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ISOLATED CREATNESS,
The man who never makes mistakes,
He is the creature who awakes
The soul to scorn, the brow to frown
With wrath no charity can drown.
Men sound his praise with zeal
tense
Aud bid uf heed his excellence.
But none the less, when he
‘round,
Discomfort seems to reign profound.
For how can he, so coldly wise,
Extend a hand and sympathize
With simple, straggling, mortal men,
Who rise and fall and rise again?
How can his heart responsive beat
To that remorseful mood complete
Of those who feel they cannot be,
Strive though they may, as good as
he?
He knows all things in human life,
Save to forgive the struggling men
Who grope and stumble now and then,
1'd rather be a dull machine
And clink and clank {o a routine
Of duty until something breaks
Than he who never makes mistakes,
—Washingtou Star,
in-
Comes
“EGO!”
An Eplsede of lavasion.
BY FRANKLIN W, CALKIN%
The new El Dorado was in sight.
Gordon's party of twelve tired front.
of
of
which separates the sources the
Running Water from the
Cheyenne. For five weeks the men had
shovelled drifts, buffeted blizards and
kept a constant vigil among the inter
minable sand-hills. By means, too, of
stable canvas, shovels, axes, iron pick
et-plus and a modicum dry
they bad kept in good condition the
splendid eight-mule team which drew
their big freighter.
In fact “Gordon's outfit”
el one in every respect, and probably
those
of food,
was a mod
no similar body of men ever faced ow
snow -bound. plains,
equipped for the adventure A nd
the muffled marchers cheered as
Gordon halted them,
blurred and inky upheaval
truckless bette
now
Cap”
and pointed to a
upon the
far rim of a limitless waste of whit
The Black Hills, a
wonderland, nnseen hitherto b
party of whites save the
“
famons
vet
table
any
men of
Cus
ter's expedition, lay before them.
Two more days and the gold -seakers
would gain the shelter of those pine
covered hills,
would chips”
fort and safety from attack were
cured. Out cold,
weeks of toil and danger, into warmth
and safety—no wonder they were giad!
As yet they had seen no sign of the
hostile Slonx, but their frosty cheers,
thin and piping. had hardly Leen borne
away by the cutting wind when a mov
ing black speck appeared
ern horizon,
where their merry
until shelter,
axes
“eat COW
a
of the bitter alter
on the west
The speck drew nearer, an
itself into a solitary horseman
it be that a single Sioux
proach a party of
watched the without anxiety.
They were so near the goal now
no war party of
become
resolved
ould
would ap
their strength? They
rider
that
sufficient
menace was likely to
come a menace was likely to be gath-
ered.
strength to
a 1pen
They were equipped with an ar
senal of modern guns, with fifty thou
sand rounds of ammunition, amd bad
boasted they were “good to stam off
three hundred Sioux.”
Nearer and pearer drew the horse
man, his pony coming on in rabbit like
jumps to clear the drifts, Speculation
ceased, It was an Indian probably a
hunter strayed far from bis
bBalf-starved and coming to
food. Well, the poor wretch
beg for
should
as he could eat
give him better fare,
It was as cold as Greenland, The
bundled driver upon the great wagon
slapped his single lope, and yelled at
the plodding mules.
in snow-packs marched at the tail of
the freighter. In such weather their
wagon, nor did they deem It necessary
now to get them out.
They were prepared for a begging
as Tfarcial as sgvage. Ax
horseman confronted them he lovered
his blanket, uncovering his solemn,
barbarian face, and stretching ont one
long arm, pointed them back upon
their trail »
“Go!” he sald, and be repeated the
command with flerce insistence,
The big freight wagon rattled on,
but the footmen halted for a moment
to laugh.
The Indian stretched his lean arm
and shouted, “Go!” still more savage.
ly. It wax immensely funny. Gor
don's men jeered the solitary autocrat,
and laughed until their icicled beards
pulled. They bade him get into a deift
and cool off; usked him If his mother
knew he was out, and whether his feet
were sore, and if It hurt bim much to
talk, awl if he hadn't a brother who
could chin-chin washtado?
His sole answer to their jeering, as
he rode alongside, was “Go! go! go!”
repented with savage emphasis and a
flourish of his arm to the southward,
Khe totmen were plodding a dozen
»
yards in the rear of the freight wagons |
and still laughing frostily at this queer |
spechimen of “Injun’ when the savage
gpurred his pony forward. A few quick |
leaps carried him up the tolling |
eight-mule team, His blanket dropped |
around his hips, and a repeating car
bine rose to his face. Both wheelers |
dropped at the first shot, killed by a
single ounce slug. A rapid fusillade |
of shots was distributed among the |
struggling mules, and then the Sioux |
| was off, shaking his gun and yelling
| definnce, his pony going in zig-zag
| leaps and like the wind. |
in
Men ran tumbling over each other to
{ got into the wagon and at thelr guns. |
he teamster and two or three others
| wha, despite the cold, carried revolv- |
| ors under their great-conts, jerked off |
their mittens and fumbled with stiff
fingers for their weapons. They had
| not been perved up with excitement,
like the Sioux, and before they could
bring their guns to bear the savage
was well out upon the prairie,
And when these men tried, with rifle
or revolver, to shoot at the awiftly
moving, erratic mark presented by the
cunning Sioux and his rabbit like pony
{ the cutting wind sumbed their fingers
| and filled their eyes with water, the
| glistening snow obscured their front
| sights, and they pelted a while waste
| furtously with bullets,
The anger which raged in them as
| they saw that the Sioux had escaped
| scot free was something frightful. Six
| mules of the splendid eight lay weiter
ing in blood: another Was disabled, and
only one had come off without burt.
Half counties fowa
had been scoured to get together “Gor
as this fine frieght team |
the of northern
don’'s pride.”
had been named, before the party left
| Stoux City,
The blight of their
tion. the frightful peril of their situa
tion. were lost sight of in their desire
hopeful e ped!
for revenge, which burned in the heart
of every man of them as they gazed
apon the stricken, stiffening
animals. All were for giving chase Im
mediately, They
easily overtake
drifts of
and
heap of
could
the
believed they
the Slouz among
the lower lands, where creeks
filled
hit to shift his course continually
“Boys,”
sow ravines must canse
sald Gordos, when some of
them had hastily begun to strip for the
“boys, this is my particular af
You make fit it for
I'l either get that Sloux, or
back
chase,
fal
{ fightin’
camp and
{ he'll feteh his tribe and get us.”
He had
contractor
many years in the Slonx country, and
Cy Gordon was thelr captain
been a bay and wood for
band
There was no need to argue that no
his word was law to this little
man could even have guessed at the
daring had looked
The performance bad been too
appallingly simple and casy kad
come #8 unexpectedly as the Sood of a
cloudburst or the bursting of a gun,
and disaster they
, upon
14
i
While his men stood vengefnlly and
| fiercely watching the flying Sioux Gor
stocked
bread
wrappings, his pockets with
frozen and cartridges, slipped
on a palr of snowshoes Kent for an
emergency, tightened his belt and then
launched
himself in pursuit
Horse and rider were again no more
than a speck upon the vast snow field.
trordon, ride
his arm. took the long. swinging stride
of the accomplished snow-shoer. In an
hour the speek npon the snow had not
grown smaller,
At
with an “express” minder |
the
grass
almost
Sioux.
noon, by broad
| flat tall
Gordon came
range of the An later, |
among a tangle driftwood vines,
thers was an exchange of shots and
| the Sjoux's pony dropped in its tracks.
| The Indian dodged out of sight. and
(Giordon pushed warily on with a grin
of hate under his icicles
| He took up the Sioux’s tracks, and
noted with satisfaction that the In.
dian's moccasined feet punched clear
through the light erust at every other
step. In just a little while!
But he followed for an hour or more
sin, upon a
where held the snow,
within bullet
hour
of
| among a seemingly interminable tangle
of gullies without catching a glimpse |
of the wary dodger. Then he emerged
| into a wider valley, to find that the
| artful rascal had escaped out of his
| range and out of sight upon a wind. |
swept stretch of river ice,
Gordon ground his teeth and swept
over the smooth surface, sweating, de-
| apite the sharp cold, from fierce exer
tion. At ao tara of the river he saw
| the Sioux: but there were others, more
than a score of them, mounted and ap-
proaching the runner, The mule-kill- |
er's camp or town was close at band. |
Jxhansted from his long ran, Gor- |
don, in his own language, threw up the |
sponge. He hastily sought the cover
of river drifts, and scooped himself a |
kind of rifle pit. Then, with a pile |
of cartridges between his knees, and |
slapping his hands to keep his fingers
ready for metion, he waited, meaning
to do what execution be could before
the end.
There was considerable parley be
tween the Sioux, and then only a «in
gle Intian advanced towards the white
man. This one came on afoot, within
gunshot, then stopped and shook his
blanket in token that he wanted to ap-
proach and talk.
Gordon laughed. The situation ap.
peared to him grimly humorous. He
motioned to the Indian to come on, and
kept him well covered with his rife.
A moment later, however, he lowered
his gun.
knew that he stood In no danger of a
Gordon arose, and the chief came
forward with a hand outstretched.
“My young man has killed your
mules,” was Red Cloud's greeting in
the Sioux tongue.
Gordon understood,
sand 1 will not take your hand un til
The grave old chief drew his blanket
about his with
“Now listen,” be said.
shoulders a shrug.
“If one of your
had approached a party
my soldiers and had killed all their
horses, and so crippled them and es-
you would have made "him a
big captain. It is so. My young man
is very brave, He did as he was told.
You cannot come here and take my
country-—not yet, I have watched your
advance sad complained to your sol-
diers at White River. When 1 saw
they did not go out and catch you as
do, 1 sent my young man lo stop you.
You will find your soldiers at the three
forks of White River. Now go!”
And without another word, Red Cloud
turned upon his heel and stalked away.
obey the injunction to “go.” Three
days later his little party filed in at
the military camp on White River, and
of freight had been not #0
much as a bianket or a pound of sugar
had been taken by Red Cloud's Sioux.
Youth's Companion,
recovered,
Three Years Required te Learn the Secrets
of the Black Art
A school of a very curious order is
to be opened in Paris to-day. Its found-
ora offer to Initiate whoever Is pos
sessed the necessary of pa-
tience, and perhaps of credulity, into
the mysteries of occultism, into the
arcana of black magic. There are per-
gons, they opine, even latter
and skeptical days, who would like to
follow lu the footsteps of a Para: elsus
or a Trismegistus, and for the benefit
of nquiring souls they bave
started a complete course of sorcery
and witcheraft, of astrology and the
other hermetic It must
he admitted that the advantages held
out as the reward of those who attain
to complete imitation are considerable
An ipscription on the wall of the
cultist school says that initiat-
edd virtize of the powers transmit
teil them Ly the masters, reign in
heaven, command on earth and are
feared In bades.” A magician of this
calibre would
viable position, and be entitled to have
no mean oplolon of himself, so that it
would not be just to scoff at the occult
by any chance
they should fail to keep their promises,
will
magician
of dose
in these
these
“sciences.”
oo
“the
i
ist professors unless
be learn
mo-
Nobody
a
surprised to
made in a
Still. though the process of
pitistion extends over three years,
time expended will be allowed to be
ahiort. when the results arrived at are
The program of
at ocenltisg which
thoughtfully forwarded to
gives full details of the three years’
fwring the first the
student is made to acquire as much
Hebrew as “will enable him to under
that is not
ment
fhe
studies
has
me,
ansidersd
the school,
been
COI Tee year
This is not all, but I am compelled to
abridge. In his second year he dips
into Kapscrit, exercises himself in hyp
notism and somnambulism, takes a
close look at spirit phenomena, and
learns, doubtless, with growing inter
est and profit, “the practical adapta
arts of divina.
in his third year. he
tion.” Finally,
“
on the Inelddble” and many other ob-
sours matters, his comprehension of
which is aided, It may be presumed,
by his previous training. These suc
cessive stages accomplished. it is his
fault If he is not a full-fledged
As the world might other
wise be ignorant of its greatest ma.
it might be mentioned that
the founders of the occultist school are
MM. Barlet, Papus and Sedir. Paris
Correspondence Pall Mall Gazeite,
own
Three Grand Opera Mules.
For the past eight years the salary
list of the Metropolitan opera
On the payroll they appear
“(alve, Carmen, Carmencita-
And they have earnea nearly
£1,000,
When Mme. Calve was about
try in “Carmen” she insisted
tion of the mules that form a consplen-
ous part of the gypsy outfit,
the character and training of the
mules, and she would take no chances
in the matter. Finally she decided up.
on three animals that have ever since
appeared regularly in the opera. Mme.
Calve herself rehearsed the mules and
christened them. They became great
pets with the singers, and this sum.
mer Mme. Eames has invited them to
pass their vacation at ber country
home. New York World,
Some women, when a gown doesn’t
match thelr complexions, finds it easter
to alter the complexion than the gown.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
INTEREST ON ACRICUL.
TURAL TOPICS.
| TEMS OF
| Keeping Weeds Cut Down -Remedy For
the Oat Smut Methods of Farming
Eradicating Wild Mustard -Some Dairy |
Hints-Etc,, Ete.
Keeping Weeds Cut Down.
A writer in American gardening
| urges the importance of keeping weeds |
| cut down as one measure in the war on |
insect pests. Many of the jusects that |
infect field and garden crops live on
the weeds that spring up In early spring
until the cultivated crops come on. Of |
{| course if only one farmer In a
munity kept the weeds under subjec
| tion it would have small effect on the :
insects. but If there was a general pol-
ley of weed destruction many pests |
would be starved ou!
coin
Remedy For the Oat Smut.
Do not sow oats without treating!
them for the destruction of smut, if
| the smut has ever appeared on the farm |
or farms in the vicinity, and there are
few places where it has not,
smut requires a stronger solution
kill ii than wheat smut. Tae formula
given for oats is one pound ef bluestone
or sulphate of copper, In eight gallons
| of water for eight bushels of oats, while
the wheat formulas uses same amount
of sulphate of copper in ten gallons of |
water for ten bushels of wheat, The
gain by using this preventive for smut |
is an Increase of crop and an improve
ment In quality
The ont
to
Methods of Farming.
There are many methods of rarming,
but all
and of cultivation depends |
upon of labor, in Europe,
{ where labor is cheap, owing to the em
ployment of women and children 'n the |
fields, plants are grown closer ‘ogether
and are largely worked by The
intensive system is used on such farms
because the farms in
the wherever
in conatries the crops grown
the mode
the cost
hand
are small this
ountry
rop CAD
thirre
borse a used a
be cultivated with its aid,
is something fo
Furope in increasing tl
judicious saving sad
in some sections of Europe
is trenched and the trench
manure, It requires a large amount
manure fo trench a plod, but
will be large. correspondingly, ¢
land will bear several
gle application of manure
valuable crops are so 1
not pay 1
but learn from
ww crops by the
use of manure
the ron
he ground
$44
i
’
of
rs fllid w
We TODS
ud
ropes from a
the
sin-
only
it
# i
win, but
the
woulda
such
lettuce
ill
ater
vated
o trench for
rops as celery, peas, ahhnges
onions, or early crops of any Kind, «
par, as
they can be followed by
Tops, Such experiments should not be
singe
es »
overiooked Lut a
making
vegetahles
as
trench is
necessary for with se
eral Kinds of
Eradicating Wild Mustard.
One of the worst
af the ["nited Riates and Canada is ti
wild mustard it i
spread entirely
great vitality of
selves, It is 8
sradicate. The in
ground live for years and continue
germinate As
surface. If in small
amounts, hand pulling is the best meth
xl of eradication When
badly infested ground
arrowed gang plowed
harvest Ax soon
sprouted,
repeat ~
weeds [n many pares
is an annual and is
hy seeds. and owing fo
thie the seods them
dificult
seeds
very wos! to
ono the
they are brought to the
they are present
should
after
have
amd at
with =a
the
field is
the Tye
or *O00
as the seeds
cultivate thoroughly
intervale, RIb up
double mold board plow late
fall. Put’in a hoed crop the following
spring and cultivate thoroughly through
the whole of the growing season, Cul
| tivate and harrosy after the crop is off
and plow agains with a double mold |
board plow. Sow the ground the next
spring and seed with clover, pulling the
weeds by hand out of the grain crop.
After one or two crops of hay are cut,
is
rotate again in the same way. i
i
Some Dairy Mints. |
At the dairy institute at Springfield, |
Professor Cooley told members
that:
The food does not affect the richness
of the milk. You cannot tell by
looks of milk how rich it is
We cannot afford
| half time.
To get high-grade milk, brush the |
cows before milking, and it {8s advised
by many that the adders be clipped,
Manage to have the cows come fresh,
$0 as to maintain a uniform supply
| throughout the year,
It is claimed that summer silage will
stop summer shrinkage.
Overalls should be clean. Don't have
thom stiffened with dairy starch.
Don't make a strainer do too much
work. Have a fresh one for every
the
the |
to ran Cows on
Cool the milk and kéep it at a given
| temperature,
Care, cleaplineas and cold are the
three ¢'s of milk production.
The German dalrymen have a stall
which seems nearly perfect. The plat.
form 18 just the right length for the
cow, and behind it is a deep ditch of
six or ¢ ght inches with a ledge part
way down, so that the cow in slipping
off does not slip clear to the Hottom.
The cows soon learn to stand out of
the dich and keop perfectly clean,
ssa on
Cultivating Peanuts.
If anyone desires to grow his own
peanuts, they can do so by giving to
any dry soll a thorough pulverisation
and fertilization with decomposed
stable manure, Have the surface even, |
and plant about the time of planting |
beans, getting fresh unbaked nuts, |
whirh should be removed from the |
shell. Plant in bills from two aod one- |
Balf to three feet apart, with two ker
pes! to a bill, so asx to insure at least
one plant Bill
When they come
up keep the land clean by hoeing, When
to every The surplus
they begin to run ‘and show blossoms
ered with earth, to a depth of about an
{nch, leaving the ends of the vines Just
out of the ground.
With good cultivation the vines will
must he continued. They will continne
to grow until frost comes, and
which condition they must be thor-
Do not let them mould,
culture and luck a quart
With good
If the farmers’ boys prefer to
there is no
difculty attending the operation
Epitomist.
grow
great
The
Intensive vs. Extens ve Farming. —
The successful farmer of the future
must farm fewer acres and grow more
Rotation of crops and diver
sified farming and stock raising are the
best foundation for the success of the
future farmer, and, as it costs no more
to raise a well bred animal than it does
to raise a8 scrub, better sell off ihe iB
and in future
none but the very best to consume the
per acre,
the raise
and better ones to consume the grain
the
road to success in these days of small
wargins and sharp competition The
writer has observed oue great mistake
They under-
take to do too much, so that they have
pot time to give growing crops proper
attention at the right
3etter drop off one or two things in
which there is the least profit, and put
more time on other crops that pay bet
fu-
well, 1
to know
must
done at a
and profitable crop. 1f we would
our potato patch and growing corn do
the ground should be stir
rod as soon as dry enough after every
rain that fails, forming a crust on the
Every ton of hay that
a man sells off b robs if
about $8.20 worth of
ton of timothy hay that be hauls away
£5.48 ton
{ithe
of the
can do
enongh
things
The successful
ture will find 1
had experience
np farmin
fer. farmer
ae
hat
Lhiave
that
g£ many he
the right time to secure good
have
their best,
DV
surface
farm it
fertility;
i.
every
robs it of about and
wheat, $7.70
Hence it is evident
that If we
every
of .
to every man
and timothy
t ix only a question of
wat of farms Ww ii be
We must prac
farming and Jess
make farming pay io
We must plant fewer acres
and raise more to the acre. Wheat at
bushel! and twelve to if-
grow clover
market
hen
pnprodoctis
for the
tigie Ww the
Cothe
tice more lntensive
extensive if we
5) rents per
does not pay ¢x
farm
bushels per
teen bushels per
Bat
rity or
acre,
if we can
hirty-five
there would be some profit
raising But
ya farmer cannot afford te quit
ng no
n it we must
our
pense wa as 10
Eaise 130
acre, then
n Micent wheat the
Amer
growl wheat If there be little or
from the fact 1hal
arder to keep
uM
profit
rotate up
in
{ TOp= 0
$ . 3 ‘reranlor
the fertility of the soll Trussier,
Farmers’ Guide
Anima! Food For Poultry.
s discussed lucidly with
paference to farm pouliry “Review
of Bulletin” Ne. 171, It
ix desirable to feed poultry animal mat
tor in some form. This has jong been
{eal fenders; but the ex-
feeding Las Dever
This matter
in
as follows
art effect of such
York Agricultural Experiment Station
in these tests 1.000 chicks
marketable size, and ninety bens and
forty cockrels have been fed
lengthy periods; so that the evidence
weight of time and numbers it
has Deen most
the lack of mineral
an all-gratn ration, as compared with
one containing animal meal, is supplied
hy bone ash, the difference disappears
or favors the grain ration: so far as
ration inferior to one containing ani
mal meal, rather than a difference in
quality of the protein,
Practically, this is of little impor
tance, for, except under rare conditions
lke those surrounding these experi
ments, it would be easier, cheaper and
better to use animal meal, eat scraps
or cut bone to supplement a ration for
fowls In confinement, than to burn the
bones or to buy bone ash. Something
to supplement the asa-poor grains they
must have and it is simpler to give It
in a natural form combined with val
nable protein and fats, than to burn
out the organic matter ana give the ash
With ducks, however, even the addi
tion of the bome ash did not make the
grains a perfect feed. Ducks are nat.
urally great lovers of small fish and
and snails acs such forms of ani
life found ln thelr water excur
fake the place of this animal matter
they can not do their best
fu farm poultr feeding, where the
birds have the range of orchard and
pastitre, of course they gei snimal food
in the insects and worms and snails
which they scratch for so vigorously;
wo grain may make up practically all
fed]. The birds themselves
will sitend to the supply of animal
fend
the ration
SAC AND FOX'S NEW CHIEP,
Waw-Pa-Se-Kek lostalied as Head of Tribe
With Much Pompt.
With much pomp and several circum-
the Mad tribe of In.
live in
Oklahoma when they are at home, in-
wi nCes and Vox
dians, who on # reservation
stalled a new chief into office recently,
and they have pot entirely recovered
from the effects of it yet
Waw-Pa-Re-Kek was chosen the new
chief by the head medicine man, Ke
Wa Nah, who sald he had received the
appointment from the Great Spirit. The
old chief died several weeks ago and
gew chief was declared the ruler of his
Waw-Pa-Se-Kek comes of an oid line
of warriors and he sald that he needed
the place in order to keep up the dig-
nity of the family. He made a speech
which greatly pleased the tribe. He
said that he did not favor the Indians
living on allotments and haviog te
work. and be was golog to Washing
ton he great white father and
have the allotment talk stopped. He
suid the Indians ought 10 he let alone
10 sie
by the whites. The new chief was in-
much ceremony.
the Indians
gssemble at the dance
10 o'clock about 1.000
“hey were all dressed in
stall~l with
Tuesday morning Com.
to
By
bad arrived
gay colors.
of
grounds and
menaced
grounds
Atl
assembled on
SA0E
the which the body the
dead the burial
grounds and placed in a little house.
poon the medicine men
dance
of
the tribie the
the death cham
Cd
iribe after ol
chief was carried to
Then the Indians assembled around a
the sacred dog
chief
kept the background, Im
fact, lodge
for the last three days sweating out all
big kettle and drank of
soup in the meant
in
ine the Dew
carefn
iil
Lhe Lad ot a the sweat
the impurities of being a common In
After dinner the Indians went
Was 8
dian
into 1 council house, which
and straw,
in 8
aronnd edge. When
un place with the medicine
hief appearsd.
He was rather weak from fatigue and
loss of sleep. All of the medicine men
cast thelr sacred otter skins at him and
were dead.
singing the
they
dancing
reo.
oe
large structure bull of mud
their position
and took
irl
there up
“ the outer
they were
wen on the inside the
’
he fell down acting as if be
redskins began
daring
Then the
medicine songs, which
chief the
de he
and made Then
indians engaged in a big dance which
lasted until morning
Besides falling belr 10
Waw-Pa-Se-Kek also geis six mulws
and fifteen children
th his own three squaws and
dragged into
circle outs Once thers
ered a the
spyeecly
the «
Hieftancy.
of the dead chief,
which W
ten
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the numerous
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men make quite a
y
household
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What Struck Him Most.
this COUNTY
has a
who Las ses vi in
A
wiafidential servant
gentleman in
who completed his term
of active service at the famous charge
at hassassin, Not long back his mas
talking to him about the South
m on to
experi-
the army, and
fer was
African campaign, and isd hi
ences on the field
The man has special facility of
speech, and it was not long before he
began to describe Kassassin and his
part in the battle-—the long wait, the
restrained impatience, the nerves
tense, the bits fingling in the silence;
then the advance, the trot. the gallop,
charge: then how ithe rider just
of him fell from his saddle and
shot his own horse dead with the death
grip of his fingers on his revolver as
he dragged: and how the men's faces
at the sight and they set
“And what struck You most when it
was all over, and You jookeC back on
117" asked the master.
The servant paused for a moment's
reflection. and then, with the most
perfect simplicity, said:
“Well. «ir, what struck me most
forcibly was the bullets that missed
me." Cassell’s Saturday Journday.
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Pearis Are Enjoylag Good Health.
{t i= interesting to know from a
Chestnut street dealer in jewels that
pearls are in particalarly good heaith
this summer, “Good health” is the ex-
pression of the dealer, and he meant it
fterally. “These gems aw partionlar.
ly lable to disease.” Le said. “Come
mercially, the health of a pearl refers
to Its lustre, and when it becomes dull,
you may know that it is sick. Ralt
water Is the only tonic that is known
to be efficacions in such cases, and
after being immersed in brine for sev.
eral dars the gems will be found to
be restored to their usual health, The
summer months are usually hard on
pearls, but this year, for some reason,
there is very little illness among
them.” — Philadelphia Record.
The baldheaded man shines in society.