THE BAD BAY.
Bhe knelt beside tho IkhI wlio.ru lay tlic loy
Who nil lho weary day had boon so bad;
OVmrs wet bor cheeks, und prayer was on bur lips
Tho wJillo sho drank grief's wall In bitter h!j)h.
"If you but know, my loy," I hoard bor nay,
"JIow you have hurt 1110 through UiIh livelong dny,
If you could know the love a mother boars,
Or that your mime's the burden of her prayerH."
And then she prayed till hope came back to her
And happy tears replaced the grIof-dros' blur;
Hho pniyod for patlenee, prayed for light; but more
Prayed for the lxy for whom such love hIio loro.
Hho prayed that ho might choose the bettor part
And Ioho the growing hardness In IiIh heart;
Hho prayed till Joy unto her soul returned
And mother-love through all her being burned.
How llko her Hod she Hoemed while kneeling Uiero,
Her llpH attuned to sweet unselfish prayer;
How like thu ChrlHt that nightly over me
HondH, tniHtlng that my love for hbn may be
Huoh that upon thu morrow I may go
More meekly on IiIh errands hero below,
Home day that lwy must feel love's thralling thrlll
I yet may learn to do my Master's will.
-Baltimore America n.
FROM GENERATION
orHIORE was no death dance, no
II loud walling, no burning. Of the
live survivors of the horrible
.laasacre, HIkra was tho only ono un
icnthod. When the first ray of day
'ght thinned tho blackness around her
iiitllclently to glvo ..ur her bearings,
ho crept out of her covert, buck to tho
cono. Thu white men were gone, but
heir work had been well done. Tho
trasses were dabbled with blood, tho
iooIh were clotted and red, there were
till faint groans from the dying and
nocking grins on tho upturned faces
f tho dead.
In tho midst of the mangled bodies,
Hlack Whig lay dead. HIkra was only
i squaw; she did not know how to
woon and drip tears, but Uio sun was
'ilgli before she moved a muscle or
lrew a doep breath. When, at last,
lowevor, she trudged over the sand,
dipped Into her canoe, and paudlcd
dowly down the bay there was not one
ildeous detail of the massacre of In
llan Island not sea red deep Into her
soul.
Tho government was held responsl
'do for tho massacre by outsiders, mid
tho overt acts of hostility on tho part
if Home of Uio chiefs was cited as the
"auso by those more closely Initiated.
Hie perpetrators, perhaps citizens of
hirokn, although suspected, were nev
r charged with tho crime, but as time
vont on It was generally conceded to
:o the work of private Individuals,
r.'io liad their own object In view.
Ah time went on and the Indians
voru horded onto the Hoopa Reserva
tion, tho story of tho massacre was
'mrled beneath other debris of Its kind
-treachery on the part of Uio redskin
;nd bad fnlth of tho whites unUl the
stronger race had gotten all tho power
Into Its hands, and driven the Indian,
Ids wrongs and his rights, out of Uie
,tJi of progress.
Hut tho lapso of time Unit aeconi
;.ll8hed this condition did not wlpu out
iio InJuaUco of Hlack Wing's death
from Blkra's memory. Grown haggard
iuid old In tho Interim, she had not lost
no dotall of Uio Island scene from her
mind. Tho lwy she bore a few months
ifter the massacre was nursed and
-radlod In the hope of revenge. Ills
.ullnblos were Uie death-groans of the
wounded warriors and tho waitings of
ho women and children who fell In
he struggle. Ills llrst lisping words
were a vow of vengeance for Hlack
Wing's blood, lie knew the grewsomo
Mtory glibly before ho was old enough
to understand It, and by the Unie he
was able to grasp the meaning of his
-varly training, Revenge was written
large In the very liber of ...a being.
"lie Is llko Hlack Wing," Slkrn said,
;ib each year his straight young limbs
,tow longer, his lltho young frame
Wronger, and she saw a hope of her
Ifo's object being realized. Mrs. Howe,
.vho lived In the big white house, often
isked, when tho old squaw came to do
;ho weekly washing: "Why don't you
make the boy work, Slkra?" Hut she
xtralghtoned her old, bent back, mid
grunted: "Well-a I not raise him for
that"
Meantime the boy fished up and
down tho streams, content to bask In
'ho sunshine, or roamed through the
.'uresis mid mountain solitudes, idle
but Uiinklng, always brooding, plot-
;lng, thinking.
"You will spoil Uie loy, Slkra. If you
do not make him work," tho kind worn-.
.111 of tho white house said again, one
afternoon, whllo a pile of snowy linen
:;row under Uie knotted hands of tho
.dd laundress. "Idleness will get him
Into mischief," Bhe added, as tho stal
.vart llguro of the young buck swung
atom; Uio rondslde. stonned at tho
driveway, and sauntered up to Uio
uack porch, where his moUier was
vorking. No one else could huve said
TO GENERATION
this much to HIkra, for her boy Avas tho
one raw spot In her nature. She never
permitted the kind-hearted Mrs.
Howe's advice to boUior her, however,
and only mumbled to Jiersolf as tho big
fellow slumped down on Uie collar
door, his keen eyes following Uie chick
ens preparing to roost in Uio cedar
trees.
Hut while tho soaimuds splashed and
the water streamed and dripped over
thu lloor, the thrifty housewlfo busied
herself at tidying things on Uie porch,
for a glance at Uio young buck made
her realize the propriety of her pres
ence on the scene. "I'll do whnt I
liavo always Intended to do with this
game-bag," alio said half aloud. "It
has hung hero long enough collecting
trash. This Is a good time to overhaul
A. and throw tho rubbish away."
Tho game-bag was a ponderous
leather thing, and Its capacity appar
ently unlimited. Old llsh hooks and
tackle came tlrst, rusted and rotten
from long disuse. Then hatchets, horse
shoes, gopher traps, door knobs, colls
of wire, shot pouches, lly lwxes, empty
shells, a whisky Mask, old pipes, rubber
gloves everything, in short, that a
catch-all of such sort collects In tho
course of twenty years. Tho last Uilng
brought up was an old hunting knife
an ugly-Iooklng weapon, broad and
short, with a rudo doer-horn handlo.
The blade was rusted, and looked as if
not cleaned after Its last thrust
Teh white hands touched it gingerly.
"I don't know what to do with all
Uiese things after all," the woman
said, looking up into the quizzical eyes
of Uie tall young fellow, who eamo
singing "Honnlo Doon" through the
house, whistled tho dogs over from the
stable, stirred the drowsy canary Into
a Hood of song, and sent the cats scam
pering away from tho neighborhood of
tho meat safe. "They were your fath
er's things, Hal, when ho wasn't much
older than you," she explained, in Uie
subdued tones in which ono Instinctive
ly refers to the dead. Hut the duty on
hand was temporarily dropped when
the boy announcd Unit a book agent
was In Uio front hall, and tho eon
tents of tho game bacg were left in a
heap on Uio lloor.
HIkra still bent low over bur tulw,
but now nor eyes were wild, and every
nerve In her body Unglod wlUi excite
ment Tho back of her benefactress
was scarcely turned when tho hunting
knife was swept into her hands and
stealthily concealed under her apron.
Her boy did not follow her actions, but
sat idly in tho sunshine, watching the
lower branches of Uio cedar tilling with
Its tenants for tho night Mean-while
the pllo of clean clothes grew with sur
prising rapidity. A wonderful energy
was at work, rubbing, rinsing, wring
lug, ami soon the work was completed,
anil the squaw departed wlUi her son.
The next week's washing was ac
complished with Uie Kjuno degree of
unwonted energy. Slkra stood upright
no longer bent and decrepit. Her hour
of triumph was nunc. The knlfo sUll
hung at her belt the knife she had
watched Hlack Wing make from Uio
horn of the deer she had seen him kill.
At bust Slkra had found a trace of ono
of her man's murderers. This fact
worked Itself slowly into her darkened
mind, for tho knife In tho ganio bag
cried out Howe's Implication In Uio
crime.
Hut now, at tho very moment of her
impending triumph, a shadow fell
aUiwart her gleam of hope. Tho boy,
nurtured Into stalwart manliod for ono
end, loked at her llstressly when, wlUi
dilated eyes and hushed voice, sho told
hlm the story of her discovery, no did
not sooni to oven hear her tnio. After
a slwpless night sho went to rouse
him and try again to wako the ven
geance in his blood, but ho did not
know her.
Wild with apprehension, tho old
squaw's first tiiought was of Mrs.
Howe, her never-falling source of suc
cor. The kind eyes up at the white
house grew large wlUi sympatiiy ami
dread. "It's only a fever, HIkra,"
young Hal came forward to assure her,
and catching up Mils hat he followed
Uie distraught mother to her little hut
Tho wild, black eyes Unit met his,
as ho entered, startled him wlUi their
ferocity, and Uie wilder words held
ldm on the threshold. Hut Hlkni's dumb
lok of apepal prompt! him to enter
the room. The cairn presence, ami the
cool, Ann hands of the white boy seem
ed to lay tho fever devils. And tho
Uiought that the fever might be con
tagious was overbalanced in his mind
by Uie grief of Uie Bquaw moUier.
"Ho must not die; he must not die,"
she wall oil. "1 raise him for nowl For
Just nowl"
Thu weeks that followed were a
grim struggle with Uio fever devils
that lllled the Indian boy's frame.
When his wild ravings and Uireats of
vengeance rose to shrieks and threat
ened to exhaust the flickering llamo of
life, nothing but the cool, strong hands
Unit had llrst quieted hlm had any
power to calm hlm. Ho day after day
the struggle wlUi tho Destroyer was
wng(?d.
"Poor old Hikra's heart seems set on
his accomplishing something before he
dies," young Howe explained, one day,
to his mother. "It Is pitiful to see her
hopelessness whenever Uio symptoms
are discouraging." AjkI when others
said: "Let the good-for-nothing rod
skin die; he Is a menace to the neigh
borhood," Uio Ixiy's blue eyes Hashed
his scorn at their sentiments. "He Is
ail alio has," he answered.
When nt last tiiey were able to say
to Slkra, "He will live," It was at
young Howe's feet Bhe Hung herself,
for It was Hal whose presence, she
declared, had saved her boy.
In timo the old conditions of Uie
two households were re-established.
Mrs. Howo tried to be more consider
ate of Uiu old squaw. Her soilless de
votion to her lwy during tiiose high
pressure weeks had awakened a sym
pathetic feeling in Uie motlier-heart of
the oUier woman. Hut Slkra was more
stolid and glum than ever lefore
much to the surprise of the kindly lady
of Uie white house, who had been
Slkra's one friend. When she had lied
from the scene of the massacre, hunt
ed and helpless, it was Mrs. Howe who
had taken her in and given her shelter
and employment When she had fallen
111, It was Mrs. Howe's cool, white
hands that had ministered to her. sav
ing her and her child's life. Then in
tho dark hour, when tlieg reat aim of
her life's struggle seemed about to be
torn from her, it was Hal who had
come to her assistance. She, like the
poor squaw, had only Uils one son, Uie
light of her eyes. A troop of such
thoughts came In sluggish train
through Slkra's mind as the suds Hew
high, frightening tho canary from his
perch by their rising tide; and she
wondered if she could have raised this
boy for the purpose of vengeance wlth
out Uils woman's help.
Tho iMinnle blue skies smiled blandly
on the summer world, and Uio air hung
heavy with a stillness and peace Unit
brought a certain leUiargy to her de
termination. Young Howe's voice,
whistling or singing, came Hosting
Uirough the woof of her fancies and re
called the hours he had sat paUently
In her fever-ridden little hut In his
effort to save her son. For what?
As Hal dashed out of the pantry, a
moment later, ho caught a look In her
eyes as guilty as his own, which
prompted him to count the pies to see
if she had been stealing, too.
"Here's one for you," he said, Had
ing the number even, and slipping her
a turn-over. As ho perched on the bin
to munch his plunder, his hat fell back.
His face was very fair, and his hair
curled on his forehead like a woman's.
Hut In his laughing blue eye shone the
linage of the elder Howe. The hideous
grin of Hlack Wing's upturned face
mocked her from the seething suds. A
stilled groan seemed to rise from Uie
hissing steam. Tho warm stream that
trickled down her arm was only water,
but the red, clotted pools were sUll
vivid in her memory. Howe had killed
Hlack Wing. Was she tills white worn
nn's slave, or was she Hlack Wing's
squaw V Hefore nightfall Uie question
was detlnltely settled In her mind. Thu
victuals always left for to take home
to warm over wore Ued Into her apron,
under which the rusted knife stili
hung.
The Indian boy grow stronger each
day with tho recuperative power of a
wild thing. Day in and day out he
loitered Idly mound the white house,
and sometimes a doubt arose In the
mind of tho white-house woman us to
Uio effects of tills ill-assorted friend
ship between the two boys. Once, as
sho saw her son turn and ding his
ami across tho broad shoulders of the
Indian lad in evident affection, sho
Hinched InstlncUvoly. Since their ba
byhood they had tumbled over the
porch together, squabbled, fought and
played llko brothers this blue-eyed,
rollicking young Saxon and tho swart,'
lltho aborigine.
Thero .wero many new squirrel traps
dovlsed, new schemes for spearing fish
and snaring small creatures in tho for
est, and enthuslasUc preparations for
a deer hunt In tho mountains beforo
tho young fellow's vacation should
end.
"We'll leave all Uieso Uilngs Just as
Uiey ure till we get back from our trip
to Itedwood Creek," Hal suld, one day,
as he planned his outing wlUi the In
dian, "and Hnish them when wo have
more time." The Indian did not nn
swer. Tho moon wus bright and tho
young fellow's blue eyes shone with
Uie light of future hopes and plans.
The hunting trip was prolonged from
one week to two; then three. At Uie
end of that time, Hal's mother began
to grow uneasy. At tho expiration of
the fourth week, when the Indian re
turned without young Howe, conster
nation spread throughout Uie town.
Kagged, gaunt, barefooted, half
starved, the Indian had urrlved In the
village, telling of a flerce storm. Rep
aration from his comrade, und Weeks
of search and danger to lind him in
tho impenetrable forest. Search-parties
were quickly funned, and the
mountains and lagoons scoured In tho
hope of llndlng the boy.
"I can't believe anything has hap
pened to him," Hal's mother repeated
day after day, when tho searchers re
ported failure at every turn. She
would not let her lips from the word
"dead." "I can't. Oh, I can't!"
Bikini knew the pangs of UiIb worn-.
mi's soul. Sho hud learned that tone
and look when Hlack Wing lay dead
tiefore her. Hut she regarded the
white, stricken face in stole silence.
It was now late In Uie summer. All
search for young Howe had proved
fruitless. His mother, suddenly old
and feeble from grief and suspense,
stood, one day, looking toward the bay
In n blind hope. The Indian came
swinging slowly toward her. The boy
had been found. It was on Indian
Island. A knife-wound gaped in his
breast, his wide blue eyes were up.
turned In a mocking grin, and Uio
grass around him was clotted and red
Again there was no swooning, no
overt demonstraUon of grief. Weeks
of suspense had taught the family In
the white house stole endurance.
Slkra came every week to do the
washing as usual, while her son loiter
ed near the cedar trees. Ono evening
he brought the heartbroken woman
what ho considered a rare present, n
melon of prodigous size. The Indian
sat down silently, and slowly and care
fully he cut It It was a trifle over
ripe, the rich, red heart gleaming as
with blood. The knife wlUi which ho
dexterously sliced the melon was ugly
looking, broad and Hat, and the deer
horn handlo broken, as If by a desper
ate struggle when last wielded.
Tho woman did not recognize It
"You are a good boy," she said ab
sently to tho Indian, "to do these littl
kindnesses to Hal's mother." San
Francisco Argonnut
W. S. GILBERT'S RECREATIONS.
Grcut Idbrcttint 1,1vcb HetJred I,ife at
KiiuHhIi Country Gentleman.
In his bonuUful homo nt GrlmV
Dyke, Harrow Weald, W. S. Gilbert
the greatest librettist of the ago, Uvei
in retirement the life of an Engllst
country gentleman. Thero ho Is sup
rounded by scenes of such sylvan slin
pllclty that it is next to impossible t
realize Uiat the life and bustle of tin
Marble Arch are no more than Hfteei
miles away.
At home Mr. Gilbert Is no longer tin
creator of scenes and sentences thai
have sot two hemispheres laughing; In
Is, from choice, the country squire, nn
In lining Unit role does not shirk tin
duties attendant upon Uio ollico of Jus
tlce of the peace.
Ho is one of Uie most regular attend
ants at Uio weekly sittings of Uie Edg
wave Heneh, and his seniority nmonj
his colleagues very frequently placei
him In Uie chair. When not In that re
simnsible position, Mr. Gilbert oftet
beguiles Uio tedium of a long and un
Interesting case by making pen-and-lnl
sketches of the parties engaged In It,
on the foolscap provided for the pur
pose of taking notes.
Of Uils class is the outline of a faci
of a typically criminal character, be
neaUi which Mr. Gilbert wrote tin
terse memorandum: "Two months
h. 1." It is Uiat of a ninn who wi
sent to prison with hard labor for tli
period indicated, for having stolen i
pair of ducks. Now and Uien Mr. Gil
bert turns his attention to the cour
olllclals. and the result of one such oo
easlon Is often a wonderfully accurate
and true-to-llfe portrait.
Once at least the sketches have l)oe;
known to lapse Into reminiscence. Oo
casionally, note-taking and sketchlii
are mingled on one sheet, as when .Mi
Gilbert mndo tho portrait of a prla
oner and notes on his crime mid itj
punishment
In making this memorandum, Hit
magisterial librettist doubtless rumlnq
ted upon ills well-known lines:
My object all sublimo
I shall achievo in tinio
To make tho punishment fit the crimo
Tho punishment fit Uio crime.
When n woman owns a carriage, sh
delights in lording It over women win
havo not Hut a man fools uneasy h
a carriage, and shrinks when, ho uioch
an acquaintance.
Water Is often Uiought to be nlmost
tbsolutely Incompressible, but Prof.
L'alt has now calculated that tho ocean
vould rise 110 feet higher than nti
present if it were not compressed by,
4.8 own weight Wo are indebted to
Ihls compression, therefore, for O.OOO,-'
XX) square .miles of, our dry land.
T . i -a . TV
iAM i-eycuness is looKOd upon uy ur.
jeorge M. Gould of Philadelphia as of
p-eater siginilcance than Ioft-linnuou-
ness. He is seeking facts concerning
(he two and their association, but sugi
test that both may be due to the ab
normal location of the speech center in
tho right side of the brnln. Ho be
lieves ambidexterity should be (lis
sou raged, while he has seen only bad
results In the attempt to correct a de
cided use of the left hand.
At Charlottonburg, Germany, re-
rently, u novel device to protect lire-
men from smoke nnrt flumes wbllo
lighting n fire at clone quarters was
jested publicly. The invention con-
Hits of an annular mouthpiece, sltoa-
ed a little back of the aperture In the
nozzle of a lire hose, und capable of
forming, In front of the mini holding
the nozzle, a circular screen of water.
The stream from the nozzle Is not In
terfered with, and the Hreinan can see
through the transparent screen which
protects him. The angle of projection
of the radiating screen can be varied
nt pleasure.
A correspondent of Nature suggests
that much knowledge of Uie processes
jf cloud formation, and other facta
thnt would be iinportnnt to meterolo
?ists, might be gnined by taking, say,
500 successive photographs of a "cloud
scape" In the course of an hour, and
then putting tiiom rapidly through a
(cinematograph, so that in one minute
nil the changes would be observed that
nature had required (10 minutes tc
bring about. A similar suggestion has
been made with regard to the growth
nf plants, and other natural processes-
which are so slow that we lose the
sense of successive and related step?
in development.
Statistics collected in Germany hav
shown that 28 per cent of the acci
dents caused by machinery used for
Industrial purposes, such as manufac
turing, were due to defects in the mn
chines and to lack of proper safe
guards. On the other hand', over 4
per cent of the accidents occurring
With agricultural machinery were
traceable to those causes. According
ly, there is a call for the use of im
proved safety devices upon all iha-
nines used on tho farm. Feed-cutting
nachlnery is found to bo particularly
lable to cause accidents. A consider-
fible majority of those Injured by ag
iicultural machines are children imH
youths.
! In a nailer rend bv Miss A dole M.
Flelde before the section of biology ol
the New York Academy of Sciences
tho joints composing the antennae oi
nuts were described as a series oi
noses, each having a special function
'die llrst Joint distinguishes the ant's
native nest from the nest of an en
emy; the second discriminates betweer
tho odor of ants of different colonies
but of the same species; the third dis
cerns the scent of the track left by the
nit's own feet, and enables it to re
turn over Its route; the fourth nnd
tif tli Joints discover the distinctive
odor of the larvae, and if removed (lis-
able the ant from caring for thcyouiuj
In a nest: the sixth and seventh joint!
make known the presence of an ant ol
different species. Only after thes(
Joints are developed will ants of dlf
Cerent species light one another.
A Census of Hnotorin.
Dr. Ehrllch, u physician of Strass
liurg, Germany, has recently publisher
the results of an examination, nuuh
ut the University of Strassburg, of tlu
L'olonles of bacteria residing on tin
surface of unwashed fruit, taken fron
the markets. He computed the mini
her of bacteria found on half a pouiu
of each of the fruits named as follows
Huckleberries. -IOO.oOO; damsons. -170,
XW; yellow plums, 700,000; pears. SOO,
900; gooseberries, 1.000,000; gardei
strawberries, 'J.000.000; raspberries
I. 000,000; grapes, S.000,000; currants
II, 000.000; cherries, 112.000.000. Di
Ehrllch advises that fruit be cleanse
by the use of running water.
Only a Fw Plans.
"I suppose." said the matinee girl
"you have made all your plans fo:
jiext year."
; "Oh, bless you, no," replied the pop
jilar actress. "To bo sure, my bus
baud, Mr. Hlgstar, and I have uv
ranged to be divorced, so that he mnj
marry Mrs. Footlltes, while I marrj
Mr. Footlltes; but whom we shall mar
ry next wo haven't decided as yet."
Philadelphia Ledger.
A Mild Comment.
"In some of those schools In Hos
ton's suburbs they teach the boys tt
bow and tho girls to drive nails."
"Well, when it comes to darnlnj
socks I reckon I'd rather give the boyf
Uie Job," Cleveland Plain Dealer.