A DREAM GARDEN.
Where now are youth's superb domains?
A*garden 'neath a darkening sky,
A fangled garden bleak aud dry.
Is all that barren age retains.
Wbere are the roses and the boughs
That once hung low with fruity gold?
The vines are sere, the vines are old,
The trees in dusky torpor drowse.
Where «re the glorious sunset gleams
That spread their long rays of delight.
Mingling the hopes of day and night?
They shine across a waste of dreams.
O in that garden of the past
Bloomed flowers more than earthly fair,
Beamy and Strength and Love bloomed
there.
And Trust too quickly giv’n to last.
Yet in that garden still doth ring
The voices of a day long dead,
I hear the very words they Baid,
Borne on the gentle breeze of Spring.
That life is vain then, who shall say,
If in a dream he lives again
With every joy that crowned him when
The sword of youth kept pain at bay?
And while the sense of natural things
Of times that smile, of times that weep,
Visits my pillow ns I sleep.
Again my Garden smiles aud sings.
•—Portland Transcript.
THE MUMMY
NECKLACE.
I for help to someone stronger than tne
| thing; and then it moved, It lifted,
melted away iuto a gray mist—dlsap-
penred.
Then I sat up in bed; lit a candle,
which I never dared put out again; ob-
served the hour by my watch—between
4 and 5; and lay back, stricken, ex
hausted, trembling .longing for-some
thing human to come aud draw up the
blinds, and let in even the wet, dismal
daylight, rather than lie alone with the
memory of my midnight horror.
Two days after this my friend who
had taken the necklace to the clairvoy
ant came, bringing it back with her in
a sealed envelope, begging me uot to
touch it.
She gave me an account of her inter
view before I told her my experience. (I
The clairvoyant, in ills trance, hai|
become unusually excited when sliq
placed the necklace in his hands. lid
paced about the room, then flung hlmi1
self on the floor, saying, "Dying, dying,
I see autumn leaves everywhere—tliatj
Is death. O, tell her never to touch it' David Glasgow Farragut, first admiral
again. It is an accursed thing. It be of the United States navy, was born in
longed to an Egyptian king thousands Tennessee. He entered the navy as a
midshipman and fought his first battle on
of years ago. Blood and warfare fol i the Essex in 1814. He served in the navy
lowed his footsteps. He wore it. It fifty-eight years. He was 60 years of age
has never been on a woman's neck be when the civil war came. His first orders
fore. He knew she wore it, and when in that conflict were to capture New Or
he missed It from her neck be was leans, which he did under heroic circum-
angry. He wants his necklace again. stances in 1862. In this battle he de-
She must not wear It. It will be death j »troyed forts carrying 120 guns, twenty
to her. But even now she may be saved armed steamers, four ironclads and a
multitude of fire rafts. He was made a
if she never wears It or even touches it ( rear admiral for this in 1862. In 1863 his
again.”
1 fleet aided in the capture of Vicksburg
1 left off wearing that necklace and and Port Hudson, and one year later cap
finally parted with it, for ill-luck was tured Mobile. It was at Mobile that he
my lot as long as it was in my posses I was lashed to the rigging of his flagship,
| the Hartford, while under fire. For his
sion.
Tliat is the true story of the mummy sravery Congress made him a vice-ad-
niral in the fall of 1864, and in 1866 the
necklace as far as I am concerned. 1 iflice of admiral was especially created
have never seen my terrible visitot tor him. After his elevation he was placed
again. Will he come again some
n charge of the European squadron of
:his Government. He died at the Ports-
and ask what I have done with
uouth navy yard unexpectedly in 1870.
necklace?—Lady's Realm.
AMERICA’S THREE GREAT ADMIRALS—FARRAGUT, PORTER, DEWEY
The people of Servla have no objec
tions to the infliction of capital puulsh-
nient upon women; or. If they have ob
jections, they were forced to swallow
them when Mme. Jevrem was executed
for murder recently. She was neither
hanged nor placed In the electric chair.
She was placed against a wall aud
allot.
This happened in a Servian village
near Prokuplje. A Greek priest named
Irie Jevrem had been killed. His wife
and a peasant with whom she had be
come infatuated were found guilty and
condemned to be shot. On the day of
their fate the two culprits were taken
David Dixon Porter, second admiral of
the United States uavy, succeeded Farra
gut in that office, his commission dating
from Aug. 15, 1870. He was born in Penn
sylvania and entered the navy as a mid
shipman when he was 16 years old. He
was a lieutenant in 1841. In the first
eighteen years of his service he was ten
years in the Mediterranean service and
the remainder of the time on duty with
coast surveys. He was in command of the
mortar flotilla at the capture of New Or
leans, and in 1863 was made an acting
rear admiral and assigned to command
the Mississippi river squadron. For his
services in reducing Vicksburg he was
made a rear admiral in 1863. In the
spring of 1864 he fought with Banks on
the Red river expedition. The North At
lantic squadron was placed in h's charge
in 1864, and he attacked and captured
Fort Fisher, protecting Wilmington. The
fight lasted twenty days and was very
bloody. He was made vice-admiral in
1866 and soon after was placed in charge
of the naval academy at Annapolis.
HE mummy necklace was a
quaint, rough thing, more quaint
than beautiful, yet with a certain
plcturesqueness, and an undeniable
fascination, alternate beads of cornel
ian and gold, and two tiny hearts hang
ing from tlie three central beads.
My father gave it me one day, know
ing 1 had a fancy for these out-of-the-
way jewels. I do not know its history,
“I had a long talk with the chief, and
but was told it hud been taken off
PIGMIES OF AFRICA.
he conversed intelligently about the
neck of a mummy.
Alfred B. Lloyd Sees and Talks extent of the forest and the number
From the moment It was given
with Many of Them.
of his tribe. Except for a tiny strip of
Its curious fascination overcame
London has one street seventy
The
English
traveller Mr. Alfred B. bark cloth, men and women are quite
1 wore It day and night. I fancied it
long, being the shortest street in
Lloyd, made the journey from Victoria nude. They are armed with bows and
would bring me luck. I certainly felt
Nyanza to the mouth of the Congo in arrows—the latter tipped witli deadly
tiny soft pinches on my neck made by city.
three mouths, the quickest time on rec poison—and carry small spears. They
The new cable which has been
the bends. This I wondered at for a
ord,
using the Congo steamboat service are entirely nomadic, sheltering at
across
the
Atlantic
weighs
650
pounds
time, but afterward grew too accus
and railroad for two-thirds of the way. night in small huts two feet to three
tomed to them to wonder. There were to the mile. This Is the biggest of all
traveling through the great equatorial feet in height. They never go outside
curious marks on the beads; they were the cables.
forest of which Stanley gave so vivid the forest. During the whole time I
At Swedish weddings, among the
chipped off or indented. Here aud
a description. Ills route was a little to was with them they were perfectly
middle and lower classes, the bride
there were dark stains.
the south of Stanley's road, and he saw
From the moment I began to wear groom carries a whip. This is an em much of the dwarfs who inhabit the friendly.”
the necklace my health failed. I grew blem of Ills authority In the domestic
forest region.
“CZAR" REID, NEWFOUNDLAND
weaker and weaker, ami at last fell circle.
"1 was three weeks crossing the
seriously 111. Naturally I did not dream
Only seventy years have elapsid since great forest,” be said. “Often the dark He la One of the Greatest Land
Owners in the World.
of connecting my illness in uny way the first railway in the world was fin ness even nt midday is remarkable.
with the Influence of my mummy neck ished.
At tlie present moment, when New
During that comparatively Sometimes I was tumble to read at
lace. (tn tlie contrary, I clung to it brief period four hundred thousand noon, when as you know the sun near foundland and the Newfoundland dif
more and more, believing It to be a tal miles has been constructed.
the equator is almost directly over ficulty with the French are on every
isman.
Tlie Swiss society Rambert la has laid head. Due day I tried to photograph one’s lips, it is interesting to recall that
1 was lying on my sofa one day, when out an Aliiine garden at Montreaux, at my tent, but failed on account of the tills island—the "tenth island” of the
a friend, w ho bad observed my neck an elevation of six thousand feet, dimness of tlie light. I walked through world, as Beckles Willson has remind
lace then for the first time, said, "Why where the characteristic trees and flow out the forest journey, though I had a ed ns in his recently published work—
do you wear that? It isn't pretty. Let ers of the country are to be cultivated. saddle ass with me. I could not use is to all Intents and purposes in the
me look at It.”
him without constantly exposing my hands of a single man, and that man,
Steel rails now figure as the cheapest
She held it a moment and then Hill V-
self to the danger of being unsaddled by birth at least, is a Scotsman.
finished product in wrought iron or
cred.
steel.
A
good
lesson
on
the
finances
"O, It's n
wear
It. It will
luck, of modern Industry is also afforded I»y
I believe those are tlie marks of teetli them. To establish a steel-rail works,
an expenditure of $3,000,000 is required
and tlie stains of blood!”
1 said. "It bewitches me. I can't bear before a single rail can be turned out.
to part with It, and I wear it day and The steel is made to conform to an ac
curate chemical composition -the most
llig!»:.”
Another friend of mine took a dislike accurate in the ordinary range of tech
to it. .She was a believer In magic of all nical operations.
In Arizona a railroad company is the
sorts, and was persuaded that the neck
lace Imd made me ill mid was prevent builder of a dam to form a reservoir
for water for the supply of the locomo
Ing my recovery.
"Yes," she said. “It lias an influence tives. Tlie dam is curious in being
formed partly of steel ¡dates. A ma
— tliat I believe but for evil."
At last she persuaded me to let her sonry foundation runs across the bot
take It to a clairvoyant. A certain cob tom of tlie gap. and masonry abutments
bler In a suburb of London was tlie are built on each side, and the center
clairvoyant we chose. He and I had and main portion is a steel frame faced
had strange experiences some time be with steel plates. The plates are bent
fore tills l>ut. as Rudyard Kipling says, to give them stiffness. The steel por
tion Is ISM» feet long and forty feet high,
“that Is another story."
1 purled witli the necklace reluctant equal to tlie front of a block of low
ly. My friend promised to arrange an city houses. Tlie plates are three-
interview with tlie cobbler the next eighths of an Indi thick.
day. If poaslble.
TIMING OF A RAILWAY TRAIN.
That night I fastened my |>earl neck
lace on, missing the feeling of the There Are ' everal Ways of Ascertain
mummy chain.
ing the Fpeed Made.
1 lay awake nil night. I was not al
Not one person In a hundred who
MR. I.I.OYD RECEIVING VISITORS IN CAMP.
lowed a sleeping driift, aud I had travels has any Idea of the speed of a
coughed till I was exhausted, but not train, amt even a large percentage of by the vines that hung over the path.
To convey an idea of the real size of
sleepy.
the regular trainmen cannot tell with We sometimes narrowly escaped being Newfoundland it may be ns well to
Towards dawn my nurse shut the any degree of accuracy. Engineers use killed by the fall of enormous trees, state that it Is a sixth larger than Ire
door hetwi-en her room ami mine. 1 re- their driving wheel as a gauge. ' They some of whose trunks measured over land. But It is doubtful if Robert Gil
member observing tlie light coming know Its clrcummerence, and by 20 feet In circumference. Tlie silence lespie Reid's 5,000,000 acres, were they
through tlie empty keyhole of her door, counting its revolutions within a
cer- of death reins In this forest unless even ’u Ireland, would possess the
and each side of my dark blinds.
tain time can tell very accurately the broken by animals or tlie fall of trees." value which that extent of territory
Tlie rain beat loudly on the windows, speed at which they are running.
Mr. Lloyd saw many more dwarfs promises to possess in Newfoundland.
I lay listening to tlie weary sound.
A favorite method of timing among than Stanley met In tlie same region For since the colony, tired of official
Suddenly my wrist was seized and passengers is to count the telegraph and thus described them:
violently shaken; the bangles I wore, poles. As a rule these poles are planted
"I saw a great many of the pigmies,
hung with talismans, rattled and Jtn- thirty to the mile, but in prairie coun but, generally speaking, they kept out
gied together. Another moment ami tries, wiiere only a single wire Is used, of tlie way ns much as possible. At
my throat was seized by tiglitly clutch the number diminishes to twenty five, , one place in the middle of tlie forest
Ing. strong hands.
so that rule will not always work. The called Holenga I stayed at a village of
1 said to myself; "This is death, and most accurate method, ami the most In i a few huts occupied by so-called Arabs.
I There I came upon a great number of
it Is terrible."
use by experienced railroad men, is to
Still tin* clutch tightened. My pearl count the number of rail joints the I pigmies who came to see me. They
necklace was shaken. Even then I train passes over lu twenty seconds. told me that unknown to myself they
thought: "The pearls will be scattered.” The rails on nearly all roads are thirty hail lieen watching me for five days,
Then tlie thought came swift and feet In length, ami the numlier passed peering through the growth of the
| primeval forest at our caravan. They
horrible:
over In twenty seconds Is the speed I appeared to be very frightened, and
"He has come for ills necklace.” (He.) per hour a train Is running.
| even when speaking covered their
The next flash of thought was, "Tills
For instance. If a passenger can fnces. I slept at this village, and in the
Is n struggle of thousands of years ago count thirty clicks on a rail joint In
morning 1 asked tlie chief to allok me
being reenacted. Dentil Is terrible. If twenty secouds, the train Is running at
to photograph the dw arfs. He brought
only I could call (or help! If only I u s|s*ed of thirty mles an hour. Actu
ten or fifteen of them together, and I
could S|s'ak!” But the fingers clutched ally. this method falls a little short, ns was enabled to secure a snapshot. I
my throat too tightly.
In the example given above the speed could not give a time exposure as the
Ami then I opened my eye« and saw would be nearer thirty-one than thirty pigmies would not stand still.
n great gray formless thing, it lay miles, but It Is near enough for all prac
"Then with great difficulty I tried to
stretched out on my lied, ami through tical purposes.
I measure them, and found not one of
" C’AW
It I saw the light shining through the
j them over four feet in height. All were
empty keyhole.
W omen's Hkulla the Cheaper.
fully developed. The women were Inertia and the lack of capital, decided
Even then, through my terror. I
A medical student la authority for the somewhat slighter than the men, but to turn over its assets to a private cap
thought: "Shall I Is* believed when 1 stateiueut that women's skulls com were equally well formed.
italist by means of the measure known
tell them tomorrow? Yea. It must be nintul a much lower price than those of
“I was amazed at their sturdiness. as the Reid contract. It has l>een dis
true, because I hear the rain twating men. "It la poaslble," he says, "to ob Their arms and chests were splendidly covered that Newfoundland Is not only
on tlie window pane all the time.”
tain the skull of a woman for $1.50, developed, as much so as in a good a rich country, but one of the richest
And all the time the clutching and while that of a man cannot lie had for specimen of an Englishman. These on earth.
the struggling never ceased upon my less than $2. The reason why? Well, tneu have long Hards half way down
Everyone must remember Gilead P.
throat. I seemed to be so near to a woman'« skull, as a rule. Is consider the chest which Imparts to them a Beck In that entertaining work, "The
death tliat struggling on my part was ably smaller than a man's. It Is said strange appearance. They are very Golden Butterfly," and of bls marvel
useless It was at that supreme n»o to I* imperfectly developed; It Is an timid, and cannot look * stranger In the lous discoveries of oil In a certain
meiit I realized most distinctly the Inferior specimen of the article anj face. Their eyes are constantly shift waste territory In Canada. Mr. Reul
horror of the great, gray, transparent altogether less useful to scleuce; hen s ing. as in the case of monkeys. They Is said not only to have "located” nine
I are fairly intelligent
thing Al my soul went out into a cry Its lower market value."
i teen oil wells on bls land, but enormous
T
SERVIAN WOMAN EXECUTED.
Convicted Murderess Placed Against a
Wall and Shot.
George Dewey, third admiral of the
United States uavy, is a Vermonter by
birth. He is in his sixty-first year of age.
He graduated from the academy at Ann
apolis before the civil war and immedi
ately sought active duty with the Union
fleets of Foote and Farragut, then press
ing the Confederate navy in the South.
He served with such gallantry under Far
ragut that he was especially commended
in writing by that eminent commander. At
the end of the war he cruised in European
waters and was with the Asiatic squadron
for a time.
Returning to the United
States, he was given shore duty, which
was not to his taste, and he returned to
the sea. In January, 1898, while on land
duty at Washington, he requested to be
sent to sea again. The Secretary of the
Navy decided to place him in command of
the Asiatic squadron, with little thought
as to what that would in the end mean
for this country. Dewey on taking charge
of the Asiatic squadron was a commodore.
For the battle of Manila, May 1, 1898,
he was made rear admiral.
A DRAMATIC EXECUTION.
to the public square and faced a firing
squad of soldiers with loaded rifles,
ehind the squad stood a huge mass Of
spectators from far aud near.
The execution lacked no element of
the dramatic. The man wept and la-
mented aud begged for mercy, The
woman was calm, The squad had
made ready to tire, when an aid came
dashing through the square on horse
back. His coming merely prolonged
the strain upon the two criminals. The
man embraced his knees in the hope
that he brought a pardon; the woman
turned more pale, but was silent. Mer
cy It was, but only partial. The aid
bore a reprlve indeed, but only for the
man. She begged lier companion to re
main with her to the end. But the fel
low followed the guards away without
even addressing one word of pity to
the woman. And then—but is there any
need to tell the rest?
quantities of coal, Iron, copper and as
bestos as well. “Czar” Reid, as this
quiet, unassuming man has already
come to be called, has already refused
several millions sterling for his prop
erty, and in spite of the agitation in
the colony to rescind the bargain there
seems every reason to believe that Mr.
Reid will live to enjoy one of the larg
est private fortunes of the period, and
to acquire a European reputation for
his sagacity In exploiting a huge Island
which was barren when be appeared
on the scene.
!
But this singular man has had. in a
measure, to pay the penalty which for
tune so often exacts from the success
ful. His career from the day, forty
years ago, when he left his native
Scotland to seek his fortune, has been
I
full of many of the rough spots of the
earth and bard work and exposure,
especially in Newfoundland and Can
ada, have obliged him for a time to re
lax his energies. But even while he is
thus forced to seek an Algerian re
treat, the mighty work of developing
so vast a property goes unceasingly on.
Reid possesses pluck as well as ability,
for upon a recent occasion he ventured
A correspondent of Printers’ Ink
into a mine whence no one of his work sends the following to that journal:
men would follow him. and in the sub
West Union, la., has a population of
sequent explosion sustained severe in 2.000. One of Its progressive firms is
juries—especially to his eyesight.
the dry goods establishment of Thomas
& Magner, the latter a young man with
USUAL METHOD OF ACTION.
1 training gained in selling goods for
Bashful Y< uth*s Explanation of a Sud! Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., of Chicago.
den Assumption of a Seat.
The writer called upon Mr. Magner re-
He is an extremely diffident fellow, rently, and found him engaged lu pre
this South Side youth, but is also en paring a 6-column advertisement to ap
amored of a fair maiden. She likes pear in each of the three county seat
him right back and is not averse to giv papers.
ing him help in emergencies. But she
"I have noticed, Mr. Magner,” said
finds it a difficult matter to get her ad the writer, “that you are departing
mirer to respond to the calls of society, somewhat from the usual lines in coun
for he sinks into a condition of too try advertising. Do you find that the
many feet and hands when in the whirl regular use of page ads is helping your
social. But she has her hopes.
business?”
Not long ago, when the chill winds
"Well, yes,” said Mr. Magner, “some
had reduced the previously deposited thing is helping It, and I don't kuow
snow into glaring ice, they set forth what else to blame for It. We have
to walk to a near-by home to engage in been compelled to put on extra clerks
the attractions of progressive euchre this week, and still people have beea
and chocolates. He was very tender kept waiting.”
and solicitous lest she tumble, slip and
“What do you find to be the taking
fall upon the icy sidewalk. Not being feature of your ads?”
endowed with the certainty of footing
“Prices,” said Mr. Magner promptly.
of the patient burro himself, fate over “Our advertising Is all prices. We
took him and he smote the earth with quote low figures on goods of known
a crash heard blocks away.
quality, and we set apart a certain
Thereupon a look of Intense anguish hour of the day when we will sell a
sped over his face, for his spine seem pertain sort of goods at a cut price. We
ed shortened. The “girlie” was in tears also have special sales, from a week to
of pity. She clasped her hands and a mouth, at which we offer special In
loved him for his woes.
ducements on special lines.”
"Oh, Charlie,” she murmured broken
"Do you find that the trade resulting
ly, "does it hurt?”
from this Is largely confined to the spe
"No,” he gasped with a sickly grin. cial lines, or is it general?”
"Of course not. You see, I always sit
“General. We seldom sell a cus
down that way.”
tomer—especially a customer from a
Now she loves him for his courage distance—only the goods used as a
and ability to tell a fib to extricate him leader. It is my Idea that when a
self from a painful and unpleasant po farmer comes to town to buy dry goods
sition.—Chicago Chrouicle.
he has a "little list’ that has been In
process for weeks, perhaps months,
A Bank of Brides.
Simla, the summer capital of the In if we can induce him to come to our
dlan Empire, is a pretty pine-treed store, we check off the eutlre list.”
"Then it is your opinion that the mak
plnce well up in the foothills of the
Himalayas. A feature of Simla life is ing of leaders is as good a plan in the
the annual fair held by the native hills country as in the city?”
"Better. We don't have swarms of
lieople. aq attractive Item of which is
a "Bank of Bride«" in an amphitheater, bargain-hunters to contend with. A
where sit numbers of young women man doesn't hitch up and drive ten o.
who thus calmly announce that they fifteen miles to buy only a few yards
are candidates for hymeneal honors. of prints. But be does buy the print«.”
Some of these aspirants to matrimony
Disinfection of Streets.
so patiently awaiting a choosing are
The I,ondou streets in summer are
quite pretty, and have Intelligent
faces; but those of Mongol caste must carefully disinfected by means or wa
needs linger long for a partner, if per ter carts, which are at work by day and
sonal lieauty enters into the equation.— night, while the openings of the sewers
are also strewn with a disinfectant
Woman's Home Companion.
powder of the same sort as that used
Matches Without Phosphorus.
In solution for the water carts. The
Kohlmann Rosenthal, an English powder used In watering the streets is
man. and Dr. Von Komockl, a Berlin commercially pure potassic perman
chemist, assert that they have invent ganate. or permanganate of potash, a
ed a match that will strike anywhere powerful oxidizing agent. One ounce
and no phosphorus is used In it This is sufficient for 100 gallons of water.
Invention, they say. will do away with
F.ggs Used In Calico Works.
the horrors of necrosis, to which em
CUico print works use 40.000,000 dos-
ployes in match factories are subject
eu eggs per year, wine clarifiers use
There is one thing that is true of a
10.000.000 dozen, the photographers
widower: he Is always wondering If he
and other Industries use many millions,
can bite at a bait without getting
and these demands Increase more r«9*
caught in the book.
idly than table demands.
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