WHIPPED THE LEOPARD. But It Took a Troop of Baboons to Kill the Big Cat. A vivid pen picture of a flslit be tween a leopard and a troop of baboon is given in a German paper b.v r. Kit ter. a sportsman and explorer In <!er man West Africa. Leopards have a particular liking for baboon flesh, whieb is often used as bait to trap them. "One afternoon," the hunter relates. "I was resting on the shady side of a big rock which formed the bank of a small stream. On the opposite side a troop of baboons came down chatter ing toward the water, a large male go lug cautiously In front, glancing and scenting around for danger. I remain ed immobile. "A deep grunt assured the herd that nil was well, and down the steep slope they came, last of all a female with two young, which the mother tenderly helped over the rongli places. Sudden ly a big leopard shot out from behind a bowlder and with one blow of his paw grabbed one of the young. "The mother, with a roar of fury, threw herself upon the big cat. The others halted and with one nccord clambered back to her assistance. The leopard had just settled tlie female and was about to make off with his prey when be found himself surrounded by the whole horde, which closed in upon him. "He gave as good as he got, and two big baboons rolled down the slope apparently done for, but numbers told, and he was literally torn to pieces. It was a horribly fascinating sight, and 1 uever regretted more having no camera with me than I did then." THEY DIDN'T FIGHT. It Was Only a Little Friendly Discus sion That Excited Them. Two Spaniards were conversing ear nestly, then excitedly, at last angrily. The young American woman who pass ed them looked with frightened eyes toward her Spanish guide. "What are they talking about, Senor JoseV" she asked timidly. "Ho you think they will light—or maybe kill?" "Ah, no, Senorita Marie," replied Jose, smiling and showing his pretty teeth. "One man—that one, you see, senorita. with the long mustachios—he is saying. 'Me. I prefer much the col iaire' button which is steel,' and the other one—look, senorita—he is running his lingers through his hair now and his sombrero has a gold cord —be is saying, 'Ah, no, senor, the button which is of gold—si, senor. that is the button for me.' "But as for tnyself, senorita, the bone collaire button—that I prefer above all the others. "Do 1 not speak with good sense, senorita? Listen. If the button is of steel it will cut. if it is of gold one can not afford to lose it, but if it is of bone it does not cut, and if it goes what uiat ter? I have a dozen at homo in my little top drawer." "You speak with great good sense, Don Jose, but tell me—were the men really angry?" "Oh. not at all. senorita. It is only our southern way of being interested in what we discuss If it had been two Germans, senorita, or maybe two Englishman, you would uever have no ticed them."—Philadelphia Ledger. Then They Talked In English. A couple of Cleveland business men visited Mexico. In Mexico City their train was switched from one station to another. One of the Clevelanders went to the first station to make in quiries. Approaching a pair of dark visnged employees, he cudgeled his memory for the proper words from the phrase book. "Donde esta?'' he hesitatingly asked and paused. The two dark visaged persons listen ed attentively. "Gracias." stammered the Cleveland man. "Donde estan?" Then one of the men looked at the other. "Say, Bill," he growled, "what in merry blue blazes is this fellow talkln' about ?" And after that it was easy.—Cleve land Plain Dealer. The Donkey's Choice. The vexed question of the future life of animals has troubled the Mo hammedan, as it has other religions. 'J he question, it seems, was considered by Allah a long time ago, and all the animals were asked if they wished to enter paradise. They at once said yes, except the donkeys. Thee were cautious and asked if little boys went t« heaven The answer being yes. they replied. "In that ease we prefer togo to —the other place." S. 11. Lee der vou"hes for the fable in"The Desert Gateway." Friendship*. There are three friendships which are advantageous and three which are iu iurn.il I-rieiul hip with the upright, friendship with the sincere and friend ship with the man <>f much Informa tion these are advantageous, friend ship with the man of specious airs, friend id|> with the insinuatingly soft, irii'i d v illi It ■ i;lil> toligOed thes* Cutting D i*n the Butcher's Bill. "Isii t there tun mh> to eut down a l» IS bill li d ■ eavtleattjr aridr< <dmf hi* n,e«t wan. "Why. ye-. Air Tlxht wad." said th <i<>r 'V»n miL'bt i>ay a little on amount now and then ""•Harper's It Is easier to our! h ewwelvoe with 4 thousand virtu* * than to orreet our of a sluts'. fattlt.-~ Hruyere. I ataje Snow. Tn 'Per .1 inlnNcences of Ilen r> In i>. , ' t . : iot.er lets his read ers into ibe - ecrct of h >w the snow scene in ■ I <• t'orsiian Brothers" was ; made « ne -th e: "All over the stage was a thick bian- 1 ket of -mow, white and glistening in the winter sunrise—snow that lay so thick that when the duelists, stripped and armed, stood face to face they each secured a tinner foothold by clearing it away. Of many wonderful effects this snow was perhaps the strongest and most impressive of real ity. The public could never imagine how it was done. It was salt—common coarse salt which was white in the appointed light and glistened like real snow. There were tons of it. A crowd of men stood ready in the wings with little baggage trucks such as are now nsed lu the corridors of great hotels, silent with rubber wheels. On them were great wide mouthed sacks full of salt. When the signal came they rush ed in On all sides, each to his appoint ed spot, and tumbled out his load, spreading it evenly with great wide bladed wooden shovels." Tuning Bells. "What a beautiful tone that bell i has!" is often heard. There are few, however, who know how a bell re i ceives its joyful or solemn tones. All bells after they are cast and finished I must go through a process of tuning : tlie same as any other musical instru • mcut before the;, respond with a clear, 1 true tone. Every bell sounds five i notes, which must blend together In order to produce perfect harmony. The tuning of a bell is done by means of j shaving thin bits from various parts of the metal. It is as easy for an ex port bell tuner to put a bell in tunc as it is for a piano tuner to adjust his instrument to perfect chords. At first thought it would seem that a bell would be ruined should a tuner shave olf too much at the last tuning, or the ; fifth sound, but such is not the case. : lie would, however, be obliged to be ] gin over, starting again with the first 1 tone and shaving the bell till it gave forth its harmonious sound at tlie fifth ; tone.—Scientific American. No Clock Wanted. There had been some talk of placing a clock in the tower of the village { church. But John, Ihe old sexton, who lived in the little cottage opposite tlie church, declared himself "dead agin it"and expressed the opinion that it ! would mean "an awful waste o' brass" ! *\vere the scheme carried out. "We want no clocks," he said the ! other day. "We've done without clocks up to now, Ml' we shall u<; uage. Wli, lyin' i' my bed of a mornin' I can see Ihf tini" by the sundial over th • porch." "Yes," replied one who approved of the scheme, "that's all right so far as | it goes. But the sun doesn't shine every morning. What do you do then?" . "Why," answered John surprisedl.v, j "I knows then as it ain't fit weather to be out o' bed, an' I just stops where 1 is."- London Tit-Bits. The Lavish Jenkins. | In October, 18SG, a religiously mind- j ed Buckinghamshire farmer name I i I Jenkins brought his firstborn to the i parish church to be christened, and j this was to lie the name: Abel Benja- i j min Caleb Daniel Ezra Kelix Gabriel liaggai Isaac Jacob Kisii Levi Ma- j noah Xebetniah Obdiah Peter Quartus j Rechab Samuel Tobiah Uzziel Vauiali Word Xystns Zeehariah. it will be j i observed th it the names are all ar- i I ranged in alphabetical order and are 1 1 as far as possible selected from Scrip | ture. It w.is only with the very great est difficulty that the clergyman dis J suadeil M; - . Jenkins from doing the i lasting wrong to his child thai he had j j unwittingly devised, but eventually it ! | was decided to > hristen the boy simply j I Al.-I Chambers' Journal. Where Plato Taught. The famous academy of Plato was | In a suburb of Athens, about a mile ! north of the Dypilum gate. It is said to ; have belonged to the hero Aendeinus; i hence tlie name, it was surrouiuh d with a wall and adorned with walks, groves and fouutnins. Pluto |Missossed ' a small estate in the neighborhood and for some 1 fly years taught his "dlvin philosophy" to young and old assetn bled in the academy to listen to his ' xv. .e words. After Plato's death In :; »N B. ('. the academy lost much of Its I fame, but the beauty remained for i centuries after the great teacher was no more. New York American, Poet Laureate. The office of poet laureate practical I.v lieu .. with I'h.iucer, who •! the le lllmut KIH.I. After t'llUUcor the > >' W, i,re or les-i ill til'' ; shadow hut Iroiu Spenser in I.VR» the line . 112 laure te is pretty well filled d' WU to the present time. Th office Is lure, v honorary and has let always been held by (ho greatest of ■ English (xH-s-i. Dry den, Word wortl and Ten in son being the It) i lllti • trloUM of its h >!i!ers. Exchmme. He. Own Valuat o-i •Belle tells uie -lie i- teary I • et ! mari I' d you." said a younu lad to !• hu«hrtlid" They Witt* h.te utter known pro* h.ipt .v It U <lte retneit .ran-1 Ol It *UI »• *' r rtln r<t>e» It we .. ,i j TNTTIM ro*< t M» MUM plant At >r« irt < C\ IS I'KKS-, THURSDAY, JANUARY la, 19x1. Incapacitated. "Th«» fussy individual wlio nlwnr« has a run in with t lie waiter never furcß any I letter Hiun the rest of us i who are satisfied to take things as ' they come," said the homeless bach . elor. "1 took breakfast with one of ; these fussers I tie other inortiiiiK ill a : little cafe uptown that was new to I both of us. "All he wanted was a cup of coffee | and a couple of boiled But you | might have thought the universe de- J pended upon those eggs. After having given the waiter minute instructions as to their preparation, he sat with his watch in his hands. "Finally the eggs came, and there was a lot more powwow. As he crack ed the shell of one ho turned to Hie waiter and said, 'Are you sure these ' eggs are positively freshV "And the waiter, who had watery eyes and a very red nose, replied with all seriousness: 'I really can't say. sir. I have a frightful cold in my head.' " —New York Times. A Queer Freak. Milreau, who was said to have boon connected with some of the best fami lies in France and to have possessed considerable means until ruined by the Panama canal disaster, was one of the best friends the beggars of Paris ever had. and to obtain funds for helping them he brame a systematic thief, lie used to frequent the fashionable streets uuring the day and pick pockets, and by night, dressed in ragged clothes, he dispensed the spoils to the first beg gars he met. For years he continued the practice without being suspected, and it was by pure chance that he I eventually did fall Into the hands of | the police. When his lodgings were searched sufficiently empty purses were found to fill a large packing case, and it was made clear that he had stolen ! hundreds of watches and scarfpins, I while lie had been pinching and con | triving to live a respectable man on a 1 few francs a week saved from the ruin ' of his fortune. The Literary Man. When I get home where I live at I ; will remove my wife's new hat from ; my desk and my daughter's socks and j my wee baby's building blocks, three spools of thread, some tafting frames, j a box or two of cut out games, some scissors and my wife's new waists, a box of tacks and some tooth paste, a , cookbook and a sewing kit, some let- j | ters that my wife has writ, some apple j ! cores the kids put there, one or two I ! wads of handmade hair, a bottle of j | shoe polish, too, a hairbrush and a ! baby shoe, some stockings that are worth a darn, a skein or two of darn- ! ing yarn, a picture book or two or ' three, a picture babe has drawn for 1 me, a rubber ball, a piece of glim, some picture postcards and a drum. I'll do all that when I get home and then j ! write an immortal poem that will have 1 Swinburne double crossed—if all my j pencils are not lost. —Houston Post. I / Wrecks and Cats and Dogs. There is an odd provision in the j : English law 011 wrecks, it used to ' 1 be that wrecks, like pretty nearly ev- I 1 erything else, belonged to the king. Sometimes, if a vessel were only part- : J ly wrecked and it could be raised, an owner was averse to surrendering it, but it was generally seized for the king | in accordance with the law until the question came up as to just what was i a wreck. It was generally admitted that when all hands were lost that i was a wreck, but as they wanted to | get as narrow a definition as they | could they got parliament to establish < a law that in future nothing shall j be considered a wreck out of which a j cat or a dog escapes alive, and from | that time until the present day 110 ! vessel coasts about England without carrying a cat or dog. Canvas Currency. Banknotes appear in much same ! form throughout the world and have always done so except in China, where the earliest note was made of canvas, i some six centuries before the Christian era. it was more like a tablecloth than a banknote, its length being about two meters, or six feet six inch es. This form of note was not very ! convenient when large sums were con cerned, so later the note was printed on parchment, and all other forma of | money \\ iv suppressed. One emperor issued notes represent lug more than three thousand iiilllloi.i liut the mon ey was never popular, and gradually the notes were retired. Charlotte Cushman's Warning. One ley night Charlotte Cusliiuau and , Lawrence Barrett came out of the the- ; liter together. The -t ps were danger- | ously slippery, ami it was with diilicul- | t> that they kept th«u' -et at all. As j they totterlngly desn ~ir>d the great ' actre.-s suld to her compauiuu quite lu | her Lady Macbeth manner: "Take a i good grip on my arm, Lawteuce, and ! if 1 slip hold on like grim death. But if jou slip in the name of hcuvcu let ; Bad Manners, The two woue u stop|nil In front of it dentist's showcase. "There, mamma." *uld the younger woti ii. like that." "Hiiwb, my child!" commanded her i mother, "itou't you know tlmt It's vul gar to |, « !{ join teeth in ih<i street?" A Bright Youth. Mho (archlyi Whom sliuiihi you call Ihe pritiest islrl mi the room? lie tell Ibc trwtli, there Uu'l U pretty girl I I lit the place. tit it'A ' . |„.| |h ~t!*»> Ibe Inequality of tudiiy ami U Mill appear una In tomorrow. Kuiersou Entertaining Royalty. Nothing puts a bigger feather In tl'p cap of a so'ii ■ hostess, says the London Suttmhiv .It.am I. or at, the same time causes her more anxious cares and tiiougl" rat Iter than mere expenditure than the presence at one of her dinners or dances in the huge Mayfalr mansion of a member of the royal family most of all the king ami queen. The cult rieiuing of royalty is one of the i.i.e., <1 •:i ate triumphs the society woman, whether she be a duchess or merely a millionairess, can achieve It bus a cod" of etiquette all to itself—a ode which must he rigluly ( I.served or n > hope is there of ever securing another visit from a royal guest of the reigning house. The number of titled and untitled guests bidden to meet the sovereign at. say. a dinner party is strictly limited and of course highly seie.'t. On one oc casion $20,000 was spent l y a hostess in entertaining a crowned head for a week end, while another example is that of a certain baronet who had a marble staircase putin Ids house sole ly because of an approaching visit from the late king. A Rsmarkabla Escape. During the r -ign of terror in Paris one of .nosl remarkable escapes was tha, ( M.de Chateaubrun. He was sent to execution with twenty other prisoners, hut after the fifteenth head had fallen the guillotine got out of order and a workman was sent for to repair 1\ The six remaining vic tims were left standing in front of the machines with (heir hands tied behind them. A French crowd is very cu rious. and the people kept pressing forward to -ee (lie man arranging the guillotine. By degrees M.de Chateau brun, who was to the rear of his com panions, fourd himself in the front line of the spectators, in the sec ond and Anally well behind those who had come to see his head cut off. Be fore the men could get the guillotine in working order night began to fall, and M.de Chateaubrun slipped away. When in the Champs Ely sees he told a man that a wag had tied his hands and robbed him of his hat, and this simple individual set him free. A few days later M.de Chateaubrun escaped from France. Due Precautions. In a town in Georgia there was an old preacher whose knowledge of the j world was not wide nor deep, bin who | conceived it to be a place where, if ' one should trust his fellow men, he i should at the same time keep an eye ! on his own interests. One hot day-he pulled off his coat , and pr -ach 1 a -vi'-orou.- s< nnon under ; the pines In his hirt sleeves. At the ! eke' 1 of i.h ■ opi ii air service one of his ad- iii apj , iinched him and said j ' regretfully: "I don't suppose you knew that the editor of one of the big New York I Sunday paper'- was here when you ; pulled off your < oat." "I reckon I knew it well, for I'd been told of it," said tii ■ preacher calmly. ; "I don't be! 've lie's as bad as lie j might lie. and anyway I put my coat 1 on the chair close by and had it right under my eye ail tlie time."—Youth's ! Companion. More Story of the Flood. Thu legend of the Hood as told by the Moros is as follows: "When the forty days and nights of rain came No and his family got into a box. One pair of each sort of bird and beast also came in. Men who were busy with their ordinary occupa tions and did not enter the box were overtaken by the flood. Those who ran to the mountains became mon keys; those who ran to the water, lish. The Chinaman changed to a hornbill. A woman who was eating the fruit of a seaweed and would not stop was changed into a tisli called a dugong. and her limbs can still be seen under its skin." Mara's Voice. Mine. Mara had a voice that ex I end ed from middle U to E in alt and was one of the most facile and flexible ever known. She delighted in the florid music of llasse, Graun, Benda, .ioni i nielli, l'ergalese, Porpora, Sacchiui and others of that school and with the ut most ease executed passages that are j now consigned to solo instruments, sucli as the violin and Utile. She held I the stage from 1771 to INO2, with an j occasional appearance after the latler I date. His Bedtime. "When do you wind your watch." asked the man with the bulging brow— , "morning or evening?" "Generally in the morning," answer- | eil the mau with the bulbous nose. [ "1 alv. ay- wind mine ju>t before I goto bed." 112 I "Well er so do I."- Chicago Trib li lie. What She Would Do. "Johnnie, dear," said his mother, who was trying to Inculcate a lesson iu in ilustry, "what do you suppose niamii a would do for you if you should come to her some day mid tell her that you loved your studies?" "Lick me for telling ii falsehood." hiiid dear little Johllllle with the trarikues* of youth A Quick Return Bun nun. "Yoti aald you were going Uiio miuh» I business that would bring you qui !> I return*." »aid a >otitic fellow to b (hum "I did." With the answer. "I am se d lug uiaiiu> ripts to the im»ga*i|Ma." A Nic# tiuh. li«-mi| mill hit tUv brain DOUBLE CREAM BUTTERINE 10-Pound Package $2.00 Delivered by Prepaid Express. | E Every housekeeper should read our free r FA'"""| "Double Cream" Catechism. It tells t how "Double Cream" is churned,of what | it is churned, and why it is pure, sweet, £j~* \m( and wholesome. This is the fancy table """""fiJlf"' "'' 'f'. ! \ article which is taking the place of high- ffl wil jl fl , l|||l priced butter all over the country in cities, / ' W/1111l I I IB\ towns, and on the farm. Every package "V j ||). \lV\ bears the U. S. inspection stamp. You \ may color it for home use so that even an expert llj U can not tell it from gilt-edge creamery butter in \« color, aroma, flavor, and texture. Fill out this )WW? : blank and mail to us at once. Coloring "Double Cream." 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