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ClîO’CE MISCELLANY HUMOR OF THE HOUR WASHINGTON LETTER new A Latter Day Sphinx By ZOE ANDERSON NORRIS CWT«*. I’M. »> to« <**»■■ s— . ■ =====.. ct= Norri« < mt* . n ■■ .gi' >«g ■ > th - i one limbs «he kept perfectly still In her room when they rang, pretending she Bud T. opered < wok*. wasn't there .” ' Kucbeuko . or Ui < ..çi frcozy, I» She abifted from one foot to th« oth a new Industri «I •■! < win > a writ er. Apparently Cornelia's history was er tu th« G • I .il Jlrli illis« tl ■ W .ch to be strung out indefinitely, ut hast eusclirlfl appear, to b.ntf ill .covered. so long as I cared to stand and listen I -J to It zy is a nervous di ease eupabln of di I cut It abort. agnosia like any other illness. It is. be side*«, highly infectious and cun lie communicated from-l>ersou to p.Tvou. It can extend from the servants of oue family to the servants of neighboring families, and It can even happen that entire districts can be infected. Tbe cause of this disease Is usually to be found In the heat to which Its victims are generally exposed, to excess of light, sometimes to long continued standing ami oilier cutises acting on to nerie centers. In Its curlier stages tile disease manifests itself by sudden out bursts of temper, happening In the midst of the most serene surrounding', without appareut cause. Hypochon Aria not Infrequently is one of the sytnp toms of kitchen frenzy. So are var «> :s forms of diseased imagination. T! e writer of the article place- the ills. « under hysteria aud pleads fur mor.' toi- erance for Its victims. I bald it In th« light und iu th« snail ow, looking at it, at the dusky face, at th« calm dark eyes. “It 1» something like the pictures of Pocahontas," decided I dually. "She looks as If she might hare a trace of Indian blood." “My great-grandmother,” said Cor uella, "was a beautiful Indian squaw.” I compared her face with the face of the brooch. The likeness was remark able -the same straight hair, the same straight nose, the same calm quiet of countenance, the repose of the Indian, subtle, watchful, alert to danger, but possessing ut the same time an impen etrable calm, the Inheritance of centu rles of watchfulness. “It won’t be long now,” reiterated Cornelia, "before I shall go to him.” “But suppose you never bear from him," I suggested, a bit brutally. “Sup pose be never writes to you or asks you to come.” Thinking this over afterward, 1 eu deavoted to convince myself that I said It with a benign purpose of fortify ing her against the luddellty of man, of placing her on her guard, but I never quite succeeded. Again she turned tbe quiet linpeue trablllty of her gaze upon me. ark you lookino roil miss hardman ?” “I think," she said, “that I could even "But what about tbe young German stand that.” But her cheeks were blotched with she was going to marry?” I asked. She shrugged her shoulders. the tears that she had shed tbe night "He went away.” she said, "and before. never came back. He never even wrote It was Impossible to refrain from ad to her. She didn't say so. No, but I miring such strength of character. watched the malls. I saw that there Of myself I went to make her a little never was a letter w-lth a foreign post visit some six weeks later. I found mark; not once. Y’ou never heard her her In rooms disfigured by uptorn car complain. She talked to me of going pets, by swathed furniture. to him, of having her dresses made tn “You are going, then?” I queried. Paris, of golug to the baths in tbe sum “As soon as I can get ready, per mer time, of bls father, his mother and haps next week, perhaps the latter part bls sisters. of this. I am selling my things bit by “To hear her talk you would think bit. 1 thought at first that I would she was to be tbe happiest woman In buy my wedding clothes here, but they the world, but the walls are thin, and are much less expensive In Paris. He I could hear her crying in the night. will meet me there. Are you cold? 1 Many and many a time I have waked will light the gas fire." And, touch and heard her crying in the night.” ing a match to the logs, she brightened She shook her head and sighed. the bare room. "You couldn’t guess It from tbe way We sat In chairs before the imitation she acted,” she finished, "but he never logs. wrote to her even once after lie went “I think 1 shall have two very hand away.” some dresses made In Paris,” she re Sir Walter Scott*« Foneral. sumed—“one black, the other white, That Is a touching story told of the both of lace. I shall have them made plainly. Alfred's father is very rich. funeral of Sir Walter Scott: The road H« goes to the baths twice a year. I by which the procession took its way shall go with them, of course. I have wound over a hill, whence can be seen one of the moat beautiful of land been studying Bchlller, Heine, all the scapes. It was his habit to pause there German poets, so as to be well versed to gaze upon the scene, and when tak In them when I get there. Ing u friend out to drive he never fail “I have been studying German, too, ed to stop there and call the attention and rubbing up my French. Alfred will of bls companion to the most beauti want his American wife to make a ful points of the view. Few could re good Impression on bls people,” she fralu from tears when, carrying their concluded, her dull eyes on the fire. master on his last Journey, tbe horses “You anticipate no unhappiness from stopped at the old familiar spot, as It the fact that be Is younger than you.” I were, for him to give a last look at the said. "Such marriages seldom make scene he bad loved bo well. for happiness.” It« Season Never Ends. "1 uever borrow unhappiness,” she "The hardest thing to get In a coun told me. This rebuke utllli tiil me momentarily. try hotel,” said the traveling man. “is I was silent, studying the tire. Then 1 decent fruit. Meat and vegetables are Io iked at her. There was no expres generally pretty good, but at the best sloii In her face oue way or another, it hotels In the small towns It is prac tically Impossible to get good melons, might have been made of stone. By and by 1 g it lip to go. She, too. peaches or grapes. "The other morning I was In the arose. Contrary to all precedent be tween us, I put my arm around her. I leading hotel of a flourishing up state town. The breakfast bill of fare read kissed her cheek. ”1 hope you will be happy,” I sigh«I as usual, 'Fruit In season.’ The sea “After all. life Is very short, ami love son of cantaloupes and other good Is the scarcest ami sweetest thing in things was at Its height, but what do you suppose they had? Prunes! Oh, It.” As I descended the weary stairs, part the perennial prune—always In season, light, part dark, and emerged Into the ami the crop is uever a failure!”—New street, I discovered in my heart just a York Press. little envy of this great happiness in Italy mid Her Criminal«. store for Cornelia. Before I reached In Italy whenever a famous criminal home 1 contrasted It, with some degree trial is on the newspapers take sides of bitterness, with my own life of violently, search for evidence ami as constant work. My room was like a suine all tile prerogatives of the court. cave for loneliness when I entered it. That they are even more sensational The roslness of her prospect left its than the American press iu this regard impression upon me. It remained to Is Indicated by the fact that Italians such an extent lml<s*d that before the reading accounts of great cases Iu the week wits over 1 climbed those stairs American papers are always struck once more to her three roomed tint. with tbe moderation of tone Biiown and 1 rcgrettisl my distrust of Iter. 1 wonder how It Is that Americans take wished by some slight persoual service so little Interest Iu what concerns the to compensate la-fore site went away. whole world. “The Americans are a I found the fiat closed. At my knock great people," say the Italians, "but the woman wlio lived In tin* adjoining cold; they don't even warm to their fiat opened Iter door and thrust out her own criminals!" head. It was a frowsted bead, not yet well The t hrnlns I’npio. combed, and It rose from a collarless Wlmt household has not at some time throat. hail a puppy, und what woman has nit “Are you looking for Miss Hard lieen bothered by its chewing every man?" she asked. thing within resell? As stsm as our "Yes,” I answered. puppies begin to want to chew any "She lilts g me home to the west,” site thing we furulsli them with a chewing said "Site went home yesterday." stick, for. the an me reason that we give "To tile west!" I exclaimed. “1 a baby a rubber ring. This stick Is aim thou gilt" ply a part or a broom handle about ten Site fractured my sentence by com Inches In length. Every time he chews -Ing luto the hall. She shut the door anything else he is punished and then and stood braced, her back against it. given the stick, and he soon learns to "That poor girl!" she lamented. ”1 chew that ami nothing else. We had uever felt so sorry for anybody in my one puppy who would even whine for life as I did for that poor girl." It if It was where he couldn’t get It. "Why?" I questioned. Mie bad paused theatrically, await A Class Room k'on. tag this question to roll the history of When Lord Kelvin was Sir William Cornelia's wretchedness on her tongue. Thomson Ills lectures were not alw.iy “She was the strangest girl 1 ever u simple enough language for the «tu saw," she began explaintug. "She nev dents to understand, and they were er told you anything. You bad to tied usually glad when bls demonstrator, out everything for yourself. named Day, took bis place. On one o "I uever saw anylstdy so still mouth salon when Sir William Thomson lef ed as that girl was. She dldu't tell me. for town one of them wrote In large but I found out that if It hadn't been letters In the class room: for her people tn tbe west site would “Work while It Is Day, for when the have starved here in New York. Once I knight cometh no man can work." In a great while she got registered let ters. They had money In them. She Brad Sea Fruit. had to sign for them. That was how I "Did you have a good time at tbe . anew they bait money in them. Sue wedding?" uever got any work from the newspa “Not very." replied Miss Passay. “I I pers nt first maybe a little, but not got quite interested In a young man afterward, i think she got so Infatuat who seemed to have Just lovely man ed with the little German she couldn't tiers, and really—tjut, oh. pshaw, write. Writers are like that sometimes, what's the use talking about It! After they tell me. It was all over I learned that be was I "She went without everything after a detective wbo bad been hired to ' the German went away. She let him watch the presents.''—Chicago Keconl ■ have some money because his father Herald. hatfli't sent him quite enough, lie said. The mirage can lie seen nearly every I beard them'Talking about It iu tbe ball. That left her almost penniless. day In the plains of lower Egypt and She never complained, but you could I also to a limited extent In tbe plain« bear be* talking to the Iceman and the of Hungary and southern Franc«. T’hvÀr UariiaÌB, Mrs. Gm.hu t.i min» in trig ut, tue gles ou the aeolian »he gaspvsl; "<>h, Fred. I bought a hand- one ma chine this uioruiug fur only $373." "Bully for you! shout'd Guubusta joyously, si c ie Mo or Mag uxiue he had lieeu l«u.slly engaged in reading when hl» wife entered. "But." she stammered, "In my anx iety to hurry home iu it and tell you of my wonderful baigulu 1 was horribly arrested several times for exceeding the speed limit, ami It cost me $.ioi) for tines and”— "Never mind that, dearest, it's cheap eveu Hi those figure».'* “Ami then 1 had to pay $2uu to mer chants for- gixsls of theirs that 1 ran Into und ruined, and”— "What of It?" interrupted Guuliustu "Eight hundred and seventy-live do! lurs Is cheap for a gyod ma”— "And -er—and 1 gate f.Vu to peopl 1 hud run down und who threateue lawsuits, and all because 1 was des i oils of hurry itig home to tell you of n wonderful burg” Black Art. But before Mrs. Gunbusta had con. A smart Mississippi negro has found pletcd the sentence her busband rushi,! a way to turn the prejudice of while Into tbe back yard and tried to run men against Ills race to .financial ac over himself with bls uutomobile. count. Tlie plan of this man, ns re New York lieraid ported by the United Btates civil -<-rv ice commission Is to take civil ser Quite Proper. examinations for clerkships In the pu Her Bosom Friend flow brave y* offices of various small cilles. Upon are, dear! The way you laughed and receiving an appointment lie gies t chatted with your husband at the tea the town, where of course ho finds an this afternoon nobody would suspect Intense opposition among tin- whites there was the slightest trouble between to bls employment. He suavely bows you. to the will of his white neighbors, pro Slie—Certainly nut. Neither of us tests that he accepted the place under considers it good form to weir our di a misunderstanding and that he would vorce suits In public.- Judge. not think of trying to remain where his presence would be so offensive to tbe Eueouriiglna the Uurber. superior race, but he lias been put Hicks—Penniman «haves himself, to considerable expense and can 111 af doesn't ho? ford to lose the money. Of course the Wicks—Yes, ami lie's got an awful whites promptly make up a purse for nerve. such n polite and considerate negro, Hicks—How's that? and he goes on to another town to re Wicks—lie'll give himself a dean peat the trick.—Buffalo Express. shave and then walk right into a bar her shop for u haircut—Philadelphia How to Pronounce Sakhalin. Ledger. The word Sakhalin, It would seem, Dumn't «tick to It. belongs to tbe Mauchu language and Marryat Whenever my wife sa«' means “black.” English gazetteers mark the stress on tbe final syllable, she wants a little money «lie sticks t > which they say should be sounded it until she gets It. Plodder—I wish my wife did. When “leen.” Tbe German pronunciation Is Bacballn, accenting the penultimate my wife says she wants a little money syllable, which the writer says is It turns out to be a great ileul before wrong. The only doubtful point, ac site’s through. Catholic Standard und cording to him, Is whether the last Times. vowel should be “1," as the Russians Cuu.tlc Comment. sound it, or whether It should be diph thongal “ie,” as In siesta. (But surely this "ie" is not diphthongal?) What, however, appears to decide the ques tion Is the statement he quotes from the "Voyage” of La Perouse, where we are told that the natives pronounc ed the name of the country exactly us tbe French pronounce “Segalieu.” — London < 'hroniele. Bread Fruit. Consul Anderson of Hangchow thinks the pomelo or Chinese bread fruit would do well in this country. The fruit Is grown In the United States by a few persons, but not com merclally. Foreigners agree In declar Ing that the pomelo Is the finest fruit In the far east. It combines the good points of the orange with the good points of the grape fruit. The Chinese »ay that a good sized tree will ordinarily produce from (JOO to 700 pomelos. When It Is considered that many pomelos will run as large as seven or eight inches in diameter and even larger it will be appreciated that such a tree Is bearing a load. The fruit Is more oval than round. Its col or and appearance are those of tbe grape fruit. To Extinguish an Electric Arc. The blowing of a fuse recently on one of the trains of the New York subway gave rise to considerable smoke and for a time alarmed the pas seugers on the train. The alarm was further increased by the electrical dis play which occurred when one of the station men attempted to extinguish the fire by throwing water over It. The car was not damaged and at no time were the passengers In danger, as they probably realize now. It Is Just as well, however. If the many employee« of the company were fully instructed In the proper methods to pursue to ex tingulsh an electric arc. A bucket of sand Is of more value than a barrel ol water.—Electrical Review. Runnln and Chinn Alike. Moscow, with It« endless, straggling streets and dingy, brown roofed house- stretched out In a redeeming cool ties- of green trees round the barbaric ceu tral pile of the Kremlin, tbe hieratic emboiUment of the spiritual and tern poral power of the Russian aristocracy. Is apt enough to remind one of Peking where the Chinese and Tartar cities converge with even greater symmetry In monotonous alignment« of gray tiled roofs upon the pink walls and yellow tiles of the Forbidden City, sanctuary and palace of the Son of Heaven. A far more striktng parallel might easily be drawn between the Russian and 1'hinese systems of government.—Lon Ion Outlook. _ Where It Really Rain«. Saturday and Sunday witnessed the first really heavy rain that the present monsoon has brought to western India beyond the Ghats. The cause was a storm which moved Into Gujurat and eentered about Abmadabad, to which It gar« twenty-seven Inches of rain in tbe two days. Ruch a downpour has brought the usual consequences of damage by flood to the railway lines and interruption to the train servh?« — Lahore (India) Tribune (8p<vl*l Correspondence ] lieu tLe next scssiuu of cougress « vet« the returning members will i.ud many iliauges tn tlie capital tu g **el their eyes. The priuelpiil alterai!,us have bc-eu made in th** ruiumla. , or the first time iu titty years tbe dome has I hs - u palmed, while tlie side walls and columns have I mh - u »eraped 'and cleaued. This course of »craping and I'leiiiiiug bus brought the stone back tu its original condition. The side walls were eou trueted of Virginia sand stone, uml the process of eleauUlg with an add preparation lias laid bare the ch........... . of the material, and in many pl. es stones of an eutlrely different nature from the sandstone hate been disclosed. The pictures throughout the rutumlu will hate rwehwl a thorough reuoi atiou! S hort stories A Talented *u»lue»e Maa. Stat« Geologl*t Kummel of New Je »«y was talking about f ireairy whl« ! can, be claims, be made very profitable In the »tai«, of white «and and scrub. "What is needed." lie said, "1» lutell geuee. a business he.Ml, tbe same sort * upltol luiyruvriurali. The skylights ou the seiiute and ou the In.use bate lieeu eularged by exten sions of ten feet ou each side. Tile ef fect lias been tu ufford more light Iu ea<li chamber, which will be particu larly noticeable from tbe galleries, for the exteuslou» completely cover them. Superintendent of the Capitol Elliott Wood concluded that the chimney», which have lung bs-c-n noticeable pro- iecting above the roof, were unsightly, and so much of them us projected above the roof have been taken away, and a forced draft Is created for the flues by electric motors. New t nrpel» Iu Hou»«- and Senata. When congress reassembles the new bronze doors at the eiitruui-e to the house wing will be in position. The doors for the main entrance and the senate wing were bung in 1838, but tlie house doors were uot authorized until Haiti. They « ost $47,U)O mid were cast at the same foundry In Chicopee, Mass., where tlie other doors were made before the civil war. Throughout the interior of the capl tol building all traces of calclmlning have been removed as far as possible, ami the Italian renaissance has been restored. The senate will have a new green earpet and the bouse of repre sentatives one of red. No readjust ment of seats has been necessary In the house. Tbe last time the hall of representatives was remodeled space was afforded for placing 400 seats, and these are not all occupied. TreHNury ( rumbling. Tlie soft walk, pillars, cornices aud other portions of the east front of the treasury building have been slowly crumbling for years, aud It Is only a question of time when that part of the historic building will fall to piece*. Various officials of the treasury de partmeut are urging Secretary Shaw to recommend to congress at the coming session an appropriation to replace all tbe sandstone used In the east front of the structure with granite, aud Secre tury Shaw has the matter uuder ad visemeut. Tbe supervising architect of the treasury has beeu consulted, ami his estimate Is that it will take $830. 000 to do the work. His opinion i» that if tbe sandstoue is not replaced before a great while some serious accident may happen, as the saudstoue crum bles away lu big pieces at times. By replacing the sandstone east front with graulte the entire outer portion of the treasury will then be of graulte und will last almost as long as time Fauio«» Indian Helles. —Puck. Nell—She claims that she makes It a point to be blind to the faults of oth ers. Belle—Well, «he may tie blind, but •lie's not deaf. f>be likes to listen tn tales of them.—Exchange An Eaay Method. Economy. Jenks I’ve Just given a hundred for this diamond ring for the missis. Jonks—It's a beauty! lint isn't It rather -er -extravagant? Jenks Not a bit. Think what It will save In gloves.—London Tatler. A Quick Chole«. III* Pay Wa* Halaed. Tbe late bishop of Ix>ndon was once ordered by his physicfan to spend tbe winter tn Algiers. Tbe bishop said It Wii« Impossible; he had so many «n gagements. "Well, my lord blabop." g :<1 the specialist, "It either mesne Al giers or heaven." “Ob. In that case." «aid tbe bishop, “I’ll go to Algiers.” Genius that may grow to great things must huve been born In the of flee boy of whom the St. Ix>uis Fost- Dispatch tells this story: The "boss" was bending over n table looking nt the directory. The new office boy slip ped up quietly and put a note in bls band. The boss read: "Honored Sir Your pants 1« ripped.” “Foor fellow! Ill« doctor tells biui the only thing that will cure him is a Nonsense Renoonlng. course of mud baths, and be can't af “He's a conventional sort of fellow.” Not llay» Eao«sh. ford to go to the mud springs." "Naturally.” "Believe me, dearest, I love you bet "But surely he can go Into politics "Why so?" ter every day.” , and let the mud come to hint.”—Fhlla- “He attends all the conventions. "Oh. Jack, why aren't there more del|>bln Ledger Cleveland Plain Dealer daysr- Life. Most animals have an utter abhor **uce of tub « ■ n any «fia|ie or form, say» the proprietor of u menagerie 1 huve myself made even a really fero- eloii' dog turn tail »imply by puffing smoke in it* face, bill I do uot re< oui uiend tbe mean» a» one to lie alwuyt relied ou. But to this rule, as to all others there are exceptions, and numerous iu stance» are known of animal» poHaesa Ing a positive love for the fragrant weed. Dogs, It la well known, can la taught to do almost everything but talk, and lu my early days 1 was eon nected with a circus which possessed the unl«|Ue attraction of a terrier which among other tri« ks had lieeu Instructed in the art of «moklug a clay pipe, 'lite curious |Hilnl was that the animal ac tually got to enjoy Its pl|>e anil wouid Insist on having It ut the usual time every Bunday, us In ttie perf.numn«v ou week days. The parrot Is perhaps of all birds the most apt to take up bad Im bits. A friend of mine has oue which is pas sionately fuml of eating ami chewing tobueiat. If given a sllfiie e.it qlUIUtity the bird will make itself |HMitlvcly drunk with the nicotine and will stag ger about Its cage lu exact Iml ,itio«i ot the uetluns of au intoxicated human being. Long practice 1ms miole tin bird something of a connoisseur re specting Its favorite luxury, and It now treats fine ent tobuecoa with contempt. Its particular delight is the plug af feeted by sailors. It is among tlie aluilan tribes that to bacco loving quadrupeds are most fre quent. This is probably owing Io the tuoukey's overpowering faculty for Im Ration, which somptimea gets It Into trouble. I remember an amusing in stance. A man after puffing at a elg.i rette for a time threw It down near a monkey which had been watching tbe proceedings intently. The nniinul snatched it up und puffisl gravely for a few minutes. Then a look of intense bewilderment stole over Its face, and, throwing the cigarette down. It retired Into a corner, evidently very III. A gentleman in tbe north of England has a monkey which Is addicted to snuff. Tlie animal has been taught to take a pinch from the box of a visitor with al) the courtly air so prevalent lu the days when snuff taking was tlie fashion.—Loudon Tit Bits. MAlUMSN-r THK£W UP BIS HANDS, of ability which, though often inisap plied, »till makes John Maidment's store tbe most popular and successful one In a fifty mile radius. "John Maldnient sells every thing. I.et me give you an example of bls taleut. “A woman, warm anil furious, got out of u wagon the other day and en tered Maldmeut's big, cool store. " 'Look here,’ she said, 'that rocking chair you sold me yesterday was no good.’ " 'How so, madam?' Maidmeut asked “ 'Why,' said the woman, 'the rockers are not eveu. As you rock the good for nothing chair keeps sliding sideways all over the room.’ “Maidmeut threw up his bands. " 'By jingo,' be said, 'I made a mis take and sent you one of our new pat ent rockers, warranted not to wear out the carpet all In one place. That style costs $2 more than' - "But the woman had turned and was already nearly out of the store. DESPERATE FIGHTING. " 'Mistake or no mistake,’ she said, T won't pay the extra $2, and I won't re •Tlie Men Thr«w Theiuaelve* on (hr H«>ouv<* of the Enemy.” turn tile chair, so there!’ "—New York It is a phrase merely to those of us Tribune. who do uot know war ut first hand, "Then the men threw themselves ou A Crltlclam. During the recent American tour of tlie bayonets of the enemy." It sounds Emile Mors, the automobile expert of iesperate and dramatic, but tills ac «unt in Blackwood's Magazine by a France, there was a parade In New « r«al sublieutenant at Port Arthur York. M. Mors at the time of the parade’s t .nvs wlmt it really means: l «>r thirty long minutes a band to passage was on Fifth «venue. Seeing Meu the great throngs of people and hear I. iml struggle had continued. lug the loud, gay music, he decided threw grenades in each other's faces. that be would like to have a look at the Half deineiited samurai filing them procession, and accordingly he plunged selves upon the bayonet» of tbe dozen Into the deep crowd and tried to work Muscovites that held (lie traverse lu the trench. Who shall say that the day his way to a place of vantage. Tbe nearer the front he got tbe more of the bayonet is past? Although there evidence he found of the police. Tbe was not a breech that liad not Its car police, Indeed, were in great evidence, tridge in tbe chamber, yet men roused pushing here, shoving there, now ut to tlie limit of their animal fury over terlug loud threats, now making, amid look tbe mechanical appliances that make war easy. They thirsted to come intense excitement, an arrest. "Keep back! Keep back! Keep io grips, and to grips they came. But It hail to end. Tbe old colonel back I” was the continuous cry. M. Mors could hardly see the parade had fought Ills way through Ills own for the police, and on account of the men to the very point of the struggle. excitement that they caused be could He stood on the parapet, and his rich not keep his mind on It at all. Turning voice for a second curbed the fury of somewhat Impatiently to a man on his the wild creatures struggling beside left, he said: him. "Throw yourselves ou their bayonets, "IVhy, sure, is tlie crowd being kept back so valry forcibly?" honorable comrades!” he shouted. "So as to give tbe police full chanee "Those who come behind will do the to see tbe procession,'' the mau an rest!" swered.—New Orleans States His men heard him; Ills officers beard him. Eight stalwarts dropped their ■▼•rybodr Work« bat Father. rilles, held their hands above their Samuel Gompers, president of the heads and flung themselves against ths American Federation of Labor, got a traverse. Before the Russian defend great sendoff when be left Flttsburg ers could extricate tbe bayonets from from the Union station a few night« their bodies the whole pack of the war ago. A big crowd of labor leaders and dogs bail surged over them. The trench union men wa» there to bld him good wus won. by. As a parting ode they sang for him "Everybody Works at Our House." AIDING THE MEMORY. It runs something like this: Miss Fannie A. Weeks, an employee of the treasury department lu Wash lugton, who died of scalds received from falling Into the bolllug Grand Geyser pool at Yellowstone park, own ed oue of the finest collections of In dian relies at tbe capital. The collec tion will probably go to the Smith sonian Institution. Included in the collection is the pipe of peace, "stirrer” and tobacco pouch used by Red Cloud, the famous Sioux chieftain, who, with Sitting Bull and Spotted Tail, visited Washington dur ing the spring of 1875 aud interviewed General Grant concerning a favorite "M I'Sgrown told me a uew story hunting ground upon which tlie United States government had fixed a covet hist nigh:." ous eye. Tbe pouch is of bucksklu, "Is it possible?" "Well, It was the first time 1 ever finished at the bottom with a deep beard him tell it, and 1 hud heard It fringe of the same, ornamented with brilliantly dyed porcupine quills, tbe only sixteen times before." upper portion being richly beaded. Tbe ■stirrer” is merely a long rounded Explained. “My goodness,” exclaimed the featli stick, pointed at tbe eml aud used for er duster, "your stick is covered with stirring the tobacco in tbe pipe, aud Everybody works but father. coal dust and ashes! What have y it: tbe pipe, which is of red clay, with a And he »Its round all day, fiat stem upward of two feet long been doing?" Puts bls feet In the flreplace "I’ve been playing poker," explain«-, md wrapped In scarlet porcupine And smoke» hl« pipe of clay. quills, was smoked lu council by Red the broom.—Chicago News. Mother takes in washing. Cloud for many years. Another relic So does Sister Ann. Is a rawhide quirt (whip) used by Au Nothing New. Everybody works at our house But my old man. “Some one will dramatize tbe cook trio, the Uintah war chief, a blow from which would raise a welt on a Now, Isn't that a great sen«! off to book next." give to ths leader of America's great “Eat at my bouse some day, and 11 horse as large as a man's finger. set labor organisation? Just at first An Indlnn nandr'a I.e«aln«». show you several tragedies that ha> been adapted from that classic.”- There are also gayly embroidered Mr. Gompers did not know bow to take Judge. money bags from Snake John and It Then tbe humor of the thing strui k Bull of the Woods. The latter was him, and ba laughed heartily. He will A Quick Return. captain of the Indian police at the never forget the parting ode sung for “Bobble, you should always endeavor Uintah agency, and both served as him at Pittsburg. to return good for evil." scouts under General Crook. Th« Dr. Thayer'* Dilemma. "Then what did you slap me for. most gorgeous of the war relics, how Tbe foiiowiug story, it is safe to af AVilit Jane, When i stepped oil jour ever. Is Ti pair of elkskin leggings corn?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. which belonged to Taddy Cap. chief of firm, has never been seen In print: The the Flutes In tlie Duck valley reserva late Dr. Henry Thayer, the founder of Real Thing- tion, Nevada, tbe most distinguished Thayer's laboratory In Cambridge, wax Doctor—Tlie Indications are that you leader of his trib«. These leggings, on bls way to bls office one winter have throat trouble. which he parted with for a consldera morning In tlie early sixties when the Patient—You bet I bave. Three of tion, denuding himself for tbe purpose sidewalks were a glare of Ice. While niy daughters are taking singing les In the presence of the purchaser, cau going down Main street he met a lady coming In the opposite direction. The sons.—Detroit Tribune. not be surpassed In Indian work. They are literally covered with bril lady wa» a stranger to him, although A Sense ot Security, liant particolored cut beads In the he was not unknown to her. "So you feel that your automobile most elaborate designs and glitter and In trying to avoid each other on tlie Is perfectly safe?” scintillate as one turns them about tn Icy pavement they both slipped ami “Most of the time—when It Is in the tlie hand. came to the sidewalk facing each other, repair shop.”—Washington Star. These, with numberless basket», with their pe«lal extremities consider wampum and bead necklaces and other ably entangled. While tlie polite d«>c- Mother Goose Modernised. | objects, form a part of the collection tor was debat IngSn bls mind what was There was a man. and he had naught gathered by MI bs Weeks from tlie the proper thing to say or do uuder Ro creditor» quick «ought him; northerly tribes among whom she the trying circumstances, the problem They hang around hl* house all day; Their bill collectors brought him. worked. To these she added a splendid was solve«l by th« quick wftted lady, assortment of rugs and blankets, for who quietly remarked: But he got out the house disguised. “Doctor, If you will be good enough which the Navajo Indians of New Mex And ere the bunch could find him A bankrupt he had been declared ico and other southerly points ar« oel» to rise aud pick out your leg«, I will And left hl« debts behind him take what remain«.”—Boston Herald brated CARL SCHOFIELD Ono Sense Korn. ANIMALS AND TOBACCO. A Do« That smoke« aaA a Parrot That < he«v<-«l the W eetft. Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason Is left free to'combat It.— Jefferson Mnemonic Sy*tcm* lluir Been In I *e From Time Immemorial. • The uit of remlerlug artitic.al ai«l to the memory by associating lu tbe mind things difficult to remsmber with those which ar«’ easy ol’ recolleetion is sal«l to have originated with the Egyptians. The first person to reduce It toa system was, according to Cicero, the poet Si monides, who lived 5<X> B. C. Ills plan is known as the topical or locality plan and was in substance as follow*: Choose a large house with a number of differently furnished apartments In It. Impress upon the mind carefully all that is noticeable In the h »use so that the mind can readily go over the parts. T!'<*:i place n series of Ideas tn the house the first In the hall, the next In the sitting room, und so on with tbe rest. Now, when one wishes to recall these ideas In their proper succession, commence going through the house, and the idea placed lu each department will be fouud to readily recur to tbe min«l In connection with It. It Is reluted that this mnemonic plan was first suggi’Sted to the poet by a tragic occurrence. Having been called from a banquet Just before tlie roof of the house fell aud crushed till the rest of the company, he found on returning that the laxlies were so mutilated that no luillv lilunl c«>uhl Is* rec «gmzed. but by rememliering the places which they bail severally occupied at the table he was able to Identify them. He was thus led to nothe that the order of places may by as-oclatlon suggest th«« order of things A < an*e ot Drowning. In swimming under a blazing sun th«' body is submerged at a low temi>era- ture while tlie full force of the sun beats on tlie unprotected head. To add to tlie obvious dangers of such a state of things tlie 1>I< km 1 is forced into the head by the pumping action of the limbs In swimming, thus causing the arteries In other parts of tbe body to I>e overfill*!. The consequence la often a violent headache, which may la* fol lowed by iuaensibillty. The swimmer sinks and unless help Is at hand adds another to the long list of the mysteri ously drowned.
