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sw York Advertiser. vVVV-'Tt-, <3riprvg. THE NATION'S DEBT. THEN AND NOW. ... ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND. shape of needles, are sometimes found penetrating large wiiiie quarts crys­ tals, forming gems that the French call "love's-arrows." ,-UL »eore and a half a score of years Hare passed since Sumter's guns awoke UL Nation, answering with its cheers, And wreathed our land in battle smoke; (And years of^.peace have healed the , wounds ( ' . ' •" • ' That years of civil strife had wrought-- Vk. Nation, one, through'all its bounds • The blood of many freemen bought. They lie unnumbered where they fell, In forest dork, by winding river, And loving friends that place may tell To other loving friends, ah! never. Our mother earth her secret keeps And guards the secret dust she cover®, Nor heeds the fathers trembling lips, The mothers' moans, the sigh of lovers. GUEST FELT TOO IMPORTANT. The millions that were held in thrall Now walk the earth with firmer tread, And, grateful, feel they owe their all To those brave hundred thousand* dead-- And those who still survive to tell The-tales of those dark days of ^var, And while they tell them feel the spell Of those dread scenes that come no .j . more. We meet to-day in peace and joy * Without a care to cause us sorrow, iWith no forebodings to annoy, With no dread fears for the to-morrow. The waving flags, the ringing cheers, Foretell no signs of coming battle, tWe think but of the peaceful years Since last was heard the musket's rattle. ®ttt, while we taste the joys of peace, We sorrow with the stricken ones (Where fathers come no more to bless, Where parents mourn their cherished . • son's: . • »V>r, while time has healed in part The spirits that so grieved before, iWe know to-day each loving heart Still misses him who comes no more. iWe scatter flowers o'er the graves Of those who cared for self far less Shan for their country's weal, the brakes Who in their deep devotedness To right on Freedom's altar laid The greatest^ git on man bestowed-- Their lives, th£ir all^ They freely paid The Nation's debt in warm heart's y •• blood. Their bodies rest beneath the sod, No rvide alarm their slumber starts; Their souls are with the patriots' God, Their memory lives in grateful hearts. Above us, floats the stripes and stars, Around us peace and plenty dwell; No gathering cloud now brings us fears, A Nation murmurs, All is well. And while our pulsing hearts shall beat, While man shall honor noble deeds; Whilerjglit shall witness wrong's defeat, White falsehood before truth recedes-- The^oice of youth, and age as well, From year to year, from sire to son, The story of their deeds shall tell, And all shall echo. Nobly done. --Chicago Inter Ocean. The night was coming on apace; ^ The guns had ceased their sullen roar _ And like a veil on nature's face The dun-clouds spread the drear scene O'er. The drifting rain fell ceaseless, chill The night wind searched the half-clad men;. The ghostly pine-clump on the hill Moaned dirge-like, paused and moaned again. " And stood to arms the^rear-guard there As silent as the stricken dead; While from the line with cautious care Battalions to the rearward sped. No tent nor blanket there was found; The weary rear-guard one by one, Dropped prone upon the rain-drenched ground And slept upon the useless guu. In front upon the shot-plowed" field, The surgeons' lanterns flickered, stopped, The hasty knife or lint to wield, Where'er the charging heroes dropped. With but a hurried glance, a touch, They pass the dead, the useless dead; Grim war has never place for such Pale victims of his steel and lead. But war is past, thank God, is pasu The better, brighter day is come, When angel Peace her spell has cast Upon the long roll of the drum. And bids it beat a cheery tune Along the gala-dressed_array. Within the opening doors of June, The closing days of festal May. ECORATION Day was a 1 happy day for the little play­ mates--Gertrude Tallman and Neith Hannaman. And this is how it happened. A few mornings before, the little maid­ ens had been playing housekeeping under the largest, blossom-laden apple tree in the great back yard of Neith's home. .Gertrude was busy gathering the fragrant white petals that had fallen to the ground Into a heap to be used as flour in making strawberry shortcake for the noonday lunch of Queen Victoria, the Princess of Wales and their royal friends. Queen Victoria and the Princess of Wales, by the way, are among the very dignified paper ladies who make up the •rather extensive household of these two playmates. The blossoms doubtless suggested the coming of Decoration Day, for suddenly Gertrude said. "Oh, Neftb, are you going to march Decoration Day?" It is the custom in the town in which they live for the school children to march member the soldiers in potter's field. And before nightfall the Flower Brigade--as Neith named the youthful compauy of flower gatherers--had been formed. And such a happy time they all had collecting the bright blossoms. Every­ body listened attentively as the blossom beggars stated their mission, and Miss Tuttles, who was never known to give away one of her precious flowers, actually gave the children a big bunch of yellow roses. And heaps of red roses and purple lilacs and white peonies and blue violets --in fact, every kind of flower that grows in the little town--soon filled the baskets full to oversowing. Then the evening before Decoration Day the Flower Brigade gathered under the same apple tree where Gertrude and Neith first thought of the happy idea, and busy little fingers arranged into pretty clusters the fragrant blossoms. Decoration Day dawned clear and sun­ shiny. Every member of the Flower Brigade was up bnyht and early to pre­ pare for the march in the afternoon. Finally the hour came and the old sol­ diers themselves did not keep prouder step to the fife and drum than did the happy boys and girls, as they followed the Stars and Stripes through the main street. When the pretty little cemetery was reached Gertrude's Uncle Jack, wh© is a blue-coated veteran, led the band of flower bearers out to potter's field. « It is indeed a neglected spot. And there were many things to make the; chil­ dren feel sad as they' wound their way around the sunken, grass-grown graves. "Uncle Jack," asktd Gertrude,> "why do people put pieces of broken glass and white shells on these graves?" "It is because they are poor people, Gertrude," was the answer. "It is the The hearts of the Flower Brigade were touched by her simple offering of love, and they immediately decided to leave a double allowance of flowers on this mound. In fact, the grave was literally covered with an artistic arrangement of blossoms. /With tearful eyes Elsie stammered out her grateful thanks and the Flower Bri­ gade, after lingering, sympathetic glances at the figure bending lovingly over the flower mound, continued their labor of love. Every soldier's mound in potter's field was a veritable bower of blossoms when the Flower Brigade had completed their "F.LSIE. work. And the members were a happy crowd of little people, you may be sure. They felt more than repaid for their work and the happiness in their hearts found expression in their faces. "I move that we adjourn to meet May the twenty-ninth, ninety-six, to gather flowers for potter's field," suddenly de­ clared Gertrude, as the band was about to separate. "Second the motion," fairly shouted Irwin Valentine, who always agrees with everything Gertrude Tallman says. "At eight o'clock .in the morning, under the biggest apple tree in our back yard," put in Neith Hannaman. ^ "Yes, at nine o'clock sharp," added Moss Levison, who always thinks, what Neith Hannaman says is just right. After a happy little speech by Uncle Jack, he stated the question and said, "All in favor of the motion say 'aye.' " And every member of the Flower Bri­ gade said "aye." GLORIES OF PATRIOTISM. fta a body to the city of the dead and to carry flowers to lay on the; graves of the brave soldier dead. "To be sure," was the ready ijfiswer. "Aunt Margaret has promised m^ all of her beautiful red roses, and our ' white lilacs will be out, and I am going to make bouquets--ever so many of them." "So am I, too," 6aid Gertrude as she rearranged the rather heavy train to the morning gown of Queen Victoria, who had taken a sudden and unqueenly tum­ ble from her bqxk throne near the foot of the apple tree. Then after a moment's eilence, "Uncle Jack says that people are apt to forget poor soldiers on Decoration Day-rsoldiers who are buried in potter's field, I believe that is what it is called. Uncle Jack says that people fairly showeV blossoms on the graves of their friends, and sometimes the friendless soldiers in potter s field are not remembered even by One. flower. Uncle Jack was in the war and--he knows." It really does seem sometimes that the true meaning of the day is forgotten. The hallowed spot where a noble hero has found a resting place in potter's field is often only marked by a flag. On one day out of the 3G5 days of the year our flowers ought to be given unreservedly to honor the memory of brave soldiers, known or unknown. The housekeeping duties proceeded tin­ der apple tree. Finally Gertrude said in a burst of childish patriotism, "I won­ der if We couldn't put our flowers on the graves, of-poor soldiers this year?" ' , That was a happy thought. And the two maidens put their two heads together, and after an interested discussion of the . plan It was decided that they "Should get aU-the boys and girls in the neighborhood to help them. \ It is to be feared that the royal family went hungry that day, for'Gertrude and Neith suddenly hurried -off to tell their little neighbjp-friends-of their plan to re- only way they can show that they have not forgotten their dead. There ate none of them but would like to' do more, but they have no mOney to buy even the simplest tombstone." <f ' Finally they came to a neglected grave over which a shabbily dressed child was stooping. As she turned on hearing foot­ steps, Gertrude and Neith recognized one of their poor schoolmates--Elsie Tan­ ner. ',)• " V - •"» ' "I didn't know Elsie^s father was a sol- Tributes for Memorial Day from O ra tors, Writers and Statesmen. From these honored dead we take in­ creased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devo­ tion, we might highly resolve thixt the dead shall not have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the Govern­ ment of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. -Abraham Lincoln. In 035 battles and skirmishes blood flowed like water. It streamed over the grassy plains, it stained the rocks, the undergrowth of the forest was red with it, and the armies marched orTvCith majestic courage from one conflict to another, knowing that they were fighting for God and Liberty^--George Bancroft. By the homely traditions of the fireside by the headstones consecrated to those whose forms repose far off in crude graves by the Rappahannock, embalmed in the memories of succeeding- generations, the heroic dead will live on in immortal youth. War Governor Andrew. For what did these men die? The an swer will become more necessary every year, to keep alive in the national mind the value of our institutions and their treasured cost.--Chauncey M. Depew. Thrice blessed be their memory! Fpr we and the rising generation can scarcely realize the debt we owe them.--John A, Logan. I would, if I had the power, write thd grand deeds of the defenders of the Union in detters of living light on the broad arches of the skies, so that all meni as they look heavenward, mightbe inspired by their noble example.--Henry Wilson The heroes of the country, alive and dead, are at the foundation of American nationality.--ltobert Collyer. None deserve this tribute from their countrymen more than those>;>t$$>o have fallen in defense of the constitution and the Union of the thirty-four United States.--Gen. Wiufield Scott. CONCEPTION OF THE FEOWER BBIG AD E. dier, said one of the bov' in a half whisper^ "y •... ~ "V^s, and a brave soldier he was, too I happened to know him in the war," an swered Uijr le Jack. The cbfid, Elsie Tannejv.was. vainly • trying to revive a bunch of wild violets which she had placed on the mound that morning. ' Azserlcan Meat Finding Competition from Catania! and Other Sources.! Whence comes the meat we eat? asks the Pall Mall Gazette. The suburban butcher will tell you that lt is all home killed, if not home fed; the domestic cynic that Welsh, mutton commonly brpWses on Australian plains and that Scotch beef loses half its virtue be­ cause of the voyage across'the Atlantic. The truth, as usual, lies between, and if one had happened on the Society .of Arts in session the other night one would huv6 learned some interesting facts from E. Montague Nelson as to this more than ordinarily interesting subject. A quarter of a century ago it struck people that the United Kingdom could hot grow enough meat to feed her population, which, by the way, it may be said, eats more than twice as much meat as, any alien people. As usual, a committee was appointed, and it sat until 1870 without arriving at any defi­ nite conclusion. At this time America was exporting to the United Kingdom a large quantity of live stock, besides a profusion of tinned meat, while two years later the trade in chilled beef was stalled, and gradually grew until in 1S94 it reached 100,000 tons. In 1880 the Australian colonies began to be a factor in the question of supply. Early in that year the first shipment of frozen meat was made, and the trade has since attained huge proportions. In all 26,000,000 frozen sheep and lambs have come to our shores, of which New Zea­ land has supplied 13,000,000, Australia 3,000,000, the River . Platte 9,000,000, and the Falkland Islands 150,000. In the early stages of the, business freight from Australia was 2%d per pound; it is now Id, and a fair profit can be made at this figure. - There are now over eighty ships engaged in the trade, with a carrying Capacity of about 2,500,000 carcasses. Experiments are now being made in the shipment of live cattle from Australia, and the trials already completed are sufficient to prove that they can be carried the long sea voyage without loss of condition.. It is proba­ ble, therefore, that before long a large trade in this direction will be conduct­ ed. The annual consumption of meat in the United Kingdom Is some 2,140,- 000 tons, about two-thirds of which is home grown, and the latter amount has doubled in the last ten years. It is computed that,, in addition to the sup­ plies of live stock to the metropolitan markets, Smithfield alone provided in a year 130 pounds of meat for every man, woman and child within fifteen miles of Charing Cross, or a weekly .consumption of twenty-four pounds for every family, and of 130 pounds, about twenty-five pounds are American beef and nearly thirty pounds foreign mut­ ton or beef. Mr. Nelson thinks that the British farmer is entitled to equal consideration, whether he happens to reside in New Zealand or in Kent or Sussex. And Australian mutton, wholesale, fetches 3%d a pound, or just half that of the home-grown article. She Pieces Burnt Money. The most interesting person in the employ of the Treasury at Washington is Mrs. Brown, who knows more about burned money than any other indi­ vidual living. It is marvelous to see her takg a handful of charred fragments of bank notes and, pasting them piece by piece upon a sheet of paper, trausform them into recognizable shape, so that the loser may be reimbursed by Uncle Sam. An old woman named Mrs. McGrath died in Rockford, 111., leaving all her property to her niece, Lizzie. For some reason, perhaps because the death was from a contagious disease, the clothing of the deceased was burned. Ai'ter the pious task had been accom­ plished it had occurred to Lizzie that perhaps there might have been some money in the pockets. So she searched among the ashes, and sure enough she found a few bits of what had been greenbacks. She sent them to the redemption division, and they were identified as amounting to $25. A few days ago the Farmers and Me­ chanics' Bank, at Mansfield, 111., was entered by burglars. They destroyed the safe wTitli dyna­ mite, incidentally blowing several packages of notes into small bits, which were forwarded to the Treasury at Washington for redemption. Mrs. Brown had a quantity of the stuff when seen in a big envelope, and it looked as though the job of putting the pieces together would be no small one. This particular kind of work, how­ ever, lias become familiar, owing to the growing popularity of dynamite among robbers. Mrs. Brown is equally well acquaint­ ed with the work of the puppy dog which gets a chew of the family wad; also with the results accomplished by the omnivorous goat and the almost equally indiscriminate baby. A half-digested roll of bills may be recovered from the stomach of a goat, lis has been done in more than one in­ stance, by the simple process of killing the beast, but the infant affords a more serious problem.--Philadelphia Times. Man Who Blusteririgly Demanded the Best Room Got the Worst. The gentleman came bustling up to the hotel register bubbling over with energy and importance. He snatched up a pen and wrote his name in a very important way across two lines of the register. "Give hie my old room, d'ye hear," he commanded, "and have my baggage sent up quick.' "I'm sorry, sir," said the clerk, "but the room you always occupy is filled at present, and I will have to give you another one; I can give you a better ope;" "What! My room filled. . I won't have any other. I've got to have that room. Move the people out right away!" "I couldn't well do that, you know," said the clerk mildly; "the gentle­ man-----" . "That's the most astounding thing I ever heard. I really never heard any­ thing to equal it A guest positively can't get accommodations at an At­ lanta hotel. I'll leave the hotel. I'll leave " " . ; "I can give you a better room." •- "I won't have any other," snorted the guest. "I'll leave. I'll leave this minute. There's no accommodation about such a hotel." "All right sir," said the clerk. "Por­ ter, take tliis gentleman's baggage to the sidewalk right away." "What--what did you say--hold on a minute," said the guest. "What sort of room " "The gentleman is going to another hotel, porter--take his baggege " "Hold on, porter. Don't hurry. Wait. What sort of room did you say I could get?" "I don't think I have a room that would suit you, sir. I was mistaken awhile ago. We have only a small room on the top flor that you can't turn round in, and it hasn't been cleaned up In six months. It's not fit." , "If that's the best you can do put me In that until you can get a better one. Send my grips up, please." The next five gentlemen who regis­ tered got rooms on the parlor floor.-- Atlanta Constitution. America Better than Europe. America and American institutions have always had a fascination for the French. The Marquis de Laubut, in a few shrewdly written pages, deals with the labor problems of America, and seems to note .with satisfaction that as in the old, so in the new world, econom­ ical and political crises are by no means unknown. But he believes that America will probably find it more easy to cope with future difficulties than will the Governments of Europe, and lie gives the following reasons: Firstly, he observed that the cost of liv­ ing, whatever may have been said to the contrary, is no greater in the States, for the working classes than on this side of the Atlantic, and that, on the other hand, there the salaries are un­ doubtedly larger; secondly, the Ameri­ can citizen has not ever before his eyes the specter of past revolutions and wars. The "Budget of Destruction," for so the Marquis styles all military and naval estimates, is in America ab­ surdly small; in Europe it is eating the citizen of each country out of house and home; America's standing army consists of 30,000 men; that collective­ ly produced by Europe 3,500,000. Un­ like most recent visitors to the States, the Marquis considers that in America is now found the maximum of individ­ ual freedom and liberty. He noticed that in an American town each citizen is free to knock another about if he chooses, that the tramways are crowd­ ed to suffocation, that the railway sta­ tions are guardless, and that every man shifts for himself in the land of free­ dom.--Review of Reviews. , WEAPONS INDIANS FEAR. They Don't Like to Face Telescopic! Sights and Heavy Bullets. "Indian* sometimes face light fire-; hrms with great courage, but they fight] shy., of the attentions of any weapoa that sends a large projectile," said ColJ F. A. Blake, who has had wide experi­ ence on the Western plains. "The rush and scream of the heavy bullet fright­ ens them, and they prefer to keep away from their range. To that not unrea­ sonable prejudice is due the fact thai} the buffalo hunters of the early seven­ ties, who in following their business iwere constantly exposed to the attacks of hostile Indians, were molested com­ paratively little by them. The long, heavy,, .rifle, with its telescopic sights and the knowledge of the deadly cer­ tainty bf the buffalo hunter's aim, al­ most Invariably served to make the red man keep his distance, and set him temporarily free from the notion of scalp hunting. '• "One buffalo hunter, by the name of Murdock, that I knew, was creeping upon a herd on the Staked Plain when he spied a band of Comanches riding toward him. He instantly leveled his gun upon them as a warning that they should not approach too near. .Check­ ing his warriors, the chief of the baud pointed with his hand to a buffalo in the distant herd, "then motioned in the Indian sign language that the hunter should shoot it Murdock fired as the chief indicated and the buffalo fell. The Indians gave a loud 'How' of ap­ proval, waved their hands, turned their ponies, and swept on past the hunter, leaving him to pursue his shooting of the buffalo unmolested." The Mongolian Build. One of the surprises encountered by the traveler when he is first cast among Mongolians is their physical develop­ ment Americans are wont to judge their bodily structure by the specimens in the laundry shops of Sam Lee or Wi Ping; and the loose clothing of the Chinaman conceals his brawny arms and legs when he has them. Seeing Thibetans in the Himalayas--stocky, chunks of men, with an abnormal, muscular development--had not brush­ ed away my idea that the Chinaman was rather a slim, unmuscular Orien­ tal, something like the willowy Hindu; but when I landed at Singapore, and first saw numbers of coolies stripped to their work, I was thunderstruck at their massive proportions. The Chinese are commonly said to be a diseased race, a people permeated with blood poisons; but one does not see it in the average specimen, and one does see at every corner men with limbs and torsos like Sandow, men who would be marked down for football players in any American College. Not but what disease is always an accompaniment of so crowded a population; not that its mani­ festations fail to impress you; but the Chinaman, far from being a taper-fingered mortal, is a tough, sturdy, fine fellow, with thews and sinews like an athlete, and plenty of ambition and courage--within his ra­ cial lines. Nor have I found any excep­ tion to the rule. The Mongol from the borders of In­ dia, where, going east, you strike his homely coarseness, to the confines of Japan, where you say good-by to his lovely cherry blossoms and his smiling bows, is everywhere, in physique, the same strong, enduring man. The Chi­ naman is filthy In mind, body and es­ tate; the Japanese is equally clean; but in mere physical quality they are very much alike. That the Mongols' ner­ vous structure is less fine than the Aryan's is evidenced by the fact that the average Chinaman will endure un- blenched the pain of a surgical opera­ tion which would seriously- compro­ mise the reactionary power of most white men; and this, if anything, adds to his value as a mere human animal. The Skull, i Anatomists to separate the bones of a skull frequently fill it with small beans and place the whole in a basin of water. The beans s^vell and slowly slit the skull. The force which beans are capable of exerting ̂ under these conditions is equivalent to the average pressure in the boiler of a steam en- As Hard as the Diamond. The diamond has always been regard­ ed as possessing one quality which placed it beyond rivalry, namely, that of hardness. There are several gems which compete with it in beauty, and at least one, the ruby, when of rare size and quality, outranks it in costli­ ness. But none in the whole list equals it in hardness, "Diamond cut diamond" has become a popular saying. The hardest steel cannot equal the diamond in that re­ spect. The diamond, says a recent and authoritative text-book of chemistry, "is the hardest form of matter known." But science progresses, and If nature has set aside for her king of gems the •distinction of unparalleled hardness, the art of man has not been equally considerate. There are at least two products of chemical experiment which have proved, according to the great French chemist, Henri Moissan, to be as hard as diamonds. These are produced from the rare metal titanium. Monsieur Moissan has succeeded in preparing titanium in the electric furnace. In the pure form it is harder than steel or quartz, and when combined with silicon or boron,'so as to form a silicide, or boride of titanium, it matches the diamond itself in hard­ ness. v • Titanium resembles tin in its chem­ ical properties, and it is the character­ istic element in the beautiful red and brown crystals of rutile. These, in the A Costly Telephone. In the early telephone days," said an old timer, we had some curious experi­ ences. "A doctor in Cincinnati ordered a telephone put in his front parlor. We sent a man to do it. He brought his wire in through the window frane. "Not having a step-ladder handy, the fellow moved the piano around the room, and by placing a chair upon top of it was able to attach his wire to the lower part of the frieze, near the ceil­ ing, and carry it nearly around the room to the instrument. « "Our man came back and reported the 'phone installed. Next day the doc­ tor called on our general manager. "I want you to send a paperhanger up to my, house and get me a new pi­ ano,' says he. " 'What for?' says our manager. " 'Send a man up and you'll see,' says the doctor. "I was sent out to investigate, and found the top of the piano ruined by chair marks and the imprints of hob­ nailed shoes. "The wall paper was adorned with a prominent frescoing of dirty finger marks, and the job of wiring was a sight We had to paper the room, do the wiring again, and get a new top put on the M. D.'s piano. "And in spite of numerous experi­ ences of this kind, those were the hal­ cyon days of easy money in the tele­ phone business."--Electrical Review. What Gave the Earth Its Motion? You have often asked or had the ques­ tion asked of you, "What gave the earth its daily motion, and how is tho force of that motion kept up?" but have never been really satisfied with tho answer given or th6 reasons therefor which you were able to advance in ex­ planation. The astronomers are not even agreed upon this question. Some of them claim that the "orig­ inal initial centrifugal force" was di­ rected in a line slightly to one side of the center of the globe, which would of course cause the earth to rotate upon its axis, and by the law of inertia of matter must, continue to revolve at a uniform rate of speed. This "law of the inertia of matter" is to the effect that matter once set in motion must continue to move until arrested by some outside force. Others claim that the motion is a "compound resultant of the motion of the eartl^ in its orbit and the attraction of the sun." He Was Puzzled. It is not surprising that courts should be perplexed at times by the arguments of opposing counsel, but such perplexity is seldom so frankly, confessed as by a Western justice of the peace, who re­ cently tried a man for the theft of .a cow. The evidence was heard, and the lawyers made their arguments, each presenting the most convincing reasons in support of his own side of the case. The justice was anxious to do right, but was unable to decide, and after a long time the lawyers asked that he give some kind of a verdict at once, so that they could go home. Thereupon the justice rose from his seat, motioned one of the attorneys to follow him, and left the room. The two men went round the corner of the building. « "See here," said the judge, "you law­ yers have got me muddled. I first thought you was right, then I thought the other fellow was; you spoke again and I was sure you was exactly right but after you set down and he como again I felt sure he was right. "Now I'll declare that I don't know what to do. I know you lawyers just talk anyway, but now I want to ask you as a man, not as a lawyer, what you would do if yo\i was me. I have a heap of confidence in you as a man, mind you, but wouldn't like to take your advice as a lawyer." How the case was decided we are not Informed, but probably the reader will be able to guess. A Spring Song. Meadows--dreamy meadows, stretchin' far. away; Tinklin o' the dewdrops on the daisies every day; An' the clouds are lookin' whiter, an' tho sap is in the sod. An' the sun is beamin' brighter an' is col- orin' the clod. Singin' of the moekin'birda where wild J the blossoms blow; Fifty million roses in a perfect storm o* snow! " "y: ' VV-^" .'...y ' ; ;'Z.v:: An' all the groves rejoicin', an' all the greenin' hills ̂ V; A-lookin' glad and giddy with the rattle o' the rills! There's a twinkle in the maples, there's a whisper in the jiines, An' the humrain' bird is huntin' for the mornin'glory vines; There's a thrill of life pervadiri' all the mountains an' the dells, 4 An' music's in the breezes when the cattle shake their bells. Oh, the country's growin' brighter, an' tha world in glory rolls; The sunshine's streamin' whiter through the windows of our souls; The Lord's unlocked His storehouse, with all He's got to give, An' if life would last forever we'd jest live, an' live, an' live! --Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitur tion. f The Spectre Riders. The north wind.bloweth bitter, The leas are lost in snow; The pines are black upon the height, The river black below; While swift across the ways of night The spectre riders go. Their path is paved with azuro And lit with lamps of gold; They revel in the stormy roar, They glory in the cold; •Above, beneath, the seas of air In frosty waves are rolled. S Their steeds are shod with opal, ? Of pearl each bridle rein; And like the new moon's silver floss Each tossed and tangled mane; > As subtle as our dreams they are, That change and change again. But, oh, the spectre riders! No mortal eye may see Or form or face, the while through spac® They guide their coursers free; w Intangible they are as Death, "1* Whose couriers they be. --Clinton Scollard in Leslie's Weekly, Compensation. If Helen love me, she does so After the cautious modern fashion. And usages like linkboys go To light the progress of her passion. Say mine estate should dwindle; say The breath of scandal fogged min» honor, Helen would weep her love away, And bid me think no more upon her. Say I fell ill, or lame, or blind, The counsel of her friends would mov* her, Regretfully, to prove unkind, And seek a less unlucky lover. But these things happen not, that is, Not in such sort as frighten Helen, Whereas her dear small prudencies Make me a fenced demesne to dwell in. Slumber Song. Silently, tenderly, stilly night, Clothe her with quiet sleep; Pale stars, marking the daylight's flight, Watch o'er my loved one keep, Croon to her slumber songs, Dove of Peace, Tell her of poppies and murm'ring bees, Whisper of sleepsome things. Sing to her, sigh to her, lisping leaves, Lullabies soft and slow; Mingle your music, O rustling sheaves, Fitful and faint and low. Cradle her softly until the morn In at her lattice peeps; Hushed by all voices until day dawn-- Ilush! for my darling sleeps. --New York Tribune. The Breath of Morn. I like a cow's breath in sweet spring; I like the breath of babes, new born; A maid's breath is a pleasant thing; But oh, the breath of sudden mornl Of sudden morn--when every pore Of mother earth is pulsing fast With life, and life seems spilling o'er With loveliness too sweet to last. --Joaquin Miller in Chips. A Rose to the Living. A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreathes to the dead; In filling love's infinite store A rose"to the living is more-- If graciously given before The hungering spirit has fled-- A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreathes to the dead. --Nixon Waterman in Overland Monthly. Dried Flowers. _ A German chemist has found a way of preserving the colors of dried flow­ ers, even of delicate poppies. Flowers lose their tints in drying through am­ monia in the air. The inventor presses his specimens between sheets of paper which have previously been saturated with a solution of 1 per cent of oxalic acid in water. Some old fashioned women who hare no "book learning," have some knowl­ edge gained by experience which would make the books appear insignificant ^ ifrirrtn. Paper Making. Electric treatment is being adopted in Norway for the purpose of bleaching pulp. The pulp is placed in the chlo­ ride solution, the electric currrent turned on, and in from twenty to forty minutes the operation is said to be com­ pletely carried out. Oil Bombs. • A man in Bremen has invented a kind [of "oil bombs" for calming the waves, •which can be fired a short distance. There are small holes in them, allowing the oil to run out in about an hour. It Is funny how people will lie about old horses, old watches, and old shot Taking the iiead as Socialists. The most ^active spcij|Ksts in New York just now are IiUb'siatt'Jaws. Somo of the most vigorous and courageous of the socialist agitators in this city are English Jews, and in the develop­ ment of the socialist party here Ger­ mans, as leaders, have gradually been falling in the background. A very con­ siderable number of the Hebrew social­ ists on the East Side are anarchists as well. A majority of them are of Russian birth or lineage, and their hos­ tility to established government and the forms of legal authority is' based on conditons which exist in Russia and have no existencejjete. It Used to be said a few years ago that flie rallying point of the red flag socialist in New York was always a German'lager beer saloon, and the establishment of Jus­ tus SCliwab--his beer tunnel, i^ 1st street--<*ame into great celebrity in £oh- sequ'ence. But nowadays one does not look in New York for anarchists among the Germans, but among, the Jews on tlie East Side,] is true of soci papers, publish® on the East Si s e n t i m e n t s e s t a b l i s h e d forms of gdHHBH|K%thd have recent­ ly largr*d^^^™^^™?- . cialist