DREAMS OE TWILIGHT.
By John Curtis Underwood.
when the windows flame at sunset
And the streets are sluleed with
blood
And the dying day is sinking
In the night's advancing flood,
Smoky volumes lightly trailing,
Vell the housetops stark and hign
Tinged with purple that the moment
Deepens in the Western sky.
“When round. us gather |
And the darkness settles fast
And each flush of life conclusive
Seems but prefude to the last,
the shadows
Dreams shall soften wasted faces,
Fraught with presage darkly to night
Dreams that like the smoke shall van-
ish
night.”
Magazine.
At the coming of the
vinslee's
NSAI NAS ASN
THE PARSON'S BABY,
The Only One In Town.
By Jay Benson Hamilton, D. D.
A prominent manufacturer in a bus
tling little Western
Junch with him during the
the Methodist Conference which I was
visiting. He I the enter
prise and beauty of the elty and had
much say history. 1
imagined from the zest of lus recitals
that he had been a principal character |
city took me to
session of
was proud of
to of its early
in many of the stirring scenes he por
trayed. He never tired talking of the
Methodist minister who founded the
first The bravery and elo
sjuence of this first parson were the"
subjects of un The
beauty, sweetness and courage of the
church,
nding eulogy.
parson’s young wife were topics con
which the old
spoke with deep and affectionate
ing. He was |
panegyric of the little woinan when 1
interrupted him a banteringly
“You speak as if you le the
parson, but
cerning gentlems:
feel
the midst of a loving
little
1d loved
had wor
shiped the
son's wife
“I have the
for worshiping
Iy ny
world
in the
best reason
her
Owe everyt
and e
next
srythi
world
¥
wicked wretehh whe
the gallows which |
n streak
road to
down with
wr little white
urned me about fae
pletely overwhelmed
After
fervently but softly
her little heart”
“Tell
iH moment
me
only one
silence
eroded:
“The parson’s baby
haby bern in our town
welcome eqnal fo the Fourt
Frery bell
wns and every
ora ted
Fung,
dee
the new
anil store was
the arrival of
in honor
citizen, It seer
childish now, hut it seemed very pro
and The
was illuminated, and a
cession marched th
4)
i
1 town
fitting then whole
torchlight pro
all of the
principal streets, The Fourth of Jui
wag nowhere, As soon as the parson’s
wife was able to sit up, she
in the front and
hours, singing to her baby. She was
a cunning little woman. She knew
the boys were wild to see the baby and
she sat by the window, where all
walked by could look in. One of the
fellows who had been hanging around
for several days hoping to get the first
peep at the
morning by
carried close to the w
in a chair.
“'t was the fellow. Like a great fool,
1 stopped and looked in. She just
smiled aud shook her finger at me, and
iben held un the baby for
1 bowed and threw the baby
was off ke a shot, 1 told a hundred
fellows what I had Would yon
believe It? Hundreds had an errand
that day that took them by the par
sonage, 1'11 be blessed if it dida’t set
the town almost crazy. If you have
ever seen a pack of school children
run fo see an elephant vou ean imagine
how the boys hustled to see that baby.
The happy little mother knew how
hungry we rough men were for the
«ight of a baby's sweet face. She did
rough
wns plac eel
room
there
wat POF
who
baby was rewarded
little
ndow
thnt
seeing the
woman
and seated
me to
a kiss and
800,
seen.
the chubby little creature,
“Youn would have laughed to have
seen the presents that poured in for
that youngster. The boys got to speak.
ing of it as ‘our baby. All began to
wonder when it would make its first
appearance in public. We clubbed to-
gether and sent off for a baby carringe,
I was appointed as the one to present
it.
with me. As we wheeled the empty
carriage through the streets we had
cheers from every corner. 1 went into
the parsonage. The other stood on the
sidewnlk and looked in the window.
The parson's wife accepted the car
riage with smiles and tears and made
me kiss the baby as my reward, She
promised that I should wheel it out for
its first ride in the new carriage,
“pt was several days before 1 re.
eelved word that the baby needed a
ride in the open air. I put on my best
elothes and told everybody 1 met that
if they would be on the lookout they
could see ‘our baby.! Before the little
woman gave me her baby she asked
me If 1 was safe company for ber lit-
tle one, I knew
I felt hot all over,
she was not
1 Knew [ was
and I started for the door ns 1 said:
“Afadame, 1 am not worthy be
I am no wick
ashamed
io
ought
ed man and to be
even look you in the face!
“Her blue swimming
tears and her lips trembled as she sald:
«Jack, vou were once a pure baby
Your ood,
loved you as I love my child,
eyes were
sweet mother
It would
that you wenld grow up and become a
man. I would rather bury
baby than to have him become a man
like you. I am going to pray for you
while you are my baby a
I wish vou would pray for yourself. If
my
ride,
giving
clean and pure as you were when your
30 now,
and take good care of my darling’
“Altho I was so awkward in starting
schoolgirl at my clumsiness, 1 managed
roinge without upsetting the car
man in town
I went up one street and
to get
riage, I found every on
the lookout,
down another. 1
Everybody was happy.
and
found crowds every
where, Some
shouted and cheered some bitterly
The r
to be
and
tine
cried. nghest tougl in town
seemed their
cheers,
KOMe
hardest, bloated old
who hardly
eot right down on his knees and took
the hem
over drew a sober bre ath
the © robe in his
hands and
like a whipped §
out
of arriage
1 and
tie
dissed
went hoolboy,
sobbd
‘I had a baby like that . NH
and its mother died: I broke her
[ wish I had died before I had
this.’
ones
ied
neart,
over come to
“1 had listened to many sermons by
the lit
but 1
silent
As 1 pushed
own
+» parson and had laughed at
talks of wife,
could not get the
preaching
the earris
sweet mother he held me
tlie the parsons
from
haby.
away
KAW ms
in her
nd sang Iullabies
as if
I had
breast, |
arms and r
to moe i
it had be
ROW +» as plainly
en but yesterday that
ny 1 Her
sang to
to me, and
myself hum
fended
band
hardly beg maby, frighten
and the
into a
not be
louder and
and
ol at the ar ¢ horns
broke
It
blew
harder !
and louder
jumped
crash of the drums, ont
shrill ery of terri could
"hie
quieted horns
the drums pounded
to louder
one big fellow
marched down the and
leader of the band by the
gave Lim a savhge jerk and shonted
‘Stop the racket of this band and
give “our baby” a chance.’
“The band stopped instantly, but the
baby kept right it cried for a min
ite at the very ton of its vole, When
after round ap
house and scores of
The
who had stopped the band stood
baby tried
At last
cry
aisle siz
the collar,
aon
it ceased. round of
piause filled
voiees shonted, ‘Encore! Encore!
the
man
up on a seat and eried:
“ “Plhiree cheers for the parson’s wife,
and a tiger for “our baby.”
“That let pandemoninm loose for ses
eral migutes,
its scare and semed to like the roar of
the crowd, It crowed and cooed and
tried to clap its little chubby hands.
The cheering only ceased when the
The leader in
the interruption of the programme now
| shouted:
“ ‘You can go on with this show now,
nnless “our baby” wants another
i chance.’ New York Independent,
His Ungrateful Uncle.
“The recent tragedy in Kentucky,”
'
ginia, at the Ebbitt, “reminds me of
some of the blondy feuds that have
ibeen a blot on the fair name
| Binte. The Hatfield-MceCoy
{gave West Virginia unpleasant notori-
| ety, but 1 do not think history will re
ia friend of mine f« fond of telling, It
| seems that he met one of the Hatfields
la few years ago, and being well ac-
quainted with him there was a free in.
terchange of conversation. In the
| course of the talk, Hintfield spoke com-
| plainingly of an uncle of his whom he
charged with ingratitude. He alluded
to the obligation his relative was un-
der, which was no less than the killing
of six men by the nephew merely to
gratify hig kinsman, For this he had
resolved no thanks, and he added that
hereafter his uncle could do his own
killing." Washington Post.
J
eal made of corn cobs, ground, is
| to adulternte many food products,
FATHER OF SIXTY-SIX,
mondom and 7 Times Afterward.
In
near
the Snake
forms
of the river.
streams
Wyoming
of inrgost
continent,
The owner
Heber Z.
faithful followers
of the late
Re Hable per SOR W ho
valley
where that
between
the
line and
Idaho, lives
boundry
the father the
family the American
and probably in the world,
of this
01
unique distinetion is
Ricks, one of the
in religion and
Brigham Young.
ave Kn
pract 106%
own Ricks for many
and sixty-six chil.
and daugh
long since taken unto them.
for life,
218 children, thereby
number in
yenuel
i YeArs say
he has twelve wives
dren Many
ters have
of his Mis
selves helpmates and to these
have been born
souls the
of
nuself, up to 2H,
bringing the of
Ricks fan 3
able father his
The members the Ricks family ave
sea ttered
exclusive the
aver i gtreteh of conntry
fourteen miles long by two miles wide
Heber Ricks has
ox, which, with
an even dozen ranch-
and
those of the sons
daughters, u LC quite a good-sized set.
In the
ment a tow « sled] Ricksyl
He
and chur
tlement, centre of Wi eit
» has been
established ene
al store being
thie snub
tantia Hpi
han
formed into
ing weel ays the church is trans
, and a regn
mi (usually one of
3
with the
labors
On Sundays
Bishop,” as the
is known in the set
3
iuently the case when
Wie fy
HIE WIVES
a til
ala
great Salt
When Ri
of
Ricks
and moved across the
Eastern ldabo
river. There upon
to
the number
to twelve,
0
of fertile ber
oe
found «
spots
ntinent he established
himself. The first few 3
ticks and Lis al-
For a all
which was
firs were nes
of great actis for
large fam time
ive 1
¥i wtily ered
large
ted], but ia
house,
tor twelve houses,
hewn were
along
To these were added, in due
and
few years Ricks
more than a name,
While the population in the vicinity
of this settlement is distinctly Ricks
there are a large number of famines
of other names. The se ttiement does
not differ in this respect or in any other
from any Mormon settlement, in Utah,
or Idaho, and a visitor,
were he not familiar with the history
of the Ricks family, would never sus.
pect that Heber Z. was the father of
so many children,
composed of roughly jogs,
constructed at diff
tie iy
time, barns,
bundings, and in
ville was something
erent points
er
other out
One Sort of Egg.
The last wonderful tale being told
among the Burmese in Rangun is con-
corning a monster ogg, said to be ying
near Sthwebo, says the Burma Times,
versions of this
common to them all. A few
months ago near Shwebo the villagers
heard a strange and mysterious voice
words, “I am going to lay,” which
were repeated frequently several times
Eventually the
coed that of ten large paddy baskets,
Nobody will go near this egg, from
jng to hateh” algo repeated many
times a day, and the people are now
looking forward to some extremely
wonderful appearance,
na“ ——
To Utilize Coal Dust.
Honscholders who find they have
been supplied with an undue propor.
tion of dust with their coal may thus
utilize it: Take three or four hand.
fuls of common washing soda, and,
having well wetted a bushel of coal
dust, thoroughly mix the soda with it.
excellently for burning when a slow
fire 1s required.
MAKING A MOCCASIN.
A Business of Which Maine Has Nearly a
Monopoly ~Material Used Since Moose:
hide Became Scarce—What Shoepacks
and Larigans Are.
When
forests
the silent Indian ranged the
in New England in quest of the
enme that was hig source of susten
ance, says the Boston (lobe, he wore a
foot his trend ns
enlled a
from n
madi
wildeat sa
his
mnoasehide,
covering which
KO Nix nt w jie
moceasin, shaped to foot
ww
foot
gingle piece of green
to a smaller the tem of 1h
the
Centuries
T1! + at
piece a
with ginews of a deer
have passed since the say
this
covering
but to
for flu
Hunt
made
the
of
the
first fashioned shoe,
this day a better foot
Bunter has never been dey ised,
boots kinds are
sold
aftey
unl for softness
Ors
nnd
woods
of various
10 ho go into
Hon w
hig hint
of
none
tread
Raine,
ie in
: mad
in the days when
supreme throug
Men have
devised
ing shoes, but the
never been made that
as well ;
Who Colne
to hunt, the
gow] hunting
he rmen =
supplies
Me
3
Tums? Yo
ne
larrigan ix 8 moccasit
and for wear in tne deen
stiow is highis many. It
and
esteemed by
fe a Canadian article of f«
geoms to |
otwear,
he name mve become as
mwineh a part of the local Maine voeabm.
lary as shows k. Its origin, however,
80 cle fr
While
3 5
all three of tii
is not
in Mains
foot-coverings desceril
for all
it is light, noiseless, easy
In wintes
i
or four pairs of
native hunters woeat
y
od they prefer the moccasin
ronnd wear
to the foot, and wears well
f Ix
worn over three
stockings, and a pair of leggine, also
knit. This makes a bundle of woolen
stuff covering the foot, and maintains
warmth even in the coldest weather,
Not a lumberman or guide in Maine
jg to be seen in winter without his leg
ging. They are ax much a part of his
wardrobe as his hat. They are thick
and warm, and when strapped around
the jeg below the knee with a piece of
tape are snow proof. These leggins
are knitted by the women In the
French settlements in northern Maine
in great numbers, and retail in the
stores at 70 cents a pair, If the amount
of woolen yarn in them were employ-
od in making factory-knit stockings
such as are sold in the cities, the qaun.
tity in each leggin would make a doz
en pair. With his legging on, and his
moccasins, shoepacks or larrigans’ over
them, the woodman cares not how
deep the snow may be. When it gets
too deep for walking he gets out his
face of the white covering of earth as
ensily as a rabbit,
Owing to the restrictions that have
been placed on the hunting of moose
there are not so many moosehide moce-
casing to be seen In Maine now ns in
their hides. All the moosehides secur.
od now in a season in Maine would not
ent 2.000 pairs of moceasing if each
was used. As most of the hides taken
by sportsmen are sent out of the State,
it will se seen that the supply for moc-
casin leather is small at the best. This
makes the leather the more prized,
There are but three shops outside of
Bangor where a business is made of
the manufacture of moccasins, They
are all In the region around the west
small places, two or three men are em-
ployed to make moccasins for sports
men and lnmbermen. The supply of
of
skin,
tnoeensis
and
hide”
into
“neat a
cnt
are mnde
wwed with deer
The procese of preparing the des
hide for sewing the moceasins is
The skin of
cured as “raw hide”
an in
teresting one the deer is
and cut into na
row strips while wet, These strips are
wiring nails and allowed to dry,
They then transnarent «tify.
Before using they placed in a bot
tle, and the bottle
jg filled with water After soaking for
some time thes
on
ire but
are
with both ends out
become perfectly plia
These
Im oO
ble, while the ends remain hard
the
now
ends are shaped when
needed
to
8 1
fot needles BOW
vith
Cutting « simple afials
There bit for
thie which is also the sides after
being shaped, and the or the
The
t hese
No last is ns
The tos
sia 1
HEE O14
wile
Ton
i
of the
widow relative size
for
patierns
10
WO pleces is abou Wen
i ria} ov ¥
el in making a
gathered up around
FOC
fmped, atiteh
top piece and or
} of
1] kind titel bee
{On of
with a
s toe is
heel
ne «] and wh
bit of embrok
The Explosive Sea Shell
very curions sea shell
swwhirh wns exh hited hy
marine ‘snail.’ 1 is found
wach of Mobile bay * ohserved a nat
nralist to the writer a day or two ago
“These shell are about one half of an
inch in diameter, and when they are
thoroughly dry they will, if dropped
Ones
ou the
Ant
on any hard substance, such as a ta
ble or a floor, explode with a noise as
sharp as a pistol, Wishing to know
the explosion in these
shells, I one day last summer exain-
ined several specimens, and found the
mouth of each firmly by a
membrane of greater or less thickness,
formed by the drying of the animal
slime. 1 also discoversd that the ex-
plosive condition of these shells occur.
red soon after removal from the mois.
ture of the beach when the little in.
habitants of the shells bad died and
the gases of decomposition had quite
filled their internal space, On exerting
what caused
closed
the shells between two blocks of wood
and fragments of the shell were
Subsequently, on trying the experi.
ment it was found tthe cause seemed
| beach in very hot, dry weather, which
| eunees the slime to be exuded in
| ton Star,
Lyddite is Safe to Handle.
One of the chief recommendations of
lyddite for practical use in war is the
be handled. To explode at all it must
be acted upon by a detonator, and a
powerful one at that
of the explosive propertivs of plerie
acid is sald to have been made accel
dentally, when a quantity of it being
melted in a fire at some dye works at
Manchester, England, flowed into some
Joose litharge and produced a violent
explosion. The origin of the name is
not to be found in any of the works in
whieh the history and character of the
substance are treated.
od
a ———
YPSHIP,
UNLOADING A TROL
flow Uscls Sam Gets Soldiers snd Bag:
gage Ashore.
I'o the many thousands who have seen
the government trupsports leave the
San Franciseo docks loaded with men,
American Philippine Is
lands it may prove interesting to know
how they are landed Manila, writes
the war correspondent of the San Fran.
all I say Manila, bed up
jore I transports have
sent time an
unloaded
arins
ctnen | Ase
to the
their the capital
In the fu
sotith of
cargoes At
city of the island of faizon
ture they may go to ports
point
The
from one to two m
A bh i
#10 n
vessels ar
yh
or five
alongside and
first disembrk
Hzht
tions {or a
baggage
meal
if
are towed up t ver about hall
a mile fro: the foot of the
war. ® Liere
Hew
ally a
and all
vii l “ry y ¥ +
ind prope y f tl organi
assigned to a
1 are put ast
:
pe for
}
Avaual
It com-
and two
ies, ale
firing
partment
vou will hay
time it snils you
General 1
form, rather
and Ix
repiration ie nr an
qoesk i
sr ity Pu Kaw
4 £y rat
y pu g his at
Hg over a
black alpacs
and put
the coat sey ely reached
It had be.
official wi
we American
up n
chair
ton short
the band. of
jonged to
y RipOYRR Were
AD
Om Span
office whrn
ized Rantiagoe
“it's not very pr ity. he wy
veying his reflected image in oa tall
mirror. “but it's comfortable,” and he
wrote his name on 8 pass for a Cuban
who wanted to go to Siboney his first
official act as commande: of the de-
partment of Santiago.
wh
Degraded Use of & Sarcophagus.
Professor Jacob Krall Vieuna.
Egyptologist, in journeying across
Austria on his way to the Oriental
Ame across, in
Egyptian sar
of
Congress in Rome,
Trieste, an ancient
cophagus of rose granite, It was die
avered in Egypt sixty Fears ago. The
which was to bring the tind to
fL.ondon had to stop at Trieste for re
pairs, As security for the cost of re
pairs, $250, the sarcophagus was jeft
behind and placed in the courtyard of
Pamfili’s residence, where it was ued
accasionally ns a washing trough,
In its original home the sarcopha.
gus belonged to Kutissncht, one of the
foremost dignitaries of Pharaoh's
court. It is about 3.000 years old. Aus.
trina hopes to keep it
AHA, SB I.
Steel is King,
A concern in lowa is making farm
wagons wholly of steel, and it is said
that it can scarcely All the orders that
pour in from the wheat growers out in
Dakota and other parts of the West.
The Manufacturer, ow