The true Democrat. [volume], January 23, 1897, Image 3

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OOLDFISI FARMSE
tRGFsI' NIU\ SIERY IN TIIH
WORILD.
t Aces T)cvoted to Ponds For
ditg and Rearing Fish--(o
-flg the Finny P'et.s--Esne
jIies of tlw Fish.
haps tlhe oddest method of mak
- livicg and one least known
tby the average rc.ader is that for
rplagation and coloring of gold
(oldtish are natural products
-'re heely known for many con
hlbt the production of oddities
eAs to attr.ac a::d amuse is the
of modern art.
largest farmt for the breeding
ing of goldfish in the world,
ShIndianapoli , Journal, is the
Lake Fishery, which is located I
t.oflthe-way part of Liberty {
- Shelby County, Indiana,
elbyVtiie. IThere are in real
o farms un ier the .same man
idevoted t.o goldti.h culture. 1
per farm ei un:der the direct "
ement o- Witlijum Shoip,, the
torof the deterprise and the i
member of the firm.
ye years ago .. Shoup ir- t
.directly ir:o' 1 EIuyai Aqua
oeJapan a do-en c oll guoldlish. 1
m ti- t ",!l ,trt, together
feow common rChinese fish
in this conutry, he has a- I
fed. lhousands of dooilrs and
p a busilc: wlhich reiaches out r
ryState aun 'i'err:iory in this
, and sone (, the choicest
Sfend in ii ,' Government
s of the 0,d World came
is firm. Th:: entire eight
edevctc,i to ponids for breed
rearing ti-hb. Theo'e fish are I
sys golden. There are live
reeding peoind in the upper
e gulch, protceted from the
ybigh walls c: emb,,nkimeuts
Below these and connected
em are a large number of
ponds for sorting and some
ler for feeliung and coloring.
ter are not larger than a I
groom. Twice every year t
ondsare in regular rotation
cleaned and the bottoms al.
becomeo perfectly dry. The
rted at regular reasons, the o
d more perfect being saved
ig; the others are divided t
,,those ready for selling
which have not yet attained I
to be salable. The reader
derstand that the gold- ,l
not always the color
a eeen in an aquarium, for
hatched he is a silver color,
aght in a stream would be I
ken for a co:mmnon shifier
innow. Indeed, some of the
for some unki;own reason,
hany other color. Usually,
the fish are ready for market "<
ring after hatching, being
or silver colored, changing
shade, soumetimes entirely
trward assuming the golden
or, an, the odll varieties of
hibited are usually the re
changing of color. Some
ettiest of fish ar': of more
olor. When perfectly white
alled pearl iisli, ndl when
ben the sun is shining on
they present all the colors
beautiful moe ~r-of-pearl.
are and coseqI(tutly val.
.e are a clea.r rtd, others
hite and red, or blai:kl and
arl tish it is yossblc to ~see
he clear body the entire
d observe the worki._: of
ti the bloodr vessels. One
yMr. Shoul, for ehibition
I stripe rnnmung down its
bosy, whiio the head is a
ril; the body is a rich
Sntdl lighter below; on
tho body, just back of the i
'o roun d r spots which
tra eyes. They are some
ein color, and a few speci
been raiel which wvere
here is a rolpilar idea that
ce in coloriug is due to the
ds of food which are fed;
mistake, for thev all re
" 'oad e':oetlv, and yet a
vast ilferen:e in color or I
en two fish treated cx
The different colors are
e tothe actiou of the sun.
the fish in pouds bIecome I
Sin suhad,, while'i sun-m.
one brighter and change t
per farm Mr. Shoun esti
reoin all I00,t000 fis. It I
r years tIc ptaoduce what I
nO) o0a ca c LSti::itt the t
dnights of work ite has
P lng and guarding his
lemiesinunln,-rble have I
against, for while the t
ardy and can stand great 1
Y areone o thle easist; t
ad uodmensctia :"i"nals of t
wf. The poundl must, I
B Buallow and Iopt CeCanl I
h'eri other 1ish could i
rad. Jt is thcoe ene
prevent a goldfish pro
ecoming independently
Cars. Snkeca destrov a
enah year, while cats, i
mIelnbers of the feline
uh-., found of gold
be guardtled against.
frogs toolnetimacs gct into
east; up enormous num- I
80every. T'i crawearh
las, Fie. to pieces ,
eek, and a. small frog
e three inches long.
-os of the year it is I
ep a 'man and boy con
ed huntinc aud dtro-.
aders in the various
t efeature in con- 1
this farm is that in ad i
tle br cding ponds, 1
ta t-poles, and on a I
ound he raises an ima- ii
Sdai,.. Thle tad. j
poles and snails are the best-known
scavengers for aquariums that have
been found, and they are raised to be
sold with the fish.
Goldfish are, like all other animals,
subject to diseases, and these attack.
them alike in the ponds and in aquari
ums. The mo:t common disease is a
sort of dropsy, which is always fatal,
and may destroy an entire aquarium
in a short time. On the underside of
the body will be noticed a small puff
or swelling of a different shade from
the surrounding skin. The fish which
develops-that putf is doomed, and the
sooner it is taken from the aquarium
the better for the remainder. There
is a parasitic fungus, or phlegm, duo
to the deposit of a micro-organism,
which attacks the fins and gills of the
gold fish. This phlegm soon spreads
over the head and body, and kills the
fish. Where the disease comes from
or two what it is due no one seems to
know, but the general belief is that it
is caused by impure water. In small
aquaritrus, where the fish are crowded
or large, the water fshould be changed
every ,hy, but with a Inrge bulk of
water and in a well-ventilated room
• that is not necessary.
Goldfish require but very little
food, either in the ponds or in the
aquairium. Mr. Shoup feeds only
toasted baker's bread twice a week.
The bread i3 kept :a long while and is
perfectly dry when fed. This, to
gether with small quantities of moss,
is all they ever receir'e in the shape of
food.
The geil.sh is not, so tender an ani
mal as is imagined, for in handling
and moving theien from one pond to I
another they are dipped up in nets
and carried about in baskets, much
Irke corn or potatoes. Sometime they,.
ar: out of the water thirty minutes,
and seoliom it is that they are injured.
How long they will live depends alto
gethler on their treatmrent. In. the
Government aquarium at Washington
is a goldfish that is known to 1)e fifty
years of age, and it is not perceptibly
huger than when first placed .there.
There is aid to be in the lRoyal
Aquarium at Rome, Italy, a fish that
is more than a hundred years of age,
but it has grown slightly in the last
twenty-five years. Its color is the
same, except a slight change with the
seasons.
There are two great general varieties
of goldfish on the market, and all the
fish offered for sale belong to one or
the other of these varies, the common,
or Chinese, and the Japanese. Both
kinds are raised on these farms, but
are kept separate, because the pure
Japanese are more valuable and bring
higher prices. The Chinese variety
is sold to those who cannot pay fancy
prices, and many thousands of them
are shipped for Christmas presents
every year. The first Japanese stock
was imported by Mr. Shoup twelve
years ago direct from the Royal
Aquarium of the "Flowery Ring
.dom," and all the different forms
of Japahese fish are the result
of selecting and crossing their de
scendants. The Japanese are the more
diflcult to raise because of their
peculiarities and because the easier
injured by exposure. More sluggish
by nature, as soon as they are large
enough to begin eating the little
goumands gorge themselves and in a
stupid condition float close to the sur
face of the water, where they become
easy pray to all the insects which at
tcek them. The water beetle kills
many thousands every year.
Value of' a Telescope to the lhunter
The value of a good telescope or
.Ilass was illustrated forcibly to a
hMaine hunter recently while he was
after deer, in an open space in the
wodds that had been formed by a fire
scme years ago. The hunter had a
tolerably clear range of vision for
c:glity or one hundred rods across the
open but beyond that beiars, and
sru'o, growth poplars made it extreme
ly dillicult to see.' The hunter sat
down on the side of one ridge, and
watchedthe side of another across a
wide gully. He wams certain that a deer
was on that hillside. After. a bit he
saw something moving in the bushes
near a big clump of trees that had es
caped the fire, nearly ninety rods
away. The something seemed small,
and was of a.nceutral tint, not apt to
be observed bys tenderfoof at all at
such a distance.
The hunter had a small telescope
with him, one worth about three dol
lars. He took it out to look at the
moving thing. Instsatly he made out
the form of a small deer, a doe. He
was not after these, however, but he
wanted a buck. Instead of foldingup
the glass he began to examine the
ridge side carefully. When his glass
turned to a little alder bed, following
the course of a brook in the gully, he
saw the form of a big deer through the
bushes. When he took down his glass
to look at the deer with his bare eyes,
he could not see it. IHe tried several
times, and at last succeeded in locating
the deer. It was not hard then to wait
for the deer to move out, which it did
in about an hour, and was dead before
it knew a. man was anywhere near.
New York Ledger.
Lures for Cattish.
The catfish is very muchlike the owl
in its habits. It is only on rare occa
sions that the angler's bait is tempting
enough to lure the wary ea.t from its
haunts in daylight. '
The catfish abounds in nearly all
the iunland streams of this country.
Scattered along the banks of the Alle
gheny and Ohio Rivers, near Pittsburg,
can be seen almost every summer night
soCes of bounfires built to attract the
fish.
A modern scientifio device has been
invented that will entirely revolution
ize this sport.- It is'a dynamo attached
to a long wire containing one or more
incandescent bulbs. These bulbs are
thrown in the stream and the current
turned on, and the fish collect around
the light,-- ow York Mail and Ex.
press.
BUDGET OF FUN.
!IUMOROUS SKETCHIES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCEIS.
------.-.._.
Still IIo Stayed-Yes, Indeed--Not a
Musical Notc-3-aliclous-Way
She Rules Him--Flow lie
iEvens Up, Etc.
She yawned, but still he lingered there;
(Oi bcres he was the greatest),
Until she murmurmured in despair,
"You're up-to-date, I munst de'lare,
For you re the very latest."
---Washington Star.
A 1:EGULAR ARTIST.
She-"Why do you insist that Jenny
See is particularly accomplished ?"
He-"Because she can fry a dough
nut so it will taste like angel cake."-
Buffalo Times.
YES, INDEED,
Jaspar--"lt is not the men who
clear up a new country who become
rich."
Jumpuppe-. "No. It is the men
who clean it ont. "--'ruth.
US I'Ar;:.
, Sympathizing Friend - "Where
were the remains of your late husbaud
buried?'"
The Widow (sadly)-"There were
no remains; he-ine-me.t--a-bear !"
NOT A 31UrSICAr, 'NOTE.
Smith--"You told me your friend
sang like a bird. I think he has a hor
ribly hoarse voice. -low can you say
it is like a bird's?"
Jones-"Well, the bird I meant was
i crow."-Judy.
MALICIOUS.
Tom Barry--"I don't see any sense
in girls. kissing each other. Now, you
hate that girl you just kissed."
Prudence-"You bet I do; but just
see how the freckles show where I
kissed the powder ofl."-Truth.
ENPEruIENTA DO(.CT.
"John, John, whatever shall we do?
Little Willie has Swallo wed his china
alley !"
"Never mind, Martha. Don't grow
excited. It will not harm him to be
given the marble heart early in life."
SWAY SITE I:IULES 11111.
Miss Girly-"I shall never marry a
vain man."
Mrs. Many wed (Chicago)-"Wait
till you have had my experience, dear,
and you will know what agomfort it is
to have a husband who can be manh
aged."
noW nE EVENS UP.
"Is it true, Gravely, that Boomer
ly bests you every time you go duck
shooting?"
"No, but I have no chance against
him when it comes to lying about the
amount of game we bagged. "-Detroit
Free Press.
a'rErNTrrI IN PI; sIiMPLE.
Sealds - "So, Prince Picayunski
says he's the heir apparent. How does
that happen, when he's the younger
son '
Miss Scadds--"Oh! he iexplaineo
that. His brother is the heir consumpp
tire. "--Puck.
"Pat," said Tommy to the gardenr,
"'what is nothing?"
"There ain't any such thing as noth
in'," replied ?at, "beca'se whin ye
find nothin' aiid come to look at it
there ain't notin' there. "--Harper's
Bound Table.
IANXTEP.
"I may be hideous, slab-sided and
all that," remarked the slate tenta
tirely, "but if there's any figuring to
be done you can count on me."
Whereupon the pencil asked the
spongeif it'saw the point, and the
sponge dried up,-New York Journal.
ENOUCGH SAID.
Baldy-"What became of your
nephew, who was suclh a promising
fellow a few years ago?"
Oldun--"Oh, he's discovered that
ha had a mission to fulfil in the world."
Baldy--"Ah, yes, and went to the
dogs, of course. Too bad, to: bad."
I-Truth.
HEARTLESS PUI.
When they told her that the young
man whose suit she had rejected the
previous eveninghad hunged himself
to the gate post directly after he left
her, the beautiful girl shrugged her
shoulders.
"It isn't my fault," she said, coldly.
"I specifically told him he mustn't
think of hanging around here any
more. "-Detroit Tribune.
TO DRIVE, or. NOT To DRIVE.
IRoberts-"H-allo! Whiat's wrong,
old fellow "
*Bcnson-"I'm almost crazy. I sent
a letter to my broker, asking him
whether he thought I was a fool, and
another one to Miss Willets, asking
her to come for a drive with me, and
I don't know which of them this telc*
gram is from."
Roberts-"What does it say?"
Benson-" mSimply 'Yes.'"
MEIELT A SUGaGSTION.
"My dear," said' MIrs. Younghus
band, "I saw such a queer, dingy
cable ear this afternoon. It had no
passengers at aIl." .
"That was a sand car," replied her .
lord and master, as he looked updfrom
his evening paper. "It distributes.
sand along the tracks to keep tfie
wheeis from slipping."
"How very *tde., .Edward," she
sighed. "it se~is to me that such a
contriyrance would be very useful to i
you at time'."-New York Herald.
WOiDs OF WISDO1,
Young lions are often very lean,
Getting the big head shrinks the
heart.
The fears'we borrow are the hardest
to drive away.
Unless you want to be poor don't
try to keep all you get.
It is harder to dine with some men
than it is to fast alone.
We are rich not in what we have,
but in what we cannot lose.
Live to do good and you will never
:tire of your employment.
When a little man is lifted up every
body finds out that he is little.
The man who thinks he knows
others is a great stranger to himself.
The man who would be considered
wise often turns out to be otherwise.
If you knew that to-morrow would
be your last day how waould you spend
this?,
The man who has lived only for
himself has wasted his time and robbed
the world.
There are some very important les
sons which can only be learned from a
mistake.
It is doubtful if there is ayv man
who has not at 'some time in his life
been a hypocrite.
There can be no true and abiding
comfort and peace that is not rooted
and grounded in faith.
The business of fault finding would
soon come to an end if ov.ry fault
finder could only be well introduced
to himself.
Money is one of the levers that
moves the world, and it always mioves
it in the right direction when a godly
man controls it.- Ram's Horn.
A Lively Bear lunit.
A Jackson (Ky.) letter to the Los
ington Herald tells of a lively bear
hunt in Breathitt County :
"On last Tuesday Steve Dehart shot
and killed a black bear near Red
River, in Menifee, which is about five
miles notheast of Dundee station, on
the Lexington and Eastern Railway.
Mr. Dehart was thirteen days out on
the hunt for the bear, when he found
his den in a ledgo of rocks about 250
feet from the ground, and he had to
go over the clitff eighty feet higher.
Leaving his gun and two dogs on top
of the cliff, he went into the den to
look for the bear, and as he was crawl
ing along the den the bear made a
roaring noise, and then Dehart ran
back on top of the cliff for the gun
and a dog, The dog had to be tied by
the head with a rope and let over the
cliff into the den, when all at once the
bear seized the dog by the throat,
killing him instantly. Then another
dog was lowered in the den, and as the
bear made a rush for the dog Steve
shot the bear between the eyes, slight
ly wounding him. The bear regained
his feet and got back into his den, re
maining there until the next morning,
while Dehirt lay by the den all night
trying to punch the bear out with a
pole. Then early the next morning
he ran a long pole into the den, and
as the bear made a rush for the mouth
of the den Steve shot him in the head,
this shot being fatal. About this time
Dehart felt that he did not want any
more bear hunts with a squlrrel rifle.
The bear weighed about 300 pounds
net, and was about ten years old. The
bear's hide, when tacked to the wall,
was six feet sad ten in es long and
five fet broad."
The &f'ternudo Nap.
The frequeniby withi which medical
men a ,tr ~hether it is harmful to
i.lgeo in the "afternoon nap" is not,
lp$haps, 'surirising, for several rca
sonS. igIersons have had experi
ence in th"seducivo charms of the
somnolence which has followed the
comfortable ingestion of a midday or
evening meal. The meal finished, the
diner arranges himself comfortably in
an armchair, takes up a newspaper
and prepares to make the most of the
restful conditions of his mind and
body. But nature soon begins to as
sert her sway. In time, the eyelids
close, the head begins to nod, the
newspaper falls from the hands and
the symptoms of a nap are complete.
Whether the "winks" be forty or one
hundred in number, the result is the
same-a short, sound sleep. Then
comeo the question, Is it harmful thus
to fall asleep after a meal? By no
means, for the very obvious reason
that the process is merely a physiolog
ical one, and as such, when it occurs,
is quite natural. When digestion is
in progress, nature has arranged that
all the available blood in the body
shall be collected in and about the
digestive organs, Consequently, the
blood supply to the brain falls to a
low ebb, and thus sleep is easily in
duced. On the other hand, of course,
physiologically, it is wrong for brain
work'to 'bo attempted immediately
after a solid meal.-M-edical Press.
Dream Was t'llllell.
Don Waggener, the twelve-year-old
son of George Waggener, of Independ
ence, Kan., was shot and seriously
wounded while out hunting by the
accidental discharge of a gun. A
queer incident of the affair is that his
father was away from home at the
time, but .the night before dreamed
that a.serious accident would happen
at home the next day. This so worked
upon hi4 mind that he started for
home the .next day, and arrived just
as his wounded son was carr'ed into
the house.--Chicago Chronicle.
Celery Oil in RIestricted JUnmand,t
. Celery oil now finds a restricted
market, the oil being produced chiefyiv
in Germany. It is distilled fromr th~
fresh leaves and imparts the peeuliar
flavor of celery to perfection. There
is an increasing demand for the oil
and larger production of celery for is
m~nufacture,-New .Ingland Home.
1stead.
FOPULLI SCIELNCE.
Our sun Is but one of thousands of
others of equal or greater magnitude.
The light of the moon 'is only about
one-six hundred thousandth that of
the sun.
Alarge part of the finest iron and
steel of commerce is made from mag
netic ores.
Railway spilrbs are to be made with
fluted sides to prevent the possibility
of their slipping or turning.
Typhusantttoxine is the latest m'di
cinal discovery. It is alleged to be a
sure preventive for typhus fever.
There is talk of furnishing electric
power to the City of Mexico from peat
beds nine miles distant, owned by
Boston interests.
Modern machinery on ocean steam
shipd gets four times as much power
from a pound of coal as was the case
half a century ago. ':
Professor Koch, who is on his way
to Cape Town, South Africa, intends
to study not only the rinderpest, but
also the different local forms of lop
rosy, in which he has taken great in
terest for some years past.
A depot has been established in
London where motor vehicles may be
repaired and stored. Skilled mechan
ics, thoroughly posted in motor vehi
cl'io, will be kept in seadiness to
a-iiwer balls from disabled vehicles in
any part of the city.
The greatest depth, writes Professor
Seoley in his "Story of the Earth," at
which earthquakes are known to orig
inate is about thirty miles. It has
also been calculated that a heat suf
ficient to melt granite might occur at
about the same depth.
It isestimated that twenty-two acres
of land are necessary to sustain one
man on fresh meat. The same space
of land, if devoted to wheat culture,
would feed 42 people; if ,to oats, 88;
potatoes, Indian corn and rice, 167,
and if to plantain or bread-tree, over
6000 people.
The London tower bridge is worked
almost on the same lines as a man-of
war. The captain is a lieutenant of
the royal navy, and he has a crew of
sailors and engineers who are divided
into watches, with lookouts, and go
about their duties in working the
gigantic bascules much in the same
way as if they were on board ship.
lHave BIes Consciencee
This question was raised in my
mind, and answered in the affirmative,
by the following incident which I ob
served in the course of a country ram
ble on the coast of Devon. There
were several small bumble bees stead
ily at wbrk.among the many gay-col
ored blossoms which form a perfect
flower bed on either side of a cliff walk
on that lovely promontory opposite
the little fishing town of Salcombe.
Each bee kept to his own particular
flower, as (so Sir John Lubbock tells
us) all well-conducted bees should do.
But one became puzzled by the like
ness in color between black knapweed
and purple thistles. His flower for
this outing, was evidently the knap
weed, and when he had exhausted all
its blossoms in the immediate neigh
borhood he was beguiled by similarity
in c'olor.into trying a thistle, but, on
alighting, he instantly discovered his
mistake, and flew about looking tor
more knapweed, which he might easily
have found by flyin$ a few yards fui~
thfer. Instead, however, he returned
to the invitizig thistle head, and this
time gave himself up with perfect
abandon to its luscious delights, sti
fling the voice of conscience which on
his first visit he had so instantly
obeyed.
These little bumble bees well repay
the time spent on watching their
small, busy lives. On anbt er occan
sion, when camping for the day in a
fir-wood, my sister became aware of
two of these soft little creatures buz
zing round and round the skirt of her
dress in such a determined and spirit.
ed way that we felt they meant busi
ness and not mischief. 1\y sister
drew her skirt away, when the bees
instantly made for a tiny hole in the
bank, evidently, their house door.
Their gentle, persistent manner of
making their meaning known to us
was most striking.--London Speo
tator.
Tremendous Force in a Steam Boiler.
A writer in a popular journal,in thb
course of an article showing the great
amount of force developed by the
steam generated in a boiler, says:
What a tremendous force is struggling
to tear a boiler to atoms! T'rake, for
example, a horizontal tubuhr boiler
of ordinary proportion%, 60 inches in
diameter by 16 fqet long, containing
83 1-inch tubes. Such a boiler has a
surface area of 49,71i square inches.
Suppose this boiler is operated with a
working pressure of 103 pounds per
squar: ,ncb, which is not at all un
comar... Tho boiler, therefore, sus
tains a total pressure of 4,071,600
pounds, or more than 2035 tons: Do
we realize what this ,means? The
boiler has resting upon it the equiva
lent of a 'column of granite l)feet
quare and245.5feethigh. Or to put
it another way, the boiler is holding
up the equivalent weight of 22,62(0
persons, each 'weighing 180 pounds.
The best authorities agree that the or
dinary draught horse, workingeight
hours a day, exerts an average force
during thattime of 120 pounds.. Now,
this force acting to disrup the hoiler
longitudinally is 226,200 pourds, sc
that to produce an equivalent stress ii
would be necessary to hitch up to eah!
end of the boiler a team of·' 188
horses.
Confederate liiitary Rolls.
Acting under authority granted b3
tbe South Carolina' Legislature, Gen
eral Hugh L. Farley is collecting and
will publish in' permanent' form the
rolls of all the companies raised i;
that State for service in the Confeder
ste Army.
And, flying, fan the upper air,
Miss all the toil that hugs the sod.
'Tis they whose backs have felt the rod,
Whose feet have pressed the path unehot4.
May smile upon defeated care,
Not they \in o soar.
High up thore are no thorns to prod,
Noibouldors lurking 'neathathe clod.
To turn the keenness of the share,
For Ilight-is ever free and rare; ';
But heroes they the soil who've trod, ; .
Not they who soar.
-Paul L. Danbat.
The First Snow.
The first snow slowly falleth, as the years
That drop from God's hand in the lives ol
men;
Far off the rumblings down the brooding
glen
Of the last loaded wagon reaches the ears;
Blurr'd as a pictured scene we see through
tears.
The bleak lhils loom-beyond the cheerless
fan
The hermit owl's hoot echoing; and thea n
Silence'and darkness, and no choristers.
Beneath the snow the mountains' rugged
heads,
As the low bosom of the valley, rise
As smooth and soft as moon-bleache daisT
beds
That bare their bosoms to the summer skies;
Recalling the white peace of death that
spreads
And shuts all troubles from the wearied
eyes!
WVill T. Hale, in Nashville American.
Kinship.
There is no flower of wood or lea,
No April llower as fair as she;
O white anemone, who hast'
The wind's wild grace;
Know her a cousin of thy race,
Into whose face
A presence like the windhath passed.
There is no flower of wood or lea,
No Maytinmt flower as fair as she;
0 bluebell, tender with the blue
Of limpid skies.
Thy lineage hath kindred ties
In her. whose eyes
The heav'ns' own qualities imbue., '
There is no flower of wood or lea;
No June-day flower, as fair as she;
Rose-odoro's with -beauty of
Life's first and best
Behold thy sister here confessed!
Whose maiden breast
Is fragrant with the dreams of love.
--Madison Cawein, in Ledger.
Somewhere.
Fair, mystic realm of Somewhere,
Beyond the Sometime Sea,
The vagrant odors come whero
The world's ways torture me.
O'er waves and lonely Islands
Thy whispers come betimes,
As lute-notes in the silence,
As Minor poets'. rhymes.
0 beckoning realm of roses, where please.
S.ures mark each mile.
These yearnings are but musi4 and living is
a smile! "
Sweet as a virgin's dreaming,
Who love's first kiss yet thrills--'"
Fair as the flowers gleaming
Where moonlight softly spills.
MIan's later Eden Somewhere,
We needs must long for thee;
The'tenipter's lips are dumb there,
The serpept hate's not free.
O beckoning realm of roses, where pleas
ures marl; each mile,
SThere yearnings are but music and living is
T . smile.
-W. T. Hale, In Chicago Times-Heraltd.
OneAdvantage of Cold Weather.
N{otwithstanding the frosts that threaten andi
the winds that whistle drear,
There's a certain thrill of pleasure in the
presenttime of year
A vIlndleative satisfaction which illumlnates
the hour,
And brings us resignation as we view the
withered flower.
'Tis the quiot exultation that the football
,player feels
SWhose ills are slight compared to those the
enemy reveals.
So ywe shun the melancholy which the leaf
less boughs disclose,
SAnd we hail the days of autumn, when the
flies
get
froze,
a 'Tis sad to see the flowers fade as they are
wont to do
We'd hike to keep them working night and
'day the whole year through;
We miss the artless songsters who made
a merry in the tree,
SWe long for the companionship of butterfly
and bee.
But, in spite of all our losses, there's a brao
aing sense of joy
In our knowledge of our triumph over crea
tures that anncy;
And we vow that there Is nothing, as we set
tle for a doze,
Like the good old days of autumn, when thd
flies
get '
froze,
-Washington Star.
IThe TLittle Bell iu the Hleart.
MIy heart keep3 knockiung all the dnay!
SWhat does it meaun? What would it say?
My heart keeps knocking all the night!
Child, hast thou thought of this aright?
o long it has knocked, now loud, nowlowe
Hast thou thought what It means by knock,
ing so?
No, child, 'tis a lively little hell.
The dear God's giff, who loves thee well.
SOn the door of the soul by IHim 'tis hung,
SAnd by His haand it still is rung,
And He stands without and waits to see
Whether within lIe will welcome be."
And still keeps knocking, in hopes to win
I The welcome answer: "Come in! come iai
SSo knocks thy heart now, day by day,
And when its strokes have died away,
And all its knockings on earth are o'er,
It will knock itself at heaveni's door:
SAnd stand without, and wait and see
Whether' within it will welcme be;
SAnd hear Him say: "Come,. dearest.guest!
I found in thy bos.om a holy rest.
r As thou hast doni, be it done tothee;
Come into the joys of ternilty!"
-Fromu the German.
Iluge Turtle Shells.
The huge turtles that cxisted duri,
uing the youth of the woril appear to
have inhabited the foothills of tli'
SHimalaya iMoitntains. The eggshells
and bones of these extinct creatures,
j which occasionally wash ouat of the.
a ravines where they have been buried.
a for ages, prove that they were more
. than twice as large as any specimen of
the oVitiis family'which now eiista.
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