THE PSIMS0S1! PATH. HOW FBEKCH SEA HEX ABE TBAETE2). lie green fana of the chestnut tree Are all unfolding one by one, Xbe breath of April' in the breeze. Toe long streets (listen in the sun. Xb tasseled lilac in the square Are full of nods and whisperings, While black-boiled poplars stir the air Vtitn ninia or nappy secret things. ' ' ' '' - he town S all so fair and fine. The streets they make so brave a show ; Ifl yet- an yet Corinna mine, TU now the pale primroses blow. 'he woods are calling us to-day ' Where grassy hills fall- fold on fold ; Come, let us take the primrose way j , And gather wealth of faery gold. ; i ' ' ; Put off your dainty silks and lace ; For leathern shoon ' and homespun gown r, Come, leave this bustling market place To play the truant out of town. f For though in town the sun shines gay, You cannot hear the sweet birds sing; Come, my Corinna, come away, ' ' And let us go a-primrosing. r Rosamund Marriott Watson. ; A HEROINE- -of Necessity A way to the right, as far as eve could see, stretched the shimmering ocean, the sunlight dancing on the waves and turning them Into a carpet of gold. To the left lay glorious patches of purple heather, broken here and there by big gorse bushes, covered with golden blooms and soft greeu spines. Overhead the seagulls whirled lazily across a turquoise bay, uttering their plaintive notes as they greeted one another In passing. v And one, at least, of the millions of created beings was thanking God at that' very' moment,' as she leaned her arms on the slight railing which formed the only protection from the cruel shin gle below the edge of the steep cliff. Fate had been more than ordinarily kind to Chrlstabel Tredennls up to now. She had never known a single sorrow all her life through; twenty years of unspotted peace lay behind her. She was young, fair to look upon, wealthy beyond the dreams of most women, and dear to a manly heart, now far away' In Western' Africa, fighting his coun- try's battles in skirmishes wJUr tribes,, with a plui'k that was tenfold more "I DO NOT WANT TO GO ALONE." I thorough because of her. j Mrs. Tredennls had come to the quiet ! little village of Croone, on the Dorset ! shire coast,' because she had happened j. to see a highly colored pnnt pf It in j some one's photo album. It had not "turned out to be all that It was palnt- ed what does? upon closer acqualnt i ince, but Chrlstabel and she liked the i .K-enery and the solitude and stayed on. l I'his was about their last day. , She was thinking of her soldier-lover a 'ar across the waters, as she gazed, i ' hen her mind was suddenly recalled I to her present surroundings by a mut tered exclamation borne to her ears on the soft summer wind. She turned round hastily and saw, a little farther ou, a tan, spare ngure standing on the very edge of the cliff, an edge that, s Chrlstabel knew, was unprotected. To call out would be to startle the rash adventurer,' whoever It was; but the girl crept softly across the heath er that lay between the figure and her self till she was Just behind her. The woman turned round and almost streamed, Chrlstabel, with fear knock ing at her heart, brought there by the look In the eyes riveted on hers, laid a hand on the other's arm. "Come farther from the edge; It Is dangerous,', she said. The woman, who looked anything from 30 to 50, laughed. It's the edge I like," she answered, eliaking' her arm free of the detaining hand and taking a step forwardl "Have you ever walked over a cliff? . Should you like to come with me and try the sensation now?" Chrlstabel looked round wildly, Thera was no one In , sight ; the-only sound to be heard was the mournful cry, of the gulls. A story she had once ,beard came Into ber mind at , that .moment. , "It's nothing to walk over a cliff,1 she returned, trying to steady her voice. "It would.be much more "wonderful if you started at the bottom to wait to the top! . The other shrugged her shoulders. "It's a matter of opinion, of course.. she said. "Let us try my way first, I want to go to bJm: Don't you see be la beckoning to me over there? She glared ferociously out to sea. and grtpped.the girl's arm la a rlc,- - K t fT ' ' "He? Who?" asked Chrlstabel, hop ing thereby to gain' time. ' The rise was for a few moments suc cessful. The woman drew a photo graph but of her pocket, and thrust It under the girl's nose.' 1 ' Chrlstabel started.; the blood had left her face, and her heart seemed to stop beating. It was a portrait of her lover Jim Blaklston Bhe would know It In a thousand. It had been cut out of an illustrated paper and gummed on to a correspondence card." "This man what Is he to you?" she asked hoarsely. The woman laughed again gleefully. "He he is handsome, enough, isn't he?" she queried. "You seem to ad mire his picture they all do. Come, we will go together and see him. He will be surprised; he loves me he loved me once, and they said he died" she lowered her voice, then raised It again suddenly "but It wasn't true. He is beckoning to me to come, and we will go together, you and I for I do no want to go alone. Ko? Then I will go alone!" ' Whereupon a .fight, swift "and sharp, raged .In Christabel's heart. Why should she not let this mad woman perish? Why save her for hfjn? the being she loved best on earth. A maniac I WTell, she1 would hot be missed, she only mar red God's sunlit world I Let her go go , Then a great revulsion of feeling came over the girl's soul. She saw the hideous temptation ; she knew that, come what might, think, what she would, she must save a fellow creature. It became no longer a" matter of voli tion It was a matter of necessity, for action and self-sacrifice, which comes to every human being born into the world, with his or her share of respon sibilities with regard to another. Why save a lunatic? Why should a aane wo man die for an insane one? Why? Be cause the Instinct Is there, whether she will or no an Instinct which dies hard. Of necessity she must sap e her sister, be the exchange ever so. un equal, the1 result of so little apparent satisfactions , AH these thoughts surged momentar ily through Chrlstabel Tredennls' mind as she stood on the sunlit cliff ; and then she wrestled and struggled as she had never though to wrestle, with all the luck of, a long line of dead and gone ancestors, wrestled till she felt herself growing dizzy and faint; and the edge of, the cliff drew ever nearer and. nearer, and ever that mad, mad face, with those ferocious eyes, gleamed luto hers. ' ' A strong ban thrust them apart ; a atern voice thundered a wrathful In quiry. , The' woman sank trembling on the heathen ber whole figure shaken wJt$'spb, hrBtabel, breathless, white faced, white-eyed, stood shaking In ev ery limb from her recent straii-bOt safesafe! ( ' ' "Poor, thing The doctor looked pityingly at the woman, '- ".She has es caped again. but" they never thought of looking here,' I suppose. You have had a bard fight yes 1 understand r : "For . Hf." Pt In Chrlstabel,1 with lip that trembled, as a shudder passed through, her frame. ' " , ; j . The doctor. whipped out a flask and held it , to her , month. "Drink," he commanded. And when she had done , his bidding, be turned and spoke kindly to the cowering lunatic, "Come home now," be said. "Miss Lacy, do you know rreucu seamen are notably active and agile and this Is due, so It Is averred, to the training they get while they are in their apprenticeship. Agility Is systematically encouraged' and lightness of movement Is considered a very great accomplishment Among the exercises given the younger seamen when they enter the service Is that of rope ladder climbing, and the fellows soon become as proficient at this as monkeys and climb up and down with great speed. But the exercise. Is not restricted td the younger men alone, for It Is quite necessary that the sailors keep In trim, so they are kept at the practice a share of each week at least, and this Is why they have become famous for their agile nioVemehts and their quick work. For many years they have had a prestige for nimble movements, andvthat .this may in no wise be lost the officer see to it that training is kept up throughput the naval service. -V jf..M i.r .attf.r It fa nearly teatlme, and Masom will be wondering where you are. You should not take such long walks alone ; they are not good for you."' The matter-of-fact tones reached the poor dazed brain; she still clutched the photo graph. The doctor, raising bis eyes, saw Chrlstabel looking at It with a queer expression on her pretty face. "Her lover," he supplied briefly In low tones that reached only her ears. "Poor thing, he died of cholera In India ten years ago, and that was what turn ed her brain!" His name?" breathed Chrlstabel "Henry Blaklston. Did you know'of lta ;own' conducted on modest prin- him a lieutenant In the navy? She is under a delusion that he is calling for her, and that we are keeping them apart. It Is getting damp on the heather; we must be making tracks now. I am more sorry than I can say that this should have happened " But the face Chrlstabel lifted to his astonished him beyond measure. It lllslOT' ol wew ung.anu." was radiant, glowing. I One hundred chimneys were leveled "I am engaged to his brother," she 0 the roofs of tue nouses and fifteen voluntered shyly, "and he is so like hundred were shattered In part The that picture " ' i streets were covered with bricks which "Ah, I see you Imagined they were had faIleD The ends of brlek Louse8 the same." The doctor was only hu-1 were tnrown down' man and chuckled at the coincidence lt was flrst ,ntroduced with a noise which had meant so much to his com-. llke Beveral coaches rattling over pave-" panlon. "I congratulate you and must ; ""k or ratber llke mauy cart-loads wish you good afternoon." j of PavIn stones thrown down. The . He shook hands, and then proceeded flrst motlon wa8 a 8trong Pulsatlon to lead bis patient away, without a'iwbJch tbTew house upward, imme-i backward look. Chrlstabel turned her i dlately after a treujor succeeded, then face towards the setting sun and her lips-moved. "Thank God 1" h fervently. When Jim Blaklston came home not many months afterwards on long leave, he was told the, whole story. "I should have let her , im. I'm afraid. I should never have ber," he said, looking at Chrlstabel's happy face In wonder. "You would have saved her," she an swered proudly. "You are so brave; besides, I can't explain properly, but I did lt of necessity." And then and there It dawned on the young soldier that the reason account. ed for many so-called mysterious things or everyday lire. There are many he-, roes wno are heroes "of necessity," of whom the world never hears but they are none the less heroes because of that Philadelphia Telegraph. Tht Old Sweetheart, I saw an old sweetheart to-day, " The one I loved of old, 1 And there were wrinkles in her cheeks, And gray threads In the gold Of her thick locks, gray for the years The Jong years she bad told. And we two talked of various things : She said, "I thought I told. You ere you left tha house ibis, mora To leave some money." Cold Was her tone and hard her look, This sweetheart loved of old. Houston Post ' : MI -OI trail Bl-l.sr. 108.000. . Raphael's portrait of the brother1 of Pope Leo X, dated 1514, has been sold for ; $106,000, a, record price In the Berlin art world. Profit, of Britala'a Cotto Tns.. ' The , capital represented by Great , Britain's cotton trade Is $2,000,000,000 a year, and the profits $350,000,000 a y?af" ' ' j Few photographers would care to' take people for what they are worth, BTJSSIAU BOYS ABB TJUBU1T. Spirit aad Idea el Revolatloa ! All Cluaea aad A(M. The revolutionists, who constitute the only single-minded, selfless organization in Russia, are working early and late to embody their ideal. And they are manifestly making headway and gain ing partisans. Peasants, workmen, pet ty landed proprietors, schoolmasters, ruidwlves, badly paid officials, embit tered students, are all imbued with the new Idea, which they In turn are spreading. Whole categories of the population, whole provinces of the em pire, are possessed by the leveling spirit' The southern and southeastern Russian provinces, several districts on the Volga, in the Caucasus and Poland are Inoculated with the revolutionary bacillus. Students In universities, boys in Schools, children In the nursery, are affected by this peculiar form of mad ness. Instances are numerous. On March 2 a number of boys convoked a politi cal meeting In the halls of the State Grammar School of Tlflls and proceed ed to make speeches against the gov ernment The director, entering, sum moned them to disperse, but they re fused :and, employing force, drove the director from the room.. In the Com mercial SchooJ.of the FJpance Minis try in the capital the boys of the two classes ordered their teachers to give them full marks for four months in chemistry and Russian. Tiie masters refused to deal with the matter other wise than on Its merits, disorders en sued and the two classes hindered other classes from going to their lessons. They also insulted the director, but the School Board did not venture to punish them. ' . - Russian children are becoming "ex propriators'highway robbers is the term usually employed by Europeana The other day on the outskirts of the city of Krassnoyarsk three boys .of 14 set up as expropriators and assailed a well-to-do peesant who came their way. Three Davids against one Goliath. They asked him for -.s money and threatened his life. But the farmer, being a muscular man, resisted, where upon the boys opened fire upon hltn out of a "monte crlsto" and a bullet en tering his mouth knocked out a few of his teeth, but he disabled them and had them arrested. In Dunaburg a number of children summoned an Im portant meeting In the synagogue and when the caretaker appeared and or dered them to quit they wounded him with a knife. Contemporary Review. A BOSTON EARTHQUAKE, Few cities have had experiences I which will bear comparison with that jof San Francisco and Kingston, but Boston indulged once In a little "shake" clPle8'yet spreading disaster and the i 861186 rterror- 0u Nov. 18, 1755, "a little after 4 on a 8erene and Pleasant night," Boston was roused by an earth- quake wblch lasted nearly five mlu j ute8, A wrlter of the times glve8 au account of the catastrophe, and Rev. IIenry White quotes U ln his "Early 1 in8tanly a qulck vlbration wlta sudden Jerks followed.. The first view I had was of the steeples of the churches, and was glad to see them standing, but the spindle and vane of Faneull Hall Market were thrown down. Many persons ran Into the streets, shrieking with apprehension of 1U be- ,ng ,ast day or the JudSment and some thought they beard the last trum pet sounding, and cried for mercy. The beast creatures lowed, the birds flut tered In surprise, and all the animal creation was filled with terror. Every face looked ghastly and many knees sm0e tgner. isever was such a Beene of dlsaster ,n New England be- j The Chana-ea.bl. Man. He said : "I'll go and seek my fate, I'll pop the question, as to that!" And thinking that attire had weight He changed his hat Remembering that women seem To trust completely to the ey Before they lapse in love's young dream. He changed his tie. "And," he observed, "one's footwear must Be very stylish when be wooes," The pair he wore was flecked with dust He changed his shoes. "A woman's queer," be murmured then, "She estimates my bat and boot And tie" and so he stopped again And changed his suit' II. .t.rft nt an1 rl f r,t. The way to pop the question best: C1"4 nd fter thoughtful scan. He changed bis vest. . ... Alas ! the lovelorn maiden waits And tries to call herself resigned ; Th man 00 longer hesitate . H chn1 mlDl "Chlcat port- Many a man becomes a Jailbird through his strenuous ehorts to feather his nest. ' ' The first known book catalogue was Issued In 15G4 In Augsburg, Germany, by one George Wilier. It was a quarto oi mueieeu (rages, ana recoraea ; ine uues or two nunarea naa aity-slx books arranged in classes. . i IT 1 It.- . i . i . , I :r "IUri" .- Promptly replied - w UJ -uuauo Aieuiei Wr vicuicim;, ui ouusuurg, wuo printed the flrst edition of the Bible In 1405 or 1406. The first catalogue-In Eng land was printed in 1595 by John Win det for Andrew Maunsell, a bookseller. Richard Harding Davis will make a contribution to motor fiction with his forthcoming book, 'The Adventures of the Scarlet par." It Is an'aqcouut of some exciting experiences that hap pened to the Scarlet Car" and to the girl and the men who were In lt. The new story will be illustrated by Fred erick Don Steel. . The Cambridge History of English Literature, which Is to follow the nlan of the Cambridge Modern History, will be published in fourteen volumes and will cover the whole of English litera ture from Beowulf to the end of the Victorian age. Each chauter will be the work of a writer especially familiar with the subject, and the purpose of the history Is to 'give a connected ac count of the different movements, to treat the minor writers adequately and not to allow them to be overshadowed by a few great personalities. The largest ''library in the world. which Is the BIbliotheque Natlouale at Paris, contains three million volumes. The next largest library is lu the Brit ish Museum, where reposing ou musty shelves are two million books. The Imperial library at St Petersburg con tains a million and a half volumes. The New Xork City library Is the luraest ln the United States and contains one million fourteen thousand books. The Harvard library Is the largest college library la America, containing nine hundred and ten thousand volumes. The manuscript of Arthur H. Smith's forthcoming book, "America and China," bas reached the publishers from Shanghai. Dr. Smith's skill as a statesman has more than once called him Into action as an unofficial repre sentative of the United States In China and as an ambassador of China In America. The new volume attempts to point out America's opportunities, ad vantages and disadvantages as well as responsibilities In the new era now dawning In China. The author calls it "an outline sketch ln charcoal of the general relations between America and China." Commenting on the dispute between Mr. Zangwlll and Bernard Shaw as to how far they are merely commercial ly minded ln Joining the Society of Authors, Clement Shorter' says: "I know no author who Is better at a bar gain as to so much 'per thou' than i Mr. ; Zangwlll ; I know no Journalist who has given editors so much trouble in past years as to the precise amount he should receive per column as Ber nard Shaw. On the other hand Mr, Zangwlll bas given to the Ideal some . of us think a most fantastic Ideal (of Zionism an Infinity of labor which .If he devoted to wrltlnar new novels I would have brought him hundreds of shekels that he has had to forego. Ber nard Shaw again Is the least mercenary of human beings. He Is generosity personified, although bis hatred of cant sometimes leads to his being uilsindor. stood on this point." WHEHE GYP WENT, Jmr.red 184 Rf Ilea la a W.ek to ... H.r p.BDl. Gyp, an 18-months-old fox terrier, be longing to Harry C. Fisher of No. 0H0 Fast Seventh street, south, has distin guished herself again,' writes a Suit Lake City correspondent to the Boston Evening Globe. While on a visit at Weston. Idaho. with her master during the last sum-,of mer Gyp first attracted attention. Mr, Fisher stayed at a ranch owned by August Jensen. One day by barking and yelping and jumping lu front of her master she aroused his curiosity. This done, she led blin to a litter of llttJe blinking puppies. Gyp's family dwindled down to two before many weeks bad passed. When Mr. Flshe was ready to come home Gyp bad been with her little charges six weeks. The time bad now come to say trood- u n 1 t . . . ei .u r i I ujr, ujy wua uruugui it) jsmi i.HKe ana her ntirmies wer. ktmt at th Jonun ranch. About four weks ago Mr. Flaher missed Gyp. Believing she hud goae but a short distance, he did not become worried until she had been away from home for a whole day. The Fisher family grieved over their loss, thinking . . ..... Gvd bad been stolen or killed A happy thought struck Mr. Fisher two weeks ago. He dropped a post card to August Jensen, Weston, Idaho, and a few days later an answer was!atly r8r'lzed ' " Ms. Turning received.' , j around, be Inquired bow much be ssk- Tbe message brought the startling lnformatlonn that Gvd had reachl the Jensen ten days before. "TIa si rrlva 1 wttttm tha amssIaii much rejoicing In the kennel." read the ' , Now 7 "V? fcetul dlsposi note. "The two pups and Gyp barked Jlon, my friend let the matter go. at and rolled each other aroond in great at Can ouat New Yor nape." Bun- - - , , ,; Gyp covered 124 miles In six or seven ' Tha path of duty leads to. bappl days to see her two babies, neas. ( ',, ,.t itci , n ua iio WLUOiuu ul . "William, were you ever whipped at school?" queried the visitor. "Only by the teacher,", was the rather signifi cant reply. , . 11 "Harry ," said the visitor, "do von ; know your letters yet?; "No, ma'am," ' repiied the little fellow "i m not the mail carrier." "Now, boys," said the teacher, "how many months have twenty-eight days?" the youngster at the foot of the class. Mamma Why. Tommy. I'm surprls- ed at your actional Small Tommy-- You're always beln' s'Drised at me. mamma. I guess I'm a rezular s'Drise package, ain't I? - . ": Little Dot My dollie's mamma must have beeu an awful wicked lady. Mamma Why do you think so, dear? Little Dot She never taught her to say her prayers, 'cause her knees won't bend. A little 5-year-old miss was standing on the hotel steps gazing anxiously up the street "Are vou looklnir' for husband, little girl?" asked one of the guests. "Yes, sir," was the prompt re ply ; "for mamma's uusbund." Little Elsie's big sister was exnlaln- Ing to her the wonderful powers of tha sun, saying: "It shines everywhere on the earth." Elsie, after thinking for a moment, asked : "Then why doesn't lt shine In grandpa's bedroom?" Anxious Mother Why, Johnny, what has become of your baby sister? John nyI dunno. ; Anxious Mother-r-But she was here In the rpm with you a rew minuies ago. johnny Well, don t worry about her. I guess you'll find her wheu you sweep. .j ,, Little 4-year-old Helen, was dlulnir with her mother at a neighbor's, and the hostess, In an attempt to be en tertaiuing, asked her it she liked kit tens. Helen looked suspiciously at the chicken potple on . her plate, then re plied: "I dess not; I dess I'd ruvver have some cake." ; . . . ' ' TONS OP PRECIOUS ST0NE3. Eatlmat of . Output of Dl Sllnea ThroDg-hout the World. Like all precious metals and stones. the unit of weight usunlly employed ln regard to diamonds Is the carat, of whlcu 151 go to make un a slnirla ounce. To think of sacks of diamond by the ton staggers the huugluatlon ; indeed, the average annual output pf the Klinberley mines Is not more than half a ton all told. Statistics have been nubllshed recent ly at Cape Town giving the outnut for several years past of the Klmberley mines and the river diggings. These yielded In the three years 1003-05 near ly 7,2o0,000 catats, iay, a ton and a half. The monetary value of these dia monds was 14,450,000. Since the first diamond was discov ered on the banks of the Vaal in loUT down to the end of 1000 It Is estimated that the total weight of diamonds ex tracted from tae Urlqualand mines l over thirteen and a half tons, of a mar ket value of fully 95,000,000. If statistics of this sort can be trust edand In the case of fho South Airl can yield they closely approximate fro the facts only seventeen tons of dia monds had been mined all over th world to the end of 1901. With th same relative output since that vmp from Brazil and India the world's out put of diamonds is now more than twenty tons. The figure seems small, considering the ages diamonds have been workirf In India and elsewhere In the East, and ; must be largely guesswork ' wlta respect to the output In antlauitv: i is, however, certain that more dia monds have been placed on the tr.rket In the last forty than In the previous 1 " T lmj ". PV' thousand yearsPall Mall Gazette GOT WATCH BACK CLEABLY, Lock of m Victim of Pickpocket In a) Thaw Crowd. 1 "Having his watch stolen from him and offered for sale back to him In an hour was what happened to a friend mIne vhm crowds gathered at tha newspaper imiietin boards waiting for news of the Thaw Jury," said a citi zen. "It happened this way: "An old friend of mine was standing among others waiting for news of the Thaw Jury when suddenly he felt 'a twitch at bis watch pocket and bis wutch was gone. Not being sure of his ground, be kept his loss to himself and walked away from the crowd. ' "After transacting a little business In the neighborhood he turned toward .- v , drink be Stepped Into a saloon nome. Keuiemuering tnat he wanted a "IIe was ,n the midst of his story, tellln the sympathetic bartender of bn experience, with bis back to the door, when a volee batk of hhn broke lnt jthe conversation, ordered a drink and a8ked the tfrluk mixer if he had any ' uw for a watch, mentioning the fact . that thniA n oa nnn 4. Kn I. .. 1 ... The barkeeper, having my friend .in mind, asked to see the watch and turn ed H over to my friend, who immedl- ,M ror tno,mei)lece' rne tWet..wco. nlzed hl ,at vktlm ail1 maJ lt for the door, taking good care to leave the watcu behind. ... - j