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if the shadows fell not.
If the shadows fell not Oh! where were tho
stars,
The gems of the sky and tho nighty
If tie shadows fell not, would the pale, gold
ea moon
; Flood the earth with its rich, mellow light?
Oh! whore were tho Bunsets unblazoned in
gloryr
Wrought vivid in nature, in song, and in
story
, If, the shadows fell not?
, If the shadows fell not Oh! where were the
tears,
The crystals of love and of woe?
They would vanish with smiles bom of sym
pathy sweet,
1 And its words whispered softly and low;
Oh! whore were the heroes, tho martyrs and
sages, ... .
The deeds of theaoble, the wisdom of ages,
' . If the shadows fell not?
Mary Emelyn McClure.
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; AS II OFTEN HAPPENS.
BY W. J. IiAMTTON.
-jjjjV WAS nineteen,
Tanner wan three
ir-l. II years my junior
oweei sixteen i is
there in all this
world anything
sweeter? There
may be other
Sweet Sixteens,
but the compara
tive degree of the
adjective in this
connection - has grown rusty from
long disuse and Sweet Sixteen remains
positive in kind and superlative in de
gree. And Lois Tanner was sixteen.
From .the first day of our meeting;
we were the children of wealthy
, parents and were summering by the
jBea some intangible influence, some
Inexplicable force seemed to draw us
to each other and to run the lines of
bur lives parallel. For two years we
had known each other, and one day
it was the third summer after our
..it.. . . . .
MiccviAig we oaii uu vue ruu&s uy me
shore and as the waves beat in rhyth
mio measures upon the silver sands
stretching out at our feet, I looked
into her sweet blue eyes and knew that
Laohesia as she drew two threads from
Clotho's spindle was twisting them
Into one cord, forever indivisible,
j In early youth, how far the eyes,
andimmed by years, can see into the
future, and how keen is young love to
decipher the handwriting on the wall.
'"Lois," I said as we sat there in the
fading twilight,' "do you know how
long we have known each other?."
. "Does it seem long, Mr. Belden?"
she replied with a coy little smile.
"It has been two entire years, Miss
Tanner," said 1, falling into her mock
formality of manner.
"And one learns a great deal in two
years," she added.
"In one' direction I have learned
nothing Lois," I said with a quietness,
I did not feel.
"Why, Jack," she exclaimed, "I
don't see how you could stand still."
"But I have," I insisted.
"How?" and her eyes looked her
guilelessness.
. -"Inlovinsr you. Lois." I broke forth.
"I couldn't love you any more in a
thousand years, than I loved you after
our first meeting."
"Oh, Jack," she cried nervously,
"what made you say that?".
"Why shouldn't I say it?" I an
swered with a dogged ( resolve not to
be put down by any woman's whim.
, "Because, JacK," she said very earn
estly, "papa has been saying all along
that yon and I were together too much,
iml ' 4-Via Aint tli4if t.ViA fmni'lv Irnov
there would be a case of puppy love
to cure." .
"Did your father say that?" I asked
with the anger showing in my faoe.
"He did, Jack, and he says"
. "Well, I don't wajt to hear what he
says, or has said or yill say," I inter
rupted. "If he says anything like
that he doesn't know what he is talk
ing about and hasn't the most remote
idea of what a man truly in love with
the one . woman in all the world for
him, feels." - .
"He ought to know something
about it," Lois( said . hesitatingly,
"You know, Jack,' he has been married
three times. " f
"That's just jt," I growled; "he's
prown callous. lie thinks because I
am not a hundred years old I don't
know my own heart aird am irrespon
sible into the argain. If it weren't
lor you, Lois,V I added, ameliorating
my wrath to a slight extent, "I
014 111
wouldn't have a man like he is for my
father-in-law . under any circum
stances." "Papa isn't so awfully bad, Jack,"
ihe said in extenuation of the paternal
weakness.
"I never thought he was, either, un
til you told me what you have," I ad
mitted. "But, Lois," and I grew
hard again, "you must know that no
father who regards the future happi
ness of his daughter can take the posi
tion he does and assume to dictate tnc
course of two lives which in the nature
of things must be independent of his."
"Papa says your papa Baid the same
thing and agreed with him thor
oughly,", she replied, arguing as
women do.
"Lois," I said in my firmest tone,
"don't speak to me of your father
again. If you do I shall be tempted to
do him some bodily injury."
The dear little woman laid her hand
on my arm restrainingly and smiled
with such irresistible sweetness that I
eveu forgot the wound my father had
given me.
"Let it go, dear," ho pleaded.
"They have forgotten they were ever
young. "
The shadows were growing into a
deeper purple and the waves took on
the mellower shades of the evening
sky. The night wind, just rising,
tossed Lois's golden hair about her
smooth, white forehead, and the pink
of the sunset brought a rosier glow to
her cheeks. I brushed my hand acroni
my eyes and looked into her face.
"Do vou remember what I said a
few moments ago?" I Asked, returning
to the previous subject.
"Whnt did you say?" she replied,
trembling a little, I thought, for she
.surely could not have forgotten so
noon.
"I said, darling" it was the first
time I had ever called her that, and il
almost frightened me "I said thai
there was one thing I had not learned
in the last two years, and that was to
love you better than I did when I first
met you. Do you thinkl should have
(earned ?"
"Perhaps, Jack," she blushed, "if
you had, you would have gone ahead
of me in the class. "
"Oh, Lois," I began to say, and
then began to stammer and grow red
in tho face. I could feel the blood fly
along my neck, and my hands shook
so I could not have put them out to
ber if she had asked me to. I had
never spoken of love to a woman, and
now my inexperience was painful to
me. I knew thrt the brave man could
win a triumph now, but I was not
brave. On the contrary, I was a cow
ard, an arrant coward, and in my fear
slipped down off the rock, where we
had been sitting, and walked out upon
the sand.
"Where are you going, Jack?" she
called to me. "I don't want to be left
here all alone. I'm sure Charlie Ver
der wouldn't treat me like that."
That was enough to set me wild.
Verder was the one fellow I dreaded,
and ho hadn't known her six months,
either. I went back to the rock and
stood at the foot of it, just near
enough to touch the hem of her gown
such a sweet, white gown, with a bit
of blue showing through it as the blue
sky peeps in and out from the fleecy
white clouds.
"Do you like him?" I asked, sul
lenly. "Not any more, I gnegH, than you
like Mattie Swann," she retorted, with
a perk of her nose and a shake of hei j
fluffy hair.
"Then you like him pretty well," I
said, in worse humor than ever, and
quite insistent upon nagging her all I
could.
"Perhaps I do," she snapped, "and
if I do, I'm sure he's a very nice fel
low." "Not any nicer fellow than Mattie
Swann is a girl," I put in as mean a. I
knew how.
"Well, I don't care," she said, as
she slipped off of the rock and touched
the sand as lightly as a thistle down.
"I'm going home, and when you get
me to come away off down here in thin
lonesome place again at this time oJ
day, or any other time, I think you'll
know it." : .
Then she started off along the beach
toward the row of cottage?. It was a
mile or more, and I thought would
keep within call, so I let her get some
distance ahead of me. I poked along
behind,, gazing out to sea and wonder
ing whoro all the beauty of the purple
shadows had gone, and why it was
the waves looked so cold and cruel
and clammy. They -were the same
shadows and the same waves, and
there I was, and but where was Lois?
Fifty yards up the shore and hurrying
along as if she'were afraid of twilight
ghosts or other strange inhabitant of
the crepuscular air. I looked over,
my shoulder nervously, and all
around, and shivered. What it was I
don't know, but on the instant, I
called to her and went after my call
as fast as I ever ran after a football.
"Lois, Lois," I kept on calling, but
she gave no heed. Her faoe was net
away from me and she was going with
it rapidly. But not so , fast that 1
could not catch her in the next fifty
yards or so.
"Oh, Mr. Beldon," she said in a
tone of pretty surprise as I came up
panting by her side, "how you
frightened me. I had no idea you
were on the beach this evening.
Think of that, and still her father
having the temerity to talk about
puppy love. If that wasn't full grown
mastiff sarcasm, I'd like to know what
it. was. But I was not to bo thwarted
by a woman's whim now, any more
tuan 1 was in tho beginning.
"Oh. Lois, Lois," I pleaded, thouyh
I puffed as I did so. "We aro not
children to let a trifle come between
us and our love. You know I love
you and I know I love you. It was
because I love you so that I grow wild
with jealous;- when you spoke of Ver
ier. I don't care a rap of my finger
for Mattio Swann, even if you do liko
Charlie Verder."
"Mr. Belden," she begau vey stiffly
"Call me Jack," I cried with ail my
feeling come again. "Call me Jack, ns
you have always called me."
"Perhaps I'd better," she said cold
ly. "You have acted so childishly
that Mr. seems scarcely au appropri
ate title.
"You shan't talk that way to me,
Lois Tanner," I exclaimed as I stepped
in front of her and blocked her path.
"I have done wrong and I apologize
humbly for it. Now as a lady you can
not do otherwise than accept it."
"I accept tho apology, and pray,
let that end tho matter."
"No, it shall not. I insist upon
your accepting tho apology and the
apologizer as well. I want you Lois,
and that's what I started to tell yon
down there on tho rocks. Answer mo
now with only the sea and the sky and
the sweet twilight us witnesses. "
I was about to take her hand and
more tenderly urge my claim to an
answer, when she gavo a slight Remain
and sprang to one side as if she ha.l
stepped on a mouse in the sand.
"Look there," she whispered, point
ing to a couple seated on an old spar
half in the sand, and which until then
was not visible. I looked and o;w
Verder and Miss Swann, very close to
gether and talking tarncsi l,y.
"Let thorn be witnesses also, if they
will, darling," I sa'd bravely, and
this time I took her hand in mine.
But it was too dark for them to see,
and when Lois and I walked by them
in the duskier shadows of the later
evening, sho. had promised to bo my
wife, and though the great sun of the
heavens had set over the world and
the earth was full of shadows, the
greater sun of love had risen in our
hearts and they were filled with tho
light inextinguishable.
That was a dozen years ago, and to
day Lois is the proud and happy
mother of three of the prettiest and
sweetest children in tho world except
four that I am the proud and happy
father of.
She is Mrs. Charles Verder and Mrs.
Belden was Miss Swann. Detroit
Free Press.
A Mountain Sinking Into the Earth.
Dashebel Naibo, the "Sinking
Mountain," an isolated Algerian peak,
now only about 800 feet ia height, is
known to be slowly but surely sinking
out of sight. In the time of the
Casars it was 1400 feet, or nearly twice
its present height. There are several
sections of Algerian soil where the
earth's crust y known to be very un
stable. Near the "Sinking Mountain
there is a large clear lake called
Fezzara, which is said to have rises
over a large city which sunk in thi
year 400 A. D. St. Louis Eepublic
Tnero are 13,000 medical students
in the United States, according to
latest estimates.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
BHOTJLD HOUSES BH SHOD?
This depends on the use they are
put to. If it is to work in the field on
soft ground, s'-oes are worse than use
less and an unnecessary expense. Bui
for work on hard, gravelly roads or on
stony ground, where the hoofs are
subjected to much wear, it is better to
put shoes- on the anim &L A shoe should
be flat, and fitted to the foot -vithodt
cutting down the heels, and wholly
without calks, which too often cause
lameness by throwing the foot out of
the natural level, and thus cause strain
on the joints. New York Times.
HOW TO BENT3W OUK LAWNS.
Sow the lawns with compost of ashes,
salt and phosphates, or for that matter
use any rotted compost you enn get.
Make uso of old plaster, lime, decayed
chips, muck. Then in the spring,
just as the grass is starting, put on a
drag and severely drag back and forth
both ways. Sow in clover and grass,
or whatever seed yon choose and drag
again. It looks as though you were
doing destructive work ; but you will
find that you havo torn out weeds,
loosened matted roots, broken up moss
spots, and left the soil loose for aera
tion. It is best to manure our lawns
that cannot bo plowed occasionally
with only old, well rotted manure,
with ashes and cotton-sced meal. Some
weeds cannot be eradicated by drag
ging. Wild carrots can be kept out
by pulling twice a year. Coal ashes
help immensely to keep the soil loose
and moist, and enable manures to
work beneficially. New York Inde
pendent. STRAWBERRIES.
Spring is tho best time to set out
strawberry plants, and the work should
be done as soon as the ground is in
good condition for working, which
will be when it is free from frost. The
sets should be runners from last year's
growth. The best time for planting
is late in the afternoon. This allows
them timo to recover before being ex
posed to the rays of tho sun.
In setting out the plants caro should
be taken to prevent their getting dry.
The roots should bo spread out much
like a fan, if possible, and the hole
Too man.
RIGHT.
should bo dug sufficiently deep to re
ceive them. Tho accompanying illus
tration shows the defective and prop
er methods of setting. After planting,
the soil should be pressed firmly
against the roots.
While strwberries will grow almost
anywhere, yet to obtain the highest
development proper care and fertil
izers must bo given. Among the lat
ter, potash is particularly accoptabjej
and the muriate is abont the cheapest
kind. If piven as much attention as
is required for snccesslul dairying or
stock-raising there is no secret in
the cultivation. One of tho main
thingB to remember is that even more
than most other fruits the strawberry
is chiefly water in a highly attractive
and palatable form, and there is much
more profit in it than in those crops
which reduce the fertility of the land.
New York World.
FiltH AND GARDEN NOTES.
It is slid that wood ashes, when
brought in direct contact with pota
toes, will cause 6cab.
For a lew rows in a garden the
planting of onions sets may be dona
carefully, but where they are grown
extensively the rows aro made shallow
and the sets scattered along the row
without regard to their position in the
row's.
Give more air to the hot-bed.
Plants that have made rapid growth
may be transplanted to cold frames,
to allow them more room, and make
them hardy and stocky. Water hot
bed plants carefully, so as not to
allow too much.
Look out for drouth. It often does
a great deal of harm and retards
strawberries and early crops at the
time when they need water the most.
A pump operated by wind or steam
will supply water enough to more than
lift
pay for itself in increase of growth at
this critioal period.
Greater in number than any other
class, yet the farmer is subject to law
makers who iguore his existence. He
labors hard from one year to another,
trusting to a power that controls the
price of his "labor and the product of
his toil."
Grow early truck this year. It will
bo a long time b-fore the spring mar
ket is as well supplied as tho fall. A
great many farmers grow crops fox
the late market, which makes competi
tion keen and prices low. Asparagus
and strawberries, that can be Bold in
spring and early summer, pay much
better than what is raised for the fall
and winter market.
To destroy bugs in seed peas put the
peon in water and the bugs and in
jured peas will rise to the surface.
Skim them off and destroy them.
Pour off the water and spread the peas
to dry. Peas that have been attacked
by weevil should not be used for sesd,
not only because such seed will not
germinate, but also because more
weevil will be produced to attack the
crop,
JtEOirES.
Scalloped Apples Butter a pudding
dish and put a layer of pet-lcl sliced
apples in the bolto'm. Sprinkle wili
sugar, a very little flour and cinnamon
and 6ome bits of butter. Fill the dish
in this manner and bake one hour,
covering the dish to prevent burning
on the top. Serve cold or hot.
Corn Cake One cup of yellow corn
meal, one cup of wheat flour, one cup
of sugar, one cup of sour cream or one
cup of milk, and three tablespoonfnls
of melted butter, one teaspoon! ul of
cream of tartar and half a teaspoonfnl
of soda, a teaspoonful of salt, two un
beaten ejrgs. Bake twenty minutes.
Glazed Sweet Potatoes Bake the
potatoes for one hour. Pare them, cut
in halves, or, if large, in quarters,
dredge with flour and lay them in it
pan, flat sides down. Spread over
them sorao melted butter and sprinkle
with powdered sugar. Set the pan in
a hot oven for twenty mimics, lo
brown slightly.
Tomatoes and Bice Wash a cupful
of rice. Have two tablespoon fuh of
butter over tho fire in a frying-pan,
and when very hot stir the rice in it.
Stir it continuously until it is a golden
brown, when add to it a cupful of to
matoes. Stir it well, cover and let it
cook gently until the rice is tenacr.
Add suit and a little pepper.
The day of paper collars passed
away some years ago. and though pa
per is used to-day ic many more forms
than were ever dreamed of a few de
cades back that cheap articles of hab
erdashery has almost disappeared
from the market. But there is promise,
chronicles the Washington Star, that
it will have a worthy successor in the
paper sock, which is thelatost novolty
to be ground out of the pulp mill.
The mechanism has been perfected to
produce a paper yarn of such, consist
ency that it is capable of being woven
into fabrics soft enough for wear. A
special merit is the cheapness of this
newly devised material, socks being
produced at a retail price of about
three cents a pair. At this rate there
is no reason why the whole world may
not be supplied with foot covering.
At three cents a pair the bachelor's
life will become gladsome and happy.
It is said that substances cau be used
in the preparation of this material to
make the sooks eo imprevious to water
that they can stand several washings
before falling apart. This, too, is a
great boon. May the three-cent paper
sock have a ready market ! May it be
followed by a ten-cent paper shoe 1
There is still money in real estate in
New York City, as is shown by a tran
saction of two young brokers, Flake
and Dowling. Last December they
bought the old building on the south
west corner of Nassau and Liberty
streets for $934,000. They, sold out
the property recently to a syndicate
forSl.150,000; a profit of $300,000 in
three months is not so bad.
"The advantages of kissing," says
Dr. A. E. Bridges in the British Medi
cal Journal, "outweigh its infinitesi
mal risk ; for it provides ' us with mi
crobes useful for digestion." Even
the strongest advocate of kissing will
admit, opines the New York Tribune,
that this is a somewhat grewsome and
unpleasant view jf osculation.
A Man Who Dives Sixty Feet Into Seven
Feet of Water.
There is a pool of black . water
twenty-four feet in diameter and seven
feet deep in the middle, tapering to
two feet of depth at the edges. Before
the diver appears a party of clowns
play around the pool. A stream of
water gushes up from a pipe standing
in. the middle, and the fountain is
radiant in greens and reds and blues.
The pipe falls over, and three men
drag it away. Louis Golden marches
confidently to the edge of the pool.
He watches the men with a great deal
olcare as they take away the pipe. If
they shcald forget to remove it the
con8equencesmighttbe serious. A boat
lies at one side ol the littlo lake and s
canoe rocks at the oftnc There is a
log floating near by. The direr thrusts
one foot into a sling at the end. of a
long tackle, and a gang of men wakj,
away with the rope. Up, up, up
he goes, as if his journey would never '
end. 1
Nnw ti a riivAr stands nnon a nlank
stretched between two of the iron
trusses that support the roof of the
building. He looks no bigger than a
4an.troar.rt1d Tinv. Oni nf tllfl rlnwns
looks up at him and yells through his
curved hand, "All clear below!" His
voice hssthe sound of a dirge.
The diver then poises himself on tip
toe. Twice he bends his knees swi f tly, .
as if trying their suppleness. ' Then
he stretches his arms horizontally and
moves them with the movement of fly
ing. He leans far forward further
further further and then launches
himself from his foothold, ilis body
seems to lie flat upon the air. Swifter
and swifter it flies! Within a few
yards of the water the hands meet :
above the roan's head. He bends for-'
'ward a trifle. In thin position he
crashes1 into the pool, just at the mid
dle of it, plunges to the bottom, and
goes to the furthest wall. Suddenly
doubling, he comes to the surface,
swimming in the opposite direction,
and the crowd makes no for its lost
hearts by clapping hands furiously.
Harper's Weekly.
Music Dreve Kim to Suicide.
The music made by a Salvation
Army band in a London street was not
appreciated by a geutleman who lived
in a house near by. ' He sent a re
quest f r the band to stop. It was
unheeded and the gentleman cut hit
throat. Chicago Times-Herald.
AFTER THIRTY YEARS. ;
rnK BUCKEYE STATK CONTRIBUTE?
THE STORY OF A VETEKAS'jJ
SEARCH.
How Fred Taylor, Member of the Gal
Unt 189th N. Y., V. I., Finally
Found What He 11 an Knight
Since the War Closed.
(From, the Ashtabula, Ohio, Beacon.
air. t rea xayior was uorn rdu urongur up
near El mini, N. Y., and' from there enlisted
in the 189th regiment, N. Y., V. I.,' with
which he went through tho war aud saw
much hard service. Owing to exposure and
hardships during the service, Mr Taylor con
tracted chronic diarrhoea, from which he has
suffered now over thirty years, with abso
lutely no help from physicians. By nature
be was a wonderfully vigorous man. Had
he not been, his disease and the experiments
at the doctors had killed him long ago.
Laudanum was the only thing which afford
5d hira relief. He had terrible headaches,
his nerves were shattered, he could not sleep
in hour a day on an average, and he was re
duced to a skeleton. A year ago he and his
wife sought relief in a change of climate and
removed to Geneva, Ohio; but the ehang in
health eame not. Finally, on the recom
mendation of F. 3. Hoffner; the leading drug
gist of Geneva, who was cognizant of similar
cases which Pink Pills had cured, Mrk Taylor
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and fruitless search for relief I at last found
it in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The day after I
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Mr. Taylor has since taken more of the pills
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full control of his nerves and sleeps as well
as in his youth. : Color is coming back to his
parched veins and he to gaining flesh and
strength rapidly. He is now able to do con
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As he concluded narrating his suffering,
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Mrs. Taylor, who has been his faithful help
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