SON@ —— The song we never sung, The pine-trees sigh in chorus: The eyes our eyes must shun Our hearts keep still before us, The rose we gathered not Blooms in the son! forever, And hands ne'er joined in life Death has no power to sever Lilla Cabot Perry, in the Century. MONTAG BIL. It was evident that something of uncom- mon interest had arranved for meeting that evening at the hea lquarters of the Salvation Army in Throughout the large attending crowd the spirit of expectancy moved uneasily, but with muffled wings; its energy stirred not only vacrant the street, but also by many been San Francisco. by divers rumors on flowers and foli- age plants which hampered the stage After preliminary religious exer- cises conducted by the brigadier, a man with a clean face, a clear eve and a coax. ing voice, that gentleman made the follow- ing speech : “You doubtless all read at publication a telegram from Mont., announcing the distressing experi- ence of our brave little sister, Cadet Annie Smith, who was so great a favorite wit us here before she was assigned to duty @ Butte.’ There was an amused twinkle brigadier’'s eyes, bat in the audience there was a spreading titter, “Well resumed tl noble little sister, with passed safely through some the time of its Butte, i Al radler, p of God. sour ordeal, as most of you are aware, but: plan to confess publicl shortcomings | i 1s # part of our our errors and Smith to give you the true and full happened A faint clapph ‘God bless Cadet Smith and a removal of straints mufted spirit of expectancy greeted the platform of a small, lithe arrayed in poke bonnet of account of wh to her which the sombre a glowing ¢ ence, glance and sturdy freedom to her ing War Crys it gan with a st quired ths the Ls sent to COTps of couraged, and perience didn’t would Know from San Fray DIA the Core because they else “| started 200 War Crys part of t Or tw went men wer said Par said it § his voice ba “Out with dozen broke d “Handsome as though ti cross | sion of voices wn, stamine laughter folld OCCRSIOna This NO © tremble she cast ward one I sudience where she age on before sufficient to rive ram which had heid a gian 1 restraint, and the uprising of a 10K towering frume sent the brigadier’s programme and d bling into The t proached and mounted the the stride of a Annie gazed at wns still the stars that €Yes now Simultaneously a the for uniform of the Salvation the man's frame, he stranger to all, and there was a command ing air about him that stilled all sounds He stalked to the girl's side and there facing the big erywd like a lion at bay in deten-e of air. And an commonly handsome nn he was, with swarthy face, jet black wavy hair’ worn long, and formidable black mustache and buperial. These two made a strange pic- tore as they stood side by side, she small and seemingly so frail, he so tall and ne tume chinos man ap platform with grenadier, ile Cadet him with a dismay which inefficient to quench the light of the brighter in her had paled sa fell upon the Army shone all that her cheeks startled h audience, although familiar sat upon splendid Wis a stood fis tn. “ey at him, be ignoring ber and sweeping the hall with a glance hf of defiance, half of benignancy, and wholly of strength and mastery. When the man spoke his voice rolled forth in those rounded billows that in arich dinpason sing the mysteries of the deep. “My friends,” he said, ‘with God's help and the brigadier’s consent” which he never took the trouble to secure-— it seems 100 hard for this poor child to tell what bappened to her in the gambling house at Butte that day. when it happened and saw it a!', aod | will tell you the story. 1 can't bear to see ber tortured ns she has been this night. Cadet Annie Smith, take your seat.” He said that still without looking at aer. With a glance at the brigadier which meant, “How can [ help it when this big thing should:rs me away?" she slipped beb nd the rose.erabanked parlor organ and the embowering foliage plants on the stage and was lost to view. The brigadier sat watching the man with a peculiar expression which no one could have understood had any one thought to filled all eyes and so impressed his mas. terly personality on the all who could see and else could be observed. sumed | “1 knowed the { low down on this i Army lassie that day knoy He was { bi skinned tenderleet Puget Sound and didn't know what it was to make hon est living He just Hod 1 {2 laughing at everything and skinning te consciousness hear that nothing The stranger re gambler that played it bruve him well. d er that way Michigan. an though hulking all the Lake derfeet. “He was running tana joint when open and this little fellows wasn't u m She just and the 10 | straight at ‘em and through much as to say ‘I think you'd be a real decent fellow if you'd War Cry, quit gamb and her head em, as the ng gi n women,’ That's what the fell ing, have respect ws told me her eyes said to 'em ““Then the big ¢ tell vou about « “Hello, little want? ‘] want to sel aunbler she aud 8 Sallie, omes up Parson War Cry ? knowed ¢ her making OW ciean Into the and went right on heard afterward that he kKnowed spoke t none of ‘em. ‘The g quarters of follered her in see the head. and Bill » office, happen to be any body her head her heart in wn miserable that if that done her up fellow where there dide », and sat down and put the table, and cried like broke For the first tana Bill a0 small and forlorn an he hadn't been the man and whipped the that dud And when he Kknowed that he that identical scoundrel, and that there wasn't anvbody big enough and man enough to whip him, he felt just like a thoroughbred dog that had been caught sucking ers, “I want to say this for Bill. wns, he never meant to rob the girl. was only having fun with her in ola on was Mon- She looked time his life s nerve broke do i i he'd a gone out was He the suloon that made him forget. It was the pity that she showed for him and the little prayer she said that made him lose his head. And that was the first time in his life that Montana Bill ever lost his head, “*‘And so; when be saw her crying out have the nerve to own up like a man. He just sneaked a $20 gold piece on to the table and tried to steal out like a thief. money and sprung ahead of him and stopped him and stood there looking at him witha look he'd never seen in no mortal face in his life. “ It was God who put it into your heart | to follow me and bring that money,’ she said to him, ‘and as He has done that much, He has done more, and will keep in your body beats altogether for mankind and its Redeemer.'” The giant paused. His narrative had tears in many eyes. Perhaps it was these Then and helpleds that a and this made it all the At this juncture the brigadier stepped forth. A balf merry, half whimsical ex pression lighted up his face as gently pushed the giant into a platform seat fac- worse for him. he **And 80 it was too hard for the poor little girl to be made to tell before all these i Butte strong + what happened to her in the I saloon that day, and so a great, and cruelly tortured forward as He would Stren that li in ti He But the audience, having man, seeing how small her show she would come the ant nlready Cit foolish sal Tac down it and Lildis giant looke us he them int reat nughter a “*Hallelujal man | burs and ap- “God cheeks, with and a bless the big This brigadier, ‘we then being the more interesting adet Annie Smit I'w }osparking nder the What Bocomas of Old Shoes. A person who believes that every thing in this world has its will be know what becomes ¢ i use interested to iid shoes which are every year The many which this mass of frayed leather is put are not easy to ascer tain, for manufacturers do not like to acknowledge that they utilize such base material Most oid shoes go back to the vat and emerge as leath erette, which manufacturers of cheap shoes use to fill in the outer sole. The testimony of thousands bears witness to the poor wearing qualities of leatherette. Old rubber shoes are of extensive utility. but the "most curious article of which they form ingredients is paint. Rubber is often worked over into more shoes and it is not an impossibility for three gen erations to wear gum shoes made out of exactly the same mat erial. Counting the Stars. the millions of worn out uses to The numbericg of the heavenly whether planet, satellite or star of the smal ast size, has been commenced at the Paris Observatory by Miss Klumpke, Director of Sciences and Assistant Astronomer, in view of the publication of an in- ternational catalogue of the stars, The idea was formed at the Astro- nomical Congress In 1887 and already 189 photographs have been taken. Some only contain a dozen stars, this being a celestial desert; but others are crowded, even to the number of 1.600. The average number is 8385 stars per photograph. Altogether the catalogue is expected to contain about 3 000 000 stars. A census of the heavenly bodies has long been needed. Now a woman comes for: ward and will count all the stars. She will be some time at it; but when the work is done it will be finished. CRANBERRY CULTURE. How the Industry is Conducted on Cape Cod. + A sand hill, a marshy tract, running stream, are the quisites for a cranberry and a three re- bog. No- gether in greater profusion than on Cape Cod, which in former days sup- related at one certain Cape Cop street of seventy up exclusively by This Cape Cod has, with the decadence of sail ing ships, taken upon itself the right to furnish the world with nearly al the cranberries used To prepare the soil that it was truthfully time that in a town, an entire hou<es was taken the homes of sea captaing L t t sand is spread of six young plants forced 1O0/IN evenly over the bog i der In this the roo se lno inches are sel down through the underneath he in regular rows Three vears are re plants mature Sand is valuable es A vines may strete each plant lie as each plant they up 8ix inches in Out smooth su {bran sbout red plants 1 of weeds but the » the p pile Such chokes the grow does not ants whose roots are in am beneath. The running stream is dammed above and below the | and a sys In Y flo } i- morn tem of ditches | time of frost the night and This does £ accou } ’ raciumatism Berry | tember and session iate pickers. Numer bean de sinimed tha t nt vised crant firewo Way aroun nts siiron profita DAMES are Hill B Lie afford pr an the board is t! This b protection ard of the honesty 0 And Hedgel and wire wor: to agricuiture hog Toad helps agriculture twenty to thirty inse Don’t kill toads, Moles destroys wire worms larvae and insects injurious to the farmer No trace of vegetables is ever found in his stomach ; does more good than harm. Don't I moles Cock chafer and its larvae—deadly enemies to farmers: lays 70 to 100 eggs. Kill the cock chafer. Birds—Each department of France loses yearly many millions of francs by theinjury done by Jirds are the only enemy capable of bat tling with them vigorously; they are great helps to farmers. Children don’t take bird's nests And so on the instructions read. Among the animals which need kil- ing on a farm are mice and ‘rats. and the reason they increase, in spite of the constant warfare of cats and dogs, is because the boyvson the farm kill the animals that would destroy the pests if they had a chance. lestrovs ts hourly $51 nit insects, Army Nicknames. Everybody is familiar with the name of Tommy Atkins, representing the British soldier. but how many know the terms of endearment by which the German soldiers are called ? Some of them are applied to the en- tire regiment, some to an individual corps. The guards are called ‘‘Ham- mel, or “sheep; ’ the guards call the soldiers of the line ‘field rats;’’ the | infantry speak of the cavalry as ‘grooms,’ and the cavalry return the compliment by bestowing upon the infantry the names of ‘sand hares,’ sand carriers’ and ‘‘clod- hoppers.’ The Cuirassiers are known as ‘flour sacks,’ the pioneers as “moles,’”’ the Hussars as ‘‘pack- threads,” and the artillery as “cow soldiers.’ The latter are called also “water rats.” In these divisions again the corps have names for them- selves and theirrivals. Inthe cavalry the Beventh Cuirassiers are the “whitesmiths;’’ the first Hussars i the ‘‘death’s heads,’ as their shako { bears the emblem, and the Fourth tlussars, from their brown uniforms, | are called the ‘ ‘partridges,’”’ the only | brown in the German army preserved lin remembrance of Frederick 11. who used all the cloth found in a Capuchin convent for his soldiers The green uniform with yellow fac- ings has given to the Bixth Hussars the name of ‘‘spinach and eggs and for a similar reason the Tenth Hussars are called ‘ ‘parrots In the guards the first regiment of are called ** tin heads their helmets: ‘green ‘potato Hussars, ‘glow worms,’ from red clothes; the Third Uhlans their dull yellow the Pioneers, foot ailusion to BEUrs are Grenadiers, the Chas irogs, the peelers ; “dus trim- ‘earth from and 185, Mud as a Dressing. Animals when wild constantly a lingering death from injury to whether as tropical countries wounds aggravated by by cutaneous disease, says the Spec tator Hence the pains which they take in making their toilet, and in the use and sel¢ cosmetics Among birds water spec ft fresh water to wash in and birds cl liffe to dust rly ' skin caused happens in ingecis or » yer sail fn Seek Terent 10088 ' AS He g along the towpath anal years It it this 1 for wing mule becoms« the appendages is od off the towpath iy and faithfully years. Not satis out the horse the about to supplant atient aod sadeyed mule by es- the canal boats of The State 3 1 several never have muleship with ilar it adly rojiey is ie 1 i 1 by ADIIsnN he Erie Cana ng itself on of New million do lars in these boats with electric propelling devices, which, it is claimed, are perfectly practicable. When the State of New York de liberately discards mule power and turns its back upon this plodding gervant of mankind the electrical millenium is surely at hand. equipping A Lake of Boiling Lava. Mauna Loa, the gigantic Hawaiian voleaho, has two craters or openings, one of which, Kilauea, is the largest active volcanic crater in the world. The mountain is 14,100 feet high, and Kilauea is situated on the eastern side, about 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. This marvelous crater is really a vast lake of boiling lava which rises and falls continually by the action of subterranean fires. In tossing to and fro like a troubled sea of molten metal the lava is dashed against the cliffs and hardens there | in the form of long, glassy filaments, | gigantic knobs, miniature trees, and | in imitation of grass, leaves, ete. | Another form of glassy filaments to | be found along the shores of this | fiery luke is in the shape of queer { bunches and tufts of lava made up of an aggregation of vitreous threads which the natives call **Pele’s hair,” Pele being the Goddess to whom the mountain is dedicated. These glas- sy threads appear to be caused by the passage of steam through the molten inva. In so doing small particles in tae shape of bubble like balloons are thrown into the air, leaving a tail be. hind like a comet. When the scene of these miniature steam eruptions is near a rock or the shore all solid snd esol surfaces are found covered with bunches of *‘Pele’s hair.”’ This “hair’’ was formerly used in mystic native ceremonies, and of late years has been gathered in large quantities by curiosity seekers. : THE JOKER’S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Explained-.But Did He Eat the Pie--A New Peril--Heartless Crueity-.Etec., Ete. EXVLAINED. “Did the jury find the j inquired a man concerning No, sir, i “They didn’t away.” responded th CeIman. He got iim “This 10 at 4 ikeness.” BOTH IN THE SAME BOX ‘1 thought | was bright not to new the cash enough be taken in again like said the silver dollar as it drawer “Well, I'm older than you are,” dilapidated ten dollar bill, “and ten times as much vet in that way myself.” dropped said the I've got 1 get taken we OeNLs, WINKERR SUCCEEDED, Binkers—~Has Winkers succeeded teaching his daughter to ride her cycle yet? i Minkers linkers Binkers. in new bi. Yes, she is out riding now Is Winkers with her? «No, he's in a hospital, FALL OPENING. Mrs. Bloozin-—Have you been to any of the fall openings, my dear, Mrs. Buzbuz-~Not exactly, but bled into a coal hole the other dav. I tum. A MATTER OF MUSIO, A Third street man's neighbor had bought a new piano, and the daughter had been banging away on it ever since it had been in the house. “Got a new piano] hear,” said the man over the back fence to his neighbor, “Yes. Gotit on the instalment plan. ™ “Is that so? Wonder if your daughter can't let us have the music from it in the same way.” THE PRACOOK'S TRAIN, The peacock’s train is not the bird's tall, but a coronal of feathers above the tail. The tree tail consists of eighteen feathers beneath the coronal The latter is provided with a curious system of mus- cles by which it can be erected at will, NOT A PRENOMENON, “You see the entloma who is walking onder? His hair turned perfectly white the course of a single month.” “A lot of trouble and anxiety, eh" “No, he gave up dyeing.”
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