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I THE GOLDEN EGG. § ^ By M«riU» Voung. S

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HE eulUcn bell* of the yellow

uterine

rrr ,1E *

I S“

Dar.

.aiuiue were

Darey’a tarOeu to the vIMobc

utrel-t Never a kiUinc froat can ateal

r these Jragrant bell* *

• sprlnp. Three little stria were walklcs alone the village They were deeply Interested li

Josle

a aftrt Ins In

e walklni

They t

rer*atk_.

"Don't let'* ask her." raid

■ Fournier.

"She's In all our classes;' sentry arsed Be** Browning. "But would she enjoy It?" asked .uey Vale; "you know she has lo dress a plain, and what could she bring

to -bold

sued Bess.

Yes. yes;" expectantly. it might be Hill'd with the money we’ve saved for our party "Oh. oh. oh. oh." cried Jo*lc and Lucy In a breath.

."Nobody cai

Easier Day!"

Wbll* the bell* were ringing for the last service* that Easter Day Madge lay among her pillows trying to look brave and cheerful In spite of present

the prospect of lamenesa be-

to help o

"ft Is K and m

"Yes

>ur party?” o have had

a mueh once

s sad to to have

'Ye*. *o- long as her father lived *be

denied nothing, but now It is all

Miss Trotty can do to keep them both

allvti, and Madge at school,

piled, aympathlringly. "She leads our grade: It

aery- queer to leave out our leading IVpll and our good friend." said Bess, •it is mostly on her own account

hesitate." began Josle.

ol." Lucy ret scorns to n

that How by >1

the tramping <

Men '

ircy’s garden, there came a

■mind of rattling, rusliing wheels and

of frightened

ie relm g the i

wheel

nlng after

i* loo

tddened

for there In

; of-, the horses

' frlgh

> callln^ and

e frightened span, the

id flying were lashing the ma< horses. The three girls huddled closely as they could against tl

~ >elr eyes fillet

in the track

sat little black Uyp. The little lame colored boy sat among his heap of mud cakes, unable from fright to more. Miss Trotty ran to her door and wrung her hands and cried to somebody to

save the cblld.

- Old Kim. Miss Trotty's faithful serv-

ran but with a scream as be!

anguished as those her

grandchild uttered. Suddenly there was a flash of a child's skirt*, a glitter of flattering curl*, a brave young voice

calling: “I’m comingT’

It wa* the work of a moment. The horses had rushed by. Gyp lay Just outside their track, where the eager young hands J>:fd pushed him. Miss Trotty wasfleanlng over the little heap of dusty dress and golden curls that lay In the street. Old Kim was waiting in deeper anguish than liefore. her loved master's child. ‘ her « ’Vhlte folks' baby-chile.” lay nnconscious before her. Three little girls

Some f

ant. r

and

Mjtea r llttl

had seen the brave deed. Some hoars

H of the i

under the Jessamine

later. aftert

in the sweet dusk i

moon three little girls a

that

Ue spring ain stood overhui liclr fae

Miss Darcy.'s fence, with

wet with tear*.

pw could we have been so mean ) think of not having her j

1 Josle y

“How

as to tfc

rty.” i

"And on Easter Eve. too.” said Ben*.

The Eastei

Hand was gatl

We*t entrance, of the cliur

ster 111!

dor along tb« altar-rail, their perfume

ig the church, atbered at the

from their cliall The Mission Bat

lies stood in pale splen-

lr peril

lice* filling the church.

rr^lng^tli

n.^ whispered Bess to her

friends, as

two dearest IHtle proc

over with mother—that late. It's abont Madge."

There three

most Ti

been (iractlclng

months that they might htlve a a Easter Monday. They were

-ho joined the vak talking It : has kept ipe

"

icrc three girls, who bad given' t freely to the offering, had really i firactlclng selPdcnlnl for three

tbs that they t

party on Easter M.

going to dub together and have something "real swell." thpy had declared. It was when -.bey Were outside tl church again, tall staves of lilies their baud*, and crowns of lilies « their heads, that Bess told her {dan.

|jii i =^spr

1 os tD.**

“As I told you last evening. Trotty says the doctors all agree unless Madge goes at oaee to a specialist In a city sbe will be lame for Ilf* " “How will Miss Trotty ever get Madge to the dtyr Josle questioned “If someone conld give them tl mooey " ■“But they have so modi pride." «

* In some

“Oh. Bcse. I. see: that is your ptaa.'

ti, j^e* here." said Bess.

“It Is as light as a feather. See— ■ttlng it roll gently across her hand.

t Is hollow," pur-

palu and t fore her.

t take yon to the city." her

it was saying; "I nm going to try to put a mortgage on the home to-mdk-

w and so get money "

“Oh. aunty, you mustn't." sight Madge: "we could never pay It off. and It Is better for mo to have n 11 file hitch In my walk than for all of us to be out of house and home, don’t you say so. Mammy Kim?", asked the sick girl.

wipe her

eyes on her apron and go to. the door where three little girls were timidly

rylng to get up a

But old Kim could only wlj

>n be : thn

mocking. “We have brought you an Easter -gg." said Bess. "How pretty." cried Madge, looking it the egg that Bess still held charily.

EASTER REMEMBRANCES.

MovslUM Which '

E

rut Thrill t ArouM All.

the Uttl*

Bnovi

and candles are to be found.- They arc s delight to

toys fous

ASTEUnovelUca abound where

* are i a del

the children and a plea

those with more years to their credit, since they arc either pretty or amusing. In many cases they arc beautiful. There «. for Instance, a Ferris Wheel, with the cars fall of candy and the rest of the thing daintily outlined In rose quillings of pink chiffon. It costs $15 without the candy. These receptacles are rarely flUod. since tta «Sf-

chaser prefers to pick out his or her irtlcular sort of sweetness, and

have It fresh.

Those of- ns with sporty proclivities

are falling in love with a giddy ar-

icnt which shows Mrs. Blddl

leer, a

also to*I

with eggs—candy egg*—because there

ranger riding

'on the back of CbantlcU

German sport is seen riding a rabbit He baa a cane and a cigar, and the most comic waggle to bit feet

Here 1

lard dr

gladden you teen cents. A

t $1.25 this Sedan chair. InckL Is rated. No doubt

the bride-to-be Is a real dock.' Ducks

are plentiful.

Frogs and

1 to rut n rndcr

tigers

fancy they were all with Easter messages.

PHENOMENA IN NATURE.

SOME EFFECTS IN MECHANICS DUE ) CAUSES AS YET UNKNOWN.

Nawtea** Law* of Motiaa Mar Ba I'psat. Whlla Mucb That Paaaaa far Klarnal Truth I* L'adar suiplcion — Cau» of Uravltr Bayoud Human «oacaptlon. Recently we have discussed In these columns recondite problems of physical science. To say that these things ore beyond the purview of engineer* Is to limit the scope of the profession. The business of the engineer is to utllIre what has been termed, popui;

s of nat

ely. I

for the benefit of physicist the woi discovery of new

mankind. To the

slclst the world Is indebted for tbe :overy of new phenomena and novel relations existing between old and new

natural ;

aptlo

la Impossible, however, to draw a narrow line and say that the province of the engineer lies on one side and the territory of the man of pure science on the other. Thus the discovery of the phenomena of electrical Induction was mainly the work of Farada’

Hons and Interactions.

deratood that what we term magnetic attraction can be expressed In terms of lines of force; and. what If of all things Important, that attraction lx ' due not to anything done by the magnet per se. but to some external form of energy which Is localized and directed by the magnet. But what this form of energy Is, or how the magnet works. ut> one. as we have said, knows. —London Engineer. MAINE'S KING CUMPICKER.

Lonrir l (iootl lot

Ezra Hobar. the V

gle Brook, and w this spring he w

mber lum

Supontlth There arc the egg. in

dren are ta crush the she]

twins Kggs.

many superstitions abont Scotland and Ireland cbfi-

icn he conies to town will have bags and bags

imps tc swap for :he dol-

lars of tbe druggists, who always pay the highest prices for the best gum. The life of a gumpicker, without doubt. Is the most lonely that a man can lead. The man go Into tbe woods In October, and they make a study of

th. They have an odd outing generally of several

polles and knives, a pair or two of

lay; but snowshoes. a small dog. a couple of

which I blanket*, and a pair of "climbers."

utilize that discovery. Is the dally work Tbey aro nkc those used by telegraph

of the engineer. Reasoning In this | linemen.

way. It easily becomes obvious that j Thc gumpicker* travel alone, and the engineer Is really deeply Interested nave secrets, like gold hunter*. They I In the whole course of modern scientific j follow the wake of the old whirlwinds j research; and speculations as to the ; that hav ,. i cft | onK furrows In the wllconstitution of matter and thc nature j o crnt . aa . an d as long .as they can track

] of energy are by no means to be re- | ji, e course by the gum that Torn of necessity a li* tractions. | trees wounded the previous a no real value sufficient to j t i, e y follow it along. Sometimes a worth studying. No one j hunter finds that his pathway m day to day whether or j has been Intercepted by another hun-

not some extremely valu«

studying.

can tell from day to day whether not some extremely valuable dlScove: will be made. There is reason. Indoc

to believe that co-relations of phonon- j sorted

c bit

uce the telcgrai spicuously clun or bring down _ hting to a ten'

lug price. i first si

r plan of camsiaign must be re-

i may at any moment be

Ich will lighting

Win

There arc many

reduce thc telegraph to thc ] the woods to

aaplcuously clu

#of apparatus, or brlni

of electric !i|

legrapi

level of a conspicuously clumsy piece j ro ads at $20 a month who work t

' ig do'

it spoke: y would >

urasj lown

a tenth of Its Hertzian waves ;

of ho one dreamed

is fb transmit

TL!

ti long d is of «

; viaiblc means c

The telephone was built up i

mllkely

ilikely r serted t

epnu

way they greatly Inc ings. although they

icrease their earn

■arly se

successful ax the professional digger

,dc h!i

and has i

Iron plate talk.to an audience by the aid of three French nails, a small battery. and a few cylinders, would have. .. been regarded as a lunatic not so very

long ago.

Of late those who have watched the signs of the times will hare noticed that a change Is coming over the Ifcde of thought of the more advanced seeks after physical truth. Possibly not any of our reader* have carefully folwed Dr. Larmor's address to Section A of the British association, which we have placed on record In our columns. Possibly fewer of those who have read It have understood It. Dr. Lannor has evidently failed to make thc English language express clearly what he wanted to say. nor are we surprised.

fall us to express our Lannor has. In cecded In telling us

i formi

merly i rork of

flings." But events, sucthat much that

as the

iptcd as the very

groundwork of physical science must he abondoned as untenable. He hints, indeed, that Newton's laws ef motion > longer satisfactory expositions of well known truths. He seems dlsposed to abandon thc Idea that force Is the cause of motion; a statement which we have often pointed out Is wholly Inconsistent with Newton's third law. Ions take thf place of atoms, .from which they seem to differ only In'bclng infinitely more numerous. Kelvin's theory of vortices, with a dlfice is favored, and we have again

which so need years

ago by the late Walter Browne, to say

--. _ ... that to the,

events the

"How very pretty," said Miss Trotty. "Do ait down and talk to Madge to try to cheer her np a blt-V "Wje hum hurry to church." said’ Lucy. “Yes." saidJEckj. “the bell is ringiik now." She plated the egg on tl» whlteXfoverild. “It la bcantlfal!" cried Madge, reaching to take tbe gift Into her band. But the girls had already reached the door, for they knew that the thin shell would not long hold Its golden secret. “Oh. aunty, what a pity!" cried Madge, for the egg had cracked even as Ac touched It “Why—aunty—what la this?" she exclaimed, for the yellow coins had rolled from tbe broken shell. "Gracious me!" cried Mias Trotty. “whatever have those girls done!" Then the good lady fell tb laughing and sobbing at the same time. "Oh. you needn't be lame now, my dear child." she kept saying. “I knew their good hearts, but I never conld have thought of this." sobbed Madge. Mttle Gyp crept abont the floor Picking np tbe coins that had fallen there, while old Kim, peering over the broken egg and its golden treasure, declared: "Dat'# de richest yellow of a egg I ever seedr-Detrolt Free Proa*.

please us more. Some -whisper that this fine cock Is hcn-peck*d< and all will admit that the “lady In the cane Is for feminine rights, else she'd stay borne and tidy up.” There's $15 to pay. But if you've only ten cents to invest here's a nice, quiet cblckablddle on her nest. It takes very few of the

tiny candy eggs to fill her neat A f satire chicken In an Easter bonnet may be had for Are cent* A charming big broken egg la a drawn by a whole rabbit family, th* baby being aBewcd to ditvs this tandem (If two makas a tandsen why not throe a tandem B And all ter $2. Then -wro's a rabbit hwaklng farth from an egg. Hla bead aroma <df ta show th. rocsftrole am «■*. rod an* «ro

to push the epoon through the bottom in the form of a cross, showing a lingering relic of the once general superstitious belief that witches lived In egg-shells and made boat* of them, casting spells npoir thc household. - In Italy It wga believed that an egg laid by a white nen In a new n>st on Easter day would cure pains in tbe head or stomach; that, broken hi a vineyard. It wonld prevent Ita suffering from hall or similarly wonld save a field from frost, and Its possession gave one the power to see witches. It was also believed that an egg laid on Good Friday, thrown on the fire,“wonld extinguish It. while th* devil would be killed If .shot with an egg laid on Cbrtstma^—Belf-Cnltnre Magazine.

day.*

as New Saar’s with

carries abont a generous supply of hard-boiled eggs. These, with Kastar greetings, arc exchanged with every friend he meets. Ladles who receive

have plat tors of handsomely

a to give away, and a kirn rs be claimed with the egg.

painted can al-

ferent

a fheory of force centres, which doeely resembles that advanced yean

ago by the late Walter Browne, nothing of Bishop BerkeMy.

at all

the most notable feature of the whole discourse Is Dr. Larqior's tendency to adandon the pursuits of knowledge in certain directions. It will be better. he said In effect, to content ourselves with a statement of the chain of events so far as we can see the links, without attempting to discover the of the chain. We can study the

Is ft

ends

effects of gravity, but It Is forever imilble for the human mind to con-

possib

! any adequate cause. We may uathematical theories about the

frame mi

ether, but tbe human mind Is Incapable of forming a concept of a substance which will comply with the conditions. In' whatever direction we turn, we are stopped by the presence of the unknown. Dr. I-armor will have it. as we understand him, that much of the unknown Is unknowable. It.isT>osslble that* we overeetlmate Dr. Larmor's pessimism: we trust that we do. Amqng the matters to which he directed attention was attraction. Us phenomena are common and obvious, even apart from gravity, but they appear to be absolutely Inexplicable. We speak of a torque of a motor; or a dynamo. and it is part of the work of the electrician and . the engineer to calculate Its amount under stated conditions; hot no one on earth has the smallest notion of why torque exists at,all In the combination of Iron..copper, cotton and shellac.' Tbe magnet gives os a puzzle as recondite as any In the univane. In old times, when men did not use vary accurate language. It was said that a lodeatone on a permanent magnet “attracted - Iron. No one thought of saying that the Iron attracted tbs magnet to procisely the same extent. As to th* na-

of the links

tura of th* links . the two. no oo* *

i at a (

*11 "Ac-

that

th# first a to aay « that ao a>

s able to Influence thought mTto U?kta4 e^M*Uto « sroae bridge to roaa vaI*«mw It began ta ha «*-

prof

The veretan gum hunter

a life study

can go up a t

It bare of gum. from stump to top

he geitlnr

occupation i

duced the work to a science.

tree like a cat. and skip

gum. 1

while the logger would

ready to climb. The lumberman pen

mds of i

ly ti

-orally gets 20 to 30 pounds of gum In a- winter, and sells It at from $u to $1.25 r. pound, according tc

ofesslonal om $3 to 2

strikes a really good gum country When he get* Into a good place he keeps very quiet about it until he has

gathered thc last lump in sight, makes from $400 to $800 in a s and he earns every cent i

hard, lonely work.—New York Times.

of It by

OUAINT AND CURIOUS,

The leading log North Mb

the

'man In a thrlv-

Itssouri town anrwera to name of Henry Coop.

from the Alps into the valley of Lombardy. the whole force was well nigh routed by a plague of mosquitos, which drove men and* animals almost wild with pain.

"I bought feme apples from a Chinaman yesterday, giving him an American dollar.” writes a Kansas soldier boy from which he g

from Pekin, “and in thc change b he gave me back was an American half dollar of the date of 1813. I have been offered $10 for it.” An Esquimau*babv i* born fair except for a dark round spot cn i small cr the back, varying In size from a three penny bit to a shili:- . From this centt% head of color the dark tint gradually spreads till the toddling Esquimau is as beautiiti! 1 '- and as completely and as highly colored as a well smoked meersebaun

out of the ruins of Ostia, the seaport of ancient Rome. Tbe bank .was an earthen pot containing 145 silver coins Issued by Roman emperors between tbe year* 200 and 19 B. C. The little savings bank was almost perfect when It wa* uncovered. It it three inchp* long and two and cne-ha!f -Inches wide, with a slit in the ; through which the money * Captain Baron Holzing of Baden Dragoons recently csv.rid a distance of 15 kilometres In the space of 25 minutes, riding against a re'tway train running from Graben to the neighborhood of Carlsruhe. He arrived eight minutes before the train. His horse had been especially trained for the ride, baring been fed on a particular sort of cake^ instead of oats, for weeks past. The ride was accomplished without extraordinary exertion. and the horse was still fit for mpre work at the finish.

utilized for soft flowing gowns. Wood pulp tllk has long been a staple Indus- \ try In SL Etienne, district of .France. By certain secret chemical processes the pulp Is reduced to a soapy condi-

tion. It Is th of Uuy hoi emerge* la t

threads. These are speedily dried by being passed through hot atmosphere, and arc forthwith wound oa bobbins ready to be woven into silk. The a

■he apI* p-m

to be *o aatmral that even expert* am mistaken and think Ik ths genuine »r-

A century ops th* p

*ro a row Isod TO