TWO BROTHERS. 0, Nm he went to war, En John he staid t' hum, En beat the kyarpits fer his mar, While Jim he beat tite drum. En Jim he worked a gun, b gosh, En seen the Spaniards die; John helped his mother do the wash, in ea'med her when she'd cry. Now, Jim was in the very thick Of battle more'n once, While John he nussed thelr grandad, sick, For eight long mortal months. with shoulder | En Jim come home straps, When fightin® ali was done, En all the gals they sot their caps To ketch this widder's son. Well, Jim he §'ined his Betty fair, But John, he's still t* hum A-Eeerin’ of his mother there— A hero, too, b' gum! -—Perley Poore Sheehan cinnatl Tribune. in the Clin- of money, but the widow flung it In the face of the messenger, “His money perish with him! eried. “The man who murdered poor husband shall never help ’ she my 4 1 I'll die of hunger first She did not go away worked at plain sewing, children died and were at once, but buried, and, Mp. Stanley's great house, the gulshed wife and mother looked and saw him standing In the window, and him a boy, three years old, his only son Herbert Stanley had married lete in Jife. T poor woman flerce glance at the child. “One taken, and Yes, ves: 1 see my way Two days after the funeral, she qls- close beside he cast a another left. now. is SUGAR EATING AND NAVAL POWER tween the Two. to about 8.000.000 larger from 3.0500, 000) the normal of whieh §,.500,000 tons, the Sugar cane. year the COHIeR i and from largest Nest In rivin Is beets, remainder, tous, Of latter Lie Hes, and a large amount the passed out of the memory of the peo ple. But, three weeks later, an ap palling calamity fell upon Herbert Little Edward, upon so many hopes were set, disappeared nursery night. The his one Vendet(a. By C. D. Clark. A woman with a tattered shawl wrapped closely about her, and a face blue and pinched, as if from cold and hunger, stood before the of a stately mansion, which was erected in the midst of spacious grounds in the most aristocratic street of a manufac turing city—a woman who had been comely, but who was worn down by care and suffering until only the shadow of her former self. The portly servant, who held door partly open, and shielded hi tund form from cold blast shrinking behind was endeavoring to prevail upon the poor woman to away. Sit's ‘no © I might give Stanley, but has other thin; You'd better go away, “ h h in a “It is life if you do not speak to force my wa; “You are unreasonable.” servant. “Now get by seeing hi you for a moment.” The woman pushed hall in a fierce way, him by doing so. warm hall, tleman can well-preserved, hundsome forty or upwards showed door once the is it gO I message 3 assure to you: youl. Mr he mind. a'am, indeed.” woman, by pain and him I must in spite of you.” pleaded the good ean 3 He won't listen to Seer wouldn't is the volee snder arp or death with me now, what ou 111s brillian ¢ out roo man, at nm once ’ Of utter soe “What Willlam, and why to the servant's door?’ “I could not kee ley. She i “Very well th i or iN 8 woman doling here does not come demanded Mr Stan bert Stanley, ing wi } from | business My time ber.” “I am the the loom fixer yesterflay,” “Ah, yes: I ren insolent to t} Heve,”" in a drawl “He was not 1s watel itl is ii &hi¢ person.” “Well, well! what “I came to plead to you t back We i i Staniey, 0 at home, die.” “I don't want to ference to taking again.” the factory quickly. “Your husband is a dangerous man. madam. He creates discord between the fas vers and Phelps was acting when I made an band, and 1 There! not ano show her husband back.” “Yes, sir,” responded the flunky, “And don't admit again.” “I'N be careful. sir. Now Fenton, you are keeping open. Please go out.” “Trouble will come of this, Mr. Stan ley.” she said, quietly, as she walked | toward the door. “There's some gipsy | blood in my veins, and we of the Rom- | any race never forgive an injury. You | may hear from me again. I don't! know when, but I'll remember your kindness.” The door closed after her, and she went home through the driving sleet | and entered her poor house, A man who was crouching over a small fire, rocking a baby on his Knees, looked ap quickiy, and saw no hope in her face. “He Is harder than stone, Jamie, she sald, softly. “God help us now, for man is against us.” He quietly put the baby into her arms, rose from his chair, and started for the door, but returned and kissed tier passionately, twice, “You've been a good wife to me, Zada,” he sald—“patient, tender and true. Don’t sit up for me to-night. I've something to do, and may be fate.” He went out, never to enter that floor alive, for next morning he was found In the river, into which he had thrown himself. They buried him kindly, and hls shopmates followed bim to the grave; and Mr. Stanley sent want?” 0 take him Mr luck. him on owner, manu Mr orders the employs 4 under with my jaye your 3% glad he wor: in Ww n't gone 1 Hiam, thi= woman out. I we take her Mrs. door $ the we William to the house with a present dagger, was a paper upon will return the Wait for him.” “Vendetta! 1 fifteen years, The blow was fatal to the mother of Edward, and died within the 11 she i All t no that wealth could do was nd the child, disappeared uth. done to but he as utterly as of the depths Stanley sold busi spent years in travel, aided by skilled was in vain boy had and an immense } v} Hy through the three g for the boy, ut his search i that ths been stolen for a ransom, sum was offered the public made Herbert Stanley returned to hi office, of press, but no response was law & ome a of ane redd- COUrse and and nnd and man's hbed stolen erime und know any poe a sentence! the screamed in front of the oi her way and stowd before the judge. “Look Judge Stanley. Fifteen years + from your door, and sents and a woman fore ine words that my hus ut and Killed himself. My «i and buried, and I Vendetta vou. Deo wmber the | Were ne against womise 1 made you e boy back in fifteen years? erd, and 1} to hing pings Ww ere ifld of my 14 but the 1ild of your heart, Edward Stanley! He pleads guilty: sentence him, 1 say. Zada Fenton, the wife of the murdered!” Stanley clutched at the nd fell down In a fit, when they him: he was Another judge pronounced the which sent the unfortunate the of ol man you Judge and dead, sen s0On wildly, a rajsed tence A year later, In an attempt to break out of prison, he was shot by Fenton was complete, As for her, she disappeared, and it is thought went back to her tribe: but no one in that section ever saw her face again The Dairy of the Ants Students of insect life are aware that ants Keep In their homes smail creatures that answer the served by cows, These aphides crete honey upon which the ants feed, Among the curious facts noted in the study of ants and their habits, is that certain other insects live tipon what they steal from the ants when they are fed. They take up their abode in the ant hills. Some of these boarders or Rede reason for being, others serve excel {ent purposes. Ants keep slaves and compel them to work. They cultivate the soll and raise erops to supply their households with necessary food. Among the countries producing beet Germany comes first, about one-third of the world's then Austria, with about as much, and sugar, cron: delgium substantially Russia, with Prance, together, the same quantity, Among says Penny, the opinion has a moderate amount of sugar, like of salt, should en Golden the ¥ geen sclentists, general a moderate amount when of sugar that radically, in it consumption each naflon; but is only figures of tl are examined that quantity consumed varies and It fact that sountries in which maritime spi spirit of navigation, travel colonization—is strong, there 8 a derable consumption of sug wiaereas eo it Is seen the fLHOS t—the is n curious merce, 4% A Cons ar per capita, in those coun ’ among the ipbabitants jon is smaller, dominant the consumpt In England, me nations first amoung amd looked 4 Inne showd ong wi and ti ide a ments to Oty Mil twenty nw had reached the ve the was like th a minutes © water bottom arch of of very vat torrents blow on reach captain tornado had the The morning not no one know n fwo dave Ls that a t that the storm Kreis of an were swent art “ef veaso] the and “een Passing Away of the Old Curiosity Shop. The most curious of all curious ghojss are decidedly the curiosity shops, now becoming searcer year, Certainly have and. strange say. purchases them. This is unusual in the ordinary conrse ns for things quite a large demand. but for the ar every ¥ ftheap of sell, ever lots 10 nobody there i= some useless tle or no market, except at fitful sea. sons, How the old gentlemen, who keep such shops, amass a limited coniprehension. Old china, bowie knives, pistols, | tomers to buy. And the old gentle: man does not mind, He opens his shop regularly at irregular hours and rhuts it at irregular hours, and If he wants to go anywhere on business he locks and bars and bolts the door apd leaves the place deserted and unpro- tected, and contentedly goes his jours ney, Curlogity ghops grow every vear, but it Is hardly thint they will disappear altogether. Thelt { place Is largely taken now by fashload able establishments that sell cracked | saucers, chipped plates and tive teapots and fans The | “ancestors.” too, Is going ont | people don't want want money; so shops | nly of | out of place, London rarer A possible consiip trade In of date; they sun fie ancestors only days rthint other Globe, reminiscences Lock of Hair Brought $42, A curious relle fell under nue tioneer's hammer at the London Ae tion Rooms a few days It lock of royal halr, and it was by Hx purchaser at $42. The hair In question belonged to IV, and over four hundred old. It has only been tregsured for some one hundred r ad The circumstances under was obtaiped are explained in of the “Universal Mugazine®” April, 1789, The hah Windsor by workmen, article dealing the “the workmen employed In in a new March clos] the was i valued lock of Edward years up nine years, which It a copy dated ere 20. fn i is was found accidentally at the says some and with subject that Bt, ROT George's Chapel at Wind paving the choir discovered on 13 decay in the stone up the entrance into Edward IV. had been dq of the and the a whiled 1 the where Two posi KIIFV eT cnnons tered the t 1x ier] DOGGY ein coffin A Big Reflecting Telescope. i i tow r.on-glne the world ih nan’ name 3} He is a retired Method and ti telescope building Pente first ai It hs with mn, for University ix i= hi ant is tirely a labor of love lens was built Methodist and been «1 for the use of new in Washington, mounted there The total number {the glass from the start to the finis | was something under seven hundred And vot to complete it required nearly fall two which Dr, pledged the bishop nt the confere.ns | The reflector, which iw 62 diameter, b% inches thick. and weighs 1.500 pounds, ig n perfectly flawless piece of glare, and when fully pel ighed and yet nunsiivered) looked like a pool of limpid «pring water. The Peate reflector, for sueh it will no doubtedly be ealled, will be mounted as an equatorial in a tube something over thirtvawo feet in length. The | post of =o mounting it will ran up into | the thousands of dollars. Telescopes to be mounted as this one are called | Newtoainn telescopes, becanse of th principle of interior arrangement. Dr. Peate’s mammoth specuinm is exceeded In size only hy the metallie Lane dn Lord Rose's famons telescoi eo great the the io is soon work nn § of hours’ the rears L which i= six feet in diameter. It is not in wee, and Dr, Peate's may be considered as the largest in the world, so far as the ser®ce is concerned. BAO, Bight feet is the usunl width ot a i 1! f i i 3 i THEY THINK US GIANTS, | Open-Mouthed Wonder in Porto Rico Over | the Size of Our Men and Mules. The people of Porto Rico look upon of giants, and | seem have firm conviction not only are we a great nation a big people, but that everything the Americans fi tance they is fo ia thnt fil connected with us Is made upon game grand scale, There are good reasons for thelr hay Ing arrived at conclusions, The first troops which landed at Port Ponce | were the Third Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and these were followed by | the Wisconsin and Sixteenth | Pennsylvania, Probably in | the whole army could one find a sim flar number of men of equal stature, | The Wisconsin are partienlarly large and each of them would make just about of the Porto Ri These natives are a little peo ightly built Many of the and Pennsylvania these Recond nowhere yen 1 One two conlans, ple and | Wisconsin stand feet men two inches or more above six in height, It happens that of large men, Captain A Fred 8, T With furnish th the and wagons clinched 3 4 ii Hout many of the mw General Wilson's staff and of them, P. Gardner and Lieutenant | tus, are noted bers some ax ath and officers to rst 1 hess big men 13 thelr our “i iMpressions and idea that any loophole for > 3% Ricomans mules we coming of horses } the were gigantic w, argument, The Porto nave them ch was He TIE y toed siunieq and i » aiong plek The Cold Sponge Bath. I's glove rapidly of Thi two rubbing pecially de- for th off, rub 1% O8 ise and OX OT wash the soap fast as you can fashion still bet! iy should occups you with whose con tion will » a cold plunge would 81 nge vers not ream cold rubbing 1 the year does not leave with lukewarm less warm wa you can dispense Times-Her with water vig and gi with rough towel round. If cold you glowing afterward water begin and day until with it entirely. ald. using less fer every Chicago the Spaniards fe Mexico anf Perm that the thrifty burghers of Antwerp and Rotterdam sent their vessels to the Asiatic Archipelago and took pos i of Java. To exchange the of Europe for the spices and the pearls and precious stones, BOOOR gold and the from which they allowed nothing else sgeri- divert thelr attention. It this that Holland the honor of having been the first to dis cover the of and perhaps it have been to this also that it that she discovered it for others and not for herself, set ont, purpose 10 to owed Inst the continents may she owed Agriculture in the Yukon. A pamphlet has been the the Central Ottawa, Ontario, issued by Director of Experimental Farm at ricultural dis review had cultural po ag- Yukon on the the NeWspapers the Dire on the possibilities of of said pamphlet bilities of the Yuk f« trict. One our of It, that issued a most char: ature of wns that ukon district seemed have no At been all. have but with nit resided whicl who garden in potatoes poor What s OCP shell, 8 Bach: to gmund returned Vienna, cently, after two years » ing won of $56.000 that he would cyele round in Years On September 17, 1886, he left Vienna his wheel, and went through Get Sor clint, nee, hav a bet the globe two on many and France on his way to The First Glimpse of a Continent. It was early in the year 1605. En. rope was but just awakening to the | great changes introduced by the de struction of the Spanish Armada: | England was Dut just transferred from the last of the house of Tudor to the first of the house of Stuart; Shakespeare was still acting his sen plays at the Globe Theatre: Bacon | was meditating his philosophy; and | Bir Walter Raleigh was till dreaming of new discoveries and set. tlements in America. In the East the | star of Portagal was already setting. and that of Holland was rising to its short-lived Lrillianecy: and only five years has passed since Queen Eliza. beth had signed the charter of the | Merchant Adventurers, tradicg to the | countries of the Indies. which laid the | fourdationstone of the empire ol British India, i The Dutch adventurers in the East oa wore, like their English rivale mes chants first of all. It was with no dea of founding empires like those of Inud., He then eveied from the coast to London and Liverpool took steam. er to New York, eveled to Chicago, Ralt Lake Citi® and Francisca, crossed the Pacific, rode from Sydney to Melbourne, then passed by way to San Calcutta and Allahabad, A na lance, but this was the only dange: he encounterad. He returned home by Africa and Italy, and arrived in Vien ell. but declares that the hardest piece of work was crossing the American Continent.—Lomion News, AAAI. ob Under the pame of dynammon a new explosive has been introduced into Austria for blasting and other purpos- es, which is said to combine the ex. plogive power of dynamite with abso. inte safety during storage and trans port. It is impossible to explowe it © means of any ordinary mechanic impulse, such as an accidental blow _ friction i
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