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THE LOST
ki rt.n wiiEjira wn.oox
T1.CM ten n fU ... ... I i .
iTutu tin H.mtl.ca.t Hide of the mountain
le.lo; And the .iirlicHt tint of the dawn came
KI').iiiK' '
Down tin onul, iU path, -from tho day'
' iirn film.,
"Tho bhi.-j.t kie iin.l tho reddest rosea
Arehed and vnried it velvet nod;
And tho Klnd bird ring, n the soul Bup-
The nngcls) wng on the hilln of God.
I wandered there, when my veins Boomed
l)iiritinp
With life's ruro rapture, and keen delight;
And j ot in my heart was a constant thiiht-
1'or HoniHhina over the mounUin heiKht.
I wanted to atand in the blaze of (lory
ilmt turned to eriniHon tho peaks of snow,
And the winds from the went all breathed
a Htory
)? realms and regions I longed to know.
I saw on the garden's south side prowing
brightest Uo.s.soms that breathe of
June,
I saw in tho eaHt how the sun was glow
ing, And the gold air bhook with a wild bird's
tune;
I heird the drip of a silver fountain,
And the pulse of a young laugh throbbed
with glee j
Itut still I looked out over the mountain
Where unnamed wonders awaited me.
fy IIARL1E SUMMERS and Gil
I f roy Curtis wore getting up a
J circus In tho Summers's back
yard. The price of admission
was to be one penny, and the money
raised was to go to the Fresh-Air
Fund. The "shelter tent" in which
Hrs. Summers sat out with tho baby
when the weather was very hot, had
been given over to them for the week,'
and Charlie's grown-up sister Anna
had promised to get some of her
grown-up. friends to help with the
music. A beautiful circus programme
and menagerie had been arranged,
with the cat for a tiger and Gilroy's
tig dog for a bear, and the only thing
which tho boys particularly wanted
was a tattooed boy. Somehow or
other Gilroy had set his heart upon
having this particular "feature," which
.seemed Impossible to secure.
Then Charlie's little sister Emma
went across the lake for a day, and
when she came back she was full of
the funny experience which had hap
pened to her. She had passed most of
the day In Michigan upon the lake
shore In the blazing sunshine, and
when she took off her dross at night
tlie patternof her embroidered shirt
waist had been sunburned all over her
"THEN WE SAT IN THE SUN UNT
O
arm and neck. When Charlie saw the
marks on her wrists he shouted and
rushed off to tell Gilroy.
The next day the two boys, despite
the amused warnings of Mrs. Sum
mers, who had been let into the plot,
borrowed an old lace curtain from Gil
roy's mother. nI went off to a spot
behind the Curtis barn, a spot where
the sun shone uninterruptedly most
of the day, and where nobody was
likely to interfere with or come upon
them. The circus was to come off in
the afternoon, and it was decidedly
.inconvenient having the manager, the
ticket-taker and two of the star per
. formers absent all morning, but the
final rehearsals were gone through
with somehow without them, and the
two boys turned up all right in time
for dinner. The only thing which
worried Mrs. Summers Gilroy took
dinner with Charlie that day was the
'lira Ml ! !
piss! H vfr
GARDEN.
I r.irne nt luft to tho western pntcwav
That h'd to the j.atli I ionK.-d to climb!
lint a idmduw fell on inv mint Ktra L-ht-
I or r!oe at my sid.i stood gn ybcard Time.
I lumped, with feet that were fain to litter
Jlunl by that (.-anion's golden patoj
l!ut Time spoke, pointing with out tUsn
finger;
"Pacs on," ho eaid, "fur the day rixrwa
late."
And now on the chill grflv elifT I warder:
The heights recedo which I thought to
find.
And the hrht Berm dim on the mountain
yonder,
When I think of the parden I left behind.
Should I stand at lut on its sumuiit'a
splendor,
I know full well it would not repay
For the fair lost tints of tho duwu to ten
der That crept up over the edge o' day.
I would go back, but the wojs arc wind
ing. J! ways there arc to that land, in sooth.
For what man mieeecds in ever finding
A path to tho garden of his lost youth?
Put 1 think sometimes, when the June
etars glisten,
That a rone-scent drifts from far away;
And I know, when I lean from the cliffs
and listen,
That a young laugh breaks on tho air like
spray.
New York Journal.
fact that neither boy seemed to care
very much about leaning back in his
chair, and that both of them shrunk
from being touched or handled, how
ever gently.
."Ouch!" cried Charlie, sharply, when
his older sister laid her hand on his
shoulder, while Gilroy's romp with
the baby wasn't half so lively as usu
al. The little fingers seemed to hurt
him whenever they touched his arms
or shoulders;
"But it worked beautifully," they
presently confided lu Mrs. Summers;
"looks fine."
"Isn't It painful?" asked Mrs. Sum
mers. v
"Not very," said both boys together.
"And we can fix up with vaseline or
something after the show's over If
it hurts too much," they explained, as
they went out into the yard again,
with Mrs. Summers between them.
"My looks like snakes," Jessie Cur
tis heard Charlie saying ns she ran
down the back steps just behind him,
but she couldn't quite catch what It
was that looked like snakes.
"And mine like flowers," whispered
Gilroy, while Mrs. Summers smiled
and nodded. Put when Jessie asked
for an explanation the boys only
IL TIIE PATTERN WAS BURNED
N."
laughed and told her to wait until the
circus opened. So Jessie and the other
girls were just as curious as could be,
and they were decidedly disappointed,
as the circus went on, liy and by, to
discover nothing at all that looked like
snakes or flowers. And they couldn't
understand it one bit when Mrs. Sum
mers, as manager in the temporary
absence of Charlie, who took part in
about every iiurd "turn," announced
presently that the next number would
bo an acrobatic performance by the
"Tattooed Partners." They didn't see
where the "Tattooed Partners" were
to come from.
The band, which was made up of
Charlie's grown-up sister Anna, who
played the mandolin, a couple of her
friends with guitar and banjo, and two
of the boys with mouth harp nnd a
shepherd's whistle, blared out beauti
fully and out into the ring tumbled
Charlie and Gilroy, In lathing trunks,
striped Mocking and tennis (dippers.
Atid, Hire enough, their arms and
shoulders were "tattooed" la curious
patterns and in a Muule of vivid red.
"Why! They look JuM ns I did after
that day on the beach at South Hav
en," cried little l'nitn.i Summers
when the applause was beginning to
die nwny, nnd no sooner was the per
formance over than sin. caught hold of
Charlie and Insisted upon knowing
how he got those funny marks on his
nrniH and shoulders. Charlie looked
at Gilroy, Gilroy nodded, nnd the lioya
owned up.
"We got the idea from you," ex
plained Charlie. "You showed me your
wrists where tho pattern of your
waist had been burned on them, and
wo got an old lace curtain from Gil
roy's mamma and wrapped pieces of
it around us. Then we sat out In tho
sun until the pattern was burned on.
My neck looks just as though a lot of
little snakes had been painted on It,
nnd Glrloy's arms are all flowers. We
thought we'd have two tattooed pep
formers Instead of one; every old cir
cus has one. We must have looked
fine as the 'Tattooed Partners. "
"You did," said Emma, heartily,
"but, my! how your arms and necks
must hurt, and how they'll hurt to
morrow. Mine were Just awful until
Aunt Sarah put some cold cream on
them and bathed them with witch
hazel. You'd better get mamma or
sister Anna to do It for you right off."
"Oh, rubbish," cried both boys,
laughing, as they rushed away to get
some of the Ice cream Mrs. Sum
mers was serving on the side lawn
the audience bought the cream for the
benefit of the Fresh-Air Fund, but the
circus performers were to have all
they wanted for nothing. "I guess
we can stand It without coddling, kid
die; we've been In bathing often
enough to know how sun blisters feel.
TV
e're not tender like girls."
But the sun blisters proved a little
more severe than the hoys had antici
pated, and that evening Mrs. Sum
mers, going upstairs for the night, was
surprised to hear her presence request
ed by Charlie, who had gone to bed
several hours before.
"Say, mamma," he called, softly,
won't you put some cold cream or
witch, hazel or something on the back
of my neck? It's smarting just awful,
and it won t let me go to sleep."
Mrs. Curtis, strange to say. was also
called upon to bathe and anoint Gil
roy's smarting neck and shoulders be
fore morning, and it was several days
before either of the "Tattooed Part
ners" found it convenient to turn their
heads suddenly or to lean back in their
chairs.
"But, dear me! I don't mind the old
blisters," Charlie told his father a
couple of days later. "They don't hurt
so awful much, anyway, and Mr. Cur
tis gave us a whole dollar for the
Fresh-Air Fund just on account of the
Tattooed Partners' he said it was
the best turn f the kind Mrs. Curtis
had ever seen and you gave us anoth
er dollar because of It, and Sister An
na fifty cents. So we had $2.50 ex
tra to send in, anyway, and that's
worth a few sun blisters, isn't it, Gil
roy?" Well, I should think so," answered
Gilroy, feeling the sore spots on the
back of his neck. Ethel M. Colson,
In tho Chicago Record. -
Greece's Undying Mission.
In inaugurating the monument of
Colocotrenls, at Nauplle, Greece, King
George delivered a long speech,
which has produced a profound im
pression, and which is strongly com
mented on by the Athenian press. In
this speech the king mentioned the
sacrifices the nation has yet to endure
in order to fulfil its mission.
"We shall," he said, "accomplish the
work of the heroes of the war for in
dependence, a work which was left
incomplete. For this object wo ought
to labor continuously, and watch the
defenses of our country both on laud
and on sea. . . . The duty of na
tions is not to neglect their mission,
and to this end they must persistently
work in preparing and strengthening
their army. . . . Our duiy is to up
hold our national traditions, language,
desires and right inviolate. ... If
we desire to keep our independence
we must strive in order to be able to
do it."
King George has never before spok
en in this manner. His speech is a
veritable programme. All the politi
cal parties have received it with en
thusiasm. London Daily Mail.
A Medioal Mascot.
A member of the senior class of Mil
waukee Medical College found a mas
cot the last day of examination in the
shape of a tiny black kitten, which
followed him on the street as he was
on his way to the college. Not know
ing what else to do with it, he put the
kitten In his overcoat pocket, where it
slept contentedly all day. When he
went to the Turkish bath late in the
afternoon the kitten went, too, and
after eating a bowl of cream, curled
up on the cot by his protector and
slept as if he belonged there. When
the senior gets his sheepskin next
week and opens an ofliee the little
pledge of success will have a home
there. Milwaukee Sentinel.
England has one clergyman to every
CIO people; Ireland, one to every 1270
;vv. i-w.
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SENTIMENT among the citl
sceiH .f several of the South
ern and Middle WeMern
.-Maics, notai.iy jyiuisinna,
MIsriH.-dppI, Illinois and Tcniicm-.ce, In
favor of improving the highways, is
juM now at white heat. I'nder the
direction of the National Good Roads
Association mass meetings nnd con
ventions nre held In many of the cities
and towns, and the subject of good
roads is discussed and dilated upon
everywhere by champions of the
movement with earnestness and un
derstanding. On the strength of the
benefits which, unmistakably, have
resulted from smooth and permanent
highways wherever they have been !
built, the good roads agents are striv
ing to Impress upon the pi-nplc that
the maintenance in their reKiectlve
localities of roads that nre sensibly,
not to say scientifically, constructed
is a duty they owe to themselves and
to succeeding generations. The agi
tation certainly is producing Impor
tant results.
Leading newspapers In the States
mentioned are doing much to help
along the work. The New Orleans
Times-Democrat, for example, has
printed a series of Interviews with
representative citizens In various parts
of Mississippi and Louisiana, and
they leave no doubt of the sincerity
and vigor with which the good roads
movement is conducted. We quote
Rome extracts from Interviews with
residents in three large towns of
Louisiana. A progressive landholder
says:
"It 3s for the agricultural Interests
to realize that they can haul twice s
much of their products over a good
road as over one poorly kot. I don't
know anything better for this parish
than the Inauguration of a movement
of this kind."
A prominent physician expresses
himself thus:
"Good roads, like good schools, are
the most inviting objects to Immigra
tion. Coupled with the fertility of
our soil, good roads will surely result
lu bringing hither capital and immi
gration." A large Louislanan planter takes
this view of the matter:
"Good roads are an object lesson to
the capitalist, home seeker and man
of moderate means. Wherever he
see3 good roads he is assured that It Is
a community in which he can safely
Invest, satisfied that he will have good
schools, quick and easy transporta
tion of produce to and from market,
and everything which can bo desired
in an enlightened and Christian com
munity." Here nre the opinions cf a wide
awake farmer of the same State:
"There is no surer, safer or more ex
peditious way of building up and de
veloping the resources of a country
than by the construction and main
tenance of good Toads. They will al
ways invite the home-seeker, as well
as the capitalist, each of whom Is as
sured of easy transportation to mar
ket for his produce, as well as of edu
cational, religious and other advan
tages Incident to such a combination
of happy circumstances."
A prominent lawyer and planter
says:
"The absence of good roads fre
quently means a lower market when
products reach their destination; loss
and delay from the failure to receive
articles promptly when needed, and a
large loss resulting from the wear and
tear of vehicles and horses and pay
ment of increased time to teamsters."
We might go on quoting almost in
definitely similar opinions gathered
by the Times-Democrat from citizens
of Louisiana and Mississippi muni
cipal ollicers, bank presidents, cler
gymen, wholesale - nnd retail mer
chants, farmers and others.
Tho good roads sentiment in the
part, of the country referred to has
been greatly stimulated by the recent
undertaking on the part of the Na
tional Good Roads Association and
the Illinois Central Railroad, to run
a train, specially equipped for practi
cal road making, from New Orleans
to Chicago. The "Good Roads Spe
cial," as it is called, has already given
demonstrations in road building at
New Orleans, Natchez and Vicksburg
It then proceeded northward and
stopped at fifteen or more places. At
each place a specimen road at least r.
mile long was constructed nnd left as
an object lesson to people who would
like to have open highways twelve
months in the year. New York Sun
ImproTemont In Country Roads.
Americans have never been slow
about doing things, but we may be
said to be slow about doing some
things well. It was not, for example,
until the bicycle came into vogue that
people thought very seriously about
good roads, and even yet in many
parts of the country, especially through
the middle West and the South, the
buggy and carriage are alike stored
awav for three or four months out of
the year, the roads being in no ogndi
tioa for any such vehicles. And even
when the TdcycV ftec.imc fo popular,
bicycle riding wis confined very la .'.
ly to the streets nnd boulevunK t!n
n;oM tinlntereMliig of all the way for
bicycles. During the pant five years
more attention has been given to gt.ffl
roads, und now flint the automobile?
lis well as the bicycle Is here to May
there will probably be greater devel
opment In the so-called "country
roads" during the next few yearp
than has ever been known In thL
country before. '
Golf, too, Is doing Its part In bring
ing the people Into the open air and
in touch with country life. It Is dl!!l
cult to understand how we have gone
along for so many years with only
one here and there appreciating the
beauties In nature that lie almost nt
our very door. With the roads along
the Hudson as well kept as the roads v
along the Rhine the Hudson will probj
uly be the more popular of the two
famous scenic roadways.
PRIDE OF ANCESTRY.
Not Always Safn to True Your Forbear
Bark Fop Many Vritra.
Not long since an acquaintance of
mine Bald to me with an air of pride:
I can trace back my ancestry to my
to my
great-J
r, andf
great-great-grandfather's great great
grandfather. He was a cavalier,
fought under Charles I." "And what
does that amount to?" I answered
him. "That was the eighth generation
before you, nnd in that generation you
had 128 forefathers and 128 foremoth-
ers, Just l-25fith of your ancestry In
that generation. Among the 127 men
of whom you have never heard there
may have been several who were
hanged for murder, burglary or sheep-
stealing, for all that you know or can t
ever hope to know. Nor can you tell (
me how many disreputable character'
there may have been among tho 123
women. And you must remember.
too, that you had sixty-four foremoth-
ers In the seventh generation, and thir
ty-two in the fifty, all of them nearer
to j-ou than that cavalier; you must ac
count for them as well."
Y'et, of course, one should be glad
that his near lineal and collateral kla '
have been and are honest men and vir- ,e
iuous women, out a line must ue arawn
somewhere, and that not many genera-
tlons back, beyond which there Is no x
such thing as good birth or bad birth.
because it Is all both good and bad.
When any one begins to boast that ha
comes of "a long line of proud ances
try," he can be contradicted at once,
because there Is no such thing as "a
long line of ancestry;" one'e ancestry
cannot be represented by a line, but
1 i i . 1 1 1 J1'
u.v hu uiveiieu iiviaiuru. iei"Y uuu -
of us comes one by one, but of many '
hundreds and thousands of long lines
of ancestry, some of them proud, per
haps, and others with no cause for
pride, but rather the reverse. It will
not do to try to follow them all too far
back. Some one of the many will
surely lead to a dungeon of the New
gate prison, or It may be to the Tyburn
gulhrws tree. We cannot pin our faith
to the one cavalier, and Ignore all the
others, as my friend was trying to do,
because it Is nature's plan that all the
good and all the bad of the race should
be mixed up in each one of us Les
lie's Topular Monthly.
Tiled Both VVayg.
Some of the inmates of a Yorkshire
asylum were engaged in sawing wood.
and an attendant thought that one old
fellow, who appeared to be working
as hard as anybody, had not much to
show for his labor.
Approaching him the attendant soou.
discovered the cause of this. The old
man had turned his saw upside down,
with the teeth in the air, and was
working away with the back of the
tool.
"Here, I say, J ," remarked tho
attendant, "what are you doing? Y'ou'll
never cut the wood in that fashion.
Turn the saw over!"
The old man paused and stared con
temptuously at the attendant.
"Did ta iver try a saw this way?" ho
asked.
"Well, no," replied the attendant.
"Of course I haven't."
"Then hod thy noise, mon," was the
instant rejoinder. "I've tried both
ways, I hev, and" impressively "this
is t' easiest." London Spare Mo
ments. Why They Went Smoothly.
The following story is told by a
traveler about one of the local rail
ways in Ireland:
We were bounding along, he said, at
the rate of about seven miles an hour
and the whole train was shaking ter
ribly. I expected every moment to see
my bones protruding through my skin.
Passengers were rolling from one end
of the carriage to the other. I held on
firmly to the arms of the seat. Pres
ently we settled down a bit quieter
at least, I could keep my hat on and
my teeth didn't chatter.
There was a quiet-looking man op
posite me. I looked up with a ghastly
smile, wishing to appear cheerful and
said:
"We ara going a little smoother, I
see."
"Yes," he said; "we're off tho lino
now." London Spare Moments.
Human hair, wigs, albums, chrom a
and photographs are some of the ar
ticles w" h rue United States iaportn
txtensjy fruia Germany,