THE GIRL I LOVEa AT SCHOOL
Wum the mellow days of autumn ttai t,'to
hills in purple haze,
and the huh seems all the dearer for the short
ness cil' the days.
Comes a lovely apparition throuiih the mists of
other years,
and 1 ilou'l know why It la o that my eyes will
swim with tears
For 1 hate to Juljie emotions by the textbook's
rote and role,
Aid 1 only know I'm thinking of the girl I
loved at eohooL
Of tnedcettcst, brownest velvet are the sweetly
thoUKiitrul eyes,
and UteolieeHH are like the roses Uiatonj gran
nies used to prize
lot the pampered, pinky blossoms that the hot
house man deals out
At four dollars foradoaon and with pasteboard
wrapped about
But the dear old damask roues that would bold
their tints till Vule
Just the sort I used to italhor tor the girl 1
loved at school.
And the hits no, nol uot rubyi for the coldness
of the mine
Dbllls the Jewel's burnlsbed surface, tliuut'li the
ftery rays nuty shine
In the glaring or the itaaluilit; fitter far do tliey
compare
With the warm kIow iu yon chalios; the same
fragrance lingers there;
Ihe same tltrill runs through me as whon on
the organ stool
Mr lll hrst pressed the pulsing Una of borl
loved at school.
And the form, it grows dlstincter as the misty
veil grows titln.
And the silver belt that linked her, like the ser
pent shutting iu
All that earth retained of heaven, Jiisees out,
"Then Jealous fool!"
For 1 parted In my anger from the girl I loved
at school.
And J know not If the fleeting of the purple
autumn days
Brings us nearer to the greeting at the meeting
of onr ways;
If It he i may uot meet her till we've crossed
the Htygiun peel,
Tel I think that l.W greet Iter as the girl I
loved at school,
Sinus City Journal.
Ancient Cures.
The iucantntionB of Apuleis are
Bonse and soberness compared with
those of his Christian successor,
Mareelius (A, I). 48(1), "If a man's
nose bleeds whisper iu his far on tha
game side, 'soesocam skyma' thrice
nine times, and you may still go on
saying it." Toothache, if it occurs
on a Tuesday or Thursday and if
the moon is waning, may be cured by
repeatiug seven times "argidmn
Diargidum stargidura." Even his
prayers compare unfavorably with
those of Apuleis: "In ophthalmia
look out for the first ewullow, then
ran silently to the nearest spring,
wash your eyes and pray God that
yon may tie free from it for that
year, and that all the pain may pass
into the swallow."
The whole book is full of similar
absurdities, which he defends by the
invariable empiric argument that pa
tients have got well after practicing
them.
We most not, however, Buppose
that this superstition was in any way
ravored by Christianity. It was m-
deed a Christian bishop who intro
duced the disastrous doctrine that
the signs of the zodiac preside over
the various organs of the human
body, but the church disapproved
both of the science and (lie theology
of Prisoillian, and he was executed
as a magician and heretic A. U. 3i5.
London Hospital.
A Itural Iteglott Near New l'ork.
Just west of the Hudson and above
Weehawkeu is a region as rural and
antique as any 150 miles from New
York. Although this region is almost
within rifle shot of Riverside drive it
is sparsely settled and difficult of ac
cess. Its inhabitants are descended
from Dutch settlers, who found their
way into the region alter better and
more accessible lands had been oectt
pied. It was part of this districtthat
was bought up ten or fifteen years
ago by a syndicate including William
Walter Phelps and Rutherford B.
Hayes. The expected developments
never followed, and those of the syn
dicate who were not rich enough to
hold on sold out to those who could
afford towait. Mr. Phelps now holds
a great deal of the syndicate s orig
inal purtiiase. ,
One of the purchasers has held on
to his land uuiid all sorts of difficul
ties and at the expense of much self
sacrifice on the part of himself and
his family. The prophecy that a re
gion so near New York must in ten
years have a population of many
thousands has fallen ludicrously
short of fulfillment, as even now the
inhabitants scarcely number more
than they did twenty-five years ago.
New York Bun.
The Valno of a Pension. .
Some of the hardships resulting from
the fall of the rupee to persona with
fixed incomes are inevitable! some, on
the other hand, seem to be due quite as
much to red tape as to the condition of
the currency. For instance, daughters
of deceased members of the Bengal civil
service whose fathers contributed to the
pension fund are each entitled to a pen
sion of 100 a year. If they reside in
England they drawtheir fidl 100 a year.
If, however, they reside in India, it is
paid to them in rupees, which work out
at the present rate of exchange at the
Talue of forty-five pounds a year. The
loss is so great as to be almost ruinous,
London Truth.
Is the Husband to Klamef
I do not agree with so many who
pronounce the gonial,, pleasant hus
band a myth. He is' not, but he is
sadly in the minority, Without be
ing partial to my sex 1 klieve it is
generally the fault of t! husband
that the wife lacks aniii: ion when
in his presence-. tA wo; an to he
agreeable, charming, delightful must
have an incentive, and there is no
greater one to be found than the in
nate feeling that the person with
whom you are thrown is waiting
anxiously for your opinion and
watches your every expression and
gesture with loving glances.
Why. I have known the harshest
voire and most abrupt mannerisms
to soften and refine under such tute
lage. Love! It is all powerful-a
woman needs it; must have it to
grow and develop. What does she
care about politics if she feels that an
expressed opinion is likely to subject
her to ridicule . What interest isshe
going to take in the current events of
the day when she must needs go away
from home to discuss them ? Strang
est of all strange things, once upon a
time this woman's word was law,
and the man who does not now care
a ha'penny what she thinks, fa days
gone by hung upon her words as if
they were bo many pearls of wisdom.
undoubtedly the women have a
right to complain, for man's indif
ference to the woman whom he has
chosen for a life partnor is made to
furnish a background for two-thirds
of the word pictures drawn. . The
stage seems to revel at the fact. On
wholesome jests are tossed about in
airiest fashion. Poetry and prose
have many a fling at the luckless
being who has wagered her all in
the chance game of matrimony onlj
to lose. Cincinnati Commercial Ga
lette. i
Bough, lint Kind.
, Immediately after 1 had left the
emigrant train 1 am told that I
looked like a man at death's door, bo
much had the long journey shaken
me. i sat at the end of the oar, and
the catch being broken and mvself
sick and feverish, 1 had to hold the
door open with my foot for the sake
of air.
In this attitude my leg barred the
newsboy from his box of merchan
dise. I made haste to let him pass
When I observed that he was coming.
but I was busy with a book, and so.
once or twice, he came upon me nn
awarcs.
On these occasions he most rudely
struck my foot aside, and though I
myself apologized, as if to show him
the way, he answered me never a
word. I chafed furiously, and I fear
the next time it would have come to
words; but suddenly 1 felt a touch
npon my shoulder, and a large,
juicy pear was put into my hand.
It was the newsboy, who had ob
served that I was looking ill, and so
made me this present out of a tender
heart.
For the rest of the journey 1 was
petted like a sick chud ; he lent me
newspapers, thus depriving himself
of his legitimate profit on their sale.
and came repeatedly to sit by me
and cheer me up. "Across the
Plains."
Hints on Social Calls.
In the evening a young society
man should don his best suit of
clothes and most attractive bouton-
niere and go to call on some charm
mg young lady mend; arriving at
the, bouse and making himself thor
oughly comfortable upon a divan
bolstered up by artistic cushions, and
as the result of an active day of
business lite which he has lctt. be
hind he should yawn, 'twould be bet
ter to so well disguise it as not to be
seen. But having felt all the relief
one can feel from having a "good
old yawn," and having been oh
served by his hostess, then he
should, with all the fortitude born
of an emergency, yank -himself from
the too comfortable divan and re
solve himself by all the gods uot to
yawn again. Not having done so,
perhaps the aforesaid charming
young hostess would conclude she
had made a greater success at enter
taining him.. Galveston News.
Bettor Than Polities.
Friend What are you working at
now!
Inventor Greatest thing of the
age a dollar in the slot voting and
weighing machine. It collects the
poll tax, counts the votes and so
beautifully disa'itninates that there'll
be no more trouble, no more politics,
no more speeches, no more brass
bands and, best of all, no more
boodlers.
"My stars I What's the idea?" '
"Simple as A B C, The machine
only counts the votes of those under
a certain weight. Quick as the party
in power beginB to get fat on the
spoils of office their votes are thrown
out, and the half starved minority
walks in, and when the new party
gets fat it goes out, and so on."
GETTING SQUARE.
How a Circus Attendant (lot Even with a
Cranky Skeleton;
The general public is not acquaint
ed with the manner in which somo
employees are hired for a circus.
Some of the situations in the "side
show" are irksome, and in order to
retain the right man in a place he is
Hired with what is called a "hold
back" that is, he is to receive, for
instance, fifty dollars a month sal
ary, but gets only fifteen dollars a
month, the other thirty-five dollars
being retained until the close of the
circus soason, when it is always paid
to him in a lump.
Messrs. Hagar and Henshaw, the
managers of the "side show" of the
Barnum circus, have alwavs had con
siderable difficulty in getting a man
to stay the season out and take care
of the living skeleton, owing to the
general "cussedness" of all such
'freaks." In the case of the skele
ton he had to be carried to and from
every performance, to meals, etc., in
storm, rain and hot weather, and the
attendant was compelled to bear all
die grumblings and complaints of
the skeleton with the added phases
ot in temper and abuse.
One season when the show closed
and theattendant of theskeleton had
received all the money due him for
the season's work, including his
"hold back," he felt as if he would
Eke to square accounts with the skel
eton; so, after the last performance,
taking the skeleton in his arms, he
carried him, not to the sleeping car,
but away off in the fields, and plac
ing him beside a fence left him there
with the remark: "There 1 You have
abused meall summer, and now, darn
you, I'll get square. You can stay
where you are until I come for you
next season."
After an hour or two the skeleton
was missed, and all hands were sent
in search for him, when at 4 o'clock
in the morning he was found lying
in the wet grass chilled to the mar
row, as it was an easy thing to chill
him to the bone, owing to the ab- i
senco of flesh. New York Tribune.
Dangerous Bacteria.
aii Doctena teast upon organic
matter, and develop m great num
bers in fermenting solutions of it.
Their number is generally approxi
mately proportional to the impur
ity, and therefore may represent the
relative danger of potable waters, t A
water that contains a large number
of them should not be used for drink
ing without first being boiled. By
boiling polluted water for half an
hour all the infectious (but not the
harmless) becteria in it will be de
stroyed. It it is then filtered to re
move the vegetable substances, and
aerated to render it potable such
water can be used with perf ect safety
for drinking.
Since the infectious bacteria are
the agents of all filth diseases, it
ehould.be the aim in all sanitary
analysis ot water to determine wheth
er they have actual existence in the
water, or, what answers the same
purpose, to determine the conditions
favorable for their development.
Whenever a chemical analysis re
veals the presence of sewage in a
water its use should be discontinued
for dnuking. Engineering Maga
zine.
The division of Salvage.
When the engines of the big liner,
the City of Paris, on her way from
New York to Liverpool, broke down
several hundred miles off the Irish
coast on March 25, 1890, the Utile
steamship Ohio, although unable, by
reason of a shortage of coal, to tow
the big ship into a harbor, stood by
her for eleven hours, until the
freighter Aldersgate, from Galveston
to Liverpool, came along and made
lines fast to tow her to Liverpool.
In the award of salvage, amount
ing to $10,500, the Ohio received $3,-
000, although she had really rendered
no aid. The balance was given to
the ownera and crew of the Aiders
gate, the owners receiving $30,625,
the crew $4,025, and the master $2,-
250. New York Evening Sun.
Do not criticise the writer who be
sprinkles his composition with French
phrases. It is easier to hide one's
Ignorance in a foreign tongue than
In a language with which all people
are familiar.
People do not at this age of the
world go for amusement to arenas to
see men and women put to death, as
they did in ancient Rome, but some
times this is what they see.
The cellular prison system in Hol
land, where the offenders are com
pletely isolated, is asserted to be most
effectual in repressing crime and re
forming criminals.
Pennants, the great traveler, hated
wigs and got into innumerable broils
by snatching oft the head covering of
every man he met who wore a wig.
Hard tu Kurpi-ltio.
She dropped wearily into a seat in
I Broadway car, and the girl who ac
companied her said sympathetically:
"Aro you all tired out, dear? It's
awful work, isn't it?"
"I should say so," groaned the
"dear." "But, Helen, you don't know
anything about the misery of it all.
iou aren t engaged!
No but Jack is so nice I shouldn't
think you'd mind choosing him a
present." ,
"I know he's nicel That's the
trouble. He doesn't smoke, and I've
always been glad until now ! But I
can't get him a pipe, a cigarette case,
an ash receiver or anything! He
doesn't drink, and I can't give him a
traveling flask. He wears an incon
spicuous watch chain made of his
mother's hair, and I always thought
it so sweet and thoughtful, but I
can't give him watch things, you
see. He hasn't a single vice, Helen,
and you can't give Christmas pres
ents to men who haven't! Why,
even a photograph frame would be
useless, for he has only his mother's
picture and mine out, and they re al
ready framed! What shall I do?"
And Helen replied tersely;
"Break it at once." New York
World.'
Smallness of Hlstorlo Places.
The strongest impression made
npon the American traveling in
Europe for the first time is usually
astonishment at the small size of the
historic places which he has so longed
to sec.
The royal chamber where the
grande monarque received brilliant
crowds of courtiers, foreign diplo
matists and nobles before rising is
too small to satisfy an independent
Irish-American cook who knows her
rights in this country.
The apartment of Mary, qneen of
Scots, at Holyrood, still garnished
with her mirror and bed draped
with gold embroidery, is still more
cramped, while the supper room in
which Rizzio was murdered is but a
narrow, dingy closet, reached by tiny
winding stairs such as usually lead to
a garret.
The dwellings of the great Scotch
dukes and earls in Edinburgh in
ancient times were reached for the
most part through dark, steep alley
ways or closes not three feet wide,
and the homes of the great races of
Hamilton, Moray and Eglinton were
smaller, darlcef and moro uncomfort
able than those of an American me
chanic today. Youth's Companion.
Pt'or Rich Men.
Countless young men who coveted
everything of the late Jay Gould ex
cept his coffin may be surprised to
learn that Mr. Gould generally want
ed and needed money quite as much
as they. Property isn't money, as
many able business men have often
learned to their cost and misery. The
larger a man's operations and the
more frequently he wants to make a
"quick turn" or a "big strike" the
oftenor does he feel poverty pangs
quite as keen as those of the young
man who longs to sport a totting
horse and buggy, but has to content
himself with a secondhand bicycle.
Chauncey M. Depew is credited
with the statement that the late
William H. Vanderbilt, one of the
three richest men in tho United
States, was alwaj-s poor and in debt.
Many business men can understand
this strange statement, though the
young men aforesaid will take no
Stock in it until they become business
men themselves. Harper's Weekly.
Forcing Antiquities.
The forgery of antiquities has been
a recognized industry in Europe for
many years, but it is little known
that the famous English "Flint Jack"
has his counterpart in this country
in one Burnett, ''a small, dull, yellow
man," as a neighbor described him,
who lives on the French Broad river
in North Carolina, For a long time
he was in the habit of riding to the
townsand selling "fake" arrowheads
to dealers and visitors, as well as
mortars and pestles that had the ap
pearance of having been long buried.
isut he lost one customer bv takmir
him a mounted figure of pottery that
he said he had unearthed from an
Indian mound. He had made the
mistake of putting shoes on the horse.
New York Sun.
The Mecca of Visitors.
That New York is a mecca for all
America and the resort even of for
eigners must be impressed upon any
man that frequents the clubs. There
is no conspicuous club in town t hat
is not visited every month by men
from nearly all the states and terri
tories and by strangers from remote
foreign parts. The visitors' list of
one club for a single week shows the
names of persons from Boston, New
Orleans, Chicago, Cleveland, Paris
and small cities in North Dakota,
Maryland and New Hampshire, while
one name is that of a Chinaman,
New York Sun.
TOLD BY DETECTIVE DRUMMOND.
How Ho Protected Raseomh from n Green
floods Mitn Ho Could Not Arrest. 1
Chief Drtimmond, of the United
States treasury secret service, tells a
good story. A man named Bascomb
came up from Tennessee. He had
received a green goods circular and
had determined to trap the swindlers.
Drummond was detailed to go with
him. -
"I put on a flannel shirt," says
Drummond, "an old pair of trousers,
a rough pair of shoes and a soft hat
and followed Bascomb to the meet
ing place. He was accosted bv a
man who took him into a buhVng. I
followed and stood upon a stairwav
where I could watch the door leading
into theofliceof the swindlers. After
awhile the door opened and Fowler,
a noted green goods man who was
then employed by the Davis brothers,
Btepped half way into the hall. He
had a valise in his hand and was
neither in the office nor out of it, but
stood in the door. Bascomb had his
eye on Fowler all the time, as I after
ward learned. While Fowler was in
the door a colored boy darted across
the hall with a valise in his hand.
The exchange was made so deftly
that Bascomb didn't see it.
"In a minute Bascomb came out and
he and Fowler started for an express
office. I followed. They took a stage
and I took one too. Their stage
stopped quite often, but nihie didn't,
and at times I found I was abreast of
them. Fearing that Fowler might
recognize mo, I would he down flat,
upon the floor of my stage whenever
I got near the one I was followhur.
The passengers were amazed, and
thought, I suppose, that I was an
escaped lunatic. .. Fowler and Bas- .
comb left their stage near the Adams
express office and I alighted from
mme. Just as Fowler was in the act
of handing the valise to the receiving
clerk I tapped him on the shoulder
and told him that I wanted him, and
mat, too, pointing to the bag.
"Bascomb was delinrhted. Tve eot -
him! I've got him!' said he. 'The
valise.' he continued, 'is full of coun
terfeit money.'
'My mend,' I replied, 'thev grow
smart men in Tennessee, but there
are smarter ones iu New York. ' '
"Then Fowlor put in: 'Look here,1
said he to me, 'let the jay have the
valise. If you do I am a century "
ahead and you will get fifty cases.'"
"What did he mean by that?" asked
Drummoiid. .
"He meant that the Davises were
to pay him 8100 for the part he had
taken in the swindle, and that they
would give me $50 if I didn't inter-
fere."
"I led Fowler and Bascomb into a
hallway next to the express office,"
continued Drummond, "andcutopen
the valise. . It was filled with damp
paper and a block of wood. 'I'll be
teetotally goldarned,' said Bascomb.
'How did you do it '(' he asked Fowler. "
"And you arrested Fowler?" said I.
"No. I let him go," Drummond
replied. "There wasn't a point to
be made against him under the law.
There waB no counterfeit money in
the bag. On the other hand, Fowler '
could have had me arrested for high
way robbery, butof course hedidrt'fc.
He was glad enough to make bis es
cape.
"And Bascomb?"
"Oh, he returned to Tennessee
with his comb cut." Cleveland
Leader. -
A Fortunate People,
The American people arc descended
from, economically, the most effect- :
ive race in the world. Th"y settled
in the States, taking with them a
highly developed civilization and
habits of law and order confirmed
through many generations. They :
have half a continent at their com
mand, there is even yet a vast '
amount of unoccupied soil, there is
diversified climate, there are re-''"
sources almost limitless, and there is '
absolutely no enemy they have cause
to fear. Except to maintain internal '
order they are free tit this moment to (
disband their army and navy, certain
mat no roreign toe will attack them. : :
The world has never seen a neonleso ...
happily circumstanced, with such
marvelous opportunities for progress ,
anu improvement. London Statist ;j.
When a Disabled Ship Is Saved. '
Any gross misconduct oh the part '
of the salvors, and especially any em- ' ' 1 '
bezzlement of the property saved, !
forfeits the whole claim to salvage. ,!
The responsibility of salvors respect-' i
ing the preservation and protection
of property continues as long as the . i'
property is subject to the decree of -thecourt.
, , ,i j
Salvors in possession have a quali- '
fled property in the ship or cargo ,
taved, and they cannot be divested
of this interest until it is taken from
them by adjudication. It is not nec
essary, however, that they should ,
remain in actual possession in order
to maintain their rights. New York 1
Evening Sun.
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