i
He was strong and trim and a good-sized
cur, (
A giant of dogs; with soft, silk fur.
Poised head of an intellectual size
And two straight, luminous hero-eyes.
A tail whose gestures were eloquence;
A bark with a genu of common sense.
And this dog looked, upon the whole,.
As if he had gathered some crumbs of
soul
That fell from the feast God spread for
man,
Looked like a line of the human plan.
There went with his strong, well-balanced
stride .
A dignity oft to man denied.
(.rod's humblest brutes, where'er we turn,
Are fall of lessons for man to learn.
Thai: night that ha crouched by the yield
ing door,
And two grim, murderous thieves, or
more.
Had bribed the locks with their hooks
of steel,
He fought with more than a henchman's
zeal
For sleeping loved ones' treasures and
life.
He conquered rogue, and bullet, and
knife.
He saw distress with a quick, sure eye.
And heard the half-choked drowning cry;
A Hying life-boat, .soon he bore
A half-drowned man to the welcome
fhore.
And when the wife of the rescued one
Wept him her lore for that great deed
done,
And fondled him in a warm embrace.
He talked with his fondest, kind old face.
And said, "I have shown you nothing
new;
It is what we lire for and lore to do.
In lake or river, or sea or bay,
My race are rescuers every day;
In the snowy gulfs 'mid hills above
My race brings life to the race we love."
The soul of the humble brute has fled;
The grand old dog lies still and dead.
Oh, man-like brain and god-like heart!
You were made to carry a noble part.
Yon did. old dog, the best you knew.
And that is better than most men do;
And if ever I get to the great just place,
I shall look for your honest, kind old
- face.
Will Carleton.
I HE II 1111 GIRLS I
ti ti t i if i iti it. ifti iti ....... ......
' T V T TTT T r WTtTTT f TV'l'f V
rrjO HERB'S a girl over there that I
,Jj keep meeting constantly, and.yet
she never deigns to give me more
than , a nod or perhaps a commonplace
or two."
Ned Black's manner as he turned
toward his companion was distinctly
aggrieved. Then as his graze fell upon
a stranger Instead of his familiar
friend, he exclaimed: "Oh, I say, , I
thought yon were Graham, you know."
It wag at an afternoon reception,
and the two men lounged at either side
of a wide doorway.
The man addressed, without shifting
his gaze from the jostling crowd before
them, answered easily: "Graham's
been gone t about five minutes. What
girl do you mean? The pretty one in
white talking to old Miss Fltznob?
Why, she's not particularly difficult
at least she hasn't that reputation.' like
this Miss Maynwaring. Perhaps you
don't take the right tactics. Popular
girls like that have to be managed.
You ought to make her understand
that 'there are others.' I suppose you
..seek her out and say all the usual
pretty things that she takes as a mat
ter of couse. So do all the other. fel
lows, and so she doesn't distinguish
you from the crowd. Now, my advice
but perhaps I'm boring yen, and, af
ter all, I suppose It isn't worth while."
"Not at all." broke in Ned. "I am
very much Interested; I really admire
that girl. Go ahead and tell me your
scheme."
"Well, then, you ought to do exactly
the opposite thing, apparently come
across her by chance; then pause a
few minutes as a matter of duty. Don't
seem particularly Interested at first,
but gradually lead the conversation
round to some other girl, and then wax
eloquent. See, now is your chance,
she's all alone for a moment. Go
ahead, old man. and try my plan; it
will at least succeed In fixing her at
tention." "Oh, I say," muttered Ned, a little
dazed by this rapid arrangement "I
wish I could, you know. I see the idea
Is good, but I'm afraid I can't follow it
out. though " -
"Nonsense, all you want is confi
dence. Faint heart, remember. Go
ahead. Good luck to you," and with a
scarcely perceptible shove the older
man started his companion on his way,
shrugged his shoulders and murmured:
"Well, I've got him off my hands.
Thinks he's hurt, but he's only piqued.
Wonder where Miss Maynwaring is.
When a girl Is really difficult there's
some zest to the chase."
Meantive Ned jostled through the
crowd and passed by the girl in white
with a well-simulated start of surprise.
"Oh, good afternoon, Miss Edger
ton," he exclaimed in a slightly forced
manner. "Rather a "crush here, Isn't
there?"
"How do you do, Mr. er Black. Yes,
Indeed, and it's insufferably warm,"
she responded Indifferently.
"Can't I get you an ice, or some
thing," this rather perfunctorily. ,
"Thank yon, no, I've tried that twice
already. If there were only some cool
place where one might go. Auntie isn't
coming for me for another half hour."
"Oh, I have it," said Ned affably. "I
know a place. Miss Blake and I dis
covered it the night. Mrs. Noyes gave
that little dance, last fall. You were
here, of course,"- he asked, as if he
couldn't quite trust his memory.
"Yes; that is, I think so. Small
dances are so much alike it is hard to
distinguish them near the end of the
season." " ' " ' '' ' 7 '' .
" "Here we are." Then as the girl
drew a deep breath of relief, he hur
ried on, "I really shouldn't claim the
credit, you know; It's all due to Miss
Blake. Mighty nice girl, Miss Blake."
- "Yes, isn't Bhe dear! All Southern
ers have such pretty manners."
"Haven't they?" he assented hearti
ly. "I knew another charming girl of
that same name. ; Any relation? I
never heard, but It's possible. A great
many of those nice Southern families
are connected. This other Miss Blake
was the sister of my college chum, and
after graduation I spent a couple of
MAN'S BEST FRIEND.
INDIAN CHIEF AN
If m&rj& v4n-rrrfeH i
r , in Jjrh .
Cornelius Hill, chief of the Oneida Indians, was consecrated a priest of
the Protestant Episcopal church by Bishop Grafton at Fond du Lac, Wis.,
recently, with a ceremony In which the Protestant Episcopal ritual and the
Indian form of worship were mingled. - '
months with him in Atlanta. I saw
a good deal of her, and of course fell
In love with her. Fact is, I proposed
but she wouldn't have me." .
Miss Edgerton almost -gasped.. Was
it possible that she, the acknowledged
belle of two Beasons, was hearing the
charms of some other beauty dis
cussed? : All the coquetry that she had
found it needless to use was aroused,
and she looked at her companion with
an air of awakened interest.
"Dear me! ; She didn't show very
good judgment, did she?"
The question was accompanied by a
little upward lift of her-eyelids, and
Black hastened to reply with an air of
strict impartiality: .
"Oh, you're a little hard on her, I
think. You see, I wasn't such a fin
ished product then." 1 There was the
slightest emphasis on the then, and his
challenging smile, directed straight at
her eyes, aroused an answering gleam
In their blue depths?"
"It would be only fair to give her
another chance, I should 'think," she
questioned solicitously. "It's rather
difficult to judge of things in the er
raw!"--:. -
The blue eyes, without a shade of
ulterior meaning, gazed innocently into
his for a minute, and then Ned burst
Into a laugh at his own expense.
Recovering himself, he replied im
pressively: "She forfeited that chance
forever by marrying an Englishman
within a year." He paused reflective
ly, then added as if in concession to
her views, "Perhaps her taste was not
quite all I supposed It to be." -
"Why, there's Auntie! Have I been
here a half an hour? You've been very
entertaining. Mr. Black. : I haven't
been bored a minute."
"Are you often bored?"
"Oh, sometimes."
"Perhaps I might succeed In amus
ing you again," this tentatively.
"Possibly!" Then more encouraging
ly as they neared her aunt, "You
might try, I shall be at . home next
Thursday. Oh, here you are. auntie,
dear. Thank you, Mr. Black, good
by". - - ' -
As Ned hurried down the stairs on
his way out, he overtook his chance ac
quaintance. "You know a few things
about girls,- don't you ?" he smiled.
"Well," the other drawled, "I know
a few things about that glrL Then,, in
an explanatory tone, as Black's man
ner Indefinably stlffeAed, "you see.' she
is my only sister." American Cultivator.
CHANGE OF HEART AT KIEL.
-Cincinnati Post.
EPISCOPAL PRIEST.
PNEUMETIC LIFE PRESERVER.
The steamship companies which did
not provide life preservers in number
equaling or ' exceeding its passenger
carrying capacity would be summarily
dealt with by the government, and yet
every one knows that when the time
arrives for their, use the passengers
and crew may be too much excited to
profit by the provision thus made for
their safety. The passenger crossing
the ocean would certainly feel no
small degee of added security were he
provided with the apparatus shown in
the illustration. No one would think
of wearing one of the bulky life pre
CONSTANT WEAR OCCASIONS NO DISCOM
" FORT.
servers usually provided on shipboard
all the time, but here is an apparatus
which will answer the- same purpose,
and yet without discomfort when con
stantly worn. The spiral form which
the tube Is given enable the wearer to
suspend it around his body by means
of the supporting jacket, beneath the
outer clothing, and it takes but a short
time to inflate the reservoir through
the mouthpiece, which is provided with
a valve to check the outward flow of
the air. The spiral colls lie flat when
deflated, and are scarcely perceptible
to the wearer, who, even if the device
rendered him slightly uncomfortable,
would have the feeling of safety to
counterbalance the annoyance.
Wiley P. Tibbets, of Toledo, Ohio, is
the inventor.
The average man will stretch the
amount he ' paid for his Panama to
every one he talks to, but his wife.
PnitfAtyrr nr
iirivirtiwi- vri ..
CABIN JOHN BRIDGE
WORLD'S LARGEST SINGLE SPAN STONE ARCH.
Early ih the eighteenth century a
pilgrim appeared in what Is now
known as Montgomery County. Mary
land. He built for himself a hut on
the margin of a creek whieh empties
Into the Potomac river, seven miles
abbve Georgetown. . The Revolution
came and went; the ' tall, lithe . figure
of the hermit became bowed with
years, and his shaggy dark locks turn
ed gray. During these years he had
been a hunter and fisher, his only
clothing the skins of beasts,' and two
bunting dogs his only companions. He
sought no intercourse with the few
human beings who, straying from the
much-traveled "river road," occasion
ally drifted into his lonely glon; but,
to the kindly disposed and the curious,
his manners were ever those of a
gentleman. He had a strong, beauti
ful voice, in which he sang sweet but
Bad verses of Ms own composition, ac
companying himself on a banjo, or
mandolin, constructed . of rude mate
rials by his own hands. Toward the
close of the last century he disappeared-
,- "v:..
The hermit had been known on the
Potomac as "John of the Cabin," and
the little stream by which stood bis
tiny home ' is still called "Cabin John
Creek." The ravine through which It
flows Is now spanned by a bridge
which for over forty years has figured
in our national history, and bears the
added distinction of . being the longest
single arch stone bridge in the world.
Work of Jeffereoa Davia.
Early in Pierce's administration Jef
ferson Davis, then Secretary of War,
directed Capt Montgomery C. Meigs,
United States Corps of Engineers, to
span the ravine and the creek with a
conduit bridge, to convey to the rapid
ly growing city of Washington its wat
er supply, from the reservoir at Great
Falls, sixteen miles above the city.
In November, 1852, Capt. Meigs had
begun the work of designing and con
structing thai Pjotomac aqueduct. This,
together with 'the duties of superin
tending the building of the new wings
of the general postoffice, and the com
pletion of Fort Madison, at Annapolis,
occupied his time so fully that work
on the bridge "was not begun until
1857. It ws well under way when,
in July. 1860, he was detailed to duty
at Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, Florida.
The dimensions of Cabin John bridge
are as follows:
' Feet.
Length of bridge, including abut
ments 450
Height above bottom of ravine , 105
Length of span..... 220
GEN. FRANK WM EATON.
A Distinguished Soldier, with a Bplen
. did Army Record.
Major General Frank Wheaton, U.
S. A., who died in Washington a few
days ago. served In the army for forty-
two , , years. de
ceased was born In
Providence, R, I.,
In 1833 and was In
his 71st year.. He
became civil en-
gineer, took part in
the Mexican boun
dary surveys and,
in 1855, was made
lieutenant in the
Third U. S. Caval
ry. The General's
a
flEN. 9. WHEATON.
fighting record wns one greatly to his
credit. He took to the field against the
Cheyenne Indians In 1857 and his
opening fight was near Fort Kearny,
Neb., wliere he acquitted himself most
gallantly. He took part In the Utah
expedition nd, on the breaking out of
the rebellion, proceeded to bis native
State and was made lieutenant colonel
of the Second Rhode ' Island Volun
teers; a month-later .he was made
colonel, and had his , troops in Vir
ginia early In. May, so that they took
part in the opening engagement of the
war at Bull Run. Thereafter the com
mand was with the Army of the Poto
mac in all its desperate engagements.
In 1862 the commander was made
brigadier general and directed a divi
sion of the Sixth Corps at Gettysburg
and in the campaign In the Schenan
doah Valley in 1864, and was actively
engaged In the maneuvers preceding
the surrender of Lee in 1865 at' Appo
mattox. For gallantry at, the battles
of Opeguan, Fisher's Hill and Middl
town, Va., he -was made major general
and further honors came to him for
bravery in the battles of the Wilder
ness,' Cedar Vreek and Petersburg.: For
hie chivalric conduct In these engage
ments the State of Rhode Island pre
sented bfm with a sword In 1866.
JOKE HARRISON ENJOYED.
But Justice Field, on Whom It Was
Told, Failed to Bee the Fun in It. ,
For all his ice and chilly quietudes
President Harrison owned a ; sense ,of
humor, and would now and then get
hold -of a Joke and treasure it as a
schoolboy might an apple, having it
frequently out of his pocket to ex
hibit and admire. ' One such, says a
writer in the Saturday Evening Post,
is a story he was ever quick to tell
on the "' austere Justice Field, who
didn't like it.
Complaining letters of all sorts come
to a President. . One day a Western
' -'
. Most ; Unique Structure
in
Is
7 Engineering History,
Linked With the Annals of
' the Country .. .. .. ..
Rise of span.. 57.26
Width of span..' .... 20.4
There are 11,914 cubic yards of ma
sonry In the bridge, and Its entire coat
was 254,000.
Boot Historic Erunret.
Captain, later General, Meigs was
very proud of this engineering feat,
and always jealously regarded the
work as being entirely his own. The
erasures on one of the tablets of the
bridge bear witness to his wrath when,
on returning from Tortugas, he dis
covered that Oapt. Henry W. Benham
and Lieut. J. St. C. Morton, who had
charge of the work during his absence,"
had caused their names to be Inscribed
on the bridge as chief engineers of con
struction. In addition to removing
these names Capt. Meigs was success
ful in having Capt. Benham ordered to
duty at Tortugas.
It had been Capt. Meigs intention,
however. to have inscribed beneath his
own the name of Mr. Rives, and the
letters had already been traced In red
chalk or paint when he received the
news of Mr. Rives' resignation and en
listment in the Confederate army. "No
rebel's name shall appear on my
bridge," said Capt. Meigs. The stone
cutters orders were countermanded,
the red letters disappeared, and in
their place were cut the words, "Esto
Perpetua," which Capt. Meigs Intend
ed should express the hope that the
bridge would outlast the . memory of
the youth who had deserted it.
Mr. Rives, now nearly 70 years of
age, resides at "Castle Hill," his fine
old estate, near Charlottesville, Va. He
was superintendent of construction of
the Panama Railroad and is still prom
inently connected with the Richmond
and Danville Railroad. He has three
beautiful daughters, one of whom Is
known in literary circles as Amelie
Rives and in society as the Princess
Troubetzkol. ; ,
Another and still more widely known
erasure was attributed, until J recent
years, to Gen. Meigs. This was the
obliteration. In June, 1862, of the name
of Jefferson Davis from , the largest
tablet of the bridge. The tablet was
originally inscribed as follows:
'
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT,
Begun A. D. 1863.
. Franklin Pierce, President of the
United States. - .: ,
' Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.-
Building A. D. 1861.
President of the United States, Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Secretary of War, Simon Cameron.
marshal grew querulous . "because an
item in his accounts, by which the
government was charged with a car
riage furnished - Field from his ' hotel
to the court, had been disallowed. The
marshal's grief was made the sharper
since 'his fellow-marshal of an adjoin
ing State had likewise furnished a
carriage for Field when he leld court
within his district, and ' the charge
had been allowed and paid.
Commonly little attention is given
to these cries of the wronged . beyond
what is required to shunt them upon
a "proper" official-r-usually the one
against whom ' complaint Is ' lodged.
But; in this Instance Harrison asked
his secretary, to discover the truth of
the trouble. Why was one charge al
lowed and the other refused?
The secretary took a look into the
riddle, and learned that the fortunate
one had been sagacious enough to In
clude the carriage for Field in his item
of expense "For care and transporta
tion of prisoners." In that way it
was allowed.; It used to give Harri
son much pleasure to. relate this yarn;
Field, however, saw nothing '.tunny In
it. ,iVr '-, , - .; . .v. ,;
How Lightning Kills, i
i The case of death by lightning Is
the sudden absorption of the electric
current. When a thunder-cloud which
Is highly charged with positive elec
tricity hangs over a certain place the
earth beneath it becomes charged with
the negative electric current, and s a
man, animal or other object standing
or lying directly beneath comes also
under this influence. If . while the
man, animal or other object la in this
condition a discharge taken place from
,the cloud above, the restoration of the
uillbrium will be sudden and violent,
or, in other words, the i negative cur
rent from the earth will rush up to join
the positive cloud current, and in pass
ing through the object which separates
the two currents, if It be an animate
thing, will do so with such force as to
produce almost Invariably Instant
death. According to this, a person Is
really "struck" by the ground current,
and not by the forked fury from above
at all. , 'v ; ';
A Densely Populated Island.
Malta is the most thickly; populated
island In the world. It has 1,300 peo
ple to the square mile. . Barbadoes has
1,054 people to the square mile. '
' The women are getting even: Wives
of men who have bought Panama hats
are complaining about their husbands'
big millinery bills, - ;
When a girl Is a sure enough Tom
boy, her mother has to follow her
around with needle and thread. ' ;
The University of Zurich is about to
establish a chair of journalism.
A flock of ostriches at Phoenix,
Arts.,- now numbers : more ' than ' 1.000
birds.
The United States has 78,000 post
oofflces. Germany Is next with 45,
623, and Great Britain third with 22,
400. " ' .
. Golden eagles are increasing In the
Scottish highlands, ' owing to the ef
forts made by large landowners for
their preservation. ;
Flower growers In the South of
France and other favored climes find
it profitable to send the products of
their skill to British markets.
The navy, which gives England the
supremacy of the seas, costs $155,
000,000 a year, or a little more than
the United States pays in pensions.
Berlin has now a "bachelors' club"
divided into small flats, with smok
ing and dining-rooms in common,
where single men can live at moderate
rates. '. ' ' .
The number of theological students
In Germany has diminished gradually
from 4,267 In 1830, to 2.149, or less
than half , although the population has
doubled since 1830. ,
Oregon spends for the education. Of
children $12 a year per capita; Col
orado, $11; Illinois, $11; California,
$10; while Kentucky expends only
$3.32; South Carolina, $1.39; .Missis
sippi, $2.06. , ;
The Patron Your picture isn't bad,
but the drawing's a bit off, isn't it?
The Artist Ho w's that ? The Patron
Why, the clock says ten past ten,
and the right time now is a quarter
to four. Plck-Me-Up.
The United States is almost a goat
less country compared with others,
and the importations of goatskins,
young and old, aggregate $3,500,000 a
year which represents the slaughter
.of 17,000,000 goats and kids.
Until lately children under fourteen
used to pay half fare on the Vienna
tramways, but the rule has been alter
ed so that any child above three feet
and one and one-half inches in height
will in future .have to . pay the . full
fare. .- "
King Leopold of Belgium never
wears gloves. He is very proud of
his hands, which are perfect in shape
and , appearance, and on which he
spends a great deal of time. His
beard also comes in for a large share
of attention. - , . ,
That low lying territory of the Mis
sissippi should at times be overflow
ed is not surprising If one considers
that the "Fathers of Waters" draws
supplies from twenty-eight States,
draining one-third of the area of the
United States. '
The Brooklyn bridge has lost place
as one of the wonders of the world
1 4.1 11 J! a a. . -rmili .
t Buice iue uuiiumg 01 we vv miaiusuurg
; steel bridge, a mile farther up the
; East river, and the bridge now build
ing to Blackwell's island will be more
wonderful than either.
Captivity changes ' animal's nature.
A lion captured when it is full grown
will always be. treacherous, but Hons,
tigers, leopards or other carnivorous
animals that have been born In r cap
tivity can be tamed till they are as
gentle and affectionate and ; safe ae
poodle dogs. .':...
There are in New York City to-day
1,320 millionaires, as against 294
twenty years ago and twenty -five In
1S53. There were no millionaires in
the city 100 years ago. The first per
son to reach that distinction was John
Jacob Astor, : who became a million
aire about the year 1820. " ' -
Breaking away from a wagon 1 at
Rheims, France, a horse dashed into
a passing motor car, and leaped into
the back seats. The , chauffeur was
struck by Its forelegs and thrown
into the road. Passers-by were treat
ed to the novel spectacle of a horse
driving alone in an automobile.
. The Berlin newspapers tell of a
wonderful baby giant which was re
cently brought, by his parents before
the, medical faculty of that city for
examination. He is the son of a
baker at Drievers, and, although only
eighteen months old, stands three and
a half feet high. He measures thirty-
six Inches round the chest.
The difficulty In ; damaging a war
balloon in midair was recently shown
by tests made in AuBtria. The experi
menters" anchored a balloon at a
height of 7,000 feet and had 'gunners,
who had not been given the distance,
to try - to disable it. ' i It required
twenty-two shots to find the range,
even approximately, and not until the
sixty-fourth round was the balloon hit.
- That each ring on a rattlesnake's
rattle represents a year of the snake's
life is a popular but an erroneous be
lief, v As a matter of fact, a new
ring, develops every two or . three
months, and the snake, by the time it
died, would have sixty or seventy
rings at least, were it not for the
fact that when the rattle becomes
unduly long,, accident breaks it off,
either wholly or in part, v ; ,
i A Dresden (Germany), physician,
having addressed a list of thlry-six
questions , to V seventy-three persons
who were more than ninety years old,
learned, ;'among other things, that K. all
of them are below the average height;
most of them have light hair and have
retained plenty of it, and none of them
has any teeth remaining;, all but fiye
are inveterate jokers. Few of them
take kindly to the bath or to fresh
air. , , - .
NO DIAMONDS, NO FXIN'S.
This Heiress Had no Use for Anything
r.t - .... but a Mo me. . .
They sat crowded into a narrow seat
on a Wabash avenue grip car- He was
a tired-looking man with a babe In his
anns; she was a tired-looking little wo-
man.
"Ain't you glad we're goin' to get it,
George?" she said, with more enthu
siasm than any one would ever have
suspected . her of having stored away
in her anaemic-looking body. "Ain't
yon glad we're goin' to get It? she
went on, "Just think, $3,000, George,
and it'll all he our own."
George grunted.
"Ain't it grand, $3,000?" 'she repeat
ed. "I can fix up the barber shop a little
now, I guess, and you can get a dia
mond if you want it," the husband
said, as he shifted the sleeping babe
from, one arm to the other.
"No, we don't fix up. no barber shops
and we don't wear no' ; diamonds.
We're going to hang on to that $3,000
like it. was all the money in the world."
"I know, but I could make a lot
more money if the shop had a few of
those factory " fixin's. Flxin's draws
trade."; : ; . . ;
"Yes, but George, you don't get any
flxin's with my money. It was my pa
that died, and he didn't leave no $3.
000 for barber fixin's, and I'll be
thlnkln' a long time fore I say buy
any flxin's with my $3,000. I'm goin'
to buy us a home, and there won't be
any fancy flxin's. I want just a plain
little home." ' ' " V
"Ain't you even goin' to buy a .dia
mond?" asked the husband in astonish
ment. . - '
"No, I ain't a goin to buy no dia
mond." "Well, you're the funniest woman I
ever saw. Now that we're rich you
don't want to do .a thing with the
money. I wish your pa had never died
and left us anything."
The wife said something as the two
go off the car. It was something about
diamonds, , but she said it in a way
to let those who heard her know that,
she didn't hanker much after any of
Klmberly's gems. Chicago Inter
Ocean. ' . -
It Was True, Alter All. ' '
The penalties of being "too smart"
are sure and always unpleasant. Stray
Stories gives a new Instance. The
clever young man was Wandering up
and down the platform of an English
railway . station, intent on finding an
empty carriage In the express which
was almost due to start.
His search was In vain. An idea,
which he considered very clever, oc
curred to him, and assuming an offi
cial air, he stalked up to the last
carriage and cried in a stentorian voice,
"All change here! This carriage ia
not going!"
There were exclamations, low but
deep, from the occupants of the crowd
ed compartments; but nevertheless
they scurried out of the carriage, and
packed themselves away in other parts
of the train.
The smile on the face of the young
man was childlike and bland as he
settled, himself comfortably in a cor
ner of the empty carriage and lighted
a cigar.'
"Ah," he murmured, "it's a good
thing for me that I was born clever!
I wish they'd hurry up and start." ,
Presently the station-master put hia
head in at the window and said: .
"I s'Dose you're the smart voune fel
low who told the people this carriage
wasn't going?"
"Yes," said the clever one. And, he
smiled. '
"Well, said the station master, with
a grin, "you were right; it isn't go
ing. The porter heard you telling the
people, and jbo he uncoupled it He
thought you were a director."
Girt Miller of Perkiomen.
On the Perkiomen River, near Val
ley Forge, Is a flour mill which has
the distinction of being owned and op
erated' personally by the only woman
miller in the United States. She is
hardly even a "woman miller," for she
is only 17.. Miss Sallle Frelchler, the
girl miller, is her own . master entire
ly, makes her own rules, does her own
business, keeps her own books and car
ries on her own correspondence, obey
ing nobody s orders but those or her
customers.
tn h mill oa'o h!M n -r .1
one yiajcu iu iue uiiu no a. . uuu, auu
as she grew up helped her daddy, and,
half unconsciously and half with
thought of the future, learned the;
miller's business thoroughly. When
he died there was no one else to car-
For two years now she has oper
ated the mill entirely alone, only call
ing in assistance when there is a
heavy load of rye to be taken in or
a large invoice of flour to be shipped.
She is at work before sunrise in win
ter and keeps' hard at it all day.
, And she seems to like the respon
sibility and the clean dollars her worlc
brings in. She caters to one of the
richest farming communities in Penn
sylvania and the community likes her
and helps her to get along.
Besides being a thoroughly capable
miller. Miss Sallie has won another
sort of reputation in the last year and
a naif. The farmers round about, con
sider her an expert on rye in all its
stages, from the seed to the ground
' . Stories of Sir Henry
"'.' W. " TCnndv. hf tYi( "Kvcrvman"
company, Is ,: credited by Harper's
Weekly with this story:
On one occasion Sir Henry ; Irving's
company, having been called to the
"theater for rehearsal, arrived ; there
ahead of time. As Sir Henry had nol
yet come, one of the actors in tha
company, who was noted for his ac-
COmpiisumeuLS tt a mimic, yioueeueu
to give n iivi;i auu cmuuiuie iulilh-
tlon of Sir Henry's highly character-
. . is 1 .T.t.A...A f . ti- -
onstration, a well-known voice came ;
from the depths of the darkened audi
torium: . ; - j p
' '.'Very good." it said. "Very good in
deed! So good, in fact, that there is
no need for. both -of .us in this com
pany." -.' ' -.- "
It Is also related that a brother ac
tor famous for his pomposity and his
inordinate ambition was regaling Irv
ing with a forecast of his plans for
the future. .
"I shall begin this . season," he an
nounced, "with such and such a part;
and after that I shall appear as Ham-
let." , - x .
' "Um!" : drawled Irving. - "Aseh
Hamlet, did you say?"
- The other, incensed by the tone of
the query, .bridled up at once.
.."Do you . think, Sir Henry," he de-v
manded, , Indignantly, "that , you 'are ,
Mi, wnl-tr man vhn Mn nlrnr TTgmlal9
"Oh no," rejoined Irving blandly;
"but I am quite sure that you axe th
only man who can't."