111K PLit FAUM-llOltSE. Why ilnn't you Hell Mm? He must ent llis value in a month, twice told. He's spavined, hide bound, nearly blind; He's twenty if he's one day old. IKou never work liim. Whnt on enrtli You keep the brute for 1 enn't Bee; (lour other homed, young nnd sound, , beem to fare scarce as well as lie. "I'll (ell vou. neiuhhnr. whv T keen L This (i M home, though lie's lame, half V blind. Once he don't look it now, I own He WHS a irood horse, lliiimil nnd kind; die hadn't one hnd trick, and worked Bittltt faithfllllv. llnv in. dnv not - !And he could trot; though he toiled hard. xie was as nveiy as a trout. i"When I first took this farm on nlinrea I 1 own it now all free and clear (TTwas twenty yeur or more ago. Then land was cheap enough round here. . H was hard scratching with ma then, For I had little cash or stock, Ind though the soil was fuirlv good, f "l'was sprinkled pretty thick with rock. flOld Dan, there, was a little foal; I raised him, fed him, broke him, too; JsTut his lirst harness on. and soon 1 Obedient to my word lie grew. B never paw a steadier horse f Before the harrow or the plow; He'd work, yet scarcely turn a hair, j Although lie is so feeble now. iI bought, one year, the land I'd leased; 1 This sorely crippled me in purse; The next my crops failed nut and out, And matters went from bad to worse Mr milch cows.dicd; at length I had To give a mortgage on the place; I wild my team, but still kept Dan, H Though ruin stared me in the face. -Bnt I'd touched boltom, though 'twas ft , deep, 'And things at last began to mend. I worked hard, pinched, crops turned out wen; Where once I owed I now could lend. (And Dan had proved a friend in need i'riends when you're down aro precious few. No. Dun. old liny, I won't forge; I JIow hard you toiled to pull me through. And so yon Ree. that Dan nnd I Hnve known the tips and ln-7i- of life Tnretlier. I'll not part with him. Neither will May that's my wife. The children, too. lovo poor oid Dun. Though failing fast in wind nnd limb, JVh"n he was young he belied me out , And !iuw he's old, I'll slick to him." 1 -W. H. Harbor. i AN ELEPHANT. By COLONEL N. B. THAYIT. . Some years ago, when I was at Baroda, I happened to lis witness of a mo3t extraordinary Incident which occurred to two government ele phants. Travnllng in India was then very Hlfferent from wlir.t it is at the pres ent day. Hallways had not even been commenced, and the distance from one station to another had to be traversed by marches, which, al though occasionally, tedious, were not unpleasant, as they afforded an op portunity ot seeing the country, and, If taken during the cold season ns vas usually the case of enjoying the excellent sport which in those days . was to be found almost all over. India. Before commencing my story, which I may mention is true in all Its letails, I should say that Baroda Is the capital of the most powerful In dependent State In the Western presi dency. The Guicowar, or king, of this principality was at that time , Khundee Rao. Baroda was always a favbrlte place ef .resort for the governors of Bom bay, who, whenever they paid a visit there, were received with much pomp ind ceremony, and entertained right royally by the Guicowar, their stay Seing always made the occasion of Mooting and hunting parties in the well Btocked royal preserves by day, and of fetes by night, i On this particular occasion the governor ot Bombay, wtio had been making a tour through Kattlawar and Gurejat during the cold season, had signified his Intention ot taking Baroda on his return Journey, and also of staying there a few days. , . In order to provide suitably for his residence, it was necessary to pitch a camp so as to accommodate not only the governor himself, but also . his suite and a large retinue which accompanied him. , A considerable quantity ot camp equipage was accordingly ordered dowu from Ahmedabad, the nearest atation, a distance of about sixty miles from Baroda. For this purpose government elephants were used for carrying the tents, and this brings me to the real subject of my story. On the very day that the convoy reached Baroda, two ot the elephants came literally to loggerheads. The huge animals began a regular fight, butting at and prodding each other; , and, notwithstanding all the efforts ot their mahouts, or drivers, they continued until one got the better of it, and having vanquished his enemy, r who turned tail, he pursued him at , a lumbering gallop across the plain. So excited were they that neither of them perceived a blind well which lay in their track, and the foremost elephant fell right into the well to a . depth of some fifty or sixty feet, his pursuer being so eager that he could not stop, but fell In on top ot him, - the weight of these enormous brutes literally splitting the stone wall of the well as they fell down. Fortunately there was no great depth of water below, and although the undermost elephant and his mahout were crushed to death, the top one stood on the carcass appar ' ently uninjured, but of course utterly unable to extricate Itself, the driver managing to scramble out as only natives or monkeys could do, and thus sarad his owu life in the moat miraculous manner. , The accident took place close to the cantonments, and on the circum stance being reported to the officer la command, ha at once ordered a working party from the regiment to go and dig down to the living animal In the hope of saving him. Accordingly, a hundred men, with picks, shovels and other appliances to commence the work, were sent out. It must be understood that this did not consist only ot digging away the sides of the well, but it was also nec essary to form a sloping road, up which the elephant could travel after they had reached him. This was a long and laborious un dertaking, and although the men worked at it hard, being relieved by fresh parties at Intervals, It took many hours before it was accom plished, and night set In before they had made any appreciable progress. Torches were, however, speedily procured, and the work proceeded un interruptedly throughout the night. During all this time It was pitiable to watch the poor elephant standing patiently at the bottom of the well, and quite aware ot what was being done for his rescue; so much so, that Instead ot eating the bundles of hay and Indian corn that were supplied to him for food, he kept on piling them underneath his feet so as to raise himself nearer to the level of the well. Meanwhile the excavation went on steadily until about noon on the sec ond day, when the poor beast, appar ently losing heart, gave a loud trum pet, and died just within half an hour of the completion of the work, much to the disappointment of the men, who had worked so heartily, and who had so nearly accomplished their task. Nothing remained now but to close up the well and leave It, The story Is remembered to this day in Baroda, but all that remains to mark the oc currence is a lnrge mound, which Is pointed out to passersby as indicating a spot at which one of the most ex traordinary accidents ever recorded took place. It waB, of course, im possible to ascertain what wns the immediate cause of the death of the second elephant, hut In nil probabil ity It was from some internal injury received in the fall; but It was none the less disheartening that it should have ensued just at the moment when success appeared to be certain. Wavorley. Viking FutiPi'iil Ship. A Viking funeral ship, reputed lo he at least 1100 years old, has been recently discovered in Norway, Its mortuary chamber contained the bones of two women, who, judging from the size of the craft and its ap pointments, evidently belonged to some noble nnd wealthy family. The vessel, which is seventy feet long and Blxteen and a half feet broad, was dug out o a tumulus two and a halt miles from shore, on the farm ot 03eberg, near Tonsberg. The treas ure was not intact. At some remoto period, probably hundreds ot years ago, It had been unearthed by un scrupulous visitors, who had pillaged the mortuary chamber of many of the curious relics undoubtedly de posited there in accordance with an cient Norse traditions. But in other parts of the ship, which had appar ently escaped the notice of the sacri legious Intruders, was found a large and extremely valuable collection ot historic remains, Including a four- wheeled chariot, richly and quaintly decorated; four sledges, several beds, lintels, a spinning wheel nnd a va riety ot kitchen utensils: New York Tribune. linn to Convict. In his report on the administration of the police ot the Punjab In 1907 the lieutenant-governor states that the more serious the crime the great er the chance of escape from law. Convictions were obtained in only forty-one per cent, of the murder cases, whereas they were obtained In sixty-four per cent, of the attempts to murder and in seventy-four per cent, ot the cases of culpable homi cide. The district magistrate at Jul lundur states that it is getting harder every year to obtain a conviction in the Sessions Court, the plea of en mity raised against the prosecution being generally held to suffice to throw doubt on the statement ot their witnesses. Calcutta Statesman. The Puzzle Craze. "One of the curious things about this revival of the puzzle craze," re marked the man who notices little things, "Is the fact that I never have met a man or woman who plays with the cut-up pictures nowadays who knew them as a child. Whenever I have commented on the superior beauty and difficulty of the present-, day puzzles over the ones I knew as a little boy the invariable response has been: 'It is curious, but I never saw any when I was a child.' I don't Just know how my youthful social standing could have compared with theirs, but I do know the old-time picture puzzles were sold in the best shops in my city at the time." New York Pres3. . Commou Luck. A man who stuttered badly went to a specialist and after ten difficult les sons learned to say quite distinctly, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." His friends congratulated him upon this splendid achievement. "Yes," said the man doubtfully, "but it's s-s-s-such a d-d-deucedly d-d-d-difflcult rem-mark to w-w-work into an ordin-n-nary c-c-conversatlon, y'know." Everybody's Magazine. According to the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry, three and one half per cent, of the cattle of the United States are afflicted with tuber-.culosU, For the Vounger Children.... BIRTHDAY RHYMES. The bairn that is born on the Sabbath day, Is lucky nnd bonny and blithe and gay. Monday's bairn is fair of face; Tuesday's bairn is full of grace; Wednesday's bairn need fear no foe; Thursday's bairn has fnr to go; Friday's bairn is loving nnd forgiving; Saturday's bairn must work for a living. GENEROUS ENTERTAINER. One morning last spring, little Ruth, aged seven, was watching a meadow lark In the adjoining Held, and listening to his song. In a little while she came running Into the house to see her mother and said:' "Mother, he wasn't a bit afraid; he looked at me and then turned round and sang another verse." Bee Hive. . CONUMDRUM3. If a pair ot andirons cost $5, what would the wood burned on them for a month come to? Come to ashes. Where can one always And happi ness? . In the dictionary. What was Joan of Arc made ot? Maid of Orleans. ' Why is a gun like a Jury? Because it goes off when dis charged. Washington Star. , CARL'S ASPIRATIONS. Little Carl, Bix years old, had been teased a great deal by his uncle about the vocation he would choose when he became a man. One day he over heard his mother and a caller talk ing about a certain gentleman being a bacheflir. When the caller left, his mother noticed that he was unusually quiet and Beenied to be In a derp study. Finally he said to her: "Mamma, Is a bachelor a good trade?" Homo Herald. A COZY HOME. Whllo walking through a bnnana plnntntlon near Mntnnzns, Cuba, n small dovo fluttered out from under some leaves I disturbed In passing. She feigned n broken wing, and tried to lead mo from the spot, but I was hard hearted enough to Ignore her and peer under the leaves Instead. I was repaid for my trouble by a sight I shall always remember the coziest little home I ever saw. A large hunch of bannnns, nearly ripe, and hanging so low as to nearly touch the ground, sheltered In its heart a neat little nest, with two pear ly white eggs. "Nature and Science," In St. Nicholas. HOW THE BOY WAS SAVED. Shameful to relate, he was In jail. A strango place for a twelve-year-old boy with a soul and heart. The jailer had telephoned me one cold wintry night that the boy was In a Bpasm ot crying and had so alarmed blm that he urged me to come at once. I grabbed my coat and bat and went out into the night, feeling that the pitiless beat of the sleety rain was even kinder than a criminal law that condemns little - children to crime and Iron celU. . Behind Iron bars that would shame the king tiger ot the jungle, I found the boy. He was sleeping, and you would have thought not a care had ever visited that little touseled head with its worn and tear-stained face. But he wakened, startled by the grat ing of iron bolts and bars, as the Jailer, leaving me alone with the boy, returned from the cell back into the dimly lighted corridor. The boy, frightened fit these strange surroundings, looked at his new cell mate at first cautiouslyal most fearfully. Then a look of joy and gladness came to his eyes. He knew me, for he had been a chronic little truant, and there may have been worse things, but they may be left unsaid, for It was the boy, and not the "things" we were trying to re deem. I sat down In the cell on the Iron floor and put my arm around the boy. I told him how much I thought of him, and how I despised the bad things he did. Yet what could I do if he did not help me? I might help him, but I could not carry him; I would always be his friend, but he was getting both himself and me in trouble If he "swiped things," for if I should let him out and he "swiped things" again, would not the officer say that the Judge made a mistake In not sending "that kid to the State Industrial School, where he would not have a chance to swipe things?" Then they would say both the Judge and the boy should be in jail. How could he expect a judge to keep his Job If his boys did such things? He saw the point and standing upright there In the cell, the light in his eyes speaking better than his words, he promised with earnestness to "stay wld yer, Judge," as he tearfully de clared he would never get ma into any trouble and we would both keep out of jail. . And so I almost as tearfully ac cepted his proffered protection, and out of the jail we walked together Into the now raging storm. And yet, it was no such storm as had raged in that boy's life a home blighted by a father who had deserted and trodden under foot every vow he took at the marriage altar. And so a father's care, the divine birthright ot every child, bad been denied him. The boy was. not bad. His opportunity had been poor; his environment was bad. I took him home to bis mother, a poor, struggling woman deserving of a better fate than to toil all day to feed and clothe her hungry children. A child with no father and a mother, however noble, who under such handicaps and difficulties tries to per form the functions ot both, generally falls to perform that ot either. Is it a wonder, then, that the child Is not brought up In the way it should go? Is It the child's fault? If not, why then the Jail and degradation? The boy returned to school. He brought good reports for over two yearB, and with them he brought Joy and gladness. We had, In a poor way, tried to supply what was lack ing In his little life, but to do this well a spark had to be struck some where, or a heart-string had to be sounded that would respond. One day his mother came at the end of a weary, toilsome day to tell me that Harry was a changed boy.' "Judge, I nover knew Just why Harry changed so much," she said, "till one day while I was 111 and he had been so sweet and kind I aBked him how It was he became good for the Judge, and looking up Into my face with a tear In his eye, he said: 'Well, moth er, you see It's this way, It I ever gits bad, or swipes things again, the judge) the judge will lose his Job see? and he Is my friend he is and I am goln' to stay wld him.' " Ben jamin B. LlndHey, Judge ot the Juv enile Court, ot Denver. ELEPHANT NURSE. One year when my husbnnd was at a station In Bengal, says a writer, his work kept him out nearly all day, and, being 111, I used to lie for hours In n long garden clinlr on the ver anda, too weak to read or to enjoy any more exciting amusement than my eyes supplied to ma. We had three elephants for our tents and baggage; and one used to feed from my bunds every day, and seemed ns gentle ns any dog or cat. One of our government chaprasls was particularly devoted to her, and Invariably shared his meal of fruit or flour-cnkes with his dumb friend. On a particularly hot day, the chapraBl, to my surprise, placed his llttlo child of Blx months at the elephant's feet, warning her expressly that the In fant was In her charge, and was to be cared for till his return. I was an eye-witness of her won derful sagacity. Largo banana trees and fig trees grow around, and to my surprise, the elephant broke oft one of the former's spreading leaves, held It like a tan In her trunk, and from time to time gracefully waved It over the slumbering child, whether to temper the heat of the atmosphere or to keep oft files, I am unable to say. The gentle way In which she moved her feet over the child, and across to each side, astonished me. I sent for a white loaf and bo me oranges, and calling her by name (she was never chained), tried in vain to tempt her to my side on the low veranda. Nothing would indues her to leave her charge. The warm air and the monotonous, wave of the swinging fan overpow ered me with drowsiness, to which I yielded, and, after a sleep of some duration, I was awakened by quiet, subdued snorts beside me. To my surprise I found that the chaprasl had Just returned to his offspring, and that the elephant stood near the veranda beside me, untiently watting and gently asking for the tempting dainties bo bravely withstood for more than two hours. New Haven Register. BUNNIES. Of all the pets I had when on the farm the bunnies were the best. I bought four pair, rh a year's time they had increased so fast I did not know how many I had. On account ot other work, we could not keep them housed, as they would burrow out. Finally wo let them have the run ot the farm. They burrowed under the house, hen house and barn, and some took to the woods. They were so tame that we did not like to kill them. When it was necessary we would pick out the "woods bunnies" or the bad tempered bunnies. We never fully realized how many we had until some bright moonlight night, when they would all collect (from woods, house and barn) on the lawn in front ot the house. It was very interesting to watch them from the window. A number would sit up on their haunches and sniff the air, and at .the least scent of danger away they would go. Then one by one back they would come and frisk about. One old doe seemed to be the guardian of the bunnies. She never whisked out of sight. at a danger sig nal, but stood her ground, and woe to the dog that happened to come her way. I have seen her chase a family of dogs father, mother and seven pups from the -house to the barn, the dogs yelping and the doe nipping their heels, first one, then another, or she would jump over them, strik ing with her hind feet. We called her the house bunny, as she had burrowed under the house nd raised her young there. It was a pretty sight to see her come out with the little mites ot bunnies around her, nibbling grass. The old bunny came to the kitchen doorstep every morn ing and thumped with her hind feet for breakfast. -She liked bread and milk or a bit of apple. Elton Irwin Hlbbard, in the New Trrk Tribune. A TWO-rOOV RULE. . N . - si .. it. y "V,,i?i s I" - t;;t Henpex "Say, Maria, Is there a foot-rule anywhere about the house?" Mrs. Henpex "Yes; you Just wipe yours on that mat before you dare enter this room." From Harper's Weekly. , ' New Submarine Flag. Hereafter ship captains entering And sailing from Yankee ports will keep a sharp lookout for a craft fly ing a flag with a black fish on a white Submarine Pennnnt to Ea UBed In Attendant Vessels When tho IJont3 Aro Under Water. background surrounded by a red bor der. Tho flag will indicate that a submnrine boat is working In the vicinity. The Secretary of the Navy, through T. H. Saunders, Acting Commissioner of tho Bureau of Navigation, recently sent to the customs officers official notification with a description of the flag for the benefit of the merchant marine. Tho flng will be flown from the mast of a tender, or what Is known as a "parent" ship, which always attends a submarine during experiments. It will mean that If a sailing vessel or steamship does not give the locality a wido berth there is the possibility of tho submarine coming up under neath the merchant vessel and doing all sorts of damage. Boston Post. Subllmo Porte. Tho term "sublime Porte," which has stood so long for the centre of tho ruling power In Turkey, is mere ly the French translation of "Babl Aall," or "superior door," and is the name of the building containing the offices where the council of the minis ters holds Its meetings under the presidency of the grand vizier. Every government building in Turkey is known as a "door" because tt is sup posed to be always open to those seek ing Justice. London Chronicle. Rather Tactless. "It's a perfectly stunning picture, dear, and It's awfully pretty but I'd hardly know It was you at all!" AERO-MOTORING h si r -a? .'it Vi I Saatos-Dumont now takes a diminutive aeroplane upon a specially con structed she.lt at the rear of his motor-car, goes Into the country, has a flight, then packs up and motors home. Harper's Weekly. 1 w w m mm vi lit To Stop Hiccoughs. Dr. Louis Kollplnskl reports the arrest of persistent hiccough by de pressing the tongue. A patient was attacked by hiccough which had per sisted for four days before being seen by the doctor. He complained of the fulness In his throat, a condi tion which he thought the result of the hiccough. He was directed to sit up, and with a large spoon handle the tongue was pressed down and back with steady force to allow Inspection of the fauces. Firm pressure on the tongue with the hope of further not ing the action of the palatal muscles was continued, when to the doctor's surprise nnd tho patient's astonish- ........ .. .1 4 . . . tUn titnnitil.rli nnaaail 1I1IM1L HIMi JJ ic m...J(ifeii i-.caw. When the hiccough returned the pa tient himself stopped it by using the spoon handle. London Globo. Medicinal Hen ting Lump. Electricity now plays an Important part In the practice of medicine, one of its most useful applications being tho concentration of powerful heat and light rays upon the affected parts. A new heating device of this nature has be.cn patented by an Iowa man, two views of which are shown In the accompanying Illustration. The heater consists of a hemisphe rical reflector containing an electrlo Incandescent lamp, the edges of the reflector being covered by a soft pad which protects the body from the hot metal shell, the lamp being protected by a wire mesh. In the application of tho heater the reflector shell is pressed over the part where local ap llcation of heat is desired. As no heat can escape, the Interior ot the reflector soon becomes as hot as can comfortably be borne. The appara tus Is always ready for instant appli cation, being much superior to a hot water bottle, as It never leaks. Washington Star. Swiss Republic. The Swiss Republic, with various changes, has survived from the year 1308, though its present Constitution dates only from 1874. It now em braces three nationalities German, French and Italian. The original nuclei of the State, however, was German, and even now considerably more than half the population Is Ger man. Federated under the Constitu tion of 1874 are twenty-two distinct States. AS A NEW SPORT.
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