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OPENING
HE IS CAPTAIN, SHE STEERS.
It was n random rhymer,
lilithe-hearted as the May,
Who plucked the flowering climber
Along the river way;
It was the ferryman's daughter,
With gypsy rose and tan.
Who ferried o'er the water
This straying minstrel man.
Her hair had purple tintings
Above her seashell ear;
Her eyes hnd Btarry glintings,
Her laugh was lyric clear.
He listened and he lingered
(His tryst was one with faith!)
Till eve, the fniry-fingered,
Had shut day's sunset gate.
Thus oft thy met thereafter,
At laBt no more to part.
For love (or was It laughter?)
Had snared the rhymer's heart.
And now npon life's ocean
The twain together float;
He's captain that's his notion!
But she still steers the boat!
Lippincott's.
ItANFIELD holds that the be-
ginning of his courtship was
unique; but that may be Cran-
field's one-sided view. It was the night
of the hunt bull: and he leaned against
a pillar In the dnnclug room. At no
time a dancing man, on this occasion
he was excessively bored; he was out of
sorts, the band was too loud: the crush
Was too great. He thought regretfully
of his fine library fire and shiveringly
of the long drive home.
After live minutes of abstraction a
nian touched him on the shoulder.
"Hullo, Cranlleld!" he said. "Been
looking for you. Counting on you to
oe that Lady Mnrche dances."
The speaker darted Into the crowd
nd Cranfleld returned to his thoughts.
I FALLACY OF A FACE
He tlxed his eyeglass into his eye audlflrm nbout her. In a moment they had
fclaneed slowly around
"Some men are so beastly optimis
tic," he said in his own mind.
At the end of the room he had caught
a distorted glimpse of Lady Mnrche.
He gazed at her for a space; then
Ills eyes wandered and his ideas came
to a sudden halt. Uound about him he
saw preoccupation settled upon groups
of men; he saw heads turned toward
the door. Following a very human Im
pulse he turned his own ill the same
direction. He wns not inquisitive, but
the desire to know Is quite as lufec-
tiousasa disease.
In a brief spnee the crowd about the
entrance parted and his curiosity melt
ed before another feeling a feeling as
rapid. If Infinitely more strong. He
closed his eyes; then he readjusted his
glass. " ,
It was Crelghton Tommy Crelghton
and his wife. He watched them move
slowly jm,the room, and as they moved
he felt, rather than heard, the admira
tion that hummed In their wake. He
took a long look; then he leant back
against the piriur, seeking to realize ex
actly wbefe he stood.
Ue had seen ber before once before.
That point alone wrought self-distrust.
He had called one day with Blsher
thrope and she had given them tea. His
verdict had been. Extremely pretty,
sarcastic and a trifle cold." He re
plied the criticism with a guilty pang,
and wondered whether It could be the
dress. ,t b had never jruesaed a
rUdle i. life.
OF THE DEER HUNTING
He screwed In his eyeglass and leant
still further back. He saw Crelghton
Introduce four men. Then bis control
gave way. He forced an opening in
the crowd; but when he reached her
side and scope his voice had a tone that
even to him was new.
"May I have the pleasure?"
She looked up with Just the faintest
surprise. Then her eyes fell on the fac
ing of his red coat, and she smiled the
friendliest and most perfect smile he
had ever seen. He realized with shame
that he had never known till then that
hazel eyes had shadows and reflections,
and positively shone with light.
"I -." She hesitated and glanced
around.
She smiled again, and held out her
card. "I can give you No. 5," she saw.
Will you put down your name?"
"No. 0 Is also free ," be said.
May I ?"
"You may
The words seemed the frankest and
most delightful he hud ever beard.
There Is nothing In the world so vlv-
' ifylng as hope. Cranfleld gave the next
! i TII I
three dances to Liiuy .uarcue. ms m-1 -ax least, ne snia, grasping nt a
sltude wns gone. In a single moment thread, "at least, say that you remem
the shifting crowd had become the uul- her giving me tea Blsherthrope and
verse, and he had found Its core. Like me, one day soon after you'd come
I a wonderfully deferred dream, tue uitn
dance came around, and waiting was at
an cnd,
Mine. I think," he said.
KhP folded her fun, smiled at the
' raiu, beside her, then laid ber hand on
Cranlield's arm.
j shall we dance?" be asked,
! "Oh. please."
He mli bis disappointment, though his
! ,ueag were curiously upset Sueseemed
so enthusiastic so uuoyanuy juuuS. win" "-"" " v
He hud never believed thut married I grajn. At ber words he suddenly tore It
women came to oauc-ua ;ui i -
She glanced up at him, uueousciuusly
answering his thoughts.
"I think dancing Is the loveliest thing
on earth-or nearly. Don't you?"
. j -t.il- r An tira
He said nothing, out ue suppu u.
drifted Into the circle oi wuoum,
The music had quickened to Its end
when he swung her out of the crush.
His brain was still swaying to the beat
of the tune us he drew her down a
nassage to a distant seat In ten min
utes of companionship she had grown
straight into his life.
The carpet of the passage was very
soft' the light of the banging lamp was
very' dim. It seemed to him that he had
only existed until now. He arranged
the cushions on the divan and she sat
dTo you believe In infatuation?" he
asked suddenly. "I suppose infatuation
'MffeTalrnld of what he was going
, .i.... i,ic nrlneinles. bis
to say. ne im V"lw,;riI " ,,
honor-
rne used tuc wo'" --
staple things were u,.i . --
j.irtinff rriiui Him
Hp sat down beside her
like a mirage.
" .. .i.. .i,.,,ri,t nf Creiirh-
and strove to can iu -
. n ills mind.
lu"Have yu everheflflfnigmh??n"h"
Ing off his head in a single night? he
a8Sharruhsh the music came to an
..id "If vou don't mind,
iome women Ignore difficulties; the
if unscientific, is concise.
She glanced down, then once more
glanced up.
SEASON.
"I want you to tell me your name."
He met her gaze In blank surprise. It
was bard to be rebuked; it was Inhu
man to be forgotten wiped off her
memory In six weeks.
She unbuttoned and buttoned her
glove.
"You've been puzzling me the whole
night," she said. "Of course, I know
that you're some friend of Tommy's;
but wlint friend and where I met
you ." bhe broke off sud
denly and looked at bini once more.
"I'lease do enlighten me. I'm Just dy
ing to know."
He bud a vague Idea that she was
talking ugalust time. Desperation seiz
ed him.
"I suppose you're laughing nt me,"
he said. "I suppose you think that be
cause you're so so horrible pretty you
can turn a man's head Just for sport
But It Isn't sport; at least, not for me.
I'm handicapped every way." He came
to a sharp stop.
The music of the next dance began.
It appeared-distnnt and much subdued.
His balunce and bis nerve seemed lost.
He rose slowly.
..... ... i , . ,
back from your honeymoon. Don't
make me feel quite an- outsider.
His tone was ludicrous, but his face
was woefully perplexed.
She watched him curiously. Then an
expression Just the dawning of a smile
stole Into her eyes. She clasped her
hands and the smile crept very slowly
from her eyes to her mouth.
"How delicious!" she said. "How
perfectly delicious! How absurd!"
In two.
She glanced at him, and there was a
glow like firelight In her eyes.
"I don't think," she said deliberately,
"that I ever gave you any tea. I'm not
Daisy, you know, I'm Daisy's sister.
We are horribly alike, and I always
keep forgetting. Tlease forgive me
lt's been all my fault."
Her glance suddenly fell.
The swish of the dancers and th
throb of the waltz came to Cranfleld:
they were the accompaniment to bis
tangling thoughts.
"But you came with Tommy," he
said obstinately.
"Of course. In Daisy's place. Daisy
had a headache."
He passed his hand across his eyes,
brushing away many things. Then for
the first time that night be smiled.
"Might I?" He halted. "Might
I ?"
Their eyes met
lie suddenly bent near; so near that
his breath touched her cheek.
"Mlgn I ? Just to level things."
Her bead dropped, and the color rush
ed into her face. Her answer, when It
came, was a whisper one of those In
audibly mysteries that are never really
placed. To this day Cranfleld Insists
It was "yes," but Mrs. Cranfleld Is
quite persistently determined that It
was "no." New York News.
Baffin Land.
Dr. Robert Bell, who has been mak
ing a study of the west coast of Baffin
Land, reports that the island Is 300,000
square miles in area and the second
largest Island in the world, being sur
passed only by Greenland.
Nothing destroys some people's mem
ory like doing them a favor. .
eee.. aaaaaA II IPIIY apu tin pa, .i mmv-...
- j I . vie.ii. miLia oul,l.t$UK I l
MaJ. Gen. R. B. M. Tonne, "ko Ha
Arisen from the Hanke.
MaJ. Gen. Young, who will succeed
Lieut. Gen. Miles as head of the army,
upon the latter's retirement, has risen
from the ranks
through his sheer
merit as a soldier.
He is now presi
dent of the War
College at Wash
ington, and recent-
returned from
urope. where.
with Gens. Corbin
and Wood, he rei
resented the United
maj. ot..v voi Nil. States at the Ger
man military maneuvers.
MaJ. Gen. Young was born January 0,
1840, In Pittsburg. At the outbreak of
the Civil War he enlisted in the Twelfth
Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving as a
private from April to August. ltWl.
when he was made a captain in the
Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He wan
successively major, lieutenant colonel
nnd colonel of his command. He took
part In nearly all the cavalry operations
of the Army of the Potomac, lie was
four times wounded, and before he was
muRtered out. In July, 1SC.", he was
made a brevet brigadier general for
"gallHnt and meritorious service during
the campaign terminating with the sur
render of the Insurgent army under
Gen. It. E. Lee."
In 18I5U he entered the regular army
as a second lieutenant of Infantry, but
soon found his way to the cavalry ser
vice, where he made a record In Indian
fighting on the frontier, and became a
colonel by sucesslve promotions in ISO".
hen the war with Spain broke out he
was made a brl-radler general of volun
teers and commanded the troops In the
bnttle with the Spaniards at Las Guasl
mas, Cuba, for gallantry In which be
was made a major general of volun
teers. He saw service In Northern Lu
zon In ISO!) and 1000, and on his return
he was placed In command of the De
partmhent of California until he was
made president of the War College.
He wns made a brigadier general In the
regular army on January 2. 19(H), and a
major general, U. S. A., February 2,
1901.
CHURCH WITH ONE MEMBER.
Humble Structure Where a Devout
Quakeress Worship Alone.
Devotion to the faith which has sus
tained her for the eighty years of her
life, and fear that, should she neglect
her charge for even a very brief period,
It would be lost to her forever, has led
rrlscllla Llpplncott, a steadfast Qua
keress of Woodstown, N. J., to pursue a
course which makes a situation unique
in church annals. Miss Llpplncott Is
the last of a 6nce 4arge and flourlNhlnif'
congregation of Friends that attended
the little meeting house which she alone
regularly visits for worship.
Every day when the church bells of
Woodstown calls the people to worship
she starts from her home for the church.
Unaccompanied, she approaches the
gate of the fence surrounding Un
church and, entering, walks along the :
narrow, grass-grown path leading to I
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and slowly approaches the seat she has
occupied for over half a century and
there she remains, with bowed head
CHi:iiUU WITH ONE ATTENDANT.
and folded hands, for nn hour. Occa
sionally she rises to give utterance to
thoughts that will not remain unspoken
and ber voice echoes through the room
deserted except for her presence. At
the expiration of the hour she goes out
and locks the door, which remains
closed until another service unless she
visits to clean aud dust, for she per
forms the duties of sexton and keeps
the church Interior spotless.
Time was when the meeting bouse
was well tilled, but thut was years ago.
The original members of the congrega
tion have gone to other and larger
churches, have passed away or left for
other cities, leaving the faithful old
Quakeress to worship alone. The edifice
was built as the result of a split In the
congregation, the larger portion retain
ing the old church and the smaller erect
ing a new. struct lire.., The. land upon
which It stands was given the church
with the understanding that when the
meeting house ceases to be a place of
worship It shall revert to the heirs of
the original owner. Miss Llpplncott !s
determined that, while she has strength
to Journey to the church. It shall not be
lost to the Friends, and In her regular
visits presents a pathetic figure and one
calculated to Inspire admiration and
respect.
Keeping Oat of Trouble.
The new Ameer of Afghanistan has
declared against the admission of mis
sionaries to his country.
A patient suffering from typhoid fe
ver should take to bed during first
symptoms and remain .there till convalescent
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The following rules have been com
piled for amateurs:
1. Do not put the principal object of
Interest In the exact center of the pic
ture. 2. Do not hav the light and shade
In patchy spots all over the picture.
3. Do not have the lines in the pic
ture sloping off to one side, nor have
figures apparently walking off the pa
per. 4. Do not have prominent objects
In a straight line, nor with equal
spaces between them.
B. Itemember that an effect of dis
tance In produced by lack of sharpness
of outline as well as by diminishing
size.
. The picture should tell but one
story, so that the beholder may never
be In doubt what the author intended
WHERE EDGAR ALLEN POE LIVED.
Tronic Story of the Fordhnm II on..
AY here Ills Wife Died.
Few homes associated with men of
genius have attracted more sympa
thetic and melancholy Interest than
the little cottage In Fordhani, N. Y.,
where the bitter tragedy of Kdgnr
Poo's life was played nearly to the
end.
Ho established himself at Fordham
In 1S-HJ with his young wife and her
mother, the long-sulTerlng and pntlont
Mrs. Clemm, hoping by his work on
various newspapers and magazines In
the great city near by to make enough
to afford the necessary comforts for
his invalid Virginia and himself. The
little cottage on the top of Fordhnm
l'OK'B 110LSK AT rultlUlAM.
hill was by fur the best home be had
yet known. It was only a Btory aud
a half high. On the ground floor are
two small rooms, a sitting room aud a
kitchen, while above, reached by a
narrow stairway, are two other rooms,
one of these, Poo's, a cramped little
box of a place, lighted by tiny win
dows, the other a bed room atxiut the
size of a closet. Mrs. Gove, who visit
ed the Poes here, says: 'The furni
ture was of the simplest; In the clean,
white-floored kitchen, wore a table, a
chair and a little stove, and In the oth
er room, which was laid with checked
matting, were only a light stand with
presentation volumes of the Hrown
lngs upon It, some hanging shelves
with a few other books ranged on
them, and four chairs."
Poe's wife. Virginia, only 25, was
still beautiful, her large black eyes
ond dark hair accentuating her pallor,
and Poe, proud, 111, and bitter with a
sense of the Injustice of the world and
his own Inability to provide the com
forts required for his wife, was In a
constant fever of anxiety.
As the summer wcut on Virginia
failed aud faded away dolly and the
resources of the household were being
slowly reduced to the starving point.
Autumn came, the snow and the cold
nnd the winter seclusion, and affairs
grew desperate.
Mrs. Gove, who visited them at this
HIGH BRIDGE POK'a FAVORITE WALK.
period, found the dying wife in the
summer sitting room, which had been
taken for ber use. The scene Is thus
pictured by her: "There was no cloth
ing oa the bed, which was only straw,
but a snow-white counterpane nnd
sheets. The weather was cold aud the
sick ludy bad the dreadful chills that
accompany the hectic fever of con
sumption. She lay on the straw bed,
wrapped In her husband's great eoat.
witn a large tortoise-shell cat In her
bosom. The wonderful cat seemed con
scious of her great usefulness. The
coat and the cat were the sufferer's
only means of warmth, except as her
husband held her hands, and ber moth
er her feet Mrs. Clemm was passion
ately fond of her daughter, and her dis
tress on account of her Illness and pov
erty and misery was dreadful to see."
Mrs. Poe died in the little sitting
room on Saturday, Jan. 80, 184?; ud
from here her hiisband, wearing the
military coat that bad but lately been
her bed covering, attended by a few
nt afrit r
tofMrapht)
as the principal matter of Intermit.
7. No unnecessary accessories. Thm
camera lakes In with too great sharp
ness all the details within range and
the tendency of the Inartistic amateur
Is to help It make a record of all hla
possessions at once.
8. There should be a proper balanca
between the amouut of light and
shade.
0. Don't omit to get some sort
sky Into tho picture, even if It la no
more than sunning the print after It
comes from the printing frame, so that
tho sky shades up from a bright hort
ion to a somewhnt deeper color above
10. Ixxik out for the foreground and
the lower corners. They ought not ta
look like a barren waste, nor ought
anything of Importance to appear la
them.
friends, followed her body to Its
resting place.
For sumo time after his wife's deatti
the little house remained the home of
Poe and Mrs. Clemm. Now there la
movement on foot to purchase the
house aud establish it as a memorial ta
Poe.
THE SOO POWER CANAL.
Coat 3,OO0,OOO and Heqnlred rasas
Years to Construct.
It has taken four years to conatmet
and t000,(HX) to build the great wate
power canal which has been finished at
Sault Ste. Marie. This canal Is consid
ered by engineers as the most magnifi
cent work of Its kind In the world. ;
an Immense river, 220 feet broad.
deep enough to float the biggest vessel
that snlls the lakes, It divides Sault 8tav
! Marie into city of two parts, with th
Island portion now for the first tint
completely surrounded by wntor, th
business section and the balance of th
city being given over to the homes of It
citizens.
The canal Is two and a third mUm
long, from the mouth of the lntah
above the rapids to the overflow far bel
low the entrance to the ship canals. Tha
Intake has an area of more than 15,000)
square feet, throngs which will flow av
volume which Is estimated to be 30,0"
cubic feet per second, with a velocity of
about two feet per second or about oam
and a half miles per hour. The entrsnc
Is 801 feet wide and eighteen feet ttep
In Its excavation some 800,000 eubte
yurds of material were removed.
At tho lower end the canal widens out
Into the forebay. or mill pond, for Mm
purpose of securing sufficient fronUjrs)
for the uniform distribution of the wa
ter to all the turbines, which are Id-
AT THK SOO SHIP CANAL.
stalled along the river face of the fora
bay In the power-house. Ilecaus of
this expansion the water Issuing from
the canal at once disperses and enter
the turbines at a velocity of two feat
per second.
The river front of the forebay fc
closed by the power-house, the dupli
cate of which cannot be found In ths
United States. It Is constructed of rod:
sandstone, Is forty-eight feet over a
quarter of a mile In length, Is 100 ft
wide, and 125 feet high. The enercy fe
be develoed by this Immense engine
, lng achievement Is estimated at 40,000V
horse power, developed by 820 turblntav
After converting the water power into)
electrical power the latter will tie traaa
tnltted to various plants.
Britain Viewed as i Farm.
Britain may be viewed as one fanav
extending from county to county, u
terrupted by towns. It Is true, but sur
rounding them like the ocean surround
an archipelago of Islands. Great Brit
ain possesses a total area of 82,437,28(1
acres of cultivated land, of whiclk
7,325,408 acres are under corn, the rasjfe
being In permanent pasture, temporary
pasture, root crops, fodder crops, ""f
o on. It lne!'jk- or 61,000 acres of
hops, 73.000 acres of fruit, and 308,000
acres of bare fallow. The capital em
ployed Is enormous, and can be roughly
estimated at 227.000,000, white that
amount paid In wages has been estW
mated at 30,000,000 per annum. Thar.,
are at least 1,000,000 men, women and
boys employed In agricultural pursuits)
In Great Britain, who not only culti
vate the ground, but attend to l.fiOO.OQtk
horses, 6.806.000 cattle, 26,500,000 sheeoh
and 2,381,000 pigs, besides counUav.
poultry.
Iiong-Lived Pish.
There are now living In the Bovat
Aquarium in Bussla several carp that
are known to be oyer 600 years ohl.
ana u uas oecn ascertained in a i
ber of ca ' that whales live to b
200 year . .
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