——
WHEN THE YEAR GROWS OLD.
When the year grows old,
And the sunflower’s gold
Turns to common dross and erambles into
brown and earthly mold,
When the sunlit skies
And my true love's
Fede and pale before the spleador of the
aster's purple dyes;
eyes
n the copse-entangled byways, and
P< hie forests and the fields,
eked with bits of flaming erimnson that
the flery maple yields,
eel the touch of melancholy that
fleeting moments hold,
And the hilltops wear a halo
year grows old.
the
when the
When the year grows old,
And the fall wiad cold
Pipes and whistles down the highway like
a hoyden overbold,
When the geay clouds frown
And the thistle-down
Flits and trips a merry measure in its
silver niled gown;
Then the hazel nuts are falling in a mad
and mazy trance,
And the rustling leaves are calling to the
spa
thistle’'s airy dance;
Yet a touch of melancholy rests upon the
wood and wold,
And the sun is veiled and hazy—when the
year grows old.
When the year grows old
When the bright days fold
tents and speed adowa
Their I
the centuries untold:
When the
And the hours slip by
Like the shufHe
twinkle of an eve;
phantom
moments fly
footsten or
of a i
Then the sumac clad in glory holds
ford above the mill,
nd the oak tree, grim and hoary,
the pass upon the hill;
But a task of mu holy
land
to the sons of
men is doled,
filled
wi old.
£
hiat the earth is wit
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the year gr
TWO FATAL IMPULSES.
“While I was in business out West
two years ago,’ Hugh Janenny
toa New York wbive,
*'a case of thieving that was unique,
startled the entire Northwest. The
city I was in is a lake port of more
than ordinary conseqiience, and a
great deal of grain, timber, and ore
find an outlet through it, and i
banking houses that would do honor
to a more pretenti
collection of primitive
the verge of the roughest
the continent. In one «
inancial institutions the
$80,000 was missing one s
and everybody from ti
down was greatly
strenuous exer
discover the
not more than
the concern
vault where
and all were the most
character and had been
ploy of the bank for
Detectives were
Chicago and other
said
Sin represent:
3
1
3
Lt has
1s town than that
buil
t+
on
aroest
of
sum
inal. There were
half a dozen men i
who had
the money
f
Of
access to the
was stored
effort was made to ge
the thief or thieves, but at
more than am
quiry the Vidoeqs
give up and announce
to place even the sligl
upon any member of the
money, which ir
bills of large denom
vanished as mysteriously
it had dissolved into the
course of a couple of months by
went on again just the
stockholders made defic
and it was only now and
the good people of the
to the loss casually.
“About a year after the
disappeared one of the youngest
the clerks in the bank eame to the
President, displayed a letter from a
friend in the East asking him to
into business with him. and offering
to furnish the necessary capital,
The clerk said the opportunity for
success in the venture outlined by
his friend was so promising that he
had come to the that he
could not afford to let it pass, and he
therefore tendered his resignation.
The resignation was accepted with
great reluctance by his superior
officer, for the clerk was one of the
model young men of the town and a
member of several religious organi-
zations,
nth of sean
were
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¥ was ir
the
it good,
then t
town re
Same
the
$
hat
¢ .
ierreaq
money
of
(re
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conclusion
the evening of his departure it was
arranged to give him a banquet in
the dining hall of the leading hotel.
his handbag and alight overcoat : it
was in the early fall, and the weather
is sharp in the Northwest as soon as
October sets in. The dinner was a
making and jollification until mid-
night, when the boys in a body would
escort their young friend to the sta-
tion and give him a farewell cheer ns
the train pulled out. [It
|
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i
not feel at the time that we
would be more or leas guilty in the
By all
doing stepped on to the
which was on the floor
clerk's chair. Taking a piece of chalk
from his pocket the joker said as he
wrote ‘$80,000° on one side of the
bag:
*“ ‘Well, boys, here he goes with
tho $80,000.’
“The elerk took the bag away from
his friend with a smile, led him back
to his seat at the table, and then ad-
dressing the company in a grave
voice, said :
“I can nssure you this is no jok-
ing matter. You all know how seri-
ously the loss of that money affected
every man in the bank with which 1
had the honor to be connected, and
mot one of us from the President
handbag,
“The chalking of ‘$30,000 on the
bag had been greeted with shouts of
faughter. but it
ing when the clerk coneluded,
taking his handkerchief, expunged the
inscription, There were frowns for
the luckless instigator of the joke,
the dinner was concluded in
silence. It was with many
of good will and many hearty
handshakes that t clerk 1 hi
en the train
and
expres
SIONS
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farewells, an
away his fi was
window f[rame
Now i ]
strained against
smiling a las
adien.
force was
same teair the
This man
knew the clerk well, and, approach-
from clasped him
about the shoulders, saying:
So you thought you would
the money: come
prisoner, Where's
ii . 1.3
Ing him Deng
get
NOW,
the
with
you are my
£30 O00 .
‘This coming on top of the o
much for the clerk
ne
strain was too
ana | in his seat
hands
re in this bag.’
rr had been joking
his and
1 at tho confession
ito custody,
next train
wonder
ole the
ry body saw how
He
one a
nna 2
fi. Ir
1
ad
thouch out
ner He
his room, stored it
vied
igi
LOOK
an ol
Is
itfall
waiting until
» the woods,
him
could make 2
somewhere,
would
the amount w
“Under
in
if
tim
examing
artth
tions on iLaor-
2 A
picion
as
taf. At
and a half
tions to write
shown the
He secure
have esc
supreme
iit had shoy
deal
8 Warnii
slot »
: OQ el
THE TOOTH WAS PULLED.
It Took a Railroad Wreck to Extract
the Molar.
antry
ther day
AS 800
her m
suneed abou
anything wit
“After ti
yrse than the other i
the
Ww i ' »
that I should take her to
large town, where a
istered Well, t
her so that at Inst
I took her there
miles by rail
“I went armed with a pair of for-
ceps as a matter of habit, and when
we got to the place and she saw the
gas bag and other appliances she had
the fidgets again worse than before,
and I had to give it up and take her
back home. I was thoroughly pro-
voked and very annoyed, but she had
money, and was paying for her fool-
ishness, sol tried to restrain my feel-
ings.
**About ten miles out of town. and
as the train was going along about
twenty miles an hour, and she was
holding her jaw and I was holding
mine in the seat her, we
came into collision with something
on the line, and the last thing I
knew we were rolling down an em-
bankment and being piled up in .a
very promiscuous fashion,
‘I don’t know how it came about.
but I wasn’t hurt much, and when
senses were fally restored |
3
dentist
Zns. he tooth
she consented, and
about
twenty-five
beside
window and laid heron a
by.
“She was pretty badly
and had beet knocked senseless. and
as I was endeavoring to restore her
“The next moment I had out my
forceps and the next I kad out the
aching tooth. Two hours later one
of the physicians who had been sum-
moned had restored her to conscious.
ness, and, as she opened her eyes and
saw me standing by her side, she
clapped her hand to her jaw and ex-
claimed :
Oh, doetor, T knew it would be
terrible, but I didn't think it would
be so bad ns that. However, though,
it’s out at last!’
“Then she went to sleep, and it
was a week before she knew the real
fucts of the case,’
‘Did she pay you anything extra?’
asked the writer.
| ‘No,'" smiled the dentist, *‘but the
{ railway company did—$2,500—nnd J
| got hall.’’
OPTICS MADE TO ORDER.
The Artificial Eyes as Good as the
Naturalin all Ways Except One.
‘Oh, what
asks
is this thing called
the blind of
and while modern science
answer him, it can produce arti-
ficial eyes which ea be
guished fr
PEArance goes A
boy the
cnn-
distin-
fur
i
at the
but
nnot
om natural ones so ns
elance
Tt
«shiop of an optist will give
tle information as
an
which a
(neturing artifi
ers and
ocular
ake an oye whic
natural one, except that
He uses a pec
to make the eyeball
yn of the ocule
snt’s eveball
make
their oy
Sneezing.
As Supe
was held
the ct
the plague :
any ciassical writers make espe
reference to sneezing, and
posed that during sneezing
were expelled
sneezing
in
|UD
devils
some
g
itsell is a reflex nervou
action, and brought by
mechanical irritation to the ends of
the nerve fibres which occur in the
tissue of the nose. When this irri
tation occurs, whether it be due to
foreigh body or change of tempera-
ture affecting the tissue of the nose,
a nerve impulse istransmitted to the
brain and certain nerve centers in
the medulls oblongata are affected :
this results in certain impulses being
transmitted along the nerves to the
muscles controlling respiration. By
this means the egress of air during
expiration is delayed, und the vari.
exits are closed When the
pressure, however, reaches a limit,
the exits are forced open, ''a power-
ful blast of air is expelled, and the
patient sneezes,"’
is about
ous
so
An Equine Tobacco Chawer,
A few davs ago a request was re.
ceived at police headquarters from
| Greencastle, Penn., that a lookout
| be kept for a horse that had been
| stolen there. Yesterday Detective
! Horne, to whom the case was as-
signed, arrested a colored man named
William Bower, on suspicion, as he
had in his possession a horse which
exactly tallied to the description of
the stolen animal, even to the fact
that it chewed tobacco, as did the
horse that was stolen in Greencastle.
The owner of the horse was here
yesterday and identified it as his.
Bower will be held until papers can
be made out for his return to Green.
castie, where he will have to answer
to the charge.
In 1802 there was 1,200,000 ¢ ” h
god 9,0) four wheeled keeled
i nes.
JAPANESE WOMEN.
LIKE THE MEN THEY ARE
ADOPTING OUR COSTUMES.
Uncomfortable and Unbecoming=-«
Their Stout Waists Do Not Fit
Slim Dresses--All Walk Pigenn~
Taoed.
In Yokohama
: many Japanese
attire. :
officers
the gireets of 1114
They are
Lhe
herdepartments
’ .
heir
ure
of
hus
med
shimoda
paper hekasa is
!
umbrella, ama-kKasa,
cloth
he sunshade doth
as 1
11 1 4 PI te
usually dark blue with
stripes of white.
1
ies
The gaudy red as
that are display
in Japanese stores this
are simply made to send al
only in the coldest
an Japanese woman wears any
protevtion for the head, then it is a
zukin, a el tied about the head
covering all but the nose and
somewhat after the Spanish style of
wrapping a mantilin about the head
As this is the only form of bonne*
in vogue, it can be imagined that the
ladies are not very fond of them, fora
woman is a woman tae world over
and only wants to wear what will
show her beauty to the best advant-
age.
The outer robe which they wear is
usually of a sombre color, blue, gray
or brown. It has great drooping
sleeves, and is closely wound round
the limbs,
of the lower limbs, and is one reason
why women take short minciog
stops. This outer garment is called
the kimono,
girded up in Grecian fashion.
this is bound a sash or obi. Itisthe
most bright-colored and striking part
of the outer attire, and gives a dash
of beauty to the plainest kimono, It
is usually of delicate silk, elaborate.
ly embroidered, and is the wearer's
pride. In the obl is worn the watch,
where the lady is so fortunate as to
have one. For watches among wo-
men are much rarer in Japan than
here, being possessed only by the
wealthy class.
Another part of the costume wiiera
a dash of color is permitted is around
the neck. Bright scarfs, in some-
what the form of a vest, are worn be- |
voath the kimono, displaylrg its
yellow sunsha
coin
i
oa
in
*
wenther
+1
a
eves
ow-necked costume.
It is in the undergarments that the
nnd brilliancy of
These garments are
of thé finest material that the wearer
gregtest variety
embroidered, They are in the form
of complete right over
another, with each one gaping just
enol limpse of the one
one dress
to give a g
1.
t 1. «4 ta 1 $4
garvant girl 8 costume i8 no less
Instead of wind-
or around the head in the
plain and barbarous fashion done in
tis country, to the
apancse girl arranges the
1
1
yess f
Sau
ful in its way.
wil
wel
fh 10
aust,
towel
This
d agejo,
wes would be
gerib-
braided
twists be-
the lo
sOrt COCKE,
jannty
«d head dress is calle
Lie In
ents of Europenr
DRAMATIC DREAMS.
Play of the
ination During Sleep.
Lightning. Like Imag-
11 this was d
performed,
counting for the first
thing was invented,
mere
tap;
stage
fn the moment between t
at the door and the second
i
I
Wild Horses in Nevada.
R. L. Fulton, the representative of
the land department of the Central
Pacific Railroad in Nevada, isin the
city. He says that men who have
given the subject much attention as.
sert that there are now running wild
in Nevada 200,000 head of horses, and
that they are multiplying at a rapid
notwithstanding the efforts
made {0 restrict their breeding
Legislature passed alaw per-
nitting any person to shoot stallions
running wild, and the stockmen who
are feeding hogs take advantage of
this law and shoot the horses, feed
The
feed value placed upon a horse is
about %2 8 head, which gives an idea
of the compmittive uselessness of
horseflesh in that State. A few
years ago there were turned loose
among the wild droves a finely bred
stallion, anda ot, supposed to be
'
rate,
inst
the object of the attentions of cattle
men, who sought to “apture him. His
ranging ground was on the Evans
ranch, near Iron Point, and he sue.
cessfully eluded all the attempts
made to make him a prisoner. He
was described as n magnificent speei-
men of equine Hesh, of wonderful
fleetness, and is supposed to have
died in his wild state. There are
many fine colts among the various
herds, but they possess but little
value. A large percent of the
wild horses are found in the neigh-
borhood of Elko and Iron Point, The
object in destroying them is to pre.
serve tha feed, which they natural
consume, for sieop and hogs, whi
have a marketeble valus,
Deer and Bison,
The bison of India has never been
kept long in captivity, except In the
case of one bull which Is now in the
possession of his highness thie Mahara-
fal of Mysore, How this ball came to
survive, when so many of his follows
had succumbed, Is a very pretty story.
It is related by the author of “Gold,
Bport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore,”
who took It down from the lips of
neighbor, Mr, Park
fini
i'n
Lio
i
}
who « antured 1
ml and was knowing to all the de-
tails of the story,
When
the
about three days old.
captured, bull was sup-
A
week afterward a young bur,
by
laborer’s cottage and was made a pris
doe Ban
igle dogs,
It was decided to Keep the deer
and the
tagethor
together,
ns a co mn the bisor
Hi
two were accord! get
were fed
wed to graze, and
nseparable,
and then al
‘
:
They were f
four In the
at twelve o'clock
afternoon, and seemed
£ times exactly
old it
with a nose
Vhen the bison was two years
y fit him
He to a tree, his
was Hbes
Hose
He
then, for
was heard
rope,
and
all about the gre
1L3AN,
the first and only
After this out
wottld some-
was regularly led
seemed to
put-
he scent, and
ph .
dnaing him,
"tng at once In the right diree-
bison hed ne uch power,
i npanion,
mt! he
% three years old he
and
wt
s doe
and
® On
ywedd
two
1861, and
rd Mr. El
t the bison
1 died, but for
er —
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} greatest
t theater-goers in the
Id are ltalians There are more
eaters ia Italy in projortion w the
OU than lo any other coun
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Dreadful
is
Runnin= Sores, 1!
I could not ste NoaGn
alt
FriLen,
tememiber
Hood’s*z= Cures
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Early to rise,
Eat cakes made of
buckwheat,
To be healthy and
wise.
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MAKES
The
Best
Cakes.
Always
Light
and Dainty.
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