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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1904)
What t Became Mary 111 So mud Minium 1M tho unaccustomed warmth bring back happy memories of lush Jungles and A fries sunny fountains, or did her crumiH-d quarters irritate the snake lute au effort for freedom? JOIU IUU1 -etued the Imx secure, hut with one iist i iter it the body Mary Ellen ItoHfti ttY two slats and slid half her tiexiblc length into the nom. The colonel heard the noise, but did aet turn around m look. Let the opos- mi. escape it u could; it was nothin to n.:u. If it got away perhaps Tom wonkl bo Idniiied. and he did not llko Tom. So he took another drink and continued ;o read. J reed ipt.ii her prison, the reptile paused. Sbc -emed thirsty as well as hungry, for slie he-ltaied between the man nntl the pail of drinking water wf.-Ofi stood on a splint Kit touted ehair lr taw door. Thirst conquered, and she p!:dd Aiclely i.. . . water p.ut and drank halt" it eei-tent-. ft m u'iiiniiih' i uoitei reati on. un- cis ;..us 04" iiis peril. Absorbed by a Weil written editorial, he bent the sheet as Ik reached the middle of the col umn. Tin rustle of the paper drew the ttl!ithn f the reptile, and. turning fnttii the water pail with a greedy glit tcr in her eyes, she started toward him. CHAPTKK II. x w- M tlie old iMiitictan been young I f I ntd active Ids situation would E have lvn iriious; but. old. J wloezy and half intoxicated 1.: i-e was wen men tiesneratc. llie advah. inc suitkc was between him and the doer, tlie two rear windows were both eksel. and he had no weapon. It tM'oared as if the anaconda would ijse ltitn and crush him in hor coils en? he was aware of his danger. Hut fate seemed resolved that he should not jierisli by violence nor till any but : drunkard's grave, for by a strange ilis peu-:iiin of Providence the appetite fr drink that had wrecked his health itd mine! his life came to his aid. It lutd been several minutes since the uknei had taktii a nip. and when the snake had slided within a few feet of him tin o.d man reached for the bot tle. At tin- motion the snake hissed, ami the horrid sound lilted him to his feet soaking like one palsied. IIo tttrned. Was it a reai snake or only a phan fceixt of drink V A s..md hiss lrocht a shriek of ietwr fnnu the old man. and rushing . the rear of the room, upsetting and happily ejamcnishitig the lamp in Ids frigiit, he i.'.unj.M hadioug through the glass wludt.w salt out into the enow. Ai the momeni of the colonel's pre cipitate exit titere were no eyes to witness the Hying leap, for excessive coHi had driven the sxxi people of Oak viile in their hearthstones, and It was only by eliance that his terrified shriek reached the ears of a human being. Two blocks distant Jim Kvans was on his way to his wedding. There had len some delay in obtaining hid mar riage license. In Ul bachelor igno rance the y;2!tg editor had thought it wHik! be as simple a matter as buying a postage stamp. It was more like til ing a bill in ch.iHC.Ty. Finally. eitnatiiig himself from the uarl .f rel t:ti he hurried away from the prdate otilce with the lndis i?nalJe diiuit'm to dres. Annoy n pwretiet! him. It hail been ar-rat:-.! tiiat Iiek Ilaiidin. Jennie's brother. 4Kuk! raiuc to him at 7:-4i. At 7iC k occurred to hint that he had! '&rgwni w tell I tick of hi j change of qut j ters. He ilts'rveil a kicking for W frs'tfuiifss. He had moved his lus'ifij.nu.' uly a week ago. and his tfrM-r rm was thn'-qtiarters of a uiiU dstaui :U the otlwr end of the sli--T. If I i-k went there f,r him and w.i directed to Ids new :,iKi,. there "UM 1 fully ten minutes' delay, per-ha;- iiioiv. and if he were tartly at his wed-'ig be wukl feel disgr:cel. He wouid not keef his britb! waiting for 1. r weiglit In srikl. He must meet M k half .ty. 1' was ylisrlight. Tiiloiigh the wide wii,.' tJtfw.i 1m(i1is of the trees by the Hkk-v. ft ttie st;;rs llashetl lit fully like a sH-ii-m f tiretlles. Another time lie woi !i have hh-scd their ob Uloi.iirtation, but tonight, haste di;.eu. be 1 nired for the more eff t;d radian-e f direct lights which 'iakville did not I -ast. And the wind le had tv likl Ids hat on, while the SSflt -.t bare water oks groaned in the fierce Amal which snapped their dead twigs und sent them hustling down ward. "J'urning a eruer he saw his sanctum InUliauiiy illuminated. It was the "cloiiel. of ntursc, ami he hopetl the kl man v.tikl keep stdier enough not i set tlni place aiire. Following this ihu-iit cjiim- the eokmel'b yell. f 'clirluui tremens and a lighted lamp In au iutiainuuible printing ollice! ll:ivi:" exclaimed the young Mtan. and ran toward the place at full sfieed. If "loiiel Ihtdham's exit from the 'Lruieles Iwiek window be likened to J 'lie 'rftrmance of a circus girl through a paper hofip. the latter half tf his Hying leap resembled the feat known in gymnasiums as the porpoise ' . !!. Tor h moment he lay stun eCi ; Ulu lite snow. Fortunately for his neck a piece (f castaway stove piping and some barrel staves had broken his fall, though in doing so they had gash ed his fop h -ad ami torn his clothing. Hut the wound on his face and the rut eitused by the broken window jtias! agisted the Icy air in restoring bint to consciousness. However, the low temperature did 14 drive all the fumes of whisky front his head, and his brain was far froui clear when, bareheaded and with Bitow and ldood sticking to his gray hair, he rose to his feet and sped tlmowrh the night. ....By SAMUEL MINTURN PECK of Ellen n Yet of one thins he was sure. It was no hallucination of drink, hut a real serpent that he had seen, though how it had cot into the Chronicle olllce he (il nut tt-r fit f.!lin Tlmn HI, is ; ,:lsh ns ht, ran ,amo thl. UloUi:nt th:lt his fearful assailant must be Hind foot's snake and that the next person who entered the office unwarned would surely be crushed. No sooner had this idea entered the colonel's ioor, drink fevered brain than he began to fancy that such a catastrophe was already happening. In another twenty yards it seemed to him he could hear the noise of a struggle in the room behind him. and In twenty steps more his head was in such a Jumble he was Incapable of distinguishing fact from fancy. An impulse, born perhaps of rapid motion, drove him to tell his story and eek help, and In the wake of this impulse followed the thought that the surest and quickest succor against the snaku . juhl I . found at Higgs barroom. which was aiways full of men. A moment more, and the colonel pass ed, bareheaded and bleeding, into the bright glow that shot forth. like a great red tongue, from the barroom door. Higgs' establishment, a nis place nt all times, ami especially noisy at night, was divided into three eompart ments. The first, a kind of entry, lit up by a largo ret I lamp, contained a mall tobacco counter. The barroom proper was divided from this vestibule i m1 hidden Ironi tho street by a screen I -Irnd which gleamed the Circean of glistening crystal and many ! : d lipiors. to whose jKtent spell-; Use rat'le tif dominoes and the clicking of b..I. .id ball added an alluring ac (t ittpaiiimeut. Separated frm this gl. tiering shrine of Bacchus by a lat tice wtis a smaller and less brilliantly ltghlNl apartment, where the god's dusky devotees befuddled their woolly heads fr less moiie . The riles were at their noisiest when the colonel burst in. but in an instant all mirth ceased. Here was something mere amusing than billiards or domi noes. 1 r :..ers put down their glasses. half eon-..::.ed. on She bar: players de serted tie ir tables, ami till came to the front, liven tho negroes, imbibing tanglefiKti" and "red eye" for ." cents a drink, momentarily forgot the color line marked by llie-' second lattice ami. crowding forward. presetl upon the heels of the white men. "Are ycr sure it'sj a snake ami not a moiiKey; exclaimed one f the latter, when the old man (had gasjied out his breathless storv. 1 "I viy. colonel, dlid the snake swal low your hat';" cried another, and l hee and similar sjalllcs were greeted wlUi jeals of coarse laughter, in wmcii the negroes joinetl uproariously. llu-dt. Im.vs:' sail Higgs gravely. I'd-gs. i jfii you it's true." reiterat ed the coi .nel in agony. "Hindfoot's snakes kiliiitg somi one at the Chron icle oihce. llurrv:,? 1'he saloon keeper viewed the speak er w ttlt a thrill of fit v. "All right, colouia; don't you worry. I'll take care of 'the snake. Come. tato a urink. said Higgs coaxlngly, adding softly to the bystanders. "It's the best thing for him till the doctor sees mm. I'll-- assistant barkeeper walked to the dr and looked up the street. See. colonel; it's all dark at the ChronVIe oliiec. There's nobody there; Jim Kvans gets married tonight. Ue- ddes. it's too cold for snakes anyway. Th-.-y'd freeze to death in ihe minute l.o- around this weather." 'The .ld man leaned agtiiust the door jamb, for he began to feel weak. lie undcrsto.l. They ahought he had de lirium tremens. If he talked till day light he saw that no one at tin- bar room would believe him. and cursing in his heart the wretched appetite for drink that had made his word lighter than the wind, he shook like one in an ague lit. "Hv Ceorge. he's got 'em bail!" said a sympathetic bystander. "Let's tak him home." Higgs nodded Indorsement, and two men stepped forward to lay hands on the colonel, but he eluded them and ran out the dior. As ho turned the corner he stumbled and fell, but, ris ing, he hurried on. As he ran he wiped the blood from his face and tried to smooth his hair. If he only had his h it and looked less wild, he thought, some one might give him credence. He turned in at Hrandon's drug store mid trhtl to tell his story to the young clerk, but the boy lied before him Into the back room. A few blocks farther on he knocked at the door of the Haptlst parsonage. The preacher listened with a sorrow ful glance. "f'omc In. t-olouel, and sit down," said the young man sympathetically. Hut the eolotiel heard hint whisper to his wife, " Telephone f,tr I r. Seyton," and the old man lied from the house. He was chilled to the bone, but he did not feci the cold, fur j his excited fancy pictured the horrlhh tragedy that he feared was transpiring at the Chronicle olhce. livery one thought him mad, and he felt as If he soon should he If he did not lii id some one to credit his words. Would nobody believe him? Yes. Jim Evans would, he was sure. lim was ahvavs kind, and even if he did not credit his story he would go . . . ... , with him to the place if only to "re lieve the colonel's fears." It was strange Jim had not entered his mind earlier. With this happy thought he turned alniui ami made for Kvans" room, now not many blocks distant, so rapid had been his Speed. "Ycr ain't gwine find him dar, suit," said a passing negro, who heard the :-oione's knocks and cries at Jim's flout. The colonel was daz&d. "I-iwd. boss, don'tjyer know ills is Marse Kvans wcddln' night?" added J the negro. "He gwine marry Miss Jin ny Hamlin, de belle o' de town." The colonel had again forgotten the wedding. It seems a simple thing to put on a wreath of orange blossoms and a veil of tulle. That is what a man would suppose, a poor ignorant man. That is what Tom Wilson thought till he saw it done. Tom had the freedom of the house by right of cousiuship and reporter fir the Chronicle, and he had come early that he might not miss anything, lie watched the white cloud as it descend ed on Jennie's dimpled face and shoul ders and settled like n silver mist over her lissom form and thought that was the end. It was hardly the beginning. "A little more to the right, Ilattie, said Mrs. Hamlin. "There, that's bet tor." "No. Aunt Hattle. It's too far," said the bride, twisting her head and gaz ing in a hnnd mirror. "Just see how that still bud sticks out; it makes me look like a scarecrow." do you like it this wayT" nek d Aunt Ilattie, moving the wreath again. Mrs. Hamlin viewed Jennie doubt fully. "I think It looked better at lirst." Then the whole act was repeated. "Hy (Jeorge. Jennie, you look as pret ty as a picture however It's fixed. said Tom, with admiring eyes. "And what will Jim care? lie thinks 3-011 are period anyway. That's what he ought to think. Mr. Thomas." said the bride saucily. At last the wreath and veil were ad justed to suit all. and Tom walked 1 n u ml his pretty cousin, who resem bled a plump little fairy arrayed in moonlit gossamer. "You'll never be able to sit down in idl that rigging. Jt nnie." 'i don't Intend to; Jennie Hamlin will never occupy another chair. When net she takes a seat she'll be Mrs. James Monroe Kans." Tit UK CNTINl"KI. BRILLIANT SWORDPLAY. Italy Im the Home of I-Vnoltifj ns Hell 110 1 Art. Although the (o rmans were always redoubtable at the rougher games of swordsmanship. !t is in Italy that wo lind the first development of thai nimbler, more regulated, more cun nlng. better controlled play which we have learned to associate with the term fencing. It Is from Italy thai fencing as a rellned art first spread over Kurope. not from Spain, as It has been assorted by many writers. It is In the Italian rapier play of the late sixteenth century that we find the foundations of fencing in the modern si n-e of the word. The Italians if wc take their early books as evidence and the fact that their phraseology of fence was adopted by all Kurope were tho lirst to perceive, as soon as the prob lent of armor breaking ceastnl to be lite most Important one In a light, the suierior capabilities for elegant slaughter possessed by the point as compared with the edge. They ac coiilingly reduced the breadth of their sword, modi lied the hilt portion there of to admit of a readier thrust action and relegated the cut to quite a second ary position in their system. With this lighter weapon they devised in course of time that brilliant, cunning, catlike play known as rapier fence. The rapier was ultimately adopted everywhere hv men of courtlv habit. but in Kngland at least It was not accepted without murmur and vitu peration from the older fighting elas of swordsmen. Cornhill. MEASURE HIS FINGER. If It Is I.onuer Than VuurN. He Will Utile Ion When You're Wed. It is rather late In the day for this bit of ad-, ice. but the girl who thinks of marriage should take the precau tion of fust measuring the forefinger of her lover with her own before she commits herself irrevocably. If his forednger happens to be longer than her own she would best reject him. for she will never rule her own house hold, the rule iK'iug that whichever has the longer foreiinger becomes the ruling power In this home. One en gaged girl, upon being told of this test, carefully measured lingers at once. and. upon finding thai her fiance's finger was much longer than her own. stoutly declared that she didn't care. "She didn't want to rule the house anyway!" The man breath etl freely once more. It was this very same girl, however, who was observed to make special and strenuous efforts to set her own right foot upon the church step before the groom, and to place this same foot upon the carpet before his! It Is a sure sign that which ever sets foot lirst upon the church step and upon the carpet at the altar will rule the house! Which oilers a solution of the "long est forefinger" problem! Avoid as you would the pestilence the tying of your shoe in a carriage upon your wed ding day. It Is "uuiucky!" Kxchnnge. Loudon Doctor.' I-'eoh. Idscusslon by London newspapers of doctors' fees has brought to light some curious Information. "I know a man." one doctor Is quoted as saying, "who has a guinea practice In Hurley street, a live shilling practice In Kensington and a sixpenny practice In Seven I dais." In Clapton, a poor quarter of London, fees of twopence (1 cents) are said to be not unknown. One newspaper re marks: "Of the twopence fee It might be said that It brings sickness within the reach of all. In Clapton, at any rate, there Is no excuse or justification for any one being well." This same newspaper says, "Now that lints are so fashionable the doc tor's difliculty In guessing the paying ability of his patient Is enormously In creased. Hats being alike the refuge of the wealthy and the Indigent." CnmiioiiHiitlon. Head of Family - 1 want to leave my property to my two sons - one-tenth to my elder son. John Ilutts. and nine tenths to my yougger son, Koyal Ches terfield Montgomery de I'eystor Hutts. Family Lawyer- 1 I'm! Do you think that's quite fair? Head of Family Yes. I want to make some kind of reparation to Royal for allowing his mother to give him such a name. Lon don MuiL SKELEl'OXS L BOOKS SECRETS THAT ARE UNWARILY LEFT IN LIBRARY VOLUMES. V Storle of l.ove a Well nn of Crime Ilnrleil Met tt en the I.eaveN hy Ah nent mlmleil Headers The Way Dim .Murder .Mywtery Wa Solved. The letter began. "My Sweet Anne. Surely a stranger must be pardonec for reading It through, for It was fount hidden snugly away between the leaves of a dusty and ancient volume of poems drawn from a great library. The find cr took it carefully to the librarian. 'Another one?" said the librarian In quiringly. "Out of the old edition of Moore, eh? Well, I guess we won' send it back. I generally return per sonal letters If they are of enough In terest and nobody calls for them, but If I sent everything back thut we find the directors would be about my ears for wasting postage stamps." The aft ernoon was a quiet one, and the li brarian continued: We shake every book that Is return ed, and almost always something falls out. It may be a letter like tho one you have Just found or n visiting card or a hairpin. Almost Invariably the treasures that we unfold bear the ear- maiks or lemlnlne possession. I am not charging women with carelessness. I am simply stating a fact. iicmraliy the things we una are documenlarv in their nature. Last week I shook out of a book on home life a signed and indorsed check for .?7l made payable to the dressmaker whose statement of account was pinned to it. On smother occasion a fifty dollar bank note fluttered out. Hoth were called for within a short time. Occasionally one gives us a glimpse of a love secret or a tragedy. Not so long ago a letter was taken from a book which was of such an un usual nature that I remembered the names concerned long enough to recog nize them in the newspaper reports of a court case which divided a family. ,The letter was addressed to a woman and filled with the frank and open aowal of a man's forbidden love, for the woman was the wife of another. 1 c. refullv secreted the missive and a few hours later was confronted by a tall, heavily veiled lady, who asked If - - 11 V 1 I.. 1 1 a letter mm neon puiiki m a oooiv which happened to be a morbid prob lem novel of great popularity at the time, the work of a well known Kng lishwomau. The question was asked n a voice which tried hard not to shako. 1 handed the letter over, and the woman hastily took herself off. Scarcely a month later I ran across her name In the newspapers sis defendant In a dhoree court. Yet the writings we find in books are not ahvavs so intimate. Sometimes t!: y savor of domcstieit ami the deli-!, ts of the kitchen. Indeed I have enough recipes for desserts and sweet meats to publish tho collection as a cookbook. Now and then a book Is a veritable mine. I have found In them gold, silver ami precious stones. Km broidery silk by the yard and of rain bow hues may be fished out from some novels, and, alas, an -occasional ciga rette paper. 'The evidences of masculine forget- fulness are rarer. I have forgotten al most all such Instances, but of those which I do remember there Is one of which the details are as clear to me now as if they had happened yester- dav. Indeed It will never leave my mind, for it led to the capture of a jrang of criminals. A wealthv but solltarv old bachelor was found lifeless on the tloor of Ids library one morning. On his body no wound was discovered, and as far a the detectives could ascertain no one hs.d gained access lo the house. The ca..e excited great public Interest, and I followed the developments with close- ns in the newspapers. 1 here mm been at first some talk of suicide and more of heart failure, but the autopsy put a new phase upon the case, for It bowed that tho old man had come to his death through an Insidious yet pow erful poison. Tho question then arose. Who administered it? As I was read ing the detailed report of the doctors I suddenly dropped the paper. I remem bered that a month before a stranger had come In one wet. dismal night and tked for a recondite work by a for eign author. It was a standard treatise on poisons and a volume sel dom read. "I hurried to the library and sought the book, opening It and rapidly run ning over the pages you may Imagine my astonishment and almost horror to lind lying between two pages devoted to a detailed account of the very poison that eaused the old man's death a smirched and thiynb marked piece of paper. On It was. writing In a small and angular hand referring to the chapter and page on which the poison was described. I then looked up the record of the book's withdrawal and found the namo which the man had given. I also found thnt the book had not been taken out since. Having as certained these facts, I went at once to the police. Taking the Information as a clew, the detectives, after a long and arduous search, followed It to its logical end and arrested the only rela tive tho old man had possessed, a med ical student, whose existence had not even been known. He confessed his share In tho crime and. with his accom plices, paid the penalty. That casa opened my eyes to the value of Inspect ing every book as it returned to the library." New York Tribune. ; Slie'ii .Ttiwt Prnetlctnsr. "I understand that Mr. Hlux and his fiancee have had a quarrel." "es." answered Miss Cayenne "Hut It is nothing serious. She Is a prudent girl and wants to make sure .she can manage him when lie Is an gry." Washington Star. Not Her Fault. Eva I thought you were never go ing to speak to Harold again as long as you lived? Ciss I know I said so, but it wasn't my fault that I broke the resolution. Eva How did It hap pen? Ciss -IIo called me up over the telephone. Woman's Journal. "When something ls very dilllcult to understand," said the distinguished professor of biology, "It Is called sci ence; when It ls Impossible, it Is called phllosoph." WOMAN AND FASHION simple IllotiMc. Kmhroidcry worked on to the mate ,i.! makes the smartest of all trim mings am! has a certain inherent ele gance that nothing el.se quite equals. This charming yet simple blouse is made tif white linen lawn, with yoke ami cuffs embroidered and the plaits wniTK tiAw.v, K.Mimoiini'!:n yoke. held by French knots. The effect Is nn exceedingly good one. while the mate rial has the exceptional' merit of grow ing more beautiful each time It Is laun dered. The waist Is made without lin ing and can be blouscd at the back or drawn down snugly, as may be pre ferred. The closing Is made at the cen ter back, that of the waist beneath the box plait, and the yoke collar Invisible hy means of buttons and buttonholes woriceii in a ny. At the waist Is a crushed belt made of soft white silk. To make the waist for a woman of me dium si.e will be required five and a quarter yards of material twenty-one, four and a half yards twenty-seven or throe yards forty-four Inches wide. with throe-eighths of a 3ard twenty- one inches wide for belt. Little lliatft. There's a perfect rage for green, and iarasols and stockings of that vivid tile are the very latest. Handkerchiefs have been sadly over worked, but they really do make the prettiest kind of underwalsts. In I'arls Ihe fashion of repeating the dominating color of the toilet on the uppers" of the boots still obtains fa vor. Hags of all kinds, from the everyday leather to the gold meshed, jeweled va riety, are in demand for all occasions. ICxIt the IMalti Skirt. Oversklrts and pi.nnier effects are icre to slay. I he plain skirt Is a thing of the past. Perhaps one of the easiest ways of making an old skirt up to date Is by inserting a front panel of ruf- tllng or embriodory and gathering the idditional fullness thus gained Into a hip yoke if there is no hem to let down. siimuiiT Sashes. Sashes are returning to favor, and juite a number of Parisian dressmak- rs are introducing them on the sum mer gowns they are making. Hut the new sash Is anything but a simple "aiianv 1 1 is eiahorateiy nonc-l ana knotted, and the ends are frequently trimmed with chiffon lace. Soft I "dice For Parasols. A soft finish is given to the edge of a plain white silk parasol by a braid of while velvet set on. This takes an edge about an Inch wide. For n Vni n tr Ctrl. There Is a certain inherent charm about the blouse costume worn by young girls which makes It a well de served favorite, and each season sees It In slightly varied forms. This very pretty model Is adapted to all the ma terials used for frocks of the sort, but. ni.oi'si: COSTUME. as illustrated. Is made of blue linen fig ured with white and trimmed with white bauds piped with blue. The skirt ls box plaited and Joined to a body lin ing, the two closing together at the cen ter back. The blouse Is separated and Is finished with a box plait at the con tor front, beneath which the closing ls made. At the lower edge Is a hem In which elastic Is Inserted to regulate the size. lo make the costumes ror a girl of ten years will be required seven and a half yards of material twenty- seven, six and a quarter yards thirt3 two or four and a quarter yards forty four Inches wide. An Fentful Dny. "Well, well." exclaimed tho editor. "If that wasn't a queer experience!" "What was that?" said the foreman. "There was a man In here Just now who didn't seem to know any more about how a newspaper should be run than I do.'J Fond of Children. "The dog you sold me yesterday would have eaten my little girl up this morning if she had not been rescued." "Hut you insisted on having a dog that was fond of children." A SNOW EXPERIMENT. Frozen Vapor Front the Action Sulphide of l.iirlion. a Two solid boilies. one yellow, sul phur, the other black, carbon, unit under certain circumstances to form a colorless liquid called sulphide of car bon, which must be handled with much precaution on account of its great ex plosive property. The soluble property of sulphide of carbon renders it valua ble to take spots off garments. If Its odor Is more disagreeable than thai of benzine or turpentine, it has at least the advantage of being dispelled quick Iy in consequence of the prompt .ap oration of the liquid. There is nothing! equal to it to take off spots of paint or I clothes. It does not du It, however, without creating great fear in persons who use it for the lirst time, for they see on the very place where, to their great pleasure, the paint had disap peared a large white spot, the nature of which is hard for them to define, and the more they brush the more unsightly and the larger that white spot grows Ls then the garment lost? No, for fortunately after a few moments the spot melts away never to show again It was snow and nothing more. Tin sulphide of carbon in evaporating takes heat from the cloth and surrounding air. ami the result of that Is a sudden lowering of temperature sufficient tc freeze the vapor of the atmosphere. Without operating on your clothe you may make the experiment in the following way: Fill a small vial with sulphide .of carbon, taking great care tc do it far from all llame or heated stove. Then close the bottle with a cork stop per through which 3011 have previously bored a small hole. In this hole place a piece of blotting paper made up Into n small roll. The paper must reach to the bottom or the bottle and about an Inch above the cork. Within fifleer minutes you will see the outside of this paper covered with snow, the quantity of which gradually Increases. The liquid hns risen through the pores of the paper as the oil of a lamp through the wick. When It gets to the open air It evaporates, and water contained in the surrounding atmosphere, being brought to a temperature below 32 de grees, has been frozen. If you divide the paper outside of the bottle Into sev eral pieces you obtain flowers and most charming effects. You may make tho; experiment In summer and In the full; rays of the sun. The result will lie obtained then more promptly, evapora tion being more abundant. First Stoules .Hade In Pennsylvania. "The first stogie was made by handi In the wilds of Pennsylvania," said a I tobacco man of Allegheny City. "The story which they tell once in awhile in West Virginia and which must be true Is that the long cheroots derived their name from the town of Couestoga. Pa. An emigrant train of wagons was finding its way across the state, ami a supply of tobacco was found at Couestoga. "The emigrants got a lot of It, but failed to get any pipes and so could not smoke unless they made pipes themselves. Necessity Ls the mother of Invention. You may have heard that remark before. Anyhow one of the men rolled a leaf of the tobacco in his hand and wrapped it with another leaf. That was the first stogie. Oth ers followed his example, and they tillj called the article that they made n! 'stoga in honor of the town at which! the tobacco was scoured. That is said to be the true story of how the name 'stogie' originated." Louisville Courier Journal. Hrnaoii For Marrying They were talking about a friend of hers who had married a bishop sta tioned In Kamchatka or Timbuktu or some other heathen land. "I never could understand why she married him." said the young woman. "She seemed the last girl on earth to marry a bishop. She cared so much more for having a good time than she did for church work and sewing cir cles." "Girls are pretty wise nowadays." said the young man, "and they general ly have a good reason for marrying the way they do. A girl friend of mine married a doctor so she could always be well for nothing, and maybe this girl married the bishop so she could be good for nothing." New York Trib une. The Trnitor' Stone. A curious specimen of the famous Traitor's stone of Home Is still pre served In Kngland. It Is a large round piece of sandstone, much of the ap pearance of a millstone, with a few apertures which make it bear a faint resemblance to the human face. At one period li Uoman history It was the custom to have all persons suspect ed of traitorous conduct place their hands lu the mouthlike opening. If the stone bit their fingers the prisoners were deemed guilty. A lilt of a llloir. "I suppose you have encountered worse gales than this?" asked an in quisitive passenger of the sailor man during a very moderate bit of a blow. "Tills yore ain't a gale," responded the salt. "Why, I was onct In the bay o' Hlscay when the wind blew all the paint off the bulwarks. It took four on us to 'old the captain's 'at on 'is 'cad, and even then all the ankers was blown off 'Is buttons. That was a blow for 3er. Why. even" But by this time the c;.r!ous passen ger realized that he was being guyed, and he did not give the Imaginative tar the chance of finishing his interesting nurrative Ilelaxntlnn. Mrs. Saltonstall-I feel tired to death tills morning. I've been out till mid night the last four nights running. Mrs. Walslngbani So do I. I have had com pany for two weeks now. and I'm all worn out. Let's go shopplng.-Somer- J uou's ,-'ct with ins lungs, or what vllle Journal. ! l'VtT "' uses t0 1'roatho with, and have ! an uucomfortiiblo way of looking at Araericnn PnrtrirtKe. ' you at the same time as his eyes. In the north, where the ruffed 1 He has a mouth, too, but It ls on the grouse ls known as the partridge, the under side of him nnd convenient for bobwhlte la called the quail. In the south, vrhero the ruffed grouse Is known as the pheasant, the quail is called the partridge. Country Life In America. Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. Pope. NIGHT ATTACK AT SEA. of Ito.iriltnu a Hostile Ship From a Fleet of Small lioatx. Imagine a hostile ship lying at an 1 hor in an apparently secure position on a dark ami cloudy night. Titere are just enough breeze and sea to make sounds on the water indistinct. Around a low headland half a mile away from the anchored vessel steal four or five boats, pulled with muflled oars and fill ed with armed men. They approach noiselessly. Perhaps they are not discovered and thus reach the sales of the ship. The h"t instant the armed men are pour ing over her bulwarks, and a desperate fight takes place on her decks. Per haps they are discovered bufore they reach the vessel's side. The alarm fs given. The men In the boats hear It and lash their oars through the water in a determined effort to reach the ship before the rapid fire guns can open up on them. Flashes of fire illumine the night. The searchlights send out shafts of blinding white. The sharp peals of the six and three pounders, the rapid hoarse barking of Hotehkiss revolving cannon, the vicious sputter of (atliugs, break upon the frightened air. "1 live way with a will:" shout the oMie.er. of the boats as the men bend to the t::::j and tho light guns in theb:ws hurl their defiant answers back at the wall sided ship. As the boats swt t p up to the vessel's side gongs clang ami rat tles sound calling away the riileiueu t repel boarders from the Inc. Is. If the boats crews can board tin- ship an.l flap down her hatches before the crew gets on deck, theirs is the victory, but If her secondary battery is manned and her rlllemen stationed before the boats tire alongside, then goodhy to the hunt expedition, for titere is nothing more pitiless then Catlings and revolving cannon - W. J. Henderson in St. Niuh-. olas. THE HEAD ON THE FLOOR. Startling Incident .liToiiipnnyhlK tha Ileatli of a Slave Trader. In a s,,u::!:d court in Kdlnburgh many years ;.go a man who had been notorious for his cruellies as a slave trader lay dying. Mental terror made iiis end .-.ppalling to witness. Accord ing to Scotch custom, the family open ed tho door to let the spirit pass. Tc their infinite horror, the bloody head of a black man suddenly rolled into the nom. The family shrieked with fright. The man tut the bed gave a yell of ter ror. They turned to his bedside, but he expired as they watched him. When thy looked toward the door again, the head bail disappeared. There was a splash of fresh blood upon the lloor to im.rk the spot where it had boon, but nothing else to certify that the horrid siht had net been a creation of morbid imaginations. This appearance of a negro's head In the room of a man dying after he had committed innumerable barbarities up on black slaves was a strange coinci dence and nothing more. Professor wen. the famous anatomist, bad been attending an anatomical lecture where the body of a negro had been dissected. He was taking tho head home with him to examine it more carefully. Tho streets were wet and slippery. Just as he was passing the open door of the rimiso 10 WIi'imi Trio rutin Inr Jilni, l.n tripped, and the head, slipping from the cloth In which he had it. rolled Into the little room. The cry of the dying man diverted the attention of those who were in the room, so thnt Owen was able to secure his treasure and depart unnoticed. A MODERN HAMLET. "Wherein Ilntvthorne "Was Akin to the Melnncholy Dane. Certain characteristics of Hawthorne are. of course, indisputable, and It Is not fantastic to add that some of these qualities bear a curious resemblance to those of that very Prince of Denmark who seems more real to us than do most living men. Hawthorne was a gentleman; In body the mold of form, and graced with a noble mind. Like Hamlet, he loved to discourse with un lettered people, with wandering artists, with local humorists, although without ever losing his own dignity and Inviola ble reserve. He had Iron3- for the pre tentious, kindness for the slmplo heart ed, merciless wit for the fools. lie liked to speculate about men and wom en, about temptation and sin and pun ishment, but he remained, like Hamlet, clear sighted, enough to distinguish be tween the thing In Itself and the thing as it appeared to him lu his solitude and melancholy. Ills closest friends, like Horatio Bridge and WilliamD. Ticknor, were men of marked Jus tice and sanity of mind of the true Horatio type. Hawthorne was capable. If need be, of passionate and swift ac tion, for all ids gentleness and exquisite courtesy of demeanor. Toward the last he had. like Hamlet, his forebod ings "such a kind of gain giving as would perhaps trouble a woman" and he died, llko Hamlet. In silence, conscious of tin unfinished task. Bliss Perry In Atlantic. THE BARN DOOR SKATE. A I.nndluhher's Description of Thin Peculiar Fish. The barn door skate beggar's de scription. I never could tell whether he was looking at me with his eyes or his breathe holes. He ls n bottom fish and flat like a flounder. He has a triangular bod 3, the apex of which forms the snout; opposite his snout are his tail and a few extra pieces of his overcoat, which kind nature has tagged on to him In case he gets torn and has to be mended. His tail ls em bellished with a few spines tills I know for a fact He has a couple of eyes a little way back of his snout, and right back of these are a couple of holes that - 'Xt'l completely through him. These business. It ls a funny thing, with spines on the lips, and when you pull the lower Jaw the upper Jaw moves with It a sort of automatic trap, not unlike what you can see in any ten cent restaurant. This ls a landlub ber's description, but It is enough. Country Life In America.
