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J,P THE 6Tr.Ee.T.
Don't toll me of your loss, frlfnd;
Jjon't bt-ij of me 1 shall not li-nd
JNor (rlv tu you. to there's an end
1o you. a Wall Street m-eeper.
CurneKi It's Just like raids.
This spefu Mtlon of your parde;
Your 1 Iti in i a tnl steel limn disregard.
"Am 1 my brother's keeper?"
What! Coma and help, you say? Oh, nol
The niKiki-t suits me, let It go!
T here .nlllluns made of others' wot.
And f.ieui.ng of the sheep, Sir.
In samij.i.nf there s no gratitude.
In Dusint'Bs wo cut pLatuude,
And, in my Iron aitltudu
''Am 1 my brother a keeper?"
CORNELIA
GOES
VISITING
By alio; k. allkn.
"Have you put in plenty of clothes,
mother?" asked Cornelia, anxiously.
"Oh, yes, dear," said mother. She
tmiled up at Cornelia from the big
euli-case she was packing. "You're to
stay only a week, you know."
"Maybe I can stay two weeks,"
said Cornelia, digging the toe of her
sturdy little boot Into the rug. "Cou
sin Laura said so."
"Mother can't spare you," said
mother. "A week seems a long time
to her."
A week didn't seem a long time to
Cornelia when she and cousin Laura
took their" seat in the train, and sped
away between green fields and woods
toward Cousin Laura's home.
Why, in a week there were only
seven little short days and seven
. nights. And nights didn't count, be
cause you were asleep ' and wouldn't
even know you were visiting.
Cousin Laura had found a friend
on the train. She leaned forward,
talking to her. At that moment her
voice floated back to Cornelia.
"Sometimes," she said, "I lie awake
all night." ; ; ,
Cornelia looked out of the window.
In all her happy, healthy little lif.j
she bad never lain awake in bed
more than a half-hour. How could
- any one 11 a awake all night? Suppose
she ' should, one of those seven
away-from-home nights?
The train flew on. Cousin Laura
talked, Cornelia looked out of tho
window. That strange new thought
about lying awake brought with it
many new thoughts. Cornelia looked
at mother's little gold watch, which,
as a special treat, mother had let her
carry. It was half-past ten. Cor
nelia bad been gone Just fifteen min
utes. A quarter of an hour! And in a
day there were how many quarter
hours? Cornelia tried to think It
out, but she couldn't. Her throat
ached, her shoes hurt. There wa3 a
queer pain In her left side. She sat
very 6till for a long, long time. Cou
sin Laura still talked.
Cornelia looked at her watch again.
It was twenty-five minutes to eleven.
Had the watch stopped? No, It tick
ed cheerily.
Cornelia did somo more hard think
Ing. After another long, long time
Cousin Laura glanced out of the win
dow. "There's the river, Cornelia,"
she said. "We're almost home now.
What a short ride!"
"Yes, Cousin Laura," said Cornelia
politely. She didn't mean that it had
been a short ride; but she had to
say something, and the "Yes" slipped
over the lump in her throat as easily
as anything.
The lump was growing bigger ev
ery minute. It tasted salty like
tears. The pain In her side was
worse,' too. Maybe she was going to
be 111.
"Cousin Laura," said Cornelia. Cou
sin Laura, packages In hand, hud
leaned over for one last word to her
friend.
"Cousin Laura," cried Cornelia
again. The train was slackening
speed. "I think perhaps I'd bet
ter go back. 1 don't feel very well."
"A touch of car sickness, my dear,"
said Cousin Laura. "You will feel
better In the fresh air. Here we are."
"I think I'll Jujt stay on and go
back.,?, said- .Cornflla. ' '
"This train doesn't go back, chl'-' ;'
cried Cousin: La'ura. 1 "It 'goes straight)
on to the. city. ;i Htwry, ,dear." '
Blindly,?! CorivliVfolloVed Cousin;
Laura.' ' Whoever RUDnosed tralnH
aidnt turn"ufoiff(r-and take peopljw
bqt .atfj-. they had. icarrff-tf -,- em
away? How did you get home, any1'
way? . .. - ....
uain tnings did seeut brltjJiteri lLn(,rUI
Samuel was warrtt&hVsIa lou to i
drive Cousin -Laura ibnwe. VCtfmelia
at up stiff and straight, and-jirov
the pretty brown hftrses. Sho luiew
atonce how. to ; hold the. reins and
'hip. Uncle -Saruuel '. chuckled.
'She's a born horse-woman," he
said.
I am a bold, bad, hunsry bear
I clnw and clutch now, everywhere.
And lambs 1 ner, never spare
Spring lamb was nt-ver cluaper.
Don't show again your white, wan face;
I'm iiinwtlnf;. in the b:iiih old i-luce;
At k'hoHts like you 1 muke srimace
T'Am 1 my biolher's keeper)"
Walter Heverley Crane, In the New
Yuik Times.
The drive latted ouly a lew mln
utes, and then the lump came back,
bigger than ever. Cousin Laura hur
He4 Corne'H out Intn garden to
pull the radishes for lunch.
Back In the house Cornelia made a
-"uit. iu.u. uuse,
with Its pretty rooms, cool porches,
vines, and hammocks was only
house. It wasn't a home at all.
Cornelia went out and sat down In
one of her hammocks. She listened
to Cousin Laura's voice, but she
dldn t hear much that she said. Over
and over on her lingers she counted,
One, two, three, four, five, six, sev
en, seven whole days-and the
first one not half gone.
"There's a little gin lives across
the street,' came cheerily In Cousin
Laura's voice. "She's Just about your
ago, and"
Cornelia couldn't hear any more.
Almost she hated the little girl
across the street.
"I think, Cousin Laura, I'd better
go back home," she said. "I'm
maybe, I'm sick."
"You're hungry," said Cousin
Laura. "And lunch Is ready. Any
way, Cornelia," she added, as they
Fat down at the pretty table, 'yoii
can't go home until the four o'clock
train, unless you walk.
After lunch Cornelia looked at hor
watch again. One o'clock, three
hours had gone since she left home.
Three hours more must go before
she could go back even If Cousin
Laura would let her go at four
o'clock.
Cornelia was out In Cousin Laura'
pretty garden. Cousin Laura had
gone to get the little girl across the
street Cornelia stood by the mignon
ette bed. Its fresh, strong scent
made her think of beautiful cool,
sweet twilights, with the first stars
coming out slowly, and mother's
voice from the door calling, "Come,
now, dear. It's bedtime."
Eedtlme? Even if these hours
were long in passing, bedtime was
coming sure and swift. Every min
ute brought it nearer. That dear,
voice In it and mother's kiss and
mothpr herself! How could it conio
without mother?
Cornelia crawled under the fence.
She ran through the orchard. Broad,
beautiful fleld3 lay beyond. Far off
was a gleam of blue which was the
river. If she could ever reach tho
river, she could follow it home.
Cornelia was half-way across the
first field when Cousin Laura's voice,
panting and frightened, called arter
her, "Cornelia, Cornelia, where are
you going, child?"
"Home," cried Cornelia. "I can
walk, I guess.
Cousin Laura hurried up. She
caught Cornelia's hand. "You can't
walk, dear. Wait! You shall go ut
3.55. Ill put you on the train my-sj-lf.
You'll get there that way much
sooner."
Cousin Laura led Cornelia back
across the field. In the orchard
was the little girl from across the
street. Sho stared at Cornelia
In a friendly fashion from the
funnel of her blue checked sun-bonnet.
Cornelia pulled her hand away
from Cousin Laura's. She looked at i
her watch. It was half-past one.
Four o'clock wasn't far off now. 3.55.
Cornelia calculated, was still nearer.
Both came long before bedtime.
"You got a watch?'' said the little
sirl from across the street. "I wish
I had. I got a coat; want to see him?
Let's run."
At half-past thiee Cousin Laura
set out with Cornelia's suit-case. She
crossed the street.
"Cornelia," she called, "It's nearly
train time. You must hurry."
There was a rush, followed by a
wild clatter and scramble. Around
the corner of tho house, at break
neck speed, came the goat. He was
drawing a small express wagon. On
the sea was Cornelia. She. was driv
ing. At sight of Cousin Laura and tho
suitcase, Cornelia's face grew sober.
"Oh, It can't he time , yet," she
cried. ''Whoa, Billy, whoa! Cousin
Laura, I'm having a perfectly splen
did time. I I guess I'd better wait
till to-morrow!" The Christian Reg
ister. Reflections from Clouds.
When the sky Is overcast at night a
faint glow is often observed In the
sky at a distance from an observer lu
the country. This is usually a rellec
tlon of the illumination tr street lamps
In a neighboring city. The higher the
reflection the nearer must be the
souroe of the H:; lit, while the lower Jt
.Is, .the. .further away Is the pjaee Jof
origin. ;,Orer. .In . F.wjJand there-, bas
tee'n'some gulfing in7.t.,)euPaWiyr
.Montifin na dpt. ''N'a( ure ') about Uie
iionijitHieV.1' bo 'delootew.-'fcistan"Sj(jKlt fbe ar4, when sudtlenty J Jus
f.whlol-tthe 1WltlmnaWd, 'from
robated before being fu'lly accepted.
hut floes .ndt appear Jo :be utterly un-reiuionable.-New
York Tribune,, t
The weight of the human heart aver
ages' from nine to eleven ounces.
In
fcitt-"tHe-.,",l' were cited, "and ai fcor- and see this bug; 11 H flairTTV Hi
fcifmatea thlntervtt-.aff:f(y..iiW!e1iott.-j cojJliiil-M ?tf ittfjold Shell. Tr.if jj.
a c-iik like 'the Utt ne jaVboorii in&it6i'v ,-.- ..r ' -ii.. I
vrv iiuiiKLnl huK A hOTtL.
American Tourist in Havana Wat Put
Down at the Wrong Gate.
The old Spanish hotels pf Cuba, 'set
behind high walls and surrounded by
a wilderness of trees and (lowers,
have entirely passed away. Modern
caravansaries have risen flush on
every Bide of the Central Square and
advertise the attractions of their 200
rooms, the occupants of which run
races with each other every morning
for the possession of the single por
celain bathtub.
An American tourist grew reary re
cently of paying J5 a day aid ii cents
extra for bathing privileges at one of
tho new hotels in Havim. Consulting
un aged and dilapidated Baedecker,
he ran across the name of the famous
old J2-a-day Spanish managed Inter
nationale. The addres of the ancient
hostelry was not given, and the Ameri
can, for obvious reasons felt a delica
cy at asking its whereabouts at tho
desk of the hotel he wanted to leave.
So, as he could not spjak a word of
Spanlah, lie repeated "Internationale,"
"Internationale," successively to a doz
en cabmen on the Central Square, and
when they shook their heads and
spread out their elbows he merely laid
It to his Inability to speak their lan
guage. Finally, however, he found one cab
man who seemed to understand him,
and was soon being whirled, at a three
legged gallop, along the southeastern
boulevard which leads to the old
fashioned suburbs of the town. Ho
was put down outside the ten-foot hlsli
adobe wall and carefully-locked' iro:i
gate of a picturesque, ramblln, three-and-flower-scrcened
homestead, and
be:;an pulling Impatiently at a rusty
wire which connected, at somo dis
tance, with a bell.
For fully five minutes there was no
response. Then a bent and palsied
mil-servant hobbled down the walk.
He refused to O'lf-n '.j gate and he
and the American had an argument
In th"!r respective languages. The
exhibition of money seemed to make
the old, man particularly angry. At
length the American grew disgusted
and went-over to tlie fonda on tho
other side qf the. street. ,
"Why wouldn't they let me Into tho
hotel over there?" he asked the Yan
kee representative of some American
railroad Interest he found lu the bar
room. The Yankee burst Into a thout
of laughter. The "Internationa'e" was
no longer a hotel. It had b-.eome a
nunnery. The famous old Spanlt-h hos
telry closed its doors during tho Span
ish war. and its owner sold the prop
erty to the church. New York Times.
Reflections of a Cynical Dinner Guest.
The first man who Invited somebody
to dine with him must surely have
been terribly bored In his own house!
Agreed! But what about the first
person who accepted an invitation?
The idea of people assembling in
order to absorb food is certainly not
a natural Idea; the lower animals
never invite each other to dinner
on the contrary!
Where In the world do all the dla-
tlnguished-iooking butlers come from?
Remember how few people there are
among all those you are acquainted
with who possess the attributes nec
essary In a successful serving-man.
You liat'e, all the time during which
the soup Is on the table, to rack your
brains for something to say to your
neighbor.
If, by the middle of the fish, you
have found nothing to say, you must
reconcile yourself to the knowledge
that you have already been written
down a dull blockhead.
The last word or the last play Is
your safety buoy, unless, as some
times happens, you have the misfor
tune to be next to a lady who has
"no time to read" or "never goes to
the theatre."
Pray heaven In such a case that
there has recently been a nice little
catastrophe of sorts which will allow
you to remark that "It is terrible,"
in order that your neighbor may re
tort," "Yes, truly awful!"
However noisy the general conver
sation may be. It Is cure to como to
a dead stop at the precise moment
when you decide to take advantage
of the babel of tongues to say some
thing very confidential to your neigh
bor! In spite of all theh- drawbacks, cer
tain dinners mi. -a be delightful were
rot the consciousness ever with you
of the big stain you i made right In the
middle pf your shirt-front during the
first course! , ,
'' When .you go but to dinner ycu
ouabt be. aljle tp, leurve.-your stoin-
xh Bjt, (horn8, Grod; .Magane. ,
"'"rkiiiHj Tro'users Off.t'r,,'f;
L'tfYre'rf." aged four was playl
T
s I.
J
."(
gt
oame running- Into the house, rrj-i
"IMorto'n E.iCrmvKrse, a philanthropic
citizen of (Wlnc-heqdpnj 'Mass., bus
given $10,000 for a soldiers' memorial
building lu Rludge, N. H., where be i
was bora.
., ' . ....
SCIENCE
Radium is still puzzling the French
scientists.
Experiment shows tnat with the ex
ception of a small portion of the air
near an open window and what might
be called the leaicage of air at the
tear ead, or when ooth doors are open,
the draft of air through the car moves
with the car.
The tantnluni lamp is very desirable
from the fact that u Is of high effi
ciency, Dit It Is not adapted for many
of the fixtures at present In use, for
the reason that It must hang vertical
ly, whereas more olten than not, the
lamps in the existing fixtures hang at
an angle, An adapted has been re
cently Invented by which the discrep
ancy is overcome.
Professor Schlapaelll, the head of
the Italian expedition In Egypt, is
making headway in hli Investigations
of the necropolis at Ailnt. Some 2u'i
Egyptians are at work and a great
number of funeral objects are being
constantly brought to light, besides
many inscriptions which are of great
Interest In connection with the early
Egyptian history. In each burying
place the explorers have found an
efllgy of the uefunct carved In wood.
An inventor in Algeria, Africa, has
devised and had patented an air tube
for supplying air to tree roots. The
tube Is made of ceramic ware and Is
almost Indestructible. Placed in the
ground beside a tree, with the top
fcllghtly above the surface to admit
the air, the young roots find their way
through a number of holes. Experi
ments have proved, says Popular Me
chanics, that the growth of vegetation
las been greatly advanced by Its use.
Red lights have been proved to be
visible to a greater distance than
green. In recent tests on a clear dark
night, a red light of one candle power
was clearly dlscernable at one mile;
one of three candle power at two
miles; ten candle power, through a bi
nocular, ut four miles, and thlrtythree
candle power at five miles. On an ex
ceptionally clear night a white light
of 3.2 candle power could be distin
guished nt three miles; 17.2 caudle
power at five miles.
Tho bine sky reveals Itself as the
hemispherical au!t or 'he Hi manient
In the abi-ence of clouds is the far
depths cf the air sending back to the
o!erver come part of the solar Il
lumination which they receive. Tim
lit 'bus returned to the eye Is "blue"
simply uecause the particles of the
air are of such sx-'cedluyly diminutive
size that they can effectively deal with
only the smallest of the luminous vi
brations that Is, with the "blue" uu
duiatlons. There are a few faint In
termingllncs cf the other colored rays
in the blue of the sky, but they are
In such trilling quantity that the blue
swallows them up.
When Evnlosives E.ilcde.
A popular notion that explosives
will "go oSf" by an:- simple method la
wrong. Many of the most powerful
xploslves Imaginable may be kicked
about, may be set en lire or may be
shot out of a gun, and unless the
proper agency icr exploding them is
jmployc-il tl.iy will not "go off," and
will c'o no t!nmag. The reason for
:';ls may be explained by an Illustra
tion. Consider a grate full of coal,
.'here Is there enoueh of what we
:iiy call exploi-lvc energy to throw a
rou.sand pound weight through n foot
solid steel If only it could be lib
rated. But there can be no explosion
without oxygon, and the coal In the
grate will not burn faster than the
supply of oxlygen In the uir which
reaches it will permit. If the coal
could be furnished, all nt once with
enough air to cause its complete
burning, It would explode with as
great violence as If It were ro much
dynamite. St. Nicholas.
A Gad Bargain,
A story Is told of the famous Rich
ard Brlnsley Sheridan that one day,
when coming back from shooting with
an empty bag and seeing a number cf
ducka In a pond, while near a man
was loaning on a fence watching them.
Sheridan aslted; -,
"What will you take for a shot at
the ducks?" ...
"Well," said, the" man 'thoughtfully
"I'll take half a sovereign." .., ; ,
"Done," sid Sheridan, and he fired.
Into tiro rrrtdTtre tt the -flock, killing
dozen pr.jiior.e,,,,Am..afpW,vw mad4..,ten,,K dlrtribuTod.l !w
UT'. ' ' u ... I . Youth-s Companion.
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fcliont kn0i about' that," rXAethian.)
itT'St.' arir" r? l - txrm
fl,j.&i.AdV .-f WJJ
t. rvEasrty Arranged." i; i,.ol?
The calcium rwas ont of, ;Ordqr.i .i j .i!
"I can't do my best jvithout a glarje,", i
averred fhe star.
.. !
responded the m' V
a one of the other' :
pressario. -i u station one oi tne iuer:-
prima donnas In h wings." Kansas
CUv Journal.
.- NAME SPELLED 37 WAYS.
Admiral Rozhestvensy Proves a Pu
zle to Writers Admiral Very'
Comment.
The recent premature announce- ,
ni en f nf tho Hanti. D...ai triu
----- - -uw u.u l mo nuDBinu tw
Aumiral Kojestvensky has . caused
Lieut. Commander Frank Marble, U.
S. N., to find out many ways there
are, right and wrong, of spelling the
name of the Russian commander in
the battle of the Sea of Japan. There
are Just 37 such ways, according to ,
Commander Marble, and Rear Admir al
Samuel W. Very, U. S. N., has tak-,
en Commander Marble's table as the;
subject of an Interesting letter that
he has written to Col. William C.;
Church, the editor of The Army and f
Navy Journal, which letter appeared
In yesterday's issue of that paper. (
"The recent premature announce- J
ment of the death of a prominent ofn- t
cer of the Russian navy," Admiral
Very writes to Col. Church, "and the
subsequent contradiction, have re-,'
vlved the diversified spelling of the
name in the dally press, as well as
In Journals , more or less Intimately
associated .with naval matterB. Tho
correct spelling Is used by a yery
limited number of writers. . . and
many others use the spelling which
Is correct in the Prencb language,
from which tho greater part of our
lnfoimatlon was derived In the begin- '
nlng of Rozhestvensky's prominence
in the war with Japan, and from
which at tho present time many
translations are appearing. , '
"But in rendering Into English It
Is Incorrect to retain the 'J,' which In r
French represents the sound- of the
corresponding Russian letter, but
which In English should be replaced
by the compound 'zh.' The adjective
derived from the noun 'rozhdestvo,
meaning birth or nativity, and In a
more restricted sense Christmas may
be spelled with or without the rozh
destvensky or rozhestveusky, but the'
proper name, Rozhestvensky, is in the
case of the Vice Admiral spelled
without the 'd.' The name Is ac
cented on the second syllable, 'Ros-zhest-ven-sky.
"I 'give herewith a list, for which I
am indebted to Lieut. Commander
Frank Marble, U. S. N., of 37 spell
ings of the Russian name, all except
the 33d and 3Gth, taken from newspa-
per articles. Noto particularly the .
lavish use of th'! alphabet In No. 22." '
The table Is prepared -by Command- 1
er Marble and to which Admiral Very
refers is as follows:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Rhodjestvensky. f
Rhojdestveueky.
Rhojestvenskl. '
Rodjestvensky.
Rodjestvensky.
Rodjestvenskyk.
Rodjvestwensky.
Rodjestwenskl.
Rodjestwensky.
Rodjeswensky..
Rodjetsvensky.
Rodjovensky. ,
Rodjvestensky. '
Rogestvensky.
Rohdjestvensky.
Rohjestvensky.
Rojdestvensky.
Rojestsvensky.
Rojestvenski.
Rojestvensky.
Rojestwensky.
Roshdlestvenschle.
Rosjenvensky. '
Rostestvcnskv.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
27.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.'
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
Rostgestwensky. ,
Rostjestvensky.
Rostjestvenskl.
Rostjestvensky.
Rostjestwensky. .
Rostjestwensky. t
Rostjevensky.
Rosenvensky. if
Rozhdestvenskl. ,
Rozhdestvensky. J
Rozhdlestvensky. ' j
Rozhestvenskl. j
Rozhestvensky. !
Aerial Topography,
This ts not such a contradiction in
terms as it may seem. Recent explor
ation of the atmosphere has revealed
an astonishing deflnlteness of arrange
ment In Its layers, although, of course,
the details are continually changing.
Recently Capt. C. H. Ley, In England,
has directed his studies of floating bal
loons to a solution of the question of
the Influence on the state of the air
above It. He finds, among other
things, that the disturbances produced
by hills and valleys are transmitted
to. an unexpectedly great elevation, af
fecting the lower and middle strata
throughout. A general effect noticed
is that the Velocity ot the wlsd, or of
a. current of .air, Is Increased over a
hlU and. diminished over a valley. He
1lhinRs that1 similar observations,- gen-
ou!d furninh us
by .of ,tbe air.
'H. J', ' i
- .. 'Always Kicking. :"
17 T.Mtip fainsUt even wheB
t's '(0 iiov?"v,i' '"
' -has-' to Mick to the meter. Can't
ruB jn s fcw extra words." Washing.
ton lierai.u.
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ifho' average English woman has
iTho average English woman
the advantage In height over
thu
American of two inches.