Lord, when beneath the trees wo go,
whero all Thy sweet wild wood-folk
grow,
Tho buds and boughs seem praying low,
"Remember, Lord, and lovo us.
"By every leaf that springs to birth
To share our plenty, bear our dearth,
Hcmembcr Thou wast born on earth:
Itemcmber, Lord, and love us.
"By every night, when skies are deep,
And solemn stars nbovo us sweep.
Think on Thy nights of earthly sleep;
Remember, Lord, and love us.
"By every dawning, fresh and dear,
Whero choiring birds sing round us clear,
Think on Thy mortal wakings here
Hcmember, Lord, and love ui.
"By suns that shine with cruel Btregs,
By winds that vox us and oppress,
Remember Thlno own weariness;
Remember, Lord, and love us.
"By springtime days when Joy Is rife, .
By winter nights of storm and strife.
Remember Thou hast lived earth's life
Remember, Lord, and lovo us.
"By all our slow decaying salth
Of doom drawn nearer with each breath,
Think how Thy life went down to death;
Remember, Lord, and love us."
So wo havo heard their pray steal
through
Tho morning sun, tho evening dew
"Wilt Thou not hear us praying, too?
Remember, Lord, and lovo us.
Won on the Field.
BY HON. W. H. HINRICHSEN.
(Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
"Whero aro you going, Sylvia?" said
Mrs. Martin, .as her daughter, accom
panied by Mr. Amos Darling, a tall,
elegantly dresaed, young man, strolled
out of tho gate of tho ranch houso on
to the open prairie.
"Wo aro going for a llttlo walk," was
tho reply.
"I want to speak to you beforo you
go," said Mrs. Martin.
Sylvia returned a few steps to meet
her mother.
"Sylvia," said tho elder lady, "I seo
Tom Ruggles coming across tho prai
rie. Don't leave the house."
"I saw him, too," replied Sylvia.
"That's why I am going."
"Sylvia."
"Yes. I am tired of seeing him
hang around," and sho rojolnrd her
escort.
Mrs. Martin called after them,
"Don't go too far, you know tho cattlo
havo been ugly lately."
"Very well," answered Sylvia with
out turning her head.
Mrs. Martin stood at tho gato and
watched their retreating forms till
they passed over tho swell of tho
prairie.
"Good evening, Mrs. Martin," said
a hearty voice, and sho turned to greet
a handsome young man dressed ln-cow
boy costume.
"Why, how do you do, Tom. Won't
you como in?"
"Is Sylvia at homo?" he asked as ho
swung from his saddle to the ground.
"She and Mr. Darling wont 'for a
walk a while ago. They will bo back
soon, I hope."
"Which way did they go?" asked ho
anxiously.
"Over tho swell toward tho slough,"
sho answered. "But what Is tho mat
ter?" for Tom sprang in to tho saddle
and his horso was already flying across
the prairie.
Sylvia was tho daughter of Major
Martin, proprietor of tho great Martin
ranch, and Tom was tho son of Colonel
Ruggles of tho great Ruggles' ranch,
a few miles distant. They had been
"Keen cool and we'll como out all
right"
friends from childhood and Sylvia
thought thero was no ono Hko Tom
until Mr. Darling appeared.
Mr. Amos Darling waB from the east
nri lm was looking for a location, ho
said. Ho thought ho would liko to
ensrane in the cattlo business. Ho
brought letters to Major Martin from
business friends In tho east and was
welcome at tho ranch whero ho had
mado himself at homo for soveral
wnoks.
Tom's flannel shirt, broad hat, and
iiich heeled boots mado a poor show
Ing besido tho neatly fitting nttlro of
Mr. Darling, who In addition to being
well dressed, could quoto poetry and
foil BtnHen nf European travel. So, In
tho languago of tho prairie, Tom "got
tho sack" when ho called ai mo mar
tin ranch, and Dnrllng was tho "wholo
niinrr" with Svlvla.
Even if Tom was miserable, Sylvia
wbr nnitn hnnnv. and that SeUembor
nftomoon ns she and Mr. Darling
strolled across the prairie, she folt
imnnler thnn usual, for her escort had
shown a decldcil inclination to ask n
rertaln miostlon.
"What is that noise?" said Mr. Dar
ling, breaking upon a recitation 1b
which ho was Indulging.
They stopped.
"Tho cattle," gasped Sylvia. "Look."
And coining toward them, a mllo or
more nway, was a lino of long hornj
trctchlng in each direction almost to
the horizun,
Mr. Darling's knees shook. Ho had
heard tho stories of tho vlclousncss of
Texas cattlo in a stampede nnd ho real
ized their danger. Ho looked around.
Not a treo or fence in sight.
"Wo nro lost," said Sylvia. "Wo can
not get away."
"Let's run," quavered Mr. Darling.
"They would soon overtako ua,"
sobbed Sylvia. "Wo cannot escape."
A shout ringing across tho prairie
from bohind them caused them to turn.
A horse urged to its greatest speed
was coming down tho swell toward
them. "Tom," screamed Sylvia.
'Come," and sho ran to meet him, fol
lowed by her companion.
Tom reined In his horso nnd flung
himself from the snddlo.
Quick," said ho to Darling. "Up
"What is that nolso?"
with you," and ho helped him into the
saddle. Then seizing Sylvia, ho lifted
her up bohind hor escort. "RIdo for
tho ranch," ho said, "and don't sparo
tho horse. You'll bo all right."
"But you, Tom?" sureamed Sylvia.
"Never mind mo," vria tho reply, nnd
giving tho horso a cut with his whip
ho started tho animal with his doublo
burden bounding ncross tho pralrlo.
Only for a short distance, however, for
Sylvia, reaching around hor compan
ion, seized the reins and bringing tho
horso almost to a standstill, slipped to
tho ground.
"I'll not leave Tom,." sho cried.
Mr. Darling hesitated for an Instant,
then loosening tho reins, tho horso
tore across tho prairie like mad.
Tom drew his revolver and took aim
at blB rival but ho did not Arc. After
an Instant's hesitation ho returned his
weapon to his belt and said to Sylvia,
who had run up to him.
"Keep cool nnd we'll come clear."
Their position was a dangerous one
but Tom knew his business. They
were In a sort of valley between two
vast swells of the prairie. At the bot
tom of this valley ran a "slough," a
wldo boggy strip of land showing oc
casional poolB of water, but mado up
mainly of stiff, wiry mud, soveral feet
deep, Interspersed with tussocks of
bunch grass. They were but twenty
paces from this slough, and coming
toward them on tho other sldo of it
was tho vast drovo of cattlo thunder
ing down tho hill with , a tread that
shook tho earth.
"Stand behind me," yelled Tom in
Sylvla'B ear as ho took his stand fac
ing tho slough and tho approaching
herd. She obeyed him.
Tho first line of animals rushed Into
the slough. Of theso but few succeed
ed In crossing. They sunk to their
bodies In the mud. Those behind,
urged on by tho weight of tho herd,
tumbled over them In every direction.
Soon tho slough was bridged by their
sinking bodies and the first animal
succeeded In getting across almost op
posite Tom and Sylvia. Tom's pistol
cracked and tho animal rolled over,
dead. Another nnd another till tho
six barrels of his revolver had piled up
a barricade of six struggling steers In
front of them. Five seconds fitted tho
empty cylinder with, cartridges, and
getting closer to tho barricade, Tom
continued his deadly work.
A dozen dead or dying steers wero
now piled up In front of thorn, nnd
tho herd, dividing at this point, passed
by on either side.
Tom continued shooting at intervals
and the gap In which they stood grow
wider and wider. Finally tho last
steer passed by and disappeared over
the swell and Tom turned to look at
Sylvia.
"Wo are safe now," ho said simply.
Sylvia had been very much fright
ened at first, but she was a pralrlo girl
after all and was now as cool and col
lected as Tom,
They started to walk to tho ranch.
"Say, Tom," said Sylvia, "how did
you come to give up your horso to Mr.
Darling? If you had Just takon mo
on behind you, we could havo escaped
easiiy."
"Ho would have been killed," said
Tom. "I thought you loved him and
his death would have broken your
heart."
"Lovo that dude. What can you
take mo for? You are worth a million
of him."
"Sylvia," said Tom, "what mado you
Jump off tho horso?"
"Ilecnuso," said Sylvia, "I proforred
to dlo with you rather than llvo with
anyone else."
Then tho cowboys coming from tho
ranch to look for their dead bodies saw
Tom take Sylvia In his arms nnd cover
her faco with kisses, in splto of Us
coating of dust.
Mr. Darling did not remain to tho
wedding at the Martin ranch, He con
eluded that ho would not HV.o tho cat
tie business.
FAST 8AIMNQ FROM EUROPE.
trke Foor-Mniter Kaotlvrortli Comes Over
In 1M 1-3 I)r'
Tho fastest passago across tho At
lantic under sail in soveral years end
cd laBt week when the American four-
mastod ship Kenllworth, Cnpt, Taylor,
passed In tho Delaware Capes,
days after leaving Liverpool, says tho
Now York Sun. Hho had raced across
tho ocean to Philadelphia to get first
chance at n cargo of water pipes des
tined for Java in the East Indies. Her
trip recalled tho days of tho clippers to
tho ship brokers on tho Maritime Ex
change In Philadelphia and when tho
arrival was posted on tho bulletin
board tnoy cheered the four-master
and her skipper. While It is tho fast
est passago In recent years tho Kenll
worth's Is not n transatlantic sailing
record. The Dreadnnught, tho famous
Boston clipper sailed from Sandy Hook
to Qucenstown In tho 'GO's in nine days
and soventeen hours, a northwest galo
boosting her along all tho way. On
nnothor trip sho reached Liverpool
from Now York In thirteen dnys and
eight hours. Tho Mary Whltrldgo, a
Balttmoro clipper, sailed from Balti
more to Liverpool about the same dis
tance ns from Philadelphia in thirteen
days and seven hours forty years ago.
Tho nearest recent npproach to tho
Konllworth's fast trip was ono mado
between Liverpool and Now York threo
years ago by tho clipper A. J. Ropes
In nineteen days. Tho exact timo dif
ference between this trip and tho Kon
llworth's Is a llttlo more than twclvo
hours In tho Kcnllworth's favor,
but sho covered about 120 moro
miles in actual dlstanco also. Tho
Kenllworth Is ono of tho finest
sailing vessels now afloat. Sho Is 300
feet long, 43 feet beam, and has 2,178
net tons register. Sho Is n remod
eled ship. Sho wasbullt In Glasgow in
1887 and originally sho flow tho Brit
ish flag, but sho never Was success
ful under it. Whllo loading In San
Francisco Bho Anally caught flro and
was so greatly damaged that tho In
surance companies paid a total loss
on her. Arthur Sewall, who was In
San Francisco at tho time, bought tho
damaged hulk, rebuilt her and secured
an American register for hor. Among
tho fast voyages sho has mado slnco
is. ono of C5 days from Valparaiso to
Now York and another of 103 days
from hero to San Francisco. In tho
last flvo months sho has sailed moro
than 15,000 miles.
QIRL'S SOUL IN A PUPPY.
Singular Belief of a California Woman
IUocntlf HoroaveU.
Mrs. M. E. Halpruncr of Alameda,
Cal., believes that tho soul of her dead
daughter, Lillian May Halpruncr,
dwells in tho body of a llttlo spitz dog
sho possesses.
'I treat tho dog as I would my own
child," says tho mother with confident
affection, and she gives reasons for her
faith. A year ago, on her daughter's
birthday, sho had been told a snow
white spitz pup was to bo given her
by a neighbor. Tho white puppy ran
away from Mrs. Halprunner. In its
stead darted out and nestled to her a
golden haired puppy. At onco I saw
my daughter's gestures duplicated by
tho dog, and, believer In reincarnation
that I am, I knew Lillian's soul had
como back to bo near mo. Tho soul of
my daughter had entered tho body of
my golden spitz dog, Earl of Glon
gower, and I treat him as I would my
child." At night this dog sloops on a
silk-covered down pillow besido his
owner's bed. "He puts his llttlo paws
together for a fow minutes lri prayer
Just as Lillian did," declnred Mrs. Hal
pruncr. "Then ho strctcho3 his limbs
with Just her motions, rolls his head
from sido to sldo, and with a child's
happy sigh goes to sleep. Yes, I know
that my darling's soul dwells In his
body." St Louis Republic.
Repairing Urlo-a-Tlrnc.
A small sign in a second-story win
dow In Sixth avenuo advises us that o
young woman within tho modest
npartmont Is a "repairer of bric-a
brae." Ono who knows her tells mc
that sho makes nn excellent living
gluing together tho broken parta of
vases, antique furniture, articles of
virtu, plato, china ami all kinds of rnra
and valuablo trash with which rooms
aro supposed to bo ornamented. In
theso days when women insist upon
working whero could they And more
agreeable labor than repairing bric-a
brae? They become artists. Tho fas
cination of monding old clothes seems
to havo doparted, and In its place
comes tho dollght of patching pottory.
Tho Aold, however, is limited. The
young woman of Sixth avenuo mend
ed a vaso that had been broken Into
over 700 pieces, and actually improved
Its antiquity. Now York Press.
Steam Oat of Data.
H. G. Wells, the novelist, predicts
that wo shall presently tiro of steam.
Ho wonders that we havo put up with
tho locomotlvo so long. It la a cum
borons mass of metal that runs on rails
becauso It is too hoavy for roads; and
wo are still content to bo dragged be
hind It In stuffy nnd vibrating boxes
called railway carriages. Somo day wo
shall all travel by motor enr, which
will call for ub at our own doors, und
speed along a great broad highway, or
on a spoclnl track, with no moro rails
and cuttings, no moro embankments
nnd tunnels. London Illustrated
News.
MlMlMlppl'a Small Voir.
Mississippi bus a total population of
over 1,500,000 and yet tho totnl voto of
tho stato last November waa under
C0.000.
Steps are to be taken to form a com
t,ercia.l musoum In Madrid.
JV VAiy tymkt
!Prf Ctrit.
In n recent
con scrvatlon
about tho
gradual weed
ing out of wo
rn o n clerks
from tho Fed
o r a 1 dopnrt
m o n t b at
Washington, n
votcran chief
of nn lnport
nnt do part-
el mental divi
sion, who hnd
had nearly
twoscoro men
a n (1 women
clerks under
h 1 s direction
for moro than a quarter of a century,
taid:
"The women havo many virtues as
departmental employes. Yot, spoaklng
from long experience and at the same
time from a purely personal stand
point, I beliovo I would almost rather
have ono mnlo clerk than two female
clerks. This sort of pi o. onco U felt,
If not actually exhlbltcd.by most of tho
division chiefs In tho departments to
day. However, it would bo a raistako
to suppose that thero Is any concerted j
movement looking to tho eradication
of womon from tho departments. Such
a thing as that wouldn't bo poislble.
tt would bo in controversion with tho
civil service law, which makes no dis
tinction as to sox.
"Many of tho women clerks frlttor
away a great deal of tlmo In primping
during ofllco hours. They aro not only
IncoBBantly parading up nnd down tho
halls, on their way to and from tho
dressing rooms for this purpose, but
most of thorn havo comploto toilet Im
proving outfits In tho drawers of their
tasks, nnd some of thorn spond nbout
no much tlmo gazing nt thcmsclvs In
bits of hand mirrors ns they do In per
forming their ofllco duties. I don't say
all of them, mind but plenty of them.
It takos fully half an hour, and ofton
more, for the most of tho woman clerks
to get down to tholr work after reach
ing tho ofllco in tho morning. Then tho
majority of them knock off from a
balf to throe-quartors of an hour bo
pro quitting tlmo for tho purposo of
fnaklng ready for their appcaranco on
She street. This is not so unimportant a
latter as It would appear, when you
insider tho shortness of tho ofllco
ours from 9 to 4.
I havo found that it la nn unwise
proceeding to placo a woman clerk
over other men and womon clerks. A
woman clerk Imbued with such powors
almost Invariably develops tyrannical
ksndonclcs. Sho Is inclined to 'tako It
out on tho malo species' by rubbing
it In pretty hard on men clerks placed
Under hor jurisdiction, nnd sho Is abso
lutely merciless to tho women under
her. She Is oven moro sevoro with tho
JHCEJATLy 37V7ADJM1 . UP fHO, bOWM
KENTUCKY NATURAL BRIDGE
THAT SUPPORTS BIG TREES.
Tho accompanying plcturo from a
photograph forwarded to tho Scien
tific American by Cnboll Breckinridge,
C. E., of Danvlllo, Ky., shows nn in
teresting exnmplo of a so-called natur
al bridge. This "brldgo" ia situated
In Whltloy county, Kentucky, nbout
tour miles west of tho Cincinnati
Southern Railroad. Geographically, it
KENTUCKY'S NATURAL BRIDGE
THAT SUPPORTS BIG TREES,
represents tho upper part of tho lowor
coal mcaauro of thin section. Tho
opening has a span of nbout 37 feot,
and tho height, from Bprlng to crown,
Ib 10 foot; tho thickness of tho arch
at tho crown Is nbout 9 Inches. As is
shown in tho Illustration, several trcos
aro growing upon the arch.
A Happy Moating.
"R. B, Cunnlnghamo Graham, the au
thor of thoso travollng cxporloncet fa
2S
women than with tho men. Agi
say that I am speaking generally, for
I know that thero aro a few women in
chnrgo of sub-divisions In tho depart
ments whoso conduct In this respect
Is all that could be desired. But tho
avorago woman clerk Invested with a
llttlo brief nuthorlty over a bunch of
her fellow clerks usually becomes Im
perious Indeed
"When tho chief leaves his ofllco nt
4 o'clock ho is as llablo as not to sco
her on F street with nn nrmful of
bundles, and healthily flushed with
happiness over hor purchases. I havo
had this cxperlcnco tlmo and again.
Oddly enough tho woman clerk caught
under such circumstances dosn't ofton
appear to bo chagrined. Sho bows
pleasantly to tho chief whoso division
"GAZING AT THEMSELVES IN BITS
OF HAND MIRRORS."
may at tho timo bo cluttered with a
discouraging accumulation of work
and nover by nny chanco makes any
allusion to her fib ns to tho 'Illness'
which unfitted hur for work, but which
is of not so serious a charnctcr as to
keep hor from shopping expeditions,
or visits to her dressmaker, or ovon
afternoons at tho matinee. A man col
lared that way would look and feel
hang-dog. On tho morning following
such nn nbsenco tho woman clerk turns
up radiant nt hor desk, nnd turns in to
tho chief an all right and regular
physician's cor 1 1 flea to solemnly sotting
forth tho fact that sho had been too
sick to perform her duties on tho after
noon before. Tho graceful creaturo is
iTWMAU.
tho tropics which ho calls "Thirteen
Storlea," says that In his South Amer
ican Journcylnga ho ono day rodo to
ooo a vlllago whero, roport hinted,
somo valuablo old books had been pre
served. Ho adds: I. got lost nnd
passed tho night In a small clearing
where a fat and handsomo roan horso
was tied. On seeing mo tho animal
broko his picket ropo, ran furiously
round mo for or flvo times In circles,
and thon ndvanclng put his nostrili
closo to tho nostrils of my horso and
seemed to talk to him. Ills owner, nn
old Paraguayan, told mo that tho crea
turo had beon with him far Into tho
interior and for a year had never Beon
another horse. "But," said ho, "God
has given every animal speech after Its
kind, and ho la glad to hco your horse.
No doubt ho Is nsklng him tho iiowb."
During tho night I cannot sny exactly
what tho two horses talkod about; but
In tho morning my boat rodo with mo
a lenguo upon tho way, and when wo
parted, his horso reared onco or twlco
and plunged. It was n farewell.
Oonio wild A n cent nil I'liotntrupha.
A curious sort of Lonton diversion
thnt has been tried up town consists of
a gamo plnyetl with nncestral photo
graphs Instead of cards. Tho players
bring with them nil tho old photo,
graphs they can got, nnd thon dccldo
which of tho collection ore the ugliest.
Theso nro tho trump cards and tako
tho tricks. Each of the other photo
sm.n
niero of v
ots, or a sprig
of hyacinth, to
tho chief of
hor division
whon sho
hands in tho
cortlfl cato,
thinking thus
to switch tho
current of his
idoas as to hor
clllcloncy as n
clerk."
I n Burma
and other parts
of tho oast
elephants aro largoly omployed In tho
stacking of lumber. Their skill nnd
endurnnco nro almost boyond belief,
and if tholr mahouts, or drivers, treat
them kindly thoy will do almost any
thing and drop from shcor oxhaustlon
rnthor than glvo in. They pile toak
In pairs. Tho two creatures drag tho
wood to tho placo wnoro It Is to bo
stocked; thon ono raises tho end of
tho beam with hla trunk nnd rests
tho timer on tho top of tho ptlo whllo
its mato hitches tho other part Into
Ib position. Whon tho stack grows too
high thoy lay down legs to stand on
and nro thus enabled to add a fow
moro Btorles to tho heap.
Belling Rklm at Sacrificed Sheep.
When tho Sultan of Turkey gets an
idea into his head ho leaves nothing
undono to carry It out At present hlo
ono object ia tho building of tho Hed
Jaz railway from Damascus to Mecca.
As tho government has no funds avail
able, ovory Mussulman has boon forced
to mnko voluntary contributions and a.
very large sum of money has been col
lected. But it is not BUfllclont, nnd n
now Idea has been ovolved to holp on
tho pious work which tho rnilway la
thought to bo, owing to tho fact that
It will lesson tho troubles of tho pil
grims. Tho 3lBt of March waa Kour-
zan Balram, tho day on which every
pious Mussulman sacrifices ono or
moro sheep, according to his means.
Tho Sultan's project waa that all skins
of such shoep should bo hnnded ovor
to n special commission, to bo sold,
nnd tho proceeds given to tho rnilway.
The council of ministers npproved nnd
official notices wero Issued to that ef
fect Chicago Journal.
Bupply of Bpurgeou'i Hrrmom.
Mr. Spurgeon has been dead mor
than nlno years, but tho weekly publi
cation of his sermons proceeds, nnd
will go on for many years boforq tho
supply is exhausted.
graphs has n card value, and tho play
proccods. At Its conclusion tho namca
of tho orlglnalH of tho ugly cards nro
announced. Theso games nro regard
ed bb ovldonces of humility nnd reac
tion against ancestar worship. Phila
delphia Record.
Why They Were Selected.
It has boon recorded thnt Gen. Henry
Knox, in 1783, was tho "greatest" oi
cloven distinguished offlcors of tho
army, weighing two hundred nnd
eighty poundB. Noah Brooks in hla
hook entitled "Henry Knox," gives tho
following Incident relating to tho goa
cral's full habit: With a Captain Bar
goant, ho was soloctod to prcsont tin
bard caso of tho starving nnd naked
men nt Valley Forgo to tho attention
of n committoo of Congress. Ono of
tho Congressmen, wishing to Bhow his
wit nnd sarcasm, Bald that ho had
novor scon n fattor man thnn Gonornl
Knox nor a better drcsBed man thnn
his nsBoclato. Knox mnnnged to keep
his tomper nnd remained silent, but
hla subordinate retorted: "Tho corps
out of respect to Congresu nnd them
selves havo Bont ns their representa
tives tho only man who had an ounc
of superfluous flesh on hlu body nnd
tho only other who possessed a couv
ploto suit of clothes."
A Noted Niicm Kclonllit.
Dr. John W. Hoffman, professor ot
agrlculturo In tho Florida Stnto Agri
culture college, Ib ono of tho moat
noted scientists In tho world. Ho hna
Just beon elected a mombor of tho
MnsanchusottB Horticultural sooiety,
and ho also belongs to tho Royal Agri
cultural society ot England and many
similar c-rgantz&ttoni.
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