ak Twe Singers, Two singers there were and one was like To a queen in her royal gown With a stately step, and pride agleam 1n the deep of her eyes of brown: And one's was a face with a gentler grace, And eyes through Eyes that borrowed tint Of a little sunbhonnet of blue. RES—— ny that a heart shone the schoolday One was a singer of great renown, Now stirring the blood with a note, Now charming the ear with the cul tured tones That came from her shapely throat; And one was a singer of songs of love, And she knew not the ways of art; But she sang right on past the ear and poured Rich melodies ‘round the heart. Two tributes and one was lost In the deafening volley of cheers; And one throbbed on when the singer was gone, Ant the answer was tears, many the since then, And the singers that sang are not; But memory holds to a little song, And the other-{ors t! forgot! HIS FIRST NIGHT IN MANILA. A VOLUNTUER'S ADVENTURE. An injury, received at Cavite, a few days after our troops entered Manila, incapacitated me for further service. I was furloughed and might have come home on the transport to San Fran- of song- silence and Ah, day of life in the Philippines. Two American friends of mine, with an eye to future business, had bought a aumber of houses of departing Span- ish residents on a street leading off the Escolta, and at their request, I hired a native servant and went to live in one of these houses, to look after the property and “hold down the claim” for them, as they say in braska, till they themselves. The casa, or house, 1 Spanish structure of Manila, around an enclosed open patio, ner courtyard, grated windows. or The roof over gated iron, as is common here count of earthquakes, but the portions at the wings and rear were provided with roofs of red tiles. on ac. locked the great door, ascended to my new quarters, and sat down to read an old copy of Waverly which had found its way to the Philippines on a war-ship, Something about the queer, musty old place gave me a singular sensation ~lonesomeness, perhaps. 1 forgot It in the parvrative of “Callum Beg.” for a time, Then I heard Florencio, my mozo, coming up the stairs from the patio. He brought in drinking water, opened my bed, and laid a pair of slippers beside it. As yet the and 1 had much difficulty standing each other. He spoke Taga log and a little Spanish; Spanish and no Tagalog, 1 thought that he appeared uneasy, and scarcely | wondered at it, the house was so si lent and deserted. 1 asked him If he were afraid. “Ah, nao, senor,” he replied, doubtful look around, but added some- thing about piearos, and then plained, In many long sentences, of which [I more with a none than comprehended, burglars often crept their bodies smeared they could naked, with fat seized or having go that held. I had a Krag-Jorgensen carbine; IMlorencio brought in two old lane he had found such as had sometimes been He stood up one of doughty weapons beside my with an odd smile, that he should keep the his own colchon in the which he occupied I laughed at him: condition of the precautions were place, After he had said buenas noches, and I had listened to his shuflling feet de scending stairs, 1 read again a while, and then went to a window to look down into the street, which was very quiet and dimly lighted, Pres ently I heard the tramp of a patrol squad, and a sergeant with five sol diers passed, From the window 1 could see three them from the “Such is Manila rusted ww which below, these bed, other back room yet in the disturbed city at that not entirely out of the entrance of in ISU.” 1 an alley to bed The night was not hot, 1 blew out the fell asleep at once A nd was dragging one of my shoes tiled Soor. When I struck hi, the big gray fellow dropped and scurried into a coruer, could see his small eyes re feeble raping son soon waked me: across the where |{ from, I selected two rooms on the sec ond floor, frouting the street. Spanish family who had lived had left much of the old furniture, curtains, bamboo chairs, begdsteads, colchong and other articies pot moving away. Even the braziers for cooking still stood on the gallery out gide the door. 1 had but fetch in my personal belongings and begin my bachelor housekeeping You get a mozo, native male eant, for four dollars a month here, and this “boy” does everything for you, even to laying out and fetching in your meals indolent life at moderate cost, is the ideal city, in time of peace. mozo does all the small buying. worth to or ser clothes For your The ecustitute the medium of hime, Although I found the old tp, it was far from being wholly un occupied and empty. A “chow” dog. with a black curly hair, and a tail that trying hard to keep in its peculiar eurl, was in the patio when I unlock. ed the outer door and entered. The forlorn creature seemed casa shut or whine for food. and she my face with sad, longing eyes, per haps pleading for her three little pup pies, A dirty, lean, white cat, under a rank banana stalk. whole patio was now overrun with | neglected flower plants, per-vines and a “fire-tree, a half dry pool of the fountain, and a lizard three or four feet squatting on the rim of iL There were five more of these long lizards about the court and late that after noon they began to “sing.” [I thought that half a dozen jocksmiths had en: tered and were filing keys below, till made by the lizards, The first night after taking posses sion I spent down at Cavite with some friends: but the mozo remained and availed himself of my absence to smuggle into the patio two tough-look. ig game cocks of his own: for all these native “boys” are incorrigible cock fighters, He also kept a yeeping turkey there, for what purpose I never knew, and ralsed “hongos” mushrooms in a dark back room of the ground floor. Still, he was a very good mozo, as Mani mozos go, and was usually on band when he was wanted. The old house had still other deni gens which 1 did not learn about till the second night, which was the first that I actually passed there. Any one living in Manila-even a newcom- or of a few weeks’ experience of the ¢ity and its inhabitants-—-would have ; understood matters better than I did. i I put my shoes and socks on my bed, d again fell bat not for long. Frightful squealings broke ont. A battalion of charging Filipinos could hardly have made roar-—and wis thing larger than ght. starting lighted my lamp of asle =D. it rho rhead! “Rome this time,” 1 and once more ave rats thon up, ceilings those usually boards, A old Spanish beams and was rolling show the object loft room, and 1 viang above it. Then houses heavy snd tumbling 4 § 5 s ind ftambding in the ahaove the > ae iron fling of on ¥ could ar against the Ih a strange, grat succeeded, followed another frightful out burst screams; then bump-thump- plump all over the loft! Considerably excited, [I jumped up, and seizing the old lance, struck and prodded the ceiling-boards vigorously proved pot nailed fastened In any way; they turned Dirt, dust and a shower fell But my demonstra effect of quieting the time he an occasional “ool ng, sliding noise immediately by i of td These to be or rubbish had for the ing. From the sounds 1 was sure that a man or some large animal, as well rats, in the loft-a greased pienre, perhaps. Mounting a chair, with the lance in one hand, 1 held up the lamp. As J raised the light there was a sadden commotion above, a clatter of the overturned boards, and not face, fully a fathom’s ugliest scaly serpent my eyes on. the finise as must be that 1 ever set I yelled outright. purely from ter ror, and jumped down from the chair, The i fell to the floor and broke, means improving the feeble 1 more of it~ by ight. The down Putting down snatched my the flaring carbine and lamp, 1 tiles. But the noise in the creased. Glancing up, loft had in Lie ran over the beams, sent it executing even wilder gyra- tions. At length, catching sight of its body gliding across one of the wide eracks I had made by overturning the boards, I fired and brought it down through the hole, Both snakes, the smaller of which was not less than nine feet long, were now tumbling spasmodically about the room, and 1 leaped upon the bed, for my feet were bare, and 1 was other. wise in scanty raiment. At that moment there came a hasty knocking at the door, with Florencio erying In alarmed accents, “Senor! Senor! Que hay?’ He bad naturally concluded that a battle with robbers was it He was nshen with terror, But as his eyes took In the situation, the dying serpents and the damaged ceiling, his face regained its wonted expression, Nay, he even smiled! Then, marking my began a reassuring discourse, of which I understood scarcely a word, Quite fearlessly, as it seemed to me, he seized the snakes by the tall, and hauling them out on the gallery, threw them down into the patio, Then all the ahout and excitement, he Foon, something (house snakes), while culebras repeating de casa not know). It was not until the next day that I came fairly to understand that 1 had | foolishly killed two harmless boas had filled the necessary offive rat-catehers in the old house for be filled by others of their species if we expected to live there, 1 then learned that most old houses bungalows at Manila have their or house serpents, —a species from eight to twelve feet long, live In the lofts and attics ceilings, rarely or never giy- any trouble. These ‘are sold by native ped- which n people in fact, ing the stinkes, itinerant vend- hint of Flor- Not many days later, acting from some encio’s probably, came to the house door, each hearing a bamboo pole over his shoulder, with a boa coiled around The reptile’s neck was tied fast to the pole aloft, to prevent them from It cost me two of the cart wheel dollars of the country to make Youth's AUTOMOBILE TIRES. An Important Question That Has Not Yet Been Settled, for which automobiles satisfactory aa- vulperable part of rim of the wheels, to insure comfort, safety beauty experiments have been by nearly all manufacturers involved much more expense is known to the people outside the The monster pneu unsightly, The tire question is the manufacturers have not yet found a swer. The most vehicle is the and in order one of made which of matic the business tires are and give and un being i {hese vehicles a wieldy pe ponderous benldes GY ercnme appearance, in order ft nslve, 3 rows of vari sizes, been JER shapes and have and are wing used for the determining the ticalbide Among tire desigus of prac purpose which is most the recent patterns isa square hich is old nl although mania tested suffi ntly an opinion on its last! Some of the have a correspondin with corrugated surface, w a great thie loon a turers improvement on looks, its ve not it ng reg be fiewest ple gRiire vehi wheel and a the I Jos narrow gly small, and life of these also being wat ed closely “Only car nanufas lem. We have tire ledge ments.” tires is ful turer, said a probe bi get our experi investigation” “will hing and must expe solve the not except the cycle 10 EO DY. Know through nsive tifios a purpose of cost of rubber tires jus tiay for the which is the pattern and design, Tires from £25 to £50 each, and some of the spe cial patterns are still more expensive. The iarge oan lis. covering most Cont are being watched with much atten tion by the people who are interested in the horseless trucks, because the heavy vehicles will require of great strength. The solid rubber tire has been used with some in heavy vehicles, and is having its share of attention in the tests which are now belng made. —New York Tribune. tires RUCCPEs Georgina Pine Days Are Limited. At a recent meeting of the promi pent sawmill wen of Georgia, a com. with the following hundred thousand feet of mer chantable timber to the acre, Total in feet, 4.500,000 000, Dally cut of mills, 2,600,000, At this rate, six years will complete. One million five With this condition confronting the the situation requires most careful and considerate treatment, Nothing which will put off the evil day should be neglected. Furthermore, where this timber is gone, it is gone. It cannot be repro duced during the life of any one oper- ating in Georgia today. Therefore, if It has got to go. make those who take it pay for it. Bvery mill man in the State of Georgia, and in other yel- jow pine States as well, should combine or do something to advance the price of yellow pine, so as they get the full benefits of the only crop they will ever harvest. Lumber Trade Journal Sei Sy Children Should Use the Left Mand. Mrs, Jennie Connell, of New York City has a large clientele among babiea, Mrs, Connell is a physical culture teacher, and she instructs the little ones in the proper way to breathe, to stand upon their feet, and the right poise of the body. the little ones she gives them a A SAMOAN TEST OF FEALTY. What Was Required ot a Lover Who | Courted a Maid of Another Faction, The following gruesome though true story shows what a powerful lever family approval and tribal in. fluence exerts upon the Samoan char acter, The story is vouched Jor in| every detail; A certain young Samoan, a chief, who had reached when “a young man's fancy lightly furns to thoughts of love” the son of | wrote her the witheringest note you ean imagine, He told her that as she no longer cared for him and could no longer value the button hatpins, and that he'd like them back again, Of course, he put in a numbers of other re marks, some of them general, referring to the sex, and others specific and re ferring to her and to her conduct, Bhe's a nice girl and an amiabie girl, but {that note was too much for her to en- dure. Bhe sent a man servant with belonging to a neighboring village, be- the taupo, and the suitor's there existed a bitter feud. The at tachment was reciprocated, but, customary in sach Important as matrimony, bility was duly submitted to the aiga (n-e-pa) or family council, promptly returned a verdict of possible.” Instead, however, of copting the decree of his family renouncing his inamorata the man rebelled and declared he would wed his dusky sweetheart in spite of all the code of Faa Samoa and the trammals of family and tribal disap proval that could be imposed. The young girl also asserted her independ. ence and scorn for the obstacles which were put in their way, and with the help of a few girl friends began pre paring her of fine mats and gaudy tapa, which brides in Samoa af- fect, The wedding day feeling between the high, and before date fixed for mony culmina- ted In hostilities, Overwhelm ing prespure was brought to bear up- on the lover, who was reviled and taunted with being a traitor, and all the endless generations of ancestors heaped upon his devoted head; family influence combined exert its every wile to break the en gagement but still he stood resolute, He was driven from bouse and village an outcast on world erty il divided The nd the alone, deserted by her famil for faithful bridegroom. hours passed; he did denly a step was he hut, where Pose family, *im and frossent approached rival villages ran the arrival of the dhe cere ain poor curses of the confiscated a day came a bride her not come, Bud outside the anxiously waited, She A curtain was throst thrown into the the feet of the tooped and pleked and laugh grouad-a ard sli expectant. aside: something was rolled to Nhe and horrified girl if up, and then she fell upon seTCAILnDg the ma nine, It was the and bef her fath atfianced severed head of stood her rede and cold as in his band the (head knife) amily persuasion and the him of and family wins 2 i $ or ore ber stern, ntiess turned terrible mife-oti to stone freshly ri ordeal which his order he had Lead of throwing dripping bad imiphed at last had been fidelity to be forgiven Riven proving tribe in task the and the or formed aking ¢ i bride's own (athe it at The her foe for the mercifully Was great shock 100 g ; girl, whose reason, way. She may yet be seen aboud and wandering, a sadl} decked Ophelia like in with a chaplet of vines head, her of victory or The young warrior s0 terrible a test sneless figure, idal wreaths, het singing twined arcuond family crooning a ditty. whose fe song love upon alty had that oblivion which his poor brideelect yet hopelessly awaits. Riding in An Jee Wagon. if you had bappened to be near one “My Dear very Mr, Skaggs: 1 would be glad to return the hatpins you cannot tell which ones They ure all so alike that | which ones you gave but I send you what I have, and you can pick out yours, Very sincere. ly. FRANCEWR" And that's why the soldier boy Belog a were man, he didn’t dream that six of the hatpios Washington Post. they are, even Passing the Gont Along. “Will you oblige me by holding this ram while I open this gate? It is fas tened on tue inside, and 1 find that | must clhinb over.” Such was the remark of a man stand. ing at a gate in lonely road. aud it was addressed to a stalwart sailor who had just up. The only ohject visible on the long straight road was a large ram, whose massive, crooked horns were being held by the man the two stood quite still io front of the gate “Why, sartingly, obliging tar, horns, “I thank yon." the first when he got to the other no doubt, be surprised to hear saw that ram until to brute attacked me ago, and we have together ever since. As long as you stand before holding his hornz firmiy, he ean’t hart you, Goodby, | yon will ag lucky getting from Lim as 1 have been” The railor's answer has not i COME other fas sald the the big shipmate.™ as he seized holder said side. “You never viel ‘he us half day. about an hour him hope Le away yet been porthwest quarter of the town about 4 o'clock the other afternoon you might have seen a strange sight, for a gayly painted jee wagon lumbered up to the cake of ice, but a real, live and a pretty woman at that was the astonishment of everybody who saw, but the woman herself wasn’t in the slightest degree embar- rassed. Rhe had been hurrying all over the town since morning, makiog ready to go away for the summer, and when at last she stepped into a small shop in a side street to attend to the very last errand on ber list, she was beginning to be dizzy, and ber head ached with the terrific heat till she was on the very verge of collapse. The shopkeep- or suggested calling a earriage, but she was afraid to wait. Just at that moment an ice wagon drew up to the curh, and the women—well, a moment later she was sitting on a borrowed stool between two blocks of ice In that wagon. She simply had herself delivered at her own door. and she firmly believes that if she had waited for a carriage she'd have succumbed to the heat. The ire wagon, she says and. she doesn’t forget to add. her own common sense—saved her life.-Wash- ington Post. Fooled the Soldier Boy. One of the soldier boys swung along in Tuesday's parade with a heart far heavier than his gun, and as he passed a balcony on the avenue and saw a pretty girl and a repalsively well dressed man there, he scowled fiercely. fast fall it was far otherwise. He smiled whenever he saw the girl, and the repulsively well-dressed man hadn't dawned yet. Last spring the soldier saceificed two buttons from his blouse Gud had them made into hatping for that glel. Two weeks ago he sat near her at the theatre, and when she removed her hat he saw that it had been pinned on with a turquoise fleur de lis and an enameled violet. The military buttons were not there. The girl had promised to wear them for- ever and ever, The Having Fan With In Parix there onomical day ove broke a pane of glass udow ind replaced pasting a Temper, minent paint. and sententious. of the students the temporarily fives an « other in studio it by sheet of paper over the ape inure it ¥ yeid 2 next morning through ini: He of the class, and next morning paper was pasted across th rindow. It met with the same fate. And so on the next day, and so on the fourth im fifth the artist down t paper as Fire fils breaks None hint, sheet of irk, that breaks, pays.” however, took the another the when the finshed from ®. “He that drove his cane through the and through the pane it that had been put in dents and carefully with a sheet of paper. aay (8 TY Hore Ww? CRIN nere We In 14 fore CYeR, pays!” paper amd roar he by the stu then pasted over Wanted Her Money or Her Teeth, A great collected at St la. gare Station, Paris, one day Iately to a furious dispute between a young and elderly man, during which girl kept uttering the cabalistic words, “My money or my three teeth” At length the police marched them off to the nearest police station, and the girl told her story Khe met a man in Montmartre who teeth that he offered france (812) for three of The girl bad them pulled, but treacherous monster did not pay The man of St. Lazare Station was, however, not the culprit in question, It was a case of mistaken identity, hie police are now looking for the tooth thief, crowd oe girl thie sixty Keep Your Temper. Be good-tempered. [tf pays, in every it pays, if you are an employer; if you are an employee; it is And most selfish view, i ed; you owe it to your own manhood, to your own self respect. In making others comfortable, you are making things agreeable for yourself: you are gaining and keeping good-will, which may be of value and help to you here. after:” you are accumulating a capi tal of popularity and good report, which may be used to advantage, per haps, at a critical time. Good temper is a great factor in success. — Business. His Comrade Killed, ike Yan Meter, in a letter te his folks in Parsons, Kan, says: “We ran a quarter of a mile under fire to get to our places, Dicks and 1. As I jumped out of the aiteh a native took a shot at me, but as 1 was using football tactics ikeeping my head down) ihe bullet missed me and entered the temple of poor Dicks, and at the same moment his gun fell forward and hit me in the back, and 1 ealled out, ‘Boys. I sm shot!” 1 turned around to see where Dicks was and he lay dead at my feet, 1 realized my mistake then, and ealled the hospital boys to take charge of his body. 1 think when we charged again { avenged poor Dicks's death.”--Kan sas City (Mo) Journal, First Envelopes Ever Made. One of the odd exhibits in the Brit fash Museum, London, is the first en. velope ever made It is a erude, hand. made affair, but constructed on lines similar to thoze in use to-day... Up to the middle of the present century 5 LOVE OF PERFUMES. People in Power Huve Always Used Them Lavishiy, The too free use of perfumes about the person has been avoided for many years, and beld inadmissable in good society, the merest hint of a faint odor being all that was possibly allowed, Recently this edict of good taste has not been so strictly regarded, and such perfumes as violet and sandal-wood, both of then expensive ones when pure, together with beliotrope, are somewhat in favor again, It is quite likely that the very general wearing of large blue violets has led the way to this, It is not easy to eradicate the love of perfumes anyway, for the nerves made to appreciate them will always demand satisfaction: and since the race, civil ized or uncivilized, has existed, the love of perfumes has existed too, Even animals are sensitive to per fumes, and it used to be said that one of the belps of the great horse-tamer Rarey was a bunch of violets. Emperors, and priests, and people in power, have always been lavish in their use of perfumes, Saladin wash- ed down the walls of the Mosque of Omar with rose water, to make the Mohammedan heaven more attractive, Some of the houris were declared to have bodies of pure musk. The Turk has always been more fond of musk than the Occidental is, At a later period than that of Rich- ard’s great foe ene of the French monarchs—Louls Quinze, we think— used a different perfume for every lay in the year, although some of the shades of variance must have been in finitesimal, It was a poetical custom ff the court at about that period for two lovers to use the same perfume. Our grandmothers, and theirs before them. sometimes scented thelr hair. iressings by means of an apple stuck full of cloves and spices, kept a long time in the pomade, which was per haps as simple a method and provided gs simple an sroma as could have been invented, They loved, too, the odor of patchouli, with which everything cem- ing from India or China in those rich sid days of the India trade was loaded somewhat too powerfully for modern taste; but perhaps they loved the scent more for its asociation with the won ferful shawls and and stuff which it accompanied than for itself — Harper's Bazar. scarfs A Joke on the Kalser. ust be sald to the German Kais edit that that wel in Parisian « at any lets an opportunity pass of being roy aliy kin and courteous to French art ists de at Berlin. But, per versely ever, everybody in Paris just gloating a blunder made. with the best intentions, by the German Emperor in complimenting a Parisian writer of operas. M. Ferdi nand Le Borne. During the entr'act of the first representation of one of this gentleman's works at Berlin, the Kals + sent for him to the imperial box, shiook his hand with the quite Inglish Lieartiness he knows how display when thoroughly pleased, and gratulated him In the most cordial fashion. In particular he dweit on the pleasure it had given him io witness triumph at Berlin a French composer and a Parisian. These ad- vauces were so pronounced that soci in Berlin, patient with the Em- peror it usually is, was recdered very sore. But the Emperor was stub- born in his good nature, and wished to carry it a step further. Talking te 3M. de Noailles, the lrench ambassa- dor. the other day, he said: “By the way. M. Ambassador, I trust you have informed your govern. ment of the welcome I gave M. le Borne.” “But, sire, what government? he Emperor looked bewildered and rather annoyed. “Without doubt, sire,” continued the French Ambassador, “M. le Borne lives in Paris, and is thinking. I am told, of becoming naturalized as a Frenchman. But by birta. and until further orders, he is a Belgian, and, indeed, I was thinking of askirg your majesty if 1 should write to Brussels.” The Emperor. it is said. bit his lip with annoyance. Pat the perverse Parisians say that he was annoyed becanse he felt pe” had played to the gallery —the gallery of little French sods—for nothing. —~Mainly Abou Peo- ple, man never {abused ircies, rate passage as now is over 0 COD. the of ely as yer . A Portable House. Portable bouses have long been made. as they are nowadays, in a great variety of styles and for many purposes, and they are made in many sizes, and =0 made that sections can be added to them. So the portable Bouse i a familiar thing, and yet it seemed curious to see one set up as this one was, in a city store, as a sam- ple. It was, however, appropriately placed, for the store in which it was seen was a fishing tackle establish- ment, and this was a portable hunter's cabin. Here one finds rods and lines and hooks and nets and every possible requisite to the sport of angling, and as he turns he sees this inviting cabin, all set up, bunks in place and ready for use; he can buy a house here, too, if be wants one, and carry it with him, to set up where he will. a comfortable resting place and refuge after the sport of the day. New York San. Passengers May Use Brakes. In the new Sutouebile cabs in Putts ¥rance, there an arrangement in the interior of the vehicle which ena. bles the passengers to check the spesd or even bring the vehicle to a standstill torman. This Is due to the reckless speeds Nith which these Telicies aro Doing
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