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The Work of the Missionaries.

Mr., Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist,
gave expression Mt Samoa the other day to
his views regarding missionaries They
are interesting. Among other things he
said: "Our religion and our morals are per-
haps only tentatively Christian, but our
civilization is essentially and truly Roman
At being Christians, the Polynesians make
as good shot as we do. They have besides
never enjoyed the advantages we possess Of
the ciyilizing and energizing power of the
great Roman empire. The missionaries
who came to the South Seas came exercis-
ing three distinct functions. They were,
first, representatives from Christ, bringing
his Gospel for men; they were legates from
Rome, representing those who were the in
heritors Of Roman civilization, and they
were travellers for Birmingham. One of
the most surprising things to notc was the
iugratitude Of the trader and the merchant
to the missionary. True. we might have
found q position by means Of money and
guns, but at what cost! We owe more to
the missionaries who pacifled, reassured
and partly Christianized the natives"
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A gentleman was known by his acguaint-
anccs to have certain iniirmities of temper
which had to be endured by his family.
On one occasion Il friend CHANGED to be
present Mt breakfast ut the house It was
in August, Mr.. X. had not slept we'll and
all his British blood was aroused He
found fault with everything and declared
that there was nothing on tho table fit to
eat. After one thinga and another had been
sent away Mrs. X. had some eggs, freshly
laid the day previous and boiled to suit hcr
husband, put before him. He looked at
then. GROSSLY Il moment, then took one up
and broke it.
How often have told YOU my dear"
he said in tone anything but endeariug,
that did not want eggs in August DO
you see how light the color of that ist''
"Well,' his wife asked, "what if it is
light colored: 1t is perfectly freshn
FRESH" her husband rctorted angrily;
chats nothing. It's light color shows thut
there's no good in it, 1t stands to reason
TINT III such warm weather hens get de-
biltatcd and lay debilitatcd eggs Ii you
really cared what have to eat you would
have thought of that"
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The Federation of womcn,s Clubs.

Representatives Of siXtr-four woInen's
clubs met recently in New York city for
the purpose OF perfectlng an organization
intended to better the condition Of women
al large as wellas the members of the clubs
comprising it, Delegates were present
from as far vest us San Francisco and as
far south as New Orleans The title finally
chosen was The General Federation of
Nolnen's Clubs.' Among the bright
things said in the course of debate was this
by Mrs. Jenny June Croly: 40 an earnest
woman cooperation is rs large ~ thing as
the universal world; to many, however, it
only means to starta grocery" This meet
ing coming rs it did directly after the con-
sention of the working girls societies, in
dicates an interesting agitation along what
are practically new lines of thought. That
the tendency is to grade women more nc
cording TO their ability than their pocket
books is shown by;s remark made bv Miss
Grace II. Dodge, president of the Associa-
tion of Working Girls societies, i'll an adj
dress which she delivered before tile fedora
ton. She told Of 4 member Of II working
girls society who sent her cook to the con
rcnton, knowing that she had the more
brains Of the two and would make the better
delegate. THE cook" added Miss Dodge,
read paper which wls one of the best
heard at the congress-"
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AuP'Aiy -''--1-1'
until, presently, it was all gone, and iu-
stead OF being he mistress of big house,
always open to her friends, she became the
mistress Of the little shop over in Brook
lyn. @# a@G@
For few years she struggled bravely to
make living by selling her simple wares,
and succeeded fairly we'll. But after time
the great dry goods stores became 50 at
tractiye that Brooklyn women stopped
buying their tritles Of her, and starvation
seemed to be not very far away But it
CHANGED that when she first opened her
store some Kind friend had made for its
window biz rag doll with little ones
grouped about it, which was labeled 'The
Old woman in the shoe.n This attracted
the attention Of Il little girl at about the
time when the doll woman's" prospects
seemed darkest. The girl bought the rag
dolls, More were made. which sold readi-
is, and now Margaret Ball makes com
Portable living from the traffic. 4 Kind
brooklyn society girl takes time to paint
the faces of the dolls, and they are regular
" on sale at the exchange OF the Young
WomenSs Christian association In New
York aud at the various other womcn's ey-
changes III the same city
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WALT WHITMAN'S HOME.
A VISIT TO THE HuMBLE DWELL.
ING OF THE "GooD GRAY POET"

The Aged Glorifier of America Sends
Greeting to "tl,c Boys''-The Surround
ines of the Man Who Has Worked and
Suffered Much
copyright, 1880, by American Press Association ]
Give my regards to all the boys in New
York city, and don't forget it."
This remark, uttered in full rich tones,
was accompanied by a hearty hand clasp
Who was the person to voice this CHEEKY
farewells
1t was not IL prosperous merchant, sell
sufficient in the pride Of success, Or gay
young fellow about town at peace with all
the world because of inherited millions,
but a poorly clad old man chained by dis
ease to his chair in a dingy room sur
rounded with no luxurics aud few com
forts-an ancient sage with kingly countc-
nance, benignant eye and heart still full
of hope and love Of humanity, despite the
bullets, the disappointments and the sor-
rows of three score years.
1t was Walt Whitman.
Poole's "IndeN of Periodical Literature"
contains reference to over twen,y articles
published in the leading magazines of
Europe and America relative to this man
and his work He Is accorded the same
recognition rs Il poet that is given to
Wagner as composer, yet, less fortunate
than the author Of "Parsifal, !" he has had no
mad monarch" to recognize his genius
and force for him hearing. Instead, he
has trod alone, but untlaunted, the thorny
path OF Individuality, and now, with serene
indifference to environment, gaZes fearless
~ out toward the sioreess sea on which he
must soon embark M@@#% @I.00.
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will take long time for the literary
world to recover from the alleged joke per-
petrated by The Frankfurter Zeitung as
an April FooP' on its readers. It's edito-
rial page Of March 27 announced the dis
covery of mass of Goethe relics in long
buried nook of the Goethe house in Frank.
Tort, among them being an unprintable
poem entitled '"The Joy of Love" The ac-
count closed by stating that the collection
would be on view at the Goethe house April
!. Ihe zeitung's story was copied by its i'm
mediate exchanges the next day. found its
way to Berlin March 20, and was promptly
cabled to all parts of the world. As q
result on April 1 Frankfort was visited
by some fifty Goethe worshipers from all
parts OF Germany, five from Austria, three
from IRON rance and two from England. That
they were angry on learning the truth is
to put it mildly The lie, however, is still
on ITS travels, and pilgrims are reported
hurrying to Frankfort from the United
states and other distant civilized countries
of the world
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li0ulan.er's Neglected Wife.

No more pathetic spectacle confronts the
eyes of the world than that of Mime. Bouian-
ger. Hers is n sad, though handsome face in
whicl. pain has cut more lines and grooves
than time, while to listen to her low, sweet
voice is to wonder how the general can en-
dure passing any Of his days beyond tho reach
OF its subtle music. She Is a gentle little heart
broken lady, from whom the iron hands Of
ambition have clutched all that she found
best in love. And she has not even the salts
faction OF knowing that the man who turned
the sunshine OF her earlier days into the bleak
desolation of the present ever gives her sim
gle thought. Still she does not condemn him.
ut is not for me to judge him" she sometimes
says when some one accosts her concerning
him; 1--WE loved each other once! Some day,N
she usually adds, she will need my love again.
do not wish to be divorced from him be.
cause want to retain the right to cure for
him when all the rest OF the world forsakes
him-when, save his wife, ne has no friend"
Paris Figaro
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Then he added his message of regard to

Then he added his message of regard to
the boys in New York ," and we parted.
At the foot of the stairs stood the two
faithful watchers. The dog bounded up
the steps; with the woman / stopped to
chat a moment. "You did right,'' she
smiled sadly, mot TO bother him with cues
tions He is over 70 now, and the years
bring their weight m%.aa
Outside the sun shone the birds sang and
the boys played. Within the doors sat the
uncomplaining patriarch who has chantcCl
the might and glory of America. and vet
strange to say--has gained greet er applause
and more practical sympathy beyond the
seas than from the land he celebrated. -Four
years ago on this side the ocean the lumor-
o'ls papers were publishing Whitmancsquc
poetry and laughing over tbarbaric yawps"
Simultaneously with their doing so the
artists and literary men Of England were
getting generous response throughout
the length and breadth of the British isles
10 the appeal contained in this circular:
Walt Whitman starving.
"A mans ransom wanted The victim
is in the hands Of relentless enemy, who,
If the ransom be not speedily paid, will i'm
mediately t12hke an end of him Will his
fellow nen put forth hand to keep one Of
the worlds immortals n little longer here
y SiAA lutS tiloh ltalu II take llln ere
his timeF'
April II, 1857. Mr. Whitman lecturc,l Mt
the Madison Square theatre. New York. on
Abraham Lincoln. The aifair was man
aged by number Of prominent literary
men, and the house was crowded Yet, in
order that the poet might 90 home with
300 in his pocket, Rev. Robert Collyrr add
ed handsome sum to the net proceeds Of
she affair
Walt Whitman was born March 81, 1919,
on Long Island, Despite the rcverscs Of
life he can look down today from the serene
heights OF philosophic solitude and send the
world q message like this:
Thanks III Old age thanks ere ie1,
Tor health, the midday sun, the inpapahle air
for life, mere life,
For beings, groups, love deeds, words, books
for coIprs, forms.
Forall the brave, strong rn.n-,lcvotet. hardy
men-N!"re forward elruug IN freedoms
llelp. all years, all lands.
F"r Drawer stronger, more Devoted ,nen.Ja sr,..
cial laurel ere 90 to iIf.7s wars chosen
The cannoneers Of song and rilallel.;-tlie great
urtiilerymchthe foremost leaders, can.
ans of ,he.soul:l
~ soldier front an endet! war return d-as travel
or on, Of myriads, to .ir long procession
retrospective,
Th"siss-5oyfnl thanhs:-;. soi.lisrs Travellers
thanks.
t'nT-, c n \5oroX
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sake. Make 1t foil for purity.-n
told him of passages in his writings
which admired and referred particularly
to My Captain that eloquent lament
that marks the marty1dom of Lincoln like
monument. 1quotcd:
E1ult, OH! shores, and ring. oh bolls;
But ], with mo,linfu tread,
Walk the deck; my captain lies
Fallen, cold and dead.
I'm glad you fancy that he said
quietly. "1 thank you for your appreci-
ation.''
Not word of self praise; not Il syllable of
self depreciation; u simple proud humility
in the Acknowledgements of pleasure that his
printed thoughts were remembered bv n
stranger.
l had outstayed the moments to which
was pledged to limit my visit rose to 60.
anu our hands met III friendly farewell.
Stay he exclaimed. "Do YOU care for
th1s:' and he wrote with firm stroke the
following;
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THE LITTLE ROSE OF SHANE.

saw little rosebud,
AS went down the lane,
Not yet bloom. said III wait,
Till come back again
Tomorrow, Or perhaps some day
The sunshine and the rain
May open out the bud upcuryed,
And will call my ape-
The rose, white rose of all the world
My sweet white rose OF Shane.
Tomorrow went back the way
And needed not the rain
That shimmered in the white, white SUD,
Aslant, athwart the lane.
It was the suplest, sweetest sun,
The sweetest, tupliest rain;
Yet but heard tho Whispering, g..
Ihat came akin 10 pain,
From up the glebe where / had left
My rose, white rose Of Shane.
There was mill wheel by the way,
asked the miller's swain
IL he could tell me ought that happened
Since came down the lane.
Yet but heard his answer,
In the mill wheels sad refrain,
In the dripping Of the water,
As 1t fell akin to pain,
"Ab, met" Bome one had ta'en AWAY
My rose, white rose OF Shane.
Atlanta Constitution
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When travelling around through Siam it is
constant surprise to see such numbers of
strong, healthy looking men and women ly-
ing around, with apparently nothing in the
world to do but smoke cigars and chew betel
The idleness is largely due to the fact that the
wants of the common people are so few and
simple and SO easily satisfied
The climate is such that clothing, as a pro.
lection from cold, is needed only through the
night and early mornings for about four or
five weeks Of the year: the ra-lainder Of tho
year clothing seems to be looked upon rs Ii
real nuisance, and the less native can get
on with the better.--DemorcSt's
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African SuelArs

The largest but not the most interesting
feature Of Herbert Wards African collection
is seen III the sheaf Of spears He has collected
startling number Of them. Each tribe has
distinctive kind Of spear and the spears re-
selnhle or differ from each other according to
the distance which separates the tribes They
bear a pretty close general resemblance,
however, since all arc made with wooden
haiilies and leaf siiuped iron blades. Many
OF the tribes have small spear for active
business and l';rge one for dress parade, :
Now Nnrs Sl.n
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DEER LODGE, MONTANA, MAY 3, 1890:

Worte" usually attributed to him, and the
wife of William Hense-, the distinguished
painter. Her father, IL wealthy banker of
Berlin, objected to the world at large know
ing that his daughter was Il "musical blue
stocking" She overcamc his scruples, re-
ceived honors almost equal to those accord
cd her brother Felix and then gently faded
away, retaining, even to the last, the deli
cato beauty for which she was celebrated
throughout the Prussian capital.
1t was different with Sontag. When she
retired from the stage in 1925 at the early
age of %, after becoming the wife of Count
Rossi, mankind looked upon her titled hus.
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The little bodies called eye stones are really
portions of the covering of certain shell fish.
They are placed ut the opening of tho shell,
and serve to close the entrance when tho ani-
NAL draws itself within. They are of various
kinds, but those used as eye stones arc hard,
stony bodies, about the size of split peas,
one-third to one-sixth OF an inch in diameter,
little longer than broad, having one surface
plane and tho other conYex.-Nnture
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One day, hundred years ngo, Il benavo.
lent looking man, clad like farmer, mean
dered into factory. The men were taking
their noon. "My lads" asked the stranger,
"what are you doing7' "We're doing moth
ing now" answered the men, "but presently
We shall be eating our dinner OF bacon and
beans" "Good" exclaimed tho stranger,
"And If you have no objections will eat
bacon and beans with you"
The farmer like stranger was his majesty
George III, and ever since that day, In com
memoraton Of that event, the second Satur-
day in July is celebrated at the arsenal.
There is given what is called the "beap feast y
and folk gather from all over tho kingdom to
participate therein.- Chicago News.
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The American Cottonseed Oil trust are now
running mill for making paper from the
huls remaining after nll tho oil has been
squeezed cut OF the cottonseed. They are con-
tempating the erection OF lOO-ton mill for
the same purpose. These hulIs have hereto
fore been considered worthless 1t las so far
proved so successful that tho tr.,st PROPOSE
erecting mills at different points in the cot
ton raising country. Or course, this will!
somewhat revoutionize the paper trade. st.
Louis StatiDtIer
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An Errnr In the Hihln.

The son Of the Rev. Dr. H. Adler has dis
tinguished himself by detecting a printer's
error in u recent issue of tho Bible from the
Cambridge Press. In the thirteenth verse OF
Isaiah, Xviii, the letter "r" instead of tho
letter II" has been used to commence the
word Foundations DIR. Adler drew the at
tention of Dr. Wright, librarian of the British
and Foreign Bible society," to the error, and
the latter obtained from the Cambridge Press
for Master Adler tho guinea which the Press
offers to any ono who discovers mistake
jewish Chronicle.
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lsctlceinins the Sahara Desert,

The encroachrnent of the Sahara desert
upon tho bordering country is being fought
by every means that man can devise One
company now trying to redeem the desert BY
irrigation has sunk nine wells and planted
5000 duto trees. 1t has 900 acres of pro-
ductive land reclaimed from tho desert. wat
cred by twenty-five miles of irrigating canals
The question as to whether or not irrigation
produces malaria is being discussed as med
ical and industrial problem, n,-New York Tele
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n c w Hampshire
volunteers, us Il
q ru m m cr b boy,
Jan s, 1864. lie
was still II baby
when his parents
re N we'd from
Quebec to North
Is Il Ii gor, n. y.
L he y afterwards
took up their resi-
dence in Concord,
n. H., and it was
from there t hat
the boy went to
tho war, IJis tn,,
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Women ,yho Are Florce Fighters.

The French find that in warning with the
amazons OF Dahomcy they must lay aside
all yestiges of courtesy to the weaker
SEX" The nmazons have taken the field
to kill or be killed. When victorious they
mutilate their victims. It was in retalia-
tion for a barbarity of this sort that
French officer recently caused q half dozen
of the black female warriors to be decapi-
tated. The fight still goes on, and at last
reports the Africans seemed to have the
better Of the cuntest.
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farms, and carries to refugees the ncccs-
saries of life and the means of escape.
Meanwhile engineers and inventors are
rackIng their brains; To puzzle out some
way for claiming the Father Of Waters and
other obstreperous American streams.
When they solve the problem they will be
more deserving of honor chan If they had
given the world a new explosive, or Il meth
od ct rapid transit by balloon
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Laundry Teachers Wanted,

A highly successful laundry managed by a
lady is that of Mrs Leith Wright's at En-
Held, England, known as tho Cottage laun-
dry. She says that the secret of good wash
ing is to use the best materials and to rinse
each article with great caro- before 1t is
roned. Mrs. Wright is continually asked
whether she cannot supply pupils to take up
posts as superintendents. Another lady has
successful laundry Mt Acton she trades uu-
der tho name OF Miss Edwards" There Is
another even greater demand In the laundry
business just now than those establishments,
and tho call is now for tenchers Philatlel-
phia Ledger
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Mr.. Highart-Ycs, believe in the cultiva-
tion of art among the masses Artistic taste,
no matter where found or in what walk of
life, is of incalculable value to the possessor.
Mr.. Humdrum-Well, differ with You.
My wife spent eighty dollars last year taking
art lessons, and then Oh Christman she gave
mo 1--we boxes OF cigars-selected by the pict.
ures on the cover-New York Weekly.
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She Spent Too Much Money

Pelatiah Ely, of Long Meadow, Mass,
has found that marriage at So is not sue
cess. He welded Mrs. Lucy A. Morse, aged
20, about year ago. Now he has abon-
doned his home and sought refuge with his
relatives. He complains that Mrs. Ely
spent too much money IN Sticking up, tie
house.
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Il rise with the sun.
"Com1nendnble hnbit''
Regular as a clock, you see Up winter
and summer at the same hour"
mot ut all."
''Eh3"
81 say not at ull The sun yaries its time
OF rising fully two hours through the year"
swell, l declared I never thought Of
that. at."-Chicago Ledger.
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How Beauty In Preserved.

Mrs. Langtry, to whose complexion all con-
cede the palm, takes cold plunge every
morning. Patti never uses water on her
face. Before retiring, or in dressing, her
ince is generously anointed with cold cream
and allowed tn remain on as long as practical
blc.-Teressa H. Deans Book.
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THE "DOLL WOMAN,~
A Choery Little Parsonage Who Caters to
the Children.

the Children
In dingy little store on back street of
Brooklyn lives asmiling old woman, named
Margaret Ball, who works from daylight
until dark, and sings as she works. II the
seventy years which she has seen have put
crack In her voice, they have not robbed
it of all its sweetness, by any means.
A glance in at the door OF the little store
makes one think Of the shop of Dickens
Jenny Wren, whose back was bad and
whose legs were queer. And, moreover,
there is striking resemblance between the
two, in that the little Brooklyn store is
used for much the same purpose as was the
little London room-doll's dressmakin9,
The CHEEKY Little Doll Woman" as the
Brooklyn dolls dressnaker is known, has
II pathetic history, but no one would ever
know of it if they waited for her to tell Is.
She is not one of tho gentlewomen who
constantly talk of the good times that nre
gone, but she is none the less a gentle
woman, and she has seesl much better times.
When she was n dainty little girl instead
OF the dainty little old woman that she is
now her parents were rich and lived in
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pany saw lively service. for he carried his
drum through five bnttles-Cold IIarbor,
Drury's Bluff, Petersburg, Seven Pines
and Sandy Bottom-and half IL dozen en-
gagemcnts of less Importance, before he
was mustered out, Dec. 10, 1861 lie is not
likely to forget the year he spent as
drummer boy for Uncle Sam, as one of his
Knees was permanently injured in battle
AIR. White was married when he was but
10 years old, and has one daughter and
three sons. lie is a carpenter by trade
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He Refuses His Liberty.

The Duke of Orleans, who is imprisoned mt
Clairvnux for returning to France in vio.
lation of the law banishing from the coun-
try all pretenders to the throne and their
heirs, has refused to accept conditional free
dom at the hands of the government. Tho
duke will add another chapter to his ro-
.>'-'.ae soon Inv being married In prison.