MY CASTLE IN SPAIN. My castle in Spain stnu'is fair and L:gh Beside a sunlit bay; Above it bends the nzure sky, The soft wins round it play. No toiler from bis rest was stirred, When rose its splendid walls, No sound of hammer e'er was heard Along its stately halls. My castle in Spain is built of dreams, Of fancies fair and free; Of hope that ever brightly beams, Of joys I yet may see, And when my heart is worn with care, With strife and toll and pain; I leave them and go swiftly where My castle stands in Spain. There dwell the days of my lost youth, With each high hope fuliilled; There shines full-orbed each sacred truth, That through my life has thrilled; There wait for me my loved and lost, With all life's joys attained. Life's Rubicon in safety crossed, And all life's empire gained. The little cares that round my soul , Like little snakes have curled Uncoil and loose each poisoned fold, Outside that fairer world; Old sorrows dead, old pains forgot, Old griefs come not again, The heat burns not, the cold chills not, Where my castle stands iu Spain. Oh, Ship of Thought, that leaves behind The lightning and the light, Come forth from rivers of the mind, For I would ride to-night; And bear Die swiftly, on and on, Actobb your Eastern main, To where in benuty, proud and lone, My castle stands in Spain. Dear lady, with the violet eyes, Afar across the tide, For thee my castle wulls arise, For thee its gutes swing wide; And all the bliss of love we'll shari Walk all love's ways again, . For our lost Kdorj waits us where Our castle stands In Spain. ' ' Chicago Inter Ocean. TWO-BLACKS MAKE A WHITE. F.T us rest awhile," I suggest- , indicating a clump of heath- 'er a few yards from the road Where we stood. "Yes, I'm quite tired," said Nora. "I don't believe there's any white heather wlthlu miles of where wo are." "Never mind; here Is plenty of the purple variety, and It makes the most comfortable lounge In the world." "It looks awfully spidery," she re marked, making a little face. Never theless, she seated herself on the tuft I recommended ns the most luxurious, and I stretched myself lazily beside her. "C, no; not that way! What If any one saw us?" She removed my arm from where It was, and I had to put It back there again. "There Inn't a soul about," I said, soothingly. , "How do you know? There! I'm pure there Is somo one down at the bum. Now, Is It not?" "That Is a sheep, Norn. Hut I prom ise to take away my arm if a human being approaches wlthlu two miles. Will that do?" "O, well, please be careful, Will." Nora became absorbed In thought, "One penny," I hazarded. She blushed. "Tell me," I leggol. "I don't like to. It's something I don't )iilto understand." "1 .1 explain It." "Well" hesllallng "I've lMen won dering, at least I've been trying to think, why you like to put your arm around my waist, Will." "Let me see," said I, reflectively, "why do I like to put my arm around your waist?" "Yes." - "Because I like," I answiwl, readily. "ltut what makes you like?" "It's nice and comfy." "lo be serious. I want to know, Really." "But, Norn, you know ns well ns I do. It's the same reason that makes you like me to do It." "I don't like you to do It." "Then why do you allow It?" "I only allow It to please you." "O!" "And unless you can give me n good reason," she continued, "I shan't allow It any more." I felt a little cross. "We've been engaged for live weeks and three days," I said. "lon't you think It Is rather late for such ques tions?" "It's never too late to mend," she re turned, cruelly, "and I've Just been thinking these last few days, and " "You llrst effort In that way?" I In quired, revengefully, but she took no notice and prixveded calmly: "And I've boon wondering If you ever put your arm round another girl's waist. Have you?" Quito uucxiHH'tctl was this terribly di rect question, I had to consider a mo ment. "Once," I began gravely, "I met a girl." I paused. "Well?" said Nora, Impatiently. "A girl with whom I Wenine so friendly that one evening " 1 paused again. "Do go on!" i "I met her at a dance " j "O, Will, how could you?" "I met her at a dance and danced a quadrille with her." "Yes" eagerly "and afterwards?" 'There was no afterwards, dear," oald I. I anticipated Nora would be pleased. She was not. "Do you mean to say you didn't po and sit on the stairs or In the conser vatory or" vaguely "a ny w here T' "No," said I. "Did you?" Nora was milled. "Will, you are trilling with mo," "1 couldn't afford to, dear." "1 see you won't be serious, and yet I have something very serious t6 say to you. Something that Maud English told me last night." "I heard her," I said. Nora started. "O, you couldn't hear what she said." "Not; quite; but you must remember that the walls of these country' cottages are mostly made of paper. You and she were talking till nearly 2 o'clock this morning. I suppose she was treat ing you to a discourse on Davidson." "Perhaps; but Maud told me also something about you." "Awfully good of her to mention it!" I remarked, with affected cheerfulness, but I felt desperately uncomfortable. It was too bad of Maud, especially when she had Just got engaged to Davidson. "What do you think it was?" asked Nora. "I haven't a notion," I replied. "O, guess," but ttiere was no smile on Nora's face. "Well, maybe she was telling ' how fortunate you were In having such an adorable Individual as I belonging to you." I laughed feebly. "Not altogether," said Nora. "She told me" and very distinctly the words came "that two summers ngo, in this very place, you used to put your arm round her waist, and once you kissed her! That's all I've got to say, Mr. Harris." I hnd not heard my surname for quite n long time, but I liked It none the bet ter for that. Nora moved from me, and my arm slipped from her waist. It was strange It hud remained there through our con versation. I became Intensely interest ed In a fat spider crawling up my sleeve, and a great bee sat on a spray of heather hard by, wooing the sweet ness out of the bloom. A lamb on the hills behind bleated pitifully, and the noise of water came monotonously from the rocky cleft below us. The sun counted for but little now. There was a long, long silence between us, but I felt that Nora was looking at me, and at last she spoke. . "Will." "Yes." I was a little surprised. "Why don't you look at me and say It Isn't true?" I looked at her but a breath. "It's true enough," I said, briefly. Silence again. Then; "You're not frightened of me, are you?" she asked, softly; and I felt her hand touch my hair. "O, Will you can't Imagine how glad I am!" , "What?" I cried, forgetting my man ners. "tJlad I found you out. Would you mind putting your arms back where It was not long ago?" I put my arm there, but I was sorely puzzled. "You see, Will," she began, with a qualut look of trouble In her eyes, "I had a confession to make to you, and and It makes It easier now." I drew her closer. Thank God wo men are not angels. "Don't bother to tell It, dear," I whis pered. "O, but I must tell you. When Maudle told me ulxHit you and herself I had to tell her about Mr. Davidson and myself, for we bad Just been ns bad. And, Will, sometimes I felt so dreadful at not having told you before. Often I tried to speak and couldn't. And than I was so glad when Maudle mentioned you she didn't like my story about Mr. Davidson for 1 felt that I could at last tell you." "Were you quite sure I would for give you, dear?" I asked, looking down Into her eyes. "Sinners must forgive sinners," she whispered very gravely. "Ah, Wdl, you don't care any the less, do you? And you won't think any more of what I said?" "I did not think I cared so much, my Norn, till I felt that. I had lost you just now. And the past Is nothing when I know that you are mine to-day." ' "And forever!" she sighed. "Forever and ever!" I added, kissing her. St. Paul's. Ttio Jew and the Kobher. A Jewish peddler, returning home from bis weeks' travels to rejoin his family on the Sabbath, ns was his wont, was met by a highwayman who demanded his money. Keluetantly he parted with It, counting It Into the hand of the roblter In the hope that the delay thus caused might bring some wayfarer. When he was tlnlshed he said to the robber, as a sudden thought came to him; "Meester, won't you please Nhoot me a little hole In my sleeve so 1 can show my vlfe that I met a real, genuine highwayman?" Accommodatingly he shot a hole In his right sleeve, his coat tall and llnally tisik off his hat and said: "Now, mee ster, let me show my family how near I had a hole In my head and den dey won't be sorry dat I lost my money." The roblier, who had been enjoying the inn, told him that lie couldn't because he had no more shots. "Now," said the Jew, seizing the villain, whose tire ho had so cleveivly drawn, "gt me back my money." The higerlreiil Tree. There Is a siocles of palm twenty five or thirty feet la height, growing In Kgypt, Abyssinia, Nubia, and Ara bia, producing fruits !u long clusters, each of which contains from one to two hundred. These fruits are of an Irregular form, of a rich yellowish brown color, and are beautifully polish eil. In I'pix'r Kgypt they form part of the food for the poorer classes, the part oaten U-Ing the fibrous mealy husk, which tastes almost exactly like ginger-bread, whence the popular name of 'Vlngor'vad tree" In Kgypt. The wife may congratulate herself on having made a good match If her hus band never goes out nights. FORTUNE FOR TELEPHONE GIRL. SADIE HOLMES, of San Francis co, hag been a telephone girl in San Francisco for- eight weeks, her father's reverses of fortune having forced her to earn her own living. But now fortune smiles, and she Is known as Lady Bretherton and has a fortune of $1,(X)0,000 and an estate in Wales. "It Is like a fairy story," Lady Brether ton said, when asked for details. "The property belonging to Lady Jane Breth erton, who died two months ago, passed to my father at her death, by reason of MISS SADIE HOLMES. the English law of entail. This was not unexpected, but what my father did not know, until so Informed by the London lawyers, was that the title of that portion of the estates that Is in Wales passes to the eldest daughter of the heir. I am papa's eldest daughter, so you see I am the fortunate one." This brief but comprehensive expla nation was fully corroborated by the statements of Mr. Holmes and by docu mentary evidence In the shape of a bundle of formal legal papers that were received from London. Lady Bretherton Is 21 years of age and very pretty. The licnntifyliiK Bath. It is not infrequently said that a dally bath Is weakening. This Is such n great mistake that It Is difficult to understand how it Is ever made. A dally bath is just as necessary to bodily purity as daily prayers are to soul purity, and It should be as conscien tiously fatten. In some place, and at some time that cannot be recalled, this observation has come to my notice, and Its truth made Its Impression a lasting one: "A lady bathes not to get clean, but to stay clean." It Is true that re maining too long in the bath may be weakening, but a quick bath In either very wnrm or even hot water, followed by a cold dash, has only good effects. A refreshing and practical bath Is one In moderately hot water with a little sea-salt In It sea -salt Is practical and cheap- pure white soap, a sponge and a cheese-cloth wash-rag. Cheese-cloth is both practical and cheap, at the same time sulliclently rough to remove all dirt and not rough enough to scratch Woman's Home Companion. Artist-I.nnrente of the Street Arab. Iiondon society people are vigorously applauding the artistic work of Mrs. Henry M. Stanley, wife of the African explorer. Before her marriage Mrs. Stan ley as Dorothy Tennant had won a rep utation as a painter of poetic pictures of street arabs. Her work has been MHS. nKNltV M. STANLEY. constantly Improving and her pictures have btvu so full of the rugged poetry of the streets that they have won for her the title of "artist-laureate of the street arab." In all her pictures there Is a moral that Impresses one like a sol emu sermon. Determln-d to He n Widow, Miss Hsu of Soochow recently mar ried a rod flower as a substitute for her betrothed, who died before the wedding day. He was a sou of Lu Jen Hslang, vice-chancellor of the Imperial Academy at Pekln. The young woman, having determined to marry no on else, adopted this meatw to enter her botrothed's family and so be troatod as a willow. The iHHpk of Soochow are talking of building a store arch to comiuouiorato Miss Hsu's virtues. Advice About Knttng, It wouldu't make so much difference as to what a woman ate, says a publica tion which claims to bo authority on culinary toplow. If she would oidy wart long enough between meals to got hun gry, but she diKtin't, and there's whore the trouble logins. Nature ts a tena cious old jade. Ulveu the time, she will digest and assimilate almost any thing that the stomach can retain. Un Mhsff Mr 0 Jr less a woman washes or works for a living she doesn't need three meals any day of her life. It takes systematic work to consume that much fuel. En gineers are too clever to fill the furnace with coal unless there Is a trip to make, an elevator to run or work to do. It doesn't matter what a man looks like, so long as he Is decent and healthy, but It Is the duty of every gentlewoman to be as good-looking as her circumstances will permit. Wromen often eat them selves ugly, 111 and brutal. Working Girl's Great Chnnce. "The average home holds out a far more comfortable time, a more leisurely life, a healthier existence, and better wages, than does the office, store or factory to an intelligent girl or wo man," writes Edward W. Bok of "The Working-Girl's Great Chance," In the Ladles' Home Journal. ';The same time devoted, for evample, to the study of shorthand or typewriting, If given to the study of nursing or domestic ser vice, would mean twice the income to a bright, steady girl. Unfortunately, girls will not see this, and thousands of them who are to-day struggling through an existence In the outer world, could have far more comfortable lives and better wages In excellent homes. How the average girl can deliberately shut her eyes to the opportunity which fairly glares upon "her as a good maid, nurse, companion or domestic of auy sort, passes average comprehension. There has never been a time when mistresses were readier or more willing to pay good wages for good domestic service wages compared to which the pittance paid in shops or factories sinks into In significance. And, on the other hand, the salaries of women In business, as recent statistics plainly show, are grad ually on the decrease because of the willingness of hundreds of girls to work for a mere pittance. Every business house hns to-day waiting lists of scores or hundreds of applicants, while hun dreds of homes cry out for intelligent domestic service." New Bicycle Costume. The "Company" Rqom. A young housekeeper, iu planning her furnishings, should regard the uses of her company room before she decides upon Its fittings, advises the New York Past, If It is to be a reception-room pure and simple, It should take on the look of formality which belongs to such an apartment. If, however, It Is to be a roceptlon-room and family best room besides, little touches of use are Indis pensable. Where only one room can be devoted to the combination use of reception-room, parlor and perhaps fam ily sitting-room also, Its scheme of fur nishing should be very different from that which heads a suite of three rooms to 1k devoted to these respective pur poses. Book shelves may line the walls to the height of 5 feet, tn'rhaps, and at such Intervals as are needed to store one's library, the furniture IxMug solid and durable, and of a character that will stand exposure to light and sun, The rugs and hangings must be of the siime order, and If this quality of wear Is taken into consideration, there Is no 'reason why the room may not preserve its freshness to the point of reception formality, even under constant use. The trouble Is that the inexperienced furnisher buys for such a hybrid room the dainty brocatelles and light gilt aw enameled furniture that are sold mulct the generic term of parlor furniture These belong to the formal reception room, and not to the apartment under consideration. Tencher for Sixty Yenra. MIhs Phelie S. Edgar of Itahwny, N. J., hns been a teacher for sixty yeara In the Sunday school of the Second Presbyterian Church of that place. 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