“BY THE GRACE
OF CHANCE.”
By W. A. FRASEE.
(Copyright, UNO, by W. A. Fruw.)
Harvey assured Johnson that the
horse couldu't lose at that weight.
To make the good thing a greater
certainty Johnson let the trainer have
his own jockey, Richmond, for Simp
kin and determined to ride Zigzag him
self.
If the game had been Zigzag, this
would uot have mattered so very much,
for be was one of the best riders in In
dia.
That the owner was riding Zigzag
confirmed Layton In his determination
to have a plunge on the horse.
At the lotteries the night before the
race Layton bought Zigzag In the first
lottery.
When the secretary asked if the own
er claimed anything. Johnson answer
ed, “Nothing, thanks.”
“He’ll come to me after It’s all over,”
thought Layton, “and ask for a half
throughout. He knows I’ll have to
give It to him too. It wouldn’t be safe
to have his horse running with none of
the owner’s money on.”
When Simpkin was sold, Johnson
bought him through another party.
And so it was through every lottery,
and there were many of them, for the
handicap was a big betting race, with
eight horses in It.
Layton bought Zigzag steadily every
time, and Johnson's agent took Simp
kin.
After It was over Layton rather won
dered that Zigzag's owner made no
sign—did not come and ask for his
half.
He could understand Johnson’s re
fusing to take any Interest In him in
the lotteries, for the effect of that was
to reduce his betting price. But why
did he not come forward now when it
was all over?
“He’ll come around tn the morning,”
he thought. “He won’t let hint run un
backed after that trial.”
But In the morning Johnson still
made no sign. Layton was getting a
little uneasy. Racing was such an un
certain business at best.
What if
something had gone wrong with Zig
zag? He would be utterly ruined If he
failed to win the race. Not only the
Marwarie’s debt, but the present lot
tery account. He would be posted as a
defaulter. At least It would take every
rupee he could rake together in tlie
world to square up. and he would cer
tainly have to send In his papers.
Fifteen minutes before the race no
offer had come from Johnson to take a
share in Zigzag's chances. The sus
pense was too great for Layton.
He went to the little dressing room
just under the stand where Johnson
was putting on his slim riding boots
and colors.
“See here, Frank,” he said, “I’ve got
Zigzag in every lottery, and I stand to
win a big pot over him. Do you want
any of it? You haven't taken a bit of
it yet.”
Johnson was noted for two things,
his superb riding and bls exquisite cyn
ical humor.
“Who the merry hades told you to
back my horse?” he asked.
“I backed him because I thought be
could win and -you were riding him,”
answered Layton, coloring slightly.
“Well, he hasn’t the ghost of a
chance,” said Johnson, tightening the
strings in his racing cap. “and I don’t
want a bit of him in anything. He
hasn’t a thousand to one chance."
Layton was dumfounded.
“If he doesn’t win,” he said, “1 shall
come a cropper.”
Johnson looked at him queerly for a
minute; then he said: “Now go and
square yourself on Simpkin. You can
hedge on him, for he’s a sure winner.”
“And If he’s beaten,” said Layton al
most angrily, “I shall be in a worse
hole than ever. I won’t do it. I’ll stand
or fall by Zigzag, and I'll lay you
5,000 rupees to nothing against his
winning.”
“I won’t do It that way,” said John
son quickly, “for that Isn’t a bet If I
"Don't put a load of brick» on Zigzag'»
back."
can’t lose, I can’t win. That's the rule
tn betting, but I’ll take 5,000 rupees to
10.
"Here, Dick,” he called sharply.
“You witness this bet Mr. Layton lays
me 5,000 rupees to 10 against Zigzag,
if the horse wins, he pays me 5,000; if
he doesn’t, I pay him 10. That's a clear
understanding. Isn’t It?"
“Yes,” answered Layton cheerfully.
“It’s the only bet I’ve got on my
mount” added Johnson, “and It’s just
throwing 10 rupees In the sea.”
As they rode over to the post Johnson
•aid to Dick: “I’ll carry them along for
you half a mile, for with your light
weight It will be better for something
to make the running. When I’m done
for, you can go to the front and canter
home. I think you'll have an easy
job.”
“I’d rather be on Zigzag, sir,” replied
the jockey. “I know wbat he can do,
•nd I don't like the feel of this fellow
under me. He's shifty.”
The race was a mile and a quarter.
As the horses made their way over to
the starting post across the course
from the stand Gaiety came up to Lay-
ton and said. "There’s a tremendous
rush on Simpkin.”
And so there was. The stable money
being all on, Harvey had told a few of
his friend« auil the ring was Gooding
the bookmakers with money tor Simp
kin.
Very few v, ere backing Zigzag, and
he was traveling out In the liettlng.
“Ten to one. Zigzag!" the bookmak
ers were howling In vain: there were
no takers
At the start .lolimmu was playing to
get away In flout to make the runuiug
and keep a nice place for Simpkin to
drop into when tils horse was beaten.
At the third attempt they got away,
very much as the captain desired.
“They’re off!” went up from the
grand stand in a hoarse cry, and glasses
were leveled at the bright splashes of
color twistlug in and out. as the eight
horses scrambled for places.
A black Jacket, with red and yellow
sleeves, shot to tlie front Immediately.
"Zigzag leads,” somebody exclaimed,
and Layton rubbed his glasses with his
handkerchief aud focused them on the
leader of tlie rushing troop.
He could see the red and yellow
quartered cap leaning far over the
withers of the big bay. Yes, it was
Zigzag.
“He’s got away well,” said Layton to
Gaiety, without lowering his glasses.
"He's trying anyway, and if it comes
to any brain work at the finish John
sou can give all the boys seven pounds
at that game.”
When they lad traveled a quarter of
a mile, the black jacket was a length
In front of everything. Layton's heart
lay like lead In bis breast. That was
not Johnson** tactics when be was out
to wiu a mile aud a quarter race. With
10 stone up. lie wouldn't be ninking
Ills own running.
Layton knew then that he had lost.
It was almost a relief to know Just
Where he stood. He had cast the die
and lost.
Some fool near him was croaking.
“Zigzag’ll win all the way.” lie felt
pity in bls heart for the man's utter
girls may be
a wrapped in many
layers of Hie costliest silksand weighed
town by n mass of coral Jewelry.
A - : illar ciiutei.’u t for death, with-
ut it x f g’oi.s basis. Is exhibited by
itt i i victims ilestiii -d for sacrifice,
fnce De < irdl attempted to rescue one
of |lieni. I t t.ie niau was much in-
ceused and deliberately taunted the
oilier savages and their chief with such
dire insults that they fell upon him
and slew him.
Circumcision is common. It has uo
religious significance, but iu some
tribes is a mark of slavery, lu others of
freedom.
A woman feels herself greatly insult
ed if another woman extends toward
her a first and a second finger in V
form, closing the thumb over the other
fingers It means, ”1 hope you will be
the mother of twins.” Most of the
trllies kill twins nt birth, together with
their mother.
Monsters ot the Old Age.
Aidrovaiidus* “Monstrorum Illstorla”
was printed in Bologna In 1642, 35
years after ills death, and was put
forth in good faith as n contribution to
natural history. Aldrovandus thought
lie was teaching manklud all about the
remarkable creatures to be found In
distant climes.. It almost looks as
though he anticipated the "rubber
neck” by bls strange combination of a
man with the neck of a crane.
He was uot satisfied, however, with
giving ills renders this marvel to grat
ify their appetite for the wonderful.
He presented a picture of a woman
with the wings and claws of a bird,
and, having conceived this marvelous
bird woman, he reversed the process
and made pictures of a boy with a
bird’s bead and horses, goats, pigs and
lions with human faces.
Nor wns Aldrovandus alone lu the
creation of monsters stranger than
ever were seen on land or sen. There
were Marco Polo, Mandeville and l’ln-
to. who, while relating much that was
valuable and true of foreign lands, hail
no hesitation In Including stories and
pictures of men aud animals born of a
vivid Imagination.
Witness the pic
ture of a man like that described by
Shakespeare, “Men whose heads do
grow beneath their shoulders.” What
a credulous age for writers and readers
alike!
The Corkwood Tree.
Corkwood comes from the bark of a
species of live oak tree found at its
best In the forests of Spain. The cork
wood tree Is said to be one of the three
most valuable trees known, the others
lielng the trees producing rubber and
quinine. The corkwood bark is strip
ped from tlie trees and tlie principal
branches ubout once In every ten
years, each tree yielding from 50 to 500
pounds of crude cork. This Is packed
in Spain, shipped to tills country In
“/ can’t go ting fauter; I'm done for."
bales and boiled to make it less brittle
ignorance ot racing, l’erhaps, though,
and is then handled by machinery and
after all. it were better that way; he
turned out In various finished prod
almost envied him. It was the knowl
ucts.
edge of racing that broke so many of
Tlie corkwood tree requires about
them.
ten years to recover from tlie bark
At the three-quarters Zigzag was stripping and does not, like most trees,
still lending.
die wltii the loss of Its bark. Tlie old
“He’ll win! He’ll win!” the other man
er the tree tlie better tlie yield of cork
was saying exultantly. "I took 10 to 1 Is said to be, and in Spain many trees
about him.”
are bearing heavy bark crops at the
Then something crept up on Zigzag- age of more than a hundred years.
crept tip until the horses were lapped
The only enre required of tlie trees Is
head and head. Tlie glasses showed that the underbrush be cleaned out
tlie white Jacket and red cap of the
constantly to guard against tlie danger
■lagnat's stable.
of forest fires. The trees, because of
“Simpkin is coming now!” went up a
their bark, are highly Inflammable.
cry from many throats—the throats of
the many who hail backed him when
Sneesinir.
tlie tip was spread about.
The Jewish rabbis of old say that
At tlie mile Slmpkiu’s Arab bead when Adaui and Eve sinned it was en-
showed in front. The two were a clear acted that man's death was to be sud
length in front of the field.
den, ending unexpectedly In a sneeze,
The stand was wild with delight, for Induced probably by tlie sweat of ills
Simpkin had started favorite.
brow being checked by a chill.
Over on the horses Johnson and Dick
But Jacob, set back, presumably. In
were riding so close together that they the history of the world a few ages,
could speak In short, gasping words as saw this terrible state of affairs and
the wind cut at their breath.
wrestled with the angel over tlie point
Three furlongs from home they were whether men should fall to pieces
together, nose and nose—Simpkin hail when they sneezed. He gained the vic
dropped back a head.
tory, but the augel made a condition
Johnsen could hear something clos with him tlait the sneeze should only
ing up on them from behind.
prove mortal when those who stood
“Go on. Dick!” he gasped. “I’ll pull by omitted to say the words “God bless
back and let you up next the rail.”
you!”
“I can’t.” answered Dick helplessly.
It so happened afterward that Jacob
“1 can’t go any faster; I’m done for.”
sneezed one day when there was no
A great rage came into the heart of body by to say the words, and the re
tlie captain This was the “sure thing” sult was that he grew ill and died a
they had put him on to. Beaten a quar lingering death, a thing unknown iq
ter of a mile from the Unlsh, and the the good old death by sneezing days.
others closing up on them. Already a
Ever since then, fearing the sneeze,
chestnut head was hipped on the quar ns a sign of not sudden death, but of ap
ters of Simpkin.
proaching disease, men never omitted
Zigzag was still full of running, fight th" salutation of “God bless you.” Tlie
ing for his head. Slowly, inch by Inch, Brazilians have a legend somewhat
the chestnut was creeping up. His similar.—Glasgow Mail.
nose was at Diek’s girths now.
The True l'oker Flat.
“I’m done,” he heard Dick say again, f
In 1852 Poker Flat produced $700,000
and tlieii be gripped the saddle with
his knees and rode tor Lawton's 5,000 tn gold bullion In a single month and
celebrated the event with a triple hang
rupees.
A furlong from home lie was clear of ing. Then came the public spasm of
Simpkin, lint the chestnut was still virtue which caused the John Oak
there, lapped on ills quarters now, and bursts and the "outcasts of Poker Flat”
beside the chestnut, on the outside, to depart from thence and die of cold
was an iron gray, coming very fast and starvation on the snow bound road
to Sandy Bar. There are no "Oak
too.
How be cursed the folly that bad hursts” nor “Uncle Blllya” In Poker
made film take so much out of Zigzag Flat today, and when the stranger
makes the slow descent and suddenly
to make tlig running for Simpkin.
If the gallant old horse would only by n sharp turn In the trail comes upon
last borne, the 5,(XW rupees would pay the famous camp he finds In that bud
dle of caliins little to remind him of the
bls losses.
In the stand tlie cry of “Zigzag Poker Flat of 1852.
The famous slope presents almost a
s ins!” went up-as tlie horses clung to
picture of utter ruin. There are but
each other up the straight.
Layton was tugging at bls blond eight persons living In the old town,
mustache, and even G lety’s face was while n hundred dead ones sleep In tlie
Some of the graves are
solemn and still ns he realized what cemetery.
that struggle meant to the two of marked witli wooden headboards, some
them—meant more to them than to all with stakes, but many have nothing
the others In the stand together. Not above them. Nearly all of them were
inly tlie money, but honor—life Itself— laid to rest without religious rites save
a Bible reading l»y old Charlie Pond,
was at stake.
who, though a professional gambler,
As they flashed past the stand Zig
tig's big bony head, with Its wide red was selected for the religious oflb ■
owing to Ills excellent voice and ora
nostrils, was still in front.
torlcal ability.
And so they enught the judge's eye.
In 1853 and 1854 there were 2.0CMI
The stout heart of the gallant horse
ind tlie cool bend of the steel nerved souls in Poker Flat and 15 stores. 5 ho
tiller had won the race th..t was all tels, 3 dance halls and 7 gambling
houses. There Is but one man left to
tut thrown away.
day of that original company. He is an
Queer African Cnntomw.
old and grizzled veteran, who delight.-«
Count de Card! has been entertaining to tell how In 1856 n circus came to
he London Anthropological society town and sold 1.500 tickets of admis
with an account of the manners and sion at $20 each.—W. M. Clemens In
'tistoms of tlie Niger delta, with which Bookman.
ong experience has made him farnil-
The dressing of the lialr Is the most
ar.
Human sacrifices are offered to tlie Important part of a Chinese woman's
;od of the river, and the tan colored toilet. The district she comes from
ualdens of tlie Ibo tribe are preferred may always lie known from the man
ner in which she does her hair. It also
is victims.
Young
The girls know their Impending fate Indicates tier stntlon In life.
mil are proud of it. If they take a fan- girls, whether married or single, wear
y to garments or ornaments worn by cues, colling up their hair. ns their
ither women, tlie Intter dare not re western sisters do. on attaining a eer
fuse t” 've them up. and so the chosen tain age.
COULDN’T CALL HIM CRAZY.
VANITY OF SAVAGES.
Jaxt u Nr,,»p«i>er Headliner Mnm-
bllun From Force ot Habit.
Red lira I.ove to I'oxe la Grotexqne
Attire llefore the Camera.
As evidence of tile extent to which
the onia mental precedes the useful Ex
plorer Humboldt noted the fact that
the Orinoco Indians In fair weather
strutted about attired in all the finery
they were able to procure, their faces
painted gaudily, their beads decked
with feathers, their whole aim being to
strike astonishment to the beholder
and no regard whatever hud for com
fort.
When the weather was bad. Hum
boldt found that the same men would
doff their clothing and carry it about to
save It for display on future suuny
ilays.
The same traits are seen today In the
North American Indians, little modified
l>y many years of intermingling with
civilization.
That part of Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, running from Second to
Sixth street is lhe favorite promenade
of visiting Indians. Portions of Sec
ond and Third streets, running off the
avenue, lire tilled with boarding houses
especially patronized by tlie redskins
and especially avoided by the whites In
consequence.
A number of photographers in the vi
cinity are the chief attractions of this
neighborhood for the aborigines. Noth
ing so delights them as to strut gravely
from their boarding houses to these art
galleries to sit for solemn pictures at
Uncle Sain's expense, the bill being
charged In with necessaries Incidental
to a visit to the great father.
To deprlv • the visiting Indian of the
privilege to sit for Ills photograph In
full paint ami feathers and a grotesque
mixture of cheap ready made garments
with blankets litui bear claws would be
the greatest hardship possible to the
chieftains.
Showing tlie same disposition Hum
boldt noted, the visitors get themselves
up more barbarously the closer they
H ilton relics at harvard get
to civilization.—St. Louis Republic.
The young man with the haggard
look sat In tin* rear ear of an elevated
train, staring and staring at one of the
advertisements.
“English beauty shoes,” he mumbled
to his companion. “That's wbat he
says."
"Yes.” said the other, "but that’s too
short."
“Hm. hm," tlie haggard man replied.
“Beautiful shoes from England”—
“That won’t lit. It's long,” was the
curt reply.
"Wdl,
then,
’Beautiful
English
shoes'
"That's only three words. You’ve got
to have four, you know.”
"That’s so, that’s so. Ah, I have it!”
lie cried so loud that all the other pas
sengers In tlie ear gave a Jump. " ’Eng
lish slioes of beauty,’ 23 letters and
spaces at last.”
A compassionate old man looked up
from Ills newspaper.
“What’s the mutter with your
friend?” he asked. “Is the chap suf
fering from delirium tremens?”
"Oil. no.” tlie man addressed replied
assiirlngly. "You see, lie's just through
with Ills night's work on a morning
newspaper,
lie's n headline writer,
you know, and after a fellow has scrib
bled off headlines of 23 letters and
spaces for about eight hours steady he
contracts that linbit and can’t get over
it. Every advertisement, every scrap
of paper lie sees for several hours aft
erward until Ills mind gets rested-
well. he begins to count tlie letters and
spaces and turn tlie wording into a
headline that will tit. It Isn’t exactly
delirium tremens. It's something worse.
The headlines of 23 letters and spaces
go wriggling around in that poor over
worked
brain much worse than
snakes.”—Chicago Chronicle.
SlKnntnre In nn Autoirrxilll Album
■ nd lhe Poet's Copy ot “I'lndnr.”
Tlie Harvard library numbers among
Its treasures an autograph of Milton
and a copy of “Pindar” annotated in
Milton's own handwriting, with mar
ginal notes in Greek aud Latin. Both
of these rarities were bequeathed to
tlie university by Charles Sumner.
Tlie “Pindar” is dated 1620 and was
doubtless used by Milton during his
stay at Cambridge university. At tlie
end lie lias added an alphabetical Index
in manuscript, occupying two closely
written pages of all the authors cited
lu iiis notes, with references to the
pages In which their names occur.
Milton's autograph Is found in the
pages of au autograph allium or visit
ors' book kept, according to a custom
common In the sixteenth century, by a
Neapolitan nobleman, Camillus Car-
doyn by name, who resided In Geneva
from 1608 to 1640, where Milton, ap
parently, visited him. Another auto
graph In tills same album among the
hundreds which it contains is that of
Thomas Wentworth, tlie unfortunate
Earl of Stafford. Milton's signature is
dated Jan. 10. 163'J, and is appended
to a Latin motto—“Travel changes one's
sky, but not one’s mind,” it may be
freely rendered and a quotation from
Ills own “Coutus:”
“If Virtue feeble were,
Heaven itselfe would atoope to her.”
Tlie most uotable Milton manuscript
known to exist Is a little book now
owned by Trinity college, Cambridge,
England, which contains tlie poet's
copies of Ills so called minor poems, In
cluding “L’Allegro” and “Il Pensero-
so." In tills country, however, It Is
said that tlie only original memorials
of tlie great author of "Paradise Lost”
are to be found In these two time stain
ed volumes In the possession of tlie
Harvard library.
A Cement Which llealsts Aclil.
In some branches of industry a ce
ment which Is proof against tlie influ
ence of acids is absolutely essential,
and sticli a substance can be prepared
by melting together one part of India
rubber with two parts of linseed oil.
Tills should be gradually Incorporated
with three parts of white bole so as to
form a plastic mass. This when heated
softens but very little. Though ft does
not easily dry upon the surface, when
once set It Is not affected at nil by hy
drochloric acid and but very little by
nitric acid. Ils drying and hardening
is materially promoted by mixing with
one-fifth of its weight of litharge or
minium.
Not ■ Bnrgaln.
“How much will you charge for mar
rylng us, squire?” asked the stalwart
bridegroom, painfully conscious of his
new suit of ready made clothing.
“I am entitled by law to a fee of $2,”
replied the Justice of tlie pence.
“Perhaps. Alfred,” timidly suggested!
tlie blushing bride, "we might get It
done somewhere else for $1.98.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
Marveled nt It.
“Yes,” said Mr. Henry Peck, “1 like to
go to the circus. One sees so many dar
Ing deeds. For instance, did you ever see
anything more reckless than the way
In which the ringmaster cracks his
whip at the ladles who ride the
horses ?”— Balt I more A merlean.
A Neighborly Dlxturbnnce.
First Neighbor—Well, my daughter
doesn’t play the piano any worse than
your son writes poetry.
Second Ditto-Perhaps not, but It can
be heard so much farther.—Detroit
Free Press.
The desert of Sahara Is no little spot.
It covers 2.500.000 square miles lie
tween the Atlantic ocean and the Nile
valley.
The Romans built London about tin
year 50 A. D., but London wall was not
built until 306 a . D.
A Serlona Complaint.
What made you leave your place wif
dat gemman?” asked Miss Miami
Brown. "Didn't he pay you right?"
"Yes,” answered Mr. Erastus Pink
ley. “Ue paid fus’ rate, but Ills clothes
was so out of style dat I was almost
foliced to keep out of society.”—Wash
Ington Star
__
It Is said thnt nt present the new
Ktenmshlp Celtic ennnot be loaded lo
her utmost capacity? as she would in
thnt crent probably ground on t’.e bar
of New York hurlsir, where the depth
at low water Is about 32 feet.
A RARE VOLUME BY PENN
Only
Knott n Copy la Owned
Clunkers In I'bllndelphln,
by
The only known copy of Penn's Issue
of "Magna t'hnrta." published in 1687
by tlie Bradford Press. Is the property
of tlie Meeting l'or Sufferings, a repre
sentative body of tlie Friends’ yearly
meeting in Philadelphia. Its title Is
"Tlie Excellent Privilege of Liberty
and Propriety: Being the Birthright of
tlie Fri eborn Subjects of England.”
The copy is not generally open to the
public
The peculiar significance of tills book
is that a half dozen years after Penn
founded his colony lie wished to have
■|:e colonists keenly realize that they
i.nild have to stand for tlieir rights In
ile new country as well ns the old,
win re the) Imd been so cruelly perse
cuted lie wrote this book In order that
il ey miylit lie informed on the consti
tution of tlieir local government and
know what were the legal buses of
tlieir rights ns citizens.
Curiously enough tlie only proof
there is timi lids work wns William
Penn's is tlie statement made by Chief
Instile David Lloyd In 1728. a great
Quaker It .-itici who was Penn’s attor
ney general at lhe time the book was
issili tl Chit f .lustice Lloyd was also
it that lime an Intimate friend of Wil
liam Penn am! consequently knew
whereof lie spoke.
The volume «as reproduced in fac
simile b^ tlie Plillobiblotl club ill 1897
l'or a limiteli number of subscribers,
l he original volume, however, must al
ways remain the rare thing that it Is,
one of the best expressions of liberty
under law that the mimi of the great
founder could conceive.—Philadelphia
Press.
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Isn’t it much more satisfactory and much easier to sit down at
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order, than to depend upon stores where the stock is small, as well as
assortment incomplete, and get something that does not give half
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-L«.
Weill dr I on’« Eudtiranee,
Wellington on oib* <
started,
Sir Herbert Maxwell tells us. at 7 a. m.,
rode to u place 28 mil< s distant, here
held a review and was back at the
place from which he had started for
dinner between 4 and 5 p. m., says
Goldwin Smith In The Atlantic. Ho
galloped 26 miles ami bnck to hoc
whether damage hail been done to a
pontoon train. He rode 17 miles In two
hours from Ereneda to Ciudad Rodrigo,
where lie dined, gave a ball and sup
ped. was in the saddle again at 3 a. in.,
galloped back to Freneda by 6 ami was
doing business again at noon, lie rose
regularly at 6 and wrote till 9 ami after
diuner wrote again from 9 till 12.
It must be essential to every general
and Indeed to every man who Is bear
ing n heavy load of anxious business to
be a good sleeper. Napoleon was n first
rate sleeper; so was Pitt; so was
Brougham; so was Mt. Gladstone; so
was Wellington.
At Salamanca Wellington, having
given bls order for the battle, said to
Ills ald-de-camp: “Watch the French
through your glass, Fitz Roy. I am
going to take a rest. When they reach
that copse near the gap in the hills,
wnke me.” Then he lay down and wns
fust asleep In a minute. In the midst
of the critical operations before Water
loo, feeling weary, lie laid himself
down, put a newspaper over his face
and took a nap.
For Exercise Why Not Wallet
The best exercise In the world Is
walking.
A person who knows how to walk In
telligently can get along without a
gymnasium. No other form of exercise
brings so many muscles Into play and
develops them so normally. The most
popular games are those In which
walking forms a prominent part. Golf,
croquet ami in a sense cricket anti even
bicycling merely give nil excuse for
walking.
Every one knows how to walk prop
erly. It Is because of carelessness that
so many walk badly. The body should
be carried erect, the chest well out, the
head bnck, while the arms should
swing freely at the sides. The pace
should be regulated to one’s strength.
Every one should walk fast enough
and far enough to get the body In a
comfortable glow. To get the best re
sults from walking one should give his
undivided attention to It. In other
words, he should walk for the pleasure
of It and uot carry worries with him.
Excessive walking Is Injurious. Nev
er walk Just after a heavy meal or aft-
ter violent exercise. Anil after a walk
It Is well to rest for 10 or 15 minutes
before taking up severe mental work.
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Lamb In Cither Cnne.
One of the editors who read tlie man
uscript of Henry Thew Stephenson’s
“Patroon Van Volkenberg” thought
After n Strnaale.
tlmt the nutlior might be a good luuu
“Geòrgie,” salti n fonti mother to a to know.
Accordingly he wrote a
little 4-year-old, “you must take the pleasant personal letter. Inviting a bet
umbrella to school with you, or you ter acquaintance, and, ns one of tbo
will get wet. It rains hard.”
tests of companionable illness, inquired
“I want the little one,” he said, whether the author preferred Lamb or
Pronounced cat-toy—occent on last ay liable
meaning tlie parasol.
Milton.
“No, my dear. That Is for dry weath
Mr. Stephenson replied, acknowledg
A sranacr.
er. You must take this and go like a ing the pleasure the letter hail given
Greene—They say that Senator Keen
good boy.”
him and saying:
Geòrgie did as he was bid and got to
"I do not know whether you ask if I er Is on tbe make. They even go so far
school comfortably.
like Lamb or mutton or Lnmb or Mil ns to say that that new house of his
After school hours It had stopped toil best, but In either case It's Lamb.” wns given him in payment for bls
raining, and Geòrgie trudged home
Even tlie reflection on the editor's vote.
Gray—It puts me all out of temper
with the remnants of the umbrella tin band writing could i*t detract from the
der his arm.
editorial approbation of Mr. Stephen to bear such slanders! It is as far as
"Oh, Geòrgie, what have you been son's choice, nptl
new partnership possible from the truth! I know all
doing with my umbrella?” said his of minds was immediately formed.— about It. It was this way: Some people
mother when she saw the state It was Youth's Companion.
who were Interested In a certain bill
In.
bet him that house that be would vote
“You should have let me had the lit
against the bill, and lie didn't and won
Woald limber Smoke 1'bnn Eat.
tle one,” said he. “This was such a
"Otic day." writes an American in tbe house. That was all there was
great otic It took four of us to pull It Havana. “I clinic across an old Cuban about IL The Idea of Keener’* living
through the door.”—Leslie's Weekly.
woman sitting disconsolately oil a rock open to bribery!—Boston Transcript
near Mono ensile.
She told me iu
Mnssllnic lhe Oi,
Adjourned t'nnnlmoa.ly.
Spanish that for three ilays she hail
One morning our washwoman, a lady bail nothing to ent but a loaf of brea
Correspondent (approaching Irish ser
of color—very dark color—came hastily anil coffee. She looked It. I gave her geant)—I am told, sergeant, that yon
In and, without any preliminaries, ex a Spanish dollar and followed In her bail a skirmish with the enemy this
claimed: "Sparatuallsm! What Is apnr- wake. She entered the first cafe she morning.
atunlism. Miss Cora?”
Sergeant—We did that, sor.
came to ami bought a drink ami a ci
My sister explained as well ns she gar. I couldn't help laughing to see her
Correspondent—And did you come off
could and asked why she wished to ns she walked along the stree'. puffing with flying colors?
know.
Sergeant—Floyin colors, is it? Be-
away nt the weed purchased with my
“Well, you see,” she went on excited
money. She seemed perfectly content dad, it wasn't ownly the colors that
ly. “Sarah—she's my daughter, you ed.
The Cubans, even the women, was floyin, but I very mother's son of
know, and she went last week to live would rather smoke than eat. They us in the bargain.—Boston Courier.
with a lady what says she Is a sparatu- take only two minis a day. breakfast
allst, and she says if Sarah takes any about lo o', Im !; and dinner nt 4 in the
Don’t Believe All To« near.
thing she'll know It. Sarah’s going to •ficrnoon."
A man In a railway carriage was
leave!”—Harper’s Magazine.
snoring so loudly that bls fellow pas
PiMCOHft' NoNta,
sengers decided to awake him. One
A < holce of Vowels.
A curious preference r>< certain pi particularly sensitive old gentleman
He—You women have such a ridlcu geons for tlie use of metallic objects In shook up the sleeper with a start.
lous habit of screaming “Ob!” on every building tln-ir nests Is noted by M.
“What's the matter?” be exclaimed.
occasion.
"Why, your snoring is annoying ev
Maurice Dttsoller In The Revue Selen-
She—And you men have such a ridic tltiqiie.
lie assures us that several ery one in the carriage,” said the old
ulous habit of saying "I" on every oc pulls of these birds that lie has observ gentleman testily.
casion.— Indianapolis Press.
“How do you know I'm snoring?”
ed in Paris Imvr raised tlieir young In
“Why, we can’t help but bear it.”
nests made e itirely of hairpins! These
I.oat Opportunity.
“Well, don’t believe all you hear,”
articles they collected III the paths of
“And you didn’t hear of It?” Inquired the Luxembourg. Tbe young pigeons replied the culprit and went to sleep
Mrs. Gabble.
grew up normally ns they would In a again.—London Standard.
"Not one word.”
softer nest. M. Dusoller believes that
“Why. I've known It for n week, so I there Is n useful suggestion In tills for
When Cnlltornln Wax Cnknown.
supposed everybody heard of It.”—Phil pigeon fanciers, who are often over
In an old geography printed In 1815
adelphia Times.
anxious. In- thinks, to see that their appears the following: “California Is a
land.
Last year the coinage of gold In the charges have soft material for their wild and almost unknown
Throughout the year It Is covered with
United States amounted to $107.937.- nests.
dense fogs, as damp as unbcalthful.
110. bringing the total of gold coined
The, Bntfn'l Vtmlr t'p.
In the Interior are volcanoes and vast
from the foundation of the mint to $2,-
“Well ' s.-itd tie. anxious to pntcb up plains of shifting snows, which some
147.088.113. At the present rate that
total will be duplicated within the next their qua: r. I of yesterday, "aren’t you times shoot columns to great heights.
curious to know what’s In the pack This would seem nearly Incredible
20 years.
age?"
were It not for tbe well authenticated
American material for the building of
"Not vi ry ' his wife, still unrelent iccounts of tra velera.”
railroads, tramways, etc., continues to
ing repiled Imiiffvretitly.
be exclusively employed In Mexico.
Tbe deepening ot the St Lawrence
"It's soinetliitig for the one I love
The latest miler In that line plnced I d
canal system has had other results
best In nil the world."
the United States amounted to n large
than to allow the passage of ocean go
"All I suppose It's those suspenders
figure, for it wns destined for three
ing freightage. Following In the wake
yon s.nd you needed.”-Philadelphia
lines of tramway around Medina, In the
of tbe vessels sea herrings have made
Press.
state of Y m a tan.
their appearance In Lake Ontario.