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WILD FLOWERS. .
Oh, beautiful blossoms, pure and sweet,
' Agleam with dew from the country wayl.
To me, at work in a city street,
You bring fair visions of bygone days—
Glad days, when I hid in a mist of green
To watch spring’s delicate buds unfold,
And all the riches I cared to glean
Were daisy silver and buttercup gold.
’Tis true you come of a lowly race, _
Nursed by the sunshine, fed by the showers,
And yet you are heirs to a nameless grace
Which I fail to find in my hothouse flowers,
And you breathe on me with your honeyed
lips
Till in thought I stand on the wind swept
fells, ,
Where the brown bees hum o'er the ferny dips,
Or ring faint peels on the heather bells.
I close my eyes on the crowded street,
I shut my ears to the city’s roar,
And am out in the open with flying feet—
Ofl, 05 to your emerald haunts once more!
But the harsh wheels grate on the stones be-
low,
And a sparrow chirps at the murky pane,
And my bright dreams fade in an overflow
Of passionate longing and tender pain.
—E. Matheson in Chambers’ Journal.
A STATELY OLD MANSION.
The Home of Sarah Orne J ewett, the Nov-
elist, at Ber-wick, Mo.
' I wonder if there is another such house
in New England as the home of Sarah
Orne Jewett, says a writer in the Boston
Herald. I have seen many stately man-
sions that goback to the days before the
Revolution — one in particular where
General Gage was quartered in old Dan-
vers, a town which is linked by witch
threads to Berwick, and one with gam-
brel roof upon which a good dame and
her cronies climbed to be out of reach of
husbandly authofity while they drank
tea forbidden to patriots until the tax
was removed—but I have never seen a
living place at once so modern and so
reminiscent of 1730 or days younger
still. In, its great rooms filled with old
mahogany and warmed by huge tiled
fireplaces it would be easy to forget that
the gundalows, with their high peaked
sails like great birds’ wings, do not yet
sail down the river from the landing
wharves in fleets of tens and twenties
to Portsmouth, with their loads of pine
planks and boards to be exchanged for
East Indian rum, tobacco and molasses
or for Russian iron, duck or cordage, or
for such priceless 01d glass. and silver
and china as came from unknown ports
and now peep out wonderingly upon
nineteenth century cushions and pic-
tures and bric-a-brac, from their deep-
set cupboards and shelves.
“I found these things here,” Miss
Jewett says, “and I hope ti leave them
when I go into the unknown. ” If one
had one’s choice of anti-SCOTS, it would
be impossible to pick out better than
those who chose the elaborate cornices,
all carved by hand with infinite pains,
and the high paneling of the parlors,
and the broad window sills, and the
fi0vvered wall paper, still bright and
fresh, though of a pattern on which Ma-
rie Antoinette might have set the seal
of her app" ral when she fitted up the
little Tri:. . l.
(Enid Not Make Tibet.
Mr. Wilson relates an amusing story
of an officer who determined to enter
Chinese Tibet by stratagem. This ofii-
cer managed to cross the frontier at
night, and soescaped the frontier guard.
Next day, however, while he was jour-
neying deeper into Tibet the Tibetan
soldiers overtook him and informed him
that as the country was unsafe, because
of robbers, they would go with him in
order to protect him, to which arrange-
ment the traveler was compelled to
agree. In a few hours they came to a
river, which was crossed by a rope
bridge. The Tibetans passed over first,
in order to show that the bridge was
safe, and then the Oificer got into the
basket and was pulled along by the Tib’
etans. Suddenly, however, they ceased
pulling and left the Englishman hang-
ing in midair above the rushing torrent.
In vain the traveler shouted to the
Tibetans to pull. They merely smoked
and nodded their heads. The hours pass-
ed, and still the officer hang above the
torrent. At last the Tib tans agreed to
pull him back if he wbiihd promise to
leave Tibet immediately. This of
course he was compelled to do and took
his departure from the forbidden land.
——Gentleman’s Magazine.
Itr. Johnson.
Dr. Johns-en .sccutly pcohpoched the
notion of the effect of weather on the
mind. “To temperance,” he wrbre,
“every day is bright, and every hour is
propitious to diligence.” Johnson, how~
ever, was little given to analyze the in—
fluences of nature, or any other influ-
ences, upon himself. And it may well
be that this disposition on his part was
in the spirit of the stoics and in defi-
ance of his own feelings, to which he
disdained to give way. It seemed to
him a. sorry‘thing that “a being en-
dowed with reason” should “resign his
powers to the influences of the air and
live in dependence on the weather and
the wind. ”—Temple Bar.
All “rot-hers F-‘uitc-i’.
Distinctions.
“Money makes a heap of diiference in
the world,” said the misanthrope.
“Of course it does. S 111, a man can
always choose his associations. ”
“Oh, I don’t know about that. Here
I am with such limited means that I
can’t be on speaking terms with even the
telephone company.” -- Washington
Star.
Tawdry is derived from St. Audrey.
In the early middle ages-fairs were held
in France and England on St. Audrey‘s
day, and these animal gatherings be- -’
came noted for the gaudy and worthless
jewelry sold at them.
If the mind, that rules the body, ever
so far forgets itself as to trample on its
slave, the slave is never generous
enough to forgive the injury, but will
rise and smite the cppressor.-—Long-
fellow.
A witty Frenchman said, ‘ ‘Only death
is an excuse for not keeping a dinner
engagement, 'and even then a polite man
would send the undertaker to apologize
for him. ”
——A rivertise in the Harm-Tn.
UNLUCKY TO SAVE FROM. BROWNING.
Some Queer Superstitions of People the
World Over.
It seems strange that swimmers
should be superstitious, yet it is so, nor
is it alone the small boy who sees his
companion sinking into a watery grave
without attempting to rescue him,
whether he sank because he was not an
expert and got beyond his depth, or
whether he was seized with cramps. It
seems ridiculous to think of, and no
doubt it will save many a superstitious
person from risking his own neck by
being dragged under by the weight and
struggles of a drowning person to know
it is counted unlucky and worse than
madness to try to save the _1ife of a
drowning person or to resuscitate him,
as sooner or later he is bound to do you
some mean turn.
It is another one of those old super-
stitions handed down from generation
to generation from our European ances-
tors, and of which no one knows the der-
ivation. Traces of it are found among
the Sioux and other tribes of the Indians
of the west, who seem to have inherited
that belief from their forefathers along
with so many other quaint things. They
still believe, and it’s a part of their
creed, that in hunting the body of a
drowned person you can discover its
resting place by floating a chip of cedar
wood, which will stop, even in the
strongest current, and turn er and over
the exact spot.
In Great Britain the belief that you
must not rescue a drowning person is
most prevalent in Cornwall and various
parts of Scotland. The French sailor
and the boatman of the Danube bow to
the decree, together with the Russians,
and let the people drown.
Dr. Taylor, in his “Primitive Cul-
ture,” declares this lingering fondness
for this old creed is because the water
spirit is angry at being despoiled of its
victim, and should the unlucky person
who has dared to frustrate him trust
himself to the water’s power he will
drown as sure as fate.
The Bohemian fisherman shrinks
from snatching a drowning man from
the waters, fearing the water demon
will take away his luck in fishing and
drown him before he gets to shore with
the would be victim. In Germany,
when some one is drowned, they say,
“The river spirit claims his yearly sac-
rifice,” or, “The Nix has taken him.”
The belief is current not alone in
those countries above mentioned, but
the Kamchatkans, rather than help a
man out of the water, would force him
under, and if he should escape to the
shore no one would‘ dare receive him
into his house or dare to give him food.
He is supposed to be dead after once
falling into the water.
TH E SARGASSO SEA.
A Wonderful Region In the Atlantic
\Vhich No- Man Has Explored.
The surface of the Sargasso sea seems
like a perfect meadow of seaweed It is
supposed that this enormous mass of
gulf weed may have been partly grown
at the bottom of the shallower parts of
the sea and partly torn from the shores
of Florida ‘and the Bahama islands by
the force of the gulf stream. It is then
swept around by the same agency into
the Sargasso . sea, where it lives and
propagates, floating freely in midooean.
And the store is ever increasing, both
by addition and propagation, so that the
meadow grows more and more compact,
and no doubt at the inner parts extends
to a considerable depth below the sur-
face.
Nor is this all, for at least two-thirds
of all the infinite flotsam which the gulf
stream carries along with it in its course
sooner or later finds a resting place in
the Sargasso sea. Here may be seen
huge trunks of trees torn from the for-
ests of Brazil by the waters of the Ama-
zon and floated down for out to sea until
they were caught and swept along by the
current ; logwood from Honduras, orange
trees from Florida,canoes and boats from
the islands, staved in. broken and bottom
upward ; wrecks and remains of all sorts
reaped from the rich harvest of the At-
lantic; whole kcels or skeletons of ruin-
ed ships, so covercd with barnacles,
shells and weeds that the original out—~
line is entirely lost to view, and here
and there a derelict ship, transformed
from a floating terrdr of the deep into a
mystery put. out of reach of man in a
museum oi unexplained enigmas.——
Chambers" Journal.
313::(ress of Style.
An article in a periodical calls atten-
tion to the. degree of M. S.—Mistress
of Style—as that most coveted by all
women, outranking, at least so far as
admiration is concerned, all the A. M. ’s.
and PhD. ’5. in existence. The statement
leads ack to the old query, Do college
girls and other women given to intellec-
tual exercise care for such mundane
‘matters as looks and clothing? It ma
safely be asserted that they do. There
may be no definite, outspoken “views”
upon the matter, but the principle that
a woman, to make the most of her op-
portunities, be they intellectual or other-
wise, must both look and dress just as
well as she Can is universal. Mrs. May
Wright Sewall herself wouldn’t dream
of facing he: national council in a last'
year’s bonnet. The day of the blue
stockinged and thick umbrellaed reform-
er is past. Both philanthropical and col-
lege women are nowadays as conspicuo
ous for grace of body as for grace of
mind—Chicago Post. ‘
His Logic.
Sunday School Boy—Isn’t there lots
of life in ginger, teacher?
‘ Teacheeres.
“And bread is supposed to be the
staff of life, teacher?”
“Yes, my boy. ”
“Well, then, it has occurred to me
that perhaps Methuselah lived on gin-
gerbread. ”—Tonkers Statesman.
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. After a man has pounded on the door
for half an hour it makes him feel pleae- -
ant to be asked by- his Wife if he wanh
to come in.—-Los Angeles Express.
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PICTURES AND EYES.
How to Adjust the Latter to Properly Ob-
' serve the Former.
The observer, in order to see a picture
to the best advantage, must adjust his
vision to that of the artist who produced
it. Most of us do this instinctively. Not
only do we select the best point of view
from which to observe a picture, but we
recede from the painting until the lights
and colors blend in just the right degree.
In addition to that many instinctively
pinch the eyes together, producing thus
a momentary astigmatism, such as the
artist had produced in his own eye, and
find the picture thus apparently im-
proved.
A most useful appliance for viewing
pictures is the so called stenopaic slit.
This is merely a slit one or two milli-
meters in width in a card or thin plate
of brass. Simple as this device is but
few persons are aware of how much it
adds to the eifect in viewing paintings,
as it allows the rays of light.in only
one meridian to pass through the cornea
of the observer. If he wishes to look at
a painting done by an artist whose
vision is normal, or nearly so, the ob-
server turns the slit around to correspond
with the meridian of his own best vision.
If, however, he looks at a picture in
which it is desirable to have overlapping
of the retinal images—at one where
the colors must be mixed in the eye, for
example—it is‘ necessary to rotate the
slit to another position, usually at right
angles to the first, and with this a can-
vas which before shoWed too clearly the
blotches of color now becomes blended
into a much more perfect whole.
I would recommend this simple de-
vice to any one, who has not already ex-
perimented with it. Thus, by adjusting
our own personal equation of eyesight
to that of the artist, we literally obtain
his point of view. The colors are height-
ened, the daubs blend and new beauties
appear. Instead of seeking, like our
friend mentioned at first, for “the
handiest way to get out of this ’ere
place, ” we are glad to stay longer to
study and to enjoy. Here, as every-
where, it is art and science together
that yield the richest result. If science
is allowed to be the interpreter, we may
gain a heightened enjoyment of art and
the artist a comforting increase of ap-
preciation—Lucien Howe, M. D., in
Popular Science Monthly.
STAMBULOFF’S SPIRIT.
Called the Bismarck of the Balkans Be-
cause of His Courage.
The late M. Stambulofi", ex-premier
of Bulgaria, used to be called “the
Bismarck of the Balkans.” One of his
most dramatic passages with Russia
occurred during the war with Servia.
Prince Alexander had gone out to lead
the Bulgarian army in person, leaving
M. Stambuloff in charge at home. It
was a clear day, with not a breath of
air stirring, and the roar of the cannon
was plainly heard in the city. M.
Stambulofl thought the Servians were
i winning the day. In their anxiety the
Bulgarian ministers applied to the Rus-
sian diplomatic agent for advice. That
gentleman shrugged his shoulders and
said it was no affair of his.
“But,” urged the Bulgarian minis-
ters, ”the Servians are’ almost at our
gates. You could stop them with a sin-
gle word, if you would.” “Yes, but-
that word will not be spoken. On one
condition only will I stop them, and
that is that your beggar of a prince
shall abdicatc at once.” “And that,”
thundered II. Stambuloif, “he will
not do. No, not for 20 Russias i”
With that M. Stambulofl sprang into
the saddle. and dashed away to the bat-
tlefield, while the Russian agent sent
to his friends to come to his house to
celebrate the defeat of the Bulgarian
armies. A few hours passed, and then
the Bulgarian foreign minister got a
telegram from M. Stambulofi, dated
on the field of bottle, telling of Prince
Alexander’s magnificent victory and of
the utter rout of the Servians.
tied with it to the house of the Russian
agent, arriving there in the midst of
the festivities. And when he told the
news the representative of the czar, it
is said, ground his teeth in rage—West—
minster Budget.
Questions of Health.
The popular notion that an athlete,
because of his athleticism, is a healthy
mm is a delusive one. Muscular devel-
opment is not an affair of the constitu-
ion. It is an accident. Strong limbs
and a weak heart are not infrequently
associat 3. Many a “strong man” dies
prematurely of consumption. If health
may be defined as a capacity for holding
on to life, then, in many cases, the
weaklings are the healthiest.
If such a definition is accurate, wom-
en are healthier than men. Their aver-
age lcngth of days is greater than ours.
But it is doubtful if centenarians, mere-
ly because they are centenarians, are the
healthiest. I knew a case of a woman
who recently died at the age of 105 who
was slightly paralyzed, even as a child,
and who was practically completely so
for more than 70 years. Could such a.
one have ever been correctly described
as healthy? It is as hard to say what life
is as to say what health is, and the way
in which unhealthy folks are tenacious
of life is not the least of the marvels.—
All the Year Round.
Cafl'eine.
Caffeine, the active principle of coffee,
was discovered by Runge in 1820. In a
pure state it takes the form of long silky
needles. In ordinary coffee it is present
to the extent of about 1 per cent, but
Java coffee contains 4.4, and Marti—
nique has as much as 6.4. It is said by
some chemists that caffeine in its essen-
tialities is identical with theine, the ac-
tive principle of tea. Chins affirms that
the inferior qualities of tea contain more
caifeine than the best commercial grades.
Snperfluous Formality.
”Sorry, madam, but you will have to
get somebody to_ identify you. ’.’
{The ideal Dcn’tyou see my name
right there on the check?”—Boston
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