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NOT OURS THE VOW,
BY BERNARD RARTON
Not ours tho vows of such as plight
Their troth in sunny weather,
While leaves are groen and skies are bright,
To walk on flowers together.
But we have lovod as those who tread
The thorny path of sorrow,
With clouds above, and cause to dread
Yet deeper gloom to-morrow
That thorny path, those stormy skics,
Have drawn our spirits nearer,
And rendered us by sorrow’s ties,
Each to the other dearer.
Love, born in hours of joy and mirth
With mirth and joy may perish;
Tha! to which darker hours gave bird
Still more and more we cherish
It looks beyond the clouds of time
And through death's shadowy portal
Made by adversity sublime;
By faith and hope immortal
BY HARRY WwW. FRENCH,
ight on the
looking
We were encamped for the n
rugged hills above Dongols
down upon the distant Nile,
Same time before, while I was in South
Africa, the largest diamond taken
the mines for years was stolen right be
fore the open eyes of the officials.
Who took it? Some one who was
Africa at the time. Where did he
with it? To Europe, Asia or America,
perhaps, or he may have remained in
Africa. [It wasastonishing, but that was
the sum and substance of the informa-
tion which the officials possessed.
The gem was of fabulous value, and
every possible effort was made to find it.
Agents were sent to every point where it
sale, and large re
3,
in
To
might be offered f
wards were set upon its req
Chancing tb be at at the
time of the robbery, I imbibed, tempor-
arily, a little of the inteuse excitement.
It soon wore away, however, jour.
ney through the wilderness, where 1
out of the way of hearing v
ever concerning it: and
camped upoa the rocks above
looking down upon the Nile, t
event was so far forgotte
have required thi
call it to mind at all.
So glorious the
seemed a pity to sleep
hair teat, but we
early in the mor
the sun sink
! moon rise out
reluctantly drew the «
closed my eves,
Surely 1 had not
moon was
» with a start,
stant, positive that somethi
in the wind, and thorous
to find out what,
My shelter wa
tent, and my bed-
was directly in t
of invariable precaution
bery, and sometimes :
mitted
hands
tent-cloth from the outside.
A narrow line of moonli
through a crack in the tent,
posi the moon
be positive that
to i .
Some
te
Overy
on a
ny thing wl
before we
Dongola
he wi
SOINCL
Wis
nto th
Ti
Wi
still
on the
that :
100 of
ao one was with me
in the tent.
close at hand, however, and
mischief, ure
my cyes resting
moment,
I lay intently listening. bu
still, exc ept for the invarn
night upon the Nile, and in proximity to
a slecping caravan. Here and there a
scavenger was barking. An Arab was
snoring not far away, and now
a camel sighed,
I tried to convince myself
dream had roused me, and
best judgment was forcing myself asleep
again when a faint grating in the sand
outside the tent attracted my attention,
In an instant my cars and eyes were
fixed upon the spot, and slowly, very
slowly, I saw the tent-cloth move. [It
rose a little from the sand, and a darker
object appeared in the narrow space be-
low. It was not light enough to dis
tinguish more, but I knew very well that
aman was lying on the ground outside,
peering uuder the cloth to discover my
whereabouts, :
“Ah, my dear fellow,” I said to my-
self, “you ace I know your tricks. I'm
one SOmoewlicere
was
of
I was as s
were
ble noises of a
that
against
some
in
cose ingide before you get at me."
I breathed heavily and regularly to
sure him that | was asleep,
The tent-cloth fell again and 1 heard
the sand grating once more as he rose to
his feet. He was disappointed, poor
voould doubtless prive it up and go away
after disturbing my sleep all for noth
ing. Mf be was more than that, and thor
oughly iu earnest for any cause what
ever, he would presently come reeping
under the curtain at the door.
He proved to be very decidedly in
carnest, and less of a coward than I sup
posed was to be found on the Nile, fy
uo more time than it took him to walk
to the entrance the curtain was cautious
ly drawn back for an instant. A stal.
wart figure stepped noiselessly into the
tent and the curtain fell again,
One glimpse was all that I obtained,
but that one was full of suggestion. He
was no coward. He stood as erect as it
was possible in my tent door; but lie was
a giant, He was forced to stoop to enter,
and his huge black outline stood out, for
an instant, against the sky. There were
broad and heavy shoulders, a massive
neck, and the arm which lifted the cur.
tain was seamed and bulging with the
muscles of Hercules,
One instant the moonlight had dis
closed this. much. The next he was in
the tent with me, and all was dark. In
that instant, however, two other inci.
dents eaught my eye. In his hand he
held a gleaming South. African dirk, and
as the light crossed his cheek I noticed a
peculiarly savage curve to the lower jaw,
ending abruptly under an ear where the
large silver ear-ring was further in front
than usual, owing to the fact that a form.
er ring had been torn away at some time,
taking the lobe of the ear with it,
It is always astonishing. whoo brought
to notice, what an amount
the mind ean do in an emergency, Be-
fore the fellow had time to take a single
step from the curtain I knew that he
was a Kaffir; that he had no more to do
with the region of the Nile than I; that
he had come a long way for a purpose;
that the purpose was to kill me-—-unless
he was making a mistake in identity—
and that we had met before. 1 could not
think how or where, but plainly as
memory ever reprofluced anything, it re
produced that savage jaw and lobeless
is
also realized that he was much more than
a match for me in strength: that I had
no weapon which could be made to serve
me: that { was on my
back while he was on his feet; that my
only chance was to do something unex
pected that would take him off his
guard, and that he had but five feet of
space to cross before he reached me,
the dim shadow stealthily moving toward
me,
He stood beside me, paused for a mo-
ment, muttering a native prayer, then
‘hat was the last
ceremony. I knew the end was near,
but fought myself in vain for some sug
crestion of self-defense.
He sank upon ove knee, and his broad
shoulders came between me and the nar
line moonlight. I heard him
breathe with that hard, guttural rasp
which with the half-civilized is always
indicative of desperate carnestness I
ainst my
row of
even felt his breath ¢ face as he
hentlower over it, picreing the shadows
with eves that glistened even
1088, to assure himself that there was no
in the dark
mistake,
Life
times,
may be she KOMmMe
but moment that seems like
a
1 There
tent to see the shimmer
he held,
and watch
thin
eternity. bt enough io the
wa
of the polished
and | fixed my eyes upon
it it as I nes hed
or before
Slowly it
It coul
he was kneel
igntnin
darkness,
piannin
without
. For
» next | sa
ir ub
me, w the |
the flashing and the
moon, and realized that wi
3
of al
ATS
I sprang to my
what [| had gained
few f
f
os
| pile a few away.
Arabs were thrusting their
their blankets: a camel opened his dro
eyes and looked over his shoulder,
dering what had occurred to disturb his
sleep, but the Kaffir was nowhere to be
eet
Won
list
seen,
He could not pos gone far
but there was not a sign of him anywhere,
It would not do to try to sleep again
while he was in the neighborhood, but
while I revolved the curious situation in
| my mind, wondering who he was, where
I had seen him, and what possible motive
he could have for killing me. 1 Jrected
an Arab who had gained his feet to help
me straighten out my tent.
Wet yok up the loose ro
pes that were
and began to
Was it caught upon something? i
stooped to investigate and started back.
was still rolled 1n the tent cloth,
He was too powerful a man to allow us
to run any risks, and before I investizat
ed to see how badly he was hurt we
bound him hand and foot,
He revived during the operation, but
| with the dogged resignation to the inex.
| trapped and offered no resistance.
{ When he was well secured I sat down
| on the ground beside him and tried to
| talk, but he was sullen.
| not sure that he understood what I said,
for I spoke in Arabic, knowing very
little of any South-African language,
| At sunrise, however, when | placed a
{ cup of coffee to his lips he looked up
| sullenly, and in excellent Arabic asked :
‘Is it poisoned?”
I laughed, drank a little, and he drank
the rest,
“You had better kill me,” he muttered,
““It is all you will ever get from me,”
“I'm not sure that I care to take the
trouble,” I replied, “‘till I know why you
| tried to kill me. You do not know me,
do you?"
A savage fire gleameod in his eyes for
a moment, as he answered ;
“You are Abd el Ardavan,
I know you.”
“You evidently know my name,” 1 re.
plied, “but what do you know that
should tempt you to kill me? Why,
there are not Raflirs enough in all Africa
to injure a hair on the head of Abd el Ar.
davan. If you know me you must have
known that, too,”
Buch a sentence does not bristle with
conceit when spoken in Arabic as it does
Oh, yes,
when put into Enclish. It is an Oriental
custom to blow one's own horn in that
| fashion, and there was a look of real
| honest achiniration in the African’s cves
| as he replied:
| “F heard it long ago, but T did not
welizve, Now I know that it is true.”
I had | mind to cut the ropes ar sot
him free for that compliment ; but curios
| ity prevailed and 1 said again
Listen to me. If you will simply tell
| me why you wanted to kill me I will set
| you free nnd give you another chance.”
| “I have had my chance and failed,” he
{ muttered. “‘I shall never have another.
Go on, and put an end to Gungerak.”
“Gungerak! Guogerak!” 1] repeated,
{ looking at that jaw and lobeless ear,
| Then suddenly it all came back to me;
{ the face 1 had seen and all its surround
| ings. No wonder it had puzzled me, for
| I had only seen it once, and that for a
moment, He was chief of a savage tribe
| of Kaflirs working in the diamond mines
| when I visited them.
‘Well, you arc a good way from home,
Guogerak,” I added. “If you mean to
i say that you came all this distance to
murder me I don't wonder you are disap-
{ pointed. 1 have vet so much energy. It
1s more trouble than it is worth to try to
punish you, and 1 am going to set you
free But before we part”-—1 was un
binding him-—*'you might at have
the generosity to tell me why you want
to Kill me,"
He did not move, even when his limbs
were free, but lay looking into my face
“When they suspected that Gungerak
stole the great diamond,” he said, ‘and
when they paid one half its value to Ald
el Ardavan as the only man whodared to
follow him and bring him k. +hould
Gungerak find can to the
dirk?”
I Laughed outright,
self upon the gr
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Frank Leslie
He Never Stopped Counting.
Rolwx rt
matics at the
of
much for
It was one of his peculiaritic
count his steps when he stirred Away
from his bachelor quarters. Even if a
friend accosted him, he did not lose his
reckoning. To prevent such a catastrophe
he kept repeating the number of the last
step taken
Once, while
University of Glasgow,
odd
the amusement
was
do
wimanity,
always to
One those a]
“
Professor was on his
way to some gathering, a gentleman, who
k nie
the habit above mentioned, stopped him.
The worthy geometrician had just taken
his five hundred and seventy third step
“I beg your pardon, Professor,” said
the gentleman; ‘‘one word with you, if
you please n :
“Most happy—373," was
i “Oh, po." mid the
prised, but courteous:
tion.”
“Well.” added the Professor
“You are really too polite,”
| stranger; ‘but knowing Your acquain-
tance with the late Dr, B., and for the
purpose of settling a dispute, I have
taken the liberty of inquiring whether 1
am right in saying that he left £500 to
i each of his nieces.”
*Precisely,” replied the Professor
“373.
the
w him by sight, but was unaware of
the answer,
inquirer, BUT
merely one ques-
Tt Bh
dae,
said the
“5
{ *“And there were four nieces, were there
i not?”
“Exactly !--573."
The stranger stared at the Professor,
i a8 if he thought him mad, muttered sar-
castically—‘573!" nade a hasty bore and
passed on,
Professor Simson saw the man's mis-
take, or thought he did, and eried after
him, taking another step at the same in-
stant, *‘No, sir; only four-—574."
“Poor fellow!” thought the inquirer,
as he turned away, ‘he certainly has gone
crazy." —[Tit-Bits, j
“Raphin”,
An uncommonly interesting and valu
able material, familiar to the florists,
though little known to others is “‘raphia,”
a fibre made from the inner bark of a
Japanese tree, and used in long shreds
for tying delicate plants, It comes iv
long plaits like horschair, is a light
brownish yellow in color, and when
twisted makes a light, strong twine,
Large quantities of raphia are fn
for the use of florists and gardeners, It
is found cheaper than manufactured
twine, and, by reason of its pliancy and
softness, is more suitable to the use to
which it is put,
CONDENSED FOODS,
When Uncle Sam next goes to war, ob
who fight under the starry flag will be |
will serve as 1 month's ration for each |
The concentrated preparation will
but more probably in the form of small
lozenges, resembling cougn drops in size |
These lozenges will be in. |
closed in tin boxes of 10), each of them
For preparing the bever
age no coffee pot will be required, it be
In France such coffee lozenges of
been re.
of sugar for swectening,
but everybody does not care for sugar,
1 ¢, those which have Intely
begun to be manufactured in this
try have been made plain.
The processes by which coffee is thus
nre intere To
begin with, the beans are roasted in an
and ground in
Then they are put into a great
nor
pot, hold
coun
Sven
very ing.
oven a huge
mill.
vessel, which
than a gi
pounds at
of filtered
pot, whic
he
evaporating
nothing less
coffe 240
a time, Hundreds of galious
water are pumped into the
h the “drip
principle, and t infusion is dfawn off
to an tank
keeps the air exhaust
that the coffe
meanwhile to
pipe
rapidly passes off
18 more
antic ing
coffee Gots on
eam p mp
is in vac
i
steam .
about the
it is taken ou
enameled ware
on shelve
the travs are
the coffee i
a ften-quart
to jatzons,
mae
grown to
fins
The
the
processes employ ry simple,
fresh milk being put into Bre at copper
tank wi Jacket, W it is
being heated i= added, and the
mixture is then drawn off into a vacuum
tank where evaporation is produced by
heat, The vacuum tank will hold per-
haps 8,000 quarts. It has a glass window
at the top, through which the operator
n charge looks from time to time. He
can tell by the parance of the milk
when the time has arrived to shut off the
steam, and this must be done at just the
right moment clse the batch will be
Next the condensed milk is
drawn into forty-quart which are
sugar
©
n
“eye
app
Cans,
are made to revolve rapidly by a mechan
ical contrivance, in order that their con
tents may cool evenly,
When the water does not happen to
Finally
the tin cans of market size are filled with
milk by a machine which
into each one exactly sixteen
girl shoving
spout, while an
they are
pours
the
ns
filled.
Another commercial article is con.
One gallon of it
costing cighty cents, will furnish fifteen
or twenty gallons of cider that is suffi.
ciently strong for bottling by the addition
of fifteen pounds of sugar and the requi-
site quantity of water. Peach, grape,
cherry and apricot cider, similarly con.
centrated, are sold for 81 a gallon. Root
beer is put up in the same manner, half
a pint of it making enough to fill six-
teen half pint bottles,
During the last year 9,252 gallons of
condensed lime juice were imported to
the United States from Jamaica,
Compressed salt is even provided for
horses and other beasts, a brick of it be.
ing put into a frame above the water
trough, where the four-footed creature
can lick it. It would be interosting to
know what results would be ar by
rearing a human being, from infancy to
adult age on condensed forms of aliment
exclusively. If the normal digestive
powers could not assimilate all that was
offered, they might be given artificial as-
sistance in the shape of that substance
obtained from etomachs of
which is called “‘pevein,” administered
os is usual in conrad lozenges,
THE SAHARA.
Desert,
The Sahara is an immense zone of des
which commences on the shores of
sin, ns far as Central Asin. The Mediter
ranean portion of it may be said roughly
to extend between the 15th and 80th de
This was
vist
popularly
inland
supposed to have
a sca in very recent
interpreted
researches of travelers and
|
i
|
|
i
the origin of the Libyan Desert,
Rainless and sterile regions of this na
ture are not peculiar to North Africa,
which
the world in either hemisphere, at about
belts
hoar frost, to the climix of being able to
tramping in cold water. As
outlived their novelty, least we
y, at may
to find this
brand-new barefoot
cure eagerly seized upon,
expect
Hypnotic Power in Animals,
The power attributed to the snake and
feline families of ‘charming’ their vie
tims seems to me past dispute, It is
merely a sort of hypnotism, Livingstone
tells us that when at one time seized by
Bates
« his **Naturalist on the Amazon” states
hat one day in the woods a small pet dog
The snake fixed
the dog, erected its tail and
seemed in no haste to
if waiting to put
suitable condition
senses seemed to be benumbed
1
flew at a rattlesnake
on
seize the dor, but as
the dog into
equator These correspond in locality
fifth
globe
The African 8 no means 1
uniform plain, but forms several distinct
of the total land surface
Dy
basins containing a
f
considerable
led
sins, in the
sahara, are 7.000 feet high
extent
what may almost be cal
d. The Hoggar mount
ter of the
are
( £31 {
mountain
1
an
covered during three n
The Len rat average
F015 145
EROwW
at 1,
region is
TeROn 3
may i
Chara
In some
00, ter of
such as Tiout,T
paordenr:
idiers
the
Uled
which
mage a
Loire
ir,
IVER
£3
compared to
the
a subterranean river
» bed of
1808 equal
turated
About Needles,
br
without eyes, a circul
the blunt
fastened as to enable
thread. Pliny descril
bronze which were used by the
Greeks and Romans; snl, since his day.
simiar instruments have been found in
comparative abundance both at Hercu-
The first aceannt
‘white iron,” or
hey were made
1 i650; and,
date is in doubt
end 1 been so
it carry the
wa the nox les «
a% ming
to
i
ancient
laneum and Pompeii
of the manufacture of
steel needles, says that t
at Nuremberg, in
while the exact
they are said to
made in Britain as
account further adds that the first nee
dies manufactured in England were
made by a Spanish African, who died
have
carly as 1545
As to the dog, it peither continued the
attack nor retreated. could not or would
be d, and was with dif
master,
not move when cal
Dy is I
have seen one case of a snake charming a
bird, but I had a better opportunity to
tudy a eat charming a bird, and prob
ably the process is much alike in both
inside sill
A
no
The cat placed itself on the o
of my window, near to a pine tree,
resentiy it on tres
The cat
The cat's
+ with
vasraised
bird
doubt not
fixed its attention
observing
and about
electrified
a
at
and
dT
vhole
inded to seize
‘does not
bir be
to charm
ainrmod,
i
iN,
pothiing,
e probably
5 good sub
I
i Bs
£40 000
round
The
were
real
ten
nuch
ise
OTS
bold
eit
more
the
5 my seda
yd nervous |
down with
often ward
n this soothed
0
ana
¥& in
the London
| Physical Iafe;? ity of
a— —— 3
of the New York
England, bas been much
hysical inferiority of the
s writes:
1 SPOB +11
in
rack bry the Pp il
ondon police
“One's first impression of the Loadon
policeman i2 that he is an insignificant
looking fellow In fact, one is likely to
form impression before reaching
f he spends a few hours or a
day or two in If anything,
the policemen of Liverpool are physically
less impressive than of London.
One wonders if such men as these are
the result of a diet on the famous ““roast
beef of Old England In comparison,
the Broadway Squad of New York are
literally ‘out of sight.” A visit of several
i weeks in London will fail to reveal one
i to vie in with
this
Liverpool
those
{ bluecoat stalwartness
on a single dav in
New World
| emergency
1 the metropolis of the
What these men do in an
requiring strength, bravery
| by a foreigner—a native of India
| needle manufactory was established 1
Standards of Measurement.
The editor was taught by his governess
in 1650,
i made to bring out the “drilled eve” nee.
1826
machine,”
termined to test the accuracy of this
He had no difficulty in find-
“The
ling a beautiful finish to the oye. {St
i 3 *
Louis Republic,
The Barefoot Cure.
The barefoot cure is evidently the
coming craze in panaceas, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. Wo have had the rest
cure, the athletic cure, the Delsarte cure,
the faith cure, et al, and now the bare-
foot cure. Returning travellers from
Germany and Austria are bringing the
idea over with them, and as it is vast!
less harmful than the cholera bacilli,
which they might have brought, it is as
well to be lenient with the lesser folly,
The barafnot treatment is a phase of mo e
than one process of cure. Under one au.
thority it is carried on on a sunny beach,
and the patients race through the hot
sands barcheaded, barcurmed, and with
legs and feet bare to the knees. This is
to give the sun and heat, with their
health-giviog properties, free access to
the skin. According to another curist,
to coin a word, it is a part of the hard.
ening course, and though you begin
walking barefooted over smooth turf,
you advance by running through wet
{ second in vacuo, at sea level in the
latitude of London, is 39.13020 inches,
and from a knowledge of this fact the
inch, foot and ward can casily be ob
tained should the official standards at
any time be lost or mislgid.” When, in
1834, the “standard” measure was de.
stroyed by fire at the House of Parlia-
ment, an attempt was made to restore
it by the pendulum test, but peadulums,
like barleyeorns, were found not 10
agree. Whitaker's Almanack.
A AAA AAA SMSO
An Anclent Copper Globe,
One of the most significant curios ia
New York is a copper globe in the Lenox
Library. It is only four and a half
inches in diameter, but it is believed to
be the earliest globe to lay down the pew
discoveries by Columbus, It dates beck
to tho first decade of the sixteenth cen
tury. The little it shows of this hemi-
sphere is mostly wong,
names would be recogn
ports in matters