TOO LATE,
— —-
Sunbeams shot with gold dark clouds
Beauty shed o'er storm-swept sky,
To learn that when their task was done
Day was o'er and they must die.
Sweet buds opened, braved the blast,
Ventured into perfect flower,
To see their time of blooming past,
Springtime o'er and gone their hour,
Many hearts with efforts brave
Struggle, fight and conquer fate,
2 i life over
{ victory won at last—too late,
S. OC, in the Home
as the cost
Magazine,
THE DERYISH AND
THE BOWL OF PEAS.
VVRRZEEE RMR RPREDYE YN
TALE,
ARAAdAAAVR
Sada
Tene
AN ARMENIAN FOLK
BY FANNY D. BERGE
N.
hirye
am
food. then bade him down
watt until she © baked bread and
pared his father’s dinner. When the
7 was prepared and packed in s
: went out
tise donkey, for they owned one, t
After the saddie-bags were put on
the donkey's back she said:
}
will you sit, my cl
gave
and
pr
103
ne
saddle-bags. she and led
the
Goor
mid? You
small to ride on the donkey.”
boy said, “I can ride in his ear.
too
are
Lhe little
*
the mother put the |
one of the donkey's ears,
1 he donkey knew the way to the shop
for he had often
*
Lei
ittle
fellow
in
the queer little fellow sitting in one ear
began to sing to himself. The people
along the street stopped to listen. and
some ran toward the donkey to see what
it could mean, for they could hear some-
one singing in a clear voice and yet no
person was to be seen. At length the
donkey turned into the right shop, the
man took out his dinner, lifted his little
son from the donkey's ear and began to
cat. After a while he said, “My little
sof, can you go to the spring under a
large apple tree that grows out in yonder
field and bring me some fresh water?”
The little fellow took the red earthen
water vessel in his hand and started to
fetch the water. When he got to the
spring he saw that the tree overshadow-
ing it was full of beautiful red apples, so
hie placed the vessel on the ground and
climbed up into the tree to gather some
of the fruit. The apples were very good
and as he sat on a branch eating some
and gathering others to carry away, a
great giant came stalking along. There
are many of these giants who live out.
side the cities in caves in the mountain
sides. They are very large of stature,
have seven eyes, and talk in a loud, roar-
ing voice,
Now the apple tree which the little son
of the shop-keeper had climbed belonged
to this particular giant. “Why are you
stealing my fruit? Come down this min.
ute!” But the little Boy was frightened
and kept quiet, away up in the tree. The
giant, however, insisted that he must
comic down, and at last said: “Well, if
you will not come down, you must at
ruvrrRERes
least hand me some of the apples which |
belong to me. Bring me some apples?
and put them in my hand and you may |
remain in the tree)” The giant spoke
frightened did as
reached some apples out the giant
the latter quickly seized him in one great
hand and shut him up in the game-bag |
which hung from his girdle.
I'he little fellow did not
stuffed down among the various kinds of
small animals which the
to
like being |
birds and other
till until
He nin
the gi opened tl
reached his
the gant lifted the lit
ant
own
tle boy
bag and handed him to his wife, saying, |
sate until
1
“ 1 Far 14d
Crve num up ror my
when he home,
[here, keep this hoy even
gqinirsar
upper.
: * le to
arried the little boy
nd there turned over
“Why, where ha
son? Where
t
Fhe little b ted
narrated that had |
His father told him
that he had done very well for so small
all
aii
y
Then he
been weeping these two days. She re.
well, and they all lived happy forever |
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Amusements in Hawaii.
The chief amusement for American |
women now living in Hawaii must be |
found in social life, and Rospitality in
entertainment 1s one of the chief char- |
acteristics of the place. In one home the |
hostess is famous for her luncheons, and |
the guesis find on their arrival ham. |
mocks swung in the shady nooks, and |
fruit and cooling drinks set forth in the |
most attractive fashion. Mrs, Luther |
Severance, one of the leading women of |
Hilo, on the island of Hawaii, has been |
a prime mover in establishing the public |
library in her city, and was also one of
the organizers of the Shakespeare class
there. It was at her home that Kate
Field was living prior to her fatal ride
across the lava field.
Weather Yarn From the West.
The following story is told in St.
Louis, Mo.: The Missouri Egg Factory,
of Springfield, handles about $0,000 doz.
en eggs a day, all of which are candied
before entering the factory. About three
wagon loads of eggs are rejected each
day and hauled outside of the city limits,
where they are dumped. A man living
near the dumping ground has collected
enough chickens hatched by the weather
from eggs thus thrown away to stock a
chicken farm. Every day for a month
or more he has been carrying a number
of chickens home from the dumping
ground, where they have been hatched
by ths uasrecedented beat
IN THE DESERT.
THE ARAB
Alongside of Him the European Looks
Ridiculous.
The Arab of to-day is one of the mos:
fascinating figures to be met with, es-
pecially if you meet him at home, This
is the opinion of Mr. Percy L. Parker,
expressed in an article on “Arab Life in
are little islands of
in a of sand, consisting
a multitude of palm trees, growing
suthcient for the
the
ter and its head in
ithout the
lesert, indeed. would be
I he
set
etd OU ses
Ca
there
say that
feet in the wa
of Heaven.” W
where 14
water,
palm “stands with its
the Nres
palm
“uninhabited
and tninhabitable.’
hei 100 oases in
Cine of
3s al } 1
Biskra, which has less than 160
1 : t 1
Panms, and Om Wc we get iar
HORSES NOT HARDY AS KEN.
Animals Succumb to Hardships During
Military Campaigns,
bout 500 were kill
mn
starved have the poor
beasts weasions of
ave been known to eat one
tails and to gnaw the wheels
of un carriages. Napoleom ook
with him across the Nieman 60.000 cay
h return
muster
another's
the
tus, = and :
airy horses, and on his
in sx
§
he 16.000
only
than half the
engaged our Egy
were dicabled. ix
months could
More
horses wl were
mn of
Six hundred of thgse
were kilied and only three-fifths slain in
action
ptian war
ses engaged were lost in three months,
does not claim so many horses as starva-
tion or overwork. Defective shoeing
sore backs, want of food and rest and
other similar causes go far toward ren
dering horses useless for practical war-
fare. One more and Important cause
needs careful attention, and it is the dan.
ger of injury horses run when being
shipped across the sea. They are in con.
stant motion, They continually fall,
miainy of them to be trampled to death.
and the rest become frightened, kick and
ed useless. As an instance of this it was
found that one regiment on the way to
the pennisular war was deprived of just
half of its horses on the voyage. —~Golden
Penny, :
Persons Who Cet Drunk on Tea.
Dr. Alfred Gordon, at a meeting of (he
Philadelphia Neurological Society, pre-
sented a patient, a woman, aged thirty-
one years, who had contracted the habit
of drinking tea to excess. Sometimes
she drank fifteen cups & day. She had
kept this up for seven years. Her con-
dition had become deplorable, and she
was suffering from high-grade nervous.
ness and hysteria. In the discussion fol.
lowing, Dr. D, J. McCarthy said that $e
had seen a case where the patient was
accustomed to take as much as ten cups
of tea a day. In that case the symptoms
pointed to sclerosis of the spinal cord.
IN A
WHAT CAN BE DONE EVEN
VILLACE LOT,
Creat Possibilities of a Backyard For
Crapes, Berries and Other Small and
|
pathies and Antipathies.
I he
the
fruit garden comes
range of household economies, say
a writer in the Washington Star 9H
for it, it
of an or
re 1s none too much yet
be brought within the confines
lot, The
for
tree
thage tiniest
Giiary us
vard has at least a
pace
a dwarf fruit and a strawberry ba
rel Set
the vine so it
i i 4 «1 Ysa 1 Tr
over a hight trellis shading the back door
Dig out
+} haat toe
ie Deller
Aves drox ip percep
a plum or
very carly pear
Very early peaches
enough to be worth
carly sort will give
Keep down all suckers.
ing grafted upon other than their own
roots, if alien shoots come up, the bud-
ded trunk will die Summer prune,
which means pinch back all shoots to a
and a very late
4 i yo -
seidom bear fra
A medinm
satisfacyon.
be.
#
.
while.
more
Dwarf trees
er than round, with no branch extending
beyond the trench. Every spring dig
away the earth around the trunks down
to the crown of the root, examine for
borers, and if found dig them out and
burn. Wash the trunks well with
strong soap suds the first warm day, If
insects attack the foliage, either cover
them, a tree at a time. with a sheet or
burn half a pound of sulphur under.
neath it, or spray well with some in-
secticide.
Plants are very human, especially in
their sympathies and antipathies, Thus
it happens that the blackberry vines do
better next orchard trees, even dwarf
trees, than any other among the small
fruits, Therefore, set a double row of
blackberries next the tree trench, plant.
ing the vines eighteen inches apart in the
row, and setting them alternate, not op-
posite one to the other. The rows
should have a space of two feet between,
Set posts in the space ten feet apart, and
four feet above ground. Stretch two
wires along them, and tie the canes to
the wires. Shorten in the tips a third
every fall, unless a vigilant pinching
through the summer has jeft them stocky
and branchy. Blackberry vines grow
one year and die the next after bearing,
Thus it is necessary every fall to break
¥
he dead vines, and tie living bnes
i their place. So trained they yield a
rd more fruit, have a longer season,
up less space. They need a
of manure every fall, and to have
th at their roots kept light and
clean throughout the season of growth
and bearing
out
1
t!
take
Coal
the ear
ELECTRICITY FROM COAL
Difficult Problem.
Hugh Jone
iaers t
'
fim rrri at
£inist
an assistant city « .
ved the
direct
CONS hat he prob-
procuring irom
for been the
and { het
1 1 Nn
mn the NOW
ing {
Edis
trying to
O11 8 ia
in
altil is
it will yield
» of being continued in
hing
consumed beir
bein
To Identify Her Picture,
{ her 1
anoth
demurely
her case on the dresser
ul often standing in
front of her mirrored likeness and mak-
i cy and fidelity. She
art with anything
But they
she must ask
wraphs, and she
wrote to 1 ¥.
When she received his reply she nearly
fainted. Here is what the wretch wrote:
“Dear Mabel: | would like awfully
n your pictures, but, hon-
Is all dress and pose so
him
Oe
an
trary
much
tO retur
¥« i gir
two If you like I
ha
of you apart.
you over three or four hundred
that [ have of miscellaneous
girls and you can pick yours out. Hop-
ing this will be satisfactory, 1 am, sin.
cerely, ete., ete." Chicago Tribune.
i
will send 5
i
11
14
To Avoid Lightning,
If out of doors keep away from trees,
haystacks, houses, large sheets of water,
river banks, Ii in the open plain,
where there are no trees or buildings
you are safer lying down than standing
up. If near a wood, stay there, and do
not go nearer. If near a single tall tree
you are pretiy safe thirty yards away.
Indoors you are safest of all if you
adopt Franklin's plan. Find the geome.
trical center of the room. Hang up a
hammock by silken cords, get in and
stay there, Failing a hammock, sit on
one chair in the middle of the room with
your feet on another, first placing be-
neath them a feather bed or hair matt-
ress, But do not sit under the gas
chandelier. Whether out of doors or in
doors keep away from the chimney or
from metallic masses of any kind, And
possess your souls in patience.—London
Mail,
te.
hn — Site
Most Durable Binding For Books.
The recent published report of the
committee appointed by the Society of
Arts on bookbinding condemns the use
of calfskin and Russia leather as most
liable to decay. Of replies from thirty-
nine libraries, thirty-one recommended
morocco and pigskin as the most dur.
able. There is a general agreement that
the use of gas in libraries has a most
deteriorating effect on the bindings, the
electric light being preferable,
THE DWELLERS IN CAVES.
A PHILADELPHIAN'S FINDS IN ARI-
ZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
Tacs Indians and the Aztecs Skeletons,
Ancient implements of War and Peace
and Other Interesting Discoveries of a
Two Months’ Expedition,
Ps 0. P. Phillips, of the Bio-
logical Bepartment of the University of
Pennsylvania. bv hi and
1 aA0%
and
iat
ofessor
excavations
nes of the
the Aztecs in Arizo
reiearclies mong the hog
Indians }
New Mexico
new
zona
niributeg much |
ne
¢
1% io 01
nes and
period
No
iwellings
lava was
by the
ips expedition, however
broad =
the uthwest territory is
also the petrified It covers sev.
housand acres and petrified trees.
six inches to six feet in diameter. are
mg on the ground. The wood
and out of it emery
~Philodelphia Record,
foress
eral t
§ real
Onung 5
Rie
nmnt,
hard a
are
HE
stones made. -
Science Versus Romance,
How the shades of the old poets and
fable-writers would (remble with amare.
nent and indignation if they conld Come
back to the upper world and stand once
in classic Gre=ce! Right in tim
center of the famous land of Boeotia a
company of enterprising Englishmen
have laid desecrating hands upon a body
of water once sacred to the gods and the
heroes, and. having drained it. they are
now using its fertile bed as a great truck
farm. Melons, colza, beets and other
vegetables are cultivated where natads
used to disport themselves, and the cry
of the teamster, as he carries the “truck”
to market, is heard close by the spot
where once stood a famous oracle of
Apollo, The body of water is Lake Co-
pais, the largest in Greece, which has
thus fallen a victim to the base uses of
modern trade,
hore
Spread of the Englich Language.
It is not generally known, perhaps,
that English i+ fast becoming the polite
language of Europe; indeed. it seems
likely, from the way in which its use has
increased within the past generation, that
it will become the universal Ia
According to Mulhall, it was spoken i
1801 by twelve per cent. of the popula-
tion of Europe, and in 1891 by twenty-
seven per cent, thus more than doubling
its percentage during the ninety years,
Within the same period every other lan.
guage suffered a loss. Strange to say,
the Japanese have made English the Jun-
guage of their Foreign Office. All their
intercourse wit oreign diplomatists,
and their telegraphic corres) ,
with their representatives abroad. is con-
ducted in English. The Japanese have
eli been called the “Yankees of the
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