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IS GREATER THAN ROYALTY ITSELF.
nevBr wants tt learn, but the
reads that
QLiD Honesty
CHEWING TOBACCO
is the best that is made, and
at ONCE tries it, and saves
money and secures more
satisfaction than ever before.
A.VOID imitations. Insist on
having the genuine. If your
dealer hasn't it ask him to
get it for yon.
ilO. FIIZER & BROS., lonfciffle.D.
Constipation
Pomanil! prompt treatment. The re
sults of neglfct may lo serious. Avoid
all harsh and dntstic purgatires, the
t ndeni-y .f whii-h is to weaken the
x.vel.s. The best remedy is Ayer's
l'illa. Iiting purely vegutahle, their
ai tinn is prompt and their effect always
Uriit-i.ri.il. Tliey are an admirable
Livrr and After-liuner fill, and every
where endorsed by the profession.
" Ayer's Till are hiprhly and univer
sally "spoken of by the people abou
l.ere. 1 ni.iko flailv n.so of them in luy
pr:i. tier." Dr. I.'E. Fowler, Uridge
jMrt, 'unn.
" I ran rerommend Ayer'a Tills above
all othrrs, having Iouk' proved - their
value as a rutliartic for myself ana
family." J. T. llesa, LeithavUle, I'a.
Por srve ral vears Ayer's Tills have
l-en used in ujy'fauiily. We find theia
au
Effective Remedy
for eonstipation and indigestion, and
ar never without them in the house.'
Moses (Jrenii-r, Lowell, MadS.
'I have used Aver' Tills, for liver
troubles and indigestion, during many
years, and liavti always fouud thelil
prompt and etiieinit in their action."
L. N. iSmiih, L'tira, N. Y.
" I sufTi-red from ronstipation which
assume. 1 snrh an ol.sl imtte form that I
f. ar.-.l it would rau.se :i stoppage of the
bowels. Two l.xes of Ayer's Tills ef-f.-eteil
.1 romi.U-te cure." V. llurke.
tiaro. Me.
" I have used Ayer's Tills for the past
thirtv vears and ronsiilrr them an in
valu ibie family mr.li. -iue. I know ot
no belter reme.lv for liver troubles,
and have always found them a prompt
-ure for .lsN .sia. ' dames Quinu, UU
Mill. lie st. II n lfoid. Conn.
Having been trouble.! with oostive
Iiexs bu h serms ine liable with ier
nous of sedentary habits, I have tried
Alt's Tills, hoping for relief. I aiu
gla.1 to s.-n that they have served ni
Ulter than any oilier mediriue. I
arrive at tins roii. lusioii only after a
fail!, ful trial of their menus." - faaiuuel
T. Jones. Oak at.. Ikisloii. Mass.
Ayer's Pills,
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Dr. J. C. Ayer &. Co.. Lowell. MaM
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TAYLOR S DEAN,
0I. 203 205 MarkatSL Pittkttrk. Pa.
tell JSm-
MONEY F0J MAKUVlXli.
A Great Deal Necessary for an
TJp-to-Date Ceremony.
It Cottta Like the Misrhit-f to Ht-loug to
tle Swell St ami Keep lp with,
the F million - Some of the
KequlreuivuU.
To pet married nowadays consistent
ly with the regulations .f fashion is
very expensive, even for ordinary folks
wlm desire to keep up appearances. If
you do in it believe it. just do the sum
ill arithmetic fur yourself, writes a New
York crrcsMindeiit of the St. Louis
I .lobe-1 leiiiocrat.
There i.-, the church to begin with.
The fee for ox-niiig the sacred edifice
is one hundred dollars. If you want
the choir to sing you must pay one
hundred dollars in addition. The
clergy man's honorarium is extra.
What it shall be you are at liberty to
determine, but it is hardly considered
proper to give less than twenty-tive
dollars, whereas one hundred dollars is
by no means excessive. At t he church,
as well as at the house, you must have
awnings, and the price for these will
be forty dollars.
Flowers are a very important item.
The altar has to be decorated, and you
cannot make any kind .if show for less
than two hundred and fifty dollars.
For fifty dollars you can only get a
few palms. 1'alins e.mie high because
of the risk. If the weather turns cold
and they are chilled, they will die, and
it takes fifteen or twenty years to grow
a palm of decent size. Obviously, the
bridesmaids rc.piire boii.piets, and for
ci.cli of these you can hardly get orT
for less than twenty-tive dollars. Tin:
jmimcs are more apt to come to fifty
dollars each at a season when fine roses
cost two and three dollars each.
Then there are the bridesmaids'
gowns. It is exjiected that they shall
be furnished, and they will cost at
least one hundred dollars each. Of
course, they are not made so much to
please the wearer as to satisfy the re
quirements of the occasion and the
taste of the bride. It can hardly be ex
K'l ti'il that a bridesmaid shall go to
such cxiiense for a frock to be worn
R-rhaps only once, ami which is for the
fn-netit of somebody else. Thus, as a
mere matter of common sense, it has
come to Ik? regarded as the proicr
thing that these toilets shall be sup
plied. Necessarily, they are all alike.
If there is a maid of honor she must
have a drerss, too.
A bride may be married in a traWl
ing dress, but for a really swell wed
ding' she must have a special gown,
which will hardly cost less than two
hundred and fifty dollars. I iressuiakers
charge extra prices for articles of cos
tume furnished for weddings, by the
way. Of incidental expenses there is
no end. In New York there is only
one woman who know s how to arrange
a bride's veil proH-rly. It is her speeial
ty. and she charges accordingly. In
fact, she docs Very little else Iteside go
ing from tine house to another and pin
ning brides veils. It is a business that
requires a high degree of skill. (HI ess
tulle is handled by skillful lingers, it is
very unliccomiiip. To adjust the
wreath of orange blossoms- always
artitieial. because real orange blossoms
quickly fade and have too strong an
nlor is an art in itself. It must lie
put in just so. else it is ugly.
Fashion requires that the bridegro. mi
shall jrive to each bri.lesiiiaid a pin or
bracelet, and to each usher a scarf-pin
or some such remembrance. It goes
without saying that the licst man and
the maid of honor are not left out.
These must be handsome, and fifty dol
lars each is not too much to pay for
them. When lie was married to M iss
(ionld. Count Castellane gave to each
of the ushers and bridesmaids a pin the
design of which was a C and O tied
together in a t rue lover's knot. Theli
was in rubies, the knot was of dia
monds and the C was in sapphires.
Thus were united the national colors
of France red. white and blue. In
the almve account no mention has been
made .if the cost of the reception at the
house of the bride. It is expected that
the drawing-rooms and dining-room
shall be profusely decorated with flow
ers, and in this way five huudred dol
lars docs not go very far. Then there
is the "spread," which may run up to
almost any price. Among the inci
dentals are invitations, w hich are not
cheap w hen one thousand or so of theui
have to be sent out. On the whole, it
is a costly business to get married in
these days.
An Ancient lort)tB-
"Speaking aliout mortgages," said a
well-known Miniicax.lis banker the
other day in the midst of a conversa
tion on the eating-up powers of inter
est, "I was shown a mortgage some
time ago down in New York by a
banker friend that had a history. It
had been in existence just two hundred
years, having lieeii given in the year
11.115. It was on a piece of property
lying in the farming region outside of
New ork.
where. The
some six or c:
it had been
1 don I reiiieuincr jusi
amount was not large,
ight hundred dollars, but
kept precisely as it was
given in the old Dutch days. The in
terest bad lM-en at jmt cent, from the
very liegiimiiig. and it bad always.
Wen kept up. The document hud been
in the same family, too. all these many
years, and for some reason or other it
had never Wen thought worth while
to pay it off. Oddly enough, the pres
ent niortgageor had the very same
name of the original grantor of the
mortgage The original document was
very odd as to form and makeup, but it
was sound and staple, and would hold
water in the courts to-day as well as
Ibe most approved document of the
times."
8h W t ompliuienterl.
"Tie yer shoe, miss?"
Yes," hesitatingly; the time of
dragging shoe strings had come, but
t,he hated to W reminded of it.
Tut yer foot right thar." He
dropped on one knee, and placed his
kit to receive the f.x.t, and in a
twinkling the strings were tied. Then
the young woman fumbled in her purse
and produced a nickel.
"I'd ruther not," Raid the boy,
" 'cause yer see we want yer for a mas
cot." oh:-
"We're going" into pardnership, me
an' Jim that's my brother aud
Crippled Mike, and we agreed that the
prettiest young lady we could find
should be our inaseot an' you jest
filled the bill." Detroit Free Tress. -
ABOUT MOSQUITOES.
The Little 1'ewtH lirl Looked At by a
Keien title Kye.
There are supjM.sed to be ab.iut one
huudred and fifty species of mosquitoes
in the world. Already twenty -one
species have Wen identified as native
to North America. The largest va
rieties occur in the tropics, where in
sect life of all sorts obtains its fullest
and most pestiferous development. No
where, however, are these blood
suckers more abundant than in far
northern latitudes, as in Arctic Alaska,
w here they apjH-ar in countless swarms
.luring the brief boreal summer. There
are at least three or four species of
Jersey mosquitoes, one succeeding
another during the progress of the sea
sons. The biggest know n mosquito is
only found as a fossil, happily. It lived
in tertiary times. Wing contemporary
with the mastodon and megat heriuiii.
To it has been given the appropriate
name .if "cilicx daiiiiiatorum," mean
ing "gnat of the damned.'
There is no reason to doubt that
mosquitoes carry diseases, says the
Washington Star, and t hey are seriously
suspected of propagating yellow fever.
It has been noticed that yellow fever
comes with them and goes when they
depart; also that it is worst in seasons
when they are most plentiful and in lo
calities w here they are most abundant.
I.ut respecting this complaint compar
atively little has been definitely as
certained. The mosquito is likewise
accused of propagat ing malaria by
carrying the infection from one K-rsoii
to another. This charge is not proven,
hi iwever.
It has long been known that only
t he female mosquito bites. The male
jxissesses no lance for inflicting a
wound, such as his mate is provided
with. The purpose t-f his existence is
merely to pcrH-tuate the species, and
he never enters a house unless by ac
cident. The natural food of tin- female
is the juices of plants, and it is not
known w hy she seeks blood. The in
dulgence seems to be a kind of dissipa
tion with her. like whisky ami tobacco
with human beings. I'nlikethe latter,
she never gets full but once. Her sting
consists of five extremely sharp needles,
two of w hich are barbed. They unite
and form an awl. which, having in
dicted the puncture, serves as a tube
for. sucking the IiIimmI of the victim. The
suggestion that Mis.uious tluid is intro
duced into tin- wound for the pur(mse of
making the blood more liquid is mere
theory.
The female mosquito lays her eggs in
a litt-shaK-.l mass on the surface of
still water. From these the larvae,
called "wrigglers." are hatched. When
the wriggler considers that he ha.s
wrigsfle.l long enough be comes to the
surface and carefully extricates himself
from his skin, which serves asa raft
for liiin to stand i!".ii. This is the
danger (xiiiit of his life, for the least
breath of wind may upset the raft and
drown him. Happily escaping this
fate, he tl ies away as so.ui as his wings
are dry. If a "she." the insect loses no
time in seeking for some animal or K-r-son
to torture. It has Wen contended
that the larval mo-iuito has some use
fulness, consuming iniasin.it i,- germs in
the water; but this is nit.re than doubtful.
A POOR OPINION OF US.
An KKyptiau Think A merlcai.it Live In a
Killhy .Manner.
A communication received from Sheik
llirdari. an Kgyptian commissioner to
the rec.-nt I'nited Trt-sby terian gen
eral assembly, gives various views
formed of Tittsburgh and of the assem
bly, says the I'liite.l Tresby terian. He
says Americans, and especially Titts
burghers. live in a filthy manner. Our
hands and faces are quite dirty, he
says, but this is Wcause the air is con
taminated with a tine black dust.
The sheik found it difficult to keep
himself clean. He says: "The pave
ments are v.-ry filthy, owing to the
habit all the M'ople. men and women,
have of ex ectorat ing. 1 t hink most of
the -.iple must be of a class about
equal to the ltcrhcrs. used in Cairo and
Alexandria as tl.mrkeeers and serv
ants. I don't know, though, for many
of these people seem to be very rich."
Of the trolley cars, t he sheik declares:
"It is very strange to see the people
riding about iu wagons that look like
the railroad cars of Kgypt, but they
run without either steam or horses.
They run with a bu..ing sound, and
I think must be possessed of .lemons.''
In the assembly sessions the sheik
says he saw commissioners at times
reverently bow their heads low-. He
discovered a sort of vessel in front of
them tm the floor, which they guarded
carefully with their feet. This was
st range to I )irdari, but he found that
"the people regard these vessels with
the same reverence that tin Italians
manifest towanl the pictures of the
Virgin. I learned that this particular
idol, the like of which I never saw in
my travels, is called "cuspidor,' but my
limited knowledge of Lnglish has made
it difficult to learn what peculiar tra
ditions are associated with him."
The sheik expressed thankfulness
t hat his people w ill never take into an
Kgyptian church this "cuspidor gtitl."
WHY ICE FLOATS.
It la Specifically I.l(hter Than Water Jost
About to fr'reeae.
Ice is sjH'citically "lighter" than water
just aWut to freeze, and. therefore,
floats uimiii it. says an exchange. There
is one reason why the formation of ice
usually, but not always, Wgins at the
surface. Another reason is Wcause of
its peculiar law of expansion. The
general law is that cold induces con
traction. This holds go.nl in the case
of water only to a certain point. When
water ha.s cooled down to within 7.4 de
grees of freezing it ceases to contract
as Wfore. and, with increased cold,
actually begins to expand, ami con
tinues to do so until it freezes. This
expansion causes the colder portions of
the water to rise to the surface.
Above we have said that ice docs not
always Wgin to form at the surface of
the water. The exception is in the
case of w hat is know n as "ground" or
"anchor ice." In this case the whole
luidy of the water is cooled at the same
time to nclow the freezing point, ami the
substances at the ImiUoiii. such as the
stones and pebbles of river or lake lieds.
serve as a nucleus or point of congela
tion and crystallization for the water.
This rare siieeies of ice is formed under
such iieculiar circumstances that others
than students ami experimenters sel
dom see it.
BLUE RAYS KILL GERMS.
It Ih Shown That the I pper Kn.l of the
Suu'h SMvlniiu lion, the SIhukM enni;
Although investigation has not been
idle, experimenters have not Int-ii
wholly agreetl as to the exact proiN-rty
or litddof the sun's rays w hich is most
efficient in action tm bacteria and
fungi, says Popular Science Monthly.
The inquiry has been continued l.y
I'rof. H. Marshall Ward, to whom the
thought occurred in the course of his
work that the most direct answer to
the question: "Which rays are the most
effective ones'." might be best attained
by shining the solar spectrum directly
u Kin the til in of sHrws and making ft
record the effects by their subsequent
behavior, according as the different
groups of rays fell upon them in other
words, by obtaining a photograph of
the spectrum iu living aud dead bac
teria. The results showed conclusively that
the rays that kill the bacteria are the
blue and violet ones. An observation
was made during the investigation
which may go far to account for tire
unsatisfactory character of the deter
minations of former experiments.
The chief difficulty to W overcome
was the great weakening of the in
tensity of the disiH-rsed rays of the
Wain of light decom posed to form the
siectrum a weakening eattsed bv the
distribution of the incidence of the
rays over a larger area ami by their ab
sorption and reflection in passing
through the lenses ami prisms.
It was found, also, in working with
the electric light, that the jh.w.t of the
1.1 ue and violet rays was further im
paired in other words, that they were
stopiicd by the material .glass)
through which they hail to pass.
The effect of the glass was practical
ly the same as that of mist or haze in
the atmosphere, which so filters out
the blue-violet rays that the light of a
dull day was tif little effect in the
author's experiments.
These difficulties were overcome by
using quartz instead of glass, with
which it was possible to obtain a very
pure sjectruiii sufficiently rich in blue
and violet rays to kill the spores in a
few hours. The author found it easy
to obtain satisfactory results iu the
summer with solar rays, even with
glass lenses, mirrors, etc., and ex
posures of five or six hours, but in w in
ter the cxiiosurcs required to be so
long as to W almost impracticable.
QUEER USE OF A CIGAR.
Story Which. Sht.wa a s.- (aptain'rt Prea-euc-e
of M in.l.
A good story is told of a sea captain
who dietl not long ago and who was
formerly iu command of a ship in w hich
passengers were carried from London
tti.Lisli.iu. On one occasion, says Tit
Kits, t he ship caught fire and the pas
sengers and crew were t-omiH-i i-! to
take hurriedly to the boats. The cap
tain remained jierfcctly cm1 through
out all t he confusion and fright of t he
debarkation, aii.l at last everyone ex
cept himself was got safely into the
Ixiats.
Ily the time he was ready to f. llow
the passengers were aim. .st wild with
fear and excitement. Instead of hur
rying down the ladder the captain
called out to the sailors to bold on a
minute, and. taking a cigar from his
pocket, coolly lighted it with a bit of
burning rope which had fallen from
the rigging at his feet. Then be tle
se. il. led with dt-li Wratiou and gave the
order t push tiff.
"How could you stop to light a cigar
at such a moment?" he was asked after
ward, when some of the passengers
were talking over their escape.
"Itecause." he answered. "1 saw that
if I did not do something to divert tin
minds of those in the lxat there was
likely to be a panic, and overcrowded
as it was. there was danger of the
boat being upset. The act took but a
moment, but it attracted the attention
of everylaaly. I was not nearly so un
concerned as I seemed to lie. but was
in reality in a fever of excitement.
My little plan succeeded. You all for
got yourselves because you were think
ing of my curious Whavior, and we got
off safely."
WAYS OF NOTED MEN.
(Jakkick was generally so quiet that
he often created the impression of diffi
dence. Hknky Ci.av was said to make the
most engaging bow of any gentleman
of his time.
Maiicts Ai bki.h's was said to W the
politest Roman emperor who ever sat
on the throne.
IUxtk was solitary in his habits,
and, by his austerity, chilled most of
those whom he met.
Mii.ton was quiet and reserved in
Conversation, but thoroughly refined
and well bred.
SviiXEr said that the soul of polite
ness lay in preferring the happiness of
others to your own.
l'llll.ll' of Macedon was courteous to
all who approached him. even the hum
blest being sure of a hearing.
TlfS IX., both lie fore and after his
elevation to the pontifical chair, was a
model of studied politeness.
Mohammed inculcated politeness in
the Koran. He himself was one of the
most courteous of men.
Andrew Jackson was rough in his
manners, but could be jiolite when he
pleased. He was alwp-s courteous to
ladies.
C'artouft fuMtori. In Holland.
When young Queen Wilhelmina
visitetl the other day the marvelous
vaults at Maestriche. which arc one of
the sights of the place, she was re
quested by the authorities to inscribe
her name upon a marble slab in the
wall, which bears the signatures of
many other sovereigns, Dutch and for
eign, prominent among them Wing the
autograph of the first Naxle.ui. Just
at the very moment when she was
aiu nit to comply with the request three
tiny gnomes sprang out from behind a
pillar and exclaimed in accordance with
the time-honored custom: "Who are
you that dares add your name to that
of William the Silent anil of the man y
illustrious rulers of the Netherlands?"
Queen Wilhelmina, who had Wen pre
pared for this little piece of pantomine,
replied: "I am the daughter of this
King William III. whose signature you
see here, aud his successor tt the throne
of Holland," w hereupon the gnomes
three small loys dressed up for the oc
casion Irowed low, received some coin,
and retired.
THE I LACK AIM.
SifiraB of a Revival of the Practice
of Voodooism.
ItiiTereut Method In Vogue of Canting;
Spell and Hew Itt-hloic Need of a
Keforui In the Old Style
HtMMl.M.
Modem tiecnltisui, or, to put it in
diplomatic costume, l'occultisme mod
erne, is becoming decidedly aggres
sive, to say the least of it. if we arc to
Wlieve the kerne Illustree. Strange
as the news may aptt-ar. says the New
York Sun. it is nevertheless rejxirted
that the black art is nourishing fiend
ishly Wth iu KuroiH and America.
Casting a sm-11 um.ii an individual,
or, as they say on the Bowery, "hoodo.
ing a fellow," has not. aco.rdiug to the
Ilevue. fallen into innocuous desii.-t ude.
We all remember the scene depicted
by Alexandre Dumas in the licine Mar
got, ill which the iicrforuicr of
Catherine Medicis plunges a golden
iice.llv into the heart, or rather the
place where the heart ought to be. of a
little wax statuette modelled iu the
image of King Charles IX. Hut the
magicians of the present day have
brought modern improvements int.. the
art. They practice three kinds of
hoodooism, according to the caprice of
the client and the degree of hatred
with which he is possessed. Iu one
they Use a toad, in another a doll, and
ill a third they operated Tesprit volant,
or. in other words, they remove the
spirit and place it temporarily just
where they want it.
Here are the prescriptions for the
three methods: You take a toad, male
or female, according to the sex of the
person w hom you w ish to reach. You
baptize it as you would a child, giving
it t he full name of your enemy. While
you are committing this sacrilege. vui
must endeavor to work yourself up into
a paroxysm of hatred toward your vic
tim, and you must sandwich the sacra
mental wr.ls with the most horrible
imprecations. Then you inflict 111011
the toad all the tort urcs t hat your im
agination ran suggest, for yourt-iiemy
is bound to suffer correspondingly. If
you take an eye out of tin toad, your
enemy will lose an eye, etc. In Amer
ica, according to the Kevue. the Dark
Crooks have recourse to a more sum
mary expedient. They bury the toad
at the threshold of the residence of the
M-rsoii selected for a victim, wit h the
result that he dies as if suff.K-ated.
The doll method is the ill. st ancient
and the most classic. It requires a wa x
figure called a "manic." resembling the
victim as much as jiossiblt. It is also
necessary to have some little objects
that Wlongcd to the victim, or Wttcr
yet, one .if his teeth. Hirlioiis of his
nails, or one or two hairs of his head.
You mix these things iu with the wax
of the doll and baptize it. '1 hen. just
like the jxii.n.-r of Catherine tic
Medicis. you stick a pin into the figure.
If at that moment your t-iit-my is t-vt u
flirting with a voting woman, he imme
diately Wgins to suffer from palpita
tion of the heart i naturally enough i if
he docs not die from suff.a-atioii.
The proceeding a Tesprit volant is
the latest improvement iu t his science,
and it is the child of hypnotism. In
order to execute it you must have a sub
ject whose astral laxly, which we are
told is of a fluid nat tire, w ill abandon
the material ImhIv on your order and
transirt itself toward your vict imn. It
slips into his veins the poisons which
you have learned how t.evolatili.e. The
tiKrati..n terminated, you return the
astral ImmIv to its carnal dwelling, and
you arouse the subject. The crime is
committed without auylxidy in the
world being able to accuse you. and
you are left alone with your conscience.
I.ut the conscience of a l.Iack Crook is
particularly elastic.
Now. that is the way they work the
machine, and the Kevue refuses to re
veal the places where the ceremonies
are iK-rformcl. for fear of leading its
readers into temptation. It is Wttcr.
it says, to let them Wlieve that the busi
ness tif casting spells Wloiigs to the
domain of fables. Kut the surprising
thing about it is that men of learning
and apparently endowed with common
sense indulge in this kind of rubbish.
Wit ncsscs well worthy of belief have
told extraordinary stories of a certain
Col. tie Kochas. stories that outdo the
wildest inventions tif the "Devil on
Two Sticks." Col. tie Kochas, we are
told, has discovered a nieth. d of ""ex
teriorizing the sensations of individ
uals." Asmotleus used to put the souls
of Christians w ho died iiiijH-nitcnt into
liottle.-.; but M. tie Kochas, more ingen
ious than Asmotleus, concentrates and
dissolves in a glass of water the sense
of enjoyment and of suffering of a sub
ject previously magnetized. If this
water is Wiled, the subject writhes
like St. Iaureut on his gridiron; and if.
on the contrary, the water freezes, the
unfortunate victim Wcouics blizzardlv
cold.
Like the story of "Jack and the
Lean Stalk," all this may not be as true
as the Kible. but in these days of ad
vancement why shouldn't the black art
W reformed and rejuvenated just like
our own ever glorious city government?
I'roteet lnif II In Chicken.
A Sangerville (Me.) man has baffled
the hen hawks, and so far the laugh is all
on his sitle. He makes a large yard for
his chicken coop, putting lioardsaround
the sides to prevent escape from the in
closure. and over this he stretches wire
netting with coarse meshes. Inside the
hen and chickens run at will free from
attacks of every sort. A nuinWr of
times since he made this arrangement
his family have Wen entertained by the
antics of the hawks who swoop down
upon their supposed prey all unaware
of the interposed netting. Fetching up
against it has seemed a great puzzle to
to them, for they flutter around on it
so greedy for their prey that they can
scarcely Wlieve the chicks beyond their
reach.
ItallMl t
Lawyers are not more free than other
public speakers from slips of the
tongue. Mr. Asquith. of the English
cabinet, in a recent sticech in parlia
ment, said: "Let it W known, gentle
men, that of those just demands we
abate not one jit or totth:" A few
days later an English judge, after a
policeman had testified that he had
found the prisoners in Wd with their
clothes on, asked, in amazement: "Do
you mean to say that they had gone to
boot with their W-ds on?"
CHASED BY AN ELEPHANT.
MlraruliMW Kacape mt a Hunter In the In
dian Jungle.
The author of 'Unn, Uif'.e and
Hound" narrates an adventure which
Wfcll him and two companions. '"Will"
and "F ," in Ceylon. "One tif the
most miraculous escaties ever known in
elephant-shooting." he calls it. F .
it should Ih said, was a famous killer
of elephants, and bad brought with
him a native tracker well used to the
business; "a little w izened-up creature,
but absolutely fearless." They were in
search of a notorious rogue elephant,
which had killed so many men and
done so much other mischief that the
government had put a reward of fifty
dollars iin his head.
We started early in the morning, and
were soon on the fresh tracks tif the
brute. He was evidently moving pretty
fast. The tracker followed the trail
almost at a trot, and it was rather hot
work keeping him in sight. At last it
was obvious that we were close upon
the elephant, which was heading more
and more into the thickest jungle.
"Nasty, dangerous brute." whisjiered
F ; "we shall hear him W-fore we
see him."
A minute or two more and the track
er stopped and pointed to a branch
which was still oscillating violently.
The elephant could not W a minute
ahead of us. We all stopped and
looked intently among the thick trees.
With a scream t.f rage the rogue
crashed out at Us. We all fired. I think.
The tracker ran toward Will, the ele
phant close after him. Will tired again,
and turned to run. The tracker bail
slipjied out of the way. F and I
ran after the elephant, reloading as we
ran. He was gaining rapidly on our
poor friend.
"'Kound a tree!" shouted F .
"round a '.reef Will made for the
nearest tine, the elephant not two
lengths In-hind him, and we still forty
yards Whind.
To our horror we saw Wi'.l catch hi
foot in something and go down at full
length. F groaned with despair.
and dropping on my knee I tired two
baar.-ls uselessly into the brute's hin.l
qua rters.
Then came the miracle. Whether the
blood from half a dozen wounds had
blinded the elephant, or Will's sudden
disappearance into the long grass had
deceived him. I cannot say. but half
stopping, he turned and made tiff into
the jungle, w here weltrst him, after
follow ing him for hours.
DWARFING DOGS.
Taken frt.ru Their Mothers in Infancy
They Are Itred tt. Lilliputian sZe.
Specialists and doctors who take au
interest ill the progress of alcoholism,
its injurious action tm gent-ration and
the iart it plays in degeneracy will W
glad to add another branch to their
study in the shajH- tif the falsification
of dogs, says the New York World.
For falsification of dogs exists in 1'aris
ami thrives, just as well as the imitators
tif Japan ware, old furniture and pic
t urcs of inrnt. Tciiiers and KuWus. Ask
f. ir a I ot t lc tif Chartreuse in any grocery
store t.f Taris and yon will lx. served
with a Wttlc tif Charm.-iisc. and as to
truffles, diamonds. chamKigne and cof
fee, imitators of these have obtained
t. lofty a station for them to care for
criticism of their products.
It was generally supposed that the
animal reign had not yet been tam
pered with, so that m.ist persons will
be surprised that the French have re
cently discovered a met hod .if produc
ing tiny dogs, which, when offered for
salt on the boulevards or in the Hois tie
llotilogne. fetch good prices on account
tif their rarity. Like all tit her callings.
ctimM-tition is afHiut to cut down the
profits tif the originators of the idea
and next summer visitors are promised
any number of lilliputiau dog at an
insignificant price.
This is how the diminutive animal is
produced: Snatched from its mother's
breast when it is but a few hours old.
it is put tin an alcoholic diet instead of
a lacteal diet. When it reaches a cer
tain age alcohol under different form
constitutes almost the sole diet of the
animal. The young dogs do not die.
but. what is far more important, they
tlo not develop and apjit-ar to Ih wast
ing away continually. They s.n.h cease
to grow entirely. Iy coupling these
products the lilliputiau animal is ob
tained after two or three generations.
What a terrible lesson for drunkards
and absinthe consumers!
SPARKS FROM THE CABLE.
Kniikavhks art n..w
England to establish
year, one year's rest
Wing made in
the Sabbat ica
in seven, for
school-teachers.
Lisnox will have a great festival next
June to commemorate the seven hun
dredth anniversary t.f Saint Anthony,
of Tad ua. who was ln.rn there in lll'V
AltMKYI.KlX, in Ieinster. is troubled
over a venerable pauper of Ilia. who.
having Wen a Trot est ant all his life,
ha s now concluil to laconic a Cuth
lie. The T.erlin Street Car company paid
c.VUKXI into the treasury .if the city
for the privilege of crossing the princi
pal avenue, Unter den Linden, at out
point. Fkom Venice comes the announce
ment that the Ixwlics in the old Trot est -ant
cemetery, where many Americans
and Englishmen are buried, are to W
removed tothe new municipal cemetery.
Tokt's CtutXKK in Westminster AbWy
is hidden from the outside by a bl.x k tif
old houses. These are to It- torn down
next summer as a precaution against
fire, thus allowing the architecture of
the chapel of Henry VII. and the old
Chapter House to W seen from that
side.
The on.en of Spatn.
On Mrs. Lang's showing in the Hu
manitarian the life of a Spanish woman
must Ih dull enough. I!ut of course
there is everything in the point tif view.
The Spanish wotiwiu evidently has
neither our ambition nor our uncom
fortably developed sense tif tedium.
She has no aspirations for a wider hori
zon, she has no desire for a university
education, or a parliamentary vote or a
profession to rentier her independent.
She is perfectly satisfied with lifeas it is;
shehas no responsibilities, money affairs
Wing attended toby In r male relatives
and housekeeping Wing looked after
by the servants; she has plenty of dan
cing, flirtation and intrigue, which is
carried to a science and is her chief
amusement in life. What more can she
possibly want? would W her answer
to your query as to whether her exist
ence realized her ideal of happiness.
SIMPLE SAVAGES.
How They llnnraH a Whloky 11 rate Oat of
a st.op lioaded with Utuor.
The Indians tif the west coast of Van
couver island have ado. ted a novel and
decidedly effective met hod of dealing
with white whisky pirates who fre
quent their villages, as James Johnson,
t.f Victoria, formerly master tif the
sealing s.htx.ner Kilmany, knows t
bis cost. He had conic t the conclu
sion that there was big money for the:
man who made a systematic tour tif the
w est coast with Wittled samples of gin
an.l w hisky.
Accordingly, says the San Francistti
Examiner, he purchased a small trad
ing sbxip. loaded her with a cargo of
st imulants and sailed for ita relay sound
sometime ago. There, for a few days,
he did a rushing business retailing bis
low-grade intoxicants at five to ten
dollars jht Ixittle. The Indians kuew
thcy were Wing robins! and remon
strated, but uii reduction in the price
wa made.
Then they held a council and a great
plan was evolved. The aid tif the In
dian police was secured, and while
the master of the sl.x.p slum Wretl he
was surrounded, mail.- prisoner, hand
cuffed and led in triumph to the vil
lage. In vain be pleaded for release.
He was told he would W held until the
coming of the police itrol and then
delivered to the officers for supplying
liquor to Ind ians. This meant a tine of
at least two hundr.-d dollars and the
confiscation td his craft, so lie deter
mined to suggest terms, and his offer
of the sbxip and its cargo for bis
freedom was quickly accepted. The
cargo was consumed in a single night
Ly the dusky diplomats in celebrating
the success of their Naix.let.nic stroke
of generalship.
VARIETIES OF IDLENESS.
Home l'erxt.tiM I ... Nothing frtiu. I boice,
other. Tt I on
Idleness iilays many parts. There
are the c. .list it ut i. ma'.i v indolent tbttse
who. like Dr. Johnson, are never, phys
ically, ready to get up in the morn
ing, but who. like him. are poss.-ss.sl
of a conscience which com-. Is tht-m
now and again to face the relieet it m .f
what th.-y havt compared with what
they might liav. done, and to stand
aghast at the comparison.
There are th. ic. says Chamlters'
Journal, whom circumstances have
made idle riches, absence t.f motive
for exert i..n: ill-health, -eal or fancied;
indulgent friends. and iini.-Ji m. .re
often bv self-indulgence. That idle
ness is one of the seven deadly sins
gives them iio sort of concern; it is
of the essence of th-ir complaint tit
have ii. f,s ling t if their tw n iiitirnut v.
Th.-y are as!,-,-;.: th.-y cannot tell their
dreams, for they do n.it t-v.-n know that
they are dreaming.
i.ivingup. nerveless relaxation, has
Wc.niie a habit, and to t hem as to the
immortal Mr. T..ts. though front a dif
ferent mot ive not hing is.f :mv conse
quence Kut whereas it ua-. hisoun
eon v.-ii it-nee. bis own feelings, his own
ft utifort. that never were of const
quell--,- to the uii-t-ltish T. x t s. it is pre
cisely your convenience, your feelings,
your comfort, that are. to the idle man.
of no consequence. Floating idly atx.ut
"on the great Tacitie tx-ean t.f indo
lence" he makes first one compromise,
then another, with self-rt-sp.ft. until
be ends by sacrificing the esteem t.f his
fcllow-nieii on tin private altar of his
own sloth. His affairs get first mud
dled, then embarrassed, then decay ing.
then desperate, and he feebly flatters
himself with an idea t f repose, now,
that all is gone.
OLD WORLD AND NEW.
Akla Stand. till While Kurope and Amer
ica I'u.h forward.
The common phrases, the old world
an.l the new world, have gained au a
plicatioii which would hardly have
Wen given them bail men know n in the
jwist what they know now. that Ameri
ca is. geologically considered, probablv
the oldest- of the continents and that
man perhaps inhabited the western
hemisphere as f-arly as he did the east
ern. In view t.f tiiis fact, says Lippin
c.tt's Magazine, it might not Ih amiss
to suggest "a different application t.f
these phrases by giving to Asia tb.s
title of the old world and to Europe
and America that of the new world,
leaving the remaining sections of the
earth to lit into the division to which
they logically Wl.mg.
For Asia is the static realm of man
kind: Europe and America are tho
dynamic. Asia is at rest with the dead
past; Europe and America are pushing
forward into the living future. Asia,
iu its political conditions, its religions,
its learning and its literature, its sci
ence and industry, remains in cl.tstt
touch with the world of three thousand
years ago: EuroiH and America iu all
these conditions have left the ..1. 1 world
ages Whind them and are building for
themselves a new world vitally distinct
from that of ancient days.
He Will Succeed.
Like his brother of the north, the
southern small Ixiy is capable of much.
A writer iu the New York Home Jour
nal says that upon her arrival iu a
southern town her cabman was a small
Ixiy. aged a'x.ut nine. The cab had
two seats, and the lx.y told her that if
during her stay she wanted a carriage,
she could get him any time by inquir
ing for Jacksou's express price six bits
an hour.
""Are you Jacks. m?" I asked.
"Yes. ma'am. "" said the expressman.
olitcly. and with great dignity. Then,
lasping into Wyishness. he added:
"You see. this used to Ih our carriage.
Kut pa i died, and mamma isn't strong
and there isn't much money and "
Something certainly filled the Ix.y's
throat, for his voice broke, and. hastily
Weoming a cabman again, he tightened
the reins and indulged in a flourish t.f
the whip. Kut after a little he turned
alx.ut an.l added:
"It's a real comfort. I think, to earn
your living."
A . rt-at Lighthouae.
On the Toiute de Tenmarch. in Itrit
tany. the southwestern point of the
Finistcrre promontory, midway W
tween Krest and L'Orient. a new light
house is Wing erected whose light w ill
W seen tine hundred miles in clear
weather, and from twenty-five to
twenty-eight miles when the weather
is hazv. It will W an electric light of
ten million candle power, and will rise
tine hundred and eighty-five feet abtive
the sea lcel. aud is to be read3" by the
WginuLng of 1S'J7.
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