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IN PRAISE OF DUSK.
For some they love the morning hours,@4 The yellow midday some, But give to me the twilight when
The cricket voices come.
When bright against the hedgerows burn The earliest fireflies, For then I meet my sweetheart with
The duak light in her eyes.
Behind the western hill the sun Is far upon its tvuy, Though twilight lingering seems to bo -,•«?
An fitterthought of day.
And when we part at dark I know, Unworthy though I be, That in her eyes' sweet twilight lies
An afterthought of me.
THE STROKE OF RUIN
Boyle Harding leaned back in an easy chair on the iron railed tilery which overhung the sidewalk anu smoked slowly, with half closed eyes. He was awaiting and expecting the arrival of his young friend, Francois Rapin, who had lately interested him to a singular degree.
Even at tlio moment, tip the uncarpeted stairway, came the active Creole's feet, two steps at a time, along wTith a lively tune sung almost breathlessly through a curving black mustache. "Well, and what is it?" demanded the New Yorker. "Whathave youfound out?" "Maybe she went to the French opera. Go with me. I have a box. Gome." "But haven't you yet seen her?" "Seen her. How should I know? M. Harding forgets the conditions." He laughed in his atrociously frivolous French way. "I beg pardon," said Harding quickly. "I had indeed forgotten that I did not know her name, her place of residence, nor yet even the color of her eyes. Yes, I will go with you to the opera.. Everybody goes, eh?"!
He had come south a fortnight past with letters of introduction to influential people, but he was not seeking society. A quiet sojourn in New Orleans with his eyes and ears open suited him better.
What was perhaps just the thing he would have most desired came to him unexpectedly one day. He suddenly met a beautiful young woman face to face at the door of Garcia's old book store. Harding was electrified and impulsively lifted his hat. She passed him with a half smile, leaving a breath of violets and the rustle of a gown quietly elegant in the air round about.
A lover is a great fool, but he is the only man who knows what song it was that the stars sang, and to him you must go if yon would learn the secret of heavenly happiness and the value of dreams as nutriment for the imagination. A lover's soul will treble its stature by feeding one moment on a smile.
In fact, Boyle Harding had felt this sudden growth within. It had quickened, broadened and sweetened his spiritual vision, while affording a fine. and richly mysterious increment to his enjoyment of his new surroundings.
This was midway in the fifties, when New Orleans. had reached the splendid zenith of her wealth, and when the peculiar color of her social life was most dazzling and romantic.
As they went along Rapin was prattling on the subject of fencing, always a great vogue with the jeunesse doree of New Orleans. "But you must be interested in sword play—in fencing. It is the noblest of all exercises for gentlemen, and your physique is precisely made up for it. You must be a master, or you could be." "I have had good masters," Harding replied, in an evasive tone, "but I am losing interest in it." "Your masters were in New York?" "No Paris. I had M. Duval for three years." "Ah, what fortune I He, and he only, teaches the 'stroke of ruin,'the pass which pierces across from shoulder to shoulder, disabling the victim for life, yet never killing him I "And you learned his stroke! Oh, but I am overjoyed, and you will teach me to do it. Ah, monsieur, I shall be your lifelong debtor. I have dreamed of that incomparable thrust, I have made two journeys to Paris to learn it but, you must know, M. Duval.is an ancient enemy of my father's. I could not go to him."
A great curve of splendor, a flash of faces, throats, bosoms, jewels, lace's, eyes, fans—a bewildering horizon of corsages, coiffures, necklaces, bracelets, rings a foam of airy gowns. sinking and swelling gently, like surf froth against a beach of fairyland. Harding gazed in half blinded stupidity, so he felt, and could see no details, could make out no individual face distinctly. "We will begin the lessons tomorrow," murmured Rapin. "I shall be an apt scholar, monsieur." "Yes,"' said Harding absently. He was gazing along the great sweep of beauty andjight. "But excuse me a moment or two," the Creole added after awhile, when the curtain was down. "I am going to call at the box of a friend."
Harding continued his survey, which how that his eyes had somewhat accustomed themselves to the glamour, became more real and absorbingly interesting.
Presently he saw Rapin in a box, a magnificent one, near the center, talking with a tall young woman, and it was she. There could be no doubt for a moment.
Harding's eyes were fixed. The trance of that old time love which men used to acknowledge was upon him. And at the very central moment she turned from Rapin and looked straight at him.
The prosy fact was that Rapin in his enthusiastic way had been telling Mile. Marie de Montmartin that was her name—about his good fortune in finding a master to teach him the "stroke of ruin," and he had directed her attention to the young man in his box.
But for Mile. Marie de Montmartin, We may as well say that she glanced mechanically, then looked again. I Rapin presently returned to the box,
bringing with him, or at least Harding fancied it, a breath of that exquisite violet perfume which had been haunting Harding's memory for days and nights together.' "Who is she—the young lady in the box where you've been?"
The abrupt inquiry and a certain timbre of Harding's voice betrayed his emotion to the quick creole. "Oh, she—that is, Mile. Marie de Montmartin. Lovely, isirt she? You might envy me, M. Harding. She is my betrothed.'' "Ah"—Harding hesitated and a palish change passed over his face. Then he coolly added: "I do envy you. Yes, she is the most beautiful girl that I have ever seen. She is the one I met in the old book store door. You are quick to find."
The next day Rapin came to Harding's room for his initial lesson, but the young man begged a postponement. He was not feeling in good form, he said, and was averse to exercise.
And now Harding's powerful letters of introduction came into play. The only son of General Stanope Harding had the key to open even the exclusive gate of the mansion wherein the ancient family traditions of Montmartin were kept in an atmosphere of their own.
We must acquit him. He did not deliberately seek to gain her affections. Indeed there was no need to seek. She claimed him at sight, and the way was love's sweetest path. Rapin was forgotten.
So, in due course of time, the engagement was announced and the wedding day approached.
Harding had a desire to go again to the old book store of Garcia, on Royal street, and have his first meeting with Marie over once more in his imagination.
At Garcia's door Harding came abruptly face to face with Francois Rapin, whom he had not seen since the announcement of the coming nuptials.
Harding stopped short in his tracks and would have probably put forth his hand in a friendly offer of salutation, but just then his hat was lightly tapped from his head by Rapin, who immediately picked it up and handed it to him, saying: "M. Harding will not remember his promise to teach me the mysterious stroke of M. Duval.''
At first Harding's heat of temper was great, but reflection led him to consult his friends, who ridiculed the thought of a duel.
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northern friends were
unanimously opposed to the duel, but now he must be frank and lay the matter before his fiancee's family. "You%must fight him, sir," said Montmartin. "Of course there is but one way open to a gentleman," sighed Marie, "you must challenge him."
They met at sunrise under the "oaks" so well known to dueling history. Merrily clinked their rapiers for honor's sake and Marie's.
That was but about 40 years ago, and yet what a distance! What a far spin the world has made down the "groove of change" since then
Yesterday a white haired man whose shoulders drooped strangely and whose two arms dangled half paralyzed beside him walked down Royal
street
"That is Francois Rapin," said a Creole to some friends. "He got that wound in .the celebrated duel with Harding-" "Y-e-e-s," clrawled another of the group, with a queer little shrug, "y-e-e-s, Mr. Harding taught him the 'stroke of rum.' ha. ha, ha! It is true, is it not?"
Boyle Harding and his wife live in Nice, where, in most comfortable circumstances and well loaded with fame, Harding writes his novels and plays with his grandchildren. His wife is said to be still beautiful and very domestic. —Mauria Thompson in Vanity.
Seeds of the Mushroom.
The spores (seeds), composed of a two coated cell, are borne on the gills or tubes under the cap. One plant often produces 10,000,000 spores. To see these tiny spores you must cut the top of a toadstool off and lay it right side up on a sheet of black paper. After a few hours remove it carefully, and an exact representation of its shape will remain on the paper, formed by the thousands of spores which have fallen out. If the spores fall on favorable soil, they germinate and send out great numbers of tiny, threads. These, becoming inter twined and woven together, cover the ground like the finest web, and this is known as the mycelium, or "spawn, The threads absorb nourishment and carry it to the quickened spore.—Margaret ,W. Leighton in St. Nicholas. &
Polish Versus Moss.
The speakers were two brawny Scots who evidently had not met for along while.- Sandy asked Tonald about business, but the reply was either evasive or unsatisfactory, for the rough, uncouth Sandy, perhaps suspicious that his friend had fallen into his old tricks, suddenly broke forth loudly and vehemently. "Hech, mon," he said, "but ye'll ha'e lae settle doon, mon Tonald. Ye ken 'a rollin stane gethers nae moss.' "Wha's wantin moss, ye auldfoggie," was the quick retort. "An here's wan thing a rollin stane gethers that ye'll ne'er git* an that's polish, ye puir gow!" —Boston Budget.
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