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SSFARQUHAR PATPNT VARIABI.R FRICTION FHCr beat Set Works In the World Saw Mill & Engine Received the Medal and Highest Award at the World's Columbian Exposition. Warranted tho hrt mad" Khiniri" Milla. M-hiwT aa.1 Mmsdanl Arnculturml Implromita of Bit Omi t at I'-wm lni Krad for lllustnUMI 0"W"- A. B. FARQUHAR CO., Ltd YORK. PEN N A. WANTED AGENTS B a unprwHnt thi Mwl f.. nil-Mr Nunri in A liitrif-M. huw-li wH-ly iMivwrihMi liHy fntir yPTtr: known and wanted l.y every planter. Thai U w -hv brionrr" lw anrrreal w Iih w. and riprnrnrrd A cent a double I heir anlr Med iaromr, Now ta the time to Mart. Wrt- trt i aj flNCFR A. BARRY.' It. ilepe Kereerlra, Keeheater, N. Y. LUDWDQ, THE SNOW FORT. In the happy lays of loyhood. Five and thirty years ago. (Life's golden ae of joyhood) We linilt rastles of the "snow. In the K-litterinjj drifts we quarried. And our mason work was rare As tliiwe mansions, many storied, .Manhood fa-sluons out of air. Though our ramparts and our fosses MiKh- have puzzled old Vaulian. What ear-d we. the infant Ixw.ses, For old foRy rule or plan? Our outwo-ks were the queerest Kvei reared l.y iman skill. Hut of nun.e.s we chose the dearest Kvery fort was Hunker i I ill. How the part of UritLsh lenders Went a-lwiTKinK. one and all! Mow we all were earnest pleaders For front places on the wall ! Hoys detailed for service foreifrn Fell in line with elouded t.row. Kaeh one clamored to l.e Warren, And none wanted to he Howe. The l.attl. ah! we foupht it Not at all l.y history's light: How the H-sky Krieji-.!, -aught it. How they always lost the light! In d.rspite of truth we eha.se.1 them. And. to faets entirely l.lind. As ,-ulown the hill we raced them How we peppered them behind! Thus we fought the fight of Hunker's In the days that knew no care. Kre the snow we tossed, as younkers. Time had sifted on our nair. Now. alas! tn I he licrcc battle We wage daily with the world. Harder shots against us rattle Than our boy arms ever hurled. And 'tus not the generous tussle Of the snow fort on the knoll. But a strife of those who hustle Not the body, but the soul: And instead of gleaming missiles Hoisoned shafts fly to and fro. AikI we march o'er galling thistles. Not tiie velvet of the snow. W. It. Kai-Ier, in Youth's Companion. DUTCH .NKCK'S (I0ATSAM. A Billy Full of Guilo and Mora SubeUiutiui Things. Timothy llillhou.-e hat, the niost re-loarkaldi- Mit that eer grvw cliin whiskers, ssays :t IliiUh Neck. -New Jer sey correspondent of the New York Sun. The put's name is Sam, ami his stomach has h;ul in it aUmt every! iiine; liiat in tiie ordinary run of life is lelt i.xiiiir, about loose. Sam's I'ourasre is alxoit as yreat as liis aH-tite, ami lie !'ocs into any kind of a row unhesitat ingly il" he sees anything to eat at thi ol her (-nil of it. Sam is 1:. years old. He lirst came into notoriety eight y-ars agtj. hen he eortieretl a burglar, and kept him cor nered until Hillhoitse. and a hired man took t he man in. ThishaH'iiel one sum mer night. Ilillliouse hail lived on tin farm that he owns a good many -ars, and never had ieen troubled with mid night prowlers. When he retired on this .-articular night he left the w imlow of a secoiid-slory room okii. Near the window grew a tree, ami up the tree a t li iff climlN-d in t he night, made his w ay through the window, ransacked the house, and got safely back to the ground. I'.u t t he end w as not y et . Sam, who was snooping around the yard seeking something that would stop t he gnawing in his stomaeh. espied the burglar as he was coming down and started for him. The first know ledge that the man had of Sams prcscnee was when the goat's head hit. him with the force of a batter ing ram from the rear. The fellow was knocked to his knees, but he wasipiiek ly on his feet anil sprint itig for t hi gate. Sam went after him and got between him and the gate. Seeing that escape in that direction was impossible, the man turned and ran toward the barn. Adjoining the barn was a wagon h-nise. and into the angle formed by these buildings t he goat I rove t he buglar nuil hutted hint up against the side of the barn with a force that made the man howl like an Indian. Now ami then the man tried to sneak around the goat tunl get. away, but Sam was on the alert and stopped him. The goat pounded away until the burglar ached in every joint, and, concluding that he might letter go to jail than face the animal any longer, began to howl a t t he top of his voice. The noise woke 1 1 ii I house, and. with his hired man, he w cut out to si what was up. He found the thief and handed him over to the constable. From that time Saitr.scareerhasbi.cn eventful and brilliant. One of his most remarkable exploits was the sating of Mr. llillhouse's little daughter front drowning. Three years ago Carrie I i ill house, t hen four years old, started out one afternoon to join heavat her and his men, w ho were working in a held about a quarter of a mile froui the house. On the way she a obliged to cross n bridge over Sutphin's creek, a sluggish stream that runs between high, steep banks. Sam went with the girl. She stopjed on the bridge to look dow n into the water, lost her balance, and fell in. Ilillliouse. who wa on a load of hay, headed for t he. barn, saw his daughter fall, ami, sliding to the ground he ran a.s f ait :is he could toward tlwe bridge. Tin goat, without hesitating an instant, leaped into the water a ml hooking his. horns into Carrie's clot lies held her head aliove the siirf;ue. Sam struggled heroically with his burden, ami niajuigcd to get to t he kink just as IIillhoii.se reached tin sjot. The goat and the child were lifted out, and more delicacies found their wav into Sam's stomach that week than he ever luul seen liefore. Kveirybody in the neigh tiorh.Mid showed the goat tme mark of esteem, and when Sunday came the preacher in tin local church paid hint a liigh tribute in hin sermon, and in his prayer invoked a blessing ii the hcail of the faithful animal who. he de clared, w as "more courageous and more intelligvnt than tiuaiv men." Sam is jirohably the only goat that ever re ceived -Mcial prayer in a pulpit. Sam's appet ite frequently has got. him into trouble and at the same time has increa.sel hin value in the eyes of his owner, who know s t hat some day, when the goat's threnil of life is broken,, he will yield up some of the valuables that, be has swallowed. Years ago Mrs. Ilill Jjouse discovered that on wash day the safetv of. the clothes she hung out. to dry ilepeniled njwui their hanging high when Sam wan in the neighborhood. fhe didn't letirn this until the goat luul almost completely devoured a waish left -wilbLn his reach. On that occasion he oiii-JUncd two sheets, a calico dress and a HaiiucJ tihirt, a table cloth, half a (lot'fl napkitiK, a p:ur of Imj s' trousers, .-.nil Hi ret; cotton Ktuckinft. lie un lo)iibtcdly would Jiave cleaned the line an devoured Uie rope bad he not been il iscovcred lv Airs, ii lilliouse liefore he liail reached next t. the last gartueut, for he made a brave right against the. broomstick that was brought into requi sition and tried to get at :i Imjsiuii shirt and sun bonnet that were still on the line. Thereafter the cloth, s were hung so high that Mrs. Ilillliouse was obliged to use a stcpla.hlcd to reach them, and Sam Katislieil himself with walking around, now and then up on his hind legs anil -snilling wistfully. The wide scom of the goat's apw-tite wa-s not understood even then, but it was revealed to Mrs. 11 ilhouse one day when she huug a hall mat over the j Kirch rail to let the wind blow tiiedust out of it. The mat never was seen again, but Sam ;ts found lying on the Kjrch, near the sjt where it had been hung, with a IikiU of supreme contentment on his face and a few wiKilen raveling of various colors dangling from his jaws. A few days afterward, w hen she wanted to hang some t idies out on t he rcli rail to air, Mrs. Ilillliouse first tied Ham to a tree, but. unfortunately, she tied him with a rope. It hapK-ned that the tidies were in plain view of the goat, and they made a tempting display in the eyes of the creature that so constantly hungereil for novelties, whether raw or ciKiked. Some of them were of fine liuen, richly embroidered, and others were combinations of scraps of silk anil satin of various pleasing colors. Siim turned tiKn Hie to-h- that held him ami ate it. Then lie tackled tin, delicacies displayed on the jM.rch rail, and soon had them stowed away in his stomach. Mrs. Ilillliouse demanded that he lie killed at once, but her husband was warmly attache! to the animal anil re fused to cud its life. So Sam livi-d, and lived to eat. The goal's intrinsic value increased. One day when llillhouse's hireil mail left bus vest, luingniir ou a b:tr ost Sam took a notion to go out iu 1 he lot w here t he men w en work ing.and while nosing around espied the vest. When the owner went to get it at noou it w;if; missing, -uxl only a few bits of lining hail hc,-ii left, to indicate its fate. The hi nil man did not Lake kindly to the loss of his vest, because in one of t he -KK-kets was a brand new Jo open face watch, to which wan attached athree itollar chain. Tin matches, tolKtcco. ami other stutT in the t-H-kets he could pare, but he couldn't give up his watch without a protest, ami he suggestiil to Ilillliouse that there w:usonlv oneway to recover the timepiece, and tluit vv;ls by killing Sam and laving bare the in terior of his fool pouch. Ilillliouse stubbornly refused to have the goat killed, and satisfi.il the hired man by buying him a new watch and chain. Sam showed no signs of regret over the watch exploit and kept on hunting for unusual t hings to devour. One dav he indulg.il in a meal that caused h:iu consioerahle physical discomfort. An nsuraiice agent rode out from Trenton to sei lUllhouM on luisiui-cs. ,. (.;IIIIt. on a bietcle, and, leaning 1 he machine against the fence, went, into thehousi' to look over some pajK'rs. S.-iin never h;ul sisen a bicycle before, and he imme diately begiiu huiking it over to find out if there wits any tiling alxuit it that he might, sttfely add to the varied assort ment, already in his stomaeh. Thetiresi were soft. Sain began work on them and in an extremely short time had nibblnl tiicni from the wheels. The in Mirance tureiit wa.s hauled liuck to town by Mr. llillhouse's horse, and Ilillhons paid for a new set. of tiles for the bi cycle. The rubber tires did not. set so well on Sam's stomach as they had on the wheels, and the day after he had eaten them he gave itniicat .nils of in ternal disturbance. Pe was not himself at all. He refused to cat and lav stretched out in a corner of the wood shed. Ilillliouse lK-torcd him. and iu two days the animal was well enough to w alk out and eat a lace curtain t luit Mrs. Ilillliouse had laid on the grtiss to bleach, thinking that it was safe lie cause Sam was sick. One day last summer Ilillliouse went to Trenton to draw money with which to pay his help. He drew $iun from the bank. $7.1 in five-dollar go-Id pi. -cos and silv er and $'J5 in bills. He put t he money in a shot bag and shoved t he luig into his coat MK-ket. hen he peached home he took off his coat and laid it on a Iki.x while lie iiuharne-sscil the horse. Sam's eye fell on the coat, ami when H ill house di-sap-H-ariil in tiie barn he walked up and proceeded to devour it. I!y the time Mr. 11 ilhouse came out of the barn the goat had swallow .il one-dntlf of the coat, and it wa-s t he half that contained the Kicket w hich had the money, (iold, silv er and greenbacks were-iii t Iu- goat's stomach. Then it was tluit. Sam's life came near an end. 1 1 ill bouse got his gun and was alMiut to shiKit the. goat w hen his daughter objected. "1 must kill him. Carrie," said her father, "bieausc he has swaJIovveil $lou ami I can save the coin." "It'll be just as valuable when Ram die-s as it is now." repli.il Carrie. Hillhoii'se could not get over the ar gument, and Sam's life was spa red. Al though the animal is walking around to-day with $2.'. worth of jewelry and in hard coin in his stomach, he puts on no airs. He is the same simple, un pretending creature tliat he alvvavs has 1 i : . . . i . 'ecu .iiio is jusi as nungrv as he w as in his youth. II is owner figures 1 hat Sam's intrinsic value is upward of $HK. but he would not jKLrt with him for a house anil lot- I" -t.-1 llitlono,lir. A girl's idea of a pretty wedding dress is one that cannot -ossilly be of any use to a woman after she has married. I f we had to wait until a woman lifted her veil in order to kiss her we would lose all apietitc and wouldn't kiss her at all. When t-eople talk gossip ataidiureh HM-iety meeting they do it with many exclamations of pity ami regret, but tliey talk it, just the same. Times have changed. A few year-i ago, when a man sat up and talked politics his women folks looked at each other as muck as to say: "Isn't, he smart?" Now when he talkt j-olitics they interrupt and contradict him and talk olitics thetji.selv es. The greatest man in the world is the plain, plug maxL,- who pays his debts, supports his family fairly well and never docs any thing remarkable. These remarkable men, who are thorough breds for a time and then rob all their fueiiils, are to be avoided. Atchison Clolie. There never jet was an architect on earth who planned a house that didn't cost more than the e-stimate. THE FIRST RAILROAD. Originated In av foul Mine and Wave a Crude Affair. The primitive railway appears to have been the product of the coal mines in dreat Kritain. History records thut in the early part of the sixteenth ceDtury rails of timber were laid at the collieries near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, over which, by means of bulky carts provided with rollers, one horse could draw four or five tons. 1 or fully lilMI years the use of these rude railroads was confined to the collieries. Improvements developed s-iowly. The first change was in se curing the wooden rails, by means of pegs, to cross ties or sleepers placed two or three feet apait. The rails were nix inches high and six inches broad. On top of each rail a strip of hard wood was fastened, which could be renewed whenever occasion warranted without disturbing the remainder of the struc ture. Flat iron bars were first substituted for this temHrary strip of wood in 173S, and about 30 years later east iron bars were forged for that purpose. These cast iron bars were each five feet long, four inches wide ami one and three-quarter inches thick, with holes for spikes to secure them to the wood. 'I ovvard the close of the eighteenth cen tury the practice was adopted of east ing the rails w ith a -icrpcmlicular ledge on the outer edge to prevent the wheels from leaving the track. Subsequently the ledge was transferred to the inner side of the rail. It was not until 17S0 that the present type of rail and car wheel ap-ieared. Flanged rails and fiat w heels were dis carded and the flange transferred to the tire of the wheels. Mr. Jesup intro duced, at that period, rails cast in lengths of 15 feet, with the tp 1; inches wide. They were of the fish-lx-lly pattern; deeper in the middle than at the ends. After various exM-riments it wa.s found advisable to set the ends of the rails in cast iron chairs, which were Inilted to the wooden or stone, ties, and into which secured by a kev or wedges. Cast iron, however, proved to lie too brittle for the iassage of heavy loads at high rates of speed, and aliout the year malleable iroff was Mibstituted and the length of the rails was increased. The idea of using steam a.s a motive power on the tramways in the Knglish collieries was first broached by dames Watt in 17-.4, when he applied for a patent for a steam carriage. In WM K'chard Trevethick built a locomotive engine which was tried Uion the Mer thyr & Tydvil railway, in Wales, and Inch drew wagons containing ten tons of coal each, at a rate of five miles an hour. W. Hassell Wilson, in his "Kail way History," says that in 1S12 I'.len kinsops engines began running between Middlcton collieries and Ieds (a dis tance of ."MC, miles), and continued iu use for several years, being the first in stance of the regular employ ment of steam locomotives for commercial pur JKises. It was in 1S14 that (ieorge Ste phenson's tirst steam engine was placed on the Killingworlh railway. It drew ::o tons at the rate of four miles an hour Ukiii an incline of one foot in 450. Im provements in loomotives followed gradually. When the Stockton & Dar lington railway was oHned for public ue in t-25. one of Stephenson's loco motives drew a train composed of 'JC wagons tilled with passengers an IL' wagons loaded with coal, making a to tal weight of about 00 tons, including the engine and tender, at an average speed of about five miles na hour, but attaining a maximum' rate of 12 miles. N. Y. Times. DRAW HIM OUT. The Finest Art of t-llrtatlun la Adapta b Itty. The finest art of Uirtatiou is adapta bility, saj s Lippimot t's. 1 do not mean altogether to mold one's self afier the mind or mood of the object of one's solicitude, but a.s rapidly as po.-.sJ,le to discover the broad lines of tiis or her character and disposit ion. then, with the cour-ige of a military leader, turn the force of our friend, tire ei.emy, in that channel which may I -est please one's own intelligence and pur-mse. Willi a little executive ability, and, in case the object lie a man, just a tinge of judicious tlattery, this can Im- accom plished. Sometimes, of course, we run our head against a stone wall; then something must go, and it is generally not the. wall. This is as fat guii.g a process Lu the mental faculties a.s standing ou tiptoe is to the muscle of tlu. foot; but the mental cxcrcLse, like the athletic, has its advantages. The rider of one hobby has generally ::nollor in training, if not in actual use; and the man who cannot make himself interest ing on either of the subjects that most absorb his own in terests is not worth one's solicitude, and therefore proves nulli ng. "Sup pressed stupidities avail themselves of extraordinary o; port unit ies to come to light," says Heine. But there are few eopie in the world, except, those who ly undue gart ulousnets give an un necessarily emphasized illiis' rai ion o; imi-ecility, and will not, if taken in the right spirit and treated with a certain indulgence, prove entertaining from one standpoint or another. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The newest fad iu autograph lxioks is one of cooking reci-ies. Kaeli foi nul la written iu the book has the signa ture if the. conti ibut ing friend un der jf. A single order for l.tMHt.iMk) M,uiids of smoking toiiacco was a. new record for that line of business recently achieved by a Virginia tolmeco maiiii faet uriiig firm. Knglish place names are as interest ing a.s American. The bishopof Worces ter is trying to unite tigainst their will the pa.ri.shes of North Fiddle, ami I'ptim Snodsbury. I-ist year Hclgium imported 2,lt;i.S47 Muiids of raw .hides fntiu the I'nited States. The imjiorts in the same liuu feom Argentina and Uruguay were .(iOO.OOO jK.unds. Citizens of Grand Kapids have de clared war against a city ordinance compelling piojieriy owners to cause the snow to be removed from their walks l-efore nine a. m. In, Nashville the iatroI wagon is fur nished with pneumatic, tires to the w heels. The w agon is als used as an ambulance, which explains the where fore of the luxury. A WHEEL. ST0KY. 11 Y O. K. SCIIIMASSKY. i "Xo, this is not the story of her first attempt to ride, but is my story of an attempt to teach her to ride. "She was a sweet sister, was this maiden, a sweet sister of John. Jones', w hen -she came to me one evening just us old Sol was hiding his fire-red viage 1-ack of the trees in the far west, ami asked me in an entrancing, ajxilogetie way if I wouldn't assist her iu her bi cycle practice, 'as Brother John has a pressing engagement, and can't lie with me, and, anyway, he says you know more about bicycling than he ikies. "Say, just then I could Have hugged John Jones, aixl his sister, tin), for that matter, but John was not there, and as for his s-ister well, I did not dare. "M iss Jones lmd Ihp n the ossesNor of a bicycle alxoit three days, and as we wended our way side by side to her home to get the steed of steel she in formed me that s-.be was doing 'just lovely. Anil she also ventured the re mark that she actually 1-elieved she ould ride alone, only she got so terribly frightened. "When we arrived at Miss Jones home she excused herself for a few minutes, saying she w ished to don an appropriate costume, and when she emerged from the house a little later, clad in a neat fitting garb of the bloomer tvie and lend rg a il ia mond-f rame ma eh ine. wh v. it simply took mv breath away. Oh. but she looked chipper, chic and de lionair. and my heart w.is at once smit ten with her. though I always had a -cnliarly sympathetic feeling fur her. She certainly was the most leautiful and sweet morsel of femininity it had lieeii mi- pleasure to gae upon. There w- no doubt about tlrs. this lesson would tie extreme) v interesting-. There would lie no skirts to get entangled in the wheels and chain ami to bother her in her aukwnrd manipulations of the same, and the time s-ient in teaching her to projierly manutre the steed would surely lie just so long a time of un alloyed pleasure. "Miss Jones and I walked to a street seldom traveled after sundown and the walk over the intervening thorough fares was an exceedingly short one. We arrived at our destination. The first thing was to show h-r how to mount and this was a stunner. I hail assisted many young l.idies in t lieir efforts to master the bicycle but all of them rode drop frame machines-and they all wore skirts. This case was far di:Terent. However. I got on and off the wheel, using the step, 'ninn-fashion,' ami ex plained to her in detail every sui-cecd-ing movement, Then Miss Jones tried it. First I firmly grnsja-d the handle bar with one "hand, holding the frame in front of the saddle with the other. Miss Jones reached over my arm. took boid of thegri-s. put her right foot on the step, mad" a lunge for the so.ldle and kerflop, we both landed :, the hard road. I was underneath, tiie wheel made up the second layer of the pile, while Miss Jones at, not too gently, on top of the w hole. I thought one of the handle bars luul punctured my side and tluit I was swallow inn- hetrogenous mass of bicycle spokes, good solid clay and rublier tires. Miss Jones dxl not get off the heap at all but sat there half sobbing, half laufhing, and said she hotted I was not injured, that she was so sorrv. etc. With an almost 'ic-rculaiieaii effort I rolled from my i-osition under the wheel and its fair, but heavy burden, and after puJl ing myself together, gave Miss Jones my h.tnd and hel--ed her to her feet. 1 inquired if kIip were hurt but she re joicingly informed me that she came tint unscathed and was ready for an t.ther trial. "I was uot much injured no but w hatever thoughts I had had of spend ing an enjoyable evening- were rudely d:selled from my mind. No. I was not injured, but I could almost swear that one of the K-dals of that machine had cut out a few square incites of my shin lione and 1 imagined 1 could feel it dangling alvoiit uiy ankle. 1 was also aware of t he factth.it there were several non-re pair-able punctures in uiy troup ers and that, my anatomy was. bruised ami sone iu more pku-es than 1 could enumerate in a three-page article, "To tell the truth. I was not at all anxious to continue the demoralizing lesson, as I was ure that this exK-ri-enee would lie. the death of me. but I wouldn't for an instant think of tell ing my fair companion tliat I had to give up. "No! she should lie the first to say it was time to ostKne the practice until another day. I was In hojx-s the wheel was in such condition, after the hard fall, that it would l-eimpossibletou.se it, but outside of a few scratches, it came out of the tumble as did its owner not in the least damaged. "Well, we tried the mounting busi ness over again, and this time I wis prepared for t he shock ami she did land on the saddle most U-aut if ully. After 1 had balance. I the seemingly uni-on-t Tollable wheel and told her to pet. ready for t he start off. she said to me that she could ride fairly well now that she was on and if I would just take hold under the back of the sail. lie and follow hc-rin that way she thought she could miIhI forward very well. I did as slie told me and after giving the wheel a slight push she moved off. Yes, she went, it alone all right. All I had to do was to follow- her. At first site went shwvlv, at what you would call a dog-trot, then she inere;i.-ed her speed. And still all I hail to do was to follow- her! "As we w ere looming merrily onward, she on the bicycle and I on foot, she asked me if I didn't think this most cxhilerating sport.. Of course, I said it was. Then she sjiid she enjoyed it so much that she would continue on this same course until she 1-ecame tired, when she would dismount, and after a rest we would ret urn homeward. "Well, I trotted and trotted ami trot ted after ihat wheel, and I thought she never voiild sten. She went and went and went, and I lielieve if 1 had not hutted to her that 1 sometimes 1-ecame fatigued, she wotdd have lieeii going yet. But she did finally stop, aud in tdieer exhaustion I fell to the roadside, and when I luul time to recover my breath aud look aliout us I found we were away out in the country, at least three miles from home. She sat down at the roadside, a little way from me. Then, she talked. "She ililated upon the lieauties of the summer's evening, the multi-colored foliage of the trees, tiie irrideseeut cloud which looked like rare jewels hung im the w .-stern skies, as the ravs of the now obscured sun cast indesi-rfb-alde glittering tints over them. Ibit Kior me, my liody and mind wen- racked with pain, and I did not appreciate our surroundings. After Hie fall then the unusual exercise, every muscle and nerve in my body seemed to tingle with Jectric shocks. I was just aUiut done up and when I would think of the re tuyrn journey my heart would nearlv l-ound from its natuial ami l-st loca tion. Kvery breath I tix.k seemed to Ik drawing hiigo chunks of solid air into my bangs, instead of the pure, coitntrv atmosphere which I was actually tak ing into my system. I was tired, sore and disgusted with everything, even with the maiden at my side, whom I now thought one of the ugliest, most uninteresting --ersous it had Im-cii mv misfortune, to meet. I was thinking, thinking deeply; thinking souk- things 1 would not dare Uiink aloud, when 1 was suddenly brought to my senses bv my fa?e companion saving: 'Well. I'm ready.' So was I I had to he. and I at once arose and grnbld up that wliee). Of course, irfore 1 could start Iter homeward it was first hei-.-vsarv to get. her on to the bicycle, and I trem bled as I thought of the task 1-efon- me. This time I braced myself against a fem-e and held onto that, wh.i-l grim-visaged ih-ath. and when M i.s Joihk lKiard.il it in resilly artist ic stvle. I was greatly pleased. I started Iter off gently and then took hold of t he saddle again, prr-circd to trot horn, back of the young- lady like a dog follow ing its master. I was eongratulaiir.tr mv self U-oii the little trouble -X-ri.-il.-.-.l iu geMing her started, when the front wtiecl of the bicycle liegan to wobble and eh.ig: went the off handle liar int., a fem-e. Luckily. 1 was on the op.vit. sile of t lie v heel aud pill ling ternti.al I v jt the i.igh handle lir I got it and its burden again -erK-ntlieuIar. This lime I asked her if she were injured, and showing me an aw-ful-ly bruised hand, she bravely replied, 'a little, but it's im material.' Why. the skin was s.-raj-il off the whole side of her band, but she l-ore it like a heroine. And light here 1 wish to say that I Ug-an lo thihk ju-t a wee little bit more of Miss Jones 1 h.-in 1 hail while we were sitting at the r. .ad side a way liack. "Once again she Marted hone-ward and by the way she puiu.il and pushed those H-ilals I know she was mad aU.ut that accident, and as she gained s-c.l. I also began to realize ihat my j.iwers of endurance would give out ere long, un less she reduced her gait. At Ia.-t I had to give up but. I said nothiug to her. I h t her guide on homeward, a.s I thought she would soon not ice my als-eiH-e and then would either dismount or fall off. 1 cared nol which. But she weut on and 1 gradually lost sight of her in the dark ness that was growing uj-on the fa.-e of the earth. I w as glad that she had gone and I leisurely clim'ocil Uk..ii a rail fence at the roadside and sat there meditat ing. I was mad clear through and the more I Uii"di1ated the angrier I g..t. But at. last it dawned ujMin me that it was not the proper thing for me to In- sil ting upon a wayside fence and leave a young lady to take her ow n way home after nightfall. Horror of horrors! .-up-lose she had fallen from her bicycle and at this very instant was lving in the road. iossibly with a broken leg or injurtd in some other way soastolie unable to move. Supjwtse a tcaui of spirited horses were approaching and the driver could not see that prostrate form and ran over it, l"gu! the very thought made my blood run cold. I jump,-d from the fence and started in the direction in which Miss Jones had gone. 1 walk.il along slowly, but .as more horrible possilnlities cauie 1 mv mind I weut faster until at last I w:ts running as fast as 1 could, but even then I thought I was going at a snail's --ace. Half a dozen times I imagined I sin M but always fouud it to lie but a halluci nation of my w ihl and disordered brain. 1 did filially reach town and I-ec.-nise I bail not found Miss Jones lvinon the road iu a k.1 of I.i.mxI I was sure that she hail Ix-eii spirited away or kid napcd. "I rushed to the home of ber parents. Her brother John was sitting on the iorch smoking a horribly rank stogy and when I excitedly asked him where his sister was he looked at me as t hough lie ooiuddcrcd uie a lunatic. I implored him to tell me, for the love lie lre his sister. "He looked at me again, then slow It turned his eyes toward the side of the house. My eyes followed bis. and there Miss Jones stood. ctol and collected with a heavenly smile on her face, and how l.e.-tiitiful she looked. But I fell to the ground in a dead faint and when next I realized anything I was in my own room at home, with my dear moth er at my In-dside. I lked at her ques tioningly. and then said: 'Mother, how many weeks have I In-en ill?" She looked frightened, then answered: 'Why, my dear son, you've Ik-cii here but a few hours. John Join's and his father brought you here. They said voti fai tiled at their house. Tell me what the trouble is. After getting over mv nstonishment I told heralxuit my awful exjK-rience of the evening. She laughed at me and comforted me. hut say, I tell you I got even w ith t hat John .I.rt-s for palming his sister off on Die that night. You want to know-how I did it? Well. I just tiM.k her from him, from Lis mother, from his father I married her, that's what I did." Budget. The Knaalavna. The Russians are ttclieved to hate originated from the Slavonian trile called Ihi- Koxilani. al-out the Christian era. At a later date they were also called Muscovites, from Moscow, their leading city. The state was fo'-.id.-d by Kurio. s;2 A. 13. Kussia was a duchy until 1157. when it became the grand duchy of YVladitnir, remaining such unti) l.':2. when it was called t he grand duohy of Moscow. The Busman rulers In-gan to call themselves czars in 14f.2. Peter the (ireat assumed the title of emj-eror in 1".-1. vqdo.d (oo'tm Aij iiauj w uo ;.' ul ajcnlis c-j s; jo cut uu ststj piB.i s "ll-aiin jo iii.H qii.w v)ji3 Aji-jnjei Jlijd jsouipi Ud;o 3ji puni qx THOSE WHO TOIU Many bicycle firms have increased their lal-or force, especially in the east, and production for 1sj7 is rushing. Over lo.Ooo nien are now involved ia the great i-hipping strike at Hamburg, iermany, and U k work is at a stand still. A deep-water h-rtior in south Califor nia will cost $,noo,ooo for labor au-1 mpplies. Work will be commenced at nee. Because of a drought and a tiad ea--on the South Australian government i distributing see,) wheat to imriover ishc.l farmer-. A society of workiiigmenhasbeenor gani.i at B.H hestcr, X. Y.. forthepur-po-e of dealing with political-labor )tie.t ions. The first eight hour demonstration e-.er held in West tistralia Uiok place at Berth lately. a I the unions com bining f,.r the ocea.-ion. A fed-ration of : 11 thei-oal miners in Australia is coiiteu.plattd in the scheme f r.i.rgar.iation of the New South Wales Miners" as-social'ion. -k:!l-.l i, are lacking in theengine-r.K.in- of t. warships ,.f t'ae l nite.1 States navy, and 1 he chief engineer haa made a re.pi.-st for more. Wages of ear-nt-rs in Australia have U-et, in. reasi d 12 cents a day br .-igr.i-in.-nt U-tw.en the union and the I xisses asxx-iat Hin. They are now $2.04 a day. A new clause -ermitting Jewish workmen to toil on Sundays to make up f. -r lost time on Saturdays will lie in troduced in the factories and work--hls bill .if Australia. I'uriiig the las? fiscal year the farm ers of the 1 nit.-.l States w.-re .aij $.",71 -o..oor, by foreign n.iintri.-s for prod uce. Next yearV crops (ironiise to lie greater. -., ,j. .,,",,, s .JLre Mx jn ioaiiy directions. I.n.loa cabmen are carrying on a .u.-.-rilli warfare against the railway e..r,, j-;, !,'.. which is conducted like a l..veo1t. They r, f use to enter any of the stations with pas-ecgers or img-- g. igi and are ot h.-rw ise di-obliging. Thin-i n million per.n-will have to I- suppoited l.y the Kas; Ii-diangoveru-t..ci,t .-cause of the famine. Thou-:iii.-sof sonare miles of crops ha ve been par: !.. . , ,. M. strov. d ly :1,.- s-.rsheat. I hn iu. ns large ex-orts of heal from m.ji-a. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. The pi . - .sii i,,n to increase the pav -f the i,i: ,-,-rs in 1 1..- orman army will give the n.li nels ".i.inMt marks, the ma jors '..;!. the captains ::.,.xi anJ the b in. -nants l.soo mail.s per annum. I he noun mark is equivalent to 23.8 i-nts. According to the estimates offi.-nnan aial French statisticians the wars of the last 4' years have cist the nations en gaged in th.-ia. in in. ai. v alone, the al most incoiieenabie s,uu ,,f $i;;,ohi.Oo, iiiii. of this amouiit Fran-e has paid iieariy $:..Vi.i'ii.iM as the cost c.f her vv ar w it h Prussia. I n order lo prov i.le t he proper comple ments of crews for the new war shijis that wnl ihiii l- ready for service it will l- necessary lo add not less than -l.ooo men to the present naval force. In order to si-cure t hem congress must pass a suitable law. as the limit allowed has already lx-cii reached, and the muai t. hg of the Puritan illexhaut all the available material. Frtmce's Foreign Legion is the last refuge for adventurers of all nations. In one company there were serv nig re-ii-ntly a l;..uiiiauia;t pritu-e, who was sus'iect.il .f having murdered hie l.rot her: a t ierman count, w ho had 1-een, a lieiitetiant of t lie guanls on the eni-j-eror's staff; an Italian lieutenant colonel of cavalry, dismissed for cheat ing at cards; a Kussiau nihilist escaped from Silx-ria: a former captain in the Knglish rifle brigade, and an ex-canon of Notre I lame, suspended for imr.ioral i v. A DOG TRAVELER. Ilartaahnnd That Ilea Ce-retred 44I.IMIO M I lea la t-'oar Inn. One of the most traveled dogs on rec ord is Ikinnie II.. a black-and-tao dach shund, which is exhibited in London. Ifcuinic is the projierty of an oflii-er in the Knglish army, Capt. MaoMahon, and in a life of a litt le more t has four years, has traveled some 4i,lR-ti miles. h.Ood of them on horseback. He has trav ersed land and s a, crossed deserts and mountain ranges, and lx-en. with bis master, a art iciiant in many deeds of endurance and adventure. Ixjnxiie was Ixirn September IS. 1 532. in Kiigland. and when seven months old was scut to Capt. Mac Mali on in India by friends. The journey, first by sea, then by Ian!, through Siud to Belu chistan. during a time of great beat, was the lirst test of the puppy's endur ance, lie stood it well, and soon lie gan his journeys on horseback, a mode of traveling to w hich he seemed to take tiaturaily. He accom-ianied his master i. n long riding tours 1 hrough Zhob and other -arts of Iieluchist.au to Simla, and from Peshaw ur to Cabttl. In the spring of l..4Capt. MaoMahon was ap'ioiiitcd British commissioner of the Bcluch-Afghaii l-oundary commis sion and took llonnie w ith hiiu through the ti.uual vailey to the Afghan fron tier. Here dog ami ma.frr remained for more than a y ear. enduring together rvln-DicB of heat and cold, hardship and privation. Then came another horse back journey through India aud a voy age from lUmibay to Kngland. Later a return to India again and a journey through the sout heru part of the coun try , something of a pleasure trip this time, Capt. MacMahon lieing on the staff of the viceroy. This was followed by more travels and hard-diipe in the wilds of Afghanistan aud a trip to the Persian boundary. Hug aud master are now Ix.th in Kngland. Bonnie is a most expert equestrian. With his hindquarters against his mas ter's thigh, and occasionally leaning against his body for support, he rides without even a steadying band. The horse may walk. trot, canter or gal lop. but the .log is not disturbed. He even maintains a erfect equanimity during a reasonably diflicuit jump. Chicago Tribune. Vnat It Mlsht Have Ueea. Kl;ie Fred coufessed his love fur me last night. Jack (who adores her) Confessed It? I should call it boasting. Drool; Ij n Life. -
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