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4.
Edison think tlint the rnilwny speed
Of the future will bo 150 miles nn hour.
It in rntimnted, from thn census of
1890, thnt the iiiHfct pests cost the
fruit grower" of tho United States
about $4,000,000 a year.
Tho financial crisis in Spain hsn so
rionnly reduced railroad trafflei no that
nearly all lines nro biidly rriiln1, nnd
Homo hV0 been forced to offer new is
sues of bonds on tho market.
One of the scientific sharps has An
nounced, notes the Detroit Free Tress,
that if the funny little bean from which
castor oil is squeezed be grown around
the windows mid doors of dwellings,
instead of hop vines, hollyhocks, bur
docks, fennel or sunflowers, flies will
keep so far nway that you can't hear
one buBZ. Tho small boy will easily
believe this.
The Rev. Thomas Craven, who has
been a Methodist missionary for nearly
twenty years in India, is visiting Chi
cago, He says, reports the New York
Tribune, that almost the only news
cabled from this country to India dur
ing the last few months ban been that
relating to silver. "Even such im
portant matters as tho election of
Cleveland, "he says, "might reasonably
have been expected to bo have been
ignored in the telegraphic dispatches
to India. These dispatches did not
even let us know whether Cleveland
was electod or not. But, ou the other
band, every little motion or resolution
and every interview with well-known
public men on the silver question was
at once telegraphed to us. This
showed the keenness with which we
were observing the action of this coun
try on tho silver question."
The Government of Japan has in
hajnd plans for tho construction of
fourteen new railway linos. At present
the railway mileage of the empiro
reaches some 1500, of which 894 be
longs to various companies. These, it
is said, will be taken over by the Statu.
Formerly the lines were built by
British contractors, with material sup
plied by the United Kingdom, aijd
were operated by foreign engineers,
but now the State and private com
panies have their own Japanese en
gineers, and a great part of the railway
material and rolling stock can be fur
nished from tho National shops at
Shinbasi, although there is still room
for considerable foreigu importation
in this line.
Foreigners are wont to classify Aus
tria among tho German countries. As
matter of fact her German speaking
population is but limited, and annually
losing ground. The increase iu popu
lation among the German inhabitants
of Austria is but 5.17 per thousand per
year; the increase with tho Italians in
Austria is 5.92, and with tho Slavonio
races 7.93. Of 100 marriageable wo
men in the German districts of Austria,
forty-one find husbands ; among the
Slavonio races the percentage is fifty
two. Ono of the reasons for this show
ing is that in the German districts of
Austria the economic management of
affairs iB almost prohibitory to mar
riage among the younger sons and
daughters of the peasants. The home
stead goes to the eldest son, whose
brothers and sisters become his ser
vants. Among the Slavs the family
property is equally divided among all
children after tho death of the father,
and each one is allowed to begin house
keeping on his own hook.
The triuls of the rainmaker are, in
deed, numerous, remarks tho Wash
ington Star. For a long time it has
been asserted that a rainmaker is a
myth. People may think they pro
duce rain, and they may make other
people think so j but, according to the
doubters, it is a case of imagination
purely. Under conditions like these
the rainmaker might comfort himself
with the thought that genius very sel
dom secures prompt appreciation and
go his way, feeling Bure that posterity
would soe his vindication. But now
comes a grief of an entirely opposite
character. A Kansas ruiumakcr boast
ed that'll cloudburst, w hich came quite
unpredictod, was tho result of his pro
fessional endeavors. Thereupon a
Kansus farmer arose with a claim for
damages because tho cloudburst had
destroyed his crops, and tho wifo of a
man who was killed in a washout wants
liberal damages. Tho dilemma is a
painful one. Tho rninmuker must
either repudiate his 83ieneo nn 1 de
clare that his assertions were empty
boasts, or else he must assume the
moral and financial responsibility for
this devastating storm. It is an inter
esting problem, too, for the courts to
handle, and the publio will wait with
interest for light which tho judicial
mind may throw ou tho question of to
what extent it fs possible for a rain
maker to be responsible, for rain.
Franco has the dist inct ion of being
the most carefully cultivated agricul
tural country in Europe,
More than half of the marriages In
Kaunas last year were of colored poo
pie, although thin race constitutes only
one-twentieth of the popiilntion.
Cotint Tolstoi, the Russian philoso
pher, declares that he entertains a
great dislike td all poetry, because it
provents ono from giving a "clear, in
telligent and comprehensive exprension
to one's thoughts and ideas." Ho nays
that verses are generally the produc
tion of "literary wantonness, literary
frivolity and literary insolence."
At a meeting of railway employes in
Chicago recently Eugene V. Debs.long
connected with labor movements, said
that out of 1,000,000 railway employes
in the United States but 150,000, less
than one-sixth of the entire number,
were members of the various existing
unions of railway employes. Probably
this is about the proportion of union
and nonunion men in other trades and
employments, suggests Public Opinion.
Hays the New York Independent on
tho subject of irrigation : The earliest
agriculture of Europe, Asia and Af
rica began in arid lands. Turning to
America it is ttiscovered that this fun
damental art hrgnn everywhere under
like conditions of great aridity, on
sandy plains nnd hot deserts. In the
southwestern portion of tho United
States, the very last district of tho
country to be nettled by white men, in
nome portions of Utah, Colorado,
Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and
California, where natural vegetation is
no rare that it scarcely gives character
to the landscape, where sandstorms
drive over the country, where nakod
plains spread under a lurid sky, and
where the landscape is often one of
naked rock, and where adamantine
forms stand in groves, and the trees
are fossils buried in the rocks, the
most ancient agriculture is found. For
iu the country thus described, tho In
dian tribes in centuries lost to history
cultivated the soil by artificial irriga
tion, and devoloped corn, cotton, po
tatoes, and other vegetables useful to
man, while tho rich valleys to the
north and east wero yot untouched by
agricultural labor.
Tho Southern States Magazine ob
serves: "There appears to be an im
pression among those who havo seen
but little of the South, particularly
during the past two years, that tho
Southern planter or farmer is no abso
lutely dciendont upon cotton that if
that single crop fails, ruin and desola
tion to tho entire farming community
will follow. While it is true that a
certain number of cotton planters still
hold to the time-honored plan of plant
ing nothing but ootton, the time when
this could be called a universal con
dition in the South has happily passed,
and a new and broader furming indus
try has taken its placo. In 1892 the
cotton crop of the South was valued at
about $315,000,000. The corn erop
was valued at $248,000,000, wheat over
$ 40,000, 000 and oats about 825,000, 000.
These three products then were of
equal value with the cotton crop. Add
ing to them the value of tobacco raised,
over 822,000,000; of rice, about $10,
000,000 j Florida oranges, about S3,
600,000, and of garden truck, fruit and
vegetables shipped North, between
810,000,000 nnd $50,000,000, tho total
value of tho products named amounts
to about $10,000,000. It was only iu
the years immediately following the
war that cotton was raised almost to
the exclusion of other products. This
was because the peoplo were almost
penniless and cotton was tho one crop
upon which advances could bo secured.
The conditiouof things has been stead
ily improving, and within the past two
years tho lesson fought by planting too
much ootton has been bo impressed
upon every one engaged iu it that there
has been a general effort to raise inoro
foodstuffs, and particularly to provide
tha food needed on each plantation or
furm. The Southern farmer to-day is
not solely dependent upon his cotton
crop for a living. In western Tennes
see, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas, while some few are follow
ing the old plan of purchasing food and
planting cotton, thu vast majority are
raising diversified crops, and each suc
ceeding year will see this plan carried
out in a greater degree. In Georgia
and the Carolinas cotton-raising will
soon hold second place, n.s to vulue,
among tho agricultural products of tin
States, not necessarily Lecnuso less
will bo raised, but becau ;e of tho 'tlx
cret.se iu iho production of cereals,
fruits and vegetables. Through tho
western purl of tho cotton bo!t such a
condition will not be like'y to r.vist.
but cotton will nevur again be rained
in plkca of food products, u has b!cn
do no i thg past."
THE DEATH STROKE,
"Twan the sunny Syrian sua
Off the. coast of Tripoli
And tho Ironclads of England Were St
play t
While their mimic thunder rent
With Its roar thn firmament.
As they tacked and they maneuvrod tn tho
Uji
For our navy Is the pride;
Ot,that sea without a tldi
And our home Is oa the deep amid the
prnj
Somethmg terribly amies
Id a moment ! That or this.
Man or mechanism? Well. I do not know s
On the gnllant flagship came,
Quick as stroke of lightning flame
Or the giant rush of tempest, such a blow
That, her harnoss rent, she bowed i
And a mighty Iron shroud,
With her Admiral and crew she sank
below !
Do you deem they should have died
On a fierce and reddened tide.
In tho fury and the glory of the fight?
With the ensign shot to rags,
And with striking ot the flags
Of the foemen on the left and on the
right ;
With brave rescue from the wreck,
And wild cheering on the deck,
That Britannia had not parted with her
might?
Be Eu?h glory what it may,
Yet I venture still to say
That these shall not lose their guerdon or
thou fame,
Thongh they died without a blow :
Well, the Highest died He so ;
And our lnnd shall shrine their memory and
their name :
For the man who, in the host,
Is death stricken ot his post,
"It ts flnlshod" maytriumphantly exclaim !
There Is grief ;or me and you,
But for Tyron and his crew
Happy future as was honor In the past j
Though the Admiral no morn
May hear wind or water roar,
Though his sailors cannot battle with tho
blast, r .
For, the Pilot of all seas,
lie will welcome souls like these,
Aud shall guide them to fair haven land
at last !
London Athenaeum.
A MAN AV1TII A BABY FACE.
BY WILLIAM A. M CLEAN.
-IMMY ELLIS is
indeed a funny
boy," laughed
Julia Contello to
a friend.
"They nay he
is head over heels
in love with you
follows you, is
to be found some
where near you
most of his time.
They tell me you have completely be
witched the boy," rejoined the friend.
"I must confess he seems to act very
foolishly. No matter what I do or say,
or ignore him, I can't ncere him away.
I have never done the slightest thing
to encourogo him," Julia soberly re
plied. "What's the nintter with tho boy,
thon, that he hangs around you so
much?" the friend asked.
"I don't know," Julia slowly said,
and added in a wistful manner, "I
wonder whether Jimmy will ever be a
man will ever look like a man."
' 'He's a pretty boy, anyhow, " laughed
the friend.
"Pretty as a baby," said Julia, join
ing in the laugh.
The subject of this conversation was
not a boy, but a man of thirty years.
A man of full stature, yet with the ex
pressionless face of a baby. It was
round and full Tho skin was of a soft
pink color, with a tinge of darker color
in the cheeks. The eyes were large
and of a light blue, and opened in an
innocent surprise when their owner
was spoken to. He had a little chubby
noso and a small mouth. There were
no lines or shadows on his face.
Eo was a pretty man ; so pretty that
his face was repulsive to man and to
womankind. There was nothing
about the face to counteract the seem
ingly . expressionless vacuity there.
Straugers continually asked, "Who is
the man with the baby face?" The
reply was always "Jimmy Ellis." The
man James Ellis was swallowed up in
the boy Jimmy.
Another characteristic heightened
the effects of his boyiohness. Hisvoico
was pitched au octave higher than is
usual iu men. He spoke iu a light,
chattering tone that went off into a
screech. Ho talked and laughed like
a woman. All his raale associates as
he became older grew nway from him,
deriding the man with a baby face and
a woman's voice. Womankind seemed
ever to bo mailing sport of him.
James Ellis was extremely sensitive
in respect to thane characteristics. He
wdd conscious of tho fun and nport
others were having at his expense. In
consequence he gave humanity a wide
berth. Whilo he did eo, he hated
that big baby face of his. It made
life muersbie to him. It angered him
at times to hear his own voice. He
had in vain tried to coax a growth of
whiskers to hide the face. A tuft of
yellow hair here and there was all that
made its appearance. In despair he
had given up any further attempts in
this direction.
Notwithstanding these outward
rigen, James Eliis wns a man of true,
honest, and honorable instincts and as
pirations, lledeiightcd in thepleasures
of a robust manhood. Ho whs an all
round alhlote. There was not a better
horsebaik-riiler v tho town in which
ho lived. Hin moDiLr had died when
he waj a eh 'Id. His father died when
he reached his majority, leaving hint a
homo i'j the I'eiinHyJv-niu town of B
and t' o furms lying n?ar tha village.
An aunt hn 1 btcu iuetul'cd as houbc
keeper ovef the hy;no.
Jnmen Ellis was a better manager of
the farms than his father had been be
fore him. He gave them his constant
attention. There was no part of the
work on tho fnrm ho could not do.
Those under him knew what would bo
expected from them. James Ellis not
only knew how to manage the farms
better than his father, but knew how
to live and enjoy life and that which
he made, better.
There was not a better library in the
town than his j he had collected it him
nelf. He Was a lover of art. James
Ellis was a talented man. Hi lorge
hunting-dog heard many h soliloquy
that for originality aud brightness
would have rivaled the mental calibre
of by far the greater" number of his
fellow-townsmen.
James Ellis's life had been, however,
a failure, nn ho looked nt it an un
happy failure a miserable existence,
caused by a baby face, and a woman's
voice.
His grcntcRt happiness, and at the
same time his greatest nnhappincHs,
wns his love for Julia Costello. He
was not content unless near her. lie
worshiped her. It wan the love of a
strong man; the only love of a lonely
lifo. Ho had known her from child
hood, aud had nlwnys loved her. He
loved her because ho could not con
ceive how life could bo complete with
out her. Becnuso he believed that
with womnn the best gift to man
this woman, could ho nlono reach the
great blessings of existence home,
love, happiness. Ho was miserable
beeauso he had been and was no more
to Julia than "Jimmy." He felt, that,
with his baby face and woman's voice,
he had failed to awaken the chords of
love, to sound the depths of her heart.
Sho liked him, respected him, but he
was only "Jimmy," her boy play
mate. Shortly "after tho conversation be
tween Julia and her friend, Jnmes Ellis
succeeded iu gnining a long-looked-for
opportunity. Taking Julia's hand
in his, he said, in his nouenky voice :
"Julia, darling, I love you, I lovo
you. This love is the sweetest, tho
only thing on eurlh that makes life
worth the living to inc. 13e mine.
Love mo marry me.
Julia could not help seein.7 the ridic
ulous in the voice, in the face, nnd
interrupted him several times as he
Bpoke, snviug :
"Oh, don't, Jimmy ! Don't, Jimmy 1"
Silence ensued. Uo began ogam :
"Won't yon give mo your answer?
Can t vou love mc I
Oh, don't! Oh, don't, Jimmy !" Julia
again pleaded.
"Can I hope? Tell me scinething,"
James Litis urged.
"I hardly know what to fbv," Julia
answered. "I have never thought of
such a thing as vou havo tpoken of,
It seems funny. You seem but the boy
I played with yet. 1 hardly know
whether to bid you to hopo or not to
hope. I might answer better in a
month.
"I'll wait the month," the man read
ily said.
"Make it two months."
"Well, let it bo two, then,"
"Four months might bo better yet."
"Make it, dear, just ns you will. I
nm content if only in the end you will
be mine.
So it was decided that at the end of
four months sho would give ier an
swer, yes or no, to his suit, or w hether
ho might hopo or whether it was hope
less. This was February Juno might
witness the making of one lifo or it
mixht no.
While James Ellis was content to
wait, he was not hopeful. He was only
"Jimmy" to Julia. Jimmv, tho boy
the playmate with the pretty face and
a woman's voice. Julia wished a man
for her husband, representative of
manhood and strength. He feared the
decision. Tho time crept on fast ;
week-j had flown, a mouth passed.
There was no change in Julia's feel
ings that he could detect.
It was in the latter part of March
that, in the dead of night, a fire-alarm
was sounded. Men sprang from their
beds, jumped into their clothes. It
was a country town in which every
man aud many women wero needed to
light the dread fiend. It was soon dis
covered that a weather-boarded dwelling-house
had taken tirifc at the roof
When the crowd reached the house the
top of it was wrapped in tlame3. James
Ellis was among the first on the ground.
It was thought that every soul had left
the house. There wasa terrible scream.
In the second story room, by the blaze
of the fire, could be seen a woman.
The blood froze in the men's faces
as they Rooked at the awful scene.
They looked at each other, then back
at the woman. Who would make a
move to save her? Like a flash James
Ellis rushed toward the house, kicked
open the door, disappeared, fought, his
way through the niuoko and heat in
the second story until he reached thu
woman. He dabhud out a window and
helped her to the ladder that had been
raised.
As the crowd watched James Ellis
disappeared. Another second and
there was a full of heavy timber into
tho house; a column of sparks went
upward. Seconds pushed, The lire
was making headway rapidly. James
Ellis had not appeared. At hint anxi
ous watchers crept into tho house, and
came upon the body of Ellis lyiug ut
the bottom of tho stairs. He hud been
knocked down by the falling timber.
Tho fire had nut reached tho place
where ho was lying.
Ho was tenderly picked up, carried
out of the house and to his home. Thu
falling timber had struck him in the
face, cutting and teuriiig grout gubhes
the whole length. The hot embers of
the wood had burned great red blotches
along the wound.
It was only after weeks of rr.reful
nursiug by the faithful aunt tliut
James Ellis was pronounced well. He
had recovered from the woiiud to full
into a fever. It nas Juno when the
doctor told him ho had done all ho
coiild for him, that it wan for him tiow
to grow in strength. It was not until
that time that James fully renlized
that ft prcat change had taker! placo.
.Jimrnv with the hnbv face Wns rt
thin; of thnpnst. There wan an ugly
seur on the forehead, another On tbo
chin and one on tlio cheek. There
were red patches where ho had been
burned. Hd as no longer pretty.
Ho wns ugly, yet not repulsively so
no uglier than many other men. With
tho fever had also gone tho womon's
voioei It was now like that of other
ni"ti.
It wan four mohthd since that day in
February that he deCidod to venturo
out. He wnited until it wan dusk.
Then he mado his way td the home of
Julia. He was ushered into the parlor,
where a half-light burned. In a mo
ment, Julia came, coming quickly to
sec her "Jimmy" the much-talked of
nnd admired hero of the night of the
fire and to congratulnte him on his
recovery. She rushed up to him, and
taking his outstretched hand, ex
claimed :
"Oh, Jim " stopping, startled as
she looked iu his face, then stammer
ing, continued: "Beg pardon Mr.
Ellis I'm so glad to nee yon !''
Tho man wns nurprised into formal
ity. "Mr. Ellis!" Julia had never
addressed him thus beforo. What did
it mean?
As the evening passed they talked of
tho events of the past months. As he
spoke in that low, tender, pleasing,
manly voice, Julia listened enraptured.
There were chords in her being that
wero touched, and responded as they
had never dono before. There wns
something in her being that went out
to the man the sacred hero. At last,
in low, passionate tones ho pleaded :
"Julia, darling, I have come for the
answer promised, that can make lifo
tho sweetest thing on enrth to me. I
have como now to know whether I
daro hopo for happinesH. I'm disfig
ured now ugly, but I lovo you lore
you, if possible, more than I ever have.
Cun you love me?"
As ho held her in his arms, Julia,
tenderly caressing the scars with the
tips of her fingers, whispered :
"These don't disfigure you, dear.
You are not ugly to mo." Frank Les
lie's Weekly.
Imitation American l'liyslelani.
American medical missionaries nre
now very popular in China. They nre
everywhere welcome, moro especially
because they offer medical advice and
mediciao gratis, prefaced with re
ligious exercises. The Chinese ap
pear to appreciate this kind of practi
cal religion. In a recent letter to the
Missionary Herald, Doctor Chapin
tells of his missionary successes in the
vicinity of Fang Chuang, and says:
"On this trip I learued for the first
timo that there are in this part of
China a number of 'counterfeit' for
eigners. I wbs myself taken to be ono
of that clas because of nn ability to
make myself understood in Chinese.
It seems that one or moro enterpris
ing celestials have gone into the work
of dispensing medicines aftor the man
ner of the American physician. Usu
ally two or three men go together.
One of these dresses iu foreign cos
tume and talks a gibberish which is
not understood by the mitiveH, and so
passes for a foreign language. In
imitation of American physicians, all
medicine is given away, but, unlike
that fraternity, tho bogus representa
tive of America is quite willing to re
ceive contributions of grain to food the
animal which helps convey him from
village to village. Iu consequence
grain pours in upon him by the quan
tity. This is disposed of by a confed
erate nt the nearest fair, aud then Ah
Sin departs for 'fresh fields and pas
tures new.' "
The (Jicat (nine of the Chinese.
Weichi is the greatest game of tho
Chinese, especially with tho literary
class, aud is ranked by them superior
to chess. Like chess, this game is of
a geucral military and mathematical
character, but is ou a much more ex
tended scale, the board containing 2fil
places and employing nearly 200 men
on a side. All of tho men, however,
have the same value aud powers. The
object is to command as many places
ou tha board as possible. This may
bo done by inclosing empty spaces, or
surrounding the enemy's men. Very
close calculation is ulways essentiul in
order that a loss in one region may be
met by gains iu another, thus employ
ing skillful strngey when the contest
ants aro evenly matched. The game
has come dowu from great antiquity,
being first mentioned in Chineso writing
about M25 li. O. It was in all proba
bility introduced by the Babylonian
astronomers, who were at that time in
structors of nil tho East. Chicago
Herald.
Ait Educated Snake.
A cow belonging to John II. Suave
ly, a furmer living two miles south of
Sharpsburg, was observed to ntop and
bellow regularly nt a large truo iu tho
lane, while theeattlu were being driveu
from tho field. Homo boys watched
her one day anil observed a largo bluck
Miuko approach and milk tho cow.
Driving her homo they told Philip
Lnium, who works ou tho farm, who
got into the tree with u gun and waited
for results. When tho cows came from
the field this particular cow stopped at
the tree anil bellowed, when the snuku
appeared nnd was siiot by Luuiiu.
Autietam Valley (C'al.) Record.
Rooster vs. Weasel,
A weasel sneaked out of his lair nnnr
StrouJshurg Wednesday aud gobbled
up ono of Mrs. Joseph Frymire's littlo
chickens. Two huutum roosters were
near by and they set upon tho thiev
iiiu beuht with such vii'or that both li iu
eves were nicked out. and ho diodsooii
al'tcrwuid. Philadelphia Record.
FORETELLING A TORNADO.
HOW THE WEATHER BtTREAU
WARNS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
The Method t'sed to Announce tho
Ueeent Terrible Btorm In Iowa
Trtheri as an Kxample.
THE signal achievement of tho
Government Weather Bureau
in predicting the recent dis-
f, natrons tornadoes in Iowrt
twenty-four ho't'n in advance of their
awful visitations has brought into new
prominence tho remarkHblrt accfiracy
with which in these dnys of fldvnnced
science a weather forecast can be mrtde.
The prediction of the Iowa tornado
offers a noteworthy example of the
value of the Government Bureau, and
illustrates the perfection of the system
it employs, but the forecast in point of
accuracy is duplicated daily. It isn't
every day that a tornado starts on a
wild stampede, but the weather sharps
are expected to keep the cities nud
towns of the country posted in advance
in regard to the weather. The daily
forecast has become an all-important
element in all calculations, whether of
pleasure or of business, and could no
more be dispensed with than tho tele
graph or any of the other agencies
which have revolutionized affairs. As
so much depends npon these predic
tions it is not surprising that tho
bureau has reached a high grade of
efficiency.
If an English or a French weother
nharp were assigned to our bureau ho
would probably be ns confnsed as the
average mau on seeing a three-ring
circus for the first time. It is not an
uncommon circumstance for tho
Wenther Bureau to chase half a dozen
different varieties of storms over the
country in a doy. It moy be hailing
in North Dakota, a tornado may be
making Bad havoc in the Western
farming belt, n windstorm may bo
bowling along tho Atlantic coast, im
perilling shipping, aud four or five
thunder-storms may bo creating alarm
in as many different sections.
With all these complications, n
short, thick-set man, with gray eye
brows nud gray mustache, calmly looks
over the maps which are made on tho
reports of ono of the Government ob
servers throughout the country, and
figures out just the kind of weather
that may bo expected in every State
nd section. This short, thick-set
man, with gray eyebrows and gray
mustache, is tho official who, on ex
amining the maps ou tho night of July
5, paused for a moment, nnd then, to
the surprise of his nssistantH, mur
mured : "This looks like a tornado."
Major Dnnwoody was the officer
who read the signs nright. The Gov
ernment observers nt Sioux City, Des
Moines, In., Keokuk and Omaha, hnd
all reported threatening ntmospherio
conditions, and their reports, when re
duced to tracings on tho maps, showed
that the centre of the ntmospherio dis
turbances was at Cheyenne, with the
winds racing from nil four points of
the compass toward tho Wyoming
capital. Major Dnnwoody has hud
an intimate acquaintance with storms
for years, and this tornado didn't fool
him by pretending to rendezvous nt
Cheyenne. The Major is an old nruiy
officer, who understands nil about
Hank movements, uud he began to
figure out where the main attack might
be expected.
He was sitting on a high stool in tho
forecasting room at the Weather Bu
reau, calculating on the tornado's prob
able evolution. The Major read the
report of the storm sentinels ut Sioux
City and Des Moines over again, and
then drew a circle, with the centre at
Cheyenne and the circumference to
wards the East, touching Davenport.
Tho Major'sexperieuce taught him thut
the most trouble might be expected in
tho southeast segment of the circle,
nnd before 9 o'clock that night nil the
observers who furnished the ularining
reports were instructed by wire to send
out warnings to cities uud towns on
the respective sections, and orders
wero also given to employ every means
to luform the country districts of the
impending peril.
Hours before the storm broke with
its terrible fury express trains running
through the isolated communities hud
carried tho bureau's intelligence, and
those who lived far from the railroad
station were warned by whistles, which
were blown according to nn established
and well understood code.
How quickly all thia wuh accom
plished illustrates the ctlieieiicy of the
Government system, us directed by
Chief Harrington. At H o'clock on the
night of the fit li the obsi rvations were
made, aud an hour later Major Dun
woody, with quick judgment, based on
long experience, had located t he storm,
uud had sent out a forecast, to the
threatened community, telling of the
dangers to be feared. How much
greater might have been the damage to
property, and how much greater tho
loss of life, but for the warnings!
The Weather Bureau did not an
nounce that a tornado might be ex
pected, as tornado predictions- went out
of favor with the young army lieiiteu
unts. The warning, as sent out, was
to the effect that severe local thunder
storms were threatened, and the far
mers knew full well what was meant.
An interpreted by them, it signified
that a ground cellar would be a good
place in which to spend July . New
York World.
One Hundred Year Old, Mill In Practice
Doctor Dc Bossy, of Havre, Fiance,
has passed his hundredth year. He is
still iu active practice, and at a dinner
given in honor of his hundredth birth
day, he made a speech iu which he
stated that his father had lived a hun
dred and seven, aud he intended to do
the same.
English farmers
United States last
n orth of pickles.
furnished the
year 1,000, W0
BOOH I
On afternoon', when bay boy has bad '
splendid nap.
And sits, like any monnrch on his throne, la
nurse's lap,
In some such wise my handkerchief I hold
before my lace.
And cautiously and quietly I move about tho
place :
Then, with a cry. t suddenly expose my fneo
to view,
And you should hear him laugh and crow
when I sy "Booh V
Somrtimoa that rascal tries to make bellevo
that he Is scared.
And. really, when I first began he stared
and stared and stared ;
And then his under lip came out and farther
out it came.
Till mamma and tho nurso agreed It was a)
"cruel shame"
But now what docs that same wee todling,
lisping bnl'y do
But laugh and kick his little heels when I
nay "Booh !"
He laughs and kicks his little heels in rap-'
turous glee, and then
In shrill, despotic treble bids mo "do It all
aden !"
And I of cour3e I do It ; for, as his progen
itor. It tssu"h pretty, pleasant play as this that I
nm for !
And it Is, oh. such fun ! and I am sure that I
shall rue
The time when we aro both too old to pla
the game of "booh V
Eugene Field, in Chicago Becord '
RUMOR OK THE BAY.
A tea party An old muid. Truth.''
The time to burn a letter is before
it is mailed. Galveston News.
Every man has his price, except
those thnt ara worth buying. Puck.
Tho difference between marbles and
billiards is about ten years in the ago
of tho ploy. Puck.
A deaf man cannot bo legally con
victed. It is unlawful to convict a
man without a hearing. Sittings.
Father-in-law "I am ruined: all in
lost." Son-in-law "Ahem! Then I
married for love, after nil 1 " Tit-Bits.
If there wero no great foola in tha
world, wo wouldn't bo nearly so well
satisfied with ourselves ns we Bre.
Puck.
"Sho never told her love." But if
he didn't get wind of it, it was no
fault of tho busy-bodies. Boston
Transcript.
A minister who was given a match
sealed in nn envelope for a wedding feo
made light of the imposition. Phila
delphia Record.
"Did Bilkem leave anything when,
he died?" "Yes; his creditors.
'They're the worst left lot you ever
saw." Buffalo Courier.
Tho fool aeeketh to pluck the fly
from tho mule's hind leer, but the wis
man letteth the job to the lowest bid
der. Memphis Appeal.
Applicant "Will there be a chance
to get. up in the world?" Proprietor
"At half-pa.-t thro in the morning."
Knto Field's Washington.
Sho "I wonder why they call tho
angel sleeves?" He "What else
could they bo called when you wear
them?" Indianapolis Journal.
No ono cau appreciate tho value of
n match as can tho smoker who lives
in a house that iu lighted by electrio
light and heated by steam. Life.
Sho "Am I tho first girl you ever
proposed to, darling?" Ho (sincerely)
"No; but you uro the only girl who
ever accepted me." Brooklyn Life.
Friend "You don't tuko any out
ing iu tho summer, I suppose?" Iee
muu "Well, no; flint's whou I have
my innings, you know." Detroit Tri
bune. "I havo a notion to poke you iu the)
face," said tho boy to the banana.
"What face?" asked the banauu. "My
fuce," sidthoboy. Iudiuuapolis Sen
tinel. Philosophers go about saying this
is woman's ago. According to her own
account wouiuii denies it denies hav
ing any ago; sho is always youug.
Flaming Sword.
"How do you liko your new lady
help, Mrs. Todgers." "1 should like
her a good deal more, Mrs. Bodgors,
if she was a little less tho lady and a
littlo more of a help." Tid-Bits.
Novelist "I'd like to have my
heroine do something absolutely
unique I" Friend "Ves? Why don't
you havo her faint when there's no
ono looking." Detroit Tribune.
Tramp "Cau you assist me along
thn rood, mum?" Lady of the House
"Personally, 1 caunot ; but I will
unchain my dog, and 1 know ho will
bo most pleased to dono." Tit-Bits.
"Aren't you in the grave-robbing
business?" asked tho lawyer. "My
profession, sir," responded tho wit
ness, with dignity, "is that of oxhum
nturial artist." Indianapolis Journal.
Mrs. Flockton "I wonder is it true?
People say that you sometimes go to
sleep over your sermons." parson
luideigh "People, I suspect, judge
mo by themselves." Boston Tran
script. " l'heu you think 1 cau never learn
to dive. I don't see why?'" Professor
"My dear youug lady, you must re
member that you would have to keep
your mouth shut." Chicago luter
Oeeuu. First Traveler "What id your busi
ness?" Secoud Traveler haughtily)
-"1 am a gentleman, sir." First
Traveler --''Indeed ! Huw long have
vou been out of work?" Now York
Herald.
I suppose it is quite oool in tha
Scotch Highlands, even in summer,"
said a Pittsburger to a friend who had
been in Scotland. "Ves," the latter
replied, "the hills wear their furo all
tho time." Pittsburg Chrouiole.