MIDNIGHT. Lat saldalghi la I he eravevard: ssase41 of damp grass was In my BoetrUs; I my heart throb in the awful silence. Jm a headlong direr, plnntclnir In the oceun. dimly glimmering through the green aaritneaa swinging nurifen pulsating above him: the slimy keels of diliirent venae la. ith babbling wake of ghostly foam in fur rows. a dull shine of sails swollen by tempests; I tidies eyed monsters leering .past him, 1 wrecks and drowned men constantly inking. . White the muffled knell of the surf is tolling: as I heard the sad lapse of the mill stream. Si, down, quickly my spirit descended TW the residence of dead men and women. ' k Mm unearthly sepulchral twilight ' firmament was visible necked, with white clouds of motion law daisies; i craggy roots of the headstones protruded BsKioni fortabiy from the low ceilings of the Trtaous obscure damp cavern. Baddenly from ten thousand eyeless sockets A mild but awful glare of light glowed bluely. lighting the streets of that benevolent city. AfMspitabiecity. whose gates were always open: v With low priced tenements for God's poor , people; .. -V cheap renort for desolate age in winter. Vfcsaeigbborhood was orderly and quiet, A from each oofflo window a skull was grin ning a isUe mockery at life's foolish satire. was a wouderful sameness in oostums by rich ladies and their poor servants. BS bills presented to embarrassed bus- bands, Si by side lay the spendthrift and the miser, TVs maid and her rejected lover, Ts prodigal and his unrelenting father. WsiiiLu there were of feet In sad procession, .tad gleams of eyes with curious sadness, Peering Into the dark they soon or late must tenant. My soal. moved by an irresistible Impulse, bate the thistledown before the east wind. Went through many anonymous avenues. 1 heard a sound of deep perpetual thunder. Lake life's flood tide throbbing in monotonous pulses, Wsjus the shore that has no road or harbor. -Waa.it a reality, or was It a vision merely 4 eaw underground as my spirit descended into land of the mole and the gopherT a James Ingalhtin Minneapolis Journal. ELEANOR IN LOVE. held in her hand the letter. Should AT he send it? That moment was one of those wistfully critical epochs of exis tence upon which may swing,' as upon a wage, the door of destiny. . Eleanor Armstrong stood in doubt. "Wtoy? It. was a little thing, just a friend ly letter to Jack Renehaw out in Texas. What matter? Why should she hesitate? BfeanoV. could not tell. Still she lin aWwl, dimly prescient of that swinging stow of destiny. She had written his name across the ssirelope: should she complete the ad taess and let it got Hers was a quick, TdtiTe nature, given to the obedience T impulse. It was vexing to be so paz akd over so slight a thing. . An accident, if such, it was, decided the question. A caller was announced. She descended to the drawing room, and" tfce letter went to the box, gathered up with the rest of her mail by the hand of the maid. ...... "It was destiny," said Eleanor to her aetf iif an afterthought. ....... After all nothing could come of it. Sbe was under no obligation to .Jack Ken&haw, nor to any other man, in fact. Then she1 wondered : idlvr if she ever should care for' any of them one more than another for Eleanor Armstrong, while no beauty, had grace and sparkle, ad a subtle personal magnetism which strew about her plenty of admirers. Sbe favored them all - by turns. Last summer it was Lew Hunter. She went heating with hiip up in lovely.Chocorua," where they summered, played tennis and climbed counts? roads and hills. "He was so strong and good natured, aad made such a good al pen -stock," she. coolly explained to her aunt, Miss Jane Hears, who was her careful chaperon. This year, last past, it was Jack Ren chaw, at the same place, Chocorna "dear old dreamy town," Eleanor said, "I could never tire of it." Jack did not lance, cared nothing for tennis, and had "no experience with oars: but he read jwetry beautifully, and could tell her charming old idyls as they walked by M the river. He interested her in a way that others tid not: and yet he had such a dreadfully intense earnestness : about him that he -positively frightened her sometimes, she aid. i Now the summer was gone,' Jack was in Texas, and Eleanor was in' her city s home with only Aunt Jane and memory. Yes, there was always Fred Kensel. He Jrrediiin, a handsome house up in the square, with a stylish mother and sisters. He was the oldest friend of all, and was always at hand, sometimes more than Eleanor wished; For iir Jthe last year . their frank, unrestrained good fellow-.-. ahip had in some way taken on a color too strong for j ordinary friendship,' and Jflearlor often.-found herself uncomforta ble and ill at ease when Fred was near. She would declare the air was closed-she Bust have the window open fxd where ' was Aunt Jane? ' Or if they were on the Unit she complained of bis pace; why Ud he Jatf so?'- Couldn't he walk up like -any other man? Poor Fred "unwittingly felt the :. smart, of many thorns that winter. But ! about 'Jack Renahaw; Eleanor wared nothing for him she knew she sfidnt.--.He-was- a - pleasant - summer friend, nothing .more. Ha. had- light n she wouldn't marry a. blonde; . any- Then" he wsf too serious, too "preachy." She wasn't going tov marry' gtridoboard. Besides, he was all of ten re older than mlht awell : be-t iddTther;-' -NoJ -Jack v-sayuaag pacsvrneaa, waotit or ma mm i f 1 T fn h T.kfa'f?nfnAv waa mi ' V. A-J mind, and Gecretiy to herself, she owned! that Mr. Jerome Arthur, the tenor at St. AaFs was nsuvr trt hftr LaaLS tK 1 either. Bat Mr. Jerome Arthur, yasja. 1 3- ooly. vague possibility. " 8b-iaf j met him casually a'doaeh times or so. i Thus 'she feaBohedV '' ' do the days wefit by, and the letter and Jack went 'almost out of "mind. Oc casionally a : remark or tone of voice, or a marked passage in some favorite book they had read, would recall- him. Then memory would 'stir,' and she would idly wonder if he got her letter, and when and how he would write. But the spec ulation whs one of indifference. It troubled her not. The issue was all too vague as yet. Lew Hunter was around occasionally: she began to meet and sing duets with Jerome Arthur at the houses of friends, while Fred Kensel was ' in constant attendance for , lectures, concerts j arid drives. Therefore, if ' Miss Eleanor's " time did. not fly, it at least did not drag: and she spent very few hours either in ennui or in serious reflection: . . MiHB.JaneJMears was sometimes anx ious for the future of her niece, and took occasion to remind br of the ultimate necessity of a choice and a judicious set tlement in life. Whereupon the spirited girl, with laughing audacity, averred that Aunt Jane herself was to be con gratulated, upon her own merciful preser vation, frorq such a climax 1 That good lady' received the lively, sallies cif her niece with the good humored toleration of a mother cat under the attack of a frolicsome kitten.: "But, Eleanor, my dear." she wonld purr, "you know yon cannot always go on in this way; yon really must make a choice." . v. ; ' "Make a. choice: how shall I do it, auntie? Advertise, for sealed. , proposals and award the contract to the highest bidder, or put the candidates in a bag and raffle for them?" . "Don't be absurd, child," responded Miss Jane: "yon know what I mean, of course. I am afraid you will go through the entire pasture and then take up with a crooked stick." "Well, 1 haven't seen any quite straight enough, to suit me yet." ' "Well, well, my dear, I only talk to you for your own good. I have been afraid you misased it when you didn't take up with Josiah Hawkins." ." 'Josiah Hawkins' and 'missed it," indeed!" retorted Eleanor. "What did 1 miss but an' antiquated old pig with dyspepsia and squeaky shoes. I trust I am not reduced to quite so low an ebb." "No. no, child; don't fly in a passion so; it isn't ladylike. I ant only afraid you will never do any better, that is all." " 'Do any better!' I should think I could hardly, do worse than marry a man for whom 1 hadn't a spark of love!" and the girl's eyes flashed. "Well, there, there," soothed the se rene maternal cat. "don't let's talk any more about it." "No, but you mustn't begin it, and please don't scold me any more, dear," succumbed Eleanor, with a -kittenish embrace. And so the dialogue would end. And the autumn days went by. November came on. and no letter from Jack. Eleanor began to think about it. Sometimes she watched, half uncon sciously, for. the postman, with a little sting of . disappointment when he went by. Yet her intimacy with Mr. Jerome Arthur grew apace, and she was quite fascinated, by his tender tones and dark, passionate eyes. December no letter. Eleanor's feel ing of mere question of the cause passed into the stage of positive pique. .Her pride was touched. Not even to. write to her, to leave any letter of. hers unan swered, when any other man would have written two.. Well, if Jack Renshaw had a remote idea of her wearing the wil low for him, he had not read his p's and q's correctly, that was all-7 ,, So she sang more and sweeter duets with Jerome Arthur, smiled more gra ciously on Lew Hunter, and completely dazzled poor Fred Kensel with her affa bility. On the. whole she was rather glad he did not write so ' she solilo quized for inasmuch as she cared noth ing for Jack, and never could, a corre spondence would be stupid and only lead to trouble:' . Of course he cared for her that is, well, of course he did! Then, in proof of that fact, her mind reverted to the night last summer when they parted at the gate of the old farmhouse where she stopped. They had taken their last walk by the river. They had then sought the top of the "ledges" to watch the sun set. Finally, in the twilight they had wan dered back to say goodby at the gate. Jack was going - tomorrow and she a ' week later. Their conversation was broken and ' intermittent as they came down the grassy road. . . ".Perhaps" this may. be our .last walk forever.T' spoke his low, earnest voice. "Should you care if it were, Eleanor?" ; J'Ohdon't be so solemn," exclaimed she. ', "Of course we shall have more dozens next summer." , He detained her gently by the arm. "But would you care if we never did. I asked you'" "Jack Renshaw' facing him audaci ously, "did you ever see an - owl? You positively make me think of one some times." His face paled a little. His mouth had a firmer look as he walked in silence by her side to the gate. ,' Hesitating a mo ment while she coquetted with her para sol and shifted soine -wild flowers un easily -from one 'band into the eerier: ' ."Goodby, Eleanor' very gravely. "Goodby, Jack,", vivaciously, 5 r , "lathat all can yoasay nothing else?" "Why", what should I say?" she laugh- e'i ' ' ,. ' -.- V . V "Say that you care a little for our sum tner ended if you. do."; taking ! her hand. ' - "Bat what if -I doa'V withdrawing that member. ' He looked at her challenging' face a momdnt? seriously - j 'Goodby ," he said, and turned and walked ed away. Eleanor tripped lightly over therthreahpld up throomflung offTher r(haft immediately sat do wV and V-yes, tMf W S8 inexpHdaBl contra She remembered it now with a smile, half of, incredulity, half of Bblf eoni iMrfrVfc' WT5" rtirl -hi r-rvf True again the, inexplicabihties of girlhood she 414 know.' Three weeks after the parting scene she had' received a letter from Jack in, Texas, purely friendly, but the closing paragraph of which was this, "May I ex pect an answer, and may I hope that yon do regret, just a littie, the ending of our summer idyll" . - So Eleanor had written her reply warily eschewing the subject of 'fregret, however, and that was the letter to which she had received no re- ply- The winter days wore on.. Froin, in difference to curiosity, from curiosity to pique, and now from pique to anxiety and fitful depression her feeling had passed. From .a careless dream of . se curity in his regard she had awakened to doubt and uneasy question. ' Had he never cared himself for their snmmer idyl? Of course she didn't, she stoutly maintained to herself, but someway the growing conviction of his indifference was extremely unwelcome to her. ' , If the truth must be told, her anxiety wore on : Miss- Eleanor, and , she, even moped a little, dismally sometimes, at twilight in her room, and pretended she had a headache when Fred called. She dropped by degrees out of the duets-and petulantly declared it bored her to sing. ' Her friends and Mr. Jerome Arthur im plored, but she was obdurate. Neither passionate ..glances nor tender tones had power to move -her more.' cThen she snubbed Lew Hunter and privately voted him stupid. ... : , , Miss . Mesrs noticed capneioosnesa of appetite, and was. . anxiously solicitous. Did Eleanor sleep well nights?- Had she a pain in her side? A dizzy head? Was. her tongue coated? . And: wouldn't she have on a porous plaster or wouldn't she take same tonic bitters? To all of which her niece objected with laughing contempt. "What do you think about going to Chocerua again this summer?" inquired Miss Mears of her niece one morning the following June. They were sitting at breakfast, and Eleanor was dallying with her coffee spoon. "Oh, that stupid little town, no. Any place but there," was the quick response. . I' Why," said her aunt, in " mild sur prise, "I thopght you liked it so much last year. I am sure the farm house was cool, the vegetables fresh, and yon know you thought the river scenery was de lightful." At mention of the river scenery Elea nor was conscious of a pang at her heart like pain; but she answered carelessly: "One tires of things sometimes. I should like a change." That evening as she took down her long hair in her aunt's room, before - re tiring, she said suddenly, and with a little nervous flutter, "Yes, let's go ; to Chocorna, auntie; you. know you like it, and the Kensels are . going, and it's as good as any place, after all." ; , Miss Jane Mears received. the' proposi tion without surprise; having had twen ty years' experience with the fluctuating inclinations of her niece. So it was ar ranged. . J - A month later found them settled. There were numerous gay young peo ple, Fred Kensel; his sister and Jerome Arthur among . the rest, and Eleanor walked and drove and sought out her old haunts by the river." But there was a lack, a haunting, memory, and a wist ful pain, which her heart sought in vain to ignore. .... . . ... .. . One night a merry half dozen of them, were playing tennis in the field near the farm house which- was. the - temporary borne of their choice, when a carriage passing, the driver raised his' hat . and drew up; ": .. " Jack;'; Renshaw.!". exclaimed two or three, recognizing .and running toward him,, racket 8 in hand. . ' , Eleanor felt as if stunned, but,' being possessed of too much tact and pride to allow herself "to seem disconcerted, she approached with the others and offered her hand. He leaned from the carriage in greeting them all. and Eleanor felt, when he took her hand, that his eyes were seeking her own. . But she could scarcely look up. . Her old fearless con fidence .was gone, and . she blushed half angrily at her disadvantage. . -. , . Jack Renshaw : recognized, too,-,: the difference, and a something intuitive di-" rected. his reply to the -general impor tunity whether he would not be with them before the season was over. "Yes, certainly, I . think I shall," was His reply as he drew his reins and drove on. - ' He had told them -that a telegram brought him from Texas a month ago to the bedside of his mother, who was crit- -ically ill, and whose only son he was. Her home was in an adjoining town. She was now con valescent, and he was to return south in September.' That night Eleanor pleaded weariness and retired early to her room. But she could not sleep. ; She did not try. With out a light, and in her flowing wrapper, she sat long, dreaming in the wide west window: dreaming of all things, of last summer and of the dull, gray fnture. But through every vision there moved 1 one central figure. ., All else revolved about that. One face haunted her mem ory, one voice thrilled her heart. ; She rose at last and nervously paced the floor. Why should she think of Jack Renshaw? Why could she not shut him out of .' mind? ; She Eleanor Armstrong who always had Bailed on the crest of the wave, to find herself . now chopping dismally in the trough... It w&s too -exasperating. : . i . . , Yet again ' and again the Same vision haunted her memory, and ever and ever, against her Jwilir' the -same questions forced, anlanswer.. . Why .could; she not forget him? How well he looked t". Why had she never noticed his tine expression? What ease 'and'.slf -possession were his! Why had she been so blind before?" And 8d,nand 8 she 'Vexed herself as the night hours wore away. . ' " ' '' ' '' ; Within aweekat wiaback at Choj coma, a guest at "The Elms', ' the village mn' Eleanor'; jwhimf'cdnstl.'waii pbhged, :f ' 'jbf w enerl favorite, although not given i$ gairies. His atUtadia-toward her .was perplex lnjt.v;i.PpUtelyt' jndifferenV he neithe ahnnned nor -Bcraghaher. Eleanor jwaa a, always gy.x. Bnt her gayety .was .t fnl; now bordering on extravagaaeeaai when ehds0 -artera hay oart.with hbew relspairig' alxoost to sobrtetyi as when-she eouiht the kite lien to assort rags ita.iua, Annt isamce.,,, v . One afternoon following the arrival of the daily stage she and the Kensel girls proposed walking up to the village post office for letters. They were joined on the way by Fred, and at The Elms by re-enforcements, including Mr. Jerome, Arthur and Jack. . At the poetofEce de livery Kitty, Kensel volunteered to call for letters for the company. "Mr. Jerome Arthur, one; Miss Grace E. Morris, two three! more than your, share, Grace Morris; Miss Persis G. A. Pratt, two and a card; Miss Catharine Kensel that's me one; Miss Eleanor Armstrong, card and letter oh, see! and a dead. letter, too!" . "A 'dead letter? Oh, let's seer cried all the girls, huddling together. . . Jack Renshaw stood at Eleanor's right, looking quietly on. Behold her rosy cheek doth pale! . - iAnd palsied grow her lily hands; . She dare not .rend the mystic veil pan on the giddy girl who had delivered the letter. ,rj , , . Eleanor flushed and wrenched the en velope in laughing contempt. "See if 1 dare not!" she exclaimed. ., , The inclosed letter fell to the floor, with the -addressed. .side .conspicuously uppermost. Jack , stooped and restored it to her. inevitably reading the super scription sis he did so. Eleanor at that moment read it also. "J. H. Renshaw" nothing less, noth ing more. ' In amazement and confusion she- raised her. eyes to his, which' were eagerly regarding her - The lightning of recognition flashed between them. . . . There it was, her own .letter of year ago sent to the dead letter, office' on ac count of an unfinished address. She re membered it alL She had written his name, nothing more, that day when she was hesitating to send the letter. A call er had interrupted and made her forget. Then tho maid had mailed it as it was. So Jack had, never heard from her. and she had never heard from Jack again... , . ,.'. ,... . r . Eleanor hastily thrust the letter in her pocket and hurried from the office, fol lowed by the chattering company , whose attention was already caught by another matter. Jack soon, took his place by her side on the homeward way. Neither spoke until they came to , where the old -path led ont from the main road and through the meadow along the river. The shadows were long and cool, and the golden sunset light swept down the depths of the quiet water like a reflected sky. , ."Eleanor," Baid Jack, pausing at the turn,, "I think I see how it all was; I think I understand. , Do I not?" Her. heart beat .thick : and fast. She wonld . not trust herself to speak; she only looked away to the sky. "Shall we walk- by the river tonight?" he continued, "and would you care now, as I would,. not a. little, but with all my soul and for all my life, if we never had walked together again?" . Eleanor ; lifted her eyes to his with a look which answered his fondest hope, as they turned and went down the river path. ' :- But really, Jack, you do make me think of an owl sometimes yon look so very solemn and wise!" she said, with a flash of : her old audacity,, as , they came again, fn the twilight down to the farm house gate. Elmira Telegram. Woman and Her Foot Vtw, "Please try the Jeft shoe on." said the -lady who sat next me in a shoe store. . ., "Vfhy: was that?" I asked the man who had served her, when she departed. - "' "Hole, in her stockingj .OW yes; you would hardly, believe how many ' ladies have holes in their stockings.,., We al ways know it. It's 'try the right shoe on,' or the left,' 'never, mind the other. Some of them say: Txa afraid I have a little break in my stocking. I didn't ex pect to get my shoes tried today. And often the little break horrifies them, hav ing grown to a big break during the day. Oh, yes; little breaks come sometimes, and the. lady herself does not know it, till the shoe is removed. In those cases she usually says nothing, but just blushes. "The hole is always a genuine case of ac cident when a woman takes it that way. Sometimes they gasp, so that we shall see how , surprised . they : are; but then some women pretend that.. We can usu ally, tell the Teal thing.. a successful shoe salesman needs ? peculiar, gifts, of tact and the genius of patience," this one continued.' f ' ' '" "When a woman ' has' a really large foot it's best to bring a shoe slightly too small; and then appear surprised that it does not fit. 'Some feet look smaller than a really smaller foot' is a good ex planation, of. your, error. Bring to. the woman who has a genuinely tiny foot, a shoe too big aiid then fit down to her. Nothing pleases her so much. A sales man influences the buyer tremendously. I believe a woman - would rather have her. foot . praised than be told, she it clever. , Always humor a woman with- a big foot. ,'You can wear a much smaller shoe. than . this,. of course,, but you want this for really comfortable ,wear.' That makes her want to hug you." NeW York Sun. ' - ' - - Wooden Idtee. , -. ... ( Lace making in America is btill an in fant industry, though the .continent can claim .the only Jace ttjeeyet discovered.1 It is the lazzette, or lace tree of Jamaica,' whose inner bark can be separated into layer8;6f Wry prefyTmeshi - Qaeen1 1 Vic-j tori has had dress f itpreeotedrby the people of ; thats ;loyls..coloBy, HiV .Majesty iCnufflea U. jiad .only a craya, , , , History does not record if he wore it.' 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