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{ff men cared less for wealth and fame,
And less for battlefield and glory;
If writ in human hearts, a name
Beemud better than a song and story;
If men, instead of nursing Pride,
Would learn to hate and to abhor it;
If more relted on love to guide,
The world would be the better for it
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[f men dealt leas in stocks and innds,
And more in bonds and deeds fraternal; |
{f love's work bad more willing hands
To link the world to the supernal;
If wen saved up Love's oil and wine,
And on bruised human sonls wondd pour |
it; i
If “vours”
bine, :
The world would be better for it
and “mine would ones com
if more woud act the play of life,
And fewer spoil it in rehearsal;
if Bigotry would sheathe its knife
Tili good becar oe more universal;
If Cusiom, gray with ages grown,
Had fewer blir nen to adore is
if Talent shone for Truth alone,
The world would be better for it
If men were wise in little things,
Atfecting less in all their dealings,
{f hearts had fewer rusted strings
To isolate their kindly feelings:
If men, when Wrong beatsdown the Right,
Would strike togetherand restore it;
{f Right made Might in every tight,
The world would be the better for {t.
A SRI
TO BE LEFT TILL CALLED
FOR. :
it was a large wooden box, strongly
pailed. A card, pasted on the top, had
“Alfred Jolybois” written on it. No-
thing else. It was stored with other
freight left to be called for, and re-
mained there six days.
Then the freight agent noticed a pe-
suliar odor, He called to one of his
men.
*‘{s there any game here?”
“No.”
Swrange! The agent went all over the
freight room, smelling the packages
one altar the other, and at last found
thet the scent came from the wooden |
box. Apparently some animal matter
tail man, with long beard. dark siin
and resolute alr, fle wore a cloak, and
had the ar of a mau of the world,
ecortain hesitation seized him at sight
peated; the question he had asked, but
this time in a voice less assured,
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“It is. :
“‘And yon come to claim it?"
“Yes,”
*“Tuen you are Mr. Alfrod—"
**Jolybois-~1 have that honor.”
Although an imperceptible shade of
impertinence accompanied the last
words, as if in opposition to the solem-
miv of this questioning, he was visibly
embarrassed, His glance was no longer
directed st the procurer, but wandered,
auneasy and furtive, as if he dreaded a
surprise. Perhaps he felt menaced;
| perhaps he sought some way of escape.
| The commissary made a sign; the
| doors wera immediately fiiled by the
{ police, This manenvre did not escape
{ the man of the cloak, who, from that
| moment; lost all boldness of front, His
| upper lip twitched nervously in spite of
| hum, and his hands shook.
“*You turn pale,” said the magistrate,
“Not at all sir, but that odor——-"
““That odor, sir, comes from your
case.”
“From my
opened?”
This exclamation, which surprise, tor-
ror, remorse and shamo seemed to force
from his lips, was received by his hear.
ers as an avowal of crime. Mow could
anyone doubt again. His knitted
case? Has it been
| startled glances around him, all betrayed
the murderer.
The unknown made a movement to
escape, but a policeman caught him
under the arms, Then he struggled,
his eyes kindling with rage,
terposed.
““Violence will only make your situa-
tion worse, Answer my questions
was decomposing, The distrustful |
{unctionary began by being astonished
at such an umusual way of sending it. |
A hamper is gonerslly used to transport
venison, He was surprised that a case |
sontaining putrescible matter should |
have been sent hke a mmple package, |
with no indication of ils eonteats, and |
still more amazed that it should have
remained a week uncalled for,
L'his was the starting point of a series
of conjectures. Probably M., Jolybois,
whose name was on it,~did not wish to
have bis residence known, as the case
was ‘to be left till called for,” Ou the |
otner hand the sender seomed equally |
acxions to be unknown. It was
Louis, but everybody was named Louis |
or Peter or Paul, That revealed noth- |
ing, yet the Christian ncme, used with.
out the surname, added a touch of mys- |
tery. Possibly the case contsined pro- |
hibited game, or perhaps M. Louis |
was a poacher. ‘This conclusion only |
half satisfied the agent,
peeded no such precautions. To con-
seal himself so well the sender must
UAYE ZTAVE Teasons, i
A crime would explain all. The man
‘ried to force his thougnts from this |
direction, It was vain, Saspicions of |
» tragedy overwhelmed him. Every |
one stili remembered the case contain-
ing the body of a woman cut in pieces, |
The emanations, the mystery, the in- |
suflicient clews, the case itself, long, |
straight, with its scarcely plaved boards, |
recalled that borribie discovery, }
fie hinted his suspicions to his supe- |
. The police were sent fur, The |
pening of the box was ordered, A
workman pned the Ld off with so iron
bar. They saw something horrible,
Packed in saw-dust, withont hands, |
without feet, a form appeared, which !
uly vaguely resembled a human body |
wecont of 18s mutilation, No head |
it had been cut off The body had |
Leon flayed. There was a yawning hole |
in the breast, where a torrent of blood |
bad cosgulated and kept the shape of |
the ife, which had beea plunged |
there, The huge cadaver, emanating |
pestilcuce, was an abominable sight,
The crime appeared to have been |
committed eight or ten days ago. Tels-
grams sent to Grenoble, fouud no one
who knew either Jolybos or Louis,
There could be no doubt before such
avidence, or rather befure such obseu-
rity, for nothing reveals so much as the
night which envelcps great crimes,
And here, by the murderer's infernal
wickedness, the shadow had the thick-
ness of a wall around that blood-shed
and lugubrious homicide, One was in
the presence of » monstrous crime,
sccomplished amid the most mysterious
circumstances. The procurear was sent
for. The rumor of murder spread
Crowds collected around the office of
the commissary of police, snd had to
be dispelled by force. b me thought
they recognized in the body one of the
principal merchants of Grenoble;
others talked of a grandiather a saasi.
uated by hus grandson, and one thing
seemed clear: The cadaver was that of
an old person, naturally cofeebled and
very fleshy. In spite of precautionary
measures, taken by the police, the agi.
tation Inoreased, The groups grew
noisy, and scveral arre: bs were made,
A small map io spectacles, with a
very tall and thio mao, weut iuto the
commissary’s office, Their names flow
from mouth to mouth, Every one
koew in au instant that it was the pro.
ourenr and his clerk who disappeared
behind the mysterious door,
All were s0 absorvel in this that a
gentleman who left the train and de-
sired some information, had to repeat
his question three times to anu impatient
official,
Will you answer me?”
“What is nt?”
on have not received
“I ask yon if
& caso to be left called for?”
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rior
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be yours?”
“I have already told you that it be.
longs to me.”
“Allow me. Yon are in the presence
of Jastice, Let us proceed logically, if
Do you also recognize the
vintim?"
“I am proud to say I do.
hand that struck the blow.”
“State precisely under what circum-
stances,”
““I was at Briancon. We had an old
account to settle together, I had been
on the look-out for him a great while,
One day I met him at a tarn of the
It was my
I failed to hit him the first time. A$
the second shot my ball only grazed
him, He was already upon me. He
grasped me in his arms. He was about
to stifle me. I luckily succeeded im
getting my hand upon my kaife, and
looking him straight in the oyes
handle. I made the wound you see
there, sir. I am the man who did that,
He fell to the ground. 1 got up; he
was dead. (With a sneering laugh.)
I had that box made. He was put in
it and I left, I expected to reach the
And here we are!”
His self-possession had returned. He
wore the braggadocio sir of a virtuosc
assassin in relating his erime, They had
rarely seen such andacity,
they were dealing with a mad man,
**So then, you owu it,” said the mag-
istrate. *“‘But it must have been blind
rage that made you, after mortally
wounding him, mutilate the yet warm
body so horribly as in the sad sight un.
der your eyes,”
Rage? Dat, sir, the head made it
too long for the case. It had to be out
off.”
“That butchery was not enough to
assuage your thirst for vengeauce, Yon
bad still the courage to flay him.”
“Bless mel”
Every face looked shocked at this in.
a low cruelty satisfied,
“Justice wil estimate this properly.
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““His name! This is not serious, sir.
“Behave in a more seemly manner,
What is his naxe?”
“I give you my word, I never trou-
bled mysell to ask Lim ”
““I'nen you struck a being you scarce-
ly knew?”
“You would have doue as I did,”
““At least he had injured you in some
way?”
“*Not at all, personally.”
‘“Nevertheless, one does not kill his
fellow-creature without reassa,”
“My fellow-creaturel’
The gentleman gave a nerveus laugh
that froze the marrow of Lis listeners,
**This conduct is most unbecom ng.
(To the Commissary.) Take the man
into custody,”
“Hands offt I shall not gol” ex-
claimed the gentleman of the box,
‘“There is a misunderstanding,”
““Misunderstandiog?”’
“What you take to be my fellow
creature, He he-he! Ha ha-hal”
“Well, wel ?”
““No, really, it is too much, 1 shail
burst! Ho-ho-ho! ho-to-h 1”
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“It is a bear!”
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Railroad Companies Plant Trees.
One hundred and twenty-six thousand
miles of railway are now resonant with
commerce in the U.ited States, Eaoh
mile contains 8000 wooden ties (the
average life of the te is ten years; each
year ten per cent, of the ties is renswed, )
At 60 cents apiece the annoal cost is
more than $20,000,000, and ten years
from date every tie now in use will have
been renewed. Think of the forests
thus destroyed, and of the other means
A DEADLY ENCOUNTER
detween Hunter, Indians and Greizily
Bears--Tho Hanter temains
Possession of the Field
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{of the mountains, form the Salmon,
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Cat, Bitter Sweet, and
the Bitter
| receives Wild
other ereeks down toward
| Root Mountams
| I hud journeyed to the forks of the
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The reader who
the entrance toa coal
mto the darkness from the
form an iden of the drift I
into, The grade was very
the bottom so rough that I fell
twice in going twenty-five
Bay
had plunged
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feet,
was not over three feet wide, and only
one Indian could come m1 at a time,
me. As I turned at bay the foremost
caused the smoke,
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om Do
Capt. Hall, stun
over to Liu
4 wnered Goh
and arrows, the elaws of i
soi b (akin three
men, and egongh pipes, i
Knives, charms and feathers 10
musenn,
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| and trappers, and, while they had spent
{ the winter in trapping for furs and pelts
I had developed the fact that coal,
mica, slate, marble, copper, and other
in the mountains. Owing to the depth
of snow and severity of the weather, 1
had not finished my work of prospect.
ing when spring came, while the trap-
pers were ready toabandon the exhaust.
ed field and move east into the foot-hills
of the Bitter Root.
On the first day of May 1
alone. I had a horse, two pack mules,
a rifle, two revolvers and plenty of food
and ammunition. As soon as the men
left me I pulled up stakes and moved
around to the east side
tain, where there was less
more sunshine, Hetween the foothills
and the mountains was a long, narrow,
winding valley, varying in width from
ten vo fifty feet. The snow was just
leaving this valley, and the grassof last
shape for the horses,
Nothing of special interest occurred
until the 5d of June, On that morning
while cooking breakfast, a monster
grizziy, the first one seen during the
winter, suddenly appeared within
feet of my camp fire, coming up
winding valley from the south.
| between him and the horses, but
latter were 80 terrified that had
not been stoully staked out they would
have made their escape.
The bear halted, as I said, and as he
displayed no intention to come nearer,
I did not wish to provoke him by any
act of hostility. He was in lean con-
dition, with his shaggy coat in
thing but presentable shape, He star.
ed at me with curious eyes, sniffed the
air, grew uneasy after a few minutes,
and finally lumbered off down the valley
out of sight. I was thoroughiv glad to
be rid of Bruin, but before I had finish.
ed my breakfast
brought two other grizzlies with
all full grown,
Well armed as I was, I realized that
I stood no show against the three. The
borse was wild with
mules were so overcome that they lay
{ down with weakness, I piled on the
i brush, and as the fire blazed and erackl-
{ ed the bears took alarm and galloped
t off, looking back as If to see if they
| were pursued,
the
they
him
noyed me more than I can explain. I
was more uneasy than I I had dis.
{ covered three Indians prowling about,
| A grizzly bear is the natural foe of
| everything that lives, He 18 without
{ fear. His strength is something as
He will fight twenty men
assoon as one. Fire all the oullets
from the chamber of a Winchester into
him and not one may strike a vital
spot. The sight of flame and smoke
had kept them from attacking me, but
I was by no means satisfied that they
to build another fire above them. Ir
one spot the valley narrowed until it
was not more than eight feel wide, and
here 1 built a solid fre of heavy limbs
-one which would last fora whole
day. A quarter of a mile below the
j camp I found another good spot, and
{ bulit another fire, and then felt com:
| paratively safe. The only fear was
| that I would keep the bears away to
{ bring Indians down upon me. The
heavy smoke could be seen for twenty
miles, and if seea by red men they
would certainly invesiigate
I did not leave camp that day, being
busy with specimens ond in making
| repairs to my clothing, and the day and
night passed without an alarm of any
sort. This put me in good spirits, and
I permitted the firesto die down toa
great bed of eonls, which would retain
toeir heat all day, and soon after break.
fast shouldered my rifle and started off
down the valley to prospect znd inves.
tigate. You may believe that I kept
my eyes open forsight a of grizzlies, but
they seemed to have left the neighbor.
hood for good.
At the end of about five miles the
valley suddenly broadened or debouch-
ed into another. This larger valley
opened in from the broad plains, and
was a mile long. I had no sconar round.
ed a mass of rock and earth and ‘brought
the larger valley into view than my
ears were greeted with a te rible yell.
Right before me and not a quarter of a
mile away, were saven or eight Indians
surrounding a camp fre, with their
ponies grazing near by,
At such a time as that men think and
act quickly, If I ran back up the vale
ley such action would uncover my camp
and lose my aowosls, There was no
place at hand to make a successful de-
fence, with the odds so much against
we. Asthe Indians sprang to their
feet I turned to the right and dashed
into a ravine opening nto the moun.
tain itself, Thee wasa stream run.
ning down it from the melting snow,
but presen‘ly I found a fairly beaten
path running along up the ravine and
windiug tarough the trees and around
rocks, Knowing that my life was at
stake, 1 put forth dvery effort to reach
a defensive spot,
When | had gene up the ravine 350
feet I found farther progress impossi-
ble. Rieht before me was an opening
into the cif into which a man on horse
back could have entered, while the
width was all of twenty feet. [| dashed
into the place to nd myself la a large
chamber, The light was very dim, but
| saw two drifts leading off from tus
further into the mountains [| was
after a secure hiding and dashed
wito the right-Land without a mo-
menta’s hesitation,
The Indians were #0 clos on
heels as I entered the dark drift Jat
Re, Ta al
looking toward the light and the first
from my revolver plerced
As he fell I fired again and
knew this
from the way the fellow yelled out.
thusiasm cooled down, They
discovered that I was not defenseless,
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Zl now became as silent as death,
and not a move was made for a quarter
I had made a temporary
myself that they would abandon their
How far back the drift ex-
tended I had no meansof knowing, and
instead of seeking to ascertain, I erept
to within ten feet of the mouth. I had
a Winchester and two revolvers, and
could have kilied Indians all day long
had they sought to enter the drift. But
one warning was enough, They knew
By and by I heard the crackling of
flames and smelled smoke, and directly
drift
They were going io
pushed into the entrance of the
drift was
as might
The draught of the
smoke could be driven in at me. This
A rock large enough to furnish cover
for an Indian was rolled to the mouth
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By
retreating a few feet and lying flat
down I was safe from his bullets,
off,
killed, and the proper way to prove that
I hadn't been was to send a warrior in
with a lighted torch to ask me. He
banged Into him, and dropped him. He
panions sought to draw him out, and I
I had killed two and wounded two,
and knew that not over four sound ones
remained, I was wondering if it
wouldn't be the best plan to flash out
at them with my revolvers, when a
series of yells, shouts, screams and
growls filled the chamber beyond me.
Then followed five or six shots,
growls and yells, and as | kept my eyes
on the opening I caught a glimpse of a
grizzly bar aad a warrior struggling,
In five minutes from the first
there was no other noise han that
the rocky floor,
What had happered ? I had run into
the den of bears seen in the morning,
and the Indians had followed, The
bears had come home from their
morning walk and the result must have
been disastrous to the Indians, Al-
though {ally realizing the ferocious na-
ture of the antmal, I was not as fearful
of him as I bad been of the Indians A
full grown grizzly could hardly squeeze
his way down tae drift, and | was cer-
tain to kill him if he toiled to.
After a bit I crept carefully forward
until [could see the chamber. It was
a sight to make one gick. Two bears
lay dead on the floor, and a third was
lying on his belly and licking the blood
which flowed from several wounds, But
others had suffered more, 1 had two
dead Indians in the drift and ive others
lay in the chambar—bitten, clawed, and
torn uut!l tae spectacle was a hideous
one to gaze upon, There was blood
everywhere and upon everything, and
pieces of bloody flesh were mingled and
mixed with patches of Indian dress and
firearms,
While I sthod looking at the horrors
the wounded bear rose up with a flerce
A correspondent gives some curious
facts concerning the “Jompers” among
the French Canadians, He says: They
| attracted my attention as
{ some points of interest bearing upon the
nervous system, showing to what a
hypersensitive condition it may be
brought by certain influences early be-
gun and long continued,
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| led them to spend munch time among the
French camps speak of these ‘jumpers,’
thought, absurd stories they related in
| room of my fumigating station, I nei.
| desk, by turning the button suddenly,
| thus letting the frame fall a short dis-
| tance, making a quick, sharp noise,
when three out of seven French -Cana-
| their certificates of inspection, leaped
{into the air as if they had been shot,
at the same time uttering a vell which
{ would have done credit to a North
| American Indian, From that time 1
i was on the watch for those
| characters, and, when
{ inquiries of them through my interpre-
| ter in regard to the cause of their con-
dition. Before apeaking of this per-
haps, it will be well to enumerate some
One or two instances will be sufficient.
| Recently one of them, a Frenoch-Cana-
| adjacent camp to the postoflice. Just
| a4 he was about to ask the postmaster
| to the official, a man of 65 years of age,
“Jumper,” mischievoasly eried
“Grab him by the throat!” The fellow
man by the throat and held on until
Another unfortunate woodchopper
| ecamp-heater, in which waa a very hot
| fire, when some one cried, “Grab the
furnace!”
{ order, and as a result left a scorched
| pattern of each hand on the nearly red-
| hot pipe, thus rendering him unfit for
| his work in the woods for some time,
I could, were it pot for taking up
valuable space, enumerate instance after
instance fully as peculiar as the above,
In brief it may be stated, that at any
time aud under any circumstances, with
the slightest provocation and almost in-
stantaneously on being spoken to, one
its nature, trivial or serious, He will
leap on to a table, or over a stove, or
into a river or pound, throw any article
or weapon he may have in hand 1n any
tence or exslamation. So serious a mat.
absolutely refuse to admit a man known
as a *Jumper” into their camps, I find
they are not whally confined to French,
Canadians, as occasionally a Canadian
of lrish parentage will exhibit the same
| eymptons,
As stated above, I have endeavored,
when possible, to investigate ar to the
cause of this peculiar and distressing
condition, ana while I find, without
doubt, that primarily it is due to an
inherited nervousness, the immoadiate
cause is in taking such children, when
small, and while firmly held tickling
them until convulsive symptoms appear,
This seems to be the story of such ones
as I have made Inquiries of. Whatever
the cause, the condition is one much
| more easily acquired than lost, as it
| Stmly clings to its vietim far into adult
| life,
huis drove him mad, and he wanted
revenge on the dead. Isaw ham put a
paw on the breast of an Indian, seize
the throat in his teeh, and at one sin-
gle wrench he tore the head from the
body. He seized another by the leg,
just above the knee, and I heard the
bones crush like glass as his teath shut,
He jerked and twistad two or three
times and the leg was torn off.
It was the frenzy of de th, As the
bear bit wud tore at one of the corpses
he suddenly tottered, braced his legs
aad then sunk down and rollad over,
aud soon breathed hs lat. I was so
spellbound that it was two or three
minutes before | conld wove, The
spectacle was even more horr ble when
L+f powd out and secured a stronger
ligut, and direcily my aerves were so
unstrung at the recollection of what
td vecuresd th ¢ 1 rushed out of the
cave into bwopenar. As [ guned
the oulside it struck ma that tw In-
dians had doul thes eft one of their
numbir tH watch the horses, As 1
went down the raviee I determined, if
{11s was the case, to attack hm, with
the hope of wiping out the whole party.
When 1 ere; t out of the ravine anoth-
er hoody spectacle awaited me, The
Indian poules had been houblsd to pre-
vent them from wandering away. and
none of the party had been left in
charge, The grizzlies had come upon
the horses ficst, and every ons of them
was dead on the grass and horribly mu-
tilated, They had not been killed to
satisfy hunger, but to gratlly a fero-
clous whim,
After a few hours, during which time
[ returned to my own camp, to find
everything safe, 1 re-entered the cave
and secured the firearms of the dead
Reproducing a Slugging Match.
A novel use to which instantaneous
photography may be put has been re-
cently suggested. Every one is famil.
iar with the Interesting experiments of
Mr. Muybridge, whose photographicdis-
| coveries regarding the various positions
| assumed by a horse in motion so aston-
ished the artista, Mr. Muybridge’s
instantaneous views will, if properly
arranged and made to pass rapidly be-
fore the eye, be blended into the sem-
blance of a single figure which has the
appearance of the most life-like motion.
Mr. Muybride has recently been taking
pictures of a boxing match and it is
suggested that he shall execute a series
of visws of the next prize fight in which
the Boston slugger, John L. Sullivan,
is engaged,
If this can be successfully accom-
plished the views may be reproduced
by wholesale and sold all over the coun-
try, so that, with the aud of a “thaama-
trope'’ such as can be bought in any toy
store, one can sit in his own parlor apd
view the fight from the first round to
the fnal knockout. Im this manner,
too, records may be kept of all great
battles fought by the champions of the
ring. It would thus be possible
hence, when Mr. Sallivan ‘is a
seo him knock out Mr. Mitchel or Mr.
ELD BAPE.
IMvoroed Alter Death
iYE: An unnsua
ted Wo the Baperior
legality of a
divorce which was not 1 rutil
ed, Wm,
4 1 An
Lis wile in the Buperior
for an absolutes divoree, A jadg.
¢ wus entered ou February 3, 1884,
Mrs, Derrickson, which she
the ground
four or five Lonurs
iention 1s pros
gv tard
CVE dics s after 148 AYE (4
vy
% ¥ ¢ ward % $i
WY. LITICKE Ji, Wiit ® irr
sued
2 1a
id, ALDI,
it was entered
furtber reason that it was improperly
granted,
Mrs, Dericksdbn makes Samuel and
Susan T. Derickson, the parents of her
late husbaud, and ber three children
defendant, Bhe says that in
1883 her husband accused her of nfl.
an agreement of separation by which
Lis was given the custody of their three
children, The sgreement contains a
Mrs, Dorickson says that
Her hus-
band, however, sued her for an abso-
late divoree, and she avers he employed
three detectives who falsely swore,
when the case was brought before the
referee, that one of them had been inti-
come void,
After all the testimony was taken the
Derickson, which was confirmed by the
Court. This was on February 8, 1854,
At 9.20 o'clock on the morning of that
ment in his favor was not entered until
5 o'clock in the aiternoon of the same
day. Mr. Derickson left an estate
valued at about ¢4 000, Mrs, Darick-
son wan's the judgment of divorce vaca.
ted, or in the event of the Court decil-
tered, she asks that the action be
revived in order that shes may appeal
from the judgment and obfain a rever-
eal, so that she may fake out letiers of
tate,
This complaint was demnrred to upon
the ground that it did pot state facts
sufficient to constituteslcause of action,
and his executors or administrators
were not meutioned there was a defect
Freedman, before whom the demurrer
directing a judgment in favor of the
defendants, witn leave to Mrs, Perick-
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“What made you think I'd want to
purchase that book?” ssked a reporter
ou the West Shore road of a train boy
who had just deposited in his Isp a
voinme giving a complete history of all
the notable encounters in thesprize-ring
within the last hundred years, The
reporter in question, be it observed,
although of unfortunately somewhat
pugnacious aspect, §jickes especial
delight in reporting sermons, and is as
ignorant of the Marquis of Queensbury
roles as of the differential and integral
calcuius,
+] thought you was a sport,” replied
the train boy, taking » rapidly inventory
of the interlocutor. He was a shrewd-
looking lad with piercing eyes and »
nose which is generally supposed to in-
dicate that its owner knows a thing or
two.
“Then do you always try fo select
books to suit the character of each pas-
senger?”’
“Of course I does. 1 hits is right
generslly, too, though 1 sometimes get
left, Bat tain’t half as bad to mistake
a religions man for a sport as to mis
take a sport for a religious man, The
time aud sling ali the cuss words he
knows at you-—that if he’s in the
smokin’ car,”
“Do you find much variety of taste
among the ladies on the trains?’
“Cert, When I see a woman who
wants {0 be thought a Ene lady but
ain't, I drops her some novel about
jukes and bloated aristocrats, where all
the men has plenty of stamps and the
women folks lots of jewelry. When I
strikes a lady what's a genooine thing I
flops her down a book that mint got no
darned nonsense in it—some book that's
been runnin’ ever since I've been in the
business and no tellin’ how long afore,”
*‘How about the men?”
“You've got to study them just as
hard. Them dudish feilers is the worst
customers, They never buys no books.
They'll just set and sack their canes all
day, thinkin’ about mashin® or some
such rot, I suppose. A man wot's full
of business and looks] worrited don't
often bay books. He can't keep his
thoaghts on ‘em, Young men that ain't
dudes and ain't got no more money’'n
they know what to do with make the
best of customers, And old men wot’
takin’ life easy an’ contented lke and
ain't everlastingly bothering themoelves
about money, buy a good maay books
on the trains, A railroad tran is »
mighty good place to stady haman
natar’ 1,"
“What's your favorite reading?’
“J like to read how poor boys got ob
in the world till they got to be real
bugs like that feller Edson what
to sell books 00 a train same as I do.”
“Lit me have that book of Parrar's
sermons, and don't take me for a sport
*“You can bet I won't,”
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