AA TR The Crossroads. There site a woman in a lonely place, Where AllBSouls’ twilight ever bends and broods; With hungry hope and fear upon her "face, She gases down! those dreamy soli- tudes, There at the crossroads, and fro, Straining her glance athwart the shadows gray, Lest any little traveler she might know Come by that way. peering to For Jong, so long, she has waited; now and then A tiny figure looms along the road, Shy, scarce-awakened from the world of men, Secking uncertainly its new abode, And eagerly she stoops, she scans its eves, Asking some look, answering sign, And still she lets it go again, and sighs, “Not mine—0 God—not mine!” some tender But some day, in a golden hour, The cweet familiar shape shall be descried, Delaying here and there for berry or flower, drawing ever nearer to her side, No need of greeting between child and mother, When heart on heart is folded close and fast In that one clasp, each blended In the other. That pays for all the past! —Pall Mall Gazette. surely, But Lririririrlrlrlriri On the Gold Coast. BY ALBERT W. TOLMAN, G e5e525e5e5ese In Capt. Cyrus Varnum's parlor corner stood a Kroo spear, its long, slim tip bristling unpleasantly with rusted hook-like twists, and two odd, forked-shaped paddles five feet loug. The captain caught my glance wan- dering toward this sheaf of curios. “Positively the worst spot 1 ever anchored off that's where these came from,” said he. “There's no end of yellow fever and cholera ports, roadsteads open to wind and sea, havens with .reef-bound channels and shifting bars. But the Gold diasn't any harbors at all “Ten years ago | made a cruise in the old bark Commelina to the Gulf of Guinea. I shipped a colored crew, thinking they would stand hot weath- er better than whites, We were the first American saliog vessel to carry case oil to the West Coast, twenty- eight thousand wooden boxes, each containing two fivegallon cans. “We raised Cape Coast Castle March 19th, after an uneventful run of forty-five days. There we spent almost two weeks discharging cargo. The' sandshoals compelled us to an- chor several miles out, and lighter our oll in the boats of the Kroo boys. “Tall, strong fellows they are, these Kroo boys, black as a tar-kettle, and muscled like prize fighters. They can dive like ducks and swim like bonitos. Without them yon couldn't beach a box, bale or barrel on the Gold Coast They're a jabbering, laughing, happy-go-lucky lot generally, but bulldogs for holding a grudge. “We broke out the oil for Cape Coast Castle, took our consignee aboard, and made sail for Saltpond, a few leagues farther east. That first night was a wild one. We were jogring along at a two-knot gait un- der lower topsalls. with no rain and Httle wind; but the low, inky clouds were alive with lightning. The sea dipped in phosphorus, “We hooked our anchor into the sand five miles off Saltpond. Though north and west winds prevailed, the heavy roll from the goutheast trades kicked up a fearful surf. It was a hard place to land cargo. “The groundswell wouldn't let the Kroo boys load alongside; so they from a spar forward. Two single whips from the topmasthead and the yardarm hoisted the oll from the hold, five boxes at a time, and swung it out over the rail. Lot of cases were smashed. As only twenty-five could be safely stowed in each boat, and as a single round trip took con- siderable time, it was slow work. Yet we landed several hundred boxes a day. “I went ashore with the consignee fn the first boat, leaving my mate, Henry Billings, the only white man abroad, to send in the cargo. “Now the Gold Coast abounds In gray parrots, the highestpriced birds on the market, worth ten dol jars and ppward in New York. They're much quicker to learn than the green ones, and aren't so ugly-tempered, ¥'d planned to buy several dozen, as a litle speculation on my own ac count. So I'd brought out eight bags of corn to feed them with, and ballt a big cage over the bobby hatch. 1 was ashore at Saltpond five days; and, with my consignee’'s help | picked up a hundred grays at four shillings aplece, “At last 1 was ready to go back to the Cornelian, I made a final pure chase of three rope hammocks at my ['consignee’s store; got ey oustome house papers, sald good-by to every. body, and went down to. the beach. There high and dry lay the boat that was to take me out, stout, flat-bot. tomed, thirty-five feet Jong, five broad and three deep, drawing less than a foot. Each end rose ga little, and astern was a hole for the long steer ing-oar. “The surf was running I'd never seen any boat upset, so didn't dream of danger. What I thought of most was getting those hundred parrots safely Into that cage on the hatch. “They were in two dry-good boxes, four feet square and half as high, tops covered with slats. In each box were fifty birds, chirping and preen- ing ‘their feathers. “1 had the boxes placed well aft, and got in right behind them and cloge to the steersman. My ham- mocks I piled in a little mound be- fore the forward box. The crew tossed their paddles aboard, and grasped the gunwales, fifteen stocky fellows to starboard, and fourteen to port. “In swept a succession of big roll ers—one, two, three. As the last and biggest flowed back, the steers. man gave a yell; twenty-nine pairs of black hands tightened along the sides, and the heavy boat chased the bil low down into the surf. “Out we ran, the crew jumping In two by two; as fast as they got walst-deep. Fifty feet from the beach we were fairly afloat, and all aboard. “Very slowly we crept seaward, awaiting a good chance to shoot through the breakers. The Kroo boys kept dipping their blades just enough to hold the boat, while the steersman watched the coming seas like a hawk. “We were a good hundred feet out. high, but gwells broke in But I gave them for 1 sat, my knees box, watching my “Suddenly there came three seas, larger than any before. The first combed over the bow, spraying the entire boat. It wet my birds, and stopped thelr ohirping. The next billow was still bigger, and soaked us all. 1 felt bad for the grays but didn’t suspcot any danger to myself. “Then, without warning, the third sea, a curling ridge ten feet high, caught ly under her bottom. “Up rose her bow, the higher, higher, she went endwise. “As the bird-crates came tumbling against me, I caught a glimpse of black bodies leaping right and left If 1 hadn't been watching my par rots, I should have been ready to jump, too. The steersman caught my shoulder, and tried to pull me out; but it was too late His hand was Down came a zinolined box corner struck my temple; and for “1 came to under water, a tefrible pain over my left eyebrow and anoth- er in my right wrist. Something on my head was holding me down. 1 kicked and thrashed round until fin. ally 1 got my nose above water, in a little dark airspace. 1 was under the overturned boat. “My head boomed like a big na- tive drum. A web of loose rope en- tangled me. The three hammocks had fallen over my shoulders, and in my struggles the cords had be come twisted about me. 1 tried to raise my right hand, but couldn't The excruciating ache in the wrist told that it had been broken, either by a box or the gunwale. Every anything touched it the pain made me sick. “The boat drifted nearly where the Occasionally a above my head. “The airspace, barely a foot high, was filled with a dusky light, reflect. ed from the sand. It changed posi ing we to follow it for breath. Much of the time my face was under wa. ter, as 1 paddled and pulled myself back snd forth, catching the gunwale “The hammocks were a terrible handicap; I must get clear of them at any cost. My broken wrist made the struggle an agonizing one, but it meant life or death to me, and at last | cast them off. They sank at boat; not even a paddle remained, My parrots had disappeared utterly. “Very slowly we were drifting in; the water was shoaler now. Should i try to get out from under the boat, or stay where I was till she got far enough In for the blacks to turn her over? The thump on my temple haa made it hard for me to think intelli. gently, With one wrist broken, 1 didn’t feel ambitious to battle with a surf like that outside. Further. more, the gunwales ran down two feet under water, and it wouldn't be any easy task for me to get out tinassisted. For a while, at any rate, 1 was safe. “So, paddling like a broken-winged duck, 1 chased the shifting airspace. Why conidn’'t the boat turn side to the aswell and roll over, Instead of koeping so obstinately head to It? Frequently, as the surf ran out, her bow struck the land, my feet touched bottom, and 1 felt the pull of the undertow, “But this eouldn’t last. 1 was pretty well fagged, and the air had grown choky. 1 kuew it was time for me to be slipping out from be neath my floating rofilge. But with my broken wrist, that wasn't either eter Sears ters 80 easy or €o lt as 1t tant seems for should I be nipped between the sand and the! sgharp gunwale, (t would almopt cut me in two. “The water was now pretty shal low, and hazy yellow with sand. The bow struck botiom after every wave, least fifteen minutes, cracking. A heavy hand be compressing my lungs, | escape while I had sense and strength to do so, or I should certainly lose consciousness and drown, “Determined to fight ay hardest, 1 peeled off thin jacket and pajamas, leaving Just my shoes on. [ wasn't gunwale. The boat weighed per haps a ton. 1 couldn't afford to be caught between its edge and the bots tom. come. We lifted on a big roller, Taking a full breath, and sinking back so that my face was submerged, I hooked the fingers of my and the hollow of my right elbow under the gunwale, and shot my feet outward. Before I had got half out the boat began to sing again. “It was too late to withdraw, 1 thought of the hard sand underneath, and pave a last desperate wriggle, No use! The gunwale caught me across the lower part of the chest, and ground my back into the sand. “The sharp edge cut my flesh, My ribs cracked The breath was squeezed out of my lungs. For one horrible instant I feared 1 was to be cut asunder “In a moment the pressure éased, and the boat rose. But my strength was gone. 1 gave one final weak pull. Then everything darkened. “I came to myself on the beach, with two black fellows rolling the water out of me. After three days at the hotel, though lame and sore and suffering from a fever-touch, I decid. ed I must get back to the Cornelia. “But 1 dreaded those breakers so much that I offered the best steers man in Saltpond twenty-five dollars to take me out safely. Just before we started, a colored woman brought down a broken-winged gray parrot, the only one of my hundred that had washed ashore alive “That time we got through all right. Safe on board, I paid the steers man his twenty-five dollars, and as a bonus, gave him an old tail hat. That pleased him more than the money He jammed it on at once: and as the boat paddled off, the last thing 1 saw was his black figure at the steer ing-oar, the old stovepipe tipped fauntily back on his head."-—Youth's Companion ——————— RED 18 MAN'S COLOR. Once Thought to Cure Disease and to Ward Off Bad Luck. The partiality for the may not ho mere chance, played an Important part in the art and decoration of all races of men and to it are attached many old superstitions, In our earliest formas of art we learn that various colors had special significance, generally in distinguish ing the sexes. Striking examples of this custom are found in Italy, red was the insignia of the male and blue of the female. This explains why in the old paint ings we find the Madonna and other Biblical women always In the Iatter color, while the apostles and mascw line saints wore rod. Rome and some other gections of Italy, says Harper's Weekly, the spe cial color of its sex is pinned to the dress of the child at the time of baptism. There still remain many curious superstitions concerning this interest ing color. For instance, a great aver sion to red halr exists among the peasants of England and Wales, and often the presence of a person with “auburn” locks is considered unlucky color red for it has where land is mending his tackle the ap proach of a red haired individual is solemnly believed to presage ill for immediately a flame, in olden time the efficacy of red as a cureall for disease was strictly followed and this superstition has not entirely died out. The physician to Edward Ii. of England, John of Gaddeston, tells us that he brought about a complete cure for one of the smallpox by surrounding the sick bed him with a scarlet counterpane and administering red mulberry wine. In the west of Scotland and in the West Indies it is customary to wrap children's throats to ward off the whooping cough. In the early part of Fleet strest sold pleces of red cloth to those suffering with scarle: fever, ne supposed remedy lying not in the fabric but In the color. In New Zealand the house in which this color to keep out the bad spir its, and the path of the funeral pro cession is blazed with streaks of red Chinese plait red silk ing. Even now the thelr children's hair with #pirits. minimis mini pm, SSA * ‘Another woman bas been vlected to the Co jo legislature, - About a dozen have served there by | COMMERCIAL COLUMY Wholesale Markets New York.~-Wheat-——Recelpts, 28, 800 bush.; exports, 170,004, Spot No. 2 red, 1.07% @1.08%¢ elevator and 1.987% f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth, 1.19 f. 0. b afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 1.16 t.! 0. b. afloat. Corn — Receipts, No. afloat; bush. | elevator and | 2 white nomi- | 21,375 $68c, No. yellow market closing %c closed 68%c¢.; 9 oy was without | net July closed Option transactions, May Oats-——Receipts, 74,725 bush.; ex Spot quiet; mixed, 26 64 %c.; natural white, B4@ 57; clipped white, H615 62. Poultry-—Alive, l4c.; fowls, 15; Dressed, stronger 1660 21e.; Weste rn fowls, @32 1bs., ibs., easy; chickens, turkeys, 124 18. Western ehic kens, 2@ 145% Firm Philadelphia. Wheat - 2 January, 6c. higher; contract grade, 1.00 @ 1.05 %ec. Corn—Firmer; fhe. Oats—Quiet, white natural, 664 566%. Butter-—Firm; fair demand; Western creamery, S4c.; do, by prints, 36. Eggs — Firm and le. higher; Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts, f. ¢., 33¢c. at mark; do, current re- ceipts, in returnable cases, 32 at mark; Western firsts, f. ¢,, 33 at mark; do., current receipts, f. ¢. 31 @32 at mark. Cheese—Firm; York full creams, choice, fair to good, 13% @ 14. Poultry — Allve, steady; {air de- fowls, 13@ 14c¢.; old roosters, 10; spring chickens, 13@ 14; ducks, 12013; geese, 11Q 12%; turkeys, 16@ 17. Baltimore. ~Wheat— Receipts, 161 bush. jncluding 128 bush. South- ern. The small lot of January, 6434 @ but firm; extra near- New do., fair demand; 143%c.; 2 red. The firmer. $1.05%. Oats — Receipts, withdrawals from bush.; stock In bush. Desirable grades are firmly held, but the market is rather quiet Sales—2 cars No. 3 white, 54%c.; car No. 2 mixed, Sek We quote: White—-—No. 2, 66c.; No. 3, 44% @ 656: No. 4, 3@53 is. 2. 54 @64%¢.; No. 3, 53@ 03%. Rye-—We quote, per bush, Western rye, 83e¢.; No. uptown delivery, 80. Hay-—We quote, thy—-No, do.. small blocks, $14.50@ 15; No. 2, as to location, $13@ 13.50; No. 3, §11@ 12. Cheese — Jobbing 15% ec. per Ib. Eggs—Market firm, with the mand for fresh stock about equal to the moderate offerings. We quote, per dozen, loss off: Maryiand, sylvania and nearby firsts, Western firsts, 30; West Virginia firsts, 29 eggs, market for Western Spot, $1.04%; February, 16,679 elevalors, elevators, bush. R088 per ton: lots quoted 14@ 15. Live Stock 681 head. No trading: steady. Dressed beef in fair demand at 8 to 103% c. per pound. Hogs Receipts, 3,064 head. Mar. lower. sold $6.45 per 100 Ibs hogs at $c. pound for heavy to light per Pittsburg, Pa. — Cattle — Supply light, steady. Choice, $6.50@ 6.75; prime, $6.30@ 6.50. Hogs<- Receipts fair, active, high- er: prime heavies and mediums, $6.50@ 6.65; heavy Yorkers, $86.45 6.50; light Yorkers, $6.25@ 86.30; Chicago. = Cattle — Receipts esti. to 10c. higher; steers, $4.60@ 7.75; $3@ 5.25; heifers, 32.50@ 4.60: bulls, $3.15@G4.50; calves $3.50 @9.50 stockers and feeders, Hogs—Receipts estimated at 30. $6.065@6.25: choice light, $5.70@6.10; light mixed, $5.76 @ pigs, butchers, 6.10; packing, 6.20. Kansas Of Mo, —Cattie—Re- ead, including 200 port and dressed beef steers, $6@ fair to good, $4.50@ 6; West- $4@G 6.50; stockers and $3.50 @ 6. 28: 5 Southern steers, $4.50@ 6.45; Southern cows, $2. oy native cows, $2@5.25; native heifers, $3.25@6; bulls, $3.25 @5.00; calves, $408. Hogs — Receipts, 15,000 head; market steady to strong; top, $6.10; bulk of sales, $5.50@ 6.05; heavy, 5.95@6.10; packers and butchers, HH no. 10; light, $5.40@5.90; pigs, $4. 505. 26. 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President Angell, University eightieth birthday, was man’s noblest James B. of Michigan, aching profes- Bion Plans were tion of a monument in Washington, , in honor of Senator William Boyd Allison, utmmer Pres nt Hadley, of Yale, declared of newspapers pide re form the Government newspaper No one has the temerity to qnes- n the prediction that Mr. Roosevelt vill ente~ the fight for the Senator Depew, ‘when that pan’s term ends in 1911 states Terry. that Professor advised Chicago hool, recommended by the Congress i wwrm Divorce Laws Unifc New Haven, re, while his brother, the Rev » Phelps Stokes, was holding a ¢h service elsewhere in the city. Dr. William T. York phyeician, cer, insisted nupo roof of the Pizza Hotel, the cold wave greatly invigorated William J. inviiation to visit Tampa, Fila. ing the fair. With Mrs. will spend a week in Tampa. Captain Chauncey B. Humphrey, who thrashed a party of prize-fight- ers in a train near Denver, had whipped three highwaymen at West Poliut and delivered the “West Point Jab” effectively in the Philippines. LABOR WORLD, Alberta, Canada, will pass a child fabor act similar to the Ontario act. About one-half of the population of Greece are agriculturists and shep- herds. Headquarters of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor will be moved from Duluth to St. Paul. Efforts will be made at the automo- bile show, scheduled for Chicago, to organize a national union of chauf- fours, An attempt to establish a munici- pal brewery in Berlin resulted in a it did plenty of business, but lost money. Of 505 deaths of sailors accruing surance company, 17.6 per cent. were due to accidents. The formation of women's auxiliary unions in the labor movement is rap- idly becoming popular for its effect on the label propaganda. At the State building trade conven tion, held in Santa Rosa, Cal, each district council in the State and each union was represented by one dele gate, A campaign has been started in San Francisco, Cal, in behalf of the women employed as clerks in stores, with a view to obtaining better wages and conditions for them. In the recent referendum vote tak- en by the bakers, a Jropotition to in. crease the salaries of the internation. al officers and make the payment of a sick and death benefit compulsory, wan defeated. The inanagement committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions festo in which all trade unions are ad- vised to instruct their members to re fuse to work overtime, Owing to a wage dispute 4000 men have struck at Larm te cols leries, Rhouddah Valley, W. Death From Surprise, Following a “surprise visit” at night from Deputy Hanson, Lieutenant Callahan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., died suddenly in the a A A Mad to Depose Castro, rope sd the Sotaty had to ia ide ATTORNEYS. D. Py. 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