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THE LAMP OF CHEER. There's a light as full of comfort as the mm and stars' above, Tib the light of stubborn cheerfulness within the hearts ve love. W hatever winds blow on it of sickness or despair, S Whatever fogs envelop it or miasmatic air, It seems to, frame in radiance the spirit bravo and Btout. Who gives us of his gladness when our lamps are going out. Wc sigh. "Ah, had we fortune, how gladly would we givo One-half of our possessions to strengthen thoe who live With poverty and misery in never-ending strife." But courage and not money is the greatest need f lifs. How often we deny them, the people round about Who look to ua for gladness when their lamps are going out. We know the good lamp-bearer by the light with'n his cyc3, His very step seems to announce good fortune in disguise. The darkest path is bright er under that reviving ray Of hope and confidence and faith with which he cheers the wiy. Where now is dull depression, and where are fear and doubt? They hve but in the dimness of a lamp that's going out OLIVIA. ' He was a postman every Inch of him, a very jaunty, alert, up-to-date postman. The knock that heralds the advent of a letter Is generally brbk and Inspirng, but the rat-tat of James T. Butler, wa3 brisker than brisk, and no letter carrier ever sped up the innumerable steps with greater swift ness and lightness than he. She Olivia was a step girl. Such an Incongruous name for a step girl In tatters and grime, with a small, pinched face and toll-worn hands an altogether unsuitable name. So the people at whose houses she worked called her Betty, Jane, Sarah or Eliza, as the fancy moved them, and she answered to all, with a meek ness becoming her position. Some of her employers thought that her won derful violet-blue eyes, with their dark, drooping lashes, were incon gruous, too, and there was not a shadow of a doubt that the innate grace which characterized her every movement wa3 strangely out of keep ing. The little drudge had another char acteristic that usually belongs to the higher classes she was singularly re served; few peopla knew anything about her,, but in the evil-smelling court which she called "home" it was rumored that the girl's mother, dead for long years, had been a lady, and that her solo remaining parent, the drunken, blear-eyed creature whom she called "father," had been in his time a gentleman. "And a sweetly pretty lady she was, too, with eye3 like vl'lets with the morning doo on 'em," was tho testimony of Mr3. Hltchon, who boasted that she had been brought up in the country, and that she knew the flowers as God made them, and not as they grew in the milliners' shop windows at ld. a opray. Mrs. Kitchens had also known Olivia's mother with as much confi dence as of the flowers. This was all that was known of the step girl's belongings. And the other She for there Is generally another She in this disap pointing world was a useful help in one of tho houses where Olivia cleaned the steps. Her namo was Lily, and although she wa3 stout of build, florid in face and rough in manners, no one lound the namo un suitable, for it is well known that a . useful help is much higher in the social scale thana step girl, and may have what name she likes. Lily had also the glory of being engaged to tho postman, not merely keeping com- pany, tor ene wore an astomsning ring on. the engagement finger, and walked out with him regularly on Wednesday evenings and every other Sunday. Of all this Olivia was in ignorance, f.s she usually passed No. 42 long be fore the postman came upon the scene, and was, therefore, unaware of Lily's conversations at the front door while the family waited for their let ters. The postman had obtained a right and proper introduction to Lily at the house of a mutual friend, but he had never been introduced to Olivia, who cared nothing for such useless cere monies. Their first words were ex changed ono morning, fino overhead hut 'muddy underfoot, a condition of the weather particularly trying to step cleaners. The long flight on which she was working gleamed in white perfection when he ran up with a letter. She sat back upon her heels and looked up at him with a wither ing gaze. "And who do you think yourself to he, messing my clean steps with your dirty feet when there is a scraper at the bottom?" The idea of a postman stopping to scrape hi3 boots tickled the culprit, and he laughed- Then he looked down at the wistful face with the wonderful eyes, and answered jest ingly: "I'm the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of Germany rolled into one, so don't give me none of your cheek, Eliza Jane." Olivia dipped her flannel into the pail and wrung it out preparatory to removing the footprints. "Oh, as to that, I'm the Queen of England and Empress of India, and I'll ask you to remember it when you walk up my steps," she answered smartly. So their acquaintance began. However, James T. Butler never look any account of Olivia till he met her one Sunday in May by the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens. It wa3 Lily's Sunday in, and her lover was out by himself. Tho meeting was quite by chance. He was not in his official dress, and at first Olivia hardly knew him, and he certainly did not reeoguizo Olivia. The tatters were cone, the grime was gone, even tho troubled, toil-worn expression of hor face had disappeared, for it was a day !u the firsc flash ol summer, whea only to be aiivc v,t..; a puro Joy, even la a step girl. lie looked at her and looked au.ia. A well-fitting coat and skirt of gray cloth, a gray straw hat to match, with clusters of violets above and below tho brim, the gift of a lady at one of the houses where she worked, had transformed tho girl. A woman would have detected that the costume was faded and the seams were worn, that the violets had lost their fresh ness, and that the straw was soiled, but the masculine eye simply took in the whole effect, and that was charm ing. "Hullo! " said Olivia, stopping a3 he came up to her. "Hullo! " The man stood silent and ab sorbed; his assurance and self-possession deserted him. Lily the stout and florid was of a different cast from this slim, graceful girl. "P'raps you don't like to be seen cpeaking to a step girl," suggested Olivia. "Oh, well, I'll make myself scarce. I only thought It wasn't good manners to go by without passing the time of day." "Oh, stop, stop," protested the post man. "It wasn't that at all. It was only that I didn't recognize yon it was only " Then a new' life opened for Olivia. They took tea under the shade of the trees in the Gardens; .they lingered by the Serpentina and fed the water fowl; they wandered in an enchanted world where there was no drunken father, no evil smelling court, no tat ters, no grime, no step cleaning; a world of tenderness and bliss seen through the dawning light of awak ening love. But on the morrow the hard, cruel, Inexorable morrow that comes to all he was once more the post man engaged to Lily at No. 42, and she was the down-trodden step girl. So it came to pass that through the summer one Sunday Jamas T. Butler walked out with Lily, tho other with Olivia, and neither of the girls sus pected the existence of a rival. But the earthquake was bound to com?. It came duly one morning in the early autumn when Olivia, having been detained to do some extra work for one of her patrons, was late in reaching No. 42 and arrived there only a few seconds before James But ler the perfidious. On her knees on he top step with her back to the gate, sne am not see him enter, Dor-did ho notice her, as Lily, the usual meet ing place being occupied, beckoned him to the side entrance. Having nnisnea the broad slab cf stone m- i uicuiij umure me aoor me cleaner h"ose to her feet and lifted the pail to descend to the next step, wb-n her cJ'e lighted on the two figures in the area below. The postman's time was limited, but he, in tho shelter of the area door, was making the best use of what he had. Olivia saw little, but what she saw was enough. A minute later Lily's lover ran smartly up the garden, and the gate clanged behind him. The sharp rat-tats wore faint in the distance before Olivia moved. She stood clutching her pail, seeing noth ing, hearing nothing, white, panting and numb, until the master of the .house passing out to business roused her, and she resumed her work. She did not cry, she wa3 not angry why should she be? She was only a step girl she ' had known all along she could never be anything to him really. It was right that he should love Lily, who always wore a smart blouse, and wavered her hair with irons, and looked like a lady; it was all a3 it should be, and had nothing to do with the step girl. She had nothing to complain of nothing but the sun What 13 marriage? Marriage is an institution for the blind. Why do some people never marry? Because they do not believe in divorce. When a man thinks seriously of marriage, what happens? He remains single. Should a man marry a girl for her money? No. But he should not let her be an old maid Just be cause she's rich. When a girl refers to a "sad courtship," what does she mean? Ska means that the man got away. Is an engagement as good as a marriage? It's better. In selecting a husband, why does a girl prefer a fat man? Because a fat man finds it hard to stoop to anything low. When asking papa, how should a young man act? He should face papa manfully and never give him a chance at his back. When the minister says, "Do you take this woman for better or for worse?" what does he mean? The bridegroom's people construe it one way, and the bride's family interpret it another. It Is very sad. When a man says he can manage his wife, what doe3 he mean? He means he can make her do anything she wants to. When a child U smart -and good, to whose family it due? To its mother's. When a child is bad and .'.tuple!, to wIiosd family it v'o refuse to r.swer. " Is it passible iz- a. married man to be a fool without knowing it'." Not if bis x;ls is alive. United Prssbytcriaa. shine nftd gone out of her life for ever; that' wa3 all. Half an hour later the debonnalr postman, hl3 empty bag slung over hi3 shoulder, -hia- ca-p raklshly tipped to ono side, having completed " his round, was walking with his usual Jaunty air towards the postofflce, when hi3 path was blocked by a crowd at the corner of the street. "What's up?" ho asked, elbowing his way past tho people. "What d'ye mean by interfering with His Maj esty's officials like this? By your leave by your leave, please. Stop ping mo In my work won't help tho old lady that's tried to overturn the motor." "Hold your tongue, young men, do," said a woman1 in the crowd sharply. "The doctor says the life's crushed out of the poor child; she's dying. Can't you be quiet?" Thus'adjured Butler restrained his impatience, and waited for the throng to allow him to pass, when suddenly betweenthepeoplehecaught a glimpse of the motionless figure on the ground. At that glimpse all his care less gaiety forsook him; bis face blanched, his head reeled. "Let mo through," he cried; "I must go to her I know her she will know me let ma through." With wondering looks and height ened Interest" the bystanders parted, and In a second he was kneeling be side her. The white lids were shad ing the wonderful eyes, and the limp, nerveless hand lay passive In his when he clasped It. Forgetful of the gaping crowd, of Lily at No. 42, of all save the small, shabby figure stretched on the dusty pavement, he knew that he loved Olivia and sh8 was dying. The incident was soon over. The ambulance arrived, the still, fragile body was carried away, the crowd scattered, the errand boys beginning to whistle, and the women to gossip ere they moved from the spot. Lon don is too full. of tragedies for one more or less to be affecting. "It's a Providence for that young man that she was taken," observed a stout, over-dressed woman. "A de cent young fellow like him, and her nothing but a step girl." "I don't see that it matters what she was so long as he loved her," retorted a girl at her side. "But I happen to know" that he didn't," ' replied 'the first speaker. "He's engaged to a young woman as is a useful help, and a good wife she'll make him, too. He's far too smart a young man to be caught by a common girl." Mr. James T. Butler had been mar ried about two months when one evening sitting by his fire smoking, his attention 'was arrested by a loud explanation from his better half, who was reading the newspaper. "Goodness me! It's only the other day we were speaking about that step girl who was run over by a motor. I thought she was killed folk said GO." Her husband started and looked uncomfortable. "When I inquired at tho hospital they told me she was dead," ho said. Mrs. Butler eyed him sharply. "Did you go to the hospital to ask after her? What call had you to do that?. I didn't know you even knew hor; you never told me." The - Injudicious speaker pulled himself together. "No, my dear! I wasn't married then, and it wasn't necessary to tell you everything at that time, whatever it may be now. But what of Oil Betsy Jane?" "Well, here's an account of her, and her life, and all. She didn't die. A swell saw a notice of the accident In the papers, as proved to be her grandfather what had cast off her mother when she married against his will. Sir Robert Broughton his name is." The postman left his seat and went to read over his wife's shoulder. "There it is," said she, indicating the place. "The old gent never knew his daughter had a child, and now he's overjoyed to find Betsy, as calls herself Olivia: but the end 13 the most astonishing 'The most inter esting part of the story i3 that, though Miss Henderson's case' that's Betsy, Miss Henderson! 'was at one time so hopeless that it was rumored she wa3 dead, she wa3 ac tually won back to llfo by the efforts of the clever young house physician at Hospital, Dr. Alan Wrestover, is 13 to whom, we understand, she is shorV ly to be married.'" "Bless my soul!" ejaculated Olivia's sometime admirer.,, "B!es3 my soul! " Tho wife of his bosom again re garded him with suspicion. "This isn't the first time I've seen you change color when I've spoken of that girl. You seem very much knocked over; perhaps you think if you'd known before you'd have been married to her instead of me." The postman did not think at all about it. Nay, more, as a matter of fact, at the time he went to inquire for Olivia at the hospital, his resolve was taken to marry her if she recov ered, step girl or not. But he did Lot tell his wife so; he only coughed, and remarked that the beastly wind had caught his chest durins the last delivery. Glasgow Herald. ENJ1FIC NPU5TRJ Jean Comandon announced before the Academy of Sciences the develop ment of a new method of photograph ing bacilli by the combined use of an ultra-microscope and a cinemato graph. After examining the documents presented for consideration by Lieutenant-Commander Peary, the Na tional Geographical Society decided that he reached the North Pole, and awarded a gold medal for his exploit. Professor Metchnikoff advocates the drinking of much fermented milk to check the intestinal putrefaction of food, and thus prolong life. In furtherance of his end, bonbons have been prepared, consisting of a lactlc acld product surrounded by a sweet ened chocolate coating. The sugar of the coating assists in lactic-acid fer mentation. Artificial ice making in the tropics comes high. Water" of sixty degrees or sixty-five degrees can easily and cheaply, be thrown Into icy ingots of cooling joy, but when it comes to cooling water of seventy-five or eighty , , degrees the difficulty Is strangely increased, even to doubling prices. Ice in Buenos Aire3 retails at $1.25 gold a hundred. .The Yukon territory now has a fleet of sixteen gold dredge3, or ships, as they are spoken of by the miners, and five or six more are being equipped. A dredge built ready for operation in the Yukon costs $130, 000 on an average, and handles daily from two thousand to five thousand cubic yards of gravel, which will yield from twenty-five cents to $25 of gold a cubic yard. The daily output of gold a dredge is from $1000 to $3000, although is it said that there have been days on which a single dredge has taken out $15,000. Pop ular Mechanics. A demonstration of the practical advantages of good ventilation has been experienced at the Cambridge station of the New England Tele phone and Telegraph Company. The tollroom In the building is long and narrow, with windows at the front and back. In winter, when the win dows could not be opened with safety, the air became vitiated quickly. In the spring of 1907 a duct was built along the ceiling, opening to the street at the front, and discharging air into the room by one and a quarter-Inch holes, fans being placed in tho rear wall to ethaust the vitiated air from the room. The entire cost of the installation was $75, and a marked improvement in the comfort and general condition of the opera tors followed this change. In the winter of 1907-8 the average per centage of absences among the sixty odd operators was cut In two. In the three winter months alone this saving amounted to 1.8 times the wages'of the operators, equivalent to a profit of $195 for the company, on its capl. tal investment of $75. Sir! At dinner the professor of history was seated between two young ladies, who. in accordance with their train ing in the art of conversation, sought to draw him out upon the subject in which he was most interested. They did not meet with much success; his answers were short "Yes." "Oliver Cromwell." "No." "1432" and the like. Finally one of them in desperation ventured: "Professor, we were wondering only thi3 afternoon, and none of us could remember: How many chil dren did Mary Queen of Scots have?" Thi3 was too much. "Madame," said the professor, facing her with squelching dignity, "I am not a scan dalmonger." Everybody's Maga. zioe. Successful Treating of Ties. The tie treating plant of the Mexi can Central Railroad has reached an output of 3500 ties a day, making it one of the largest concerns of its kind In the world. It Is expected that the treatment will prolong the life of each tie from eight to twelve years. Fron Arboriculture. Exit (he IJirdic. Modern Photographer (to Willie Richmug) -"Xow, listen just a min ute, little boy, and hear the stock ticker hum." Puck. Each of the British Dreadnoughts hr.s a hospital with a capacity for sixty patient. m TEE N EPICURE'S CORNER Bread Sauce. For bread sauce to serve with poultry or game scald a large minced onion In two cupfuls of chicken stock and stir in a good cupful of fresh soft bread crumbs that have been rubbed very fine. No crust should be used. Cook over hot water for five or six minutes. . Then add a bit of. ground mace as much as one can lift oa the end of a spoon salt and paprika. Beat with one of the revolving egg whips until the mixture is perfectly Bmooth. Add a tablespoonful of but ter and serve at once very hot. Milk is sometimes used in place of th itock. New York Sun. Apple Roll. Mix and sift two cups cf flour with two teaspoons of baking powder; rub in two tablespoons of butter or lard; make a dough by adding three-quarter cup of milk; roll thinly about twice as long as the dough 13 wide; brush over with Eoftened butter, spread evenly six chopped apples and add sugar and nutmeg to taste; roll like Jelly roll, cut in slices an Inch thick and lay cut side up on a greased baking pan; bake in a moderate oven and serve hot with a sweet sauce. Sauce Beat two eggs until very light, add gradually one cup of sugar and beat again: add one teaspoon of vanilla or lemon. Eoston Post. Chocolate Pudding. Soak one cup of stale bread and one of stale cake crumbs In four cups of scalded milk for thirty minutes. Melt two squares of chocolate in a saucepan over boiling water, add one quarter of a cup of sugar, and squeeze Into this a little of the milk from the crumbs and milk, so that this chocolate mixture will pour. Add it to the bread mixture with an addi tional quarter cup of sugar. Then add one-quarter cup salted, blanched and shredded almonds, one teaspoon ful of vanilla and lastly two beaten eggs.,. Pour into a buttered dish and bake in a moderate oven one hour. To be served with cream or hard sauce. New York Press. St. James' Pudding. Melt three tablespoonfuls of but ter and add one-half cupful of mo lasses, one-half cupful of milk, one and two-thirds cupful3 of flour (mixed and sifted) with one-half tea spoonful of soda and one-fourth of & teaspoonful each of salt, clove, all spice and nutmeg, and one-half pound of dates, stoned and cut in pieces. Turn Into a buttered mold, cover and steam two and one-half hours. Serve with the followingsauce: Beat the whites of two eggs and add gradually, while beating constantly, one cupful of sugar; then add one fourth of a cupful of hot milk and one teaspoonful cf vanilla. Indian apolis News. HOUSEHOLD l ., ami' sua When broiling halibut cover the fish with minced green pepper. The seasoning will be found to be deli cious. To preserve parsley for winter use, put the freshly picked leaves into a jar and sprinkle salt on each layer. It will keep fresh all winter, and is better than drying it. When the cheese 13 too dry to serye with pie, grate it and spread a layer over the pie while it is still warm. Do not make the cheese hot, as that makes It tough. In order to heat your irons quickly place a roasting pan over them and lift the pan up each time you want to take one out. You will notice the difference immediately. Save stray cards, and when baking cake or other pastry.; use a card to clean the mixing bowl and you -will find it will yield to any curve or angle as nothing, else will, making it possi ble to save every bit of the batter. One tablespoonful of chloride of lime added to an eight-quart pail of water will remove stains when noth ing else will; even pear stains of Ion; standing will succumb. Let articles He In this water for a day or two, or until stains are gone. Porcelain ware can be mended with ordinary putty mixed with oil. Work a small particle into the worn place, set it aside for several days and food can be cooked In the vessel without danger of the unpleasant taste one naturally supposes will take place when putty Is used. When a vegetable burns, or, in fact, when any article on your stove has burned, place the' vessel containing the burned substance immediately in a pan of cold water. Let It remain there some minutes and then remove it to a clean pan. The burnt or scorched taste will have disappeared. Always keep a small slip of white paper and a magnifying glass in the Bewing machine drawer. If the ma chine is in shadow, slip the piece of white paper behind the needle and then hold the magnifying glass at tho right angle between the eyes and the needle. The threading hole will eomo out Into perfect distinctness and tha needle can then be threaded with ease. Th Delineator. No Chanee on 8 Books. . Is the New York puWIc supersti tious? A Forty-second street auction eer insists that we are, and adduces this Incident as proof of his conten tion: One day there r ne Into his shop a table to be auctioned off. It was a table with a past. It had belonged to more than one medium and had figured in many a tipping seance. The auctioneer expected that psychic his tory to ibeost the price of the table and he relate it In his characteris tically racy fts&Ion before the bidding began. Instead of exciting competi tion that table inspired fear. It was regarded as an Interesting curiosity, everybody wanted to examine ft, but no one would buy. A price had tee set on the table under which ft ' was not to be sold, and no one bidding up to that figure, ft was 'Withdrawn .from the sale. On five different days eMd the auctioneer introduce the tabl with the same preamhle. On the sixth day, he omitted all reference t the table's psyschfc powers, and ft fetched a good price. His deduction Is that the average New Yorker has? more or less faith fn spiritual mani festations and he doevTt want his re pose disturbed bv mysterious me sages delivered through the medfua of uneasy tables. New York Time. NEW STOCKINGS. -Stockings with Insets of real lace, and stockings' -with sparklets of jet and silver and gilt fastened upon them yes, that's what milady will wear this winter, when she's "all dressed up." Of course, for ordinary wear, one will don stockings of modest color, to harmonize with the costume, or of plain black. With her tailored cos tumes milady will wear mixed or sihaded stockings, in various combina tions, if she wishes to be right up with Mine. Mode. , But for dress occasions ah, that is a different story. That is when the real lace and the jet and the sil ver and gilt come in. A stock may be elaborately em broidered, also, or show the finest of openwork, and it is said that both embroidered and openwork stockings will compete for favor this winter. The great novelty, however, is the stockings with the sparklets, and it's eaid that the glistening things will wash, at that! Five ""dollars and up will purchase one pair of these novel , hose. Boston Globe. WOMAN DISCOVERS MEANEST MAN. Mrs. Caroline Cornelius of Ithaca, S. Y., believes she has uncovered the meanest thief on earth. She returned from a visit t Brooklyn to find her home had been entered. Although ev ery room was in disorder, Mrs. Corne lius did not miss anything, and was puzzled until a few days afterward, when she went to her bank and found that a check for $13S. 57 had been cash ed against her account. "Why. I nev er signed a check for that amount," exclaimed Mrs. Cornelius. The check was produced and the signature was found to be genuine. . "Oh. yes," said Mrs. Cornelius, seeing a light "I re member I signed one check, 'but didn't fill, ia any amount." The thief .had found the check book, filled in for the $133.57 and collected the money. New York Press. A SAFEGUARD. A pitch dark nest where the hens are unable to see the egg is a safe guard against egg-eating. With sand, coal ashes, and crushed shell to run to the chickens have not the excuse of a lack of lime in the system which might Induce egg-eating. Farmers' Home Journal. Who are ready to believe are ready to deceive. Dutch. So. 2-'10. Travelers and connoisseurs ' " have tasted all the fruits of the wo. .J are of one voice i.nd rapt opinion in proncicing the oranges of Baha, Brazil, the king of all fruits? A WOMAN IKK7IOU Was Quick to See That ToSTce Was Doing the Mischief. A lady tells of a bad case of coffee poisotag, and tells U in a way o lmpkl nd straightforward that lit erary skill co ilti not Improve It. "I had neuralgic bendnches for 12 years," she says, "and suffered unfold agony. When I first bmn tPhave them I weighed 14 0 pounds, hui they brought me down to 110. I went" to many doctors and they gave me only temporary relief. So I suffered on. till one day a woman doctor told me to use Postum. She said I looked like I was eoffoe poisoned. "So I began to drink Postum and I gained !5 pounds In the first few rr?eks and continued to gain, but not o fast as at first. My headaches be gan to leave me after I had used Pos tum about two weeks long enough to get the coffee poison out of my sys tem. " "Since 1 began to use Postum I can gladly say that I never know,what a nenralgic headache is like aDy more, and ft was nothing but Postum that made me well. Before I used Postum I never went out alone: I would get bewildered and would not know which way to turn. Now I go alone and my head Is as clear as a bell. My brain and nerves are stronger thail they have been for years." Read the little book. "The Road to Wellville," In pkgs. "There's a Res son. Ever ! T'l the abore fj.'tPT? L new one appears from time to tini. They nre genaine, true, and full of limnan lttercfef -..
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