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t dnrr not
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The trr?' Mir unftly, nnl tlir Mink!
The long irrnm rnili"snml t lit OiuknpmmuTM
Porr llirrn brynnri
There' oomelhliiu crept across the road Just
mwl
Ami you woiilil Imve tneffo?
Oo there through that llveclarknoM hldeoiifl
With fit Ir of cmtiehltitt forms tlmt watt to kill?
Ah, lookl He there nnd tlu-ru and there
attain
Great yi-Hmv fflav ) Hoe In the Rrnttmll
hook I Now Ihe elondn urn llifhli-r, I can we
The long, hIow lnlilhic of the winewy lull
And the net quiver nf -tt rntifr Jaw tlmt wait.
f)o there? Not II Who darew to go who sees
t?o perfectly the Hon In the path?
Conies one who dure.
Afraid at Aral, yet bound
On such hhrh errand an no frar could at ay.
Forth Koes lie, with the Hunt In hi path.
And then
Ho dared a death of annny
Outnumltered buttle with the klrm of heaatai
hone; tniKKle In the horror uf the nluht;
Dainl and went forth to meet- O ye who fear!
Finding an empty road and nothing there
A wide, barn coin in on road, with homely field
And fence and the dunty roadside treen
Pome unit tin kittens nmyln In the urn op.
Charlotte lYrkins Htetuon In IKmton Worn
ns Journal.
THE END OF RAMADAN
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE CLOSE
OF THE FORTY DAYS' FAST.
A Gun IIokiiisiI Prom til. Citadel at the
lleglnnlng and Kittling uf the lilt The
Legend Upon Which the Vncomfortnhle
Cu.tom 1. ltaaed.
Wewt In tho tout's shadow, with our
faces turned toward Cairo. There were
three of ns, tho sheik of tho neighbor
iti? village, Ahmed Biid 1. The clear
ontllno of the Mokhnttan hills was hid
den in the thick mint generated by the
heat; the rity was n gray blur against
the black Hided of the. uplands. Below
us, nmid the sugar cane, the fulliihin
worked with an affectation of energy.
Bonietimes n voice came to us mellowed
by distance; sometimes tho sail of a
vessel glided phantom wiso over the bluo
ribbon of water that twined along tho
valley toward Alexandria and the delta.
A month before 1 had seen tho mes
sengers leave tho city and strike into
tho desert. Twenty-four hours later,
dusty and hot, they returned, bearing
news. The new moon hail appeared,
and tho fast was proclaimed. At mid
night a gun boomed from the citadel,
and suddenly (ho merry noises of the
'.recti were stilled.
Next day 1 wandered through tho ba
zaars, but recived no invitation to
drink coffee with my friends, Pipcsnud
cigarettes wero not offered to me. A
kind of half sleep had fallen on every
body, and 1 hardly dared speak to any
one. In tho intervals between their
burciiuings tho merchants read tho Ko
rimi'i grayed, counting their beads with
nimble lingers, head bent downward.
Tho burgnlningH, too, wero n poor shad
ow of tlio exciting scenes I loved. The
pu: chaser was always languid and the
vendor inort, unintcreKtod.
As tho afternoon woro on a look of
fntiguo, often of real pain, gloomed on
tho usually genial faces. It was hot,
so hot. Tho dim beat furiously on tho
vhito walls and roads; tho cruel Kom
pion whirled tho dust through tho
streets and dried tho bkin mid lis.
But tho cry of tho water carrier was
not raised; no ln)j3 ottered bunches of
juicy fruit to tho sufferers. Kamaduti
had come with all Its toirors, and for
tho lovo of Ood and his apostle must
they bo borno, if not cheerfully, nt any
rate sternly and itianfnlly.
One hour bohire sunsot lifo seemed
to stir again in 'ho veins. Tho bakeries
wctu crowded; tlio (ires blazed under
tho ovens; n smell of cooking stole over
tho city. Women squatted at intervals
along Mm streets with cakes and fruit
and bottles of water spread before tlieiu.
Little groups gathered round them, im
patient, expectant. Tbe smokers took
out their pipes or cigarettes and stood
waiting for the signal, mutch in hand.
Suddenly tlio sun felt, and tho gun
thundered from the citadol. The city
awoke; tho population began to eat; the
women were busy disposing of thoir
goods.
For 40 day these things wero, and
now vu8 come the closing day of the
fast, and 1 sat with my friends on tho
sand, gazing toward tho citadel till the
gun showed fire for the last tiine,
AH tho afternoon envious glnncea
bad been cast ut mo as I cheerfully dis
obeyed the prophet's orders. Ahmed, 1
think, had tbe sheik not been with mo,
would have nioked a cigarette, bnt at
it was be lay beside me and sulked.
The sheik was too old to behave thus,
lie was quiot and spoko slowly, but he
tried bravely to conceal all signs of dis
comfort. Ahmed's annoyance may bo
accounted for in this way. IIo declared
to me that Mohammed fasted one day in
tho month Katuadan, but on which day
was uncertain, and therefore tho the
ologiuus decreed a 40 days' fust that
they might bo snre of fasting the same
day as tho prophet. I do not think Ah
mod believes this legend, though he
vouches vehemently for its truth.
To while away tho timo I asked the
sheik to tell mo about tho visit of the
czarowitz. But tlio long alatiuonce
made hint miublo to talk at any length,
and oven this his favorite story he
told me briefly in a couple of bald aen
touces, though ho responded gently: "I
mot him as one prince meets another,
tie told mo be owned many villagoa;
that ha was sheik over half the world.
It may be as they hove said."
"And what did he soy to you?" I
queried. "He greeted Inn courteously
and took me by tbe hand. This ring
that 1 wear Is his gift."
As he spoko ho showed me, without
brido, a sapphire of great sizo and
beauty. Then bo relapsed Into silence,
and 1 amused myself by picturing the
event in my mind. 1 would that I had
seen that meeting between tho heir of
the holy Russian empire mid the simple
Arab chief. Looking Into his grave
gray eyes and at his tall, slight figure,
the broad shoulders not yet bent, though
the white beard he was stroking told of
many years of life, and in spite of his
tattered bine robe, 1 easily conceived
how he had been treated courteously
s became n prince.
Before the setting sun touched the
horizon a boy from the villago brought
a large plate of food and a bottle of wa
ter and set them before ns. "The sig
nal." 1 cried as a white pnfl of smoke
rolled nwayfroin thecitadal walls, and
at tho snine instant the sun sank behind
tho desert.
The sheik seized the bottle of water
and drank long and eagerly. When bis
thirst was appeased, ho belched loudly
and handed tho bottle to Ahmed, who
drank eagerly, too, not omitting the
curious after grace.
Then they devoured the food vora
ciously, the old man beckoning me to
join. After we had eaten we sat and
talked far into the night under the
golden stars. The distant city gleamed
fairylike with myriad lamps, and the
murmur of its thousand voices came to
ns tt rough the silent air.
Kamadan was dead. The fast was
over and the feast begun. Pall Mall
Budget.
Explaining- a Prevalent Belief.
A superstition very prevalent among
workingmen is the injiiiious effect sup
posed to be exeicised by the sun's rays
falling upon their tools. Tho best tools
made for use In tropical countries are
subjected to exactly the same amount
of tempering ns those made for borne
nse, although they aro to be used un
der a greater heat.
A heat greater than any which reaches
this earth from the sun would be re
quired to affect them.
No metallic or other matter Is equal
ly susceptible to beat as tho sand uf
which tho soil of tho desert ot Heinde,
in India, is composed. It has been
found heated by tho sun to almost 300
degrees F. But to affect the temper of
steel more than double this temperature
is required. In tlio steel used for a
lancet tho temperature of tlio metal
must be brought to 480 degrees, In ru
zorsand surgical instruments to 4 .10 do
glees, in penknives to 470 degrees, in
scissors ami chisels to 411(1 degrees, in
axis, planes nnd pocketknives to ft 10
degrees, in table knives and large
shears to 580 degrees, in swords and
watch springs to 550 degrees, in lino
saws anil augers to 5110 degrees and for
band and pit saws to (IU0 degrees, or to
three times the greatest beat of tlio sun
felt on this earth.
At 800 to U.'iO degrees soft steel and
iron becomoinnch deteriorated in power
to resist perenssivo action nnd strain,
bnt their temperature can never bo
raised to such n degreo ns this by tho
hen t of the snu. Now York Herald.
Ittmieaii and the Hog.
Many eccentricities aro pardoned In
musical geniuses, especially by those
who do not suffer from them. I'll fortu
nately tho object of n musician's wrath
is qnito apt to be nnablo to appreciate
why ho has offended.
Ouo can fancy tho possessor of the
nn trained voice who figures in tho fol
lowing story thinking bard things of
tho celebruted composer Knmcnu.
Ouo day Kaiuean whilo calling on a
lady fixed a stern glanco on a little dog
who sat in her lap and was barking
good naturedly. Suddenly Kameau
seized the poor littlo fellow and threw
him out ot the window.
"What is the matter?" asked his
hostess, much alarmed.
"He barked false!" said Rameau in
dignantly. Youth's Companion.
An Oversight.
"See here," said satan to bis friend
Beelzebub, "we have overreached our
selves. You insisted that we must put
into the brain of mini to invent instru
ments for liis destruction, and we have
so done. Man has inado gatling guns,
mitrailleuse, chain shot, giant powder,
dynamite every day he effects some
new combination which insures greater
destructiveness."
"Well, then," said Beolzobub, "all
is well."
"What n fool you are!" sneered sa
tan, with asperity. "Don't you see
that we have made war so costly that
these manikins won't fight?"
"Ah," said Beelzebub in despair,
"why didn't I refloct that tbeso people
are always calculating expenses."
Kulo Fluid's Washington.
littler and Father Byan.
When General Butler was in com
mand at Now Orleans during the rebel
lion, he was informed that Father Ryan,
priest and poet, had been expressing
rebellious sentiments and had suid he
would oven refuse to bold funeral serv
ices for a deud Yankee General Butler
lent for him in haste and began round
ly scolding him for expressing such
un-Christiuu uud rebellious sentiments.
"General," the wily priest answered,
"you have been misinformed. I would
be pleased to conduct funeral servicea
for ull the Yankee officers and men in
New Orleans. "San Francisco Argonaut.
THOMA9 GODBEPRAISED.
A Man Who fleam That t'ernllnr Name
Trlla Hnw It Originated.
The register of the Girard House re
cently recorded the arrival In the city of
Thomas Godliepraised of Barrow-in-Furness,
England. Being approncl.ed upon
the subject of tlio oddity of his surname,
Mr. GoillM'prnised said:
"Yes, I suppose tho name does sound
very odd to Americans, although snrh
names are not altogether nmisnnl in
England and especially in Lancashire,
which was a stronghold of the Round
heads or Puritans in Cromwell's timo.
My home Is in Barrow-in-Furness, which
Is in Lancashire. My ancestors prior to
Cromwell's time were all royalists. The
family name was Elliot. A younger son
renounced the religions faith and politi
cal opinions of his forefathers and lie
came Puritan. As was usual in such
cases he abjured his carnal name of
Charles Elliot and took the inspired one
of Ezekiel Godbepraised.
"There is quite a romance connected
with this ancestor of mine. He fell in
love with the only daughter of a Colonel
Fielding in the Cavaliers' army, and not
being able to obtain her father's consent
to their marriage Ezekiel abducted her
and for two years kept her hidden in a
dreary honse that stood near the littlo
town of Formby, where a son was born.
After a battle a little to the sonth of the
River Mersey between the Cavaliers and
Ronndhends her brothers discovered her
and carried her off to old Fnrness abbey.
In the hurry the child was left behind,
but as a result of the mother's pleading
one of the brothers returned to Formby
to get it.
"In the meantime Ezekiel had discov
ered his loss and removed the child.
Then the followed the brother back to
Fnrness abbey, bnt arrived too late. The
brother and sister had set sail from Bar
row beach for tlio isle of Man. A storm
came up, and Ezekiel arrived just in time
to see the boat founder. He returned to
hischild more bitter against the royalists
than ever and brought the child np with
the same sentiments.
"At the close of the war Ezekiel adopt
ed the trade of a weaver and settled in
Barrow-in-Fnrncss. Thus tho name was
perpetuated, the stern commands of the
father forbidding tho son to throw off tho
fanatical nickname when tlio heat of Pu
ritanical zeal had given away." Phila
delphia Times.
The IilfTerent f.MmlntiH.
Tho size of London is somewhat in
definite, but. may bo said to cover about
asquuro mile. The postal district covers
an urea of 2."0 square miles. The polico
district extends still farther, covering
an urea of (W square miles. On the
other band, tho parliamentary London
is much narrower. It consists of It) bor
oughs, of which tho city of London, al
though the smallest having f0,iQ3 in
habitants in lHSt is represented by four
members on account of its commercial
and financial importance, while each of
the other nine, although larger, is repre
sented ouly by two; Westminster,
418; Chelsea, 2."i8,011; Marylebone, 477,
655; Hackney, 803,427; Finsbury, 483,
810; Tower Hamlets, 8111,558; Lambeth,
879,113; Southwalk, 807,1185; Greenwich,
107,083.
Put together, these 10 boroughs repre
sent only a population of about 8,000,000,
and the remainder of the inhabitants of
the city lielong to nonmetropolitan elec
toral districts. Generally, however, the
sizo ot tho city is determined by the area
tinder tbe operation of the metropolis
local government act, which is also
adopted by the registrar general of tho
census. According to the definition, Lon
don covers an area of 133 square miles,
forming parts of tho counties of Middle
sex, Hurrey and Kent. Baltimore Amer
ican. Coatly Meal.
The costliest meal ever served, as fur
as history shows, wns a supper given by
Aelin VeruH, one of the most lavish of
the littter day Roman uristocrats. The
supper was ouly intended for a dozen
persons, yet its cost was 6,000 sestertia,
which would amount to 48,000 in Eng
lish money, or nearly a quarter of a mil
lion dollars.
The celebrated feast given by Vitel
line a Roman emperor of those degen
erate days, to his brother Lucius cost a
fraction over $300,000. Luetonius says
that this buuquet consisted of 3,000 dif
ferent dishes of fish and 7.000 different
fowls, besides other courses in propor
tion. Vitellins, fortunately for the
world, did not reign very long; other
wise the game preserves of Libya, Spain
and Britain would have been exhausted.
It may not lie out of place to mention
here that it is recorded as a curious point
of history that a single dish on the table
of the Emperor Huliogabulus was worth
$300,000. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Llghta Went Out.
Hid royal highness the Priuceof Wales
was present at a noble lord's once to
gether with all fashionable London, and
after dinner the best musicians, both
vocul uud instrumental, were prepuring
to displuy their talent, when suddenly
out went the light, and performers and
audience were left in total darkness. As
the light was electric and was supplied
from a private engine which hnd chosen
this inopportune moment to go com
pletely wrong, there was nothing for tho
giver of the feast to do but to collect ull
the available bedroom candlesticks and
empty bottles and stick caudles all over
the place. The effect was most comical
and seemed to cause amusement to every
body but the host, San Francisco Argonaut.
SHADES OF BLACK SKIN.
A Jouriip From the Land of Palefaces and
lliirk Agnln.
A familiar human example will make
this general mnddliiiess and uncertainty
of nature realizable to every one. If we
see a negro in the streets of London, we
immediately recognize the broad differ
ence that marks him off from tlio com
mon mass of white men by whom he is
surroundifi. But that of conrxeis only
because w take an individual instance.
We say quite dogmatically: "This man
Is black, thick lipped, flat nosed. I call
him a negro. These other men are white,
thin lipped, sharp nosed. I call them Eu
ropeans." yuite so. That is true relatively to
the small area and restricted number of
eases you have then and there examined.
But now suppose yon go on to the Son
dan and start from thence down tho Nile
through Nubia to Alexandria. At first
on your way yon would see few but
thoroughly negroid faces black skins,
thick lips, flat noses, etc., according to
sample. As you moved northward into
Egypt, however, yon would soon begin '
to find that, while the skin remained an
black or nearly aa black as ever, the fea
tures were tending slowly on the aver
age to Eiiropeanize.
Yet there would be nowhere a spot
where you could say definitely, "Here I
leave behind me the Nubian type and ar
rive at the Egyptian." Never even could
yon pick out three or four men quite cer
tainly from a group on some riverside
wharf overshadowed by donm palms
nd say on the evidence of skin and fea
tures alone, "These men are Soudanese,
nd the remainder are Nubians."
Then, if yon went on still through Si
nai and Palestine the regular eastern
tour you would find at each step the
tints getting lighter and the faces mora
Semitic. Passing, farther through Con
stantinople, Athens, sonth Italy, yon
wonld observe at each change a lighter
complexion and more Enropean style,
till at last, as you crossed Provence and
approached central France, yon wonld
arrive pretty well at the familiar Eng
lish type of face and feature. Cornbill
Magazine.
"Curlnns Womiin."
He was showing them the various pic
tures hanging on the wall. They wero
gems, for he really had excellent tasto in
urt. They were choice bits of land
scape, lovely ideals of humanity, studies
of still life and hints from the impres
sionist school. Tho ladies viewed each
with admiration, bnt none with especial
interest nntil they cauio to a hnge frame
with its face turned toward tho wall.
Immediately they wero nil interest.
"What is that?" naked one of tho la
dies. Tho yonr.g man assumed an nir of
mystery and shook his head as though
ho would like to tell, but could not.
"Aren't you going to let us seo it?" said
one in surprise.
"I'm sorry, but yon can't," began be.
"But, really, we'd liko moro to see
that than any of tho others. Wouldn't
we, girls?"
The girls said they would.
"Well," said the exhibitor, "if yon
must see it, I suppose you must."
The young ladies conjured up all kinds
of beautiful visions as they looked with
expectancy on the mysterious back of
the frame.
"It is called 'Curious Woman,"' said
he. Of course that only increased tho
zeal. Finally ho turned tho frame nnd
disclosed a mirror. Woro tho young
ladies disappointed? Philadelphia Pres
Where Was O'i'lymiT
A judge of the Massachusetts superior
court has a habit of allowing his voice
to drop so low that his words can with
difficulty bo heard. Tho story is told
that he was sentencing a prisoner at
Lawrence cno time when a man in the
courtroom shouted:
"Speak louder, your honor! Speak up!"
"Send that man out of the courtroom,
Mr. Officer!" said tho judge.
The order waa obeyed, and the pro
ceedings went on.
"Call the next case," said the judge
when he had finished with the prisoner
In whose case the interruption had oc
curred. "Terence O'FlynnI" called the clerk,
but Mr. O'Flynn did not rise. Tho crier
called bim, but there was no answer,
and tbe officers of the court began to look
about.
It was discovered that Prisoner O'Flynn
had disappeared, and his absence could
not be accounted for until some one said:
"May it please the court, Terence
O'Flynn waa the man you just sent ont
for shouting to the judge to speak up."
Youth'a Companion.
He Had Ilia Beward.
It was in a large department store that
a gilded youth drifted up to the candy
counter.
"Do you know," he said to the pretty
young woman in churge, "if I were the
proprietor of this establishment I should
dismiss you?"
"Why?" she usked iiidignautly,
"In order to give the candy u chance, "
he answered.
And she gave him 1 pounds of 75 cent
sundy for 50 cents. Detroit Froe Proas,
A combined photogruphio and visuut
telescope has been finished and placed in
position for Dr. Junseu at Meudon. The
two lenses were made by the ilonry
Bros, of tho Paris observatory, and the
mounting by Guuthier of Paris.
Tho men in thnPiiiniinv, Dui...n
vHiavwewu B"Jll4I,UiQUla
In South Africa outnumber the women'
07 m 10 i, ana spinsters are rare. j