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\ . ? THE BRIDAL CHAMBER J OF SILVER SPRINGS : LJ. Russell Wright The following story combines the 'J occurrence" of fact with the romance } Fof fiction. It is from the pen of Mrs. ? >Ialey Bairtbridge Crist: ; * ! I Near Florida's celebrated Silver Springs lives an old negress known i to the entire surrounding country as t "Aunt Silly," whose claim to be 110 a years old is borne out by her ap- c pea^nce.. Aunt Silly is wrinkled and r decrepit, and the wool peeping from her bandanna-ed head is as white as \ snow, while the blackness and the s weirdness of her face are intensified t by a heavy crop of snow-white beard., d As Icng as the oldest citizeh of Oca- S ^ lit can remember Aunt Silly has \ looked just as ancient as she does h new?identified alwavs with Silver j S ! Springs, and hobbling about them c from mofning until night, leaning b upon her short staff. j h That she was a participant in a | 1! tragedy is known only to a very few J i of Ocala's oldest citizens, and is scldom referred to by any of them. : r In the near vicinity of Ocala, when/"" it was first settled, stood a splendid 5 old mansion,, owned by Cant. Har- v ding Douglas, a South Carolinian.' His only child was a son, who, with n his mother's beauty of countenance, :T had inherited her tender, shrinking nature, and like herself, was a slave G to the old man's iron will. Tn fhn ifnl little ritV of Oci la lived 'Bernice Mayo, whose blonde j ii beauty won at first s:ght the neart of ^ Claire Douglas. Although of Virginia ancestry. Bernice was i true child of the "Land of Flowers," pas- ^ sionate and impulsive. Her eyes were blue and clear as the waters of Lake Munroe, beside which she hid spent her childhood, in the fair little city of Sanford. Her hair was* as golden as Florida's own sunshine, . and Florida's tropical - splendor ran ^ , riot in her blood. L ? % [ For six months Bernice Mayo and Clflirp Douedas were constant com panions, and Silver Springs was their favorite resort. For half a day at a ^ time they would d^ift about on the besom of the splendid, placid curi- c osity of nature. Bernice seemed nev- u er to tire of going into the depths of 13 the subterranean world. "If I were a mermaid, Claire,'.' w she would say. "and lived in yon S1 crystal cavern, and some fair day I 1? should wander forth araon? the pal- u mettoes and mosses of -the springs ^ and sit on yonder ledge of rocks, and should comb rav golden hair with ^ /a shell, and your boat should come L" drifting by and you were to see me s in the water beneath, would you love me well enough to plunge to the depths beneath to woo ihe?" ^ . \ Then would Claire stop her merry 11 chatter with his kisses, and pledge to t: B her his eternal love as they drifted 11 nvo-r fKo transnsrpnt. mirr.Tr of wa- v> ' V"" V ?-- J ter, pausing now and then to study lthe rocks and shells, the mosses, pal- ^ mettoes, the fish, which were as, vis- a ible eighty feet below the transparent water as were the trees and ,s * woodland about them. There is ^ nothing fairer than Ocala's "Lever s Lane/* and yet. no spot held* for a these people the attraction of Silv . Springs, their constant trysting ^ place. ia: . But there came a fatal day, des- ^ Itiaed to separate them. A day wher-j in Claire Douglas declared to his fa- v thfcr his love for beautiful, penniless Befnice Mayo, and his determination to make her his wife. Stormily, his father vowed it should never be, and T secretly planned a separation. When Claire Douglas had been ^ .vspeedily dispatched abroad on im- h; , portant business 'for his father, then' tl it was that Bernice learned the o . trujh, and hx-r proud, delicate nature i iay^crusnca ana oieeumg oenearn tne."< cruel blow and still more cruel sep- w B aration. Vainly she strove to rally.1~ w All life seemed but &n empty blank. hi Wy to-her. |W A year dragged wearily by, andjW the scenes frequented by Bernice n ' Mayo knew her no more. Paler and h thinner she daily'grew. Fngile she' was as the white blossoms of her Well loved springs. The little chain |ci of gold that Claire locked on her. si arm would have slipped across the i a wasted,, transparent hand, but for,a. the ribbon that held its links. jir One day (her last on earth) the; girl, by dint of desperate energy. ;B crept to Silver Springs. Lven Aunt |X^ Silly was unprepared for the white,' rr emaciated little creature who totter-jo r ed into her cabin door and fell si fainting in her arms. Consiousness F ' . soon returned, but it was apparent; a gve'n to the old black woman that R de3th had set its gray, unmistakable , seal upon the young face. i d "Aunt Silly," gasped the girl, I D have come to you to die; and you o: must obey my last request; the grave jm divulges no secrets. Ere tonight's o: sun sets, I shall be in heaven. This; separation from th? man I love has; been my death, but in that death we m ihall be united. I have asked God uid He has heard me. But Aunt Silly, you must obey my request, i'ou love me; you will do as I ask. I'onight when the moon comes out, ;ou row my body to Boiling Springs tnd bury me there. You know that pot?make no mistake. Do this and iod will attend to the rest." "Good Gord A'mighty, chile, you hink Aunt Silly am gwine tote dade >ouy off in the lonsoinelv night?" :->ked the old woman, her very teeth battering with superstitious fear >eculiar to her race. The girl realized the risk of her >!an being thwarted, and raising herelf to a sitting posture she seized he old woman's hand and fixed her ying eyes full on her face. "Aunt lilly," she gasped, "I am a dying voman; I am very near to God; I ave taiked with Him, and He has mswered me. My will has been rushed in life, I swear it shall not >e in death. Before twenty-four ours Claire Douglas shall join me n the crystal cavern of Silver springs. If you do not grant my reuest every spirit of evil shall suround you. Palsied and blind you hall grow, and deaf?deaf to every , , , ,, , ; i ounc. out tne gnosis 01 tne aeaa, ,-hkh shall pursue by day and haunt ou by night. Do you swear to obey ay dying request, or will you refuse ie and reap the prophecy of a dying oman, which shall rest upon your cwardiy head for refusing to obey Icd's will? The old woman was shaking like r. aspen. Ker eyes protruded with ear. and great beads of perspiration oiled dow-n her cheeks. The trengl'h of the dying girl's will had revailed, and the old woman an.wered, "I promises, honey: I prom > I ;es. ! i (To Be Continued in Next Issue) ; . i THE NEWS OF WHITMIRE j ; i he Gospel Being Preached Ernestly by Dr. Lee?Much /Interest Is Manifested I Whitmire, Aug. 9.?The people of rhitmire are enjoying great privi:ges these days. Following a series f meetings in the Wesleyan Metho-? :rt church, the other three churches 1 town thought t>hat rather than r,ve three separate ,meetings they ould unite their efforts. As a realt, the largest auditorium in town * I ; being filled each night tD hear the ospel as. it is being preached by >r. R. G. I.e'e of Chester, S. C., and Ling by Mr. D. P. Montgomery of Viliiamston, S. C. Both present the iospel as the "power of God unto alvation" and already many have earned to know it as such. The Layman's Brotherhood of Vh it mire is bi eking the committee 1 charge and they are asking Chrision women to assist them in reachig every person in the town. We rant to be able to say when Dr. . ee leaves that every person in our )wn has had an invitation to hear nd accept the Gospel. Miss Erleen Mitchell of Charlotte ; a popular \ gue:t of Miss Lu:y [etts. Mrs. Loky of Clinton :g spending few djys with Mrs. A. J. Holt. Miss Mamie" Cline and Mrs. Epr r\ ry or?/l cf\r> TV1 nrron c% a Q'it-o nnn V* ii?, C4iiu. cv/ix v/x uavaiuiuii re spending the week-end with Mrs [. D. Metts. Miss Maud Brocknran of Greent" / ille is here at her mothers for a iw days. I A. P. Criso i he State. * >' Walhalla, Aug. 7.?A. P. Crisp of ewberry, a former resident of Walalla and a native of Oconee, died lis morning at 6 o'clock at the heme f his brother-in-law, W. 0. White, Tl' 11. 11 r 1 TT? 1 i wainana. -ur. l risp came 10 >valalia a few days ago on a visit and as in apparent good health until o'clock yesterday afternoon, when e suffered a stroke of paralysis from hich he never rallied. Mrs. Crisp us called from Newberry early last ight and reached her husband a few ours prior to his death. Mr. Crisp was in hits 71st year, lost of his life was spent in Oconee aunty wherq he held many responible positions and was held in high steem. Only list year he resigned ? president of the Enterpm bank ! Walhaila and moved to Newberry. Besides his wife, who was Miss essie Crooks of Newbtrry, he leaves ,vo daughters, Mrs. Otto H. Schulacher, Jr., and Mrs. G. E. Rhodes, oth of Walhaila, and tbe following sters: -Mrs. W. U. White, Mrs. is., a. ? retwell and Mrs. J. Walter Alexndcr of Walhalla, and Mrs. L. X. obins of Mountain Rest. The funeral services will be conucted tomorrow at 11 t clock at ouble Springs church. 11 miles west f here, the Rev. E. S. Jones, a forter pastor and now presiding elder f the Cokesbury district, officiating. I -g Some think before talking, but lore talk before thinking. i DELEGATION VOTES $10,000 TO AID STORM SUFFERERS Will Topsoil Highway in Strickcn Scction to Emplcy Labor and 1 cams j Greenville News, 10th. j At a special meeting yesterday morning of the Greenville county delegation it was unanimously voted , by that body to provide $10,000 for the relief of those who suffered from the severe hail storm in the lower ; section of the county last week. After slight discussion in which all of (the delegates were in favor of immediate relief it was decided to apportion the distribution of the sum provided in the following way: $3,000 in cash to be distributed per capita among the men, women and children, white or negro, tenant or land owner. Also $3,000 is to be distributed on a per plow basis. In order to enable the hands and teams of the stricken section to be employed the remaining $4,000 of the sum voted will be used in the! topsoiling of the read between J. C.. Pn+Vivin'c liomp n rwl v'c bridge. The county supervisor was instructed in connection with this work to employ only teams for this, work of the stricken section and h bor from among the stricken fami-j lies. Th;:? road was graded several vc n rr a knf Iiop rt attai* haam j )xaio KJ kj KA \J iiao tv^* ; soiled. Secretary J. R. Bryson stated that; the boundary lines of the county will. be carefully observed and that only people in Greenville county will be i provided for out cf the approriation.' He also added that so far as he knows that Greenville county's delegation is the first of the five stricken counties to take any definite action towards relief of the storm iwept population. Teleeraxn Frew Smith The following telegram was re-, ceived last night by Congressmna J.: J. McSwain from Senator E. D. . Smith with reference , to federal re- j lief for the hail damaged section of; the Piedmont: "Telegram received, have done all I could to get some assurance of relief at once. Nothing worth while can be done without an appropriation^ can only come when the house convenes. Will try again tomoryy j row. Lincoln's Debt to Rochefoucauld The State. A careful reader of The State?as well as of other classics?takes us to task, with perhaps merited sharpness, lor not giving to tne rrencnman, La Kochefoucauld, credit for tfce thought ld happily Englished by Abraham Lincoln, concerning the laudable ideal of the politician, fooling the people all the time. She writes so directly to the point that we quote her letter here rather than transferring it to another column: I Referring to youi editorial of, August 3, on Mr. Taft's quotation "from Lincoln, we wish to call attention to the fact that not Lincoln, but Rochefoucauld, was the author of the pi zsage under discussion. The late Dr. C. C. Brown of Sumter wrote regarding it: "The expression was on the printed page and was current in the bobk world, from which Mr. Lincoln got it, two hundred years before Mr. Lincoln was born. The iJaron La itochoioucauid, 'born in 161i>, wrote a volume of maxims, and among them is this one: "On pcut tromper toutes les peuples queiquefois, quelques peuples tou-, jcurs; ma:-s pas toutes les peuples toujour^'?you can fv.o-1 some of the people all the time, and all of the some of the time; but you can't fool all the peopie all of the time. Let us give credit where credit is due. Mrs. J.' H. West, j Newberry, August 4. . "A palpable hit," one exclaims at the first glance. But a second look will, we think, reveal that there is not overmuch in the charge that Lincoln borrowed from La Rochefoucauld. In the first place, it is exceedingly doubtful if Lincoln knew any of the Frenchman's writing, except by a general maxim or so. He may, of course, have run across this one indirectly, and, like Moliere, promptly appropriated "his own wherever he found it." Again, the thought and phrasing?. in English?is so characteristic of Lincoln that, if he had not found it. he would have invented it. Still further, Lincoln's English' form ;o far better, neater, stronger, than the Frenchman's. This is due,! perhaps, to the greater flexibility of the English words and phrasing, and to the distinct "cast'' into which the thought is molded by Lincoln's remarkable mind. But, after all, the thing said be-, longs, as Emerson and Lowell? among others?have assured us, to him that says it bc:-t. There is no! last nor first in these things. Landorl said that Shakspere, greatest of! quoters, was "more original thun his; originals." Lowells lines are fairly 1 familiar: i"Though old the thought and oft: expressed, , Tis his at iast who says it best." And Lincoln said this so supremely well that he has made it "classic" ?as classic as any passage from the j Greek Anthology or a chorus-ending' from Euripides. ( We say this, who are, in our way,! somewhat of a stickler for exact! quotation. But, ne/ertheless, we! must hold that thought i-; the frce-j hold of all thinkers. ! | Family Reunion The family of Mrs. G. M. Sheelyj had a pleasant family reunion at thci home of Mr. J. M. Dowd near Pros-J peritv last Saturday, August 5th, and; I enjoyed a fine barbecue dinner to- i gether. It was pleasant for all the family j to be together once more, all the ? | children being present except Mrs. Allen Counts of Newberry. We regret very much that Dr.; : Freed could not be with us on ac- j count of sickness in his home. The children are as follows. Mrs. Joe Boland. Pomaria; Mrs. Allen Counts, Newberry; Mr. T. A. Shee-j ly, Little Mountain; Mr. J. W. Shoe-; ly, Little Mountain; Mrs. J. M.' Dcwd, Prosperity; Mr. C. D. Sheely,' Savannah, Ga.; and Mrs. S. L. Sh^ely of Newberry. These and theirt husbands or wives, their children, | grandchildren, and a number of vis-,' itors made the number present about fifty-five. j We will long remember the day spent together and hope :o have many more. j l SOUTHERN TO BOOST SOUTH AT CHEMICAL EXPOSITION t ; Wasihngton, D. C., August 11.? Better than ever -before will be the exhibit of the Southern Railway system at the 8th national exposition'of chcmical industries to be held in the Grand Central, palace, 46th street and Lexington" avenue, New York city, the week of September 11th. TViic: i o-a r"o n-vVv'-nf will ho marp comprehensive than any that has previously been made.' It embraces a very complete display of the mineral and chemical resources of the entire territory which * is served by tr e system and presents the advantages which this territory offers for a wide range of industries. i TVio ovV>?V?if mrill Ko in rlnnrcro' nf Manager J. C. Williams, of the Southern development service, assisted by Major Z. P. Smith, general industrial agent, and H. H. Willhoit, assistant industrial agent. In Memoriam Whereas: .The Supreme Architect of the Universe has called from his earthly labors to refreshments jn the beautiful temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, our beloved brother, Robert I. Stoudemire, who was a faithful member of Prosperity lodge No. 115, A. F. M., be it hereby resolved: | , i mi 1 *11 1_ Z ? 1 1 _ rirst: /mat wc an dow in numoie < submission to the will of that great J and wise Master Builder Who doeth all things well, and that we heed the; instructions which come to us from this act of Divine Providence in that < we strive to be ready. Second: That in the death of ( Brother Stoudemire Prosperity lodge No. 115, A. F. M. has lost one of its oldest and most 'faithful members, j a member who served his lodge ] faithfully and punctually for more < than fifty years, one who loved the 1 work and gave freely of his time and '' means to promote the interests and ( welfare of the order, one who exem- 1 plified in his daily walk the beautlful tenets of our order. i , Third': That in his death the fam-j j ily has lost a kind, faithful and lov- t ins: husband, and the community has lost one of its most useful and faithful citizens, one whose presence will be greatly missed. | Fourth: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his wife with assurance of the heartfelt sympathy of the lodge, a copy be , sent to the county papers for publication, and a copy inscribed upon the minutes of j our lodge. ! ( By order of Prosperity lodge No.' ; 115, A. F. M. t J. A. Price, < J. A. Sease, E. T. McSwain, J Committee. , "Armored" aluminum, used in the, ( manner of reinforced concrete, is 1 now obtained by embedding in the' * . t i -1 i 1 aluminum mass mm sieei portions s which transmit tensile, stresses, the | i surrounding: aluminum bein.er relied! 1 upon to take care of compressive; * stresses. i x 1 < DOES NOT LIVE CM NF.CTAR Department of Agriculture Corrcctc Misapprehension About Food of the Humming 3ird. There nre some misconceptions about tne humming bird. rho smallest nf t ln> liiif tlmro nrn nt-niv misconceptions about other birds. However, the Department of Agriculture desires to correct a very popular misunderstanding ns to what the lit tie humming bird oats. Speaking through its biologists and ts ornithologists, the depart men? says hnt, contrary to almost universal beief. the humming bird does net live upon the nectar of flowers, though nectar forms an important part of its :liet. The bird will hover in front if a cobweb, picking off insects and perhaps the spiders entangled in the net. They will capture food on the wing, after the manner of the flycatchers. Stomach examinations show that a considerable part of the food of the bird consists of insects. with sometimes a very little of vegetable matter. The ruby throat is the only humming bird which inhabits the eastern part of the United States, and it is more or less common everywhere in that region. It eats concentrated sweets, but its favorite animal food is spiders. Gnats or small flies are eaten. KILLED ENEMIES BY PROXY Many Races of Savages Had Implicit Faith in Their Power to Bring About Death. Sympathetic magic used as a means of wreaking vengeance upon an absent enemy was believed in and practiced by savages in widely separated parts of the world. The principle on which the theory was based was that like produces like, or that by hurting an image of a man you would thereby hurt him. The Ojibway Indian desiring to harm an enemy made a little wooden image of liini and ran a needle through its head or heart. Or ho shot an arrow into it. firmly convinced that \ his foe would atj the same instant ! he seized with a sharp pain in a corresponding part of his body. A Malay charm consisted in 'making a wax image of the person marked for destruction, in which w.ero some of ins Jhairs. The figure was scorniea j over a lamp every night for seven | nights with the following words: "It j is not wax I am scorching, but ii is j (lie liver, heart nnd spleen of So-nnd- i So that T scyreh." After the seventh j time the figure was burned and the j victim was then thought to have died, i Monarch Admired American Poet. Louis T. King of Bavaria, was one ; of Edgar Allan Toe's greatest admir- j ers. A writer for the Figaro chanced one j day to leave by mistake the proofs of j un article <>u Poe where it CHiue to , the attention of King Louis. The king ; sought the writer to question him. I "Until then," runs the description of j the scene that took place, 4,thV king's j manner lijjtd been quiet and gentle al- | most to effeminacy, but the moment i Poe's name was mentioned he became ; all eagerness and animation. His j magnificent eyes lit up, his lips quiv- j ered and his whole face was beaming 1 find radiant. 'Is it a personal account j nf l>iinV )ii? nclroil rot'urrin<r trv till* I ....... ..y. proofs. 'Did you know I'oe? Of i course you did not though; you are i too young. I cannot toll you how dis-' nppointed I am. .Just for a moment 1 j thought I was in the presence of souie- j one who had actually known that most I wonderful of all writers, and who j could, accordingly, tell me something j riofinite and authentic about his inner l life.'" Punish Flirts With Death Penalty. Flirts are not tolerated in Zululand ! >n the east coast of Africa, according j to Olaf Linck, Danish author and | ?xplorer. The Zulus usually kill men when they make advances to married worn- ; m. The status of women has greatly ! Improved, the explorer found. The I liigh cost of living has had the* effect I i)f limiting the practice of polygamy J to the extremely rich. In former years \ i man could purchase a wife for eight ?xon. hut now the price has gone up :o almost twice that number of ani mils. Parents are adopting the ex- j leifient of disposing of thyir marriage- j ihle daughters on the installment I ilnn. the terms generally being two j >xen down and the remaining at fixed , ntervals. If a husband defaults on us payments there is a law which >rovides for his going to work in the service of his father-in-law until the ralue is covered. The Cheerful Robin. Ta. ce.\ ivlfli h'rHc It ??? JKil <i >t Jut IIIV, >/ > if their case were lt-ft to Ik* decided upon argument alone. But robins are their own best advt> ates, says the Detroit Free Press, riiey come in the spring--vandals that ! hey are?and start a deeply planned j arapaign to cultivate everybody's; riendship. The deep woods know j hem not: they never skulk in the j mishes nor flee the presence of man. j nstead they choose the lawn for a ' mntiiip ground, build rheir nests even ; >n porches and window sills. and lever let the sun go down without i song delivered from the ino?:i conspicuous perch on the place. The obin's cheerfulness is irresistible; his' leighborliness compelling, Ir if; absoutely impossible not fo like him vhen he offeys such convincing proofs very day that he likes men. ! | ROADS STAND BY 1 LOYAL EMPLOYEES! Tell President Harding Old and New Men Must Be Protected in Strike Settlement. I NOT A MATTER OF CHOICE i j Faithful Employees Have Beth Legal and Moral Rights tc Seniority and Othc.- Benefits. New York.?The keynote of the reply made by railway executives repre- . seating more than ISO Class I Kail- j roads of the United States to t{te prop- 1 osition of President Harding, that "all ! strikers be returned to their work and ; their former positions with seniority j and other rights unimpaired," lies in ; the last paragraph from their reply | to the President as follows: "It is submitted' that the striki insr fi.rmpr e'mnlovees cannot bf> priven i preference to employers at present in j the service without doing violence to every principle of right and justice j involved in this matter, and without the grossest breach of faith on the j part of tli<? railroads to the men at j present in their service. "Under these circumstances, it be- j comes apparent that the railroads j j cannot consider any sfttleim nt of the present strike which floes not provide protection in their present employment both tt? rhp loyal employees j who remained in the service and to i the now employees' entente it." The executives had accepted the j ; first two conditions proposed by the j ! President, namely, that both employ- i ers and employees accept the decisions i i of the Labor Board, and that all law j suits growing out of the strike be j withdrawn; ami in relation to the ! third condition spoke, not only a3 j quoted above, but hi so as follows: Agree With the President [ "The railroad executives and manI apers agree entirely with the Presii dent's statement in his letter that 'it is j wholly unthinkable that the Railroad I Labor IJoard can lie made a useful 1 aixencv oC the Government in maintain- j i r ; I ing indi;: trial peace in the railway j j service unless employers and workers , are both prompt and unquestioning in i their acceptance of its decisions.' ".Many men in the service refused to join the strike and in so doing were assureu me at-iijui.il.> li^mio .iv.v.,4 in? to tliem and of the permanence of their positions. On some important lines 50.per cent or more refused to join the strike. To these old loyal employees have been added thousands of new men who were employed and could he secured only upon i definite promise that their services would !>e retained regardless of the settlement of the strike, with all the rights appertaining to such employment, including that of seniority under the working rules and regulations previously approved by the Railroad Labor Board. "Just the Opposite Effect" "We especially point out that a refusal to the old m^n who remained in the service and to the new men who accepted serviceT>f the rights of seniority incident to their employment would have just the opposite etTect to that desired by the President, and would most ser u'.sly discredit the Labor Board. "The board. itself prescribed tfte' rules of seniority under which the men referred to have secured their senior ity rights, anrl the railroad companies | have neither the legal nor mora* right to deprive these men of those rights. By public utterances sinee the strike began the board has recognizer! and emphasized these rights, and to deny them now would, instead of upholding the authority of the Labor Board, overthrow its rules and discredit its authority. '"The Chairman of the Labor Board at the time the strike was called made the following public statement: "Upon ono question the striking employees should not be deceived. Their leader has said that the strikers are no longer employees of the railways. and they have thus automatically abandoned all the rights they possess under their agreements and under the decisions of the board, including their seniority. This is not the board's action, it is their own. "Many enrriers are giving their former emp'">yees the opportunity to reenter the service within a limited -*-* T* *?* >? nn/loratn/^rl TIAW il HUidl VKT uimvicvwvv. .. . that men who remained in the se.rv- } ice and those who are now entering' I , it will have rights of seniority that thf? board could not ignore." What the Proposed Plan Means I ] "It nr.!st he understood that any pro- ' posal TIiiir employees now on strike \ shall be permitted to return to the ' service, without impairmeut to their ' seniority, is merely another way of suggesting that those men who took employment in this crisis in good faith, relying on the promises of the rail- 1 roads to protect them in their posi- j tious, these promises being justified by j the authoritative utterances of thei | Labor I?oard. and thus have made pos-j j sible the continued operation of the; j railroads, shall now be sacrificed inj( favor of men now on strike, who notj j only brought about the crisis, but. by| ? their own action and declaration, are I ( no longer employees of the railways,!, under tlie jurisdiction of the United!^ Suites Railroad Labor Board, or sub-! , ject to tlio application of the Trans- jj port at ion act. "In addition to tho necessity of upholding the Labor Board, and main-! taining the pledges made by rhe rail-! roads to the men now at work, there j 1 Is rhe practical effect on the super-j1 r visory officers of a violation of tee: pledges they wore authorized to make.' Their discouragement and dem<?raliza-j * tion would bo far more disastrous thai r | this or any other strike." 1 - ? * WHEN THE BIRDS FLY NORTH One of the Great Mysteries of Nature Is the Migration of the Winged Voyagers. Have you over arisen before the birds awakened you, when the dawn ,\ sky was still decked with clouds that drifted, it nfr.y he. across the face of a dyinjr mien, and heard far, far e.bove y??u, the speech of unseen voyagers groin?: north.? It is a strange, a memorable sensation, to look into the blank sky while your ears te!l y?:i that the aerial mignuion is winding |?:isr. Perhaps, wlrh a glass, you ean piek out the specks against n rosy clout I or the moon disk. Birds, it may he no larger than a liumming bird, hundreds of them, thousands of them, all the spring, threading rjieir way for endless miles by the gleam of a river far below, the dark patch of a mountain forest, the haze and glow ^of a town?straight," sometimes. to lasi year's nest. When their little voices drop from the mist or the darkness, bearing a message of their passing, it is a poor soul, indeed, which dees not thrill in answer, and in answer to the sweet twitter of some flock of tiny warblers no less th.'in the heroic clan;: of the Canada geese, flying in battle formation with a sound like the dragging of / a chain over some vast corrugation of the air.?Walter Priciiard Eaton in Harper's Magazine. ORNATE COIFFURE OF GEISHA Headdress of Japanese Dancing Girl j is Expensive and She Is Careful cf it. i / Probably the Japanese geisha has erected her hair into the most elaborate coilfure that fashion has accepted for one of her modes in any country in the world. Except that it is more ornate than that of the average woman of Japan, the geisha headdress, in general structure and line, in its use of silver and gold papers, of artificial v flowers aud jade or coral hairpifls, expresses the conventional Japanese idea of wiurt: woman's crowning glory should he like, says Asia. She requires a professional "kamigaraa" to do it for her. Naturally she does not fe?l that she can afford to pay 10 or 20 cents every morning for this adornment of the outside of her head; so at night she props her neek on a tiny hard pillow?in the ancient days "mahota" were made of porcelain or tfood?and lakes care to keep her coilTure in as good order as she can. The long black hair is oiled so that not a single strand shall be out of place, and the final effect is that of a carved black lacquer frame around the delicate yellow of the face. Nevada Natural Wonder. "The Devil's Postpile" is located in tho Sierra Nevada mountains on the ' middle fork ot the ban Joaquin river. The "pile" is a mile long, half as wide, and 400 feet liigh. The odd formation whence its appellation is thrived is nof everywhere in evidence, cropping outj only in certain plafces. The most striking columns constitute more than 1,000 feet of its western face. They rise over 100 feet above the talus?a vast heap of broken "posts" accumulated through the process of weathering. How far downward they extend is a matter of conjecture. The columns in thj? amazing bluff are arranged in rows as * regtilarlv as the pipes of an organ. Almost perfect prisms, they are fitted together like cells in -a honeycomb, and really lool: as if carved by human hands. These columns range from 14- inches to more th:in 3 feet . . diameter. Most of t>em are pentagonal, whereas elsewhere the x general shape is hexagonal. A Helping Hanc^. 4 # My sister and I were on the boat which was to take us up the driver when I remembered aij important telephone message 1 ought to have made. t hnrrtori nfif thp yancmlank un the street, and into the nearest drug: store. As I returned the last passengers were going aboard the boat. "Where is your th-^et, miss?" asked the white-ducked official. Where, indeed! I dashed back to the drug store. Fortunately, my purse was where I had left it. t v Hut when I reached the boat again* the plank had been taken in. "It's all right, miss,said the grinning negro porter the wharf. And before I knew what was happening he had picked me up and thrown me lightly over a foot or two of water into the arms of a sailor on the boat? ; 4 Toxicological Studies. Poison squads are not always made ii]) of humans or guinea pigs. Famous toxieologists have gained their lore l>y hiring romp:.: !"S of men to whom they have fed many kinds of poisons. Some of the men have gotten over it, >ut they generally showed the effects if their diet. Other scientists attack a lonesome-looking jruinea pig or a squad of guinea pigs and give them enough diseases to fill several hoslitals. Tiny srerms tliat cannot be seen vith the naked eye are fed and housed ind studied for the benefit of mancind.?New York Sun. ? 1 Eorn With 'Em. "I don't see any sense in that nonkey gland operation the" papers 11 ado so niurh fuss about.'' "Why not?" "From the way the man who had' lie operation performed has been ictinjr I should say he was born with uoukey glands." ;