ALTER WAR THU SONG OF PEACE. Dark drifts of clouds shut out the sky, The air is Aly brother Or take some fellow mortal’s Hie he Peace the world has waited for |urinks pale behind the skivts ol War! rent with sonnds of strife] marches forth to die, Across the plains the ruts are deep Where engines of ‘hie blinds are draw weep, And blood is ‘he hills give I'he Song of Peace destruction passed; un where orphans | flowing free and fast] back the cannon’s TOAY; is heard no more! me in his heart, tinkes: i My brother mocks I blame him for the stand he The world Christ saved rent And every tie that bound us breaks! gleams, the is apart, | The war god shrieks, the sabre And crimson are streams streaks in i { But God was reigning in the sky When David to smite his And God is reigning still on high, And still inspiring men below! And when the sounds of battle cease, And when the of War Then shall the hopeful Song of Peace Swell higher, ~. ald, went work ig o'er, clearer than before! BE. Kiser. in Chicago Times-Her Sweeney, was Knew ess, not so popular, No one auything about him or his busi and, he with his And then, too, his eyes had a moreover, ute But In fact, he was supreme he had forced the Inspector happy: for an en had located the That was all he wanted, When the time he would seize | the trunk, point Gray out the in and be ne gler's absence and Calne to work would . 1 Rpectors is “The only thing that bothers me” said the inspector to himself one day, | as he sat in the smoking room, puting | fat, black “is the he ever expected to get that | ashore.” That thought, how worry him much and he in a game of | very cigar, how devil not goon became engrossed heavyweight pugilist, Had the smuggler remained in bliss ful ignorance of the identity of the in would the | present time be enjoying an enforced spector he probably at But, unfortunately, the in The Smuggler's Stratagem HOW HE SAVED .4IS TRUNKFUL OF DIAMONDS. When Capt. Owens, recently retired from the command of a transallantic greyhound, joined the little circle of men seated around the in a downtown shipping office, where they bad spent the greater part of the after | noon discussing for freight, marine insurance interests of the maritime conversation naturally turned to the grave responsibility upon the captain of a modern ocean liner. They talked of the thousands of human lives which are annually entrusted to his are; of dreary hours on the bridge, when the hangs and moans of shipwreck a irowned, when the winte whistling and the icy spoon They stove rates over-sea and world, other the 0 resting white the or fog r rift talked | sf the sodden derelict and the leeberg. which so often defy the skill and watehfulness of the transatlantic cap tain, “Is it any then,” she of the circle, “that a skipper's hair ix white before he is fifty and that his face Is as wrinkled as a crompled bank note. Look ten years older than warrant.” “Well, gentlemen,” repl tain, with a twinkle in his gray whieh seemed out of Keeping with the general trend of the a wearing life; there's no away from fact, Yes, you have got to think pretty quick at times, and sometimes you have to act before think. Speaking on this strain reminds me of how Capt. Blank of the Nereid mee saved his vessel and the lives of all on board by acting promptly in an smergency. Capt. Blank vers proud of the whole affair, and 1 doubt if he ever told it to any one, At all | svents he never received a vote of thanks suitably engrossed the | passengers, but perhaps not much disappointed.” After this pre liminary the captain told the story, which in substance is as follows: tles against the funnels, wonder said at Capt. Owens Looks he really I'l is, il the cap OYes conversation, “it is getting that you is not from he was Just before the Imperial Line steam ship Nereid, Capt. Blank, pulled out of | its dock in Liverpool for New York City, some years ago, a thick-set man the gang-plank anc the pasengers, gazed anxiously at who were crowded confusion on the dock. found the person for whom he was looking, for he gave a sigh of satisfac tion, rushed down the gang-plank and sent a cablegram. Then he and did not appear on deck nor at the seat assigned to him at the dining table in the saloon until the was well out He registered under the name of James Sweeney. This is the cablegram he sent: Collector of Port at New York: tO sen, steamship Nereid, | small trunk. Will arrest him at quar- antine, McGRATH, Inspector.” The inspector's cablegram caused much satisfaction among the revenue long been into teaking this evidence that nade when mistake MeGrath no wins selected to lors down, way through the waters of the North Atlantic and on the third day out she tain began to look for a record-break- ing voyage, while the passengers, no less eager, made bets regarding the exact time that would elapse before the vessel arrived abreast of the Sandy Hook Lightship. Packard, who was known aboard the ship as Thomas Gray, a broker, was the most gentle manly of smugglers, and his engaging conversation and polished mangers made him the life of his table and wnietablished him as a prime favorite among the passengers in general. Me Grath, known to the passengers as ! | cape the notice of the acute smuggler. | He had locked the door. Whoopened it? He became suspicious and then alarm. | a steward he learned that | had loitering | around the passageway some time be That was He had liked the had eyed him What to the off He thought a minute, then | smoking and, he | absorbed in That was just He went back his stateroom, and then tip-toed noise lessly a little | further down the passagewny. It was | He left open and ran back to his stateroom, seized trunk --it affair—c¢ it to the room and | shoved it This done a «igh of satis | He had} and If would be a ed, From been seen sufficient way Sweeney never on various occasions, wis | At D vessel 4 n done? morning the Lightship, ran to the be a clog next | the | Ww ould he rooin as hig favorite what he gume, wanted. to to the inspector's door, unlocked, it wide hen was a small : wrt ' inspector's ar berth the door with under his hint faction il % and went on deck. one more card to play, things worked it trump. Sweeney retired to he on that and it retired with left it night neglected iz likely his off would had he smoking room At smuggler played take his clothing have hint not the in 6 o'clock the next morning the With a Capt his trump, beckoned bridge, sword a sour mood, mysterious air he Blank down from the had not captain was in “Well, well,” “what The ves broken a re and the be said impatiently: is it? “Listen.” ively sald the smuggler impres % “1 have a confession to make half hour this ship will be blown to atoms. It is my duty; it is prevent jt I come to tell you that in a short in your power to This man is a dynamiter and anarchist, listen Sweeney | an arch fiend whose hands and heart and soul areare red with blood of innocent lives he has taken, Years ago his father was lost in the wreck of one of your vessels He has revenge, it ject in life. 1 fell under his hynoptic influence and was compelled to aid him in kis dastardly scheme 3ut the spell is broken and 1 the Sworn “It is this” sald the smuggler ealin. “Under his berth there is a small trunk. It contains nitroglycerine in a sufficient quantity to wreck New York | A time lock is attached and it is for 6.30, Don't hesitate; act promptly or are lost. Do some. thing, dispose of the trunk somehow | all will well” And frothed at the mouth and fell to the floor in a very realistic faint, : The captain barely noticed the smug gler. With a roar and a bellow he sum. | the first officer and half the | sot we be Gray | “Get that trunk,” he roared, “and | Clap the man in The crew made a rush for Sweeney's | hold of the trunk, carried it up stairs with a rush and hove it far over the stern. Sweeney was locked up in his cers boarded the vessel at Quarantine and asked for McGrath, the inspector, and Packard, the smuggler. Captain Blank assured them that he had never heard of either of the gentlemen, He said that he had a dynamiter aboard named Sweeney who had tried to blow tectives. The smuggler was the first man down the gangplank when the vessel was warped into the dock and when MeGrath was released he told Captain Blank several things that =ade him blush. The other inspectors did likewise. The trunk was picked up by a sailboat containing the smug- gler's confederates, who had sailed out from Sandy Hook to signal Gray that the authorities at this port were on the lookout for him.-~New York Sun, When Age Begins to Tell A man is beginning to get old when he thinks it is more fun to remember what fun it used to be to do things than S——— sonia TRIED THE CHINESE WAY. Pald His Doctor Only When Well, but the Plan Had Its Drawbacks, ———_—— “rhe Chinese system of paying their physicians while the patient keeps well and shutting off the salary when he gots sick always struck me as being singularly sensible,” sald one of the tenants of a big New Orleans office building. “You see, it gives a doctor every incentive to make an unavoidable illness as brief as possible, while our Of course, I don’t mean to say mighty strong after settling certainly Year's, and last a whopp made up my mind to give the Chinese a trial—just an experiment, if afraid ax interesting Wis to make the propos) very stiff-necked old-timer, and would have brained me with a stethoscope under the impression that 1 was impugning hig honor, so 1 hunt ed up a very earnest, able young do geling hard a foothold, and lald the scheme before him. ‘I'm in delicate health,” | profession generally gets a good deal of my money from one attending to £12.50 a month long as keep me well, If | get sick your pay stops until I'm up again, He thought a moment and accepted.” “Well, did it turn business. Now, I'll give ax you how out?’ “I'm just coming to that,” replied the “For a week or so it worked all right. The doctor dropped in ones I had a pleasant feeling that some ono was vitally interested in seeing that | kept well, Then came the first unpleas ant experience. We had a mainy and 1 hurrying up Canal toward the office when a man sudden Iy pounced on me and dragged me into It was the doctor he fairly yelled your rubbers? mered, startled ive day was where ‘I don't know,’ half the he ith pneamonia and I'll lose month's He that 1 shelled out and missed sd eral important waited are I stam out of 1Y i me money to 1 ay a pair at once, Iw Ww said, ‘or you'll down wages,’ wns flere engagements ‘A few nights afterward 1 was iy eating a ram omelette inn re when who should M3110 confounded quiet rush but doctor "Run up omelette!’ death, take we ‘Why man alive! the bread and with that he grabbed the to to right out of mouth “Nour digestive he said, would pocket, ‘and 1 chances family “I ate abominate, organs are ‘and an attack mean £85 or £10 out I'm na afford t wouldn't Yers woensitive,’ gastritis said he any man,’ take poor can't It 0 wych ft $5 1% be jus ins the tea amd toast and began to whether the Chinese system was quits ns much of a cinch it As weno long range, all the details, but | Rive you my wore martyrdom continually That infernal doctor was bobbing up at unexpected places, determined to keep me well o perish in the attempt. At last hb passed the limit, was sitting in the next row, He kept shifting about un of the performance, hie leaned over anc whispered hoarsely: ‘Say did you re member to put on your chest protec Everybody near us tittered, and 1 yearned for bis gore, “Next day I fired him. 1 have gom admit, and open to abuses, but tha my health” The Convenient New Cork Tiling. A product called cork tiling has re been placed upon the marke: made of what known the trade as “virgin cork,” ground com fu is patented process, and which is fred from the cement and glue usually em ployed to hold the particles together We are informed that tiles made o thiz pure, compressed cork form an ad mirable flooring, which, besides being noiseless, water proof, warm and gern proof, ix capable of withstanding hate usage. By varying the degree of com pression and modifying the manufac turing process slightly, sheets of cork different in color and density are ob tained, which when sawed and finish in the form of panels, can be used for wainscoting alone, or in connection with cork tile floors. Cork compressog into sheets and sawed to the size ane thickness desired constitutes a very efficient pulley covering. It is sal that a pulley covered or lagged witl compressed cork will transmit from fifty to sixty per cent. more power witl fhe same tension of belt than one hav ing only a smooth iron surface.—~Scien tific American, For Sweeping the Streets, A new street-sweeping machine hm been designed to be operated with ens by one man. There Is a shaft support ing two small wheels to carry a brusl frame with a receptacle balancing fh brush, and two handles at the rear by which the brush is pushed along the it is to do them.—~New York Press, pavement. COWS, OR STEAM ENGINES. Which Have Done the Most for the Advance ment of Mankind ? Fornest Seton-Thompson, author of “Wild Animals 1 Known,” “Th Blography of a Grizzly,” in writ ing in the Century of National Zoo at Washington,” an intes esting question as to the relative val ue of domestic animals and human i ventions, At the beginning of this century th continent of North America Oli vast and teeming game-range, Not only were the Buffalo in millions seross the Mississippi, but other larg: game wag fully as abundapt, though less conspicuous, Herds of Elk, num ing or fifteen thousand, were commonly seen along the upper Mis sourl, The antelope ranged the bh er plains in herds Whitetail Deer, though less Ous, fn bands of hundreds; while bighorn sheep, though still gather in large flocks, were rarely out of sight in the parts of the lockies, quite have fe. “The raises Wilk ur ten ferl iL of thousands; gregari Were Beeld Loss disposed 1 lower and it hun eastern wins usual dred blacktail in gle day's travel, ut ven § NEV eTHH 10 the Le course of a sin in when with ritles, 1 a change s tle Amerienns, plo horses, energy, and nurder, began to in ound West, The set in numbers, thie deadly « 11 did or their nelr thelr taste for 1 er, | vade the newly | tiers rifles became but the speed, equal the increased and more nen animals not improve io fecundity In defeated started extinction an and in for grade RG Were life, toward and ob down Aside Ir reasons, sentimental or esthetic which 1 dis cuss, the extinetlion of nized an il is ain here large or shall not iy org: im a serious 1. It the is always dangerous to dist balance of nature th this way. not exper by removi [rise None of Worst Hat Arisen in 2. We and d know, careful that mankind The fore itnent, "e animal migh as a domesti of recollect | £11 iii this = we well-known domnesti tiie ¢ done | of Who or advancement can decide hich has done mankind, th } $4 ndeed all o one n aval put bac) but forefa and lear zation And It is ot demonstrable 'M place 5 ser} quite possible ough bem 3 that ti Las been a j- fowl fowl fherica Ang mainstay, and there known 1% than anything in the orld place, which is probably can be ¢f sald of of nu Fela s Talented Feet The can $s thy Feln, armies: Belgian artist, who died 0 his year, most insxtan er of Charles Francois county, seventieth of t ord of ficiencies of nature 183 at Waermaede, near Courtral North Flanders, entirely without arms he. nevertheless, achieved considerable steeess ax a painter, Beginning the stiely at Antwerp, when already twen ty five years old, by means of his feet he copled some hundreds of the best masterpieces to be found all over th world, especially in America. One of his earliest recolleedons was of sitting in the garden while his mother taught him grasp with his bady toes the bright Bowers for which he cried. Very soon he learned to gather them for himself, and, steadily pursuing this form of instruction, his feet soon be came tiexible and useful, When painting, M. Felu leaned slightly backward, to enable him to raise his foot to the level of the can vas. He opened the paint box and mixed bis colors without difficulty and worked quite easily, Holding the pa. lette by the Jeft great toe, passed through the orifice like a thumb, with the other foot he manipulated the brush with astonishing «kill and con fidence. At meals he used a knife and fork and managed his own drinking glass. Until the last few years he al wavs shaved himself and never had an secident, His one grievance was that he could not gain mastery over a but ton hole.-London Daily Chronicle, Oi hie im thw 0“ 8 On wre coming 2G Born June 51 to Millions of Bibles Distributed. The most relinble estimates place the number of Bibles and parts thereof printed and distributed during the cen. tury at 280,000,000. This work was done by seventy-three Bible societies, the three labgest of which are the Brit. ish, Foreign and American. The for mer printed 100,000,000, the American 60,000,000, 1f we reckon population as Bibles have been printed for every family on earth, the world's population being estimated at pearly 000,000, i AN OBLIGING LANDLORD, Keeps Ferrets to Clear Out the Rats When They Annoy Guests. “TNecently ad an experience rats that 1 iH not goon forg 1). B. Purks of Fredericksburg, Vi. “11 happened in travelling through Alabama, and land el worn after overland travel in a brokendown the only tavern the After 1 had been in bed minutes 1 tied and curious nolses—tiu sound 1 had eve I immediately proceeded to in the of this disturbance and it the candle and to Iwheld ten of the largest rir} this was I wa in n small town, out dny's buggy, and sought town boasted, about fifteen win 1 WW as to hear strange frost ne vestigate unnatural in 1rd, cause midnight the only iHuminant procurable, S111 Prise my rats, in Fanged squirrel to ag » : vig KY OE ant my opinion, ever hey in size from an averag fear wa de continued One otrqainary « manifested iy sratels 3) » THR, They KUPVE)N work Of whioes, of tempt fellow, evi wik hold Thi stand nrg paster cers IMOnies, enough to a affront Jumping bach to bite me, WHR than Nore i could into bead J # ¢ reamed for the Lhindlord, who, afl. from a drunken « up 1 , dignified akened shut Ing aw slowly horrors v0 131 £15 { AK a roon , and 3 " 5 » +4 emptucusly inquired the racket After stating ji Howed a settle hort order minutes rats poured int roo about 0 i im drove number of all . 1" Bian hundrs %iz and all squeaking and ened i ust ditions, apparent’ thought 1 sOmetiine ed, were confirmed bao % $y Dave rans tile [hid HCIOnS by the ferrets whose eves sparkled at the fist itie i tn iil glee ginal mfortai 1 Gas sa N “ eres t hore] ak Zaineiv af its ogter green Covering. ts ”h 2 i . or lengths, dried tied The One and to bundles, ready I lamp was hammered of ' { peualily dom iron, in a mold. This blacksmith, I stone he i by the i to hands of molds sil s¢en in col f tha They ar Hy n th ard vat in the private and no doubt at blacksmiths’ shape, “ The lamp consists of two onps, one suspended above and in. we shops uniform BOI ht varieties other. The suspender i= 850 od and notched as to enable the which holds the oil be shifted 111s ui cup, and wick to keep the oll constantly The the drip of the oil, which the upper the oil Cu ntact with the wick. lower easily replaced in lifting it off unt nto it. The upper 1 movable lid, markable between at is P has resemblance iron to those on Fay general shape, 11 The « A Ie the in the Con. CTraRies country, tinent and in They but which are lamps, at me of them, might be described ) one. The cup of lamp is the same, but it has pro for three lights, The oll used in the Scoteh lamps was of the coarsest kimi On the west coast the oll used was and is still, fish oil. The material for wicks variable. ~Chambers's Journal. presers differ they s in in © wg the mater {rom nade Pompeian or i ast = ax three crusivg in t lye ison wis The Fastest Growing Lily on Record. Captain 8 RB, Vaough of Philadelphia has a plant that grows at the rate of nine inches every twenty-four hours. This remarkable bit of vegetation is called the “snake lily,” and came from Cochin, China, When it arrived in America it was simply an ngly looking bulb, resembling a huge Indian turnip. it lay nearly all winter in a dark closet. but with the approach of spring began to manifest signs of life. It was taken from ite resting place and put in a peach basket, with nothing about it but some newspapers, Very soon a mottled green stalk pushed out of the pull, and in a few days had reached a height of cight feet, Of this height the blossom, which was a beautiful dark maroon color, comprised four feet. After the blossom had withered and died the bull was planted, and from it grew nn nest of great nmbrella-like leaves, which reached their maturity in July and August. In September the lenves perished and left nothing but a now fat bulb, This was stored away in a dark place, and again next spring | the Bulb will be brought to light and pass through Its time of Sower and growth, In parts of India cakes of tea and in China pleces of silk pass as cur rency. 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