To WUaoa Barrett.
no pessimist; he loved the tfaimra
Its cheerfulness and sunshine, ita moato and its
nana;
Ho sever sihed or moped . around
things went wrong
x warrant me He'd mocked at fate with some de-
l nant song.
But, being he warn't much on tune, whenever
times were blue,
He'd whistle softly to himself this only tune he
' anew:
-Wow mother, when she learned that tune which
lather whistled so.
would say: "There's something wrong today with
Ephraim. I know:
Be newer tries to make believe he's happy that
ere way
Xatthatrm eertoin as can be some trouble is to
payr
And so, betimes, quitetiatural liko, tons observant
yontu
'There seemed suggestion in that tone of deep pa.
wmsnuo' nrunam jomea tne war a lot of us
went down
Tease the gallant soldier boys right gayly out of
town;
A-comin' borne, poor mother cried as if her heart
would break
And all us children, too for hen, and not for
William's sakel
Bat father, trndgin' on ahead, ms hands behind
nim so, . .
Kept whistlin' to himself, so sort of solemn like
and low.
. -Jd when my eldest sister Sue was married and
went west.
Seemed like it took the tack right oat of mother
and the rest;
She was the sunlight -in our home why, father
used to say
It wouldn't soem like home at all if 8oe should go
sway I
"Tet when she went, a-leavin' us all sorrow and
all tears.
Poor father whistled lonesome like, and went to
feed the steers.
"When crops were bad, and other ills befell our
homely lot.
He'd set around and try to act as if he minded
not;
-and when came death and bore away the one he
worshiped so.
How vainly did his lips belie the heart benumbed
with woe!
Too see the telltale whistle told a mood he'd not
admit
He'd always quit his whistlin' when he thought
we noticed it)
Xd like to see that stooping form and hoary head
again
To see the honest, hearty smile that cheered his
fellow men;
On, could I kiss the kindly lips that spake no
creature wrong,
-And share the rapture of that heart that over
flowed with song;
Oh, could I hear the little tune he whistled long
ago,
"When he did battle with the griefs he would not
have us know.
London, Oct. 28, 189a Eugene Field.
lt Christmas Stand for Pleasure.
Christmas is the preacher who empha
" Buses the fact that the religion which it
celebrates is adapted to human nature.
-Horace is called the laureate of the
worldly, of the epicurean, of the pagan
who would eat and -drink in view of to
morrow. The gay adage dum vivimus
is cited with a shudder as the gospel of
pleasure, unnstmas was hunted in the
Puritan parliament as a kind of god of
pleasure who was only a masked devil
It was confounded by Governor Brad
lord with the Belly god. But why, said
Charles Wesley, as he sweetly sang
why give all the good tunes to Satan?
The sweet singer might have enlarged
bis view and his question. Why give
Satan any of the good things? Why,
above all, let him have Christmas, as
Andromeda was abandoned to the drag
on of the sea? Let Christmas stand for
pleasure and for the reason that it is es
pecially the Christian day. Then Chris
tianity drops her weeds and smiles.
Harper's.
An Impostor Who Made Money.
One of the men who made a fortune
out of the Cardiff giant humbug nearly
twenty years ago died in New York re
cently. His name was George Hull.
(, He was formerly a tobacconist in Bing
iamton, and was the author of the
fraud, which he engaged an Italian
stonecutter .of Chicago to carry out.
A. large gypsum slab was obtained in
Iowa and cut into the form of a gigantic
man. i ne stone was artificially colored,
to give the appearance of great age, and
then buried in the vicinity of Cardiff.
where it was accidentally (of course)
uiacoverea ana exftnmed, and exhibited
aoout the country as a nrehifitoric fin-nm
The imposition was so clever that many
Bucnuoo men were deceived by it.
Chicago Herald.
Induction.
-I wo Uetroiters were closing a large
land deal the other day by telephone
when there came a "zip!" and a female
voice inquired:
"Is Mrs. Jones home?"
"No," answered another.
"So sorry! Well, just the minute she
comes do you tell her to come right up
"Sickness?"
"No. All my canned peaches have
begun to work and must be scalded over
again!" Detroit Free Press.
Electricity has not been practically
applied in the art of music heretofore,
except, perhaps, in the operating mecha
akjn of church organs. George Breed,
of the United States navy, has devised a
method by which the passage of a brok
en current over a conductor in a mag
netic field produces musical notes of
arying pitch and volume.
A farmer of Sumner county, Kan., has
become a raving maniac by reason of the
-whistling of locomotives through bis
farm. He has been placed in the asy
lum, and his condition is said to be most
pitiful, as he crouches in terror from
very noise under the hallucination that
it is a train of cars.
The Good Luck mine, in New Mexico,
unit located less than six months
ago, and in the last three months has
produced $20,000 worth of ore, and dur
ing that time there have not been more
than five men at work on an average.
A peculiar fish, of brown color, with
out scales, and weighing twenty-one
pounds, was caught in a net at New
Dorp, S. L, by the lighthouse keeper. In
forty years' fishing the keeper has never
.-similar hah.
Killed a Mountain Lion With His Knife.
H. Woods went out to Bullock's ranch
recently, and from there took a hunting
trip into the mountains the next day
with his shotgun to bring down some
small game. . He liad not tJeen out long
when he heard a peculiar noise in the
underbrush, and, after some scouting
around, a large-sized mountain lioness
showed up. He had only small shot in
his shells, but as soon as she came in
reach he let loose, and she took the con
tents in her body and dashed up the
mountain.
Woods, thinking that she had a mate,
located himself on a rock where he could
see into the canyon, and, true enough,
in a few moments the lion appeared,
and a monster at that, as large apparent
ly as John Robinson's biggest circus
lion, and he came directly to the spot
where Woods was secreted, and when
within a few feet he got the contents of
the gun in the region of the heart. The
lion rolled down the side of the canyon a
short distance, regained his feet, and
made up an arroyo.
Woods followed him ap and soon came
within hearing of the lioness, which was
howling frightfully, and all of a sadden
it emerged from a thicket and dashed at
Mm, with eyes glaring and mouth wide
open. He emptied the contents of his
shotgun into its mouth, which dazed it
for a moment. Instantly he jerked out
his sheath knife and as he did so the
lioness sprang for him. but only to re
ceive the blade of the knife into its heart,
and the fierce animal lav dead at Mr
Woods' feet as the trophy of his hunt.
He did not want any more lioness, but
made ftia way back to Bullock's ranch.
but not until he had taken the hide of
his lion, which is now on exhibition.
Tucson Star.
Murphy's Lonjj Leap for Life.
jonn JViurpiiy, a harness maker of
Cleveland, sat up with a sick friend at
Itocky nver and started to walk home
next morning on the Nickel Plate track.
While crossing th9 bridge over Rocky
nver, wnicn is ninety-two feet above th?
water, he was overtaken by a passengei
train. He shouted to the engineer and
started to run, but it was too late. Th
shriek of the whistle, the roar of the train
and the trembling of the bridge caused
Murphy to become panicstricken, so
that instead of lying down on the outer
timbers, as he might have done with
perfect safety, he leaped from the bridge
into tne cnasm Deiow.
The passengers on the train and three
or four persons in the vicinity saw Mur
phy turn over several times in his awful
fall and strike the water, which is onlv
six feet deep at this point, and supposed
he was killed. The keeper of the boat-
house, a short distance- below, pulled
rapidly to the spot, found Murphy still
struggling and hauled him into the boat
He vomited freely, but quickly recov
ered, and on the -arrival of a physician
it was found that, although badly shaken
up and bruised, he had sustained no seri
ous injury. Cor. Chicago Herald.
About Folding Election Ballots.
If those distinguished New Yorkers
really couldn't fold their ballots accord
ing to the method prescribed by the new
law they may console themselves by
the thought that the greatest minds are
often puzzled by trifles. Newton, who
enunciated the laws of nature, cut a
large hole in his study door for his cat
and a small one for her kittens. Chaun
cey M. Depew and Abram S. Hewitt
can direct great public interests, but
cannot fold a little piece of paper. Such
is genius.
As to a Brooklyn gentleman, who
bears the euphonious title of doctor of
pedagogy, but could not, after repeated
attempts, succeed in folding the ballots
to the satisfaction of the inspectors, his
failure may perhaps 'have been due to
the fact that he took his learned degree
iisto the polling place and got tangled
up in its intricacies. Munsey's Weekly.
Sending Panoramas Abroad.
A product purely American and prob
ably in the nature of a revelation to the
heathen peoples of England and Franc
to whom Steamship Agent Low has just
consigned it, reached here all the way
from Minneapolis a day or two ago by
water, it was a panorama, and as it
was fifty-four feet long it had to be tar
paulined and bolted to the deck of the
steamship Lydian Monarch, as there was
no room for it in the hold. A single
ireigm smpment fcfty-four feet long is
not to be sneezed at, even if it is only
five feet and a half square in the other
two dimensions, and this particular big
roll of canvas weighed all of three tons.
The manufacture of panoramas for the
European market is a novel industry of
recent origin. These canvas pictures are
not shown over here at alL New York
Letter.
Electric Oil Well Drills.
A patent has been granted for an elec
trical drill for oil wells. The device con
sists of a series of motors in tandem,
connected in such a way as to make one
motor. The design has been to get the
power within a six inch diameter, so
that the entire mechanism, which much
resembles a common boiler, can be low
ered in the well, and the power can be
applied at the bottom. The drill bits
are firmly fastened on the rod, which is
worked rapidly in and out of c cylinder,
after the manner of a piston rod. New
York Telegram.
Women Lasso a Vicious Deer.
R. G-. Tdwiham, a farmer, was attacked
on his farm near Sherman by a large
buck deer, which escaped from the Bat
sell park, and gored very badly. Lan
ham's wife and daughter came to the
rescue, lariated the sm'TnM and tied it
to a tree. This is the second man this
pet has nearly killed with his immense
antlers. Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette.
Horse Sense vs. fashion. .
McAllister I noticed you kent von
front blinds open "all the summer..
Going out of society?
Smith No; but we concluded that all
the people we really cared to have think
ns out of town were oat of town them
selves. Puck.
Kodaclca ait a Railroad Wreck.
Superintendent Husted, of tha Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton, doesnt like
the kodak, and his experience of the
last few days does not lessen his dislike.
When the wreck occurred at Oxford the
-"kodak fiends" were out in force to
make sketches of the scene. As a busi
ness proposition Mr. Husted objected to
photography of the affair being sent
broadcast over the country, and many of
the kodak manipulators consented to
his request and left the place. One chap
with a fine instrument would not - listen
to anything and insisted on taking a
picture. At last the superintendent told
him he was trespassing on the company's
grounds, and the man with the kodak
remarked that he would go to an adjoin
ing field and secure a view.
The superintendent told him that he
would be trespassing there also. This
made the chap angry. Mr Husted is an
exceedingly mild mannered man, but he
grew warm under the collar. "I have
tried to treat you as a gentleman," ex
claimed he, "and you won't let me.
Now, ni treat you like a tough. If you
attempt to make a picture of this wreck
I'll smash that kodak over your infernal
head." The kodak fiend evidently be
lieved that Husted woold make his word
'good, for ho went back to Oxford on a
work train.
While Superintendent Husted was
thus engaged Chief Engineer Porter and
his assistants were chasing kodak fiends
over the surrounding country with clubs.
The wary men with tho cameras didn't
hold choice points of view, but it's fair
to guess that they are loaded with snap
shots at that wreck. Indianapolis News.
A Story of 5,000 TJLa mi scripts.
I know an editor who is at the head of
a popular periodical which, from its pe
culiar character, invites and receives
probably more manuscripts in a single
year than such magazines as The Cent
ury, Scribner's or Harper's. This year
he has already exhausted two manu
script record books, each holding 2,000
entries, and the third is already half j
filled. In other words, he has received '
in ten months more than 5,000 manu
scripts. .. I had the curiosity to look into
tne figures last week which this enor
mous deluge of manuscripts told, and
tney were interesting. There had been
received, for example, a trifle more than
ouo snort stones, yet only 11 of these
had been accepted, less than 2 per" cent!
r over 1,000 poems a few over 30 haA
been accepted, a little better than 2 per
centx ana yet every manuscript had been
careruuy read, and the position of the
magazine is such that it is in a way of
getting mucn good material. Edward
W. Bok's Letter.
Epidemics Among Animals.
The epidemics which show themselves
at certain intervals in cattle and other
domesticated animals have recently been
the subjects of many reports and discus
sions. Among these diseases none has at
tracted more attention than that which
has recently decimated canaries and other
cage birds. Not very long ago upward
of 1,800 canaries died in one year at Nor
wich. England, and occasioned a loss to
the owners estimated at about $5,000. A
medical man is now stated to be hard at
worK inquiring as to the true cause of
the disease, which at present is thought
to partake of the character of dirhthria.
The subject is an important one, as the
transmission of diphtheria to children
from domestic animals has come to be
not only frequent but occasionally most
serious in effects. New York Commer
cial Advertiser.
Educating Farmers' Children.
A movement is on foot in Denmark,
corresponding with the needlework in
dustries of England and Ireland, to ad
vance the farming and dairy interests
for the benefit of women. Little girls
are being trained to raise paltry, make
cheese and butter, and brana them with
the badge of excellence. The agricult
ural, industrial and scientific worlds are
levied upon for improved machinery and
appliances. Not only are the cattle fed
in Danish fashion, but by the use of spe
cial methods 10 per cent, more butter is
extracted from a gallon of milk than
ever before. These fancy products are
put in the highest markets and yield a
revenue not to be approached by the old
system of women's work. London Let-
Checks Found in sv Dump.
Two checks for quite a large amount
recently sent by a Saco, Me., man to a
Portland firm have had quite' an inter
esting history. As the Portland firm at
first denied having received them, it was
at first thought that they had been
stolen, but it was at last concluded that
they had found their way to the waste
oasKec Dy mista&e. This supposition
was followed up, and four men were
kept at work all day Sunday turning
over with pitchforks the dump heap on
one of the Portland wharves. It was
like hunting for a needle in a .haystack,
but the search was successful, and the
two checks were at last recovered.
Philadelphia Ledger.
While Mr. "Williams, of Montezuma,
Qa., was driving under an oak tree at
dusk the other day he was amazed to
find his horse leave the ground and- re
main in the air. . Investigation proved
that the affair was not supernatural, as
the animal got caught in a swing hang
ing from a bough of the tree.
Among the latest disinfectants is
"lysol," which appears to be very much
like carbolic acid. The emulsifying
agent is resin or fat soap, tar acid being
incorporated with the soap at the mo
ment of saponification.
It has been proposed to make the up
per half of war balloons of very thin
steel and the lower portion of ordinary
balloon material, the whole so construct
ed as to hold hydrogen instead of or
dinary gas.
Blackening the nose and cheeks rrmW
the eyes has been found an effectual nre-
ventave of snow blindness, or the injuri
ous effect of the glare from illuminated
now upon eyes unaccustomed to it.
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