THE DRAGONS.
Friao Yortigarn so ran the ancient
A stronghold seaght to buikl in wi;dst i'n;
But Mme fell power frustrated each eaasy,
nd nightly wrecked the labors of the day;
TlH Merlin and bade the boliders ail.
Beneath the escarp'd and many-bastioned wi'.l.
Dig deep; and lo. two dragons, o'er whose lair
Nothing secure might nse. lay keeping there.
-
Search the foundation, you that build a aiate;
for If tbe dragon form of Wrath aud Hate
Lie rolled below, and darkly bide their boor.
Fear walk the rampart. Fear ascends the tower,
ad let It not content you that they sleep:
DriTe them with strong enrhantmenta to th deep.
First of aoch charms la Perfect Justice; then
Come the heart's word that conquers beasts and men
No other craft shall aerrs no speiia but these
Tr1ve the old dragons to the whelming sss
a tarda y Review.
Their Grewsome Bridesmaid
EOltGE HAYIEX was really no
such great villain after all.
Put baldly, be had merely
girted with a girl of a lower position
la life than his own, and left her. Yet
Circumstances and the g!rl had be
fore long made the affair seem a heart
leas tragedy, and for two miserable
fears George Hayden had been haunt
ed by it
There was no doubt that he bad
made lore. gem-rally with gay non
chalance, occasionally with fervor, to
Kate Moon, of Mossdyke farm.
It was during that summer when he
was off fishing In Ievon, and the
weather was beyond reproach except
for flailing. The trout would not bite,
and Kate Moon was beautiful, tall and
black haired, with a complexion of the
proverbial Itevon milk and roes; a
magnificent, passionate. Impulsive girt.
It was an artistic pleasure to blm to
see her coming toward him In ber lilac
cotton gown she always wore lilac
cotton gowns unlike acy one else's, full
fathered and dainty, with a bordering
of palest pink around hem and waist;
the effect was one of lavender and
rosea.
It was when the rector came back
after his holiday, bringing with him his
later, his niece and unite by colnd-
15
TsI.L BIB ABOC.T ME AFD- BE WHAT
she'll ear."
dence a college friend of Hayden,
that mischief began, snd It began
Without delay, for the college friend
recognizing Hayib-n In the village, in
troduced him to the rectory party, and
Hayden promptly fell In love, gen
alnely this time, with Sybil Dove, the
rector's niece.
It did not take Kate Moon long,
cither, to see her doom.
Hayden, It is true, was a little trou
bled at Brat, but that was merely an
noyance with himself for the careless
way In which he had talked love
"desecrated," he called it but he did
not dream of the manner in which
Kate would take it
No one but Hayden and Kate her
self knew of that terrible night of re
rrimlnation when the moon ahone
town on the final meeting In Dalllng
wood.
By the next night Hayden had left
the village; by the nest Sunday Kate
Moon bad left the world; aba had
Irowned herself In the river the pret
ty river where the trout had fought
boy of Uayden'a rod and line.
And Hayden began that terrible two
ears with the aigbt of the girl con
stantly before his eyes, in her lilac
gown, with the rose-pink bands about
ber waist and bem, and with her last
words In his ears.
"Tell her about me, and see what
he'll say of your love! Tell her, I say,
or I'll curse you to your very marriage
dsy! aye, to your very deathbed; I'll
Walk and alt and stand between you,
tod yon shall never bide In peace!"
Then what bad seemed but a Bum
mer's flirtation shocked Hayden aa a
heartless tragedy, and grew and grew
Into hla life till he became to himself
a sort of banned wanderer.
About two years later Hayden met
Sybil Dve In Rome, and for the first
time the wretched tragedy became less
lanportant, and bis heart leaped. He
Could see, too, that Sybil was happy to
Moat him.
Par weeks be sunned himself In joy.
tad trM to banish Kate. Then one
-r be (need the ghost and reasoned
ttL blaaaeU la a logical, sensible man.
O, antf hla state of naiad became mors
r -!, aasl he asked himself why ho
C X tU be happy
1 CMtates, oa the hill, be broke
f )CiCit tors words ho had attend
) u ttwCsi wtia Cats b the
m gm
"I love youT' he cried out. he and
Sybil sat resting in the noonday.
"Sybil, I can't live without you! I
have buugered for you since I first
met you two years ago"'
"I love you, too!" she said, simply,
when she could find voice. And Hay
den held her In his arms for a raptur
ous moment.
When he glanced np, his arm still
about ber, a girl was passing along the
bill below a dark-haired girl, in a
lilac gown. It was, of course, merely
a coincidence.
Hayden shivered and loosed bis
clasp. The old haunted feeling bad
returned. He had an Impulse to tell
Sybil the whole wretched story, but it
would be a gloomy beginning to the
first hour of his new happiness. Be
sides which, Mrs. Iiove came into sight
at the moment
Those were strange moDtbs, those
months of engHgetuent There were
hours when both Hayden and Sybil
were wildly gay; but again Uiert were
hours when a cloud hung over them,
when something seemed to te lietwaen
them, checking their words as if a
third person were listening.
In himself Hayden could under
stand the feeling, for even now, spile
of argument, spite of happy future, he
could not throw off the recollection of
Kate Moon and ber despair. But the
same mood in Sybil he could not un
derstand. Was the drowned girl al
ways to m between tbern? Hayden
groaned.
"Tell her, I say. tell ber, or "
In desperation Hayden caught up
his hat. "I'll stroll down to the
church," he muttered hastily the
evening before the wedding, after
hours of gloom In which he bad seen
the dead girl walking between him
self and his living bride. 'Til see bow
the decorations are getting on."
It was a lovely old building of gray
ftone, far famed for its many windows
of stained glass, which in a close line
told In rich purples and crimsons the
story of Joseph and his brethren.
One or two gardeners were busy at
tbecfholr stalls; some girls talking in
subdued tones were garlanding a pil
lar. Hayden watched their deftness.
Then with a tender Impulse he turned
bis eyes to the altar, where he would
kneel to-morrow beside
A sudden horror clutched him, the
blood surged within him aud deaf
ened him. Bending at the altar step
was a dark-haired figure in a iliac
gown with a pink baud across the
hem.
Hayden groped with his hand, and.
clutching a pew door, closed his eyes
In a despairing falntness. His bond
age was to be relentless.
When he looked again the figure
wss gone. The girls at the pillar had
turned from their work to speak to
another. Unseen In his misery, Hay
den stole out at the porch, stunned
and cold in the sunshine.
Hayden never forgot the night which
followed, as he lay, unnerved and
hopeless, waiting for his wedding day,
and facing in all their details the two
years past and the many years to
come, from the day when he had
plnyed a summer's game with the
benrt of a girl to all the days when he
should live close to the girl he loved,
and feel himself a murderer.
Toward morning he began to take a
more ordinary view of the ; mutter.
This was bis wedding day sunny.
happy, glorious, tie naa oeen in an
excited, unnatural state of mind yes-
terdny. He had brooded so long that
his remorse was abnormal.
"The prettiest wedding the village
had ever seen," the people said after
ward. The pews were packed and a
subdued buz of comment played
about Hayden's ears as be waited.
He had not allowed himself much
time to kill; but, supported by hla
best man, he took bla place about five
minutes before the bride was expect
ed. He determined to throw off use
less self-reproaches and do his best In
the future.
The brightly colored crowd was an
(indistinguishable whole to him; but
at the end of the alale was a shaft of
brilliant light; It streamed through
the porch, and Into and through It
wslked a double line of beauty.
They came oa la the sunshine and
baited till the end of the lines was In
side the door, then they widened the
space between them and Hoed the
lower half of the little aisle.
The smile oa Hayden's fact mapped
off aa eoddenly aa If struck by
head; fcto features baeaaw atW aad
-colored: a roer seemed to be
filling the church and hurting his
brain, the building Itself heaved about
hi 3.
But the figure on which bis eye hsd
first smilingly rested stood motion ies.
She stood neerettt to him. a Brat
bridesmaid, ber back !!gbtly turned;
a drooping hat almost bid ber fea
ture, but she was dark-haired and
piendid.y poised, snd ber gown was
of Iliac with a pick band about the
hem! Lilac, among ' white gowns
beside her!
Then he felt a band grip his arm
firmly. "Keep up. old man. she's com
ing." some one said.
Then a hush, then a stir filled the
rburch. and between the waiting
bridesmaids, shutting from hi sight
that terrifying form, came Sybil tit-
ward him; and chilled, horror filled.
as one In a dream, be stepped to meet
her.
"Tell ber. I say. tell her" was lu
bis ears as the marriage service beyan.
A strange vow mingled with Uay
den'a marriage vows. "Tell her?" "I
Hi." "I will." "I vow It"
There was do lilac gown among the
bridesmaids surrounding ber when be
took her away. He could see no one
like Kate Moon.
Hut he told Sybil all the story a
they drove toward their new life:
and she listened with flushed, aierted
cbee-k.
But when be bad finished, and a
moment's silence like s concrete block
of despsir bad followed, she turned to
htm snd wept upon bis shoulder. And
"How you must both have suffered
re ber first sobbing words.
But because she was frightened by
the new suffering the telling of the
tale had cost him. she did not say that
she hsd known the story all along, and
that the silence had Ieen as an aveng
ing ghost between them.
Oue day, long after, when Hayden
and his wife strolled Into the old
cbnrch. he noticed a curious thing.
Sybil hsd walked toward the chance!
while Hayden halted by the door, and
as she stood a moment In the aisle he
sow her white gown turn to lilac In the
sunlight, and a band of rose-color fell
across the hem.
For a moment the blood flushed Into
his face, and all the miserable past
rose before him.
Then, as he looked, Kybil moved for
ward and her gown was w bite again
and again as she moved it was
splashed with color.
Then In swift enlightenment be
looked up at the famous windowed
story of Joseph and he understood.
"It was all for the beat, though," he
said to himself at last, and In unutter
able relief he followed his wife and
stood again beside her before the
altar. I'tlc filolie.
MEDICINAL VIRTUES OF F18H.
Carp and the Tench Are Valuable aa
Cora Uvea.
fishing literature, prior to the days
and writings of Izaak Walton, opens
up points of Interest which are unique,
says the Brooklyn Eagle. Not the least
interesting are the constant references
cf the early writers to the medical vir
tuea of fish. Of course, many of the
salt and fresh water fishes mentioned
by the old writers are not recognized
by the wrltere of to day, but the fresh
water perch, carp, tench and eel are
yet recognized, and It is In connection
with these fish that some of the quaint
est idea as to their medical rlrtues
has prevailed.
In the art of healing the carp plays
a respectable part One old writer
speaks of the fat of the carp aa be
ing of miraculous powers for the alle
viation of "hot rheumatism." The
manner of Its application was by fre
quent rubbing on uie painful part and
the effect was said to be eminently
mollifying and salutary. The trian
gular bones lu the throat of the carp,
on being ground to a powder and ap
plied to a wound or bleeding nose,
were said to act as styptic. The gall
was also said to have been used for
sore eyes and "above the eyes," says
an old Esculaplus, "two little bones
exist seini-elrcular in shape, which
are diligently preserved by noble fe
males against the iunaticai disease."
The eel has also a respectable med
ical history. Members of the profes
sion from Galen to the present day
recommend It Hippocrates, however,
makes this exception: "This food la
forbidden In tabes and diseased
spleen." Galen prescribed It ln,ne
puritis. The monks of Salerno held
the eel In abhorrence. They say, ac
cording to Dr. Badbam, In tuelr dietet
ic code, "to live on eels is a sure reci
pe for spoiling the voice." Pliny also
held this opinion, but says also, "sin
gular they are holden to be to cleanse
the humors, either cholerick or phleg
matic, likewise, to cure the infirm-,
ities of the spleen, and only that theyj
be hurtful to the throat and make a
man to lose bis voices they be harm
less enow."
racing the Fat are,
"What Is baby's nam or asked the
graciously condescending young worn'
an.
"His name Is Flyln' Machine Jack
son." was the colored mother's reply.
"How did you come to give blm such
an extraordinary name?"
"Well, you see dat chile takes after
bis father an' I wanted to give him a
name dat were gwlne to be appropri
ate. An' every time anybody mentions
'nytn' machine' dey say Ifs surapln'
dat positively refuses to work."
Washington Star.
Can Claim Darna.
In Mexico the family of a dead duel
bit can claim support from the person
who shot him.
The masculine Idea of aa Intellectu
al wootta la the one who la as tain as
a match aad wears glasses,
MMtMIMIMMMI
4
t
OLD-
FAVORITES t
isilieeMMiiltMMi
Do Tfcay Klaa Mm at Hoaser
thsy mlas me at home, do they miss
me?
Twould be so asaorance most desr,
ro know that this moment some loved
oo
Wcra sarin. "I wiab ha was sere;"
f real that the group at th fireside
H era thinking of m aa I roam,
h, j as, 'twould be joy beyond measora
To know thst they mias'd ms at home.
Yliea twilight approaches, tbt season
That ever is sacred to song.
e some one repast my name over.
And sigh that I tarry ao long?
nd is there a chord in the mosic
Tint's mlsa'd when my votes Is swsyT
Vnd a chord la each heart that awsketh
Keg ret st my wasriaome stay?
they set me a chair near the table.
When tvening'a home pleasures are
tilgh,
A'lien the csndles are lit in the parlor,
And the stsrs Id th calm, sxure tky?
lad when the "good-night" sre repeat
ed. And all Isy them down to their sleep.
they think of tbe absent, snd wsft
me
A whit-per'd "good night" while they
wep?
( they miss me st horu do they miss
tn
At morning, st noon, or st night?
ud lingers one gloomy shsde round
them
That only my presence can lieht?
Are joys lens iuvitingiy welcome.
And pleasures less hale than before,
Itecause one is iniu'd from the circle,
Hera use 1 am with them no more?
The Ppaciona Firmament on High.
l'he spacious firmament on high.
With sll the blue ethereal sky.
And spangled heavens, s shining frame.
Their great Orifrinal proclaim.
The unwearied sun, from dsy to dsy,
lies his Creator's power displsy.
f.nd publishes to every land
t he work of au Almighty hand.
F'xin ss th evening sbsdes prevsll.
The moon take up the wondrous tsls,
And nightly to the listening earth
Kepests the story or her rurtn;
iVhiUt sll the stsrs that round her burn,
Aud all the plsnets in their turn
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
Aud spread the truth (mm pole to pole.
What though in solemn silence all
Move round thi ditrk terrentrisl ball:
Wlist though no real voice nor sound
Amidst their rsdiant orbs be found:
In reason's ear they all rejoice.
And utter forth a glorious voice;
r'orever singing, ss they shine.
"The hand that made lis is divine."
Joseph Addison.
FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
fharlea K. Norria Cures Consnmption
by Walking M.OOOMUee.
Three years ago Charles E. Norrts
it San Francisco was told by physi
cians that he could not live over three
months. One lung,
they said, was en
tirely gone from
the ravages of con
sumption, and tbe
most he could do
would be to take
to bis bed and die
as comfortably as
possible. But Nor
ris was game. De
termined to fight to
r
'HAJU.es e. Noams
the last, tbe in
Irepld Invalid, who
could scarcely
crawl, took to the road, and along the
1 1 ,340 miles he has tramped since then
found Increasing healtb, until to-day
he Is a bale and hearty man
His case, which has been the sub
ject of Inquiry by physicians all over
the country, says the New York Her
hid, is further evidence of the efficacy
of the "open air" cure, which they are
now recommending. He says that It
'a better, liei-knse It combines with
the exercise of a rugged life the cares
of striving for exlKtence.
Norria Is 63 years old. He had trav
eled extensively before he started on
Ms consumption tramp. He bad
worked in many cities. He knew life
(ind men and tbe knowledge gave blm
the courage it required to leave Ban
Krandsco with but $1.0) in his pocket
f.r.d face the fight for life. His sife
and daughter-were dead, bis brothers
pud sisters scattered, and no one de
fended upon him. His money bad
li.n frittered away on doctors' bills
iitid medicines.
I Norrls is no ordinnry tramp. His
Hotb.es are neat. Ills manners are
I-o'jd. He does not drink or use tobac
o. He reads Shakespeare and knows
he works of the great no"1 by heart,
n January he called upon President
iloosevelt and chatted with him some
lime nbout his wanderings, and the
(resident expressed admiration of his
prit
"This was my condition when I
tartd out from 'Frisco August 8,
Jis)l," says Norris. "I weighed 00
1oiinds, one lung was gone. I had suf-i-red
three hemon-bnges, the doctors
said a fourth would finish me. They
jrnve me three months more of life.
had $100 In, my pocket I was well
tlressed and I determined to live or
die lu the open.
"The first night I slept under a
fence, being too weak to reach n farm
bouse a little ways off. For the first
hree weeks I didn't know what dsy
srould be my last. But I did not grow
my worse. My cough continued, and
be pains between my shoulders did
tot leave me. If I bad stopped. If I
bad given up, I would bare died com
fortnbly In a few weeks. But I set
my teeth and went on. At tbe end
M the third wast I aeticsd a slight
Improvement. It continued, snd lie
fore two months had passed I loet my
pains and my cough had dwludied to
a memory. I was growing well."
Norris' mode of life is very simple.
He wanders from place to plae as
fancy dictates. His long Journey in
search of health has taken biin all over
tbe United Ptates. He ass In New
York recently, and is now on his way
to Buffalo. His cleaulineas. straight
forward manner aud a fuud of anec
dotes have endeared blm to railrol''
men everywhere. News of bis arrival
and departure sre telegraphed In ad
vance, and be U a welcome guest with
all. His usual bed is on a newspaper
In the waiting room of some depot, in
the winter, or on tbe platform or
gage truck when warm weather pre
vails. He says he wss never refused
food bat once, and that was by a in in
lster In Oregon.
Mr. Norris thinks consumption sam
tarluma are not giving the propct
treatment to obtain the best result
He says that In the so-called open ail
cures be has visited tbe people an
given little or no exercise, but kept
quiet, fed on milk and eggs and tundt
fat He holds that fatness la no
healthy; that it Is the power of re
slsting fatigue, of sustaining exertioi,
for an extended period aud of lieing
lgorous that constitutes true heulth
ODD CANDLE AUCTIONS.
Method Ht ill Kmploed in a Ftw Kng
liu 1'arUhra.
A curious method of sale by auction,
which Is still otmerved in one or two
places as a matter of ancient cnetom,
but which was once very common, if
sale by candle, say the Ahlon tKn
gland) Ib'iKirter. A fragment of cau
dle, an Inch or lex in length, wm
lighted as the thing to Ik- ld win put
up, and the auctioneers received bid
so long as the candle burm-d. The suc
cessful bid was the last made Wore
the flame went out. When the compe
tition was all keen It mut have re
quired considerable s'-utenexs and a
ni-e power of discrimination on the
part of the salesmau to know who
Ioke last. Mr. Pepya gives a graphic
description of the sale of some old
bulks In the Thames "by the caudle"
and remarks that it was pleasant tc
see bow backward men were at lirt
to bid, but when the candle was go
ing out they bawled!
At another admiralty sale, conduct
ed by a like method, the same chron
icler says that the competition was M
sharp that they had much difficulty in
telling who cried last. Some curioui
things besides wornoiit old ships wer
sold by candle. In KH4 It was adver
tised that two elephants, the one ma'i
and tbe other female, would be "ex
posed to sale by candle" and that "tb
price and places when- to Ite seen aud
sold" were to be notified later by
means of printed bills. The price,
which was to lie so published, was,
presumably, tle upset price tlxi-d by
me vender. One can hardly imsgini
that the bidding whs very lively fot
the two ponderous creatures or thai
any prospective buyers, save pcrhapi
an itinerant show-man or two, would
le likely to attend the sale.
Another unusual sale was adver
Used in the following year In the Ixin
don Gazette, where It wss aunoumvd
that there would be "exposed to sal
by the candle at the Marine and faro
Una coffee house, in Blrchln lane '
all sorts of playing cards. In small lots,
surveyed by Robert Whitfield, inastet
cardmaker (appointed by approbatloi
of the company of cardmaker for that
purpose)." It Is curious that the cus
tom of seiiing by the candle was flour
lsblng recently aud perhaps still flour
Ishes In the far east In the consuiai
report on the trade of Saigon and Co
chin China, Issued in 1878, it wai
stated that certain descriptions ol
lands were only to be obtained at pub
lie sale which were conducted by tb
candle, tbe dying out of three llghti
In-fore a higher bid was made conclud
Ing tbe bargain. The method was prob
ably Introduced by the French and
brought hence to this country. In
few English parishes the candle mPtb
od Is still employed In the periodica'
letting of public land to tbe blgbesf
bidder.
Austria's Htrenuous Old Emperor.
The venerable Emperor Frauds Jo
sepb of Austria sets an example to hit
subjects in strenuoslty of life quiti
equal to that of our youthful Presl
dent, sjivs lyeslle's Weekly. Wlntes
and summer the Emperor Is up at I
In the morning. At i his alds-de-eamj
have to le ready In caae they an
wanted, and state business of oil kindi
is conducted before breakfast Th
Emperor seems to be literally devoured
it is said, by a sense of duty. Every
thing else gives way to It His msjos
ty at the most trying and even trnjfli
moments of his llfo has always attend
ed Just as usual to the business of thi
state, and those about him wen
sUrtled on the day of the funeral
his only son to find the Emperor read)
to sign the ordr?rs for the day exacth
as usual.
The Twins.
When Mrs. Latimer hsd twins.
Paps cried, "Phiiopens!"
And on was plump and one was thin
Could anything be uieaner7
This did nut fraze Pa Esttinier,
There never was a keeper.
Ha named the fat one Fstinia
And named the lesu one 1-n.i.
Albert U. Iteeves In Hun.
A Repeater.
Teas I permitted blm to kiss mo oi
condition that be wouldn't mention I
to anyone,
Jess And did be?
Tess Well er be repeated It thi
very next minute.
Of course, the real test of a podding
j Is your Inability to sleep after sat
The wive of Siamese noblemen
wve tbeir hair t in pompadour style,
t is usually about m inches in length,
i ml sticks up straight like the hairs
n a blacking brush.
It is estimated that between tbe ages
if twenty and thirty a man loses ou an
.vet-age only 5Vj days a year from 111
ies; but between fifty snd sixty be
oe twenty days yearly.
Tbe canaries of Cermany excel all
ther canaries as singers. One has
jeen known to continue a single thrill
'or a minute and a quarter, with twen
'y changes of notes In It
The globe of the eye Is moved by
!i muscles. The wrist contains eight
Wee, tbe palm five, the Angers four
teen. The roots of the hair penetrate
:he skin alout one twelfth of an inch.
Hair la very strong. A single hair w ill
Is ar a weight of about 1,150 grains.
The dwarf trees wblcb the Jspanese
hi skillfully produce are beaming pop
ular In Europe for the construction of
miniature laiidcnes, etc. It may be a
fine art to produce an oak or apple
tree Ave hundred years old sud only
tr-o feet hi;h. Jet to Occidental Ideas
It appear a sort of torture. A race
so skilled iu the use of paper and col
,T mild pnxiuce artlflcls! trees which
would have uite us much appearam-e
uf life arnl serve every ornamental pur.
poe quite as well.
V r-s-ent chemical examination of
the bhick deposit, resembling ldler
s.-nle, that has formed to a thhkness
of tlins-.ii!irters of an Inch under tb
coping of the balustrade surrounding
the "Stone Gallery" at the bnse of th
dome of St. Paul's Cnthedral, repeals
the curious fact that It I essentially
a calcium sulfate collected from the
air. In two centnrii-s the smoke an.I
gase from I-omloti chimneys haa
charged the rains with siifllcient sul
phtirious ami su'phuric scids to cover
the stone with a deposit that striking
ly resembles calcareous tufa. It is
llilckest on the under side of the cop
ings Iss-ause of the dripping of the
rain.
The scientific culture of potato- 1
nowhere practiced as In Germany. In
tbut country, states Consul General
Mason, dozen of skillful and exjM-rl-diced
growers give their whole time
and energy to the propagation of im
proved varietl, ami the conditions of
soil, exposure or purpose for which
each Is best suited are well umb-rstisel.
Certain varieties excel for fo-sl, oili
er for starch and dextrine, others fof
alcohol, and yet others for stock fecd
Itig. Many of the lx-st sorts sre new,
but not more than twenty varieties are
included In the crop of practical grow
ens, although about one hundred lira
listed by dealers, and as many as five
hundred were catalogued as long ago
os 1S03.
The Cnited States geological survey
say that tbe most powerful river in
New England Is Uie Audroixggln.
Yet the surprise abates when the fac
are recounted. There are nine or fen
develojied water powers along the
river, and It appears that they furnish
total power eiiiil to seventy-three
thousand horses. The fall at Itruus
wick yield ",7i) horse jiower; at Lis
bon Fails, l,!rJ5; at U'wiston, tSO0;
at I.ivermore Faiis, 3,'ssi; at otia
Falls, 8.000; at Jay's. 3,7); at Peter
Wju's Rips, 0,'siO. At Kumfonl Fulls
there is a poteutlul of thirty thousand
J:orsf power, when the resources at
that place are rully developed, aud
that Is altogether the greatest water
power lu New England.
JAPANESE GOD OF WAR.
Troopa Par Respect Kach Tear to Mem-
ory of Muln Comrades.
Hachluian Is the Japanese gj 0f
war and his temple Is on Isurugaoka
hill und has large toril lu front of It
huge gates of stone tdisped like tbe
Greek letter pi. There Is also au Iche
tree some twenty feet In ctrcumfor
eiii-e and upward of l,iss) years old
that Is a couple of centuries older than
the temple itself, says the Montreal
Family Herald. In spirit Hacbimu
present also at the great Khluto temple
at Kamla, Toklo, the capital of Japai.
Here, to this day, the troop station
ed at the Toklo barracks come on the
Gth, 7th and Nth of May and the Oth,
7th and 8th of November to pay their
respects b the momory of the soldiers
who fell lu battle in the Sago aud Hut
HUiua rebellions and In the war with
China. Company by company tbey
march up and present anus In-fore the
great bull, empty of all furniture ex
cept a mirror and a few chairs. The
ceremony is beautiful In Its solemnity
und one can easily believe that the
spirits of the departed are really pres
ent to receive the reverence of their
brothers In arms, who have not yet
passed to the laud of ghosts. It is a
ceremony, too, that appeals to the pop
ular mind, as the crowd on Kudnn bill
bear ample testimony, when the days
for the arrival of the troop have
come. It Is not a mournful crowd, nor
Is It a noisy crowd.
Japanese crowds, ns a rule, or
iclther mournful nor riotous. It Is a
lean and decorous crowd, one that
-ns gathered to witness Bli,i i .
. take part In a service that is both
nllltary and religious. Tbe ceremony
I t saluting before the temple appeals
lo the whole people, who agree with
Ihe sentiment that those who died la
liattle died nobly, aud who rejoice that
the army to wblcb those who fell be
nged maintain for them undying re.
krd.
Japan's Military Mersloe.
In Japan every male cltlsen between
the ages of seventeen and forty owes
tellltary sorrlca.