ALICE FINN i A MERMAID.
T7non morning jocular,
The half of one binocular
Might have observed two sailormm a-stroiling by the mi,
And by their actions dignified,
It very easy signified
That one of era wai Henry Smith, and one of em m me.
The day wai rather tropical,
Our talk was rather topical,
When audilenly upon a rock we saw just what we seens
A mermaid quite attractive like
A-settin' there, inactive like,
And sort of doin' up 'er hair, which same was long and green.
I made as if to apeak to her,
But what I said was Greek to her;
For she remained ob-liv-i-oua, a-powdenn er nose,
'And with a pair of girley-gews.
She dona her hair in curley-kewa,
And kind o' smiled, as if to say, "I m pretty, I suppose."
I yelled, "Ahoy there!" breezily,
She turned around quite easily.
And snapped 'er fingers in the air as perky as could be.
(The way you talk to fareignera)
At two lone, lnrnsome mariners,
And one of 'em was Henry Smith ana ont of 'em was me.
Though Henry's face was lalTable,
I dolled my bonnet affable,
And said: "Though me and Henry Smith has sailed for years a s.orc.
In schooner, junk and tub marine,
A charming maiden submarine,
A settin' pluin before our eyes, we never seen before."
Phe looked at first suspiciously,
And then she spoke deliriously,
"I've often wished a sailorinun me hand and heart to win."
Pays Henry, "Thankee, marin," says 'e,
Says she, I meant no harm," says
"For I m a niece o Aeptune,
aud
I speaks without a falter: "Ma'am,
I've tackled around Gibraltar, ma'am,
I've navigated rocks and shoal on many ocean tours;
I've sailed through Spam and Venice, too,
But never seen a menace to
The art o' navigation like them handsome eyes o' yours."
Savs Hank (his mind's so sordid-like!):
"I've got some money hoarded-like.
Full fifteen hundred dollars in the bank o' Greenwich town.
(Intention matrimonial)
And in yon houxecoloninl,
A mermaid and a mariner might wed and settle down."
Pays she, "My fear of losing you "
Makes matters hard in choosing you"
Just then above the waves appeared her mother, Mrs. Finn,
wno sain: vvnoa mem mere men.
.What! flirting there again, my dear?
Your fathers home lor luncheon, n
So Alice, lookin' sweetly up,
Just tied her back hair neatly up.
Then dove ker-plunk into the sea and never spoke at all;
Just gave a sort o' hop-and-skip,
And hit the water flop-and-fiip,
Without ao much as aBkin' if we'd drop in for a call !
Says Hank, "She tried to diwil ns!"
Says I, "Her natur's frivolous!"
Says Hank, "Her mind is shallow, but 'er home is deep," says e.
And so, as meek as tailor-men.
Back walked two lonesome sailormen,
And one of 'em was Henry Smith and one of 'em was me.
The Century.
On the 5ide of
By ALBEIlT
The following narrative recounts a
Stirring experience of Joseph Bel
mont, a youngEnglishman of science.
The story is given practically in his
own words:
In the latter part of 18S9 I was
employed in Ecuador by one of the
English universities to estimate alti
tudes and measure distances among
the higher peaks of the Andes, and
to collect Information about the coun
try and its people. During December
t camped for some time with a single
guide on the slopes of Chimborazo,
about 1000 feet below the snow line.
My companion was called Manuel;
be had no surname that I could dis
cover. He was a full-blooded Indian
who had been recommended to me by
a Spanish official. I found him Bllent
and stolid, but thoroughly trustwor
thy. Much ot our time was spent In
making our way along the summit ot
sharp ridges that fell off abruptly on
either side, in creeping cautiously up
iteep slopes of rolling stones, and in
scaling sheer precipices, exposed to
the cruel winds that haunt those high
altitudes.
One morning we left our camp at
early dawn, and did not turn back
ontil late in the evening. Our labors
that day were more than usually ar
duous, and the thinness of the air
caused us much suffering. With
panting breaths we had crept along
knife-like edges until late in the af
ternoon. The sun was setting, and
we were two miles from camp.
For some time we proceeded very
slowly. The light disappeared from
the west, the stars came out and the
moan bathed the mountainside in a
pale bluish radiance. Manuel, who
was going ahead, came to a sudden
top. Right across our path lay a
lope of rocks about 300 feet wide.
It was a declivity innocent enough to
look upon, a smooth slant at an angle
of about forty degrees, but at the
lower edg9 it stopped as clean and
square as if it had been cut off with
a knife. We were about three-quarters
of the way down. Five hundred
feet above us the slope started at the
foot of an unscalable cliff; 200, feet
below it stopped. I give these figures
as approximate merely, for in the
Sioonllght it was difficult to Judge ac
curately of distance.
.Beyond the slope lay our camp,
and in some way we must get across,
but we knew that it once those rocks
were started rolling, we should be
wept over the precipice in the ava
lanche. The passage would have been
a very easy matter had there been
any ice. upon the incline to cement
the pieces together. But so far as
we could see there was not a particle,
'nof was it difficult to understand why
this was so. The slope faced the
northeast, and all day long the hot
equatorial sun lay upon it, prevent
ing any moisture from gathering.
One way or the other we must go.
We could not stand long inactive
without becoming so chilled that we
could not go either forward or back.
Which course should we take?
The answer was plain. To retrace
Our way was Impossible. The Jour
she,
me name is Alice Finn."
my near:
now come in, my child, come
Chimborazo.
W. TOLMAN.
ney had been hard by day. Now,
when the thin, shifting moonlight
rendered it difficult to calculate dis
tance, and black chasms ot shadow
flung themselves athwart the path,
the Idea was not to be entertained for
an Instant. Food, warmth, shelter
lay before us; to retreat meant to
perish ot cold and hunger and fa
tigue. For several minutes we stood in si
lence, gazing out upon the slope.
"Shall we try it?" said I at last to
my guide.
It was the first time in our ac
quaintance of two months that I had
ever seen him show hesitation: gen
erally he was prompt in his decisions.
But this time he realized the danger
better than I did, and before replying
he stooped, picked up a bit of rock,
and flung it out into the middle of
the declivity. It started a miniature
avalanche, which swept rapidly down
and disappeared over the edge of the
precipice.
The most terrifying thing about it
was that after the rocks fell we could
hear no sound for several seconds,
and then only a faint rumble thous
ands of feet below. It was a warn
ing of the fate that a mis-step might
bring upon us.
But nothing was to be gained by
delay, and at last we decided to at
tempt the passage. The one thing
that gave us hope of getting over in
safety was the appearance here and
there of a boulder,, apparently pro
jecting from the solid ledge beneath.
rearing its head above the surround- '
ing debris like a little island.
Manuel went first, putting his feet
down very carefully, one after the
other. I followed, stepping exactly
in his tracks. Once started, there was
no turning back. I did not fully re
alize the treacherous nature of that
rocky slope until we were upon it.
We were fifteen minutes traversing a
space of fifty feet. ,
The farther we got out the sorrier
I grew that we had come. The whole
slide was bound together as a single
mass. The displacement of one bit
me displacement ot one bit
1 a . - 1
of rock Imparted an Impulse to the
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next below, and took away Its sup
port from the next above. A single
false step, a slip on the part of either,
would involve both in a fearful ca
tastrophe. We did not say a word to each oth
er. All our energies were needed for
crossing the slope. The fatiguing na
ture of that cautious tread I cannot
tell you. Every muscle was tense to
rigidity, every nerve keyed high; our
eyes were strained to detect the
smallest motion, and our ears were
alert to catch the slightest sound.
Seventy-five feet out we reached a
boulder that rose above the shingle.
It barely afforded footing for us both.
We did not dare to remain long upon
it, for the temperature was far below
the freezing point, and we were stiff
with cold. After a few minutes Man
uel made a sign and once more we
took up our perilous Journey.
We bad gone about fifteen feet,
when my guide, who was two yards
in advance, gave a sharp exclamation.
There was a harsh rattling sound.
"Run, senor, run!" Manuel shout
ed, and his great leaps set me the ex
ample. He must have stepped on what was
the keystone of the entire mass, so
Bot that its slightest movement would
affect the whole. As I ran I cast one
hasty glance upward. I verily be
lieve that every piece of rock from
top to bottom was in motion at once.
The whole mountainside seemed to
be crawling toward us.
First there came the faint rolling
and clinking of scattered pebbles,
then a loud rattle, swelling into the
roar of an avalanche, as rock after
rock added Itself to the sliding 'mass.
One instant the declivity lay silent
and motionless in the moonlight; the
next it was all alive, slipping, grind
ing, roaring, with the sound ot a
stone crusher in full action.
It was useless to think of gaining
the ledge at which we had aimed.
Twenty-five feet below it was anoth
er, not quite so high, but longer and
narrower, and toward this we bent
our course in flying leaps.
There was no chance to pick the
best spot for holding on. We threw
ourselves down upon the ledge on
our faces, fortunately clutching a
shoulder. Had we gained the boul
der above, at which we bad aimed,
we should have been swept away by
the flood that poured over it. As it
was it broke the force of the slide
and kept the great mass ot rock away
from us.
Our situation was still perilous In
the extreme. The ledge which af
forded us refuge rose only a few
inches above the surrounding debris.
Had the stones confined themselves
to rolling it would have been bad
enough. But the smaller ones, de
flected and shot high, into the air by
passing over the ledge above, rained
down upon us like the spray ot "a
rocky waterfall.
It was fortunate that our eyes and
teeth escaped, for, as we lay, we were
obliged to face the avalanche. Of
course we could not shelter our faces
with our hands, for we needed every
finger to hold on with. So we ducked
our heads as low as possible, and the
missiles beat a tattoo upon our skulls
until our hair was matted with blood.
Had the stones been any larger we
should have been battered into insen
sibility and quickly hurled over the
precipice.
Once I was In deadly peril. A
rock, larger than the rest, struck my
flngerB, numbing them and causing
me to relax my hold. My grasp was
torn away, and for the fraction of a
terrible second I was at the mercy ot
the torrent. Then my guide, at the
risk of bis own life, let go the ledge
with one band and clutched my shoul
der. Again I regained my place and
clung with redoubled strength.
The force ot the slide abated. The
dust cleared. Lastly a few scattered
rocks dashed down over the denuded
surface. At one instant a stony Nia
gara seemed to be roaring around
us; then we heard the distant rumble
of its fall die away in the depths of
the ravine. The next moment there
was utter stillness, aB sudden as if a
great door, padded and muffled, bad
shut out the sound. Only the snow
crowned peak, high above us, gave
back the pale light ot the moon.
Then we saw the reason why the
mass had slid so smoothly and rap
idly. The slope was practically a
plane inclined at a sharp angle, bro'
ken, to be sure, by a few projecting
ledges, but in the main free from ob
structions. How long it bad been
collecting its load we could only con
jecture. As the cliff above disinte
grated under the action of frost and
rain and ice, small pieces fell from it
one by one, until the whole slant be
came charged with fragments ready
to be set in motion by the least im
oulse. Possibly the next falling rock
of any considerable size might have
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had the same effect that our steps
had had. There was every reason for
thinking that the thing bad happened
many times, although I very much
doubt If human feet bad ever before
been the agency to set the mass in
motion.
Manuel had suffered worse than I,
for he had occupied a more exposed
position... When I looked at his face
in the moonlight I could not repress
an exclamation of horror. He was
fearfully cut and bruised, having a
ragged gash on his right cheek and
another above his eye. I was appar
ently In little better plight, but later.
after the dirt and blood had been
washed off, my injuries turned out to
be not severe. Our clothing hung in
tatters about the upper portion ot our
bodies, which were black and blue
from the bombardment we had re
ceived.
Now that the rocks were gone the
remainder of the slope gave us no
more trouble. An hour later we
were warming ourselves by the spirit
lamp in our tent, and the aroma of
boiling coffee was very grateful to
our nostrils. We spent the next day
in resting and attending to our injur
ies and repairing the damage to out
clothing. It was a full week before
we wholly recovered from the results
of our adventure. Youth's Compan
ion.' ENJ1F1C?,
MO .VTCM
It has been recommended that new
courses for the study of electricity be
established at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis.
It has been found that electrical
currents will soften concrete. This
1b of Importance in the wrecking ol
old foundations.
At the bottom of the sea there are
In all 250,000 miles of cable, repre
senting 1250,000,000. The average
life of the cable is forty years.
A new process for hardening steel
has been discovered. The' temper is
increased by electricity and the new
process is said to be superior to any
other.
'Ancient philosophers suspected,
and modern scientists have practical
ly proved that the ocean is the great
original storehouse of organic life,
and that the ancestors of all that
lives and moves upon the land and
in the air at one time dwelt in and
drew their nourishment from the wat
ers of the deep.
A great development in the use
and manufacture of alumnlum In
England is being looked tor, and the
company which has a monopoly ol
the business is planning for a great
enlargement in 1909. The price ol
the metal was reduced last Octobei
to $500 a ton, and this has led to a
demand for it in new fields, notably
by telegraph and telephone compa
nles. Aluminum, it may be noted, it
used in the new explosive "ammon
al," of which much Is expected b
cause it does not, like lyddite, deton
ate on contact, but will penetrate ar
mor or earthworks before exploding.
In a study, which purports to bi
entirely scientific, of the alleged con
nection between . the physical anc
mental character ot an individual and
his handwriting, Mons. Solange Pel
lat, an expert attached to the Tribu
nal of the Seine, Paris, maintains thaf
distinct relations exist between- th
handwriting and the voice. An ex
pert, he declares, can determine from
thfi handwriting whether the writer'i
voice is high or low in pitch, sonorous
or veiled, harsh or soft and agreea
ble. But he remarks that in all cases
where it is sought to determine char
acter from handwriting, great paini
should be taken to choose for exam
ination only writing that has been
done under normal conditions.
Among the industries that have
been profoundly modified by the ad
vent of electricity into daily use is
that of making porcelain. Formerly
artistic considerations alone governed
the various operations of the work
men in porcelain, but now, since this
substance is employed for insulators
in all electric installations, scientific
processes have been introduced in its
manufacture which demand a great
deal ot special attention. The exact
amount ot contraction that the clay
undergoes, the exact temperature to
which it is submitted in the process
of baking, the constant employment
ot Instruments for measuring the
temperature and for determining the
size of certain pieces such are
among the essentials in the modern
art ot porcelain making tor electric
purposes.
Satisfactory Anyway.
In a rural district a Scottish min
ister was out taking an evening walk
when he came upon one of his parish
ioners lying In a ditch. "Where have
you been the nicht, Andrew?" "Weel,
I dinna richtly ken," answered the
prostrate sinner, "whether it was a
wedding or a funeral, but whatever it
was, it has been a most extraordinary
success. "Bellman.
Boon For Writers.
I think," said the struggling
writer, "that the publishers might
well take a hint from the politicians."
In what respect?" ,
"Publicity tor all contributions.
How that would help!" Louisville
Courier-Journal.
ART OF DANCING L08T,
Chorearaphie Congress to Discus
Question and Provide Remedy.
Is dancing degenerating? Next
month, in Berlin, will be held an in
ternational choregraphlo congress
which will have to answer that grave
question. M. Lefort, secretary of the
French Choregraphlo Association,
giveB a forecast of the task which wlH
He before the meeting.
"The art ot dancing," he said,
threatens to lose all its charm if
something be not done In time. Either
dancers turn like teetotums with stif
fened jointB or they make violent ef
forts to look graceful, with still more
dire results, leaping about, contorting
themselves and gesticulating gro
tesquely. ThtB, sir, is a lamentable
state ot things. Dancing should,
above all, have grace, and elegance,
and should Impart distinction to the
bearing. The dancer should study to
acquire elasticity and , suppleness of
movement, not the habit of disartic
ulating his or her limbs a most dis
astrous practice'. '
"Deportment is the first thing to be
learned, and it will be useful to the
proficient pupil in ail walks of life.
It was thus In the olden times, In the
day ct Prevot, of Oalant du Desart
and of Gulllaumme Raynal, who were
dancing masters at the court of King
Louis XIV, who founded the Academy
of Dancing. Then the minuet, the
gavotte, the pavane, the passepled, the
forlane were danced. What could be
more exquisite? But In 1860 the pol
ka was Introduce -J In France. That
was the beginning of the end. To
dance theipolka the men held his part
ner around the waist. The novelty
of the thing pleased the popular im
agination. Good-bye, then, to the
beautlfiiFold dances in which partners
Just touched the tips of each other's
fingers. The mazurka, the schottische
followed, and the waltz. Imported by
Desart from Russia.
"Nowadays, when a man eomes to
us to learn dancing, he generally stip
ulates that he is to be taught only
those dances In which he holds the
girl round the waist; What have we
come to? Still, there are hopes, af
ter all. In the last few years some
little has been done to restore to the
art of dancing its pristine nobleness.
Setting aside the inexplicable vogue,
now happily past, of the Negro cake
walk, we observe that the Boston Is
increasingly popular in drawing rooms
The Boston comes from America.
"Let us thank the Amerlcann, not
for the step, which they did not in
vent, as it is none other than our own
old-fashioned redowa, but for the de
velopment which they have given It,
and which makes it an admirable
physical exercise. The Boston gives
breadth of movement and expands
chest and lungs. This year we start
ed with considerable success a new
dance, "the wave," a kind of more un
dulating and gliding Boston, recall
ing the rhythm of the sea, hence its
name. Next winter we intend to re
vive the old dances of France, the pa
vane and the gavotte, for instance,
and we shall require our pupils to
sing while, dancing, a most graceful
practice, and one calculated to devel
op the chest. That will be the chief
article of our program at the Berlin
congress." Paris Cor. Philadelphia
North American.
Who He Was.
We were sitting on the upper deck
on the last day of the voyage home
from Bremen. I had been introduced
to her on the first day out, and we had
many interesting talks together be
fore the trip ended. She was a garru
lous person and much given to gossip,
but it was all harmless and without
malice, I felt sure.
Not far away from us stood a young
man who had a very intellectual air
about him. He wore his hair very
long and looked In every way the pro
fessional musician.
"Do you know him?" she asked.
"He plays" I began, but she Inter
rupted me and proceeded in her usual
talkative fashion.
"O," she said, "I have heard nearly
every violinist of note in my time. I
have often regretted that I never had
the chance of hearing the soul-stirring
performances ot Ole Bull, but I've
listened, entranced, to the heavenly
strains of Kubelik, and that was ecta
sy indeed!"
"He plays" I edged in, but she just
Ignored me and rattled on.
"And I've beard every modern pian
ist of note, too. Often I've been
wrought to a high pitch of excitement
by the adorable Paderewski. And then
Joseffy, DePachman, Rosenthal, Saint
Saens!" She seemed out of breath here and
I got a chance to put in a few words.
"O," I said, "I saw him several times
in the card-room on this trip, and, as
I was about to say when you Inter
rupted me, he plays the best game of
pinochle of any Dutchman I ever met"
Brooklyn Life.
Satisfied With Her Work.
It was noticed that the woman de
voted many more hours to mirror
gazing than formerly. "I can't tell,"
she said with dreamy satisfaction,
"how many times I have caught peo
ple, especially women, snap-shooting
me recently."
"I shouldn't be so puffed up about it
If I were you," said the brute ot a
man. "It wasn't your good looks that
attracted them. They were taking
pictures of your dresses, so they could
copy the best points in their own
clothes."
"In that case," said the woman, after
a moment's visible disappointment, "I
feel more highly complimented than
if they had photographed me. Nature
la responsible for me, but I designed
my clothes myself." New York Press.
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LABOR WORLD.
Forty thousand men ' were" In the
Labor Day parade in New York City.
About 500 painters in New Orleans,
La., have gone on strike for. increased
wages.
In 1893 there were only thirty
seven unions in New Zealand; now
there are 310.
The wage dispute is at an end in
Glasgow, Scotland, and the ship
building centres along the Clyde.
New York Typographical Union
("Big Six") has transferred $5000 to
a special fund to be paid out to its
out-of-work members.
According to Labor Minister Millar,
the wage earners ot New Zealand are
now In revolt against the Arbitration
Courts of the Dominion.
It has oeen decided by the leather
workers that they will make a uni
versal demand for the eight-hour day
within the next two years.
A reorganization of the building
trades unions has been brought about
In Buffalo, N. Y., after many years of
warfare. It has 10,000 members.
A rearrangement of conditions and
Increase of wages has been generally
conceded to the employes in the
Queensland (Australia) railway ser
vice. Serious mining catastrophes re
corded in the United Kingdom last
year' have resulted in an increase in
the death rate from 1.29 in 1906 to
1.32 in 1907.
New Bedford (Mass.) Weavers'
Union has laid over the proposed
amendment making It obligatory for
members to have their families en
rolled ia their respective craft or
ganizations. San Francisco (Cal.) Lodge No.
68, International Association of Ma
chinists, has adopted a plan by which
the youngsters are to be instructed
by lectures on the different branches
of the trade.