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Moonrise.
The fernbrake trembles in the lifting
dark;
Pale spangles glance along the mel:
lowing gray.
Above the ancient wood
bark
Drops lily petals down a dusky bay.
And cornerwise, and all a-slip, be
tween
troas,
silver
a rounded
The soft shocks of ravelled
lean.
The cornfield chiefs make bold essay
to break
The moon spears, with their tawny
painted shields;
From mullein tent and grassy camp
awake
The moonlight pipers of the autumn
flelds;
And molst, deliclous
night
fragrances of
light.
A still, black stream
cameo,
Asleep in dim retreat of sycamore,
Awakes, with rills of laughter, just
below
A curve, and from the crescent of
the shore
An old mill rises in the yellow mist
And grinds with silent wheel, a
shadow grist.
—Harriet Whitney Durbin, in Every:
body's Magazine
inlaid with
: His Heart's Brother.
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By C. A. Stephens.
On May 26th, a few hours before
the battle of Nanshan, Capt. Oka of
the Ninth Tokyo Regiment was sent
forward with a flag of truce on a
Was a young man, barely twenty, of
the Samurai class, well
Speaking both French and English.
From the Russian redoubts there
came down to meet the white flag a
leutenant, Alexander Vanncilsky, of
the Archangel Artillery. He, too, was
& young man, and he spoke French,
a8 do nearly all the Russian officers
Vannoffsky saluted sty, and
the object of the flag
The question raised was one which
the Russian lieutenant felt obliged to
refer to his superior officer. The ser
geant accompanying him was there
fore sent back with a written note for
Instructions, and a delay
minutes ensued
To pass the time
there waiting, Capt began con
versation his youthful! opponent,
very formally at first, then more cor
dially. They talked of London. Paris
and New York, which places both had
visited
In the fifteen or twenty mi
waiting each had
the other. And
saluted to separate and go hack.
was a still further exchange of cour
tesles, and the young Japanese officer
Placed his hand on his breast and
sald, “You are my heart's brother for
the future”
Twice afterward, as the great glege
went on and opportunity offered. Capt.
Oka sent his good wishes to Lieut
Vannoffsky, with the axpressed hope
that no harm had come to his “heart's
brother.” And in August just after
the great assault when twenty-five
thousand Japanese fell. the Russian
was able to transmit a penciled note
of greeting to this young friend of an
allen race, with warmest remem-
brances, and signed. “Thy Alexandro-
vitch.”
Amid the fearful vicissitudes of
those weary days there seemed little
Hkelthood that they would meet
Again. Yet meet they did six weeks
later—but under what terrible elr-
cumstances and after what horrors!
It was at the “Wedge of Death”
that blood-stalntd zigzag, which Gen
Nogi finally drove through the earth
up to the very parapet of the lofty
Russian fort, known as the
Dragon.”
This was after “203 Meter HII" had
asked
while they stood
Oka
with
taken a liking to
they
there
when at last
“Eternal
huge mortars had destroyed, by plung.
Ing fire, what was left of the Russian
fleet In Port Arthur harbor
It was found Impossible to take Port
Arthur by assault. The line of lofty
broad moats, often forty feet
proved inaccessible,
deep,
could be turned from dynamos hiden
in bomb proofs.
of no avail, for searchlights played
the forts and for miles around
After their frigh'Tul losses during
were forced to adopt the slower, safer
with trenches, 2Igzags and tunnels
carried up beneath the walis of the
forts, which were then blown up with
dynamite. In this Herculean effort
they @xcavated nineteen miles ol!
trenches in the hard earth and rock,
always at least alx feet deep and eight
feet wide, frequently deeper, and
covered over with planks and earth.
It was one of these zigzags, now ad.
vanced up near the moat of the
Eternal Dragon fort, which became
known to the armies as the Wedge of
Death,
More soldiers lost their lives hare
than would have filled the trench with
their bodies and covered all the
ground about it four desp. It was
hers that, after a savage sortfe Wm
the Russians, the Japanese used ther
own dead and wounded to form a flual
breastwork of defense,
The point of the Wedge of Death
was within forty yards of the Russian
parapet, and here assailants and de
fenders lay watching each other
through chinks between sandbags,
walting for a chance to shoot. A few
inches at a time a low steel screen
was pushed forward by the Japanese
sappers, and while Russian bullets
pattered furiously about it a little
more earth was dug away, and thus
the trench advanced
The soldiers here were relieved
avery thirty minutes, Human nerves
could not endure the strain longer,
The beslegers were more than fifty
days pushing forward this trench,
inch by Inch;
day, did a minute
and patter of balls.
Yet up and down the shattered gray
was never a living
Both armies were
there
sight. invisible,
ing with grim determination
fell in the open space between these
grim lines there was no
Biscuits and water-bottles were
the Red
Cross men
cease firing, one, as If
silenced.
Then as darkness drew
structed the engineers in
the five searchlights on the east side
one by
on he in-
current suddenly from the first one,
had Injured the dynamos,
This ruse succeeded. Thinking the
moment favorable, Gen. Oshimo
sternal
Dragon and Keekwan forts
full regiments of
infantry, one of them the
from their
darkness, began to climb the steep
mouniain side
When
stratagem
Japanese
Ninth, is
trenches In
Three
suing silently
the
up the Russian
disclosed
hall-way
was
tna searchlights played again, betray
ing the
Suddenly
assailants as
Then the guns,
hed shel
supposed to,
1 and shrapns
erian shar;
filed out
silenced, tel
of Sit
soare
anglements, one of th
conflicts
Arthur
hand-to-hand
he slege of Port
Mit 8 parallel
#4
Neither side gained a definite ad
The
refuge in
trenches,
IvOors at
fort, the
and in the
slope, lay five thos
fesperately
unable to
vantage Russian sury
last took their
Japanese in their
the
killed or so
that
crawl away
close up to
Dragon.
broken by a fragment of shell At
about 9% that morning Lieut,
Vannoffaky was looking down through
a loop-hole of the fort wall above, He
saw Oka stir feebly: and after a
second glance through a glass he
dawn, down
sand
wounded
men,
they
Among
the moat
Capt
wore
the wounded,
of the Eternal
both legs
Was Ka,
o'clock
Twice the Russian spoke Oka's
name down from the wall
not make him hear
During
noffsky descended to a
the moat and
the wounded man It fed wide or
passed unnoticed; and it was not tu
nightfall that the Russian was really
able to do anything
Then after it had grown quite dark
mand the searchlights playing
elsewhere, the lieutenant climbed out
of the moat and crawled cautiously
to where Oka lay, partly sheltered In
a hole made by an sxplodi-g sha"
It had been a day of frightful suf
fering for the young Japanese, but
he was still alive, and hearing Van.
noffaky creeping near, he drew a
pistol, thinking him one of the enemy
come to rob or murder him. Van-
noffsky laid a gentle hand on his
arm, however
“Fear not It is thy
viteh.,” he whispered: then he grasped
his hand, held a flask to his lips, and
Inouired as to his wounds.
The searchlight now came dancing
them, and not to draw bullets.
either from the fort or tha trenches
both lay still. When it had passed
Vannoffaky continued his
tions; and at last, finding Oka quire
unable to move, he resolved on an act
of herofsm-—one that mig? cost him
but could
the Van
caponiere in
a flask
forenoon Lieut
toaged over to
were
ing him down the slope to the
Japanese trenches. And that was
what he did, taking the little fellow
on his back and crawling slowly on
hands and knees down the slops, stop-
ping always when the searchlight
came that way.
Thus it happened that at about 2
o'clock that night a Japanese soldier
on duty in the Wedge of Death heard
a slight noise at hand, and cocking
his rifle, challenged sharply.
“Hola!”
“It is a friend,” was the Russian’s
immediate reply. And then on the
very brink of the trench appeared
Vannoffaky with Capt, Oka on his
back.
The Japanese soldier pulled them
both down into the zigzag, and Oka
feebly explained the strange sltuation,
time the officer in
charge was in great doubt as to his
¢luty, whether or not to hold the
young Russian as a prisoner of war
since he had unavoldably seen their
trench.
But after a little conversation mer
gallant sentiments prevailed
Vannoffsky was bidden to
and he reached the Dragon fort
safety,
At the surrender of Port
Ideut. Vannoffsky became a
of war in earnest, but he
mitted to be the guest of his "heart's
brother,” then convalescing at his
Japanese home.—Youth's Companion,
For a Japanese
retur
Arthur
prisoner
was per
VANISHING GAME BIRDS,
er Than the Reproduction,
The general prospects this season
for good prairie chicken shooting
one of the keenly popular upland
sports wth dog and gun-—seem in the
main to be unfavorable Undoubtedly
there are small acres here and there,
mere nooks in comparison to the
whole vast prairfe habitat of the pin-
nated grouse, which contain birds
a plenty and which
sport for favored have
the hundreds
take
investi
the few who
shooters, who their
preliminary
and disappoint.
of chicken
chances without
gation, much fallure
ment are in store
The reports
districts
grouse in times
ance, or at least plentiful
afford good indicate an un
usual scarcity.
Undoubtedly the destruction eof tho
pinnated
production. The decrease in it
bers seems to be steadily progres
with the passing
the habitat of species also
ually diminishing,
manifested by
extermination of the
certain
from many of the
the
were in
where pinnated
past abund-
sport,
grouse is greater
Years The
thouzh this
the entire
section, nou
abandonment of ft
The change from
dearth comes about
gections in former
forded
afford
abundance
SDOT (
Dot i
snare
pot
meager
from pl
recent
conditions
with thos
Years
years
ent
shooting
fifteen or twenty
into sicuous relief
give
the scarcity of the
Twenty Ago
prairie chicken, beginning in Wes
Louisiana and Texas,
through the prairie region of the Mid.
die South and West, far up into Brit.
and plentifully stocked
chickens, was far in excess of
chicken ihitat of
leptiful as the birds
coupled a leasened habitat
in number
a visit
Ona
CONS]
decrease, which has
present
YOATS the habitat ¢
extending
ish America,
wit}
prairie the
were
far less
when Audubon, on
wrote of them as being
there and destruc
they Httle
pest and
to Kentuel v,
80 over-plentiful
that
being a
were
Forest
tive to crops
short of
Stream
Matrimony and Tongues.
A young woman who had graduated
from and then taken a
ter's degree roturned home, after two
abroad, to find that
during her a’sence her native viliage
had fitted her out with an embarras
sing reputation for learning
To her mingled annoyance and
amusement, she discovered that peo
ple were surprised to see that
much like other ordinary and
agreeable persons, and that perhaps
this educating process she
was capable of sustain ng the rela
tions of ordinary life
Among those who called to see her
soon after her return were two sac
ond cousins, girls in thelr early tosna
Their surprise at finding the much
discuseed master of arts so “perfectly
lovely” appeared during the Inter
view ‘n their iorgenuous remarks
As they were departing from the
yard their words fo tel up through
the open window to the smussd M. A
“Just think,” said one girl, impres
sively, “she speaks roven languages!”
“And yet” ered the other, "she
would made #stre man a real sweet
wife!" "- Youth's Companion.
« Thumping.
Mr. Kipling is still alive and uses
language vigorously, He says he goes
down to the cape In Africa every
year to see the first chapter of Gene
sis alive, the world In creation, a civ.
lization which is being made out of
fragments. When tha operation Is
further advanced Mr, Kipling will
put it in a poem marked by his
thumping power of expression.--8t
Louls Globe-Demoerat.
The bleycle industry ks still flourish.
collegas mas
years of travel
she
Conducted by
J. W. DARROW, Chatham, N. Y.,
Press Correspondent New York State
Grange
JUVENILE GRANGES.
THEIR ADVANTAGE TO THE 8SUB-
ORDINATE GRANGE,
tlon—lirange Speakers at
Fairs and How Falrs and Granges
May Co-operate.
Juvenile granges are
numbers slowly, but
increasing In
surely. When
preparing for it an interested, intellf-
gent and enthusiastic membership, is
understood they will meet with greater
approval and will increase more rapid-
ly. The difficulty In organizing a ju
venlle grange is not that there are too
few children who would be interested
fn it, but to secure for the organization
& matron who will assiduously devote
their efforts. The juvenile
grange has its own ritual and staff of
tron be chosen to superintend and di
rect the young folks and assist wher-
ever assistance may be needed. The
gree work and in the transaction of all
any one in the subordinate
One of the most enthusiastic bellev-
E. Harris of Greenville," O., who says
full of good results that we feel that
we would not keep our vow to work
others to organize Juvenile
The possibilities of useful
more than we ever dreamed.
Eranges
ness are
From the very
In fact,
“Well, 1
but the children were bound to
It Is a drawing card for the
grange But this is the plea 1
make, though It is a good one The
great reason is that ages
tired,
come.”
not
between the
preasionable years. During these years
the plastic mind of the
and retains
bad which last throughout life
impressions for
Influences a great
rit tunity |
44 opportunity is
value Ti: after fourteen,
you say? iben why is It
skilled workmen ars
that
needed in the
are
There
delicate
brought
arts and
from the
crafts they
old country?
and crafts, and vears perfect the
never
be attained
in life
by those who
CO-OPERATION PROPOSED.
A Grange Principle That Is Not Over.
worked,
Members of the grange may take a
lesson from farmers on
Long Islan attempting to cooper
ate for thelr
vicinity of
the action of
mutual welfare In
tiverhead, N. Y., there are
10,000 acres devoted to po-
tato culture, and the farmers there be
that hase
supplies in bulk and profit by the econ-
omy as well as obtain cheaper freight
rates hy shipping in earload lots
eve they can pur
considerable money to its members
The cost of cauliflower seed has been
$22 to $20 a pound In
ne cases, Practically any
intelligent farmer with a few acres In
cauliffower Is now assured of a net
profit of from £1,000 to $3,000 Not at
all unusual Is the case of August Le
inst year realized $300 an acre from
twelve acres set out In cauliflower,
This is in direct line with the prin
ciples and purposes of the grange, and
Yet co-operation as a practical
is not known to many granges,
it about time “to get together?”
Grange Speeches Worth Money.
Overseer George A
county fairs with
Press belleves he is right.
censions and fast “hosses,” and if they
grange orator a drawing
People go to fairs
to see the sights and the crowd and
One county fair
People came to see him and the $1,000
cow and the big pumpkins. What he
sald no one remembers now, and little
attention was given to it at the time.
Unless he gave his speech to the papers
balloon. —Utlea Press,
A Profitable Grange Fale.
The grange at Copake. Columbla
county, N. Y., held a fair and sale a
short time ago at which the receipts
were $650, of which $500 was put into
the treasury, Quite a neat sum that!
Sparta grange, Crawford county, Pa.,
claims to be the largest grange in the
state. It haz a membership of 407.
The last class ij itiated numbered fifty.
seven,
Money in
Growing Ginseng |
Prof. W. L. Howard of the Missouri State Agricultural
College says: “I advise American farmers to cultivate Gin.
seng. Big profits may be realized. It is a hardy plant and is
casily grown.” —A recent bulletin issued by the Pennsylvania
State Agricultural College in part says: “ The supply of native
Ginseng root is continually diminishing and the price per pound
is correspondingly increasing, while the constant demand for the
drug in China stands as a guarantee of a steady market for Gin.
seng in the future. The market for our cultivated root will ex.
ist as long as the Chinamen exist.” —Consul General W. A.
Rublee of Hong Kong says in the U. 8. Consular reports: “ The
sale ot Ginseng root grown in America is very large here and
the demand is so great that much more could be disposed of ad-
vautageously. The root is as indispensable to the 460,000,000
Chinese as is their rice.”
Ginseng is a staple on the market the same as corn, wheat
and cotton. The present market price varies from $5 to $8 per
pound soning quality, while the cost of production does not
exceed $1.50. here is room in an ordinary garden to grow
several hundred dollars worth each year. The plant is hardy and
thrives in all pana of the United States and Canada, exoept in
arid regions. © are successful growers and can show you how
to make money growliug Ginseng. You can get a good start in
the business for a smal outlay, and soon have a comfortable in-
come. We have several thousand ehoice roots for sale for fall
delivery. The planting season begine in August and continues
till the ground is frozen. Write us today for literature.
Buckingham’s Cinseng Carden
Zanesvllle, Ohio.
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