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_ PtUCY H. VAN DYKE, Publijhsr in* EJit«r.
RHEWPORt - ARKANSAS
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LACE-MITTED GRANDMAS.
Can't you shut your eyes and see them—
Dear old* souls of long ago?
Sweet grandmothers, as we knew them
When life’s tide was at Its flow;
Good! old mothers of the present—
Blese them, every one, 1 say.
With their tender, time-seared faces*
And their hilr bestrewn with gray;
But if I could go back thirty—forty years
ago and see
Bear, old black-lace-mitted grandmas It
would* be a treat to me!
Bim old eyee and brass-bowed: glasses.
Sunken cheek.- and. parchment skin.
Big, two-handded; black work basket
That they took their ‘‘knlttin' ” In—
“Broakfasst shawl1!" put on "three-cor
nered;"
"Slat” sunbonnet, and a pair
Of old-fashioned black luce "half-hands"
Leaving gnardi’.ed old fingers bare—
Ah, if I could* go back, thirty—forty years
ago and see
Bear, old black-lace-mltted grandmas It
would be a boon to me!
Knuckles big and' brown and—ugly?
Godl forbid that 1 should say,
Hands deformed by tasks o.t beauty—
Hands that laid theilr d‘<-ad away,
Though they craved more years of serv
ice—
Godl forbid1 that these should be
Aught but beauty's very essence.
Soul of sacredness to me!
O, if I couldl only go back thirty years or
bo. 1 know
I'd seek first the lace-milt grandmas of the
* dtear, dead long ago!
Crude, unlettered, bent with tolling.
Blunt, unskilled' In tricks of speech—
Yet as good- as gold of Ophlr,
, Fit forevermore to teach
their daughters- by example,
What the mother-heart should know
inspirations to devotion.
Dear oldisouls of long ago!
Let me take the whole work! with me on
my backward! trip to- see
Blessed, black-lace-mltted grandmas that
are »tll.l so dear to me!
—Lob Angeles Herald.
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I A Woman’s
I Revenge >
THE stage coach from San Diego
to Fort Yuma stopped at Cas
tro's ranch to change horses and per
mit such passengers as dared take
the chances to eat of the Mexican’s
food or imbibe hia vile liquors. It
was simply a road house of the most
wretched type, with dirt and squalor
on every hand, and Castro had an
e»il reputation. It was whispered
that he bought quartermaster stores
stolen from the fort, harbored out
laws, and went upon raids with them.
He was a man of 50, misshapen »*i
body, with the face of a wolf, and
howr he could have won the hand of
the young and fair looking woman
who called him husband no one could
make out. Little wrus seen of her by
,n- - ynests, and Castro^j&h a man no
one liked tctHiattjfffon.
To the east of the ranch was the
road running down to the Arizona
line, and now and then, when the
road agents and cattle stealers be
came too bold, a patrol was sent out
from the fort to cover 20 miles of it.
It was while in charge of this pa
trol that young Lieut. Forbush first
met Castro’s wife. Castro was off on
one of his raids, and the woman in
charge of the place. Forbush was
hardly more than a boy, he had just
been assigned from West Point, and
knew nothing of the country or the
ways of its inhabitants. He made his
headquarters at Castro’s, ami there
were reasons why the young wife
smiled on him and bade him very
welcome.
Castro knew that he was suspected
by the military authorities, and it
was his plau to hoodwink them by
n great show of servility and friend
ship. He smiled in the faces of the
officers while he cursed them under
liTIt-bs^ath. He begged them to honor
him wirfi their presence, but would
have rather stuck a knife into their
backs. His wife smiled and flirted
with the boy officer and played love
airs to him on her guitar, while old
Fergt. Brix was growling and cursing
outside. The sergeant had served
for almost 20 years. lie knew the
dodges of the outlaws and the tricks
of the half-breeds. He saw and
heard enough to know that the wom
an with the big black eyes was
working some sort of a game for the
benefit of her husband, but it was not
until a freighter had been robbed
of his outfit and left for dead on
the road which the patrol should
have made safe that he summoned
up courage enough to cross the gulf
existing between man and officer.
When he did decide to talk, he de
cided to talk plainly:
“Lieut. Forbush, you may order me
tinder arrest and court-martial me
if you will,” he began, “but. I’m bound
to tell you that female is wanting
tc make a fool of you. She's work
ing under the orders of old Castro,
and his game is to keep us from do
ing our duty while his band of cut
throats are picking up plunder.”
“Sergeant, do you know what you
are saying!” sternly replied the offi
cer.
“I do, sir, and it may mean dis
grace for me, but I’ve got to speak
up. That woman is trying ta be
witch you for a purpose. We are not
currying out our orders, and it is all
owing to her devilment, if you’d
been out here a couple of years,you’d
know w’hat her smiles and music
mean to an honest soldier. It will
not be for me or any other man of
this patrol to say a word at the
fort, no matter what happens, but I’m
telling you as a man, that the aenora
•v will lead you to hell if you toiler
her.”
The young officer, with the mili
tary etiquette of West Point before
him, was furious at being so familiar
ly and rudely addressed by an infer
ior, and his vanity as a man had also
received a shock. He was engaged
to a girl in the east, and would marry
her as soon as he had won the bars
of a first lieutenant, but it pleased
and flattered him to think that a
woman out there beyond civilization
had been caught, by his face and fig
ure. He had not even stopped to re
flect that she was of another race
and already a wife. Not that he
meant anything serious should come
of it, but that it flattered the ego
tism every young man has a fair
share of.
If the words of the blunt old
sergeant angered the officer, they
also opened his eyes, and there was
less dallying and more riding. The
woman was quick to see that he had
been warned, and sjie exerted all her
influence as an offset. Indeed, she
overdid it. Curious as it may seem,
what she meant for a flirtation to
blind his eyes turned out to be a
ease of love on her part. She really
and truly fell in love with the young
officer, and suggested an elopement.
Pile would leave her husband—home
—all, and fly with him in any direc
tion. Then it was that he began to
realize the seriousness of affairs and
the value of the sergeant's advice.
He attempted by coolness of de
meanor and sensible arguments to
bring the woman back to reason, but
she was deaf to his words and blind
to all perils. There were those hang
ing about, the ranch who sent word
of the matter to old Castro, and
when the messenger reached him he
swore to be avenged.
The patrol had been detailed for a
month. The officer alone occupied
quarters in the adobe ranch house,
while the men had their tents out
side and not far away. Three weeks
passed. Castro’s wife had flirted,
fallen in love, and been scorned. That
is, young Forbusli had rejected the
idea of an elopement, and was no
longer playing with fire, while Castro
was on his way home to wreak re
venge on his foolish, if not faithless
wife. Thus matters stood one even
ing when the woman sat down in her
room with rage and jealousy gnawing
at her heart—the rage because she
had been scorned—jealousy because
the oflicer had admitted that he had
a sweetheart to whom he would be
faithful. She k*ew that her conduct
bad been open to censure, and that
word had gone to her husband, and
she would he held to account. She sat
in tlie darkness for an hour, brood
ing and planning; at last she rose,
passed into another room and took
i box from the cupboard. In the box
were four tarantulas, which had been
’aught and imprisoned to be shipped
away—the horrid, hairy spiders of
the west, whose bite means death.
With the box under her arm she
paused at the officer’s door and lis
tened to his deep breathing for a
time. Then she pushed the door open
and entered the room, walking over
the hard earthen floor with her bare
feet. The moonlight streamed in at
the window and showed her the man
sleeping heavily on his couch. She
crouched down beside him and lifted
<8£Lr
HE LEAPED BACK AND UTTERED A
SHRIEK.
the cover of the box. Then she
softly took one of his hands, bent her
face to the bed, and he slept on, and
his sleep was dreamless.
“If it is so, 1 will kill her!” mitt- j
tered old Castro, as he at last drew ;
near the ranch, and with native cun- '
ning he cautiously turned out his \
horse and sneaked into the house
without word or alarm, llis wife was :
rot in her room. lie sought her in '
two or three others, and then, with
eyes blazing with fury, he opened the
door of the officer’s room and made
her out as she knelt beside the Ixl.
Drawing his long, keen knife, chuck
ling in his throat with satisfaction,
he began stealing across the room.
He had covered two-thirds of the dis
tance and was reaching out his left
hand to grasp the woman by the hair
when he suddenly leaped back and
uttered a shriek. It was followed by
another and another, and amid
screams he dashed among the tents
of the soldiers to fall down and
writhe and shiver and die.
“Come on.” said the sergeant to
his men, as he lighted a torch and ad
vanced toward the house.
They followed him through the
open door and across the public room
to that of the officer. The glare of
the torch showed four tarantulas
crawling about on the floor. It
showed a dead woman kneeling by
the bedside. It showed a dead man
lying on his back with eyes half
open and a look of terror on his
face.
“I told him she was a she-devil!”
muttered the sergeant, “but he has
found it out too late."—Sunny South,
Atlanta.
Torpedo I!oat* on the Rhine.
Two torpedo boats of the imperial
German navy will always be stationed
in future on the Ithiae.
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Washington.-—The electric cable has
at last conquered the great expanse
of the Pacific ocean and Canada and
Australia are connected by the cur
rent that makes all the world akin.
America took the lead in stretching a
cable line across the Atlantic, as itwas
an American invention that made such
a line possible, but it remained for
England and England’s colonies to
first lay a cable line.across the Pacific,
though it is not expected that America
will be far behind, and a line from San
Francisco will before many montlife
connect this country with Hawaii,
Guam, the Philippines and the far
east.
The submarine telegraphs of the
world number 1,750. Their aggregate
length is nearly 200,000 miles; their
total cost is estimated at $275,000,000.
and the number of messages annually
transmitted over them at more than
6,000,000. All the grand divisions of
the earth are now connected by their
w'ires, and from country to country
and island to island the thoughts and
words of mankind are instan
taneously transmitted. Beneath
all oceans the universal lan
guage which this system has
created flows uninterruptedly, and
man talks as face to face with his fel
low-man at the antipodes. Darkest
Africa now converses daily with en
lightened Europe or America, and the
great events of the morning are known
in the evening throughout the in
habited world. Adding to the sub
marine lines the land-telegraph sys
tems by which they are connected and
through which they bring interior
The length of the French cable from
Brest, France, to Cape Cod, Massa
chusetts, is 3,250 miles, while the great
est distance from land to land on the
proposed Pacific route would be that
from San Francisco to Hawaii, 2,089
miles, that from Hawaii to Wake Isl
and being 2,040 miles, from Wake Isl
and to Guam l,29(f miles, from Guam
to Manila 1,520 miles, and from Manila
to the Asiatic coast 630 miles. While
the depth of the Pacific is somewhat
greater than that at which any cable
has been laid, the difference between
its depth and the greatest reached by
cables in the Atlantic would be very
slight, the cable recently laid from
Hayti to the Windward Islands being
in 18,000 feet of water, while the great
est depth between San Francisco and
Hawaii is 18,300 feet, and the greatest
depth between Hawaii and Manila is
estimated at 19,600 feet, though this
estimate is yet to be verified by de
tailed soundings. The recent survey
for a cable between the Pacific coast
and Manila justifies the belief that a
route can be selected in which the
depth will not exceed 20,000 feet, and
may not exceed 18,000 feet. The recent
survey made by the bureau of equip
ment. navy department, under the
direction of Bear Admiral B. B. Brad
ford, disclosed the greatest ocean
depths heretofore known, lying be
tween Midway island and Guam and
being 31,614 feet, or but 66 feet short of
six miles depth of water. This depres
sion, however, which has been named
the Nero Deep, in honor of the vessel
from which the sounding was made,
can be avoided by a detour, and it is
MAP SHOWING THE COMPLETED AND PROPOSED CABLES ACROSS THE PACIFIC.
points of the various continents into
instantaneous communication, the
total length of telegraph line of the
world is 1,180,000 miles, the length of
their single wires or conductors 3,800,
000 miles, and the total number of
messages annually sent over them
about 400,000,000, or an average ol more
than 1,000,000 messages each day.
In the short half century since the
practicability of submarine telegraphy
was demonstrated, the electric wires
have invaded every ocean. Nearly a
score of wrires have been laid across
the Atlantic, of which no less than
thirteen now successfully operate be
tween the United States and Europe,
while three others span the compar
atively short distance between South
America and the African and south
European coast lines. Throughout
the Indian ocean, lines connect the far
east with Europe and'America by way
of the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the
western coast of Europe, and 1 lie great
trans-Atlantic lines. The Mediter
ranean is crossed and recrossed in its
entire length and breadth by numer
ous cable lines, and the “Mediterra
nean of America”—the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea—is traversed
in all directions by lines which bring
its islands and colonies into speaking
relations with each other and with
South America, Central America, the
United States, and thence with Europe,
Africa, Asia—the whole world. Along
the eastern coast of'Asia cable lines
loop from port to port and island to
island, receiving messages overland
from Eastern Europe by way of
the Russia-Siberian land lines
f tirwii rriincr them to .Tnnnn.
believed that the necessary depth will
not exceed 20,000 feet, and may not be
more than 18,000 feet. Otto Ivrum
mel, who was the first to discuss the
bathymetric data and calculate the
urea and volume of the various oceanic
basins, put the mean depth of the
Pacific at 2,160 fathoms, against 2,040,
for the Atlantic, in which cables
have already been so successfully laid;
and later researches and actual sound
ings, while they have developed ex
treme depths at certain points in the
Pacific, have not, in the opinion of ex
perts, been such as to warrant the be
lief that the depths along the proposed
line would be considerably greater
than those in which cables have been
already successfully laid and operated.
The accompanying map illustrates
the route of the new cable between
Canada and Australia, and the pro
posed route for the cable for which a
franchise has already been granted
between San Francisco and Manila.
The total length of the Canada-Aus
trala cable is 7,900 miles, and it is
divided into three sections, each sec
tion representing the voyage out and
home of a huge cable ship. This cable
has been laid by the cooperation of
the English. Canadian and Australian
governments.
The greater part of the route having
been carefully sounded during 1901 by
a surveying-ship sent specially for the
purpose, the first section (Australia
Norfolk Island, Norfolk-New Zealand,
and Norfolk-Fiji) was laid by the
steamer Anglia, of the Telegraph Con
struction and Maintenance company,
in March and April of this year. The
China, Australia, Mew Zealand,
the Straits Settlements, llong
Kong, and the Philippines, and
receiving others in return. South
America is skirted with cable lines
along its entire border save the ex
treme south, where they are brought
into intercommunication by land lines.
Along the entire coast of Africa cables
loop from place to place and from col
ony to colony, stretching along the
entire circumference and penetrating
the interior of land lines at various
points.
The chief obstacle in the past to the
construction cf a grand trans-Pacific
cable was found in the fact that mid
ocean resting places could not be satis
factorily obtained or arranged for, no
single government controlling a suffi
cient number of suitable landing places
to make this seem practicable, in view
of the belief that the distance through
which messages could be sent and
cables controlled was limited. With
landing places in Hawaii, Wake Island,
Guam, and the Philippines, however,
no section of a cable stretching fn \
the United States to Asia and touehu
it these points would have a lengt J,
equal to that now in daily operatioii/|
between France and the United States, i
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Mvvwt.w ovvv*V« ^ I UUCUUtCl-l' UIHIUI"
Island) lias just been completed by the
new steamer Colonia of the same com
pany (the largest cable ship, by the
way, in existence), and the third (Fan
ning-Fiji) again by the Anglia. The
Vancouver-Fanning portion is the
longest cable without a break in the
world. In fact, it would have been
more convenient to have replaced the
latter station by one at Honolulu
more than u thousand miles nearer
Vancouver. England felt, however,
that the route should be all-Kritish,
and to this end Fanning, the most
northerly of her possessions in that
part of the Pacific, was selected.
A Blow to Patriotism.
“Children, why does that flag hang
there?” oratorically asked a school
room patriot, pointing to a flag behind
him.
“Please sir,” piped up a voice from
the rear, “it is to hide a dirty spot
on the wall.”—Philadelphia Ilecord.
Time Will Tell.
Mrs. Weddle—Was that gentleman
ft ho gave you the cigar a friend of
fours
W’eddle — I don’t know — haven’t
unoked it yet.—N. Y. Time#.
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