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Bargains In Damask. Nupklnn. Silver Grey Blankets, «oc per Beat Countrv All-Wool Flan
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Linens. Wool Country Blankets, value, 25c per y aril.
15.00, our price $3.50.
Our Domestic Department is as usual full to overflowing, wit everything new,
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lUTTLKR. FA.,T]IURSDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1894.
' O P A N D
HryutS/ 1
' er '" sahl lC
man with the
bulging pocketbook. "Tallantire, you
always know everything, who's going
to win the Derby this year? I want a
fiver badly."
Another man, who was stabbing the
red stuifed seats with an umbrella,
grinned.
"Tallantire's tips! Fatal above the
average, by Jove!"
They were a group of journalists in
a little Fleet street restaurant, and the
newcomer —a young man with strong,
rugged features and gray eyes—re
turned the greeting with a nod. His
clothes were seedy, and he looked de
pressed—with reason, for Mr. Dick
Carroll was a free lance in New Grub
street, and things were very had with
him, indeed.
"Of course, you all know that the
Mayfalr Mirror has sacked Inglcfield?"
continued he of the pocketbook. "Yes,
it's a fact. The rock they split upon
was this American singing woman the
public is making such a fuss about —
Cynthia Charrington. She is eccen
tric it seems —won't be interviewed,
and because nobody else can get an
interview the Mirror wants one—
wants it badly—would give its ears
for one. Well, Inglefield went after it
—and failed. She tlatly refused to re
ceive him. It wasn't his fault, of
course, but the Mirror wouldn't see it.
and intimated that he was a muff.
They had words, and wished each
other good morning. Whereupon it
comes to pass that there is a vacancy
on the staff of the Mayfair Mirror, and
I guess if anybody could do that inter
view. and supply 'the long-felt want,'
he would stand a very good chance of
filling it. Waiter, are you 'raising'
that chop?"
"Coming, sir."
"Rawson of tho Mirror always had
a beast of a temper," growled the man
with the beard, "but, all the same, a
post on his sixpenny rag isn't to be
sneezed at. If I had the enterprise of
my early youth I would run down to
London-super-Mare—she's staying at
the Colosseum till the new production
on Monday —and try my luck. Yah!
you rising generation haven't the nous
to grasp your opportunities when you
get 'em."
T'ie speaker subsided into a corner,
and the discussion of an entre-cote,
and Dick Carroll collected every coin
lie had about him and summed up the
total.
"Seven and tenpence," he reflected.
"Just the price of a third return to
Brighton, and fourpence over to play
with. Shall I go or shall I have dinner?
Shall I lose a chance of obtaining a
jolly good post or dine off buns?"
He weighed the idea and the silver
dubiously, and he decided in favor of
boldness and buns.
"Yes, sir?" queried the waiter with
a cordial grin—Dick was an old cus
tomer.
"I have just recollected an appoint
ment," exclaimed the journalist, gen
ially, for the benefit of his brothers
in-arms; he would rather have died than
confess the state of his exchequer. "I
shall not tax the resources of your
chef .o-day. I wish you good-morn
ing, John."
He went, humming, had a bun and a
glass of milk at the A. B. C. next
door, and walked to London Bridge
station because he could not afford the
'bus fare. When he settled himself in
the corner of a compartment, he had
nothing in his pockets but three ha'-
pence and a postage-stamp a trifle the
worse for wear.
" If," said Dick, "Miss Charrington
is adamantine, I shall —what shall I
do?"
He shivered as he caught a glimpse
of the Thames over the parapet of the
bridge—the muddy water suggested
unpleasant thoughts.
It was just a quarter past two when
he entered the hotel and asked at the
enquiry oflice in the hall for Miss Char
rington.
The singer had a suite of rooms on
the first floor, and a boy in buttons
took his card to hir. Dick knew" that
if he were to mention the word "in
terview" she would probably refuse to
see him; his only chance was to gain
her presence in his private capacity
and trust to Providence and her good
nature for the upshot.
"Say I should be glad of a few min
utes' conversation with her on a mat
ter of business," said Dick, and then
he waited with his heart in his throat
till the "buttons" reappeared with the
information that Miss Charrington
would see him, and forthwith escorted
him up the broad staircase to her pri
vate sitting-room.
Dick was not of a bashful disposi
tion, but the nature of his errand
killed his aplomb. He felt his color
rise as she turned from the open win
dow and advanced towards him hold
ing his card in her hand—a tall, ele
gant woman, with a well-poised head,
a somewhat languid manner, and the
regular, delicate features which her
portraits in the windows of the West
End photographers had made familiar
to him.
"Miss Charrington?" he said.
She bowed and motioned to a chair;
but she did not seat herself, so ho re
mained standing. He saw that she
was looking inquiringly at him, and
that it devolved upon him to make the
plunge. He made it—with misgivings.
"I am afraid," he began, "that 1
misled you somewhat when I request
ed to see you oi< a matter of business.
The truth is that I am a journalist,
and, as the public is always interested
in the lives of its favorites, I hoped
voti would be so kind as to grant mc
a brief interview for publication in the
Mayfair Mirror."
As he spoke the word "journalist" he
saw her brows contract sharply. Now
she flashed an inimitable glance of In
dignation at liiin.
"I wish you good morning, sir," she
said, curtly.
Dick caught his breath, and his head
went up with a jerk.
"If I have annoyed you, I beg your
pardon."
"'lf!' I object to being persecuted
in this way by the press. I won't have
it! The public pays for my profession
al services, but my private life Is my
own and concerns nobody but myself,
and I refuse to have every detail of it
hauled out to satisfy impertinent curi
osity. My opinion on this subject Is
well known, I believe; you showed
that you knew it when you gained my
presence by such an ambiguoun
phrase."
"In that case, of course there is noth
ing for me to do but relieve you of my
presence," said Dick.
They bowed stiffly. He turned away
with a queer look on his face. He was
wondering how long a postage stamp
and three ha'pence would keep a man
from starvation.
She caught the look out of the cor
ner of her eye, ami stayed him,
brusquely, as sho ha<l given liim his
dismissal. A great artist is privileged
to be unconventional.
"You knew I hated being inter
viewed," bhjj T«p9tnisd. "You knew Itl
Why did you come?"
"It was confounded cheek, of course,
but a drowning man catches at straws,"
he said, bluntly. "And—l am hungT.v,
if you want to know!"
"Ah!"
He turned scarlet to the eyes; he
could have bitten his tongue out A
marve'lous change came over the wom
an In. r hauteur vanished, she was ail
subtle feminine sympathy. She held
out her hand to him with a gesture of
infinite graciousness.
"Forgive me! I would not have been
so harsh if I had had any idea —Huu
gry!" Her glorious voice would have
melted an iceberg,
"I'm not hungry!" exclaimed poor,
penniless Dick, gasping with pride.
"Don't you believe it—absurd exag
geration—all rot! I don't know why I
said it."
"I do," she said. "You told me tlio
truth on the spuf of the moment, and
now you're sorry. If you deny it I
shan't believe you, so you can save
3'our breath to cool the lunch you're
going to have with me. I have been
hungry often—in the old days when I
was only little 'Cyntliy' in Lake Gen
eva, Wis., —and I know it's bad. Mr.
Carroll, do yoa intend to make me hold
out my hand all day?"
He choked.
"I'll take you hand, but I'm dashed
if I'll take vour lunch!"
"Yes, you shall," she said. "It's
rude to contradict a lady. We'll have
it all alone here—you and I and Mrs.
Boss, my 'companion;' and I'll tell
you a beautiful story- about myself for
the gratification of the good, inquisi
tive public. In return you shall tell
me what put it into your head to come
to Brighton."
He ate her lunch and drank her
champagne, and before the meal was
over she knew all about him and th<-
bun episode.
"Plucky," she thought, and she ad
mired courage in a man, "witty, proud,
well-bred!"
She looked kindly at him, and
smiled—with a moisture in her eyes.
"I hope you'll succeed with the Mir
ror; I'm sure you will," she said, when
he took leave of her at last. "You
must come and see me at Palace Man
sions and tell me what you have done.
But in case you don't get the post, or
there is any delay—"
Dick broke into a gentle perspira
tion. Was she going to offer to lend
him money?
She read the terror in his eyes, and
refrained. But that evening the post
man delivered at Dick's lodgings an
anonymous envelope containing a five
pound note. He knew that she had
sent it as well as if she had told him
so, and returned it to her promptly,
with a little note of thanks.
She called him names, and made sev
eral vague and bitter allusions during
the following day to false pride and
"DO YOU INTEND TO MAKE MK IIOLI)
OUT MY HAND ALL DAY?"
ridiculous obstinacy. And thought
more about him than she would have
done if she had met him in the ordinary
way and he had been dangling at her
skirts for a score of afternoons.
Dick filled the vacancy on the May
fair Mirror, and a chair in Cynthia
Cliarrington's drawing-room on many-
Sunday afternoons.
"I owe my luck to you," he said to
her on the occasion of his first visit to
her handsome flat. "I shall never for
get your kindness."
One day she went to the piano of her
own accord and sang to him for half
an hour. Previously he had only
heard her in public, and it seemed to
him that her glorious voice had never
Bounded so well as it did now in the
privacy of her home. The man's pulses
throbbed, and his head swam. He
would have liked to throw his arms
around her. When she stopped he
took up his hat.
"What! are you going already?" she
exclaimed, in surprise.
He muttered some excuse about
"work to do," and left Iter with his
brain on fire. He had suddenly real
ized a fact that frightened him.
On his way home he bought a photo
graph of her and hung it up in his
room. He had scarcely done so when
he tore it down again with wrath in
his eyes.
"I'm a fool—au ass! Because a wom
an behaves like an angel to me I for
get that i'm poor devil of a journalist
ami she's Cynthia Charrington."
He made a bonfire of it in the empty
grate, and watched it crackle and curi
in the tongues of flame, with a fierce
delight in his own agony. Then he
went out, on a wet night, and bought
another to take its place. The little
incident was typical of his frame of
mind. «
For a who.e fortnight he never went
'near her, then llcsh and blood could
bear it rn> longer, and lie tramped to
Kensington one Sunday afternoon.
"What have you been doing with
yourself?" she demanded. "I have
missed you."
"It is very good of you to say so," ho
said, gloomily.
While he was there a man he knew
called, and, bv and-by, they left to
gether.
"Do you go there much?" asked liis
companion, aft.-r they had turned the
corner and lighted up.
"Pretty often," replied Dick, puffing
at his cigarette and staring at nothing
particular.
"Hum!" said the man. "I thought
so."
He smiled. Dick scowled.
"What the deuce are you grinning
at?"
"Dicky, you're a hasa! You don't do
serve your luck. That woman's fond
of you, and you're eating your heart
out because you can't see it."
"Rot!" said Dick, gruffly. But ho
caught his breath and his eyes glowed.
"You have the ball at your feet anil
you won't kick it. It doesn't come to
every man to have a Cynthia Charring
ton in love with him."
"I tell you she doesn't care a hang
forme in that way. You mistake what
is merely a platonic interest for —the
other thing. I don't. And I value her
friendship too much to let her think
me cad enough to sell my self-respect
anil sink my identity in 'Miss Cliar
rington's husband' for the sake of the
fleshpots of Egypt You can drop the
subject, Amyot."
"I won't go near her for a month,"
said poor, proud Dick to himself as he
walked home. "I must accustom my
self to doing without her."
A week passed —a week of over
strung nerves, of cold dejection, of
feverish desire. Then he had a shock.
She was ill, she had been ill for sev
eral days, and he r understudy had
taken her place in the opera.
Tliere was something wrong with
her throat, reported the Comet, in the
most flowery and grandiloquent of
journalism- She would never sing
tilT; Fft® Silt
I \, iJi J
\ 3
HE WATCHII) IT BI BS
.-»nort in tne Uloom of her youth, ine
nightingale would be dumb for ever.
Then the Comet, waking sapient,
painted a "realistic' picture of her
probable future. Public performers
were notoriously improvident, and
anyhow, she was too young to have
saved much. In all likelihood she
would sink into insignificant poverty
—drag 1 out her days as a snubbed gov
erness or "companion." That, with
embellishments, was the gist of the
paragraph.
Dick's face went white. He called
a hansom and drove to Palace Man
sions.
She received him in her boudoir and
a tea-gown, and hin over-anxious eyes
magnified a slight pallor and ad
ditional languor into heaven knows
what.
"Is it true that your throat's bad?"
he asked her. "I've just read it in
The Comet."
"Quite true," she said.
He gulped.
"Cynthia, you're a woman all alone.
If you would let me take care of
you I wouldn't have asked
before, but now that your pros
pects have changed so disastrous
ly Hang it! what shall I
say to you? I hardly know. When a
fellow's poor, and no better than
other fellows, he hasn't much to offer
to a woman. It just amounts to this,
dear: I'm earning a deceut salarj
thanks to you—and I could make
things smooth for you. Cynthia, could
you, would you—?"
She held out licr hands to him with a
charming gesture of surrender. "If
you want me, Dick—!"
"My darling, you are so good to
me."
"But I think you are laboring
under a little mistake." she said,
demurely. "There is nothing seriously
wrong with my voice. I've only had a
bad cold."
"Then the Comet's information was
incorrect?" he gasped.
"Quite so."
"And —and yon do not need me at
all?"
"I need you very much," she said;
"that's why I worked that paragraph.
You see I knew, if I didn't do some
thing, that your horrid pride would
spoil our lives. Don't 1»" mad with me.
Dick, or I shall cry."
But she blushed instead for a
reason. —I'lack and White.
BISMARCKS HUMOR.
He IteftiKetl a f'urrfon. Hut raid the
Amount of tl»« Fine.
The following as an illustration of
Prinee Bismarck's good humor: After
he had accepted the ministry of com
merce the prince was struck by the in
significance of many matters he had to
decide. If. for instance, anybody had
been caught illicitly hawking goods
and had been sentenced to a fine, but
had to be pardoned on the score of
poverty, it was necessary, for the re
mission of the fine, to obtain the con
sent of two ministers—the minister of
finance and the minister of commerce.
Bismarck had taken special note of
' a ease of this kind. A peddler had
| been sentenced to a fine of twenty
| marks (about a sovereign), and the un
j der secretary of state reported to the
' new minister of commerce that he
was a poor devil, who had to maintain
a wife and child, and would sink into
i still deeper misery if the tine were
converted into imprisonment. He
therefore begged Bismarck to sign an
immediate report, advising the king to
pardon the peddler. The prince cm-
I phatically refused to do so, for, said
he, if the king had to be advised to
use his rightof pardon in all such cases,
justice would become a dead letter.
! The peddler has simply not to pay the
fine, and must escape imprisonment in
■ order to save himself and family from
1 absolute ruin. The under secretary of
state then referred to the traditional
practice, and appealed to the heart of
his chief, who answered:
j "All right. I'll give the poor devil
j the twenty marks out of my own poek
j et, but shall not have my signature for
the thing."—Deutsche Itevu \
Mr. Ciitfcy nix! Ills Ground*.
Perhaps the best specimen of wit
; that has enlivened a Hamilton county
i court in many a day was that emitted
like a flash from John Coffey, the at
torney, who had been guilty of a good
many things that had disturbed the
serenity of bench and bar. Mr. Coffey
was counsel in a case which hud already
been postponed some two or three
times at his request. It was before
Judge Ontcalt. Again Mr. Coffey asked
for postponement. The court remind
| ed him that it had already been post
poned several times at his request.
"Have you good grounds for wishing
another postponement?" asked the
cours.
"Yes, sir; I have," replied Coffey.
"What are they?" asked the court.
"Coffey grounds, your honor."
"Coffee grounds?" repeated the judge.
"Yes sir," said John.
Then the judge got 011 his dignity,
and reminded the lawyer that he was
trffling with the court.
"Your honor," said Mr. Coffey, "there
was a small addition to my family last
night, und I submit, your honor, that
this is good grounds for asking for a
postponement."
Did John get it? Well, rather.—Cin
cinnati Times-Star.
It Wasu't IIIH lt»>iir.
The king was sore distraught. There
was auger in his royal heart.
"What, ho," he roared. "Why failed
the keen edge of my battle ax in to
day's conflict?"
The kuight of the kitchen table
bowed him low.
"Your majesty," he rejoined, "it is
reported that her highness princess
royal complained much of her corns
upon yestcrc'en, and doc« not to-day."
The monarch swallowed his rcsent
j ment, contenting himself with once
more placing himself upon record aa
J touching the subject of the intcrfer
• nce of women in affairs of state.—De
troit Tribune.
A I>h.mlvuntMgr.
Teacher —Now do you see the differ
ence between animal instinct and liu
! man reason?
Bright Boy—Yes'in. If we had iu
j fctinct we'd know everything we needed
| to without learning it; but we've got
j reason, and have to study ourselves
j mos' blind or be a fool. —Good News.
III m<I an Karurat K*ur|M>«<*.
"Do you believe in the novel with a
purpose?" sail I Squildig to an author
; friend.
"Certainly," the latter replied. "All!
I the novels I ever wrote have the same
1 purpose."
"What is it?"
"To improve my bank account."--An-
J swers.
THE MODERN DRAMA.
It In a I>rc#»-t"<»»t Affair and Larks lh«
iiorlncft* of Yore.
The other night a man went to the
theater who had not been for years,
and he couldn't make it out. says Pear
son's Weekly. First of ail ho misst-d
the simple village youth, the virtuous
hero r li'• was v/ont to take the first
prize at the horticultural society, or
else win the guerdon at quoits, or some
thing or other in the rustic revels. But
worst of all he missed the dear old
fashioned villain, and although this
play had a tremendous villain in it our
friend was not impressed with him a
bit. He sighs thus:
"I came away again, sadly disap
pointed. The play was not what I ex
pected. I shall go no more to the play
house. The palmy days of the drama
arc over. The theater has fallen into
the sear and yellow fifth act. and there
is no health in it! The theater has fol
lowed the path of literature and the
good old things are changed. I beheld
a lot of swell people in evening dress
on the stage. They spoke quietly to
one another, very much as people do off
the stage, and in very much the same
sort of language. This is not what I
want when I go to the theater.
"What is the theatrical villain of to
day? Is he a real, good, old-fashioned
rufllao? Does he ever drag a helpless
maiden from the domiciliary roof of
her ancestors by the hair? No. sir.
Does he ever say to the hero: 'Say one
word aud thou art food for the wolves'."
Does he ever grab the heroine by the
wrist, drag her down the stage in
three strides, slam her down in a big
chair, bend over her and whisper
fiendishly: "S death, maiden, but, by
my soul, I love thee! Thou shalt be
mine! Yield or by heaven I'll —'
"That's all I know of that speech,
because 'By heaven I'll" is the cue for
the maiden to spring up, and, throw
ing the villain half way across the
stage, to say: 'Unhand me, ruffian!
And know, that rather than mate with
such as thou, I'd cast myself from
yonder battlement into the foaming
flood beneath!'
"And does the villian then say: 'Sow,
by heavens, I like thy spirit! I love
thee all the more for it?'
"And does the muiden say: 'Merciful
powers, protect me?'
"And does the door open and the
hero rush in, armed with a (food, blunt
broadsword? And then do he and the
villain fence up and down the stage,
sixes, eights, shoulder blows, cut ana
thrust? Oh, no. These things have
given way to swallow-tailed coats and
high collars, and the villain is now as
big a swell as any fellow in the show.
Oh, for the good old palmy days of the
drama, when the broadsword ruled
and there was gore! The modern
drama is too much like ice cream after
a heavy dinner—cold and unsatisfy
ing"
SERVANTS ON INSTALMENTS.
It Tikti Sl* In Guatemala to Do the Work
of One Girl Here.
The American woman, when she
grumbles at the generality of servants,
doesn't know when she is well off. If
she could spend a year at housekeeping
in Guatemala she would come back to
the United States and pass the rest of
her life in peace and contentment, says
the New York Journal.
In Guatemala the servants are either
Indians or half-breeds. They will live
on black beans and tortillas, and as to
wages, they are content for a month
with what a servant girl receives here.
But no American housekeeper would
feel inclined to charge a servant board.
You hire a Guatemala woman, for in
stance, as a cook. Then you must hire
a man to keep the fire poinff. If he is
away, the cook will let her fire go out
sooner than debase her dignity by put
ting on more fuel. A third servant
must be furnished to put the crude
articles of food into shape for handling
by the cook. A fourth is needed to do
all the carrying. Still another must
do the dish washing.
Altogether, a half-dozen servants are
needed to get an ordinary breakfast for
three or four persons. A bright, in
telligent, sturdy servant in this coun
try would accomplish the same feat all
by herself in an hour or less. It is
comparatively inexpensive to maintain
a household of twelvo or fifteen ser
vants in Guatemala, but they arc a ter
rible trial to an American woman.
Youngest Sou* Favored.
"If one looks about him almost any
where in Maine," says an observing res
ident of that state, "he will find that
in the matter of desceut of property wo
have unconsciously put in force or have
effected Just the opposite of the Eng
lish rule of primogeniture. Whero
there are a number of children in a
family it is almost always the young
est son that stays with the old folks
and inherits the homestead. Where I
live I can point out dozens of such in
stances in the families I know, and I
cannot now recall a single instance
where any other than the youngest was
preferred. Of course this results from
the disposition of the older boys to seek
their fortunes away from the parental
roof tree as soon as they are old
enough, while the younger, with the
others gone, finds room enough for his
activities at home, and stays there. As
distinguished from the old world
method this may be called ultimogeni
ture."
Origin of Visiting Curds.
Wo owe the invention of visiting
cards to the Chinese. So long ago aa
the period of the Toug dynasty (818-
907) visiting cards were known to be in
Common use In China, and that is also
the date of tho Introduction of the
"red silken cords" which figure si
conspicuously on the engagement cards
of that country.
Cat'*«7«(. Ancient and Modern.
' The cat'seyo stone, now prized as an
ornament, is a very different thing iron}
the ancient cat's eye, or eye&tone oi
India, an agate cut so as to show the
•o-callcd eye or eyes. It is supposed bi>
some that this latter was used as mod'
ey in many parts of India four centu
ries ago. and specimens found to-day
have an interest of numismatists
A Strange Case.
"J baw a very curious thing to-day."
"What was it?"
"A woman driving a nail with q
hammer instead at with tho back of
her best hair brush." —N. Y. Tress.
A Familiar Quotation,
tttaylate—l must go; It Is getting
lat«,
Ethel Knox —Well, better late than
never.—N. Y. World.
Kitnk Favoritism.
"O, no! there's no favorite hi viij
family," said Jenny to her bosofo
friend, Norah. "O, no! if I bile mj*
finder nails I catch it over the lcnuckJ
les; but the baby can cat his whole
foot, and they think it clever!" —For-
, get-Me-Not.
IIU Field.
Symiit—l see that they have
a boarding bouse keepers' trust in Phil
adelphia.
Smyles—Tbut's what I've been look
ing for. You can't #et trusted hery
I nowadays. —Brooklyn Life.
A Point of Similarity.
llicks —Your milk is like what we
have on the coast of England.
Milkman —How is that?
Hicks — cliailt deposits. —N. Y.
World.
Auk ThHr Wlvrs.
llrralhei th«*ro a wan with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath haul.
As homo his footsteps ho has turned: (
"1 clean forgot that, I'll be domed."
bitr.
TH£ NEWFOUNDLAND DOO.
lie In the Not-l«»*t KpiriAn of th* Whole
Canine Kmoe.
The Newfoundland dog takes hi*
muiie from the island whore he Is sup
posed to have originated. Mnny, how
ever. ltelievo that tho Norsemen, who
discovered America in tlie }ear 1000, in
troduced this dog in Newfoundland
He is by some classified among the
wolf-dogs, while others, on account of
his large pendulous ears, say that he
should not lielong to this family, but
that he and the St. ISernards should
occupy a place by themselves.
The Newfoundland, says Harper's
Young People, since his introduction
in Epgland, has improved in appear
ance. and is now larger and heavier.
In New-foundland and Labrador these
dogs are used as beasts of burden,
drawing considerable loads of wood
and provisions on sledges. Their feet
are partially webbed, and thereforo
they are most excellent water dogs.
The scent is not strong, and as the dog
is slow and clumsy, he is not valuable
to the hunter, except as a retriever
when speed is not required.
In the island of Newfoundland this
dog is almost totally black, but the
English varieties are usually black and
white. As u watch-dog the Newfound
land is only second to the mastiff. He
is amiable to children and small dogs.
Kept in confinement he often gets cross
and 111-tempered, and flies at those for
whom he has previously shown the
greatest regard.
Where a dog cannot be allowed to
run, and must be chained up. the New
foundland should not be kept. This
dog is a great life-saver, and by in
stinct will jump into the water to save
even an enemy from drowning.
THE VAMPIRE BAT.
A I)md Creature That Is Common in
India.
I have always despised bats, said a
Cleveland man recently, end it always
Bends a shudder over me whenever one
of the hideous creatures approaches
me. The bats of this country, how-
Jiver, are not to be dreaded in compar
son to those of the vampire species
which abound In India. Just imagine
p big mouse with a horn on his head
like a rhinocerous, furnish him wlCh a
pair of demon-like wings, and you have
R very good picture of this latter kind.
The natives oread the vampire bat on
Recount of his blood-sucking propensi
ty. In the sultry nights he fans the
heated sleeper with his wings while
his needle-like teeth are being in
serted into the veins of his victim,
quenching his thirst for blood with
fench gentleness that it is only by some
fortunate chance that he is discovered
before the mischief is done. It is a
■well-authenticated fact that If an indi
vidual is once bled by a vampire hi is
Invariably chosen, in preference to all
others equally exposed for a subseqent
attack, and even if he were to move
ten or twenty miles away, no im
munity is gained thereby, as the bat is
sure to follow him and keep up his
blood-thirsty attack until his victim
succumbs or the animal is discovered
and killed. Cattle and horses, from
being more exposed, are more frequent
ly chosen as the subjects of attack Dy
these loathsome creatures.
UNAPPRECIATED BANANAS.
Some Superstition* About Haddock* and
Fern Bbot*.
The banana possesses wonderful sus
taining properties, ana yet years ago,
In the wtinA countries where it flour
ishes. the banana was thought of so
lightly that It was allowed tA waste if
not eaten by the cattle.
The plant Itself was valued simply as
a shade for coffee trees, feetwwh rows
of which It was planted.
Somebody once told me> bays a writer
in the Gentlewoman, that tne Span
iards used to regard the banana as a
forbidden fruit, because they detected
in its heart the transverse section of
the cross.
I remember, too, how one of my early
governesses used to delight tne by
showing me tne cross and tne apostles
in the center of the passion flower; and
the other day a friend told me of some
curious symbolical marks to be found
at the hack of the neck of the haddock,
Indentations similar to those that
might be caused by the Anger and
thumb, the supposition l>elng that the
haddock was one of the fishes picked
! out of the net on the occasion of the
miraculous draft of fishes.
—
CHAMPIONS IN THEIR LINE.
Ab»ent-Mlnde<l People Who Were Simply
Wonder*.
They are telling a story of a Dutch
man who presented hlmtelf at tne reg
ister's office recently to obtain a license
for his approaching ma rriage, and who,
on being asked the name 6f the bride,
was compelled to confess that it haa
quite escaped him, and he had to re
turn home for the necessary Informa
tion. It's a pretty good story of ab
sence of inipd, but there are others on
record that are even better. There
have been cases where persons have
even forgotten their own names.
Lesslng, the historian, was feubject
to the most wonderful flts of abstrac
tion. One night, returning home late,
he rang the front door bell, and when
a servant called out from an tipper win
dow that the professor was not at
home, he said: "All right, I'll come
again," jjnd walked away.
There was an English clergyman,
Itev. George Harvest, who wasengaged
to a daughter of the bishop of London,
but on the day of his wedding went
fishing, and forgetful of the appointed
hour did not appear at the nuptials.
The lady broke off the match.
Miklnf Rain In India.
A rainmaker in India has an appar
atas consisting of a rocket capable of
rising to the height of a mile, cpntain
lng a reservoir of ether; in Its descent
it opens a parachute, which causes it
to come down slowly. The ether is
thrown out in line spray, and its ab
sorption o/ heat is said to lower the
temperature about it sufficiently to
condense the rapar and produce a lim
ited shower.
Devotion
"Darliug," he murmured, "I would
be ready to die for you."
She raised her eyes and smiled.
-Then—"
It was obvious that she was deeply
affected—"you, too, have noticed that
black becomes me."
The evidence of unselfish affection on
his part quite overcame her.—Detroit
Tribune.
A Waate of Tlm«.
"Parson Dodd," said a parishioner,
with consternation in his voice,
"there « an infidel tfoin' to speak in the
town hall to-night. religion,
and he says there Isn't any God."
"Well," replied the paraon, with a
placid twinkle in his eye, "I guess Go<J
caa stand It."—Detroit Advertiser.
Thrift.
Hans (proprietor of the hajf-way
house) —How many l>eds empty
stairs, Katrina?
Katrina—Four, Hans.
Hans—Veil, empty some tacks quick
on the street out. I dinks inq I sec
five picyclo riders comin' dl# way all
rctty, on dem wheels vat dey blow#
wit air up.—Judge.
Where Wrltln*
tsho—Blxby appears to be u
bright young man. I hear he acquire*
enough money by writing to pky tot
his education at college.
He—Yes; writing home to his pa«
rents.—Arl^nsaw
ISTo 4rO
A TERRIBLE HAWK.
Aa Enemy That Strikes Terror to Feath'
•red Demtbrn* of the Bmh.
The author of "The Naturalist in La
Plata" gives an impressivo description
of the terror produced by tho appear
ance of a rather small hawk, of a spe
cies unknown to him, although he has
seen it a hundred times, it is a marsh
hawk. That is to say it seeks its prey
iu marshes.
I have frequently seen all the inhabi
tants of a marsh struck with panic, act
ing as if demented and suddenly grown
careless to all other dangers. On such
occasions I have looked up, confident of
seeing this particular hawk suspended
above them in the sky.
All birds that happen to be on the
wing drop into the reeds or water as if
shot. Ducks away from the shore
stretch out their necks horizontally
and drag their bodies, as if wounded,
into closer cover. Not one bird is found
bold enough to rise and wheel about
the marauder—a usual proceeding in
the case of other hawks; while at every
sudden stoop of the falcon a low cry of
terror rises from the birds underneath
—a sound expressive of an emotion so:
contagious that it quickly runs like a'
murmur all over the marsh, as if a
gust of wind had swept moaning
through the rushes.
As long as the falcon hangs overhead,
always at a height of about forty v&rds,
threatening at intervals to dash down,
this murmuring sound, made up of
many hundreds of individual cries, is
heard swelling and dying away, ana
occasionally, when he drops lower than
usual, it rises to a sharp scream of ter
ror.
Sometimes, when I have been riding
over marshy ground, one of these
hawks has placed himself directly over
my head, within fifteen or twenty
yards. It has perhaps acquired thS
habit of following horsemen in this
way, in order to strike at any birds
driven up.
Once my horse almost trod on a
couple of snipe squatting, terrified, ii"
the short grass. The instant they rose
the hawk struck at one of them, the
end of his wing smiting my cheek vio
lently ns he stooped. The snipe escaped
by diving under the bridle, and im
mediately dropped on the other side of
me; and the hawk, rising, flew away.
STORY OF A CAT.
Carried So Much Electricity That > Cw
Is §et on Fire.
The efticacy of a black cat as a light
ning rod has been too frequently the
subject of discussion and assertion to
be treated at length at the present
time, the drift of which is to show the
apt muuner in which an illustration of
this popular belief can be deduced
from an Incident that occurred on the
evening of the Fourth of July to the
wife of a well-known business man of
Washington.
On the evening in question the
matron had been expending ooriside£
tble time and attention upon a hand
some black cat, which she continued to
stroke, notwithstanding the assertion
of her family that by so doing she wad
charging herself with electricity.
Finally ufter dark the young matrOli
decided that a pleasant way of wlna«
Ing up the evening would be to go for
a ride on the electric car to Betpesda.
Accordingly, inviting two Of her
friends to accompany her, she set out
for the ride In high spirits.
The trio found places together near
the middle of the car, and had gone k
short distance beyond the powef house
when their conversation was inter
rupted by the conductor hurriedly
bending over them as though to avert
some catastrophe beneath and telling
them to leave the ear with all speed}
as It was on fire. Scarcely tad they
left their seats before a sheet of flame
burst through the floor just beneath
the very spot over which the young
matron had been sitting, the electrical
apparatus beneath having ignited at
that very point.
ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES.
The Queer Effect of Photographing Cpon
Rome Siberians.
"I have witnessed tt good many
amusing incidents iq the course of mv
career," said a New York photographer,
the other day, "but 1 thluk the ond
that struck me as the most ludiorouij
occurred while I was in Siberia a fevfr
years ago. I had my camera with me.
and spent considerable time in taking
pictures of the people and surrounding
country. I had engaged the servlcM
of two native servants, and one day*
having nothing better to do, 1 induced
one of them to sit for his photograph.
The fellow had never seen a mii Tor In
his life, and I dare toy had no ooncetH
tlon of the degree of ugliness
upon his countenance. At any rate h$
manifested no delight at seeing hui
picture, though his companion ap
peared very much elated, and could
Hot rest until I had taken bis picture
pl&o. When tl» latter saw his picture)
he njso seemed depressed. Thd
portraits appeared to have brought Id
the minds of both strango revelations,
and they retired to their tent in a
thoughtful mood, each trying to
smooth down the bushy locks which
crowned their heads. Presently one of
them came to mo and borrowed a pair
of scissors, and shortly after they re
turned with scarcely a vestige of hatj
remaining on their heads and Implored
Die to take their pictures agalp.
fruit of the camera was to them like
the fruit of the tree of knowledge."
Wbat n« Wanted.
At the hospital the other morning,
says Life, one of the patients was lust
recovering from an attack of delirium
tremens, and, as is usual in such cases,
desired to dress and go home more thaf)
anything else. It happened that one
of the young ladies connected with the
flower mission saw him, and, approach
ing, said: "I have some beautiful rosea
here. Wouldn't you like some?" N$
response. Again she said: "Wouldn't
vcni like to have some oi these rosea?"
Slowly his head turned, and, slightly
opening his bleary eyes, he said, much
to the embarrassment of the young
Woman; "I'd a blamed sight rathei
h?yp m.Y pantav" .
Lore'l Silent Il»trrch*nf ••
Friend—How did the count propose
to yon, and you aocept, If he could not
understand your language nor you his?
American Heiress-It was very
pimple. lie ahowea me his family
trc«j and I showed him mv banKbook.-*
5. Y. Wee My.
"rolled Again.
"Whore mo you going, my pretty maldf"
"pigging for clams, kind sir," she said.
"Coo I go with you, mf pretty maid!"
"But you're already dug," she Said.
- -Pnck.
A Happy Death.
A negro living on Onion creek cam*
to Austin recently, und the following
conversation occurred between him ana
a city friend:
"How is Pete Jackson',""
"He la done dead."
"Yer don't tolo mo so. How did hit
eomc about?"
"Ho died wid digestion ob de lungs,
but surroundod wid do bes' wishes ob
de huU neighborhood." —Alex. Sweet,
in Texas Siftings.
At the Hoard lug Mouse.
"Pass me th* Sandow," remarked
the boarder on the for side of the ta
ble to the boarder on the near side-
Tbo landlady glanced up sharply,
uad the boarder on tho near side never
let on. Then tho landlady's attention
was called to something else, and the
boarder on tho near side parsed the
butter to the boarder on the far side.—
DctroitlfHgJQEHk. ~