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ChildlevS4 “I wonder why I shed those tears When ihey laid ray little child away? After the lapse of wearying years I am glad that I sit alone to-day: I can hear his laugh and his glad wild shout, I can see him still, as he ran about. And 1 know the prayer he used to say. “I hold his picture to my face And I fancy I feel his hand again As it creeps into mine, and he takes his plaee On my knee, as he did in the fair days when The world and the fates were kind to me And the songs I heard were but songs of glee. And I stirred the envy of other men. “His days were only days of joy. Happy, he shouted the hours away: He was glad with the glee of a careless boy, He laughed as only the innocent may; ' He never was doomed to wearily fret He never looked back with vain regret At the close of a sorrowful day. "I keep the little clothes he wore. 1 treasure the shoes that encased his feet; The way was smooth that he traveled o'er. The flowers that bloomed at its sides were sweet; The winds that blew through his curly hair Had blown out of peaceful realms and fair— There were no grim foes that he had to meet. "X wonder why I shed those tears When they crossed his hands and laid him away? After the lapse of wearying years I am glad that I toil alone to-day! He knew life's gladness, but not its woe, And I have hts memory, and I know The sweet little prayer he used to say.” -S. E. Kiser. • The Girl of Lamy. BY H. A. CALLAHAN. (Copyright. 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co ') Just a handful of wooden houses In Lamy, thrown together as if by tne haphazard hand of a careless God into the little pocket of the mountains that stand like priests around the city of Santa Fe. Here it is that the dust gray coaches which thunder in from Arizona on the west, meet their bi'oth ers from the east and exchange for a few brief moments the greetings of the way. Of course, the red clap-board eating house and station are the main attrac tions daring these arrivals and present scenes of unwonted activity to those accustomed to the aching solitude of the place by day or its blinking dream iness bon°ath the stars at night. No one distinctly remembers just when or how the Girl became an insti tution at Lamy. However, they do re member that one September morning some years back there was a new face behind the counter in the eating-house; a face framed in dull gold hair and lighted by two blue-gray eyes, which seemed forever on the brink of laugh ter. The boys who made their homo in the little clap-board affair used to call her Mollie; but it was a name of their own devising and she accepted it, as she did many other little things, with an Inscrutable smite that puzzled, yet meant nothing. When the crews would come in from a heavy climb, soaked to the bone with rain and sleet, the Girl was there in a motherly way, with a stiff three fingers of whisky and a supper that lifted them clear of their weariness. Or, if on a Saturday night, |hr$h ( /'"Vs A New Face Behind the Counter, the sounds of a brawl would flaunt down on the still air the Girl would walk over to German Joe’s in a busi ness-like way and scatter the drunkest of them with a quiet word and an ad monnitory jerk of the sleeve that sent them sneaking out like coyotes. Then, perhaps, she would stand and smile in j the doorway with her hair blowing in the wind, her eyes speaking more plain ly than words that a new era had be gun in Lamy. Her sway was absolute. And it was not long before every fire boy and throttle-man on the Division had had his own individual experience, "Where’s Dan?” tamed by the graceful slip of a girl with golden hair, who seemingly came from nowhere—the Angel of the Grade. This was all before Dan Beard hap ! pened in. Dan was from the Colorado j hiHs and no angel. They had put him first on the little bunt line that run3 I crazily over the hills to Santa Fe. | Then he was shifted to the main line for relay work and became a fixture at Lamy. Dan was six feet one. brown as leather and as tough, and incidentally could drink more whisky than any man this side of Phoenix. He spent his mornings against the bar in Ger man Joe's place, cursing out the road, from the president down. Then about ten minutes before his run began he would shuffle over to his machine anu | get his orders. When these were duly scanned Dan would open up No. 20 gently and sneak out of Lamy like a snake, but before the whistling post was passed he had her galloping over the rails like a frightened thing and bellowing like a bull. He became no torious as the most reckless devil on the road, and everybody said that sooner or later there would be a smash somewhere up in the hills and Dan Beard would get off the line forever. But the smash didn't seem to come, and Dart's mad way continued. Then a change came. It was almost imper ceptible. But gradually Dan dropped away from the whisky and bade fair to quit it altogether. He didn’t take the grades so fast and slackened up on the curves almost like the rest. Some said it was "Mollie.” Some said the Divi sion Superintendent. Nobody ever really knew. It was a morning in the early June i the great event occurred. A dispatch j had come over the wires saying thal j a special was coming from the east and that a double-header would be needed to carry it over the grades. Dan Beard’s No. 20 could climb a tree, and the big fellow got his orders to make the run. It was getting close to start ing time and Johnny Coleman, Dan's fire boy, was growing anxious. Dan had not shown up all morning. He ; was not at German Joe’s, nor around I the station. The dispatcher was stand ing in the sun looking at his watch and swearing safely to himself. He was just on the point of putting another | man or. No. 20, when something white caught his eye on the hill-path that runs above the out. As it eame nearer | he saw it was Mollie, and right behind was Dan, clumsily picking his way | over the stones. At the station Dan called out: ’’All ready.” to the dls- i patcher, looking rather sheepish and strangely happy. “Remember, Dan,” spoke Mollie, as No. 20 began to move. "Not another drop, little girl. Not another-” and u* waved a brown fist back at the girl. >s the tender bumped over the switch to the main track. And not until the big machine dwindled to a mere bug in the distance did Mollie turn her back and disappear in the doorway. That night the special from the east was late. It crept into Lamy with ona engine and that engine was not No. 20. The little knot that gathered in curi osity on the platform felt in their hearts something was impending. Johnny Coleman limped up. his head bandaged in white cloth, and looking wreak and sick. "Where’s Dan?” asked a little wom an with a face very white. Johnny Coleman did not answer, hut looked uneasily away. They were lifting something very gently from the baggage car to lay It on the platform. Johnny told as briefly as possible the details. “Making up time, we left the track at the culvert,” he said. “I jumped clear, but Dan didn’t get out iu time. When we got him from beneath he was pretty bad. And-” (someone was crying very softly over where Dan lay.) Johnny continued: ”1 guess we could ha’ pulled ’im through at that. But he wouldn’t take the whisky we give him. ” ’Ain’t drinking. Johnny; not an other drop,’ was all he said, and then he sort o’ turned over like a tired little kid and—I ’spose that’s when he died.” That night was a lonely vigil in Lamy and along in the early dawn they buried Dan Beard. He’s up there near the hill-path that runs above the cut, and can hear the 100 tonners climbing up the grade. And some times when the boys give the long blast for the Junction they just pull a short one for Dan—the worst man on the Division. If you are ever down that way. drop in am the girl at the eating-house. She’s not very stylish, and I guess per haps her talk is a bit western, but somehow or other they seem to think pretty well of her in Lamy. And, by the way, they don't call her "Mollie” any more. It’s just Dan Beard’s girl— the Girl at Lamy. “There'* * ripe.” Do you know there is much fake business about the pipe-smoking and pipe-offering host? So long has the earth been Hooded with rot and rub bish about “the pipe” that ordinary men must live fifty years before they can break away from the idea that a briar or cob, packed with long-cut or granulated at 20 cents a pound is the very quintessence of comfort and hos pitality. Tut-tut! Who wants to put between his lips a guttapercha stem that others have slobbered through? I have in mind several acquaintances who keep on hand from tea to a dozen rancid old pipes to hand around when friends call. Such men are practicing economy for economy’s sake. They are too mean to offer you a 10-cent cigar, and pretend that their dirty old pipes are good enough for any body. Catch ’em outside and ask if they'll have a smoke. Why, certain ly. And they order quarter cigars. I have had much experience of these chaps.—New York Press. • ______________ A<lvic« to nlrln Who Tr»»<*l. The young girl who is traveling by herself should seek information from the train people rather than from her companions on the train. No girl in traveling should make confidants of strangers of either sex, disclose her name, her destination of her family af fairs, or make acquaintances on the road. She may, however, show kind attention to a mother traveling with little children, amuse a wearied little one, and politely thank anyone who does her an unobtrusive kindness.— Margaret E. Sangster in the Ladies’ Home Journal. * A Cosmopolitan Army. The conflict between the Germans and Czechs in Austria-Hungary, which deserves Secretary Seward's appella tion of “the irrepressible conflict,” makes interesting a study of the ele ments composing the army of that country, which consists of 428,000 Slavs, 227.000 Ailemands, 120,000 Mag yars, 48,000 Roumanians and 14.000 Italians. The Slavs are made up of 174,000 Czechs, 70,000 Poles, 75,000 Ruthenians, 75,000 Croatians and Ser vians and 28,000 Slavonians. Now York the Niinnltmt City. New York claims to be the sunniest of the large cities. The United States weather bureau has charts in light and shade showing, from 1870 to 1895, how many days have been sunny in each part of the country. Although Arizona has sometimes attained a percentage of 80 and other parts of the west have j seen very clear skies, New York city I lollows closely with a mean oercent I age of 50. Our Wildest 5 5 Tribe Account of the Seri by Professor McGee Physically, the Seri are cast in heroic mold. The mean adult stature is t> feet for males and 5 feet 8Vfe inches for females, i. e., with the possible ex ception of one or two Patagonian peo ples, the Seri are the tallest aborigines of America. Both sexes are notable for robustitude of chest and slender- : ness of limb, though the extremities ure large. The great chests and huge haunches of the Seri bear witness to their own naive descriptions of the chase, in which three or live striplings partly surround and partly run down jack rabbits, and five hunters habitu ally capture deer in similar fashion; and these recitals are corroborated in turn by dozens of vaqueros who have seen small bands spring on the with ers of full-grown horses, break their necks by jaguar-like twists, rend them into quarters with teeth and nails, and then shoulder these and flee over the sand wastes so swiftly as to escape pursuing horsemen. The Seri inhabit a region of hunters, yet they are so far the fleetest of all and so distinguished by a peculiar “collected" or up-step ping gait (like that of a thoroughbred racer or prowling coyotte) as to have gained their tribal sobriquet—they are ‘ spry” par excellence, even among the light-footed Tarahumari and Otoml and Papago. In their own view, the glory of the Seri tribe is in their hair; it is black and luxuriant, and is worn long by both sexes, who brush and cultivate it with tireless assiduity; it is not merely admired, but revered nearly or quite unto worship aud in terwoven with a faith in a Sanisonian cult which throws light on many ob scure customs of various peoples in the several stages of culture. The tresses are treasured as symbols of vigor and of fecundity; the combings are kept scrupulously smoothed and twisted into slender strands, wound on skew ers and eventually worked into neck laces and belts; indeed, the locks symbolize shield as well as strength, even to the engendering of ideas of ap pareling along those lines of associa tive and emblematic development by which the primitive mind is swayed. The chief occupations of the Seri are food getting and fighting. Their fore most food source is the green turtle, which is taken by means of a light lip-head harpoon, broken up with cob blestones, and promptly gorged from entrails to flipper bones and sinew— and even to plastron if the family is large and the chelonian small. Peli cans and other water fowl yield quotas of food, as do all manner of fish and shellfish; and during the season of cac tus fruits the younger folk and even the elders fatten inordinately on tunas and their seeds—the latter eaten twice in ancient Californian fashion. The much-mooted question of cannibalism must be left open; the affirmative is favored by the blood craze of bade and presumption that it ends like the chase it mimics in gluttonous gorgiug of raw flesh, and also by other anal ogies; but the negative may rest pro visionally on the dearth of direct evi dence and the consistent denials en tered by the tribesmen themselves. Throughout Seriland as implied, in deed, by the proper designation "our great-inother-folk-herc" the matron holds higher rank than even the doughtiest warrior. The tribal law is founded on faith and expressed in terms of kinship and relative age, the kinship is traced only in the maternal line—in fact, it is questionable wheth er paternity is recognized—the female has no word for father, and the term used by the male to denote his sire seems of doubtful meaning, and there are no old men In the tribe. So the matron is priestess, lawgiver and judge, while her brothers in order of age are the appellate executives, and her spouse merely a perpetual guest from another clan without voice in do mestic matters, save perchance in so da' tumults attending war. The wom an is the prepotent factor in tribal ex istence, she is the shaman who brews tl;'i magic arrow poison, the w;is* one who casts protecting charms over out going warriors and lays spells on enemies, she is the shaper of the life preserving olla, the maker of the sacred haircorn. she is the lady of the feast, sharing the portions and keep ing alive the distributive tabus by which the rights of the weak are pro tected; she is the blood carrier and the facemark bearer of the clan; and at death she is buried with ceremony and mourned long and loud as a link in the tribal lineage, while her war rior spouse rots where he falls. Noah'* Ark Not the First Ship. Noah s ark is generally supposed to be the earliest ship of which we have records, but there exists paintings of Egyptian vessels immensely older than the date 2840 B. C., usually assigned to the ark, being, indeed, probably be tween 70 and 80 centuries old. More over, there are now in existence, in Egypt, boats which were built about the period the ark was constructed. These are, however, small craft, about 32 feet long, seven feet or eight feet wide and two and a half feet to three feet deep. They were discovered six years ago by the eminent French Egyptologist, M. J. De Morgan, in brick vaults near Cairo. Arsenic Enters |; Austrian Peasants Use It > So Freely It Preserves '! Their Dead Bodies Immense quantities of arsenic are consumed by the peasants of Styria and the Tyrol. An Austrian doctor who examined into this matter found that arsenic was kept in most of the houses in upper Styria under the name of “hydrach," evidently a corruption of “huttenraucb,” or furnace smoke. Ar senic is principally eaten by hunters and woodcutters, with the object of warding off fatigue and improving their staying powers. Owing to the fact that the sale of arsenic is illegal in Austria without a doctor's certificate it is difficult to obtain definite informa tion of a habit which is kept as secret as possible. According to a Dr. Lo renzo, in that district the arsenic is taken fasting, usually in a cup of cof fee, the first dose being minute, but increased day by day, until it some times amounts to the enormous dose of 12 or 15 grains. He found that the arsenic eaters were usually long-lived, though liable to sudden death. They have a very fresh, youthful appearance and are seldom attacked by infectious diseases. After the first dose the usual symp toms of slight arsenic poisoning are evident, but these soon disappear on continuing the treatment. In the arsenic factories in Salzberg it is stated that workingmen who are not arsenic eaters soon succumb to the fumes. The manager of one of these works says that he had been medically advised to eat arsenic before taking up h s position. He considered that no one should begin the practice before 12 years old nor after 30, and that in any case after 50 years of age the daily dose should be gradually reduced,since otherwise sudden death would ensue, If a confirmed arsenic eater suddenly attempts to do altogether without the drug he immediately succumbs to the effects of arsenic poisoning. The only way to obviate this is gradually to ac climatize the system by reducing the dose from day to day. As another evi dence of the cumulative properties of arsenic it is interesting to note that when the graveyards in upper Styria are opened the bodies of the nrsenie eaters can be distinguished by their al most perfect state of preservation, due to the gradually accumulated arsenic. .AN INCREASING PENSION USE. The pension list is larger by 2,000 names than it was a year ago in spite of the death losses, and the appropria tion of $145,000,000 for pension pay ments during the year will fall short of the amount needed to meet all de mands by at least $150,000, says Iss ue's Weekly. But the most significant thing is that 43,874 claims have been filed at the department on account of the war with Spain. These figures seem almost incredible when it is re membered that the war actually lasted only thirty days, and that the number of men engaged in hostile action on land and sea was only a few thou sands. It does not follow, of course, that all the claims filed will be grant ed, and probably a large proportion of them will fail for good and sufficient reasons. During the eleven months j ending June 30, 2,369 pensions were granted to invalids coming out of the : war, and to 1,156 Spanish war widows and orphans. But the enormous num ber of claims filed show an Inclination on the part of the persons who served their country in that war period not altogether pleasing to contemplate. It looks very much as though patriotism was not an Inspiring motive in many cases so much as a desire to get a chance for a steady pull at the cash drawer of Uncle Sam. I*oor Man** Frlen«f. The pipe is the poor man's friend, and it is low' down and contemptible for fellows in comfortable circumstan ces to make piay of it. Puffing at a pipe is neither a fashionable nor an agreeable diversion. Cynics, hypo chondriacs, disappointees, cranks, pes simists and lunatics smoke pipes be cause they like to be stared at. Phil osophers past the age of 50 smoke pipes because their contents are seda tive. But take them all-in-all pipes are filthy nuisances. You can easily detect a pipe smoker by the skin of his teeth, green-brown with nicotine lodged there, and by his personal smell to heaven. But. after all. what is more calculated to amuse than a good old Irishman with his dudeen? Let me quote: "It is not the descend ants of the Mayflower, in short, who are the representative Americans of the present day; it is the Slicks and the Pats, the Hanses and the Wil helms, redolent still of the dudeen and the souerkraut barrel.” Great Scott!_ New York Press. TIi* Silk Has Issue. The municipal council of the little French town of Courteuil is discussing an ordinance forbidding the wearing of tall silk hats within its borders. The • stovepipe” is condemned in the argument of the advocates of the ordi nance as a "ridiculous headgear which by reason of its costliness constitutes a badge of social superiority, and !«, therefore, humiliating to those who never wear it. The tall hat, reformers declare, "is used only by artisocrats who live and grow fat on the sweat of the poor.” A Ontnrj'i Growth Illustrated. 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