WANDERLUST. ribbon of white unfurled, That winds away to the distant world; A leave of care and a song to sing, A staff and crust in my wandering, No clanging bells, no traftic's din, Nor city gates to hold me in. I hear it calling, soft and low, And I must answer—I must go. Over the-slopes, To the glittering waste of Rocked to-rest hy the As a babe -is lulled by Far away from the tactories’ And the restless throb of the noisy town, The sea stars call, the Cross hangs low. And I must answer—I must go. The The road—a and leas, summer ocean's tune, its moCaer's croon. frown, tho ills seas; hear the song city's throng. earned in strife a .rover’'s ‘life. me back, rover's track, low, ust go! Sentinel. road—it wa Of a rover sung I'll barter all For a crust and I'll heed no voi For my heart is The road is « And I must — Will F. Griflin its, and I in Milwaukee a rt perme te *. oe fe We Yeo Ve oe ote . \7 Aaa se oe ole ste ste oe oe ode se na of afi age 30 fe of afd off Che Senora’s Chicken fee 0 » . LD efoto 2, +" Sesdesfesfesteoteotes AN INCIDENT AT PANAMA 3y STEPHEN KEEN 2 my a 3 le $ 0S v oS * % * 3 » QS 2 BS % 3 ” Je ue eo * Fe oe ote x oe 0 Jo ”» I at - o£ te ge wr foils 8 the mosquito, and one must needs be careful with what kind of mosquitoes he associ- ates. One of the wrong kind put me in the hospital with yellow fever, and sent me to Taboga. In the zone ‘going to Taboga” nifies something rather serious, not as serious “eoing to Hill” or “to Flamenco Island;” for: if you go to either of these latter places you never come back, In other words, Monkey Hill and Flamenco Island are two cemeteries of the zone, the one at Colon and-the other in Panama Bay. While I was. at work: on the large “navvy’ - camp - at Emperador, in March, 1996, 1 had occasion £0 to the Culebra camps one evening for some of my carpenter left, there the previous week. In passing the low ground between the stations, where the low ground between the stations, where the path ran beside the old French chantier, past dis: dump- cars and a slough overgrown with rank grass, a swarm of mosquitoes rose: suddenly about my ears, and proved so: ravenous that I was bitten more than a dozen times before I could get away from them. To that. one en- counter the doctors attributed an at- tack of fever which left me weak that I could neither. rise nor stand alone. It was even worse than that, for I felt numb all over, as if para- lyzed. The hospital doctor said that this was the sequela of the malarial fever; I have an idea that it was jn part due to the powerful medicines which they gave me. Be that .as it may, they sent me to Taboga to recup- erate. Taboga is an island miles down the bay from the old City of Pai- nama, on the Pacific side of the isth- mus. It is. a mile and a half in length by half a mile in width, and rises to a height of nearly nine hundred feet. In fact, it is the top of a mountz2in half-submerged in the bay. There are two little villages on the island, and a convalescent hospital for canal em- ployes. Otherwise the island is a kind of picnic ground for the Panama people and is especially noted for its pine- apples. As the sanatorium was uncomfort- ably full of patients at this time, the doctor in charge sent me to the house of a mulatto woman of the island, named Rafaela Marel, who cooked for Americans there, and for picnic par- ties. She was noted for her chicken a lI’Amercain, and certainly she made vey palatable chicken sandwiches. Senora Marel's house is several hun- dred feet up the hillside from the sea. I would by no means term her a care- ful housekeeper, yet it was a rather cozy place—for Panama. The senora spoke a little English; and there were three rooms fronting the sea view, of which mine was the middle one. For a week I lay there, nourished for the most part on chicken, looking out on the bay, where our war ships were at anchor, and watching the coastwise steamers going and coming from the port. One of the two rooms adjoining mine served the senora as a kind of fruit store. Here she had banana bunches hung up by the dozen, and on a low, broad shelf round- three sides of ie room were pineapples and custard-apples by the score. Rav- ishing fruity odors were wafted in to me through the open door. What the room on the other side contained: was not so clear; in fact, I began to wonder about it, for now and then there were odd, rushing sounds in there, as of pigs, but no grunting. Once in the night, however, I was wakened by a single loud squawk. If I had been able to get up and move about I might have settled the ques- tion by opening the door and looking in; but I was quite helpless, or thought I was. It- did not seem to me that I possessed strength even to rise to a sitting posture in my cot. “It had rained heavil yone afternoon and the night was cloudy and dark, but shortly after 12 the wind rcse, and blew so hard that my door began slamming violently. I shouted several times for the sen- ora to come and shut it, but A deal depends on sig- yet as Monkey to 7 10018, ised SO seven she | seemed to have gone away, or else to | be very sound asleep. At last I drowsed off azain, but was awakened by some heavy dashing furicusiy over the coverlet of my cot. A /chair was upset in the darkness, and {he wsater basin clat- | him creature | i stand! My first thought be a pig or a dog at the open door. “Get out, you tered off the was that it must that had come in ‘shoo! Shoo!” I yelled. tike!” Over went the wash-stand, and on the instant I felt the brute land on my feet. I had honestly thought that I -could not move, but in a sudden ecstasy of fear I drew up both feet and kicked. Clatter-sma chairs again, and then whiff of repulsive odor, body dashed across the very face! Before 1 knew it, striking out with bath beast, whatever it wa thump on the floor it crawling horribly, scratching its nails on the tiles! No dog or pig would ever make a noise like that, was sure. What could it be? Under my pillow I had one of those little vest pocket electric lights, such as are now sold cheaply at all the large stores. 1 had brought it with me from home, and had found it very handy at night for looking at my watch. Hastily I now fumbled for it, and finding it, pressed the button. The tiny bright beam pierced the dark- ness—and there, squatted, blinking, on my trunk, close to the foot of the cot, was the worst looking object t at I had ever seen. It was brown, scaly, horrible, with a ridge of bristling spines rising along its back, and its glassy eyes were fixed on me! What could it be? I could think only of a Gila monster. Was the isi- and infested with them? Or was it some hideous marine thing that hai crawled up from the sea? ; My. hand shook as I tried. to. keep the beam of light focused on.the hor- ror. Perhaps 1 dazzled its eyes with it. In jumped, struck on the foot of the cot—and about that time I jumped too! 1 don't leaped out of ran out at the was shouting, too, Help!’l In fact, sh went basin, stand and swish, with a some heavy cot, over my I was sitting up, hands. The landed with a and then I heard how 1 did it, but I that cot and actually door into the patio! I shouting, ‘Help know I nearly ran into the Senora Rafaela, who had heard me call her and in her own good time was com- ing to see what I Ane, Naturally the ished. * “Senor! cried.” ‘Is it. thou?’ “Fetch a light! Fetch a cried. “There's a Gila monster in my room!” For that was all. I could think of as I staggered about there in the darkness, trying to keep on my aston- she was Senor Estevan!” light!” 1 | feet. after lighted “look It will candle, and of matches, the room. “Cudia! She brought a striking a number it and peered into out!’ I cautioned her. jump at you!” 3ut the wholly unterrified. senor” (Do not fea ingly. “Es “guana only a ’guana.) ‘’Guanal!” 1 exclaimed. Si, senor. Es ’guana. ticken. Ali seme ticken.” “Ticken?” 'said IL. Vhat Chicken?” “Si, senor. Muy bueno para la com- ida. Very good to eat.” And march- ing in with her candle, she captured the horrible creature by the tail, dragged it, scratching on the tiles, in- to the other room, and shut the door, which the wind had blown open 1 returned to my cot with much matter for reflection, but had the sen- ora leave the candle burning. Come to think of it, I had never seen nor heard any chickens about the place; yet the senora’s supply of “cold chicken” seemed unlimited. “All the same ticken!” Those were her “chickens,” then—and I felt rather sick when I thought of the quantity of it which I had eaten. 1 imagined that I had something to tell the doctor when he came ta see me that morning. “Doctor,” 1 said, “do you know what we are all eating here for cold chicken?” “Oh, yes,” said he, laughing. “It is guana. But it’s just as good. Why, all chickens, all fowls and birds of every kind were reptiles once, or are descended from reptiles. It is just as good.” “Oh, all right,” 1 said. my own opinion of it.” Plainly I could not astonish him that way. He had been at Panama a year. But he did look a little sur- prised when I got up off my cot and took a step or two. I had been pon- dering that, too, and concluded that if fear eould put me on my feet, a Senora Rafaela lsughed, “No tenga miedo, r), said sooth- solamente.” (It she, i3 Lo mismo is ‘that? “But I have resolute exercise of will power ought. also to do it. In fact, I left Taboga the next day. But I did not partake of any more of Senora Rafaela’s cold chicken. Thesge large lizards, however, are quite fre- quently eaten by the Panamanians. Ugly as they look, too, I am assured that they are quite inoffensive.— Youth’s Companion. Proud of His Dog. “He's the most pestiferous litle pup in town, sir!” exclaimed the angry neizhbor, “and 1 tell you you've got to keep him at home or I'll take a club to him the next time he comes over here and tramples my flower beds and’'— “You dare to so much as shake your little finger at that dog of mine and I'll knock your head off!” shout- ed other man. “Who said anything about your dog? I mean that youngest boy of vours.” “Oh, well, that's different. a talking too, 2nd whip him he bothers you any more.”—Judge I'll give if Governor C, E. Hughes of New York is a Baptist. "is out at early ‘the surface ; 258 members A sto ne house is not durable as one of brick. A brick house, well con- structed ‘will outlast one built of gran- ite. SO .1t ‘has becn found that a properly painted steel frame buried in masonry will not enough in 13 years ‘to alter its strength to any measureable anount. rust eminent the sunflower that can be Guinine An nmiaae Spanish scientist has recent discovery that the viel a splendid febrifuge, used as a substitute for Accordingly, the should not only, by its growing great fever-dispelling effect, but yield a product which is used tageouslty in all fevers. ds | A smoke consumer has been recent- The machine is an auto- matic device to further the tion ‘of ccal and thereby smoke. It works automatically with the opening and shutting of the firebox and the scheme is to inject steam into the firebox. in the amount of coal consumed is great. It is estimated that 95 percent of the smoke is consumed. ly. patented. decor, and air years ago America im- Portland cement than it manufactured. Now the tables have turned, and this country has tak- cn the front rank both in the produc- icn of cement and in its use in con- {ructicn. It has been estimated that the quantity of Portland cement used in this country in 1905 would be suffi- cient to lay all -around the earth at the equator. If compacted into a single solid cube, that cube would measure almost feet on each edge.—Youth's Compan- ion. few ported mere Only a Leen A and ness new process putting the has been for preser ice man out discovered state: department h received a report from Consul-General Guenther on the process discovered by Professor Lapparent, in which he “The meat is hung up in a tight box, then a ‘few sulphur ' threads placed in. it and ignited. after the box is closed. contain any sawed positien proceeds from them. es ought to be air-tizht and for from 24 to 48 hours with acig.” of busi- in Tne as says: as decom- The box- be carbonic bones SAVING WASTE. Skimming River for a Living—Fish Who Net Corks. river: for ‘a living be one of the most striking examples of the utilization of . waste. This done in Paris. There is one individual, at least, in the French capital who makes it his daily business to skim the Seine. He morning in an old flat boat, ‘armed with a skim- With® this” he skinfs off of the river the grease which collects there during the nizht and which he disposes of to a soap factory. Generally he makes a quarter or so by his morning work, which enables him to live. In Paris also there are a number of people who make a living out of waste corks which they fish from the Seine. They collect on the river bank at daybreak, each with a short pole, at the end of which is a small impro- vised net. They set to work to gather in the floating corks, subsequently selling them to the cork merchants in the neighborhood. There are about a score or so of these cork fishermen, who have formed themselves into a sort of craft and who guard their interests jealously. If they catch sight of a stranger nett- ing corks they fall on him in a body. Only recently the police rescued one of these novices barely in time to save his life. The sweeping of a floor might well be considered as so much waste; yet throuzh a fire in London the other day, which consumed a sweeping stored in certain firm lost several dollars. The heap of dust and rubbish contained silver fillings, which it was intended to extract later on. This is done regularly at all works where silver or gold is used. In gold refiners’ premises even the soot in the chimneys is not allowed to be treated as waste. It is found to con- tain minute particles of the precious metal, which are far too valuable to be lost. In places where sheep are bred ex- tensively one frequently sees little bits of wool adhering to briers and hedges. These are no longer regarded as waste. From such wool rublish, whether coming from sheep or goats, valuable oil is now extracted.—Chi- cago Tribune. WAYS OF ermen Skimming a may be said to is bottomed ming pan. Peers’ Titles From Ireland. Many of the titles by which new peers are known present curious prob- lems. When we see such titles for instance as Teignmouth and Sheffield, Ely and Kensington, it would scarce- ly occur to one man in a hundred to doubt that they were derived from the English towns of those. names, and it is quite a shock to learn that these peerages are purely Irish and are associated with obscure villages in the Emerald Isle—Grand Maga- zine. Episcopal church of { this country has been doing service “in India for fifiy years, and has 185,- there. The Methodist | CPA hla of mem sunflower g, exert | also | advan- | | declining constantly, combus- | -prevent | { not keep it The saving | | roads. | one thi | Business | undercurrent the a sidewalk 16 feet broad 1000 | | consid ving meat | Poris. | and | are | which The meat should not | filled | quantity of | the basement, a | i the AA —— rene R tt, . The.. { Danger of Over:Capital- zation EC FE ET en Railroads Need Federal Control. Cy John D. Rockefeller. SEE GB vastly One result of The American of their Im- this country and they had to let their notes go-abroad at six percent. : That in- terest must be paid no matter what happens to the divi- dends the American public is expecting. : I presume I should not criticise in this respect, some of those who have done it friends of mine. I shall probably called an old fogy not agreeing these new financial methods, If a man goes Wall strect certain kind of stock that is ly, although it paying a six percent dividend, it seems he do stop to considér that if the stock is such a good the men 1 Kk of ‘it, with plenty of money at their command, do in their contre Is it reasonable to Seppose that if in a good, legitimate way the stock nally earning percent and will continue to do so it would be all of the hands of the coltroil ing interes It is my idea that federal control would be a better thine for the rail- They would then understand the laws -they must observe, and would be able to plan ahead intelligently, without one state suddeniy: demanding state being equally on something entirely dif- situation and the in the state laws is, greatest ms railroad n to deal with the general financial the country is good. and every one seems But there is an doesn’t'look so good. I h sup my mind if tuction .of gold is responsible or net. - It is impossible: to situation wiil ‘work- out. do not like the out- Te $e sTiaTe s2e oTeaTs laree corporations are a hezithy situation, Iw abroad. ) Ou eC0 to. ca couldn’t get it in io 3 is not while *. 0 ogo » summer od $21 * niente. The , ge Toen some tert ogee de RAR? ETI todozeto for are be with and finds a is strange that proposition, Six owed to go. out ts? ng The one the is and another insistent interstate of the surf boom that pro ferent. differentiation I think, On proble en. have ace cot ing to increased see how such a look. I do not think nation at. the pre time not show that saving has making mere money and In my judgmenti-it would be tions. Just the ch preme court deci the big corporat red that done without bring should The finaneial reports do erity. - We are our people are savi save. is unusually incre unfort Sent s<ibility to reduce capitaliza- We su- lawyers one of were: made. I have how it be ( have now. to an.impo that and. Ican’t all Tun counter to if st deal, next conditions would result: have laws think atic fons think of and Ww ould =The=— S College of Love- Maki By Nixcia Greeley-Smith. ie rompers (3 ing Uni- today the first the cry- divore- the of sociologist of love-making H. HENDERSON, de are s that: the - and that courtship ce ¢t waoing would times. Rapid-transit Chicago, Heges ere taugnt’ are marriages and results of the barbarism He cites an “where the she he €¢S. are, pr SOr £AaYSs, has lapsed. as love cases ke a cow today of true rent li from. a rien of presents which love of wife com- Hirt- ple of decline is thé pa or where is fool,” and denounces’ and courtship with- relled to marry fortune ing, boasting out intent to marry. Prof. Henderson m i imself in the twelfth has there i lives and there ds toaay. r as Prof. Hendeirsen says, the parents gets it, and this, 1 think, must lapse into barbarism. It is pretty generally conceded that women savage times the most a woman could do to indicate a preference was to run away from the man of her choice a little more slowly than she did from her other admirers. In the strange reversal that civilization has brought about, It is the man whose lacoing retreat from the pursuit of the favored lady be If courtship is to be taught today it is the women who must Anda who shall teach them? Perhaps a married woman a widow give a married woman points, but how may the general instructors of the sex be chosen? What sort of experience must a teacher have, what examination must he pass to be eligible? There ‘are those who think that té make man happy it is only necessary to feed him. And if the word be taken in its largest sense, if we feed soul as well as sense, if we give himreal food for thought as well as real food for dinner, the theory is the best that has been evolved. I am sure, however, that Prof. Henderson did not mean to suggest women teachers for his college of court- With the frequent fotcity of the masculine pedagogue he probably sup- 1d make competent instructors of love-making: anything a man knows about love-making has been or frommany women, and thatis the reason theman advantage cver the honest, straightfor- ward. but untaught smateur of the women’s hearts. Love is our game. And if it is taught scientifically, we will have to teach it. The college of court- ship is necessarily a woman's colle ge.—New Ycrk Evening World. Wo we 2 = tambo nly fi AS mpi sints Young Men and New Countries By William Whyte, Second Dice-President of Canadian Pacific Railway. without saying tnat the new cquntry is the country man. It gives the greatest chances for indi- and affords the best opportunity of working cut one's destiny. Western Canada the : young man's country. It is the Land of Opportunity. In it there is no honorable employment that cannot be made use of 1 the commensurate value will be given in Sesoceoee exchange. With its assured growth and certain develop- e - E ment, the young man steadily broadens his scope of influ- and continually increases his material welfare. In the Land of Oppor- ock need only be industry. It would be better if he had more, but this alone will yield dividends which will go to make more capital. Industry was about all that the pioneers in all countries—the men who first laid the foundations for empires, and who blazed the way for pros- and they were young men, costly For in no loves of women as was sold into matrimony “like .a cow,” the purchase money. Today she as’ an-iniprovement, not as a century. ace Forni got be regarded do the courting today. In trays his choice. be sent to college. can teach a maiden, ship. poses that men wou As a matter of fact learned from some woman of many adventures has tco often an seosesetor Pl Sooreseces goes for the vidual young eitort own is and for which ence tunity the young man’s st perity, intellectual and material progress—had, : too. Denes have no place in a new country. They have no place in any country. The pioneers of all times were young men, courageous, strong- hearted. optimistic, honorable young men, who believed in and practiced the Gospel of Work. In Western Canada, where tremendous crops have each season ieturned to the titler of the coil Lis principal and interest, there is need for men. The consumption of anufactured products is greater than the production. There is necd for mills and stores and factor ies, and mec anics to build them, and young men—to run them: and there are Scores other t! ; to. be done made, the sama as in the de- velopment cf. any count There : ophores everywhere for young men, but none £o gi od so sure of a final ving reward as in new cou y— Western Capa la—the Land of Dp- all mn young ail Ie men— of ang other are and countr the last pew Y Ne) portunity—Tke Heme Magazine. OovVer-. - ty HEALTH NOTES FOR AUGUST. August is the month of internal | catarrh. The mucous mem- branes, especially of the bowels, are very liable to congestion, causing summer complaint, and § catarrh of the bowels and other internal organs. Pe-ru-na is an excellent remedy for all these conditions. : FIND PYGMY cr ME Bones of Sevange Prehistoric Discovered by Workmen. A. remarkable ground ben TERY Race prehistoric: burying ] cut into by railroad graders east: of Oacoma, S. D.; and the remains of what appears to be a pvemy race have been discovered. The old buryinz ground now. a great deposit of gravel, and it is in this that the bones are found. In the neighborhood of 50 skele- tons have far been . unearthed. These are ‘all-of a race ' of dwarfs about four feet tall. and physicians have nronounced them the remains of adults. The burials took place with the bodies standing or sitting. is SO New Homes Send for free copy containing synopsis of the United States homestead laws and informa- tion how to secure a quarter section of splendid farming or grazing land free along the new railway lines of the Chicago & Northwestern Ry. in South Dakota, Wyoming and other States. Special excursion rates to homeseekers Full information on request to W. BB. Kniskern, Passenger Traffic Manager, C. & N. W. Ry., Chi- cago. sno the West, of pamphlet A City Without a Railroad. We are apt to think that a great city, containing the comforts and elegancies of modern life, cannot exist without railroads at its gates. Bogota, the capital of the republic of €olombia, is an exception. Having a population of 125,000, fine residences excellent schools and colleges, fter- ary, artistic and musical societies, clubs, pole, tennis, balls, dinners, elegant society that knows the Paris- ian fashions, Bogota lies on a plateau which no railroad has yet reached. There is, nowever, a short railroad on the plateau itself. But to get to it by the most used route, one must journey two and a half days on mule- back. Another way to approach, re- ducing the mule ride to seven or eight hours, requires several days of river navigation. But the railroad is coming, although late.—Youths' Com- panior. 33 A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. How a Veteran Was Saved the Ame putation of a Limb. B. Frank Doremus, veteran, of Roosevelt Ave., Indianapolis, Ind., says: ‘I had been showing symptoms of kidney trouble from the time I was mus- tered out of the ar- my, but in all my life I never suffered as in 1897. Headaches, dizziness and sleep- lessness, first, and then dropsy. I was weak and helpless, having run down from 180 to 125 pounds. I was having terrible pain in the kidneys, and the secretions passed almost involuntarily. My left leg swelled until it was 34 inches around, and the doctor tapped it night and morning until I could no longer stand it, and then he advised amputation. I refused, and began using Doan’s Kidney Pills. The swelling subsided gradually, the urine became natural and all my pains and aches disappeared. I have been well now for nine years since using Doan’s Kidney Pills.” Sold by alldealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y,
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