ARBUTUS, Where the woodland shadows dim Are stretching far and wide, Under leaves of rusty brown The dainty Mayflowers hide Maples, in a rosy flush Are waking from thelr dreams, Silver bright beyond the hill The winding river gleams; But shyly hidden from the sight Beneath the moss and leaves, The loveliest blossom of the woods Her fairy magic weaves, Downy catkins touched with gold Each willow tree uplifts, Through the air like shining dust The amber pollen drifts, Gayly down their pebbly paths The little streamlets run; But hidden from the careless eye, As love alone can tell, The daintiest blossom of the spring Has wrought her magic spell, Pinker than the pink wild rose Ia summer's golden light, Rosy as a sunset cloud Before the fall of night; As holy as a poet's thought, For words too pure and high? As fair as dreams of days to come, As dear as days gone by: As fragrant as a wandering ¥rom heavenly worlds above The loveliest blossom God has made In breathing out his love Angelina W. Wray in Independent, AH SIGS SUBJUGATION. A woman may though china fall, uj beyond w reaches , a spider, and discusses the wired less breath y 4 certain mit tion of heroism in sarvalns at of price merits sleeves serenely while a ’ . § $ Ao! Vase Loess erasing if HOOT, standard of nine cour Such is the age, t by which a womar may be me: of he foot-rule sured piece { three, and comes useles pected t Yet more crash stopped of the to be she stop] Melville “Austin, Austin his hand push down ag to his plac “lf 1 go pertinent, would dental “But 1 iy, onable, him, Matty here, too where.’ “I hink dering on With habitant, in Arizona expect the Mr ought to qd el intoaf vile ms yoursel if it heads, I'd on one another.” “There! Au Mrs. Melville, jumping up; “there goes another; and yet you sit and laugh. Oh how horrid you can be!” “Sit Matty, and talk Suppose I should go cut there and at n ice, muss Comes to take Rin, down 6 [He tempt to reason with Sing ural sequence of events it to pass would obliged, Apart of that act, ones would be bee as rive 3 3 from CONSMINIe Nees you can that the near pretty bad. Y to wash the breakfast dishes, the housework, and serve the General's dinner the inadvisability of my Sing's head splinters is isn't t7 ‘I suppose so; bur 1 do wisn to good ness Mrs. Lawrence's cook hadn't got married.” “Bo does she—the cook, | mean O'Halleran came home drunk two nights ago, and thrashed her. He has been in the guard-house ever since and I'm out a good man. Shows what mar. riage does. Before he was married he didn’t beat his wife. However, it wouldn't have made the slightest dif. ference whether she had committed matrimcny or not; the Lawrences would never have had the General nor even a single member of the staff to the dinner. I knew he had to be pound. master, you know." Er md have and ilo cook, and Therefore, reducing obvious, also io since ant’'s wife has to do it, and all the rest of the entertainias for the post.” member.” matter with Sing, anyway?” observed Ritchie, stroking and curling his unduly military mustachies, the mustachios that have entwined and en- snared so many hearts in thelr silken meshes sine then, in the whirl of Washington society. Ritchie was Mel: ville’'s second lieutenant at that time, sud as he was not married, and didn't like the bachelor mess, he messed with wis senlor and that young officer's wife." “Why didn’t his cousin die, then?” cousin's funeral Is a little worn method of obtaining a leave” paymaster was coming to dinner time before last, and another when the off two in anticipation of the paymas ter's last trip.” “That's not all, Austin, Melville, “Generally he ' fore" fare, Sing precipitated a chopping-bowl and knife to the floor, with a resulting plish. Melville bit | elenched his fist, “1 wonder If it would do any good for me to go out and speak to him quietly suggested his wife, “Suppose you try it. If | carving knife to you, call out and we'll your i unless an actual carving knife, don’t get mixed up in any domestic brawl.” Mrs, Melville patted her lace-and-rib hon breakfast he come to rescue; mt { us eap down securely, took | a long breath, arose, walked resolutely the kitchen door, opened it, passed { through and closed it behind her | Melville and Ritehin listened, Melville his pine M. chair his ear bent toward the Kitchen; Ritchie scraped salt into little ridges on the cloth with his knife. They could hear the droning of Mrs. Mel | to | leaned back in | with Q i I ville's voice, then a phuse. She com memes and paused again, and yet a time, hizlter at the last shipping the god of silence After Mrs. Melville reluctantly resumed Ler third her volee rising a little Sut Sing was wor the third venture, out aud told him” vials OUSEY il stood thers one b Le ont # trousers nowket, 1 F gtroking his mustachios “Well?” ventured finally Ritchie to his chair the young woman, turned around and came back “1 guess Melville's doing about what he said he would—breaking Sing's head.” Weak eries like those of a little chila came up from the backyard. “Is that Sing? "asked the lady of the hotse LIE doesn’t ville's.” At the end of a couple of minutes Melville went past the window and in at the side door, and a little later he came into the dining-room by the front entrance and resmned his seat The shutfle of Sing’s slippers could be heard in the Kitchen. The adjutant, desipte his smoothed hair and newly brushed sound much like Mel titehie was bolder. “Has the police party got to come iaronnd and pick up the pleces?™ “No: I guess he's whole” “I= he a little more reasonable?” “Oh, he's doing the lamb act now.™ “Tell us about it, Austin” begged | Mrs. Melville, “1 just told him he'd got to stop his I didn’t want to say anything ugly to { make him madder. He muttered that i he'd go, or something like that, and | he flung the dish-towel in my face. I was a liftle riled at that, but I don't think I'd have done anything except kick him out, if I hadn't remembered dinner, She's never dined the pay. ed into staying; so 1 pounded. That's all." Mrs, Melville flew into room a few hours later “Austin, he's vamoosed." Melville stood up, put down his news paper, and knocked the ashes from his the sitting cigar, “I'll get him back,” he said, “How? “Rend a and detachment after him So Mrs. Melville watched and waited for half an hour, and at the end of that time heard the shuffle of feet, and the porch. Sing glided into the room, followed by There was a guard at the “Her Try the foree of gentle persuasio.. Matty." Mrs, Medville was a is, coaxing little but a Chiraman, Sing remained ob durate, “No. he grunted, “ine no come back.” “Just to get dinuer, Sing; you can go afterward.” “No.” “Guard, this man and take put him was rather a streteh of official and but the who was to dine It military authority, officer, the General, realized the urgency of the even COi- with case, An hour guard, u Arizona jection He appent under of nl nder all wen! chopping the untamed glory ot sun brought Sing ed and penite into sub per nt, at the an downeast, ing, gasping door of Melville's quarters “Misga Melville, Me Mis’ Melville” “No: down.” “Yeu; gir can't se you 1 Howe wantee Mis' Mely me I! you go tells right, 1 The Hat Trick. r been pro kel on in amazement * hat came his way and he He gave the h ortwo with now us headgeara b d it over dubiously, then he put on and started hurriedly for the door. he make his escape the was again seized and again became center of a rush the man the hat, clapped it on his bead and was rushing away when he was intercepted by the man who had originally taken it from the visitor's head. With great politeness the joker hand. ed over the visitor's own hat, as glossy and perfect as if had just come from the hatter's block, and took the old hat in return The visitor's surprise increased, He scrutinized the new hat, It was certain Iv his, Then he joined in the general ilangh. He had simply been initiated into the mysteries of the Board of Trade hat trick, the first point in which i= a bit of sleightof-hand work by which hata are changed and the stock hat, kept for the purpose, is kicked in to the ring of jokers.—Buffalo Com: mercial. looks ™~e sel Ore could 1 . iE the {nee more got The Greatest Corporation, The greatest corporation on earth ie the London and Norihwestern Railway It has a capital 40,000 men. Everything is made by the company bridges, engines, rails, car riages, wagons and an innumerable lot of other things; even the coal scutties and wooden limbs for the injured of iis staff. Repairs to the permanent way cost $130,000 a month.—Current Liter ators consumed that ft can be go longer held it iw deovped and the dancer disappenrs from the corral. The spectators piek up INDIANS STILL HAVE RE. | the flaming bunches thus dropped and | bathe thelr own hands in the fire OUR FIRE WORSHIPPERS. NAVAJO MARKABLE! RELIGIOUS RITES, Practices of Zunis and Onondagas In Which the Fire Cod Was Appeased---Wild Dance Amid Flaming Brands, The National Museum has just se cured a remarkable collection Hlustrat- ing the pratice of fire worship on this continent, It appears that most of the American aboriginal tribes have had more or less of this sort of religion in the past, and to the present day they have with the making of pew fire at stated intervals, For this purpose they always employ to ceremonials associnted the most primitive method that is say, the rubbing of two sticks together, For example, the Zunis use an agave stick with sand help the friction, The sand Is wet because this renders the nre-making difficult, therefore more meritorious in the sight One of the objects in the to more find of the gods collection referred to is a so-called fire pump, utilized by the feast of the White white dog ig sacrificed Onondagas at th at This which which tool Doge, izes the mechanism for making the point of Lis he Hin have a similar sacred they make another plied rapidly in finally obtaining ignition 1 doos, by the w fire-drill fire ny by means of which nine times each dn ' days periodical we Hupa irkably festival. Coupe Of ward the lown fron spl ward wi the $ reir Her [08 BR Closy roti ghtened lizard golf up tot one hy one th the dow 1s The test of plurance 8 very fevers, Has the tae bent of the fire being so great mg warriors next set about restoring them again. On wand, after another, presently a fresh ball of It posed to be the one that was burned, recreated, but in fact, this is only a jug- gling trick. Each man holds in his hand a ring that is covered with down. When the proper time arrives he per mits this ring to slide along the wand to its extremity. The performers in this cercmony sometimes wear immense false musiaches and hugh spectacles, in imitation of the white men burned off the balls of down the end of each appears down, one eagle is sup performed in connection with another dance that fellows, This is heralded by a tremendous blowing of horns. til suddenly ten or more wen ran into the corral, each of them carrying two thick bundles of shredded cedar bark. Four times they run around the fire waving the bumdles, which daneers. The latter applies the brands haxlres of their comrades in front. A warrior will seize the flaming mass as the man be j& pursuing, will rab his back with it as if bathing him. sufferer in his turn eatehes ap with the man in front of him and bathes him in flame. From time to time the dancors sponge thelr own backs with the filam. ing brands. When a brand is so far i i i | | the dancers in this extraordinary per parently they do not suffer from any burns rout less protection ia afforded Liy the earth that is applied to thelr It has been suggested, also, that cedar bark Ignites at a com paratively low temperatures, and thus the flames in which the warriors bathe themselves and ny not be go very hot. Anybody who con BOTT bodies thelr comrades to make his own experiments, A SLIDE FOR LIFE, The Badi of India and His Peculiar Offic Some curious customs are to Ix among the inhabitants of The following related of ao by bad i ii the northwest provinces of India for instance, is teed prosperity or ros By Mis Kite. i twelve «tf, Brooklyn He swung the an irs I y wen 0 w Kits ar of the house run toward th a raise Thu Bia ft and He 45 us ¥ i 4 + # downwand throu a distance of litting the ont fifty foet, # board at 1 «1 i where |} ¢ fell ! tenants and James’ moth found the boy wns cellar they His walp wound viewed is T™ he head the string. grasped in hand. Some James Dr ahint one Kinnje de clared i) scalp and the great shock he was uninjured He aml soon was walking around the room Dr. Kinnle expressed surprise at the boy's remarkable escape from instant death, and accountixd for it on the theory that the Kite broke the fall. The kite wae afterwards recovered by boy friends of young Grimes, and will be preserved in the family as 1 memento of the boy's escape from a terrible death. New York News mvived Creat Power for High Speed The large amount of fuel required for very high-speed racing boats has been the subject of thorough investigation by experts, in order, if possible, to re duce the gunantity of coal necessary for this purpose. Some of the British tor. pedo bont chasers are thought to be the most perfect vessels of their class in existence, but in order to attain a thirty-knot speed, they must carry sixty tons of coal. This is fully one placement. Under high speed they con four tone of coal an hour. To propel a vessel with a speed of even twenty knots an hour, the consumption of fuel fs tremendous, Twenty-seven knots an hour is the best speed of the ordi nary torpedo boat. In order to reach the thirty-knot line fully 530 per cent more fuel is required. New York Ledger. * THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Tre Mirage Probably the Origin of the Sea Story. in the 4 vicinity of The the Cape of Good Hope hi atmosphere as the peculiar power of unequal refraction which pro the to the « well the and spectral mirages so known arly settlers on plains and to all traveler regions +4 ra gives rise to § w hint tral loomings,” by tien the atmosphivre over por have been 1 “rounded Knowij men rs Kuro prance POX DONR Are Animals Left-Handed? 1 fo In evidens least Are ¥ 5 at fort of the right-hand fore pnts his left « if the left finger be offered the parrot will put forward the right foot He says, however, that there parently a small preference for the left foot, but this he accounts for on the ground that left-footedness is most alk ways induced in parrots from the fact that those who offer the finger or food to the parrot usually do so with the right hand Repetition of this process it would seem temds to make the parrot more or jess left-footed. New York Merenry, The parrot there law forward is ap Potentates Who Never Move. There are but two European poten tates who manage to get along withont change of residence. These are the Pope of Rome and the Sultan of Tar key, The Rultan has never left Con- stantinople since be ascondsd the thaone In such tragic circumstances nineteen years ago, and His Holiness has remained within the precinets of the Vatican since the triple tiara was placed upon his head. New York Tele. gram. Anarchist Papers in Europe. According to careful esearch there are fifty-one anarchist papers pub lished in Europe and Amprica. Oge in fn Duteh, ten German, eleven Preach, eight Italian, nine Spanish, two Span- ish and Italian, two Portuguese, two Teechish and six English.
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