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MAKING READY. a rM Anything Happened They Wanted Things limed. "W everything ready?" ha asked anx iously. "Everything," she replied, with an tfTort at self ooiitrol. "Yon are sure you liar forgotten nothing?" "Quit sure." "Where are (ho children?" "They are playiug in the back yard. " "Have you Mid goodby to them?" "Yes." "Have yon spoken to any of th neighbors?" "I have made all the necessary ar rangements with Mr. Brown." "She know what to do iu case we don't get bock?" "She does." "Have yon written to your mother!" "Yea, ami I gave the letter to Mr. Brown to mail in rase it become neces eary." "How about yonr life insurance pol icy " "The letter tolls where it ran be found." "And mine?" "I put it with mine." "Well, the children are anre to be provided for, then, whatever happens," he Raid, with a sigh of relief. "Yes, thank heaven 1" she answered fervently. "I presume we might ma well start, then," he suggested, after a la.st longing look around. "I suppose so," she sighed. "Going away?" asked a stranger in the neighborhood aa they started np the street. "Yes," replied the hnsbimd sadly. "Far?" inquired the stranger. "Only a few blocks to make a call," answered the husband. "Only a few blocks!" exclaimed the stranger. "Why, froni your prepara tions, I thought you expected to en counter some great danger. " "We have to cross a trolley car track : both going and coming," replied the husband, with quiet determination. ' Chicago Post. The Logical Conclusion. He was leamug dejectedly against a lamppost, contemplating immensities, when I accidentally brushed against bim. "Lookout," be exclaimed. "Dou't you dare dishturb me!" "Why not?" I asked, turning as I rec ognized his voic. " 'Cuosh I'm the shenter of the uni corn no; I mean un-versh," he ex plained thickly. "How did you find it out?" I asked, admiring his egotism. "Go 'way, foolish man, before you pre preshipitate chaos!" he expostu lated. "First tell me how you know you're the center cf the universe, I insisted. Ain't evervshiug revolving around ! me?" be demanded indignantly. Truth. ' Art In Am tin. Miss Dauber, a Harlem artist, hav ing finished a picture of a sunset which looked very much like an exploded ver milion factory, took the gem under her arm to Mr. Smith's book store on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. "Mr. Smith, I desire to furnish the pnblic an artistic treat. I will leave my picture here on exhibition. I wish, however, you would pnt a card on it informing the public that it is not for sale." "Do you think it necessary. Miss Dauber?" replied Smith, after he had examined the picture carefully. Texas Siftings. Doomed to Bachelorhood. Friend I say. Jack, why don't you marry and settle down? ! Jack Can't. i "You have a good income?" j "Yes." ! "And your aunt left you a charming j bouse?" "Yea." I "Then why don't yon hunt up a wife?" "Oh, a wife is easy enough to get. That isn't the trouble.' ) "Then what is the matter?" I "I can't find a servant girl." New York Weekly. Precedent Behind Him. "Say," said the manager expostulat ingly, "don't you think it is about time you took on a few new gags? Tbem chestnuts you are getting off has whisk ers a foot long. " "Oh, I guess I'm all right." airily answered the song and dance man. "Old Bill Shakespeare wrote his stun some thousand years ago, and I see it goes yet. " Indianapolis Journal. A Sodden Sunday Cloalnf MoTement Central Africa. In Describinn; the Harder. "Here," said the ancient inhabitant, "is the place where the murder wua committed. " "Killed in cold blood, was he?" "No. In Pine thicket. " "Shot right down?" "No. He wm all shot up. " Atlanta Truth. There are 17 different branches of Methodism In this country, each having a distinctive name, its own church prop erty, its own organization, its own places of worship and its own body of membership. Pictures and sYF.ii. How in A.IJii.t the latter to Properly Ob aerv ttia rrmer The observer, in order to a a picture to the best advantage, must adjust his vision to that of the aitist who produced it. Most of ui do thin instinctively. Mot onlv do we select the bent point of view j from which to observe a picture, but we j recede from the painting until the lights j and colors blend iu just the tight degree. ; Iu addition to that many instinctively j pinch the eyes together, producing thus I a momentary astigmatism, such as the ! artist hud iu-oduoed iu his own eye, and i find tl;o picture thus apparently im proved. ; A most useful appliance for viewing pictures is the so called stenopaio slit, j This i merely a slit one or two milli , meters in w idth iu a card or thin plate ! of brass. Simple as this device is but j few persons are aware of how much it j adds to the effect iu viewing paintings, ; as it allows tlie rays of light iu ouly I one meridian to pass through the cornea ! of the oliserver. If lie wishes to look nt a painting done by nu aitist whose vision is normal, or nearly so, the ob server turns theslit around tocot respond ' with the meridian of his own best vision. If, however, he looks nt a pictuie in which it is desirable to have overlapping of the retinal images at one where the colors must be mixed in the eye, for example it is necessary to rotate the slit to another position, usually nt right angles to the first, and with this a can vaa which before showed too clearly the blotches of color now becomes blended into a mucn more jH-nect w uoie, I would recommend this simple de- vice to auv one who has not already ex peiimented with it. Thus, by adjusting our owu personal eqnutiou of eyesight to that of the aitist, we literally obtain his point of view. The colors are height ened, the daubs blend and new beauties appear. Instead of seeking, like our friend mentioned at first, for "the handiest way to get out of this 'ere place," we are glad to stay longer to study arid to enjoy. Uere, as every where, it is art and science together that yield the richest result. If science is allowed to be the interpreter, we may gain a heightened enjoyment of art and the artist a comforting increase of ap i preciatiou. Lncien Howe, M. D., in Popular Science Monthly. STAMBULOFF'S SPIRIT. Called the Ktsmarrk of the Italhans cmnae of Ilia Courace. The late M. Stambnloff, ex-premier of Bnlgaiia, nsed to bo called "the Bismarck of the Balkans." One of his most dramatic passages with Russia ', occurred lim ing the war with Servia. j Prince Alexander had gone out to lead j the Bulguiian urmy in person, leaving M. StambnlofT iu charge at home. It was a clear day, with not a breath of j air stirring, and the roar o; the cannon was P1"'"1? ,ieard iu ,be citJ- M. StambnlofT thought the Servians were winning the day. In their anxiety the Bulgarian ministers applied to the Rus sian diplomatic agent for advice. That gentleman shrugged his shoulders and said it was no affair of his. "But, "urged the Bulgarian minis- ters, "the Servians are almost at our gates, xou conitt stop tnem witn a sin gle word, if yon would." "Yes, but that word will not be spoken. On one condition ouly will I stop them, and that is that your beggar of a princo , shall abdicate at once. " "And that. thundered M. StambnlofT, "he will not do. No, not for 20 Rnssias!" With that M. Stambnloff sprang into the saddle and dashed away to the bat tlefield, while the Russian agent scut to his friends to come to his house to celebrate the defeat cf the Bulgarian armies. A few hours passed, and then the Bulgarian foreign minister got a telegram from M. Stambnloff, dated on the field of battle, telling of Prince Alexander's magnificent victory and of the utter rout of the Servians. He hur ried with it to the house of the Russian agent, arriving there in the midst of the festivities. And when he told the news the representative of the czar, it is said, gronnd his teeth in rage. West minster Budget Qoestiona of Health. The popular notion that an athlete, because of his athleticism, is a healthy man is a delusive one. Muscular devel opment is not an affair of the constitu tion. It is an accident. Strong limbs and a weak heart are not infrequently associates. Many a "strong man" dies prematurely of consumption. If health may be define as a capacity for holding on to life, then, in many cases, the weaklings are the healthiest. If such a definition is accurate, -women are healthier than men. Their aver age length of days is greater than ours. But it is doubtful if centenarians, mere ly because they are centenarians, are the healthiest. I knew a case of a woman who recently died at the age of 105 who was slightly paralyzed, even as a child, and who was practically completely so for more than 70 years. Could such a one have ever been correctly described as healthy? It is as hard to say what life is as to say what health is, and the way in which unhealthy folks are tenacious of life is not the least of the marvels. All the Year Round. Caffeine. Caffeine, the active principle of coffee, was discovered by Runge in 1830. In a pure state it takes the form of long silky needles. In ordinary coffee it is present to the extent of abont 1 per cent, bnt Java coffee contains 4.4, and Marti nique has as much as 6.4. It is said by some chemists that caffeine in its essen tialities is identical with theine, the ac tive principle of tea. Clans affirms that the inferior qualities of tea contain more caffeine than the best commercial grades. Snperfloooa Formality. "Sorry, madam, but you will have to get somebody to identify you. " "The idea! Don't you see my name right there on the check?" Boston Transcript. UNLUCKY TO SAVE FROM DROWNING. Iie Uinr Bnprrallllunt of IVonle the world Over. It seem strange that ewimmcra shout. be superstitions, yet it is so, nor is it ulone the small Wiy who sees his companion sinkin.i into a watery grave without attempting to rescue linn, whether he sank because he wits not an exett and got beyond his depth, or whether he was seined with cramps, it seem ridiculous to think of, and no (Ku.Jt it will ave uutiiy a superstition person from risking his owu neck by being drugged under by the weight and struggles of a drowning person to know it is counted nulueky and worse than madness to try to save the life of a drowning person or to resuscitate him, as sooner or later h is bound to do you oine mean turu. It is another one of those old super stitious handed down from geueratiou to generation from cur F.uropoun aneos tors, mid of which no one knows the der ivation. Ttufca of it are found among the Sioux and other tribes of the Indians of the west, who seem to have inherited that belief fiMm their lorefathcts along with so many othor quaint things. They still believe, and it's a pint of their creed tliat iu hunting the txxly of a drowned persou you call discover its resting place by floating a chip of cedar wood, which will stop, even in the j strongest current, and turu around over i the exact spot. In Gteat Britain the belief that you j niust IKt aiie a drowning person is uloeit prevalent in Cornwall and various parts of .Scotland. The French sailor , ami ti iHmtinau of tlio Diinul bow to the decree, together with the Russians, and let the people drown. Dr. Tavlor, in his "Primitive tul- tore, " dovlar-s. this lingering fondness for this old creed is because the water spirit is angry at being despoiled of its victim, and should the unlucky person who has dared to frustrate him trust himself to the water's power he will drowu un sure as fate. The Bohemian flsliermun shrinks from snatching a drowning man from the waters, fearing the wnter demon will take away his luc k iu fishing and drown him before lie gets to shore with the would be victim. Iu Uermany, when some one is drowned, thev say, "The river spirit claims his yearly sac rifice," or, "The Xix has taken him. The belief is current not alone in those countries above mentioned, but the Kauichatkaus, rather than help a j man out of the water, would force him I under, and if he should escape to the I shore no one wonld dare receive him into his house or dure to give him food. ; Ho is supposed to be dead after oui fulling into the water. THE SARGASSO SEA. A Wonilrrfal Krgloa In tl Atlantic Which No Man Una Explored. The surface of the Sargasso sea seems like a perfect meadow of seaweed It is snppcsed that this euornions mass of gulf weed may have been partly grown at the bottom of the shallower parts of the sea and partly torn frum the shores of Florida and the Bahama islands by the force of the gulf stream. It is then swept around by the same agency into the Sargasso sea, where it lives and propagates, floating freely in midocean. And the store is ever increasing, both hff uflditiiin rim! nrnimiuitirui un thut thn nieadow grows more and moie compact. and no donbt nt the inner parts extends . to a considerable depth below the sur- race. 2v'or is this all, for nt least two-thirds 1 of all the infinite flotsam which the gulf : stream carries along with it in its course sooner or later finds a resting place in the Sargasso sea. Here may be seen huge trunks of trees torn from the for ests of Brazil by the waters of the Ama zon and floated down far out to sea until they were caught and swept along by the current ; logwood from Honduras, orange trees from Florida, canoes and boats from the islands, staved iu, broken and bottom upward ; wrecks and remains, of all sorts reaped from the rich harvest of the At lantic; vhole keels or skeletons of ruin ed ships, so covered with barnacles, shells and weeds that the origvul out line is entirely lost to view, and here and there a derelict ship, transformed from a floating terror of the deep into a mystery put out of reach of man in a museum of unexplained enigmas. Chambers Journal MiatreM of Htyle. An article in n periodical calls atten tion to the degree of M. S. Mistress of Style as that most coveted by all women, outranking, at least so far as admiration is concerned, all the A. M. 's. and Ph.D. V. in existence. The statement leads back to the old query, Do college girls and other women given to intellec tual Exercise care for such mundane matters as looks and clothing? It may safely be asserted that they do. There may be no definite, outspoken "views" upon the mutter, but the principle that a woman, to make the most of her op portunities, be they intellectual or other wise, must both look and dress just as well as she can is universal. Mrs. May Wright Sewall herself wouldn't dream cf facing her national council iii a last fears bonnet. Ine day ol the blue stockinged and thick umbrellaed reform er is past. Both philanthropies! and col lege women are nowadays as conspicu ous lor grace or owiy as lor grace or mind. Chicago Post. Bia Logic Sunday School Boy Isn't there lots of life iu ginger, teacher? Teacher Yes. "And bread is supposed to be the staff of life, teacher?" "Yes, my boy." "Well, then, it has occurred to me that perhaps Methuselah lived on gin gerbread" Yonkcrs Statesman. It Hoothee Bint. After a man has pounded on the door for half an bonr it makes him feel pleas ant t be asked by bis wife if he wants to come in. Los Angeles Express. Wbm II Was at Faulk "I ,l,m't vvliv I am so neglected," mid the habitual criminal as he looked out between the bars of his cell. "What's the matter?" asked tna tie- faulter, who was walklug up and down the lull corridor. "No one ever sends me any imwem. ans uowomeu comearounii m mi mm make much of me," explained tin) lu hliiitkl criminal. "l)h, that's easily explained, said the defaulter. "How?" "The crime for which yon were ar rested was not horrible and tteiiuisn enouiih to attract them." Chicago Wit. A Sure Sign. i-a v" ft,' JJl. I II ' , mm Wi-' 'Hush, there are visitors iu the draw ing room !" "How do von know?" "Listen ! Papa is saying 'my dear' to mamma. " lhiuch. He Wa Ther and Knew. "Yes, I was at Chickamauga," sigh ed tlio robust man us he iuopMd un im pndent tear from the comer of one eye, and a hot tune we had of it too "Whom did you serve under?" eager ly asked the young history student. Mv commander, you mean; Uraut, of course" But Grant wium t iu comet md nt Chick" Wh Grant? Did I sav Grant? I meant Sherman, of course I Glorious old Bill" "But Sherman didn't reach Chatta nooga until the fight ou Mission Ridge. "Who didu'tf" "Sliermau. " "VVlm uriifl tmvthittiy nhnnfc Kliitrttifin? Did I say Sherman? O-o-o-hl You mean at the time of Chickamangn. I belonged to Sheridan's cavalry. Thought I said Sheridan. " But Sheridan commanded a division of infantrv nt that time." Look here, youngster, you're getting too smart. You've studied your fixd fake books till yon think yon know more ubout the war than a man who was in it. Why, you young rascal, I was one of the first men out !" And the smart Aleck youngster was ready to believe that he was. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Well Done. It is never easy to confess your faults, and even a child is not to be blamed for trying to smooth the way for herself. 'Mamma, do yon like to hear sto nes? sue began. Yes, my child." Shall I tell you oue?" Yes." "Will you lie much interested?" "Certainly. " "But it is not a long story. " "Nevermind. Tell it to me." "Well, there was once a cologne bottlti and 1 broke it! New York Dispatch. A Crashing- Revenge. A man with a painful expression of countenance sat on a goods box. "Are you ill?" some one asked. No." "Have you lost anything?" "Never had anything to l.we." 'What's the matter, then?" "I'm sittin on a wasp." Why don't yon get up?" "Well, that wnz my first impulse, but I got to thinkin that I was hurt in the wasp as badly us he was linrtin me and concluded to sit here awhile. " Spare Moments. Ktartllna; r'ljfnrea. With a $10 rod and a f0 reel, with a $3 lino and a f 4 creel, a bookfnl of $2 und $4 flics, away with his (12 ticket ho hies. Thus he spends $ 10 ere lie starts out, and returns in a week with 10 cents' worth of trout, and the But blank wou't supply the $:IH. 1)0, the snm he is stiy. Sau Jtraiieisoo Ivcvvs Letter. Jont What lie Wanted. I left a letter ou iny table when I went out. Where is it?" Valet I hoie you won't mind, sir. l inongnc u wonni io uieejy lur my sweetheart, so I ported it to her. Your Christian name is the same as mine! Lustige Blatter. Wo lilame Bit Ilia Ioor. "If any of my customers gets fevers. it won't be my fault, by jucks!" ex claimed tne honest milkman, Minruig half a gallon of boiled water into his can. Chicago Tribnne. Incrf nalng the Preaaare. "I think my employer is enconraging my suit for his daughter s hand. "How do you figure that?" "He's cut my salary $i a week!" Cl)ic.;j Record. I wild Ftowtna. Oh. Iieaullhd blna-nna, pure ' "-' Ahm Willi di'W fna-u the eountrj Tii me, nt em-It In a elly atin't, You linns fair vlnlima f I') ' "" liiml dnva, when I hid ni s nii.i ;f T will, h snrlns'n ili-llcnte laid, uiiliilu. Ami all the rloliM I eared h' S'eoa Were ihtl.y silver and l.nllereuu snlil. , Tin true il matin ef a lowly race, Niirae.1 by the hiIuis f'il by ihs sliiiwvrs, And yet yii aiw Iwliit t immel.ns mes Whleh I full te Had "I '. h"lh"e flowpfw. And you breullu. o " '" uu' Tllt'l'rilioiislil I stand lh wind sw.d fellK, Where I he tnwn " hum o'er lh ri'my dlM, llr rills' fidnl hI ill llw healher hells, I'Kine my ey enmded lns'l. I kluit my wn Ui Hib elly's Mr. And sin mil III Hi" "I" " " liff, utT l ymr ememld haunia v neirrl tut the harali erhwls srals un IIibImi U low. And a aiwrrow ehiri l the MHirhy wiiav And my l.nslil dnwma fwle In an ovrilow Of iwsahaiale lollslllS lenoer iain. B. Malheaon In Vlwinlwrs' Jotin ii mat A STATELY OLD MANSION. Th lluiue nf Hnrah Orne Jowelt, the Ne- IUI, al llrrwlrh, Mo. Ivvonderlf t hem is aunt her such house in New Kngland as the homo ol Mirnn oniH .Liu-nit. Suva a w riter tu the lmiui Herald. I have eell many stately in an don that go buck to the ilavs Indole the K.ivolution tuio tu iHirliculiir vvnere General (hut was tinurtervd ill old Pail vers, a town which is linked by witch threads to llerwiek, and one vviili gain bre I roof iil'U which a good damn and hercronicscliiiiUd to Iwoiit of reach of husbandly authority while they drank tea forbidden to patriots until (he las was removed but I have never seen a living phu e at oii'-e so misleru and so reminiscent of I.Uii or nays younger still. In its great rooms filled with obi mahoganv and warmed by huge linn fireplace it w ould be cosy to forget that the guiidalovvs, with tlietr lilgli peaea pails like great birds' w ings, do not yl sail down the liver from tint binding wharves in tbi'ls of tens and twenti tu Portsmouth, with their loud of pine plunks and boards tu U exchanged lor Kust Indian nun. tnhutvti nut! uioia or for Russian iron, duck or cordage, or for such priceless tdd gloss and siNer and china as came from unknow n porta and now eop out wonderiiigW upon nineteenth century cushions and pic ture and brio-a-tintc, from their deep set cupboard and shelves "I fouiid these thing here, alia Jewett says, "and I hojw to leave lliem when I go into thn unknown. " If one hod one's choice of ancestors, it would bo iniMwsible to piek out belter (liau those who chose the elaliorntn corttue. all curved by hand with infinite itiia, and tbii high paneling of tlio mrlor, and the brmwl window sills, and I be doweled wall asT, still bright and fresh, though of a pattern on which Ma rie Antoiuetto might have set the seal of her approval when the tilled up Ui llttlo Tritiunu. Could Not Make Tina. Mr. Wilson relates un amusing story of an oflloer w ho dotermiiuttl to enter Chinese Tils-t by stratagem. This offi cer managed to crt the frontier at night, and soe-w iin-d the frontier guard Next day, however, while he was jour neying tleHr Into llla-t the TiU-tou soldiers overtook him and informed hliu tluit us the cooutiy wits unsafe, Uvutiwi of robbers, they would go w ith hliu III order to proteet him, to which arrange mint the traveler was coinslled to agree. I it a few hours they cumo to a river, which was crossed by a rojie bridge. The Tibetans passed over first, in order to show that the bridge was safe, und tin u the officer gut into the basket und Was pulled itlong by the Tib etans. Suddenly, however, they censed pulling and left the Kuglishuiau hang ing iu midair alsive the rushing torrent In vain the traveler shouted to the Tibetans to ptilL They merely smokiol and iiislded thoir hemls. The hour pass ed, ami still theollieer hung ulsive the torrent. At last the. Tils-tuns ugreod to pull him haek if he would promise (o leave Tilsit imiuodiutclv. This of course he was eoniiel)ml to do and took his departure from the forbidden luml. Gentleman's Magazine. All Weathers Malted lir. Johnaun. Dr. Johnson stoutly ponhpoohed the notion of the effect of weather ou the mind. "To temperance," be wrote, "every duy is bright, und every hour is propitious todiligence. " Johnson, how ever, was little given to analyze the iu- nueiices or nature, or any other Influ ences, npon himself. And it muy well be that this dissisitioii ou his part was in the spirit of the stoics and hi del! ancn of his own feelings, in which be disdained tu uive wav. ll him a sony thing thut "a bomu en. (lowed with reason" should "rosiun hia power to the influences of the air and livo iu dependence ou the weutlier ml the wind. "Temple Bur. Dlstinetlona. "Money makes a heiin of dilTertiiKv O. the world," said the misanthrope, "Of course it docs. Still, a man cau always choose his associations. " Oh, I don't know abunt tlu.t n.... I am with such limited means that I tau t be ou speaking terms with even the telephone company." V, ,lii.,t,. Btur. Tawdry is deiived fi Olll S't A nilt-n Iu the early middle auesfniia n i...i.i iu Fram e and Knglund on St. Audrey duy, and these annual iralhnriiiuH came noted for the gaudy and worth!,. jeweiiy eom ut them. If the mind, that rules thn lui. to far forgets itself t() t,.H1)1)0 dave, the slave is uev.r - enough to forgive the injury, but will i. nu smite tho oppressor. Lou nig- llilJUW. A witty Frenchman mtiii. "Onld,..n, is un excuse fur not keeping a'dinuer engagement, and even then a polite maii IPHHAIM AND TH BujvT H II Kill a iMrll,,, B right Wllhuul WMnmu. Old Kplnalm llatlleld, father nf jr. ami I'llliia.llulileld, of AleCoy H,? feud notoriety, was a Imrn figlun,, T was also a mighty hunter, and had a imbilioti. It was to kill a yearling kZ I a fair fight Without any ,,"! I other than tin linn Ihnmi nature. pmv,i l. L'.... .1... Il.ul I.- r..i. with ....j ...... .... iu fBUOii.li. tomi till WMlllit un lllll M.,,1. Ll. . .-' w - ""Hints and hi boys, and, treeing a w get him down and fight In in. ij bi uiu wouid U m'i got Ihn lwtuf nneontiter, he would call his laiyn,,,. smi tint dogs. Year ufler yer ami i:phruuu Imd not yt wlilW( leur. One day a fine yearling r w Ireed, and n Vufty Wo tillmbluj Ui, place of safety old man llaitield lo a p nu e of the animal's tail with a blow of Ids knife, and the bear cm, down. Kphtalni threw his kuivc to (he boy mid cried out: "lie,' a likely varmint, Hlun boys, un watch yu' dad. I'm t,m bar I" And hu clutched the bear by Om throat, The miimnl got its wwa arutnj nplirnim, and they fisight, rolling , every ilini'tlon, until It was a I mix m jsatsibln to distinguish man from or Iu the cloud. Thi boy held IWqw and eniiaiiugi'd thn idd luuli by itxiai. iug to him ; "Go it, Mtpl You've got Vial It to 'lin, dad!" Down the hill (he (wu ml lid tnul they could roll no further, J-l I.kswi Ibiul' K r'ofioiiled IheoU man. "l t Viu haasnl The ritior'iM ine!" lut thn Ihv thought lh nU tttt would never hnvn u N-tter niirti)iiar to i en 1 1 e hi nmbit Ion nud whips ling boor and kept th dogs it Finally Kphiiilm, wt-liig that he tu have Mi!aucn, l-gn to nan tut fret and hands with nil energy Una of de spair, and HI half nil hour he stmvnb in i linking the iiiiiiiiul to death. Iml sot until his clot lies were torn tonlimbsaj hia faeo and tnaly Worn covered iii gaping wounds, from w hich tl likul (lowed SO freely thut It left a crimen trail w herrver the man went. Dragjntm the carcass out of the pit Kphraiia Mart- oil ufler (he hoys, mid it would hart fared roughly w ith them, Iml tln-y Bnl The old man rem but his home and wm nlucxt dead from ! of blood, tmliM mnbitliiii hail liii ruiihitt d lis hid whipsi yearling boar in a fair flgbt The hoy hid out In the vmI fur art eral tlnya, iind would not return tuml their fiither, wluaie joy ut hi mxvm hud got the Is Iter i f hi pain and u- ger, sent them word that hn Would But whiptheni If they returned. 11 at Arid never wi-iirli d telling Imw he whiipd n yearling Is-ar, and hi roiire aaally proud of I beir father ' m blevenieiit. Ciut'lmiuti Lnijiiin r. A CAME OF NINEPINS. Munrltauarallke Slorf nf Oernuui t'rlntlnat. In an ini riul city lately a rnniintl was condemned to he Ix-headed whofcea asiugnhir Itching to play al ninepiat. While his Ki-uleiice was priihnuucliiK M hud the lemnrity to ctTcr a tcqtimtto lsi iuiittid to play once more al bit favorite gmmt ut the place of mrcutiia. and then he said hn Would sukunt without a murmur. As the last player of a dying Bun his nijuesl was grunted. When arrirwl ut the solemn spot he fouml evrrylhin prepared, the pins Isdug net up and Iht bow l ready. Ifo piuyeil with little eariietitiiefs, but tbnsberllT nt IiiiruX seeing that hn kIiowimI mi iiK-llllulli to desist, privately ordered ihn executioner to strike the fatal blow us he stuuprf for the bow L The executioner did so, and tb head drnped into tho culprit's hand he raised himself to mv what hail n curnd. He immedinlnly aniMnl atth nine, conceiving that it was the bowl which he grassid. All nine falling, Dm head loudly txclaimiil, "I have mm the game!" From the (icrinuii. Ilia Aerntint With Ilia lleallak Brown bus tlio repiiialioii of being one of the most miserly of men, hot b plumes himself on his inexorable mw of justice. For 15 years ho owed a den tist fun for filling a front tenth with gold, refusing to pay it Isk-iiiisc lie said the bill was exorbitant. The other bij the filling came out. Hit t-s.k the gold to u jewelry storo und had it valued. Then lin wrote to tho dentist and in closed u check for his account, based on the following computation : "Actual value of the gidd, 'J.uO: amount of labor (which I deem liberul). $5; f'wost of tho lisith 10 wars. 'i: total, 118.6a I return gnld on itirount mill incl( check for thn balatic., (IU. "Washing ton I'ost Hit Chiilee. A woman who has traveled largely in .In in ii mentioned in thn course of lectino the fact thut tlio Japunese lan guage diss not contain an imp0!' word; lumen there is no swearing i that hnppv land. She also staled that osenlaiiim was an mil nown pleasure. As the audience diHMtrsed, coiiiiiientin faviirubly upon different points, au old woniiiu remarked in a voice loud enough to be heard by ull. "Well, for my part. I prefer u coiintry whnro they kiss cuss!" Ath a CoiiHtitution. The Illmnond. Nono can tell where tho diamond goes to in combustion. Burn it, and it leave no ash, the flume is exterior like tha of a cork, and w hen it has bhwiil i"" out there remains tmt even so much at would dust the antennnj of a butterfly. At Gibraltar, during the most fsmonl of its sieges, the French commander, learning tlmt Klliot's men were suffer ing from scurvy, sent (hem a a preseul a bout loud of carrots. Dream land is located in the htWJ oftii-e. Florida Tiiues-Uuiou.