-
Metempsychosig of the
(Edmund Vance Cooke, in.
"iy Magazine.”)
Fi 1k LiISRAEL.
In the dim and long ago
Bravely ditst thou face ‘thd 16
Ere thou wert a king.
Now thou battlest with a thre
Then thou hadst a sling.
‘Gainst the Giants of today
Many a David tryeth:
Few the slinger; who can slay
And thou slew Goliath,
Access
II. ROME,
Later, cn the hlooty sands,
With a short sword in thy hands,
As a gladiator,
Fough thou beasts from foreign lands.
For the cruel spectator.
Still the Tigers fiercely play:
Art thou still their foeman?
Canst thou humble them today
As before the Noman?
IIT. MIDDLE AGES.
Once again with lance in rest,
Jointed armor on thy breast,
Riding on a charger,
Lady's glove upon thy crest,
(Now thou wearest a larger!)
Ancient armor falls to rust:
Lanoces lose their luster:
And thy game, the savage jous
Hath become a juster.
“a
RARPRGRSTERP HOTS RGAOR |
THE OLD MAN'S
DREAM.
:
By Douglass H. Mors:
RAPALA RPRL FDRG RS FSA
Mea
x
i RPNGRINSRG ND
He knew that he was drowsing in
his chair and that the light was burn
ing low He t that he would
arouse himself, p
had quite-
some one
door? He
sounded
to drag if
sclousness and to listen. He fancied
that he nearly succeeded;
he felt that he was almost poised and
then, in a twinkling he had lost his
balance and he was slipping-—slipping.
He had a vague sense of trying to
catch himself, of clutching at threads
that snapped before him. Then
fore he was quite over the border he
heard, rather sensed, once more
a rapping—very faint very
and the realnes of it caught and held
him there irresistibly. His
tingled in response, but it seemed an
age before he could speak Then,
naturally enough, he cried, “Come
in!” But his sounded
and distant like some
voice, and he found himself
fng dimly whether really
spoken—whether—he—r: ally
Presently it occurred btm that
the door had opened. His voice then
-0f course. The cloud lifted im-
mediately; it was astonishing how
clear everything became one
was ooming in a
strange, battered stepped
forward,
hought
resently, bef
was Lh:
then,
be
He
¥
WO
what
just
not
far away
1 back
knock
could
himse full
had very
or
but
voice
else's
wonder
had
cone
he
to
Some
aware of
that
rtainly. screening 1
lighted miner's candle with one hand.
Somehow or other even the
figure he knew was
Dickie.
“Dad, ‘m 80 ob
once more-"
ously.
Yes, it was Dickie—of that
he was certain But it was
ly impossible for Dickie to be thers.
and he was equally certain of that:
for his son had gone away, very far
away, and he would er back
~at any rate never like that. in those
outlandish clothes. Spruce, fastidi
ous Dickie! It was 85 Inconsistent —
80 utteriy absurd that he perceived
at once that he was dreaming. and
began to admire the logical soundness
of his own inference. To know that
he was dreaming and yet to dream
on! He could scarcely restrain a
self-satisfied smile as he J aned back
easily in his chalr.
“I have come back. once
against your orders”
unce
before
spoke, that It
ther
1 - tas >
figure laughed
you
nerve
much
pe rfoect.
nev come
more,
Dick was say.
1 have no right, T know, after—*" he
paused and clapped his hand to the
back of his head in that old, awk
ward way.
“After my folly, and your injus-
tice. 1 swore, then, it should be the
last time—but 1 was mad when |
swore. And so 1 went off to the
mines."
His voice broke huskily, and his
face wag so very white,
which he dropped from his head was
Oh—he wished Dik world not
look ; so solemn. ; =~
‘Tomorrow lis’ Sunday. They will
not miss me till the next morning,
The rocks afe all abdot! fee+¥imm
hemmed in—walled
is growing—so—closa”
There was a [fearfulnes about
Dickie's voice that made him trem-
ble. He moistened his lps and tried
to speak, but the words rattled
parchment in his throat.
“Now,” sald Dickie, very softly, “I
have come to say good-bye, and'—
with his face a little whiter—*to tell
you that I am-—sorry.” He paused
walted wearily.
“My head aches”—the form was
growing indistinet—*I am’ very tired,”
to a whisper.
softly,
was fad-
dwindled
still sputtered
that held it
of his volce
The candle
but the form
ing away.
Then, at last, fear wrenched
naked soul. and the
agony wrested loose his tongue.
“Dickie,” he whimpered,
and sprang towards those eyes with
quivering arms—bhut they were gone
in a mist,
“Stay!” he panted,
wraith behind the light, while anguish
upon his brow-—-“Stay!”
The flame leaped up from the gut-
tered candle and tpuched
one burning instant upon the
wrist, and then candle and flame van-
alike, was
standing with outstretched
forlorn in the
He moaned and sank b
for breath.
And with
seated his chair and
burning low had
after all. Now, of course. he
bered: yet, stared
vacant room, a
ror seized him
ished and there only
arms,
shadows.
wt
sl.en
ack,
tense
that he awoke He
the lght
was
was
forgotten,
in
So~he
as he
the sudden ter
that his
he had
precisely
whe dream
had nipped him He tried
off, but the {lence
into his threat and
In a
and
glare,
And
quite clearly,
Argonaut
about
fancied
that
and
ro
the wrist
in his dream
amal] spot the
tayo £ wry gut
laugh it seemed
to get
him.
1d
Hoh
ight,
'
strangio
the
into
panic turned
up
thrust hand full
the
there he
on
the livid
ia vid
saw,
~The
. i
marx
THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN.
Recent Computations Add to the Sta
ture of Mount Everest.
It has been proved by the Geologl-
cal Survey of India that Mount Ev-
erest is higher than 29.002 feet,
result of the computations of
1849 and
century have
ing Everest
mit. The mountain is
feet higher than those
made it. Before mentioning
has been ascertained it may 1
a query that has doubt-
in many minds and was
to an English
still
been accepted as mak-
the highest
at least 139
computations
how this
Lid well
fo answer
less arisen
recently referred
writer who sald it
give the height of
20002 feet because
the height of
to errors of different
give the elevation at
feet implies a degree
the value the height
mountain that has
tained. He thought it
to say that Mo
about 28,000 feet high.
The fact
feet was not
station of obs
by
Mount Everest as,
the determina
peaks is liable
Kinds, and to
exactly 29.002
accuracy
assigned
not
would
Everest
tion of
of
of to
the
be
ter unt is
is that the value of 29.002
from
ervation Six
metrical values of the height were de-
and 1850 from six
south of the moun-
¢ix values
29,002 Owing to the objec
of the Nepalese Government,
Everest cannot be approached
from the side of India
eighty miles from
obtained any
duced In 1849
stations far
The
to the
tain mean of thege
feet
tions
Mount
by surveyors
nearer than
mountain, and
mentioned were therefore carried out
under great difficulties.
But at last it has been shown
clusively that Mount Everest,
higher than the well known value
given to it Between 1881 an! 190%
a series of six additional observa.
tiong from five different stations
but one of these
con-
All
than those from which the six de.
terminations of height were made In
1849, and 1850, and the north as
well as the south side of Everest haa
The Geological Survey of India has
also was matted with black grume,
For the first time he noticed that
there was 4n ugly gash behind
Dickie’s ear. This frightened him
until he remembered that !t was all
a dream. He rescived that he would
not forget that asd become confused
again.
80 terribly serious? Perhaps he did
not know it was a dream. On the
whole, the situation was rather amus-
ing, and he was half-minded to laugh,
but then—he might awaken, and he
wanted to see the end.
Dickie, who had started again,
stopped short and winced just a 1t-
tle at that flicker of a smile. Then
he frowned at his candle and con
tinued:
“Tonight 1 was working f'n an old
shaft. The timbers must have been
rotten. All I remember is the crash.”
The other was listening now. Tha
notion to laugh had suddenly left him,
“When 1 came to, everything was
dark. 1 lit this candle. It is all I
have-—whben it goes out I will
wow
able errors due to refraction and has
found that all these later values of
the height of the mountain are from
132 to 149 feet higher than the long
accepted 29002 feet. The mean of
these six values is 29,141 feet. The
Survey in the report It has just is.
sued says that the height, 20.141 fa
i
to be corrected for the effects of de
But though It is
a more trustworthy result than 29.
002 feet, the latter value will be re.
tained for the present in maps and
publications of the Survey. There are
other problems of refraction to be
solved and other uncertainties to be
eliminated and it would be a mis
taken policy to Introduce new values
at every step of the Investigation
which is yet to be made. No change
of the figures will be made in the
publications of the Survey until thor.
oughly satisfactory sclentific compu
tations make it possible to give a de-
termination of the height of the moun-
tain that may be accepted as final.
The report adds that there is lit
tle probability now of discovering a
higher peak than Mount Everest. |
peaks higher than thi ‘mountain were
standing behind, & te! fhe Morth,. but
whon' Major Ryder 'iérogséd Tibet
along the Brahmaputra in 1904
Everest and found pe peak approach
fing it in helght. Por more (han
half a century since the discovery
of this summit the mountains <f Asia
been continually explored but
no second peak of 20,000 feet haa
been found.
USE CABS.
MORE WOMEN
Cheaper Cab Fares One Cause, Dearer
Frocks Another,
Probably more women in New York
use cabs now than ever before, this
being due in measure to the
present day cheaper cab fares. but
still more perhaps to the now greater
than ever of women's ap-
scme
costliness
out In a shower to pay 00 cents or
take the chance of damaging an ex-
pensive garment,
Naturally the
might be mentioned
is quite
readiness
he }
cabman, who it
is not dull abou
to this in.
women to hire
and is far from slow in
advantage of it Unlike the
the cabman in rainy
and his be harvests
those showers
alert
of
cabs,
taking
reaps
weather: st
gathers in heavy that
come up unexpectedly on clear days
promise when they once get
started
In
ever
' smd
gettied rain
in a
tances
tO continue
these from where.
cireun
he iz if idle ti} cabman starts
the ladies
to find
Here, for
ver wh
for
where
store o
y
BiB
great
curb; a
a
the
No
it, and this
who had come ont
find ti
from Lhe store
hard
There
haps, in al
waiting for thi ho to cl
or other f }
relief in
ready bem
Acrcsas
with man
2
to
shower,
are
garments,
SAr un
r
for Othe
the street
¥y cabs about
from
i be wanted by the hotel
| directi
‘ come, |
dere, for they
From other
fo
upes
ns other carriages begin
rivate broughams and ot
their owners and public cabs,
hansoms and taxicabs in
numbers, thelr drivers hiking straight
for the big zlass awning from under
which, as they know by
it will be a cinch to snap up a fare.
Up sweeps a taxi or hansom, com.
‘ing with a rush through the rain.
| and up as he Halts goes the cab
man's finger about one second
| which is quite enough, and out from
| the throng comes a woman who stens
into carriage maa
loor anl
everything on
for
these last
experiences
for
the cab, and the
jon the sidewalk slams the
| away sails the
{ the jump
8o
ing down
they've captured
about
cab,
the cabs come BWOCD
both
and
three-quarters of
the cabman.
down a little
the cabs come 1
and go,
directions till
carried off
the women
Bat
from
Cood business for
things calm
when
i then
presently
gether,
tomer. -
Te
+5
they fght for a single
New York Sun
WHEN THE WHALE'S EAR ACH 3
| - .
Leaps Out of the Water Due to the
Torture by a Parasite,
was a story told by a
retired from sea
of the deep sea game
off that there was no
any profit in a captain's lay even
with the added earnings from the
{ slop chest. But :« it has been con
i firmed by the zcologists of the Fish
| Commission the truth of the story is
unassailable
When whales were still fre
{ quent along the lanes of passenger
| travel a‘ross the western ocean noth
| ing was more common than to see
the great beasts hurling their tons
lof bulk clean out of the waves and
{after a flight through the air fail
{ing back into the sea with an enor
{ mous splash and jets of foam. a
| spectacle never falling of interest
{ to the ocean tourist but not due to
| any gleesome sporlive disposition on
| the part of the leviathan of the deep.
| Quite the contrary, the breaching
{ of the whale Is no fun for the beast
it is a frantic effort to rid himsel?
of the torment of earache. There ig
a marine crustacean whose aim in a
maritime career is to pester whales
to the verge of endurance, and there
fcems reason to believe that some
whales have been driven Insane by
their tiny parasites. It 1s a crab of
about the size of that which is found
In the oyster. When it lodges on
the whale it Infests the Inner sur
face of the eyelids and the ear. Dy
swift rushes on the surface the whale
Is able to clear his eyes, but the
crab in the Inner ear cannot be dis
lodged by any such means. One ean
only imagine the ninety foot anguish
of a whale when one or more nf
these tiny foes walk with needle
pointed claws up and down the drum
of his ear. Hence ‘in the effort to
dislcdge the pest the performance
which seems so picturesque to the
voyager New York Sun.
whaiar
when the
had as
longer
It
who
catch
allen
the
the
In China the natives preserve veg
etables by coating them with salt and
drying them in the sun. Hams are
cured by means ¢f an alkaline earth
and common salt. Plekled eggs are
preserved with a compound of com.
mon mud, salt, galtpeter and soy bean
NiAran rire PLSD),
WATERCRESS SANDWICHES.
The leaves should be picked from
the stem, finely chopped and tossed
in a French dressing. Remove the
crust from thelr slices of sandwich
bread and cut in oblongs. Fold the
cress mixture, sprinkied with finely
chopped hard boiled eggs between
two of the bread slices.—Washington
Star,
LEFTOVER BAKED POTATOES.
Baked potatoes that have been lef:
good for future use. If mashed while
still warm, a little milk, butter and
galt added, and the mixture beaten to
gether till light, and then placed In
ed for another meal, New
are excellent cut into thin slices and
fried in butter until a delicate brown.
Fat is too heavy for new potatoes and
seems to destroy thelr flavor.—Wash-
ington Star,
QUINCES WITH SWEET APPLES,
Sweet often preserved
with quinces, allowing
quartered apples to two-th
The
cooking
apples are
one-third of
rds quince,
ong
do not aqui
and must
apples re as
as the quinces be
rem from
Ire kettle
teen minutes before the quinces. Put
ved the
ternate
pour the boil
winceg and apples in al
tha n
Like q
and
as with au
Gus
layers In the eans,
ing syrup over neces alone,
gion Star.
NT SAUCE NOVELTY.
» > tried A
chocolate
mint
well wor
you. Leave
leaves in
hour; then heat
sive a cupful of su
let it come to
aint green and cook
iropped In coldwater will
an
until ;
form en rolled betwe
a 8
the fingers
ing of cream, and It will
Pour hot over each sery-
quickly can-
impart.
Ringilon
3
Compound
Was
dy upon the cold
ing a
Star
delicious flavor
COFFEE FROMAGE
Pour one cup of scalding hot milk
into one-half a cup of ground coffees
let it stand ten minutes: strain this
through a clean, wet cloth; have one
tablespoonful of gelatin soaking In
one-half cup of cold water: add this
to the coffee mixture with five table
spoonfuls of sugar; put in the doubls
when scalding hot pour some
of this over two egg yolks: return all
to the doubles boller and bring only
to a boil; remove from the fire, pour
into a bowl when cold and beginning
to thicken; add one cup of cream
whipped to a stiff froth: turn into a
mold, packing it well to exclude the
air; let stand In a cool place two
hours; s« on a platter.—Washing.
ton Star.
boiler;
rve
COFFEE CUSTARD.
Make a good, strong extract of cof
fee by dripping -it ag slowly as pos
through a percolator; for six
persons you will want one cupful;
take four of the same measure of
milk and beat with the milk the yolks
of three eggs; add two ounces of
powdered sugar; mix with this the
cupful of coffee; as coffee differs in
strength, taste to see that it is strong
enough: pour the mixture Into cups
and the cups in a not too deep
pan water: of
sible
put
with boiling the level
the water ought not
than half the cup:
water too hard;
of bolling is necessary: turn out on
a dish: they may be eaten hot or cold.
~ Washington Star
do not boil the
about
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
changes from dark to brilliant light.
following: Close the room
smguider some cayenne pepper on a
hot coal, open the door quickly and
the flies may be driven out easily.
A dozen grains of rice in a salteel
lar will absorb dampness and keep
the salt in powder. It also breaks
the lumps that there may be In salt
An alarm clock kept in the kitchen
may be set to ring at the time the
vegetables should be put over the fire,
or the hot bread or the cake or pud:
ding is due to be done, and as a guide
to time in many other matters,
Avgld causing unnecessary pressure
in bandaging an inflamed eye,
To keep a spoon in position when
desirous of dropping medicine ints it
and peeding both hands to hold bottle
and cork, place the handle between
the leaves of a closed book lying up
on the table,
A little vinegar put in the water
when boiling fish will tend to harden
the flesh and keep it firm,
A spoonful of elderberry juice will
often stop severe coughing and insure
a good night's rest,
A pinch of granulated sugar, or a
Httle vinegar, will make the stove pol
ish stay on.
There is nothing much worse than
trying to read or sew by Insufficient
light. For a good, steady light there
Is nothing better than a lamp, but it
must have proper attention. After
cleaning well and Alling it, place a
small lomp of camphor In the ol!
tank, which will greatly Improve the
light and make the flame clearer and
brighter. mong "
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FRED'S STORY.
Fred Wells smothered a sigh as he
looked out of the window at the rain,
He felf sure it would be a long day,
Rainy days In the country were als
long, but he didn’t want his
aunt Edith to think he was unhap.
PY, so he sald nothing. He got a big
picture book and huddled down in
the Morris chair to make the best of
it.
“Where are you, Fred?” eried his
aunt Edith a little later,
“Here, auntie; I am coming,” he
answered,
“1 want yon to watch the squirrels.
I am sure Mamma Squirrel is plan
ning to move tis
the bables are getting wet in the tree,
She was im the wash house looking
around, and I think she decided the
wood box would make a good home.
It has a pile of excelsior in it, and
will be good and warm,” sald Mrs
Lacey.
Fred was interested at once, and
firew a chair up to the
Mamma Squirrel spied him
stopped to take a look. She wanted
to make sure he was not a $ad boy
Who planned to hurt her children,
Being reassured, she sped up the tree,
picked up a squirrel in her teeth, and
laboriously made her way down and
®cross the yard to the wash house.
“She is moving, auntie,
Fred
| had its nest in a house.”
| WAYS
tame that it makes a
Mrs. Lacey drew
and they both watehed until the five
baby squirrels were in the new homs
warm and dry.
! 80 much of their children.”
“She loves her baby squirrels just ag
people love their children,
she?” . i
| came up on the porch.
eat.
| She will take them out of your hand.’
opened the door cautiously.
cagerly.
: the nut, and in a little
| for another. ne
wy
. ow le
| tween trips?" asked Fred.
| and go and see,” suggested his aunt
ning back,
for the Nttle squ.rrels!” he exclaimed
excitedly. “She works for her chil
dren and takes care of them Just a
mamma does of me”
His aunt smiled at the eager face
“Dinner is ready just as soon as your
bands are washed.”
“Dinner! Already! This has been
Yauch a little morning! © auntie, 1}
bave my story for school! You know
we have to ll a story every Friday
after recess about someth we have
deen. Miss Browligaysdt # to make
us see thifigs around E*, I am glad
it rained, else I wouldn't have a
squirrel story.”"—Sarah N. McCreery,
Yo Southern Presbyterian,
I 7 A VERY GOOD CAT.
| Little Paul had been taught never
to throw anything away that was
jsuod or whole. One day his mother
land her afternoon callers were stare
jtied by the appearance of Paul at the
|door, triumphantly holding a dead
cat aloft by the tail. “Look, mamma;
see what I found in the alley—a per
fectly good whole cat that some one
(has throwed away.” — Philadelphia
Record,
HOW IT HAPPENED.
“Mr. Scribble, how did you happen
to write this wonderful work, so pal.
pitating with human heart interest?”
“Oh, my butcher was dunning me
very hard for something on account,
and my landlord wanted his rent."
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