HER SWEETHEART, The man 1 jove? Well, rather small; (But stature doesn’t count at ally He's a dear! Hair as golden as the sun; air as you e'er looked upon; Eyes of blue, and full of fun, And good cheer, He's the onl? man 1 know Who can touch my heartstrings Tenderly: When he's with me Every shadow turns If he's absent life's Then, to me. all is bright, to light: a blight Strange to say I love him best When in overalls he's dressed, For his play: I mn just as proud of him If his purse is rather slim, Por he's sweet, and neat, and rim Every day. He's the idol of my heart, {And my secret ll impart Just for fund in my love he holds high rank. Without him earth would be a blank: Ho's two years old: his name is Frank; He's my Colorndo Springs Gazette, sO, THE CHRISTENING OF RATTLES. ¢ By Carlos Pilgrim. “You haven't got anything this morning. Hen, have you?’ the rauch the Clirele-Oarlock boys were straggling over toward Rw fal asked boss, ax the horse-corral to saddle up. The man addressed was a long. lean bow-legged young fellow "the type of a Rough Rider,” as a famous correspondent sald saw him in INOS with Juan hill “Hen'' was a rollicking “Nope,” he said, breaking the an instant. “Well,” “Dateh Yorike and he he cows working | you take Blue t head ‘em off. TI gther side, to speak of.” Hen's jig tarned comically into one long drawn, high It was mid fuammer, amd the day gave fierce heat. The ty miles away, whistled Lis night whistle you pleased only, to preserve your tions with the no fime in told to do. So the long covhoy had picked his pony from the coi alled band and was efi. The HET Lim by the iin. the sun got overhead, the better it man and beast. The riding the one indicared hy the foreman beauty: on the other hand, it had that whieh, in Western horses, at all events is to be desired above physical beauty a fair character, It was a small blue roan cayuse, and enduring horseflcsh well ean be. Lope, lope, lope, pointed straight for opened lazily burning sun more more directly on the back of Hen's in- gifferently-clean cotton shirt, and made ¢ cowpuncher jift shovidere beneath it, and shirt abot in the saddle, Hix face and neck, being regularly exposed to many weathers, were fine mahogany, and invulnerable to sunbeams, Blue had covered some fifteen miles of the lonely. wide expanse of range, when Hen stumbled upon the incident which branded him. literally ns well as figurately. They were crossing a wide, barren, sandy with and there a sickly gray-green sage-bush. and the prickly-pear cactus scattered a! road in profusion. I' was a most inhospitable spot for man and horse, bat a paradise for rat tiesaakes’ Now there was a hard day's work before Hep. If the cattle had drifted far, or were refractory. he wonld have fo camp somewhere and give two days y it. He was pushiog his pony ruth vasly. But in riding across that bench is eye happened to light on the big. gest rattlesnake he had ever seen—and be had seen many. He was interested | At once, As he afterward explained, he “never liked to pass a rattler with- out sone little salute; and this was a special Important lookin’ varmiont -a | blessed dook. at least.” Ro he drew up alongside the “dook.,” who took no rams to evade him, but promptly (olied for fight, and after an apprecia- tive glance at the fine string of rattles, brought his heavy six-shooter to bear, and fired, Yers who pressing up San in "97. and whistling torso velt But this at that a wns moment i foreman, yesterday, of Suppose the here continuad was bunch ap. Sw on the « says our into ' 1 and on the Hy anda go over rR Oo water note, promise of a good thin Hen You Low “yer LB i Was amd therefore d sapprobation, and Circle-Oarlock ; friendly Hnigst whatever on the rela. oithL you wWasie doing the you were thing more miles he behind would be for horse he was Was no As wiry as Blue's Gap. whi h inta the distant hills, The Cant and lope, Tis the his rays involuntarily twitch of a bench, here in the slightest, It was a close, easy shot, and Hen looked down in amaze. ment at his missing, looked enough, he tried again. time the big revolver merely clicked, aud Hen's contemptuous berating of himself might have softened almost anything but a rattlesnake, That he this, where he would in all probability Lave to shoot for his supper, with one cartridge! Yet there were the plain facts—an empty revolver, and no cart. tidge belt! Iien lost his temper. The snake was openly defying him; and besides, he Lad taken n fancy to those rattles. He 10d Blue to one side and hung down his bridle-reins, which signified that the roan pony was anchored there until further orders; and then he start. ed out to seek hand-ammunition, Among the many things not readily to be found ou that bench were stones, and Hen's search was disappointing for some the; but after much impa- casting about, he managed to plow up a few sandy little rocks, and hurried back to where the snake was still lying coiled, Probably it had re. garded the pony as a threatening en- emy, Hen's scanty rearing had been in Missouri on a backwoods farm. where a boy did not have to play baseball for been properly developed or trained, and its awkwardness and inaccuracy were something to marvel at, Add to the badpess of his marksman. am! you will understand the diticulties under which he labored, The snake was all colled down, just aching to tight, and as Hen said, “sing- in' like a concertiny.” Of course the cowboy had to use the same stones over and over again: and when he did, by any accident, succeed in hitting the snake, if the stone did not bound back out of his snakeship's striking distance, it was gone. By such failures of recovery his of mis siles soon dwindled, till there was only one solitary stone left, Hen was grown pretty angry by this stock time, and Le resolved to make the last He did make it Another such jolt would probably have laid the low: but the day's ill luck came up again, for the stopped rolling a shade too close, and was in surveillance, like the others, one connt count, too, “dook' stone Hen scouted around for more stones, and could not even discover nn sign. Then he went back to the scene of ac tion. and surveyed it again. The last stone lay right on rim of the “dook’'s" ras but the big [fellow looked and battered that Hen thought alertness must surely be So the cowboy got carefully down and snatched at the stone His movement was not at all was simply slower than the snake's, whose vitality had been underrated. Hen's hand--for had a white hand when he removed his buck by a streak of cowboy felt a red-hot needs the so slek his over, glow: white he soft, skin dark color sation glove--was met and the $ 3 as al wen wig he ng driven fleshily part of his mb, You can ward lean! imagine his startled bacl miles to the human sun: A over him i nearest 5 quarters, amd in that blazing cold sweat of terror broke for a his of aml he and Then rogsserted moinent brain reele the range lif went over the easy habit itself resotirees with the coolness He had that utiniost his pocket some rawhide ito in harkamore did he was braiding a thing brow band, fir ug and ! he bind n twisting it the wt hong of it tightly with his spl ing-horn for lever, That finished he Leney was to around his Wrist, thought of an emer treatment which a half.erazy ud acquainted him The treatinent seemed about as old sheep herder with foolish as the Hen fastidions old herder had been, but to wak in no position be unduly Snnkes were w it terrors for him boldly in and trampled its into the Then number of inches long, as the The next wonnded grim of in doing thoroughly. Then he split a section of the snake, and ap- plied the of flesh bleeding thumb It was not a nice th had to grit his teeth, fact, to bring himself to it. but the effect was pre cisely ax the old man had foretold. In the contact the snake-flesh rapidly be came discolored. Hen used more and tore of it, until all the poison, if such it were that can 0 now, so he jumped rattler bead thoroughly the pieces two or three on the trinmphant sand he cut bendy into a herders demanded. cut his Fe ipwe =e Was ito open thumb, which be took a sort enjoyment raw surface to his Hen ing to do sel the discoloration, seemed to absorbed. Then he climbed into saddle, turned the good little roan homeward, and put the animal fo its best gait, He had not been riding five minutes when Blue's clean, steady stride seemed to have changed to the mad rack and pitch of a new bronce. He nnslipped hix rawhide lariat, and wear ily—-Oh. so wearily! endeavored to tie himself in the seat. weaving the rope through and around his shaps belt, and making it fast with mang hitches to the high horn and eantle of his stock saddle. Then hie took the Kkerchief from Lis neck, wrapped up the be nutnbed hand, twined the other in Blue's mane, and allowed himself to go. be the When Blue got him to camp he was the pony's side, but everything had held splendid- ly. As the ranch people slid his Hmp body to the ground some unusually fine rattlesnake trophies rolled from his shaps pocket, which explained the case They doctored him with of- fective ranch remedies. and in a few weeks he was the same lank, jocose boy as ever, No. not exactly the same. The thumb on his right hand was wizensd and unsightly, resulting from a close intersection of thin white sears: he had sworn war-at long range-—against all story having got abroad. he was never by any lapse called other than “Rattles” They called him so at Tampa and at Santi ago, and if you search the files of the bright New York dailies, you may see that be was celebrated as “Rattles” at Camp Wickoff, and had some funny adventures there. Youth's Companion. Had No Chance. Quilp~He took his wife's death very tard. She died suddenly, you know, and the poor fellow had no chance to tell her she hand made him a good wife, Philp—How long had be been mar. ried to her? . « Quilp~Twenty years. Town Topios. A FAMOUS MALAY PIRATE, Exploits of Panglima Laut Before the Brit: ish Taned Him, Professor B, J. Skertchly is a wide Iv travelled man, and has many Inter- esting experience to relate, He nn Englishman by birth, but at present he considers himself a resident of Aus. tralian, He has lived in almost every quarter of the globe, For many years he made his home in North Bornea, and while sojourning there he made the scquaintavee of Panglima said to be the last of the pirnte chiefs, in a conversation with a New York Tribune reporter the professor sald: “'ntil within the last twenty piracy was the only liberal profession worthy of the Malay gentleman who infested the East Iadian archipelago, kay, from Singapore to Timor Like some other eminently respectable professions, it has fallen Into decad- ence, owing chiefly to the close patrol ling of the seas by Hritish and other war vessels, The most dread of these pirates were two tribes, called the 1 Innus and the Baglinini, whose legends say that they were driven from Johar abont the time of King Solomon, In consequence of being mixed up with the abduction of the Princess Ayesha, daughter of the Sultan of Sulu which island the United States recent. Iy holsted Old Glory. These people were compelled to take to the and until twenty vears ago they ter roriged the islands from Borneo to the Moluccas, 1n the pew British territory of North the last of thelr strofgholds exists, and here lives Panglima Laut, a six foot, wiry flere warrior, periodical along for for in aver SERN, lorneo, slender, made Borneo generally plunder and but often purs devilment and “just to keep his hand in.” He had praus, some of which had eighty pad diers and all of which led like witches Most of them were outrig Zed, and were as safe as lifeboats “When the Panglima felt was to his silk t with a knowing little right ear, thie mustache and swear eyed who raids the Shores slaves, weary it his custom don brightest garments fe his small tarban cockiall over his of his to sheathe shave right side never until Lis He hie reony or short sword, wl that RTOWIH Wis again invincible, had for gone thro which convinced hi lead could ever kill him hands of Engl Malay places exalted SOmMe strange oe mm hit no steel of unless in shi or Americans the Anglo-Saxons in a very place by themselves, hint Prateh power he looks on the Portuguese nnd Spaniards ag having no greater than himself. Starting on a pirate rakd the Panglima would give battle to any praus encountered the high seas, on unless the crews were his brother ent throats, and as quarter was neither the sulted] in a decisive victory fon party or the The Panglima himself was pever defeated at or on His flest of praus would hover in the offing until sunset down on a asked por given, fights always re ane other wR shore war and then suddenly coast village and plunder it “Un one ocasion not long ago teen men fell by in fair, hand The fellow is na tive chief under British rale, living in his old pirate haunt on Darnel North Trade has with him, and he complained me that although he growing wealthy, all the fun Lad gone out of his life. He had been reduesd to what we might almost term a domestic and friendly piracy among his own people for some years, maintaining his family by levying “tithes,” amounting. bow almost to 100 per upon boats engaged in fishing. His occupa- tion ceased and his great heart broke when, after having defied the English and most pluckily stood up against an armed force, he wax asked in a friend Iy way to come and wateh the effect of a Maxim gun before that instroment was allowed to play its war tune to his people. He saw the rain of bullets playing with precision upon distant ob jects, and then, thrusting his kris home into is scabbard, he the handle with his coat, of friendliness, and ex. claimed * “Thix i= not fair. It poor pirate a chance.’ “Finally he succumbed to civilization at Mrs, Skertehly's by submitting to be photographed. But it took half a day of moral suasion to get him to stand up before something which, after his Maxim gun experience, he believed might be some other kind of infernal mahine, and as his wife and family were also likely to be victims, he first made a careful investigation, putting his head under the black eloth and Keeping his hand on his half drawn kris all the time. He was scarcely satisfied. apparently. but determined to risk it, and stood like adamant, while the exposure was being made, The picture of his wife and children were not good, because they were WO eT en Panglinmia's kris to hand « now =imply a the on omibat poor lay, bad wens to foraeo was ever, cont. overs] in token pathetically dosn't give an wns excellent.” Talk to Your Horse. Some man, unksown to the writer hereof, has given to the world a saying that sticks: “Talk to your cow ax you would to a Indy.” There Is a world of common sense in it. A pleasant word to a horse in time of trouble has pre. venied many a disaster where the horse has learned that pleasant words mean a guaranty that danger from punishment ls not imminent, says the Buffalo Horse World. One morning a big, muscular groom sald to bis employer: “I can’t exercise that horse any more, He will bolt and run at anything he sees.” The owner, a small man and iH at the time, asked that the horse be hooked up. Stepping into the carriage he drove a couple of miles, and then asked the groom to stiition along the road such objects as the horse was afraid of. This was | done, and the horse was driven by them quietly, back and forth, with loose lines slapping on his back, The whole secret was in a volee that in- | wpired confidence, The man had been frightened nt everything he saw that hie supposed the horse would fear, The fear went to the horse like an electrie | message. Then came a punishing pull of the lines, with jerking and the whip, Talk to your horse ns to your sweet heart, “ TRYING IT ON THE DOG.” How Dangerous Drugs Are Put to the Phys. iological Test. “You've heard the theatrical expres sion ‘trying it on the dog,” " said a rep of a great manufacturing drug “Well, in line of business frequently ‘try it on a nlso on a frog, a rat, a rooster, a resentative Honse, our we dog.’ guinea pig and other animals too num Crous mention, Our trials are Bt eral, not figurative, We make them to ascertain the strength of certain drugs, for some reason other defy chemical analysis, In resort to what is called a physiological for want drength of a To which or gli cases we font, Suppose, instance, we to find out the which, if Ir supple of digitalis, good condition, hus a stimulating effect on The experts on the staff of the labora tory nt a drop of the stuff into the stomach of a small frog ie Ma Hat res the heart, our works foree which ix then placed in na pie chine ealledd a Kymograph ords {tx heart beats on a strip of pape Ihe lead 1x aid active digitalis may be perfectly ert, and it be no chemist could tell the differen truth may sirong but the Kymograph gets sat the with infallible certainty an ple is graded accordingly little inches long, and they fo use] are fellows ger Same tine ago house na nxignment leans, Why Chine 31 fot Sconoiny brut prove do we use such enn tnkes then, It “Rome of more ontinged queerer than ascertain Hs act a small quantity is if 1 roster strengils able, bwepuse + of occasionally josing ithout showing t properiies w est change in general anpearat which has Agured so x0 of the Orient heesh, Nn romances {Cannabis In Wihieen wisn scientifically ax in fewten] dogs all dopy, staggers in ally keels The necess iy grows out of a i right the dog Oy er most people know, it liert Indian blossom of Hp the nufertilized female Oe any narcotic flowers and tix flowers properties sewndd-bear alwolutely valuele alike to ti $ £11 pes wg etre i are lonk the and tioned, it all three Na does tie 0H] yield fa them, like doesn’t These fests will give na than of get They Altogether, | different an aise of modern mx about medicines of upward of a out RU pose that mals are geed mans ilozen 1 each selected bey its sensitiveness 10 some Siw ial re. paration. Occasionally the sentinen talixts raise a wall guinea pigs and white rats and the in fhe Proven Over : nocent frogs that are sacrificed to but if It wasn't these creatures we wonld back on the distingnishing Moms the formula, and if they they are Times Democrat, onee, have to fal method from m them and eat don't New Orleans old. fashioned of fondetonls nish thew, was kill vou . ok mushrooms.’ Serenading the Queen. A queen careful 1 eX pressing ber likes and dislikes as any person of humbler position, if net more Once, not many weeks ago, when was staying at Windsor, Queen Victoria said that she liked to be sere naded, and this weakness of ber maj esty soon found its way into print, The result has been fo destroy the good ladies early morning sleep to such an {extent that guards had to be posted to warn off loyal subjects and enthusias tle visitors who wish to gratify het love for music. Some foreign farmers i that had been staying near Windsor i for a week met under the walls of the castle early in the morning and ssng ‘hymns at the top of their voices al | continued to do so until they were po litely asked to stop, The example set by them has been catching, and, ae. feording to the Sussex Dally News, | every party of early morning visitors ‘as soon as it pears the castle, bursts forth into the national anthem. One morning several groups of serennders {were singing “God save the Uneen” at the same time in as many different ekeys as there were singers, —— Had Him By The Neck “Horace, ' she sald, chidingly, “why don't you tell me you love me?” Selzing a scrap of paper, the young man wrote on It: “How can I, daeling, unless you re move the pressure from my wind pipe?’ «Chicago Tribune, it's Up To Him. a. Enumerator--Married or sin. Spioaster (coxly)-1'Il leave that to must be ns wey, uh i —— you, sir~~New York Journal A WANDERINC BELL BUOY. ns Deathkaee!. Captain MceCulloehh of the stesmmshiip Selby, now in port cargo of fron ore from Nicolaleff, us sian, gives a curious account of an ex- perience with a drifting bell which he passed when In the middie of the broad Atlantic, “Om July 11.” sald Captain MceCul loch, “at 9 o'clock nt night we were in latitude 36.20 north, longitude 49.51 West, It w dark. gloomy hour, with quite a hie set on, one of those nights which fellow fowl ried and why he doesn’t know, “We were feeling our way very care fully. There was every indication ft heavy fog setting in shortly. At that British as a avy Wor minke n fearful, just one of inky blackness, “Samnel Marsteller, one of onr ordi. He has since that was slek. recovered, but it fright oa the night 1 did not carry him away. nary senmen, is nn wonder Iris that Le to cheer him Several times he told to die, 1 tried seemed oppressed with a name He moaned in terror, while played a mournful accom through sounding us was going but he lows fenr. ind paniment up, the w the shiroms, “Suddenly, about 9.30, a We all started Ir terror amd looked fart sup posed dying “it's all § my passing into field sadly over the sea, vely at the nan ‘that at wi over, boys’ he said, bell” insensibility all was “It was a dramatic and fitting climax ih had held clutches for and relapsed alice wey deep thought that Over. torment whi Marsteller many hours to the mental poor in its For dismal tolling of to supernatural moment | the agencies, quickly hurried on deck with that omi knell yet 1 the ascribed ti lost buoy gnu nots death inging in my “ire “1t°= dismal peal nued until day break By 3711 that time, however, I had moive mysters Reference to hy ¥y 111 y drogr: billet is 4] « 1H Wis ely that of heer ny ro oncinsd none Iitioy been so amd has been so often re When ths came | saw ROYIIA TY ondition veh in Met nl effet of RICR was northwest’ ili went on to sas 1 3 the SU Pprosed death wi lor last] several thinks the explanation bad flix recovery probabis th 3 ¥" ha line floating ¢ entire history spar or abandoned derelict traversed a greater unl miles than this mournfully of danger over the the Again t broke loose from its the wild Nova Nentin const # It crossed the track was 4 clanging hs ier trackliess waste of Goean, and again =nee tiaetire fastening on of transatlantic ressels ince it sien ax far south as the porth coast o ula again it was passed within 200 miles of Ireland Now {it $ between both continents is midway seemingly re y 1s Tormer station office in the The latter value ng 1 has been erratic hydrographic mech interested course of the wanderer hax been ' determining our Captain MeCulloch's re ri Was by the local Philadelphia ines! ita ble in t f the true direction of ocean Fonts Yery it oflew 1 Times h appreciated ‘hiladeiphin Dress Suit Quandary. “No, 1 am not going out in the even. anything bot «trictly remarked a friend of “Why? Well, bewcanse inst pow 1 am not the possessor of a dress suf and lack the It I had a friend. a ings justi now to informal affairs,” the Raunterer the other day. wherewithal to purchase another, happensd this way, goed fellow, who came to me one night and asked I wouldn't lend him my swallowtail. 1 consented, but 1 told him 1 wanted the clothes back the next week, I had a function to at- tend myseif. “Well, me if ns to make a long story short, my friend or not a «ign of my evening duds, 1 had to mise my date, and was pretty mad, but [ didn't say anything. Another week went by, and sull no word, hunt up my friend and find out if he intended to keep my clothes forever, rang the bell. His laodlady caine to the door. When I asked If my frierd was in she gave a gasp of as®onish. ment and exclaimed: “Why, didn’t you know he was dead and buried? “It was my turn to be knocked out After 1 recovered my breath 1 ex. plained that 1 had not heard the news, and had merely called to take back my dress suit, It would doubtiess be found among my friend's effects, 1 ex. plained, “The landlady turoed pink, white and then pink again. ‘Why! she gasped, ‘that must have boven the suit we burted him in. It was the only good one we found among his ward robe.’ “Ro you see the reason why | say no to R. 8, VV. P. notes just pow.” Phila delphia Inquirer, More than one hundred years ago Baron Humboldt discoversd the dahlia, a small, single flower, in Mexicy, Conld some prophetic vision have revealed to him the dahlia of to-day In {tx dazsling hues and varied forms he might, per. haps, have been prouder of that dis. covery than of all his other scientific achievements. It was sent hy him to the Botanical Gardens, Madrid, where it received the name of dahlia in honor of the botanist, Professer Andrew The same year it was introduced in- to England, where it was cultivated under glass, For au few years it wis to cultivation, then reintroduced into England, Cultivation de veloped the double form, and every col. f or except blue. For many vears the { ideal dahlia of the cultivators was a | perfectly double, ballshaped flower, | Those who remember the compact | lowers of thirty or forty years ago | know how nearly that ideal wax real ized, and remember the deserved popu- arity of the dahlia of that day. But people soon tired of the regularity of that type, and for a few years it wan neglected, Florists were giving time, | labor and thought to the development soon | of the rose carnation, chrysanthemum i and other popular flowers, | At last farseeing cultivator recognized the possibilities of the dah | lin, and in new, improved and more beautiful shades of color it resumes ite | sway, and today greets us in so many varied and attractive forms that every taste may be suited BOTH London Globe, BEETLES AS UNDERTAKERS, When They Find a Dead Animal It Is Bor ied for Future Use. People often wonder and mice heromes dead birds, for, constantly hardly one is fact what i of the dead mice birds and dying In large numbers | ever The are buried by beetles though wre or to be seen, ix that they according to Our { Animal Friends, ves a brief { aceonnt of nchner gi follows nite them “Beveral of as fo and together food thelr young, some dead ani. them bury under the ground, as | shelter for mal, such as a mouse, a toad, a mole, a | bird, The Canse the COrpEe, if left above ground, ele, burial is performed be- | would elther dry up or grow rotten, or Ia all these young would perish, whereas be eaten by other anfmals cases the {the withdrawn The Lin a ver) dead body lying in the earth and from outer alr lasts very well, burying beetles go to work well-considered fashion, for { they scrape away the earth lying under the body and down it is If the with #0 that it sinks itself deeper When it ©CON ered deeper, is deep enough over from above, beetles, efforts, gitnation is stony the united forces and great drag the corpse to sos place They work for is buried within three hours mors {| suitable for buryi wa diligently that a instance, But they ax to bury From those of IDONse, * dave, so as possible SE h as HOrses, sheep ete, they only pleces as large as they can mana There can be no doubt of the (¥ fhe : ag “wee getice of these strangs gentle man discovered in a He desired 3 OuUs way fo ar toad, an fastened . The SOON I for that purpose he it upon the top of an upright stick 3 ¥ or burying 1 ted beetles, however, were and, finding reach toad, undermin . ck. causing it lied then a5 attra« that they to ws du 17 buried. by f10% they com 11 the smell, not the fall with the toad, =» was A Glimpse late fhe Future The Philadelpl clergyman ia Record says a Ger- mantown HE writing =a faved The date of Lis story is —ny, and the author describes the appear- in this interest. “Physically, were were beutiful. It for men and women to forms of gods and goddesses, ance of his characters ing manner they perfect: thes most Wias common have the No jong and them arms irksome course of exer cise gave those superb chests, shoulders, and legs, those slim and supple waists, that graceful car riage. The massage machines, while they slumbered, moulded them to ideal proportions. From childhood the wealthy slept at least twice a week at the gymnasium. There the at tendants, having decided on the parts that needed development, arrayed their patients on cots in easy attitudes, aud the electrical massage ma- chines work Thiz muscle, that muscle, the deft, velvet coated hands | of the machine kneaded swiftly and smoothly, and in the morning there | wax ouly a slight stiffness to remind | the patients of what they had under | gone. Yet the visible effect would in ! a brief period be tremendous. The calf {of the leg, for example, would be { built up in a month by a machine to | the same extent that would have fol lowed had the patient run daily for a year ten miles” class | to An English Laborer's Pay. The wages of a laborer in the poorer parts of England are ten or tWelve ghil- lings a week; while in the more favor ed districts he is paid double that | amount. Work begins in summer at «ix o'clock. At eight the laborer st@pa an hour for breakfast. at ten he cats a luncheon, and at noon he takes an hour to rest and eat dinner, His work is done at five, when he tradges home to supper. Just before he goes to bed he disposes of another luncheon, and the day ix ended. A man could hardly live and support a family on ten or twelve shillings aweek, were if not that in summer he always has a chance to do “task work.” While this lasts, he works extra hard and overtime, and earns six or eight shillings a day. He will very likely be out at four in the morning and keep at it till nine or ten at night-Canadian Magazine, A Device for the Lary Fisherman, Fish are not only caught but pulled into the boat by a Kentuckian's devioe, comprising the usual line, which is wound on the shaft of a clock mechan. fem, a pull on the lne releasing the Lapring and winding up the line, The Poor Ones, Tommy Paw, are all editors stare. fog, like the funny men say they are? Mr. Figg No; only she ones who own their papers, ; :
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