T A. TIMELESS LAND. OK, give me a land In the bye and bye, . Where no sun-dialed rays are swinging, Where no whistle cracks the sleeping enr And no bells from on high are ringing, I would dwell in 'a spot where the dawn was told By no nerve-racking, shrill vibration In a beautiful clime where the march of time Is determined by inclination, I would camp on the shore where no hour is known By a second or minute measure; Where the night and day come and go away At our bidding and at our pleasure. . In this restful place of my heart's desire Not a care would my spirit borrow, For the day's delight need not know a night And there'd be no regretful morrow. Pray give me a place on that silent strand A land to my tired heart's liking! Where each watch, unwound, gives no tickling sound, And the clock, alongtriking! fa The Black Jaguar. By PAUL J FAIR. In the hall of mammals of the !MuBeu Goeldl, in Para, there la a jglass case containing the mounted form of a great black jaguar onca ipreta, the Brazilian guard called it. ICrouching low, it grasps a fawn, 'which. lies, with yet unglazed eyes, the delicate prey of the monster, iwhose Jetty black rosettes are only a ilittle darker than the ground color icf his coat. v. The striking appearance of the ?1rute led me to question the guard. !He told me that it had been a cap tive of the zoological garden connect ed with the museum, a sullen cap tive, that confinement speedily told upon, and soon left a candidate for the skill of the museum taxidermist. Captured when fully grown, upon, the island of Marajo, that great deli a of the Amazon, it Beemed never to have forgotten Its home among the swamps, whence it had raided the cattle of the rancheros raided them once too often. Up in the blue dome the urlbus were gathering, black circling dots that settled down and grew larger, and materialized into black vultures. Down they came, alighting, with a (ponderous whtshlng of wings, in a nasty, double black row, on each side of a ravine that gashed the surface of the prairie not far from .where the towering wall of swampy forest formed a creeper-bound barrier, be yond which the cattle of the great ranchero, Senhor Joao Lulzda Sa, did not or could not penetrate. The vul tures Jostled and hissed pettishly at one another, and craned their blink ing heads expectantly over the edge of the gully. There, tipon the narrow strip of tandy shore bordering the water, and foelow the overhanging bank, with broken neck, its head twisted back ward and sldewise and doubled use lessly under its body, lay a range . bull, and beside the carcass, feeding from a great bloody hole in its side, crouched a Jaguar. . It was not a common Jaguar, with tawny, black-rosetted hide, but a black one, the prized and feared onca pretft. Not black he was, but dark brown, so dark, indeed, that his . black markings Beemed only indis tinct darker shadows in the satiny sheen that rippled over his coat as ' the muscles played beneath it. A ' young male, supple and Just arrived ' In his prime, he was a beautiful, pow erful brute, with thick, heavy fore , quarters, a great broad head set on a short neck scarcely less heavy than . the shoulders from which it arose. As he tore and crunched his food, the lighter hind legs and feet gripped at 1 the sand, and the tail Jerked and i slatted about nervously. It was easy to mark the story of the bull'g death in the sand. Some long, plowed furrows told of the force of the jaguar's leap from the bank above, which had knocked the bull to his knees and into the water, where lie had been drinking. Truly the , oncag were becoming very bold. If . only they could be killed, as the crocodiles were killed, with axes, the cattle would not have to suffer from them. But to compare a Jaguar to stupid crocodile! Just yesterday a vaquero had seen an onca slinging away from a cow's carcass, one of the many that lay at all too frequent Intervals about the ranges. And this In broad daylight! Tnus Alfredo, the principal va ' quero, was thinking. He was a big fellow, Alfredo, bigger than the av erage Brazilian cowboy, and with ( . pleasant, open face, far more intelll igent than the ordinary. He rode . easily, the riata of plaited rawhide wishing against the ' saddle-bow grotesquely big spurs buckled on his bare heels, and his great toes thrust through little brass stirrups so small that the openings in them were quite filled.. The little horse loped along, Impatiently fighting the bit, for Al freda was going to a distant part of the range, and held him in that he might not tire himself. The rider swayed as if a wave of the motion of ilia mount Sowed through his frame, IHis eyes swept about, noting the lit tie bunches of cattle that grazed, wild' eyed and with tails half-lifted, ready to bolt at the slightest hostile sign One or two vaqueros he passed and greeted with a little hand wave. Overhead the urlbus were sailing and wheeling, and out ahead their numbers seemed to be concentrating That meant there was food, and food would In all probability only be an other cow fallen prey to the oncaa. Pressing the rein lightly upon the horse's neck, Alfredo changed his course toward the spot. .Nearlng It. he was surprised to see a black line of vultures along the rim of a deep ravine. No carcass in sight, but more urlbus constantly alighting, always along the edge. That wag strange. Suddenly the thought flashed upon his mind the onca was still feeding and slipping from his horse, he hobbled its fore legs, and then ran toward the ravine at a point a couple of hundred yards below, the black line of scavengers. Hardly had he started when some excitement seized the birds, and they began to spread ' their wings and drop clumsily Into the gully. Alfredo cautiously raised his head to look down Into the watercourse, and saw there, already covered with a black mass of vultures, the carcass, and beyond It the leisurely retreating form of a black Jaguar. He turned and ran swiftly back to his horse. Jerking off the hobbles, he rode down Into a side ravine out of sight. The Jaguar, he reasoned, would return to the swampy forest a mile beyond to sleep during the day. This distance the animal must go in full view upon the open prairie. If only the onca had eaten heavily, so that it would be dull and slow! The vnquera loosed the coils of his riata, arranged them carefully and adjusted the noose. Then out of a side gully an eighth of a mile away lumbered the jaguar, his great bullet-head moving from ide to side as he walked. Waiting only to make sure that the cat was headed for the forest, Alfredo pressed the spurs In. With a vicious little queal and head toss, the stallion bounded out of the gully, and re sponding to the pressure on his neck, struck out for the jaguar. Twenty, fifty, a hundred yards he went before the cat heard the hoofs, and seeing the man, broke into a clumsy gallop straight for the forest. That it was a labored effort was very evident, and with a whoop, half-joy, half-challenge, the vaquero drove his spurs into the horse's flanks. Faster and faster flew the whis tling rope in his right hand. In an ever-enlarging circle as the Interval between horse and cat diminished. It was a hopeless race, the fiery little horse against a cat, none too swift at any time for a run of any length, and slowed down now by a heavy meal. As he drew nearer, the horse be gan to fight for his head, and it was only by a merciless use of bit and spurs that the man kept him going directly toward the Jaguar. Finally, rising high in the? saddle, he sent the noose in a Bnaky line straight at the jaguar's head. With snarl, the brute bounded sldewise, and the noose fell harmlessly in the grass. Hardly checking speed, Al fredo Jerked it in, and hastily coiling, sent the circle out again, higher this time, and farther over. Out, out it Bailed, over the great black head, and dropped! v Chock-k! came the strain upon the saddle-horn, and the snorting little horse squatted fairly back upon his haunches, head down and forefeet far out and apart. The jerk of the taut rope just back of the angle of his Jaws whirled the jaguar in a com plete somersault. Up he was in a flash, tearing fran tically at the slim something that ate into his neck and choked him, and that his claws would not catch, rear ing, tumbling, his Jaws working spas fl Prater THOU great Father of deny on all the little Bless our own children 8 I ? and who have become the heart of our heart. Bless every little child friend who has leaned against our knee and re freshed our soul by Its smiling truthfulness. Be good to all children who crave In vain for human love, or for flowers and water, and the sweet breast of nature. But bless with a threefold blessing the young lives whose tender Bhoulders are already bowed beneath the yoke of toil and whose glad growth is being Btunted forever. Let not their little bodies be utterly sapped, and their minds given over to stupidity and the vices of an empty soul. We have all jointly deserved the millstone of Thy wrath for making these little ones to stumble and fall. Grant all employes of labor stout hearts to refuse enrichment at such a price. Grant to all the citi zens and officers of States which now permit this wrong the grace of holy anger. Help us to realize that every child in our nation is in very truth our child, a member of our great family. By the Holy Child that nestled in Mary's bosom, by the memories of our own childhood Joys and Borrows, by the sacred possibilities that slumber in every child, we beseech Thee to save us from killing the sweetness of young life by the greed of gain. Walter Rauschenbuach, in toe American Magazine. modically In one awful, continual snarl of demoniac rage. But all the time the horse kept backing, backing, Its nostrils wide with terror and ex citement, and keeping taut the slen- der rope now seemingly turned to a vibrant steel bar. Surely and not very slowly,' the choking torture was subduing the animal. Its struggles lessened, the Jaws ceased their spasmodic working but remained in a fixed snarl, the tongue protruded, and the deep-set, pale eyes assumed a glassy, bursting glare, accentuated by the blackness of the fur round them. Then it sim ply fought to hold its ground, clawing deep into the soil and rank grasses, but always losing, until at last Its strength seemed all to give way, and it dropped limply, with its breathing reduced to a few raspy little gasps. Securing the end of the riata to the saddle-horn and allowing the horse to keep It taut, Alfredo took a coll of rawhide thongs from the saddle bags, and noosing each forefoot sep arately at the wrist-Joint, he hauled them up and tied the two cords over the back. Other nooses fastened the hind legs and feet together, and a heavy stick bound with them pre vented bending the Joints. Then, seizing a short stick, he thrust it crosswise Into the creature's mouth, where the teeth instantly closed on it. A noose promptly lashed the Jaws to the stick, and a few turns round them before and behind it effectually prevented any danger from that source. This done, he slipped the end of the riata loose from the saddle-horn and pulled the noose from the Ja guar's neck. Even the little breath ing seenjed to have ceased, and the great sleek monster lay as If dead. Alfredo gave a little cry of dismay. Had he not worked fast enough? Then a long inspiration shook the form, and the eyelids trembled. An other and another, and suddenly, as if aware of his foe, but not realizing his plight, the jaguar made a con vulsive effort to get upon his feet. The cords tightened and creaked, but did not give. With breathing now free and his strength returned, he writhed and twisted like some great caterpillar. After a while these strug gles, too, ceased, as if to denote the breaking of the fierce spirit. The man watched him for some moments and then, laughing, patted him on the head and queried, humorously, "Pronto?" Blindfolding the horse with his handkerchief, he led him over and dexterously threw him near the Ja guar. With the aid of his riata, he dragged the latter Into the saddle, and after the horse had struggled to his feet beneath the load, lashed It firmly in place. Patting the great head again, he started back toward the hacienda, leading the horse, and thinking of what a splendid appear ance his captive would make safely installed In the Jardin Zoologico in Para. Youth's Companion. Getting Hid of the News. The rapid increase In the price of white paper has resulted In many ef forts to utilize old newspapers and other forms of printed white paper in the making of new paper. Up to date, however, no practical commercial process for removing the greasy printers' ink has been deViBed. The Scientific American notes the filing re cently of a German patent, describing a method for ridding old newspapers of their Ink. The paper pulp Is treat ed with peroxides of the alkalies and alkaline earths. This breaks the grip of the grease on the lampblack or other pigment In the Ink, and the two are then easily removed from the pulp by "emulsifying it with gelatinous silica." "Tip." in the New York Press. Closed For Keeper's Marriage. For an hour and a halt Tuesday the tollgate on the Persimmon Grove pike was closed. In that time forty farm ers and teamsters drove up to the gate and wondered why nobody was within. They tried to force an en trance past the gate, but found it se curely locked. They they went Into the yard of the house near by to look tor Miss Louisa Paul, the keeper of the aforesaid tollgate. But Miss Paul was gone. So they sat about and smoked and waited. By and by Miss Paul or rather Mrs. William Baldwin drove up and opened the gate. She .told them the news and they had a regular feast for another hour. Newport Correspond ence Louisville Times. Tor Children I the weak, lay Thy hand ten children on earth and bless mem. who are the life of our lire, I Fotthe Younger Children THE LION TAMER'S LITTLE BOY. The Lion Tamer's Little Boy He knows no fear at all, Chasing the King of Beasts with joy. As kittens chase a ball. He knows the tricks of Daddy's trade, He scares the tiger lean, Or makes the elephant afraid (And that is rather mean!) And often when the show is done. When animals should rest, Tho Lion Tamer's Little Son Will act aa if possessed. He tries them out with silly stunts Until it seems a sin. , But while the timid beasts he hunts His Daddy happens in And says: "Now I'll give you a chance To do the self same thing That you have asked of them. Now dance And leap and twist ana swing! "Five minutes, now, I'll cage you fast. lour teasing tncKS must cease These beasts of mine shall have at last A little rest and peace." And when he'a locked in by Papa, Tho animals grow gay, And could they speak would say, "Ha! Ha! It's now our turn to play.' R. F. Bunner, in St. Nicholas. ORIGIN OF SNOW FAIRIES. Boys and girls, you have heard of the Snow Fairies; but perhaps none of you know of their origin. But why should I say "perhaps," for I am very positive the story of the Snow Fairies' origin has never been told. Ana .tnai Is why I am going to tell it now, that you may hear something strictly new. In the very, very long, long ago there dwelt In the Alps a family con sisting cf the parents and .two chil dren, a little boy and a little girl They were very happy together till one day the father, going out on the icy mountain side, slipped and leu Into a deep gorge that was filled with snow. Of course, he was instantly killed, and the good wife, endeavor lng to reach him, hoping that she might find him still alive, lost her f .oting in the snow and Ice and was precipitated to the bottom, dying be. side the already cold body of her hus band. Now. can anything be sadder than the fate of those dear little children Dado, the boy, aged nine, and Pinto, tho girl, aged seven? There they were, rway up In the mountains, walled In by snow and ice, and sur rounded by as wild a country as ever mortal man heard of. There they were, alone, both parents lying dead In the great canyon down the moun tain side. And lurking about in the mountain forests were wild beasts whose roars, growls and howls made the night something to be feared by those little orphans. When father and mother were with them they feared nothing. But now that they were alone, and so helpless, their hearts were very, very heavy, and fear stalked about them with every step. All day long the little Pinto wept and called for the mother she knew could not come to her, and all day long little Dado sat with downcast eyes, his heart too sad to allow of speech. Then as the night came down the little ones crep closer together In a corner by the great fireplace, where .the huge logs, placed there the day before by their father still burned brightly, and 'gave' out light and warmth. "I am so hungry," whispered Pinto, thinking of food for the first time that day. "I am so hungry that my head spins round and round." "You must eat something, sister," said Dado, rising and going to the cupboard to find some food for bis sis ter. But only a bit of dry bread was fhprA. and Dado remembered that that day was to have been his moth er's baking day, and that his "lather had gone out hunting for meat when he met with the fatal accident. He gave i'into the bread, but her sorrow choked her till she could not swallow food, and she put the bread on the table, declaring that her Hun ger had vanished. "It's mother and father I want not food," she whispered heart brokenly, burying her face in her apron. At that moment the door opened ever so gently, then closed again. But during the moment's interval between opening - and Bhuttlng a white-robed figure , had entered the room. Dado, who was looking In tently Into the fire, wondering what he should do on the morrow for food and fuel for his sister and himself, did not hear the slight noise made by the opening and closing of the massive door, nor the gentle footfall of the Intruder. But Pinto, her little ears eagerly listening for anything that might happen and hoping against hope that all this calamity which had befallen her home might prove to be a dream caught the sounds, and she looked up from the folds of her apron. Then she quickly touched the hand of her brother and pointed toward the newcomer, direct ing Dado s eyes thither, -see,.' sne whispered, "it must be a fairy." "Yes, my little ones, I'm a fairy, and I came to earth to see what I might do for you. But how cold it has grown! Ugh. I cannot endure the snow, and it is falling very rapid ly outside." "Snowing?" asked Dado, rising and going close to the fairy. i ' "Yes, my little one, it Is snowing heavily, and I, being a cloud fairy, and always keeping closer to the warmer zones, cannot breast this storm. And here I am, aa helpless as a human being. But while I cannot change myself or my climatic tem perament, I have the power to change others. I can wave my little wand and make or mar fortunes. And I came here to help you, my little ones. Now, while I warm me by your cheer ful fire, tell me your dearest wish and I shall grant it." The fairy sat down beside the fire and Dado and Pinto drew close beside her. They told of the sad death of their parents, the particulars of which the fairy did not know. Then they discussed many things, one of them being the weather, and the fairy said with feeling: "Do you know, my little ones, that the fairies would come to the mountain folk oftener if we could brave the cold weather? But we feel the Ice and snow keenly, and have to remain where the temperature is more con genial. But there are so many little folk in need of the fairy's aid In the icebound mountains that it seems a pity that there are no fairies that can brave the elements and stay near to those who need them. Ah, if only we had some hardy fairies among us fairies who loved the ice and snow!'! Hereupon the good little fairy sighed and stretched out her hands to the fire. For a few minutes not a word was said, and Dado, who had been intently thinking, spoke: "Good fairy, can not you change my sister and me into fairies snow fairies? It you can, we will remain here In the mountains and be of help to the poor children who need fairies' help." "Brave, noble little boy!" ex claimed the fairy. "I shall try to per form the miracle you suggest. But' and she turned to Pinto, who was listening eagerly to all that was being said "perhaps the little maid does not wish to become a fairy." "Yes, yes, I wish to be a fairy, a snow fairy, aa brother says. I would not be anything else If brother is one," Pinto declared enthusiastically. The good fairy smiled and raised her .tiny wand. Passing it slowly over the heads of the little orphans, she murmured some strange words; then with a quick turn of the wand, she cried: "Change, lad and maid, from human to superhuman; from boy and girl to Snow Fairies." A sudden darkness fell in the room, and when again the light ot the fire defined the objects there Dado and Pinto had disappeared, and in their nlnce were two beautiful Snow Fairies, with happiness before them "And now we shall carry you, dear Cloud Fairy, to your own warm clime," said the Snow Fairy (who had been Dado) speaking to the little fairy whose charm had worked so marvelous a miracle. "Yes, we will protect you from the snow which we love and see that you reach your own dominion soon," declared the Snow Fairy, who had been little Pinto a few minutes before. And away flew the three fairies, happy as could be. Washington Star. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. One afternoon last summer my cousin invited me to go for a short trolley ride with her, as she had two tickets for the ride. I accepted her Invitation, and in turn invited my friend. Alice, to go, too. When the car came along, we all got on, laugh lng and chatting, as schoolgirls will After a short time the conductor came around for our fares. Marion my cousin, handed him her tickets, and yet he stood there. "Fare, please," he remarked. "I looked at Marlon and said, "You gave them to him, didn't you?" and she replied, "Yes, but he Is waiting for Alice's, "Oh. yes!" I exclaimed, rather shamefacedly, feeling for my pocket hnnir. which I couldn't find, and con' sequently becoming rathe? flustered for besides the girls and the con ductor, all the people in the car were watching and beginning to smile. At length I exclaimed: I left my pocketbook up at Marion's! What are we to do?" None of us had any money, and we were some distance from home. While these thoughts were going on In my mind Alice turned to the conductor, saying, "If you will stop the car at the next cor ner I'll get off." Of course I couldn let her do that, seeing it was my blunder, and so we argued as to who should get off. At the next corner we both stood up. each one determined to get off, but both of us were disappointed, for the car didn't stop. After a few more corners were passed and the car was still going, we decided to rest com fortable and enjoy the ride. To our Joy, moreover, my Aunt Bessie got on .the car when It stopped -once, and from her we secured the money nec essary for poor Alice's fare, thus giv- lng our trip with a poor beginning happy ending. Winifred Flatman, in the New York Tribune. Realized the Danger. He "Now that we are married pet, do you love me enough to cook for me?" She "Enough, darling? I love you entirely too much for that." Boston Transcript. Unpleasant Prospects. Irafe Creditor "I shall call every week until you pay this account!" Debtor. "Really. Then there seems every probability ot our ac quaintance ripening Into friendship, A Pleasing Sense of Health and Strength Renewed and ot Ease and Comfort follows the use of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, as it acts gently on tho kidneys, liver and bowels, cleans ing the system effectually, when con stipated, or bilious, and dispels colds and headaches. To eret its beneficial effects, alwava buy the genuine, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. ' Misquoted Lines. Answering our challenge as1 to the most constantly misquoted line, a cor respondent Instances "He who runs) may read," which sounds very scriptu ral, but is in reality a mangled version' t of the verse in the Prophet Habakkuk: "Write the vision and make it plain upon the table that he may run that readeth It." Another biblical mia- . quotation Is concerned: "By tha sweat of thy brow sbalt thou earn tny bread," the Teal text in Genesis be ing "In the sweat of thy face shaft thou eat bread." And when we pour 'oil on the troubled waters" thousands search the Scriptures in vain for tha metaphor. London Chronicle. RESTORED TO HEALTH. Another Remarkable Cure of Serious Kidney Trouble. H. W. Solomon, 228 Market St., Harrlsburg, Pa., says:- "ICldney dis ease afflicted me for years and dizzi ness was so se vere that I stag gered as if drunk. My back was so lame that often I couldn't stir. Three or four doctors had ex amined my urine and all had found albumen. My family doctor said I had Bright's dis ease and could not live three weeks. had run down from 195 to 1S5 pounds. I began using Doan's Kid ney Pills as a last resort and was cured. I have had no kidney trouble In over two years." Remember the name Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. x. ( V The Steel Car Wheel. In the development of the solid steel caf wheel as distinguished from the steel-tired wheel, where the tire . . . J - -. 18 fastened to a center maue ui cm j s iron or steel, it has been made theViJ goal to produce a metal that snouia be the equal of the steel tire, and this cas Deen aone. aj care m uio ciujr plngs of the ingots to avoid piping and segregation, by close attention to heating, and by the use of very power ful mach nerv by wnlcn tne roiling of the tread may he carried on down to a. low temperature, the essentials of good tire metal have been obtain ed. These may De put ai a mgn ten sile strength, and limit of elasticity, a high ratio of elongation before rup ture under load, and harness with the density of fine grain. The chemical features of low suipnur ana pnospnor us and high carbon are matters of the furnace and the steel maker, and can, of course, be obtained as well la an ingot 'intended for a solid wheel as for one that is to be maae into urea. It was- the mechanical features that gave trouble, added to the necessity of producing a low-priced wheel. All this has been done, ana a suuaom wheel is available. Cassier's Maga sine. Trade of the United States witfc its non-contiguous territories aggregated $172,000,000 in the year Just ended, , against about $04,000,000 a decade ago. J In addition to the $172,000,000 worth of 1 merchandise there was received from Alaska $18,000,000 worth of gold ot do mestic production. Use of tobacco la universal In the Orient, and the word cheroot and Its use come from Madras. The first cigars seen by Columbus were wrap ped with corn shucks. Sixty-five hundred Inventors wen too poor to make the final payments on their papers during the last year, and for this reason forfeited them. . A clear brain and Steady, dependable nerves Can' win wealth and fame For their owner. Gear-headedness and a Strong:,' healthy body Depend largely on the Right elements in Regular food and drink. Coffee contains caffeine A poisonous drug. Postum is rich in the Gluten and phosphates' that ' Furnish the vital energy , That puts 'ginger!' and "hustle" Into body and brain "There's a Reason"
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