tTLECTIUCTTT ! THB GODDESS OF
THE AGE.
Her head ia held among the liars,
Her feet are on the sea,
!An airship with ita whirling blades
Ia poised upon her knee;
. 'An auto tire ia rouml her neck,
A trolley at her aide,
1 And miles of insulated wire
About her wnist are tied.
The lightnings of the wireleaa flash
Around her giant form,
Her brow is veiled in clouds of dust,
Her voice is like the storm:
Blie puts a horncsa on the world, ,
It moves at her command,
'And all the secrets of the air
Are prisoned in her hnnd.
Jiiuna Irving, in Leslie'a Weekly.
X X X X X X X X X X
'LOST AND FOUND,
By MARIE STURTEVANT.
X X X X X X X X X X
I I have faithfully kept my promise
never to divulge to my sister Louise
the adventure that befell me at our
first memorable dinner at Lily Car
eer's, nor th-j Identity of the prim
waitress who served us on that occa
sion. And no one but Mrs. Carter
and the person directly Involved ever
'knew of the loss and subsequent his
tory of my pearl scarfpin.
Brief mention must be made of my
eldest sister's Inordinate and sinful
(regard for the details of household
management, for thereby hangs this
tale. Her own home Is perfectly or
dered, and thus Intrenched, outside
jthe application of the adage concern
ing dwellers In - glass houses, she
justifies herself in cavilling at the
domestic peccadilloes of her friends.
jNot one that Is not afraid to enter
tain Louise. I knew that Mrs. Carter
yas quaking over the prospect of our
dining at her house. She was a
hoarding-school friend of Louise's
end had married a poor bank clerk,
and thl9 was Lluse's first visit East
elnce Lily had set up house-keeping.
We were to go out early in order
to be driven about the suburbs before
'dark. My sister had preceded me,
end as I was on my way from the
ctatlon, alone, I detected a short cut
'to the house by way of some vacant
lots. Grip In hand, I sprang up the
hanking which sloped abruptly from
the sidewalk, and upon reaching the.
top noticed a girl, hesitating on the
hrlnk, as If dubious about trusting
lerself, upon the slippery surface; for
It was the winter season. After pass
ing her, I paused, with an Instinctive
desire to be of assistance. She was
the prettiest creature I ever saw.
Her blond hair fluffed out from be
neath a boyish seal cap which
matched her rich coat. Upon the s.oft
curve of one cheek, where the co
quettes of old used to wear their
.patches, a small brown mole en
hanced the fairness of her skin. She
threw me a confiding look from her
gray eyes which were shaded by won
derful black lashes, and tentatively
stepped upon the Icy slope. Then her
leet began to slide.
"Quick!" she cried, and extended
one hand In my direction. With more
zeal than caution I was at her side,
the impetus of my leap precipitating
us at a break-neck pace down the
ibank, across the slippery sidewalk
and Into the street. With a hurried,
"Thank you so much," In a sweet
.voice, Bhe disengaged herself from
my support and was gone.
I adjusted my hat and coat collar
With a pleased though regretful
smile, and, with a habit I have, felt
lor the pin In my scarf. It was gone!
'And then I remembered with vivid
(distinctness the violent pressure of
two small hands against my chest as
,we made our mad descent. It was a
(Valuable pin, and I was sorry to lose
;lt. But my deepest regret was on an
other account,
"What a charming maid;" this in
stage whisper by Louise to Mrs.
'Carter. "Has she been with you
long?"
"Not long," Mrs. Carter had time
to respond before the girl re-entered
(the dining-room. I glanced up with
out interest. Her hair was blond,
parted primly in the middle and
.drawn smoothly away from her fore
head. Upon the curve of one very
ipink cheek, where our colonial belles
vere wont to wear their beauty
patches, was a small, brown mole.
So my lady was a professional thief
gaining entrance to this house' dis
guised as a servant!
The dinner was a success and the
servant perfect. Louise beamed ap
proval and Mrs. Carter basked there
in. After coffee in the library, I
found some pretext for leaving the
room. Listening stealthily at the
.pantry door, and hearing the faint
clink of china, I entered. She was
Seated independently on the top of a
pair of portable steps, finishing an
ice. Her face blanched when she met
tmy condemning gaze, and she sprang
to the floor. Her beauty smote me
to the heart.
"I know everything," I declared In
& dramatic whisper. "If you will
leave at once I will not expose your
position!"
"How did you know?" she
breathed, wide-eyed.
'."It is quite apparent," said I, dry
!ly, "especially after the theft of my
pin."
I "Oh!" she gasped. "It's you, Is
It!"
"Yes, it Is I," grimly. "However,
It is upon my friend's account that I
come to you, not my own."
"Why don't you tell your friends?'
he defied.
I felt myself growing red.
It is a man's pride to have a reason
lor bis acta. I then realized that her
beauty's appeal to my sympathy was
my reason now.
"You are young," I replied, se
verely. "I trust this is your first of
fense and that you will reform."
She covered her face with her lit
tle hands and for a moment her
shoulders Bhook gently. But the eyes
that she raised to mine were tearless.
"Since you are so kind I will tell
you the truth. I did not steal your
pin. It caught It caught in my
pompadour! You will find it adver
tised In the evening paper."
Was this clever ruse to throw mo
off? I looked at her keenly.
"You don't believe me!" The gray
eyes flashed.
"I do believe you, and I ask your
pardon. But I can't understand
your position here as a servant "
"Is It necessary that you should,
Mr. Barrows?" It was the Icy voice
of my hostess. Being now without
defence I looked the picture of guilt.
"When I need any detective work,
Mr. Barrows, I will call upon you
perhaps. Until then, kindly refrain
from annoying my servants!"
It was evident she thought me
smitten by the charms of her table
girl. So I was yet was a well
meaning young man ever In a more
awkward position?
"Nonsense, Lily! Mr. Barrows does
not deserve such abominable treat
ment! And I'm not your servant!"
"Oh, Daphne, think what you are
saying!" implored Mrs. Carter of her
mutinous maid.
"I don't care. You'll have to .tell
him, Lily. I'm sure he can be trusted
with our secret."
How blessed for that!
Then they told me how Mrs. Car
ter's lack of a waitress had been sup
plied by her cousin Daphne. Know
ing Louise as I did, I could appreciate
the situation, and after mutual as
surances of forgiveness and confi
dence our strange session in the pan
try broke up.
When my sister returned to Chi
cago a few days later, I did not ac
company her, and In due season the
pearl scarf pin wfts fashioned Into an
engagement ring for the loveliest
girl in the world. Boston Post.
The Tight Little
Isle.
An Englishman's pride In his own
country Is both admirable and humor
oub at times. In a very good Western
story in Gunter's. entitled "The Re
mittance Man," Preston Ward, the
writer, has his hero apostrophize
England in these words:
"I see a place where the grass la
green so green; you don't know
green, Tom, till you see English grass
all rolled and pampered and trimmed
for hundreds of years by my father
and my father's father, and their
fathers back so far. And there's
hedges trim hedges, Tom, not a
great rugged, cruel mountain ridge
that notches the horizon. English
hedges you can see over best when
a good old Irish hunter lifts his front
legs to take them. It takes your
breath, that lift, it does. Maybe a
little trout Btream plays for a while
through the green so green grass;
It's an English trout stream never
blustering nor making a fuss about
Itself like the mountain fellows here.
And the whole country's filled with
trees English trees. Great oaks
that have lived In our places since
we, and that guard the old homes
and the old families and make them
what they are. They're not afraid to
stretch out; they don't get ashamed
and stunted at a timber line; there's
no scrub oak nor shrubs nor- cactus
In my England. And all the places
are laid out in straight lines, and all
the families are straight like the
lines, and the hedges mean that this
Is mine and ' that Is yours, hut we
won't quarrel about It, for we're all
Englishmen. Oh, it's a tight little
place, Tom; and it sometimes cramps
fellows like me and chafes us mortal
sore, and sometimes we well, we
aren't as straight as the oaks, and
they make us ashamed to listen to
the English breeze whispering
through their English branches. But
it's tight little England my Eng
land, Tom! And that's what I Bee
down there In the mountains. It's
calling me home; calling me, calling
me home like the echo we catch up
here."
The Parson's Trap.
By JAMES W. WORKS.
A certain local preacher who lived
In Western New York in my boyhood
days cultivated a small farm In ad
dition to his clerical duties and was
accustomed to trap mink, muskrat
and Bimilar "small deer." He was
brought before a board of deacons of
his church on a charge of attending
his traps on Sunday. He explained
by saying that on one occasion he
was taking a walk. It chanced to be
Sunday morning, and also he had
casually passed near one of his traps.
In the Jaws of the steel trap he dis
covered a live mink. As the poor
creature was badly mangled and suf
fering, he, out of humanity, took the
animal out' and knocked It in the
head.
This seemed to he satisfactory and
the charge was - about to he dis
missed when Deacon Cobb sprang his
trap: "Parson, did you set the trap
agin?" With a deprecatory wave of
the hand easy to imagine but diffi
cult to describe, the parson replied:
"Deacon, I just barely set it."
The manufacture of rattan furni
ture is beginning to attract attention
In the Philippines.
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SCENE IN THE ISLAND OF MAURITIUS. THE LAST HOME OF THE DODO.
The average student of geography
knows that the Island of Mauritius
lies In the Indian Ocean, about 600
miles east of Madagascar, and that it
belongs to England, but lie might not
be able to tell whether Mauritius is
notably distinguished from a score of
other Islands lying In 'the southern
hemisphere, although the name Mau
ritius calls up before two classes of
minds pictures almost as vivid as
does the fateful names of Elba or St.
Helena. ,
One of these classes consists of the
lovers of romantic literature all over
the world, to whom the name Mauri
tius suggests the tender and pathetic
Idyl of "Paul and Virginia," of which
this island was the theatre.
The second, and much smaller
class, are the paleontologists, or stu
dents of extinct animal forms, to
whom Mauritius is memorable as the
last home of the dodo, a grotesque
and clumsy bird, with only rudimen
tary wings, which appears to have
been extirpated about the year 1650.
In an elaborate and costly work on
the dodo, published In London In
1848, under the patronage of Prince
Albert, Is found the following quaint
description of the dodo, taken from
Sir Thomas Herbert's journal of his
visit to Mauritius in 1626:
"The dodo comes first to our de
scription. Here (and nowhere else
that ever I could see or heare of) Is
generated the dodo (a Portugulze
name It Is, and has references to her
slmplenes), a bird which for shape
and rarenesse might be called a Phoe
nix (wer't in Arabia); her body is
THE DODO.
Fac-Bimile of a drawing supposed to have
made from life by Zanen.
round and extremely fat, her slow pace
begets that corpulencle; few of them
weigh less than fifty pound; better to
the eye than stomack; greasie appe
tites may perhaps commend them,
but to the Indifferently curious,
nourishment but prove offensive.
"Let's take her picture; her visage
darts forth melancholy, as sensible as
nature's injurle In framing so great
and massle a body to be directed by
such small and complementall wings
as are unable to holse her from the
ground, serving only to prove her a
bird; which otherwise might be
doubted of; her head Is variously
drest, the one half hooded with
downy blackish feathers; the other
perfectly naked; of a whitish hue, as
if a transparent lawne had covered
it; her bill Is very howked, and bends
downwards, the thrill or .breathing
place Is In the mld.itof It; from which
part to the end, the colour Is a light
greene mlxt with a pale yellow; her
eyes be round and small, and bright
as diamonds; her cloathlng Is of
finest downe, such as you Bee In gos
ling; her trayne Is (like a Chynese
beard) of three or foure Bhort feath
ers; her legs thick, and black, and
strong; her tallons sharp, her stom
ack fiery hot, so as stones and Iron
are easily digested in it; in that and
shape not. a little resembling the
Afrle oestrlches."
But one living specimen of the
dodo was ever known to have been
seen outside of Mauritius. This one
was brought alive to Europe by a
Dutch navigator, and exhibited in
London In 1639. The evidence of
this is contained In a manuscript In
the British Museum by Hamon L'Es
trange, and Is as follows:
"About 1638, as I walked London
streets. I saw. the nicture of a strnnea
fowle hong out upon a cloth and my-
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selfe with one or two more then In
company went In to see it. It was
kept in a chamber, and was a great
fowle somewhat bigger than the
largest turky cock, and so legged and
footed, but shorter and thicker and
of a more erect shape, coloured be
fore like the breast of a young cock
fesan, and on the back of dunn or
deare colour. The keeper called It a
dodo, and In the ende of a cbymney
in the chamber there lay a heape of
large pebble stones, whereof hee gave
It many In our sight, some as blgge as
nutmegs, and the keeper told us shee
eats them (conducing to digestion)."
A distinctly plaintive note in all
the literature extent concerning the
dodo excites curiosity and compas
sion. In his Introduction to the dodo
book, from which these extracts are
taken, this feeling is appealed to by
the author as follows: "We cannot
see without regret the extinction of
the last Individual of any race of or
ganic beings whose progenitors col
onized he preadamlte earth."
An analysis of the reason for a
specially compassionate Interest in
the dodo would seem to show that it
is founded on the strikingly gro
tesque character of the bird, taken
with the fact that nature had been
cruelly unkind to her in the matter
of equipment for self-defense. She
could neither run nor fly, but was, as
one traveler expressed It, "a speci
men of gigantic Immaturity, a per
manent nestling clothed with down
Instead of feathers, and with wings
and tall so short and feeble as to be
utterly unsubservlent to flight."
Of this cruelty of nature the dodo
herself appeared to be sensible, and
to show It In "her visage," according
to the account of Sir Thomas Her
bert. At any rate, It made the ex
tinction of the dodo, after the discov
ery of the Island of Mauritius by the
Portuguese about 1505, so swift and
complete as to give it, to one interested,-
a flavor of tragedy. The last
of the fifteenth century and the be
ginning of the sixteenth made an erj
of geographical discovery, when evel
sea was filled with the barks of e
plorers and marauding buccaneers if
search of new worlds. To these ruth
less food hunters the dodo fell an
easy prey, while the domestic animals
which accompanied civilization wan
tonly devoured her eggs.
In the narrative of one of these ex
plorers, William van Wert Zanen,
who visited Mauritius In 1602, ha
speaks of killing fifty dodos and tak
ing them on board his ship, where
they were salted. Assailed thus, both
in front and rear, what wonder that
the dodo's visage "darted forth mel
ancholy," or that It gave up the un
equal struggle? The cut here shown
accompanied Zanen's narrative, and
Is supposed to be from a drawing
made by him.
The scanty relics of the dodo,
amounting to little more than frag
ments of a head, a leg and a foot, can
be found only In the treasured collec
tions of nations, while the paintings
made from life of this despised and
martyred bird by Roelandt Savery
are beyond price. From Youth's
Companion.
Greased Gander Games.
An old time game was to tie a
gander's legs to a long, slim, springy
hickory pole. They picked out the
toughest old honk they could find,
picked all the feathers off the head
and neck, and then greased liberally
with hog's grease. As the gander
hung high over the big road, at so
much, say, ten cents a try, a man
mounted on a bareback horse rode by
at full gallop and tried to pull off the
dodging,, greasy gander head. This
may seem easy, but Is one of the
toughest tricks a man ever pulled off.
Men and grown boys are more apt to
pull themselves off the horse than to
pull the head off; pulling off Its head
meant taking home the goose. New
York Press.
It Is announced that the "Emper
or" violin, which is part of the Had
dock collection In London, will soon
be sold. Its value is estimated at
$50,000. It Is claimed to be the best
specimen of the work of Antonio
Stradivari (1649-1737).
PLAINS OF ABRAHAM, QUEBEC
1 S.V h' a '
- -"fOj
Living in a Glass House.
Alice and Nick and a few poodle dogs
Were seated at home last night;
The ilnmes burst forth from the crackling
logs
And their glare was warm and bright. ,
"Daddy is after those naughty French,"
Cried Alice in delight;
"It's good for them, too; they have no
defense,"
And her pride was a pretty sight.
"Race suicide is a terrible thing,
As Daddy has often said;"
Her eye was clear, her voice had a ring
Then Nicholas raised his head.
He laid down his paper, then took it up,
His words had a meaning sting;
For he said, as he kicked the nearest pup:
"Yes, it's a terrible thing."
Theodore C. Ditrich, in New York Amer
ican. Feminine Amenities.
Violet "I wouldn't want to stand
In your shoes."
MIbs Smallfoot (coyly) "You
couldn't." Brooklyn Life.
Power of Suggestion.
Angry Man (at the telephone)
"You go hang yourself, Smlthersf
(After a pause) Do you hear me?"
Central "Your party hung up!"
Puck.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Mrs. Heck "Your carpets are so
fresh and bright looking. What do
you use to clean them?",
i Mrs. Peck "My husband." Bos
ton Transcript.
Unsatisfactory.
"Have you seen the Washington
Monument?"
"Yes," replied the New Yorker.
"It's a pretty tall building, but what's
the good of it without any offices for
rent?" Washington Star.
For the Asking.
"Pardon me, Governor," began the
interviewer, "I "
"Certainly, certainly," replied the
Tennessee Executive, reaching for a
blank. "What are you guilty of ?"
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Unreasonable.
Mother "Tommy, what's the mat
ter with your little brother?"
Tommy "He's crying because I'm
eating my cake and won't give him
any."
Mother "Is his own cake fin
ished?" Tommy "Yes'm, and he cried
while I was eating that, too."
Brooklyn Eagle.
Something Visible.
"Show me some tiaras, please. I
want one for my wife."
"Yes, sir. About what price?"
"Well, at such a price that I can
say: 'Do you see that woman with
the tiara? She is my wife.' " Flle
gende Blaetter.
, One Kind.
"Pop!"
"Yes, my son."
"Were there two of every kind
went into the ark?"
"Yes, my boy; two of every kind."
"And was there two suffragettes?"
Yonkers Statesman.
More Appropriate.
Society Woman "I see by to-day's
paper I am referred to as "one of
fashion's butterflies."
Her Husband "Considering the
way you go through your clothes, 1
should think 'moth' would apply
better." Stray Stories.
Technically Speaking.
"So there is to be a divorce," said
the woman who discusses everybody.
"It seems but a little while since he
asked for her hand." '
"Yes," replied the rude man. "He
get the hand all right. But It turned
out to be a misdeal!" Washington
Star.
Tenses.
"So you think your new produc
tion should appeal i to admirers of
both the old and the new." .
"Yes," replied the theatre mana
ger; "the leading actress is a woman
with a future and the heroine of the
story 13 a woman with a past."
Washington Star.
Desperate.
Maud "Jack proposed to me last
night." '
Mabel "Poor fellow; so he did
keep his word after all."
Maud "Why, what do you mean?"
Mabel "When I refused him last
week he said It would cause him to
do something desperate." M. A. P,
DANGER SIGNALS.
Sick kidneys give unmistakable sig
nals of distress. Too frequent or
scanty nrinary passages, backache.
headache and dizzy,
spells tell of disor
dered kidneys. Neg
lect of these warn
ings may prove fa
tal. Begin using
Doan's Kidney Pills.
They cure sick' kid
neys. Mrs. W. B. Conway,
117 Railroad St.,
Punxsutawney, Pa.,
Says: "I was In such
poor health I could scarcely attend te
my housework. My back ached as It
it were being pulled apart, and my
feet and ankles were badly swollen.
The kidney Secretions were in terri
ble condition. I was extremely ner
vous and my heart palpitated violent
ly. Short use of Doan's Kidney Pills
relieved me and soon my vhole sys
tem was renovated."
Remember the name Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. 60 cents a box.
Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Queen a Good Shot
The queen of Italy is one of the fin
est shots In Europe, not only in com
parison with her own sex, but as
Against all comers. In her girlhood
she .was a great huntress, but she no
longer hunts; she now has an uncon
querable aversion to killing anything,
and, though she still shoots, it is only
at clay pigeons or some such mark.
Indianapolis News. :
ROCKEFELLER'S N-UIEWnXUVa
Harriman's Will Fade From Human
Hind, Bat OH Magnate's Never.
Pale Alto.Cal. In President David
Starr Jordan's address to the gradu
ating class at Stanford University, the
subject ef which was "The Wealth oB
Nations," reference was made! to thai
lives of E. H. Harrtman and other;
great financiers In drawing the lessen!
that man's success In life is not meas
ured by what he does for himself, but
rather by what he does for humanity.
"In those matters In which the
permanent wealth of nations Is con
cerned, in the long future of mental
and spiritual development, the name
of Harrlman," said Dr. Jordan, "finds
no place. The name of Newcomb la
the same connection will stand In
larger letters among those who by.
life and Influence have made this
world a broader and a better one."
Continuing, he said: "The name of;
Rockefeller will not suggest Standard
OH or the association of monopolies.!
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research represents one of the wisest
and most far-reaching uses to which
any man's money can ever be put."
Government By Commission.
David T. Watson of Pittsburg is one
of the leading lawyers of Pennsylva
nia, as well as a leading Democrat. It
is said he strongly favors the general
adoption of the commission form of
government for cities, not only as a
means of securing greater economy of
administration, hut of bringing about
needed civic reforms.
Government by commission brings
responsibility nearer to the mass of
the people. Responsibility is now dls
elpated and lost In a multitudmofeJ1
divisibility. The elector Is burde
with so much choice that he has
choice.
Mr. Watson and Dr. Wood row Wil
son are on the right track. Fewer
elective officers and the short ballot
point the way to the reinstatement of
popular rule and the end of the txss
system. Philadelphia Record.
Character In Handwriting.
A sceptic of graphology recently
tested the ekilr of two professors of
the art. To the one he submitted the
handwriting of Vacher, the notorious
criminal, the slayer of peasant wom
en. The professor without hesitation
pronounced the writer to be a good,
tender-hearted and lovable person,
who would be sooner or later the vic
tim of his altruism. A psychologist
tested another professor with Ros
tand's writing. He would say nothing
until he learned the day of the birth
of the writer. He was told August 1,
18C8. After some deliberation the
professor declared that the writer
would be guillotined In 1910, and that
the sensation created would eclipse
that caused by the production of
"Ohantecler.'V-London Globe.
FEED CHILDREN
On Properly Selected Food. It Pays
Dig Dividends.
If parents will give just a little in
telligent thought to the feeding of
their children the difference in the
health of the little folks will pay,
many times over, for the small
trouble.
A mother writes saying: "Our
children are all so much better and
stronger than th-y ever were before
we made a change in the character of
the food. We have quit using pota
toes three times a day with coffee and
so much meat
Now we give the little folks some
fruit, either fresh, stewed, or canned,
some Grape-Nuts with cream, occa
sionally some soft boiled eggs, and
some Postum for breakfast and sup
per. Then for dinner they have some
meat and vegetables.
"It would be hard to realize the
change In the children, they -have
grown so sturdy and strong, and we
attribute this change to the food ele
ments that, I understand, exist In
Grape-Nuts and Postum.
"A short time ago my baby was
teething and had a great deal of
stomach and bowel trouble. Noth
ing seemed to agree with him until I
tried Grape-Nuts softened and mixed
with rich milk and he Improved rap
idly and got sturdy and well."
Read "The Road to Wellvllle,"
found in pkgs. "There's a Reason." i
Ever rend the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of humaa
Interest