MEMORIES. Ghosts of depArted bettor dnys, Vngnr; spectres of forgotten Hoonos, Peace-MettsenRers whom prtgeucc brings Tranquility, when twilight flings Its purple gloom, nnd niglit convenes Her spirits in the amber haze. Dark-robed magicians by whose art Forgotten forms are conjured up, Shrewd alchemists whose cunning hold Turns recollection's rusts to gold, And pours in fancy's silver cup The dews of peace to still my heart, I welcome you this lonely night, Crowd round my clinir and revel free, Nor mind the storm-king's fractious shout Who holds wild carnival without, Throw charmed mantles over me, Sly restless heart with dreams delight. j Haste, while the deep'ning shadows steal A-down the dusky path of night, Dim harbingers of spirit hjinds Who lure the sold to unknown'lands, Haste, while the embers' (lying light Its mystic picture-lore reveals. What glories in your largess seem! What grotesque forms your magic makes, And in the lights that come and go Dream-plmntnm of the long ago Its visions of dead days awakes, And sets thought's smouldering fires a gleam. What strange emotions thrill the heart As each Elysian shade appears! Sweet apparitions gliding by As clouds float o'er a summer sky Those spirit-forms of bygone years, These phantasmas of mem'ry's art. Youth's Companion. HEADS OR TAILS. ARIK," I began awkwardly, for I had never pro posed before, "you must know you must have seen for a long time that that I lovu you." Marie said nothing, but sat looking down at her hands, which were twisting a bit of lace that she called a h a n d k e rchlef. She was smiling before I began. She now looked dis tressed. I do not like for Marie to look dis tressed, for she then looks as If she were going to cry. And a crying wo man Is not pretty. So for the minute I laid aside my own affair to comfort Mnrlc. "Marie," I began, venturing with much trepidation to lay my hand softly upon botti of hers, "what's the mat ter?" She looked up. Her lips were quiv ering, and a tear, balanced for the start, stood in each eye. "I don't know what to do," she whis pered brokenly. "Well?" I said, Inquiringly, inviting her to continue. She hesitated nervously for several seconds. Then she went on almost iu audlbly: "You see, Mr. Transonic told mo last night what you told me just now." "Damn Transome!" I wild to myself; find to Marie, "Well, Philip Transonic Is a fine fellow, you know." "Of course," said Marie, acquiescing a little too readily, I thought. "And he's good-looking." "Yes." "And rich." "Yes." This llemlnlng a rival's good points to comfort the woman you love Is rath er straining on one's generosity. It Isn't so bad If the woman rewards your generosity, as of course she should, ltut Marie didn't. So I stopped. "Well, where's the trouble thou?" I asked nt length. "I don't know what to do," she re plied, repenting her former wall. "I began to see. It Is hard to decide between two lovers. I could sym pathize with Marie, for I had once been In a similar predicament myself. Marie did not notice the sympathy. Bhe merely looked uncomfortable at tills buhl statement of the dllllculty. Put she did not deny It. "You like me, don't you?" I ventured, with some fear In my heart, Marie nodded. I felt very com placent. "And you like Philip Transome?" I continued. She nodded a second time. I believe I swore at Transome again. "Hut you cau't decide between us. Is that it?" "That's It," acknowledged Marie, weakly. "You have tried every way?" "I have, and I can't" here Mario blushed, but It was a blush 1 did not like, because It was for Transome as much as It was for me -"and 1 can't tell which of you I like the better." The person who sits In the stmt of the undecided sits not easily. This I knew. And any decision is letter than no de cision. This also 1 know. So out of the sympathy which I had for Marie I made up my mind to help her arrive at some decision, even though I lost by It. Put 1 did not lutend losing If I could help It, 1 thought for a long time, but noth ing came. Then 1 looked up at Marie. Her eyes were lixed expectantly on Hie, as though she had Instinctively Ion rued of my Intention to help her and was awaiting my plan. "Well," said I, seizing on an Idea that Just then popped Into my head, "since you have tried all oilier ways, sup pose you toss up for us." "What!" exclaimed Marie, half start ing from lier chair. "Toss up for us," I repeated, calmly. Marie sank back in her nualr nnd gazed at uie In amazement. Marie's, surprise at my suggestion angered me somewhat. Of course I can understand that choosing a hus band in such a way may seem a little queer to some girls. Put they needn't act as though it wore so unusual. lie sides, there are worse ways. "Toss up for you:" Marie managed to grasp out at length. "Certainly," I replied with some as perity. "Have you anything better o Suggest?" A reluctant "No" came from Marie. "You'd better toss up, then," I said, decisively, drawing a quarter from one of my pockets and offering it to her. She took it and gazed at it for a long time. I began to grow Impatient, for the coin was like any other of its kind, and I could see no reason why she should study It. Then I saw that her look was the look of one who is think ing. Suddenly she raised her head and gazed steadily at me. And then a smile that I liked strangely well slowly came Into her eyes. "No, you do it," she said, returning the coin. "I don't know how." We both stood up. "Ileads, it is Transome; tails, it is IV" I suggested, briefly. Marie nodded. I balanced the coin on my first finger. I felt sure of the result, for the man never lived who Is as lucky as I am. I even began to pity poor Transome. Put before this feeling had much op portunity to grow I Hipped the quarter whirling into the air, and, as it struck the floor, placed my foot upon it. I looked at Mario. "Which shall it be?" I asked, softly. "You," she whispered. I slipped my foot aside and we both stopped. The laurel-wreathed head of Liberty was up. It was Transome! We both straightened up. I looked at Marie and Marie looked nt me. She was pale, and I could not have been otherwise. I had risked all on the turn of a coin and it had turned the wrong way. Without a word, for I was not Wise in the ways of women, I walked out of the room, secured my hi t In the hall, and started to open the door and go out into the street. As my hand was turning the knob something touched my arm. I turned and looked nround. There stood Marie, with a little smile a little beseeching smllL on her face. "Dick," she whispered, and then was silent. I still held on to the door knob. "Dick" this time the smile was still more beseeching "cau't you see? It's It's you, anyhow." I saw, and my hand left the door knob. And In the little excitement that followed I also may have kissed Marie. Such things have happened. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. QUEER THINGS IN THE MAIL. Ifevcliitlona Made by the Mun Who liundlea lIitHtuinpcd Matter. The man in the general delivery win dow when ho had been asked for a letter for a certain man, had made a mysterious sign to a muscular Individ ual who had been shelling peanuts on a near-by bench and who had told the owner of the letter that he was under arrest. The latter had protested and made threats for the "outrage," but had accompanied the man with a de tective's star under his coat. The spec tator had become excited, but the gen eral delivery man had assured him that It was the regular way of catching criminals, and was evidently much more interested In the actions of the man who handles letters that are re ceived unstamped. "What Is It now, Tom?" "Horse lung," gasped the clerk who was working on the lis of the "miscel laneous list," having entered the score of "bicycle parts." "Had a lot of stuff In the Cs," he added; "cult buttons, clocks, compass, creosote and a curling Iron. Put here Is a man that Is mailing the lung of a horse! I know what it is, because I attended the autopsy of father's old gray mare during my boy hood. "I lvad a eanary bird yesterday with a plaintive note from a mother to her sou Rufus telling him 'poor little Plllle died on the train. Pury him In the back yard.' The sistage was omitted, but I forwarded It 0. O. P., and this morning it was returned. Rufus dear was 'not going to monkey with the old thing.' "The mud turtles, minnows, hornets' nests nnd ammunition that come through here would stock a museum, but aside from a box containing some cartridges that exploded In the cancel ing machine we have had no Infernal machine worse than the big black spider that was en route to a girl." Township of Hut One I lou no. T'ndoubtedly the most extraordinary township in Knglund is that of Skid daw, In Cumberland. It contains but one house, the occupier of which Is un able to exercise the Urlton's privilege of voting, because there is no overseer to prepare a voters' list and no church or otlr place of worship or assembly In which to publish one. The most re mote village In England Is that of Far ley cum -Pit ton. This rural spot Is thir ty and one-half miles from the nearest railway station. As a contrast to this may be mentioned the hamlet of Ys tard, about ten nilles from Cardiff. This tiny settlement possesses two Impor tant main roads, two railroads and twe large rivers. yutokcr than They DroHincil. In 1N;0 Goethe w rote to a friend that It seemed almost Inconceivable that now that the Gothard wagon road had 1hou opened it was possible to go from Frankfort to Milan In u single week. It is now done In a day. Exchange. A man is seldom dlsapindnted in love until after he gets married. Some men grieve two dollars' worth over every dollar tliey lotp CAPTAIN OF A STEAMBOAT. MPS. IDA MOORE LACII mund, captain of the steam er Robert Dodds, is the only woman In the log-rafting business. Her home is in Clinton, Iowa. She is a Colonial Dame, a Daughter of the Revolution and a relative of the Pat terson family of Philadelphia. She is justly proud of her success in timber towing on the Mississippi. Six years since .Mrs. Lachnmnd purchased the Robert Dodds and fitted It up for tow ing the great log rafts from the head waters of the Mississippi to the big Mils. IDA JI. LACHMUND. mills at points as faE as 500 miles southward. She handles more than $500,000 worth of logs ench season, and In transit they are entirely at her own risk. This is no small responsibility, as the rafts are kept lying in hundreds .of bays and sheltered places along the river, in order to keep the mills in ma terial. In an emergency the steamer makes a run to one of these bays and drops a raft at the mill's dock. Mrs. Laehinund brings rafts of a million feet down the river, and she plans her trips so that the mills she supplies are never idle. The value of the rafts ranges from $10,000 to $12,000 each. An ordinary raft covers a surface area of five acres. All the details of the business and the management of the boat and crew are under Mrs. Lacu mund's supervision. She buys her stores and fuel and hires her' own hands, and she is as familiar with the steamer and the rafting as any man on the boat. The crew of the Robert Dodds consists of twenty-one picked men. The river men, from master to roustabout, treat Mrs. Lachmund with the utmost deference, and her crew Is one of the best on the Mississippi. Mrs. Lachmund's home Is in Clinton, Iowa, where her husband Is in busi ness. They have three sons, the eld est of whom is a sophomore In the Uni versity of Chicago. The two younger ones are in a preparatory school In Clinton. Their home is one of comfort nnd refinement. Mrs. Lachmund is a handsome- woman, sensitive and re fined. She is an accomplished musi cian and fond of literature and society. Successful Woman Lecturer. Grei'k archaeology is the scclnlty of Miss A. Gordon Dunlop, who has won fame in this branch of science and is now in America delivering lectures Illustrated by 000 s tereoptleon views. She Is a young English woman, a protege of the famous En gllsh authority, Percy Gardner, and the friend of Purne-.Tones, Hal man Hunt nnd others of the pre Raphaellte school of, art. Miss Dun lop has achieved great success as a miss nrju.Ai'. lecturer on the history and philosophy of pottery, sculpture and painting. l'uper Published by Women. There has just been launched in Taris a dally paper devoted Bolely to the Interests of the fair sex. It Is pro duced entirely by women, and not only are the editors, the managers and the staff of reporters women, but the type is set by female compositors, , and It Is reported that even the printers' devils are feminine members of the genus "gamin." The name of the paper Is I.a Fronde. Vsed as a noun, this means the Implement of ancient warfare with which David slew Goliath, while to the verb "fronder" the translation to sling, to censure, to blame, to criticise and to oppose all equally apply, and. judging from the first number, are singularly appropriate, since It is full of abuse of everything that can be possibly eou strtied as the handiwork of man. lllnnn of the Mierrna. Porty-llve doer have fallen before the rltle of Miss Cornle Chlttendon, of Cummlugs, Oil., in six years. Miss Chlttendon possesses the keenest In stincts of a sportswoman. Since baby hood she has been accustomed to live an outdoor, self-reliant life. Her par ents, with whom she has been brought tip. own a sheep ranch of some 4(H) j acres, part of it having been pretty i rough country, nnd over this and the I surrounding forests and hills Miss j Chlttendon has been accustomed to roam at w ill almost since she was first j able to toddle. When quite a little girl j she was taught how to handle a gun. nud very soon became so expert In Its Use that she could hit a bird on the wing three times out of live. Her fath er's ranch is hung nround with the antlers of deer and the tusks of wild auluials, while the floors are covered mm ll m f I If III ,p 1 f 9? . srn-nvri with the furs of foxes, bears and wild cats that have fallen before the deadly aim of this modern Diana. Women Not as Neat us Men. Women, in the opinion of a writer In Godey's Magazine, are very neglectful of the minor details of their dress. In comparing the fair sex with men in matters of neatness the writer says: ' "Women are endowed with strange vagaries, and while extremely fastid ious in many ways are very neglectful In others. Even the swellest society girl is not as particular as to the fresh ness of her collar and cuffs as the plain, everyday man of business; to change his linen a.t least once a day is a sort of religion with most men. With women it is different. They will in spect their collars and cuffs after a hard day's wear, and decide that they will do, not recognizing the fact that if any doubt exists on the matter they Bhould be consigned to the laundry without a demur. Again, a man is much more concerned as to the state of his shoes than a womau; even the poor clerk on his meager salary spends his nickel a day for a shine without grudging, and if it be Imperative that the nickel be saved he gets up earlier In the morning and wields the black ing brush himself. The woman will gown herself in Worth's or Paguin's latest creation and forget to look at her shoes; she Is willing to condone the loss of one or two buttons and the consequent baggy appearance of her extremities; like the peacock, she trusts to the gorgoousness of her plu mage, nnd hopes that her skirts will cover all defects." Girl Buns an Engine. California has a young girl who has solved the mysteries of the locomotive throttle. The curves and grades of the roads are not obscure to her. She is Miss Lola M. Coulter, a fair-haired girl of 14, and when she met her first railroad train a few weeks ago it was only a few days before she was in the cab. She lives in Tuolumne County, where railroad trains have been uu kuown until recently. She Immediately made the acquaint ance of Engineer Brown, and after three or four lessons she could manage the throttle, set the brakes, round up toward the turns and put on more speed for the steep grades. Engineer Brown says she learned how to handle the engine much quicker than any fire man he ever had in a cab with him, and that he never had to repeat any In structions. It appeared to be second nature with her to operate machinery, for she mastered the most difficult de tails almost Instantly. The more in tricate the mechanism the ensler she learned its use nnd just how It was affected by adjacent pieces. Her cool head nnd steady nerves never fall her and she always has her hands on the throttle and air brake lever to bring the train to a standstill at a moment's notice. Conducts a Grocery Store. Another Denver girl has come to the fore by striking out in business for her self. She Is Miss Elizabeth Collins, and is a true type of American wom anhood. Bessie, as she Is known among her girl friends and cus- tomers, runs a A srmeorv tore nnd Is meeting with excellent success. brnsik roi.t.iv. mourns is a pretty blonde of li) summers. She grad uated with honors last year at the North Denver high school. When the fall term of school commenced Bhe grew restless, with nothing to do, her school days being over, and while chat ting with a friend one day, telling that she hardly knew what business to choose, her companion suggested that she adopt the grocery business. She made up her mind to embark In that line, nud with some capital furnished by her father soon had the place in readiness for customers, aud these came In gratifying numbers. Novelty in Bridesmaid. It was something of an innovation at a wedding lately to have the brides maids enter four by the right and four by the bft door of the church. It was such a surprise, says the Philadelphia Times, that the wedding party should tt.ii .miiriitn tlint tlw. nn.t'.nii.u .11.1 ..... .... t- jr.,.... ...... ...v ...x... Will HVH at first notice tnai two processions were simultaneously making their way to the altar. The bride, on her father's arm, entered by the middle aisle, when her attendants had accomplished about half the distance up the right and left aisles. She was preceded by two ush ers and her maid of honor walking alone, another pair of ushers closing the procession. As the bridesmaids reached the chancel they formed a lane through which the bride slowly passed, to be met at the altar steps by the groom. CALIFORNIA'S OIUL KXGINKKK. 5,1 1 You can f i i be cured f If you suffer from any of the ( ills of men, come to the oldest Specialist on the Pacific Coast. DR. 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