7
TWO OR THREF
There were noly two or three of us
Who catw to the place of prayer
Came to tec Umko of i drying tturm
But for (bat we did not re
since after our byroiu of praite be 1 riv-
And ourearneet prayen wereaald
The Matter hlraaelf wu prewnt there
And gtf e ill I he Hrlng bread.
We knew hU took la our leader 't foe.
Ho rapt and glad and free;
We felt hi touch whi-n our beadt were b...i
We heard bl "C'ome to Me r
Nobody aaw bim lift the latch,
Aud none uubarred the dour'
But "feaoe" wu hi. token to erery heart
And how could we ask for moref
E ih of us felt the load of ain
Kroiu the weary shoulder tall;
Each of u dr.ipied the load of 'care.
And the grief that waa like a pall
And over our spirits a bleawd calm '
Swept In from the Jasper am.
And eireuzth waa our. for toil and irlfe
In the day. that were tbence to be.
It waa only a handful gathered In
To the Utile place of prayer;
Outside were ttruggle and pain an ! tia.
Cut the Lord hluiat-lf wu there;
lie came to redeem the pledge he'gaTt-
Wbererer hii loved onn be.
To stand hiniaelf In the nildvt of them.
Though they count but Uo or three.
And forth we fared In the bitter rain.
And our bnarta had grown to warm
It teemed like the pelting of summer flowers.
And not IKe the cnuh of a Worm
"Twaa a tl"ie of the dearest privilege
Of the Lo' d't right hand," we .aid,
A. we thought how Jean, himself had com.
To feed u with living bread.
-Margaret K. Bangster In CongregatlonalUt.
THE FOKSYTUWILL CASH
"There are some things the multipli
cation table can't estimate, doctor, unj
J calculate tins case is one of them.
1 be speaker was a Texan alcalde of
naif a century ago, a man with a grave,
handsome face und one of those gigantic
antediluvian figures only found in the
bracing utiuosphere of the prairie or the
lusn freedom or tlie woods.
"lue senonta will help you to a fair
settlement: she knows her own mind
Santa Jose! few women know as much."
The doctor gave his opinion decidedly
and in very good English, albeit his
small, yellow person aud courtly, dig-
mueu manner tuny proclaimed his Me:
lean lineage. Xhen he calmly helped
himself to an olive and a glass of chain
bertin, and watched the alcalde as he
smoked aud waited for the expected
ayuntamiento, or jury.
In half an hour the twelve men had
dropped in by twos and threes, nodded
coolly to the alcalde, and helped them
selves to the liquors and cigars on the
sideboard. Now and then they spoke in
monosyllables, and the composure.
gravity and utter absence of hurry gave
a Kind or uiguifteU, patriarchal earnest
ness to the proceedings that were emi
nently American, and which quite made
up for the lack or ceremony.
After a lapse of five minutes the al
calde touched a little bell, and said to
the negro who answered it:
"Zip, tell the gentlemen we are wait
ing, and send Taiuar for Miss Mary.
"lue gentlemen," who were sitting
under a gigantic arbor vitas oak in the
garden in close conversation, rose at
Zip's message and sautitcred slowly into
the presence or the alcalde, who nodded
rather stiffly to them aud motioned to
ward two chairs. They were evidently
men of culture, and brothers. Some of
the jurors leaned toward them with
courteous salutations, others simply ig
nored their presence.
But every one's interest was aroused
when the doctor, hearing a footstep,
roso, opened the door and offered his
hand to a lady who entered. A calm
' browed woman with large, steadfast
eyes a woman who it was easy to see
. could be a huv unto herself.
Sho looked inquiringly at the two gen
tlemen, who were evidently her brothers,
but finding no response to the unuttered
love in her pleading eyes, dropped them
and calmly took the seat her friend led
her to.
There was another pause. Then the
alcalde laid down his cigar and said:
"Men!"
"Squire!"
"We have got a little business to set
tle between David aud George Forsyth
and their sister Mary. You are to judge
fairly between them, and they are will
ing to stand by what you say. I calcu
late they'll explain their own busiuess
best. David Forsyth, will you speak for
your side?"
David was a keen, shrewd lawyer,
and knew how to state his case very
plausibly. He said that his father, un
duly influenced by Dr. Zavala, who had
designs on their sister's hand, had left
not only the homestead but $30,000 in
gold to Mary Forsyth, and that they
claimed their share of the money.
The men listened gravely, with keen,
sidelong glances. When he had finished
one of them said:
"Very good, stranger. Now what do
you mean by 'unduly influenced? "
"I mean that this Mexican passed
whole days with my father, reading to
him, talking to him, and in other ways
winning his affection in order to influ
ence him in the making of his will."
! "How much did old Forsyth leave Dr.
Zavala?"
"He left him personally nothing,
but"
. "Oh!" the men nodded gravely at one
another.
"But," said David angrily, "he had a
deeper scheme than that He induced
my father to turn everything but his
homestead into money, and to place the
whole sum in the San Antonio bank to
Mary's credit We have no objections
to Mary's having her share, but we do
not see why our share should go to that
Mexican whom she intends to marry."
The doctor smiled sarcastically, and
Mary, blushing with indignation, half
rose as if to speak, but a Alight move
Went of Zavala's eyelids was sufficient
to check the impulse.
"Then Mary Forsyth is going to mar
ry Dr. Zavala?"
"Of course she is."
"And you are willing that she should
have the homestead and $10,000?"
"Wo are willing she should have the
Uf of the homestead for a moderate
rent We are not willing to give up all
chum to it Why, there are 2u0 acres of
the finest cotton land in the world thai
go with it If she had the entire ngui
to the homestead she ought to give nf
the money.'
"Mr. George Forsyth, what have yot
.f?;v-.. rv.--. v f.,.1
"My brother David has spoken foi
me."
Then there waa pause. The pro
curator stepped to the sideboard and
filled his glaca; several of the jury fol
lowed him. and the others chewed away
with silent, thoughtrul l-
"Dr. Lorenzo Zavala, wtll you speak
forth defendant" v.,r M u
The doctor, turned his chaw so as M
:wwi V '3 ."' km the
have r;::v '.tn.
Weill I . m-,wl:' d bevB m
Wli..., ii, . ,0 wllilt '"' are.
' V ".T thenMary
fl,,.i n .. uru"-rs Marv
sacri
"mi niitK the
Woilleii."
youth to othel
i;)''" -v"" Plainer. doctor-"
m.wkj ami lace and ladies'
between sun Antonio and
fiut
tlx
was a
man. Iiidu.vtri.nw
aud ambition.
- io una he i,j Kn.llt ,lL j
,"''J"VnJ bydavand
h m bru.ly, hirillg ollt tIl,ir one
va t. and doing cheerfully the work
vmh her own hands. She plaited tlw
straw, and made hat, also, which sold
l0i l then-ui
nan s or lace und ribliuiis into
wml pretty trifles fr the fair women in
ouu Antonio,
'Alcalde, these details are irrelevant
and impertinent." said David angrily.
"Every in ::n tells his story in his wn
way. Are you willing to listen, men?"
There was a universal articulation
winch evidently menut "ves." for the
doctor smiled graciously aiid went on:
"For her two brothers the little Man
worked, and always work.nl with a glad
heart. They had been sent to the north
ern states to school, and David was edu
cated for a lawyer and George for an
architect and builder. For eight rears
mis tatlier and sister worked together
solely for these In-loved boys, sparing all
comforts to themselves. So they paid
all their expenses liberally and saved lie
sides about $10,000.
"But when the young men came back
there was great sorrow and disappoint
ment. They had been educated bevond
the simple trader, the self denying s'ister
and the log house on the' Wachita
prairie: so much sorrow and disappoint
ment that the sister at last begged for
them that they should go to the capital
and divide the $10,000 between them."
"How do yon know such a tiling? It
is a lie!" said George.
"I have the father's letter which says
so. Will the alcalde aud tho jury read
it?"
The alcalde read the document and
nodded to the jury.
"You have forgotten, Mr. George," be
said. "It is easy to forget such money.
The doctor is right."
"After this the father heard little
from his sons. They married and forgot
the self denial, the hard labor and ths
love of so many, many years. The old
man worked on, with failing health; but
now that he bad lost his ambition and
cared little for money it came on every
venture. He did not try to make it, but
it came and came. Ho made on silk and
cotton and land. Whatever ho touched
was fortunate.
"But as money came health weut: he
was sick and suffering and could not
bear his daughter away from him. Ho
was jealous of her love, also, and he suf
fered her not a lover. This is one thing
I allow nut myself to speak about. I tell
yon, alcalde, tins woman showed
through many years one great, sublime
sacrifice. Upon my honor, senors!" and
the little gentleman laid his hand upon
his heart and bowed to Mary as if she
had been a queen.
"Not for myself; that is one infamy,
one scandal too great to be believed. As
my sister, as my friend, I honor Miss
Mary Forsyth. As my wife? Impossi
ble! Does not all San Antonio know that
I adore alone the incomparable Dolores
Heuriquez?
One day as I sat reading by my
friend's bed he said to me:
'Doctor, that is a pitiful story, and
too true. e think it a grievous wrong
not to give our sons a trado or a profes
sion, but we never tlimg wuat is to ue
come of the poor girls.'
"I said, 'Oh, we expect them to mar
ry-
'"But they dont, doctor, he said,
they don't, doctor; aud the most that
do are left by death, ill usage ormisfort
nre to fight the world some time or oth
er with no weapon but a needle, doctor.
It is a sin and a simmer
It's the way of the world, my
friend,' I said.
" 'I know. I spent thousands or dol
lars on my boys, aud then divided all 1
had between them. If Providence had
not blessed my work extraordinarily or
if I had died five years ago what would
have become of Mary?"
So, gentlemen, I said:
'Squire, your sons do not know that
you have maue more uivuvy, mcy
though, they had got all you had, and
have not visited you or written to you
lest you should ask anything of them.
y . . . , e..:.u
Do justice st once w your loving, iaim-
ful daughter; secure her now rroin
want and dependence, aud give her at
length leisure to love and rest.'
"And mt mend, being a gooa man.
id as I advised that he should do. For
that he died in good peace with his own
rnnsripnre. and made me for once,
senors, very happy that I gave good ad
vice, free, gratis, for nothing at an.
So you did not proht at au by mis
will?V
"Not one dollar in money, but very
much in my conscience, SantaJosei 1
am well content."
Miss Mary," said the alcalde, Kindly,
"have you anything to say?"
Mary raised her clear, gray eyes auu
locied with yearning tenderness into
her brothers' faces. David pretended ti
be reading. George stooped over and
spoke to him. With a sigh sne turnea
to the alcalde.
Ask my brothers what tney vaiue
the homestead at."
Two thousand dollars," promptly an
swered David.
Too much too much," grumoiea au
the jury. , ,
Two thousand fioliars, reaewruru
David; and George added. "Bare value.
I will buy it at two thouxanu aouars.
Will roua.sk my brothers u mey naw
anv daughters, alcalde?"
Gentlemen, you bear? Have you any
daughters?"
David said surlily that he had no chil-
da-n at all, and out-of the jurymen mui
tuwu
... . n.,,.K lM vul
eoing to find him out"
George said ne nai two uuuguuria.
"Ask their names, alcalde."
"Mary snd Nellie."
The poor sister's eyes filled as she
looked in George's face and said:
"Alcalde. 1 give to my niece alary ten
j dulUrSt ,nJ to mJ meCe Nelli.
, bope yoa
and the good men present will U"W th
u ,
H ii i to tiauu. i snow my uruiuer mna
will ucvi-r waut a dollar while there u
one in the country he lives in. Gvorge
is extruvjgrmt, und will havealwavsa
teu-dollur road for a five-dollar piece
but his boy can h-ani his own or their
uncle's trade; there are plenty of ways
for them. 1 would like to put the girls
bey.md dependence aud, beyoud the ne
cessity of n.-irrying for living.
David nwe in a furv and said he would
listen no loi' -r to uch nonsense.
"You for.vt, Mr. Forsyth, that you
have put this case into our hands. 1 think
you will hi.ve more sense than make
enemies of thirteen of the best men in
the neighborhood. Gentlemen, would
yon like to retire and consider this mat
ter?"
"Not at all, alculde. I am for giving
JTss rorsyth all her father gave her."
"And I." "And I," "And I." cried ths
whole twelve almost simultaneously.
"1 shall contest this affair before the
San Antonio court," cried David pas
siouately.
"You'll think better of it. Mr. For
syth. Do you mean to sav you brought
twelve men hero to help you rub your
sister, sirr
"I mean to say that that Mexican, Zav
ala, has robbed me. I thall call him to
account."
The doctor laughed good naturvdly,
and answered:
"We have each our own weaions, my
friend. 1 cannot fight with any other.
HeM.l.-s 1 marry me a wife next week."
And the doctor leaned pleasantly on ths
alcalde's chair, and with a joke bade
mend after mend "GihsMiv."
Mary Forsyth tarried out her inten
tions. She settled Btrictly and carefully
$10,000 on each of her nieces, bought her
homestead, and then sat down to consider
what sho should li with her $S,OU0.
"If 1 were a Frenchwoman and San
Antonio were Paris," she said, "I would
rent a store and go to trading. I know
how to buy and sell by instinct, and if 1
wero a Uiru farmer I could plant corn
and cotton and turn them into gold; but
1 am not u farmer I never made a gar
den and got a decent meal out of it i
calculate 'twill lie best to get John Doyle
for head man and put my mouey in
cattle."
Just as she came to this decision Dr.
Zavala drove hurriedly up to the door.
"Man-! Mary!" lie cried, "come
quickly! There is an old friend of yours
in the tiiuln-r too ill with the dengue
fever to move.
"What do yon need, doctor?"
"Need? 1 need you and a couple of
men to carry him hero. Do you know
that it is Will Morrison?"
Oh. doctor! doctor!"
'Fact. Heard of your father's death
In Arizona and enmo straight home to
look after you. Poor fellow! he's pretty
bad."
Well, Mary did not need to hire John
Doyle us head man, for Will, who had
loved her faithfully for tifteeu long years,
was the finest stock man in the state,
and within thn-e mouths tho doctor and
his beautiful Dolores danced a faudnngo
at Mary and Will's wedding. Amelia
E. Eirr in New iork Ledger.
No High Comedy Nowadays.
Tliis generation knows almost nothing
by stage experience of pure high comedy
except in tho way of revival. What un
der tho name of comedy has occasionally
won success on our English stage is a
production which has somewhat reached
upward to tragedy or stretched down
ward to farce, or, more often, has bor
rowed the fine feathers of melodrama.
Tho true, fuller modem comedy, such as
Moliere initiated, aud even onr Ixwt res
toration comedy playwrights have but
poorly imitated from him, and such as
once or twice that greatest comedy ge
nius of this century, Lahiche, has at
tempted in an ago that aked for lower
things, is an unknown thing now on the
London stage.
Now this finer and fuller comedy that
we know not is more than a mere represen
tation of life, or even nn interpretation
of it. It is a larger thing altogether, for,
first, it must contain some element of
not unkindly satire, with keen wit and
broad humor, or it is no true comedy.
Then, too, nature is not to be merely
photographed, but a mirror is to be held
up to reflect the likeness and at times
the antics of human nature; but it must
be a magic mirror, that shall have just
such a power of artful distortion in it as
that we shall never ourselves be hurt to
think we perceive onr own lineaments
disfigured or onr own motions mocked.
Finally, there must be some sort of electric-ism
a picking out of the salient
points of human nature, an intensifica
tion and an enhancement. It is cloar
there must be this, for the realism loving
andiences could not stand the pointiest
and long winded talk of ordinary men
and women. Fortnightly Review.
A Woman to Whom 13 I aLurkjr Number.
Thirteen is full of ill omen to some
people and full of good luck to others.
It brought great fortune to Cora Edsall,
the latent star to rise in the theatrical
firmament. She went to see J. M. Hill,
the mauager, a nmnler of times and
failed to meet him. She resolved to try
once more and make that a last effort.
She was informed at the Union Square
theatre that he was at Clarendon hall
rehearsing. She went there.
As she put her foot on the first of the
stone stairs to ascend sho remembered
that she was in Thirteenth street. It
was ths thirtft-nth time she had gone
after Mr. Hill. She lived in a house
numbered 13, had ridden down town in
a car No. 13, and it was the 13th day of
the month. She was so frightened at
the accumulation of thirteen that she
almost fainted. She drew her foot back
and was abont to give np when the
thought struck her that maybe so many
thirteens meant success.
She took heart and went on. When
the arrived in the hall Mr. Hill was set
tling some dispnte among the actors.
He was standing iu the auditorium alone.
The rehearsal was just over. As the
manager turned to leave she went up to
bim and said she wanted an engagement
Mr. Hill replied that his company was
full. She asked liiiu to hear her read.
He agreed. Site read to him then and
there. He accepted her, had a play
written for her and brought her out as a
kading attraction. New York Press,
Koyalllet Paid to Author.
In France the royalty paid to Dnudet,
Zola, I)e MaupasHaut and a few others Is
about 30 per cent, ou the retail price of
each book sold. Many Hrst rate authors
bar to twtitent themselves with 14 per
cent, and a vast majority of writers do
not receive more than per cent, while le
Ifinseni get a royalty of 7 per cent. only.
In America the royalty paid to authors is
generally 10 per cent, although there are
numerous Instances where the royalty is
very much larger. Chicago News.
00 YOU REMEMBER.
Do jou ren.en.her when the learnt were fading,
Urooeing like the gkJe a nut
(Your aiure eje auea anuhi uf torrow t ihad-
Dig,
Nur an tinge t ma
We walked U.imwIi the (re-e; the mom. waa
liinit g
'Slid fli-er ' rlouth alu.e,
Iwt alioaing u Ikrtt luurr, ulier Unlug;
Do jru remember, loe?
lo ' remember when ll.e tilrdi ere calling
tifelljr from naked Insight,
And eiifUy, tllenlly (lie turf eat falling
On forroea made l.y pluwa;
And hen (lie plumage of the augelt whitened
lkHb nVId aud riTi-e ah ore.
I felt jrour Oi.gvra round nijr own werw Ugnteoed
Ai If to art no morel
And Juat to think the rear la nut i-t taulihed.
And we are far amrt.
Like lo kat toula from Lute i aaeet rdea baa-
html,
rVnl forth with lerred heart 1
fVrlialle ut la eearverjr worth regret Hug,
And U-Ihe eon.ea lo all:
rrhi (here la a pleauire lu forgeding
evoea Wt beyoud nvall.
And aluaild il come to tlila. w ill jrou reutember,
When autumn coiuna a,e.
And leaeea are falling tlmsigh a drear November
Like lean on Nalure'a faee.
The good ol.l. lender Uavt then earth aeeiued
reeling
llenealh jriNir tunny amile.
In qulel ixatvfulnma Ha )' ail.-ating.
And aorrowa al4 a hile?
Tel abould the future briiu to you repining,
A craving ft the vw,
Ki-inemlvr aloart i lmsU have ailver liuiug,
Anil even love mar but;
Thai from (he I. lug Hie ahl come tailing
lA.I.'O allh nnvH.iK freight.
AUcarelmaof the winter wuvl aloud tailing
".Not loet. bill our We."
Exchange.
Mlae IU.bklrl.efT. Tomb.
Marie's bodr lies in the chapel built
by her mother in the cemetery of Passy,
just outside of Paris. The chapel is a
work of art, designed by Bastion Le
page's brother anil made of marble. In
building this memorial chapel Mme.
rashkirtoff disregarded cost entirely, so
much so in fact that it went Ix-yondcven
her means, aud still remains to lie paid
for. Around Mane s grave are hung all
her best pictures, those of some of her
girl friends still alive, which must be
rather gloomy, and the picture which
Bast ic n Lepage aitited when ho tried
unsuccessfully to win the Prix do Rome
as a young man, for which Mine. Dash-
kirtseff paid an immense price after the
artist's death. Sho thought, as she told
Mario's friends, that it would please
Marie to have the painting in which Bas
tion was so much interested hanging up
near her body. The building of such a
chapel as Marie's in the cemetery of
Passy was contrary to the municipiu reg
ulations. It was through the influence
of the Manvhal de CanroN'rt, who is
also a senator, that Mine. Dashkirtacff
got sjHvial permission from the Paris
municipal council. New ork Sun.
A Happy and Favored Spider.
Far up in tho corner of my room is a
big black cobweb, and a big black spidor
dwells therein. He has dwelt there
quite a year now, and although many
surreptitious feminine glances of horror
at the wretched housekeeping of some
people steal up to that corner my happy
spider is never disturled. 1 think he al
most loves me now; he comes down
often, dropping Inch by inch, by a thin
golden thread, and ho runs rapidly and
twinkling-legged over my table and pa
lters, ausing for moments at a time to
look at mo with bright, unwinking eyes
and motionless body.
Happy, happy follow! He has his
health, his spirits, and his home with a
tiny sweetheart locked therein, where
no covetous eyes may find her. hat
more could he ask to make him happy?
lint one day ah, me! some one else
will come into this room with an alert
eye for cobwebs ami a strong band
to remove them, and then then when
he is homeless and friendless and hope
loss my spider may understand how
right down good I was to him. Ella
Higgiuson in West Shore.
A Queatlonof (lie Coneervatlonof Energy.
A correspondent writes; "It is a well
known law that energy is indestructi
ble, but a case came to my notice a short
time ago in which it is hard to tell in
what form the energy appears. A metal
spring is placed under tension, and
while iu tlus state is fastened and placed
in acid uutil it is completely dissolved.
What becomes of the energy stored np
in the spring? Is it turned into heat,
and, if so, how?" New Orleans Pica
yune. Ingratllade of Kepubllet.
For presuming to issue a military
mancipation proclamation, and thus
break the back of slavery and rebellion
with one blow, Qen. Fremont was sup
pressed. The country that finally adopt
ed his policy after an nutold loss of blood
and treasure neglected to accord him
either credit or reward until it was well
nigh too late. It is an impressive in
stance of the ingratitude of republics.
Boston Globe.
A Boy's Prayer,
Smart children's saying are rather
overdone, but there was a good deal of
diplomacy about little fellow who
prayed long and earnestly for a double
ripier. Finally his mother told him that
perhaps Ood didn't think best for him to
have a double ripper, and his next
prayer was formed a little differently,
"O Lord, please send me two sleds and
board." Springfield Homestead.
Hoi ling Kgta by Prayer.
One of the oddest uses of the Nicene
creed is that which it is applied to by
the women of ancient Nicii-a. where the
creed was in great part originally form
ulated. They recite it after putting eggs
in a pot to boil as a measure of the time
needed to cook them. It is said that
they do this without any idea of Irrever
ence. Churchman.
Clear Prowf.
Proud Father Taken high degrees in
your scientific course? Proud of you,
my boy. By the way, can you prove
that heat expands and cold contracts?
College Graduate Certainly. Don't
the days grow longer in warm weather
and shorter in winter? Pittsburg Bulle
tin. A Glgtnlle Advertlaement.
A Scotch paper, the Glasgow News, il
credited with having put out ths largest
advertlaement in tho world. It it cut lo
the shape of flower Im-U on ths side of a
bill. The nam of ths Journal can be aeeo
and plainly read at a distance of four
miles. Each letter Is forty feet loug.
roar Legged Total.
There Is a curious looking animal Id
&miih Africa that looks for all ths world
likt a piece of toast with four legs, a head
and a tail. It retembles a putty eat about
the forehead sod ears, hut Its Dot is dis
tinctively that of a rat. while lu tail b not
very diatimllaf to that of a tug.
A Dloodv Riot BectlUd.
"Ninet n years aga today," said In-spd-Mr
r.ynu-s "I shnll never forget
that day's duty. I was ordered over to
the Orangemen's headquarters fivm in
precinct at daybreak I was captain of
tin I wenty-tirst then and tok every
one of uiy men along except old Scfgt.
Davciiiiort and a iloonnun. We exixrt-
ed trouble, and I had a lot of hand gre
nades licnpM by the second story win
lows in the old station liou.se in Tliirtv
fifth street, told the sergeant to lock the
doors and jn-lt any mob that would try
to enter. Old lave was as good as an
army wheu it came to sticking. He just
sat on that pile of hand grenades and
waited.
' lla had a good long wait, if we
didn't. Tin o who walked in that
bloody procession from the Eighth ave
nue headquarter of the Orangemen to
the old Il.'iymarket in tho Bowery will
be apt to remember it to their dying
day. I can hear the crowd yell now
when tho militiamen Wgan to sluxit
right and left. From the rear, from the
hmiH-toiM, it ruined bricktwts and hot
lead. A hundred must have been killed
before the end of that march of terror
and death.
"It was 8 o'clock tho next morning
In-fore wo got back to our station. It
was ss dark and still as the grave. As
we hammered on the door and yelled a
window in tho sivond story was slowly
and cautiously owned aud old Dave
said:
" 'Who is there?
"0Hn tho d.H.r,' yelled the tired
men. 'Open it or we'll burst it in.'
"You will, eh!" camo from upstairs in
shrill tones, and in the window appeared
the old sergeant, fighting mad, with a
hand grenade in each fist and an nrinful
In reserve, as a lsy carries snowballs.
Stand Imok there! or there will lx mur
der. Bock, I sav."
We had come all tho long and bloodv
way, fighting every inch of it, without s
thought of showing the white feather.
Every mother's son of us would have
leen killed twice over rather than turn
tail. But we ran t licit. Before old Dave,
with his armful of hand grenades, the
army that had saved a city from sack
ing scattered and fled. The sergeant
was left to hold the fort alone until we
coaxed him from shelter into compre
hending that we were not the enemy.
Then he camo down and let us in. Now
York Telegram.
An Aayliin. Thai Colleela Ntn.npa.
There is an asylum for orphan girls in
Ixx'le, Switzerland, which finds a mar
ket f r all the old ostiigi stamps sent to
it Nearly everybody far and near ac
quainted with tho fact sends t the asy
lum his or her second hand stamps, and
for tho information of those who aro ig
norant a circular is issued calling for tho
contribution of stumps aud also setting
forth the uses to which they nro ap
plied. Bare stamps of course go to
dealers or collectors, wliilo the common
er sorts are applied to decorative pur
poses, Iteing used to ornament screens,
shades, etc., and even, so Bays tho circu
lar, to paper rooms. The circular does
not say how tho American green stamp
of the past can be ued for decoration.
Over a million of stamps were received
by tho institution from all over the
world iu 1HSM, and a considerably larger
numlx-r in ISMI). The s(aini are assort
ed by the children and put up iu puck
ages of 50 or 100 each. Those collected
in 1W.S8 were sold for 1,8K) fruncs, or
f'-UO, and those of im for $?G0. This
may not seem much to Americans, but
money goes further in Switzerland than
hero. Persons, then-fore, who want to
put their old post ago stamps where they
will do tho most good should send them
to M. J. Nougier, dirccteur de l'Asile
des Billodes, Locle, Switzerland. Ex
change. Killed for a La.au.
Lawyer J. F. Haskell, of Lowell, has a
4-year-old son who is us bright as half a
dozen silver dollars ami who bus an au
dacious sense of humor that may be
worth money to him wheu ho gets into
politic One of his latest experiments is
tho tulk of the family just now.
"If I put this tin soldier and horse into
that bowl of milk mammu'll lick me for
it, you see if sho don't," he said recently
to a visitor, and the visitor seeming in
credulous he dumiied the toys into the
milk.
Mamma as promptly "licked" him for
doing it.
"By gosh," he said delightedly, as he
returned to tho visitor from the scene of
castigntion, his amusement sulHirdiuut
lug the sense of pain, "she licked mo for
the soldier, but they didn't find the
horse." Boston Qlolie.
(irltt Mill.
Grist mills occupy a prominent posi
tion in modern fanning. By their use
the lalx.r of reducing food to a digestible
condition is transferred from the ani
mals to the steam engine, and the ner
vous energy which would be used for the
purpose ran le directed tc the organs
which assimilate the nourishment and
transform it into flesh and lione. In the
case of horses which are kept busy in the
day it is almost imi-rative that a part
of the mechanical work of crushing or
cutting their food should be done for
them, or else they have not suflloietit
time left for rest One has only to ex
amine a sample of beans or maize to re
alize what an expenditure of power is
needed to grind them up in an animal's
mouth. New York Commercial Adver
tiser. rood for a Lifetime.
A curious calculation of the amount
of food consumed in a lifetime of seventy
years has recently been made by M.
Soyer, a French savant, now chef of the
Reform clnb of London. Among other
things M. Soyer says that the average
epicure of three score and ten will have
consumed 80 oxen. 200 sheen, 100 calves,
200 Lambs, 60 pigs, 2,200 fowls, 1,000
fish of different kinds, 80,000 oysters,
5,475 pounds of vegetabh-s. 243 pounds
of butter. 24.000 esirs and 4 tons of
bread, besides several hogsheads of wine,
tea, coffee, etc. This enormous amount
of food will weigh but bttle short of 40
ons. St Louis Republic
llunealy la Main.
An Auburn business man was surpris
ed the other day to see an old customer
come into his store and pay bim a bill,
with interest, which was contracted
forty years ago when he was doing busi
ness in another town. It wu a small
bill, and the one to whom it was due
had forgotu-n all aiwnt tt Lewlston
Journal
Electric boats on ths Thames are becom
ing popular lu I-oiidon. There are now
sixteen in use, with a seating capacity of
from twelve to teveuty persona.
A KENTUCKY MULE.
A Cray Haired Old Fellow Treed a Rear
anil finally Killed IU
Sam Parson's gray mule Zeke is old
mui gray, but he isi-wcsses great strength,
both of understanding and of body.
Saturday old Sam concluded that he
wouldn't work, and accordingly he
shouldered his muzzle loading rifle and
went hunting. But before departing he
turned Zeke out to graze,
Finding the grass around the parson's
cabin rather scanty, Zeke wandered
down tho edge of tho crei k next to the
mountain side. There within the shad
ow of the woods ho struck a nice, ten
der clump of grass and immediately be
gan to eat it with great delight Wliilo
engaged in this congenial task a large
black bear came down the mountain
side and approached Zeke. Zeke had
probably never seen a U-ar before, as the
ursina trilte has long W-cu scarce iu these
mountains. Nor is it likely that the bear
had ever on any previous occasion look
ed uiM.n a mule. But this bear was
hungry and, while Zeke was bigger
game than he had bargained for, he
evidently thought it worth while to take
a look at him, for he came a little nearer.
Zeke was not a bit afraid. He had
never stood in awo of manhood, not
even Old Sam, his master, and it was
not likely that at this late criod of his
lifo he would be afraid of any four
footed creature that walked the earth.
Zeke calmly went on with his pleasant
task of eating grass. Tho bear edged up
another yard. Zeke switched his tail
and cleverly knocked a fly off his liack,
und U-ing rclfcvcd of the burden of the
insect still munched the grass.
The l-eur u-gau to grew inquisitive.
lie evidently did not understand what
kind of an animal Zeke was, his studies
iu zoology being limited. Ho stood upon
his haunches and growled, not as a
threat, but as a kind of friendly saluto.
Zeke did not raise his head, and still
munched the grass. The bear stoppcil
growling and walked in a respectful cir
cle around Zeke, studying him from
every corner. Ho night have been a
hundred miles away for nil the notice
Zeke took. 1 he bear was puzzled and
uttered another growl of interrogation.
Again finding himself unnoticed he be
gan to grow angry.
The beur weut around behind Zeke
and came very close, evidently deter
mined to try by touch to , .rouse the
strange animal. Suddenly Zeke doubled
himself up iu a knot and leajs-d high in
tho air. Two legs (lew out of tho bunch
like piston rods and caught the bear in
tho side, whirling him over in a com
plete somersault When ho struck the
ground ho righted l inn elf and rushed
away with a growl id' pain. But Zeke
was hot after him, and the bear, seeing
that he would be overtaken, scrambled
up a hickory tree, barely missing a terri
ble drive of Zeke s bind heels.
Noon cume and still Zeke was under
tho tree. Tho afternoon passed. It was
almost sundown, but still Zeke was
there. The bear could stand it no long
er. Zeke was alsjut twenty feet away
from the tree, apparently taking no no
tice, und accordingly ho crawled down
tho trunk us quietly as jH.ssible, intend
ing to slip away in the forest. Barely
hud- ho touched the ground when Zeke
turned with a snort and leitis-d upon
him. So fast did his hind legs flashback
and forth that they looked like the driv
ing roils of au engine. In a minute the
Is-ar was dead, every bone in his body
broken. Mrs. Pursons, who saw it all
from the door of her cubin, says that the
bear didn t even have time to growl.
When asked why sho hadn't takeu a gun
from tho homo and shoot the bear in the
tree for she is a girl woodsman and bold
us a man-she replied:
"I kuowed Zeke didn t need no help,
and besides 1 didn't want tospllotho
fun." Pond Crock (Ky.)Cor. New York
Hun.
taioayiieraalet tiiiii't count,
"Madam," said tho street car conductor
to a young lady in a blue calico frock,
"you have a dog under your shawl, aud
you must leave the car."
"What! Leave the cur! vociferated
the woman. "I have paid my fare and
I'm going to stick right where 1 am."
'Then 1 shall put you off, replied the
disciplinarian in blue.
All ut once a law point came Into the
woman a head. "Uive me, buck my
fare," she said. "1 got In here in good
faith, and when 1 paid my five cents
contract was completed. You must
either carry it out or return my cash.
I m not responsible because your cranky
directors don't like dogs."
The street cur ofilciul stopped the car
and hailed a policeman. The point was
stated, and the thief catcher, after pon
dering for a few momenta, observed:
I ain t no judge nor 1 ain t no jury,
but 1 claim to have some sense.
'Under your system you might make
rules thut passengers mustn't wear red
neckties or red noses or throe dollar
trousers, aud after they had paid fares
show 'em the rules and put them off.
"There is no end to the rules yoa
might make to bunko folks out of their
ride, and every time a chap looked cross
eyed you could turn to rule No. 824,
providing that he inusn't look crosseyed
and then dump him in the gutter.
'The thing isn t fair. There ain t no
law to it and it don't go."
Turning to the young woman he said:
"You stay where you are, mum," and to
the conductor, "If you try to put her off
without giving her back her far 111
club your head off."
Ting weut the bell and on went tne
car, dog, young woman and alL New
York Herald.
Entirely Satlafled.
A suit had gone against the defendant,
who arose and gave his opinion of the
judgment and was fined (10 for con
tempt of court A bill was banded to
the clerk which proved tobe$J0. "I
have no change," said the clerk, tender
ing it to the offender. "Never mind
about the other $10," was the retort
"Keep it; I'll take it out in contempt"
Black and White.
At a faahlnutble Dinner Party.
Ocnt (on the rigbtThe weather,
I have already discussed thai
subject with my neighbor on the left
Gent (aside) The mean scoundrel!
We had arranged between us that he
should talk about the dinner and I my
self about the weather. HumoristUche
Blatter.
foreata ! Greece.
In ancieut times Greece possessed
about 7,500,000 acres of dense forest, and
she was coiuiwratively rich in timber
uutil about fifty years ago. Much of it
has. however, now disappeared. Phila
delphia Ledger.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
Pertinent Suggestions to Young
Me
Who Are Looking That Way.
Tho inducement i offered by the pro
fession of electrical engineering are
drawing each year an increasing nam
Ur of youn.'i men into technical study
of t'.ie subject. A word to such may not
bo out of place. You must remember
that the great electrical industries in
which yon hnie to see active service are
the growth of hardly more than a singls
decade; yet, wliilo this gives high prom
ise for the future, it is clear that the pio
neering period is for the most part gone.
While each year will see an extension
and strengthening of electrical interests,
they are steadily settling into more con
servative and business like shape. D4
not. then fore, look for the sudden and
brilliant success that cume to reward
some of the early workers in the elec
trical field, but rather for the steady
labor and well earned prizes thut pertain
to serious and faithful professional work.
Electrical industry has two widely
different phases business and technical.
Iu the former an electrical education may
or may not be of marked service one i f
tho most active and successful electrical
business men we know was, until quite
recently, the manager of a brewery in
tho latter it is no longer a convenience,
but a necessity. Fifteen years ago so
little was known of the practical appli
cation of electricity that a quick invent
ive mind, with no more t-vlminU train
ing than might be gained by the experi
ence of a telegraph office, could strike
ou; in new lines of progress with every
pniepect of success. Today, while ths
field is very, very fur from being fully
explored, good work cannot be done
without studying and profiting by the
results of that fifteen years of marvel
ous development
Ho who starts today with the training
that would have meant success then will
probably meet dismal failure now. There
fore, in taking np the study of electricid
engineering reniemls-r that tho more
careful and thorough work yon do the
better tho chance in the future. And do
not tie deluded iuto tho idea that you
should hurry through your training and
"leurn practical electricity in the work
shop." You can leurn more that will bo
of service to yon by a year's careful work
In a good Iuborutory than in fire years
in an electrical manufactory. Do not
expect to leave the laboratory with an
intimate know ledge of any electrical sys
temyou will not have It, but you will
have acquired what is of vastly greater
value, that firm grasp of the general
principles that will enable you to seize
the details of any system with a rapidity
thut will surprise you.
Study then the broad principles in
volved in applied electricity and the the
oretical basis on which they rest. This
Is the electrical side of your education.
But there is another, every whit us im
portant. Electrical engineering Is me
chanical engineering, plus electricity;
and while, iwrhaps, Sir William Thom
son's statement that a mechanical en
gineer can acquire all the necessary
electrical training in six months or so ii
lather strongly pnt, there is a deal of
truth in It A sound idea of mechanical
principles is very necessary to success iu
practical electricity, and the ideal train
ing then would build a firm superstruct
ure of electricity on foundation of me
chanical engineering. Put all tho tim
you can spare, therefore, on a thorough
training in some one of the excellent
schools that are available., and when you
have completed it make up your mind to
work for all you aro worth. Electrical
World.
A Pitiful Bight.
"I was at Sioux City during the rise
In the Big Muddy," said T. P. Sinclair,
a prominent farmer and stock raiser of
South Dakota, "and there witnessed a
sight that haunts me. Pretty much
everything that would float came swirl
ing down the angry river wrecks of
buildings, household goods and gods
and among the drift was, what do yoa
think? a cradle! One of the old fashioned,
wooilen sort, and in it sat a white headed
little tot, apparently about a year old.
"There was not a boat within hailing
distance, the cradle was fully 800 yards
from shore and tho river was ruuuing
like a mill race. I started on a dead run
down along the bank, hoping to find a
boat of some kind, but before I bad gone
twenty-five yards the cradle tipped over,
spilling its little occupant Into the mud
dy waters. 1 am pretty well seasoned,
let me tell yon. I walked over rows of
dead men at Donaldson aud Siiiloh, have
shot Indians and helped hang cow
thieves, but that sight at Sionx City
broke me. I just sat down and cried
like a woman," St Louis Globe-Democrat
A High Tea Qtlta Another Thing.
"As I rode from Boston out to Lynn,"
said a New Yorker, "two typical women
of the Hub sat near me in the horse car.
Their gray hair was neatly coiled, their
bonnets were serviceable and their gowns
designed more for use than ornament)
their voices were low, and one of them
road aloud to the other little items from
a large work on botany. Your true Boa
tonian loses no chance to Improve her
mind. Presently I heard the reader say:
" 'Why, thut is the same thing as high-
upr
"Her companion and I were ignorant
on the subject of high-sup, and to the
former she said:
" 'Surely yon know high-snp; don't yon
ever read the Bible? Don't yon remem
ber that they put a spongeful of vinegar
on high-snp and offered it to Christ on
the cross? "-New York World.
treet Signs la St. Loola.
Since the removal of the old street
lamps which bore the names of the differ
ent thoroughfares th6 inhabitants of St
Louis have been the subjects of much
bewilderment when taking their walks
abroad at night. The street inspector of
the city has the credit of being struck
by a happy thought in the idea of de
noting the streets by shadow signs. The
name of the street is painted on the elec
tric light globe and the shadow is thrown
on to the ground. Painted letters of
three-quarters of an Inch give a shadow
of five feet, which can be easily read
over twenty yards away. Exchange.
Wagging tat Tango la Bleep.
Many persons, of all ages and both
sexes, In perfect health cannot hold their
tongue when asleep. This habit is duo
to Indigestion or to cerebral irritability.
The remedy is an early meal before go-ino-
to hed. Ukina half a Dint of cold wit-
j ter before patting the bead on the pil-
low, and always sleeping on the right
I side never on the back. In case of pre
mature wakefulness a copious draught
of water usually Induces sleep. New
York Telegram.