THE KEY OF THE FIELDS,
BT PRAJTOIH BA.RINE.
Give me the key of the fields,
0 Fairy of Dreams! I would wander away, away,
To the edge of the world, where Dawn her empire yield
To the bold, blithe Day
To the edge of the world, where fall dark pines above
The verge of the sharp-split cliff soar up to the blue
Are they singing there, the solemn pines 1 love.
The song 1 knew?
dive me the key of the fields.
O Fairy of Dreams! I would wander afar, afar.
To the deep still wootls that the cliff's gaunt shoulder shields,
Where the wild flowers are.
O the woods, the woods! with t&sir fragrant silences.
And the leaves' soft talk, and the little hurrying stream's!
Let me steep n.y soul once more in the peace of these,
O Fairy of Dreams!
dive me Cue key of the fields
The wide free fields and the woodland wavs beyond,
Where the great All-Mother dwells remote, and wields
Her magic wand.
Let me dream that, gathered close to her mighty heart,
Her banished child returned, once more I've lain:
Then, exile,, back to the din of street and mart,
To work again. "
Youth's Companion.
CELIA AND THOMAS
By Mrs. A. T. Curtis.
Celia Gilman had only been em
ployed In her father's office a month
when little Thomas Cleary applied
for work as an office boy, and listen
ing to Celia's persuasions, Mr. Gilman
had engaged him. But he was not
.favorably impressed with Thomas,
and later on reminded Celia that
from the first he had not liked the
6oy's looks.
Thomas was nearly twelve years
Did, the oldest of four children, and
his father was serving out a sentence
!n the State prison. The boy's ap
pearance was not wholly prepos
sessing, although Celia declared that
when Thomas smiled he was the best
looking boy in the block, but no one
slse seemed to take note of his claim
to beauty. His shock of black hair,
tvhich apparently never could be
brushed into smoothness, the small
alack eyes under the low forehead,
:he large mouth and heavy chin did
lot make Thomas an attractive lad.
"Here are your corals, Celia," said
Mr. Gilman one morning laying a
jmall package on his daughter's desk.
'I had the clasp mended; your moth
jr thought you would want them to
near at your class reunion to-night."
"Oh, yes," responded Celia.
Thomas, just put my corals in the
afe, please." Thomas obeyed, won
leriDg what "corals" were, but asking
10 questions.
"I must go out of tcwn this morn
Tig," continued Mr. Gilman, drawing
4 roll of bills from an Inside pocket,
'and when you go out for lunch,
Jelia, I want you to take this money
lown to Brown's bank and get their
,'eceipt for it. I want it to be in
:heir hands before 2 o'clock to-day."
Celia looked up trom her type
writer. "All right, father," she re
plied. "1 shall not come back to the
office to-day," concluded Mr. Gilman;
'you and Thomas will have to look
ifter things. I'll put the money with
your corals, and then you won't for
get it."
"How much is it, father?" asked
Celia, as Mr. Gilman stopped a mo
ment beside her on his way out.
"It is just ?2000, my dear, and
fust as soon as you get the bank's re
ceipt for it, it will mean that we are
jntirely out of debt."
"Well, now you can raise Thomas'
pay, can't you?" said the girl laugh
ugly. Mr. Gilman made no response, and
!he office door closed behind him.
Every time that Thomas went near
'he safe that morning he thought
about the money it contained. "Two
thousand dollars," he said to himself.
"That would buy 'most everything.
It would buy me mother a house, and
loike as not 'twould buy shoes for all
of us, and a piano for Maggie."
It was nearly noon when a clang
of bells rang up from the street.
"There's a fire!" exclaimed the boy,
rushing to the window that looked
down on Washington street. "Gee!
It must be near here!" and he opened
the window and leaned out in search
of further information. Celia did not
look up from her work. She wanted
to finish early that afternoon, and
had no interest in a fire alarm. She
was thinking, too, of her class re
union and of the dainty gown earned
by her own work that she was to
wear that evening.
"Say," and Thomas brought him
self back into the room with a spring,
a hopeful light shining in his black
eyes. "Say, Miss Celia, there's an
awful crowd on the street, and two
engines " A loud clanging of the
bells sent the boy back to the win
dow. Celia smiled at his excitement as
she went on with her work. "Say,
Mis3 Celia, can I go to lunch now.
and see where the fire is?" asked
Thomas; "it's past 12."
Celia nodded, and grabbing his
cap, the boy disappeared. As she
worked steadily on Celia became con
scious of an unusual commotion in
the building. Doors slammed, and
she could hear people running
through the corridors. She noticed
the burr of the fire engines, and just
then her office door was flung open
and some one called:
"Anybody in this office? The place
Is on fire! "
Celia sprang up and rushed Into
the corridor. As she did so, a flre-
man met her.
"AH out! Take the stairs!" he
railed- "Hurry up, young woman.
J)onstop for your hat." as he saw
turn back toward the open door
of the office. "Hat," Celia repeated
scornfully, remembering the econo
mies practiced to save the money that
lay in the little safe, and resolved
that she would not leave the building
without it. But she reckoned with
out her fireman. Before she could
reach the office he was beside her,
and his grasp was on her arm.
"You haven't time to go back.
How came you to linger up here. A
boy is having fits about you down on
the sidewalk."
As he talked he hurried her toward
the stairway.
"I can't go till I get that money,"
she screamed, as on the next landing
a veil of smoke swept around them.
"Money! Nothing!" said the fire
man, as he hurried her on. Two
flights from the street and Celia
found it difficult to breathe. One
flight more, and she staggered, then
came a sweep of fresh air, a boy's
shrill cry, and with a word of warn
ing to get home as soon as possible,
the fireman relaxed his grasp, and
Celia realized that she had been res
cued from a great danger. "If he
was creeping up like a wall. Again
came the rope, and this time Thomas
grasped it. He knew well enough
how to make it fast round a leg of the
big office table near the window.
Then he slipped the noose about his
body under the arms and crawled out
of the window onto the broad curb.
He could see the fireman on the lad
der many feet below him.
"Come on," came the call. "Swing
off easy; I'll get you."
And Thomas swung off, holding bis
own weight by the rope and letting
himself down inch by inch, the rope
cutting viciously into his sore hands.
Then came a grasp on his waist,
the stroke of a knife on the rope,
and the fireman carried him down
the ladder.
"It's that boy," exclaimed the man.
"Didn't I send you home? What do
you mean " But Thomas had
eluded the detaining clutch, and mak
ing his way through the crowd, was
soon speeding down the street.
Mr. Gilman heard of the fire on
his way back to the city, and knew
that every one had escaped from
the building in safety, but when he
reached home late that afternoon
Celia's woebegone face gave him a
sharp sensation of fear.
"What is it?" he asked anxiously.
"The money, father! The fireman
wouldn't let me go back for it. It's
burned up."
"We won't worry about that just
now, dear. I'm too thankful that you
are safe."
Just then a call came on the tele
phone and Mr. Gilman responded.
"What do you think, Celia," he
said almost accusingly, as he returned
to the sitting room. "The fireman
who brought you out called me up
to tell me that he was afraid we'd
been robbed. He said that a small,
black-eyed boy asked him if you got
the money from the safe, and on be
ing told no, the boy rushed Into the
building, found his -way through the
smoke, and was rescued by getting
out of the window and lowering him
self half-way down on a rope."
"The plucky boy! " exclaimed Celia.
"Just think of his taking all that
risk. I hope he got my corals, too."
"Plucky!" exclaimed Mr. Gilman.
"What I want to know is, where he
is. The fire was at noon; it is nearly
7 o'clock now, and where i3 Thomas?
He knows where we live. I always
told you, Celia, that I didn't like that
boy's looks. I didn't want to employ
him in the first place."
Mrs. Cleary and several neighbor
were seated on the steps, and eagerly
claimed Tommy as their own. Mr.
Gilman reached the door in season
to hear Celia tell the story which
made Thomas Cleary famous among
his brethren.
"Thomas must have a new suit,"
remarked Mr. Gilman, as he and hi3
daughter drove toward home.
"I have raised his pay to ?3 a
week!" announced Celia.
"H'm! Well, I think we had bet
ter make it $6," remarked Mr. Gil
man. "Thomas promises to make a fine
man." From Young Reaper.
CHILDREN'S. DEPARTMENT:
.SCIENCE
AND
C i cm a t tat ii a t- m a Cj
oume "lruisms wonny 10 De Memorized.
INDUSTRY
Heat transmission from a hot to a
cooler body is very materially de
pendent for amount under given con
ditions, per unit of time, upon the
frequency or rapidity of change in
the relative position of the two bod
ies. With given proximity the trans
mission is most active when such
change is greatest.
The top of a carriage wheel in
passing along the road moves more
quickly through the atmosphere than
the bottom. This sounds almost fool
ish, but it is absolutely sound. It is
due to the movable axis or axle. The
top of the wheel has forward motion
plus forward revolution. The bottom
of the wheel has the same forward
motion minus backward revolution.
!
TO DISPEL THE CLOUDS.
A laugh is just like sunshine,
It freshens all the day,
It tips the peak of life w'lth light,
And d lives the clouds away;.
The soul grows glad that hears it.
And feels its courage strong
A laugh is just like sunshine
For cheering folk along '.
A laugh is just like music,
It lingers in the heart,
And where its melody is heard
The ills of life depart;
And happy thoughts come crowJii:s
Its joyful notes to greet
A laugh is just like music
For making living sweet!
-The Young Folks' Catholic Weekly.
A novel method of pumping liquids
from bore holes is by means of an
endless rope, somewhat after the
fashion of the chain pump, only in
this case the liquid to be raised is ab
sorbed by the rope and squeezed out
between rollers at the surface, says
Mining Science. As the rope is in
balance the only power required is to
overcome friction and raise the
liquid.
"God help the children of the rich the poor can work."
"The reason that those who give strict attention to their
business succeed, is that they have so little competition."
3. "Application means success."
4. "Be your weapon either brawn or brain it's the stayer
that wins."
5. "A thing well done, is twice done."
6. "One heat doesn't win the race."
7. "An organization of men is a machine for doing an
hour's work in five minutes."
S. "Happiness is a matter of habit; and you had better
gather it fresh every day or you will nerov get it at all."
9. As we grow better we meet bolter people."
10. "The great man is great on account of certain positive
qualities that he possesses, not through the absence of faults."
11. "Don't tell the world how good you are; it is sure to
find it out."
12. "Competition Is not the life but the rteath of growing
crops. Each crop must have the land to itself to do its best."
13. "Quiet, modest, unassuming men often carry on their
shoulders the fate of nations."
14. "It isn't all in what you say, but much in how you say it."
5ES55H5ZSZJ
only would have waited," she thought
ungratefully, "I could have saved the
money."
-What will poor father do!" and
she made her way home with a heavy
heart. Thomas reached ihe street
before he discovered that it was his
own especial field of labor that was
being destroyed. As soon as he
learned this he made a wild effort to
return to the building, but a big
fireman stopped him.
"Miss Celia's up there! Up to the
very top!" screamed the boy.
"I'll fetch her down," the big fire
man responded, and he had. "She's
all right and gone home," explained
the fireman when Thomas assailed
him ten minutes later.
"Did she get the money?" demand
ed the boy. .
"Money! Do you think I let her
hunt up her nickel purse while we
burned?" demanded the fireman.
Thomas asked no more questions.
Celia had bought the coal for the
Cleary range that winter. She had
told Mrs. Cleary that she would trust
Thomas with untold sums, and
Thomas knew that a boy whose father
is in prison needs to be trusted. He
remembered all these things in a dim
sort of a way as he wriggled near the
fire line, crept under, and rushed
across the pavement to the entrance
of the smoke-filled building.
Some one called out, "A boy's gone
into the building!" but the eye of the
law had not seen him, and Thomas
was fighting his way through the
smoke as fast as he could go. On the
upper floors it was not so bad, and
the boy managed to reach the office.
He was almost choked. His hands
were sore where he had grasped at
the hot iron railings. His shoes were
cracked, and his feet hurt. His eyes
smarted and he could hardly see as
he stumbled into the ofllce. The safe
door swung open at his touch and
Thomas reached in after the roll of
money. He slipped it inside his
blouse and buttoned his jacket care
fully. Then he stumbled toward the
window, leaned out, and waved his
hands frantically.
"There's a boy up there!" screamed
a man in the crowd. The cry was
caught up and echoed down the
street. Thomas screamed and waved.
The big ladders shot up, but not high
enough to reach him. A rope came
hurtling up, and Thomas grasped at
it and missed it. The office back of
I him was growing warm, the smoke
"But he might as well have the
money as to have it burned up,"
wailed Celia; "and he couldn't have
spent it all this afternoon. Perhaps
you can get it, father."
"That's what I'm going to try to
do," said Mr. Gilman. And Celia and
her mother were left to wonder at
Thomas.
"I don't care a thing about the re
union," mourned Celia, but her moth
er persuaded her to put on the new
gown and the white slippers, and
when a ring came at the doorbell she
was ready to start.
"It's the carriage," exclaimed Mrs.
Gilman, and Celia ran to the door.
Thomas stood on the doorstep.
Thomas, with disreputable shoes,
torn coat and dirty face. His hair
standing out like an animated brush
heap, but his "handsome smile," as
Celia called it, illuminating his face.
"O Thomas! You have brought the
money!" exclaimed Celia, joyfully.
"No, ma'am," replied the boy.
His heavy chin quivered as he met
Celia's accusing look.
"I'm awfully sorry," he said; "but
your father said to take it down to
the bank, so I took it, and here's the
receipt." And he held out a be
grimed envelope.
"O Tommy! " And Celia forgot the
crisp, white dress and Tommy's grimy
jacket, and hugged him vigorously.
"I couldn't get here before," ex
plained the boy, when. Mrs. Gilman
appeared, "because I didn't have a
nickel, and Roxbury's quite a walk,
and my feet hurt."
"You are a hero!" exclaimed Celia
ardently. "Isn't he, mother a real
hero? Tommy, after this you are to
have $5 a week."
"I 'most forgot," said the smiling
Tommy, reaching into his dirty
blouse and bringing out a small pack
age, "I fetched your corals. Miss
Celia."
"O Tommy!" and Celia slipped the
corals over her neck, while Thomas
looked on admiringly, and discovered
with surprise that corals were only
,pink beads.
In the meantime Mr. Gilman was
making his way towards Thomas' !
home in South Boston. It was a tall
wooden tenement house on a narrow
street, and when Mr. Gilman had
nearly reached the house a carriage
drove briskly down the street and
stopped in front of the tenement, and
a young lady in a white dress and a
small boy got out.
The "axle-light" system is in use
on the trains of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad on an exten
sive scale. Each car has its own stor
age batteries supplied with electric
ity generated by the axles of the
wheels, and the locomotive head
lights derive their illumination from
the same source. It is estimated that
each full train, exclusive of the loco
motive, develops nearly 5000 candle
power light.
The production of oxygen and hy
drogen on an industrial scale by the
decomposition of water with electro
lytic apparatus in Germany has led
to the suggestion that hydrogen thus
produced may find a wide field of em
ployment as a lighting agent. It Is
now used for inflating military bal
loons. For lighting purposes it is
compressed in steel cylinders. With
a proper burner it is said to be a
cheaper illuminant than acetylene,
the relative cost for equal illuminat
ing power being twenty-five for hy
drogen to fifty for acetylene.
Taking into consideration the se
rious damage caused by fire at pre
vious exhibitions, says Science, the
Executive Committee of the Turin In
ternational Exhibition of 1911 has
decided to open an international com
petition for preparations best adapt
ed to render incombustible the wood
and cloth structure of the exhibition.
and will award a prize of 4000 lires
and two gold medals and two silver
medals in this connection. The prep
arations must be such that they can
be applied without visible alteration
of the color and resistance of the materials.
French Family Statistics.
The number of French, families.
that is to say households with or
without children, is estimated at 11,-
315,000. Of this total 1,804,720
families have no children, 2,966,171
have one child, 2.661.97S have two
children, 1,643,425 have three, 987,-
392 have four, 566,758 have five,
327,241 have six, 182,99 have seven,
94,729 have eight, 44,728 have nine.
20,639 have ten. 8305 have eleven,
3508 have twelve, 1437 have thir
teen, 564 have fourteen, 249 have
fifteen, -79 have sixteen, 34 have sev
enteen, and finally 45 families have
or more. Republique Francaise,
Paris.
Shame on Him!
"Of course, John," said Mrs.
YounghusbancJ, "I like my kitchen
quite well, but I'd like to have one of
those new portable ranges."
"But, my dear," protested her foxy
husband, "we'd have to get portable
ccoking utensils to go with it."
"That's so. I never thought of
that." Catholic Standard and Times,
Train Cut Off a Fox's Brush.
During the run with the Vine
Hounds at Whitechnrch the other
day a fot was caught by one of the
hounds on the railway line. Before
the hounds could be whipped off an
express train dashed Into them, kill
ing one and cutting off the fox's
brush. London Daily Mail.
Over 92,000 natives are employed
ty the missonary societies of this
country and Europe in spreading the
Gospel among their fellows.
THE DOG THAT DANCED.
It was Saturday, and so, of course,
there was no school. All the week
the ice on the ponds had been grow
ing thicker and thicker, to the great
joy of the Conway boys, James and
Arthur, and their . friend, George
Arnold; for their fathers had told
them that if the ice was strong
enough by Saturday they might skate
down across Long Pond and go
through the pass to Big Island Lake.
It was found that the ice was
thick enough, so about 10 o'clock
they started. Their mothers had put
up luncheons for them, and the boys
were going to build a fire on the ice,
near the shore, to keep warm while
they ate, and perhaps cook some
bacon by sticking the slices in the
ends of split sticks, and holding it
over the fire.
The ice was so clear that the boys,
by putting their faces down close to
it, could look through It like a pane
of glass, and see things on the bot
tom near the shore, and dead leaves
moving slowly along toward the out
let. Once George saw a fish a big
pickerel, as long as his arm.
By the time they reached the foot
of Long Pond it was nearly noon,
and the boys were so hungry that
they decided to have their luncheon
at once. They wanted some dry
wood to make the fire, so they all
took off their skates and laid them
down on the ice by the botes of
luncheon. Then they went back a
little way into the wood on the shore,
for the sticks.
Each boy gathered a big armful
so big that it stuck way up in the
air in front of him and almost kept
him from seeing where he was going.
But they pushed their way through
the bushes to the ice again, and
dropped the wood in a pile for their
fire.
Just then they heard a crackling
in the bushes. They turned and saw
a big, funny looking dog coming out.
He was shaggy, and a kind of dirty
brown In color; and he had small
eyes, very black, that twinkled, and
a sharp nose that kept quivering and
wrinkling up.
When he saw the boys he stopped
a moment, and put his nose up in
the air and sniffed. Then he walked
slowly out on the ice toward the
boys' luncheon. His walk was ungainly.
"What a big dog he is!" said
James; and indeed he was bigger
than any the boys had ever seen be
fore.
"And what a funny walk he has,"
said George. Then the other boys
noticed it, too a kind of roly-poly,
waddling walk, as If he were made of
jelly, all shaky. They had never
seen a dog walk like that before.
The dog did not pay any attention
to the boys, but kept on toward the
lunch boxes they had left cn the ice.
He did not seem to be cross and they
went a few steps toward him, and
shouted and shook sticks at him,
which they took from the pile of
wood. Then h-j growled, but kept
right on toward the luncheon.
"Throw your stick at him," said
James to Arthur, "perhaps that will
scare him."
Arthur threw the stick, but as it
whirled through the air, the big dog
suddenly ttood up on his hind legs
and caught the stick in one of his
paws, Just as a boy will catch a base
ball bat which another boy tosses
to him. Then the boys were aston
ished and terrified to see him begin to
dance on his hind legs, moving his
head up and down, and making a
funny noise that was partly growl
and partly as if he were trying to
sing when he had a bad cold.
"It's a bear! It's a bear!" cried
George and Arthur together, and get
ting James by the hand, they all -
three started to run.
Now every boy knows how hard
it is to run on ice without skates.
You keep slipping and sliding, and
you cannot turn quickly at all. Be
fore the boys could reach the shore,
the bear, moving in a circle, had got
between them and the land, and in
trying to turn, James slipped and
slid right ahead, toward the bear.
He set up a great cry, but George
and Arthur did not let go of him,
! although they, too. were very much
frightened.
Then, all at once, there came a
great shouting and crashing in the
bushes, and out popped a little man
with high boots and a red flannel
shirt and a fur cap. His eyes were
big and black, and his hair curly;
and in his ears he had little rings
of gold. He talked very loud to the
bear, and seemed to be scolding him,
but the boys could not understand
what be said. He walked right j
to the bear and slapped him twj
across the face with his hand. l
bear whined and began to dance
ltr... TVi-n Va Ifftln men ndl
laaici. ucu tile lULig mau fcy
a bis collar from hl3 pocket a
strapped it round ,the bear's ne
and began to lead him away by
rope. Just before he went he turn
to the boys and said, with asmi
that showed his ' white teeth, 'B
Beppo! Run away. No like dancj
Get cold, get seek." Edward M
Frentz, in the American Cultivator
. FUN WITH A HANDKERCHIEF
Dottie was sick in bed with a col
and HiHn't- Irnnw hnw to mntft tllrf
pass while mamma was straightenln
up the house. Finally, she thouglf
of a funny man she had seen he
' ' i SKiSf
' I A
papa make with his hand ana a
handkerchief, and with a little try
ing she managed to get it just right.
Can you make "the Orator" shown
in Fig. 4? Try. It is fun. Phlla.
delphia Ledger.
WAVE CARVING.
In the southeastern portion of Cab
ifornia is a great desert plain known
as the Yuha Plain, which lies below
the level of the sea. It is a portion
of the Colorado desert, in which Is a
depression below sea level having an
area of 3900 square miles. Some
portions of this great sink are 265
feet below the level of the sea. The
Yuha Plain is less than fifty feet be
low. One portion of this plain, several
miles in extent, is covered with, re
markahlp stnnps remarkable in that
they have been snapea into many cu
rious forms, and that independent ot
the hand of man. The waves of an
ancient sea which covered the region
in the prehistoric ages fashioned the
stones, producing many resemblances
to objects manufactured in workshops
to-day or found in nature. There are
stone balls varying in size from a
marble to a cannon ball, many of
them as round -and smooth as those
cast for the great guns of a man-of-war.
There are stone dinner plates, aa
thin as the porcelain or china found
on the tables for our dining room and
nearly as perfect in shape. Some
times these are found in piles two or
three feet high, as though arranged
by the hand of man. There are stone
flowers, stone cabbages, stone dumb
bells, stone canes, stone quoits, stone
boomerangs, and even resemblances
to birds and animals are discovered.
The peculiar freak of the wares in
taking up the art of carving in this
part of the plain is accounted for by
the conformation of the desert at this
point. When the waters of the sea
occupied this region they were a part
of the Gulf of California, the nearest
point of which is now ninety miles
distant. The tides came in to this
ancient sea through the gulf from tot
south. They rolled up against what
is now known as Superstition Mount;
ains; the waters swept back against
a low range of hills on the opposite
side of the Yuha Plain, and recoiling;
were again thrown back toward the
Superstition Mountains, finally pass
ing out at about the point whence
they entered this arm of the gulf.
This kept the waters at that particu
lar point always in a swirl. This
circular motion wore the rocks round,
or nearly so, laminated some of them,
carving the plates and thin pieces,
kept small rocks and boulders re
volving, turning out the balls and
dumb-bells and in like manner by
their peculiar actions. St. Nicholas.
THE GIRL THAT LOOKED.
An Idaho girl, eight years old.
wanted a Teddy bear, and her mother
told her that she might go out into
the fields and look for one. Not
finding one near the house, the girl
wandered farther away, and presently
found herself lost. For three days
and nights searching parties were
looking for her in the thickets, and
she was finally found at the foot of
a tree and fast asleep. When aroused
she sat up and said:
"I've looked all over the world
and I can't find a Teddy bear. I
guess they are all dead." Sabbath
Reading.
You Can't Stump V.
The Assyrian was scratching some
hieroglyphics on a brick. "What ar
you writing?" asked his cbunu
"Hanged if I know." responded the
engraver, "but I guess soma of thoe
Assyriologlsts of the twentieth cen
tury can translate it all r.'cht."
Fhila !plnMri I "''"" . . . -