New-York tribune., 1905-02-21

will play important part in bringing about
better understanding between the Chinese Empire
and the Western nations?
HAVEN'T YOU FELT THAT wAYq
And, seeing LIES sham and Its shame.
Felt Might ii Was as we S re Sf no sorfo a6s ssmes aga you
That nothing much mattered but big bunch Of cash.
Ana The S wbo d So0n Tn2 o1 sE1a was 2 Jay & 10 sb
Haven't you haven't you felt that way?
Haven't you felt it was hardly worth while
And haven't you you smiled "a cynical a1- smile.
Whispered Life had prize that was higher than gold
And the faith that had slipped took brsndnew
Haven't you, haven't you felt that way7
Ana And % aEss oa s6 s4as tosad ss 4st It . far
And didn't YOU turn your face TO- a star
And weren't You stronger ana didn't you md
To Be SGte Sra7e ana and patient patient and chesy
-lMaurics Smiley. in Golfers Weekly.
The new alloy called invar consisting of steel
mixed with about SO per cent OF nickel. which is
practically invariable in volume with ordinary
changes Of temperature, has recently been adopted
by Swiss watchmakers for making balances in the
majority of their best tmepeces The compensa-
ton for temperature thus obtained is superior to
any hitherto known. For many years watchmakers
have struggled with outstanding trouble in the
best compensated chronometers. known as Dents
error. due principally to the non-lnear variation
of the elasticity of the steel of the hair spring
By the of invar Dents error may be practically
eliminated.
BALLAD OF THE RIDGEwAY ROAD.
From the blinking surf where the Lizard sprawls
There is many iS;'is road to Stir the blood
OF him who fareth forth;
All roads seem good to the wise of mood,
My chosen way is the broad Ridgeway,
That is home and friend to me.
Now new made roads are ruts for toads.
Girls ribbons. coilful things;
street for the cars OF kings.
Sheer fortnight to it's bent,
Like fetter forged on the giant flank
OF captive continent.
He passed; his Iegionaries tread
Than AshdowR feld where, shield to shield.
Clashed Wessex man and Dane.
But folk who travel Lambourn way
A. an eve @ from Vantage Wan a! aa town, r,n
Across the drowsy down;
And sentinels with falcon face
GianK starkly round the thymy mound
Where Shepherds lolled at noon;
The gates divide. and like tide
Wb The whlsPeTing Legion Legion swings So s
To tame the Briton Kings.
But am man Of the common kind.
Than the old hawthorn at sentry go
AP Apd ahs 5rnaf cPsssst re f asht
Drifts from the land below,
And the big and little stars of God
They watch me as go.
ss the evg Sa1lfS guaaGs laasd good to those
The place OF my soul is the wind secured down
Where the red burns all day;
And o: , the road the gallant road!
The green y turf thst ges
with never coil nor bend.
Fetid and foul are the city streets;
The The ample ann tso wind wind in my shoulder parts
Oh. let me fly from the tunneled ways
nq M breast tae anraeaP ihd bp toWRs % of tS ,
And smell the ancient soil
Now. some love women. and these are wise;
And some love ale and wine;
But road is a thing divine
There are roads Of the best twixt East and West
But of all the roads that be,
O. the royal way, the broad Ridgeway.
-(st John Lucas. in The Spectator.
The construction OF the great simplon Tunnel has
proved once more that geology is largely matter
of theories. which may may not fit actual condi-
tons. even close to the surface of the earth. The
engineers have discovered that the biologists
entirely at fault as 10 the temperature which
would be eL Lcountered missing the mark 25 degrees
at the point where hot water was found The
water conditions in general were unlike those pre-
diced, and the engineers found that the dips In the
rock strata. which had been declared on theory to
be mainly vertical, were. in fact. horizontal.
TIME FLIES.
James Wkitcomb Riley says that he was sum
where Witnesses m befors s4 r0ihha him
eyneed p q SeT some disnenason to state her age
81, sgpinster Of uncertain age
II Is absolutely necessary. madam" interposed
rOSs1 nWel Ssh:s sghsd the maiden u must suppose
case. for, you see ~ ''0
not 3uSsf urshsa Thsa wsas sS%s tse s
time NE OF this court Kindly state your age
teres "SS
now thoroughly impatient Every minute makes
it worse. you knowT'-sconier's Weekly.