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Show ! Tuniing the Pages By ' C. W. OtBOftN Copyright. 1M2 (New Tork Evening World;, by Prees Publishing C. Your birthday, sweetheart, la my birthday, birth-day, too. For had you not been bora, I who began to live beholding you I'p early aa tha mor, That day In June beside tba rose -hung stream. Had never lived at all We stood, do vou remember? la a dream Thera by tha waterfall. , Tou were aa till aa all tha other flowers t'nder tho morning's spell; Sudden two lives were one. and all thlnie 'our" How we can never tell. Surelv H had been fated long sgo What else, dear, could we think? It seemed that we had atood forever SO There by lha rivers brink. Bo tenderly In the new hook of- hie collected rente, "A Jongleur Strayed" UXubleday-I'age)t Richard I-e Ualllenne sings of "Two Blrthdaya"' meaning, we uptoae, two In one. e WHEN BOSTON AND FELICIA LOVE. When In John Mlddleton Murry'a "The Thlnga We Are" Uutton. Hoaton an x KellrLa at laat decide to marry "It la frlahlenlnc. lan't It " he a!d. "Po you have thia feelinc of havlna; ut- terly loat yourself, and of being sura of you reel f at the aanie time?" 1 For iniiwer ahe preaaed hie band. Haf ffayety had become arrave and aolemn; It had folded lta leaves Into the enmpaae j of a tlffht. aleeplna; bud. She did not want to speak. M Hoaton looked at her, and the looked gravely at him. HVr eyes, filled with a trembling; poise; her lips, barely touched : by the breath of distant laughter, aeemed to .remind him of someone he had known i Inntr aio. In a life far simpler than this of ours; they greeted and acknowledged him. He.- vm.-a'nitTff tnvpJwwtsTty." ewd felt there waa an unaccountable aadnee In hia amlle: but when he tried to xf something, hta heart waa lifted up on wave of unaccountable happlnesa. "You're extraordinarily lovely, you know, Felicia." he aald. "Am 1?" ahe enawered. 'Tm alad." After all, and whatever any feminist mar hold to the contrary, this old fashioned fash-ioned atuff Is finer than talk of whether party lines will follow the marriage tinea. e e e THE COUNT OF THE BIRDS. Turned out of a para of "The Importance Im-portance of Bird Ufa" (Century Co.), by J. lnneea Hartley: i We know that seventy years aero hundreds hun-dreds of thou" finds of bison roamed the plains of the West In herds so vast that they extended beyond the h or! eon. Within the present generation, even today, fifty and aeventy thousand caribou cari-bou may constitute a stnirle herd on the frosen prairies of northern Canada and Alaska. Audubon, however. In IMS. observed a I flock of passenger pigeons which ooK I three days to fly paet a certain point: There were more than two and a I quarter billion pig-eons In that one drove. ! "The air was literally filled with i plgeone. the light of noonday was obscured ob-scured aa by an eclipse." . . . StcfajiHson. the Arctic eTnlorer. telle ! of Bank Island and neighboring land! several hundred miles north of the Are-I Are-I tic circle as being "white with mllltona of wavy geee" perhaps anow fcese) In the breed i nr season, i Good authorities state that nine million mil-lion penguins Inhabit Uaasen Island off the Cape of Oood Hope; and R. C. Murphy Mur-phy of the American mufleum speaks of almost a million cormorants living on tiny Island off the coast of Peru. i Still. U Is not to tha hunter, aa we) 1 understand from Mr. Hartley, that the polls of the bird census belong. I see WHITE THOUGHTS AND GREEN MONSTER. Writes a New Thought wife to the October Nautilus concerning her cure for a Jealous husband: - At 10 a. m. every day I went out on the front porch, turned my face to the sun. closed my eyes, raised my hande in an attitude of prayer, and atood very still a few minutes, and let the spirit of , peace, Joy and happiness fill me and shut out all other things from my thoughts. Then I aald to my husband, reare, the god of happiness, be and abide with you." I knew Just where he was on his route, and I breathed all these things In, then breathed out slowly on him and hit ponies. I saw him In a white glow, and thus kept still for fifteen minutes each day. Ho much for a wife who perhaps never heard of Cou. And the cure took three months of day by day. m RUBBER'S HIOM COST MARK. According to W. C. Gler'a The Flelgn of It tibber" (Century company). Columbus Colum-bus saw rubter treee In flow and luter voyagers saw Routh Awierlcan Indians playing ball with the u balance left by evaporation of the trees' yield. But tlm went on and It was 177 he 1'rtfHtley. the British chemist, wrote: "I have seen a substance excellently well edapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the mirks of a black lead pencil. It must, therefore, be of singular use to those who practice drawing. It Is sold by Mr. Nalrne. mathematical lu-Mtrument lu-Mtrument maker, opposite the Royal Kx-change. Kx-change. He sells a cubical piece of about half an Inch for three shillings, and he aaye It will last several years." I'rleetley did ti"H name It. but the men in the art shone chrlatened It. In trim colloquial English, "rubber." because it tubbed nut pencil marks, and "Indian" because of Its origin In the West Indies. Hut thre shillings for a half of a cubic Inch: It Is the highest known recorded re-corded price for raw rubber. Pity the sorrows of a rubber trust born more than a century too late: |