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Jl Treasure House Of Literature The Celtic Writings a Body of Prose and Poetry of Great interest from Every Standpoint By Theodore RooseoaU. EXT to developing original writers In Its own time, the most fortunate thing, from the literary standpoint, which can be fall any people la to have revealed to It some new treasure ' house of literature. This treasure house may be stored with .the writings of another people In the present, or else with the writings of a buried past. But a few generations ago, In that innocent age when Blackstone could speak of the "Goths, Huns, Pranks and Vandals" ? Incongruous gathering ? as "Celtic" tribes, the long-vanished literatures of the an cestora of the present European nations, the epics, the sagas, the stories In verse or prose, were hardly known to, or regarded by, their educated and cultivated descendanta. Gradually v and chiefly In the nineteenth century, these forgotten literatures, or fragments of them, were one by one recovered. They are various In merit and Interest, In antiquity and extent ? "Beowulf," the Norse aagas, the "Kalevala," the "Nlbelungenlled," the "Song of Roland," the Arthurian cycle of romances. In some there is but one great poem; in some all the poems or stories are of one type; In others, as in tho case of the Norse sagas, a wide range of history, myth and personal biography Is covered. In our own day there has at last come about a popular revival of Interest in the wealth of poems and tales to be found in the ancient Celtic ? and es peclally in the ancient Erse ? manuscripts ? the whole forming a body of prose and poetry of great and well nigh unique interest from every standpoint, which in some respects can be matched only by the Norse sagas, and which has some striking beauties the like of which are not to be found even in these Norse sagas. ? The Century. Here Are Thoughts On Making Believe By Jtrthur Sullivan Hoffman. ? ? HERE is something of both bewilderment and amusement in the paradox that all of us live in but one world, and that nevertheless each one of us lives in a different world from all the others. The multiplicity of unity is a rather dis concerting concept. In this case, however, it is quite easily explained by man's habit of making believe and of believ ing what he makes believe. It often happens that way ? a problem that at flrst glance seems abstruse or even complicated is simply solved bv me simplest kind of explanation, something we knew all alftng, but had over looked because it was so ridiculously plain and suspiciously evident. By uslns one little word among us, and each making believe It is some thing different from what all the rest make believe it is, we have attained a surprising and commendable variety without interfering with any of the j other planets, beyond making believe we have pictures of them in the as tronomies, and enticing them momentarily into the other end of a telescope. It would doubtless be interesting if we could all see the real world or even all make believe about it the same way at the same time, but we can't. After the first few days of paralyzed amazement it would be an awful bore, any way. Fortunately, we cannot conceive of our round little earth as stripped of opinion and illusion, since all is, or is through imaginative spectacles, and each of us is unto himself a unique and varying standard of the actual. There may be a Mars of fact, a Venus of truth and a Moon of nakedness, but who shall stand forth and say of our earth that his real is the actual? Everybody, forsooth, and nobody agreeing with anyobdy! Hence a Pandora's box of such hydra-headed and thousand-legged monsters as Point of View, Criticism, Augument and Positiveneas. ? Smart Set. Rabies And Hydrophobia By George T. J Inge 11 . ILL come of our Pasteur scientists kindly tell us the cause of the present -epidemic of alleged raldes? Why now more than during the hundreds of years since the Pilgrims land ed at Plymouth? Why now more in Massachusetts than over the line in New Hampshire and Vermont? Why after Pasteur's alleged discovery did cases, as wo are now in formed, largely Increase in France, while over the lino in Germany they were almost or quite unheard of? Why have none of these cases occurred in the great doK nounds oi uurope and Amcrlca where thousands of vagrant dogs have been col lected? Why have they never occurred In Constantinople where thousands of vagrant dogs roam the streets night and day? Why during the past thirty years have we had no difficulty in satisfying at various times committees at our State House that there was no need whatever for dogs being muzzled? How happens It that I>r. Dulles of Philadelphia, a physician of eminent stand ing and professor in the Pennsylvania University, appointed by the Penn sylvania Medical Society to especially Investigate the subject, after devot ing a vast deal of attention to it during the past fifteen or twenty years, has come to tho conclusion that the cases of rabies are so rare as to make It doubtful as to whether it is anything more than a disease of the imagina tion, and to consider the Pasteur Institutes as really Pasteur humbugs, of no use except to put money Into tho pockets of those connected with them? Will our Massachusetts scientists kindly enlighten, on this subject, our many fellow-clti/.ens who are deeply Interested in preserving the lives, health and happiness of their four-footed friends? ? Our Dumb Animals. Unexplored Regions Of the Earth By Cyrus C. Jldams ANT year* wM elapse before any other continent ia an well mapped a* Europe; and perhaps the ora of perfected map ping all over the world may never come, because surveys are very expensive, and the Ave other continents have far larger expanses than Kurope of dbmpamtlveljr worthless lands that do not call for the most detailed and refined cartogra phy; but a lar&e amount of pioneer work still Invites the ex plorer, for many of the unknown areas have much territorial extent. In the Amazon basin, for example, three of thenn regiona are much larger than all of our New England State*. One unknown area In Northwest Alaska la nearly aa large aa Itew England; and the Sahara haa two areaa in black that are each twice aa large and another three times as large as New England. Asia still haa aeveral of theae vast mysterious spaces, and the solid chunk of the unknown In New Oulnea, the largest Island In the world except Greenland, would swallow up New England and leate a black border all around It. ? Harper's Magaslne. A POINT HONOR BY ANNIE EDWARDS. OK FOR HER FATHER'S SIN. CHAPTER II. 2 Continued. **Do you see the Tennants' house, Mr. Mohun? Look straight away to. the right, across those last larches which divide Yatton from the moor. It used to hide Its Intruslveness and look al most respectable when the great elms were standing; but that old Goth, Mr. Tennant, had them all cut down last autumn, and the effect Is, as you see ?no, as you do not see. Are you really looking for the Tennanis' house In the centre of your own woods, Mr. Mohun? ? or haven't you heard a word of all the Interesting country news I have been so busily telling you?" Now, Glfford was thinking neither of Mr. Tennant's bouse nor of his own larches, but of his companion's fnlr little outstretched hand. Very pleasant hands to hold between one's own, Glfford thought. An almost Irresistible impulse over came him, then and there, to take her hand In his and kiss it, and ask her to give It to him for good. Bht Jie did not. Something in the girl's soft, un ruffled face held him back from going to such fierce extremes Just yet; and all h? did do was to sigh very deeply, and then, blushing, I believe, to say he had not quite heard what Miss Grand said? and? and? he rather thought he must have been attending to something else. "The Tennants have grown up ex tremely pretty." Remarked Jane, very quietly, and without blushing at all. "Aggie, In particular, the one who used to be thought so plain when they were children. Have you seen them yet?" Yes, Glfford had seen them. The Tennant family had been ?at Yatton that morning, and the young ladles had kindly assisted in presiding over some of the outdoor festivities. "Ah"? and the slightest shadow passed over Jane's heart. "Aggie is very pretty. Indeed, isn't she? I don't think I ever saw such lovely eyes In any other face." "Well, they are neither of them beau ties," said Glfford, Indifferently; "and, of the two, Miss Tennant is the hand somer. The little one? Aggie, did you call her?" (he had had quite a flirta tion, with poor Aggie that morning; and her mamma and sister had already speculated upon the ndvautnges of her future position as Mrs. Mohun of Yat ton) ? "the little one laughs too much, und inclines toward fat." "You think Miss Tennant very hand some, then?" "Better looking than her sister, cer tainly; but I am not in raptures about either of them. My taste in beauty is difficult to please, Miss Grand!" And Glfford tried hard to look sentimental. "Your taste will be very unlike that of all the rest of the world If you don't admire the Miss Tennants. I hear no girls get on so well at balls as they do; and both of them 'have received what MJss Lynch calls most eligible offers. Yes, indeed, Mr. Mohnu, in real practi cal earnest, although you do look so skeptical. Mr. Tennant is so near about settlements and money that every one of the engagements have been broken off; but that tho offers were made Is certain. Robert Nash, of tiie Craig, was the last. He wanted to marry Aggie." "A Nosh would do anything for money," said Glfford, with a somewhat supercilious uprising of the eyebrows, "even down to marrying a daughter of old Tennant's." "You are very severe upon the Ten nants, Mr. Mohun. I suppose you think it a thoroughly degrading thing for a man to have made his money in trade?" Jane spoke quickly, and her cheeks grew hot. "I was not thinking of trade at all," answered Glfford. "I was thinking of common honesty when I spoke of the kind of feelings a man must have who could wish to Inherit Mr, Tennant's money, or to become the husband of one of Mr. Tennant's daughters." "But at least Bertha and Affgle are innocent of all that their father may have done years and years ago. It is very hard to visit the sins of father* upon their children, I think." "Well, you need be under no fear of parental transgressions being too harsh ly remembered In the ease of the Miss Tennants," said Glfford. laughing. "I give a little eccentric opinion of my own when I say that I would rather marry the daughter of any honest farmer In the county; but there are plenty of nen In the world? Mr. Rob ert Nash at their head? who hold a di rectly opposite opinion. As many thou sands of pounds as Mr. Tennant pos sesses can cover a multitude of sins." "I think charity forbids us to Impnte evil to any one. Mr. Mohan." "But I don't think charity compels us to become Mr. Tennant's son-in-law, Miss Grsnd. A man with a good, broad pair of shoulders, like Mr. Rob ert Nash's, could find better ways of getting bfe bread than by buy lag It with ill-gotten money." "And, If he really should happen to oare a little for Aggie, as well as for Der fortune?" Miss Grand persisted. "Well, If s man fell In love with one of the Miss Tennants, wlthont knowing Mr. Tennant's history, sud found It out aftsrward, ha would be placed In * delicate position, certainly? that la to say. if he was a man of decently honest feelings, not a Robert Nash." "And how would you have him act? How would you act yourself, were you in such a position, Mr. Mohun?" "I should decline pressing my suit any further,'" said Gilford, with de cision. "My children should not be born to a stained name through any mere want of moral courage of mine." "Ah!" "You look very grave. Miss Grnnd. AJlow me to ask if I am upsetting nny little prearrangemcnt of your own in positively declining to fall in love with either of the MlRsTennnnts?" Jane smiled, but her smile was a forced oue. She by no means wished Glfford to fall in love with either of the Miss Tennants. She had heard, not without satisfaction, that he did not think them as handsome as it was the fashion for other persons in that neigh, borhood to rail them. Rut a strange, an indefinable pain smote her heart when he spoke of Mr. Tennant's past life. What interest had she in such a subject c.t ail? What was Mr. Ten nant's good or evil repute to her? Noth ing?she knew that; but the pain she could not account for was at her heart still, to be remembered through long after years as the first dark whisper of her own fate ? the skeleton whose grim hand had been upon her, though with faint, unsteady hold, even In those earliest moments of the one festival of her life. "I am thinking. Mr. Mohun; I am pondering on what you have Just said." "And youarriveat the conclusHm " "I arrive at the conclusion"? she looked very steadily In his eyes as she said this? "that you have never known anything at all about really deep feei Ing. A person who, who knew what love was, could not speak of 'pressing j his suit no further,' Just as though he were deciding about some mere matter of business, and not very Important business, either. If you were engaged to Aggie Tennant? no, we will leave poor Aggie alone, and speak generally? If you were engaged to any one you really cared for, you would not change merely because you found out some thing in her father's history to be dis approved of." "You speak as one having authority, Miss Grand. I defer to you. I have never been In love yet, as you Justly surmise. I know nothing about the laws and canons of the passion. Evi dently you understand the whole thing thoroughly. I submit." "Mr. Mohun, I understand nothing about It, either; but I know? I mean I feel? that no one really in love could change, 011 principle, as you talk of doing." And then GIfTord answered? some thing which I dare say would not ap pear strikingly clever if it were to be recorded here ? something, however, which had the effect of making Miss Grand's heart flutter, and her eyes sink down from his face. And then she remembered 'that it was already past the time at which she had promised Miss Lynch to return; and, as It was getting so late, she thought she must really go back the shortest way to , Chesterford, although that walk through the lower plantation was rather a lonely one as evening fell. Glfford would go with her. Oh, dear, no! she could not let Mr. Mohun tak$ so much trouble for worlds? Just as far as the outskirts of the last plantation, then? she could get on quite well alone when she once found herself in the open fields by the village. And the moon was shining high and i clear above their heads when Mohun left Jane Grnnd at the garden gate of her own cottage that night. CHAPTER III. That a Mohun of Yatton should so far lose himself as to fall In love with a young woman In the position of Jane Grand, was ono of those aberrations concerning which the high moral sense of county society, generally, could en tertfcin but one opinion. When it became known (as every thing becomes known within twenty four hours in a village) that Glfford Mohun had been. seen In Yatton woods with Miss Grand on tho evening of his birthday? Instead of presiding, as he should have done, at the public parish rejoicings? and that he had called at Jane's house early the next morning and had accompanied Jane and Miss Lynch In their walk upou the same afternoon? when these things became knoTa, many nnd bitter were the things said about Miss Grand by all the matron-tongues within five mUes of Chesterford, many and pitying the re marks as to thAt poor Hilly lad's fool ishness, and the danger In which he stood of becoming seriously entangled with so dedflDlng and forward a young person as his Immediate neighbor. Could any one interfere? Oould any one open ?!s eyes for him? Would It not, at least, be one's duty to let him know that Miss Grand had been con sidered as living under a cloud ever since she first took np her abode in the parish <f Chesterford? There was a mystery about her. What was she ever sent Into that part of the country for, at all? What real relation wu Miss Lynch to her? Was thore, In reality, any relationship be* | tween them? What did they do when I they -went to London once In three I years? They had no visitors; they had j scarcely ever any letters; there was evidently something exceedingly odd about them; and they liatf a small In come. Perhaps It was that last sin of omis sion. -which threw out all their other transgressions and shortcomings into such fearfully strong relief. One fact was certain; good society in general had not a dissentient remark to offer whenever the names of Miss Grand and her governess were mentioned. They were not visited; they were Jiving under a cloud. "But you are taking a desperately bold step in asking me to your ball, Mr. Mohun. I suppose you think no one will be angry with you, whatever you do, but I can assure you I hardly think Mrs. Tennant and her daughters will be able to breathe through the evening with me in the room. Jane Grand rft Yatton! the very idea hi too shocking." "Do you think so?" said Glfford, In his tender, melting tones. "New to me the very idea ip too delightful ? Jane Grand at Yatton!" It was a week now since the first meeting in the woods, but Moliun and Jane felt as if they had seen each other dally for years past; as if no break In time had existed between the days of valentines and this delicious rose-col ored present. As Jane protested against the honor of meeting all the county on terms of equality at Yatton 6he was standing? not in a romantic position, reader? but picking raspberries In her own little cottage garden, with that line gentleman, Mr. Gifford Mohun, humbly holding a basin of very ordinary yellow ware by her side. "We shall see what the Tennants think and do," she went on, In that happy voice into which no ring of sor row had ever us yet entered. "But I can hardly picture to my imagination what 1 shall feel when I find myself actually in the presence of them all. Of course, you know, Mr. Mohun, that I am not, and never have been, visited by any of the country people?" "I suppose Miss Lynch has not thought you old enough to go out yet?" said Mr. Mohun. hotly. This fact of .Jane's not being visited was Just the one thing about her that he liked the least. The woman he ad mired ought to be at the head of so ciety.? courted, looked up to, popular ? us he himself meant to be. "It is simply absurd to think of such people as the Tennants not wishing to visit you. I should be very sorry in deed to think of your being Intimate with them." "Why, Mr. Mohun?" "I think I told you once before why I disliked them. Old Tennant made his money dishonestly. It is a disgrace to all the people in this neighborhood that they let his past life be burled for the sake of his present money." "But there are other people in the county beside the Tennants, und they none of them know me., No, Mr. Mo hun, the fuct can neither be denied nor explained away. I am quite old enough to get out; Miss Lynch would have let me go to parties for the last three years If I hod been Invited? but I never liavo been; ond the straugest thing Is," she added rather mournfully, "that I have no Idea why I om excommunicated. I am sui'e Miss Lynch is as nice and ?well educated as any lady In tlio neighborhood, and I have been brought up by her, and I have never done any thing that I know of to prejudice peo ple against me. But still the prejudice exists. Yes, Mr. Mohun, I am not vis ited, and however kindly you mean it, you ore taking a bol.l step lu inviting me to Yatton." If she had known oil the hidden weaknesses of Glfford's heart, Jane could not have played upon them with greater success than she did by the wistful earnestness of this little simple speech. It was disgusting, no doubt, that a girl he meant to love? (he hnd actually progressed thus for In the lost ten minutes)? should have been, hith erto, in a subordinate position to such people os the Tennonts. But was ho not Mohun of Yatton? the possessor of the oldest name, of the best blood, In half the country? Would not his wife bo a member of his family? Would it not be delightful to see the homage with which oil the neighborhood would receive her as soon as they perceived her to be, as It were, hollowed and en nobled by her presence? The Idea did not present Itself under the aspect of vanity or intense selfish ness to Glfford. He thought he should be performing a singularly honorable action In putting public opinion on one side fer the sake of Miss Grand's pretty face; and his voice shook with genuine emotion as, bending over her, low? and this time taking her hand, without subterfuge or concealment. In his? he began to whisper about the Importance of what they thought of each other, not of what the world thought; and how he would not give a ball or any other festivity unless Jane promised to be there; ond "And I hope. Miss Grand, that that will not be the last time y:>u will come to Yatton!" (To be continued.) Trip* For the AilMinwy. It woald be worth while, If we wish the poorer classes to adopt some eensl b?e flourishing food, for philanthropic ladles and gentlemen to make It the fashion at their own tsbles, writes Lady Grerltle In the London Graphic. Lat fhem breakfast on porridge and milk, dine on tripe, nnd end np the evening with stewed onions, cabbages, mashed potatoes and sousnges, and a fresh haddock. "Tripe a la Duchess," "Sheep's trotters a Is Marquise." or "Haddock a la General," "Porridge s la John Bnrhs." "Beans a la Bernard Shaw," might beconfc the fashionable dishes ef the future. WILL SOON tit iii'EN Arrangements Compete For Great Jamestown bhGW PRESIDENT A BIG ATTRACTION Opening Exercises, Bc^lr.riaj r.t Gun rise April 2G, Open v. t'l Salute of S00 Guns by the Norfolk Lijht Ar tillery Blues Conimecioritin^ tbc 300th Anirersary of the Fir?.t Eng lish Settlement in America. Norfolk, Spceial. ? President Roose velt is to be the feature of the open ing day of the Jamestown Ter-Cen tennial Exposition, the official pro-* gramme of which was announced. The opening exercises, which take place Friday, April 2G, wilt bci;in at suimse by a salute of 1100 guns by the Norfolk Light Artillery Bine* commemorating the 1500 th anniver sary of the first English settlement i*r America. The President will reach the cxjn? sition grounds at 11:30 o'clock, after passing on the Mayflower throw;: I* columns of saluting foreign and Am erican warshi|)R in Hampton Unadi. He will be escorted to the reviewing stand on Lees ParatV, in the rear of the auditorium building. The speerli making feature of the programme will begin at once, and in the open air should the weather permit. An invo cation by tlio Kight Kev. Alfred Ma 2tl Handolph, bishop of the dicut^r of southern VTirginia, and a brief in troductory address by Harry St. George Tucker, president of the Im position Company, will precede the President's remarks. "When Presi dent has concluded he will press gold button, and immediately the r.-a ehiuery of the great show will be in motion, a thousand flags will be un furled on the Exposition buildings arut a salute of the nation will be fired l?v the foreign and American ships in the roads and by the garrison at Knit Monroe. At the conclusion of the sa lute the Exposition buntV. will piny the "Star Spangled Banner," the troops will "present arms" and the concourse will stand with uncovered heads. TIiq parade of soldiers and sailor* of the United States under Major General Frederick Grant, will be the next feature. The President will re view the troops from rt grand stand, where also will be gatherer* the hon ored guests of the occasion, including the diplomatic corps, the official eom mittees of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Governors of States, 20 of whom have accepted in vitations to be present. The day will close with a recepSi'?n to President Koosevelt, between f> ami 0 o'clock. Pittsburg is in Danger. Pittsburg, Pa., Special.? J. \V. Ar ras, of the United States engineers corps, who has charge of building the dams in the Ohio and Allegheny riv ers in this vicinity, has submitted & report to the government, in connec tion with the recent llood here in which he says Pittsburg, like Johns town, is in danger of devastation ? some day by a flood causing the loss of thousand of lives and millions of dollars worth of property. Mr. Arras reports that when the catastrophe oc curs it will come with just as littln warning as did the one in the Cone ma ugh valley. Serious Accident. Charlotte, N. C., Special. ? The ex pected happened Saturday morning at 10 o'clock when street ear No. 24 of thp Highland Park line and Senhuarit passenger train No. PW collided .*t the Brevard street crossing, or pas senger, Mr. Wiley Howard, having: his skull fractured and left foi -arm broken, Mr. Lee Martin, conductor of* the car, having both legs fractured, beside.* sustaining other injuries fr?un which he may die and three other pas sengers being more or less badly hurt. This is a particularly dangerous cr.e-v* ing, and no one is surprised at the ten 'hie occurrence. Theodore D. Buhl Dcrd. New York, Special.? Theodore !>. Buhl, president of the Buhl Malleable Iron Works, of Detroit, president ?T Detroit Bank, am* also of the firm of Parke, Davis & Co., ehamieal ami drug manufacturers, dropped dead on Hie street near the Waldorf- Astoiia Hotel, where he had been a guest. Death wns due to uppoplexy. Mr. Buhl was one of a group of steel ma~ natcs, multi-milionaire and prominent I in banking circles in the Middle Wen! J rind the East. His body will bo sent to Detroit for intern cut. Ex-Polico Chief Assassinated. Havana, By Ca! Jo*e A. Yal.i. "X-chief of police of Guinez, Havana province, was as %inated at Gniuc* Wednesday morning. The erimo np parent ly wns political as the victim led the governmental forces in the vineinity of Guines during the A ugvrsl revolution, thereby incuniug vs? rrxirlt enmity that he went to Mexico, fr >m which country he had iust returned. The asHassin, who was a mefncbr of laU rebel army, escaped.