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AMENDS S fS S to nature . ffc v .s loved color*, and not flower»; .*• h' lr motion, not the »wallow'» S An" ,'listed more than half my hour» ^ ^ ithmu tii" oow radeehlp of tiling». Hon 1» It now that I can aee, V h love and wonder and delight, The children of the hedge and tree, Th' little lord» of day and night? Ho 1» It that I see the roads Jrfo longer with usurping eyes, A twilight meeting place for toads, A midday mart of butterflies? I fei 1 in every midge that hums, Lb , fugitive and infinite, And suddenly the world becomes A part of me and I of It •—Arthur Symons. Tw o Strange Com panions loking back upon It now, it seems I must have hated Harvey Dar- rlBgton, the essence of him, the thing in the abstract which he embodied in the concrete and tangible, longer than span of my own life For the In it when the Image of him first lm- Jire i Its indelible outlines upon my na, I saw danger, it cautioned me WUl. a shrewdness as new to my na- as the hate itself. The hate with ie must have been a thing of cun- As I took bis extended hand, the Pun' fragility of the thing was smoth- In my clasp. 1 closed my grip upon it, and the man winced as the Injur b0lJt s crunched together under the jure. 1 heard his teeth click as he grained a cry of pain, and from his tie cold gray eyes he darted at me ,a80nii^Jl°ok which unveiled his soul to my gatlon 8fL it ^or an Instant and showed to me s to t a l 6 venom of the snake for the heel l th e !* 1* “ 1 presses upon its head. So swift i LegliH11 been our ext'hange of hostile rested^Bnces that no one had noticed. The lost (, Instant he was smiling and I was alsslon^Bi11118, but we- the two of us, knew latloo and understood that our natures were y towi jHoppositlon, and that the innate aver id shot sion within us marked us for the prin cipal i In a struggle not to be ended until the one of us had seen the other ^Bn. >w mi A Chicago firm Intended the pur- (opie i] Jse of some thousands of acres of for the exclusive raising of sheep, evtr was Informed that Harvey Dar- t hit i was looking over the large ich coi . f a t t o on iWson ranch for this express pur- own Txjmao oes ilP®*- The old man, Jim Dawson, com- sorrojnlssumed me with the task of show- ipulil!*®8 ° n the raPch to Darrlngton, being tlnl(<j»H acquainted with the whole coun try J and also because of some prevl- s on,ous experience with sheep In Texas, ves mr y " were peculiar and strange com- comiH ilea- fhe embodiment of two spirits which were at war. My position was __ J g irig; to live with this man whom I met only to hate, to ride with him th* long hours of the day, with the kijfcwledge of him ever at my side, urg- 16 “* ■ and prompting me, with a twltch- tm of the fingers, to throw myself (iESaW®11 him and to grasp his throat. Ah, ■ < smile of his, with the devil be- •"'“ tlllil It, that careful, pleasant, lnterest- J s m ile , how I hated it! I still must •e n w*i r one as false and deceitful. It seholMg our game, the game of two de- le • no s with murder In their hearts, who ; c o l l A led> smiled always, and jested, dis- nfte<“B s e d , related, even argued, with the fith tHhusiasm and spirit of relatives. It pard the way we chose to play our ° ,lu^Mie. What did It matter that there tual no other to see? Encircling this s ari^Bie of ours was a refinement which aces ^B ie to be silently understood as a a pe^Bd of armed truce between us which eggs^fcpproved of the actual brutality of tes phj ileal conflict and made it a battle py * of wills rather than of brawn and bod- red illy strength. For my part, I could Is killed him a number of times, cons^pl what I desired was to see his e fade, his will break, his spirit p. Then only would my hate be fled. the days added themselves to- er, each one placing us at a great- lumber of miles from the ranch and bringing us closer to the fringe of cacti where the swell »e grass plain drops away Into the sand areas of the desert, a scheme ved itself within my mind where- ly purpose might be accomplished manner which seemed to me at satisfying and skllirul. We made IP within a mile of Its fringe upon he t night before I knew we should the edge of the desert. The next uoi Hng In arranging my saddle blan- een | jnserted between the light Wan es» «La nd the heavy saddle a number of 1 ’«I common to the part of the plains rod strangely Irritating to horseflesh, n r,md v i f » bur stickers or barbs are forced utl the blanket into the flesh be* l h»i,eati by the pressure of th« saddle, i dojkrrlngton was already In the saddle Bing for me when I mounted. This °f at fc* : planned. As my weight settled the saddle the horse suddenly 1 up his head and leaped straight the air, coming down with stiff planted in a bunch. He lowered ead and threw his heels into thé ¿util his body was almost perpen- ar, pitching dreadfully. He ned, bucket, reared, danced, himself into the air again with rp turn to the right which nearly r me and made me claw leather, without a moment’s warning, he a way. I turned my head to m e J Ê Ê Darriagtoa to follow. Ha was each ter watching me, smiling Interestedly. I had no need to prompt him. He was coming. If my horse would only run three or four miles It would be^easy to become perplexed, but I had no fear of that issue, my only hope being that the race would last. Exhaustion was getting the better of pain and fear, and gradually I felt the pace break. I reined in sharply, and the horse .answered obediently, com ing to a ‘/ull stop in a dozen paces. I saw Darlington's dust-cloud bearing dqwn upon us a quarter mile away as 1 dismounted. 1 quickly loosened the girth and removed the saddle. Then I.i Hjlppe.d the ¡blanket from the poor beast's tortured hack and began to pick out the burs. Darrlngton arrived as 1 was removing the last one, his horse equally blown. "See, this is what caused all the rumpus. Very careless of me not to clean the blanket before saddling,” I cried, holding up the bur for his in spection. ''Yes, very careless,” he replied with his devilish smile. "Strange,” he add ed very tlfoughtfully, "there were none in my blanket. You must have found a patch of them.” I did not answer him and arranged the blanket, preparing to resaddle. When I had completed the task and turned to him again, he was looking about him over the unbroken stretch of sand. The prairie was gone. A b o u t us, billow on billow, stretched an end less sea of sand with the even swell of a peaceful ocean. With his band raised to shade his eyes, he was peering back in the direction from which he seemed to have come. "H ----- of a fine place, this," he said. "I can not exactly distinguish the course we followed, we made so many turns, and It all looks alike. Strikes me we came in from about there. But we can get back all right.” "Oh, sure, we didn’t come very far. We can get out easy enough. Right back there is where we started,” point ing my hand In the direction he had referred to. I smiled. I could not check It. And 1 anticipated, when he should turn again, to see his cheek pale a trifle, to find his eyes filled with anxiety. But I was disappointed, he 1 GUESS WE L L S T IC K IT OUT TOGETHER. all, but know that he kept an eye on I NOISES IN VENICE. me, for later In the night he came and | ------- waked me with the suggestion that we rh* T h * r t r a m a upon the Nor o e pi ugieasing, as we could make bet-1 ■“ “ * ,,f "* * *•***• With all the water traffic and wltn .ter time in the cool of the night. On the morning of the fourth day not a horse or a cab or a wagon to we found that Dairington's horse had wake the echoes, the utter silence of perished in the night. He stood close Venice Is the thing that first Impress oy, looking at it steadily for a few es the traveler. Yet because there Is minutes, and then turned to me. From no undertone of city noises In which Ills expression I was certain that he occasional noises may merge the expected that 1 would now ride away Crand canal at Venice seems to the and leave him to his fate, for he was sleeper at night the nolsleBt place In ! smiling up at me as though to wiBh me the world, for every little noise crash an enjoyable journey to the city and es into one's sleep, and the most wake that I might find all the folks well. ful hours of our six weeks In Italy This was the way Darrlngton met the were spent on the Grand canal In Ven prospect of walking out of a hell that ice. The bells of the churches proba he could not evade on horse uck. 1 bly do not ring louder nor more fre climbed into the saddle and drove the quently than they ring In other cities, spurs into the horse’s flanks. A weak yet because Venice Is so still these ness came over me; a terrible one bells clang through the night like the which I must flee from. This man alarm of a continuous and ever In was too great for the hate that was creasing fire. The bawl of a lovelorn within nte. He seemed to be getting human calf carrying home three the better of me and all through my drinks and a throbbing heart, a noise that may be heard by the attentive lis admiration. After riding for the period of an tener any place on earth after 11 hour or more I pulled my horse up and o’clock. In Venice becomes Insistent returned. There was no satisfaction and demoniacal. The common quarrel In allowing this man to stay behind. In the street enters the bedroom 'it I began to have my doubts, indeed, had night with nerve racking distinctness, been for the last hour. I had been and the morning song of the market thinking and my whole view was gardener bringing his wares to town changed. It seemed a pity to let a In his silent boat smites the sleeper's man like Darrlngton die, he who could ears like a call to arms. If Macbeth smile in the face oi death which was really did murder sleep, the crime confronting him with certainty. If he was done In Venice. There are, of course, considerable had shown the white feather, and had cursed, but he was game to the end acres In Venice— Islands—where the and his smile I could not forget; it streets are paved and where com merce goes on In the ordinary way, haunted me. I was extremely anxious now to save except that there are no horses or the man 1 had set out to destroy. I carriages In the narrow ways.— W ill retraced my steps in as great haste iam Allen White In Emporia Gazette. and speed as 1 could compel my horse to assume. I was In as great a hurry to locate him as I had been to leave him. I even had fears, sickening fears that I might not be able to find him, It was a chance in a hundred, nay, in “ Yes, sir,’ said the big policeman a thousand, that I should, but I suc ceeded and In a couple of hours more “ I dare say I've been In what you I discerned a tiny figure of black mov might call some pretty tight places. ing upon the white. When I caught Every policeman is sooner or later. up with him he was toiling doggedly But the worst scare I ever got had along, feet shutting and head down the least danger In It." The police Yet when I overtook him he smiled his man was on duty, but duty at the mo ment was not very pressing. A pro welcome. " It was impossible to do It, Darring cession was coming, sooner or later ton," 1 said. "You win. I guess we'll that morning along the thoroughfare, but It was not yet in sight, and the stick It out together." He was actually unwilling to share policeman had fallen Into conversa the horse with me. ' That Isn’t fair tion with a citizen who was waiting and right to you,” he said. "Ill-luck to see It. “ How did It happen?" asked the was mine and I'm willing to fight my way out alone. You stand a chance of citizen. “ 'Twas this way," said the police finding your way out; together your man. " I was a young lad at the time, chance is severed in two.” He proceeded to take his course new to the force, and swelled up with again, but 1 covered him with my re my own Importance as a husky boy volver and called him to stop. He who had .Just done himself credit In smiled at me over the weapon, pleas the physical examination. Nothing had any terrors In It for me, and antly. *'Oh, that has no terrors for me was Just looking for adventure for now," he said. “ That, you know, would the mere love of It. Mebbe you’ve be rather a favor compared to this,’ had the feeling, sir? “ I was on night duty,” continued and he waved his hand in the direction the officer, "walking a beat In the where earth and sky meet. “ Look here, Darrlngton, you fail to business part of the city, and trying get my idea,” I said. "Either we get the doors as I came to 'em, to make out or not together, as the case may sure everything was fastened. Pres be. If you refuse to ride, I'm going ently I came to a door down a side alley, and when I tried it, It opened to walk.” The expression of his face Instantly under my hand, and I stepped Inside changed. Coming up close, he looked in the dark.” "Unlocked?” said the citizen. at me for what seemed a very long "Sure. Said I to myself, 'Here's time. Then, without a word, he climb ed up behind me, and we started once something for you to look Into, and more our pathless ramble upon the mebbe an arrest of burglars at their work and a picture of the brave offi chartless and sandy sea. The horse lasted a day and one-half cer In the morning papers.’ "So I crept along in the dark, feel longer. When we began our wander lng on foot we were unable to speak ing of the wall, and finally the wall above a whisper, and without water. ended, and I was out In a large room, The remainder of our journey is hazy. with no wall to feel of. It was so still Somehow we kept with one another. I could hear myself breathing. So I It Is all a blur to me, a nightmare of went down In niy pocket for my fire, waking in spasms to discover Dar match-box and struck a light. “ 'Twas just midnight for I could rington falling at my side. Then there Is a faint recollection of finding him hear the clocks booming outside; and on the ground and my inability to when that match was well-lighted I arouse him, of dragging him, then of got the worst scare I'll get this side crawling,swooning and crawling again, of Judgment-day. All around me were with a bloody mist before my eyes, men and women, standing quiet and then, blank. staring at me. A shepherd watching his flock near “ 'Twas the quietness of ’em and the fringe of desert espied two tiny the horrid, fixed way they looked that objects upon its pale face which ap got on my nerves, and when the match peared to him very slowly moving. Be went out, I gave 6ne yell and made ing of an inquisitive nature, he inves for the entry, feeling as If every one tigated, and it is to him we are indebt of them was after me.” ed for our lives. 'But who were they?" asked the In That was twenty-one years ago, and terested citizen. Darrlngton and I have been going It 'Wax figures,” said the policeman, with each other ever since. In those tersely. "The little door that I found twenty years he has not let »¡ip by one open was the back entrance to one of summer spending a month or two on those waxwork museums, and the Jan my farm at the lake. I have taught itor had forgot to lock It after him.” all his kids to ride and rope andtether. —Youth's Companion. He still has that smiie, which seemed C . q. D. to change astonishingly since our ram Wanted— A young gentleman on the bling on sandy seas. I am not ashamed to admit that I was in error. The anti point of marrying a lovely girl Is thetical nature of our beings which in most desirous of meeting with a man spired hate was one caused through of experience who will take the re Ignorance and misunderstanding which sponslblllty* of dissuading him from Is all as old as the hills. We have this dangerous step.— Harper's Wark . _____________________ talked It over and laid its memory i y away, for we have come to the con In France. clusion that It was wisely given us, "Lend me your revolver." thus to make entry into each other's "What for?” lives, and that this hatred was as a "Too shoot myself with.” terrible, raging, and fierce fire, where "Rather not.” in the waste and refuse is burned “ Why? I ’ll give It you back.” — away, while the gold comes forth pure, Bon Vlvant. true, stronger, and richer for the burn W h e n th e R lu efln h G a th e r . ing.— San Francisco Argonaut. The capture of blueflsh from New T h e B ru te. Jersey to Monomoy during a season “ I think I ’ll sue for divorce on th« Is 1.000,000, averaging six pounds. grounds of extreme cruelty.” ^ Blueflshlng on the New England coast lasti 120 daye. "What has your husband done?” "Why, he wants me to wear my lia n a B re U m a n horse show gown to the automobile ex 'Of a »trancher vants you to In hibit."—Kansas City Journal. dorse a check, ^sll im you vos Tilling Once In a very great while we meet to valt till der pank vos open.” — a girl who knows how to handle a Cleveland News. man as well as a young widow does. The optician would soon be looking turned to me, smiling pleasantly, as If about to challenge me to a game of cards. “ Well, let’s be off on our way,” he called chocrlly, turning his horse lo the right and taking the course we had agreed upon, and I followed will ingly. He was leading me Into the heart of the desert. Alter riding for two hours, Darring- ton pulled up. He had reached the top of one of the sand hills. As I came up, he was gazing towurd the horizon, again shading his eyes. He stood up In the stirrups and looked in every di rection. I did not take the trouble to follow his example. When he had fin ished the circuit he turned to me. He looked at me coolly for a few moments and 1 perceived that he understood the predicament we were in. But there was no Indication of fear In bis blue eyes, only a grim resolution and deter mination to play out the game and win. A sort of admiration sprang up within me for him. which was tem pered with a desire to wear him out, break him, make him whine, sob, and beg, to have the satisfaction of seeing fear of death In his eyes, and hear the cry on his lips for mercy. I recognized It was to be a battle and also the like lihood of my own ruin, in fact, the im pending probability of such an end, for I was as much unacquainted with the waste as he. 1 began to grow vety thirsty, with the strange burning des ert thirst that craves water In large quantities. Examining my canteen. I found it about three-quarters full. Every hour or two Darrington halted to survey and change the course. I re mained behind, allowing him to pilot our voyage upon this shifting, sandy ocean. He did not favor me with an other look, but simply set the direction of our progress without any seeming care as to whether 1 followed; and he understood why I would follow. He would have perished rather than ask me to take the lead and bring him back to the land of life. I believe that he had an Idea that 1 could find out the way and anticipated that I might try to desert him. and leave him to his destiny. Nightfall came, and we al most fell off our horses, and the ani mals themselves sank down upon the sand without moving from their tracks. 1 dozed off Immediately, but awoke presently. 1 stirred and went over to my horse with the intention of taking the saddle from the poor beast's back, so that It might rest more easily. As I reached the animal, I ob served Darrlngton raise his head and watch me. I began loosening the girth. He was on his feet Immediately, but A girl likes an honest young m a n - .ay down when he saw what I was about. 1 do not believe he §J»nt at 11 he Isn't too honest to steal a ktaa WMt Amman m im m t The names of the makers of the nation, Washington, Jefferstfti, Jackson, Madison, Monroe, are easily recognized, but sometimes a minor hero wins renown. Is exalted In the minds of the people, his name Is used, and later men forget why. Nine States of this country have In their list of geographic nouns, ap plied either to towns, counties or county seats, the names of Jasper and New ton. And the Hat does not Include the Newton which meant New Town, nor the other two, named, one for Sir Isaac Newton and the other for an American Isaac Newton. The United States Geological Survey, bulletin No. 258, gives the origin of certain place names In this country. It says, briefly enough, that the Jasper of Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi and Texas, and Newton of Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi and Texas are named for two sergeants of the Revolutionary War— Sergeant William Jasper of Fort Moultrie, 8. C„ fame, and Sergeant William Newton. In June, 1776, when the British ships were attacking Fort Moultrie, the crescent flag of South Carolina fell outside the walls of the fort on the beach. Sergeant Jasper leaped outside the defending walls, walked the length of the fort, picked up the flag, fastened It on a sponge staff and, In sight of the fleet, fixed It on the bastion. As he came back his companions gave him three cheers, and he had passed Into the ranks of Immortal heroes. Sergeant Jasper having distinguished himself. Colonel Moultrie gave him a sort of free-lance assignment, telling him to go where he willed, to watch and see where he could best serve his country. He was privileged to select from his regiment such men as he wished to accompany him on these per sonally conducted expeditions, &ml having selected Sergeant William New ton. the two prepared to do that which has placed their names on the map of the Western continent. A Mrs. Jones was In great and natural distress because her husband, with other American war prisoners, was to be taken Into Savannah to be hanged. Jasper, thinking that the guard accompanying these American prisoners would In all probability stop for water at a certain spring, hid with Newton In the bushes near by. When the guard of eight British sol diers came two were left with the prisoners while the others went down to the spring for water. Jasper and Newton leaped from behind the bushes and shot the sentinels The others surrendered. Mr. Jones was 'estored to his family. The spring was henceforth called Jasper’s Spring. At the siege of Savannah, In October, 1779, Jasper met his death, as did perhaps a better remembered man, Pulaski The French and South Carolinians, working together, were trying to fix their colors on the par apet Three American lieutenants had essayed In vain to raise the colors given by Mrs. Elliot and fallen mortally wounded. Jasper seized the standard of the South Carolina regiment, fastened It where It meant victory, and fell Into a ditch shot. A monument at Charleston and at least two poems, “ The Death of Jasper” and the “ Swamp Steed," show that a later generation Is no unmindful of the bravery of the past It Is well that even between the covers of a text-book of geography there should be enshrined heroic deeds, and that the name» of town and county should perpetuate the best moments and acts of thoss who have passed on. ploration has been driven to a depth of 205 feet. As to the prospects of more stones being found by deeper mining, geologists only say that the spasmodic exploitation thus far seems to Indicate a good promise. Short The federal forest service has de veloped a process for making paper from scrub pine, which covers exten sive areas on the southern Atlantic seaboard and is little used except for fuel. A London scientific Journal that analyzed samples of snow taken from the roof of Its building found that week-day m ow i contained about five times the Impurities of those gathered on Sundaya. It has been satisfactorily demon strated that the blue rays from mer cury vapor lamps kill bacteria and sterilize water In which the lamps are placed without appreciably increasing 11» temperature. Because of an Increase In the num her of cases of malaria, the city of Leipzig has declared war on the mos quito and will fine any resident who falls to carry out certain regulations Intended to exterminate the Insect. Because the blowing out of fuses has caused panics among passengers, new cars being built at St. Louis are carry ing the fuses on the outside, the smoke and discharge material passing through slatted openings to the outer air. Hitherto the use of the falls of the river Rhone for the production of elec tric power has been almost confined to the Swiss part of the stream, but a project Is on foot for the utilization of the falls at Genlsstat, In French ter ritory, for the production of electric power to be sent to Paris. The falls have a descent of over 200 feet, and It Is estimated that they will produce 150,000 kilowatts per hour, an amount of energy the production of which would demand the consumption of more than 200 tons of coal. Sir William Ramsay and R. W. Graw have liquefied and, they believe, solidified the emanation from radium, which Is popularly famous for chang ing spontaneously Into helium. The boiling point of the emanation at at mospheric pressure Is 48.5 degrees be low zero centigrade. The liquid Is slightly phosphorescent, but If It Is cooled with liquid air It begins to glow with a wlilte light, which passes first to yellow and then to orange. In the microscope the light resembles a little electric arc. On removing the liquid air the colors succeed each other In the reverse order, and a blue color ap pears, followed by a change as If the crystals of a solid were dissolving. The experimenters believe that the brilliantly luminous substance seen Is the emanation In the solid state. Since 1906 diamonds have been found In Pike County, Ark., In rock similar to that of the diamond fields of South Africa. It is a perldotlte of Igneous origin which has been pushed up through carboniferous and creta ceoui formations. In some'places the rock Is very hard and dense, but In others It has weathered to a soft yel lowish and greenish material 20 to 25 feet deep. About 600 diamond* have been found In this rock, the largest weighing 6<4 carats. The usual colon are white, brown and yellow; but one for anothar Job If beer glasses Improv blue diamond and several black ones bare been found. One bore for ex ed the oy «eight. S h rift fo r M u rd erer». We spend years of time, Infinity o. attention, thousands of the people’s money, turning the trial of a wealthy murderer Into a complicated game, England last year settled a somewhat similar case In Just one day. This year she took a small part of a single day on the trial and sentencing of Madar Sal Dhlnagrl; she did It three weeks after the murder; a few weeks more saw the Hindu pass from earth, and nobody pretends tha result would or should have been different If Eng land had tied herself up with as many fool technicalities as afflict criminal law In the United States. It is a sad thing for the State to kill any human being; It is sadder to kill one whose act seems virtuous to himself; but as long as such necessity exists in an Imperfect universe, it should be met with certainty, gravity and prompt ness. The courts should deal serious ly with the evidence, not preside at a spectacular combat between legal gladi ators and mercenary “ experts,” with the upper courts looking on, ready to upset an unmistakably just conviction If some clerk omits the word “ the" In an indictment or If some Judge goes astray on one of the numberless Im material “ Instructions” called for by lawyers for the sole purpose of upset ting a verdict by technical slelght-of- hand. Mr. Taft has led the public to expect some reform of the barbarlo procedure which United States courts and lawyers have constructed, and we look forward to the day when our judges and juries shall, like the Eng lish. deal only with the fundamental law and with th* evidence.—Collier’« Weekly. YOU CAN’T R E L Y ON YOUR EYES. A!f OPTICAL ILLUSION. Here Is a method by which an opti cal Illusion of length Is plainly shown: Judged by appearances the line A B In the larger figure Is considerably longer than the line A B below It. but tested by measurement they are ex actly equal. B road M in d ed . "So your husband Is In the pageant, Mrs. Jones. I didn't know he belonged to the Church of England.” “ No. mum, he don’t. But there, he'a very broad minded, and he don't mind being an ancient bishop In the cause of charity.”— Punch.