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, ; :