WHAT TRUE LOVE IS LIKE. Lome, Mollie, sit beside me And let us talk them o'er, The vears that we've heen mar ried now They're something like two score We've mef the many trials That came alike to all. But love has been so strong, dear, They lightly seemed to fal And, Mollie, let me tell vou, True leve is like a flower: It gives sweet fragrance while it lives In sunshine and in shower. My hair is white as silver And yours is mixed with gray, But you are now moxe beautiful Than on that summer day When . standine in the garden Beside the roses red, Xou whispered. “Yes, 1 love you true, ¥ou only will I wed.” And, Mollie, let me tell vou, True love is like the ray 3 Of light that turns the darkest night Into the welcome day. "Tis pearly forty years ago Nince first here. side by side, We sat and planned our future life, And you were then a bride. Our children. now. are grown and gone, And here again we sit alone As on that wedding day. And. Mollie. let me tell you, True lové is like a ring: It circles round and knews no bound, Whatever time may bring. And. now, together waiting, We see the day decline, And I'll soon miss your loving voice, Or else, dear, you'll miss mine, And whether, when the summons comes, It calls for you or me, The senaration must be And, then, eternity. And. Mollie, let me tell vou, True love is like the sun, Its light is bright through brief— day and Its course is never run. THE LEGACY. From the Yiddish of L. Libin. A cold winter morning. Snow, snow and snow; wherever the glance falls—snow. Throughout the night it had steadily fallen, at dawn a brisk frost ensued, and the day slow- ly waxed into a cold winter morning. In Mr. Dardick’'s sweatshop the hads are busily engaged at work—the operators driving the wheels of their machines, the finishers and basters plying their needles, backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, the cutter banging away with his heavy scissors, the presser with his irons, the packer with his boxes; in short, bustle and life. Very plainly, it is “busy.” It is still very early. The streets of New York are alive with endlessly fiowing streams of people on their way to work. The stores are still <losed and the early morning seems still to blink and to rub its eyes most lazily. But in Dardick’s sweatshop they have been at work many, many hours. Somewhere in the dim distance a vlock begins to strike the hours, wear- ily, one by one. One of the operators starts up. “What time is that?” he asks. “Seven.” “What? Only seven o'clock?” he ejaculated. “What did you suppose, numbskull?” “I thought it was almost dinner- time.” And it is not to be marvelled at that the poor soul had made such an error; for the real tailor “season” is in full swing, and work is begun in Mr. Dar- dick’s shop while the stars are still twinkling in the sky and the moon has still a good half hour of her journey to make. “All at work, all at work; it is busy!” The shop is not very large, but the { put in the boy. souls to be found therein are not to | be numbered. The hands are cram- Jord together in the fashion of herring a barrel. And, as g matter of fact a shop is merely a transformation of three ordinary tenement rooms, and space is precious.’ In®one of thé rooms there stands a spacious wardrobe. * When the rooms were inhabited the wardrobe was nat- | urally used as a depository for clothes; { marked Itzig, the joker. | Itzig’s nose and hissed out: i ashamed of his joke, steps aside. but when Mr, Dardick opened his shop | here; it remained standing without any | particalar use. When, utility ..beeame suddenly manifest. Forthwith _.an, operator was installed however, the: within its depths, and above his head, | in, & sort of cupboard arrangement hastily constructed for the occasion, another workman was duly deposited. So precious is space reckoned in Mr. Dardick’s shop. But this is not®exactly the point. in..one corner of the shop there | stands a sewing machine. mnocecupied; no one sits working by. Upon the machine there lie the usual “tools” of the operator, namely, a spool of black cotton, a cotton adjuster, a greasy little cilcan, a pair of scissors and an oilcloth cushion. The head of there- the machine is wrapped about in an | Ja { and the machine with it. apron. It is lonely, | | man remained standing and watched { the children. | happened?” In this Inferno there is an empty | Jittle corner, and no one makes bold to seize upon it; the operator's valua- bles lie upon the machine, but no sne dares to touch them. For cold Death has snatched away the being en- ~aged at this machine. it occurred but a few days before. At the machine there sat a workman of some thirty-five years, Barnet Lyok by name. He was one of the short- bHreathed, heavy-coughing tribe. One day, some few weeks previously, Barnet Lyok came to work with great parade; namely, his two elder children, six-year-old Sorele and seven-year-old Avronmke, led him by the hand. When kis fellow-workmen inquired the occa- sion of so much ado, he replied that fis feet had somehow become sort of “full,” and that it was hard for him to walk alone. | chil | walked off with the children. | coming From that day on the children were | #iis daily escorts to the shop. But it did not last long. fav Barnet remained sitting at machine like one paralyzed. A sweat oozed forth over his face, | the boy. eves stai¢d. numb and stark, and the | wheel grew suddenly still “Liyol kl” “Barnet!” “Heigh ho!” They succeeded in re- viving him, and two operators sacri- ficed an hour of their “busy” and led : wife and children. wing day the tidings net was no longer opera- him home to i - among the living. For a the workmen were lost in thought as they received the news; then, for a while, they rehearsed the worthy tr in the character of him that was dead. Finally, two operators arose, stepped up to Barnet's machine, wrapped it" about in his apron, and arranged the various tools. “Fellows,” one of them cried out, “let the things remain just so, and an ugly end for any one who touches them!” “Ought to carry them away to the widow,” proposed some one. “No; best not to bother her just yet. Heart's bitter enough. Wait a while.” ‘Let them be so till they call for the stand,” put in the baster from his post on high within the wardrobe, “and then we'll carry the things to the widow.” The stand, namely, was a rented one. And so the machine remained stand- ing where it had always stood, but quiet, motionless, with the tailor’s de- siderata and black apron on top. Two frozen little children have en- tered Dardick’'s shop, a little girl and a little boy. Their clothes were in tat- ters, their shoes torn. “Barnet's children!” somebody cried out . . . and suddenly a miracle took place. The raging, whirling hell grew sud- denly quiet and placid. The wheels of the machines were suddenly scorched in their whizzing; the heavy press- irons stood cooling; the needles sud- denly ceased to ply and to fly. The operator stalked forth from his post within the wardrobe, and from on high the baster descended. All surrounded the two little orphans. Scme eyes were filled with tears and for a moment ail was silent. ‘How's mamma?’ “Sitting Shivah.” (This is the pre- scribed seven days mourning.) ‘“‘Eat amything today?” “Yes,” answered the chorus. "WE at?” “Soup and bread.” “Poor little birds,’ baster. “Did they make fire at home?’ asked somebody else. “No,” replied the little girl. “No coal,” put in the boy by way of explanation. “Awful cold at home.” The operators looked at each other. Then someone took out a nickel, and soon everybody began to descend into his pocket. A free collection was made for the orphans. “Is your pocket without holes?” asked one of the workmen, turning to children in murmured the “Yes,” answered the child. “Well, give this to your mother; something was owed your father, you know,” and he emptied the money into the child's pocket. “Altogether without shoes . . . 1ite naked or “Pid you come for anything?” asked some one, “Mamma things, ’ cent us to fetch papa’s ” said the little girl. e machine and the other things,” “They’ve come for their legacy,” re- Whereupon pushed his fist under “Jackass, I'll smash your ugly Shapiro “Ox” is this a joke? phiz for y “Same end’s waiting for us all,” re- marked another operator, and Itzig, The “things” were handed to the children; the head of the machine was given to the boy, and the little girl tock the other valuables tied up in a bundle. But it was seen” immediately that the machine was too heavy for: the child. Cae “Will you .be able to carry it by > asked one of the operators. "answered Avromke promptly and puffed out his chest. “I'll help him,” chimed in Sorele, and both chil- dren left the shop. The workmen slowly returned to their places. The operator of the wardrobe returned to the wardrobe, the baster of the post on high returned to his post on high, but one vld work- Suddenly he cried out: “Oh, woe is me!” “What is it? And a tumult ensued. “The child has fallen into the snow, flocked to the window. But the joker, ran out to help the ren. Those standing by the win- dow saw how he picked the child up from the snow, how he picked the ma- chine up, took it into his hands and “That Itzig,” muttered Shapiro “Ox.” And soon the shop was again whizzing and whirling in the glow of its fiery “busy.”’—Translated for “The Sunday Philadelphia Record.” No Pressing a Woman. yo were once SO sunny and bright,” he said complainingly, “a reg- ular ray of sunshine. ‘What has changed you?” “Yes,” replied she, “lI suppose I am What is it? What has i 8 Grabbing Dollars =%3 ¢ Is Low Compared to Practising the Industrial Arts i By (Address to the alumni Andrew Carncgie. of the Stevens Institute of Technology.) Fdefoldeielk g, HAVE been locking at you and I say that there was a great contrast beilween ti audience and other audiences we &% might meet, such, perhaps, as men engaged in stock specu lation. 1 congratulate you that you have taken a profession for ’, 3 * +, | sfeferfererlenieslenis old 3 your future, aj sion in which, perhaps, you will not aE —=% make fortunes That may be the reason why your WB efefodeioen a president has rr it difficult to raise all the money he wants. You are doing bigher things than grabbing dollars. You have something which the mere money maker never can possess, and mer- cifully, can never understana the loss of—you have education. Some well known American citizens were sitting around a table in a ho- tel in Europe recently, and while one of them was estimating the amount of wealth possessed by an American whom I might call Mr. Richbroker, another was contiually dissenting, and at last said: #He doesn’t own a million dollars. The dollars own him.” The difference with you is that knewledge does not possess you, but you have the treasure and own it. No matter whether you die worth millions or not you have something that is denied to the man immersed in the accumu- lation of wealth. In your professions you deal with eternal verities. There is no such thing as deception in the materials or the laws you use. Two and two make four. There is no scheming to deceive others, no smartness, no tricks. Ycu have to walk straight to the lire of truth and honor or you will fall down. Seli-respect is more than millions, and if you lose that, everything else is worthless. When a man’s judge within, his own soul, approves when he lies down at night of all that he has done during the day he has no other judge to fear, here or hereafter. But if he does not have self-approval very thing else is dross. I think the professional life leads men to the higher life that it is most diffi- cult to obtain in a mere speculative career. The world is not advanced by the men in that large department of business which is mere gambling in stocks. They are parasites, feeding on business. If I had a son to educate I should choose for him a professional career such as you have chosen. CHLL RL ALL LLL QL RALQAALLQNIG = How Our Consuls ri Succeed =... A. Maurice Low. HE American Consul is sui generis. He is made a consul without previous training or experience, frequently without a rudimentary knowledge of the language of the country in which he resides. From the editorial chair, the lawyer's of- fice or the political ranks he is transferred to the Consulate; more often than not without the least knowledge of a con- : duties, without the slightest acquaintance with interna- r commercial law; as densely ignorant of the history and manners and customs of the people among whom he lives as they are of the idiosyncrasics of the American mind. Now, if theories were always as stubborn as facts, the American consul ought to be a colossal failure, utterly worthless to his government and not of the slightest use to commerce, and candor compels me to say that a few years ago this description accurately fitted him. There were exceptions, of course, there always are exceptions; but they only prove the soundness of the rule. Now most of them do their work well. Perhaps the very fact that they have no previous training, that they come fresh from their own country, and every- thing they see appeals to them with the force and novelty that a new object appeals to the child with an expanding mind and makes the same impression, or perhaps because unconsciously it is a case of the selection of the fittest and the man who is shrewd and pushing enough to be able to capture a consulate has qualities which distinguish him above his fellows—whatever the reason, the fact remains that these untried men are sent abrcad and that they are keenly alert to the demands made upon them. They are always investigating, inquiring and wanting to know. They are not content merely to send to the department perfunctory reports of official re- turns of imports and exports or mere tables of figures (although these 4s mat- ters of routine are not ignored), but they delve into obscure places, they com- pare and contrast, they offer their advice and suggestions freely and the de- partment allows them full scope. How much the consuls report is “edited” before it is made public, or how often it never is given publicity, no one, of course, outside the department has means of knowing, but-the daily bulle- tin issued containing these reports, which is given wide and gratuitous distri- buticn, shows that the American consular corps is industrious and intelligent. tical CELLLALTAU LLU AL LELK ma TaaqR ~ Rough Mining Camps = Co Disappearing we 7 cove. = ¢0004¢9®®d LW things in the developatent of our country could be more 3 gz than the strides taken by mining within the last ® 3 few vears. Centrast the Cripple Cheek district of 1890, with 3: ite 40 square miles of ranch bans s,-or again, of 1891 or 1882 ® with its thousands of prospect-holes and diminutive dumps Sr02000200 on one side; with the ture of to with its many mines 1 almost entirely cons lated in 14 great companies with its ceco0200000 50,000 settled pops tion, its dignified ‘eity and it produc- tion, in o of the terrific labor struggle, of nearly $12,000,- 000 worth of gold in 1908, » the produetion for 1904 is esiimated at $23. 000,600. Contrast the condit n the:/'miner trudged up Bull hill from I “cabin carrying his tools, is way down his rude ladders and picked away at his own little m iitions today, when he goes to his work on an ele ctric ca hoist, works by elec- i ith el shot by electricity rote from the scene of tamping. .Set.the drill, and tne miner's candlestick be- that ‘district who, 10 "years ago, Tan under $160 per ten with the plants make a margin cn he line ‘over Anaconda Hill, ght of the immense steel gallows of the seven great companies employ- ly 4600 men—and producing annually Today. LLRAETRRE RURAL QCA RR RRU LE aT 3 thod pr . Methods . . 8) 1 q hat. Ruin . Nations By Bishop Mackay-Smitl: groped Bi Tr cor YINDIESSOFS And reds # Co st “the SE $000 men—one ¢ 3 A r fifty millions of wealth.—The World 5 of Christianity are, in their last analysis, si They are founded on ti hinders “the progress of ‘the wuman greed apd hunian seifisih- subtle ferm which, for the better itse'f in fine names, and poep- : a splendid Look at the gre which one can use for illustration, HE princip ply the pe of fair tion tha 1 ihat Whi in the long 4 in. s ianity, clothe atest mon- that by ; one of the most usefu discoveries of the last cenlury, one obviously intended by Providence for the benefit of the couniry at large, passed into a few selfish hends. wha sunshin 3451 might be termed an ex-ray of but it is your constantly my grglaim ed he angrily, “if it isn’t it the husband’s 1 0 to dispel? home cross that has spoiled ¢ ; place to dispel her hus- | iness 0 furnish something for ke: | ulation, viz., the control of mineral oil. Men m 5 or tricks by which the control of this great gif ds of ¢y billionaires. They 7 dt that the ty of the article, .as e adva > of the public. Such 2 can be met and answered by the sin atement vation are such as always, in the long run, if of na It was the habit of calling wrong prought the Empire of Rome to rottenuness. through unscrupulcus and do, defén argument, how- i [oy rer, is all in { that the meth i inchecked, res in the U t SCIENCE NOTES. To save life in mines filled with poisonous gases after an explosion, several Viennese scientists have in- vented a respirator through which it is possible for the wearer to breathe the same air over and over again. g in Australia, says the 'e Notes, our hive bees ollected quantities of ii however, that there was no winter such as we have in Eng- land, gave up laying in stores. Its mor corrupted, for it is no long- er ’ and leads a butterfly life. On landin writer.in Nat industriously honey. The torrential rains of Madagascar ground-sluice the surface soil into the waterways, forming shallow gulch placers characterized by the fine flour gold content; this process results in a natural restoration of the placers which, after being once mined, can be profitably worked again after an inter- val of a few years. Apropos of a statement that “coal would appear a strange article of diet,” a correspondent writes to the West- minster Gazette saying that it is not only children and cats who regard it as a luxury, as he has an Irish water spaniel which makes away with a num- ber of lumps a day unless the coal is kept out of his reach. A discovery of great grchaeological interest has been made in the district of Umtali in Central Africa during some recent exploration. Extensive ruins of what apparently were build- ings of some antiquity have been re- vealed. One of the most interesting objects unearthed is a structure shaped like a cairn, and unique in the history of the country since the establishment of white rule. It is twelve feet long and ahout the same width, with a small curious construction at one end. Notable features of the cairn are that each side—excepting one, which has been displaced by the growth of a large tree—bears traces of skilled handiwork. The material, which strangely enough differs in character, is dressed and faced throughout in artistic style. One side is composed entirely of .quartz, while the others consist of soapstone and gneiss respec- tively. i Long before bacteriology became an established science the microbe theory was discussed by scientists. Daniel Defoe, in his “Journal of the Plague,” published in 1722, wrote: “Some there are who talk of infection being carried on by the air only, by carrying with it vast numbers of insects and invisible creatures, who enter into the body with the breath or even at the pores with the air, and these generate or emit acufe poisons, or poisonous ovae, Or eggs, which mingle themselves with the blood, and so infect the body. TI have heard that the plague taint might be distinguished by the party's breathing upon a piece of glass, where, the breath * condensing, there might be seen, with a microscope, living creat- ures of strange, monstrous and fright- ful shapes, such as dragons, snakes, serpents and devils, horrible to behold: but this I very much question the truth of, and we had no microscope at that time, as I remember, to make the experiment with. Electric Heating. The art of electrical heating is well developed, though the use of these ap- pliances for heating rooms and cock- ing is not as great as could be desir- ed. The fault here lies not in the heaters themselves, but in the fact that in generating electrical energy from coal great losses take place. The method is roundabout, and the only system available today is, un- fortunately, inefficient. First we burn the coal and transfer as much as possible of the heat developed by this process to, water. The steam thus generated is then passed to some type of engine. The engine drives an electric generator, which in turn de- velopes an electrical current. This current must then be ‘ransmitted, through conducting wires, to the point, where its energy is reconveyed into heat. | At every step, except the last, 16sses take place, not so much due to the apparatus as to the system itself. —Electrical Review. Qzpsies on the Sea. In the archipelago off Mergui, off the gas} of Lewer Burma, Asia, live the “sca. gypsies.” Instead of carts they own covered boats, in which, with their families, dogs, cats, chick- ens and pets, they float about on the sea and wander from island to island. By day they fish or harpoon turtle or ve for oysters But every night they put back to the shore. If the weather is bad at sea they land with their dogs and then poach, catching porcupines, squirrels, armadilleoes, hog deer and the like, of which they make savory stews, as American gypsies do. —Chicago. Journal. Human Nature. “We tried a new experiment in our town,” said the man with silver-rim- ed speetacles. ‘“We @ thought that e tendency to vanity was so great t there ought to be some reward for people who were capable of stand- ing aside and rejricing in the success So we organized a soci- the presentation of others. ety and arranged for of modesty medals.” “How d!d.it work?” “Badly. As socn as a man won one of the medals he would swell up and get so proud that we’d have to take it away from him.”—Washington In a Pitsburg office building a sys- tem of washing the air and removi all dust has been introduced. liently; Class Furnistings. Glass furnishings for the dressing room and bathroom are more and more popular. Sets of shelves with nickel supports, glass towel rods, and cther fittings have superseded to a large extent nickel and even silver in homes of wealth. Glass bathtubs are not very new. They are still tco ex- pensive to have come into common use. Paper Muslin Mats. Mats for tables or chair backs for the cottage are make of paper muslin. The muslin is cut into strips, folde and woven, just as the kindergarten paper mats are made and the effect is quite good, when garnet and white strips are interwoven, or dark blue and green, or white and navy blue. Pat- terns are to be had, not alone the sim- ple, checker-board effect, but more elaborate designs. A bag to hold odds and ends, made in this way and finish- ed with a silk top to draw it up by, is a handy thing to hang on the wall of a summer cottage.—Newark Adver- tiser. Laundry, Sewing, Darning. The ability to use patterns and cut material to the best advantage, the cultivation of taste ir form and trime- ming and the art of sewing neatly, are all learned in this way. Then there is the art of mending and darning. ILaundry work is almost a lost art in many households, and is regarded as difficult and drudgery. Yet done with knowledge it becomes a fine art. Every mother should feel it a part of her daughter's education to have skill with the needle, and in vacation days it is easiest to give the girls lessons in sewing and making garments, be- cause they have no other demands on their time. Freshening the Gown. Sometimes when 2 muslin gown be- comes limp but not soiled it may ue reshened without washing by sprink- ling with gum arabic water, tnen ironing. After starching, turn the dress wrong side cat, dry in a shady place as rapidly as possible, sprinkle, roll in a towel for a short time, then ircn on the wrong side, finishing by pressing the rough seams and edges cn the right side. Before beginning to iron see that the flatirons are perfectly clean. Have a newspaper cn which to rub the iron every time you take one off the range, a’ soft cloth with which to wipe it around the edges, un iron-stand on which to rest the iren when you find it necessary to move the goods, and a bowlful of cold water and a piece of white cotton with which to moisten any places that may become too dry to permit. of being ironcd smoothly. Recipes. Currant Sponge—Put one cupful of currant jelly (quince or other jelly may be used) into a pint measure; fil the measure with boiling water, add half a cupful, scant measure, of tapio- ca, and cook in ‘a double boiler until the tapioca is transparent. Add one- fourth teaspoonful of salt to the whites of three eggs, and beat them ic until stiff; fold them into the tapic:a mixture and turn intc a mould. Serve when thoroughly chilled, with cream and sugar. Chocolate Cookies—Rub tcgether one cupful of sugar and ene-half cupful of butter slightly melted. Add one whole egg and one yolk, oae cupful ‘of chop- ped nuts, one cupful of raisins, stoned end fioured, three-fourths of a cupful of sweet milk, and two cupfuls of flour in which two teaspconfuls of baking powder have been sifted. Melt two squares of unsweetened chocolate anid put in last. Flavor with vanilla. Drop in small pieees on pan and bake in moderate oven. Salted Almonds—A cooking-school for salting almonds requires that after rhelling for blanching, the nuts shall be boiled in strong sait water for ten minutes, allowing one teaspoonful of salt to each cupful of nu cughly on a cloth and sprinkle with melted butter or salad eil, a teaspoon- ful to each cupful. Spread on a tin and put in a hot even till they are a light brown. Shake often, watching carefully that they do not burn. Drain on blotting paper. Egg Cookies—Use one cupful of but- ter, two cupfuls of sugar, five eg one and one-half pints of flour. one- balf of a teaspoonful of baking pow- der, and one cupful of milk. Mix but- ter, sugar, and eggs smooth; add fiour, sifted. with powder, and milk into dough soft enough to handle conven- flour the board; roll out dough thin; cut out: with biscuit cutter; lay on greased ‘baking tin; bake in het aven five or six minutes. These cookizcs will keep for: several weeks. Banana Sponge.—Peel and p d smoothly six er eight bananas, add to this three or four ounces of sugar and a little grated lemon rind, the juice of one-half of a lemon, one ounce of gel- atine, and rather more than one and one-half pints of cold water; stir this over the fire until the ar and gela- tine are dissolved, then lift it off and let stand until nearly cold, when you beat it well, mixing in the stifly wh ped whites of two eggs: pour into a mould and stand on ice until set. 5,000 \ 7 More than persons annually disappear in the United Stat i CO] the Sp ple th th
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