The news=record., January 23, 1908, Image 6

MOTHER'S SONG.
Mother sang It years ago
On the little farm.
While a tired and sleepy boy
Rented on her arm.
While a squeaky rooking chair
Creaked and groaned below,
With the rhythm of the song
Sung so soft and low.
"Suwance River" still It rings
Id these earn of mine,
"Suwanee River" unto me
Nothing was so fine,
Still I hear the creaking chair,
Still the shadows creep,
Even now the little song,
Makes me think of sleep.
Boyhood sorrows were forgot
There on mother's breast,
"Strwanee River" far away,
Brought me peaceful rest.
Many songs I've heard since then,
None has half the charm,
Mother sang It years ago,
Mother on the farm.
-Denver Post.
Lady Eustace's Defeat
Lady Eustace looked ruefully at the
letter she bad Just read, und dire
perplexity, was written on every line
of her expressive countenance. Her
state of mind was not enlm.
Only a fortnight ago she hud come to
Harrogate for her annual cure, leav
ing her family at home. 8he often ad
mitted that the best part of her cure
was the peace of mind she enjoyed
away from Ireland "that land of rows
and ravages."
Her husband, Sir John Eustace, was
wedded to his property as much as to
Ills wife, and was apt to got Irascible
when land bills and such topics were
touched on. Both her girls were off
her hands the oldest well married,
and the younger deep In philanthropy
und Industries. Her only son Arthur
was all that the fondest mother could
wish. He had passed brilliantly Into
the army, from which he seemed to be
able to obtain unlimited leave. (Bel
Ion a Is a goddoss who gives ber votar
ies a fair amount of scope for getting
Into mischief.)
Lady Eustace had been very busy
alnce her arrival In Yorkshire plan
ning a succession of gay house parties
for the late summer and aiimumn, to
which the most Irreproachable of par
ents would bring their well-dowered
and equally well-behaved daughters
ny one of whom would be willing to
II kR STATS 0 MINU WAS NOT CALM
be dughter-lu-luw to such a charming
nerson as Ijuly Eustace. She had set
tled everything so nicely as to what
every one was to do while she was
away. And now Arthur hud spoilt' It
all!
Instend of dutifully going to stay In
finlway with old Uncle George, and
flsulng there, he hud quietly stayed on
at Castle Eustace, where he and Lucy
aided and abetted by Sir John were
entertaining tholr friends In her ab
sence. Could anything be more pro
voking? It udded to her vexation that act
ually a garden party had taken place.
It wus quite enough to destroy the
effect of the Harrogate cure. It would
not have muttered so much If the Dur-
rells bad been left out, but they were
there staying, too. Pretty, ix'iinllusa,
Ill-educated and underbred belonging
to the most Impossible of county uelgli
born. Lucy knew so well her mother's
views ou that family ; and yet she
had these IXirrells staying, and they
scemod to be highly appreciated by both
Sir John and bis sou.
Another glance at the disturbing let
ter tells her of a croquet tournament
'with prises ulanned for th following
week, and Sir John hopes "to prevail
on the Darrella to remain for It."
This decides her. She will return,
nd stop, If possible, Arthur ruining
Ails life and destroying ber happlnessa.
A brief telegram was despatched, to
Iths effect that her doctor was satisfied
(that a shorter curs would BiitHca this
year, and they might ex)ect her borne
lust day.
It fell rather like a bomb on the In
habitants of Castle Eustace.
The morning of the tournament
tbroke clear and fine an Ideal guw
juer"s day and as Alio Darrell donned
ber best white frock and her crlspest
ribbons she felt that this day surely
"would bring a declaration from Arthur,
I-Ady Eustace could not be everywhere,
nd ther would b so many gucets.
At breakfast all was excitement
royal personage waa In command at the
neighboring camp, and a whole bevy of
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THE CO-OPERATION OF ANTIQUE CAMEL AND MODERN ENGINE.
Most people lu considering the Irrigation of Egypt - think only of the
Assouan diun, but other works are proceeding, notably the barrage at Esneh,
which ls to assist the Inadequately Irrigated province of Keneh. Esneh,
which Is a town of 8,504 people, Is 484V4 miles from Cairo. Thotmes III.
founded a temple here, but the building which now stands In the middle of
the town bears the names of some of the Roman emperors, as Vespasian
and Declus. The barrage will cost 1,000,000 and Is being constructed by
the firm of Alrd. For the present It will assist flood Irrlgatlonby artificially
raising the water-level In the river, thus enabling the basin lands to the
north of It to obtain water sufficient for their needs even In a year of bad
flood. It has been so designed that It can be raised. This picture shows
the work on the east bank and the piers In course of construction. The two
long trenches re channels to convey the water pumped from the river. It
Is-ery Interesting to note how the ancient side of Egypt Is utilized In creat
ing new conditions. Thus the camel Is seen helping the contractor side by
side with the donkey, engine and cranes, which belong essentially to the
modem world.
Royal Highnesses were to be present
The A. D. C had Just sent an orderly
accepting, for those distinguished ones.
This was a masterly move on the
part of Lady Eustace. With Royalty
about, the host and his son must dance
attendance all day. The young Prin
cesses were keen on conquest; their
mother was equally devoted to gardens
and gardening. So the Eustace family
would be fully occupied.
The sun had set behind the Bog of
Allen when the last guest had de
parted, and the day had been more
than tiring. Every one. except Lady
Eustace, pronounced themselves ex-
hauBted, and Sir John was very cross.
Loyal to the core, he hated fuss, red
loth and company manners, and of all
f these be bad a surfeit.
Arthur, deep down In his heart, felt
he was being outwitted, and confided
to his sister that bis mother was play
ing a game two could play at He
hated the deep intellectual turn always
given to the conversation at meals, and
Lady Eustace's rather suiwreuious
surprise that the Darrell family knew
nothing of Maeterlinck, uor were nme
to distinguish between the three broth
ers Benson. Botany, too, was a scaled
book to them, and they were not sure
If they knew a dundellon from a bawk-
weed.
"No." Arthur said to himself ; "even
Ignorant of these Important facts, Alice
Darrell was the sweetest girl he
knew." But opportunity to tell her
that and other facts was evidently hard
to And.
At last Lady Eustace was breathing
more freely. After much pretty fooling,
tire Dnrrells' visit was Hearing Its end,
and there was no engagement. By to
morrow Miss Darrell and her sister
would be In their own untidy, ram
shackle home, not to re-enter Castle
Eustace till there was a Mrs. Arthur
there, too. The hero himself had not
been very amenable, and had rather
resented his mother s return, "to spoil
tha fin." as be uudutlfully ex
pressed It.
Th nrottv nlouant face of the
younger Miss Darrell had looked anx
lous, even sad, on tuis last aay signs
that were as balm to her hostess
anxious mind. And now, when every
one had gone. to .bed, and Arthur was
to Btart early for Galway, his mother,
who had seen the good-byes safely said
In the drawing-room, had retired to
rest and to sleep.
At her window, looking out on the
mooullt river, sat the poor little girl
whose hopes had been so high. To
morrow her visit must end, and yet,
Arthur, though slie felt he meant much.
bad said nothing. She really liked blm
and would be so glad to marry him.
Never In her life had she bad so much
of his mother's company ; been the ob
ject of so much solicitude. Now It was
all over. 8he hated going back to the
untidy home, the scrambling meals,
and narrow means; and "mother," too,
had had hope of her marrying well
The opening of a window above, and
the appearance of a top-boot dangling
by a string outside, alarmed ber for a
moment, when a well-known role said
.A
,ii'iVt.ft,i..',i
"Try and reach It! There Is some
thing Inside for you!"
To seize the tongs was the work of a
moment but to reach the treasure was
more difficult. At last the boot was
deftly landed. But, alas, the tongs
slipped, falling with a crash enough to
awaken the dead, or worse still, the
unsympathetic living, on the terrace
below.
When all was quiet, and the note,
which said everything his heart could
desire, was answered, there still re
mained the tosk of getting the tongs
back to her room. Arthur's mother
wit did not desert him, and, sure of his
Alice, be crept quietly down and se
cured them, leaving them In the hall
to astonish the house-maid. It was too
great risk to puss bis mother's room;
for she had a horrid yelping cur who
never could distinguish between friend
and foe.
Aud early walk planned (Galway
sent to the winds), and silence de
scended on the big gray bouse ones
again.
The appearance at breakfast of tin.
young people together was the first
announcement Lady Eustace Had of
the foiling of ber plans. Sir John,
however, had been In bis son's confi
dence, and had given his consent. After
all, money was not everything, and
heiresses, he knew, could be "kittle
cattle" to drive, and the young people
were much in love.
Months passed before the secret of
how the proposal was made leaked out :
and now Lady Eustace thinks, with
Mng Leur better the serpent's tooth
than the thankless child. Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Rarth Wobbllna; at Urn Pole.
"That this great spinning top on
which we dwell Is wobbling upon ita
axis and that the North Pole is con
stantly shifting Its position, are facts
proveu. ny an einborate series of In-
vestlgatlons now being made In vari
ous puris or tne world." So writes
John Elfreth Wulklus In the Technical
World Mngazlne. 'The longest series
of systematic observations contributing
uata to suen a conclusion have been
inude ceaselessly since July, 1003, at
the Naval Observatory, Washington,
ror research along the same line there
has more lately been established about
the earth a chain of stations located
at Galthersburg, Maryland, Cincinnati,
Ohio; Uklah, California; Mliusawa,
japan; Tscnaiujui, Turkestan; and
Sharloforte, Italy. In each of thla
series of observatories Is mounted
'senlth telescope used for timing the
passage of stars across the great arch
of tie. heavens. At the Naval Observa
tory the research Is conducted by aid
of a "prime vertical transit' the only
one In use In the Western Hemis
phere."
Sa Kuw,
ur. gou u snys ne cant see
through my Jokes; I wonder why?
mrs. jou necause they're your
Jokes, I suppose. Tonkers Statesman.
' What good excuse la there for peo
ple labeling themselves because there
has recently been a death In the fam
ily
ASSASSINATION IN RU8SIA.
rnnillnnni in the Hmoleaa Land oi
! the Camr Are Deplorable.
' The condition In Russia Is deplor
able In the extreme. Those who would
curb the power of the Czar and do
away with the pres
ent form of govern
ment are so divided
in their opinions
that they are not
working In unison.
Established govern
ment with a parlia
ment as a princi
pal engine for the
enforcement of the
will of the people
seems further away
PREMIEB 8TOLYPIIT.
than before the present tendency to
anarchy began. The terrorists were
never so active as now. Almost dally,
attempts at assassination, more or less
successful, are mnde and the manufac
ture and use of deadly bombs go on
Increasingly despite the best efforts of
the police and soldiers.
Some of the most frightful tragedies
have resulted from the work of the ter
rorists. Premier Stolypln was giving a
reception at his villa on Aptekarsky
Island when a carriage drove up and a
man entered the reception room and
I threw a bomb Into the crowd. It so
' happened that the premier had Just
i stepped Into an adjoining room to con
! suit with an official, and he escaped ln
I Jury, though the palace was badly
I wrecked and the celling of the room
was brought crashing about him. In
the reception room twenty-eight persons
were killed and twenty-four badly
wounded. Of the latter six afterwards
died. The bomb thrower was blown to
utoms. The only sou of the premier
wus wounded and one of his daughters
had both feet blown off.
The bomb was a large one and was
filled with a most powerful explosive.
Houses on the opposite side of the
Neva were shaken and windows were
broken. Many trees In the vicinity were
blown down by the force of the explo
sion. The bodies of those killed were
torn to fragments. Particles of human
flesh were thrown long distances. After
the explosion an officer was passing
through the court yard and accidental
ly stumbled against a tree. He was
horrified when a human hand fell at his
feet.
On the same day a plot to kill the
viceroy of the Caucasus was discovered
and frustrated Just in time to prevent
Its carrying out.
In St. Petersburg, as Gen. Mln, com.
mander of the Semlnovsky Guard Reg
iment, was stepping Into a railway car
riage he was shot in the back by a
young girl. She fired three bullets Into
his back and then as he lay on the
ground she shot him three times. She
was captured. She said she was exe
cuting a sentence passed on the gen.
eral by the fighting organization. Gen,
Min had won the hatred of the Nllhl
lsts by his stern repressive measures.
As Gen. Vonllarllarski, acting mill
tary governor of Warsaw, was driving
from bis office to bis residence, he was
shot and killed. The assassin escaped.
Col. Rlman, of the regiment com
mnnded by Gen. Min, was assassinated
at Luga, while on his way to Warsaw,
He was as much hated as was bis cruel
commander, of whom he was a personal
friend.
Thoroughly Tamed.
Although notoriously careless as to
his person, Mr. Sykes, of the firm of
Tomllnson & Sykes, hud many good
points about blm; among which was a
fondness for dumb animals.
One of his iets, a recent acquisition,
was a full-grown wildcat, answering to
the name of "Pete," which he had
begged from the keeper of a zoologl
cal garden, when the animal was about
to die. He had nursed Pete back to
health, and the "bobcat" seemed to be
capable of showing proper grotltude.
"You ought to have seen Peter when
got him," he was telling Mr. Tom
llnsou oue day. "He was nothing but
skeleton, and he was as savage a
beast as you ever saw, but now he will
eat out of my hand." 1
'He will, will he?" said the senior
partner, glancing at the band In ques
tion and observing Its general grim-
Iness. "Well, Pete Isn't wj particular
what he eats out of, Is he?"
The "Yomnar Girl."
The Miami Metropolis corrects some
popular errors of speech, principally
tautologlsuis, but we venture to suggest
that In moderu usage, the term "young
girl" Is not tautological. When a fe
male child enters her teens she Is a
young girl," when she has passed IS
she Is still a girl, but no longer a
"young" girl. We venture this opinion
with some trepidation. But surely the
expression "young woman" Is not tau
tological though some women are al
ways young, you know. Florida Times
Union.
Partloalarlr Neeeaaarjr.
"In order to become a successful trav
eling salesman," wrote the manager of
a correspondence school for drummers
to a longdistance pupil, "you must be
plausible and persuasive especially
when It cornea to explaining to the
firm why you haven't landed any or
ders." '
Uninspected Art.
"Did you know that forestry Is real
ly a branch of art?"
"No; how so?"
"In Its wood cuts, you know." Balti
more American.
Respectable people, when they learn
they are annoying their neighbors, are
humiliated, and regret It But others
bcome angry add want to be as annoy.
lng as posslbU
It Is nature for a woman to love a
man more than she should.
A LnnsrhmaUcr.
The laughniaker does not look very
funny on paper, because he Is still, but
Just wait until you have made the real
thing and he moves nbout! Then he
will account to you for his name.
All you want Is a piece of cardboard
to make the round body.
Get a piece 10 by 7 Inches. Fasten
the ends together with gum or paper
fasteners and make two holes in the
sides wherein to stick two cardboard
arms with bunds on them. These are
easily made. Next cover the bottom of
the cardboard funnel with a round
HOW TO MAKE THE LA UQH MAKER.
piece of calico, gumming It on secure-
;ly. Now draw or paint a funny face
on the outside and drop a big marble
as big a one as you can find Into the
Inside and put the laughmaker on the
table. Very slightly slant the table so
that the marble rolls about and the
movements then of the laughmaker are
so extremely ridiculous that perhaps
even the cat will laugh.
Katle'a Saturday.
"Dear me!" sighed Katie, when she
got up that Saturday morning.
'What can be the. matter?" said
mamma, laughing at the doleful face.
"Oh, there's thousands and millions
of things the matter!" said Katie,
crossly. She was a little girl who did
not like to be laughed at
"Now, Katie," said mamma, this
time seriously, "as soon as you are
dressed I have something I want you
to do for me down In the library."
."Before breakfast?" said Katie.
"No, you can have your breakfast
first," mamma answered, laughing
again at the cloudy little face.
Katie was very curious to know
what this was, and, as perhaps you are
too, we will skip the breakfust, aild go
right Into the library.
Mnmnia was sitting at the desk, with
a piece of paper and a pencil In front
of her.
'Now, Katie," she snld, taking her lit
tle daughter on her lap, "I want you to
write down a few of those things which
trouble you. One thousand will do !
"O mamma, you're laughing at me
now." said Katie; "but 1 can tniuk or
at lenBt ten right this minute."
'Very well," said mamma ; "put down
ten." So Katie wrote:
"1. It's gone and rained, so we can't
go out to play.
"2. Mmnie Is going away, so I'll
have to sit with that horrlu little Jean
Bascom on Monday.
"3.
Here Katie bit her pencil, and then
couldn't help laughing. "That's all I
can think of Just this minute," she said.
Well," said her mother, "I'll Just
keep this paper a day or two." .
That afternoon the rain cleared
away, and Katie and her mamma, as
they sat at the window, saw Uncle
Jack some to take Katie to drive; and
oh, what a Jolly afternoon they had
of It I 1
Monday, when Katie came home
from school, she said: "O mamma, I
didn't like Jean at all at first, but she's
a lovely seat-mate, . I'm so glad; aren't
you?"
'Oh!" was all mamma said; but
somehow It made Katie think of her
Sahirday troubles and the paper.
I guess I'll tear up the paper now,
mamma," she saia, laugning- rauier shy
ly.
"And next time," said mamma, "why
not let the troubles come before you
cry about them? There 'are so many
of them that turn out very pleasant 1'
you wait to see. By waiting, you see.
you can save the trouble of crying and
worrying at all." Sunlight
Peter's Woe.
Peter to the garden went
And, finding there the boe.
Thought he'd whack the weeds all down
But Instead he whacked his toe.
Peter to the river went
With line and crooked pin ;
He thought he'd catch a fish for fan.
Bat ha slipped and tumbled In.
Peter got upon a pig,
And thought he'd have a ride;
The pig ran to a deep mad hols
And dumped him right inside.
Peter straightway sought his home;
nis mother watted, too ;
I And Peter gladly went to bed
I As soon as she got through.
Ant and Caterpillar.
A singular combat was one day wit
nessed by a naturalist tie noacea a
caterpillar crawling along at a rapid
rate, and pursuing It a small army of
- " M
black ants. The ants were the quicker.
In their movements, and every now and!
then one of them would mount the cat
erpillar's back and bite It. Then the
caterpillar would stop aud turn its
head and bite nnd kill the ant Present
ly, becoming tired, apparently, t!5 cat
erpillar backed up a blade of grass,
where the ants could not approach It
except one at a time, and as they did
so the caterpillar caught them In Its
hws and killed them. But the ants,
seeing that the enemy's position was
too strong for them, resorted to strat
egy, too, and began sawing through the
grass-blade 4at the bottom. The work
was soon completed, and as the cater
pillur fell with the stalk, the ' ants
pounced on it and killed It, and then
marched off In triumph.
An Bxploalve Frntt.
There is a queer fruit In Java that
has the quality of exploding when
placed on water. It Is a dried, pod
like growth of the Justlcla plant, and
Its explosive quality Is nature's provis
ion for scattering Its seed. The fruit
Is shaped like a cigar, and Is a littje
less than an Inch In length. It is full
of seeds, and when the explosion takes
place the water moistens a gummy sub
stance on the outside of the seeds,
which makes them stick where they
fall. This Is another provision of na
ture, by which the plant Is enabled to
propagate Its kind.
Well Supplied.
"What kind of pie will you nave.
Willie mince or apple?"
"I'll take two pieces of each, please."
"Two pieces?" i
"Yesm; mamma told me not to ask
twice." f
The Vain Sparrow.
Sparrows have so much curiosity that
they will gaze in mirrors by the hour
If not disturbed.
Golf Came from Holland. v
England did not borrow golf origin
ally from France, but from Holland,
whence the Scots used to buy balls, If
not clubs, till a crushing duty was
placed ou Dutch golf balls. Indeed,
there is abundant evidence, Including
that of Frolssart to prove that the
Scots got everything from Holland
ready made In exchange for raw mate
rials.
What these materials were I cannot
conceive, declares Andrew Lang In the
Illustrated London News. To export
pickled fish tp Holland was Indeed to
send owls to Athens, and as for our
wools, their exportation was usually
prohibited. Dairy farmers who sent
eggs- out of the country were de
nounced by the Privy Council as desti
tute of all human civility.
' However It was managed, we got
golf balls from Holland and adopted
the Flemish Invention of the bole. This
was the most brilliant Invention of the
Batavlan genius.
All continental people played at aa
Iron hoop or at a fixed object like the
pin In croquet, buf an Illuminated al
manac of about 1500 shows that In the
low countries players already putted at
holes.
The other kind of game, driving with
hammer-headed clubs and lofting
through an Iron ring, Instead of put
ting at the hole, reached England from
France In the sixteenth century, but
died out after the revolution of 1088.
It is still played In the neighborhood
of Montpeller, and In a rude fashion,
with a queer Iron-headed club, in the
north of France. '
Boiled Down.
N Major Gen. Sir Owen Tudor narrates
among his "Memories" an Incident that
occurred during the vlceroyalty In In
dia of Earl Canning a period which
covered the Sepoy Mutiny which sug
gests that Hindustani should never be
handled save by Its friends.
At Lord Canning's durbar, In Novem
ber, 1858, at the close of the mutiny.
the viceroy made a long and, dignified
address to the chiefs. He spoke of
the great queen who had desired him to
decorate them ; he thanked all present
for their services In the mutiny ; he par
ticularly Impressed upon the chiefs and
princes their duty ln the future of
abolishing Infanticide, of making roads
and railways In their territories, and of
moving In the paths of virtue and civ
ilisation.
It was a fine address, but was un
fortunately translated by the then for
eign secretary, who was an Indifferent
Hindustani scholar.
He bluntly said, to the horror of alt
those who knew the language, and to
the visible astonishment of the chiefs r;
"The viceroy commands me to say,
How d'ye do? You are a set of ras
cals. Reform! Don't kill your female
children. Make roads and move on.
Enough. You may go."
The Poor Doctor.
"Say, Weary, here's a doctor dat
says de best kind of exercise Is walk
In' to your work." .
"Is dat so, Llmpy? Den I suppose
de doctor gets his exercise by visiting
de cemetery on foot" Cleveland Plain
Dealer. ' '
KTotBlac Wonderful.
"My greatgrandfather was at Bunker
Hill."
That's nothing; I've been there my
self and it ain't much of a hill at that1
Houston Post
Hla Idea of It.
"What Is It a sign of when a young
man kisses a girl on the forehead?"
"Poor eyesight"
"Give us a man who sings at his
work," says Carlyle. Yea, deliver blm
Into our hands and we'll gladly do th
rest
Look to the foundation of the ladder
of (am before attempting to climb It.