INDIRECTION. Fair are the flower» and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; • Harris the rose-burst <>f dawn, but the secret that rjasps it is rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter, And nevi r was poem yet writ, but the meaning out mastered the* meter. Never a daisy that grows but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that Hows, but a majesty scepters the flowing; Never a Shakspeare that soared, but a stronger than he did enfold him, Nor ever a prophet foretells, but a might­ ier seer hath foretold him. Back of the canvas that throbs the paint­ er is hinted and hidden; Into the statue that breathes the soul of the sculptor is bidden; Under the joy that is felt lie the infinite issues of feeling; Crowning the glory revealed is the glory that crowns the revealing. Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symbolled is greater; Vast the create ami beheld, but vaster the inward creator; Back of tin* sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving. Space is as nothing to spirit, the deed is outdone by, the doing; The heart of the wooer is warm, but warmer the heart of the wooing; And up from tin* pit where these shiver, ami up from the heights where those shine, Twin voices am! shadows swim starward, and the essence of life is divine. —Washington Star. A GAME OF BLUFF. a HAG anti a bone and a bank ZX of hail-,’” cynically quoted XX Million. The next momunt he repented Ills words, when he noted the hurt look, accompanied by the flash of resentment. In Warren's eyes. Marlon meant to be sympathetic, after the manner of men, by uttering philosophical platitudes as a balm for sentimental lieart troubles, but he quickly realized that the case before him was too genuine and severe to be cured by such superficial ointment as quotations from cynical Kipling. So he took allot her tack. “Of course, old man. there are women and women. Some can be had for the asking, while others play for all the line they can get.' It’s just like fish­ ing”—his metaphor suggesting an il­ lustration from out his sporting pro­ clivities "a hornpout will bite at al­ most anything, but a gamy trout in­ sists on a nice fly for an attraction, and even after you’ve got one really hooked you’ve got to play it until your patience is almost gone. .Now, you d rather have a girl with some spirit, one who’d stand you off for a time, than one who was all the time throw­ ing herself at your head, wouldn’t you?” Warren vouchsafed a weak, doubtful “Yes.” “By the way. have you asked her?” “No. That’s the difficulty. I don't j really get a chance, .lust ns I get my­ self spurted up to the mark some con- i founded Interruption Interferes, or she switches me off on a sidetrack with some remark or other.” “You think the girl really cares for you?" asked Marion, dropping his rail­ lery and becoming serious. "I think she does,” frankly answered Warren, "alt hough sometimes 1 feel as If 1 didn’t know whether she did or not,” he continued, somewhat dubi­ ously. "Well, there's only one way to find out," remarked Marion, "and that Is to—say, I have a plan," breaking abruptly Into Ids sentence. “1 have a plan,” he slowly repeated, "and 1 be­ lieve It will work If you follow my ail vice. Put yourself In my hands,” he continued, Ills face brightening as his plan was uufohled to his mind, "and I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you'll win out.” Then he buttonholed War­ ren. pulled him Into a corner, and ad­ dressed him In a low, earnest tone, In­ terspersing Ids remarks with emphatic gestures. When he had finished War­ ren still looked dubious, but somewhat more hopeful. • •*••••• "Oh. good evening, Mr. Warren, I'm so glad to sei1 you. \\ e're Just pack Ing up. getting ready to go to the moun- ' tains." “Imbed! Lovely weather. Hope | you'll have a pleasant time." But he might have Isen a phonograph, or a Punch and Judy operator, for all the i expression In1 put Into Ids words. “Oil. I’ve no doubt we will," she an- I swered. with a toss of her head. “There's so much going on there all the time, and so many Interesting peo- . pie to meet." she continued, with a bored air. as If her Immediate sur­ roundings were productive of nothing but ennui. "Yes.” he assented. In a listless mono­ tone, which might mean anything or ! nothing. She pretended not to notice Ids ab- , «traded manner, ami rattled on. "My friends write me there are ever ao many nice people there, and with golf ai d . rlvatg and dancing there'll be no cud of fuu.” “Yes." Again that tone of polite Indifference. "Well. I’m going for a trip myself," , he added, rousing him elf f om Ills leth­ argy, and almost blurting out Ids re­ mark. “Indeed! Where?" This was her turn, and she countered forcibly in the matter of polite indif ferenee. “To Hongkong." "To Hongkong?” This time she was Interested, tn spite of herself. She repeated hie remark, with distinct emphasis on the words, and a rising Inflection on tbe end of THE MAKING OF A SHOE. ! each. “Oh, come, now. you're joking. 1 Y-.u’re----- ” “No, really,” he asserted; “there's an Inventive Genius H m Made Wonderful Improvements in the Operation. oiM'ltlng there in our house. They want It is a far cry from the cobbler of a young man to take charge of their branch banking-house there, and I can fifty years ago. slrtlug on Ills little have the place. It looks like a goo 1 bench pegging away at the pair of shoes opening, and I thought I'd take it. Of for his neighbor, which must be doue I course, it means”—clearing Ids throat on the morrow, to the modern methods | —“tearing one's self away from one's and machines for shoe manufacture. friends, but then, I prol ably will not be Notwithstanding the fact that science has made tremendous advances am] greatly missed.” invention has done mighty things In al­ “Oil, Mr. Warren,” broke In the girl, most every branch of Industrial life, 1 reproachfully. somehow or other, most people still The coquettish manner was gone, keep in their minds the vision of the j The genuine woman was speaking. shoemaker of old, bendlug over his "Well, for a day or two a few may task and patiently boring and stitching, ' remark my absence, and then----- ” now and then stopping to wax over He finished the sentence with a care­ his thread. But far different is it now. less wave of Ids band, to denote the Machines, with the most astonishing ac­ ephemeral nature of the friendship he complishments, pouml ami hammer and conceived was felt for him. stitch in place of the human hands "But there are no nice girls there,” which lent themselves to this work in she remarked, mischievously. tile former time. And yet it seems to She was trying to get back to the one watching the processes, as If hu­ coquette again. But her eyes were man hands were somewhere concealed moist. in these cases of iron, so deft and won­ "That Isn’t n consideration,” he an­ derful are the parts. I-’aney a machine swered, gloomily. "There's only one which can cut and sew 3,500 button girl In this world for whose smile I'd holes a day and then revolve in your ' give the hopes I entertain for my busi­ mind the long and weary toiling of the ness future, and I'm afraid that In her tired lingers which might have the eyes I’m but as all the rest of the same amount of work to do. In some world.” cases a pair of shoes goes through 139 "Who Is the young lady, may I ask; distinct processes in the course of its do I know her?" she queried, with an manufacture. A pair of shoes has attempt at gayety. Warren glanced at been turned out in twenty-eight min­ her, but she wasn't looking at him. I utes, but that Is exceptional, and the She seemed to be manifesting an ex­ manufacturers like better to take time traordinary' interest in picking at the for the goods to rest .’bit after some end of a ribbon on her dress. of the processes. A trip by a Free • ••••••• Press was made through one of De­ “I’ve just been reading the Social i troit’s big factories the other day, and Gossip,” wrote Marlon, who hud gone some Interesting things were noted. West for a month on a business trip, The factory has a capacity of 4,000 “and I congratulate you. But why In pairs a day, although this limit has the name of all that's absurd did you never been reached, and 3,000 a day, hesitate to call for a show of hands, or six pairs a minute, Is keeping the when you held a flush? One of these hands pretty busy. The hides and skins come in with fine days you will want a crest. How would this suggestion meet your ap­ ragged edges, some with holes here anil proval: ‘A bold bluff painted on a field there, others with unbroken surfaces. It Is necessary in some way to get at of blue?’ ” And he underscored two words In ths the quantity of leather In these pieces, a puzzling job. But brains have solved last sentence.—Boston Herald. the problem, and there stands a ma­ chine for doing the entire work. The skin is put into the machine as into a planer and the number of square feet and Indies in Its surface Is Indicated on a dial. The amount of labor saved on account of the Irregular edges of the leather can be Imagined. Makin« the Patterns. It seems as if the theoretical side of the manufacture of a pair of shoes should begin with the making of the patterns, at which one to five men are kept constantly working. These a re cut out of stiff pasteboard, and are smoothly edged with tin. Each part of the shoe must have Its pattern. Some of these seem to have very little resemblance to anything an ordinary observer might see In a pair of shoes. For instance, the pattern for the upper looks like a large horse-shoe magnet In shape. With these patterns in hand. No bird can fly’ backward without turning. The dragon fly, however, can accomplish this feat and outstrip any swallow. Oysters, after they have been brought away from the sen, know by instinct the exact hour when the tide Is rising and approaching their beds and so, of their own accord, open their shells to receive their food from the sea, as if they were still at home. The tongues of the cat family are covered with recurving spines. In the common domestic cat these tire small, but sufficiently well developed to give the tongue a feeling of roughness. But In the lion and tiger the spines are strong enough to enable the animal to tear away the skin of a man’s hand merely by licking It. There are several species of fish, rep­ tiles and insects which never sleep dur­ ing their stay In this world. Among fish It Is now positively known that pike, salmon and goldfish never sleep at all. Also that there are several others of the fish family that never sleep more than a few minutes during a month. There are dozens of species of tiles which never Indulge In slumber and from three to live species of serpents which the naturalists have never yet been aide to catch napping. Stories Bearing on tlie Personality of the Prines« of Wales, Queen Victoria recently admitted \ that of all the members uf ber royal family, excepting only her youngest daughter, the Princess Beatrix, she has most love for her probable successor, the beautiful I’rincyss of Wales. Alexandra, tbe next Queen of En­ gland, will enjoy in a way all the pow­ er wielded by her husband and will have the full social prestige now be­ longing to ber mother-in-law. For this reason and perhaps because she likes to keep herself young enough to eujoy this the Princess of Wales devotes a portion of her time to athletics. She exercises constantly, nnd one room at LAGO-PAGO HARBOR, SAMOA, WHERE THE GOVERNMENT WILL Marlborough House is filled with au­ BU11D A COALING STATION. tomatic side saddles, stationary bicy­ cles and all sorts of athletic aids. She I are put together In a machine, nail processes, men's’ and women’s shoes rides horseback—Indoors and outdoors holes are bored and enough nails are are kept separate and different work­ put in to hold the heel together, all with ers make then, so that in one respect a single motion of the machine. An­ shoemakers are not unlike the Quakers. other machines cut tbe rough piece Of course there is an inspector who which has been hewn out of the sole looks over the finished product thor­ into the exact shape and size needed oughly and throws out any that may for the shoe desired. This is done by be imperfect. Then there is a complete a pattern of the sole in question gov­ box factory where paste-board shoe­ erning the cutter of the machine. An­ boxes are turned out in large quantl- other machine cuts what Is known as a “channel" m the top of »he In-sole and around the edge and it is this chan­ nel to which the upper is to be sewed. Other machines cut out the pieces of the sole between tbe heel and the ball of tbe foot. Wonderful Machines, In the next department most of lighter sewing is done, as well as pasting together of the linings and uppers. Scores of girls are busy at sewing machines, fastening the differ­ ent parts of the upper together. Here, too, are the button-hole machines which do their work with lightning rapidity. Another sort of machine, with a din and hubbub, cuts the holes for the eyelets and the hooks of laced shoes, and stamps them in securely with marvelous quickness, and the sound of a Gatling gun. Still another sort sews on the buttons, fastening the buttons on as many as 1,600 pairs a day. Beside these is the newest in­ vention, a machine for riveting the buttons on. Seventy-five pairs an hour can be finished on this machine. Thus, far, the uppers and the heels and soles have been making their way separately through the processes, but they are soon to come together. And now the "last" Is to come into play. This is put inside the upper, with the In sole; the edges of the upper are turn­ ed over the edges and tacked down on the sole. Then the out-sole is tacked on by machinery with a few nails, the noise resembling the report of mus­ ketry in the distance. Each of the nails in this machine as well as in all the others is made from wire as it is need­ ed, tlie nails lieing made and driven nt the same instant. But there are still more wonderful machines to be seen. Here, for instance, is one which sews i Tagged mid Forwarded. Ttie Power of Ills Eye. It has been told of Van Amburgh. the great lion tamer, that on one occasion when in a bar-room he was asked how he gained Ills wonderful power over animals. He said; "It is by showing them that I am not In the least afraid of them, and by keeping my eye steadily on theirs. I'll give you an example of the power of my eye.” "You see that fellow? He's a regular clown. 1'1 make him come across the room to me, and I wou't say one word to him.” Sitting down, he fixed his keen, steady eye on the man. Presently the fellow straightened lflmself up. rose from bls seat and came slowly across to the llou tamer. IVhui he was close enough he drew Imek his arm and struck Van Amburgh a tremendous blow over the chin, knocking him clean overthe chair, with the remark: "You'll stare at me like that again, wou’t you!” Ijove and colas are sometimes tested by th* ring. A soft answer turneth away divorce. A woman's logic Is far above a man's morals. With most women belief is better than proof. The longest way home is the shortest way to trouble. A husband doesn’t know a good thing when he hasn’t got it. Husbands are necessary only once a month—when tbe bills come in. It makes a woman shudder to think how happy she could have made you. The devil shows you the worst side first. The rest makes it seem better. If women’s good Intentions were Jew­ els they wouldn’t wear anything else. Love Is divided into quarters—one- quarter vanity, three-quarters jealousy’. Eve wanted to put on clothes merely to be able to have a hat to go with them. When a woman is convicted she ac­ quits herself by saying she has been misjudged. Goodness wouldn’t seem half so un­ interesting to women if it didn't wear such plain clothes. When a woman likes a man her idea of having him happy is not having him belong to some other woman. Every married woman would like to see you happy with some other woman, and they'd scratch out her eyes if you were. Any woman who thinks about it will admit that Adam deserved to fall be­ cause lie did not increase Eve's allow­ ance for pin money. Young Shafter’s Lesson. “In charge of the conductor,” chil­ dren often travel on the cars, but on a recent trip the Cumini steamship Cam-' pania carried ten boys and girls who were taking long Journeys alone. A girl of 14 was going to her aunt In Chicago; another, aged 11, to her step­ father In North Dakota. A boy of 10 and a girl of 1» were consigned to two small towns In Massachusetts. A I» year-old boy was going to his aunt In Chicago; an 11 year old girl to her sis­ ter In Boston, and four children, rang­ ing In age from 5 to 11. were seeking their father In Calumet. Mich, | It was the largest party of unattend­ 1 ed children that ever landed at New York. All were "tagged” with direc­ I tions, asking those with whom they came In contact to see that they were sent on their way. Counting the ocean voyage and the , long lami journeys, several of these lit­ tle travelers covered more than 5,(MM> miles alone, except for the thoughtful and kindly persons who may have no­ ticed and lielix'd them. ’ i (tsisi O’* MODERN SIH IE MANFFACTt -RY tlie real manufacturer of the shoe Is about'to begin. From skins of the proper kind ami patterns of the proper shape the cutters start tlie work. Lay- ing tlie patterns down on the skins they quickly cut the skins the shape of tlie outlines of tlie patterns, their knives lieing razor-» dged. The cutters, as well as all tlie oilier workers throughout the factory, are guided In their labors by a system of ean'.s Issued from the office. When an order comes into the house me of these cards Is made out for each kind of shoe wanted, showing the num- ber. kind, the size, the last, tile finish, and »o on. giving every detail about the shoo which Is to be turned out. This card follows that lot of sli >es w herever i it goes In its wanderings through the I factory. So that the cutter knows Just what patterns they are to use. When all the necessary parts of the upper |H>rtlon of the shoe have been cut. In­ cluding the linings ami the fancy tips and tidbits, th*' lot is sent on to th*' bot- I tomitig department. Here are cut the heels, in-soli s and out soles a ml various >ther strange iqn'rat!