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it nil tho railroads were placed end
to end and side by side there would bo
seventeen tracks nil tlie way round
tho world, nnd enough left to put iu
sidetracks t all important points.
A Fayette County (Pennsylvania)
hoard hits adopted this resolution:
"Tenchors must not make lovo while
employed liy tho board or during
school hours. Tho violation of this
, rule will lie sufficient cause for dis
aiissol." That there may justly be hope, even
when all seems hopeless, in the case
of a person overcome in the water, re
ceived a fresh, illustration a few days
ago up in Ashland, Wis. August An
derson, ten years old, was pulled out
nf the water after ho had been sub
jiuergod for five minutes, and he re
covered consciousness aftor an hour.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat ex
it claims: What a system of fireproof
. tifiilding is worth to a city is shown by
the fact that tho Fire Department of
. Paris oosts $514,000 a year, while tha
of New York City requires an outlay
of 2,313,355. To this must be added
' the losses caused by the far more
numerous aud extensive conflagrations
in the Amorican city aud the heavier
premiums on insurance.
The American Federation of Labor
and the Laboring Men's Protective
Association in the city of New Orleans
are disturbed at the rapid immigration
of Italiaus, and have protested to the
authorities at Washington against the
violation of the Immigration law,
which, they Boy, has been going on for
some time. They charge that Italians
are brought into Louisiana through
the port of New Orleans for the sngat
.season only. Contracts, they say, are
made with tho Italian laborers in Italy,
gunratiteeinghoin the payment of thoir
passage to America aud return to Italy
and work at seventy-fire cents a day
during the sugar Benson.
Emperor William's effusive speeches
iu Russia contaiued one passage which
has sot everybody wondering what he
could have meant, states the New York
Post, lie spoko of some mysterious
"disturbor of the general peace,"
against whom or which William was
iotriuiuod to take a firm stand, lie
ivna not afraid of it. The malign in-
flueuco, or Nation, or whatever it was,
had no chauce of succeeding against
his resolute purpose to keep the peace,
even if he had to kill 100,000 men to
do it. But which is the wicked, war
like country which the good and peace-
loving William, armed to the teeth, had
thus to rebuke? Is it Englaud? Is
it France? Some able journalists
champion one view, some another.
. In speaking of the unimportant place
which women have occupied in the
world of affairs iu years past and gone,
a well-informed aud observaut woman
was recently heard to remark that the
advancement of women iu lines of
business and practicul affairs can be
traced by noting the evolution iu
pockets. Time was, aud is not wholly
past, either, when it was not deemed
proper for a woman to have any sort
of receptacle about her gown in which
to carry the various traps which mark
au independent career. As civiliza
tion advanced women gradually in
sisted ou at least one 'pocket, even if
it was hidden aud wellnigh iuaccessi
bio. An ordiuury man's suit has fif
toou pockets, of all sizes and iu every
conceivable place, and is it auy wou
deivthat, with the wido lutitude al
lowed iu that particular direction, men
have taken similar freedom in other
lines aud refuse to be bound by con
ventionalities? Dr. David Starr Jordan, chief of
theAmorieau Commission to investi
gate the seal fisheries of Bering Sea,
has just returned from those waters,
tuid his report confirms the predic
jt tious that were made a year ago with
reiereuce to the effects of pelagic fish
ing upon the seal herds. The animals
"on tho breeding grounds, he says,
huve decreased fifteen percent, in
number, and thpse iu the Noting
grounds have decreased th Jiree
por cent, m the lutwolve luferA, nil
because of the destructive methods
' employed by lawless fishermen. The
'decrease, he argues, will be still
.'.greater during the present year, aud
! even if pelagic fishing were totally
suppressed this season, he believes
that the shrinkage iu uumbers would
'continue until 11100 because of tlft de
structive work which has already been
done aiuwig the infant souls. These
statements fully confirm the report
made lust year by tho American Com
mission, and they emphasize the con
tention, so streuuotisly urged by this
. .Government, that uuless more effective
measures for protecting the seuls are
eeclily provided the herds urn
doomed to to'-' -xtiuctioi'.
THE OLD
It Is slim and Irlm and spare
Like the slender Lady t'ialro
In the gowns they usod to wear
Lour ago;
And It stands there In the gloom
Of the gabled attic room,
Like the ghost whoso vacant tomh
Nono may kuow.
I can soe tho lady's hands,
White as lilies, as she stands
Htrumming fragments of Durand's
On the keys;
. And I hoar thn thin, sweet strain
Of the Plymouth hymns again,
Like the snb of wtndloss rulu
In the trues.
TALE OF AN
lly REDECCA
HERE'S one matter
that I want to speuk
about iu time, and
that is when we
come to divide
Aunt Desire s
things, I'd like the
tester bedsteod,"
and Mrs. Bedfern
leaned forward in
the carriage that
she might get her
long crepe veil iu
place. "It's the
only piece of f urui-
tnre that came from Uncle Abner's
home, and I'd prize it above every
thing else."
The funeral procession had gone
some distauce bearing the remains of
Mrs. Desire Boutwell toward the
country cemetery, three miles off,
when the foregoing remark was made.
These mourners in this first carriage
had talked over many things as thpy
slowly jogged along over the rough
rutted road. How, just five years pre
vious, even to the month, they had
buried their uncle. Then they dwelt
at length ou the last illness of their
aunt and had brought up mauy of the
events that had taken place in that
long life of eighty-one years.
Mrs. Boutwell was deeply loved by
all, and many tears were shed by these
relatives as they thus oonversed to
gether of her. For, having no chil
dren of her own, her heart had gone
out in double interest toward the
children of her brothers and sisters
and their families. But besides being
so universally loved, the Coles family,
one and all, looked up to this relutive
in consequence of being connected
with one of tho most aristocratio fam
ilies in Mount Otto. Desire Coles
had married Abner Boutwell, the son
of Judge Boutwell, the latter of whom
was prominent In the early history of
the town. Iu fact, so important was
this personage in the affairs of the
village that there was a saying that
when Judge Boutwell took a pinch of
snuff all the inhabitants sneezed iu
sympathy.
Now, it did not matter to the .Coles
family that this son had amounted to
little that he had always been con
tent to live tlpon the money his wife
had inherited and that he had been
somewhat intemperate all his life; they
had all regarded him as a gentlomau
and overlooked these shortcomings.
'The Cole family had been pioneers
in Mount Otto, too, but they had sim
ply been known for their thrift and
their ability to make money. But all
of this they would gladly have ex
changed for just one of the rampant
lions, of which the Boutwell coat-of-arms
boasted four.
"The tester bedstead! Why, I al
ways supposed I was to have that. 1
was with Uncle Abner more thau any
of the other nieces, and I'm sure it
would be his wish," and Mrs. Gausou's
pale aud usually placid countenance
was flushed and disturbed. She had
seen a great deal of trouble iu her life-'
time had lost her home and property
but had borne it all with Btich pa
tient resignation that the family hud
oome to believe thut she was ubove
oaring much for material things.
"Well," spoke up a third occupant
of the carriage, whd was designated in
the family always as "Abner's wife,"
"it has never even occurred to mo, but
that tester bedstead would naturally
eomo to our branch of the family.
Abner often spoke of it, when he was
alive, that of course it woald full to
him for his name, and then, as we
called our only sou the same, it does
seem to me as if there should be no
doubt as to where the bedstead be
longs." The Coles family was a most united
family, who seemed to Bee only the
good in one another, but they had
found it very hard to overlook one trait
in Abner's wife. That was her seem
ing disregard for the name of Bout
well. And she had even been known
to laugh at her husbaud aud his rela
tives that they had paid such homage
to it. Aud now here she was putting
in her claim for the only article of fur
niture that had come from Judge Bout
well's home.
There was still another murmur in
the carriage an old lady who hud
been weeping silently all through the
dialogue. She had sat almost immov
able, excepting as she from time to
time nervously clutched hor black
bordered handkerchief. Now she
aroused herself, and said iu a voice
that trembled with emotion:
"I've never hud auy other thought
if I outlived sister Desire but thut that
highpost bedstead would come to inc.
I wasa littlegirl twelve yearsold wheu
Desire was married, and the very next
winter after I came out from tho farm
to stay with her aud teud school. I'll
never forget how pleased I was wheu
oroiuer Auner tola me l was to sleep
iu the high-post bedstead up in the
spare room. Icau remember jist as
well as if it was yister.luy how Desire
used to iron the bed every uifUt with
II
SPINtT.
Hho would piny tha minuet
For the stately-stepping set.
While tho ardent dancers met,
Hnnds and hearts.
Pld tho old-time spinet care
If Dan Cupid unaware
Pricked the breasts of brave and fair
With his dart?
Now the spiders with thoir floss
l!p and down tho keyboard cross
And tho strings aro dull as dross,
Once so brlght;
No one cares to touch the keys
Htalned old yellow Ivories
Save tho ghost some dreamer sees
In the night.
James Euekkam.
HEIRLOOM.
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BARRETT.
the warming pan'. I haven't got long
for tl world I'll be seventy-five my
next uirtnuay anil it does seem to me
mat l should have the bedstead while
I stay. I'm sure if Desire could speak
tuis minute she d toll me to take it."
"Aunt Hester, whereon earth could
you put it in your little house, I'd
like to kuow?" spoke up Mrs. Ked-
lorn, exoiteilly. "Such a bedstead,
with its tester and valance needs a
very large room, and it seems to me
our houso is the one most fitting iu
which to show off Judge Bontwell's
bedstead.
Mrs. Redforn was the richest mem
ber of the Coles family. Her husband
nad made a fortune from a fertilizer.
They owned one of the most preten
tious homes in Mount Otto, and were
slowly, by persistent efforts, working
their way into tho aristocratio society
of the village.
"Why, it'll go nicely iu the parlor
bedroom, proceeded Aunt Hester,
not seeming to notice the slur on her
small house. "I've got itall planned,
I'll shut up the closet, I don't use it
for much, and then move the bureau
out into the parlor."
"Weill" exclaimed Mrs. Bedfern.
"I should say so," echoed Abner's
wire so loudly that Elder Cheesbro
loaned out of the butrgv and looked
back to ascertain the cause as the fun
eral procession turned into the ceme
tery.
The Bontwell lot was the only one
in the cemetery divided off by an iron
fence. Even here the family showed
their exolnsiveness, and the huge pad
lock hanging to the gate told plainly
that they wished no intruders.
On the way home hardly a word was
spoken by these mourners in the first
carriage; eaoh drew her veil over her
faco and wore a much-abused air. One
remark, however, was' ventured by
Auner's wile, wliicli she designed to
be very cutting.
"The Boutwell family can fence
people out of their cemetery lot, but
they can't fence out the mullein.
There was a stalk half as high as the
monument on Judge Boutwell's grave.
No one condescended to reply to
this observation, but a very percepti
ble "heh" came from Mrs. Bedfern's
oorner.
. In the carriage just behind the csn
vorsation had been of a very different
nature. The harmony of the Coles
family bad forniod the principal topic
among the occup.iuts as they rode out
to the oeraetery, aud ooming home
they iiad dropped into the same sub
ject again.
"Ma was saying this morning," re
marked Augusta Gansou, "that our
family hadn't missed coming together
for thanksgiving dinner in over twenty-five
years, and that's a pretty good
record. She said, too, she didn't be
lieve we'd ever had what could be
termed a family quarrel. Once, you
remember, Aunt Hester made some
trouble for ma over that swarm of bees,
but ma let it all go. Then, you know,
when Cousin Jane coaxed the side-saddle
away from Aunt Desire to send to
the missionary, Cousin Car'line got
awful touchy, aud was going to make
a great ado about it, for she wanted
the saddle herself for ono of the girls,
but somehow it all blew over and
nothing came of it. I do hope there
won't bo auy trouble now when we
come to divide Aunt Desire's things."
"Oh, there won't be," answered
Abner Coles, confidently, "for there
isu't one of the family but would
give up for the sake of peace. The
only thing that I am particularly anx
ious to have is Uncle Abner's tester
bedstead, but that would naturally
come to ma anyway for my name."
At this Augusta Ganson straightened
herself up. She had a pale, ashen
complexion, but it turned crimson
wheu her cousin made this announce
ment. "The tester bedstead! Why, it
doesn't seem to me as if ma, if any
one, ought to have that. She was
Uncle Abner's favorite niece, and then
she has so little to make her happy,
anyway, iu comparison to what the
other relatives have."
That the other two oocupauts of the
carriuge were not iudiil'erent as to who
should have the ownership of the bed
stead appearances pluiuly indicated.
The pink aud white faces of Julia and
Carrie Bodferu, which had remained
almost expresHiouless during the ride,
uowshowed signs of great emotion.
"Mamma has always supposed she
would be the one to inherit Undo Ab
ner's bedstead," spoke up the oldest
of the two girls, "uud when we had
our lovely Bpure room dona over last
spring she sent to liulfulo aud had
some old-fuBhioned wall paper made
to order, that it would harmonize with
the bedstead when it came to be hers."
"Yes, aud theu we entertain the
Boutwell girls," continued the second
daughter, "and I'm sure they would
wish to see their gruudfuther's bed
stead iu our house."
They had reached tho village, aud
the cumuge stopped before Mrs, Bout-
I
well's house. The executor had
thought it best, as there were a num
ber of heirs and several legatees
many or whom wore from out of town
to adopt the old-time custom of
reading the will directly after the fu
neral. Accordingly, all assembled for
that purpose. Mrs. Boutwell had not
a large property, but she had cut it
up pretty well, going down evert into
the third generation with her legacies.
And what was quite remarkable about
it all was, with the numerous bequests,
there was no fault found with auy por
tion as assigned in the will. All ex
pressed themselves satisfied.
But before Executor Hanford left
the house he learned of the storm
brewing over who should be the pos
sessor of the tester bedstead.
"I'm not surprised," he remarked
to the younger executor, as he drew
his fingers through his long gray hair,
"for in all my years of experience in
settling estates, I've known of more
family quarrels over a few old house
hold things than over the division of
the property many times over; and
the very worst feud of all commenced
over au old brass kettle."
The contention, thus begun in the
Coles family, created rancor, bitter
ness and suspiciou, so that when the
inventory came to be made aud the
things assigned, nothing could be
divided satisfactorily.
Aunt Hester and Mrs. Ganson re
newed hostilities over a feather bed.
"You've got the bed Desire meant
for me to have," Aunt Hester com
plained, bitterly. "I've heard sister
say time aud time again that mine was
to be the one with the goose quill in
each oorner, and yourn's got 'em in
and mine hasn't. That one they've
given you is made of live geese feath
ers, and the one I have is nothin' in
the world but hen feathers."
Abner's wife and Augusta Ganson
quarreled like two children over which
one should come to own a little ohina
lamb that had stood on Aunt Desire's
what-not.
And Mrs. Bedfern, finding two cus
tard cups missing from the set of
china assigned hor, accused one of the
other heirs of being the thief, and
even threatened to'innlte serious trou
ble if said oups were not returned.
And so one strife after another fol
lowed along until it was hard to find a
more bitter family, one toward an
other, than the Coles family.
Meantime Thanksgiving came and
went, and no one even thought of a
family dinner.
The executors found the disposition
of the household effects of Mrs. Desire
Boutwell a long and tedious proceed
ing, but finally, after much wrangling,
a division of all the articles had been
made. All but the tester bedstea'd
the settlement of that remained as far
off as on the day of the funeral. Not
one of the claimants showed any sign
of surrendering. There the bed stood
up in the spare loom, the only article
of furniture left iu the house.
What to do in the matter the execu
tors were at a complete loss to deoide.
But one day the affair settled itself.
The several heirs to Mrs. Desire Bout
well's estate had been summoned to
Lawyer Hauford's office. While the
business was going on a little dried-up
old lady, in a rusty black silk, came
into the office. Some of the heirs
recognized her as their Uncle Abner's
sister, who had moved West a number
of years before, aud who had wounded
the Boutwell prido considerably by
marrying a poor tradesman.
"lou 11 see by reading this," she
said, handing the lawyer a letter in
Abner Boutwell's handwriting, "that
my brother gave me a long time ago a
tester bedstead that he had iu his
house."
At the mention of this coveted ar
ticle of furniture many of the heirs
gave a start.
"It never belonged iu father's fam
ily Judge Boutwell's" she continued
by way of explanation, "but was one
my brother took on a debt just before
he was married. It was owned by a
mau named Lon Johnson. He aud
my brother got into some trouble to
gether over money matters and the
bedstead came into Abner's hands.
"Lon Johusou!" echoed the lawyer.
"The man died up here in the poor
house not long ago. So the bedstead
belonged to his family?"
"Yes; it hasn't much of a history, to
be sure, but I thought as I was down
here ou a visit I had best take it home
with me, although it's altogether too
high for my bedroom, aud I've got to
have those big high posts sawed off."
This remark caused a perceptible
shudder among some of the heirs here
assembled, but there was nothing to
be said.
Mrs. Bedfern was the first to speak
after the old lady had gone out.
"It's just as well after all that I did
not get the bedstead," she said, loft
ily, "for now my husband will buy me
the beautiful rosewood one that he has
talked about."
"Such possessions do not make much
difference to me one way or another,"
observed Mrs. Guuson, sighing heuv-
iiy,
"If the Boutwell family would pay
me what they owed Abner when he
was iu the grocery business, I could
own a tester bedstead myself, "j spoke
up Abuer'8 wife, sarcastically.
"As for me," piped Aunt Hester,
"I've oome to think, after all, it's just
as well I didn't get the high-post bed
stead, for I see now it would have
turned everything urouud so iu the
parlor bedroom."
"Well, I am glad you are all so well
satisfied," observed Lawyer Hanford,
as ho tied up his legal puperswith a
piece of red tape, "for now I consider
the only obstacle to the settling of the
estate of Mrs. Desire Boutwell has
been removed."
The I.uricvMt t'rvumvry.
The largest creamery iu the world is
located ueur St. Albuus, Vt., convert
ing the milk of l'i.OOO cows into 10,000
pounds of butter daily.
TILE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
HI Love Grew Cold Tit For Tat A Very
Cross Examination Well Invested
The Time Was 19. 1A Quick Learner
Oettlna; Aronnd Confession, Ktc, Etc.
tn happier days her lover woood
and vowed and pleaded, sighed and sued;
and now she vows that he shall soe
That she can sue as well as bo,
ruck.
A Xevf Cross Kxatulnatlon.
Counsel "Now answer the ques
tion, and don't get angry "
I Witness "Why shouldn't I, when
you are a cross examiner?" Judy.
Tit For Tat.
Bacon "My cook failed to cook tho
toast last night for dinner."
Egbert "And what did you do?"
"I had to roast the cook." Youkers
Statesman.
A Gentle Hint.
Miss Wheeler "Yes; this is my
new seventy-five dollar wheel. Bicycles
are lower, you know."
Miss Prim "So I've heard. 'Pears
to me, bicycle skirts ought to be lower,
too." Puck.
Bis Advantage.
"I never like to quarrel with my
husband."
"Of course not."
"He can always think of meaner
things to say than I can." Columbus
(.Ohio) State Journal.
The Time Was 19. IS.
Returned Traveler (in the amateur
play) "It seems as if it were only yes
terday when last I gazed upon these
aid familiar scenes."
The Audienoe (in unison) ' 'It was. "
Detroit Free Press.
Well Invested.
Herdso "Did you ever bribe a
policeman?"
Sedso "Yes."
Herdso "How?"
Sedso "Gave $1 to advise the cook
to stay." Up-To-Date.
Getting- Aronnd Confession.
Counsel "What is your age,
radam?"
. Witness "I only know from what
I've been told, and you just told me
that hearsay evidence was not valid in
sourt. " Fliegende Blaetter.
Wonderful.
"This country must be increasing
its population very fast."
"What makes you think so?"
"Why, I understand that now there
are as many people as there aro differ
ent makes of wheels." Life.
Qulvk Learners.
Mr. Hiland "I see that many Klon
dike miners have got enough and are
returning."
Mr. Halket "Enough gold?"
Mr. Hiland "No; enough expert
ence." Pittsburg Chronicle Tele'
graph.
A Dogged Confession.
"I'm surprised to find that yon keep
a dog, TomkiusI Why, you can barely
keep your wife I What on earth do you
teed him on?"
"Well, I gives 'iin cat's meat. And
when I can't afford that, why, 'e 'as to
'ave wot we 'ave." Punch.
Quaker, in France.
They were speaking of a recent
slight earthquake in tho south of
France.
"Did you tremble?" a bystander
asked one of the ladies.
"Oh, yes, I trembled, but the earth
trembled worse than I did." Le
Monde Comique.
Aurum Eillblle.
"By next spring," said the wild
eyed inventor, "I shall be rich beyond
the imaginings of paresis. I am going
to Klondike "
"So are a lot of other people."
"That la wliAre mv fine work comes
(n. I have almost perfected a process
for making gold edible." Indianapolis
journal.
Ills Interview.
Young Congressman "Well, my
dear, what do you thiuk? I had the
i i i a : 1 ai.
uonor oi ueiug uiiervieweu iuu morn
ing on the leading topics of the day."
His Wife "Indeed! What did you
ay?"
Young Congressman "I really can't
tell until I see the morning paper."
Richmond Dispatch.
A Iteason.
"Why were you discharged from
your last place?" asked the merchant
of the appiicaut lor a situation.
"I was discharged for good behavior,
tir." .
"Wasn't that a singular reason for
a disoharge?"
"Well, you see, good behavior took
nine mouths off my sentence." Life,
A Glittering Prospectus.
"Yes," said the Northern investor
to the Georgia real estate agent, "your
terms at e'i an acre are very reason
able. Is there auy gold on the laud?"
The agent looked around as if to as
sure himself that no one was listening,
then he leaned over and whispered iu
the investor's ear:
"It's mostly gold!" Atlanta Con
stitution. Quick Convvr.lou.
Small Boy "What'll I do with this
money bank?
Mamma "Put it away, of course,
It hus a dollar in it that your aunt
gave you and some chuuge your pa and
I put in."
"Not now. There isu't auy money
iu it now. I spent it.
"Spout it? What did you do that
for?"
"Why, the minister preached so
hard against hoardiu' up riches, that I
got converted aud spent what 1 Uao.
r New lork eekly.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Plants grow more between i aud C
a. in. than at auy other time of day.
Professor E. C. Pickering, of the
Harvard Observatory, announces the
discovery of 142 new doublo stnrs in
the Southern skies.
The speculative astronomers are now
arguing that the moon is in tho shape
of a plumb bob, and that the largo end
is always towards the earth.
The teeth of insectivora aro sharp
and pointed, and so disposed that they
keep each other sharp by wearing
against each other instead of coming in
direct contact.
Evidence of the complexity of cathode
rays is found by M. II. Deslandres in
the fact that when a ray is turned
aside by a neighboring body it is di
vided into several unequally deviated
rays.
Anthropologists have ascertained
that the Andaman islanders, the small
est race of people in the world, aver
age loss than four feet in height, while
a few of them weigh more thnn seventy-six
pounds.
The fruit-eating bats do not live on
insects, nor attack animals and suck
blood, as do the vampires. The vam
pire is a small bat, with exceedingly
sharp front tooth, making a slit in the
sleeper's leg aud sucking the blood.
They are seldom dangerous to human
beings, but are to cattle.
When you pinch your finger you
think you feel pain the very same in
stant, but really the hurt and the pain
are not quite simultaneous, although
they seem to be so. If a person hod an
arm long enough to reach the suit, it
would be 132 years before he would
foel the pain of the burn.
The depth to which the suu's rays
penetrate water has been recently de
termined by the aid of photography.
It has beeu found that at a depth of
C33 feet the darkness was, to all intents
and purposes, the same as that on a
clear but moonless night. Sensitive
plates exposed at this depth for a con
siderable length of time give no evi
dence of light action. .
It has beeu known for some time
that red hot iron is pervious to carbon
dioxide. M. Grehant has found by
experiment that the carbon dioxide
does not only freely pass through the
iron, but is decomposed, carbon mon
oxide being set free. This may ac
count for some of the accidents which
the monoxide has caused. Rooms must
not be heated by a red hot iron stove.
Itace For Life In a Tunnel.
The story of an unhappy bride
groom, whose hair grew gray in a sin
gle morning, and that the morning of
his marriage, is reported from Zi
grad, in Hungary.
Mitru Popa, born iu Teregova, eon
of a small i farmer, aud afliauced to a
daughter of a prosperous citizen of
Zigrad, recently started for Zigrad,
there towed and bring home his bride.
The place can be reached in two hours
by the mountain road. There was,
however, a short cut; it led through
the railway tunnel with a single line
of rail. Popa laid ear to the ground
and listened. As there was not the
slightest vibration he took courage
and ventured into the dark passage.
Here, the report goes on, he had been
stumbling along as best he could,
when, after ten minutes passed in the
total darkness, aud. being, as he
judged, noar tho centre of the tunnel,
he heard the distaut rumbliug of au
approaching train.
The noise grew louder behind him,
and Popa rau; louder still, and Popa
raced. It was a via dolorosa with the
small poiut of daylight far off amid the
darkness, and if he oould wiu it, theu
it meant life, safety and bride, but the
thunder of the train grew over nearer.
Fortunately the gradient was a steep
one, and the express was called ex
press by courtesy only, and the race
between the man and death terminated
at the tunnel's outlet, the man win
ning by about his own length.
The mercifully sluggish "schuell
zug" passed into the daylight as the
bridegroom fell prostrate ou the bank.
When he had started he had dark
brown hair; when ha arrived at the
bride's house it was white as the
bride's veil. The lady, however, ac
cepted hiin ou the somewhat dubious
grounds "that the hair would come all
right in time, aud that tho injury was
covered by insurance. "
A Gold Mining Story.
At Bullarat, Australia, a ruined gold
miner once committed suicide in a
drauiutio manner. During tho time
of the gold rush a certain deserted
claim was for years held sacred, and
the tools left strewn about the wind
lass were left to rust away untouched.
A party of 'varsity men, old school
fellows, and of gentle birth, hud sunk
their shaft there aud worked without
success until ull their money wus
spent.
One evening, one of them, at work
at the bottom of tho shuft, shouted'
"Haul up, boys, the time hus come at
last!" They huuled up, ami when it
came to the top they found their com
rade's lifeless body huuging from the
chain. Ho hud detached the bucket,
tied a noose about his neck, fastened
the noose to thechuiu, and wus hanged
by his deurest friends.
The party hud been much liked and
respected by the other miners, who
would readily have subscribed 100)1
ounces of gold dust to give them u
fresh start, but ere tho dawn of the
next duy the whole party had disup
peared, leaving their claim iu the same
stuto us it lay at the time of the
tragedy. Weekly Telegraph.
An Klectrlv Kxpcriment.
The Illinois Central liuilwny is about
to experiment w ith electricity us a mo
tive power, with a view to its adop
tion ou all the suburban lines of Chi
cago. It is said that both the third
ruil aud overheud trolley system w ill
be tried exhaustively before a decision
is come to on equipment.
AROUND THE BEND.
Th"re comes a time just once a week
When nothing matters much;
I'm waiting fur a step I know,
A smile, a voice, a touch:
"lie's coming, coming," siugsthe wire.
With sweet, prosaic jar.
For Dick, my Dick, denr fellow, ,
'l akes a common, five-cent car.
But never mnlden rich and fnlr
'Mong cushions satin fine.
In Kown of silk and laces rare.
Had dearer love than mine.
Bo every Haturday I wait
The happy moment when
Ills car comes swinging round the bead,
And Dick has come again.
Ho glances np: I know it, though
I will not let him see; (
For not yet may I tell him
That I love as fond as he.
Then comes the hell's far tlnklo
And the maid's reluctant feet.
And then I hoar him on the stair,
And thou at last wo meet.
My heart beats so I cannot speak,
Ho thinks me coy and cold;
It is because of depths of love
The which I have not told.
Dtit when the autumn lnnves are crisp,
When snow has come again,
DearDIck will bo my own, my own!
Perhaps I'll tell him then.
-Cora Htuart Whoeler, Iu Woman's Home
Companion. tjt
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"Time flies, yon know." "Not al
ways. It is now possible to make a
century run." Indianapolis Journal.
He "Do you believe in woman
taking man's place?" She "Yes; in
a crowded street car." Philadelphia
Record.
"MissIIighsee is a beautiful singer,
isn't Bhe?" "Very. That was what
made her singing endurable." Wash
ington Times.
He "I love you better than my
life." She "Considering the life you
lead, I cannot sny that I am sur
prised." Standard.
Mrs. Howso "Did the butcher
send the lobsters?" Bridget "He
did, mum, but I sent them back. They
wuzu't ripe." Brooklyn Life.
"I never did have any head for
mathematics." "Urn! I have always
understood that at home yon did not
even count." Cincinnati Enquirer,
Hope Is whispering "All Is well."
liusy men do not deny It;
Home are bringing whent to soli,
Others are digging gold to buy It.
Washington Star.
Friend "Does your town boast of
a baseball team?" Suburbanite
"No. We used to boast of one, but
wo havo to apologize for it now."
Puck.
"Sny, old mau, you are so absent
minded, I believe you are in love!"
Hobson "Mo? Oh! ho! ho! ho!
Why, don't you know I'm married?"
Puck.
"I hope, Ophelia, that you are not
so foolish as to call yourself a 'wash
lady."' " 'Deed I don't, Miss May. I
sails myself a lauudry lady." Indian
apolis Journal.
Jack "How is your sister getting
an with her singing lessons?" Cissie
"Well, papa has taken the wadding
out of his ears for the first time to
day." Fliegende Bla-tter.
"There is one queer thing noticea
ble at all picnics." "What is that?"
"The man who makes tho most fuse
about carrying the basket always eatf
more than anybody else." Chicago
Record.
"It looks like rain," said the milk'
mau to the lady of the house. Aftei
examining the milk, she came to the
conclusion that it must be either rain
or water from the pump. Norristown
Heruld.
He "For my port I can't see why
you women should want to ape men,
auyhow." She "Oh. anything for
little change. We've been making
monkey of him lougfeuough." Cleve
land Leader.
He "There is one thing to be said
about the Scotch dialect stories now
flouting about." She -"And what is
that?" He "They may be the same
old stories, but no one will recognize
them." Youkers Stutesmau.
Landlord "Did they discover the
identity of thut petrified body which
was found iu the vulley yesterday?"
New Yorker "I don't kuow; but 1
thiuk it was a mau from whom one oi
your wuiters refused to take a tip."
Judge.
"Sny, paw! is it anything to brag
about wheu you don't do something
you cuu't do?" "I'm inclined to think
not. Why do you ask?" " 'Cause I've
just been readin' thut cheriy tree
story 'bout Washiu'tou." Detroit
Free Press.
Surgeon "Hurry up. Get the in
struments in readiness. We'll ampu
tate his leg." Student "But it seemr
to bo nothing more thau a simple frac
ture. I should think tho leg might
be saved." Surgeon "Certainly it
might; but dou't you sea that he's un
conscious?" Cleveland Leader.
Old Mrs. Kelley entered tho parlor
unexpectedly, aud spoiled a very nice
tableau, "i wus just w hisperiug a se
cret iu Cousiu Jeunie'sear," explained
Jiinmie. "I am sorry, James," said
the old lady gravely, "that your eye
sight hus become so bad thut you
mistake Jennie's mouth for her tir."
Boston Traveler.
ltallway i'aiiltal.
A recent writer has drawn attention
to the large amount of cupitul aud skill
bulougiug to the English aud Ameri
can people which hus beeu iuvestcd iu
railroads. There are 11,717 miles of
ruilwuy iu tho United States, in
Europe, out of tho 155,281 miles of
railwuy, 20,977 are on British soil.
Iu Asia, out of IM.H'JO miles of rail
road, ll,7i0 uro British. Tho British
railway mileage throughout the world
is 71,121) miles. When we add the
liguivs together we find a total of
255,Hlt3, or about three-fifths vt the
railways of the world belonging to the
Knglish speaking luce. And lliis In,
nf colli ne, iudepeuilent of luilwins
under other tings which uie due to
Kuyi'rth or Ameiicuu capital or tkill.