LITTLE MILLIONAIRES.
Twenty little millionaires
Playing in the sun:
Millionaires in mother-love,
Millionaires in fun,
Millionaires in leisure hours,
Millionaires in joys,
Millionaires in hopes and plans,
Are these girls ard boys.
Millionaires in health are they,
And in dancing blood,
Millionaires in shells and stones,
Sticks and moss and mud;
Millionaires in castles
in the alr, and worth
Quite a million times as much
As castles on the earth.
Twenty little millionaires,
Playing in the sun;
Oh, how happy they must be,
Every single one!
Hardly any years have they,
Hardly any cares;
But in every lovely thing
Multimillionaires.
Youth's Companion.
stance,
uring in this tearful tale not been
compelled by stern parents to attend
the Galveston schools they might nev-
er have heard of Jean Lafitte, and had
they not read about him and his hid-
den treasure, John Erskine would nev-
er have gone in search of it and thus
made a fool out of himself as he did.
The “Sons of kKest”-—so named he.
cause none of them had ever been ob-!
stituted a club of young men, the prin-
cipal members of which were Erskine, |
colored man, Massa Sam Washington,
who worked for the Erskines and was
a sort of valet de chambre 0 John, tne
family priue. now, the latter and
Bruce Gordon were universally ad-
mitted to be the cleverest of the whole
bunch, but both of the young men,
being ambitious, were not sausfied to
share the honor with and
each was desirous of the
only rooster in the club coop
Hence the rivalry between them wus
keen. And it is with this rivalry, into
which, by a peculiar stroke of chance,
Jean Lafitte and his buried treasure
became involved and helped to solve
the question of superiority between
the two, that this story concerns it-
self.
Jean Lafitte, the reader may be in-
formed, was the famous filibuster and
pirate who during the early part of
the last century made things hum in
the Gulf, where he annexed every
Spanish merchantman that came his
way. In this dangerous but lucrative
vocation he amassed a huge fortune in
the shape of jewelry and Hispano
doubloons. Alas, whenever he wantéd
to rest on his laurels he retired
Galveston Island, wnere he had fittea
up a snug little pirate principality
over which he, Jean Lafitte
as a sort of king
This pleasant existence lasted
nearly six years. One day a number
of Lafitte’'s men plundered an Ameri
can vessel, and that was the finish. In
the spring of 1821, Lieut. Kearney, of
the United States Navy, appearcd be.
fore the fort with a man of war and
asked Lafitte If he didn't think his |
health demanded a change of atmos- |
phere.
So solicitous an interest in himself
Lafitte could not” bear, and he depart-
ed for parts unknown. In his haste to |
get away he is believe? to have left his i
treasure, securely buried in the |
ground, behind him, the inference be- |
ing that he would return later and
claim it. Instead of that death claim
ed him soon afterward in Yu atan;
hence the treasure, if the tradition
was true, should still reain untouch
ed in the island's molst ground
Erskine, who was a pretty bright |
fellow, and possessed of the peculiar
knack of summing a person's ensem-
ble in one word, had given each of thy
members of the Sons of Rest a nick.
name appropriate to their respective
failings. Welling. for instance, who
had learnec the machinists trade, but
whose mind was bent on racing, wae |
the Sporting Blacksmith. Sohnstore
whose hair was strongly reminiscent |
of an impressionist pairter's sunset, |
was known as Red; white Sam Wash. |
ington had been nicknamed Old Ken-
tucky. The Sons of Rest thought this
8 very witty name—all except Gor |
don, and Massa Washington himself, |
who indeed was much palnbd at the
appellation,
It swod to reason uhder these cir
cumstances that Gordon weuld not
long remain a member of the Sons of
Rest before the wit of Erskine would
also find a suitable nickname for him.
Gordon was one of those fellows sent
fo this planet to illumine the gloom
of dally existence for the benefit of
the rest of us mortal c. nners. An ad-
venturous youth, who had been around
the world and fought for Cuba Libre,
he was full of new and novel pranks
He could also tell some stories the
artistic effects of which were height
ened to no small extent by his vivid
imagination.
But he differed from Erskine in that
whatever his sins against truth he
never hurt anyone's feelings if he
could help it. He never called Sam
Old Kentucky, for example, and Sam,
being a gratefui soul, remembered this
fact. This was also one of the rea
sons why, although the latest addi
tion to the membership of the Sons,
he became so popular as to seriously
endanger the supremacy of Frskine,
till then, the undisputed leader. Ers-
kine saw the danger, and believing
with Napoleon that It was best to as
sume the offensive when waiting only
another,
becoming
to
reigned
for
to pitch into Cordon. So one evening,
after winking «t the rest of the fel
lows as much as to say, “Watch me.”
Erskine started in.
a cigar to each of the boys that you
can't prove you're alive.’
“It's a go,” replied Gordon, without
hesitation. “All I have to do is to say
that you're a fool for making such a
bet.”
The laughter of the rest of the fel
lows at this sally, and thelr murmur.
ing about a solar plexus to some one
undid Erskine for a moment, but ne
speedily recovered, saying, addressing
Gordon:
“You win, Baron Munchausen."” And
after this Bruce Gordon was known
only as Munchausen, and Erskine
seemed to have retained his place.
It was perhaps a week later that
the Lafitte subject happened to come
on the tapis. Erskine announced his
| faith in the old tradition.
“Il think there is something in it.”
he began. “Why, Old Kentucky knew
Manuel Lopez, who was Lafltte's valet
He told Kentucky that he believed in
! the story himself. If I only had a
work on,” he wound up, “I
| wouldn't mind looking for it myself,
because I need the money.”
While Erskine was talking, a pecu-
| liar smile had come to Gordon's lips.
walked home very thoughtfully
i that night. In the morning he called
| He
his
and,
a plan which made Sam show
toothless gums in great wonder,
after some persuasion, nod his si
head in assent
It was a few days after
conference that Washington
! Erskine, and with very
{ air showed him an old rusty
Erskine's
3
this secret
came to
a mysterious
dagger
curiosity was aroused: he
where he had found
it. And then Sam, in a low and hush
ed voice, as ir fearing to be overheard,
| confided how on the day before he had
taken a stroll out along the beach.
Getting tired, he had seated himself
on one of the sandhills there ir
the shrubbery had antique
weapon.
“But what makes
Lafitte's dagger? Erskine asked
some wonder at the darky's acumen
The latter grinned, then pointed to
initials “J. 1.” on the Ers
kine was convinced it was a clear
case, he thought, and visions of
wealth began to pass {in review before
him He warped Sam not to a
word to anybody about it, especially
not to Bruce. Then he went to the
hardware store and bought a regular
miner's outfit
That night about 12 a typi
cal farmer's wagon might have
observed hurrying along the wet beach
In the wagon were Erskine, his dog.
Sam Houston, and Old Kentucky. It
was a typical Southern summer night
Far up in the dark biue t full
moon was lighting up the barren land-
scape and converting the small rows
of rumbling waves in the Gulf into a
mass rippling silver.
After two hours’ ride
and
the
found
think it is
in
th
the
Bay
0 CIOCK
been
sky the
of
the treasu
re
"FATAL POSSESSIONS.
Weird Romance of a Finger
That Killed a Bride
{ romances are assoclated with posses
who own them.
of this is related
the Lindsey family
legend, Colin Lind
trouble on those
(tragic instance
{ connection with
| According to the
iat the altar, When reminded
{ fact he hurried off to church,
i getting the indispensabls ring, bor
rowed one from a friend, which
{| duly placed on the bride's finger,
| At the conclusion of the ceremony
‘the newly-made countess took a
glance at the ring and, on seeing that
{it bore a grinning death's head, sud
| denly fainted away. The incident af
| fected her to such aa extent that, on
| recovering consciousness, she express
j ed her conviction that was
| tined to die within twelve months
And sure enough, in than
period her came to an end Na
poleon III was the possessor of two
| rings, which he constantly wore, and
{ which had belonged predecess
lor, Napoleon I, who was a fatalist
the fullest meaning of the term. When
Napoleon II died it was proposed
that rin should be
| from finger but the pris
perial refused to them
They were accordingly bu
his father at Chislehurst, and,
from regarding them from
point of the prince
firmly
an
and, for
she des
less
life
to his
removed
im
these gs
his Loe
nave
with
far
EAme
the
ved
untimely
And
UNE man
the Zu
for
ried
sO
the
view em
that
1
ns
peror's servants belle
he
for discarding
1879,
come fo ene
the
in unfortunate
met his death at the
whom he
they
would
rings when
the
hands of
whe h
lus, against was fight
this country
able
this deplos
saw in
event ealization of
One
Now
Hok
aveled
. 83. A
yr to have an idol cop
an evil i
heathen idol had «
of a
whom It
fears
men in
dent of
cently ti
fouls, 1
cast
legacy from
had been
iri chief Said
traveled 10.000 mile
and It 3
aster upon me
i t destroy
has
7 HGAnEering
ssengers Vhen in |
months ago 1
{ Thames, and a drunken
fished it out brought
three threw
and in his rags
rooms,
a reward, almost b
tion. It was the most miserable
on the isiand, nothing but sand
shrubbery, fed on sa.. breezes
kine fe't a sensation of
creep over him as he crawled out
the wagon, laden with the minin~
plements
“You had better keep a lookout here
on the beach,” he said to Sam.
place
and
Ers
uneas ness
of
im
while
And then Erksine set to work
an hour he toiled as he had never
toiled before or after. Meartime, Sam,
with a chuckle, was teginning to fall
asleep, when an exclamation
umph suddenly aroused him.
"Oh, Kentucky!” he herd Erskine's
excited voice call out, in a suppressed
“1 have it! Look'"
John Erskine pointed to
And the
had created
Sure enough! There, deep down,
and, reposed
& 4 by 6 iron box suc. &s a pirate
might have used in which to preserve
wealth. Erskine's
was a study. He trembled, as if con
vulsed with faver.
spade and began to pound the box
Suddenly, with a bang, the lid opened
and revealed a pile of rocks, sc raps of
On top of
all was a sheet of paper. With an
“Gentlemen: I am sorry that I have
away. Last nigkt, however, there was
a big poker game down in Hades Ju-
liug Caesar, Alexander the Grea., my
old friend Nap, and your obealent con-
stituted the party. You will remem.
ber the three first mentioned individ.
uals were considered pretty slick in
their days. Well, I can inform you
thst they have not forgotten them as
yet. Result, I went broke, and as the
do not accept checks hcre it became
necessary for me to coilect my old
treasure. Hoping; that by this [ did
not inconvenience you, I remain, yours
truly, “Jean safitte”
It would be impossible to describe
the emotions of John Erskine He
seemed for a moment vereft of rea
son. When he recovered and he and
Sam were entering the wagon, another
thing occurred. The iittle figure of
Gordon became suddenly silhouetted
by the moon, as ho emerpred from some
mysterious hiding place, his face con-
vulsed with laughter. His appearance
caused a light to dawn upon Krskine
that did not tend to mollify him. But
since that memorable night Bruce
Gordon has been the undisputed lead
er of the Bons of Rest.—Now York
Sun,
Opportunity's Soft Knocks.
Opportunity knocks at the door of
most men 80 gently that they can't
hear it If their ears are glued to the
makes Lhe encmy stronger, he decided
keyhole, ~Noew York Press,
{
The image
wewood and ebony
and abou Failing to
Louis it
where
t two feet ong
t cremated in St
New York
determined to have it destroved
get
started fo:
»
whatever cost
the hadow
ano Hoaolulu
the “Viol
w
Head Vol
known
the
sons who had owned it took
and a third
dl. The last
trument was
of the
66th Coast Artillery
ed himself at the
i McKinley, but a fes
the
at
of
Death
months
as in
space of a fe two per
thelr own
mysteriously disap
victim of thi
George H
fgargoant
Sgrgean
i before doir
influence
stat
$0 he realized
{the
fod
violin and buried as above
Tit-Bits
The Largest Cave in Europe,
: In the Muota-th il. near
| Swit there
{ ably the largest cave in Europe
i existence of the had long been
| known, but as it could only be enter
{ed by crawling no one had troubled to
i investigate the This sum
| mer, however, three geparate parties
{ have explored it distance tra
| versed amounts, altogether. to no less
| than 8,000 yards, and the end of the
| cavern has not yot besn reached, says
4 contemporary. Evidently the grot
to is greater than those of either Han
or the Adelsberg, ana is to be counted
among the most striking of the curi
osities of the Alps. The entrance is
close to the village in which Suvaroff
had his headquarters in tae campaign
of 1779; but that great gemeral was
kept much too busy to notice it,
James’ Gazette,
Schwyn
prob
The
riand, is what
CRVe
interior
he
More “Spoonerisms.”
Prof. Spooner of Oxford ones, nt a
special service, seeing some Women
standing at the back of the church
algle and addressed the ushers as fol
lows: “Gentlemen, gentleinen, sow
these ladies into their sheets”
Being asked at dinner what fruft
he would have, he promptly replied:
“Pigs, fleas.”
This Is the way in which Dr.
Spooner proposed to his wife. Being
one afternoon at the home of her
father, Bishop Harvey Goodwin of Car.
Hale, Mrs. Goodwin said: “Mr.
Spooner, will you please go out into
the garden and ask Miss Goodwin if
she will come In and make toa?”
The professor, on =nding the young
Indy, sald: “Miss Govdwin, your
mother told me to ask if you would
come in and take me."
LEE RRR
‘wr a
3
ow ow
Rt
»
]
be
A FEW OF THE MANY CONTRIBUTORS
J it H. Choate Chauncey M. Depew
Lord Beaconsfield Henry Ward Beacher
James (0. Blaine Henry W., Grady
William M. Evarts Joseph Jetierson
John Hay Robert GO. Ingersoll
Oliver Wendell Holmes 5S
Seth Low
Sir Henry Irvieg George W., Curtis
Charles 4 Dana Artemus Ward
Robert J. Burdette Paul du Chailly
Russeii H. Conwell John B. Gordon
Canon Farrar Newell Dwight Hillis
John B, Gough
John Morley
Andrew Lan
5 John Ruskin
Wendell Phillips Henry M. Stanley
Josh Billings
Wa ing Fang
John Tyndall Charles Francis Adams
Lyman Abbot
John L. Spalding
Charles Dudley Warner Joseph Chamberlain
William Cullen Bryant Grover Cleveland
Rufus Choate Fisher Ames
Theodore Roosevelt Lawrence Barrett
Arthur J. Balfour Henry Drummond
Jonathan P. Dolliver James A. Garfield
Edward Eggleston Sir John Lubbock
William E. Uladstone Hamilton Wright Mabie
Mark Twain Champ Clark
Horace Porter {i John M. Allen
AND MANY OTHERS
3
L%
IY
3
Bd Sue ;
ww aw aw -
od PNY
”
the best,
brilliant, the worthy
$5. 3
only the
fo endure, ?
Cratory.”’
"The History of After Dinner
i
¢
§ »
over
’ es that
best After. Dinner made famous the man, the time, and the place~these 3 brought
of the
in
P 3 iarge pumt
Sayings the witliest men of the nineteenth century
For an hour for a whole evening in the easy chair at home
for the study of style and diction that have electrified bril-
tant assemblies, for the man ambitious to become a successful
or popular public speaker, and for the one who has to prepare
a toast or an address, this work Is a never-failing source of
charm and inspiration. Nor is this solely
RYE Ever reac aa
aman 3 work ihe
Woman enator Doiliver
seph Choste's after-dinner speech,
Baber
s000¢
SPECIAL OFFER
MODERN ELOQUENCE" is sumptuously published
in 10 volumes, but moderately priced. To properly
present this eclectic library, Portfolios comprising
; Table of Contents, fine photogravures, chromatic
» : r terest plates, sample pages, and other interesting mes-
: terial, have been prepared. One of these Port.
folios, with full particulars regarding bindings,
e guiding ¢ of prices, terms, etc., will be mailed free on
t receipt of coupon
cut from this
announcement
h. great, he
: , To
JOHN D.
MORRIS & CO.
Philadelphia
Reférring
John D. Morris gr Lou sdreriaement
ano Company Wotan Eixient
the History of
: k ed in 1m
§ Ham al Publishers...
Philadelphia
¥ precedent
¥
The oddest
i is that of a sux
finds employment
Year in the Ghetto am
dox Jews
fortnight wh
he Tabernac
5 a Fo
HE O04
in
His wors
ich
ies and
little }
Ais DOLE HOD
back
PIP r
reed
wh aE Bud
of the tence
The feast of the taber-
RUD DOSE d to
oths the yards
nent houses
iacle
he time during whieh
srael wandered
ind probably 0 sojourn
he land of Egypt. During th
they more i
which fact is sy
having no roof. or else a covering
evergreens and bulrushes According
another school, the booths repre
gent
came in such numbers
unable to
ia commemorate
’
the children of
iderness
in
is period
wi
lived the
open,
the booth
of
io
the time when leraelites
that they were
and
around
tae
temple,
80 built temporary shelters
the sacred eodifi
The
shape, not leas ix foot
¥
in
in height
It
and
to indicate
of the
succoth shonld be hoxlike
six feet long, and four feet wide
should be
flimaiest
what it
made of the cheapest
building material
represents
milders take ing the
structures as possible
Others use the poorest materials. Lut
saw and fit them with so much skill
==
Some
pride mas
¥ ‘Yr : oe
ramshackic as
Several mining men who had
chanced to meet in a hotel lobby In
this city were discussing the various
mines in a certain district, when one
of them spoke of a “wildcat” mine. «
A logger who was sitting near
pricked up hia ears at this and chip
ped into the conversation. He said
that there was the most productive
wildcat mine he ever heard + oem:
the logging camp where he and besn
working on the lower Columbia. One
of the mining men remarked that his
idea of a wildeat mine was one that
yielded nothing but assessments and
asked what this wildcat mine pro
duced,
“Why, wildeats, of course,” replied
He then proceeded to ex.
plain that many years ago someone
had run a tunnel into the side of a
hill in search of coal and had run a
number of short branches and had
fnphered about generally in the bow:
ols of the hill, but finding no conl had
finally abandoned the workings.
Thera were wijdcats In that seo
tion and the parties who had been
aroapecting for coal 'eft several cats
at their cabin, The wildeats and tire
— Te.
is neat and
it little come
industry. The
wood or the
him at while
of setting it up his price
is nearly always fifty cents. Charit-
ab employ two
or three pay each the
succoth
is b
the
he the
There
element in
goes straight to the
seat of the pain,
; mo matter whether
it comes from
Rheumatism,
: y Neuralgia,
1. SWOLLEN JOINTS,
it to cost
» work
often
and
le Hebrews will
builders
the
during
EAM as rest
Here
family takes its
week the
assemblies
at all
but when,
the situa- |
On
festival
meals and
for praver it
fair weather,
rains,
uncomfortable
symbolism vanishes, as
unknown in the
the lsraelites |
the
, SPRAINS, HEADACHE,
STRAINS, STIFFNESS
by rubbing only.
LUMBAGO OR
/ SCIATICA.
=~». Used Externafly
a> Equally good for
g MAN and HORSE.
28 cts. per bottle,
every day
unpleasant
i8 hot
in
tion ls decidedly
Gay
practically
1
rs
rain is
stony dese where
wandered ages ago
Still more suggestive is
which the prayers sald
kneeling or of clasping the
who prays hol a
a pomegranate, in one hand |
and a bulrush water reed in the |
other. At the end of the prayer each |
of these Is shaken twice and then |
handed over member eof |
the family. T water reeds are sup- |
posed to commemorate the finding of |
Moses in the bulrushes, and the fruit
the promise of the lord tc give them i
a land flowing with milk and honey. |
- New York Evening Post ®
the way in
Instead
hands, !
frail, |
are
Of
the
1
one “a
or
tho
to
*
ue
nDoext
CATTLE LER
This celebrated
ATTLE POWDER
Is earnestly recommended to the
Farmer, Horseman
and Dairyman as a
MOST RELIABLE CURE
for all ordinary diseases to which HO
CATTLE, SH LEP or HOGS are su A
the same time it Thrifty Oc in a natural
Condition,
INCREASE OF MILK and BUTTER
he latter from ONE to TWO POUNDS PER
LH, or aiding the fatten Jivtuninstock
dg cent. Tit does hie n the natura
Ani
tame cats had affiliated and had taken |
up their abode in the tunnel and had
increased in numbers, |
Finally a celebrated bear hunter of
that region discovered tho half-closed
entrance to the tunnel, and, thinking
that perhaps some wild animals might
be occupying the place, sent his dogs
in tg investivate. In 2 few minutes |
the least Injury to the
with wiideats and howling |
Whilo the fight was
poing on the old hunter took a hand fehl a
to help his 4 and killed twenty # will bring yon happiness
seven Yat | 8 CENT Afler eating a hoarty weal,
Dynamite was put in the tunnel at FOB
night when the cats were out seeking
food and noxt day the fuse was light
ed. As it burned some cals came out
and were shot down. Tho shooting
of the dead cats terrified those ia the
rear and they held back till the tun
nel was fairly choked with a gurgling
squalling, spitting army of cats, and
then the giant powder exploded and
several tons of cats wore shot out of
the hole~Portland Oregonian.
sss smilies,
The conl miner kicks
kept down {lf the world.
Eampies fran. Auk po reghnad sim
24 eonts tn stampe for 8 vial,
Cart Ls Soman, #00 N. rd 8, Fiia.,
because hoe is
wl