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A Latter Day
Sphinx
By ZOE ANDERSON NORRIS
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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
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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.