HOMESICK. It ataails nfnr, 'mid inn-lit fields A little farm house, brown and old, (With ancient, gray and time-stained walls, And sloping roof of gold. land I, a wanderer from the dusty town, Grown wearv of its heavv wavs. (Wistful, from off the hot, white road, look uown, For there, the nights were blest with quiet , sleep, The davs were filled with hannv eares: And there the skies seemed ever more to keep A time for neare and nraver. There, youth and laughter, joy and hepe ana love Pang in my heart a happy song! 'Ah, me! the song is hushed forever mora And lost the streets among. And now I stand and gaze with heavy heart. Across dear fields in longing sore: To where another woman, liappier far. Looks from the low gray door. O, little farm house, old and brown and sweet, I wake, when all the world's at rest, 'And dream of you, and long for the old peace And the untroubled brenst! I Pall Mall Gazette. A MAN AND A CHILD By PRISCILLA M. SPROUI. rar. inompson win see you now, the head clerk announced. "You may leave the little girl here. I'll take care of her." The woman made no reply, but gave him a grateful glance. Enter ing the private office, she timidly ap proached the man, who was Bitting at the desk. As she caught sight. of htm she recoiled. "You!" she gasped. The man looked up In surprise. A ardonlc grin spread over his face when he recognized the woman be fore him. "As I live!" he ejaculated, leaning over his desk and exaggerating his wonderment to the point of mockery. "It's Grace!" He paused as though expecting a reply. "By jove," he then continued, "as handsome and prob ably as heartless as ever. This Is certainly an honor. Pray be seated." With mock politeness he arose and proffered her a chair She sank down silently and covered her face with her hands. "And to what am I indebted for the ttonor of this visit?" he asked with veiled bitterness. "It certainly must tie important to come here without your husband." She looked up beseechingly "I came for him and my child," she said imply. "Well?" There was little encour agement in his tone. "He is on the verge of ruin; and it IB vnn vnn la n nff ir " !" Mft lnnlrpn1 Inrrpfliilnn "Yes, you. You and your friends re beating down Amalgamated. He told me so last evening; said you were trying to break the market. If the stock falls below sxty-six he is Wiped out." "So he's another one of them, eh? Well, I suppose the under dog must have his whine." - "'He's not whining. He suffers be cause of Elsie and me. We mean all to him, all; and if the stock falls to sixty-six we are beggars." "So you come to me, expecting me -the man you jilted for him to help you. Did you have any pity when you threw me over because I didn't have any money and he did? You warped my faith in womankind and turned mo into a money getter. And .now you want me to help you." "I ask no mercy for myself." she replied dully. "I plead for my hus band and child." But tho face of the man opposite showed no signs of relenting. "It is your turn to suffer. If you feel one tithe of the anguish I felt years ajo it would be more than enough. You yourself destroyed what you now ap peal to. It i3 a just retribution." "You mean," she whispered unbe lievingly. "1 will do nothing." His stolid re fusal precluded further appeal. She rose and groped blindly from tho room. The man sat motionless, staring tensely ahead. The door slowly opened again. This time it was a different visitor a little girl. In childish wonderment she examined the office, until her gaze rested on the man at the desk. For some time she looked at him. At last, summoning her courage, she went to the railing and coughed po litely. v "Please, sir," she asked in a some what uncertain voice, "where's my mamma?" 1 The man started and for the first time saw the vision on the other side of the railing. "Why, little girl, jjrhere did you come from?" ; "Please, is my mamma here?" Her mother! It was her girl, the Elsie about whom she had spoken. He examined her closer Yes, there was the same hair, the same eyes, the same coquettish expression about the mouth thai her mother used to have. "What is your name, little one?" lie asked. "Elsie Jenkins," . lisped the girl, her lips curving in a gracious smile. "And where has mamma gone?" "If you will wait here she will come hack soon." The child followed the suggestion by climbing Into the leather chair and leaning back with an air of luxurious ease. Without disturbine his truest. the broker closely surveyed her, an untarnished being, breathing forth an air of purity that seemed out of place In that office, where only tho seamy ' came and went. Tho frame was not , fitting for so beautiful a picture. I The flowers, tho birds, the sunshine were all lacking. "Nice weather we's been having lately," the child remarked, conscious that the pause in the conversation should be breached. The quaint, old-fashioned way In which she Introduced the time-worn topic brought a smile to the Hps of the man. "Yes," he replied. "I fear it la almost too good to last." "O, dear!" the girl exclaimed, with a half-roguish twist of her head, "I do hope not, for I have bo many things planned for this week." "Indeed!" The man showed proper astonishment. "Yes. To-morrow I go riding with mamma In the park, and Wednesday I pay a visit to auntie's, and Thurs day I must go to the dressmaker's an awful bother then Friday," here she knitted her brows thoughtfully, "I don't know of anything for Friday, and Saturday," she laughed with glee and clapped her hands, "that's a very ess-p " "Special, you probably mean,' he prompted politely. "Yes, thank you, special day, for ma and I are going to the theatre." "You must love your mother," he said kindly. What a strange feeling was stealing over him! "Do I!" There was a world of meaning in that exclamation. It showed a depth of affection that could have been the result of only loving care. "She is the bestest mamma that ever lived! Do you know her?" she added, looking him Btralght In the face. "Well," he hesitated, the smlla vanishing from his Hps, "I " "Oh, tlftre she is," the child broke In eagerly. "I hear her outside." She sprang up and went to the door, stopping on the way to Bay in the courtliest of tones: "Thank you ever bo much. I've had a lovely time." The man simply nodded as she dis appeared. Two potent factors were struggling In his heart; one engen dered by the sight of the woman who had wronged him, the other by the Innocent presence of a little child. still of a stainless perfection. One cried for a vengeance that was In his power, the other, supported by his prirrnrlpri riiRf.wrtrn rnnsnlpnpp. nnlrpd for mercy. At last the mother-love, transfused in the child to a mighty appeal. brought down the scales against his long-nursed grievance. "She must have been a good moth er to the girl," he muttered as he reached for the bell. "Tell Wilson that the Amalgamated deal Is off," he said to the clerk who answered. Boston Post. THINKS NEW YORK A HEARTLESS CITY. Western Hotel Man Says There is Too Llttla Sentiment In Bull, nest Methods Here. "One hears that after being In this city a year a person always becomes afflicted with New Yorkitis. Now I am not sure I care to have that partic ular ailment, although persons so af flicted are generally envied by new comers, and nfter getting a fine spell of it they never recover. That is, they never get over the notion that New York Is tho greatest city In the world," said a Western hotel man. He has had twenty years' experience in the hotel business In Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburg, with a repu tation worth having. But he has been actively engaged as assistant manager of a small New York hotel for only two months, and Is not yet enthusias tic over New York ways of doing busi ness, especially in the hotel field. "As far as I have observed," he said, "New Yorkers are absolutely heartless In their methods of treating ctliars in business. For instance, I have had occasion since coming here to discharge two office employes. I intended to give them two weeks' no tice, as Is the custom in Cleveland and Pltteburg, but the man above me said no notice was necessary in this city, and I was obliged to let them go at once, contrary to my feelings in the matter. I tell you, when hotel clerks shake hands 'good night' they scarce ly know whether both will be working In the same hotel the next day or not, and I think that a bad way to run business. There ought to bo a senti ment of loyalty encouraged instead. "Then I find that salaries here are extremely low. An experienced hotel man can generally Ho better finan cially In any other city. Here is an illustration of one thing that always seems odd to me. Not much atten tion Is paid to the position of night clerk, although ho is actually in charge of a hotel while on duty. The day clerk has the manager or proprie tor to refer to when a critical point comes up in the day time, but the night clerk is alone. And yet I could cite a big Broadway hotel of 400 rooms that pays its night clerk the magnificent sum of $40 a month, with meals. Think of it! He is obliged to rent a room outside to sleep in, too. 'The New York idea seems to he, 'get business, no matter how, but get it.' I don't like the cold attitude as sumed. There are still a few warm hearts boating west of here, and it would not give me any pangs to go back to them." New York Herald. Tlie Apple Land. Tasmania has long been known as the apple land of the South, but few at home have any real idea of the money that can be made, and is be ing made, out of apple-growing in that island. Last year, for Instance, there were many small orchards In the South which returned as much as 1200 bushels to the acre, and one owner of four acres, who picked over 4000 bushels of marketable fruit, which he sold at four shillings a bushel, reaped a gross return of 800. TALErb OF tfDVENTVRH ESCAPED CONVICT'S ADVENTURE News was received In London on Saturday of the death of Joseph Cres- wick, who while fleeing from justice accomplished one of the most remark able walking feats on record. Creswick was undergoing a sen tence for forgery In Rhodesia and while being conveyed from one prison to another by train (as reported some months ago) conceived the Idea of es caping from his guards. As his legs were heavily ironed the task was by no means an easy one, but one night, when the train in which he was being conveyed was between Buluwayo and Salisbury and his guards were asleep Creswick quietly opened the carriage door and jumped out. When he reached the ground he fell but was not badly hurt. During the remain der of the night he shuffled along In the dark and at daylight could see the railroad In the distance. He decided to walk In a Btralght line from it, which he did for several days, still with his feet shackled. Day after day and night after night he rubbed his irons with the sharp est pieces of rock he could find until at last he was able to throw his man acles aside. After this Creswick went on with great strides through the un known country in which he found himself, his sole object being to get to some white settlement. Some weeks after his escape the wanderer had a wonderful piece of luck. In a hut apparently belonging to a settler he found a gun and some ammunition, which In the circum stances he did not hesitate to take possession of. With the gun he man aged to shoot several zebras and other animals, which provided him with many a welcome meal; but unfortu nately his gun got out of order be fore his ammunition became exhaust ed and he had to rely upon fruit for bis sustenance. Just when Creswick was coming to the conclusion that he had been walk Ink 'round and 'round without mak lnk much progress he fell with some natives, who gave htm certain direc tions as to how to find "a very long water," which Creswick concluded must mean the river Congo, and for several weeks he continued his tramp. Eight months after his escape from the train between Salisbury and Buluwayo Creswick was found by a party of Belgians lying in a weak and feverish condition about two hundred miles from Leopoldviile on the Con go. They nursed him back to health and strength. At Bomba, arrayed In all the glory of a pair of cricket flan nels and a football jersey provided by his new friends, the fugitive found a ship on which he worked his passage to Antwerp. From there he got a ship to London. That, however, led to his undoing, for while ho was walk ing in Whitechapel he was recognized by Detective Inspector Belcher of Scotland Yard, who arrested him on the charge of escaping from lawful custody. He was taken subsequently to Rho desia as a fugitive offender, and for his escapade he was sentenced to a further term of six months' imprison ment, during which he dlefl. London Globe. BEARS GET TOO SOCIABLE. Uncle Sam has a new and curious worry now. It is to prevent persons from going around and petting his big wild bears In the woods and feeding them with goodies. Funny as this is, it is true. So true is it that the officers who have charge of the Yellowstone National Park, which is where all this is hap pening, have found themselves com pelled to post notices which read thus: "The feeding of, interfering with, or molestation of tn bear or other wild animal in the park is absolutely prohibited." This sign was put up because the bears had become altogether too Im pudent, owing to the bad habits into which they had fallen as a result of being pampered. Thus it happened many times last year that big bears frightened new visitors almost into convulsions by ambling cheerfully Into their camps. Sometimes ttey would follow stran gers for miles, and the poor strangers would race away, yelling, thinking all the timo that they were saving their lives from wild beasts, while the wild beasts loped along behind them, Intent on getting nothing more bloody than a biscuit or a piece of sugar. It was not long before the folk In the National Park realized that the beasts were a great deal better oil while they remained in a perfectly wild state. And then it was found that the human beings In the park would be better off still; for big black and brown bears, and now and then a grizzly, having acquired a taste for white man's food, began to b'reak into the camps and even the hotels at night to steal hams, bread, cake and anything else that was particularly tempting. The very animals that r-f-.-rie the most friendly were the on.-s i'-nt rlid the most harm. There wva three especial!? two black brar aud one brown bear that became so fimlllar and loving that they acted as if they were paying board at one of the ho tels. They would hang around the kit chen and the rear veranda and run af ter the guests, begging for something nice to eat till they had made nuis ances of themselves. At last, after they had smashed Into a hotel pantry and frightened women and children almost to death, the officials were forced to shoot them. Now the superintendent of the park has Issued a warning. He announces that any one who feeds or pets the wild bears will be punished. He says that they are perfectly harmless as long as they are kept In a perfectly wild state and left alone, but when persons trifle with them they lose all fear of human beings and pro ceed to do much damage to property. And every now and then they hurt somebody who thinks that, because they have become familiar, they are not dangerous any more. CANNIBALS IN NEW GUINEA. There are a few native villages around Kerema, Papua, all friendly to the Government, which they regard as their, chief protection from the mysterious and much-dreaded Kuku kuku tribe. These Kukukukus sound more like something out of a mediae val goblin story than anything mod em and real. They are cannibals, and live high up in the unexplored ranges one can see from the shore. Their neat yam and taro gardens checker the upper peaks like the tiny squares on a plaid coat, suggesting that the cannibals are Industrious and orderly, and fond of a relish with their food. At times they descend In small, ac tive parties upon the tribes of the coast, and stalk them from the shel ter of the bush, until an opportunity occurs of cutting off one or two alone. They are little, quick and cunning, and their death-dealing raids often take place without exciting any sus picion on the part of the victims' friends, until gaps among the ranks of familiar faces tell their silent tale. Not long before our visit they made a descent down to the very beach, hidden by the forest, darted out, cap tured two of the children playlr" on the shore, and vanished with their prey before any one In the village bad time to take alarm. The other children told the tale, and the magis trate went out, with a handful of na tive police, to ambush the Blayers by night on their way back to the bills, and capture them, If possible. A volley fired in the dark was the only punishment the cannibals re ceived, however, for they discovered the ambush and got away In their usual mysterious fashion before the police could follow up their fire. Traces of blood on the path showed that it had been effective, but the wounded or dead were spirited away with the rest. Some of their goods were found abandoned on the track- pipes, spears, betel-nut bags and. among the other matters, two neatly tled-up parcels, which, on being opened, were found to contain the bodies of a little boy and a little girl, cut into pieces. Until last year no white man and few natives had even seen a Kukuku ku, though they had been the scourge of the district for years. One or two, however, were captured at last and taken to Port Moresby jail to serve a term of Imprisonment. They proved to be small, active, ugly men, very wild and uncivilized, and so nervous that they tremble all over when looked at. Wide World Magazine. BETTER THAN FICTION, Lee Falrchild was night telegraph operator In a Btunal tower on a sin gle - track railroad running through Woldon, North Carolina. He had let a north-bound berry train into his block, and while It was burning up the rails at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, he was horrified to see a south-bound excursion train, laden with four hundred men, women and children, whiz by the signal he had set against It 250 yards up the track. One chance in a thousand Fair- child saw to prevent a head-on col lision and frightful slaughter and he took It. As the locomotive of the excursion roared by, he stood tor an Instant on the sill of the window In the tower, then he dived flat, six feet forward and downward, landing on hands and knees upon the roof of a passenger car. The impetus of the train was so enormous that It slid from under him almost the length of the car, and the Impact all but snapped his back in two; but he clutched blindly, fetching up against a ventilator, and there he lay for some seconds, hardly able to stir hand or foot, the breath knocked out of him. Within three feet was the bell rope, but he could not reach it by a foot, and to try to squeeze down be tween the ends of the cars would have meant being cut in two by the root edges. One thing only was left. With the last strength in him he crawled over tho roof of the car to the engine, poised a moment, leaped on to the coal in the swaying tender, and scrambled forward to the engineer In tie cab. With blood gushing out of Us scalp wounds, he threw himself , WJWn the engineer from behind. "Stop! Stop! For God's sake, I tuok up!" he shouted above the racket. Not a second was to spare. Down went brakes, and the fireman rar ahead with a torch to check the oncoming freighter, while the en gineer of the excursion train backed ', frantically, and on the floor of the cob lay the senseless form of the man who had saved a tralnload of human liplnss from hideous death. A. W. Uolker, in Everybody's. The Modern Girl. By DON KAHN. As be looked down Into her deep eyes he wasn't exactly sure which would he Just the best way to propose to her. "Darling," be finally began, "I've been admiring your beauty, your tal ent, your fidelity, ever since we first met yearB ago. To-night, when I wish to fell you, I hardly know how to begin It" . . . "I do," she interrupted emphati cally. "I am the only' girl you have ever loved. When you look Into my deep-blue eyes no, ttiey happen to be brown when you look Into my Deep-brown eyes you think of all the bad, naughty things you have ever done, and you wish that you were worthy of me. I am the light of your soul, and you can never be happy without me. Will I be yours?" As the girl concluded she turned to him. "Is that about it?" she asked. "Yes" . . . "Then It's my turn," said the girl .... "Your salary is what? And your bank account Is how much?" He stated the figures. "You expect to Inherit what amount from a rich uncle whose name Is?" . . . The man supplied the data. "Your proposal 1b very satisfac tory," replied the Modern Girl, throw ing herself into his waiting arms. "I am truly yours." From Puck. The Red Ear of Corn. Science goes on knocking the ro mance out of things. They used to think that red ears of corn were freaks of nature Intended to add zest to the old-fashioned husking bees, the discovery of one by a young man entitled him to kiss his fair partner at the business. But down at the corn show they will tell you that red corn always produces red corn, yel low yellow, and white white. How then do red ears come to be found In the white and yellow varieties? This Is the scientific explanation of It: The corn pollen Is light and airy, and Is easily carried by the wind. Some of It, picked up from a distant field, Is wafted upon a field of the other variety and In this way the varieties become mixed. Columbus Dispatch. Getting Higher. The old sun, yellow dog that It ap pears upon the hazy days of Febru ary, Is getting higher In the heavens. It gets out of bed a little earlier every morning and travels a little longer pathway, and doesn't retire quite so early as It did awhile ago. Feels kindlier, too, softer and warm er. It bores more holes Into ths snow or Ice that may be formed at night. It takes a thicker cloud to shut it off, and it can creep through denser smoke than It could last month, some way. No matter what the ground hog may have said about winter; no matter what the almanao man may say about the springtime, the sun Is getting higher and higher as the days go by, and that means we shall feel Its warmth more and more. Dayton News. Did the Cat Know? For a long time a cat had been a member of the ship City of Kingston. When that vessel arrived at Seattle from Victoria on her last trip the cat, contrary to its habits, went ashore, and could not be coaxed back. Finally one of the crew grabbed the animal and carried it abo ird. Just as the line were cast off the cat sprang from the Kingston to the wharf, and disappeared in a pile of rags. Now people are asking: "Did the yellow cat know that the Kings ton would meet with a disaster, and do cats, as well as rats, desert a sink ing ship?" A Tenny For Wasps. The announcement that the Hay ward's Heath Horticultural Society was prepared to pay a penny for every queen wasp brought to the sum mer show has caused the secretary to be Inundated with wasps from all parts of England. Some of the send- j. era have requested that the money .they consider due them should be forwarded by return of post. The secretary, however, wishes It to be understood by senders that only per sons living within the radius of the show will be paid tor their wasps. London Standard. I To Train the Memory. If men only realized how great an asset in life is a retentive memory they would take care to see that their children's memories were properly trained. The simplest method con sists in learning every day a few lines by heart. None ot our faculties can j De trained so easuy as tnat ot mem ory. Stuttgart Famillenblatt. Education in India. Education as now understood in In dia is an exotic and arouses nowhere any real enthusiasm. The Indian tra der, banker or money lender has ac cumulated bis wealth without any very obvious aid from English educa tion, and he probably therefore does not see why he should help others to what he bus himself dispensed with. Calcutta Englishman. Simple Food Advocate. David Howell has died at Stroud Infirmary at the age of 102. He worked on farms In the Stroud dis trict all his life, being employed on one for between sixty and seventy years. He attributed his longevity to Blmple food, hard work and no worry. London Standard. I r 5CJ EN NDV5TRJ ' Red glass hastens vegetation, while blue glass suppresses It. Sensitive plants, like the mimosa, grow fifteen times higher under red glass than un der blue. For the last three years meat has been cured by electricity In much less time than was required by the old method. The meat Is placed In large wooden tanks and covered with the ordinary pickle. An alternating cur rent of thirty-five amperes at thirty five volts Is passed through the vat, the alternations serving to prevent electrochemical action. Carbon elec trodes are used, which are surround-. ea Dy porous cups mat dip into tne brine. The cost of curing a vatful of meat (4000 pounds) Is less than $1. The action of the current is not per fectly understood. Any one who was familiar with the appearance of the Niagara Falls be fore the present power Installations were built and opened can settle the question as to whether the appearance of the falls has been affected by going to see for himself. Small though the total amount ot water taken for pow er purposes, in proportion to the total amount passing over the falls, may be, it has been sufficient to cause the shallower portions of the overflow at ' the edges of the falls to become en tirely dry, thereby greatly reducing the total length ot the crest line. For developing photographs In day light, a practice which has advantages for the amateur, a new German pro cess prepares the ordinary dry plate by placing it In a four per cent, solu tion of potassium Iodide for two min utes. The silver bromide Is thus con verted into non-sensitive iodide, and after this preliminary operation in a suitable cloth bag Is not affected by daylight. Being first rinsed, the plats Is developed in equal parts of these two solutions: (a) water, 600 grammes; anhydrous sodium sulphite, 20; metol, 1; hydroqulnone, 8; po tassium bromide, 40; (b) A 3 per cent, solution of caustic potash. The) developing requires about five min utes, and the fixing by the usual process a little longer than usual. Divers Increase the time that they can remain under water by a little preliminary deep breathing. A late experimenter has found that without preparation he could hold his breath for only forty-two seconds, but after one minute of forced breathing he could bold It for two minutes and twenty-one seconds; after three min utes, for three minutes and twenty one seconds, and after six minutes, for four minutes and five seconds. The effect of the forced breathing ap pears to be a freeing of the blood and body tissues from considerable carbon dioxide. It proves to be undesirable, however, to continue the forced breathing more than two or three minutes, for if it Is prolonged the muscles of the hands become rigid, and remain completely paralyzed for a minute or two after holding the breath begins. In actual practice, the pearl divers of Ceylon take only a few deep breaths before descending. How Shakespeare Spoke. Shakespeare would find bis lines as recited by the actors of to-day al most unintelligible, according to Dan iel Jones, who gave an address be fore the Elizabethan Society. To prove his contention, Mr. Jones recited "The Seven Ages'" as Shakes peare himself would have spoken it. The effect was a hotch-potch of a dozen dialects of to-day. The broad' "a's" justified the Lancastrian "fey ther" Instead of father, and the cock ney nasal "1" sounds found full satis faction in words such as maid. Other ot Mr. Jones' examples of Elizabethan pronunciation have no parallels in modern dialects. Watch was made to rhyme with catch, should with cooled, brew with new. Fifth and sixth, he said, were pro nounced without the final "th" sound: and the word sea was accorded a final sound equivalent to the French "e." London Daily Mali. The Milk Standard. The clubwomen ot Massachusetts are fighting against the movement to lower the milk standard in that State. This fight Is said to be winning more recruits to the cause of woman suf frage than anything that has come up in the last ten years. Mothers have come to agree with Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman In asserting that poll tics which affects the purity of milk and water is "not outside the home, but inside the baby." Venice, a Wet Town. An Anthony woman, who recently returned from a trip to Europe, says wet weather hasn't bothered this country at all, in comparison with what she saw abroad. She says that they ran Into a town named Venice where the water covered every street and you couldn't get anywhere ex cept In boats. She added: "You bet we only stayed one day In that slosh." Kansas City Star. Brazil's Stored Coffee. The State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, owns 7,700,000 bags of coffee stored in Europe and North America and 657,000 bags 3tored in Santos. The foreign cities of storage are Havre, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Lon don, Trieste, Marseilles, Ne. York and New Orleans. m i
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