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.
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"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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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! <ns are gone
through with. The heels and soli's are
lent by hand with die«. Before eaelf
worker Is an immense section of a tree
trunk, on the top,of wjiieli the hide is
! laid. The «harp islged die Is placed on
the hide and the worker with a fell
swoop of bis hammer throw s out what
! is to be ere long the sole or the heel of
a shoe. The procesa is exactly like that
w iiich mother used In making cookies,
I with the addition of the extra strength
[ necessary. In an ordinary heel there
are six pieces Instead of the one which
L« apparent to the person who examines
• finished pair of «hoes. These plede«
ENGLAND’S NEXT QUEEN.
COALING STATION FOR THE UNITED STATES IN THE FAR EAST.
the in-sole onto the upper. This is the
welt machine and does 400 pairs a day,
whereas a man's work was formerly
twelve pairs. Not less wonderful Is the
stitching machine which punctures the
heavy out-soles and sews them at the
same time to the upper and in-sole,
tying a knot in the most human fash
ion at every stitch. The awl which
makes the puncture«, and the needle
which does the sewing are curved, ami
together form almost a seml-clrde. the
hole being made with one stroke and
the thread Inserted with the next. The
heel Is still to l»e fastened to the sole,
and tills Is done by a ponderous look
ing machine which drives all the nails
In at one time.
Other Processes.
There are still dozens of processes to
be gone through the trimming down of
the heels, which is done by a machine
driving a curved cutter, trimming the
edges of the sole. saml-pa|»erlng the
heels and soles, burnishing and coloring
the edges, and so on. No detailed de
scription of the processes could be at
tempted. Suffice It to say that the
workings of iron and steel in a shoe
factory would astonish the wisest man
who has not seen them every day. Im
provements are constantly living made
and machines which last week were
considered marvels are next week
thrown out for old Iron, as useless In
comparison with the new Invention. A
Detroit man has just invented a Joint
ed last which is said to excel anything
else for the ease with which It can be
Inserted and taken out of a shoe. When
once Inside the shoe. It can lie straight
ened out and thus made much larger
than before. Throughout th« many
The Cleveland Leader gives the roc-
ipe by which General Shafter learned
self-reliance, saying that the story is
told in the officer’s own words.
Once, when I was a boy at school,
our teacher calk'd up the class in
mental arithmetic, and began putting
questions, beginning with the pupil at
the head. I stood somewhere near the
middle, and next below me was a boy
who was three years older, and con
siderably ahead of me in our various
studies.
“IIow many are thirteen and nine
ami eight?" asked the teacher.
One after another tbe boys and girls
guessed and failed; meantime I thought
It out. The question had Just got to
me, when I heard the big boy, who
stood next, whispering, apparently to
himself:
"Twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-
nine.”
"Well, Willie,” said the teacher, “let
us see If you know. Come, now, lie
prompt.” I cocked my head on one
side, and said, triumphantly, "Twenty-
nine!”
"Next! IIow many are thirteen and
nine and eight?"
"Thirty," said the big boy below.
That was just what I had figured it
to lie. myself; and I made up my mind,
then and there, to depend on my owu
judgment for the future. Ever since
when I have had anything to do, and
have figured out what I thought to lie
the N'st way of doing It. I have gone
ahead, remembering, when
people
criticised, or tried to throw me off the
track, how that big boy made a fool of
me in the mental arithmetic class.
THE PniNCESS OF WALES.
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—two hours every’ day, and weighs
herself frequently to be sure that she
is not gaining.
The Princess of Wales has never con
cerned herself with state matters, al-
though she must know’ what is going
on. She has always been absolutely
indifferent to such things, unless
swerved to one side or the other by
personal favoritism. The Queen, who
knows every line of the possibilities of
her statesmen, has ever been a politi
cian, looking for improved service, civil
and military, but Alexandra has never
worked along political lines, and never
will; she is not that kind of a woman.
Alexandra has her little weaknesses
—all womanly ones. She is fond of
novels, a thing the Queen despises, un
less of the classic sort. She dislikes fa-
mens people, such as authors and ar
tists. for she is timid in the face of
genius, while the Queen will have noth-
ing to do with any other. Alexandra
loves fancy work and can outline a
worsted dog to perfection, while the
Queen never takes a stitch. Alexandra
notes the hang of the skirt and the cut
of the sleeve. Victoria is calmly ob
livious to everything except court
dress.
Britishers will have something to do
to get used to their new Queen, for
they will have to reconstruct all their
ideas of royalty. Court dresses and
jewels will shine In the dull old rooms
and mu«lc and laughter will be heard
where now only the echoes startle the
shadowy figures of former gaiety.
Alexandra has been preserving herself
to have her royal “fling,” and she Is
woman enough to Insist upon it.
SCYTHE IN TREE.
Unique Oddity on tlie Land of a Massa
chusetts Man.
The scythe seen In the singular posi
tion depicted in this picture lias a
unique history. The tree Itself Is lo
cated in tlie town of Warwick, Mass.
Early in the civil war a certain James
Bliss, while mowing In tlie fields, sud
denly decided to enlist. Hanging his
scythe over the limb of a small pine
THE SCYTHE IX THE THEE.
tree, and requesting It to be left there
until his return, he went to Athol
labout eight uillesi and Joined a regi
ment that was sent South. Unfortun
ately, he succumbed to fever, and the
Aptly Criticised.
scythe was never removed, with the
One of the best criticisms of Scott's result that tbe tree has grown entirely
novels was given by an Irish cobbler, around the blade. Bliss' father still
as related In tbe biography of "William lives in the town.
Stokes."
Doctor Stokes bail often loaned the British Marquis Captures a Th'cf.
The Marquis of Waterford has prov
cobbler odd volumes of Scott to read.
Walking beside him one day on tbe ed himself a first-rate amateur detec
tive. A roblier hail broken Into the Mar
road, the doctor said:
"Well, Denny, what did you think of quis’ house at Curragbmore and was at
once pursued by him nnd followed to
the last book I lent you?"
"It’s a great book, intlrely, docther, a public house four miles off. There
an' Sir Walter Scott's a tbrue his tbe robber bad seated himself among
a number of men who were drinking
torian.”
"I'm inclined to agree with you.” re and smoking and not one of them would
pik'd Doctor Stokes. "But what do you betray him. The Marquis, however, in
mean exactly by calling bim a true his sisted upon feeling all their hearts, and
as he
their landlord and the great
torian ?"
"I mane, your honor, he's a thrue his man of the county no one dared to re
torian because be makes you love your fuse. The man whose heart was still
twating quickly was the robber, who
kind.”
had Just ceased running.
It would be easier to forgive a fool if
he were original; but all ar« fools In
Experience teaches people a lot of
;U* same old ways.
things they would rather not know.