Shall I, w a it in g In despair.
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with cars
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the tlow’ry meads In May,
If she thinks not well of me.
W hat care I how fair she bel
Be she good, or kind, or fair,
I will ne'er the more despair;
I f she love me, this believe:
I will die ere she shall grlevej
I f she slight me when I woo,
I can scorn and let her go.
I f she be not fair for me.
W hat care I for whom she be!
■—George W ither (1588-1667).
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Som e
Sum m er
C on un drum *.
What does Sweet W illiam carry
when he goes out walking?--—A sugar
Abundant light transforms all ugli­ cane.
ness Into beauty.
What does Black-Eyed Susan use to
The young man who has no fixed keep her hair In order?— Cockscomb.
What form of entertainment Is com­
purpose will soon be "fixed.”
Some people would be dumb If they mon among the flowers?— Hops.
What disease Is common to young
couldn't talk about themselves.
flowers?— Nettle Hash.
To begin with a great purpose Is the
On what does the Wandering Jew
first step toward a great career.
rest when tired?— Toadstools.
This world cannot do much for the
Which parent made Johnny-jump-
man who has all hts treasure here.
up?— His poppy.
No man Is strong who cannot say
What tree always uses the second
no to himself whenever it should be personal pronoun?— Yew.
said.
What tree is formed by two letters
A good appetite and a robust diges­ of the alphabet?— L. M. (E lm .)
What tree Is the most dapper?—
tion are a very present help In some
Spruce.
kinds of trouble.
What tree Is the sweetest?— Maple.
Some people spend so much time in
What tree Is the most melancholy?
thinking about the thorns of life that
—Weeping Willow.
they miss all the roses.
What tree is proud of being a par­
I f the Bible emphasizes one thing
ent?— Papaw.
above another it is the Importance of
What tree Is a sorry Invalid?—Syca­
having plenty of backbone.
more.
The man who is praying for the
What tree Is used In building ma­
Lord to come will be doing something terials?— Lime.
to help make the devil go.
What tree keeps one warm in win­
It won't take a very long prayer to ter?— Fir.
bring fire from heaven when the brok­
What tree does history make con­
en down altars are first built up.
stant use of?— Date.
You cau depend upon this, that no
matter what else the devil may do, he
can never separate a child of God from
the love of Christ.
It was noon. The dark, gray walls
of the old penitentiary were baking
In the rays of the burning sun, which
fell like searchlights through the little
windows Into the narrow cells within.
The Inside walls, like the outside
ones, were cheerless and gray, with
nothing to relieve the monotony of
their blinds but printed copies of the
prison regulations, which consisted
only of the things prisoners were not
allowed to do.
The work went slowly, and the long­
in g for the outside world, the blue
sky and the green fields grew In the
hearts of many of the hapless beings
behind lock and bars. Nobody felt
less like working than the giant pris­
oner In the second tier of cells, who
was feared of the wardens and his fel
low prisoners because of his enormous
strength and violent temper. Just now
T H E T A J M A H A L SEEN FROM TH E GARDENS.
he was trying to make a basket, but
There has recently been hung In the marvelous tomb which Shah
tim e and again his hands dropped
Jehan erected to the memory of his w ife a lamp which Lord Curzon has
down Into his lap and he listened to
THE FIRST ADVENTURE.
2
presented to this shrine of undying love. Lord Curzon gave It as “ a last
the regular knocking! on the water
tribute of respect to the glories of A gra” which rise "like a vision of
pipes, which, like the wireless teleg­
eternal beauty” In hts memory. The Illustration deplete much of the beauty
raphy, carried messages from cell to
of this white wonder, which has been described as possessing the delicacy
cell.
Describing his childhood In Ken­
of an opening rose.
A smile spread over the face of the
tucky, the late Prof. N. 8. Shaler, in
giant when he succeeded In putting
the Atlantic Monthly, wrote that the
the letters together to words and the self down In the grass under a shady naked and stretched by the wrists and first recollection he had of places out­
words to sentences. Suddenly the beech tree, and, half asleep, looked feet In the air among the four stakes, side the home grounds was of the
smile disappeared, and In its place through the green foliage at the blue to which he was lashed. Then the In­ parade ground and the soldiers of a
came a hard, almost ferocious expres­ sky and the white clouds beyond.
dians made a great heap of unslaked government post near at hand, and
sion.
A sinner to whom the gates of lime under the wretched man’s body, above all of the music and the bugle
Steps were heard outside In the heaven had opened could feel no hap­ and when the heap touched his breast calls. The earliest place of any kind
hall. It was the turnkey. The con- pier than he did.
and sides they poured water over It of activity that he could recall was
But only a short hour was given until the scalding steam of the burn­ an adventure with the musician who
ing lime had cooked all the flesh from beat the drum of the barrack's band.
him to enjoy his liberty.
“ It w-as my delight to see the band
Suddenly he heard a noise of many the bones. Then they took the bones
I wish my hair was like a boy's,
As short as short can he.
voices, footsteps and excited signals. and threw them Into a hole on the march round the parade ground, and
For when I stop to lie It hack
He Jumped to his feet, picked up a mountain side.
my cherished ambition to have a
I miss the game, you see.
heavy branch lying close to him In
And so was the stain of the mur­ whack at the drum. So, craftily, stick
•-Child's Companion.
the grass, and. brandishing It around dered man’s blood covered and venge­ In hand, I hid behind a boxed tree
his head, he disappeared in the woods. ance was wrought by the Indians In and managed to get In a stroke, only
I.ltlle Wutehnien.
Too many men were following him, behalf of “ the white stranger who was to be bowled over by the Irate drum­
Bebe Is sure (hat grandmother's gar­
however. Five minutes later the giant good and loved flowers.” — Mexican mer. I could not have been more than
den Is the loveliest garden a boy ever
lay bound and gagged on the ground, Exchange.
four years old at the time, yet the
played In. On one side a white picket
delight of that deed stays by me.
with a rifle bullet In one leg.
fence shuts off the garden from the
He was carried back to the peniten­
“ When I was about five, the muster-
street. In the center Is a star-shaped
tiary In triumph.
lngs for the Mexican war were going
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS.
flower-bed, and all the other beds fit
on, and the barracks were overfilled,
The Inspector stood In his office be­
in a pattern round this one, separated
hind the rail and looked at him
so that considerable hordes of troops
By Cl areu c i L. Cullen.
from It by narrow paths. When Bebe
sternly.
were encamped In the open fields
visits grandmother In the summer, he
which adjoined It. On these fields,
The convict, who was now chained
finds the garden a pleasant playground
hand and foot, cast down his eyes and
The approaching census will not then pastures, one of the horse bat­ and the flowers delightful playmates.
seemed absolutely broken. He mum­ state how many myriads of married teries, I believe Rlngold's, was for
"Mother,” said Bebe one day, " I
bled something to himself, which couples are livin g together Just out of some time drilled.
should like to play In the garden this
sounded like an excuse: "W h y did he the force of habit.
" I was then exempt from the care
afternoon.”
come?”
of a nurse, and could run about afoot
"Bebe," said mother, ‘‘you may play
Some women like to make their hus­
or on a pony. The movements of this
A shadow of sincere sorrow came
In the garden this afternoon, but do
bands go to church on Sunday morn­
Into the Inspector's face as he answer­
command filled my little soul with
not play too long, for we are going to
ing Just to show their neighbors that
wonder; there I gained my first sense
ed In an almost Inaudible voice;
“I
8T EP S WE BE H EA BI ) OUTSIDE.
Aunt Myra’s to tea.”
they can make 'em.
of the power of men in action, that
sent him to bring you here that I
” 1 like to go to Aunt Myra's to tea,"
wict saw him, so to speak, with his might Inform you that you had been
Women are such artistic dissemblers prim itive might of war which Im­
earB, coming down the long hall, pardoned.”
that a pair of them can waltz together presses the prim itive child and the said Bebe, “ for there Is always a little
round cake for me to bring home, tie-
broad-shouldered, well-nourished and
Then the murderer was led back to at a manless summer resort hotel and childish man as nothing else does.
cause I can’t eat It at night. How
self-satisfied, carrying his bunch of his cell.— Philadelphia Bulletin.
pretend that they enjoy It.
" I well remember my longing for
shall I know how long too long Is?"
keys In his hand.
A woman just knows that a doctor the unapproachable splendor of the
“ When the little white blossoms In
What could he want here this time
must
be
a
crackerjack
In
his
profes­
commander
of
that
battery,
who
A N IN D IA N M U RD ERER.
o f the day. when It was the rule never
sion If he has fine white teeth and bee- seemed to me a supernatural being. the bed shaped like a crescent moon
open It w ill be time to come In," said
to disturb the convicts? The giant
you-tifully kept finger nails.
Oddly enough fifteen years thereafter
mother.
w as literally foaming with fury. Was T i l l F e a r f u l P u n i s h m e n t b y n P r i m i ­
I
was
In
his
place,
drilling
a
horse
What no man can understand' How
tive Mevtenn Tribe.
“ I know the moon-shaped bed," said
he to be punished once more for some
battery on the same field, to find it
Bebe, "hut the little blossoms In It are
Speaking of prim itive law among his w ife can hide two suits of pajamas
petty violation of the rules? The
tedious drudgery, with moments of
in
his
suit
case
so
that
he
can't
ever
only buds. I saw them yesterday
■keepers always knew how to find the Mexican Indians brings to mind a
high life when by chance the work
morning and I saw them this morning
curious case that was told me some find them without a search warrant
fault In those they did not like
went
well."
and a w rit of replevin.
all shut tight.”
TNearer and nearer came the steps, years ago In the State of Oaxaca by
The main reason why a woman does
"This afternoon,” said mother, "you
XJmm S i m p a n E o i m i i m r .
and now they stopped outside the an old Zapoteca chief who had become
not like her husband’s bachelor friends
will see them all open.”
•door. A thought shot like lightning a convert to Christianity.
Soap in Its modern form seem»
Bebe went Into the garden to play
He said that a long while ago an is that she knows that they know a rather to be an evolution of economy
through the convict’s brain.
The
American
botanist
was
traveling heap of things about him that she and commercial convenience than an First he went to the bed of the sleepy
turnkey was alone. Undoubtedly there
was not even a guard in the hall dur­ through the mountains of Oaxaca doesn't know and that they'll never evidence of a great accession to flowers.
tell her.
"You think because you IIvo In the
in g the quiet noon hour. Behind the studying the rare and beautiful flora
cleanliness. The rich to-day In their
When a woman wants to make an homes use unguents, oils, meals and moon It Is always night! Wake up!
loose brick In the wall was a sharp of that region. He had with him a
piece of iron, which he had sharpened mozo from another part of the coun­ other woman feel worried about her bath powders In preference to It. A said Bebe; but not a flower stirred.
Bebe pushed his way among the
new dress she says: "It's quite pretty lather Is not In this age as pictur­
during the long months he had been try.
He carried several gold pieces
but do you think it’s exactly your esque as the old method, when a flowers that bent half-way over the
-confined to the cell.
walks, chatting with (heir neighbors.
Outside the sun was shining, the sewed In the lining of his Jacket. The color?” Or: " It fits real well— er— In slave poured liquid soap over her mis­
He called on the foxglove, roxeomb,
birds were singing and the woods mozo became aware of that fact, and the back, doesn't It?"
tress from a costly Jar before the fair lady’s delight, larkspur, bouncing bet,
You're In pretty bad when your wife bather stepped down Into the water.
w ere green. A key turned In the door. one day when the botanist got down
sweet william and baby’s breath, and
T h e turnkey came In, but In the same on his knees to drink at a little spring (without your ever knowing it) brags
then he looked again at the blossoms
A
Perm anent Thing.
moment he fell to the ground as If the mozo cut his head off with a to her women cronies that she can
"You have stated." said the badger-1 which were to tell him when to get
struck down by lightning. With ter­ machette. took the gold pieces and make you do anything she wants sim­
ready for tea.
ply by opening her tear ducts at the lng lawyer to a witness, "that you
rible force the giant had burled the fled to the higher sierras.
"O h !” said Bebe. "Good afternoon'”
were
born
In
1886.
Now
you
Ray
you
|
Not
long
after
the
body
was
found
psychological moment.
sharp Instrument In his temple.
were born In 1887. An Incriminating for one little flower peered at him
The convict did not even look at by some Zapoteca Indians who had
When
women
themselves
writ*
from a sleepy, half-open eye.
his victim. W ith staring eyes he seen the botanist In former days about women's "m ystery” and their discrepancy— though perhaps you may
"H ave you had a pleasant nap.
be
able
to
explain
It.”
studying
the
flowers
and
plants
near
sneaked down the hall.
Every mo­
"intuition” and their other fancied
"Certainly
I
can
explain
It,”
re­
ment he stopped, listened and looked their village. They knew that he was etherealnesses the effect Is about as
a harmless and good man because he ridiculous as It would be If men were torted the witness. "There's no In- n° 'vfir- wh,f'h was ,K>K,nnlne
" ‘ retch
around.
Dipn, as he watched, he
All Mexican Indians to brag of their biceps and the aqul. congrulty there. I was born In 1886 ' ts Petals.
He felt nothing but a great Joy at loved flowers.
and Juat »tayed born. Why, I'm born
t'1" " " 0™" "lowly, slowly open,
the success of his deed. Now
the love flowers. So they took the body to line contour of their nosei.
T#j «
lone after another, and he knew It was
road to freedom was open, the prison the chief and told him what they had
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| time to go Into the house to get ready
seen and found. "W h a t!” he said.
< alight
Handing.
door was open, there was no guard
Jn*t
the
Name.
for tea at Aunt Myra’s, where there Is
'Shall
the
kind
stranger
with
the
outside.
Professor Cube Root's class of geo­
Gunner— Th at'» a fine-looking apart* always a little round cake for a boy
white
face
who
loved
flowers
and
The giant had now reached the yard.
metrical geniuses were receiving In­ ment house over there.
to take home.
It was as If heaven Itself had decided sought not our goads nor Insulted our structions.
They were first taught
Guyer— Yea, It 1» occupied by theat­
"W h y did they sleep so long and
women
come
to
such
a
dog's
death
that he should be a free man. Near
that a circle was a thing like this— rical people Called a court, too.
wake so late, mother?” asked Bebe.
among
us
and
be
not
avenged?”
the wall stood a chopping block and
0. They then learned that a straight
Gunner— Ah, something fancy, like
"A ll last night they watched In the
He then dispatched four swift In­
a ladder. He placed the ladder on top
line was one without wabbles In It, "D uke’s Court,” or "K ing's Court," I garden until the morning glories
o f the block, vaulted over the wall dian runners In different directions so -------- .
came on duty bright and early In the
presume?
and let himself fall down on the out­ with orders not to return without the
“ Now, boys,” said Professor Root,
Guyer— No, It Is called "Divorce morning,” said mother. "A ll day to­
murderer. After a week's time they “ can any of you describe to me what
side.
Court."— Chicago News.
day they slept, until four o'clock this
For a moment he laid there abso­ returned bearing the malefactor bound j a half circle Is like?”
afternoon. Because they always wake
In
their
midst.
A
council
of
old
men
A
n
y
B
a
n
d
i
t
t
i
I
n
O
n
r
T
o
w
n
!
lutely quiet, without moving hand or
Up shot half a dozen graiplng
at four o'clock they are called four
Whenever numerous troops of ban­
foot. Had he broken a limb In the fall? was called, and the case was exam­ hand».
o’clock*, and they are the little night-
No, he felt plainly that he was un­ ined. The guilt of the mozo was
“ Well, Teddy,” »aid P rofe»»or Root, ditti, multiplied by success and Im­ watchmen of the garden."— Youth’ »
proved,
as
he
»till
had
with
him
the
punity,
publicly
defy,
Instead
of
elud­
hurt, and he had only one thought—
“let’» hear your definition of « half
Companion.
strange pieces of gold.
ing, the Justloe of their country, we
to get away.
circle first.”
J a m i e ' . Hath.
Then the old chief gave the sen­
He Jumped to his feet and ran as
"Please, »lr,” answered Teddy, "IP i may safely Infer that the excessive
fast as his trembling legs would carry tence. It was speedily performed. a »tralght line caught bending.” __ weakness of the government Is felt
It was Jamie's bath night. He had
him
across fields, over hedges and They led the trembling murderer to London Express
and abated by the lowest ranks of the several each week and he hated them
fences, until he reached the wooda the center of the little plaza. There
community.— Edward Qlbbon.
ell. On this particular night, once
four green stakes were driven In the
Every woman hatea the word "to ­
panting and exhausted.
started, he soared and splashed In the
A ir » aasumed by the »elf-made maa . . ,
ground. The marderer was itripped maie."
Completely tired out, he threw him
a full half hour, then his
are meetly fresh a ir*
•lub ,or
another haled him forth. He cam» out
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The Rev. Hugh Peters, who from
1636 to 1641 was settled In Salem,
Massachusetts, combined hts duties as
a minister of religion with the busi­
ness of trading so successfully that
he was spoken of In the colony as "the
father of our commerce and the found­
er of our trade.” He was also a man
of so much humor that after his death
a collection of his witty or humorous
sayings was published In book form.
It Is Interesting to recall that the Rev.
Mr. Peters was executed as a regicide.
He was not directly implicated In the
death of Charles I, but was accused if
encouraging the soldiers to cry out for
the blood of the King, whom he had
likened to Barabba».
Mr. Peters had preached one morn­
ing for two hours. The sands in the
hour glass had run out. He observed
It, and turning It over, said to his
hearers, "Come, let us have another
glass!”
Preaching on devils entering Into
swine, he said that the miracle Illus­
trated three English proverbs:
One. That the devil will rather play
at small game than sit out.
Two. That those must needs go fo r­
ward whom the devil drives.
Three. That at last he brought hi*
hogs to a fair market.
It was a favorite saying o f Peiters
that In Christendom there were neither
scholars enough, gentlemen enough,
nor Jews enough; for, said he, If thero
were more scholars there would not be
so many pluralista In the church; If
mere were more gentry, so many born
would not be reckoned among them; If
there were more Jews, so many Chris­
tians would not practice usury.
Once he preached, "Beware, young
men, of the three W's— wine, women
and tobacco. Now tobacco, you w ill
say, does not begin with a W.
But
what Is toliaceo but a weed?"
Discoursing one day on the advant­
ages Christians had In having the
gospel preached to them— “ V erily,”
said he, “ the Word hath a free passage
amongst you, for It goes In at one ear
and out at the other.”
Again, from the pulpit: "England
w ill never prosper till one hundred
and fifty are taken away." The ex­
planation Is L L L — Lords, Lawyers and
Levltes.
Preaching on the subject of duties,
Peters said, "Observe the three fools
In the gospel, who, being bid to the
wedding supper, every one had his ex­
cuse:
"One. He that had hired a farm and
must go and see It. Had he not been
a fool, he would have seen It before
hiring it.
"Tw o. Ho that had bought a yoke
of oxen and must go try them.
He
also was a fool, because he did not
try them before he bought them.
“ Three.
Ho that married a wife,
and without complement said he could
not come. He, too, was a fool, for he
showed that one woman drew him
away more than a whole yoke of
oxen did the former.”
One rainy day Oliver Cromwell o f­
fered Peters Ills great coat.
“ No, thank you,” replied his chap­
lain, " I would not lie In your coat for
a thousand pounds.”
Com fort
In
Soil
llounr*.
I f you read that a family lives In
a sod house you may conclude that
poverty compels It, but this Is not true
on the Canadian prairies, where sod
houses are the advance agent of pros­
perity.
The homsteader who obtains a slice
of that rich wheat land doesn't wait
to build a regular house before start­
ing to grab riches from the soil. Even
If he were minded to build he would
have difficulty In doing It, for there
Is no lumber handy. So It Is better
to wait until the locomotive catches
up.
If you start out from any of the
towns which are springing up almost
overnight In the fertile stretches of
Saskatchewan or Alberta you will
strike first well ordered farms and sub­
stantial houses, but If you get away
ten miles or more the sod houses will
begin to appear, the New York Sua
says.
It Is not unusual to see signs of
luxury about these sod houses. They
are comfortable abiding places, oool la
summer and warm In winter.
O n ion s
C or#
J fcrvo tisn ese.
Onions are almost the best nervine
known.
No medicine. It Is claimed.
Is so useful In rases of nervous pros­
tration, and there Is nothing else that
will relieve so quickly and tone up
a wornout aysiem. Onions are help­
ful I d all rases of coughs, cold» and
Influenza, and If eaten regularly ere
very good for tha complexion.
Borne men never realize what con­
stitutional H an they are until they
ere compelled to make an uauaual
effort to tell the trutti