Among the Daisied.
A THAMe'S SOl.Il.OQUV.
w hen the tmtnrrtiea come In the mcilder an'
t inaKe It ail ycller IIK poM.
An the t1'ir otit n tin- luster (row white aa
thev slim iy linl.ili.
Aa" tne mliln snV it. is mttnln', au' the fuller
lilnl pimMciis the tin hi.
Or i hp miii overhaul sni ucoikIiiv, or the
whtpiKHii-Hiil ihh ithtuhd.t,
W heu tin' brcetes aotily meander out over the
niedder which she
Hack the tcrfiinn of Sirinu Jnlnln" Summer,
oh then It's blesshr ter live
An' ilream as the I om-s s'lp by.
An' deep In the cloven tin
To watt for the drery rustle o' the brown
leaves by-aa'-by.
Oh folks mm- call me laxv, tin' good fiir Just
nothln' Ht nil
Hut to li out In ihe mottln'-lot where the
daisies rise ami full
An' no! an' blush a murmnrln', "GotHl for
nothln' "! hut jnt
Losftir, takln' life easy while other gather
theUitst;
But when roses borrow a fiupntne-) fn)in the
air, distil It an' jdve
It bak with a double sweetnew, oh then t la
a blessin" ter live
IVtwn mhtst ti e flower o denr.
In the !utmner itm o' the vear,
r while other ure plow in- uie under, I'm
hvin' the daisitw hero
Tea,
be.
an' holes may
Ira full ot
Ire
hide
I'm twnnliesa mav
iimpi) in mv coiUs,
But If I've had little fur breakfast
the m u ir real hoick
O' tli boh-o-ihik an' the sparrow, an
drank o' the mystlt-al vtt
O" the Summer air p-rown ilrowgc, an'
me out o the neat
In the shade o' the beeches an' maples, when
Elves do the the buhn' o' men,
Closln' my eyes an' whispcrln'! "Let them
think w hat they will, un' then
Let them wonder out. over the lea,
Wbith you an' the hlrds an" see
If ever ajntln they'll wonder how a lazy tramp
can be."
Good Housekeeping.
-MARKIED FOR MONEY.
Mrs. Estes looked at her frieud Mrs.
Haslitt a moment and laughed a very
- sweet peal of laughter, indeed.
"I believe" her line eje brows went
op a little "I really believe yes
that yen are in love with vour hus
band! You, Beatrice How-land!"
The younger woman flushed, then
smiled.perhaps a little bitterly.
Is it so very extraordinary if I am?"
: "Verr." . - . . .
Mrs. Estes got up with a rustle of soft
silk. She was a very pretty little wo
man; one who still looked very young.
In her "set" what woman ever ceased
to look young until she was quite, quite
old? She was a divorcee. The fact
obliged her. as she herself said, some
what plaintively, to be very careful.
Standing near the heavy hangings
of the drawing-room door, she glanced
back. Yes, Beatrice was handsomer
than she had ever been. It was not
the marvelous tea-gown alone. The
surrounding of. probably, the most
magnificently beautiful drawing-room
in town did not produce the illusion,
either, though these things were potent.
"Yes, you nre in love with your hus-
uami, Laura repeated, softly, evenly.
"You, who married for money just
for money. Think of it!''
Beatrice Haslitt flushed again;
"Oh, my dear, we both did that. I
think," she replied, coolly. "Only
your marriage was not quite so suc
cessful as mine." -
Would the woman never leave her
alone? Her visits, though thev were
not frequent, threw Arthur Haslitt' s
wife .into a nervous agitation that
would last, carefully repressed as it
was for hours. Ah, bah! What did
it-signify, after all? Laura was a dis
appointed woman. Laura poor
Laura had been a little envious al
ways. Why should she. Beatrice Has
litl. mind what the other might sav?
rthur Haslitt'a wife could afford to
be generous. She had everything
everything-.
A little cathedral clock in a farther
room tolled the hour, and at the mo
ment the hangings of the doors were
pushed aside. The color deepened in
her cheek. Daintily, with the coquetry
of a happy woman, she advanced to
ward her husband. His back was'
turned toward the light. She did not
see his"" face. Close upon - him Bhe
paused and raised her own, all the glory
01 us ueamy. an me nusu ot tier love
"Artharr
With a little langh (she thought it
was a jest) she caught the laiiels of his
eoat in her jeweled hands and shook
nis playfully. 1nen for the first time
Arthur liashtt moved. She saw his
race, and she staggered back.
"Arthur!" sharply, this time.
"No more comedies. please."he said.
The woman gave one glance into his
eyes and understood, it had come;
her past was about to face her. With
out removing her eves from his. she
saDk into a chair. If he would only
not be so calm! She shivered.
"We will make this scene as brief
as possible," said Arthur Haslitt. '-It
is not necessary for me to remark that
I am perfectly aware that men are
married every day for their money. It
is not thought a crime. I happen to
to think differently. For years I
sought a woman who could" not be
bought, v You lied so successfully that
I thought my supreme ideal had been
found in you. A letter written before
our marriage and sent me to-day has
opened my eyes to the truth. The
toonmous hand who dealt the blow I
despise. The proof of my own humili
ation I cannot refuse to believe. The
letter was apparently written to some
foolish lad who loved you. whom you
perhaps loved in return, but to whom
yon preferred Arthur Haslitt because
he had thousands, and you were tired
. -of poverty. My lawyer will inform
you in the course of a few days of the
monetary arrangements made in your
behalf. J I think you w ill find them
ample. I shall myself have left within
half an hour.
Beatrice had not stirred a muscle.
She sat there still, after he had gone,
perfectly motionless. The rumble of
carriages over the stones of the street
came to her ear. The nearer stillness
was unbroken. Suddenly the cathe
dral chimes give one deep, bell-like
note. The half-hour!
- Frantically she started to her feet
and touched the bell.
The servant apieared.
Mr. Haslitt tell him I wish to see
him immediately!"
The impassive face before her did not
move.
Mr. Hashlt has been gone a few
minutes, maciame. '
Gone!
A narrow lane, a wooden ffbrch with
the paint chipped off. a little chill sit
ting room, where a woman sat em
broidering by the failing light.
This was the picture Mrs. Estes car
ried away with her when she went
back to town.
She was a woman whose nerves were
iron. Hai they been less, they might
quivered a little now. As it was,
Laura Estes thought only "What a
fool!"
What fool had Beatrice Haslitt
been to give up everything to which
she was entitled as "Arthur Haslitt's
wife. Of course, it had been done to
show her husband that money was as
naught to her . after all. But it was
Laura Estes' opinion that she might as
well have spared herself such a self
sacrifice. Arthur Haslitt was not soeasilr won
-cfc. No,-nor SO easily won. either!
md here the womau'seyes grew derk.
Was all her scheming to be in vaiuP
J. wo years she had been in Paris now,
and Haslitt had been there also. But
she was no nearer to her goal. And
what was her goal? Her divorce had
been pending when she first met
hur Haslitt. She had then and
determined that so soon as she
- e she would marry him. She
loved any one in all, her
' life: but she loved him.
She facet f hint
When lie married Beatrice Howlaml It
hud been a blow which she had sworn
to herself mulling would ever make
her forget or forgive. She would sep
arate them sho Mould lorcn him to
loe her! Women there me as un
scrup.ilouM us this, and ue un-et theiu
rer) d.iv. '1 hey w ear n smiling faet,
and who Mip et I leniV
Mrs. Kic mm-, i'oiiijf toi' e Imll ilmt
night, ll.r n. a id on her care
fully as u-ii.il. M.ie uiiiv j.Mvels in her
hair, lb rexes tic. c.c.,i. hcr color
lovely. There was no prettier woman
present.
One man's eyes watched her care
fully, ceaselesfy, ns she moved about
the room. He did not auproach her
yet; he bides his lime, and toward the
close of the nilit it came. ,
Mrs. Estes looked up, to see a tall,
grave man standing before her. For
an instant the lovely color fluctuated.
"Frauk Gordon! "My dear cousin,
yon here? The world thought you
tn 1'atagonia.or heaven knownVhefe!-'
"I have relumed. Will von upt
give me a little of tour society?"
He stood wailing. Laura passed her
hand under his arm. Hevoud the sup
per-room was a small conservatory; he
led her directly there,
with a steady smile.
"Dear me! how dramatic toll look!"'
she half sneered.
Gordon paid no heed. He was still
a very young man; but there was
those lines in his face that come onlv
from suffering.
"Six months ago," he. began, "1
met iu South Africa a friend of Arthur
Haslitt. From him I heard of his sep
aration from his wife. The cause was
understood to be a discovert- on Has
litt's part that his wife had married
him for his monej-. Magnificent fel
low as Haslitt was, no one wa sur
prised, for that one sensitive point of
his amounting almost to a mania, was
known. On returning home a month
ago. it became necessaay for me to
look over a chest of old papers I had
left behind on goingto South America.
Among them was a little bundle of let
ters very precious to me. There were
only three or four short notes and one
letter, to be more accurate. That one
letter was gone!"
Yes, Laura Estes' nerves were iron;
but this was too unexpected. Her
cousin looked into the haggard face
and read the confirmation of his sus
picion there,
"And you." he went on "you took
it! Jo one they told me, had access
to the house but von. And vow sent it
to Arthur Haslitt. The remembrance
flashed upon me that his friend down
there in South America had said some
thing about a letter. It was a clever
plan, Laura yon always were clever."
He turned a"nd left her a crouching,
fierce-eyed creature, the delicate touch
of rouge ou her lips looking ghastly in
contrast with with her livid cheeks.
, .
"Mr. Haslitt has just returned from
Europe. He sees no one." said the
clerk, "except on very particular busi
ness." "This is a particular business."
A few moments later ("onion was
nsnVred into Arthur H.tslitt's presence.
He knew him by sight, though the
kuowledge was not mutual. Could
two years have made the change in
him he saw? Why not? What had
the last three years been to himself?
"My name ts Gordou." said the
younger man. "I am a cousin of Mrs.
Estes."
Haslitt bowed.
A flash of light went over Arthur
uasiitt a lace.
'"Then I think we can have nothin
much to say to each other."
. .L ' . . I ....
-oiay: ne nave, mucin You re-
ceived a letter addressed to rue. It is
but right you should see this one
well. It has never left me for three
years. It was written, observe, after
me nrst."
The second teller lav Iwforw Arthur
tiaslitts eyes the second letter in his
wiles handwriting addressed to the
same man. For an instant there was
a savage impulse upon him to spurn
it, to tread it under foot. Then sani
ty, 6ome measure of common sense,
triumphed. He raised the letter with
a band that shook.
CATS AND RABIES.
Kllllnr tha lr Whloli Mlir a I'erson T
tha Wrong. VIiIiir . !).
be-
"IBX Frank: . We have beea frood friends
tiCTuiin.-c b were emioren, ami so t tnut
uru w yon now. ou lia ve been f(X)!i-h
eooug-n io tninx that you caret! lor mi In at-
uturr way; um you win reel dint-Tvui y wime
m-y , uu meantime, wniie 1 can never ve v
as you mean. I shall always care for you ni
"J I nrnii. i wrote vou a lelt-r lot
so lonr afro when you flivt asked rite to tnarry
you. Do you rt-member? In 1( 1 t..li)..t:l
would never marrv anv but a rieli hu-l.aii I i
waseo weary of Uii.-j (imr. N.v.v. 1
BuiiiciuuiK cry umt-jwii to s:iy, a."..t I mv ,t
uibi you may Know iiiat it is not ( vcrty U.t
kept me from lovlnir you. This man. whom I
first thought of marry hiir onlv tar money
this man. Frank. I have come so to love that
now should he ask me to to:low him barefoot
irom aoor to uoor tlirourh tne world. I would
fro, and think myfe:t liai i-ier than any queen.
too not say tins to lm:t you, poor boy; but
that you may do me a little Justice in spite of
mean nit cnmiiiii; louy or my ist words.
UK ATUI. E.
"That you may
tice."
do
me a little jus-
The paper floated from Arthur Has
litt's hand to the floor.
A bare little hou.e on the outskirts
of a suburban vHlage. and a woman
embroidering by the failing light.
The light grows more and more dim
before the night shadows ' and by and
by the tired eyes turn away ami the
hands drop listlessly in the lan.
Oh, the weary years that stretch lie
fore! Beatrice Haslitt lavs her head back,
and between the half-closed
things burns that cannot drop.
J here is a snap of a -!osiur o-atc n
step on the walk, a hand Oil I hi drwit
It is Half-open. Some one enters. Hp:,.
trice for the first time looks no.
"Beatrice! My wife! Forgive!"
Thumb-Nail I'loturea.
In collections centuries old, to be
seen both m China and Japan, are
specimens of the most remarkable
drawings in the world pictures of all
kinds drawn with the thumb-nail. The
nails of the thumb on the left hand ot
these peculiar artists are allowed to
grow to an enormous length, some
times to a foot or eighteen inches, and
are then pared down to a pen-shaped
point. Dipping this oddly constructed
pen in beautiful vermillion or sky-blue
ink. the only kinds of ink used in those
"sacred" thumb-nail dratviugs, the
artist gracefully outlines his work.
Occasionally the bold touches from the
studio of a master in this department
of "high art" are life size, and are
sketched by a few sweeps of the artist's
arm. - Like other pictures and sketches
of the orient these sacred thumb-nail
fiictures are mounted and rolled up
ike scrolls, St. Louis Republic.
"Traveiinjc StoAes."
The curious "traveling stones" of
Australia are paralleled in Nevada.
They are described as being perfectly
round, about as large as a walnut;. aud
of an ivory nature. When distributed
about on the floor, table, or any othur
level surface w ithin tw o or three feet
of each other they immediately benn
traveling toward each other until thev !
meet at a common centre and there
huddle up in a bunch, like eggs in a
nest. A single stone renu. ved to a
distance of four feet, upou Ix-iuo- re
leased, returns to the heap, but if
taken away five feet remains motion
less. It is needless to say that they
are largely composed of magnetic iron
ore.
Do not permit a too faniilinrit v
tween t our eats and do;;s.
i in toruier are nil right nnd w on't
gel rabies, unless they me bitten by
one in men- nniuiMi enemies. So, at
least, say Dr. Giluer. chief of the New
l oi'K 1 asienr Institute, mid when he
talks about h dropholoa other ier-
are epecien to stand irom omler.
1 he occasion for this assurance of
the hydrophobic safety of cats was a
case whic i Dr. (Jibier received last
Wednesday, in w hich a woman about
30 years oid was bitten by a pet cat
ami came lo the physician for treat
meet. 1 lie luting occurred about leu
days be lorn, and from the woman's tie
senption of the cat's action the Doctor
had no question that the animai was
siiiiering irom rabies. In fact, the cat
tlied from them three days aflcr the
luting.
The patient, whose name is withheld
ny request, described Ihe bilingashav
lug occurred w hile she w as attending
to her Housework. llu cat, which had
always lieen a pet, was seized with
spasm and rushed about the room with
her tail greatly enlarged and the hairs
t-i isiling ou her back. She. suddenly
... i - . . . . .
moppcu, ami aner crouching on the
floor sprang at her mistress' throat
1 . . . r .i. i . . . . , . .
i.icctaiiiig me tatter s snouitiers very
severely with her teeth. The wounds
were cauterized. t
x ue. cat rusneu into a closet and re
mained three days in rapid! v succeed
ing spasms, (lying with every evideuce
of hydrophobia.
The victim was of a nervous temper
ament and was prostrated. When she
caned upon lr. Gibier.she had already
reached the dangerous period for the
development of the disease and she was
inoculated with a greater quantity of
the virus than is usual in the first treat
ment. Ihe patient received other in
ocnlations yesterday roornino- and
evening and expressed herself as being
much quieter anil stronger.
i no nonor is comment that his
patient w ill not sutler seriously from
her experience.
I asked the doctor.on behalf of those
women whose affections can be only
contented with a feline, whether there
was danger from cats contracting
nines "niiuiu naving oeen miien bv a
dog. lie replied in the negative.
"IJogs are the only animal who actual
ly generate the disease." he said, "and
so there need not lie any fear of an
epidemic of hydrophobia from all the
cats going mad. Should a dor bite a
cat and that cat go about biting other
cats, there might Im some danger, lie-
cause cats are kept more w ithiu houses
man are tiogs.
'the t real men t for this case, which
is the nrst that has lieen brought to mv
attention while Iu this country, will !.
exactly similar to those of dog bites.
The poison is the same iu all cases aud
int? auimoie is me same, ihe patient
...mi I..- :.. ..i . . t . .
iu w: itiocuiateu lor the required
fifteen day. and then will be considered
sale. '
i rames. as manifested in e.n
appear differently than in dos?" I
asked.
"I he symptoms." th Doctor replied.
.... ii.. . I. . - 1
fie iicuctotit me same in very im
portant aspects, but cats are more fierce
ana their excitement much greater.
1 nev have a fashion of ormn . i.;-
t-neatis, too, when thev are dangerous.
ami ot course show the usual trailing
saliva which the contractions of the
inroat compel to be ejected."
t: I. t i . . . .. - i . ... ...
u'iuuiu a cat til ,tlK tlniJC WTItelt &
ra ma nog has lasted . . I dropped
saliva in, the former might contract
raoies.
"The whole thing resolves itself into
this, said the Doctor; "without do3
vou won t get hydrophobia, and so the
best way to stamp out the disease is
tor Americans to do as Is done in
Northern Germany that is, keep the
dogs muzzled all the time in the cities
and also in the country. Then vou
.-am. ei uie raoies. i ne most insane
thing for persons who are bitten to do
is to kill the animal. If thev shoot the
dog how are thev to tell whether it has
rabies or not? Let it live, and then if
it dies with hydrophobic symptoms
mere is aeciueti reason why you should
rake ail seientihc safeguards to save
yourself from a similar fate." A. I
Herald.
DESTRUCTION CF FORESTS.
Bad KRaets of ThU Vand illmn on tha Cli
mate of tha Country.
Floods, cyclones and droughts belong
iu tun euiute laititiy.
i ue ax is intnerui inem an. unman
stupidity is their mot her. Nature is no
more to blame for them thau the
blind earth which thn dig rer under
mines till it falls ou hint.
l ne ax Kins trees. Willi the trees
unco mo snow s oi wmicr melt more
Itiickly under the rain and snow of
early spring. With the trees killed
wamps, fallen logs and leaves that
once heid back the waleix for months
no longer act. Ihe water, rush to
their main al outlets without oppos
uou. i no rapid transit of Ihe witters
clogs the great natural channels, and
they orerllow Into new ones, carrying
devastation wherever thev rush. "The
more the nt 1 used the higher rise the
waters. , Had goes on to worse. The
nd no human wit can foretell.
l he destruction of the forests has
ruminated the principal factor in mod
"i "' A "' mot einciii ot I lie nlr cur
rents, accord tig to the Cleveland Press.
Like the trade winds ou the ocean, the
air currents over sections denuded of
lorests llow freely and persistently for
long periods without change. As
mange is necessary in the movements
of the air in order to have change iu
the rainfall, it follows that persistency
in mi- mi-reius caused uv lorest dC'
structlon means long "spells" of drv
ness at one period and long "spells" of
wet at another. Thus floods are some.
times aggravated as much by unusual
wet "spells" as by the rapid transit of
mo waters to their natural channels in
consequence of conditions just men
tioueu. Vi heu both pauses conjoin
terrible floods are inevitable. Destruc
tive droughts must follow excessive
rainf ills, for the average rainfall varies
out little from year to year in a giren
locality. An excess at one time means
a scarcity at another.
42- . I.. - .
ou, tuu, cii-ioues. like simoons, im
only possibly where enormous areas of
country uubroken bv forests eist.
Tk. ... : .. I . i.
x uc nuiua gamer lorce as tney go, or
rather freedom to move easily, which
means that they will go quicker than if
obstructed, a point of refraction
means mat me surrounding atmos
phere will rush in to restore equilibri
um. If there is uothing to oppose the
oucomiug nir. it win move rapidly.
I he forest is the greatest of modifiers
to Wind-storm, holdui'r them l....lr
and checking them, and, doing so, tend
to modify sudden and rapid cases of
rarefaction.
I he Hood, drought and ct clone, ad
monish the people of the United Statea
to oe wise, if they heed not t in ad.
mnnitiou they must pay the penalty.
l'l. 1 7 1. .. .
spectacle presented in me vai era
oi me siississippi and its tributaries
aud along the track of the cyclone that
devastated Louisville should be enough
to cause some serious thinkin!?. These
sjM'etacles can be excelled. Give the
ax time and bribe it to do its uttermost
ami horrors now seen will be mercies
compared with horrors that will inev
itably ioiiow.
A Nation of Tea-Drinkcra.
A Ktory of Mnv Cleveland.
An old
days.
flame The light of other
a . . . .
ai one or airs, need s commence
ments I remember an interesting ad
dress made by Bishop Fottor to the
graduating class. He forebore the old
time theme of their sphere, their first
duty to their ow n homes, their useful
ness m society. He said: "Make the
world somewhat different because of
your presence in it! Do not Pattern
aner mose around you. Kather stamp
. i . -, . . .. ..
jourowu individuality upon them."
oiutt ami nousense. whispered an
old society lady to me. "Individualit v
forsooth! As soon as thev wake up to
morrow morning thev will studv the
Wall street calendar am find out what
oung member of the stock exchange
it will be worth their while to le agree
able to."
I gave her one of mvsaintliest looks
I thought her altogether horrible and
o she was.
Beside me sat a lady whom I recor
nized at once as being a polite French
woman, to whom I might lie civil
without the chance of a rebuff nnd
taking refuge from the blase, old
Mrs. Worldly-wise, I ventured a pass
ing compument to the beautv of the
girls and their interesting exhibition.
Ah, madanie." she answered, "the
American girls are charming and
good! I have taught them, madame.
Thev know how to be e-raeious "
You know the world is a lookinir.
glass,"' I insinuated.
Ihe little bit of tlattcrv warmed
her into confidence and she told m ah
had taught the young wife of the late
Democratic President.
When I heard she had arrived in
New York en route for her weddinr I
took her a'little bunch of w hite roses.
Uid you not read, madame. that sho
carried white roses in her hand when
sne leit lor W ashington P Those were
my roses! When I gave them to her
1 said: "Quel bonheur pour vous.
Frankie! Le President! Le President.'"
" Ce n'est pas Le President.' she
6aid. -C'est un homme honnete!' She
had the great soul to think most of
this." Alpha, in Home Journal.
Queen Victoria's Old Age.
Queen Victoria at the age of seven
ty-one is a very plain old lady, and
she was by no means good-lookinr
muiy years ago, wnue she was still in
the prime of life. She suffered a great
deal from attacks of erysipelas, which
reddened and coarsened her skin. She
lost her teeth very early in life, owing
to the use of a camphorated dentifrice
to which she took a great fancv and
which proved most pernicious." But
from her accession at the age of eight
een till she was twenty-five or twenty
six the Queen was a very pretty j-oung
woman, fresh and fair, with soft I.Iua
eyes, a small, rosy mouth and the
loveliest arms and shoulders imagina
ble. Her lack of height was always a
great drawback, and was the cause of
her delighting in giving grand fancy
costume balls, at which she was wont
to appear in a court toilet of the
eighteenth century, the high-heeled
shoes which must perforce be worn
w ith such a dress lending a very be
coming addition to her stature Lon
don Letter.
What au English home would lie
without tea, I cannot imagine. What
England itself would be without that
beverage, it is dillicult to conceive. It
is no exaggvratiou lo say that one
might as well try to faucy New York
City w ithout a bar-room. They drjnk
enough liquor in Etisrl.nnl. Ifeaioo
knows enough to flout our navv. lint
the liquor-drinLing i incidental" while
tea-drinking is apparently essential
the national life. " Where' we see ad
vertisements f patent, medicines in
America, they sce'it.lvci -tiscinent n
tea." "Woiule'rfiil tea" "IVtlon Tea"
these words stare at ihe British from
every (lead-wall, on every "bus. in ev
ery newspaper, and no foreigner can
escae the actual substance ur fluid
any more th tn the native can avoid
the advertisements. You have tea for
breakfast, tea for luncheon, tea at late
supper, lou only miss it at dinner.
but meanwhile vou have had it at live
o'clock. If you call ou vour banker
in his office. on your frieud" iu his home.
on your fellow-lodger in vour hotel, he
rings a bell, and tea is brought iu with
tliiii slices of buttered bread, or, if
ladies are present, with larts.
W hy. the editor of one of the prin
cipal newspapers iu England lold me
tnat every man-jack in his establish
ment clerks, reporters. publishers
and editors has i. a at lite o'clock ev
ery day as sure as that hour arrives.
And it is a most excellent practice "
said he. sippiug from his own cm,
his tlelightlul hcine; "for it brinirs nil
the people together as itothiu-' else
could do. and we find oul from one no.
other just what each one has been do
ing or is going to do during the day."
jea: tea: tea: , as ever a nation so
involved? W hatever thev do. where.
ever t.iey go. I hey have their lea. There
is no C ommodity or habit in America
lo liken to that in England. Thev can
uoi eai wimotit it. visit without it.
.isst-moie at nouic without it, picnic
wiiuouiii, or attend to business with
out it.
Aud such tea! 1 hey say w Amer
icans tlo not know tvhat tea is. If thev
w, we cei laniiv o not. for never
nave 1 tasted such lea as 1 got nearly
everywhere in England such biting,
strong, uerve-niurderiii"'. sleeo-tlrs.
pel ling, th ug-like tea. 1 had to w eak
en it at least one-half, anil theu I round
it aromatic and pleasant that is to
say, as nearly pleasant as that sick
. ... i . -
loom iiecocuon ever can be to a mas
culine, coffee-drinking American
Julian Ualph. tn Harper's Weekly.
MISSING LINKS.
Mr. Justice Lamar has received the
degree of LL. D. from I'.mory College,
Georgia."
Queen Natalie of Servia has had her
life insured for f '."00.000 for the benefit
of her son.
A colored mau nt Albany. Ca.. lias
served no less than tweutv-one terms
'n jail for lighting.
Mr. Gladstone, despite - his vast
wealth, is almost penurious in per
sonal matters. He 'wears his clothes
until they nro threadbare, shiny, and
shabby.
The Duke of Edinburir. besides lelnT
a clever violin player, is au enthusias
tic postage-stamp" collector. All Him
members of the roval family have cer
tain hobbies.
Lord Tcunvsotl Is an ei-.tliiishisl!..
friend of all birds that fly. A friend
lunching with him the other day re
lates the poet's indignation on henrinir
that a hawk had been shot. "
The Duke of Fife is deenlv interenled
In Otie Of the Companies now enrarr...l
In exploiting Eastern Africa. Besides
this, he Is oue of the largest owners ol
founders' shares In London.
Sir Ed w in Amohl has been offered
1100,000 for his new poem of 6.000
lines, and if ho understands the sci
ence of finance as applied to his own
poeketbook he will take the money.
Ex-Senator Fair, according tn thn
Jewish I'roqrcss. of San K
"has so much regard for the tireneni
of Judaism that he is contemplating an
early entrance into the path that leads
T..lr
10 tiuuaisin.
The Chinese Emperor has lust con
ferred upon the shade of the late Mar
quis Tseng the brevet title of "Junior
Guardian of the Heir Apparent." It is
only the heir that is apparent in the
combination.
Catherine Mevers. a vniinir lad of
Virginia, spent some lime with her
brother's family in Philadelphia, and
became so infatuated with citv life that
she committed suicide rather than re
turn to her home.
Tasteur has treated durinc the last
tnree years 7.n.l persons h i ten bv mt.l
dogs, ami of this number onlv thirty
thiee died. These figures "seem to
overcome the theory that the Pasteur
treatment is not effective.
Gen. N. B. Forrest, who was a llsht.
n iioin w ay oacK in me lie Pel armv,
but whose early education had been
sadly neglected, once remarked that
success in battle largely depended upon
"getting there first with the mostest
men."
Abraham Emerson, of Caudia. N. II
is the sou of a soldier who fought at
Bennington: and is 90 years ofd. In
spite of that great age he is in excel
lent health and is uncommonly spright
ly. He may any day be seen at work
on his farm.
Toscanelli has published a uamnhlet
In which he states that last year the
Po was about leaving Borne w ith the
assistance of France, when he was I
warned by the Italian Government i
that the atican palace would be ei.
ed and occupied the hour he vacated
it.
The Princess Louise has more skill
than an Indian in handlin? a canon
and often lands without assistance a
salmon weighing as much as thirty
pounds. When she kills a particular
ly line fish she carefully ttacka it in !.
and sends it to her royal mother, the
Queen.
King Humbert's decreased allowaneA
of cigarettes has improved the condi
tion of his melancholia. This lesson
should not be lost on the vouth of the
period, w ho could decrease the mel
ancholy otherwise adjacent to them, so
to speak, by letting up on cigarette
smoking.
most interesting old mansions in Scot"
land, w here Mary Quoen of Scots wj
lodged during her. progress through
the uorlhcrn counties iu l.'iU'J.
Capt. Thomas Sherman, of Chelsea,
Mass., can claim honors ns au excellent
swimmer, though lie Is 83 rears old.
He was tisiiing a friend. Dr. A. 8.
Davis; of Islcsboro, Me., and when
ready to lake thn Belfast steamer
found that the only boat available
from shore had iis mooring- line
caught, lie promptly stripped, swam
lo tiio boat, cleared her tiwur." anil
C0TTRELLS IN FLORIDA.
A Ju.lco Who Had tha Interest or tha
Htata at Heart.
DICKENS AS A DINER.
His Prlda In Making- a Certain Dclletoa
Oln rnoeh, '.
rowed lo the shore.
Rear, Cattle, and Itulldog.
A few days ngosnys aScranton (Pa.1
lotlcr to the N. Y. bun. Charles and
Robert Klple, thrifty Monroe county
farmers, brought up" a lot of young
cattle on the Pocona plateau, and
started to drive them to their farm in
the neighborhood of Kunkletown. A
brindled bulldog accompanied ' them.
Ihree miles south of Honser's mills the
cattle came to a halt and partly turned
around, and the men had all they could
do to keep them from stampeding
After they had got the cattle headed
right again they saw what had caused
the scare. A few rods away an old she
bear was sitting in the road, and on
each side of her there was a cub, and
all three of them were looking at the
frightened cattle. The young men
couldn't get the drove to budge from
where they were, so ther sent the don
ahead to drive the bear "family out of
the road.
The dog bounded forward, and
when the bears saw him eomin" they
got down on all fours aud stared at
him. making no move to get out of the
way. Instead of pitching at the old
bear the bulldog collared oms of the
cubs and began to drag it toward the
log fence, bu'. he hadn't gone far with
tlus squealing little brute before the
mother bear tackled him aud made
him let go. That waked the bnlldo"
up and he whirled nod got a hold on
the oldnbear's flank. The cults van.
ished like partridges while their mother
was raging and trying to shake the dog
off. aud for a minute the old bear and
the dog had it hot and heavy from one
side of the road to the other.
Finally the bulldog settled bis teeth
into the lears nose, and the noise and
efforts she made to fling him away ex
cited the curiosity of the cattle to such
a pitch that they set up a bellowing
rm cantering toward the
belligerents with heads and tails in the
air. The young men hurried after the
drove, intending to keep it on the
move until it had passed the bear, but
the ringleaders halted as soou as they
had reached the fighters, and the whole
procession had to stop.
Just then the old ear shook the dog
loose from her bleeding nose and
threw him over the fence. She then
started for the opposite side of the
road, but the ringleaders headed her
off. and a moment later the whole
herd was bellowing furiously and en
deavoring to get a whack at the bear.
J hen the dog returned, and the cattle
separated, when he again tackled the
bear and got a broken back from one
of her paws. Before the cattle had
time to close up their ranks Charles
Kiple dashed ahead of them and tired
five revolver-bullets into the bear's
head. 'I lien the young men w hipped
the drove iuto a run aud left the dead
dog aud the dead mother bear lvin"
by the roadside. " "
Am Ma
njr Liivea as a Cat.
He Understood Coons.
Bob H. is a stable-keener no in Vetv
ii ,. . . .... .
liampHuire. uou is also quite a coon
hunter and keeps a pair of coon doo-a.
which he thinks are not to be beat.
One night some parties caught a line
coon alive anil brought it to Jlob's
stable and put it iu a barrel. Bob
brought out the dors to show what.
they would do with Mr. Coon. The
barrel was tinned down on thn sid
and one of the dogs told lo take him
out. The coon was not in Ihe mood to
come out just then, ami Zip p-ot the
worst of it and could not take, him out.
Old Zack was brought up and told to
take him out, and in went his head.
The coon was there, and after a des
perate lussel the dog gave up the job
as a bad one. Ihe crowd here became
jubilant over the defeat of Bob's dogs.
Just then Farmer II. came alono-iuid
asked. "What's the matter?" On be-
ug told he said, "That 'enlo'r of mine
cau take him out," pointing to a cross
between a shepherd aud lust dot for
the other part. "Bet you $o0 he can't."
says Bob. "I guess "l can kiver that;
put up Ihe pictures," the old man sava
aud to Bob's astonishment out cam,
the greenbacks. The money was out
in a third party's hands. Oti time be
ing called. Farmer H. takes his do--by
the collar and head and backs hiuiTuto
the barrel. When he conies in con
tact with the coor. the coon iusffastens
to the dog's rear. With a howl of as
tonishment the dog gives a jump, and
out comes Mr. Coou la-fore he knews
what's up. The dog turn on him, and
before he gets over his astonishiueut
he is a goue coou." "Well, I never
squeal, old man." says Bob. "The
money is yours. But I'll be hanged if
there ain't more than one way to't'-ct a
coon out of a barrel." Forestand
Stream.
In France the copyright of an authoi
is for life.
Gen. W. T. Sherman's annual s.abirv
as General uf the Arm-, which ofllce
has been abolished and which title will
die with him. is 115.000. II has no
duties to perform and a clerk to help
him to perform them, which makes it
3uite pleasant for the old hero in bis
eclining years.
Sig. Arrigo, the Italian banker just
ransomed from Sicilian banditti for
the round sum of t2".0n0 in gold, says
that his captors kept him iu the bottom
of a dry well, where thev furnished
him regularly with foot!. At the end
of a certain time, unless ransomed, he
was tn be killed.
Baron Liebig, the German chemist.
ays that as much flour as will lay on
the iMiiut of a table-knife contains as
much nutritive constituents as eight
pints of the best beer matle. All of
w hich may be true, but beer will cou-
linue to have the call over a pinch of
notir ior general purposes.
Prof. Burt Wilder of Cornell Is mak
iug a collection of brains. He wants
brains other people's. He is especial
ly desirous that editors should leave
their brains to him w hen thev go iuto
the obituary department. Biit by the
lime the average editor dies he has al
most used them up in the service of
humanity.
Senator Evarts has recently pur
chased and fitted up at considerable cx
jieuse a commodious log cabin on the
minks of the Potomac adjacent to Fort
Washington ami opposite Mount Ver
non. Besides this establishment thn
Senator has residences at Montpelicr,
Vt., one in New York City, and one in
Washington.
Ida Lew is, at New pott, is the onlv
womau lighthouse-keeper iu the Coun
try, and the last, it is said, to whom
will lie giveu a light by the Govern
ment, it is said also that no light on
all the coast is more perfectly attended
to than is hers, and the Government
Inspector always gives her au uu usual
ly high report.
Ward McAllister tells the fashionable
youug men firmly, but kindly, that
they must uot have valets. "No gen
tleman should permit himself this sort
of association," he says, aud there are
those who dare suggest iu this connec
tion the principle of self -preservation
and the old saving that no mau is a
hero to his valet.
Olga Loubanouski, a young Russian
of high birth, has started from St.
Petersburg oji a journey to Odessa on
norseiiacK'. She Is 19 years or age and
has wagered 60.000 rubles on the ui.
cess of her trip. She is accompanied
by a committee charged with tho duty
of seeing that the terms of the waer
are complied with.
The Rev. Charles Weston, a Wiscon
sin minister, has married his wife,
Stella Weston, nine times in nine
years. Recently ho requested her to
go through the ceremony for the tenth
time, whereupon Mrs. Weston tiled suit
lu Providence, R. I., and asks for a di
vorce instead. She is -of the ouinion
that the honeymoon ought not to have
too long a run.
Miss Margaret Alford. the vounv
niece of Dean Alford. who has lost
taken first rank as a classic at Cam
bridge, has never found that sthdv in
terfered with her health. She has
studied about eight hours a day ou an
average, and enjoys long walks and
plenty of open-air exercise. She is also
fond of music, and used to find time to
practice the violin.
The Duke of Fife continues to sell off
his agricultural property and manors
iu Scotland iu a way which indicates
that he is pressed for cash. He has
t'nst parted with the fine estate of
tothiemay, which has on it oue ot the
The blow of a bullet will ordinarily
paralyse so many nerves and muscle"
of a white man as to knock him down,
even though no vital part be hit, The
Indian gives little heed to such wouud9
and to "drop him in his tracks" the
bullet must reach the brain, the heart
or the spine. -I have seen an Indian
go off with two bullets through his
body," writes Colonel Dodge, "within
an iuch or two of the spine, the only
effect of which was to cause him to
change his gait irom a run to a digni
fied walk."
A cavalry force of some twenty-five
men surprised a small party of Indians
in a thick chaparral, through which,
however, there were numerous glades
and opeuings. The Indians scattered
at once, and the soldiers separated in
pursuit.
After some time, w hen the cessation
of bring indicated that the affair was
over, the commander had the recall
sounded.
Soon one and then another came,
uotil the w hole command had assem
bled, wheu, to the gratification of the
officer, almost every man claimed to
have killed an Indian. They went to
collect the liodies.
On reaching the first one it was
found that nearly every soldier claimed
to have killed him.
A Sergeant dismounted and ap
proached the body. The prostrate In
dian roe up and dealt a vicious blow
with his knife, which the Sergeant
barely escaped. When the Indian was
finally killed, it was discovered that
he hud no less than seventy wouuds.
One bullet, probably the first one,
had broken his hip aud thrown him
from his horse. After that he had
shot at every soldier that passed near
him. attracting attention and being
"killed" again and again, only to rise
up and light the next soldier who came
along.
Instead of twenty Indians the sol
diers t u i I one.
Notrel Way to Subdue Dogs.
A gentleman w ho has had a good
deal of experience in the man aire men t
of dogs says that the most vicious
brute can be conquered Seedily by
any owcrfiil odor, especially a pun
gent odor like ammonia. " He tells
how he once won a wager ou haudling
a dog that few-persons could approrchT
It was in a little towu in Canada. The
conversation being on the subject of
dogs, the proprietor of the iuu where
he was stopping laid a wager that his
visitor could not put. his hands upon a
dog chained tip iu tiie backyard.
"All right," said the visitor, "but as
a matter of precaution for the protec
tion of my hands J w ill go up stairs
and put on a pair of gloves.
"I put ou a pair of old buckskin
gloves." says the old gentleman in
telling tho story, "and saturated the
right hand w ith unimonin. We then
went out lo the dog, and at mv ap
proaching he rushed from his kennel
with open mouth. As soon as he got
w ithin reach I thrust out my haud.
Instead of biting it he turned tail and
ran into his kennel. Then I went
to tho kennel, and. mittimr mv lmnd
inside, made him come out again. The
secret of the matter is that adog can't
bite without drawing in his breath, and
as he does so he inhales the ammonia,
which partially suffocates him and
subdues for the time bciug his bitiu'
propensity. Some dogs may Iks su
dned with cologne." AVio York
Times.
"A good deal of surprise,, has been
expressed by newspapers," a man who
has recently returned from Florida said
to a N. Y. Tribune writer, "that thM
fellow CottreH. the fighting mayor of
Cedar Keys, should find ft possible to
terrorize anl subjugate an entire town,
as he is said to have done. To one
who has lived in the small towns of the
southern part of Florida tha situation
is easily understood. There are, few
exceptions to tho rule that the govern
ment of any jieople is j ist about what
a large clasri of the community is con
tented to have it. This holds good, in
my opinion, from the vast empire of
Russia down to the little town of Cedar
Keys. Ami I judge from the tyranr
nieal policy pursued bv the "czar
and thn outrageous boldness of the
festiye Cotfrell that each has an equal
ly large influential and admiring back
ing iu proportion to the extent of his
domain.
"I have just been spending a winter
iu a growing town near the gulf coast
of a southern Florida county, where
there is just such a clique in control of
municipal affairs .as there must be in
Cedar Keys. This clique is led by the
county judge, however, and he main
tains his authority, not by means of
the shotgun, but "by the processes of
the court. The rascally decisions he
gives in trumpedup suits against the
enemies of his gang would make dull
read iug, as a rule, to any but those
immediately interested in them, but
oue case which I had him decide my
self had a grotesque touch of humorjn
it.
"One of the supporters r.f the 'court
house gang. as the clique is called. b I
picked a quarrel, by persistent effort,
with one of the opxnents of the clique,
and had drawn a w icked-looking knife,
of great length and keen edge, from
his boot-leg. with which he attempted
to stab his opponent The latter, see
ing the knife, drew a revolver, lev
eled it at the ruffian's head, and com
manded him to put away his knife.
The man did so and sneaked out of the
store, where sceue occurred, without
saying another word. In the course
of ten minutes he came back with the
sheriff and the towu marshal. They
arrested the man who had drawn the
revolver, lodged him in a horribly hot
stifling jail, where clouds of mosquitoes
and a wretched negro or two were his
ouly companions, and there left him
for the night.
"The next day about noon he was
brought before the judge and charged
with carry ng t-oneea'ed and murderous
weapons about his person, within the
limits of the town. This is a con
venient law for the court-house gang,
who all go armed and never enforce
the law except in regard to their
enemies. The prisoner was fined 10.
He paid it without saying a word,
knowing how useless au appeal would
lie. and then made a similar charge
against his opponent for carrying the
knife iu his bootleg. The knife was
exhibited in court, and a most murderous-looking
tool it was, fit lo carve a
man s heart out, in fact; but the judge,
who seemed also lo act as counsel for
the accused member of his gang, ap
pealed to the crowd in the room, as a
sort of the jury, and said: 'Do 3 0U
call this a murderous weapou? "Vo,
feutlemen. this is a simple pruning
nife. a peaceful tool of husbandry, a
mere agricultural instrument. Fine a
man for carrying the implements of
his a vocation about bim? Never, gen
tlemen. To punish a genleman for
carrying a pruning-knife in Florida
would be a blow at the great orange
growing industry of this state, which
it shall never be said I was the first
man to strike. The charge is dismissed
with fo costs to be paid by the com
plainant." The Art of Past Walking.
Persons who have never been trained
to walk fast generally quicken their
gait by bending foward ami lengthen
ing the stride, at the same time bend
ing the knees very much at each step.
It is pretty safe to say that no one can
possibly adopt this stile and keep a
1 tair wais at a iastergait than six miles
an hour. The fast walker .must keep
himself erect, his shoulders back, and
his chest thrown out. He must pni
down his forward foot and heel first.
ana wnn the leg straight. He must
take strides so quick that they' look
short. He must, if he expects to get a
good stride, work his hips considerably,
overcoming the sidewise tendency of
the hip movement by a compensatory
swinging of the arms. The length of
stride in fast walking is astonishing to
those who look at it. A little figuring
will make it clear why this is so.
There are 1760 yards in a mile, or 1760
strides three feet long. To do a mile
in 8 minutes a walker must cover 220
yards a minute, or 11 feet a second.
Now 220 steps a minute nearly four
a second is pretty quick work, as any
one may discover for himself. Even
three steps a second, or 180 to the min
ute, seems quick. The chances are
that your 8-minutes man, although bis
legs move sp quickly that the steps
seem short, is not doing as many as
200 steps to the minute, and conse
quently that the stride is at least 3
feet 6 inches. With a little practice a
man 6 leet high can easily maintain a
4-foot stride for half a mile.
It is true that fast walking is an ar
tificial gait; but it is also true that
practice at fast walking will quicken a
man's nnartificial gait. One who can
do his mile in 7.30 in racing trim and
on the cinder path, can walk in the
street at a six-mile gait without either
getting out of breath or becoming red
in tho face, and without attracting at
tention by any peculiarity of his gait
except its swiftness. It is a real gain
to any man to be able to walk a mile
in ten or twelve minutes without over
exertion or fatigue; to be able to walk
five or six miles for every four he used
to walk without any more consecious
effort, and with a sence of enjoyment
in the mere exercise that he never had
before.
The walking records at some
ordinary distances stand: One
7 minutes. 20 5-8 seconds. F. P.
ray; two miles. 13.48 3-5. F. P.
ray; three miles, 21.09 1-5. F. P.
ray; live miles, 38.0 5-8. W. II. Purdy;
selen miles, 54.07. E. E. Merrill; ten
miles. 77.40 4-4. E. E. Mrrrill. Walter
Shirlaw, in Harper's Weekly.
1
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f
Dickens, savs John Hollingsheifd in
bis lately published Majara Fprutf,
was neither a gourmet nor a gour-..-y
maridf llit,'. as a man' taking an ItrA' ' '
mense amount of tvalking exercise"-
dally, he possessed a -healthy appetite,
and was not ashamed of it. He was
born and lived in the days of taverns
and chop-houses, before the town - -was
tilled with restaurants of French' or
Italian origin. Ilis taste for good food. ?
plainly cooked, may have been im"
grained in him in his youth, but it wa- -kept
alive by the three or four leading
London taverns. The Garrick clui. '
probably owed to. him the introduction
of a monster steak called the '-Garrick
steak," adopted from America, wttr" .
out acknowledgment, where it -known
as the -porter house." i i
Albion was his favorite tavern. - 'IW C
old boxes with leather seats gave a
semi-privacy to a small and select "
party in the public eoffee-rom. and
the endless procession of joints gave
a varied ami substantial meal at a
moderate price, without the trouble of
ordering a seat dinner from a menu
like a British museum catalogue. In
his own house. r office, nt Household
Words, where be bad a little dinner uj
upper room, ne senrcrntr-exwiaEi
show occasions, departed from his
favorite simplicity. The chief ap
proach to artificiality at these little
banquets, was noticeable in a leg of
mutton prepared in a manner not gen
erally popular. The bone of the joint
was taken out and the place supplied
with veal stuffing and oysters, and the
whole roasted ov baked in the usual
fashion. The result, as it was cookeJ
in the little kitchen at Household
Words, was always a success; and if it
had not been there was ample compen
sation afterwards in the master's ' un
rivaled gin punch.
I verily believe that Charles Dickens
was more proud of his skill i manu
facturing this seductive compound
than being the author of all his great
works. The preparations for all this
concoction (which I named "five shil
lings and cost") were -simple and vet
elaborate. First of all the jug was
prod ucetl the vat or the receptacle of
the brew. Theu came a plate and
knives, then the lemons, the sugar
basin, and then finally a large table
napkin. In the meantime the kettle
on the hob had prepared the boilioo
water, and the bottle of distilled liquid
an important factor, as the phrase
goes was placed iu the hands of the
master. I shall be guilty of no irrev
erence if I say that at this point his
eyes twinkled aud generally. winked.
The process of blending was like a
conjuring trick preformed by an
accompolished professor. The mix
ture being made with care and de
licacy, and with a certain amount of
demonstrative pride, the jug was plac
ed npon the table and the napkin
thrust into iu mouth. The brew,
timed by the master's watch, had com
menced, and in a few minutes the nap
kin was withdrawn, and "five shiliings
and cost" was ready for convivial dis
tribution. Among those who drank fmoder-
mciyj ami admired 1 hugely) this Dick- !
ens nectar was Wilkie Collins, who
told me that, next to a veil-made ap
ple pudding, he knew of nothing more
agreeable. Wilkie's tastes, like Dick
ens', though he knew the culinary ways .
of the cultivated foreigners, were es
sentially simple, and so were Thack
eray. Xigbt after night the anthor
of ""Vanity Fair." leaving the delights
of the Garrick club a few doors higher
up in King street. Convent garden,
was a constant visitor of Evans' supper-rooms
(the original of his "Cave
of Harmony"), where he was not
afraid to eat solid mutton chops and
baked potatoes at midnight, aud not
ashamed to show his delight in the
part singing of the choir hoys, who
divided their time between the cellar
and a Roman Catholic cathedral.
RARE AND RADIANT BEINGS.
Men anil ftmn Who Honor Mtw Tork by
LlTlng There.
New Yorkers are like Parisians, say." "
a New York letter in the San Francis-'
co Argonaut they won't admit any
thing tolerable putside their own me-
tropolis. They look npon the west
I " English people, as "charaeteris
j tic;" they look upon New England as
"repressed;" they look npon the south
as -used up." The United States is to
them New York. The Chieagoans'
"sister metropolis" galls their proud
spirits. If they have a sister metropo
lis it may be Paris. , To go deeper, a
New Yorker will not believe there is
anyone in his own country as nice as
himself. He will admit that there
have been geniuses, great men. in
other parts of the republic, but for
pure., consummate style and finish he
is the man.
The west, if he is broad, is full of
types;" if he is narrow, of "hayseeds."
He likes to welcome and . study the
types, feeling the while that he is
studying humanity from ; the ground
up. j.ne more unusual and impossi
ble the types are the more he glories
in them. "These fellows are so origi
nal, after one's own gang." he observes,
complacently suffused with satisfaction
that they should" be different from his
own gang. When any member of the -s
gang meets an outsider., who is like
himself he resents it bitterly. He feels
as if his sacred rights had been abused,
as if some one had "jumped his claim."
Can it be possible that anything but
types are going to come from .the wil
derness beyond the Mississippi? Can it
be possible that the wild and woolly
west is going to produce rivals? Hid
eous thought!
The women of the same rich, nar
row class are a thought worse, as
naturally having no reasoning facul
ties and taking their cne from the more . .
knowing and experienced male. Bos- '
ton women, who. are always looking
for "material" whether they write or
not, delight in an outsider from any
poiui, vi me compass. Aew xort wo-
of the
mile,
Two Remarkable Accidents.
Jefferson Miller ot Jeffersonville,
lud., has good reasons for his stronc
dislike of both rats and threshin"
machines. In 1872 he was feeding 1
threshing machine in the barn, when a
rat rau across the floor. Turuino- to
watch it his left hand was pulled off bv
the machine. Again, in 1887. while
feeding the same machine, in the iden
tical barn above mentioned, a rat ran
ecu ilia leet. e Kicked at 'it,
slipped, and had his only remaining
band ground to a pulp in the greedy
machine.
The Prisoner Seconded the Motion.
I heard a pretty good storv about a
certain ignorant Justice who does
business up in Fulton County. This
Justice was elected over an able but
very unpopular lawyer, and his first
case was that of a prisoner charged
with violating the fishery law. The
complaint and warrant were defeet.ro
and this the defendant's attorney took
exceptions to in a masterly argument,
winding up by moving the prisoner's
discharge. "Is the motion seconded?"
asked the Justice. "It is," replied the
prisoner. "Gentlemen," continued the
Judge, "it is regularly moved and
seeonded that the prisoner be dis
charged. All those in favor of the
motion say aye." "Aye." came from
the prisoner and his counsel. -Opposed,
no." Silence followed and after
a snort pause the scales holder said:
"The motiou is carried and the prisnu
er is discharged." whereupon to the
surprise and amusement of all, court
was declared adjourned. Aincrd-im
Democrat.
men simply look to see if he be de
notre monde, and if he is not better
for him that a millstone were tied
around his neck and he were cast into
the sea. Snch uncnlightenment in this
refulgent nineteenth century is sad.
Moreover, the poor things never know
what they lose in renouncing the ac
quaintance of the American Lochin
vars, but go blindly on through life,
cutting off their noses to spite their
faces. The English women who come
over here are always on the lookout
lor dashing, daring, unconventional
males, like the cowboys in the Wild
West show, or 'those splendid crea
tures you read about in Brete Harte
gamblers, and road agents, and things.
These are just like the men we meet -everywhere
else!" But the beautiful
metropolitan can be horrified by any
thing. She. in the flower of youth and
beauty's pride, would as soon have
tender relations with a tight-rope dan
cer as bow to a man on the avenue
who wore his hat on the right side
when The Fellows with large capitals
wore theirs slightly tilted to the left.
Thus are the artistic perceptions of
Gotham hopelessly blunted. For these
reasons do they fail to see the "good
in everything" which the banished
duke recommends as a safe line of con
duct throughout life.
A thief who robbed a house at Wilkes
barra. Pa., took a bath ami arrayed
himself in clean linen and a fresh suit
before he left.
J.
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