4d SLEIGH RIDE.
Misty moonlight, sleighbells’ tinkle,
Endless wastes of ice and snow,
Gray hills, like an old man’s wrinkis,
Keen airs hissing as they blow,
In the sleigh a man and maiden,
Faces rosy, eyes alight,
Lips with whispered secrets laden,
Deep and sacred as the night
~how cold!
Cold
Wake the storming silver bells,
&
Upt
In the frosty wooded dells!
Steed, prythee hasten,
he hillside, down the basin,
Nay, the road's too short! Go slowly;
Warmly clad are lover-Kind.
Wrapped in one another wholly,
What
PA
reck they of frost and wind?
L Pastyon, in Muansey’s Magazine
OUTWITTED,
i
BY KATHARINE HULL.
y editor of the Sunday Magazine, |
the first time,
the fender and hi
his wife. had been married two
years. the cun
baby imaginable sleeping quietly in
its cradle stairs. The mo
pretty browr were oj
their wi were
t+ PY a
stening,
fee or 8 eyes on
est
ning
up ther's
1 eyes
lest, her lips
parted as she sat li
and disapprobation on
hare
the editor of the
tence, especially
baby.
“Did you ever ki
the baby?’ cri
pleasantly.
have i
day the baby will be only too glad to
step into my place.
Mrs. Franklin wasn’t satisfi
am sure,’”’ a trifle anxiously
two of us could ipa very go
fair with very little
“An ed
mean ?"’
‘Eel
combina
lic n:
zine down
S.
t
i
siectic combing
'
ectio!
tions an abomir
iisance from the ec
to
cluded
newspaper rh
the model h
her suspicion
afraid of
erally mean
“And I'll eng:
of writers, and I'll stick to them. eh,
Sydney
‘Yes, dear.’
Most husbands expect th
words to follow
wildest plans, look t
satisfied with them.
tated Tom Frankl
“Oh, bother!’
’
the recital
hem
Hist
iis
cried.
" he
too provoking!”
Yes, dear,” answered
and then she laughed and ran away
up stairs to :ee the baby.
Sydney
my arrangements?
id
normously, Tom.
But only for first-class matter
I have fifteen writers on the staff
and, by Jove! the style is so uniform
you'd think the same person wrote
the whole book.” At Mrs
Franklin merely smiled, and showed
her dimples.”
** And I've struck a plan.” cried
Tom, a little uneasily, he was afraid
of the ‘* Yes, dear ‘* I thought it
would be a good idea to give a dinner.
In fact, Iv’e written to them—the
writers on the staff, I mean, invi-
ting them for Tuesday week.”
“Excellent!” cried Mrs. Franklin,
actually clapping her hands,
Tom was so pleased at this unex-
ected outburst of enthusiasm that
pe put his arm about her and gave
this
ing fondly :
** And if you wish to write for the
magazine 1']l give you a little corner
after Christmas.”
And then she spoiled it all by meck-
ly saying: ‘'Yes, dear.”
Notes of acceptance were received
m New York, Boston, Philadel.
, Pittsburg, Richmond, and
srsburg. The Tuesday was draw-
ng near. Bidney bad faithfully
promised to have things on a gran
scale. Tom had hired three large
carriages to go to the depot.
When the morning of the porten-
tious day arrived, Mr. Franklin for
the fiftieth time petitioned Sydnsy to
put superfine touches to the whole
affair, expatiating more largely than
ver on what a truly original ides it
was, and altogether of his ¢wn mak.
‘What do you think M: L. Town.
#
his wife on the stairs.
| have a and
he answered, flippantly.
he vi ry best of
there is
But
$ or
-
1
i
ppin
“Oh, she jong nose
big eyes,” s
Sydney!
my ¢ ntributors—that is, if
any one better
really, what sort of a fellow do
She's t
than another.
you
imagine Dick Raymond
“Terribly fat, of cou
cheek bones and red cl
“*My stars! Sydney,
“‘T can’t help hay
tion, Tom. Miss F
tall and stately. SI
gracious bow
me; and that old
know I’ be
him-—but do let me go
1
i
r#e
weeks.”
you're awful.”
an imagina-
‘orrester will be
will make you
scowl at poor
H. Gilmor, 1
out afraid
now, I'm on
nr
ing
ie
i and
.
John
1 ¢
out and Ol
my way to baby.’
1 ST
ye
ey ler
Tym was st
. A \ 3
Ing-rooi iste
WON can
where Sydney
an i in the draw-
) 2
wheels stopping
ever wanted the
she was putting on all
I'he
Sid
door apet
to be much sti
Very light fee
‘mn
hall.
—Oh
that
Lil
QUICK SILVER MINING.
Miners Who Are Unclean Suffer
Horribly
IWS,
IRIT:S
troubles
tent
eaten up by the
are avoided
fi Ness,
work in the
Wales are the cleane
world ; theirskins untanned by sun,
are white as Mexican
miners in California are dirty and die
fast, but after two or three geners-
tions spent in the mines they last
longer, their constitutions becoming
more tolerant of mercury
Vermillion is obtaived from cinna-
{ bar. Thered paint on the bodies of
| Indians in California led to the dis-
covery of the quicksilver mines.
White men found out where it came
from and began digging for ore of
mercury. The most familiar use of
the metal is for thermometers. [It
is very valuable in medicine, but it
{is most largely cuployed in gold
mining because of its affinity for gold,
which It dissolves,
the most easily lost of all metals,
finding its way back into the earth
| sooner or later,
{ A
fried
mines
sople in
i
SHOW, he
| juice
fers. It has thee
the mercury.
| acid is used asa bevarage.
| the lead absorbed by the body; in
{ that shape, being
out of the system. The consequen-
ces of lead poisoning are dreadful.
Not long ago it was found out that
the spread of certain mysterious dis.
enses in parts of England and else:
where was due to Turkish snuff adul.
terated with lead, Bailors snd tour
Smyrna and distributed it.
THE FATEST AIR SHIP.
Professor Langley's Flight of 803
Feet Beats the Record.
have been used for aero-
plane flight during several hundred
years, as shown by the elaborate re-
gearchoes Mr. Chanute, und this
characteristic can be obsarved by the
minor wherein
decidedly successful short
hts have been made with flapping
The rigid wing flights have
3 ir, been 80 numerous, and
more than half a century it has
en an as to whether
| wing asroplane could be man-
It was
thing with
motor
rs
of
Various Successes
many
Hic
Hig
1OWEe VE
open question
+ air with a motor.
ved that any
propelled by
promptly become unmanngen-
DOI
Dianes i
4 faeropiane
80 far
rigid
ING4, th mar
made a motor
beat.
The record for moter
A. M
scember 13, i
ittle machine
about 90) clear. thus
rords
#8 now stands
‘ork, 300 feet, with an
n 1891; Hiram 8. Maxim,
ngiand 320 feet with a gas.
tor, and three men on board
#1, 18M; Lawrence Hargrave
Yar N. §S. W.. made
a motor
H6%
ih
d by
arx,
by means of
heat was
its of wine; Professor 8. FP. Lang.
made 900 feet, with a
steam motor, near Quantico, Va., on
December 13, 1804. Tne tremendous
import of this success will perhaps
be realized better by the people of the
twentieth century.
cit piesl
SUpPpDif
‘sa machine
Wheat as a Stock Food.
Wheat, as it contains more protein
than corn, is better adapted for
horses that work, for young stock
that are growing, and for cows that
are producing milk, while corn is
more suitable for rapid gain in fat.
When fed to hogs, wheat should be
ground and soaked. For cows it
should be ground and fed with equal
parts of corn and oats, or the whole
may be ground together. If bran
is added to the ground mixture the
food will contain more mineral mat-
ter and protein, thus balancing the
ration.
In a recent pig-feeding trial at an
experiment station in
Australia pigs fed on wheat won:
sumed 2,190 pounds in four months,
and taking 410 pounds as the dressed
weight increase, it made a shade
over five pounds of wheat to produce
one pound of pork, or eleven pounds
A Hii
Ix this country 500,000 women are
earning Independent incomes. In
the professions are 2,600 doctors, 275
preachers, and an increasing number
of lawyers. Some 3 000 women have
charge of post offices.
| FAMOUS CALF CASE.
HISTORY OF TWENTY - SEVEN
YEARS LITIGATION,
The Fight Over an Anima Valued at
Forty Dollars Which ras Cost
Thirty Thousand.
The Iowa Supreme Cour?
rendered its
famous ‘Jones County
The only thing left in
its numerous hearings was the ques-
tion of costs. One of the de-
fendants, Herman Kellar
secured a judgment
plaintiff, Johnson
was relieved of paying any costs hime-
The defendants then
|
motion to have
has just
in t
’
cage,
last dec sion he
calf
after
the Caso
geven
who died,
against the
for costs, that is
other
nr calves
i taken :
asked Potter where he go
course the answer w
The two thi
1 ang toldg
ie as
ieving
1 swore
Smith.
value of the calve
out a warrant {« Myth
It was learned that n
man had ever lived in the
hood of Sergeant's Blaff
fortunate Bob was in
what to do
“Meanwhile an
bean formed in ig
where Johnson and Fore:
called the North Missouri Anti-Horse
| Thief Association, though neither of
the gentiemen before mentioned was
i & member. Being out of a job, this
| patriotic body conceived the idea
that Johnson had stolen the calves,
and, sending for Potter and Foreman,
informed them they must either join
the order and assist in prosecuting
him or be prosecuted themselves.
| They joined, and Johnson was in
dicted for larceny of the calves.
“About the sams time Johnson,
with his brother, want into Greene
County to have a look at
the
vt r
"
then o such
neighbor
and the un-
a quandary
0
oreanira
~
the
chased of Foreman. Both decided
that Bob had
calves at all, and that Potter must
have stolen them himself and then
lied to Foreman about them. John
son accordingly refused to pay the
note he had given. The
was tried twice and a judgment fin.
ally rendered against Johnson on the
for $10, cost Johnson about $1,500.
“The first indictment against John.
count of an informality. There was
great excitement in the community
about the matter, and on waking up
one morning Johnson found on his
doorstep a shroud, a rope with a
hangman's knot, and a threatening
letter. Accordingly, a change of
venue was taken to Cedar County on
his motion, with shroud, rope, knot,
and threatening letter attached as
exhibits.
to one for acquittal, and the second
Johnson, who had
prosper
was now bankrupt in
Then it was
suit against
a
farmer
that Johnson began
Eg
Thief Association
been most active in the
claiming $10,000 dam-
Anti-Horse
had
prosecution,
for
Preston
the
wlio
malicious prosecution
the suit for
with myself doing jury work
Alter changes of venue
began
Bob
several
the case was finally reached for trial
in Benton County, where the jury
to one for giving dam-
retried there, and we
The verdict
and the venue changed
stood eleven
It was
rot a verdict of $5,000,
ide
WHS 860 as
Here 1 had
ty of making the
I'he trial }
between thirty
ing present,
t for ¥7. 500.
and ti
io O
*1imbed to the
linton County.
aigni
a1
eT t
Melment.,
r witnesses be
Hays,
Ranger.
Colonel
the
He
force with ¢
battle.
of warfare ir
to deaw
sweep down
perils
was first
$
Oiv 8
days the
and then
A whirlwind, j g
their long
u-
So ca
was
i yin
1a ng
effect
us;
i eadly
tious were they in this respect, that
they soon distinguished the double
ba when it was brought
, and only approached wher
they were sure that such weapons had
On the first occasion
when Hays and his rangers. armed
the revolver, met a band on the
war-path, they allowed their fire to
be liberally drawn, and then the In.
dians charged with exultant cries
But when the revolver was brought
into play at close quarters, the panic
that ensued was absolute, and the
destruction of the Indians complete
Jack Hays was colonel of the First
Texan Regiment, the nucleus of
which was formed of veteran rangers.
rreled gun
into
use
been emptied
with
A Woman's Library.
The oddest library any woman pos.
sesses is made up of newspaper clip-
pings, perfectly catalogued and ar
There are thousands upon thousands
of these slips taken from newspapers
the world over, and the owner of this
naligt, who has been making her col.
lections for her own convenience.
she is apt to find a mass of important
facts and the key to many others
among the envelopes in which her
library is gathered and
The whole of it only oc-
cupies a corner cupboard in her
writing room, and as an adjunct to
newspaper work she advocates these
can with the aid of scissors, glue pot
and a little discretion, make for
themselves similar invaluable regis.
ters for common reference.
CHIVALROUS.
As a Knox County man and his
wife were passing the schoolhouse, a
flying snowball fis the wife of his
bosom. He was enraged, and justly,
and, turning to the schoolboys,
-
cals. that you didn’t hit me!"
i
$
A ————————————— 1 T—A— A ——————
TAXES IN HISTORY.
azo the Shak of
ing Governor,
the r wal
i
a ciosed cald
Persie yee at
guilty of
boiled to death in
water.
The
a
teal taxes
sten
ron of
ine
inauguration of
ng the ¥
per Lot
du
wars was raised to L
sixteen times the value
r
+
3
of tne art
89,600 families paid
£150 to
£210 to
In Germany
taxes
VEAr;
afd 26 800
L ARO,
income on incomes
82.400 pail ion
Ee
he revenue
from
was derived
whic)
sritain are
142 O00 (xu) +
§
L was so lar
heaper by
CARL
the
the
trica.
sparks are
the
metal
on
ele
across
ce of
seems to be
days
id the
any
ching
often
claims he
in the weathe
boy The little
§ ore
EE
llow
|
and immediately
every hair ot animal will begin
10 raise and they will turn and run
There is no animal magnetism about
. for he repels rather than attracts
anything: it seems to be simply a
remarkable surcharge of electricity
in his body at all times
the
on
back
the
Te Obtain Pure Serum.
A philanthropic citizen has recent.
ly placed $30,000 at the disposal of
the Health Department of New York
City for the purpose of providing an
adequate supply of pure anti-toxine
serum. In view of the large death
tute from diphtheria in New York at
the present day this provision is of
the greatest importance. The serum
is at present very costly. but it is
hoped that in time it may be put
upon the market to be soid as cheap-
ly as vaccine virus,
in a report made recently to the
Board of Health by De. Cyrus Ed.
son, it was stated that several spuri-
ous concoctions of anti-toxine serum
have been placed on the American
market. And it was urgefl that the
grave consequences following such
fraud necessitated the prompt and
vigorous action of the health depart.
ment. Acting upon this advice it
was resolved that measures should
be taken to supervise the sale of this
valuable remedial agent by a scien:
tific and thoroughly systematic in-
spection of all preparations. The
detection of such fraud will lead to
the trial and severe punishment of
the offenders. The preparations oe-
casionally furnished from Germany
have specific guarantees as to their
strength and purity by reliable scien-
tists. It is to be hoped that some
similar provision may be made to
guarantee the use of pure serum in
America,
a SA
* Good eating apples” are in
better su
ply than ordinarily at this >
season