DREAM MEM0RIE5
I could not catch my dream. It was so fleet;
Only a fragment, yet enough to know
That there are times when earth and heaven meet;
Moments when all of heaven seems below,
0 golden sunsets of the vanished years.
O radiant flashes of the coming dawn.
Ye show us oft, through mists of blinding tears,
The light that beams a little further -on.
1 could not hold my dream: it was so large
It crowded all my present cares away.
My heart was like a heavy-laden barge
Freighted with bliss, with joys that might not stay;
I tried in vain to span, to catch, to clasp
That overflowing rapture of delight.
But visionlike, it Boated from my grasp
And left me in the darkness of the night.
I can not paint my dream; it was so bright.
So fraught with dazzling radiance to me,
It threw a glamor o'er my 'wildered sight
And left me blinded by my ecstasy.
My longing soul essayed in vain to soar
Beyond the shining path of sun and stars.
But all too soon she languished as before.
Panting and worn, behind her prison bars.
I can not tell my dream; It was so sweet;
And yet 'twas such as many hearts have known;
Woven with tender memories, replete
With words of love, dropped In the years agone.
A fond caress a dear, familiar tone;
A gentle whisper and a low reply;
It was but these; yet are not these alone
The all of love and life that never die?
Past Hidden Rocks.
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BY JULIA TRUITT BISHOP,
Author of "Deborrah of Lost Creek."
(Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
She was such a young bride that
pople laughed at the Idea of her be
ing married, and pitied her for not
having a longer time at play-day. But
she did not pity herself. She was as
merry as a lark about the little toy
house all day long, and she sang so
happily that the old wood-sawyer in
the back yard often stopped to listen.
Ho liked to hear it, although there
were times when he wiped his eyes
with the back of his hand. Long ago
his own daughter, who had sung just
o, had carried her song too far away
for him to hear.
"Don't you think I am a very digni
fied married woman. Uncle Eph?" she
a.sked him sometimes, perching on the
back steps with the kitten in her arms,
and watching him work.
"Oh, dignified tell ye can't rest," he
always exclaimed, and laughed with
much silent laughter. He useu to saw
wood out in the common in front of
his poor little cabin, but siie had asked
him to bring his work there because
he could be sheltered from the
weather, and because he was company
for her. She liked to have some one
tj speak to once in a while.
Sometimes she came running out
with a spoon or a saucer or a dish,
and with great delight- he was made
to stand still and taste this last thing
she had learned how to make. Some
times there was enough for a meal In
the dish, and if the old wood-sawyer
understood that it was meant that way
he did not say so; for nature had in
tended Uncle Eph for a gentleman.
And all the gentleman that was in
him loved the little girl who was play
ing at being a bride.
One day she came out and looked
away down the next cross street, where
she could still see ber husband, as he
walked toward town with the quick,
lert step she loved to see. Her hand
She came out with a dlsn.
was shsding her pretty eyes from the
'in, and he was almost out of sight
when she cried:
' Why, Frank has on his bine suit!
t didn't notice that before he left!"
She went Into the bouse again, but
came dancing out presently, a grey J
coat over her arm.
"Oh. but I hare a Joke on Frank
this tlsna!" she cried gaily. "I have
UmU this letter in bis pocket my
tetter to Brother Jos. Just wait till he
com Imhbm I will nuke hia think I
3t awfsZy angry, nasi that the let
Ur wan wry lanortaat, and after I
Ti rtsrt kta awhile 1 will laugh at
I I rt faa avst aati that Frank
r .t" to ha tor4 at, Uaeln
' "V ' i r f vfcrai a
are always like that and I think they
are amusing. Wait till you see what
a good actress I can be."
They both laughed together, and she
laid the coat carefully across her bed.
anu kept watch around that cross
street, running to the door every few
minutes to see if he were coming. He
was not due for three hours yet; but
he was really coming and was almost
there when Uncle Eph, who had en
tered into the play like a child, saw
him and called out to her:
"Yon'd he comes!" he shouted, and
then bent busily over his work. But
he watched out of the corner of his
eyes.
She was in the kitchen when he
called, but quick as a flash, she was
across the hall; and just as he opened
the door she threw herself down upon
the bed, with her face buried in hia
coat. He stood in the door, his face
white. She did not see that.
"Oh, Frank, Frank, how could you?"
she moaned, her form shaken with
sobs. "I have found that letter! How
could you oil, how could you treat
me so?"
He leaned back against the door and
something rose in his throat and
choked him. In a moment he sank
into a chair, and sat there drooping.
She pressed her face closer into the
folds of the coat, that he might not
see that she was shaking with laugh
ter.
"Millie!" he said presently. His Iip3
were dry. His head was on his hand,
and his eyes, suddenly bloodshot with
agony, had dropped to the floor.
"Mi file," be said again in that
strange, dry voice, "I didn't mean for
you to find It out I "Tushed home as
soon as I missed the letter. Of course
It will only tcrve to make you un
happy "
boe was not shaken with laughter
now. She lay very still. There was
a letter In one of her hands. He could
Just see the tiny corner of it, peeping
out from under the sunny brown hair.
"Of course I am sorry I ever -.got
mixed up with that woman," he
groaned. "I might have known I'd get
the worst of it. I don't know bow I
came to do it how do men get drawn
Into those things, I wonder? I sup
pose I'm just a plain fool, like the rest
of my kind and she was pretty, every
body must acknowledge that, and no
young and so lonely it was enough
to make a fool of a man. I'm sorry
I concealed it now. I ought to have
told you all about It In the beginning,
and then you wouldn't feel so bard
toward me. But we will at least not
dwell upon the affair. Come now
give me the letter and let me buy?
it, and that will be the end of It. O
awfully sorry to have made you un
happy but you mustn't take It too
seriously. I'm not the first man who
has made such mistakes."
She did not raise ber bead, but one
hand slipped out with tbe letter in it.
He took It and glanced at the address
as be was about to tear it up; and
turned whiter.
8be lay there so still that she might
bave been desd. Her face was turned
away from him. In all her look and
attitude iere was no bint of forgive
ness. After awhile he went out of the
room and out of the house, walking
like a man In a dream.
Uncle Eph stood on tiptoe, and peep
ed In at yie window. She lay still,
fact downward on tbe bed. In a few
minutes be went back and looked
again.
Then he knocked on tbe door and
crept Into the room, and touched her
with a trembling hand.
"DM ye act It out honey?" be asked
waverlagly; and aha rawed bar white
face aa4 sailed at him.
1 aetad It oat," ah said; and for
tkd acta at tha daaghtor who had alla
aai t at tela Kfa so kmc ago, ha
cUlaf ti J csta hand aad wkhv
pered to her over and over again not
to mind, not to mind.
It was Frank who brok In upon
them. He threw himself cown in a
chair miserably enough, and said in
deep dejection:
"I think I can get the money MiUie.
Don't fret about that. And I won't
let you do without anything you ought
to have, either. I can raise the money
somehow and if anyone has to suffer
it must be me, for I was fool enough
to be victimized by an adventuress"
Millie all at once sat up, and pushed
the hair out of her eyes. Was Frank
going mad?
"I wouldn't mind it if she hadn't
sent me that impertinent letter," he
went on, biting his mustache and quite
forgetting that Millie bad never seen
the letter in question. "It's bad
enough to buy a gold brick, but you
want the fellow that sold it to get
over Into the next state and keep
quiet."
"Frank!" cried Millie, rushing at
him and clasping his arm; "what is
the matter? What are you talking
about?"
He looked up at her in bewilder
ment "Why, didn't I tell you? how I went
on that Mrs. Brander's bond, when she
was accused of stealing the diamonds
at tbe hotel? and now she has slipped
out of the country, and writes that she
hopes I'll enjoy paying the money, as
it's for a lady, and"
Millie had suddenly clasped him
around the neck.
"Frank," she screamed, "Do you
mean all that talk was about losing
money just money?"
"Yes," replied Frank stupidly.
"What else?"
A moment later Uncle Eph's saw
was going at such a rate that people
could not believe it. and looked out
of their houses on all sides to see if
it were a steam saw which had sud
denly invaded the neighborhood. It
wcut at that rats until Fran na
gone back down town; which did not
occur until they had both at down on
the steps and read a letter with much
laughter, agreeing that it was a very
brieht letter, after all, and that she
certainly was a witty woman. When
Frank had actually gone, Uncle Eph
rested his saw on a stick of wood and
asked grimly:
"Do vou mean to say that all that
laughin" and dancin' an' carryin' on
was because ye'd lost money?
"That's just what it was. Uncle
Eph," said the little bride, with smiles
"I bave found that letter."
dimpling all around her mouth and
yet with a shining moisture in her
eyes. "We were glad we had lost
money."
"Jerus'lum!" said Uncle Eph.
THE CHINESE SOIREE.
How to Drink Tea la the Lind of tba
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When you call on a Chinaman who
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The right to drink the first sip of tea,
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Tbe sun's surface Is known to be
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