V
IN THE HEART OF THE WOODS.
run down to see th start, looked up at
ttip HkP a rhot and cries. : 'Wirra,
Such beautiful things in the heart of the Such safety and peace in the I heart of .the wirra! May the Lord preserve ye,
- "WOOds! WOOds, 1 X-fiienW'' TtlnlrAlirf''
M Flowers and ferns, the soft green Far from the city's dust and'din, i - ,m. , A " r V
moss! Where nassion nor hate bf man intrudes. To make a long story Short, I .kept
ARP 1
eCev' thistle
nassion
JSuch love of the birds in the solitudes Nor fashion nor folly has entered in.
Where the swift wings glance, and the Deeper than hunter's trail hath gone, -treetops
toss: "'.""" ' Glimmers the tarn where the wild deer
.Spaces of silence swept with song, drink;
out of the melee till they found the
fox, and the hounds went away in full
cry toward Ballynaff with forty of the
Away back in the
good St. Patrick went
took it fc:,.r
centuries, T
Writes About the Flowers of missionary, he preached to SSd as
vjr uuvv inere wpro ii ut
persons in one God, and tZ thrfe
Spring.
Which nobody hears but the God above: 'And fearless arid free comes the gentle hardest' riding chaps in all Ireland
Sunning themselves in His guarding love.
1 1 1 1 . V
fawn
To look at herself o'er the grassy brink.
Margaret E. Sangster.
T was at Colonel Trevelyan's
snicker in Picadilly that O'Brien
Of the Royal Irish told his" Gtory
about the horse he rode at Omdur-
, man and how the beast insisted oh
galloping rough-shod ever every heath
: en corpse on the plain, j Grafton, who
. had been there, too, said such a horsS
iWas a treasure and that two of hi:
ri subaltern surgeons had been knifed
;jby the heathens at the very moment
ZWhen the Christian sawbones were
ready to minister to tho wounded.
Most of the yarns were dreary enough,
for they related to the passage of the
.Tugela, the siege of Ladysmith and
a lot of recent passages in British
military history that make poor enter
tainment for an officer of his males
ty's army. The talk was getting a bit
scandalous. Dunlevy was railing at
the war office and Trevelyan himself
. iiad let fall a few hot ones at tho
Sidar, when Blakely of the Rifles they
call him "Munster" Blakely in tho
larmy started off on a tangent about
cross-country hunting that gave the
smokers a chance to forget their griev
ances.. You can't ezpress Blakely's
,way of telling a story in print because
the's as full of gestures as a French
man and has a way of talking 'horse"
ithat nobody can remember quite as he
gives it. For a ?:oystering chap, ho can
get as serious as any man, and, with
a. laugh . in between his frowns, can
carry a gravo tale with conviction.
Anyway here's the story he told at
Hrevelyan's:
- '0!Brien Omdurmac , horse reminds
taeof the quarest thing that ever hap
pened me, and that's saying a, deal,
for 'tis every one here knows ,1've
been in many. 'Twas just before Bobs,
.God bless hio, went down to the
streaming after them. At first I Was
for trailing .me field, for I couldn't for
got VPhelim'3 warning, but when
O'Shanter struck his eait and laid
away like a flash of rifie artillery me
blood got tip and I gave him his head.
He went through the ) ruck as if they
ere standing rtill, but I could hear
some of then shout, 'Hold him back !'
and 'He'll kill ye!' as wo challenged
the leaders floundering across a" fal
low field. Hero Ormonde, on the best
hunter in Kildare. was leading, hio
horse pastern-deer) in the Icani. but
riding easy like the cocksuro winner.
"His face get green as wo swept by
him, O'Shanter skimming the mud
liZie a swallow, 'Look eut for the tim
ber, Munster!' he shouted, and then I
noticed that the dogs had vanished
across the crest of tho hill and were
mouthing away into the dark thicket
before us. My horso wan fcr fol-
sixty miles was sitting in window lowing them in, but I fought him across
plaiting a lach and talkiaj t: his dogs, the . slope till my arms jverc core, and
The house was full of dogs and men I wondered if I could lift hio at the
and not theeign cf a petticoat about stone walls that stopped the road to
the place. I found me undo at the our right.. He was furious, but needed
breakfast table, red at tho face, all no lifting, for he took both walls In
i:i his corduroys and swearing away .as his strides and was out on tho mcor in
natural as life. tine to see tho hounds racing south
" 'Have yo a mount for me, Phelim?' and away from the timber.
ALSO THE BIRDS THAT SING.
laughed at him and said it P9'm
sible and they didn't believe it c p0
saint picked up a shammpL- J th6.
National Flowers of Civilized People.
Entertainment Set Arp to This
Line of Thought.
It is not quite time to; indulge in
spring poetry. I tried it some years agQi
and strained my mind and snail not
try it again. One poem is enough to
make a man famous and I have never
seen mine improved upon:- V
..:.-..;.--'
'The bull frog bellers in tlie ditches,
He's scuffled off his winter britches,
its three leaves growing out of
exclaimed: "Why not? -Whv V ant
this little plant can make tfci? If
one, why can't God do it?" So h 1)1
vinced and converted all that n Cn
and they took the clover or shnPle'
plant for the national flower rocl
In the sixth century the Nonnqn.
vaded Wales, and just before a . n
battle one dark, cloudy evening h?vat
Welsh went through z. field -whetv
leeks or wild onions were in hi 1 -"
and every man plucked one ana
it in his hat so as to distingui h
soldiers from the .enemy, and hvTf '
means thnv whinnp. thex
. rr. ana
their cnwnt.rv Aftor Wo i , :
leek for their national 'fln Jlv
The hawk for infant chickens watch eth. When t Napoleon Bonaparte nv
And 'fore you know it one he cotcheth,
The lizzard is sunnin' himself on a
rail. I
The lamb is shaking his new born tail,
cotton has unfurled bis banner
And scents the air with' .sweet guanner.
Tho darkoy is plowing his stubborn
mule ....,
And jerks the line with ; "Gee, you
fool." i
Adown the creek and round the ponds
Are gentlemen and vagabonds
And all bur little dirty sinners
Are digging bait and catching min-
ners
ily had to fiy from. Berlin and cL
themselves, was awfully distresVS
md they liked to have perished
his old mother made garlands of aT?
tie wild flower, known as th com
LUem
Vi i im r -i H rt . 1 1- I -.
ahuj. auu uccicu mui up, anu v.i
Bonaparte was vanquished the
adopted tnat little wild flower
national emblem.
When.T.miia "VTT ftoUj
r j , 4. J - - .us
uHaues- ne cnoso me ins as his badeP
ana wnen he returned with Hr
nation's flow-
it was adopted as the
says I, grabbing his hand and grinning.
"I have an' I haven't,' says he,
looking at me kind of mysterious. 'Aro
yon bent cn f ollcying the hounds this
mawrning?'
"It wes then a quare thing happened.
I felt as if two arms were thrown
around my waist iand heard in my
eai-s a woman's voice, sweet and low,
say, Ah, O'Shanter! Ah, O'Shanter!'
That is classic and expressive. It
rhymes well and measures jwell and is
rnr , . .
---- a v- ""ifiuiiai ilUVers! T
wisnive had one for our nation, and WJ
will have one when this Federate ...
considered the champion spring poem Women's Clubs takes hold of thp
But I will venture to make a few re- ter, and I hop it will be the eS
Peror
a3-tha.
'I am,' says I, suspicious like, and Ho pricked up his ears and trembled
thinking he would put me up on a as if he heard the voice too, and I
cart horse. But 'twas too late for turned in my saddle, half afraid that
choosing. Ho called old Frinzie and, some woman was riding behind me.
says her Friazie, saddle O'Shanter for As I turned he bolted again for the
Captain Blakely, and lead him 'round timber, but I fought him back into the
behind tho dairy till the captain is open ground and gave him hi3 first
ready.' touch of tho .steel. Then he flew as
"And then he told oe, 'O'Shanter no horse ever flew. The voice came
may suit ye, and then he may not, again, but O'Shanter raced till tho fore-,
but, anyhow, he's the speed of a ghest most horn died and I could feci the
an' the spirit of forty imps. Kape hot, back-blow breaths of the mouth-
him. away from tho dogs, and if ye ing pack. 1 ,
valuer ye's lifa kape bin cut o ths "I turned to check him now. for he
timber. And wathfevor yo do, Munster, was dashing full tilt into the pack,
don't try t' lead ye'r field. If yc do Tho trailers fell away in terror. He
mind what I tell ye they'll be a impty went through the Calway hounds liks
commission In the Rifles.' a ghost and the.v ouit likp crs nnri
Well, with that he left me and I scattered. Eery deg wc passed cult
get into th' buckskins and went cut baying and howled as if he'd seen a
behind th dairy, where, snro onnnorTT banshee, and thnn tho lonri ore In full I
Frinzio was walking up and down be- view of the racing fox, turned tail and
tore the finest bit of thoroughbred slunk away silent or mourning in dis
norse-nesn I ever saw in Ireland cr mal, evil yelps, as Jf their blood had
out cf it. I didn't like the way ho frozen with some sudden terror. I
was Dined curb and snaffle liko a had not time to wonder at thpm thn.
laCV.! Rnf1rlA-r''h onrl T in., ii.. HJin . . '
- j. iuiu.il l iiiko me i ma wuman was in mv
rt ,1 1 Jl . 1 M
auuiL-, u aeep seatwitn a Lorn like cars; O'Shanter, his eyes on the fox.
a, ixjw moon, lit only for a curato go-M"S fears aslant, his muscles ouiverin-
mg to mission, but Frinzie swore that
horse and trappinga was the last in
i
.. ' ' t ..... . , ,v
I WCNDEr.33 IP I COULD LIFT HIM."
m
, u.ui uu.iut; ivmes were on six
(week's waiting orders at Queenstown,
hat I got five days' leave and went
Jdowu to Kildare for a farewell chance
vith dhe hard-riding gang that' rides
rwith ljhelim Ormonde ence a year. He's
oy uncled you know, though T ho isn't
iany pder and hasn't a haporth o'
isense more. But he's a demon for
ihunting and keeps as many dogs as
rwould send many a man to the poor
ihouse, '
"Well, down I roes to nrmnn
honse without so much as 'by your
leave.' I didn' t mistrust 'his welco me,
mind ye, for twas I knew he was the
same sportsman and a: rale Irish gen
tleman in ; everything butChis disliko
for ne. Well, sirs, niver such a howl
ing, hallooing, swearing, snarling mob
of dogs and hunters ever was seen vas
ttat I sav when I got down at his
trcnt stoop. 'Jhc lawn was alive with
th3 k-wingest hunters in Kildare: Old
Jim-ny Fair, l.e Calway whpcr, with
a J?ac Cf Cfty keen iops-hys ccmc
thestable, and so there was nothing
fcr me but to throw a leg over O'Shan
ter and try his mettle. .
. "By the Rock o' Cashel, Trcvelvan,
twas like riding Aeolus. He hardly
touched the ground. He'd the mouth
c f a vestal and tho manners of a lad v
in waiting, In two minutes 1 1 was
telling him y what to do, and he did it
like a soldier of twenty battles. I stood
him before the five-barred gate lead
ing into the meadow, and hetcok it
like a cat over 'the rung of -a chair.
I didn t see how big he was till I was
up, for he, was fine drawn, and his
sixteen hands of symmetry, bone and
muscle fit together liko a ballet girl
in silk tights. . The Lord forgive me,
but I swore- right then 'that I'd' win
the brush or kill O'Shanter trying 'The
company was going Tvhon I beared
tne gate, the doss won
fading for Rfl,, ,Z:T J
noticed the leer on Frinzie' V
CIO
cantered across the lawn, and when
"ct t0 tb? Cate his wife, who had
una aiert. witn tne ecstacy of battle,
was bearing full upon the quarry.
At the top of the hill he was abreast
of the game. My gcrge rose as I
saw his head dr.rt down and heard his
teeth click as he snapped them at the
fox, As -we flashed down tho hill his
cpeed Increased, and in a hard peat
bed at the bottom the fox, no longer
hearing the dogs, tired -and yet de
fiant, came to bay. O'Shanter leaped
upon mm with his steel-shed feet, and
before I could dismount was shaking
him aloft between his bared teeth.
It was five minutes before I had the
courage to take the , brush. The laugh
ter cf a woman and the 'Aha, O'Shan
ter!' fretted me like an echo in the
night, though it was early daylight.
But at last Phelim and a few of his
rivals came over the hill scowling, sul
len and silent. Nobody spoke to me
all the way home, and half of the
company quit Ormonde House that
night. .
"I told my uncle L'd leave at day
light, but I insisted on knowing more
of the horse. I bor.ght him from Lady
Farleigh of Farleigh, or rather I
bought him from her estate,' said
Phelim. 'She was the best horse
woman in . Kildare, but O'Shanter
lulled her in' Ramcey's thicket last
vmiBuxiuae., 'lnere Isn't a dare-devil
ir.: ti e county would rido Xiin now.' "
-Jolm H. Itaftery, in th3 Chicago
lvecora-nerald.
marks about flowers, for as Solomon
saith, "The winter is past; ithe rain is
over and gone. The flowers- appear on
the earth, the time for the: singing of
birds is come and the voice of the tur
tle dove is heard in the land." It is an
old story that when God made man and
gave him hearing and seeing and tasto
and smelling. He created birds t6 sing
for him and please his ears and grass
to grow ana herns ana trees to bear
him fruit, but Adam wasn't very happy
and said these are all very good, but
they cannot love me nor talk to, me
nor comfort me when I ; ani sick and
sad. I am here alone and not even your
angels visit me. And so God took pity
ion him and created woman and then
he was. happy. But woman didn't care
to be digging and hoeing and planting
and looking after the sheep and the
cows and so the Lord created flowers
especially for her enjoyment. He also
taught her to sing and make music on
tne barp and hence came the old tra
t Ti ... m L fiViJCil
iuu. ii grows irom Ma ne to Mexico
ande bends its graceful head in field and
The reason I got to ruminating about
flowers was because oJr good ladies
gavejm entertainment other nigh?
which was quite original and peculiar
Itwas called the enchanted Pgar cn"
There were twelve pretty flowers fraint
ed on a long curtain snd in front of
them was an ,old gardener teachin- i
pretty little girl her flWt a
told her their origin, and hov they rot
their names and whenever he TinV
Lue wuweip tnat was on th
curtain and pointed, to it, that flow
disappeared as if by enchantment and
in Its -place there aoneirrvWho f,,-, i
. ciiji gU1 or woman. w!m
sons: that fitter! fia
as Only a Pansy Blossom," "The I ar
Rose of Summer," "Poad Lillie f "-4
Bunch of Daisies '' etn. ahI
Ueen the songs, the old zzvit
n 1 c? rnvU 1 . T
ditlon that woman and music and flow- 7 '11?! 1IL with
ers were God's best irifts tn mn Ynn "a ?VU Ui lue and she
- -- l Cb.r-li 11 i it i r i nim C r-
see tnat neither flowers nbr music is
mentioned in the Mosaic account of the
creation and tradition says that they
were not made until womarj was. It is
singular that in some of tho ancient
languages the same word tlhat means
woman means flowers too. Among tlie
ancient Greeks, Roman's, Persians and
Egyptians there was great I reverence
for and even idolatry of flowers. The
lotus or sacred lily was worshiped as a
god in Egypt. In Japan the chrysanthe
mum is equally, sacred "and! nearly all
of their female children 'are named for
some flower. In all countries every tem
ple service, every festival or banquet
or sacred day every birth or marriasre
or death or funeral ceremony call3 for
a profusion of flowers. When soldiers
went out to fight and when they re
turned they were crowned with
wreaths and garlands; strangers were
given flowers when th 6V Pfimp tn con
.you. Every flower had its meaning and
La Beuument, as for instance la red rope
meant "I love you;" a white! rose "I
will marry you." The, Chinese make
the most lavish use of flowers and have
umese aipnabet of flowersl No mod-
HrTnf n continually. that he
got tired of it and turned her into a
nejjotrope, for this
turned by the sun. And how AnnlTrvc
cup-bearer Was a vpt-v! hnWcnma
and Apollo loved him so 'much that
another boy killed him-th roach mw
i r
uu us aeaa body was bhanked into a
sans a
v5. mnn. a.. i. , .. tun u u v u
em nation has such love anfl taste fnr KSli? li P?.Id m tdld about ma
gardens -ana lt KJL1!!- thit we not or
Troubles of tho Billposter.
New York is the billposter's paradise,
there being practically no restriction
of the business. Other cities, however
throw various obstacles in tho pathwav
of the billposter. t
In the home sectiont; of Chicago bill
boards may not bo erected without' the
consent of tho residents. -
San Francisco restricts the heights
of the boards,; and' will have no dis
figurement of telegraph poles.
-Buffalo and Cleveland, have ordered
the destruction of towering bill boards.
Glasgow and Liverpool forbid adver
tisements in street cars. ,
London is removing signs from piers
and railway stations. v - . ,
Berlin allows posters, within certain
limits only. , : s . ,
. Paris : will . have o advertisements
on trees,;and,placards arorigidly con!
Een Jersey City hag been drawing
the line at offensive theatrical advertisements.
Baltimore has forbiddor, v. 'i
II on housetoPs.-rrofitable AdrotSSS 1
them nor such beautiful
iSfs,next- China is called the
luwcijf rvinaom. i
Almost all of thp
tH.0l: Egypt. Turkey
"W1 "ttV me lotus. Japan the
chprsanthemum, .Spain the pomegran-
Louls VII. Nanollenn t ra
and put the honftv ir
the people rebelled and it is! still the
ins. Scotland has th kci ;
the shamrock: ik'TT" V.au
the cactusrmV100
ac AU we tried to make it
J 'ailed- The north
.T-i-.1? waning arbutus: and the
uoc emu same green
hyacinth.
. Tl. n .
"V : XtLx spelling s Sachinthus-
aim apoiio stamped the GrGGpe letter Y
"u cve petal, and it is therfe vet. And
now a very vain and handsome -vouth
SiefnVaU J his tlme otias af him
seir in a fountain of clear water and
aay-ne fell in andwds drowned and
Apollo changed his bod3- into a narcis
sus. And how the carnation waswilwavs:
a Pink or flesh color for the Greek word
carnos means flesh, but :aov it is cf all
colors. And how dandelion means a
Hon S tOOth frnm tl,n. e ..
;ena;efs' and the tulip mcaiis a tuban
ana tne geranium mnn .wn
."auij ti Villus; a inn
irom the shanA of J. j
tne nasturtium I
tZ ' Jtn Z8mel1 U o? taste-the wed"
tne pngent ndnr r.
f!- .up y?ur face and curl ud vour
many
nly
ays and the
the
dia-
got the names of th 3
ti,;: ,u,lUB Biars trom ancient my
r.ave even kept
tT weir nowers
w t ri r-- poo
Soulin
m 0 k r.r."ce-' ror are really
m I tuTl . A kinP Providence
made the best and most beautiful
nm1?.031 abundait so that the
Sch t haVe them as well as the -Wf,W
les tako money to buy
&s norT Sh0wer the green
ien,SOlLSS ct' birds nor the
h.tea?oet books are
outT"iU1 ougnts about
full of
flowers.
ivuie green hrMieo fl ni.-i - wu6Ulo anon r tin wors.
and there was no nnZZ".Z2h ?"aKespeare's lament ovr th . , nf
I?aLsuffrae the quen of all thP
says:
ode to flowers-
flowers.
About six hundred
years .ago the
"Your voiceless lips, oh! flowers! are
-HVinsr TroarViA - t .
Each cup a pulpit and
- book."
rilllro nf T j. - J
queasier cnose a red rn fr.r
. .-1 "lle rose- Tne flescend
f.LZ? Wt'to flght-
war of VhP Z: a." ,was caMed the- . bride to wear
to biu
each leaf -a.-
Mrs. Herman sav? I
1 "rw?1B tresh flowers, for the
blush ftl" hnr Rhinin?
Other nrtrt ofIj xi "au&ULr ot tne nair." . - t "
rosea w.J , war andthe two ' AAnd . Words wart W: oo .T.
thP Tn . "'rcY iUlt one and called fain thatWerv nTi?:. "J
" -luce. laves c uiooms vu-
In the eleventh century the ' DanM 'ous if n. athes and is consci
aflfl war i,n' Lue wanes VUfc .it its own hpQnttr i
T ' w "lJ
. uuijn TSfnr linn j . . . I
"ui. piaunea an atrafV lmAn m. -i. ' v,uui"uu amons: tne eai y
that w t't.; r: uu" aortress ristians that wh
They tcokTffThe rlCr'e , JS-; with Tnto Et
'at was the
so as to swim acrossa ninn CCGS ' hw1T?ses an? m sprang up and
rounded the! fort &?2fV-
as . sae
of Sharon
terribly that th ey yelled in w KS tv i , Som 4Hke fio we
t oNit.uicWv?
them unawares and iwii-S , t00k V e DUt Wltn mahy men dogfennel and
them before thecuid n17 a11 of BiBusltvTet
? tney could joses and violets.-Bill Arp in At-
- ; Ianta Constitution;