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«nd Labor.
It S>iM v«es le-ln« wed all tee beau-
. tiful.
Mteltav e»* wsalttey. wise and dutiful
U vlshli< voea having what pleasure
uslolJ;
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WSZ a «»eaviji et Joy and pureeful of
•old!'
But wl.Aei alas. eiw'but empty bubbles,
•wl the longing heart may teem with
troubles!
•<> Idle wishing is vain, forsooth.
As the endless search tor the fountain of
youth.
but work that holds wealth may be had
for the taking;
Though It may not bring health, ■tu a
balm tor heartaching.
And study makes wise, and love; people
•ay,
Gives the beauty that's truest, wl4ch
lasts for aye.
Then away with longing, and, ho. for la
bor.
And. ho. for love, each one for his neigh
bor!
For a life of labor and study and love
Is the life that fits tor the joy above.
—Emma C. Dowd.
What Might Have Been.
"Ths hand that rocks the cradl«"—but
there Is no such a hand.
It Is bud tu rock the baby, they would
have us understand.
So th« cradle's but a relic of the former
foolish days
When ths mothers reared their children
la un-'-letilUIc ways.
When they Jounced them and they bounc
ed them, those poor dwarfs of long
ago—
The Washingtons and Jeffersons and
Adamses, you know.
They warn us that the baby will possess
a muddled brain
It we dandle him or rock him. We must
carefully refrain.
>1« must lie In one position, never swayed
and never swung,
Or his chance to grow to greatness will
be blasted while he's young,
>h tc think how they were ruined by
mothers long ago—
The Ft sic - and the Uctnsms and the
Hamiltons, you know!
must feed ths baby only by the
schedule that Is made,
Anti the food that he I. given must be
measured cut an<1 weighed.
He may bellow to Inform us that he ten t
satisfied,
Rut he couldn't grow to greatness if his
wants were all supplied.
Think how foolish nursing stunted those
poor weaklings long ago—
The Snakespearis and the I.uthers aud
the Bonapartes, you know.
We aro given a great mission; we are
here today on earth
To bring forth a race of giants and to
guard them from their birth.
To Insist upon their freedom from th«
rocking that was bad
Fur our parents and their parents, scram
bling all the brains they had!
Ah. had they l>< .-n fed by schedule, would
they have been stunted so—
The Wehsters and the Lincolns and the
Grants und Lees, you know?
—Chicago Record-Herald.
THE PART HEFTER.
in Actor’s Saceess May Not Depend
on the Number ot Ills Lines.
Au actor, known variously as "expe-
•ieticed," “reliable” and “good all
sound,” one who has lieen said to "play
with authority?’ and whose "scholarly
rending of his Hues" hns been the sub
ject of frequent eulogy, walked out of
his manager's office with a roll of type
written manuscript clutched tightly in
his hand and a look of blended joy and
thition irradiating his well seamed
face.
"I’ve got my new part," he cried joy
ously to a friend whom he met on the
sidewalk, “and it's great.”
“Indeed,” said his friend. “What’s
tlie character?”
“Dunno,” replied the Thespian cheer
fully, "but It’s simply great. If you
don't lielleve me just heft this.” And
Ills friend proceed«! to "heft" the type
written roll, remarking as he handed
it back that it must weigh at least half
a pound.
If this good all round actor hail pos
sess«! any real knowledge of his craft
he would have known that the failure
he scored was due to the fact that his
half pound part was one of those
worthless ones which read well and
"heft” well, hut which afford the play
er no opportunity to do anything plens-
iug to the public.
When Mr. l’ulmer gave out the parts
for the tint production of "The Two
Orphans" there was one roll of manu
script that was the lightest of all and
weighed so little that the part hefters
in the company turned up their noses
in scorn mid turned pitying glances on
the young actress to whom it was as
sign«). Yet that was tlie part of Lou
ise, the blind girl, and Miss Kate Clax
ton's performance of It will remain in
the popular memory long after every
other character In the piece shall hnve
been forgotten. James L. Ford In Har
per’s Weekly.
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The Twin
Brothers
By ZOE ANDERSON
NORRIS
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Anderson A’orris
May 25, After Supper.
BAREST—I like this place you
have sent me t*. It is lovely,
but It does seem a shame for
me to be spending the sum
mer in the country with the birds and
dowers, with you there in New York
working away so hard to support us.
I know what you said. You would
rather work in New York than idle
inywhere else. But that was only your
sweetness.
I remember the Joke you got off, too,
when I said I believed one grew more
contented with one’s lot in the country,
and you said you thought y«u would if
it were a lot in a cemetery.
Then how you wrote it up and sold it
for »2.
We might make our expenses,
mightn’t we, if only we could think up
enough jokes? But the trouble with
Jokes is they are no good unless they
are spontaneous—that is. not much.
If you would only let me help you,
but you won't. I shall never forget the
time I made the shirt waist for your
friend. It is the only thing I can do—
sew. How you took her to the theater,
to a supi>er afterward and gave her
your prettiest piece of bric-a-brac, so
that altogether it amounted to about
four times as much as she paid me for
making the waist. Y'ou hated so to be
under obligations.
I can’t help you in that way evident
ly As .
tter of fact, I have thought
It all out nd concluded that the ouly
thing for ue to do is to marry. That
is plain, I! seems to me. as the nose on
your face.
The whippoorwills sing mighty mourn
fully sometimes in the country. They
are singing now. Good night, dear.
Your loving
MABEL.
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May 30, After Supper.
Little Momsey—There is the dearest
girl here you ever saw. She lias been
here all winter. I don’t know why, but
I think it is because slie lias no home.
Her mother is dead.
I don’t know what I should do if you
were dead, momsey.
Guess what this little girl has done.
Caught a beau. Yes, way out here in
the country. A splendid farmer who
owns a big farm not far from here.
Slie is sweet, but a plain little thing.
She hasn't half the good looks that this
chicken lias Inherited from somebody I
know. No thanks for that. So maybe
there is a chance yet for yours truly.
MABEL.
May 30, Same Old Time.
Dearest—They al! go to bed at 8.
Accordingly there is nothing to do but
read or write, so I write. The girl,
Delia, has told me all about it. She is
going to be married soon. She asked
me to go to Middletown with her to
buy her wedding dress. I went. It
was fun. Her sweetheart sent his run-
MODERN CITY LIFE.
Its
Aspect In the Punnlnic of
the Home.
Tlie passing of the home Is the sad
dest phenomenon of imslern city life.
Tlie tenement house, which we seek to
disguise under the name of "flat.” is a
most wretch«! substitute for the hum
blest of homes. That our people endure
them Is an Indication of degeneracy, as
it will unquestionably be the cause of
a more rapid descent. It is morally
certain that the vigor of the race can
Is1 maintained only by personal con
tact with tlie mother earth from which
we sprang, which nourishes us to her
bosom when we die. Why this Is, per
haps no one knows, but it is within the
knowledge of nil that the vigor of the
city Is constantly recruited from coun
try life. To deprive children of dally
contact with the soil Is a sin.
The evil of the tenement house was
not realized until It passed from the
slums, tiecause few of us know how the
other half lives. It Is perliaps not BO
desperate a misfortune to those who
live by manual labor, for they get their
contact with earth In other ways, and
their children, less vexed by tlie con
ventions of society, find acceKs to the
soil by some means and pass, while
still young, to the occupations of their
parents. The most terrible effect of the
tenement bouse Is.In the families of the
"salaried” class as distinguish«! from
the "wage camera" and who tilt from
Hat to flat, seldom reinaiuluj long
enough ahywbere for home associa
tions to be formed. There can perhaps
be no home association« worthy of the
name which are not connected with a
piece of open ground In tlie sole pos
session of tin» family. It would seem
that In our larger cities this privilege
can n<> longer be enjoyed except by the
rich. San Francisco Chronicle.
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wills an«I those other bird» that till tlie
n.i.trj night with »■» ibiteh nBi.gjj,
Wa were quiet awhile, thinking over
the w«ldlng. fur wethlings are s deiuu
things, dearest. They are so uncertain.
You never know wdttber they are to
bloKKom Into happine»«i or divorce. But
by and by Ton^bagnn to talk. •
I had been listening to a thrd that
was singing somewhere in the wood,
but at the first few worilt I forgot the
bird ami listened to him.
“I am n<U Tom.” waft what he «ahi.
“I am Dick.’”
How would you have taken that,
dearest? Wouldn't it have given you
somethiug of a jar?
It did me.
"I thought I loved Delia,” he went
on. "until 1 saw you. But Tom he has
always loved l>elia. It broke his heart
when I asked her to marry me. I
thought he'd never get over it. Then
when you came and he saw how I be
gan to care for you he l>egg«l me to
let him have Delia.
“ ’She shall never know,’ he said.
’You remember that time I sat on the
veranda with my arm arouud her and
SHE TOLD ME ABOUT HER SWEETHEART.
about for us. We rolled along the
country road—It was awfully sweet,
witli flowers on either side—chirping
like two magpies, telling each other
everything we knew.
She told me about her sweetheart.
He has a twin brother. They are so
alike, she says, you can’t tell them
apart. Funny, isn't It? And they
have grown to be too large to wear
blue and pink ribbons on their wrists,
like the twins you see in baby car
riages.
It was very Interesting. One day.
she said. Tom—that Is the one she
Isn't engaged to-came to see her and
sat with his arm around her waist the
longest time out on the veranda -you
can do that In the country where no
body passes along- sat there until Dick
—the one she Is engaged to—came up
the steps and stared nt them and roust
ed Ills brother out and took, his place.
Wasn’t that queer? She said she be
lieved all the time Tom knew in bls
heart that he was Tom and not Dick.
She wondered why he did It
Well, nuyway, we bought the pretti
est white silk mull dress you ever saw I
for her church wedding—It Is to be
very private—and I am going to help
I
her make It. Wouldn't you?
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I AM SORRY I DISTURBED YOU.
other twin, Tom. He has another farm
that matches his brother's somewhere
about. A large, fine farm In New York
state! Think of that! It's not to be
sneezed at, Is it? At least, that is the
opinion of your devoted
MABEL.
June 5.
Momsey—A queer thing has hap
pened. I was tired. We had been sew
ing all day on the wedding dress, Delia
aud I, and I had stretched myself out
In the hammock on the veranda to rest.
I hadn't been there half an hour and
had fallen asleep when I was awak
en«! by a touch of something on my
cheek. I start«l up and confronted
Tom, who had been there watching me
for I don't know how long. I wonder
if I snore. Do I, dearest?
He said, "I am sorry I disturbed
you.” But, looking at the long peacock
feather with which he had touched my
cheek, I was inclined to be slightly In
credulous.
“I don’t believe you,” I returned.
"What did you wake me for? I was
having such a nice nap.”
"I wanted to talk to you,” said be.
With that he sat down by me In the
hammock—I had sat straight up when
he wakened me—and pushed it for me
with his foot.
We had grown to be rather friendly
in tlie past few days In between tho
making of the dress. I was laughing
and talking with him and joking when
Delia came up the walk with Dick.
He was bending over her.
"How fond they are of each other!” I
said to Tom half jealously. Then I
looked up and found Tom's eyes on me
with an expression In them that made
me blush.
These country farmers are very sus
ceptible. It doesn’t take long.
By now Delia stood on the veranda
directly in front of us. She was gaz
ing at Tom with a puzzled look.
Then she turned to Dick.
“I am getting all mixed up on the
neckties," she said. “Did you change
yours, Dick? I thought when you came
you had on a blue one, and now it is
black.”
Dick laughed.
"Silly!” he cried. “It was your lively
Imagination.”
Do you know, I don’t get lonely at
all now, dearest, when I hear the whip
poorwills. I am beginning to love
them. Isn’t It strange how you get
us«l to things in this strange old
world? Good night, my little mater.
Your loving
MABEL.
June 10, at 10 o'Clock.
Dearest—I am writing you the hour
to show how we have Improved in the
matter of staying up. The twins have
just gone.
The wedding dress is finished. It Is
lieautlful. I shirred the yoke. Shirring
is going to be so fashionable this sum
mer, you know. Then I am very nim
ble with my needle when It comes to
doing little fine things like that. It Is
n merciful thing that I am nimble at
something, Isn't it, love?
I am not an adept at telling twins
apart, I can tell you that. I never
know Dick from Tom, though Tom is
making violent love to me, and Dick is
hovering over his bride elect with all
the fervor that could possibly be ex
pected of him.
Then Dick says he is Dick, and Tom
says he Is Tom, and you’ve got to take
their word for it. That’s all there is to
It. Except for that and, as I say, their
manner toward us I could never tell
t'other from which.
At first we could tell by their neck
ties, but they hnve taken to wearing
the same coior. So there you are!
What do you think of marrying a
man who Is so exactly like another
man? Not that he lias asked me yet—
that Is, he hasn't asked me in so many
words— but what do you think?
Answer at once, dear. Your affec-
tionate
MABEL.
P. H.-I haven't tohl you for a long.
long time how much I love you. I do
love you.
I AM NOT TOM.
she thought I was you? Well, she shall
think It is you till the end of time.
She shall never know.’
"What could I do,” he burst out.
“loving you, but to let him linve her?
Was it unfair to her? 1 think not; I
am sure not. Not hulf so unfair as to
marry her, loving you. What else
could I do?”
Dearest, can you think of more than
one answer to a question like this?
I couldn't.
And 1 shall have a big fine house,
with a room in It for my little momsey
whenever she wants to come to visit
me.
However, I think that after our mar
riage I shall have Dick tattooed Just a
little on the wrist with a bird or a
flower so I can tell him from Tom, if I
don't have it doue before. MABEL.
DEEP SEA ANIMALS.
Hou
Th one Who Live Below
Vegetation Get Their Food.
All
“Naturally the fish of the deep por
tions of the ocean are carnivorous, no
vegetable life being found below 20C
fathoms,” writes W. 8. Harwood in
Harper’s Magazine. "In the Atlantic
ocean the vast Sargasso sea, containing
3,000,000 square miles of surface-a
great marine prairie as large as the
whole of the United States exclusive of
Alaska and dependent islands- affords
vegetable food for uncountable ani
mals, which in their due time die and
are precipitated to the depths, their
bodies in turn to be eaten by the ani
mals which live far below all vegeta
tion. So it Is throughout the whole
ocean; animal life is constantly falling
from the surface waters for the sup
port of the animal life of the abyss. A
very large number of tlie deep sea an
imals are exceedingly tenuous or trans
lucent In form—so to put it—having no
special organs of nutrition, but taking
In their nourishment through the walls
of their bodies, appropriating from the
water the food which suits them. Some
of them have a bony structure, a skele
ton, which they form also from the
water, silica and carbonate of lime l>e-
ing the chief skeleton forming mate
rials.”
ORIGIN OF A PHRASE.
MGettlnsr Into • Scrape” Comes So Us
From the Game of Golf.
Not till quite recently has the trus
explanation of the phrase, "getting
into a scrape,” been popularly known.
It has long puzzled dictionary makes«,
one suggesting that it is a corruption
of escapade, another connecting it with
a Swedish word skrap, to draw lute
difficulties.
Golf, the royal and ancient game at
one time peculiar to Scotland, has of
late become such a worldwide amuse
ment that the mystery of this phrase
!>•>•> prartl'nily disappeared. In Scot
land muuy of the golf courses are laid
out on sandy downs bordering on the
sea These are the very places where
rabbits abound.
One of the perpetual troubles of s
golfer was that his ball constantly
found a lodgment In these rabbit
“scrapes,” from which It was diffi
cult to drive it with accuracy; hence
special rules were framed at St. An
drew's, the Mecca of golf, fixing what
was to be done when one got into a
•crape, The phrase thus started from
the golfers in the north and spread
southward without Its practical bear
Ing be.ng known.—IxiBdon Chronicle.
June 30, at 12.
Dearest—You will never believe wbat
las happened, I can hardly believe It
myself.
First, the wedding came off with
great eclat—that’s wliat they call It in
the papers, Isn’t It?—and Della was a
lreatn In her little white dress we had
made her. I had on my dress you gave
me and looked pretty fnlr, considering.
tVc had beautiful flowers, and the
Can Always Tell.
twins were magnificent.
“There goes a total failure.”
You couldn’t tell which was which,
“How do you know he Is?”
ss usual, until Dick stood with Della
“He’s always sneering at other men’s
it the altar, then walked out with her success.”—Cleveland Leader.
to the tune of the wedding march. And
He Knew Ton.
that left Tom with me.
Meekly -YÄ. we’re going to move to
We drove, all four of us. to the home
of the bride, and Tom and I concluded Swainphupit. Woctor-But the climate
to walk back again throng* the hedges Yhore may disagree with your Wife.
and byways, listening to the wblppoor-g Meekly - It wouldn’t dare!
first tuunel under the Hudson. a tube
AUTHOR AND REFORMER.
through which the
pasoeuger traffic
karsrtrr aad Career ut ike Bril,
from street ear
lisst Hasaiaa. Salla Gurkx,
llue-i In* New . Jersey
The Gram! Duke Vladimtr would
Wil) fiud Illi outlet
Ike to hang Maxim Gorky, the Russian
to New Yotk with
►former, novelist and poet. It la re
out , use of ferry-
port«! that Gorky has been arrested
boats. He is t also
■ hns use of his activity in the revoiu
rand duke vladimik of tl.e engineer iu
fionary events now In prqgress tn the
liussla lias proved Ulinteelf a x'harge of the 1’euu
vigorous opponent of tbg peo Sylvania railroad's
lomain of the czar. He is one of th«
ple In that country who are project by which
tom m It tee of eighty which Las been
working for a’ more liberal govern
trains will CHARLKM M J ACOBR lirmeit to act as a provisional govern
railroad
ment. It was under his orders that be run under th«
Blent in case of the success of the revo
the St Petersburg troop« fired ou the Hudson, under Manhattan Island and lutionary movement and was by the
workingmen who sought audience with under the East river to that part of
the czar at the Winter palace In order Greater New York known as l.oug Is Bide of the priests. Father* Gopon and
to ask redress for their wrongs. He land City. The tunnels of this system Sergius, when they led the workingmen
Is held dlr«'tly responsible for the will meet in Manhattan Island at Thir toward the Winter palace on the day
brutality which resulted in the death ty-second street and Seventh avenue, »f the first massacre by the troops. A
of women aud children as well as de where there will be a great central sta boy at bls side fell mortally wouuded.
and men were slain all around him.
fenseless and peace loving men.
tion.
Three years ago Gorky was spirited
Had the Emperor Nicholas II. died
Mr. Jacobs overcame great obstacles
before the birth of his sou, the Czar- In bringing to completion the first Hud iway by the secret police while going
owitz Alexis, the crown would have son river tuunel, and devices he em from St. 1’etersburg to Moscow. The
passed to tlie Grand Duke Michael, ployed reduced the accidents and loss university students of that city liad ar
the czar's younger brother. The lat of life through disease lu the construe ranged a reception for him at the rail
ter’s health Is delicate, and his death tlou of the tuunel to a minimum. He way station, but the police quietly un
would have meaut the succession to built u tunnel under the Thames in coupled the carriage at an Intermediate
the throne of the London, and It was iu the English cap station and sent it off, with the novel
Grand Duke Vladi ltal that the lute Austin Corbin of the ist Inside, to another place.
Gorky «i>ent several months In prison
mir.
He is the Long Island railroad discovered him.
present emperor's Mr. Corbin engaged him to plan im in 11(03, but such continement did not
uncle and is the provements the Long Island road had lessen Ills opposition to Russian despot
eldest brother of then in contemplation. Mr. Jacobs, who ism. He has become wealthy through
the late czar. Alex is now on the shady side of sixty, is still the large sale of his books and has a
ander III. He is a in full vigor, and his soldierly bearing well appointed but shuply furnished
personage of great and firm mouth give the impression of home at Nijul Novgorod, where he
lives—when the police allow him to do
Importance, as in a man of much strength.
addition to being
commander general
Grand Duke Sergius, uncle of the
of the military dis czar of Russia, who has left his palace
trict of St. Peters in Moscow and taken refuge in the
ORAND DI KE
burg he is the em kremlin, where he hopes to be out of
VLADIMIR.
peror's
confidant reach of the revolutionists, tills had a
and one of bls most trusted advisers. career full of troubles. He hns always
Though bls recent action hns won him possessed the capacity of getting him
the enmity of the working people, the self disliked. When he was governor
Grand Duke Vladimir lias been more general of Moscow he once gave an or
popular with the Russians than most der that the horse races should not be
of the “ducal ring.” for he is a man of gin until lie and his party arrived. He
Integrity, is a brave soldier and has happened on a certain occasion to be an
steadfastly shunned the vices which hour and a half late, and the delay thus
have made the careers of some Rus caused came near resulting in bls be-
sian grand dukes disgraceful. His Ing removed from office by the czar,
wife, who liefore her marriage was the so great was the storm made over the
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwe Incident.
rin, has many graces of character
At another time he gave orders that
which have won her popularity among all church bells of the capital be rung
her adopted countrywomen.
when he or the
grand duchess went
Thomas Dixon, Jr., whose new novel, to prayers in the
"The Clansman,” lias just been pub old cathedral. But
lished, is a picturesque figure in lit this order was not
erature. Ills life has been crowded obeyed, much to the
with dramatic and texciting Incidents. anger and chagrin
While pastor of the People’s church In of his royal high
New York he was once Indicted on a ness. M. Joanniky,
MAXIM GOKKY.
charge of criminal libel for Ills pulpit the metropolitan of
bo
—
with
his
beautiful und gifted wife,
Moscow,
firmly
de
attacks on city officials. When the
who was Katerina I’aulowna PJeseh-
warrant of arrest was served on him clined to allow the
GUAM) DUKE
kowa, daughter of a Russian officer
he set about looking up the records of mandate to be exe
-I
n s.
of noble birth. They have several chil
the members of the grand Jury which cuted. When called
had indicted him. Then he denounced upon for explanations, he said that the dren. Though much attached to home
the jury from his bells of Moscow were only to lie rung and family, Gorky is known as "the
pulpit. The proceed when the consecrated heads of the tramp novelist.” That is because lie
ings were dropped. church proceeded to their devotions. was a waif and an outcast and lived a
The author of The action, declaration and refusal of wandering life among all sorts of peo
“The Clansman” is tlie metropolitan angered the grand ple as a boy and young man and thus
a southerner, and duke, but he was powerless to force the saw a great deal of the misery preva
his new story, like metroiMilitan to obey his instructions. lent among the Russian lower classes.
Maxim Gorky is his pen name, bls
a preceding novel, It is also said that the grand duke call
“The Leopard's ed upon M. Joanniky to remove a priest real nnme being Alexei Maxlmovitch
Spots,’’ deals with who was particularly obnoxious to the I’yeslikoff. His birth occurred in 1808
the race probleu* in imperial prince's eyes, but that the at N'ljnl Novgorod, and Ills father,
the south. Since he metropolitan ngaln declined to do his who was very poor, died when his boy
was five years old. Being left to shift
retired from the bidding.
The Grand Duchess Sergius was very for himself, he was bootblack, scullion
ministry to devote
T1IOMAS DIXON,
himself to literature beautiful as a young woman. She is a and baker’s apprentice. He was so
JR.
Dr. Dixon has lived niece of King Edward VII. and. it is discouraged at one time that lie at
on a large estate In Virginia. There Is said, came within an ace of being em tempted suicide. But he was a great
plenty of good hunting and fishing In press of Germany. The story Is thut reader and began to write, his first
the vicinity, and the author Is very but for Bismarck's machinations the story seeing the light about fifteen
years ago. Tolstoi once called him "the
fond of both. In concluding the story kniser would have married her.
second free man In Russia,” the first
of one of his fishing excursions he once
being Tolstoi himself.
wrote:
ST. ISAAC’S CATHEDRAL.
”1Ve landed them with rod and reel and
made the score 105 bluefish. Tired, wet, ImpoaiiiK St. Peteraburv Edifice hear
THE NAME AMERICA.
Scene of Recent MfiMHcre«.
with the bottom of our boat covered
Not far from the. Winter palace in When It Wnn First Proposed For the
with blood, our clothes from head to
Newly Found Continent.
foot covered with chum and fish scales St. Petersburg and near the scene of
The name of Americn for the newly
and the boat literally piled with fish, we the revolutionary activities which
started homeward, What a glorious have excited the attention of the world discovered continent was first proposed
day we had had! As we looked Into stands the most imposing and beautiful In the little volume put forth at St. Die,
our boat ballasted with over a thou- of the churches of the Russian capital, in the Vosges, in the year 1507 by
sand pounds of fish for once I was con- St. Isaac's cathedral. This splendid Wnldzeemuller, better known by the
house of prayer was ls>gun In 1811» and Hellenized form of his name, Ilyin-
tent.”
finished hl 1856. Its style of archi comylus. Three or four editions of this
The British colonial secretary recent tecture is simple, but the grandeur of treatise were published nt St. Die be
ly appointed tlie famous novelist II. the proportions upon which the church fore 1507, and a few years afterward
Rider Haggard, author of “She” aud is built makes it exceedingly Impressive. an edition without date was printed nt
“The Brethren," a commissioner to in
There are four great entrances, and Lyons by Jean de lu Place. All these
quire into the conditions of the agri the photograph reproduced herewith editions are of extreme rarity, and
cultural and industrial land settlements shows one of these. The pillars of the probably that printed at Lyons Is the
■jtanlzed In America by the Salvation
rarest of all, though the library of the
Army. It is said the trustees of the
British museum possesses two copies
»state of Cecil Rhodes are paying the
of It. It has never been suggested that
expense of tlie inquiry with the view of
any maps were engraved to accompa
applying tlie scheme to South Africa.
ny either of the editions, but it has al
It may be news to many that Mr. Hag
ways been supposed that the earliest
gard is regarded as an expert on agri
map with the word "America” marked
cultural subjects. He was the advo
on tlie now found world was the "Ty-
cate of a scheme to carry cabbages
pus Drills," engraved on wood for tho
and other garden product« by mail. It
"Ennrrationes Joannls t'nmortls In <’.
was his Idea that one of the most seri
Julll Sollnl Polylstora,” printed nt Vi
ous obstacles to profitable farming in
enna in 1520 for Joannes Singrenlus.
England might be
In this map the new world is represent
overcome if the gov
ed ns a long island, on which is tlie In
ernment would In
scription: "Anno d. 14117 liaec terra cum
augurate an agri
adjacentibus Instills Invents ost per
cultural parcel post,
Columbiim Ianuenscm ex mnndnto re
designed to carry ev
gls Castello. Americn provlncla.”
erything from cab
bages to hay, freight
BRET HARTE AS A HUNTER.
charges to be paid
In postage stamps.
The lleHNNurl iik WennHice He Receiv
He wrote a book en
ed After wn Accident.
titled "Rural Eng
During the time he acted as United
II. RIDER UlO-
land," elaborating
States consul in Glasgow Bret Harte
OARD.
his ide««., on the
occasionally Indulgeil In a day's sport
subject. Tlie novelist has a farm of his ST. ISAAC’S CATHEDRAL, ST. PETERSBURG, with the gun, und it was during one of
own, consisting of some 400 acres. He portico are monoliths of polished gran his shooting excursions that the famous
Is greatly Interested in South Africa, lte sixty feet in height. Over the cen American author met with an nccldent
some of his best known stories having ter of the cathed’ai rises a great dome w’tH». might have disfigured him fbi
the!? scene cf action <11 that part of the covered with copper overlaid with gold. the remainder of his life, his face t>e-
world.
This dome Is supported by thirty giant Ing badly cut through the recoil of an
The author is very gHilant to the fair pillars of polished granite. The sanctu overloaded gun. Fortunately the doc
sex. Mrs. Haggard not long ngo want- ary of the cathedral is a work of great tor's skill prevented him from being
el to engnge a "lady help”—a title beauty and was presented by Prince permanently mnrk«l.
given to gentlewomen who through ne Demldoff, owner of the malachite
Writing about the occurrence to his
cessity take positions ns tipper serv mines of Siberia. The cost was $1,- friend, T. Edgar Pemberton (who
ants and generally overs«» the affairs 000,000. The steps are of porphyry, quotes the letter in Ills "Tribute to Bret
of tlie household. To this step Mr. the floor of variegated marble, the Harte’’», the novelist concludes his let
Haggard was decidedly oppos«l.
dome of malachite and the walls of ter by telling of an amusing effort
"Now, I warn you. If you get any lapis lazuli.
which was made to console him on sc-
‘lady help' In this house I’ll give her
count of the accident.
Not Enrosrsglns.
my sent and wait on her myself."
“When tho surgeon was stitching rpe
“Good evening,” said Borem when together," he wrote, "the son of the
The Haggards hnve no "lady help.”
she came down to him. “I really must house, a boy of twelve, came timidly
New York city, with Its subways and apologize for coming so late, bnt the to the door of my room:
subaqueous tunnels, finished, under cant"—
“ 'Tell Mr. Bret Harte it's all right,'
“Oh,” she Interrupted coldly, “I don’t he said. He killed the hare.’”
way And projected, is The scene of a
vast underground activity .requiring mind late comers. It’% the late stayers
There Is no animal that exerts less
the exercise of high engineering skill. that bother me.”—Philadelphia Ixsiger.
energy In the course of a year than the
Much of the success {hus far met with
T«nr Lap.
woodchuck. He feeds upon the liest In
in Hie tunneling si the Hudson and
Children are notoriously eager to ac the meadow and oecasionally In the gar
East rivers Is due to the skill and in
ventive genius of Charles M. Jacobs, quire facts. The following question den, being very fond of the juicy peas
who stands In the front rank of the was asked by a lad of seven after he and beans and tender lettuce. Then as
had ridden upon his uncle’s knee: winter comes on he forgets all care and
engineers of his time.
Mit Jacobs is chief engineer of the "Hay. Uncle Will, what becomes df wo«y. crawls Into his burrow and,
New York and Jenagr Railroad com your lap when you stand up?”-— like tlie bear, falls asleep, mA to
awaken till spring -St. Nicholas.
pany, which recently completed the Youtb’a Companion.
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