w lien I was a is>y on tlie tv nitetisU aaiti how k.ui •
But Imlier wus dreaming. The square
there w as moose on every hill, and eu- h
year <■: me the caribou um-ouutable. browed judge likewise dreaUaid. and
A » but new the hunter may take tlie mill all bf« nice rose up before him in n
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eyes. while tli* caribou come no uiort mail elad ruee, the lawgiver and world
A> ■ t all
Small worth Ui" gun. I say. ma k«g among the fumilio of m I( nc
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saw it dawn red flickering ucruss tin
< V kilfftig a long way od when there Is
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dark forests and sullen seas; be saw
nothing to kill. •
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triumphant noon, and down the shaded
«* things, watching the while the White
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fish and tlie I’ellys and all the trilx-’ slope- be saw the blood red sands drop
ping Into night. And through it nil he
4» of the land perishing us |s-risbed th
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observed the law, pitiless and ¡lotmt.
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I
pondered.
Litiuivn
CUpi/right. MOS, bv Juck
I talked with the shamans und the old ever unswerving und ever ordaining,
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iaen who were wise. I went apart that greater than the motes of men who
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us it was greater than be, his heart
tinker rone feebly to Ills feet null with them. And sometimes the young turb me, und I ate no meat so that my speaking for softness.
swayed buck and forth. He begau to i men came back with strange tales of belly should not press u | hju me und
speak In u low' and faintly rumbling | dangers and toils in the lands beyond make me slow of eye and ear. I sat
PROMOTION BY“ RETORT.
the I’ellys. and sometimes they did not long ami sleepless In the forest, wide
voice, but Ilowkan Interrupted him.
j
come
back.
And
we
said,
'If
they
be
eyed
for
the
sign,
my
ears
patient
und
“This old man. be Is crazy,” be said
Apt Answers to dualul Questions
in English to the square browed man. | unafraid of life, these white men. It keen for the word that was to come.
Wl> It-ll 1-lensed Suvuron.
Is
liecause
they
have
many
Ilves,
blit
And I wandered alone In the blackness
“His talk Is foolish and like that of a
Tlie great Russian soldier. Marshal
I
we
be
few
by
the
Whitefish,
and
the
of night to the river bank, where was Kuvaroff, was In the habit of asking
child.” ■
“We will bear bls talk which Is like j young men shall go away no more.' wind moaning and sobbing of water his men difficult questions, sometimes
that of u child,” said the square brow But the young men did go awxiy. and and when- I sought wisdom from the foolish ones, and bestowing favors on
ed man. "And we will bear It word the young women went also, and we ghosts of old shamans in the- treeji and those who showed presence of mind In
dead and gone.
for word as he Speaks It. Do you un ! were very wroth.
answering him. On one occasion a
“It be true we ate flour and salt .pork
“And in the end. as In a vislou. came general of division sent film a sergeant
derstand?”
and
drank
tea.
which
was
a
great
de
to me the short haired and detestable with dispatches, at the same time rec
Ilowkan understood, and Imber’s
eyes dashed, for he bad witnessed the light; only when we could not get tea dogs, and the way seemed plain. By ommending the bearer to SuvarolFs
It
was
very
bad
and
we
became
short
the wisdom of Otsbaok, my father ami notice. The marshal, ns usual, proceed
play between bls sister's son and the
man !u authority. And then began the of speech and quick of anger. So we a strong man, had the blood of our own ed to text him by a aeries of whimsical
story, the epic of a bronze patriot which grew to hunger for the things the wolf dogs been kept dean, wherefore questions.
itself might well be wrought Into white man brought in trade. Trade, hud they remained warm of hide und
“How far is It to the moon?” was the
bronze for generations unborn. The trade, all the time It was trade! One strong in the harness. So I returned first query.
winter
we
sold
our
meat
for
clocks
to my village and made oration to the
crowd fell strangely silent, and the
“Two of your excellency's forced
square browed Judge leaned bead on that would not go, und watches with men. -This be a tribe, these white marches,” thé soldier promptly replied.
broken
works,
a
fid
files
worn
smooth,
men,’ I said, 'a very large tribe, and
band and pondered bls soul and the
“If your men begau to give way In
soul of bls race. Only were heard the and pistols without cartridges and doubtless there Is no longer meat in battle, what would you do?”
worthless.
And
then
came
famine,
and
their
land
and
they
are
come
among
deep tones of lmber, rhythmically al
“I’d tell them that Just behind the
ternating with the shrill volet- of the we were without meat, and twoscore us to make a new land for themselves. enemy's line there was a wagon load of
died
ere
the
break
of
spring.
But they weaken us and we die. They good tilings to eat.”
Interpreter.
"1 am Iuiber of the Whltetisb peo i “ 'Now we are grown weak.’ we said, are a very hungry folk. Already has
“How many fish lire there in the
’
and
the
I
’
ellys
will
fall
upon
us
and
our meat gone from us, and it were sea?” .
pie.” So ran the Interpretation of How- .
kan, whose Inherent barbarism grippal our bounds be overthrown.' But as it well, if we would live, that we deal by
“Just us many as have not been
bold of him and who lost his mission i fared with us. so had It fared with the them as we have dealt by their dogs.’
caught.”
I
’
ellys.
and
they
were
too
weak
to
come
“
And
further
oration
I
made,
coun
culture and veneered civilization as he |
And so tlie examination went on till
seling fight. And the men of the Suvaroff. finding ills new acquaintance
caught the savage ring and rhythm of against us.
“
My
father.
Otsbaok,
a
strong
man
Whitefish listened, and some said one armed nt all points, nt length put n
old Imber’s tale. “My father was Ots- J
baok, a strong man. The land was I was now old and wise. And be spoke thing and some another, and some final poser:
warm with sunshine and gladness when to the chief, saying: 'Behold, our dogs spoke of other and worthless things,
"What Is the difference between your
I was a boy. The people did not bun- | be worthless. No longer are they thick and no man made brave talk of deeds colonel and myself?”
furred
and
strong,
and
they
die
in
the
of
war.
But
while
the
young
men
were
ger after strange things nor hearken to i
“The difference is this,” replied the
new voices, and the ways of their fa frost and harness. Let us go Into the weak as water and afraid 1 watched soldier coolly. “My colonel cannot
village
and
kill
them,
saving
only
the
that the old men sat silent ami that make me a captain, but your excellency
there were their ways. The women
found favor In the eyes of the young wolf ones, and these let us tie out in in their eyes fire came and went. Ami can.”
men, and the young men looked upon the night that they may mate with the later, when the village slept and no
Suvaroff. struck by Ills shrewdness,
them with content. Babes hung at the wild wolves of the forest. Thug shall one knew, 1 drew the old men away kept his eye upon the man and soon
we
have
dogs
warm
and
strong
again.'
into
the
forest
ami
made
more
talk
breasts of the women, and they were
“And bls word was hearkened to. and And now we were agreed. and we re afterward gave him the promotion for
heavy hipped with Increase of the tribe.
we
Whitefish became known for out- membered the good young days, and which lie had hinted.
Men were men In those days. In peace
dogs,
which were the best in the 'ami. the free land, ami the times of plenty,
and plenty and in war and famine they j
FROST FAIRIES.
But known we were not for ourselves. and the gladness and sunshine, ami we
were men.
The best of our young men and women called ourselves brothers and swore
“At that time there were more fisli had gone away with the white men to
The Wonderful Deidicn* That Win
dow *l*a new Picture.
in the waters than now and more meat wander on trail and river to far places. great secrecy and a mighty oath to
cleanse
the
land
of
the
evil
breed
tlnit
in the forest. Our dogs were wolves. |
When the frost fairies have a mate
And the young women came back old had come upon it. It be plain we were
wurm w ith thick bides and hard to the | and broken, as Noda had come, or they
rial ready for original design they often
frost and storm. And as with our 1 came back not at all. And the young fools, but bow were we to know, we produce in the hours of darkness most
old
men
of
the
Whitefish?
dogs, so with us, for we were likewise men came back to sit by our fires for
exquisite decorations.
The window
“And to hearten tlie others 1 did the
hard to the frost and storm. And a time, full of ill speech and rough
panes are their drawing paper, and the
first
deed.
I
kept
guard
upon
the
Yu
when the I’ellys came into our land we i
window frames serve as picture frames
ways, drinking evil drinks and gam
slew them and were slain, for we were bling through long nights and days, kon till the first canoe came down. In on those particular occasions. There
it
were
two
white
men,
and
when
I
men, we Whitefish, and our fathers j with a great unrest always In their
are said to be no less than a thousand
and our fathers' fathers had fought | hearts, till the call of the white men stood upright upon the bank and forms of snow crystals, every one of
raised
my
hand
tliey
changed
their
against the I’ellys and determined the came to them and they went again to
course and drove In to me. And as them of the finest finish and of unim
bounds of the land.
the unknown places. And they were tlie man in tlie bow lifted his head so. peachable symmetry. Some are like
"As with our dogs, I say. so with us.
that he might know wherefore I want the patterns in lionlton lace, while oth
And one day came the first white man.
ed
him, my arrow sang through the ers are elaborated with geometrical
He dragged himself—so—on hand and j
air straight to his throat, and he patterns so complex that it is difficult
knee. In the snow. And his skin was
knew.
The second man. who held pad to analyze them. But on the window
stretched tight, and his bones were
dle
in
the
stern, had his rifle half to panes the frost pictures are by no
sharp beneath. Never was such a man.
his
shoulder
when my spear smote means confined to what are "standard
we thought, ami we wondered of what
patterns” in snowflakes, but show the
him.
strange tribe be was and of its land
most various and dainty schemes of
“ 'These be the first.’ I said when the
And be was weak, most weak, like a
ornament.
Some are like starry flow
old men had gathered to me. ‘Later
little child, so that we gave him a place
we will bind together all the old men ers. set with stars in the center and
by the fire and warm furs to lie upon,
of all the tribes, and after that the with starry shoots and comets flying
and we gave him food as little children
young men who remain strong, and the into space around them. Others take
■re given food.
the shape of leaves arranged in set
work will become easy.’
“And with him was a dog, large as
form by some human designers. The
“
And
then
the
two
dead
white
men
three of our dogs and very weak. The
endive
pattern is among tlie most beau
we cast into the river. And of the ca
hair of tills dog was short and not
noe, which was a very good canoe, we tiful, tlie curves und "motive” being
warm, and the tail was frozen so that
made a fin-, and a fire also of the often scarcely distinguishable from
the end fell off. And this strange dog
things
within tlie canoe. But first we those in which a goldsmith of tlie days
we fed and bedded by the fire and
looked
at the things, and they wore of Louis XV. modeled the ormolu in
fought from him our dogs, which else
which lie graced some priceless vase of
pouches of leather, whleii'we cilt open
would have killed him. And what of
Jasper or crystal. Scale patterns, like
with our knives. And inside these
the moose meat and the sun dried
the scales of fishes, with striated lines
pouches were many papers, like that
salmon the man and dog took strength
upon the overlapping disks, wavy pat
from
which
thou
hast
read,
O
How-
to themselves, and what of the strength
terns, set with stars, fern patterns,
kan,
with
markings
on
them
which
we
they became big and unafraid. Anti
tnoss patterns and formalized sprays
marveled at and could not understand.
the man spoke loud words and laughed
of maidenhair are among the choicest
Now
I
am
become
wise,
and
I
know
nt the old men anil young men and
them for tlie speech of men as thou on tlie list.—London Spectator.
looked tsildly upon the maidens. And
hast told me.”
the dog fought with our dogs and for
A MOUSE THAT 'SINGS.”
A whisper and buzz went around the
■11 of bls short hair and softness slew
court room when Ilowkan finished in
three of them In one day.
Mun Who Cauwlif It Sir« It Warble«
terpreting tin- affair of the canoe, and
"When we asked the man concerning
I.Ike u Canary.
one man's voice spoke up: “That was
Ids people lie said. 'I have many broth
Singing
mice
are rare, but a corre
the lost '91 mail Jeter Janies and De
ers.’ and laughed in n way that was
laney bringing it in and last spoken at spondent writes from Yorkshire asking
not good. And when he was in Ida
"I am lmber.'
Le Barge by Matthews going out." whether we can give him any informa
full strength be went away, and with
tion about a specimen lie captured.
him went,Noda, daughter to the chief. without honor and respect, jeering tin' Tlie clerk scratched steadily away, and
He adds, “it has beeu warbling Just
another
paragraph
was
added
to
tlie
old
time
customs
anti
laughing
In
the
Wdl do I remember my father, Ots
like
a canary for the last month in our
history
of
the
north.
baok. a strong man. His face was faces of chief and shamans.
"There lie little more,” lmber went workshop, and although I have it in a
“As I say. we were become a wonk
black with anger at such helplessness.
cage it still continues to sing.”
■ nd he tisik a atone—so—and so ami breed. we Whitefish. We sold our on slowly. “It be there on tlie paper
That mice do occasionally "sing” is
there was no more helplessness. And warm skins ami furs for tobacco and tlie things we did. We were old men.
undeniable. Some observers say that
two summers after that came N<sla whisky and thin cotton things that left ami we did not understand. Even I,
their "song" is softer, sweeter and
back to us with a man child in the hol us shivering In the cold. Ami the lmber, do not now understand. Se
coughing sickness came upon us, and cretly we slew and continued to slay, more delicate than that of the canary,
low of her arm.
which one can believe quite easily.
"And that was the beginning. Came men and women coughed ami sweated for with our years we were crafty, nnd
Others go so far as to compare it to
a second white man. with short haired through the long nights, anti the hunt we had learned the swiftness of going
dogs, which he left behind him when j ers on trail spat blood upon the snow without haste. When white men came that of a wa rider or even a piping bull
be went. And with him went six of And now one ami now another bled among us with black looks and rough finch. But the question as to why they
our strongest dogs, for which, in trade, swiftly from the mouth and died. And words and took away six of tlie young lift up tiieir voices in this tuneful man
lie had given Koo So-Tee. my mother's the women bore few children, and men, wnn irons omding tnem Helpless, ner still remains to be ansvver.al.
Three explanations have been sug
brother, a wonderful pistol that tired those they bore were weak and given we knew we must slay wider and far
with great awirtncsXsix times. And to sickness. And other sicknesses came ther. And one by one we old men de gested: '
First.—That all mice are potential.vo
Koo-So-Tee was ver* big. what of the to us from the white men. the like of parted up river and down to the un
plated, ntid laughed at our bows and which we had never known and could' known lands. It was a brave thing. calists and can learn to sing, by Imita
arrows. ’Woman's tilings,’ he called not understand. Smallpox, likewise Old we were nnd unafraid, but tlie tion. from singing birds.
Second.—That many mice possess an
them and went forth against the bald measles, have 1 beard these sicknesses fear of far places Is a terrible fear to
exceptional talent for mimicry, together
face grizzly with the pistol in Ills named, and we died of them as die men who are old.
“So we slew, without haste and craft wltji a keen sense of the ludicrous.
hand. Now It be known that it is not the salmon In the still eddies when in
Third.- That some tutee are subject
good to hunt the bald face with a pls the fall their eggs are spawned and ily, On the Chilcoot and in the delta
tol. but how wen- we to know? And there Is no longer need for them to we slew, from the passes to the sea, to bronchitis nnd that tlie so called
wherever the white men camped or “song" is only the wheezing of rodimts
how was Koo-So-Tee to know? So he live.
broke
their trails. It be true t4 i died, which suffer from the distressing com
went against the bald face, very bravo,
"And vet—and here be flu- strange
and tired the pistol with great swift j ness of It—the white men come as the but it was without worth. Ever' did plaint.
A certain amount of color Is given to'
ness six times, and the bald faced bill [ breath of death. All their ways lead’ tliey come over the mountains, ever did
the last theory by the fact that a mouse
grunted and broke in Ids head like it io ueatn. 1 netr nostrils are tilh-d with they grow and grow, while we, being
were au egg. and like honey from a it, and yet they do not die. Theirs the old. lH-eame less and less. I remember, which was caught by the neck in a
wire trap not sutflcleutly .strong Jo kill
bc, s’ acst dripped W.c- ferMtnt cf ’. > whisky and fubncco and shirt bi'ired .by.the <'.'>r!ho-.i r-rosv'n",. th«. < -rjp of p
So-Tee upon the ground. He was a dogs; theirs the many sicknesses, tie- white man. He was n very little white It "same" while Its throat was under
good hunter, and there was no one to smallpox and measles, the coughing man, and three of the old men came compression, but never again during
bring meat to his squaw and children. and mouth bleeding; theirs the white upon <dm In ids sleep. And the next ft« «nb«'-.|Ue:it life ns a captive, 'l/ili
And we were bitter, and we said. skin and softness to the frost and day 1 came upon the four of them don "Mail.
That which for the white uieu is well storm, mid theirs the pistols that «h<s>t The white man alone still breathed,
Old Time Carrlna Terms.
and there was brepth in him to curse
Is for us not fl-ell.’ And this be true. six times very swift ntid are worthies
In an old numlier of a magazine Is
And
yet
they
grow
fat
on
their
many
me
once
nnd
well
before
be
died.
There be many white men and fat.
“And so it went; now one old man sued more than a century ngo we light
but their ways have made us few and Ills and prosper and lay a heavy hand
over all the world and tread mightily nnd now another. Sometimes the word ed upon a list of different terms used
lean.
nt "tables of elegance” In the days
"Came the third white man with nt>ou Its people). Ami their women reaclieil us long after of how they died, when Queen Charlotte came ns the
great wealth of all manner of wonder too, are soft as little babes, most and sometimes it did not reach us. "And bride of the young and handsome king
ful foods and things. And twenty of breakable and never broken, the moth the old men of the other tribes wore From this list it would appenr that
out strongest nogs tie took from us in era of men. And out of all this soft weak and afraid and would not Join nothing in the way of game was to la-
trade; also, what of presents and great ness ami sickness ami weakness come witli us. As I say. one by one. till I carved. The correct phrase was to
promises, ten of our young hunters did strength and power ami authority. alone was left. I am Itnber of the "cut up" a turkey, to "rear” a goose,
be take with him on a Journey which Tliey lx- gods or devils, ns the case may I Whitefish people. My father was OtB- to "unlace" a bare or rabbit, to "wing"
fans! no man knew where. It is said lie. 1 do not know. What do I know baok, a strong man. There are no a partridge or a quail, to "allay” a
they died in the snow of the Ice nioun I. old lmber, of tin- Whitefish? «Inly Whitefish now. Of tlie old men I am pheasant, to "dismember" a heron, to
tains, when- Winn has never been, or in do I know that they are past under the last, ihe young men und young ’Thigh" a woodcock, to “display'' a
the hills of silence, which are beyond standing. these wldte men. far wander women are gone away, some to live crane and to "lift" a swan. Beef and
the edge of the earth. Be that as it ers nnd fighters over the earth that with tlie I’ellys, some with the Salm mutton were "carved,” of course, and
ons and more with the white men, I
may. dogs anil young hunters were they be.
the sporting men prided themselves by
“As I say. the meat in the forest be ■ m very old and very tired, and, It be
seen never again by the Whltetisb peo
using appropriate sporting terms wlu n
ing
vain
fighting
the
law.
as
tliou
say-
came
less
ami
less.
It
lie
true
the
pie.
tlie spoil of Uieir morning's work made
est.
Ilowkan.
I
am
come
seeking
the
“And mon- »hili' men came with the white man's gun is most excellent and '
it* final appearutMi on the table.—Moil-
,
years, and ever, with pay and pres kills a long way off. but of what worth I law.”
i> li
thou art indeed n f*r>l!” ern Society.
ents. they led the young men away the eon when then- Is no meat to kill.',
League of the
Old Men
Ehe
TRI BITES
TO WIVES
O
•
WAYS TO ADVERTISE.
' Th* Wise Man May totally See Wklch
la lite Beal Methud.
WORDS Of ItNUlKNts'S UTTktkO
f If 4'U have goods to sell, advertise.
•V
* Hire a man with a lampblack kettle
| and a brush ff> paint your name and
j lie ■»■■(« Tuas Taas a*<>4 VaM ’• | nuniber on all the rullroad fences The
Hr farina» oi Mia Sucsawa • “■
cars g<> whitting by »> fast that no
j«>>»—Jen ii I'uul i<i<*hi«a'a i aasiai-
idle cun read them, tv>
sure, but
i-ii I'm tn*
I arolia« ■*><«.
IM-rhaps the obliging conductor would
Few great men have paid more en- ■top the train to accommodate an in
thusiastie t . butes to their wives than quisitive pussenger.
Huie your card In the hotel register
Tom IliMxi, nnd probably few wives
have better deserved such homage. says by «11 means. Strangers snipping at
tin- rftleago Chronicle.
"You will botebi for a night generally buy a cigar
or two before they leave town, and
think,” lie wrote to her in one of his they need some Inspiriting literary food
letters, "that I am more foolish than besides.
any boy luver,«aml 1 plead guilty, for
if an advertising agent want* your
liever was a wooer so young of heart business advertlaed tn a fancy frame
und so steeped in love as I, but it is a at the depot, pay him atsiut 200 per
love sanctified und strengthened by cent mor* than It Is worth and let
long years of experience. May God I him put it there. When a man has
ever bless my darling, the sweetest, three-quarters of a aecond Ln w hich to
mosf helpful, angel who ever stooped catch a train he Invariably stops to
to bless a man!” Hus there ever, we read depot advertisements, and your
wonder, lived u wife to whom a more j card might take hie eye.
Of course tlie street thermometer
delicate and beautiful tribute was paid
than those verses of which the burden ; dodge Is excellent. When u man’s lin
Is, "I love thee, I love thee; 'Us ull that gers and ears are freezing or he is puff
Ing and "idiewlng" ut the heat is the
I cun say?”
“1 want thee much,” Nathaniel Haw time above all others when lie reads
thorne wrote to ills wife many years an advertisement.
Have thousands of llttla dodgers
ufter his long patience had won for
Dim the flower “that wus lent from printed and hire a few boys to dis
heaven to show the possibilities of the tribute them. You’ve no ldigi how the
human soul.” “Thou art the only per Junk dealer and paper and rag man
son In the world that ever Was neces will respect you.
sary to me, und now 1 nui only myself
A boy with a big placard on a pole
when thou art within my reach. Thou is an interesting obji-ct on the street
art an unspeakably beloved woman.” and lends a dignified air to your estab
Sophia Hawthorne was little better lishment. Hire about two.
than a chronic invalid, and it may be
Advertise on a calendar. People
that this physical weakness woke all never look at a calendar to si-e what
the deep chivalry and tenderness of tlie day of the month It is. They merely
man. And he reaped a rich reward for glance hurriedly at it so as to be sure
an almost unrivaled devotion In the [ that your name Is spelled with or
“atmosphere of love and happiness and without a "li,” that's all.
Inspiration” with which his delicate
But don’t think of advertising in a
wife always surrounded him.
well established, legitimate newspaper.
The wedded life of Wordsworth with Not for a moment. Your advertise
his cousin, “the phantom of delight.” ment would be nicely printed and
was a poem more .exquisitely beautiful would find its way Into all the thrifty
than any his pen ever wrote. Mrs. households of the region, where are the
Wordsworth was never fair to look farmer, the mechanic, the tradesmen
upon, but she hail that priceless and In other lines and Into tlie families of
rarer beauty of soul which made her tne wealthy and refined, all who have
life "a center of sweetness" to all articles to buy anil money wttli which
around her. “All that she lias been to to buy them, and it would be rend and
me,” tlie poet once said in his latter pondered, and people would come flown
days, "none but God and myself can to your store and patronize you and
ever know,” and it would be difficult keep coming in Increasing numbers, and
to And a more touching and beautiful you might have to hire an extra clerk
picture in the gallery of great men's or two, move into a larger block and
lives than that of Wordsworth and Ids i more favorable location and do a big
wife, both bowed under the burden of ger business, but of course it would be
many years and almost blind, "walking more expensive—and bring greater
hand in hand together in the garden, profits.—Detroit Free Press.
with all the blissful absorption and
tender confidence of youthful lovers.
For Their ItVBSi’hl* Sake.
It never needed "the welding touch
Sunday school treats must come round
of a great sorrow” to make tlip lives oftener 111 England than In the United
of Archbishop Tait ami ills devoted States, for the dean of Bristol Ims In
wife "a perfect whole.”. Speaking of cluded in his book. “<klds and Ends,"
her many years after she hud been many storlea of the bold of such fes
taken from him, he said, "To part from tivities on the Juvenile heart and stom
her. if only for a day, was a pain only ach.
less intense than the pleasures with
The hand of a small boy wavered for
which I returned to iier, and when I nil Instant over a plate of cakes before
took her with me it was one of the he took one. "Thanks," be said, after
purest Joys given to a man to watch ills momentary hesitation, "I’m sure I
the meeting between her and our chil can manage It If I stand up.”
dren.”
Another boy. still smaller, who bad
When David Livingstone had passed stuffi’d eyxtematlcally. at last turtwd
Iiis thirtieth birthday, with barely a to Ids mother and slglwd: "Carry me
thought for sucli “an indulgence as home, mother; but, oh, don’t bend me!"
wooing and wedding,” lie declared hu
The nvemgu I ki . v In Yorkshire knows
morously tlsit when he was a little why he attends thou* feasts and dues
less busy he would sigid home an ad not relish bring furifloiux! forth acun
vertisement for a wife, “preferably h tily. A sollcltoiu» curate approached one
decent sort of widow,” mid yet so un- who was glowering mysteriously. "Have
consciously near w as his fate that only you hud « goisl tea?" tlu: curate asked.
a year later he was Introducing Ids
"No,” said the boy, ia an aggrieved
bride, Mary Moffat, to the home lie had tone, laying ids hnn& on h1s diaphragm.
built, hugely with his own hands, at "It don’t hurt me yet.”
Mabotsa. From that “supremely hap
py hour” to the day when, eighteen
Dark« an* Drake«,
years later, lie received her “last faint
A scbooltxiy in Jewell City, Mo., win
whisperings” at Shupnnga, no mail ever assigned to prepare an essay on the
had a more self sacrificing, brave, de Mibjix't of ”1 kicks," ami tilts is what
voted wife than the missionary's he wrote« “Th* duck la a lowr. heavy
daughter. In fact, they were more like Set bird, eom|Mwe«l mostly of meat and
two happy, light hearted children than feiithers. He m a mighty poor singer,
sedate married folk, and under the having a bonree vole* caused by get
magic of their merriment the hard ting ao many frogs in hts nei-k. He
ships and dangers of life in the heart likes the water Mid carries a toy bal
of the dark continent were stripped of loon in his stomach to kaep him from
sinking. The duck has oirty two lags,
all their terrors.
Jean I’atil Richter confessed that lie and they are set so far back on Ills
never even suspected the potentialities running gears by nature that she came
of human happiness until lie met Caro purty near missing bls body. Some
line Mayer, "that Bweetest and most ducks when they get tilg have curls
gifted of women.” when he wa* fast on their tails and are called drakes.
approaching his fortieth year, and that Drakes don't have to net or hatch, but
lie had no monopoly of the resultant just loaf, go swimming and e*t. If I
happiness is provevl by h4 wife’s dee was to be a duck, I'd rather be a drake
laratlon that "Richter Is the purest, the every time."
holiest, the most godlike man that lives;
It Waa Jaat PeaalM*.
• • * to be the wife of such a man
"I don't understand,” said Mrs.
is the greatest glory Unit can fall to a
woman,” while of his wife Richter Youngmother, "why It is that tuiby
once wrote, "I thought w hen 1 married won’t go •> Bleep. Here 1 have been
her that I had sounded the depths of sitting mul singing to him for the last
human love, but I have since realized hour, and yet he keeps crying anil
how unfathomable Is the lieart in seems Just ns wide awake as ever.”
"Well,” said her husband thoughtful
which a noble woman has her shrine.”
ly, "I don't know, of course, and per
haps I am wrong, but it may tie that
Oa< Went the RanZbol.
Ixirfl Ellenborough, the great English baby has a musical ear.”
Judge, was once alxait to go on circuit
Reversible Snakes la India.
when Lady Ellenboroilgli siilil that ahe
A snake not often heard of. at least
should like to accompany him. He re
piled that he had no objection, provided In America, Is the llvsr colored snake
she did not Incumber the carriage with with two heads, or perhaps they should
bandboxes, which were his utter ab be callisl mouths, though It dis’S not
horrence. During the first day's Jour have two mouths nt the same time.
ney I.o»l Ellenborough, luippening to They are reversible mouths, occupying
stretch his legs, put his foot through the opposite end every six months. It
something below the sent. He illscov Ik’s with the two ends crossed on each
erevi that it was a bandbox. I p went o’.’i'-r, «« trltti fokled hands. Every
the window nnd out went the band six months the .change of the Reasons
box The coachman stopped, nnd the reverses the functions of the two milk
xilinan, tlilnjdng that the bandbox tbq head becoming the tail and the tail
lad tumbled out of the window by becoming the head. Tlis mouth nt one
sonie c.xtrnordjnary chance, was going end livuis or closes up all but n small
to pick It up when Lord Ellenborough opening, while the opposite end be
furiously called out, “Drive on!” The comes the mouth for the next six
months.
bandbox nce*rdlngly was left by .the
ditcfi side. Having reached the coun
Vnrnln* Away Wr*fk.
try town where he tins tn officiate as
“I don't tH-lleve y.<ai love- me any
Judge, Lord Elletiliorough proceeded to more,” pouted she.
arruy himself for liis appearance In the
“I couldn't," replied lie.
courthouse. "Now," said lie; "where's
After thinking It over she smiled and
my wig-where is my wig?” "Mv told him she could make the same old
Jord." repllal the attendant, "it was dress do another seaaon. Houston Post
thrown out of the carriage window."
Could Xo1 ««narantee Them. .
Breton Children.
The Breton children are pious, su[ier-
stitloils, stolid, strong, patient and very
thorough. The girls are Intelligent and
interesting. They are tlie mainstays of
the family. A child of ten undertakes
to superintend both household work
■ nd ths- farm. The boys are mon- or
less stupid, handsome, bronze faced
country urchins Bee culture «etuis to
be the favorite occupation of the Bre
ton boy. The Insects will come at hlo
bidding nnd will even cover him from
bend to foot witbijnt «tinging
“Have you any eggs?" Inquired the
customer.
"Yea, sir," Said tlie waiter. "1 can
bring you some i<gs. twit I want you tn
Wmember that this Is a ten cent lunch
■Minter."—Chicago Tribute
A niatrnM of Literature.
"You arc always more or less t.kep
tlenl about what you see In print.”
“Yes." nnswered tlie man who has
his own Ideas about things. "Truth
may be at the bottom of a well, but
W isn't an Ink Well." Washington Star
A WISE OLD FOX.
■ ut Whu l«r m Lt»«« Time cleverly
Eludeal ihv lluuiide.
In cummou with other people who
have looked after fox coverts 1 have
often Ini’ii puzzled by the disuppearanc*
of well kuuwu foxes and have become
convinced that the more Intelligent
foxes, after they have beeu before
bounds several times, often turu their
n its to account to avoid being bunted.
In a small covert that 1 know wet!
there was always a fox. A due big
fellow be was. I have more than once
met him when taking au curly ride as
he lujml tfuletly homeward after bit
ulght's foraging. He uefer sti’med tc
mind being su'n. When the season
oinned he gave us one or two capital
runs, on the saimd invasion only Just
saving his brush by scrambling Into an
unstopped drain In our neigblnir's terri
tory. After that he was never to Im
found wheu bounds came. Yet lie was
•eeu about as usual at other times. One
day when walking near the covert one
of the terriers, who knew all aimut
foxes, took a line to au old tree In th«
hedgerow and began to whimper and
scratch at the roots. A cureful exam
illation showed nothing. The tree wai
not difficult to climb. It proved to bav«
a hollow trunk, und there, at the bot
tom, w < n my friend curled up fast
asleep. His mask smiles on me as I
write. After a Beven mile point and
on a good scenting day he met bis fate.
—Country Life.
MARVELS OF MEMORY.
Feats of F»ru<>ua Men Thnt Seem Ai
na eat Beyond Belief.
Sons* examples of the marvels of
memory would seem entirely Incredible
had they not been given to us upon
the highest authority. Cyrus knew the
name of each soldier in ills army, it Is
■Iso related of Themlstoeli's that be
could tell by name every citizen of
Athens, although the number amount
ed to *20,(100. Mithridates, king of Pon
tus, knew all his Hu.iXMi soldiers by
their right names.
Scipio knew all the inhabitants of
Rome. Seneca complained of old agu
because he could not, as formerly, re
peat 2,000 names In the order In which
they were read to him, and he stated
that on one occasion, when at ills
studies, 200 unconnected verses having
been recited hy the different pupils of
his preceptor, he repeated them in a
reverse order, proceeding from tlie lust
to tlie first
Thomas Cranmer committal to mem
ory in three months an entire transla
tion of the Bible. Euler, tlie mathema
tician, could repeat the “.Eneld,” und
Leibnitz, when an old man, could re
cite the whole of Virgil, word for word.
It is said that Bossuet could repeat not
only the whole Bible, but all of Homer,
Virgil und Horace, besides many iffber
works.
THE SCIENCE OF A LIGHT.
Cheap Acetylene Gaa Wa> Discover
ed by an Accident.
Cheup commercial acetylene gas wus
discovered by accident. Willson, a sei
entitle experimenter, believed that near
ly all metallic oxides could lie reduced
to a metallic state by heating them to
an extremely high temperature by the
▼oltalc arc in tlio presence of free car
bon. Aluminium bud been successfully
reduced in this way. Mr. Willson
wished to obtain metallie calcium. He
therefore mixed a quantity uf quick
lime with pulverized coke and brought
the mixture to a high temperature by
the action of the voltaic arc. He ex
pected to obtain a white metal, but in
stead he appeared to produce nothing
but slag. Tills was thrown into the
yard, and one day ut nixin while the
boys were buvlng their luncheon they
picked np these bits of slag and threw
them at each other. One plan» fell Into
a pull of water and produced a bub
bling effect and a strong odor. ThtH at
tracted Mr. Willson's attention, and
upon Investigation Im found that the
Strong smelling gas was extremely In
flammable. Further Investigation re
vealed that it was pure acetylene gas.—
Sir Hiram Maxim in Harper's Weekly.
Tke Healthful Uphill Walk.
The best wuy to get oxygen Into the
blood la to walk a mile uphill two or
three times a day. keeping the mouth
closed and expanding the nostrils. This
beats all other methods. During such
■ walk every drop of blood in the body
win make the circuit of the lungs and
■treani red and pure, back to Its ap
pointed work of cleansing and repairing
Wornout tissues. Recreation piers are
coming into use at seaports, and people
•re being advised to use balconies and
fire escapes in the fresh air treatment
of consumption. The uptilll walk, as a
prophylactic and curative measure in
many chronic ailments dependent upon
■ weak condition of the heart, lungs
•nd blood vessels, would prove invalu
able.—Medical Brief.
When IM*eslton la Perfect.
Moderation In diet has more to do
with prolonging human life than any
Other one thing. A proper dietetic regi
men. once nftalned, brings all the rest
In Its train. Sleep, exorcise, cleanliness,
equanimity of spirit, nil hang upon it.
Life Is not only prolongol, but Is con
stantly enjoyed most of it» minor sn
noyances vanishing when dlgmtion la
perfect I'ny no attention to fads. They
give rise to too much introspection, nml
that ts bad for every one.—Roger S.
Tvaty Ui Century*.
Face Powder In Cntm.
In Cuba there has never apparently
been any dearth of face powder even
among the lowliest. The Cuban wom
an, octogenarian as well as "sweet sev
enteen,” con«ldors powder a more neces
sary article of the toilet thnn soap and
water and utterly Indispensable to her
attractiveness, which It Is her absolute
duty to preserve. All classes of the
community are devoted to the powder
pnff, from the little six year-old orpliHii
in the asylum to the lady of high de
gree. In any Cuban school teachers
and pupils are alike unsparingly pow
dered, nnd a powder box Is to Is* found
tn every desk and as likely as not keep
ing company with the chalk used fur
the blackboard.
Addendum.
Kwoter—He thinks he’s still youth
ful. Well, you know the old saying.
“There’s no fool like an old fool.”
Newltt—Yes. and when an old fool dyes
his whiskers there's nobisfy f<«>led but
th» old fool. I’ldlad*!plila I’rvag.