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The more we live, more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages;
A day to childhood seems a year.
And years like passing ages.
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Ere passion yet disorders.
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Along its grassy borders.
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And sorrow's shafts fly thicker,
To stars, that measure life to man.
Why seem your courses quicker?
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And life itself Is vapid.
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Feel we Us tide more rapid?
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Indemnifying fleetness;
And those of youth, a seeming length,
Proportioned to their sweetness.
—Thomas Campbell.
Daisy's Blue Beads.
BY MRS. MOSES P. HANDY.
(Copyright. 1S01: by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
“Mother,” said Daisy Mason, impa
tiently, “why on earth don't Jo Davis
ask Emily to marry him and be done
with it? He has been coming here
to see her every Sunday night since l
can remember, and nothing comes of
it.”
"Oh, well,” replied Mrs. Mason,
soothingly, “there's no hurry. They
are young, and have plenty of time. 1
am sure I’m not anxious to have Emily
married. I don’t know what we should
do without her.”
“Nor I,” admitted Daisy. “But I am
tired having people ask me when he
and Emily are going to be married. It
would be a relief to my feelings to be
able to tell them that they were en
jaged.”
"I don't see what people have to do
with it. It is none of their business
who comes courting Emily.”
"No, it isn’t, and that is Just what
makes me mad. They talk as if Jo
was just flirting."
“Now, Daisy, you know that is ridic
ulous. Everybody in town knows
that Jo fairly worships the ground
Emily treads on. Why, he never looks
at any other girl."
"Then, why don’t he speak out'.’
Mother, do you think they can be en
gaged?”
Mrs. Mason shook her head. "No,
indeed, Emily would have told me, cer
tain, sure.”
“Yes. I suppose she would. But he
ought to ask her. I wonder Emily
stands it. I wouldn't, I know. Fath
er ought to ask him his intentions.
I’ve a great mind to do it myself."
"The idea. As if father would do
such a thing. Why, it would scare Jo
to death, and Emily would die of mor
tification.”
"And then we should have two fun
erals instead of a wedding. 1 don't
care, somebody ought to do something.
It makes Emily ridiculous, and I'm
going to tell her so.”
"No, Daisy, don't do any such
thing,” said her mother. "All people
aren’t alike, and you would only hurt
your sisters feelings. You know Jo
is dead in love with her, and he will
tell her so when he gets ready.”
"Well, I wish he'd hurry up. 1 don’t
think much of a man who wants to
marry a girl and hasn't spunk enough
to say so. I think I see any man treat
me like that." And Miss Daisy gave a
toss to her pretty head which boded
ill to the man wuo suouiu try it.
In a small country town where
“Oh, Daisy, really?’’
everybody knows every one else, most
men anti all women take a lively inter
est in the affairs of their neighbors. In
Hayville Jo Davis' courtship of Emily
Mason was one of the stock subjects
of gossip. The two had been keeping
company for live years, more or less
and Hayville was agreed that they
ought either to double or quit. There
was no apparent reason why they
should not be married. Jo had a good
farm left, him by his father, and his old
mother would be all the better of a
daughter-in-law like Emily, jo’s pa
rents had married late in life, and Jo
was an only child, it was fragments
of this gossip which, reaching Daisy
Mason’s ears, had wrought her up on
the subject. Daisy was Emily’s young
er sister, the prettiest girl in all Hay
ville, with a dozen or so of beaux,
whom she led a dance.
There is many a true word spoken
in jest. Daisy felt that decidedly some
thing ought to be done. She had al
ready tried to Help matters by effacing
herself upon various occasions, enter
taining her own visitors on the porch
when Jo came, so that the presence of
others might not prevent him from pro
posing to Emily. To her dl'guaft these
small maneuvers Ua# U§en fruitless;
now she ?o»t that more vigorous meas
ures were necessary.
There was a third slster’in the Ma
son family, a little girl twelve years
younger than the brother who came
next to Daisy. Rosy Mason was a gen
eral pet, not only In her own family,
but with most of the neighbors. Natu
rally a clever child, constant associa
tion with her elders had made her
■wise beyond her years, and her bright
sayings were told and quoted all over
town. Jo Davis was especially fond of
her, and paid her almost as much at
tention as he did to Emily. It was to
this little sister that Daisy turned for
help in tho present emergency.
“Rosie,” she asked, "can you keep a
secret?”
“ 'Course 1 can,” answered Rosie, In
dignantly. “Don’t you know mother
says I never tell anything 1 oughtn't
to?”
“Yes, but this Is different. I want
you to ask Jo Davis if he and Emily
are going to be married.”
Tho little sister was shocked. “Oh,
Daisy, I couldn’t. Mother would be an
gry, and Emily wouldn't like it a bit."
"Listen, Rosy. They won't mind at
all if you do It the right way and don't
let anybody know 1 put you up to it.
I'll give you my blue beads if you will."
“Your blue beads? Oh, Daisy, real
ly?” exclaimed Rosie, but still she
looked doubtful.
“Yes, my blue beads, for your very
“I am Indeed, if she’ll have me."
own. Now, listen. You know Jo wants
to marry Kmily, everybody knows It.
and we are all willing that he should,
but he is so bashful that he don't dare
ask her. Now, if you help him out ho
will be fonder of you than ever.”
“I think she would say yes if he ask
ed her, don’t you, Daisy?”
“Of course I do; but she can’t if he
don’t, and she would be pleased, too,
so you see nobody would mind, don't
you?”
"Are you sure, Daisy?”
“Y’es, dear, quite sure. And then
think what fun it would be to have a
wedding in the family. 1 would be
bridesmaid and you and Jo's little
cousin Nellie would be flower girls. You
would have a beautiful new white
dress, and a big hat all flowers and
chiffon; oh, it would be grand. You
know I wouldn’t ask you to do any
thing wrong. Then you shall have the
beads, as soon as you ask him, and if
mother and Emily are angry 1 will
take all the blame. But they won’t be.
Everybody will be glad.”
During the next day or two Kosie's
wise little head did a great deal of
thinking. The more she pondered the
more it seemed to her that Daisy was
right. Jo must love Emily or he would
not come to see her so often. He never
went to see any other girl. People
certainly expected them to get mar
ried. Had not old Mrs. Brown, who
was always trying to lind out every
thing, endeavored to pump her. Rosy,
again and again, and called her a sly
little puss, because she told her noth
ing. Then she did so want the beads.
Not even Carrie Wells’, that all the
girls at school made so much fuss over,
were as pretty as they. So she ques
tioned Daisy once more, and Daisy re
iterated her assurances, saying:
"The next time Jo and Emily are by
themselves, and Jo calls you his little
sweetheart, all you have to do is 10
tell him that you had rather be his lit
tle sister, and ask him if he isn't going
to marry Emily; he will be your
brother if he does, you know. How
can he mind that?” And Rosie agreed
that he couldn't.
Fortune favored her. The next Sun
day was a bright September day, and
Joe and Emily had the parlor to them
selves. Daisy had discreetly gone for
a walk, and the rest of the family were
sitting out on the porch. Kosie went
to the door of the parlor and peeped
in. They sat, Emily and Jo, one on
one side of the table, one on the other,
a3 they had so often, talking quietly
as usual.
“Come here, Rosie,” called Jo.
Rosie went in and took her stand be
side his knee. He drew her to him
and stroked her curls. “You’re my lit
tle sweetheart, aren’t you?” he asked.
Rosie shook her curly head. "I'd
rather be your little sister. I’d like
that You are going to marry Emily,
aren't you?”
Emily turned crimson, but Jo laugh
ed, delighted. “1 am, indeed, if she’ll
have me.”
"Oh, she will, won’t you Emily?”
and the little matchmiaker lied.
Having taken the plunge, with
Rosie’s aid, Jo's bashfulness vanished,
and when Mr. and Mrs. .Mason came in
a little later they found Emily and her
accepted lover waiting to receive their
consent and blessing.
Rosie wore the blue beads to school
on Monday. There was but one draw
back to her happiness; everyone made
so much of her, and her honest little
soul shrank from accepting the credit
which belonged rightk> to another.
“Please let me tell them the truth
about it," she begged of Daisy, but
Daisy s,*jd "No."
STOR^M
SIGNALS
RECENT EXPERIMENTS
WITH WIRELESS
TELEGRAPHY.
Wireless telegraphy, high towers and
electric lights are some of the devices
which the weather bureau is bringing
into play for the improvement of the
service. I’rof. R. A. Fessenden of the
weather bureau is making experiments
with wireless telegraphy along the At
lantic coast from Cape Hatteras to
Cape Henry, says the New York Press.
This marks the first serious attempt
to communicate warnings to vessels at
sea off the dangerous coasts of Vir
ginia and the Carolina*. It is Intended
to send storm signals to all the life
saving stations along the coast by this
means when the wires are down, as
they frequently are. Then each life
saving station can hoist storm signals
and warn vessels off .shore. The towers
for the wireless telegraphy are being
erected, and a corps of experts will aid
Prof. Fessenden in his experiments. If
they are successful it is probable that
the system will he extended all aloug
the coast. In increasing the height of
the towers at signal stations of the
waather bureau the idea is to make the
warning of the bureau visible over a
greater area. Already fifty high steel
towers have been built, and 100 more
have been contracted for. They will be
erected at stations on the shores of the
great lakes and on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. On these towers are to
be hoisted the flags which show by day
and the lamps which shine by night to
warn the mariner of approaching
storms. Just now the government is
looking for the best sort of lens to use
in the signal lamps. Not only Ame: i
ean but foreign firms have entered
into the competition, and the govern
ment is sure to get the best lenses
made in the world for the purpose. As
far as possible, electricity will be used
for the lighting of the lamps in these
signal towers. Heretofore signals have
been displayed from the tops of build
ings or poles placed in places not al
ways conspicuous. Now, with steel
towers seventy feet high built in the
most conspicuous place that can b ; se
lected, great improvement in the serv
ice of the weather bureau is looked f r.
Where the tower is built near a city
or near a line of electric-light cables
the supplying of light to the signals
will be easy, but in many places oil
lamps will have to be used, electricity
being unobtainable. Where electricity
is used the tower is an open structure,
but where lamps are used the frame i*
covered with a corrugated steel shel
ter, in which the lamps are kept when
they are out hoisted up at night.
Whether electricity is used or not, tha
power of the lights will he the same,
for where oil is used the lamps will
have a candle power equal to the same
sort of light run by electricity. With
electric lights the man lit charge has
only to press a button to set his sig
nals, but with oil lamps he must go to
a great deal of trouble in trimming,
cleaning and hoisting up. Every year
mariners rely more and more upon the
predictions of the weather bureau, and
therefore this improvement iu the
maritime signal service will be appre
ciated greatly* by masters of vessels.
Vessels bound out either do not leave
port when storm signals are flying, or
if they do they prepare for the pre
dicted storm, and so, not being caught
unawares, are able to weather it. Hero
are the storm signals which will tty
from the high towers, the notice to put
them up probably being sent by wire
less telegraphy:
A red flag with a black center indi
cates that a storm of marked violence
is expected. The pennants displayed
with the flags Indicate the direction of
the wind; red, easterly (from northeast
to south); white, westerly (from
southwest to north). The pennant
above the flag indicates that the wind
is expected to blow from the northerly
quadrants; below, from the southerly
quadrants. Hy night a red ljght indi
cates easterly winds, and a white light
above a red light westerly winds. A red
pennant displayed alone at stations
on the Atlantic, Pacific and gulf coasts
Indicates that the local observer has
received information from the central
office of a storm covering a limited
area, dangerous only for vessels about
to sail to certain points, and serves as
a notification to shipmasters that in
formation will be given them upon ap
plication to the local observer. Two
red lights with black centers, displayed
one above the other, Indicate the ex
pected approach of tropical hurricanes
and also of those extremely severe and
dangerous storms which occasionally
move across tho lakes and northern
Atlantic coast. No night hurricane
signals are displayed.
ANIMALS
AND DISEASE.
TOO CLOSE ASSOCIATION
OF MANKIND AND THE
ERUTE CREATION DISAS
TROUS.
Medical students and students of
bacteriology have become convinced
that the close association of animals
and mankind is responsible to a great
extent for many epidemics of sickness.
By reason of the often continuous con
tact of members of a household and
dogs, sometimes affected by con
tagious diseases, such as tuberculosis,
hydrophobia, mange, eczema, etc., the
ailments are communicated to the hu
man family, upon whom they often
work with disastrous effect. The cat,
as well as the dog, may transmit cer
tain diseases to mankind. It is, in
faet, liable to tuberculosis, eczema and
other analogous affections that rage
in mankind. From its mode of life,
attached as it is to the fireside, it read
ily accepts the caresses of its owners,
and lives beside them; it likes to
sleep in soft places, and if it carries
upon it certain germs of parasites, it.
leaves them behind it.
Birds in the poultry yard, cage or
dovecote are also a source which the
human race may catch the germs of
specific and even mortal diseases. Al
though the question of transmission of
aviarian diphtheria to children in the
form of human diphtheria has never
been solved, it is.none the less estab
lished by numerous observations that
when there is an epidemic of diphthe
ria in a poultry yard there is also a
prevalence of angina with false mem
brane among the children.
The rabbit and the hare are capable
of communicating parasites. Although
the pathology of fish and mollusks is
at present almost unknown, it should
be remembered that fish are capable
of contracting tuberculosis.
Whether or not action on the matter
will be taken in some sections is not
yet decided, but medical men are
agreed that the transmission of disease
germs is possible and that many fatal
illnesses have been induced by too
close association of mankind with the
brute creation.
Public People Before the Camera.
Commenting on politicians as sub
jects for the camera, a New York
photographer said the other day:
“President McKinley poses frequently,
but Vice President Roosevelt is a trea
sure. He never refuses a photographer
to snap him, unless wearing a bath
ing suit. He drew the line at that.
Mrs, Cleveland is a splendid subject,
and so is Mrs. McKinley. Miss Helen
Gouhl makes a magnificent photo
graph, but hers are all taken with the
understanding that they must never
be used for publication. Gov. Odell
wears a very serious expression when
having pictures taken. He always re
quests the photographer not to ask
him to look pleasant. Bishop Potter
has many photographs taken. Arch
bishop Corrigan does not enjoy the or
deal and seldom poses.”
A CHECK SWINDLE.
Trick bjr Which One Firm (lot liollars
Without Sale*.
That there is no end to the ways of
imposing upon the suffering New York
public was illustrated by the failure of
a small store recently. The newly ap
pointed receiver was surprised by hav
ing many women come to his office
with credit checks. These checks were
for small amounts ranging from $1 to
$10. At. first the receiver couldn’t un
derstand it, but upon investigation he
learned the details of a pretty system
of fleecing. The firm, it seems, had
made a specialty of silk and cotton
shirt waists. These were, with few
exceptions, shapeless, ill-fitting gar
ments, and when the unfortunate wom
en shoppers got home with their pur
chases and put them on they were
disgusted to find that the bargain sale
waists were baggy and puckery and
altogether so poorly fashioned that it
would be next to impossible to make
them fit. even by a complete ripping up
and remaking. Such being the con
ditions they invariably took the goods
back and demanded other waists or
their money. It was contrary to the
principles of the firm to refund money,
and as they seldom had waists more
becoming either in style or shape than
Ihe ones returned they were driven to
the extremity of credit checks. “We
will get in a new supply of waists in a
few days," was the suave assurance of
the manager and his well-trained as
sistants. “Your check will be good at
any time, and when we replenish our
stock you can select a waist that suits
yon. But the new stock never arrived
and in spite of the good dollars received
from deluded customers without de
creasing their capital of waists, the
firm became insolvent and then the
women began to come wBh credit
checks. So far the receiver has been
unable to compensate them for their
loss through the swindle which, in its
way, was rather neat.—New York Sun
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Wisconsin was early clubbed the
' Badger State” from the representa
tion of that animal on its coat of arms.
Why the badges should havo been
chosen does not appear, as it is not
in evidence that badgers were more nu
merous in Wisconsin than in other
surrounding states. j