-THRENODY.
"Watching bra alone by the Bra n lim 1ml jui
with me tbt friend that a wek nines yet was
near.
That a waek haa borne so far and bid ao deep.
"Woe am I that I may net wwp,
Kay not yeara to behold bim here. '
rjkaine were mine, and little the love I bore htm
were, - 1
Slew to mourn that better he fares than love may
fare
Which desires aui would not hare Indeed Its
will.
Would not lov e 1dm ao worse than ill.
Would not clot-be him again with
"Vetceu- loo not cboose but remember, hearta
ut ache, . - v . , .j -. "
"Bxes but darken, only for one vain thought's poor
alee, - .
Tor the thought that by this bean1 now
lonely aide
- Two fast friends, on the day he died.
Looked onee more for his band to take.
Xs thy soul forgive them, and pardon heal the
sin. ,. -4
Though their hearta be heavy to think what then
bad been. - ,
'The delight that never while tbey live may be
Love's communion of with thee.
Seal and speech with the soul therein.
Omy friend, O brother, a glory veiled and marred I
Waver love made moan for a life more evH starred.
Was it envy, chance,' or chance compelling fate.
Whence thy spirit was bruised so lata.
Bowed ao heavily, bound so hard? - -
3w.: released, it may be if . only love might
know - - -
Wed and fired with sight, it beholds us blind and
low .
With a pity keener yet. If that may be.
Even than ever was this that we
Pelt, when love of thee wrought us woe.
may teil the depths and the heights of lite
and death. . .-. -!
What we may we give thee: a word that sorrow
saith,
And that none will heed save sorrow: scarce
song.
' All we may, who have loved thee long,
lake: the best we can give is breath.
Swinburne in athenssum.
' Marriage a Hundred Tears Hence.
At the present time a popular pre-
iption exists that all girla wish to
marry, and fail to do so only because
they lack an eligible opportunity. .. This
presumption exists on account of the b
Tions fact that wome, being: able with
difficulty to support, themselves, have in
jreneral a greater material interest in
marriage than, men have. Surely there
ean be few incidents of an unmarried
-woman's condition more: exasperating
than her knowledge that because this is
the undeniable fact it is vain for her to
expect to be popularly credited with the
voluntary choice of -her condition. She
must endure with a smile, however she
may rage within, the coarse jest or in
nuendo to which it. would be worse than
Tain , to reply. n Nationalism, by. estab-
uamuK iub eaiooiaic independence or
women, without reference to their-single
r married state, will . destroy the pro
smmption referred to by making mar
riage no more obviously desirable to one
ex than to another. Edward Bellamy
in Ladies' Home Journal.
Wild Boars at Windsor.
Last week three wild boars were shot
Sn the .queen's swine garden in Windsor
(great park, of which two were for her
vujCTiy , auu. un UfcUBT WHS Bent XQ Lll8
iriice :of Wales, A Wild boar was ;first
rf George TV, who was very fond of it.
-John Wilson Croker records that when
he was staying with the king at the Pa-,
-rilion in January, 1828, his majesty
"made us all eat some roast wild boar
from Hanover, which was very good, like
pork with a game flavor." Mr. Croker,
on being asked by the king "what he J
wrought oii it, replied, "It i to pork
what pheasant is to fowl," whereupon his
majesty observed that "nothing is so
good as a fowl; if they were as scarce as
pheasants, and pheasants as plenty as
fowls, no one would eat a -pheasant." ,
London World.
As to Small Change.
"I was. surprised, when I handed a
eweboy five- cents 'and - received -four
coppers in return," said James S. Gates,
of San Francisco. "They were the first
cen t J wees X had seen in about seven
years. We don't have any pennies on
the Pacific coast,.. Nothing? is -cheaper
than five cepte. and-yua neve hear of an
article there selling for 13, 27, 69 or 99
cents. The change couldn't be made if
the. shopkeepers did want to sell things
.aw.KKa peaces, i w nen i return, to Cali
fornia i. intend to take back a lot of. one;
and two cent pieces as curiosities.' It
was not until , recently that nickels -began
to look familiar with the Calif or
xdan. Three years ago, I believe, was the
first time any five cent pieces reached
fian Francisco." Chicago Tribune.
Too Willing.
Young Wife (reprovingly) Jay love,
you know my dear mother can't bear
cigars, and she won't remain with us a
week if you smoke them in the house.
Young Husband All right, my dear,
m smoke a pipe. New. York Weekly.
The Cow Upstairs.
Animals are kept on the roofs of the
houses in Lima, Peru, and it frequently
happens that a cow passes her whole life
on a roof, being taken there as a calf and
brought down, finally as fresh beef. Cin
cinnati Times-Star.
' "Well have to charge you for extra
baggage," said the baggage master.
"Why, I've nothing!- toot ; this -hand
bag." .......
"And that railway doogtanni"
sbpoco. - -
An orange grove takes from twelve to
fifteen years to come into full bearing,
"and may jjontmue-.in JaringforjL0O
years and tipwanL-uWeU- authenticated
eases have boon known to Cuba of "trees
producing fruit for 800 years.
ff ! B-g'T 5'
American Horsei'therOiralalla eMefols
Anowto th Daniel Dougherty of. th-,H
oioux tribes. He is th mrmt oLmumt
flver tongned aborisrine on thn inti.
sent. He-is -natiaraily a4naa of great
lnfiaenee among the T ? na
Senator' Carlisle ia saw tB veara old.
Bt is of medium height and rather spare
xa nsure, ma
n S J u. - ' , .
" "Tr ' hwjwt asBaay
i ojw tjibjh s mcir eaoo. -
... On- Dutch Neck is Groan nond eaid to
be bottomless, ont at the deepest place
It is only fif ty-six feet deep.
'-At ita outlet one fine morning Chris
topher Waltzgrov discovered an enor
mous eel. He at first thought it a near
.relation of some of the snakes: he often
found in - his boots. The creature was
nearly out - of water in a shallow spot.
He attacked it with a club and the
monster showed fight. After a tussle the
eel was slain;- It -was 4-i feet long and
dressed 9t pounds.. Air. Waltagrover had
.eel i steaks , for a long time. . The-! skin
hangs today in the office of A. B. Reed,
the prominent chip builder. It has
shrunk much, but is now eight inches
wide. The head is more than half a
foot long, and the eyeholes are an inch
long. :, .,. .. ..- v...
The largest eel outside of that giant
with which I have had -a - personal ac
quaintance was one . taken from Adam's
pond at Boothbay harbor weighing four
and one-half pounds. When' that pond
-was drained in order to fit it for a reser
voir u-the bottom was alive with eels, and
two enterprising , , young -men skinned a
barrel, full and shipped them to Boston.
They usually net from eight to ten cents
a v pound. G. W. Singer in Lewiston
journal.
.-'His--Curiosity Was Too Strong.
, i A delightful Rtory of the exhibition in
an 8-year-old boy of weak human nature
that fails sometimes to be equal to the
strain put upon iti: comes from Brook
lyn., iThis small ;boy has not the virtue
of humility very prominently developed.
Indeed, he is what is known among chil
dren of. .-his own . age as : 'proud," and
wont to remind such of his playmates as
are less fortunate than he in worldly
station of his advantages. Now , his
mother, who has a class in Sunday
school, to which her little son also be
longs, had given his outgrown overcoat'
to another boy in the class.
And then ...knowing the failing of her
offspring, before setting out she told him
he must not tell the new owner that the
coat had ever belonged to him. , And the
boy promised. But it was terribly hard
work, especially as he sat next the .object
of his' self restraint during the entire
exercises. But he didn't .-say. -anything,
and the mother's heart was
easier. . At last,- however, just before
school was over, his sta'e of grace de
parted from. him. i ; Leaning over the
other boy, with cautiously extended
fingers, he said, "I -just want, to see if
that hole is in that pocket yet." New
York Evening Sun.
. . The Best Way to Buy- Bananas.
. .The banana, which is the. greatest of
all tropical fruits, comes to us chiefly
from Panama and the . West Indies in
great shiploads,, and in the banana mar
ket in New York the big green bunches
fheads" they call them in South Amer
ica, just as we speak of heads of cab
bagecontaining from five to ten dozen
each, can lie bought for a dollar : to two
dollars and fifty cents, according to the
variety. . :They are not saexpensive after
all,T and a t big green t bunch hung .in a
cool cellar will ripen gradually, so as to
furnish a dozen of ripe ones each day un
til the,, whole bunch is gone. In this
:way you can enjoy your bananas just as
tney ao in the land of palms, for even
there they cut them while they are geeen,
and allow them to ripen as we do in the
North. Courtenay de Kalb in Harper's
Young People.
Those Life Preservers.
"1 often have a strong desire," said a
ferryboat, traveler, ftor pick, np, one of
those life preservers under the seats and
hold it up. by one :of the strings, just to
see if it wouldn't fall to pieces from its
own weight They look rotten, and 1
believe they are rotten. They never
seem , toj change--positions. The dust is
always an inch thick on -them; and so 1
aesnme. .that they .are. never iamined.
Fancy the despair of a man who seized
one of them to assist! him-: in saving his
life, and when he tried to tie the straps
around .him found .-them falling apart
like a worn out shoestring." New York
Tribune.
A Prophecy.
A s?ittaburg student, while; , reading
the book of the Vision of .Nahum. the
Elkashite, came-across a passage that
seemed to, him to.be a prophecy of the
discovery of the use of electricity as a
motive power in the electric railways of
the present day. The passage is from
Nahum ii, 4, and reads as follows: "The
chariots shall rage in the streets, they
shall jostle one against another in the
broadways: they shall seem like torchi:
they shall run like the lightnings."
Boston Transcript. , . ..
- - - -His Idea of Fame.
"Ambition is my life," said the en
thusiastic youth as he:, sketched out a
marvelous future for himsell "I intend
to live only for success, power. But how
beet to achieve that? Shall I command
arms, dictate to senates, or wield the
mighty pen?"
,.s"Do none of Xheee things,?? said his fa
ther with the wisdom of years; "the se
cret is thisi discover a new bacillus."
Sti Joseph iNews. 5 x "vs.
Comforts of Travel.
. Professional .Guide (to palace ear por
ter), kave- an Kngiish lord in charge,
and 1 want him to get a good impression
of .the camf arts of travel in this country..
Here's five dollars. - .
Porter Yes, sah. . Do yon want me fa
gib him extra attention, sah? -,
Gtride Gfreat Scott, ,jioI. I want you
to.fceep away from him. New York
Weekly. " - r j- '
Cant. Charles King, the novelist., does
e?&tpart ofcUua swniang: with las f
thoughts re
of his hrarn calls for the use of the mo-.
Aon-annselee of liis rlef beside and
vice
J.'Wooaen dothi was rfirst made in England--
inn' the year 1331, thongh it "was
known in oriental countries since time
foot of metaoryH-It was neither dyed
nor dressed in rrngiand until the yeai
test. - -
SCARCITY OF SAILORS.
EXPERIENCED MEN NOT, WILLING TO
MAN UNCLE SAM'S WAR SHIPS.
A Boarding House Master Suggests Re
cruiting In the Prisons An Old Tar
Who-Says Sailors Are Not Wanted, as
the System Has Entirely Changed.
"Uncle Sam wants 1,000 men to man
his ships." said a reporter to a North
End sailors' boarding house master a few
days ago. "What are the prospects of
enlisting them? . . -
Very. poor, I should say, for -sailors
are not so plenty nowadays as most peo
ple imagine, and what few there are in
port are needed to man the 'square rig
gers' now loading for - foreign-; voyages,
and the men who go coastwise will have
nothing to do with the navy."
V What seems to be the objection!" . , ,
; -Oh they have many. To begin with,
'the long term of enlistment, -three years,
the small wages.- too much discipline,
liberty ashore cut off in home and' for
eign porta, and the best reason of all is
that in ' the case of foreigners, should
they wish to join a navy , they would
have done so in. their own countries,
where the laws compel a man to give
five or seven years' service in the army
or navy or flee .the country.: .
. . "It must be remembered that Ameri
can sailors are a thing of the past, and
inward or outward bound ships are now
manned by Germans principjilly, with a
good sprinkling of Swedes among them.
They , have pretty, good times, and as
long as they can get a berth, either fish
ing or .on a merchantman, they say. 'The
navy be blowedf " .: ,
"In your opinion what would be u
good method for Uncle Sam to adopt to
get young and active men for the serv
ice?" . "Why. that would be simple enough.
Let the uavy officers go . among the
prisons of this . and other states and re
cruit from those places such men as they
choose. They would rind plenty of fel
lows who had three or more years to
serve glad to get a chance to go to sea.
and should that be done what would be
the difference? Simply shifting . them
from one prison to another, the latter a
floating . one with not half so much
chance to escape. . , . . -
. They would make a pretty tough
crew, would they not?"
. ''No, not necessarily; they would be
under the eyes of the sentry with his
loaded gun, the officers would be armed,
and if they did their work willingly they
would not be punished.
"Just to show you that I am speaking
correctly I will say the most of the re
cruits I have shipped in the navy during
the past ten years were men that had
just finished "serving time and wanted
to brace up and be men. , : -
- 'Here" is another point that will bear
argument. . . Why don't the good Samar
itans who give lectures to these men be
fore or after leaving jail urge them to
go to -the navy instead of securing-or
trying to secure for them -some -petty
position, which will barely give them a
living, and . allow them to drift back to
their old haunts and associates, to be
watched and hounded by the police?
- 1 "Let me tell you another thing.- When
a man goes, to the navy yard and asks to
be shipped they won't ask him whether
he was ever in jail or not." -,. ,
A. trip along the . wharves was then
taken in hopes of - meeting , some old
man-o'-war's man, and .among a party
of sailors who were standing on Atlan
tic avenue was a man who looked de
cidedly ."tarry'' .in his blue 4ganzy"
(jersey) and black silk handkerchief tied
in a true sailor's knot. -
'Would any of you men here like to
ship in the navy?" was the first query.
- Why," spoke up one "does Uncle
Sam 'want a new crew for the White
Squadron? He'd better pay me what he
owes me before I go again."
"Then you are an old timer?"
j 'Yas. guess so, back as far- as '58 - and
for seven years after." i - -.
''Well, don't you think this is a good
opportunity for sailors?"
: "Sailors! sailors! , What do tbey want
of .Bailors?; Whytl yonng fellar, there
ain't .ropes enough,-aboard those iron
ships to practice splicing on. , I tell you
they don't - want : sailors. Anybody will
do, even : the rough and scruff of this
city.---..
"Those ships steer by steam or hy
draulic power, they hoist by steam, they
can .work, a gun in position like you
could a small vise; ; You'd want a search
warrant to find a reef tackle on board of
them.
- "A true sailor wouldn't be ho more
account than a' landlubber, only when
at. drill on the fore and mainyard, furling
a sail that had been loosed to dry; then
all he'd have to do would be- to . put a
gasket into their hands and tell them to
wind it round the sail, for if you talked
nautical style they'd fall off the yardarm
with. astonishment. '
"Sailors! What do they want of sail
ors? They're all , iron and steel, ain't
they? ,. Well, why don't they .ship black
smiths, machinists, a few tinkers and a
couple of broken; down riggers : who can
splice a wire?, That's the kind of a crew
they Want, and as far as fighting is-concerned
there ain't none, and anybody
that: knows - how to hold on to: av plow
will do just as, well aboard these cruisers
as an A. B. fter they get over seaeick-
The old tac seemed .to be disgusted at
the very idea, for. he continued: , s
"When' tins country gets into bother
with other nations ehe won't be short of
men toyman th&abips, ancU sbonld it be
very soon some of us old chaps wouldn't
aakf any bet4"picnio ;thatt to, be inside
thj, floaSrTosiZlfvWB
-etlentv rfMa..Uh.
wlui S8.KI '- .-"r r- ---i-V, : .,
!t '.VUntilthatrtime cornea they shouldn't
tronbietr themselves -about, sailor,.- only
tal-vanybody that, will go, and -feeing
it's about grog time, we'll.. have- to bid
you-goodday,r. n- . - : . -f
OtherboardmgnaBterr-'and "sailor
meu -were .interviewed, the first-saying
Bailors were scarce, and theoiattaavAn.
lringi4bejr -had'wortsjaeB.-fog the 'navy.
ana carrsiaaea-swiM fwayMmapaMnuy. rad- -ioal
views grvea above. Itrirton Globe. '
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