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VOL. XXXI. NO.
5.
TIOxVESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 18i)8. S1.00 PEll AttKUM.
F
R
ST
A little follow who was asked by his
teacher what is the first step toward
tho digestion of food was r.ot far out of
tho way when lio replied: "Bite it
off!"
The Supreme Court of the United
States, in an opinion by Justice Gray,
has confirmed tho citizenship of per
sons born in tho United States of
Chinese 'parents. The case was that
of Wong Kim Ark, appealed by the
Govcrumout from the district oourt for
Northern California.
Tho wondorful grandeur of this
country of ours can be better under
stood hon it is known that while the
nation ban just voted $30,000,000 for
war purposes, the City of Philadel
phia now has a bill pending before its
Legislature to devote 870,000,000 for
tho purposo of buttering its water
facilities, K a siuglo city, and that
neither tho largest nor the richest,
can appropriate 870,000,000 for a
specific purpose, what might not the
nation bo depended upon to appropri
ate in defenso of is citizens and its
honor? asks the St. Louis Star.
Some philanthropic ladies have or
ganized to hoi p farmers' wives and
daughters or perhaps we should say
tho women of the household on tho
farms, announces the Farm, Field and
Firesido. The object is to start in
dustries which will enable these good
women who are often weary and op
pressed with the monotony and too
often the drndgory of farm life to find
something to do at home which will
be remunerative and in various ways a,
recreation. Tho name of the organi
zation is League of Farmhouse Indus
tries and Domestic Manufactures.
A Hindu conversing with a mission
ary society missionary in India, in an
swer to the question "Which of all
our methods do yon fear the most?"
said: "Why should I pnt a weapon
into the hands of tho enemy? But I
will toll you. We do not greatly fear
your schools, for we need not sond
our children; wo do not fear your
books, for we need not read them; we
do not foar your preaching, for we
need not hear it; but we dread your
ivomsraaul yoardoctors, foryour doc
tors are winning our hearts and your
worn on are winning our homes, and
when our hearts aud our homes are
won, what is there left as?"
Ilcrr Bcbel made some of tho mem
bers of tho German Beichstag exceB
sively uncomfortable a few days ago
by reminding them, in the course of a
revolutionary speech, that they held
very .different views regarding abso
lutism fifty years ago than those held
by them to-day. There is no doubt
thai a great deal that Heir Bebel said
was merely for effect. No ono believes
that a revolution is immiuent in Ger
many, even though the socialistic
parly appears to bo gaining strength
Ho long as tho material prosperity
of Germany continues there will be no
change. The middle classes, while
prospering as they are at present, will
remain conservative, and the masses
cau effect nothiug without at least
having the sanction of the peoplo of
substance. It will take hard times,
perhaps a coinplo prostration of in
dustry, to make German manufactur
ors and merchants realize that a stand
ing army and a big navy are not the
blessings they aro sometimes cracked
np to be.
Tho figures for the gold aud silver
production west of the Mississippi
Kiver recently compiled from reliable
reports by the Wells-Fargo Company
are interesting. They show that Colo
rado leads California in gold produo
tion and is still by long odds the great
est of the silver-producing States. The
fignros for the various Western States
-are given as follows:
Btntos. Gold.
California., 17,621,939
Nevada 2,632,310
Oregon 2,401,71)7
Washington 471,949
Alaska 3.571,000
Idotio 2,725,000
Montana 1.450,000
Utah 1,663,204
Colorado 18,326,654
New Mexico 653,678
Arizona 8,392,991
N. and 8. Dakota... 6,829,575
Texas 6,000
Wyoming 27,500
Silver.
772.847
451,454
45,000
70,000
4.555,600
8,452,000
13.74S
12,869,783
153,349
143,693
220,000
809,717
31,000
Tho United States, in spite of the
rreat gold development in Africa, con
tinues tho first of all countries in gold
production, and will probably hold the
lead, predicts tho Atlanta Journal
This is the more probable because of
the prospect of a largo development of
the gold fields of the South. Gold
mining has increased rapidly in
Georgia during the past two years and
there are now thirty gold mines in
this State being successfully operated,
The output of several of them is quite
large and increasing. Georgia is des
tiued to take her place among the
treat cold-producing States of the
Union.
THE HEART OF
When grief Is vast and mid Its ache.
I loDtt forsvmpathv.
The world of men I will not take
To bear my pain with mo.
To teacb m y sou I ho w to endu re,
And probe tbe wouud It cannot cure.
Wben Sorrow comes, remoto from men
To Nature's heart ray slirlis
I'll breathe alone by bill nud glen
Unvexed by curious evos.
And listen to the sweet "Alas!"
Of pltyiog winds amid the gross.
The Regeneration of Judy.
5)oo Mfi
ITUATEDinawild
glen, through
which the Crazy
river flows and
from which the
mountains ascend
abruptly, range on
range, to the far
thest heights of the
Holy Triuity.isthe
Wachapi Indian
reservation.
It was in the
Wachapi that Judy lived. The tribe
to which she belonged had dwelt bore
(or unknown years, beyond tho mem
ory even of the gray-haired Judy 8
grandfather, Comacusen, who was so
old that his eyes and mouth were lost
in the furrows of bis face. Uoniach
sen said that their race had originally
Issued from the depths of Mt. Tehatli,
the greatest peak of the Holy lriuity,
and that that mountain was their
mother and that they were the chil
dren of the earth. But the mission
aries invariably rebuked him for this
nd declared it was nonsense, whereat
Comachsen would shako his head
in senile pity for their ignorance and
answer oracularly: "Was not Judy
the mother of Iuothn, the little Danc
ing Flame?"
Now, the little Dancing Flame had
goue out thirty years ago, which was
nothing to Comachsen, bnt a great
deal to Judy, and these references
the ancient sorrow still had the power
to move her heart. For, incredible as
it might seem, the gaunt and weather
beaten Judy had once been young and
pretty. The daughter of a chief, she
could have married auy mnn in the
tribe, but her choice fell ou Tuosilt,
the tallest and bravest, and the day
that she knolt before him and held up
to him in her arms the baby ah, mo!
But within a twelve-mouth her young
husband had died in her arms, shot
to death bv the white settlers in the
old war. They called it "the war,
these Indians, although it was bnt a
border fend brought about by the lust
of nnscrnpulous pioneers for the In
dian lands, and which, further in
flamed by the sale of whisky, burst
forth one summer's day in bloodshed
and then settled into months of re'
prisal, with the occasional killing of a
white man and the more frequent kill
ing of a red one, with starving Indian
women and children hiding in tlie
mountains.
And when, after the death of her
young warrior, tho Jan passed anu
winter came, poor Judys strengtn
gradually left her young body, and the
Dancing I lame cried for hunger as lie
lav upon her helpless breast, and so
at last the little light had flickered and
goue out.
Soldiers had been sent to the
Wachapi in response to the settlers'
demand and had ended the war by
duelling hostilities and bringing the
poor, broken remnant of the tribe back
to their homes in the valley, which
was then made a government reserva
tion. Sinoe then agents had come and
gone, honest men aud rogues, preach
ers, laymen, politicians aud reformers
and through all those changes, good
and evil, Judy maintained a sort of
independence, supporting herself and
the patriarch of the tribe, her graud
father, with her own strong hands and
woodcraft. She was silent and repel
lant, ever rememleriug the great sor
row of her youth which the grinding
years had not been able to matcn.
ii.
One day the government at Wash
intrton reversed its Indian policy and
placed the agencies in tho control ol
army officers, and a Captain Baynot
was detailed for duty at Wachapi
Now Judy had always been on good
terms with the soldiers at tne military
post jear tbe ogeucy. They bought
her fish and other small wares without
haggling, and Mrs. Donovan, the wife
of the quartermaster sergeant, taking
pity on "thelon9, lorn baythen," often
hired her help on cleaning days, and
in. course of time taught her good,
strong barracks English, with an Irish
accent, which accomplishment Judy
carefully concealed beneath the dig
nity of her original ignorance.
Shortly after the arrival of the cop
tain, however, Jndy, for the first time
in her life, was taken sick with pleu
risy, whereupon the new agent hear
ing from the doctor that there was a
woman lying seriously ill in a wicking
near old Jack's ferry, rode thither to
investigate. Entering the smoky in
terior, he noted with a comprehensive
glance whero rain and wind found
their way in through crack and cranny
of the ancient lodge, and the damp
ness, dirt and desolation of it all, and
forthwith ordered Judy's removal to
an empty log house near the fort.
There were no "ifs" or "ands" or
"by your leave," but she was taken
np bodily within the hour and con
veyed to the clean, dry house. Here,
with an iron cot, a chair and tabic, a
fire crackling on the hearth, the smoke
of which went ont through the cbim
ney and a young Indian woman to
take care of her, the astonished Judy
for the first time in her life had her
weary body made comfortable and her
wants supplied by others.
THE WOOD.
Above my boad tbe trses shall wave
As if to sootho and bless;
Tbe little brooks where lilies lavo
Khali eroon In tenderness;
While in some Rootle wood I lio,
And list tba wild birds' lullaby.
Terehance the perfume of tbo flo .vers,
Allo it aoroes my dream,
May tbeu bring back tho vanished hoars
With bono aud Joy ngleain,
And 1 shall see, as oft of yore,
bear eyes that smllo on earth no more.
Samuel Mlnturn l'eck.
W
M
As a conseqtienoe Judy's mind was
tilled with suspicion anu her eyes
watched each movement of her bene
factors with ceaseless vigilance in tho
effort to discover the secret motive of
their conduct which she dimly fancied
had some design on that mysterious
thing, her soul. But her soul wa3
not referred to, either by Mrs. Bay
not, who sent her good things to eat,
or Mrs. Donovan, who came in oc
casionally "to hearten her, up a bit,"
nor by Archie, the captain s child, a
sturdy little chap of six years, who
stole into the hut to solve the mystery
of it.
Judy saw him peeping in at the
door and feigned sleep. Thou Archie,
after staring at her for a while, urged
on by curiosity, made strategic ap
proaches from the door to the bed,
dog, a mongrel cur that no ill
treatment could drive from Judy s
Bide, growled at him, whereupon Judy
spoke to the dog and, looking at tbe
little boy, said in her quoor Donovan
English, "What yon' name
'Archibald Morrison Baynot," re
plied the child, with his hands be
hind him. and then added, "luats a
nice dog; is it yours?"
"les," said Jndy, with a grim smilo
at the ouh cood word her wretched
companion bad ever received. Then,
in spite of a curling of the dog s lip
over its gleaming teeth, the boy ven
tured to pat its head. And somehow
Judy thought of Danciug Flame. And
when Archie went ou to tell of a dog
that he owned, she showed so much
interest that he got quite enthusiastic
And she asked the little fellow to
come and see her again, which he did,
and they talked together, ho with the
pretty braggadocio of a boy child and
she with ready aseut anu quick sym
pnthy.
Finally the doctor pronounced J uay
well and tho captain dismissed her
with a few words; "I hear that you
are au honest, hard-working woman,
Judy," he said, "so I've had the men
build you a wooden house of your own
that you are to pay for in work. I'll
(rive vou plenty of time. I only ask
you to keep it clean and to take care
- - - ..
of yourself. Now you may go.
There is no word in the Waohapi
for "Thank you," but Judy shook
hands with the captain and said, "All
right, sor."
in.
And after this when Jady, with old
Comachsen, was fairly established in
her woodeii house, Archie came often
to visit her and she gave him queer
woodland treasures, things that boys
love, such as birds' eggs and the skins
of small animals, the rattles from a
five-button unake aud strings of wam
pum and red berries. And she made
him a bow and arrow in true Indian
. r 1..)
rrrTrVaneTt
him all the lore of the forest, so that
he talked knowingly of "signs" and
knew the notes of many beasts and
birds.
It was Archie who took me, the
writer of this chronicle, to call on
Judy one summer when I was tho
irnest of his father. This was two
years after the captain bad taken
charge of Wachapi and J udy was liv
ing in comfort, with a vegetable patch
and cows and pigs, all of which she
had acquired by her own thrift and
labor under the new order ol things.
Often have I seen her and Archie
hand in hand entering the verge of
the forest just back of the captain's
ouarters on their way to examine cer
tain traps that they had set upon the
hillside near the flume, the child's
fair, bright face upturned to the dark,
melancholy features of tho Indian wo
man as he easterly prattled of their
ventures.
iv.
I had been at Wachapi about a
month and summer was drawing to a
close. The season had been unusual
ly hot and dry aud vagrant fires ctart
ed by careless huntors and prospectors
had spread in tbe bush
One night tbe trees were ablaze
along the edge of the road a mile be
low the agency and the Crazy river
turned an awful red as it crept by
beneath the shelter of its banks, Tho
next morning the mountains were
hidden behind a blue veil and out of
this concealment came ut intervals
great billows of yellow smoke, rolling
unward in a pale, lurid glare, indeed
it seemed at times as thongh the
world was all on fire.
The captain and I were standing on
his porch looking at this threatening
display when one of the Indians came
in and reported that a fire had
started on the bills back of the post.
I could see that this made the captain
uneasy, although, as he explained to
me, the clearing for the flume, which
extended along the side of the hill for
several miles, would act as a safe
guard in a certain measure. He had
iust said this when Mrs. Baynot ap
neared at the front door and called
out in that quiet, tense tone that pre-
ludes trasredv. "George, I can't find
Archie!"
"Isn't he in the house?" asked the
captain.
"No." replied his wife, her voice
trembling, "I've looked everywhere,"
and she clasped her hands so tightly
I that the knuckles grew white.
"Maybe he is with Judy," said the
captain.
.No, no, no, protested Mrs. Bay-
not. "He was in tho yard a little
while ago. He couldn't have crossed
the parade grounds without onr seeing
him. lie must have gone into the
woods." And at this she burst iuto
tears.
The captain, somewhat alarmed,
hurriedly gave her a word of comfort
and passing through the hall went out
into the back yard, following. The
woods were so hazy with smcke that
we could see but a short distance, and
the cries of frightened birds and small
creatures constantly deceived us and
decoyed us hither and thither to no
purpose. Then as we stood for a min
ute rubbing our inflamed eyes and
getting our breath, for the ascent was
steep, we heard an ominous sound
from afar off; a ripping, tearing noise,
like water forcing itself throngh the
nozzle of a hose, ending in a dull, muf
fled crash.
"What is it?" I said, staring at the
captain's face, which had grown pale.
A tree has fallen, he replied.
And then exclaimed: "We're losing
time; I must get the men out." And
turning back ho rau down the hillside.
By tbe time I reached the houso J
heard his voice shouting hoarsely on
the parade ground, and a moment af-
ter the notes of the bugle rang out,
sounding the assembly.
As I passed through the back yard
I stopped for a moment at the hydrant
to dBh some water into my smarting
eyes. There was a tub under the fau
cet, half full of the overflow, and I
was just leaning over this, scooping
the water up in my hands, when I was
suddenly thrust aside so violently as
to almost lose my balance.
Recovering myself indignantly, I
recognized tho Indian woman, Judy.
She had a blanket in her hands, and
with n desperate energy she was
sousing it in the water. Her face was
wonderful to see. She looked like
one about to do battlo to the death. I
had but a glimpse of her when she was
off and up the hill, her head down and
partially covered with the blanket,
running and leaping irom stone no
stone like a hound on the scent. She
did not stop to look or listen, bnt
sped on till in a moment she was lost
to sight.
Then I heard the quick tramp oi
the infantry company coining across
the parade gronnd at doublo time, and
as it reachod the edge of tho woods, it
deployed as skirmishers and advanced
into the smoke, bnt as I toiled np the
hill once more by the side of the agon
ized father, panting and with the
sweat running down my face, I knew
where the only hope of the child's sal
vation lay.
We had not penetrated far, thongh
it seemed a great distance, wben
among tho smoke-wreathed trees in
front of us appeared a spectral thing.
Ik A-ll Knt linn vm
A tall Azure, but whether man or
woman it was hard to say, for its gar
ments hung in smoldering rags about
its limbs, while its face was buried in
a bundle that its sinewy, blackened
arms hugged tightly to its breast.
'It's Judy!" I cried. "It's Judy!
She's got the boy."
A great shout went nn from the men
in hearing, aua was repeated tiown
the line. And at the sound the poor,
scorched, blinded creature sank slow
ly to her knees and thou fell prone
npon the earth, la an instant a dozen
strong hands were lifting her np and,
while the captain relieved her of the
boy, the rest of ns carried ber as gont
!y-ightbe down the hill to the
house.
The child was unconscious from
smoke and fright, but the doctor soon
revived him and pronounced him in
no danger from his adventure. But
when he examined poor Judy's in
juries he slowly shook his head. All
that he could do was to make her as
free from pain as possiblo till the end
came. She knew she was dying, and
we could see how she suffered, but
she endured theordeal with marvelous
patience and dignity. At the very
last she said, with her quaint irisn
accent: "Cap en, I been a dacent
Christian woman for nigh on two
year. When I die will I go to
heaven?"
"Yes, Judy." said the captain.
"Well, see here, cop'n," she said.
I been thinking 'bout thot, an' I
kind o' changed my mind. Yon see,
I ain't sure my husband and baby 11
be in Christian heaven, 'cause they
don't know 'bout it, an' I don't want
to take no chances, d'ye mind. So I
guess I'll make sure an' go wheriver
they are. You can " fix it for me,
enp'u, can't you?" oho added rather
anxiously.
"Judy," said tho captain, in a voice
full of emotion, "you've always been
an honest, fuithful woman, and yon ve
jufct given your lifo to save that of a
little child, i am sure tnai uou win
be good to you. Only ask Him for
what you want."
"Well,"said Judy, "all I want is to
go where Tuosilt and Inotlin are,
that's all. But if I got to ask God,
maybe I'd better say thot prayer He
likes. D'ye think so, cap'n."
"Yes," said the captain, covering
his eyes with his hand.
And as she began, in a failing voice,
"Our Father, who art iu heaven,
hallowed bo thy name," we all rev
ereutly kneeled and joined in the
petition. And when we said the final
"Ameu," the captain, who had been
holding the poor creature's hand,
gently laid it on her breast, for Judy's
regeneration had been made complete.
Atlanta Constitution.
Tunnels of the World.
The tunnols of the world aro esti
mated to number about 1142, with a
total length of 514 miles. There are
about 1000 railroad tunnels, twelve
subaqueous tunnels, ninety canal tuu-
nels aud forty conduit tunnels, with
aggregate lengths of about 350 miles.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT
FUNNY MEN
ARE TOLD BY THE
OF THE PRESS. '
i Composite Photograph A Pessimist A
Secret Hint of the Fatare Insomnia's
Medicine Cheat Playing- It on Them
An Indication Her Aim In Life, Etc.
I toast the American girl,
And here's to her lasting fame;
With a Mobile faoe, Cblaago feet,
And Augusta for ber name.
Her walk is a Golden Gate;
On Wheeling her mind Is bent;
And we feel when we look on her charms,
By Providence she is sent. (
Life.
A Pessimist.
Bobby "Papa, what's a pessimist?"
Papa "A pessimist is a person who
can't enjoy his dinner to-day because
he is afraid the coffee may be muddy
to-morrow." Chicago News.
' A Secret.
She--Julie and Joe are engaged,
but they have decided to keep their
engagement a secret; Julie told me
BO."
He "Yes, I know it; Joe told me."
. or Another Sort.
Flo "Do you love me, sweet?"
Will "Dearly."
Flo "Would you die for me?"
Will "No, my precious girl; mine
is an undying love." Philadelphia
Call.
Her Aim in Life.
"What sort of a girl is she?"
"Oh, she is a miss with a mission."
"Ah!"
' "Her mission is seeking a man with
a mansion." Baltimore Jewish Com
ment. I'laWng It on Them.
"They ain't enough pudding to go
round," the waitress said hoarsely.
"Tell tho rest of 'em as they come,"
aid the landlady, "that it is Spanish
sauce. Then they'll refuse it." Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Hint of the Future.
proposed to me on
'He
postal
card." "
"Did you accept him?"
"Of course not. Do you suppose I
would marry a man who doesn't core
to cents for me?" Art in Dress,
An Indication.
Singleton "Now that you have
been married to the heiress for several
months, I want to ask you: Is mar
riage a failure?"
Benedick "Well, my wife has sus
pended paymont." Brooklyn Life.
Vigilant.
"What are yon starting after that
man for?" inquired the bicycle police
man's friend. "He doesn't ride any
faster than the law allows."
"I know it, but maybe I can scare
him so that he will." Washington
Star.
Ways and Means.
"George, dear,' you remember that
lovely sideboard that was so cheap?
Well, I've discovered a plan to make
room for it."
"How, my dear?"
"By taking a larger flat." Brook
lyn Life.
Sensitive.
"What made you try to whip Gruf
fins for the mere general assertion that
all the robboi'H ought to be in the peni
tentiary? I didn't see anything for
you to get angry at."
"I know you didn't see anything.
But I know Gruffins' opinion of me."
Sceptic.
Billings "'Knowledge is power,'
you know."
Henderson "I'm not so sure of
that. My knowledge of the fact that
you owe mo $10 is thoroughly
grounded, but I don't seem to have
the power to get it." Cleveland
Leader.
Insomnlu's Medicine Chest.
Jane (reading) "The wearied sen
tinel leaned on his gun and stole a few
moments' sloop."
Little Robbie "I know where he
stole it from."
Jane "Where, Robbie?"
Robbie "From his knapsack."
Cleveland Tlain Dealer.
I.uck of the Laggard.
Biggs "I don't understand how it
is that Seezer always has a nice posi
tion. He seems to bo too lazy to buo
jeed in life."
Wires "That's just it. He is so
lazy that when the office starts out to
seek the mon, he hasn't sprawl enough
in him to get out of the way." Bos
ton Transcript.
The Difference.
"You haveoalled me aliar,"shoutod
the angry citizen to the offensive citi
zen, "aud you will live to regret that
speecb,"sir."
"That jest shows the difference in
fellers," remarked Cowboy Bill, who
happened to be preseut, "when a man
calls me a liar, he don't live to regret
it. No, sir!" Pick-Me-Up.
Important to Be Iteinembcred.
"You are leaving footprints upon
the sands of time," they urged, with
tears that would not be stayed.
In the meanwhilo the famous wo
man was contemplating eternity with
more or loss concern.
"Ah, but will it be remembered of
me," she asked, "that my shoes were
a mile too big, positively?" Detroit
Journal.
Ills Dost Crumbled Away.
Edith "Mrs. Mauve appears to bo
a regular iconoclast.
Bertha "Yes?"
Edith "You know she used to say
that her hnsband was the idol of her
heart?"
Bertha "I know."
Edith "Well, by her extravagance
that idol is dead broke." Boston
Transcript
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Pneumatic pressure is used to oper
ate railway gates by means of an air
pump to act on each gate bar.
At eea level an object 100 feet high
is visible a little over thirteen miles.
If 500 feet high it is visible nearly
thirty miles.
The right band, which is more sen
sitive to the touch thau the left, is leer
sensitive than the latter to the effect
of the heat and cold.
An eminent astronomer says thai
for communication with the inhabitant;
of Mars we wou'd require a flag as
lurge as Ireland and a pole 500 mile;
long.
Telegraph wires will last for fortj
years near the sea shore. In the man
ufacturing districts the same wirei
will last only (en years, and sometime!
less.
It has recently been claimed thai
iron ships with electrio plants suffer
rapid deterioration of their pipes hav
ing direct connection with tho sea,
due to clectrolytio action.
A new method of applying chemicals
to extinguish fires is being tried, in
which a recess is forced in the hose
nozzle and a solid chemical inserted
to be dissolved by tho water passing
over it, when the chemical substance
is removed.
According to a German publication,
a chemist of that country has prepared
a fluid that has tho power when in
jected into the tissues of a plant, near
its roots, of anesthetizing the plant,
not destroying it, but temporarily
suspending its vitality.
A combined detachable ice-creeper
and heel plate is being manufactured,
which has spring clips by which it is
attached to the heel, a roughened rub
ber or metal plate fitting the under
side of the heel when in use to pre
vent clipping on the ice.
A Southerner has designed a new
resilient tire for wagons, which is
made of au inuer section of rubber
tubing surrounded by a layer of rubber-coated
linen or canvas and covered
by a vnlcanized, comparatively hard,
rubber tube, which is in turn covered
by an outer rubber tube.
Acetylene gas is to be used for the
purpose of inllatiug inariuo buoys and
floats, the dry calcium carbide being
placed in a vessel in the upper portion
of the buoy, to which a (small quautity
of water is admitted as it sinks, caus
ing sufficient gas to generate to lift
the buoy to its proper position again.
The falling sonsation experienced
on the descent of a vessel in its pitch
or roll is attended by closure of the
glottis and suspended inspiration. As
a means of avoiding tho resulting dis
comfort, Dr. Stocker, of Glasgow,
suggests a control of this closure by
taking a full inspiration with each de
scentsuch a remedy, it is pointed
out, having tho further beneficial
effeot of diverting the attention from
imaginings of seasickness.
now to Take a Bath.
"I cannot uuderstoud why it is,"
. . ...1 1-1 T 1
says a physician, inai wuen i oruer
a cold tub bath for my patients, the
temperature to be at sixty-five de
grees or seventy degrees, they never
can understand how they are to do it.
I suppose I shall let the water stand
over night,' rays one. Bnt it is not
necessary to let the water stand over
night. We m e living uuder civilized
conditions, and Iho very simple plan
of turning on the hot-water faucet for
a few minutes will moderate the water
to exactly the proper temperature.
Some peoplo do not understand tak
ing a cold bath anyway. I don't
wondor they take cold, lo uatne
properly, when the water is in tho
tub turn down tho night clotues, and
bathe the face and neck. Then, step
ping into the tub, kneel ou oue
knee, and with the sponge throw the
water first over one shoulder aud
then over the other down the spine.
That causes the reaction which makes
the body warm. Quickly sponge over
the rest of the body, make a few mo
tions forward in the water, as if swim
ming, and then jump out into the
bedroom slippers. It need not take
more than a moment. Such a bath is
very beneficial to many thin-blooded
people.
The Olainonr of Art.
Do you think that Greek art ever
tells us what tho Greok people were
like? Do you believe that the Athe
nian women were like the stately,
dignified figures of the Parthenon
frieze, or like thoso marvelous god
desses who sat in the ti iaugular pedi
ments of the sanio building? If you
judge from the art, they certainly were
so. But read an authority, like Aris
tophanes, for instauce. You will find
that the Athenian ladies laced tightly,
wore high-heeled shoes, dyed their
hair yellow, painted and rouged their
foccs and were exactly like any silly,
fashionablo or fallen creature of our
own day. Tho fact is that we look
back on the ages entirely through tho
medium of Art, and Art, very fortn
nately, has never onco to! J us the truth.
Boston Journal.
Paris' New Cab Fares.
If the London cabmen were not
deaf, dumb and blind where reforms
tending to their own advantage are
concerned, they might bo interested
in the experiment which M. Bixio, tho
Chairman of the Paris Cab Company,
is trying to introduce. This is low
fares commencing at fifty centimes
for short distances, so as to euable
cabs to compete with tramcars aud
omnibuses. The furcs are regulated
by dial clocks, which mark off the ex
act nninber of minutes during which
a vehiclo is occupied, pressure on a
button stopping the mechanism di
rectly the passenger alights. More
interesting still is the fact that the
fact that the cabmen themselves are
very keeu on giving the system a trial.
London Chronicle.
A SONCJN TIME.
Life growing sweeter
In tenderer tune;
Moving to meter,
And dreaming of June.
Meadows rimmed over
With daisies in dew;
Carpets of clover
And curtains of blue.
Gleam time and stream time
Tust Ib earth's strife;
Song time and stream time
Love time and life!
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Little Girl "Ma wants five cents'
worth of dog meat." Butcher "Bo
logna or frankfurters, miss?" Judge.
Redding "Well, I don't think they
have much of a family tree!" De
Witte "No; but there are golden ap
ples on it." Puck.
Kirby (gloomily) "Wheat went
down from $1.05 to 94 to day." Mrs.
Kirby "I thought you men didn't be
lieve in bargain days. " Truth.
The Moid "Miss Ethel is not in,
sir, but I'll tell her yon called." Algy
"Aw thanks. Tell her right awpy,
please, so you won't forget it."
judge.
"Thank goodness!" exclaimed an old
inhabitant, "we don't have ter buy
any more postage stamps. The Gov
ernment is goin ter give us nee de
livery. " Atlanta Constitution.
Richard "We are always wanting
something we nover get." Little
Johnny (interrupting) "When ma
says I want a whipping I notice I al
ways get it." Boston Transcript.
Mr. Romanz "I tell you what, a
baby brightens up the house.and that's
a fact." Mr. Practickel "Yes; we've
had to keep the gas burning all night
ever since ours was born." Tit-Bits.
He knew what they always say, so
he thought he would forestall her. "I
suppose you've never been kissed by a
mau before," he said. "Do I look as
homely as all that?" she demanded,
haughtily. Chicago Post.
His Wife (hearing him indistinctly)
"Henry, please hold your month a
littlo further away from the "phone."
He (with considerable indignation)
"Do you think I've been drinking,
Amelia?" Chicago Tribune.
"Does the baby look liko you or
your wife?" "Well, it depends some
what on how he feels; when he's good
natured he resembles me, but at other
times I cau see a great deal of his
mother in him." Staudard.
He "Surely yon must know that I
love yon. I cannot live without you."
She "Sh-h! Papa might hear you
say that. If he did he would be sure
to object withont giving you a chance
to explain." Chicago Daily News.
Simmons "Timmins' most striking
literary works have never been pub
lished." Watts "You are right.
I have several letters of his, striking
me for fives and tens, that have never
seen publicity." Indianapolis Jour
nal. "Now that your sou is a partner in
stead of a clerk, Mr. Hardly, does he
holp you in your business as much as
formerly?" "A good deal more."
"That's fine." "Yes; be never shows
np at the office now." Detroit Free
Press.
Hoax "My wife and some of her
friends are going to organize a secret
society." Joax "Nonsense! The
idea of wonieu in a secret society!"
Hoax "You misunderstand. They
are to meet to tell secrets." Boston
Traveler.
He "I love you, Miss Peach, ar
dently, passionately, madly." She
"Nousense, Mr. De Sever; you ore
hardly acquainted with me." He "I
know, bnt then why, perhaps that's
the reason, don't you know." Boston
Transcript.
Boston Lady "If you will split
that pile of wood I will give you a
sandwich." Tramp "Madam, I
never split things not even infini
tives." Boston Lady "Oh, you lovely
man! Come iu and have tea with
me." Cleveland Leader.
"His success in a financial way has
been something marvoloiis." "Yes?"
"Yes, sir. I've often heard him tell
how, when he came here fifteen years
ago, nil ho owed in the world was a
dollar and a quarter, and last week he
failed for ft million." Detroit Jour
nal. Squire Catchem "So this, colonel,
is the great moose yon shot in Nova
Scotia? Now at what became of
the body?" Colonel Nimrod "There
er was no body that is or the
wolves had eaten the body, you see,
when I er shot it!" Loudon Pear
son's Weekly.
"I'd rather," said the actor, "that
yon would devote fewer of your stor
ies to my personal traits aud adven
tures, and more of them to my acting."
"Billy, my boy," said the press agent,
"it is your acting that I am trying to
draw the public's attention away from."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"I may be over-careful," she said,
as she hid tho plated spoons aud curl
ing irons in the bottom of her trunk
before she went out shopping, "but I
can't bear to run auy risks." Then
she pinned her gold watch to the out
sido of her dress by n blue ribbon,
and went down town. Standard.
Sho "Don't you think Mrs. Wap
sloy is a beautiful woman?" He
"She is a beautiful woman the most
beautiful woinsn, I think, that I have
ever seen." Sho (after he has goue)
"I wonder if he has always been such
a fool, or whether it has just begun to
grow on him lately." Cleveland Lead
er. Hostess (at party) "And does your
mother allow you to have two pieces
of pio when you are at home, Willie?''
Willie (who has asked for a second
,,iel.e)"Xo, ma'am." Hostess
"Well, do yon think she would like
you to have two pieces here?" Willie
(coufideutly) "Oh, she wouldn't care.
This isn't her pie. "Loudon Tit-Bits.