vote of the hunter,
Shas Fb go) gleam, :
: sined _miience, :
E.
and fears of the prairie, :
he sont of men:
a volume held it,
: that fell sround Bis hetd
so Hany strings. His Htile dark
pping from one thing to!
On one occasion be greeted |
ith effusive politensss; on
passed them without recog
sd with his thoughts.
1 4 crank They smiled
Bathe was. mentioned, inti- |
it something was pot quite
. his upper story.” He was
however, to be a man of intel.
sthalar. His neighbors said
his living with some horrid
os Be calied chemicals,
8 hobby that overstnd.
or peculiarities, which be
fo those with whom he was
gequainted. To these hei
biz explained a strange philoso |
possessed him. He would in-
speaking of the mysterh
of the sun and moon up-
great oceans: how under their
bere was the ebb and fow
be tide twice 5 day. Then he would
ude by saying that the greater
be human body was a liquid
1; that thizx same overwhelm.
1 composition was suliject to
ebb and Sow as in the oceans: and
it was 8 fact that he recognized
ix own body.
wax a cause for this philosophy
iT. His Mather was of i 8 hihiy
a year To rhe ng She had
pe early in the apring. In a cottage
8 she passed mavy weeks
time with her face toward |
great expanse of water.
kx the flow of the tide came In with
| & boom, there was an ex
tion In it that was conveyed to
that gave her hope and courage.
as & stimulus 16 ber spirits. Life
richer than at any otber time
would follow the ebb, with ital
break, with its subtle slippisg
E s passing away, a tameness, .
Rach day of the whole summer the
d Bow of the tides brought an
«bh and flow in the woman, in her
In the fall a baby -Victor—
was born. He came at midnight at the |
roar and rush of bigh tide
the ebb set in. As the mother
gazed at ber child she falntly
- "He came at the flow of
tide; I go at the ebb” So it
Thus the strange philosophy of the
ebb and flow entered the lite of Victor
Irvine. The story of his mother's last;
moments | had never been told him. He
as Bowe not grown to manhood
BD st felt and recognized the |
uence of the ebb and flow.
me to be to him that only in the |
few hours at midday and at
jd t—eould he accomplish any.
thing. Then he conducted his chemical |
nents, made his analyses.
rush of the flow thoughts, fdvas,
ns, suggestions burst tumult.
ously upon him, pounding on the surf |
brain. It was a work of fever
ish Intensity to grasp and save them
e failed to catch them, with the eht
went. Work was a drudgery the |
inder of the day. At the midnight |
to put in perioa-
3 the Work Be was
him.
jsatisfy bimself of its existence,
also what its characteristics were, or
whether It might not be a known ele
{ ment in a new form. 1
ian ever present
slip away from
ing
he felt the coming of th
i Thelr conversation grew exconiingly | |
In the walting for the highest |
fide he was overwhelmed with the
I thought that he must tell Mary of the
jove he had for her, that consumed
- Wales, according to
With
tzed that ft might De 4 new element.
| He might be the discoverer of that
{which would startle the scientific
Bo far the element bad elnded
world I
He had not only been unable to
but
The woman-Mary Ames-was a
warps hearted, whole souled womnn; a
; woman who, with & broad, teader, bo.
nmn sympathy read life and the varl
ous species of natures that possissed
imankind she knew: a woman whovould
see good where oibord saw dross.
understood Vietor Irvine. Blie gave him
| eredit where others had given ridicule.
Bhe respected the man, the student.
| Bhe found a man who conhl he honest
and true, a man who could love.
The Jove of Mary Ames became 8
staff for him to Jean on. Through her
1 eves be took % new view of the earth,
of mankind. He
drawn to her.
was irresistibly
ftaeit through him. that thoughts, feel
(ings, affections for Mary possessed
bin. It was then, when the flow |
| pounded on the surf of his heart, he
i oried to himself "This is Ue Hife”
Victor was so situated as only to be
: able to sec Mary In the evening. There
was shwavs an Inciingiion to remain
ate with her, which be never yielded |
He had alwass gone befors the
to.
“rosh of the midnight bigh tide. For
{ this reason he bad not spoken of the
Jove that possessed him had pot had a |
chance to pour it out in & rush of wards |
in the flow. The ebb bronght Rim a
There was
fenr that she youll
sing Inthe andertow.
Ome day be came to her ip the morn.
Ir wax a holiday,
timidity that was painfol
niidday dow.
bright.
him. He broke out:
“Mary--darling, yon are so sweet
#0 sweel-you ard so grand-so grand.
I Bave something 1 have been going
ty tell you-tell you, dear” then he
stopped.
Heo could got ne farther.
mered,
UF Beenie
another tine,
Revers] weoks prssed.
told. It was the month of March, at
the time of the vernal equinox. Great
storms raged on the ooenn. The tides
were running high.
One night, In the worst fury of the
stormy, Victor was in bis laborntory,
He stam.
Marys
4
bey at work, He war experimenting.
| The element he had heen hunting for
had torned ap. He bad piade several
succession] analyses. It seemed to Bim
that he almost naderstomd the seerst
that bad been siuding him. It was not
yet 10 o'clock. It was more than two
hours until the obh. In that time the
mystery would be known, the problem
solved. and the world would credit him
with a discovery. :
The flow rushing on In great surges
Lromght other Inspirations. There was
Mary. How sweet jova was bow
glorious! Ir was almost Bin Would
it ever De Lis? LHe without It was a
dead. empty thing Jt must be hia
AWAY ott cate we gost waves fo
ward the shore of the soul of Victor
Irvine. They rolled, tossed and pitehed
#3 they moved in. On ene perched the
secret of chomistry that he had been
diligently searching for. On the other
love rode.
The two waves were In fearful strug.
gle the one with the oiler, They ralsed |
their high beads and broke nuts angry
feathery caps. They chased each
other, one seeking to swallow the
anther. The coites? waa a wild tem.
pestuons one. At last, with 8 roar,
they went together and, breaking. flew
far up the beach, love riding tricmph-
antly in.
It was then that Vietor fled through
the rain to the homes of the wanian he
loved. Higher, greater swells were
rising out on the waters. following
exch other to the shore. Ax onward
they came he poured ont to the woman
the tale of his life. the tslsery of his
faneliness,
the wealth of happiness there was In
It. Before the ebb eames Be had thy
answer of the woman, [ft wie satis
factory. There was no regret for the
Inst secret of the laboratory.
Ax the moons waxed ars! waned the |
feoret oame back to the Inmate of a
happy home. Jt returned as jetsam
of thar night of the storm -
News,
Is Jewish Exclasiveress Ireaking Up?
“is Jewish exclusiveness becoming a
legend rather than a reality 7" asks the
London Chronicle in connection with
tue following date from Australia
which would seem fo stiggest an af.
firmative answer. In New South
ished matrimonial statistics, during
the last rveur no less than sixty ren
Jewesses selectell husbands from the
Church of England while seventeen
mated with Catholics and eleven found
their affinities in the Preshyterian fold.
One hundred and fifty-one Jéws were
united to Anglican wives, sixty two te
Catholics, thirteen to Presbyterians,
twelve to Methodists, four to nonale
nominationalists and two to Congrega.
tionalists, while a solitary son of Israel
| is reported to bave wed a Baptist. Al
7 | together out ot 781 Jewish marriages,
She |
Then it wan, when the
{rush of the incoming Sow was flooding |
Ag be Hogered |
The ebb was on. He felt {t,
“1 wil tell you at |
It wan not
Bimaell to his books!
its pathetic strangeness |
the sweetness of the love he bore her
Now York |
the recently pub
’ Popuiar Fiction.
A dab or two of history,
i fragile thread of plot
Great goby of talk and love zod gore
The rest, it matters not, y
lala,
On Toast,
Medigger—~ The robin is a very timid |
Ard tsn't Bp
Tuisgomboh-“T guess 30. At any
rate, the average reéuiaurant cook can
make 1 quail.” ~ Philadelphia Press,
Feminine Amenities,
Migs Thirtyodd “1 want to give my
flance a surprise on hi birihilay
Can't vou suggest something? :
Misa De Filypp—"Well, you might
tell him your age Chicago News,
Cupid ss a Gardener.
Edith<1 see that the charming
young Widow Daghington does tot
wedr her weeds any more”
Mayme-"'No: she expects lo be
weeded out of the widow claws [on the
avar future.” Chicago News.
BC
Labeled,
—~Landon Poanch,
KReented Trouble,
Mrs. Goss-“Why did they leave so
enrly in the season’
Mrs Sipp—"Mrs. Jones went home
hocause her hushand Sidn't send her
S500 and Mrs Hrown went letause
ber Busband did send her £5007
Wer Higher Life.
“Dio you find ft diffienit to attend to
your social duties and keep up on the
t aa: literature of the timen?’
eon, no. 1 always try to devote at
feast fifteen minutes a day to art and
literature" ~Chicage Record Herald
Hurd to Avoid,
The Parent—"1f he would but apply
‘But he will pot
take the trouble”
The Pedagogue-"Nay, then, If he in
#0 averse to tronhle 1 can ses large
quantities of it coming his way!’
Puck.
i Vrevity,
"Po you think that brevity is the soul
of wis”
“Well” answered the man whe ix al
ways thinking about money,
indicate that they were very short”
Washington Star,
An Embarrassment,
“Why don't you praise your wife's
spoking auee in a wille and cheer her
ap?!
anything ia partienlarly good it turns
sul to be something that wus pur
shased at the grocery.”
The Desperado’s Doom.
And Low were you finally
tored?”
“1 war completely wore out”
cap
an.
awered the Western desperado.
“By fatigue and hunger®”
“No. Givin’ pewspaper Intirviews
in" havin’ my picture took.”
At the Bourne Howse.
opm
Chorus of Boarders-—-"13 thiy all we
have for supper?”
Mrs. Sly—"¥es. We will have Hight
suppers hereafier so that we ¢an get
through early amd play pingpong.
rood idea, Isn't itY New York World,
We, opis <i
Workiag Him.
Borroughs—"8Say. old man, can you
break a rwenry so I can get a five.
dollar hill ont of 1?
Markley — "Bure; here
Where's your twenty?”
‘Borroughs—-"0Oh, you misunderstood
me. 1 thought you had a twenty. }
yuu are,
.| Thanks! One five will do." Philadel:
vai Prem
{be mountain tops,
“swamps to {ead only after nightfall;
| some that they seek the cornfields
| And there have been many other such
| theories,
mean of all these statements
ft probate that the birds know the |
lose of their feathers renders them to a |
1 eeriain extent helpless sind more ex:
‘posed ts the stinks of thelr nsturs)
therefore leave
the more open swamps and hide in
ene les,
ethical views oy
wers at jest on a plane with those of
advocates of
to consider slavery
Northern and Western States been sub. |
ected 10 the same ellmotic mod wens
there is litle dogbit
| attachment to a threshing
i It rans a “gang plow.” with he in as
row; thrae or
iw coupled when desired to a separator
“the blo |
graphers of some of the brightest poets
consternation
the Bywety of the
Haoodeoek's life begins. This is the |
imoulting season, when the bird
changes its plumage befure beginning |
its journey southward Af this time
it leaves the swamps, Where does it
#0? That is a question which has
gever yet received a satisfactory ane
many fine spun theories have been ads
vanced. Some say that time birds move
toward the orth: seule that they sevk
coming inte the
Probably the froth Hes jn a
and taey
the densest and most tangled thickets
it 1s certuin that they seatter, for ati
1 this season single birds are found lo
the most unusnial amd host goesprcted
places,
: Dutchess County, New York, 1 knew
Lone or two swamps which we called
nngiting awamne, where,
Ce were sure fo find a Hmited number
of Binds
i grown
were Toll of patohes of wild rose and
sweet brier,
{akideh wa found there,
Lin a week or
‘Nears ago when shooting in
in August,
Thess awninpy Wore over.
with rank marsh grass and
If we killed
We Were
ten days,
SYTe,
to And hel
i places filed by abot the same now
i ber From
Omitting.
“A Woodland Hermit” in
i Hh hm
Morals and Eaviranmentes
Slavery wax tot
by the grvat tire shoraiiste, wine
faty eather opios
modern times. In the wntie Way the
English colonists, who a1 home wonld
have scotited the very des of slavery,
#O0H hace
gwen of the Baath hourstiy
a win
namie condition
that, so far at least as they could keep
themselves shut off from contact with
the aiore sdvanesd industrial clviliea.
tion of Europe, they would have come
pletely shared the moral views of thelr
Men dre what cons
1 ditions make them. and obical leat |
Santhirn brethren
dre Dot sXe rok the sanie lnexor
able nw of environment, Paiitien]
Silence,
EO ERA
Ths Traction Engine on Farinas,
The farm hand aud the farm horse |
are rapidly being supplavted on the
i level travis of the West hy the trae
| tion engine. The farms are large, cow
prisiog several hundred acres some
times 8 thousand, aml nsually without
trees or stooges. Under these conditions:
the engine can do any kind of work.
It is a copipact fitle machine rus Ly
gasblive, and not at all like the onllay
ma ine,
fatter harnmws ala
for threshing grails, rons the mill for
| grinding eattle feed,
wagnns to marke:
In fact there ia scarcely a thing about
farm work that the Htde traction one
gine will not da
ASS 5 RM Be
RA
A Royal Tier.
For 8 royal engagement to be
off after ir bas ance been angoevoeed
(Isoan event so rare as to be almost
I opnigue.
“I'm afraid to try. Every time I say | 9
Prince Rlexfried of
the Arehdue hess
Whose marriage, 2
will not take place, stand alnest alone
among European rovallies. The olow
ext parallel we can think of, curiously
Bavaria,
Appuneiata,
in pow anaennosd,
enough, concerned au Austrian Prince
and Bavarian Prigeess. fir the Em
peror ofA ustria was intended to marry
the elder sister of the late Empress,
nad his suddenly falling in love with
the royal lady who subsequently be
came hix wife sent quite a thrill of
through the German
courts. London Globe.
epi a!
HPC.
» Wasps Kill » Snake.
"We witnussed a fierce combat be |
tween a stake and a wasp a few days
ago,” writes the Belvidere correspond. |
ent of the Kiowa County Sigoal. “The
wasp would wateh ita chavee to sting
the snake and then dy 10 a cactus The
snake would crawl to the plant,
mained there. The wasp made several
false attempts to fy asd finally fw
duced the snake 10 strike
in striking becmioe attached to the cac
rug and could not get away. Tle wasp
then flew away, awd ino a few moments
returned, bringing with him several of |
friends, who seltled upon the sunke |
aud stang him to deuth."--Kausas City | ©F and Mrs. Gladstone,
fils
Journal
The Smyrna Fig in California,
Smyrna fg ralsing bas at lust been
successfully established ln California
on a large scale on the Stanford ranch
ar Yina, by the employment of the
blastaphaga as an agent for the fer.)
tiligation of the fruit. Whe fruit is re
ported to be of an exesilsnt quality, |
and the industry of fig raising and
curing Is now 1 be prosecuted on an
extensive scale, This means a valua-
ble additon to the State's industrries
| and the production of an article of com
merce for which there exists a market
the world over. Up to date this mar:
‘ket has been almost wholly supplied |
» Asia Mibor.~San Francisco Chron
Transvaal
Dave shown thst conien can be grown |
‘much chesper in South Afri than
‘iin this country,
swer, although each sportsman and |
aaturalist bas his own opinion apd
correspondent,
which hats are piade
! chiefly of the hair of rabbits. Rares of
goats, mised with wool. These sub
| stances are thotouiily mixed together,
I and gre then pressed and beater anti
- they adhere and form 8 cotHDME
‘ Bexible, material
1 think |
he waters of the
pame of
‘Florida, The waste (ands
the Dirds
coftnidered wrong
inthe Roagthern Rintew of |
(America the most ardent and siveere
the sysiom: sven the olen |
refosed |
Had the
a timer
aud hauls farm
fasion with grain.
mounting.
but
would pot strike while the wasp re .
been added to the barisl poi} of the Ab.
The ruptile |
has acquires n “tract of and fn the | pai
It i sald that experiments
Cr
A trade paper siys. io answer to oh i
thst the felt cloth of |
is composed
i }
The trade between Jernsaiern and
Kerak has greatly incresesd and the
number of tourisi also,
have organized a company,
‘frat motorboat I seen fo move over
Ba the monks
aid ibe
Load Ren hich
have not heen usd for tran far
penturies. The bont Gas the sugferive
Agrnt,
Prodrmuos, The Fore
runner.”
Cl
An esperiment that may result in a
permanent werligz of the mise of
in poriborn
that exes
aroond the gulf to the Teche conunirs
of Louisiana sre being ntillzed for
cattle-raising,
winter blizzards
meat 8 now faking
make (he wesivrn
The prevent
in
the drought of a yeir ago, in which
whole berds perished On the Gulf
ands there would be po such Gozands
| ous conditions,
a
Francisco sfier 3 six months’ vovice
to the coast of Rant Ameries brine
wall mine of Alassio.
pot tell ite exaer situation lwosuse
they have not yet sectred a conces
sion to work 1t The ove in the mine,
of whirh the echosuer brought nensly
a ton [b specimims, in of faly gride,
and 18 is sald that there 8 ap Intense
quantity of it. The mine ia &5 easily
roached from the const that ir will be
simply a proposition of goariging td
out.
AT
The appearances: of 4 new star in the
constellation Perens, and ite rapid ox.
pansion into 4 pobuia, wilh has been
lave
revived among ddivonutiers thi theory |
that some nebiibie may be formed by
explosion. About
Bickerton, of Catiterdury College, New
if twin stars |
should grase one another the abraded |
going ob for some iipe past,
1X70, Professor
Zealand, showed that
parts, If relatively small. world have
so high a temperature that they would
at once become tiebulons, and that the
nebula so formed wonld, under certaln
conditions, costinue to expand until
dissipated in space. The present ex
panding nebula has been growing at
the extraordinary rate of several thou.
sand miles a second. and is in many
ways, one of the greatest celestial
wonders of the time.
The only place In the world where
that form of onrbon kpown as the
black diamond. or bort, is found inj
marketable quantities {8 In Balla, in
South America, The substance is used
for points for stone drills and saws,
and is powdered and used ty polish
x diamonds sod otliae precious stones
Lroken
There is 3 wide apd growing demand
for it. The blavk disgond Is found
with the ordinary diamonds in the}
Bahia felds and brings about ten
dollars a carat. The largest carbon
ever found weighed 3150; It was
bought from the wiper for $16,000;
i was afterwards parchazed for $25 000;
and was sent to Paris where it was
broken gp and sold to the trade. The
average size ia about six carats. The
annual output ix decreasing as the de
mand grows larger, and the price is
It i» probably only a ques.
tion of time when a black diamond
combination will be formed to work
the small area with modern machinery.
i The present methods are very primi
tre
The Abbey's Funeral Ruil.
Some notable names have been added
to the roll call of the Abbey under
Dean Bradley. Charles Darwin, Arch:
bishop French-himsel! once Dean of
Westminster—Robert Browning, Alfred
Tennyson and William Ewart Glad
stone are among the names that have
Bey under Dean Bradley's supervision,
and usobody will quarrel with them.
It will surprise many people, perhaps,
to Know that only ten persans have
been buried in the Abbey in the last
twenty years, aud that only two of
these ware women~Lady Louisa Per.
These, with
two poets, two architects, an arch
bishop, a scientist, a quesn's printer
aod a statesman, complete thi roll of
the great dead who Have been buried
in Westminster Abbey since Dir. Brad.
ley became Dean.St. James’ Gasetie.
Some tina Advice.
The country editor should not fail
to realize the iofluence lie may exer
cise in the shaping of public affairs,
says the Spirit Lake (Iowa! Begcon.
He should counsel wisely, read care
fully, thick deliberately and express
himself in no haphasard tashion. The
aditor of a country paper who delivers
half-baked opinions and slashes around
simply to attract attention, is account
bat
Founy prin SEY
Suannter diooebts apd
he of bodies for the ‘medical -
i knives ee
In Chicago, and in many other cities,
where the college authorities are Jess
reticent than in Indlspapolls in discuss
ing this most groesome phase of meds SE
gl college work, it has been stated 2:
that a body famine is on. Vaal
In lodisnapolis Inst winter graves
were roSbed until families of deceased
felt compelled to guard many country
FEnveeands
: The wholesale body steal pal
pg was th x
result of prosperity, 8
He said:
“Tu han! tows the Indianapolis med.
ieal colleges have none too many subs
ieots, and when the supply is dims.
hand soni other means must Be pe
sorted tn, The law compels the vol
legen to dissect and makes some pro.
vision for bodies. but it is not ample.
The law should provide for mors then
it does, :
“There would then be much less fear
on the part of respectable people.
{ When mulionl colleges are holding out
‘eountry an expeniive ated offen doubt. |
i ful Beld for this ndusire,
| high price of ment fa due, in gary
big Indusenients for bodies what assur
anes Bave you that the undertaker whe
is pmployed to bury a relative has not
sulmtitated a osrgo of bricks for the
heily and let the college take the
oiirpse? How do yon know that the
grave will not be robbed by adventurs
bin students the night after the inter
A schooner hag fust returned to Ban | :
ment tT Nuns
“In soniye of the larger cities there 9
{paver a mearcity of bodies. :
ing pews of the discovery of a gold |
mine that will rival the famous Trend. |
it is on an tsisnd
off the coast but the discovers will
In New
York. for instance, where there ave so
many thousands of very poor people
the eoliejres are able to sell the bodies
to the stadents at $1 a part, cotting It
inte three parts. Here in Indianapolis
the Body Is cut in five parts and each
part furnishes two students with work,
They pay 53 each, so the Indianapolis
collegas wot $50 aplece for bodies,
“I see Bo resson why bodies should
net be fmaported from the cities where
they are plentiful and cheap” Indian.
apnolis Sun. :
If courage is gone, then all is gone,
Evervthing may be retrieved sxoept
despair. a
All frowns are more or less crowns
of thorns.
‘Hurry not only spoils work, but
spoils life alsa
Men sre more belped by srupathy
than by service
There is no greater misfortune than
prosperity in evil
Reliever dinivews, bot do not under
mine inilenendence.
If wo share the burdens of oth
we lighten our own.
Anything which temiliariaey: us with
«7H Is Hwell an evil
‘'o be a man Is to have “the will to
do; the soll to dare.”
A day's worry is more exbausting
than a week of work. ;
Know how sublime a thing t is to»
suffer and be strong,
Ts know what is just. and not to
practice, is cowardios, 2
11 ix more Lnportant to do right than
1 be prosperous and happy.
Life's smallest acts and humblest
duties fash with divive meaning.
Men hake money: some, It is said
“roll in money” how few enjoy fit
oa not think what youn would lke
tH do. but what you ought to do.
Talking should be sn exercise of the
brain, nither than of the tongue.
If you take tome one of Satan's $
velations, the whole family will follow.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their
loss, but cheerily seek bow to redress
their harm.
She “ Uan't Talk Baek.”
It seeins an odd reversal of things in
the parrot world where only the male
bird is wodowed with organs by which
be i reproduce human speach, the
af such acquisition. “And what a
harsh, unpleasant jargon he makes of
it, 100,” remarked a woman customer. 2
when given this Information by a
fancier, adding, “Naturally” Where
pon her escort retorted. “You may be
sure the others make up for it in parrot
milk, and probably poor Jack hes t6
hear more than many of his human
brothers in aMiction” Then he re
mained quite silent while the woman
botight an’ expensive male bird, extra
volubility warranted, and ordered the
Bill sent in his name,
Duties of a Workhouse Purter,
The porter of the Mere (Wiltshire)
wirkhouse recently wrote to the guar ia
dians for an increase of salary, which
then stood at £14 per annum: “1 am
Bitte porter, storekeeper, caterer, hrasg
padisher, assistant gardener, assistant
nurse, mortuary attendant, tramp and
labor master, famigator, barber, mes
senger, ladies’ hairdresser, ote. 1 Bave
just balanced my small account tor the
twelve months, and find, after buying
clothes and other necessaries for the
purpose of making myself presentable
enough to attend the gate, board room
and church with the lumates, that I am. 2
| minus the Tueans to bave a : :
able for a serious waste of oppor =|! ie." ‘Th
vanity,