Tlnirsday, April 30.
THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBU nO.
CONTRA8TINQ ACTRESSES.
l'b Itlrdiuu-lMily Otiar nml tlm Merry l.olo
t'lillrr Drnrrllivil, I
In an article In tlio Nnw York Pros,
Hillary Bell 1ms thin to say of tho ac
tress, whom many believe the great
est now on tlio stage, ami tho dancer
who udurittHilly excels in her line:
Melancholy ban marked Huso for her
own. Tho Italian actress has arched
eyebrows with that distinctive sinking
in tho centre which is an outward in
dication of sadness. Her eyes are
brown, deep pet, expressive and beauti
ful in intelligence. There is little mirth
in them even when her lips are smiling.
A long upper lip and n droop at tho
corners of her mouth contribute to this
general expression of gloom. Yet, when
the scene demands it, Duse can give
fine touches of comedy. Her smile is
eloquent and engiging, nml in such
momenta her teeth glisten with white
good humor. When she relapses into
pathos Duse looks -10, when sho (-miles
she seems to bo twenty years younger.
In reality she is 8(1, At one moment
she Is an embodiment of the grace of
youth, at another she is a sombre, middle-aged
woman. Evidences of physi
cal suffering aro still to bo discovered
in the heavy ringH around her eyes, for
this giftod player has long been an in
valid from roino nervous affection, and
folk say that it is only by heroic will
power that sho can act at all. At tho
close of the performance her exhausted
condition is apparent. The (ire of act
ing has died out, and the animation
which sustained her is gone. Sho comes
forward feebly to bow to the audience;
her eyes aro dull; her lips droop; sho
supports herself against tho stage fur
niture; she inclines her head slowly,
with a mournful, deprecatory smile, us
if sho had no more interest in tho stage
or its spectators. In stature she is
more than common tall, a s.ender fig
ure, thin arms, small, nervous hands,
full of expression and artistic in finger
tips. Her hair is dull black, lightly
sprinkled with gray. That is Eleonora
Duso as she appear. to the visual sense.
Her exact antithesis is Loie Fuller.
It is true that Loie also has a long up
per lip, but at this sentimental spot all
likeness ends between the two women.
Melancholy never marked Miss Fuller,
but she is tattooed all over with merri
ment. Her round face resembles tho
sun on a May morning, warm and gen
ial, promising plenty. Her smile is
expansive and benevolent, and in order
to give it as much room as possible na
ture has turned up her nose, whic h or
gan is tip-tilted to a degree quite im
polite to mention.
ARE THEY EXTRAVAGANT?
What Miue. Juy d'Harilolot Nuy of the
American Womtm.
Mine, Guy d'Hardelot is Emma Cal
ve's intimato friend and companion.
Mine. Guy d'Hardelot has some very
decided opinions regarding tho dress of
American women.
"I think American women dress most
extravagantly," she said to a New York
World Roporter. "I must say that,
when I wont to tho Horse Show, di
roctly we arrived in New York, I was
astonished at tho reckless display of tho
most frail und perishable fabrics, laces,
chiffons, as well us the more sumptuous
show of velvets and brocades. Now, in
England at such a function you would
not see such extravagance of dress."
"Do you think that Americans over
dress for tho opera?"
"Well, I can bettor understand their
dressing so much for the opera. Thoro
is reason for that. But on the street or
at an entertainment like tho Horse Show
it amazes me to see how much Ameri
can women put upon their backs. It
seems such a pity, such a waste of
money. There is so much to be dono
with money in this world, so many sor
rows to lighten, so many sufferers to ro
liove, that such awful extravagance iu
dress seems quite deplorable.
"Then, too, isn't it awfully hard on
the American men? Everywhere you
go in this country you soo only women.
The men are all in their oflices or at
their professions, working, working
constantly to get tho money to supply
the extravagance of their wives and
daughters. It is dreadful. I think
American men are tho best liusbands in
the world but too indulgent.
"As to the way your working girls
dress, it is shocking. What poor, mis
erable, cheap imitations of finery ono
sees everywhere. But that is like the
English working girls. They love fin
ery, too. I think that is where tho mis
chief is doue. Ladies wear superb cos
tumes upon the street; working girls
see thorn and strive to imitate them.
Soon tht'y come to think of nothing but
finery. I tell you tho love of finery is
the root of all evil quite as much as
the love of money."
It may be of iu'.erest to feminine
readers to know that Mino. Guy d'Har
deLot herself dresses plainly but ele
gantly and almost always in black,
Fnt iu 111 Memory.
"Remember, witness," sharply ex
claimed tho attorney for the defence,
"you are on oath I"
"There ain't no danger of my forgot
tin' it," replied tho witness, sullenly.
"I'm tolliu' the truth for nothin' when
I could have mado fifteen shillings by
lyin' for your sido of tho case, au' you
kuow it." Tid-Bits.
To Home Extent.
"Seen Bill Brown when I was up to
town," said the mau with the gum
boots. Betting himself on tho salt barrel.
'Conductin' u street car."
"I thought Bill was goin' into busi
ness for himself," said tho grocer.
"Wal, 1 allow he is to some extent,
but the company ain't got onto it yet."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The l'oua'n WUa Counael.
Pope Leo recently advised one of his
clorgy to "Write articles for the news
papers. People read them who never
go to hear a sermon preached." Despite
his age and strict seclusion, Pope Lej
evidently keeps up with the times.
AN AMPHIBIOU3 SHIP.
A Novel daft Tln.t Tr,,, U Well ml I.llli.l
or In alt r.
Tho London Graphic, gives tlio follow
ing account of a novel craft, invented
by O. J. Magnell, a Swedish engineer:
"As will be t-een from the illustra
tion, tho steamer when on laud runs on
rails just as a train does, tho motive
power being the sunn that turns tho
propeller. Mr. MjignoU's steamer is
called tho Swan, uild is now at work in
the northern part of the island of Zeo
land, in Denmark. It performs its
journey ten times daily, and crosses tho
intervening isthmus of diy land in a
perfectly satisfactory manner every
timo. Tho little amphibious boat is
about fifty feet long and nine feet in
tlio beam, draws about three feet of
water, and can accomodate seventy per
sons. The engines aro of twenty-seven
horso power, and work tho propeller
when the boat is in the water. By an
ingnniuos arrangement, u- soon as the
steamer approaches the rails tho shaft
of the propeller is disconnected from
tho engine, and tho crank shaft of the
driving wheels becomes connected. A
series of posts aro arranged which in
sures tho safe guidance of the boat on
to the rails. The wheuls work iu water
tight boxes, and it is found these an
swer very well. Tho wheels are of the
same size as those ordinarily in use on
railways, while tho track i.s slightly
hollowed to allow for the keel, which
projects very slightly below the level
of the rails.
"When the boat has crossed tho isth
mus and ro enters tho water tho wheels
aro thrown out of gear, and remain
locked while the engine works tho pro
peller. There is no perceptible jarring
or jolting either when tho vessel is
coining on to tho rails or leaving them.
Tho steamer is said to be a success in
every way,. and is proving to bo a remu
nerative speculation. Whether we shall
live to see the principle applied to ocean
going ships i.s doubtful, especially when
wo come to consider tho enormous dead
weight of ono of our Atlantic grey
hounds. But for small steamers , the
idea is evidently good and practicable.
The inventors think that amphibious
boats of this description will be largely
used in countries like Sweden, Finland
and tho Baltic provinces of Russia and
Germany, where they are so many lakes
and arms of tho sea scattered by low
lying necks of land. That tho invention
i.s believed in by the people of Denmark
i.s evident from the fact that several
more of these railway steamers have
been ordered."
PUNISHMENT OF THE BATH.
An Ingeniously Torturing Form of Ueutli
Tenuity,
In former times tho punishment of
tho bagno (bath), one of the most clev
erly cruel inflictions ever devised by an
officer of tho torture chamber, was ad
ministered in Italy, probably in Venice,
whero tho water of tho Lagoons played
so prominent a part in its penal Bystein.
The punishment was as follows:
The prisoner was placed in a vat, tho
sides of which were slightly in excess of
tho average height of a mau. In order
to hold in check tho rising tide of a
supply of water which ran into tho vat
in a constant stream, tho criminal was
furnished with a scoop with which to
bail out tho water us fast as it came
iu on him.
The respite from death by immersion
thus obtained was more or loss pro
longed, according to tho powers of en
durance possessed by the victim. But
imagine tho moral torture, the exhaust
ing und even hideously grotesque ef
forts, the incessant and pitiless toil by
night and day to stave oil tho dread mo
ment fast approaching when, overcome
by sleep und fatigue, ho was unable to
struggle any longer against his f ate 1
Le Mouiteur du Buy.
I They Made Money.
i Tiie street arab lies by his wits, if he
lives at all well. Lis wits are sharp
ened by contact with tho cold world,
and ho realizes that hustle is necessary
for success. Two youngsters who ped
dle cough drops huvo dropped to this
fact, und yesterday employed rather
questionable methods, which, however
, as questionable methods sometimes
I dci resulted to their financial gain.
' One of these boys is much lai ger than
tho other, and quite a crowd was at
tracted to the corner of Ninth and
Chestnut streets yesterday by the big
boy pummelling tho little boy. At the
proper timo tho big one disappeared,
leaving tho little ono surrounded by
tears and sympathy.
Soverul benevolent passers-by, pitying
"the poor little fellow," showered nick
els and pennies upon him iu royal shape,
' But the sequel shows that the "poor lit
tle fellow" was in league with his sup
posed tormentor, and no sooner had the
crowd dispersed than he came in for his
' "divvy." Tho scene was repeated sev
eral times, always with the same result,
j until a big policeman saw through the
i littlo game, and tho youngsters disap
peared. Philadelphia Record.
I Junk Deuler I'iml 1 8,000.
A Paris Junk do dor found recently
$18,000 in bonds hidden between the
leaves of an old magazine which he had
bought for a few cents. Tho dealer at
tempted to dispose of tho securities to a
i broker in Brussels and was arrested,
j charged with theft. The bonds were
I identified bv tho relatives of an eccen
tric old man who had died a short time
before. The juuk dealer was sentenced
1 to four months' imprisonment for at
tempting to dispose of tho bond under
false pretences.
A Ueul llottouileaa 1'lt.
The celebrated "bottomless abyss" of
France is situated in tho province of
Vaucluso, und is considered one of tho
most interesting geological wouders in
the world. It is called the Abyss of
Jean Nauvoah, and has boon known for
centuries. It is from three to twelve
foot in diameter and practically bottom
less. It is supposed to be the veut of an
ancient geyser. '
LONQSTREET ATTACKS LEfl.
,''piirlnir rll lm of IlieUrrnt rnnfeiloi
Btc li m-rill In III" Hook.
On. James Lnngstroot has Just been
on n visit to Philadelphia to see his
publishers about his new book, which
will cuiiii appear. lie expect? that tie!
records which he has collected will
create a groat deal of hard feeling In
tho South, for he has criticised unspar
ingly some of tho most famous Con
federate leaders, men whose names are
held as nlmost sacred by the rebels.
"In fact." said (Sen. Longstrcct to n
V.'orhl correspondent, "1 think that
n-nio of the Vlrginlnni believe that
when they die they will go to Co n. Leo,
but my book will show very plainly
tl at I, eo, though now regarded by all
Southerners as the most able of lead
ens, was but a poor commander, and
tint the whole oT his military history Is
lull of mistakes.
T nra confident that had the man
rgeir.eiit of the troops been riven to
.luhnson the South would have won the
conlllot. one of the greatest ernes
that I.ee ever made was at the bnttlo
of Ot Uysluir;-, when Meade outwitted
him on every side. It has been vail
th.-.t T.eo had tho dlr-ndvu n tngc tf be
lli!? In rueh a position that his men
had terrible obstacles to overcome, but
If the 1'tilon forces possessed rueli a
tine j oration en the heights above, while
L-r's mi n were below III tho Iievil .i
1 . n. It was cue to th' fact that Md'd.i
cjtr.vni -ralied I.ee and secured such ail
a l ;.nt:";c by his superior tactics.
"i.ee had Just the Fame chance to V t
the heights that Mi ttde had. but he did
not. n-id his men hnd to climb up hills
nnd Unlit In the face of what was a
natural citadel, where :U ado was
loc 1.
"Johnston was the superior of Lee in
ov ry way, but he was hampered by
having Incurred the displeasure of
I're.-lilent Pavis. The fineness oT John
ston's Judgment In shown by the fact
that he was millions to march Iminodi
af.ly on Washington Just aftr thu
vii-b.ry at Manassas, but the rraso.j
l.e did not do so. so Johnston always
i.il.l. was that he was obliged to obey
1 mvls's i-rd( is, which prevented his
making what would have been the coup
d'etat of the e. millet and have brought
.'H-edy kucci ss to the Southern arms.
Had Johnston inarched oa Washington,
It would have fallen. The South would
thus have secured the key to the situ
ation. "1 was with the army when the sur
render look place at Appomattox.
When I,' e found that we were clu off.
l.e :ent for n.c and told u.e that ln
could mil get av. ly. lie snid that it
was Impossible to escape and wanted
to 1-now what plan of action I would
propose. I told him tli.it, as he stated
the matter. It was its own answer. He
tin n sent for Hen. Mahone and made
the sumo statements to hlr.i. and Ma
hono advised him to see (Sen. (irant
r.l. out matters. Lee approved of this
advice, got on 1.1s lioi.se and rode out
to find (.Irant.
"While he was gone I heard a report
wi.leh . 1 nio to believe that It was
pc -slide to cut our way out of the
Union lines that were hi nunliig us in,
r.nd 1 decided to stop ho- on his er
rand to (Irant. Lee had considerable
start, but 1 sent for the lleetest courier
In the army to race after him und brinij
him back from his mission. Yet the
condition of the men and hones was
such that it seemed impossible to get a
fresh courier for the errand.
"It happened that Col. Helskell, of
Ftoiith Carolina, had a flue blood d mai'u
that had been brought from Peters
burg. It was fresh and spirited, and
lliiskell offered to render whatever
ti rvlee lie could. I told him at once to
get on the mure and ride after Lee. I
told htm not to spare the mare, to kill
It If necessary, but llnd Lie at all
events before he reached Gen. (Irant.
Helskell set out at a thundering rate,
but when he got to Lee it was too late.
I afterwards discovered that the report
which had reached me w.u false, Po It.
was well enough that Helskell hal not
nu ceeded In catching L'.'o before he
had communicated with (irant.
"Lien. Mahone was a good soldier and
a good worker. In January, lMIli, I was
betore Petersburg, and left to go down
to Suffolk, but before leaving I laid out
n:y lines, extending them from Peters
lang almost to Chuncellorsvllle, as I
pupposod that the inemy might come
around and make an attack on my left,
I wl?hed to defend my line ct the cross,
lug of the river and at the plank road,
hence I put all tho troops to work.
Whenever I made a tour of inspection
I always found Mahone at his post,
which is more than 1 can say for sonic
of the other olllcers. Mahone was a
line engineer.
"Mahone's unpopularity in Virginia
was due to his politics. They uttaeked
him in the Senate beeauro he helped to
organize the Senate under the Republi
cans. Put he did more for the riuitu
than any other man has done for man",
n day. 1 think he was patriotic and sin
cere in ail his political life, and if ho
was disliked at the last It was because
Vh giiiluns did not like his belonging to
U.e Republican party.
"I commenced to write my book on
the war about seven years ago. At
that time 1 collected some data and had
Mine maps drawn, but my house
caiijiht tire and burned to the ground,
destroying a good deal of the material
had collected, und my health becom
ing very bad about that time I aban
doned the Idea of writing a book. In
two or three years from that time, how
ever, my health became very much Im
proved, and so I took up writing again,
collected the data over and have work
ed on It since. The publishers i xpecf
to have the book out in a month's timo.
"I'p to the time 1 commenced writ
ing I had no i lea of writing anything
about the war, for I supposed there
wire so many other people wrltlnjf.
about It that there was no tree of my
Bay In;,' an i thing. 1 thought my record,
ps It w a.l, would tell what I hud done,
J tow evil', so many of the people who
did v.rite books were so strongly
U'vr.iint me that I was forced to cay
r;i. nothing In my own. behalf and do.
fc-i .se. 1 have told the w hole story."
(len. Longstreel Is rather feeble, and
his hair falls white about a face well
runted by the passing of time, He In
tyjite dci.f, und hi obliged to carry oa a
coi.vrr; ution by means of an ear-trumpet.
Longstreet is an ardent RepublU
c.ir. has accepted the results of his do.
feat philosophically and suys Aow that
"the best tiling that ever happened to
(he South wus her defeat, for nothing
but Interminable confusion would have
followed her victory."
It takes a wlso man to be Independ
cut without being stubborn. I
rOPri NO MIiD3 IN TUK AIR.
A MihI lng( ii, nun Hehrtiie for Kttrrmlnc.t
In 17 Mnnllsli Npitrrowi.
A Rood (doty is told In the Louis' din
Commercial of a clever union-." 'i's
scheme, for Introducing Ms brand of
baking pow.l-r In a Western town.
Those who knew of the Incident 'My
th at It orl- ir.i ;ed In the mind of Com
inedoro Ilpl.-vin Peek, of this city, and
the clever young man was Introducing
Thepure linking Powder. The Com
mercial's story Is ns follows:
"fine of the slickest men I ever smv
was a young f. How nut West, who was
Felling baking powder, and was up to
nil lh" (lodes to advertise his good..
J!- happened to strike one little town In
which Kiu'llsh Fpnrrows were a gnat
nuisance, and the authorities had of
fered a bounty nn sparrow heads, 't'li!
baking powder mp.ii saw a golden op
portunity to give his goods n. big n ; u
totlon. and offered to exterminate nil
of the spin rows in town Inside of two
Weeks.
"Ills proposition was gladly aeci pted,
no he bega'J tiki work. He selected a
laiae vacant lot as the scene of his ope
rations, nnd every evening would go
nut there with several bushels of corn,
which he fed to the sparrows until they
began to get acquainted with him ""d
came to the lot In bliv;,r droves every
day. In the meantime In- had sent l'io-t
nnd bought a barrel of empty capsule;-.,
which he had filled with thu bakimr
powder, and then put salt on the out
side of them
"When h- saw that nil of the pnr-
rows In town wi re coming to the f I
pi limit, le- had a. iargo tank of water
placed there, and wus ready for t'nu
grand climax. On this eventful even
ing he took his united capsules of b-ik-lng
powder to t!i- lot, Instead of corn,
r.nd thr. w th-m out to the unsusp, elite;
sparrows. Of course, the snlt mnd" tin
birds thirty, nml they imniedi.iiely
tl -w to tho water tank and drnnk, and
the result v .is somewhat awful.
"Tho wst-r melted tho capsules n i l
in ide tho baking powder rise. The poor
little birds tiled to stay on tho ground,
but the baking powder was ton piping,
and compelled them to rise straight up
into the air. and finally popped tle m
open. The spectators could plainly hear
the sparrows pop, and said that It
sounded like the popping of a pi r
bag. It rain-il popped sparrows i.!
night. It Is noedlefs to Fay that t.u
Is only one br.md of baking powJer for
sale In that town "
r.'eurlng Oitlllir-.
An lnejuii" w-as recently made In
London as ' the greatest distance at
which a man's voice could be hear.!,
leaving, of course, the telephone oil, of
consideration. The reply was most In
teresting, and was as follows: Klghtee.i
miles Is the p.r.gi st dlstcr.ee on record
tit which a man's voice has been heard.
This occui red in the Crand Canon of t'.'.c
Colorado, where one man dunning the
name "Hob" I one end, his voice was
plainly hear ' - i the other end, which is
eighteen niiVs nwny. Lieutenant Fos
ter, on Parry s third Arctic expedition,
found that he could converse with a
man across the harbor of Port llowvu,
n distance ol li.tilul feet, or about one.
mile and a iiuai ter; and Sir John Frank
lin said thul ho conversed with ens..'
at a distance of more than a mile. Dr.
Young records liiat at (Jibraltar the hu
man voice h is been heard at u distt-oea
of ten miles.
Sound has r markable force In wait r,
Colladop, by r -pertinents made in
Lake of (le;.ia, estimated (hat a 1 11
F'.ihmei gcd in t'.ie sea might be hi ai d a
dirtanco of More than sixty mi! -s.
Franklin rays that he heard the strik
ing together of two stones In th" ,.ier
half a mile away. Over water or a sur
face of lee sound is propagati d v. 'tii
great ch arne-s and sttvii -.Ui. Li. llut
ton relates mat on a uuiet part of thd
Thames mar Chelsea he could hear u
person n ad distinctly at ihe distance
of ill) feet, wiide on tile land the s..:r.e
could only be heard ut seventy-six feet.
Professor Tyndall, when on M. tint
Plane, found the report of a pistol shot
no louder than the pop of a ehauii.n.wne
boitle. Persons iu a balloon can hear
voices from the earth a long time after
they, themselves, are Inaudible to pvjophj
below. Harper's Round Table,
'I' be Huron Wuelrel.
Rome years ago, whe n the boom was
raging in Southern California, a gn;t
svaport city was about to be built. It
was called "Ilallona." lieautlful chiv-mo-lilhographs
of a magnificent harhor,
with great ships riding at their anchors
while long trains of cars were loading
ut vast docks, were scattered through
Southern California. It was whispered
that "tho Santa Fe road was behind
it." People began to think they haU
'better get In on P.allona." A pnrty
of gentlenn-n went down from Lo.s
Angeles to look at it. Some of them
w.ere financially Interested In p.allona,
sail some of th. in were r.ot-yit- Am -lis
the lattel was n foreigner, a Bvni.il
French baron. The party dined co
piously at an adjacent hostelry, and
then went to look at "the harbor."
Most of the parly were a trille sur
prisi'd when they saw the niirriw'
slough which was called "tho harbor."
However, three of them got Into a boat
to cross "the harbor." The baron was
one. Of the other two one was a hard
ened Joker, and tho third an officer high
in the I'nlted Stites army. On the way
over, the Joker conceived the Idea of
rooking the boat and scaring the bar- :i.
The general seconded him. They sue-cie-ded
beyond their expectations. Tho
baron protested Unit they would all bo
drowned, but tho Joker and tho general
kept on. Finally, the terrilled bui'i n
Ftood up, but be ing very tall, ills cen
tre of gravity was too high.
Ho fell out of the boat, amid cries
of alarm from those on shore, for tho
baron had fallen Into the fathomlesJ
waters right In tho middle of the "har
bor." However, to tile great surprise
of the intending Investors on dry hind,
lis well as to ins own, the huron pic;e.
himself out of I hive foot of wate r, unit
waded outline. The Jest was an eiieel
lent one in the heslnning, but an it
practically : uelehed "the harbor'
Fche ine, the joke may bo consld. red
to bo on P.aiKna Instead of the br..oi,,
Argnoaut,
t'lipleiiKiiiit ly Hit tinted.
First ottlce boy Do you llkoi your Job?
Second otll v boy Xaw! The type
wilter Is 85, the bookkeeper's gur.- 'causj
lie can't be a dude on $8 a week, m.
Installment company took the head
clerk's bicycle away from him lust
week 'cause he hadn't paid up on it,
and the boss won't let mo whlstlo any
whero. Ptttsburs Bulletin.
JUST WANTED TO FIGHT.
A Kintuiky Mimnhlnr' Slorr of an I'M"
rmiliti T III ( lie Illgl wil V.
Alvb.i Pnrfin, n Ik II county mow
r.hlni I . has u bud scar on his loft Fid"
i c ir il, e hip. II" tells n n mnrk ibl!
I lory of how he came by It, nnd hie
I'riei .Is, Including Attorney John 11
o'.W.il. of Covington, corroborate what
ho i ays.
"I got tw pear las' winter," ho rnhl
one ilny Isst week. "I got a iiuther oni
on my !n ad thct I got ot the rutin?
time." ho continued, showing a large
furrow that reached from his forehead
almost to the crown of his cranium.
"Me an' tin to other fellers had n fight
one day nn the mini. They was drunk
nn' bad feller:?. 1 met them, an' one
of tin i l nays to me, Tin goin' to shoot
you.' I tnH i:im 'I reckon not,' but be
if .vn, 'Ts; I nm, nn' right now, ton.'
So I says, 'p.hizo nway.' He had a
(h.nl.ie-iierrel.-d shotgun loaded with
Icioi.slvt. He plnlod It at mo an' 1
M 'i to knock It. away, but I mlsse-1
the 1 ni-'l by i,l, ut n Inch. P.y the time
I had hit nl U (I'vaiii It was goin' off,
though I I t ock -d it a little to oo fld-.
"I had on n belt lilh d with seventeen
Xo. It Winchester ca'tridges. Tho
whole loj.d of buckshot went among
11., 'ii ca'tridges, 'splof.ln' 'leven ct
t 'ocni. Two weeks n fu r that the do:
t r plci ed sonic of the m-ass i-hii!:'
ci.tili my side. A pl'-co of my hi,) was
: hot o:T. When I was first shot I d! 1
l ot tlilnk 1 was h!l hard. 1 shot my
Thiol at the feller an' he grubbed the
nin.:le of P. The ball went up his
flei-ve or.d through his urin. The other
I'.ers then caiiu. on for me an' I poked
the pistol iu one of their mouths. Jos'
n:t Lpulled the trigger the other felh-r
l-noc!.d my pis'.ol to one shici un' tho
1 uili t cut n funer In tho Fide of his
I. en 1. Jen" vlun the other f( Ih r hit mo
e v i- the hend with his g.i bnr'l, and I
didn't know nothin' for three hours an'
wan imaie. In about four months I
was all right."
"What did they attack you for?" ask
ed ore.
"oh, niuhin', I guess. They was
drlrkln' un' earousln'. We had never
l:n I any rukeses. They Jes' wanted a
II, '..ht.
'I seen tho feller what shot mo las'
v.-. ok dow n lii Hell county:" Partlu
rah', and his eyes twinkled. "I was
dli.Tgin' Inters when he passed aloii3
the road. I didn't have my gun near
me, an' I didn't ray nothin'. " Louis
ville Cr uriei-Journal.
Whlio Ho Slept.
Archibald Clarke, a farmer living
iie.n- Crump, Ki ntucky, is without
C'liibt th most remarkable somnam
bulist In Kentucky. He has actually,
during the past summer, cultivated four
r.ci i s of land while asleep.
For a long time Mr. Clarke suspected
l.i-i neighbors of stealing into his truck
pr.t.-'.iis after night and doing the work,
but finally ":.e night w hile nailing some
boa. ds on his back yard fence he struck
his thumb with a hatchet and awoke,
thus reelir.lng for the first time that he
had been w,king In his sleep.
An.org other things that he has dono
while in the foniiuimbulistic state was
to lay a worm fence for a distance of
l!i' yards. One night he fell asloop
thinking ho would arise early on the
following day and cut a small ditch to
Orr.ln a pond, but great was his sur
prise when the next morning he found
t! at lh.' pond had been ditched dur
ing the nly.Lt.
On one occasion he got up shortly
lifter he hail fallen asleep, and putting
several pounds of butter in a basket
look it to a nearby grocery store and
traded It for coffee and sugar. For a
I ,t; timo he was at a loss to m count for
tli" missl'ig butter. Neither did he know
whence came the coffee and the sugar,
liowever, since realising that he is a
confirmed soinPHinlnillst, he has ques
tioned the grocer, who recollected the
occurrence of Mr. Clarke's strange con
duct at the time.
Mr. Clarke lived alone, but sinoo he
has discovered his condition, has in
cagcil the services of a yount? negro who
takes enre that his employer does not
get out of tho hoube during his sleep.
Cincinnati Fdiqulrer.
I.eel';erof Ide as.
One of the greatest elements in suc
cessful business niansgement Is method.
The Judgment of u i h h anil a poor man
ts red no widely apart as their wealth;
besides, often the smarter is the poorer
business man. The whole world of com
merce depends upon the practice of
bookkeeping, and all that bookkeeping
ts can be reduced to this: A record of
business transactions kept so that they
can be readily grouped and understood
us a concrete whole. Bookkeeping is
usually confined to a record of money
transactions. A friend of mine carries
the method still further; he keeps
books for his ideas and Information
picked up at odd moments. In his vest
pocket he cairles a little book which he
culls his day book.
in thut he records everything ho
wishe s to re-me rober, whether It is to
buy a bottl f liquid glue to me nd his
little girl's doll or a nodal engagement
for tho following week. Everything
goes Into the day book, from the name
c-f a man who wants a Job to a scheme
to make a million that may go Hitting
through his head. In addition to the
day book. myli lend keeps a "ledger of
ideas." Into this are transferred all
mch matters as are likely to be needed
for future rcft-ri ncu, like addresses, sug
gestions In connection with his busi
ness, oil grouped in nuen a way thut
they can be turned to in a moment.
When a matter lias been disposed of a
pencil mark Is drawn through It und
that ends it, except that it serves as a
memorandum of the fact and the period
of time when entered, for these itornii
are divided by date lines Indicating the
period when tutored. Minuoiipolia
Tribune.
Oil und Gun Stoves in Mooping Koomrt.
Oil stoves and rti-i stoves should
ne ver be kept burning In a sleeping
mom, for, having no connection with n
ci Imney tluo, they throw pohionous
carbonic oxide Into the air of the apart
ment and make It unfit for respiration.
An oil lamp, left burning all night, is
bud enough, lut un oil stove is worse.
lutheAlpa, '
On reaching: a certain spot the drlvci j
turned around on his seat and observ-j
ed to the passengers:
"From this point the road Is only ac
cessible to mules and donkeys; I must
therefore ask the gentlemen to get out i
n ,w1 nnuniiil mi fmitu" l.i.tillu .l'Av.la'
do Vevey.
DOLLY ON WORDS.
81m Cheerfully JCiillKlitenii . MoAlliiiter
Me- llli.-iiny.
McAllister Mcllhenny was plunged in
thought, but ho was safe, for it wasn't
over his head.
Only over his heart.
Ho was revolving in his mind what to
say to the beautiful Brooklyn belle he
had loved last and was still loving.
In other words Mcllhenny had wheels
emotional wheels.
After a long timo he shook himself
fiercely and hiiisud between his firm set
teeth :
"Sho shall bo mino, I swear it."
Then ho set forth on his heart's jour
ney and ere long ho was seated beside
her on an elegantly upholstered fau
teuil. "Miss Dolly," he said after the usual
meteorological references had been mu
tually cited, as is the custom when two
persons moot, "I love you with a love
that passes understanding."
She lookeel down at his feet and
realized how great his love for her must
be.
"Why, Mr. Mcllhenny," she exclaim
ed twittoringly as a bird twitters.
"Yes, Miss Dolly dear Miss Dolly
dear Dolly darling dolly," he went on
I in a succession of emotional explosions,
j "and you can set my throbbing heart
j forever at rest if you will."
"How, Mr. Mcllheuny V" she murmur
ed. "By 'answering a question with one
littlo word only ono."
"Oh, how funny, Mr, Mcllhenny,
What is the question?"
"Will you bo mino, dearest?"
It was very sudden and Dolly was
scarcely expecting it, but sho didn't
loso her head.
Sho merely dropped it, as maidens do
when they ure proposed to."
"And will one littlo word answer so
important a question," sho asked almost
tremulously.
Mcllhenny was a creature of impulse,
but he did not intend to let his impetu
osity ruin his cause if ho could provent
such a catastrophe. He might unwit
tingly have given an opportunity to her
to say "no," but he was too careful for
that.
So he hedged.
"Only ono littlo word, darling," he
whispered, as he slipped his hand over
to take hers." but there must be thfee
letters in it."
The beautiful belle hesitated for an in
stant ; then there camo to her soft blue
(yes u look of seraphic triumph, a melt
ing as of all tho grosser elements into
tho other ; a soul of a saint, the glorified
submission of a woman's heart to tho
blissful tyranny of its master.
At leasl that was the way it struck
McAllister Mcllhenny as ho held out his
eager, pleading hands to her.
"Nit," sho said; and McAllister Mc
llhenny cursed every three-lettered
word in the English language. New
York Sun.
SHE WOULDN'T ARGUE.
Aud So (She) Preserved Her J Health
and Good X.ookn,
She had a merry eye, a lineless
forehead and a wicked rod month,
though her hair was touched with sil
ver. Asked her secret of youth, she thought
a minute, then said smiling happily:
"If I have one it is I never argue.
Never, under any provocation. You see,
I don't hold any belief myself in any
way that needs confirmation, and I
found out long ago that in argument
yourself was the only person you conld
ever succeed in convincing of the Tight
ness of you view.
"Then there is the further fact that
the points most usually ai-gued are those
tho arguers know nothing whatever
about. That, you can't deny, is wear
ing hearing people dogmatize over
things whereof their ignorance conld be
cut with a knife.
"Nor do I ever exert myself to set
them right. Like Rachel of old. I 'sit
upon the secret' and say nothing. I have
my reward, too, the people whose pot de
lusions I respect, go about tolling every
body I am one of the brighest and best
informed women they know."
Another of Lincoln's Jokes.
This is a brand new Lincoln story and
true like all of this series:
President Lincoln reached Meade Sta
tion, near Petersburg soon after a seri
ous battle in which about 2,000 Confed
erates were made prisoners. General
Meade was on tho President's left and
Colonel Goorge D. Ruggles on his right.
On their way to headquarters they rode
to a point where they could see the
largo assemblage of prisoners. With
the prisoners were many colored ser
vants aud laborers.
"Mr. Lincoln," said General Meade,
"I guess Ruggles did not overestimate
the number of men captured."
Mr. Lincoln chocked his horse, delib
erately survoyed the field full of Gor
don's disarmed men and the contrabands
and said :
"Yes, General, the number is there in
black and white." Chicago Times-Herald.
Meaning of Previous Guiui.
Most of tho principal stones now worn
have their significance. Sapphire, as
heavenly thoughts; diamonds, as re
pentance, innocence, light, purity, life
and joy. Emeralds denote success in
love, faith, victory and immortality.
There is a great diversity of opinion as
to tho meauing of the opal. While some
consider it portends good fortune and
hope, others still deem it unlucky. The 1
turquoise denotes success und numerous
friends, tho pearl, purity, innocence,
humility uud tears, while tho amethyst
signifies sobriety aud temperance,
A Gloomy PronpecU
"You have au immeuse amount of
hay," observed the visitor at tho Clover
Meadow Farm.
"Ya-as," said Farmer Redneck, "but
there ain't a dung thing t' feed it to but
bicycles." Judge.