WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE.
i.
When mydrcams como true when my droning come true
Shall I lean from out my casement, In Uio starlight and tlio dew,
To listen smile and listen to the tinkle of tho strings
Of the sweet guitar my lover's lingers fondle, as he sings?
And as the nude moon slowly, slowly shoulders into view,
Shall 1 vanish from his vision when my dreams come true?
When my dreams como true shall the simple gown I wear
He changed to softest satin, and my innlden-brnlded hair
Be raveled Into llossy mists of rarest, fairest gold.
To he minted Into kisses, more than any heart can hold?
Or "the summer of my tresses" shall my lover liken to
"Tho fervor of his passion" when my dreams come true?
II.
When my dreams come true I shall hide among the sheaves
Of happy harvest meadows; and the grasses and the leaves
Shall lift, ami lean between mo and the splendor of tho sun,
TIH tho noon swoons Into twilight, and llie gleaners' work Is dona
Have that yot an arm shall hind me, even nslhe reapers do
Tho meanest sheaf of harvest when my dreams come true.
When my dreams come true! when my dreams come truel
True love In all simplicity Is fresh and pure as dew;
"Tho blossom In the blackest mold Is kindlier to the eye
' Thau any illy born of pride that looms against the sky;
And so It Is I know my heart will gladly woleomo you,
My lowliest of lovers, when my dreams come true.
1
I IS 111 IV II fill 1 iHl? I
OTp UK harbor of Uongkong was
looking Its loveliest on this mel-
low October afternoon as the big
P. and 0. steamer slowly glided from
;her moorings amidst the crowd of ship
ping that tilled the harbor, from the
smart British man-of-war and typical
Chinese Junk to the qualut native sam
pan, which scudded along under Its
queer little sail leaning over until It
looked In danger of capsizing altogeth
er. There wore not many passengers on
board the L'arramatta, for this was not
a time of tho year that many people
traveled from the east homeward. Hut
amidst the stir and bustle attendant
on the departure of a big mall steamer,
and the settling down of newly Joined
passengers, two people both passen
gers formed a tranquil contrast.
They were a man and a woman,
strangers to each other, but both were
leaning over tho rail, not many paees
apart, engaged In tho same occupation
that of contemplating the rapidly
receding shore. Tho setting sun was
gilding the peak with a golden glory
which extended to the whole of the
long and rugged range of hills that
comprise the island of Hongkong.
Presently the last of tho white build
ings, so thickly dotting tho sides and
top of the peak, disappeared. Then
the plague hospital and surrounding
cemetery, In Us lonely Isolation, slowly
vanished round a projecting hill, then
l!io last of tho shipping, and the Par
ramatta was going swiftly through the
deep blue water, full speed ahead for
Singapore.
Xow anil again a junk would creep
past, sailing lazily under its qualut
matting sail. The sky was gloriously
blue and flecked with Huffy white
cloud here and there, the nlr mlld and
warm.-
Major Walton, although his eyes
rested on the gold tipped hills they
Avere so swiftly passing, saw them not
at. all. His thoughts were all Inward,
too much occupied with a bitter past to
take much heed of the surroundings of
the present. It was the old, old story
his mind was dwelling on. That of a
woman's frailty and a man's villainy,
and alt. i. nigh the events which had
well riigb wrecked his life had all hap
pened more than a year ago now, they
-were brought but too freshly to his
mind by this journey home. "iTome!
And what a homecoming!" ho said to
himself bitterly.
Tho story was one perhaps only
too common. Ho and his wife, the lat
ter beautiful, spoiled, vain, had boon
staying In the south of France, and
had gone on to Monte Carlo for a week
or two. Here they had met Sir Lionel
IHppcsley, a handsome, shallow young
Englishman, who was doing his best,
wltjiout success, to ruin himself nt the
tnbles, although the money lie so freely
squandered was not his, but his young
.wife's, and, as rumor averred, ho had
married the pretty Scotch heiress only
for her fortune.
He was staying at Monte Carlo very
much en garcon. his wife helm? ni n.
home and unable to travel. He and
tho Waltons became acquainted, and
ho appeared much struck by Mrs. Wal
ton's beauty, while she was both pleas
ed and flattered by Ids admiration and
attentions, and her husband, glad thnt
she should bo amused, thought or sus
pected no wrong. Under Hlppesley's
guidance, Mrs. Walton became an ar
dent gambler, and a good many bank
notes fluttered away; but Walton was
n rich man, and could afford to In
dulge her every whim.
However, the wretched woman was
losing more than hor money, for her
hnrt which bed never been her hus
band's, his money being his greatest
attraction in her eyes was fast going
away from her keeping Into that of the
good-looking, empty headed young bar
onofc. Then had come the war In South
Africa, and Walton's regiment was
among the first ordered to tho front,
and he departed, leaving his wife more
or less her own mistress and with the
command of plenty of money.
During her husband's absence she
again met Sir Lionel Hlppesloy, this
time at home, and he more than ever
fired by her excessive beauty persuad
ed her a too willing victim to run
away with him to Paris. Prom there
she wrote to her husband and told him'
sho had never really cared for him,
and that now she loved only one man
on earth, and that man was Sir Lionel
Hlppesloy.
Tho blow almost stunned Walton in
the first great: shock, and although,
during the horrors and dangers of that
campaign, he had courted deatn often
and often, when his friends and com-
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rades were shot down at his side al
most, he seemed to possess a charmed
life. At last ho was wounded and
Invalided home, when ho speedily ob
tained his divorce. Hlppesley's wife
had already divorced her husband. Im
mediately after the trial Walton had
started on a voyage to Japan, and was
now, after a year spent In the east,
once moro returning to England. No
wonder he pondered somewhat bitterly
on his homecoming, with no home and
no wife. His love for her was as com
pletely dead as If It had never existed,
while nothing but a vague pity for her
remained. Hlppesloy and she were now
mnrrled, and Walton often wondered If
she would ever rue tho day she ran
away with him. He thought so, for
Hlppesloy was weak as water, and ut
terly selfish.
Tho last lingering sunray had disap
peared, and a sudden coldness nnd
grnynoss seemed to overspread every
thing. Tho wind was freshening up,
too, and the Parramatta Avas beginning
to riso and fall to a heavier sea.
With a short, Impatient sigh Walton
roused himself, and turned to go to
the smoking room. As he did so the
lady near him turned to go below at
the same moment, and they came faco
to faco. Such a beautiful, pathetic
face, out of which shone a pair of dark,
bluish gray eyes, Walton, as for an in
stant his eyes mot hers, felt a sudden
thrill of Interest, and he A'ondered Avho
she was.
He very soon found out, for on board
ship one speedily bocomes aAvaro of tho
identity whether true or false of
ono's folloAV passengers. Sho was a
Mrs. GrenvIIle, a w!doA, and had been
staying at Hongkong with friends.
and was now returning to England.
She wns chaperoned by an nunt, Lady
Grahame, a placid, white-haired, elder
ly lady, with n plaintive volco, who
becamo, In tho Intimacy of a long sea
voyage, very confidential with Walton,
for whoso bronzed face and kindly
gray eyes sho had conceived a strong
liking.
"I Avlsh Violet would make up her
mind to marry again," she said ono
tiny, when the Parramatta had left
Singapore far behind, and they were
steaming through the heat of tho In
dian Ocean, "but l fear she nover
will. Sho had a very unhappy married
life, short ns It was, and I am afraid
she will nover care to repeat tho ex
periment." Walton murmured something Inaudi
ble. Tho Idea somehow of Mrs. Gren
vIIle marrying any one became very
distasteful to him, unless and his
heart suddenly beat faster, and his
cheek flushed as he all at onco realized
that 'Violet GrenA'llle had beoomo very
dear to him.
They had spent intrreat deal of their
time together dur'lng these long, hot
days, and had paced the deck after
dinner In the cool darkness of those
tropical nights, and she had attracted
him more than any other Avoman hp
had ever met, for his wife had nover
nttracted him or appealed to the Intel
lectual side of his nature as Mrs.
Grenvllle did: and alas! he know now
that the feeling he had had for his
wife wns but a purely physical passion
born for her beauty. She could nover
have held his mind sho wns too shal
low, too vain.
After that conversation with Lady
Grahame, Walton's eyes Avere opened
to the true stnte of his feollngs for
Mrs. Grenvllle, but ns yet he gave her
no hint. First lie must tell her his
story, yet he nhrnnk from tho Idea of
laying bare the shameful past before
thnt pure soul.
The dnys glided swiftly nAvay, swift
e'on In their monotony. Aden, that
barren-looking spot, with Its cluster of
red-roofed dwellings, lying low on tho
shore all that can be seen from tho
steamer ns It lies at anchor had been
passed, tho Parramatta had steamed
through the Red Sea, nnd Avas rapidly
nenring Suez.
It wns a couple of evening's later;
Suez Avas left behind, and the Parra
matta had entered the canal. Several
passengers had remained on deck to
view the entrance, though to a good
many the sight AA'as no novelty. Among
the former Avero Walton and Mrs.
Grenvllle. Tho big searchlight affixed
to the steamer's 1)oavs threw a brilliant
glare ahead, and lighted up the dim,
sandy banks of tho desert, past Avhlch
they glided.
Walton nnd his companion leaned
side by side over the rail, and talked
in a fragmentary manner, but there
AA'as an intonation in his aoIcc, a ten
derness In his gray eyes that made her
heart, beat anil stirred her pulses
strangely. One little hand lay near
his, and suddenly his closed on It, and
he raised it to liif- Hps and kissed It
passionately.
"My darling," ho Avhlspored. "Vio
let, I lovo you. Will you bo my Avlfe?
Speak to me, darling; toll me I have
not hoped In vain."
Fpr a moment, as he put his nrm
round her and drew her to him, she
yielded to his embrace. Then she hur
riedly drew herself nAvny.
"Wait until to-morrow," sho mur
mured. "1 1 AvllI tell you then, If you
still care to hear."
"Care to hear!" ho cried passionate
ly. "Child, don't you guess how much
I love you 7"
But Avlth a sad little smile she
flitted from his side, and Avas lost in
the shadows of the dock.
The next day the Parramatta was
still In tho canal, gliding along Its sin
uous Avlndings. All through that long,
hot day or the earlier portions of It
1L almost seemed ns If Mrs. Grenvllle
wanted to avoid .Major Walton. She
remained In her cabin under the plea
of a headache, and It was hoav nearly
5 o'clock. To Walton In his lover's
Impatience that day had seemed end
less, with Its usual canal Incidents of
little Arab boys running along the
banks beside tho slowly moving steam
er, shouting for backsheesh; or the oc
casional uppearanco on tho banks of a
solitary Arab and his camel; or a
Avholo herd of camels gathered to
gether, crouching In the sand, giving
an old world, biblical aspect to tho
scenery.
But punctually at C o'clock, Mrs.
Grenvllle appeared on deck, looking
very lovely in her Avhlte dress, though
hor face AA'as pale and heavy shadoAvs
rested under the gray-blue eyes. Wal
ton, to whom her coining avss as a
glimpse of pnradise, hurried forward
to meet her, nnd ho carried her deck
chair to a secluded corner, shaded
from tho glaro of the afternoon sun,
which Avas now creeping to Its rest.
They wore moro or less qulto alone,
for most of tho passengers were- beloAV
enjoying slestns, and Walton droAV a
chair near to his companion's.
"Well, Violet, which Is it to be?" ho
Avhlspered. "You don't know Avhnt
tortures of Impatience nnd uncertainty
I have suffered since Inst night Is It
to be yes?" and he tried to read his
ansAver In her averted eyes.
She was deadly pale, and her slender
hands trembled as they lay in her lap.
"Walt," she murmured faintly. "I
I have something to tell you before I
glvo you my answer, something that
you ought to kuoAV. If after you still
enro, I will say yes."
"My darling," ho cried. "Violet,
only say you lovo mo n little, and I
don't enro for anything else."
A llttlo flush nnd a faint smtlo
brightened her face.
"Yes, I I do care for you," .she
Avhlspered. "More than I thought I
could ever enro for any one. I feel I
can trust you, lean on you. respect
you, and you do not know whnt all
that means to a Avoman who has suf
fered as 1 have, and has had every
Illusion stripped from her. Listen, nnd
I avIU tell, you my story. To begin
with: I am not a widow, as you
thought, nnd my name Is not Gren
vllle. It AA'as my mother's name, aild
I took it when I dropped my .own,
after after I was divorced. I divorced
my husband nearly Iavo years ago
noAV. Wo had only been mnrrled n
short time, nnd 1 Avas 111, when he
Avcnt nbrond and met there a mnrrled
woman who I suppose uttrncled him.
But to cut the story short lie he
finally ran aAvay with her to Paris,
fler her husband had been ordered
out to South Africa. She Avas a Mrs:
Walton, oddly enough, a namesake' of
yours."
Walton had turned livid. "Good
God!" he cried hoarsely. "My Avlfe!"
"Your Avlfe!" echoed his companion.
"Then then you " And she sank
back In her chair pale and trembling.
"Yes," ho answered thickly. "My
Avlfe. I Avas fhe husband of .that
wretched. Avoman."
"Then It AA'as not a mere coinci
dence, as I thought It Avas, your name
being tho samo? I never drenmed of
this, "sho murmured brokenly.
Walton rose nnd leaned over the
rail, turning his foverish brow to tho
desert, Avhcro a little breezo avus bloAV
lng from tho mountains. His mind
Avns In a whirl, only one thought being
uppermost!
"Then you nro really. " ho, began.
"Lndy Hlppesloy," sho replied bit
terly. There folloAved a long silence, only
broken by tho slow pulsing of the en
gines nnd tho ripple nnd eddy of tho
AA'nter caused by tho Bteamer's Avash.
Tavo pnlrs of blank, unseeing eyes
gnzed out over tho wldo desert, nnd
tho sim went doAvn In n sea of blood
behind the distant line of hills, Avhlle
In the pale, cold cast hovered the faint
crescent of the ucav moon.
At length tho man roused himself,
and fixing his eyes yearningly on the
pale faco before him, ho said, abruptly:
"Well, darling, and Avhy not? Is
thero any Just cnuso or impediment?
Why not?"
"Why not?" she Avhlspered dream
ily, letting her band fall in his. P. B.
Pattlsson In tho The Bystander.
THE PEKINESE TOY DOG.
Fashionable Women of LoikIdh Prefer
Chinese SnunielH for PctH,
The most fashionable dog in London
just now Is tlie Pekinese spaniel, says
a London cable to the New York Her
ald. This fact AA'as demonstrated at
the first members' bIioav of tlie Ladles'
Kennel Association, held at Westmin
ster recently.
Among all the tiny pet dogs Avhich
Avere seen there In sllk-llned pens the
Pekinese Avere. easily first In populari
ty. Additional Interest Avns centered
In them by reason of their being
Judged by a Mandarin, Wang Yun,
from the Chinese embassy, in his pic
turesque oriental silks.
It AA'as really a good sIioaa', and so
well A'as it innnnged that It gaA'o u
death bloAV to tlie libel that women
nro unable to govern.
Tho entries totaled upAvard of GOO,
but the actual number of dogs benched
fcM a little short of 400. They con
sisted mostly of toys, and It Avas one
of these .Tapanoso spnntels, named
Fugl of Kobe, belonging to Miss Mnrio
Lorena, to Avhich tho judges awarded
tho prize for tho best dog In the sIioaa'.
The honors for tho best of tho oppo
site sex Avent to a greyhound named
Joyous Girdle, OAvned by Miss Joan
Godfrey.
The exhibition was packed from the
opening to the close by a company
Avhich consisted mostly of well-dressed
AA'omon.
Among the exhibitors Avere the
Countess of Aberdeen, avIio won with
her drop-eared Skye terriers; the
Countess of Chesterfield, Lndy Decles,
successful with hor Pekinese; Lady
Ewnrr, Lady Eva neathcote, Lady
Kathleen Pllklngton, a'1ioso toy bulls
Avero to tho fore; Lady Clementine
Waring, avIio also AA'on Avlth her Pe
kinese; tho Hon. Mrs. Maclaren Mor
rison, AA'ho took nil tho prizes for both
the Lhnsa terriers and Samoyedes; the
Hon. Mrs. Bailie, of Dochfour, the
Hon. Mrs. Ha"ot, taking prizes for
griffons nnd bruxellols; Lady Moor and
tho non. Rose Hubbard, with Pom
eranians. Hamilton Nick, tho proper
ty of Mrs. Henry Morris, was the best
chOAveboAV In the sIioaa'. The dachs
hunds Avere headed by Mrs. Gerald
Spencer's Jenny Spinner nnd Mrs.
Beere's Rlenzl.
Thin Rending Comes Hluh.
In memory of King Humbert, Queen
Mnrgharlta of Italy has built n library
on tho top of Pic d'Ordon, In the Alps.
Tbo library occupies a higher site than
any other Institution of Its kind In the
world.
. "RnnaAVara" is believed by planter
experimenters of Colombo to hnvo a
promising future as a substitute for
tea.
By breeding aiid feeding his fowls
in n special wuy, a chemist In Wies
baden, Germany, has been able to so
Increase tho natural quantity of iron
in eggs that they are medicinal and
useful for the cure of various dis
eases. Analyses of 050 samples of coal
from forty-four French, Belgian, Gor
man and British mines have shown M.
Sallard that a good coal should, con
tain about tAventy per cent of volatile
matter nnd not more than six to eight
per cent of ash.
The flavor of hens' eggs Is declared
by an English medical man to bo very
materially affected by food. When
the hens act. as scavengers their eggs
are made unfit to ent, but a diet of
suntloAver seeds produces reninrknbly,
tine and sweet eggs.
The e.ontlng on tho scales 'of fish has
been studied by a recent Investigator.
Ho attributes the fish's nglllty of
movement nnd sustained llfo in Avntcr
to this substance, nufl has at last pro
duced a composition identical with It.
ThlH artificial coating is clnlmed to
be moisture proof nnd a preservative,
and Avhen npplled to ships' bottoms it
keeps them free from bnrnaclos, thus
tending to glvo Increased speed.
Prof. Flinders Petrlo, tho Egyptol
ogist, has made some Important dis
coveries In tho Slnnl peninsula. The
nnclent temple of Senblt el Khndcm,
five days camel Journey south of Suez,
ho found to be of a Semitic type, dif
ferent from nny other knoAvn Egyptlnn
temple, possessing two courts for nb
lutlon nnd u long series of subter
ranean chambers. Thcso had been
ndded by successlA'o kings from tho
eighteenth to tho lAVcntJetU dynnstlcs.
Will Jupnn's uoav Island that ap
peared recently, from tho depths of
the sea endure? Scientists hnvo been
asking this question. Graham island
popped up In much tho samo Avny In
the Mediterranean seaJn 1831 nnd wns
nt once decorated Avlth an English flag.
But the action of the Avaves demol
ished the Island In a short time. On
the other hand, the Island of Bogos
loff, In the Bering sen, appeared Avlth
equal suddenness In 171)5, nnd, to
gether with u second Island formed
In 1883, hns stood the test of time to
the present day. ,,. f
F. A. Lucas of the Brooklyn Insti
tute Museum, avIio has mnde a special
study of Avhales In NeAVfoundland,
says that the average length of n full
groAvn sulphur-bottom AVhale Is JiiBt
undor 80 feet. This estimate disre
gards the exa'eracd reports some;
times spread by sailors, and Is based'
on actual measurements of many Indi
vidual specimens. Thoro seem to bo
credible accounts of Avhales reaching
a length of from 85 to 05 feet, but Mr.
Lucas did not see any of that slzo.
Whales uppcar to groAV with great
rapidity, the length of "yearlings" bo
ing estimated at from 30 to 35 feet.
Studies made at the Western Mary
land College by Miss (E. M. Brace In
dicate that the chief function of tho
slender forked tongue Avhich darts la
so startling u manner from tho mouth
of n disturbed serpent may bo con
nected AS'lth n sense of feeling that
does not require the stimulus of actual
contact, but Avhich muy be a finer de
velopment of the sense that enables
some persons to nvold obstacles In tho
dark Avlthout touching them. This pe
cullnr sensitiveness is sometimes high
ly developed in the blind. The fork
ing of tho tip of tho snake's tongua
nnd tho numerous folds that Ho be
hind the forking evldontly servo great
ly to IncrcnBo the surface exposure of
the organ.
Diith on Thoir Gnard.
A plumber was sent to tlie house of
n wealthy broker to mnke repairs, says
tho Philadelphia Public Ledger. Ho
Avas taken by the butler into tho pan
try, and was beginning his Avork Avhen
the AA'oman of the house entered.
"James," she said to tho butler, Avlth
a suspicious look at tho plumber, "re
move tho silver from tho sideboard at
once nnd lock It up."
The plumber turned cnlmly to Ida
assistant and handed him his valu
ables. "Tom," ho said, "take my Avatch and
chain and these fOAV coppers homo to
my Avifo at once, nnd toll her to koetf
them safe for me."
Cruel Deception.
Mrs. JustAved Tho butcher deceived
me about this tough old chicken.
Mr. J. Didn't you examlno it?
Mrs. J. Yes, nnd I should hnvo folj
loAved my own Instincts. I looked hi
its mouth and told him It wns old-'
It had lost all Its teeth. But thnt hor
rid butcher said I was mistaken 11
was a spring chicken and hadn't ciW
its first ones yet. And I b-b-bellcved
him! Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Do not go too much Into details la
your conversation. If you touch only
the high places, you can get ovor niori
ground.