THE SPINNER.
Th spinner In the E&rdec slept.
Am Day passed through the Taller:.
Her silent wheel the sunbeams swept, .
The spinner in the garden slept.
The brown bees at their labor kept, - '
Rung clear the song birds' rally.
The spinner in the garden slept, ,
As Day passed through the valley.
The spinner in the garden wept.
As Night came down the valley;
J Her humming wheel the shadows swept,
The spinner in the garden wept;
Her cry was: "If 1 had not slept! ' -'
. Oh, wherefore did 1 dallyl"
) The spinner in the garden wept.
As Night came down the valley. ' -:
Emma J. Oowd in Youth's Companion.
A LOVER IN STONE
in Yellowstone National park are in
amnerable peysers, the waters of which
are strongly impregnated with calcare
ous and silicious sinter, '"a white sub
stance which instantaneously incrost
ates whatever it falls npon. J3ig mounds
and craters are formed by it. Travel
ers place nnder the streams bottles and
other objects they desire "turned to
stone," as they term it, and as soon as
the sinter hardens carry away their tro
phies in triumph.
Mr. Cyril Jacques was a morbid,
dreamy and downcast young man. With
form, fine face and even wealth at his
command, he constantly meditated sui
cide and determined to become a felo de
se. He wandered over the world to dis--cover
some artistic method of departing
this life. He paled at the thought of an
inquest over his mortal remains, of ac-
. counts in the press and of speculation by
his fellow mankind. He climbed Vesu
vius and for hours contemplated a
plunge into the awful fires below, where
' his body would never be revealed. He
did not fear instantaneous incineration
not that. He conceived that in the in
visible world in which he was bound he
might desire to gather his mortal ele
ments somewhere, sometime, in the
cycles of eternity. Hence, why so utter
ly annihilate them?
Mr. Jacques sailed to the borders of
the great maelstrom off Norway and
considered a plunge therein, heavily
plated ini metallic armor. Here again
he paused and foresaw the decay of the
metal and the possibility and absorption
of animal life.
He studied aeronautics intently and
consulted the world's aerostatic engi
neers, M. Gabriel Yon, Captains Renard
and Krebs, as to the possibility of an air
ship which would bear him beyond the
earth's atmosphere, out into homoloidal
space. Again defeat. These great men
assured him that, for all his wealth,
finite power could not achieve the in
finite. In the year 1870 he read of the first ex
peditions of Dr. F. V. Hayden into the
anknown wilds of the Rockies, of the
initiation of the then worldwide respect
ful United States geological survey, of
the wonderful geyser regions of Wy
.ming. Into the northwest corner of
this territory he hastened bis flight.
August was waning when he mounted
the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs
and saw the clear blue waters gush from
the highest piazza and fall evenly in
Teillike sheets over the side3, which con
stantly increased in size. He saw that
he had only to sit there to be pushed
higher and higher, while a mountain of
incrustation broadened below him and
reared him about. .
But as he watched the transformation
of liquids into solids he saw that cer
tain objects at the base of the mound,
as" fast as they became incased with
sinter, were pushed down hill, down
toward the valley below. He speculated.
He concluded that some time a concus
sion of steam might explode the mound,
and if a body were therein it would
become exposed to beasts, men or sun.
So he determined to be incased sepa
rately and allow his body to be pushed
down hill, to become one of the rapidly
forming, immense mass of incrustated
objects.
Having formed his plans, Mr Cyril
. Jacques took chloroform 'and laid down
. at the base of the series of piazzas of
Mammoth Hot Springs, where the gey
ser waters fell npon him and in a short
time incased his body in hardened cal
careous sinter.
NYhile the strange young man was ex
hausting his life devising aesthetic means
of death. Miss Mignonette Favre was
leading a dissimilar career of inventing
fancies and searching the world' for a
man who should be a synonym of her
ideals so created. In her 'flights of ro
manticism she had investigated the
wildest noble red man in the deepest of
unfrequented deeps, but ascertained that
his value set on a woman was less than
that of a horse. She studied a widower
president, but. if he fulfilled her dream,
he did not take kindly to her advances.
She went abroad determined to fascinate
a great prince, but all the princes she
met spoke not of love, but of .an annual
stipend to become her husband. .
In 181)0 Miss Favre decided to enjoy
the summer in the Yellowstone National
park, a tract solely under the jurisdic
tion of the government, but formerly a
part of the then territories of Wyoming
and Montana, The a Mammoth Hot
Springs hotel suited her romantic ideas.
While here she often climbed the piazzas
of the great spring. She placed bottles,
combs, horseshoes and other objects un
der the trickling streams and saw them
turned to stone" to her heart's content.
While she filled big boxes with a varied
collection of these and kindred objects,
her ideal in this respect, as in the case of
a man. was unfulfilled.; . .
She saw the big heaps of objects in
crustated, which seemed to have slid
down into the valley, and she was indig
nant at the government for enacting
laws to'; protect this "avalanche" and
making it a misdemeanor to carry any
section away. She clambered .up and
down the avalanche for such the slant
ing collection of objects seemed to be
and each day paused before a massive
cone of white sinter, the solidity and
great beauty of which she admired no.
much that it became a monomania with
her. . The cone was about seven feet in
Jength. with a diameter of two feet, and
! looked as if it were a classic Iccio col
, nmn, -. - .
At least Miss Favre , concluded she
could not live without the cone. In her
frenzied admiration of it Ehe forgot to
search for. a man of her ' romance. She
hired the stableman to. take a trusted
force of men, steal the coveted object at
night , and bear it away to Livingston,
Mon., by means of relays of horses and
stout vehicles. The men conveyed' it by
unused paths, avoiding the routes where
officials were stationed, and got it safely
to Livingston, where it was carefully
packed in a long box and shipped to
New York at a total cost of $10,000, half
of which went to the stablemen.
Miss Mignonette accompanied her
treasure, and on her arrival at her su
perb mansion on West End avenue had
it unpacked and artistically displayed in
an aesthetic, well lighted upper room
which she ha"d converted into a sort of
museum for the exhibition of her trophies
collected while traveling. Here she
spent hours daily admiring her treasure,
examining and re-examining the surface,
which variously resembled corals and
stalagmites, honeycombs and cells. Nor
did she tire. On the contrary, so great
grew her fascination that at last she was
held by it as by a spell as a bird might
be hypnotized by a snake. She would
walk and walk around it, sing to it, in
dite poems in its honor and call it by en
dearing names.
One day Miss Mignonette read a won
derful account, in a veracious newspaper
concerning a frog which had been found
alive in a marble block. She was startled.
What if her cone contained some ani
mal a bear a snakb goodness what?
This girl had some sense. She actually
reasoned. She felt that if it contained
anything the mysterious object must be
something higher, nobler than she, to so
fascinate her.
Should she smash it and end the mys
tery? Nol Why spoil forever her idol?
Again and again she caressed it, but
always one end of it. Suppose the end
toward which she was so irresistibly
drawn were the head?
Miss Mignonette, after reading the
frog story, grew so crazed with the pos
sible romance of the situation that she
at last became possessed with the belief
that there was a man inside. What if it
were true? He could not be dead, no,
only in a trance. He must be young ai
handsome. Yes, he must be the idol of
her dreams, for whom she had searched
the world. Her future lord had been
found at last. Dame Nature had granted
her prayer and in the most romantic
way ever conceived, yea, inconceivable
even to the wildest flighted novelist, had
enabled her to find her lover in stone.
She would break the seal, the long seal
that had hidden him from the world.
She would dress to receive him. There
should be no one else present.- He should
awake from his long dream from the in
visible world, should open his eyes on
her loveliness, should awake to life and
the world in her arms.
,She arrayed herself gloriously. Her
dark . hair was arranged with white
bauds about it. A simple flowing gown
of white enveloped her form, and over
it was the faintest white fabric of illu
sion, so delicate as to deceive the eye.
Her brown eyes, large and long lashed,
shone with joy. Her feet were incased
in tiny sandals. The nails of her delicate
fingers shone pink hued, like the shell of
a pearL She was arrayed at last, ready
with endearing terms to receive her
lover from his case of stone. Incan
descent lamps shed a soft, mellow glow
over tfe room, on the cone, enhancing
the glorious beauty of the girl.
With a sharp chisel she began - to in
dent a crease on the entire length of the
cone. Gradually the crease deepened.
Often she placed her ear to the opening,
trying to catch some sound, some move
ment. The opening arrived at a depth
where the cone could be split open with
out injury to tire inmate. She inserted
several chisels and with a hammer gent
ly began the splitting process.
As the tomb began to open she paused.
She was scs-ed. The man would really
be as in death. How could she revive
him unless he immediately came to life?
Suppose he werecompletely dead. What
could she tell the authorities that which
they would believe and not convict her
as a murderess?
Gradually her courage came back. She
would save him somehow. Had not na
ture granted her prayer and "sent her a
husband in the most mysterious, ro
mantic fashion? Surely the power which
sent him to her to be rescued would en
able her to restore him to life. She gave
several taps and the cone divided in
twain.
In the morning they found her in the
museum in a dead faint. She did not re
vive for many days. Beside her were
two halves of the cone of silicious sinter.
The occupant, which lay beside her, was
the limbless trunk of a dead tree. -William
H. Ballon in New York Evening
Telegram.
About Sounds at Sea. .'.
A Philadelphia correspondent confirms
the statement about distant sounds fo
cused by ship sails. He states that many
years ago the late Admiral Goldsborough
told him that when he was a subordinate
officer he heard the late Commodore
Levy, who was executive officer of the
United States ship , tell his captain
one Sunday morning that he was sure
they were off Rio Janeiro, because he
heard the sounds of the church bells.
As they must have been nearly 100 miles
from the harbor, the captain sarcastical
ly asked Levy whether he could not "see
the rosebushes in front of the houses?"
to which Lev$ quickly responded, "1
cannot see the roses, sir, but 1 can ' feel
their thorns." Detroit Free Press.
A Mean Bridegroom.
I Dr. Howard, of Flatbush, L. L, was
routed out at midnight to marry a couple
and was compelled to arouse his family
to act as witnesses. He was'given a fat
package by the bridegroom, upon the
latter's departure. The good doctor
spent half an hour or so unwinding paper
after paper from .that . package only to
find at last a silver quarter which had
been used as a sleeve button. One face
had been ground smooth and ornament-
ed with a monogram. New York World.
HUNTING KANGAROOS.
THERE ARE NOT SO MANY IN AUS
TRALIA AS THERE ONCE WAS.
Wholesale Extermination Before the Value
ot Their' Skins Was Known How a
-Kangaroo Disembowels a Man. or a
Doe Fought Only an the Defensive.
The traveler whom fate brings to the
colonies may journey from end to end of
them without seeing in the flesh either
of the animals that figure upon the Aus
tralian coat of arms the kangaroo and
the emu. . There are plenty of both in
certain, districts, but they are many
miles away from the railroads, as a rule,
and are seen only by those who have oc
casion to visit remote "stations," and to
explore the alternate stretches of plain
and "bush," which constitute the "back
flocks," as the interior portions of the
country are styleS in colonial phrase
ology When the early settlers entered the
country they found the marsupial tribe
swarming in countless millions all over
it. and when they sought pasturage for
their flocks discovered that the ungener
ou8 soil would not furnish grass enough
for kangaroos and sheep together. A
war of extermination upon the original
pasture rs upon the land was therefore
inaugurated, and waged with such dead
ly effect that at present a kangaroo is in
most districts . quite as conspicuous by
his absence as the buffalo upon the plains
of America..
'ONCK ABUNDANT.
The old squatters relate extraordinary
tales of the former abundance of ' these
strange creatures how the eye could
not range in any direction without see
ing hundreds of them; how they entered
the "paddocks" and grazed in, the midst
of the sheep, and how, when the grass
grew scant and the flocks were on the
verge of starvation, "drives" were or
ganized, in which thousands, of the kan
garoos were killed and the sparse pastur
age was eased. Wanton as seems the
wholesale slaughter of these animals, it
was, from the squatter's point of view,
a stern and imperative necessity. ' The
only regret of pastoralists in the prem
ises is that they did not then know the
fortune that they lost by allowing the
carcasses of the slain to lie and rot where
they had fallen; for there was no sus
picion then that kangaroo leather was of
any value, or that a demand would
spring up for it that should make the
skin of one of these animals worth more
than that of the sheep whose protection
was bought by their slaughter. So im
portant has the trade in kangaroo hides
now become that the question of how the
animals that furnish them shall be pre
served has taken the place of devising
measures for their extinction. V
The progress of the kangaroo is. rapid,
and for a mile or two it requires a good
horse to keep in sight of him. After
that,' however, he tires, and is overtaken
without difficulty.
The chase of the kangaroo, is under
taken variously on horseback, with or
without dogs, and by stalking, either
with rifle or shotgun. . A kangaroo hunt
on horseback is an exciting and often
dangerous pastime. In timber, where it
usually tak place, it is particularly
hazardous, owing to fallen logs and low
set branches, wbich often sweep the
incautious hunter over his horse's tail
and drop him in an undignified position
on the ground behind. Firearms ..are
not' employed in this pursuit, apd when
the game, is cornered it is killed by a
blow from the butt end of a heavy rid
ing whip or from a stirrup which is on
'shipped from the saddle for the purpose.
The dogs used in the chase are a rough
breed of large greyhounds, which have
hot only the strength necessary to pur
sue a flying kangaroo for miles, but also
to attack him when he is brought to bay.
The old dogs in a station pack of kan
garoo hunters are often marked from
ears to tail with frightful scars, the rec
ords of many tough encounters with an
animal which, timid and inoffensive as
it is by nature, develops in peril a cour
age and even ferocity that are . rarely
found outside the order of carnfvora. .
HOW HE FIGHTS.
The kangaroo seems poorly provided
by nature with offensive weapons. His
powers of biting are hot formidable, and
his forepaws are so weak as to seem al
most rudimentary members and of little
use. His hind legs are muscular and
strong, but are apparently of use only to
assist flight from his enemies. In these
bind legs is found, however, a most for
midable weapon in the shape of a long
claw as hard as steel and sharp as a
chisel as terrible to dogs as the scythe
chariots of the ancients were to their en
emies. When run down, the kangaroo,
placing a tree behind him to protect his
rear, will seize in his forepaws such in
discreet dogs as rush upon him, and,
holding them firmly, disembowel them
with a sweep of his sicklelike claws,
tiven the hunters themselves thus caught
in the viselike grip of an""old man" kan
garoo of the larger breeds have some
times suffered in like manner, and have
now and then taken their own turn at
being hunted as the enraged animal
turned upon them and attacked their
tiorses with -blind ferocity. The kanga
roo fights with great address and intelli
gence, and if he can find a stream or
water hole in which to await hi3 foes,
will station himself waist deep in it and,
pushing the dogs under one by one as
they swim out to attack him', either
drown them outright or compel them to
retire from want of breath. - Against
human enemies, .armed only with clubs
or: stirrup irons, the Kangaroo often
snows himself a clever , borer.-warding
oif blows very dexterously with his fore
paws. and now and then making for
ward bounds, with rapid play of his dan
gerous hind feet, which are difficult to
avoid. Melbourne Cor. Boston Journal.
. '. A- Delicatn Hint. .
He 1 stepped on your dress.
You
must think me a perfect near ;
She Oh. iioMr. Bashful: you do not
remind me in the least of a bear.
And he has been wonderiiig ever since
what she "meant.' Detroit Free Press. '
. Ammonia Poisoning.
No poison brings death ' with more
maddening agony than ammonia, but
that fact does not Seem to discourage the
suicide. The mad Harrowitz, who de
liberately swallowed a fatal dose of the
drug in New York, is only one of the
many ' who have gone the- ammonia
route to death in spice of. the excruciat
ing pain. Dr. Blyth has recorded thirty
cases of ammonia poisoning in the small
London district of which he is health
officer. 'Professor Mitchell mentions
twenty-two cases, and four have oc
curred during the short time Dr. Jenkins
has been connected with the coroner's
office in New York. Exchange. ......
Bad Blood,
Impure or vitiated blood is nine
times out of ten caused by some
form of constipation or indiges
tion that clogs up the system,
when the blood naturally be
comes impregnated with the ef
fete matter. TheoldSarsaparillas
attempt to reach, this condition
by attacking the blood with the
drastic mineral " potash." The potash theory Is
old and obsolete. Joy's Vegetable Earsaparilla is
modern. It goes to tbc scat of the trouble. It
arouses the liver, kidneys and bowels to health
ful action, and invigorates the circulation, and
the impurities aro quickly carried off through
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Try it and uoto its delightful
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writes: " I took it for vitiated
blood and while on the first bot
tle became convinced of its mer
its, for 1 could feel It was work
ing a change. It cleansed, puri
fied and braced mo up generally.
and everything is now working full nud regular."
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