LULLABY, Good-night! Good-night! wings are shading Softly the weary world, and slumber creeps Around us, and our little ones are fad ng; sleeps, Dreams, happy dreams, shall make us for the niorrow More glad, to love and work: Dreams, holy dreams, shall show how more brave, more strong sweet 18 sorrow, What love and wisdom lurk. Good-night! in {ts bosom Good-night! Sleep, darling, sleep! for thee no care Is 1 through paths shall toil; no bitter of hati No weariness, Shall the Woe bright gladness of thy ms, of mother's love unspeakable, aceful dreams, that worn spi misses, nee again he rests in divine ‘ : ' Good-nicht ht! Good-n Good-night! Lr Good-night! 1 i Heaven 3 ended, clasps guarding of t has a bs A £448 Ja (gu OAM pany. | of the second. A h if the first section, h o amulsor ung fol ow, ev itl a right beardless chin a8 a girl's Nevertheless, 1 hold a Against It i= see these brats of 22 promoted alongside of an old trooper like me. Bat for all that he is n nice boy. and the men would go through fire and water for | He is well connected, of good family, and tl of But that iz his and cheeks us smoot! fittla nlwavse grudge vovine vexing to him often receives letters with the the War Department. business, not mine, I watched him out of the corner of my eye as he ran through Then I saw him wipe away a tear, a little tear. which glistened on the end of his eyelash, | pretended not to gee it, even joked a little to make him faugh. “What has she written to von Jacque? Wthat says my fair lady?” He turned to me without n emile. and gravely sald: “I bave no In’ friend Bertrund, It is from my mo. her.” “Ah!” 1 felt as if 1 had made a fool of myself, and sakl no more, But Jacque continned, “Do yon see these letters, Bertrand? It would be | better not to receive them in times | like & ~po" i That was my opinion, as I have ie! ready sald. It was not good to allow ! Hy the letter, But out of polite “14 ' ask nothing better ness to Jacque I sald, pleasant no nothing to receive good news from liome, matter where I hope had shook his head. “Oh, That disagreeable, the contrary!” all taikative this His fixed on the far away, where there was nothing to be seen but I wondered what no, to Wis Hot morning. were horizon a bit of blue sky gee aver there march!” 1 I" for my section, conld “Forward, repeat at last, “Forward, march was still dreaming, for 1 sny, Jacque, no doubt, and did not hear the ¢ heard the Lieutenant 1 “Ah, hind already!” Jacque sald not a snmand, hind well, Sergeant Jacque, lagging be. me word, he simply «1 “Forward, march!” in a tone, as if he wie o say. It was not the tone a French uses when he hey words, but What Jacque commands, NT vor mn rei never mam them nutter shiont the morning? ‘Forward, ma l two sn, is this an un rehsd steadily HOO met als had co: a.ready nar iently diffienlt with. bamboo, and heaven wirat it cost fall, the battalion and I saw adjutant of others In- bamboo At Hp ] fs! two lieutenants the many possible to pass that Ms fast ii Cursed captain raged like a demon he commanded, “A section there! This time it was serious. No time to hesitate: all those who elirmbhal there were sure of certain death I think the Captain must have retain od some spite against Jacque, for he turned to him and sald: “Go up there, gir, and tear away that bamboo.” It is but Instice to say that he did not wait to be told a second time. Touch ing his cap with “all sight, my Cap- tain” %e started at a quick ran. In parsing me he drew a packet of letters rn his pocket “Take care of this for me, Bertrand.” And in the twinkling of an eye he was gn with his section, “Tear away this. Thess He was go tranquil as if super. duty. pouring upon them a deadly fire, the balls whistling, tearing the bamboo, plonzh'ng up the ground, every now and then crushing In n shoulder, carry- ing away an arm, or breaking a leg. finished an AR work between th tli him Just na Was struck eYeN raised his arins to shout a rah!” he fell dead, face foremosi Perhaps I aid ne much Fro gren of morning, but traly If was to tint that Jacque gave me; des | I conld ‘A boy i fow for nu packet of letter hie 18 : keep them who nets like fi! cownrd, 1 hours aman! It something under this” And I elt nnder my hand In those letters burned me, It them, Mn Foi? I drew out the packet there had re Nothing else Ah letter, is unnatural; there must Wins I conld not: then wang only dyed Upon my word letter, the one he ning blood! bay Hu what a He was right (ine rhit Hot » a battle a baby MMT OU h 1 : 4 letter like that just bef A for me ried like Rent my eve was from his here to her “Now, my prec irself f all | «4 the good old ended her Jae % what boy ns she O18 11, are the moist? iy bs n throughout, and to de dJop the fungus wi has previously 3} i vil © sown in In fort ight hows hie COI oq cheeses ho. and rubbed with a In the two days the fungus will appear on the Viscous, ire coarse cloth ourse of another outside, in the form of a sticky paste carefully scraped off knives, together with a thin stratum of crust, and set aside for food sorted out; with This is The cheeses are now the solid placed on the floor In eight days’ time they become cover ed with a yellowish-red mould, together with other minute vegetation, which is removed and given to the pigs. scraping is continoned until the charac. ter of the mould changes, showing that the curd has altersd its condition, and announcing the completion of the cure, Then they are again carefully seraped and wiped, and wrapped In tinfoil and are ready for the market, Roguefort cheeses have been cured for centuries by this process and stand as a triumph of nneducated aru most ones “he A ——— ——— China. “There is wealth enough in China [a aevelop the resources of the empire, but +k of mutual confidence keeps the imjasite capital out of sight. There is (learning enough In China for all nece:- | sition. There is no lack of talents of | every kind. But without mutual con. | fidence, founded on genuine sincerity, {all this ix unavailing for the regenera. i LIVING RAT THAVMS, Big Snakes Make War on the Army of Rodents, On gras and hizsids SCOVOered pains Al South count of thelr id theh pre numerous ci th is arly mn hy [i destitute of herbage 1 up, you will up find that they all end holes Just large enough to ndmit grown rat; and yOu dies of grass You ll rat-like trot Kk little burrow, Fit or ous less nimble thnn « ¥ Fmaller much longer an 1 » ¢ y Deing move They ways travel rep ¥ packs, sometimes traversing distances in an extmordinarily short space of time. a great num ber of idee, sluggish streams, “I'he island is cut up by and pes tilential infested with crocodiles and caymans, Those don’t want a better dinner than # stray and no knows better than the dogs themselves When a pack of maranding canines come to a stream they know that they have to resort to strategy in order to cross in safety, so the whole pack get together and they bark and howl and bark furiously for several minutes, A erocodile or an alligator that has slept for a month will wake up as soon ag he hears a dog bark, and commence a stili hunt for the dog. The result is that every reptile within hearing of the yelping pack hustles up as near as he can approact and waits for one to piange in. swamps which are voracious reptiles dog, one about 300 yards, plunge in and swim across before the alligators get snapping their jaws together, scurry off till they get to the next Reindeer were abundant in Seotland and were hunted in Caithness in the year 1100. * "RHODESIA" that 1s Ruled by the British South African Company, and porth of the Traps sh terri British % sphere o sphere of Immense Brit 1 to thie § Oreos § wd until of the timber, on e iw pet: did the fell zig-zag to he place intend- but the ninutes work moment, ole chimney sudd ground, exactly There force of the der though hand was HOS, fall was sufficient to sun- as cleanly detached by jointed bricks ae they I the had beer Dogs of St. Bernard, Baron Jordis, the principal] breeder of 81. Bernard dogs in Austria, publishes a letter from the prior of the St. Ber. nard’s Hospice on the subject of the present value of these dogs. “You ask me whether in the present day our hounds render the same service to trav. elers as are usually ascribed to them ™ “Certainly they do, They in no way belie their past. In winter they are absolutely indispensa. ble to us, not only became they still can lead us zafely along the preper The only difference is that they do not carry a basket or a flask fastened to their necks. These are borne by one of the brothers of the Hos. pice.” Westminster Gazette, THE JOKER'S BUDGET. AND YARNS BY FUNNY MZIN OF THE PRESS tellectuale-Her Look int Human Burglar Alarm.-Striking Repartee-~No Change in Symptoms, “No huts, my dear Fir time has en juite pro- per pe Th they went were married Telegraph THERE WERE thont you.” getown and Chronicle OTHERS “1 can’t live wi pleaded the Duke “Oh. yes, yon can,” “There are plenty of o table institutions in the city allowed to starve who makes his wants known” nid the heiress, chard Na one is anized SHE WAR A PEACH. The shipwrecked maid elung to Ler fover fraatically. *“Prescrve me! oh preserve mel” she eried, The savage chief amiled reassuringly. “Believe me.” he said, “we have every facility canning. "New York Proses, for A HORRIBLE FATE. First Hobo Wal Gecome of Ragsey, wot used ter hang gronn’ de i=land? Second Hobo--De ag’ freshet washed him off. First Hobo-oor ole Ragsey! So ——— A watch which is in good runtiing or der in one year's time ticks 157,680,008 ticks.
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