Do 1 know what it was. Judge? There
ain't uo one else as docs know, that's
sure. 'Tain't much, after all.
Yer see. playiu’ 'round wltii my little
ones. I found as 1 could make 'em hear
all kinds of noises anywhere I wanted,
atul people cryin’ and laughin’. It was
fun fur them and 1 often done it; veu-
triloquisiu*. 1 believe you call it; but
that night's the last time. Yer see. none
of the gang didn't know 'bout that, and
1 dou't k«*«»r ever to have 'em know it
now. It saved the bank without tny In
formin'. and that's all 1 care for.
Oh. no. judge, the bank don’t owe
me nothiu’. You’ll take care of the pa
pers? Thank you. I’m obliged to you
for listening, too. It kind of makes me
f«*el easier.
No. no. thank you. 1 wou't stay and
take no more of your time. Don't get
up: I can find my way out.
What's that you say. judge?
You
honor ami respect me—me—? Ami the
bank land. Judge, ’twarn’t me; 'twas
my wife and children saved the hank,
and I'm proud of ’em -proud of ’em,
judge.
Good
night.—Philadelphia
DEAL) TO THE WORLD.
T h e y L o o k e d L i k e K u lc ld e s , b u t T h e y
K n e w T h e i r B n o in e a a .
tieen arranged for and will be one of
the greHt curiosities at the Tair; « in
sisting of an extrem ely ornamental aud
most brilliantly Illuminated speetaeu
lar piece, tin* diinetisious of which will
I»«* twenty f«*et at the base, ami runuitig
to a height of tifty-llv«- feet, mi which
will be artistically arrang«*d al/out ’-’..'«• hi
gas Jets.
Evidently the gas people propos«* to
dem onstrate to the public that their
product ic capable of producing equal,
if not superior lighting effeida to tlios«
claim«*«! for tin* cl«*« tri<* light.
.
m CKETS
or
NO JACKETS
T l i i * !■ N o t m F a s h i o n A r t i c l e , l»ut la
I n t e r e s t i n a t<> W o m a n k in d .
Suicides liavt oeeu so numerous of
It I# rarely in this country that jn>tn-
late that a Star reporter was not very
t«#-s are l»oll<*«i b«*f«»re th«*y are p«*eled,
much #urpri#«d the other night when
or, in tin* old-fashiou«*d way of expr«*##
tie almost stumbled over a m a il w ho la y
ing it. in their "Jack«*ts," ami yet in
on tin* tint of his hack at full length on
Ireland the very headquarters of this
tin* pavement at the <*orner of Massa - '
v«*g«*tal»I»*, such a tiling is scar<*ely
chusetts Avenue ami H’»tli Street, lie
known us pro p«-«-ling them. Tbos«- w ho
lay in tlie* shad«* of a tree, hut tin* iikmiii -
have n«*v»*r tried them in this way an-
iight falling through tin* branch«*# not
advis«*«! to do s o whiii * «lay. when they
«•lily clearly detimal the form, but gave
«•an make sure they an* tirought to no W a te rb u ry Ameri<*un, in an a rtic le on
a weird and uncanny effect.
table tin* moment tlo-y an* «lone, ami tiie b u ild in g o f a ,»*.«-<e o f ro ad in th a t
Tin* Star man. startled for a tuomeut,
not allowe«l to stand any length of time to w n , ha# th is s c in tilla tin g Jew el of
stopped to exam ine, am! when he saw
W ent In on T h e i r H o rn s .
before tlo-y are eaten. S«-I«-« t tin»#«- of fa c t:
I’r a l r i e P im p l e * .
live or more silent outstretched forms
C o m ed ian W illiam II. C ra n e s a y s th a t
“There |# hardly a farmer In town
South western Louisian» is Isirdered tiie g r e a te s t b ra s s bam l tiia t lid s <-ouu equal size, allow them, after washing
near the curltstoue, although they
but
thinks himaelf capable to make a
ami
s<*rubblng
thoroughly,
to
stand
lo«>ke«l like so many ghosts, and made along tlu- eoast with broad sandy and ; try ever knew was an organization In
covered with cold water for half an good pi«#-«* of road, but, although vari
the locality l«x»k like a miuiatiii«* bat-! gravelly plains to which the name «if i Ottumwa. Iowa, may years ago.
hour, theu throw into plenty of Isiiliug ous one# have carried «»ut th«*ir own
tlefleld. the whole thing w as easy. They “pimpled prairies" has been given. This
“ I’ve h«*ard G ilm o re a n d S ousa a n d water, and after boiling tw enty min Ideas, which in a number of instauces
were «»nly sleeping, and although «heir curious title com es from tin* clroul.tr I all th e r«*st," said Mr. C ra n e re c e n tly .
utes prick to the heart with a two- were diametrically op|»o<H*d to each
Isils were hard, some of them were mounds, arranged in zones and aloug I “ but th e ir b a n d s «•oiihln’t lie <*omparod
pronged fork; if not s«»ft. cook a little oth««r, we never were hlra#«#! with
lying on their «“oats a ml several lay in inters«M*ting lines, with which large I w ith th a t p ra irie a g g re g a tio n fo r a mo
longer, «train, sprinkle with salt, return many go«»d roads.”
the gutter with tile curbstone for a areas of the plains are covered. For ment.
Nor will tiie roads of the country
to the range, aud when the saucepan is
pillow. Three or four of the familiar merly these mounds, which average
“ lu my theatrical salad days—when I
ever
be clas#ifi«#l as “good,” to say
hot,
toss
them,
to
allow
tbe
salt
to
street sw eeping carts stood like senti fifty f«*t in diameter and attain occa j was much younger than I am now I
nothing of "fair” or "tolerable," un
nels near by under the shadow of t h e sionally a height of ten f«*et, were sup wus try ing to pilot a company of tbes- shake evenly through aud to dry well, til the farmers are taken off the roads
place in a warm napkin on a red-hot
T im e s .
trees, and the horses in the shafts were |>os««d to have been made by ants, with plau bright lights throughout the w«*#t-
ami regular road builders employed.
sl«*epiug. to*». Just then a street sweeper whose nests they at>ouu«l. But recent ern provinces. Busin«-#.# was l,a«l aud plate and serve with good, sw eet but For It Is a# certalu a# anything «-an
ter. The flavor of the snowy, fl«-«*<-y
FASHIONS OF LONG AGO.
ly
Professor
Clendenin,
of
the
Louis
our treasury was low. At Ottumwa the
«•ame aloug dragging his big broom,
iana State University, has found rert- i theater oroh««tra bad som e sort of morsels, taken from the jackets mu «1 be that hauling mud on the road#,
T h e S t y l e o f I l o t h e i W o r n b y Y o u n g and The Star man asked, pointing to
butter«*d as they are «-ateu, will be m ixing it with clods of turf aud sand,
the silent forms. “What are they doing aon for thinking that the tnouuds were i grievance against tin* management and
’VE come, judge, to ask if you’ll l e t ' The men chuckled to themselves. ’Tw as
U o m e n E a r ly in t h e C e n t u r y .
will never make a good road. Road-
formed
through
the
blowing
up
of
mud
i demanded pay in advance. The theater found to be much better than if peeled bsBding aud road-repairing is a sci
me tell you what no one on earth a fortune sure this time, and they’d all
"A Group of American Girls Early II uncle?”
Ix-fore
boiling;
indeed,
epicures
declare
by gas escaping from vents in the i rofus«-«! aud our organization was not
«*» don’t know but me, 'bout that bank be on the way to comfort and safety be the Century" is the title of au article
"W’y, I miss , dey Ls Jes’ sleepin’."
ground. The arrangement «»f the ! flnam-ially in a jiositiou to discount the they can detect the dlfferen«*e at on«*, ence. a trade. Every Tom, Dick and
fore day. 1 aiu't never seen 'em so ex by Helen Evertaon Smith lu the Cen
"Tired out?”
mystery.
anti as the m«»st nutritious part of a po Harry «‘anniK make a good road. It is
“No. ludeedy. It’s too early ter git mounds in z«»ues and Hues 1# account« «1 ! future for a single moment. So I atart<*d
Yes. thank you. 1 will sit down. A cited. Nothin’ hadn't gone wrong and tury. After describing the visit of two
for by supposing that the ga« vents ! out to flu«! some sort of music, if possi- tato is next to the skin none of this is a work which require# study and a
tialnd.
Rut
yo*
see
no
'mount
er
day
fire feels good on a night like this. nothin' couldn't now.
cousins of Chancellor Livingston to
road must be built on a regular plan.
T a in 't often such as 1 have a chance
light sleepin’ is as g«xxl as er little night exlst«-d along the fractures radiating i bit*, to tide us over. I finally suc- lost.
We had sentinels stationed round to New York, the writer says:
Roads differ in «#.»nstruction a# in situ
Potatoes
in
their
jackets
make
a
suit
| ce»*ded lu getting the Ottumwa bra.*#
from au earthquake center.
at this kind of comfort and luxury.
give the alarm, but there wasn’t much
lu general all was rvse-colored to the sleep, an’ so w’en de boys gits a chance
able adjunct to oysters bak«-«l and ation. The matter of location—dry
l«and
to
agree
to
play
three
selections
What do 1 know about the bank m ys danger on a night like tnat.
two young country girls launched into 'tween sweeps, dey Jes' dra|»s right
A n c i e n t ln s« * c ts.
in front of the theater Is-foro the per served in the shell. Wash aud rorub and sandy soil or wet and clayey s o il-
tery? Land sakes. Judge, time they
We had planned so as to have the society with every advantage which down an’ take a nap. Mebbe dis is de
Recent discoveries in the coal mines fortuance in return for free admission tli*? oysters, put them in a large baking , ha# everything to do with the perma
opened the bank that day ten years ago door of the sa fe ready to blow open youth, cultivation, beauty, and high ouliest one «ley'll git till tomorrer. It of Central France have furnished by
pan in a hot oven, and in five minute# nence of the road. As that well-known
and found the bauk vault broke into when the watchman went down cellar couuectious could bestow, Riches they happens «lis yer way. De machine# has far the greatest advance that lias ever to the show.
or
1«*## they will begin to open aud must advijeare of go«xl roads. G. W. Bradley,
"The band showed up ou time, carri«*«!
and the sa fe bio wed up and not a dol to see to his tire«. I knowed tim e of did not i>oesess. but they were too hap come down 16th and g«»ne up one side b«*u made in our kuowl«*dge of the lu-
be sent to the table at once, six apiece «if Newtown, «ays: “ You can't make
out
its
part
of
the
contract
ami
went
lar gene, I could have told it all. The night he did so. seein’ him often from py to care for that. Their wardrobe cr M assachusetts and J«*s’ now dey is •ecta which iuhabit«*d the world mill
ou hot plat«*#. It i# well to have a a good road by hauling loam onto
people of Tiverton ain't done talking , my house across the way through the strikes one as having been decidedly up around Dupon*. Now we d«»ne sw eep ions of years, as geologists believe, tie- into the theater. 1 was on the door that
that I#
sm all red doiley at each plate with loam, or sand onto #an<V*
aDd wondering 'bout it yet, and there window of the bank, but to make sure limited, but at that time it was held 16th and we has to wait till dey come fore the time when man made his ap- night aud by and by I was struck by
what many farmers » h o make roads
which
to
grasp
the
oyster
while
opeu-
the
fact
that
the
Ottumwa
brass
liand
a'n’t never been no one livin’ as could we stationed a man where he could give that sim plicity should rule the attire t»ack. Den de sweej»ers will get in line p«*arauee uis»u the earth. In that won- 1
Ing. Grilled sardines are also particu do, and are surprised b«*rau#e travel
the signal at the proper time. With of all young girls, so they did not feel and de cyarts will foller along Jes' like «lerful age when the carbouiferou# must be one of the most remarkable larly gotjd with th«*#«* same potatoes; er# over the road# find faulL
tell what it all meant but me.
musical organization# in the <*ountry.
I brought some papers— here they the watchman downstairs and we shut alt&slied in the fresh, sheer white In er pen-csslon."
There 1# Just one way. and only one.
plants, whose remains constitute the
“Rut the«* carts wou't hold much «•«»al txxls of to-day. were alive and Every minute or two somebody would they are very savory, yet easily pre to build a g o o l road, and that Is to hire
are. Judge—where It's all written down in that vault, with solid masonry below dia-uiuslin gowus. relieved with bread
par»#!.
Grilling
is
merely
another
name
and I can sw ear to it if you like. 1 us. twarn t in the range of possibilities sashes, which were their only evening more. One of them Is full to overflow flourishing, the air and the soil were Come up to the «loor with a bras# born
under his arm. wave it at me and sail for broiling, and un!«-#s one possesses a a man who knows how; who has put
don't want them never used, though, for no human to hear us.
wear. These were made with low. ing already.” said the Star man.
animat«*«! by the presence o f fli«*s. grass on into the th«-ater without a word. perforat«-d broiler, not expensive, how some thought into the subject; who
“Ihit's all right, boss, dey all belongs hoppers. cockroach«*s. dragon-flies, spi
unless I die and som ething comes up
’Tw as planned that when we broke square-cut necks and full sleeves gath-
After I had j«a#s«*d in fifty or sixty ever. shap«*d like a waffle iron, which has had exj»erien<*e and Is not t«x» anx
as would make it beet for my family to through the ceiling me and one of the e n d into a puff a little above the elbow. to de gang and dey all sticks togedder. ders, IcM Usts and a**or«*# of other spe
musicians in this way I began to grow <*t»ni«*s on purjxise to cook articles that ious to “ work out his taxes.”—Ansonia
know, though there's this in it I’d ruth-1 others w as to go down first with the
The so-called Empire styles were then kase dey all goes to de 19th street cies which exist but slightly changed a trifle suspicious ami st«>p|M*d an old would slip through the ordinary grid ii ’onn./ S«*utineL
er die than have ’em know. If it s all lanterns and tools and get the door * prevalent, and probably In an exagger- dump. Now dst full cyaht belongs to at the present day. But the insects of granger who was carrying In a big iron or broiler, they may be cooked
V i l n e o f W i<ie T ir e s .
the same to you. Judge. I’d like to tell it . ready for Jim Groogan. the leader of ated form, a* is apt to be the «-a.se w hen de leader, and de heaviest aweepln's those remote tim«*s attain«*«! a gigautic tut«.
easily, quickly aud satisfactorily by
The
farmer
«»rives bi# utnmst to
was
on
his
side
of
16th.
and
he
tilled
to you. Seems like I’d get rid of a load . the gang, to come down and use the fashiou# have to be copied at a dis
size, some of the <lragon-fli«*s uieasur- j “ ‘Excuse me. sir,’ I remarked, ’but proceed¡m: as follows: Make the frying k«*ep up-to-date in hl# methods of farm
and would be happier and die easier dynam ite and be on hand to take out tance not only of thousands of mil**«, fust. But dey all keeps togedder.
ing more than two feet from tip to tip do you play in the band?"
pan or chafing dish sizzling hot, drop ing. and in order to do so. ofttim«*#
"Heah come# de machine« now.” be of their ex(»and«*d wings! The remain»»
feelin’ I’d spoken it all out to one livin’ the money.
but also of a year or more of time. The
in a teaspoonful of sweet butter, or use calls on hl# dealer to “«.•arry” him long
“ ’Nope.’ he answered.
exclaim
ed,
and
the
fam
iliar
sw
ish
of
human.
Lord, but it was just the night for 1 skirts were short, showing not only the
o i th«*#e insects have lM*eu marvelously
“ ’What are you doing with that horn. the oil in which the sardines are pack er than it is either convenient or profit
You’ll be glad to listen? That's good #uch a piece of work, and after I had ! thin slipper, but the clocked silk atock- the horse sweet»ers could lie heard com preserved in the strata of coal and n# k then?1 1 ask«#l.
ed as preferred. The pan mu#t lie kept able to do so. that he may have the lat
ing
nearer.
They
were
preceded
by
the
exam
ined
to
see
if
all
was
safe,
know
of you. I knowed you was a kind man
, ings well above the ankle. an«l were so
“ ’I'm goin’ to go in on It. If 1 can.' he very hot. when the fish will brown al est improved machinery ou the farm.
A
K
i
t
e
a
M
ile
H
i
«
h
.
inspector
in
a
light
buggy.
His
quick
and a just one; that’s why 1 come to ing the dangers better than the others, 1 very scant that It required skill to
most instantly on one side, then turn
It Is all right to k«*p up with the
Siner- an account was given In this ' replied candidly.
you. No, thank you. I don’t smoke: 1 we broke through the floor and lowered ; dan«* in them without rending the eye detected the sidewalk sleepers, and column of the high kite-flying experl- j “ ‘ W hose Is It?* 1 Inquired.
ed. browned ou the other, and they are times, but it should be done in the
his
method
of
«-ailing
them
to
duty
was
put all that money away for my wife the ladder, and there we was—right in slight fabric. Neither of the sisters had
“ ’Blame«! if I know,' be #al«l ’A feller ready to be served ou t«»a#t«-d «-rackers
the vault. ’Tw as well for me I’d hit it a silk dress. Gowns of that material to drive his horse on to the curbstone nieiits at the Blue Hill Ohservatory, j outside there gave it to me aud said I or s«juare# of t««ast soften«#! with bouill- right manner. The farmer with hi#
and children.
experience, ought certainly, by thi#
_____
' right, for my life warn't worth much were hardly «xxisidered suitable for un among them. The men arose one after near B««»tou. all previous record# have could get in with it.’
ion.
time, realize that no other one thing
t>«*eu eclijMied then*. In 1W» tile groat- j
aisah
er
and
picked
up
their
coats
and
married women under 25 years of age.
Do you hear that storm? Outside * any o’ iny plannin’ failed to work,
The butcher will supply marrow enhance# the value of farming land#
brooms. One called out familiarly: «-st elevation reached by a kite was 2.- ' “I left the door and stepped insole
Gowns
of
pretty
flowered
chintz
were
seem s like all the evil powers was let
1 om
a hurry went down
SfKt feet above s«*a-level, or 1.96D feet Just in time to #**«» on«* of tbe lutml boys bon«*s on purpose for grilling, and they, as all the yrar round good road# to the
loose. You can’t judge bout it here. It first and when 1 waa ***** wa-T down worn at home. cx«*pt lu extrem ely cold "Say. fling us a half go's we kin git a
above
the summit of the hill. During drop another horn out of a window into too. fit in excellently with potato«*# in m arket II.# acres may be fertile; the
pint."
com es kind of muffled like through he started back, saying in a hoarse kind weather, when a heavy but soft m ater
the
past
summer half a dozeu time# a the hands of somebody in the crowd their jackets, a# w««uld scallops, done improvement# all that could be d«*-
After the horse sweepers bad ¡»assed
ial known as "stuff" w as permitted.
those thick curtains and it don’t shake ol whisper:
to a gold»*n brown in boiling olive oil. sired. The machinery the late#L w hich
kite was sent up more than a mile i outside in the alley.
they
fell
into
line
in
the
gutter
and
be
“Who called me?”
For driving or walking each sister had
“As nearly as I «-an cah ulate the Ot fried shrimi»#. roasted era It# and the all cotnbioe to make farming a suc
this great house like It does some.
above
aea-level,
and
on
ou
-
ocraston
gan
sweeping
the
dirt
into
little
pile«.
“No one. you fool.” said Jim.
a gown of dark crimson broadcloth.
It’s this kind of night that makes
cess. but what does he profit by large
the height attain«*«! was .'..LU f«*et tum wa brass lan d tliat night must like.
“Then." he said, and he ran past me These were made with d o se sleeves Then the carts came along and the
People who have an open grate with yiel«l# of grain and grass when he is
men huddle together, judge, and plan
als»ve the sea, being VWO feet more have had more niemt«ers than Gilmore
As
The
night's
work
was
continued.
how to get rich and have fine things on the ledder. “someone is down there. coming a little below the elbow, w here, Star reporter stood watching, a driver than a mile al»ove the hilltop. The or Sousa ever dlrect«*d at one time.” — a glowing fire of hard coal, poases# the compelled to ra#h right off to market
means, with the addition of a chafing with it immediately it is harvested,
such as the likes of you. I’ve been Tw ict I heard someone say: ’Go back, as well as around the neck and the bot stopped bis horse at the first little pile experim ents are made with the so- , Chi«*ago Tiuie#-H«*rald.
tom of the skirt, was au edging of
dish, that make p«»#sible the mo«t sav for frar that the “roads will get bad”
through it all; I know. I’ve felt as if I go back.' ”
«•ailed “taill«*sa" or Ed<ly kit«-«, and tlu
of
sw
eepings
He
bent
down
and
picked
“W ell gag him." said Jim, and me swansdown. changed later in the s«*a-
A M o t h e r ’s D u t es a n d C la im s .
had as good a right to 'em as anyone
up a pie<«e of ¡»«per and carefully wljied “box” or Hargrave kit««. The highest ! lu an article deprecating the tendeu«-y ory «upper# imaginable, and may de and he will be unable to move it till
and I was bound to have ’em. too. 1 and him went down tnd turned our s>n for a border of marten fur. Ix*og off bis big shovel, which already shone flight was made by an E«ldy kite. Tin-
light their frien«ls by novel invitations next summer when tbe new croj»s
, of mother# of the present «lay to es»-aj»e to sup. with the words ’•potatoes in n«*ed his attention? Prices are. a# a
warn’t brought up to no trade nor noth- 1 in te r n s round lookin’ everywhere, but pelisses of crimson cloth, lined and
purpose
is
scientific,
as
tbe
kites
«
arry
trimmed with the marten fur, and great like burnished steel in the moonlight.
in’ and fair means seem in’ to fail. I there warn't no one there.
self-rotxirding instruments bv mean# | ! the «*are and re#p«jnsibility of training their Jackets” added. in#t«*a«i of “danc rule, at tbe low««#: notch at this sea
muffs and tippets of the same were Then with one swoop he shoveled the
son of the yrar. yet he dare not take
took to the other.
of which tbe temperature au-1 humidity | j their children. Edward W. Bok. in the ing,” “cards,” or what not.
entire
pile
into
bia
cart.
the risk of bolding, because when the
“W hat’s the matter with the fool?" worn in all suitable weather. The
Yes, Judge. I started out In life a thief
of the air st groat elevations can be , !wdi«*s’ Home Journal, emphasise* the
"Do
you
ever
find
anything
worth
<»ri<«
n
«»r
“
B
r
o
t
h
e
r
J
o
u
s
t
tia
n
."
price# advance som ewhat, the r«»ads
and a robber. I prospered fairly in a growled Jim, and went back and tried crimson velvet bounets were large and keeping'"“ asked The Star man.
nieasun-d
Sometimes the kites i-a#s t ’ dlstin«*ti«>n between a mother’s duties
When Washington, after being ap
sm all way and no one didn’t catch np to send him down again, but be just scoop-like things, adorned with an
through cloutls. tbe thlckm^ss of which i and the claim s upon her time: “* * * pointed general «xnumsudvr of the won't permit bitn to haul.
T
teed
I
ain’t
nebber
foun'
nothin’
ou
The manufacturers have done their
w ith me for some time. Then I'joined wouldn't go. so Jim cursed him and abundance of white «»strieh plumes, but dis job. Some of «le gang does. One of is revealed by tbe record of th? in I When a woman is given the sw«*et«*s:
delight that can <*ome to her. mother- army of the revoluttanary war. rarne part in perfecting road-making ma
a gang In for everything. Lord, but it come himself, and he and me begun not by any means as exaggerated In size de boys pick«*d up $<» one night. What st ruments.
asi
w,‘ru *
years later.
I bood. God giv«*« with that delight a to M assachusetts to orgauize it. aud chinery so well that it bring> the cost
was fascinating! It was like drink; I to get the safe door ready to blow up.
«lid be do with It? ’Iteed you’h too
T h e W o n d e r f o l P h a g o c y te « » .
duty; the duty of a peraooal training of m a k e prejaration# for the defense of of g«x»d roads within the reach of ev
That’s a thing that tak e s time and
A m e r ic a n « as M u s ic ia n s ,
couldn’t give it up and I couldn’t get
hard fer me. 1 d«van* know what he
When a drop of hurnau blooJ is plac
the country, he found a great want of
Madame Emma Calve contributes a done w lf It. cep’n ter keep It. G’long! ed between two plates of glass a *d e x tbe cbikL Before that duty, all outside ammunition and other mean# accessary ery community, and the enhanced val
enough of it. I was in prison and out care. Judge, but we went at it with a
ue of lands lying adjacent to g«*»d
work—I
car»*
not
by
what
religious,
wiU.
and
never
a
word.
It
was
so
still
ou
tbe
-conquering
Race
In
Mu
then, the old story, till I married and
whoa!"
amined with a microa«-ope it 1» seen
to meet the powerful foe he had to run-
you could almost hear your heart beat. sk... tQ tbe
Uonie Journal. In
begun to have little ones.
A fter every “whoa” and before every to contain, beside the minute disks charitable or philanthropic word you tend with, and great d.fflculty to ob road# will alone, many tim es over,
make up the outlay to bndd such
Then. Lord knows what helped me— when all of a sudden came a smothered i wblcb gbe speclaUy addresses students ’’g’long” *ame that metallic ring of the which give It its red color, little w hit ' may rail it—should fall. No matter tain them.
roads, to say nothing of the improved
hi n g d id — and for the sake of my ' cry, loud and clear, like a woman's, of vocal music. She tells of the train shovel as It <aine in contact with the a s ish gralus «wiled "white «*orpu#< I«*#." I what outside work a woman may be
if attacked in such a condition the social relations In the rural «Harriets,
w ife and children, I broke loose from " ’e stopped work and looked at each ing rexpiired for the operatic and the phalt. These are the familiar sounds If the glass Is w anned to a tempera i engag«*d in. the b«*#t can only be a
<*aus«‘ at once might be hopeless, o n the saving in borse-fl«*sh and vehicles,
'
claim
up«»n
her
time,
and
not
a
duty.
everything and came here, where no other. Jim's face white and scared.
concert stage, the Impersonation of that strike the ear of the pedestrian ture equal to that of the human b»xly
this «»asio n . at that anxious per:«M. besides being able to go when you
Lord, what was that?” he said
one didn't know me. to start over again.
character, the value of suggestions, etc., every night as he pass»*# through the tbese corpuscl«**. or phagocyte*, as they , And duties never conflict. G« m 1 give# a consultation of the officers and other# please, winter or summer, and haul
“I often hears 'em on the street like ! and pays this trubute to Ameri«*ans; streets of the national capital, and just are otherwise «ailed, will be s**«-n to put I no more duties to a woman than she
I had some money and opened the res
was had. w hen it s**em«Hl no way could g«x»d loads.
that.*’ I said.
taurant Just opposite the bank.
•T he Americans have, it seem s to me. such unique s«*ne* as the one described out and retract minute processes, has the time or ability to fulfill. The be devised to make such preparation«
One of the first moves in the direc
’T h a t warn’t on the street; It sounded in the field of music, and especially in are enacted nightly, but they are pe which, as If acting the part of feet, exactions of the world are not dut'«*«:
Long as 1 didn't read the papers 1
as were n«»*ssary.
tion
of g«x»d roads for the dealer to
they
are
claims.
If
there
is
time
it
•»
close
by,”
said
Jim.
"We
couldn't
hear
got on well; but let me see them and
the field of vocal music, all the charac culiar to Washington and cannot be enable the phagocyte* to crawl over
J «ma than Trumbull was then Gov make Is to try and persuade every
well
to
meet
them.
But
claims
tieing
I’d hunt through ’em for the robberies, nothin' outside In this place.”
found
in
every
large
city.
tbe
surface
of
tbe
glass.
The
Russian
teristics of the conquering race. They
ernor of the State of Conn«*cticut. and customer who purchases a wagon to
“Nonsense.” I said, “don't yon make are p«j##«*ssed naturally of the most e x
and I’d be crazy, plumb crazy for a
naturalist. Metchnikoff. has discovered man-made and duties lx*ing God-made the general. » ho placed the great«*st re-
A
L
e
t
t
e
r
f
r
o
m
D
r
H
o
lm
e
s
.
use only wide tires. Each farmer w h«>
while, aching to be In It all again. See- a fool of yourself, too. and spoil it," and quisite voices, which, when properly
that the phagocytes in our blood fe«d the former must often be ignored and lian«?e on his judgment aud aUL remark-
uses wide tires will undertake to con
Isabella Graham Murdix-k contrib
should
be
put
aside
where
the
latter
In* ’bout my old pals gettin’ In trouble I went to work again.
upon
the
microbes
of
infectious
dis
cultivated and trained, are almost un utes to St. Nicholas an experience of
«*d:
vince his neighbor of it# advantages,
I
could
see
his
hand
trembled
for
a
<*alls.
Women
should
think
of
this
and
didn’t make no difference.
rivaled: they have indomitable energy, her scho«»l-<lay life, in which she qis>t«*s eases. when such microb«*s are lntre-
"We must consult brother Jonathan and before very long there will be
bear it in mind a little more constantly
Time come, though, when I begun to while and then got steady again.
du«*ed
into
tbe
system
.
Sir
Josr’jib
perseverance and pluck, they stop at the following interesting letter that she
on the subject.”
enough wide tires in the community
'T h at must have come through the
than they do. especially in these days
enjoy life differently, and to feel my
nothing, are deterred by no trouble and recelv«*d from Oliver Wendell Holmes: Lister, presl<l«*nt of the British A sw -
The general did so. and the Governor to speak for themselves in unm istaka
room
upstairs,”
be
said
presently.
self more respectable. The love for
ciatlon for the Advancement of 8cien«.*e. of organizations.”
prevented by no obstacle.
Poverty,
was su«'cessful in supplying many of ble terms regarding their value as g«x»d
Boston. March 15th. 1SS0.
the old life begun ter go till I could ••Queer, though. It sounded so close.”
believes that this action of t i e pha
weariness,
exertion,
hard
work—none
the wanb» of tbe army.
roads promoters.
My
P«*ar
Miss
Isatielia:
Here
is
one
Then
we
worked
on
and
there
warn't
gocytes. w hich Is s«-ientiflcally natn«*d
read about it without gettin’ all fired
t^utte P lain.
of
these
living
spectre#
which
affright
When
difflculti«*#
afterwar.L
arose,
Let the farmer once experienre the
little
ln«-ident
of
my
life
which
I
have
nothing more to be beard. Rest of the
up. I thought then 1 was all right.
“phagocytosis.” "Is the main defensive
A <?oroner In Nevada rerautly rea
and terrify the average a n worker has never told in print:
means jh > s #«- s #« h 1 by the living body soned out a verdict that was more sen aud the army was spread over tbe coun change, and he will not go back to
Then they come here, part of the gang gang might all have been dead men.
When I waa a little boy I got upon a against Its microscopic fo«*s.” When
try. It b e a n ie a by-word. “ We must isud and ruts for winter, and ruts and
I'd belonged to. First I knowed of It for all the sound they made and we terrors f«>r them. Their physique and
sible than half the verdi«ns usually
consult Brother Jonathan.”
dust for summer. He will demaud that
was seein’ ’em In the restaurant. I didn't say nothin*, and so the night their temperament seem made for toll raft one day—a few tMiard# laid t*> ever a wound Is made in any part of found.
The term Yank«*e is still applied to a hi# “district” be supplied with the best
and to surmount discouragement, and getber—which floated about lu a i»onJ the body the phagocytes, like well-
’apicloned they warn’t here for no good went on. ’
A certain Irishman, conceiving that
At last we had It all ready and were the sncceas which they are dally acblev- _ a very small pond, but rather bigger trained soldiers, rush to the breach and a little powder throw n up«>n some w«xxl portion; but “Brother Jonathan" has r«»ad-making machinery. In securing
and it most took my breath away. They
ing.
in
the
field
of
b«»th
operatic
and
round
than
a
dinner
table.
It
was
big
make war upon tbe putrefactive mi would facilitate its burning, directed now become a d«*signatlon of the whole this the dealer must take a hand. He
knowed me quick enough, too. and only waiting for the signal to blow it up
nothin' wouldn't do but I must join ’em. and then—money enough to make us all com-ert singing. Is testimony to their enough, anyhow, to drown a little boy. crobes end«*av«»ring to enter the system . a sm all stream from a keg upon the country, as John Bull has for EnglamL has numerous and able allies in tbe
whe«*lmen throughout the country, and
I was the very man they wanted. 1 , rich. ’Tain't such as you can realize natural fitness for accomplishment, and and cam e pretty n«*ar doing it; for.
burning piece, but not possessing a han«i
N o Id e s o f M u - it* .
I r o n U u a r r ie a .
even though he should d«*cide that he is
could help ’em and I was bound to ’em. the excitem ent and the strain of such to their ability to ex«-el. They seem, while I was sttx»plng over the edge of
Very Interesting facts, not generally sufficiently quick to cut this off he w as
Colonel Burr, of Yirgiuia.
not blessed with a better trade, he at
T w a s the biggest thing they’d under a moment.
To know It’s all there, in fact, to I»e m««#t lavishly fltt«*d by the raft. I sllpp«*d and went souse into
blown in^o a million plec«*#. The fol-
fox-hunter, and loved the sport least can enjoy the consciousness of
snowu.
atiout
tbe
Iron
miu«*s
of
S|>aln.
the
water.
taken yet; the bank. They’d come on : ready, and then to have to wait! It's nature for the parts they are assuming.
lowing
was
the
verdict,
delivered
with
bey«*nd wonts. He owned a fine |»ack having assisted in doing a noble work
I remembeT a groat sound in my «*ar* were discuss«*«! at a recent m«*eting of
to exam ine the situation, knowing easier walkin' over red hot coals. It’s To these gifts of voice, energy, p lw k
the Iron and Steel Institute of Great great gravity by the official:
of hounds, aud. «luring the season,^ whereby all humanity is benefin«*«L —
—"guggle,
guggle,"
I
said
It
was.
when
at#l
|s*r#everau«-e
they
frequently
add
that Mr. Durkee, the new mill owner, all right to go on and work, but to stay
••Can’t I»«* eall«*d suicide, bekase he thought of nothing but his hunters, his Farm Machinery.
Britain. It Is from North«*rn 8paln,
would make a big payment soon and still and only breathe and listen gives a beauty of face ami gra«-e of form and they asked me about It—and a dcaper- in the neighborhood of Hillsm, that the didn't mean to kill himself; it wasn't
dogs, and the weather. He was ou«*e '
movement which the public recognizes ate struggle, feeling that I waa going greater part of the Irou ore tm|x»rt«*d visitation of texl. bekase he wasn’t
the money for it would be in the bank a man the shivers.
A n <.Md F is h .
entertaiuii.g au army friend from T ex
to
be
drow
ned.
Just
as
little
Sam
Childs
as timet Important factors In tbe suc
here. If there weren’t anything else,
Presently Jim caught my arm.
struck by lightning: he didn't die for as. whose idea# of hunting any animal
for
the
use
of
British
steel-makers
Is
in
the
Sea
of Galilee-—or Lake Tibe
that would be a big haul, worth havin'
"Say. 1 thought 1 heard voices, did cess o f the singer s career. They have, had been; and then—all at once my obtain«*d. St«*el is made by the basic want of breath, for he didn't have any involved the use of fir«*-anus. aud who rias. a# it l# often rail«*«!—there is a
whole
¡«
st
life
seemed
to
flash
before
and me bein’ here decided ’em.
too. the temperament which mak«*s
you?” be whispered.
pnx-e## from iron ore containing phos thing whatsoinever to breathe with: had never s»*«*u a fox-hound. He liad strange fish named the Chromis Simo-
I do think the devil brought all his
great artists and great actresses, the me as a train of cars going a thousand phorus; but for the liest qualities of It's quite plain he didn't know what he b«*en with difficulty |x*rsuad«*d to go
“The men upstairs,” 1 said.
ui#. which is more «•arvful of its young
friends and relations with him that
“Sounded down here. Have your artistic feeling which has for its stand mllea an hour. If such a spe**d were pos- steel, which Is made by the«>i»en hearth was about, and so I shall bring in—di«*d forth one moruing with the colonel aud than fish generally are. The male fish
ard.
i»erf«*ctlon.
and
which
is
satisfl«*d
»Ible,
would
pass
in
one
long
crow«l«*d
night to tempt me. I forgot how to pistol ready.”
process, a purer ore must l»e used, and for want of common sense.”
som e frieuds to a m«*et. aud they were tak«*s the egg# in it# mouth and kee[»s
streak before the eyes of a person
sleep and just couldn't stay in bed. 1
I took my lantern and went round the with nothing l«*#s."
It Is that which England Imports from
w aiting imi>atlently for the hounds to them in hi# natural side p*x*kets. where*
standing by tbe railroad.
wonder I warn't In tatters by mo rain', vault again carefully, and then held it
H o w a T«.wi» AV a * N a m e d .
Spain. “Nature,” says the English sci-
take the scent. Presently there burst they are* regularly batched, and remain
I
had
never
h«*ard
that
this
was
a
Storks.
with the devil tuggin’ at me as he did up to exam ine the walls. Then I she ok
"Until a few year« ag«» a little W is u[x»n their listening ears the din of thir
entifle Journal Nature, "seems to have
until able to shift for themselves. By
and try in’ to keep me out of the room my head. There warn’t no way we
The chief places to which the storks, common exp<*ri«*nce with persons who designed the hills of Northern Spain consin hamlet was known simply as
ty <*anine voices in full cry. The col this ingenious arrangement the brexxl
are
n«*ar
drowning,
but
1
have
sln«*e
.where my sleepin* children lay.
so numerou# in Belgium and Holland,
«•specially for the use of the steelm ak ‘Hog Ba« k.’ from the jMX’uliar shais* of
could hear no one.
h«*ard of many cas«-s where the same er.” Until recently practically no e f a hill near there.” said a Milwaukra onel’s eyes gleamed, and. as he settl«*d Is comj aratively guarded against Its
Lord, it makes me creep and perspire
“It’s the queerest place 1 ever was migrate for the severe winter generally
flash of their past liv«*s has «*ome before fort has been made to manufacture drummer. "Finally the citizens held his feet lu the stirrups and stretch«*«! natural enemies: it I# easily fed. too.
all over now to think of it.
in,” said Jim, “and by Jove I’ll be glad experiem-ed in those countries, has been
his arm toward the yelping |»a«k. he but it I# a puzzle how the little on«*«
drowning
people who have been res-
Yer see them bank people come over when we are out of IL Why don’t that discovered by a Belgian nobleman. He
st«*«*l in S|»ain. and most of the ore has an indignation meeting to w I jm * out the cried: "Major, listen to that heavenly
earai** being «*at«*n alive.
to my place for lunch best part of the signal come? Suppoae there's any #uccee#l«*d in catching two hundred of cu#*d and have told about it.
ls*en e x e r t e d to Eugland. The Iron plettelau uatue and cbo«tse a better one. music!" The major pricked up his
You may put tills story in your «*##ay. mines of Northern S{>aiu are described
time, and they all knowed my little hitch? I sw ear I hear voices again.”
“It was decided to honor the place by ears for a ««»»ml or two, and tlieu re
the birds and attached to each, either
A n U n « le rg r« » u n il C it y .
people, and the mill people know-ed ’em,
as t»eiug rather quarries than uilu«*s in giving It the name of the oldest settler,
Just then came the signal and Jim round the n«»ck or on one of its legs, a If you like.
There* is an underground city in Cen
I ge.t a great many letters from young the ordinary s«*nse of the word. "The a man nam«*d Klug. Somebody sug plied: "I can't hear a thing. Those
too. My oldest boy worked in the mill tdgan to apply the dynamite, but bis label upon which was written his own
dogs are making such a u«»ise." The
and they’d been as kind as could be hands trembled so and his eyes looked address, together with a request that I^reons, ami it takes a great deal of my mountains them selves are just h«*aps gested ’King’s Mill«,' and another colonel put his spur savagely into his tral Asia. supl»«»#ed to have lx*en built
before* the Christian era. a# effigies, in
’<* *“ " * "
1
1
.when he’s sick. Christmas time they's so wild and excited, bis own wife anv,.n- who -«ught or killed tbe bird
of Iron ore covered naturally with but •Kingsville' aud so ou. but the old man horse’« side an«l «lashtxl a way. leav
scriptions and «l«*sigus foun«i among
.
,
.
_
„
,,i.e
i
«mite
gmxl-natured
thl#
evening
to
tell
good to him. too, and there warn’t a wouldn't know him.
a thin layer of earth. This is removed, hlm#«*lf objected. Th«*n It was agreed ing his guest to his own devices.
during the winter season would send
the ruins date it back to two ceuturies
aurius
.
.
.
.
.
.
,
,,
_
you
all
this—don
t
you
think
so,
d««ar
bank officer but what bad remembered
and It only reniatn# to break up the ore to nano* the towu for one of Mr. King'«
7
-
“The money, the money,” he whis the label back to him. Indicating the
before* the birth of Christ. The city
Miss Isabella? Very truly yours.
my little people, even to the watchman. pered. "we must have It uow.”
and
load
It
into
fitting
r**«*epta«ies.
daughters.
But
he
had
seveu
of
them,
F o r A « lv e r< is tn g P u rp o s e s .
locality in which It waa found. The
is c©mpo#e«l of loug corri«l«»rs, streets
OLIVER
W
ENDELL
HOLMES.
w hen it Is conveyed dow n to tin* water’s and Jealousies promptly <*roppe«l out.
Seemed like robbing my own people,
Experim ents have lately b«*en made and square*#, surrounded by bouses and
We got out of the way Just in time next spring, one of the labels arrived
somehow, l ’s bound not to inform on an*l then out came the door.
At
last
some
genius
notlecd
that
all
the
edge
by
Its
own
gravity."
In
Switzerland
with
a
view
to
putting
Song o f M ay.
from Western Algeria, and two years
girls were nxl-hea«l«xl. and suggested the lx*autiful lake# of that «.*ountry to buildings, s »me two or threx* stori«*s in
the gang, and they's bound ter rob ther
In Sweden a pretty custom is preva
“The inside door, quick.” said Jim. later another came from the mouth of
height: and by the lx*autifu! symmetry
•Auburndale.’ And Auburudale it is to tmme practical aceouut.
bank, but I cursed 'em In my heart for but the explosion had made that fall the Senegal river. More labels have lent on the first of May. At 12 o’clock
T b e G r e a t G a s In d u s t r y .
of the street# and squares, and other
cornin' just when I was gettin’ rid of inside and we just could lift it out.
this
day.”
The artificial gas interest of this coun
Hitherto three waters have been ad Indications, it is ev ¡«lent that the inhab
been received by the experimenter, all nt night on the 3Oth of April n baud of
the old life for good and all. ’Tw as
mired merely because of their natural itants of this «»id world city had arriv
“Have the bag ready,” said Jim*. as be «•ornlng from the northern parts of the young p«*ople In every town and village try is an exctx*diugly Important and
S le p t a Y e a r .
aw ful!
.
.
. .
lx*autv, but uow some euter|»rising
leaned forward to haul out the great Afriran continent, which clearly shows begin visiting each house in the neigh- extensive one. There are in the neigh-
In Blam het s curious lx»«,k.-‘Compt«*« buglnem meu have dvvi#«*«l a ««heme ed at a high degree of civilization.
Well. Judge, you know bow them piles of bank notes and silver we could that storks follow the course of the borbood. singing the "Song of May” uu- borhood of 1,200 cities and towns of tbe
Rendu«.’’
mention
Is
made
of
a
girl
rooms over the bank was rented to start see by the light of the lanterns.
T h e B ib le .
sw allow s when the Iraves begin to fall til each resident give# them either United States lighted in large part by who at the age of 18 had a peculiar by which they may be mad«* useful for
a new daily paper. 1 made ’em swear
advertising purj»o#«*#.
money or food for the benefit of the manufactured gas. lu addithm there
An ol«l custom still observed in many
“Hands off, or you are a dead man." in Europe.
"spell."
which
the
physicians
prououuc-
solemn as my name warn't to appear
The plan is to paint tb e . words of
May Ball which takes place two days are thousands of homes in which gas
It was a voice that would most have
ed "constitutional lethargic slumber.” the advertisement in big white letters h«»usehol«ls is opening tiie Bible after
nowhere. I’d plan it all out and give waked the dead. I dropped my bag
O n e W a y t o B r e a k G la s s .
later, its expense# being entirely paid |# l»elug largely. If not wholly, employ
breakfast on New Year# Day. The
which lnst«*«l for forty days. Again at on a black hackgrouuil.
’em points and be on hand at the last, and Jim drew back bis hand and caught
It ls scarcely credible, but It ts a fact by the proceed* of this midnight sing- ,Hi for cooking and heating purposes
Holy B«x.k is laid uno|H*ned on the ta
the
age
of
20
she
slept
for
fifty
day#
but I had to be cautious.
When sunk an,l securely held at tin* ble. aud those* who wish to consult it.
bold of me with a grip like iron, and that a glass can be broken by the voice Ing. Over each door the party leave# About >600.000,000 I# inv«*sted in gas Her last recorded "long sleep” lasted
They found out when the money was we began to go slowly back to the lad If you strike a thin wine glaas while a branch of red or white ntuy to bring works property in this country, and tbe
bottom of the lake, the a«lvertisement
almost a year front April 20. 1862, un is perfectly legible, tin* r»*rt«*eti«»n of the oi»en it iu sm vesslou at random and
to be paid and ’greed on the nlgbt be der.
luck
to
the
household
during
the
com-
gas
luterrat
ls
perhaps
second
in
liu-
you bold It by tbe stem It will em it a
in |»erf«*«q sileu«*e. Tl»e iu«|uire*r pla«'»*s
til March. 1863.
light ou passing through the water a Huger on auy vers«» «*outain«*d iu the
fore for the robbery. I had all mapped
portance only to the Investment lu rail
’T h e combination is all right; we certain note— In moat cases a pretty Ing year.
bringing the words near the surface.
out for ’em where and how they were
K issin g.
road properties.
two «»jx'n page«, but without seeing its
have them now; they can’t escape us.” deep one. On approaching the glass
G lue.
It is aun*»unc«*«l that hitherto the ex
to loosen up the boards of the floor In
The gas industries propose to bold au
Japanese girls do not kiss each other,
We were half way up the ladder w hen rapidly to your mouth, and shouting
To make an Impermeable glue soak exi»o8ltlou at Madison Square Garden, nor do parents ever kiss or t*mhrace periments that have beeu made have contents. The vers«* is then read aloud,
their room above, so we could break
and fre»ui it the assembly draw their
we heard the click, click of tbe .lock, into it the same note as loudly as possi ordinary glue In water, until it softens,
been very successful.
through and lower ourselves into the
conclusiona or guidance for the t*omlug
and as we drew the ladder after us we ble, the vibrations of tbe glaaa being and remove It before It has lost It# New York City, opening on Jan. 27. their children. They bow, kneel, #mlle,
vault when the time came. Then you could bear the rasping of the binges of thereby extended. It will be ahivered
1KU7, aud hokllug for two weeks. At and utter polite phrase# with downcast
year.
Eyes.
form. After this, dissolve It In lin
see we’d only have the sa fe to get Into the Iron door.
this exposition will be shown every or avert«*d eyes aud bent head«, aud are
Into fragment#. Thia used to be a fav
Artificial
eyes
were
first
made
In
seed
oil
over
a
slight
Are
until
It
1»
N u tm e g s .
and the great iron door between us and
•’Fly, fly for y<>ur live«; we are dis orite experiment of I^ablacbe, the re brought to the consistence of a Jelly. practical apparatus and appllunce content with this sort of conventional Egypt. They were of gjld and silver,
Nutmegs iu old time# in Eugland were
the watchmen.
covered,” said Jim, as he went around nowned singer, who would thus break, This glass may be used for Joining which cuter# into the manufacture or expression of affi*ctlon.
and subsequently of copi>er and Ivory, used as a perfume. They were* set in
Everything was ready, and we was to warn the men; and in the darkness one after tbe other, as many glasses as
distribution of gas a# au lllumtuatiug
any kinds of material, in addition
A lobster's skin when shedding splits lluudreds of year« later, in the six silver, and ornamented with pearl and
pretty sure the money was paid.
and the wind and the rain they went were handed to him.
to strength and hardness, it has the or heating agent.
down the back and come# off in two teenth century, when they were made
One of the feature# of the exposition equal parts. The tail sll|»s out of tiie in Europe, porcelain was the substauce precious ston«*«. and hung from a lady'#
away and 1 ain’t never seen none of ’em
When women oppose a candidate. It advantage of resisting tbe action of
belt like a undern scent bottle.
will be cooking demonstration# both
Do you hear that storm now, Judge? since. 1 heard, though, as when they is usually because of tom e grudge they water.
used, and the maker usually stainp«*d
shell like a finger out of a glove.
afternoon aud evening, two eom]>etent
There* are* over 3,660 ancient towers
T w a s like that ten years ago to-night, found there warn’t no one there and feel against tbe women folks.
his address on the white of the eye.
A man who comes to tbe front a# a demonstrator« having been secure«!
Our idea of something aw ful would
iu Sardinia, the object of which no oue,
dark as Egypt, with the rain and wind the bank people didn’t know nothin’
Rain falls in the Andes about once in from Aristotle down, has ever beeu able
be to become a great musician with
8wedes believe that the devil has tnan Ls always a little to the front a# a for thia work.
a perfect hurricane; a terrible night; ’bout It till the next morning, they just
seven years.
A g«s tower of large dimensions has long hair, and then get bald
lx)y
power over a child until It Is baptized.
to determine.
th e kind of night for any sort of crime. believed the bank was haunted, sure.
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