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fl». Delicious A I 3314' HAS THE LARGEST SALE OF ANY ‘ ACKET TEA IN NORTH AMERICA. -â€"â€".._ The Stealer of Sight Always Uniform in Quality {shay In Town. my arm“. Wrists, and legs were cords, Somewhere there's a willow budding, binding nit to the heavy armchair in i in, 3' honow by the river’ which I sat. Something soft filled my‘vfhmtp' the aummn leave" “8 SOdden’ mouth and pressed on my tongue, 7 ’1‘”ng a” the poo] to brown; while a handkerchief was bound tirr o iTllere'fi a thrush who‘s building earlY.' “"‘i c . . b .-r ly around my jaw. lWith his feathers all a-sih‘ivcr. The next thing I noticcd was that”:nd she maple sap,” rmngA the fire was now nothing but a dead i 1’1" Im glad that “n in town‘ mass of flaky gray ash. I lifted my head, and saw that the old man wasv1 snmPWhem out were in the country standing by my side. He seemed to 5 There’s :1 brook that‘s overflowing, perceive that I had returned to con-fAnd a (“WWW pussy'wmmv sciousness. meshed in the web of the patient old spider,” he said softly. He came forward, and once more .his finger tips passed over my face.‘ “Yes, you are ready,” I heard him say. “I put in the port only just sufficient to make you sleep a little while. I have barely finished tying you up. Yes, you are ready. vacant eyes staring before him. “Do you know why you are here?” He paused as though it were possible for me to reply. “Nearly fifty years,” he began - ....-._W.....Ww-~~ ' BY LUCK WILLIAMS. again, with that wnderful silken qual- ity of tone, “have I been living in the .1, great darkness. Always alone. Al- ways alone. It’s not that. It’s color PART L and never once did he fumble. Soon Ithe room was brilliant in the yellow light. I looked curiously at the occupant. . He was a small, old man, with soft Stole 8‘ melody’ 50ft and mefiably silver hair and beard. His face would deliCious' have held the usual placid expression . I am a muSlc'lover 36‘361'3113” buti of the sightless, but for the fact that now my brain was alright m 9‘ 1°09 Of' his mouth was bent in a hard, re- siren sound, from which I had no def penent curve_ His open eyes, dun, Sire “free myself- It seemed to Eddy motionless, made me think of win- and SWiI‘l around me like tile breath dows heavily whitened on the inside of incense. When its Wailmg “PlfeS’ so that no one can see through them. were Wistfuh 1, too. felt exflmS‘te He caught up his violin as though yearningS, and When it rose Into 9' again to make it whisper and cry and rich and Vibrant Y01ume: my own‘ sing with the cunning God had given heart thI'Obbed 1‘0 Its eCStaSY- SUd'; his hand, but with sudden decision he denlyâ€"it seemed as unnatural as the‘ replaced it on a Chair. abrupt ceaSing Of a Streamâ€"it “So the fly, quivering with its gauzy stopped. I irridescent wings through the sun-lit “Come inSide, young man. come m' air of youth, has bravely entered the Side,” said a silky VOice from Within silken toils of the patient old spider,” the room. he said. As I passed the partly open door on the third landing I suddenly stopped. From inside the darkened room there which I can obtain it. musicâ€"the music of my violin.” German experiments with forcing the growth of plants dioxide to the air surrounding them. the following, is evidently better up in the events works of John Bunyan: to see Tutankhamen’s tomb. come from a long way. I’ve craved for all my lifeâ€"â€"-living,i vivid color. There is only one way in I watched him as he stood with his? ,Sews grey velvet on her gown; u SO the young, fly has become en_{ltus:hes whisper to each other "l‘hat marsh marigolds are showing, i ‘And those. saucy crocus fellowsâ€" lBut I'm glad tha l’m in town. ‘Long ago. when we wore younger, iHow those little things enthralled us; ,Kinghirds nesting in the hedges, ‘Baby field-mice soft as down; ,Mnskrats in the sun-warmed shallows, ‘Strange how all these voices called us i Hark, was that a robin singing? When’s the next train out of town? â€"Isabel Ecclestone Mackay. o v Unfamiliar. The Old Oneâ€"“Yes, this is sunset painted by my daughter. She studied ,abi‘oad several years." The Young Manâ€"“Ah, yes; I under- stand now. I can‘t remember having That is with (To be concluded.) ,A Forces Plant Growth. Promising results have attended 1 v by adding carbon ’oA- o Donkey Rides! 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It's nothing, my come to live in the top room?” asked Young friend. It’s only that in the the voice, . darkness I crave for color, and some “Yes, and you areâ€",” I began. words are colors. To me they are “Oh, our mutual landlady, Mrs. the same as butterflies are to you, Hain, has told you of me,” went on dazzling splashes of crimson and the smooth'voice. “I’m old Mr. Get- purple and green floating through the tle, the blind man, ‘a little queer on air.” top,’ as Mrs. Hain always tells her “So you were not always new lodgers, ‘but perfectly harmless ventured for something to say. but for the fact that his mouth was “No. I could see until I was three. head} 17 His laugh, as he ended, Sometimes even now I can remember possessed all the silkiness of his voice, a great mass of wonderful brazen yet it was an eerie laugh. [blueâ€"the summer Sky, I SUPPOSe * * “I happened to be passing the door, But let me touch your face. I want and I paused to hear your violin,” I to tell if hastened to say, I shrank back instinctively, and “I heard you, young man. Andlthen, ashamed, let him approach. His would you care to hear more of my: cold fingers came lightly over my face, playing?" and though their touch was but mo- “I would," wasmy reply. Somehow mentary, there was something queerly I was feeling far from comfortable. tenacious in their passage. For sec- “Then light the gas * * * No, I'llionds they see to it. Light isn’t necessary for lovingly. “But I'm forgetting myself,” was his declaration. “I’m not doing the duties of host properly. I’m selfish. You must have a glass of wine with me.” _ I demurred, but he insisted. With wonderful surencss he went to a cor- ner cupboard, and after a minute or so returned to me bearing a glass of wine. It was port, sickly stuff, and curiously sweet, but I drank it as well as I could. He took up his violin again, and began to play. - Whether it was one of the works of some master composer, a rare old melody, or just that he extempori.:ed, I do not know. At first the music was wild, tempestuous, making me think of a storm, raging and hurtling across the earth in blind fury to destroy all things in its path. Slowly the storm died away, and in the sweet rhythmic whispering that followed I seemed to be near a tiny babe, resting on its mother’s breast. I could hear their two breaths ming- , ling in a curious harmony. broken , only now and again by a sudden catch iin the mother’s breath as though she l I sulfered some sudden fear for her tiny; j offspring. ‘ I I was becoming drowsy. My eye- . lids seemed to be swollen and heavy,’ [ and I closed my eyes. How sweetly 2 the mother and babe wrre sleeping. ' Once I lifted my reluctant lids and noticed that those of the blind Violin- ist also dropped over his empty sht'lls of (yes. Again I closed mire. 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