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WHAT MY L.OVER SAID. The poem, "What My Lover Said," was first printed in the New York Tribune many years ago with the iur'n,is "H. U." appended. The worthy iarners, wtio in tl'os. days took the Tribune by scores of thousunds, believed that Ilorace Greeley wrote,_everything in it, so they naturally supposed that these initials stood. for iis nanie. Soon the poeu begIun to appear in various polleetions of verse with the name' .of t.realoy appended. Bilt It soon doveloped that the nameo of thet author Swas Homer ureene.-Bditor Argonaut. By the merest chance, in the twilight gloom, In the orchard path he met me; In the tall, wet grass with its faint per fume, And I tried to pass, but he made no room, Oh, I tried, but he would not let me. 2O I stood and blushed till the grass grew red, With my face bent down above it. Wile he took my hand, as he whisper ing said <how the clover lifted each pink, sweet head To listen to all that my lover .aid; Oh, the clover in bloom, t love it!) In the high, wet grass went the path to hide, And the low, wet leaves hung over; But -1 could not pass upon either side, For I found myself, when I vainly tried, In the arms of my steadfast lover. And lie held me there and he raised my head. While he closed the path before me, And he looked down into my eyes and said (How the leaves bent down from the boughs o'erhead, To listen to ill that my lover said Oh, the leaves hanging lowly o'er me!) Had he moved aside hut a little way, I could surely then have passed him; And he knew I never could wish to stay, And would not have heard what he had to say, Could I only aside have cast hin, It was almost dark and the moments sped, And the searching night wind found us, But he drew me nearer and softly said (How the pure, sweet wind grew still, instead, To listen to all that my lover said Oh, the whispering wind around us!) I am sure he knew, when he held me fast, That I must be all unwilling; For I tried to go, and I would have passed, As the night was come with its dew, at last. And the sky with its stars was filling. But he clasped me close when I would have fled, And he made me hear his story, And his soul came out from his lips and Said (How the stars crept out where the white moon led, To listen ti all that my lover saild Oh, the moon and the stars in glory!) I know that the grass and the leavei will not tell, And I'm sure the wind, precious rover. Will carry my secret so safey and well | That no being shall over diiscover One word of the marty that rapidly fell From the soul-speaking lips of my lover; And the moon and the stars that looked over Shall never reveal what a fairy-like slell .lThey wove round about us that night in the (lell, Iii the path through the dew-ladent clover Nor echo the whispers that made my heart swell As they fell from the lips of my lover. -Ilomer (;reene. " 'he Top Pantry Shelf. By Grace E. Cody. Aunt Frances sat in the kitchen with het ankle prop)ped On a stool while her niece, Cordelia, briskly mounted the, step-ladder in the pa,ntry. "Now you're to give orders, aunty, while I do the work," Cordelia said, cheerfully. "I love to clean house, and I promise not to intrude a single one of my pantry p)rinciples 0on yotu not even my top-shelf hobby." "What is yotur top-shelf hobby?" Cordelia p)aused, half-way uIp thle ladder, to smile dow.n at her aunit. ''Oh, sinmply the idea that, in nine houses out of ten, the stuff that's rele gated to the top shelf of a closet or a pantry ought to be destroyed or given away. We dlon't put things clear' up) there as long as we're in danger of using them." 'mn! That doesn't aipply to miy top) shelf. You won't find any rubbish. Some of the nilcest kitchen fulrnitulre I Owni is tup there." "'What's tis?'' aked Cordelia, pu1z zled. She hadl r'ileahe thle top shelf, andl was handing down its contenlts. "That?" Aunt Frances held( otut aln eager hland. "0 Cor'delia, that's the~ ctutest (cont1rivanlce for' cutting Potatoes! You take this little scoop, so! -and dig it into a raw piotatto, and( give it some kind of at peculiar' twist, a,nd( outt drops a little ball of potato, about thle size of a marble. They're so dain ty-cr'eamed, y'ou knowv!" "How nice! Why not keep it in tile table dlrawVer, where youI can get at it?" ''Oh! Well, it takes a kind of knack to use it. 'Yotl have to tulrn it juist 8o. andt I've never qulite mas0tereCd it. Theli balls ('ome( 0out wVithI one side flat, ever'y time, foi' me. Besides, it hurts my ha.nd. Youl have to be pret try strong to work it stuccessftully. "Oh, I see! hBut here's ainother miys tery, aulnty." "'Cordelula M-iller', (do y'ou meanl to tell mel you've never seen one of thlose lovely potato-slicers? 'Thiat's the miost. ingeniousf thing thalt ever was! Let me take it and1( show youl. Yotu run thle potato along, this way, and( it malgesC fluted slices oi' oponwork slices, or any thing youl want. You ouighIt to have seen thlat woman111 demonstrating with it In the store. She went like light.ning and didnl't hulrt hlerself a bit; but I can't use it, BnmahaW, Withnnel slicin~ my fingers. I've tried and tried. What that you're looking at, Cordelia?" "I was wondering myself what I might be, aunty." Cordelia was in specting a large, kettle-like tin whic; she had just taken from the shelf. "Oh, yes! It's a perfectly splendi, egg-poacher. Mercy, how dusty it is You see, Cordelia, you put the eggs 'i these little individual dishes with th hot water underneath, and they com out as round and perfect as if the edge had been trfmmed with the scissors. "Lovely! Let's keep it down an poach the eggs in it tomorrow morn ing, aunty." "M-m--well, the fact is, my deat your uncle and I don't just fancy th eggs cooked in it. It makes the white; so stiff and leathery. We think they'r< more tender done in the water, the old fashioned way, even if they don't lool quite so fine. But that egg-poacher i great, if one only happens to like egg cooked in it. I paid a fancy price to it; I know thr-t." Cordelia, with a smile, added thi poacher to the other articles that sh had stacked on the sink, ready foi washing. "Is this anything worth keeping aunty?" she inquired, cautiously, hold Ing up a small, funnel-shaped tool. "Worth keeping, child? Why, how could it get so rusty! My pantry mus1 be damp, for I never put anything awa3 vet. It's a very superior croquette. molder. You just pack the choppec meat or potato, or what not into th< mold, and then pull out these litth rods, this way-no, this way-well that's the trouble! The rods nevei would pull out-they stick so! I'nc so unprogressive myself, I just roll m3 croquettes in my hands, but-" "And make the best-tasting ones iI the world, you might add!" "I don't know about that," said Aun Frances, with an apologetic smile "That's my strawberry huller you'r< looking at, Cordelia." "A strawberry huller! I .never hear( of such a thing. But strawberry timi is just coming. We'd better keep thi where it will be handy." "N-no; that isn't necessary. I cai climb up for it any time I want it when I have two ankles. I-don't al ways use it. It's a clever little thing but it has a way of leavl.ng half th hull on the berry, so that you have t pick it off with your fingers. Still Cor delia, I'll tell you how I feel about al these inventions for saving the hand and finger-nails. I think a woman owe it to herself to have them-don't you? But Cordelia had no chance to ar swer. She had just alighted from th step-ladder with another armful c treasures from the top shelf, and eac one, as she laid it down, evoked a ne eulogy from Aunt Frances, althoug each one, for sonic occult reason, ha been retired from active, every-da service. After they had all been washed an dried, the putting back time begal Cordelia climbed up and down, carefu ly replacing tho "cutest contrivance for cutting potato-balls, the "lovely p( tato slicer," the "perfectly splendi egg-poacher," tihe "'very superior crt quette-molder," the "clever little stray berry-huller,'' and a host of otht weirdl-looking utensils. As the last one was safe o,n the to shelf, Aunt Frances drew a compjlacer sigh. "I declare I forgot from one housc cleaning to the next how well-stocke my pantry is!" she exclaimed. Cordelia's eyes twinkled, b)ut she rc membered her promise about keel: ing her pantr'y principles to her self. "It's no wonder you do, aunty, she answered, sweetly. "Now shall w begin on another shelf?"-Youth' Companion. Vanquished Distance, The Siun of .July 5 got here fron New York todaiy, JIuly 6, at 1.30. As suminug that it left New~ York at: 0''clock in the moraling, it came hal way aeross the American conitinlent i thirty-five hours and a half, which ceer tainily is going some. It hadl t 'hange car's at least at ChIcago, If no oft ener., andi it p)robably lost half ai hour' in the p)rocess. Th le Santa F, tralin it Caime onl is not a limited traini but a regular passenger train that re qires'P something ovei' nineteen hour btetwVeen Chicago and( Emtporia. If t h paper hadl beeni put on a limited t rail out of Chicago it would have bee: here tree hour's s;ooneri. These facts are piut dlown here t show howv closely we are tiled togethe by thle railroads of this 'ouintry. tmati living in thle Centraml part C A mericn is only a day and a half fror thle Atlantic, two days and a half frox thle PacifIe and a day antd a niighit frot lie Gulf. lie is otilIy a pait oif a (I; anid a night fr'om the Catnadian bor der'I. It is a great. lottnltrmy, thiiis tha we live in, but one of the greatest ma ter'ial thinigs in this ('ountr1 y is th wuoderful wvay in which ('0ommerce ha destrmoyedh great (list antcc.-Emp:iijori tiazetteC. "la M,~uffler Mgetting a pret1ty fai "Oh, yes; enmoughi to keep body an i',, ('arefuli measuirement it has~ bc( dlet ermiiined that time largest iraind(roI ar one-fifth of an inch in diameter. AMERICA EXTRAVAGANT MONEY SPENT IN A WAY THAT AMAZES FOREIGNERS. Four Millions a Year for Millinery Feathers--$25,00,000 For Wirster a Trips in California-Huge Sums for Celebrations-New York First In Extravagance. Having more money than any other 1 nation, Americans proceed to squander it in a way that makes foreigners dizzy, Their extravagances take innumerable forms. During the racing season they bet a million dollars every day-and lose { most of it. American women spend about $4,000,000 a year for feathers to weaW in their hats, and small boys get an early start as spendthrifts by Squandering $1,000,000 a mouth for pea 7 nuts and popcorn. The people of Chicago spend $100,000 every week in going to their theatres, and they spent- more than that sum I last fall on the series of championship ball ganes. A New York firi reports the sale of $250,000 worth of rugs for one man's house, a Philadelphia jewel ler sold a $100,000 ruby to complete one wonianl's collection of jewels, and now comes- a New Yorker who spends $2,500,000 for a site for a private resi dence. The annual expenditure in this coun try for little things like golf sticks and balls is $2,000,000, a.nd golf is a new game here. When it comes to specu lation Americans are the easiest of easy marks. I)uring the last twelve months the get rich quick element in the United States has invested enough money in wildcat mining schemes to pay off the government debt. The Atlantic liners have suites of rooms which cost $2000 a voyage in the summer, and these apartments nev er lack for occupants. Americans are exceptionally extravagant in their travels. In Cairo, Egypt, the manager of the largest hotel reports that 70 percent of his guests are Anherica.us. Fully 50,000 Americans go to Paris every year. The keepers of the great shops and resorts of the Frenc"h metropolis would think dull times had struck them if the easy money of th'e Yankee spenders should stop falling on their counters. Uncle Sam's tourists are so generous in their expe.nditures that in most parts of the world the natives ask them just as much again as they do travellers from other countries. Bead sellers and e curio venders in the West Indies know that a Yankee will readily pay a half i dollar for an article that a Britisher will hesitate to purchase for a shill h ing. cI And Americans squander untold nil y lions on travel in their own country. It is estimated that the tourists spend d $25,00u,00o in southern California every . winter. The number of people who . visit Niagara Falls during a.n ordinary year is bet ween 700,000 and 800,000, and in years when many excursions are run d from distances the number of visitors ..exceeds a million. .The amount of money spe.nt here by *r the tourists is incalculable. They spend all the way from $2 to $2001) apiece. The plast estimate may seem very high, but *t when pleople come wvith theIr retinues of servants an(l take whole suites, or several suites of rooms1 in thte big ho tels, and make large purchases of bric a-brac, furs and curios $1000 does not last long. ntr,attracts upward of 20,000 visi e tors a year, tile majorIty of whom s come from east of the Alleghanies. Railroad fare to and from tIs park to suchl sightseers means almost as mutch expiense as a trip to 10urope. The Yo.. semite Valley, inaccessible as it is, is .visited by 5000 sIghtseers yearly, necar ly all of whom comle from great dis tances. 1 jThe volume of travel to Color'ado has - icrease d so rapidly (luring thle last ) few years thait although ('arpe.tetrs tlhave beenl kept busy thiroughl tIhe ent ire winter build ing newv hotels each stun nimer the ac'comlmodatins of' thle state ,are taxed to the utmost. During the - last year some sixty conventions were 1 held In D)enver. 3 Thousands8 of traveler's go downt the 1St. La1wr'ence every summer and t hous ands mlore flock to I'loridla in thle wvini toe'. Although Asheville, N. C., is not looked upon01 as oIne of the great na r tional show pllaces It is now atiracting t 10,000 visitors ever'y year. f AmerIcans arte enthItuslasts for ('xpo 1 sitions, cel ebrat ions a.nd conu (entions. 1At t he St. Louis expositiont onie morn - 1 ing a gr'oup~ of nlewspaper men't and( of Sfcials wvere ain.n abhout the money - that. has been siunmde red in thiis couni t tiry on3 e'xpositionls. A reploterc asked - an exposItion ofhicial if it woutl b e possible to( estimatIe the sumint tc omf-. Spare it with somietintg. Th'iis was; I tile reply: '"Just say that it' all the money that has been thbrown away oni t expsitions~ ini tIhe United States wats gathere'id to rgethler' and put in a heap It, would make a pile sc) highl thait y'ou couldn't dI fly a balloon over' it.'" IlTher'e were 18,700,000 paId admis sbons at St. Louis1, and it is est imated nthat the visiior's to thle fair spet,t over s$50,000,000 in the city while thle big show wvas in progress. sCIENC ti Sir Oliver Lodge declares that the umlan race is in its infancy. Bricks made of coal dust are used )r paving in Russia. The coal dust conbi,ned with treacle and resin. The British Admiralty has decided I discard the reciprocating engines nd i.n future fit all British warships -ith turbines. A new alloy whichserveselectricians s a substitute for platinum, consists f 16 1-2 ounces of silver, 4 1-2 pounds f nickel, one-llalf ounce, of bismuth, nd fifty-three pennyweights of gol'd. 'he cost is about one-thirtieth of that 'f platinum. The peculiar brittleness of their tails s sometimes an advantage to certain izards. Perching -head downward on rock the diamond tailed gecko, for xample, is often seized by a hawk, vhen the tail snaps off, and the animal alInly wiggles away to grow an ther. Artificial silk is made from wood ull) in Sweden. The imitation is ex ellent, but it is found that many resses made from it. have been dis arled because the creases made when he wearers sit down do not come out. t is Pcarcely possible to distinguish he real from the artificial silk, but this efect has proved fatal for use as dress ieces. Both burial and cremation would be bolished by Karl Schott, a Cologne en ;lncer. lie would place the corpse in a imple coffin-which might be made of oncrete reinforced with steel--and vould then fill this with a quick-setting iquid cernent. The silicic acid and ime of the cement would bring about mnimediate petrifaction, insuring pres rvation superior even to that of an ient Egyptian embalming. It is sug ested that utilitarians may go still urther, and build the cement. blor'hs lto vast monuments that shall be the lie future cities of the dead. The "muscle artist" to whom Profes ;or von Bergmann, the famous Berlin murgeon, has drawn attention, has such nastery of the muscles that he can lova them about as he wishes. He ilraws ui his abdominal organs, leav Ing a eavity, then he presses them down uintil his abdomen 'grows globi lar; then he dividrs them into right and left sections, with a hollow be tween. 110 imakes the iuscles of any part of his boly tremble and shake like jelly. lie stops his pulse beating, and moves his heart at will. .lust how these singular results are attained is a mystery. Spider That Changes Color of Eyes Md. W. Stickland of Singapore recent 1'lyihad a strange experience while sitting in a garden at BuhitenzV/org. .Java. Watching a captive sp)ider rem'a rk{able for the po.session of a pair or eyes which glow like gig lamps amil a cluister' of smaller eyes, he was amazed to note that the "gig 'iamps" slowly changed in color from brown to grass green and( back again to brown. Further, as if to inicrease his atonish ment, the creature p)roceededl to change the color of its eyes alternate ly, thereby exercising a most uncanny fascination over the mere man. There was something so diabolically deliber Ite in tihse changes as5 to make1( it -3eeml thazt the actor took a genuine pridle in the iwrformnance. Tihe offer of a substantial reward ror oilier spleeimens of the same pecies provedl unav'ailing, bt it was ist rumniital ini bringing to li1ght a secondi species, of at grass green colo)r dashed with yellow, wleih proved in avery way as expert in the gentle art >f oglinug as its more sonmbrehy color 'd relative. So far as Is known this change in he coloir (If the eyes occurs' only In tertaina species of duicks,5 and then only mdoer the influence of fear, while in lie sp)ider It wvould appear' almost toc IC voluintary.-Westmiin1ster Giazette. Extensive Rolling Stock. Thiotugh eniir iiely new in its pa ttern, lhe Great Northern motor car that, re ently arrived In Stt. P'aul from Au. -ora, Ill., is not the fir st steam moto1 (r ar th:t~ t thei city hias ever seen. The rst lccomiot Ivye tha,t was ever plosses oed by thle old St. PaulI and Sioux City tailroad, no0w 1)arit oIf the Cilago, Si. 'aul, Minneapolis & Omaha, was a inot or ea r, the cornbina Ftilon 0f a I oro not Ive, baggage i'ea andl coneli tls 'ar, was in fact, all t he equipmtent hat 'hle roadl had whIien in 1ist;5 th le '0ondway was first (com1plet ed het wee-n Mend(Otal and1 Shakoper. The front I nil (if the CIIalrIl rter' reSemblhIed an :Ildinary steam lacomn otiv'e, withI its 1)>1lot, boiler and 111smokle stack allI pro jeeting out1 from the rest oif 1he ear. F'roim the St. PauIl)Dispat ch.I P'eop)le wvho thIiink rentis are hIgh will be interested in knmowinlg that a single room In Cornhmill, -ond(on, re cently rented for $18,000 a yeas.. Tlho rents there are the highest on art.. A good illustration of the Ameri- r :an fondness for going somewhere was ifforded when the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans was Leld at Dallas, Tex. At this time the ensus credited Dallas with a popula ion of 46,000 people, and the railroads sold 119,000 tickets to the reunion. Therefore. the hospitality of Dallas was taxed with the remarkable re- f ipo.nsibility of entertaining nearly three times as many people as it had popula tion. But Southern hospitality was equal to the emergency, and before the t< week was over every visitor was ready - to throw up his hat for Dallas. The homecoming week is a new de parture in celebrations, and there is :1 good story in connection with its Drigin. Miss Louise Lee Hardin, a r rormner Kentucky girl Livipg. in -Den rer, listened to a band playing "My Old Kentucky Home" one night and got the blues. She wrote a leter the, next miorning suggesting that Kentucky's wandering sons and daughters be in vited to return for a homecoming week. The suggestio.n was abopted,- and it 'ost 50,000 ex-Kentuckians not less than $500.000 because a blue grass girl in far Dff Colorado got. homesick; but every Kentuckian thought it well worth the mloney. . One of the best established and most p)opular annual festivals in the cou.n- I try is the Mardi Gras at New Orleons. c rho Southern city does itself proud on d these occasions. Four processions, c \lomus, Proteus, Rex and Comus, cost $25,000 each. A ball is given in connection with t cacl of these processions, the expense :)f which amounts to $50,000. Other en tertainmentA illuminations, decora tions, rich and rare costumes, etc., run the expense up to $250,000 for the week's festivities. New Orleans people figure that every gisitor who comes to town during the carnival spends $30 and that the big show is a paying proposition for all parties concerned. Other celebrations almost equally as famous as the Mardi Gras are the Veiled Prophets at St. l.oiis, the Priests of Pallas at Kansas City, Ark Sarben at Omaha and the fall musical festival at Cincinnati. New Yorkers are the most extrava ga:lt of all Anericans, and New York is the cost!lest city on this conti.nent to visit. No matter how much the aver age New Yorker's income is he lives up to it, and often beyond it. \lanhattan has so many pace'nakers in spending that no matter how much of a splurge you make there is always sonic fellow ready to go you one bet ter. In speaking, of the people of New York some one remarked to the late Col. Waring: "They devote them relves to pleasure regardless of ex pense," and he replied: "Oh, no, they don't. They devote themselves to ex pense regardless of pleasure." A New Yorker's income may increase i ron $5000 to $10,u00 a year, but he s,)elds the one sum as readily as the other. W\'he.n the Westerner first strikes I)roadway and comes in contact with the sky hi'gh inriffs that abound there it makes the little shivers run right up and dowvn 1his spine. In Lond(on you ('all (rive in a hansome from tihe llotel Cecil to the Victoria Station for a shilling, bagga:ge and all. In New York a eab for about the same distanicoe co.sta $2.50. One may stand about the carriage eat ranice of a Brioddway hotel or at the (loor of a garage and1( see a mlonith's salar'y for a United States senator blown ln for automob)iles be tween noon and dusk any day. Look. at the register at any New Yor'k hotel and you will find the inae of people from every state in the Union, peole living on Brcoadway for a fewv days at the rate of $10,000 at year, when their expenises at home do not exceed $2000. They' figure that they don 't get east very often, a.nd so long as they are there they might as weli 'see the wihole show.'" By thle t ime they arc ready to depart their' places are taken by ot her people from the wvest, whod are "just on for a fewv days, you kno1w." Anad so New York growvs tat. and sleek.---New York Streets Paved With Gold. SAiteorally, the strieet s of Guadalajara, Alexico are pave'd withi gold. Gobli anid L4ilver' to the value of $0000, says the Mlining lteviewv of I-os Angeles, has just been d iscover'ed( in the a sphalIt ISavemenOts~ laid there in thle la:st two years by the Mexica n Asphalt P'avinig ('o1mpaIny. In the preparailoln of the asph'.tt mixt.ure the company, used tailings from old SpanIsh and AMexican r'eii ct ion works in iihe Et za llan d is trit. A few (lays ago( a bilg shiipment. of tall ings was ieceive'd foir a ddlit iona wcark, and whuolly thriouigh cur'iosi ty thle companyil3' local mianager had a Inmber of asIsays made. 0 ''I Tese( ie vealed that. thle tailings ave:rage $15 a toni ini gold and silver, Alreadly about 100 tons of Cailings hlave been used ini pavemnti 'consi ruict ion1. The Terrible Price of Age. "'(ee, I hope i'll never' get as (o1( as5 grandpa."b' ''Why, darling" "Didn't you hear him say when 11e wa at our1 house5 for dinner on Chruist ms that h1e was too old1 to eat mince pie or more than 01ne piece of turkey ?"--Chicago neom.d-1m..ml