when"HILLS ARE CREEN.
Iwtt w-ewtt Ms laftStheMith,
Tfcf itmo knolls. «rsn, soon «1»" birth
To hJa«-«rnd vkilou, and rh»
IkMM charms with «U the sky ;
For b<*auty Iraovs no otan or clbao
•
"Winn lillia m
• Wish springtime sympathy we hear,
All far sad nose sad taint and dear.
Sweet, woodland music, set adoat
Bt many a Joyous thatharsd throat—
The richest phase of vocal rhyme,
«
Whan hills arc green,
The southern brasses, dancing, pass
With sun-tipped feet along tho grass,
And Uw the clover blossoms out
TUI spicy scents lost ail about
Where’er tho wind may choose to Mow,
When hills arc green.
When hills arc green.
Each rising curve to ret with gems
That sparkle on their Mender stems,
Tor snowy petals—gold and blue,
la colt green cradles hud anew.
And bloom where’er the south winds go,
When hills are green.
When htito are green.
Our life is not ee yesterday.
The world seems one long holiday.
We sing with everything that sings,
And feel the lark’s ecstatic wings
Give impulse to our quickening test,
When kilis are green.
When bills are green,
The round white cloud* like foot-hills rise
To distant mountains in the skies,
And fahr life angels come and go
Along Ota lofty paths of snow,
And bear to earth spring treasures sweet,
When hills an green.
—Mildred MeNeal. hi Youth’s Companion.
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Arruy wives generally have'unmar
ried si store. These sisters always
come oat to visit them, sad the rest
goes by itself.
Mrs. Lomiard had aa unmarried
•inter. She was very attractive. She
was Jar more attractive that Mrs. Lor
rflard ever could have been. The
girl's name was Spanoer—May Spen
ser. She wae 18 yean old, if you
took her word for it; and she was
bloude and pink and white and plump.
She came from Home place in Ohio,and
she minted the Lonilards at Stanton—
which is in New Mexico, 100 miles
from the railroad, actons Dead Man’s
valley (there in always a Dead Man’s
valley) and some steep hills and a lava
bed a mile wide. If you have never
seen a lava bed, you cannot appreciate
that. Yon might try to imagine the
ocean lashed into mry by a simoon,
then fancy its great waves and. billows
and swells changed suddenly to dark
gray-brown stone at the height of the
storm, and yon may form a vague idea
of what the lava bed between Fort
Stanton and the railroad is .like.
It frightened Miss Bpenoer badly.
The ambulance went-slippiug and slid
ing and coasting and thumping and
bounding over the one pawmble part,
in away that only aa ambulance con
ducted by a driver who has spent his
life on Arizona and. Mew Mexico
roads could possibly stand. Tt put all
the laws of centripetal foroe and equi
librium at naught. It and the four
mules were lavs unto themselves.
Mies Spencer wae not accustomed to
that sort of thing. She stood it as
long as aha could, and then she told
Major Beebe —in whose charge she
ws« traveling—that she meaat to get
eat end walk. Sba had bothered the
major a good deal already, and he was
getting tired, so he did not say any
thing, but simply told the driver to
“slow up” and let Miss Spencer get
out by herself.
She fell behind after a moment, and
the ambulance went relentlessly on,
creaking, flapping its canvas, clanking
its chains, its brake screeching shrilly.
Ami as it disappeared, sometimes lost
to sight in a great hollow, sometimes
toiling up e smooth face of lave, Miss
Bpenoer felt herself abandoned,indeed,
in a New Mexico desert, nnder that
terrible midsummer son. The heat
was Aery, scorching, parching. The
sky was like hot btaeglass. Hhe won
dered why, when the lava was hot
enoagh to burn her feet through the
soke of her shoes, it did not malt or
grow soft. She kept on walking be
cause she was afraid to stop. Twice
. she slipped and fell and cut her hands.
Under the porons, piled-up rock, rab
bits and owls and qnail were bidden;
there were simkes, too, and lizards.
At Ant she was frightened when they
scurried by her, but soon, with her
heed tfnging end her eyes dazed with
congested blood, and her mouth open
and as dry is flour, she did not even
Bhe reached the end of the hugs
rock riter at last sad found the ambu
lance waiting. Tha driver wae asleep,
•ad the major was drinking watefr. He
offered her some, sad when she had
drank it she held ant her broad little
fool. ,
“My shoes are all cut to pieces, and
they were new and awfully heavy.”
'Ton should have kept stilf,"lie
answered. ...
worry.
For the flret fortnight of hsr visit
•be was not pretty. Bhe was sun
burned from her passage ot the lava
tea. Her face was rad and ewollcn,
then blotchy and lastly pealy. After
that she returned to the normal pink j
and white. Bhe was the only girl at |
the post, and there wan a bachelor, a
brevet-bachelor, a young contract sur
geon, and Major Roche’s son. The
bachelor officer was studious the
kind that have much faith and think
that the great fathers in Washington
will reward lieutenants who pass high
exams, and ha vs ideas on Indians. Ha
had no time for young women. He
paid his one call and retired. The
brevet-bachelor is peculiar tu the ser
vice. His wife is back East, visiting
her family. He differs from the real
article only in that he is ineligible.
He was devoted to Miss Spencer, but
he did not count. There was also the
contract surgeon. Os oourse he was
only a contract surgeon. Still,he was
tall and blonds and had a beguiling
drawL He fell in love with Miss
Spencer.
But the exciting pert of the story
hinges on Major Boehe'e son. Ho
was 30, and he was no use on earth.
He was just a boy and nsver would be
anything more. He had failed in
everything he had ever undertaken. He
couldn’t even dance, and he was
afraid of a three-foot aoequia when
he rode. He depended on his papa
for everything, and he thought he
knew women through and through.
Probably Providence sent Miss Spen
cer to snow him that he didn’t—but
the ways of Providence are inscruta
ble, and I can’t he sure.
Well, the contract surgeon fell in
love with Mis* Spencer,but,like Viola,
he never told his love. Now, as the
bachelor was hidden. Miss Spencer
couldn’t have Lilian in love with him,
and no one could have fallen in love
with Teddy Boobs, so she reciprocated
the contract surgeon’s passion.
His name was Randolph -Custis
Randolph, to match hie nice blue eyes
and his charming drawl. His court
ship wss of the eternally-on-hand sort.
The life of a garrison offers even
greater advantages far this than that
of a southern town. He wss with
Miss Spencer from guard-mounting
until long after taps. But Miss Spen
cer pined to see more of him.
“Mr. Randolph, I believe you’re
lazy.”
“Oh! now—Mias May—why? That
isn’t kind.” He gazed at the flag on.
the flagstaff tenderly and dwelt musi
cally on each ward. ,
“Because.”
“It is the privilege of a lady to give
that reason.” His eyes sought the
tennis court in tender, bine abstract
edness.
“Well, I know you are.”
“Won’t you have pity on me and tell
me why?”
“Because you nsver are up until
almost guard-mount.”
“Oh, dash I yes I am. Igo over to
ths hospital at sick-call,you know.”
“Why don’t I ever see you, then?”
“Perhaps you haven’t risen your
self.”
'Tm always up at reveille.”
“NoI Goodness; why on earth do
yon do that?”
“I believe yon go over to the hospi
tal the book way and aren’t half
awake and don’t even have a oollar
on. ”
"Mow, Mias May—how unkind.**
“Isn’t it true?”
“I always have my collar on.” He
told a future truth. After this he
would wear a collar.
“I hate lazy people."
“Ohl Miss May—how unkind.
You don’t hate me, I hope.” His
eyes were on the pink ribbon that
fluttered from her belt; he took hold
of it sad wnnnd it around his Unger,
getting gradually nearer to her.
“I do, if you are laay."
“How can 1 prove to you that I am
not.”
“That’s easy enough.”
“Do tell me how?"
“Just faro vc it”
“By rising early and letting yon see
me?”
“Well—yes.”
“I shall do so tomorrow.”
“But I always go for a ride before
breakfast”
“May I not join you?” *•
“If yon like. I don’t care.” Which
is feminine for caring very mueh in
deed.
Mo Dr. Randolph rode with Miss Speu
cer the next morning,and liebraakfsstsd
at the Lorrilard’s, and he sat on ths
Lorrilard’s porch to watch guard
mounting, and then he played’ tennis
with Miss Spencer, and when it was
too hot to do that any longer, they sat
together on the porch again, shaded
by the crowsfoot and morning-glory
vines snd'reod aloud by turns. They
parted for luncheon, but immediately
afterward they met again in the Lor
rilard’s sitting , room to practice the
mandolin and guitar. Randolph dined
with the LorriWds, and then he and
Mias Bpenoer walked upend down
the line until taps, and after tape they
set on the porch once more and talked
in undertones.
Occasionally the Boohs boy made a
third, aad though he Wes far from
welcome, he never guessed it,
Mew it may seam incredible, bat it
la true, that though this went oa with
out a punas for ten solid months,Ban
llolph still modestly donhtsd if he
were loved and dared not voice his
passion. Mrs. Lorrilard began to
think that the had done quite all that
tha family could expect of her,and she
grew hopeless aad weary, moreover,
of boarding free twp hungry young
people. She told Miss Spencer as
gently aa possible that sha might go
the uext time the ambulance went over
to Carthago, which was the railroad
station. Miss Bpenoer told Randolph
she was going—and wept. -• And Ran
dolph consoled her from afar, ana aot
nally thought she was weeping at leav
ing her little nephew and niooe and
hsr sister. There are men like that.
The ambulance went a week later
to carry Major Boche and Teddy
Boche to the railroad. Teddy was of
fered a position at Tooson and was
going to take it; the major had gov
ernment business at Carthage. The
Carthage road is a branch; it joins the
main line of the A. T. and 8. F. at a
station called Ban Antontai The
major would chaperon the young
woman to Carthage; thence she would
go to the main line and East and
Teddy to the main line and West.
Only Teddy and May compromised.
They both went to Socorro, which is
on the main line, a very tittle north
east of San Antonia
The oontraot doctor and Miss Spen
cer bad a harrowing parting. The
latter lost her temper over his pro
crastination and burst into team. It
nearly broke hie heart and entirely si
lenced his tongue.
After she was gone, hopelessly gone,
he determined to reveal the secret of
his heart by letter. But he pat off
doing it. Instead, he swung in his
hammock all day and thought of her
blue eyes and pretty face and guile
lees smile and regretted his erstwhile
constant companion. The ambulance
would return, empty of Its lovely load,
in five days. He knew that. He would
write when it returned.
So, on the afternoon of tha fifth
day, he sat, still swinging in the ham
mock and smoking a pipe, the ashes
whereof besprinkled his coat, when
the four mules and the ambulance rat
tled into the poet. They stopped at
the major’s quarters in a cloud of dust,
and two men and a woman alighted.
There was no doubt about who the
woman was. In his delight Randolph
lost his head. He strode down the
broad walk to the Booties’.
Miss Bpenoer wss still standing by
the ambulance, hunting—with the
driver’s help—for something under
one of the seats. The major and Teddy
had gone indoors.
“Why, Miss May!" said Randolph,
and this time there was no drawl—
how delightful! What brings you
back?”
“Ohl my husband. Teddy and I
got married in Socorro and joined the
dear old major again in Carthage the
someday.”
“How delightful,” Randolph re
peated, weakly.
“Well, Teddy seems to think so, but
the dear, sweet old major didn’t. Any
way, you know, he was so horrid
about my shoes on the bad-lands that
day.” Bhe smiled demurely.
And that was all anyone ever knew
about it.—The Argonaut
A Fuelsotlsa Monster.
The seedless orange is a monstrosity.
It is delicious of oourse. It is sweet,
succulent and of tenderest texture, a
delight to tiie palate and a refresh
ment to the thirsty soul. In eliminat
ing the seeds it diminished ths chances
of appendicitis. But it is none the
less a perversion, a betrayal of nature
herself, a defiance of all the laws of
natural selection.
In the economy of nature fruit ex
ists for the sake of its seed, serving
either as a protecting capsule or as a
first food supply to the seed when
sprouting. But the navel orange has
no need. It has therefore no purpose
of existence, no reason in nature to
being. Bury ten million naval oranges
aad not a single orange tree will
sprout up. It has no power to propa
gate its kind. It is a monstrous per
version, dependent to its very exist
ence upon man’s direct and continuous
interference with nature’s designs.
But how superbly good it is to eat,
aad how its ludous existence refleets
the genius of man, who by thus baffl
ing nature compels her to famish a
a fruit more delirious than any that
she oculcl produce by her own devices!
-New York World.
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r Xsommm's tt toast Hawker*.
In Moroooo the street hawker rec
ommends his wares by pledging the
credit of s saint: “In the name of onr
Lord Mohammed Al Hadji! Popcorn I
Popcorn t” .“In the pame of Bidna Ali
bu-KhaJa I Melons ! Nice, sweet mel
ons !” “God is gracious I Cool water 1”
These and the like are heard at every
turn. Even the auctioneer who is
celling out the pries of a slave girl, or
the bids for a carpet, is careful to in
terlard his professional talk with allu
sions to hit Maker, and the pietherio
roll of Moorish saints.
Oall*
“Mr. Bigaby, pa want# to borrow
your new lawn mower.”
“Whv, we haven’t need it ourselves
yet”
“Yea, sir ; ha says- he wants to eat
our grass before you get tha machine
out of order.’’—Chicago BeoortL
t .
“How do you stand on this lira
«■**, <*«!■»-
“Sorry, old man, bat I can’t spare
you a cent today.”*—Detroit Free
m m m
I
VEWS
boms hhw IDEAS.
Bright colors are quite aa charming
in the new materials, included in or
gandies, lawns, linens and ginghams,
as they are in silks and brocades, for
the color blending and weaving are
most skillfully dona In organdies a
new coloring is introduced which imi
tates the feint tints of old broeades.
Flounced and ruffled skirts which ware
ths fashion a few yearn ago have again
come in aa something novel. This
style of skirt is particularly becoming
to tall figure#. Tucks not only in the
waists, but also in the skirt, are an
other mode which has returned.
Frenoh flouncing (sometimes oalled
Spanish) is a simple way of making a
summer dreas; another way quite
aa pretty is that in which tha skirt has
half a dozen small raffles arranged
around the bottom in large scallops or
points. There are so many ways ot
fashioning a dainty froek that one
cannot go far astray if any idea issue
esiefally earned out. A obaraing do
sign for a dainty waist for a thin, cos
tume is carried out by covering a
foundation of silk with the material
of the gown, and making a fiohu effect
by crossing the full fronts and allow
ing the ends to be oovered by a wide
bud of ribbon at the waist—New
York Times.
eOMBIHISO ABOUT MBA XASSBX.
Oi Dr. Nansen’s wife not mueh in
formation has found its way into
print Bhe seems to have a vary im
perfectly developed taste for publici
ty, bnt what is known of her is inter
esting end indicates that she is an
uncommon woman, both in talents
and character. It is recorded by Dr.
Nansen’s biographers, Brogger and
Rolfcen, that his first meeting with
bis future wife was in the woods about
Frogner Sea tor, where one day ob
serving the soles of two feet sticking
up out of the snow, he approached
them with natural curiosity, in time
to see the head o! Eva Bars emerge
from a snow bank. Dr. Nansen was
married in 1889 after his return from
his snoeeeiful expedition across Green
land. When he started in the From
in 1893 hie wife, left at home at Ly-
Baker, near Christiana, with one ohild,
turned for occupation to the develop
ment and use of her gifts as n singer,
and with notable snooeas.
King Gacar of Sweden is one of her
admirers, and especially likes her
singing, which he has often heard,and
since she has been in England the
compliment has been paid her of ask
ing her to sing before the Queen. Bhe
is a stanch backer of her adventurous
husband, whose departure on his
perilous errand cost her anxieties and
misgivings, as to which she said
little at the time. Since her
husband's return she has some
times spoken in conversation
of her fears, and has said that careful
comparison of Dr. Nansen’s diary with
her reoord or remembrance of her own
sensations beam her ont in the belief
that the times when she waa the most
concerned about him ware the seasons
of his greatest peril. That implies a
telepathic communication horn of in
tense sympathy and solicitude, the pos
sibility ot which science seems no lon
ger disposed to deny.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
A smannt aim’s cow*.
The most novel organdie frock i* ac
cordion plaited. It is made of orenm
white organdie, Mattered with yellow
wild roses, and has for its foundation
a yellow aUk slip. The entire gown is
aoeordion plaited, and the little skirt
stands out with a graceful stiffness.
The baby waist fa made very full, and
is wont with a hand-tucked gnimpe.
Over the short, puffed sleeves floats
accordion plaited epeulete. which fell
like half-closed fans and endiaapoint
below the waist line. There are bows
on eaoh shoulder, and broad taffeta
ribbon ties about the waist fastening
at the left side with a bow and ends.
Aeoordion'plaiting is high in fashion
for frooks and hats, and even parasols
for small girls. When there are not
entire gowns of aoeordion plaiting,
there are aooordion plaited skirts,
whloh we worn with suk waists.
Another organdie down, quite as
pretty aa the one just described, is es
white organdH sprayed with tiny pink
rosebuds, and made over a pink silk
dip. It is trimmed in an unusually
pretty fashion. The gored skirt is
with throe rows of Ysleaoiennss
loot insertion, eaoh row finished with
n tiny ruffle of foot. This makes tho
trimmed skirt, which is wo mueh in
vogue this season. The same laoe
trimming dooomtw tho fall waist,
which is won tilth a yoke made of
groups of tiny tacks and fees inser
tion. Around tho waist a pink satin
ribbon is wound, and from the ribbon
hand ends in dtihaani lengths fall over
tho akirt. The effeot ot the ribbon
ends felling over tho skirl is excep
tionally pretty. Tha sleeves urS short,
titefoU puff tied uith ribbon, from
beneath which a frill of the organdie,
edged with laee, is seen. There an
also butterfly bows on the shoulders.
The pale tinted organdiaa are much
used for pretty frooks, aad many of'
them are made up over white silk.
Good effects ate also obtained by hav
ing the organdie made over a slip
which is a shade or two darker than
the organdie itealf, and than trimmed
with very narrow velvet ribbon.
aoaaat.
The widow of Garibaldi has been
granted a pension by ths Italian Gov
ernment.
The household of the Emperor of
Germany employs 500 houaemada.
The Kentucky Senate has voted to
allow woman to vote in elections for
school trustees.
Friooess Hand gives her husband an
hodr's lesson every morning in the
language.
Os the twelve bridesmaids who at
tended Queen Vietoria on the day of
her marriage, only three now survive.
It might be imagined that Mrs. M.
Young, of Woodborn, ont in Oregon,
had time to burn, since she has com
pleted a bedqnilt of 4870 pieces.
Miss Dulty, of New York Oity, is e
dealer in wild animals. Bhe supplies
menageries in all parte of the States
with lions, tigers, bean aad elephants.
Miss Grace Faixweather is the cham
pion woman billiard player of the
world. Bhs is a native of Newcastle,
England, and is not yet twenty-one
years of age.
A “titled lady” advertise# in the
London Times, offering, as a ohaper
one, to introduce American or colon
ial girls Into the very highest society
for adequate fees.
Lafly Oadogan has dispensed with a
mod deal of the state end show which
have been usual in the publio appear
ance of vioesoy’e wives In Ireland, and
walks about Dublin unattended.
Mrs. Barney Barnato, wife 'of the
South African millionaire, has some “
of the most superb diamonds that ever
daisied the eyes of London, and aha
wears nearly every gem she possesses
st one end the same time.
Frances B. Brant left her school in
Ohio twelve years ago and invested
the money she had earned m a teacher
ins Kansas farm. To-day she owns
8500 sores of good land. For six yasrs
she has bean a preacher, and for two
years the pastor of the Univsnsliet
Church, stHutohinson, Kan.
Lady Arran is managing n band
knitting industry in County Mayo,
Ireland. Although designed to give
work to such of her husband's tenants
as needed work, the venture has
proved profitable financially, 7000
pairs ot stockings having been knitted
lest year and SBOOO spent in wages.
Mrs Mery Bhreve Goodloe Ransom,
a rich Kentucky women, has rented a
store room in Louisville; whefee she
will open a soup house for the benefit
of the poor. Mrs. Ransom (had many
bets on the recent elections, both Na
tional and State, end was fortunate
enough to win ;them. This money, it
was annouaoed when the bets were
made; wee to be used for charitable
purposes.
nanm mm
Veils to be fashionable must be plain,
the simple length of soft Brussels net
being one of the most approved.
Skirts axe very fall at the back and
are gathered over oords and drawn
closely, so that the back shows a
pointed design of one cord above an
other.
Novelty hate are shown in braids of
every imaginable eolor. Bed Is ex
ceedingly popular, and when trimmed
with a profusion of soft black laee or
ehifibn» one of the most stylish of
the miUnsr’e exactions.'V
The deeline of the shoulder caps is
said to be assured. Hour true this may
be one can scarcely state authorita
tively, but from all appearsnoee this
form of garment is too useful, aad has
made too many friends to bo given up
very soon.
The snrpHos front Is gaining in
favor, aad whan carefully adjusted ii
becoming to almost all figures. Wot
stout lames it seems to redoes the
bulk; while fox slender ones it ean be
left slightly loose and is very pretty
aad greoefuL
■The rage for bookies ii running rioi
Taey era nsad on the belts Os dresses
and jackets, sad came of them ere elab
orate to gcxgeonanees. Tha conserve
tire young woman, however, does not
ran to extremes In this regard, o*, ln
deed, in any other.
801 l belts of aflk or velvet are used,’
aad to them some of the rich buckles
ore fastened. One of the novelties it
and one oa ettem ride. At UwJml
there is a large rosette bow of leethan