TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP, “You think I am dead,” The apple tree said, “Because I have never Because 1 stoop And my branches droop, And the dull-gray mosses over grow! But I'm alive in trunk and shoot; The buds of nixt May I fold away, But 1 pity tho withered grass at my | root.” a loaf to show, “You think I am dead,’ The quick grass said, “Because 1 have parted with stem and | blade But under the ground I am safe and sound, With the snow's thick blanket over me | laid. I'm alive and ready to shoot, Should the Spring of the year Come dancing here; But I pity the flower without branch or root.” “You think I am dead,” A soft voice said, “Because not a branch or root I own? I never have died, But ¢'ose I hide | In & plumy seed that the wind sown, Patient I wait throu hours, You will see me again I shall laugh at you then Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers.” ~—EDITH M. THOMAS, The Town Clock. BY ANNIE WESTON WHITNEY. The heat was terrible: but Barbay | did not seem to mind It as she hurri along the close, dusty street, her calico gown giving her a bright, look that it did on on such a day. In her arm she carried a queer. | looking bundle. She smiled happily as she hurried on, her thoughts all of Father, Father, whom she was going. Stopping as she Hall, she looked up, and hopefully, reaching so far, far brighter smile came loud, above has | gh the long winter fed clean fresh e good to see dear to reached the City expectantly tall tower her A her as from half the above into distinet up at face clear and came the clang clang—clang day. She 5 CIaAng 1332110 4 aour of 3 ' ciang-—-cian told the locked a moment longer. but Father was not to be ar F who was so good and kind and everybody loved. And they? How could they help it could they do wi Father was the old half of it, as Mother Harper being the « Harper! cause his little baby She was of steps now: Father, dear Father for strange as it may s one of our Southern ci whose ony is a humazr only hands are human whose machin ry is strong man's arm. Any one else might have thought long flight of steps leading to the t¢ a tedious climb in the heat: bay only stopped a moment to look up. She loved the long climb, it took her always ther; and then it seemed so odd up, up over the tops of the and stores, and to look down ttle while through the funny le windows and see the people growing smaller and smaller until they looked fairies then to look up at the ul sky and wonder about the dear Heavenly Father who loved every one so dearly and who watched them always. Up higher and still higher the little fost climbed, until there was only a wooden door between her and Father Softly she opened it and peeped in. “Bless my soul and body!” pleasant voice; and the next Barbay was in her father's arms. “What brought you here this hot day, Sweetheart, and what's in the bun- dle?” he asked, after she had almost smothered him with kisses. “The dressmaker next door let me do an errand and gave me this.” said Barbay, taking up the bundle she had laid aside and proudly displaying a big cantaloupe, “And you brought it for Father look at?” he said, with a twinkle his eye, “For Father to eat,” iy. “You always remember your old fa- ther, Sweetheart,” he said, lovingly. “Well, I will try to manage one-half if you'll attend to the other. 1 could not | possibly sat more than that while you are here, It would be so impolite, you know.” i “If I go away will you eat it all?” | she asked, again putting her arms round his neck, but looking into his | face ‘as though she loved every curve and impress on it. “1 could not touch it, I would be so disappointed,” he said taking off her hat and kissing her forehead. He al- ways called her his little sweetheart: but every one else called her Barbay, a name she had given herself when she was very little. It was In a queer corner of a still | queerer room in this tall tower that | they sat down by a narrow table push- ed close to the wall to enjoy their feast. A hanging supboard, from which a eocuple of spoons, some sait and 8 knife were taken, suggested certain house- keeping arrangements, while on the ; were pen, ink and paper, with a ~ book or two, evidently taken from the seen; de ither why shouldn't and how ? Why, i One. ~out him Town Clock, « $ tO used ther half she was 80 B01IT) boy at the foot of the ls the face the ght the ywer but Bar becanse nearer dear to be going honses every Hl itt like beautif over said a moment to in she said, sweet- hanging shelves (n another corner. In deed, to hang things, for the sides of room were groat windows looking over the city In all directions, But the most bell, from to reaching almost the floor; a tongu that had made no mo tion of any kind since the day it been placed in position, many, many Hanging in another corner fron hammer that, guided by who watched in struck on the rim of the great loud notes that kept celling clapperiess be. l, was the tower, bell those clear, alternately waking and sleeping city. The fourth corner held the tall, old- as old as the bell itself, all that time, te tell the axact moment when the town clock must strike. To Barbay it was a mat- al interest; for its face was al- gre: the seasons. sald her father when he saw a rapidly ap- “much as 1 love gend you home ro You would in such looking « “Barbay.,” their feast over, I must now as fast as you can like to be way up as these angry are bringing us.” “Oh, Fa ther, " sald Barbay, not mind anything where you are, mao pease, I love to watch the hide and from at her hesitatingly a mo- len flash Liere a louds stay, seek here." He looked ment, and as he did so a sudd of lightning almost blinded them, great drops of rain splashed on the win- dowsills the There was har time to windows before dly close the flashing for it was one of those storms come sudden y, only to leave a sad behind To Barbay it ful It seemed look would only last to She could not looked o« casionally at her smiled her from hi for was grand and beauti- as though she could into Heaven {f the flashes rigt ht longer, she smed so close but father 14 in Mother on ‘omfortal wondered and why must h made what 30 queer he w She ave sel up and wond ie her go to gleap all “ather, why h chair too. and tired: own Cloch it Mr. Ha th his little whi the looked 30 Le had 1 Il night hot edn 80 th LA Dabs d ge he sleep long an Befors [4 the Town faili ts Fed ‘ failing to strike .} discharged. It helpful fe>ling to re now 1 Father been Lppy, 0 wakes } h was 80 glad she had stayed moment time for lowly disappeared bea and better and Mother hear pin £ Once she hey could him cal out, so loud and clear, "Twelve o'clock and Sometimes all's we! as forced to rouse the broke should be damaged he w sleepers fire out their when a out, beciutifal wonder ev ery one Hock who warned them of danger and watched over them sleeping or waking it was time to wake him now Father.” going to his side. “Father,” she repeated loud- er, as he did not reply. How soundly he called again and him; he must she do? if she could not him, clock would not strike and they would discharge him as they did the other man; and then what would become of Mother and the children? With the tears rolling down her cheeks, she made one more agonizing effort to waken him, and then looked in helpless despair at the clock and at the motionless bell. Suddenly a thought cama her that made her start and tremble, Could she? she, She must try for dear Father and the Mother and children, Climbing on a chair, she took down she said, softly She evn wake called, shook What wake slept again, not but would the io great bell, she climbed into it again, | this time on her knees so she would be where she could strike well. Her little eyes went up to the clock, that still marked one second of the time. She was not too late, Clang ~~ cla-ng ~— cla-ng ~ cla-ng - ¢cla-ng — clang. The hammer dropped to the floor, cla-ng - the rim of the bell, Barbay caught her breath and gave a terrified anh. Had she counted right. It had never sounded so before. It seemed as the others and woud never stop. Did | it sound so to those who were listen. ing? Did everybody know it was not Father, dear Father? How dreadful it all was! Would they do anything to Father-—or to her—if it was all wrong? She looked up. how soundly Father still slept! Mr. Harper would soon come now and let him go home. He would not mind bis going to seep, for he had been kind to him. [ at her father's side and, putting her arms round his neck, kidsed the white, tired face and called him by every en- dearing name she could think of. As i the door opened, she drew her arms | meee tightly round him, as though she would protect him from threatened harm, “*Hulloa! What's Mayor, as he and the janitor “Don't, please don't let them dis- { charge him,” said Barbay, her big, sad eyes locking anxiously at the two men. “He couldn't help it, indeed he could | not; for he's been the Towr Clock all day and night. Oh, don't-—-please don’t!” she pleaded, the tears begin- ning to roll down her cheeks. ‘This is more serious than 1 i thought,” sald the Mayor, gently draw- ing the child away, and putting his ear down to her father's heart, | "How long has he been he asked quickly “I don't know. I went to sleep all of , and when I waked up I was and F was asleep this?’ said the entered, this way?" | a sudden the too." “Get on flogr, ather doctor here as quick as pos- said the Mayor to the janitor. tunned and may for but I think he'll eome I confess | do not know what rg re a sible” “He hours: all right. i to do myse Now," he who wns is be so out of it sald, turniag to Barbay leaning protectingly “tell me who made gt her the over clock st With closer her father as “Oh, and I was a fm.” “Well,” said the the clock strike? “1 44. Barbay, aver “You,” said over carefully now look Barbay she sald couldn't wake h would di crept please, im; fraid they charge {h nade Mayor, “who said the Mayor, looking her you made the big town Pe clock strike “Please anything to Father! hard to do it half sol don’t lst do said B right please, them arbay id | tried so She bed out the last as her head went down on her shoulder, The Mayor's him an hireatened kindly ‘Come here, littie woman No father eves t to give trouble id Do t anything not no do do tell me how vou made afraid one shal that you 38 € the big Encouraged tone of his vojce, she of her father and had » had tr words and hay loosened her hold given ed to be the |OON an all right and ugh it was was harge Father lischar no, i and putting hes 8 shoulder, she mind anyth ing i the Mayor tears all tall tower had ruck by lightning and the Town and uncon- and of how Barbay, for a to the Town that Father dear The be discharged The next day was told over the city of how the the story Had been stunned ous for hours had nned too few hs been stu had tried be herself might not wndent mens BO Two Musical Prodivies. of the boy the front years ans. very noticeable this variety of child won- nn the Most come to been music examples of der are still fresh | Yorkers and Bronislaw Hubermann. Hubermann was in Warsaw in 1883, and after a few sons from a local teacher was placed under the tuition of Joachim. He ned to learn both the technique and the forms of composition by instine:. Joachim declared he could teach him | nothing, and when Goldmark heard him play be said that hereafter he fwould believe in miracles. When he was here last year at the age of 13. he was one of the finest professional | players on the violin in the world. Little Josef Hoffman was a profes- sional pianist as well as a composer i when he was seven years old. He was born in 1877. He was compared with Mozart, who at the age of four was a good player and at five years was at- tempting composition. When Mendels- | sohn was twelve years old he had com posed five symphonies, two operas and part of a third, besides a great number of fugitive pieces. of late F'wo the born jos. ist, boy violinist. gee An Eye for an Eve. in Abyssinia it is the law that the | murderer be turned over to the reia- tives of the dead person, they, if they | please, to put him to death in the same manner in which the murdered person was removed. A traveler, recently re- turned from that country, tells of a case, wherein a boy, playing with his companions, fell from a tree upon one of them, killing him Instantly. The oe- currence was brought to the notice of the district chief, whose council, after deliberation, decided that the dead boy's relatives might take the offender, stand him under the tree, and then, if they could, put him to death by falling ca him from the same tree, NOES AND COMMENTS. The New Orleans Pleayune says that “a few swallows of bock beer makes a man feel like spring.” And a few more make him feel quite fall-like, Last year a Chleago header from her bicycle, ed up by a young doctor, her the other day. cycle aceldents this year numerous than usual, A Nebraska legislator a bill making it misdemeanor any citizen to have in his possession a deck of aces or kings In it, In many of the West this Is a capital which calls for a funeral, and Nebras-. ka shows marked forbearance in re- fusing to make at felony. girl took and was pick will be more has introduced i gections offense least a been col- have teetotal in Laneca- Years ago al- Some interesting facts published respecting the lHery village of Roe G shire, England, Twenty the hous the belonged most excl ridg who employ most of re To day. of 140 eighty-one inhabited by Owners The Tent has a membership of Band of Hope, 285 reen, five village the cs of waley men ugively to trustee ot houses, are Rech oil; their abite the the Southern Rev, In Mayo declared that “the » cen much for the 1000 and $30,000,000 since the war the expended "3250.000 000 of its $75 G00 O00 that South money for for the own education of it pense children of the colored The Clty of Paris has system f{« the LY maintain Ww Leu ‘hing nobility of labor exirnaive the Jere poor are by congenial labor mode] lief F of India oH) OO) und for BOW amou but large irdly suffice med tno be perfor ure igh to show awakened i {town Lyman, of Butte. The Vasil con one genuinel Went says A. W a, Mont and that is Anaconda copper mines, that which makes a profit from $5.- to $6,000,000 a year, explains there. It is employing more than ever There iz but in the jolie cern of OG B00 the statue men and has a bigger payroll before, and its employes rate of wages paid No that Butte is wr where several thousand men get steady work and high pay stagnation Life is never stagnant in the big copper camp. The street cars run all night and likewise the saloons, and if man wants a shave at 2.30 a m., ill find several bas shops open it the high- get re eat anywher wonder progperous, ft there can be no a he w bor which In- Persia, The Overland Telegraph Line England with her x Empire, passes through has recently been subjected to an interruption of a serious character. due to the fanaticiam of the populace it seems that there has been a terrible drouth, which the subjects of the Shah, instead of attributing to Providence, ascribed on the contrary to the tele- graph poles, and, above all. to the posts and signs of the survey depart- ment of the company. Accordingly all the obnoxious poles, wires and survey signs were destroyed by a priesi-led mob. Strangely enough, heavy rain fell immediately afterwards, and now, in spite of the severe punishment in- connects “al dian and upon the ring-leaders, the masses of the population throughout Persia are and inventions of the devil. Of the fourteen reputed centenarians who died during the past year, no few- Iustrated London News. Out of the one hundred and eighty-eight persons who were declared as over ninety years | i i Were women. fact. To some extent it depends, of | course, on their more sheltered way ot living. but by no means exclusively, as the women of the laboring classes show a great vital tenacity as well those who have an easy time of it in the world, The vital power of girls is shown in babyhood, for though ons hundred and four boys are every one hundred girls, the have more than overtaken { to attack its persecutor, [| warned the is a true one, There Is, among the nations world, none whose history is like unto Greece, For centuries before history vag made for modern eves Lo read she was a power and her p more ens lightened than any other exist. With such background, small wonder indeed that has her own in the memories and minds of where other and greater fallen into oblivion and behind them to rescue name from everlasting silence, is not a large country. No part of her fort miles from the i nar ten from the hills Her area is 24977 miles, a trifle more than one-half that of the State of Pennsylvania. Her population, according the last cen 2,187,208, and should she, intrusiveness of the other European powers, succeed in annexing Crete, she will have added 200,000 more the sum total of her inhabitants, territory of 1560 square miles addition of Crete also glve unen- thick country copie known it held ig i she nations left no their have (irecee in it to Wis de- the Bus, fapite to and The her i would further claim to the perhaps distinction of being more than other b the exception About y p iturist viable ly populated a Europe, wit any of Bwe- half of den and one of and Prussia agricu people are 5 shep- of England's littl has just brought the (ne veen to a tion on frontier of Apats tribe known raid B teas nt "rer t raided a tea estate in North pur, murdering two nat three ive and carying away othe mediate] 300 police o under an Engl to teach ary miiit Was y a force of ish Captain the Apatanangs a le on Feb. 1} region ized men. started and had to pene. entered by three the trate a never bafore The was over Ran in the gorge route for marches boulders alc bed Jos mg preci. yunt- af the I by bamboo |} the K O00 untains rossing of CIOBRRINE Of feet hig the Pangi sing After pistean piatean another and mag- Prim- ragp- ana th plan- tamboos about houses Daphilas ruished fro extracied arthagena a toy 8 GOO quantity pees renowned o metals 158) historia equivalent The most ine mention the riches 8 me hn h in metals and relat the ia precious in time of Justinian gold was found n the fields the plough iny, the that his 2 000 3 Astur: quan- i worked by Pi time racted VOUnger, says in gold Galicia pounds of were annually from as and Portugal The immen this metal drawn from restored and replenished Rome's public treasury. on his u from governing Spain handed over ghteen tons of silver and nearly 2.000 ki rams of gold The discov New World put a stop to the industry in Spain, but if now probabie that some of the famous mines will be worked again an tensive scale, Rich ores of tin, of and antimony are also common in district, and iron is so abundant Consul Harmony says in any country but Spain it would have ceived special attention from the Gov- ernment A thousand million tons is the estimate of the quantity in Galicia alone, Consul Harmony says the ques. tion of gold is well worth the attention of American miners and inventors who have been used to work low grade refractory ores, A in tities of Spain Cato of ilo. ery of the : mining seems old on ex- pper this that other re- An Expert Marksman, The llama of South America is an ex. pert marksman, though it never uses its craft in the procurement of its food. skill in hitting the object aimed at The llama's weapon ls its mouth; its bullet is composed of saliva and chewed hay. Several years ago at the fair grounds of this creature's power of expectora- | tion. his sweetheart thereby. This young man was one of those self-sufficient individuals who imagine that knowl their own personal intellects: “that what they don't know is not worth knowing.” He was annoying tke llama {the animal stood in the center of its pen, probably fifteen feet or mors from its tormentor) by throwing codes of dirt at it and by beating on the rails of the pen with his cane. I saw by the creature's actions that it was angry; the rapid movements of its jaws indicated that it was preparing his sweetheart begged him to desist and to come away, But he treated my derision, and told the his business.” Sud. whizzing, whistling spat; the his plas of “he knew came a bp wiscacre ay noize, followed ia sary young mil with h pine upon ix 3 and Torehead gustis nite back eye iti dis with a and xt ire hay, a PAaraso and walked “away I saw the afterwards, but he had decorum; be had by the lama them monkey again in hot some the WAR 2a Lime man changed learned his lesson in been tau modesty rkemanship Weir, Jr. being ght ood James HOW PRISONERS COMMUNICATE, ingenious Methods Emploved by Them to Talk to Each Other. The ouners make every concely- pri able effort to hold of soma fell intercourse * kind with their yw-culprits, if only the solitude thei: ent cultivat to 1 and élieve silence class of fo erable to persons of have not suffi ion them {ood on ng YW sae > HBOGCK aration i ot Hilences on the the most enabling them to let their gence at jeast be neces who have been an earlier or later from themselves The male female pri separated BONErs are { course Lssy Services "gr ifs trong wooden partition divides the portion of the building they it they do not yoslacie $1 xiremels remain ir to the Deiter rison, unfortunate reveal tentive Hecen have § None of an uvnpermitted found be sha women. At of the chapel d cnowledge red by a very « he coul whic io arefal gave an Although both the faced the over it had Lirass cross polished as in ite exam vians- strict last ination of the oxy {ion VvEtery ms ded, as have said, prisoners and ) iarge divi we iy and female their male sitar been 6 against to form clear surface women the flection of every nan as passed te his place and had enjoyed the specta cle with impunity till a wife, much in terested in the appearance of het spouse, had made an imprudent re mark to one of the officers, which re. vealed the fact The brass cross in stantaneously disappeared and ths bland wall behind #€ no longer tell any secrets. —London Hospit in sage xed a vers 11 ais, the wa Very hig hiy mi &0 a good rror the i BAW re he al. Why He Limped. A Washington correspondent sends Southern member of Congress “whose daughter of one of his oldest friend: was to be married, and he was invited to the wedding. At the very last moment an affali of some importance demanded his at be present at the ceremony in church ward. They met accordingly, and nc he in his wishes to the bride. Hb wife was so filled with pride in he limping “Are you lame, dear?’ she whis certainly not,” he said. “Wh ask?" “You limp s0,” she answered. Then, looking down at his feet, shy discovered the cause. Her better had had on one foot a heslless slipper, ant on the other a shoe with a militar He had been interrupted ¥ “No. when at leisure forgot to complete thy operation, and following the custon inaugurated by “Diddie, diddie, dump ling, my son, John,” went to the wed ding with one shoe off and one sho on. This year is the centennial of the sil} ich. fr Shmn{uts commen uy
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