I know them gazing through mine eyes
Upon the sun's imperial rise;

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When tender suns of Springtime set.

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I sailed to touch on earth's dim shore;
It is the dead who wake in me
This glimpse that looks like memory.

Theirs the old fault to which I yield,
The weeds that curse a sterile field;
And theirs, I timidly confess,
The shreds of goodness I possess.

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In this ghost-tenanted domain,
Or must I be forever led

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BY MADISON CAWEIN.

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With harp and lute, so intimately twined
They were as one; now on a drum he dinned,
Now on a tabor; now, with blow and blare
Of sackbut and recorder, everywhere,
Shattered the night; then, on a sudden, thinned
To bagpipe wailings, as of maniac grief

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By peat-black waters flecked with foam
She lay, beneath the flaming west;

I plucked the arrow from her breast

And stanched the wound, and bore her home.

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And loosed the dank hair round her head,
And chafed her snow-cold hands and feet

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Through her young body; and her eyes
Looked into mine with still surprise
Once only, ere she softly slept.
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I gazed in those dark eyes all night,
Within the peat-glow, till the light
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When, in the dawning's drowsy gray,
With watching spent, I fell asleep,,
And slumbered till the bleat of sheep
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And stirred the bracken on the floor
Whereon I looked, and thought to find
Beauty yet slumbering in the gold
Of withered fern; but no dark head
Now nestled in the bracken-bed
That rustled in the dawn-wind cold;

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To seek her ever, high and low,

O'er hills and valleys of despair.

So flinging wide the flapping door,

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Grown old and frail, with failing breath;
Tho now I know that only death
May pluck the arrow from my breast.

- From The Academy (London).

October.

BY EDITH BROWNELL.

Like tired lids the leaves drop down,

Earth drowsy grows, and on her breast, Beneath a blanket red and brown,

The weary year lies down to rest.

-Outing (October).

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H. L. W. HYDE, Secretary,
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Trapping Sir Henry Irving. Once I was given the assignment to report a lecture which Sir Henry Irving was to give at Princeton," says a writer in The Saturday Evening Post," and to get an interview with the distinguished player. But to get that interview, the writer says he was compelled to play a trick on the Englishman, and he relates it as follows:

"I left Philadelphia for Princeton on a cold March morning. The conductor of the train told me to change cars at Princeton Junction-that a branch railroad, running about six miles, would take me from the Junction to Princeton.

"On alighting at the Junction I noticed a train of two cars and an engine on a siding. Near the station two carriages were waiting. A man on the platform volunteered the information that the little train ran to Princeton and would start when the New-York express came in. Sir Henry Irving's coming on that train,' he said. 'You know he's playing in New York this week, and is going to Princeton to deliver a lecture. Those two carriages are for him and his party.' "The two Jehus who belonged to the carriages aforesaid were industriously walking up and down trying to get warm. Assuming a brisk business air, I approached the drivers and said: 'Sir Henry will go over in the train this morning. It's too cold for the drive in the carriage. You needn't wait for the NewYork train.'

"Both drivers civilly touched their hats, and in a few minutes I had the pleasure of seeing them drive toward Princeton.

"Then I went to the train. Picking out the two seats near the stove (a primitive train was this little toy affair) I reversed one seat (for I wanted to face Irving) and then littered the two seats with papers and my overcoat. By that method, any one coming in the train would know that the seats thus marked for attention were preempted.

"Five minutes later the New-York express pulled in and I ran to meet it. I noted Bram Stoker, who was Irving's manager, Lawrence Irving, two other men, and Irving. I shook hands with Stoker and with Sir Henry.

"I thought there were to be carriages here,' said Stoker, looking about him.

"No carriages here,' I answered, also looking around. But I've turned down a nice seat near the stove on the train over there.'

"That was very thoughtful, indeed,' said Irving. "So I led the way to the train, seated Irving as I had planned, and in the six miles toward Princeton managed a very decent interview.

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By some mix-up in the program of the reception committee, the two carriages put at the disposal of Sir Henry Irving and party when he arrived at Princeton Junction, and which were to drive him to Princeton, were not at the station when the New-York express arrived. Sir Henry was compelled, therefore, to come to Princeton in the train.'

"My only excuse for this trick on Sir. Henry was 'fidelity to duty'-which is a very fine-sounding phrase, and rolls beautifully from the tongue; for when a newspaper man is told to get this, that, or the other thing, he's supposed to get it. He must carry his message to Garcia.

"And, anyhow, Irving had the warmest seat in the train-and beat the carriages to Princeton by fully ten minutes."

China's Empress Dowager. - Miss Katharine A. Carl, the American artist who painted the portrait of the Empress Dowage of China which was exhibited at St. Louis and has been presented by the Empress to the American Government, has written an account of her visits to the Empress, portions of which are published in The Century Magazine. Miss Carl writes:

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"After greeting Mrs. Conger, the Empress Dowager looked toward me, and I advanced with a reverence. She met me half-way and extended her hand with another brilliant smile, which quite won me, and I spontaneously raised her dainty fingers to my lips. This was not in the protocol program. It was an involuntary and surprised tribute on my part to her unexpected charm. She then turned and, with graceful gesture, extended her hand toward the Emperor and murmured, the Emperor,' and watched me closely while I made his Majesty the formal reverence. He acknowledged the salutation by a slight bow and a stereotyped smile, but I felt that he, too, was closely scrutinizing me as his shrewd glance swept my per

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