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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. M "A 1 111 til ii Potith, 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,