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I have seen the mysterious shores, the still waters, the lands of brown natives . . . but for me all the East is contained in the vision of . . . my youth. And this is all there is left of it! Only a moment ; a moment of strength, and romance, and glamour ! ... A flick of sunshine on a strange shore, the time to remember, the time for a sigh goodby! From Batavia we started for Djogjakarta at 4 A. M. Difficult it is to get the eyes open at that hour, but the Oriental bath in the spring-house, twenty gourdfuls poured down the spine, helps some and strong black coffee does the rest. Never was a place, a time, a condition, more poetic than the green court of the Hotel der Nederlanden at that hour, all fresh and sweet from rain. In the southwest blazed the Southern Cross, with the faithful Centaurii, while across the way from red Antares, high in the heavens, was red Mars. The strange, still hour; the scent of wet flowers and foliage, led by the insistent perfume of the frangipani; orchids staring from the trees with their thousand eyes ; the white the noiseless natives in attendance, the crunch of carriage wheels upon the gravel, the landlord waiting patiently in trousers and bare feet to bid a kind good-bye this was Java! When half a dozen years later the Equator was crossed a second time, to the Strait of Magellan, another dream came true. Beside fifty-five degrees south, Java's nine looked small. Yet the tropic glory of Batavia, at this desolate land's end, was remembered almost painfully. The sole compensation lay in the attainment of those Antarctic worlds guarding the virgin South Pole, and to see the resplendent Southern Cross almost overhead! One clear, dark night on the voyage to Valparaiso I was able to round up everything : the Coal Sack, that black deep in the Milky close to the Way, Cross, which even hardened astronomers regard with awe; the minor Magellanic Clouds, mostly in Hydrus, not only smaller but duller than the major in Dorado contrary to the opinion of astronomic authorities. Every South Polar star hitherto dimmed by the moonlight stood out and sang its own eloquent song, while the Milky Way was a sight to make the heart stand still. Without effort I identified the constellations Crater ; Musca ; Norma ; Lupus ; Triangulum; the Crow; Eridanus, famous for Achenar, clean, cold, electric, imperious; all the second-magnitude stars in Carina, keel of Argo the Ship, home of godlike Canopus, my first tropical luminary, adored long before I knew he was the biggest thing of his kind in the Universe ! At Santiago de Chili, within the shadow of that Rock of Ages, beautiful Santa Lucia, Scorpio with his bloody eye and wicked sting- ing tail followed me right into the open court of the hotel around which were grouped the dormitories. So not before Los Andes, midst its lush vegetation at the foot of the Cordilleras, where you pause for breath before climbing those mighty flanks, did I seem really to bid the southern stellar worlds good-bye; for at Buenos Ayres I noticed only that the sunny side of the Avenue de Mayo faced north and that Orion in the zenith was upside down! 114
Love, the fair day is drawing to its close, The stars are rising, and a soft wind blows; The gates of heaven are opening in a dream, The nightingale sings to the sleeping rose. Shadows, and dew, and silence, and the stars; I wonder, love, what is behind those bars Of twinkling silver is there aught behind? Venus and Jupiter, Sirius and Mars; Aldebaran and the soft Pleiades, Orion ploughing the ethereal seas, Which are the stars, my love, and which your eyes? And, O the nightingale in yonder trees! Paraphrase of the Rubaiyat by Richard Le Gallienne.
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GEMS - BY- Helen Bartlett Bridgman
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To Zona Gale Lover of Gems in Earth
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since it never can be wrested from
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tion of the three species of Hyacin
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CARVED GEMS. For nearly three thous
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He must be able not only to judge t
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they plainly represent the owner's
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special significance and power. Kin
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He putteth his hand upon the rock;
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The following are all the voice of
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FAMOUS JEWELS. The finding of the C
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and the Great Mogul are identical,
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in gems Mrs. Edward B. McLean of Wa
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of Russia. Besides these diamonds t
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But for these invaders of the deser
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appears. As Cattelle : says "Gem co
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white diamond results from further
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lacking in reserve power. One of th
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negative little woman it is not in
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takes a hand here, too, in the boug
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SAPPHIRE. Hyacinthus was the ancien
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ing five karats in weight are excee
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cave, and thus Nero may have discov
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CHRYSOBERYL. Chrysoberyl, though ha
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every year. Moreover, it is the onl
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that again a fourth, with the commo
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fainter tinge of blue which was the
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OPAL. No wonder that in the absence
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cold has a repressive eftect. Alway
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TOPAZ. Attention was first called t
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a crucible, with powdered charcoal,
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Page 78 and 79: HYACINTH. Three various kinds the s
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Page 86 and 87: JADE. The word jade is magical in i
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Page 96 and 97: LAPIS LAZULI. Lapis lazuli is a mag
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Page 100 and 101: AMBER. Amber, prized less as an orn
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Page 110 and 111: ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION. The diamon
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Page 114 and 115: METHODS OF TESTING STONES. Hardness
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