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KINDRED:
By Abbie Farwell Brown.
¥ wander through the woodland ways,
And not a whispered sound,
No shudder in the leaves, betrays
The quivering life around.
And yet I feel the kindred near
In every ambushed shade,
From tree ang grass they peep and
peer,
Half friendly, half afraid.
I bend above the magic tide;
But veiled in beryl light
The countless ocean-creatures hide,
With crystal eyes and bright.
Or gaze in still surprise;
The wenderkin I do not know,
Yet feel their curious eyes.
Above, the starry mystery,
With teeming space hetween;
1 feel its wonders close to me,
Its presences unseen.
As in a childish game, 1 stand
Blindfolded and alone,
And stumbling reach an eager hand
To kindred all unknown.
Bewildered in the living space
With wistful arms I grope;
“Thrilled by a breath upon my face,
A shadow—and a hope.
—Youth’s Companion.
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The
Lonesome Dog
BY JESSIE WRIGHT WHITCOMB
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A good, kind dog found himself all
alpne in the world, He was hungry
and thirsty and lonesome, and thought
he would see if he could improve his
fortunes.
As he trotted through the
of a town he smelled a fine smell.
“That means something for me at
last,” he thought, and traced the smell
to a meat shop. The screen door
was shut, but waited patiently
until some one went in and he fol
lowed close behind.
A most excellent smell! He nosed
along up close to the counter. With
grateful heart he waited for his share.
It fell and he snapped it up. No soon-
er had he done so than the butcher
saw him, and the butcher's boy and
two customers and they all shunted at
him and jumped at him and hustled
him out of the shop, bereft of his
meat and ashamed.
“My sakes,” he sald to himself, as
he ran down the street, tail betweep
his legs, “1 have learned one lesson
—never to go into a place that smells
as good as that again!”
When he could run no more, pant.
ing with the heat, and with his ton-
gue hanging out of his mouth, he
looked for a place to rest. He had
reached a house with green grass,
and with vines on the porch, and
with a soft, damp-looking flower bed,
full of bright flowers, in front of the
vines. There was no fence.
“It is quite free,” thought the tired
dog, “and 1 am glad of a place to
rest.” So he went over to the flower
bed, turned around and around on
the cool soil untii he had crowded
out for himself a comfortable resting
place among the plants,
“Oh, how good this ia"
as he panted for breath,
these people must be!”
He was just dozing off, when he
heard a scream above him. “Peter!
quick! quick! an awful dog! right In
the flower bed! Drive him away!”
Move as quick as he could, the doz
could not get away before he had
been pelted with all sorts of things,
and had been called all sorts of
names, which hurt him almost as
much as the missiles,
He ran as far as he could without
stopping, but he was so intolerably
thirsty he kept looking for a place to
drink. There seemed to be no water
in all that town. As he lagged slow
ly along one street he reached a lat
ticed kitchen porch. The porch door
stood open. He knew there was water
on that porch. The open door in
vated him. "These people know how
it feels to perish of thirst” has
thought, “they have left their door
open.”
Up the steps he crept; he could
see the pall of fresh water; he was
just about to bury his nose in the
pail and drink his fill, when the kitch-
he
he thought,
“how kind
descended on his head, and he was
ordered off in no uncertain
With his head aching from the blow,
and thirstier than ever, he ran slow
iy along.
“The is no place for me” he
thought wearily, “nor any food, nor
any drink. 1 do not understand it.
He ran by more houses with vines,
and flower-beds, and green lawns, and
no fences, but he did not venture In,
A pretty child sat on some steps and
called, “Here doggle, here, doggle!”
How he would like to be called that
way! He turned his head imploringly.
“Here doggle—gopd, pretty, kind
doggle, come to Roxie”
The dog hesitated; could the child
mean him? Was it a boy? Some
children were boys and some were
girls. But he couldn't tell this one.
Some boys were named John and
Tom and David, and some girls were
named Daisy and Lulu and Sally, but
he didn’t know Roxie.
“Come, doggie,” urged Roxie,
“eome—T'll give you a drink—a nice,
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way encouragingly to the shady side
of the house. There was a large
crock. “This is for the birds," ex-
plained Roxle, “and now T'll fll it up
for pon,” and Roxie turned in a
stream from the hose.
The thirsty dog drank and drank
—mnover did water taste so good. He
raised his grateful eves and wagged
his tatl,
“Oh, you good dog,” smiled Roxie,
“be my dog. I'll bring you soinetilng
to eat in a minute. I'll be awful
fast-—now stay right-—there"—impres
sively.
The dog scarcely knew what to do
but while he was still undecided
Roxie came back with a pan of scraps
“These are my very own bones)”
said Roxie, “I've been praying for
a dog for two days, and I've saved
all my bones and scraps—now eat
em!”
The dog ate in a half-famished way
—guch good scraps!
“What are you doing, Roxie?
called a volee from an upper room.
“Feedin’ my dog. God's sent him
Pretty good dog, too.”
Roxle's mother hurried down, afrald
she would find a mangy, sore-eyed
dog, but instead she found a gentle
| creature, with a silky coat and beau
tiful eyes,
“Yery well, Roxie,
ed answer. “We may as well setile
| this thing right now. If we find the
! dog belongs to any one else we can
give it back”
{ “He doesn't,”
ply.
“Well—we'll play that way. We'll
| put the rest of the afternoon on the
| deg. We will scrub him and comb
im and brush him and fix him =a
| sleeping-place, and we will telephone
{ right down to papa to bring up a
{ collar. What name do you want?”
“Theodore,” promptly.
“Why, Roxie! Theodore
§ dog’ s name!”
“It's this dog's name,” in a final
tone. “You told me yourself Theo-
dore meant ‘Gift of God'—and that's
what my dog is." And the lonesome
dog wagged his tail happily.—Pitts-
burg Christian Advocate.
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isn't a
Blast Furnace Gas,
The amount of gas generated by 8
blast furnace to produce pig iron is
80 enormous that if collected and util
ized for power purposes it would
prove revolutionizing in manufactur
ing industries. Thus to produce In
an ordinary well-equipped works
about 150 tons of pig fron the blast
furnace would generate upward of 20,
000,000 cubic feet of gas. To harness
is the aim of the builders of gas en
gines, Utilized for generating steam
by burning, about 1.000-h p.
obtained: but if burnt directly in a
modern large gas engine, the horse
power generated would be several
times as much. Eminent engineers
estimated that even if half this vol
ume should be wasted or used for
heating the alr blast of the furnace,
there would still be sufficient to pro
duce between 3.000 and 4,000 horse
power, Such an enormous gas gen
erator would thus prove of the great
est
purposes, Likewise the gases of coke
ovens can be utilized in
way, adding greatly to the
ance of the gas engine in
field. —Mining World.
French Priests Earn a Living.
import
its new
poultry rearing, others breed rabbits
The parish priest of Labourgade, in
the Tarn and Garonne, has
earned a reputation for his jams and
Many priests have
workmen, The parish priest of La
Ponnonie is a turner, another in Aver
don in the Loire et Cher, mends bicy
cles and sewing machicss., The par
ish priests of Mayet de Montagne, in
the Allier, and of SBerriera, In Corsica,
manufacture acetylene lamps, and the
priest who officiates in the parish
church of Maurages, in the Meuse,
a working locksmith. One of the In
dustries most generally adopted by
| the clergy is that of watch and clock
maker. Seven parish priests are al
ready so employed. The parish priest
of Cavier, In the Gard, is a tailor, and
his colleague in Negron, in the Indre
et Loire is an upholsterer. A dozen
others knit stockings and waistcoats,
while the priest of Hericourt,
Haute Saone, has become a printer. A
certain number of priests are book
binders, and many are photographers
Two parish priests—one of Saint
Paul, in the Oise, and another of Mag
nilles Reigners, in the Vendee—are
artists,
and the second using the sculptor's
chisel—Tablet,
jellies.
Foreign Waterways.
Since we began the neglect
| abandonment of canals France
quadrupled her waterways, Accord
ing to figures furnished by commercial
associations the British isles have
8,000 miles of canal, and it does not
all antedate the railroad. The Man
chester canal was built at a cost of
a distance of thirty-five miles, and,
while it did not prove a good interest
bearing investment on such a large
expenditure, its indirect and more per
manent benefits are sald to have war
ranted it. Germany has 3,000 miles of
canal earefully maintained, besides
7,000 miles of other waterway, France,
with an area less than we would con
sider a large state, has 3.000 miles of
canal, and in the northern part, where
the canals are most numerous, the
railways are more prosperous. Eng
land, Germany, France, Holland and
Belgium are all contemplating further
extension and improvement of thels
canal systems Century Magazine,
F'Sleep
—————
one-third to one-half of our whole
life is spent In sleep, and in our in-
it, Yet, strange to say, while every
human being from the time of Adam
until this hour has known sleep from
actual experience, no man can ac
curately define or explain it
It cannot be wholly fatigue that in-
duces sleep, why should the
feeble octogenarian sleep least and
the infant who does nothing in par-
ticular sleep many times as much
as its grandparents? Even
science most vague on
else
is this
for it than of wasted tis.
sues.”
“the repair
Unquestionably research with the
microgcope does prove that fatigue,
in some degree at any rate, exhausts
and vitiates the nerve cells, while
rest and sleep appear to restore them
to the normal. When Lord Brougham
returned home after his brilliant and
exhaustive defense of Queen Caro-
line he retired at once to bed almost
disturbed on
long he
was not to Be
no matter how
should sleep. His lordship's
hold obeyed; but their amazement
grew into positive terror when
young advocate's “nap”
itself forty-eight hours! Brougham's
physician afterward declared this mar:
velous sleep was nature's own rem.
edy for relieving a terrific mental |
strain and had certainly warded off |
brain disorder.
that he
any account,
every one of us at least
marvelous recuperative
value of long sleep. And yet all
this time digestion, respiration and
other vital functions are in full
power, just as In the waking hours
But,
knows
then,
the
a
are less active
It seems clear we peed more than
ment while awake than asleep. And
yet we wake in the morning without
variably accompany a long waking
fast. Moreover, the first morming
meal is ordinarily the lightest of the
with people free to consult their
own tastes in these matlers,
How shall we explain this strange
in the action of the stom.
ach by day and by night?
answer that we work in the day, hence
waste and hunger: for the same crav-
ing for food during the day is ex
perienced by a person taking
or no physical exercise as by the
bricklayer, foundryman or other work
er engaged in the hardest manual
toil
then, condition
Obviously, a
ance of intercourse with the world,
but a positive suspension of some
of the sternest exactions of our nat.
ure
There is another
sleep which is seldom remarked.
down upon bed or couch,
tired you may be you will rarely
main in one position jong if you
awake, At frequent intervals
feel an impulse to turn over or move
some of your limbs wha!
has become an uncomfortable posi-
tion. On the other hand, when
fall asleep, even though you have the
hard ground for a couch and, like
Jacob, a stone for a pillow, you may
quietly for many hours without
except for Involuntary res
Nor when you awake
erience any discomfort
in that part of the body which
borne the most pressure, such
could not be contentedly endured for
five minutes when awake
Indeed, not only will there be no
sense of pain or discomfort, but rath
er one of positive refreshment. It is
said--among the myriad theories of
this condition is
“the assertion of the
tative consciousness”
that if the higher
result of
re-
he
to relieve
ie
moving
piration
you exg
and, further,
intellectual con
sleep would cease altogether.
The length of time a man can pre-
serve his mental faculties without
sleep varies with the individual con-
stitution; but the inevitable result is
delirium before many days. The
Chinese punish certain flagrant crim.
inals by a system of diabolical teas.
ing 80 as to prevent sleep altogether;
and this is regarded with the utmost
horror even by the most hardened
criminals,
When Napoleon attempted the con-
quest of Hayti, Toussaint L'Ouver.
ture, who had become commander-in-
chief of the negro troops, could not
venture on a pitched battle with the
Napoleonic veterans, but had re-
course to a less risky, yet more ef-
fective method. No sooner had the
French troops fallen asleep at night
than Toussaint made a feint of at
tacking them, thus rousing them all
under arms and In a state of great
excitement, These tactics were re
peated so frequently that even the
greatest of the Napoleonic warriors
were utterly worn out, and in time an
army of 30,000 was reduced to a bare
5,000 effectives, without having fought
a single battle,
It is noteworthy In this connection
that the world's greatest intellects
have done with very little sleep. Bis.
marek, Gladstone and Zola rarely ex.
ceeded six hours; Napoleon himself,
with Goethe, Schiller, Balzac and Hum.
boldt, took but a bare four; while
Tord Bacon, Jeremy Taylor and Bax.
than three hours’ sleep, Thomas A
Edison and the late Pope leo XIIL
also kept within this very low limit,
If only we could do without sleep
altogether our lives would be one
third as long again as they are. But
experiments tried upon patients with
a view to testing the physiology of
insomnia bave shown that death
would surely result in less than a
week if sleep were entirely prevent
ed. Meanwhile, although the most
familiar of all phenomena,
all appertaining to |
dreams-—remain a profound
even to the most advanced science
today.~—~New York Press,
THE OLD BRASS GUNS,
Light Battery.
On the right, as we pursued our
way,
| ward
| drill,
| with
| side;
holds
lay the deep, green plain, after
trod 80 many times, now
now at parade, and now at will
some dear fellow cadet at
ite every blade we may believe
in sweetest recollection the
it in the glow of their
{ youth, On the left was the
and artillery plain; and 1 have
| doubt the old brass guns of the light
{ battery parked upon {it exchanged
{smiles as they saw us pass,
green boye headed toward the
itant’'s office. And yet, for all
{ mirth, we came to know you well! We
| drilied beside you for three years, we
{ hearts trod
| by Capt. Charles Griffin, our instruc
itor in light artillery, that
| morning of 1861 with the moon just
{ settling down behind the dark brow
{of Crow Nest
of your rumbling,
Onee more 1 saw you—when you
| were wheeling into “action front”
| near Grant's headquarters in the bat
| tie of the Wilderness
| One or two incidents of that morn
{ing of the great battle 1 must
a place for here I carrying
| despatch from Gen Warren to Gen
Wadsworth The latter was killed
tand his lines driven through
| woods before I could reach him,
while on this ride I saw a sol
i sitting at the root of a tree near the
chuckling wheels
Was
| and had
ed some
{ loosely
{ while his
the left
dogtooth violets He pluck:
of them and they
now In his white,
head had fallen limply
as he rested against the tree,
Was his last dream of home,
| violets blooming along the
| followed as a boy?
| It was when 1 was returning
ithis ride, and had nearly
Grant's headquarters,
| came rushing by. They were regulars,
from
‘and 1
{was till as the trail of one the
| ploces fell, the sergeant turned; his
{eye brightened and then, much to my
surprise, he smiled at me; and behold!
iIt was the West Point Battery!
I recognized thes gergeant as the
the West
day! My
warmly ot?
i sincerely than at that moment as my
{ glance met his, and if 1 could
| done so, I'd gladly have grasped his
hand Yes, we and the guns
of
old
and
| leader of those little devils,
| Point drummer boys of my
| heart never spoke more
another right well after that
day when we first met on our way to
‘the adjutant’'s office —Morris
{in the Atlantic Monthly
SALMON FAMILY IN ALASKA,
ident of the Territory.
“There is nothing more curious con
{nected with the finny tribe than tr |
{ily in Alaska” sald Frank Watses of
i that territory.
“The most singular thing of all ir |
| that after the females deposit thelr
{spawn their earthly career termin
ates, and 1 have seen the bottoms of
creeks covered with their dead bod
fas. They give birth to thousands of |
their kind and immediately die. .The |
young ones are then taken care of |
by the male salmon, and it Is a well |
known fact that in three years from |
their birth the offspring reappear os |
the very ground of their origin. There
are four varieties of this superd fish |
which make their appearance in regu
iar order of succession.
“In the spring the first to arrive It
the magnificent king salmon, which
weighs all the way from 15 to ot |
pounds. I have myself caught ome |
weighing 52 pounds. About June ]}
comes the sockey or red sXimgn !
which visits our shores in enormout |
numbers, and which is the common
canning variety, A little later appearv
the log salmon, which only the In
dians will eat, and finally, in Augus!
and September, the beautiful silver
salmon arrives, the prettiest fish iv
all the world and one of the most
palatable.
“When the salmon enter the fresk
water, by a curious trick of nature
their skin becomes red, but this pink
hue does not affect the whiteness of
thelr flesh. It is seldom that saimop
will journey up a glacier stream, but
the streams that have lakes at their
heads literally swarm with them.’
The Mikado and the Crown Prince
of Japan are each having an album
made of photographs of all the mil
{tary and naval officers killed in the
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had crossed the mountains
West. Thelr description
beautiful, fertile, and abounding
stirred his ambitious and ad-
of
of
& new domain, and if possible to pre-
carried, and the game that he shot,
western slope
Mountains,
light. Game was plentiful,
slopes The few
met received
rough, untrammeled
and their kindness
lobertson with
among them,
Selecting a domain he planted a
with his fellow adventurers and im-
force of his character,
started on his solitary trip East to
tion, and encountered the first of that
harrowing series of adventures of
which his subsequent career was to be
80 full. In the passes of the moun-
tains he became confused and finally
lost.
Among the rocky summits he wan-
dered for days without gaining any
clue as to his whereabouts, His horse
became lean and weak, and he was
for ed to abandon it. Mountain mists
frequent rains spoiled his pow-
is and he was compelled to live
upon berries and nuts. Wolves and
bears and the mountain cougar added
their terror. He became at last so
ill and famished that he could scarce-
ly gather wood for a fire or strike a
spark with his flint. A less cour
ageous and determined man would
have lain down to die, but Robertson
crawled and staggered on. At length,
after unspeakable hardships, chance
led him Into the path of two hunters
who alded him to reach friends —
From “General James Robertson, the
Father of Tennessee,” by Lynn Tew
Sprague, in The Outing Magazine,
SUCCESS WANTED.
“That fellow makes a success of
everything he goes into,” sald the
man at the door.
“Well, get him to go into our show
some night,” replied the weary-look-
ing theatrical manager.—Yonkers
Statesman
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