ocular examination alone would be al- 

 most impossible. Glass, however, lacks 

 the cleavage of Feldspar and is some- 

 what heavier and softer. The dis- 

 covery of the method of making artificial 

 sunstone is said to have been accidental, 

 and was made at Murano, near Venice, 

 when a quantity of brass filings by chance 

 fell into a pot of melted glass. The pro- 

 duct was for a long time and is still used 

 in the arts under the name of goldstone. 

 Sunstone is sometimes known as aventur- 

 ine Feldspar, in distinction from aventur- 

 ine quartz, which presents a similar ap- 

 pearance, owing to the inclusion of scales 

 of mica. The term aventurine is from 



the Italian avventura, meaning chance, 

 and refers to the chance discovery above 

 referred to. 



Gems are occasionally cut from other 

 forms of Feldspar than those here de- 

 scribed, which are transparent and color- 

 less and valued for their lustre. The 

 varieties chiefly employed in this manner 

 are adularia, a variety of orthoclase which 

 is often transparent, the best specimens 

 being obtained in Switzerland, and oligo- 

 clase, in the transparent form in which 

 it is found near Bakersville, North Caro- 



ima. 



Oliver Cummings Farrington. 



THE WOOD HARMONY. 



Who knows the dim, least-traveled way 



Where wood-folk keep their holiday; 



Who knows the paths of little care 



Whereon the thicket-dwellers fare, 



Let him be heedful, lest he wake 



Unfriendly echoes in the brake, 



Or dare, with alien thought, to find 



His way among the timid kind. 



Let him beware, then, for they know 



The subtle footsteps of a foe. 



But all the wee wood-fellows spare 



Such welcome as they ever share 



To him who finds in dale and dell 



That undefined, familiar spell 



That greets the faith prepared to meet 



A faith as beautiful and sweet. 



— Frank Walcott Hutt. 



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