A HOMECOMING. I wooll fo hiMiit tad be little toy Safe the far hill paths and that jrijr htr Whereby the ship. alow passing, ever- Leased low Uh uie joy. Occe, once there waa a boy my won der i ! It I may find the way he knew, and j hrin j I To lifjht miiut prioele wayni.le of the inut That was so freely his. They iwy the wh:te san.ls Ions ajro hart AJ1 thnnuh the hnne-p.tas, and there' little d.ult A new, !tr!n life awakes and mores al. nit Where my brave pastures slept But, should I venture yonder for an hour And tin J one strip of shore the same, one path That something of the old enchant ment hsth A wayside xtilt iu flower. With Ihst 'e glimpse of home, then wouM I fare Forth to the new ways, satisfied to know Some heirtli-god faithfully had kept j low A tby ember there.. Boston Transcript. A CASE OF KIDNAPING ORA pushed back her sunbonnet, and looked up, with furtive ad miration, at the stalwart figure giving the finishing touches to the huge load of hay. "Ethel had to help about dinner and couldn't get away, but sne made me come. She aaid It was too bad for you to have no company for the last load." "I am sorry you were compelled to conic." he replied, a little stiffly. "Ob, I wanted to; I wouldn't have missed It for anything. I was never on a load of hay. But mercy! how shall I ever get up there?" lie slowed at her warmth, but with a brief "I'll help you up," he slid to the ground, placed a short ladder against assise EE WAS SILE5T A5D SHE POUTED. the load, preceded her, and reached for her hands. . With little shrieks of alarm, and declarations that she never could do It, Dora at last gained the top of the lad der and put her bands In his. Ills heart leaped fiercely, and he paled a little under his tan, but made no sign of pie tumult her touch aroused within him. . But she was as well aware of It as he, and with malicious Intent, clung to hlm In affected fright, noting, with pleasure, his suppressed agitation. It was a short ride from the. field to the hay barn; besides, he had the horsce to attend to, so there would be no chance for him to go beyond the limit she had set for him, and ask the question she had been fencing for weeks. She was not sure that she was ready to be bound; but she was certain that she did not want to give him a negative answer; she wished to postpone it; be sides, thore were "others," and she being a born coquette was enjoying berself and did not want a definite change. With much skill she had played him and evaded bis efforts to obtain an opportunity to bring' matters to a crisis. She meant him no barm; she reasoned that a little suspanse would perhaps do him good, and she loved the excite ment of the game and reveled In the narrow escapes she contrived to experi ence. "This Is the last of the hay, now there Is nothing to prevent you Joining our tennis party this afternoon," she said, cuddling down In the hay at his feet, while he stood easily and firmly, guiding the team through the gate Into the big road. "If you will be my partner," he re plied, sitting down beside her, letting the horses, now they were through, go their own gait "But I've promised Harry Payne; and Jes3le Carpenter plays much bit ter than I besides, she Is always try ing to get you," she Insinuated, de murely. "Hang Harry Tayne, and Jessie, too, for that matter! See here, Dora " "Oh, there's Ethel on the porch wav ing to us," she Interrupted hurriedly. 'Harvest home! Harvest home!" she , shrieked, as they passed the house, . scrambling to her feet, with one hand on his shoulder. The wagon lurched, and she dropped down again, flushed and laughing, and began scattering hay over him. He did not respond, but sat with averted face. Cro8spatch!".6he said, lightly, "ne wants his dinner, so he does! Well, it r will not be long, now. Dinner is to be unusually early on account of our par ty; the men are going to the house." He was still silent, and she pouted. Suddenly she shrieked again: "Why, Nat Brunerl you've passed the gate- It's way back there! Didn't you see ur -I dldut want to se it," be Mid. shortly. I "What do you mean?" she cried. I mvan that you're not going to pet away from me this time till I've hud my sayT j -I wou't listen! I won't llstenr She J thrust back her bonnet aud put both hands over her ears. lie drove on quietly, with no attempt to coax or .compel ber attention, down a long hill, up the other side and around a corner. -It's all right, boys he said to the horses, as they turned their heads, with an Inquiring look, when the noon whistle blew at the village. "It's all right" and they plodded along soberly, perhaps reflecting on the unreasonable ness of a master who set olt to market from a hard forenoon In the field, with out dinner. Dora sat. obstinately stopping her ears, aud watched the long mile slip by, then another, and he showed no sign of relenting. Once he turned, say ing politely, "I am afraid the sun is making it rather uncomfortable for you. I am sorry I have no umbrella." Though she did not hear, of course, she scowled an answer. They made several turns, and she noted, hopefully, that they seemed go ing In the direction of the farm. lie was giving It upT Not so! To her con sternation, they finally came out in the broad road, headed for the village. "You're "just scotching me," she com plained. "Well, you've scotched me often enough," he growled. Being so near the noon hour they had seen few people, but now, down the road a crowded wagonette whirled toward them, the tenuis party from the village. She Jerked her bonnet over her face and tumbled flat on the hay, moauing: "Oh. I wonldn t have them see me for a million dollars!" When they had passed, with gay banter at him for deserting them, she straightened up with blazing cheeks and the fire of battle In her eyes. "It's the silliest, the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of! And you're the meanest, meanest man alive! I should think you'd hate yourself to death!" "I don't aspire to great wisdom or perfection," he returned, serenely, driv ing on. "You know how I've looked forward to this afternoon, aud what plans we've made for it!" "If you hadn't systematically disar ranged so many of my plans I might be more considerate of yours." "It's so contemptible, your trapping me like this!" "You came voluntarily. I've a right to market my hay when I please." "You don't mean " But they were entering the village, and she crouched down again out of sight. He did not stop, and when they had left the last house behind, she began, pit- eously: "I was never so hungry In my life! I'm positively faint!" "You'll know how to sympathize with the poor, then," he suggested. "You don't care how much you make me suffer, and you profess to " She broke off In some confusion, con scious that she was too near the brink. "Yes, I profess to love you," he fin ished for her. "I've never tried to hide it aud I suppose, after all, there is lit tle need of words. I ought to have understood without having It said. You've shown me plain enough that It Is useless, and yet " he halted. meditatively. Some Intuition within him declared that she was not so In different as she had assumed to be. "No," he continued, "I will have it In words! Dora, you know I liove you devotedly, with all my heart; will you be my wife?" He turned to her with a deep tenderness in his face and shining in his serious eyes. "Cousins can't marry," she evaded. "My stepmother's niece Isn't a very close cousin," he commented. "But I ought to thank you," he went on, pres ently, with a rather wan smile. "You might have been more harsh In your refusal of me." He turned the horses about, saying: "You will not be very late at the game." Then he turned his back In a stolid silence. If he suffered, she should not see It The minutes passed slowly as the horses Jogged along the hot dusty highway. The sun poured down Its scorching rays. Nat sat at his post like a graven image, oblivious alike to the blistering heat and the presence of his pretty and unwilling passenger. The silence was suddenly broken by a storm of sobs from Dora. He writh ed anxiously, until he could bear it no longer, and burst out: "Don't cry, Dora, darling! I'm a brute, a perfect beast! I don't know how to treat a girl, even when I love her so you did right to refuse me!" "But but I haven't refused y you! I I said cousins co couldn't marry I didn't say " TRUMPET CALLS. Why Women Fail as Wives BY ELIZABETH M. GILMER HE first rtaaon why women fall as wives la because marriage ha never yet beeu esteemed one of the learned professions, which only a highly qualified Individual U fitted to practice. On the contrary, It Is held to be a kind of Jack-lig trade that any girl ran pick up at a min ute's nut Ice, and carry on successfully without the slight est previous knowledge or training. No girl would be i nm Round a Waralaa- Not 1 ! the Carol rvinad. I II IS Lord still caret for t h lowly. No true sermon iSh l an end In It self. Cod but test devil where the Jempta, No man rait put all bis char acter Into his col lar. A man's mark conceited euough to taluk that she could practice uiedl- lu the world depends on his aim,. "Dora!" he spoke sternly. "You must not ploy with me any longer, I can't bear it." "I'm not playing now. But If you you don't want to understand or If you you think I'm going to say 'Yes!' any pi plainer " She sobbed the rest on bis shoulder. Housekeeper. Preaching Without Practice. "Who Is the man who has Just or dered his second porterhouse steak?" "That's the famous doctor who wrote the widely copied magazine article on 'Meat Not Necessary for the Summer Diet' " Cleveland Plain Dealer. Life Is the only school for character. There are no losses In loans of love, You cannot use virtue for a var.ilsh. Whatever soils )h soul must be tin. Winds of passion never yet brought vessel Into port It U hard warming the soul at a There can be no such a tiling ns education w'jthout ethics. unlock cine or law or dentistry without devoting years to lti study. She wouldn't even drtam of hiring out as a sten ographer without tirst learning bow to make pot-hooks, but she blithely and cocksurcly tackles the most dltncult and complicated Job existing, that of being a wife, on the fallacious assumptlou that a knowledge of how to mauace a man. and make him hannv and comfortable. comes to a woman by Inspiration, and not through preparation. When tha average girl marries she does not even know how to make a man physically fireworks' display. comfortable. Nobody can be sentimental on an empty stomach, and T,,e me fo ,(tvnk off a baJ bad cooking will kill the tenderest affection lu time. Ijova la choked to data , icfort y0u Win . . .. -V. ...... I. .... . . (1 . . t . I 1 . I .V ... I 1 . . t . fctll. uu Pirsi as wi-ii us siam oj uiuuuui umi-ss, aim mauy a vuu( uur baud's Illusions alwut his bride have been drowned In watery soup. All of this seems very material aud sordid to a woman, but- It Is very Important, nevertheless. When a man marries, he marries for a home. Out Many preachers expect to In the wotld to day he has all that he can endure, and when night cornea It hrta with steel smiles, finds him with wrecked nerves, and a spent body that longs for some quiet That for which anything Is good place where he can be at peace and rest It is the woman's part of the enough Is good for tiotlilng. marriage partnership to supply this, aud unless she does she has defaulted on it la always the other man's track her contract, and she deserves to be posted aa an Imposter who has got that looks smoother than our own good, on false pretenses. If every girl who married were a good freehand ,t ,mrd ron,prilh(,n(, cook, fewer wives would have to go Into liquidation la love. whe wlnk Lack of companionable ness Is another reason why so many women fall as wives. There Is not one woman In a thousand who knows how to chum ;' with her husband, and enter into the things he wants to do. The other r f nine hundred and ninety-nine seem to think that matrimony Is a reformatory, J GEOGRAPHY MADE INTERESTING, x and that It Is their sacred duty to keep thilr husbands from enjoying them- Lt.,A4At,tttAtilj,tltttt. selves. The average wife never has such a self-righteous feeling that she Is Jjj doing her full duty by her husband as when she Is Interfering with his pleas- "n tne B,HHi , tlitif" geography ure, or trying to change his habits. was a much more fascln-itlug study Then there are Uie children. Whatever degree of companionship did Hum It Is to-day. Stanley had iwt exist betwen husband and wife during the honeymoon generally gets Its then followed Uvlngstone through quietus from the tirst baby. After the baby's arrival, the husband Aft lea; the Kngllsh bad discovered simply exists henceforth to supply baby's wants. The young mother doesn't nothing Interesting nboiit "tin roof dress, because baby pulls at her ribbons and laces. Sho doesn't spend the 0f the world," nor had they lnguii to evenings with her husband, becauso baby has to be rocked to sleep. The only speculate on' the prolmb e Ide tilty of topic of Interest to her Is sterilised baby-food, and she Is relieved, and not the chief Tiltetan iler with tin) sorry, when her husband takes to going out of evenings to amuse himself. Brahmaputra; Pike had not found lilt because In her desire to be a good mother she has forgotten what a very p(nk, nor Lewis and Clarke tho poor wife she has become. Women do some queer figuring sometimes, but ".stony Mountains." So little wn pus they never make quite so big an error In their calculations as when they uively known about the distant world decide that a baby Is worth more than a husband. and ko much depended on the talcs of Women fall as wives because they lack appreciation. Wives complain seamen that each geographer thoso Instead of giving thanks. They grumble because they haven't got autoino- i,s facts to suit hhn-elf. Thus, say biles, In place of being grateful that they have somebody to furnish their the author of "()!d timo Schools," car-fare. They weep because they can't go to Europe, when they ought to be there was a never-ending variety beaming with Joy because they have a home to stay In. Now, a man doesn't about the gcotiriphy b ok want his wife to get out a brass band and a torchlight procession to cele- ..Th oM mmk .. ,Iootnrt.t, , . brate his virtues in supporting his family, but he does like to feel tha h It thor of ..1JenrrRphy Mado Kiy .. ,or, toll and his efforts are appreciated, and that his sacrifices are not made In , n hum,n,d vain. After a man has worked like a slave from morning until night, year ct.HotiU It(IRklnU n ,inrd after year, for hls board and clothes-a.nl that s about all the average man ,hmrnt and h , gets-lt must be pretty hard lines to feel that all the thanks he receives are ,t , M BUff ,t cn hurdl b)i,)d ,Nf whines and reproaches because he doesn t make more ,n,0 , n an(, m h , Hnally. lastly and mostly, women fall as wives because they are too t , gtrm.k u ,,roaks k ,,,,,..,. lazy o keep he love, they have won and to make tho man happy who Is you wlh a w b k' , , devoting his 1 fe to making them comfortable To be a good wife is not an Im, not n , , easy task It is one of he most strenuous undertakings on earth. It requ res du,.B fhe ,pnHt t,lpt of , labor and care and skill and tact and unselfishness, but that Is the kind of ..Tn ra,,tnrnin .. ,.. , . ,. , . , . . . .......... in California, runs a later pnrn- service a woman szrees to srlva when she cets married. If aim doosn'f IIVa ' . . . " . , - grapn, "tnerc runs in the morning u,tl,l,v.u .u,,..Ukl5. Rrpat qUantltlM. of (kWi wMoh settling on the rose-leaves, become hard like manna, having all the sweet ness of refined sugnr, without Its whiteness," "In the Friendly Islands," the stn- eieni was toiu, "tneir great men are fond of a singular kind of luxury, which Is to have some one sit besldo them all night and beat on different parts of their body until they go to sleep; after which they relax a little of their labor, unless they appear likely to wake, In which ense they ro- double their exertions until they are again fast asleep." "The diversions Ayers What ire your friends laying about you? That your gray hair makes you look old? And yet, you are not forty I Postpone this looking old. Hair Vigor Use Aycr's Hair Vigor and restore to your gray hair all the deep, dark, rich color of early life. Then be satisfied. Arr" tUIr Vttr rMlr4 ! natural tor NT tray hair, ana I am grwlly piaainl. It It all foil claim (. It." Mna.lt. J. VaKuaoaa. ktaoUulcavllla, T. flMalmllU. All itrntrt'l.t. for j. 0. atisckv. I ,..!( M... The dignified citizen had Just finish ed telling his story to the grand Jury and, duly Impressed by his Importance as a cog In the machinery of the law. had started for the door. He was halt ed by a call from one of the grand Jurors. "Mr. BInks! Just a moment!" Mr. BInks stopped, slowly retraced his steps aud again took the witness chair. "Mr. Binks," said the Inquiring Jur or, "didn't you say you live on the north side?" "I did, sir," stild Mr. BInks, with the importance wbjch some north side people always assume, lie looked at bis Inquisitor, but the black beard tinged with gray of the grand Juror and the twinkling eyes behind tho glasses told him nothing. "Mr. Binks," went on the Juror, of the Scots nre "didn't your father at one time keej' a drug store on the north side?" tut .ii.a ti-j i uv uiu, repuwi air. nmnn. won-. . - m . derlng what that had to do with hlsdanclng: off "d curling. The goff H t..tlmnnr species oi imii-piiij nig perionnu "Now. Mr. Bint..- nnrM h,wh bt a,ul l)n". the extremity grand Juror, "didn't you at one t!meof tho bnt bclnB ,oft,,e(1 wlth ,(M,(1' 0,1,1 steal a number o. wine bottles from""- i""1' """" " ' vour fnthor " fewest strokes Into a hole wins the "Certainly not sir!" shouted Mr.Bame Binks. standlnz un lndlznantlv. while Tn answer to the question, "What the-other twenty-two Jurors stared curiosities are there in France?" ap at the bearded member. Prs this Incredible "yarn:" ."Yes. you did, Tom," exclaimed that A fountain near lirenobie emits ft mysterious person, leaving his seat Income which will burn paper, staw, the row of Jurors and advancing totc but will not burn gunpowder. Mr. Binks with extended hand, "be Within about eight leagues of tho cause I helped you and I took 'emsame place Is an lnaccesslblo nioun nrounu io me rroni ana soia em agnintam in tue rorm or a pyramid re- to the old man. Don't you know me.verscd." you out rraua7" . So the writers rongeil n field, de- Then they had a reunion and thescrlblng the odd manners of tho In grand Jury took a recess. Chlcagohabltants of the earth, from Guinea to oauy News. . New England. One of the great drawbacks to the budding poet Is the refusal of the gov ernment to supply postage stamps on credit GAMBLING IN HUMAN LIVES. ! The Weird Bport ' la Carried on in London. "Policies, I'll wager, are already be ing taken out in London on the life of little Alexis, the new heir to the Kus sian throne," said an insurance agent to a writer for the Louisville Courier Journal. "The English gamble horribly In life Insurance, and Alexis must ap peal to them as a wonderful risk. They will pay high for him, though. "The Insurance rates on all royal lives are a tribute to the power of the nihilists and. anarchists, for they are so huge as to be almost prohibitive. The rate on the King of England is enormous, and among monarchs his Is the lowest rate of any. That on the Russian Czar Is the hlgest. The Czar is ft bad risk. Many companies would not Insure him on any consideration. "But Lloyds, the great London con cern, would insure anything or any body Frof. Langley going up in one of bis flying machines, a Japanese spy about to enter Tort Arthur, a Russian battleship going into battle. And hence Lloyds is willing to Insure the poor little Rusnian heir, and a certain class of men, taking advantage of this fact, are procuring policies upon the baby's life. "Gambling on lives Is a ghastly form of sport, and I believe that It la prae tlced nowhere but In England. When Time Iaui(hel. Itf ,,.... .n,V all. ought not to be practiced there. ThemlI(,iied ami bloomed at twenty-three; law ought to prohibit it At Lloyds, When I hinted we might wed however, It Is always going on. Poli-"You're too youug for me," she said, cies at Lloyds are continually being taken out on persons of eminence alJBut 1 thirsted through the years, over the world." Tortured by my hopes and fears; J And I longed to win her so, Not a Loan. That it must have helped mo grow. A little girl went timidly Into a Fifth street store the other mornlngr 1 hastened n " 't and asked the clerk how many shoe-Jy.mo".Cntr -me pn!tI t , , . , . m r f Aad to-day, by anguish rent, strings she could get for 5 cents. - Sce p?e(,i(;ument: "How long do you want them?" he asked. ... Rhe's still twenty-three; whllo I've "I want them to keep," wag her an-Waxed sedate lit thirty-five; swer, In a tone of slight surprise." And I bear her now aver ; Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. 1 am m,u,D tr old fr herl . Leslie's Monthly. Where tho Preacher Works. ' - ' : Church The averaue man llkPH in A Proof of Frlendrhlp. sit idly and see some other man do all B'nks-Y0" say that the man who the work. ran nwny wlth your wife was. your Gotham Why is It, then, that morebcst 'rlen(1? men don't eo to church? Yonkor. Jinks Yes, and he never realized Statesman. how true a friend he was before. Cln Johnny Makes a Hnirgetlon. Knlcker My son, come with me. Johnny Er say, pa, don't you clnnall Commercial-Tribune. Dark Hair How Cf Haloid Is Made. Celluloid, the chemical compound which bears so clos a rvsemblaact to Ivory, Is a mixture of collodion and camphor, Invented In 1853 by rerke slne, of Ulrmlugtiatn, whoso nam for time It bore. The process of manu facture la as follows: Cigarette paper Is soaked In a mixture of nltrle and sulphuric acids until It becomes nitro cellulose. After thorough washing, to free It from the aeldi, this cellulose la dried, mixed with a certain quantity of camphor, and coloring matter If re quired, and theu passed through a roll er mill. It Is uext formed Into thin sheets by hydraulic pressure and after ward broken up by toothed rollers and naked for some hours In alcohol. A further pressure aud a hot rolling proc ess llnlsh it, and results In Ivory-Ilk slnets half an Inrh thick. Mack. Hnakea. It Is true that the rattlesnake and the black snake are mortal cnemlm, aud the black snake Is the victor In their battles, breaking the neck of hla adversary before the rattler lias time to strike. The bluck snakes of this country are as harmless as frogs. On many of the large plantations In the South they arc tamed and kept as a protection from their enemy, as tha warm climate pfevents keeping tho houses closod so as to keep them out. Not t'p to Date. "Mammn," said tho pretty . fluffy- haired girl, "I think I ought to go to cooking school, don't you?" "It Isn't necessary, my dear," replied the mother, "I can teach you to cook." "But that would never do, mamma," protested tho fair daughter, "you only know how to cook the ordinary things that people really eat" Former Senator Henry 0. Dsvls and his son-in-law, Senator Stephen It. El kins, have enntributed $100,000 to the Davis and hlklns CoUeje, Just optnad. at Elklns, W. Va. There are plenty of acquaintances la the world, but vary ftw real friends.- J. P. Davis. Emperor William will not learn to play golf nor will he permit his ministers to play. Prince Henry playi a good deal. of the Nary Morton la lie never gets seasick. Secretary good sailor. The best biography the life that writes charity In the largeat letters. Who makes quirk use of the moments Is a genius of prudence. Lavater. The hide of a cow makes twice much leather as that of a boras. aa InJunticc. 'Eunice, did you pay $3 for that nalt think since we have got a baby In thoof gloves? You are shamefully ox family you might abolish the knout? travngaut." New York Sun. "Why, mamma, how can you tallt If the circus Dually cuts out thethnt w,ay?. 1 got a iraains 8tam.l) wlLb I suffered for a Ion j time with a had case of Catarrh, and took a great deal ol medicine without any benefit. I had a continual headache, my cheeks bad grown purple, my nose was always stopped up, my breath had a sickening and disgusting odor, and I coughed incessantly I heard of your S. S. 8. and wrote yon. I commenced to use it, and after taking several bottles I was cured and bave never since had the slightest symptom o! the disease. Miss Mary L. Storm. Cor. 7th & Felix Sts., St. Joseph, Mo. Wheeling, W. Va., May 39, 1003. ' 1 had Nasal Catarrh for years for which X nsedS. S. 8. with very gratifying results. I tried local applications for some time, and getting no permanent relief I come to the conclusion that the seat of thetroublo was in the blood. Knowing S. S. S. to bo a good blood medicine I began Its use, aud after using it for some little while it did away entirely with the offensive mu cus in the nostrils, and I did not have to hawk and spit, especially in the morning, to dislodge the catarrhal matter. 1627 South St. Fred XI. Frbssy. . The filthy secretions and foul muens that are continually dropping back into tho throat, find their way into the stomach . and are absorbed into the blood. Catarrh then becomes con stitutional, and the only way to get rid of it is through tha blood. Write uail you have Catarrh, and our physici ans will advise you without charge.' The Swift Spoclflo Company, Atlanta, Ca nnnub 1f will ha luff Ahlv fns XUeiUi strels and bridal couples to give that Of course marriage Is a failure when kind of free entertainment the liabilities exceed the assets. i-iunra J.utaf ail titc 1111 c buses nntni hll il rniLOa I Dost Couh by nip, TaatosGood, Ui ML n tlma.