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rf ' HAVING A GOOD TIME ( the old c ANNO ?>AY AFTER THE PATRIOT SRV. FRANCIS M. FINCH. To drum beat and heart beat A soldier marches by; There is color in his cheek. There is courage in his eye; Yet to drum beat and heart beat, In a moment he must die. By star-light and moon-light He seeks the Briton's camp, He hears the rustling flag And the armed sentry's tramp; And the star light and moon light His silent wanderings lamp. With slow tread and still tread, He scans the tented line; And lie counts the battery guns By the gaunt and shadowy pine. And ills slow tread and still tread Give no warning sign The dark wave, the plumed wave! It meets his eager glance. And it sparkles 'nefttli the stars Like the glimmer of a lance,— A dark wave, a plumed wave, On an emerald expanse. A sharp clang, a steel clang! And terror in the sound, Kor the sentry, falcon-eyed, In the camp a spy hath found; With a sharp clang, a steel clang The patriot is bound. With calm brow, steady brow, He listens to his doom; In his look there is no fear. Nor a shadow-trace of gloom; But with ealm brow, and steady brow. He robes him for the tomb. In the long night, the still night, He kneels upon the sod, Aid the brutal guards withhold E'en the precious Word of God; In the long night, the still night, He walks where Christ has trod. 'Neath the blue morn, the sunny morn, He dies upon the tree, And hf mourns that he can lose Hut,one life for liberty; — And in the blue morn, the sunny morn, His spirit-wings are free. Hut his last words, his message words. They burn, lest friendly eye Should read how proud and calm A patriot could die. With his last words,his message words, A soldier’s battle-cry! From Fame Leaf and from Angel Leaf, From Monument and Urn. The sad of earth, the glad of heaven. His history shall learn, And on Fame l.eaf and Angel Leaf The name of Hale shall burn. LEXINGTON AND ITS COMMON. looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool The village of Lexington lies about | ten miles northwest of Boston. The first settlement was made there in i 1040 near the site of what afterwards became known as the Buckman Tav ern There still remain in the village several well-preserved houses which were standing at the time of the bat tle of Lexington 125 years ago. They have been well rurcd for and have un dergone little change. They udd much to the historic interest of the place and are annually visited by thousands of tourists The local historical society has placed tablets on them enumerat ing the dates and facts of especial in terest la'Xtngton Common Is In the form of a triangle and stands nearly In the center of the village At Ihe tune of the light on April It*. ITT*, it was an open space and used as a drill gro end for the militia Today It is a beautiful park At the southern end of the (r| angle la what Is knowu as the I'ulp't mon'iuirtit. tn the form of a granite pedestal surmounted by an op n Bible This monument stands on the site of the first three . b irches built by t‘t: colonials Juaf behind It, properly protected i» a thrifty etrn which wit* on' by flea (irant 33 years ago an the rentcnnial .inntverrur < of the bailie Near the northwest corner of tbs Common is the Minute-men tuon ntMwnt. at th« to >t of * * - f,| those hilled tn lb battle li i« , >to’ |y lilt' cs tl I ■ ' i" h i • i f theme a httw last lasting pi* * It marks In !WI Ufurttr w*s given a public rnseption In front of this inunnmvnt and fourteen curttvor* of Cap* fiitrt't men ah c >k hint* with him N»ar the tic!i»i.i . . a-. >•# the Common bt * • g* <>til nut ing the place where Parker's men were drawn up. Engraved on the boulder is a musket and Capt. Parker's com mand to his men. The original church on the Common hud no steeple and a belfry was erect ed near by. In 17*jl a new belfry was erected on Belfry hill, just to the west of the Common. From this belfry i#.ng out the alarm on that memorable morning 1 -.'i years ago. The belfry remained on the hill until 1791, then UtXlNOTON ItKI.l'KY (Kiom a hi it ran* out m* alarm on to* 0141*1 of \i>ril 1« I TTY »«tnin« th* k«*th«t« that til* Hrltlih m*4 •♦»**' * **!•■ •« tMlr «*) »r >m lh>« ton t <t *m to tlM Cum two it ^t4 It* hall at* IM*4 * * lontntun < ;** I pie to worship, to toll for their funer als, and to tell them at 9 o’clock each night that it was time to rake up the fires and go to bed. In 1797 it was bought by a son of Capt. John Parker and removed to his homestead, re maining there for nearly a century. Then it was purchased by the I>ex ingtou Historical society, restored to its original appearauce and replaced on Belfry hill. Three buildings of great historical THE HANCOCK-CLARK HOUSE. LEXINGTON. MASS, interest stand one opposite each of the three sides of the Common. To th? east is the Merriam House, known at the time as the Buckman Tavern, the rendezvous of the minute-men. It was fired on by the British regulars and the bullet holes can still be seen. To the west of the Common is the Monroe house, built in 172S. A bullet passed through the glass over the loot' and imbedded itself in a bureau. The bureau, bullet and all, is in the possession of one of Monroe’s descend ants at Chicopee. Mass. At the north of the Common is the Harrington house.at the door of which tlie original owner died with his h°ad in his wife's lap the morning of April 19, 1775. Only 10(1 rods northeast of the Com mon is the famous Haneork-Clirk house The original part of the house, which is now the rear L, as shown iu the illustration, was erected in 109k by Rev John Hancock Ills ton built the two-story front in t75t After Rev. John Hamocks death It pasted into the hands of Rev. Jonas Clark, who had married Ham oik's grandduugh ■ ter. The ministry of John Hancock and Jonas Clark extended ovei pe riod of 105 year - Young John Han oi >. and Samuel Adam- were In tint with Re\ Jonas Clark in tills hoti.j wiit'ii warned to ft-** by I’aul R,,v<u • A M l» lltiMltMM % r«» % fgi’ltr i*t»* III** Mill.111.) 1.1 K a|l rti't l«(rliirmi 7lu» lu* iiMlr Minim u .■ fatalut S i *hiii lh«* famuli’ Mtnlkn almu l ilia IfiiultMi • ibinti* un>unipltalutn«l> liar by ifa> hi' mil nubniai uii l*»> f«ao<i un til at U»l «lu’ii a m*t* -baijow. h* *111 ili .is lit* bony »a*!f to a r*H»’f »t »• titan Than* h* may art fou»t o> haa nut mat if nut, h* tiuuiHi** in mitu I’uma-l ill otlt in tbr lti*lil*. uiltloi th* tMM » Mill 4*llla tha riatttlhS uf tlrath Mil# I alikM taallM A m ill* patrol* th* h-* % at St \n*ti*tui*> t’l » in i| i«<i of t.utla* Wta >n ikr ha* f.u n-l •itt* *!»*• liiru* It uki If* ha- * an 4 tU<u amM** la inform k*t itt*»t*r A mil »<*»f i . umpltih-t* niu h f’l Imp Hu |u< , ti«i!Uk| 'm>'» il him ia a «lllkl«l if The Black Death DEADLY INVASIONS OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. Owing to the prevalence of the dreaded bubonic plague in Honolulu and its reported visitation to San Francisco, a few statistics relieve to this most deadly of diseases will be of current interest. It is found in its worst stages in lands like India and China, where the natives live in squa- j lor and tilth and the meanest of habi tations. In those countries the people are unclean in their personal habits, the very soil becoming saturated with filth and the utter lack of sanitation of even the crudest kind, invites the dead ly plague. It is amid the poor that the disease thrives, where the people's bodies, weakened and emaciated l>y lack of proper food, present an easy target for tills fatal black death, Under the conditions obtaining in the orient, the bubonic plague iB the most virulent and deadly of diseases. The symptoms manifest themselves in from twelve hours to twelve days after the system absorbs the disease. The crisis is reached in from two to eight days, generally In forty-eight hours. If life can be prolonged for five or six days the chances of successful treat ment are greatly Increased. As a rule, however, little can ho done to save the victims. A few of the well-nourished onps escape; of the rest death datum an average of from GO to 100 per cent of the total number of cases. This fearful mortality is best shown in the following figures, furnished by Sur geon-General Wyman of the United States army: Bombay, cases 220,907, deaths 164,083; Hongkong, cases 1,600, deaths 1,541; Formosa, cases 2,468, deaths 1,866. Strangely enough this death rate varies greatly according to nationalities. From statictics obtained during the prevalence of the plague in Hongkong the following official show ing is made,the percentage being based on the total number of cases reported: Chinese, 93 deaths out of every loo persons attacked with the disease; East Indiana. 77 out of every 100; Jap anese, 60; Eurasians, 100; Europeans, 18. This small relative percentage of mortality among Europeans is attrib uted to better blood and stamina, and to the success of treatment in the early stages of the disease, the intelligence of the European leading him to call in a physician at the first sign of trouble, white the ignorance and prejudice of j the orientals prompt them to conceal J themselves and reject medical aid. Medical scientists have determined that bubonic plague may he contracted in three ways—by inoculation through an external wound or abrasion, by respiration (breathing air laden with the plague germs and by introduction into the stomach of food or water that has become infected. Contrary to the general belief, the disease Is not infec tious or contagious in the ordinary Planner. A person might even sleep in a bed occupied by a plague victim, or wear clothing taken from his body, and yet escape infection, provided there were no wounds or abrasions on the skin in which the disease germs could get lodgment. Even the breath of a patient is not necessarily poisonous, the greatest source of danger being in the discharges from the swellings. All this being granted, the question will naturally arise. Why, then, should the disease rage so among the orientals? The assertion that the plague is not usually infectious or contagious in the ordinary way applies only to peoples who are ordinarily cleanly in their habits. To those acquainted with the oriental no further explatnation is necessary. Once the plague gets a foothold among East Indians or Chin ese coolies it is almost impossible to check it, except with the extermina tion of the population affected. Rus sia ha.* adopted heroic methods in dealing with th<* plague in Its Chinese colonies. All those affected are taken out and shot. "It saves trouble and othpr people's lives.'' the Russian grim ly remarks. The conditions of envir onment favoring the plague are sim ilar to those that encourage typhus fever, mainly density of population, bad ventilation and drainage, impure water an I inattention to sanitary re quirements. The most notable visits'ions of the plague of which there are records are the**' The plague prevailed in Vthen In It ('., and reau pea red is months ufter it was thongut to have 1 been stamped out In the third cen turf II C. the p'ngue uwept away 1 countless number* in Egypt. I.hy records a great plague that destroyed million* in vaiioti* part- of Vfrbu in th* thud realmy it C In l*U \ |i t he plague *pfe ld over Eg.vpi and rea< bed Con-tantlaop ••, where lu.Ooo diet in a day In the mid* century I* ravaged Italy and Northern \frt ,t in the seventh century the p'ugu* invaded I England and > toned *■ or*« of vie ttmr In l.'To I* app-ared In Cairn and ; Const lUtlnwple spread «n l i e-anie epedeMi* la the fourteenth century ■ l tie pr*lt!*n* fame foiin Aral la ant nuo-p* K«y pi Armenia \oa V!1mr N • them Mm i au t nearly at Krimpa lie* t* th<* hla* irian ** I state« that It claimed J,\ ***> *m*i vt * lint is Korop** daring the c mart l>« { im i«am ,|i*‘.j ft m the idaru<* m | Waalern Europe In tM* isallkii r i swept away an SUM people tn and n*ar t,y >n* and Ip lifg m>m» t(mn T" *n* * d *4 lit and in i*l Ven.*e In !*•' I the p U is deteip'St **t N ltdee < I •' m I ing 300.000 victims in live months. In 1654-55 London suffered ravages by the pestilence and 1CO.OUO died. In 1730 one-third of the people of Marseilles died, and the following year 88,00!) died in Toulon and the whole of prov ince. In 1743 nearly 50,000 died In Messina. In 1771 the plague de stroyed 50,000 lives in Moscow. In 1835 Cairo again was visited by the plague and one-fifth of the people died. The bubonic plague, Dr. Wyman as serts, is the same old plague that for centuries past has made its appearance at intervals in various countries and which has been known in turn as the Levantine, Oriental, black plague nml black death. Of late years, with the advance of civilization and the adop tion of intelligent systems of hygiene sanitation, quarantine and medical treatment, the field of the plague lias been narrowed year by year, until now It is almost exclusively confined to countries like India and China, where the conditions are always Inviting for an epidemic. A Queer HI rlke. Labor day seems to bo a time for general resort to the strike as a means, •here are strikes and strikes—strikes for cause, strikes without cause and strikes because. But the most unique strike on record occurred in Brooklyn last week. Joseph Brecht had worked in the Havemeyer sugar refinery for 3ixtcen years at f 12.50 a week. He was promoted to he superintendent at un advanced salary, and he struck. He positively declined promotion. He was given a week to consider the matter, hut still held out. Another week was given him, hut as lie remained obdur nte he was Informed that the firm needed him as superintendent and un less he accepted tho position he would he discharged. Thereupon Brecht committed suicide. He preferred death to promotion. Perhaps this is not the only Instance of a strike being suicidal, but the case of Brecht points a moral. It is said that Brecht was the only man among tee thousands employed In the establishment who was competent to till the vacancy caused by the death of the former su perintendent. He did no*, want the position. The position sought him be cause he had made himself necessary to the tirr^. He was the one man in a thousand whose attention to duty had qualified him for the supprintend ency. The offer was a simple matter of business. There was no sentiment in it. The firm needed Brecht in that particular position: it was to then interest to have him there. It was also to his interest to he there, but he objected. The moral of this is that many men seek places or advancement who are incompetent, and they think the times are out of joint when they do not get either. When the place seeks the man it is because lie has de voted bis time to something beside just earning his wages.—Pennsylva nia Grit. Thi* Chiffon How. As the (older weather Is gone fur boas are laid aside and in their place are mufflers of cbifTon and tulle. For one white taffeta was chosen and was laid in wide, full plaits, edged with black velvet ribbon. Down the front, almost to tile bottom of the skirt, there falls a deep panne fringe. An other style is in white chiffon edged with narrow black satin ribbons. This is made on a high neck hand with lit tles rapes over the shoulders and long frilled ends. These styles can he eas ily copied, in any becoming color, and the American girl who possesses such a "fixing" to wear with her street gowns may so p forth into the spring sunlight with the certainty that she is wearing the "latest thing from Paris." Iiitlui'iire of H|»orl4. There are fewer corsets worn by young girls today than formerly The craze fur athletics and outdoor sports is responsible for this condition of things The girl who plays golf can not play a good game if she Is encased* in a steel frame. The girl who tides a wheel or Is tund of aquatic s|mrt can not he an adept ip either If she wears corsets. ’I bese sports are paving the way for the abolition of corsets by the introduction of the short cornet, whhh U merely a bolted support, hut yet not Jim' wbal we need, for It still has all ' the bad points of the corset After .1 woman lias gone without corset* for some time she will gradually dis.utt' ih> m altogether « HIh| an I (perl swi.ril«ioa<i. I he young King of Kpuln is an eg* p it in the use of the »*<>rd which ha* always be«n his f&Vorita pustinte When quite little sishIoi swoitls were mad'* (or him with whhU he would fmc with hi* pUymates young noble no n cl it* proudest blood of Spain lie Is raw one * f the no*st itwit . * >.r l•nico of Korun* esltoiaf ik* hsti * y oung SaktiAi* tipender la istrilig . wot hi* • Ml she* faithfully { w« ■ he* Mows that' M hr the «*M gen' lews an left Igetns* lion* t« His j Will that atle hr* ileal h hts dust « *< tii b* .* altered * t the W IIS.I4 l.lfe i WHERE HEBER DIED. Anniversary of III* Death Celebrated In a Church In London. April 3 was the seventy-fourth an niversary of the death of Bishop He ber, author of the missionary hymn •'From Greenland's ley Mountains," which Is known as widely as the Eng lish language Is spoken. This anni versary was last month celebrated in a church in London, and on the occa sion the particulars of his life and death were brought forward again. Reginald Heber was the second Church of England bishop of Calcutta. That church had then but one bishop for the whole of India, instead of ten, as In the ypar 1900, including the is land of Ceylon, from whose cinnamon groves "the spicy breezes blow,” and Burmah, adjoining the mainland of India on the northeast, and whicii Britain from the very year of his death j through the next half century gradu ally annexed as the result of succes sive wars. He traveled Indefatigably through all parts of his unwieldy dio cese, and on Saturday, April 1, arriv ed at Tnichlnopoli, a town of now some 90,000 Inhabitants, about 200 miles southwest of Madras, and there next day he preached and administer ed confirmation. On Monday morn ing he confirmed again in the Fort church ar.d visited a native school, 'ihen, having returned home, he took a cold batli before breakfast, as on the two preceding days; but his ser vant, thinking him longer than usual, entered the apartment, and there found the body of his master lifeless in the water. It was afterward dis covered that a blood vessel had burst upon his brain. He was buried on the north side of the altar, or com munion table, in St. John’s church, at that same town, where his monument marks the spot. But the most famous of his hymns was written long before he thought of being called to such for eign work. No mercenary motive in duced him to accept the blshroplc, about which he hesitated, for he In herited through his mother, the estate and living of Hodnet, in Shropshire, where, however, he once almost •com plained of his odil twofold position as "half parson, half squire." long be fore Charles Kingsley lived to des cribe such a combination of title by contracting tbc m Into the term "squar son.” But if the duties of these differ ent positions seemed sometimes diffi cult from incompatibility, yet he ex changed them for the ceaseless care of a diocese, in which, besides Christians, Mohammedans and Buddhists, there are now 207,731,727 Hindoos who, as his famous hymn says, "Bow down to wood and stone."—Chicago Record. kitchener s readiness. Was Willing to Black I.O'd Hot arts' Hoots or Do Other Work. On the steamer which conveyed him to Gibraltar, where he was to meet Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener was ac costed by an officer who introduce'! himself with tite reminder that he had once been Intrusted by Col. Kitchener with a message to the then command er-in-chief in India. Lord Kitchener recognized his old acquaintance imme dia^ly, but could not recall the mes sage referred to. ‘‘It was 15 years ago or more," said his friend, ‘‘but I recollect it. You asked me if I had a chance to speak to Lord Roberts on your behalf and beg him to find you a Job in the East, near him, if possible. You told me to say you would black his boots or do any earthly thing for him then.” ’ I've no doubt I said that," replied Lord Kitchener, “for 1 would black his boots or do any mortal thing for him now.”—Sphere. Hinging ( anarlei at Hrhool. Andreasberg, in the Harz mountains, is always musical with the songs or canaries, and the best singing canaries in the world. Every year 250.000 of the golden birds are reared, trained to sing and shipped to various parts of the world. Two hundred thousand of them go to America, 27,000 to England. 10,000 to Russia and the rest to vari ous countries, excepting 10,000 of the very best singers, which are kept in Germany. These accomplished birds become teachers, anti as soon as tho fledlging canary is old enough to have a desire to sing he, with numbers of others, is put in a darkened cage, there to listen to (he singing of his teacher, a thoroughly trained singing canary. The dark cages keep tho young birds from trying to sing, hut do not inter file with their listening. After a few days of this twilight instruction the young hlnl Is taken into the light and given an opportunity to show how much lie hits learned. So, from week to week, the birds are given lessons until they are good singers. Then the/ ate p'lt In little wicker cages and sent a w a >. MtniuiaiMit »•* \\ M Uert>tn*\ tbe French *. iilptur, has h.'en ronmlMiuaH by a French null tarry ami hlatnrlcal club lu design a BtottUBtciit to be pi teed on the Held of Waterloo at th« spot alien* die last •<)'wrea of tlie Freni h army fell under Napoleon It will he the gru French monument on the llehi y«r*l literary Muawan. Julia Ward Howe celebrated her Slat birthday the other day. In girlhood »hv and her two elder* were known as lhe threw Urates but In ’.ate life aha lie* am* equally idelilllted with iha M t#e* and ha* beep an important rt< ore In the am ul progrea* of her nm Her I MhtklsMkl* ll|so. rei n > i in ..! „ . . n.i' i * i, i . % r oe in Mirt«nbad. it t i hri d * t" or |er* | that I** '*M« d * tor me dt*«.*;nta*t" *• F * . i * U * cf
