“THAT MAY SCHELPE,” 
- The depth and dream of my desire, 
The bitter paths wherein I stray, 
Thou knowest, Who hast made the fire, 
Thou knowest, Who hast made the 
clay. 
One stone the more swings to her place 
In that dread temple of Thy Worth, 
It is enough that through Thy grace 
I saw naught common on Thy earth. 
Take not that vision from my ken; 
O, whatsoe’er may spoil or speed, 
Help me to need no aid from men 
That I may help such men as need. 
—Rudyard Kipling. 
A TRAGEDY IN 
Part 1.—TZhe Bonnet. 
A bit of foundation as big as your hand; 
Bows of ribbon and lace; 
Wire sufficient to make them stand; 
A handtul of roses, a velvet band— 
It lacks but one crowning grace. 
Part I] —The Bird. 
A chirp, a twitter, a flash of wings, 
Four wide-open mouths in a nest; 
From morning till night she brings and 
brings 
For growing birds, 
things— 
Aye! hungry things at the best. 
they are hungry 
The crack of a rifle, a shot well sped; 
A crimson stain on the grass; 
THREE PARTS. 
Ah! well, we will leave the rest unsaid; 
Some things it were better to pass. 
Part II].—7Zhe Wearer. 
The lady has surely a beautiful face, 
She has surely a queenly air; 
The bonnet had flowers and ribbon and 
lace; 
But the bird had added the crowning 
grace— 
It is really a charming affair. 
Is the love of a bonnet supreme over all, 
In a lady so faultlessly fair? 
The Father takes heed when the spar- 
rows fall, 
lnk ge when the starving nestlings 
call— 
Can a tender woman not care? 
—Anon. 
STRANGE 
PLANS. 
Four hungry birds in a nest unfed— 
NE of the most remarkable 
growths in the government 
botanical gardens is the so- 
called barber plant, the leaves 
of which are used in some parts of the 
East by rubbing on the face to keep 
the beard from growing. It is not 
supposed to have any effect on a beard 
that is already rooted, but merely to 
act as a preventive, boys employing it 
to keep the hair from getting a start 
on their faces. It is also employed by 
some Oriental people who desire to 
keep a part of their heads free from 
hair, asa matterof fashion. A curious 
looking tree from the Isthmus of 
Panama bears a round red fruit as big 
as an apple, which has this remarkable 
faculty, that its juice rubbed on tough 
beef or chicken makes the meat tender 
by the chemical power it possesses to 
separate the flesh fiber. One is inter- 
ested to observe in the botanical green 
houses three kinds of plants that have 
real consumption of the lungs—the 
leaves, of course, being the lungs of a 
plant. The disease is manifested by 
the turning of the leaves from green to 
white, the affection gradually spread- 
ing from one spot until, when a leaf is 
all white, it is just about to die. Cruelly 
enough, as it would seem, the garden- 
ers only try to perpetuate the disease 
for the sake of beauty and curiosity, 
all plants of those varieties that are 
too healthy being thrown away. 
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