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BILL'S IN TROUBLE.
f're got a letter, parson, from my son
away out W est.
An my ol' heart Is heavy as an anvil
my breast
To think the boy whose futur 1 had once
so proudly planned
Should wander from the path o' right an'
come to sich an end!
f told him when he left ns only three
short years ago
He'd find himself a plowin in a mighty
crooked row
He'd miss his father's counsels, an' his
mother's prayers, too.
But he said the farm was hateful, an he
guessed he'd have to go.
I know thar's big temptation for a young
ster in the West,
But I believed our Billy had the courage
to resist
An when he left I warned him o the
ever-waitin snares
That lie like hidden sarpints in life's path
way everywberes.
But Bill he promised faithful to be keer-
ful. an allowed
He'd build a reputation that'd make us
mighty proud.
But it seems as how my counsel sort o'
faded from his mind.
An now the boy's in trouble o' the very
wustest kind!
His letters came so seldom that 1 some-
bow sort o' k no wed
That Billy was a trampin' on a mighty
rocky road.
But never once imagined he would bow
mv hanil in shnmn.
An in the dnst'd waller his ol daddy's
honored name.
He writes from out in Denver, an' the
story's mighty short;
I just can't tell his mother; it'll crush her
poor or heart!
An' so I reckoned, parson, you might
break the news to her
Bill's in the Legislature bnt he doesn't
-sny what fur.
Denver Post. .
THE POISONED SPEAR
"It la rather a bad hole, boys, sure
enough, and the Lord bless you. it was
nip and took between ii'C and th devil
for a little while, I tell yon. I can't
even think of the thirty now wirhout
feeling my blood ran cold.
"Does it ever turt me? Well. 1
thould say It c-"hm. I can feel the
blamed stuff rankMiig In my bones this
very minute.
4tEb; what stuff? Why the poison, of
course.
"Well, if yon must have the story, I'll
tell it, seeing as I'd have to anyhow;
but as it's getting late and I'm as
sleepy as a 3-weeks-old cub, I'll war
rant It'll not be very long and strung
out.
So you want to know how I come to
have that big ugly hole in my arm
there, do yon?
AU right, boys, all right; you shall
know; you shall know. Give me a
match, somebody. This tobacco must
be wet, or green, or something. It's
forever and eternally going out on a
fellow.
"Early in the fall of the year 1868
or 1809, I'm not sure which, there were
some ten or twelve of us hunting wild
horses on the Upper Bio Grande, in the
northern part of the Territory of New
Mexico. The Indians were quiet enough
at the time and game wasn't scarce, so
what with plenty to eat, tobacco galore,
a cask of rum and pretty fair luck
.with the lasso, we watched our corral
getting full with contented hearts.
"We had been some six or seven
weeks in camp when one of the boys,
an Irishman named Mike Moriarity,
came in from an antelope trailbat he
had been following two whole days,
with the startling Intelligence that
there were Indians on the creek about
three miles above camp.
"He hadn't stopped to get close sight
of them, but from the fact that they
.were mounted and that they numbered
I DREW A BEAD OH HIM.
no women among them he was pretty
certain that they were a band of
Apaches on the war-path.
"This news was somewhat alarming,
to say the least, for we well knew what
our fate would be if we fell into the
bands of the red devils, and a strict
guard was set that night for, previous
to that time, we had been living a happy-go-lucky
kind of a life, secure In our
fancied isolation, leaving the camp to
take care of itself, after we laid our
pipes by and rolled ourselves in our
blankets. No attack was made, how
ever, and three dasrs afterwards a
reconnoisance of the creek above
brought the welcome news that the red
skins were gone.
"Early that afternoon some one sug
gested that we should visit the aban
doned camp, and five of us, including
myself and Moriarity, set ont for that
purpose. As had been reported, the
savages were gone and all that re
mained of the late cantonment was the
ashes of the dead fires and the debris
of some of their barbaric feasts.
"We were still wandering over the
apparently deserted plateau when a
hair-raising yell behind up brought us
about with a start to see a score of
mounted Apaches urging their mus
tangs at the top of their speed towards
us.
"There was no time for hesitation.
We were close under a row of small
cottoTrWTKKls, which fringed the creek,
and in a moment were out of our sad
dles, for we were mounted, peppering
-away at our assailants for dear life,
and making pretty much every shot
tell, too.
"The conflict was a brief but decis
ive one. Within fifteen minutes it was
ended by the complete rout of the
Apaches. Or rather of all but one. He
--Kas a heavily built fellow, radiant
ft.h warpaint, and bristling with tom
.. , knife, arrows and a long spear.
T r, -evidently the leader and op-
posed the flight of his followers with
fiery vehemence. When he found him
self alone, Instead of joining the stam
pede, he turned on us fiercely once
more. It semed as if he single-handed
and alone proposed to assail us again.
"As he whirled his mustang about I
drew bead on him. He caught the flash
of the sunlight on my rifle barrel, and
raised his spenr. Then came a report
and a whiz in the air at the same time.
The Apache dropped backwards from
his saddle, and I clapped my hand over
a deep spear wound in my arm.
"The lance had struck me In the
fleshy part of the left forearm and
dropped to the ground. Moriarity, who
was an old Indian fighter, snatched It
up and examined the head, which was
a section of an old knife-blade ground
to a razor-like edge. He dropped It lu
a moment and turned to me with a
very grave face.
' I thought so, he said anxiously.
" Thought what? I asked, endeavor
ing to staunch the flow of blood that
streamed over my band. 'What do you
mean ?
" I mean it's pizened, sir, was the
reply.
"And so it was. Upon the point of the
spearhead were still some spots of
thick green substance, a vegetable poi
son used by the savages to render their
primitive weapons more deadly In ef
fect. Within five minutes I fainted
with the inexpressible agony of the
wound.
"Boys, I've been partially scalped;
I've been torn by the claws of savage
beasts; I've been bored through and
through with leaden bullets, and I've
went for days at a time, under a hot
broiling sun, without so much as
drop of water to drink, but never be
fore or since have I experienced the in
tense suffering, the terrible misery
which I endured during those few pre
ceding minutes.
"When I recovered consciousness,
half a pound of flesh, more or less, had
been taken from my arm. The opera
tion spoiled Its usefulness in a meas
ure, but it saved my life.
"The Indian? Oh! He turned out to
be Hawkeye, one of the most famous
chiefs of the Apaches. He and eleven
of his followers reached the happy
hunting grounds at about the same
time. My bullet had found his heart."
The Mosquito.
The female mosquito, after she has
filled herself with blood -the male In
sect is not a blood sucker seeks out
some dark and sheltered spot near
stagnant water.
At the end of about six days she
quits her shelter, and, alighting on the
surface of the water, deposits her eggs
thereon. She then dies, and, as a rule,
falls into the water beside her eggs. The
eggs float about for a time, and then.
in due course, give birth to tiny swim
ming larvae. These larvae. In virtue
of a voracious appetite, grow apace,
casting rheir skins several times to ad
mit of. growth.
Later, they pass into the nympha
stage, during which, after a time, they
float on the surface of the water. Final
ly, the shell of the nympha cracks
along Its dorsal surface and a young
mosquito floats on the surface of the
water while its wings are drying and
acquiring rigidity. When this Is com
plete it flies away.
The young mosquito larvae, to satis
fy their prodigious appetites, devour
everything eatable they come across;
and one of the first things they eat, if
they get the chance, is the dead body of
their parent, now soft and sodden from
decomposition and long immersion.
They even devour their own cast-off
skins. In examining mosquito larvae
one often comes across specimens
whose alimentary canals are stuffed
with the scales, fragments of limbs,
and other remains of the maternal in
sect. labal's Call.
The daughter of Dr. Edward Hodges,
the organist, says that her father had
a delightful way of calling all the chil
dren musically. One Sunday morning,
when he was playing in St. John's
Chapel, New York, he said to her:
"I am going to call Jubal. Watch
him."
Jubal was sitting in his accustomed
place near the middle aisle. Doctor
Hodges' voluntary began thoughtfully
and smoothly, but in the course of It, a
significant phrase of two notes was
twice repeated. It was distinct, and
yet so truly a part of the improvisa
tion that no stranger would have no
ticed It at all.
The first time, Jubal's attention was
arrested; the second, be turned and
looked up, but saw no sign. At the
third call, he deliberately took up his
hat, left the pew, walked straight up
to his father, and said:
"Do you want me, sir?"
"Yes, said Doctor Hodges. "Go
home and get my gold snuffbox.
The errand was speedily executed,
for the house stood near. Jubal hand
ed the snuffbox to his father, and re
turned to his seat.
The Flutist Fluted.
A funny story is told of James O'Neill
when he was at Missoula, Mont. The
rehearsal of the orchestra of the local
theater was called for 4 o'clock In the
afternoon, and Mr. O'Neill happened to
be present. After the Missoula mu
sicians had struggled through the over
ture the actor turned to the local man
ager and said: "For heaven's sake.
Hartley, cut that flute out In to-night's
performance. It will upset me so that
I can't go through my part If you
don't." The flute player overheard the
remark, got up from his seat and said
to Mr. O'Neill: "Now, look here, sir;
I intend to play that flute if you Intend
to play 'Monte Cristo. I am the Mayor
of this town, and if I can't play the
flute and see the show I'll revoke Hart
ley's license and you can get out of
town to-night." Under the circum
stances it was deemed wiser to let the
honorable Mayor of Missoula play the
flute.
His Biff Mistake.
Some people never know when they
are well off. A Missouri man was sen
tenced to twenty years in prison for
murder. He appealed, and on the new
trial the jury sentenced him to be
hanged.
Fund to Injured Railroad Men.
In ten years $1,000,000 has been paid
out by the casualty fund of the British
Benevolent Institution to Injured rail
way men and their families.
There is one thing about a crop of
wild oats: It harvests Itself.
All the mummy cats mummified In
Egyptian tombs have red hair.
The first Christian Endeavor society
In Denmark was only recently organ
ized.
A Newton, N. H.. minister remarked,
on a recent Sunday, that he would not
give a cent a word" for noisy revival
meetings.
The imperial opera management at
lenna, in the hope of stopping Jeal
ousies among the stars, has Just issued
a new regulation, permitting no more
than three recalls after the close of
acts, except in the case of first nights
and special engagements of foreign ar
tists.
The Lend-a-Hand Society of Boston
Is preparing to celebrate the seventy
fifth anniversary of the birthday of
Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, on
Saturday, April 3, by presenting to
the Ten Times One Society the Hale
endowment fund of $25,000. Both so
cieties originated with Dr. Hale.
A number of papers of Interest
Methodism have been discovered In
two boxes at the Wesleyan conference
office in Iondon. Among them are for
ty-four letters of John Wesley to his
brother Charles, and eighty by Selina,
countess of Huntingdon, the founder
of the sect known as the Countess of
Huntingdon's Connection, written to
inaries Wesley.
Near Phoenix, ArL, James Boyce
found a steel lance point that appears
to date a long way back. Some of the
local antiquarians refer It to the march
of Coronado. A few inches of wood,
much decayed, remain attached to It
The grain shows the wood to be live
oak, which is not found nearer Phoenix
than in Mexico, but was plentiful in
Spain.
The present department store system
originated about forty years ago with
the great dry goods firm of Todd,
Burns & Co.. of Dublin. When A. T.
Stewart revisited Ireland, about 1861,
he examined the Innovation closelv,
and began to Introduce some of the
features In his New York store. It was
John V ana maker who first elaborated
them on an extensive scale.
The curious way a word is manufac
tured is found in the history of the
word "deinlcked." As a Yorkshireman
will say, "Them taters is demicked
He means the potatoes are suffering
rrom some disease of the plant. "Dem
ick comes from epidemic. When the
first potato blight came, a half century
ago, tne farmers heard It called an
"epidemic." Thus new words are
coined.
Among the American manufactures
that are exported are barber chairs.
We send barber chairs to Mexico and
Central America, and American bar-
ber chairs are sent also to the continent
of Europe and to England. Barber
chairs In limited numbers have been
sent to Europe for a considerable time,
but the demand for them from that
quarter is increasing.
A break In a six-inch water main
Salt Lake City. Utah, was found on
digging up the pipe to have been caused
by electrolysis, the Iron in the main at
the break having been made so soft
by the action of the electric current
that it could be readily whittled with a
knife. The condition of the 124 miles
of piping in the city is about to be test
ed and a report made by the city engi
neer. An old Russian lady, who was believ-
ed to have means, died
year ago at
Ajaccio, n Corsica. Nothing of value,
however, could be found among her
luggage, neither money nor jewels, and
two days later she was accordingly
buried like a pauper at the public ex
pense. The landlord subsequently
found behind the door of her room, in
a small, dirty linen bag. l.ono.ooo
francs (?20.000) in notes and gold.
The Masonic grand lodge of Massa
ehusetts has dec ided to rebuild its tem
ple on the site it has occupied for thirty
years, at the corner of T re mom and
Boylston streets. Boston. The temple
was burned Sept. 7, 1S!5, and where to
rebuild has since been a perplexing
question, many Masons Advising that
a less expensive site be chosen and the
old site sold, expecting that it would
bring enough to erect a new and com
fortable building.
There is excitement among Virginia
peanut dealers over the big jump in the
price of mits. A 50 per cent, advance
on account of the prospects for an un
usually shnrt crop has occurred within
the past . days, and prices are still
rising. This is the first rise in the mar
ket since the dissolution of the big
trust six montns ago. one-third of the
present crop is now cornered in this
way. and the larger dealers are active
ly buying up all the stock they can se
cure. It is thought the prices will al
most reach those of 1800, when the best
grades hold at 8 cents per pound. They
are now 24 cents.
There are rumors that the agents of
a certain lottery company which was
driven out of Louisiana some years ago
are now In Nevada, canvassing the
sentiment of that commonwealth, with
the end in view of submitting the ques
tion of establishing a lottery there un
der the auspices of the government to
the people at the next election. It Is
further alleged that these agents have
written to the lottery company, saying
that there will be no difficulty In ac
complishing the desired purpose that
is, a constitutional provision permit
ting a lottery to have a twenty-five
years' lease of life.
Schoolboy Sixty Yean Old.
To find a man of 60 engaged In the
study of a new profession Is an unus
ual thing, and the Maine Medical
School of this place thinks It has the
only student of this age at present tak
ing an undergraduate course In this
country.
James Scott, of Crow Harbor, Guys
boro, N. S., has entered upon the three
years course at the school, and when he
receives his degree of M. D. he will
have passed his 60th milestone. He is
a native of Dumfriesshire, Scotland,
and went to Nova Scotia at the age of
18. He has been a Baptist minister at
Crow Harbor and other places in Nova
Scotia for many years. Within the
last four or five years he has been
studying and practicing medicine in a
desultory way, especially in cases of
accidents, and he finally made up his
mind to acquire a thorough medical
education.
When Mr. Scott first came to college
here few of the college boys knew that
in the neatly attired old school gentle
man with the kindly face, whom they
met on the campus, was a schoolmate
of their own. Later on, though, this
having become generally known, some
of the would-be smart ones made a
midnight visit on Mr. Scott, Intent on
smoking him out. They were gracious
ly received.
Atthis juncture one of the boys, keen
er than the rest of his companions,
walked across the room to Uncle Jim's
chair, thinking the smoke pretty thick
in the Immediate locality, and found
the sturdy Scot contentedly puffing
away at a little black "T. D." an inch
and a half long, with the blue ribbons
of smoke curling above him, and smil
ing beamingly.
The gang shortly departed, aud no
further attempts have been made to
fumigate the medic's room. Mr. Scott
has a wife, three daughters and a sou
at Crow Harbor. Portland Dally
Press.
First that Ever Refused Him.
There Is a big policeman at one of
the crossings on Fifth avenue whose
duty It is to prevent people from Immo
lating themselves on the altar of their
own carelessness, and to this end he
beckons and warns and Invites by
wave of his friendly hand or a. com
mand of his stentorian voice. At the
same time he smiles In the mo-1 reas
suring manner. '
A few days ago. when the m id was
spread In liquid abundance over that
portion of Chicago, this policeman
beckoned to a stately matron of mature
years to cross between an incoming
street car and an outgoing dray, with
several minor vehicles wedged be
tween. But the matron refused with a
severe shake of ber dignified bead and
waited.
"Come over. I tell your roared the
big poltcema n, with his regulat Ion
smile.
She waited until nothing movable
was in sight, and without deigning to
notice the man of helmet and visor
sailed past bis outstretched hand. A
broad smile was on his weather-beaten
face as, nothing daunted by the scorn
of the haughty dame, he said:
"You're the first gur-r-1 that ever re
fused me."
The astonished woman looked at him
In frozen astonishment, but the beam
ing smile on his broad face was too
much for her.
'I believe It," she said, with an an
swering smile, as she went on her
way. Chicago Chronicle.
Paper Bags and Bard Times.
The manufacture of paper bags is an
Industry which depends largely on Its
prosperity to a prevailing condition of
hard times. The more stringent the
financial pressure becomes, the more
paper bags are used. In the grocery
stores customers will come in who, in
stead of ordering a bushel of potatoes,
will order a quart of potatoes and carry
them home in a paper basr. Groceries
of all kinds are purchased In small
quantities, and the paper bag Is used
almost exclusively to do up. not only
groceries, but fruit, vegetalles and can
dies. A customer In hard times will
drop in and buy half a pound of tea. In
a few days he will conie again and buy
another half pound. In good times he
would have bought a couple of pounds.
and one bag would have wrapped it up.
It is so with all Kinds of groceries and
everything purchasable far which pa
per bags can be used, and the only real
complaint which will be found coming
from the paper bag manufacturers will
be on the occasion of prosperous times
coming on us again. The paper bag
mills are doing a thriving business
now. and until the growing evidences
of prosperity culminate In a genera! re
sumption of business activity through
out the country, they will not lack for
a constant and large demand for their
goods. But when the mechanic begins
to buy potaoes by the bushel, apples by
the peck, coffee by five-pound packages
and flour by the Iwrrel, then the paper
bag will hide Its dim lushed bead and
prosperity be with us once more.
A Pr ncely Dan dr.
The greatest dandy in the world Is
Prince Albert of Thurn. This fastid
ious young men attires himself In a
new suit every day. enough yearly to
keep twenty experienced workmen go
ing, and to run up a bill of $1;"VMh).
Each suit of wearing apparel is hfghly
perfumed with attar of roses at $25 an
ounce. He wears no less than l.OOO
neckties during a year, being an aver
age of three a day. A laundry employ
lug twelve people is kept specially for
washing his soiled liuen, which he
never wears more than twice, and his
cast-off boots number 200 pairs a year.
The cigarette bill of this highly-scented
young gentleman reaches the respecta
ble total of $1,000 per annum, and the
different sports he engages In, includ
ing bunting, shooting, fishing, golfing
and bicycling, cost him more than $75,
000. Answers.
The Slaughter or Birds.
The outcry over the slaughter of
birds for millinery purposes Is said to
be without cause. The honor of sup
plying a large part of the demand Is
lalmed for the bumble barnyard fowl,
w h 1 le a In rge pa rt of the pa ra 1 i n
plumes and ospreys are clever imlta-
ions. Regarding the real osprey, buy
ers ay that It Is absurd to suppose
hat It is obtained by killing the mother
bird on her nest, since that would soon
exterminate the species, whereas the
sr.pply is Increasing in respous to the
demand. While buyers and storekeor.-
rs claim the alove Is true, the tueni-
ters of the different societies to pre-
ont the killing of birds declare Hint
the little animals are now being slaugh
tered In greater numbers than ever be
fore.
A Wide DiflTereuce.
Here Is a lesson in the correct use of
two words that are often confounded:
A fine-art critic was looking over the
pictures that had been submitted for
a public exhibition.
Well," said a friend, "what do you
think of them?"
I'm er answered the critic; "some
of them ought to be hung, and some of
tbem ought to be hanged." Detroit
Free Press.
No wonder there Is so much com
plaining in this world: one class of
people have too much to eat, and com
plain of dyspepsia, while another class
haven't enough to eat, and complaiu of
hunger.
UHEiMLDMlONHHUROi
tfce di Lpn ChurrJijOn ffie bid
Where ftp oM luaAons riauVd
Of the farmer wfo came, tvhen
fv tt! J. . T i
rui ine pjov.ana inepionir nsno reaper away.
I can near Ifie tiWT5rahonMfowoufrroniIftechou;
Bubbling over the? mvm. arid lib foffieshi'r
Where one pair of bluebirds on
To join mfnefrymsof the old
MWhen orchards enfold if
Where swifr swaHo-ws
oUZionChurchlcoHSwirmSfrrini L ;
And meidneoi irs beii on mesrifl Aummnmoml
Weds tfieaua'ISmellowallo.fsroff in)fie com. I
And " Wintt r Ifce snow wraps Be 4arani birch
That keep walch by Ifie graves bj-rk ol J ZionOwclj
Chicago Times-Herald.
MAGNET TO SAVE EYESIGHT.
Powerful Instrument Causes Metal
Particles to Come Forth.
Every man who works where parti
cles of metal fly about is liable to get
one of them iu his eye. Time was
when such an accident meant blindness
in one or both eyes, but nowadays this
Is not so. There Is In the New York
City Eye and Ear Infirmary a magnet
which has repeatedly drawn out of the
human eye such an atom as used to
destroy sight. The magnet Is of suffi
cient power to lift sixteen pounds and
It takes 120 volts of electricity from
the incandescent light eircuit to actuate
it. When an eye which has become the
unhappy possessor of a fragment of
iron or steel is brought near this mag
net the presence and location of the
metal is immediately made manifest by
a bulging of the coats of the eyebali.
This is the exact spot located, and
with the attraction continued at full
limit the matter of the extraction of
the particle becomes simple. When a
patient comes to the doctor to be treat
ed for an injury to the eye he is seated
In a chair with a headrest, facing a
good light. The doctor first steadies
the eyeball with the thumb and fore- !
THE HUGE MAGNET
finger of the left hand. Should be dis
cover that the bit of metal Is very
minute and not to be readily seen, he
calls an assistant, who focuses the light
upon the eye by mesns of a large six
Inch reading lens. When he finds that
the particle can be seen nicely he takes
the gouge or the bistoury, the two
dainty and yet terrorizing Instruments
of the eye specialist, and with the point
of either he makes an insertion benenth
the particle, and In a moment, if the
surgeon "be skillful, the metal is out
upon the surface.
A HANDY DOG.
Draws a Pr apectiniE Outfit for a Colo
rado Miner.
A novel prospecting outfit may be
seen once a week at Sawpit, a mining
camp in the San Juan country,, Colo-
BETTEB THAN A HORSE.
rado. Every Sunday a miner arrives
from Deep Creek, where be has several
claims that are in process of develop
ment. Harry Wilkes is the name of
the hermit, whose life seems bound up
country road.
1n mkf'fft UaJ
ftie calm Sbott dr
. . . i . 1
Sunday did bercrl
Zion Church N
And our fears
in swt bfossomind
swim Irtr ff b'jjlotvsof wheal", ,
ffle old Zion Church, where the fell cedar waves
If manfe of i loom o'er my ancestor's dTavee,
Where rnv fsfifernd molnerwereionAaooIaid.
And the ivhiboorwill
When my hm comes
i would like To return To Ifie Scenesof my Nrml,
5 hake off Iheold husK,)eave tne worfd in ffc hlr-ch.
lor Heaven can't be far
in that of his prospects and his bumble
four-footed companion, through whose
services he is able to prosecute his
work In the middle of winter in a coun
try where the whirr of the snowslides
passing down the adjacent moan tains
is the only music that enlivens the te
dium of the long evenings. ieep
Creek Is off the regular trails that lead
.to Sawpit, and thus is separated by an
area of snow that would not stand the
weight of an ordinary pony, especially
during the warm hours of the day.
when the surface snow is soft. Wilkes
is poor too poor to lay In a winter's
supply of grub, and only capable of
buying as be gets out a small quantity
of ore. He thought himself of a St.
Bernard dog, which he bad brought to
the cabin when the first snows of the
winter fell, and after a little applica
tion mauaged to break him to harness.
Having accomplished this much Wilkes
next built a rough sled and now goes to
town every Sunday for his grub. The
dog makes good time, while his master
accompanies him on snowshoes. The
trip is made with an average of 200
pounds of tools and merchandise. The
intelligent animal trots off with the
load at a gait that makes it warm for
DOING ITS WOKK.
Wilkes to keep up with, and often ne
cessitates a wnit on the part of the dog
for his owner to overtake him on some
of the steep hillsides.
A ljost Diamond.
i Glasgow lady has had a singular
experience. About the beginning of
November Inst she paid a hurried visit
to her business premises, and while
there lost the diamond from a favorite
ring. Search was made everywhere for
the precious stone. The shop was
given an extra sweep, the dust placed
in a "hnir" sieve and wnshed, but not a
trace of the lost jewel was got. Con
cluding that the diamond was gone for
good, the ring wns reset, and the loss
almost "forgotten, when the owner's
daughter, who had accompanied her to
the shop on the occasion, remarket!:
"Mother, there's something in the heel
of my right boot which catches the car
pet every step I take." "See what it
is," was the reply, and there, firmly
Imbedded in the solid leather, was the
missing diamoud. Singularly enough
during ttie past two mouths the youug
lady hfld been In the count y and walk
ed over the hard macadamized roads.
Diamond, in no way Injured, and boot
heel ate to join the heirlooms of the
family. .Adelaide Observer.
Not Goilty.
Judge Guilty or not guilty?
Prisoner Not guilty, boss.
Judge Ever arrested before?
Prisoner No, boss. An I nevah done
stole n u til n before, needer. Ha rper's
Weekly.
lK olJ Zion Church-Down ifs homely old disfes
Tbe river of son A brok in ripples of .armies.
Thro Thr sunshine Jftatweefe-ned ftieoWoaKeti floor;
often flowed when Wie whole vjfloeiww
Where The bonnie wee bobe,in us wflia jnn sicdj.
Hfe old rhrson SJdhow Death in his search
? jewels of Ood came to old Zion Church.
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mourns in fnemtfrmuroua
te say frwH toftte aartft.j
from Tneold Zion Cho r
Rob'pf M Intyrm.. I
ch.
WRITES LIKE THE WIND.
Isaac P. Dement, the Man Who Dashed
. yUff42 Words in a Minute.
Writing shorthand came naturally to
Isaac S. Dement, the man who broke
his own record of 3iH words a minute
the other day at Quiucy by dashing off
402 words in the same length of time.
r
and thus demonstrating anew bis right
to the title of the world's champion
ship. His brother. Merrett H. De
ment, who taught him his first lessons
In the art, was one of the best stenog
raphers in the country in his day. An
other brother. James E. Dement, is
one of the leading members of the pro
fession in Chicago. It will be seen that -the
Dement family Is well represented
in the great army of stenographers.
Mr. Dement looks upon stenography
as an art and a science, as well as a
profession. He has been making hooks
and curves since he was a boy, and
has yet to find the Individual who can
dictate faster than he can write. All
public speakers are alike to him In
that he has never met one who as
much as bothered him. The ones who
have tested his powers of speed most
fully were Dr. Phillips Brooks, the
noted preacher, and Rev. H. V. Reed,
who used to preach several years ago
in Chicago to a congregation of pre
miilennists. The latter talked to Mr.
Demfnt once at the rate of 250 words
a minute for half an hour, and this Mr.
Dement regards as the hardest propo
sition he ever encountered. For the
past four years he has been out of the
field as ad active reporter, devoting hia
time and abilities to the business ofj
publishing his text-boobs on short-
hand. In his spare moments Mr. De
ment gives his literary genius a chance
and writes novels. In addition to this
he finds time to exercise his inventive
powers, and has patented several use
ful media ideal devices.
The New Yankee Doodle.
The children of New York city are
singing the following lines to the tune
of Vaubee Doodle:
Do not spit upon the street.
In cars or public places:
This is far from being neat.
And leaves unwholesome traces.
Dread disease is- spread about
By such seltisb doing;
We will try to put to rout
Smoking, spitting, chewing.
Any Old Thing;.
"Has your husband given much
thought to the political situation?" said
one woma n.
"Yes." replied the other; "I guess
he'll take any that offered him after
the election."
"Any what?"
"Any political situation. He says be
needs the salary." Washington Star.
The Most bifficnlt.
Quericus What do you find to be the
most difficult things to compose?
Musician The baby. New York"
Journal.
There is only one pan of a man that
feels better on Monday than It felt on
Saturday, aud that is Ins corns.