TILLAMOUK tíhJADLIQHT, APRIL 27, A911
TAMED THE SAVAGE.
lares Laid For Its Prey
the Glutton Sea.
KNOCK IS PITILESS.
toroua Spot la the Real Davy
.ookar—No Hope For Vessel
When Neptune Aeke Toll at
»marine Graveyard.
¡ones’ locker." that perilous
ion of which so often comes
Ups of sailors, is not shown
tcean chart principally be-
U not really a settled place,
“r ocean death trap deserved
is the Thames estuary.
ish naval authorities have a
1 which is marked tbe jtosl-
recks, shown by black dots,
art the Thames mouth tract
black spot. So numerous
l the wrecks the dots run
The point where the black
illy rile the one on the top
■ is the Kentish Knock, and
e place among all of tbe
ger spots that deserves tbe
ivy Jones' locker.
Kentish Knock it is not keel
7 rocks nor piercing points of
1 wreck the ocean travelers.
I—treacherous, clinging sand
isps the doomed ship with a
eel and holds It firmly while
r sea beats it to fragments,
vessel posted at Lloyd's as
Would be duly accounted for
lock sand would give up its
lere is no hope for ship or
n Neptune asks toll at the
Enock, for tbe nearest land
’ miles away and the nearest
at Margate, thirty miles dis
I
Mis of the ocean are far more
l than rocks.
The sand
rtend over more space and
offer more points of contact
rocks, which usually rise in
dnnacles. The waters flow
sands in smooth waves, and
no warning breakers.
i the Thames mouth tract In
danger Is tbe Hooghly. the
•r river on which Calcutta
The most trying part of a
sei's voyage from New York
ta Is the Inst few miles of
river. In this strange stream,
tss weather and flat calm
ssels have been lost—dashed
on the dreaded ever shifting
is by the force of the tides,
nds grasp the keel of the
essel and she stops. But the
es on with relentless force
helpless shin Is carried over
»am ends. Rhe careens over
lers with nil on board. One
•orst shoals In the Hooghlv
name of James and Mary,
the name of u great Indian
ship wrecked on the sunken
to.
danger point dreaded by the
isriner has neither sand nor
t a great submarine wat’r
the English channel there is
at beyond the Shambles bank
»re Is a sudden drop In tbe
n. Tbe channel tides sweep
banka and down this sudden
»ting rapids equal In fury to
Niagara. The American ship
foundered In Portland race.
I by which this danger point
L and all hands went dowu
I
ound to New York from Eit-
i near a deadly bidden shoal
ns out from Sable Island. Iv-
>pe Sable. In Nova Scotia
1 runs out for mile» in five
i. like tbe fingers of n great
chtng out for vtbat It can
A Plucky Salesman and a Merchant Humors of tho Right of Way on the
Street» of Havana.
With a Bad Greuch.
Between 2 and 3 o'clock In tbe after
A salesman for a carpet house called
on the proprietor of a big store. This noon Havana begins to revive from
man bad a reputation for eating sales tbe lull which falls at about 11. for.
men alive. After several unsuccessful although this city uo longer frankly
attempts to see his man the salesman retires to sleep tbe siesta as she ought
decided to use desperate means to get she does doze dully in tbe motionless
to him. He knew that tbe man must thick heat of midday.
After 3 one sees ladies venturing
buy a bill of goods, for he knew wbat
stock he was carrying and knew that forth iu twos and threes to the streets
be must lay tn a supply for tbe open I where the best shops are. Thia 1 h the
hour iu which to witness, if one has
ing of tbe season.
in tbe afternoon he called at the eyes and humor for it. a whole series
store and deliberately walked into tbe of comic wvurreuces.
Havana's sidewalks are narrow,
owner's private office and placed a
card on his desk. Tbe storekeeper did and their lack of width gives rise to
not look up from his papers for several some hs-al customs and a deal of heart
minutes. Then be turned savagely on burning One does not keep bard to
the right, regardless, in approaching
tbe salesman and said:
"Who tn Sam Hill let you tn? I left another person traveling along the
orders to have you thrown out if you narrow flagging in tbe opposlle direc
tion. One must take under advise
came again.”
With that be threw the card savagely ment sex. age. color and preseut condi
In the wastebasket.
The salesman tion of servitude as blazoned forth for
drew another from his pocket and al) to read in the details of personal
placed it on the desk where tbe first attire.
Men usually give women the Inside
had been. Without looking up from bis
work the buyer threw that tn tbe of the walk, stepplug down when
wastebasket.
The salesman threw necessary to let them (>ass. Serviug
down two or three other cards with i people, regardless of age aud sex. and
the same result, and finally, almost ull others who so bumble themselves
purple wltb rage, the merchant turned as to curry packages are expected to
yield the walks to their superiors, who
on blm:
then are about everybody they meet.
"Well, well, well, wbat is it?”
Frequently, of course. It is difficult
“I was just thinking." said tbe sales
man, "that if every man your salesmen to make lu tbe flash of turning a cor
called on was such an infernal, igno ner all tbe nice calculations requisite
rant, no account groueb as you are to deciding who shall have the walk
what cussed few orders they would aud who shall surrender it.
I know of nothing funnier than to
book and how quickly you would go
out of business. That's all, sir; good- watch two fairly well dressed and cor
pulent Cuban ladies determining, as
by."
“Hold on there a minute." broke in they stand tottering, face to face on a
the groueb in a much changed tone. foot wide flagging, the whole delicate
“1 guess 1 owe you an apology. You're problem of their relative rank. The
right
Let's see your line.”—Book one arrayed In the giddiest garment
seems usually to win.
keeper.
If there '»•■ small choice in color and
cost between the pink costume of one
THE EVERGLADES.
and tbe blue costume of tbe other
t’>e one with tbe straightest hair stands
This Fertile Florida Region 1« an Old
fast and the other walks round, some
Mountain Top.
times with grunts aud comments sotto
One of the strange facts about tbe voce.
Everglades region of Florida is that It
Or. all details seeming equal, they
Is really a decayed mountain top. The
face each other und glare uutil tbeone
crest is formed of massive limestone,
with least nerve wilts, swerves into an
usually covered by a mautle of sand
adjacent doorway, and the victorious
In this formation are numberless |>ot
one sweeps by with uptilted chili aud
boles which vary In size from a few
feet to thousands of acres; also count exultant petticoats.—Irene A. Wright's
less lakes of fresh water springs and "Cuba.”
frequent subterranean streams and
pools.
A few miles north of Cape Rable is
an outcrop of limestone which projects
to Lake Okeechobee. In this outcrop
Is an extensive shallow basin extend
Ing 130 miles north and south and
about seventy miles east and west,
while the altitude of Its rim Is twelve
foot above mean tide In Rlscayne bay
and a little less above tbe gulf of
Mexico.
This rim Is from three to twelve
miles from tbe ocean edge of the
coastal plain on the east and a dis
tn nee of fifty miles from the gulf on
tbe west. So far as explored It ex
tends all around tbe edge of tbe basin,
forming n complete cup. As a result
of the weather and flowing water the
run has been worn into fantastic
shapes. Tbe depth of tbe basin varies
from a foot at the rim to as much as
twelve feet lu places, but generally the
rock floor is from a depth of one to six
feet.
And here Is the secret of the fertility
of the Everglades. Above the entire
rock floor rises a layer of muck, form
ed of an alluvial deposit and of de
cayed vegetable matter. This deposit
varies from a few inches to several
feet In thickness. The water covering
this deposit comes from springs that
In turn have their source In tbe lake.—
Cassler's Magazine.
George Sand.
It was from Leonard Jules Bandeau,
the celebrated French novelist and
dramatist, born at Aubusaon a century
ago. that another and far greater
writer derived ber nom de guerre,
When a young student lo Parla Ran-
dean made tbe acquaintance of Mme.
Dudevant. and during a abort llred
friendship they collaborated tn a novel.
"Ruse et Blanche." which was pub
Halted In 1R31 Then they parted, but
Mme itudevant. while relinquishing
Rattdeau's friendship, took to herself a
portion of his name and elected to be
known thenceforth aa George Hand.—
Pall Mall Gazette.
the gales blow beavv seas
an the shoals with sufficient
shatter the stanchest ves*e'
_d when tbe wind cesses the
are strewn with the bodies of
Lo have perished. Tbe distance
shore is too great and the
heavy for tbe life savers to
struggling vessel, and few
saved at this point. Ten ves-
bcen wrecked In this trap In
reek.
ky danger points In the ocean
irly all been classified, and
es have been erected on Hie
gernua—except one. There is
ouse on tbe Virgin rock, and
er will be.
tbe mld-Atlantlc this giant
rears Its bead up from the
nr and vainly seeks to rea> b
ice of tbe sen. It Is abort
t eighteen feet. There it
dtb Its sharp point hidden by
i waves, waiting to pterr-e tbe
of some unsuspecting vessel
I It down to join tbe pile of
m > and dead men's bones that
floor around Its base.
ires seem to be In league with
for If a vessel of light draft
pass over Its bead tbe waves
own Into a trough at tbe bot-
rblch tbe point of tbe rock 1«
to rip out Its keeL—Harper's
Ths Fourth Estate.
Thomas Carlyle says that tbe term
•fourth estate" was first applied to tbe
news|>«|ieni by Edmund Burke when
«(•raking In tbe bouse of commons
about 1790. In consequence of tbe
freedom which bad been won for It
during the reign of William of Orange
tbe press had by tbe time of Burke
become tbe power which well deserved
to rank up with tbe king, lords and
comtr ’ns aa one of tbe estate« of tbe
realm, one of tbe great creative fercee
of the kingdom.
It Wra Easy.
»dn t catch a single fisb
trtpF
I
WAR CF THE WALKS.
A Popular
Tlte made a bit wl
"«be makes a bit «
Always has a crowd
LISZT AS AN IDOL
The Great Musician Was Petted
by English Royalty.
A SOUVENIR OF THE MASTER.
rhe Singular Memento That Was Sa
credly and Secretly Treaeured by a
Cold. Rigid and Rather Disagreeable
Old Englishwoman.
QUEER CAVALRY CHARGE.
Attack Upon a 8tranded Gunboat by
a Mounted Squad.
After tbe actiou at Sabine Cross
roads (in April. IRtHt the. Lexington
was leading tbe fleet ou the way down
the Bed river. A rifle Are was direct
ed upou her decks from tbe Confed
erate skirmishers on the shore. At
one poiut tbe river wideued out and
tbe cbaunel meandered through an
open stretch of comparatively shallow
j water. As the Lexington reached this
I iqten stretch tbe man at tbe wheel, who
bad been replaced once or twice dur
ing the trip, was struck by a well di
rected shot from the tuwk. The little
' vessel turned sidewise to the current
1 aud grounded bow and stern across
tbe narrow channel. A squad of Con
federate cavalry, led by General Green
¡and ex-Governor Moutoit. seized the
¡opportunity for a brilliant coup. They
' rode out through the shallows, tlte wa-
j ter being up to the shoulders of tlieir
[ torses, keeping up such a sharp tire
| that tbe decks of the gunboat bad to
[be abandoned. The cavalry reached
the edge of the channel, and It scented
i for a moment us If they would be able
to get ou board and take possession
of the vessel. If tbelr attempt bud
j been successful tbe vessel would have
been sunk where she lay and tbe chan
nel would have been blocked. The
next vessel In tbe columu was still
above tbe point waiting uutil by the
! movement of the smoke from tbe
stacks of the Lexington it could be
knowu that the channel was clear.
Tbe men on tbe gunboat Anally suc
ceeded in bringing to bear a gun from
below, and a volley of shrapnel killed
General Green. Discouraged by tbe
death of their leader, the cavalry turn
ed back to tbe bank. The Yaukee
gunners again took possession of the
deck aud tbe wheelhouse, and. getting
out their stilts (long poles fastened by
swinging bolts to tbe side of tbe ves
sel*. they succeeded, although still un
der a sharp fire, in pushing the bows
of tbe vessel around and getting her
j again under wuy.—American Review
of Reviews.
“When I was a very small hoy In
deed, " writes Ford M. Huetter iu Har
per's, "when I wore greeu velveteen
clothes, red stockings and loug goldeu
| curls, thus displaying to au'uusympa-
1 lucre world tbe tact of my pre-tut
I pbaellte origin, I was tukeu oue day
I .o a very large Uuii. lu Hout ut u.
was a wooden plattumi draped all
in red.
Upon the platform was a
grand plauo.
"lu front of me the flrat row of the
stalls bad lieeu taken away, aud lu
place of them there had been put three
gilded armchairs, before which was
a table covered with a profusion of
flowers that drooped and trailed to tbe
ground. Suddenly there wus applause
—a considerable amount of applause.
A lady and gentleman were coming
from under tbe durk entry that led to
tbe artists' room.
They were the
Prince and Princess of Wales. There
was no doubt about that even for a
small boy like myself.
"And then there was more applause.
Wbat applause! It volleyed, it rolled
round tbe hall. All were on their feet.
People climbed on to tbelr chairs,
they waved bands, they waved pro
grams, they waved bats, they shouted,
for in tbe dark entrance there had ap
peared. white and Bblning. a bead
with brown aud spbinxlike feature«
aud white and long hair and the eter-
ual wonderful smile.
“They advanced, these three, amid
those tremendous shouts and enthusi
asm—tbe two royal personages lead
ing tbe master, oue holding each baud.
They approached the gilded armchairs
immediately iu trout ut me. und the
prince and princess indicated to the
master that be waa to sit lietweeu
them at the table covered with flowers.
“He made little pantomimes of mod
esty. be drew his hands through their l
grasp, be walked quickly away from
the armchairs, and because I was just 1
Warning Before Command,
behiDtl them be suddenly removed me
In briuging up my children 1 found from my seat and left me ata tiding un
that at night when they were tired der all tbe eyes, solitary In the aisle of
they were spared many tears by belug the center of the hall, while he ant
warned before I gave them a strict dowu. » do not think I was frightened
command, iustead of saying "Now it by the eyes, but 1 know I was terribly
is time to go to bed
Put away your frlgbtened by that great brown, aqiil-
blocks at once." 1 would say. "It Is Hue face, with the piercing glance mid
nearly time to go to lied. Finish your tbe mirthless. distant, inscrutable
house first und then put awuy your
smile.
blocks."
In this way the cbildreu
“And Immediately Just Itealde me
were fully prepared to go. and there there began what np|ieared to lie a I
was consequently uo la-gging and no gentle and courtly wrestling match A
I temptation for me to show my lack gentleman of the royal suit approach
of flrmuess by being persuaded to al ed the muster. He refused to move.
low them to build “just one atore The prince approached tbe master. He
house."
sat Indomitably still. Then the prin
Imagine a mother in tbe midst of an cess came aud. taking blm by the hand,
absorbing chapter being told by one in drew him almost by force out of my
higher authority to put down her book
stall, for it was my stall, after all.
at once aud to to bed. Would It not
“And when be was once upon bls
save a frown of impatience to tie told feet, ns If to clinch the matter, she sud
to finish tbe chapter first?—Harper's
denly sat down In It herself, and wltb
Bazar.
a sudden touch of good feeling she
took me by tbe band—the small soli
A Curiosity of 8ound.
tary boy with the golden curls and tbe
If when riding In a balloon at a
height, say, of 2,000 feet a charge of red stockings—and sat me upon Iter
guncotton be fired electrically 100 feet lap. 1. alas, have no trace of tbe date
below tbe car, tbe report, though really on which 1 ut In a queen's lap. for It
as loud as a cannon, sounds no more was all so very long ago; the king Is
I than a pistol shot, possibly partly dead, tbe master to long since dead,
owing to the greater rarity of tbe air, the ball Itself to pulled down and baa
but chiefly because the sound, having utterly disappeared.
"1 bad a distant relative-oddly
no background to reflect It. simply
spends itself lu the air. Then, always enough an English one. not a Ger-
and under all conditions of atmosphere, man—who married an official of the
there ensues absolute silence until tbe court of Weimar and became a lady In
time for tbe echo back from earth has waiting on tbe grand duebeu. Aa far
i fully elapsed, when a deafening out as I know, there waa nothing singu
burst of thunder rises from below, larly sentimental about this lady.
rolling on often for more than half a When 1 knew her she wa« cold, rigid
and rather disagreeable Rite bad al
miuute.
j
ways about her a iwcultar a ltd disa
I
Impartial.
greeable odor, and when she died a
l
Professor C. Alpbonao Smith once few years ago It was discovered that
■
wrote an English grammar. Tbe book she wore round her neck a aachet. and
was published while I*r. Smith waa In this sac bet waa a half smoked cigar
teaching at tbe University of North | "Thia waa a relic of Franz Liszt. He
Carolina. One day be received from | had begttu to smoke It many years tie
'
a farmer a letter containing the follow
fore nt a dinner which she had given, |
Ing:
aud. be having put It down unfinished, '
“1 am glad somebody has written an she bad at once seized u|a>u It and had
Impartial grammar at last."
worn tt u|stn her person ever wince j
Or. Smith immediately wrote to tbe Thia aounda inexplicabl« aud Inc red I
:
farmer asking what ba meaut by an bls. but them 11 to.”
“impartial grammar."
Tbe answer
> waa:
Settling • Bill.
|
"You give tbe children this sentence
When Andrew Jackson lived al
to |ntrse: 'One Confederate killed IfU i Sa I la bn ry. N. <1, be once attended
;
Yankee«.' "—New York l‘o«t.
1 court at Rockford, then tbe county
seat of Surry, and left without paying
Where Heneety Failed.
bla Mil. which waa duly charged up
"You are still having trouble In your against hint on the hotel register,
eear. li for an honest nun?'
which seem« to have lieen the hotel
"Yes." replied Itlogeues. "There «re ledger at that *1me. and ao stood for
plenty who are scrupulous about Ittiel
many year«. When tlee news of tbe
new and politics. Hut I have never victory of tbe Sth of January, IRIS,
yet found a man no honest that tie waa received in thia then remote aer-
wouldn't try to ring In a portrait taken tion the old landlord turned back the
when he was ten years younger wlteu leave« of tbe register, took bl« pen
you ask him for a pfr-tur« for puMk-s- and wrote under the er roti nt against
Uon."— Waeblngtoo Htar.
Andrew Jarkaon. “Ret tied Io full by
th« battle of New Orleeoe.'*
Indiepeneable.
•he Meant Well.
"That banquet touigbt can't
Tbe lete Kir Wilfrid Lawson, tho
along without me."
“You have a pretty good opluioo of rigid epootle of temperate e while on
a week end visit mode the acquaint
yourself Billed for a speech T’
"Ob. no. 1 was invited to listen."— I 8er« of a sharp young lady of seven
to whom, on tearing. be raid
"Now,
Loolsvllle Courier-Journal.
tny dear, we bore been talking some
time I ia rare you have no I4»i wbo
I am "
ttb. you. I hove." the little missy
replied
“You ere the retetweted
drunkard.“—I.ondoo Graphic
Not by years MH nv d »I«s--»,»o. 1»
wtodvat acquired.-Fiautue.
BAFFLED THE INDIANS.
An Old Army Paymaster’s Safe That
Was A packs Proof.
Tears ago In tbe west, when the gov
ernment sent out safes for the use of
its army paymasters In remote dis
tricts, It was the cuntom for the pay
master In cavalry service to ride lu an
ambulance wltb the safe, escorted by
• guard of six mounted men.
Ott one occasion such a guard was at
tacked by a large force of Apache In
dians. Two men were killed, aud the
Indians captured the ambulance with
the safe. This ®afe contained about
fMXXl in greenbacks, and It weighed
■Mne 400 pounds and bad a comblna-
M mi lock.
Now. the Indiana In question had
Meer seen a safe at close quarters
OBtti this one happened along, bnt they
B mw that It contained money; also
ttoy warned that money.
TYwy first pounded off the knob with
•han««, under tbe Impression that the
Aaor could then be pried open Tltelr
•BtMapt was. of courae. a failure. The
■pxt step waa to try their tomahawks
<a the chilled steel In tbe b<q>e that a
Bate might be cut In tt. This means,
too. proved of no avail, so they de
tarmlncd to try fire.
Accordingly,
*ty gave tbe safe a three hour rouat-
tap. Luckily for the government. It
teas flreproof. They threw big rocks
I ■W« tt while it was hot, but they were
M far from the money as ever.
Next th» Apacbea dragged tbe safe
•p the side of a mountain and tumbled
N «ver a precipice 200 feet high. They
dBpectod. of courae, to see it burst
•pan. but the only damage was a alight
Injury to one of the wheels. The safe
wm ieft »-raking in the river for three
•r four days, and great waa the In-
Etens* disappointment at finding them-
•elves still baffled.
Then they tried gunpowder; but.
knowing nothing of tbe art of bleat
ing. they brought about an explosion
that burned half a dozen warriors and
toft the safe none the worse.
The Indians worked over that safe
off and on tor a month or more, but
foiled to get at tlte inside Finally, in
disgust, they left it In n deep ravine.
Fourteen months later, when pence
TECUMSEH’S MISSING BUST. came,
the army accidentally found the
The Reason It Waa Taken From Its safe. It was lying In the bed of a
creek with a great pile of driftwood
Nicha In the Capitol.
around It. It waa a and looking safe,
“Where Is tbe bust of Tecuntseb
but when opened showed Its contents
that used to he In a niche on the aen-
Intact.
—Harper'« Weekly.
ate aide of tlte cupltol?" Richard Liv
ingston. a student of American bla
tory. asked recently.
PUZZLED THE LINGUIST.
"1 know that years ago there waa ■
flue bronze bust of an Indian, and th« A Hindu Dialect Story That Appeared
name Tecumseh was on the |>edeatal.
In the London Times.
and as Teenmath waa about the moat
John Walter of the Ixtndon Tinies
famous Indian chief of our school his Mee found a tinl<|iie way out of a diffi
tory books every American bov took culty brought ulMiut by n strike of
more Interest In surveying his fea mnipoaltorH and pressmen.
At the
tures than In looking over the face« of critical moment, it appears, the “copy"
eminent white men In the big bttlld- fell short by half a column. There wits
lug. I walked all over the building none at hand ready to utilize, and time
and saw Indiana enough In pnintlnga proHsod
It was renlly an liiHptration
and statuary, also soine live ones, bnt that cume to Walter. He laid hold of
no Tecumaeb. Then I hunted np my a column of "pi" (spilled type that baa
congressman, and he went ttirougb a been react In n Jumbled masa to facili
guldeltook—no use
Then we ques tate distribution back Into tbe type
tioned the guides. They had not enseal und prepared it in tbe most ex
heard of a Tecumseh bust, and moat peditious way. ao that It might paua
of them asked, 'Wliat state was tbe muster for an article in a foreign
senator fromY
tongue. He ran It In with a few Unas
"I was about to give It up. The« • of Introduction, atatlng that 'bla In
somlter sort of chap with a silk hat
comprehensible maaa waa a paper In
and a red flower in bls buttonhole re
aome Hlnduatanee dialect, translation
lieved my anxiety.
He explained
of which would follow In due courae.
what I had not thought of tiefore. and
No translation, it to auperfltioua to aay,
that waa tbe fact that Tecumseh waa
•ver ap|»eared.
killed In battle wearing tbe uniform
Many years later, long after Walter
of a British general. He died tight
hud forgotten thia incident, be waa vto-
Ing the American flag. Why should
Itlng in Cbeahlre, where he waa Intro
he be honored with a bust in the cep-
duced to a most learned pundit and
Itol?
“And then I was told that the Te •riental acbolar. “Ah,” said thia gen-
cumseh bust really bad been In the tlemun. "1 have long and ardently
cnpltol for many years until one day a Wtaheu to strive a problem that baa
wise senator, familiar with the history puzzled me for ycara.” And be draw
of hla country, made a protest. That from bla pocket a tattered clipping of
sent the Tecumseh bust to the cellar Walter's “pt.” Indicating to tbe em-
or to some museum here In town.”— barrtiaaed proprietor of the Time« that
the alleged Hlnduatanee article had
Washington Poet.
haffled bla most strenuous and assidu
ous efforts to decipher, although he
Ths Bull of Phalaris.
I’erlllua of Atbeua to said by the an had tried every known dialect of the
cient authorities to have luvented for language. There was nothing for Wal
Phalarla. tyrant of Agrigentum. B. C. ter to do but flee, which be did with-
570. it brazen hull which o|tened on «ut ceremony.
the aide to admit victims who were to
he roasted to death liy tbe Are which
A Teugh Meal.
Teat«« differ strangely from age to
waa bnltt underneath.
The dying
Flamingoes' tongues are said to
groans of the sufferers closely resent •fe
bled the "roaring of a maddened bull;” have iwwn an epicurean luxury In Ito-
hence tbe name that wsh given to the aa«« days, hut the authors of "Hnex-
Invention. It la refreshing to know ptered Rimltt.” wh<> e»f« tlmented with
that later on the fsiptllaee rose siriiinst (ba*, found m> pleHsnre tn the menl.
PbaiartH and burned the tyrant In the Tbe toagiie." they any. "la it tbit k
bull that he ha<1 made to tie the reuse Baah» organ, tilling the whole cavity
of death to so many others.— New 1 ork •f flw riiHodlblee. and fiirnlsned with
• arrira of flexible, bony a|nxea or
A medi an
—
b««b« »early half an inch tong and
A Roundabout Rivor.
•BrvtaR Inward We found them qit.te
Tbe Kentucky river at Jackson Is a ■«•■table tong It as India rnblier Even
freak
It runs for live miles or more M B s « b refused to eat tlte dvll< to y.
to advance sixty feet
The clr> tilt of
the water forms what Is knowu aa lite
“panhandle" Blanding on the Itack
bone you can flip a stoue into tbe river
cor end struggled fur brestb. It IO
on the uoHb Hide and one Into the river Mpfnl friend, bolding tbe oil c«u,
I
on the south aide, live miles below ta«««d up«» him.
Yon are on the north side of the river
Tv« Just given the cylinder a tbor-
and on tbe south able of tbe river and
«■■h oiling. Dick, old man," raid th«
going up tbe river and down tbe river
Mptv1 friend
at tbe Mme time.-Winchester News.
•Cyllnderr Mid the motorist bra ted-
Her Status.
"Ara you a friend of the
family Y' asked th« usher
rburt'b wedding
“I think not." replied tbe
dreraed. "I'm the mother
hrids."— You kora Rtateoinan.
groom'a
at tbe
lady ad
of the
Partnorahip.
Mr. Lately Married-But. dearrat. 1
thought we bad planned to go to the
opera thia erettine? Mrs Ditto—Tea.
love, but I have changed our mind.—
Puck
Hi« CoreIossessa.
"Why didn’t you a os wer my letter
shoot tbe money you owe me?"
~'< «uee yon dida'I l«c'k ae a stamp."—
lurtge.
That waao't tbe cylinder; It was
■y earT—Loudon Tlt Blta.
Feiledl
Tit« laat time I waa In New York 1
•Mertalned at dinner at a «well cafe a
country coualn Wb«n We got outside
be said to me: 'l>o you know you ac
cidentally dropped 80 cents on tba
table just as you left? That thief of
• waiter tried to grab It. hut 1 beat
bin» to It* **—Atcbtoon Globe.
Before a Bhep Windew.
Billy—Buy me that little rocking
horse. p«|i« Papn—If ywu are a «»-d
boy you shall have It t«r your next
Mrthdar
Billy-No. Rtrv It now
I
rnav have a new |>«f>a tirfure mv next
bin buoy - kle^gemiurfer Blatter.