ELUMCERLAND, , ,
Mr llttlo chil l, with yellow balr, ' 7 '
And eyif April violets.
My nwirt Is full or d m roirrots
For the lonir Journey you inunt go,
A llitlowrulin In rnhc of mow:
To-nlirlit, alono. throujrh atnnn orfiilr,
A pretty pilgrim, bouim lor wiioror
If I thnuld put within your hand
A siHtr, and samlnla on your foot.
You would not unclcrniiii'l mo, Bweot;
Yet as In days of old romance,
Unknown of their fate orchanno.
Tuo pIlKrlnm wont hy God command,
60 you will go through Slumborlund.
Upon what ocean bluo and deep,
Aitokk what iiiountHln llorco and cold.
Willi snow-wrapped BiiminitB, fold on fold,
Or tnrouifn wnnt rauoy, sine ana tow,
Will my woo bad-tlme traveler go?
While I a tender vU!l keen
Over the fortune of nor Bleep.
I may not follow or unhiir
I 11 n uiipuuii ifivus 1,1 riiu 111 i'iti iiiii'i ,
Thouifh fast In 111I110 her woe whlto hand,
I ahull not know whul fucen liond
iienxio nor, or wnui moiiiriiM nuunu
My dBrllnv iroinir f.ilrnnd fur.
To worlds beyond the evonliur star.
Juliet t. Uiu tli, In I'oulA 1 Cumpantoii.
STUPENDOUS SPIDERS.
Some Not Very Pretty Ineocts
Found In tho Tropics.
Tarnntnlai, Scorpion and Centipede, and
How Thrjr Conduct Thmnaelrn
Sand-Kilos and Monqiiltoi Life
la tho lUhamas.
With tho budding out of tho fresh
leaves and blades there cone out of
their laird the only wild heists of the
Bahama. They nro tarantulas, centi
pedes and scorpions. They have lain
hidden some win) re or other all winter,
rarely showing themselves, but tho lir.-t
rain of sprlryj put new life into them
and they come creeping out. and ttiru up
always where least expected. They are
to the people of. Annum what tigers and
lions aro to tho I.mt Indians, dust
shout "Look out for that scorpion!" or
"There's a centipede!" if you want to
see everybody jump. Ihey are all
small, but all venomous. If ono of
them bite vmt, you aro sure to have
trouble. Iho to:son may not kill von,
but it will give you mora pain than anv
body cares about enduring, and it will
give you "Ihe lever, ai every bodily
ill is culled here by the natives. If it is
a centipede or a scorpion, you may ac
cidentally nick ono up in your hand;
,but you will not hold him long. And
.anybody who spend a few months in
the tropics learn to treat them with the
greatest respect. Vt ithout much of that
fear of snider and insects in general
that some persons havo, I think I
should rather encounter a panther or a
bear than any one of these threo insects.
With the big brutes, you soo them com
ing, or know about whore to expect
them, and can bo on your guard. Hut
you havo not much chance to cruard
against tho tarantula, tho centipede or
tho scorpion.
Tho tarantula being the largest of the
threi, tho most hideous, and, I think
the most dreaded, ho is perhaps entitled
to bo looked at first. lie is known by
almost every body in Nassua as "the
ground spider," but ho Is tho real
poisonous tarantula, tho same as I have
met him in Arkansas, in lexas, in
Mexico and in Cuba. There aro more
of them in Arkansas. I think, than anv-
whel e o!so In tho world. In a morning'!
walk of six or eight miles tliero, J havo
seen several, und oims'doring tho
spider's deadly character and great
sue. that was rimumg across them
Iiretty fast. Hero they are not so plenty,
nit still tliero aro enough about in the
rainy seasons to make a stranger feel
rather uneasy. We have tho common1
"houso spider, too, as it is culled
sometimes almost as large as the taran
tula; but he in entirely harmless, and
1 people hardly ever take tho trouble to
;ill him. House spiders catch and cat
flies anil ants nnd other small insects
and thus pay their rent, lint oven tho
1 noiise spiuer is nor. a pleasant com
pau'on in a room. The tarantula, how
ever, will empty a room of its occupants
In about as short order as a t cer would
Tho lirst one I ever siw In Nassua was
when I had been at Waterloo about a
month and was having the bushes
cleared away from about tho. houso.
Homo of the colored boys were at work
in the flower garden, and ono morning
they made a grand dash for tho front
puw.a. limy all looked well fright-
enod. and I asked tlium what was tho
matter. ,
Klroun' spider, boss." ono of thorn
replied as soon as hooould catch breath
enough.
Wo all went out to kill him armed
with hoes, rakes, brooms and all tho
long-handled Implements wo could find,
as well as a wagon load or so of good
siwd stones, lie sat among the grass
nnd weeds, easily seen and watched on
neeountof his intense blackness, nnd
did not offer to movo. None of the
boys would go within eight or ten feet
of ' him, - because it is commonly be
lieved that tarantulas can and do spring
a long distance, being well provided
with muscular and hairy legs for that
purpose. ' I think, howover, that this Is
a mistake. I havo seen a groat many
of them and never yet havo seen ono
iump or make any movement beyond a
slow, crawling walk. Their legs aro
kept well under them when they walk,
elevating thorn, I should thiuk, about
two inches above the ground. At any
rate we ail kept at a respoctful distance
from this fellow and pelted him With
rocks. Tho lirst shot must have hurt
him, for he made no effort to get away,
and In a minute or two ho was pounded
Into a jolly a nn 4v, ha'ry, black jelly
that no one would car.) to touch. Vheu
ho was used up bovond all danger of ro
suschition wo cut him to pieces with tho
hoes and threw him over tho wall, llo
was not a very !ar;o one for a tarantula
perhaps about four inches long and
three inches broad. The- hairy black
legs mako them look more obnoxious
and disgusting than thoy otherwise
would. It is hard to tell just how largo
nnd powerful tho legs are ou account of
tho thick black hair with which they
aro oovered. After this the boys were
cautious when thoy d stnrbed any big
stones in tho yard, and looked carefully
into any thick cluster of weeds before
they disturbed it
Opinions differ as to whether the bite
of a tarantula is ever fatal. Any col
orod person in Nassau will tell you that
his bile is sure death. 1 hare taken
some pains to make inquiries for any
person who has over known, of his ow u
knowledge, of a fatal result from tli
bite of a tarantula. It is impossible to
lind any well-authenticated case.
The scorpion Is the next gentleman
to demand attention. He is very inueli
simillor than the tarantula, much
livelier, and not much handsomer.
There are a thousand scorpions, I sup
pose, to one tarantula, and their bite is
fully as bad. I must confess to having
had a very vague idea about tho scor
pion before becoming acquainted with
the tropics. I think if I had been
driven to it, I should havo described
him as a creature with wings, blank
and somewhere about the size of a hum
ming-bird. This would have .been about
as Inaccurate a description as can boim
ugincd. He has no wings, ho is not
black, and ho is nowhere near the s'ze
rl arnn a linl.frriurn li nmmi n rr.llird
There is an ijnarTnnry p'cture of Tiim in
all the almanacs, but it doesn't look very
much bko him Hint s en of the zodiae.
Keferring to Mr. Webster to seo how
mv experience compares with an an
thoritativo description of him. I find
that ho is ' a podipalpous, pulmonary
arachnidan, of tlio genus scorpio,"
and I am glad to loam, of course, that
ho Is a podipalpous. Anybody would
bo a podipalpous who would take hold
of one of thorn, if he could help it. But
nobody ever does. We hear of snake
charmers, and lion-tamers, and tamers
of wild beasts in general; but did any-
Hwlv nvnr hnar rtt it man fnnlinff finnnn
essarily with a scorpions. A fufl-grown
scorpion is troru two to two and-a-half
inches long, and his co'or is a sort of
ashy gray. He has eight legs,
upon all ot which m.ntite hairs
grow, and his tail is much longer
than there is any noeess ty for, cons'd
ering the s;zo of his body. The tail is,
in fact, only a continual; on of his boar.
nnd I have included that in measuring
his length. It is At tho end of his ta
that ho carries his venomous sting, and
when he curls up his body into a serai
circle, and brings that lively end of his
tad to bear upon an enemy, the enemy
can not drop him too son. His b-xly is
no where as thick as a lead-pencil, but
at the hea l it branches nut into claw 1,
or horns, or additional legs, whichever
you liko to call tSem; so that in shapo
ho is somewhat bko a tack hammer.
He is shaped very much liko a hammer
headed shark, only hammor-hoad'td
sharks are not familiar enough in
Northern waters to serre f.r an illustra
tion. He is a creature of mold and
slimo, like tho snail.- Let An old box lie
011 tho ground, particularly in a moist
placj, till tho bottom boards begin to
decay, and your scorpion trap is ready,
When you want your game lift up tho
box nnd tliero is your scorpion. But bo
careful to tako hold or in box near the
top, and not get your lingors in tho way
for the scorpion is vory rapid in his mo
tions and ho will givo yon a sting before
vou know it. When ha strikes yon with
tho end of his tail, like a wasp, ho ex
udes a venomous liquid, and 11 man
m'ght better hold a red hot iron in his
hand than get tho tenth part of a drop
. J 11 Y ...' 1.1. LI I T, l ' .
Ol HIS 1H1U1U llllO 111S UKKJII.I 11) IS llll
necessarily fatal, part'eularly in the
Bahamas; but it condenses tho heat of
forty furnaces. In soma parts of Isouth
America si.-orpion bites are frcpiontly
fatal, but I havo not heard of any one
having beinj killed by them in Nassua.
This is easily accounted for. Tho scor
pion likos to foo l upon decaying wo )d.
Tho centipede is much larger than the
scorpion, nnd I think even more to be
dreaded. Ho grows sometimes to bo
six or olffht inches lonj. but is slim and
rather flat. He, ton. travels rather
fast (he ought to. ho has logs enoiigu),
nnd ho scratches rather than bites,
leaving an ugly mark wherever ho sets
in ono of his numberless claws. Like
tlu seorpioii. ho lives under boards or
stones or at the bottom o' old walls.
Ho is made up all in joints, like the
tapeworm, and each joint has either
two or four legs. . 1 never examined
ono closely enough to seo oxaetly
which, for even after they are all cut
into I) ts tho pieces have an unpleasant
habit ot wiggl ng themselves about.
Thov sav about them hero t'lat a eonti-
pede w;il not d;o before Mark, no mut
ter how nmoli you out him up; but I
think that story will do to go with tho
yarn about snakes having the same bad
liabit. I havo cut up a few doz.tns ot
them with hoes, hero in Nassua. that I
nm sure d ed before I was through with
them. When I sav in Nassua 1 mean
hero at Waterloo, wlvoh is a mile and
n half out of town. Thaso insects aro
rarely wen in tho c ty, ati 1 Amercan
visitors often complain that they h ive
to go homo without a signt of a w of
thoui. The centipede's poison l:ci in
his claws. Tliero Is a bent nnd very
sharp claw at tho end of each leg wh eh
slioks iuto tho flesh, and if ho gets ono
of these claws into you he quickly p ills
himself up upon your hand, or wha'ever
part of you ho has hold of, And sets
ai tho rest. 1 have talked with poo
pie who havo been poisoned bv centi
podes, and thoy describollie sensation as
anything but pleasant, llo has not. of
course, a hundred legs, hut nn has a
(Treat many, and makes them all count.
One gentleman in Nassau described to
me a thrilling encounter he had. with n
centipede. On going to bed ono night
he put on that long white linen garment
which is so comfortiug to tho senses in
a hot climate, and it did not tako him
long to discover that there was some
thing in it. A moment later a centi
pede was fastened to his back, and tho
gentleman was trying to tear tho linen
oil' with as little delay as possible. Tiie
centipede by this time had given up n'l
claim to the linen, but held on to the
back for dear life. Thoy stick very
tightly, having to bo almost toru oil';
and the gentleman had to call for help
to have him pulled oil'. By the time
assistance arrived tho bisect had crawled
a foot or two up his victim's back, leav
ing a fiery rod mark wherever a claw
had touched. And all this time the
gentleman was enjoyiiij: the sensation
of having a hundred hot needles run
into him. From this and some similar
experiences it is quite fashionable in the
tropics to shake your clothes well before
putting thorn on. 1 remember a lady
a new arrival at the hotel asking me
one day whether I hung up my shoes at
nijrht to keep the insects out of themf
I try to imagine a man taking the
trouble to hang np his shoes before go
ing to bed, bntcan t quite do it Centi
pedes are more plentiful than scorpions,
out notqniteso likely to sting. 1 have
seen a barefoot man step on one
without being hurt, probably beeaase
the Insect had no chance to turn no
me Its claws. They aw Just abo it o
a par with scorpions as rogards tho ef
fect of tho:r poison. In some places lli
c Vet of a cint'pedc's sting has bee::
fatal, but it is not so hero.
1 wanted to end this chapter on tro
leal nuisances by saying -lometh ng
a jout my ancient enemy, the sand lly,
but words fa'd me. It is very seldom,
and then only on remarkably still davs,
that there aro any about in tho winter.
But during tho rainy season they are cx
ceedingly thick. No mosquito netting
will keep thera out, thfy aro so small
They gire no warning, like a mosquito,
bnt proceed at once to business Yon
feel a sting on some part of your
skm, and perhaps see thoro a black
soeck about the s?o of a pin s po'nt.
But he mnst be full of poison, for tk-o
b to swells up and itches, and yon get
twenty more of them, and yen ?rstch
till they're all sire nnd got I'ttlo scabs
on them, make nn 1 yen look as if rou
had small-pox. When I est back to New
York no mosqnito shalbever tempt mo
Into Impatience. 1 11 just think or the
sand-flies and be content.- S'atiau (D
hama) Cor. Ctneinnaft Enquirer.
THE EARTH. "
Tlmr Till TjrrM'l u H tlilt.itlon of Oari Is
Crowing.
Careful mathematical calculations
have been made recently to ascertain
the residuum left on the earth by the do
posit or meteoric matter. It is known
that the region al ng tho earth's orbit
abounds in meteors, and that at two
points tho orbit passes through streams
of meteors whore these littls planetoids
are unusually thick. These two points
are encountorod in August and Novem
bor, when tho precipitin! os of the little
bodies marks the firmament with lines
of firo. But meteors are falling to the
earth all tho timo in other months of
the year ns well as August and Novem
berin tho day time ai wall as at
night. Very brill'nnt ones havo been
seen shooting across the sky in broal
daylight, and ono who observes thi sky
patiently and attentively asv dark
nifrht mav count them. A raivful esti
mate makes tho averajo number to bo
seen by a single observer in a limited
quarter of the sky ahout twolro per
honr; and another estimate makes the
procip;tation of meteoric mat er to the
earth from tho whole heavens two and
a half tons per hour. In raro instanoes
the meteorite, or part of it wh'ch is a
solid body, reaches the 0 irth in aa nncon
sumed state, but far the greater number
are entirely consumed in the conllngra
tion set up by their passage through the
earth's atmosphere, and only the ashes
or meteorio dust reaches the soil. But
oven when the meteorite is thus burned
to ashes, no part of it is lost. All its
original elements survivo in the residu
um of ashes and vapor, which, thence
forth, bolong to our earth. Those
meteorites or planeto ds aro iron rocks,
and If one ot them ns large as the M.
Louis court house, in passing through
our atmosphere, were entirely burned
up, it would still bring as much incre
ment to the earth as if it fell to tho sur
face in a solid mass." The estimato of
this steady and perpetual increment to
our earth's weight is two and a half
tons per hour, or sixty tons a day, or
21,900 tons a year, or over 2,000.0-10 tons
every century. It would take 100 ordi
nary railroad froicht trains, therefore,
to haul the meteorio deposit which tho
earth gathers from tho sky every venr,
nnd if tliis matter could bo gathered
into ono mass and mi.do to revolve
ronnd our planet it would mako a ro
spectable little satellite added to the
eartli every venr. Tho earth is demon
strably growing in sizo nnd weight all
the time. Kelatively, however, the in
crement is small, though it appears
largo when considered by itself. Tho
earth has been weighed. If nnvone
. . . . . r
wants tho figures, here they nro: 6,000,-
000.000.000,000.01)0,000 tons.
It will take ages of steady precipita
tion of meteorites to appreciably in
crease this enormous mass of matter,
and tho estimate of it recently made
has no other interest, therefore, than as
nn astronomical curiosity. St. Louis
Republican.
TOUGH TO THE LAST.
An Authentic Account of the Lat Hour
of Yankre Sullivan.
I was very much pleased to moot last
week with Judge McGowan, ono of the
Argonaut! who, in 1819, discovered the
gonen neeeo, which has to ooin a
term royal zi'd California. In the
course of our conversation tho Jmige
told mo tho concrete history of tho
tragio end of tho famous prize-fighter,
Yankee Sullivan.
Sullivan, whoso real name was Ara-
broso Murray, was arrested and im
prisoned. He feared that tho Vigilantvs
would put him to death, though, a
Judge McGowan tells ra. his appre
hensions wore unfounded. Tho nuroo
ot that body was to sh'p him back to
Auslral a on tho lirst clipper ship that
sailed to Melbourne, it. having been
linitely understood thai Sulftvan, or
Murray, was an escaped convict. The
poor devil, however, was so affrighted
that he took no stock in the hope of es
cape from the harsh business of Judge
Lynch. Ho called eaoorly from his
prison windows for a priest, feeling that
death was settling closo around him.
but was answered bv jeers from the
mob without. Finally, iu sheer des
peration, ho opeuod tho veins of h's
left arm with a case-knife and bled
himself to death.
Yankee Sullivan was one of tho finest
price-fighters in the records. Washing'
ton lltitchet.
The Sum Canal is very largely used
by English merchantmen. It is said
that ninety per cent, of the enormous
trade between England and British
India passes through the canal. Two
thirds of the business done through the
canal is of Anglo-India origiu.
Stage robberies have becomo some
what numerous on the Pacitio coast,
one stnge alone having been pillaged no
less than four times within six months.
Clticago Times.
During the last nine years France
has spent nearly $6,000,000 per annum
ou increasing and reorganizing her uni
versity institutions.
THE AMAZONS.
An Areount of tlm l nmoa Women-War
rlom of Pahnmcjr.
Tho Amazons t f Abcme, of whom
there are at tho most six thousand, are
nominally the wives of the King, and
as such form a body guard which is said
to be superior to tho nmlo soldiers in
courage, discipline and loyalty. But
although those Amazons accompany
the King on all his wars, I think they
are more for nhow than for service.
Among all the savage and semi-savago
tribi-s, singing and dancing lire con
sidered as essential as dr.lling and
drumming among oursolve-1. It is nat
ural that tho Amazons, having from
thoir earliest childhood b-en educated
as warriors, dancers nnd singers, should
be ns superior to male .soldiers tn these
accomplishments ns our gnnrds are to the
reserve 1 hi Amaz ins of the "chaoda,
all of whom havo served in the army of
A ome. are women between the ag'is
of eighteen nnd twenty-fire, and as the
"thacha" docs not go to war they are
naturally only kept fr snow, lhcy
hare no separate barn !: . but live, like
the tiiirty male . sold en. in different
quarters of the town, whence tney are
call'd together whenever wanted. At
their first entrance, wnon, marching up
in a long precession, thoy saluted
thoir lord ani master, I was
nston!shed at Iho military exact
itude of their movera nts. Imagmesixtv
Touog women, strong and slender,
who, without losir-g anything of their
womanliness, present a doe;uediy war
like appearance. Among Europeans
th's combination of the woman and tho
warrior could not be imagined; here it
is explained by the peculiar format-on
of tho negro .skeleton. Tho skeletons
of negro women (in striking contrast to
those of the mulattos) are ntrikinzly
like the skeletons of male negro -s. The
nsert ou is untrue that the female war
riors of Dahomey havo their breasts cut
o!T, like tho mythological amaons of
the anciont ( reeks, j beir p cturesque
uniform might furnisii our masters of
the ballet with fresh ideas. 1 heir fresh
young faces look roguishly from under
the white. I. rimless yokoy-cap, orna
mented with black p ctures of animals,
such as lizards, b'rds, and others.- The
feet aro bar.); short knickorboekors of
green, red or yellow material com
down nearly to Ihe knees, and a br.glit-
colored funic of striied silk or velvet,
which leaves only the neck and tho
arms free, covers the upper part of the
body, which is supported by rorsete of
native manufacture. A broad belt of
many colors heightens the slim .ap
pearance of the female warrior,
At tho left sido of the belt a
short sword is fatenod, and a small
cartridge pocket in front. A scarf of
white or light gr en silk is worn like a
Scotch plaid. The armament consists
of swords, battle-axes and guns, which
latter are put aside during tho dance.
Quite apart from the effect of combined
dancing nnd singing, the performances,
whloh wont on for several hours unin
terruptedly before our eyes, were quite
in the style of our corps do ballet, with
the only difference that perhaps no
other ocrps do ballet would dance with
equal exactitude. First came a tall and
somewhat elderly woman. Sho was the
Captain, and as sho entered the fon of
the "chacha'' whispered to me: "Just
look how well my mother dances.
Then followed, w.th battlo-axes uplift
ed, the, younger oflb'ers, and in their
rear the still younger troops, now aasu
ing toward us in their sham-fight, now
wheeling round, dispersing, and ngain
uniting. And h11 this witli rhythmical
movements half warlike, half" coquet
tish but never clumsy, the elegant play
of the bare, round arms recalling to tho
mind tho limbs of ancient classical
slatucs. All (lances which I have seen
performed iiniong savage ami demi
savage peoples havo been grotesque,
nnd to 11 certain degree voluptuous.
Here for the first timo n performance
was given which would have held its
own before a serious cr.tio and ajsthote.
Cor. Kolnisflie '.citung.
Tho Jude and the Innkeeper.
Among the rn x-dotes of Judge Wal
ton is the following: Early after his
first npr.o:n" ment ho went to Alfred to
l.o'd court and called on Landlord Ber
ry, who o ered him his best noni with
a j roviso that after ox-Ju lgo Howard's
arrival ho would have to put him in
another room. "Well, what room?'1
asked Judge Walton. Ho was shown a
littlo seven by nine den, whereupon he
tol I I:crry Hint ho would take tno best
room, as ,lu Igo Howard would not
want it. "Why not?" nsked Berry.
"Because," said Judgo Walton, "I
sliail adjourn tha court to morrow to
Saco." "Who is going to take your
place here?" asked Mr. Berry, who was
not quick to tako in the situation.
"Why, nobodv," said Judgo Walton.
"A Judge can't stay in town and hold
court sud sleep in tho street; ho must
have a room. "Ua, said Uerry. "I
will soo." Ho saw and was con
quered. He told Judgo Walton he
could nave his best room. At tho end
of the terra Judgo Walton gavo the
landlord this advice: 'vourt week is
your harvest If you want a long term
and to make lots of money mako the
Judge just as comfortable as you can.
Ho has power to break up tho court 111st
when ha pleases; but if he is made com
fortable he will stay just as long as he
finds anything to lo."Lcwiston (Ale.)
Journal.
A Possible Danger.
Ho looked liko a dude and apparently
had not enough strength to hurt a fly;
but ho got into a dispute with a street
car niaguate. Tho magnate became
abusive, and the angry patron of the
company suddenly shot out bis right
hand aud lauded the magnate on his
back.
Too much amazed to get angry, the
official picked himself up and humbly
asked:
"How nndor tho canopy did you get
such strength in your arms?"
"HangiLg for twenty years on to your
itreot-car straps," was the chilling re
ply. ao charge lor me niorai. 1 nuaac
phia CalL
Mr. Dolbv, in his book about Dick
ens, refers to Boston as the "Hut of the
Universe."
CHANGE Or SCENE.
ii.lvloa to Invalid! Wlilnh Ii Well Intend
ed, but Often Fallacious
That Is Indeed a strange idea that the
sick, simply on account of invalidism,
should take himself away from home
influences, pleasant relations and cheer
ing companionship and his accustomed
climate, for the sake of securing
"change of scene." It may have orig
inate d in the distracted brain of some
disheartened and unsuccessful modical
advisor, as the most available means of
having a patient of a very critical char
acter die in the hands of a stranger, in
some different clime, advising "travel
ing for health." Home is the place for
the sick, where loved ones may sympa
thize with thera and attend to every
want. Aside from circumstances and
conditions unconnected with illness,
severing tho pleasant relations of the
sick, condemning them to hotel lifo,
among strangers, is unnatural, unphys
iologioal, not to say cruel! The sick
can not well tolerate excitement, the
unrest which is necessarily connected
wifk Yxfa mrryr.net ilrHnirArl vhilfl it Ift
often true that tho changes are too
abrupt, seriously affecting the health.
If there are any unfavorable natural
circumstances, if the climate may prove
unfavorable to some particular form ot
disease, rarely true, it may bo well to
mako a slight change, one of latitude
rathor than of longitude. It is gen
erally injudicious to remove to any lo
cality in which the temperature di tiers
wideiy from that in which one was
born. It is still more injudicious to re
move to a much warmer climate, where
the encrving influences must reduce tho
reouperative powers, lessening the pros
fects of a recovery. Modern science
las demonstrated the fact that it is safer
to remove to a colder climate, rather
than a hotter ono, though all abrupt
changes, in all respects, are to bo
avoided. It ono Is the constant victim
of foul miasmas, breathing the noxious
gases of some filthy district, a change of
the latitude is imperative, if tho locality
can not berooovated, made inhabit lble.
When one has only an unpleasant home,
if he is denied the ordinary comforts of
life, has only unpleasant companions, a
"chaneo of sctino'' may bo desirable, an
ordinary boarding-house being an lm.
provoment Even in such a case, con
slant travel is unfavorable to a restora
1 011, sinco thcrd are' not many of the
robust who aro improved in health by
such travels. If ono has dismal sur
roundings, if ho is bereft of pure air and
sunlight, if he hns no companionable
society, if ho is constantly irritated, he
may safely "change the scene, but
never simply for tho sake of a change.
Golden liulc.
A PHYSIOGNOMIST FOOLED.
Ue Ilaa m Little Experience with a l'ollte
Young- Man.
An old gentleman with a philanthrop
ic look boardod a Kidge avenue car nnd
cast a coaxing glance nt tho crowded
seats. Directly a young man arose
and pro lie red the r.g d citizen a scat.
"Ah!" exclaimed the gratoful old
man, "I know I would not have to
stand long. Thank you, my young
friend," ho continuod, as he placed bis
hands on the shoulders of the polite
passenger. "Wheu I soa a young man
so kind to tho aged I can always tell
which of his parents ho resembles
most"
"That's interesting," observed the
other, feeling it incumbent upon him to
make some reply.
''Now, don't you look like your
mother?" cheerfully nsked tho aged
man.
"Perhaps," was the laconic reply.
"Ah, I know it." delightfully ex
claimed tho grateful passenger. "I
think tho resemblance is so striking
thnt I would recognize your dear
mother if I should meet her."
Then tho young: man left the car.
"My gracious, the old gentleman
was hoard to remark in a few minutes,
"I have lost my watch."
'Perhaps tho youth who looks like
his mother took it," suggested a youth
with a dinner-pail.
"But I don't know him," sadly ob
served tho aged party.
"iou might know h mother, piped
up a littlo woman.
"Ihunderation with him nnd his
mother!" retorted tho victim as he "re
lapsed into silenco. Subsequently he
told the police about his loss, giving bis
name as Josiah Groenloaf. lie lives at
Roxboro'. Philadelphia 1'rcss.
MUST BE ENFORCED.
An Arkannaw Justice Who Waa Deter
mined to Enforce the Laws of the
State.
Abraham Stockton, who, during
many years lived in the southern , part
of Arkansaw, was, in honor to his great
learning and also to the fact that he had
onco killed a mad dog, elected justice of
the peace. Tho people wero very anx
ious to see a caso taken bofore the old
man, for every man knew that Stock
ton s opinion would be one which the
Supreme Court could not reverse. The
opportunity camo. A man named Eck
ford sued Mr. C'hosley. Tho litigation
grew out of a dispute concerning the
ownership of a lot of , sheep. A jury
was empaneled, the evidence was taken
nnd tho lawyers made their speeches;
The verdict of the jury declared that
the sheep be equally divided. ( Before
discharging the jury, tho magistrate
said:
"Gentlemen, you've did your duty,
but you ain't made uo provisions fur
the cost in this thing. The Constitution
of tho United States says that when
jurymen make sieh a oversight, the
Judgo shall take the matter iuto his
own hands. Gentlemen, I'll charge
you two dollars a piece. I have heard
a heap 0 people talk about the Judge s
charge to the jury, an' I reckon some
o' you will talk about this one, but if
you say anything outen the way, I'll
whale the whole kit an billn o yer. '
"Your honor " said a lawyer, "you
can't make the jury pay"
I "Can't I? all, now it's funny if w
don t. Ihey don t get a bite to eat 1 1
the thing's settled. Boys, git your pop
an' keep your eyes on the jury. The
laws of this State have rot to be en
forced." Arkansaw Traveler.
How to Bebaro en lUUroad Trlo.
lull! J
Many people have traveled all their Uvea,
and yet do not know how to behave tiieu
elves when on the road. For the bsnoOt
and guidance of auch these few, crisp, plain
horse sense rules of etiquette bare bwo
framed:
In traveling by rail, on foot, turn to tht
right on discovering an approaching train.
If you wUh the train to turn out give two
loud toots and get in between the rails, so
that you will not muss np the right of war
Many a nice, new right of way baa baea
ruined by getting a pedestrian tourist spat
tered all over its first mortgage.
If you never rode in a varnished ear be
fore, and never expect to again, you will
probably roam np and down the car, mean,
daring over the feet ot the porter while he is
making np the berths. ' This is a good way
to let people see just how little you had lgft
after your brain began to soften.
In traveling do not take along a lot of old
clothes that you know yon never will wear.
Never walk through a car staring every
body out of countenance, like a Jim Crow
detective hunting for the James boys.
YOU WILL PROBABLY ROAM UP AND DOWff
THS CAR.
If you have been reared in extreme pover
ty and your mother supported you until yon
grew up and married, so that your wife
could support you, you will probably sit in
four seats at the same time, with your feet
extended into the aislos so that you can wipe
them off on other people, while you snore
with your mouth open clear to your shoulder
blades.
If you are prone to drop to sleep and
breathe with a low, death rattle, like the ex
haust of a bath tub, it would be a good plan
to tie up your head in a feather bed and
then insert the whole thing in the linen
closet.
In the dining car, while eating, do not
comb your moustache with your fork. By
all means do not comb your moustache with
the fork of another. It is better to refrain
altogether from combing the moustache with
a fork while traveling, for the motion of the
train might jab the fork into your eye and
Irritate it
If your dessert is very hot and you do not
discover it until you have burned . the
rafters out of tho roof of ycur mouth, do
not utter a wild yell of agony and spill your
coffee all over a total stranger, but control
yourself, hoping to know more next tlnn.
In the morning is a good time to find out
how many people have succeeded in getting
on the passenger train who ought to be in
the stock car.
Generally, you will find one male and one
female. The male goes into the wash room,
bathes his worthless carcass from daylight
until breakfast time, walking on the feet of
any man who tries to wash bis face during
that time. He wipes himself on nine differ
eut towels, because when be gets home he
knows he will have to wipe his face on an
old door mat. People who have been reared
on bay all their lives genorallr want to Oil
themselves full of pie and colio when they
travel.
The female of this same mammal goes into
the ladies' department and remains there
until starvation drives her out. Then ths
real ladies have about 13 seconds in which to
dress.
Uulliloxlng.
life.
"Say, mister, give ns 50 cents to go to the
roller rink or Til set the dog on yerl"
The rieaiurea of Imagination.
The Journalist
Toor old Horace Greeley came down to
The Tribune office one cold morning, and,
approaching the radiator, took off his bat,
sat down and began to examine a pile of ex
changes. He looked comfortable and nappy.
The office boy observed him, and, approach
ing the venerable editor, remarked:
''Please, sir, there ain't any steam on in
that heater." v
Mr. Greeley cast a withering glance at the
youth and squeaked:
"D you, why didn't you let me alonef
I was getting warm."
Did She Mean Anythlnf Personal?
Arkansaw Travelers
She was playfully feeling in bis vest
pocket, and be asked: "What are you seek
ing, darling f" "Oh, a nickel, or a quarter,
or a dollar anything," she replied. "Why,"
said be, "yon do not expect to find feathers
on a hogf And she answered, with the most
innocent smile and naive expression: JNo,
dear Walter, I was not looking for feathers."
And be refuses to go back until be knows
whether she meant anything personal or
not
Two Slmplo Flah Tall. ,
Korr-town Herald.
It is related of a famous cook that he pre
pared fish so exquisitely that they returned
him admiring and grateful looks from the
frying-pan. We can readily believe this
story. It is no more remarkable than the
conduct of a trout, which, upon bearing an
angler lying about its weight, looked np with
a painful expression and softly murmured,
"Oh, come down a couple of pound-
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