WHITE* MONTHS. Beloved ono, did you sometimes think flitting your cheerful hearth beside. While boisterous winds through every chink Of door mid casement moaned and sighed— Thai, ufi.cr autumn's days are done, floJi-c foolish birds -poor reckless tilings!— May tti he through storms lo reach the sun, 1lot spread too Into their fragile wings? Ala: ! la. . many, dear, must die, Of t h< “ sad, shivering emigrants! At thought of it tears cloud you eye; l,g shall we miss their joyous chants. Tonight you love me; and you say That their return with spring is sure. But not those birds who flew today? And you—aid will your love endure? —Florence Henniker in Temple Bar. A STRANGE TONGUE. Professor Jonathan Dominic Adams Wats a very great scholar. As everybody knew who know anything, he was con sidered the authority on the Greek poets and everything appertaining to the Greek language, both ancient and modern. Greek was his bobby, his pleasure, the dream of bis life, the alpha and omega of his every day’s ex istence, and to any ono who would or ooubl not converse on his favorite topic the professor was most decidedly a bore. Dr. Adams was sufficiently a man of the world to know that he owed his be ing in a very great measure to a woman. He was aware also that besides the hero ines who lived in his hooks there were women who moved in the outer world. But beyond this knowledge he knew nothing of the weaker sex, to whom Greek, in most cases, was but a word and nothing more. Therefore it was with the greatest consternation that one sum mer evening, as he was strolling home ward across the Green park, he caught hims_lf thinking, not of his favorite and only topic, but of a woman, and that woman a very sweet and pretty creature of twenty-five. ur. Adams tneu ms Hardest to bring .his thoughts into their usual and to him proper channel, but to no avail. To his horror he found that he had even forgot ten some lines of Ilomer, but that he could not forget a pair of bright blue eyes and the smile of rosy lips. To the credit cf the profession it must be said that he gave up the struggle and for the remainder of the evening dreamed of Miss Julia Drewry, while Homer for the time being was dethroned. Now while Professor Jonathan Adams was dreaming of Miss Julia Drewry, Miss Julia Drewry was dreaming of Professor Jonathan Adams, thinking of him and the study of Greek literature. For she also was a great scholar, hav ing left Girton with all the honors that it was possible for the fair student to take away with her. But, although she knew everything that there was to he known about divinity, classics, mathe matics, natural science, moral science, history, German. Anglo-Saxons etc., her favorite subject was Greek. Somewhat to her father’s dismay he perceived that his daughter ignored the natural pleasures of youth, while she pestered him from morning till night with dissertations on this dead language. Learned man as he was himself, and an old college friend of Dr. Adams, he would have preferred Julia to take more interest in her surroundings and mix freely with her fellow creatures, instead of spoiling her pretty eyes with continu ous study. But no; Miss Julia turned up her little nose at the girls she met, and at the young men, too, for up to the present she had not found one with whom she could talk upon the subjects which engrossed her mind. • Her father had one slight consolation, and that was that the girl, with all her faults, took an interest in her personal appearance, dressing well, if in the Greek style. Whether she wore blue stockings he never inquired, and of course we cannot; besides, it has noth ing whatever to do with the story. It so happened that cne day, while tak ing his morning constitutional, Mr. Drewry stumbled across Dr. Adams; or, to put it more correctly. Dr. Adams stumbled over Mr. Drewry. The worthy professor, instead of looking where he was going, was walking along with Ms eyes fixed on the ground in a brown study. Bless my heart! exclaimed Drewry; “why, it's Adams. How are you—how are you? What an age it is since we have met!” “It must be ten years—teu long years; and yet it seems only yesterday." replied Adams. “Long enough for many changes. My poor wife has been dead these ten years: but. thank God, I have a daughter to look after me. You saw her when she was fifteen. And yon. are you married?" “No, indeed,” said the professor: “I am but wedded to my work.” “All. yes: I have seen your name men tioned now and again in connection with your Greek studies. But don't let us stand here talking: come home with me'. Julia has often expressed a wish to see yon again. She has questions to ask you and some theories to propound, for she also is Greek—very much so.” The two friends walked home to Mr. Drewry's humble but neat little cottage in Fnlliam, and from that moment— and I tell it with sorrow—Mr. Drewry had, to put it vulgarly, to take a back seat. The professor found Julia charm ing, and Julia considered the professor delightful, while poor Mr. Drewry had to listen to endless arguments upon the eternal Greek. At first he endeavored to divert bis guest and draw him out about old college days, but five minutes after Dr. Adams would turn to the daughter and take up the conversation at the pohit where lie had been inter rupted. The next day the professor called again, and also on the next and so on and 60 on until he was regarded in the light of a ts^ne cat. Mr. Drewry took to his newspapers and his books, leaving his guest for hours with his daughter. And what were the consequences? Why, that Professor Ad^jns after six woc*9 found his eyes wandering to the fair Julia's face instead of keeping them upon the books the two were studying together. And Miss Drewry would think to herself as she waited for the professor’s diurnal visit that she had at last met a man whom she would be hap py to marry, despite the fact he was on the wrong side of forty and had a very bald head. Matters had come to this set-ions point on the day Dr. Adams walked across the Green park, and when the image of the girl totally obliterated the image of Homer. That night the professor, as has already bean told, gave himself up to dreaming about Miss Julia, and the fol lowing afternoon he put two questions to her. The first was whether she would he willing to help him with a work he pro posed to bring out in twenty volumes— namely, the “Lives of the Greek Poets." with criticisms on their poems, the whole to be written in Greek. To this proposi tion Julia readily consented. The second question was that ns the undertaking would be a work of years, and they would have to be continually together, would she object to becoming his wife to facilitate the plan. To this Miss Drewry, after a proper amount of womanly indecision, also consented. Mr. Drewry at first somewhat natu rally objected to the marriage, but he was very soon overruled, and in two months the wedding took place. Al though autumn was united to summer the combination turned out a bright and happy one. The professor came to live at the cottage in Fulham, Mr. Drewry remaining with his daughter, and a more peaceful and contented trio never ex isted. The “Lives of the Greek Poets" went on flourishingly. The first volume ap peared and was received with great fa vor by the critics. But when the second volume was but half written a sudden interruption took place. It was a very natural one and one to be wished for—a young Master Adams made his appear ance upon the scene, of course to the overthrow of his mother’s work. “For the time being only. 1 trust," the professor would say to himself as he laid dowoi his pen to act the part of errand boy, for he was continually being de sired to run for either the baby’s bottle, or limewater, or such like infantile req uisites. Then he wras asked to step up stairs and see his son smile for the first time, and now and again was even re quired to hold him. uui cixitrx ci xcw wucjvs ut iuis uu»t* customed occupation Dr. Adams be came impatient for his wife to return to the study and help him to carry on the work they had commenced together. So after hinting many times that he wished for her assistance, which hinting she seemed to ignore, he decided one morn ing to ask her point plank to give the baby in charge of the nurse and devote a few hours to the “Lives of the Greek Poets.” With this intention he went up stairs to his wife's room, and as the door was open he heard her addressing somebody or something in a very peculiar and to him entirely new language. He paused on the landing and listened. If he had had any hair on the top of his head it would have stood on end. Could this be his classical Julia speaking this extraor dinary jargon? This is part of what he heard: “Didums then love his icle barthy warthy? The darding icle boysey-woyseyl Agoo! Agoo! Didums try and bite the spongey-wongey? Naughty icle sing! Naughty icle sing to make his back as stiff as a poker." Dr. Adams peeped through the open ing of the door and beheld his wife washing the baby. He continued to listen. “Agoo! Agoo! Didums want to cry den when he’s taken out of de nicey warm water. There, then, does him want to kick, kicky-wicky. kicky-wicky—nurse, where is the powder? Ah! thank you— was him being basted, then, like a icle chicken? Oh, I could eat him up. my pretty petty-wetty! I lub him so! Ah, poor, poor icle wee t’ing! Didums have the hiccoughs? Naughty, naughty hic coughs! Shall mummy beat the horrid, nasty hiccoughs then—nurse, pass me the sugar, please. Perhaps that will do the little darling good. No sugar up here? Just ask Dr. Adams to fetch the sugar basin from the dining room cupboard.” Professor Adams beat a precipitate re treat, and on gaining the hall seized his hat and went out for a long walk. With his hands thrust deep into his pockets, and his hat placed over his eyes he gave himself up to very deep thought. But he thought not of the Greek language, but of the new tongue he had just heard. At first his face was very stern, but it gradually and gradually relaxed until it beamed forth into a very pleas ant and sweet smile. "An, wnat a tool l nave been: ne ex claimed. "What a pretty picture it was to see her bending over my baby boy. and speaking a language to him that he only could understand! Greek in future shall be for me. Baby in future shall be for Julia, with just a little bit of him for me also. Women can be and are very great, but what a little thing will upset their greatness and make them what they ought to be—sweeter and—and— well—why, women!” The "Lives of the Greek Poets” came out, but at longer intervals than was at first intended, for Dr. Adams did all the work himself. His wife was always ready to listen to the MS. when he read it aloud to her, and the professor was glad to get any advice that she might be able and willing to give. Mrs. Adams in future attended to the comforts of her husband, her baby and her father, and was also glad to get any advice they were willing and able to give. Mr. Drewry was more happy than he had been for many a long day, for he could now get his daughter and son-in law to talk on subjects other than Greek. But if he was ever at a loss for compan ionship, he could always resort to the new language, in which he was very proficient, and converse by the hour with his grandson to their mutual benefit and pleasure.—Edric Vredenburg in Wit and Wisdom. WHALEBONE IN PILES' A MILLION DOLLARS’ WORTH STORED IN ONE BUILDING, flow tlie I’reclouH Stuff In Guarded—Grc&t Care Is Necessary In tlie Handling of the Product—Whalebone Is Very Valuable Nowadays. In a little brick and stone structure on tlie Potrero shore of the bay there is a million dollars' worth of whalebone stored, and it is guarded as jealously as if it were so many twenty dollar gold pieces or its weight in precious stones. It is the property of the Pacific Steam Whaling company and came off the whaling barks Beluga. Mary D. Hume. Agenor and America, in from the arctic. The building is a perfect vault until brick and stone sides, iron roof and iron doors. All around the top runs a per forated pipe by means of which the whole interior could be flooded if a fire should by any possibility break cut. Rats are thick on the water. front and can do a great deal of damage to a cargo of whalebone, so small iron doors have been put in to answer as barricades when the big ones are opened to air the place. Oilskins such as the fire patrol use are spread over the cargo as the final ad ditional precaution that human ingenuity can suggest. The uninitiated on first stepping into the cold, cheerless place, with its damp cement floor, are apt to wonder why it has all been done. The long black stalks don’t look like much piled against the walls, and to hear their immense value set forth is enough to take the breath away. But the place does not always contain a $1,000,000 stock. The season was a most profitable one and in conse quence the warehouse is nearly full. “Tlie lady purchasing a few sticks of whalebone on her shopping tour scarcely realizes the immense risk and the great amount of labor necessary to place it on the counter," said W. R. Wand, one of the represensatives of the whaling com pany. “There is a big risk even here. We can take no chances. In the rough, after a simple polishing, the bone is worth five dollars a pound, and we have at least 200,000 pounds on hand now. When the vessel docks at the wharf yon der we pitch in and work day and night until the cargo is housed here, and then we try to get it off on the railroad as soon as possible. While it is here this little structure is guarded day and night. A million dollars is something of a re sponsibility, I can assure you." “Where does most of the bone go?' was asked. a great ueai or it goes toi\e\v lorn, replied Mr. Wand, “but most of the cut ting is done in Paris and at Bremen. A little is done in London. We polish it off here, get the color, assort it out and put it up in l(*:uales. Then it is forced through to its destination as rapidly as possible. Yen see, the bone with a light or pearl shade is worth more than the black and we have to separate it.” Several of the bundles bore the mark M. D. H. in a diamond. “That,” said Mr. Wand, “is the name of the vessel from which the bone was taken, in this instance the Mary D. Hume, a vessel which brought the most valuable cargo ever received from the arctic seas. One or two of these bundles are marked ‘cut,’ you observe. That is to guide the buyer when the bone is offered for sale. It sig nifies that the bone is nicked on some portion of it. The value is greatly re duced, and we must therefore handle the cargo like eggs. If roughly handled a cargo of whalebone can be well nigh ruined. The slightest cut in a stalk brings it down in value about one-half. “The hone you know is the teeth of the whale, and a fair sized front molar is worth about fifty dollars. In every whale’s jaw there are 473 teeth, and one good sized head is worth a good deal of money. On the last trip the men on the Jessie D. Freeman brought one big fellow alongside, the head of which pro duced 3,000 pounds of bone. The mouth of the whale is simply a huge suction pump. The monster travels along with his mouth wide open on the surface. The only food he will take is a little red bit of animal life that floats on the northern seas. He sucks in enough to make a good mouthful, and then ejects the water. The food is sifted down through the soft teeth, and is filtered like a lot of sawdust would be in a sieve. “This black hair that fringes the bone has a separate value. It is cut from the teeth and is used for making fine furni ture. It has become so valuable, how ever, that it cannot be used to any great extent.” “When do you expect to shiptliis cargo off?” “As soon as ever Providence will let us. It is something extraordinary for us to have such an enormously valuable load here, and we won’t hold it a day longer than necessary, I can assure you!” “Ever troubled by thieves?” “No,” was the laughing response. “The bone is a trifle too heavy to run away with and the place is too well guarded. Fire is the greatest danger, and you can see how that has been guarded against.” Out in the bay six of the most unsightly ships that ever huddled together in port were tossing. 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