a
HEROES AND HERGISM.
Still lying where we laid you
And left you, speaking low,
Awed by the quiet that had grown
From tumult--long
down
ago!
nal
Whi now the stillness seems
strange:
"T'is hard to realize
There ever was that stormy change
From dark to sunny skies
Yon seem another breed of meq,
Of heroes long extinet,
Whe dwelt and died beyond our ken,
To ancient heroes linked
1 f
"n oi
far-off {ray
als of sight,
Hut
Has loosed the
And shows we men will die to-day
For what they
bo, the sha
La
deem is right!
And these shall lie beneath the
While come and go the days,
And men will know that heroes
Jul heroism
Edward N.
panion
stays.
Pomeroy, Youth's Con
The Escape of the Whaler ¢
BT AX OLD SEAL
genticmen, a
might haveturued
“In the old days,
on 8 merchaniman
in a few directions
fronted by
death, but not a
“God knows it
epough to encounter
the icelw
without being con
the grin possibility of
whaker,
and
he elements,
had
thie
sitll In
was
regs and the
that
§
hidden derelict,
hundreds of other danger
sailor man is heir to
under you, hut
were compelled
4 .
%
with a goo sa p
what of the
fo
undergo
I refe
spend
dangers amd more,
whalers, Men
time in the small
maddened
who
boats battl
vhales —infatials
whose frenzl
sent :
many
broad-chesio
f have sail
a Sea in
faw clos
the Lreak
down a m
huddiad
steamship
of the
broken leg
turched bea
sen and the
the life out of
I have encount
ant
wich
deck
memories
ocenrred
whaling volage
where death i so nes
seems to envelop vour soul
Ted me
am
that the shadow tom
thirty ye
still Hogers; for |
felt that eold
which
irs aro 1 SET
Makes
whieh 1 so nar
portion
it
sesman on the
ing for blubb
with a
of my
Was in
meget
whaleboa
ready to lower
manned for over
we sighted
“There she
fore skysail vr
wild with delight
as . he
of Ne,
blows.’
ard
Wiwern
bawhk«l. ‘Down from
every one, Nand by to lower
then ory
was followed a few
the announcement, “There
one roile of the starboard bow
got the off in shape
then begun the prettiest race to
the whale first that
boat took the Jead
eld it. although the were not
more than two or three lengths |
We went across the ocean of a course
diagonal to that which the whale
supposed to be following, thus |
to Cross hizx path. We had
ing about fifteen minutes withont get
ting sight of the whale when
iy there was a yell from the
or, tack ed,
your lives, Wao hit the not a
minute soot for the whale was
right under the boat and coming up
like a shot. Up, up she rose, missing
us by about ten feet, She rose clear
sut of the water towering lke a
church steeple and then fell with a
splash that nearly swamped the boat,
The boat leader was ready, however,
aml as the whale struck the water he
fet go with hix harpoon, sending it
out of sight into the side of the mon
ster, which started off ut a rate of
speed that made the boat hum through
the water. She kept this up for {wen
ty minutes and we soon lost sight
of the Rivenoak and the other bonts.
And then, as though tirtug of pulling
us along, she suddenly showed flukes
came the ‘Flukes'
minutes r by
t ¥
ARLE
she bil
vs,
We
and
boats zoinld i
asach
You ever saw, tr
in the start and
others
whind
WN
vs} v1
oning
been row
sudden.
boat lead
Tae
witer
water,” he or for
too
2 load of pig lead. The rope, one end
of which was attached to the hit rpoon
in the whale's back, ran out of the
boat so fast that it looked lke a
thread of blue smoke,
if it fouls, cried the mate, tossing
me a hatchet, ‘and lose no time about
it. If you don't, God help us. The
sure,
“I had just leaned forward to plek
up the implement when there wag a
sudden Jerk, a
sound, and | knew that the rope had
fouled. The next minute | felt myself
drawn down through the gecan like a
shot from a gua. 1 canght a brier
glimpse of the long boat Mashing
through the water, a number of
struggling forins, and then 1 began to
rome up, It seemed ages before 1
reached the surface and those blue
we i HS SPD SIS
my
Only one of comrades sucevceded
CONCERNING CELERY.
floating about on a long plank which
had been stored in the bottom of the
I swam
up and caught hold of the other end
it. Jauckily the water was calin
and the plank kept our heads well out
water, Not a sign of our ship or
simul boats did and
the that we
might just bave been pulled
to the bottom by the
by
ever, and wie
it got to
longer we could hold out,
about
my
shout
of
We however,
SEA,
thought came over me
well
ius
whale as to die
inches, The hours wore on, how
grow weak aud
wuch
Just as
began to
be a question of how
we
ever
Bl
pointed ont
A ere fo despair of MRS
companion, toys,
foy and
toward a
rescued,
EAave Aa ol
over the
frigate which was pointing in our di
We were quite sure she
ocean big steam
rection, =i Ww
ed against the aogry colors of the sun
set. The vessel looked like a man-of
ro clsan cnt and
prod
we
hit the
war, for her spars
rakish and we caug
} Kk. The
glint of
ished brass wot smoke was
Ww
minutes she was
x i
we very lucky, an
af u
Oe | et
no reply 1 tarned to look at ham
have never sec such 4 wok 10 a man s
It
1, his eyes seemed to bulge out
befor: nor since, was as white as
a slew
gether like castenets, He caught
look and in reply peinted off in the di
rection opposite to that from which
the frigate was approaching. 'Sharks,’
whispered. “They have
tracted by the whale's blood.
my
been at-
t's all
ohne
ha
Lis
but
sure.” 1 saw
still
making for
on to
up now for
shark, he
off
urely
wis quite a distance
He
danger.
amd was us in a
e warsh
way he men
saw it too realized our
boom was heard and
a bout
neater, wh
complim it. but
y «ligh
nd him,
us with
Beh
ree
roased sowed about
feet in the
Both
warship
ir Wis
were quite near now; so
We ¢
its and falls
mild hear the
nanning the dav
Lear the splash as the smn
he ier, Agaiu the
tis» warship
shot went
Nearer and near
shark and we now saw
could
shark
open and
with
twenty
terror let
|
fhe
closed my
Hoyoee
and
ts stained
plank and tr
my woul
and
evel ie
‘ud
command
signin 1 shot
ar the snuff}
fling
hennt thn the
CF
‘Steady, men, aim,
volley of
i
and
I came
musketry awoke the stillness
then | When
to |
United States ship
lost consciousness,
was deck
: Tu
sfiot ti
three
gentlemen,
whaler, and 1 Iwas
everlasting grudge against sharks.
only
on the
i Lis
had shark
t was within
Nines then,
row boat
er bn ln a an
Not
bye
white
because of wy close eall, but
cavse it made hair tarn aw
it, which
of
ny
Ax YOU Dow see wii
y= we %
-h “4
ber
York
not
Coming to a
Sun
boy "
The New Klondike.
Ouse of the most interesting contribu
tions {o
mining has undoubiedly been dls
Cape Nome
“gumiger
ed in the region of
during the
poris have from
i period of a year more,
out from bleak and inhospitable
shores of Bering Sea of the discovery
there of bh deposits ol flacer gold,
and of almost fabulous wealth acquire.
pst Vague
fine,
Fis
time to for a
or
ti
flyer
ie
new Klondike on American but
these gained Hittle credence beyond the
portals of irapspertation
amd the organizers of
prises. A few of the more crwdulous
and those unmindfal of adventure and
wird
“boom” enters
preceipt of the reports, and prepared to
{buffet the still fee-boundd waters of the
Pacific to gain early access to the new
{ land of promise. In a brief period the
broadeast, only to be again Hmmed by
(the later’ announcements that the earl
| Making and unmaking are a part of all
new mining centres, and tn an ineredi-
bly short time all manner of conclu
sions are arrived at regardiog the pos.
sibilities of a location. -Appletons’
Popular Science Monthly.
The Modern Author,
“Sirral,” sald the pew aothor to his
valet, “how goes my new novel to-
day?’
“The 140th edition Is just on the
press, gir.”
“Good! Pay the coal bill, settle the
gas account, pacify the grocery man,
get my note shaved and take your sal
ary out of it, and then come in and
shave me!” Atlanta Uonstitution,
———
For the Market.
There i8 but one elty in the United
handles more cel
i ocarioad lots than
that ix ¢ and
huw Is ne the Windy dt!
strony
huansas City,
tied Heneo, the elty Ly
iy a
lcadership, Only
this arti
vel
Line
Fiat
two firms in handle
and but one cluxively, these
EWO manage 10 us distribution
tal
uenrly fifteen cars of thls succuleat rel
sh every week during its seasol The
in Bepiember
of March.
fi
celery season Commenoes
tus into the middie
and
Che
nishes
virly part of the seasou Uiah
the celery California
supplies the balauee of
€. W. Harris Lu
and baodling of this commod.
a study of the
ZrowW ing
an expert among
cedery through
south and Soulb
ty, and Is considered
he smaller dealers in
the States
oul
wi where nents are
greater
to
hansas Cliy sends thie
dae
portion of the there
Ki
celery shipped
thern States, There are nol
« than a dozen oft
Ave chong
ipping it
Csrival care bas to be exer «1 in the
» ground must
ation. AS
Necessary
Again care
worins get-
{ be moist and easy of irri
the tops begin to appear it
| to keep the stems white
must be taken to prevent
i ting into the stalks and also to prevent
| sufficient
pulled up and
rotting. When the stalks are
ily grown the plants are
{ tiled in bunches of one dozen by many
growers, while others
erates, which hold from
| bunches of one dozen
terates are of one siz
| the quality of the
of
celery
bunches contained in ¢
stance, il there are
i the plants
{ they will
! where a
in a
be of
crate
{ size Is one of
ery, this is or
ble,
there is loss liability
in celery destroys td
the plant bitter 1.06%
dozen
and they
taken
No at
ire loaded into
ft as
bunches
are shipped jus
rrotitid,
from the g if
is made to
bunches
go
bee well veradd (a the different grades
fuet t Is his duty, while
washing ont the dirt, to separate
bunches
of the pro
the
alti are
long table and an ord
the bunch
wieeis the
piled by
There
grades commercially—the
which largest and
best bleached stems; this is tied with a
blae and red the “blue ribbon”
{ know also as the “fancy,” tied with a
t blue ribbon: the "red ribbon” choice,
with a red ribbon, and the “white rib
t bon,” or standard, tied with a white
{ ribbon
| After the plants are gathered there
{i= no method of improving the quality,
different quo ® T hie
thrown gpon a
nary garden 1
some Tisenvd \w
ine clean (he washer
ts grades, and they are
i iff
rent benches
“Jumbo,” has the
wits tern t
ibbon
{ although they most be watched very
woufialte pw # “ Ly
irefully prevent deterioration
——— i
Marrigges at the White House.
The suvounee ms
MeRiniey, piece
probably be uu
House vw hep
‘manus Baer
Miss
of the President
irtied in
incon
Mabe!
will
White
Her
nt that
the
Mrs
Ir g the sQmimoer, serves
to call attention to the fart that thers
lias not wedding in the White
House spring of 1886, four
een years ago, when President Groy
ef Clhveland married to Miss
Frances Folsom
“lye
dn
been on
fie the
Wis
Residents of Washington well re
{ member tha: event, which was one of
the brilliant hymenenl Fanctions
fever celebrated In the Executive Mab
twion, and [t Miss Mabel Mokinley reals
Iy 1s to take her vows in the national
| parlors, it Is anticipated that the cere
mony will be equally as olaborate as
that of President Clhoveland, There
soetnx to be bat Jittde donbt that this
ceremony really will Iw celebrated at
the White House, as Ming MeRiney is
the President's favorite niece, and has
often visited the Exeentive Mapsion
during the past threo vears.
Curious as it may seem there have
been comparatively few marriages in
the White House, In the history of
this country there have been but nine
such ceremonies, Mise MoKinley's will,
therefore, be the tenth. Washington
Post.
A Ocalus for Making Excuses.
A girl can always get up a lot more
excuses for her futher than ber mother
can New York Press
iow
NOTES OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS
FEMININE TOPICS.
Novel.
To Cive
Painting Dresses The Season's
ties Buty Sisters in Alaska
Etc. Etc.
Painting Dresses.
sey
i
novel
IOs Ww alert Impor
Hirano and valuable
how, the
port
and
of
this
splendid
dresses are here today
and 1
that Is
TOW, hat's the end
$0 DO more in
sant for tl
wt
yr Jimporier
to cateh and
CO
beauty upon papel
secnrely embalined
renee of tl
examples
valua
Busy Sisters in Alaska
. Ais f “Ms
OO bushels of turnips and a few
t
i of ir
Strawberry plants
t out and astonishingly
of
Erew
£ rop
Niloe
To Cive a Cent Party
A cent party the latest idea for
whiling away an eveging when a few
friends are moet together. Here is
recipe for one
Each guest
in
Lhe
was given a
ened to the card =» iphones was a
cent with a bole in it and
At the top of the cards, in
card. Past
ith
a pencil
fancy let
found on a cont
erly filled
a cent Hpoed
The guest who prop
fis card received i prige of
in gold for a watch
on the «ame ordes
the articles to
Ths {
be searched for
I. An aninml!
. Nerpent
Sonthern fruadt. .....
Emblem of rovalty.. Crown
A spring flower + Tulip
Part of an ancient armor, . Shield
Another term for matrimony.
United
.« Hare
Copperhead
coorate
Ss
fh.
10,
11.
12.
13
14
15,
Pact of a hill, ........
Pleuly of assurance . Cheek
Yound in a school....... Pupil
Ancient place of worship. . Temple
Early American settler, ... . Indian
Emblem of victory... ..... Wreath
Part of a river............ Mouth
A messenger. cease SOME Cent
Cirts and Their Figures.
Rt corsets are unknown in France,
French corsets are always supple and
bendable, and this much accounts for
the case of French figures, which are
never tightened excepting at the walst,
leaving the bust and hips quite free,
In England the figure Is usually tight.
ened in too meh at the bust and hips,
which gives too straight a look to the
figure, and makes it «tiff and uncom
fortable, movement being rendervd une
graceful by this stiffness,
Let any girl try to lace her stays only
at the waist, apd let her select her
stays us soft and light as possible, and
then sce if her figure be not as grace
3
Peabo
*
the mo
wy
ful in xhape and as elastic
gracefal and elastic French figure
tig siralghtdown even lad
make
if the
ia
i pretty
Corset canna
fhe fig
peiededle
real con
made express
sii fie then let it be laced
oly |
Hel wo “gl
#{e7ds
irs
I
until they
member, the
vill 1x
feening
Oniy way
fhe
to mold without
Years lo Make an Apron,
evi
em
HES sonar which was
dL anion, was
ing her imprisonment in the Tower of
London, and is now the property of
in that city,
A horder of flowers
exquisitely em
it
4 t
hiraidered in colored silks
sides of the square, and there are
for the pock
an fifty designs
lish flow-
rigolds and jes
sigilarly wo
More
11
Hil
and band
mad of
including roses, mi
Notw
Fore
0
ithst
y
§ or ¥ resem i
anding the great
i the work, the lors
rvod E
wonld 1
are Derfoctly
are pert iy
Pires spert workers say that
five years red to repro
dues embroidery He stitch em
and
i ved is known as the lo teh,
wed and
SOCAL
Vi
rather
fling,
ance
larger
from one of * with
stitchox #1
of the stir!
a few
mainder cut length-
to make
a long sirip
ind crown
long stitches
small ones outside. The
and
i# finished
through
then be torned over
the hat
should "bb run
china ribbon
the
when
YHaory
oem
To bind the dge of a hat with vel
strip must be
in be turned over and se
‘velvet stiteh’ 1. ¢., work.
left, and
fold just a
CTORKWAY used,
One «)
cured with
ing from right to
niente nn the
2 : T% "
ae el ihe fre
edge i= pat on the
half back
then torped
of the brim,
The fold round
very
with The
stitching
ogee i=
the
he
in
crown
and
must
loosely wey rod
OR
Feathers, wings or quills should next
bw
in any desired position. It is
tant to make them stand high, as ama.
in making bows it is always advisa-
width of the ribbon. The calico ribbon
should be held over the forefinger of
the Jeft hand, while the ends should be
plaited uo tightly and secured with
florist’s wire with the right hand, It
will then be seen whether the effect is
right, and the loops of the real riblen
can be made the right length to give
the right effect. Unless the ribbon is
of a very soft make the loons need not
be wired. If supports are necdoed some
round bonnet wire shonld be twisted
to form a letter T and the cross part
of the T atiached to the ribbon,
Lace shonld always be wired with
very fine wire, but lace wings require
rather a conrser wire,
If piece materinl is used, it should
always be ent on the cross, as it sets
#0 wach better and Is much more easy
to manipulate than when It Is cut on
the straight, i
—
The Newest Fashions,
ine hat
Hitelo # r ap
iittie © all of some
Has for trimmings
horse hair
bias
Little Russian coats are as pretty for
as the blouse, Hut
where the
blouse opens only to the belt the coats
ill length
Sailors hats for boys come, many of
with
its are in finer
ims are all curled
TAI, I CONTree SIP WH wide
curled rims, Smaller b
but the r
RITAWE,
ROT of
cull links have,
diamond cent The button
ir wit} i dl
ie
Pear] button
Ts
Wiig
¥
att 1
digmonds gre o f thelr ¢ ment
Hibbons
rial
innumerable
mixed
favorite mais
will be
for trin there
1"
Ridm,
orated
vurietie satin
with velvet, dee with
studded with spangles
A pretty creepliaog blanket for a ehild
is of bright red Around the edge are
of animals in
here and there big letters
plphatbet
white, with
the in the
way.
put on WL TIM
The collar bands or stocks are shaped
They round
¥
Fert fH
up
in the
much as been,
they have
a ifle
They
des and
in the back tr are not
were ure Kept
by whalebones
back
ming is bead
tiot It
nd revers-shaped
red-brown
over be
proYemen
i
they
L 10g Coro
stand upright
Rigretie,
r side of a
ying. The
wo» tall or stiff
bh liked for
. but having
feet look «
eminine choice
a
lumsy
$4
La Wi 1
elpmate,
“ *
a¢ Dati Or
"eh : ¥
ire made
all, except
Wear
have been
hand embroid
i 3 11
iry Ldlls,
A Kaagaroe as a Pet
ft anima: 8 dalle Is (he
A unique pe
tame Kangaroo
Millan. it has
f
for
owned by John Me
lis possession
aa deo
mesticated as an erdinary deg. He ob
animal from Australtios
siin at ort Blakeley As a
¢« all that cond be desired, Ix
tienately disposed toward the
members of his owner's family,
the
DOW 5 FP. he oN
wiimes nees his teeth and sharp
bey
and
n
in
alinost a year is Dow
tained thw an
tims
pet be
ng afl
Ie
strangers reverss
and son
claws an
Though
them sith dire results
Rang is generally a
wvend animal, 1
Occasionally hs
robs hens’
dog may
enclosure, then the kan
garoo careens down upon the introder,
ae a rie, takes to ignominious
terror-stricken appear
the strange assailant. If be is
foolish enough to stand his ground, be
regrets it, afterwardse; Kang will frst
him with forepaws and
then use him ae a foothall for bis hind
feed, Hin Kicking ower 8 «DORDOUS,
Sesttle Post-Inteliigencer
very
je has Httle
ROOK On
fing expedition, and
A Maram
their eggs A small
wha
flight, by the
his
Something About Pies.
Did you ever stop to think what a
vast quantity of ples are consumed in
this great ple vountry? For lnstapee,
it is assertnd that New York city alone
uses NO000. 000 pies a year,
if placed side by
These pies,
side, would reach
to New York and back again to the Pa
cific coast with still some ples left over
to throw to the birds. That three
stranded ple line wouldn't stand a
ghost of a show on a bright day. say,
at just about the time school lets out
for noon, Think of 10.000 miles of
pirs! A number of rich Eastern pie.
wakers have been thinking about the
matter so much and effectively that
they have formed a company which
will control the sale of all the SOOM,
000 ples and many more, The ple In
dustry in New York slone disposes of
£3,000,000 worth of goods a year, but
the new “trust” will make and sell pies
the country over.
A dunimy clock has been placed on
Independence Hall in Philadelphia at
the point where a real clock marked
the time In other days. 1ts hands point
to the hour when the Declaration was