DON'T MIND IT.
Don't mind trouble, for the world rolls
on
Rollin’ an’ rollin’!
The day dawns bright, but
sO0On gone
Rollin' an’ rollin’ 1
the light's
slaught is usually sudden and vio.
lent, like a wind which fells, with
crashing fury, the oak which has
1 wrapped the poor fellow
in my rugs and placed him in the
flies—
Flyin’ an’ flyin’!
skies
Flyin’ an’ flyin’!
Don't mind trouble, for a life ain't long—
Goin’ an’ goin’ |
Just SWAaD your sorrow for a glad, swoet
BONY
Goin’ an’ goin’ !
[Atlanta Constitution.
The Silver Siren.
1 was walking along Regent street,
London. in the autumn of 92, with
an eye indifferent to the charm
that gay precinct, when suddenly in
spite of my preoccupation I noticed,
in a brilliant shop window,
bearing this ant
Novelty—Silver Sirens.’
It was in direct consequence of
delusive gle
my spirits were,
pressed, that my luck seemed
traitor and my whole destiny thwar
ed. Hence as I read this sign I
paused. Being an engineer by pro-
fession. I had gone to Ne
months previously, to superinter d
pumping i
mines, and w
in the science
superseded, owing
of those sirens of the W
pered their ¢ luring deliriums
my ear. At their behest I laid
my professional work and launci
into the vortex of lation
disastrous results to m
ily and my friends. Ti
tion of the
annihilating
taking must
to my
doxes, the bu
day defying tl
ism of tl
Defeat
debt, my
Capp
sales on
En
Of
sign
2
bi i
ouncement, "Latest
ymor of a Silver Sire
at present
vada some
vr
Lo
’
i
est who wils-
“ec
specu
i
y sel
despair of
suffice
r‘governor’’
B
want
1e
od
his pr
ad to see
t was Bn the
glanced witl
that confused
and burnished
window
advance
tending a 3
hand a silver
found was t
Lie Vers
terest. I overheard
subservient blandnes
“* Thess
made
horn siren
are
I
8 Or semaph
the latest novelty and
used by the ya
son at Cowes .
He placed ti
breathed
act was quite
croning noise
with a pls
air with sucl
that several
paused and
determined under one of
impulses which seem, somelimes, to
nake of us irre sible
our own destin I
and a few mi
ling from my
short time, however
sure of grave cares, |
all about it.
I soon began to seek
of modifying the distressing condition
to which my absence of ion and
reliance on chance had brought
Fortunately for me a company
London whose confidence in my ca-
pacity as an engineer had not been
shaken by my lack of judgment in the
West engaged me to conduct a
engineering scheme in
mines in Russia in which much capi-
tal had been invested
I need not say I was giad of the
chance this offered me. [| was glad
also to get away from London, where
I found a subtle condemnation
of my nets in even the glances of my
friends.
tive. and when a man who had al-
ways been one of my favorite [riends
and relatives ealled out to me from
the pier at Calais, in one of those at-
tempts at pleasantry which so often
contain a sting: ‘I say! Francis,
don't go and buy a salt mine in Rus-
sin!” I felt that the time had come
for me to cancel such speeches by
some new line of action
I was confident about my mission.
Several engineers had failed, it is true,
but the many fail, the one succeeds,
These mines could not be worked
owing to the percolation of wader
into them. To check this flow of
are
hting clubs
factors
nite
watch
Some means
of BF
CRUL
1
inrge
some salt
or
-
my task.
had made good time. Haste was im-
perative for winter was closing upon
the heels of autumn and the deep
snows would delay my progress. All
went well with me as [ crossed those
lonely versts, over which there seems
ever to dwell p brooding melancholy,
My kibitka, or hooded sledge, was
very comfortable. It was drawn by
sturdy Finn ponies, which were ex-
changed at the different stations
along the route.
When about two days from the end
of my journey my yamschik, or
driver, fell seriously ill. When these
strong and intrepid sons of toil yield
to the inflvence of disease the on-
as dexterously as I could over the
Varika's terrible
and fever that the poor
My Russian vocabulary was put to
the test, as I pulled the ponies up at
the door of the station-house. I
the sick man was the yamschik and
was the passenger. As the
Varika
all was
to draw
saw
them poor
that
“0 hi"! moaned the host, as he
showed me into the contracted and
“() hi, the little
More necessary
th
lad is
father's prayers are
now for Varika than are
dru The poor
drive the white horse into t
ence of and
him his To my g
annoyance, I found that 1 could not
ure yamschik at that
ion to drive me o1 night 1
bold promise radro of
to
nres
os, called
|
Hue
St {
reckoning reat
another
take Varika's
{ death had for
erests of
arsLitIous nears
mploying uscless ar-
ints with a
there was
the
the
roo,
t i
st why
[od and
1ouvced
USSIAND
IOV mysteries
on the piains of BR is
[ tried to analyze the quality of }
i uty The we el : Con.
ressive of
v
the
leant
© fro 5
eves, Bnd
of
depths
then when home
attraction
of
chased
tour
rippling
would change my
ner
nevement
lips a
give to thie
note of beauty whie
harmony of the wh
Thus I watched |
count twaddled on
mines, and the d yamschik and
footmen his excellency pierced
the night, every row and then, with
their strident Russian cries of en-
dearment to the fleet horses that car-
ried us swiftly over the snow. Pres.
ently the old count began to nod, but
wots
f *
rss
about
of hi
i
$
i
§
i
i
i
i
|
:
H
1
i
natural seemed supernatural, and the
hush which pervaded all was like
palpable incantation breated upon
the earth by some mighty spirit of
the air, which held the night sub-
gervient to her will.
We had entered a thick pine forest. |
The trees, those voiceless children of |
the voods, were held in an icy calm. |
If aichitecture be indeed frozen mu- |
sie, the brush seemed put in abstract |
form before us. The branches and |
vertical lines made cathedral and |
vista aisles under their moulding of |
ice and snow. Sometimes whole pro-|
monks seemed to |
be lining our route, or spectral arms, i
outward frem the gloom
beckoned us to the murky mystery of |
the duriz {orest. Those soft thuds of |
snow which fell when the top of our
kibitka touched the of
protruding pine branch, fell behind us
like ghostly steps trying to escape
their thraldom to the midnight by
following our lead to life and light
But no weird influences of the
night seemed to approach the con-
of the young
{ at her that
Heine's seemed written for her,
“Thou art like y flower!'’ All
nd purity seemed separa-
$
edge some
countess
SCIOUSNEss
As 1 l wke
song
a lovel
but peace ¢
ted from he
Ti
{ in }
gudde 13
uneasily 18
made
throug
1 count m
The sle f
]
lunge, ns
the deer
horse
gave an
swaveaq ou
Ivan Iva:
whom »
No,
replied
Petrovit
Almost
gave a soc
thant
man
horse
down in the
cover your hes id
heaven shield
All the con
nity was i
ready?’ he said next.
“Ready, excellency,”’
ply.
The count
was the
and 1
darkness through the openit
Behind
movement il
sembling dust at
“They are
exclaimed, and
him I heard
little stifled =
moving eolumn,
or
=
ppeared a
sjoud, re-
of the
sleigh.
upon the count
fired J imitated
the 6
On came that
the of
filled the air
iil
countess give
ream,
and cries
o s
How they were gaining
Ivan Ivanovitch was yelling to
horses, and they, @braves creatures,
strained every nerve and muscle to
obey his commands. A sudden awful
thought passed through me. What
if there were something really wrong
How could
on nu
i
is
or
long
night,
Somewhere from the recesses of
every now and
gon.
then, like a sloop at
and
unse-
Russia,
that
a battue in
that it was stated there
Russian.
violent, the Countess
of expressive
attack became
As my hand
it touched the cold
er's arm,
Instantly it flashed upon me to try
tion,
reprimands which he did not de-
serve,
The snow had ceased. It had only
Insted long enough to veil the trees
and decorate with a soft, ecloud-like
delicacy the panoramaol the night
The intense stillness recalled to one
dreams of a primeval age, The ver,
heart-beats of Pan seemed suspended.
The sounds which we associate with
man’s inheritance of the earth seemed
a strange suggestion in that hour. So
fur have we become removed from
the actua' reserve of natuse that the
its piercing sting into the
frightened hearts of those wild
beasts,
The young countess fainted dead
away.
fear from what they thought was
some new terror in pursuit, but, best
of all—miracle ns it has over seemed
thet pack of angry wolves, with a
betlowing howl of fear, tumbled pell-
mell into the black depths of the for-
est and disappeared like n column of
smoke whose force is spent!
As they did so, Ivan Ivanoviteh
eried out that the lights of Riga were
in sight, and we were saved!
A year later T was again in Regent
gtreet, but not alone nor defeated
nor depressed, for Btephanie was
there!
I was showing her the shop where
I had bought the silver siren!
“Now take me, dearest, to the
place where you bought my wedding
ring.’’ she said. “Did yon not say
that that was near Bond street?’
“Yes, near Bond, Btephanie,’”’ I
began, but this has nothing to do with
the story of the silver siren, which
has now been told
CHIEF OF ARMY SCOUTS.
and Shot Sitting Bull.
Frank Guard, chief of scouts in the
United States nrmy, by
the people of Wyoming as more than
a rival of Buffalo Bill, Guard comes
of mixed French and Kanaka paren—
His parents were slain by tl
and
hands of the
manly young
Sitting Ball th
is esteemed
Sioux in crossing the plains,
fell into the
He was n
and he so pleased
the chief adopted him and
him up. The youth in
through the tortu
siared i
BUve
iad
rN,
0%
went r
bir
That one
the savages
Guard was ti
killed Sitting Bail,
age refused to give up his arms,
Bull made ready
Guard foster i
but Guard, with characteristi
ness, shot him dead. W
a dangerous duty to be done up nbhout
Fort McKinney, Guard i
doit. He went after a noted
rado with a warrant not
and was met with bullet
Winchester. Guard dismounted in
leisurely fashion, took aim, and sent
a bullet through the desperados fore-
head.
Guard is now forty-four years old,
and if his apprehensions are
founded he is likely to have a
for further distinction.
ss
ting
his gon
is the
espe
long since,
fe
i irom a
well
hance
He belioves
last of its Indian wars, and that
That would be accompa
nied by uprisings at other agencies
deal of trouble. Guard
warning his sa-
on this bead.—{New York
Vegetable Dronsy.
Some recent experiments at Cornell
University, Ithaca, have aroused
much interest on account of the de-
velopment of what appears to be a
form of plant dropsy. Tomatoes
grown in the warm, moist alr of the
forcing-houses had leaves that were
swollen and semi-transparent. The
swelling continued until the veins of
the leaves burst and considerable
liquid lowed out. This was caused
by too much water at the roots and
an over-supply in the air. The leaves
were not able to give off the water
supplied from the roots and stalks,
and the congested condition of the
leaves and subsequent bursing of
the veins wae a true type of a drop
sical condition.—{New York Ledger.
TRAVELING IN PERSIA.
It Moans Much Hard Work and
Groat Discomfort.
£%e Shah's Empire Is Entirely Without
a» Aways, Stoamboats or Good osds—
How Wealthy Women Journey
from Place to Flace,
{Special Ispahan (Persia) Letter.)
Tt is difficult for the average Amer-
fean to himagine a whole big country en-
tirely devoid of railroads, steamers and
ail other means of locomotion save
those which were already in vogue in
Biblical days, i e., on foot or the
back of horse, mule, donkey or camel.
| That, however, isstillghe actual condi-
tion of things in’ Persia, as in some
sther oriental countries. Added to this
is the further difficulty of the absence
of good navigable rivers, of
bridges, ete., so that traveling in Per-
sin is, indeed, not a pleasure, but a
It may
it is an absolute
on
roads,
piece of very hard work
hard but
fact that the roads—or what goes by
| that in the Persia of to-day are,
i for the greater part, the same whic
| were trodden the
| Cyrus, of Darius Hj taspis
OFS ©
route
be
to believe
name
armed hosts
Wer great o«
and
and otl
Limes even taken bv
er
may,
iY 8 30
3 J
same ground
Liis “*Anasbasis,” but with thisd
in his time
’
+ More
Ie Wer
wayfarer fro
and
LTT
115, there were purling brooks and
vilinges ang
whereas
sway with
of the
the
and the
v there
ik for
asts and rot
she
ui been
he Persian women if 3
ise in their mig)
yother's son of them
¥
$1 iia Yiovga } i
his diabolical con
magive a horse mule
fod
wy 20
3 its back a sort
on the 4
sir could be admitted, this box strapped
tightly to the anim The whole kad-
for this little box, about two
fect high, is a kadjavay nstructed
that the woman inmate of it can
geither lie down it. nor sit straight
wv upright, but is forced to keep her
body in a half crouching position, with
he manages
JOH
#0
y de
surtains one Sie Ww
javay
se
Wy
id
her limbs crossed low s
escape out of these awful torture
chambers comparatively unscathed is a
wr iracle. Dut there they sit,
snd weeks and months even, ¥
forming journeys of some
like graven images, with nota syllabic
in +wsation of those who make them
andergo this horrible ordeal; and not
nly that, but they must, forsooth, be
closely veiled as well, and whenever a
LLrAnge r draws nigh must pull down
! the curtains of their kadjavay It
| must be the foree of inheritance and
'
to
L8
habit from early youth up, for to me
it always scemed as if they must dic
paralysis. The chaddar —or Persian
veil—is much worse than the Turkish
yaushmak, for it falls far down ovef
face. bosom ar 3 torso, and is so closely
fitting that almost no air reaches the
1aonth and nose of the hapless wearer.
The small piece of looser web inserted
of light, and barely permits the woar-
ers to distinguish the objects outside.
brutal outrages which custom allows
folk, this, 1 think, is the worst
must add that even these restrictions
sunning, for 14 happens frequently
trigues are arranged by the Persian
women while traveling just in this
way. | have seen myself—and given
them credit for doing it—how at the
eritical moment they understand to
lift that cumbersome ‘“‘chaddar®™ of
theirs, just for a moment. Of course
that was because they had to arrange
something about it. But that moment
was all they needed to tell with their
eloquent eyes what thoy wished to say.
Perhaps an even more villainous way
tor Persian women to travel is by
basket. For this donkeys are nearly
always used. Two big baskets of
- - HES NHI A AANA
| even size aro attached to the back of
| the patient beast—hanging down one
| on either side—and in each of these
| baskets is a woman, huddled there in a
heap, with just the head protruding
| This method 1s in general vogue among
the wives and daughters of the peas
anise, artisans and all other poorey
slanses,
| In comparison with these the meth-
ods of travel in general ure nme
| men are vostly to be preferred, though
they, too. are extremely primitive. “lo
| ride on the back of a camel, be it only
for a couple of days, is anything but &
| pleasure, and it isn’t the fastest way,
either. Four 'farsalch”™
miles—is considered a good day's jour-
ney in Persia, although on a pinch one
can get as much as forty milesout of a
camel in good and the
“racing dromedaries” use in south.
ern Persia for the of the
srows have even been known to make
as much as sixty or seventy miles, but
jog trot which
at the end of
dromedaries
ally bred and trained in studs
ly of the
mg the
~@bout sixteen
condition,
in
business
in a sort of abominable
all but
These racing
lands one dead
ones trip
are especi
which are the monopol shah.
Only persons authorized by the shah are
to own or ride one of these
Priests a
wie
ns il as the pli
ca, Rerbelah or shed, must only
i 1
* On GOLKeVS,
wr the sl
i uadrupecs,
and
considered a
Mules are
class
breed,
price,
the
vhich, therefore
by the ladies of
in
omer than
a breed
SO6N SOS
500 of omr
which a
1ased.
common,
the
“Op
ne ol
in appearance no
ins MITTS O38
CHIEF GERONIMO.
The Bloodthirsty Apache Soon to De Lo-
cated ss a Farmer
.
1
Sam has determined
In that =ver
wd hi
farm
adn
bra-
Own a
3 tied
at
‘ th
a
warlike the southwest
tribes, who has been confined
Florida and
ght years, bas
well and has set
g example to his little
followers who have shared his
that the officials of the war
department have conciuded that it wil
be safe to give themall lands pear some
millitary reservations and let them go
to raising crops. It is not proposed io
the Apache chief back to
scene of his early triumphs and turn
him loose to enltivate the soil or theart
of water, as suits his fancy. He and
his followers will be scattered, and
ered widely, too, in an unfamiliar
country, where the only things to fight
will be the seven-year-old locust and
the potato-bug and where the govern
inent ration of the idle Indian will be
o small as not to be worth a trip to
{he agency. Some of them will go to
Fort Sill, Indian territory, and others
to Fort Reno, Oklahoma, while a few
of the children will be sent to the In-
dian school at Carlisle. Just what will
be done with Geronimo has not been
decided.
At the lust session of congress $15.-
000 was sot aside to defray the cast of
fifty houses, barbed fire for fencing,
agricultural implements, wagons, seeds,
ete. to be used in setting up Geronimo
and his band as farmers, and the war
department is now loking about for
desirable locations.
Geronimo possessed all the characters
fstic attributes of the Apache—the
threwdness, the bloodthirstinegs, the
treachery and the dash and daring of
the tribe on the warpath. For years he
kept some of the best Indian fighters
of the United States army hunting his
noross the arid plains and in the moun.
tain fastnesses of Arizona until he was
finally captured and exiled to Fort
Marion, St. Augustine, Fla. whence he
| was subsequently removed to Mount
| Vernon barracks, Alabama.
in military in
Alabama for nearly ei
behaved
prisons
himself so
such a good
band «
of
Aaplivity
take the
oat
USI ANN
Mexican Vamming Birds Eggs
Immediately after being hatched it
is possible to place four living Mexican
humming birds in an ordinary thimble.
At maturity a dozen of them may be
put ina teacup. The eggs are about
twice the size of pinheads.
Queer Transfer Cosapanies,
Transfer companies in England are
ready to pay for all the baggage they
smash.
ABA SHAS RI.
Brazilian aborigines eat the flesh oc
| the boa constrictor.