THE MOON PATH,
vim full. """,n uI,r( "lirasd
IM cM. l l'e",lur O ff the aea:
LM iiivn'O pulU llial neeinrd Ut lead
Jurca-ii lb elrtrk rif and the gleam
An uU "rlJ !" u""l""l "!
KiJiu(lit ilmi In Hlk dream
luwl u'i
loJ lo' u l't KliiiiiiwrliurVua4
ID iliimiiK I'oU'Puiii.ii unfurled,
rL iruii" of inniiy primal god,
f lie uwttsleni ,l,e Met 1
.te creature tliat, with .liver wliip,
in tin-'li-l lli ixduu llirooKlug floor,
, pkaiiKxi'M of old UilM and tiling
Wbw li!" r I"10""1 no more.
flianf "u drtiiiuodn tio once
re dwellers "' ewt'1 "l,J
lad twT '10 'ruln """"'""on's loin
KmeU'i-n wlllioiit Infancy:
.,,, on niajmtlc Uda
Ti',' 'l''"'u mv'vU """"'d lo dwell,
Trllim""1 11" UmM Nereids,
aikI f'iriiinf t'ivn '! hell
on, wlio sere heroes long of yore,
ttlifii il'e l!"'"1 wor''' "u" uall"U"l joung;
And !'"' " tv" "u,r,,lB "l J"-'1 rur
IV murmur of an antique ton'iie;
IU,I queens, lMe names am like toft moon
i, irrli'f" rn rilti-u up In gold;
Kjine who on ihelrallver lliroutu
HVrngiddciwaof old
if I hud Iss'ii dead Meed,
And eunie Into som after land,
u tln-in um llie alllJ I"16 l'cl.
iiiil lunch me with each inltrhly band;
A,j everiure a murmurous mr?ain,
8u brantiful tlH-jr m-ml to !.
N N lew '" 0,mk dri-uin
Itiuliheshlulintsea
-AivliiUilii Umiuiuo in Scri liner's MagaziD.
DADDY JIM.
fou would never hove thought of calling
Imii "Paddy." for he didn't look more than
t years old. In fact, wbon lie first told me
la was married umu 1 thought lie was
''He worked In the name office 1 did, and aj
kiidrnk as near mine we liad become quite
r.jlv, altluuili not iutimuU'ly acquainted.
It it old, isn't it I how men can tit and
writ lo ',v ''lle ur 'boulder to shoulder
itj after day, each knowing nothing of the
otlier'i life or Interests and but little of his
lartrt and deposition.
All luirry through work like no many an
tnuaton, then nnh each in Ilia own direc
tl'jo, rarely toppiug for an exchange of
on'baud never fur uu exchange of thought.
Writing, writing, all day long. Little won
oVr tlie)' have few ideas when night comet
U-ywiJ ratchiug the first cur, burying them
,elre in a newspaper and dosing away to
ird their home
flow, I ain n ." i-.i'le sort of a creuture,
just tlie least till inquisitive, too. I catch
nijiflf listening to con versa lions in the street
or and wondering whore the coile live and
that tlie) are like in their homes. In other
words, 1 haven't yet Rot to regarding men as
mere machines, and I confess to a good, whole
luoie curiosity about them and their affairs.
Wbon 1 first riiine to live in the city 1 was
eitremely interested in every one aliout me,
,ini wlii-ii to my well meant advances I got
ibort but not unpleasant resxiisus, I thought
people took me for a meddling sort of a fel
luw, and I rutlier drew back into my shell
md kept to myself. But now I understand
better, and when a mun is what I used to
Win cranky 1 set him down as deud tired
md let bun alone, and that's how it happened
that after working for nearly a year in the
lame room with a dozen uieu James Murray
u about the only one with whom I bad
ivfo a common acquaintance.
Somehow 1 took a fancy to the young fel
low from the very first. He was tall and
thin, stnuulli freed, with regular, clean cut
Ntures mid dark eyes und hair; boyish look
luf, but diguilled aud Very quiet.
1 bad done him a few friendly turns, such
is niMi working together often get a chalice
todoone another, uud we hud becomo pretty
cell acquainted At least he must have
known me and my family history pretty
well; but he was rather reticent, uud beyond
telling me he mis a "ninn of family," as he
expressed it, he hud never tallied of his own
ilfalrt, and 1 had often w.ondered what bis
family might consist of. '
One night he invited mo home to dinner
with him, and, as you uiuy imagine, I accept
ed with great promptness.
Ilia home was at the outskirts of the great
city, not in one of the pretty suburbs, but in
tthiuly settled, bleak looking neighborhood,
where there were many vacant lots, with
hen and there a fair looking apartment
bourn or block of Hats, but no bouses that
looked like permanent homes.
The buildings all hail that cheerless look
n in tlie neighborhoods where renters
change often, a tort of transient uir, as
though the houses themselves might be port
ihle; and one would hardly be surprised to
ne the great furniture vans, that are always
coming and going with immense loads to and
from tlieae localities, carry away houses and
lIL
My friend eulogized for the distance, say
Ing that cheaper rent hod taken him so far
nit, because now bis family needed more
room than he could afford to pay for nearer
town.
"Hu family," again; well, In a few min
utes I should see for myself. A ring at the
door of an upper flat brought a neat little
maid servant to the door, and she showed us
into a cozy little parlor, empty for a mo
nnt, then filled, it seemed to me, by a lively
little, tot of two or three year. "Daddy Jim,
Dddy Jim," he called, as he" climbed on bim
md over him, aud bung on bis coat; and
Ian the pretty girl mother entered, and
jkddy Jilu proudly presented me to his fam-
W had a merry meat Everybody talked,
en the baby. They both rattled away, aud
1 on knew all about thein. Her name.was
Kittle, baby's was Nod. She called her bus
band "Daddy Jim," because baby had begun
. ud it sounded so funny. Both were
orphans-be was Zi and she w as 19. She had
"arried at 1U, because her mother had died
then and left her alone, and Jim wanted to
tola care of her. They bad been engaged
Jr lince they were children; and so as I
their story I became more and more
interested in them, aud I resolved then and
liere to be a sort of a father to them. Sot
jto I was so awfully old (my hair bus always
n thin this way early baldness runs in
j"Jf famdyi, but they teemed such infants to
"all alone in the world.
I think they must have liked me, too, for
"P0" n invitation to dine with thera on
eunday became so much, a matter of course
I thould have felt hurt bad it been
1Kal I became their confidential friend,
consulted iu so many of their plans
I felt myself quite iinoortant, I assure
I helped Kittle select Jim's birthday
Jd Christmas gifts, ami I gave Jim the ben
t of my experience in shopping when Kit
"nthiin for purchases at the great dry
fwjuUsUjres. In fact, I began to consider
0ylf one of the family.
there was employed in our office as
W "iter a Mrs. Wyman, a very baud
ri0 oman of about 35 years of age. A
"t of one of the firm, ber story was
J" known among the men iu the office,
bad been left an orphan with consider-
tx-oey, and at the age of 10 bad mar
faiu,tthe advi.- of ber friend--; l er
JJr h'l abused ber, spent her little f .r
n died leaving ber to supjiort ber
She was, as I have said, lauliful, but very
M i""1 rcas,ic. ""I feeling that she
IJ2 " rld a grudge, she was not apt to
J"? T on- I think the men were rather
a b7 hr uarP tongue, and she was not
tI(rtfui"1T BJ terms with any of them
J! Jim, and from the first day she came
8ned to take a fancy to bim.
j Dot bad hearted woman, and, aa
, "r'1 found out, she didn't know Jim
I """Tied man: but ah teemed to hava
2v ,acintion for him which caused
13 u u1 aol'e,7- Sot that Jim was at
Wlln ber, or likely to forget Kit-
le5h.U,lb"J''? "W'T"" a lorry
or bar; and it I. ,1,,,,,,, th.ir .ympathle,
that to many men get into t, i,
There wa. ii..tiii.,K in it, onlv it t-iok him
Niger todoemmd.at her dk than It did
. . ,, """'I """' im.n b would stop
aud talk a few minute to her after work
wadon-ti,t W1 . llut it wwrW ma
I felt tl:fil I ou-ht to (.ik lo Inmalioilt it,
yet what could f,.w ,), T,.,.H reu
nothing t K-ak H. n, jt wuM
when I was with him, then wh.. UIU (l.ft
him It would .in ll.at 1 Imd iiegl-u-d my
duty. Then, ailu, it would ap-ar too
trifling a mat ler to think of, so there I was,
not halting U-twccn two opinions, but flop.
pln from one opinion to another a doien
times a iluy.
One Sunday k'lttie t.,k him to ta-k in a
playful miiuuer for not getting home earlier.
"Kifteen minute, ut thnw tiuu-s last week,"
he said, shaking ber linger at him. I Uwsed
the luby au.l, pretended not ti hear. Then
Jim left the room, and Kittietold me she was
going to surprise him ly coming to, theofflcsj
to come hi ime with liim sume day n'sui. "Do
)oii know 1 never have been in ihat ofnee .
ho said, and I secretly hosd she never would
Come.
A few days later she came into the dinuv
oflliv, looking like a picture ill her pretty
new cioak ami dainty but. Jim had Just
gono over to Mrs. Wyinnn's dn-k to carry
Kjine paKTs, uud through pure ill luck
picked up a flower from thi bouquet on ber
desk and laughingly asked her for It. The
lady graciously guv it, ami as ho leaned
over reached up wilh a smile and pinned it
to hi coat with her own fair linger. Such
a thing had never Impelled before and might
never ngaiii, but Kitties quick eye caught
the whole thing. She turned red, then white.
1 dldii t know there wasalady in the office,"
was ull she said.
Jim, having finished his errand, was walk
ing leisurely back tow urd bis desk when he
law Kiitie. His eyes brightened, and with a
glad surprise ho hurried toward her, saving
bow pleased ho was Hint she had come. Kit
tie replied stiffly wilh her eyes fixed ujion the
unlucky flower. He glanced down, then be
(Tilled to understand her manner and there
was un awkward puuse, broken shortly by
their starting for home.
And who is Mr. Murray's pretty frlendf"
asked Mrs Wyman of me Inter.
"His wife, 1 answered sternly.
"His w ifoi What a sweet fucel Why, I
never imagined tliut boy was married," the
saiil with surprise.
"So I inferred, was all I replied as I turned
and left her.
Tlie next ilny Jim seemed ill at ease, and I
couldn't help noticing he hurried through
any work he had at. Mrs. Wviimn'sdesk.
She seemed iierfectly unconscious of any
change of mnnner, and I truly believe never
iusKftcd there Imd Imh-ii the least trouble,
and was as frank and friendly lis ever toward
him, senking of his wife's I uuty and her
surprise that he was married.
I'hev had been painting the building that
our olllce was in, and some scaffolding bad
been put up over the door. "A dangerous
miking arrangement," I hail heard one of the
men mutter us he uissed under it. A strong
wind was blowing just us Jim was going out
of the door, anil the thing toppled and fell,
burying him beneath it. He was taken out
senseless, and it was found that beside a slight
injury to bis head his leg was broken. He
Soon recovered consciousness, and the doctor
let his leg ami wo took him home.
Mrs. Wyinnn cume to me as we were start
ing. "Tlie firm will bear ull exjiense, of
course," she said, "but if there is anything I
can do for that dear little girl w ife, please
let mo know and let me help her." She was
so earnest that 1 couldn't help taking her
hand, and promising her that if we needed
her she should coma
Poor Kiltie! She was terribly frightened,
and so conscience stricken because she had
been cross to Jim. "Oh, will he die!" she
asked over and over again. The doctor as
sured her there was no danger of dying, but
that he would need nursing and care, "Have
you any grow n person whom you can get to
help you)" he said, as iio took in Jim, Kittie,
Sed and tho little innid of ull work at a
glance. She looked dismayed; they knew no
body Then 1 delivered Mrs. yiimn s mes
sage. Kittie hesitated a moment, then con
sented, like the dear little girl that she was.
So Mrs. Wyman was sent for. I be mo-
meut blie entered the sick room she seemed
transformed. All the bitterness and hard
ness gone she was sweet, tender, womanly.
Jim was lying white and still on the bed,
Babv Ned stroking bis pale hand and sottiy
saying: "P-o-oor Daddy Jim." Kitty stood
beside tho lied weeping. Mi's. Wyman went
quickly to her, and taking her in her arms,
whispered: If my oaoy uaa uvea sue wouiu
have been almost as old as you, dear." And
I know Kittie was conquered, Tor she put her
. . , i l.:....l ..!.
arms aoout ner iicck mm uiej ranm.
other and cried together woman fashion,
while I looked on ami blewjuiy nose furious
ly, and kept saying it was strange where I
got such a snulfv cold.
Well, there isu't much more to tell. Jim
got on famously, and all on aeeouut of bu
excellent nursing.
The very first place he weut when he was
able to walk was to the little chnpol around
the corner n ith a merry lime weuouig pin ij.
Mrs Wvnan was the bride, aud, being mod
est, I won't mention the groom's name ; but
the man who gave the bride awa v was Daddy
Jim Marie More Marse iu Mail aud Ex
press.
Keep Oft of Wlilte Hide-walk.
If a limn wants to avoid being prrw-ti-ired
livtlin heat lio dcciIh to be direful
how lie walks over u white sidewalk
with the sun on it. In very hot weather
people, wear white or very light clothing
because it rejiels the heat, while dark
clothes ubsorb it. It is jtiht ho with
these white pavements. They never R.'t
so hot as dark ones, and lire easier on
the feet in consequence, but they tvfNt
the heat on the person who walks over
them. It is better to walk in the street
than on one of these white heat reflect
ors when the sun is shining; on it. St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Tlio Wealthy lee Man.
The other morning an ice man, after
firing three or four cakes of ice into the
kitchen of an uptown restaurant, en
tered the latter place und ordered "one
op sirloin, fried pertuters. er cup o"
cvriTea an' some toasted bread." "Does
he do that often?" the waiter was asked.
Yes, everv morning. Those fellows
make a lot of money liesides their wages.
They can give us pointsnn getting tilis,
he sadly said. -Chatter.
i., Milirn Allien.
A wail'
ileus big as n lam uisir a.i.irn
.n it re.'iilsof
s . 1 ..
the Co
7-tun COUIUCliaiK u -
.,-..1 oet.irutiiins i.f Willie of the liee
the mx
pie w
ho have gone to London this
fklli. 1
totiian
t oiiTifurs ru rne sen h.-m-uh' "
that society in that vast town is
nothin
longer
if not ili inocratic, ana ne no
"wonders at the attraction it -when
evervbody who Isn't any-
sesses
ixidv
succeeds without difficulty in get-
ting in
there. Boston ilerai'i.
Sport at llnliiHi.
Tlie is-opleof Duluth wi re entertained
on Fridav by the captains of three tugs,
. uunv and re-
wuo bad a raco icu - -.
..u ....... -.,k-. t .l down and
turn, wiiu wi".' -
furnace s full to me uuui -----of
the populace was only marred by t he
fact that there was no e-pl.ton.-Ue-
troit Free lns.
Pulp manufacturers are deeply inter
red in an electrical meth-1 of reducing
tl. wood in the manuiacUiio ol p-p.
iSthitUellttatt
is manufactured so cneapij t. ... -
tpulp brines will be revolnuoruze
! and the digester, now in ue be driven
out.
KAI'lIY.
INFLUENCE OF MIND ON MIND
STRONGLY ILLUSTRATED.
A iiihiiji. u,ry nl Hi,. ml, TrmisinU
l..i, T.. VII K 11..M ii Mrn I'mieelv
Hi .iue 1,1, 4 Alinui ,v ,,,, Tin,..
n Odd Kirrleni- ..I Mitrk Twain's.
Now cmiie to tin-oildKst thing that
ever li:ii,ened to me. Two or three
years a-o I was lying in lied idly musing
one morning -it Hit Jd of March
v hen suddenly a red hot new idea came
wliiKlling down into my camp and ex
ploded wilh such comprehensive effec
tiveiicss its to sweep the vicinity clean of
rubbishy reflections and (ill the air with
their di.st and Hying fragments. This
idea, staled in simple phrase, was that
tin; time was ripe and tue market ready
fur n certain book; a book which ought
to be written at once: a lunik which must
command alieiitiou and be of peculiar
interest -to wit. a book about the Ne
vada silver mines.
The Ureal bonanza was a new won
der then, mid everybody was talking
about it. It seemed to tne that the per
son best qualified to write this book was
Mr. William II. Wright, a journalist of
Virginia, Nev by whose side I had
scribbled many months when was a
reporter tiiere ten or twelve before, lle
might be alive still; he might be dead; 1
could lint tell: hut I would write him
anyway.
1 began by merely and modestly sug
Resting that lie make such a book, but
my interest grew as 1 went on, and I ven
tured to map out what I thought ought
to lie the plan of the work, he being an old
friend, aud not given to taking good in
tentions for ill. I even dealt with details
and suggestid the order and sequence
which they idiimld billow. I was about
to put the manuscript in an envelope,
when the thought occurred to me that if
this lok should be written at my sug
gestion, ami then no publisher hapicii to
want it. I should feel uncomfortable; so
1 concluded to keep my letter back until
I should have secured a publisher.
HKAllINO AN I'NOI'KNKI) I.KTTKK.
1 pigeoulio.cil my document and drop
ped a note to my own publisher, asking
him to name a day for a business consulta
tion, lie was out of town on a far jour
uey. My note remained unanswered, and
at the end of three or four days the whole
matter had passed out of my mind. On
the Hill of March the postman brought
three or four letters, and among them a
thick one whose superscription was iu a
hand which seemed dimly familiar to
me. I could not "place" it at first, but
presently 1 succeeded. Then I said to a
visiting relative who was present:
"Now I will do a miracle. I will tell
you everything this letter contains
date, signature ami all without break
ing the seal. It is from a Mr. Wright, of
Virginia, New, and is dated the 2d of
March seven days ago. Mr. Wright
proposes to make a book about the silver
mines and the (ireat Bonanza, and asks
what I, as a friend, think of the idea,
lie says his subjects are lo be so and
so, their order ami seipieuce sound so,
and he will close with a history of the
chief feature of the book, the Great
Bonanza."
HEAD AltKillT.
I opened the letter and showed that I
had stated the date and the contents cor
rectly. Mr. Wright's letter simply con
tained what my own letter, written on
the same date contained, uud mine still
luy in its pigeonhole, where it had been
lying during the seven days since it was
written.
There was no clairvoyance about this,
if 1 rightly comprehend what clairvoy
ance is. I think the clairvoyant pro
fesses to actually see concealed writing
and read it off word for word. This was
not my case. 1 only seemed to know,
and to know absolutely, the contents of
the letter in detail and due order, but I
had to word them myself. 1 translated
them, so to speak, out of Wright's lan
guage into my own.
Wright's letter and the one which I
had written to him, but never sent, were
iu substance the same.
Necessarily this could not come by ac
cident; such elaborate accidents cannot
nuppen. Chance might have duplicated
one or two of the details, but she would
have broken down on the rest. I could
not doubt there was no tenable reason
for doubting-that Mr. Wright's mind
and mine had been in close and crystal
clear communication with each other
across 3,000 miles of mountain mid
desert on the morning of March 2. I did
not consider that both minds originated
that succession of ideas, but that one
mind originated them, and simply tele
graphed them to the other.
MKNTAI. Tlil.EUKAI'UY.
I was curious to know which brain
was the telegrapher and which was the
receiver, so 1 wrote and asked for par
ticulars. Mr. Wright's reply showed
that his mind had done the originating
and telegraphing and mine the receiving.
Mark that significant thing now;
Consider for a moment how many a
splendid "original" idea has been un
consciously stolen from a man U.000 miles
away.
If one should question that this is so,
let bim look into the cyclopedia und
con once more that curious thing in the
history of inventions which has puzzled
every one so much tiiat is, the frequency
with which the same machine or other
contrivance has been invented at the
same time by several persons in differ
ent quarters of the globe. The world
was without an electric telegraph for
several thousand years: then Professor
Henry the American. Wheatstone in
England, Morse on the sea, and a Ger
man in Munich all invented it at the
same time. Mark Twain in Harper's.
Tha lliiwilall.
The Indian howdali is a Bort of car or
pavilion, a saddle for elephants. It is a
handsome uffair with gorgeous trap
pings, and though of various forms is
nsually covered overhead. The driver
is not seated in the howdah, which is re
served for his master, but sits on th
elephant's neck. -Detroit Free Press,
Two I'mtrrlplluns.
A corresi indent asks for a reliable
remedy for blind staggers. In the case
of a horse bleed the animal ill the roof
of the mouth; in the case of a uiau con
fine the patient to a simple diet and the
use of water. Detroit Free Press.
Judge James M. Khackleford, of Indi
ana, appointed judgft of a court iu Okla
homa territory, took his son with him as
clerk of the court. The son and clerk bas
recently distinguished himself by marry
ing Cberokes.
MKNTAL
DANGER ON THE ELEVATOR.
Pf.ipl Him Should IU (an-fiil How
Th.) I'm llie lUplil l.iris.
The geiienil use of rapid traveling ele
vators is having an effect upon the peo
ple who use tin in that is causing a good
,l.,.ll j,f k,w.i,l.i..tt ti, M-l,.,!!,., t Id
sine i or a thoii Having a neax ncari iu
ride up and down on ilieiu halutuiilly.
Some per ins Ix-licve that the rapid mo
tion ami sudden stops are liable to pro
duce heart disease. Doctor' lire not posi
tive oti the subject, but their opinions
sei-iu to lend color to the theory thul a
person with a weak heart should not
ride frequently oil such elevators.
"This is certainly a very interesting
question," said Dr. Thomas J. Mays,
who makes diseases of the heart a
sKvilty. "I have heard people com
plaining of a sinking feeling iu these
rapid transit elevators, but whether the
movement of the c! -vator has any effect
on the heart or not 1 uin md prep uvd to
say When a person's heart is diseased
iu any way the slightest change of en
vironment will affect it, of course. The
movement of the elevator causes a
change of environment, but it may or
may not cause un aggravation of tli
heart trouble. Doubtless it quickens
the movement of the heart, but without
investigation of the subject it would
seem to me that the movement of a
rapid transit elevator would only affect
those iersons whose hearts ate affected.
However, I am not prepared to give an
opinion without study of tlie qinstiou."
Dr. Frank Woodbury, another phys.
cian who gives heart troubles special
intention, also said he had not studied
the question, but he was rather inclined
to think the movement of a rapid transit
elevator would affect a person; 'but,"
said lie, "1 think it would have more
effect on the nerves than on the heart. 1
came down in one of those elevators
tiiis morning with a lady, and she com
plained of ii sinking feeling, as if she
was going to faint. Not having given
the matter any serious consideration,
mil not prepared to give an opinion, but
I should think nervous ieople Would
very pruliilily be affected by the snd len
and swift upward or downward motion
of ail elevator."
Dr. John li. Shoemaker was another
phyiciaii who declined to express an
pinion. "1 have heard the matter dis
cussed," said he, "but I have not given
il iH'rsonal attention. The motion of a
rapid elevator undoubtedly has a tem
porary effect on some people, but whether
it affects the heart permanently or not
I cannot say."
Another physician said that many
persons' nerves aud hearts are ii fleeted
by the excessive use of tobacco, mid the'
rapid motion of the elevator will always
affect them. The heart is always uf
fected by the constant use of tobacco,
uud its movement easily quickened by
excitement of any kind. This is espe
cially the case with persons of a nervous
temperament, uud those persons always
have sinking feeling when a rapid transit
elevator suddenly starts or slops.
Whether these rapid transit elevators
have a permanent effect upon the heart
or nerves, he would not venture an
opinion. Philadelphia Record.
Won ly a Cull' lliitloii.
"Do you see that peculiar looking stud
that man is wearing on his shirt front?"
said a hotel clerk the other day, point
ing to gentleman standing near by,
and on whoso expansive bosom was
fastened a gold button with a bird in
black enamel upon it.
"That man' is a St. Louis drummer,
and he has been wearing that stud for
twenty years to my knowledge," added
the clerk. "It was twenty years, ago
that he married a relative of Patrick
Eran. of Nebraska. Previous to that
time a certain young business man of
Chicago was also courting her, und
among the presents he once gave her was
a nair of cuff buttons, of which that sted
was one. The rival saw these buttons
one day on the young lady's cuffs, ai d
in jest purloined one of them und placed
it in his shirt front. When h aving the
house afterward he encountered the
Chicago sutor. who spied the jewel. An
explanation was demanded of the young
lady and an angry scene followed, Mtid
the Chicago man left in a huff.
When the St. Louis drummer call' d
the uext time he proposed and was ac
cepted. After their marriage his wife
told him that had the Chicago lover pro
posed first, which he undoubtedly would
have done but for the cuff button episode,
she would have accepted him. Ever
since that time the happy husband has
been wearing that, button, and money
could not buy it of hi:n."-San Francisco
Call.
TntliilK !" t llf for TrulNe.
It has been found that dogs could be
trained fo hunt truffles, and so great is
tho demand in France for the truffle tUt
many of the canine pecies are now, in
certain districts, possessed of this esi.i
mable talent. The training through
which they pass in order to acquire a
scent is a decidedly agreeable one. To
begin with, finely cut or sliced truffles
are mixed daily with their food, until at
length they develop a liking for tlie
flavor.
Afterward their owners conceal in
some portion of a field where truffles hre
Kiitiisised to exist a little tin dish of fiu-t
anx t ruffes, covering the same with a
Tow handfnls of earth. The dog is then
brought out and urged to hunt for She
dish, goaded by an empty stomach.
When he at length finds it be is caressed
by his master, and thus in tne space f.f
a few weeks he will readily learu to
hunt for the vegetii-le itself.-Washington
Letter.
Greenland.
On some of the old time maps Green
land was known by a different name
than the one it now ls-ars.
During the Ninth century Guniibjoni,
a brave sea rover from Iceland, discov
ered "Greenland's icy mountains," and
because of their glittering mantle of Ice
and snow he called the island llvidsnrk
or White Shirt.
Some years later Eric the Red came to
the island to tounu colonies mere, aim
chanced the name to Greenland. Per
haps on a map White Shirt might not
make so dignified an appearance as
Greenlund, but it would not be so strik
ingly inappropriate to the great "in
land ice,"asthe Danes call it a country
of glaciers und snow fields that stretches
away into the shadows of the unex
plored and unknown. Youth's Com
panion. "It is curious," remarked salesman
in a Chestnut stru t store, "wli; t edd e
ruses joph will make for not buying
things rather than tell th truth."-l'lul-
,'i Iphia Dulletin,
!
KXPUMINU ALASKA.
THRILLING EXPERIENCES OF A PARTY
OF SCIENTISTS.
Tli Strang Land uf III far Nurlliwut
Hat Many liilerrtlliin Features I. us
urlanl Vegetal lull U'lier Titer la Nn
Irr - SI. t:lla ! iileanii.
Mr. Israel C. Itussell has returned to
Washington from that region of eternal
ice uud snow in Alaska, where the high
est peak in North America rises to an
gltitnde of ID.inn) feet from a glacier
I, IHHJ square miles iu area and as big as
all those of the Alps put together.
Along the edge of the glacier, all the
way from Icy bay to Yukutat bay, there
extends a strip of green coast which is
covered with luxuriant vegetation.
Slrawls-rrv vines cover the ground for
miles, mid the verdant fields are red
dened as far as the eye can reach with
luscious fruit, which compares favor
ably iu siint of size and flavor with the
lluest grown in temperate latitudes.
There are hucklels-rries. too, aud "sal
mon In i lies," which are something be
tween black berries und rusplicrries, but
of giant size, measuring nearly two
inches iu diameter, All the lowlands
are carpeted witli violets, buttercups,
yellow monkey flowers and other wild
blossoms. Here and there, in the midst
of the vast ice fields, are the loveliest
gardens watered by the melting snow.
There are plenty of grizzly bears in
the vicinity of Mount St. Elias, but Mr
Russell did not find the in very danger
ous. He says that his encounters with
them reminded him of killing pigs. Of
brown and black bears he saw and shot
a great many. The expedition met with
enough (H-rils. however, fo satisfy the
most adventurous geographical explor
ers. Nearly all of the climbing had to
Ih done up steep walls of ice and snow
by culling steps. At almost any lime a
slip would have precipitated the party
down the frozen precipices thousands of
feet. On one occasion they were de
scending when they found that an ava
lanche had carried away the stejis which
they had made in going up. The im
promptu staircase was destroyed for UiKI
feet, and they had to lower a man by a
ros) to chop out another, there licing no
oilier way of getting down. Such acci
dents as this were not uncommon.
IIAIIIIIItKADTli ESCAI'KS.
Aval inches were continually falling,
rushing down the sloiies with the sjieed
of rail ay trains ami with a roar like
thunder that could be heard twenty
miles away.
One night ubont 13 o'clock the party
was passing ovrr a bad place iu the
Agassiz glacier. Two men were iu the
lead, drawing a sled. Suddenly they
disappeared from sight, having fallen
into a tissuru in the ice. Luckily they
were caught usu a projecting ledge at
the depth of about twenty feet, else they
would never have been seen again.
Thev were hauled out with ropes. The
next day in the same iicighliorhood Mr.
Russell chanced to look Udiiud him und
saw that the ice field over which he had
just passed was gone, leaving uii enor
mous hole of unknown depth. Another
time one of his men tumbled into a crev
ice, and was only suved by the pack
fastened to his shoulder, which inter
rupted his progress through a twist in
the frozen tunnel that had yawned for
him.
The Agassis glacier is one of the four
great glaciers which, together with about
a thousand small, ones, flow out from the
mountains at the north to the mighty
Malaspinn glacier, pouring their streams
of ice continually into this vast flown
sea. This glacier of Malaspina, from
1,500 to 2,000 feet thick, is interesting,
not tin rely because of its enormous size,
but also by reason of the fact that it is
the only one uow in existence of the
same type us the glacier which formerly
covered ull of this continent as far south
as Philadelphia and St. Louis, leaving
traces that are visible tu this day iu
scratches on tint rocks.
A (ILAI.IAI. HIVKIt.
Where the land in that region is bare
of ice the vegetation attains mi almost
tropical luxuriance, aud the Arctic
jungles are well nigh impassable to the
explorer. One of the chief obstacles en
countered iu threading them is a plant
known as the "devil's club," which grows
to a height of ten or fifteen feet, itsstems
running along the ground for some dis
tance and then turning upward. Every
part of its surface, even to the ribs of
the leaves, is thickly set with spines,
which inflict painful wounds, and break
iiur off in the flesh cause festering sores.
Iu the Lucia glacier occurs a most inter
esting feature iu the shape of a glaciul
river which comes out from a mountain
through an urchway of ice, flows for a
mile und a half in plain view, uud then
is lost to sight in another tunnel. W here
the stream emerges finully is unknown.
No explorer has as yet been bold enough
to enter the tunnel and drift through,
after the fashion of Allan (juatermaiil
and Umslopogaus. The greatest risk in
such an undertaking would lie from fall
idg blocks of ice. At the month of the
tunnel there are always confused noises
and rhythmic vibrations to be heard
from the dark recesses within. The uir
is filled with pulsations like deep organ
notes, und it requires but little imagina
tion to transform these strange sounds
into the voices uud songs uf inhabitants
of the nether world. It used to be sup-
isised that Mount St. Elias was a volcano,
and sea captains sailing on the Pacific
havt often In-held whut they imagined
to bo smoke bluing from its summit
but this is a mistake, and it is probable
that the alleged smoke was really ava
lanche dust blown upward by the wind,
-Washington Cor. New York Sun.
Street Sareplng Machine,
A street sweeping machine has been
patented by a California!!. This ma
chine involves the novel principle of
throwing the dirt upward ami backward
over the top of the brush into the b.ise
of the elevator, and thence earn ing it
directly back and discharging it into a
delivery snout at tlie rear. I lie special
advantage of this machine is that the
elevator, being behind the brush, only
one elevator is required. Side brushes
and a irutter brush and iiower transmit
ting mechanisms to operate all the
brushes at the proper speed are aisojiro
vided, together with several adjustuTeiiU
of the various pfirts.-New lorn lorn
tnercial Advertiser.
A New Cur fur Tuolhaclm.
A Russian practitioner recommends
the use of hyocyainus seeds for tooth
ache. His plan is to burn the seeds, and
to convey the smoke through a little pa
per tube to the hole in the tooth. Uo
declares that in nearly all ces one ap
plication, or at most two, will suffice to
core the toothache.
DOCTORS' PLATITUDES.
Ilntt Thej Cajole. Miininr. Mynlfy anil
Itellrt Tlie I r I'ulielil.
Illness is ulwavs serious," is ona
of the slock phrases of the business
like doctor. "jvrscvero with tlie
medicine." is u sim'k remark worth
several humlivtl u year to sunie men
we know The "professional uir
which is now acquired requires a
genius to originate, nut ll is easy
enough to tilled it. llie Ais l prug.
p'rs lire dying the ileullt. The public
lumathivs oliiccts to Im-iiil' made ill,
und, as a rule, in the belter class of
practices, nicilicines are either sup
nlied free of charire. or nreM-riiitioiis
are written ; but gciieralfv the s'ople
Hi the middle ranks id lire who em
ploy the general practitioner object
to l'o to a chemist for medicines; con
seqiieully the drugs lire dispensed by
tlie iliM tiir. w e leur ti.nl many ol mo
most successful of jriicral luiictilioii-
ers owe their position simply to their
prollcioncy in the art of pleasing.
I never contradict a patient, one
of the most nstute of our friends Used
lo remark. Curious are the expe
riences on this head, we will give u
cn.su iu point Mrs. A. came regular
ly lo tlie surgery ol a prolcssioiiul
friend; her disorder was clironic. In
Mibcr truth, she simply fancied thai
her skin was loo tight tor her. rnr
mouths the hi weekly consultations
continued. Tlie practitioner was
uhiiiv Unit the lady was a nialade im
ngiiiuiiv, and be rang the changes on
tomes und placebos lliey ilnl no
barm; he argued tliey might ilo good
bv Iheircllecl on the mind. At length
our friend's conscience began lo prick
linn. He hemmed, ho hawed; at lust
iu told Mrs. A. iu polite language thai
she Imd nothing the nuitler with her.
Mrs. A. rose iiuIil'iuiiiI. And Have
vou Ih'cii physicking me all this tiuio
.-. .i ........ ..
ll Homing was ino uiauei i ,nm. ;v.
eft in a ruin!, ami, walking straight
lo another practitioner in tlio ucigli
borliiMid, she explained to liim thai
our ineiul --11111 noi iimiersiami ner
constitution;" in line, thai hu had com
mitted the crowning sin of telling her
that she had no disorder. The rival
practitioner wilh a wise num. He sym
pathized, lie pivscribed, ho is possibly
prvseriliing still, ami still, prooauiy,
the unfortunate lady sutlers from the
skin, which is too tight. This is no
histoire pour nroj it is a solemn fact
Olio of the most tradesmen like prac
titioners wo know, in defending whut
wo four can only lie culled charlatan
ism, remarks: "They like it, sir. They
..-ii i : in.:.. ...... ;i nl
Villi I1UVU 1U lllll iimuil"livi
wavs uses tlio stetlioscoiie, mid takes
the patient's pulxo with a sphyguio
giiipli; ho has tho reputation among
liis numerous patients of being a very
scientific iiiini; lie bus a largo uud
wealthy connection in a fn.slnoniiblo
suburb. Heally his ignorance is crass.
Many general practitioners seek to
dazzle their patients by a dualling
turnout, on ullcctulion of hurry ami
busllo. One eminent accoucheur is
said to linvo uclmilly driven himself
into practice, ne was Known 10 ins
confreres us "Jehu." Ilo ullccted a
yellow brougham nnd a pair of car
riugo dogs; lio drovo wilh jobbed
horses ul a rule of ubout fourteen
miles an hour; ho sum became talked
of, and died a rich num. Tho clever
iiructitioner never "lingers, lioiiuiKes
,!,,tu,.)f tlnuiisHil mill lola thn imticllt
conclude that ids moments are piu
cious. As u rulo, in general practice
tho patient is never Inld lie lias notti
imr the mutter with liim. "Ho rnusl
bo ill or ho wouldn't come to mo" is
tho nuturul sophistry of tho general
ui.iif.til inner 1 lo ia lilfdillhl V riflltifor
thero is something consoling to the
generality of penplo in Ihoniero seeing
of a doctor. As a ink tho (renoral
practitioner, if an honest mun, succeeds
in ginning mis punt in a vim iiuuno.
Saturday Keview.
Ilia Weak Point.
Tlio other tiny a young Imilon doc
tor, who. don hi less from some scien
tific or utliorliigh motive, Imd declined
lo liny a bill, had u "distress" served
uKiti liim in tho most ingenious mnn
ner. His intclliircnco had loiur defied
tlio bloodhounds of the law, but tlio
broker's mini ulono was 0110 too many
for liim. Tho doors were locked, the
windows boiled, tho nreu cute Hiiproir
nablo; but tho genius lo whom luul
been intrusted the disk of entering the
custlo wusequul to tlio occasion. Wliut
lio lookei for was "tho motive" thul
is. tho motive which would bo most
likely to induco a young doctor to
open his door; mm lie lounu u in u
"pationL" Uo drove up to tlio dixir in
a. call os a chrome but well lo uo in
valid Swuthed in Manuel lio tottered
ud tho steps, und when tho sympathiz
ing physician let him in nnd wosaliout
to inquire into his case, no rcpucu;
''Summons, sir; I'm tho broker's umu.''
Ban Francisco ArgouuuL
A Crack Ganrgla fcliarrmlinnter.
Ill vour nnper of today 1 saw on ar-
ticloof tho besl shot in Americas, one
that is llioequu lotC'u rveror Dogardus;
now. 1 wish to dispute willi you, for
wo liuve ono in Minuter that is fur
the suH'rior of cither; his naiuo is
llowuid; he never allows l is hands to
mark either his cuttlo or hogs; he lias
a truined dog for tho occasion who
starts tho hogs or cattle iimiii tlio pen;
after Ihcv have gotten from fifty to a
hundred yards the start ho puts his
horse in full secd, draws Ins bmitli
& Wesson und fires two shots in quick
succession, and thus proceeds locut
an uiidcrhit in ono cur and a swallow
fork in tho other, leaving a hole in
each car with a swallow fork in the
right and an undcrbit in tho left of
each car. ills employer litis oecn suv
is led with his miiuiliuliition for svv
era! years, and tells him logo ahead,
as everything is O. IL Americus
(Ua.) republican.
Coliira and llrallli.
In a recent lecture on decoration Sir,
George Aitchison, A. R. A., stated that
certain colors and tones are prejudicial
to health. Very dark rooms are so, und
red and yellow are also prejudicial in
the same way, if we have to remain in
rooms so colored all and every day. The
lecturer said that a manufacturer had a
woman's workshop painted yellow, and
found sickness increase in his hands.
His doctor recommended whitewash,
and normal health was restored.
Chatter.
t'alug Am ber Iu Imllalti JrarU.
Auiber is often seen carved into tie-
gant forms iu ancient Etruscan jewelry.
The magnificent necklace known as the
Prince de Canlno's, the masterpiece of
the Etruscan goldsmith, bas pendants of
alternate beetles of sardonyx and amber,
Juvenal represents his patron displaying
at his feast a bowl embossed with beryls
sod raised work of amber. Pliny re
cords the fact that it was used to imi
tate all the transparent stones, especial
ly the amethyst. Philadelphia Time,
NEW YORK'S L0DCINQ HOUSES.
Trunin Who ' Piitmiil.i Tl.ioo and Cat
Ai'i iiiniiiniliilliiiia at Tilllliif FlitnH.
Not long ago n n'Kirter, curious to test
the truth of (lie olil ullage (hut "one-half
the uoil I knows not how the other half
livt," i aide a tour of the cheap lodging
hone's, which ulmost Completely line
t'lialhaiiistri i t from the llrisjklyu bridge
to K.i-t I loiisioii ureet. As a rule (lie
.'hci".t class of these lodging houses are
palrnliixisl by tranqis who, during the
day, have hogged a nickel or dime of
miiio U'lievolcntly inclined person, and
by inveterate drunkards who, having no
home to go to, have pledged whatever
article tlio pawnbrokers wouM ucccpt.
Iu this class of lodging house the usual
charge is five cents. Having paid the
liiiiu in charge of the packing case like
ollicnoiie is entitled to a "Ud." This
"bed" is the bare Hist of an outrage
oiisly ventilated room, usually aliout
twenty fis t square, nnd no covering is
provided. In this room ore nightly hud
dled together liny where from twenty-live
tit fifty men. The close atmosphero of
the room, together wilh the breath of the
slcc'rs, renders the air pickening in the
extreme. No ultempt is made at cleanli
ness, nnd further, a man sulTcring with
any contagious disease is as renddy re
ceived us one iu perfii-t health. Only a
few months ago a man sulTcring with
smalliox was ssittisl in one of these
holes by the police, and after much delay
removed to a hospital. Tho en franco to
the lodging house is invariably through a
narrow doorway oil the street, and up a
staircase, lighted only by a small oil
lamp. Everywhere iilsiiit tho place ver
min can 1 loiuid. lints nnd mico fairly
overrun the place. It is tho custom to
turn out all lodgers at 6 a. in. for tho
avowed purposo of ventilating tho place,
but ventilation is impossible unless the
vile hmlding lie torn down.
j ho ten uud fifteen cent houses aro a
little letter than the "five centers," but
not much, l or ten cents ono can get
a cot bed in a small nsmi with several
others. Sometimes a mattress and shirt
ore provided tho lodger, but of loner he
gets no covering whatever. For fifteen
cents the lislger gets a "private room,"
which is one of many. It is made by
dividing a good sized room, by means of
wooden partitions, into a number of
smaller rooms. In some of them one
funis a chair as well as tho cot. A weak
elfort ut cleanliness is made hero. In a
fairly largo room near by soap, water
and towels nro furnished, and ull are ex-
iiecled to avail themselves of their use,
u this class of lodging houses the patrons
ore awakened ot 7 a. in., when a general
cleaning up takes place aud everything is
put in readiness for the uext night s
lodgers. The next priced houses cost
hslgers twenty-five or thirty-five cents a
night, according to llie accommodations.
Theso houses aro all that a reasonable
person in reduced circumstances can ex-
JHS't,
l or twrnty-flvo cents one is frequently
given a single room, but at somo places
the lislger is quartered with two or three
other men, but in a separate bed. At
tached to some of this class of houses ore
sitting rooms, where far in tlio early
morning hours groups of men sit about
talking or rending. Some houses fur
nish their patrons vt ith a buth. Tho belt
class of cheap lodging houses charge fifty
cents per night. These aro patronized
chiefly by jKsir mechanics and laboring
men. Everything is done to make their
patrons comfortable. The daily papers
uro kept oil lile, and games of chess and
checkers are permitted in the reading
room, l lie entrances are largo and wide,
lighted by gas, uud kept as clean as pos
sible. Notwithstanding that every eHort
is mado to keep theso places well ven
tilated, in the summer the beat is intoler
able. New York World.
Killing1 rieef for Hebrews.
As is well known, the Israelities are
Tory particular as to tho use of butchers'
nicut, which, in order to lie kosher I, e.,
to comply with the ritual requirements
ought only to be taken from animals Hint
are killed not only in the presenco of,
but by a iierson of tho fiuth, specially ap
jHiinted for tho purpose. Complaints in
this resiiect have been of frequent occur
rence, many butchers or dealers of game
and fowl offering their Jewish clients
unclean" meat. At a recent triul of
this kind in Ilerlin the rabbi of the prin
cipal synagogue was culled upon the
stand and testified as follows: "The
Mosaic law requires that tho Jew butcher
lie a person of good reputation and
morals, and, after undergoing on ex
amination by the rabbi, should only ex
ercise his particular function . on the
strength of a certificate,.- One of the
tests of his fitness for the place consists
in promptly resharpening a knife which
tho rabbi has purposely blunted. Dur
ing tho act of butchering he has to say
certain prayers; he must se that . the
blood fulls upon the ashes of peat, end,
above all things, he must avoid being
touched by any ono while, in the act, this
in itself rendering tho slaughtered onimul
unclean. Ho is required to put his seal
upon the carcass, giving the dute on
which tho animal is killed. No Israelite
is permitted to cat fowl which lias been
killed more than three duys before."
Paris American Register. '
A Car for Innomnla.
If you oro troubled with Insomnia
these sultry nights just turn the faucet
of cold water in your bath room for a
minute or two upon your feet and thin
thoroughly dry them, llnul taut your
musquito bar, let your head lie low, and,
like tho pious country blacksmith in lis
pew ot church, close your eyes ond tldnk
of nothing. Tho cold water drives the
blood to tho head and produces a sopor
ific effect. One of the big Portuguese
onions sliced and neatly seasoned and
eaten wilh thin bread, in the form of
sandwiches, would be good. An ordin
ary United States onion will do if the
grcut big fellows aro out of tho market.
Onions ore full of opium. Let business
and all mental labor go out of your head.
Keep tho thoughts of maturing notes, in
terest upon mertgages, tlio god looking
chap that was attcntivo to your best girl,
and nil such enemies to repose on the
outsido of your musquito netting. Now
York Times.
Aa Old Kilt ol Wood.
In Galveston, in sinking an artesian
well, which is now 2,040 feet In depth,
gray and green clay, mixed with wood,
lime concretions and pebbles, were found
ut a depth of 1,010 feet The age of the
wood is estimated at 200,000 years by
Professor Singley, and in tbo stratum,
which is 106 feet in thickness, he found
seeds resembling apple and hackberry
seeds. Yankw Blade
If people wish lo live well together,
they must not hold loo much logic,
and suppose that everything is to be
settled by sufficient reason. Dr. John
son saw this cleurly, with regard to
married people, when be said:
"Wretched would be the pair above
all names of wretchedness who should
be doomed to adjust by reason, every
moruing. all the minute details of a
dome itio day."