CITY GUARD.
I. I OAMrHEI.L, Fraprlator.
IUQENE CITV....
.ORKiION
Kentucky' popular uprising nan rai
d. 1'rohably they ran out of lynching
material.
A dnlljfl-roUR Counterfeit ffl'O nil vcr
certificate has I n discovered, Imt the
Terngo citizen doesn't know how It
,wa Julie.
compound, ln'. (Mftwafrate.
Porty four CVM tt day
would uiay aa.rly r!;V tlly
and proporlh ( of prutela), rbohy
dratc, 11ml fat, tin three most csscii
Hal r-oiiKt il inntM (,f f,l, ti, ,.,,.f
value of fruit consist In Hit adds,
which are Iniportaiit to health.
Q
BERTHOLDE, THE DWARF.
TROPIC LIGHT AND HEAT.
8a 111 Jonc say there nre Lihi.iio Nli
nor In lloaion. If that statement In
correct iiiisinii iiocsu t deserve to rank
1 a clly of the (I rut trade.
I !
In Solomon. Mo., n mil lit silver pitcher
U to bo voleil to "the le-Ht hiudiutid" liy
popular ballot. We rii nnot glios who
will get It, of course, Imt It Ih rery cer
tillu that (hp gentleman Is dead.
An Ohio woman In In Kt. I.onl look
ing for a man who (h'scrlbcd himself to
her III a letter iin leu feet tall. He prob
ably In dome fellow who thinks he ha
clui'h on u federal appointment.
A hot heaileil Virginian w ho sent a
challenge to 11 ft adversary to meet lilm
In mortal combat "as dragged before
a Justice of the peace a el Ducil lfJ..Vl.
There Isn't enough of the code left to
frighten anyone.
Probably the St. I.ouIn Slur was en
tirely Justified III denominating the re
cent drowning of four ehool children
while skating lis "Had." liven nl llils
distance there appear to bo nothing
hilariously Jolly In It.
When a Xcsn Couniy, Kan., farmer
mini out of meal, the Kansas I'liy Star
any, he lop to his door Just before
lie goo to bed uud let go liolli barrel
of hi shotgun. The next morning he
Ilck up enough Jnokriibbll to keep
the pot bulling for 11 week.
Mr. W. S. William, of Atlanta, (ia
enjoys the plutocratic distinction of be-
In if president of more bunks than nuy
other man In the world, probably, lie
la at the head of no less than twenty
even banks, all In the Stall of lieor
Kla, and he says every one of tlietii Is
making money.
It oeeitiN to be the general opinion
that Itlsmari-k'N secret tiinlcrMtaiidlii)
with Kiisslu was known to the Kmperor
of Austria and Count Kuluoky before
ivm, mil I ,;lt ti, information In the
first place came from Ittissla. It Is
pointed out that when Prince lllsmarck
v.as dismissed, no secret was made In
Vicuna of the general relief. 11 ml I veri
tiie acknowledged organ cf the foreign
oflice openly Nald that with Count (,'a
prlvl an era of frankness, sincerity.
Hint plain dealing had begun In the re
lations of the two allied (lowers. Less
t .'111 11 a year ago, according to tin; New
York livening Tost, the Austrian Km
peror Is salil to have declined to re
ceive n member of tin. liismurck fam
ily In the following words: "I am not
only uu Kmpeior, but a man of honor,
and I associate only with ineii of honor."
Wyoming game warden In credited
wit 1 the Htatemetit that thu number
of elk wintering In the Jackson' Hole
country Is greater than for many pre
vious years. A conservative estimate
fixes the number at lio.iwo. They ure
011 every hill aiulju every valley, and
the night Kouiids nre most piteous
from the crying of the calves lost from
their mothers. Kvery morning thou
sand are seen traveling from the ureal
swamps a loin: the Snake Itlver to the
ro Ventre hills. The game warden
says: "I recently gazed upon a sight
which far surpassed anything that I
had ever seen, and It utterly astonished
uud amazed me. I 'or a distance of six
miles a herd of elk was stretched out.
The animals had made a trail through
the snow which wan packed as hard
us Hinted Ice. I know there were l.'i.'sw
head of elk In that band."
('hide, an emulation of the sflpota
tree of Mexico, In the basis of nil the
chewing gum manufiiclui'eil In the I'm
ted Hla lis. Over ,lHHi,(HI pounds of
this k'uui In Imported lulu this coun
try annually, the product being valued
at f l.fsHl.ouo. One factory made over
JlJU.two.lMiO pieces of gum last year.
Queen Victoria has begun to prepare
the program of the ceremonies which
will celebrate the sixth-ill anniversary
of her accession to the throne, and al
though these will nut occur until next
year, rents In London are said to have
risen already In aiiilclpatloii of the
IC rest number of strangers who
vUll the city.
will
but
ill.
A
Americans me fond of guessing,
that often they in,, wild guosse;-
been slmu 11 again In IViihnd, ii
If r put a demijohn of cranl.ei -i--h In
lila window mid pi il.scd a big, fat
goose to the person who guessed near
rt to the number of tln-in. .Neurit- ".11011
persons guessed, some saying ns hlli
as Iimi.imhI. ('arefiil count showed there
were l!.vs.y
III telling or the children of li'nn, the
Itev. S. IJ. Miner, a missionary In I'imi-
chow, icuI;m Hist of the Imi.vn. One
foiii'th of the children of the world lire
Imiiii Id Chinese parents, and the god
dess Mother In the most diligently wor
shiped, nii that they all may be boys.
Hut this Is a hard thing fur even 'ho
great 11 goddess t uilrol, ami many
girls nre born. W hen the news of a
birth Is announced everybody nks,
Just as they do In America, "Is It a
boy or a glilV" If It Is a Is.y nil the
friends of the piircnu call at once to
offer congratulations and presents; but
If the ITiiliy Is a girl they exl I hjiii-
palh.v. The kindest renin rk that the
disappointed mother ever hears under
Mich circumstances Is, "Well, a girl Is
worth something." -:Very city bus a
baby tower built on Its outskirts, which
Is the burying pi: of Infants. Not In-
fieiiieiiily a newly born girl Is drown
ed, left on a missionary' door step, i
thrown Into the si reel, or, before she :
slops breu thing, Is tofvsed Into thla
deal li house. 1
Considerable Interest Is being taken
III the reported discovery of a vein of
good domestic bituminous ,-,,al betw
Cheyenne, Wyo., and IJrover, Colo. The
foal Is being mined at a depth of 1:'.".
feet, and Is said to be of good totality.
If found In uuulltlc to Justify ex
tensive mining the product will supply
large area In Kasi Colorado and
.Wcntcni Nebraska with cheap fuel.
Mr. Marlon Craw ford can look upon
um ciioriH as a novciiNt with a mii
deal of complacency. More than half
million copies of them have been sold
III the I'nllivl States, and the demand
for (hem shows no sign of cessation,
while they have an 1 normous elrctihi
'tin In Knglaud and the colonies, be
Idea being translated Into Trench, licr
-mail, Italian, and a number of other
languages.
1 IVIaware Is threatened with the loss
of one of Its plcturcs.iio features, the
whipping post. I or more than a cen
tury this Inspiring Instrument of tor
ture ha been In use for the punishment
of petty criminal. Now the constitu
tional convention proposes to abolish It
forever. IVIaware will ,e a Kid little
nonentity without It distinguishing
whipping post, l-'or year the State has
lieen kept before the public chlelly bv
cauae of thla relic of barbarism.
Hie usefulness of the Senate of Color
ado as a legislative body has been se
riously menaced, It appears, by the
prcsi-uco of young and beautiful wom
en, and the Senator have been forced
to t ike drastic measures of self protec
tion. Thu action has been precipitated
by the hopeless Imbecility of some ,.f
the more susceptible members and ha
taken the form of absolute banishment
of all women from the Senate chamber.
When the Inexorable purpose of the
solotis became apparent an effort wa
made to effect a compromise 011 a prom
ise by the women that they would never
enter the Senate utiles heavily veiled.
Hut the Senator who were banded to
gether to defend their Impressionable
associate would not yield to these
templing blandishment. The decree
was made to Include even the women
stenographers who have been wont to
preserve for posterity and Other the
oratorical graces of the Senator. It
looks as If there were some sinister
purpose back of all this that Is not yet
revealed. What I the Senate going to
do of which It I ashamed?
(la Hirewil Answer at the Court of
I Allioln, KImb of tna l.oinbar.U,
I Mary Shear Hubert, In her aerie of
I "Historic iJwnrfN," contribute an arti
cle on Itcrtholde to St. Xlcholu. Uer-
tholdt wua an Italian, and one day he
j made hi way to the palace of Alholu,
King of the Lombard, at Verona, and
I boldly aeated himself lu an empty chair
( next the throue.
! The courtier were a much urprlej
, at hi audacity a they were amazed at
1 Id grob sipie appenrance; but Hie Loin-
luird chieftain mulled grimly upon the
, Intruder ami Inquired of him "what he
1 wii. when he was loru, and lu what
country?"
"I am a man," replied the dwarf,
! whereupon the attendant went off Into
fit of In tighter. "I waa born when I
rame Into the world, and the world It
elf 1 my country."
King and courtier now began to re
allze that they had a shrewd little Imp
before them, and they commenced to
ply him with ijticstlons of all kind.
The asking of conundrum wu a ort
of trial of wit to which aoverelgu
were much given ut thla period of his
tory. "What thing I that which tile the
wlftest?" asked one.
"Thought," replied Hertholde, prompt
ly. "What iMthe gulf that I never filled?"
"The avarice of the miser," wa the
ready auwer of the ijuh k-wltted !
dwarf. I
"What trait la the most hateful lu
Joilllg people?"
"Self conceit, because It makes them
untouchable."
"How will you catch a hare running?"
Inquired the King.
"I'll Hlay till I llnd heron the aplt."
"How would you bring water lu a
sieve?"
"I'd wait till It wn frozen," answer
ed the dwarf, readily.
The king was delighted. "For no
clever a rejoinder," he wild, "you shall
have fnuu me uiivthlnir vou imiv de-
Hire."
"Oh, iiol" cried Iterlholile, with a
mocking laugh. "I shall have nothing
of the sort. You cannot give me what
Jon do imt posses. I am lu aearch of
happiness, of which you have not a par
tide. So how can you give me any?"
"How!" exclaimed the King. "Am I
not happy on so elevated a throne?"
"Yea, you are, If the happiness of a
man consist In the height of his seat."
Then Alboln referred to his kingly
' power mill dignity, ami the dwarf n-
torted with another mocking laugh;
i mill when the King called attention to
: the noble ami courtier about him,
; Itcrtholde, w ith a sin-cr, remarked: "Oh,
, yea, they cluster round your throne; so
do hungry nut round a crab apple, and i
: with the same purpose -to devour It."
"Well said," spake the King, keeping
1 hi temper; "but all this does not pre
vent me from shining among them, a
the sun among the stars."
"True, but tell me, shining Sun, how
many eclipse you nre obliged to milTer
In a year? l-'or the continual Haltering
of these men must now and then dark
en your understanding."
."l-'or IIiIn reason you would imt be a
courtier?" Inquired his Majesty, whoso
lingers began to play upon hi sword
In a threatening manner.
"Miserable as I am, I should be sorry
to lie placed lu the rank of slave," re
plied (he dwarf. "Ilesldcs, I have not
the necessary qualities lo succeed In
thl line employment."
"What, then, do you tteek at my
court?" asked the King In an angry
tone.
"Something I have not been able to
Hud there," answered Hertholde. "I
was told that a king was us much
above common men as a tower Is alsivo
Common houses; I llnd, as I suspected,
that sovereigns me honored more than
they deserve."
This was a little too much. The King
lost his patience, and commanded thu
dwarf J. inter to leave the palace Imme
diately, 01 he would have him whipped "f style,
out or court.
- - : " " THREE AMERICAN-EORN BEAUTIES.
t .
1
they Wtrotlie Klr.t Thlna that !
prraaed a Visitor to Jamaica.
The light and the heat are the two
thing that mmt Impress one on firs:
coming to thl hind. The light U the
more Impressive of the two; from sun
rise to unsei It Is omnipresent and
constant; the very shadow are liiml
liou, dark though they appear by eon
trast. I (hotild nay that latutude sev
enteen wn about fury-Hie mlllio'i
tulle nearer the sun than latitude for
ty. Yet It I a tender, soft, suffused
light, not a tierce and hard one. The
atmosphere Is not so rarefied us that of
our own West; one can read here by
moonlight, but one i-nnuot read line
print easily. The remote distance of
the landscape are un ited In an aerial
haze Insti-ad of being defined with the
relentless clearness of a steel-engraving.
Nvertln b-s, the light of tie- tr op-
lie I tiperlat!vc; It seen, to belong
to a planet more recently evolved from
the parental luminary than our. So
Intense ami persuasive Is It, one would
almost aay It Irradiate the mind in
well a the body; it appear to posses
a spiritual qunl ty. I had read of blaz
ing tropic unn. of scorching, bl uterlng
tropic heats, but I find nothing of the
sort. However great the ultimate effect
may be, the manner N always gentle,
aweet, aubtle, soothing; Harbour street
In Kingston never -how so savage .1
temperature 11 Ilr.-ad a ay In New Y rk
Hut for all that, It will not do lo tak
undue llbcrtl' with this soft spoken
climate.
After walking a few miles along the
white, undulating roads, or panting up
a Bleep hillside, nothing could be more
delicious than the ton. h of the northern
breeze fanning you as you sit under thu
ahadoiv of a broad spreading silk cot
ton, nor could anything be more dan
gerous. You are being fanned by the
wing of death. Kvnporailoti Is won
derfully rapid; you come lu from exer
cise drenched with perspiration, and
before you can make ready for a "rub
down" your skin I already dry. In the
North a nllght chill may be followed by
a slight cold, and that be the end of It;
here your chill may turn out the end of
everything for you. Moreover, the soil
when dampeiiisl by rains probably ex
hale a miasma productive of w hat we
call malarial fever; In Jamah a It oeca-
nloually develop Into an apuilllngly
ugly ami brief disease known as bhuk
vomit.
On the. other hand, If you ure ration
ally cautious, and let liquor of every
kind alone, you may walk or climb, or
play tennis, or ride horselmck ull
through the hottest part of the cloud
lo day, and feel only the better for It
at night; In fact, you in net take plenty
of outdoor exercise In order to be at
your bet. The way to get ill Is to
avoid exertion and perspiration, and sit
at ease lu the shade absorbing cooling
drill lu. Such people sometimes last two
year. Those who pursue the alterna
tive regimen are not surprised to llnd
themselves alive mid alert at '.m an I
upward. Of course It Is more ditllcult
to get 111 on the higher levels th: ti
the lower ones; but taking the Island
by long and large. It Is one of tlu
healthiest place on the globe. "Sum
mer at Christmas Tide," by Jul. .111
Hawthorne, In the (Vutuiv.
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1.ADIT AIlTlll 11 III" I I.EH,
nee Mager.
The law proposed by a Kansas woin
an, making It an oMcusc to car ,-or-aet
lu that Slate may be made to work
o far a women resident lu Kansas arc
concerned, but how about these who
pas throiigti it on trains? Now w hen
train approach Kansas and Iowa wall
er from the dining ears go aiming the
passenger taking orders for liquor
which may be served but Hot ordered
In those Stale. Will they, under the
new law, comedown Iheaisjc with the
request to women, "Ucmove your oor
et, please?"
The yuecn of Uouiuanhi ha given
her royal approval of cremation n, B
method of disposing of the dead which
Nile think Is not only hygienic but tea
(ollil l ie, but she I si;ned to dedliv
that Hie method la very uiqioetic and
niiiewhat coiitllct with ;h senti
ment conveyed lu certai 1 vei-sc
written ny tier Majesty upon one of the
nuineious occasions w heu she court
the muse. In these verse she expri
ed the Isdlef of the future life of the
body a well a of the soul, and she can
e uo cheer lu ashes which she de
Clare are dead lu truth ami In deed.
An average man who should under
take to live on strawberries abme
would have lo consume eight eight
pound of them lu a day In order to ob
tain a aufllclcnt quantity of one of the
moat Important element uf food, pro
tein. Hut while be w.i getting the
jroer amount of protein from the
trawtierrlea. they would give him Ker
en tluiej too much of another neccwarr
Matlblii Splltlog, the aged chief of
the Wyandotte Indian, who recently
died at W ashington, was a noted man
In his day , a man of enterprise and lib
erality, with shrewd business qualltlea
tlolis, and died the wealthiest Indian lu
the I lilted Stall's. He belonged to a
Canada tribe, but came to lhl.) early,
man led 11 W yandotte, and was adopted
Into the tribe. Spilling wis a urcit
stickler for prompttics In iU 1 iiNiucs
transaction, and never failed to meet
1111 appointment at the 1 a q inl'itite.
Some years ago he sold a valuable tract
of land In Kansas City, Kan., to a syn
dicate tor fi.s'.isio ami nrri.igcl to
meet the purchaser at a certain lank
at 10 o'clock the next morning 10 close
the deal. The Indian wa ici time (o
the second, but for some reason two or
throe of the syndicate were a few min
utes late. Owing to this la 'k of punc
tuality Splltlog revised to ui.ike the
sali' ill the price agreed upon, but de
manded several thousand dollai more
11 ml got It. He declined to accept a
check for the purchase money and In
sisted that every dollar should be paid
In gold, w hlch w as done.
Improving.
A celebrated tiertnau physician wa
once called upon to treat an aristocratic
lady the sole cause of w hose coninla!;it
was high living and lack of exercise.
Hut It would have never done to tell
her so; so bis medical advice ran thus-
Arise at !" o'clm k. take a walk In the
park for one hour, then drink a cup of
lea. then w alk another hour, and take
cup of chocolate, lake br.-akrt at S
o'clock."
Her condition Improved vls.bly. until
cue Hue morning the carriage of the
Ha ron, -ss vv as seen to approach the phy
sician's residence at lightning speed.
The patient dashed up to the IWtor'a
house, and. on hi appearing on the
scene, she gasped out:
"Oh. IKKlor, I took the chocolate
first."
"Then drive home a fast a you
can," directed the astute disolt.le' .if
How nil l-iiiipcror lEodetoilie Clmse.
The L'inpei'or hltu.sdf Is carried upon
four elephants lu a Hue chamber made
of timber, lined Inside with plates of
beaten gold, and outside with lion'
skins, for he always travels In this way
on III fowling expedition, because ho
Is troubled with gout. He always keep
beside him a dozen of his choicest -cr-falcons,
and I attended by ceveinl of
h!. Huron, who ride on horseback
alongside. And sometime, us they may
be going along, and the Kuipcror from
hi chamber Is holding discourse with
the Huron, one of the latter shall ex
claim: "Sire! Look out for the Cranes;"
Then the l'uiperor Instantly has the top
of bin chamber thrown open, and hav
ing marked the crane, he Hies one of
hi gerfalcons, whichever he pleases;
and often the quarry I struck wlthiu
hi view, so that he has the most ex
quisite sport and diversion there, a. he
sit III his chamber or lies on his bed;
and all the Kaivu with him get the
enjoyment of It likewise; So It Is not
without reason I tell you that I do not
believe there ever existed In the world,
or ever will exist, a man with such
sport and enjoyment as he has. or with
uch rare opportunities. St. Nicholas.
W ill Save Many I, Ives.
A contrivance for quickly stopping
machinery a In the c.is,. of some per
son being drawn between cogs or roll
er ha been nvently devised. On
touching one of a scries of push tuition
placed at convenient points the power
I shut oft and a powerful brake ap
plied to the tly wln',1. A '.M horse
power engine, working at ninety rex.t
lutloti. wa stopped lu two thirds of
J Style In t iler. 1 1 11 re.
"Not only Is their thought so much
better than your average thought, but
their language Is so much better than
your average language," Kiy 'Iirooch"
with reference to standard fiction. In
the Ladles' Home Journal. "I do not
men 11," he adds, "simply correctness of
speocti -but something tin, r that I call
ed style. 'Style has been written about
very learnedly by learned men. lu Its
highest development It s a very com
plicated thing. Jt Is the very essence
of culture, knowledge ami artistic tem
perament that glvi-s a flavor of Ut own
to every sentence that an author w rite.
Hut without entering Into the subtlltle
It 1 surely e Idenl to every
rentier or average Intelligence and sen
sibility that there Is a gnat diircreiico
In the nianncr of telling a story, for In
stance. It doc not require a subtile
mind to feel the difference in the telling
of Hawthorne's 'S.-arlei Letter' and
Hugh Conway's 'Called Hack.'
"Hy common consent Hawthorne U
acknowledged the bi.t mauler of style
that America ha produced. When vou
have read one of his stories 110 matter
how dark the crime that he has studied
In It -you never feel that he has drag
ged dow n your thoughts It Is not only
because he I a great moralist In his
(torlcK, but because he Is great mas
ter of stylo nlo. His language is ele
vated, poetic, fascinating. It makes
the appeal to what Is Hue In your 11a.
lure rather than to vv hat Is gross."
The city of Santa IV, N. M., "a
rounded by the Spaniards lu 1 ..!" under
the inline of Santa IV. on the site of
TlgeiiJt or Tlgua. one of the celebrated
"Seven Clths" lit the founding of the
Aztec Confederacy. In 1 IJ'I. Its street,
museums, and private collection of
curio absolutely teem with relic and
r rd of 11 stirring history, mm in
clude famous plenties of saint or shriln
painted on elk and puma skins, sahri
thrust when, they had belli Used 11
banner during the man h of ( ofonaoo
In loll, others with arrow hole from
attack by Indians ti the line of march
up the valley of the llio I, ramie. I here
nre quaint mans In Latin and French,
showing three cities of note oil the (s'll
tineiit. and giving California 11 1111 Isl
11 lid of the I'lti'lli
The palace ha become the home of
the choicest collection of Mexican and
Spanish phiiire In the Southwest, and
In It historical room are priceless
treasures of r ml or relic. Aiound It.
too, linger much of the ronnimt- of
the city. I'or .'loo years It has 1 11 the
home of Its rulers, seventy-six Mexican
mid Spanl.sli and seventeen American
governor having held sway within Its
walls. In It early day It lay und
the shadow or the dread Inquisition.
and within It walls. In litir limes,
"Hen Hur" tlrst saw the light under tin
pen of Oelierul Lew Walliee.
I roiu Its windows c ould be heard the
ring of steel and the din of warrior In
the plaa w hen Onate set up hi iinnp
in Mil", and when flu. I'uehlo Indian
conquered the city In PMi. burning the
archive and sacred Vessels, while
twelve years later. In MIC. the s.une
plaa witnessed the triumphal entry of
1 lego do Vargas, after his vow and the
victory which followed it. which again
placisl the city under Spanish rule
Jlcre Oeiieral Kearney elevated the
Statx tin.) Stripe In lspi. and here,
also, surrounded bv livim: me i-ie
uud f I regrets, muld ut iTiil foli
age. Is a monument lo the soldier who
fell at duty' call at Vulvcrde and
Apache Canyon.
In Santa l'e are the military head
quarter for New Mcxhsi. it being also
tl Idcst military estal-lisl tnetit In
America, created by the Span arils In
1 '"", and In almost cunMnuous occupa
tion ever since. Hiv, mo is th, oldest
boii.se In the I'nlted Stai.-. It which
Coroiiado Is said to hare lodged n i;,.pi
nod. perhaps, even in Iiiteiesiing.'
here Is the oldest ciiiiivh, .ai, Miguel,"
built alsuit l.MIl, partially dest roved Iti
li'-v 1, wholly r.'siond In i;pi, th",. res.
lorcrs leaving intact all mat w;.s siss.
bio of the old roof, hewn tiy Indian
under the guidance of the fathers.
in tin. church Is the gtv-i; t.cll, ultnosi
I'.i sld. s, men iimlersi I very little
about the strange happening In the
world around them, and Invented fairy
tale t explain these mysteries. If Is
imt remarkable, then, that so late as
Columbus' lime hi sailor dhl not at
till like to think of sailing west ward
Into the unknown occiin full of fabu
lous eriatnii s and linigle happening.
Kvin with all that wise 11 lid studious
I men have learned since, there I
I enough lo be met w ith III a oi;g ocean
I voyage to exdte wonder and alarm.
1 Sailor mnv see 11 11 lotas, the strange
'Northern I.I
BUILT CHICAGO'S FIRST H0U$t
It Urn Hot I ami the lliil,rrj
Live In Tex ii, ''
1 .. 1. .. ..in . . . 1. .
1 11 1 lie illume 01 ivnchport, Tex rK
n 11 iji 11 woo k;iw x iiicagi)
wa. who fought Iiul'iiii ,u, tJe '
w iicn- oo m.iiHiu u iaiaccs r ,
try mid commerce, w ho built the jv
House ever iiiiiiiiuieii by a w hite tcj-
III mis western metropolis, ntnl b
Ii:ih lived while a city or nearly uu,,
nun Inhabitants liti risen un"' (l
swamps which, 111 in youth, be fa
serieu. 1 inn man ih a. .. j
w ho I now h7 year or nge.
11
lit, the cause or which ;
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-V- E Ml II. MRS.
I ti
at
1' ' ( .1 ill i " 7-s.vsa"V - a.-rMV
mm
I-..-H now nine more 1 nan n esscii r in ... .1 ......
- 1 " 01 10 iije jireHcm sue wi
in.-, hoi. ,-e stu 1 oiuiiieii iiv waier- 1 1 r.-n-n it, lvo
Slmll S. W I ell are ll.il elilll-ele ..M.I..I... 1
go hi V;-'. It uns n illsneil nll.
then. With III ll 1. 1 11 -r loil llw ,.l.l .Inn
eu iis yei; nuy may Illcet "Inlar lth.it tllie known
explain- 1
waves, that rise from
feel, or even Inure.
: they may be amazed
lire." the Miarklina
Is. earthquake!
thirty to sixty
llbiivo (lie slirfac
by "St. Ilium's
name Hint play about mast and rig
ging; they may behold lightning in
giols'-lorin, sheet flashes, or forked
bolls; they arc sure to sail through Hie
phosphorescence that has but lately
been traced to animal life. Then, t,',,
storm und calms, fog and rinonlbght!
bring strange sights. Altogether, t.i,.'
ocean Is a w lei-land that has new
11a Fort Ib'tiiiioru mill
lew wretched log hovels where the In-
,lii"'s 'li'l s e trading. There was do
habitation for n white man e.xeent Id
; the fort, l'hlllip almost liiinicliiitilr
j set to urk building n house lor .Mart
Itcaiiblcn, which when completed win
i opened tt a hotel. It hud only four
j living rooms, but was regarded ns 1
"loilel. I g .7, li,,, Went worth wastlie
first guest, l'hiliip fought In the Murk
Hawk war, but went to Texas nhottt
''' years ago and litis since lived tliere.
Canal llaslly Wrecked.
The ease with which ship canals may
be rendered Useless In time of war has
always been brought forward as an
argument against dependence being
placed on tluwe water ways for stra
tegical purpose. An Illustration to the
point ha Just happened in connection
with the -North sea Haiti,, ,-iual. the
Herman fleet, which Is t,, take p.i,-t
Iii the coining naval maneuvers being
unable to pas through It, as ordered",
on account of a Oanlsh vessel which
was sunk at the south end of the canal
onu time ago, blocking up t!
trance to the water way. Trattlc on
the Suez canal ha been often stopped
for several day at a time from an even
lighter cause.
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STATKS.
1
color of
saiiu
iw X rrj
OMrT llnl'sK IN" TIIK INITKI)
wild.
Mau'a I con. hut.
Come and ha e a drink
1 tnoUfcht you were goln
g to
Aesculaiilu. rapidly writing ajrecrip
teui, "and 'Mke this emetic. The to-
must be niiderne.-vi'i."
The grateful p.iilciil couiplled.
I still Improving.
She
The rare vUItor U ally cvi.uiou.
Jack
Tom
ceoiioniU.
Jack I uu doing so, but I don't want
to overdo the matter. Coiir beggar
a.ked me for d.uics and I refused thetn
all. so that Is -to cent saved. On the
a'l-t'iigth of that I can afford to set up
the drinks Truth.
Moral-. Alwav. I.,,. Ahead.
The chances art- that If you look be
hind you in life jou will generally tin,)
someKsly trying to make It unphas.uit
for yell. - Milwaukee Journal.
The tlrst known Luropcau library
originated lu the prenciit to the f.im;;y
of Itegiilmi by ihc Kotnan Senate ,.f a,
me tss.ka ,-.icJ at tb
Canhae.
0
teiind In a lrug store.
A drug 'orv of the pr.-sent day to
apply ordinary demands must i,,cp
aNuit IS.ii artlclixi 011 hand. Kvery
r't and seed that ha medicinal value.
a well as the leaf, flower and bulb of
the plant. to be kept In t,H k. So
alo must Is- kept the hundreds of prep,
araiton made from them, tincture,
extract, tluld and solid, sirups and de
coction almost without number. Then
(Mine the thousand- of chemical,
acid. mIi. active principle, the vari
ous preparation, all the proprietary
medlcim! and hundred of articles
known aiuidr1ea, perfume and fancy
article.
So many forgeries of aueletit book
have been pcq.etrate,! that some rrltl,-
have Is-en led to upHe that all the
ancient writing we pose.s are but
'n.p.stture.
capture yf
lu IMo Stvtch fanner sued the cus
tom authcr tbss for a m-iinr and won
. The coat amounted to 7ini
LU
solid, cast In llloil, and having an In.
scrlpthm In Spanish to md It as n band
the letters and tlgurcs being still vli
rais,sl lu the solid casting. This bell
was brought over from Spain and hung
lu the tower, but Anally, being thought
too heavy for the toner. It was removed
to a suKMaiitlal timber supis.ti In the
entrance to the church. ,i.
dral and other church,. are rc-nark-ible
n'1-.slose. painting nn,l vestment
many of them f conshlcraMc iiitioul
t.v. all Inviting the visitor to linger lu
this home of the past.
Hut the city Is also a clly cf ih, pre,
em. and a very pleasant present , ls
An equable climate aud .l.ii.-htful suti-
soioc never over streets iu
houses have enough ,,f ti,.
age to inruse a lestfu
V'k......i .....
1 uiiiiii orcnarits and t
KOI .1 l. .... . ,
' Ul""u '''iv. w'.ieii at ou.v
" louueiu 10 tti,. S np ,,f
d the.ietiv .ry, beaut.- and pi
s.-m u iy.- Aevv V 1 k llef.ld.
Marvels of th . OcTan
The makers of ancient ma,',, were
aecust, ,,,,, t) lli;is,lhl(. 1,;itlirvs fo
. 1 1. disc,, .. ,,, N,
l"K" of h,.,,,. !U,d along rivers ,h,.v
.". .,.,. r , make up -h i iM .,
r, Av-oo,,,,s, x
filled up w,:h any queer moU:r,
came to hand. Of tvilr, '' :u
... ,. u;i, lHA
blank.
inarvct every day; the very
the sea Is hardly' twice the
"Mlifors of Air." st. Nicholas.
An lmper al II. d d iy.
The Herman Linpeivr is p ,pul;lr ,vj
"'' ''" of hi realm. :1V;.,. ,,y,
"i. i.uoiy ne un.
' naitire. and Is cnei
which the
KiIh tity of
o r.' iu tii, air.
'"U lends lie
the past
igl-ess of
i-stamU
i-allv -il.i., ,.. .1
r I. , 1 i .. . i-i . ........ iu ,10
iioiiji w u:ou pleases t il in
1 1.. I... I
' ...1.1 nil easy cli.uiee to do
When he recently U;,e 1 i,Vni1...
V.' 1 ll . 1 1. .. . 1. .. . . 1
,", , uiioiign ,,e streets when -,
i'oor urcluti, loaded
wit !i I1....L - .... 1.1
" "-'A t" schoo , called
out at the top ,,f his voice:
'Say. llcr Kaiser, cant we have a
holiday to-morrow :"
I lie l.inpci-or he
"ta, la!" he answer.
Tll , . . , """ 'o,te oil.
... ,m a.v. wiiell the
.1 ...... t ... .
'I II Ol I'-I'M ,1 I ....., . ...
1. I lev r. 1 1 1 1 ,.
M to the effect that. ,v ' l". l"
I . 1 .... o.-ei-e,
.....jcsiy i:K.
tills
II-'
down
'Hl'l laughed.
i. ami re,),.
S' ho,d ,-hil-
He Made a Halo.
Hrugglst (to new clerk) I am gain;
out now, James, mid I hope you will 1
careful while I am pone. You may
throw olT forty per cent, from the nf
ular prices If u customer stands out uu.l
won't buy without. Hut don't drop,
cent below that. The business wou't
Maud It.
New Clerk (gleefully, upon return ot
his employer hair tin hour In ten -1 haJ
only on,, customer while you were out,
Mr. Squills, but 1 stuck lilm nicely. He
was alter postage stamps and he waul
ed to know ir we nllowed nuy discount
in selling, quantity, aud
I'rngglst (breaking in pxclte.ll.vt-
iron l .Moses! You didn't throw off W
per cent, on postage stumps, did you?
New Clerk (calmly) Oh! no. I saved
yon i:, j.r ,.,.,lti ,,, 1 ,,,1,1 liitti
11 '"iii have them for "5 cents en tin)
lollar, and the great giiinp that he wa
he never tried to bent nic down another
cent - just yanked out his pocket
and took all we had yes, nir. every
stamp In the place, a clean $i" ""r'1''
t that llgure. Ami or what's the
"utter, Mr. Squills? Hain't having
lit, are yoiiV
1 A ml during the next fifteen iniuuie
1'eople passing tu. establishment P1'
tin- idea that a cage of wild animals or
: ward primary had broken l"--e In
Mde of the place. Hut this was .1 mi
li'ke. It was only the proprietor ei
plaining the sliding scale of price- mere
fully to the new clerk. New York Ht'r'
aid.
1 ti
1 spe,
li'.ivr.
II.
I the
that were
taring
toined ta
od to
of hi-
ua.i t.,s'U grant,'
,, , , ' r Mlllplp,
Husband How is that
give you mu. h or litil,.
S'S IU to gel ;,!,
lfe-Thafs
Kie me much 1 u,.
the ,. bts I .,!;,, ,
l'ttle.-niegetide Ilia
A
a holiday
w I
Vol!
Hi.,.;"
'cry simtde u-i
- ecu
the snip!,,
'011 you
otter.
i-ther I
alway.
I'luglarlsm.
That was a neat defense wh'.tli NIa'
'"ion Crawford Interposed when he ;"
accused of plagiarizing the clop.-ment
scene iu "Cuiji ltraccio" from ua i
tnagiu.ne story. He simply ailii.ij
the fact and stated that the st- -y in
'loesfioi, was writteu by his w;!'e'
aunt, Mr, llobson, who herself
linn the story, which was foiiu iol ea
an a iual occurrence, bo that there w;H
'10 pl.iglarlsui involved. Charles K-.n!''.
e.i:iceinii, ,e ur .is e ou ,, .1. a
!-ms, alleged that he had pmc
to
give
Volt
pay
u.t
pair of youi!--
placed by an i:ug::
s.i.iie 'reserves a,
-l-r have Ui-u pucvj
uealcra,
0
have I,,.,.,,
""I'o-iiian 011 his
'' era I .! 11 , ; 1 .. - . ..
. .'i
;lj Atnerican
''I.' r Lilt to ns.. lb.. ,.0, lori.il ft;
a'l'Iior; but the de.i was not all'
'". arse the story was not true, b :
Invention ,,f ,1(.r ,lian, nl,:,
author had no right to nas oft a
own.-spriugtleld (Ma-.) Kepu'ci. a1
...-1
.1 in
U.-I.
t ti'
li .13
s h i
w I
'-ui:.is, r Slcyon, was the liiv.n'"r
or caustic painting, a method of h-ra"
lt' colortuto wood or Irory-
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