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V fr- a MOONLIT MEADOWS. On these white nighu, when over hill and wood The brooding mystery of midnight lies, Beneath the glad enchantment of the skies The moonlit .meadows spread their quietude. . Drenched in the deluge of effulgent light Their dew-swept reaches, sweet with new mown hay, Into the hazy distance stretch away, And lose their brightness in the folds of night. The far-off hills recede Ueyond the plain, And this expanse of moonlight meadow seems The lan1 we may have visited in dreams. But may not find when day returns again. Earth's weary train of days remoter , grows, The voice of care sounds faint, and dies away .And all distress that waits upon the day : Fades from the memory like forgotten woes. Peace on tlie troubhd earth when day is flown ! Silence that falls across the clash of strife And fleeting glimpses of that higher life That speaks In other language than our own. Fair moonlit meadows! Nature's open page Which we with clouded vision vainly trace, Yet Ml to read the meaning of its grace Whose message is withheld from age to age. Youth's Companion. I accepted my Aunt Maltrevor's in vitation to her river picnic, for the simple reason that I dared not refuse. A broken leg or a doctor's certificate that you have something Infectious ace the only excuses Airs. Maltrevor recog nizes, and I could produce neither, lie sides, Dulclnea was sure to be there and public opinion would exiiect me to be In attendance. I may, perhaps, say a few straight forward words about Mrs. Maltrevor later. Dulclnea you will take for grant ed. I cannot describe her she is neither the most beautiful, the most accomplished nor the cleverest of the girls I know; but there Is that about her wbjK'h is beyond the power of ad Jcetlvea to describe. Most men will .-understand nit, they all know at least one girl of that sort. I perhaps might mention that I have always known Dulclnea; we grew In beauty, so to speak, on opposite sides of the same road ; and when she put up her hair, I started smoking. When "She left school, 1 proposed and she re fused mo. Unfortunately our friends (and for the moment the definition must Include Aunt Maltrevor) don't know this, and they smile on us both In the fatuous way that the world al ways does reserve for matrlnional fol ly. And when Dulclnea gets up a prom ising flirtation (as she did with Jack Guthrie In the spring) people only murmur "Lovers' quarrel," while if I pay ardent if somewhat spasmodic at tention to some other girl (Dulclnea declares I flirted outrageously with Daisy Gordon at the Hockey Dance) I only hear a whisper, "Oh, those foolish young people." So you see my position. Now about the picnic. Mrs. Maltrevor's picnics are pretty Important things. The country people are always represented, and as many as three motor cars have been garaged on her tennis lawn at the same time; while the reporter of the local paper always spreads himself on a florid report of the function, which I (acting under my aunt's orders), rigorously sub-edit. On the present occasion I rather wanted to see Dulclnea; she bad Just had her twenty-first birthday, and 1 had sent her some red roses and n short poem which began : A poet, miss, would write a sonnet Felicitating you upon it. so naturally I wanted to see how she would take It. Arriving punctually at 1 :."0, at the lock which Mrs. Maltrevor had ap pointed as rendezvous, I found the lady surrounded by the youth and beauty of Maston (this phrase I deleted regularly from the local reporter's outburst) and simply overflowing with good humor. This, as I discovered later, was partly because my Uncle Maltrevor had got toothache, partly because sre had roped In n broken-down baronet for the picnic. Dulclnea I could not see for the mo ment (she had gone off, I found, to look for forget-me-nots with Jack Guthrie), so, having been presented to Sir Hugo Jones, I retired Into private life and made myself agreeable to Daisy Gordon. A small flotilla of boats lay In the stream ready for us, and as soon as my aunt had Introduced the baronet to everyone except Mrs. Neville Ponsonby and the lion. Ethel Ponsonby (whom she had asked specially to snub), we Hgan to embark. I watclunl the process with admira tion. My Aunt Maltrevor being my uncle's mistake nml not my own. I do not pretend to understand her, but there Is little doubt that, excluding her toupee, nud her complexion, she Is com posed mainly of tact. If such a thing had been conceivable, I should liava said she winked at nie as she despatch ed Jack Guthrie off with Daisy Uordoti on one of the first boats to start, ami, conceivable or not, I believe she did wink as she waved her hand to me In parting, having left Dulclnea and me to bring up the rear lu a single sculler. "Too cannot flght against Fate when it has Mrs. M. on Its side," I observed as I handed Dulclnea Into the Saucy Jane, "i'ou know It's really rather funny the way people throw us at each tther It ought to amuse you." "It doesn't to any extent," said Dul clnea, moodily steering Into the bank. "If you don't want to take the over land route, perhaps I'd better row." "Perhaps I'd better steer, you mean," I retorted. "You've got the ropes cross ed. Pull your left quick." Too late crash ! I had seen, but not soon enough to avert a collision, that we are bead ing straight for a barge moored by the towpalh. We did not capsize, but we lost a lot of paint and woke up the bargee. At Dulcluea's request I rowed as fast as I could to get out of earshot Indeed, we should soon have over hauled the rest of the party had not Dulclnea suddenly burst out with a slight exclamation: "We have sprung a leak," she said tremulously. I stopped rowing. I knew' Dulclnea well enough to be sure that the tremor was on behalf, not of herself, but of her elegant river gown, for she swims a little better than a mermaid; but the leak was a leak for all that, and from behind the steering-seat came a little gushing stream of water, bubbling quite viciously around Dulclnea 's shoes. I rowed quickly to the nearest shore I lint of a little wooded island, twenty yards across, In the middle of the river. Here we debarked In good order, but even ns we did so Fate stepped In again. The boat in some inexplicable way wrenched Itself out of my hand and be gan to drift down the stream. "I believe you did that on purpose," said Dulclnea, as I leaned over In a vain effort to reach our craft. "Just like your beastly vanity," I said in a brotherly way (Dulclnea had often offered to be a sister to me). "Why, do you suppose I want to be cooped up on a desert Island with you In your present temper? Fortunately I have plenty of cigarettes." "Oh, very well, then," said Dulclnea, with withering scorn. "So long as you are happy, I don't mind starving for a few hours." (She had, I know; lunched at 1; it was now 3.) Shortly afterwards she turned her back upon me and began pensively nib- bllng at dandelion leaves. I commend ed this step highly, and told her they were most' nourishing, though rather bitter. I supposo we must have sat In silence for quite half-nn-hour after that. I smoked and Dulclnea sulked. At the end of that time she asked me In her brightest way the date of the Tennis Tournament. (This Is a desperately Important affair and as many as five motor cars have been garaged In the town at one and the same time during Its progress.) I told Dulclnea the date, and slanged the style of all the local ladles lu a way that went straight to her' heart. We conversed quite amicably. "Guthrie Is almost sure to win the Singles, of course," I remarked care lessly. "Is he?" said Dulclnea, apparently neither surprised nor Interested. "But where do you come In? You used to play some sort of a game?" "O, I shall enter, no doubt," I ad mitted. "But Uuthrle'll win. I hear he's come on a lot." "Perhaps you will have a chance In the Mixed Doubles," suggested Dul clnea, Inocetitly. "Who are you play ing with?" "I may not enter at all If I see any really good couples," I countered. "You, for Instance, If you have a strong part ner. Let's see, It's Guthrie, Isn't It?" "Possibly," agreed Dulclnea. "I mean, has he asked you to play?" I went ou. He had not. for Dulclnea was almost disconcerted, and swished her gloves at a harmless butterfly. "Never mind," I said, "he will." "I didn't say he hadn't," said Dul clnea. sharply. I lit a cigarette. "And If he does," she declared, In a sudden burst of graclousness, "I I'll play with you, If you like." Dulclnea Is never so dangerous as lu her gracious mood. "Dulclnea," I said, kneeling on a wasp by her side (how hard It Is to kneel gracefully ou a wasp), "Dul clnea oh, hang It all!" The plash of oars fell on my ears, and I started to my feet. What had haiiH'ned was only too clear. Our ab sence had been noticed, and a relief ex pedition was ou Its way, conducted by Mrs. Maltrevor, whoso stentorian tones I could already hoar. Bather sheepishly we advanced to the edge of the water, and as we did so I not lml that the Saucy Jane had mere ly drifted across the river, and was resting serenely against 'tne opposite rushes. The leak was evidently not a "it's really ratiieb funny." serious one, for I could not dedect that she was lower In the water. Mrs. Maltrevor seemed to have brought about twenty people to witness our ridiculous plight "We're awfully sorry," I began, as the party bore down upon us. , "Awfully sorry," echoed Dulclnea. "But we sprang a leak " "The water simply rushed In," Dul clnea corroborated. "And Just as I was going to see whether I could stop up the hole. It drifted away," I concluded, with a complete and desperate disregard for the rules of syntax. Mrs. Maltrevor's smile simply fascln a ted me. I think she said she quite understood. At any rate, she was in an excellent temper this, I afterwards learned, was because Matilda, her eld est and most hopeless, had that very afternoon brought to book the senior curate of All Saints'; while the broken down baronet, fortified with cham pagne, was at that very moment flirt ing openly and outrageously with Evelyn, another of Mrs. Maltrevor's for lorn hopes, to the complete discomfiture of Mrs. Neville Ponsonby and the Hon. Ethel Ponsonby. It Is against Dulcluea's principles to let a little thing like Mrs. Maltrevor disconcert her, and It is due to her to say that she never lost grip of the sit uation. She conversed amicably with the Junior curate of All Saints', then with .Mrs. Maltrevor herself, and kindly Inquired after Mr. Mal trevor's toothache. She was rapidly disarming suspicion when young Perkins, who had been landed on the other bank with a view to the salvage of the Saucy Jane, suddenly called the attention of the party to him self by a loud exclamation. "What is the matter, Mr. Perkins?" said Mrs. Maltrevor sweetly. "Is the leak a bad one?" Young Perkins laughed. (I detest him.) "Very serious indeed," he re plied, holding up in each hand the half of a lemonade bottle, which he had ex tracted from a hamper behind the steer ing seat. "As you see, the bottle not only leaked, but burst It's quite done for." "But what about the boat?" Inquired Mrs. Maltrevor, still more sweetly. "The boat? Oh, the boat's ail right," remarked young Perkins, as he boarded her, and with a vigorous shove brought her over to the Island. For a moment there was a silence. Then a roar of laughter in which Dul clnea Joined and I tried to. I think Mrs. Maltrevor repeated that she quite understood ; at any rate, In her most ostentatiously tactful way she gathered her irnrty on board and announced her Intention of departing forthwith in search of tea. "You can follow at your leisure, dear,;' she remarked to Dulclnea, with a meaning look at me. I knew the look. It said, "If you haven't proosed, do it now." r Dulclnea had gone back to her old seat. As I Joined her I noticed that ray old friend the wasp was still there, but I carefully avoided kneeling on him. - "Dulclnea," I said, "Dulclnea, it's no good my trying to tell you all the nice things I think about you, because you know them already. And you know that I shall be waiting for you to marry me ten years hence If you won't do it before, Dulclnea." I felt I was doing It very badly; 1 was convinced of it by Dulcinea's next remark. "I've never been so badly proposed to before," she said serenely. "Why, you did it better when you were eighteen. However, tills Is the last time." "The last time," I queried. "Why, Dulclnea, you're not angry with me, are you?" A smile spread from the corners of her mouth, dimpled In her cheeks, and I knew my answer even before she spoke. "This is the last time," she said slow ly, "because the answer this time Is 'Yes.' "Philadelphia Telegraph. Too Ai-Kiiiiientatire. Two are not always company In spite of the proverb to that effect. Ou the Western plains the sheepman goes out with several thousand head and one human companion. The natural result is that the pair, forced ou one another when they least want It, get to hating each other. This, at least, Is the the ory that a writer In the Philadelphia Ledger formulates. He tells this story, which was narrated by an ex-sheepman : Let me tell you of a fellow I once rode with. We had finished supper one night, and were rolled up in our blau kets. Not a word had passed between us for more than a week. "Hear that cow beller?" he asked, suddenly. "Sounds to me like a bull," I said. No answer, but the next morning I noticed him packing up. "Going to leave?" I asked. "Yes," he replied. "What for?" "Too much argument." Aunt Mahuly'a Expedient. "These stockings are so full of holes that they are worthless, Aunt Mahaly," said a lady to an old colored woman with a large family, who was a pen sioner of her family. "Xo'm, dey ain't," replied Aunt Ma haly, ealmly appropriating them. "'Bastus en' Verbena got such black lalgs dat de holes wou't show, nohow, en' dem chllluns what got jailer meat kin wear two pairs at de same time; en' you kuows, Mis' Jo, dat de holes In all dem stocklu's ain't gwlue hit de same places," One little mistake lu a drug store may cause more trouble than two bulls lu a china shop. Disordered Perspiration. The perspiration is a watery secre tion of certain curiously colled glands In the skin. It used to be thought that It served a useful purpose In removing waste matters from the system, and there Is no doubt that It does so In a measure, but It cannot compare In this respect with the secretion of the kid neys. Indeed, it is ninety-eight and eight-tenths parts water, and the solid part Is chiefly chlorld of sodium, which gives It the well-known salty taste. Its function is to moisten the superficial layer of cells In the skin, and so facili tate their removal ; but Its chief use is believed to be to regulate the tempera ture of the body and prevent, by evap oration, excessive and dangerous heat. The quantity secreted depends njuch upon the temperature of the air, exer cise, aud the amount of fluid drunk; but it averages between thirty and forty ounces a day. It varies In Inverse proportion to the secretion of the kidneys. The secretion is constant summer and winter, day and night, but ordinarily evaporation keeps pace with It, and It does not appear as moisture on the skin ; this Is called the Insensible perspiration, while that vis ible as water Is called the sensible per spiration. It Is decreased in amount In certain diseases, such as diabetes, In which the kidney secretion Is enormously increas ed, and In Ichthyosis a dry scaly dis ease of the skin. Increased perspiration may be purely nervous In origin, as seen In the beads on the forehead of one who Is embar rassed, or the cold sweat of fear, or some other powerful emotion. In some cases the increased perspiration is local ized in the hands and feet. If this is an expression of general weakness, tonics and good food may correct the condi tion, but usually local treatment Is called for. Immersing the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet lu water as hot as can be borne for about five minutes, and then, after drying, dusting them with a very finely powdered boric acid Is often of great service. The moist hand may be kept dry by frequent application to the palms of a saturated solution of boric acid In co logne water. The perspiration that occurs at night in consumption and other diseases ac companied with hectic fever Is often very distressing. The quantity of water exuded Is sometimes enormous, soaking not only nightclothes, but the entire bedding and mattress. If the patient's condition will permit, a hot bath of four or five minutes' duration at bedtime will sometimes prevent or lessen night sweats. If this Is not permissible, sponging with hot vinegar and vater may be tried. A glass of milk and half a dozen crackers taken at midnight will also oceaslonaly be found useful. Vouth's Companion. SUMMER BEDROOM FURNITURE. The sketch shows some of the new de signs in inexpensive bedroom furniture, the drawing being suggested by a cer tain guest room In a country house. This room had a sunny exposure and got a great deal of light, so cool, rest ful tones were selected for the furnish ings. The furniture consisted of a sin gle Mission bed, a dressing table, high chest of drawers, and several comfort able chairs in Mission style and in wicker. The wicker furniture Was stained soft green, the pieces In Mis--slon being finished In green also. The wall paper was lu green and white stripe, but plenty of life and color was given to the room by curtains, cushions and chair covers of rose flowered cre tonne. The clothes pole shown In the sketch Is very convenient and is espe cially useful when cupboard room Is limited. CONVENTION OF 1912. Effort Should Be Made to Eliminate Boiler Shop" Features, Detroit and Milwaukee are already making efforts to secure one or both of the national conventions lu 1912, says the New York Times. However tedious the big, noisy, protracted conventions may be to the delegates and however dispiriting to the whole country, they are profitable to the cities in which they are held aud therein lies the dan ger that the plan lately suggested by Champ Clark and approved by the most intelligent men of both parties, to reduce the number of delegates by one-half and limit the seats for spec tators to 2,000 will not be adopted. The prevalent Idea that a national convention must be made very profit able for somebody cannot easily be cor rected. Growing cities are always looking for means to increase their growth and prosperity. Probably Chi cago will not be so anxious for a con vention four years hence as It was this year. The aruount of money expended by the delegates and the throng of un official visitors does not count for so much in so large a city, but many of the smaller cities are anxious for the money a convention brings In and the supposedly valuable advertisement a town gets from four or five days of po litical hullabaloo. Yet there Is little difference of opin ion as to the undeslrabllity of repeat ing every four years such senseless ex hibitions as those at Chicago and Den ver. They waste time and money and detract from tba dignity of our politi cal system. Uytlr. Clark's plan Is car ried out the work of the conventions can be conducted more rapidly and with more regard for form. On the other hand, the western towns will not be so eager to have them. Iff Of TtSSOMTCO ur. to. Mu&ni: The Miami and Mohegan. The original Hoosiers Inhabitants oi Indiana, dwellers by the banks of the Wabash were the Miami Indians, who occupied large sections of that region long before the white man came, and who still hold a fragment of the land their forefathers called their own. Al gonquin of race, of medium stature, aud much inferior to such Algonquin tribes as the Delaware and Shawnee when it came to war, the Miami held a fairly prominent place In the councils of the nations. Their ablest chief was Little Turtle, who was wise in war craft and a shrewd old leader generally. Under his command the Miami took part in the defeats of Ilarmar and St. Clair, but did not hold fast to the confederacy of .tribes In later years. In 1812 the Miami did not Join the British cause, and some of their warriors even took part with the American garrison dur ing the siege of Chicago, but fled at the first volley when the famous mas sacre began. The tribe divided about twenty years later, part going to Kansas, and ulti mately to Indian territory, while the rest remained in the ancestral home. Those who went west now number about 100, nearly all mixed bloods, and mostly classed as. white men In the federal census. Those who stayed In Indiana number 439, according to a re cent payroll, while only 243 of the number had enough Indian blood to be classified as red men in the United States . census, the rest being seven eighths white. In all probability the Ulauii never totaled more than 000 souls. The Mohegan, a branch of the Dela ware, and ranking specially high In the aristocracy of that tribe, Inhabited Connecticut when the Pilgrims landed. They became friendly with the whites, and aided In the wars -with the Pequots nud King Philip. Treated with the ut most kindness by the people of Con necticut, they were given lands, mis sionaries, and every Incentive to civil ization. They still remain on their farms in Connecticut, and are officially recog nized as owning a reservation, so far as the State Is concerned, while they are not even mentioned In the United States Indian reports.' About 225 of them, of whom 150 have the appear ance of full-blood Indians, yet linger In Connecticut, the remnants of a people that must have numbered 1,500 or more years ago, A Brave Man. . Captain," said the first mate of the good ship Cauliflower, while the storm was at its height, "the ship has sprung a leak, the watertight compartments are full of water, and the vessel is go ing down. What shall we do?" The gallant skipper's face blanched, but only for one-eighth of a second did he lose his self-control. "Don't waste a moment," he replied. "Frepare'at once an address thanking me for my coolness and heroism In the face of deadly and overwhelming peril. Let not a boat leave the ship's side until every man and woman has signed t." Detroit News-Tribune. That Prosperous Look. "Well," said Hinckley, 'Tve got to go around among my friends and bor row money." "Is that so?" asked WInckley sym pathetically. "Yes," said Hinckley, "but I have got to go and get a new suit at the tailor's first." Yonkers Statesman. Seventy Time Seven. From a Paris paper we take the fol lowing conversation in a police court: The President It appears from your record that you have been thirty-seven times previously convicted. The Prisoner (sententiously) Man is not perfect. Home Herald. A Logical Conclusion. "Mr.. Purslngton says he believes a man should pay as he goes." "Judging from the way he gets In debt, he must he accustomed to travel lug backward." Washington Star. A Choice. '"Excuse me," sputtered the victim oi the barber ; "but If you Intend to put so much lather In my mouth I wish you'd shave me with whipped cream or may onnaise dressing." Judge's Library. One very effectual way to simplify spelling would be for more people to learn how. Y MM XlilSTORIAl f vs. -A Z$i w INC ir j t zy isi lr if I 1248 Construction of the Cathedral of Cologne begun. 1401 Louis XI. of France crowned tt Rheinis. . 1643 Peace concluded between Sweden and Denmark. 1670 John Dryden created Poet Lau reate of England. 1741 Behring, the navigator, discovered East Cape. '". 175G Fort Oswego captured by th French under Montcalm. 176r Pontiac's war for the extermina tion of the English in America came to an end. . 1775 Liberty Tree In Boston conse crated. 177G Constitution of Maryland adopted. 1780 Americans defeated British and Tories at battle of Musgrove Mills. 1S02 Bonaparte invested witih 'power to nominate his successor as ruler of France. 1804 Work begun on the first public road between Georgia and Tennes see. - . 1807 British army Invested Copenhagen. 1830 British Parliament passed the Dl senters' Marriage Act. 1838 The first United States exploring expedition sailed under Commander Wilkes. 1840 Gen. Kearney took peaceable pos session of Santa Fe, Mexico. 1800 The Prince of Wales- (now. King Edward VII.) arrived at Quebec, - 186S Cabul recovered by Shere Ali. .. 1884 Muie. Patti sued for divorce from Marquis de Caux. 18S8-More than 100 lives lost in col lision of the German steamers Thing valla and Geiser off Sable Island. 1891 Between 300 and 400 lives lost in earthquake in Martinique. 1803 The Bohring Sea' arbitration award ?vas delivered. 1004 Russian and Japanese warships en gaged in battle off Vladivostok. A trial week of dispatching trains by telephone from the stations of the Lack awanna system has resulted in the adop tion of the phones. The line of the Wisconsin Central road from Ladysmith to Superior has been completed as far as the Northern Pacific crossing within the Superior city limits.' Several hundred thousand freight cars may be standing idle, as tne railroad managers tearfully protest, but some Kan sas grain dealers complain that they are finable to get box cars enough. In the Circuit Court at Chicago Judge Kohlsaat enjoined the issuance of trans portation by the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville railway to the publishers of Munsey's Magazine in exchange for advertising. He held that the contract under which this transportation was is sued is in violation of the Hepburn rats law. The railroad company gave notice of an appeal to the United States Su preme Court. At Helona, Mont., legal representatives of the government began suit against the Northern Pacific Railway. Company, ths Rocky Fork Coal Company and the Northwestern Improvement Company to Lfeco' ri8 rrri ecover title to valuable coal lands which charged were procured through mis representation. The lands in question contain coal mines from which the rail way obtains great quantities of coal through its control of the subsidiary com panies. Presumably -due to the industrial de pression of the past year, the death rats from accidents by rail appears to be on the decrease. The Accident Bulletin of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the first quarter of 1908 shows a total of 125 passengers and employes killed, as compared witih 220 such deaths in the preceding quarter, and with 846 in the one before that The latest record Is the smallest since these statistics were first collected in 1901. During the first quar ter of thfs year the number of deaths of passengers and employes from all causes was 728, against 1002 in the preceding quarter. In the same period the number of casualties was 13,441, the least within three years. The- right of shippers to combine small quantities of freight of various ownership; ' either, by arrangement among themselves or by a forwarding agency, was confirmed by the Interstate Commerce Commission "n a decision recently rendered. The Interstate Commerce Commission has published the final figures of the In come of the railroads for the last fiscal year. The total net earnings amounted to $S40,rS3,944, which Is an Increase of 554.tK)0,3iV9. The total number of em ployes on the pay roll on June 30 wm 1.072.O74, against 1,521;355 a year ago.
