DEAR HEART. Dear heart, where hast thou wandered What happier regions stay Thy lingering feet, whose coming changed My winter Into May? Now all our slopes are burgeoned In summer's lavish mood, And deep within the grove the thrush Has belled the solitude. The laurels set the hillside With mnny a spectral light; Seen through the dusk, they stnnd like nymphs. Expectancy In flight. Rut somewhere thou dost linger. Implacable, afar. Though high within the twilight slty Gleams cold our trysting-star. The brooks we loved still murmur. Though now through dells of gloom; The very hills have lost with thee Their moiety of bloom. Still, each leaf whispers of thee; In every path once trod By thy dear foet, thy spirit yet Hpeaka from remembered sod. —L. Frank Tooker, In the July Century. Mined Appreciative Glance*. “I know our men stare shockingly/’ ■aid a Baltimore girl, “but jou have no Idea how one misses those glances ! that one can at least make oneself be lieve are of admlratlou, when one goes to another city. “I spent some time In Boston this j spring, as you know, and after the first day or two 1 didn't take a bit of in terest In wearing the pretty clothes I ; had prepared for my trip on the street. Before I became sophisticated I dress ed with great care when 1 started out sightseeing. “I arranged my hair carefully, and took pains that my veil should be a becoming one, that my gloves should be Immaculate, and my entire cos tume smart," quotes the Baltimore News. "Then I’d saunter forth, con scious of looking my best, but if you'll believe me not a single man would cast more than a cursory glance In my direction. The majority wouldn't look at me at all any more than If I were an old apple woman ambling by. "The hallmarks of the female Boa tonese, generally speaking, are spec tacles, a reticule, and cotton gloves, and so, perhaps, the tnascaline portion of the inhabitants has given up ex pecting to see anything good-looking on their streets. At all events, as 1 said before, when 1 was looking my very nicest nobody paid a bit of at tention to me. "It was the same way !n several other northern cities. 1 tell you I was glad to get back to Baltimore, where any special efTort in the toilet line is rewarded with sundry admiring glances from the sterner sex. “Not impertinent staring, this, mind you; it's Just a calm, appreciative, kindly look that the Baltimore man gives hts fellow townswoman when he feels that she's a credit to the city and to tho country at iargp, and it’s really an Incentive to make any girl do her prettiest in the matter of dress ing neatly and smartly." .fotlim! Applos. Peel and core lirm, tart apples. Put them over the fire in just enough wa ter to cover them, sprinkling them generously with white sugar. Cook slowly at the back of the fire until tho apples are tender. Take them out with a split spoon. Bring the liquid left from them to a boll and add to it a tablespoonful of gelatine which has been soaked for half an hour In a very little cold water. When this Is dissolved pour all over the apples, which should have been arranged in a bowl. Let thpm become ice cold be fore serving them. Eat with cream. TAILOR-MADE GOWN. Black cheviot, dusted with white threads, trimmed by shaped and stitched strappings of black taffeta. Cluny lace revers. Jacket caught by crocheted bands and buttons. Black felt hat with puffed ribbons In laveu der and loops in light blue, and mot tled light blue wing. I.»ok Out for the (tunned Hon**. About this time when people are flocking home from the country look out for typhoid fever, diphtheria and the protean forms of "malaria.” These troubles will be developed after peo ple have returned to their city homes. ! Many will say they were acquired In : the country. As a matter of fact, they arc far more likely to originate In the | city house, which has been shut up I for weeks or months, with dust and ! darkness in the rooms and with sewer gas pouring in through traps from which the water seal long ago evapo rated. Innumerable cases of illness would be prevented by taking the j reasonable precaution of setting the water to flowing, ventilating all the i rooms, and using some simple disin rec,ants before the liou.se is reoccu pied.- New York Tribune. BRIDAL GOWN OF Wril I t WATERED SILK. * BY OSMOSIS. Sugar In Solution Eully l’annoi Through Amniul Meiubrttiimi. Sugar ia a substance that dissolves easily and in considerable quantity in water. When in solution it easily pass es through an animal membrane by osmosis, and so the question of its absorption seemed simple enough. The disease diabetes showed, however, that sugar might exist very plentifully in the blood, and yet the nutrition of an Individual suffer very much for the lack of It. Something else besides its mere presence In the system was nec essary to secure its consumption by the tissues. Bernard thought that the liver was active in the consumption of sugar, and that disease of this organ caused diabetes. He therefore secured some of the blood going to the liver of a living animal, and some of the blood that was Just leaving it. To his surprise the blood leaving the liver contained more sugar than that enter ing it. After assuring himself that his observations were correct, he tried his experiments in different ways. He found that even in the blood leaving the liver of an animal that had been fed only on substances containing no sugar, sugar could be demonstrat ed. Even in a fasting animal the liver itself and the blood leaving it showed the presence of a form of sugar. The only possible conclusion from tills was that the liver was capable of manu facturing this form of sugar out of non-sugar-containing material, or even from the blood of a fasting ani mal. This was the first time In physi ology that the ldt*a of an internal se cretion was advanced. Glands within the body that gave off a secretion always possessed a duct by which the secretion was conducted to where it was to produce its effect. The idea that glands exist which poured their secretion directly into the blood stream had not occurred.—Catholic World. ZOLA AND FATHER. Hlanden Published About the Patter Must lie Net at Kest. A new grief >as come Into the tur bulent life of Emile Zola, the distin guished French novelist, and It has almost prostrated him. Hitherto he has only suffered for himself; now the memory of his dead father has been attacked, and he is almost frantic. His partisanship for Dreyfus In his battle for honor against the machinations of the army officials has brought this sorrow upon Zola. It seems that years ago his father, who was a skilled en gineer, emigrated to Austria and as sisted in the construction of the first railroad built in Europe. Having com pleted this work, he entered the French army, served in the Algerian division and retired in 1833 as a civil engineer to Marseilles. The original plans for an extension of the Mar seilles harbor were prepared by him Others were chosen, however, to see the work done, and, disappointed, Francois Zola went to Aix, where the triumph of his labors was to be his lot. The municipal authorities trusted him with the building of the great canal which yet bears his name. In 1847 he died suddenly. Now the ene mies of his son are declaring that death was d»'« to suicide in the effort to escape punishment for defrauding the municipality of Aix in the matter of the harbor contract. To vindldate his father’s name Emile Zola now avers he will devote his entire life. He ! recognizes the difficulties in his way— i the enmity of the military power— but declares that he will never rest un- I til all suspicion of misfeasance shall be blotted from the name of a father whom he dearly loved. tirowth of ftolf. Six years ago there were only five clubs In the t'nited State.? Golf Asso ciation. Now there are twenty-five associate and 22". allied clubs on the roll. There are now In existence about twenty state or other branch leagues subordinate to the United States Golf Association, and that in many instances a golf club Ls content to remuin only a member oif its local organization Is shown by the record in Newman's Official Golf Guide for 1900, which gives a list of ne-irly 900 regularly organised clubs. New York heads the list, with 153. The same au thority estimates that there are at least 200,000 golfers In the Foiled States. Ki>Xll%h women In I’alUUa. There is a far tnor-* widespread In terest In politics among the women of Kugiand than among their sisters on this side of the Atlantic. The smart set in Istudon all take an active part in affair* There Is a Tory woman * : > lull in the Knglish i ipital known as the Primrose I'mna, and a mor. seri ous body, the Women a Uknal Feder ation. make* its iutiuriiee felt in ton I stltut uclrs. Then th«re are large nmnhcra of who do not register under any banner, but they can be counted upon | to forward stu h political ijmidioua g* I appeal to them I «u! t n«t«r S Ire. That man si te u*et* in any thing * ht boti shown train by the nu» "fdiuarv «■*»»•# of i oo.'nesa under lire at the front In the H >uth Afrtenu war M l.«l«u« t ague a u< k a private in »h j deadly Seine of gre I are s n In re #ni • ; .... IB 4 V- ‘ » I I • it |» ' . i f |., • 1 ttl Irene* It* •' elniol stettlit ate | Hmtteaf to the towlan4*. ?> I et n three I lie It.it Ufa I !a e of «Mr. for I hep at evp«#»4 It. l«ta d>«fc|». rlv*r dmel* ai t ah-twen. >f V •' IHl »*Imw H ben lb# t * le-e **f ih* .la*u**- *'itp# I m***id i i# are aw lUeniy wv ’* I k| tnhaa « h> tl, overwhelming Ittwl* beer ag immense masses of Ice and fragments of rock, sweep down the river beds. JTct with all their disadvantages the in habitants of tiio narrow lowlands of Iceland enjoy universal education, and among tbem more books and newspa pers are published per head of the pop ulation than In any other country. WEED EXTERMINATOR. Here is an implement that will be the means of destroying many an ob stinate weed that persists in appear ing year after year on the lawn, sim ply because the root ha3 not been plucked up. There are numerous weeds that cannot bo killed by cutting oft the tops close to the ground, and the only way to exterminate them Is to dig j the root out. This is often not only a ' difficult task, but I3 liable to mar tho appearance of a lawn by tearing the sod. With the intention of pro viding an Implement which will take up the root with the least possible In jury to the grass George F. Marchant has designed this Implement, which has simplicity of construction and cheapness to recommend it. In oper ation the normally open prongs are forced down Into the earth around the roots and the lever located underneath the handle Is lifted by the hand. This raises a rod inside the tubular stand ard and forces a conical wedge to spread the upper ends of the pivoted prongs apart, thus gripping the lower ends of the prongs on the root and allowing It to be lifted out entire. A King of KwU Ijast winter there was discovered at Chateaudun In Franco an example of the rare phenomenon known In popu lar phrase as ‘‘the king of rats." It consisted of seven living rats inextrica bly bound together by the Interlacing of their tails. A photograph of the singular group, together with a des cription, was sent to a scientific jour nal in Paris. The name king of rats is based upon the tradition that the king of the world of rats and mice is accus tomed occasionally to enthrone him self, adorned with a golden crown, upon a group of rata with tails entwined. Several instances of this curious phe nomenon are recorded in books on nat ural history. It Is said that the king of rats Is formed only in the winter, when the animals crowd together to keep warm, and the rodent friends of the unfortunate prisoners are credited with feeding them out of benevolence. Amerlran-ChUleri Iron Fort*. Prof. R. H. Thurston of Cornell uni versity call* attention to the fact that since the Spanish war, the manufac ture of chilled Iron turrets for coast defense has been established in this country, lie regards the "chilling" of the surface of cast Iron so as to give it a hardness exceeding that of tool steel as "one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the time.” The chilling of cast Iron for car wheels has long been practiced almost exclu sively In thl3 country, but although it is at bottom an American Invention, the use of the process for making tur rets for eoast defense has hitherto been developed only In Europe. Prof. Thurston remarks that American Iron is the finest in the world for this pur pose. fiMxl of fli» Mitlujn. The Cambridge exploring expedition to the Malay p* ninsuln, whose mem ber* have recently returned to England, found some strange articles of d'et among the native* who were visited. Among these articles, of whlcn two members of the expedition partook, were red ants, toads, bee grub* and a species of ctcadi. 1 he latter are caught in a peculiar manner A bright fir* i>etug made at night the natives loou-m ble around It, one of their number bolding a light* d torch, while the oth ers clap their hands at regular Inter vals. The Inse t.«. attra< ted by the * lights and the noise, settle upon the person* standing about the fire and i ar» then captured MsIWmk ptglwg til UwNiillhl. h’rs a> k meteorologist* engaged In the exploration of the upper air by ' means of captive krllwi** have f**un I that, owlag to the rife-t of the sun’s keai on lit# I-»Moons. the U*-*| results are attained at t» iht, ami their m at i <*m easeful »vpefiiu »t* have been per formed by noHiitrkl The kstho.o j carry r-lf rendering lh«rn»o*n>trre ; end toromot*rs and attain sswMum 1 ■ < ’ * (MM* test the ntgV *t dt (M r. ■ I ,| hy the laMfumenia la nearly a.a* an I on* third mites I.ona Library Oonnor. ^ Secretary Long and bis nephews, tha White brothers, are to give to the town of Buckfleld, Me., a free library in memory of the secretary's father, Zadoc Long. The plans of a Port'and architect have already been accepted. Tha I.ant Unk S«v*ra«l. The home of the Bradley-Mart Ins In New York, 18 to 22 West Twentieth street and 23 West Nineteenth street, has passed Into the bands of a real estate firm and this marks the last step In the expatriation or the family. PICTURESQUE IN POLITICS. ■pactacutar Demonstration* In Frulilfn* tlal Campaign* The first time that there were any demonstrations of a spectacular order In a presidential campaign was In 1810, when miniature log cabins were drawn on wagons In the Whig processions, escorted by companies of men In coon ikln caps, and some In the garb of In dians, all of which were suggested by tho early life of the candidate. William Henry Harrison, Companies of rucn dressed as pioneers appeared in the Fremont processions in the campaign of 1856, and “prairie schooners” were a feature of these demonstrations, illus trating phases in the life of the Path finder of tho Rockies and the Sierra Ncvadaa, In 1860 the Republicans had companies of rail-splitters, to repre *ent Lincoln in one of his activities aa a young man on tho frontier. The most picturesque and distinctive feature of the Republican parades In that year, ^ however, were the “Wideawakes.” This > order originated in Hartford, Conn., and was not suggested by Lincoln’s own candidacy, for one of tho Hartford “Wideawake” clubs was formed before Lincoln was nominated and escorted him to one of the halls In that city, where he made a speech, on his visit to the east in February, I860. At that time Seward’s nomination wua be lieved, in the eastern states, to be ines timable. The "Wideawake" Idea quick ly spread all over tho north after the nomination of Lincoln and Hamlin In May of that year, and it is estimated that there were more than 200,000 "Wideawakes" in the free states in that canvass. In the canvass In 1880 clubs of lloys in Blue were formed to commemorate Garfield's service in the union army, and in one procession in New York, which was reviewed by General Grant, over 50,000 participants of this order appeared. It was tho largest procession on either side seen anywhere in the United States in the canvass of 1880. All these campaign clubs, except the "Wideawakes” and / the Boys in Blue, originated in the west. and. with the exception of these two orders, by far the largest of tho processions took place In the west.— Leslie's Weekly. WU’S LAUNDRYMAN. Mistaken by Green Iteporter for yf tlon Attache. An interesting story is told apropos of a reporter's zeal to obtain news from the Chinese legation in Wash ington, D. C., regarding affairs In Pe kin. He was an enterprising young fellow sent by his editor to take tho plare of the regular Washington co. respondent, who was away on his va cation, and he had spent the whole morning in the viiinity of the lega tion endeavoring to pick up some thing, not knowing that the most di rect way would have been to see Min ister Wu himself, who is invariably kind about granting interviews. Ho was about to abandon his project when an intelligent looking and well dressed Chinaman came down the steps of the legation and responded so p.easantly to his greet’ng that he bombarded him with a whole list of questions, to which tho polite Celestial repeatedly answered: "Dun know, dun know." Finally quite desperate at his inability to make something out of what ho looked upon as a rare chance, a walk with one of the legation’s secretaries, he asked, appealingly: “Well, surely you know something of tho dowager empress; what do you think of her?" "Me no thlnkee," responded the China man, "me washee," and with this parting announcement he disappeared into a laundry near by, of which he turned out to be the proprietor.—San Francisco Argonaut. NoIm from Ih* I'arl* ICi|«M|tl«n. "The Singer Manufacturing Com pany, of 149 Broadway, New York, show their usual American enterprise by having a very creditable exh bit, located in Group XIII, Class 79. at the Paris International exposition, wh. ro i they show to great advantage tho »• |«*. • braird Singer Sewing-Machine wh|. h Is used in every country on the globe, both for family use and for manufac turing purposes. The writer was high ly pleased with ibis display and ob served with much Mtlsfaetion that It was favorably commented ti|«»n by visitors generally. The Grand Prise was awarded by | the International Jury to Singer Sew ing Machines for superior etcell u •* j In design, construction, eUlol. my and for remaikntde development and a lap lion to every stitching price** ,.,.,4 in either Iks family or tbs factory. Only On* Oraad pn*a for •. wing j Machine# w** awarded at Part* and thi* ‘Bella, tlon of absolutely sup rior m«rtl mnllriu* ike prevents action of Ik* international Jury at th» W.>r|i‘* Columbian Kipoailk,* |a Chi**., wto r* s i.Ret n< h ... * re, |,„.| * disiin. 1 award* being m.u> than » re rmeivad by ail Other kind* of *«*iM Mac bine* mm blued Should || k* p. win* that **y „j i owr readers «r* uuf*., ,r *, • eUixaiod itinv-f y,. * • || , respectfully *d< l»e |i|*t Ik-, , . 1 nnr *# Ike dinar sal .rouiae , 1 *** b« f‘M-a.1 1* all . . 1 _ .. . . *"*'* •■»<• Mc«4 town* I* Ik* i uii* 1 S‘*ua '* w