BONO. Lore, I grow old. ,1'he wrxtd in still in flower, BtiU do the birds in wayside hedges sing; Pageant is yet of golden (lay nnd hour , . . Only 1 stand without the fairy ring. Lore, I grow uhe went is steeied in roses, Unto the sea, the moon is lover yet; Only for me, the Hook of Mngio eioses: i, who was young, grow old and shall forget. Sjove. I grow old. -lYora too much lifo and laughter; , Old from the glare of scenes that hurt mine eyes; IPrnel or kind, whatever follows after, It (hall be one with limit and ashen skies. fibre, I grow old. Look backwards in your flying, Yon, who have aissed the years and made them fleet. Bee, I am gray, my days are spent in sighing .... , Love, I grow old your wonder is com plete. -Fannie ITenslip Lea, in New Orleans Times-Democrat. i fir ' FREDDYS FIRST RESCUE. JJ -.How the Sea Droiiflht Kim a l WSj Kitten All His Own. iSjll W O.E. WALSH,' in St. Kiehtiht. UJ ZSSSS25SSa.5SSES3SBS3S5.2? ' Freddy May was big for his age, wearing it seven-year suit on a six-year-old body. But he thought ho .was older, much older than he was, and big well, wasn't he almost big as his father? At least he would be some day, and meanwhile) he was (rowing! The May family father, mother and Freddy, six years old, going on even lived on a rock In the middle of the ocean, or, at least, five miles from any other land. There was a tall lighthouse on the rock, and at the base of this white tower was a tiny house with five rooms. This tiouse was home, the only home Fred dy ever knew. The lighting of the great lamp of the lighthouse had always been a great attraction to Freddy. One day, .when his father carried him up, up the winding stairs and Bhowed him tow the lamp was lighted and how Iti rays spread far out over the toss lag ocean, Freddy felt that his little .world was the most wonderful that any boy could Imagine. Think of the hundred steps up the tall tower and the magnificent view from the top! But as time added another year to Freddy's age his little mind soared to greater achievements. He was ac customed to storms and rough weath er. He knew that his father often Went out in his little boat to help trange people who drifted near the hoats. Sometimes he brought them tmck In his boat, half dead and so white! His mother then worked ard to give them warm clothing and fcot things to drink and eat. Freddy at first was content to watch and help; then he wanted to to more. He wanted to go with his father In the lifeboat to pick up the shipwrecked people. "Some day, lad, when you get bigger,-" his father answered his re quest. After that Freddy asked every lit tle while, "Am I big enough now to o with you in the boat, papa?" "Not yet not quite yet," had al ways been the response. So Freddy had been forced to wait and grow. How he counted the days and looked at his figure in the glass to see It he was growing! When he first donned his seven-year suit he felt surely that he was almost big enough to help save shipwrecked peo ple. : As chance would have it his oppor tunity did come a few days after this Important event. There had been a ttorm at sea, not a very heavy storm, but one -which made the sea pretty rough off the shoals. The day after the storm the sun came up bright and Warm. The sea was rolling in long wells. x Not a mile away from the light bouse something was drifting heav ily, swinging slowly up and down With the waves. A quick glance through the telescope showed that it was a dismantled sloop, a small coast ing vessel abandoned by its crew. Mr. May quickly got his boat in the water, and was preparing to ' go to the derelict when Freddy's lips falt ered: "Papa, I am big enough to go!" There was a smile on the lightkeep er's lips, and, after glancing up at the weather and down at the sea he said: "Yes, Freddy, you can go to-day. lump in the stern." Now there-was no happier boy In aTl the world than Freddy May at that moment He fairly tumbled down the steps and dropped snugly in the Btern of the lifeboat. His eyes were bright and glowing. Wasn't he go ing to a real wreck? To row to the dismantled sloop was not a long or rough one, and Mr. May pulled so lustily at his oars that they were alongside In no time. When they reached the sloop Freddy Cased at it in awe. Would there be balf-drowned people ..aboard, and would he be strong enough to help tils father lift them Into the lifeboat? "Now, boy, you stay quietly In the atern until I come back," cautioned bis father. He tied the boat to the atern pf the aloop and then nimbly climbed aboard. He was gone a long time, so long that Freddy got worried. What would he do if anything happened to his father? Could he row back to the lighthouse? What If another storm should come up and make .the ocean very rough? He was thinking of such dreadful things when Mr. May appeared above and shouted: "Nobody aboard, Freddy. She's been deserted for a long time. We'll go back home now." This announcement was not pleas ing to our little mariner. What a disappointment to go to a shipwreck and then find nobody, and not even go aboara the wreck! "But, papa, there might e some body in in " His father shook his head. "No, lad, I've been everywhere." Then, noticing the disappointment on the little face, he added: "But it you want to come aboard and look I'll, let you. I forgot this was your first shipwreck. Here, now, hold fast to my hand and I'll pull you up." Freddy climbed up, with his fath er's nsslstnnco, almost as easily as a veteran sailor. He stood on the deek of the old abandoned sloop In a mo ment. One glance Bhowed him the awful desolation of the wave-swept craft. Mast, spars, sail and rigging were tumbled about In a confused mass, and port of the cargo of lum ber was shifted over to one side. "Be careful, little man, and hold tight to my hand," his father can tloned. "I'll take you to the cabin, and show you what an abandoned boat looks like." Freddy seemed to come- naturally into the use of his little sea legs. He did not lurch nnd roll with each toss of the boat, but walked steadily for ward. When they came to the cabin Mr. May threw open the door and -' Suddenly both of them started. Something moved inside, and then there was a mild cry of some fright ened animal. Out of the darkness a bundle of white appeared. It came directly toward Freddy and mewed. - "It's a pussy cat, papa a white pussy!" Freddy took the frightened creat ure in his arms and stroked Its soft fur. The kitten mewed and rubbed Its nose In his face. "Do you suppose he belongs to somebody, papa?"asked Freddy, anx iously. "It belongs to you, little man, it to any one. You rescued him, and I don't think anybody will take it away from you." All the way back to the lighthouse home Freddy held the kitten in his arms, and stroked and patted its head. In his affection for the ship wrecked cat he even forgot to notice the waves or the condition of the weather. The one fact to Impress his mind was that he had made his first rescue from a shipwreck, and he would always keep the kitten for his own. He wanted a playmate a kit ten, or a dog and now the sea had brought him one all for his own self. Power of the Fress. We had the" editor of a weekly pa per with us on part of the Journey across North Dakota bv team, and at one village hotel the landlord found out what an honored guest he had and refused to charge him any bill. The editor returned his thanks and we were about ready to leave when the landlord beckoned him aside and said: "Stranger, being an editor, you can do anything. It's up to me to go to the Legislature." "Yes?" was the reply. "And my son Bill wants to be elected sheriff of this county." "I see." . ; "And my son Tom wants to h a schoolmaster." "Yes." "And I've Bot a brother-in-law who wants an easy Job in Washing ton. It's got to be an easy Job, as he nas a lame back. "Anything more?" asked ehe edi tor. "I've cot a cousin Jon who'd llVa to go down to Panama, and a nephew wno wants to get into a bank, and if you don't mind being put to a little trouble and would say that I am a widower and .want to marry nealn. I'd take it as a great favor." "Sure that's all, are you?" "All. except that If I don't eret Intn the Legislature, you might help me to run ror Governor, and if I get the place I'll be hanged if I don't sub scribe to three copies of your paper and pay cash In advance!" Wash ington Post. Black Rain. One of the services of science is In destroying superstition, and a not able eiamde of this was affnrdoil to. contly in Ireland. On the night of October 8th last, a fall of black rain, leaving inky pools in the roads, oc curred in many parts of the island. It was noted at Lord Rosse's famous observatory at Birr Castle, and nn in. Nestigatlon of the meteorological conditions prevailing at the time fol lowed. The result was to show that there had been a movement of the air over the central part of the Brit ish Islands such as to carry soot from the manufacturing districts of England over the Irish Channel. Ex amination of the black rain showed that Its color was due to the presence of an extraordinary amount of soot Youth's Companion. Shrinkage of. Wood. The shrinkage of wood from loss of moisture has been found by the United States forest service to range from seven to twenty-six per cent, of the dry volume in different species. Two Ages of Men. There are two periods In a man's life when he is unable to understand women. One is before marriage and the other after. Harper's Weekly. Alas! Many a lady who lives In affluence could be supremely happy if it were not for the fact that her grandmother took In washing. PtllrfSMEi6 New fork City. Simple styles are always best for young girls and such a blouse as this one finds Innumerable uses. It is charming made with the open square neck, but can, neverthe less, be finished with a chemisette, making it high, if it is found more satisfactory. The trimming at the armholes suggests the Japanese idea and serves to conceal the seams, yet In no way Interferes with the sim plicity of the design. In the Illustra tion white Habutat silk Is trimmed with embroidered banding. The waist Is taade with the front and' the backs, which are tucked to yoke depth, and with moderately full sleeves, which are tucked at their lower edges and trimmed to give a somewhat novel effect. Trimming is arranged over the armhole seams and a shaped band also finishes the neck. The chemisette is separate and when worn Is arranged under the blouse and closed at the back. The quantity of material required for the sixteen year size Is three and five-eighth yards twenty-one or twenty-four, two and one-eighth yards thirty-two, or one and three-fourth yards forty-four Inches wide, with two and seven-eighth yards of band ing and one-half yard eighteen Inches wide for the chemisette. The Cseful Glove Handkerchief. An extremely useful article In these days when hardly any woman owns a pocket Is the glove handkerchief. The Idea comes from abroad, but the glove handkerchief Is already on sale In the best linen stores here. It is made ot the finest linen, not more than five Inches square, finished with a tiny hemstitched border, with or without a narrow finish of lace. Some of the finest have the narrow Armenian lace. As the name indicates, the handker chief when folded is small enough to slip Into the glove opening above the buttons. - Embroidered Sleeves. The newest tailored shirtwaists have the initials of the owner em broidered Just above the cuff in colors matching those In the material of the waist. Thus If the shirtwaist Is a blue and white checked madras the monogram will be done In a combina tion of blue and white cottons. The Idea was originally Intended for men's shirts only, but the tailor-made' girl will not be slow In adopting the fash ion for her own shirtwaists. A Morning Frock. A smnrt little morning frock la of dark purple blue cloth the exact shade of a Princess of Wales violet--and with black satin, with a neat waistcoat of violet leaf green cloth, and a Jabot of pleated crepe de chine In the same tone of blue. It Is worn with a green hat massed with market bunches of violets and a great bushy green and black aigrette. Queen. Fancy Neckwear. Fancy neckwear makes such an Im portant feature of the season's dress that, its making really becomes a question of moment. Here are de signs which provide for a generous variety and which are very simple, while at the same time they include the latest styles. In the Illustration the Jabot Is made of fine white batiste cnVon1 with n slmnln luce, while the tnrn.nvnr r,m-Hnn nf tlx, Pnll.ir la of striped material and the stock Is I Nearly every one has heard of the made ot net banded with Insertion pin-hole camera, but the fact that and edged with lace. The turn-over ' the same principle can be used to collar Is one of the best liked models make a microscope, having a mag and Is available for every fashionable ' nlfylng power of eight diameters (04 material. For the stock collar net times) will perhaps be new to some and lace, chiffon and the material ot 'readers. '. the gown, almost anything that may I To make this lensless microscope, be liked, can be utilized with trim- procure a wooden spool, A (a short mlng to suit Individual fancy. spool, say one-halt or three-fourths The Jabot Is made in one straight inch long, produces a higher magnl plece, which is gathered and arranged tying power), and enlarge the bore over a foundation. There are two a Httle at one end. Then blacken bows which are differently shaped J the inside with India ink and allow and each Is gathered at the centre it to dry. From a piece ot thin tran- and held by a cross-over portion. The roll-over collar is made witn a Dana foundation, which can be buttoned into place, ana ine biock conar is cui with the points behind the ears that are so much In vogue. The quantity ot material required for the medium size is, for the Jabot one-fourth yard ot material thirty six Inches wide, one-elgbh yard seventy-two, with three and three-fourth yards of edging, or two yards ot lace lace four inches wide; for either bow one-eighth yard any width, with one yard of edging; for the stock collar one-eighth yard any width, with one and thcee-fourth yards of insertion and one yard of edging to trim as il lustrated; for the turn-over collar one-halt yard any width. Skirts Most Be Narrow. All skirts must be very graceful, but extremely slinky, really narrow, so that the first foundation must be of softest satln-flnished silk and only at the hem cause the chiffon inter Hnlngs to give an appreciable width or flare. Linen Suit Decorations. Real crochet ornaments and but tons are the only tailored linen lutt. decorations on a CHILDREN'S. IN OUR FOREFATHERS' DAY. When grandfather dear was a wee little n gn lad. This is the task he often had. Here on a chair he proudly stands. While mother winds yarn from his little pink hands. And when it's all wound by the fire she'll sit, With her long shining needles, and merrily knit , On a pair of blue mittens with lovely red bands, To keep off the cold from those little pink hands. St. Nicholas. MICROSCOPE WITHOUT A LENS. sparent celluloid or mica, cut out a small disc, B, and fasten to the end having the enlarged bore by means 0f brads. On the other end glue a piece of thin cardboard, C, and at the center, D, make a small hole with the point of a line neeaie. it is very Important that the hole D should be very small, otherwise the Image will be blurred. To use this microscope place a small object on the transparent disc, which may be moistened to make the object adhere, and look through the hole D. It is necessary to have a strong light to get good results, and, as in all microscopes of any power, the object should be of a transpar ent nature. The principle on which this InstrU' Details of the Microscope. ment works is illustrated in Fig. 2 The apparent diameter of an object is inversely proportional to its distance from the eye, I. e., It the distance is reduced to' one-half, the' diameter will appear twice as large; if the distance Is reduced to one-third, the diameter will appear three times as large, and so on. As the nearest dis tance at which the average person can see an object clearly is about six inches, it follows that the diameter of an object three-fourths of an inch from the eye would appear eight times the normal size. The object would then be magnified eight diam eters, or Bixty-four times. (The area would appear slity-four times as large.) But an object three-fourths of an inch from the eye appears so blurred that none of the details are discernible, and It is tor this reason that the pin-hole Is employed. . Viewed through this microscope, a fly's wing appears as large as a person's hand, held at arm's length, ana nas the general appearance shown in Fig. 3. The mother of vin egar examined in the same way is seen to be swarming with a mass of wriggling little worms, and may pos Blbly cause the observer to abstain from all salads forever after. An in nocent looking drop of water, Jn which hay has been soaked for sev eral days, reveals hundreds of little infusoria, darting across the field in every1 direction. These and hun dreds of other Interesting objects may be observed in this little instrument, which costs little or nothing to make. WHAT SAWDUST MARY KEPT. "For two or three days 81ster Mary hasn't been very well," said Marian; "she didn't sleep much last night." "Sister Mary" was the rag doll who slept with Marian, ate with her, rode with her, walked with her, did every thing that Marian did as nearly as a rag doll could. She was named for Brother Frank's wife, who had made her tor Marian, and who was Sister Mary, too. "If my face were as dirty as Sister Mary's," said mamma, "I think I would feel very badly. Let's put her in the wash, and perhaps Aunt Jane can make her well." Mamma found a doll that had been hers when she was a little girl, so Marian decided to let it take the place ot Sister Mary tor one day. "Her name is Mary, too," said mamma. "I didn't know when I played with her that I would have a daughter-in-law named Mary, and a little girl named Marian, and a little girl's doll named Mary." The new doll' wore a funny, old fashioned dress yellow with age, for she had not been played with since mamma was a little girl. Marian and mamma made her a dress, while Sis- ST H DEPARTMENT, ter Mary tumbled about in the bit . boiler and later hung her clothes on the clothes-line. While mamma sewed, 'Marian stuck pins into Mar ian's sawdust sides. Sister Mary was filled with cotton, and wasn't easy to stick, but Mary's body was weak' with old age, and one of the pins made a little torn place. Marian let the sawdust run out in a tiny stream ' until Mary's body was very thin. Then she felt something hard. She moved it about and tore a large piece so it could come out, and Just then mamma looked tip. "Why, my litUe ring!" she saW. I lost It forty years ago. I remem ber now pushing it In where Mary's arm was off, and then I suppose I forgot It and mother sewed the arm on, so we never iouna ine ring, though I remember how mother searched for It." So mamma slipped the ring, on Marian's finger and It fitted exactly, because forty years ago mamma had been only three years old. Home Herald. THE BIRD'S NEST. A little bird was looking about one time for a place to build her nest. All the trees were too sunny, and she thought their scanty leaves would not protect her nest from the rain storms that were sure to come. So she flew along the fences, but she did not like to build underneath the rails for fear some naughty boys might come along, discover her nest and destroy it. Finally, as she was flying up a ravine, either side ot which was thickly timbered, she came to a ledge of rock that projected for ward right in the centre of it. There was such a fine place for a bird's home under this overshelvlng rock that she at once began to gather, twigs, leaves, and blades of dry grass with which to construct her nest. Shortly after it was finished there were four or five little blue eggs in it. The bird was very proud of them,' and one day she began to set on the nest that she might batch some wee birdies. Jl She had been on the nest only a few days when it began to rain. The ravine was filled, and the water went roaring and splashing over the ledge of rock. At first the little bird was very much frightened, for she thought she and her nest might be destroyed. But not so. She was safely sheltered beneath the rock. Not a drop of water touched her or the nest, and soon she rested as f peacefully as ever. W. D. Neale, in Mayflower. 5l-""'"--(''i'-, . ...". "k.J HOME-MADE FIREWORKS. Take a strip ot stiff paper, three and a half Inches wide and eleven Inches long. Cut a hole in one end and paste the two lengthwise, edges together, forming a hollow tube. Then pin up the open. end nearest the hole, like Fig. 1. Cut Fig. 2, making it about four Inches across at the widest point. Slash the lower edge and pin this plpebowl In funner shape by bringing the two sides together. Fasten it on the tube over the hole in the top by gluing the flaps down on the pipestem like Fig. 3. Half fill the pipe howl with brilliant bits of colored paper, Including scraps of gold and silver tinsel cut very small. Make a good supply, so that you can refill your pipe several times. The Pipe Place the open end of the tube to your Hps and blow vigorously, and note the result. POTTER WASPS AT WORK. The family Eumenldae, or solitary wasps, contains some curious work ers. Some are miners and dig tiny tunnels in the earth; some are car penters and cut channels in wood and then divide the space into chambers by partitions of mud. Some build oval or globelike mud nests on branches or twigs. This home may be partitioned into several tiny rooms into which are put various small Insects captured by the mother wasp and" upon which the young wasps feed. From "Nature and Sci ence," in St. Nicholas. CONUNDRUMS. When were there only two vowels? In the days ot no a (Noah), before a and I were born. Why Is a selfish man like the let ter p? Because he is the first in pity and the last In help. What parts of the body are fond of traveling? The two wrists (tour ists). Rush Work in English Mint. Owing to a shortage in Bmall coins, soven tons ot pennies were turned out In a single day by an English mint.
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