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Prince Vortlgern—go run the ancient tales—
A stronghold sought to build In wildest Wales;
But some fell power frustrated each essay, .
And nightly wrecked the labors of the day;
Till Merlin came, and, bade the builders all,
Beneath tlje escarp’d and pjany-bnstloned wall,
'Dig deep; and 10, two dragons, o'er whose lair
Nothing secure might rise, lay sleeping there.
Search the foundations, you that build a state;
For If the dragon forms of Wrath and Hate
Lie colled below, and darkly bide their hour.
Fear walks the rampart. Fear ascends the tower.
And let It not content you that they sleep;
Drive them with strong enchantments to the deep.
First of such charms is Perfect Justice; then
Comes the heart's word that conquers beasts and men
No other craft shall serve—no spells but these
Drive the old dragons to the whelming seas.
—Saturday Review.
Their Grewsome Bridesmaid
Eoia.r; HAYDEN was really no
((57 such great villain after all.
Put baldly, he had merely
flirted with a girl of a lower position
In life than his own, and left her. Yet
circumstances and the girl had be
fore long made the affair seem a heart
less tragedy, and for two miserable
years George Hayden had been haunt
ed by it
There was no doubt that he had
made love, generally with gay_ non
chalance, occasionally with fervor, to
Kate Moon, of Mossdyke farm.
It was during that summer when he
was off Ashing in Devon, and the
.weather was beyond reproach—except
for Ashing. The trout would not bite,
And Kate Moon was beautiful, tall and
1 black haired, with a complexion of the
proverbial Devon milk and roses; a
I magnificent, passionate, impulsive girl.
It was an artistic pleasure to him to
see her coming toward him in her lilac
cotton gown—she Always wore lilac
cotton gowns unlike any one else's, full
gathered and dainty, with a bordering
of palest pink around hem and waist;
the effect was one of lavender and
roses.
It was when- the rector came back
after his holiday, bringing with him his
sister, his niece and—quite by colncl-
® .<1 t a
Kw i ' -
i/gWI --
•“TELL HEU ABOUT ME AND SEB WHAT
• she’ll say."
•deuce—a college friend of Hayden,
that mischief began, and it began
without delay, for the college friend
recognizing Hayden in the village, in
troduced him to the rectory party, and
Hayden promptly fell tn love, gen
uinely this time, with Sybil Dove, the
rector's niece.
It did not take Kate Moon long,
■either, to see her doom.
Hayden, It Is true, was a little trou
bled at first, but that was merely an
noyance with himself for the careless
way In which he had talked love—
“desecrated,” he called it—but he did
not dream of the manner in which
Kate would take it.
No one but Hayden and Kate her
self knew of that terrible night of re
erbuination when the moon shone
down on the final meeting in Dalllng
wood.
By the next night Hayden had left
The village; by the next Sunday Kate
Moon had left the world; she had
drowned herself In the river—the pret
ty river where the trout had fought
ahoy of Hayden’s rod and line.
And Hayden began that terrible two
years with the sight of the girl con
stantly before bls eyes, In her lilac
gown, with the rose-pink bands about
her waist and hem, and with her last
words in bis ears. ,
••Tell her about ine, and see what
abe’ll say of your love! Tell her, I say,
or I’ll curse you to your very marriage
day!—aye. to your very deathbed; I’ll
walk and sit and stand between you,
and you shall never bide In peace!"
Then what had seemed but a sum
mer’s flirtation shocked Hayden ns a
heartless tragedy, and grew and grew
into bls life till he became to.bimsplf
a sort of banned wanderer.
About two years Inter Hnyden met
Sybil Dove in Rome, and for the first
time tlie wretched tragedy became less
important, amj his heart leaped. He
could see, too, that Sybil was happy to
nm^t him.
For weeks he sunned himself In joy,
and tried to banish Kate. Then one
d iy he faced the ghost and reasoned
with himself in a logical, sensible man
ner, and his state of mind became more
normal, and he asked himself why he
should not be happy.
tap ruing, on the bill, he broke
Inlaw nfit love words he bad uttered
ataee^e willed with Kate by the
SMvonthlre river.
“I love you!” he cried out. ns he and
Sybil sat resting in the noonday.
“Sybil, I can’t live without you! I
have hungered for you since I Arst
met you two years ago!”
“I love you. too!” she said, simply,
when she could And voice. And Hay
den held her in bls arms for a raptur
ous moment.
When he glanced up, his arms still
about her, a girl was passing along the
hill below—a dark-haired girl, In a
JiltWt gown.’ It was, of'cod^se, mrfely^
s coincidence.
Hayden shivered and loosed his
clasp. The old haunted feeling bad
returned. He had an impulse to tell
Sybil the whole wretched S^ory, but it
would be a gloomy beginning tp the
first hour of his new happiness. JJp
sides which, Mrs. Dove came into sikht
at the moment
Those were strange months, those
months of engagement.' There were
hours when both Hayden atiil Sybil
were wildly gay; but agtin there were
hours when a <jlond hung over them,
when something seemed to be between
them, checking their words as if a
third person were listening.
In himself Hayden could under
stand the feeling, for even now, spite
of argument spite of happy future, he
could not throw off the recollection of
Kate Moon and her despair. But the
same mood in Sybil he could not un
derstand. Was the drowned girl al
ways to be between them? Hayden
groaned.
“Tell her, I say, tell her, or "
In desperation Hayden caught up
his hat “I’ll stroll down to the
church," he muttered hastily the
evening before the wedding, after
hours of gloom In which he had seen
ths dead girl walking between him
self and his living bride. "I’ll see how
the decorations are getting on."
It was a lovely old building of gray
stone, far famed for its many windows
of stained glass, which in a close line
told In rich purples and crimsons the
story of Joseph and bls brethren.
One or two gardeners were busy nt
the choir stalls; some girls talking In
subdued tones were garlanding a pil
lar. Hayden watched their deftness.
Then with a tender Impulse he turned
bls eyes to the altar, where he would
kneel to-morrow beside
A sudden horror clutched him, the
blood surged within him and deaf
ened him. Bending at the altar step
was a dark-balred figure In a Iliac
gown with a pink band across the
bem. •
Hayden groped with his hand, and,
clutching a pew door, closed his eyes
In a despairing faintness. His bond
age was to be relentless.
When he looked again the figure
wqs gone. The girls at the pillar bad
turned from their work to speak to
another. Unseen in his misery, Hay
den stole out at the porch, stunned
and cold in the sunshine.
Hayden never forgot the night which
followed, as he lay, unnerved and
hopeless, waiting for his wedding day,
and facing In all their details the two
years past and the many years to
come, from the day when he .bad
played a summer’s game with the
heart of a girl to all the days when he
should live close to the girl he loved,
and feel himself a murderer.
Toward morning he began to take a
more ordinary view of the matter.
This was bls wedding day—sunny,
happy, glorious. He had been in an
excited, unnatural state of mind yes
terday. He bad brooded so long that
bls remorse was abnormal.
“The prettiest wedding the village
had ever seen," the people said after
ward. The pews were packed and n
subdued buzz of comment played
about Hayden’s ears as he waited.
He bad not allowed himself much
time to kill; but, supported by bls
best man. be took bls place about five
minutes before the bride was expect
ed. Ho determined to throw off use
less self-reproaches and do his best in
the future.
The brightly colored crowd was an
undlstingulshable . whole to him; but
at the end of the aisle was a shaft of
brilliant light; it streamed through
the porch, and into and through it
walked n double Une of beauty.
They came on In the^ttnsblne and
baited till the end of the lines was In
side the door, then they widened the
space between them and lined the
lower half of the little aisle;
The smile on Haydep’s face snapped
off as suddenly as If struck by a
baud; his -attires became stiff and
ashen-colored; a roar seemed to t*
filling the church and hurting htt
brain, the building itself heaved about
him. ;
But the figure on which his eye had
first smilingly rested stood motionless.
She stood nearest to him, as first
bridesmaid, her back slightly turned;
a drooping hat almost hid her fea
tures. but she was dark haired and
splendidly poised, and her gown was
of lilac with a pink band about the
hem! Lilac, among the white gowns
beside her!
Then he felt a hand grip his arm
firmly. “Keep up. old man, she's com
ing.” some one said.
Then a bush, then a stir filled the
church, and between the waiting
bridesmaids, shutting from his sight
that terrifying form, enmo Sybil to
ward him; and chilled, horror-filled,
as one in a dream, he stepped to meet
her.
“Tell her. I say, tell her—" was in
his ears as the marriage service began.
A strange vow mingled with -Hay
den's marriage vows. “Tell her?" “I
will.” “I will.” “I vow it"
There was no lilac gown among the
bridesmaids surrounding her when he
■ took her away. He could see no one
like Kate Moon.
But he told Sybil all the story as
they drove! toward their new life;
and she listened with flushed, averted
cheek.
But whfn be had finished, and a
moment's silence like a cbneTete block
ot despair had -followed, she turned to
him mid wept upon hU shoulder. And'
“How you tnust both havi- suffered!’*
were her first sobbing words.
But because BhP was frigfitenetf by
the now wTffertng thetemug ot tho'
tale ha£ jPOSt hjrp, §he did not saytjiq^,
sh^hnd known the story ail along, nnd
that the s^lejjgp liaddieen MMimaveac-
Ing ghost bej ivl'«n tlftm.'' J . A f
One day. Jung after, '.wl,fn Haydiv?
and dig vtife Htfollqd into th» old
church,* hj ts cflTlofls thing. '
Sybil had walked toward the chancel
while Hayden halted by the door, and
"ns sho stood a moment In the aisle he
bn if het- white goWn turn to lilac in the
'^unlight, and a band of rose-color fell
across the hem.
For a moment the blood flushed into
his face, and all the miserable past
rose before him.
Then, as he looked, Sybil moved for
ward and her gown was white again—
and again as she moved it was
splashed with color.
Then in swift enlightenment be 1
looked up at the famous windowed
story of Joseph and he understood.
"It was all for the best, though," he
said to himself at last, nnd in unutter
nble relief he followed his wife and
stood again beside her before the
altar.—Utica Globe.
MEDICINAL VIRTUES OF FISH.
Carp and' the Tench Are Valuable as
Curatives.
Fishing literature, prior to the days
and writings of Izaak Walton, opens
up points of Interest which are unique,
says the Brooklyn Eagle. Not the least
interesting are the constant references
cf the early writers to the medical vir
tues of fish. Of course, many of the
salt and fresh water fishes mentioned
by the old writers are not recognized
by the writers of to day, but the fresh
water perch, carp, tench and eel are
yet recognized, and It is In connection
with these fish that some of the quaint
est ideas as to their medical virtues
has prevailed.
In the art of healing the carp plays
a respectable part One old writer
speaks ot the fat of the carp as be
ing of miraculous powers for the alle
viation of “hot rheumatism." The
manner of Its application was by fre
quent’ rubbing on tue painful part, and
the effect was said to be eminently
mollifying and salutary. The trian
gular bones in the throat of the carp,
on being ground to a powder and.ap
plied to a wound or bleeding nose,
were said to art as styptic. The gall
was also said to have been used for
sore eyes and “above the eyes,” says
an old Esculaplus, “two little bones
exist, semi Cinculdr in shape, which
are diligently preserved by noble fe
males against the lunatical disease."
The eel has also a respectable med
ical history. Members ot the profes
sion from Galen to the present day
recommend it Hippocrates, however,
makes this exception: "This food is
forbidden in tabes and diseased
spleen." Galen prescribed it in ne
phritis. The monks of Salerno held
the eel In abhorrence. They say, ac
cording to Dr. Badham, in tnelr dietet
ic code, “to live on eels Is a sure reci
pe for spoiling the voice.” Pliny also
held this opinion, but says also, “sin
gular they_nre bolden to be to cleanse
the humors, either cholerlck or phleg
matlc, likewise, to cure the infirm
ities of the spleen, and only that they
be hurtful to the throat and make a
man to lose his voice—they be harm
less enow.”
Facing the Future.
"What is baby’s name?’ asked the
graciously condescending young wom
an.
"Hlb name is Flyin’ Machine Jack
son,” was the colored mother's reply.
"How did you come to give him such
an extraordinary name?"
"Well, you see dat chile takes after
his father an’ I wanted to give him a
name dat were gwlne to be appropri
ate, An' every time anybody mentions
•flyln' machine' dey say it’s Bumpin'
dat positively refuses to work."—
Washington Star.
Can Claim Damage.
In Mexico the family of a dead duel
ist can claim support from the person
who shot him.
The masculine idea of an intellectu
al woman is the one who is as thin as
a matet .•'nd wears glasses.
O^ITORIAISM
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
Official Corruption.
it* great Governments and the great municipal
itles of the world have a problem before them
J which as yet they have not fairly faced, but
m gagas " hich they must face If they are to make sure
in times of emergency of the efficiency ot their
agents. The growing hunger for money as the
one absolute condition ot endurable life, the
Increasing severity of the competition for great contracts,
and the decaying abhorrence of suicide all tend to the de
velopment ot “corruption" in Its official sense, that Is. of
bribe-taking by officials, and of stealing from State and
municipal departments. No form of government seems to
protect the nations from It We have less of it than most
countries, because under our social conditions the class
which really governs has been taught from early childhood
to regard biTbe-taklng as a worse dishonor even than cheat
ing at cards, and because those who suffer are absolutely
free to complain; but even here, when the Government is
forced to spend millions suddenly, rings are formed to get
some of that money, and the taxpayer is fleeced through
preposterous charges and Illicit commissions. • • •
It te a great blot on modern civilization, which.in many
respects 'depends upon eUI.-lenpy for success. Efficiency and
tolruptlon are.4vhoßy lheomt>atlble. Borne think that cor
ruption produces only waste,'ami that they can bear waste;
but that is a false view. Corruption, in the first place,
•Treats the employment of the best men in leading posi
tions, for the^wboje energy of the corrupt Is devoted to
preventing tholr promotion, or If fhey are promoted, to
j-endering their'positions yntennble. In- the second place,
^corruption makes energetic admlnistratipn nearly impossl
ible, for no Government ever loses the hope of preventing
^t; and to prevent*lt most of them apply an infinity of
'■“checks," every one of which occupies part of the time of
the executive officer, and Increases tha. load of response
blllty under which at last ho dare do nothing without pre
vious sanction. And, In the third place» corruption Is not
only fatal to the very Idea of duty, bpt to the habit of
performing It
A perfect remedy for corruption Is h.-frd to find, because
It requires a chauge In the motives of -the corrupt which
Governments cannot produce, and which society will not be
at the pains to encourage' effectively; but two or three
palliatives might at least be tried. One is to protect those
who complain. Another Is to pay all those who have any
thlng whatever to do wttii contracts at least decently, a rule
often neglected in tlie Case of the experienced but subor
dinate men upon whose Judgment their less experienced
superiors in matters of business compelled to rely. And a
third is to declare bribe-giving and bribe-receiving a form of
treason severely punishable whenever it is proved.—London
Sped ip"
Social Gravitation.
F ■ ’ 7 : 11. census proves Incontestably Un. . i,.
Tot population cityward reached its maximum
some years ago, and lias begun to recede. Some
one has said: “Hereafter the city and the coun
try will march side by side, with even step."
BQUE® Even this Is hnrdly probable. The change of
drift Is owing to economical conditions that
will continue strongly to favor the country. Population
will still move out and differentiate from the masses. In
tact, the coming deal seems to be rather an evenly dis
tributed suburbanism, covering the whole country; while
the cities will remain as ganglia. Following this ideal the
city will grow more country-llke, while the country will
steadily acquire those privileges which have heretofore be
longed to the city.
According to a recent census bulletin, 159 towns show
an Increase of 32 per cent during the last ten years, which
Is about the average of the Increase of the whole country.
The relative gain ot cities from 1880 to 1890 was from 22
to 29 per cent —or 7 per cent positive increase—but from
1890 to 1900 this Increase was only about 2% per cent.
This tells the story with accuracy. It does not warrant us
In assuming that cities will cease to grow, but that rela
tively they will cease to grow gs fast as the country. • • •
A potent cause for depopulating the country came tn with
Improved machinery. Farm work eould be done with few
er hands. A single reaper would replace ten men. Costly
machinery could be profitably used only on large fgrms,
yet a single reaper might serve a dozen small farm owners
| GREAT AGRICULTURAL DISCOVERY |
Four-fifths of.'every breath of air
which the lungs Inhale is pure nitro
gen. It is one of the commonest of
the elements. And yet. says a writer
In Harper's Monthly, it Is the one tMng
for the lack of which wheat fields,
cotton fields and corn fields are aban
doned ns “worn out " because It is the
most expensive plant food for man to
supply to the soil, and one which most
plants are unnble to absorb in its pure
state from the air. To remedy tlds
the Department of Agriculture qt
Washington Is preparing to distribute
among farmers a substance resembling
compressed yeast, which will raise, not
bread, but crops; for when applied
to certain plants It will enable them
to take abundant nitrogen from the at
mosphere. The "yeast" Is really a
mass of germs, which bld fair to be
come most efficient gardeners.
It has long been known that clover
and other leguminous crops flourish In
“worn-out” soil, and when plowed Into
It partially restore the fertility of it.
Studying this phenomenon, scientists
have found that in such a soil the
plants have nodules, little bunches or
swellings, on their roots, which they
do not have when grown elsewhere.
These nodules are formed by bacteria
called radiocola.
Professor Nobbe, a German Investi
gator, found that lupines which bad
the jiodules would grow In soil devoid
of nitrogen. Without the nodules the
lupines would not grow. He obtained
some of the radiocola from the nodules
and propagated thorn In gelatlqe till
be hud many millions of the germs.
He then put into three Jars equal
quantities of sterilized sand contain
ing no nitrogen whatever. In each jar
be planted beaus. The first be fer
tlllied with all the usual plant foods
except nitrogen. The second he sup-
co-operatively. So far, the Eastern States were at the
greater disadvantage, the deserted farms were common
throughout New England. It was wiser to go West with
small capital, and leave the homestead to go back to wil
derness, rather than to remain and be starved. This state
of affairs, in aggravated symptoms, continued until near
the close of the nineteenth century. ♦ • ♦ A cause for
the reaction which we chronicle, is the splendid increase in
the value of farm products, brought about by our having
secured the world’s markets- Commercial expansion dur
ing the last ten years has immensely increased the expor
tation of nearly everything that the farm produces. Our
fruits, our moats, our corn are now found In every market
of the globe. There te no longer any fear ot overproduc
tion; we have only to insist on the open door principle and
free competition. The farmer can apply Ills whole attention
to the Increase of products, and the conquest of insect and
fungoid enemies. Agriculture Is proving itself to be once
more what It was in the early part of the last century,
the most Independent of al! the Industries.—Now York In
dep"- h-t.
torts and Naval Attacks.
surprises of the Far Eastern war is
I (the failure of the fort guns to do more damage
I ^kW lln the attacking fleets. It was a matter of faith
among the authorities that not even the strong
nst modern battleship could safely attack an
effective modern fort, armed with long-range
heavy guns. England Is at present making a
number of long-range fort gu\is for the defense of her south
coast, and At is calculated that these guns will easily be
able to throw a twelve or thlrteen-Inch shell across the
Straits of Dover, so that it would not seem to be worth
while for France even to take her Channel squadron-out
of port, much less to attempt to land in the face of such an
overwhelming attack. But this Is mere theory. The truth
Is, that, although the weight and range of these guns have
neen steadily increasing the human powers which are to
use them have not shown, and are not likely to show a cor
responding progress. While a gun can carry a shell across
the Straits of Dover, the gunner who could make a hit of
twenty miles Is yet unborn; neither eyesight nor fineness
of band are equal to the task. Nor would the atmosphere
permit it, if they were. Attacks by fleets are made by sea;
and the sea is proverbially untrustworthy In the matter of
weather. Air currents, mists, uneven radiation, mirage
and a dozen similar causes deflect the shot nnd the vision
which directs It Moreover, no one nowadays Is likely to
attack a fort at close range in broad daylight The Port
Arthur bombardments were nearly all at night and some
of them in snowstorms. It is Intelligible that a ship at
sea can more or loss locate a position on land, such as the
Golden nill above Port Arthur, over a town where there
are certain to be some lights at least; but the fort has no
lights to guide It In locating the ship, except the momentary
flash of the guns, which give hardly any opportunity for
aiming. In the case of the Vladivostok bombardment. It
seems that the Japanese fleet were too far off to do any
damage, and, therefore, too far off to receive any. It is
also likely that the object of that attack was to draw the
Russian fire in order to locate their forts; the Russians
seemed io have divined this, and naturally abstained from
ilrin I- per’s Weekly.
No Thought of Annexation.
United States regards Canada as under
T British Imperial suzerainty, an Independent
sovereign nation, whose title te as valid as that
— of any nation on the globe. It has no thought
annel ' n K Canada against her will, nor does
afcSsfcaja it, Indeed, regard annexation as necessary or
Inevitable. It is not sitting up o’ nights to coax
or to coerce the Dominion into union with the Republic
If ever Canada should at her own will seek such union,
the United States would probably be cordially responsive
But, If Canada never does seek It, the United States will
regard with entire unanimity and satisfaction the prospect
of continuing for all time to share this continent with an
other great English-speaking commonwealth, and will only
hope for constantly increasing sentiments of mutual esteem
and constantly strengthening bonds of friendship between
these two sovereign nations.—New York Tribune.
plied with the same food and salt
peter, a form of nitrogen easily ab
sorbed by plants. The third he fed
like the first, nnd in addition Inoculat
ed sand with his radiocola.
The result was extremely interest
ing. The beans all came up, and for a
few days grew alike. Then the first
lot, having no nitrogen, turned yellow
nnd died. The second continued to
grow In normal fashion. But the third,
although it got no nitrogen in the soli,
flourished far beyond its neighbor, nnd
develdped a luxuriant and healthy
growth, showing that the radiocoin
bad enabled It to draw Its nitrogen
from the air.
Professor Nobbe carried his experi
ments much further. He showed that
while In neutral soil radiocola are all
alike, once they have associated them
selves with a given plant, as clover,
they become very nearly useless for
other plants, such as beans and
lupines. Accordingly he has labored
to produce highly specialized bacteria
for each crop—gardening germs
trained to grow their specialty.
Having jlone this, bis next move was
to place them in the farmers' bands.
Ho grew them by millions and packed
them in hotties of gelatine. All that
the farmer needed to do was to dilute
the gelatine with warm water, mix it
with the seed and a little soil, partially
dry the mixture and sow It The
germs dld“ the rest.
. There was much opposition to the
new "fertilizer," and one old farmer
who did not believe in It plauted In
a big field n lot of the inoculated seed
in n big letter "N,” Professor Nobbe
having named the gelatine compound
"Nltragen." The farmer was duiazed
and convinced when above all his oth
er beans that year there stood out the
letter “N" in luxuriant and liealtby
plnnts.
Prof<"ssor Nobbe's glass Jars are In
convenient to handle, so the United
States Department of Agriculture, fol
lowing up bls experiments, has hit
upon the “compressed yeast cake
plan" as simple and satisfactory.
Comrades.
Bobby was ten years old and an
alarmingly Ught-heurted and careless
young person. It was supposed, how
ever, that ,be would be capable of es
corting his grandmother to the family
Christmas dinner, one block away from
her home, without mishap.
He was tall for bls age, and be of
fered bls arm to bls grandmother In a
gallant and satisfactory manner as
they started off together.
"I hope he will remember that she Is
almost ninety, and not try to hurry
her. I'm sure I've cautioned him
enough," said Bobby's mother, as she
began to dress her younger children.
But when she arrived at the family
party It appeared that grandmother
had turned her ankle and was lying
on the lounge.
“Bobby,"-said the mother, reproach
fullj-, "where were you when grandma
slipped?"
"Now I won't ' ve that boy
blamed," said grandmother, briskly,
Smiling up Into Bobby's remorseful
face. ‘‘"We came to a tine Ice slide,
and he asked me If I thought I could
do it, and I told him 1 did. And I want
you children to remember one thing:
when you get to be most ninety you'll
count a turned ankle a small thing
compared with having somebody for
get that you’ve outlived everything but
iheumatism and sitting still. Anybody
that likes can rub' this anjde a mlnuto
or two with some llnliifent, but I want
Bobby next me at dinner, mind!”
He Had Twenty-seven Wives.
In the course of a murder' trial at
Cape Town recently the defendant, an
ng(d Malay trader, admitted that be
had twenty-seven WK’es.
Our Idea of a mean man Is one who
spends two-thlrds of bls tlmp .to get
ting money and the other thlmn ke^p
ing it MiSp 5