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AN OLD-TIME THANKSGIVING.
WANT an old
T haukai;l-Liig.
wln-u life w
well worth liv
tn.
An I we all went
dio Ingram!
mil's mi th
' dear nlil farm,
you know;
remap It m'sM
be b I o w I uu.
perhaps It
BllKDt bv allow
ing. But we never
t b o u it b t of
wtfioerou
Ttu-k.'gli lug long ago.
There were i.ncles, aunts and cousins, by tb
lie ana lb Uicn.
There was st.cti a groaning table, the
cuteat roaaletl !g, . , .
There were pudding. p!e and cherrlea, and
apple tarta uml berries.
And Uouglinuts, erke aud rulalna, and tur
keys all au tilg.
And they d d not urn In courses, and post'
pian lul Uiwoiir-cs
Were not ao iimeti In fashion, but toe
atorbH had their ulinre
Of the o d-tluii' pioueermg, of the heartiness
and thi erlug
Of tht sympathetic neighbor, and the In
dian an! the bear.
And we found the apple elder and the old
potato sllecr.
And the lima fr all tbe applet, and pre
aenea unl pickled pours,
And we ranged tbe gloomy garret; we were
very lirave to ilnre It,
Hut the box of umpli' augar and dried fruit
were up the stuir.
Aud around the- hnrn we rollicked, and
through the .ofta we froIW ki d.
And we ranged the turnip cellar, and we
tunibli-il In the Ktraw,
And we hoard the cattle munching, and tbe
low.n an I the crunching,
And we cliuilied along the niangera where
the home fed, with awe.
O that was a Thnnkaglvlng that wai wortU
a year of living,
And bearla seemed ao much truer and life
ao amooth In flow;
And frlemla aomoliow were nearer, an I
lored ones o much dearer,
When we wont down to grandma's fot
Thankaglrlng, long ago.
Dick's Thanksgiving Dinner. I
BY JOSEPHINE V0S3.
r ATE on the day before TbankHiriv
II. inj the boya were returning after
a day spent in the wood, uml all
were in high apirita. They had buccccu
ed In trapping a rabbit, which wag now
slung ver lidc Morris' shoulder in
apoi'txmanlike fashion, for to him waa
due moat of the credit of capturing it,
and he felt very proud.
"What are you going to do with the
rabbit, Dick?" Edward White asl.ed,
gazing admiringly at it.
"Yea, that's it," exclaimed Archie
Rhodes, "what will be done with it?
Somebody tell."
"Why, cook it, of course," said Dick,
and then a happy thought struck him.
"Oh, I'll tell you what, fellows. We'll
have it for dinner to-morrow. What did
we catch it for if we didn't want to use
it?" And glowing with pride, he gave
all the boy a a hearty invitation to dinner
t bis home tbe next day,
"It'i a go!" shouted Fred Miller; "It'a
ii I'll floma.iwirl Jn.tha iaurnJng m'l
to be on time."
With a burst of pleasure bis compan
ions joined bim in accepting the invita
tion, and then all went home to dream
of the morrow's feast when they would
partake of tbe spoils of tbe day's adven
ture "Did you bring anything from town for
onr Thanksgiving dinner?" Mrs. Morria
was saying to her husband as Dick step
ped in tbe door.
Mr. Morris laughed.
"Did I bring anything? Ha! ha! I
brought a thirty-live pounder. I sold the
colt this afternoon and turned all the
money over to Pritchard and that Jimt
raised the mortgage on our borne. I tell
you, I was mighty thankful, and I
thought we'd celebrate the occasion
'mong ourselves with tbe biggest turkey
we could get. How's that?" he said,
holding tbe fowl at arm's length.
"Couldn't we have a rabbit, too?" Dick
suggested as he laid his bundle on tbe
table.
"Mercy sakes!" exclaimed his mother,
"where did you get that?"
With reluctance Dick told how In the
spirit of fun he had trapped the rabbit
and how Fred Miller's father bad skinned
and dressed It for bim, and how be had
Invited all the boys to dinner.
"Well," said his father, "I don't mind
haviu' the boys come, but plain, everyday
turkey's all they'll get and that's good
enough for anybody. There won't be any
frills on our dinner. And look ahere,"
he added sternly, "I don't 'prove of your
trappin' rabbits for fun,"
Dick was deeply disappointed and soon
went to bed, but he couldn't sleep, and in
the dead of night he stole out of bis room.
"This is a nice fix," be said.
If he hadn't invited the boys, be
wouldn't have cared. How would he tell
them of the ehnnire in the menu of the
expected ft an? He tiin;:ly couldn't d
ii O "
iilllU'rlTn" JM
miii tin nun.. ,w i rim ii a'l .,!
poTBMt PLAYER- CAN
it, that was all. It; the light of the moon
that came in the window lie saw on the
table hefore lilm the nimble little aultual
Unit he had captured lying by the aid
of the big turkey, which had been uiad
ready for the oven and waa (airly burat"
ing with delicious dreiwlng.
"Oh, I know what I'll tin! There!" he
aaid. he unfastened the stout cord that
bound the bulging aide of the turkey,
scooped out the dressing. itnfTed the rab
bit In the ample rarity and fastened the
cord again. "We'll have the rabbit any
how, but nobody will know till It'a cook
ed." Then he went back to hi room.
When he awoke In the morning the
Brut thought that atruck him waa that
'OH, 1 KSoW WU.IT t'l.L t0. '
bis mlxcliii'vous prank might spoil the
whole dinner. Yes, he waa sure it would.
He hud never heard of such articles of
food being cooked together and be be
came badly frightened. He hastened to
undo his work of the night, hut it was
too late. The turkey, with its strange
consort, was already rousting to a nice
brown in the oven. He felt very aorry
and when the boys came he took thcut
aside and told them everything.
"Say, that's the jollient kind of fun,"
Archie laughed. "I'm glad X came!"
"So am I," put In Edward. "What's
the matier, Dick? You don't seem to en
joy this."
Dick thought only of the spoiled dinner
and what his parents would say when
they discovered his trick.
Soon dinner was ready, and the guests
were sealed. Then came the vital mo
ment. Mr. Morris took his place at the
head of the table and was about to cut
the turkey.
"I wonder what he'll soy when he pulls
the rabbit out," Fred whispered to Ar
chie Ithodes.
"Guess he'll wonder what the turkey
swallowed," was the humorous answer,
and then both laughed.
"Cut that turkey, 8am," Mrs. Morris
said to her husband; "what are you woit
ing for?"
Mr. Morris looked around at t ie smil
ing fnccn ( r h!n guests, then d"i tho knife
deep Into the su-vcry fowl ai"l amldcii.y
stoprr-'! "S ili v"r ."lid.es-'Mif b' v. ',
"you - " " ,
HOW OUR rOHIiPATHERS
"Maybe ye think we didn't kave te
good eld days,"
ifeiK Sot
31E YOUR flNliH,
I WOflOIR WHAT MINE Witt BC.
Dick turned a deep crimson and stood
upt
"She didn't do It; I did it," be cob
feaaml. "Salry," Mr. Morris repeated, Ignor
ing hi son, "you burned the gravy, I
amell It."
".No, 1 didn't. There! I'aas the dress
ing around."
With a spoon he scooped the delectable
filling of bread crumbs ami chopped aau'
a age aud chestnuts out of the breast ol
the fowl, plied It on the plates, which
were then panned around Knelt boy star
ed In aNtuulshnietit as he received bit
plate, and the meal began In sllnce.
"And now, boys." Dick's fsther said
with a smile, "when you're linlahed with
that we'll fetch III the rabbit."
And sure enough, It was brought In.
covered with rich brown gravy aud ttlcea
of lenmn.
"Won't we have a feaat, though!" be
exclaimed, looking st Dick.
Kut till" waa too much of a surprise foi
Dick, ami he hardly knew what to any
When the dinner was fnlrly Marled lib
father arose to make a speech while Mr
Morris tried to repress a smile.
"As this is a day of thaok-glvliig," hi
began, "we'll all give tlianka. First
I 'cause the mortgage is ail paid now, am
second 'cause by a lucky stresk the rab
bit got cooked alone. It was diacoreret
I Just in time. When two strange feet an
i found sticking out of a turkey where I
ain't held together, 'talu't bard to guea
! what's happened, especially when nil tlx
drcsxln's lift In a bowl right beside i
and everythin ', generally, looks as If It
had been done In the dark. Hut seein
'at you'd captured the poor little tlilnr
and wanted it so bad, we just thought
we'd fix it up nnd serve it lo-dny, hopin'
that in the future jaou'll never trap any
more."
All litughetl heartily as Mr. Morris con
eluded. For the first time that day DickS
mind was relieved of Its great bunler
sud be joined In the merry laughter, lit
never heard the end of bis trick, but a
his parents had taken it so kindly he re
spected their wlabes aud never again in
dulged in the sport of trapping rabbits.
Th li 'v In he fn''.
0 turkey lurk, my turkey turk.
This duty 1 should like to shirk;
As you may see, my turkey dear,
1 shed for you a briny tear.
HI lice I'm so sad I truat that you
May prove a little tender, too.
What the Wishbone Held.
I cannot, cannot thankful be, '
Don't ask me to, I beg;
Thanksgiving never comes bnt S
?nni fullov pulls my legl; ...
ork WorldT '
SPENT THANKSQIVINQ.
bustle (or ear Thanksgiving dinner in yi
8, Cornelia's Double Mistake, g
ISS CORNELIA LUNT was ,
the only child of two good peo
ple who bad not married until
they reached tbt yean which And most
vedUed pairs with their children well
gro a up about them. They bad been
bnppy. however, aud when they died
left their- daughter a little lucoine,
which, by close pinching, abt could
manage to live upon,
Cornelia wai hot a pretty girl, but
thousands of plaluer glrli had married
aud settled while ahe remained a
pluslor. 1'erhKpi the fact that she
waa by no iiivuus a good uatured per
tun bad something to do wltb It.
lu bcr youth ahe bad comported her
self scornfully to well disposed young
men who belonged to tbe mechanic
classes aud Imd declared that ihe would
only give her hand aud heart to a mer
chant, a physician, or a clergyman.
Merchants were rare la Bottleboii, the
only specimens of that order being two
old bachelors, si III connected with a
New York firm.
both married ami the clcrymeal
waye bad large families. -t
Mlsa Coruella'a iimMHoua lifrw), mei
never realised, ami hr ratuu' ,ten
tlee, Tim Cornell, who h id admires .!,
and bad been quit- a U ilever , 4 e
aa "elegant and gmteel re-.t n
ly pronounced net ,in!hty pf I Mild
haughty," and aha tt'.med hU ait M'sa
Cornelia at last awoke to the kni wl
edge that ahe was getting on In II f. and
that If ahe waa not careful pooplo
would And It out.
Hut for that dreadful family Bible In
which the record of her birth waa writ
ten down, ahe would bare felt anfe In
iticlng off ten years of her life a pro
ceeding which she fancied would In
crease her value In tbe eyea of a certain
Mr. Dumsdny, who bad recently paid
ber a few solemn calls, lie waa really
an old man himself, but the older tbe
man tbe younger, generally, oue finds
his choice of a wife to be.
Toor Mia Cornelia! She eyed that
well thumbed Bible which her compan
ion and assistant, Cousin Betsy Baker,
always would have upon a stand lu tbe
parlor, wltb absolute horror.
Hlie aat orer her grate Ore late one
Bight tbluklng over tbe matter.
Who knew ber eiact age? Cousin
Betsy, But Cousin Betsy would not
wish to (roarrel with hor, and was ton
old a woman to think her anything but
young. Tbe clergyman who baptised
ber. But be was superannuated and
lived with hla son lu law In another
State. The family doctor was dead,
aud tbe dear old gentleman who bad
boarded with them from her babyhood
went to Kurope years before, aud waa
probably dead. Uood Mr. Noire! But
ahe should never bear of him again.
Tea. It was safe, She would do It.
It was night half past 12 at least
the hour when "churchyards yawn and
graves give up their dead." Mlsa Cor
nelia arose. Khe atood before the fire
with ber back toward It, and took tbe
candlestick lu ber hand.
Any one who bad observed bcr would
certainly have believed that she waa
going straight to poor Cousin Betsy's
room to end that lady's life by a of
the sharp li. It ktiife biad I'D she
paused at le candlestick, knelt do a.
pened the t'umi.y Bible ai lU.i f.'-leuf,
nd slowly, , ' , ;
scrape, acrsi.e at th mn J oi
the record vt tmr b!t"b. f f
Then ahe rm.-il Hie room, took from
a fireside ciMxiard & )"n ami Juk. '.mi'!,
wrote two o'ber figures lu the '.-m of
those ahe hid erased, Mi w upt ; the
leaf until It jUjUeVeefBtljrtOilcheil
up the real of the record to match In
brightness, and drew back to read the
. ....... llnntf vlilnll tiAHf nllti1v
amended lines, which now plainly
Dated to all beholders that ahe bad en
tered this world thirty yeara before In
Head of forty.
"Cornelia."
It seemed toVome from above. Cor
nelia looked up expecting to see some
thing dreadful. It was repealed;
"Cornelia, ain't you coming to bed?"
It wm only Cousin Betsy speaking
through a disused register, which bnd
once conveyed heat from a atove In the
ilttlng-rootu to the chamber above.
All In a cold perspiration, Cornelia
managed to reply that she would come
In a moment, and then closing the Bible
and putting away the writing materials
ihe crept upstairs, a world of horrible
unseen things close after her.
Mr. Dumsday regularly "came a
courting" now. And he was a rich
widower, whose married daughter pro
fessed herself anxloui that "pa" should
bave some one to take care of him.
Mlsa Cornelia bad quite made up her
mind that lavender should be the color
of her wedding dress a copper-colored
bride expectant alwayi doci.
And the two were lilting together one
evening talking confidentially about
rheumatism and Iti best liniment, when
the doorbell rang and a tall, lean gen
tleman, In a suit of black, was ushered
Into the parlor.
"Miss Cornelia Lunt, I believe," he
laid.
"Yei, ilr," ald Mlsi Cornelia.
The gentleman bowed, handed her a
card with "C. Dodrldge, Solicitor," up
on It, and took the sea she ofTeC.
."I nnderstand tat jmir -csp-cted
pa.enti are no more, mu'am.' sl' the
solicitor. "They wo-ild rermnir. , b-i.
-ter than you do, cry.a-' j,f.;
thirty years ago when r ', , Soif
boarded wltb them." , . v
"Yei, ilr," laid Oornidii ( . red
In the face. "I've henid t , tk ol
bim."
"Ah," aald the,KCtU'JllttO-. ':iJt'..V;dA.x.
dear friend bi well as a client of mine.
He died about two months ago In Lon
don. He wai wealthy at the time of big
death, and he never forgot the extreme
kindness of the frlendi of thirty yean
ago, who knew bim In bli dayi of com
parative poverty. Yea, they are gone
also; but the little girl who waited on
him ao lovingly still lives. She waa 11
yean old at that time. I suppose I ad
dresi her?"
"No, ilr," in!d MIn Lunt, redder than
ever-7-ai Mr. Dumsday turned an at
tentive ear to Uili dreadful statement
and feeling that one He begot many,
and that having fibbed It tbe family
Bible ihe muit stick to It or die "No,
ilr. I wai not bora at that date."
"I have my old frlend'i record," aald
Mr. Dodrldge"18 wni the date of hli
arrival here. You were 1 month old
then 18 wai tbe date of hli depart
ure. Plainly you were 11 yeara of age.
You attached yourself fondly to my old
frlend'i heart, madam."
"No, I didn't," "Id Mlsa. Cornelia,
tartly. "I ought to know, I never aaw
b!m. I wai born Just after he left, I've
been told. There'i tbe Bible on tbe
table; look at the date."
She opened the volume at the fatal
flyleaf; the lawyer pormed It slowly.
"I aee, I iee," be laid. "Well, well;
and who wai thli little girl?"
Agony of agonies! Here waa another
)) needed. Mr. Pnmidayi eyea opan
widely. He llsteued more Intent). He
looked at tbe lawyer; be looked at the
lady. Hhe must Ob again, and blackly
this time.
"That waa little adopted child who
died," said Miss Cornelia falutty. "They
didn't tblnk they should have any fam
ily of their own."
i see," said tbe lawyer, rlslng-"l
set. My friend hoped the bad grown to
be a woman. Good-day.
"And I can't see why you should
come here to add to a lndy'a age," said
Miss Cornelia. "I'm sure It's Impolite."
' "Mac'siu," said Mr. Dodrldge, bat In
hand, "I have an excuse; Mr. Noire,
good old man, left all bla fortune to that
little glrL Had ahe lived ahe would be
an Immense, heiress, i paved the way
-paved tbe way, Hint's all."
He departed; Miss Cornelia bowed
bim out. After all, what did It Blatter!
Fortune, lu the person of Mr. Duma
day, waa at ber feet, and she had saved
ten yeara of her age In bla eyea.
t-1rr'-w1r!rrI11ed Mr. Dumsdny?
He had nrlsen; hl faco looked pale, bia
cotititetmiice anxious. He shook bla
K'nit slowly, went to the candlestick,
folded the leaves f tja family Bible,
and spoke aa follows;
"Ooruely, from whf 1 1 see you'ra liiat I
shout itu years of s.-e. tren't eat" V4
"Yes," aawj Ornera. wonderlngly,
"I bis In i trlsr to m, Comely," said
X;r Duuisday, "1 kuow I've bijen to
blame If ft come to nothing, but we
must part."
"Did you think I was younger?" aald
Cornelia. "Is that ItT
"No, Comely," said Mr. Dumsday;
"but I took a little oath to my daughter,
Jemmlmy-Mrs, Nutmegs, that Js-nev-er
to marry a second wife under 0.
People generally thinks you lining 40,
so t picked you out. Good -by, Comely.
I hope I ain't spiled yer proxpex. Borne
younger man will-"
"Or cried Cornelia. "O. coma back!
Ill tell the truth. I am 40."
"ltecords can't lie. I seed It In tbe
Bible," aald Mr. Dumsdny. "Farewell,
Comely, It'a a cross, but I must bear
It." New York Kveulng News.
LORD RUSSELL'S DILEMMA,
Mistaken foe Thief He Made a Lu
dicrous Kilt from the crepe.
Once when be first came to London
aud wai laying the foundation of bis
great career, the future lord chief justice
went to the pit of a theater. The piece
was popular, the pit wai crowded and
the young advocate bad only standing
room. All of a sudden a mau at bis
side cried out that bla watch was stolen.
Mr. Itussell and two other men were
hemmed In, "It Is one of you three,"
cried the man minus the watch.
"Well, we had better go out and be
searched," aald Mr. Itussell, wltb the
alertness of mlud (bat did not fall bim
at a trying moment amid an excited
crowd.
A detective was at hand and the sug
gestion was accepted, sayi the Loudon
Express. At Mr. Russell walked out
the Idea Dashed through bis mind that
If the man behind bim bad the stolen
pi ipt rty 1. would probably try to se
crete it lu i a pocket of bla front rank
iimn. Qut.v as thought be drew bla
emu tn ! u!w u him only to feel, to his
" :'f, a t lint Inrge aud smooth and
nmmi a.-ciic In hla pocket. While he
Mil! wot derlng what this might
ttieaii for htm, the detective energeilcal.
ly w UeO is hindmost man, exclaim
ing; Whut, you rascal, at It again!"
T.i ii 4 ftf1 amt lha ..II, nm ... .. i. ..
spogged and bade them go fret But
Mr, nussi-ll. before be bnd taken 'many
r,.ncted that he could not keen
.. " 'P
me watcn. ixe went hack to the im
otlice and explained, wltb a courage on
which be afterward said he rarely ex
perienced greater demands, that,
though be did not take the watch, he
had It. Ho saying be put his hand Into
his pocket and pulled outa forgotten
anuff box.
Sure Knoiigh Tale.
In one of the private school here In
town there la a nun II boy who Is always
cheerfully miles behind everybody else.
He Is not a dull boy, but learning does
not appeal to htm as being a thing es
pecially to be desired. Itecently the
teacher told the clasa In composition
that ou the next day she would exMct
each of them to be able to write a short
anecdote. She explained with great care
the meaning of the word anecdote, and
next day when ihe called the clnss up
to write, all but tlie laggard weut ai
once to work.
"Why don't you write an anecdote.
Bob?" asked the teacher.
"I forget what an anecdote Is," said
Rob, undisturbed.
"I explained It yesterday, Rob; and
you ought to remember," laid the
teacher, a bit out of patience. "An
anecdote Is a tale. Now write."
Rob bout over hli slate, and with
much twlKtlng of brow and writhing of
lip ground out his task. When the
slates were collected his was at the
very top of the heap. The teacher pick
ed It up, and thla Ii what ihe read:
"Yesterday we bad loup made from
Hie anecdote of an ox." Youtb'a Com
panion. Ueohcua .ijneka a Locomotive.
We tavtrty to hear of a bull disput
ing tb riifl.it of way with a locomotive,
but a home generally hns more sense.
However, thli was a broncho horse In
Colorado, f ie wai wandering around
ii bfippy fusion and had crossed the
railroad Trm?, but, for some reason
took a notion to return and use It as a
promeunde. Along came a train nnd
the engine whistled a warning. Bron
cho trotted along a little faster, but
declined to get off. The engine shrieked
out fiercely, and thli apparently an
gered the broncho, for he turned square
ly around, and reared up ni If to as
sault the locomotive, mere can be
only one ending to such a talc be waa
knocked out m nair a jirry.
Killed the Kisses.
"Yea, they tried to live on bread and
cheese and , kisses."
"Didn't It work?"
"No, ahe made the bread and George
furnished the Roquefort, nnd after
thnt nobody wanted any klssea."
Cleveland rinln Denier.
Prohibitive Export Tax.
The Republic of Guatemala has Im
nosed a tax of $70 a bead on all cattle
exported rrora me wumrj. u in
tended to be prohibitive.
When a member of a large family
o-oes away from home, tbe flnt pleai-
ant aurprlse la that ha geta a clean
towel on which to wipe hla face.
If you are a renter, add the taxes, in
auranca and repalra on the houia you
Uva In befora knocking on your land-ld
"-rScience
It has been luggeated that It would be
well for legations In barbarous reglcsne
to bave a wireless telegraphic a p pair-
It us, at communication could not then
bt Interrupted by hostile forces. '
Tbe number of atari distinctly visible
without the aid of a glasi Ii put by
Gould at 0,333. I'rof. Nwwcomb aaya
their number la 7,047. These art up to
tbe sixth magnitude. I'rof. Newvoiub
estimates the number up to tbe 14.5
magnitude at two hundred million.
The new electric locomotive for the
teepeit portions of the Jungfrau
Mountain Railway will bt the moat
powerful electric rack-wheel locomo
tive ever constructed. The two motors
will each have I'J.Vhorse power, and
will make BOO revolutions per minute
driving the toothed wheels. -
A new application of electricity
cornea from I'ortugal, where an luveu
tlou baa been taken out for facilitating
foXUiid badger bunting. It consists of
a small eluctrlc lamp tlxed to tbt collar
of a dog, which la to enter a burrow.
The effect of thli light Ii to frlghteo
"Br'er Fox" and cause blui to come out
of hli burrow. ,
Dr. V. Ijirroque reports t the
French Academy of tkleucea that bla
studlea of tbt action of sounds upon tht
human cars prove tbit th auditory
apparatus of each ear opera&a Inde
pendently of tht other. Thla appears
to have a bearing upon the question
whether the loaa of bearing by one ear
exercises an Injurious effect upon lta
mate.
Orchids art famous for beauty and
general attractiveness, but It Is not gen
erally kuowu that they bave a place In
the arta that minister to tbt physical
wanta of man. But lu some parts of
the tropica where orcblda abound, a
delicate fiber Is prepared by tht na
tives, which they use In the preparation
of tbe many ornaments these races pre
pare for trade wltb tbt paler races of
men.
tack of proper nesting places, too lit
tle water, the English sparrow, boy a,
collectors, birds ou bati aud the cat art
imong tht causei of the decrease of
song birds enumerated by D. Lang.
He suggests protection and encourage
ment of tbe birds by plautlug trees and
shrubs for them to live In, putting up
nesting boxes for breeding, providing
water for feeding and bathing, and
feeding In unfavorable weather.
A German physicist, G. Tammann,
baa recently discovered lomt hitherto
u limited facts concerning Ice aud tbe
freexlng (mint of water. He finds that
not only does the freexlug polut vary
with the pressure, but that three differ
ent kinds of Ice can le produced, each
Dossesslug Its own crystalline structure.
Thus water may now be said to have
five known forms, namely, water vapor,
water as a liquid, ordinary Ice, railed
by Tammann lie I., Ice In lta second
form, or Ice II., and Ice In lta third
form, denominated as Ice HI. Some
itonsclentllle people would, tn hot
weather, add a sixth form generally
known as Ire cream.
Through the Insertion of inductance
coils Into tbe electrical circuit, I'rof.
Pupln, of Columbia University, has
greatly Increased the efficiency of long
distance telephony through rablea. Tbe
lusertlon of the colli enable tbt cable
lo traiiam't i).(sk) times as much current
ns It Is able to transmit without tliem.
Wltb an experlmeuUil cable thus pro
vided, It tins been found possible to
carry on a conversation distinctly at a
distance of 250 miles. By applying the
principle to oceanic cables. It Is be
lieved that telephonic messages might
be sent to aud fro across the Atlantic,
It would also greatly Increase the ra
pidity with which ordinary telegraphic
signals can be transmitted by cable.
The principle la likewise applicable for
extending the range of telephonic com
munlcatlon over aerial wires.
KILLED BY A FLY'S BITE.
'"blUI Suffers Hreat Aamr and 1 xp'res
la n I.-n 'on lloi til.
At St. Bartholomew'! hoepltal tbe
other day Arthur C. Langham, deputy
coroner, held an Inquest relative to the
death of I.ydln Maria Chamberlain,
aped 0 years, the daughter of a riding
Instructor, lately living with her uncle
nt M Chelmsford road, WalUiiimntow.
Alfred Lewis Chamberlain deposed
that the deceased, bis niece, was play'
Ing at Ihe window on Friday wLh tls
own little girl, when she suddenly com
plained of having been bitten by a fly.
Nut much notice was tnkeu at tho time,
hut In the morning the spot ou the
nose where she had been bitten became
so much Inflamed and swollen thnt It
was thought advisable to call In a doc
lor. Afterward ihe became very de
lirious, and eventually lapsed Into un
?oMsc!ousnesn. By this time her noee
i ml eye had swollen to an abnormal
t.i?,c. and It wni thought advisable to
have her removed to the hospital. De
spite every effort which- wai imide by
the whole of the staff of tbe hospital
the child gradually sank and died. It
was a ense of such, rarity that It waa
watched wltb Intense lutereit by all
the doctors.
"Yon are mre It wai a fly that bit
her" arked Mr. Langham. ,
"What ihe Bald was, 'Oh, I have Just
b'cii bitten by a fly and It Is palniul.' "
Dr. Nlxou, bouse turgeon," deposed
tlmt when he admitted the child she
wis rnconsclous. Uavlug beard the
history of the case, he never left her
until she died. The face was so swol
len li nt he was unable to say nt first
where the bite was. lie had iIiicj made
a post-mortem examination and found
Inside ihe lower lid of the right eyt
an ulcer. This ulcer hud sat up In
flammation, which bad penetrated Into
the skin and Into the cellular lUsiuis of
the orbit. Bo great wai the Inflamma
tion that the pupil of the eye woa forc
ed out from between the 1UU, the pain
being,, no doubt, most terrible. On ex
sjilnliUS the lungs he found Infection,
Knowing thnt a blood itrenm had rn
from tht) bead and carried the poison
ous m'crobes over the body. .:
"Have you ever heard of sacta a case
baton.'?" Mr. Langham asked.
"Yi-s. We hove records of one or
two cases of the kind, but "they are
extremely rare."
"The bite of the Insect caused the
micro-organisms, then?"
"I can see no other cause, from the
history of the case." Continuing, wit
nesi said thnt death wai due to general
blood poisoning set up by the mlcrobea.
The Jury returned a verdict of death
from blood poisoning act up by the bite
of an Insect, the death being caused by
misadventure. rail Mall Gaxette.
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DUTCH HAVE RICH ISLANDS.
Hollandt Next to England, the Greatest
I.,d Owner in the Pacific
The Pacific ocean, westward of Ha
waii and the Marquesas, li like a fed
trUon of Kirqnean nations on Asiatic
toll, onlttd by tbt free eommtre of
tbt aeaa, Tbt nation! vary In
strength and Importanct. as tbt sts.es
of Europe or of tht American Union.
Crest Britain command tht field with '
a landed art. of nearly 1.2600 aorfart
2ss. iznTxi sr srs;
i.m t m.m, vi. n.. iha
which emanated tht doughty Boera,
th iv.fi J,i ' ...i
" "i'viM"i"""i"""
with nearly eight times ai many people
ai Inhabit tbt larger arta owned by
n fma t a-luh, Ommimm Ih. n, a! r.
nanct over mort than 100,000 equ.r.
n i f I am m tA an kAii m.m smaiMSi smaamIa swan
one-tenth of Germany'i land. I. at , lffoi?' b.ut ' " V. r k!
torna of tbo most Important polnta of od to P'"'0,"
trategy and at tht point of gmtest," """'X.. ' '
travel. Several Independent atatea Ho W-' i0"1"6.
In tht midst of this federstlon. aa Swlt- ' onnf Bill tan bad an interest Ing
rland dot. In Europe; ..vera, other. "
In tbt unhappy, auxeralned position
of tht Transvaal In South Africa. t
If all tht Islands could bt put Into a
contlnuoua body of bind tbey would
form a most heterogeneous empire.
They would Include, n addition to Eu
ropean peoples wltb their various polit
ical and social systems, a tangle of ab
origines, a confusion of savages and
seml-clvlllaed cultivators of soil and
commonwealth; ao emporium of pro
ducts mort diversified than a bazaar on
a midway plalsance, a mystery of tra
ditions aa Inexplicable aa tbt origin of
tht American Indians. Profoundly for
ested In the Dutch East ladle, tbe Isl
ands become In western Australia mort
barren than tht lava beds of eastern
Oregon and mort Irredeemable than
the uppermost wild of British Colum
bia. Fertile, balmy and luxurious In
tht beautiful lands of. New Zealand,
FIJI, flnmoa and Tahiti, they are trans
formed Into uninhabitable coral reefs
or luto hot and malarial beds of strug
gle Jn tht guano-covered or copra-pro-
aucing aote on in map norm ana east
of a Hue drawn from the I'blllpplne tq
New Qutnea and through ftatnoa to tbsj
Society Islands. A InsU-e's Msgaxlne.
TWENTY BIO CALIFORNIANS.
Met, Wmsta, aat Olr't Pall te Tri
Binchlng la Arsewtlaa.
For height, broad ahoulderi and her
culean build, tbe party of twtnty Call
fornlan cattle raisers who passed
through Chicago tbe other day could
bardly bt aurpasaed. Tbey were on
their way from Los Angeles to tbt Ar
gentine Republic, where tbey Intend to
raise cattle on a much more extensive
scale than tbey could In California.
The party consisted of tbe three Pal
let! brothers and their families, with
Ave cowboyi. who, bad thrown In their
lot with tbt company lu tbt hope of
miking a fortune la tbe fertile valley
of the Platte river.
Tbe three Pallett brothers are each
fully alx feet In height, have broad,
muscular shoulders, and tip the scales
at 200 pound. Their wive are nearly
as tall ami muscular. Two of the
brothers have each four daughters, and
the third brother haa three. Theft
eleven girls range In age from 18 to 23
years, and take after their parents In
build.
"Never before," said tbe night clerk
at tbe hotel "have we bnd guests who
attracted ao much attention, and we
frequently bave some peculiar people
stopping here. Tbe other guests In the
bouse seemed like dwarfa aa compared
with thla Western party."
W. A. Pallett, the oldest brother,
wben asked for hi resson for leaving
America, aald: "We are all sorry to
leave the United States, but all the
graxlng land la rapidly being acttlcd,
and, wltb the Increase of the popula
tion, the cattle raisers are being driven
farther west. My family waa Interest
ed In the business and first had exten
sive ranches In Ohio, From there we
followed tbe frontier clear to the Pa
cific coast We go now to Rosarlo, and
thence up In the mountains about fifty
miles to the broad valley of tbe Platte
river. Great Inducements exist there
for profitable cattle raising, We have
the Luropean markets to sell to, where
prices are much higher than In thla
country; and tbe cost of raising cattle
Is not half as much as It Is tn Texas,
Mexico or Lower California. We havei
a cash capital of 45,000, and expect to
be Joined In Argentina by another
shareholder to the extent of 15,000. The
ranch will be managed on a co-operative
basls."-Chlcago Inter Ocean.
Harmony fbr the Insane.
Music treatment for the Insane is
being tried on Ward'a Island, New-
York, with some encouraging signs.
Tbe Idea of utilising rhythmic meas
ures to soothe the Insane datea from
tbe ancients, but It was only recently
that systematic work In thla direction
was begun. In 1877 and 1878 some
desultory effort was made on Black
well's Island. In 1880 the London Lan
cet discussed the subject, and Is quoted
as saying: "Music Influences both brain
and spinal cord, probably on account of
music having vibratory or wave mo-,
tion, and through lti vibratory action
stimulates the nerve centers. Music
acta aa a refreshing mental stimulant
and restorative. Therefore, It braces
depressed nervous tone and Indirectly
I fhrnuirh the norvnna avafem renchea tlio
tissues."
In the present experiment claases of
twelve are treated. The class la ushered
Into the music-room and left free. Ev
ery movement la watched by nurses,
however, and Just before the music be
gins and wben It la ended tbe resDlra-
tlon, temperature and pulse of each pa
tient are carefully noted. The instru
ments used are the harp and violin,
with the piano accompaniment wben
there Is singing. A baritone voice Is
employed. Even In the short time the
'experiment has been In progress Im-
proved attention has been noticed.
This Is one of the most Interesting lines
oi luvemigimon mot nas ever Deen fol
lowed with the Insane, and a full report
on the work will undoubtedly contain
much valuable Information.
Hard Work.
"The average typewriter works hnrd
er than a man who shovels coal," said
I a youth who ought to know. "Let me
prove thla by cold figures," he contin
ued. "The average typewriter car
riage weighs four pounds. The aver
nge operator lifts the carriage Ave
times a minute. This meaus that he
lifts twenty pounds every minute, or
1 1,200 pounds every hour. If he Is
lucky he works but eight houra a day,
which means that he lifts nearly five
tons a day. The carriage Is lifted on
Ian average seven Inches every time It
is raised, or 175 feet every hour, or
about a quarter of a mile each day.
But as tbe nana travels tnrough as
much space tn lowering as In raising
the carriage, and as the strain la as
great, we must double those figures,
which means that the average operator
lifts over two tona fourteen Inches
each day or two pounds one-half mile"
Some politicians turn worma by the
way they ahake hand.
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MILLIONAIRE LABORER.
0wMJ,1l "TlL7.
A aHMai si aa e arKn sa It Vinii af K ahlak f i
. ?-v' "
" " '
- J -is.
road, getting for bis labori $1.25 a day,
" ,rtr"1 kB "' f
and bt Is a atockbolder In tbt road
k.... ... K. U t.lr.lnir tn aatah.
If I4UWW ) I ssvsvae aww ssf wvsatsgj) sw vaexw
llsb. Young Bell was reared amid tbt
luxury and refinement of a wealthy
bu ??A Tl "'I?
finely educated and given every oppor
In 1877, where bt bas since resided savt
what tlmt bt waa abroad. Ills father
and mother went abroad every year,
taking bim wltb them. In this way he
bas gone to Europe? twelve times, visit
ing all the points of Interest there. Ht
went to Harvard University, wbert bt
sW,
HKBTSA1-D
lift. I., MILMOVAIKB.
rained four years, graduating from
1 tbat Institution only last June. While
In college Mr. Bell's particular delight
waa found In tbe study of languages,
both ancient and modern, and be la
able to use tbt French, German, Italian
and Spanish tongues, besides having a
good knowledge of Greek, Latin and
Sanskrit Mr. Bell bai pronounced lit
erary taitei and bai written for torn
of tbe leading magazines.
An interesting feature of Mr. Belra
career wai bi participation In tbt
celebrated Peary relief expedition
wblcb sailed from Nora Scotia tait
year. Alio be participated In tbe Spanish-American
war, serving as a marine
lu the United States service.
Bell Is a man of striking eccentricity
In bis personal appearance and con
duct. The thermometer may register
83 or 00 lo the shade, or tbe mercury
may fall down below tbe freet.ng point
but Bell never wears a bat Then, too,
although be bas an abundance of ele
gant ctotblng. he seems to care noth
ing for It, but likes better bis blue flan
nel shirt and drilling tr&users. Not only
In his work does be go thus, but haa
been known to go to the cities and pass
days there thus attired.
Wben be learna tbe surveying busl
less thoroughly, Mr. Bell will go back
to New York, where be will make bla
borne and delve further Into tbe myster
ies of railroading and enjoy the round
of social pleasures In the exclusive cut
elea which bla wealth will glv h' a3
mlttance to.
,The dykea of Japan cost In t jt asffrre-
gate more money than thoti.'Tjt lit
Kethcrlanda.
Snails, by means of an acid which
tbey exude, contrive to bore bolea In
solid limestone.
What the bagpipes are to tbe Scotch
the concertina Is to tbe Transvaal
farmer. He plays It In season and out
of season, morning, noon and night
While the blacks are outspannlng or
Inspannlng tbe cattle, the concertina
gives forth; while tbe women are pre
paring the meal, the farmer, pipe In
mouth, wrestles wltb tbe agonizing
concertina.
Tbe number of hours of bright sun
shine experienced at Greenwich. Eng
land, during the year ending April 30,
1000, was recently computed from the
record of tbe Camphetl-Stokea Instru
ment In this space of time tbe sun
was above the horizon 4.454 hours, and
fhe record shows that during 1,636
hours there waa bright sunshine. Thla
would give a mean proportion of sun
shine for the year of .3(17, constant sun
shine being represented by one.
.At an auction sale In Liverpool re
cently two logs of African mahogany
were sold for the phenomenal price of
17,080, the price realized for tbe two
logs being respectively $2.50 arid $1.80
per superficial foot, which Is a record
for African mahogany logs In tbe rough
state aa Imported. They formed one
tree and were purchased for the pur
pose of being cut Into veneers for tho
decoration of a millionaire's residence
In America. The veneers are to be
used In place of wall paper and being
beautifully figured will give a superb
effect.
One barrel nnslaked lime weighing
220 nounds will make two and one-
(uarter barrels stiff lime paste, equal
to 0.3 cubic yard. One barrel of lime
paste and three barrels of sand will
make three barrels of mortar,' equ.it to
0.4 cubic yard. One barrel of-unelak-ed
lime will make 6.75 barrels mortar
one part lime, three parts sand. Ce
ment weighs four hundred rw iinds
per barret, 375 pounds net. One ruble
foot dry cement shaken down weighs
one hundred pounds and makes 0.03
cubic foot stiff paste when mixed with
25 per cent to 30 per cent of water.
A Happy Ending.
A boy about 10 years old came Into
the Central Police Station of a Kansas
city, leading a fine shepherd dog by a
piece of rope. The boy's face was red
and he was crying. A big policeman
kindly asked what was the matter. It
waa quite a long time before the boy
could stop crying long enough to re
ply. "My mother," be sobbed, 'Is too
poor to pay for a license for Shep, and
I brought him here to bave you kill
him."
Then he broke out with another wall
as If bis heart was breaking. Shep
stood mute and motionless, looking lov
ingly at his young master. A police
man blew bis nose very loui'iy, tbe desk
sergeant walked out Into tbe hall, while
the captain remembered that he must
telephone somebody. Then the chief
of police led the boy to the door, and
patting him on the head, snld gently:
"There," little fellow, don't cry any
more: run home with your dog. I
wouldn't kill Shep for a thousand dol
lars." The boy shed tears of Joy now, and
ran off with Shep barking and bound
ing at his aide, and It was hard to tell
which was tbt happiest
.