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"SIcpv-" ouoth the one with the silver
locks,
"Sleep till the life ancw;
This flower is red for the blood you shed
In the strusgie of sixty-twb." i
"Sieep, quoth the maid witn a iroDD-ing
heart.
"Caressed by a swee'heart's tear;
For my love is there, *neath tiie roses fair,
On the grave of a Volunteer."
?HAVEZ.
Tjhe 3*lutomobJle SirL
Anothcr bright mctc-or fiasbcs across
The skies of this workaday world:
Of ali of the dazzlers shc soon will be
boss?
All rivais from ipowr will be hurled!
Ehe's trim as a 2-year-oid running on
graSS.
A pictuie from ftimmit to hrel?
Yhat fcaxless. intrepid American lass?
The glrl on the automobile.
Bhe handlrs the lcver with dellcate sklll,
Sits straight in her seat as a queen;
?he skims t'ne sniaoth levcls and scalcs
every hill
With eaae on her silent machine.
Ber eyes are a-sparkle with jolly delight,
Her song has a sllvery peal,
As onward she speeds in enjoyable flight,
The girl on the auiomobilc.
^fhe foliow she honors with place at her
side
To lake a spin over the strect
Sweils up like a toad on a Ior in his pride,
As stiffly he sits on the seat.
3Ie kn-ws he is stared at by all of his
ciowd.
Can pirture the er.vy they fee!
u"o see him enlhroned by that maiden so
DTOnd?
The g.r; on the autoxnobQe.
Te sweet 'eyeje fairies, with sklrts split
in twaln,
Tour It-ness is wanlng at la.st;
"5't- maldens who drive tuilk-ss horses,
your reign
Will 600n l?e a thlnjr of the past!
you long have been hcid as the crcam
of your sex;
Biit now in this new-fangled deal
ycu'il >:i?: the keen gaff in your beautiful
pecks
From the glrl on ihe automobile.
?Denver Evening Post.
ZPerfume SPart/es,
One of the Xenc>.t 1:1 eas That May
!Jeoi>tn? I'opular.
New ld??as for pjurtles are most wclcomc
fn tbese days, when we are all cravlng
for novel'Jcs that are not to be had. Book
teis have become suburban. flower teas
Bfave had their day; therefore, the pretty
fupe^stion inade by Sir Kdwin Arnold
should be hailfcd with delight by fanciful
hostessea. and some pretty conceits
rhou':d awahst us in the lovely sprlog
*ffernoonK. when we all like to surround
?ourse'-rea wi'.h all that is prettlest and
ifiatntiert.
The idea. of the author of "The Light of
Asia" comcs from the land of the almond
blossom. It is full of possibilities, and
has a deliciously Oriental touch about
it, for he proposes that hostesses should
adopt the Ko-Kwai, or perfume partj-of
Japan. One doubts if western folk are
imaginative and' -pimple enough to carry
it out completeiy. The surrnundings,
in the first placo, must be de'ieale, and
the hostess daintily clad. All tbe giiests
must cpnie frcsh from their bath, in their
newest and pretticst clothes; they must
have eaten no food and drunk no wines
or spirits of late; neither must the men
exhale the od'or of even the mildest cig
arette, and each must lay before the
bostess a perfumed sachet, the pariicular
odor of which the others must detcrmino,
a prize being given to the cne who
guesses the most correctly. *
It is to be feared tho western man
?would not be miich in evidence at these
partics. It would have to bo a hostess of
rare beauty or charm who could' inducc
all the men of her acquaintance to forego
smoking for practically a whole dav, and
Hvc on crysialized violets and ice wafers,
In order to bave the priviloffe of layang
sachet at her feet, and courting a hcad
a^he in an atmbsphere of musk and lotus
and' patchouli. However, new ideas are
so searce that the Ko-Kwai is surc to
be tried. It remains to be seen what we
make of it in the Wftst.?Chieago News.
Hoiv a German Princess is Brougbt Up
Tho Princess Victoria, the only daugfcter
of the ESmperor and Empress of Germany,
is being brought up in a homely Dutch
fashlon.
The Empcror said: "I could wish no
better for the men of my nation than
that the girls of Germany should follow
the example of rhe'r Empress and devote
their lives as she does, to the cultivation
Of the three great K's?Kirche, K'.nder
and Kuche." And it m.ay be readily un
derstood that a woman whose life Is bound
by church. children and kitcheh will
train her daugtaier in domestlc yirtues.
The little Princess knows not'ning of
pomp. luxury or self-indulgence. She
gets up at ? o'cloek in the morning, and
until 1 o'clock. the hour when the im
perlal famiiy d!nes, is btisy witfh her tu
tors. Her mind and body are carefully
watibed over by her moihor. Her play
hours are as systematicaliy arrar.gcd as
her study hr.urs. There were already six
sons when this littie daughter was born
to tlie house of Hotnenzollern and the
eoming of a baby sister was a happy
event/There is rowing on the lake with
her hrothcrs, r:di:ig on her pet pony,
p'enicking ir. the woods of the park. and
long botanlzlng expeditions with her moih
er as companion, through the beautiful
grounds that surround tlie palace at Pots
dam.
Princess Victoria has an intense love
for animals. She has pets of many kinds
?dogs. a bisr white cat. birds. fish, squir
r<-ls. and rabbits, and it is her daily delight
to feed them with her own hands. She
is a quiet, amiab'e. affectionate little
gir!, wltti much of her mothcr's sweetness
of nature.?Harper's Bazar.
?A Woman Lifts Her Lover."
So pure, so sweetly good she is, !'
So hopelessly above you!
WMte as a lily-bud she is?
Why should she ever love you?
Yct let this thought your sad heart stir.
A woman lifts her lover:
And you shall grow more like to her
While you're a-winning of her.
?May Century.
My Lady's Uijrlit llaiul.
In some of tho little thlngs of life wo
men are absurdly ignorant.
"I saw by a paper last wcek that a
colored woman was excluded from testify
in* ln court becauie she dldn't know her
-ight hand from her left, and w'as, there
fore, esteemed too ignorant for her evi
dence to he of any value." said an obser
vant Chicago man yesterday. "Now, do
you know I don't believe one woman out
of six knows her right from her left
without stopping to consider the matter?"
"I was standing in the foyer of a trea
tre the other day at a matinee watchins
the audience, mestly feminine, as it passed
in," writes a correspondent to the "Chi?
cago Chronicle." "Well. each maid handed
her check to the usher and he called
out, 'First door to the right,' or 'Second
door to the left,' as the case mhrht be.
W^ith [hardly an Jexception those rirls
turned in the wrong direction: then they'd
pause to consider, rxclaim: 'We're gomg
the wrong way.' and skurry hack as:am.
"This happened so often that I spoke
to the usher about it.
" 'They always do it,' he replied, iacon.
lcally. 'I usually point eo they'll know
the way, but .I've negleeted to do that
to?day. They're ail right if they stop to
thinlc but they nc-ver do think!
"I myself know an intelli.qent younsr
woman w-ho has to make a Iittle motion
as if she were writing with both hands
'before she can determine the right one,
and she declares that all her acquaintances
are affected in like manner, so. perhans,
this is a peneral feminine failing. and the
colored withess was unjustly excluded."
A portrait bust of Nathan Hale will
be erected in East BCadd'am, Conn., on
June 6th. the 200th anniversary of the
foundation of the town. Hale taught
school in East Haddam before the revo
lution. The bust will be placed on the
site of the old sehool-house.
"I <=ee by the paper that Doem Wright was declarcd 'not guilty'-by the jury."
"But he admitted his guilt upon the st and." _ .
"I know; but be is such a liar that non e of the jurymenbelieved. him% . .1...
J( Society Wfartyr.
Rustling brown of silk 'neath the foam of
old lace, . ' .,
A half-languid smlle upon each listless
face?
A dreamlng of roses and roseleaf shaaes?
A medley of modern and Grecian maids.
\ Such clatter and clink
Qn<; scarcely can think,'
Till he sples a shy nook where he lonely
can sink?
For how can a bachelor be at his ease
With such yariant emotions at afternoon
teas? i i
Fair Phyllis' gold lashes demurely east
down, I
Her face in sweet doubt 'twixt a smile
and a frown? ,
A venturesome rosebud o'ertopping tne
rest
Now lics all a-quiver upon her wnite
breast.
The curves of her neck?
Man's vows often wreck?
She has the whole world at her call and
her beck.
So how can a bachelor be at his ease
With such varient emotions at afternoon
teas?
Behind sheltering palms, safe from gos
sips' shurp gaze,
Is acted in inind one of life's dearcst
plays?
Sweet Bessie's brown eyes raiscd beseech.
ingly up.
Her lips just released from the kiss of her
CUip,
And Fred, I much fear,
From small sounds that I hear,
Is as boid as the rim of her cup?and as
near?
And how can a bachelor be at his ease
With such sights and such sounds at our
afternoon teas?
Shrewd maters watch Phyllis and Bessie
and Fred?
Each smile and each Icok and each toss
of the hcad?
And wonder and ponder and fisaire and
scheme,
While fbrtune and fashion 'gainst love
tip the beam,
For Bessie's dark locks
And Phyllis' smart frocks
Are but snares to entrap the society
fox.
Pray, how can a bachelor be at his ease
With such artful devices at afternoon
teas?
?Brown Magazine.
<jf Siemarkahle ffimg,
It Coiitains a Tiny Miisic Box and
Has u Paihet ic II istory.
| The most charmlng Iittle ring and ln
teresting iittle curio in the world is the
I propertv of Mr. Teinpie of Eondon. This
gentleman is a nephew of the celebrated
Sir Richard Temple, and the ring in ques
tion is a highly-prized old famliy heirioom.
Its history is pathetic and romantic in
the extremc.
I Inside of -.nis tiny eirciet of gold are the
! works of a perfect Iittle music box. You
touch a spring and hold the ring auite
I close to vour ear. Then you hear the
' sweetest, welrdest, tlniest Iittle tune.
which seems like a voice from syirit-land.
This ring was once in the possession of
one of Mr. Temple's ancestors, who lived
in France. He was a stanch royalist, and
in the davs of the revolution he valiantly
espoused the cause of the unfortunate
Louis and his lively, doomed queen, Marie
Antoinette. He was arrested and thrown
inio jail, where he lingered for days and
weeks.
One of his few pleasures in t'ne sloomy
solitude of his dreary dungeon was to
listen to the voice or tune of the Iittle
musical ring, which he always wore on
the thi'rd nnger of his left hand. He had
inherited it from his grandfa.tb.er, who
had it manufactured in Geneva at great
cost.
One day, sullen-faced mon, heavily arm.
ed, cameto his dark dungton and told him
he' must follow them. He knew that this
meant the guillotine. He stepned bravely
out to meet his fate. determined to die
liko an Eugiish gentleman and a brave
man. And he did.
A strange fancy took possession of him
just before they led him to t'ne block.
He touched the spring of his Iittle rinz
and lovingly held it to his ear. It sang
Its Iittle tune merrily and toriskly.
Then the signal came. He laid his head
on the guillotine which a few hours be?
fore had known the life blood of a
queen.
In the course of tims the Iittle rinz
fou'nd its way back to the Temple family,
but it was silent. Its present owner took
it to a London jeweler, who found in tho
musical mechanism a clot of blood that
for years had lain there and impeded
the working of the machinery.
This was removed. and the Iittle rir~
sings again the same Iittle tane that be
guiled the many sad hours of Its former
owner.?Chicago Times-Hera d.
Kmbiiri-assment ot* Richos.
Frcd'die?What do you mean by the
embarrassrhent of riches, dad?
Cobwigger?Well, my boy, I once heard
of a woman who had a. S25.0OO set of
dishes, and she was so afraid of the ser
' vants breaking them that she washed
them herself.?What-to-Eat.
Wido Opeii.
Miss Skreecher?I noticed that Dr. Brown,
who sat next to you. was quite intefested
in my singing last night.
Miss Peppery?I don't think it was your
singing. dear. He turned to me when you
had flnished and said: "I never miss an
opoortunity to study the tonsils: it's my
specially, you know^."? Philadelphia Press.
CDRRENT LITERATURE FOR BUSY
n h
iRS.
JAPANESE J0URNAL1SM.
It Has Been Fouml on Effective In-j
stritntent of Rcforin'.
However, there was one feature of Jap
anese life under the feudal regime which
was favorable to the establishment and
growth of journalism, says T. J. Naka
wa, in the Forum. Under the rule of the
teritorial lords, freedom of speech was
by no means tyrannically suppressed. As
a general rule, these nobles were care
fully educated from early youth in the j
doctrines of Confucius and Mencius. j
They were surrounded also by advisers? !
elders of the house as they was called? i
selected from among the ablest and most
experienced of their vassals. whose duty
it was to advise their masters upon nll
matters of importance. The system was
one calculated to impress upon the no
bleman a realization of the responsibil
ities of his position and a due respect
for the opinion of others. The study of
the politioai doctrines inculcated by Con?
fucius and Mencius did much to make
him liberal and tolerant; for although
China was in their day, as it is now,
an absolute monarchy, the political phi
1-osophy of the sages named was not by
any means moulded'in the same cast. On
the contrary, their sayings are full of a
genuinely democratic spirit. Mencius
goes so far as to declare that a dynasty
could, and should, eontinue so Iong only
as its line of action was acceptable to the
will of heaven?that is, to the peop'.e. He
said that such wise Emperors as Yao and
iShun did not disdain the suggestions of
peasants.
Now it is a curious fact that while
in China the sayings of these ancient
phiiosophers have been studied merely as
models of literary style, the tendency in
Japan has been toward the practical ap
plication of their teaehings. Small won
der, therefore, that education based up?
on such broad and liberal doctrines
should have caused Japanese feudal lords
not only to concede to their elders and
counselors the right freely to express
their views, but to encourage the same
freedom among vassals generally. Thus
in the samurai were fostered a frank
ness in the enunciati-on of his views and
a feelhig of responslbility for the welfare
of his master and of his feilows. In the
broader field of national aaffirs,
education, training and usages im
pressed upon the duty of re
drcssing the wrongs of fne people and
of erecting abuses of power, and when
journalism was introduced he found in
the vocation a natural and an effective
instrument of reform. This explains why,
at the inception of journalism enterpiise
in Japan. the letters were mostly of the
samurai class, and why the profession
itself was regarded as a most honorable
one.
Balzac, tho Prince of Kealists.
Balzac is the greatest French novelist.
One-third or one-half of the best French
novels are his, and from him dates nearly
all that is excellent in the theory and
practice of his successors. Since his day
the men who have done most for the art
of fiction in France, the men who have de
veloped it and kept it vital, have been his
disciples. 118 expressly formulated, and
nn many a page he iliustrated, an unim
peachabie doctrine of realism. Fidelity to
t'.ie truth as derived by aotual observation,
or caoable of being tested by observa?
tion?this. Balzac taught, is an indispensa
ble quaiity in a novelist. He is the great?
est French novelist, but wrote some of the
most inartistic books in all French litera
ture. He was the father of the realists;
yet, for many of his works his sons ara
tempted to disown him. Moreover, he
conceived and carried aut, to an astonlsh
;n? extent. the idea of representing in fic?
tion the life of his time in France. so that
no essential feature should ba laoking; and
he did all this in such wise that the pic
ture, though complete in almost every
feature?complete beyond praise and be
yond parallel in literature or any other
art?is a mere distortion of the truth!?
From "Balzac," by George McLean Har
per, in the May Scribner's.
Wireless Tdlesjrapliy.
Electricians used to the older methods
of telegiaphy, and business men inter
ested in them, are somewhat reluctant to
acknowlecige the possibilities of "wireless
telegraphy," just as gas engineers were
slow to believe iin electric lighting. It i?
'humian nature. LTnabie to deny that
Marconi has been successful in a meas?
ure, some te'.egraph engineers are dis
posed to limit the wireless telegraph to
short distances of a few miles, and say
it will only be useful for a coast commu
nicatlon to lightships, etc. Professor R.
A. Fessendcn, however, in the "Transla
tions of the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers," shows that Marconi's
law for the range of signalling, namely,
that it is proportional to tho product of
the heights of the verical wlres used at
the sending and receiving stations, has a
rational basis, and, therefore. with high
enough sending and receiving wires, as
well as powerful sparks, and slight im
provements in the apparatus. the range
might t>e carried to a thousand miles or
more.?Lond'on Globe.
Fclipsn of Siiii Comes from the Wes t
Move eastward, hapy earth. and leave
Ton orange sunset waning slow;
From fringes of the faded eve,
O happy planet, eastward go.
The eastward motion of the earth it is
which gives an apparent westward
progress to the sun. "When we are on
a moving train, going eastward, all the
trees and fixed' objects seem to fiy west?
ward as we pass them. The moon moves
eastward with the earth, but the shadow
of the inovlng moon, cast on the -moving
earth, traverses the earth's surface from
west to east, and so any eciipse of the
sun by the moon will be visible earlier
in the west than the east. We. north of
jhe equinoctial, must view?mentaliy, at
least?celestial objects with our' faces
tsouthward. Locating in this way the
sun, moon and earth, and remembering
the direction of the reai motion of the
two planets, we shall see that a solar
eolipse must be first visible in or proceed
from the west and a lunar one from. the
east.?New Eippineott. ? >
Mark Twain's Datcsr.
Mark Twain has been living quietly in
England for some time now. and were
it not that he appeared to give evidence
befora a royal commission on tho question
of copyright, scarcely a soul outside his
privata and particular friends would have
known ihe was there at all. The other
evening ho was dining at the house of
a friend, and seated next to him was an
American, who had only that day reached
England. They were, of course, talking
war, and the newcomer, wishing to know
the feeiing in England. in the matter of
the future of the Transvaal. asked Mark
Twain how he found public sentiment in
England regarding the independence of
the republics.
"Well," said the genial humorist, "I
find the English are parapbrasing a part
of the bvrial ser\iee. They are all quietly
repeating. 'Mr. Gladstone giveth and the
Eord Salisbury hath taken away. Blessed"
be tho name of the Lord.' "?Saturday
Evening Post.
[Our First Intermitioiial Marriairo.
Some people are giving to thinking that
the Engllshman's predilection for the
American girl is a recentiy developed
passion. Such Is by no means the case.
If American visitors should care to see
? portrait in oi's of one of ' the ven
first American .giTls to catch an English
man of position. let 'tham journey to
Boonton Hall in the County of Norfolk,
ttie hall 'tha't was in fofmer days the seat
of the Rolfe family. In this hall hangs a
portrait by B*e Passe of a handsome
young woman. with hi^h chcekbones,
and complexion splendidly swurthy.
vAiround this portrait are the words
Matoaka Rebecka, fllfa potentis Princo
Powhatanl Imp. Virginiae, and on a
space below the portrait are these words,
"Matoaka, alias -Rebecka. daughter of
the mighty Prince Powhatanl, Emperor
of Attanough Komouck of Virginia: a
Christian convert. and married to the
Worshipful Mr. Thomas Rolff. Aged 21.
1616." This portrait of the far-famed
Princess Pocahontits was palnted but a.
few weeks betcre she died on b-oard a
ship about. to sail for America. She was
buried in the parish church of Graves
end, at the mouth of the river Thames,
and to this day the curious can see
the following cntry in the parish reg
ister: "161t5. JVIarch 21. Rebecca Wrolfe,
wife of Thomas Wrolfe. gent, a Virginia
lady born. was buried here in the chaun
cell." Unfortunately the original ediflce
was burnt down a century ago. othcrwise
Americans could now look upon the tomb
of the first American girl who took an
Er.srlish husband.?Saturday Evening
Post.
The Bacheior in the "Wood.
Beauty I trod, who trod in bridal woods
A midnisrht galaxy of violets,
A milky way of fiushed spring beauties,
starred
With pleiades of all goldcn addertongue?
How couid that blossomed rlre be else
than this,
The height of a woman's ankle in the
wood?
Passion I breathed, who found all air a
harp
To passionate brown thrushes shaken
and thrilled,
The pauses in that magic mlnistrelsy
Filled with a music's echo of cardinals?
How could that warbled fire be else than
this.
The height of a woman's lips within the
-wood?
But love, but love, (how shall I find it
here,
O April. Aphrodite, hers alonc?
Those seml the bees to find their s'ster
fiowers.
These sing unto their mates; but love, my
love?
Is It where the hawk faangs on the moving
cloud,
Tne height of a woman's heart above
the wood?
?Joseph Russell Taylor, in the Atlantic.
Hnmc Iiife in Porto Itico,
To one unaccustomed to tropical condi
tions, the furnishing of the Porto Rican
home would at first sight seem meagre,
bnt it is quite ample. A short residence
will demonstrate that nearly 500 years of
experience with the unpleasant features of
life in the West Indies have been crowned
by a survival of the fittest in house-fur
nishing as in other matters.
Austrian bemt-wood furniture and also
wicker-work and willow-ware, constitute
the main equipment of the parlors and
llving rooms. Upholstered furniture is un
known and undesired, Iittle or no attemn,t
being made at decoration except in the
matter of cmbroidery and fine hand
macle lace work. Hundreds of yards of
crochet work are used in the embellishment
of a single canopied bed. This work is tha
chlef delight of the Porto Rican house
wife.
The walls are for the most part bare,
but here and there a painting of merlt
may be seen. The sofa pillow is the one
great feature of ithe home; it is every
where, in every concelvable size; shape
and material. Ferns of gigantic size and
exquisite formatinn, as well as broad
spreading palm leaves, are used to festoon
t'ne walls and arched doorways. Cut fresh
from day to day, they render the dark.
cool rooms inviting and attractive. rotted
tropical plants in great variety abound
within and without the house.?Harper's
Bazar.
Konie's Birthday.
An American pilgrim writes fpom Rome:
"Coming down to breakfast the other
morning I found a most orignal and charm?
lng invitation to the festivaj of the Eudi
Seculares (Fete of the Change of the
Century), which this year wa3 united to
'the fete always given on Romt's birthday.
The invitation was an exact reproduction
of the description of the. Ludi Seculares of
737 A. D., cut in marbie, now preserved
in the Diocietian Museum, after having
been discovered at Ceri in 1S73. and is one
of the chief documertts proving that Rome
was founded on April 21st. So curious a
festival was not to be overlooked. espe
cially as no one new llving is likeiy to
see another. The weather magniricent,
and as I stood at the top of ithe steep
flight of eteps which led into the Forum
Romanum the scene was soul-stirring;
below lay the monuments of many ages,
their rough edges softened by cllnglng
green things, and clumps of tmperial pur
ple iris, which positively glowed in the
sun. As the king and queen slowly de
sceraded the steps 'they beeame, for mo,
Augustus and the Empre3S Livia, the
ruined temples were rebuilt, the groups
of students wero toga-clad youths. and he
who recited the Carmen Secuiare was Hor
ace himself. Queen Margherita made tha
circuit of the Forum, and even here more
modern contrasts were not wanting, for,
as Horace's invocation to Alme Sol ros'e
on the Roman air, the door nf a mor.as
terv which abuts on the Forum was
thrown open and a young Dominiean monk
clad in white, stood motionless. looking
down on the fair Queen of Italy, which
forbidden glimpse may well have cost him
a severe penance. The queen was dra^ed
in fairy-like garments of gray, so pale
as to look white in the distance, with n3r
row black lace laid on in a pattern, and a
cape to match. She looked the incarnation
of spring, while the king. martial in bear
ing, stood for winter with his long white
mustache and gray hair."
The Daffodils.
Long, long ago, when this old world was
young,
Before first thrushes on first blossoms
swung;
While yet Night reigned, In fragrance soft
and still,
O'er all the world there crept a *ubtle
thrill;
Strange. steady, strong it came apace,
and Night.
Affrighted, rled fcefo.-e the triumphant
Light.
And where the Sun's first kisses touched
the hills.
There sprang and grew the golden daffo?
dils.
?Gladys Hyatt. in Truth.
Ihsen's Piays in Paris.
"But Ibsen is a dramatist; so far as
mcra dramaturgic skiU goes, he is one
of the greates: of all dramatists. Al
most every one of his social dramas
has been performeS in Paris: and even
though some of them have been acted but
two or three times, still they have been
seen on the stage?the only true proving
ground of genuine dramatist's work.
Few of these plays really pleased the
Parisians,?and why should they? Ib?
sen is not Gallic. but very Scandinavian;
he is not at all gay. indeed he is austere.
But atter they had seen a certain num?
ber of these Scandinavian austerities.
they came away dissatist'led with the
ordinary Parisian play. However, inac
c^ptable their ethlcal code may seem
sometimes to us Anglo-Saxons. the
Frenc-h are mora'.ists to the marrow;
and what they seek on the stage is *a
piejtme of life-^which 13 alao a judgraent.*
They may not have recognlzed the pic
turc of life to which Ibscn caiied their
attention. and they may have refused to
accept his jndgment on the case pr '-?"?;
ted; but they could not but see wfcera
Ibsen had set a higher standard, cthica.
ly and* aesthetical'.y, than their own hi
ter dramatists.'*?vBrander Matthew*. ln
the Internationel Monthiy.
The Heltosrapb War.
Before the war of 1*70-71. optical te!e
graphy comprised signallr.g b7 means o?
Xiag3 iy day, and by means of lanterr.3
or torch.es by night; but in that war tha
holiograph proved its efficiency. The elec
tric light was at once suggestcd to mako
the system independent of sunshine and
fair weather. but the diffleulty of hax
ing it on hand in the fi'eld was then too
great. so other sources of light (such a3
improved petroleum lamps) were used.
England. however. adbered to the helio
graph. and had great success in its u??
in India and in South Africa. in some
cases for distances of more than 1C4
miles. Ordinarily. however, the helio
graph, using as it does the sun's raya
as the source of light, is limlted to a
range of about 43 miics; btit by means
of relay stations, it can, ot" course. b?
used to much greater distances. How?
ever, in the >field such relay statio-s ar?
iiable to interruption by the cn^my's cav
alry, the messages can often be intercep
ted at certa'm points by interposing a
cloud of smoke mada by burning brush
or damp straw. and. flnally, the numbot
of repetitions incrcases the chance3 ot
error. The elsctric are light is far mors
efflcient, is independent of the weathar
and can be used by night as well as by
day. By its means the range h-as been
extended to more than four hundred rni'.es.
In the Transvaal war the British mada
us,-> for this purpose of the electrlc search
lights from tha ships, and thi3 was, In
deed, the only means of enmmunication
with the external world relied upon pv
tha beseised garrisons of Ladysmith afru.
Kimberley.?Enginecring Magazine.
Friends.
This love demands too much, ma
thinks?
Too much of strivlng and unrest,
Too many blows for scanty bliss,
Too much dcpend\?nt on a klss,
Too much conceaied, too much con
fessed.
One wearies of a ccaseless glare?
Give me your friendship"s shadowing,
The knowledga of a sympathy
And confidence that may not be
Distorted by a little thing.
Tet. let ours be the gentler way.
The level eyes. the steady hand;
Not love that bloweth hot or cold?
One craveth peace as one grow? old?
Let us be wise and understand.
?Thendore Pickering Garrison, in New
| Engiand Magazine.
Masical Possibtlities in Poe's Poem-.
"Music runs throughout Poe's poetry. 1:
is the first thing that s:rik.-s the ear.
Louis E. Van Norman, in a r al fresa
on Too and His Poetics,' said: 'It is not
surprising that this is so. for be i> rtieved
the musical element to ba the very soul
of verse. It is to be resrettcd that Amer?
ican musicians have overlonked Poe in
their lyric and operatic compositlons. The
poems"of Poe are a tield of fresh. untrod
den Iyrical beauty. Euphony, forcible dic
t:on, rhythmie flow, Inti lilgibUity, the tyric
and dramatic spirit?all the nuauttes nee
essary for descriptive music are presen: in
their perfection. What a grand, weird.
soul-stirring opera or oratorio could oa
built up around "The Raven" as a central
thame. if there were only sohie American
\V:i'-ner to call forth th.j music!" Le-gh
Irvine. in a recent numher of "The Coming
Age.* echoas the same tdea v,h?n he speaks
of Poe's 'alllterative meiodies.' Siys Mr.
Irvir.e: "Poe viewed r.o-;-try througfa tha
eye of art. He studied effi ts and trtain
ed them. He wrote with elocution in
visw, as the actor studiea his art lie
wrote for tlie heart. He was a:i actor, in
tha rolo of the poer, and had an ^fn=9
nature born to retlize the dramatic' "?
Staniey Schell, in "Werner's Magazine."
Tho Jowcilcl >'ap "i' France.
This Russian map (presented to France
by the- Czar) ought to hang, not at tha
Louvre, but in the New Jerusalero, as de
scribed in the Apocaiypse. The list of the
gems tnarking the second and third-rato
towns seems borrowefi from tha: of tha
f.v.tndation stones given by t'aa Seer of
Patmos. There was no diamond in tha
New Jerusalem; there i; a vt-ry I?.rga
one?Iarger than a Mazarin diamond?ia
the map. It represents Paris. Was not
this a sweet compiiment to the brillianl
capital?Ia Vilie Lumlere? Each d^part
ment is figured by a jasper of a petulial
hue, and the Department of the Satne Dy
an inkish one that can ao longer ba founi
in the market. The big diamond Is r.ot
anything like so precious as the pink jas?
per surroundh;g it. Rlch and rare gerai
stand for all the towns of importance. and
are set In gold. Tha whole thing?a yard
square?has a curious clolssone appaarance.
I hear that the Grand Ducbess Helena,
siater-in-Iaw of Nlchol.is I.. stive a simi
lar map to tha Czareviich Xlcholas. uncla
of tha present Czar. But it was of Fin
land only. Sapphires represented tfaa Iakes.
Ho-.vever, it was not to be eompare.t in
workmanship and sizc to tba on-1 pro'serited
to M. Loubet, and contalnel or.:>- twenty
varieties of stones. The map ?.: Fran ?.
between depar'tmnnts ar.d towns. contatna
nearly 200 varieties, all found in SiberU.
The exactness of tha ma;> exceeds, p-r
hup3, any of the German War Office. Tna
narnes are in Inlaid poid and the rivers in
platinum. Every stona Is Strraly secured
by its gold setting. Tbls singuiar toy for
Marianna is to hang in the Salle des Etats
at the Louvre. The agate r-presenting AI
sace takes a greenish tir.ge. Gr?*en is tha
color, you know, of hjpe. All tha outly
ing frontier States and the ^aas thit waab
the coast of Fran^ e are in a^ates of dif
ferent shades.?Paris Correspondence Lon
dou Truth. .
A Japaneso on Books tVbaaC Japan.
Now the making of bookd on Japan and
things Japanese is a fa.-nionabla buaineii
in the West, and sense and fashion ds
not seem to go togethe-r nlways. Tragedy
co:nes when one takes nonstnse seriou3ly;
the penalty of tiic lack of humor Is ?
very sad thing. The "illka ? >" and?whica
is worse?Piarre Dotl's "Madame Chrysan
theme" oh, dear: v.r tt . ive you doaa _tha<
you should be ?: ?:?'. '? to take thesa
things seriously? "Why, the -llikadi-? w?
all know that it is a cf>>n:c ??: ??ral" you
teil me. All that does not. howavor. sre
vent you from basing. unconsdoualy n?
doubt, much of your ideas of Japan upoi
it.
There is a vast daal of humor? that Is.
for the Japanose?to wateh tha West
sit down to th.) feast gi ealightenmeat
served by a three-morth--in-a-trea:y-por<
authority on things Japanese. Mora en
tertaining stQl. when it pays a goodly
sum and receives. in its dusty humlliation.
a romance ("Madame Butterfiy," foi
examole) publi^hed between the dignlfled
covers of a hlgh-priced monthiy, and?
takes it seriously.
1 am a Japanese. 3nd naturally. I know
r.othing of Japan?rthat is txue. And rt Ia
simply and nutraiceously absurb for me to
"sit in judgmen: over the enlightened
Ijudges from abroad-and heaven forbid
that I shall ever be gullty of such a
thing! At the same time I m iy perhaps be
allowed to ba amused. may I not? For
i what could you do but lau?rh if the most
j excellent Mr. Frank R. Stockton were
citad as the authority on the construetion
of th> tv>ttte-ship? or Mr. W. D. H^wells
on the tnfluenco of sun-spots on ths* mag
netlc storms of the earth??Adachl Kiaao
suke in the May CrlUc _ ^_