60a OF THE DMFTWEED.
Ktre'a to the home that was never, never
ours:
Toast it full and fairly when the winter
lowers.
Cfeeak ye low, my merry men, sitting at
your ease;
Barken to the drift in the roaring of the
Hare's to the life we shall never live on
earth!
Ort; for ns awrv. nwrv. mm sre tli birth
Ss the teeth nnj meet it well, wind upon
like s linn, in the face look the Never
more!
Here' to the love we were never meant
to win!
Wbat of that? A many shells have a pearl
within;
Koine arc mated with the gold in the light
of day ;
Slew' are buried fathoms deep in the seas
way.
Hre' to the selves we shall never, never
be!
We're the drift of the world and the tangle
of the sea.
JV far beyond the IMeiad, it's out beyond
the nun
XV&ere the rootless shall he rooted when
h wander-year is done;
Jessie Mackay, in Everybody's Magazine.
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g By Annie Hamilton Oonnell.
The long train drew into the "Din
er Station" and hungry people be
an to bestir themselves. Families
nd couples and single persons
stepped briskly down the aisle and
across the broad platform toward the
innei trances nnd Brure and
Willie wisp were hungry people but
tfceydid not bestir themselves. Their
dinner was in the basket In mother's
msox and did not Ivgin with a capital
I only splendid ones eaten at
iwunit tables, in great rooms with
wraitecs flyins about, began with cap
ttals.
"Oh, dear," softly siilicd Frances,
wisn we were rirh!"
uo Bigimi riruce, nut not
twftly. "Then we d go 'cross there
too, and eat our dinner out of plates
na Knives and forks."
"And we'd slep down out of our
iwiurtar not tins common-car
m when the conductor said, 'AH
.board!' we'd fold up our napkins
like everything and run back to the
parlor-car and sit In big, soft seats.
France's eyes were wistful, she was
tSdntilng especially of Loubelle Weir.
Loubelle was in the parlor-car or else
crosa there In the great clattery,
&attery, station restaurant. They
lwd Been her get on the train, step
Sing daintily in her beautiful white
cfathes. Her mother and a maid had
walkod behind her. Then the parlor
r had hidden her, and they them
selves had stepped up onto this common-ear,
with mother and the big
Basket behind.
"Dinner's ready!" mother called
Tram fcer seat. She had a white tow
S spread on the seat beside her, and
.grandmother's biscuit and cookies
n little round tarts laid out on it.
JSnewas smiling gayly.
The three children crossed the aisle
ad ssit down facing mother. They
wre hungry and grandmother's
Clings tasted good, but there was a
IXle fitter flavor to them all, just
grandmother had made a mis
take and flavored them with extract
envy instead of vanila. While they
at and soberly munched, they were
thinking of Loubelle Weir nnd her
dinner with a capital D, and of the
parlor-car.
I wish we would travel 'risto
exatic'ly!" burst out Bruce at length,
anabJe to restrain himself, -i Wi3h
we were in parlor-car. I don't like
traveling in common cars."
"I don't eilher." Frances agreed,
little less tumultuous!-. "I'd rath
er have a white dress on and sit in a
Sorely cushioned chair with plenty
of room."
"I'd rawer, too o'd I rawer"
cltmed In Willy Wisp, eager to join
tfte majority. "I wanler travel in a
cashion chair."
"Then we'd be with the nicest kind
T folks," Frances took it tip again
-not with all kinds like this. It
would be lovely to be with the nicest
kind."
"I know," Bruce cried, "we'd go on
flyer then and just fly! Wouldn't
we go on a fiycf, mother, If we were
rich? We wouldn't go creeping along
tJite way, would we? No, sir!"
-flow would you like to travel at
Oe rate of two miles an hour in a
cupboard with' the pigs?"
The children turned like one child.
Tlie voice was deep and pleasant and
on from directly behind. A kind
old race, framed in white hair and
beard, was nodding at them over the
eat-back.
"Well, how would you like that?"
repeated the deep - voice. "Because
I know of three children that trav
eled that way. They were relatives
mt mine.
The people from the restaurant
were drifting back Into the car, but
the children did not see them. They
o!y aaw the kind old man who said
oca remarkable things. His rela
tive In a cupboard with pigs!
Jkd he was auch a nice-looking old
ana did not look poor at all. It
tot seem possible that his rela
te "It jon are through with your din
war and your mother li willing, come
fate my seat and I will tell you how
it happened," the deep voice wentJ
mm pleasantly.
As they went they had a glimpse
through the window of Loubelle Weir
rotting the station platform towards
star parlor-car. The maid stepped
daintily behind. .
"it was quite little while ago
boat a hundred and fifty yearsyhe
old gentleman began, his eyes twink
ling down at them. "My great-grandmother
was about as old as you, I
should say,." nodding at Frances,
"and she had two brothers younger
still. Her father and mother moved
from one little town to another.
There were no railroads, and they
must go In carts drawn by gentle,
plodding oxen all the family and all
the furniture too.
"And the children the story has
come do"wn very straight did not go
In the parlor 'cart.' There was a huge
old cupboard with a door above and
a door below, with a partition be
tween the divisions. It Is in exist
ence now. I have seen It many a
time. Well, the children's father
laid this great cupboard down on its
back in the ox-cart and proceeded to
pack the three children In one of Its
compartments, and the pigs" the
old gentleman paused dramatically
"the pigs In the other!
"And that iVas the way they trav
eled all the way to the new home
Jog-Jog, Jog-jog, jog-jog. They must
have bumped about and the pigs must
have squealed. How 'would you have
liked that? Not a very luxurious
way to travel, was it? But, do you
know, I rather expect those three lit
tie shavers thought It was great fun.
Thought they were traveling in style,
most likely! And the pigs It must
have been a great day for the pigs!"
France and Bruce and the Willy
Wisp went back soberly to their own
seals. They had forgotten Loubelle
and the maid and the dinner with a
capital D. Back nnd forth across
their minds jogged a great ox-cart
with a huge cupboard Inside, on Its
back, and in ' one end were three
children and In the other end were
pigs. They could hold their breaths
and almost hear the children laugh'
and the pigs squal. It was an Inter
esting story that the deep-voiced,
kind-faced, twinkly-eyed old man
had told.
"What a comfortahle car this is!"
Frances said, by and by.
"How fast we go most fly!" said
Bruce.
"And there are such nice folks In
the car."
"And nobody in the other end Is
squealing." The Interior.
JEW1SH-GF.XTILE MARRIAGES.
Increasing in English Speaking Conn,
tries Danger to Zionist Movement.
The growth of intermarriage be
tween Jews and gentiles In recent
years has moved the Jewish Chronicle
of London to make a plea for
"strengthening the historic religious
conscience of our people."
A well know Jewish lecturer in an
interview Baid the intermarriage of
Jews and gentiles had first assumed
notable proportions in Germany part
ly as a result of the increased social
intercourse of the gentiles and Jews
which followed the intellectual eman
cipation of Jewry wrought by the pop
ular philosopher Moses Mendelssohn
and his contemporaries.
Figures show that It has affected
all English speaking countries, par
ticularly New South Wales and other
Australian colonies. The figures are
most significant because they apply
only to marriages not solemnized in a
synagogue. There are thousands of
unions which are intermarriages In
fact though not technically so re
garded, because one of the parties ac
cepted the Jewish faith before the
ceremony, and the marriages are
therefore between persons of the Jew
ish religion If not of Jewish blood.
In such cases the children are sel
dom lost to Judaism. But the con
sequences too often Is that the par
ents settle their differences by ignor
ing rollglon altogether and do not
bring up their children as adherents
either to Judaism or to Christianity.
These facts are of courso powerful
arguments In the mouths of Zionists
and to some ettent account for the
rapid flocking of intellectual Jews to
their banner. The Jewish people are
beginning to believe, this authority
says, that so long as they remain
dispersed without territorial foothold
the amenities of modern civilization
are a greater danger to their exist
ence than the confinement of the
ghetto and the barbarities of the
torch and the thumbscrews of the po
grom. The Worm Turned.
A muscular Irishman strolled Into
the civil service examination room,
where candidates for the police force
are put to a physical test.
'.'Strip," ordered the police sur
geon. "What's that!" demanded the un
initiated. "Get your clothes off, and be ralck
about it," said the doctor.
The Irishman disrobed, and per
mitted the doctor to measure his
chest and legs and to pound his
back.
"Hop over this bar," ordered the
doctor.
The man did his best, landing on
his back.
'Vow double up with your knees
and touch the floor with both hands."
He sprawled, face downward, on
the floor. He was indignant but si
lent. "Jump under this cold shower,"
ordered the doctor.
"Sure, that's tunny," muttered the
applicant.
"Now run around the room ten
times to test your heart and wind,"
directed the doctor.
The candidate rebelled. "I'll not
I'll ithay single."
'Single?" asked the doctor, sur
prised. "Sure," said the Irishman, "what's
all this fussing got to do with a mar
riage license!"
He had strayed Into the wrong bu
reau. New England Guide.
New York City. The hlrt watet
that la trimmed with little frills
makes a novel feature of the season's
styles, and is essentially dainty and
charming. This one is mads of white
French linen, while the frills are of
lawn, and It Is worn with a separate
embroidered collar, but every walat
Ing material is appropriate nnd the
frills can be varied to suit tho special
one selected. For warm weather
wear madras, handkerchief linen,
lawn and all materials of tho sort
are mnch to be commended, wbllo for
the cool days that occur at all sea
eons taffeta and light welghi. wools
are desirable. In place of the separ
ate collar a stock of tho material can
be used If better liked, whll the
sleeves allow a choice of toll or elbow
length. Where the material of lue
waist I thin enough tiie frills can bo
made of the same, but If it is heavy,
s In the case- of the llnott, lawn,
either linen or cotton, taaUas the bsst
material, ' Or again the pleated frills
that can bo bought by the yard can
be used if liked, nltuoasft those that
are gathered are somewhat easier to
launder. A little embroidered edg
ing is pretty for these last, while for
the ll' and wool materials ribbon is
wolUlked. "
The waist Is made with front and
back. The back is tucked from boul
ders to wftUt line. The fronts are
laid In group of narrow tucks that
extend for full length and the wider
tuck that extend to yoke depth only.
There is a regulation shirt waist pleat
t the frost and the neckband finishes
the neck. The sleeve are gathered
at their upper edges and are Joined
to straight bands, whether they are
used in fall or elbow length, but the
long sleeve are finished with roll
over coifs that are Joined to the low
er edges of the bands.
The quaotlty of material required
for the medium fixe Is three and five
eighth yards twenty-wren, three and
one-half yard twenty-two or two
yard forty-four Inches wide with
two and three-eighth yard of ready
made ruffling or one-quarter yard of
lines lawn It gathered frills are used,
Greek Kef Pattern.
For Indoor gown or elaborate tea
gown the broken or primitive Greek-
key pattern 1 much used as a trim
mlng.
ST
Seaweed lu Millinery.
Long sprays ol feathery seawood
are the latest millinery importation
from England. Queen Alexandra la
among those who have espoused the
new mode.
Blouse With Chemisette.
Any waist that can be made high or
partly low neck at will Is certain to
find a welcome for It suits a very big
number of occasions. This one is
charming and attractive and Bults
both the gown and the separate
blouse. As illustrated the material is
lawn with trimming of embroidered
banding and edging and the neck Is
left with the open square, but all
seuBonable materials are appropriate
and tho separate chemisette can be
made from lace, embroidery or lin
gerie material. The pleats at the
Bhoulders' are very generally becom
ing and the flaring roll-over cuffs fin
ish the Bleeves In a most satisfactory
manner. A little later taffeta and
pongee will be admirable bo made
while for immediate wear nil the
pretty linen and cotton stuffs are
suitable.
The waist Is made with fronts and
backs. It Is pleated at the shoulders
and gathered at the waist line and
gathered Into bands to which the
cuffs are attached and the chemisette
Is arranged under the waist. Both
are closed Invisibly at the back.
the trimming Is applied over Indi
cated lines. Tho graceful sleeves are
The quantity of material required
for the medium size la two and three
fourth yards twenty-seven, two and
one-half yards thirty-two or two
yards forty-four inches wide with
two and one-fourth of banding and
four yards ot edging, one-half yard
eighteen or thirty-six inches wide for
the chemisette.
New rorasols.
This year the linen paraeol will b
much to the fore, and the newest ex
ample are adorned with Immense
bunches of flower or fruit, out out
of chlnts and appllqued to the linen,
a tiny border of the narrowest block
velvet ribbon outlining the deign.
Hate With Wing.
Many of the nwet hat are
trimmed with gigantic wing, whloft
were one of Vlrot'i pet creation
The Grizzly.
Ily THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Usually the bears live almost ex
clusively on roots, berries, Insects,
and the like. In fact, there 1b always
something grotesque and Incongru
ous In comparing the bear's vast size,
and his formidable claws and teeth,
with the uses to which those claws
and teeth are normally put. At the
end ot the season the claws some
times become bo much blunted as to
be tender, because the bear has
worked on hard ground digging roots
and the like.
Bears often graze on the fresh ten
der spring grass. Berries form their
especial delight, snd they eat them
so greedily when in season as to be
come Inordinately fat. Indeed, a
bear In a berry-patch frequently
grows so absorbed In his work as to
lose his wariness, and as he makes a
good deal of noise himself In break
ing branches and gobbling down the
fruit, he Is exposed to much danger
from the hunter.
Besides roots and berries, the bear
will feed on any small living thing
he encounters. If in plundering a
squirrel's cache he comes upon some
young squirrels, down they go In
company with tho hoarded nuts. He
Is continually knocking to pieces nnd
overturning old dead logs for the
Bake of devouring the insects liv
ing beneath them. If, when such a
log Is overturned, mice, shrews, or
chipmunks are found underneath.
the bear promptly scoops them Into
his mouth while they are still dazed
by the sudden Inrush of light.
Sometimes, however, a boar will
take to killing fre.ih meat for Itself.
Indeed, I think It 1b only Its clumsi
ness that prevents It from becoming
an habitual flesh-eater. Deer are so
agile that bears can rarely get them;
yet on occasions not only deer, but
moose, buffalo, and elk fall victims to
them. Wild game, however, are so
shy, so agile, and so alert that It Is
only rarely they afford meals to old
Ehpralm as the mountain hunters
call the grizzly.
Domestic animals are Blower, more
timid, more clumsy, and with far dull
er Benses. It Is on these that the
bear by preference preys when he
needs fresh meat. I have never, my
self, known one to kill horses; but I
have been Informed that the feat Is
sometimes performed, usually In
spring; and the ranchman who told
nie Insisted that when a bear made
his rush he went with such astound
ing speed that the hors3 was usually
overtaken before It got well under
way.
The favorite food of a bear, how
ever, If he really wants fresh meat, Is
a hog or sheep by preference the
former. If a bear once gets Into the
habit of visiting a sheepfold or pig
pen, It requires no slight skill and
watchfulness to keep him out. As
for swine, they dread bears more than
anything else. A drove of half-wild
swine will made head against a wolf
or panther; but the bear scatters
them In a panic. This fear Is entirely
Justifiable, for a bear ha3 a peculiar
knack In knocking down a hog, and
then literally eating him alive. In
Bplte of his fearful squealing. From
Good Hunting (a book recently pub-H
lished, and consisting ot hunting pa
pers written by Mr. Roosevelt before
he was President.)
Nairobi, the "Tin City."
"Tin City," from its nickname,
should be an American "boom town,"
situated In Nebraska or tho Klondike;
but It Is not. It Is a creation of our
British cousins, who seem to have
found tinned things so good to live
on that they are 'trying them to live
In. Nairobi, which is Tin City's
proper name, Is a new railway town
in the British East African protecto
rate, and consists of street after street
of houses, each built entirely of
sheets of galvanized Iron, put up in
London and then knocked down and
shipped to Africa.
The new city Is a "fiat town," that i
Is, it was made by governmental de
cree. Sir George Whltehoiiso, c'alef
engineer of the Uganda railroad, was
responsible for it. He was out with
his construction party in the field,
ind camped one night on a great plain
beside Nairobi Creek. The ground
for a long way round was level. It
was on a plateau, well-drained and
healthful. About it were gracefully
ascending hills, well-wooded and wa
tered. '
"Here," said Sir George, "will be
the headquarters of the railway. We
will build the shops here and the
houses of the workmen. This is the
ideal location. The creek furnishes
good water, the place is on the bor
ders of the Masai and theKlkuyu.and
offers a vantage-ground from which
to govern them."
His assistants demurred to the lo
cation. It was a dreary waste to
them, and they urged him to set up
his tents In the hills; but to this he
replied that the hills would do for
the officers' villas and bungalows,
but that the city would do better on
the plain, and that there is should
stand.
There, In fact, it does stand, as
odd a sight as Africa can show. The
railway company shipped In the
houses for Its employes, and they
were set up in orthodox, right-angle
fashion. -Two Christian churches, two
mosques and a Hindu temple are
among the buildings, and there were
In the town last December nearly
five thousand people. It is over three
hundred miles from Mombasa, the
chief seaport and capital ot the pro
tectorate, and two hundred and fifty
miles from Port Florence, the Lake
Victoria terminus.
- Already European farmers are set
tling near the town to supply it with
provisions, and it seems destined to
bar a prosperous future.
8 Good Roads, g
Ronds and Automobiles.
The recent remarks of Mr. Herr
man, the Commissioner of Parks,
about the desirability of excluding
automobiles from Central Park have
a wider and more Important sugges
tion than that concerning this city'
great pleasure ground. Taken lit
erally, his plan is, of course, Incap
able of fulfilment. The automobile
has unquestionably "come to tay,"
and it is now In so general use and I
a vehicle of utility and pleasure to
so large a part of the community
that there can be no restriction ot
Its employment within the limits pre
scribed In comparable circumstance
for other vehicles. In some cases It
Is no doubt offensive, as when it Is
driven carelessly or viciously, at a
dangerous speed, without giving a
due share of the road' to other vehi
cles, or accompanied with an ear dis
tressing racket, a cloud of smoke or
a stench of gasolene. But then
horses are also offensive when they--run
away or got blind staggers or
are driven by raucous voiced and
hog mannered "sports." We must
trust to the progress of civilization
nnd the vigilant energies of the po
lice to minimize Buch evils, whether
In motoring, horse driving, bicycling
or walking.
The impairment of roads by auto
mobiles Is, however, a pertinent and
highly important consideration, not
only In Central Park but all over the
country, for there Is scarcely an "Im
proved" road anywhere which Is
much traveled that has not suffered
from the extraordinary wear and
tear of automobiles. The reason is
perfectly plain. The roads were not
built for such traffic. Telford and
macadam roads were not designed for
automobiles. They were designed for
vehicles which would be light If swift
and slow if heavy, and which in ei
ther case would move upon wheels
with smooth tires. They were and
are admirably adapted to the use of
a buggy weighing two hundred
pounds, even at a 2.30 pace, or of a
load ot hay at a foot pace, even It It
weighs a couple of tons. But here
are vehicles as heavy as the load ot
hay moving as swiftly as the buggy.
Worse than that, the automobile has.
Instead of smooth tires, which would
serve as rollers to smooth the road,
wheels shod with chains or spikes
designed expressly to cut Into and
tear the surface of the road.
Obviously the destruction of the
roads by such vehicles Is a great evil
which cannot be permanently toler
ated. We should say, however, that
It Is most properly to be abated not
by excluding the vehicles from the
roads, but by adapting either the ve
hicles to the roads or the, roads to
the vehicles. Perhaps, Indeed, both
these courses should be pursued. In
our city parks the vehicles might be
required to adapt themselves to the
roads. No automobile would ma
terially hurt a well made park road
if it were not driven too fast, even
if It were shod with chains or spikes.
All that Is needed, in brief, Is that
automobiles in the parks shall be
reasonably driven, as other vehicles
are, to obviate their doing any more
harm to the roads than other vehicles
do. The great majority of automo- .
biles are, we believe, thus managed.
The damage to the roads Is chiefly
done by a comparatively few care
less or lawless drivers.
The other Bolutlon of the prob
lem, the adaptation of the roads to
the vehicles, may well be applied else
where. The work of road improve
ment Is now being extensively per
formed all over this State. It would
lie a great mistake to do It now as it
was done a score of years ago. The
road which was good enough for the
buggy and the load of hay will not
do for a vehicle which carries on
chain girt wheels the load of the lat
ter at the speed of the former. These
changed conditions of traffic should
be realized and the plan ot construc
tion of the new roads, at any rate on
ail "main traveled roads," should be
so modified as to meet these condi
tions, and so as to be adapted to the
new and far more formidable type
of vehicle. That will no doubt be
an expensive thing, but It will be
far less expensive in the end than to
have them ruined and need to be
rebuilt every year. Editorial In the
New York Tribune.
Rural Automobiles.
In the counties of northeastern
Ohio and the level portions of Penn-
sylvanla north of Pittsburg a move
ment has been started for the estab
lishment ot a rural automobile mall
service. Fairly good roads and the
absence of many steep hills make an
automobile by far the quickest meth
od of transportation. Several of the
largest distributing centres have al
ready Inaugurated the practice and a
few machines have been bought. It
is asserted that In addition to the
greater rapidity of the service the
first cost of the machines will be
more than offset by the greatly re
duced number ot carriers needed.
New York Sun.
Oiled Roads in Kansas.
So successful did Kansas City's ex
periments with crude oil prove last
year that several Missouri counties
will sprinkle the macadam roads this
season. Roads which were treated
with oil four times during 1908 did
not need sprinkling with water the
entire season, showing that the oil
treatment Is an economical one.
It Is the fashion in France for
school boy to have their hair shaved
eft