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GOIN HOME TO MARY.
Birds seem slngin' all the way
Join' home to Mary;
Roaes on a winter's day,
Cloin' home to Mary.
I tan hoar my heart keep time
With the hells that sweetly chime;
Happiest man that lives when I'm
Uoin' home to Mary!
Far away her smile I see,
ISoin' home to Mary;
How it lights the way fer me,
Ooin' home to Mary!
There, in proves w here nests the dove.
In a tot with blooms above,
Btill site liKhts the lamps o' love
iToin" home to Mary!
I'own the walk come patterin" feet,
fJoin' home to Mary;
Children's arms an' kisses sweet,
lloin' home to Alary.
Kuli comes climtdti' to my knee,
Katie wants a kiss from me;
"Loves me all the world." says she.
Home with love an' Mary!
Shine the lights for evermore,
Cloin' home to Mary!
Love still leads me to the door,
tioin' home to Mary.
Fur her sake my toil is sweet,
For her sake my heart'll beat'
Till It's .lust beneath her feet
CJoin" home to Mary!
-Frank 1 Stanton, In Chicago Times
Herald. THE TKA1N CANNOT WAIT
She is just IS, with g-olden hair and
pruy eyes la.r:e gray eyes that lausfh
.ii&t as well as her red lips; her tiprure,
though a little frail, makes one think
wtutt a pretty woman she will be soon,
licr Iklii.Is and arms are thuso of a
-hild is she not still a child? Clara
left school but a fortnig-ht atro. She
is the lM-loved and only daughter of a
rich miller in the neighborhood of
. vesnes.
N'othinp is more oetieal than a mill
in the country. It does not dist di b the
silem-e of the air with its monotonous
tie-ta'; on the contrary, its noise,
mi ron jf and retrular, is like an aoconi
),:iiiinici)t to the many other noises of
the wind, and of the trees, and of the
birds. Clara was charmed with it all.
During a few days after her arrival
the whole house was upset, making and
receiving calls, dinner parties, dancing
t.nrties, lawn tennis; the days were not
long enough to hold their pleasures.
Then till was quiet at the mill.
In the orchard, which was large, the
walks were spread over with sand,
and the trees, loaded with fruit, .ifforri
el a leautiful shady grove. This was
"lura's favorite nook; here she wouH
o and read poetry. She had Wen giv?n
1 lie works of I.amartine, beautifully
ImmhuI. Xow, Lamartine, is a very ten
iVr poet, and Clara was still in her
teens, and this was summer, and the
fragranee of the flowers and the mur
mur of the breeze acted on her young
mind; nml through this look fhewonlj
I ream of things she had never dreamed
of before.
One day her mother asked her if she
remembered her cousin Allert.
"li, yes, indeed," said. she. This an
swer came from her heart; she bl.ish 'd
and from her neck to her brow shi"-f-lt
that sort of electricity that is pro
duced by a little shame and a great
pleasure.
"Well," said her mother, "you will
see him very soon."
Clara was about to nay: Oh, how
glad I am!" but- she thought it more
lroer to say nothing.
And why was she silent? I will t:-l?
you. It vva because j-he had re-ad I.a
nifrtiiie. Why! does poetry ma!;e or.e
false? Well, I don't know, but it speaks
of love ami what is love?
"Well," said Clara, "I have not seen
him for two years. I supote he is
chariL'i (I!
"Not more than you." said her mother,
casting a loving glance of admiral ion
to her daughter; "you were a little girl
w lieu y ou went away you are a young
lady now."
Clara ran off to her beloved grove to
hide the blushes on her cherks and the
l-atings of her heart. She sat down,
drew- frr.m her jKx-ket her volume of
poetry, but read not a line.
Alljert arrived a few days before he
was expected, but she was thinking of
him. She always had roses on her
cheeks, but these roses changed into
peonies when she saw him, and her
hands trembled. He took hold of those
hands and kisseil her on both cheeks.
He was a m-dical student w ho had not
yet ill his brain the least thought of
anything serious; he had suddenly dis
covered in himself a vocation for the
iitautifiil science of Aesculapius, that
he might go to Paris to spend a fevv
ears of his life and vvaste a few thou
sands of his father's francs.
"Ali! little cousin," said he, "you are
pretty now. Why, I am afraid I shall
jail in love with you."
She looked at him, not knowing w hat
to say.
"Have you forgotten the good times
we had iu this garden, and over there in
the woods?"
"Oil, no," said she.
''And when we would go rowing ami
I would scare you by swinging to and
fro in the lioat to capsize you?"
"Oh, no, I remember it all."
"Then why don't you put your arms
around my neck and say pleasant things
to me as you diil then?"
"1 don't know," she faltered.
Then he said to himself: "This cousin
of mine must 1 e a lit tie simpleton."
Well," said he, aloud, "and what is
this book?"
' I.amartine. It is beautiful."
"I don't think so. I think it stupid"
then seeing that she was somewhat
abashed, ht- :kled: "Why does it dis
please you that I should not care for
Lamartine?"
"Itccaitse I love his poems."
"Well, if I read oetry I want Alfred
de Mussct. I shall send you his works
u In ii I get to I'aris."
At this moment they heard a quick
and firm step on the sandy walk, and a
y oung man came upon them:
"Excuse me, mademoiselle," said he,
"I have just learned that Albert is here
jikI I hi.ve come to shake hands."
An old saying came to Clara's mind:
Tvvo is company; three is a crowd."
he was too well ttehaved to say it, so
she left the two young men together
When alone she reflected that Alber"
nas a very nice cousin, and might make
a very good husband; as for hii frienc
well, he was a very good looking man.
and might la a very nice fellow but
what a difference between the two.
"Your cousin is a charming girl," said
Jack.
"Oh, yes, bu t she is only a school girl."
"Well, what else can she be? She is
HI IS A rHIIMlK WHOM THE TBSTB
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28.
just out ot Kcnooi aim not a woman yet.
Do you know what were my thoughts
as I looked at you both?
"How can I know?"
"I was t hinking that you would make
a pretty couple."
"Xow, Jack, what barm have I ever
done you t hat you should want to chain
me down?"
"Are yon not 25?"
"Is that old age?"
"Would you give an old man to your
cousin, wlio will be only 19 next year?"
"In two years she. will be 20 that
will le better still. Then I will be a seri
ous man and an M. D. Clara is a good
match; our fort unates are about equal.
I think I might make a living in this
country. Well, who knows what may
happen one day? I have plenty of time
to think of it."
"I think your cousin deserves better
than that, and you ought to be in love
w ith her."
"What! Love at first sight! I do
think Clara is pretty, but plenty of
time plenty of time!"
Every body seemed happy at the mill;
even Clara, who listened with pleasure
to the compliments of her cousin w hen
ever he chanced to be with her, and she
thought him so witty that she quite for
got to show her own wit le.fore him.
In the meantime she was hoping that
he would propose before gving back to
Paris, but the last day dawned, and he
had not scid the least word about mar
riage. She hoped till the last hour;
then, till the last minute.
Alliert gave kisses all around and said
to her: "I will come back next year.
I will write to you, and Bend Musset's
works, as I promised."
She plucked up courage and said to
him:
"Is. that all you want to promise, Al
bert ?"
He understood what Jie meant, but
would not promise more, and art his eyes
rested on the clock he said:
"Good-by, cousin; tlie train is here
it cannot wait."
The life of a student, especially that
of a student who does not study, is just
as tiresome as any other.
There comes a time when he gets
tired of .beer, wine and cigars.
Albert was in one of his dark days;
since morning he had felt cross, and
would not even smoke; his pipe lay
on the table with a pile of books and
dusty pa-rs. His tobacco pouch re
minded him of Clara she had em
broidered it for him during the week
he had sjient with her. Then he was
also reminded that he hail promised to
write and send Musset's works; he felt
badly at these thoughts, and remorse
made him go out to repair his forget
fulness. There is a knock at the door; the
servant brings up a letter to him; it is
from bis mother.
His drowsiness gives way as he reads
the lines; he gets up in a passion, up
setting the table and everything up
on it.
Clara i to be married, and in a week,
too; and he is expected to attend the
wedding.
"And whom does she marry, won
der?" exclaims he; "some common
country lad, I suppose. No, it can
not lie! I must go there and stop it;
she cannot lie sacrificed in this way!"
Two hours later he started with a va
lise in one hand and a bundle underone
arm; it was Musset's works.
Clara met him at the garden gate;
she was looking as fresh as the flowers,
and he, lieing conceited, thought that
the happiness expressed on her face
was due to bis presence. She was less
timid t han last year and a little stouter,
one could read her heart through her
gray eyes and her smiles.
"Is what I hear true. Clara?"
"Certainly. I was about to write to
you. I want you here f or the wedding-."
"It is imossible!"
"Quite possible and true."
"With whom?"
"With Jack," of course."
"Ah, the scoundrel! There is nothing
like a friend to betray one."
"Why, Alliert, what a short memory
you have. Poor Jack would not speak
of love before he was quite sure of your
feelings toward me. I am very thank
ful that you set him at liberty to speak.
I am so proud and happy at being loved
by such a noble heart."
Albert threw his bundle on the table.
"What is that?" asked Clara.
"M us-sets works. 1 had promised
them to you."
"You are too late, cousin. Jack gave
them to me long ago. as I was complain
ing of your forgetfulness."
"Tell me, Clara this is all a dream,
is it not? You are not going to marry
Jack ?"
She laughed. "And why not?" she
said.
"Recause I love you; because if you
mean to marry Jack I start by the first
train, and you shall never see me
again."
. She looked at the clock, as he had
done- the year before, and said, archly:
"Then hurry up. cousin, for the train
is here, and it cannot wait." N. O.
Times-Heinticrat.
SOLID GOLD TOILET SET.
Property of tba Khedive lacroated with
Precious Stones.
It is said thaayhe Only complete gold
toilet set in the world belongs to the
khedive of Egypt. Its exact value is not
known, but it must be enormous, for the
set is incrusted with diamonds and
other precious stones. Egypt, by the
way, has a debt of about $525,000,000.
and besides the interest ou this has to
pay an annual tribute to the sultan of
Turkey amounting to nearly $3,500,000.
Despite this the present khedive Las
leeu following in the footsteps of his
predecessors, whose extravagances
brought about the present almost bank
rupt condition of the country.
Each piece of the khedive's golden
toilet set bears his monogram in dia
monds. Upward of 3.000 diamonds and
over 1,200 rubies were used in decorat
ing these gorgeous adjuncts to the
Egyptian ruler's dressing-table. The
body of each of the 28 pieces is of 18
karat gold, and all are Inclosed in a dia-mond-inerusted
ebony case.
Taking ObeervajioBa.
"Do you think helis going- to pro
pose?" taid one girl, ji
"Yes," replied the other; "I am sure
ot it."
"Why?" :
"He behaves just as he did before he
proposed to me." Washington Star.
KM AD ALL ABB ILiTII llflDA'
DE MOKES' DEATH.
The Famous Marquis Meets His
Doom in the Soudan.
Well Knowai la This Country for Ills t'oa
UKuiiou with the Cattle Huiiuc as la
be W eat and Hla r carleaaacM
aa a ( Itaier.
Particulars of the asassiuat ion of
marquisde Mores have been telegraphed
from Tunis. It appears that, warned
by the French authorities iu Tunis of
the impossibility of passing through
Tunisian Sahara, he gave a written
promise to go to Gabes, Nefzaua, ISer
rezof, Ilirlaiau and El I'.iodti, the most
southerly French military post iu Al
geria. He had IS European atteudtnts,
45 camels, aud 40,000 francs worth of
merchandise. At Ne fz-a.ua- he turned
off to the east, being apprehensive that
a French oflicer had been sent to stop
him, and he went close by the Trioli
frontier. At El Ouatia he Diet Tuarcgs,
who persuaded him to send buck his
escort and camels and take a Tuareg
escort aud camels. He retained three
Arabs awl live negroes.
At eight p. m. on the 8th inst., after
waiting five days for the camels which
he had paid for in advance, he resumed
his march. The interpreter marched
first, then M. de Mores, and next an
Arab, and two negroes, all mounted on
camels, while the convoy was 3no yards
behind. After two miles march three
cf the Tuareg escort fell ou M. de
Mores. He shot one and the two others
fled, but two Tuareg bands came up,
one falling on the convoy and the other
on M. de Mores. The latter and his fol
lowers made a desjierate defense, and
were at last massacred. The convoy
was captured, and four of the nieu in
charge of it were carried oft" as prison- .
crs, but they escaped, and on the 10th
inst. reached the scene of the conflict,
where they found the liodies of M. de
Mores, two Arabs and two negroes,
all stripped and covered with wounds.
Some months ago an Englishman
traveling to Africa wrote me that he
had attendeif lectures given in Tunis
by Marquis de Mores in a crowded hall
in the presence of high French offi
cials. He. added that the lecturer, at
tacking England with the iniet uosity
vvhich always characterized him. pro
claimed the necessity of an alliance be
tween Islam and Christianity, between
the orescent and the cross, ignoring th;
fact that the cross is the symliol of all
Christendom, and not solely of Catholi
cism. The marquis then announced
his intention to penetrate into the Sou
dan, where hek had formed alliances,
and to induce the African tribes to enter
into a close alliance with France against
English encroachments and covtous
ness. He had the strange idea of tak
ing the Egyptian question, so to sieak,
from behind, and of bringing pressure
to bear on England, not from Franco
but from Africa.
My correspondent thought that I
ought to give publicity to such violent
end aggressive language uttered le
fore French officials against a friendly
nation. I did not do so, for I knew the
marquis to be an erratic man of vague
ideas, somewhat deluded by an un
bridled imagination, thirsting for ac
tion and notoriety, but at heart, in spite
of this ungovernable excitement, fear
less, generous and patriotic to a de
gree of hating whatever he thought to
lie in his country's way a medieval
brain fettered by modern restrictions
like a madman by a tight waistco tt.
Whatever was out of the common
pleased him. He was a Ikiulangist 1m
cause this signified conspiring and over
turning; he was an anti-Semite, Itecause
this harmonized with his medieval ten
dencies; he was mixed up in the gro
tesque Norton affair, because the
scoundrels by whom he, in common
with M. Deroulede, who is a man some
what of the same type, had been il.'awn
into it had made him believe that it
was combating England. He had not
the slightest inkling of the miserable
origin and contemptible aim of that
childish affair. In fact, he was always
the dupe and paid the piper. He applied
for money to his wife, an American
heiress- and to his father Due de
Yallaiubrosa, who eventually placed
him under tutelage. He was always re
quiring funds, which disappeared in the
hands of sharpers.
Nobody would be better entitled
than I to judge him harshly. He pic
tured me in his delirious moments in
fantastic and mythical guise. He im
agined me ubiquitous, managing men
and things quite unknown to me. Itut
he was erfectly hones t, listening to the
vampires who deluded him with trans
arent fables, and one could not feel
resentment against a man living under
n constant nightmare. In the end. un
able to revive the middle ages on Eu
ropean soil, he passed half the year in
Africa, where Islam gave him the il
lusion of past ages. There he conceived
the idea of stirring up the Soudan. He
has sent money to the Tuaregs, and
counted, as usual, on achieving inier
ishable fame. It was an attempt to
turn the world back? His death is the
logical sequence of bis life, but nothing
was commonplace in either his life or
his death, and nothing base except
those who preyed on him. Paris Cor.
London Times.
South Africa's Joaa of Are.
Cecil Armitage, a young English
man in Ash an tee, tells of a strange
West African "Joan of" Arc," who is
equipping an army for King Prempeh.
Her appearance is more impreauiive than
beautiful, and. unlike the famous
French Joan, whose features we know,
this dusky amazon is said to have only
one eye, one ear and one arm and to
wear her hair hanging long. With one
touch of her magic wand she can bring
armies together, and in an engagement
a brass pan is placed before her. into
w hich all the bullets of the enemy can
conveniently fall without hurting her
brave soldiers.
, Parental 8roptnjr.
Mr. Ilillus (waking suddenly in the
dead of night) What's all that bellow
ing about!
Mrs. Uillua It's poor little Johnny
in the next room. He's crying with the
stomach-ache. - He ate too many dried
apples for supper.
Mr. Kill us (preparing to resume his
slumbers) I wish you would tell him
not to make such a howling swell of
himself! (Snores.) Chicago Tribune.
AM
1896.
BREAKING A BIKE.
BY FKAMt H. MfcNSOX.
When Horton said he had no trouble
learning to ride a bicycle just got on
and rode right otf I believed him. Some
people are too profdi'.cally clever toever
half enjoy life, and llurtoft belongs to
this class. 1 do not. When 1 became
po-Hsessed of a braud-uew "bike," 1 knew
1 was going to have trouble, aud nerved
myself therefor. I was not misttiken.
I did have trouble.
1 lor ton said be would come oyer and
help me. learn to ride. That's the trouble
with clever eople. I knew how Hor
ton would help me to learn to ride. All
clever people adopt the sauie methods.
He would lead the w heel out into the
smooth road witli au air of supreme
mastery, steady it for me to mouut,
uud, having enticed uie to a seat on tlie
treacherous machine, deliver himself in
this wi.se:
"Now, take good hold of the handles
no, not too tight they won't gvt
away just grasp t hem lightly but firm
ly; now put both feet on the jiedals
steady now don't be afraid, and keep
your balance." Then he tijis the ma
chine over to an angle of 73 degrees,
gives ine a start, ajid away I go. Nowr
a bicycle that's well trained ajid kuows
it's mounted by a man who is its master
would just an likely go at an angJe- of
75 degrees as any other way 1 know
because I have since taken ain.s to ex
perimeiit. Not so agre?u and stubliorn
wheel that conceives it to lie its duty
to take the conceit out of a novice. Such
a machine lnuM 1h. ridden exactly u
right, both feet must sit exactly tlie
same on the pedals, the handle bars
must Le grased just so. ami a thousand
precautious must be taken that would
cause that same wheel to feel insulted a
moti Hi later.
That's why my machine don't go the
way my clever instructor had calcu
lated. I nstead i t makes one or t wo mis
erable wobbles, turns into the only
rough piece of road in tlie vicinity,
shakes itself uncomfortably a couple of
times, and then smashes into the
ground with a force entirely unwar
ranted by the degree of momentum it
has attained while comparatively U
right. Then my friend comes up w ith a look
of painetl surprise on his face, as
though I'd been going through all these
maneuvers on purjMjse to disregard his
instructions. He shows me just w here
the course I have pursued is diainet
retically opposed tohisdirections. Part
icularly he remarks that 1 loafst en
deavor to keep my equilibrium. I
thank him. perhaps facetiously, bevause
n vigorous fall is not calculated to im
prove the temjaiT. and remark that if
he had only suggested that before it
would have saved all the trouble. Then
he gets offended, aud I have to apolo
gize. Then we try again.
This time I am tired and disgusted.
My know ing instructor is perfectly cool,
but much more disgusted than myself,
he insists that I am alxmt the worst
pupil he. hai ever seen. Then he dis
covers that he has an engagement and
must leave. I thank him presumably
tor helping' me with the wheel, really
for going. As he disappears from sight
I take the w heel back totlie house, slam
the door on it viciously, aud seek a
place here I can rest and reflect.
Maybe I did Horton an injustice, but
that's aliout the w ay I imagined that he
would help me to learn to ride. I told
him I didn't think I'd have any trouble;
besides I had almost deeided to make
my first trial at night. This niooulight
ride. idea of mine, was one 1 had thought
of long before I purchased the wheel.
1 love the moonlight. To me it seems
most singularly fit that love-lorn youths
should swear "by yon pale moon."
There is no truth in Luna. She lies,
she flatters and e.xag-gerates. And yet
we all must love her, for her falsehoods
are of kindness. She draws the veil of
charity over our shortcomings. The
crude, unsightly nooks and crevices the
sun, truth's mighty ally, delights to
show, she passes by or touches with
soft romantic light that makes the very
things we most dislike by day at night
seem beautiful. There. Is no stretch of
nature's handiwork so mean, so rough
and so devoid of charm but, touclwd by
this divine magician's power, may be
transformed into a fairy land.
I take my wheel out into the broad
avenue that passes the house. The
moonlight shimmers through the leaves
of the tall ioplars that align the road.
A gentle breeze makes t lie leaves rustle
and dance. The tall trees quiver; and,
save for the rubbing of the branches
and t lie soft murmur of the winds, all is
silent. A sovereign feeling of inde
pendence possesses me. The world is
sleeping. I am alone with nature and
the delights of night are mine. I mount
my wheel triumphantly and start down
the vista that stretches lap fore me. My
wheel skims like a bird over the smooth
road. I emerge from the tree-lined
avenue to an open country, where broad
grain fields ft retch away into the
hazy dititauee. The dea-eptive moon
light lends to t lie waving grain the
appearancei of a vast lake. My eyes
drink in the beauty of the seene. and
the fresh, bracing atmosphere fills ins
with a peculiar intoxication. I throw
back my chest, drink deep the airy
nectar. I feel as though I would like
to scream, sing, anything to vent my
exuberance
Horton said I couldn't learn to ride
at night. I'd be everlastingly running
into chuck-holes and other obstacles,
and if I didn't break my neck (which
didn't so much matter), I would prob
ably cause the bicycle irreparable dam
age. That's the way with Horton.
Whenever I get any Mtrticularfy attract
ive idea he always sioils it with some
of his practical suggestions. Now, if
his suggestions were not practical it
wouldn't be so bad. I don't a bit
mind suggestions from friends, when I
can show them the utter folly of acting
uron them, hit it is not so with Horton.
W-henever he makes a suggestion I have
learned by experience that that particu
lar suggestion had betU r be heeded. I
never forgive him for spoiling my plans,
but 1 find it prudent to act on his ad
vice, so this time I sadly "put away my
idea of making my first trip on a
w heel a nocturnal one. I must face the
ordeal in the cruel veracity of sun
light. I never could quite understand how
8I.0O And postage per ear In advance.
NUMBER 'M,
every one in the neighborhood found
out that on that particular day I was
froing to make mv first attempt at i-i.n-quering
the unruly spirit of a w.nillts
mechanism. It was after nightfall w h-n
I brought the wheel home. I thought
Uie secret was my own and all thinv
seemed propitious to a quiet colite-yt lw- !
tweti the wheel and luyseif, in which I
should have won tine laurels before the
neighbors were apprised that 1helatte
wais on. To further insure this result. I
had for several days studied the man
ners of veteran riders, esieciajlv when
leading their wheels. I flattered my
self I had this pretty tiear erfi--tion.
As I led the wheel out to the Mreet I
even stoped to examine a spoke -rit-ically.
in precisely tlie manner I had
seen an exeirt do the. day lie fore. It
was in vain. The audience was in wait
ing. The prKe-t. as I hatked up and down
the street, appalled me. Every door
and window seemed to have it.s occu
pants. Women waited patiently on
front orches. Men lounged lazily- over
front gates. I don't lielieve that there
was a house within four blocks that
didn't have a man aliout it. And then
horrors! the street seemeaj infected
with small Imys. The small boy knows
instinctively at what particular time
and place a man is alioiit to make a
fool of himself, and lie usually manages
to lie on hand to add zest to the jt
formance. His comments on such oc
casions are not oritrinal. witty or wise,
but are woefully effective.
I lelieve I am a brave man. I once
voluntarily acted a-s judge of debate in
a young ladies literary s-iety, and I
stand ready, for a sufficient inducement,
to Ik one of a committee on awards at
baby show. Nevertheless, this once I
was frightened. Not at the wheel. I
had an affectionate contempt for that
airy-looking skeleton of wood and steel,
but I object to Wing stared at. particu
larly when I feel as if I am going to
make an exhibition of myself.
I put one foot firmly on the step.
loped along on the other, in tlie regu
lation style and step-d up. Now. I am
certain that I had that w heel lialam-ed
all ripht. I had raised myself with ex
traordinary care, and if the wheel had
liecn a steady-going machine of a year
or so's nervine, it would have l-en all
right. This was a new wheel, though,
and its chief characteristic was concen
trated villainy.
That's why. just as I got my foot well
off the ground aud was putting n:y sole
dejiendence on the step, the thing
lunged over. I exected to see the
wheel broken to pieces, but it v is not
injured. It had a mission to perform
yet. and could not afford to break until
it had accomplished it. That mission
was to preach to me the doctrin" of the
total depravity of inanimate thitos.
After picking up the wheel I looked
around at my audience. I hartily f
ected applause, but thought I might
reasonably look for mirth. I vv;i even
prepared to laughjieroically with them,
but not a smile was visible. Tliey all
seemed interested, but not amused.
They were reserving their merriment.
The next time I had Wtter luck. I
succeeded in getting on the scat. This
made it more interesting for the specta
tors, liecause when the wheel lunged,
ran around in circle and then
collapsed, the situation was a good deal
more ridiculous. As a source of amuse
ment I saw it was going to lie a suc-ee.-s.
After this fall, the men who had lee!i
lounging on the front gates sauntt-p-il
up to where I was. The small lmys.
w ho hail been viewing oerations from
a respctful distance, also drew around
me. I was at the flood-tide of my mis
ery. I no longer regarded the bicycle as
a soulless- thing of steel, nickel and
wood. It was a treacherous and em
phatically animate monster to lie put
down at any cost. I grasjied it sa agvly.
placed it roughly in position ami
mounted. It threw me. but I tried
again. I had forgotten the audience.
The men advised, the lioys jeered and
the women laughed; I heard. I saw. bat
did not heed. I was mad. I was oing
to do or die. and several times the
chances seemed greatly with the sec
ond alternative.
At last I got the wheel to go around.
A thrill of joy went through me. I snw
t lie landscaM slip by. I felt myself
passing rapidly through space. The
crowd which I had feared I now dis
dained. I was leaving them far behind.
I felt, tliat until that moment I had not
known life. The hitherto existing re
lation of space to time was radically al
tered. It. was almost as though .i new
world had been ojicncd to me. and chief
among all my delights was victoiy. On
I spun over the fine country road; at
last I was master
I ought to have noticed that gravel
lied. Exaltation is a good thing in its
place, but its place is not astride a
brand new wheel. I picked myself up
lalioriously. The wheel was only jir
tially ruined. Just a matter of Wnt
pedals aud crimped handle-bars. I was
a good deal worse use. I up myself, but
that didn't matter. I had conouered
the wheel, and henceforth I knew I
would lie master of that or any other
wheel; and I am. Outing.
Hypnotism la Medtriae.
The Journal of the American Medical
Association has an editorial, the general
trend of which is to show that hyp
notism has had its day and is practical
ly being laid upon the shelf, or, at least,
its iuw confined to irregulars outside of
the recognized school of medicine. This
is a rather curious statement to make,
at least if one measures the interest of
a medical topic by Uie number of arti
cles written about it. There are few
subject- upon which German physi
cians are writing more monograms at
present or in which they seem to take
a more active interest The sensat ional
side of hypnotism is certainly dying
out, but a certain practical side, which
is represented by the word "sugges
tion." has undoubtedly come to stay and
to be UMed in therapeutics.
m-lrnrc Malta.
layman I understand that you have
devoted your life to the study of dis
ease germs.
Great Scientist (proudly) I have.
Layman Have you found a remedy
for any of them?
Great Scientist. Well, no; but I have
succeeded in finding good, long name
for them all. N. Weekly.
In the early years of the present
century there were in the world 33 tons
of silver to one of gold.
The lararaand rl iMt ctrralatloa at tea Cata
ia Kitimi o BineDdi it to the tarenM
-ontideratiorj of 1 erttaers km larers will be
inserted at (be Htlh wir.g low raice:
I Inch. Slimes t I M
I I nrn , 1 months..... jje
1 Inch. snoot as . ..... . J.., l.ta
I turn I Tear ........ ...H a. SO
Jt laches. month Z.
! n,e. rr i.ta
Inch, months .. .... .... .
Inches. 1 year 1x.i
' Column, mont h .......
K column. month.... au an
eolama. 1 year
1 column, f mooliis-. ...... ...... M
1 Miaul, 1 year.. 111111111! 7 M
Kurlce! Items, cm Insertlan, Me. per line
lolwentBt Insertion. fc jer line
Administrator s and Kxccatori Notice, .tl M
Auditor's Notice ......... .. . jjn
Stray and similar Notice ."T.V.V.V." Saw
er-KeMilatwoi or proceestitur of nV corpora
tion or sortetT and ccnjtrnni.-atloas designed to
J "ttention u any nauer of limited ur indl
dual tnterert bum iij lor a.adertUmente.
oo and Job Pnntin of ail klndf neatly aad
eiealonriy execvtel at Uie lowect orirea. Aad
aon ty loryet It.
A MARYLAND SNAKE.
It la Twenty-Six m l-on aB a;.,.
Dark. A lire.
A gentleman -'--siding out in iai v
land near Hyatt -aile has Wn rcadim
snake stories. The t.tiier day he came
to town and uiii:.iii,t, that -tori-
were stories, but t hat Maryland w as t h
K-ssor of the bigpest snake in tli!s
portion of the country. The stntemei.t.
he said, was -asjv proved, and then he
spoke as follows:
"List Saturday as I was walking up
the Litlh- river from Kiverdal.-. lool.ii r
for rasptH-rries. I nulii-ol at a n
alH.nt half a mile mirth of Collin- t i
tion. a fWk of duck making a t.-rrib!
racket in the stream. 1 looked careful
ly ami not'.-ed vom.-thing that at fir-t
aptn-ared lik a small slump l!.:tint.r in
the water. The stump in a inimit. .
however, resolved itself into a rr
snake, and in a second i-- n.-.! it s m..in I.
a l id seized one of the ilm-ks. In st.ut
itig otT with the duck the Ikx'v of tl e
snake came to th.- snrfa.-c. I have
come in contact with a great ma- v
stiakes in my time, but never 1 fi.re
saw one like this. As near : s I t;M
judge it was alw.ut ".Vi or 27 feet long.
It was striM-d in bands alKint two
inches in width, running length w Ue of
the lnly. the stripes lieing from -i
briglit gold bronze to a light oratu-e
color, w hile just lu k of the eyes were
two large diajnoii.l spotsof a Vermillion
red color. As 1 1. snake left the wat. r
it passed up Ihe east lemk. whVh was
aUiut six feet high. It glided over the
ground as fasd as a man could ruu. I
had no desire to follow it just then
but shortly after I crossed the river ami
took its track, which was erv easy t.
follow, as w h. re the ground was bare it
look.-d as if a. log had ln-n dragged
along. I followed the track aU.u;
t hree-quartcr- of a mile to u bluff, am"
nliere I found his len. In walking by
you would from s-cing the hole at once
say it was a fos den. but 1 t-ll you
right there in that hole there is the i.io
gest snake in this part of the country.""
Washington Star.
NEW YORK'S FOOD SUPPLY.
Knnugh Always on Hand to Withstand a
Fnur-Mont Mece.
If the city of New York an 1 th
iighltorhood dist ric' w ere to Ik- bt- iiegei
or iii some other way entirely cut 01T
from the outside World, aird th. ref..e
deprived of the f.d supplies which i.i
nonnal times come in daily in lrg-
jiiantitie-. how long would ,t 1h- b. lot.
the pinch of hunger v.oiill Ik- fell?
I iiat is a very ha i .: j 1 ion t i a n-w er.
for the reason that tlnte are su.-h i,i
cqm'lities of pii-.-h eiinf capaiity in
New ur',, society That :in-go I i.i. .
;;i tiujes of gr.-at. -.-t prosperity for lin k
of meajis. while tlie great majority ia
more than i- go..! for them. I"ii.l..ui.'-
e. ily the niimln-r f those vv ho alvv:iv
go hungry would in. -rea-ed after tw .
or three days of a siege, an, I then
by day this numlx r would increase un
til the public authorities would fe 1
eouijicllcd to take ue session of the.fooii
supplies and distribute them among
the eople. With t lie exception of mil !.
Tind some other tilings the supply of
nn at. jxiultry. hardy vegetables an 1
fruits would last for two mouths at tl..
present rate of consumption. If all tin
supplies were taken charge of at the
lieginning of a siege- and this coul l
easily be done the food within New
York could W made to last for four
months at least. The siege of Paris
asted only four months. lie fore tin
uonths had passed, high and low. rici
md xior. had learned w hat hunger w a--.
nd. as is well known, the French ai-
ihe most thrifty and economical e.i
ile in the world. In the arrangement
mil disjiosition of food the Parisians
ire siccially distinguished, p.ut the
f. Mvl supply in New York could lie mad.
to last as long as the Paris siege lasted.
nd the cople would still le comfor
table. Ladies IIoiii- Journal.
REBUKES FROM THE BENCH.
Lord C hief Justice Ir.rle tiently hits Uoaa
oo the t ounaet
Lord Chief Justice Erl was prone to
interrupt counsel w hen it w a-s found
that the judges Had already made up
their minds against him. On one occa
sion Mr. Iiovill. Q. C. soon afterward
made a judge, was stopped w ith: "Here
we stand, four men, and we have all
firmly leiuphasizing the adverb! mad
up our minds that there must le a new
trial; but if you think it vvi-rlh your
while going on afu-r that (playfully!,
why. of course, we'll keep on hearing
you." WhereiijMvn the Q. C. laughing
ly sat dow n. On auothcr occasion he
interrupted with: "I U-g to inform th.'
counsel "there is a time in the mind of
every man at which he lets down the
floodgates of his understanding and al
lows not one more drop to enter; and
that time in mv mind has fully arrived."
CHURCH AND CLERGY.
The next Episcopal church con
gress will lie held at Norfolk. Va., from
Novemlier 17 to November 2ti.
The recent troubles in the Salvation
Army have brought to light the fact
that this organization owns proj-rty
valued at more than $l.(HKi,(m.
The "recess" conjniitiee of a Chris
tian Endeavor society in a Sotit h Caro
lina school has had for its object the
prevention of quarreling and disorder
on the playground during recess."
Ilev. Dr. Logan, of Scran ton. Pa., has
been elected a memler of the Yictoria
Institute of Great I'ritain. This is a
philosophical society that comprises in
it.s memliership some of the brightest
minds in the I'nitcd Kingdom. Its pur
jiose is to reconcile the revelation of
science with the statements of the
Hible.
Stopping a Small I-eak.
A Detroif. mercluut has 1hi-ii so care
ful in the conduct of his business as to
le afflicted with very few bad account,
liut t here is one ci-izen w ho. despite the
fact that his record elsew here was bad,
managed to ge. iu lcb to the firm.
"I iiupase," said the lookkeejer, on
the first of the month, "that we will
send Skinnim that bill regularly for
several months to ome ?"
"No." replied the merchant. "Times
l.ave been pret'y hard and I guess we'd
l-etter not lse any "liamv toccamomize.
Just, charge what he owes to proiit ami
loss and pay no more attention to him.
It'll save ink and a good deal of wear
end tear on the pens." Detroit Free
Press. -