. ONLY TO
HEAR HER Wm
Only to hear her voice again.
Its sweet tones soft anil low I
It charmed mn when I heurd It then
A little While ORO.
And still I feel It o'er' mo steal
It will not let mc go.
'Tla hut the echo of her Pone,
The shadow of the sound
Of thnt dear volco for which I long
That follows me nround,
Yrt tlnd It well In that sweet spell
To know my heart In bound.
Only to henr her voice again,
Ilesldo mn fondly near,
In tones of tenderness as when
Sho held my love as denr.
When Joys have left the heart bereft
How precious they appear!
My heart Is now a harp hold muto
Till her volco touch tho strings;
If to her car response ho clear
True harmony It brings,
For, as she will, thn harp Is still
For, as sho will, the harp Is still,
Folly's Fire.
BY ELIZABETH CHERRY WALTZ.
(Copyright. 1901, by Dully Story Pub. Co.)
. Tho old grandmother wns dead and
tho baby, Angela, had followed her, as
If tho loving creature had beckoned to
her from heaven. Tho winter had been
long; tho debts heavy and work Bcarcc".
Aurella, with feverish eyes and scar
let lips, had sowed and tolled. Law
rence, her husband, was sullen and
discouraged. His tasks were Irksome
and to him there seemed little com
.fort at home. Hie trembling hands
and shifting glances begged pitifully
for a change, a relief of mind and
body.
In tho spring news came to Aurella
of tho death of her grandmothor's
brother, a wealthy bachelor. Ho had
willed tho grandmother sorao monoy,
and it foil to Aurella as her heir.
When sho heard of it sho went to
Lawrence at tho forgo and sat down
on tho bench near him. It was a long
time 8inco sho had sat thore almost a
year.
"That money Is coming to mo, Law
rence." "Well?"
"I havo boon counting on what I'd
do. I'm going to give you five hun
dred dollars for granny's koep."
"I grudged her nothing," ho said
doggedly.
"Oh, I know, but you felt tho bur
den. I'm going to ralso It a littlo. I
want you to rent tho shop and get
away. I want you to bo free and to seo
llfo 'thout so much hardness. That's
what I'm going to do."
"Oh, but it's your money!"
"I'm going away, too and seo how
it is to bo free." You go your way
and I'll go mine. If you want to come
back, maybo you will find mo hero,
patching, sowing, tailoring, mending;
then maybo you will not."
Ho glanced up and down tho road
with a reliof on his faco that did not
escape hor scornful eyes.
"It might do us both a dial o' good
to get away," ho said, cautiously, "but
"That money la comln to me.'
I did not llko to propoao it. Since you
Bay hu, 1 11 uo uu us Buuii ns i can unu
a man to tako the shop. Wo can como
back in a year."
"In ft venr and a day." shn Raid mnrn
lightly; "if I am not h.re. I will send
a letter and so must you. inow you
Rr frcfl "
In a year and a day ho was at the
forge again. He was stalwart and
Borry. Life had gone well wltb him.
Tho old postmistress shook tier head
ns she handed him a lettor.
"So tho times havo gono good with
you, Lawrence?"
"And gayly," ho replied. "I am yet
in my youth and can enjoy. Tho
towns are full of sport for a man who
loves a light heart and good company.
But I promised Aurella. Sho Is,
doubtless, well nmused somewhere. Au
rella was handsome and can take caro
of herself."
Thoro sho was in tho doorway.
Tho old woman scowled at him while
he read:
"I am indeed well off, content, but
will como if I am called. I enclose
another sum of money. If you would
roam farther go for another year and
a day."
Adversity camo upon him In tho
noxt year, adversity and sickness. His
bold and gay friends fell away and he
was near to beggary. But ho would
not roturn until tho tlmo was up lest
ho not bo able to hear from Aurella
and not bo bidden homo as li3 now
desired. Ho went to and fro over tho
county selling nostrums nnd wonder
ing what had becomo of Aurella.
On tho day set ho came into tho
village. A great coach and four block
ed tho street and at his old shop door
he met Aurella in gorgeous array nnd
with tho scorn of a princess in her
bearing.
"You seo I keep my promises," she
said, gayly. "and how goes the world
with you?"
Sho was so splendid that his heart
beat madly.
"Aurella! What luck has como to
you?"
"Tho favors of tho rich. And I am
beautiful, they tell mo. I do not be
llevo you knew it in those old days.
Now here is money and you shall havo
another year's freedom. Go and bo
merry, also."
"But, Aurella, I " ho stammered.
Sho mounted Into tho coach laugh
ing Bayly and Boon away. Only
tho old postmistress was loft to cacklo
at him as he stood like a man In a
dream.
"Burned by Folly's Fire always tho
wages ol the looiisn.
The year went by slowly enough.
Now Iiwrenco was not content with
tho Inns and taverns or cottages, but
haunted tho houses and castles of tho
rich. Ho saw wealth and splendor,
but he nowhere saw Aurella nor any
ono who was so lovely. Tho old llfo
camo back to him with Its industry.
Its simplicity, Its stern duties. Ho
saw It in a new. light, lllbw.'pure,. how
lnnocnt, how lovely .was his child
wire! How long sho had gono about
her duty uncomplainingly, whllo ho re
belled! Now that ho had scon tho
world ho knew all that othor lite
meant But what of Aurella?
A year and a dayl It seemed an
eternity, Onco moro ho walked into
the hamlet. Tho cottngo looked fami
liar, its dooryard bright with tho gay
flowers tho traveler admired, tho win
dows open and whlto-curtnlncd. And
could ho bcllovo hts eyes? Aurella In
her old print gown, there sho was in
tho doorwnyl
Ho could not speak from oxcess of
emotion. Ho leaned against tho great
treo in front of tho gato and waited for
her to como out to him.
"I see you havo discarded your flno
array," ho Bald coldly.
Sho 8milod rattier sadly.,
"I left It nil at tho castlo of ray
godmother."
"And now?"
"Hero Is money for your wnndoringa
agnin."
"I do not want it"
"What will you, then?"
"Tho old life, if I can. tho old
thought, tho old work and tho old
love."
Sho smiled brightly.
"So you havo roamed enough. Well,
It is a good thing to como homo after
being long away."
"And you whero havo you been and
how long slnco your roturn7 What
of tbo conch and tho splendid gowns?"
"They wero my godmother's loan for
a short time."
Ho looked at her perplexed.
"A Hhort tlmo? How long wero you
away?"
"Foolish ono! Not at all. Why
should I go? I havd spun and browed
and baked. I havo seen tho world
from my window nnd door hero. Wom
en are not so varying, Lawrence. I
did not caro to follow fool's fire not
I, sir."
"And now?"
"Your placo is ready. J fancy you
will rovo no more at least, not soon.
Is it not so?
RECORD OF EARLY BOOKS.
First English Hook Wan Not I'rlntcd In
.England,
Tho first book printed In tho Eng
Hsh language wns not printed in Eng
land. William Cnxton, tho English mer
cer, carried on business In Bruges. In
14C9, ho began to translato Into English
tho "Recuell des Hlstolrcs do Troyo,"
nnd to supply tho great demand for
copies of tho book ho set himself to
learn tho art of printing. Tho "Re
cuell," tho hrst printed English book,
probably appeared In 1474, nnd mny
have been printed cither at Cologno or
in Bruges. In 1475 Cnxton printed an
other work translated from tho French.
Its tltlo was "Tho Gamo nnd tho Playo
of tho Chcssc." This was tho second
printed English book. Caxton left
Bruges In 147C nnd set up his press in
Westminster, England. Such Is ono ac
count but other authorities hold that
tho book on chess wns printed at West
minster nnd was tho first book printed
in England. Tho Encyclopaedia Brit
nnnlca says: "At what dato Cnxton
brought his press to England and set It
up nt Westminster Is quite uncertain.
It was probably between 1471 nnd 1477;
1474 Is tho dato of tho Gamo and Playo
of Chessc; but tho tradition that this
work was printed In England may not
bo correct." Howover that may be, It
was tho second book printed in the
English language. Montreal Herald
and Star.
A Itemarkahlo Story.
An article In La Sclenco pour Tout,
informs us that a Chilian botanist has
discovered a plant that coughs when
tho slightest partlclo of dust alights on
tho surface of ono of Its leaves.
Strange as this may seem, It Is not at
all, for upon sufficient provocation It
appears tho leaf of this samo plant
turns red and spasmodic tremors pass
over It In sucession, whllo it gives out
a sound precisely llko sneezing. Tho
so-called respiration of plants Is well
known to botanists, but when It comes
to coughing, blushing and sneezing It
would seem that a special examination
should bo mado both of tho plant and
tho botanist reporting tho phenomena
From Standing drain to Iiaf.
A Great Bend (Kan.) correspondent
of tho Kansas City Journal writes:
"Standing wheat in tho field at noon
today, harvested, threshed, ground Into
flour, baked Into bread in largo quanti
ties by a bakery and sold around town
for 6 o'clock supper was a record
breaker In this county this afternoon
In quickness of conversion of standing
wheat in tho flold to tho bread plate
A combined harvester and thresher Is
doing work In California stylo near
town. Several bushels wero tnkon to tho
Moses Mill and Elevator company
ground Into flour, thence tho flour went
to tho Moore bakery, wns mado Into
bread, baked and offered for sale In
quantities.
Tnnnlng leather.
The slowness of tho process of tan
nlng is largely duo 10 tho difficulty
with which tho tannin penetrates into
tho hide. As tho penetration pro
grcs8cs tho outer part of tho hldo bo
comes converted into leather nnd is
thereby mado Impervious, consequent
ly tho rate of penetration decreases
Months of soaking In tho tnnplt are
therefore necessary for thick hides.
God docs not pay weekly, but pays
at the end.
Ho who plants fruit trees must
count upon tho fruit.
not
Its hard to catch hawks with
empty hands. (With empty hands
safip may no hawks lure Caucer.)
SEEKING
Tho two most Important exploring
expeditions which have over been fit
ted out for tho South Polar Boas vlll
ttart from England nnd Germany this
month the English In tho Discovery
and the Germnn In thn Gauss, both of
them now ships especially constructed
for an Antarctic exploration and
equipped with everything needful for
tho most complcto and varied scien
tific observation, oven Including n cap
tive balloon nnd an electrical plant.
Tho two vessels nro about tho samo
tlzo 170 feet In length and 35 feet In
brendth ,aml havo displacements of
about 1,500 tons. Thoy nro strongly
built of oak and sheathed with green-
heart. Tho bows aro Btcol-platod, nnd
mado with a great sheer, so thnt they
will tend to rldo up on tho lco ami
break it with their weight Thoy aro
rigged for sailing, hut carry auxiliary
steam engines of about 100 horsn
power, and tho screws nnd rudders nro
bo nrrunged that thoy cnu be hoisted
out of the water In caso of danger
from Ice. Tho living rooms In both
vessels arc amidships, tho stoke hole
ind engine room being placed right
ift, whllo tho wholo lower hold Is util
ized as a coal bunker. Captain Scott
commands tho English expedition and
Dr. von Drygalskl tho Gorman.
It 1b expected thnt tho commander
of tho two expeditions will work to
gether nnd 'follow a system suggested
by Sir Clements Markham, president of
tho Royal Geographical Society, which
divides tho region Into four quadrants,
two on tho Australasian sldo nnd two
on tho Capo Horn nnd Capo of Good
Hopo Hldo. Tho first quadrant, from 00
degrees east to 180 degrees, ho names
Victoria; tho socond, from 180 degrees
to 00 degrees wcBt, In which tho only
known land 1b Peter Island, Is called
tho Rosb Quadrant; tho third, from 90
degrees west to tho meridian of Green
wich, is Woddell, nnd the fourth, ex
tending from tho Grconwlch meridian
to 90 degrees east, about which tho
least Is known, is called tho Endorby
Quadrant. Tho English expedition
will conflno Its operations to tho Vic
toria and Ross Quadrants, tho Ger
mans taking Weddell and Enderby.
The great unknown region comprised
In these four quadrants covers millions
of square miles, extending over prac
tically thirty degrees of latitude. It
Is continually modifying tho atmos
phere of tho wholo southern hemi
sphere, and yet wo know almost noth
ing about Its meteorology. It la one
of tho most interesting volcanic re
gions on tho face of tho globo; recent
volcanic rocks nro present qvcrywhero
and uctlvo volcanoes aro qulto numer
ous, and we are entirely Ignorant of
Its geology. It Is ono of tho two great
world centers of magnetic phenomena,
and yet wo know scarcely anything
regarding tho magnetic conditions
which prevail, not oven with any cer
tainty whero the southern magnetic
pole Is located. It Is by all odds the
grandest field for lco study now exist
ent, and yet no one has studied the ice
thore. Tho mysterious lco barrier ris
ing out of 250 fathoms of water und
stretching Its perpendicular faco for
hundreds of miles through tho frozen
Bens llko a gigantic wall perhaps tho
sea face of tho greatest glacier in the
world; perhaps the edge of an enor
mous island of Ice anchored over the
pole; perhaps, indeed, something still
more remarkable than either of these
is certainly ono of the greatest nat
ural curiosities In tho world.
The region has a fauna and flora of
Its own apparently very similar to thut
of tho Arctic world. The few fossils
which havo been picked up Indicate
that there was a time when It was
crowded with plants and animals, Tho
life of tho Antarctic seas Is very varied
and numerous. Tho tropical oceans
which now separate tho two poles
seem to present nn effectual barrier
to any communication, and It Is a mat
ter of much interist to discover what
tbo Arctic and Antarctic Identity of
llfo forms is due to. Various specula
tions have been put forward; one of
theso Is thnt deep, cold currents tra
verse the warmer waters of tne ocean
nnd form hidden roadways, as It were,
by which tho two polar faunas nro
connected. Another theory Is that
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THE SOUTH POLE.
thero wob originally n uniform fauna
throughout all tho seas of tho globo,
which Is now surviving only nt tn
poles, having been superseded in tho
wurmor regions of tho ocean by nowly
developed forms.
Tho North pole, chiefly for geograph
ical rciiBons, has been much moro suc
cessfully nnd continuously attacked
than Its southern counterpart Tho
causo of this Is plainly shown by tho
two diagrammatic maps.
Tho North polo Is closoly surround
ed by largo land masses, nil of them
Inhabited nnd fairly accessible. Tho
Antarctic contlnont (If It Ib a contln.
ent) lies In tho midst of n grcnt ocean,
tho nearest land being tho nnrrow ex
tremity of South America, many hun
dreds of miles away. So that whllo
tho North polo has been npproachod
to within about 225 miles, no human
being has over boon nenrer than about
700 miles to tho South Polnr axlB.
It socmB nt first rnthor surprising,
notwlthstnndlng tho many geograph
ical difficulties, that an enormous re
gion of this sort, full of fresh material
for tho explorer and scientist, should
still, nt tlo beginning of tho twentieth
century, bo practically untouched, es
pecially in view of the grcnt activity
thero has bcon during recent years in
N.orth Polar explorations, expedition
after expedition going out every year
nlno, for Instance, being planned for
1901, But, apart from tho purely geo
graphical reasons, In tho nhsonco of
closoly surrounding populations and
laryo land masses, tho cllmato nnd
temperature conditions of tho Ant
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DUKE OF ABRUZZI EXPEDITION.
arctic render It tho most Inhospitable
nnd dangerous region on tho globe;
much moro so than tho Arctic.
Tho weird and fantastic quality of
the whole region Is woll described by
Honryk Arctowskl, a member of the
Bclglca expedition. Ho says:
"Tho silence which broods at times
over this unknown world Is singularly
Impressive, but occasionally a moun
tain of lco collapses with a thundering
crash, Ono could hardly believe ono's
eyes when these changes In the fairy
Uko scenes occurred were It not for the
dull rumbling growl of tho disrupted
glaciers. In fact this realm of eternal
lco Is so different from anything ono
has seen that It appears another world
altogether. In sober truth, I do not
bcllevo that In any fablo tho human
Imagination has described what wo
havo seen here." In view of the great
Interest which attaches to the expedi
tion of 19M, and the very radical
changes which their explorations may
bring about In Antarctic geography, It
will bo of lutcrest perhaps to go over
briefly tho history of tho region and
our present knowledge regarding it
When the belief In the roundness of
tho earth began to gain ground tho old
geographers decided thnt an Antarctic
contlnont would be necessary to pro
servo tho symmetry of tho earth. Ac
cording to Pomponlus Mola, between
tho "real world" which ho know and
his hypothetical Antarctica thero lay
nn Intonsoly torrid zone, scorched by
tho sun and onveloped In mist, over
which It was Impossible for man to
sail, And ho accounted for tho volume
of tho Nllo by supposing It to rlso In
this southern contlnont, pass under the
waters of tho torrid zone, nnd again
come to tho surfaco in South Africa.
As commcrco was gradually extended
in nil directions these fantastic notions
wore ono by ono dispelled, and al
though during tho mlddlo ages tho idon
of an antipodes, or anttchthono, as l
wan. nlao callod, was considered herljr
cal nnd rejected by tho church, gcog
rnphy was being gradually porfoctctf
on tho basts of Ptolemy's groat work
Through tho porsovoranco of Prlncr
Henry tho Navigator, who sent on
vessel after vessel, tho southern llmH
of Africa wan fixed, and It was clear'
ly shown that whatever laud lay to
tho south had no connection with It
An nnturctlo continent appeared on
Schoncr'fl globes In 1515.
Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch ex
plorers worked away at tho Islands Just;
south of tho known continents, and
many of them wero named ns portions
of a great nntarctlo land. Cook, in his
necond voyngo, 1772-5, Balled around
tho globo between 40 degrees and $0.
degrees south latitude, discovered tho
great lco barrlor, and finally settled
tho much dIscuBsod question of land
connection between tho continents and
Antarctica. Cook reached a south lat
Itudo of 71 degrees 10 minutes, tho
highest thon attained. Hero ho found
Immonso fields of Ice, which extended,
unbrokon, for miles. Whales, blue,
brown, and whlto petrols, and a few
Booty albatrosses wore tho only ani
mals soon. Tho Russian expedition,
commnnded by F. G. von Bolllnghau
scn, 1819-21, reached G9 degrees 53
minutes In longitudo 92 degrees 19
minutes. James Weddell, In" 1823)
balled with two vcssols on a sealing'
expedition. Ho reached a south lati
tude of 74 degrees 15 minutes In longi
tudo 34 degrees 10 minutes west. At
this high latltudo, exceeding Cook'n
by thrco degrees, ho found tho nca
opon and only thrco Iceborgs visible.
Many . minor expeditions followed
theso, nnd n number of now, Islands
wero discovered nnd nnmed. Among
theso minor expeditions may "bo men
tioned thoso of Lieut. Wilkes of tho
United States navy, nnd a French .ox- ,
pedttlon In chargo of M. D'UarllljB.
Tho noxt expedition of leading Im
portance was that of Blr James Clark
Ross, 1840-3, and, Indeed, tho only ono,
up to tho two which will start this
month, with anything llko a satisfac
tory equipment, which has over at
tacked tho Antarctic seas. This .was
a purely scientific expedition, Its chief
purposo being to study tho magnotlo
elements in tho southern hemisphere,
and to locate the south magnetic polo,
which Gauss had placed at about 140
degrees east longitudo and 00 dogrooH
south latltudo. (As determined by tho
Borchgrevlnk expedition, tbo south
magnetic polo Is 73 degrees 20 minuted
touth 1 latitude and 14$ degrees oast
longitudo.) Blr Joseph Hooker, tho
famous botanist, then plain Dr. Hook
er, accompanied tho expedition, Ita
Bhlps were tho ErobUB and Terror. Vic
toria Land was discovered nnd named;
Mounts Erebus and Terror, tho former
an actlvo volcano, 12,400 feet In height,
wore discovered. The lco barrier from
150 to 200 feet In height, was followed
for 250 miles, but no opening could bo
found. Rous subsequently reached 78
degrees 9 minutes and 30 second?
(outh latltudo In longitudo 1G1 degreet
27 minutes west Slnco this expedi
tion until tho voyages of tho Bclglca,
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1900, tho Southern Arctic was left al
most exclusively to soalcrs, Borch
grevlnk, of tho latter expedition,
reached a south latltudo of 78 degrees
50 minutes, exceeding Ross by about
40 minutes.
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