laughihg rmosorrr. If nature delgnj to charm the eya With flowers of every hue. Rcjolclnt. though at night they ale, by not be bappy, too? Why not why not Why not be bappy, too? A thousand creatures friik and fly, And eeek, and apend, and woo; Shall we the common law deny? Why not be bappy, too? Why not why not Why not be bappy, toot Squirrel and bee with rapture ply The art their father knew; If these rejoice, why ao may I; Why not be happy, too? Why not why not Why not be happy, too? The beady brooks go laughing by. The birds tng In the blue. The very heavens exult, and cry; Why not be happy, too? Why not why not Why not be happytoo? Dora Read Goodale. JOE THE FIREMAN. It was night in a crowded thorough fare in the borough, where the stench and noise of a mighty multitude rose up on the heavy air. Suddenly there was a clearance to right and left as the ominous roar and rattle of a lire engine was heard. On the front sat Joe Long ford, one of the bravest of that brigade of real heroes. Aye, braver are they than all the great soldiers of history from Alexander down to Wellington, ince their mission is to face every danger in saving life not in destroying it. That night at the station where Lang ford was on duty a "call" arrived which caused him much alarm, for it came from the very street in which he lived himself, where, in a top-tloor i-ooin, he had left his wife and child. However, there was one consolation, they would not be many minutes get ting tin re at their &ite of sjieed, and when they had reached the scene of the disaster he was infinitely relieved to lind that bis dear ones were in no immediate jicril. The burning house was situated on the opposite side of the -treft directly opposite as it chanced. Alice Langford and her little girl had already retired to rest when the former vas awakened by the lurid glare ii.on the window blind, the hoarse shouts :r.tn the street below the terrible cry ' lit-. it:i the She rose softly so as not to child, drew the curtains v-i-i-l o it into the night. v hi'-h weie now madly leap- le and pv ll true., i.ili ia street. the air illuminate! Uie and all things were plain ly i.-ihle as by daylight. As the men of the hrig.ule directed their hose and poured great ji ts of water, which splash ed and 'his.-d imoient!y uin :H.- lire 5-hu thought iiiflantlv of Joe, her hus- baud. ure:V he would be there It was not long before she descried him, ax in hand, mounting up the escape. It g ive her a thrill of horror to sep iii.n swiftly mounting that ladder; then coming out at the top and clambering on to the sill of the window which was directly on a level with her own. Next she saw him raise his ax and the wood and glass of the cas'-ment living about his head in a thousand splinters. Then he stool upon the narrow ledge and the hot Haines anil the dense black smoke which burst out of the room surrounded and enveloped him from eery side. f?he turned away shuddering and covered her face with her hands. Oh, how she wished she had not seen this! She felt that now when Joe was away on duty she would never know a jieaccful night again. Hut when she turned away she heard the shouls and the cries and the splashing of water, and felt us though she was impelled by some fascination to look again at the scene of disaster. Now some of the inmates were throw ing some of their bedding and other effects out of windows which in a London crowd was not much better than leaving them to the devouring Haines, so far as the rightful owners were concerned whilst others were N ing assisted down one of the tsi-iij. Then Alice's gaze traveled upwards again and was riveted upon the scene w Inch was being enacted in the top room which her husband had now reached. Here h- found a soddened drunka d king on the b il an unkempt, uu Miaveti w retch, who was apparently un conscious, of the gravity of his situation. This was the very man whose careless ness as he came up stairs had caused the lire, only that was not known then, of coiir.-e. I.angford's wife from the opKsite side of the street could not hear the words that were s.ken. but she could distinctly see all that pas-ed. and re cognizing the man when he rose up the full horror of the scene and her power lessness to aid possessed her like a terrible dream. "Halloo, my man!"' cried Joe rough ly shaking the drunkard, "don't you know that the hu-e is on lire? Come, or you'll be roasted alive'' "Fire?" muttered the other drowsily; thought it was a bit hot! Have 'nother drink'.''' "Prink be hanged! You've had a few too many as it i. Come on!" Langford exclaimed, who, U'ing that iiiuch-condeinned, though highly-to-U'-respectcd individual, a moderate drinker, entertained an immense con tempt and disgust for drunkards. The man sat up and seemed suddenly to grow sensible and conscious of his pi ixition. Joe Langford," he exclaimed, "what the devil are you doing here?" "1 1 iram la i-?" "Funny, ain't it, when one comes to think you married the woman I loved, and it's through that I'm what I am!" Well, never mind about that now," said the tireman, lildly seizing J (avis in his strong grasp (for the latter appear ed to be st ranuely averse to being rescued) and forcibly dragged him toward the w indow. "What hat " he stammered wildly, "it-hat in heaven's name are m.ii going to do with me?" They had now clambered to the win dow ledge, and had only reached it just in time, lor at that moment the floor of the room fell through with a terrible OTiir-h and the space was tilled with a great volume of smoke and llamos, which choked and blinded them. "Uy Jingo!" . ried Joe, "that was a i. arrow shave, and no mistake. Now then, IVivis. slip down the escape, and ear out of it!" I w;!'. don't you fret!" Hiram ex . . i in 1. tier, c'.v, s idd- nly seizing his I resort r by liie throat. The mis . ri ant s bjo,, l-si,,,( eyes Mazed malig rat.i'.y. he was mad with drunken de h:iitm. I'm i;oii.g ilowti safernotigb, but don't you think you are going to . : : i iir-1 ,.u. " AJ he spoke these -.ord- be threw Ijn-f. rd off backwards, .!.. f- lie.ii! :.g ir.M the burning N -T r" than five minutes had !.!; I vt!--e the tin iu n cine up ': !.l':'.v b::t it n.-l like an I t; w. in t.- wit. I. nig l;-.tn the . '. . f i: t. at, 1 ln u ijiv '.. '..u..i. 'f ti t..i;-'-1y. a .! I si.:.' f !. rrot tud acgu'.sh l r"k :. "I l.ft I.j Th- i --he r.ihw1 fr"m !. i tt. ut a:i !: u u 5iC ;--.ct, like i!J th.ai How the gel down that dark, narrow staircase she never knew. She flew rather than ran. Once outside, she forced her way through the crowd, shouting: "Stop that man coming down ' the escape! He has murdered the fire man!" The cry was quickly taken up and the mob, only two eager lor excite ment, set upon Hiram Davis with tigerish fury as he reached the bottom of the ladder. They would have torn him to pieces had not the police in tervened and, indeed, the wretch, mad with drink and fear and remorse, gave himself up to the constables as a pro tection from the crowd. In the meantime Alice, having said her sav, thought no more of him. She pressed forward toward the burning house, but was kept back by the hremcu and the iolice. "Let me pass!" ehe cried "for heaven s sake let me pass! My bus- band is in there! He has been pushed into the fire and I must go to him! Some of the men knew her and the news was quickly w hispered round that this was Joe Jjingford's wife and that he had been murdered by the man who was in rustody, and then they instinctively fell back and made way for her. She went boldly up in the burning house, without a thought of fear for herself, and the men !egan to follow her, as tliev had not dared to do on their own initiative, in very much the same spirit with which Joan of Arc's enthusiasm was caught up a spirit of shame that men should not follow where a woman has led the way. She fearlessly went up two Mights of stairs which were nearly intact. Here she paused at the front room door, and for the first time her heart failed her. she dreaded what she might be about to behold. ' I know he is in there," she whis tiered. "Keep back, Mrs. Langford; it reallv ain't tit for you to lie here," said one of the firemen, gently pushing her aside as he passed in front of her. Thev attempted to open the door, but it was so blocked up on the inside that all their efforts were for a long lime unavailing, and they were at last com pelled to batter it down with their axes At length it fell in with a crash, and thev paused on the threshold, stopped by the huge mass of debris which barred the wav, choked bv the dense - smoke that issued from within. "Hark! be is there! Look! that way! Thank (.iod, he is alive!" Alice I-ingford exclaimed, Kiinting into the gloom, for her ear or jerhaps her heart had distinguished a faint groan proceeding from the farther end of the dismantled apartment. Hastily she seized ujon an ax and struck out more bravely than any of them, hewing her way through all ob stacles, for it was love that nerved her arm to labor. J t seemed to le a Her culean, almost impossible task, for, even as they forced a passage through fallen woodwork and plaster and great hen ied up masses of broken furniture, still more obstacles seemed to oppose themselves at every step; but there is no doubt that it was the example and dauntless bravery of that one woman amongst them which urged on these men uiKin their iierilous course. At last they reached him. He was wedged beneath some fallen rafters, charred, blackened and manned; an unrecognizable mass of humanity. She had been preparing herself foi this, or worse, so no exclamation broke from her lips. She quietly accompan ied the others as they carried his inani male form to the street ludow, sustain ing her presence of mind with wunder ful fortitude. Thev took him awav from her then to the hospital, where he lav for manv long weary weeks in the disputed border land between life and death. I'uring all that time she might onlv see him twice a week, and at first he was unconscious of her visits. When at length his recovery was an accomplished fact, and he returned home albeit broken and prostrated in health there was a day of quiet but heartfelt rejoicing at those lodgings in the South'vark borough opp isite the house where the fire nad Im cii seen. Yielding lo his wife's urgent entreat ies, Joe Lmgford left the brigade to adopt less perilous pursuits; but he would have granted her more than that, for he had heard all that she had done upon that night (not from her own lips. lie it understood), and su had been able to test the measure ami the greatness of her love. Spare Moments. PliraMnit on a Piano-Organ. The dwellers on We t Twelfth street practice the picturesque Chi cago custom of sitting on the. front steps after dinner in the cool of the evening. Along there the piuno irgan grinders reap ricb harvests. The other evening, a young man in one of the front step parties called out to an organ grinder, who was playing "Iaddy Wouldn't liny Me a l!ov.-wow," and asked him in the name of harmony and enterpe, to phrase the tune. 'You can't phrase on a piano organ," laughed a girl by his side. 'Can't, eh?" exclaimed the man. He ran down the steps, seized the organ crank out of the hands of the am.t.ed owner, and then ail the people on the blo:'k came to their doors, for the daring young man was proving that a hand organ, If it is not played like an ambulance answering a hurry, call, is capable of an amount of phras-' ing that would make any audience join in its cho-us. 'J he people on tha front steps d.d, and then applauded the peronuer, wh" bowed profoundly, while the organ owner wondered what it was all about. New York Sun. A Senlli ;lrL He (timidly') Now that we are en ja-rcd I 1 presume I may kiss you is much as 1 please, mayn't I? She (encouragingly) Yes, indeed. Make the most of your time uiy dear. There's no tebiug how long an en laemeiit will last nowadays, you know. New York Weekly. Ttoutitl to Lose It. ."irst Man with Fan IuJu't you say the other hiv that the sun was losing its heat' Soosid Man with Fan Yes all the scientists ajree on that. "Well, I h-dicve it now. The sun an't keep this up very long and have iny left." Hi-rlng ti 1li li c. Stranger My dear sir, you seem to l.e suCerin: great mental distress. Gloomy Man You are ri.zht; I am. What's the matter"'' "I am a I law arc fiuit dealer ana I have cverv r ason to fear that the c;v!i cr p t'ii year U a groat slie st" i heap I'limta-h. Orfalaly. I felt so cheap during the cere u; Civ," . .nf ?-d the bride to ber Jejrc-t fricud. Why, tn diat-' iecuuc pj p gave we twajr." Ixtroit 1 rca lie. rTBtetwi y Woir. Sam Adams was killed by the In dlans near Johnstown, Pa., sayi Forest and Stream. His brothel John was with him when he wa( killed. They were watching sonit rattle in a swampy place on the river, when they were surprised by the In dians. John was only 0 years old, but he knew all about the ways of tin savages. When he saw his brothel fall be dodged Into the brush like i quail and ran till he got Into thi dense laurel that skirts the stream. He was thirty miles from the settle ment la Bedford County, and when light came on he resolved to take th woods for it and cross the mountain. He knew the Indians would watch the road. He was bareheaded and barefooted, and his feet were bleed ing. The wolves followed him, howl. Ing and getting more and more im pudent He dared not climb a tre for fear of being kept up till morning and being discovered by the redskins. One wolf, much larger than the rest, came very near him, so near that when he shook his shaggy coat, wet lth dew, the boy felt It splash in his !aoe. This one appeared to fight the rest off and showed no disposition to la harm. It was not long till the rest of the pack dropped off and left John alone with the big wolf, and they lourneyed on together till broad day. When they reached tho brow of the mountain ntid John could see the imoke and c!earings of the settlement they separated. The wolf trotted off ilong the ridge, stopped several times, ind looked back as though loath to leave his companion. John lived to be very old, but never harmed a wo'.f n all his life; and he firmly believed that his friend had teen sent to him ny some unseen power to guide him through the wilderness. He could sever have found the crossing with- nut the aid of the wolf, and weuld :ertainly have been eaten up but foi uis protection. A Heifer In a Bath Tub. A number of cattle were landed at Ae Weem Line wharf one morning recently. Their driver was Jamet Ciroucher. The animals seeming ijulet, Groucher started to drlv them without any ropes. On reach ing Conway street a heifer which had been moving along very placidly be came very much animated, an 1 mad things very interesting for the re mainder of the herd. The street be ing too wide for her, she danced ut an alley between 129 and 132 Con way street. A gate blocked her way, but only momentarily. Through it she went, and then another obstacle presented itself, Mrs. Emma A. Poole, who proved to be no more of a stop to the heifer's onward progress than Fort Carroll would be to a modern man of war. In a moment Mrs. Toole was knocked to the ground, and in the kitchen it went. There some destruction of property was committed, but not enough to latlsfy the heifer. The dining-room was next entered, where the well known quadruped-in-a-china-shop scene was re-enacted. The hallway was then taken in, and a lamp was tnocked down. The heifer wanted '.o conquer higher worlds, so she wen! jpward into a bed-room. Here, empirarily, repose was sought on the bed, but it fell under the ani- ual's weight, other damage being lone during this occurrence, l'rom here, the weather being warm, her lieifership went into a bath-room and hopped into the bath tub. Mrs. Poole then commenced calling for help, and with the assistance of a blue-coated soldier drove the animr.l out, and she at once sailed up Han liver 6treet and there entered another house, but did no damage. Tho driver Anally caught the animal. Haiti more American. Tenipt-i Cut Cut or nowlders. Mayallpuram, India, is graced with jeven of the most remarkable temples in the world, each of these unique places of worship having been fash- oned from solid granite bowlders. some idea of theirsize may be gleaned from the fact that the smallest of he rcven is 24 feet high, 17 feet long md 12 feet wide, and is divided Into jpper and lower stories. The 'Tlc-i vaso-Goda-Cla." the largest of the seven, is three and a half storied high, its outlines resembling that of n Atlantic steamship. The Inside r the bowlder has been chiseled away mtil the walls do not exceed eight nches in thickness. The two floors ibove that of the foundation are each ibout a foot In thickness, and seem is solid as the rock of ages. The i ppcr stories are reached by a spiral ttairway, carved from the same piece if granite The second largest o! these single stone temples has a por tico 11 feet wide and 17 feet long, or namented with four crouching lions and two elephants, all carved from the same bowlder which goes to make up the main building-. Pittsburgh Dispatch. Tha Ur(Mt Artificial Mound. Few people know that almost in sight of St- Louis stands the largest artificial mound in America, If not In the world. The Cahokia Mound is ver 700 feet long by 500 feet wide at the base, and 00 feet high. It cov ers over eight acres of ground, and has upward of 20,000,000 cubic feet of contents. When one reflects on thfi low degree of civilization attained byj the people who built this mound, an 4 the inadequate tools, transportation,! and machinery employed, it was foi1 the Indians a more stupendous under taking than for us would bo tho uiidiiigof another city like St Louis. This mound is really a mountain, aud every handful of earth it comaln-1 must have been carried thither in rtaand baskets. How long it took or why It was built ct all are questions that will probably never be answered, but the stupendousness of the work cannot le called in question. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. lteturneil to If N Orliflnit! Stupidity. "Up In Northern Minnesota," says a physician in the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, 'dives a mail who en tered the service in 1SU1. He was a very du'.l fellow, almost a fool. Dur ing one of the sorties made by the Confederates at lionclsoii he received buckshot in the head. The sur geons could not find it and the wound healed. Ho returned to duty one of the brightest me-i in bis company, and in time became second lienten ant. At the close of the war he re turned home, married a superior woman, prospered in business, and was elected sheriff of his county. Three years ago hU bead began to give him a great deal of trouble. He came to St. Paul, and I located the buckshot and removed it. He is now as healthy as ever, but i the same stupid dolt that he was before tho fluht at Fort IVin lson." A woman's love is Utter than a s another, be love man's love: she lo ve A ato!i dou wuo ltk Lceda tcb- log. IN UNEXPECTED PLAU3. education on Street-Car Platform and a Cobbler's Beach. I was once riding in a horse car in St. Joseph, Mo., with a dis tinguished linguist, and we were dis cussing languages in a general way." said Prof. Max Eppstein: "We touched on Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Sanscrit, and I know not what else, and I noticed that the driver paid more attention to us than to tho peo ple who .were signaling the car. We had to wait some time on a switch, and he came Inside and begged pet mission to correct us on several points. He was a much better linguist than either of us, and I doubt If his superi lor could be fouud in America to-dayj Yet he was driving a mule fur 410 a week, and looked as though he haj not enjoyed a square meal for a week; or a bath for three months. lie said that he had never attended school, but being, as he called himself, a 'lan. guage crank,' had devoted bis spare time for more than twenty years to that study. He declined all over, tures looking to the betterment of his condition, and laughingly explained that 'his system could not stand pros perity.' There are some queer peo ple in the world." "I once knew an old Scotch shoe-i maker living in the little Town of Timpson, Tex., who was jierfcctl familiar with the works of all thu great writers and thinkers since tlio tlawn of Greek .civilization," said J. A- 1 ,J 11 w i" ' V. 11 V It 111. I 1 ' 1- 1' V 11. . I with the dramas of Euripides, thu philosophy of Aristotle, the met::, physics of Kant, and kindred work) ever before him. There hes.itye;i3 after year, surrounded by the choice- i flowers of Grecian rhetoric and old shoes, keeping time w ith his baminci to tho music of earth's iuiglitic-t bards. He had not only read but df gested everything ihat was wort!; reading. There was not a quib ol the sage of Forney, not a sigh in Wil helm Meister not a covert tt!ng in Swift's Irony, nor a Parthian arrow in Carlyle's remorseless satire, that e. raped him. Yet he was a cobbler! His little shop was to him a palace; whose roof touched heaven, whosj walls in "!osed the intellectual hier archy of all ages The blind bard ol Chios struck the lyre and sang to him the wondrous tale of Troy: Socia'c-" sat by his side and discoursed to him and I)emosthenes poured out his fer vid eloquence for his entertainment and Instruction. Why should he not bo happy? Life is very much what we make it.'' St. Louis Globc-Dciu-ocrat. TheEvtl Fye In Ahynnitia. The Abyssinian has a singular su perstition regarding eating in tho upeii. To him a lit of indigestion from over-feeding won't! mean tho evil eye. He would feel assured tlmt some part of the performance of ap peasing his appetite had leen oh. served. In walking along a highway In this country, I came across what appeared to be a large bundle of washing Just a little off the road, (hi approaching it, the movement going on within was plainly disc rnihle. Covered up in their shemas, or clot lis, wore three men eating their midday meal. So much in fear are the peo ple of tho evil eye, that they carry amtileU containing prayers, and m! df parchment several yards long; and pictures illustrative of the triumphs of the good spirit over that ocular aburdityarc keit in their houi.es foi protection. If an Ahyssinian sells you anything and is well inclined, he will caution you to keep it indoorsor covered up; forifanetil eye should fall on youi purchase it may spoil or disappear, which latter contingency is much more probable in Abyssinia. I had some experiences of the kind of evil rye that caused goods and chattels to ilisannear. It gieameu ror an m- utancc in the head of an Ethiopian whom I caught walkingoll with some dollars from a pile in our paymaster's tent; thecoc ner of the evil eye smiled innocently when detected, but the smile faded away under the liitlueu-j of the paymaster's boot. Cent uiy. Oxygon Sprees in Itontou. "The latest crai'.c in lioston is the compound oxygen drunk," said N. W. il'loydj of Springfield. Mass. "There itre a half dozen establishments in the bub that are doing a rushing bus ncsf In catering to this form of dissipa tion. They are patronized exclusively by men and women of highest social position, the women outnumbering' the men. The sensation produced by the inha'ation of compound oxy gen is descriled to me by thoe whe have tried it as ecstatic There i. nothing knowu to the science of med icine or pharmacy that equa'6 its de lights, lilg quaffs of it that Oils the lungs' air cells are said to set all the nerves of the body a-tlnglc and the brain in a delicious whirl. TheeflVctj lasts an inc way irom ntc minutes to an hour, according to the person, and Is said to have no apparently deleter, ious results, except a peculiar mental collapse, from which the dissipator doesn't recover for several hours. While under the strange Influence of the stuff one feels completely lost to the world and oblivious to everything terrestrial. That Is the reason it is called the compound oxygen drunk." Globe-Democrat. So V'nloolced For. Friend (who makes a visit of condo lence) Ah, poor woman, this is a ;reat blow to you, the death of your mother. Afflicted one Alas! who could have anticipate it? And she was so well and hearty. Why, only four days ago she kicked her own s in-in-lawoutofthe house aud fractured two of his ribs." Texas Siftings. Open-Haniled. Bella Do you know. Bes-sle, Mr Liberal gives one-half of his income every year to the poor? I don't think there could be a more generous man. Bessie Oh. yes, dear. If our l'n ple Harry hadn't a thing in the world he'd give away every cent of it. Harper's Young People. An AnnualJo' Young Wife I wish you would take a day off and help me bring up 11 those jars of fruit I put up last (Summer and find some way to get rid Of the stuff. It's all spoiled, as usual. Husband What's the hurry? Younir Wife 1 want the jars ti put Up more fruit Exchange. A Modern Martyr. Maud She is a woman who b:n suffered a great deal for her beli. fv Ethel Dear mc.' What are lief beliefs? Maud She believes that she rfi wear a Ja 3 shoe on a No. C foot aiei i 23-Inch corset on a 30-inch wa st. Saturdar Gazette. How a man wlfhei at this time of the year that he was like LI collar, ind could He down to rest before he tad teen on duty an hour. ftANQB INSPECTOR Doteotlva of Uia rialna Whoa Work Old Sleuth Hlmaelf Might Knry. Column after column has . "efin written alout the daring deeds, .M yeius Bll),iSt ,!,. miraculous escapes and cunning cap-'Bionary minister. He. ture of criminals by the detectives ol'says: -i suflVreJ years Europe and America. In thousands of cases the praise accorded these officers for their ingenuity and daring has been deserved: but there is a class of detectives in this country who risk their lives oftener, and who must know not only the ways of the highwayman when he is In the city, but also his haunts and his hiding-places and his go-between in the thinly-settled country as well. These men are on the go almost all the time to-day down In Jvew Moxlco looking for a horse thief, who is a murderer as well; next week fat across the Canadian line on the trail of a gang of cattle thieves who have been bespolling the Montana oi Wyoming ranges. It is only In the past ten or fifteen years that their worth has been appreciated or thel: services valued as they should be. In the early days of cattle-raising In Wyoming and Colorado, whenevei the range thieves became too bold, the ranchmen for miles around would organize, get on the track of the thieves, run them to their holes and then shoot or hang them. Aftei a visitation of this kind herds would bo comparatively safe for a time. Nevertheless thousands o! head of cattle and horses were stolen each year and shipped to Chicago, for which tho rightful owners received not a cent. Tne stockmen of Wyom ing organized a stock-growers' associa tion and appointed for each county in the State a stock inspector. Colorado followed suit in a few years, to le followed later bv Montana. The duties of these Inspectors were not to look out for diseased cattle, but to In spect every carload of cattle shipped out of the State, get a list of the brands, who the consignee was, and report the facts to the secretary ot the association. There were, of course, mistakes made at first, but of late years so perfect has the system become that it is almost an impossi bility for a thief to ship a head of beef by rail out of Montana without detection. Gradual')- the duties of the inspectors were added to, ar:d in addition to watching the shipping loints they have become thief chasers. The inspectors are selected from the bravest c'ass of Western men, thor oughly conversant with the country, and men of intelligence. Their owcrs in Montana are equal to those of a deputy sheriff, and their authority is recognized all over the Sta'.e. Among tho Montana inspectors are hien who could teil some thrilling stor es (if their adventures, not only with horse and cattle thieves, but with Indians as well. In point of continuous service Inspector W. D. Smith, now tho representative of the Montana Association at Chicago, and whose headquarters were formerly at Miles City, outranks his associates. He has been in the service of the As sociation eight or ten years, previous to that time being an inspectorin Wyo ming. He is a typical Westerner, close mouthed and without a particle uf fear. He walks with a slight limp, and one unacquainted with bis his tory, meeting lit in on tho streets of Chicago, w. uld almost immediately conclude he was a cattle-grower of moderate means, who was satisfied with life, attended strictly to his own business, and would l.e the last person ne would pick out of a crowd as the most noted trailer of cattle and horse thieves in Montana. The most noted and successful Eastern detectives have continuously In their mind's eye the physiognomy of noted crooks. Smith not only has a wonderful mem ory for a face once seen, whether a photograph or the person himself, but in addition has tho hundreds of brands of cattle and horses in Mon tana. Wyoming and Colorado so thor oughly Uxod in his mind and the loca tion of their accustomed ranges, that if he runs across a bunch of cattle out of their accu-t lined haunts he can locate them in an instaut and he scarcely ever has to consult the brand books Issued by the associations. Many stories are told in Miles City of narrow escapes he lias had w'i n in pursuit of desperadoes and of bril liant captures he has made after pur suits lasting several weeks. The Cheyenne Indians, whose re servation is about 100 miles south of Miles City, fear as well as respect him. When these Indians have, at various times, committed offenses against the State laws, it has often fallen to Smith's lot to go after the man or men wanted, and he has never yet failed In his mission. Helena Independent. TIIK TIH K LAXATIVE l'lt I.C U'LE Of the plants used in manufacturing the pleasant remedy. Syrup of Figs, has a permanently beneficial effect on tho humim system, while the cheap veg etable extracts and mineral solutions, usually sold as medicine, are perma nently injurious. Being well informed, you will use tho true remedy only. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. According to the tracks found in a stone quarry in Connecticut, a bird with a foot eleven inches in length in habited those parts. You wear out clothes on a woh board trn time as mui'li as on the bmly. ffnw ftntlitli. Puy biitiliin."' Eleetrie Smp of onr groeer ami lave thi iiM'Iesa wear. l:i'le ever hinee !!. Uou't take imitation. There are lots of tbera. Attempts have been made to counter feit meteorites, because they arc so val uable, but without success. Fraxfr Alle Grenite. The Frazer Axle Crease lasts four times as long as any other. I' so it, and suve your horses and wagons. A tnul will frovc mm we are rignt. A farmer near Buchanan, Ga., has, it is reported, a tame rattlesnake, that has the freedom of the premises, and beats forty vard dogs keeping off in truders. "German yrup" I must say a word as to the ef ficacy of German Syrup. I have used it in my family for Bronchitis the result of Colds, w ith most ex cellent success. I have taken it my self for Throat Troubles, and have derived good results therefrom. I therefore recommend it to ray neigh lor3 as an excellent remedy in sucL cases. James T. Durcttc, liarlys ville, Va. Beware of dealers who offer yon "somcUiing just as good.' at ! a a-- , , siiways insist oa Diving uosccce i German Syrup. 9 A Perfect Cure Mr. Joel H. Austin Is a man very highly es teemed by all who know him. He Is now pension attorney nt I Cmhiin liul anil aim for with swelling of my limbs, at times very pain ful, especially at night. I coald not tlffp 1 have taken six bottles nf TTnml'a RnraaTMirilla. and for weeks there has not been any swelling of my feet an.l li.nhs. I have also suff.-reil for rears aitli catarrh in the n.-uu. m-ri - Ing down Into my luntrs. Siu'ee trying llood's Hood'snCures Sarsanarilla the vain in my head l,a Mopped Ort lloola and 1 am positive of a perfect cure, "llond-a IMIla a.-t easilv. yet promptly fl, ctivelv. on the liver and bowels. It. aud An apreeaWe lAxative and Vnvz Toioo. Bold by nrugfrlata or 6ent by mail. jC OOo. and f L00 per parkas. Samples free. Syf TTrt, Tbe Favorite TOCTH kW lliy?fortheToetbadiiroJi.;JOo. EXTERMINATION OF SPECIES. Civilization and rrofl'eaaional Huutora Destroying- Many Kinds of Animal. The extermination of species is a subject which has great and growing interest for many people. The wild places of the earth have been losinir sadly in romance of late. Look at North America. No doubt the buf faloes, or rather the bison, were in evitably doomed when civilization be gan to strotch across the continent, admits the Saturday Review. But the destruction of those countless herds that used to rantre from the Saskatchewan to the Kio del Norte, destroying everything in their course, like tiie lemings or the locusts, was something wholly unexpected. The bull bison, like the war horse of Job, seemed the very image of strength and ferocity; ar 1 the red men, with their lances and puny bows, though they did till the larders of their lodges with the jerked meat, scarcely troubled the droves more than the mosquitoes or the sandflies. Yet, thanks to firearms and the prices of buffalo robes in the American mar- kets, the only traces that arc left of j the buffalo now arc the bones and i skulls that sliil whiten the prairies j and the remains of their "wallows" , and favorite fording places. j Many of the fur-bearing animals arc going the same way, or are being driven back to the inhospitable le gions, where the hardy pine trees ie dwaifed by the Arctic cold; n:.d the once famous fur company of Hudson B;iy is reduced to el.iiv,' out is.-, divi dends by land sale. The seals, ns Nansen told us in his recent volumes which used to swarm on the almost accessible coasts of east Greenland, are leaving the Arctic ice-floes for the inland ice, and thither they are al ready being followed up in specially constructed steamers. Should the seals be ever thinned down toward the vanishing point, the polar bears to say nothing of the roving Ksqui maux, will necessarily be starved out of existence, tine subarctic resident has disappeared already, in the shape of the great auk; tho last of the race is supposed to have been seen off Ice land about the beginning of the cen tury; the zoologists pay a questionable tribute to the memory of the mighty departed by offering fabulous prices for even a cracked eggshell. The changes in Africa have been even more general since tourNts, com mercial adventurers and enthusiastic explorers have taken to traversing it in all directions. The dominions of the truculent potentate Moselekatse, where Cornwallis Harris found a per fect paradise of spirit, are now given over to the gold seekers of the Trans vaal, and the quiet pools in the linirjid streams of the L'm'V'Tv. where the 'mii.'1'ty hi;-; ; it.i'.ius w ti lowed it will,'' arc troubled now by the rocking of the g rid cradles. The ele phant, who is as shy and modest as is he is bulkv, has leen driven th wart! beyond the Zambesi, mie hy :niie, before the deadly inroads (if professional hunters till he is headed inick by the rrtug:iec and the Arabs from Mozambique an l Zanzibar, or ets entangled among the missionary -cttlements on the hire and Lake Nyassa. His conficres on the upper Nile aud its Abyssinian tributaries iiavc fared little better; and were Sir Samuel Baker to revisit his old forest lodge on the precipitous banks of tho Atbara he could no longer enjoy from ihe windows of hlsmorning-room the delectable spectacle of the daily rar ade of stattly tuskers and graceful camelopards: The greed of the ivory dealers and ivory hunters has been killing the geese that laid the golden eggs we shall soon have to put up with vegetable substitutes for the handles of dinner-knives and tho backs of our hair-brushes. There Is more Catarrh In this section of the country than nil ntuer diseases put together, j anl until thu lat few years was uTposfl tibe j nounreii it a locat dineHS, and prescribed local remedies and hy constantly failing to rnra uith local treatment, pronounced it liirurahle. Science han proven catarrh to ht a Constitu tional disease and therefore require constitu tional treatment. Hail' Cat arrh 'ure, inan ufact ired iv F. .T. Cheney V Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the on y conM it tit ionai mreoi i he market. It is taken internally in do-e f-om 1 drops to a tenpoonful. It acta directly on th blood niu mni'iuo om ui hid ay menu i iiev oner i one hundred dollars t r any case it fiili to I cure. ena ior circulars ana tebUiuomala free Address F. J.CnENKYi Co., Toledo, O. ryold ly Druggists c TLe ancients regarded dancing a? a necessary accomplishment. Socrates learned the art in his old age. V. Car ll.plur. So matter of bow Ioiir standing. VVrita for fre treatise, test itnon a!, eU;., to S. J. llolleii.worth A Co., UweKu, Tioga Co., N. . iTicvSi; bj mail. 11.1a. The orpin-grinders in Vienna, Aus tria, arc permitted to j.lay only l tween midday and suntet. l-OVTAI. .111K t oil 1801 rnt:il!iin!ne all tli it ofnea irran uiii i- i. hain't. cjllv. In State and roiinti.M. with all cither matters relating to ost ntlld alTin rn n nrcier'vi irom u. r-i.iiiEB. r. . itox. lis:, riiilaitelphla, l'.. So business man should tw without tt. IT ice pa ier cover witli monthly; K.a'cloth cover nliti monthly. A resident of Missouri recently fin- i islicd a guitar eomtosed of over a thou sand .leces of wood. ( iiiiu'M iihlney Uro l".r Prepay, (travel, 1 iatM-U-a, liright'a. Heart. Urtmtry of Liver I isea!., X-r-vousncM, Ac." Cure pnarnnt.-c L KJ1 Arcli street, I'LiUd', SI a tottle, C fur ", or drucrnst. lui'J certificate of i ones. Try i?- Mtc counted i trouble rulbcJ out. j ;o, roR a ce rr will, nptjupe THE ELEPHANT PLAYED BALL- Am'o.1. tnp.IT ttU Aulm:'' Central 1'ark. - One of the elephants In Central Tark the other day afforded a little knot of sightseers considerable am use ment by a display of skill as a bad SSer which was highly interesting saytthe Kew York Tribune. He did not go so far as to Rive an exhibit on of the national game of these United States, but ho showed a decided familiarity with tbe nature of a ball and what can bo doue with it. a nursemaid had brought a dear little Lord Fauntleroy of 8 years, elabor ately dressed and curled, to see tn animals. He no doubt was mamma i only darling, for instead of wanting to twist the elephant s tail or check his trunk, as most boys of his age would, be was afraid to approach within spc-ikinz distance of the great brutes. . ... The lad had a ball of red and white popcorn in his band, one of thoe compact, light, and glutinous masses which delight the childish heart foi some reason, much more than pop corn in any other shape, and this he mustered up courage lo throw to ouc of the elephants, with a weak and erring aim like a girl's. The ball rolled Just beyond the reach of the elephant's trunk, and his efforts tc grasp the prlzo were amusing. Om hind and one fore leg were securely chained to staples In the wall, and he coull not move beyond a limited range. He liked popcorn, and was accustomed to having it fed to him in small pellets. Here was a wn oc ball of the sweet and toothsome ituif, lust, where he could ssmcJl iU fine' artma thoroughly, but could not reach it He strained at the chains till it 6eemed as if the staples must come out of the walls of his stout woodei: box-stall, and he stretched his trun ; to the fullest extent of its India-rub ber powers, but still the ball lay ii few inches beyond its watering tip. He looked appeal ingly to the crow.! for aid, but there was none to hcl; him. He tried to kneel down ami roll toward it, but the chains held him so awkwardlythat the plan would not worie. tie got, up m uiausi. .m i proceeded to study the situation. brains were wnrkinir. VOU could see j that ftom the way he wagged his head from side to side, and kept his little red eyes over on the corn. Suddenly an idea struck him. Ex tending his trunk slong tho floor, as near to the ball as possible? he Oiled his mighty lungs full of air and sent It out of hi9 long blowpipe with a shrill shriek in one gigantic puff. The wind struck the light popcorn ball like a cyclone and dashed it against the wooden side of the stall with such force that it instantlv rebounded and rr.llr1 n-ithin rpaeh of tho olfl roffllO. who skillfully caught it. tucked it fat back into his queer, rcd-flannc' mouth, and seemed to wink his ce safely at the applauding audience. Reporting Under Difficulties. Newspaper repirters at the time ol Queen Victoria's marriage did not al ways get tbe attention they expected, as in the morning of Feb. 13, 1840, a curious statement Is made. The editor stater that he appllec to the Lord Chamberlain for a press ticket, but got no reply; sent down to the office and was assured the Morning Post had not been neglect ed, and that the ticieet was sent. A vain attempt to see the Lore Chamberlain or his leputy followed, with no good result Tbe Morning Post was not properly represented. Notwithstanding this, a full ac count appeared In the day's Issue, and on the following day a bitter lo tlce of Lord Uxbridgo's behavior was published, winding up in these words, -If we had previously supposed thai a nobleman must te a geatleman tbe moment bad arrived when that delu sion was at an end." . r Cruelty to Animal. The Eoyal Society for the Tre ventlon of Cruelty to Animals In England has hit upon a most effective plan for educating the young in the principles which it maintains. It offers annual prizes and certificates to pupils and pupil teachers in the metropolitan schools for essays on the dutv of kindness to dumb creatures. This spring 001 of tho 5,500 schools of the metropolis took part in this competition, the principals of the schools and judges appointed by the society examining and classifying the essays. The amount of work In this may be guessed from the statement that D01 rrizes and nearly 800 certid cates were awarded. The successful competitors received their rewards at a festival given by the society the other day at the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, at which many illustrious men and women were present. Within the last ten years the number of competitors for these prizes has trebled, a fact which proves the society to be doing a most effect ive mission work. An attempt wa-j made at this year's festival to com mit the society to the support of the antl-vlvlsectionists, but this v. as blocked very promptly by the Prei dett, Lord Aberdare, a man broad enough to make distinctions. Summer Weakness, that tired feeling, loss of appetite and nervous prostration are driven away hy Hood's Sarsnparilla, like mist before th. momlnp sun. To realize the benefit of this great medicine, give it a trial. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. 25c. Mushrooms an in eonoral uso amnn. the joor xoplo of llussiu as a ?ulti tute fir mr.tt. Bwlm-n's Tills nre iH-tt.-r than mineral wa ters lie -i-hatifs uo others. 2- cents a box. One of the most lamoiH and fatal poisons used in Japan and Java is ob tained from the bamboo. If afflicted with soreeyej use r. Isaac Tliomn son's Lyn-watei Piugcialssell at iw. iet bottl Ie.lll from a lloreflya liite. The s.id death of Mr. F. J. 'Wood. Mr. Ii:t! tour's private- secretary, from erysipelas supervening on the bite of a gadtly, we announced recetitlv. The bite of gadfle Is not usually co:i jidered poisonous ami it is supposed that the one which attacked Mr. Woods had been on a diseased ani mal. The most common species Is Tabanus bovinus ami they are very troublesome t' horses and "cattle In ihe t;elds, especially in warm weather. It is to those that Thonipvn refers in "The Seasons:" Mght flr hta alumbora If i hiK-j a CUht Of angry fadfllo. fasten ou to bsrO." Naturalists tell us that only the males bite, the females being smaller and quite inoiTcnslvc. I'all Mall liajctte. One Year Borrows Analhsr APOLJO Lett Year. Perhaps Coata Descended from th joj as tne eunic came lo t and close-fitting, an important rh. occurred in its general cut. h hard to get into a tli?ht tunic. n; " It. hfi verv elastic. harrir trie out of iL To facilitate th processes it has always been nce when the tunic was high in the ne?" to cut it oi en for a little way d,,k the front and to fasten together V opening thus made witb button. But when tunics came to be or very tight, about the time 0f tu Renaissance, the opening tended to the very bottom, ot tunic After a while it Le aaietb! fashion to leave the tight outer tun -altogether unbuttoned, except in com weather. Thus the garment wLi-h bad been worn from the very eari'en times, and called by a hundred di' ferent names, such as chitoi. tuni i" cotte, without anv change of eerier,: character, suffered its tlrst essentia' modification and became the movlem coat. The same garment w!;rn shor is the jacket, when short and sieye! 'ess the waistcoat. f-'cribner's. dr. KiLir.n s CURED all I AFTER TWENTY YEARS SUFFERING vITH Chronic Rheumatism. Dr. Kilmer & Co.. rtltiBhnmton. N. V For tho ro't twrniy ,..or, 1 hiiW-, troubled with IClieumuiiani ;,-,i .).. i,,.,., fm-ut dcitl without n-uiizunf unv I n ynrs a-o my Attention V c ;t it .it,, ; " Kilmers MiiiVr-jCir I1WOT, which wusff highly rvconiiDenik"! Fir to mo. I thought would try a bottle and I uscl fourteen Uittk-s. It lias done- ine more col than nil the TiK-tors anil all the other mu'l iciues i have ever tuki-ii ia the iast ......litL- ,., 'l-km r - " . . j '--- - " v. past year has been one of rorm'ort in ilneo of sulleriinr. A irreut manv are uMnir voiir S W A ?i 1' -KOOTin Van Wert. lours rc-siiec-tfuliy. Mits. Cai.vin 1 ak;.ey Feb. 19th, 13. Van Wi-i-t, O.o. At Drn-rglatu 50 fi-nn and Dl.onsin. ' Inlias' Cuitlo to llv<li " f rw I 'c H.-T. ' r fr.-. Dr. Kilmer Co., . llingliariit. n, N. y. Cr. Kilmer's U &. 0 Anointment Cures Pile. Trial Box Free. At Drujgists, EO ceMs. Tlrt Vnt R Deceived vrlth Pate, Enamels and Paint which nTj'ti : Is. Injure thtron and burn r-d. Th1 FMn. Sun Smve P'.i;-.!i is I'-il'lnn. o-;-. It w. Durable, aud t'l" uui.i-r j v tur lo t.c cr pi am package with erery purchaw. u .--V t " ThiaT.ua. S'arlt Is en th; tit WATERPROOF CGAT rr'netrat in the WortJ I . A- J- TOWER. BOSTON. .V.aSS. .B.')ge!ey&,CQ.,l,-:j;""' FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOVVS SOOTHING 3YRUP; FifrT Years. It fi..th the ol.l'ni. s f fcrims, allays all palu. cures w i?:d coiie, ana la ii.e ire&i remedy ior aiarrn-a. Tweut 7-fivo Cents a Hotter. FAN IDEAL. FAMILY MEDIC! liradai he, C'xiattnatluit, i.iij lonpir .ioii, t)DcrtlTf (treat h. 7 ana bjj uoraors oi ue . 1-iTeri.prj Bonfh, . RIPANS TABULFS diareatluD t--Uow their u. lvid ' r l.y druiv'.-.U or Tit hy mull. Br j(TiJ,.V. rackaovbox).. R I PA i lit MIC AT. CO.t w T Best In the World? Get the Genuine! Sold Everywhere! MEND TOUR OWN HARNESS "WITH 1 TI in ftfotiir V v 9 I nil V !!! 1 w w WIS W E ' Z i ;s - I CSiWvV-i SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. too'.j rqn;iTL On luunmar needed to drlt n i e incU th- m tuti'.r and nmca.v, tearing the elu.c i i.an ulrljr amouth. U.-qniilng no'noc to be ma. e in th lea-tier Dor hurr I.t tiie li.veta. Ther are alronir lonelt and durable. Miliiom now in use. a. Irn.-tliH. uniform .r a-.a..r.e.l. put Dp lu Un. Ak jour de-Klrr lor ihrra, or vnd JOc I tumin for a box oi iw, ajrtta uea. il ju ld by JUDS0N L. THOMSON MFG. CO.. H'aLTlIln, MAS. if mny one doubt t w. cajl cure the in il ttn.iM ex-1, in i'l daja, h-t h m ,r r.- reticular an-1 n.re lo Tvtasfam. sarnnp iri!1a. or Hot Sr.riti-i in.;. en Tan a enro uid our W-.o tyiJuln- i- t ti - n thlnT tltat will cure trinfMntle'. P .fit ru,t si.i etUed. frxex LOul Ukmkdt Co., Cluc-iyo, Hi. ph'i'lV" V "Tlif PH-J- .a r n i u ., r. t on,-. r..- ..-r . r i- " ' oui !' ' 1 Mat End brurwiar. l'lMlitri,4 M.iolPM Successfully Prosecutes Claims. ! Hrtucipal Fikmimr V t ftni'.on B :r.i. ytu lst wr. iiMiji.dt(it:ietriu.uiii, Mil) :irf. KinnFP 8 PS9TII I C p.i'ce-ct. ASTrT.:.V V Pid'l. St i ' 11 elll. n M .!. -oa.aia.atls'. and perpi. 1 bo base weal i.eca or Aath- j . aboaid a Mao a Car for t.i Cootaasttra. it a&a rsre4 V 4 .lie. ft has .ot Irjnr- T 1 Ii ia n-.t ba't k. i.a. I 4 l .sat r-iufa trrsi. T.rrtlrs tie. fin.. It ta tua I a m ... IT4 Ycir'sFool." You D.d.Vi U , j SWAHP-RGflT ..-. ----- ! Kfc-. -k. ! FRAZER AXLE mm. ; p CLG3S PG1S0M I H A SPECIALTY. E I Ea. 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