MOTHER AND | SE ——— Mother has gone, and the house Is . lonely, Here lies her book where she read one day. Here is the chair, and the foot rest yonder Sits as she pushed it from her way. Only a few short miles between us; Just a short journey by rail-——and then Back to the cottage home so humble Mother and I can live again. Oh, I know I know I can soon be with her. "Tis not her absence that pains my heart— "Tis but the thought that sometime, somewhere, Mother and I will drift apart. She has grown old,—so old and feeble! What will I do with the dreary day— What will my heart do with its sor- rowW— After my stay! —Jessie L. Field, in Good Housekeep- The cure | $00DOGIHPPOPEDOHOIIVEE DY REREREPPRPRRPPREPPRPERREER | By Major Hamilton. The long, weary to a close. Away in the distant vault of the western sky the great sun hung round and golden, shedding his burn- ing rays upon the brown and parching earth; air disturbed the dread oppress of the atmosphere, while under the prairie scorched and cracked, covered with a matted car and dried grasses, stretc for & mile on either hand the level horizon, that waned and flicker ed in the terrible heat. Above, ti bending biue of a pitiless heaven; low, the dull desolation ed earth; every side, In the foreground of this pi were two men-—frontiersmen evi ly—tattered, travel-sta haggard and both on and both hal hey ed onward b rifles—men great dange who were no: exhaustion ar very habit, death's mother “goes home” iveness foot | and | hed many to be of on silence. ture lent- ined, | f00t, and eved, worn wild { stage neath the AITOW men who | of this who grag same to the ity that among in the great «1 iE mutite butt upon over Long and bronzed face carved fron deep-set eyes desperate withal. prone beside him ter spoke: “Well “Thar's naugt a sigh of relief at his comrad : dry prairie, the parching heat sky. They but a long way | Both men were space, and the athwart them as they = dark shadows before dry earth, hardly m themselves. The together, as graves moment one them noti “TL.ook, Dan!" and with out finger he pointed to the ers, “thar's the end!” “l don't much doubt turned; “but it's not yet.” thar’s life thar's hope. Come Again shouidering their arms, a long look behind, more westward, forward. Three days before, Dan Taylor and Tom Burt were as happy and prosper- ous as men need be whose claim’ was a good one and whose every “pan” showed color. Isocated in a narrow gulch in the Willow Hills, securely screened, as they thought themselves from wander: ing Blackfeet, with three comrades they had been placer-mining Tom'" : seated : a ‘naught but the an’ the are following, no doubt little sun asting long them upon the shadows might. ¢ Of Forni d Evil reining. it.” Dan re and he om.” od in their lowly cabin more than ten thousand dollars’ worth of the yellow dust for which men strive. Then came a night of blackness and blood, and fire-—a night of fighting, and horror, and death—and as it were by the very hair of their heads, strip. ped of all but their clothing and weapons, their comrades killed, these two had escaped, only to fiy hour af ter hour out across the desolate prairie unsheltered, unfed and pursued by the most pitiless of all enemies, a war party of savages. Slowly the day waned, and, urged by a common desire to find shelter of some sort ere night should fall, the men hastened their weary steps toward a far-away fringe of low trees, yet some miles distant, that promised a running stream and the chance of concealment. A single prairie dog, shot and eaten raw, had constituted their entire ra tions for almost forty-eight hours. As they strode onward, Burt looked sharply about him. “More game?’ queried Tyler. “Ayeo—I'm starving!” replied his friend. “1 fear to shoot; but, even if the reds hear it and find us, it's better to die fighting than gnawed to death by hunger.” MPege,” replied Tyler; "we must have meat.” | Hardly had the words passed his lips than he suddenly paused, touched his comrade, and both sank quickly to their Knees. Rounding a slight knoll a hundred rods away was a herd of antelope. “Them’'s better'n dog!” whispered Burt. “Lie still an’ I'll stalk ‘em."” And, suiting the action to the word, prone upon the earth he began to writhe toward the game, uneasily nibbling at the scant herbage. Tyler remained behind. Slowly but surely Tom advanced, a slight cover. within sixty rods of the antelope forty rods from where Dan sat. Then, seeing no opportunity of fur- ther concealment, he paused, waitin and And as he lay thus, watching deer, with rifle at his face, rade saw this: Away behind them, bobbing up and upon the dim horizon, now a faint purple from “the coming night, were a score of more of black against the sky, more nearer. and more distinct The as they drew Indians were coming! of the unsuspecting hunter close that the waving head cast a baleful shadow across the bronzed cheek of him who watched the deer—there coll ed a rattlesnake, disturbed, doubtless, in its afternoon nap, and now threat- ening a swift and terrible revenge. These things say Tyler and knew that safely himself lay in silence; tor, if the struck and shot was fired, the dusky pursuers might miss the trail and pass him by--and knowing this, his life against a double death, renewed strength and steel he togsed his rifle to his shoulder, efully at the angry just as its head biow, B80 for LOI snake no with aimed ca reptile be was poisi him the ore for fatal There lowed by an excla Burt sprang to his dying reptile it almost in twal: was his eves Dan pointed, sessed no furtl the rattlesnake 3 irawn reath he cri turning, closely Was nd oward the evel n in “Come.” and Tyler, who WwW yooed } i away t 0 man He clutched “Good-by. r leg is br mv h “3 My Bears in cheeks and 5 1 i Pard. many a year, he said be, we'll fight an’ die together. word! Ye kin shoot?” “Yes,” whispered Dan. “Then we'll catch a fow gather us in. look!” continued Burt, with intense eagerness. der! What comes?” we've nt 1° lived together ‘now, ef Not a of suddenly “Look With brightening eves Dan turned. Away in the northern sky hung a strange, funnelshaped cloud, broad above, but narrowing toward the earth, that, even in the fast-thick- ening twilight, they could see was in rapid motion, and was approaching them. At the same moment, a dull, roaring--the sound of an unseen sea upon an unseen shore—fell upon their straining ears. Tow drew nearer and touched his half-fainting friend's Hand. “Old boy, the Injins ‘ll never get us! Heaven is about to bury us! That yonder is a prairie cyclone!” Dan quivered, but, despite his pain, the terrible, swift certainty of their fate overcame all else, and true to his nature, he waited in sllence with his comrade for the end. It would noi be long. Faster than the fastest horse the great demon of the air swept down upon them, and as it advanced the chill horror of its breath touched their long locks and waved them gently, the dense, whirling blackness of fxs mighty bulk blotted from thelr sight both sky and prairie, and the thrilling, majestic roar of its volee shook the very earth, Nearer and nearer yet it drew, un. til the mighty engine of Nature's wrath fairly overshadowed them, and with bowed heads ther bade Hie fare well, until the matted grasses and the dry and should wind a shroud and grave about them, and then came an instant of utter blackness, of demon cal tumult, of crushing horror, when the hand of Nature's God seemed to press them to the ground-—and the cyclone had passed! It had passed, and the {we white men still lived, Touched only by the hem of the garment of the wonderful whirling death, they had escaped, but their dusky pursuers had been in the very center of ita furious brasp. To search for them, scattered, gtrangled, and buried deep beneath the would be graves at sea-—the and Burt and like searching for WAI party was gone, Tyler were saved, Two days later, a wandering party huntsmen found them encamped river's brink, and conveyed where, the broken leg was new again, and the wild light from the eyes of the rescued but so long as they live, neither passed, died men; ago, and the cyclone of the prairie.— Saturday Night, AN ARTIFICIAL INFERNO. Risks Attending Certain Departments of Steel Making. Waldon Fawcett pictures very vivid. ly in the Century special risks attending certain departments of of steel making at Pittsburg. The mode of operating one older furnaces, although it was accepted method only a few years geems crude enough now. with shovels transfer the mater from the rallroad-cars novel iron wheelbarrows loaded on a rickety that creeps crea of the furnace top, a feet in the alr. Perched on chimney-like structure, with the directly elow standing ter the ial Lo elevator outsid hundre this mol looking up the ingly v the up 1 ten pool the vole above of a wore cra Ano, as are workmen who pation is steeple-climber. The deadliest it wave 3 up with dangerous as of only into THOS i 3 the away Whatever these sudden the have i ed on rods many the force of upheavals of the on warning of one of lava-like mass, of the furnace approach, and their flames burst from a cannon’s the most uncertain top of its chances life, forth as though mouth, constitute no when A Slip of the Pen. “A recent experience has taught me in their handwriting,” remarked the society girl with the “Last week I gave a little informal tea, to which 1 invited a number of my intimate friends. Among others were a brother and sister. 1 wasn't sure that both of them could come, wrote, or intended to write, ‘if both of you cannot come, either of you will do.’ But somehow or other my pen played tricks on me (perhaps it was absent- mindedness on my part), and the lat. ter part of the invitation read, ‘neither of you will do.’ “Well, neither one appeared at my little function, and when | met them on the street a few days afterward I was surprised at their coldness, The sister dide’t speak to me at all and the brother raised his hat stiffly ana tas about to pass on. [ saw that something was wrong and asked for an expmnation. The brother showed me the unfortunately-worded invita: tion, with the remark that he and his sister had concluded 1 was trying to be funny at their expense. [| managed to convince them that it was purely a clerical! mistake—and hereafter | am going to use a typewriter."-—Detroil Freoc Press, W—-— . A hornot's nest usually contains from three to four hundred perfect males and females and an indefinite number of workers, The sum of 38.800 was collected last year from commercial travellers who ! visited Prince Edward Island. are roguired to pay $20 each. FUEDS IN THE FOREST. 40W MAINE GUIDES ARE PITTED AGAINST LOGGERE. ~atter Dammed Low Streams~—~They Want to Float Their Logs Down, but Their Operations Prevent Hunters from Traversing Water Courses. The old guldes in the wild ands of northern Maine are telling wonderful stories this season of the anprecedented number of deer which ira roaming in the almost pathless ‘orest. The farmers during Septem- ser were kept busy driving the ‘rom barnyard and garden and the snorting locomotives of the Maine rall- road killed so many deer at night that the game warden of the great hunting elt complained to the railroad officials of the slaughter. The new game law enforced this season against the kill of deer during the first of the autumnal months was responsible for helr great numbers when the first ff October eportsmen appeared on the scene, A hunting woods this wood- deer trip year through the Maine reveals a condition of the old lent as having existed before in section, The past summer known in forty of famous have been mber has een the dr yest vears consequence many the ich lash and foam by ports low brooks ‘eh Yon te 8 ieand which man these mountain girls when they come to the school have ever seen a looking glass or a clothes brush, or even the most ordinary of tollet or housekeep- ing implements. They have never held a pen in their fingers or taken hold of a book. A table set for a meal is a wonderful object, as is a two-story house, And most of them go up and down stairs for the first few weeks with all the awkwardness and caution of people undergoing 'a novel tion. The only objects that would seem familiar would guns and shooting and trapping apparatus or the heavily-lidded ovens for cooking cver an open fire. gensa- be HISTORY OF MASSAGE. Been the Chinese. i It is often { the origin of ment, particularly date back to the i curacy in detall was istic feature in | Sweden is usually i ing the place of origin of the fic system of massage This, Journal, is iO! ern real sical exerci Chinese appeared recently in the Deutsche Medicini Wochens | chrift, which WHS to a I Wel, eat impossible to our methods most of treat as of dark ages, when ac- not medical credited records. with be- and The doubt BAYS : no correct as far as { but the and phy been the fr} i Licino Europe Is originat BAK to have of mas BES appear An interesding ar che in he ok rnor of rence lately shed by The author SARC, WAS con Cro tithnavity “aula a xr 10 the GIOTIC ids that plas camp fire at Ons are tides are this year to run When 1 they fail succeed, having lown the 1 hey Kno nly the habits of the mals they hunt, but with the woods as with their own back yards, in the woods most of the forest appeals to them does to the sailor. They bum” in it and know its are always 3 are as familiar live The sea it, "spruce it until they These men characters. They are the ways of the great ani They know the runways or Hand at what ted at a They time, as the rap In timber in time the animals certain place, The picture sque and nervedrying | method of moose hunting by attracting with the simulated call of the cannot be “practic ed much this year under the existing laws. The open season for | may be expec ing ia futile. the old guides can imitate the weird, screeching call of the cow moose so perfectly that the wiliest old bull is | deceived and will drawn to the source of the sound, grunting respon- gively as he comes, As far as can be learned, there have been only four cases of “buck fever” in the Maine woods this year. Four men are known to have been killed by misled hunters mistaking them for the skulking deer. Hunting in the great woods of Maine has become a fad with many be the big game. Women, too, are enthu. siastic hunters. Today there are wny of the gentler sex in rough hunt. ing jackets and boots braving the hardships and perils of this most ex- hilarating life.~New York Mail and eda. AN HAS SE SIAR Child Wives at School, Early marriages are constomary tmong the mountaineers of North Caroling, and when the husbands are killed in the numerous fued wars or disappear to escape revenues officers, the young wives, or widows, as a (rile, are entered on the roll of the Industrial achou] at Asheville. Few of * * Cal exer Current i vias The patient Wai Out ither ty to cross gitting i gather on « pportuni on waiting had 1 een iIVOR re h © dared Cross res a look mptuons gather about - 1 : ANG Do one wid ia £1 slong, | took Wr, RAYE a manly se nan came a i Five cont glance on ed and then a hundred off her bundle x ther bank she the Lit wall ed up the yards, where clothing. BShe of all her belongings, them above her head and entered the stream. The but she made would sink beneath no attempt to swim. She the water until her toes touched a bowlder and would then igive a jump. The current would give her a lift and send her diagonally down the stream a few yards. She kept re peating the operation until at last she had reached the other bank, far below | where she had started. {| She waded out with her bundle per | fectly dry, donned her clothes and | vanished through the thicket. —From i a Panay Letter in the Mobile Register. Fog. The word “fog” has not been traced | farther back than the sixteenth cen { tury, but the thing was known in the early years of the fourteenth. The commons, with the prelates and no bles visiting London for the parlia ments and other occasions, united to petition Edward [. to compel the burn. ing only of dry wood and charcoal, as the growing use of sea coal corrupted the air with its stink and smoke to the great urejudice and, detriment of health, In 1306 the King prohibited the use of coal; heavy ransom and fines were inflicted for disobedience; in the case of recaleitrant brewers, dyers and other artificers the furnaces and kilns were destroyed. But the restric- tion was evidently soon removed, for in 18508 £50 (probably equal to about £800 now) waa paid from the ex. chequer for wood and coal for the cor. onation of Edward 11.-London Chroni. cle. » Unless a letter has a stamp on it it remains stationery, ¥ While the proportion of male crim- inals has increased considerably In Germany since 1882, that of female of- has remained stationary, The discovery in Palestine of valu able mineral treasures make it proba that there will goon be an indus. awakening of the Holy Land. Chic sending ‘ago Is making a specialty of through the malls envelopes fastened with buckles The buckles are of white enamel and old gold. They take the place of a gt wed flap and a seal me In: Americ have past about settled in the says the jans Ans during the however, Eighteen thousand emigrated to Canada year. As an ofiset 100,000 Canadians have United States. Man for man, St. Louis the Canad showed the sense, Republic better ars to be recent The We Wandin eisteddfod at to 2 Cleveland Leader one of the principal speakers stated that in 1871, persons the number decrease of he language appea | extinetion. At a Dolgelly, according correspondent, many as 1,006,100 in 011.285, a ypulation as Welsh, but fallen to though 1881 the x neanwhile increased, riting to The London “Everything we eat and uns the gantlet of which nervous peo- Far If we would into a there A physicia Times, drink germs to ple had too much fuss is 1 to all thes wthing left to bath carbolic until starvation freed u n, wr BAYS: and wear 7r an extent better not contemplate, made of them. » geares there get Lay fe " ATO listened do but and Bil of acid the dan- gers ol life, be the given Yale of tunity to pay their + presse nt How. waiters men About service has gears arrested ho and 15€8 in- are to 1 sent Those BE Or Del. the For was un- was » valve of a lo allroad yard ngineer nil the ht by ahistle. Tid YiRE norning it Nive DOCOme Jammy AD ae «€ engine had wa gleam ing the in says the Journal, that of the yn their way from the jail in ty in which they were sen- A gang of fifteen of them sm Buchanan Coun- ty, the Sheriff's ‘guests’ on a special car, gave vent to this yell at each rail station they passed between St Joseph and Jeffersom City, the other day: “Two years—five years—we will stay; didn't like St. Joe anyway!'’ latest City “The Kansas ( convicts the is CO Fas En Frenchmen, with a fair knowledge sf their language, but comparatively ignorant of the management of auto mobiles, are securing high-salaried positions as chauwifers for rich Ameri cans mainly owing to the fact that they are French. Although armed with excellent credentials, it has been discovered in several instances, that their ignorance of even the firet prin. ciples of mechanics has resulted in damage to the machines before the imposition was discovered hy their employers, An American sojourner in the Phil ippines savs in a recent letter to friends at home: “I want to go home. 1 want some washing done. To show you how bad, 1 send you under separ ate cover a handXerchief and collar just back from the laundry. Take the handkerchief out and bury it and save the collar as a souvenir. They don't pretend to get the dirt out of your clothes here. They take them down to the river, hard water and partly salt, souse them in take them out, lay them on boards, and with stones bat them full of holes and pound the but tons off. Then they smooth them out with a plank.” An Open Door Secret. The new consumption cure requires the patient to sleep out of doors, so as to give the other microbes a fair aoe to kill off the tubsreviar vark ety. ~Washington Times, .
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