SUPPOSE. Suppose, my dear, that you were 1 And by your side your sweetheart sate; Suppose you noticed by avd by The distance "twixt you were too great; Now tell me, dear, what would you do? I know-—and so do you? And then (so comf. riably pacell) Suppose you only grew aware That that dear, dainty little waist Of hers looked very lovely there; Pray tell me, sooth-—what would you do? I know-aund so do you! Then, having do ie what I just did With not a frown to check or chill, Suppose her red lips seemed to bid Defiance to your lordly will; Oh, tel mo, sweot, what would you do? 1 know aud so do you! {Engene Field, Hunting a Flosnshiner BY M. M. FOLSOM, “ We were very much puzzled over a the Blue Ridue Mountains,” said back in his chair. that whisky was being made in was the habitat of the moonshine There had been a distillery that peighborhood some ten or a dozen years ago, run by a noted moonshiner—old Reub Davis—but times had become so hot for him that he sinddenly decamped, giving out the report thut he was going to Texas. It has been so long since his disappearance that gotten him, “Still we were puzzled. Our deputies could find evidence unimpeachable of the existence of a contraband distillery by banging around the little cross roads vil lages and attending the ings where ‘corn juice’ and were plentiful; although supplies could be traced almost tot taio head, the exact never be found, Maoy and many a weary tramp did we take among ravines, in people had almost (or. : differ but 4 base of hefoun place of deposit could those rugged mountains day, in sun and 1 batfled. “Finally we decided on making a reg ring hunt for the culprit, and brigh early one morning I started out with determined haul before night or els and dark night and : » *1ll +o gill, DUL BUHL ¥ ree of my keenest depuiies, make a the frosty two of the men in one i out across the Cut Log ridge Donald “Heachi hit a whill of the bean to look around for some clue as to it Perched away up the mountainside, overhanging a brawling bro that came down across the road we were traveling . spend I sent rection wid sot with Me nicht tt 16 woods Bigat in ta i i familiar flaver, and § source. on K imbling i spied a shabby-looking cal v hiten would have appeared uniohabited for a little curl of smoke iazily from the rough Bidding McDonal remain with horses, | clitabed t pre aching the low doorw iy I old woman who was looking household work. Everythis noceut and unsuspicious as if not a drop of contraband of the spot. * ‘May 1 I asked “*“Ya-as: wait a minit and you a splinter.’ * sNo, trouble in and get it myself.’ * ‘Oh, the house ain’ come into,” she repli Pe igusiy. ¢* “That's all right, ma'am. to that sort of thing. **As I said this 1 stepped in, and, ad save ascending FOCK : Lie : t the mou n, aud sp ted an after her on g ton't LUE occurred to me that the chimney pnususally thick in the back wall. ** *Your old man isn't in? I said, * ¢] bain't got an old man.’ “ ‘You're a widow, then?” ““ “Yes, s0 fur as 1 know. man went off more'n ten Said he were a-goin’ to Texas, bain't hearn a word day till this’ *“*Why did he leave? “ *On acconnt of the revynue men, see he used to make a little was My old years ago and | to skin ont.” ** ‘What is your name?’ ““ ‘Davis, Sarah Ann havin’ a hard time of Davis, after me but myself; but thank the Lord, I've managed to keep soul and body together.” All this time she was talking in such a meek and innocent way that my sus- picions were half disarmed; but still | was unsatisfied, as that whifl of savory name of the woman, coupled with the history of old Reub. Davis, had aroused my suspicions, ** ‘1 suppose a traveler couldn't get a little drum hereabouts?” 1 remarkea? ** “God bless you, not as I knows of. 1 never tech it, for I'm a strick church member and ef 1 did I wouldn't know whar to start to git a drap of licker.’ ** * Much obliged. Good morning.’ “2 Good-by, sir. Wish I could accom- modate ye, but 1 can’t.’ “Descending the path I met a gawk- ish-looking lad driving an ox team, loaded with wood, up a crooked road toward the cabin. He eyed me askant, but continued his toilsome journey with- out stopping to speak, +f McDonald,” said 1, * you may think what you please, but we're right close to the den, il we only knew how to locate id “Then I related all the circumstances, all the time casting about for some solu- tion of the mystery which I became more and more convinced by some vague in- tuition existed mear by. A few steps from the road that led from the woods to the cabin there was a thicket that ob- structed the rude track just belGw where it iotersccted with the road we were travelling, “ ‘Mack, wait here a minute; there is 80 harm in a little investigation,’ and I made my way down to the thicket, in which I noticed an old door shutter ly- lng negligently, half concealed by the brambles. Making my way to it, I care- fully lifted it up, and to my surprise, found the mouth of a cavern, which, though narrow, showed signs of recent use. Calling to McDonald to fasten the horses and join me, we were soon ex- ploring the cave. A descent of a dozen Steps brought us to a turn in the cave and a rough door, 1 gave it a kick, but there was no response, except a hollow reverberation which indicated a cone siderable apartment beyond. “Get me a rock and I'll break it in,’ I called to McDonald, but just then I was startled by a shriek in the rear. “Don’t kill him! Please don't kill him!" and down came the old woman | had seen at the cabin. ‘If you won't Kill him I'll let you in.’ replied. ‘So go ahead.’ *‘She produced a rusty key and un ngainst the rock as it turned ou its rude wooden hinges. out,’ she cried, but no Reuben answered, ‘Oh, you've geart him clean to death, fur he weren't well nohow,” and she dived into the cave and we at her heels, guided us, mong tubs and which we dragged “Wake up, i light,’ said 1. 4 ‘Mister, I'll go, ef you'll pre mise not to hurt me,’ ‘t ‘No danger of that “Well, sir, he was and specimen ever saw, He seen the light he hardly had. in the cave since he for i kegs, from among the body of a man, oid man, and kindle a Come on.’ the forlorn most of mooashiner | us if be vears, and 1 think He had spent his days pre tended Texas, venturing forth only at night, and then with every possible precaution, **The cave, partly natural and partly artiticial, extended as ns the center of the main higl which ran along the side of the i i abject looked hadn't in ten to leave PAL point, and y hundreds of pe from nd by a unter-pi » y 3 > » ¥ steam to and up the rear of pe, conveyed chim Him thus concealing let the slo ney, thove Below he ps down by itch to a point where the and & subterranear little Woo a wild CHLOE, brook led glen, broken by many cas 30 that 'po tra liscovered in that direction “The mouth of the cave =» RO CAre iily concealed that in wood a w sticks could be thrown lent, and carnied down after + raw materials { same n apuer the ligu is a1 dark, as r the dis ery, sr could carted and hame to d up, Lis £ mash overturs is safeguards « the world, He was sen but he did no ery nf aud reed habits of Rain in Japan, summ yers the er Season dro iz fare fre jaent, an i tl ! Gelds, | beautiful, presen i they do all the different shades innumerable, gradually lose their brilli ancy of color, turn yellow and parched and threaten the total | crop Not only does the ithe wells | carrying of water | So a drought in Japan is indeed calamity, : fore so 3 » destruction of the rice suffer, but dry up and necessitate the fe f rom long distances a great After waiting {| downfall of rain, long and ho the people turp en masse to evoke the power of their deities | to send them the saving showers. A pro | cession is formed of perhaps 200 men, nearly vaked, who, carrying straw em. | blems representing the sun with the rain | pouring from it, and with long streamers having prayers written on them flying in the wind, proceed to the nearest river or | bay, where the whole company wade into ping for a | water until they are waist-deep, and, | surrounding the emblems, pray aloud and { throw water on the images with both | hands, After doing this several times the pro- | cession is reformed, when it proceeds to | the temple to pray again. This cere mbny is repeated several times, and should the rain come in abundance prayers are offered in thanksgiving: | should it be only a shower they blame tions until a downpour takes place. Another form of devotion for the same the prayers by the regular beatings of tom-toms and gongs. Sometimes at the weird sound of the tom-toms and the voices of the men gradually growing louder and louder as the boat approaches, each man bending to his paddie in regu- lar time as it passes us swiftly and grad. ually disappears in the darkness, and is soon lost to sight and hearing. All About the Human Heart, The human heart isa hollow muscle of a conicle form placed between the two lungs and iaclosed in the pericardium, otf heart sac. The ordinary size of the heart in the adult is about 5 inches in length, 8} inches in breadth at the broad. est part and 2} inches in thickness, and its weight is 10 to 12 ounces in men and 8 to 10 ounces in women, The increase in size is greatest and most rapid during the first and second years of life, ite bulk at the end of the second year being exactly double what it originally was, Between the second and seventh year it is again almost double in size, A slower rate of growth then sets in and continues during the period of maturity of other portions of the body. After the fifteenth year up to the fiftieth the an. nual growth of the heart is about , 061 of a cubic inch, the. increase ceasing about the fiftieth year, [Chicago H p. a - RP SAN Ceylon’s Wily Crocodiles. The following is a fair example of how cunningly crocodiles, in common with all other wild animals, can conceal themselves in moments of danger: After a happy week spent in the jungle with a friend of mine, we halted for breakfast, before making the last stage for head. quarters and home, at a place oalled Poonarhyn—Anglice, Garden of Flowers ~and while at breakfast were amused by watching a number of crocodiles, about eight or ten, sunning themselves on the surface of a small lake or tank, as it is there called, of about an acre in extent, A sudden thought struck me, “I say, Murray, what fun it would be to try and catch some of those beggars '** “Bravo,” said he, ‘‘Let’s try presently. Appu, send the horsckeeper to to the village and tell him to bring up all some long fish- ing pets. We will give a good san- present), The villagers scented some fun, and with the further stimulus of a santosum It was now 11 o'clock pond was situated. we knew, includi eighteen tied tw long « It was breast deep, about a foot or heavy mud, We nets together so as to make one nouch to re i thirty yards, and this was he weighted alon » bottom and to be drawn with long shore as nr ine i inches of +} i fq h Heros Lace RE nhout avi rrange ropes from each Immediat line of men long, pointed poles the mud along ti and so drive into proper position in front { t} My friend, f entered into the joke to thie soe about } prod the vy mali uw net, wid line into it we all now splashing, houtis st and hauling, but——s did re find of had came to the ed ] Ww i that at bia an { for went, ampings, not a sign » Drutes that we dragged wara minster Gaz Evolution of the Book, leaden 1 wi #1 10 Kees re afterward £2 inws of the Cret the y y Oras on Homans et brnses tablets rr dius, a; preser ved at L iets have been dug Treaties between the and estates, for over on this endur York DHspatch graved 1 : 3 tah Tuseany. Spartans and ere made ing material. New Ons, Yerait nize Jews were writ brass fuptdpe % % 3 velter ITIRY, W Not a Tyrant, Iy is truly annoying to a plain every day citizen, to bave rights infringed upon by a great person. age. It 1s easy te understane of mind of the hungry traveler confront ed by pomp and power, as is related in this true story Tired and hungry, a traveler whom we may call Mr. Smith, entered a village inn and ordered a roast chicken. He sat down by the fire and took great comfort spit and thinking how fine the flavor would be. strange looking individual entered the kitchen. His costume was eccentric, but it was undoubtediy that of a great porsonage, To the innkeeper he said with an im. Mr, Smith, insufferably haughty air, “Well, William, will that chicken be roasted soon?” ‘“Sir,” cried Mr. Smith sternly, “that is mine. 1 ordered it you.” “What is that to me!" said the per- sonage harshly, “What is that to you!" cried Mr. Smith, faint with hunger and just indig nation, Then the intruder more gently, spoke again aod I am going to represent the Black Prince ot an entertainment at the Town Hall this evening," «| Youth's Companion, ———— AO Accomplishments of a Montana Girl, Paul Van Cleve, a member of the Mon- tana Legislature, own s a big sheep ranch in that State, His daughter Helen, aged fourteen years, is his con. stant companion in his rides about the ranch, and is reputed to be one of the most accomplished riders in that part of the country. She is a picturesque figure on horseback, as she dresses somewhat after the cowboy style, wearing trousers, colored shirt and broad sombrero, and rides in the true cowboy fashion, often bareback. She is also a shot with the rifle. Although living in an isolated spot, Mr. Van Cleve has had his children carefully educated and his home is one of refinement, being in fact, a favorite social [Enthering place for ranch-owners Gr miles aroun I 4510 HS Se A FSIS An Iagenious Cloek. ew" ——- A firm in Calcutta, India, has lately completed a very ingenious timepiece in the shape of an cight day clock, which strikes the hours on a large full toned gong and chimes the quarters on eight bells, In connection with the clock there is a perpetual calendar, which gives the correct days of all the various months, including the twenty-vine days of Feb. ruary io each year, There is a military procession worked by the clock, representing various branches of the British army, consisting of artillery, cavalry and infantry, and the staff in review order. There is also a sentry on duty who salutes, a drummer who beats the drum, and a bugler who raises his bugle to his mouth every few minutes. All of these figures are ar ranged at the top of the dial, A musi cal instrument plays while the procession is marching in review Near the bottom of the clock is placed amilitary band, which is concealed by a the music is piaying and the procession moving, and falls again immediately fter the eolock has struck, and remains until the next hour, The chonized mahogany, is about 6 3 feet 6 Inches and ieep, higl Orname: td ae hi iv 3 Py BIZRIS Cun, wide, 6 inches i wl n the show nse Crystals, His First Experiences, instrument. ti $ ¢ Ie } ng th i i the Dell he § reccis rd his empl fmation was und hax IRINess John that as his employer y y r hit 3 like an ancient marin MIpence a nig He his answer int in Came ; “ "bh sine a. ROCK The answer d you at all Nmith and again. but with no A happy thought struck him when be had recovered his wind after the tenth blast: and he softly whispered to himself: “] wonder i easased again | better result. if the { old idiot is deaf.” His hair rese slowly | on end as he heard the sound of his governor's voice coming softly from the ““No, John, the old idiot is not deaf, and you can take a fortnight's | notice.” John declares that telephones are frauds —! Pittsburgh Dis i pate h. feceiver now A Difficult Operation. Daisy Bedwell is the sixtenn year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. G. Bed | well of Yazoo City, Mass. | was four and a half years old she lost al | side by necrosis. That side never grew, | her right cheek, | her of this hideous deformity. | place at Roosevelt Hospital and was per. {formed by Dr. Frank Hartley, and | George Howe Winkler, professor of operative dentistry at the New York | Dental School. | An incision was made in the neck, the bone sawed squarely in two, and the { chin forced around to the front and held there permanently, On the lower jaw an upright bolt was soldered which slid up and down in a gold bar soldered to the upper jaw. A plate of teeth was pluced on the right side, and Daisy went ome a happy and pretty girl, —[ New York News, —————— A Novel Business, One of the novel bhudiness trades of Boston is that of a dealer in secondhand late glass. Nearly all of this glass is ught by the dealer from insurance companies. The large plates of this kind of giass are insured when put in a win. dow, and when any of them is broken the owner of the injured glass usually prefers that the insurance company should replace the broken piece rather than that he should be paid its price: The dealer in the secondhand glass con. trives to utilize what remains of the un. hroken part of the glam. —| Chicago Her. THE JOKERS BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, Ought to Sauffer—-No Change in the Name—Clrecumstances Alter Cases Natural Sight, Ete., Kte, GUGHT TO BUFFER. Barber Does the razor {eel sir? Patron (groaning )—Umph! I hope it does, It deserves to.—| Chicago He ord, KO CHANGE IN THE NAME, Scene on the deck of a muil steamer at Kathetic Passenger (to Old Salt Can you tell me, my good man, the name of that fine bird hovering about? Odd Sal That's a balbatross, sir. Ai. P.—Dear me! quite a rars avis, is seca, 0, 8. Dunno, sir a haibatross X. P.~—Yes, yes, my good fellow, but I've always heerd f ), Bb, indigoantly) 0h, do wou? J wlbatross, just the bi coming humbu el 1 i ’ ‘ 3 vaat a 3 calls sumeas | calls you a g physician on i felt the pulse “Ah! ww than he wa r than De wa he ex the Answered : patien nthe heavy quit that two me trade egraph, CHE eS has caused 3 fH as Weil a8 Ine; she g if rie 1, nd a dag etvor, responded, or a day.” as City Journal, % 3. ii MATTER OF Your former to hire her. Mr. F wanis me servant gird is she honest and Hable Dressmaker it [ can’t say. [I have sent her wa with your bill five or six times, but she has never brought nue k my money. —| Texas Siftings. io ¥ Lata WHY Nori Bobby Pa, do eagle an eaglet? Pa-Yes:, Dobby Bobby==Then | suppose a little bull is a bullet. —| Judge. they call a young J 3 AX UNBLUSHING CONFESSION, I held her hand, her little hand, So soft, and small, and white, I pressed it often to my lips, And clasped its fingers tight, That loving clasp my love declared, And | was not ashamed To own 1 loved her, for who could For loving her be blamed! She let her hand, her little hand, test lovingly in mine, My tender pressures she returned, Like tendrils of a vive, Her little fingers clasped mine close, And her affection told, And why not! She's my daughter, and To-day she's four years old. —{ Somerville Journal NO ESCAPR. I dreamt I dwelt in marble halle; I felt at ease, with life contens, Till fancy brought the landlord's call ; He came, alas! to get the rent, «{ Buffalo Courier. A NICE DISTINCTION, Tourist] notice you charge different prices for seats in your omnibus, How is that! Omnibus Drive-~It's this way. When we get to a hill the first-class passengers may keep their seats, the stovud class passen must get out and the third. class eth rs mu** shove behind, — [Fliegende Blaotter, THE GIFT OF A SKARON, Sir Edgard Fitz Wales Your Amewij." pans aw so chahmingly thoughtiul, ye now." Mr. Hobbles--In what way! Sir Edgard Fitz Wales Why--aw-- after you've had your own summer, yo know, you have an Indian summer--foh the h natives, I su «{Chicago Record, PPOs. A PORT-BUPTIAL DISCOVERY. “Why don’t you want me to call you ‘dear?’ V “Because it makes me feel so cheap.” -{ Puck, CLASK IX GRAMMAR, Teacher Parse the sentence, tan is a penipsula.” Pupil (who never could understand grammar, anyhow) Yucatan is a proper noun, nom'tive case, second person sing- UAT nn “How do you make that out?” “First person lcatan, second person Yucatan, third person Hecatan: plural, first person, Weeatan second per “(x0 to your seat!” [Chicago Tribune, “Yuca- LIKE TWO PEAS, Hicks — Speaking of the Fogiesby twins, are they really so muel alike! Wicks—Yes, indeed: when them lies, the other will swear to Boston Transcript, of one it. A CARY IR POINT. A late judge, whose personal appear ance was as unpreposessing as his legal knowledge was profound and his intel female witness, good womant * sald he. the wo lect keen, interrupted a “Haombugged you know how to explain it | called you a hand- humbugging say, don't [ De- Farmer That's the Hu Enos in New literary Wer wrote ing & consul- doctor, who an’t think of the family.” when the liy took tie ANY more excuses to give to —{ Detroit Tribune. Case. | A PLACE TO SHIUS He-1 like the room, and perhaps Pll hire it, I hope no one iu the house piays the piano Landiady—Only my youngest daugh. ter, and she is only just begioning!— | Fliegende Blatter st but MONEY GOING ABROAD. ‘My wife has an absolute genius for making money go a long way, especially in the matter of dress.” “Indeed!” “‘ Yes; she buys all her now,”--! Detroit Tribune. gowns in Paris ROT EXCOURAGING. Nervous passenger— Why are you steaming along at such a fearful rate through this fog! Ocean Captain (reassuringly)—Fogs are very dangerous, madam; and I am always in a hurry to get out of them. [| Tit-Bits, RELY SATISFIED. Figg-—-What! you don’t call Muliman an opinionated man? Fogg—1 consider Muliman, as the world goes, a fair minded fellow. He is never biased in favor of other people's opinions, and he is entirely devoid of prejudice against his own convictions. — Boston Transcript. Queer Bridal Feasts, Marriage celebrations and marriage customs follow in the new world many of the customs of the old world. Sack posset, the drink of Shakespeare's time, a rich, thick concoction of boiled ale, eggs and spices, was drunk at New England weddings, as we learn from the pages of Judge Sewall's diary, but it did not furnish a very gay wassail, for the Puritan posset-drinking was Jreceded and followed by the singing of a m ~and such a psalm! a long, tedious, drawling performance from the Bay Psalm Book. The bride and groom and bridal party walked ina little procession to the meet. ing house on the Sabbath following the marriage. We read in the Sewsll diary . of a Sewsll bride thus ‘‘coming out,” or “walking-out bride,” as it was called in Newburyport. Cotton Mather thought it expedient to thus make public with due dignity the In some com- munities the attention of the interested public was further drawn to the newly married couple in what seems to us a very comic fashion, On the fol. lowing the wedding the gayly dressed bride and occu a nent seat in the gallery of Nd in he gle of as un they rose wly turned round | *
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