M it l 1 V lit R 1 1 t m i y W I ONCE IN A WHILE Once in a while the sun shines out And the aching shies are a perfect blue Once in a while mid clouds of doubt Faiths fairest stars come peeping through Oqr paths lead down by the meadows fair Where the sweetest blossoms nod and smile And we lay aside our crops of care Once in a while Once in a while within our own We feel the hand of a steadfast friend Once in a while we feel the tone Of love with the hearts own voice to blend And the dearest of all our dreams come true And on lifes way is a golden smile Each thirsting flower is kissed with dew Once in a while Once in a while in the desert sand We And a spot of the fairest green Once in a while from where we stand The hills of Paradise are seen And a perfect joy in our hearts we hold A joy that the world cannot defile We trade earths dross for the purest gold Once in a while A QUEEN IN BAGS I TT OUP LA j Crack went the circus -- -- masters -whip as the girls flying figure went through the last tinsel-covered circle higher even than the preceding ones and alighted safely in the saddle amid rounds of rough ap plause One solitary figure occupied the dress seats a tall dark man with bronzed face and keen eyes and to this one upper class patron was the cream of the entertainment directed As the girl rode round before her exit she made the usual feint of blowing a kiss to the stranger but the circus mas ters jealous eye noted that a deep flush dyed her forehead He also noted that the same solitary figure was there for the third night in succession was there alone and that as soon as Queen Ca milla left the ring he got up collected stick hat and gloves and departed Hes a fish out o water muttered the man to himself Whats he doin here I wonder If hes got an eye upon Camilla hell soon find as how others as got an eye upon him And that night after a frugal but somewhat noisy supper the ringmaster sought out a fat elderly woman al rwajs strongly redolent of gin but who in spite of that and other little delin quencies was called by courtesy the wardrobe mistress The manager for in Leo Salternes circus the manager owner director and ringmaster were rolled in one came upon this lady as she was folding away Camillas glit tering robes Look here he began roughly Have you heard anythin about the gent thats been hangin around Course I have muttered the wom an sulkily Who asnt Hes the new squire just come home from Australy An whats he doin here Come tosee Salternes circus I sup pose she replied leastways he pays is money like the rest There was silence save for the tin kling of baubles as she folded the cos tumes Then the man seized her by jthe arm You aint been splittin he hissed 4If you have Meg Hudson itll be the worse for you Dye think I want to get rid of the girl Dye think I dont know that the show would soon go to the dogs if it fcarnt for Queen Cam Dye think I dont know that she keeps things goin both before and behind scenes Why there isnt one o the whole company but what loves her and with a scowl ing glance hates you Well its a dangerous neighborhood anyway said the man shifting uneasi ly beneath the glance an its time we was movin on Ay As long as the Hall stood emp ty and no one knew where to look for a heir Hold your tongue for a croaking old fool cried the manager angrily glanc ing round at the thin wooden partition Who knows who might hear ye ye old bird o the night Anyway well be movin on We cant afford to throw away money but theres worse might happen if we stayed And slamming the door he went At least old Meg thought he had gone and she muttered to herself No an ye cant afford to be found out neither my fine master The whiff of a cheap cigar and a mut tered oath told her that she had been overheard though she didnt catch the managers concluding remark Ill find some means of stopping your tongue madam you know too much and seem like growin danger ous When Ronald King laid his half crown on the grimy sill of the little -pay office next night he was informed that the reserved seats was all took toy a party But instead of the turn ing away in disgust as the manager hoped he merely exchanged the coin for a sixpence and passed in among the crowd Queen Camilla was to do her high flight to night and it was Queen Ca milla he went to see He hadnt waited to analyze the attraction he simply went because he was attracted To be sure entertainment was scarce in the village where he had suddenly been cast and though he was the owner of a Qovely estate and 5000 a year there a more friendless creature than flie in existence He had been ranching for fourteen years in Australia and had been re called in most unexpected fashion to tep into his dead uncles shoes The family history was to Mm a sealed Shook His uncle had had children who jhad died and that was all he knew Queen Cam was later than usual that aiightf and many watches had been im patiently consulted before she came The dress seats remained empty and the ringmaster had a frown on his brow His ruse had failed and he was 2 shillings poorer for having tried it One swift glance Camilla gave toward the seat Ronald had occupied then her eye traveled along the line as if drawn by his steady gaze and she gave a quick start of recognition The master cracked his whip sharp ly and the horse began its accustomed amble but even as it started on its treadmill pace the ringmasters eye caught the flutter of a loose strap and he stooped to readjust it Quick as thought the girl raised her head and looked straight at Ronald King She was pale that night there were dark rings round her brilliant eyes and as she met his glance gravely and steadily for one moment she slowly shook hen head It seemed to him there was sup plication in her glance What did she mean Then the buckle was secured the whip cracked again and the round be- gan II Houp la She seemed to skim through the air more lightly than ever that night though her face was rigid and it was with difficulty that she sum moned a smile to her lips She trotted round amid even louder applause than usual but her little artificial salute that sham stage kiss was lacking that night Perhaps Queen Cam had forgot ten x At the entrance she was met by Meg Hudson Come away my lammie said the old woman folding the girl in her arms as she slipped from her saddle Ive got a nice bowl o milk for your sup per then ye can go straight to your bed You shall have no more harsh words to night no nor any otkftr night from that old tartar if I can help it A flaming placard on the boardings next day announced a specially attract ive program for the last night at Brax ton But before night came the circus tent was struck the caravans were packed and the traveling company had fled in sudden panic Old Meg had been ailing for two or three days No amount of warm gin had suceeded in banishing the shiver ing which took possession of her and that morning she was seriously ill and no doctor was needed to pronounce the terrible word smallpox Old Meg was left deserted in the small caravan where she lay The wardrobes fortu nately were not in the ame caravan and Leo Salternes circus company took a rapid flight to the nearest town Queen Cam had begged hard to stay behind but the manager wouldnt hear of it so weeping and reluctant she took her place She would be required for the parade and besides if she got smallpox and lost her beauty her ca reer would be ended An old woman more or less didnt matter and secretly the manager rejoiced that a sure and certain means was at hand of silencing Megs tongue forever She was the only one who knew the dreaded secret It was eighteen years now since Jack Forrest the handsome young riding master had run away with the only daughter of the squire of Braxton The squire had never noticed his daughter since and when Jack broke his necks over a gigantic hurdle in view of a crowd the shock killed his young wife who left behind her in old Megs charge a few valuable jewels her marriage lines and a tiny babe girl Old Meg had stack to those treasures fiercely through thick and thin but the secret would die with her Camillas identity would remain unknown and the man ager would take possession of the girl soul and body There was a hue and cry in the camp next morning for the queen was miss ing Her rough bed had not been slept in but all her tawdry robes and finery were there She must have gone away in the veriest rags Of course they knew where she had gone for Cam knew no such thing as fear and the manager swore loudly that some one must go at once and fetch her But there was the smallpox that was a greater terror than the managers wrath III Ronald King went home haunted by the supplication of those beautiful eyes He hurried over an important engage ment next day to go to the last per formance but reached the place only to find that the Arabs had folded their tents and silently stolen away One solitary caravan alone marked the spot and lighting a cigarette he strolled up to where it stood The sound of moaning came from within and after knocking vainly ho opened the door A miserable sight met his eyes An old woman ill dy ing lying on a rough straw pallet turned a haggard face to the intruder Ronald had seen sickness before Out in the bush any one helped a dying comrade and soon he had moistened the parched lips arranged a pillow un der the aching head lighted the swing ing lamp and sat down in the miser able hovel while with eager hands the woman gave a packet into his keeping and told him a story which seemed to the young man only the ravings of de lirium It was vain to seek a doctor thfcn the nearest one was miles away in the morning he should come Presently the moaning ceased and the old woman slept Then Ronald slipped quietly out with a strange thankfulness at heart that it was not the beautiful Queen Camilla who had fallen a victim to this terrible scourge With morning light he was back again but paused on the rickety steps of the caravan at the sight that met his eyes and in that moment his heart went out from his keeping Seated on the floor in Cinderella garb of brown rags the womans head in her lap was the girl he loved What mat ter -that she was t circus rider a girl of the people that she was shorn of her pomp and glitter Though she were the very scum of the earth he loved her She was his queen a queen in rags One glance told him old Meg was dead and gently he relieved the girl of her burden You must come with me he said looking into her beautiful eyes You can do no more for her She is dead She was the only friend I had Oh what shall I do without her sobbed Cam I have no home It is all a strange dark mystery I do not even know my own name Then it flashed across Ronald that those papers that rambling talk had not been delirium after all So you are really my cousin It is you who must reign here and not I And what shall you do I He met her gaze steadily Never now must this girl know that he worshiped her I shall go back to Australia he said huskily There is room enough for us both here Ron But if you must go shy ly you will take me with you Then she was in his arms Answers MENTALLY AN INFANT The Strange Case of a Strongly Built Man at Cleveland In a bed in the Cleveland General Hospital is a strong man reduced to the mental condition of an infant G months old He is William Murray of Erie Pa who says he was hurt on the head and is unable to give any other account of himself Murrays body trembles constantly and when he attempts to speak his chin quivers as if he were about to cry He frequently leaps out of bed and sits playing on the floor exactly like a child when it is not yet strong enouyh to walk He has a fancy for toys and plays with them for hours at a time When a watch was handed to Mur ray he laughed and crowed in an ec stasy of baby joy and shook the watch like a rattle box The next minute he placed the watch in his mouth A rat tle -box is one of his prime favorites One of the pastimes in which Murray indulges oftenest is to sit on the floor and play with his toes He eats and drinks like a baby and tries to put ev erything he gets hold of in his mouth Every phase of infant life is depicted in his acts Murray is a fine looking man and evi dently has been a person of refinement He is strongly built weighs about 200 pounds and has dark hair and a dark brown mustache He evidently has been a shorthand writer The attend ants at various times have given him pencil and paper with which to amuse himself and he invariably makes shorthand characters instead of the meaningless marks of a child Some of the physicians who have seen Murray have a theory that he was confined in a hospital as the result of an injury to his head and that he escaped while slightly convalescent The motion of the train they think agitated the brain and brought -on Mur rays strange condition His return to infancy is an unprecedented mental phenomenon St Louis Republic A cat in a Chicago dog hospital has brought up a family of five puppies Ostriches are fond of waltzing ac cording to a writer in the Popular Sci ence Monthly The male ostrich at time utters a cry which sounds like an effort to speak with the mouth shut tight Red irritates oxen because it is the complementary color to green and the eyes of the cattle being fixed so much on herbage anything red impresses their sight with increased intensity If you were cruel enough to cut off a wasps head and put it on the point of a needle in front of sugar and water you would find that it would begin greedily eating it quite unconscious of the fact that the food was dropping out of its gullet as soon as swallowed Some time ago the experiment was made of letting loose at Compiegne a swallow belonging to Antwerp in com pany with a number of pigeons The swallow immediately made a beeline for home and arrived there in one hour while the pigeons required three hours After a long and peculiar illness a horse belonging to Frank Heinen of Reading Pa died the other day and a post mortem examination revealed that the animals stomach was partly filled with broken glass some pieces of which had pierced the tissue The glass was of several kinds going to prove that the horse had a fondness for that diet Tapestry Made by Mexican Moths At a recent meeting of the St Louis I - t r - n Aeaoemy or sciences specimea were exhibited of a kind of tapestry said to have ben woven by the larvae of moths on the ceiling of a com loft in Mexico The silken sheet seems to have covered the entire ceiling It was composed of fine threads crossing and recrossing in every direction was near ly white in color and resembled a piece of soft tanned sheepskin The insects that made it destroy corn stored in warehouses Girls should not run around and tell about it when they are cutting their wisdom teeth it gives away their age People will pay more for a quarrel than for anything else 5SS29GaWE3aDaggS2S EaUsi StitJgStlhtUb3a FRUIT CURES The Effect on Health of Almonds Grapes and Strawberries According to a celebrated health ex pert blanched almonds gave the higher nerve or brain and muscle food and the man who wishes to keep his grain power will do well to include them In his daily bill of fare Juicy fruits give more or less the higher nerve or brain food and are eaten by all men whose living depends on their clear-headedness Apples supply the brain with rest Prunes are said to afford prool against nervousness but are not muscle feed ing They should be avoided by those who suffer from the liver But it has been proved that fruits do not have the same effect upon everybody Some men cannot eat apples without suffer ing from acute dyspepsia Fruit cure is a form of treatment which is quite the rage in continental Europe now with persons suffering from real or imaginary maladies The New York Times says in refer ence to this oneof the latest fads In the tenth century an investigator has discovered many medical authorities became enthusiastic in their writings over the remarkable curative virtues of grapes while a certnir Van Sweeten of a more modern d- aid to have recommended in speiiu oases the eat ing of twenty pounds of strawberries a day The same gentleman also reports a case of phthisis healed by strawber ries and cites cases in which maniacs have gained their reason by the exclu sive use of cherries These instances savor rather of the ridiculous but there is no doubt that the so called grape cure for indigestion and other evils is carried on in many places on the conti nent and that people betake them selves to Meran Vevay Bingen or to Italy and the south of France with the intention of devoting six weeks to the cure during which time they are ex pected to have gradually accomplished the feat of consuming from three to eight pounds of grapes daily Grapes are said to exercise a salutary action on the nervous system and so favor the formation of fat that is to say when fruit of good quality is employed if the grapes are not sufficiently ripe and are watery and sour the patient may lose rather than gain weight The valuable results obtained by a fruit diet in cases of dyspepsia are due to the fact that the noxious germs habitually present in the alimentary canal do not thrive in fru juices That fruit is a most valuable article of food cannot be denied and that many diseases may be greatly benefited by a diet largely composed of fruit is true enough It is a fact too that the majority of people eat more meat than they require Meat eaten once a day s sufficient for a person not engaged in manual labor or who does not take much strong outdor exercise A large number of the complaints contracted owe their origin to the consumption of food which entails a greater drain on the gastric juices than the system is able to withstand The cures attribut ed to the grape occur for the most part with those who are accustomed to high living and are really owing to the fact that the organs of digestion are given a much needed rest Seini starvation would answer the purpose almost as well For the person whose work lies chiefly indoors a mixed and varied diet is most conducive to good health Med ical Record Good Advice to Young Authors It is possible to give good advice without intending to do it Some time ago an inspiring writer in New Zealand wrote to Mr Rudyard Kipling for ad vice which might enable him to suc ceed in the occupation he had chosen In due time he received the following note from Mr Kipling No mans advice is of the least ben efit in our business and I am a very busy man Keep on trying till you either fail or succeed Mr Kipling could hardly have said more if he had written the man a let ter to cover a ream of paper The young author who is ambitious of literary success and who has it in him to succeed will not be discouraged by repeated failures but will learn something from every failure and per severe until he finds appreciation If he never finds such appreciation the proof is pretty positive that he does not possess the qualifications for suc cess and he has hardly wasted his time since beyond question he enjoyed the work or he would not have done it Iiife on a Canadian Ranch For nearly half the year we can lead i regular out-of-door life here and that Is what makes the real charm of the country That is what gives the health and brightness and hardiness to a life that acts with a kind of slow fascina tion on us all Englishmen who have lived here will abuse the country sometimes o home for good bidding a joyful last farewell to the prairie and come back within the year They profess not to know what draws them back to these world forsaken wilds and they abuse the country again But they csat keep away from it The logic of such proceedings is quite beyond my grasp but speaking as a mere illogical female I like the coun try so well myself that I think it is good to be here I like the simplicity the informality of the life the long hours in the open air I like the endless riding over the endless prairie the winds sweeping the grass the great silent sunshine the vast skies and the splendid line of the Rockies guarding the west 1 like the herds of cattle feeding among the foothills moving slowly from water to water and the bands of horses traveling their own way free of the prairie I like the clear rivers that come pouring out of the mouD tains with their great rocky nools and the shining reaches of swift I water where we fish in the summer I time -and the little lakes among the i hills where the wild duck drop down to rest on their flight to the north in spring When the grouse shooting begins in the autumn or as we say here when the chicken shooting begins in the fall I like to ride with the guns to watch the sport and mark down the birds in the long grass I like both the work and the play here the time and the time for coming borne I like the summer and the wteler the monotony and the change Besides I like a flannel shirt and liberty O r9 s ZrQ PIsek Bohemia is probably -the only dogless town in the world In con sequence of a death from hydrophobia the authorities ordered every dog in die place killed A remarkable long distance telephone talk was that between Captain Jacques in New York and Simon Lake in the cabin of his submarine boat the Argo naut eight miles out in Baltimore har bor and sixty five feet under water When a man has reached SI years and lias worked at blacksmithing un ceasingly for sixty five years one night excuse him if he abandoned the anvil evermore but a smart old fellow down in Maine asks no release in these cir cumstances and continues merrily on Bostons municipal legislators are considering the advisability of borrow ing 700000 for the establishment of twenty playgrounds for the children of the streets The committee on cities favorably reported a bill providing for this improvement A prying correspondent has discover ed in Piscataquis County Maine a family of six children the oldest of whoin twins are not yet quite 4 years of age Other twins are two years younger and the others 4 weeks In each case of the twins there are a boy and a girl It is said that a flower has been found in South America which is visible only when the wind is blowing The shrab belongs to the cactus family and is about three feet high with a crook at the top When the wind blows a number of beautiful flowers protrude from little lumps on the stalk A letter from Japan says th ir al though it is only eighteen years since the first newspaper was published in Japan there are now 575 daily and weekly newspapers There are thirty five law magazines eleven scientific periodicals thirty five medical journals and an equal number of religious news papers The late Justice Daniels of New York was one of the many persons afflicted with the dread of being buried alive I request he wrote in his will that interment shall be delayed until after my decease shall have obviously and certainly taken place and excluding reliance as to that fact on the opinion of any physician as such opinions have so often proved to be mistakes It is related of President John Ty lers nephew William Tyler who died a few days ago in Conkling Washing ton County Tenn at the age of 85 years that he had lived all his long life in the house in which he was born and that the building was once owned by John Sevier the pioneer who there planned with Colonel Isaac Shelby in 1780 the battle of Kings mountain A minister in Springfield Mass is said to have received a bicycle as a present from the manufacturer on con dition that it should be advertised by him from the pulpit In order to fulfill his contract he preached a sermon on Sunshine from Between the Weels and at the close he announced to his hearers the name of the wheel he rode and advised them to get only good ones The good people of Louisville Ky were recently startled by the appear ance on the streets of that city of a stylishly dressed young Avoman with a pipe in her mouth The pipe was of briar root with silver mountings and a curved amber stem The good qual ity of the tobacco which the young woman smoked has been attested by masculine observers who caught a whiff of its rich aroma Railroads Needed in Ecuador Ecuador is sadly deficient in trans portation facilities Gold silver cop per iron lead coal and petroleum are there in abundance but the lack of railroads renders it difficult to develop these minerals as is wished In this country which buys from us 750000 worth of our manufactures and from which we take nearly 000000 there is but one railroad Woman Stealing Meerschaums The French have produced the most remarkable kleptomaniac on record This is an old woman named Bide Whose passion for stnoking has impell ed her to pilfer pipes from Parisian shops with such industry that co fewer than 2000 were found in her lodgings All were meerschaums and thivty nine were well colored The Hindoo Way For 3000 years the Hindoo stand ard of living has been almost the same for rich and poor The Rajahs floors are bare and the rich man washes in the open air and dries himself in the sun like his poorer brother and so sim ple is the mode of life and so great the fear of robbery that immense amounts of wealth are buried Unique Floor in London The floor of the rotunda at the Lon don Coal Exchange where the mer chants gather is unique It is compos ed of inlaid woods arranged in the form of a mariners compass with a border of Greek fret Upward of 4000 pieces of wood are employed M mmJbuiAuaMte INDIANS AS CATTLE RASEfl5 They Have Tailed Entirely Thougk Having Every Advantage If there ever was any hope for the Indian in an agricultural way it sure- ly was in the direction of raising cat tle remarked an old government con tractor to a reporter for the Star Its a good thing for us though chimed in the cattle buyer who was aa old time friend of the contractor that the Indians didnt develop that way Correct you are retorted the con tractor but it is curious after all Tho Indians had a better chance than any white man on earth to go into the cattle business They had big ranges guard ed by Government troops Uncle Sam was buying stock for them all the time and by this time they should have leen the bulhonaires of the country Btic is not so In fact there is not a tribe in the United States that bas cattle enough for its own needs Yes said the buyer they had big herds of cow ponies they are good plainsmen herding cattle is not hard work and there are always plenty of boys about an Indian camp to take caie of it without troubling the biicus oi squaws The first work of barbarous man was the tending of herds and flocks and it would seem this would be the first move of the Indians toward civilization but they skip it somehow Look at the Crow beef herd np In Montana said -the contractor The finest best guarded and watered range in the country and yet the herd lias been growing smaller and smaller all the time notwithstanding the additions made every year by the Government Then look at the five civilized tribes la the territory They have fine grazing privileges but lose the benefit of thein by leases and then lose the money through the dishonesty of those who make the leases On the Kiowa and Commanche res ervations the Government allows tho Indians to sell the grass arid each In dian gets about 35 a year grass mon ey He spends this in a hurry and that Is the end of it Suppose the Gov ernment took this grass money for a year or so and bought cattle The re sult would be that the Indians would sell their grass in the snape of beef which is far more profitable It is the same way every where you go Tiia Government has assisted the Indian to dispose of his birthright until the Indian- does not recognize it when he meets it in the road The Indians aro colossal failures as cattle men Kan sas City Star An Example of Simian Sense A bird that builds its nest in a shel tered place exercises control over Na ture in its degree quite analogous to the work of a human architect The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests How does the fox get its hole or the bird its nest They make them for their purposes and this is certainly control over Nature tekthat extent How does the fox support his family if he has no control over Na ture Do hens and chickens run into his hole and ask to be eaten Dr Hop kins does not seem to have heard of the way in which a tribe of monkeys prepare to rob a cornfield Het us de scribe it When they get ready to start on their expedition an old monkej the leader of the tribe with a staff in his hand so as to stand upright more easi ly marches ahead on two legs thus being more elevated than the others so as to see signs of danger more read ily The rest follow him on all fours The leader advances slowly and cau tiously carefully reconnoitering in all directions till the party arrives at the cornfield He then assigns the senti nels to their respective posts All be ing now in readiness the rest of the tribe ravage and eat to their hearts content When they retire each one carries two or three ears of corn and from this provision the sentinels are fed on arrival at their lair Here wo see ability to rule and a willingness to submit to rule a thoughtful prepara tion of means to the end in view and a recognition of the rights of the senti nels to be suitably rewarded at the close of the expedition Wherein does all this differ from a similar foray of a tribe of savage men The only differ ence that really exists is in degree otherwise it is much the same Satur day Evening Post Fine Painter v In every trade there are a lot oTyp ical stories which go the rounds year after year stories of great feats or of endurance or perhaps of humor A journeyman painter once sought a job with a rich man He looked youth ful and inexperienced and the person to whom he applied for work was in clined to believe he was incompetent Why what can you do my young man he inquired You dont appear old enough to know muoh about paint ing Ill show 3ou replied the journey man He produced his brushes and paints and went to a near by pine fence There he painted a knot on the biggest hole It was late in the afternoon when he finished the job The next day the sun came out bright and the day was warm and clear At 3 oclock in the afternoon the painted knot dropped out of tho board under the influence of the suns rays The journeyman was hired on the spot Chicago Journal Fashionable Portraits Carolus Duran the fashionable por trait painter charges 14000 for a full length mother and child picture 8000 for a single full length without the child and for the full length child 5000 It will be observed by these figures that it is money in your pocket to be took separately Abeg garly 1000 is worth saving in these hard times Boston Herald A rtfi nnrf ir 1c n na t i i -- vut iur it U1U11 tUC ULUie i ueare are not admitted