Now, f ;!. which fall upon the doad's mute Hps, lui&tiow on ni-- which tlii tirst i root tilpa, I '4, me all too hit,, : "TU bettor far to give thvtn title the lips oao p,'UK ; The guiuvn chord of It To at Nitt la weak I Ahl do uot wait. Kind wonts la par whoae earthly powf n ara e)fnt, Use auushlne on tho tree by ttpltt nlng rent, ran ir I ve io (mini: Tt better fur to give them while Uioo car run hoars For Ufa has nmi-h of wo on it mnrh ot fearl Ami lore bring culm. It 1 bio 1st !n Hfj lnmn hiirnoth low. Wiwn Immlsomse wann are chill as winter's now, To Aet kind dwdn! T1 better lten where fint are prone to allde; vns hotter o-tnn watt nil cveuuvie To help Uinlrnnntl. Ah, friends! dour frit-mla IT any such there Iw - Keep not your tortnir ttiooirhu sway fsotti me ill I am innn's I want them now to help tne on my way, At lour!? watchers want the lliht of lUiy lire It is morn. A rut thouph sometimes my heart, o'er aorna on r no- l)t)(r lirotMltuir, weave aotno bitterness In vugs "Tla hot a ahnrto Within life's testure where tho towrt are poor. v, ciove out tip to many minis i)ve uouri 1 mcd j our Ri.l. TV P. Hodges. AN AMERICAN PI R ATE. It was about live years njro that I saw an advertisement In a treat literary journal. It ran as follows: FICTIOH Wanted.Novela and Short Storlea, ultaltle for alitirlwl!a injriilm. Thorooirh crtgliMUit la rvtulrvd, ami wilt t ltloni!ly liaiit with. A ao-xl aerial novt-1. about rAl.ilm) wont, can be trtatd for. P. J., care of tUlBktna, primers, Bouverle Street. E. C "Thorough rijjinalitj-r I cried; d; I "W hv, that s mv stronar point; ha ng I It, I'm nothing if. I'm not original! Whr. I eau rel it obt br the vartl Quit'e comfortablv. lust as though I had been a literary si Ik -worm." And so I could, then, riots? pooh! I never even troubled about a plot; I just sat dowu and begun to tire away to Miss Dashes t Miss Dashes is rav shorthand w nttr ami amauuensi.ii ana ine mots came; thev came as a matter ot course. Now it's different; they don't come as they used to. I'm at times even tempted to read other people's fiction and st I mean adapt" their ideas. I wish I knew Dutch. Nobodv knows Dutch. There must be a magnificent iield for yecnl I mean adantattou in Dutch literature. At the time I Fneak of I was exceedingly original. In my aet determination to b original loth in manner and matter. 1 read nothing but my own manuscripts, w hich were many. and my own proofs, whieti were lew. JCsow 1 read a good deal, with the re sult that I'm not nearly so original as I was. Of course I've grown artful; I've got the measure of certain editorial feet, some want climax l give era climax; others demand pathos I give Vm pathos. One mati likes plenty of it 1 give him plenty of it; another wants concentrated plot (t. e., the plot of a three-volume novel In a column and a quarter) I give it to him There's one man who likes the pleasant cvoieal vein, and. thougn i m person ally a romanttc enthusiast, I give him what his soul sighs for. li- all this you will see that I'm a very talented and many-sided person, and a hard worker. At the sight of that advertisement I called in Houverie street. After a eood deal of beating about the bush, I learned that P. J. was the manager of a syndicate . e. he was a wholesale dealer in literature: he was the middle' man. that proverbially indispensaMe middle man, who is so very dear to us alk After several unsuccessful at tempts, I succeeded in seeing P. J. in the tiesh. lie wore spectacles, he spoke with a drawl, anil he was evidently man of business. 'You send in a anmnle. Uncle Dudley," said he, with a noble familiar ity. -Ef it suits we shall deal at New York price, which is ten dollars a thousand words. That seems to as tonish vou." he said: "but we act liberal in the States." Nothing could be simpler, nothing eouid be fairer, nothing could be nobler. "Yon jest whack in a short thing as a sample. We return either the stuff or the money in a week." , Then he offered me a particularly good cigar. I went straight home. 1 despatched a thousand-word story to P. J., and iu forty -eight hours 1 got the following note: Pia: Tour tale la a rinir-talled roarer. lean take any amount of aimllar atuff. 1 enclose fh equivalent often dollars in a postal order. ise cau at two to-morrow. Yours faithfully. P.J. 1 could have clasped I . J. to my breast. Here was au appreciative tniad, a congenial spirit- I thought that the leaden-footed hours till two tba next daT never would have passed; but the time came at length it struck iwo at last by the clock of St. Bride's, and I was shown by oua of Bliffkins the printers people into the presence of I. J. The American received me in the most genial manner. "lou re the bov. he said: "von are the chap that takes tho cake, Mr. Nibbs." cried P. J. "I am prepared to run you altogether; it s only a question of terms, my boiv and our folks are full they "are absolutely bursting with dollars. But there's one thing. Mas'r George; is the rest of your stun up to sampler 1 hat is the point that and the question of terms. Then he handed me a huge cigar. "We pay fifty cents for 'em in the States, he said. I never met such a liberal man as P. J. before. His "people had every con hnenee in him : he had "full powers. "How much stuff had I got?" "Was I ready to deal on the basis of ten dollars a thousand, for all the stuff I had finished?" Cau a fish swim? Was I readvP Aye. that I was. "It ain't the actual cash," remarked P. J. ; "it's the reputation. Our neople'll run yon in American, and we 11 take " you "in the lump at ten dollars a thousand words all round. Es that good enough? Ef you are satisfied. shoot the stuff in." 1 agreed of course I did. I re turned to mv home. I made no a huge - parcel of manuscripts. I calculated the amount of the check 1 had to re ceive at eight thousand dollars, or two thonsand pounds, for tnere were eight hundred thousand words, or there- abonte; and then I waited patiently. Would P. J. take them all? Would he take half! I waited. I say. patiently, After a month I received a parcel; it contained my manuscripts and the fol lowing note; Tf.arsir: I rfrrot to havo to return yonr fSS. Yours, faithfully, P. J Eire years elapsed. 1 bad got on stowlf, terribly siow ly; but I had got on. I had published over two hnudrcd short stories, four novels, and I had plenty of work on hand and no difficulty in placing it. My publishers wanted to see me. I was delighted; they had probably some thing to propose; 1 saw visions of a new agreement, and a check in advance on account, or at leaist a three-months' 4 hill (one can discount a bill.) I put on mv three-thousami-pound-a : suit 1 1 -always put on my tnree- on a publisher it awes em); and i was show into the sanctum. Old Mr. Scorcher, be head of the firm, re ceived me. 1, generally see Wagge. W agge is the junior partner Wagge and I are rather Wiick. Old Mr. SeorcberNhad a face a yard long. . v "Will von kindly look at that, Mr. riibbs?' be-said m awful tones. He pal ajittle bopk into my hands a very tile little book dnpnnese paiter. mar gins, special type. delightful etchings in lact, me wiioie naff ot tricRs. 1 beiran io turn over the leaves, and then 1 nearly jumped out of my skin. It was my novel, my successful novel "'LAmlaa L.overs." "it s a wicked I American piracy!' I cried; 'ami they'd have the Itnpertliietieo to alter the title ami the names." "Kaeliel s Koiiiatice iudced! "Hy Jove, they've Just simply turned Linda into K:tdiel, and and and" "It wiw published four years ajro,' aid Old Mr. Scorcher, simply. "You Bold It to us as an orlsrlnnl novel." It's a piracy," I cried, "an infernal . piracy!" 1 tlon't doubt you, Mr. jmiuds. 1 quite believe what vou sav lut- l hen we tiuketi for a lonsr time. I told him that no human eye but P. J.'s had ever seen the manuscript till his llrm had purchased it. "i null nave to go to riew York: you It have to unearih tho pirate; you 11 have to prove the whole thing. It',t a very serious thing for us a much more seriom thing for you," said old Mr. Scorcher. Of course he was right. I went to New York nt once. I culled on Uarrabas & Co.. the pub lishers of "Uaehel's Komnuce." Ther were very nice people, particularly nice people. They would give an Intro duction to Mr. Paul Jones the author, at once. He was a rising man. Might they give me a volume of his short stories? I thanked them. A glance was enough they were my short stories. Paul Jones was a miserable pirate, a wretched jackdaw iu peacock's plumes! 1 would make it very hot. indeed, for Paul Jones. I took the letter ot introduction, I went straight to Boston, whore Mr. Jones the talent ed author lived. I found his house. I found his widow. I found his marble tomb. with a catalogue of his virtues; he had only beou dead a month. Then, gradually- but slowly. I learned the truth. Mr Paul Jones was an ingenious man. He had photo graphed my manuscripts; each sheet of foolscap, when photographed, was the size of an ordinary tart tie visile. Then by the aid of a magnifying glass he re- copied my manuscript; and he attained In this way name and fame and dollars. Evert bod v in Boston thoroiiirhlv be lieved in raul Jones, his widow, a gentle little woman with tender eves. sold me many sheets of his origlual compositions (photos of my MSSs.) '1 auk flira. Jones remarRed, "was a very ingenious man. He was afraid his work might get lost: it did get lost. But we had the photos, and with the help of a magnifying glass I recopied all my liuauaud a work. Ah, what a clever fellow he was. stranger; his name will remain written in letters of brass on the heart of all American readers as the author of this charming work; aud then she handed me a copr of Kacr.els Komance. I hadn't the heart to undercelve the poor little woman who believed in her wirate. i returned to Kngiand a sadder and a wiser man. ocorcner is perfectly satistied ho is indeed. ther Scorcher. Wagge & Co. are bringing out my new book.. is there a moral? lea, there is a moral. It is as well for an English author, in submitting his work to a possible buver to know something of the person he is dealing with; for Mr. Paul Jones (P. J) is not the only Rich mond in the held. Sf. James Gazette. Hoys Squirrel Story. With some of the war gossip of to day has appeared the remark "that the American bov inherits very utueoitne sturdy traits of character that marked the heroes of the Revolution." In other words, that in courage the Americans are degenerating. 1'oung America believes this is ail nonsense. All over the land there are evidences. they say, of superior culture and strength, and if foreign foes should come thev will find that in the char acter and courage of the American boy there is nothing wanting. An ex- mple: The Berskeart family of seven boys, living south of the city. compares favor ably with their great-grandfather, who was a hero in 1812. Their grandfather was one of the early settlers of I udiana. and he delights in relating to the bovs the adventures of their ancestors. But the other dav the boys forced their "grand-pap," as thev call him, to ad mit that they are not.inferior in cour age. Tbey have a single-barreled shot gun that will throw shot about tnirty vards. and thev have killed vounff rab bits and squirrels with it; but have also wasted about hve pounds of shots and powder on an old squirrel that lived in a large oak tree, ihe other day the bovs saw this veteran of the wood In a mnlberry tree helping himself to the delicious fruit. The oldest boy, who is inst fifteen, crawled u to the tree. leveled the gun and tired atthecoveted prize. The shot knocked off a lew leaves and tickled the squirrel, but he did not fall He ran up the tree frisking his tail. Then he jumped from the mulberry into the branches of a beeeh, and from tiie beech he crossed into a tall maple sugar. The top brauches of the latter crossed a large limb of the massive oak. The squirrel mounted the limb of the oak. and ran down about fifteen feet to a curve. Then he looked cun ningly at tho boys and disappeared ia a hole. The younger lads looked at the squir rel's vanishing tail With considerable dismay, but the older ones exclaimed. "If he kio do that we kin. too!" One bov ran home after climbing material. and in another half hour the two older boys came sliding down the large oak limb with all the material necessary for a capture. A cage was placed over the hole. One boy sounded along the limb, and then cut open a small cavity. Then he inserted a slim stick into the den. and in a moment more the old sly squirrel ran out into the cage a prisoner. A ball of twine was then fcistened to the cage, and it was lowered to the ground. Then there was nothing for the boys to do but to come down, but first they had to go up that limb. Probably anv other persons in the same position, supplied with a hatchet. would have fallen off or cut notches to climb np by, but not so wMi the boys. They had tried cutting notches with & dull hatchet before. One boy drew from his pocket a number of large nails that are used in building bridges. He then drove them into the limb. like the iron hand-holds on the tele graph poles. Then, in about ten min utes more, the bovs, including "grand dad," who had come out to see what they were up to. gathered around the cage to view the prize. The old veteran turned his eyes up at the dizzy night. and as the tears twinkled under his glasses, he said: "Bovs your grand-dad would abin afeared to done it." The boys are now supplied with a Winchester rifle, and they are practic ing on squirrels' eyes a huudred yards with remarkable success. They will soon be ready for the in vaders. Indianapolis News. Bread and milk is one of tlis most popular dishes served for lunch at the .niiOTAcdnnol f aurnnt in Wjaliinff. ton. Glasses of pure cream or , half cream and half milk are greatly in de mand among the congressmen who come from cities but thev are avoided by the rural members. I WIT AND HUMOlt. The optimist Is the man who never felt fate s boot. Ashl'tnti lr. Why does Mrs. her reputation In such a foolish squabWeP IJttJfUto x- prtss. There are two sides to everv Question the wrong side mid our side. Tcrre Udute iurirf-s. The general run of women when a mouse comes iu the room. itrre Haute Jfc'rrrcsw. Dnbbs "I'm tired of Life." Snnggs "Well, why dou't you stop your sub scription." Jertvr. "How can I tret rid of superfluous hair. Mr. Druggist?" "Get married, sir." HoMon I'ouricr. A man never becomes so homely that he is not handsome to the womnu he is good to. Atchison (llobe. A man's closest creditor wouldn't reeogniise hitn In the average hired bathing suit. Rhoe Jiecorih-r. It is well to make the best of this world, for you'll never get out of It alive. Urcat Harrington AVer. 1 here are times when a young man can make himself most interesting by keeping still. -eu Orleans llcayun. xtie nrst week that a man lias a telephone In his oil lee lie is apt to Snve the yeller fever badly. Umon ltttlleUn. Truth lies at tho bottom of au Ink well. This explains whv the post scripts contain all the facts. American urocer. Stranger (In Tombstone. Alls.) "I hear vour bank has ausiHindedr' Kes ident "Yes; so is the President." Racket. Bangle "Isn't Fanglrf a rattle-head ed fellow?" Cumso "No, sir; there isu't anything in Fanglo's head to rat tie." Life. The rhetoric of convicts is abomin able; at all events they have a great aversion to finishing their sentences. J'hiladciphia lYess. W Hat w ill it i;osta Kica vengeance on 6an Salvador r "I don t kuow.but we've Guatemala, no matter what it costs." Ashland i'rtsn. Some men credit themselves with the good that is In them and blamn the weakness of humanity for their short comings. Atchison ulolx:. Mrs. Fellows "Jimpson's wife has only oue dress to her back." Mr. Fel lows "Ah. and she left that at home this evening." A". J. Jkrald, Citizen faffUatedlvl "IVImt m writ forme? Why. God bless us!" Consta ble (sto'idlvi "Not. Wronar airaln Mandamus. r Ameriran Grower. Lovers are slow about proposing this summer. Owing to the high price of the commodity thev hesitate about breaking the ice. IVras Sijlings. First Hate "Well, sir. things are going smoothly now, sir." Captain 'ies.thatis localise several of the sailors have been ironed.' Toronto Utobe, Cumso "Jaysmith is penurious. isu't he?" Fangle "I should say be was! He won't even laugh at a joke unless it is at some one else's expense." Epoch. It has been discovered that the cash boys were very lazy in the days of Job, for he says, "All the day of my appoint ed time will 1 wait till my change comes." I'igaro. Groom "A ring around the moon is the sign of rain." Bride (sweetly) 'And a ring around a woman's tiusrer is the sign of P" Groom (sadlv) "Reign ifadU-f. "Give me a toboggan." he said to the barman. "What do vou meanP" 'Why.wnisky.of course, there's noth- I II rT I i L A it. a-lui m sa riMn's .sw.ii a iv trtttM hill to make the descent lively." mi adtlphia limes. "It is a dreary waste of sand, isn't it?" said the grocer's wife as she and her husband were walking along the sea beach. "Yes.it is: a dreadful waste; with sugar at eight cents a pound." 11 asnington t ost. He "Man is the only animal that laughs, but it isn't necessary for vou to laugh all the lime." She "Man is also the only animal that smiles, but it isn t necessary for you to smile as often as von uo." ISostoman. Mrs. Sweet (who has her neighbor's children in to spend the day) "And so your mother is all alone! Dear me. how she must be enjoying the quiet! (Aside) I will send my children over there tomorrow!" Munsey's Weekly. Photographer (to lady before the camera) "Look pleasant, please." Brute of a Husband "O. come, now; art is all right in its place: why not have a likeness look natural, if it s go ing to be a likeness?" Boston Tran script. "I see by the newspapers," remarked Mrs. Bunting, "that a petrified jaw two feet long has been found in Cali fornia." "Why, you never told me that your ancestors came from that part of the couutry," replied her hus band. Figaro. "Get up!" exclaimed Miss Bunker Hill's cousin. But the horse did not move. ."The animal does not seem to compreheud," said Miss Hill. "Let me try." "All right." "Proceed, Bucephalus!' And the animal proceed' ed. Harper's Bazar. Housekeeper "You ncedn t stop here.. We ve got uotluu' fer ye. Break fast was over an hour ago. Clear out. now." iramp "I ilnln t expect no breakfas' this time a dav. mum, I only hoped mebby I'd be iu time for family prayers. Uooa Aews, Bank President (to cashier in jail) " hy didnt ton go to Canada?" Cashier (haughtily) "Because I've got some pride about me and I didn't wan't to go up there with ouly $25,000 and live on a back street in a strange city. nasningion star. rater "Well, Adolph, whom did vour college men elect to represent them at the convention?" Adolph "Twirlcr, sir." Pater "Twirler? Can he pnt things forcibly P" "You bet! He can pitch a ball through a wire netting every time." Burlington t ree rress. Miss Gadder "Whv is it that Miss Longout is alwavs going to the chiro podist's?" Miss Gossip "I dou't know, but she has been iu society for ten seasons now, and I suspect that these visits you speak of form her only op portunity ot having a man at her feet. America. inamoreu xoum "I beg you, sir, ior tne nana oi your daughter, l can not live without her." Old Gruinps "Glad to hear it. I can't live with her, Name the day, young man, and have it soon." Enamored Youth (backiug off) "Um er please give mo time to re- llect." -v. 1. Hccuy "I see." remarked the noet's wife. "that Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell all had or have an income out side of the results of their literary worK. "xes," replied her husband. "and I myself could not afford to write poetry if I had a t a good situation at the ribbon counter." V. Y. Sun. "Oh. dear, how deadful!" sighed Mrs. Gronuer at the table last night as she munched a tea-cake and scanned the evening paper. "Several poor wretches have been burned np at the Turkish summer resort of Fendik." "So?" queried Groaner. "These sum mer resorts seem to be alike the world over," and he glanced maliciously at Mrs. G. Chicaao Tribune. How the papers do lie," exclaimed Snagf?s, as he throw aside the Morning Sun. "It does boat all." "Well, what have they been saying about you, Mr. Snaggs?" asked Mrs. H, "Do let ma see it." "They nn't boon saylug noth ing about me, but here this paper say lug that a man has been killed in a saloon at Burlington, Iowa, aud every one knows there au't a saloon in the whole state. There nn't nothing there but drug stores und original-package bouses." Chicago limes. A MAINE FISH FACTORY. Tha Proeaaa of t'annlnc the Porjy Into Oil and "i:htim," Back In the seventies ane of the greatest Industries iu this section of the country was the porgy fisheries, says a Doothbay (Me.) letter In the Lewiston Journal. The converting of those fat ilsh into oil and that very odoriferous though by no means fra grant substance known as "chum" gave labor, and pnylng labor too, to hundreds of men. The oil then sold as high as a dollar per gallon, and the chum was also in great demand. It was so profitable a business that fac tories sprang up all along the coast, aud as a result of the great slaughter of their number tho porgies held some sort of an assembly and resolved to boycott the New England coast for awhile. This resolve they kept to a T till the summer of '83, when small schools came north to see what had become of their old destroyers. They fonnd most of tho factories rotten, tumble-down old buildings, the steam ers turned Into tugboats, and the ma jority of the owners bankrupt by their porgyshlps freeze - out. Evidently those porgies that visited Maine in '89 were satisfied that they were forgotten In these parts, for last year they came again In such numbers that it seemed as though the whole porgy kingdom had come down to Maine to spend the summer and to swim around In the waters where so many of their grand parents had lost their lives. As soon as the first shiny school came along In '88, Church, Hathaway & Co. began to build over and to fit up into one monstrous factory the two factories at Linekin's Neck, formerly owned by the Gallup Bros, They did not get into shape to do much that summer liefore the weather jrot too frosty for the porgys comfort, and he started south again. Last year they did considerable business, but their works were not fully completed UH this spring. Now everything has been prepared and gotten into perfect trim to give those porgies who will summer In the waters in this vicinity the warm est kind ot a reception. Eighty men are employed In the factory, not count ing tho carpenters and men who are still building and repairing. Three steamers and one sailing vessel, each with twenty-two men aboard, are run by the company, besides countless oth er craft will go "a-porgylng on their own hook." But with 'all the fleet after them, the fish are not forthcom ing. There is capacity to use up 3.000 or 4,00 barrels of fish daily, but as yet only fi.OOO barrels have been received all summer. I his Is, to lie sure, rather early in the season, but fishermen say it i . . i . . . .. r. ail mong ma coast mai nitre areu i nearly as many porgies here now as there were last year at this time and what there are are very wild. Jhe process of changing the porgiea from a handsome fish into oil and chum is very simple. They are carried from tho wharf to the top of the factory. where they are first boiled and then pressed with a 100-ton pressnre. The oil and water are run off together and by passing through ten or a dozen vats, placed one below the other like a flight of stairs, the oil "skims itself," as it is called. When at the bottom of the factory the oil is drawn off from the last vat into barrels it looks for all the world like maple sirup. The oil is ued a good deal by tanners and soap makers and sometimes for paints. It is worth from 20 to 30 cents per gallon. After the oil aud water have been pressed out the chum, or scrap, as it is sometimes called, is burned with sul phuric acid. Then it is ready for ship meut. The old process of drying the chum is done away with, aud one ot the greatest causes" of that unearthly stench of the factories of a dozen years ago has been removed. The chum Is worth about 111 iter ton. and is sold to manufacturers of fertilizers. The proprietors elajm that there will be no disagreeable odor about the works this vear. Thev sav that the ouly other thing besiies the dryiug chum which caused the ten-milo stench of former factories was the waste wa ter, off which the oil had beeu drawn. This was allowed to stand in the vats and ferment, but now it is drawn off while fresh. Latei in the season this same waste water is to be used to make fertilizer by tho Phoso Ammonia company, who are putting up a larsre buildinr for that purpose just south of the factory. They use some chemical process, aud are said to have a miue of wealth in their scheme. Mr. Coope'a Smart Terrier. Among the valuable dogs owned by J. F. Coope of Ben Lomond vineyard is a family of thoroughbred wire-haired terriers. These little creatures are very bright, and among other achieve ments are quito expert at snake-killing. That they have an intuitive knowledge not onlv of how to kill snakes but how to "heal themselves if a snake gets the better of an encounter was proved not long since by an inci dent noticed by some of the employes. The mother terrier having discovered rattlesnake ready coiled for a spring placed herself at a safe distance and began barking loudly for au assistant. Oue of her family of terriers responded to the call, when the two dogs placed themselves one on either side of the rattler, barking at it and slowly ap proaching it from opposite directions until within about striking distance for the serpent. The exasperated rat tler at last sprang at the younger dog, when the mother In great fury pounced upon the i snake. Tho terriers seize the serpent about midway of the body and shake them without mercy untd life is extinct. In this case the mother terrier at tempted the usual mode of procedure, and was fairly. successful, but the fangs of the snake in some way struck her, inflicting a wound. It was evident to those watching her that her sufferings begau at once, but she did not lose her head with fear. She made for a bunch of snake weed not far off and ate free ly of it. Her next move was to a pool of water that made a small muddy spot. Into this she plunged, rolling herself about in every direction and covering herself with mud. The on lookers gave her up for lost, but the canine physician had healed herself, and the next morning was eulirely all right, as if she had never met his rat tlesnakesnip in deadly combat. Santa Vruz urf. High Price for Old Furniture. Old furniture still sells extremely well. In Paris recently two Louis XV. cabinets, ornamented with ancient Sevres porcelain, brought 415,000 francs, a Louis XV. chest, of drawers 13,000 francs, and a jardiniere iu old Sevres porcelain 4,000 francs. - It is expected that 120.000,000 lob sters will be hatched in Newfound land this season. , A FLORIDA SNAKE STORY. Two Olrla, tlratri! by Itattlara, XTItnail lint Haiti. That big rattlers still exist hero the experiences of Misses Fay and May Barnes, living some live miles from here, conclusively proves. The girls were out berrying last week, and went down Into the Pony Creek hummock, a wild and dismal stretch of dark woods and heavy underbrush. Late In the afternoon, while getting ready to re turn home. May steiiped on a rotten log. whjch broke and let her down in to a deep hole which It concealed. As she fell she heard a dismal and curious rustling, rattling noise, but the fall so seared her that she did not think what it might mean. She screamed out loudly, and Fay, who was a short way behind, came running up. May then was in the hole, only her head being visible. ' Hurry up and help me out!" she screamed, as Iter sister came tip, "there's snakes In here. I'm sure." and the iioor girl almost fainted In the in tensity of her frlsfht. Fay set to work like a brave frontier girl, as she was. and tried to pull Mav out; but it seemed an Impossible task. as she hail sunk into the hole so deep, ami the rotten wood had almost wedg ed her In. Seizing May by the shoul ders she pulled lustily, but to no avail. Then, after a moment's thought, she took off the shawl that she wore, ami, twisting oue end around May's shoul ders, fastened the other end to a big limb near by. This made it so that the imprisoned girl could aid herself some. Nerving themselves, and with a "pull all together," they strained, ami with delight both saw'they were successful. May came up out of the hole and sank fainting on the ground. As Fav turned to befi her she was horritk-d to see the heads of .several vicious and argry looking rattlers emerge from the hole, and tiieir loud rattles werr, echoed from several oluts around them In the forest. Hastily catching up ner sister, with a siterliuman strength that she was surprised at afterward. Fay carried her tainting and helpless sister off out of the threat ened danger. Soon, under her cuer gelio treatment. May opened her eyes with a shudder, but as she heard the loud hisses of the sercn!s that hail escaped nut of the hole and saw their horrible asect. she screamed out lou. I in her fright. Fay proved the heroine of the occasion, and, getting her sister on her feet, she managed to gel her uu on a tall pine stump that stood some tire or six feet above the ground, as she saw that it was impossible to carry May off in her preseut unnerved con dition. As the girls scrambled up on the stump out of present danger the angry rattlings of the snakes became very startling, and their vicious hls-dng made the girls shudder In spite of their preseut safe quarters. The snakes be came more and mora angrv as their number increased, and they began sur rounding the st ii mo on which the two girls now cowered prating for help and ever and anon shouting for aiiK The sound of their voices plainly an gered the rattlers, and they soon pre sented a solid ring around the stump. They would crawl up as near as possi ble, and then coil up and strike at the Imprisoned girls, but always falling bark with hisses of rage and venom. One of the largest managed to hit the top part of the stump and his fangs held him there a moment, but May, with a quick movement, arose on her feet and stamped on his head, com pletely crushing it. His squirming body fell back among the others, and the long body thrashed around iu their midst till, aroused to the utmost fury by this disturbance, which they did not seem to understaud, the others fell on the dying reptile and bit him time and again. One of the fiercest made a "mislick" and hit another, and this one retorted with a vicious bite thai stirred up a war at once, and then th light became general. The vicious and ugly-looking rattlers struggled around that stump In one mad light, bitting one another, hiasing with im potent rage and thrashing about mad ly In their dying struggles. The girls looked on with big frightened eyes, devoutly hoping that their deliverance was working itself out. The sickening stench from the poisoned fangs of the serpents began to effect the girls, and both soou fell forward in a faint, the broad top of the pine stump fortunate ly holding them fast. How long the fight lasted they knew not, as their first recollection of recov ery was to bear the guns and shouts of their friends. Their eager replies soon brought their rescuers to them and a frightful scene met their eye. Scat tered about the stump were fifteen or more big rattlers dead or dying, muti lated and torn up in their mad tight to gether. Only three were found alive and these were around the stump, colled up and eyeing the girls' forms on it. J. hey were soon dispatched and the poor jrirls brought down from their fearful situation. Old hunters think that May fell into a rattler's home, and that she was not bitten while in the hole because it was dark In there, her body tilling np the opening so that the snakes were too bewildered to strike. Ulobe-Vemocrat. Going to See "JUw'i Folks. A few weeks ago a bridal couple came in from near Pine Valley, in Reynolds County, bound to "maw's folks" over in Shannon County, writes a correspondent of the Denver Actus, The, young pair got out of the wagon that was pulled up by two sleepy oxen. The mau took a box from the vehicle and set it on the platform. The box was the only trunk they had, and in it was the clothing of the bride and groom. The happy pair sat on the box, luaking sheep's eyes at each other and looking down the track for the train by turns. Tho groom was very proud of his new wife, surveying her with a look of complete satisfaction. The train drew up at last, and the agent took the box and put it in the baggage car. The bridal couple stood around for a mi nine, when the con ductor shouted "All aboard." Come on, Mary," called the groom, catching his wifo by tho hand, "wo must get on." The pair climbed tho steps at the rear end of the baggage car, and going into the end door, surprised the baggage man by seating themselves on the box. Before that official had re covered himself so as to explain mat ters the proud groom turned to his pleased bride and smilingly observed: "It do beat all, Mary, how fine they's gettin things. Ef ther fo'ks et home c'ud on'y Bee us now, how'd they feel, d'ye reckon?'' Death Long Drawn Out. It appears from a report on capital punishment which has just been laid before the Parliament of Austria and Hungary that executions in that coun try are carried out in an inconceivably barbarous manner. Tho convict is placed on the ground, where he stands with a long rope around bis neck, which presently jerks him off his legs, and he remains struggling horribly in the air for several minutes. A con vict is never strangled in less than seven minutes,' and often the operation takes a quarter of an hour, and the poor wretch is usually conscious, or nearly conscious, during the greater part of the time. People talk about disgraces to civilization surely this is ona. London Truth why They are dull talkers. The Avaraga Venn Man Mnul Baatt It II lloas Mot Wlah to ba a Itora. The Boston Journal says that there are three causes which go far to explain the non-etitm tiiliilng character of the average young man to the average young pnrsQit of the opposite sex. The first is that ho Is ton much engrossed In himself and the things which interest him. Tho finest point of courtesy in conversation Is to seek those subjects which will Interest the people with whom we talk. The young man who goes Into tlie society of cultivated young women and has nothing better to offer as his contribution to the conversation than bnse ball talk or reminiscences of college scrapes, will make himself en tertaining. If at all, ouly by making himself ridiculous, and that. It is safe to say, Is not what he Is after. So of the various other subjects, either of business or of pleasure, which are chiefly the concern of men. They ought not to be forced Into conversa tion with women. If the latter want to know about them, very well, but the information should bo given ns bright ly and Interestingly as possible, and without nuy appearance of a conde scending enlightenment. The true gen tleman who enters the society of women wun the deference 'which he should feel, will study them sufficiently to know what things are likely to interest them and what are not. Another difficulty is that the average young mau Is likely to make a mistake as to the things which will interest young women, even when he makes a sincere attempt to adapt his conversa tion to them. Did notions die hard. There are still a great many young men who cannot understand that the young women whom they know, some or them at least, have minds which are capable of something more than small talk, of fashion plates, or society gos sip. Nevertheless this is true. Nothing is more galling to young women of cultivation and intelligence than to bo tiersistenily talked down to by the men of their acquaintance. Let the average young man realize that, the average young woman with whom he talks knows probably at least as much as he does, and he will make his conversation lietter worth while bv putting a little intellect into it. A third difficulty is that the averatre young man I seriously in danger of being left behind, intellectually, by the average young woman. We do not expect that this alarming statement will ie accepted without dispute. But we commend to the solemn considera tion of young men the question whether voting man. who in college gave his chief thought to athletics and after he leaves college is engrossed in business, is likelv to keep up with his sister, or some other fellow's sister, who started with a tutud at least as bright as his, has had equal educational advantages, and has both time and disposition to improve herself. We maintain that no young man can afford to deprive him self of the broadening and elevating iuflueuce of good books. The newspa per has its place, but it is not the place of Sltakspeare or Milton, of Addison or Kuskin, or any other of the great mas ters of English. Business has its ex acting demands, but they can best be met by a man who relieves the tension upon Lis mind by an occasional excur sion in standard and current literature, if the young man of the period is to converse to the edification aud enter taiument of young women he must fill his mind with something besides base ball, or stocks, or polities. These may enter Into conversation, but they must not be i'.s staple. To restore the "proper conversational relations of the sexes, the averaire youug man must improve his habits of thought aud speech in more wavs than one. Hints for Amateur Aetresaei. To tho ladies, only a word or so. Avoid powder on your arms, especial ly in love scene, "it is bound to come off on the lover's coat it is a pity to Soil the coat aud it is a worse pity to detract the audience's attention from the scene to his misfortune. If you wear a train, be sure to make wide turns. A womau may manage her train charmingly in the ball-room aud yet find herself awkward about it on the stage. Don't carry flowers, or fans, or handkerchiefs, or hats or dogs unless the piece requires it, and unless you know just w hat you are to do with such articles when you get on the stage juit when you are to get rid of them or you will find yourself with both hands full at the very moment when the villiain has to seize you by both wrists, etc., etc., or. when you ought to throw your arms about your father's neck, you will find one hand engaged with an ojen parasol, or something of the sort. To all of vou Don't try too hard to "act." You will act all the better if you keep cool, and so don't get mixed about your lines and situations. One'big rule for always Play what ever part you are cast for, earnestly and couscieutiously. It isn't the part; it is the actor that makes a icrform snce a good one or not. Ladies' Home Journal. How tho Caar Gets the News. v At present the czar eschews all Rus sian newspapers; their pieans and their lamentation never reach his ears, says tho Loudon Tclcgrayh. Among the many departments of the ministry of tho interior there is one called the "Department of His Majesty's Jour nal," which is charged with preparing day by day a carefully worded resume of "some mild articles aud items of in telligence meant for the emperor's eye. A tschinovnik of tho censure rises from his bed iu the gray of the early morning and hurries off to the department, where advance sheets of the journals' come in damp from the press. ' These he reads over, marking with red pencil all the passages the in terest of which is uot marred by in judiciousness. There aro certain events as well as numerous words and phrases which a Russian emperor, like a certain irench king, must never bo allowed to hear. "Feu lo Roi d'Espagne?" (the late king of Spain). "What does feu meau?" asked a French kiug once in dignantly. "Oh. it is a title, your majesty, taken by the king of Spain -after tho lapse of a certain time." The marked passages are then cut out, pasted together on sheets and handed over to the director of the department, who, after carefully considering and if needs be curtailing them, signifies his approval. The extracts are then copied caligraphically on the tiuest de scription of paper, forty or fifty words to the page, and the journal in this state is given to the minister of the interior or his adjunct. If this dignity is satisfied it is passed on to the gen-eral-iu-waiting, who deposits it on his majesty's table about 4 o'clock the following-day. Tho news that slowly dribbles through this official filter is seldom of a nature to discompose the feelings of the czar or disturb his Bleep. A Cure for Crcap. Dr. Laugardiero of Toulouse reports to the French Academy of Medicine that he lias discovered a enre for croup. It is a very simple one a tables poon ful of flour of sulphur in a tumbler of water. After three days of the treat ment his patients were rescued from I Imminent death, and fully recovered. MONEY IN MAGAZINES. How tha Proprietor of Mtfaslas liooatad It lata Prospsrlty. W. D. Howells Is now employed ex clusively by Harper and be gets, per bans, as large a salary as any literary editor of the United States to-day. I was told some time ago, writes Frank G. Carpenter, that ho received as much as $2,000 for a short story, and his royalties must bring lilm a large in come. There Is more money to-day in magazines and magazine writing than ever before. The Century Company lias already grown rich and Iu En glish circulation alone is worth a large fortune. Bcribner't Magazine Is mak ing big profits and the Cosmopolitan Magazine lias Jumped from bankruptcy Into prosperity. This magazine was originally started by Schlicht and Field, a couple of bright young speculators, in Rochester, N. Y. They ran an office-file business In connection with the magazine and were making It pay when they moved down to New Yrk. Here they branched out In many directions, be gan to lose money, and threw good money after bad until they were prae- tically bankrupt. It was at this time that "Buck" Grant was taken Into the magazine and it had another spurt. In the meantime the business affairs of Schlicht and Field got worse and worse, and the magazine was sold to J. Bris ben Walker, who now owns it and h as made It a good property. Mr. Walker Is one of the bright business literatenrs of the day. lie is a man. I judge, of perhaps forty-five years of age and 100 years of experience. He is, I think, a graduate of either West Point or An napolis, and be went to China with But lingame as a naval attache. After the war he took a notion that a great deal of money was to be made in real estate, and he anticipated the great real estate boom which has since struck the country. He made his firs', specu lations at Charleston. W. Va,, where he settled and ran for Congress, and was, I am told, elected, but counted out He thought at this time that Charleston was going to be the capital of West Virginia. anl he invested all his money In property there. The movement to change the capital fell through for the time and he lost everything. Gathering up the debris of his estate he moved to Denver and there edited for a time a weekly newspaper. He bought it for a song, got it on the road to making money and sold It at a profit. He took the money wtiich be received from it and began to buy land on the outskirts of Denver. lie bought one little farm after another at from five to ten and twenty dollars an acre, nntil at last he had about 1,000 acres. He owned these lands when the real estate boom struck Denver, and be sold, I am told, a portion of bis land to a syndicate for f.!MK),000 when the boom name. He held on to about seventy-five acres nearer the city, and this la. so Denver people say." worth at least a half million dollars to-day. When be first bought the Cosmopol itan he spent about $50,000 In the first lew weeks in advertising, and be has been spending ever since. He pnt the magazine on a firm financial basis, bought his supplies for cash, and charged cash for his advertising. He hired the best brains be could tiitd to help him, and the result is that the magazine now sells as well as the oldest established periodicals. It has now about eighty thousand circulation, and it had ouly sixteen thonsand when Mr. Walker took hold of it two years ago. It is now making money notwithstand ing that it has such men as Murat Hal- stead and Edward Everett Hale among its editors. Hard Hiding In the Fast. During the last century when Ions journeys, called riding "posts, were much in vogne in Europe among the aristocracy and wealthy sporting men, a match was made between Mr. Shafts and Mr. Maywell for 1.000 guineas. Mr. Shafts to find a man who would ride 100 miles per day for twenty-seven consecutive days. There was a great deal of money bet on this thing, principally against its being done. It was well known, how ever, that distances of 800 to 1.200 and even 1.600 mites had frequently been covered at the rate of from 100 to 120 or even, 150 miles per day, but the knowing ones thought that the enor mous distance of 2,700 miles at 100 per day would be likely to break any horseman down. Nevertheless,' John Woodcock, who was selected to ride by Mr. Shafts, performed the feat without any extra fatigue or punishment. He used thirty horses, and rode three or four of them each day. In Turkey the sultan's . mails and dispatches from outlaying provinces nacil trt Iia . rt-Jrwl lit? rIo -t ra v-idinap post, with relays of horses changeS' every twenty or thirty miles, and are now in some parts of the country where telegraph has not been established. The same man in charge went the whole distance; these couriers would often perform great feats of endurance. From Bagdad to Constantinople is 1.C00 miles, not over a level or rolling prairie, but frequently crossing moun tain ranges, along precipices, across torrents, etc., and there is not a mile of made rode the whole way, yet the ordinary time the Tartars took to per form the distance was a fortnight, and on urgent occasions it has been done in twelve days, and even eleven days. There is no donbt whatever about this because the route thronsrh Asia Minor, from the Persian Gulf, was in former days, before the Red Sea route was established, often used by officers and others who did not mind rough travel and were in a hnrry to get home or to get oat to India, and they often rode with the .tartars from end to end, besides the British resident at Bagdad, or rather the residency, was for more than a century in the habit of trans mitting dispatches from India and Con stantinople and Europe by these same carriers. As much as 150 miles per day has often been done for eight or ten days by the Tartars, They only rested lour hours out oi the twenty-four, and pushed on the rest of the time at a rate oi six to ten miles an hour. """" The History of Pepper. The value of pepper in cooking seems to have been known long ago. Its use as a medicine was common in the days of Hippocrates, who applied it, moistened with alcohol, to the skin of his patients. Just as sugar and tea bave been in past times so dear as only to be within the reach ot the wealthy, so pepper was in the Middle Ages a very costly condiment. So much was it valued that a small packet was at that time deemed a suitable present to oner a great person. Common or black pepper is now grown in many tropical countries. It is a climbing plant some twelve feet high, bearing fruit of a bright red color the size of a pea, which, when dried, turns black. famous Antbor (who always tries his fictions upon his wife first) "You do not like this story; I am a fool to expect it. Malediction! Pehaps when 1 m dead you wilt appreciate me. Long-Suffering Wife (wearily) "Per- naps; 'JJeaa men ten no tales,' yon Know. ' muaaeipnia, jrress. When a steamer passes over the Port Huron tunnel the noise of tha wheel can readily be heard in the hole, which is at least forty feet under the water. Send In Vour Gifts. The matron of a children's nuru not long ago received a barrel cf vege tables from a thoughtful friend, him actually buried her face among them, sniffing up the pleasant home! gra grance. O," she exclaimed, "it takes me right back to my father's farm." A visitor to a wretched tenement relates an incident even more touch ing. She was met by the eager face of a child who held a broken jug full of apple blossoms. "God has sent angelt from his country to-day," cried the little bn3 Sure'ly these children of the town ought to have more of f tcti simple delignts, easily procur!uVW a littln thoiightfiilness and self-denial. If. Y. Tribune. An electric brake lias been devised in England by means of which a train troin; at the rate of thirty miles nn hour can l brought to a stand in a space of 200 feet. '41 orj 6irildtnf V4S M AK t v NT. $ao fttacW KXCII.4WGB HOTKl. 8t. il 3-21 HmiS"na tit.. 8. 7 la tha brat Farattr nd ftonlnnaa Mxn'a H4l in tti C 8. for ttia money. 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