I WOULD I WERE.
would I were thought of thine,
For then I ould Im ur
That earth heid oothioir mora dlrlne.
Mora heavenly ami pure.
I would I were the amorous wind
That'e klI jruur firuln i-beek,
Fur ttjcn I would la memory dud
Wore lore than I could inak.
I would 1 were a flower to die
Upon yisir bearing bream
Ttirn I could hoar your totim sigh
And Mull to aleeji to blwt
I would I wore ths tnoon'a toft my
That guarded when you slept
Then at the dawn baa died away.
Vutbougbt of and unwej.
would I were-no matter what,
To claim from thee one algh.
Only a word, a look, a thought
Thro happy could I die.
-Donald R, McOfegor
Horn Wedding Jewelry.
The jeweler of Paris are porticularly
bapp.r ou account of the largo number
of marriage which have occurred this
season. Such occasions are fraught with
great profit to the trade. It is now con
aidered out of place for a bride to wear
uy jewelry except pearls before she has
plighted her faith at the altar. There
are exceptions to this rule, however
The daughter of the Russian embassa
dor, who was recently married, wore at
tached to her bodice the badge of her
office as maid of honor to the empress.
The jewel was composed of diamonds,
hanging by a pale blue ribbon. She
also wore a ruperb diamond buckle in
the folds of her dress. Till jewel was
given her by the Prince and Princess of
Denmark.
After her marriage the bride is ex
pected to bedeck herself in all the gems
and jewels which her friends have seen
fit to bestow njwn her and to keep them
on exhibition during the first week after
marriage. In accordance with this cus
tom the Russian bride I have mentioned
showed her jewels, among which was an
elegant brooch composed of three large
sapphires arranged in a triple pendant, a
branch of ivy in diamonds and a brooch
in the form of a lily made of clustered
diamonds, with an elongated sapphire
in each petal Another was in the form
of a butterfly with two sapphires in each
wing. There was also a cable chain
bracelet with a row of sapphires alter
nated with diamonds set on each link.
Paris Cor. .Tcv.lr Weekly.
Ha "Diagnosed" Uer Cue at One.
Weak but nervous woman as the phy
sician enters Oh doctor I'm so glad
you've come I am sure I shall never re
cover this time Mrs. Brown who died
last month yon know she was my hus
band's cousin had exactly the same symp
toms and although she tried every rem
edy that her doctors or her neighbors
recommended and spent no end of money
though goodness knows they could ill
afford it in visiting the southern water
ing places until her children almost for
got tier face and her husband poor man
bad no more what could properly be
called a home than a boarder with a
single hall bedroom she died and a beau
tiful funeral she had too poor thing and
looked that sweet in her coffin it makes
my heart bleed to think of it and what
do you think is the matter with me any
way and do you think I will soon got
over it 1 cannot sleep 1 cannot lie still 1
cannot work I cannot eat I cannot talk
what is the matter with
.Doctor (interrupting) Madam, I think
you have a decided case of flatulency of
the lungs. New York Tribune.
College of Women to Have m Magazlue,
The College of Women is about start
ing a quarterly. It is to be called The
Outlook, and the first number will ap
pear in January. It is to be published
in the interests of the higher education,
and will be ran by Boston women.
Margaret B. Dodge, the editor, hails
from Boston university, as does Emily
H. Bright, the business manager. Tiie
college girls are ambitions in their pro
gramme. Miss Dodge tells me that she
does not expect to compete with the snf
frage organs or with the magazines de
voted to bibs and batter cakes, but that
The Outlook will promote "unity of aim
and action among cultivated women, ac
quaint society with the strength of the
women's educational movement and col
lect and classify material concerning
it." There's room, say the knowing, for
a new magazine once in fifteen years,
but if you're looking for courage you'll
find it among worshipers of that amiable
fetich, the college bred woman. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
A Snecesaful Telegrapher.
Miss Nelly Kelly, of The Ohio State
Journal, at Columbus, is a regular "first
wire" operator of the Associated Press,
and receives $30.50 a week, the same sal
ary that is paid to first wire mea She
is said to be the only telegraph woman
in the country holding such a place. At
630 every afternoon Miss Kelly takes her
seat upstairs in The Journal office. In
front of her is a typewriter, and close
behind her is the eternally clicking "first
wiro" of the Associated Press. As fast
as the receiving instruments clicks. Miss
Kelly copies its messages on the type
writer in the shape of neat "copy" for
the paper, taking 13,000 words a nigbt
At 2:30 a. m. she rises from her type
writer beside the telegraph instrument,
draws a sigh of relief and goes home,
alone and safe. She has nevel missed a
night, and The State Journal praises her
work in the highest terms. Phono-,
graphic Magazine. j
Girla at Symphony Rehearsale.
The girl with a big violin, the girl
with her knitting, the restless girl who j
flits about the audience, the girl with a
low necked dress on a winter afternoou.
the superior girl with four books and a
German dictionary these are a few of ,
the girla seen at a symphony rehearsal
soston iranscnpi.
The latest novelty in cards is a et of
fifty bound in a neat little book, from
which they are torn like bank checks,
having perforated edges to make the
operation easy. Especially for business
mea the novelty is an excellent idea.
8tanley traveled 6,400 mile In the
Interior of Africa on his last expedition,
all but 1.000 milea of it on foot Tore
hundred persona were rescued in the
three years.
m . .lIka t a bin
io prevent uuu auu j
with which so many are annoyed, ea- j
ii , .V, naA a little
peciauy in warm "wu-i , j
camphor in the water wnen oauuug
the face.
4 Sir Percy Florence Shelley, the son of
the great poet, U a musical enthusiast
f and has composed the acore to many of
I his father's songs.
THE GORILLA.
A Fighter from Way Back, and a Towgh
Culumn la Handle.
"The gorilla is the prize fighter of
Africa." said Carl Rteckelmann. who hat
personal knowledge of the Dark Conti
nent Ho hud been speaking of a leop
ard skin on exhibition In his widow, and
had been telling of the dunger encoun
tered in lighting with the original owner
of the skin.
"Contests with all wild animals pale
In comparison with that in which one
must engage in meeting the gorilla." he
said. "The gorilla is found in only a
comparatively small portion of western
Africa, lie lurks in the woods along the
dooms for sevu ml hundred miles north
of the mouth of the Congo. 1 have
never seen a gorilla in the open country,
and, by the way, I think that the fact
that he stays in the woods accounts for
the fact that lie is almost a biped instead
of a quudrued. You see the gorilla In
passing through the forests reaches out
with his long arms, and, seizing the
branches of the trees, rises on his hind
legs and walks on them, supporting him
self with his hold on the branches. Iluliit
has thus almost made an upright creat
ure of him.
"The gorilla is as brave as brave can
be. The male gorilla does all the fight
ing for the family. If you approach a
pair of gorillas the female will run
screaming through the woods or will
climb the highest tree, uttering all the
while cries not unlike a woman in great
fright. Hut the male gorilla will come
straight at you. He does not know what
fear is. He will fight any number of
men."
. "How do you fight thera?"
"With pistols. It is very unsafe to
trust to a gun or to a poor weaon of
any kind. The gorilla is so fierce and
powerful that you have but one chance
at him at the best. The woods where he
is found are so thick that it Is lmoKsihlo
to see him accurately at any distance. II
you fire at him as lie comes at you down
the tree a limb may turn the course of
the bullet Before you can fire a second
time he will lie upon you. He drnw
from limb to limb and comes at a rapid,
swinging pace. The safest way is tu
hold your fire until he is at urm's length
and then fire steadily into him with u
pistol.
"The gorilla is easily killed. An or
dinary pistol shot will have about the
same effect upon him as it has upon a
man. The hunter's danger is in not
making the shot tell. Once I was pass
ing through the forest with a bodyguard
of natives. The natives are furnished by
the Dutch traders with a miserable gun.
the barrel of which is made of gas pipe.
The natives hnd learned to le suspicions
of their guns. When they (lie at any
thing they point in the general direction,
pull the trigger and fling the gun at the
object They throw the gun because
they are afraid it will explode in their
bands, as it very frequently does. Well
we came upon a gorilla. A native saw
him dropping from a tree coming at us.
Aiming at the descending form lie fired
and missed. He had not turned before the
grim monster was upon him. Standing
and throwing his arms around the ne
gro's neck the gorilla seized his throat in
his manlike jawsand wascniBhingthelife
out of him when we came up and fired a
pistol bail into hira at close range. But
the wounds inflicted were mortal and
the native died in great agony."
"Are the gorillas numerous In the
strip of country where they are found?"
"They are scarce. In making a trip
once I saw two in one day, but that was
unusual. They are the fiercest and brav
est of animals. The male gorilla in going
into battlo sounds a fearful warning by
beating its breast and giving forth sounds
that make the dense forest resound. He
is a dangerous antagonist, and you are
all the time reminded by his appearance
that you are contesting with a creature
that has a man's faculties and appear
ance, a giant's strength and a monkey's
agility." Indianapolis News.
Improving the Eye.
The trials of "hanging committees," in
determining the places to be held by pic
tures at any exhibition, are great and
manifold. An English artist says that
when he once served as "hangman," pre
paratory to an exhibition of the Royal
Academy, his greatest embarrassment
was connected with a picture sent in by
m nlil Academician who had once done
good work, but whose hand had now lost
its cunning.
It was the portrait of a clergyman, and
was not so desperately bad but that it
might be admitted, if one peculiarity
.ni. 1,1 In nv wav be dealt with. His
eyes were exactly like those of an owl;
the eyeballs were Intensely blacli, witn a
circle of light, bright blue encompassing
them about
"We tried him on the wall," says the
artist, "but distance lent Increased ter
ror to his expression; he glared at us so
fearfully, that, in regard for the conse
quences that might arise to unwary visi
tors, we hastily took him down again.
" 'Now,' 1 said to a brother hangman,
'what is to be done? It's of no use ask
ing the old gentleman to withdraw the
picture he won't
'No,' replied my friend, 'but I think
we might take some of the enthusiasm
out of those eyes. "
No sooner said than done, A finger
was wetted, little blacking taken from
a shoe of one of the conspirators, the
bright blue circle received a glaze of
blacking, and the glare of terror inspir
ing fury was changed into a soiieneu,
appealing expression. With that little
a iteration the picture took its place among
the rest Youth's Companion.
ghe Dreamed lb
ne (about to ask for a kiss) I have an
iniortant question to ask you.
She (playfully) 1 k"w what it is,
Cli irley. You want me to be your wife;
Iiircamedit Well, take me,
lie rather token aback) You dream
ed i'?
Shu Yes, I dreamed it last night, and
I answered you a I am answering you
now, and you took mean your arms and
kissed me.
What could Charley do? Chicago Lri-
fw-
A Merchant.
The oldest and largest mercantile es
tablishment in Huntavilie, Tex,, is man
aged by a woman. The bouse, repre
senting a capital of $250,000, was founded
over forty years ago by the late Mr. San
ford Gibbs, who requested that bis wife
should continue his business. Exchange
Gen. Merrirt and all others who know
old Sitting Bull say that he is the biggest
coward ever known la hit tribe. He la
good at conspiracy, but when it cornea
to actual fighting be can't stand op and
aboot and be shot at
W hat a Moslem Believe.
Every Moslem believes devoutly In
personal Uod, In an overruling Provi
dence, in the mission and miracles of
Christ, whom they designate as the Me
liali, in the duty of prayer, and the im
mortality of the boul, in a future state of
rewards iid punishments, and in tho in
spiration of the Bible. An educated
Moslem, if asked why he does not be
come a Christian, may not improbably
reply that, according to his own Inter
pretation rf the New Testament, he is
one already. Thus, in a letter recently
received from one of my friends, he
styles himself "a Moslem and a Chris
tian at the same time."
Though a most pious and sincere mo
hammedan, lie claims to be one of those
"who profess and call themselves Chris
tians," for whom we pray every Sunday
that they may be led into the way of
truth. They hold that Islam was the lat
est revelation, perfecting the Christian
revelation, just as Christianity supple
mented the revelation given to theJewa
Mohammed may be considered as a re
former of Christianity; like Luther he
denounced certain superstitions that had
grown up.
The Koran says that Ood gave the
Gospel to Jesus to proclaim, and that tie
put kindness and compassion into the
hearts of those that followed Hira; but
"as for the monastio life, they invented
It themselves." "In the time of Mo
hammed," says one of my friends,
"Christianity had become corrupt, as
many of your own writers admit and it
was these corruptions that it was Mo
hammed's mission to reform. We reject
the corruptions of Christianity. But we
claim to have a final revelation, predicted
by your own prophets, just as the com
ing of the Messiah was foretold to the
Jews, who nevertheless blindly rejected
him as you reject Mohammed." Leaves
from an Egyptian Note Book.
The Feeling Was There.
In attendance at one of the Indianapo
lis ward schools is a little colored girl 9
years old. She is miserable, Indeed, for
at home she is ill treated and the shoes
she wears, and often the clothes, are sup
plied by the teachers or some of her
classmates. There Is a tender poetlo vein
in her make up and It found vent in a
composition. The teacher took a little
pansy plant to school one day and told
the pupils of the flower. Two days
after she asked them to write a poem of
it and gave them the privilege of having
the pansy talk and tell the story, and
this is what the little colored girl wrote,
the word pansy in the copy being the
only one dignified with a capital:
"I am only a Pansy. My home is In a
little brown house. I sleep in my little
brown house all winter, and 1 am now
going to open my eyes and look about
'Give me some rain, sky, I want to look
out of my window and see what Is going
on,' 1 asked, so the sky gave me some
water and I began to climb to the win
dow, at last I got up there and open my
eyes, oh what a wonderful world I seen
when birds sang songs to mo, and grass
hoppers kissed me, and dance with me,
and creakets smiled at me. and 1 had a
pretty green dress, there was trees that
grow over me and the wind faned me.
the sun smiled at me, and little children
smelled me one bright morning me and
the grasshoppers bad a party he wood
play with me and a naughty boy pick me
up and tore me up and I died and that
was the last of Pansy." Indianapolis
Journal
A Battlefield Truat.
We are in danger of something worse
than the Libby prison speculation. It is
now proposed by aspeculative northerner
to purchase all the battlefields of the late
war, fence them in, turn them into
parks, and show them to visitors at
twenty-five cents a head.
It will strike those who are acquainted
with the situation that the great Ameri
can showman will have a big job on
hand when he comes to the cluster or
bouquet of battlefield around Atlanta.
Our old red hills have good cause to be
redder than any other hills that ever
trembled through the thunder storm of
war.
Nowhere on American soil can there
be found a spot that was ever so pounded
and mangled and harried and scorched as
this same Gate City of ours. All over the
world there are men now living whose
proudest boast is to say that they went
through our forty days' baptism of fire
or were in one of the many battles
fought under our city's walla.
We are not yet ready to sell our
blood stained fields of glory to the glib
strangers whose only interest in them is
to coin money out of them. If we can
do nothing better, let us level the grim for
tresses and the frowning ramparts, and
fill up the silent trenches one so full of
beroio life. Let us cover these scars of
war with the blooming industries of
peace I Atlanta Constitution.
A Model Dog Story.
A remarkable case of animal intelli
gence and fidelity has developed in this
city. Every one knows the late D.
Watson's little dog Zolla, that used to
follow him everywhere and often ride
beside him in his buggy seat He would
come every morning to bis master's
office, and if he did not find him there
would run over to the livery stable to see
if the doctor's buggy was gone, and if it
was he would follow the track until be
had found him. When bis master was
in the coffin little Rolla was held up so
he could see his face, and showed ligns
of intense grief.
He was at the funeral at Woodbine
cemetery and was the last one to linger
at the new made grave. Since that time
be has visited the grave night and morn
ing and la seen sitting upon It keeping
watch, as though be expected his kind
friend and master. He often wandered
alone on the streets at night, and a gen
tleman whose profile and beard some
what resemble Dr. Watson's has told us
that little Zolla has often walked in front
of him and gazed into his face and even
followed him home and sat for hours in
front of bis door waiting for him to come
out that be might get one more look at
this face so much like the one treasured
in bis memorv. Jefferson (lia.) Herald.
Rotable Cat.
The most notable cat that ever lived
was Jim, the big tortoise shell feline of
the Union Square theatre in New York.
It was able to perform sixty different
tricks and do almost every tiling except
talk. In bis last sickness Dr. Dovey, tit
cat and dog doctor of Fourth street, was
employed at $3 a visit to attend poor
Jim, but his service proved unavailing.
Knox, the Broadway batter, ha the
finest and wisest black cat in the east,
and Bryan McSwyny, the Hibernian
shoemaker of the metropolis, potaease a
pair of tortoise shell cat that have no
superior in the country
THOSE ' WRINKLED HANDS.
Those wrinkled hand that o'er a woman's bread
Now folded lie In death's lat olriuo sleep,
A'uat huw cold and hi ill; but Uod knows beak
His lime will ehuoao, while we lu mlmce weep.
Who had by thoae dear handa beeu often bloat,
Hut now ahall nitae the love that Sowed to deep.
No more shall we enjoy their soft i-anve,
Nor feci atfata their clinging k-nderntm
In thane lluea where Ui plow of Tune has run.
And heniird wilhfurrowederpilietreoaof years,
The uutrka of lull, the ciiau-e of shade and sun.
The record of a lengthened life appears;
Hauy a tale Ibey tell of Joy begun.
And boiiea anon eudtil in a lah of tears,
Those reins of blue her sunny at lea unroll,
That akin ao fair the whlteueae of her eon!
but lo! as we read on what liiiht la Hilar
A cherub form with dimpled hands and small,
Bi ik'lu golden lock and lips thai tempt a kUa,
Ijke paintlnga ween on old cathedral wall;
Some angel sent from distant worlds of blue.
That Minheama bring to Uiia dim earthy- bail
Again we look, a touching artri at ieeo-
To echooli die aklpa or roui In orchard greee.
In three oddly fashioned lloea next we trace
The viAlon of a maiden sweet ami fair;
By garden gate ah waita; upon her face
Urate lighfa may tinge, as if gathered there
The cruiouo bhtsu of thousand mornlnKS' grace;
Or la that glow of bins beyond compare,
Augbt else than lores warm thrill, at there alia
lamia,
lloldaig In her own another's tender handaf
Life's busy noon unfolds; and what befell
In eobrr age, how hands now pule and cold
Were mured to kindly acta, oft aliwe to quell
A neighbor's grief, and wipe the gathering mold
Of death from aching browa 6ick beds can tell;
And poor their aalutly dceda confess with old:
Then rest, sweet hand wilb acars of ha'tle won.
Like folded banners when the day la dor
-Varnuis '
Uawthorne Time.
Flgh la the tops of blossoming tree
I hear the hum of honey here;
A faint, sweet odor loa Is the breeset
Tis hawthorne time,
Ti hawthorne time,
woodpeckers drum fur up the bill;
The robin's snug sounds cheery still;
But sadly moans the whlppoorwlll:
Tla hawthorne time,
Tie hawthorne time.
What though the birds sing day by day!
My heart grows nad In sunny May.
tot one I lored went far away
In hawthorne time.
In hawthorue time.
Though beea may hum and robins trlD.
Though faint, aweet scenta the breesee fill,
I elsuys hear tin whlppoorwlll
In hawthorne time,
In hawthorns time.
Maria B. II. listen In Uood Housekeeping.
A Dangerous Calling.
The public has but an inadequate ides
of the danger to which the ordinary
trainmen are exposed. Accident to
them are occurring every day In the
year, and it is only when the results are
made known that the real condition of
things is seea
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, according to statements made at
the receut convention iu Lo Angeles
now numbers 14,037 members, an in
crease of 600 during tlte past year. It
was stated, however, that the organiza
tion baa branches not only in the Uuited
States but also in Canada, Ireland and
Sweden, so that the actual member
ship in this country does not appear
from the figures above. Sad and im
pressive evidence of the dangerous nat
ure of the truinmen's occupation is
given in the statement that during the
year 23 disability and death claims to
the amount of nearly $273,000 had been
paid, and that of the total number of
claims over 200 resulted from railway
accidents, and of these 130 deaths were
caused iu coupling cars.
It is distressing to think of the suffer
ing and death daily occurring as the re
suit largely of the great variety of coup
lings in use, and it must be admitted
that there is a crying need of a rapid im
provement in this matter by the adop
tion of some uniform style of coupling
which will be both efficient in service
and sufe in handling. Kansas City Sua
South Middle's Blue Blooded Bedbnga,
To Yule graduates of all ages now liv
ing the news of a fire in old "South Mid
dle" will be of real interest This is the
oldest of the Yale buildings. The bricks
were brought over from England, and it
bos always been claimed that the bed
bugs of the building possessed the insjt
tiable seal of the transatlantic species.
They are possibly descended from those
that crossed with the bricks. It bad
been the tradition, at least it was twenty
years ago, that each autumn, when the
new freshmen class first appeared, the
South Middle bedbugs would stand up
on their hind legs and look out of the
windows upon the campus to determine
what was to be the quality of their win
ter provisions. Some of the best blood
in the country course through the vein
of these aristocratic- vermin, and there
will be general anxiety to know not only
how many escaped the devouring ele
ment, but also where they went to con
tinue their own labor in that line.
Hartford Courant.
A Well Fed Committee.
At Delmonico' Tuesday night a line
of rotund New Yorker with rosy face
and vast shirt fronts filed op stair to
gather at the great "taster' dinner" of
the year. The "taster'" dinner l that
which Delmonico alwayt give to the
twelve committeemen of the St Nicn
olas society as a sample of the repast
be means to serve to the society on the
night of it grand banquet The sum
pie or taste is alway pronounced fine,
and then the great dinner follows. Af
ter the dinner is over the same commit
teemen meet, at the end of a month, and
eat a precisely similar feast called "the
settling dinner." Tbu they recall the
grand good time tbey bad at the great
dinner. It I a vast and joyous thing
to be a Knickerbocker, but to be on the
St Nicholas dinner committee 1 fine
beyond all else that fall to a New
Yorker' lot New York Sua
A year from next March the railroad
now building from Jaffa to Jerusalem
will be completed, and tourist will then
be whisked away from the coast to Jeru
salem in two or three hours, a Journey
that is now made by camel or in dill
gences over a horrible road. The money
required to build the line is in the bands
of Pari bankers, who have just for
warded the second Installment of the
funds to the contractors.
One of the minor and yet pleasing evi
dence of the spraad of civilization Is
the increasing as of the portable coal
chute in city and country In the city
the pedestrian encounters fewer and
fewer ceal bills, and tn the country the
old custom of dumping the coal on the
ground is gradually falling into disuse
wherever chutes can be made available.
It Is aid that the late Berry Wall,
when in the height of bis glory, had but
two books in his apartment. On one of
these he bung hi cane and om the other
his umbrella. The rest of hi clothe he
of coarse kept on a chair, like any sensi
ble mail.
A Black Female Sanies.
Freedinan't Town, a snburb of Homv
ton, Tex., boast of a female Samson,
who ha repeatedly proven herself a
match for any three men that have pitted
their united strength, and who a few
nicrhts ago successfully routed Officer
John Baxter and three of his assistants,
all meu of fine physique. The woman
is a uegreM, as black as night and of a
stature slightly above average, but mag
nificently built and extraordinarily ac
tive. Uor grip w.is such that she was
able to break two of the bones of the
hnnd of the woman with whom she bad
a fracas recently, and it w;w on tho po
lice attempting to arrest her that she uot
only was able, to prevent them putting
the handcuffs on her, but, taking the
officer and his posse one by one, flung
them out of the house and closed and
locked the door.
Baxter, in particular, is accounted a
man of unusual strength, and is of large
build, but be says his muscle were as a
child's when compared with those of the
black Amazon. The woman, whose
name is Caroline Jenkins, i about 80
years old, and is the mother of seven
children. She ha been seen to pick up
a barrel of flour and carry it a distance
of several yards without appearing to
overtax herself, and when tested wa
found to be able to break with ease a
new grass rope an inch in diameter.
Since her exploit with the police it i
aid that a party of gentlemen propose
traveling with her, if she will go, and
give exhil at on of her strength, which
is to be ascnlxnl to no electrical or mag
netic process, but to her muscular de
velopment alone. St Louis Globe-Democrat
Out Partridge lluntln.'.
"Did you ever go a partridge, hunting,
and tramp all day through the brush,
tear your clothes half off, get wetter'n a
drowned rat, fall in the mud and never
see so roncb as a feather?" queried a well
known guuner.
"No, indeed. When and where did all
this hapiwn'f"
"Up in Sardiuia the other day. Ed
Andrews, the crack shot of that town,
invited me to come up there and go
hooting, claiming that the bird wer
thicker in the woods along Cattaraugus
creek than honey bees in a sweet clover
patclu Of course 1 went; but 1 cam
home all broke up."
"And you didn't get a featherr
"Nary a one. Tried to shoot a chicken
on a hen roost, but the farmer caught
me at it and chased me four miles with
out a let np. Andrews killed a chipping
bird and a red squirrel, that' all."
"But you brought home some birds?"
"Very true, 1 bought them on tht
market, the same as the other Buffalo
boys do. Let's see, it cost mo about (X)
in cash, and I've got to buy a new suit
of clothe and a new hut Bet your
boots I dou't go partridge shooting again.
Tired? I can't walk; am lame all over,
and feel like a second edition scarecrow.
Andrews walked me all over four towns;
wanted uie to invest in real estate, too,
and all that; talked about their great
race track and the metropolitan Sardinia
city of 1DU0, and filled me so full of
glorious enthusiasm that my head is
cracked from ear to ear. Fun? Well, 1
should snicker, but one dose will last the
lifetime of Methuselah!" Buffalo Com
mercial Another Bear Caught by Cowoateher.
As the Louisville and Nashville pas
senger accommodation was passing
through Wade's cut, a deep and narrow
passage through the rocks, about eight
miles east of Milan, Tenn., Engineer
Ueorge Pendor was surprised to see a
big brown bear come into tho cut at the
west end, about ten rods away. The
bear stopped directly in the middle of
the track, facing the engine. The loco
motive bearing down upon him seemed
to paralyze the bear, and he was perfect
ly motionless until the engine was with
in thirty feet of him, when he arose on
his haunche preparatory to a spring.
The train was running at the rate of
twenty miles an hour through the cut
and seeing that he might wreck ths
train by a collision with bruin Engineer
Pender shut off steam. A the tralu
came in contact with the bear hi hind
legs opened, and he fell forward on th
cowcatcher, clawing savagely at the
hard wood. He seemed stunned or be
wildered at the strange occurrence, and
did not manifest any inclination to get
off. He rode into town on the cow
catcher, and was shot and killed. Cor.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
Oiwrgo and Owego.
No one but a person connected with
the Oswego poHtofUc can have the least
conception of the extent of the confusion
growing out of the similarity of the
names Oswego and Owrgo. The post
master in Oswego directed that a count
of the letters designed for the village of
Owego sent to the postofllce in this city
be kept for one week. The number by
actual count was 4M. Let our Owego
friends apply for a city charter and call
thoplucethe city of "Auwaga." "Au
waga" was the Indian name of the place.
It contains the "Auwaga house," the
"Auwaga bunk, etc. It seems to be a
name they are proud of, and it is a
euphonious and pretty name, and is what
the village or city should be called. If
they object to the change, why lot them
continue to receive their business letter
via Oswego, averaging 500 weekly, from
tweuty-four to forty-eight hour behind
time. Oswego Time.
KnglUli Bakeries.
The result of the inquiries recently
made as to the sanitary arrangement
connected with the trade of baking is
anything but reassuring. Bakerie are
said to exist in Manchester where the
cleanliness which should obtain in the
preparation of food is impossible, frjine
of the bakers complain that the ma
chinery now used take "the flavor out
of the bread." They prefer the old
method of "dancing on the dough."
The Lancet commissioner naturally
expressed a hope that "the men washed
their feet," and wa cheerfully assured
that they did after the bread wa made,
as otherwise they could not put their
boot on again. It is desirable that the
city authorities should deal with this
matter immediately, and see that the
staff of life is supplied to th people un
der somewhat better condition than at
present London (jueea
Fares of Habit.
Congressman It affords me pleasure,
Mr. Scribblcum. to present you this com
mission as postmaster. 1 bava brought
it to you myself as a little aurprlse.
Editor Scribblcum CoL Oreathead,
you have, indeed, taken me by aurprlse
and placed me under infinite) obliga
Wbatl is the blamed document rolled?
Sir, I reject it! Chicago Tribune.
BABYHOOD'S TILI.OW.
A REVERIE THAT TAKES A MAN
BACK TO HIS INFANCY.
A Charuitcs llrmlnlM-rnre of Childhood's
Happy llourv I'apa Cllvra II Ira aiirly
fur Being Good -The Mother WIium KUe
rinda Her Utile One In the Dark.
Eleven o'clock strikes. Immediately
I make reudy to set my puiicr in order
on my desk ami turnout my lump, when
all at once my bud, on which 1 have
somehow tinned a more contemplative
look than usual, U'gins to w ear a strange,
mysterious air, meditative and thought
ful, with its coverlet turned down, its
sheet 0en und lis pillow ready for my
head. liy do I sit down again and
think an hour? and still another hour?
My lump goes out of its own accord, and
the night posses without hooding me.
IN TIIK L1TTI. WII1TK CKIB.
I am 8 years old again. I sleep In a
I it t lo white crib, larger than papa's
leather valise, smaller than mamma's
piano; a crib draped with fresh curtains
which close alsnit me every evening and
are fastened with a silver pin "to mako
me a little room." When 1 raise my
head I see above me an Ivory cross
swinging at the end of a bluo ribbon that
hangs from the cornice; on each side of
me is a long white silk not so that I
shall nut full out But I am always
kicking off the covers and slipping
through It and thoy continually find me
with an arm or a leg caught and hang
ing in the meshe. ,
My crib, which I warm with my little
childish body, where I am given my
warm milk in tho early morning, which
is so comfortable when the doctor say 1
am tick, stands at the foot of pupa' and
mamma big bod, so that it gives me
great confidence to be so near them
they who are afraid of nothing! I do
not know how it is, but I must be always
asleep when they come in to go to bed
I never see them. Thoir bedtime Is later
than mine, much later perhaps even an
hour. A toon a Pie, my nurse, a big
girl, brusque and good hearted, who
teaches me how to say my prayers to the
Bon Diuu In German as soon as she has
given me my dinner, quickl I am popped
into a little bod whose end my foot never
too. When shall I be as big as my night
gowns? In spite of all my effort I cn
nover catch up to tlieiu.
Thou as soon as I am stretched out on
the mattress, and Pie ha vigorously
tucked me in, I cry out with all my
might, lamentably, like a little dog that
Is being whipped: "Mammal Mamma!"
Some one comes. There i a noise of
footsteps in the corridor. It is papa and
mamma. Papa aayss "Will you stop
making tuch a noise, you little rascal?
Wecan hear you all over the bouse!" He
turn to tho nurse and frowns:
"Pie," be says, "tell me the truth. Ha
this child been naughty?"
"Nelu, he has been very goof oy
the excellent Pic,
"Then he shall have a piece of candy,"
ay a papa, satisfied at once.
"Mint, papa, nilntl" I cry out
"Yes. mint!" and pupa himself drop
Into my littlo moist, oon mouth the big,
white crumbling penny which I love so,
and which I begin to taste a toon as its
penetrating odor reaches my noso. Un
der my little teeth the mint drop disap
pears like mngio. Mamma whispers:
"Eat it up, then, littlo gooso!" or, "He
will break bis teeth to pieces."
MAMMA DOESN'T BAT A WORD.
Then she bends over me, and then I
whip out my two arms from the cover
let to clasp hor around the neck. I
know very well that it must tire hor to be
weighted down so, but still I like to do it
And then I love hor sol She kisses me
twice, three times-then with her pretty
fingers she hurriedly traces the sign of
the cross on my forehead (before I came
there were two little brothers who both
wont away to heaven) and she tenderly
closes the curtains without ceasing to
look lovingly In at me through the open
ing which grows smaller maller.
At lust the curtains are tight shut and 1
can see nothing more. But I can hear.
Papa has already gone away to his study,
where I somehow know that he is going
to smoke a cigar. Mamma, ah, but
mamma is (till there. She Is talking to
Pie in a low voice she is talking of all
kind of thing and they are all about
me. Then the lump goes on It nightly
journey. It travel about, It change IU
place; finally It is put on a certain corner
of the mantelpiece, alway the came
corner, whore it dim light cannot reach
me. Then I hear the noise of the fender
a choir put In It place a carriage in
theetreet then
All at once I am at last a man, and am
wearing trousers like mylUncle Edward.
But often 1 awake with a start and
then a great fear of the night and the
darkness seizes mo; I stretch out my
arm and knock toe, tool on the big
bed. The big bed will protect me. Too,
toe! Toe, toe! The knocking Itself
frichtens ine in the silence.
the big bed creak confusedly. I bear
nana, half awake, telling me in a queer,
droll tone to be quiet "Sshl We are all
asleep," he says; "everybody I asleep.
Mamma does not say a word. She rise
the rises and ah I even after forty
rears mr heart recollect the light fall of
her dear soft feet on the carpet and th
sound of her low voice, invisible like
herself, murmuring close to my cheek,
"What is It darling?" while without
hesitation her kiss come straight to m
in the night and unerringly find me.
Translated from the French for The Phil
adelphia Time.
A Ship In a CyctoM,
What a Samoan hurricane I like and
what chance a hlp ha while at It
mercy, may be Imagined after reading
Abercromby' "Sea and Skie in Many
Latitudes." He says:
"Much has been written about ban
dllng thipt in hurricane and elaborate
maneuver liave been described which
they are to perform near the center of
typhoon. Many a ship baa been saved
by skillful sailing on the outrkirt of a
cyclone, and even after the characteris
tic squall and driving rain nave begua
But when near the center tht get In the
kernel, as it were, of the hurricane, and
the wind come in great gust which no
canvas can withstand, when the roaring
of the wind Is so tremendous that no
voice can be heard, when th tky and
cloud and ipindrilt are mixed up in
distlnguishably from one another in a
general darkness, then it is at impossible
to give an order a lo obey it and in
tailor can only hope that ber timber
may not open to a to (pring a leak, and
that her (tee ring gear may bold so that
ah may not broach to and be over
whelmed by the wave." New York
Telegram.
roleonnoa Nutmegs.
It will doubtless surprise tunny to learn
that In nutmegs we find a powerful
poison, genorully ts-liuvcd to be of the
narcotic order. It Is only comparatively
recently that coses of poisoning by it
have been recorded in this country, prob
ably for tho reason thai, being so uni
versally considered harmless, when dan
gerous or fatal coiiscquencea have fol
lowed Its tiso the vuuso has been over
looked. The quantity of nutmeg which
It is necessary to tako to produce serious
symptoms lias never been estlmuted. In
one case, however, one und a half nut
megs. It is said, caused In a woman
stupor, followed by excitement with
signs of collapse.
lr. Wutigh bus recently reported the
case, of a woman who was advised by her
neighbors to eat nutmegs for the relief
of dyspepsia duo to constlpatioa One
forenoon alio ate five of medium size.
No unpleasant symptoms followed until
some, nine or ten hours afterward. Then
she became sick to ber stomach, giddy,
and hod u chill, accompanied by vomit
ing, headache, dryness of the mouth and
throat, and a sore, strained sensation in
the eyes. Her sight became affected,
and sho complained that everything ap
peared misty. When the chill passed
olf, slight fever and sweating followed,
with lutense, throbbing headache. Under
proer treatment this woman recovered.
In her case no narcotic symptoms appear
ed, but that docs not prove that nutmegs
are uot of the narcotic order. Boston
Herald.
Teaching Their Towng.
There have been two scientific facta
discovered through the mediumshlp of
the Zoological garden, about which the
publio have been kept in ignorance.
Early one morning in Thompson' time
Ilorr Schmidt went out to see the old sea
lion and ber baby. He wa astonished
to see the mother with the young down
on the edge of the bridge, vomiting some
tort of oil all over it Thinking some
thing wrong, be at once called Thomp
son, who, seeing the operation of the
mother, said, "That funny," and great
was the astonishment of both when the
mother nosed the young one into the
water, He floundered about and got
back on to tho bridge. She nosed him
in again and kept on repeating the dose
for five or six times, then took the young
one and carried him Into the bouse.
"I've learned something good therefrom
not known to scientists, and that is that
the mother seal oil her young with oil
from her stomach before she teaches
them to swim. That's some tiling new in
natural history. The other discovery
was that young grizzlies weigh at birth
only about a pound or a pound and a
quarter, and the way they taught their
cub to swim was funny. The father
would push the cub into the water,
where it would paw and flounder, then
both mother and father would go to the
edge of the water tank, and reaching
out their paws, rake the cub up, invaria
bly dropping it half a dozen times be
fore they lauded it" Cincinnati En
quirer. llnriea' Teeth,
More trouble with and lack of condi
tion of horses are due to ulcerated and
irregular teeth than 1 generally sup
posed. They should be removed with
forceps. There is no reason to doubt
that a horse with ulcerated teeth suffer
as Intensely from toothache as a human
subject Irregular growth or fracture
of the enamel on tho outer edges make
tho teeth so rough as to injure the insidu
of the cheek, sometimes cuusing ulcers.
In other cases some, of the grinders grow
more slowly than others and full to meet
those in the opposite jaw, causing what
is culled "qulding," imperfect mustica-'
tlon of the food. The remedy U to file
the teeth Into the proper shape. Horse
dontlstry is now recognized at an im
portant branch of veterinary practice.
New Orleans Picayune,
Kalaer Wlllialm't Mother.
The Empress Frederick is tonched by
altering and take much interest iu
charitable enterprises. She waa present
recently at the great mooting of the com
mittee of the society for sending the
weak and sick children of the poor of
Berlin for change of air to the country,
the seaside and varioua health resorts a
aocioty which wo culled into existence
ten year ago at the suggestion of the
then crown prince and princess, and
which last summer waa able to give
torn week of fresh air and healing
bath and waters to more than 3,000
poor little city children. Eight boy
and eight girls, who have benefited by
the society, were allowed to hand
bunches of violets to the Empress Fred
erick, and as she took them she waa
heard to say: "Ah, if I could only take
them to him! He waa alway o fond
of violet." Exchange.
The Nickel's Leverage.
The field of the nickel and tlot machine
toems to be practically limitless. I am
informed that a St Louis iuventor is now
at work on machine which will give
you a clean shave and a picture of your
future wife, while the band plays your
favorite air a you wait Another ma
chine will tell your fortune and polish
your hoc and administer a dose of pill
for a nickel; while another will pick the
winner of the next day' race and tup
ply you with the morning paper. The
nickel and slot machine fill a long felt
want, and bo long career of useful
ness before it, and the publio is caving iu
nickel for the next departure with deep
interest St Louis Republic
The Swiss railway intend to intro
duce the cone tariff for passengers, now
that the system prove so inccea&ful In
A uatro-H angary. During the first year
of the tone tariff in Hungary the various
line carried over thirteen million pas
lengen, against some five million during
the previc twelvemonth.
When Jean Coquelin, the only ion of
the great actor, made hi recent debut
on the classic boards of the Comedie
Francaise the father is said to have been
much more overcome by stage fright
than the son was, The house was crowd
ad, aad the young actor wa enthrtaiatt
ically applauded. t
Twenty-five thousand salmon about
dx month old will be put into the Hud
ton river about five mile below Fort
Edward. Heretofore the salmon have
been planted in Adirondack streams,
and it i believed that better results will
be reached by placing the young &a
further tooth.
The method of stopping lb electric
ear on the English road where the aerie
system is used la not done by the ordi
nary brake, but by momentarily short
circuiting th motor and immediately re
versing th current through the lild
magnets, .