———————
» When Twilight Comes.
When twilight comes across the quiet
laud,
I crave your presence, you who un-
derstand
The comradeship of word and look
and smile;
The gentle talk and laughter, after-
while,
And homeward walk
— worn sand.
across the wave-
How will it be, I wonder, when the
grand,
Full mid-day glow of life has vanished,
and
The sun's
dial,
When twilight comes,
last rays fall coldly on the
that we two together still
stand;
Tndone, perchance, the
Oh,
may
deeds we
hoped and planped,
Tired and very old,
naught
tenderness
thought,
God grant that life may leave us hand |
* im hand,
When twilight comes,
~Theodosia Pickering Garrison,
Truth,
vet missing |
Of or olden word or
in!
THE SHIP THAT
BECAME AN ISLAND.
The huge clipper, with its quaint
figurehead and its flying jibboom pro-
jecting far out over South street, New |
York, bad just sounded six bells, and
the other deep-water eraft along South i
street were taking up the refrain, when |
old Capt. Smith filled and lighted his |
corncob pipe for the third time that
evening, and nodded approvingly at
the forest of graceful masts and spars |
extending along the water until lost |
to view around the bend at Dover
street,
“Thar,” he sald, “ef that ere
sight fur of’ eyes may not
timbers be shivered, but my spare
yards also. Gorjis, ain't it, Shipm't 7"
prodding old Capt. Mitchell in the ribs
with his cane. His friend responded |
with a not very enthusiastic grant.
whereupon the old man continued
“Yessir, they hain’t no place like
ol’ street to freshen
th’ days that oncet was, sailin’
craft ruled the ocean, and when these
iron steam pots was as skurce as a pi
rate in kingdom come. 1 tell
mates, some days when ve bin walk
ing along the North River front an’
seen nothin’ but steamships as fur
my deadlights could reach, I've
as blue as a skipper w=
But when you oncet
wot then, my hearties,
can say what
tain that the ght
enough to make you
Younger.”
When the Captain
Capt. Mitchell and Capt. R
came involved in their argument
as to whether a clipper ship built of
wood is not superior to one construct
ed of fron. The argument
warm, as it always did,
the old captains and a number of
siders became involved. As was usual
the case was finally appealed to the
Ancient Mariner.
“Wa'al,” said the old man .
“there air a great many good pints to
be considered on both sides this
most important question. Cap'n Mit
chell sais that you kin git more cargo
Inter an irom ship, bein’ that th
is thinner, an’ that doan’ spring
a leak so easy, ‘cause they ain't no
seams in her to be caulked up. That's
all right so fur as it goes, but like a
broke bowsprit, in dean’ go fur enough.
Now, as Cap'n Reeves maintains, a
wooden clipper will stand more
poundin’, bein’ as there's more give to
its sides, and it also rides th’ water
better, bein’ as wood's more buoyant,
Pusson’ly 1 prefer the wooden vessel,
But, gen'lmen, doan’ never build a ship
outen unseasoned timber. Doan’ do it.
I oncet sailed in that kind o' craft an’
i woulden’ do it ag’'in fur all the gold |
this side o' Hongkong. Never heeru |
about it, eh? Wall, jes open yer |
weather ears an’ I'll tell ye th’ strang-
est ‘sperience that ever happened to |
an orthodox skipper.
“I had only had my master's certifi
cate ‘bout a year, when one day one o
th’ parteers o th' trading
had made my last cruise fur come up |
to me and sald: ‘See here, Cap'n, how |
would you like ter change ships?
We've got a new, spankin clipper
fresh off the ways, She was bulit in
a hurry, I'll admit, but she ain't none
th’ less stanch on that account. Now,
you take ‘er, an’ we'll see’t you doan’
. lose nothin’ by it.’
*Wa'al, mates, wot conld 1 do? It
doan’ pay to bunk agin yer agents, and
then, too, a new ship ain't to be
sneezed at, so 1 accepted on th' spot,
She was bound for the Cape o' Good
Hope. Had | known she was built o
unseasonable timber you wouldn't o
me to sail up th’ Erie Canal on ‘er,
‘course 1 didn’t know that. The
#gent who got me ter sign did't say
nary word ‘bout it, muther, That's
wot s'prised me most; fur of all th'
men who pretended to be pious, OI
Corey—that was the agent's name
was th’ beatenest you ever seen, He
ud go aroun’ with his nose in th' air
loekin’ fur all th’ world like a sky pi.
who has jes’ finished readin’ ten
5 from th' seriptur. Why, th’
‘ol’ duffer had a wart on th’ end of his
, big one "twas, too, an’ I'll curl
an’ bust ef th' ol’ fool would have
wart takeu off simply ‘cause th'
ament sals remove not th’ ancient
. He married a pretty little
halut a
only my
th’
your 1 nories of
wien
you,
as
wot
you ple IRE
si of
ceased speaking
eves be
MR
st
waxed
and soon ail
out
sagely
0
sides
she
company ||
o euliker—Matildy Simplus, | N
Her mother- howstmever.
I'm fallin’ too far off my course,
“As I was sayin’, I tuk the ship,
which already had her cargo on board,
and started out. It wasn't a good
time ter start, for we had an’ ol’ moon,
a nor'west wind, an’ ebb tide, a com-
bination which doan’ leave enough wa-
in th' East River to float a row-
boat. Howsumever, arrer walkin’
over the Dimon’ Reef and three or
four other ledges, we cleared the Bar
an’ started out,
“Everythin’ went well until we Kilt
our first pig at th’ equator. We had
made good weather all th’ way down,
an’ besides butcherin® th’ pig th’ men
shaved a lubber with a bar'l hoop jes’
as we crossed th' line, We was havin’
a great time, 1 tell ye.
“Wa'al, one day when we got "bout
fifty miles north o' Ascension Island
we struck th' doldrums, an’ thinks I
here is a good time ter send th’ men
th' side fur a swim, Over they
but they came out ag'in quicker
went in. ‘Lord, Harry,’ sais
‘wot's th’ matter, my hearties? Git
inter th’ ocean, every man Jack
yer! Bat they didn't,
“*Cap'n,’ sais one
that was,
ter
went,
nor they
o'
o th’ men, ‘ef
may I be keelhauled,”
‘Look fur
I ever seen,
‘Wot
sais he,
“Wa'll, as they all stood there look.
like a passel of fools, 1 strung my-
the side in a bowline,
an’ purty near
water. Mates, ye may
bat th’ side o' that
buds like a bass
Buds, do I say?
small sprouts
they kep'
‘em
is? sais L your-
then I guv a gasp,
believe me,
April,
mostly
in
they was
branches, an’, moreover,
fast that could see
shootin’ outen th’ planks like fire outen
an’
NO
men over
an’ knives
‘em to work cuttin th' branches
But, lor’, it did no good. Fur
every branch we cut out at least five
came in its place. It grew to be one
an’ two days, an’ th’ old ship begun
on th’ appearance one
floatin’ summer gardens ye
down th’ East River. Th' masts
looked like May poles, an” I'll be chin
ef a big rose bush did
right out on th’ end th’ cat
As fur th’ yards, all festooned
hangin® vines—wa'al, all
fer say that if it th
remarkable sight ever by
or Neptune ‘1 strike my yals,
all ship woukldn’
no impedi
hangin’ be.
unmovable a of
“I promptly ordered all th’
SAWS
an’ set
out,
o o
these se
sprout ao
head,
with mates,
iu wasn't
most seen
man
that's Course th
i tus sich
with
an’ she
the
ments onto her,
Cone = rock
Gibralter,
“We finally
and guv
flower
as
RUv uj to
i fo
Th'
CArgo o' apples
grapes an’
make
fruit.
' Seyler
up
sardenin' .
fie 8
an’ as fur
herries, why you didn't have
that we had
ft afloat. Wa'al,
port OLUTrSeIves
isin’ an’
trees raised
CLUE Nee.
as
is Ye
roses an’ «
io
richest
tor
twit
agricuit:
ink soe
irl eraf
an’ th’ sh
them floatin’
an evan
things K rowin
ter look
ands ye in
didn’t mind;
life, tossin’
didn’t keer
az 1 heered
short skirts nt
week, We
Island.
“The funniest
th’ effect th
temperate zone friits
th’ ship. Pears an’ apples grew
ger nor swash bu One
would make five pies, an’ as fur grapes
why when the vines was in full growth
they'd weigh th’ =hip down tell th’
water come nigh up to th’ berth deck,
Ships uster stop and buy fresh fruit
off us,
“But like all g things 1 ever
dropped inter, this life came to an end.
It was this way: We was all asleepin’
in th’ pear grove one day, when all o
a sudden we was awakened by a pe
culiar gensation. Th ship seemed ter
be movin’ Up I jumped, an’ sure
enough we was cuttin’ through th'
water like a whale with both fins an’
his tail agoin’. wot made
howsnmever. It was a Brit
She nad come up
| LE
like isl
But
ivin a quiet
on th’
Wwe nn
ane oO
th" Indi
were
WA
we We
about
if
SOT
orean.,
got
women in
island last
ship Smith
Sezsxnrs
happy
an
back,
ever
we
3 oney
named th
sag
even
for
th’
LE]
thing ever was
tropics nad on
that
si
Erew
big
kets,
wel
I soon see
1s move,
ish ship-o'-the-line,
while we slept, got a line around a
cherry tree an’ was towin' us ter beat
all creation. 1 hailed th Captain an’
tol” lum to enst off I'd eut th’ rope
reply be sald I could be blowed.
«ald he wanted th' isinnd an’ he
take it. An’ in conclu
he said that if TI ent th hawser
blamed ¢f he woulden® blow
hull shebang outen th’ water,
“Wa'al, I raved aronn’, but it did no
good, an’ th’ frigate kept towin' us
along. We finally made the island o
Trinidad, an’ then wot d've think that
old British duffer did? He tied vs ap
on one end o th’ island, raised th
British flag on one 0’ th' pear trees, an’
proclaimed it British territory. How
was that for brass? But th’ wustest
part came when they evicted me an’
my crew for non-payment of taxes.
Think o' that, mates!
“I tuk passage fur hum soon after,
an’ laid the matter before th’ State De.
partment, but I got no satisfaction.
TH Necretary o' State sald that I was
th’ best liar he ever seen, an’ ter go
home an’ stop drinkink'. That's
where he was wrong, for ye all know,
mates, I ain't no drinkin’ man, an’ as
fur lyin’, ef there is a more truthfuller
man than I am I'd like ter see him;
eh, mates?’
The mates agreed in a balf hearted
manner,
or
He
Ragtime in Reality,
“Do you have any rag time down
here?” agked the man with the guitar,
“It's always ragtime down here,” re.
plied the hard-times citizen, with a
lugubrious sigh, “nothing but rags;
hardly any putetn"- Chieugo Daily
a €8TS OF THE MAUSER PISTOL.
Mon Effective and
of lis Kind Yet
Megarded nn the
Deadly Weapon
Known,
Dr. J. D, Grithth, of Kansas City, has
just completed for tue Government an
official test of the Mauser pistol, in use
by German cavalry and under consid-
eration for adoption by the United
States. The test was made not only
with targets, but with human cadavers
also, and Dr. Griffith says it proved,
at ranges of from 50 to 500 yards, the
Mauser pistol to be the most effective
and deadly weapon of its kind ever In
vented, and, up to the maximum range
tried it is practically as good in the
lands of marksmen as a Krag-Jorgen-
sen, a Lee, or a Mauser rifle,
When nothing except flesh resists toe
passage of the bullet it makes a small,
round, incision where it enters, and
knife-like cut where it departs. If bone
is in the way, it Is often shattered into
fragments, The pistol with a shoulder
attachment shoots accurately and will
kill at a range of 500 yards. Bullets
passed completely through the cadaver
at that range. Several surgeons who
witnessed the test said it was a
mane weapou, beause it would kill a
rs —————————
organ, would incapacitate if #t
struck a bone, AH agreed that it was
as humane as any of the modern weap
ons using high-power explosives,
pistol fires ten shots without reloading
and can be emptied with accuracy of
aim in less than three The
cartridges are 30 calibre, and are pro-
pelled by smokeless nitro-powder, The
bullets weigh eighty-five grains each
and have a lead core, surrounded by a
nickel ~lated copper jacket,
Or
seconds,
Vistons in Dreams,
While under the spell of a dream the
moral is completely overturned. The
mental powers frolie in total freedom
from the reins of order, et]
quette, or even of the commandments,
1 have or two excellent friends
who assure that their consciences
awake in sleep,
On the
confess
reason,
one
me
are occasionally
an English writer,
# great many
OWN experience
says
hand
their
other
that
entirely corroborates
my own obwervations, For example, an
admirable and most kind-hearted lady
informs me that she palmed off
terfeit coin on a beggar, and chuckled
at the notion of his disappointment. A
Hanthroplst, exercising
indicial function,
commits forgery only
more
# coun
disting
for many
continually
regrets the act when he
A
of her
uished ph
years high
and
learn
nn
dream was devotm]
instruction of pauper children,
ReCing one ake a face at her,
doubled him smallest compa
and thrust
wom Win
hanged
time
is to be
the
the
at
to
of them m
into the
wa
through the bars into
of tue
lent of men deliberately ran his friend
through the body, Aver
called the extreme
him
ine most henevo.
after re
1d
CO
i
his Ix
and
gratification he hs
seeing the point
hounlders of
between 4
(ther
the
gpanion
aut
Crimes com
in dreams peed not be
but I am persuaded that
cotild but Know all the ing
by
sleep with the
here re
corded if wy
roper thing
the most people in the
gang froid
effrontery,
a diverting ox
them
Proper
Hinost
completely unbinshing
picture
trast to our knowledge of
would present
in their
conscious hours
Made Money as if hy Magie.
An estimate of the inte (4
Vanderbilt's net income {rem
securities places this annual revenne
1.000 (en
For
ing and
ing to them works of
thelr furniture it fit
more than $500000 a
quired,
Mr. Vanderbilt had an Income inde
pendent of his dividends and interest,
as every other man of great wealth
has, which generally i= overlooked.
It is the custom when a large cor
poration floats an of bonds tn
have them underwritten.’ That
means that several ban
cate of rich clients of some of the larg:
er banking houses, agrees with the cor.
poration to take its entire
bonds at par, or a stipulated figure,
Then, through several banking agen.
vies, the bonds are sold to the public at
an advance, frequently, of 5 per cent.
or even more.
Suppose the bond issue fs £20,000,000
and the profit is 5 per cent. The under.
writing syndicate, which Las not been
obliged to spend a dollar, divides
commission of £1L,000.000 for
vices,
Mr. Vanderbilt's name appeared fre
quently among the underwriters who
wrnelins
invested
at
his household needs, entertain
improving his residences, add
art and renewing
likely that
year was re
is
ixsne
fusne
Vanderbilt roads, and
financed by J. P.
other large banking firms,
of companies
There
keep up his splendid establishments,
and even his charities, great as they
were,
the reproductive power of millions,
Dog's Batttle with a Cactas,
Otto Kleemann, who lives on Bel.
mont street, recently acquired a beau.
tiful cactus, which be established in
his household, unmindful of the fact
that his dog held the opigion that his
master should have no other pets be.
fore him. Now he had no eactus and
the dejected semblance of a dog. The
little animal espied the plant soon after
its arrival, and lssued a challenge. In
default of acceptance he gave battle,
but retired at the first shock to recon.
sider, The enemy had more teeth than
The two rolled over
and the
torn
a barb wire fence,
and over in a death embrace,
enctus was finally vanquished,
into shreds and seattered about the
room. But it was a costly victory. The
conqueror Is punctured In more places
than his owner can count. He may live
to fight another day, but it will not be
with a eactus.—Portland Oregonian.
Origin of the Broom,
Every housewife Is supposed to know
how to handle a broom, but it Is safe
te say that not one iu ten has any clear
of what her sweeping utensil is
r how it Is made, where
the material eame from. rooms are
made from the heads or brushes of the
broom corn, a first cousin of our com-
mon field corn. And in this connec
tion is told a very pleasant little fairy
story concerning Benjamin Franklin,
“Poor Richard,” by the way,
to have been about the biggest jack-of-
all-trades that ever helped the United
richest and most
If this
or
seems
powerful Nation of the world,
the housewife and the broom-maker, as
Hghtning catcher,
editor, author,
statesman and other
numerous to mention.”
broom corn first grew in India.
From there it was carried to Europe,
The story goes that Dr. Franklin was
xamining a whiskbroom that had heen |
brought over from England in the days
before we had any broom corn of our
own, He found a single on the
broom, picked it off, planted it, and
raised a stalk of corn from which is
descended, so to speak, all the broow
corn of the United States,
In the making of the brooms the corn
is put around a handle of
maple turned in a
layer wound tight with
publisher,
philosopher,
things “too
weed
basswood or
Inthe, Each
twine
in or
wire until th is
The
sewed,
vy desired size
1
attatned, i
wen pressed out flat and
to keep it in that . w an
made in th way. ~~ |
Times-Hernld
broom is
shape
brooms
Chicago
are £ same
. aS
Wonderfanl Diving Horses,
of
from
runway thin
of water
Ores
wig
The
Arabian
latest novelty cons
horses, hich
platform at the end of a
ty-seven feet high
feet deen
two |
i
Ww dive al
into a tank
The bh
i153 pulse
twenty make
dis no friy
employed
amd when
brace then
’
ff shite
Li 47]
make
horses
Nothing New
red te
the tes
Inder the Tent,
1 Wal fee
neath
Borgeo fats
heard sthiess lions
fiw
ose
spot
the salam
melted junk; i
off
we
ander eating
beard the
we
tronk
other
clown get the jokes used 1
know when
dohia.
Sane
boys together,
oN
ie
were
®OT twonty
old horses wo
old kind of
voealists
ne
years
Idled
ngo,
‘round the
ring: the same
proved that
sing. the same old hippopota.
mus grunting with disgust: the
saine old Persian ox was kicking up |
dust; the same old rheumatic acro
bats crawled painfully around, and the
ossificdd contortionist was erawling on
the ground. and ladies rode barebacked
steeds to music sad and the |
mame old girls we used to |OMO
twenty years ago.-Minneapolis Mes.
sate odd
Con they
was
slow
er
ROOT,
Willing te Risk Them,
SEhe was shy germs in the water,
Khe boiled and killed them by steam:
She was shy of germs In the butter
And microbes that fourish in eream.
She was shy of germs in the sivloin
Of germs in the marrowfat bone,
She was «hy of germs on her money
And germs that you meet at the
playhouse,
Of germs on the ear transfer slips:
jut she wasn’t a bit shy of the micro
bos,
If there were any
lips.
Don't Nide Nackwards,
People who object to riding bLack-
ward on the ears will be glad to hear
that the late John Cook, the originator
of “Cook's Tours,” was subject to the
He probably did as
much railway travel as a man ever
did, his average being 40.000 miles a
year, and though of a singularly robust
constitution, he found that he beeamo
subject to a peculiar nervous affiie.
tion In later years, which, however,
disappeared when he stopped riding
with his back to the engine,
The Savage Nachelor,
The Sweet Young Thing Did you!
know there is a man in the moon ne
longer Some one has discoversd a
woman in the moon.
Savage Bachelor No wonder the
man left.~Indianapolis Journal,
A Chances Mewiing,
“Hello!” exclaimed the fish,
of
on Archibald's
Chicago News,
“Here
“No,” replied the worm: “I just
dropped in for g bite.” Philadelphia |
FALSE CURIOS.
and just growing dusk.
Phere Are Regular Vactories Where
They Are Made,
A well known curio expert
that there are factories in Europe for
the manufacture of all kinds of works
of art that are likely to attract the col
lector, Modern articles of China are
stamped with old marks cleverly
that even experts have been deceived,
says the Pottery Gazette, Arms and
armor are treated with acids which e
away the metal, thus producing the
same effect as the ravages of time,
Carved fvories are stained with olls
to make them yellow and are subjected
to heat to make them crack, Pleces of
furniture have holes drilled repre
sent the worm holes, and so on, until
there will in time be very little in the
way of curios which are themselves
very curious, Paris of the
strongholds of this
while in Hungary
where Dresden china
fair manner, There
safe way, and that
reputable dealers,
works of art very
hands, As
to auction rooms,
Many ams
they can pick
art or curio for
way
to
ix one
claks
there is a factory
ix imitated in
however, one
buy through
in all
into the
sent
ix,
is to
Forgeries
rarely get
a rule they are
have an idea thai
p apr
un mere song. That
the chance for the forgers. They
know this and work accordingly,
thus the amateur
spurious makers
the
teurs look
but
in question.
they come
think, and
undeceived,
1ienrs
11] celoss work of
in
all
and
is deceived, The
haunt out-of
auction where ama
ith the idea that nobody
themselves can of the room
The sale takes place and
with a gem, so they
perfectly happy until
curio
way FoOins
in w
know
away
are
enough, in this
discovered a
and
ob-
hax, curiously
lately
His
There
been
bronze
All
from
hich ¢ away
antiquity
fabricated
11i¢ GLEE 8 i=
jt i
me
alloy,
certain propor
ked bs this
Skilled
are
taill portant
made
{ions
by £1 in
I Bin
aff
antag
ure
five 4 tion
Lies
thelr reproductions
d
noculate
spots of bronze
i wef Re,
Gave Him a Pointer,
When the
ross esi
s1yl 3
young cous ried
is of the Jittie
Wis
you do it. uncle” s advised
your
and
went
“wnt
neerfully. hat would in
tinual presence
we don't want
v 5 4 $9 ¢
iountains of
at
All
ion of
want
the
and .iv
natives’
to settle down on you
3
do i= to an ohbwervat
Going
urge
there
the
down
renirietios
for a month among
iberland mounta
Wis
Every
um ins a
reckless and defiant innovation
talking about it.”
ind to hear I i
route and investigate. The
drive them green w.th
ough and kindly people
bt I was in
Strapping six
body ix
. wish they'd go
the
would
Those tr
reports
envy.
woman they
footers would put aside their tobacco,
comb their hair and bring me the
wild flowers. The women
my clothes to patterns,
wherever we
ever saw
ret
=r
borrowed
We were
stopped, and the
welcome
best wasn't good
enough for us. Ray, Uncle Pen.” with
a flashing of the eves, “if you had half
the courage and gallantry of those men
down there you'd have thrown a few
of your dude cronies through the win.
dow instead of getting ready to resign,
P's mighty glad, for some woman's
sake, that you're an old bachelor.”
Frogs in Carload Lots,
The shipment of frogs from here this
genson has been enormons. From one
to three wagon loads have wen hip
ped to Minneapolis, 8t. Paul and Chi
cago every day since the ice went out
of the lakes, The shipments are light
now, but from the first of September |
until the lakes freee up jump-fish will
be a burden to the baggageman of the |
Great Northern railway. Monday last |
there was not a box of frogs in sight |
when the train pulled in from the)
west, and the baggageman was aston. |
ished not to see a truck loaded with
croakers, and remarked to the depot |
agent that some one was entitled to a |
medal, but just as he finished this
sentence Ed Brooks’ dray team came
around the depot with a load of frogs,
aml the baggageman went to the cor
ner of the ear for his gun, and If we
remember right, he used some tall Ian.
guage, but he grabbed up the boxes of
live froge, fired them into a corner.
slammed the ear door hard and howled
for the engineer to pull out of town
before another load of frogs came
around the corner. — Litchfield (Minn)
Ledger.
Left Nis Nouse on the Rallway.
A party of Indinnapolis people com.
ing home from Petoskey, Mich, whose
train was four hours Inte, are explain.
ing the peculinr reason of the delay to
their friends, They were on the Growl
Rapids and Indiana road, and abou!
thirty miles south of Petoskey the en
these sigiied a Buge obstacle on (we
track. 1 after
The owner of the house was moving
it, it was afterward learned, and when
6 o'clock came the tolling of the sup-
bell found the on the rail
Whether not the farmer be-
red to a union, he stopped work im
and took his horses to their
himself to his evening mend,
works after supper, and the
hose
ol
onts and
| No farmer
into the
which
scouted out
farm
minded
went
The train crew
country to find the
saeltered the gingle house
mover, and the conductor a man
to the nearest station to telegraph for
a wrecking train, The farmer was
found and the wrecking train arrived
in time, and, by the efforts of both, the
house was moved off Indi-
annapolis Journal.
house
the track.
NEW ca VE DISCO VERED.
Underground Opening in Tennesses
n Strange Sight,
which it
the Mammoth
and the
been
will
Ken
Vir
A hielievad
eclipse
tucky
gina
cave is
in
Luray in
digcovered in Cla
Tennessee For years a
in the side of Cumberland
has attracted the
passing account
cave
CAYEerns
has
mn wall hole
mountain
GT persons
#UlY breeze
flong was it t
1%
attention
on of the
from ii; so
ould
wr ich came
it a person's hat w
blown off Lis head
The place is located
Mr. William Housely.
curious to know
this underground
blasting made an opening
man could walk, A party of explorers
was formed and on entering they found
hundred feet
was
fart of
Ti
of
b ¥
on the
y
He
further
Trae
something
passage, apd
into which a
after travelling about a
which KO
that a regiment id n
The and walls of the
ber were
Ie
passages,
a magnificent chamber,
large auocuver
clinm
coul
in it, floor
smooth
adding from the chamber four
{ine
were
passage was selected
by the exploring party. because
the through which the
rent of a Wh
rom the big cham!
wi
cur
half
ARKASe
nd
ex
» $f» 5 oF
OL strong
about a
the
r came, en
mile
beg
beg:
er
an io ®O1
ihe
distant
» pounds be
» more distinet 1 going further
and
up
{oet
of
chamber
Away
few
the entrar
ites and
r presence §
1
many
peculiar formations.
Che noise 3
counted
urrent of air
Mr Housel
farm on
Heavy «
these « OER
of the little
is located,
whic
will explore
Snake Charming.
Snake cf
gusting
of
of
tootling «
and their
MMrnnng i= a favorit
exhibit
East, and invols a great
on
the deal
beating of drun Ww } Som
=
of with the
wor
Himes
Spex, until 1 snakes
charmer are ked up to
itement,
by
from
Lhe
:
when the suakes seize thelr ratron
the
his tongue,
blood
er hast 1 have
Moved
and even draw
in the furth
Yehomous
LOR
een snakes emg for
th while in full possession of
and 1 told that
in parts Morocco
however, that has come
and I have
had these artists all to myself in the
garden, with every facility for careful
investigation—the venom fa had
been previously removed. The whole
performance is not particularly edify
though as a novelty it of course
has some attraction for the tourist,
There exists, by the way, a well worn
fable, which, while I am yet on the
subject of snakes, may as well be gent
ly apd painlessly laid to rest. It re
lates that there abound in the older
houses of Morocco City enormous rat
eating snakes, which live jn friendly
intercourse with the household, and
even droop from the gaping rafters and
fake snacks at table. Reduced to its
lowest terms, the bare truth of the
story appears to come down to this:
That there are snakes of no gigantic
IS Purpose
the power to kill,
is also done
in every
an
of
Case,
nes
ng,
however, far from being
welrome at the amily board.
their presence is tolerated only because
are best left alone, and do not
+ hand
where,
guests
led. New York Tribune.
The Tomato asx a Tonle,
The tomato unquestionably pozsesses
a high dietetic value, and has been
for use in
cases of blood impoverishment, a sug.
gestion which perhaps rests apon the
a considerate
amount of iron. The presence of iron
may easily be detected by applying to
the cut surface of a tomato the ordi
nary tests for this reagent. As a food
for supplying iron, the tomato is far
superior to any of the combinations of
iron so commonly used as a means of
(enriching the blood, 1t has long been
known that these inorganic compounds
ean not enter into the composition of
the blood. It is possible, Lowe ver, that
they may sometimes be useful; for, as
bas recently been suggested, while they
do not enter into the composition of the
blood, they serve to neutralize ach
substances which form Insoluble salts
with the iron of food. and thus prevent
its absorption and assimilation. In
other words, they act ns protectives of
nutritive iron compounds of food.
The tomato may serve a similar pur.
pose, not only BF supplying ther of
Iron, but the Inkteduction o