1 WHILE THE WOK LP GOES ON h?trs wss white tbat yesterday vi for a while befor a door: tvx was light tad small that they x ao r n: ntti playmates bore; t"L rhoct ?t hf py children riag iu: f .a.y as taey nj before. Ai. yes! The worij keep pviap oa. Ari popif r-n and children plav. IB.:: one's dearest hope are pone. As1, sme ones Heart is torn to-day! La heivx :noe lingers where ;it iicjhrer used to ring, and there A"t useiess tors to pot away. h aot for the little one Wi.se slaeis bean ahall know no rv: ;,-r the child whose wjontinr's done. Ar.::nd wh e brow the ccrli are fair jpi-z; .' try grierius tears ahiU be il'r the-n. atone, trat hive to see D.t" Lirb-ohair treading empty there, C"hii-g Record-Uerald. K Love's Own Day $ , MM e? rOX"T like to haTe you go skating with Fannie Engle." " Sj said Mrs. Uane to her daugh ter May one afternoon late in Febru ary. TLat ts strange, mamma, when you have always liked Fannie so much," ctri May. -N jw, datuhter. yon know very weil w iy 1 do not want- you to go w ith Fit:r.;e." and Mrs. Harte paused and lii straight a: ber daughter. Ar.1 May did know. Exactly i-ne ninta before May Harte Lil feoe engaged to George Nobie. it.e a y-ung man as his name. But l-f-.-re her engagement she had beoa very "sweet." as the girls put It. upon Fauate Eagle's brother Horace, a y.-tttii man of poor habits, and it was i-s .wta: of Horace that Mrs. Harte i.J ex wish her betrothed daughter to g skating with Fannie. But May was willful. 'I a:a sorry," said Mrs. Harte. "that Miy acts so. Some time she will go t far." T'-a: afternoon a messenger boy cate with a letter for May and a large "J ,"e; of flowers. The letter read: I'eares: May I drop you this line :: remind you that we are to go skat ing this afternoon, and Horace says t. be sure and send you these Cowers with oar compliments. He will join us or. the ice. Lovingly. Fannie." May read the note and smiled with j .--atire. isn i uiat sweet oi t iau:e: Si.i she. But her mother sighed. She did not wit May to encourage Faanie or her br-.ther. for she felt that It would lead Tiat afternoon May went skating with Fannie and her brother, and it was fii'.y 5 o'clock when she returned. "I atn going to stjpper with Fannie," said he. "and as George was coming call this evening I shall drop him a i:ttle Hue to tell him not to call be fore to-morrow." Mrs. Harte objected seriously, but ter willful daughter was no: to be ttirse-i. so she let her go her own way. thottsh. she felt that it was a mista'se f:r May to treat her betrothed in that maaser. Fooiisa May: She was acnoally In love with George, but. like many other g.r'.s who have secured a good young man. she was capricious and liked to try his affection. George had noticed tr eaprlciousness, but bore It good na turedly. That evening May sent her note to George telling him not to call, and then w-at to Fannie's bouse to spend the evening. If May noticed anything strange about the conduct of Fannie or her broher that evening, she said nothing, but afterward she admitted that both tad acted a little strangely. After supper Fannie suggested that all ttr go for a walk, but when they were rea iy to start May was surprised to see a sleigh standing at the front door. -We are going for a ride instead of a walk." whispered Fannie, putting ter arm playfully around May's waist, 'surely, yon will not refuse to go with us. dear?" Eefore May knew It they were all seated in the sleigh aad the driver was ra;.ii'y speeding along down the street toward the main avenue which ran through the middle of the town. S-arcely had they gone more than bl?k when Fannie put her arm aroual May and drew her head down on her shou-ider. "Dear May," said she. "there is something Horace and I want to say to you, and we thought you would not refuse us." And then, to her horror and surprise. Horace Engle began to pour Into her ear his tale of love and long affection, wb.ie Fannie added a word Lere and thre. May, too Indignant to reply, put her 1-a ds to ber ears to shut out the svjnd. "Stop, stop!" cried May. "Such dis honorable talk I nerer heard. I will Cot allow you to speak to me this way. I'.'-membr that I am the affianced wlf; f George Nobfc-1 true aB(J P3"1 tn as ever ralktf, n4 that 1 will not listen to rnrh n Jds." Then tufu 5ng to her friend. fce said, "Faanie, 1 ata ashamed of too." Fannie flashed and 8tammered, but ter brother said, "That is all very well. May. bat yon know "all's fair In love aad war.'" Then again Fannie began to coax May to consider the step which she iight take and make ber brother so tappy. "Horace has promised to turn ver a new leaf if yoa will marry him." -Stop this sleigh Immediately." al most shrieked May. I do not wonder, ttttERE SEEDS ARE SEED THKESHEkt Thousands of acres of land In Doug '.as County. Nebraska, are devoted to Ce raising of garden and field seeds of maay kinds, aad the chief Industry of the busy town of Waterloo consists in finally preparing, assorting na.-Vir.i? ana sh.ppiLg hundreds of tons of seeds which is a cylindrical-shaped frame annually. Shipments are made to all i about twelve feet long, covered with parts of the Vailed States, to Canada ! wire netting, with meshes large enough aad Mexico. j to let the seed and pulp through. It Thirty years ago the lands now de-! slopes to the rear and is constantly voted to seed culture could be bought : turning. The crushed melons are car for $2 an acre. It Is situated In the ' ried half-way up the side, then drop valley of the Platte, between the Elk- and gradualiv work bsck and fall out horn and Tlatte Rivers, was covered . with rank vegetation, and not deemed ! THE mil HAXD-FICKK-G. fit for grazing. About ten years ago some tracts were cleared and drained, aad :t was fouad that the soil, a rich dark loatn with sand, was ideal ground ; for the raising of many s-rts of seeds The industry has developed, and now these garden lands sell at from $43 to flw an acre, and rent for from $4 to $6 an acre annually. The pictures here shown are from photographs made on one of the J. C. Robinson seed farms and in the ware house of that gentleman, who Is at the head of one of the great business inter ests of that part of Nebraska. The seed threshing machine is loaded to Fannie, that you thought It necessary to bring me away out here to talk to me La so dishonorable a way. But I will not listen to It. Stop the sleigh right away. I shall walk home. It would be contamination for me to re main any longer in your presence," she cried, turning to Horace, with scorn in her flashing eye. Alarmed by her vehemence, Horace opened the sleigh door and called to the driver, and the sleigh came to a standstill, but scarcely before May had bounded out. "Tou are a mean, dis honorable pair, and I shall never speak to you again. George Noble is wortii a thousand of you," she said to the shame-faced Horace, as she stood with downcast eyes upon the walk, "and as for you. Fannie, the fact that we have been friends from babyhood keeps me from saying all the things I might oth erwise want to say to you. Learn this, though, if you ever get a man like George Noble, be sure you treat him as he ought to be treated. I am sorry I ever went skating with you." "Well saidi" cried a manly voice be hind her. and turning. May ran straight into the arms of George Noble And where had George been? After he had received May's hasty note that afternoon he read it througu several times; then, after some hesita tion, he resolved to go and call upon May anyway. "I can visit her mother if she is not at home," said he. So. early In the evening George went to May's house and spent an hour with her mother. Leaving early, he happened to be passing along the main street, when his attention was attracted by a sleigh which drew up at the curb, while two ladies and a gentleman alighted. Some thing about one of them seemed strangely familiar, and be took a step nearer to find out that It was May. On the way hme May confessed all to Gorge. except Horace's base part in the evening's work, but she told him enough to give him to understand that he had a faithful little fiancee In May Harte. and that hereafter she would not go skating with young ladies who bad brothers. So May blessed the day, after ail. for it taught ber to value true love when she fonnl It. St. Louis Star. Bathed in Hold. On the occasion of giving a concert Madame Sala engaged Paganini at a fee of &v guineas, says the Golden Pefiny. The next day she repaired to the violinist's house, and handed him the sum In gold, the sight of which filled the great player with such violent emotion that he plunged bis fingers among the bright pieces, which he poured over his arms and hands a though they were water. Despite this display of avarice, however, he return ed the fee to Madame Sala. When he received 1.CX in gold as the price of some shares, the late Lit tleton Holt, the proprietor of the Iron Times, hastened to bis bote! In the I ; GROWN BY TONS. READY TO START. "grind" melons." The melons are hauled to the thresher, and scooped Into the cylinder, which contains two roll ers close enough together to crush the rind, yet not injure the seed. The crushed mass then slides into 'a reel. at the lower end. but not before the I seed has been thrown through the j screen. The seed and the pulp run out ' at the side into a vat built In the j ground: there the mass lies until the j puip rots, when it is taken to the river ' in barrels to be washed. The .washing apparatus Is a screen about tweire feet long, that can be sub merged. The barrels are emptied into it. and by stirring the pulp is separated from the seeds, floats oa the top. leav ing the cl?an white seed below. Next the seed; are spread on canvas racks to dry; when dry they are delivered to the wnolesale house. The work of preparing them for mar ket is only half done. Next comes the milling, that separates the light seed and particles of the rind or bulls that may have remained. After this comes grading or separating. The seeds are floated over a screen, the smaller or second-class seeds falling through, the larger being carried on. and lastly comes tne nina-p:ck:ng. as shown in tD pcture. This is facilitated by a si m pie contrivance, worked by a treadle. The seeds are put in a hopper and run over a small shaker in the bottom, which scatters them on an endless can vas belt, about one and one-half feet long and six inches wide, run on two rollers. The good seeds drop from this into a basket; the bad and different varieties are picked out and put Into pockets on both sides of the belt and run into a sack. The seeds are then ready for shipment. West End. and. retiring to bis bed room, emptied the money bags into bis bed. Thither he promptly followed the sovereigns, among which, having for a time rolled and tumbled, he ultimately ftll asleep. For bis novel. "Les Memories du Dia ble." Freotric Soulie received from his publishers lO.Ouu francs in gold. Over Joyed at bis good fortune he hurried home, and pouring the louis d'or into a footbath plunged his feet into the glittering treasure, where he kept them for over half an hour, smokine the while a Gargantuan cigar and building castles in the air. Madame du Barrv. when at the ze nith of her power, bad a bath so con structed that on touching a tap a cas cade of golden louis from a reservoir that was always kept well filled min gled with the flow of scented vater. Uhis device was fashioned. It Is said, to represent the legend of Danae. Willing to Obey. The proprietor of a department store told this anecdote recently of himself and one of his employes, a man of 40: "Philip Is a sort of factotum around here and I pay him $10 a week. One of his duties Is to sweep out the spaces behind the counters three or four times a day. and he never objected to doing this until lately. Recently the newspa pers gave him some fame on account of the delicate wood carving that he does at home In the evening, and the noto ilety swelled bis head a little. He came to me the other day and said: ' 'Boss. I don't mind sweeping out early In the morning or late in the evening, when the store's empty, but I think it doesn't look Just right for me to be seen doing that menial kind of work by big crowds of people. I am pot ashamed to do It, only I'm pretty well known as an artistic person, and It looks undignified for an artist to be seen with a broom in public. Can't I have a boy? "I laughed and replied: " 'Philip, your point is well taken. Hereafter, only sweep out when the store is empty. Wheu the store i full and a sleeping is necessary you Just come and tell me and I'll take the broom and do the work for you my self.' " Com. New Tork State has more cows than Pennsylvania and New Jersey eom-biu'.-d. and more than any other one State In the Union, Iowa being second, Illinois third, and Wisconsin fourth. The entire numlo-r of cows in the States and Territories U 1J,2!2,2, with a total valuation of $514,S12.1;. Female Prisoners in England. Between 40.'X; and SoMO women pass annually through the prisons of England and Wales. Taking the figures for last year it appears that 72 per cent bad been previously convicted. 42 per cent five times and more, and 15 per cent about 7.0W women twen ty times or more. PHOTOGRAPHS LIGHTNING. Profei or Plckerlaa- tlaa Made a Won drrfnl Licarery. Prof Edward C Pickering, of Har vard Observatory, has startled the world of science by successfully aualyi- ing lightning with the swotroscope. The analysis prove that the element hydrogen Is a com pound substance, perhaps the basis of all other ele ments. Instead .'? of a simile Indlvls- xaCij Ible element, as ft . . . cnemists nave sup- pmir. rii KEnixo. posed. And a start lingreveiatiou is the fact that the photo graphs of the spectrum of a streak of lightuiug, showing that It is made up of lines belonging to chemical elements which seem to be split up Into still more elementary substances, pre sents a remarkable resemblance with the spectrum of Nova, the new star In Perseus. There, too, the spectral linos of hydrogen appear curiously different from their ordinary appearance, aud both In intensity and position bear a Mose resemblance to witat they show In the spectrum of lightning. What re lation can there be between the vast glowing a!r of that distant star, too dis tant to be measured, presumably ablaze from center to circumference with iu teuse heat a conflagration extensive enough to involve many such worlds as ours in destruction and the cool air thatenwraps our little planet aud carries the clouds and rains that make the earth inhabitable. Nova was discovered only a year ago. and the mightiest ex plosion of lightning Is Insignificant as compared with an outburst such as that which produces a new star, and yet both phenomena the lightning from a summer cloud and the gigantic out break of power that caused an extin guished sun in Perseus to burst again into flame produce a similar effect. KATE GREEN AWAY. Notel Keformer and Painter Who Died Kerently. Miss Kate Greonaway. the noted British artist who has passed away in London, is best known for her beau tiful illustrations of children's books, and for the keen In terest she has taken 1 n reforming the dress of children. It was her mission to transform the over dressed, tlght waisted British baby into the free and flowing-robed Infant which is theKATE creexawat. delight of the books Miss Greeuaway has Illuminated with the fire of her genius. This genuine artist was educat ed at the Keuslngton school, at Heath- ersley's and at the Slaile school. She studied Reynolds and Romney, but she did not win her greatest success until lbT'j. when she published her remark able volume. "Under the Window." The sale was enormous, approaching the success of "Alice In Wonderland." In 1SS0 appeared her "Birthday Book for Children." upward of l.V).t) of which have been sold In Great Britain. Many of her best paintings were owned by the late John Ruskln. Her home was in Hampstead. London. Xo More Gloves for Holilier. It Is announced that the French army will soon be deprived of gloves from motives of economoy. Each of the & ')) soldiers receives two pairs a year, and each pair costs 1 franc 23 centimes. But the inhabitants of Nlort. who live by the manufacture of these gloves, are protesting vigorously against the pro posed measure. Four thousand people will be thrown out of work should Gen eral Andre persist In Introducing the reform. Needless to say. every plotipiou will hail it with delight. The glove, or rather the absence of It. has been the cause of more punishment than all the rest of the catalogue of military offenses. Paris Correspondence Pall Mall Gazette. A Forgotten Craft. It was probably known to nearly every Roman citizen how the mortar which cemented the stones of their buildings was made just as it la known to the majority of people that the principal Ingredient of English mortar Is street scrapings. But, tho knowledge being general, nobody wrote It down, anil in time, as the Uomans shifted their building upon slaves and foreigners, the recipe of their mortar was lost. So far it has not Iteen dis covered, though the secret of It would be immensely valuable for the cement outlasts the very stones which It Joins. London Mail. ile Knew Belter. At a school lu Kent an Inspector was examining a class of children lu arith metic, when the inspector asked the fol lowing question: "Now. John, supposing I gave yoa two rabbits and another kind friend gave you one more, how many would you have?" John Four, sir. Inspector No, my boy, two and one don't make four. John (ulckly Please, sir, I've got one old lop-eared 'en at home. London Spare Moments. Imperial Kaptiamal Font. Babies of the Kusian imperial family are usually christened in the winter palace at St. Petersburg, where tourists can see the baptismal font, a piece of pure, solid crystal, 24x22x18 Inches In site, with a bas'n chiseled in the center and heavily embossed on the outside with gold filagree representing llllea and olive leaves. 61 2 fmlU ILElT'irXLEE V'r- -r'VTWfXf " - (J$ HE different manners by which II people meet death are peculiar. When an engine boiler blows up without scratching the engineer, aud when the prick from a uedle causes death In a few days, one has reason to wonder. Blanche Young, of Wabash, Ind., was the victim of a needle point. In sewing she stuck the point deep In ber flngvr, but continued with her work. The h1 sonous fabrics caused the Injured mem ber to swell terribly. Blood po'sou de veloped and she died In agony. Edgar P. Seeger. a Chicago travel ng man, carelessly picked a pimple, which appeared on his face, with a pin at Ithaca. N. Y., and died shortly from blood poison. Within a week the dentist's chair cost three lives In more or less direct way. At Sioux City, Iown, the tilling of a tooth caused a stroke of apoplexy to Dr. Adelaide E. Kilboitrne, aud she died as she was leaving the chair. At Loyal. Wis., an aching tooth drove Klm bal J. Berry to a dentist. It was a mo lar, ftr back lu the jaw, and was sd firmly rooted that In the pulling of It the Jaw bone was fractured. Blood poi son set In, killing the patient lu a few days. In Chicago the other day Mlsa Mamie Ferry, of Oak Park, died from fear of the dentist's chair, to which she was going; Little Barbara Bothinan, of Jackson, Miss., was the victim of the acorn. She complained of pains in her side and was obliged to submit to an operation. In the appendix the acorn was found, much enlarged from the heat and moist ure. The child swallowed It at play. She died from the operation. Lloyd Hogers. of Galesburg. 111., got a grain of com In his trachea nnd was seized with a violent tit of coughing from which he died. MESSENGER GIRLS IN LONDON. Manager Bay They Give Better Serv ice than Itaya. There Is a new kind of messenger boy In London. The new messenger boy does not smoke cigarettes, or loiter, or swear, or fight. The new messenger boy Is always neat nnd tidy, never Im pudent or unruly. This Is because the new messenger boy is a girl. Heuter's Telegraph Company, in IauxIoii, tins lately tried the experiment of employ ing girls as well as boys for messenger work. The experiment 1ms beeti more than successful, and twenty-four girls are now In the employ of Ueuter's, and more are being engaged nil the time. oiT The girls are paid only $2."sj per week, but they Hre well satisfied with their pay, and perform their duties In a man ner which leaves nothing to be desired. The plan of having messenger girls lias proved so successful In London that the extension of the Idea to this country is being discussed, and unless the American messenger loys take warning and swear off on some of their unpleasant characteristics, they may awake some fine morning to discover a lot of pretty young girls In a neat blue uniform carrying telegrams and delivering notes and parcels lu their stead. GIANTS AMONG THE SEALS. Habit t an Intereatina; Kroup of Am thiba of the roatb Pac tic. Professor C. Chun, a German scien tist, has begun making a study of the sea elephants, the gigantic seals found In many portions of the Month Pacific ocean. He lias been assisted lu Ills work by Ilobert Hall, a learned natur alist, and the two Investigators have gleaned many new facts relative to their habits aud life. These Interesting seals are only found In the southern sea, aud mainly In the vicinity of the Kergueles Islands, where they go In August for the pur pose of pairing. They remain there un til February or March. During the win ter they are very dull and apathetic, but as spring approaches they becoiiio more lively. Of human beings tliey are not In the least afraid. Mr. Hall says that be went several times through a herd of forty or fifty animals while tbey were dozing, and only a few were disturbed by hi in. These seals live In communities, and In a single bay may often be seen from Edward Fisher, of Uockford. HI., wat eating iHanuts when one of them lo cated lu his windpipe, choking him to death. Joseph Carter hit Edward Campbell over the hoart with his fist lu a friendly scutlle and be died instautly. This oc curred In Baltimore. In South Chleairo the other dav the axle of a baby carriage suddenly broke while Mrs. Mary Moran, of SST2 Buf falo avenue, was out wheeling her 11-months-old lwv. Tho collimse was so sudden that the mother could not save the child, which was thrown to tho pavement, fracturing Its skull. Ordi narily, such an accident scarcely would make a healthy baby cry. Charles II. Ortuoiid, of Milwaukee, was treating a horse that was In agony and lu leaning over the nnltnul to ad just a rone around Its hoof, the touch of the dm-tor'a hand caused the nerv ous anlmnl to strike out with Its hoof, striking the man In the forehead, kill ing li) in almost Instantly. Pavld Gregg, of Salt IJtke City, ul tnost bled to death the other evening without knowing it. He accidentally thrust both hands through a plate glass window, but did not mluil It. Later ho felt a stinging sensntlou in his hands and fainted. It was found that two nrterles had been severed, one requiring nine stitches nnd the other six. before the How of blood could be checked. In these lust few dnys, however, no other class of ncclilents has compared lu fatalities to the ncclilents In the bunt ing fields. Scores of men have been killed or injured while deer hunting. When one also considers the largo number of sick people who have taken poison for medicine In dark rooms the list of these peculiar fatalities will be greatly swelled. live to ten colonies. Hitherto It has been supposed that there Is never more than one mule In a single herd, but there now seems to be abundant proof that each herd contains seals of oidy one sex. Thus, lu one bay there will be five or six herds of males and lu another live or six herds of females. Professor Chun, who has studied the seals thoroughly In their native haunts, nays that for a long time after the ani mals return to the Kergueles In the autumn they do not take any food, but remain torpid lu beds which they form until they have shed their old hair and put on a new coat. During the winter be saw several seals killed, and not a particle of food wus found In their stomachs. Mr. Hall, on the other hand, says that the seals during this period feed once a day, going down to the water to ob tain a supply of fish. In any case, It Is certain that these animals can live without food for a long time since they have under their skin a layer of fat which Is fifteen centimeters In thick ness. Ile Knioed It. At a large banquet two of the expect ed guests were unable to be present The order of seating happened to bo such that a particularly Jovial and com panionable gentleman sat with one of the vacant chairs on each side of him. The empty chairs and first course of oysters were left In place for some time, In ruse the exix-eted guests ar rived. The solitary gentleman, there fore, could move neither to the right nor to the left, but amiably beamed throughout the repast, seemingly none the worse for his enforced Isolation. I After the bunquet some one Innocently asked him: "How did you enjoy yourself, old chap?" "First rate," he replied briskly enough. "I sut next to a couple of fel lows who weren't there." Duke of Connauiffit. Tho I'uke of Couuuiight, although over oO years of age, alone of all the royal family of Great Britain looks really in vigorous health. It Is prob ably due to the open air life he lead aud his love of sport and exercise. Court and society had few attractions for the godson of the I Hike of Welling ton. The I Hike of Connaught Is ex ceedingly popular with the army aud Is regarded as the best-looking of the sous of Queen Victoria. His marked fea tures are distinguished by virility. He and the Iuke of Cambridge are, It Is believed, the only living members of the English royal family who have ever been under fire. I,oiiKCNt Hallway Runs. England holds the record for the long est railway rutis without a stop. This Is Paddingtou to Exeter ll4 miles. France comes next, with Paris to Culais 18TVa miles. America's longest run is New York to Troy UH miles. ltusaia's Asiatic Possessions. Itussiu's Asiatic possessions are three times as large as the British, but have only 2."),(s,(MS people, as compared with 2'j7.(aM),000 under British rule. Someone asks what Is nervousness. It Is the feeling you experience when there is a boy coming down hill behind you on a sled. 5 : i; HI