ALL: SAYE ONE.
The lady rode in her conch of state,
As the air grew chill and the day grew
Inte,
To her own hearthstone with its royal
glow,
For though it was warm,
fair,
There was never a child to greet her
there,
and rich, and
What treasures had she in that prince
ly home!
Nhere were silks from
busts from Rome,
fletures from Paris and London town,
Books and books, upstairs and down,
Atrange, quaint things from the cur.
ious East,
#ut never a child to share the feast,
Persia, and
gn the lady's mind was a gloomy store
Of wit, and learning, and culture
more.
She had sailed to the East, and salled
to the West,
he had seen all the things that are
rarest and best:
And many u wondrous tail she knew,
But she had no child to tell them to.
heart there lay
they
And deep in the lady's
Such power of loving and giving,
say,
fancy for feeling
arms close
Round a slim little form,
of rose,
Buch her warm
with cheeks
But never a child to give it to.
Oh, women who fret at the ills of life,
The round of duty, the small, small
strife
Of daily living, with children’s needs
Drawing your back from prouder
deeds
Think of yourselves bereft and lone,
Yor love, for ambition; for bread, a
stone,
Louise Morgan Still,
Home Journal,
in the Ladies’
ON CANCER CAY.
There is a tiny islet on the outskirts
of the Solomon Archipelago that to all
such casual wanderers as stray so far
presents not a single feature of in.
terest. Like scores of others in those
latitudes, it has not yet attained to
nuts have
existence at
Viewed from a
like a silly sea-
nlthough
found a
the next
many derelict
lodgment upon
springtide.
balloon it would look
#on mushroom, but with a fringe of
snowy foam around it marking the
protecting barrier to which it owes its
existence, to say nothing of its growth.
Yet of all places in the world which I
have been privileged to visit, this bar
ven little mound of sand clings most
tenaciously to my memory, for reasons
which will presently appear.
One of these devastating eyelones
that at long intervals sweep across the
Pacific, leaving a long swath of
siruction in their wake, had overtaken
the peariing schooner of which 1 was
mate. For twenty-four hours we fled
before it. we knew not whither,
daring to heave to. The only
wr: possessed had been destroyed by
the first that on board.
Whether it was night or day we had
ne notion, except by watch, and even
then we were doubtful, appalling
was the darkness. Hope was begin
ning to revive that, the FPapalangi
had proven herself so stanch, she
might yet “run it out,” unless she hit
something. But the tiny rag rigged
forward to keep her before it suddenly
flew into threads; the curl of the sea
eanght her under the counter and
#pun her into the wind like a teeto-
tum. The next vast comber took her
broadside on, rolled her over and
swallowed her up. We went “down
quick into the pit”
Always reckoned a powerful swim
mer, even among such amphibia as the
Kanaskas, 1 don't remember making
f stroke. But after a horrible, chok-
ing struggle in the black uproar I got
my breath again, finding myself cling
ing, as a drowning man will, to some.
thing big and seaworthy. It was an
ordinary ship's hencoop that the skip-
per had bought cheap from a passen-
ger vessel in Auckland.
raft as one could wish, it bore me on
over the mad sen, haif-dead as 1 was,
until I felt it rise high as if climbing
a cataract and descending amidst a
furious boiling of surf iuto calm.
smooth water. A few minutes later |
touched a sandy beach. Utterly done
up, I slept where 1 lay, at the water's
not
compass
a] broke
80
a=
raged overhead as if it would tear the
land up by the roots.
though to leeward the infernal reek of
the departing meteor still disfigured
& huge segment of the sky.
around and my jaw dropped. Often
1 had wondered what a poor devil
would do who happened to be cast
away oun such a spot as tiys. Appar
ently I was about to learn. A painful
neh at my bare foot startled me, and
saw an ugly beast of a crab going
for me. He was neariy a foot across,
his blue back covered with long spikes,
have an expression of diabolical malig-
ty. I smatched at a handful of his
and swung him round my head,
Mashing him against the side of my
coop with such vigor that his armor
flew to flinders around me, I never
hgve liked crab, even when dressed,
but 1 found the raw flesh of that one
It quite smartened me
Having eaten heartily, I took a
ter up the smooth knoll of sand,
Hessly, I suppose, for It was as bare
8 plate, without a stone or shell.
1 felt. like
circle,
the sgeorpion
amd alinost as
aforesnid.
within the fiery
As I stood gazing vacantly at the
foaming barrier and solemn enclosing
dome of fleckless blue I was again
me, 4 vigorous man, and
not a sodden corpse, as yet. I feit a
I grabbed at the vile thing aud
hurled it from me half across the is
land, Then 1 became aware of others
, converging upon me from all
and 1 was panle-stricken, For
one mad moment 1 thought of plung-
ing foto the sea again, but reason re-
reminding me
while I had certain advantages
wits, in the water
if, as might naturally be expected,
these ghouls were swarming there,
Not a weapon of any kind could 1 see,
neither stick nor stone. My feelings
of disgust deepened into despair. But
I got little time for thought. Such
a multitude of the eerie things were
about me that I was kept most act
ively employed seizing them and fling-
ing them from me. ‘They got bolder,
feinting and dodging around me, but
happily without any definite plan of
campaign among them. Once 1 stag.
gered forward, having trodden un
aside, wounding my foot badly. 1 fell
into a group of at least twenty, crush-
ing some of them, but after a painful
struggle among those needle-like
spines regained my feet with several
clinging to my body. A kind of frenzy
me, and, regardless of pain, I
clutched at them right and left, dash.
ing them to fragments one against the
other, until quite a pile of writhing
enemies lay around me,
ing from numberless wounds. Very
soon I became exhausted by my vio-
lent exertions and the intense heat,
a long respite, the sound ones finding
congenial occupation in devouring
them. While I watched'the busy can-
nibals swarming over the yet writhing
heap, I became violently ill. Vertigo
I reeled and fell prone, ob-
livious to all things for a time.
When sense returned it was night.
The broad moon was commencing her
triumphal march among the stars,
which owed in the blue-black con-
cave like globules of incandescent
steel. My body was drenched with
dew, a blessed relief, for my tongue was
my lips were split with
I tore off my shirt and sucked
it eagerly, the moisture it held, though
brackish, mitigating my tortures of
thirst. Suddenly 1 bethought me of
my and looked fearfully around.
There was not oe to be seen, nothing
near but the heap of clean-picked
shells of those devoured. As the
woon rose higher 1 saw a cluster of
white objects at a distance, re.
cognizable as boobies, They permitted
me to snatch a couple of them easily,
and wringing off thelr heads [ got
such a draught asx put new life into
Hope returned, even quelling the
thought of daylight, bringing
ravening hordes of erawl
ing crustacea. Yet position was
almost as hopeless one could im
agine. Unless, as | much doubted, this
was a known spot for beche de mer or
pearl-shell fishers, there was but the
remotest chance of my rescue, while,
without anything floatable but my
poor little hencoop, passing that bar
rier of breakers was impossible, For
tunately I have always tried to avoid
meeting trouble half-way, and with a
thankful feeling of present wants sup-
plied I actually went to sleep again,
though stiff and sore from head to
heel.
At daybreak | awoke again to a ree
petition of the agonies of the previous
day. which, although I was better for
tfied to meet them, were greater than
before. The numbers of my hideous
assailants were more than donbled as
far as I could judge. The whole patch
of sand seemed alive with the vora-
clous vermin, So much so that when |
saw the approach of those horrible
hosts my heart sank, my flesh shrank
on my bones and 1 clutched at my
throat, But I could not strangle my.
self, though had I possessed a knife 1
should certainly have chosen a swift
exit from the unutterable horror of my
position; fiercely as 1 clung to life,
To be devoured piecemeal, retaining
every faculty till the last—1 could not
bear the thought. There was no time
for reflection, however, the struggle
began at once aod continued with a
pertinacity on the part of the crabs
that promised a speedy end to it for
me. How long it lasted | have no idea
drouth,
foes
SOON
ne.
cruel
again those
my
ns
nity. At last, overborne, exhausted,
over which fresh legions
in everiocreasing numbers,
I went, with
many of the vile things clinging to me,
I beard a yell-a human voice that
revived my dulling senses lke a gal
vanle shock. With one last flash of
vigor 1 sprang to my feet, seeing as
I did so a canoe with four Kanakas
in it, not fifty yards away, In the
smooth water between the beach and
Bounding tike a buck,
heedless of my pain ns my wounded
feet clashed among the innumerable
spiky earapaces of my enemies, |
reached the water and hurled myself
headlong toward that ark of safety.
How I reached it I do not know, nor
suything further until I returned to
lite agnin on board the Warrigal, of
Hydney, as weak as a babe and feel
ing a century older.
a
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
If all the hlleged pleces of the
preserved as souvenirs could be
together they might make a very re-
apectable battleship,
A party at which
their clothes wrong side before wns a
social event in New York city.
fearful mental strain involved in
effort to be original may be responsible
society does not get sufficient sleep.
At present the Czar is getting rid of
his army by marching it over into
China. 7his is not exactly disarma-
ment, but then if his troops live off
the country it will materially
the cost of sustaining the arms during
the time he is compelled to
them,
A ———————————
A municipal lee supply in Boston Is
ane of the latest Innovations to be in-
troduced by that progressive city. The
fee is being ent by the water depart.
ment from its reservoirs. The ice
to be used for the public drinking
is
l2st year.
New York city has a barber shop In
which music is the accompaniment to
every shave. Every artist must be a
musician, and when not busy
razor or shears Is exepected to mani-
pulate hiz instrament. This is an im-
proveme nt upon the talk of the aver-
age barber.
According to a table prepared for
the London Statistical Society. the
proportion of the trade of the world
earried by British ships is as follows:
Russia, 4.4 per cent; France, 45.6 per
rent: United States, H6.1 per cent;
Holland, 53.4 per cent, and Germany,
35.0 per cent.
Kansas City has adopted a trade.
mark. Hereafter it will appear on all
manufactured goods sent out from
that city. It consists of a map of the
United States, with Kansas City rep
resented by a star io the exact contre.
Above the star hovers an eagle with
outspread wings.
In 1840 there were but seven occupa-
tions open women in the way of
wage-carning., whereas now the field
includes several hundred branches of
industry. About sixty-one cent
of the women of Massachusetts
tween the ages of fifteen and thirty
five years WAZC-CArNers,
servants forming a much smaller
than other occupations,
io
per
be
fire domestic
r class
attribute the of
a general in the war
Japan four hundred years
soldiers were dispirited by
and at last sltogether discouraged
the appearance of falling stars in
sky. He then made a kite, to which
he attached a small lantern, and sent
it up on a dark night. The soldiers
ed the appearance of the light,
which seemed like a new star, as an
auspicious and renewed the
with increased energy
invention
with
His
reverses,
iy
the
Roreans
the Kite to
ago
81 on]
amen,
struggle
A future of the annual report on the
Ontario asyinms for the insane is the
statement by several saperintendents
and physicians that while the number
of patients in the asylums Is increas.
ing, Insanity is really decreasing, the
increase in patients being doe fo the
fact that the incarceration of lunatics
is becoming wore and more the
ton. Another feature is the statement
that the percentage of cures is in
creased, being 33.04 for 1808, as com.
pared with 24.99 in 1807.and an ave
rage of 285.06 for eight yours.
Cus
Within the memory of men still in
active business life the exports of Ger
many were utterly insignificant as
compared with those not only of Great
tritain, but of at least two other Euro
pean powers. In 1897 the exports of
Great Britain amounted to $1,140,830.
20D, and those of Germany to $554.
650, 068, Here is a balance In favor
of the former of about one-third. The
proportion of thisx German trade per
capita of population was 216.06, while
that of the British was $2847. This.
while showing a great advantage still
enjoyed by Great Britain, represents a
marvellous upward march In Ger.
many. But chief significance lies in
a continued tendency of German trade
to rise, while that of Great Britain
tends to decline,
yond computation.
patural wealth that we had from
which to form an opinion, but now
tre has been enough of real explora.
basis for an estimate of what the fu.
{ure may bring forth in Asia. New
lines of railroads are surveyed In part,
and many are projected. They will
open to the world’s trade many million
customers—a new field for develop.
ment along countless lines. China's
mineral wealth alone is sald to be mar.
velously great. The next century will
no doubt see this great territory forced
to yield its treasures to the energy and
skill of the white man,
Sb
It may surprise many persons to
learn that a steadily increasing item
In our volume of expert trade is the
sale of horses to foreign buyers. A
valuable report upon this subject has
just been made to tha President by the
tution of mechanical contrivances for
transportation, which promises to be
increuned BY Ins Uae of Dcuietty sua
compressed alr for
fit for work In the armies of Europe
aus well as for use in both business aud
pleasure,
fi! or
#ia-
tunry; not only does it cont everything
with a thick layer of black, but like
nn acid, it corrodes the firmest sto e,
Its effect was recently noted on Bt,
Paul's Cathedral, nud an examination
the herole sta
ties of the twelve Apostles, which sur-
are in a state of al
most absolute decay. From the ground
the figures have all their old stateli
ness and dignity, but on closer view
worms,
and at least three are so rotten that
they had %0 be clamped with iron to
obviate the danger of thelr falling into
the roadway, They are now being gen-
erally “restored” —a terin which, arehil-
tecturally, is frequently mide to cover
all sorts of vandalism.
The London atmosphere ia
From offic ial nts recently compiled
under the direction of the government.
ai Buthiorities of Mexico, It appears
the agricultural of Mexico
oo the past twelve months aggre.
gated in value the sum of $20,712.20,
Cron
to produce this sum, but for the sake
of convenience the agricutural crop Is
classified thus: Corn, $87,282.475;
whoent, SI5680.470; sugar, $14,208.0560;
cotton, S12.803.070: beans, £12.002.006;
coffee, $8,282 038, and hemp, 837.304.5617.
Unfortunately we are
of the figures showing in detall or in
amount the value of the agricultural
crop of the preceding twelve month,
but we warranted in making the
fit the record of the
are
statement th past
Industry surpasses anything of the
io has known in recent years,
If the development of our |
steel Industries has been the real basis
of an American merchant navy, the
recent war has made its opportunity,
We might have gone on content to wit-
ness decline in the amount of
foreign trade carried in
ships, had not
the
American
American we
by the sudden acquisition of territory
which will compel us heneceforth
be a maritime power,
ried only 11
commerce in
against 75 per
mit of decliz
ship bullding ing
creased fourfold. The
it mercantile marine from
per cent, of our
American
cent in
nw
the
our
botto
IR5S;
iN,
but
hed
has
% Deen red
180s in
war hs
ar extinction
About ten million
Birchwood will be
Seotland
sent to Eogland and
this year for spools
4 §
wos is cut In small logs In winter
a wed mills near the forest in
spring, and piled up for
until warm weather, about
of
and sent to Bangor by rail,
are loaded steamships
for the European ming This hs
been one of the most important indus
in Northern and Eastern Maine
nnd its expected revival is welcomed
by all
shipping
trade
Yeur.
at
ing
v nied
bundled
they
CREOn
June. Then the bars are
where
gone rally : O
nel is
frivs
laborers to
In the fruithox
rR revival is fed this
There bound to Malue
with eargzoes of salt from Sicils
italian and probably all
will get carly cargoes of fraoit
boxes in Bangor for Italian ports
classes, from wonds'
merchants
also EXP
Are now
ports,
§ :
five barks
these
The
Tt
movement alreads
has a sure amd firm grip on the coun
try. Evea the mustangs
travellers over the sixty miles’ journey
between Flagstaff, Ariz. and
Grand Canyon are to be
make way for a line of autocars, A
question which just now Interests
keenly the public as well
aniomobile
which drew
fs experts
to be adopted for the enormous nom
geen in every city in America. Fhe
gasoline motor is high in favor
will doubtless fill a
field, but it is remarkable that in a re
cent cab contest in Paris, hitherto the
home of the oll motor carriage, where
was given the most complete and prac
tical series of tests yet organized,
eleven ont of twelve competitors using
electricity. As a resalt of this contest
the entire Paris cab system will sub
stitute electricity as a motive power
before the close of the present year
In fact, it is generally recognized that
electricity, for the present at least, is
pre-eminently the power for the con.
gested traffic of large cities,
Only about one-half of the counties
in Pennsylvania have almshouses, the
supported at their homes or farmed
out to the tender mercies of those who
agree to accept the lowest price for
their maintenance. It was established
long ago that the almshouse system is
the most economical. but the rich agri-
cultural sections in the counties, where
the number of dependents is Hmited,
antagonize a county home that ealls
for general support. The latest report
of the State Board of Charities says
that comparative statistics prove that
the cost of maintaining the poor in
counties having almshonses is nearly
one-half less than where such institu:
tions do not exist. Besides, the care
and treatment given the paupers are
better, as they are thus guartered in
comfortable homes and required to
perform labor If in condition to do it
Secretary Biddle of the board, who fs
an advocate of almshouses, says that
“experience” in visiting these lortito.
tions has led me to endorse ‘hi sys.
Girt He Loved.
There may be an embarrassing meet
ing in Washington some day, when
Admiral George Dewey returns from |
the Philippines, Naturally he will
visit the national capital, and official |
courtesy may require him to meet the
new Spanish Minister,
Reports from Madrid say
Minister will be Senor Don J.
nettl, Due d'Arcos, who took Dewey's
sweetheart from him some twenty
Years ago. No Spaniard could be ex
pected to become enthusiastic
meeting Dewey in peace or war, and
the Due, therefore, scarcely will be
expected to be most cordial toward
the American conqueror,
Perhaps the Due may have to pres.
ent his wife, She may think of what
she missed. The hero of Manila may
have similiar thoughts,
When Dewey was a young man
holding a subordinate position in the
navy, with all his honors and glory
hidden in the future, he was stationed
for an while In Washington, There he
met Miss Virginia Woodbury Lowery,
danghter of Archibald Nowery, one of
proudest of the old families of
Maryland and Virginia, and a relative
of Blairs and other Southern
aristocrats of the ante-bellum period.
Virginia was beautiful and talented
and one of the belles of Washington
Dewy fell in love with her, and asked
lier Zo be his wife. There was a rival,
Hie Jack Brunetti, an attache of
the Spanish Legation. He nad no
better prospects than young Dewey,
but he told his love story better than
that the
the
Leyes,
iii
wns
blunt, straightforward Vermont
could. And listened to
flowery eloquence of
foreigner and turned
plain, honest story of her
Bat hier proud, old father would have
of either of young
thought he some]
for bh
Soung
boy ship the
the dashing
from the
countryman
nway
Noe the Upstarts,
better
either
ng
is daughter than
steers conld give her
her father and refused
gave a whispered prom
to the Spaniard that would
walt, Bhe did walt for ten or fifteen
years until the Spaniard was the Due
Mexico. Then
and gave his con
a Duclicsse
had
gird preferred a
was not worth break
and he found a trae
who his
had
twfo {
a man she had
Haw
in store
af
she
these
obeyed
but she
ise she
10
the father relented
sent, and Virginia Ix
In the
ame
meantine Dewey con-
who
over
appreciated
Nhe
girl
worth and became
her : Vis
fils wife
three
YOars
he work I what
vase
3 1 ali the
biz wife left Mexico
through New York on
pain Every effort
of the
was nseless
and
4 Arcos
[ras il
HOW
vue
and
thelr
ity
1]
way to
the Ihe
belween the
avoided pub
native land
© X Pre tel to
Treaty of Peas
and re
tO pet
roubles
He
his
to speak
uations
icity and
with his
hurrind fo
wife They
Soon as the
for ratified
lations are resumed
The officiale in Washing
the Drie will be
long residence in
mre
return as
formals
diplomatic
rton say that
“persona grata,” his
Washington amd his
American wife making him particular
table to this Government. Bat
’ ife can hold as
position in America as might
hers if she had Known a
had it offered
aceeg
no foreign inister's w
high a
ve been
tii
id
png sie
wuen
HIE fe
Truly Horrible.
Waether it illustrates fertility of re
of force of bhabit—or both
ix humor io the Cleveland Lead
“tory of "an old man sells
soHree
er's who
ite
Bong
has learned from handling the
tional sheets that in order to dis.
80 it ix
” YAll
“All
or all
hing “horrible” on hand;
about the borrible suicide;
the Dborrible murder.”
the horrible accident)
sasined
“all
slut
rv day.
One evening last autumn he stood at
his accustomed place when the late
“extras” were brought around. After
securing a bondie he serambled to his
saw a halt dozen men ap
proaching and cried out:
“Here's your extra paper, just out;
all about the horrible—borrible-"
Then Le stopped. He bad forgoiten
to looked nt the headlines and find out
what borrible thing bad happened,
Hastily tarniog over one of the papers
be caught a glimpse of the account of
the Harvard Pesnsylvania football
game. The troubled looked faded
from his face, a glad light came into
his eyex, and be continued:
“All about the borrible
game!”
football
a a ae ip
The May Day Custom.
‘The custom of observing Mayday,
or the first of May, with floral or fos
tive ceremonies, dates farther back
than the Middle Ages, and. i= in all
probability the lineal descendant of the
Roman “floralia” or festival in booor
of the goddess Flora, Among the bar
barions Celtic populations of Europe
there was a heathen festival on the
same day, but it does not seem to have
been connected with flowers, It was
called “Beltein,” and found expression
in the kindling of fires on hill tops by
night. Among the peasantry of Ire
land, of the Isle of ‘Man aud of t the
Seottish Highlands, such Soiags Were
kept up until the beginning of this
century. In England, May-day is still
relebrated, but but with thing Hke the
missin mpi
[thorn branches, which they brought
home with songs, music and wereld
ment, and decorated every door sod
{window in the village. The [fairest
maid of the villnge was crowned with
{flowers and the lads and lasses met,
idapeed and sang together, Mayday
{is now held in sentimental remem
brance, but the May-pole Is seen nos
{more. It never had a popular follows
Ling in this country. and it i= doubtful
Lif one person out of a thousand gives
it a thought, except those unhappy
people who follow the absurd habit of
moving from one tenement to another
jon the first day of May.
BABIES FROM THE CLOUDS.
The Arrival of Two Tnfaots in the Baskel of a
Runaway Balloon.
William Harvey and his sister,
living about six miles east
of Richview, lL, tells a very interest
ing story of themselves, which hap-
pened a number of years ago.
They were quite small, the boy being
about five and his sister seven years
old. Dhiring the year 1858, while the
State Falr was being held at Central
City, 11L, an aeronant of Chicago made
an ascension in a balloon at the State
Fair on Saturday morning, and his
balloon came down about six miles
of here, near: the country resi
dence of William Harvey, Sr. The
owner of the balloon, feeling chilled,
went into the farmbouse fo warm, and
tied his balloon rail fence near
the bara. Little Willie and Mary were
play gear the barn. They
the ballson tied to the fence, and, as
they bad pever seen a balloon, they
witlked up to take a look at it. Seeing
that it would up a few and
then back they thought it would
be fun to get in the basket and ride.
Mars ped her little brother and
then got in. The balloon went up
and dowy gq while: then all at once it
gave a and pulled itself
from the fence. Up and up it went,
with the little Harvey children in the
basket. The mother was looking out
of a window, balloon
up told that his
balloon bad fence,
and they all The
mother came, watched the
feed some gone
ie think
children, nor could
hier two children
told her the
to be found
1 over the farm
without re
to
‘rom his farm,
At
It
hen turned west,
Central City Everyone at
the aeronaut was
heered and cheered
Mr.
Miss Mary,
east
to a
ing noticed
go {eet
again,
ae it
shia
lunge loose
and seeing the
the
away
ging
acronaut
from
out to see it
the
wot
went
and, as she
balloon going up.
in the
it was her
slic not
basket. Not once did si
two I''tle
belies it 10 he
nnd
+ nowhere
3
Bile
husd chil
made al
ones, but
father nat once drove
. .
Rom ort distance
amd 2538 story. once people
followed balloon went north
me 5 * 1
about five wiles,
BOIL OYer
the thinking
making his return, «
the
fair.
as balioou went Soon a
telegram was received at Central City
that the balloon contained the
little children of Mr. and Mrs
illiam Harvey and to keep a lookout
Bat It was ¥ and
Noon
went
Mas-
went
over
siating
Iwo
ing late
VAR trax g fast,
It
went over
sn tar
» baiioon
it was Impossible to see it
sonth, west again and
Ii, and
over East Rt
The little boy commenced to get
and began to ors Mary untied her
apron and put it around Willie's bead
amd he went to Mary's lap
About seven o'clock the next morning
balloon came down in a large tree
on a far theast Mount Vernon,
Il. The owners the farm, seeing
the balloon in thelr tree, the lady of
the house eried out to her husband:
“Oh. John, God has sent us some
children in a basket”
Jolin got the children out of the tree,
took them: into the house and after
they were warm asked Mary who her
parents were, She told them, and the
farmer took them home.
Many of the visitors to the State
Fair in 1X58 will remember the above
story and may be pleased to know that
the little children who made this trip
are now Hying i and de lige in telling it.
coutah, ned and
i AIR,
cold
sleep in
the
11 sou of
of
A New Name For IL
A teacher in the sixth grade of one
of our city schools finds time, now and
then, in spite of the ten thousand and
one things unknown to the school
ma'am of our youth which the modern
teacher is expected to teach, to give
her pupils a talk on current history.
Recently sue told them, one day, some
interesting things about Queen Vie
torin amd her family. Portraits cut
from various magazines illustrated the
talk, Among them was a picture of
the Duke of York. The teacher held
it up. Nobody in the class conld tell
her who it was,
“Well,” said she at last.
you who this gentleman is. He is the
Duke of York. Aad now can any of
you tell me what he is?"
Quick as a flash the hand of a little
girl in the second row went up.
“1 can tH what be Is, Miss Blank”
she said proudly. “He's the heir con-
sumptive io “he British throne.” —
Washington Post.
A Kslaksus Asecdete.
When Kalakava was postmaster of
Honolulu, he rarely attended to the
details of the office, as be had a faith
ful and accurate clerk in W. G. Irwin,
At that time the postage on an ounce
of letter matter was seventeen cents.
While Mr. Irwin was absent from the
office one day, Kalakaua sttended to
the business, A woman presented
package weighing twelve ounces.
“What is Hie postage 7" she asked. Ka:
Inkaua recalled the fact that seventeen
Toplind at. Shey even ony
Iiiied. at once eva conta”
“1 will tell