COI.f MDV. (. Behind him 17 ths tray A torse, , Behind the of liarcnles; " r. Before him not tha (host of shores, , Before him only shoreless seas. The food mate said: "Now must w pray, ' For lo I ths very stare are one. t 6peak. Admiral, what shall 1 ear?" "Why say, 'Sail on I tall onl and on!' My men rrow mutinous day by dan My men grow ghastly wan and weak." The atont mat thought of borne; a spray Of anlt wave washed his swarthy cheek. What shall I say. brara Admiral, say, j If we siglit naught but seas at dawn? Why, you shall say at break of dayt 'Sail onl tall out and onl and on 1'" They sailed and sailed, as winds mlclit blow, Until at last the blanched mate said: Why, now, not erenQod would know Should I and all my mil fall dead. These ery winds forget their way. Tor God from these dread seas It gone. Now speak, brare Admiral, speak and say-" He tatd: "Sail onl tall oul and onl" They sailed. They sailed. Then spoke hit mate: 'This mad sea shows its teeth to-night, lie curls his lip, he lies In wait. With lifted teeth, as if to bitet Brave Admiral, eay but one good word: What shall we do when hope logout?" The words leaped as a leaplur sword: "Sail onl sail on! tall on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept.blt deck. And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck Alightl Alight! Alight! A Unlit! It grew, a ttarlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Tlme't burst of dawn. He gained a world; be gave that world Ttsgraudest lesson; "On! and on!" Joaquin Miller in the Argonaut. DO SHARKS BITE ' Assertions That They Will Not At tack a Swimmer. On the question whether sharks will attack men when swimming', a corre spondent of the New York Sim writes as follows: I wns on a Pacific mail steamer in tho Bay of Champerico. Tho water was clear and we counted seven sharks, raug iug from about seven to eleven feet in length. We got out a shnrk hook and line and baited it with pork. Our principal assistant was a little chap who had just finished his time in the navy. While we were at luncheon a shark took a bite at the bait. The young seaman was too hasty, and as a result the big fish was badly hooked and dropped off when hauled about a foot out of the water. However, our young friend seemed to know a lot about shark fishing and sharks, the result of his many cruises, and when stories were told of men bitten by sharks he scoffed and put it to the test of experiments. To the consterna tion of nearly everybody he dived from the gangway and swam around to the spot where the sharks were awaiting the kitchen refuse. Iu every instance where on of them happened to see him it acted as if scared, and moved rapidly in au other direction. It was tho same in the bay at St. Jose, Guatemala. At that place there is a big spotted shark whom tourists easily recognire as an old friend, and call "Joe. " The little sailor chap swam after him, and he swam in front of him and in front of others. Several sharks must have seen the boy, but none showed ths slightest inclination to attack. He said the same thing had been tried before many a time, and that nobody in the navy now believed that there was any danger of attack from harks when swimming, although it was possible that they might take a snap at r dead floating body. GEOGRAPHICAL ODDITIES. Sent Little Wonders of the Western Warld. On Lnmml Island, State of Washing ton, there is a mountain slope of white sandstone, 100 feet wide and 1,800 feet long, called the Devil's Slide. The strange thing about it is, that every few minutes a scale of sandstone comes shoot ing down the slide and is hurled into the waters of the bay. The unsolved mys tery is this : What cause the scales to detach themselves in this unique fashion? Medical Lake is fifteen miles by rail from the city of Spokane Falls, State of Washington. The lake is two miles long, half a mile wide, and sixty feet deep. It is filled with a saline and alka line water, having a slightly chalybeate admixture, and is a popular health resort Tor the people of the northwest. Sour Lake is a small lake of acidulous mineral water, in Hardin county, Texas, forty-five miles by rail east of Houstoa Its waters have a considerable local repu tation in the treatment of various diseases. There is said to be a canon on the slopes of Mount Baker (in the State of Washington), the walls of which are composed of a kind of volcanic glass. Notes and Queries. Indian Courage. The annals of no country can show any savage foe so formidable for his uuruber to trained regular troops of the white race as the American Indian. The tales of the Sepoy rebellion, replete as they are with heroic achievements of British soldiers, read like absurd fairy tales to Indian fighters of our army. The spectacle, repeated again and again, of a hcore or so of these Englishmen riding through as many thousands of opposing Sepoys, disciplined, an thoroughly sup plied with the best of firearms would be a very novel one to those accustomed to the temper of the savage of our own continent Had Captain Jack or Joseph r Geronimo, with such warriors as they led, been the sort of foes to attack the English power in India, the history of Delhi and Lucknow would have been written in far darker characters on the wges of EugliMh history. Self-reliant, intelligent, fierce in battle, inimitable horsemen, armed with the modern rifle, our own Indians have often waged suc cessful battle with regular troops unsur passed in quality and far outnumbering them. It is doubtful if even the Cos sack or Arab can be compared with thaw in partisan warfare. Whit Tar. i White tar is one of the latest inventions or discoveries. . It will not become soft under the sun's rays in any climate, and is expected to be used largely in calking (he seams of fine yachts. ' r , TUB JAPAMB.SB WAITRttSf. A Vltlan of Perfection That Seams Americana Impossible. The Japanese waitress is evidently n creature full of kindliness and winning glares. Sir Edwin Arnold met her at a dinner in Japan, where sho contributed greatly by her tact and courtesy to the success of the occasion. To each guest there entered a pretty, bright, well dressed Japauese waitress with hair decked "to the nines," stuck full of flow, crs and jeweled pins and shining like polished black marble. She never speaks or settles to any seri ous duty of the entertainment without falling on her little knees, sraoothlug her skirt over them and knockiug her nice little flat noss ou the floor, and will either demurely watch you use your chopsticks in respectful silence, or prettily converse and even offer her advice as to the most succulent dishes, and the best order In which to do them justice. It is not very difficult to use the chop sticks, those simple knives and forks of Eastern Asia, if once you learn the secret of the guiding finger between them. Otherwise you will drop the first mouth ful front the soup bowl on your shirt front, to the gentle, but nevertheless satirical laughter of your waitress. Amid the talk which buzzes around you will have inquired of her already, "What is your honorable name?" and "How many are your honorable years?" and she will have told you that she is "Miss Starr," "Miss Camillia," or "Miss Antelope," and that she was 18 or other wise on her last birthday. She counsels you to seize that tiny lump of yellow condiment with your chopsticks, to drop it in the soy, to stir up and flavor these with the pink flakes of salmon, and you get on famously, watched by her with the warmest per sonal interest. Now and again she shuffles forward on her small knees to fill your cup or to rear range the confusion into which your lit tle bowls and platters have somehow fallen, always with a consummate grace, modesty and good breeding. With the condiments her little fingers have mixed, the uncooked trout is so good that you cease presently to feol like a voracious seal, and wonder if it be not wrong, after all to boil or fry anything. Environed by all these tiny dishes, and lightly fluttering from one to another, you begin at last to be conscious of hav ing dined extraordinarily well. So you say, "Mo yoroshii "(it is enough), and the service relapses a little for music and dancing. Youth's Companion. WHAT TO TEACH A DAUGHTER. How to Blake of Her a True and Noble Woman. Teach her that not only must she love Iter father and mother, but honor them in word and deed. That work is worthy always when it is well done. That the value of money is just the good it will do in life, but that she ought to know and appreciate this value. That the man who wishes to marry her is the one who tells her so and is willing to work for her, and not the one who whispers silly love speeches and forgets that meu cease to be men when they have no object in life. That her best confidant is always her mother, and that no one sympathizes with her in her pleasures and joys as you do. Teach her to think well before she says no or yes, but to mean it when she does. Teach her to avoid men who speak lightly of any of the great duties of life, who show in their appearance that their habits are bad. Teach her that her own room is her nest, and that to make it sweet and at tractive is a duty as well as a pleasure. Teach her that if she can sing or read or draw, or give pleasure in any way by her accomplishments, she is selfish und unkind if she does not do this gladly. Teach her to be a woman self-respct-ing, honest, loving and kind, and then you will have a daughter who will be a pleasure to you always, and whose days will be long and joyous in the land which the Lord has given her. Ladies' Home Journal. Illations of Great Men. Ooethe states that he one day saw ths exact counterpart of himself coining to ward him. Pope saw an arm apparently coming through the wall, and made inquiries after its owner. Byron often received visits from a spectre, but he kuew it to be a creation of the imagination. Dr. Johnson heard his mother call his name iu a clear voice, though she was at the time in another city. Baron Emmanuel Swedenborg believed that he had the privilege of interview ing persons in ths spirit world. Sir Joshua Reynolds, leaving his house, thought the lamps were trees, and the men and women bushes agitated by the breeze. Ravaillac, while chanting the "Mis erere" and "Lie Profundis," believed that the sounds he emitted were of the nat ure and had the full effect of a trumpet Oliver Cromwell, lying sleepless on his couch, saw the curtains open and a gi gantio womun appear, who told him that he would become the greatest man iq England. Ben Jonson spent the watches of the night an interested spectator of a crowd of Tartars, Turks, and Roman Catholics who rose up and fought round his arm chair till sunrise. Bostok, ths physiologist, saw figures and faces, and there was one human face constantly before him for 24 hours, the features and headgear as distinct as '.hose of a living person. Oats As a Brain Food. The Paris School of Philosopy has re contly conducted experiments as to tho value of oats as a food, which seems to show that ths kernel contains three med icinal principals, the first of which tends to calm, sooths and tons up tho brain and general nerve tissues, the second yield log phosphates for the weakened and hungry nerves, and the third, residing in ths husk of ths oat acting as a laxativo by its action on the digestive track." i The Bird of Wisdom. The owl took hit hat and his gloves one night. Ills sweetheart for to tea; When bis daddy asked him where bt went, On a definite object I'm latent, "To wit, to woo. " said ha, To wit, to wit, to wool" Cut he so ret had stepped outside ths door. When he could ant fall to teo That the tky with cloudt waa all o'ercast, The rata was falling hard and fast. "Too wet to woo, " said he; "Too wet, too wet, to wool" Harvard Lampoon. A Horto With reclines. A lame and half starved old whits horse, attached to a wagon partly loaded with ashes, stood on John R street, sear Adams, and a schoolboy about 10 years old stood with his hands in his pockets looking at the horse, says ths Detroit Journal. The owner of the rig came out of ths cellar with a basket of ashes on his skoal der, and after dumping them into ths wagon, he turned to the boy and said : "Look yere, boy, what yo' doin' yere?" "Lookln'," was the reply. What you lookln' at?" " Look iu' at the horse. " " Wall, you run right 'long "bout your biziiesa. Dat boss has got feelin's. If you keep lookiu' at him he'll bimeby think he's got to get up and prance and snort around an' run away an' smash dis wagiu' all to squaalt, Deu de queshun comes up wbVs gwine to pay de dam ages, an' your pore fadder will wish you had nebber been bo'n. " "I gueas I can look!" muttered the boy as lis Moved off. "Iduntole ye, boy I I shan't bodder wld you no mo'l If your fadder is wurf a millyon dollars an' you want to take de chnnces den you go right ahead; but doan' you dun sw'ar befo' de jedge dat I didn't tola you dat boss had feelin's an' might kick up tho awfulest ambulaahuo eber heard on John R street " Mr. Blank a Hilarity Waa Ill-Timed. A well known citizen who resides iu the northern part of town when he went out bareheaded this morning after tho paper found a hat lying on the sidewalk in front of his gnte, says the Stockton Mail. Some fellow while ou a spree dur ing the night must have lost it, he thought The hat was a little the worse (or mud, but the hat was a good one and he picked it up and took it in to show his wife. 'Mary," he said, "just look what I've fotind." 'Why, that's a real nice hat, Jchn," she said. "Well, I should smile." "Where in the world did you find it?" "Oh, out on the sidewalk." "But how did it get there?" "Oet there?" he echoed, in surprise. " Well, that's a nice question to ask. Get there? Great Scottl Do you think it grew like a, mushroom hey ? Mebbs you imagine it walked there on its ear. Get there ? Why, any fool would know that some chap lost it on a howling drunk." 'But bo might claim it?" she Inter posed, mildly. 'Ob, no 1 11 bet he was so full he can t remember now whether he slept in a barn or a bed. Say, that's a pretty good hat, Mary, aud I'll get you to fix it up. By jingo, it's just my fit, too. " And he tried it on. She took the hat and examined it care fully. Then a dangerous look stole into her eyes and she snapped : "John Blank, you re an old fool!" "Iam, hey?" "Yes, you arsl" Why?" ( "This is your hat" ' ' Bs snatched the tile up, looked at it critically and then dashed out of ths house as he recalled to mind ths fact that bs himself had corns home vtry late. . rot's Device. . Ths following incident, told by ths Utica Times, of ths method employed by a clever son of Erin to induce his passen gers to walk up hill, shows that a grace f ul, witty hint is pretty sure to prove ir resistible. Up one of the long hills of County Wicklow a mars was drawing a heavy load of travelers. Ths driver walked by bar sids, trying to encourage her as shs toiled slowly and wearily along. The six passengers were too busily en gaged in conversation to notice bow slowly ths car progressed. Presently ths driver opened ths door at tho rear of ths car and slammed it to again. Tboss in side started, but thought that he was only assuring himself that ths door was se curely closed. Again Pat opened and slammed to the door. The travelers inquired angrily why he disturbed them in that manner. " Whist, " he whispered, " don't spake so loud she'll overhear us, " "Who?" The mare. Spaks low, " he continued, putting his hand over his mouth and nose. "Sure, I'm desavin' the crayturel Every time shs bears ths door slammin' that way shs thinks ons of yez is gettin down to walk up ths bill, and that raises her s pernta. " The passengers took ths bint i i A Heeded Warning. Sy Oh, ntver converse with a dynamite Bend, Tho' harmless to yon he may teem. For ha with hit creed Is so well magi. lined. So brimmed to the lip with his scheme, So utterly crammed with the tame thro' and thro' That if on ths theme you'd embark. V A deadly explosion would likely ensue If he'd happaa to drop a remark. Boston Coorler. Henry was visiting a relative who had 0 large attio full of eld things. One day when he bad been playing up there, be came running down stairs and shouted : Cousin Anna, what doyou think Ifound in tho attio ? I found a Bibls with an apothecary in it " Mrs. Youngwifs I want a nics ham, please. Shopman Yes, ma'am. I can strongly recommend this ons; it's well cured. Mrs. Yoangwife (in alarm) Ok, don't give me one that has bad anything lbs matter with it, even if it is cured nowl Let me have a perfectly healthy one, please! London Punch, i i. We Send Free by mail to any woman a beautifully illustrated book, containing over go pages of most important infor mation about all forms of female complaints. No woman should live without a copy of "Guide to Health and Etiquette," by Lydia E. Pinkham. Thousands of women have been benefited by Mrs. Pinkham's advice after afl other medical treatment had failed. Send 2 two-cent stamps to cover postage and packing, when you write for the book. 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