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FRAGMENT,
O dweller in (he valley, lift thine eves
To where, above tlie drift of cloud, the
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Endures in silence, and to God alone
Upturns its furrowed visage, and is wise.
There yet is being, far from all that dies,
And beauty where no mortal maketh
moan,
Where larger planets swim the liquid
zone,
And wider ‘spaces streteh to calmer skies.
Only a little way above the plain
Is snow eternal. Round the mountain’s
knees *
Hovers the fury of the wind and rain.
Leok up, and teach thy nob.e heart to
- cease
: From endless labar.: There is perfect
peace
“Only a Lttle way above thy pain.
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Autumn chill was in the air. Dead
brown - leaves were strewn in little
heaps along a street that sprawled its
way at the foot of a mountain that
rose in easy gradients upon the one
hand; upon the other a turbulent riv
er tore its way to the sea through a !
canoned pass. The sun had but just‘
dipped Dbehind the white-topped
crags, and the frontier village was}
sunk in sweet obscurity in the purple
shadows that stretched along the base
of the hills. It was as though the
everlasting meuntain had drawn its
royal rches about its rugged form,
donned its white nighteap, and was
breparing to sink to sleep in the calm
bosom of approaching night. Just
another touch of realism was given
the metaphor by the moon that flirted
a moment with the silhouetted crags,
and then, with a cold, passionless,
good-night kiss, parted reluctantly
from them and sailed majestically off
into the star-lit dome. From afar
out upon the plain came the mourn
ful howl of a solitary coyote, which
was echoed dismally from cliff to
beetling cliff. The faraway murmur
of the rock-g_irted river and the oc
casional hoot of an owl among the
towering pines were the only. sounds
that disturbed the stillness of the
evening.
Dan Cupid stood at the intersection
of two well-nigh deserted streets and
bethought him of some congenial oc
cupation for his meddlesome and mis
chievous fingers.
Upon the opposite corner a youth
and a maiden met, stopped and con
versed in guarded undertones. -
sDan unfastened his bow from an
invisible bhaldric and drew an arrow
from th: well-filled quiver at his
back; fitiing the notched shaft care
fully to the taut string, he took delib
erate aim and let flyat the pair across
the road. The downcast eyes of the
maiden, the blush npon her cheek, the
abashed look of the youth, gave un
questionable evidence of the little
god’s unerring-aim. e
It was an excellent shot and pretti
1y planted, yet it afforded the little |
sportsman no more satisfaction or.
amusement than would have been felt
by a mighty hunter upon potting a
sleeping antelope. The game was too
easy, and scarce worthy the skill of
the marksman.
Dan turned disdainfully upon his
<hubby heel and wandered aimlessly
down the darkening street. Being
the author of his own code of ethics,
he did not hesitate to peep through
a keyhole here or between the chinks
of a shutter there. Whenever occa
sion offered he winged an arrow from
his tiny bow.
He arrived at length near the
point where the street canted up into
the mountain. There, at the end of
the level thoroughfare, stood a ram
shackle, two-story structure, which
might have been said tc have been an
“oOld Curiosity Shop” transplanted.
Within its grimy windows was ar
rayed a wondrous- variety of unsal
able knickknacks. So far as could he
seen they were thickly mantled with
dust, and a busy spider had set the
anchorage of his intricate web from
the headpiece of a stringless guitar to
the rusty muzzle of a revolver that
was fashioned after the manner of
‘another time. The room opening off
the street was untenanted, but from
somewhere within came the plain
tive strains.of a violin. The most eu
phemistic would have hesitated to
dignify the “sound by the name of
musie, yet upon occasion a note rang
true, and as it quivered on the night
air spoke of a genius untutored and
a deftness and sympathy of touch
once acquired, but long since forgot
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Glancing above the outer door Dan
Cupid noted the half-obliterated
name, Thomas MacWhirter. Without
a moMhent’s hesitation he melted
through the two walls and stood with
in the inner room. The room was
Ineagrely furnished, and the table,
benches and chairs were of the most
Drimitive pattern. The wood fire
that glowed within the open grate
berformed the double duty of pro
viding light and heat for its two oc-
Cupants, Bathed in the ruddy fire
light sat an old .woman hent far for-
Wward, with her elbows sited upon her
knees, her chin resting within her
Open palms. She might well have
been a rustic figure cast in bronze,
S 0 far as any outward semblance of
life was concerned. By the side of
tha curtainless window, illumined by
the pallid radiance of the moon, an
old man sat, drawing a listléss bow
over the strings.
Dan Cupid shiveted, climbed to a
seat upon a high-backed bench near
thes windew, and Dbent his gaze upon
the aged musician.
The old man paused for a moment:
his bow wandered aimlessly over the
’strings, and then came the first notes,
low and sweet, of “Robin Adair.”
- The old woman raised her head,
clasped her bony hands together, and
looked straight before her into the
fliekering blaze. It was her initial
movement sinece Dan Cupid’s entrance.
From “Robin Adair” the music
swept into **Comin’ Thro' the Rye.”
The notes were falling firm, resonant,
true, and not without a touch of mys
tic sentiment. Dame MacWhirter's
hands were clasping and unclasping;
once she stole a glance at MacWhir
ter, and it could be seen that an ex
pression of pleased surprise dwelt
upon her wrinkled countenance. The
music was breathing the Dbreath of
life into a multitude of dead memor
ies. She was traversing again the
circle of her existence by way of its
diameter. Once more she saw herself
a lass, and a right bonnie lass, too.
Again she saw sturdy Tammas Mac-
Whirter come tramping across the
moor—she even fancied she heard
the cooing of the amorous doves, the
drumming of the frogs in the tarn,
the lowing of the stabled cattle, as
she listened to the sweeter music of
Tammas’ whispered declaration of
love. She lived again her marriage,
and was thrilled once more with their
glowing hopes, their lofty ambitions,
as they embarked together for the
New World. She felt again the joy
and pride at the birth of their chil
dren, and the sorrow of their passing.
She realized, for the first time how,
during the last score of years—years
of poverty, years of privation, years
of utter loneliness—they had drifted
apart till they stood, metaphorically,
at the opposite .ends of the world.
Love had receded from their life and
left it bleak and barren. She steath
ily gathered up her chair and moved
it nearer the figure by the window.
Dan Cupid saw and smiled. Here
offered a quarry worthy of his sub
tlest dart. He felt somewhat of a
culprit, too, for having flown through
the window—thus leaving these two
bereft of his presence— at the first
howl of the wolf at the door. He
was determined upon retrieving him
self, and so took most careful aim.
Swift and true sped the feathered
shaft. :
MacWhirter straightened in his
chair; he lifted his shaggy head; a
deep flush mounted to his furrowed
brow; the Mst note of “Comin’ Thro’
the Rye” melted into the tune of
‘““Annie Laurie.” The melody was
rich, powerful, impassioned. As the
llast note trembled on the air the old
woman rose from her chair and came
to the old man’s side. She put her
toil worn hand tenderly wupon his
shoulder and placed her tear-wet
cheek lovingly against his.
“Tammas,” she whispered, just as
of old, and in the olden dialect, ‘“l'am
mas MacWhirter, d’ye ken ye’er e’en,
yvet a"braw laddie?” ST
“An’ I dunno, Janet, but what
ye'er a bit bonnie lass, yersel’,” ha
answered.——New York Times.
Weekly of the Future. -
The strong and successful weekly
paper of the future will collect
strictly in advance for its subserip
tions and collect and settle all other
accounts on the first of each month,
so that the publisher will know
twelve times a year lhow he stands
and get the added benefit of being a
cash customer. It may even dis
count its bills. It will accept only
one price from any source or under
any condition. It will accept only
cash payments for chureh, city, the
atre aud all show advertising, taking
tickets only for after notices. It
will get cash. for all railroad adver
tising, and the editor will pay cash
when he travels like any other busi
ness man, and, besides, he can use
any limited train on the road. And
incidentally he will have more time
to build up and maintain his paper.
Railroad companies cannot get along
without newspaper advertising. They
are experimenting now, but they will
all recognize this fact and .come to
be among our best cash patrons. The
paper of the kind we are talking
about will accept no trade contracts
unless the publisher at the time
needs some article from the adver
tiser, and even then it's better not to
definitely agree to do it. It will keep
an accurate expense account and will
enter every item of stock, labor and
every other outgo for comparison
month with month and year with
year. It will keep an expiration hook
and kill all advertising promptly
when dead. It will prove its circula
tion to advertisers. It will let the
othér fellow alone and pay strict at
tention to its own business. It will
be well printed and contain actual
news and not stuff to fill when copy
is slack. It will have mechanical
composition and good machinery, It
will be able to compete against the
dailies, because people would rather
have it or because they need both.
It will have an editor who mneeds
no apology for his existence.—Geo,
2. Marcellus, .
The Shadow of Fear,
The terror of failure and the fear
of coming to want keep multitudes'of
people from obtaining the very things
they desire, by sapping their vitality,
by incapacitating them through
worry and aunxiety for the. effective,
creative work necessary to give them
sueccess. Wherever we go, this fear
ghost, tiis terror-specter stands be
tween mien and their goal: no person
is in a position to do good work while
haunted by it. There can be no great
courage where there is no confidence
o 1 assurance, and half the battle is in
the conviction that we can do what
we undertake, The inindy;always fuls
of doubta, fears, forebodings, is not in
a condition to do efiective creative
work, but is perpetually handicappec
5y this unfortunate attitude.—Su#
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long sleeves, and is a,daptéd to all the
pretty thin materials, which are very
nearly legion. In this instance, how
ever, it is made of banana colored
crepe de Chine, with trimming of vel
vet ribbon and bands of stitched taf
feta. The long narrow chemisette is
| a feature, and the high girdle gives
the short waist line that is so popular
just now. In this instance tucked
mousseline makes the chemisette, but
all-over lace and lingerie materials
are having equal vogue.
¢ The waist is made with the fitted
lining that serves as a foundation.
This lining is faced to form the back
of the chemisette and the front por
tion is arranged over it. The blouse
and sleeves are cut in one and are
tucked and arranged over the lining,
while the girdle finishes the lower
edge. Cuffs complete the lower por
tions of the sleeves.
The New Skirts.
The new skirts are long. They fit
the hips smoothly, They sweep into
generous curves at the foot. i
Color Schemes,
Peacock blue and green shadings
are among the loveliest of the color
schemes employed for the fine feath
ers, and these peacock tones are em
phatically modish, though they do not
combine well with other colors.
Newest Colors,
The newest colors are strong in
tone, and are either very becoming or
quite the opposite. Lines of black
serve to tone down the vividness of
many of the new materials.
Elaborate Braiding,
Elaborate braiding is seen on many
of the newest models, both in cloth
and velvet, the narrow soutache being
the most popular. Braiding, com
bined with heavy embroidery, is par
ticularly effective on broadcloth or
velvet,
Empire Skirt.
The skirt that is made with the
round Empire line is one of the latest
developments of fashion and prom
fses to gain still further favor as the
season advances. This one is emin
ently graceful and attractive and cas
be made with the circular portions
laid over onto the front gore, forming
the inverted pleats as illustrated, or
with the front gore laid over onto
the ecircular portions, forming one
wide box pleat, as liked. In the illus
tration chiffon broadcloth is simply
stitched - with Dbelding silk and
trimmed with little buttons, but the
heavier silks, pongee and henrietta
cloth and all materials that are of
sufficient weight to take satisfactory
folds are appropriate.
The skirt is cut in three pieces, the
front gore and the circular portions,
The fulness at the back is laid in in
verted pleats, and it is perforated,
both for walking length and for the
natural waist line, so that the Empire
line is not obligatory.
The quantity of material required
ltor the medium size is gix and three
quarter yards twenty-seven, four and
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two inches wide.
Tiny Folds of Taffeta,
- Tiny folds bf satin or of taffeta are
used to trim semi-dress costuines, and
lend themselves admirably to original
effects, They may be applied in
broadening designs and also in ser
pentine lineg and sharp zigzags on
hems and waistcoats, and are also
used to frame motifs,
All Kinds of Skirts,
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clinging or skirts ample, all are to be
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Grange For Improved Highways.
Following is the report and reso
lutions submitted by the Committee
on Public Highways of the National
Grange, at its last annual meeting,
and unanimously adopted:
Your Committee on Public Highe
ways has had under consideration,
not only the broad question involved
in the improvement of the public
highways, but it has given special
attention to the plans of the KExecu
tive and Legislative Committee to
make the Grange campaign, in favor
of Federal aid, effective. That plan
is approved by the committee, and
the large amount of work already ac
complished, in preparation for a vig
orous campaign in support of the
Grange plan, is in the highest degree
commendable and reflects great creldit
on our Exccutiveand Legiglative Com
mittee, who have effected arrange
ments to bring to the support of the
Grange campaign, to secure the en
actment of the necessary legislation
by Congress, the aid of the large in
dustrial, commercial and manufactur
ing interests of the country.
In addition to this, arrangements
are perfected to prosecute the cam
paign-vigorously among the farmers
in all unorganized sections of the
country and through farm organiza
tions not affiliated with the Grange.
The plans are so perfect and com
prehensive that a vigorous prosecu
tion of the campaign all along the
line is assured, and one that we may
feel confident will bring early sue
cess. '
Your committee, therefore, unani
mously approve the recommendations
of the worthy master and the Execu
tive Committee.
The resolutions referred to this
committee are in harmony with the
plan and are hereby approved and
incorporated in the following—which
if approved will become the platform,
as it were, on which the Grange cam
paign will be fought: 4
Whereas, The improvement of the
highways of the country is a matter
of general public concern, and should
properly receive the attention and as
sistance of the National Government,
and :
Whereas, The revenue raised by
taxes paid by the people of the coun
try as a whole should be devoted as
far as possible to purposes which will
benefit the greater number of the tax
payers in all sections of the country,
and
Whereas, No argument can be ad
vanced in favor of the annual appro
priations by Congress on behalf of
river and harbor imprdovements that
does mot apply even more strongly
to the improvement of our public
roads; therefore,
Resolved, That the National
Grange favors a general policy of
good roads construction by the var
fous municipalities, counties and
States, and :
.Resolved, That we favor the im
mediate enactment of legislation by
Congress making liberal Federal ap
propriations for the improvement of
the public highways of the country,
thesg appropriations to be extended
in such manner as Congress may pre
scribe. 3
Arrangements are made for giving
these resolutions wide circulation in
the press and in circular form. WWe
therefore ask 'your unanimous en
dox-sexnenp Fraternally submitted,
Committee on Public Highways, Oli«
ver. Wilgon, Chairman, -
Barbaric Highways,
It is obvious that under local in
itiative and construction we should
have no proper system of State roads.
For that there must be central direc
tion, an m'gauizo‘d plan having in
view the interests of the entire State,
and such a co-ordination of effort
and expenditure as would result in
the creation of a system of through
roads that, while serving local neecds,
would also provide well-built high
ways between remote points. That,
in outline, must be the plan if the
$50,000,000 is not to be wasted. It
the people of the State and their l:t\v-‘
makers have pald some attention to
the experiences of the New York to
Paris contestants in their struggles
with our barbaric highway conditions,
we should suppose the outlook for
such legislation as the committee recs
ommends must have been thereby ime
proved.—New York Times. :
A Popular Service,
Justice John R. Kelso, of Milwaue
kee, Portland’s Clackamas County
suburb, is becoming popular ag a mar
riage official. He is sent for, far and
near, whenever any young couple in
that neightorhood want to be mar
ried. His popularity is said to be
due entirely to his short and unique
ceremony. This always appeals to
the nervous couples. IHis ceremony
is about as follows, after the couple
have been brought before him:
“Do you people want cach other?”
“We do, wr do,” is the answer re
quired,
“Then, goodness gracioug, have
each other, for nobody else wants
you. You are married,”—Portland
Oregonlian,
Reclaiming Southern Missoari,
In the eleven counties of Southeast
Missouri containing swamp or over
flow lands thirty-one drainage ditches
or canals have been constructed with
a total length.of about 660 miles.
These ditches have reclaimed 255,000
acres of land, an area amounting to
nearly 283 square miles. 'These
lands, which were practically worth
less before drainage, are now worth
from $35 to $65 an acre.—~Doniphan
Prospect News.
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Scarlet liveries in England are the
King's exclusive privilege.
A single bee collects a teaspoonful
of honey during a season.
Cabbages in Cuba grow to such
size that a single head often weighs
twenty pounds.
There were 62,000,000 pieces of
money struck at the IFrench mint last
year for France, Indo-China, Bolivia
and Tunis. ¢
Columbia University has added a
‘‘chair of Kumanity,”” and the first
man to occupy it will be Professor
R. C. Mcßae.
The ants of South America are
great tunnel builders. They have
been known to construct a tvnnel
three miles in length, :
A woman in Manchester, England,
has eyes which magnify objects fifty
times their natural size. The occu
lists consider her a wonder.
There are thirty-two millionaires
in the United States Senate and four
teen in the House. lEvery third man
in the Senate is a millionaire.
The smallest inhabited island in
the world is, we believe, the rock on
which the Eddystone Lighthouse
stands. It is only just large enough
to "admit of the foundations of this
structure being laid.
A woman in Muscotah, Kas., has
sued the city and the Congregational
church for SIO,OOO damages for a
fall on a defective sidewalk. She
enumerates in her claim injuries to
the .back, ribs, spine, kidneys, liver;
head and hearing,
Perhaps the highest fire from the
ground ever fought in any city was
that extinguished in New York on the
fortieth floor of the new' Singer
Building, 500 feet above the side=-
walk. It was caused by the upset
ting of a plumber’s fire pot.
. Perhaps the largest sale of raw
furs ever made in New England by
one party was that of Fred D. Blood,
of Houghtonville, Vt,, who sold ahout
$756,000 worth to a Manchester man,
In the lot were 1200 red fox skins,
2000 skunk skins, 200 raccoon and
5000 muskrat, .
In 1477 nails ecut from cold iron
were for the first time thus manufac
tured.in this country at Cumberland,
R. I. Some men who had deserted
from the British army began the
manufacture of glass in 1780 in
Temple, N. H. TwqQ years later a
firm in Philadelphia began manufac
turing fustians and jeans.
GREATEST CONCRETE BRIDGE.
Just Winished at Washington and Re
markable For Several Reasons.
’ The largest concrete bridge in the
- world has just recetved the finishing
touches at Washington. ‘The Con
ne?icut avenue bridge, as it is known,
spdns the deep gorge of Rock Creek,
not fifteen minutes by trolley from
the centre of the city,
The structure is remarkable for
several reasons. In the first place, it
is built entirely of conerete without
being reinforced with steel,
It is 1421 feet long, with a fifty
two foot roadway and a walk on
either side, The floor of the bridge
is 136 feet above the ground. There
are several 150 foot arches and two
narrow ones of eighty-two feet,
Work was begun about seven years
ago on the foundations, though the
plans had already taken about two
years to complete, The work halted
owing to the failure of Congress to
appropriate enough money to com
plete it. : 00l
But about three years ago the
necessary bills went through, and a
really beautiful bridge is now the
result.—The cost was a million dols
lars,—New York Sun.
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Money From Seaweed,
Japan, which wastes nothing in its
domestic economy, realizes $2,000,-
000 annually from its seaweed pro
ducts. According to the report of C,
J. Davidson, an attache of the British
Embassy at Tokio, more than fifty
varieties of the seaweed found along
the Japanese coast are utilized either
for food or as mantfactured pro=
ducts,
The traveler sees bundles of dried
seaweed, white with the erystallized
salt of the sca water, hung from the
front of every food stall. The coars
er varieties are stewed and served'
with fish. Some of the delicate sprigs
of gea grass are boiled with fish
soups and remain a vivid green, float
ing against the red lacquer of the
soup bowls.
Other species of seaweed are used
in the manufacture of glue, of plag
tér and of starch. Whole villages are
given over to seaweed fishing and the »
drying and packing of the product
for shipment tc the manufacturing
plants in the large cities. In the
country along the seashore the farm
ers use the coarse and ropy kelp for
fertilizing their vegetable fields.—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, .
