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u ' THE WORDS I Hany i Tvora my tongue has tattered ff<ts brought me sorrow* at eventide, And 1 have grieved with a grieving bitter Over speech of anger and scorn and pride. Bo; never a word in inv heart remembered As I sit with myself at the close of dav. Ha.: pierced with repentance more unavail' in x Than have the words I did not say. The word of ehccr that I might have whispered To a he?irt that was breaking with - weight of woe. The word of hope that I might have given To one whose courage was ebbing Tow. The word of warning I should have spoken In the ear of one who walked astray? Oh. how they come with a sad rebuking Those helpful words that I did not say; / (THE RAID OF THE I By Count St (An out-of-the-wav adventure which be Afr ica. On their way to the river a herd of the author's camp, whereupon they at what happened when the infuriated mon My love of big game shooting has led me to all parts of the world in search of it, amongst other places to the country around the Waso Nyiro Itiver, In ; East Africa, where rhinoceroses abound. After a long march through a more than desolate country, inhabited by superstitious natives who tell 1 blood curdling stories about witches, vampires, and such like pleasant folk. 1 we campea one evening 011 a siupt- ] near some trees. Two friends ot mine who had acoom- " pauied me on my race round the Dark Continent?Monsieur de Rubempre and Beris O'SuHiran. both of them splendid sportsmen?shared one small fire with tne, while our carriers and other attendants made merry a little distance away. I was sleeping the sleep of the just after a meal off a delicious rhinoceros tongue when I was suddenly awakened "by a hideous yell. Sitting up. I saw I)e Rubempre and O'Sullivan come dashing along in very, scanty attire, running as if they were competing for a championship. As they passed me they shouted something?what I could not gather. Astounded, I gazed round In a dazed, half-sleepy fashion, and presently saw my flying friends take refuge behind the sycamore trees which shaded the caiup. Looking in the opposite direction. I was horrified to see n huge rhinoceros moving briskly about at the other end of the camp. Needless to say, I hurriedly got out of bed. 1 1 vras too sleepy and dazed to think of weapons, and was about io join my 1 friends among the trees when the 1 rhinoceros, with an odd little jump. 1 disaDneared in the bushes, leavine one f of our fires stamped out and some of the packs knocked as flat as pancakes. The excitement gradually subsided after the departure of the huge animal, and once more slumber fell upon tbe camp. But it was apparently de-crecd that our peace was to be disturbed continually during that night, for I had just gone to sleep again and was dreaming of shooting rhinoceroses with one shot each, like pheasants, trhea f heard my name pronounced in a ghostly whisper. Opening my eyes, * I saw De Rubempre being over me. "iVhafs the matter?" I asked, sleepily. "Look, man!" he murmured, excitedly: "The rhinoceros is returning with his who!? family!" "Oli. bother the rhinoceros!" I said, turning over lazily: but the Frenchman abook me until I sat up?with very bad grace. Not far off, clearly visible in the bright moonlight. I beheld a whole herd of rhinoceroses, apparently examining the camp. Their looks did not please me. and. rising to my feet. 1 Hatched up my gun. I discovered, however, that with the deceptive light It was impossible to aim with any certainty. Moreover, I reflected that if once the great brutes became infuriated and charged down on the camp, the Zulu saying, "You shall be stamped flat," would not only be figuratively, ' luit literally, exemplified. ' I don't tbink I have ever been so un- 1 -easy as at that moment, for I felt I helpless before this mighty avalnnehe ; of flesh and bone, which the least acci- i dent might send roiling irresistibly to- I wards \is. De Rubempre saw the dan- i ger, too; and although he has proved < his bravery over and over again, he paled, and anxiously looked at the i trees. O'Sullivan only, with his in- I feetlous Irish gaiety, did not for a uiiuute think of the danger. i Presently we detected a movement amongst the herd: the huge brutes seemed to be lining up in some sort of order. "Looks as though they were going to reproduce the charge of Balaclava!" observed the irrepressible O'Sullivan, and I was inclined to agree with him. ' For half an hour the rhinoceroses came no nearer, although they moved round and round us iu clumsy circles. The scene was strikingly weird?those liulking grey bodies flitting through the darkness all about us. Suddenly there was a shriek of "Faro!" from our natives, and with one accord they made for the trees. The jwnuerous animals were charging down towards the camp! **Hcrc come the gallant six hundred!" observed O'Sullivan, and hurriedly swung himself into a tree. The Frenchman aud I aho clambered up anu got our heavy guns ready. O'Sullivan was literally bubbling over with gaiety, in sj)ito of the seriousness of the situation. "Ilooroo!" he yelled, as the great brutes c-aine tearing through ihe brushwood, leaving a clear space behind .tbeio. "Here come the road-makers!" "And here goes the grave-maker," s*nld Do Itubenipro. coolly taking aim. with his rifle resting on a branch. On cam* the monsters at a lumbering gallop. *A shot rang out and down went s heavy mass, raising a thick cloud of grey dust and shaklug the ground. "Bravo! Good snot!" shouted O'Sullivan. "Hfour turn, Schembecb." I had been aiming already, and when l?e spoke I pressed the trigger, but as I fired the brute I was aiming at stumbled over a fallen trunk and came down on his knees, so that my bullet ADly buried itself ir. the broad back, n ... DID NOT SAV So many and sweet: If I had but said them How glad my heart then would have been; What a dew of blessing would fall upon it As the day's remembrances gather in; But 1 said them not and the chance forever Ts gone with tire moments of yesterday, And I sit alone with a spirit burdened By all the words that I did not say. The morrow will come with its new beginning. iTlad and grand, through the mornings gates? Shall I not then with this thought beside me Go bravely forth to the work that waits? Giving a message of cheer and kindness To all I meet on the world's highway, So that I never will grieve at twilight Over the words that I did not say. ?L. M. Montgomery, in Ram's Horn. RHINOCEROSES. anislaus Schembeck. fell a party of big-game hunters in East rhinoceroses found their route blocked bv tacked it. Count Schembcck describes sters charged down upon his party.] "Hud luck!" cried Bevis. "My turn now. Here's for the leader!" The Irishman's bullet brought down a giant animal, which lay on the ground struggling, kicking, and making ai^awfill nnrnsir Thn cenim n-nc nniv r? ^^ri. table pandemonium. Stamping rhheteroses, screaming natives in treA Bevis shouting out mad jokes, and the rapid reports of the rifles combined to produce a bewildering uproar. Clouds had by this tjnie hidden the moon, and we could hardly see to shoot. The intruding animals were tow in among the campfires, and in the twinkling of in eye the flames to the last ember were trodden out. Dimly we could see >ur beds being stamped under foot and scattered, and the packs hurled this way and that. Then for a few minutes we fired a little more surely, for the inoon showed itself again, and five lead animals soon lay stiff on the ground, while not a few others were jadly wounded. Having vented their rage on inanimate things, the great brutes began to think of the men. One of the natives, paralyzed with fear, had been unable to climb a tree." : ind was now staring at the rhinocer- I >ses over the top of a thick prickly lush. Our attention was drawn to the 1 man for the first time by one of the 1 iniinals stopping short and sniffing 1 ound. It did not see the man, but } scented him, and with a bellow of fury 1 t went for the bush like n hurricane. ' We yelled out to the native to save limself, and, roused from his stupor, le sprang to his feet and raced away, ' ivith the animal after him. I slipped I i little farther down the tree and called i :o him, whereupon he swerved rapidly rrom his course and came towards me, < vhile the leviathan stopped short, i flowing up the ground with its heavy 1 'eet. Finally it turned, for all the t world like a clumsy mastifT puppy, t tnd resumed the chase. 1 The screaming native ran towards my t ree, and I held out my hand and 1 lragged him up, telling him to climb ( ip higher. lie did not reed to be told < wice. and went up as high as he could, t luckily for him, as the sequel will t ibow, it was not a tall tree. t The great animal, with ponderous s read, came on after him. Arrived at I he foot of the tree, it stood still, ap- t >arently astonished at the native's dis- t ippearance, and then aimed a vicious ; )low at the tree trunk with its sharp c lorn. I did not iutend to let it denolish my perch so easily, so I slipped lown to the bottom branch, and lean- 1 ng forward, held my rifle point blank 1 it its ear and pressed the trigger. Such c t shot is fatal, and I had the satisfac- i Jon of seeing it waver, take a few \ >teps, and then fall with a crash, its < tfhole weight resting against the.tree, i ivhich bent like a cane. I clutched i ivildly at the branch to prevent myself < 'ailing, and nearly dropped my rifle, s while a crashing, rending noise, fol- i owed by a shriek from above, told < [lint some one had been dislodged by < the shock. Branch after branch was < mapped by the falling of some heavy < body, until finally it hit the stronger i boughs and bounced off to the ground. 1 [ realized then that the native in his i terror had climbed too high up, where < the branches could hardly bear him, i and the sudden jerk had hurled him ] down. i For a minute I thought another 1 rhinoceros would come and crush him 1 before he could get up again, but to j my astonishment he rose to his feet I and limped away at a good rate into 1 the bushes. Evidently he did not in- < tend to trust to tree-tops again. 1 For a short white longer the rhinoceroses wandered about tfle camp, and then their interest shifted to our | wagon, which they surrounded with < the evident intention of upsetting it. ] Ihey had not sufficient sense, however, < to realize that if they pushed on both ] sides at once it would not go down, so j they did not succeed in overturning it. All this time we fired at intervals into i the mass of animals, meanwhile specu- "] biting among ourselves as to why such . a large number of rhinoceroses had. banded themselves together. Presently, to our great relief, they , tired of their sport and moved on ' i- i- rtA lariuer niiu iue v>uueiiitri>?. uv Rubempre and O'Sullivan followed them for some distance to see what , tliey would do next, while I ordered, coaxed, or bullied the frightened natives into descending from their lofty roosting places, where they much resembled a flock of crows. One by one they came down and , gathered round me. shivering with cold , and terror, and casting apprehensive glances in the direction whence the marauding animals had disappeared. . After a time, however, I induced them to relight the fires, and then a few of them went to fetch the wagonoxen. These by a lucky chance had been picketed at a distance in charge of five men. because of the more plentiful pasture there. The damage to our camp was not so great as it might ; have been, although the low tents under which we had been sleeping, our 1 beds, and all the cooking utensils left outside the wagons, besides a few packs thrown down by the carriers, had been so trampled out of shape that It tcook a certain a mound of divination J / -/; -: iJrAnMf-wi ''M; I- -vj. ??Z-ZI? and a vivid imagination to guess wb^t they were. > When De Rubempre and O'Sullivan ramo in they reported that they had followed the herd for some distance. The animals seemed to form a fairly regular phalanx, following a given road. They had gone down to the river, drunk and bathed, and then crossed by a ford and disappeared at a rapid pace 011 the other side. Having hauled the wagons to a fresh camping place?for the old one was trampled inlo mud by the huge feet? we lit great tires and got to sleep at last, with bur bones aching from the nocturnal gymnastics we had been compelled to indulge in. Next morning we discovered a sort of path leading through the country which we had not hitherto noticed because of the spring growth covering the roughly made way, trampled out by the feet of many wild animals during countless ages. It was apparently an animal trail leading to the river. That was as much of the secret of the huge beasts as we could fathom. We had camped across their pathway, barring their way to the water, and they i naturally resented our conduct. And so ended our adventure.?The Wide World Magazine. > MNt|JpS A Berlin physician says that out of 1000 girls who played the piano before the aire of twelve vears he found GOO ?ases of nervous diseases; whereas, ! DUt of the same number who did not play the instrument he found but 100 ?ases. The author of these experiments states that the piano should never be used by a child before the age . >f sixteen years, and only two hours a Jay at the maximum. In the treatment or fractures, gain. 1 lism, faradism and static electricity licve all been used, both in rabbits and n man. by Francesco Blasi. In all \tses the limb was made immovable, [n rabbits the galvanic current reduced Iropsical swelling very rapidly, there ; tvere no signs of suffering, and the ani- ! mals walked and ran at once on removal of the apparatus. One of the four human patients, with a fracture ! ;hat had shown no tendency to unite jfter four weeks, was cured in three iveeks, while the other cases did well, j The conclusions were reached that gal- ' ranism is beneficial in all fractures, it j 'avors the formation of callus, it reluces to a minimum the time of dls?bleinent. and only a temporary splint tnd bandage are needed to keep the imb in place. ^ An important advance in deep-sea surveying, saving much of the labor of 1 iresent methods, is claimed for the L icoustlc sounding of H. Berggraff. a I Norwegian engineer. The depth is estimated from the time taken by keep fifteen or twenty days before showing any acid reaction, sustains many of the tests of true butter, for which it is a better substitute than oleomargarine, and can be produced much more cheaply. Posterity' will face a scarcity of milk and the butter made therefrom, so rapid is the increase of population and so restricted in comparison the available area for pasturage, and perhaps the cocoa tree may come in as the most useful auxil iarv of the cow anywhere to be found. Much may be hoped from Dr. Henner's experiments, as leading the way to others, and possibly to final success, thus utilizing a substance which can be produced practically without limit, and which is of known wholesomeness and purA "To Tnlr a Tooter to Toot.** "What w?d you tell the policeman If you gotiost?" asked a mother of her fonr-year-Bd daughter. "I'd tell a^Lto take me to my papa," answered th<^fcy tot. "But suppose the policeman did not know where your papa was." "Then I'd show him," quickly an- , swered the little one.?Little Chronicle. I Over one-fortieth of China's populu- ; tion of $00,000,000 is slaves* sound to travel to the bottom ana dsck, lie echo from two thousand" feet being eeeived in one second, and the appara:us consists of a transmitter, an acous:ic receiver and a chronometer. The ransmitter is a slowly revolving disc, vhich at each revolution closes an 'lectric circuit and energizes a magnet >perating a vibrating armature. At ?ach contact a sound is sent to the bot-. om of the sea. and the vibrations are lined to the only pitch to which the specially constructed receiving inicroihone will respond. In accurate work, he time of contact and that of the reurn of the sonud are registered with rreat precision on the revolving drum >f a chronograph. Pioneers in science often fix more han one sot. of standards to the ininite embarrassment of their successes. Just now chemists are seeking to lecide upon the important matter vof a mit of atomic weights, and after much ontroversy, have agreed to disagree. Primitive chemistry was satisfied to rive hydrogen the atomic weight of me and oxygen sixteen. This is not sufficiently, exact for modern requirenents, for if hydrogen be fixed at one ixygen will really be only 15.SS, and il >xygen be rated at sixteen, then hy- I i ?i nnx This small I irUnt'Ii W1IX I lOt IV A.vvv. iillerence lias become important. After ts years of deliberation, the International Committee on' Atomic Weights still finds chemists about equally divided between the two standards, and ;o. instead of selecting one, they have published two lists of carefully revised itomic weights of all elements now known, one list placing oxygen at sixteen, and the other based upon hydrogen at one. It is interesting to note that while the report was being printed the German Chemical Society decided emphatically in favor of oxygen at sixteen. , Dr. Henner, a German chemist, has been experimenting with cocoanut oil, and finds that it makes a very satisfactory article of butter. It contains seven per cent, of soluble acids, namely, butyric acid and capric or decyclic acid, which gives the butter a pleasant iroma and savor, making it taste something like hazelnut. This butter will ? SOUTHERN ft TOPICS Oh'.M. ^E'jr TO flit PLAHTER Ts >rsri- 1 ?3 Kdrr!i>? nml IVacli(>?. V Tterry shipping time is liorcv and 1 fi think of r.o subject of creator itupor- L tanee to the ticn-} grower than that of packing and {Trailing fruit. Wo cannot cover the whole ground, but shall touch on some things that have come J under their own observation. e; First, we have oticod that the mar- ?' kets :ire demanding belter fruits and " that it must be better packed and f; jrrade<t Kerry growers are learning n that it pays, and that it pays well, to '' grade the berries, and that nothing tl brings a greater ratio than by making ^ a reputation on n certain grade of her* n ?ies. Commission men tell us that pi irlien a customer gets a good crate of " berries that he will fcike particular no- 11 tice as to how it i? marked, and the A next day he will look through the stack of crates to find that same mart. No ^ doubt if a customer gets a bad crate a he watches in order that lie may not 0 get auother of the same pack. ^ Do yon know, brother grower, wo , are making a record on our pack, and n we are known much better to commis- u sion men by our pack than we even n supnose? We are aware that there arc mam difficulties ail along the pathway, n vmn. we are also aware that the grow- b must be educated up to it. and that P1 it can't be done in one year. Have a some kind of a i^ndel in your mind Vl and keep constantly working toward " it. Every individual should try to ^ make some progress in his packing n each and every year, and co-operations " should keep this in view at all times. ^ Inspection at the shed always creates an effort on the part of the growers to 01 be more careful in grading and packing. 01 Some seem to think that inspection " Is a failure, but we bare always found Jl by careful consideration that every ef- sl fort along the line lias had a tendency n to make the grade better. It is a great educator. Every packer has more or ^ less prkle. It's perfectly natural for 11 us to try to excel in all things. This crops out early in life, when we notice the boy at play does not want to be beaten at any game, and he does not ^ like to stand foot of his class, and he will not if he has proper encouragement and the necessary amount of grit. jr Honesty in packing and grading should be fhe very foundation stone k upon which to build. Facing a poor grade of berries with large, well colored specimens will put any grower's shipment away down below par. Not *. filling the boxes is another way to ruin Jbe sale of fruits. A customer purphases a box, and he wants what he pays for. Poor fruit, poorly packed. ig is instrumental in ruining the market, j while good fruit, well packed, has an opposite influence on the market. It a) takes quite a while to get familiar with j( all the best methods of packing, only those who make a success of it are those who are willing to make a study of it, and are willing to be careful. Most all the methods that bring suecess in packing and grading berries can be used successfully in packing ^ peaches. The time will come when ^ none but tbe very bpst grades 01 nor- QJ ries, peaches or apples will go, anil the sooner we prepare for It the better. m Nothing looks worse to us than to see a basket of peaches, all faced up Avith large, line, well colored specimens, and . Avhen on inspection you And the lower ^ part of the basket full of knotty fruit ^ of small size. Nothing spoils a grower's reputation quicker than a poor pack. Then again ^ It takes a man of experience to know just when to pick fruit. Some will pick too green, while others will make the mistake in allowing the fruit vto get Qr soft. If you will keep your eyes open and watch you will soon catch on when Ju tbe berry or peach Is ready. You must ^ bear in mind that the fruit grower has something to study. Also, remember that th? fellow that studies the market and tries so to pack his fruit is p] soon going to create a demand for his tb brand. Isn't it right that every grower or should be proud of his fruit. He will p be if it's good fruit and nicely packed, ti' A young fruit grower in Eastern bt Georgia has asked me for a few points jt; on how to succeed in the peach Indus- ti' try. Well, a man must be a worker pr and be in earnest. He must bear in m mind that "the weakest must go to the jz, wall," and that in peach growing, as in se other things, a man must "fish, cut bait w or jump ashore." Plant the proper va- -p] rieties in the rieht soil and in the right m manner. He must care for each tree as m the shepherd cares for the sheep of his flock. Work hard against the assaults ai of the encfiiy. to Aliw>rclinrd work must he well done; w, done to a finish. In fruit growing it w Is a race between negligence and Ig- UI norance as to which is the greater at curse. The peach grower must unite 0i with fellow growers for educational tb and business purposes. No waste is to ro be allowed. By-products must be con- be sidered. The grower must be in love, with his work. "No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken." and "the P? labor we delight in physics pain." cc Jets and Flashes. Levi D. Barr, the minister of the 0j Quakers in Los Angeles, married two divorced persons the other day and y( had to make a public confession and ^ ask forgivness at the meeting the next n First Day. 4. With nearly every acre of plowed land In the county promising a big tc crop. San Diego. Cal., "is suffering from P a labor famine. There are not half tl enough men in the county to handle tr the croos. b< On April 22 the real estate men of Oakland, Cal, to the number of over j< 15C. ^alled business off for two or three tt da: ' and with their families and u: fric .'3. enjoyed an excursion to the st San: . Clara Valley fruit farms. k< Cant. John B. Aulin was employed as pilot at Port Arthur when the war ? broke out and the Russians detained him. His wife in Oakland, Cal., who did not hear from him for a year, be- t\ lieved he had deserted her and got a di- <X vorce. The other day he returned with S< >35,000 that he had earned piloting dur- pi Ing the siege, and now there will be, a ei re-marriage. ?' 4 . . * S' "r"l " O , Sf OCX MAN AND TRVCiX GRCWSP. ! =--4 nth siic-li growers the for const for the ature would he most inspiring.?A. il. athnm, in Ilomo a nil Farm. Pott to Make Corn. .rtS I made a good crop of corn last oar. I will try to givo you some of my sperience, for I realize the necessity f tiie Southern farmer growing more arn; in fact, all the corn used on the irm should he grown at home, for lore corn means more hogs and cattle, ' the stalks are shredded, and that il io proper way to manage a corn crop. I'hy burn the stalks when they will ?"?1> i-nliinliln Strtfk will flULII MI1UUUII. * v v-v* . ..... it tbe most of it. and the waste makes ie best of bedding, as it absorbs tbe loistnre. but the crop must be grown rst, so we will talk about that now We always turn the land in the fall itli a No. SO steel oeam piow. as deep s three nuiles can pull, and do not bject to plowing up the clay either, 3r it will freeze and pulverize during :ie winter, and can be harrowed and lixed with the soil in the spring. We suali.v cover with a thin coat of lanure before we start the harrows. After harrowing over several times? lore the better?plant on or a little clow the level, using from l."?0 to 200 ounds of high-grade fertilizer to the ere and then run over Urn field with a coder just before U conns r J, leaving ie lipid level, and when the corn has vo or three leaves it can be harrowed ith the weeder without covering the ttle stalks. In a few days after this e start the riding cultivator and keep going after every rain or every ten r twelve days, always on a level until ie corn gets too tall to plow with the ultivator. and finish with twenty-fourich sweeps, with a two-inch scooter i front, being careful to plow very iinllow. and we have never failed to lake a crop, provided it was planted irly enough, and I think that one of ie greatest mistakes a farmer can take on upland is trying to get all the 3tton planted before the corn land is inched, for it seems as though we re making too much cotton anyhow ? oung Farmer, In Southern Cultivator. The Pencil Grower'* Creed, Under this title we find the follow?<w in tlift T*nor?1i nrnT\*pp* We believe in budding on vigorous, nown good qualities. We believe in pruning, thinning, graying, cover crops, and that the each trees should have entire posseson of the land. We believe that an orchard must be Hi as w?ll as its owner. We believe in high tillage. No. soil so rich that it does not need work'?? We believe in "War to the knife, id the knife to the hilt" against San ise scale, yellows, leaf-curl .and bor's. We believe that pest3 are grindones and whetstones to sharpen the >noh grower's wits. Without them i.v fool could grow peaches. We believe in "A merry life and a lort one" for the peach tree. Better int a tree should "wear out than rust it." We believe that quality and not bulk ensures the fitness of a peach to eat, id therefore the value of a variety. We believe in good fruit, good gradg and good packages. There is only change of one letter between cheap id cheat. We believe in advertising our wares. Ie that bloweth not his own horn, r him shall no horn be blown." We believe in smaller orchards and ?tter care. Large orcharding is not ways the best orcharding, and small cbarding is often the largest. Lastly, we believe In every man provg all things for himself, and in his Jiumg iasi 10 unu wuicu ue uuus. Opposes Mixlug Them. A. J. U., Arkansas: I do not favor anting peach trees and apple trees at ie same time, mixing them in the chard, for the following reasons: Irst, they need different care and culration after they are old enough to >ar well, according to the best authory. A peach orchard needs yearly culvation, while an apple orchard can ofltably be kept in grass when owed and left as a mulch and fertiler. They need pruning at different asons of the year and limbs cut off ould have to be cleaned up twice, bey need spraying at different times, id would take more time if planted ixed; also more time to gather fruit The poach trees in this section last >out as long as apple trees. They live be thirty or more yeara old. so It ould be no object to alternate tnem ith apple trees to take up the space ltll the apple trees need ell the space, which time the peach here would be ily in their prime and be a pity to cut cm down, and I think the dying and tting peach roots would not be a >neflt to the apple trees. High prices continue to bo paid in iris for snuff-boxes of the eighteenth ntury. News of the Day. / What is thought to be a record cllj f mohair from Angora goats has just een sold by a company which lasl ear started a eoat ranch near Taco ia. The goats yielded from four tc ine pounds of hair each, a total ol 500 pounds. Fifty Iggorotes from Luzon, en route ) the Lewis and Clark Exposition al ortland. held a dog feast near Seate on April 23, to celebrate a safe ip across the ocean. They ate foui Mled dogs and had a dance. 9o fond was he of fast driving tha; >sepn Byrne, ambulance driver foi le German hospital, San Francisco, jed to send in false calls from the able at which the ambulance was ept. He had already killed two arses by his driving when he was lught telephoning and confessed. A log raft 700 feet long, drawing venty-flve feet and containing 8,000,K> feet of lumber, is to be towed from ?ttle to San Francisco. The shipng men are afraid it may break up l route and cover the sea with dan>rous floating timbers. v S Aififla Hew Brave. When I so to bed at night. You'd wond0!1 that I dare To go Into the room at all. If I told you what was there* There's an elephant and a tlgerj And a monkey and a bear, A Hon with a shaggy mane , And most feroelous air. > Hut I think perhaps my brarery Will not excite surprise. . When I tell you that their raaste# In a nelK luooMa tho m Una ?A. L; Bunner? In The IIeme? A Cake Carnival, i A fancy dress party to which the ! flrls are asked to come dressed as > some kind of cake is great fun. i Ginger snaps cap be represented by a girl dressed in a snutT-colored costumes. made of cheesecloth, or of some similar material, with big pockets in which she would have handfuls of "snappers," such as are used with mottoes; these she must snap every now and then. Angel cake may be represented by a pretty girl who will look even prettier in a classio drapery of white cheesecloth, with great wings of white cotton batting. If she have flowing golden hair, the illusion will be all the better. Sponge cake may be attired all In soft yellows, with a huge sponge set in the crown of the hat, the brim of which shoul<^be of soft yellow material, like the dress. Bride's cake may be represented by a trailing gown of white cheesecloth, and on the head a veil, and a wreath of artificial orange flowers. A bouquet of white paper roses should be carried in the hand. An election cake will make lots of fun, and few will guess it if the wearer has her gown covered with news. papers, with a fringe of "ticker tape" Jn short lenarths A head dres9 with , bold Inscriptions, such as "Vote for , Home Rule." "Voter for Silver," "Vote , for Cupid," would add to the humor, ous effect. Of course, fruit cake should be represented at such a gathering, and festoons of raisins and currants and small pieces of citron, on a darkbrown cheesecloth dress would designate "her." Nut cake should be represented by a green-and-brown robe, a wreath of green leaves, and bracelets and necklace of filberts and almonds. A dash of white might be added to the costume to represent th^, frost that ripens the treasure store, and novelty might be added by having a stuffed , 'Squirrel perched on the shoulder. A layer cake might be represented by a costume made of alternate rows or folds of brown and white cloth. Other ideas may be easily thought out, and a prize cake should be awarded to the one who guesses most of the costumes, and also to the wearer of the most original costume.?Indianapolis News. A Wicked Mountain Pool. Away and away up in the damp sleepy woods, the little pool lay blinking in the sun and wishing that it could do something exciting. All day long it heard nothing except the "tap tap!" of a red-headed woodpecker or the splashing of the little pool ever since the last big rainstorm. "Dull?" the little trout used *to say to the pool. "Dull? Why, seems to me I never had such fun. You must be mistaken. I'm getting the fattest kind of rare Insects all day long." But the little pool did not care for I insects. So it kept wishing that it could do something exciting. And one day a man came along. He had a fishing rod over his shoulder News of the Day. A pair of crows recently constructed in Bombay a nest out of gold and silver spectacle frames which they had purloined, one at a time, from a factory. The gradual disappearance of the frames was noticed, and when $150 worth had vanished a watch was s?t and the thieves discovered. Addressed on the gummed side, a postage stamp, says The Dundee Advertiser, has been delivered at Fife, Scotland as a letter. , j REVIEW-* ; I The more Magazines 0 Indispensable is The j} ** Indispensable." ** The one ma 9 v.-or!d under a field-glass," " Ar j 3 current literature,"?those are sora 3 people who read the Review cf Reviev fl more necessary is the Review of Reviews is in all the mo& important monthlies 1 periodical literature that nowadays peo 9 with it is to read the Review of Reriewi fl ing section, it has more original matter ai I the most timely and important articles pi 1 fl Probably the mofi useful section of all i a rei: of the World," where public events I I explained in every issue. Many a subs< I worth more than the price of tne magaz depicting current history in caricature, Beviev/s covers live continents, an Men in puhlic life, the members of C i fl captains or industry who must keep " i I women all over America, have decided ^ 13 As tor PLu and anoe and "Looks worms," the took out t trowel around the roots ot ew^^^H the little pool, had great many worms al^^e went his way whistling worse than ever. ^^B The little pool peeked over the edgf^M| of its basin. "Why, here'S\a chanPSM^^H see the world," it muttere<iS. It crej^^^H crept, crept, trickle, trickWk to place where the man had b&en^^HH ging. \f^H That led down hill, and in a monre^^BB the little pool was galloping. The trout screamed to it to stop. ^B But the pool would not listen. So the ^B little fish floundered, buried its head/ in the moist earth, and died. , /"SB The little pool galloped on intone wide world. First it fell into a-4iny ^B stream and there it met scores and ^ hundreds of other little pools and ran hand in hand with them?first along rl o fAHAO^ nlafiAfl o a rl t K nn t\ AWtl uaiA luicot |;iav,Ci3 uuu iuuu uunu great recks and at last into open meadows. Once or twice it helped to turn a mill wheel, but that was not exciting enough for it. "Let us be pirates," it said to the other pools. So they rushed faster than ever when they got into the open meadows, and at last they seized a boat with two children in it and drowned them. .Then the wicked pools ran down and down laughing, to open sea. There they tossed. They rolled. They scouted. They drove ships on^ rocks. They caught others by the heels and sucked them into the black sea. "This is exciting encugh," said the little pool. "Yes?" said the sun. "Well, your time has come." Almost instantly the little pool felt a frightful scalding pain shooting through it. Then it began to feeL/'' strangely light, while its anguish in-*creased. AjjjfsSj "Why, you are turning all feathery and white like a cloud!" said the other pools, and dived in a great hurry to escape a similar fate. The little pool did not know it, but it was turning into steam and going straight up toward the sun. T I ' High up in the air it floated as a filmy white cloud. A hot wind came blowing and wafted it along. It heard voices all around. They sounded muffled, as if they came through fog and wind. "It ran away and left the little trout to die," said one voice. "Let us drop It in the Sahara, where it will ^ vanisn in tne Durning sanas. "Do you know how many good ships ^ it helped to wieck?" thundered* the biggest voice of all. "I will punish It fittingly." Immediately there began a beating ; as of a thousand wings and a blow* ing as of a thousand winds. The lit- / ! tie clouds went scurrying before them head over heels, until at last it hong over a majestic and wonderful land, v Then the wind stopped blowing and left the clouds motionless over a val* ley that was dim with steam. It grew colder and colder. A terrible chlD crept over the little clcud. Suddenly, with a pang of torment, it felt itself falling softly. Down, down it went, white and cold in a thousand snowflakes. It fell straight into the valley, and when it met the gray mists it turned to water , again and so fell, with a rush and a hiss, into the very hottest place in the world. So hct was it that the little pool ] frothed and bubbled. Its agony was so great that it changed to steam and leaped upward only to turn into .water again as it met the mists and~ , "fell back into the hot pit i And that is what it is doing to this day?and if you ever visit the Yellow* stone national park and go to see the Geysers you will see the little pool hissing and roaring with pain, rise spouting from its prison in steam, on* | ly to condense to water again and Tall back intojts place of punishment ?New York Dally News. Odds and Ends. The steamship Olympla arrived at Seattle April 30, with 610 Japanese laborers aboard, who are to be distributed along the sections of the Oreat Northern railroad. A concrete chimney that has been completed for a Tacoma smelter re- " s cently, is 307. feet in height, and Is said to be the highest in the world of its kind. ' | Reviews ] i there are, the more Review of Reviews *0 Marine I feci I must take," M The i education in public affairs and e of the phrases one hears from noted w. 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