THE RED DARN DOOR,
FIT 1VTCB 0BIT1IHDFW BSTIflT.
none smmaied rfoim in furry robe, mid soapss kindly heat,
We olrft th drifts to grandpa's house, our mother! km to greet.
Ml dny our jingling sleigh-bells' tune smote keenly on the air,
it t l"n ere noon some small voice piped, "Pa, aren't we almost there?"
Then to bemiilo our restlessness our father told once more
How we should know the place ,afar; the aign, a red barn door.
O'er hill and dale we gavly sped, past farmstead. dull and gray,
And hailed each snon v hamlet as a mile-stone upon our way.
No homelv roadside object but our eyej were qtnek to sec,
And muffled voices chattered fast in childish jubilee.
We vied in sighting landmarks which familiar aspect bore,
And longingly we looked ahead for grandpa red barn door.
Our mother, from the seat In front, held us In heedful thought
And staved our rising hunger with the cookies she had brought.
'Twas she who chose the friendly house where we should stop to rest,
And mw us tucked, all warm again, within our sleigh-box nest.
She talked of name once common in her girlhood s rustic lore.
And knew each twist and turn that came before the red barn door.
The reins held laxly in his hand, pur father sat serene
And hummed quaint melodies that kept his old world memories green.
The long miles stretched away, and when the lengthened shadows fell
No thought of cold or cramping limbs our eagerness could quell.
We scanned each distmt looming treat that reared itself before.
Till all at once somebody cried, "I ace the red barn door!"
Now sometimes when the sleigh-bells ring and roadways: gleam with snow
feel that flooding jovoiuness that thrilled me long ago.
1 see the shining faces in the paling winter light,
The arms that wait In welcome there, to clasp and hold me tight.
And then I prav that heaven's gnte such gladness may restore,
As when we came to grandpa's house, beside the red barn door.
Youth's Companion.
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OCR ilnr? end a half In an
open dory without food or
wiiter, for two d:is driven
by ii loiritlo gale Unit
threatened to send the
frail craft to Hie bottom,
mill with n half-crazy companion who,
In wild delirium from lark of food and
drink and terrible exposure, twice at
tempted suicide ! jumping out of the
little craft Into the sen, Is the horrible
Rtory brought In recently by Charles
Mntlipson, forty years old, who, with
Ills ilory-inate. Tied flemiucon, eigh
teen years old, was picked up l.y the
llsliin.it schooner Flora S. Nickerson
Saturday afternoon, off the southwest
George's banks, and landed in the Fort
of Boston.
Lying in a Utile liiiuk, bis mind slill
filled with strange scenes, his face and
body emaciated from lack of -lourish-inent,
young Ilenuneoii showed pitiful
evidence of the, tortuous experience
through which his usually robust
young constitution had passed. With
large, nhiny blue eyes one minute look
ing peacefully comprehensive and piti
ful and n minute later shining In the
fever of delirium, he tossed and rolled
on his bunk while n IleraM man talked
with the sturdy Matheson, who had
conic through the awful experience
with' mind and body Intact, but with
great blisters anil swollen hands show
liijf evidence oi' the racking his body
had received.
"Charley, why don t you five me
that water you have hidden away
pleadingly asked Ilemmeou in his de
lirious moments; his mind still blurred
with the agonizing battle he had made
when his cravings for food and drink
drove him crazy. As tho fishing ves
sel rose even with tho dock on the
rlslug tide, Hemmeon was ;emoved on
a stretcher and taken lo the City Hos
pital. It Is believed that he wll' re
cover. Matheson and Hemmeon are the last
of the crew of the scnooner Quorum
powltt, which had nn Ill-fated experi
ence oft Brown's Bank on Tuesday,
when her entire crew of fishermen,
eighteen men, went astray iu a fog,
and Captain Elbridge Nickerson was
left at sea during a severe northeaster
with only his cook and a spare hand
to run the -essel. They started for
port, and or. the' way four men from
another schooner were taken aboard,
end brought the vessel safely Into port,
where they were wnruily welcomed by
Sixteen uicu of the crrw, who had
been picked up by the schoone? Ellen
C. Burke and landed lu this port
Wednesday morning. This left Mnthe
son and Heniuuon to be accounted for,
and their terrible experience brought
tears to the eyes of their mates. The
Bight of IIe:nuieon's emaciated nud do
lirlous face caused Captain Nickerson
to shudder, for he well know the ter
rible suffering t.'.rough which the men
hud passed.
It was nine o'clock Tuesday morning
when the doryninn of tho Quotum
powltt rowrd away from their craft
and started out to haul their trawls.
A heavy fo.- was hnug'ng over the
water. After the men br.d hauled theli
trawls they waited for the fog horn
of their vasscl. No sound was heard.
Matheson nnd Hemmeon were to the
windward of the achoocer. They set
their trawls again and waited. Night
set down ove.' the fishing grounds, but
still there was no sense of fear In the
heart of Matheson, who, born and bred
to the sea had fished in gales and
fog ou all the fishing banks of the At
Jantlc coast for thirty year?.
When no sound of a fog horn was
lieara the anchor was kept overboard,
aud the men lay down to sleep, con
tldent that the morning would find
them on board their vessel for break
fast. Daylight cume. with the fog
still aims , sua no sound of a fog
born. Matheson determined thut they
were lost, and, giving encouragement
to his clghteen-yenr-old Coryinate, they
..auieu in their anchor and started
row iu the dlrecilt n of the wind.
Matheson was confident thnt hr fol
lowing the direction of the wind they
loum maKO shore, as It was hlowln
from the northwest when the fog shut
"own. Arter six hours o' rowing the
nieu began, to suffer from luck of food
and water. They had 100 pounds of
fish on board nnd this was pitched
overboard.
Wednesday afternoon the wlud shift
ed suddenly and began to blow with in
creasing force. At six o'clock Wednes
day night a fresh gale was lu force,
rolling up hugo seas. Matheson took
his post at the stern of tho craft aud
steered with one of the oars, while
Hemmeon kept the boat as steady a
possible with the two ours.
TllO Wind Increased In fnrr ami tih
durkness the situation became desper
ate. The strain was telling ou Hem-
inwou, wno began to rave about the
ot rouil d water. At teu o'clock
vn nigut n huge comber struck their
Y una Uttuiuieou went over
board. The craft was nearly swamped
and the three ours In the bottom of the
boat were lost. Matheson Jumped
to the side ot the craft to save his
companion nnd lost the remaining onr.
Hemmeon was pulled Into tho dory,
which was halt filled with water.
The northeast gale brought a drop
in temperature. Hemmeon had taken
so much water that he was half un
conscious, and In balling out the boat
and keeping her from upsetting In the
wild sens thnt threatened every min
ute to engulf her. Matheson passed a
desperate time until daybreak. Hem
moon had been revived, but his mlud
began to wander. Mathesou worked
desperately to keep the boat steady by
the use of a hotter board which he tore
from i he bottom of the dory.
mile away. With ali the strength of
his pa"ehed nnd aching throat he yelled
for help, nis shouts were apparently
heard, for the steamer slowed down.
Kor fifteen minutes lie yelled. The
parched throat nnd unnouiishcd sys
tem could muster but a faint sound.
which, ns the minutes of desperation
wore on, grew fainter nnd fainter.
Then tho lights of the steamer began
(o (.row dim nnd It passed out of sight.
During the night Hemmeon, whom
his companion had given tip for dead,
again revived, and with brief moments
of consciousness, sang and alked wltn
his parents, who appeared lu bis de
lirium. Snturday morning came clear
and fair. The sen had moderated, to a
regular swell. During the forenoon
threo sailing vessels and two steamers
were sighted, and to each Matheson
rose In his dory nnd waved with all
his strength his oilskin perched on the
top of the fork. Sometimes It seemed
that his signal bad been eeen and that
rescue was at hand, but each time the
craft kept on their way.
Matheson had high hopes of rescue,
t3 he knew that he was still In the
course of ocean traffic. It was at 2.20
o'clock Saturday afternoon that Mathe
son sighted a sail directly to lsewnrd,
and In the course In which he was
drifting. After half an hour he was
able to make out the forms ot dory
men, and he knew that his signal of
distress had been seen at last. Wild
with Joy, he tried to stir his uncon
scious compnnlan, but without suc
cess. It was 3.15 o'clock when Cap
tain Gethro Nickerson of the cchooner
Flora S. Nickerson drew his craft
alongside the dory.
Matheson, who tipped the scales at
200 pounds when he left on the flsh
lng trip, w.'.s still game. When ho got
aboard, he rsked for water, and with
out stopping drank jno nnd a half
quarts. Later, he Jolntd fn the best
spread the fishing schoor.er afforded,
eating bis first morsel In 102 hours.
After a long sleep, Hemmeon was
revived, and given a little Jamaica
ginger. He was' still delirious, and
said he would not haul another trawl
nnd was going home. Even lu the
cabin of the Nickerson, on his way to
port, lie fought feebly with the men,
saying they hnd Ill-treated him. Sat
urday night the Flora Nickerson set
all sail and started for this port.
So near as Matheson can figure, he
was driven 200 miles by the gale of
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
The Brown's fishing banks are oft the
Nova Scotia coast, and the men were
LEPERS' HT iMPROVES.
Panama, Colombia and Hawaii to
rtn lid Lazarettos For These
Wretches.
j(OM. HE excellent Influence of
American sanitary methods
O O newly Introduced Into the
M K Pa n n ma Canal zone Is al-
Nr rendy apparent In the re
solution of tho republics of Tanama
and Colombia to tnke better core of
their lepers than has been tho custom
down there.
A recent roport from Dr. Claude C.
Tierce, assistant surgeon of the hos
pital set vice, s&ys that In the city of
Panama there nro twenty-two known
cases of leprosy. The only thing In
the least resembling a lazaretta about
Panama Is a collection of most dilapi
dated huts on the outskirts of the city.
where lepers may go It they choose.
They are supported In a half-hearted
miserable fashion by unor jnnimi
charity. There never has been any
attempt to force their Isolation lu
All 'I' 1. 1 ,. .1 ...... n-no ,7
en before the' northeast gale which Plcked "? ." southwest part of
was blowing forty-nine miles an hour,
kicking up a terrific sea. Hemmeon
lay iu the bottom of the dory at times
able to ball, ai other times mumbling
Incoherently, his mind wandering.
There wns little chance of watching
for other craft, as the huge Reas rolled
and tossed the boat so that most of
the time It was bidden In th trough
of waves. As night cam 3 on Hemmeon
grew more delirious. Ho beran to talk
of his father and mother at their home
lu Shelbourne and to berate Matheson
for keeping food and drink from htm.
Georges banks, 150 miles southeast of
Cape Cod.
Though Ilemmeou Is but eighteen
years old, he has been a fisherman for
threo years. Ho comes from hhel-
bourne, N. S., where his parents, broth
ers, and sisters live.
Matheson wns born In Sweden, and
came to this country when ten years
old. He has been a fisherman most of
his life, and for many years sailed out
of Gloucester on Grand Bankers.
He said this morning: "It was cer
tainly a tough experience, Yes, I have
A .Tnry l Woman.
For the first time In the history of
Shoshone County a jury composed en
tirely ot women heard the evidence In
a case, says a wnriiner imiumi ma-
patch to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Mrs. Fannie Vnneuren was charged
by her neighbor. Mrs. Sarah Flint, with
striking her with her fist. Both wom
en told tho court thnt they preferred
to have a Jury composed of members
of their own sex.
The array of women subpoenaed ns
Jurors wns young and good looking.
Mrs. Flint, nfter ninny Interruptions
and objections, related the following
story of the dlUli'tilty:
"Last Sunday afternoon I heard a
noise, nnd looking out from my house
I snw Mrs. ancuren tearing down a
rock pile I had built. I went out nnd
ordered her t stop. She answered by
striking me In the stomach with her
closed fist."
The Jury was locked up In the
Judge's office for fifteen or twenty min
utes, nnd then brought iu a verdict ac
quitting Mrs. Vnneuren.
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GKAVK OF FATHKU DAMIF.X.
The Famous "Leper Priest" of the Leper Settlement nt Molokal.
s .uuu a.... v....... " . tti t,..f tl.nf ilnl
when Hemmeon got lo his feet and good when a fellow . without
said: "Matheson, you have kept me money. I probably have lost thirty
hero ns long as you can. You can't pounds during the last five day It
... i.,7 ., i TOm,f r,,n,i Is the first time I was ever lost from
nnd I
... -fH im,aiMi,am. f!oo,ll,v vessel any length of time,
ii-. ii. . i,i ii none u in me lusu
. f.i,. !, n,n Matheson Is a very modest fellow,
lim inputs i...iU9uu v.-h"- ... i.,Q r In him to he
,,,1 Mu nn'n-nctnl. fo' nw ll S- Vl"-"' "I'l - - - --
ppeared. With the strength of des- only one of tho many things , througU
perntlon he pulled him aboard.
Hemmeon lay ns If dead.
Matheson had steadied the boat nnd
got Its head up to the seas he worked
over Hemmeon until ho got a faint
murmur that showed that tho boy was
till alive. TLo gale wore on and
which a fisherman must pass In his
Aft0P dangerous work. He lives at No. 322
Hanover street, ana is uniuamuu.
Boston Herald.
Antique Furniture.
It Is quite true that persons possess
ing antique furniture have come to
Matheson put In the ;est of the night i.nve nn exaggerated Idea of Its value,
balling water, and keeping the craft nnj jt is dally growing more aud more
steady. Matheson knew that he was (iitflcult I,lck ln bargains, even In
being driven lu a southwesterly dl-. ti,e more remote towns of Counoctl
rectlon, nnd that bis only hope of sue- cu nut one New York woman Is re
cor lay in being picked up by a pass- joiclng In the possession of a highboy
lng crart. lie niso Knew tiirti every for wiicu Bhe paid only 52. sue uas
hour he was being driven farther out 8llce ilna an offer of $150 for It.
to sea, and thnt his chances of being while autolng not far from Ridge-
rescued were lessening. Qcld. Ct, recently, sho stopped at a
It yr shortly before noon that bis fnrfuhouso for some water, nnd casual-
hopes were lifted, when, as the little y inquired if the family had any nu
craft rose on the crest of a wave, ho tlquo furniture to sell. The family
sighted the topmast of a coastwise i00iied at her, not seeming to under-
or a fishing vessel. He stripped off stal,a wUat she meant.
I1I3 ollskiu, mounted it on a pitchfork "Qia mahogany furniture have you
and waved It. At firtt he thought the any timt you WOuld like to dispose of?"
vessel had seen his signal and was u)ln repeated.
bearing down upon him. Ills shouts "Wall. now. there's that old chest
of Joy revived Hemmeon to tho first of jrawers on the back porch maybe
sign or sanity tnat no natt snown ror that's what youn want." nnd the farm-
these huts and cases can be found nil
over tli city.
At one point along the line of the
railroad a Chinaman in the last stages
of the terrible disease has set up his
miserable hut In n corner of the ceme
tery, where he s living out the dregs
of his existence in a most pitiable fash
ion. His shack consists of a lean-to
n gainst a tree a thatched roof support
ed by four posts lu the ground. The
walls are of discarded bits of sheet
Iron obtained from structures built by
French canal workers, which have
since tumbled down. It has no floor
and Is bare of furniture. The China
man cooks the food which Is brought
to him over the open lire, and sleeps
on n pile of dirty matting. A few feet
away Is a picket fenco surrounding n
grave, while nil about him are tomb
stones. Tart of his food allowance
comes lu tin cans, and tho empty cans
nre spread about his corner of the
yard of death.
But the Republic of Panama has re
cently Instructed the National Board
of Health to lay out and establish a
lazaretto capable of Isolating all of
tho lepers lu the Republic. It Is to
be divided Into two parts, one for men
and one for women, nt a considerable
distance apart. The act provides for
DRIVING BIT.
It will be ot Interest to a large num
ber of people to learn that a Seattle
NE of the ablest diplo-!
matists, and at the same
time one of the handsomest
members of the Interna
tional Pence Conference at
The Hague In 18W, was
Koory Bey, the second Turkish dele
gate to thnt conference. The Sublime
Porte has manw nble men in her ser
vice, but I doubt that Sultan Abdul
Hnmld nnd the Ottoman Empire have
an abler nnd more devoted servant
than Noory Bey, or rather (now after
his well-merited advancement) Noory
Pasha. What Lord Sanderson wa to
the British Foreign Office, that wns
nnd Is still Noory Pasha to the Turkish
ministry of foreign affairs. He Is a
peculiar type of Turk; Indeed, he Is
nn original and most Interesting mix
ture of Frenchman nnd Old Turk.
I remember nlwnys with true delight
hours which we spent together on a
bnlcony of n certain hotel at Therepla,
watching the glorious illumination of
the mountains of Anadolin by the set
ting sun, discussing Oriental poetry
ami philosophy, the great historical
events of the Ottoman Empire, nnd
the uncertainly of all human things of
empires ns well ns of Individuals. I
was not surprised to hear from his
younaest daughter, the sapphire-eyed
Milirlin. that she and all her sisters
adore (heir father, nnd would consider
it the greatest happiness in life to die
for him, It by their dentil they could
Increase his happiness.
And yet, the newspapers were In
forming us these Inst few days Unit
two of Noory Pasha's daughters have
secretly left (heir father's "Kuoak" ;.t
Booyookdere, and as fugitives tried to
reach Europe against his will!
From friends In Constantinople, nud
from ladles who visited the two sisters
In Belgrade. I obtained Information
which not only places tills Incident in
Its true light, but reveals to us n little
of that greater of great enigmas the
soul of a Turkish woman.
The jealous guarding against all out
side Influences, the nbsetiee of almost
every distraction, ottcn o.nicentratcs
the affections of the young Turkish
woman, deepens and Intensities them
Behind the barred doors lu the high
walls surrounding n Turkish house,
behind the latticed windows and thick
curtains there is much more romance
In Turkish family life, than Is dreamt
of by us unromantic Gyaoors. The de
votion of Turkish children to their
parents Is very great and veiiy tender,
but the devotion of the sisters and
brothers to each other can hardly find
Its equal anywhere among the Chris
tians. Noory Pasha's daughters fur
nish a beautiful illustration ot that
fact.
Controls the Horse.
Inventor has devised a driving bit
which pluces the horse under the com
plete control of the driver, nnd, If uul-
twenty-four hours.- Tho boy, his
cheeks pink with fever, sat up in tha
boat and yelled with all bis might.
Wave after wave brought the frail
little craft up to where the signal of
distress could be seen, but after fif
teen minutes Matheson saw that the
er took her out to Inspect the article
lu question.
It proved to be a bnndsomo uiguuoy
of unusual pattern and largo propor
tions. It was battered and ono leg
wns broken off, but when tho farmer
offered It for $2 the offer wns neeepted,
vessel wns bearing off to the eastward an(1 lt wug dipped to New York,
aud that his signals had not been seen
The day wore on and two more pass
lng craft were sighted
Each time the vessel appeared to be
making toward the dory, and then, as
Matheson became excited with hope,
the craft seemed to fade away,
During the long hours of tho dny
Hemmeon was partly rational and aid
ed somewhat In balling. A steamer
It was renovated, rubbed down and
repaired, und to-day is the admiration
of ull the womun's friends who know
tho value of antique furniture. New
York Sun.
Mew Plaids For Chlnsinen
Chinamen lu New York are con
stantly broadeulng the field of their
activities. Already many of them are
was sighted, but It was a mllo away, employed as household servants and
and the signal wns not seen. After vulets and a few days ago ouo of them
sundown on Friday night, when the opened up an American, tailor ship,
meu had been eighty-two hours with- Not a few have gouo Into tho station
out food or drink, the delirium of cry and tobacco business In a small
Hemmeon began to take on the crav- Way. The first Chinese tailor to open
Ings of a niuulac. He accused his dory- an atelier In New York Is Yuin-Chuuu,
mate of having food and water hidden originally of Fu-Chau and latterly ot
from him. At times bis mind wan- gnn Francisco. "I like not that l'a
dered to his seaside home nt Sliel- ciuc so much as thnt Atlantic," he
bourne, and he talked affectionately of 8ftj confidentially to the Oriental trav-
his father and mother. He pleaded eov who met him in Chinatown the
with them fo take him from, the other day. "They no like Ciiinnniau
clutches of the man who would not iu Cala, no matter If he high or low
give him food or drink. He Buatched caste. I meet oue rich Joss man, hltn
nn the ultchfork and made a savage blshon you call, and be say come niong
lunce at Matheson". Twice he came New York with me; you no like this
near striking the man who twice naa place. So I come by mo by."
rescued his from drownlug. J.ue aory
swaved and came near swamping as I Gam in Kansas,
Mutheson grasped the fork nud got it I Prairie chickens nre so tuicu in west-
away from his wild dory-mate. ern Kansas this yeor that passing
"You can't keep me here, rm going trains kill thciu daily, one engineer
home," jelled Uemineon, aud with a 0ut of Ell says ho has killed more
wild leap ho cieared tue dory a second than twenty wltn his ongme already,
time. The birds seem to revel in dating
Fortune seemed to piny with tho flights across the tracks ahead nt mov-H
youth, for he came to the surface close ng trains.
by the dory. Matuesou was Dareiy
mm
mwh f a ftp r
HUT OF A CHINESE LEPER IN PANAMA.
able to grab the boy by the hair and
pull him abroad as he was losing his
strength. Hemmeon lay unconscious
in the bottom of the dory.
Tbia'CKcltlng episode bad Just been
completed when Matheson made out
the lights of a steamer, which appeared
to b mi More than a quarter of a
An Old Turtle. IUs.
About the time tho Galapngou Isl
ands were discovered a young turtle
was born there. He died the other
day In the Zoological Garden, London,
Eng. Htt was at least 350 year old.
When be was feeling well he would
at m much grata an as average cow.
the examination of suspected lepers
and enforces their confinement at I he
luzaretto if the doctors find that they
are suffering from the disease. A
pbysiciun is to visit eacli patient at
least four times a month, and an un
dergraduate physician Is to maintain
a residence at the lazaretto.
Colombia also realizes the grave dan
ger which Is In store for the country
If leprosy Is not checked, and I ho
United States Minister at Bogota has
forwarded the Marino Hospital Service
a copy of a new law eatalilishing lazar
ettos In each department of the Re
public. Ono Is already being operated
In t li o Department of Autloquhi at an
expense, so far, of more than IMMjo.OiiO
pesos.
Surgeon-General Wynian of tho
United Slates Marine Hospital Service
bus selected an area approximately a
mile square as the leper settlement on
the Island of Molokal ns '.be site of
Hie hospital for lepers authorized at
the lust session of Congress. This
hospital Is declared by the act to be
for tho treatment of .such leper ns
may lie legally committed to It by the
Territory of Hawaii, and for tho sci
entitle ttuily of the disease. If tl.ls
purpose Is carried out, there will be.
for the first time in the forty yenra
history of segregation In the Hawaiian
Islands, continuity of study of the
disease from n scientific standpoint.
The life In tlu settlement Is that of
the ordinary Hawaiian community
The lepers live In cottages provided
for them by the Board or Health
which has charge of the settlement
They are provided with rations of pol
tlsli, meat and tea. -New York Tribune
The fastc.-l and mokt tmmptuously
equipped 'can HteaniHliips In the
world It lion built 1 Germany.
versally used, there would be no more
iinaway horses. This driving-bit con
aius the ordinary Jointed mouthpiece.
with rein rings attached, the rings
and mouthpiece being pivoted together
to a curved malHo Lar. The suatlle
bars meet at the ceutro under thn
ower Jaw of tho horse, and nro hinged
by a rivet, the overlapping ends of tho
suallle bars being recessed to form
smooth Joint. An overjaw check
guard, consisting of a curved chin liar,
connects to the suallle burs. An over
draw check bit passes through slots
lu tho upper end of the check gourd.
4'ani'.lilat For th a Bar.
A man from Texas adventured Into
Arkansas on a business errand. The
town was strange to him, -says a wri
ter In the Washington Post, und he wns
unacquainted with the mail, n lawyer,
wnoni nn Had come to so. There was
no carriage at the station when ho ar
rived, so he asked his way to the house
of Mr. Dash, and set out to walk.
The directions ho received were bo
indefinite that he found himself at lust
on the edgu of tho town, without hav
ing come to the house he sought. Thou
he met an old num. nnd nsked tlm way
iiKaln. Mr. Dash's house, bo learned,
lay about n quarter of a nillo down the
road.
"J lie man I want to see Is a lawyer.1'
he said. "Is this Mr. Hush down the
road a lawyer?"
"He ain't no lawyer thai I ever heard
tell or," answered tho old man.
"You're sure?"
The innn scratched his head in deep
inougur. -i iieu a gleam of remem
branee lighted his eye.
"Now I think of It, boss," he said,
" 'pears like I do rlcollect he ran for
lawyer one time."
Zeynolln ITanum, the eldest daughter
of Noory Pasha, Is a delicate nud
pretty young woman of twenty-two or
twenty-three. After her marriage her
health began rapidly to deteriorate.
Tho Turkish "Hakims" knew only so
much: that she Is dying slowly, and
hat they cannot help lt! Zeynolln Ha
nuin herself, ns n good Turkish woman,
seems to have reconciled herself to
bcr-fnte. After nil, what is the hnrem
but a sort of grave, with silk nnd vel
vet tapestries nnd soft sofas and
cushions, and what Is the grave but
for many a woman -a belter sort of
the harem?
But the youngest sister, Nooriya Ha
muli, loved her elder sister with a
more Intense love than Zeynelln loved
her own life. She Insisted on her
father letting Zeynella be examined
by the best European doctors In Con
stantinople. It wns not difficult to
persunde Noory Pasha to do so. The
European doctors saw Zeynelln, and
saw thnt she wns suffering from con
sumption In the first stage. They
thought thnt the only chance of saving
her life would be to place her in one
of the modern sanatoria for consump
tives In Germany or France. But to
send a young Turkish woninn to n
modern sanatorium In the cursed
Gynoor-Iand, thnt Implied n far greater
reform than tho great Powers have
ever .dared to demand. If Noory Pasha
had been a private Effendl, be might
have done It; but he, the Musteshar of
the Foreign Office ot the Sublime
Porte, a pillar of the Yildlz Kiosk he
could never do it! It would have been
the practical proof of the extremest lib
eralism; it would have been nn Inno
vation upon which even tho boldest
member of Young Turkey would not
have dared to venture.
The husband of Zeynella Hnnuin, her
father, and she herself took It for
granted that it was the Inscritable
will of Allah that she should die slow
ly ou the shores ot the Bosphorus.
But the young Nooriya loved her sister
too much to accept such a death with
out a challenge. She determined to
fight the giant of the Oriental fatalism,
the "Kismet." She determined to
take her sister to that strange country
of Infidels, but where science can save
people from the clutches of death. Of
course, they would have to leave the
mansion of their father unknown to
him. She begged her invalid elder sis
ter to trust to her love and her cour
age. Not that her own plucky heart
did not fall her sometimes when con
templating the long Journey through
the terra Incognita to nn equally un
known country. Fortunately, she and
her sister were good friends with n
young French lady, Mademoiselle Mar
celle lie Yeysseu. Nooriya had full con
fidence In Mademoiselle Marcel le, told
her of her burning desire to try to
save the life of her sister by taking
her to the best doctors lu Europe and
to the best place for her recovery. She
appealed to the young Freir.b glii lo
help her. Mademoiselle Mnrcelle, with
tliw chivalrous spirit of her nation,
ngrecd to once to place herself entirely
at the service of Nooriya.
As the Turkish frontier nt Mustnphn
Pasha could not be passed'wlthout a
passport, the most Important tnsl: for
the young ladles was how to get a
pass. After some difficulty and delay
Mademoiselle Marcello Induced au
elderly French lady to cede them her
own pass. But then there was another
difficulty. The trne proprietress ot the
pass was described as a gray-hnired
lady of fifty -two, traveling with .her
two grown-up daughters. For Nooriya
that was a difficulty only for a mo
taunt. Sho decided that lb would b
the gray-haired lady of fifty-two, nnd
Zeynella nnd Mnrcelle were to be her
two grown-up daughters. She pow
dered her hair to look grny, ar.d ale
painted her face to look ns old ns 1
could through a thick veil. And sh
played her role ndmlrsbly throughout
the Journey from Constantinople to
Belgrade. At Mustnphn Pasha, the
frontier rnllway station, she moved
with such dignity nnd spoke so enress-
lngly to the Turkish Inspector of
pnssports, Imploring them not to dis
turb her two Invalid daughters, who
were Just then quietly sleeping, thnt
the poor Turks salaamed most respeca
fully nnd let them pass on.
Meanwhile Noory Pasbn had lieen In
formed that two of his daughters hod
not returned from a drive to Ther
npln. Messengers were sent nt one
to all relatives and friends to nsk If
the young women had not been re
tained by some of them. As they had
been the night before nt Ylldlz Kiosk,
where a concert had been given for th
amusement of the ladles of the Im
perial Harem nnd their friends, Noory
Pasha went himself to the Imperial
residence to Inquire If his dnnghteri
had not been kept there to another en
tertninmenf. But. no! The Inquiries
nt the station revealed the fact that a
middle nged, gray-haired lady, with
two daughters, took a special comport
ment In the direct carriage for Vienna.
Telegrams were sent at once by the
Grnnd Vlz:er to Fethi Pasha, Turkish
minister nt Belgrade, to stop the train
and send the two sisters back to Con
stantinople. The Servian Government
was ready to oblige the Grand Vizier
and Noory Tasini as much as they
could; but. met by the determined re
fusal of the young women either to
return or to wait In the Turkish Lega
tion until the arrival of their father,
they only succeeded In Inducing them
to Interrupt their Journey and to rest
n day or two in the most comfortable
hotel in Belgrade.
Noory Tasini was immediately in
formed where bis daughters were. Ho
applied to the Sultan for permission
to go to fetch his daughters. It Is snld
that Abdul Hnmld told him: "Go
and bring them back! Without them
do not return nt nil!" On his nrrivnl
iu Belgrade Noory Tasha bad to be In
formed that his daughters bad mys
teriously disnnpeared. Fethi Tasha
believes that they have found n secret
refuge with Rome Servian girl friends,
daughters of Servian diplomatists who
served In Constantinople. But the po
lice n gents declare thnt they have
evaded the watching of the detectives
by leaving the hotel dressed in men's
clothes, and that they are now prob
ably lu Vienna. '
Anyhow, Nooriya Ilnnum has tbowc
not only the depths of a sister's love
but that a Turkish girl can exhibit a
wonderful strength of will and cour
age. May she succeed in her mission
to reclaim her sister from death to
life. London Tribune.
'Where Patriotism Rnlsjns.
While the Spanish-American War
wns being "fit" nnd every one was tre
mendously patriotic, it wns the prevail
ing custom in all restaurants where
one has to eat to music for the diners
to stand up whenever the national air
was played by the orchestra. It was
practiced steadily until hostilities
censed, and then a custom which is a
feature of British life always was
gradually abandoned except in one
place.
Over In Second avenue there Is a
prosperous restaurant qf the type
which calls Itself "Cafe Something."
in which this admirable custom Is still
preserved. A man who had not been
to the place since the wartime wan
dered over to the cafe a few nights
ago, and. much to bis surprise, when
the band played the national air every
oue stood up In the good old way. with
all Its accustomed exhibition of shame
facedness on the faces of the men. The
curious pnrt of this survival Is the
fact that a goodly proportion of the
patrons of the place are foreign born.
New York Tress.
Automolilllnlisiifiss.
"AutomoblUousness," says the Medi
cal Visitor, "is a comparatively new
disease, due to tho bacillus finniicll,
lthough some observers Insist that
the germ gettbereus Is the chief causa
tive factor. A French medical writer
reports a case, killed by on Irate farm-
r, whoso bralu was tilled wltn moon
lots, but it is uncertain whether this
post-mortem condition Is to lie at
tributed to the effects ot the disease or
the farmer's dub.
Autoniolilllousness has been mis-
taken for delirium tremens, but In the
latter disease, however, it is snakes
thnt the patient usually sees about
him nud feels thut he must kill, while
In nutonioblllousness lt is only wen,
women und children."
Ores With Her Kjres Rlmr.
There is n woman In Chicago who ll
totally blind while her eyes are open,
but who can seo with them shut. Her
eyes are normal, except that the nerve
thf.t conveys the Image to the brain
bus become misplaced, l tie woman
eyes are bright nnd clear. They per
form n l their functions hfiij
They dart about, regarding everything,
but on account ot tneir iiiispiiiceu
nerve, they see nothing. Yet let the
woman dose her eyes und the last ol
Ject gazed upon clearly visible to
her. She sees with her eyes closed.
She looks nt you, and everything Is
black. She seals up her lids, nnd ther
you are, distinct and bright before her.
Klorld Lsniusf.
Iii the far east language has always
been more florid nud ambiguous than
In tho west. 1'he King of Avn, In Bur
ma, culled blnuelf the "regulator ot
the seasons, the nbsoluto master ot the
ebb and flow of a' sea, brother of
the sun aud lord ot the four nud twenty
umbrelluc." The King of Airacnn,
lower IV.vrmn, was "possessor of the
white elephunt nud tho two earrings."
as well ns "lord of the twelve king
who placed their heads under bis
feet." In the Mozuniblque-ZMinbesl re
glou of Africa the Klug of Mouomtops
was not on'y "lord a" tho uu and
moon." but "great inaglcltiu and grtit
thief."