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T1IK SAND MAN
How often when the little folk
Go trooping up the ft t Airs
So fcleepy that sometimes, alas!
Th?r cannot say their prayers
Tfcr meets tfccm at the nursery
door
The strangest little man
Whose hair and face in color match
Ills light-brown u!t of tan.
lie softly hendis low o'er the crib,
(The praalleat bed of all),
And though the othr children still
Ar playing In the hall.
Ho sprinkles tiny grains of sand
On baby's head and toes
And lo! beftro our very eyes
To dreimland off he goes.
Then one by one this silent man.
As each child lays him down,
Drops very gently o'er his couch
Some sand from Sleepy-town.
Then, when they all are lying still.
In silence he departs,
And no one but the children know
The magic of his arts.
: Josephine Manning.
TIIK QUALITY OF PLEASURES.
Goethe says somewhere In "Wil
helm Meister," that each man owes
It to himself to hear daily a beauti
ful song, read a great poem, look at
an excellent picture, and. If he can
speak a few rational words. To bis
somewhat new eighteenth-century
culture that may hate teemed an al
most impossible reach. To-!ay it is
within easy grasp of whoever la will
ing to tze it. Great poetry Is cheap
and accessible; only the minor poets
are expensive to own nowaday. Me
chanical devices are erer perfecting
means of carrying the bst music to
the remotest parts of the earth.
Great paintings are still difficult to
come at, but photographs go a long
way, and that comparatively few peo
ple care anything about painting in
our land may be derived from meas
uring the New York crowds that
throng the Hippodrome against those
who frequent the Metropolitan Muse
um, and the occasional lonely strag
gler who wanders Into the smaller
collections.
In speaking of a low level of art, a
certain great critic writes: "It catch
es your attention Instead of your at
tention conquering it." This Is the
test of all great art. It demands
training, effort, submission, work.
Pleasures which impose themselves
upon our inertia from the outside are
I the ey pleasure of a lew Wvj
ics pleaxsrcri Uiai truly bri&g- zm a
I reward mrm tbo fc!ch hm atitstloa
train itself to select mud Utea vajoy.
Great art makes, is4c4, the sass
detaacda that great virta makes.
First, & deliberate coBo,aerfii of
our natural, inborn inertia, our feo
aaa teciency to degenerate i&to as
oyster. It require. llk virtue, be
idence and submission to authority.
When one who hat studied loss and
lived among pictures tell us, for ex
ample, that Glorgione Is a greater
painter that Bonlfazto, we xauu be
lieve It before we kaor It. When we
are told that a Beethoven quarette
glveo by the Kneisel players is bet
ter than ragtime by Prior's band, we
havo to begin by faith. It is the
samo story with the higher pleasures
as with the higher virtues "Do the
deed and ye shall know the doctrine.
Who has fed his mind for many years
on Dante and Shapespeare will Cot
be led astray by fourth-rate writers.
A standard almost involuntarily
grows up In the mind which acta as a
preservative. Harper's Weekly.
"KOCK OP AGES.
Writing of the famous hymn,
"Rock of Ages," in the Delineator,
Allan Sutherland says, "When the
hymn was written is not known, but
j we may be sure that it was nothing
less than the'vioce of the Almighty
that inspired tho author to write
words of such soul-stirring power.
The hymn first appeared in an un
finished form, in the Gospe! Maga
zine of October, 1775, and more fully
the succeeding year in the March
:taber of th tags fcrlod&&L TfcU
rr4 C&rtttUatotijr tt taJ a
caonsoai IftCstttt for goo4 ca hs
fititiiy, ms4 htz ta a favorite UJs
ser grri pmss, W&ta tri
Albert, thm btujtaa4 f hea Vic
toria, lay dyisg Is Windtor C&tl.
almost hi Utl words were. "I tave
had wealth, power, s&d faae, hut it
tfce were all that I Lad bad. wfcat
would I have sow? And thea be
waa beard repeating softly a&d rev
mmUr, "Hock of ages cieft for me,
1-et me bide myself In The
Gladstone translated it into Ital
ian, Greek and Lstfa. but cot all
translations have iea as happy as
his, A mlaiocary in India writes
that he employed a Hindoo scholar
to assist him in translating 'Rock of
Ages in the vernacular. His suprie
may be Imaged whtn be read, as ib
result of the effort of the learned
Oriental, the first two lines:
"Very old stone, split for my benefit.
Let me get under one of your frag
ments '
t Uqv tbeyll b art cf st f
!gbt tttfsn af teas, bst lb?
u&t,Mti tiu rt&f at that back wts
4ov day after day. wtk in a.s.4 m-mk
at. sad tsa Salts this coraer for
fer. 2o. I dual ksew ben oaljr sie'i
always bsty asd ttrt-i-lookiar, a&l
jsayb tfcc Cower will pvt a bit of
trlfbtsr Usto ber life.
Wbo caa tell what essorle, what
boef. what letaoss. the beauty of
the bootses xd tbetr frmgrac
bor to that poor Utile roosa thnsisgh
the !3 laacir days? Asd bow
many way there Are for taaM&g
pleisAfit torsers to gladden tired
eye. If only we were tsot too selStb
iy buty to cotio the eyes cr piaa the
corner. At Hoa atid Abroad.
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TLHISAXT COK.VKRS,
"Why. Auntie." wo exclaimed as
we found the dear old lady out of
doors, "you are putting some of your
choicest rose-bushes away out here in
the back yaid."
"Yes; and I'm going to put geran
iums and pinks and -other things
which bloom all summer out here,
too, child" and a more tender look
dimmed the twinkle in the kindly
eyes which she nodded toward an up
per window In the dingy wall of a
tenement house opposite.
Till! IHSC)VKTIY OF .11 KITS PKAK
lly boat Pike r-bed up the Mis
souri to the mouth of the Otage. as
u tended that atSuent to the 0as
villsfM, in western Missouri, and re
stored the Indians to their tribe
Getting horses, he rode Into Kansas,
delivered the Pawnees at their home
on the Republican River, near the
Nebraska line, and then swung south-
ward to the Arkansas, which was
reached nt the present Great Rend,
close to tbe center of Kansas. From
that poinl Lieutenant Wilkinson and
a few privates went down the Arkan
sas to the Mississippi River and re
turned home, while Pike and the rest
of his men followed the Arkansas
into Colorado, wandered through It
in a zigzag course, and discovered
the mountain with which his name is
connected. He first thought it was
a "small b'ue cloud," but when his
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