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I The beginning of its popularity was in 1892, when a party of hunters who had been in a steam yacht to New- foundland to shoot caribou called at Sargentville, on Penobscot bay, to visit some abandoned copper mines a short distance inland. The leaves had fallen from the deciduous trees, causing the dark evergreens to stand out in bold relief against a neutral background of. browns and grays. The owner of the yacht was struck by the beauty of the scene and also with a practical idea. He hired men and horses and had cut about 600 of `the firs. which he carried on the deck of the yacht to Boston, where they were offered for sale. ~ n rrII,_ 3,..,___.:-_---.:_.1.u___-..|.;........J.. MA|NE S CHRISTMAS TREES 1899 over 1,500,000 were sold. "Vl.l\ol\ LLJVJ Ivvbv vssvsvu av: lung.- } The demand exceeded the yachts.man's greatest expectations, for the whole lot was snapped up` in short order. So protable was the rst venture that in the next Christmas season fully 50,000 rs were sent from the shores or Pe- Anobscot bay to Boston, where they were all sold at good prices. and in the fol- lowing year the trade was extended to New York, where the firs were as eagerly taken. In 1896 the shipments of trees from Maine to the large cities had increased to about 750,000, and in _ Q__ 3.. _~ -vvv vvy- ._,`.--.,v,v..v _..v ..,y In some sections, where the r is es- pecially prolic. the cutting and pre- paring of Christmas trees is made _the occasion of festive gatherings, corre- sponding to the huskings in fall time, Whole families going into the Woods and taking their dinners along. A man cuts the trees close to the roots anda boy or a strong girl cuts with :1 sharp hatchet the few dead limbs from the base. Women and boys tie the trees into bundles of a dozen. and then the harvest is piled into hayraeks and carried to the nearest railroad station. The smaller` children gather the trail- ing creepers of the ground pine, pluck ,branches of glossy Wintergreen and gather the red fruit of the wild raisin shrub. all of which are packed in boxes and sent to the cities for the making of wreaths and garlands for the decora- tion of church and home. - -A- __- '____.._II_. LIUII UL \.I.IuL\.u uuu The evergreen harvests are generally bought by men who make a business of uunamvu supplying the Christmas markets of the cities, though many farmers and others send their crops direct to market. For trees tive to _six feet in height the buy- ers in Maine pay 5 cents each, and for trees six to ten feet in height the price paid is 10 to 15 cents. The ve cent `tree sells in the city market for 25 cents, while the fifteen cent tree often brings $1 or more. The total revenue to Maine people this year from the Christmas greens crop will probably I amount to $150.000.-New York Trib- une. - N. U`: on LI: u a-5;-as uvu-sou nu uv..... -- A; Sme that requires the lookingnp `of names or characters is a present ._.tha__1_tcan be enjoyed by the" entire ram- of gay, colored beads allfsi be .I1I?Drei8t_ bl TI" 421.3151-... -_ . e w `Decking: 24, I903 5- Accept an American s thanks." mur- imured Baldwin, not for the truth. but your forgiving tone. Yet, do you know, [the note of the thoroughbred American is to be facilely cosmopolitan-solvitur .cosmopolifI1ndo." .` So few of. that kind come abroad. replied the duchess absently. But how .'.very rude otime! My dear fellow. I never realize you as an American. You always seem to me a charmingalien interloper at the United States embas- sy in London. .Do American women know Latin. by the way?" J Your grace knows everything. The young attache assumed the air of being _ driveninto a commonplace as he add- ed, Ignorance with you seems a cour.- _ teous aectation." pu-`:5-coma -ovtvv i Grantin-E you the xmerit of your dis- 'fcovery, the duchess resumed with- playful sarcasm, there are other obvi- ._ous points. `For instance, they are 7"Amer_lcans. . That is as palpable as _usual." -VI-woo IV Iuoov wvwu-wv V,` `.`6o'al.(l";ny orre doubt, it?" replied ' aging. His clothes were quite de rlgueur. 5Baldwin. ?`It is as evident as that the ~ -smart. disagreeable male is the hus- . band." i ` - D1s_agreeablei" b The surprise. almost protest. in the i'!uchess' tone had warrant. The young igentleman was tail. of elegant car-V; glaze and with the -hall mark of breed- 5 {Her grace would have pronounced him ' fdistinguished without feeling con- ; _.stra'lned to qualify his moral or intel-`g llectual traits. Attereanother quick _ap-' .: `praising look at the man she said I `btl!untl51*, `;,You think she is Too very in arm ng ; s I Vania nnennn tn:-nu` l|'1hl'I` cl-In In I" " ieraee must see `.tli_at she is '.Icharming, returned the young man vb'Look at that!" fcalmly. _ It was the man. not the girl. who betrayed his disagreeableness. -l The girl had drawn closer to her companion` and said something. He compressed his thin lips and gave a short nod of his head in acceptance of ;her remark without turning toward [hen He was impavtiently pushing on ;after the porter, the girl pressing after Efwlth a gliding briskness which kept iher close at his heels. 7 The duchess smiled again. '; - Of course he might have turned, plhe said indulgently. But there's the l}lu`gg:1ge-.." I "`IGI"I: ` ' `'01 course theyhhould have turned. ,i.'.[here s the bride, returned Baldwin fdogmatlcally. i. (lf1....._.LI.... ._-.'. LL- V..._..!L .A J_..... 31.. i I Mon. It was Christmas day at 8hep- `I heal-d's. in Cairo. The subject or her _ 0 you think she is a bride?" The duchess dropped the : sugar into her tea without removing her glance from the young woman in ques- lnquiry was interesting enough to seem 7: grateful present to the guests. llf`_.-I.I J---I.A. 21.01! ..-_1!- You have seen me put three lumps of sugar in my tea." replied the (inch- ess archly. and know that I like sweet things. Don't imagine that. I shall pro- test because you pay .extravagantly pretty compliments." -.. .....-.!I.-..J I`-.I...Inl-I- LLnnn n`-I-`t! `-n'nn`v The touch ot_a. -hand. the glance of an eye Or 9. word exchanged with a. pueerby: ..'.l.`he glimpse of 9. face in `a. crowded street. `And etterward lite is incomplete. V A. . A . W. R. Hereford. `VA \4 vi. yvoulaoo 5-Av She smiiedi)1'i;1:ly, then settled back comfortably in her chair. raised her lorgnette inn businessiike manner and _went on: Let us pursue our analysis of your interesting countrymen. Set me right if I go wrong. She is-eight een? And 1 ron1--New York? Not7ar;- quaintedns yet. aux gfonds, with Mr. Husband? He is very. rich. Then. dropping the rising inection. she add- ed, with an assurance that excluded doubt: She has a -Raudnitz traveling gown `on. She will wear a smart Worth A gown at dinner. ((1 ........=I ....a. LAII `nan 4-hat unn dawn Ivlnhf. Uululutunuung nuv vvw u.-_v uvun...--.. .,-..-- - By this time the couple under discus- sion had disappeared within the hotel. {they had evidently Just arrived on the 'atternoon train from Alexandria. Shep- heard s was crowded that year. The little tables on the terrace in front of -the, hotel were nearly all occupied by: people, chattering and laughing as they. heguiled that delightful hour of the Cairo day with atternood tea. New ar- ` rivals are lawful prey for lodgers com- ments." and to have come two days he- ,rore in to hold a resident : vantage, `ground; which warrants a critical in- spection. ' Young married people. more- over, newly arrived or not. are ever` and whereoever targets for tongue hattsi'i'V?9_'!outhtul `heingeulated- and licensed a.51or- -- happiness. f aural! f `iklt. f the tullneup-l.ot= lite. ;- -The: `human: doubt on. to , l)etlI_er': thy=have- it'-1:nuuzaIjeon- emu: ,iii,tei:e`Iti_ng,g r t e , . . DIIL- ._-..-L -n I 'JcU|-UIU IIIUVDVWDIQJQO ` The young attache consulted the 1133- | E3; `later later and learned that they you .050 `Mr; and Mrs. Lncln BQY1.`,!V~3if0' Egg upon` he recalled` w`l1at.'tI';1_>o,!A1Cl1;!}_9-1,1;r$0`,_. `hi, cl ' tftheir atstlltv-.5-I_i|I1'1l|!~ duh ., t , ` f` V " F ` ,y.. _ Cbrx'.rtma..r % } .% . By JOHN J. a-nrzcxtrrk 'W`;".;;`:?r:':.'15 9&1 Il8\J\I` I A transnianted Helen." thought` i Baldwin utter .a critical survey of the 1 beautiful young creature. She was a type, and he relished a new type of the T eternal feminine more than he would .a bottle of Johannesberger fromAPrinc e Metterniclrs own cave. During his_ dinner he watched her from his table I with keen but well cloaked vigilance. _-I__-I.,____, ____.. ...I_.I-.L -_..._.l_ IIIL- v on... =, Later on Baldwin felt the young wife's artlessly roving gaze veering in his direction. 'He considerateiy ab- stracted his own. When he let his 1- glance drift her way again. thinking ,. she would have passed him by, he was 1 momentarily attered to nd her eyes I xed on him dreamil'y. Almost at the moment her husband turned and. with what Baldwin thought atac-tless quick- ness. let his own eyes follow the direc- tion of his wife's to ascertain the ob- ject of her regard. With still less tact he brought his thin lips tightly togeth- er, and ` his white forehead-; puckered like a peevish` child's. He must have withdraw. ~ tor he brusquely rose.` and` looltednbout with the-. repellent air with which some DQDl'e:lnS1hl1ll.t,-t.h`h' I ` intimated to` the lady , his g desire to exclntlvemss, 856 M P ntI end followed him `from the room;w1t_h_ grecetulimerepce. , . , :.e , I . urv- ---..... L.` '|io.A.`Q -I-nIb' nilnbglll` ,1 rich. He not only belonged by birth to the class which is not? obliged to do anything tor a living," but electively pertained -to that unhappy portion -of it which assumes the ennui oi. an exist- ence stimulated by no xed ambition. lightened by no denite endeavor. Such vital hardship has been known to drive a man to drink. ` - g. n. - -v-- uv w---u- The bride was one of two sisters eel.- ebratedin Europeanicenters ' for esprit and beauty. They were of tine New England stock, both parents descend- ing` from tamilies of high repute for political and literary achievement. Baldwin was torced to admit that for once a glowing report had not paved the way to a disappointing reality. He had not supposed the girl was so young; still les had he imagined the compulsion of her charms. ru-...I_- v\-....-I.. ........ .. '.....1-I....Ll- . Clarice Bonvale was so radiantiy beautiful that the most blase observer could not but surrender to some thrai- dom. Her face` was aristocratically oval. Her clear olive -skin. smooth as arose leaf. was sumused with the most delicate pink. as if Cupid were `breath-V ing on her `cheeks; a well` modeled nose. a mouth with clean cut, subtle curves and sensitive to a degree. which revealed perfect teeth when the lips parted andient a lurking mobility. al- most childlike. to her lower face. But her eyes and hair were the girl's crowning g1ory-such round. lustrous eyes, so brllliantly- soft and. despite a keen alertness in their glance. incon- gruously beseeching. The long, silky lashes. with their upward curve.. failed to lend even a suspicion of language to their brightness. The delicately arched eyebrows were an added note of wist- tulness. _ In the wavy masses of hair 3 there was a subdued glint as oi. bur-e ? nished copper. On her bands. which I-were very temperamental. two or three unique gems ashed with dignied l splendor. ' ' It A L_..n.~-`U...-Ln; u'A`nn \r|IIlI`\` The duchess was right again. The girlish bride -wore a Worth dinner gown elaborately wrought out in the highest elegance of the prevailing mode. Her `neck was so round and plastic that Baldwin felt it 9. delight to see the shapely head pivot on it, while the tempered modesty with which her corsage screened her exquisite`bosom showeda masterly knowledge not the value otmodled exp'osure.'- '- en`. _ -_-_--.._n nrL_ L- ___ 1.1.- .__-.;'.. `dinner, we: u---rwpc---- w--`.-___ v The groom? Why. he was the groom. a side light on the bride. Baldwin re- garded him solely as a correlated be- ing. `an accompaniment; to his wife, a worthy-one so far as externnls went. He -was not above noting that Mrs. Benvale partool: moderately ot the ichairnpagne which Mr. Bonvale or- dered. He consumed most of it and with something more than the relish" with which a gentleman drinks wine at c `C _,,,1 IL 0.. AI__ I_-__ \OOIIOJ\4_O I They are married, and it is the hon- eymoon," Baldwin remarked airily_ t6 the duchess as he passed her table. 1-x'._..n..._ .A.I-_ _.....s..... 1.. L1... ..-1-- -1 L- It-LV4 \a-I-niuoovwnr law now llowuwvnn -we cu-v--r During the evening in his role oi be- nevolous spectator and student ofv his kind Baldwin did not neglect to ob-~ serve that the young husband. left his wife alone two or three times, though as yet she had apparently discovered no acquaintances at Shepheard's. These Withdrawals wereto repair the fatigue of travel by supplunting thewine at dinner with more potent if smaller .drai.'ts.. Besides his absence of desire to supply his wife with any other com- panionship than his own, the perfunc-. tory character of Mr. Bonvale s atten- tions attested no tender solici_tude to make himself asagreeable as possible. c He seemed to gtrd rather than pro- tect his wife.` rnu 4,0: ..I_, __ ,_, `Incubus upcI,uuvo H6'seenis t_o iikeito stalk aihead and let his woman trail ntter_him-n in -the aboifiginai lords of creatioh.'.? rejicted ' Baldwin with o. Iomewhht. cohtemptm gt_;_q -Wsmiie. . '1_.`_he honynjooni [in . dyin- ' 4- - A-.-...._L- ' `--n- > `V 9|: W IIICII 6 , The Bonvhles -spent` six ' in Egypt.` II;-s; Bonvale had thatox-!'ent'al` I IoJon1,'n.tn her memqryevent V agtjqr _w1th; 'pomth'ing' of the` teellns .W(11`h; `iih1cn Tthe chdrenjot 'Isra`el._may: h`8.V6.~-,l.'OYGl`t- 0 1? -*.,`!?!? ,. "v -; 1IM'a....i_8ho $3 ,&.',:-I4-! 1' ,. V _ Ill` -Dulupa .I.,uv uvuwg OllVvnp- _-up -1. .7 I! dun; %t_o~ u crgsceot. 1.1. (ancy,' _qn{1 . I should not wondgrvit there, _'w'ex'-o E Bon- vule tmmlgd opooltlo l,1o rnqbe_tore long. But wh'Ich? ._ ` . _ ' . . , . . _ _ _ __L ..n'_. . ;-.i."..' 1.. UIIIZ IIUBIC KWVVUVZ CnC~\_ an v--v-._ I_._..I.-..j `In-.. __-_ .IA.nn_J.... -_ I.-n`li| d. -. hu ban i thatiuiht;i"j'~=sui- _`that the 'Ius__pici9uls" vigilance of her A matrimonial !"o'?i?wit|e.d1ntorted ex- . preuion or _a engrosqedl affection. _8heorealizgq-+it:,as' the ;.greed- for nbolute `dbhinitlon which is compati- ` ble ` with the narrowest of natures. Compared to this degrading. jealousy. which she "quickly" cameto rate as nia- lignant; her `husband's tendency .90 stimulants. which also cropped out dur- ingethis '-stay in 0airo.,'eeemed almost forgivable. Yet drink produced in'Lu- `cien Bonvale that dry. insolent irrita- bilitywhich ie_ one of its uupleasantest etrects. wAysj*i3larlce Bonvale; s eager young soul.rebelied_`u_nd_er thescourge or this double` revelation .- a dull seemed to`obscure the eulgent radiance of the .orient.". and an` iron thorn pricked through its sensuous indolence; She was a soft. innocent. ignorant young thing. capable of . heaven only knew what possibilities, Until now rose leafves had strewn her way through lite,'. and homage. to her wonderful beauty had been a stimulating incense to her brain it not to her heart. _She had always had her mother hitherto. Now she `had only her husband. "That she should so phrase it to herself lled her with a childlike `shrinking -and de- spair. Never before had her soul known this helpless loneliness. It is a deso- lating thing for a proud. ardent young wife to learn that she has married a stranger who. as her husband. is rapid- ly becoming a bereaving acquaintance. There was a dumb cry in her heart for some touch of human sympathy. for the soothing support which affec- tion exhales; This poignant isolation was enhanced by her surroundings. The gayety of the hotel people; the su- - perficial splendor, almost nakedness, of the orient's color; the melancholyof the tombs, mournful memorials of a hu- man kind associated with so remote a past as to be merged in the mythical; the stolid insensibility of the sitting g- ures in the many shops of the great rbanaar, from which drifted perfumes strangely, sensuous, but poorly invigo- rating; even the thin, penetrating cry or the muezzins; perched like` human storks on the lender ininarets and in- citing the Moslem to mechanical devo- tions with their reiterated Alla Akbar. Alla Alibari, La- Allah il Allah! Heyya alasall-ah! the narrow, dirty alleys, the garish Paris suggestiveness inso much 0;. the khedive s cupital-all seemed to drain her` heart and leave in it a heav- _ ier burden of aching void. lIII__ .__._.- ...-..-l.2_... --...3-.....--ugu-A-`L 4` 7or what not. one n:-s\ou-n_v- I-v--..5 v `Inw- The same numbing undercurrent of sadness ranthrbugh their excursions to the excavations, tripsonvthe oily calm or sluggislxly rumed Nile, drives to Ge- zilfeh, the pyramids, sphinxes, columns 3 u 1.9-`: VA 1! Cocoa I-l\lV`, Some one has said: The east is a land of. mystery. If one cares for it at all one loves it. There is no halfway. If one does not love it onereally hates it and all its ways. Clarice Bonvale did not love it. `She sawit all "rlth her husband. she had come to feel him a `disturbing. gure in the foreground or every scene. even the widely extending one of life.` ,.-_ .4 I___;._'__nLL ALA)- `tanbe. ` ' V519 Va. nnbv Those ranges of boats with their curved `yards make me think of great dry sedge: bent by the wind, and those tall, tutted palms look like gigantic 1'eather.dusters stuck in the sand, she remarkedfonce t__o Bonvale, with alshort ` llttlelaugh. They were selling on the Nile, the yellow Libyan hills tn the dis- ` `l . . , , h n _,I,.n n I, .-, ,,,_ n_,A, I_l_ "'31: quiet wifinkle ,'came into his smooth `fox-Lehe`ad, and there L was the 4 disgtisted icoipression of` his lips. uni-.. ---._u.;_!l;_` 1---_..; A- 'A.._`|.- :y;.I..n_'..3.. 1-aIJ3In-Ivv\- `av:-aynwwunvan 0 noon: -5 Ion ouxhftq learn: to 'tak;~`V-things an`yo;i1' nnd _em," he said.`,`w1th an it- ritatedgfmqnltory air; ' ` - - mu- ...'a_u`o..- _...I.n. -....n.. ....-.1 ;.- _ ..n..|.L nun ova ---u `...;1.1;`;..'&`l;`-i;'Ts` motzth `quiiered to a slight. proud stp11e._hg; `formed no_`answ`er. She hid `#15951?! *.?s un% to Tta..keV. `Lucien Bdnvsue; aps hhf tmmd mu.=.~ b11tTi' he`: Are- aexit:m; it`)h`n'.'Yiii8 d0 90. war. not the;es9retxg@*geasv:' ` ` V :>EJ"|tA " :.'. n ..-_. n_v_...'.._--l..l '_`_g4I_.".L_"1___'_ DIIIJQIELV V DAV Innu- , V . Bhalwii lbmns forward with sharp delrj the l1'o"u'r"df; th_ir; .ajI`t11I'- If;.'hh-..f?511.1`n i1iiI5r0Shitl1 W1th'.Mi'- B9i:M`l. 9' 1irbD9Bm?%A * ` 78 391'? ` or were 1t;,j`vy_a'a`. w1th_ gthe `re1I}e\t1n` Ilense ,t.hat fozx`:V*115r:i` % son f..0'!'.,'ri1$h1!iim: , & Q- ,"1:;:`*!1% !ix31itl.91t ;w1.!,=; $9;Ji'd."; gag tombs t trbs . v 'i..,IJ \ `IT WAHEAR'.I." ANSWERING HEART.` TI-IE1*I(;)RT_H`AERI ADVANCE V5 \unu9\oI.ovnn Yep; uupv `--- d "in. Bonvale informed n1Esome. [what 4moreabout'=the Apia balls. -1: she was going to the Serapeum. the . necropolls `of/defunct bovlnes at Mem- ! phls. she chose to know what claim ' this eacrosanct herd could hive on the attention of` an intelligent New Eng- land girl of today. She would hardly - have been a true product or herenv?1- ronment had she regarded with aught but quiet disdain the solemn mockery -3 __-_..1-l.. _..I..l..|.. `taro In nnudnm 4111: . -....~:.-,. ,,,y,,.... 9... v th` A gaeaii` E; surryihg ham uchthc moky date of thetor`chsV1n nubterrw . an-rn.`-:.' 2.. ...~. "A.'.V`I.."I.uI'I"' A-nl u-law . `wnat`% in J`AjLi15"b;i1."2 ma why` should it have a` "tomb?" she asked cu- riously.` ` *- = ' ` 1, ...3-__ 4-.___a` _ I... __u.|. ocv unu- Oh:__"w_hen` they.` toi1hd' i bull w1_j.h_ certain marking: the priest: made the peoplethink Osiris had gone into him. and they adored` the -beast," replied Bonvale, ,qu1te't content with this de- gree ot erudition on, the subject. it... `l)-....-I- I-JA_nn4-ul Lanna`. uni-nu. "U5 HAVE Vhnuuonhbaa In-v -aw-v--`- ..:vv---._' of worsh p which lay in -adoring the benevolent Osiris reincarnated in a hull. no matter what its erotic mark- ings. Yet ages before Christ had come to ood the chambers of the mind with his mystic light the early kings of Egypt had fostered the recollection /of their highest divinity by presenting to -the somber Egyptians. him who slept at._Phila2. renascent in a lordly bull. , _A_ I_-..L R-.-_.I _-an u|.L Llano. L\-LAIAIJ\a\aa-no an up .-.-....., ..___ Her imagination at least found Es- thetic delight in picturing the majestic. creature with its lustrous. silky hide, the symbolic triangle standing white upon its brow,- the. hair of its back swirling to simulate an, eagle, the. snowy crescent ashing on its stalwart ank and beneath its pink tongue the knot which fancy called the. mark of the scarab, the sacred insect or Ptah. 11v`. _ L - _I_..A.:.___ J-.. _ `\I`I` #4; kn ' IpLJ\J $\oCIuLIlII. DOD`! AIIQVIVZ can `aw upon - .--i What a destiny for a bull-to be taken from the common herd and in- stalled as a god, cared for with infinite attention during life and` after death embalmed at enormous expense and enshrined in a costly sarcophagus! If the revered animal rounded a quarter of a century it was imposingly killed. If death came to itlbefore that time all Egypt mourned, andsorrow settled on the land like a pall. So charmingly nn'if--to summarily eject the god who proved 9. faithful tenant and to bewail him if he did otherwise! Brought in by} King liatechos nearly" 5,000 years before Christ. the last of the Apis bulls had passed out of Egypt to be brought to the Emperor Julian II. A. D. 362. `Yet through the centu- rles their preserved exuvlee had held stately possession of the Serapeum-- were waiting there for her "to come where they held their silent court. (N- _.___A!_ __l..I.._.1 __ - I___._L -.Q A.I_'- -ru-vvn nag u-v gsnvvnu-unnnauun VII-twllo Such was the leaven of thought. in the hungering soul 01- Clarice Bonvale as she sailed up the ten milesot river that lay between Cairo and Memphis on the`-pilgrimage to the tombs! the Apia bulls. The trip should have been an : enchanting, Jone. Streaming sun- shine; vivid `color " and air that would have A rejoiced springabuds lent sweet- ness -to` the Egyptian day. But mill or her heart. was grinding sine its.-grist T or `bittemessax In` the? near foreground Off - long ViltI`. f stood at human heingrzwhose shadow ll npon her soul withz,hiiht- ingchill; .i .. Themslsndetfatf made -the :lh91 ti>.t.1`l.I..l3t .tai;.the;:tn;shs'3en=1on-e Z11 III--ml.` a'-.`nII4` l`-I.-LI: _- _L- 4-!` c-voq co .-o-aop Iv ,ynv' ~Q7aQ9|(- :73; keys; ;Glal'1O smiled finlsllrlht-felt that the-k1nd1l0ltJem9t1on.xa1,mk9ned~1n 5355! tlllg :01`: the r l3!l!1l1.`01l.tA0.l0l7ll1`lc:1!8!-93113 to; this mmg upsl.lv.beqnt-. 91: bnndanaeatxvna. dz!- -mi.uutm.a %,wtt.4kudemum-.:ro_Ir1ah mit- }r: wfzzi: 2': r u ..lIII.._.A`.-.:."I...'._.AnI...` u`-A _.t..`1_--r_nm.. 4..-- '. 2 - vv cairn`; ..-_..d --v-- ..--V._ .....v-. `.v_ So much lavished on a beast of the eld, and she, made in the likeness (of God, looked in vain for sympathy. some touch of human interest that might ease her aching heart! What a -mockery! This bull. ower of the herd. by force of his lordly markings raised to the pinnacle of a nation s adoration! She whom beauty had as sharply sepa-" rated from the others of her sex had gained by this gift a husband whose highest form or regard -was an intoler- able jeaiousy, a life partner who was ' already numbing the" eager vitality of her girl : heart and making it `cry out to itself in the yearning of its loneli- ness. Why should the heart spontane- ously put forth-tendriis`t1t`there was naught which they. might grasp for support. no other heart to which they could cling-ntrengthening and sued by the Apreordained clasp? ...I. __-... 1.1.. I--_-_ -4 L|_-___Ln. 1.. i_.,.-...-.A-,_-,,A_,.".. V | . u A . . mu; 1! gthumq ;b11;il.vnfem as ~*o1.'J ,the.;- tavern ~;.v.r.orld- they plunged into the. stu! xloom ot I_trait- iened..lnclosures;nnderground. A D:scend- - in; a few-* steps they ;_fo_und themselves in along corridor, out of which opened several. small rooms some,18_.bjr 15 feet ` in dimensions-.throne - rooms, so to speak.` of the defunct and sublimated bulls. In the center 01! the room stood the sarcophagus, hewn from a single block of granite or sandstone. the mass- ive shell` intolding the remains of the regal bovine which so many centuries , ago had housed the masquerading Osi- ris. ltlore than a thousand years before the last of them had passed out of the life of Egypt, and not her.,own short `lifetime back. a Frenchman of Bou- 3 logne. Mariette Pasha. had unearthed ' their tombs, long lost in the irreverent enshrouding sand. Yet the solemnity of it all, if any there was, did not check the scornful quiver of her lip as Clarice reected that her heart asked not for Orisis, but for one friendly touch to save it from an aridity like that of the surrounding desert. Alas, covved by her oppressed feelings, intol- A -erantly resentful of Lucien Bonvale s degrading jealousy, scarce daring to call `her soul her own, she appealed silently to the whole world for sym- ` pathy, and there was none to heed her and bring peace to her soul. } 1-rv:1_I. - ..--.!-I- ...'...L ....A - .-`nu.-2....- tlu LILLIJB rvwsnwv av saw- nuns.-- With a quick sigh and a passing tremor of her -sensitive lips she averted her dark, brilliant eyes from the sar- cophagus standing grimly forth in the .flare of the torches and` without thought or intention turned them full upon those of an attendant , ___.._ 1;..- He was a young, handsome, pure type Arab, with clear, pale skin, clean cut features, tall, sinewy, silent, gentle, mysterious, suggesting an intensity of repressed passion. In that ickering light, down in the gaunt chamber of death, his soul looked straight through . the glowing eyes which gleamed be- neath his straight black brows and grasped that of the girl with sense of its desolation and hunger. It was a river of cool refreshment to her parch- ed being. Life thrilled through her. The shackles, whose tightening. con- strictions numbed her by their viselike grip, fell om She breathed with the joy of a released` prisoner. . _ . _ --1 :_ .a.1_..A. A....L :.........!..!.'-.. um- V vs no I-\r\tIa.vu\a\Q ---Vacs-- J 2' Her soul in that rst impulsive mo- ment spoke back with all the eloquence which can be uttered by the eye. It was heart answering heart. Time is measured by intensity, not mere dura- tion. The whole length of that encoun- ter-perception, bestowal, acceptance and grateful relief - could not have .been a` full minute. _ But it was a mile- stone from which life was to be meas- ured. When Clarice Bonvale left the tombs of the Apis bulls and returned to Cairo she was not an alien woman .alone in Egypt. A friend was with her, a kinsman of her heart-her proud, hungry young heart. The memory of him in the long wanderings up the Nile was a tiny,`bubbling spring in her be- ing from -which welled solace and strength. The rancor of loneliness had departed, the wasting touch of aridlty was gone, the eager stretching forth for something on which to lean felt a prop and. support. The image of that Arab youth, the strong gentleness of the passionate grasp he`had laid upon her, haunted her with a soothing sweet- She seemed to feel it especially at Philae; The soft charm of the little is- land and the graceful pom-r~ "f brood- ed over it-she felt her 11:-w .insman more in them. With a sin. .- it oc- curred to her that herewas where Osi- ris the Benecent was laid to his 2 -st; that to the old Egyptian there was no mightier oath than that sworn "by him who sleeps at Philae. It was at the solemn tomb that guarded the stately bull which he had possessed .to be again with his adorers that she had met the one who had led her out of Egypt, the dark land of her heart long- , ings that could find, no rest. When would she see him next? Would she ever see him again? And, it she did, could he say more than he had said in that rst, quick, close, magnetic fusion . of their ouls? Well, Osiris the Bene- cent, the struggler against evil, had been good to her. It was enough. I'I'\'I__.__ j_.._ __-_L_____,___ _'QL-__ LI_-2_ I-.__,. They were returning after their long leagues up` the Nile. At last their feet wereiset homeward. There was not so much charm in that as that they were leaving Egypt, the place where she had .for the rst time realized Lucien B'on-V vale, One night at Luxor she stood on the wharf, waiting to embark on the little steamer which puffed with impudent impotence to be gone. Bonvale had left her for a few moments on one of his fussy. suddenly thought of quests. Around her was a motley crowd. with sprinklings of many nations in its mov- ing mass. In the noise and confusion andsmall babel of `jarring elements strong lingers suddenly slipped smooth- ly. possessively. into the hand which hung listlessly at her side. A utter ran through -her. Her own lingers. with an instinct ot sympathy. closed upon-.those which had been so gently pushed into her warm` palm; = she .l dol:`ed- lupwlth ' a soft `welcoming or -..|.u.un.- -- .....- '.'.... There` in the ooding light of the moon stood her heart : .kinsmgn,. the strong young Arab` of. the Serapenm. Impaasivapowertul, w1th`u rpose that tho westhngyvp littlg or, his dark eyes under tho strong brown` burned with. a In-e:whlch`toI_d of ehlnlntenso feeling. - ~'Hls eyes bent `onher nnwaveringly. He murmured ~ aottly:.' P have brought yoinny lieiirt n'nl?'Iou1_e'th!ngoto r'eihem- ber. mby iwhn` -y'o'u_,a'r`_ gone to far any to y o! 1r`counry; 'n otl`torget mo in the long yauL_to~como.or;that I Ioveyou." . * ;1r.i.:k;;ag;;`;e.;. w'.`I.`i1; crowd pressed; He was gone. Ho l}.!" L l!it_3o' `- if nd 7was __lqst.' Cla1'Ice""r1.ild `her hapd ` and -:`.wV1th` `u tsremnlous.-S ,V-mu: 4 V Iodkcm _toI `-.e` wont mngggn; he had left with her ` .. i...` . ..-.,.z n.` in..- LIJ-, d!:`: us-no-wwu -w--v cu ununup -v-u :v-u-- --- 9: 1 ~t;tges.T67t:-()[sirItVs~and.'i;1s. such as found in the tombs; Osiris the Bene- <=e.r.=:= A woo- ` y hiin wh:o sleeps at t_ h1lae, she said to her heart. Come; are you teddy '2" asked Bon. vale, reappearing. ' 4411-.. n ..|.. ..__._._..s _...l-LI_. _u_ ,. v gonna gnpaunlar uvunv --an " Yes. she answered quietly. slipping the gures into her pocket. `Ten years later, on Christmas day again, a beautiful woman 'in black stood in the drawing room of her home in Philadelphia before a small cabinet. Hereyes were xed upon something in ` `it. Her air was pensive, resigned, pa- thetically sweet, as she stood there lost in memories. Her lustrous eyes seemed to soften as she gazed. AL A.`__L ..`__.`___A_ _ _.___._--'.. :_I__ I ,1 At that [moment a woman who had come through the rooms without being heard on the rugs hustled up to her arid exclaimed vivaciously: I knew you would see me. Clarice. I am glad I came in unannounced so as to catch you in that pose. I wish you could have your picture taken as you looked just now. You were perfectly lovely. I never saw you with that expression `before. You seemed lost in thought, yet it was happy, peaceful thought. What were you thinking about, dear?" -' |_.1__!__ _--_.. _--_....;.-.1 L, LI__ Gittn For Children. A Children enjoy things with which they can do something. They are hap- piest when both brains and hands are |._ employed. _An ingenious boy_ will get ;_mox_:e_ pleasure out or. the material with whichto make a kite than `he will out otia nished kite. Thus a box of car- ` ,5pentei"s tools makera ne present. for ,ti..hoy', rparticulinrly it it is accompanied `..by3_a fey? lizhthoards and some naiig; A` ...`..`...` .A.I.-a. '........a...._ &I... 1-..!-I-sEv'i'In -aunt Iv v-- .,v- ----._---c ...-..-.~-, \n\r\t "The lady's eyes reverted to the c;1i)i- net as if to discover the source of such soothing memories. llT1_;,_LII __-__12__`I I'___ `1____._.I- -vv--._..!, ....v...v---.., Egypt, replied` Mrs. Bonvale very quietly, with a faint, peculiar smile. uni; Y ..-- n ..---..._..--..-.`l 1.1.... _L1.,-, _----., .. ---- _.._--- `. ..._V_.._ _. Oh, I see? murmured th-e olllor, with a conventional drop in her hearty Voice. You passed your honeymoon there, didn t you? Those two little im- ages recalled it, I suppose. Poor Lu- cien! Did he give them to you? Who are they, and what do they mean? ,,,__ ___1 /\..2._2'._ n __:.1 LI.. __ ,___ 4 Isis.and Osiris, said the widow of Lucien Bonvale. What do they mean? A grat deal, but I really can't tell you just what. llY'I7_'II .`I-._IA. J....- l"I....Ip.A 7! ....._!,J I___ '1_1,"1on't try, Clarice, said her caller sympathetically. It s the asso- ciation probably. I understand. _ __--;_ n-,,LI_ I_-__ I._._.'l -_..`l __-AA,5l _ in black. msi"p'u't"rSi3i{ nr-B1}i'iE patted the lightly clasped ones of the woman 1-- I1 1 no.0 g.-. -u-.....- Yes, answered Hrs. Bonvale softly, with a thoughtful look at the tiny im- ages. It s the association. You will stay to luncheon, won t you? The Once Despised Fir Now a Popu- lar Source of Revenue. . A few years ago the r -tree was ;looked upon as a nuisance in Maine. 1 Now it is a source of considerable in- ? come to hundreds and to the transpor- ` tation companies as well. SUV! is us. uuauctu I need not tell you that you are right about the gowns. I can only know that such an exquisite gure deserves to be clothed as acceptably as possi- _ ble. As to her age. you are possibly =rlght; nlmosteertainlyso as regards the disagreeable husband's `means. Girls of her type marry money. As to her habitat, I hzirdly think it is New .York. The New York. girl is quick-and _t00 proudly knowing to hesitate ` in thought or movement. But she does not hurry. That is New Englandyor _.western. Yet her soft, gliding grace unmistakably shows the southern girl." v\__ 1.1.1.. .u_..- LI... -.`u'u\In n|nt1nn'l`lI1I`.