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THE NORTH lYom blue unfathomable heights It glitters o'er the dusky pines, , lAnd steadfast through the wintry nights In axed and frosty splendor shines. O'er leagues of tossing trackless foam, J? rom. purple island shores atar, Sme good ship's bows are home, 1 Safe guided by the sailor's star. pointed JYom o'er the panes all silver-rimmed With frost I draw the curtain by, .Glad to behold, keen and undimmed, Its sworded brilliance in the sky. May flying scud nor stormy haze Nqr vapors gray thy glory mar; Fair and. unclouded still thy rays Cast on the waters, friendly star. COMPENSATION -THE By Catherine S.-'Longv first saw Nora's did not wonder at my cook's interest and de li srht in the new arrival from County Kerry. She was a mere slip of a thing, with eyes like patches of blue sky let into her pale face, and after tack frightened Upward glance she drooped the black-fringed lids has tily in the vain effort to force back, the homesick tears. . Rigidly erect she sat upon the edge of a kitchen chair, her nervous fingers clutching the handle of a shiny, . old fashioned valise, her soft curves and fresh, peasant beauty . furnishing a striking contrast to her aunt's sharp angles and stooping figure. Nora herself was not handsome, but we had long since forgotten to com ment upon her peculiarities of person. We only remembered that .she was honest, devoted and, in the language of much-tried housekeepers, "a treas ure." I had more than once heard from Nora's garrulous tongue the niece's history, and knew that she had fur nished the girl's passage money to America. I had promised to employ Bridget as nurse maid, much to the satisfaction of Nora, who wished to have her under her own careful guar dianship. Having! come late in life to this country Nora had never adapt ed herself to new conditions, as other girls of her class usually do.-- She had 110 followers, few guests and seldom Went out except to church. The lntro- duction pf this new element from an oldjmvironment was like a burst of sunshine in her lonely lifei The maternal instinct lis dormant In the1 breasts of all women, and the advent of Bridget seemed to awaken It iu liura. one was iiKe a cnua witn a hew doll, and with her joy was min gled a delightful sense of her own re sponsibilities. The first thing to be considered was Bridget's wardrobe. Nora was anx- lous to exhibit her new acquisition to her few old-country acquaintances, and I before doing so wished to make her presentable according to" New World standards. "She's the look o' one lately come over, hasn't she, mem? Old-fashioned but dacint, annyhow. My sister's not one to see her childer goin ragged. It's a sailor hat I'm thinkin' to get her, an' a nate an' tasty Jaeket, don't ye think?" she said. And when the two sallied forth to church on the Sunday following it could not be denied that Nora's pretty tuece weu Decame a generous outlay. Ks for Nora her face shone with hon est pride. , After the first few weeks of homesick cepression from which Bridget suf fered, s.he began to revive and to take : - a Keen interest in her surroundings. She was extremely quick and bright. and adjusted herself to new conditions with the facility so characteristic of youth. TTTl T m i wnen x round her one morning In animated conversation with the police man, while the baby tumbled up and flown the front steps unattended. I felt .1.-1 . . ' , f.uaz jinaget nad become successfullv Americanized. Her cool inmertinpnnA wnen ,1 reproved herfor negligence uuvveu ner an apt scholar of the as- fociates sne had found. , Bausiaction.at Bridget's nres- unce t in tne ramily was so keen that we . j . - " mi Cu dimpus w De suited with our ew nurse maid, but as time went on I uuix-n more ana more difficult to re- ru uer 'wlin bora's fond enthusiasm, v YilS UU1TP PV rtonf l-io4- 1 I -auiucss una not descended in this instance to the second xreneration. At first Nora watched Bridget with insistent solicitude. She directed hpr innnmlnno j . ?tlS?. OsUtS01??s ber uprisings Z ::S.W &n :0TW ' v- no appeal, it soon 'ueM'Mmp nnniinnt u . . .CiAl, uuwever, tnat lirid- ifestatlnn.! f . 7 , , . . VJ- v", ana us man- casional uncertain and oc- SOOn became SO rrnnnnnorl and were such a source of astonish- mt ment to Nora that m,a i-t " , v have bPrifct thesituation might ?ZLleuslns lf fidget's bad temper and. Incompetence had not been the sonrop nf n.t T oource or constantly increas!n?r nn - 4Tw,vH , -tlC cconomy- . - . r ;ywiwuie; ana, ex - T HEN I V A niece I vv STAR. BY 1IIN2TA IBVING. For gazing over the drifted snow -T see dark fieures at the wheel. The green! 'and erimson lamps a-glow, The. rocking mass and, rushing keel; There one who feels beneath his feet Thedeck to anerv billows jar, Turns often in his watch to meet Its faithful gleam the sailor's star. .Jdv' heart upon the windy deep . . Keeps pace with him the long night . through, :. . . -; . A ' ; . When in their quarters heavy s.cep And. silence, hold the weary' crew. Make straight across the rolling sea , From distant quay to harbor-bar A nath of light, and bring to me My best beloved, Oh,-northern 6tar. ' The Criterion. OF THE FAITHFUL, g cept when she wished to make her aunt serve-some selfish purpose, she treated Nora with an exasperating contempt. Yet her companionship was the only source of inspiration "for Nora, who was slow to recognize that the girl was gradually slipping from her lov ing grasp. As lapses became more frequent- so Increased the loyalty with which Nora defended them. "Sure, ye'll not be afther bein too hard on the poor thing," she wheedled me, with the familiarity born of long service, when Bridget failed to return at night after a Thursday out. " 'Tis most like it's taken sick she was at the Bogans, where she was callin in. She was always free to come and go before she come over. I'll promise she'll not be doin' it again." When Bridget returned the next morning she was so defiant and surly that Nora and I both refrained from criticism, Nora because of perplexity and mortification, and I because I saw but one outcome of the situation, and, for Nora's sake, was patient to await results. The crisis was not slow In coming, and I was not surprised, when Nora informed me that Bridget in tended to leave. ' I was glad, but I pitied Nora's evident distress. "What's the matter?" I inquired kindly. "Isn't she satisfied with the wages, or is the work too hard?" "Well, 'tis nayttfer, mem," said Nora, 1 soberly Inspecting her twisting fingers. "She don't want to do nursin' any I more. The Bogan surrls do be at her all the time to go into the factory. It's a young thing she Is, an' 'tlsn't strange she's afther young company," she added, still faithful to her crumbling I idol, So Bridget dropped out of the house-1 hold, and I dare say she should not be blamed for preferring association with her own kiDd to the restraining society or a plain, middle-aged woman, whose conversation was tirelessly reminiscent of the affairs of the Flahertys and the O'Tooles of a preceding generation. I Bridget's place was satisfactorily filled by a stolid Swede, whose knowl edge of English did not include a fa miliarity with the Irish brogue! Brid get came but seldom to visit her aunt, andVNora, in accordance with well-dl- rected hints, refrained from obtruding upon the society of the factory, and uncomplaingly fell back Into the old, dull life which had been brightened by this brief period of illusive mother hood. Another season of excitement began for us when Nora one morning project- ea ner Dristllng forelock which she called her "bang" In at a crack of my chamber door with the startling' an nouncement: " "Irene's sick!" "Irene?" I inquired vagu6ly. Nora looked embarrassed. - "Bridget. I mean." she exDlaind. fniinwin tiio bang' with the rest of her person trembling with excitement. "Trenp's the name she goes by at the factory, xsriaget Dem' so queer T J . a . an old-fash- ioned, you know." I renresspd n smila nf Yka. nrpnA chanee of I . . .ivium, vj. the shallow natm-P woma interpstpfl in wi'o Cf,. tt : had become suddenly ill at the factory presumably from overwork, nnrt hnd been. taken to th hrvnitni -t, lay criticallv ill tvnhnM I " . tJ J.. Nora was loud in her self-floiRnttnnfi and expressions of sympathy "The swate lamb!" she cried. "To the think' of her workin herself to point, an' me takln' no note' 'Tis true I'm a wicked woman !" . mi j-ne warm -ami tender heart had opened again, and Bridget's desertion uuu neglect were all forgotten. It .v iuc iuai 1 COU1U See CaUSe other than devotion , to her duties for occiiiu i me inar l conifl rpp nnwsp the girl's collapse, but I made no com- ment, and gave Nora the desired npr. i . . . . r . mission to go to the hosnital. wiieu .Bridget's men came a time when TSrfrio-pfs me nung in the balance, nnd Nnro w TiPnrt riiifln TrrtK ; I --. uuiuhuq 11U iiilUJL auu uuiieiv. vibrated between the girl's bedside L vr.-;vuC. 5x :. ueusme and her own household duties, with much detriment to the latter. ' During this period she 1 v"i0 "uu Bue servea up to 1 ns ths mnsf inorodiiiin i w uvki iuv.i(,uiiiir iiii ill vwi uri nno dishes, and went about with eyes so 1 noor was paved with broken china. grease spots and Impromptu omelets. Every comfort and luxury she lav ished -on the sick girl, and in time Bridget was out of danger. It Is safe to say that the happiest day of Nora's life was the one ; upon which she learned this fact. A a : aa I:; 3 Bridget's convalescence was - slow and. tedious, however, and during It she boarded with the- Bogans' .her ex penses naturally being met from Nora's pocket, for her own earnings had. gone long ago for finery.- :, .When she was able, she came to the house to see her aunt, and to get money for an expensive tonic. . . Her face, still pretty in spite of its pallor, was thin 'and drawn, and it did not require a physician's eyes to 'see that her health was shattered; her frail constitution, had been weakened as much by late hours as by disease. One morning Nora again interviewed me in my room. This time she told me that she herself was going to lenve. . A AA. "You!" I cried in astonishment, while harrowing visions of my tidy kitchen bereft of its presiding genius rose be fore me. "Why, Nora! What in the world .. do you mean? Don't tell me that you are going to get' married !" The idea of matrimony in Connection with awkward, bashful Nora was so funny that we both laughed heartily, but when she had recovered her breath she explained matters. Bridget, or "Irene," as Nora scrupu lously called her, still continued frail, and with no prospect of rugged health In the futnre. Nora had, therefore, conceived the idea of buying with her own carefully hoarded savings' a little house, and making a home for them both. The enthusiasm and reverence with which Nora spoke the word "home" told the whole story of a life of ungrat ified longings. The details of the investment were gladly attended to by my husband, and then the furnishing of the little cot tage, , at which I assisted began. Irene was to be kept in profound ignor ance of the scheme until all was ready. Nora's thin face seemed glorified, and happiness radiated from her person. Participation In her delight was a ne cessltv. rcrvthin nro in wttK nn J the invalid's comfort and enjoyment, An pjisv rhnir amplllnf nf vnrnfsli scratch v with n Rrnsspla novAr! ' : , " O' I sang a canary, and the picture of the Madonna, which I had contributed. was strung np in close proximity to toe ceiling. At last everything was ready, and tne next day was to see Irene's acces- slon to the throne of the palace. " I must confess that the next morn- lng my sympathetic thoughts were in cottage. It seemed to me almost as if a lover were-bringing home his bride, and I was consequently 'puzzled when, late in the afternoon, I was in- iormea iaat xxora wisnea to see me. On going down I was shocked at the change which had taken place in, the woman. Her shoulders drooped, her face was worn, her eyes were dull and listless, and her whole attitude was expressive of dejection. "Why, Nora!" I exclaimed. in alarm. For a moment she did not speak. She seemed to be struggling with some deep emotion. At last she said broken ly, but with a pathetic effort to regain her old cheerfulness, "I just called in to tell ye. mem. about Irene. She's married to to Tim Bogan yester day. No, mem, there's nothing you can do- for me.- Tisn't strange she'd be wantin a home of her own. and and then she didn't know, of course," she added bravely, but with quivering lips. It was some time after this before I saw Nora again. My husband's busi ness required a trip to Europe, and the chilren.and I were to accompany him. It occurred to me that Nora might keep our house during our absence r of a year. I found her in the little cottage and much the same as we had always known her. except that she seemed older, and had an air of listlessness quite different from her old, alert bear ing. ne manned me Kindly ror my offer, but declined it. She was not well, she said, and had lost her. heart for -work. v. v "." Her eyes brightened when I asked after Irene. I learned , that she was better, and happy, with her husband, who was good to her; and had bought her a complete parlor set.. It was also mentioned incidentally and with some pride that she had lace curtains, at all her windows. Business affairs shaped themselves so that It was two years before we re- turned to America. Nora's sad face had followed me across the Atlantic, and I had often thought of her during my absence. When I was reopening my house, my mind naturally reverted to her, and I went to see her. A vague sense of some catastrophe itfia oppressea; me, out i was relieved I trt flnri hhu rtAt, 0v,!t-. . . - .... , .? new coat of paint, and presenting an uuei-jeeceu air 01 cneerrumess. ora herself opened the door, and certainly no one Welcomed mv rpt unexpected air of cheerfulness. Nora no one welcomed my return more neartuy tnan my old and trusty serv- . J AV iinr I was glad to note that she seemed happier than when I last saw her. and had regained much of her old vivacity Consequently I was. surprised on ask ing about her niece to see her face set- tie into r solemn lines, ana to near ner say in hushed and referent tones: : a. "Irene is dead." ; : ; ;. '' - , She received my condolences with, gratitude- and appreciation, but with a complacency and absence of all expres sion of deep sorrow for which I rounu it hard to account.; She told me with much volubility of : Irene's last illness. of her deathv after much suffering, and of the number of carriages which fol lowed her to the grave. Then she hes itated, as if there were more to tell. . . Suddenly, as I waited for her to con tinue, there came from penina me tne sound of a f alnt cry, ; 'Hurriedly I. turned, and on the lounge saw- what I had not before noticed, a bundle wrapped in Nora's familiar, old plaid shawl. , ! Nora rose, , approached it gravely, and took it in her arms. Uareiuiiy she unwrapped it, and there appeared from; its folds the face of a lovely, dimpled infant that thrust out its rosy little hands in a frantic effort to free itself. Nora held it forth to me with' shining eyes. '",.., 4' " 'Tis Irene's baby," she said, im pressively. Then she added in a voice that shook with emotion, "She gave it to me with her last breath!" Youth's Companion. FARMERS' WIVES. Notable Tor Accomplishments TliatTVere Undreamed of a Fer Years Ago. , One having access to the Kansas newspapers cannot have failed to note the unusual number of marriages which have taken place during the present season. It has been saia tnat the ofllce of the Probate Judge con tains the barometer of material con ditions in every county. What we know for sure is that young folks usu ally consult their pocketbooks in mak ing . arrangements for marriage, and that in good times these matings are much more frequent, i Those who have -gone a little, deeper Into the subject than a mere mathe matical calculation must also have noticed a great difference in those friendly little notices given by the newspapers, particularly wnere tne bride and bridegroom have come from farmer families. Twenty years ago a marriage notice o k farmer couple in Kansas wouiu, iime uiuea out u. icu flave. meuuoueu uppiuvms mm iuc . , . w . - v. . 1 f Jl . . 1 J . t,..i.X- that she was one of the most success ful raisers of poultry in the township, or that "she possessed! those habits, of industry which, so peculiarly fitted her to be a farmer's wife."; Now an equal proportion of such notices wlU recite that the bride Is a fine musician, that she is a graduate of such and such an Institution; that she won a prize in el ocution, -or that she was noted among her associates for proficiency in some of the arts. ! And , the difference In. these notices makes the vast gulf which has opened between the past and the present with respect to farm life, no doubt to the uneasiness of those who fear that the rugged industry once j considered es sential in successful agriculture has taken Its departure. ; Yet there are those on the other side who cheerfully accept the belief that a woman who can play the piano may be quite as much of a helpmate to the farmer as the woman who can play only on the washboard. The fact ! Is that modern methods, particularly modern machine ry, have revolutionized the business of agriculture and it no -longer requires the man-killing, get-up-at-tkree-o'clock-m-the-morning industry which former ly was the price of success. And this revolution has come as much to the farmer's wife as to the farmer. So here's to the farmer's bride who, can play a nocturne while , the electric churn is, churning, , or who varies the monotony of her calling by writing es says on Decadent Art! Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. J Crovrins: 3?or Prizes. Roosters that crow for prizes are fa miliar sights to the residents of vari ous sections of Belgium, . notably the Liege district. The Belgian artisan In his leisure moments breeds a special cock for crowing, and, that which car. outcrow its fellows has reached the highest pinnacle of ' perfection! The plan adopted is to place the cages con taining the, roosters in a long row, for it appears that proximity creates that spirit of emulation 1 without which the proceedings would fall flat. A marker appointed by the ' organizers of the show Is told off for: each bird, his duty being to note carefully; the number of crows for which it is responsible, In the same fashion as the laps are re corded in a bicycle race. The custom ary duration of the! match is one hour, the winner being the cock which scores the highest number of points' in the allotted time. - ; Woikmen'a Uwelllnffs in IiOndon. London owns at : the present time completed dwellings containing over 1500 tenements, erected solely for the benefit . of the working class. One housing scheme, the largest ever at tempted in London or ; elsewhere,' in volved the expenditure "of 81,410,000. v . . : , s . y. . ' The World's Postage Stamps.' The various countries of the world use 13,400 different kinds of postage I stamps. Between twenty-one -and thirty man is ill five and a half days av V uu. . v..0t v-vnttu lUIfy f tTxr " ' epvprt dfivs. Tn rears he loses eleven davs n.. 3 and between fifty and sixty twent . jukioujxii tv .u.o, wi Juuuaon J JnnntKn1 Vita rncnlfci r 4-1-.. i. ' ucbuiucu xiio ituuiw me ireatinp!. a & i1m Atinitir IlKATtAlll AaiN 1 . v,v-vv. " nequeil cy and high potential. . He gives rt- results in forty-three cases so treatpj all being of a severe type. At fol after each application, the tempera. JLCSS, U.J-LU. VY11CXX AiU HOC lUHUWCU, HYtM of the disease had occurred. Thenum ber of the bacilli first increased, ututaocu. lino"1 ao jj u I. VUf j au tne symptoms were coineiaentally .11...S.J 3, mi . . i aiicvmieu. Aiie avciuge term or treat. ment was about three months. ;The mysterious radium rays hav& m"' ' . 3 . 1 9 Deea. unuer lnvesugauon recently regards their germicidal properties mi t a : is , . ' mat ueuiuuouaicu, auu tueu "11US1Q. liar apparatus the radium rays were tried. It was found that the germs under the same conditions were killed in about three hours. Every possible precaution was taken to see that tie therapeutic value of the action lay in the rays and not in some other obscure phenomenon. It required several days' exposure of the cultures to bright light to effect the results that were pro. duced by the radium rays in a few hours. , Oniciai weather records show that winds having a. velocity of 185 miles an hour have passed at Mt. Washing ton. This velocity was actually regis tered by one of the wind recording in struments. yA gale with a velocity of 138 miles an hour has been registered at Cape Hatteras. The wind which accompanied the Galveston disaster is estimated to have had a velocity of 120 miles an hour, though the instru ments were blown at eighty-four miles an hour. At Cape Hatteras in 1899, 105 miles were recorded. In view of these figures the common phrase, "With the speed of the wind," is still significant, in' spite of modern railroad improve ments. Professor Trowbridge, of Harvard University, has made public his re searches which lead him to the conclu sion that pure hydrogen is a non-conductor of electricity. ; An electric dis charge cannot penetrate an atmosphere of pure hydrogen, nor, in fact, any gas. In ordinary cases the spark is trans mitted by the ions, resulting from the decomposition of waterl Schumann has shown that pure hydrogen at atmos pheric pressure, transmits ultra-violet rays as freely as the, most perfect vacuum. Hence, this gas, by Max- -ell's theory, must be a non-conductor. Professor D war nas also shown ex perimentally, that liquid hydrogen is a non-conductor. The excavation of the city of Priene, on the western coast of Asia Minor, which has been going on . since 1895, has brought to light newUnd interest ing features of Ionic" Greek cities. Priene is aslrectangular and mathe matically linear as any modern city. The main ways, twenty-fly e feet wide, run east and west. Four houses are. usually included in each block, and, each house faces on two streets. Th, walls of the houses are built of rough stone with a few small openings. The blocks measure 140 by 150 feet. Many hitherto undetermined facts of decor ation, design and plan, which have puz zled architects and" artists are now for the first time, cleared up. Lion claw carvings were common. Censers, candelabra, and vases of bronze in thfr Pompeiian style, and fragile terra cotta figurines are found everywhere. The scenic arrangements of the Greelc theatre are finally settled. The Railway Dog. It Is a matter of history that a shep herd dog was an Important aid in op erating the trains that ran on the first railroad built in the Territory of Wash ington, When Dorsey S. Baker con structed a strap railroad from Wal lula, on the Columbia River, to Walla Walla, the trading; centre of the in land empire, horses and cattle covered the "thousand hills" and blockaded the valleys through' which the pioneer line ran. A dog was kept on the engine to clear the track when the brutes became so numerous as to bring the train to a standstill. There are many early settlers Jiving in the Northwest tell , the story of the usefulness of this little shepherd dog in operating trains on the D. S. Baker railroad. The dog was used several years, and' m known by all the miners of Idaho ana Montana who traveled that way. While doing duty on the track in front of the engine one day, the faithful animal was run over. Portland Oregonian. California has the largest trees i the world.
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