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it all the railroads wore placed end
to end and Bide by side there would be
seventeen trucks all the way round
the world, and enough left to put iu
raids tracks at all important points.
A Fayette County (Pennsylvania)
board 1ms adopted this resolution:
"Tear Jcrs must not make love while
employed by the board or (luring
school hours. The violation of thi
, rule will be sufficient cause for dis
annul." That there may justly be hope, even
. when all seems hopeless, iu 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
of the water after ho had been sub
' merged for five minutes, and he re
covered consciousness after au hour.
The St. Louia Globe-Democrat ex
claims: What a system of fireproof
building is worth to a city is shown by
the fact that tho Fire Department of
Paris oorU $314, COO a year, while tha
of New York City requires an outlay
of $2,315,355. To this must be added
the losses cansed by the far more
nnmerons and extensive conflagrations
in the American city and the heavier
premiums on insurance.
The American Federation of Labor
and the Laboring Men's Protective
Association iu the city of New Orleans
are disturbed at the rapid immigration
of Italiaus, and have protested to the
authorities at Washington against the
violntion of the Immigration law,
which, they say, has been going on for
some timo. They charge that Italians
are brought into Louisiana throngh
the port of New Orleans for the sugar
season only. Contracts, they say, are
made with the Italian laborers in Italy,
giifiranteeing'lhem the payment of their
passage to America and return to Italy
and work at seventy-five cents a day
during the sugar season.
Emperor William's effusive speochei
iu llnaaiii onnfninefl nrid nnaantTA wntAli
" - t ..Q
litis sot everybody wondering what he
could have meant, states the New York
Post. He spoke of some mysterious
"disturber of the general peace,"
agajnst whom or which William was
determined to take a Arm stand. H
jvas not afraid of it. The malign in
fluence, or Nation, or whatever it was,
had no chance of succeeding against
his resolute purpose to keep the peace,
even if he had to kill 100,000 men to
do it. But whioh is the wicked, war
like country which the good and peace
loving William, armed to the teoth, had
thus to rebuke? Is it England? I
it France? Some able journalists
champion one view, some another.
. In speaking of the unimportant place
which women have occupied in th
world of affairs in years past and gone,
a well-informed and observant woman
was recently hoard to remark that the
advancement of women in lines ol
business and practical affairs can b
traced by noting the evolution in
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 civilisa
tion advanced women gradually in
sisted on at least one 'pocket, even if
it was hidden and wellnigh inaccessi
ble. Anvirdinary man's suit has tif
teon pockets, of all sizes and in every
conceivable place, aud is it any won
der that, with the wide latitude al
lowed iu that particular direction, men
have taken similar freedom iu other
lines and refuse to be bound by con
ventionalities? Dr. David Starr Jordau, chief of
tho American Commission to investi
gate the seal fisheries of Bering Sea,
has just returned from those waters,
uud his report confirms the predic
tions that were made year ago with
reference to the effects of pelagic fish
ing upon the seal herds. The animals
on. the breeding grounds, he says,
have decreased fifteen per ceut. in
number, and those iu the hunting
grounds have decreased thirty-three
per cent, in the last twelve months, all
because of the destructive methods
employed by lawless fishermen. The
decrease, he argues, will be still
jjreater during the present year, and
even if pelagic fishing were totally
suppressed this season, he believes
that the shrinkage in numbers would
continue until 1U00 because of the de
structive work which has already been
done amug the iufaut seals. These
etuteiucuta fully confirm the report
made lust year by the American Com
mission, and they emphasize the con
tention, so strenuously urged by this
Government, that unless more effective
measures for protecting the seals are
speedily provided the herds lire
doomed toto'"' fxtiuetiui.
THE OLD
It Is slim and trim and snare
Like the slender Lady ('Intro
In the gowns they usod to wear
Long ago;
And It stands there In the gloom
Of the gnliled nttlo room,
Like the ghost whose vacant tomb
None may know.
I can see the lady's hands,
White as lilies, as she stands
Btrumming fragments of Dursnd'a
On the keys;
And I hear the thin, sweot strain
Of the Plymouth hymns again,
Like the sob of windless ralu
In the trees.
TALE OF AN
Hy REBECCA
Wo 0s5
HERE'S one matter
that I want to speak
about in time, and
that is when we
come to divide
Aunt Desire's
things, I'd like the
tester bedstead,"
and Mrs. Bedfern
leaned forward in
the carriage that
she might get her
long crepe veil in
place. "It's the
only piece of furni
ture 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 oemetery, three miles off,
when the foregoing remark was made.
These mourners in this first carriage
had talked over many thiugs as they
slowly jogged along over the rough
rutted road. How, just five years pre
vious, even to the mouth, they had
buried their uncle. Then they dwelt
at length on the last illness of their
aunt and had brought up many of the
events that had taken place in that
long life of. eighty-one years.
Mrs. Bontwell was deeply loved by
all, and many tears were shed by these
relatives as they thus conversed 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
bo universally loved, the Coles family,
one and all, looked np to this relative
in consequence of being connected
with one of the most aristooratio 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. In fact, so important was
this personag, in the affairs of the
Tillage that there was a saying that
when Judge Boutwell took a pinch of
snuff all tha inhabitants sneezed in
.sympathy.
Horn, it dirt not matter to the .Coles
family that this sou had amounted to
little that he had always been con
tent to live upon the money his wife
had iuberited and that he had been
somewhat irAtomperate all his life; they
had all regarded him as a gentleman
and overlooked these shortcomings.
1 he Colo 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
01 tnis they would gladly have ex
changed for just one of the rampant
lions, 01 which the Bontwell ooat-of-
arms boasted four.
"The tester bedstead! Why. I al
ways supposed I was to have that. I
was with Uncle Abner more than any
of the other nieces, and I'm sure it
would be his wish," and Mrs. Gausou's
pale and usually plaild eouuteuanoe
was flushed and disturbed. She had
aeen a great deal of trouble iu her life-'
time had lost her home and property
but bad borne it all with such pa
tient resignation that the family had
come to believe that she was above
caring much for material things.
"Well," spoke np a third ocenpant
ot the carriage, whtl was designated in
the family always as "Aimer s wife,
"it has never even occurred to ine.but
that tester bedstead would naturally
come 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 see 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 and his rela
Uvea that they had paid such homage
to it. And now here she was putting
in her claim for the only article of fur
niture that had come from Judge Bout
well's home.
mere was still another murmur in
the carriage an old lady who had
been weeping silently all through the
dialogue. She had sat almost immov
able, excepting as she from timo to
time nervously clutched her black
bordered handkerchief. Now she
aroused herself, aud said iu a voice
that trembled with emotion:
"I've never had any other thought
if I outlived sister Desire but that that
highpost bedstead would come to me
I was a little girl twelve years old when
Desire w as 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 w huu
brother Abner told me I was to nlop
iu the high-post bedstead up in the
spare room. lean remember jist as
well as if it was yister.luy how Desire
used to iron the bed every uigUt with
6fh
SPINtT.
Hho would play tha minuet
For the stntelr-stepping set.
While the ardent dancers met,
Hands and hearts.
Pld tho pld-tlme spinet ear
If Pan Cupid unaware
Pricked the breast of brave and fair
With bis dart?
Now the spiders with their floss
Dp and down the keyboard cross
And the string are dull as dross,
Once so brlghtr
No one cares to touch the keys
Btalned old yellow Ivories
Bavo the ghost some dreamer sees
In the night.
James Ducfcham.
L-,1- 3ly,f 31 Oj lyi'JKH-id.. 1)0 4i ill
HEIRLOOM.
BARRETT.
5K$
np rytt own i)Mne rj1 A 1
the warming pan'. I haven't got long
for thip world I'll be seventyjfive my
next birthday and it does seem to me
that I should have the bedstead while
I stay. I'm sure if Desire could speak
this minute she d toll me to take it,
Aunt Hester, whereon earth could
you put it in your little house, I'd
like to know?" spoke up Mrs. Bed
fern, excitedly. "Such a bedstead.
with its tester and valance needs a
very large room, and it seems to me
our house is the one most fitting in
hich to show off Judge Boutwell's
bedstead.
Mrs. Bedfern was the richest mem
ber of the Coles family. Her husband
had 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 aristocratic society
01 tne village.
"Why, it 11 go nicely in the parlor
bedroom," proceeded Aunt Hester,
not seeming to notice the slur on her
small house. "I've got it all 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
wife so loudly that Elder Cheesbro
leaned out of the buggy and looked
back to ascertain the cause as the fun
eral procession turned into the ceme
tery.
I he Bontwell lot was the only one
iu the cemetery divided off by au iron
fence. Even here the family showed
their exolnsiveness. and the huee pad
lock hanging to the gate told plainly
mac tney wished no intruders.
On the way home hardly a word was
spoken by these mourners in the first
carriage; each drew her veil over her
face and wore a much-abused air. One
remark, however, was' ventured by
Abner s wile, which she designed to
be very cutting.
lhe Bontwell family can fence
people out of their cemetery lot, but
tney can t fence out tho mullein
There was a Btalk half as high as the
monument on Judge Boutwell s grave.
No one condescended to reply to
this observation, but a very percepti
ble "hen" came from Mrs. Bedfern
oorner.
. In the carriage just behind the csn
versation had been of a very different
nature. The harmony of the Coles
family -had formed the principal topio
among the occupants as they rode out
to the oometery, and ooming home
they had dropped into the same sub
ject again.
"Ma was saying this morning," re
marked Augusta Ganson, "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 Iwe'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 Jaue 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 one of the girls,
but somehow it all blew over and
nothing came of it. I do hope there
won't be any trouble now when we
come to divide Aunt Desire's things."
"Oh, there won't be," answered
Abner Coles, confidently, "for there
isn'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
oome to me 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,
auyway, in comparison to what tho
other relatives have."
That the other two oocupants of the
carriage were not iudifi'ereut as to who
should have the ownership of the bed
stead appearances plainly indicated.
The pink aud white faces of Julia aud
Carrie Bedfern, which had remained
almost expressionless during the ride,
now Showed signs of great emotion.
"Mamma has always supposed she
would be the one to iuherit Uncle Ab
ner's bedstead," spoke up the oldest
of the two girls, "aud when we had
our lovely Bpure room done over last
spring she sent to Buffalo aud had
some old-fushionod wall paper made
to order, that it would harmonize with
the bedstead w hen it came to be hers,
"Yes, aud theu we eutertaiu the
Boutwell girls," continued the second
daughter, "aud I'm sure they would
w ish to see their gruudfuther s bed
stead iu our house."
They hud reached the village, and
the carriage (stopped before Mrs. Bout-
well's house. The executor had
thought it best, as there were a num
ber of heirs and several lesatees
many of whom wore from out of town
to adopt tha old-time custom of
resiling the will directly after the fu
neral. Accordingly, all assembled for
that purpose. Mrs. Boutwell bad not
large property, but she had cut it
up pretty well, going down even into
the third generation with her legacies.
And what was quite remarkable about
it all was, with the nnmerons bequests,
there was no fault found with any por
tion as assigned in the will. All ex
pressed themselves satisfied.
But bofore F.xecutor Hanford left
the house he learned of the storm
brewing over who should be the pos
sessor of the tenter bedstead.
I'm not surprised," he remarked
to the younger exeontor, 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
tho very worst feud of all commenced
over an old brass kettlo."
The contention, thus begun in the
Coles family, ' created raucor, bitter
ness and suspicion, so that when the
inventory came to be made and 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 and time again that mine was
to be the one with the goose quill in
each oorner, and yonru'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 china
lamb that had stood on Aunt Desire's
what-not.
And Mrs. Bedfern, finding two cus
tard cups. missing from the sot of
china assigned her, accused one of the
other heirs of being the thief, and
even threatened to'inake serious trou
ble if said cups 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 in 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 Uauford'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, and who had wounded
the Boutwell pride considerably by
marrying a poor tradesman,
"You 11 see by reading this," she
said, handing the lawyer a lotter 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-
tiole 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
man named Lon Johnson. He aud
my brother got into some trouble to
gether over money matters and tho
bedstead came into Abner's hands.
"Lon Johnson!" 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 on a visit I had best take it home
with me, although it's altogether too
high for my bedroom, and I've got to
have those big high posts sawed off."
This remark caused a perceptible
shudder among Borne 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. Ganson, sighing heavily-.
"If the Bontwell family would pay
me what they owed Abner when he
was in the grocery business, I could
own a tester bedstead myself, "t spoke
up Abner's 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 around so in tha
parlor bedroom."
"Well, I am glad you are all so well
satisfied," observed Lawyer Hanford,
as he tied up his legal pupers with a
piece of red tupe, "for now I consider
the only obsteule to the settling of the
estate of Mrs. Desire Boutwell has
been removed."
The Lara-eat Creumury.
The largest creamery iu the world is
located near St. Albans, Vt., convert
ing the milk of 12,0(10 cows into 10,000
pounds of butter daily.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
His I-ot. Grew Cold Tit For Tat A Very
Croat Examination Well Invested
The Time Was 1,. 15 Quirk Learner
Orttlnc Around Confession, Kte., Ete.
(n happier days her lover wooed
ana vowea ana pieaaea, signed nna sueu;
and now sne vows tnnt ne sunn see
rhat she can sue as well as he.
rue it .
A Vecjr Croat Kxamlnatlon.
Counsel "Now answer the ques
tion, and don't get angry "
1 Witness "Why shouldn't I, when
fou 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." Yonkers
Statesman.
A Gentle Hint.
Miss Wheeler "Yes; this is my
new seventy-five dollar wheel. Bicyoles
are lower, you know."
Miss Prim "So I've heard. 'Pears
to me, bicycle skirts ought to be lower,
too." Puck.
Bit Advantage.
"I never like to quarrel with my
dusband."
"Of course not."
"He can always think of meaner
things to say than I can." Columbus
iOhio) State Journal.
V The Time Wat IS. 15.
Beturned Traveler (in the amateur
play) "It seems as if it were only yes
terday when last I gazed upon theBe
Did 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- Around Confoatlon.
Counsel "What is your age,
radam?"
. "Witness "I onlv know from what
ve been told, and you just told me
that hearsay evidence was not valid in
jourt. " 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 are differ
ent makes of wheels." Life.
Quick Leornera.
Mr. Hiland "I see that many Klon
dike miners have got enough and are
returning."
Mr. Halket "Enough gold?"
Mr. Hiland "No; enough experi
ence." Pittsburg Chronicle Tele
graph. A Dogajod Confeialon.
"I'm surprised to find that yon keep
a dog, ToinKiusl Why, you can barely
keep your wifel What on earth do you
feed him on?"
"Well, I gives 'im cat's meat. And
when I oan't afford that, why, 'e 'as to
'ave wot we 'ave." Punoh.
Quakers la France.
They were speaking of a recent
slight earthquake in the south of
Franoe.
"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.
Aurura Kdlblle.
"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 is where my fine work comes
(n. I have almost perfected a process
for making gold edible." Indianapolis
Journal.
Hit Interview.
Young Congressman "Well, my
dear, what do you think? I had the
honor of beiug interviewed this morn
ing on the loading topics of the day."
His Wife "Indeed I What did you
.ay?"
Yonng Congressman "I really can't
tell nutil I sae the morning paper."
lUohmoud Dispatch.
A H.eaon.
"Why were you discharged from
your last place?" asked the merchant
of the applicaut tor a situation,
"I was discharged for good behavior,
ir." .
"Wasn't that a singnlar reason for
a discharge?"
"Well, yon see, good behavior took
nine mouths off my sentence." Life,
A C1U tort n Froapx-tua.
"Yes," said the Northern investor
to the Georgia real estate agent, "your
terms at an acre are very reason
able. Is there auy gold on the laud?"
The agent looked around at 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 Couveralou.
Small Boy "What'll I do with this
money bank?"
Mamma "Put it away, of course.
It has a dollar iu it that your aunt
gave you aud some cbauge your pa and
I put ia."
"Not now. There isu't auy money
in 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 and spent what 1 hud."
r New York Weekly.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
Plants grow more between 4 and C
a. m. than at auy other time of day.
Professor E. C. Tickering, of the
Harvard Observatory, announces the
discovery of 142 new double stars iu
the Southern skies.
The speculative astronomora are now
arguing that the moon is in the shape
of a plumb bob, and that the large end
is always towards the earth.
The teeth of insectivora are 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. H. Deslandrea in
the foot 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 less than fonr foot in height, while
a few of them weigh more than seven
ty-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 teeth, making a slit in the
sleeper's leg and 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 paiu
are not quite simultaneous, although
they seem to be so. If a person had an
arm long enough to reach the sun, it
would be 132 years before he would
feel the pain of the burn.
The depth to which the sun's rays
penetrate water has been recently de
termined by the aid of photography.
It has beeu found that at a depth of
5S3 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 whioh
the monoxide has caused. Booms must
not be boated 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 morniug ot
his marriage, is reported from Zi
grad, in Hungary.
Mitru Popa, born iu Teregova, son
of a small farmer, and affiauced 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 iu two hours
by the mountain road. There was,
however, a short cut; it led throngh
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 passago.
Here, the report goes on, he had been
stumbling along as best he could,
when, after ten minutes passed in the
total darkness, and, being, as he
judged, near the centre of the tunnel,
he heard the distant rumbling of au
approaching train.
The noise grew loudor behind him,
and Popa rau; louder still, and Popa
raced. It was a via dolorosa with the
small point of daylight far off amid the
darkness, and if he oould wiu it, theu
it meant life, safoty and bride, but the
thuuder of the train grew ever 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 "schnell
cug" passed iuto the daylight as the
bridegroom fell prostrate on the bank.
When he had started he had dark
brown hair; when he arrived at the
bride's house it was white as the
bride's veil. The lady, however, ac
cepted him on the somewhat dubious
grouuds "that the hair would oome all
right in time, and that the injury was
covered by insurance."
A Gold Mluliif Stury.
At Ballarat, Australia, a ruined gold
miner ouce committed suicide in a
tlrainatio manner. Duriug the time
of the gold rush a oertaiu 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, had sunk
their shaft there aud worked without
success until ull their money was
spent.
Oue evening, one of them, at work
at the bottom of the shaft, shouted:
"Haul up, boys, the time has come at
last!" They hauled up, aud wheu it
came to the top they found their com
rade's lifeless body hanging from the
chain. He had detached the bucket,
tied a noose about his neck, fastened
the noose to the chain, and was hanged
by his dearest friends.
The party had been much liked aud
respected by the other miners, who
would readily have subscribed lOUU
ounces of gold dust to give them B
fresh start, but ere the duwn of the
next day the whole parly had disap
peared, leaving their claim iu the same
state as it lay at the time of tho
tragedy, Weekly Telegraph.
An Kleetrlc Ksperlutenl.
The Illinois Central lUilway is about
to experiment with electricity as a mo
tive power, with a view to it adop
tion ou all the suluirbuu liues of Chi
cago. It is aald that both the third
rail aud overhead trolley system will
bo tried exhaustively before a decision
u com to on equipment.
AROUND JTHE DENO.
Tti-re comes a time Jut one a weet
When nothing matters mx-li;
I'm waiting fr a step I know,
A smile, a vnie, a tonnh:
"He's coming, coming," slugs the wire.
With sweet, jT'isalc jar.
For Pick, my Pick, dear fellow. ,
Takes a common, five-cent car.
But never n,nl.ln rl--h and fair
'Mong ctisatnn sarin fine.
In gown of silk and la--- rare.
Had dearer love tlian mine.
Bo every Battirday I wait
The happy moment when
Ills car comes swing Ing round the bead.
And Dick has eome again,
lie glances up: 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 hells far tinkle
And the maid's reluctant feet,
. And then I hear lilin on the at air.
And tbon at last wo meet.
My heart beats to I cannot speak,
lie thinks me coy and cold;
It Is because of depths Af love
. The which I have not told.
Stit when the autumn leaves are crisp,
When snow has come again.
Pear Pick will be my own, my own!
Perhaps I'll tell him then.
-Cora Htuart Wheeler, In Woman's Iloais
Companion.
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
Beoord.
"MissHighsee is a beautiful singer,
isn't she?" "Very. That was what
made her singing endurable." Wash
ington Times,
He "I love you better than tuy
life." She "Considering the life yon
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
mathematios." "Um! I have always
understood that at home yon did not
even count." Cincinnati Enquirer.
Hope Is whispering "All Is well."
busy men do not deny it;
Borne are bringing wheat to sell.
Others are digging gold to buy It. 1
Washington Btar. -
Friend "Does your town boast of
a baseball team?" Suburbanite
"No. We used to boast of one, but
wo have to apologize for it now."
Puck.
"Say, old man, you are so absent
minded, I believe you are iu lovel"
Hobson "Mo? Oh! ho! ho! hoi
SVhy, don't you know I'm married?"
Puck.
"I hopo, Ophelia, that yon are not
o foolish as to call yourself a 'wash
lady.' " " 'Deed I don't, Miss May. I
(alls myself a laundry lady." Indian
apolis Journal.
Jack "How is your sister getting
on with her singing les9ons?" Cissie
"Well, papa has taken the wadding
out of his ears for the first time to
day." Fliegende Blotter.
"There is one queer thing noticea
ble at all picnics." "What is that?"
"The man who makes the most fusi
about carrying the basket always eat
more than anybody else." Chicago
Heoord.
"It looks like rain," said the milk
man to the lady of the house. Aftei
examining the milk, she came to tht
conclusion that it must be either rain
or water from the pump. Norristowp
Herald.
He "For my part I can't see why
you women should want to apo men,
anyhow." She "Oh., auything for o
little change. We've been making
monkey of him long Enough." Cleve
land Leader.
He "There is one thiug to be said
about the Scotch dialect stories now
floating about." She--"And what il
that?" He "They may be the same
old stories, but no one will recognize
them." Yonkers Statesman.
Landlord "Did they discover tht
idoutity of that petrified body which
was found in the valley yesterday?"
New Yorker "I don't know; bnt I
think it was a man from whom one of
your waiters refused to take a tip."
Judge.
"Sny, pawl is it anything to brag
about when you don't do something
you cau't do?" "I'm inclined to think
not. Why do you ask?" " 'Cause I'v
just beeu readiu' thut cheriy-tree
story 'bout Washiu'tou." Detroit
Free rreBs.
Surgeon "Hurry up. Get the in
strumeuts in readiness. We'll ampu
tate his leg." Student "But it seemf
to be nothing more thau a simple frac
ture. I should think tho leg might
be saved." Surgeon "Certainly it
might; but dou't you seo that he's un
conscious?" Cleveluud Leader.
Old Mrs. Kelley entered tho parlor
unexpectedly, and Bpoiled a very nice
tableau. "I was just whisperiug a se
cret iu Cousin Jeuuie'sear,"explaiued
Jimmie. "Iam sorry, James," said
the old lady gravely, "that your eyo
sight has become so bad that you
mistake Jennie's mouth for her CM."
-Boston Traveler. .
Itallway Capital
A reoeut writer has drawn attention
to the large amount of capital aud skill
belougiug to the F.nglish and Ameri
cau people which has beeu invested in
railroads. There are 181,717 milo of
railway iu tho United States, in
Europe, out ot the 155,28a miles of
railway, 20,977 are ou British soil.
In Asia, out of 2ii,HH0 miles of rail
road, 10,700 are British. The British
railway mileage throughout the world
is 71,1'.".) miles. Wheu we add the
figures together we find a total of
255,81(1, or about three-fifths of the
railways of the world belougiug to the
English speaking race. Aud this u,
of course, independent of ruilvus
under other flags which are due to
Eub'Hsh or Auiericuu capital or ikill.
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