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JUL- i i Y
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The American farmers depend
largely opon foreign markets for the
sale of their products.
Massachusetts spent last year $4.65
on eaoh 1000 of its valuation for Uio
public sohools, tho total amount paid
being 111,829,311.
Ex-President Bnrtlott, of Dart
month College, says that Japan is
fillod from end to end with all the ap
paratus of tho latest civilization, down
to the eleotrio car and the Interna
tional exhibition.
Statistics recently published by tho
Spanish Government show that out of
19,000,000 inhabitants 8,727,619 per
sons are not engaged Jn any business.
Many of, this elans have been sup
ported by the enormous taxation lev
ied on the colonics.
The Augusta (Me.) Journal says:
A Gardiner man who works in tho
paper mills at $1.75 a day and sup
ports family of ohildren subscribed
to the shoe factory fund. A man with
ability to do that in the cironinstaooes
onght to have financial management
of the new concern.
The one hundred and twenty-seven
savings banks in New York State re
port an increase of resouroes of nearly
thirty million dollars during the last
yoor, while deposits exceed with
drawals by nearly a million dollars.
The New York Herald thinks the "con
dition of those institutions is a good
indication of the condition of the peo
ple, nd optimists will find encourage
. incut in the roport just issued."
Professor Mnnk of the University of
Berlin, famous for his discoveries in
tho physiology of the brain, says it is
groat mistake to suppose that gym
nastia exeroiees sandwiched in between
school hours rout the pupils. On the
Mntrary, ho says, they still more
fatigue the brain, which ought to have
absolute rest. If both stndies and
gymnastics are to be indulged in on
the same day, he says, they should be
separated by mtorvals of rest.
Farm, Field and Fireside belie vei
"it would be woll for every State to
sot its convicts to work in making
good roads. This would remove their
competition with other labor and oth
er manufacturers, and, of even more
importance, it would result in per
manent improvement of the roads.
No class of people are so much inter'
ested in this result as are the farmors.
To them it means money saved, money
earned nud added oomfort to their
families with all the oivilizing influ
enoes whioh come from ease in meet-
iug together socially at all periods,
all seasons and in all kinds of westher j
ease and comfort in reaching tho sohoul
house and the church. In foot, the
blessings of good roads are simply the
blessings of a higher civilization."
At the dinner of the Whitefriars'
Club, London, which includes the
best-known authors and newspaper
writers, Unitod States Consul Genra
Collins was the guest of honor, and
over one hundred persons were pres
ent, including Messrs. Henty, Farjeon,
Christie Murray, Poiiltney Bigelow
. nd Mr. Lowe, editor of the St.
James's Gazette. Replying to a toast,
the Consul Oeneral made speech of
refreshing candor, in which he good
naturodly oriticised the English and
praised America. "Yon have so much
lime at your disposal," he said, "as to
be able to devoto mnoh of it to the
regulation o' the affairs of other coun
tries. You hold your meetings, ap
point your committees and donounco
lynohiugs in Amerioa; yet you kill
more monthly in Afrioa than, we have
done in our history."
Nobody knows how many vessels
have boen wrecked on Cape Cod since
tho bleak December day when the
Mayflower rounded Raoe Point and
ought shelter iu what is now the har
bor of Provineetawn. The number is
very great, however, and the loss of
life on this inosl dangerous part of the
whole New England coast has been
something appalling. A list, admitted
o bo incomplete, of the wreoks sinoe
1873 shows that 151 vessels, including
throe steamers, have gone to pieces on
tho pitiless sands of tho Cape, and had
not the wavos always hastened to re
move the evidences of their work, the
shore all the way from Chatham, at
the elbow of Matsaehusetts'a elbow, to
tho orook of her bent hand, would be
piled high with tho ribs and planking
of shattered vessels. A large propor
tion of the Cape's viotims are ooasting
schooners, with only an occasional
. bark or brig. These disasters, there
fore, rarely attract much attention,
but they are tragioal none tho less,
and almost every storm adds to the
number of dreadful stories which the
lighthouse keepers and members ol
the life-saving service haye to tell.
HOPE'3 PROMISE,
While the Ufa of a man
Moveth smoothly along
And his walks lis apart
From tho sorrowing throng.
lie may coolly decry
Faith's "unreasoning prayer"
And assert with a calm,
Philosophical air
That the grave is tho sum
Of ITamanlty's gains
The reproach and reward
For Its pleasures and poinsi
But Philosophy flees
From the presenoe of Woe
Ilk. an ally abashed
In the faoe of the foe.
O, parent whose eyes
Deathless longing revenled
In that glanco ere by Donth
They were silently sealed)
O, babe that has passod
To the Presenoe above,
Art thou gone for all time
From tho presence of love?
And thou who wast more
Than all mortals else dear,
Art thou lost to the soul
That was one with thee hore?
Ah! 'tis falsat sophists turn
From the lowly that grieve,
But the Father sends bope
Unto them that believe,
And their hearts lu the years
They thereafter abide
Are the sweeter because
Of Hope's promise Inside.
Frank Putnam, In Chicago Times-Herald
IRMA'S WiTROTHAL.
N one of the turret
rooms of Beitzen
berg Castle
young girl, arrayed
in a simple dress
and white apron
sat sewing indns
trioualy. At the
sound of footsteps
she paused in her
work ; at the sight
of a hussar officer
in uniform she red
aenea with vexation. let there was
nothing in Albreoht von Beitzenberg's
appearanoe to annoy her ; on the oon
trary, ho was young, very good-look
ing, tall, and of dignified bearing.
"Will yon allow me to eome in?'
he askod, standing on the tbroehhold
The girl took np her work again.
"You can come in if you wish?" she
said, indifferently.
He walked across the room. I have
proposal to make to you, Baroness
Irma. ' Will you give me your atten
tion for a little while?" -
She looked at him indignantly ; she
bad a sweet oval faoe and deep gray
eyes.
"I prefer not to listen to you.
Count Albrecht."
"I thought that you would ssy so I"
(there was something like a ring of
triumph in his voioe), "but indeed
my proposal is very harmless. Let
us come to an understanding."
Thore was uncertainty, distrust, in
her eye.
"Yes," oontinued the you or oliloer.
"I knowthat you have every reason to
be offended. Xou have been most un
fairly treated.""
"I have been invited to this house
under false pretences. I came because
I thought that the visit would give
pleasure to Frau von Wolde, who fills,
or is supposed to fill, the plaoe of my
mother. I am sorry to speak disre
spectfully of your cousin, but"
"Not at all. Yon are perfectly
right, and my relative Frau Von
Wolde is in the plot, and has been
from the beginning. I know all about
it now. My old nnole has just en
lightened me. I as the heir of Reit
zenberg Castle you will excuse my
mentioning my name first? have re
ceived orders to offer my band and
my debts, in marriage, to the Bar
oness Irma von Buohow, who, on at
taining her majority, will become pos
sessed of so large a fortune that she
oould free the Reitzenberg estate with
a stroke of her pen. Nay, hear me
out; this lady was to have been kept
in ignorance of the plan, but that her
friend and cbaperone could not resist
the temptation of giving her hint as
to how matters stand, after she had
become the guest of the castle. Is
this so?"
"Yes." She stood by his side now,
and the sunlight just touched the coils
of her auburn hair. "I have been de
ceived, cruelly deoeived."
"Under the oironmstsnces, nothing
remains for me but to give you the
opportunity of expressing your opin
ion as to this tyrannous family com
pact even more decidedly than you
Lave done already. Baroness Irma
of Buchow, will you consent to give
me your hand in marriage?"
"Count Albrecht of Reitzenberg, 1
thank you for the honor whioh you
have shown me. I will not."
They stood facing eaoh other, and
as Irma looked at her strange wooer
she saw ft faint smile in his eyes. Her
own anger was beginning to evaporate ;
he really was behaving well, consider
ing that the Keitzenbergs were re
nowned for their hasty tempers.
"You admit," she said, after a
pause, "that I have been awkwardly
placed."
"1 admit that you nave been inhos
pitably, abominably treated I I blush
to think that a member of our family
oould have dreamed of suoh a scheme.
In order to show you how penitent I
am, now that l nave reoeived my die
lnidsa), I will immediately leave this
house aud rid you of my presence."
If you do that, Count Albrecht, I
shall be worse off than ever. You
don't know your cousin, Frau von
Wolde. She will insist upon my re
maining here for three months as was
arranged, she will reproaoh me for
your absence, she will argue and make
nie dislike you more than ever, if"
mm
ill
"If possible?"
His good hnmof was irresistible
she burst into a merry laugh.
For another halt hour the rejeoted
suitor remained in conversation with
the heiress, and at the end of that
time they, too, had plot. Albrecht
was to remain at the castle, he and the
isaroness Irma were to pretend to be
on amicable terms, and the two con
spirators (the Count and the chaper
one) were not to learn until tho last
day of the visit expired that their
hopes had failed.
"I will endeavor to make your visit
as little irksome to you as possible,
explained the heir of Reitzenberg
"and we can behave as if there were
no enmity between us."
"Yes" (there was still a little donbt
in her voioe and manner), "1 think
that I can trust yon.
"Come," ho said gently, "Baron
ess irmu, is it a truoe between ns
signed und sealed?'
He took her hand in his, and, bend'
ing over it, raised her fingers to bin
lips.
. The master of the Castle was the
first to begin hostilities. One day
toward the end of the three months'
vimt, Irma came into the drawing
room to find the whole party awaiting
ner arrival, and in an instant she per
ceivea that something was wrong.
Frau von Wolde had been shedding
tears, tne old Count s brow was cloud
ed with anger, and Albrecht I Irma
hardly durod to look at him, so
changed was his aspeot. It was too
clear that the termination of the
pleasant companionship of the last few
weeks was to be war.
"My dear Baroness Irma." said the
Count, advancing to meet his young
guest with ceremonious politenesp, "
am exceedingly pleased to see you,
lour visit here has given me great
satisfaction. You honored this house
with your presence, with the full con
sent of your guardian and my esteomed
cousin, I' rau von Wolde. I hau hoped,
not without gronnds, that the friend
ship between you and my heir was
gradually ripening into ft deeper and
more lnsting feeling. The allianoe is
one which must give satisfaction to
all interested in our families. Imagine
my distress on hearing to-day from
my nephew that you have refused his
proposal of marriage"
Irma looked toward Count Albreoht ;
something that she read in his wrath
ful mien made her hesitate as she an
swered: "It is quite true; we are
friends, and nothing more.
"It cannot be, my dear young lady,
that so young a maiden should have
given away her preference without
the consent or knowledge of her
guardian? Answer me candidly: are
your affections already engaged?
The color surged into Irma s cheeks
and loft them pale again. She glanced
at Iran von Wolde. lb ere was no
help for her there. ' "This is a ques
tion whioh yon have no right to ask.
Count Reitzenberg, and whioh I refuse
to answer. I must beg you to ex
cuse ue.
"The Baroness Buchow is right P
buret in Albrecht. - "She has sufferud
enough at our hands already. She
shall not be thwarted iu her will. If
she honors me with her friendship, I
accept it gratefully. Listen to me, my
uncle, I refused to be a party to your
scheme.
He rose and held the door wide
open, there was no smile on his face
now; his eyes were full of trouble as
they rested on hers. He did not offer
to take her hand in farewell. He stood
there in mute distress as she passed by
a fair, girlish figure in her white
dress, her laces and blue ribbons and
she passed him without a word. The
truce between them was over.
The lorest spread its wide wings
even as far as the Castle garden. Irma
loved the green path and quiet shades.
and here she came with her book the
morning after her interview with the
Count, and pretended to read. But,
though she kept her eyes on the pages,
she read there only Count Albreoht's
parting words he acoepted her offer
of friendship gratefully 1 Driven to
bay, as it were, in order to save her,
that was what he had said. During
the last three months she had come to
nnderstund something of his upright
ness, his high sense of honor. He
would never marry a woman though
she were a princess to whom he conld
not give his love.
"It was my fortune," sighed Irma,
that made him nearly hate me at
firdt." Did he hate her now?
She shut up her book and wandered
still further into the wood, down a
hillside covered with fern and moss.
toward, the stream that ran between
high rocks, chattering and foaming on
its way. On the further side of the
stream was a tract of open country,
dotted with clumps of trees and un
derwood and bright with hoather.
The stepping-stones were half covered
with water to-day; the current was
running fiercer than its wont. She
bethought herself of a rustio Ibridge a
few yards further down.
The bridge hung high in the air, sup
ported by rough pine stems ; it was a
picturesque but a fragile affair. Half
way across Irma put her hand on the
rail how noisy the stream was I it
naped off at her touch, one wooden
plauk tottered under her feet, another
fell with a splash into the Rater be
low. She had plenty of courage; she
was light and active. She knew,
moreover, that she oould easily leap
that formidable-looking gap and gain
the bank. She was about to make the
attempt, when she was stopped by a
peremptory shout:
"Gently, gontly ! Jump from that
projecting stem ; it is safo I"
bhe looked up; on the edge of the
heather-covered rook stood Albrecht
Reitzenberg.
She paused unoertain, half inclined
to retrace her steps. Pereeiviug bur
hesitation, he raised his voice and
shonted etill louder above the clamor
of the rushing water;
"Can yon hear me, Baroness Irma?"
She noddod assent.
"Step there to the loft. Do not
look back 1"
Involuntarily she obeyed. He hold
out his arms, the gulf yawned between
them, he conld be of no help.
"The stem will bear your weight.
Do not be iu too great a hurry."
("Why does lie look so grave?"
thought Irma; "is he still augry?")
"I had better return the way I
came, Count Albreoht. Do not trouble
on my aooonnt."
"No; do as I direct you. Yon see
which is the best 'plaoe to stand?
Drop your book, it might be in your
way, and jump as far as you can.
Now!"
One spring, and Irma was safe on
the moss and heather, while the plank
on which she had thought to stand
slipped slowly but surely into the
foaming water. Albrecht held her
hands clasped in his.
"Thank Heaven that you are safe I"
he cried. "Oh 1 Irma, my Irma, I
oould not stop you. I came just too
late for that. I oould only look on in
agony. Are yoa frightened? Are
you hurt?"
"1 am not hurt. I did not know
that it was dangerous ; I did not, in
deed." She saw him turn pale at the thought
of her peril, and the tears whioh she
had not shed for herself fell fast for
his distress.
"The bridge should have been de
stroyed long ago ; it shall be done to
day. I did not dare to join you, or to
speak till you had passed the worst.
If you had been killed ah 1 I oannot
bear to think of it I should never
have known another day's happiness
and it would have been my fault
mine I How oould I let you wander
about alone when I was longing to be
with you? My Irma, my best-beloved 1
Thank Heaven that I have you safe at
last. Surely we have played at being
friends and enemies long enough?
Look at me and say that yoa love
me I"
When he had made her an offer of
marriage three long months ago she
had been ready with her refusal. Now,
when her whole heart was his, she
could find no words amid her tears
except, "I love you I I love you I"
it was enough for him. "My bride,
my wife I" he said, and held her in his
arms.
The green ferns rustled and whis
pered, the beeohes tossed their boughs
in the sunlight, the red squirrels
played in the oak trees, the whole
wood was full of life and joy at that
moment when the lovers plighted their
troth. The Woman at Home.
A Frightful Record.
The old French convention lasted
three years, one month and four days,
says tho New York Tribune: It had
749 members and passed '11,210 de
crees. Of its 719 members fifty-eight
were guillotined Duray, June 2(i,
1793, being the first and Bishop
Huguet the last, October 6. 1796:
eight were assassinated and two shot ;
fourteen committed suicide; five died
of grief ; six perished in abject misery ;
three died on the highway, to be eaten
by dogs ; one, Armonvilie, the last
wearer of the red cap, perished in a
drunken fit; four died mad; two were
killed in the army ; one was oarried
away by the Prussians and never heard
of ; three died suddenly ; one expired
in prison ; one fell dead of joy on
learning that Bonaparte had disem
barked at Frejus ; 133 perished in exile
or in penal settlements, twenty-three
were never heard of from the date 'of
the eighteenth Brnmaire; sixty-five
vanished after the coronation of Na
poleon, and twenty-five died in pov
erty and obsourty. The oonvention
had sixty-three presiding officers, of
whom eighteen were guillotined and
eight transported; twenty-two were
outlawed aud bix sentenced to im
prisonment for life; four died in
madhouses and three committed sui
cide. Italy's Deserted Cities.
No more romantio plaoes exist than
the deserted oities of Italy. They are
to be found all over the oountry. but
chiefly in the marsh of Anoona and the
old grand duchy of Tuscanv. In
these you may see great marble pal
aces, to which a bit of string does
duty as a bell-pull; and, if you enter.
you will find a corner of some grand
saloon, often with a ceiling by an il
lustrious artist, screened oil for the
nhabitant to live in. Tne inhabitant
may be some Italian or English lady,
who has the smallest possible inde
pendence, and she may get suoh a pal
ace, where some Cardinal or Maroheso
formerly lived, for a very few pounds
year.
Trapped a Bear iu His Cart.
William Delong, Oarmel (Ponn)
butcher, while returning homo from
trip to a neighboring town saw a big
bear standing in the road ahead of the
wagon. The brute ambled to the rear
of the wagon, raised himself into it
and proceeded to feast on a ten-pound
leg of mutton which was hanging in
side. One of the beur's paws acci
dentally struck a lever and the doors
new shut. Delong lushed the horses
and drove toward Caruiel, four miles
away. The beur tried to get out and
tuck his head through a glass near
Delong's face, but could not get out.
Reaching Curmel the bear was shot.
New York Press.
A 'J hree-Legijed Rooster.
Garret Dulton, who lives between
Carbondule, Penu., and Honesiule, is
the owner of a three-legged rooster.
'he third lug is used principally as an
instrument of battle, and it has caused
muny a game cock to crow its last
crow. The bird has another peculiar
ity it will crow ouly at certain hours
of the day at 6 o'clock in the morn
ing, at noon and at 6 o'clock in the
avening, Mr. Dolton's eating hours.
New York Press.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARB TOLD BY THE
FUNNYMEN OF THE PRESS.
Meek Mttle Suggestion A Bad
Break A GIve-a-AVay A Klrm
Grip Overshot the Mark, Ktc.
I had called her my gem and my Jowol,
And pet nnmts to lovers well known,
But shnpotitnd and peevishly asked me
"Why don't you call me 'your own.' "
A BAD BREAK.
"How did you get on with your
skoting?"
The One Who Got In "Oh, swim
mingly," Life.
BADLY PAIRED.
"Yon can't expeot any good to come
jf these ill-assoTted marriages."
"No, indeed I And she had a very
poor assortment." Puck.
ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
First Spanish Soldier "The insur
gents have attacked the rear."
The Other "Corombol Let ns
hasten to the front !" Life.
THE DEAR.
"Dear girl I"
"She's like ice to me."
In other words, she was not especially
ioar at this time of the year. Puck.
OVF.KPHOT THE MARK.
Elmore "What makes Harlan
so
hard up just now ? Lost his job ?"
Dayton "Ob, no. He has a big
raise in his salary and is trying to live
up to it." Truth.
JUST THE OTHER WAY.
Western Transient "Did you ever
live on tho border, madam?"
Landlady "No, indeed, sir, but
I've had a good many boarders live on
me." Boston Courier.
A OIVE-A-WAY.
"Bhe says she's twenty-five.but she's
thirtv five. I cun read it between the
lines':"
"What lines?"
"Those on her fac?." Harper's Ba
zar. FonEsmiiT.
"Do you think Julia will accept the
offer of her foreign lover?"
"No ; her father says when they go
abroad they moy get something
cheaper and just as good." Chicago
Reoord.
COUNTENANCE AGAINST HER.
Frederick "That photographer is
certainly chasing after the impos
sible." Willy "How is that?"
Frederick "He aBked Miss de Mill
ions to look pleasant."
EXPLAINED.
"You say he hugged you like a
bear."
"Yes."
"And you found it sweet?"
"Well er yes. It was like a oin
namon bear, you know."
EVOLUTION.
His Wife "And you are to defend
that shoplifter?"
The Lawyer "My dear, she isn't a
shoplifter. She was, formerly ; but
she has svred so muoh monoy in the
last ten years that she has become a
kleptomaniuo." Puck.
HE DIDN'T STAY LONO.
Bobby (to early caller) "Aro you
the gentleman sister Maud expected?"
Mr. Stsylato "I don't know. I
suppose there are others."
Bobby "That's what my tister
said, but that you didu't appear to
know it." New York Journal.
A fibm amp.
Mrs. Wainwood "I was speaking
with Miss Elder to-day. She says that
everybody tells her that she holds her
age remarkably."
Mrs. Grimm "Yes; she has been
thirty for tho last six years, to my
knowledge." Boston Transcript.
certain.
Mrs. Forstor "Why, good morn
ing, Mr. Felton I Will Mrs. Felton be
at homo this morning?"
Mr. Felton "Yes; she is going to
be home all day. A futility is goiug to
move into a house risht opposite ours
to-day, and Mrs. Felton is not quite
certain of tho time."
CAUSE AND EtFH'T,
Miss Antique (dii-pleuscd with bet
photographs) "This, sir.is tho fourth
sitting Pvo given you, and the picture
is even worse than tho first."
Photographer "Yes, miss. The
last sitting was a month after the first,
aud you were a month older, you
know." New York Weekly.
wrrv TtlE trip was n-T OFF.
"Ah, Professor," greeted the stud eut,
"I hear that you are about to make a
trip to San Frauoiseo."
"You are misinformed, sir," the
Professor answered, "i'rom motives
of ecouomy 1 have decided to post
pone the event until winter."
"You see," the pedagogue explained,
"taking advantage of one of the great
luws I expound in the natural philoso
phy class every duy, 1 I'm 1 1 that the
trip can be shorteued iu eold weather.
The principle involved is thut luw
which relates to the expansion and
contraction of lnetuln. 1 I'm J that a
steel rail thirty lect in length contracts
one-quarter of an inch with the col..
At the rate of 17ii rails to the mile in
a distance of 3001) miles I make just
about two inilon und a quarter by trav
eling iu winter."
"Quite a saving, Professor," said
the student, and he walked on silently
marvelling at the learned one's saga
city. New York Juuruul.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A fish with nine months was cap
tured in California the other day, and
ichthyologists aro in donbt what to
name it.
A London soientist has invented a
mirror of celluloid which accurately
reflects every objoot. The celluloid
mirror is unbreakable, and is cheaper
than glass and lighter.
The lighting of certain of the Lon
don prisons by eleotrioity is undor
consideration, and it is proposed to
erect a special description of tread-"
wheel to supply the motive power.
Maohine telegraphy has been so per
fected that now 8000 words per minute
have been transmitted with one instru
ment. This astonishing rate requires
that the armature register 2000 im
pulses per second, the tape moving
twenty-seven feet per second.
Soil air is nsnally contaminated
with a number of gases, and is on a
par as to quality with sewer gas. Loss
of appetito, running through the win
ter, with tendency to boils and pim
ples, can be traced to ingress of soil
air into the honse air from the cellar.
For measuring oloth a device re
cently patented has two rollers, be
tween whioh the oloth is pulled, one
of thorn being cooneoted with an in
dicator to show tho number of yards
reeled off. It also has a trough for
holding tho bolt of cloth and a knife
for outting the cloth,
A new propeller for steamboats con
sists of a central hub, a broad inolos
ing rim and the usual propeller blades,
the ends of which are fastened to the
rim, which revolves with the propel
ler, thus lessening the liability of
breakage by tho blados coming in
contact with other substances.
France is about to take tho lead iu
adopting tho decimal system of reck
oning time. This provides that ten
hours shall constitute a day'c work,
one hundred minutes an honr, and one
hundred seoonds a minute. This will
greatly simplify all calculations of
time. The universal use of this sys
tem will then be urged.
To prevent nuts from slipping and
coming off a new device has a small
threadeil bolt projecting beyond the
main bolt, the threads of whioh run
in opposition to tho latter, The nut
has two opening arms threaded to fit
tho small bolt, on opposite sides,
whioh can be sprung away out of line
when the nut is to be unscrewed.
In oontinued use of the eyes, in
such work as sewing, typesetting,
bookkeeping, reading and studying,
the saving point is looking up from
the work at short intervals and look
ing around tho room. This may be
praotioed every ton or fifteen minutes.
This relieving tho muaoulur tension
rests the eyes and makes the blood
supply much better.
(jueer Customs of the Costa Hieans.
Aocording to Harvey C. Lowrio, an
American engineer who has recently
spent several months in Costa KL-a,
they have some peculinr customs
down there. The towns have no jails,
but murderous are placed in tho old
fashioned stooks, where they romait
until the authorities have time to
bang them. The dreadful weapon of
the Spanish-American is met every
where in the country the machetj.
With it the native ean cut his way
through the densest tropical nn ler
brnsh, ohop down trees, shave you,
open a cau of beans, chop off your
head, or whittle a toothpick. It is a
straight, thin blade, about two and a
half inohes wide and thirty inches
long.
President Rafael Iglesias is a very
active and progresiive man and quite
a shrewd politician. Just before the
"election" he jailed the principal
leaders of the opposition for pernici
ous activity and announced himself
President. 'Kansas City Star.
Chased by Gray Wolves In Dakota.
Reports fronilthe Northwest and the
timber districts lying along the Red
Riv?r indicate that the gray wolf is
giving settlers more trouble than
usual by menacing their flocks and
herds. Ordinarily tho ray wolf is
not a dangerous creature for a man to
moet, but it frequently happens iu tho
winter that it is driven desperate by
hunger, and then heaven help the
living creature thut happens to cross
its path.
Augustus Stockdale, a drummer,
who has traveled through the Dakotus
for years, tells of a thrilling experi
ence he had one night while driving
from Lidgewood to Wubpetou. He
was in a sleigh with a driver when a
pack of wolves give chase. He shot
and killed one, but the others con
tinued the ohaee until the Red River
was reached. The horses plunged into
the water and were drowned. The
drummer and the driver saved their
lives by climbing into a tree. St.
Louis Ulobe-Democrat.
A Privilege of British (JeucraR
British Generals have privileges not
accorded to peers in tho English
police courts. Kir Roginald Oipps,
who whs reoently summoned for riding
ft bicycle on a footpath at Aldershot,
eeut his strvaut to pay his fine of fine
ebilliugs and to tender an apology,
which the magistrate accepted.
Several peers' wives who were guilty
of carrying unmuzzled lapdogs iu
their carriages were obliged to attend
court in person lust year. Now York
Sun.
lllnukets.
In tho reign of Edward III. there
were ut liri.-.tol three brothers, who
were emiuent clothiers aud woolen
weavers, und vt hoso family name was
Blanket. They were the first persous
who manufactured that eoufortablu
materiul which bus ever since been
called by their name, aud which was
tueu Ubed for peasants' olothiug. Tit-BiK
AN OPTIMIST.
I know a my life grows older,
And my eyes have clearer sight,
That undor each rank wrong somewhere
There lies the root of right;
That each sorrow has lis purpose,
By the sorrowing oft unguosved;
But as sure as tho sun brings morning
Whntovor Is is bost.
I know that ea?h slurul action,
As sure as night brings shndo,
Is somewhere some time punlMied,
Tho' the hour be long delayed.
I know that the soul is aided
Sometimes bv the heart's unrist.
And "to grow" means to suffer,
But whatever is Is best.
I know there Is no error
In the great supernal plan,
And nil things work together
Forthe flnnl good of mnn.
And I know when my soul speeds onward
In Its grand eternal quest,
I shall cry ns I look b:ck earthward,
Whatever is is best.
11UU0R Or THE DAY.
The question is this; docs a hen
Cockle because she lays an egg, or does
she lay an egg so she'll have something
to oackle about? Truth.
"She says she's twenty-five, but she
is thirty-five. I can read it between
the line's." "What linos?" "Those on
her faoe." Harper's Bazar.
The maid from Boston swept the
street with her glance. It was notice
able that the asphalt was ooveied with
a glare of ico. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Minnie "He said my complexion
was a perfeot dream?" Mamie
"What did he meau by that? that it
was not real?" Indianapolis Journal.
Said Freddy Vane:
'I am awfully glad to see it rain,
For now, b'gosh,
I can wear my ff li) mackintosh!"
Chicago Tribune.
Clara "Mario is so disappointed
that it is not to be a masquerade I"
Alice "No wonder 1 It will hardly
bo worth while for her to go at all."
Puck.
"I believe you mon think more of
your wheels than you do of your
wives. ,; "Why not? We can got an
improved make every year." Chicago
Record.
Mrs. G. (as her husband departs for
a club meeting) "If yon're any later
then midnight I shan't speak to yon."
G. "I hope you won't, dear I"
London Figaro.
"I love to have you come and see
sister, Mr. Thompkins." "Why,
Dickie?" '"Cause she never likes
that candy you bring her, an' gives it
to me." Chioago Record.
Bambnry "I hear that Stimpton
is dead. Did ho leave his wife much?"
Mispah "I suppose so. He always
left her as much as he could whilo he
was alivo." Boston Transcript.
Under the spreading uliHstnut tron
Thavillag- poet stupdi,
And haiumrs out his o; try
Of "suow" an t "springtime" hrands.
Cincinnati Tribune.
Suitor "I called this evening. Miss
Shock, to ask you to be my wife.
Miss Shock "I am very sorrow, my
friend, that you have made a mistake
in your calling." Richmond Dis
patoh. May "I think Kate's refusal will
havo a good effect on Charley." Maude
"I hope so, but he s so frightfully
slow." May "I know, but ho told
me it had out him to the quick."
New i'ork Press.
Mother " Whon the boy iu the other
house threw stones at you, why didn't
you como and tell me?" Bobby "Be
oause, mamma, 1 can throw them back
better than you. He's more likely to
get hit." Hartford Times.
"Have you learned any fancy meth
ods of skoting?" asked the young wo-
man. "No," replied Willie Wishing -
ton, "I can skate only in two wayx"
"Whioh are they?" "Standing up
and sitting down." Washington Star.
Fuddy "Yes, I know; but has
Plodder really written anything of
value?" Duddy "Of value? De
oidedly yes. Ho showed mo one arti
cle alone on which he had spent at
least 85 in postage." Boston Tran
script. "Oh," she moaned, "to think that I
should have come to this !" But thore
was no help for it. Her companion,
who had brought lior there, had a
friend in the oratorical contest, and
he was near the last of the list. In
dianapolis Journal.
Obsequious Waiter "Beg pardon,
sir, but ain't you giving quite a large
order?" Diner "Whit's that to
you?" Waiter "Very much, sir, or
very little. Don't you think you had
better remember the waiter before
you forgot it?" Boston Trauscript.
She feared to muke the avowal.
"Edwin," she faltered, when she could
no longer postpone the inevitable,
"my father has failed in business."
He shivered, "Alus !" ho sighed,"uow
that you are become rich, I supposo
our fond dream of love is at an end?"
Detroit Tribune.
He "Kh our engagement is can
celed, of course you will return that
diamond ring?" She "Mr. Styles,
you said I was a peach the day you
guve me that riu. Well, if I am, Ian
a peueh of tho cliugstoi.e variety.
Therefore, I'll keep the diamond."
Boston Transcript.
Wrote His I'uueral Sermon.
Dr. William Ebberd, who was one
of the pioneers of Madison County,
Indiana, died lately ut his homo near
Fraukton. The seiiuon whioh was
delivered ut his funeral he wrote him
self three yeais ago for the occasion.
Resided being a farmer and practising
us a physician he was tin AdvtutiHt
preacher. In recent yearn ho bud suf
fered persecution from souio unknown
foe who burned bis burin and wrote
threatening letters to his family. Mew
York Suu.