. The Mark of the Cross.
No longer does the world send forth
its call
For men to strive and suffer all
alone,
fall,
Beneath the
on stone;
No’ longer—but the
side,
Who greets you
gmile all fair,
Would cause you to
eyed,
Did you but
shoulders
bitter blows of stone
every day with
look at him open
know what marks his
bear!
And they who
in mills and
Who swing the sledge,
above ‘the books,
Or in the world's great task do thelr
one part
In unfrequented,
nooks;
Who In high places rule
who serve,
And often
ed to dross,
Who pay the toil of strength and soul
and nerve
Upon their shoulder
Cross,
mart,
or bend
hidden, dusty
and they
see
s is the chafing
And we need but
the years
thoge
in our dreams,
we find the one
our tears
To smileg that glowed in laughter's |
brightest gleams,
the mother—patient,
fond —
To old days now shadowed
Until who
And
ape
hope-
ful,
night,
And looked to the tomorrows
beyond —
Yet
she
ever light,
And each ahd all,
yes,
Through
time,
We bear our cross in pleasure
tress,
Though on the way we fall
we climb.
No longer have
but then
It boots not if
loss;
There is no one
Whose shoulders show
of the
~—Walter B
all the
end
er as
we martyrs? Nay,
we garner gain or
of all the sons of men
no markings
cross
Nesbitt in Republic.
A PAIR
The incident occurred in the
office of the Palais de Justice
all sorts of things are deposited,
en articles, corpus delicti,
tending to prove criminality Last
April a young lawyer, lorgnon
raised to his eyes, was amusing, him-
self by examining this judicial brie
a-brac, He went from brasg watches
to revolvers, silver snuff boxes to bur.
glars’ tools, plunging like the youth
in the old tale,
sophical reflec
Suddenly he
clerk's
where
ob mid
stoi
and objects
with
tions
noticed in a sort of vel
vet case, two gingular objects, round,
flat, very peculiar in form,
in color.
ber or parchment,
“What are those?” he asked, turn-
ing to a young clerk who was acting
as guide,
“Why,
ears?”
“Ears of what?”
“Ears of a man.”
“Cut off?”
“Certainly, cut off.”
“With what? A sabre?
razor?”
“A Catalonian poinard.”
Then, drawing a steel blade from a
feather sheath, he added:
“Here ig the instrument by which
the aforesald ears were amputated.”
The words evidently referred
some drama. Curious, like men of his
age, the young lawyer stopped and
guestioned his guide:
don't you see that they are
A knife? A
sir, pray tell me about it!”
“Very well! It isn't a long story.”
“S80 much the worse!”
“Don’t Interrupt me. About three
months ago, just at the close of win
elegant villa near Sceaux, occupied by
Comte de 8., with his young wife, an
extremely pretty woman, with whom
he was desperately in love. You havo
divined that he wag an Othello under
the mask of a man of fashion?”
“No, 1 knaw nothing about him.”
“A Bengal tiger could be no worse,
One evening, late in January, he re
turned from Paris by the rallway, his
feet half benumbed by the cold, and
hig eyes smarting from the glare of
the snow, and dashed into the villa
without ringing or knocking,
thurricane, going straight to his wife's
room. Do you know what he saw
there?
“Aha! Here's the key of the drama,
What did he see?”
“A very good looking young man
who seemed to be pressing the coun-
tess's hand.”
“The deuce!"
“Not doubting that it was some ad-
mirer, he rushed to the weapons deco
rating the wall, snatched this dagger
and, In less time than it requires to
*
.
tell it, cut off the stranger's ears,
“Both of them!"
“Those are the articles you see 80
carefully preserved in that case. Jus-
tice keeps them as evidence of crim-
“But the young wife?”
“Wait! The fair countess exclalm-
ed, ‘My dear, you are mistaken! My
dear, monsieur is a stranger! My dear
you have cut off one ear; spare the
other, I beseech you!’ But you know
tigers are always still more
infuriated by the sight of
blood. Besides, the more his
young wife tried to soothe him the
more he imagined that she was in
league with the visitor.
till both ears were
“Well, what was the
hacked off.”
fellow doing
“I'll tell youn. Did you ever read. a
story by Balzac called ‘Message'?? A
young man is accused by a friend of
carrving a letter to a young married
Except for the existence of
the
The stranger who called at
which by chance he
You know the
“A minister!” ot
“Yes, but the young man, as you
may suppose, will not let the matter
As Comte de 8. cannot give
back his ears he intends to make him
damages. Complaint has been
with a demand for valuation
| to serve as a basis for estimating the
damages, which will not be less than
| two eS thousand francs.”
“What are you saying?
and francs aplece.
dear!”
“Would you
Come,
give yours for
but that Isn't
wandering from
Permit me to return to
was the message
one boarding school friend to the oth-
er! It must be known.
fail to revel it"
“The examipation did reveal HN,
the message
read The young beauty in Paris
wrote to her schoolmate in Sceaux: 'l
have just consulted Dr. Z., whom all
the young women in Paris are ques
tioning their complexions. |
“No, of course not;
drama.
about
to have a fresh complex.
throughout the year,
during the month of May,
with dandelion juice
if you want
fon
face dally,
every morning,
Alice Z'"
“What! Has fon julce been
the cause of a jealous husband's
ting off an innocent man's ears
n the Palals de Justice
the absurd lawsuit?”
monsieur
nch in Green Bag
ABOUT RUGS.
dandel
cut-
you see
Some Practical
Way From Calcutta.
The United States buys each year
many thousand dollars’ worth of what
are known to the profession as
“washed rugs.” Brightly colored Ori
ental rugs are sometimeg washed with
a solution of chloride of lime, which
treatment partially ‘bleaches the- col
ors and imparts a soft appearance to
the rug. This chemical treatment is
a process of "washing™ which pro
out by the unscrupulous seller
the procesg of washing as described
invariably weakens, and in some cases
destroys, the materials of the rug.
The progressive effect of the chemi
follows: The chlorine gas contained
in the chloride of lime attracts oxy-
gen and moisture from the air, by
which
rug become brittle and thus weaken
the warp and deteriorate the wool
When this deterioration is complete
the pile of the rug may be gwept away
by the ordinary process of sweeping,
and the warp, which js the founda.
tion of the rug, becomes so weak that
disastrous treatment of rugs can be
antique effect what hé desires. The
effect shall be obtained by scientific.
the colors in the
By this method the perfect an-
tique effect can be produced and at
the same time a thoroughly desirable
rug be had-—one that will equal tho
possess all the strength and vitality
that a rug can have.
it not infrequently happens that a
Persian rug is to staring-—for in-
stance, in red--and is not salable. The
unserupulous dealer will sabject the
rug to a series of washings in chemi
cally prepared water, and in this way
turn out a rug possessing a soft and
antique sheen that is truly captivat.
ing and finds a ready purchaser at an
advanced price.
The existence of the Oriental rug
manufacture depends on the American
market. At one time London was the
rug market of the world. At the
present time comparatively few rugs
find an actual market In London
More fine rugs are taken by Germans,
who, by the way, manufacture the
tufted rag, which, when well made, Is
a beautiful and serviceable floor cov.
ering.
The United States has become the
largest rug market of the world. This
fact should make Americans eaPnest
students of rugs in order that they
may be prepared to detect frauds and
to got the worth of the money invest
ed In beautifying and making com.
fortable their homes, so far as rug
contribute to that result—Consul
General Wm. H. Michael.
Costs sb — ——————
LESS WHISKEY DRUNK
Decrease of $15,767,038
Revenue.
IN 1907.
in Internal
From the preliminary report of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
apparent that the consunyp
tion of whiskey and other ardent
spirits Is on the decrease and that
the consumption of beer is
During the fiscal year
ended on June 30, last,
was paid to the Government as rev
enue on whiskey
liquors, For the year previous $147,
550,281 was paid, a loss in
of $15,767,038. ‘There was
which
distilled
last 119,808,402
spirits, a
gallons of
decrease over the
ous year of 14,333,672 gallons.
During the past year 058,747,680
barrels of beer, ale, &c., were
of 201,569 over the
ing year. On this beer, ale,
the Government received
the sum of $58,747,680, a
$201,569,
‘he receipts from all
previ
preced
gain of
gources of
gated $2561.665.950, being a decrease
of $17,998,072 from the receipts for
the fiscal year which ended June 30,
1907.
Tobacco of all sorts yielded a revenue
of $48.862,754, a loss of §1,948.315,
1507,
cigars
being $51,811,069. This
contributed a total sum
little cigars, $545,050,
$4,870,346, and tobac
of other kinds, including chew
and smoking, $21.846,563.
Oleomargarine paid revenue to thu
the
79.107
previous year
402 pounds
over
resents
ed,
Renovated bulter was a close sec
to oleomargarine, 50,240,708
being manufacture, upon
revenue was pald.
Filled cheese pald $1,271; mixed
$2380. Playing cards Were
$540810 a loss of $112.
804 for the preceding year
Collectors of internal
with the
district
$5,952,
a”
fol
tion: , (First
Collec tor Jordan,
Anderson, $3.
Eldman. $8,
Collector
62: third Collector
483,604: fourteent h, Ward,
$4.514.680; wantyfourth, Collector
| Garlick $1.62 twenf y-eighth,
Sanders, $2,205.927
llinols, New York and Kenlucky
respectively are the largest contribu
tors internal revenue illinois
past year contributed $46,
New York $3035865987. Ken
Indiana is a
to Kentucky with $26;
Thirty-eight States and two
Territories contributed to the total,
New Mexico having pald $105.200 and
Hawall $56,878,
FOSSIL CAMEL BONES,
Wild Horse Remains Also Unearthed
on Chesapeake Bay.
The discovery of the fossil remains
number of animals never before
have existed In the east
the result of the work
Collector
Fo BAYS
of
132.644,
of a
Supposed to
ern States is
liam Palmer, of the Smithsonian In
stitution,
“While we have not,
ag yet, com
additions to our knowledge of
historic animals of the United States”
sald Mr. Palmer. “We found
remaing of a
specimen has, to my knowledge, here
tofore been found In America, al
though it belongs to a group well
“Same of the bones found may be
long to a species of wild horse once
the modern #8bra. Other bones have
historic camel. Remains
horses or camels have never been
found In this region, though several
North America”~Washington (D. C)
correspondence of the New York
World.
PLENTY OF PERGOLAS.
Every Happy Home Must Have One,
Even If It Is Made of Gas Pipes.
There is a rage for pergolas, per
golas comStructed of anything from
gas pipes to chestnut rails, from crim:
scn ramblers to French beans,
Only this morning, says a writer
in the Gentlewoman, 1 heard of one
or two simple expedients for achlev.
ing a pergola,
veranda posts, If you have them, plac
wooden brackets and across them '
string two or three heavy wires from
which hang clusters of vines,
Grapevines are beautiful to behold, ’
put the common hop ls Deautiful too
and bears the roughest treatment,
grows insolently, flinging ts pungent
green tassels all around. Hops grow
good climbers are adlumis, swoet
peas, nasturtiums, the Japanese ake
bia and all varieties of clematis.
.
Governor Magoon has been
honorary president of the firemen of
Havana, Cuba, i
ee
Ta aT oe
»
EN
Household Notes
ms os
0st WAVAV VEY, '
NANT he rae henge
USES FOR THE HOT WATER BAG.
To keep baby's bottle warm at
right or when travelling, make a flan
ael bag to cover the hot water
with a pocket the size of the nursing
yottle, Place filled bottle in the
your hot water
milk will be keg
when baby wants it,
Cut the top off a discarded hot wa-
ard it will hold
tooth brushes and toilet articles
injuring the
articles in your sult case.
As a lining for table
bags for tooth brushes,
valuable.
Place
bag
poke.
bag. The
use
the sponge,
when
other
mats small
ete, it is In-
under your bread pan to help
rise in cold weather.—Bos
TO SEW HOQKS ON DRESSES
used
reels
peets,
on hooks, whether
with eyes or
hooks, all
sewing on; it not only n
strain come on different
but it prevents
ward and
collars, plackets
In sewing
in connection
the sizes
them from
howing at
edges of and such
Vien sewing th a boned lin
ing the bone
the front curves an
after they
em on
can be slipped bet
io ¥
i 3 ra Ys
1 back of the BOOK
bave all been sewn
very taut, thus saving
labor of fast«
usual way it
her end
otherwise it will
"eo Ae
IHLE the
must, of course, be fas
is
after it is insert
off
the
ed, entirely
during
dress. —Bost
come
the process of hooking
un Post,
AN AWKWARD SKIRT.
Draw tapes are being introduced |
to ultra-f skirts to
skirt close al figure
knees,
In such a
4
studied bef
. . : Mi
ashionable draw 10
yout the below 1he
skirt the gait has to b¢
a mirror until no care
of being take:
tripped by het
ire
¥
Rg 510] in dang:
or the wearer mas
hackles at a ucial moment
forget and
gown in B
would be apt
Yet th
gkiris say
graceful in the oxi
lieve it?—New York
GARDEN
a 1 I Ie
gmbel
A NOVEL WINDOW
When bulidMmg
of large window sashes were |
our | ise Aa
eft ovey
free
jater pre utilized for the pur
roan
which
pose of constructing a smail
the
it by
seven ‘by sitll
room and yectin th
ing doors wore
and »
slid
put Ir
wont tl
3 : % ssp im
-~and { the house ling
prog Cle
feet
shelves in It at stances p
mmodate While
there were many growing out
side, only a few, the best, were pm
into this rose room. “These were Bon
: Queen’s Scarlet, Enchan
and similar varieties. To make
of being successful, a florist was eall
ed in to look at the
he brought
nires:
Silene,
sur
occasionally
or to replace any which were
the best of condition
in were fresh and about
buds and
something very del lightfa'
and not common in window gardens,
The florist suggested mapy helpful
ideas, among which was that several
large ferns and palm be added to oc
cupy the space beneath the lower row
of shelves. This mass of green so
off the bright roses in a most beautl
ful way, and, besides, we had quite 2
refreshing little fernery.—
Suburban Life.
RECEIPES.
Caramels. One ping
one gil milk, one-hal'
Chocolate
brown sugar,
ened chocolate, one "generous tea
spoonful butter, one tablespoonful ex
tract of vanilla. Toil all except the
vanilla over a slow fire yptil the in
gredients are dissolved, and stir occa
sionally afterward, as it is liable
burn. Test ® by dropping a littie ir
cold water, and if it hardens quickly
remove at once from the fire, add the
flavoring extract and pour into but
tered tins. When cool, mark the cara
mels in squares with a buttered knife
Lettuce Salad, Tremont Style—
Wash and dry the fine leituce leaves
as usual. Make a dressing of shy
tablespoonfuls of oll, three of lemor
juice, the usual amount of salt and
{ of white pepper, Add a heading table
all well together, and polir over the
The lemon. juice is recommended for
this dressing instead of vinegar be
or balances it better, rather, than the
vinegar would.’ At discretion a bit of
also a hint of red pepper may appear
in It. —
Household goods snipped to Cuba
§opmamnied by a
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HAS ROARING WELL.
As Tide Changes, Strong Gale
Enters or Leaves the Bore--
Noise Heard a Great Distance.
Out on a ranch of Charles Christo-
sherson, ten miles southeast of Ta-
oma, there Is a “breathing” well that
he people for miles around consider
me of the most phenomenal freaks
if nature they have ever seen, says
« dispateh to the Seattle Post-Intelll-
fencer
Year in and year out for the four
een years since the well was dug a
trong gale of either going
nto or coming The
urrent and
iometimes {it
wine
3
1d
out of the well
of alr is always strong,
amounts
power of which, if the
sappens to be going into the well,
will carry newspapers or other light
whjects into it.
If the air is flowing out when the
well is on one of these rampages, the
»ind will blow one's hat off, and the
roar of it can be heard for some
iistance,
ction
saper man visited it,
sherson said #t would change and the
Jie tide turned.
se. "For the four years | have lived
sere this well has
turn of the tides with a precision and
jeavenly bodies.
m at Tacoma,
the crow flies, from his well,
pegins to come out of the well. Af
first, as the tide slowly turns, the
sutgoing rush of air is scarcely per
septible. As the tide strengthens and
begins to roll in swift and powerful
the aly
the tide does. When the tide climbs
the air current from m}
well dies down, and at the turn of the
tide there is no perceptible motior
»f atmosphere at the mouth of the
well. I have taken the tide tables
28 they are published in the news
papers and verified the actions of the
alr currents into and out of the well.’
When there is a heavy tide the aly
surrent coming from or going into the
well is at once changed into a bolster
ous gale.
quently when there Is a storm o
wind that increases the height of the
tide. ‘For instance, the first of las
week, when there was a heavy wind
from the southwest that was driving
high waters into the inlets and bay
surrounding Tacoma, the wind com
‘ng from the well produced such #
gale that surface water which poun
into the well was blown out, giving
the appearance of fine spray of ar
tesian water, The noise of the ah
was such that it could be heard for
tome distance.
i A
Nebraska Sod House,
There are few surviving examples
of the primitive stylé of architecture
snece in fashion on the plains, With.
in a radius of many miles of Central
is inhabited can be found. It is the
residence of Osear Nelson and is sit.
gated south of Polk in Hamiltor
Jounty. For thirty years it has shel.
tered Mr. Nelson and his wife, and
within its walls | children were
born and raised.
ome very severe storms and proved
so stanchly built that surprisingly
few repairs have Ne
braska soll has proved reliable ir
many ways, but fow
san be cited of Its stant
for thirty years when forming the
walls of a Sod hom. Otuge ‘World.
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