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 |
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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,
.