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Show i The Stream of Time. The old man s counsel to the young Is wasted breath We wonder Why youth ltl nothing learn except ,Through pain and shame and blunder. lie took his life Just capable of one heioio aim, and threw It in the thickest of the fight. What matter? feincp Aurora failed him first!" E B Browning. t , Jean Charterlg, stepping out into the pearl and silveilness of dawn and dew, sighed and then smiled at sight of the riches spread before her. Again it was Decoration Day, an occasion which in this little western town was one almost of festivity, so great was the gathering from the surrounding farms, so gay the girls in their new summer finery, so stliring the martial music of the loeal band Even the pathetic sight of the handful of old soldiers, marching in depleted ranks to the cemetery on the hillside, hut emphasized the pleasure of the young, who found in the holiday enjoyment at once innocent and reverent. Miss Charteris walked down the prim gravel walk between the low green barberry hedge. She held daintily aside the skirt of her crisp, white wrapper, lest It be touched by the wet twigs on either side. Her spirited gold brown head turned to left and right as she mentally calculated the floral wealth of her little garden. None would have dreamed that over that same radiant bead thirty summers had passed, so girlishly slender was the erect and graceful figure, so smooth the white brow, so luminous the long, eyes under the slim black brows. She bad swung the basket from her arm and was snipping from the great snowball bush, at the end of the path Its first contribution, when a voice came piping to her from over the gate. Mis Chartris, you got ma's dress done?" Just finished it at 12 last night, Billy!" She smiled at the freckled faced boy as she moved to go back to the house. She returned, carrying a bundle wrapped in newspapers. There don't crush it, laddie! The boy lingered, shamefacedly. He was not a bad loosing boy, barring the freckles. He kept casting furtive window in glances at a second-storthe little cream colored cottage, where the blinds were still drawn " a Jerking thumb "Is Is she indicating the bouse, goln' with you Jto the cemtry? Roslne?" Miss Charterlg was ruthlessly snipping off every robin which had presumed to show its blue head In the long bed border. O, she will go! Her mother is burled there, you Jtnow, Rosine will go with me." I Im goln'--, too! blurted Billie. Then, as though overwhelmed by the magnitude of the admission, he skipped away, his mother's dress crushed lessly against his throbbing heart, and his bare feet, as yet guiltless of tan, kicking up a dust which hid his fiery blushes. "An Ill wear my new clothes," chanted Billie. Til wear my best clothes an a collar! It was a royal burden Jean Charteris had gathered when at last she laid the shears In the basket brimful of blooms There were trailing sprays of white and gold sprlnga stars, peonies, pink and crimson, and white; honeysuckle, amber and rose, and carmine; blush roses, pale and velvety; sweetbrlar, delicately, yet Intensely fragrant, and many a single flower which, courierlike, had blossomed in prophetic beauty. Back of the glittering window glass of the little home she approached pansy-purpl- t e y were the glowing house plants which were soon to be transferred to the garden. These, Using tier on tier, glowing geraniums, fragrant heliotrope, brilliant hibiscus, golden mignonette, were destined with their hardier brethren to yield tribute to death. Aunt Jean Auntie Jean!" rang a fresh young voice, Im dressed Nora dressed me! 0, may I help you fix the flowers? And how soon may we go on the hill? Jean laid her basket on a hail chair Just in time to catch in her oulflung arms the slim little white figure flying down the Btalrs. You shall help me, my precious!" she promised. And she touseled the clustering curls on the dark little head and pressed with her own the rosy Ups that were ripe for kisses. Breakfast over, the two settled to work, for Roslne had decided views of her own as to the relative merits of set designs In contradiction to the preference of Miss Charteris for less formal symbols. And all the time the hazel eyes sparkled and the restless little tongue talked trippingly on. "You have to work awful hard, dont you, Auntie Jean? Did you get Billie's mothers dress done? Did Billie come for it? Id like Billie If he wasn't freckled. Nora says you used to be rich. Sae says you lived In that big stone house with the fountain in the yard. She says my mamma was rich, too, until after my papa went away and left her. And then she came to live in this little weeny house with you. And then God wanted her. What made you and my mamma get poor? And why doesnt my papa come back? And why wouldn't God let my mamma stay here? And does she know when we put all these pretty flowers on her grave?" So for the two in the bright little room, plain to severity save for its books and green things growing and air of Indefinable refinement, the perfect day wore on. If now and then Jean's sweet face paled and her sensitive Ups quivered, these the absorbed little maiden did not notice at all. How should a prattling child, busy with a wreath, dream that her words might wound? They stood at the gate to see the procession wind by the hobbling veterans, the women of the Relief Corps, the townspeople in vehicles and afoot, the uniformed band, the excited children running at either side. But the sun had gone down in a splendor of scarlet and gold, the streets were being fast deserted, and all the air was still steeped in amber brilliance, when Jean Charteris and the little girt carried their treasures between them up the green velvet sward of that sloping hill, sacred to silence and to sweet, safe slumber. The grave yard knew now no presence save their own. On several graves were flags on the greater number flowers. But some were bare of bloom. And from one to another of these the moved, leaving some sprays on each. Then they sought a certain corner, where a simple stone recorded briefly a young wife's death, You shall place them all," said She gave Rosine the Jean Charteris. basket, and stood loaning against the marble shaft, her black, trailing gown outlining her slender form, her head drooping as though in weariness. With unconscious elation the child went about her task. And afar in the road Billie watched her. Billie, stiff In his best Sunday suit, tortured by new shoes, agonized by an unaccustomed collar. So absorbed was he in following every movement of his idol he did not hear the step approaching. He turned with a hasty exclamation at a touch on bis shoulder turned to confront & man who was decidedly a s stranger. DOWNFALL FRANK OF THORN. Shafts Fell Heavily on Aged Veteran. He was a pitiable old veteran who stopped me that day on State street. The rain was pouring steadily down and the tide of humanity went hurrying on with faces as gloomy as the sky Itself, and paused not to hear the pleadings of him who stood there leaning against a lamp-posand clad in rags. Upon watery-eyehis head was an oid battered and ragged hat, from whose hanging rim the dirty water ran in a little muddy rivulet down to the ground. His feet were almost bare, his breath redolent with the fumes of whisky But there amid the rags, upon his breast, star, an emgleamed a golden-hueblem of honor, the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was only an old toper, but those feet had once run swift at his countrys call in the days gone by. That breast had been hared to battle blasts, and those arms had borne aloft the old flag when stout hearts were faint with fear. I paused as these thoughts came to me, and as a atd, catching I did so he lcok-Misfortunes t, d sight of the little bronzed button In the lapel of my coat, he stretched out a tremulous hand, and in a husky voice said: Hello, comrade, cant you give a fellow 10 cents? I aint had a bite to eat and an old soldiers no account when the commissarys empty. The crowds went by unheeded carriages rolled past, splashing me with mud and water. I was unconscious of them all. My mind was far away. I forgot the crowd forgot the rain forgot all the wretchedness and misery before me. I was away in the sunny southland. Spanning the long flown years, I was back again with the old regiment, marching side by side with one who made comradeship more than a fleeting memory. Frank Thorn handsome, brave, earnest and true the lightest hearted soldier and most Joyous comrade I ever knew. Night after night we had stood at picket post under the silent stars and talked of f the loved ones we had left In the north. He talked of his sweet young wife, and told me of little Willie and the baby until they were almost as dear to me as my own. How eagerly far-of- you had known, her treachery Hush! The soft word was im She pointed to the flower perious. IlushJ She is strewn mound below. here! Besides I did know! You knew ft? When how? The day you went away. Rose came to me. She told me the truth. The last gleam of sunset had faded shadows crept up the Amethystine draws But in the clear atterglow they saw each other quite distinctly the two who stood in silence there When he spoke It was in a voice that thrilled her the voice of the lover ol The latter pointed to the dark figure her youth. by the stone. Jean will you come to me now? he is "Who, that? asked, She answered: First say to her, I Thats Miss Charteris. She lives forgive you, dear! in the little old Chilton cottage now. For an Instant he stood Irresolute. She makes dresses. Then slowly Tie saDk on one knee the man murmured. bowed his bared head over the masses My God! Has It come to this with Jean?" of perfumed bloom. When he rdse and Conscious of thd boys sharp scrutheld out his hand slid laid her own iny the man took from his pocket two within It, and thus they walked to the metal one of one silver. pieces brass, gate and down the road toward the Here take these down to the village, where the lights were beginagent. Give him the check and tell ning to gleam. him to send my trunk to the hotel. You You are tired, he said, and slipmay keep the dollar! ped his arm around , her. T have Billie grabbed the money and made a new fortune in a new world, uttered a yell. Jean. You shall work no more. " He was valiant enough Rosine and Billie were feasting merIn this plutocratic hour. rily In the cottage' when the two Come on! Im goln to buy candy! turned In at the garden gate. A final placing of the last wreath, To think," said Jeah, as they went an eager question, an answering nod low- - barberry borders from the bowed head then the child up betwixt 'the the moonlight, that lp was flying toward the road through the It was only tills Jnornlng I walked here mellowing radiance of the fading light, alone and so sad save for the shouting questions to Billie as she child! ' came. Something in the skimming child! he said, softly the Ah, flight of the agile little body, in her hungrily. "Much may happen In a day, voice. In the shape of the , Jean! , head, caused the stranger to put my Somewhere, she said, lifting a face out a detaining hand. still glowing from his kisses, I read What, he cried, is your name, litthis: "Between Calvary day and Eastle one? ter day earth's saddest day and gladRoslne! She wrested herself . but one day! free. "Let me go with Billie. My dest day lay beloved! he murmured. Then My names Roslne Roslne Raymond! Billie fled faughing by them they Then she was dashing down the as passed Into the purple gloom of the hill after the fortunate Billie. porch, toward the open door, from The man, tall, straight, and soldierwhich the lamplight streamed, making ly, with prematurely slivered hair and a path, of white loveliness for their across went dark mustache, striding feet! bethe green space that intervened tween him and that quiet woman by Memorial Day Song. the white shaft. (Respectfully Dedicated to the Q A. R) Jean Where sleep in honor martyrs for our "Jean! he cried hoarsely. nation, Charteris! O, ye flowers, .lend your decoration; A low, shivering cry broke from Lend, While to Old Giory, giving salutation, erect woman. stiffened She the Bing we our choral lay. stood as if frozen. Like the morning Hall, O, Columbia! "Tell me, he begged, "about that . i glowing, ' T that child! She says her name Is May radiant freedom, flight on thee bestowing, Jean, is she and still brighter The shock of his coming had left All lands illumine, . growing, - her weak and shaking. It was with Shlna on to perfect day. an effort she spoke. Yes she 1b your child. Do you Halt to the People, who a trust receiving From patriot fathers, liberty achieving. learn It now for the first time? For alt In' bondage Bore., oppressed abf God help me yes. I did not dream ; v grieving, Will not their trust betray. there might be a child. When a few months after our marriage I learned Hall to the Banner, freedoms fairest how Rose had deceived me I was furi, i token, ous. I had confided In her. I told her Flag of a union that can neer be broken. how I loved you. And she she spoke While hearts heroic, strong as bulwarks oaken. of your engagement to Will Clement Guard It on land and sea , was ' sweet was There , Her sympathy no question of a heart being caught in Rest, O, ye heroes! Not In vain your dying; the rebound. Never save for one For, sons and daughters, on' their God woman has my heart beaten a pulse relying, the faster. She knew this when we Pledge like demotion; with you nobly vying were married. But she hoped until In love and loyalty. the day some months after our mara chance word when a O, during Columbia, every heart enslavHall, riage ing! chance meeting with Clement, brought ye, your Country, in her peril the whole truth out You had refused Hall saving' him. And this Rose knew when she Hall, peerless Banner, in all breezes t told me the contrary. I settled everywaving' Flag of the brave and free! thing I possessed on her and went ' Christian . Intelligencer. away, vowing never to look upon her face again! The weary, bitter voice ceased. We shall speak of this now, said Jean Charteris, Blowly, "and then never again! The bank In which you had deposited was the same which controlled my fathers business. When the defalcation came Roses money and ours was sucked down in the whirlpool. Father did not long survive the blow. Rose could do nothing. She had been brought up In Idleness Besides she was ill and In luxury. miserably unhappy. So I was always clever as a seamstress she came to me, and we were comfortable quite comfortable together. Two years ago a sharp attack of pneumonia ended 1 all! Roslne was then 4. "You took her Into your home and your life, said the man in a voice that though low shook with passion. You supported her and her child! If "Ro-slne!- Ro-sih- d ... d ' ft , 1 he used to watch for the mail, and the burg fell and the Red river campaign messenger of love with followed. At Alexandria a letter came the patriotic device on the corner, to Frank addressed in a strange hand. I shall never forget his face as I which rarely failed to come. How tenderly he lingered over her handed It to him. It seemed as a letters and then would hand them to mighty shadow had fallen upon him. me to read that I too might share hla Hastily tearing opeh the envelope, he joy. But one day, at Champion Hills, gave a glance at the contents and with I think It was, there came a letter a low moan sank sobbing at my feet. The letter was from his old pastor, longer than usual telling how his boy, little Willie, had died how he had and told how his wife had taken the lingered In pain for weary days and baby and started for a visit to the old nights while the tired mother watched farm, how the team had taken fright over him and prayed that the angel and ran away and wife and child had of death might pass him by. But one been instantly kjlled. In that one morning, Just as the first ray of sun- moment of grief Frank became an old and broken man. He sought to drown light stole through the blind and kissed his cheek, he raised his sorrow in drink; in every battle he himself up, and, his eyes glowing with recklessly exposed himself to death. celestial light, stretched out his little At Pleasant Hills he was promoted for arms, exclaiming, Papa, oh papa! I gallantry, but was soon degraded for see papa, mamma. Papa, kiss Willie. drunkenness, and then be sank lower and lower At last the war closed, the Good-bye- , mamma; Im going to papa, fell back and forever closed his eyes. old regiment wag mustered out and returned home, and I never saw Frank Wearied marches and battles on again until that day under the pouring, battle followed, and all through Frank pitiless rain, amid the hurrying throng There was the same earnest, faithful soldier, tn squalor and wretchedness. a little more thoughtful perhaps, a lit- he stood, leaning against the post a tle more eager if possible for the poor, miserable old toper. Chicago . , . looked for letter that was all. Vicks Record tHerald. , ,r , , .. white-winge- half-close- fruits of Man learns Though what He sees not Th'e foll never. fall this to his sorrow a fool ha is .. to-d- till The stream of time, the ancients held. Comes flowing from behind us: The gods still let us jewthe .past. Hut to the future blind us Farcy F Bieknetl in Boston Christian Register. a- -. if all soIid,,substaqce$ imight, uo be is.' tprnd Into liquid liquified form if they.-ver- l heaqp'vflugh At any rate, they did wcnijer about it, abd from fftne to t line they hiv tried first jhe fubstaaca and ijheii qtiotbq, until ti5w tliey Ifbowthat a laVge num-- ' her of elefnents which In the natural state,,arqqtJbfB. be 'liquified canbV hail,1 provided 'but In sufficient Hordes who, do lie down to sleep often double, their legs under them, their hoots rubbing and irritating the skintond-fles- h at the back of the upper part ,cjf them untjl .they form those .unsightly, though practically painless lunips W filch' So often disfigure th otherwise shapely animals foreMgs-o-f hratJ sbme' taVet the beat iviQdod. Is .WIAfce&t, muqjijgreqt-ethan can be made in an ordinal p r Drawing Trick. , draw "this six pointed star in straightjeLrokas without .taking . fire. . In the same way,.jf the heat can Jje Little Scientists. j gtitf further iperoased, thejllquid will There are so many good and inter- - turn to- a gas. estlng experiments tha- - one can easily It must be understood that besides do at home and with almost no ap- the extraordinary amount ef heat genparatus that It Is hard to decide Just erally needsd-t-lur.ttys sort, of work which ones to tell you about now, but .there are certain other conditions that here are two which are Just right. The must hobservad. For. instance, if is generally necessary tq dq the Jieating in such a way. that all afr is kept away froii. jlhe substance or else the okygen of the tfir would cofcbme with It and ' f i,i forta a nerW compoflfid This Is ene qf the Jeasops that It is so difficult to perform such an uxperi-ment. , Eyen In the case pf lead, as you may have noticed, wbcnit wa melted there came. Oyer the surface a fine the pencil qff the paper or going back scum which Vas jnot lead, bur a comovqr a, line begin at 1 and go to 2, to bination of' oxygen ana leaij & 3, tq 1 to 11 to 2, to 5, to 8, to 9, to L h . , A .Water Candlestick. of Prehistoric Reptile. I Skeleton IiJ proposipg.tp make a candlestick An interesting new exhibit has been of S' glass of water It is not intended to offer a Substitute for the regular adde tq the geological department of sticks' now In use, .Put a curiosity. To the Natural History Museum, koad, South Kensington, England The Liquids Boiling, make this little expeffment get a piece flrst one is how to make two cold of candle . three or four Inches in It consists- of the tall and other bones of a reptile, the remains of liquids bolilng hot by mixing them. length, and in, the bottom of It fmt a which gigantic were discovered In the Oxford of This requires only a small vial, some nail or other convenient piece at- - Peterborough, by Mr. Alfred sulphuric acid and a little water. All metal, the weight of the n&ll being Clay i incomplete at N. tail Leeds. The to the candle of enough two submerge, to just mix parts you have to do is both ends, but still measures 20 feet sulphuric acid with one of the watef. down to a , point immediately below wick. OS course the wick must iq length, and geologists compute that the Put the acid in the vial first and then, the whole length of the creature could when yon have added the water, stir bet kept out of the water. I i A tall glass tumbler is the best for tn$t have, been Iqss than 60 feet. A the mixture together with a glass rod and the liquids will become hot 'in- the experiment and It should be near-- , clue to Its height is also afforded by a left hind limb measuring 14 feet, stantly, and soon, if you have a ther- ly, but not "quite, filled, with water; knd.Is When the right fore limb is also pre the and everything light ready mometer, take the temperature you will find that it Is above boiling candle, and you will find that It will .sdrved. Tail and these two limbs, burn steadily, right at the surface of however, make up all of the reptils point. No end of curious results may be o6--. the water, until it is entire!? " con- tlafM?. Leeds has been able to , The creature Is, In technical , ,, , talned by simply mixing liquids to- sumed. The burning wick will remain at phrase, a Sauropodpus dinosaur, and gether, provided you have the right has been liquids. For instance, if you mix cer- the surface, because as the candle isJ this particular species i 'termed Cetlosaurus Leeds!, in honor tain liquids they will form an almost of Its ,Jiscpverer. solid mass. What could be more wonderful than this, and yet there are few things simpler. Put a few teaChairs That Grow. The Scientific ' A'merican gives an spoonfuls of a concentrated solution of silicate and potash Into a wineglass, illustration of a very curious triumph and add to it very gradually sulphuric Qf the COrean gardeners namely, an acid. It is better to add the sulphurarmchair of natural growth that ia ic acid drop by drop. Jow stir the to .say, formed of a vine which the mixture together and in a very few gardener, had .bent or twisted so as moments they wlU become converted to produce a chair. It is also studded Into an opaque white mass which Will with seeds of the gingko tree, which be nearly a solid. ' grown into the fibre of the vine hae Have you ever seen glass blowers After the chair Was fashioned in this at work? It you havent, you have way It was cut from the ground, dried, missed a. very Interesting sight,-hu- t and polished until it resembled mahogft will not 'prevent your being able any. It is 3 feet 4 inches high, 25 to do this littlj experiment, and beilqches wide, and weighs over 100 sides, it may give yon some slight idea , P9und8.. of the glass blowers work. The experiment Is to unite glass tubes. To Conundrums. do this you need simply two glass Why Is a Ash dealer never geneWater Candlestick? j Th tubes of any size and kind you prefer. j rous? Because his business makes Heat the two ends which yon want to consumed Its welghVAepreasei Id pro- - bint' sell fish. . . This one Is of the steadiest over flame a of lamfr Sortion. Join together the How many soft boiled eggs could can have and It is used' in Gas will do, of course, but the lamp the. Aiunt, Goliath eat on an empty Some scientific for that experiments flame Is better. When they are suffstomach? One. Season. , i iciently softened by the heat bring the When is a cow not a cow? When two ends together, and, having held ; 'How Hortes.Sleepu v .i she Is turned Into a pasture. them that way for a moment, twist H.is pot generally Ifnowqthat ,pt 'Why la a fish hook -- like the letter them In opposite directions with a iast four out of every ten horses do F? Because It will make an eel feel screwing motion In order that they 6Jt lie down to sldep. The KotBe that ia' mpn taking a' nap like t I may be securely jointed. There will Sleeps . in a standing positftui manfikeadln A-- papep? Because hek jtats now be a thickened ring of glass at 6ne leg at a time, depending, bn the .enjijy-ijihlj (s) noozh (news). y the place where the two tubes are Other three to sustain the welghf of , What mlds ''pH the snuff in tbs joined. This rather spoils the- looks Ipis body. The habit is a World? No one nose. of the tubes, but with a very little one. Only a short time sipce a What if the difference between more trouble It can be removed. One fine horse in the stables of a blgmani? hill and a pill? One is hard to get BP end of the tube must be sealed up with facturlng firm went to sleep wbttei and the other Is hard to get down. In or desire. other any way you wax, standing in his stall and fell heavily, i Why, should a compliment from I Now soften the entire tube over the to the floor, breaking ond of his legs. chicken be an Insult? Because ft lamp and then blow into the open end A great many horses are permanently Voulfl .be ,ln fowl language. of the tube, pulling gently at the tube Injured as a result of accidents of thlsi What Is that which lives In winter, t the. same 'tuna until the ring en- nature, and there Is no way of curing ci A id summer and ' grows with Its s'- - ' tirely disappears and the whole tube them of the habit. " An Icicle. rbgt upward?. is equally cylindrical .1 he sealed en.d of the tube may now be unsealed or WHO PUT TACK8 ON THE FLOOR? left just as you please, but it can be used In more experiments If it is open' at both ends than if only one ehd is free. t . , Crom-Ve- - . I - ; i. i . . The Climbing Perch. arc various contrivances Very known by naturalists to exist In cer-- , tain fishes tor the purpose of enabling them to exist Independently Of a con-- 4 tlnued residence in their native element One of the most notable of these contrivances Is seen In a curious fish known as the Climbing Perch (Anabas acandens) found in Central Asia Dal dor f related that he captured one of these fishes in the acf of climbing a palm tree that grew near a pond. The average length of this is seven Inches. aquatic of the head of the Examination Climbing Perch shows that It possesses a very peculiar arrangement of thin bony plates, so disposed aa to form a highly intricate kind of labyrinth, the obvious function of which Is that of retaining a supply of moisture, serving the place of the water 11 which the fish normally lives. tree-climb- - ' Turning a Solid Into a Liquid. We know that lead, when heatedi will turn from- - a solid into a liquid form. In the same way, if the melted lead Is allowed to get cold enough ft will turn back again into a solid. It is interesting to know that what happens to water when It grows cold enough "to turn to- Ice is precisely th'e same thing as thjs turning of (the lead from liquid to solid. In the "case of the Ice we call It freezing, but the change W the satae In both cases and caused by thq same conditions. Perhaps' ft was thinking about this that first made the scientists wonder Jo o 1 ' |