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these fearful commissions, but 50 far
as actual knowledge goes one is as
likely to be correct, or as faulty, as
any other. II Is just the same with
earthquakes. Just what produces an
earthquake is as much a mystery to-
day as it ever was. The subject fur
nishes as much material for scientific
speculation today as it did centuries
ago. but beyond the speculative stage
it has not passed. 1t is remembered
that at the time of the Charleston
earthquake number of scientists
went to the scene Of disturbance and
subsequently reported their conefu-
sions. and it is an interesting fact
that nearly every one had different
theory.
It is more than probable that the
future viii be but a repetition of the
past in this respect. There are forces
and actions in nature which she
guards with apparently jealous care,
and which the human intellect IS as
unable to fathom or explain as hu-
man Ingenuity is at a loss TO guard
against them by any precautionary
measures
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WHERE SCIENCE FAILS.

From the moment the earth was
formed until the present day its hid
den forces have manifested them
selves in the guise of volcanic and
seismic disturbances. These pbe-
nomena have been studied and pom
dered by the scientists of all ages,
and explanations galore as to the
originating causes have been vouch-
safed. Yet mankind is but little the
wiser for all the Investigations that
have been undertaken, and human in
genuity has been unable TO combat
these forces Of nature, or even to find
reliable means to foreteH them.
When Vesuvius burst forth and
buried Herculaneum and Pompeii it
had been thought to be an extinct
crater. Since Mont Pelee spread ruin
and desolation round about. 4 half
century ago, all danger from a Ike
catastrophe was believed to be past
In both instances human calculation
has been at fault. and human life has
paid. the penalty of human ignorance
There have been, OF course, theo-
ries innumerabIe rs TO what produces
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The paragraphs which are going about
in the press with regard to the late Frank
Stockton suggest an anecdote which ap-
peared in The Bookman" some years ago
when ''The Lady or the Tiger" was
piquing eyerybody's curiosity. About that
time. at reception given BY the Authors.
Club to Rudyard Kipling. Mr.. stockton
was introduced and presently remarked
that he had often thought of visiting
India
DO so, my Gear fellow said KipIing.
-fonly think it's fair to tell you before
hand what We shall do to you when you
arrive. You will be seized and bound and
laid out at full length. and then one of
our largest elephants will be brought up
and made to poise his foot directly oySr
your head while I say in my most pc
suasive tones: Now, Stockton, tell me
which was 1.-THE Lady or the Tiger p -
This question in scme form or other.
met Stockton at every turn. and from the
most unlikely persons. He used 10 tell
how on one occasion. when he was on his
way to Newport he rushed down to the
Fall River boat and caught it just as the
gangplank vas being hauled in. It was
the height of the season, and all the
staterooms were taken Mr. Stockton
hunted up the purser and asked him
whether some place could not be pro-
vided other than the ordinary hunks in
the lower cabin
Well" said the purser. there is an
officers stateroom. but dom think that
it would be right for me to let you have
*
Mr.. Stockton tried to persuade him,
gave the purser his card. and limited at
a liberal tip. An inserutable look came
into the purser's face. and then he said:
Well. l haven't any business to give it
to you, but I viii if you'll let me know
which came out-the Lady or the Tiger.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
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THE DISCOURAGEMENTS OF LIFE.

IFE'S burdens are many and
weighty; we cannot escape frnn
IL them. try as we will: from the
cradle 80 the grave some one Of
them IS always hanging on our spirit-not
aIwevs fitted to the strength of the bear
er But OF all OF these. says writer in
the "PIttsburg Telegraph" the
most woeful one IS encouragement Il is
more than burden; it IS a deadly chill
ing fog which weighs down the limbs in
tangibly. but with fearful fcrce, cIogging
the energies, sitting ambition, often dull
ing even the active sense OF right which
must be the guiding star Of every man
who progresses.
We are naturally impatient We human
heings. and We not infrequently cry out at
the sIowness OF results. Not one in a
thousand among Us realizes that each in
diFiduaI atom, be he prince or paupcr,
scientist or street digger, leader OF men
or diver for pearls, is but a tiny part OF
the complex whole OF human life The
instinct Of the manager is strong within
each one of US, and whatever our point Of
vantage We are inclined to look at the
rest Of the world from a solitary height.
which gives US distance and which we de-
sire would give us superiority to the cir
cumstanees OF which each man IS a little
but aIl-powcrfui center.
man is born whose soul is gifted with
clear vision He sees the little right and
the aT-powerful wrong in the world Of
men; ne knows the powers that are and
the powers that should be; he feels that
'-inhumanity to man which makes the
countless thousands mourn - and he sees
also what most do not-the weeDings Of
the thousands, their sordid misery, their
degradation, their suffering of soul. mind
and body, but though he spend all the
years Of his life. all the wealth OF his
heart in striving to mitigate the wrong,
he can do so little that its sum is invisible
10 any eyes save those from which he has
literally wiped away the tears. the poor
unimportant unknown whom he has helped
from their mourning to better conditions.
But some day discoura cement settles
down over him in some hours, for It is a
fact that the spirit which is given clear
vision is also susceptible, peculiarly and
exqaisitely susceptible. to those influences
which bring pain to the fist person And
then unless he is one Of the philosophers
Who realize the infnite Iittleness Of the
Individual in the whole. he is plunged into
despair Diseouragement, the giant fog,
seizes hold of him. paraIyzing his. ener-
gies, stunning his hopes, and making his
days and nights stretch out. all one duh
hfeless gray Of impotency to his vision.
The remedy lies IN narrowing Of our
vision to our own labor and its results.
Net one Of as lives in the world whose
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HISTORY ITSELF IS FAR MORE
ROMANTIC THAN FICTION

without regard to law. The grayest
moraIists Of the time, Protestant or Ro-
man Catholic, agreed that It was Iegiti-
mate in the private citizen to kill the
''tyTant." by which thew meant the man
who oppressed others by violence and
disregsrded all right We who live ID
times when no one can put himself above
control by the state are perhaps no fair
Judges of their deeds or opinions. We
hear of the courtIy grace of this gentle
man or that Il was a fine eleth Of gold
woven 10 unutterabIe brutality. We need
not believe every word Brantome wrote.
but ne is too fully confirmed by more
sober authorities to be rejected wholly.
The accomplished gentlemen who built and
lived in those beautiful chateaus did things
at which a Hooligan would shuader The
noble Bayard gained a reputation for su-
peThuman virtue by, once in his life, not
acting like an unspeakable scoundrel to
two defenseIess women. The praise he
earned justly is the condemnation Of his
generation II boasted OF doing all the
wickedness mendaciousIy laid to the
charge of our soldiers in South Africa.
What, indeed. was not possible when the
King OF France could give his son. the
Duke Of Orleans who become King Heu-gg
IL. the lesson told in the memoirs Of Well
IeyiIle? Their authority is. indeed, very
dubious, but they are contemporary. and
the tale more than bears out Guizot's
judgment It tells how the duke and his
gentlemen sat over the wine and Dragged
of what they would DC when the king
was dead, hoy they were overheard by a
fooi-a motley foeI-and how he revealed it
all TO King Francis Then his majesty
sent for the lieutenant of the Scots Guard
and ordered him to arrest the prince, with
all his suite, and wreck the house The
duke was warned in time and took hiding
in the forest. and his gentlemen gaIIoped
for the frontier, while the Seotchmeu. al
ways punetuaI in the discharge Of duty,
smashed his furniture 20 small bits and
drove mis- inferior domesties through the
upper windows with halberGs. SUCH was
the courtly grace of those artistic ages
London Standard
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THE MOVEMENT TO. UNITE
TIE KINGDOMS OF THE VIKINGS

/ integrity of the kingdom. ami, though
Denmark IS not equally threatened. 1t is
a somewhat remarkable coincidence that
the Danish premier's late utteIAnce was
made during the debate on the appoint-
ment OF q national defense committee.
Optimists may regard the danger as
chimeTicaf. and urge that as Russia al
ready enjoys as free access to the ocean
as the other Baltic powers, and is under
no disadvantage, as at the Dardanelles.
she has no temptation to disturb the
statu quo But to argue thus is 20 ig-
more the experience Of history that the
aims Of Russia, being always military
and political, are exclusive in method, and
cannot be satisfied with, the policy of the
topen door" Shrewd observers have
oDined that the forcibIe assimilation Of
FiBlend marks the preliminary stage IL a
forward movement against Sweden with
which the grand duehy has so many ties
OF sympathy. history. and race a pre-
text for dispute need never be wanting
The repeal OF the treaty of 175f proridfng
for the reciprocal migration of the Rvs
sian and Swedish Laps is a constant
cause Of local squabbIe. and even Of Dip
lomatie threats. and might at aay. noznenH
lead to 3 rupture OF relations. Neu-
trality, far from being a safeguard to
Sweden in time of need. would only facilt-
tate heFi destruction BY giving no tir=.:a
for the Intervention OF her friends. and
h. Hedin.s policy stands condemned on
grounds both Of patriotism and prudence.
Sweden and Norway, and In this connec-
zion Denmark must now be added, owe it
to themselves TO assert and, as far as
possible 70 maintain their position as in
dependent members of the family of ma
tions- They are not likely to want. for al
lies in time of peril It is the common
interest OF Europe. to see that the small
Ter powers are not overwhelmed. ana
this is pre-eHainentIy so in the case of the
scandinavian Kingdoms as guardians of
the narrow sea which cons itutes the Glib
raitaF OF the north
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energies and life may not be spent for the
ultimate good OF the race-wbich is the
last and prefgured by a heaven whose
stroass are paved with gold and whose
gates Of pearl enclose only the righteous.
The mother whose hands are never still
save when folded in sleep. is building
towers OF strength or Illusion for the fu-
tuTc. in the characters of her children;
the student who is striving to eIucidate
present perplexity by borrowing light
from the dim and dusty past. is laying the
foundation Of thought for men yet unborn;
the smallest seulIery maid cleaning her
pets and kettles scrupulousIy is adding
s1InethtBg TO the sum of which the future
IaIl be the unweaving and finally the &C.
luton. The worldwide view is not nee
essary for all of as va may dig away for
the truth without ever dreaming OF the
countless other diggiugs going on all over
the world. When the great view is given
We should never allow it to blind US to the
right proportions of things.
Because there is much evil to be coun-
teracted is reason Why we should fight the
more against encouragement which comes
of too much seeing, for the good cause
needs al the energies of each generation
10 bear Il little further along in its
progress against the tide of selfshness.
bigotry, superstition. and ignorance, which
rose in the past and still flows with we'll
nigh resistless force to overwhelm the
weaker ones Of the world. Our best may
be little best but let US do It and glad
", never thinking that our work is hope
less because We are helpless 10 accom-
piisF all that we know should be done.
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THREW AWAY A FORTUNE.

Once. without knowing it, Lord Kitch-
ener threw away 10000. says Tit Bits. +"
It was when the British troops evacu-
ated shendy. on the Nile. after the faH of
Khartoum, in 1875. Large quantities of
stores and provisions were ordered to be
destroyed because OF want OF means for
transporting them
among other things were 1000, 600
rounds Of various sorts of ammunition.
al Of which was to be thrown into the
River Nile. To Kitchener fell the duty
Of seeing these orders carried out. and.
accordingly. he had every case taken out
by boats and dropped into the middle of
the river.
After It was all over, and the troops
we're well on their way down stream
again, it was discovered that among the
cases Of ammunition were two large cases
filed, not with projeetiles or cartridges.
but with real golden English. soyereigns-
e10, 600 ia each case.
No attempt has as yet been made to
recover this sunken treasure, which is By
this time doubtless buried beyond resur-
rection in the mud OF the Nile.
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THE WIZARDS DAUGHTER.

1t was the Wizards Daughter that paced
beside a well,
And many wights passed by that way, but
wist not of her spell.
It was ? careless IordIing rode By with
He tossed his spear from hand to hand
and sang blithe refrain
Fair was the Wizards Daughter, noble
and sad Of mien,
She caught the slackened bride. both
suppIiant and queen.
Now, came thou down, hearted. look
into yen dim pool;
Be not as those that pass it by-churI.
miser, willing fool
There came to him dim memories of high
and old noblesse,
10, I must needs behold ft-this i'll I
cannot guess
And slowly he descended. and took her
chilly hand,
ana bent MN er the weil-hsad; its
turpid depths he scanned
AS ia the tyrant's hearing in ancient
Syracuse,
Rose up the wall OF wretehes that groaned
for sore misuse.
So upon this mans vision smote all the
sights OF wee
All evils that eaFth-nourfshes. all plaques
that mortaIs know
He saw the infinite horror and bIood-red
filth OF war;
He saw the bodies Of drowned men whose
flesh the breakers mar.
He saw the gloon of poor mems homes.
seanty Of light and space;
He saw their labor cheaply sold to en-
large the rich mans place.
He saw how women toiled as beasts or
piled the trade of shame:
He saw the fnsoIenee of wealth; the
loneliness of fame.
He saw the tortures Of the beasts. the
tears that children shed.
All writings of the sick, and all the wan
ness of the dead.
Now wherefore has thou shown me this.
and what is thy dread name?-
g! am the Wizards Child. she said. who
kpl5ss whence all this came;
'.Bat rknOw not. Ore thing I know; 'tis
given me to reveal
This bitter web Of world-sorrow to such
as He may seal
He hath sealed thee by thy merry heart
and By thine eye OF truth;
They who would s2eeten WorId-sorrow
must keep the soul of youth.
Now ride thou forth; still shalt thou see
each hour what thou hast seen:
On each fair pageant thou mayst gaze.
World-sorrow comes between.
And thou shalt give thy gay hearts
bloed to lessen mortal dole,
And / shall be Thy faithful bride TO aid
that thou mayst tho.e"
'f I must with -hee wed. and serve
World-sorrow as I may,
Who art thou? Whosoe'er thou art. think
not ssy thee nay
Have thou no fear. 0 Champion strong.
thou shalt not be beguiled;
My snane is Hope And said not am
that W5zaro's Chud?''
M. NJ. Perstone. in Spectator.
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THEN Guizot said: ''f you are
/ M fond of romance, read history -
V he may possibly have had an
ironica1 meaning. He had
studied. and had also written, so much
historical matter himself that nobody
knew better how much OF what passes un-
der the second of these names ought to
be described by the first But as he was
very serious man, the probability is that
he meant simply what he said-namely,
that It is far more profitable to take the
chronicles, memoirs or letters which are
the authorities for the past. and aEnuse
yourself with them. than to spend your
time over little stories of a professediy
authentic character Admiral Coligny was
for his time, an honest man, and yet he
cannot be cleared of the charge of having
helped PoItrot de Meree to murder Duke
Francois of Guise, and of then having
ibbed as TO mis- own share in the .ransac-
ton. We shall never. in fact, get az the
right way Of judging the men OF the Re
naissanee till we understand that the good
we're those who murdered. lied and forged
for a cause. and The bad those who did
these things merely. for the Iuere of gain
William the Silent. who was himself the
mark for a long series of assassins. and
finally died by the hand of one of them,
was engaged in a plot to take of the
Duke of AEya. Elizabeth was fercely an
cry because the taflsrs of Queen Mary re-
fused to kill their prisoner They again
ab5tained. not SO much on the ground that
the act was wrong, though Paulet did re-
speet 4 as contrary to the laws of God
and man, but from a iweil-grounded belief
that her majesty was perfectly capable Of
hanging them a4aterward, in order to vim
dieate her own character
Lord BurghIeys had a trustworthy forger
in his service and made frequent and
successful use OF his services. Yet Eliza
beth deserved all the honor her subjects
gave her. and BusghIey was a great and
patriotic minister. Nor are William the
Silent and. Coffgny to be blamed un-
reseryedIy. Both had to deal with enc
mics who had nc seruple and who acted
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A BALLADE OF THE MAY.

The maiden harks to the hurrxing hoof-
Oh. loving hath taught her WELT
And shyly she stands in the mosses aIoof.
Nor heeds where her viofetss fell.
And the huntsman. bright in happy
scorn
OF all that would make delay.
Rides up to his wooIng this merry morn
And whispers the maiden May.
Oh, brave IS the huntsmen in garbiag of
green,
And the plume of the szszg hue.
And fair is his bride in her white. I ween.
With the dew of the dawn spun through.
There's the CLEAN of hand on the saddle
horn.
And laugh as they ride away.
And they'll tryst NO more in the merry
May lord and the maiden May
Oh. love is abroad On the blozsou1ing hill
Sweet love. and he beeIons far
Past bEiar and thicket and bustling mill,
To the land where the vioIets are
And dream OF your hand on my saddle
horn.
Sweet Elinor. long away;
But you meet me not. and 1 ride alone
Out cf the realm of May.
Il. in the New Orleans Tines-Democrat-
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Oh. sweet is the wind on the blossomlng
hill.
The hriar is bright with dew,
And the mil stream runs frolieking en-
to the mill
Ard frollicking flashes through
The huntsman winds his echoing horn
For the hounds that are gone astray:
He is OF I ween fora tTEst this morn
A tryst with the maiden May.
Over the plains where the grassy tides
Are billowing, cool and sweet.
And into the shadowy wood he rides
Oh. his charger is fpe and feet,
He knows by the dew that the fern has
worn
That his lady has passed this way.
And he spurs him on through the merry
morn
To the tryst with the maiden May.
Standing aIene in the fragrant gloom,
Gentle and fair and shy,
She brushes she leaves from the buried
bloom
Where the tangling Yiolets liei
And the heart of the hunter afar fs torn
With sweetest desire straightway,
And he hastens on through the merry
morn
To the tryst with the maiden May
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LITERARY SKELETONS" FOR SALE.


A London secondhand bookseller is Of
feriHg in his catalogue the potentiaiity Of
literary fame. He advertises budget Of
skeleton projects" in the manuscript of
4 deceased author. These projects are for
"reaIIy solid and great works" some of
which have been anticipated, while others
remain fallow. TO the antiquarian, bib
biographical. and critical scholar in search
of fresh ideas, the volume should prove
|desideratuua." The young lions, We know,
lack and suffer hunger. but a scholar so
iaIed as to be in search OF fresh ideas is
hardly likely to @fnd himself in this
way Probably the bookseller has very
good inkliRg of this, since for all these
projects,.@tbe majority of which still lie
in the womb of the future" be asks eaIy
s shillings. the price of one completed
noyel-London Chronicle
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believe that the time is ripe for it apply to
the civil veterans well.
Many of the soldiers the war period
the line of duty, but having hospital record are
wholly unable to furnish the necessary testimony
be granted pension under the existing laws, yet
many DID, broken down and feeble by of the
service thus rendered their country.
At the age of sixty-tFvo years army officer may
be retired pay, and why should veteran sol
sailor be treated likewise? The bill / have in
troduced IS to meet the requirements this
who defenders Of our Constitution and FLAG
entitled to some such recognition
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By LISDsLEY FhAvEL MINES.

o, for moment of thy presence. Pan.
While circ'ling all around thee wildly
prance
Thy grotesque subjects in exuIting
dance,
Satyr and faun, half animal and man:
Alas, in vain the vacant woods scan;
None Of thy forest creatures meets my
glance,
No nymph of thine or dryad seen by
chance.
Whose sunburnt cheeks the woodland
zeDhyrs fan.
And they have told me, Pan. that thou
vast dead,
And all thy happy rustic company
n trembling fear far from their haunts
had fed,
And that no more thy revels I should
see:
But it's not so. for thy returning tread
Soon shall hear. and join thine
ecstasy
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ALL VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR
SHOULD NOW BE PENSONED
By Representative WILLIAM W. sKIIEs of Ohio.

7 THINK the time has come when every veteran of
/ the civil war, whether he has sick wounded
record, not, should be pensioned
To this end I have introduced a bill which pro-
vides that whenever soldier sailor who served his
country during the civil reaches the age of sixty
two years he shall be pensioned at the rate of
month, the only requisite being that he shahave
honoTably discharge
Such unders tand is the law regarding the sol5iers
of other regardless of their hospital record, I'D
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SURE To SAY IT.

They stood on the Iava-enerusted shore
of the little island that had been de-
stroyed by the volcano.
Blazing torrents still ran down the sides
of the mountain. while TIE very air
seemed full of fire.
man, who all along had seemed TO be
making every effort to control himself, at
last turned 10 a companion and ehuckled:
rs it hot enough for your
The task ef hurting him into the belch-
iHe crater was. indeed, glad sureease
from the woe of the inhabitants.-Ba
mere American.
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! ties, but marks the development and
evolution of newspaper and maga-
zine reading wherever it is estab-
Hshed.
1t also stimulates an interest in bet
ter roads and encourages better pub.
lie roads It also enhances the value
of property in the rural districts, and
promotes happiness among the coun-
try people in the satisfaction of their
surroundings.
Eventually I believe that the rural
free delivery viii discourage the ten
dency TO congregate IN towns and
cities, and encourage contentment
with rural life. 1t is also one of the
evidences of cur advancing eiyiIiza-
ton, and marks the progress of the
country IN social life.
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Rural Free Delivery a Factor in Education.
By Representative LEMUEL P pADGErr Of Tennessee.

J HAVE been giring very active in
terest and support to the estab-
Hshment of rural free delivery
in my district. In the past six months
1 have secured thirty-fiye routes over
the ten counties that constitute my
district which near.s the delivery of
mail matter 80 between 5000 and g.
GOO people, and have also secured an
order for complete county service
in one of my counties
The benefits of the establishment
Of rural free delivery IN any section
of the country are manifold In ad-
dition to the convenience of country
people personally in having their mail
delivered to thems I regard it as a
great educational factor. 1t not only
enIarges and expands the mail faciii-