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instinctively feared the man. for ne knew that he had not the strength to contend with him if violence was offer ed, and be felt sure there would be trouble when the tramp had refreshed himself. There were no near neigldsirs. and he could not leave his mother aloue while he went for help. While all this was passing through his mind his glance fell uihiu the uote he had written, and he started ns a thought entered his mind. Seizing the pen, he opened the note aud hurriedly added: “A rascally looking tramp has Just come In. Mother is feeding him, but there is no telling what he will be up to when he gets through eating. Ask uncle aud J'Ike to come over as quick as they can. Father is away.” Fastening the uote securely to the pigeon, he went to the door, and open ing It let the bird go. As he did so the man sprung from the table where he had been swallowing his food in great gulps, caught Tom by the shoulder and Hung him across the room, saying, roughly: "Set down, sonny, and make yourself easy. Goin’ to call the neighbors, was ye? You jest glt me that there money, and be quick about It.” Mrs. Nelson, pale and trembling, sprung between them, trying to explain that they were ignorant as to the loca tion of any money. "Come; none of that!” fiercely Inter rupted the man. "Shut yer Jaw or tell me where It Is. It'll be the Worse for ye If ye don't. That school money yer man's fakin' care of. You know what 1 mean.” Then he drew a revolver, threatening to shoot them both if they i>ersisted In their denial. Mrs. Nelson rhook her head; she could not speak; but Tom, white to the lips, muttered hoarsely: "You’ll have to shoot, then, for I don’t know where It is, and I’m glad 1 don't, for 1 might be coward enough to tell if I did,” and then shut his eyes, expect ing the worst. The tramp eyed them incredulously for a moment, and, making up his mind that they were speaking the truth, after a pause of indecision, opened a door near where he stood. Discovering that It was a dark closet, without win dow or means of escape, he drove them into it at the pistol's point, and as there was a key In the door locked them 111. Then he began the search. It was a long one, for the money was well bid den, apparently. Cursing ami swearing, he emptied the secretary and bookcase into the sitting-room; the bureaus and wardrobes in the bed-rooms, scattering the contents over the floor; the side board in the dining-room, and the clock on the mantel. He ripped up the mat tresses aud pillows, turning the bouse Into disorder, but no money could lie find. Mad with rage and disappointment, still he persisted, in spite of the danger of discovery If lie lingered. He was In the act of splitting open a tin savings bank, a relic of Tom’s babyhood, which was heavy with a weight of 1-ceut pieces which Mrs. Nelson found con venient to have on hand, when a calm voice of authority was heard at the door, saying: "Give it up, my man; It’s no use. And come along with me." It was the village constable who spoke, at the same time holding up a pair of handcuffs in a significant man- ner. The trump made a dash at the oppo site door, where he found Mike. Mr. Morton's hired man a brawny Irish man who said, soothingly: "Whist, whist; not so fast, honey." He glanced wildly nt the windows and saw stationed outside Mr. Nelson at one window and Mr. Morton at the other. Mr. Nelson had relumed earlier than he expected, and had fallen In with the relief party which the con stable, on the trail of the tramp on ills own account, had also Joined. The mag. nt bay, felt for Ills revolver. "You made a slight mistake, my friend.” said the constable. In a Jeering w ay. “when you left it lying on the din ing room table." Seeing that the game was up. the man. with an imprecation, allowed him self to be handcuffed and folioweal the constable in sulky silence. Harry, who had followed the others, soon discovered the prisoners by the very vigorous blows and sounds In the kitchen closet and released them. One and all then and there agreed that the pigeon is one of the most useful and lovable of birds. Mr. Nelson, who had been Inclined to consider his son's Inter est In those gentle creatures a foolish waste of time, was the most enthusi astic of all. “For." said he, liftlug down a wad of bills from the top of a door casing where It had been snugly reposing, "the rascal might have got away with this after all If there had been time. How he found out that the money was in my possession Is wliat beats me.” It was a mystery which was never solved Chicago Record. WHEN AT THE LAST. When nt the last I lay me down to sleep, And ot the morrow's dawning reckon not. When night no more, no more may vigil keep, And love’s brief noon is but a dream forgot— Back to the Past, its sad and variant ways, Be Thou the warder of my yesterdays. Amid the paths long lost, or sought too late. Where waywardness hath wandered, love been blind. If there lie one that lieth clear aud straight— Unseen, perchance forgot—thou inayeat find. Even in that perverse, perplexing maze, The white thread shining 'mid my yes terdays. Bo oft have love's torch wavered, love's feet failed. Were the vain reckoning miue 'twere but to weep. Blind Thou the sight by memory as sailed, When at the last I lay me down to sleep. And through Time's deep and labyrin- thian ways Crown Thou some moment in my yea terdays! —Harper's Bazar. DM NELSON and his cousin, Harry Morton, were deeply Inter ested In the rearing of pigeons Their fathers owned adjoining farms, and the houses were about a quarter of a tulle apart. Muuy were the Journeys that the boys made to anil fro in order to compare notes and to exchange ideas In regard to the care and training of their |s‘ts. Indeed, so urgent and pressing at times was the need of speedy communi cation that they so trained several birds of the carrier species that a message could l>edispatched and a reply received in an astonishingly short space of time. Each boy carried home every night a pigeon from the other’s dovecote, which Tnic TIIAMC WAS sri.lTINll Ol’KX A TIN HAVIM1S KANS. lie kept In a cage ready to »>ud with a Dote when occasion required. One rainy day Tom Nelson, having nothing to do mad finding the time hanging heavily on Ills hands, thought It a favorable opportunity for him to pay his cousin a visit, and had eauglit up his liat with that intention, when his father, passing through the kitchen where he was, said: "Tom, 1 am going to the village, to Is1 gone several hours, and 1 don't want you to leave the house. I have noticed several tramps around here lately and they might be troublesome to your mother If they found her alone.” “All right, sir." sold Tom, who felt •oniewhat disappointed, but lie had long ago learned to not grumble about tri ties. "I feel uneasy alsiut that money, George," said Mrs. Nelson, who had en- tereil the room and was looking anx iously nt her husband. "What money T’ asked Tom. "Why," said Ills father, "the school board at their last meeting made me treasurer mid handed me all the funds. ■ mounting to a little over folk)." "Where Is it?" asked Tom again. "Safely hidden away where no one will be likely to find it," answered his father, laughing. “If you and your mother don't know where It Is you will not la* able to tell any oue, that’s cer tain," and he went off. "I never feel safe with so large an ■ mount In the house." said Mrs. Nelson, and she went about her work with a preoccupied air, Tom bush'd himself writing a note to his cousin, mid when It was ready he went to the woodshed and brought In the cage containing the messenger. He was Just going to tie the note to the bird's wing wbAn the kitchen door opened mid a man walked In without knocking, a man of the real, genuine, unadulterated tramp specie« -dirty, ragged, unkempt and brutal looking "Villain" was written In unmistakable characters on his ugly countenance. He asked abruptly for, or rather de manded, something to eat, and Mrs. Nelson, with a troubled glance at him. set about preparing a meal, pretending to take no notice of the furtive glances which her unwelcome guest was cast Ing around him. Torn, who was a slightly built lad of IB, did not aoem a formidable obstacle to this burly rogue, for after one carv- less glance In the boy's direction he took the chair offered by Mrs. Nelson amt sat dow n to Ills dinner. Tom. remembering his father's part ing word», was In a sore dilemma. He It I<ooks Like Celluloid. A substitute for celluloid Is now I h >- Ing produced from uutanned leather boiled In oil. which Is said to resemble celluloid In every particular. It Is known as marloid and shows a texture similar to horn, while It can be made flexible aud elastic or hard aud unyield- Ing. It will take a high polish readily and may be stamped or pressed Into any desired shape. | two things which most do this are ex citement and the sense of opposition in I began at Papillion, Neb., on Sept. 24, an audience which every political 1 full three weeks after Governor Roose speaker has to face.” velt's special train had pulled Into De Get« Little Rest. troit, Mich., for the opening speech of "Physically, too, the work of a great bis campaign. campaign on the railroads tells upon a As an example of Just how many du speaker. There is a loss of sleep al ties devolved upon these candidates, ways. Towns through which a train some of the figures from Mr. Bryan’s may pass in dead of night often turn tour of Indiana have been gathered. out crowds who at least awaken the They show: candidate. Then the exigencies of an Miles traveled................... .... 700 Itinerary force him to get up early and Speeches ............................. .... 28 go to bed late. "But even If a man sleeps soundly Counties touched.............. .... 27 ... • IMI the night through on a railroad train be Towns passed................... Towns spoken to............... .... 28 I ia not rested as he would have been had Receptions................. .... .... 27 he slept In a stationary bed. There Is Visitors ................................ .... 600 reason to believe that In the soundest ....100,000 Persons addressed ........... Bouquets received............. .... 32 sleep possible In a fast-moving train Speakers on train............. .... 50 the muscles are making unconscious Newspaper men ............... .... 8 efforts to neutralize the movements of Wcrds by telegraph......... ... 234,000 the body caused by swaying» and jolt Words spoken................... .... 98,000 ings of the train. The nerves prompt Governor Roosevelt’s train followed this, and to the extent that they are almost the same route as this In Indl- kept awake the whole system Is af ana, touching twenty-four places for fected. As the nerves are affected, set speeches. About the same general too, the tendency toward Impairment experience was his. Indiana being of the voice Is Increased. In many considered a most Important state, the ways they tend to this, chiefly by dls- states. These were only prelim GREAT RECORDSMADE ! era inary movements. His campaign proper TRAILS LEFT BY BRYAN ROOSEVELT. AND Hundreds of Speeches Have Been Made During Journey Ings of Thousand« of Miles—Remarkable Physical Endur ance shown by These Two Candidate« In the trails which William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt have left upon the map of the United Slates are evidences of the Intricate civiliza tion w hich each would represent. These itineraries are only the evolution ot the methods which in early days prompted a candidate to saddle bis horse, throw a pair of saddlebags in front of him, and to ride Into a neigh boring county to feel the pulse of the people. To-day the horse has become a 120-tou locomotive; the saddle-bags are baggage, library and buffet cars; the cross-roads Inn is a palace sleeping ear that Is home to the candidate in al weathers, times, and places; the scores SPEECHMAK1NG AND TRAVELING RECORDS OF BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT of boys’ front names are disappearing from amoug the youths of the present geuoratlon, together with the diminu tive Jimmy, Sammy, Billy, etc., which time out of mind prevailed among mas culine youngster«? For some reason the boys have largely discarded the free and easy way of addressing oue an other that comes natural to Ingenious youth, substituting for the more rollick ing Tom. Dick and Harry, sanctioned by immortal usage, a stiffer form of ad dress which does not match well with the freshness of boyhood. The same appears to be the case with the female Juveniles. Even amoug little girls play ing 'rlng-around-rosy,’ the Bessies. Maggies and Katies are disappearing, giving place to the stilted substitution of Elizabeth, Margaret, Catherine and the like. This change has not had its origin in the volition of either the boys or tile girls. They have evidently been 'put up to it.’ Some higher authority must be responsible for this priggish ness. and from its general extent it is likely due to misdirected instruction in the schools. To no other source could be attributed expressions now beard among boys at play, such as 'Samuel, do not throw the hall so hard; William cannot catch it.' No boy, who is not a prig, either by nature or education, but would say on a subject of that kind: 'Sam, don't throw the ball so hard; Bill can’t catch It.’ This is as idiomatically as correct as the other form and collo quially preferable, while devoid of the stiffness unsuited to youthful expres sion.”—Philadelphia Record. How to Choose Gootl Meat. Let us imagine ourselves before a butcher's block having on it four pieces of beef presenting faces from the round or sirloin. One is dull red, the lean being close-grained and the fat very white; the next is dark-red, the lean loose-grained and sinewy and the fat white and shining: the third is dull red. the lean loose-grained and sinewy and the fat yellow; the fourth is bright cherry-red, the lean smooth aud me dium-grained. with flecks of white through It, and the fat creamy—neither white nor yellow. The first of these is cow beef: the second, bull beef; the third, beef from an old or ill-condi tioned animal; and tlie last Is ox beef. Ox beef—that from a steer—is the juciest, finest flavored, sweetest aud most economical to buy of all beef. It is called “prime” when the lean is very much mottled with the white fat-flecks, and when it is from a heavy, young animal (about 4 years old), stall-fed on corn Beef from a young cow tlw.t has been well fed and fattened is t ext in merit to ox beef. Beef from an un matured animal is never satisfactory, being tough aud juiceless. It may be easily recognized, as its color is pale and its bones small.—Woman’s Home Companion. The Practical Side of It. of miles of muddy or dusty roads have become the thousands of miles of steel bound road-bed over which these palace trains thunder with the swiftness of a carrier pigeon. That "there were giants In those days” has become accepted of the past, but that the old-fashioned orator of the clrcult-riillng days of Lincoln and Douglas could have stood the strain of the modern Inter-state canvass Is Im possible In the opinion of physicians. Roosevelt, traveling 15.000 tulles, mak ing more than 300 speeches of nearly 600,000 words, sleeping at sixty miles nn hour and waking at all times and places made a record that would have astounded a politician of fifty years ago. Bryan, not traveling so far, but taxing himself even greater in speech milking and In the other activities of a campaign of which he lias been the head, possibly did even more. In voice, Roosevelt suffered: perhaps In nervous »train lie felt the work. Bryan, more trained In the art of public speaking, knowing better how to save and spare himself, and having the experiences of a great campaign on similar lines In 18911, has been a phenomenon In endur ance. even In the eyes of the medical profession. Bryan's Active Work. Bryan’s first active work began on Aug. 31. when he visited Chicago for a conference with the national commit tee. His letter of acceptance bad been weighing upou him. but In response to calls he went South and East as far as Cumberland. Md.. back through West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana, to Chicago. Then to Milwaukee, back to Chicago, and from that city westward •hrottgh a group of the central-West work was in excess of the general concerting the speaker and causing him Western average, but even with that to waste lung power. allowance the figures are significant of “Irregular meals and exposure to the demands made upon the physical night air aud to changes In the weath and mental sides of these men. er are physical causes for breakdown. Most often such speakers have been Vocal Exertion. regular in all their habits of life. They In considering the campaign work of cannot adjust themselves at once to a man, the voice is the one thing that bolted food and irregular hours for eat gives uneasiness to the speaker and his ing. Food is not digested as it should friends. With voice gone, his work is at an end, and it is known that the be and the body lacks its usual nour ishment. voice Is more likely to give away than “Above all this, as in the case of Mr. any other physical necessity In a cam paign. If hand shaking be thrust upon Bryan especially, the weight of being a candidate until the bone and tissue the head of a party's machinery has He has had more of the hand are a pulp, the public will been distressing. still come and will respect the fact that than the details of his own tour upon Telegrams, letters, and all the the man's right forearm is in sling. But him. if he cannot talk, most of the attractive machinery of modern correspondence have bound him to his party’s manage ness of the candidate takes wing. ment and have obtruded upon him Nerve tax and the consequent loss of when he should have been resting. tone In the system are regarded as hav "Nothing in athletics, in prize-fight ing a direct and vital influence on the ing, running, riding, wheeling, or phys voice. I)r. Oscar A. King, neurologist ical record breakings of any kind In its and professor in the medical school in physical aspect can compare with the the University of Illinois, lias found a campaign work of William Jennings most subtle relation between the nerv Bryan. His performance, in the light ous system and the voice. of mere physical effort and endurance, “As a basic proposition,” he said, has been wonderful. In the matter of “you may trace every impediment in training and experience, of course, he speech to nervous Influences. Starting has had the advantage of Governor with this, the effect of a depletwl nerv Roosevelt, but he has been taxed as ous system on the voice Is pI.Mn. The Roosevelt has not been. His cam mechanisms of the vocal organs are in paign stands out as a marvel of phys tricate of themselves, and the nerves ical endurance.” which control these organs multiply their complexities. In a failing voice, NAMES SPOKEN IN FULL. then, one must always look to the con dition of the nervous system. In the Familiar Abbreviated Nicknames Have Been Disappeiiring for Tears. cases of Bryan and Roosevelt, the things most calculated to derange their "Have you observed.” asks a corre nerves are those which react upon these spondent. “how the Jims. Sams, Bills, nervous systems. Unquestionably the Toms and other old-time abbreviations “There is so little money in litera-. ture.” said the wife, "that I think yoia would be wise to choose some ptlier profession. Why, the man who rrtns the ice wagon makes more tiian you do; the butcher goes out driving every Sun day: the baker wears a beaver and a linen collar, and the real estate man has three diamonds in a white shirt, to say nothing of the coal man. who goes to sleep in church on a velvet pillow every Sunday the Lord sends!" “But—Molly, think of Genius; what am I to do with that?” "The Lord only knows. John! But how nice it would be if you could only split It into kindling wood at so much a cord or swap it off for a barrel of flour and a sugar-cured ham!”—Atlanta Constitution. Oysters Have ManyFoes. The oyster appears to be the most perfectly protected creature in the sea. yet It falls a victim to the soft and ap parently helpless starfish. The method of attack is curious but effective. The starfish clasps the oyster in its five arms and quietly waits. Presently the oyster opens Its shell in order to get food. This is the chance that the star fish has been waiting for, and it prompt injects into the shell a little red dish fluid. This acts as a poison, paralyzing the muscles of the oyster and thus making if Impossible for the creature to close its shell. The starfish does not take flic trouble even to remove the oyster from its shell, but eats it in its own home and eventually crawls away, leaving behind the gaping, empty shell. "At last, the wolf Is at the door!” “Well, coax him in and we’ll eat him.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. ’ WHERE THE GUNBOAT NASHVILLE WENT WHEN SHE LEFT ST. LOUIS IN 1899. When the United States gunboat Nashville visited St. Louis in the spring o: 1899, the demonstration attending her reception marked an epoch in the city’» history. The Nashville was the first ocean-going war vessel that had evei steamed up the Father of Waters to the metropolis of the Mississippi valley. Hence the interest attending her arrival. All the railroads entering the city ran excursion trains, and people came from the surrounding States, anxious to gaze upon the pioneer from Old Ocean’s depths. Leaving the city amid the acclamations of the multitude and to the music of the bands, the gunboat proceeded down the river, across the gulf, rounded the peninsnla, stopped at Hampton Roads, crossed the Atlantic, passed through the Mediterranean sea and the Suez canal, on to the harbor of Tokio. Japan, and has since been in Chinese waters. St. Ixtuis people declare that the vessel might just as well have carried merchandise as implements of war. and they intimate that the destiny of St. Louis is to become a deep water port. An Hour's Speaking. A fluent speaker utters between 7.000 and 7,500 wonts In the course of an hour's uninterrupted spanking. Many orators of more than usual rapid ut terance will reach 8.000 and even 9.000, but 125 wonts a minute, or 7.500 an hour. Is « fair average. A tittle learning Is more explosive thau uul.lulled Iguorauee. TUK VESSEL MIGHT JLST AS WELL HAVE CARRIED MERCHANDISE AS IMI’L r.N IS OF WAR.