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w lien I was a is>y on tlie tv nitetisU aaiti how k.ui • But Imlier wus dreaming. The square there w as moose on every hill, and eu- h year <■: me the caribou um-ouutable. browed judge likewise dreaUaid. and A » but new the hunter may take tlie mill all bf« nice rose up before him in n 4» « V ten days and Hot one mo ~e glndfli n III' mighty phantasmagoria I,:« aiw| ■hod, 44 eyes. while tli* caribou come no uiort mail elad ruee, the lawgiver and world A> ■ t all Small worth Ui" gun. I say. ma k«g among the fumilio of m I( nc 44 saw it dawn red flickering ucruss tin < V kilfftig a long way od when there Is 44 dark forests and sullen seas; be saw nothing to kill. • 4» “And I. lmber, pondered upon these it blaze, bloody and red. to full and 44 triumphant noon, and down the shaded «* things, watching the while the White 44 JACK LONDON fish and tlie I’ellys and all the trilx-’ slope- be saw the blood red sands drop ping Into night. And through it nil he 4» of the land perishing us |s-risbed th 4» 44 meat of the forest. observed the law, pitiless and ¡lotmt. 44 Long I pondered. Litiuivn CUpi/right. MOS, bv Juck I talked with the shamans und the old ever unswerving und ever ordaining, 44 44 44 44 44 4» iaen who were wise. I went apart that greater than the motes of men who 44 4» 4» 4» 44 44 4* 44 44 44 44 4» the sounds of the village might not dis fulfilled it or were crushed by It, even 4* 44 44 4* 4» 44 us it was greater than be, his heart tinker rone feebly to Ills feet null with them. And sometimes the young turb me, und I ate no meat so that my speaking for softness. swayed buck and forth. He begau to i men came back with strange tales of belly should not press u | hju me und speak In u low' and faintly rumbling | dangers and toils in the lands beyond make me slow of eye and ear. I sat PROMOTION BY“ RETORT. the I’ellys. and sometimes they did not long ami sleepless In the forest, wide voice, but Ilowkan Interrupted him. j come back. And we said, 'If they be eyed for the sign, my ears patient und “This old man. be Is crazy,” be said Apt Answers to dualul Questions in English to the square browed man. | unafraid of life, these white men. It keen for the word that was to come. Wl> It-ll 1-lensed Suvuron. Is liecause they have many Ilves, blit And I wandered alone In the blackness “His talk Is foolish and like that of a Tlie great Russian soldier. Marshal I we be few by the Whitefish, and the of night to the river bank, where was Kuvaroff, was In the habit of asking child.” ■ “We will bear bls talk which Is like j young men shall go away no more.' wind moaning and sobbing of water his men difficult questions, sometimes that of u child,” said the square brow But the young men did go awxiy. and and when- I sought wisdom from the foolish ones, and bestowing favors on ed man. "And we will bear It word the young women went also, and we ghosts of old shamans in the- treeji and those who showed presence of mind In dead and gone. for word as he Speaks It. Do you un ! were very wroth. answering him. On one occasion a “It be true we ate flour and salt .pork “And in the end. as In a vislou. came general of division sent film a sergeant derstand?” and drank tea. which was a great de to me the short haired and detestable with dispatches, at the same time rec Ilowkan understood, and Imber’s eyes dashed, for he bad witnessed the light; only when we could not get tea dogs, and the way seemed plain. By ommending the bearer to SuvarolFs It was very bad and we became short the wisdom of Otsbaok, my father ami notice. The marshal, ns usual, proceed play between bls sister's son and the man !u authority. And then began the of speech and quick of anger. So we a strong man, had the blood of our own ed to text him by a aeries of whimsical story, the epic of a bronze patriot which grew to hunger for the things the wolf dogs been kept dean, wherefore questions. itself might well be wrought Into white man brought in trade. Trade, hud they remained warm of hide und “How far is It to the moon?” was the bronze for generations unborn. The trade, all the time It was trade! One strong in the harness. So I returned first query. winter we sold our meat for clocks to my village and made oration to the crowd fell strangely silent, and the “Two of your excellency's forced square browed Judge leaned bead on that would not go, und watches with men. -This be a tribe, these white marches,” thé soldier promptly replied. broken works, a fid files worn smooth, men,’ I said, 'a very large tribe, and band and pondered bls soul and the “If your men begau to give way In soul of bls race. Only were heard the and pistols without cartridges and doubtless there Is no longer meat in battle, what would you do?” worthless. And then came famine, and their land and they are come among deep tones of lmber, rhythmically al “I’d tell them that Just behind the ternating with the shrill volet- of the we were without meat, and twoscore us to make a new land for themselves. enemy's line there was a wagon load of died ere the break of spring. But they weaken us and we die. They good tilings to eat.” Interpreter. "1 am Iuiber of the Whltetisb peo i “ 'Now we are grown weak.’ we said, are a very hungry folk. Already has “How many fish lire there in the ’ and the I ’ ellys will fall upon us and our meat gone from us, and it were sea?” . pie.” So ran the Interpretation of How- . kan, whose Inherent barbarism grippal our bounds be overthrown.' But as it well, if we would live, that we deal by “Just us many as have not been bold of him and who lost his mission i fared with us. so had It fared with the them as we have dealt by their dogs.’ caught.” I ’ ellys. and they were too weak to come “ And further oration I made, coun culture and veneered civilization as he | And so tlie examination went on till seling fight. And the men of the Suvaroff. finding ills new acquaintance caught the savage ring and rhythm of against us. “ My father. Otsbaok, a strong man Whitefish listened, and some said one armed nt all points, nt length put n old Imber’s tale. “My father was Ots- J baok, a strong man. The land was I was now old and wise. And be spoke thing and some another, and some final poser: warm with sunshine and gladness when to the chief, saying: 'Behold, our dogs spoke of other and worthless things, "What Is the difference between your I was a boy. The people did not bun- | be worthless. No longer are they thick and no man made brave talk of deeds colonel and myself?” furred and strong, and they die in the of war. But while the young men were ger after strange things nor hearken to i “The difference is this,” replied the new voices, and the ways of their fa frost and harness. Let us go Into the weak as water and afraid 1 watched soldier coolly. “My colonel cannot village and kill them, saving only the that the old men sat silent ami that make me a captain, but your excellency there were their ways. The women found favor In the eyes of the young wolf ones, and these let us tie out in in their eyes fire came and went. Ami can.” men, and the young men looked upon the night that they may mate with the later, when the village slept and no Suvaroff. struck by Ills shrewdness, them with content. Babes hung at the wild wolves of the forest. Thug shall one knew, 1 drew the old men away kept his eye upon the man and soon we have dogs warm and strong again.' into the forest ami made more talk breasts of the women, and they were “And bls word was hearkened to. and And now we were agreed. and we re afterward gave him the promotion for heavy hipped with Increase of the tribe. we Whitefish became known for out- membered the good young days, and which lie had hinted. Men were men In those days. In peace dogs, which were the best in the 'ami. the free land, ami the times of plenty, and plenty and in war and famine they j FROST FAIRIES. But known we were not for ourselves. and the gladness and sunshine, ami we were men. The best of our young men and women called ourselves brothers and swore “At that time there were more fisli had gone away with the white men to The Wonderful Deidicn* That Win dow *l*a new Picture. in the waters than now and more meat wander on trail and river to far places. great secrecy and a mighty oath to cleanse the land of the evil breed tlnit in the forest. Our dogs were wolves. | When the frost fairies have a mate And the young women came back old had come upon it. It be plain we were wurm w ith thick bides and hard to the | and broken, as Noda had come, or they rial ready for original design they often frost and storm. And as with our 1 came back not at all. And the young fools, but bow were we to know, we produce in the hours of darkness most old men of the Whitefish? dogs, so with us, for we were likewise men came back to sit by our fires for exquisite decorations. The window “And to hearten tlie others 1 did the hard to the frost and storm. And a time, full of ill speech and rough panes are their drawing paper, and the first deed. I kept guard upon the Yu when the I’ellys came into our land we i window frames serve as picture frames ways, drinking evil drinks and gam slew them and were slain, for we were bling through long nights and days, kon till the first canoe came down. In on those particular occasions. There it were two white men, and when I men, we Whitefish, and our fathers j with a great unrest always In their are said to be no less than a thousand and our fathers' fathers had fought | hearts, till the call of the white men stood upright upon the bank and forms of snow crystals, every one of raised my hand tliey changed their against the I’ellys and determined the came to them and they went again to course and drove In to me. And as them of the finest finish and of unim bounds of the land. the unknown places. And they were tlie man in tlie bow lifted his head so. peachable symmetry. Some are like "As with our dogs, I say. so with us. that he might know wherefore I want the patterns in lionlton lace, while oth And one day came the first white man. ed him, my arrow sang through the ers are elaborated with geometrical He dragged himself—so—on hand and j air straight to his throat, and he patterns so complex that it is difficult knee. In the snow. And his skin was knew. The second man. who held pad to analyze them. But on the window stretched tight, and his bones were dle in the stern, had his rifle half to panes the frost pictures are by no sharp beneath. Never was such a man. his shoulder when my spear smote means confined to what are "standard we thought, ami we wondered of what patterns” in snowflakes, but show the him. strange tribe be was and of its land most various and dainty schemes of “ 'These be the first.’ I said when the And be was weak, most weak, like a ornament. Some are like starry flow old men had gathered to me. ‘Later little child, so that we gave him a place we will bind together all the old men ers. set with stars in the center and by the fire and warm furs to lie upon, of all the tribes, and after that the with starry shoots and comets flying and we gave him food as little children young men who remain strong, and the into space around them. Others take ■re given food. the shape of leaves arranged in set work will become easy.’ “And with him was a dog, large as form by some human designers. The “ And then the two dead white men three of our dogs and very weak. The endive pattern is among tlie most beau we cast into the river. And of the ca hair of tills dog was short and not noe, which was a very good canoe, we tiful, tlie curves und "motive” being warm, and the tail was frozen so that made a fin-, and a fire also of the often scarcely distinguishable from the end fell off. And this strange dog things within tlie canoe. But first we those in which a goldsmith of tlie days we fed and bedded by the fire and looked at the things, and they wore of Louis XV. modeled the ormolu in fought from him our dogs, which else which lie graced some priceless vase of pouches of leather, whleii'we cilt open would have killed him. And what of Jasper or crystal. Scale patterns, like with our knives. And inside these the moose meat and the sun dried the scales of fishes, with striated lines pouches were many papers, like that salmon the man and dog took strength upon the overlapping disks, wavy pat from which thou hast read, O How- to themselves, and what of the strength terns, set with stars, fern patterns, kan, with markings on them which we they became big and unafraid. Anti tnoss patterns and formalized sprays marveled at and could not understand. the man spoke loud words and laughed of maidenhair are among the choicest Now I am become wise, and I know nt the old men anil young men and them for tlie speech of men as thou on tlie list.—London Spectator. looked tsildly upon the maidens. And hast told me.” the dog fought with our dogs and for A MOUSE THAT 'SINGS.” A whisper and buzz went around the ■11 of bls short hair and softness slew court room when Ilowkan finished in three of them In one day. Mun Who Cauwlif It Sir« It Warble« terpreting tin- affair of the canoe, and "When we asked the man concerning I.Ike u Canary. one man's voice spoke up: “That was Ids people lie said. 'I have many broth Singing mice are rare, but a corre the lost '91 mail Jeter Janies and De ers.’ and laughed in n way that was laney bringing it in and last spoken at spondent writes from Yorkshire asking not good. And when he was in Ida "I am lmber.' Le Barge by Matthews going out." whether we can give him any informa full strength be went away, and with tion about a specimen lie captured. him went,Noda, daughter to the chief. without honor and respect, jeering tin' Tlie clerk scratched steadily away, and He adds, “it has beeu warbling Just another paragraph was added to tlie old time customs anti laughing In the Wdl do I remember my father, Ots like a canary for the last month in our history of the north. baok. a strong man. His face was faces of chief and shamans. "There lie little more,” lmber went workshop, and although I have it in a “As I say. we were become a wonk black with anger at such helplessness. cage it still continues to sing.” ■ nd he tisik a atone—so—and so ami breed. we Whitefish. We sold our on slowly. “It be there on tlie paper That mice do occasionally "sing” is there was no more helplessness. And warm skins ami furs for tobacco and tlie things we did. We were old men. undeniable. Some observers say that two summers after that came N<sla whisky and thin cotton things that left ami we did not understand. Even I, their "song" is softer, sweeter and back to us with a man child in the hol us shivering In the cold. Ami the lmber, do not now understand. Se coughing sickness came upon us, and cretly we slew and continued to slay, more delicate than that of the canary, low of her arm. which one can believe quite easily. "And that was the beginning. Came men and women coughed ami sweated for with our years we were crafty, nnd Others go so far as to compare it to a second white man. with short haired through the long nights, anti the hunt we had learned the swiftness of going dogs, which he left behind him when j ers on trail spat blood upon the snow without haste. When white men came that of a wa rider or even a piping bull be went. And with him went six of And now one ami now another bled among us with black looks and rough finch. But the question as to why they our strongest dogs, for which, in trade, swiftly from the mouth and died. And words and took away six of tlie young lift up tiieir voices in this tuneful man lie had given Koo So-Tee. my mother's the women bore few children, and men, wnn irons omding tnem Helpless, ner still remains to be ansvver.al. Three explanations have been sug brother, a wonderful pistol that tired those they bore were weak and given we knew we must slay wider and far with great awirtncsXsix times. And to sickness. And other sicknesses came ther. And one by one we old men de gested: ' First.—That all mice are potential.vo Koo-So-Tee was ver* big. what of the to us from the white men. the like of parted up river and down to the un plated, ntid laughed at our bows and which we had never known and could' known lands. It was a brave thing. calists and can learn to sing, by Imita arrows. ’Woman's tilings,’ he called not understand. Smallpox, likewise Old we were nnd unafraid, but tlie tion. from singing birds. Second.—That many mice possess an them and went forth against the bald measles, have 1 beard these sicknesses fear of far places Is a terrible fear to exceptional talent for mimicry, together face grizzly with the pistol in Ills named, and we died of them as die men who are old. “So we slew, without haste and craft wltji a keen sense of the ludicrous. hand. Now It be known that it is not the salmon In the still eddies when in Third.- That some tutee are subject good to hunt the bald face with a pls the fall their eggs are spawned and ily, On the Chilcoot and in the delta tol. but how wen- we to know? And there Is no longer need for them to we slew, from the passes to the sea, to bronchitis nnd that tlie so called wherever the white men camped or “song" is only the wheezing of rodimts how was Koo-So-Tee to know? So he live. broke their trails. It be true t4 i died, which suffer from the distressing com went against the bald face, very bravo, "And vet—and here be flu- strange and tired the pistol with great swift j ness of It—the white men come as the but it was without worth. Ever' did plaint. A certain amount of color Is given to' ness six times, and the bald faced bill [ breath of death. All their ways lead’ tliey come over the mountains, ever did the last theory by the fact that a mouse grunted and broke in Ids head like it io ueatn. 1 netr nostrils are tilh-d with they grow and grow, while we, being were au egg. and like honey from a it, and yet they do not die. Theirs the old. lH-eame less and less. I remember, which was caught by the neck in a wire trap not sutflcleutly .strong Jo kill bc, s’ acst dripped W.c- ferMtnt cf ’. > whisky and fubncco and shirt bi'ired .by.the <'.'>r!ho-.i r-rosv'n",. th«. < -rjp of p So-Tee upon the ground. He was a dogs; theirs the many sicknesses, tie- white man. He was n very little white It "same" while Its throat was under good hunter, and there was no one to smallpox and measles, the coughing man, and three of the old men came compression, but never again during bring meat to his squaw and children. and mouth bleeding; theirs the white upon <dm In ids sleep. And the next ft« «nb«'-.|Ue:it life ns a captive, 'l/ili And we were bitter, and we said. skin and softness to the frost and day 1 came upon the four of them don "Mail. That which for the white uieu is well storm, mid theirs the pistols that «h<s>t The white man alone still breathed, Old Time Carrlna Terms. and there was brepth in him to curse Is for us not fl-ell.’ And this be true. six times very swift ntid are worthies In an old numlier of a magazine Is And yet they grow fat on their many me once nnd well before be died. There be many white men and fat. “And so it went; now one old man sued more than a century ngo we light but their ways have made us few and Ills and prosper and lay a heavy hand over all the world and tread mightily nnd now another. Sometimes the word ed upon a list of different terms used lean. nt "tables of elegance” In the days "Came the third white man with nt>ou Its people). Ami their women reaclieil us long after of how they died, when Queen Charlotte came ns the great wealth of all manner of wonder too, are soft as little babes, most and sometimes it did not reach us. "And bride of the young and handsome king ful foods and things. And twenty of breakable and never broken, the moth the old men of the other tribes wore From this list it would appenr that out strongest nogs tie took from us in era of men. And out of all this soft weak and afraid and would not Join nothing in the way of game was to la- trade; also, what of presents and great ness ami sickness ami weakness come witli us. As I say. one by one. till I carved. The correct phrase was to promises, ten of our young hunters did strength and power ami authority. alone was left. I am Itnber of the "cut up" a turkey, to "rear” a goose, be take with him on a Journey which Tliey lx- gods or devils, ns the case may I Whitefish people. My father was OtB- to "unlace" a bare or rabbit, to "wing" fans! no man knew where. It is said lie. 1 do not know. What do I know baok, a strong man. There are no a partridge or a quail, to "allay” a they died in the snow of the Ice nioun I. old lmber, of tin- Whitefish? «Inly Whitefish now. Of tlie old men I am pheasant, to "dismember" a heron, to tains, when- Winn has never been, or in do I know that they are past under the last, ihe young men und young ’Thigh" a woodcock, to “display'' a the hills of silence, which are beyond standing. these wldte men. far wander women are gone away, some to live crane and to "lift" a swan. Beef and the edge of the earth. Be that as it ers nnd fighters over the earth that with tlie I’ellys, some with the Salm mutton were "carved,” of course, and ons and more with the white men, I may. dogs anil young hunters were they be. the sporting men prided themselves by “As I say. the meat in the forest be ■ m very old and very tired, and, It be seen never again by the Whltetisb peo using appropriate sporting terms wlu n ing vain fighting the law. as tliou say- came less ami less. It lie true the pie. tlie spoil of Uieir morning's work made est. Ilowkan. I am come seeking the “And mon- »hili' men came with the white man's gun is most excellent and ' it* final appearutMi on the table.—Moil- , years, and ever, with pay and pres kills a long way off. but of what worth I law.” i> li thou art indeed n f*r>l!” ern Society. ents. they led the young men away the eon when then- Is no meat to kill.', League of the Old Men Ehe TRI BITES TO WIVES O • WAYS TO ADVERTISE. ' Th* Wise Man May totally See Wklch la lite Beal Methud. WORDS Of ItNUlKNts'S UTTktkO f If 4'U have goods to sell, advertise. •V * Hire a man with a lampblack kettle | and a brush ff> paint your name and j lie ■»■■(« Tuas Taas a*<>4 VaM ’• | nuniber on all the rullroad fences The Hr farina» oi Mia Sucsawa • “■ cars g<> whitting by »> fast that no j«>>»—Jen ii I'uul i<i<*hi«a'a i aasiai- idle cun read them, tv> sure, but i-ii I'm tn* I arolia« ■*><«. IM-rhaps the obliging conductor would Few great men have paid more en- ■top the train to accommodate an in thusiastie t . butes to their wives than quisitive pussenger. Huie your card In the hotel register Tom IliMxi, nnd probably few wives have better deserved such homage. says by «11 means. Strangers snipping at tin- rftleago Chronicle. "You will botebi for a night generally buy a cigar or two before they leave town, and think,” lie wrote to her in one of his they need some Inspiriting literary food letters, "that I am more foolish than besides. any boy luver,«aml 1 plead guilty, for if an advertising agent want* your liever was a wooer so young of heart business advertlaed tn a fancy frame und so steeped in love as I, but it is a at the depot, pay him atsiut 200 per love sanctified und strengthened by cent mor* than It Is worth and let long years of experience. May God I him put it there. When a man has ever bless my darling, the sweetest, three-quarters of a aecond Ln w hich to mosf helpful, angel who ever stooped catch a train he Invariably stops to to bless a man!” Hus there ever, we read depot advertisements, and your wonder, lived u wife to whom a more j card might take hie eye. Of course tlie street thermometer delicate and beautiful tribute was paid than those verses of which the burden ; dodge Is excellent. When u man’s lin Is, "I love thee, I love thee; 'Us ull that gers and ears are freezing or he is puff Ing and "idiewlng" ut the heat is the I cun say?” “1 want thee much,” Nathaniel Haw time above all others when lie reads thorne wrote to ills wife many years an advertisement. Have thousands of llttla dodgers ufter his long patience had won for Dim the flower “that wus lent from printed and hire a few boys to dis heaven to show the possibilities of the tribute them. You’ve no ldigi how the human soul.” “Thou art the only per Junk dealer and paper and rag man son In the world that ever Was neces will respect you. sary to me, und now 1 nui only myself A boy with a big placard on a pole when thou art within my reach. Thou is an interesting obji-ct on the street art an unspeakably beloved woman.” and lends a dignified air to your estab Sophia Hawthorne was little better lishment. Hire about two. than a chronic invalid, and it may be Advertise on a calendar. People that this physical weakness woke all never look at a calendar to si-e what the deep chivalry and tenderness of tlie day of the month It is. They merely man. And he reaped a rich reward for glance hurriedly at it so as to be sure an almost unrivaled devotion In the [ that your name Is spelled with or “atmosphere of love and happiness and without a "li,” that's all. Inspiration” with which his delicate But don’t think of advertising in a wife always surrounded him. well established, legitimate newspaper. The wedded life of Wordsworth with Not for a moment. Your advertise his cousin, “the phantom of delight.” ment would be nicely printed and was a poem more .exquisitely beautiful would find its way Into all the thrifty than any his pen ever wrote. Mrs. households of the region, where are the Wordsworth was never fair to look farmer, the mechanic, the tradesmen upon, but she hail that priceless and In other lines and Into tlie families of rarer beauty of soul which made her tne wealthy and refined, all who have life "a center of sweetness" to all articles to buy anil money wttli which around her. “All that she lias been to to buy them, and it would be rend and me,” tlie poet once said in his latter pondered, and people would come flown days, "none but God and myself can to your store and patronize you and ever know,” and it would be difficult keep coming in Increasing numbers, and to And a more touching and beautiful you might have to hire an extra clerk picture in the gallery of great men's or two, move into a larger block and lives than that of Wordsworth and Ids i more favorable location and do a big wife, both bowed under the burden of ger business, but of course it would be many years and almost blind, "walking more expensive—and bring greater hand in hand together in the garden, profits.—Detroit Free Press. with all the blissful absorption and tender confidence of youthful lovers. For Their ItVBSi’hl* Sake. It never needed "the welding touch Sunday school treats must come round of a great sorrow” to make tlip lives oftener 111 England than In the United of Archbishop Tait ami ills devoted States, for the dean of Bristol Ims In wife "a perfect whole.”. Speaking of cluded in his book. “<klds and Ends," her many years after she hud been many storlea of the bold of such fes taken from him, he said, "To part from tivities on the Juvenile heart and stom her. if only for a day, was a pain only ach. less intense than the pleasures with The hand of a small boy wavered for which I returned to iier, and when I nil Instant over a plate of cakes before took her with me it was one of the he took one. "Thanks," be said, after purest Joys given to a man to watch ills momentary hesitation, "I’m sure I the meeting between her and our chil can manage It If I stand up.” dren.” Another boy. still smaller, who bad When David Livingstone had passed stuffi’d eyxtematlcally. at last turtwd Iiis thirtieth birthday, with barely a to Ids mother and slglwd: "Carry me thought for sucli “an indulgence as home, mother; but, oh, don’t bend me!" wooing and wedding,” lie declared hu The nvemgu I ki . v In Yorkshire knows morously tlsit when he was a little why he attends thou* feasts and dues less busy he would sigid home an ad not relish bring furifloiux! forth acun vertisement for a wife, “preferably h tily. A sollcltoiu» curate approached one decent sort of widow,” mid yet so un- who was glowering mysteriously. "Have consciously near w as his fate that only you hud « goisl tea?" tlu: curate asked. a year later he was Introducing Ids "No,” said the boy, ia an aggrieved bride, Mary Moffat, to the home lie had tone, laying ids hnn& on h1s diaphragm. built, hugely with his own hands, at "It don’t hurt me yet.” Mabotsa. From that “supremely hap py hour” to the day when, eighteen Dark« an* Drake«, years later, lie received her “last faint A scbooltxiy in Jewell City, Mo., win whisperings” at Shupnnga, no mail ever assigned to prepare an essay on the had a more self sacrificing, brave, de Mibjix't of ”1 kicks," ami tilts is what voted wife than the missionary's he wrote« “Th* duck la a lowr. heavy daughter. In fact, they were more like Set bird, eom|Mwe«l mostly of meat and two happy, light hearted children than feiithers. He m a mighty poor singer, sedate married folk, and under the having a bonree vole* caused by get magic of their merriment the hard ting ao many frogs in hts nei-k. He ships and dangers of life in the heart likes the water Mid carries a toy bal of the dark continent were stripped of loon in his stomach to kaep him from sinking. The duck has oirty two lags, all their terrors. Jean I’atil Richter confessed that lie and they are set so far back on Ills never even suspected the potentialities running gears by nature that she came of human happiness until lie met Caro purty near missing bls body. Some line Mayer, "that Bweetest and most ducks when they get tilg have curls gifted of women.” when he wa* fast on their tails and are called drakes. approaching his fortieth year, and that Drakes don't have to net or hatch, but lie had no monopoly of the resultant just loaf, go swimming and e*t. If I happiness is provevl by h4 wife’s dee was to be a duck, I'd rather be a drake laratlon that "Richter Is the purest, the every time." holiest, the most godlike man that lives; It Waa Jaat PeaalM*. • • * to be the wife of such a man "I don't understand,” said Mrs. is the greatest glory Unit can fall to a woman,” while of his wife Richter Youngmother, "why It is that tuiby once wrote, "I thought w hen 1 married won’t go •> Bleep. Here 1 have been her that I had sounded the depths of sitting mul singing to him for the last human love, but I have since realized hour, and yet he keeps crying anil how unfathomable Is the lieart in seems Just ns wide awake as ever.” "Well,” said her husband thoughtful which a noble woman has her shrine.” ly, "I don't know, of course, and per haps I am wrong, but it may tie that Oa< Went the RanZbol. Ixirfl Ellenborough, the great English baby has a musical ear.” Judge, was once alxait to go on circuit Reversible Snakes la India. when Lady Ellenboroilgli siilil that ahe A snake not often heard of. at least should like to accompany him. He re piled that he had no objection, provided In America, Is the llvsr colored snake she did not Incumber the carriage with with two heads, or perhaps they should bandboxes, which were his utter ab be callisl mouths, though It dis’S not horrence. During the first day's Jour have two mouths nt the same time. ney I.o»l Ellenborough, luippening to They are reversible mouths, occupying stretch his legs, put his foot through the opposite end every six months. It something below the sent. He illscov Ik’s with the two ends crossed on each erevi that it was a bandbox. I p went o’.’i'-r, «« trltti fokled hands. Every the window nnd out went the band six months the .change of the Reasons box The coachman stopped, nnd the reverses the functions of the two milk xilinan, tlilnjdng that the bandbox tbq head becoming the tail and the tail lad tumbled out of the window by becoming the head. Tlis mouth nt one sonie c.xtrnordjnary chance, was going end livuis or closes up all but n small to pick It up when Lord Ellenborough opening, while the opposite end be furiously called out, “Drive on!” The comes the mouth for the next six months. bandbox nce*rdlngly was left by .the ditcfi side. Having reached the coun Vnrnln* Away Wr*fk. try town where he tins tn officiate as “I don't tH-lleve y.<ai love- me any Judge, Lord Elletiliorough proceeded to more,” pouted she. arruy himself for liis appearance In the “I couldn't," replied lie. courthouse. "Now," said lie; "where's After thinking It over she smiled and my wig-where is my wig?” "Mv told him she could make the same old Jord." repllal the attendant, "it was dress do another seaaon. Houston Post thrown out of the carriage window." Could Xo1 ««narantee Them. . Breton Children. The Breton children are pious, su[ier- stitloils, stolid, strong, patient and very thorough. The girls are Intelligent and interesting. They are tlie mainstays of the family. A child of ten undertakes to superintend both household work ■ nd ths- farm. The boys are mon- or less stupid, handsome, bronze faced country urchins Bee culture «etuis to be the favorite occupation of the Bre ton boy. The Insects will come at hlo bidding nnd will even cover him from bend to foot witbijnt «tinging “Have you any eggs?" Inquired the customer. "Yea, sir," Said tlie waiter. "1 can bring you some i<gs. twit I want you tn Wmember that this Is a ten cent lunch ■Minter."—Chicago Tribute A niatrnM of Literature. "You arc always more or less t.kep tlenl about what you see In print.” “Yes." nnswered tlie man who has his own Ideas about things. "Truth may be at the bottom of a well, but W isn't an Ink Well." Washington Star A WISE OLD FOX. ■ ut Whu l«r m Lt»«« Time cleverly Eludeal ihv lluuiide. In cummou with other people who have looked after fox coverts 1 have often Ini’ii puzzled by the disuppearanc* of well kuuwu foxes and have become convinced that the more Intelligent foxes, after they have beeu before bounds several times, often turu their n its to account to avoid being bunted. In a small covert that 1 know wet! there was always a fox. A due big fellow be was. I have more than once met him when taking au curly ride as he lujml tfuletly homeward after bit ulght's foraging. He uefer sti’med tc mind being su'n. When the season oinned he gave us one or two capital runs, on the saimd invasion only Just saving his brush by scrambling Into an unstopped drain In our neigblnir's terri tory. After that he was never to Im found wheu bounds came. Yet lie was •eeu about as usual at other times. One day when walking near the covert one of the terriers, who knew all aimut foxes, took a line to au old tree In th« hedgerow and began to whimper and scratch at the roots. A cureful exam illation showed nothing. The tree wai not difficult to climb. It proved to bav« a hollow trunk, und there, at the bot tom, w < n my friend curled up fast asleep. His mask smiles on me as I write. After a Beven mile point and on a good scenting day he met bis fate. —Country Life. MARVELS OF MEMORY. Feats of F»ru<>ua Men Thnt Seem Ai na eat Beyond Belief. Sons* examples of the marvels of memory would seem entirely Incredible had they not been given to us upon the highest authority. Cyrus knew the name of each soldier in ills army, it Is ■Iso related of Themlstoeli's that be could tell by name every citizen of Athens, although the number amount ed to *20,(100. Mithridates, king of Pon tus, knew all his Hu.iXMi soldiers by their right names. Scipio knew all the inhabitants of Rome. Seneca complained of old agu because he could not, as formerly, re peat 2,000 names In the order In which they were read to him, and he stated that on one occasion, when at ills studies, 200 unconnected verses having been recited hy the different pupils of his preceptor, he repeated them in a reverse order, proceeding from tlie lust to tlie first Thomas Cranmer committal to mem ory in three months an entire transla tion of the Bible. Euler, tlie mathema tician, could repeat the “.Eneld,” und Leibnitz, when an old man, could re cite the whole of Virgil, word for word. It is said that Bossuet could repeat not only the whole Bible, but all of Homer, Virgil und Horace, besides many iffber works. THE SCIENCE OF A LIGHT. Cheap Acetylene Gaa Wa> Discover ed by an Accident. Cheup commercial acetylene gas wus discovered by accident. Willson, a sei entitle experimenter, believed that near ly all metallic oxides could lie reduced to a metallic state by heating them to an extremely high temperature by the ▼oltalc arc in tlio presence of free car bon. Aluminium bud been successfully reduced in this way. Mr. Willson wished to obtain metallie calcium. He therefore mixed a quantity uf quick lime with pulverized coke and brought the mixture to a high temperature by the action of the voltaic arc. He ex pected to obtain a white metal, but in stead he appeared to produce nothing but slag. Tills was thrown into the yard, and one day ut nixin while the boys were buvlng their luncheon they picked np these bits of slag and threw them at each other. One plan» fell Into a pull of water and produced a bub bling effect and a strong odor. ThtH at tracted Mr. Willson's attention, and upon Investigation Im found that the Strong smelling gas was extremely In flammable. Further Investigation re vealed that it was pure acetylene gas.— Sir Hiram Maxim in Harper's Weekly. Tke Healthful Uphill Walk. The best wuy to get oxygen Into the blood la to walk a mile uphill two or three times a day. keeping the mouth closed and expanding the nostrils. This beats all other methods. During such ■ walk every drop of blood in the body win make the circuit of the lungs and ■treani red and pure, back to Its ap pointed work of cleansing and repairing Wornout tissues. Recreation piers are coming into use at seaports, and people •re being advised to use balconies and fire escapes in the fresh air treatment of consumption. The uptilll walk, as a prophylactic and curative measure in many chronic ailments dependent upon ■ weak condition of the heart, lungs •nd blood vessels, would prove invalu able.—Medical Brief. When IM*eslton la Perfect. Moderation In diet has more to do with prolonging human life than any Other one thing. A proper dietetic regi men. once nftalned, brings all the rest In Its train. Sleep, exorcise, cleanliness, equanimity of spirit, nil hang upon it. Life Is not only prolongol, but Is con stantly enjoyed most of it» minor sn noyances vanishing when dlgmtion la perfect I'ny no attention to fads. They give rise to too much introspection, nml that ts bad for every one.—Roger S. Tvaty Ui Century*. Face Powder In Cntm. In Cuba there has never apparently been any dearth of face powder even among the lowliest. The Cuban wom an, octogenarian as well as "sweet sev enteen,” con«ldors powder a more neces sary article of the toilet thnn soap and water and utterly Indispensable to her attractiveness, which It Is her absolute duty to preserve. All classes of the community are devoted to the powder pnff, from the little six year-old orpliHii in the asylum to the lady of high de gree. In any Cuban school teachers and pupils are alike unsparingly pow dered, nnd a powder box Is to Is* found tn every desk and as likely as not keep ing company with the chalk used fur the blackboard. Addendum. Kwoter—He thinks he’s still youth ful. Well, you know the old saying. “There’s no fool like an old fool.” Newltt—Yes. and when an old fool dyes his whiskers there's nobisfy f<«>led but th» old fool. I’ldlad*!plila I’rvag.
