NOTHING LOST,
Not every glistening pearl of dew
‘Like rich set jewel, finds a rest
Upon a rose, or nestling down
Shrinks, modest, on its veivet breast,
Not every songster's swelling throat
Pours forth
bless
Our ears, but
Unlieard in the d
wealth of
is
3
+
COoUnti
Not evel
Bat sp
Too deftly
Too lightly
Not every
But
1 ner hold
crossed the
haste, and yet w
ging at his |
the captain
men's eabin a
“There
whispered
rosin, captain?’
The old sea «
of
board,
cenn,
of the
could com
“10
said,
itisa fi
How
“All
them.”
They had good can i
entire forehold was filled th rosin. in
boxes and casks, and if a fire started
+
ix
horror.
in th
far fr
most
forward
in a
re,
the |
right,
fare
fear
The
there It might as well be in a nest of fa
pine. Wil ran down to the lower deck
where he was met by a
cited firemen
were rushing madly on deck.
thought he seized the
hurled him back
"Get back, vou
“Where are
“Fire!”
iy.
crowd of xX
who
Quick as
foremost and
and coal-passers,
fools!" he
vou running to?
the man,
“Fire in the forehold!”
“Suppose there is
rush on deck and alarm the passengers,
or get buckets and try to put out the
fire?
whispered
a hair now! Stand back, I say!”
The men cowed before his superior
will and saw that they might yet do
gomething to save the steamer,
A guard was placed
seuttle which led
opened,
fi dense volume of black smoke rolled
out, and the scuttle was closed again,
for Will saw that nothing could
done In that way, The men ran for
ward with axes, but had scarcely gone
tremble under their feet, and saw
small jets of flame shooting up through
the planks. A moment more and
there was a sort of explosion, and the
red flame leaped up suddenly and
caught the planks above,
There was no hope of concealing the
danger from the passengers now, for
and
announced
They
smoke,
of
deck
the steamer was full
wild cries from the
the danger was Known...
the most terrible
o the sea
that
must face
all others
Women shriek
trembled
the one or
the feared
eid
mos
and
ould
ran Ww
fainted, Hen
not move hi
Hdl
Assistiiane
and
lene ks,
Vane,
il or foot,
the
Mabel
the su
anhoit
1 hy
hand clutch
I blacks
ho had been standing
forward. Mr. Vane steg
smd to
prished off, leas
mate upon ]
lon g tong
1 fhe boat
pani wi
two men
wore seen striking 1 for
oi Mr. Vane
n and Mr. C
looked at him
of the old
and the two wer
the eat
“Stop!” er have
the capita
but
awed
fiercely,
man
he men
steady eve
¢ helped into th
the
T hie
while the
which shot into the
the fate of the
reached the islands safe
Si
boat tain ipported by
strong arn gallant mate,
boats pulled away together
columns of flame
air announced (Grey
le, 3
after a week had passed,
ly
steamer from London to
whose name js Will Clay, and he is
married. The name of his wife Is
Mabel, for Arthar Vane, having “found
a man,” knew how to make him all his
own,
Chinese Names,
In China there Is no xed nomenela
ture
recognized appellations was a frequent
source of difficulty.
mation from
obtainable
could be placed
he be a porter or na
rarely travels or gets during his life
natives there
on which any
coolie
from the nlace where he
When trying to procure infortintion
concerning the Immediate loeality it
wns no uncommon thing to lave a na.
tive, and even sometimes men of local
position, say, “Oh, I have never been
so far away a= that,” or, “1 have nover
been across that hill, and so do not
know what Is beyond. Harper's
| Unfortunate Experience of a Fat Man With a
Mousetrap.
about your peculiar mishaps,”
a young man employed in one of
St C 1
rallrond offices in hares
“something happened at our boarding
house the other night that 1 thi
ited
lodgers Is a vor
1 10 lirst noney,
haol Keep
man will
shed furniture,
goles
conirar
2 With the mionsets
‘New Orleans ‘1
Some Pet Economies.
generons people
a miserly
basting
hiread left
Another saves
1% of t over or
burned
to light
lamps with, and a third only buys pins
TS
1 2 atric DP
matches and strips of paper
about once fetime, berrowing
times, A
bands and
i bet woe
man saves rabbe
geraps of letter paper.
Our grandmothers were famous say
ere, as can be seen by a peep into old
where chests and bundles cone
gregate, "Put anything away for sey
and it will be sure to come
was a popular pro
women are asing old
ribbons and muslins
in
ut these antique
things wear poorly, just as the clothes
© yours
Nome
flowers,
have lying
times geven years
bseriets
Thess small habits are survivals of
early Puritan, pioneer or peasant days,
when money wis so scarce that some
live stock,
and library, but
| these often have to pay a surgeon's
bill as a result of near sighted mis
takes,
The bleyele built for two may be a
thing of the past, but the hammock
holds its own.
TOTES IN TIGER FASHION,
of a Deer He Has Killed
George FF. Newl
tery-—one that
fill the many years |
er in the wilde
Mountains,
ment to Depu
Holland,
dent of (Glo
room
The
lady seen to 1 a falriv fast
Her
oirdupois
on
i rid
aded to her
{to pro
¥ wyttaam Tar !
momentum, jor six
however
er,
OWn 5% have
not :
only into, but through the
somewhat
ran
wall
and startled in the flat ox
text door i he
ked about, the bi
Khe hirnleed
landed
ipied by a
gentle 3 Indy was
badly )
smashed, but the
pitiless, and
for damage to his proper
Kno
landlord
NOW Bui
x
mate use of
apartments
paths Nurels
have a
partitions in
fragile a deseription
case
w hose
He Docsn’t Mean It
When you hear a young man say
don’t beifeve in 3
thing to do but sit and read, or mani
her finger nails all dav, 1 don’
my wife to be busy
thing.” why, of cours
the 3
against time,
A Woman
want fibout any
{talking
wn a word
man is shmply
fie doesn’t n
oung
to death by such a girl, This
believer in such false sentiments, and
perhaps he does believe in them for
the moment of saying,
protesting against the wave of energy
which the girlhood of to-day rie
sponding to, out of which perhaps may
come salvation even to man,
in
Philadelphia Inquirer,
Bloemfontein As It 1s
Next to Pretoria, Bloemfontein is the
prettiest settlement of any kize In
South Africa, Inhabited by four thou
sand whites and as many natives «in
time of peace~it can boast, if It should
be Inclined to do so, of two dally and
two weekly papers. to say votbine of
iotels and the
situnted 1 nn
Bloemfontein Club,
is plain,
low 5 + vl
hundred
to thi
ig to
EGETABLE TALLOW,
8 pli «
was just finkin® that me an’
Bol' Mazi
birds an’ snakes an
legs, In
mnt
skinny it pop hie gen
hipperpo
ial Ad
ete a
p 'pl
New
or a
York COC
One
Friends of the Birds
IHinois Audubon
old, is the
aeRociation
The Society, now
youngest but
the kind
enrolled
&
State of
thousand
N¢ arly
about SX
ehildron
ost of
CARO. A
members
there wing
are
residents of
wind bird-the English sparrow, |
the crow and the chicken excepled,
Latest Use of Automobiles.
HOW THE BUFFALS; WAS DROWNED.
A Texas Cowboy's Most Brilliant Feat of
Ropiug.
that when my indgment got
Supreme Court, it was unani
reaffirmed.”
inonsly
Irish Marriages.
Ireland,
twenty-three, twenty-four and twenty
five are the marrying To very
many of them thelr fathers can afford
dowry. In cases where it can
afforded S100 to £200 is considered a
For those who do not leave
ARes
no be
fortune is
paid in Kind-—ecattle and farnishing, ot
a Pl ev of land, Often the girl fortunes
herself by the
investing as she goes along
a heifer, a cow,
When a young man goes formally fo
ask a wife be brings with him a friend,
whose it 2 to bargain for the
fortune with father and mother, while
he courts the danehtvr Though a hard
enough bargain is driven, it is not al
ways done In the spirit of old Tam
who warned his son's
friend (when secing them off to make
the match: “If she's a very good girl
Conal, an’ very respectable, an’ Hkely
to be welldoin' an’ wise, why"-in a
of heroic generosity-“don’t
br'ak off the bargain for a difference
Sometimes the
industry of her fingors
in
sliced,
duty
An interesting nse of the motor car
riage Is In delivering newspapers in
it has proved Invaluable, Two of the
fondon journals have tried the plan
with great success,
EE eo YL SIA
A wornan may forget when her birth
day comes around, but that doesn't
keep the wrinkles from coming in her
face,