little delicacies from the larder at Aikenslde, some for to the cottage. Accordingly, next day sne started for the cottage, which Guy had Just left, and this, in her opinion, ac counted for the brignt color in Aiaouy s cheeks and the sparkle In her eye. Guy had been there, bringing and leaving a world of sunshine, but, alas I his chances for coming ever again as be had done were fearfully small, when, at the close of Mrs. Green's well-meant visit, Maddy lay on her bed, her white, frightened face burled in the pillows, and herself half wishing she had died before the last hour had come, with the terrible awakening It had brought; awakening to the fact that of all living beings, Guy Remington was the one she loved the best the one with out whose presence it seemed to her she could not live, but without wn!ch she now knew she must. What was life worth without Guy, and why had sh been thrown so much In his way; why permitted to love him as she knew she did, if she must lose him now? Maddy could not cry ; there was a tightness about her eyes, and a keen, cut ting pain about ber heart as she tried to pray for strength to do what was right Btn-ngth to cant Guy ltemtngton from her heart, where It was a sin for him to be ; and then she aski'd to be forgiven for the wrong she bad unwlttlugly done to Lucy Atherntone, who trusted her implicitly, and who, in her last letter, had said : "If I had not so much faith In Guy t ndpa, but moat for Uncle Joseph, who I should be jealous of one who has so many ITS prised highly everything coming from "the madam," and sent back to ber more than one strangely worded message which made the proud woman's eyas overflow when sure that no one could see her. Hut thla kind of intercourse came to an end at last. The vacation was ever, Jessie had gone back to school, and Maddy be gan in sober earnest the new life before ber. Those were dark, wearisome days to Maddy, and when the long, cold winter was gone from the New England hills, and the early buds of spring were coming op by the cottage door, the neighbor began to talk of the change which bad some over the young girl, once so full of life and health, but now eo languid and pale. 6U1I Maddy waa not unhappy, nor was ths discipline too severe, for by it she learned at last the great object of lite; Warned to take her troubles and cares to One who helped her bear them eo cheer fully that those who pitied her most never dreamed how heavy waa her burden, so I patiently sud sweetly she bore it. Occ.i ' eionally there came to ber letters from , the doctor, .but latterly tkey gave her Was pleasure than pain, for as sure as I she read one of his kind, friendly mes of sympathy and reiwemhraAce, the opportunities for stealing hi heart from me, but I trust you, Maddy Clyde. You would not do a thing to harm me, I am sure, and to lose Uuy now, after these years of cruel waiting, would kill me." Going to the table she opened ber port folio, the gift of Guy, and with her gold pen, aUo his gift, wrote to hlin what the ueighliors were saying, and that he must come there no more ; at least only once In a great while, because if he did, she could not see him. Then, when this was written, she went down to Uncle Joseph, who was calling for her, and sat by him a usual, singing to him the son he loved so well, and which this night pleased him especially, because the voice which sang them was so plaintive, so full ot woe. Would he never go to sleep, or the hand which held hers so firmly relax Its hold? Never, It seemed to Maddy, who sat and sang, while the night-bird on a distant tree, awakened by the low song, uttered a responsive note, and the hour crept on to midnight. Human nature could endure no more, and when the crasy man said to ber. "Now slug of Illm who died ou Calvary," Maddy's auswer was a gasping cry as she fell faluttug oa the pillow "It was only a nervous headache," ahe Ita Introduction Violently upvonn In Manr Pnrta of the World. The chronicle of one of '.he old Span ish travelers, published in 1533, .ays: The people of Peru eat a tuberous root which they call papas. J.ue Spaniards took this root to Spain, whom it was erown as tne truuie root." Tho Italians very quickly adopt ed It into their gardens and soon the Dutch were cultivating It with much the same zeal that they displayed for tulips. Of Its Introduction Into Eng land all that we are sure or is that in 1DS0 Sir Walter Raleigh was growing potatoes In his Irish garden. Thomas Harlot In his account of Virginia names potatoes among tho roots that were found growing there, saying that some of thein were as big as walnuts and others considerably larger. This Virginia potato seems to have been that wlilcb Is now known as tho Irish, whllo that grown In Teru is more likely to have been a sweet po tato. Another writer, describing the esculents of Virginia, says that the potato root la thick, fat and tuberous, not differing much in shape from the sweet potato, except that tho roots are not so groat or long, while soma of them are round aa a ball and other are oval, In the egg fashion. Early In the seventeenth century Ra- lelgh'a plantation of potatoes had been Repeated all over Ireland, but the farm ere of England, moved by stubborn prejudle and possibly in part by Jeal ousy, decided that they would have nothing to do with the tuber, it was aa late as the tiaie of Charles IL, cer tainly it waa after the Crouiwelllan ep isode, before tlie potato got auy fair hold In English soli. Gilbert White, writing In 17T8, says that potatoes had prevailed in his dis trict for about twenty years and that this had been brought about "only by means of premiums," but tht potatoes were then much esteemed by the poor er people, who would scarcely have ventured to taste them In the previous reign. The story of the introduction of the potato into Franco has been often told. The country people were so convinced of the poisonous nature of the tuber that they would not give It a trial. Ita friends were actually uiobbed for try ing to introduce a food that would poison the people. The story goes in two ways. One of these tells us that King Louis XVI. wore potato blossoms in his buttonhole and bad potatoes on his royal table until they became popu lar with the aristocratic classes. Cbfc cago Inter Ocean. bt. Hadolf l'o-h to Make a Stodr of a l)lnappnrlnu Hare. A letter received in Washington from Dr. Rudolf 1'och, the well known nu throirologiHt, siiys: I nin ubotit to start, under the aus pices of th IiKrlnl Academy or Hclencrs of Vle;inn, to uinke n study of tho Iiushnien. The rnoe is rapidly dying out, and the sole punH( of my expedition Is to add to our knowledge of this lx-oj) before they become ex tinct. The fact bus been recognized for Rome years that thU African rnt Is Ut'Ktliied to extinction. Tills is nil the more rcimirkalile because everywhere else the African races ore more than holding tlit'Ir own. Pestilence, war, nntl the evils that the whiles Introduce arc jiowei-less to obliterate them. Africa Is growing tn native population. But the Bushmen are now reduced to n handful, and every year they nro dwindling. Clreuiiislances are too hard for tliein, mnl It Is not believed they could le saved, even by n change in their condlt Ions. The Bushmen inhabit the great desert of South Africa. There is no running water, and yet among the sand wastes there nro depressions where the natives II nd water by dig ging, anil In places it conies so near the surface that vegetction nourishes and many nnlmnls find nurture In the desert. The Busliineti pre only a few Inches taller than the pygmies of Central Africa. They live In rock caves or In huts of sticks and grass. They sel dom wear more than a leather apron to protect their legs from thorns. They subsist on the scant vegeta tion, on roots, and on the animals they kill. Clubs, bows and arrows, and n few scars are their only weapons. They are primitive, but they do not buy their wives; they have been faith ful to those whites who have befrlendf cd them, nnd they paint and draw In an astonishing manner. Much has been written of the thousands of nnl nial paintings with which they adorn tho rocks and the wnlls of their caves, Why do they not abandon the desert to which they are confined? They could not If they would. They are hemmed around by pnstornl and ngrl cultural regions, all occupied by strong tribes, who kill them like vermin If they venture across the line. If they were free to leave the desert it Is doubtful if they would do so, for they are n hunting people, nnd such tribes hnve never voluntarily become n pastoral or nn agricultural commu nity. Whenever cattle have been given to the Bushmen they have killed them, for they will not herd them. Tho whites have been even more destructive of the Bushmen than their native enemies. Late In the eighteenth century the Dutch used to shoot these little people ns they would game. It Is recorded that in the ten years end ing in 17J5 the Dutch killed 2,480 Bush men. They hnve always shrunk from con tact with clvllfzatlon, nnd to-dny, when they see white protectorates planted nil oround them, they ore retreating fnrther Into the desert. The whites are invading the more fertile valleys, nre staking out ranches and building little settlements, are killing oft the game that Is the hereditary food of the desert nomads, plowing the places where the Bushmen go fur berries and edible roots, and nnrrowlng tho area In which they can live. They seem wholly unable to live un der new conditions, nnd the old con ditions nre passing away. All who know them best say that their abso lute extermination is n question ot only a few years. Washington Tost. Old Favorites & The C'rnrlBilon. When I survey the wondrous CroM On which tho Prince of (Jlory dy d, My richest gain I count but loss And pour cattempt on all my pride. Forbid Jjord. that I should bonst Sv la the Death of Christ my God ; AU ihe vain things which eharct me most I sacrifice thcai to HU Blood. t, from His Head, His Hand, III Feet, Sorrow and love flow minjjlod down ! I lid e'er Biich love nnd sorrow meet, Or thorns compose ro rich a crown? His dying crimson, lilie a robe Spreads o'er 1 1 in Body on the Tree; '11irn am I dead to nil the globe And all the globe is dead to inc. Were the whole renlm of nature mlnr, That werp a present fnr too small ; Love so Bmftr.ing, so divine Iiemnnds my soul, my life, my all. . HnoournKemcn t . It may not he our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer evs. The reaper's song among tho sheaves. Yet ours the grateful service whence ' Comes, day by day, the recompense; The hope, the trust, the purpose stayed. The fountain nnd the noonday shade. nd were this life the utmost span, The only end and aim o man, Better the toil of fields like these Than waking dream and doubtful ease. - But life, though falling like our grain, Like that revives and springs again ; And, early called, how blest are they Who wait, in heaven, their harvest day ! -John G. Whittier. THB GREATEST .WEDDDTO. Ore Twenty Thousand Persona Were Married tn One Ceremonr- The biggest wedding ever known to history was when Alexander the Great and over 10?noo of his soldiers took part In a wedding In tho court of Da- rlua, king of Tersla, after the latter's conquest by Alexander. Twenty thou sand two hundred nnd two persons were made husbands nnd wives In one ceremony. The facts nre these: After conquer ing King Darius, Alexander deter mined to wed Stntlro, daughter of tho conquered king, and issued a decreo that on that occasion K'.O of his chief officers should innrry KK) women from the noblest Persian nnd Medean fam ilies. He further stipulated that 10,000 of his Greek soldiers should tako to wife 10.000 Asiatic women. For this purpose a vast pavilion wns erected, the pillars being sixty feet high. Ono hundred gorgeous cham bers adjoined this fr the 100 noble bridegrooms, while for the 10,000 sol diers nn outer court v:is Inclosed. Out side of this tables were spread for tho multitude. Kneli pair had seats and ranged themselves In n seml-clrcle round tho royal throne. As It would have taken several weeks for the few priests to have married tlihi vnst number of couples had t'.ie ceremony been per formed In the ordinary way, Alexander Invented a simple way out of the dllll rulty. lie gave his hand to Stntlro r.nd kissed her, and all the remaining bridegrooms did the sir.ne to tho wom en beside them, and thus ended the ceremony that united the greatest number of people nt one time ever known. Then occurred a live days' festival. which for grandeur nnd magnificence never has since loen equaled. THE DUST IN THE AIR. Without It the Iloat ot the Snn Would Be Unbearable, Tho usefulness of dust is proclaimed by science despite all the housewives of all the ages. Dust Is part of the aiuchlnery that produces cloud nnd rain. It Is also a protection from the sun. Without It the sun's ynys would be un bearable. The reason that sunburn Is moro easily acquired on the mountains tlan in the lowlands Is said to be prob ably because of tho comparatively dustless air of the mountainous regions. A dustless atmosphere during rain would mean a much greater degree of discomfort than rain ever brings. Trees and buildings would be dripping with moisture, our clothing and the exposed pnrts of our bodies would be constantly wet, umbrellas would be classed as useless curios, and instead of trying to conquer the dust In the house we slwiuld have to face a much greater enemy in wet floors nnd drip ping walls. In every drop of rain and In every particle of cloud there Is n particle of dust. A sample of air may be taken anywhere and the number of Its dust particles accurately determin ed. Dust, too, produces the glorious sunset effects In the evening sky, thus causing the faint obscurity we call twilight. Twilight Is always reflected glory. The light comes from the sun, which has In the meanwhile sunk below the horizon. Th reflector Is an upper layer of dust. Were tho air perfectly dustless there would be no twilight. Parkness would Immediately follow the unset. A Question of Nerve. "Does It require much nerve to ask a woman to marry you?" inquired the inquisitive youth. 'Not half ns much as asking for u raise in salary," was the prompt reply -Detroit Free Press. HE IS A GOOD SAMARITAN. Look After the I'DdeKfrvln. Poor . Says No One Else Will. There is a rich man in a Southern tlty who makes the undeserving poor his peculiar care, says the Independ nis methods In dealing with what he calls a fresh sinner are unique and he regards them as scientific from the heavenly point of. view. He insists upon a full catalogue of the victim's transgressions. He claims that this Is done on the rtieory that a physician first adminis ters an emetic In case of poisoning. Then if the patient Is an utterly lost and abandoned woman, he frequently tnkes her home with him, where she is qunrtered In the guest chamber and treated by the family ns the welcome guest whose presence there is in no way remarkable. For our scientist claims that it Is the loss of the sacred home conscious ness in such women which casts them so far down, nnd his purpose is to re store the same by his own fireside, which is particularly attractive, In that he has a wife and many young children. Nothing Is said to the for lorn one to remind her of her shame; she is simply left to get well, as the scientist expresses it. And It is astonishing how many of them do get well. J nis boast is that he has married his girls happily nil over the country, for ho is an enthusi astic believer In wedlock. Upon a re cent visit to a distant city he remark ed to the editor: "I married one of my girls off In this town; couple doing well; moving in the best society. Good ns the rest, too, now. But It's a secret; If society- knew it would abolish her." He wink ed in conclusion, at the expense of so ciety. He cannot make a speech, but he It an eloquent aplutterer; and nlthough bis manner to ministers is wittily def erential, he has been known to ruin a preacher's meeting nnd make tho vlc tlm. of his burning incoherence look (Ike rows of paper dolls blown before e breath of a living disciple. H Legal Information Shell poUshuig la an extensive and profitable bnsluesa on the const of Southern California, where are found many shells which are capable of a high degroe &f polish, and show won derful iridescent shade after their rough outside covering has been rub bed off on aa aawry wheaL What Hurt. "I hate to call on n girl," said Tom, "who can't do anything but Indulge in small talk." "Yes," replied the wise Pick, "espe cially If what she has to say Is a very short 'no.' "Philadelphia Press. "I hone," says a man of 20. "that things will le better to-morrow." I boite," he says when he Is past 40, "that they won't be any worse." When a woman drive, a horse ah la always whipping him with the Unaa. . Aa Anchor to Windward. The solemn-faced man who drove the Stage between Willowby nnd Green field nerer lost an opportunity to dis play his knowledge to a new pass enger, nor had he ever been known to suppress his opinion on any subject, no matter what it might be. "They tell me you're the man that wrote the Story that's running in one o the big magazines. I forget which tls, he said one day to a cheery passenger who had been endeavoring to ask a few questions himself. "I believe I am," admitted the gen tleman, "I've never turned my hand fb writ ing," said the stage-driver, flicking his horses in meditative mood. "No, sir, I've been too much took up with other things, but I read everything, most. I was having a little tnlk with Bill Sear, about you yesterday. We'd both been reading your last book before this new one. Now, do you rely en Hrelv nn what vou write for a liv ing?" "Not entirely," said the author, wltn due humility. "That's what I thought when 1 fin ished the Nxik," and die stage-driver looked kindly nt the man of letters "I'm real glad for ye that you've otlinr menus." be said, benevoluutly. " J't 'em well Invested, 1 expect, too. I told Bill Sears that was most likely the "ase. A Domestic IlreaUdown. A well-known lord discovered a thief In his Iondon house. Aided by the butler, ho secured the mau and theu rang the bell. A servant appeared, whom the peer requested to "go Into the kitchen and bring up a Mlleeinan 3r two." The domestic returned nnd said there" were no iiolloeineu on tho premises. "What!" exclaimed his mas ter In Incredulous tones. "Do you mean to tell mo that with a cook, two scullery maids, a kitchen maid and throe housemaids In my employ there Is no policeman In ihe kltcheu? It 1 Indeed a miracle, and our prisoner ahull reao tho Is'lielit. Turner, let the man go Instantly '." London Standard. Some women ura like a good horse; It Is an luisult to tie them The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit In Illllhouse v. United States, lo'J Federal Reporter, 103, holds that automobiles come with in the classification of "household ef fects," under the tariff act of July 24, 1807. This decision is largely based on the cose of Arthur v. Morgan, 112 TJ. S. 405, 5 Supremo Court Keiorter, 241, 23 Lawyers' Edition, S'J.", wherein the United States Supreme Court held that cnrrlages were properly classified os "household effects." If the conductor of a street car. while engaged In the prosecution and within the scope of his business In col lecting fares, fails and refuses to give a passenger correct change, and upon request therefor draws n pistol and fires at the passenger, but the ball misses the passenger and strikes a woman passing on the public street through which the car is running, caus ing her death, the street car company Is liable, according to the decision of the Georgia Supreme Court In Savan nah Electric Company v. Wheeler, 53 Southeastern Beporter, 3S. A person may be guilty of smuggling even before he has passed the custom lines on the docks of an incoming 8teflmer, according to the decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York In Uni ted States v. 21S1i Carets Loose Emer alds, 153 Federal Beporter, 043. When the proper customs officer examines an Incoming passenger's haggnge, and ques tions him whether he has nny personal property which ho has not declared, Btich passenger Is obliged to state the truth, and when the examination Is finished, nnd tho passenger still has precious Btones In his possession with out having admitted It, the act of smuggling Is complete. A number of southeastern rnllroads gave notice of an Increase of rates on lumber In 1903. Before the rate be came effective, a bill was filed In the United States Circuit Court to 7estroIn the establishment of the new rate as being unreasonable. A temporary In junction was granted, but later dis solved, on the condition, that the rea sonableness of the rate should be passed upon by the Interstate Commerce Com mission. The -commission found the rates to be unreasonable. A supple mental bill was then filed to obtain restitution of the excess of rates charged in accordance with a prior stip ulation that, if complainants prevail, a dt.cree of restitution might be made. A decreo was so rendered and affirmed by the Circuit Court of ApiKals.' Upon appeal to the Supreme. Court It wa. agnln n tunned. Hallway Co. v. Tift, 27 Supremo Court Beporter, 700, 200 U. a 12.8. A Happy Solution. There had been a long-standing dlt ference of opinion in the Plunkett fam ily concerning the dining table. Mrs. Plunkett maintained that Its legs were too shortt and ought to be lengthened at Jeast half an Inch. "It doesn't Ht nr chairs, Jared. and you Know 11. sne conunueu. v uen we sit down to this table we're too high nlmve It. You could have piece. of wood glued on the ends of the legs. Thnt would tw easier than to saw off the tids of all the chair legs." 'I don't iigvi" with your proposition at nil. Cordelia, saia air. nuukett. 'I think the tuble is Just right. But I'm willing to compromise the matter. You have been wanting a hardwood floor In this dining room for a long time, haven't you?" Yes." Well, we can have that new kind of hardwood Hooting that is laid on top of the old floor. That will raise tln entire su!"nee three-eighths of aa Inch or more, and that will raise th. table, of cmi f. Just so much. How will that do?" This seemed to be a fair proposition, and without a moment', hesitation Mrs Plunkett accepted It as a satis factory compromise. There should be some title placed U-foru n man', nnmu to show that ha i.i married. His face never tells wheth er he U or i:ot. A wiimnu Is labeled witn -in." vwiy suoiua not a be? '