THE POEM.

Ha lined his head. And the Vision that stood there smiled. "Oil, Pent," she said, "I have come at thy bidding; no child Of thy fancy, dead, But living and breathing as thou! Take rae nowl" His heart, how it burned! But he thought, " 'Tia a dream. If I move* It will vanish" and yearned With an infinite yearning and strove - With his doubts till she turned- She, the Vision—and sorrowful went Ere he knew her intent. He leapt to his feet And seized on her undulant veil, With its odor aa sweet As the Maytime, and, 10, it did trail In his hand, all complete! She had gone, and he cherished, forlorn, The veil she had worn. The veil he upraised. Be showed It to men, and they cried As they noted, amazed, The diaphanous wonder, "What pride Of invention!" and praised. But sweeter and sadder he grew And replied, "If you knewl" —Henry Bannister Merwin in Atlantic.

HIS THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY

By Lloyd Osborne.

On That Day He Bedded to Re nounce Preferment For the Girl He X*oved.

His thirtieth birthdayl His first youth was behind him, with all Its heartburnings, its failures, its mani fold humiliations. What had he done these years past but drift, forlorn, pen niless and unattached, over those shal lows where others had stuck and pros pered?

In the colonies he had tolled unre mittingly In half a hundred characters, groom, cook, boundary rider, steamer roustabout, always sinking, always failing. Had life nothing more for him than an endless succession of not empty days on the farthest beach of Upolu, with scarcely more to eat than the commonest Kanaka and no other outlet for his energies than the barter ing of salt beef for coprah and an oc casional night's fishing on the reef?

The noise of an incoming boat drew him to the door, and he looked out to see the pastor's old whaler heading through the pass. A half grown girl leaped into the water and hastened up to the store with something fastened In a banana leaf. It was a letter, which she shyly handed to the trader.

Walter Kinross looked at It with sur prise, for It was the first he had re ceived for four years, and the sight of its English stamp and familiar hand writing filled him with something like awe:

My Dear Nephew-~I know you're pretty old to come back and start lite afresh here, but if you haven't had th« unmitigated folly to get married out there and tied by the leg forever I'll help you to make a new start, If you have the grit to do It You shan't starve if ?1,500 a year will keep you, and if you will try and turn over a new leaf and make a man of yourself In good ear nest I am prepared to mark you down substan tially in my will. - But, mind, no promises; payment strictly by results. You're no longer a boy, and this is prob ably the laat chance you'll ever get of entering civilised life again and meeting respectable folk. I inclose you a draft at sight on Sydney for $1,250, for you will doubtless need clothes, etc., as well as your passage money, and if you decide not to return you can accept it as a present from ywJ Old uncle. Affectionately yours, Alfred Bannock. The house could not contain him and his eager thoughts; he must needs feel the sky overhead and the trades against his cheek, and take all nature into his puny confidence. Besides, "Vaiala had now a new charm for him, one he had never counted on to find.

Hard and lonely though his life had been, this Samoan bay was endeared to him by a thousand pleasant memories and even by the recollection of his past unhappiness. Here he had found peace and love, freedom from taskmasters, Bcenes more beautiful than any picture, and, not least, a sufficiency to eat.

A little money, and his life might have been tolerable, even happy; enough money for a good sized boat, a cow or two, and those sis acres of the Pascoe estate he had so often longed to buy. How often had he talked of it with Leata, who had been no less eager than himself to harness their quarter acre to the six and make them all his little paradise. Poor Leata, whom he had taken so lightly from her father's house and paid for In gunpowder and kegs of beef; his smiling, soft eyed Leata, who would have died for himS What was to become of her in this new arrangement of things.

By this time he had worked quite round the bay, and almost without knowing It he found himself In front of Paul Englebert's store. Englebert was the other trader in Vaiala, a peppery, middle aged Prussian, who had been a good friend of his before those seven breadfruit trees had come between them.

He recalled Englebert's rough, jovial - kindness, remembered how Paul had cared for him through the fever, and helped him afterward with money and trade. How could he have been so petty as to make a quarrel of these bread fruit trees? Poor old Paul! It was a shame they hadn't* spoken these two years. On the veranda, barefoot and in gtriped pyjamas, was Englebert, pre tending not to see him. To Kinross, as he walked up the path and mounted the veranda stairs, the man looked old *nd sick, and not a little changed. °Sow do you do, Englebert?" he said. The German looked at him with smoldering eyes. "Gant you see I'm busy?" he said. "I'ou might offer a man a chair," eald Kinross, seating himself on the tool chest *'Dere Is no.jare for dem dat Isn't wel come," said the German. **l used to be welcome here," said Kinross. "There was a time when yon

were a precious good friend of mine, Paul Englebert."

"Dat wass long ago," said the trader.

"I've been thinking," said Kinross, "that I've acted like a fool about those trees."

"Dat wass what I was dlnking, too* dese two-dree years," responded the other.

"Take them; they are yours," said Kinross. "You can build your fence there tomorrow."

"So!" said Englebert with dawning intelligence. "De Yerman gonsul has at last to my gomplaint listened."

"Hang the German cc#sul! No!" cried Kinross. "I do it mysey because I was Wrong; because you were good to me that time I was sick and lent me the $100 and the trade."

"And you want nodlng?" asked En glebert, still incredulous.

"I want to shake your hand and be friends again, old man," said Kinross, "same as we used to be when we play ed domlnos every night, and you'd tell me about the Austrian war, and how the prince divided the cigars with you when you were wounded."

The German looked away. "Oh, Kin ross," he said, with a queer shining look In his eyes, "you make me much ashamed." He turned suddenly round and wrung the Englishman's hand in an iron grasp. "I too, wass fool. Ho, Malia, de beer!"

His strapping native wife appeared with bottles and mugs. At the sight of their guest she could scarcely conceal her surprise.

"Prosit," said Englebert, touching glasses. "You know dem six agers of de Pasgoe estate," he said, looking very hard at his companion; "very nice little place, very sheep, yoost behind your store?"

Kinross nodded, but his face fell, in spite of himself.

"I from the American gonsul bought him," went on the German, "very sheep—s2oo Chile money." Kinross looked black.

"Dey are yours. Pay me back when you have de money. I buy dem only to spite you. My friend, take dem."

"Paul, Paul," cried Kinross, "I don't know what to say—how to thank you! Only this morning I got money from home, and the first thing I meant to do was to buy them."

"All de better," said Englebert, "and, my boy, you blant goffee. It's de gof fee dat bays, and I will get you blenty leetle drees from my friend, de gap tain in Utumbau blantation. Yoost one glass beer. Ho, Malia, de beer!"

Kinross tore himself away with dif ficulty and started homeward, his heart swelling with kindness for the old Prussian. He exulted in the six acres he had so nearly lost, and they now seemed to him more precious than ever.

Then be remembered he was leaving Vaiala, and again he heard the hum of London in his ears.

He found Leata sitting on the floor spelling out "The Good News From New Guinea," in the missionary maga zine. He sat down beside her and pressed her curly hair against his lips and kissed it. "Of all things in the world what wouldst thou like most, Leata?" he asked. "To have thee always near me, Kini rosl," she answered. "Before I had no understanding and was like the black people in the missionary book, but now my heart is pained, so full it is with love." "But If I gave thee a little bag of gold," he said, "and took thee to Apia, my pigeon, what wouldst thou buy?"

"First I would give $10 to the new church," she began. "Then for my fa ther I would buy an umbrella and a shiny bag in which he could carry his cartridges and tobacco when he goes to war; for my mother, also an um brella and a picture book like that of the missionary's, with photographs of Queen Victoria and captains of men-of war; for my sister", a Bible and a hymnbook, and for my brother a little pigeon gun."

"Tomorrow we shall go to Apia and buy them," said Kinross. "This morn ing the pastor brought me a letter from Britain with a present of many dol lars."

"Oh, Kinirosl," she cried, "it was breaking my heart I I feared the letter would make you go back to the white man's country."

His resolution was taken, be it for good or evil. "I shall never go back," he said.—Ainslee's Magazine.

Clever Engineering Feat.

A railway recently built in southern Bavaria practically carries a creek across the railway, instead of the rail way crossing the creek. The stream is a small tributary of the Isar river, that in stormy times is swelled to enor mous proportions. Every bridge that has been built over it has been carried away. Finally a young engineer offered to solve the difficulty.

A tunnel of strong masonry was first constructed across the valley and re enforced on the outside, turned toward the torrent with all the rocks availa ble that had collected there. Cross walls leading from the solid rock and across the tunnel were built and strongly braced. This was done to protect the railway. The rest was left for nature to do. At the first strong rain everything happened as the young engineer had predicted. Bowlders and rocks coming down with the water filled up the big hole left between the tunnel and the rocks, until the over flow carried everything across the tun nel. The bed of the torrent was raised by itself, and now there is not the slightest danger of interruption in this part of the railroad even after the most severe rainstorm.

Whence Its Value.

Hicks—You know that "silence is golden." Wicks—That means it is very pre cious because it is so scarce.—Boston Transcript

m», Am§m ronrr^t\Amun Wednesday, may 23, 1900

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