Helene—A Mirage.
Far out upon a desert vast,
Sand-stained, wind-swept,
Where hope had died and fear had
passed
And clouds had never wept,
Athirst 1 stood and gasped
breath,
Heart-sore and weary unto death
for
Across the waste to eruel skies,
Sun<dried and lean,
I strained my hot and
To the green,
When clearly in
light
A glorious rose blushed on my sight,
heavy eves
Se
some strange,
Like
Its
water to the crackling
fragrance fresh
Came to the spirit
Ard to the flesh,
Ah, wonderful the
Of in the
tongue,
overstrunsg,
power to bless,
rose-bloom wilderness!
1 stretched my hands to take
ind bright,
breath life upon the alr,
he morning light.
“Helone,” 1 cried; “Helene
I laughed ran across the plain
To fold it heart, and then—
The desert was the same again
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was sitting
foned horse-block in
with his hands full of 3
and blue cards which he
into little
Different
farent colors
owner the
the card. It
town where
course,
excited,
less, for each
lect more
others past
come anywhere near a
without being surrounded
to give up all the
possession, and
who could go
town coil most Car
small John
by their mothers’ comms
as by their own she
ing far afield,
came chiefly from
with sometimes a
some good-natured big
a few cards
John
collect
far ag
cipal of the 1
stood very much
was obliging enough
biue
count his canis
disappoint
not
had
them
was
according color.
names were printed on dif
and a picture of the
name filled one end of
was Election Day in
John lived,
everyone
nileg ¢
Pies, 0
of
was mor
rather
was ryt
the boys
one
3 +1
ejection
For days
past
of
cour
farthest
were
50
14
fath
Tie
to spare
had made a
cards. But
vein
moun
1 3 wr
hones! they
" ot
neal
sadly, feells
into
them
such a very good 1
“Hello, John!” said a
ing vote today?”
captain the foothal sam. who
was walking with Miss Alice,
Sunday teacher.
“No, sir; 1 not
John, confused
notice of
mired very
“No? How's
tain, with a twin
John hesitated; he had not th
of voting before, and it had never
occurred to him to wonder why
couldn't. He shuffled the ecards
much embarrassment
“Why can't you vote, John?”
Miss Alice, encouraginely
John looked up “f
said, slowly, “l guess
Baven't enough election
Miss Alice and the captain
at each other and smiled. and the
captain gid as they passed on, "It
jen’'t more election cards that vou
need. John, . it's more wears. You
haven't quite encugh those, yet,
to be able to vote”
John thought sbout this for
time. It was true that he had
his time in collecting cards But if
people were willing to give him
cards, perhaps he could find someone
who would Mm a year or two
ie remembered that the policeman
who sometimes walked around the
neighborhood had once caught a man
who was trying to steal their
and that his father had said that the
to
of
John's
school
guess
somewhat
two people whom
much
that?” asked
le in his
the zap
eye
yaght
he
in
asked
he
because 1
carda”
guess.”
it's
looked
of
a long
wasted
spar> b
and six months, John know,
half a year. 80 if the Judee gave
part of a year to a man who tried
to be bad, perhaps someone would
give a whole year to a boy who us
ually tried to be good.
ask for what anyone wanted. But
ghe was out, so he wandered into
the Hbrary here his sister was busy
jlooking up something in a big ency-
olopedia.
“Say, Helen, 1 need some more
years so | can vote. Can't I have
one of yours ”
Helen glanced up, keeping her fin.
ger in the middle of the page to mark
her place,
“You funny chiid!
sibly give you a
laughing. Then, as
How can | pos
year?’ she mid,
her little brother
looked very much disappointed, she
continued, seriously. “You peo,
Johnny-boy, if I should give you one
of mine, I could’t graduate from the
High School with my class, and that
would put me a year behind them at
college, too; 80 1 really don’t see how
{ can spare you one without upset
ting all my plins. Now please run
away, hecauss I am very busy. Go
and ask Granmamma for a year. She
has more than anvone in the house,
and she might be willing to give you
really
name
who
only
every-day
corner
Grandmamma, was
the
Hee,
of the
book
long for
in a sunny
reading a very
too
Vir
old
of freckled.
which
“Could
were quite
you give me a
John
asked
“Give ? What d&«
mean,
“l need more
yout a year
dearie?”
vears, so 1 can
1¥8 vou have lots of
go ] thought might
me one.”
“Bless
maybe you
have
certainly
an
1 1
think 1 c¢
child
don't
the
but 1
of them
would give
I would
give
away."
card
LW Oe
vou an election
give You
ds.
a
election car
any of my
vote, dearie., They
ind of years 1
been abl
with.”
not har diss
AnOLaer ais
never
10 vote
but
It was ppointment;
the young voter wis t discouraged
would
Bridge
have ti
of
kind
Years
as the
with a
it to hm {if
ed out his hands i
“I"l give he'll
said John, pinching
at it squeaked at baby
“And that are the
boy, then,” sald Bridget, "to
iway the only thing the dar¥in’ hasn't
got It wouldn't be any little
at all you'd be
a year away from him.
his dog. John, dear!”
John sighed he
dog a the
“Nobody seems to have
they need.”
“There ©OOmMes
a year,”
so th the
it's vou cruel
havin' if you
NOW
er
as laid the
baby's ki feet
LIDK
ans
CRS
your father
maybe he'll he bh
suggested tingly,
she wheeled lator
the garden
John's
the gate to play with
tather stopped a
the baby, at
; om
“ 4 by ” whors he
then can t steps, Where
son's rue
and
shoul
‘But
asked J
His
judge. it is
Sem
who gives
“is 1
fled
Father
hn
father om fen’t
Time, for he is
years to give
“Where iz his r fath
er had an office, 80 John supposed
that anyone else
have one, 100
“Wall,” sald his father,
ly. “1 don't know exactly
office is i know thai
in business, for he is
years all the time: and,
that 1 think of it, 1
sending gome years
have six whole ones, and »
over, haven't you? That
a bad beginning for a collect
years."
“But it
objected
his office
him for a
“fi don't
called father must
thoughtful
his
stil
yey
where
in
sending
John,
he'leve
he
y
too You
davs
such
o'
you
Foor
isnt
on
ty vot
knew
isn’t enough
John
was 1
lot more.”
think he would
have them. You will ge!
in the end. but I'm nm
have to take them as Father Tim
gives them, a day at a t'me”
“It's about as hard to Ret years
it is to get election canls,
"If you
could go
a Fail
atraia
as
ages of colored pasteboards
“Put you're sure of having eno
gome day,” said his father encour
So, although John did not ve
at that election, he is going to voi!
years, a day at
Junice Wold, in The Churchman.
INTENSE COLD IN THE TROPICS.
Eleven and Thirteen Miles.
The existence of a layer of air in
which the temperature ceases to di
minish with elevation has been ob
served in various parts of the world
It Is about ten miles up, though its
altitude varies somewhat. The tem-
peratures are ascertained with “sound.
ing balloons,” which carry up self-rog.
istering thermometers and baromet-
ers. The latter give Indications of
the height attained. The balloons are
not accompanied hy human beings.
but the instruments are so cushioned
that they cannot suffer from
and are labelled so that recovery is
comparatively easy.
An expedition dispatched by A.
Lawrence Roteh, of the United ‘States
and a French expert, Telsserenc Je
Bort, last summer tried to make
soundings of the atmosphere over the
Atlantic near the equator at a con
siderable height. Though some of the
balloons sent up by this party
nearly ten miles, they falled to reach
“isothermal aver.” where the cold
would not increase. Their theor
mometers continued to register lower
higher
confident
really exi
was
TORS
they rose,
that the iso
d, but sus.
greater eleva
the instru
that a Ger
Afric:
tae
Mr. Roteh was
laver
that it
than
at a
wis reached by
now
sedition sent out to East
+
tion
appears
Assmann found that
at to wi
Atlantic not
gnprecedented cold
fderably above tl
1 went over the
as almost
it above It th was a cong
peratures
at an elevation
goa §
balloons a
Ong were sant
to explore
regular
equatorial region
made gome
Egypt, by B. F
The ascents
were made from a
launch, and would
results had a faster
able, It is stated that
easterly
have
avail
4 YOu worl
boat been
with
having a speed of some twelve miles
this lake is
world for sounding
the Lest Dace
in the balloon as
cents,
CAROLINA TARANTULA.
Odd Trap Door Nest,
Mr A Ww Pickens of Garvin town
brought to this office Sat
rmous spider which 1
rr
ATAD
tula
looking
Mr
eadly as that of a rattiesnake
Some boys on Mr. Pickens's plan
ound a pec
ground and
After digging while
hey came an odd looking nest
they found the spider
nest was provided with
which the spider could
as he went into
and would be safe from in
Mr Pickens broukht the
to the city with him. It was a
ingeni contrived affair and
wicked
hite hig spider, Pickens &
uliar look hole
* : £4 i ’ Lay oe
fn the geCided to inves
tigate for a
upon
{ Wen
The
door,
after himself,
'
Close 4000
the nest,
truders,
;
usiy
very
ftae. —From the Anderson
Remarkable Testimony to the Force
of the Recent Georgia Tornado,
Each day brings to light some new
of the tornado which caused
death and destruction in this part of
the State a few days ago, says the
Atlanta Georgian,
As an evidence the
freakish
of
a large plank on the property of the
Hon. 8. M. Roberts, about twelve
here, are now joined as
Although the tree was 3 large one
plank was picked and driven
as if
was the
but it
the
from a gun. Not only
shot through the tree,
through without tearing
plank
went
tree,
The plank was
yard of Mr.
other planks
molested by
picked up in the
Roberts's sawmill and
the wind. So singular
a notice telling how the plank
ordering that it shall not be cut
down,
go is the only city that is proportion.
ately ahead of it. In New York
there are two persons divorced to ev
ery 26 married.
Even when a man stands on his
dignity he sometimes puts his foot
in it, muses the New York Times.
The number of automobiles regis
tered in London is nearly 35,500.
I AB ti ew AMAA. NAN
eee
Household Notes
ar
pe
DLAPLAV, VLAN SD ANANS
ORANGE GLAOES,
Peel 6 large oranges, removing
sarefully all the white part. Divide
Into sections and place in the oven
until thoroughly dary. Put into an
enamel pan 1 pound of sugar, julce of
half a lemon and 2-4 cup water;
boll brisk for § minutes. The syrup
should light Re-
move of
of
amber color
dip
and §j
buttered
ne
the ire, gections
from
Orange in
a marble slab or
Boston Post
separately ren
on
GINGERBREAD
One cupfu {f mol 5
DELICIOUS
Asses, one
one
apoonful tables]
of boiling water, two
cupfuls of
Of ginger,
and half
the melts
add molasse
the soda
ih
roundes
ang a
tablesnoon
hab ar
ALLE
sal ‘
Post
i ham jelly. —~Boston
ORANGE MARMALADE.
oranges and three
Remove the rind in thin
pleces -as possible and cut into thin
the white skin from the
lemons, but do not
oranges and lemons
thin slices; we seeds and
white centre; put and
jar with 5 pints of cold
water and allow it to stand 24 hours;
then put into preserving kettle and
boll gently th Add 10 cups
of sugar and boil 45 minutes. Pour
them, cover. This
ozen glasses of marma
Wash one dozen
lemons, as
strips: pare
Oran and
ft: now cut the
use
i 5 PY
into rem
skins
rs
into glasses
makes 1 i
lade — Boston Post
MUTTON, OLIVES AND SPINACH.
Take 4 ounces each of fat bacon
} both and fry
meat, pound
then
aside,
done
ind calf’s liver: pepper
till
it and press
presg into a
(When
the
Next ou gO jres
mince the
through a sieve;
basin and stand
this should
fore the dish is req
undone
striy
3 inches
with a cut
with
up,
COOK 6G
sossible, he
day be aired.)
from an
orm into
"
place
r, dip into
fat
If liked,
OHNE
shape
a BMAall Ww Have
ready a spinach,
sot the olives in it and pour a good,
thick gravy round —Boston Post
in
gROWer
secured
den
mound of dressed
SPANISH OMELETTE
eggs, One tomato or
tomatoes, one small
tablespoonfuls milk, &
mushrooms, 2 slices bacon, quarter
teaspoonful salt, a dash of black pep-
per: cut bacon into small pleces and
fry until brown, then add tomatoes,
onion and mushrooms chopped fine:
Break
eggs into a bowl and beat vigorously,
adding a little salt and pepper. Put
a teaspoonful of butter into a frying
pan and Jet it melt, when the sides
of the frying pan are well greased
pour the eggs In apd shake over a
quick fire until they set Now pour
tomato mixture over omelette, fold
over once, slide on hot platter and
serve. Asparagus tips, green peas or
string beans can be used Instead of
mushrooms {f desired —Boston Post.
Six
canned
onion. 4
some
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To cut warm bread or cake always
heat the knife blade.
in canning time remember to hold
a jar under hot water before filling
with the hot syrup. If the jar is sel
on a folded wet cloth while being
filled, it will be leas apt to break.
A tablespoon of coal oil in a quart
of warm water is excellent to remove
fly specks from brass.
If you want to keep coffee from
boiling over add a lump of buttey
about the size of a small marble.
To prevent the contents of a juiey
ple rumming over wet the edges of
iced water.
To mix corn bread more easily
warm the bowl that it is mixed in. :
Bolled potatoes should be served
as soon as they are cooked. To!
make them drier drain off the water |
quickly, shake them in a strong draft }
of alr and do not put back the lid of
Io uti for soup are most easily
made by cutting stale bread about
halt an inch thick, buttering it thick.
ly on both sides, cutting in half inch
squares and baking in the oven un
til brown. oii}
Piles will be soggy If set on top of
a hot stove after being baked.
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: THRILLS OF LION HUNTING
t thr men
last months two
lost arms, and almost thelr lives,
on
In both cases the
They pressed
closely, No hors«
I have seen
riding—an anima
faster than any lion
in its very stride It
though its claws were glued
earth It did not seem pos-
that such a sudden halt could
be made by anything that ran. Nor
can any other beast show the desper-
same
made,
the beast too can
turn or stop as can a cat
heetah
much
actually
a I was
very
Blop
Was as
to the
sible
ate speed of a cat for a few
Mr. Percivale, the game
warden of the Protectorate, who haz
probably ridden more lions than any
other man in the country, tells me
that he, though well mounted, was
once almost pulled down by a lion
he had ridden into cover, He,
too, on that occasion came too close,
the lion for some reason or other dis-
pensed with all the usual prelimin-
aries and rushed at him. He turned
his horse as quickly as he could and
rode for his life. He had quite fifty
and vet he believes that,
fired his heavy revolver
lion when it was
carde’
Yarcs
distance
that
$
i
vards' start,
had he not
‘nto the face
wimost on
both
of the
his horse's hind quarters,
he and the would
pulled down,
There
hunter
Mr
have
been Percivale
was no other
to divide the
perhape, may
unusually rapi
was alone
horse or near
This,
very
lion's attention
aceon
and deadly
Hos ¥
esses,
nt for its
attack
was attacked by three lion.
the rock The nly
he had given them was
he had shot
of the band He was riding
his camp, unarmed, having
ft his rifle with his gunbearer, who
waz skinning the lion he had killed.
The three saw him from a distance
of quite two thousand yards, and
pressed him hard for a quarter of a
mile He was riding the same fast
mule that I rode, and so outran them.
There are one or two things that
any
near
provocation
that two hours before
to remember.
First, it is not well
lion or lions into cover if you are
on horseback, not even into thin
cover. Once you have chased a lion,
it Is very different from the beast that
rapidly slinks away from you, when
you are hunting on foot. In this
last case it instinctively knows it can
get away If it cares to. In the for-
mer it finds you have its pace, and,
resenting that, will attack with de-
termination. The second lion Hoey
and I rode had every chance to walk
into the impenetrable stronghold of
the river grass if it had wanted to.
The grass grew thickly not twenty
yards from where the lion was first
hit. But it did not want to do any-
thing of the sort, and, angered by
the long, hard chase, cast all idea
of further retreat behind and came
boldly away from the covert it had
siriven so strenuously to gain.
Secondly, the man who does the
shooting must dismount without de-
lay or hesitation. He must quickly
choose his place, fixing it in his mind
as he gallops up-—if possible, a spot
from which he ean command the lion
for a few yards every way, and on
which he can plump down. If there
is no such place, of course, he must
stand up and shoot. All delay is
langeroue. Get the beast before it
ushes in. Any cool hunter can
inock a standing lion out with one
hot at one hundred yards or less.
No lving man can be sure of hitting
+ charging, snarling embodiment of
feath.—Dr. W, 8. Rainsford, in The
World's Work,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Meteors prove that the air is still
dense enough to make those little
bodies incandescent through friction
at a height of 100 miles; but up to
the present man has succeeded in
exploring the atmosphere to a height
of only sixteen
Ee
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