Betting Sall.
Yomorrow 1 have wastes of sea to
ride,
Long wastes, beneath the blue
boundless dome,
And wild the wind, and white
breakers comb,
But vet I fear not shoal or swelling
tide,—
Home lies the other
and
the
gide!
Some other morrow I shall sall a tide
Vaster and darker. But in
skias
Through breaking mists what
ing heights may rise
And in great quietness |
With home the other slide
~Harriet
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By Charles B. Howard.
I had ily 4
Hongkong,
steamer
spend four lon
avaiting th
for Manila;
August }
from
the
kong in ts
fo be away
Wao manage it
ills or to Japan, and |
of the
could
anda
y with the ind
‘hinese atmosphere
I had vised
side the
been advised
limits of Brit
as the Chinese l
rigidly
States, and
+h
bean
1a ie
iar in
bh
ime
only
MmOougd
a bamboo
British
virce-cons
tleman,
creamy
oared cut!
and me at
that he h:
man for
my going
and a loo
So we
consular cr
we
ir
Pat
tak :
“He'll
right.’
the
scruff
dropped
you shou
up. Remem
and when
want to
The
ings of
stood
the hard
hygiente
and
temples and
him
1.4
I om the town
and other obvious rea
after troil among the
joss houses
here and there and a call
we sat down to tiffin in
Cove
an
aseattored
at the
the eoo
ch
States vice-cot
Japanese
and facned by a
swvaving punka
After a sh
red bungalow
the United
ware sarved by
huge
ort sie
to the
best chane
feally
“There's
only
lish
Chinese tows
not a white
who
Tan
man
a word
Quin See the
En
ompra
one speaks of
old
dor
The cutter
flight of
toon landed
worn, moss-grown pa
the harbor
wend a
narrower
and not
and we
way through
Boston
go straight
paved, They were crowded with the
lowest class of Chinese, half-naked
and grimy, who made wav for us with
sullen ugly scowls, gabbling and mut
tering among themselves at the in
trusion of the “foreign devils.”
Pat, the captain had predicted
close at my heels, dodging
among a myriad
few minutes the
at a doorway.
“Here's Tan Quin See's
sald. “He's a valuable friend of
mime, and he'd be greatly hurt
didu’t stop for a cup of tea”
He entered a dark little hole, which
weemed to bo a combination of
cary, wine-shop and museum, and
the way into a room in the rear
We were most
dried-up little old man
hands in Buropean fashion
tled at me in pidgin-English
The old comprador seated ups In
wonderfully carved ebony chalrs at a
wonderfully carved and inlaid table,
and proceeded to make ten in true
Chinese fashlon--pouring boiling wa
ter on a pInch of leaves In each han
dleless cup, and serving it without
milk or sugar.
After our fifth cup the vice consul
and he fell to talking business, for
seawall, gan to
tortuous gtrepts
than
nearly
back alleys,
or well
adroitly
toot
viescomaul
of bare
stopped
shop,” he
gro
Jed
shook
pat:
who
and
.
which the former to me,
saying that they would be
rectly.
Leaving them to thelr chat, |
ed out to the front door and
watching passing throng A
apologized
'
stroll
stood
the mo
my af
crowd
tention was
11 i sia
1GUSHI
later
ment
hy a gathering, ap
exeltement
twenty yar
the
doorway
in great
street corne some
iting
the
ity ge
left
ee olng on
what
faithful
walke wis E
Pat
ever
vhat looked like
{WO men
indicating
Hq waa
his h
roytse
rons
rey alive
gaz 4
mandarin
at
rtably folded on
frantic efforts to
response
the crowd ands com
idly
¥
and my
attention
AYVor He
waste
elicited no
had
foreigners
ysrobably no
fuel
I
On UNINUCKY
arms, |
of
climbing
mob
the ating:
stones,
forest of waving
grasped the
wall, with the idea of
Then the shriek of the
to a snarling roar, and 1 felt
ing blows of hall a dozen
while countless others broke
through the
and
edge
turned fg
up
of finding a temporary
of refuge on the other aide
erash came my helmet against
which
like
and
down over by face an extin
!
i
I made a frantic grab at the air
to save myself from tumbling back
ward, and clutched a roll
At the same tire
my coat collar
with
in the uncongenial em:
brace of an athletle Chinaman, who
had evidently tried to leap on the
wall from the farther side, to see the
fun. with disastrous results 0 my
helmet and his head
Simultaneously we each managed
to get a leg atop and to scramble up,
where we sat astride, face to face,
while 1 extricated my head from the
remains of my helmet, and he rubbed
his shaven poll with one hand and his
damaged shoulder with the other, ut
tering a series of indignant gutturals
Expecting another shower of stones,
1 turned to look at the crowd-—and
somebody grasped
dangling legs
for
amazement
ead of
continued to look
bewlldered
For h
Eer as
of
Of
Hid
the
tall
DO ATHLETES DIE YOUNG?
That
Fallacy
jo to
Some Pertinent Statistics go
Refute a Widely Popular
J
A C00 ne Dr. © (: At
Those
thus gre
+34
’ i"
voears of age
56 men are between
of age
an
22 men or between and
of age
the Yale
years 14 are
65
68,
Years
‘Of
ter
athletes In their lat
€0 and 65
are 66 is
is In
deaths,
between
YOars, one is three
two
brief,
of
One
and 69
violent only
Yale in a pe
riod of nearly fifty years, have been
ioat from the ranks of the living
“1 have been assured by a life In
that college athletes
track men show a bet
expectation of life than
thelr non-athletic classmates
much better than the general
age of Insured dives”
He Wanted Help.
Ike, from the city, visited his Con
Jake in the country, and a coon
was planned for Ike's benefit.
Very early in the evening the dog
treed, and Jake climbed up to shake
the coon out. A wild scrimmage fol
lowed, punctuated by growling
spitting on the part of the
and yells from Jake
thing grew quiet, Jake and the an!
mal each having reached the point
where they were willing to remain
quiet. Ike grew impatient and shout.
ed:
“Jake, have you got him?"
“Yes, Ike, and 1 vish you would
come up and help me turn him loose
A moment, piease’ Memphis Nows
Scimitar
Among the Sultan's
bables' baths of solid gold.
Are One
barring
these 761 athletes
the
aver
animal
plate are
NEEDLE
INOLAITS
NEW WORK
White
are indis able lt young girl
wardrobe A cont sult of on
other of these with a fine
blouse | mos
on
ag double
1
slope
time a
fect of a separate
wire like gd may be
on near
lace
the edge of
2 ace and ma
into
shape Place the
it the baat
lace, point line
fasten {it
Spread out the side
fasten them
over the top of the
the insect’'s body w
middle line of
Philadeiphia Bulletin
SILK AND
SILK
the two nations in
which produce silk,
in the United
"Mr rig
ipwa iN
and to bod with
Ce
pine
’
Hh
£4) i
and
end
fall
belt
also ie hodice
The
then
high
helt
11
the
JAPANESE
As between
Past
manufacturers
China. The silk
highly
industry of
developed It
ness methods The silkworm In
Japan Is a wellgroomed creature
The Japanese worm is not hatched
the egg containing it passes
eclentific examination Nothing is
to chance. The mulberry leaves
the worms are grown upon
and pro
There
fod
to
tected from disease and pests
the hatching of the eggs, or the feed
ing of worms which do not produce.
in China much Is left to chance,
hecause the father of the present pro
od. While the mulberry trees ure
eared for carefully in some lines, are
fertilized and cultivated and stripped
of thelr leaves In the autumn to give
them a longer rest In the short win
INFI
Surely
FLANNELETTE
ave of ii
AMMABLE
the 4d Iammable
num
chil
flannelette should Iw
The
dren who
the ignition {
iz simply appalling. The
flunnelette has again and again ex
children to the same risk as
nisht dresses were soaked In
The fabric catches fire as
and burns with the same In
tense flame as alcohol, and the flames
are not extinguished “An in
the other day on the
boy. two years oid
He was left to play in a room while
his mother was abeent He was In
z flannelette nightshirt The mother
had not lefy the room long when she
heard screams and found the boy
flames. He was terribly burned, and
the poor little fellow died with!a 24
hours of the occurrences’ Such i=
the sort of hearirending paragraphs
constantly appearing in the newsps
One coroner alone has stated
. a
speedily
bered death rol among
have been fatally
iz perilous
injur
by of ti fabric
wearing
if their
epirit
readily
1A
of a
pers
ivguests on children who had been
burned to death, and a large propor
tion was due to flannelette igniting.
The Lancet .
tarmers ban borrow money
at three per
Young
from the government
cent in Norway.
No unvaccinated person can vote in
Nerway.
CHEFSE
into
ene
Y¢
fine
binat
Ker
clear
the wheel
ughly
A
RETO able
and helps
stead of irrits
The best
1
ang ime ¥ i
oil water
Cover the wound with
ton from t
and it will gradually heal
Steak will ch
| der if vinegar is
It should {Hen be left
before cooking.
If the housewife her oon
somme to jelly, she should be sure
to crack the bones and cut away the
meat from them.
Is it known that small pears make
| delicious pickles when made after the
| recipe for sweet pickled peaches?
| The fruit should be pared, but not
quartered or cored
Very strong tea will stop the bleed.
| Ing from a cut.
Stews of any kind of meat should
merely bubble at the sides of the ket:
tie and never really boil,
Blinds can be nicely cleaned and
brightened if after dusting and wash
| ing they are rinsed in clear water
| and ammonia.
{| One of the most successful ways to
| darn wools and silks is to take ravel
| lings from the material. Split the
| thread Into the neadle with the help
lof wax In this way the thread or
tt sterilized cot-
dress carefully ime to time,
more en
all over it.
alf an hour
will be found mu
or bh
wants
The enamel! of address cards is pro
rubbing over the card a
mixtare of Kremnitx white, which is
a fine variety of white lead.
Sumatra grows the largest flower