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A LOST WORLb.
I used to live In a world.
A lon*, lon* ways from here.
Where the skies were blue and our hearts
wtre true.
And th» days were filled with cheer.
There song and shlae gave me and mine
A marvelous round of joys.
For the moments brought their gifts un
bought
In that world that wiia made for boys.
The long, long days were golden days.
And our hearts beat warm and high.
For eye and ear could see and hear
The charm of earth and sky.
We loltertd long by the brook's sweet song.
Ar.d we drank at the springs of Truth
In that land of Joys that was made for
hoys—
The wonderful realms of youth.
I long to dwell In that world once more.
Where the happiest blessings fall;
But I lost It when, for the world of men.
J traded it. once for all.
I long to stray through a grass-grown way
To the boundless fields of Joy,
And give my gold and a world grown cold
I For the heart of a careless boy.
—Nixon Waterman. In L.. A. W. Bulletin.
j THE STORY OF
v A STAMPEDE, j!
BY J. B. CRANPILL
COWBOY life 20 years ago In Texas
was very different from what it is
to-day. Then the big ranches were
unknown and the cattle were raised in
the open prairies, and the "maverick"
had not become extinct. It was in
the years just preceding the Incident
here related that I saw service as a cow
• boy and was thoroughly familiar with
; life on the trails. Of the incident itself
• I was not an eye-witness, but it was
told to me by my friend, Mr. M. B.
. Davis, an old Texas ranger and cow
' boy, who is to the early life of Texas
( what Joaquin Miller is to California.
I give the story as nearly as I can re
member it just as it came from his
lips. It chronicles one of the most
desperate stampedes ever witnessed by
a Texas cowboy.
In 1870 the Wilson brothers, of Kan-
Isas City, having purchased over 15,000
head of cattle In Hamilton, Comanche,
Coryell and Hell counties, and having
arranged to centralize the herd near
Comanche Springs, In McLennan coun
ty, drove to the Bennett hills and went
! into camp to await the carrying out of
i their orders. Theae cattle were driven
; across the Leon at various suitable
, forda and converged on that beautiful
' prairie, in the center of which now
I stands the town of McGregor. On the
Fourth of July of that year the en
tire herd was under way, headed for
| Tuwash on the Brazos river. It was
a magnificent army of steers, in *i
t perb condition, kept together by a
j corpa of 25 cowboy*, mounted on bron
| chos —men experienced in the business.
I The herd was not pressed, the object
\ being to let the.m graze on the rich
i herbage, with a view to keeping them
lin good condition and reaching the
i market In time to catch the best price*
! In the fall of the year. At four o'clock
! In the afternoon there were signs of
|an electric storm. A black cloud
| showed above the. foothills, and fhe
j aun shining against It painted a raln
| bow which appeared to touch the earth
!at both ends. The entire herd became
' nervous and showed their fear by those
i low bellowings, ominous to the experi
] enced cattleman as the muttering thun
j der. The cowboys were experienced
men, and they kept the moving mas*
well In hand, so that when the sun set.
all was well, ami the cattle were bedded
on the plains near the South Bosque,
and night settled in with the promise
[ of a safe crossing at the Hrazos the
| next day. A detail of four cowboys
was made for the first watch, and these
mounted sentinels took their places
and rode silently around the sleeping
squadron of long-horns. The first
watch ended at nine o'clock, and the
second watch went on duty. It was
during the second watch that the
memorable Wilson stampede occurred.
At ten o'clock the cattle appeared to
be sleeping profouudly. The cowboys
say that cattle dre.im arid see ghosts;
it Is certain that this drove of 15,000
wss nervous, made so, perhaps, by the
thunderstorm of the previous afternoon
■ and the rslrilsow which they had eyed
i with suspicion. It is likely that a great
many cattle In thot vast accumulation
had never seen such a rainbow, ft was
| distinct throughout the sr< J» and very
I broad, the llgbtnlny, too, was very
vivid, and the -thunderclaps that fol
lowed were like sharp artillery. The
cowboys Insisted long afterward thst
| it w»s the thunderstorm and the raln
-1 bow of the afternoon that caused the
I stampede that night. Be that as It
I may, M was a stampede that the cattle
i men who witnessed It have never for-
I gotten, and are atlll telling' of to pos
terity.
The stars were all shining, und there
was no cause at all for the arousing of
the herd. They appeared to get Up all
st once, with a single purpose, and the
roar that won heard seemed to come
from a single throat. The Wilson
brothers, and their cowboys who were
sleeping In tl»elr camp rushed to their
ponies who w<-re grazing with the sad
dles and bridles on, and ax fast its the
bits co till I be replaced In their mouths
they m<nirited and galloped to the
Ranks of the now disappearing mass,
headed In the direction of the Brazos
river.
The cowboys on guard took the usual
course In such cases; they kept outof
the way of the charging mass, and gal
loped on the flanks, moving toward
the head of the column, hoping to
"point them off," as they call It, and
start them moving In a circle. The
boys who formed the guard, In gal
loping along the front of the stam
pede, saw the eyes of the terrified
beeves emitting tire and their tongues
protruding They uttered those low
notes of terror so familiar on the
pJalns, snd galloped madly along, suf
fering from a panic for which no real
cause existed on earth.
"What's the matter with the cattle'/'
asked a tenderfoot, a* he. galloped be
side an old cowboy.
"They've seen the devil, I expe»;t % "
the cowboy replied; "and we will ca.W£
It l»efore we get through with )lkb
thing."
Aa the herd rushed on their fj»rri»
rattled together, and all the horns of
16,000 head of cattle rattling together
sounded like an Immense concert of
castanets.
Cattle are not able to sustain a long
run, and this the cowboys know. Kor
Instance, a mad speed of live miles is
enough to break down almost any
steer; and the «sttlsnien knew how the
country lay beyond them, and In this
respect they had an sdtantage
The reenforceniSnt of the eowlwrys
who were off duty, and who had hastily
mounted and Joined those on watch at
the time, gave them a strong advan
tage in the efforts l>elng marie to stop
the stampede The plan was to get
the cattle to "milling," or running in
a circle. The elder of the Wilson broth
ers hud been a cow boy from childhood.
He was riding a cream < o|nt«wl skai
' ' I
lion, and as he passed me he hud his ;
Colt's revolver in his hand. One of the
cowboys on a gray horse was able to
keep up with him. Tbete tv.o distanced
all the others. They rode across the
front of the stampede, which is a feat •
attended with terrific danger; for when ■
a rider Is In front of the rushing drove
of mad cattle, if his horse .should stum
ble and fall, he may be put down a.s a
thinjf of the past. The herd will "wipe
him out." This Mr. Wilson knew-, ami
•the cowboy riding close to his crupper
also knew; but they were going to
take all the dangers and get that herd
running in a circle if it were possible to
do so.
Some cattle can outrun others, and
in this case there was a bunch of about
30 fully 20 yards In advance, and toward
this leading group the two rescuers
rode. Of the leading group, also, some
were faster than others, and this group
ran in a dintnond shape, with two im
mense steers leading all. When Mr.
Wilson and his companion reached the
two leading steers they began shoot
ing their revolvers close to them, and
in that way the bunch was made to
oblique, and as the leading bunch of
cattle obliqued the main stampede ob
liqued, and the first step in "milling'"
had been taken. By this time the cat
tle were getting tired. Nearly five
miles had been covered, and the breath
of the leader* was coming short and
painfully; but they were rushing on,
because the front cattle at this time
knew as a matter of fact their only
safety was in keeping up the run.
Those behind were coming, and they
were in the majority, and the loaders
were compelled to run. There was reui
danger for the forward members of the
stampede.
In the tnv<«i<;e of articles contained
In the regulation "outfit," there ii< al
ways some kind of stimulants; and
but for the stimulants oontained in Mr
Wilson'* outfit, it is possible that tlit
stampede would have been halted with
out disaster. He had a Mexican along,
one of the best cowboys in the south
west. This Mexican and his horse al
ways reminded those who saw him ride
of the fabled centaur. He rode far for
ward and bent over, so that he and his
'horse appeared to be one animal. Nc
horse, however, rujjged, "wild and wool
ly," had ever Ijeen able to unseat him
This Aztec had been to the little brandy
runlet too often, and had filled and
emptied his tin cup with surreptitious
intoxicants, so that his usual excelh lit
judgment went awry. When he suc
ceeded in getting mounted, after having
fumbled with his bridle a good deal
he wan far in Che rear the stnmpedt
had gone past him, so that when he
overtook the rear end, he passed to the
front on the other side, and rode on
the wrong flunk. When he reached the
head of tihe herd he was just In time t<
defeat the maneuver then under ewecti-,
tion of bending- the moving mass fron:
a straight line to a Kcmieircle. Ke
volver in hand, disregarding the othei
men, he began shooting in the faces ol
the wild steers; and the effect of thi>
was to straighten the run and bring th«
advance straight toward a precipice.
This precipice wan a wash in the prairie,
forming a deep raviue fully .10 yard*
wide; and In a shorter time than it
tak"* to tell of this contretemps thf
head of the column was pouring over, n
horrible cascade of beef, plunging
madly Into destruction while fleeing
from on Imaginary danger. When Mr
Wilson anil his lieutenants saw that il
wax Impossible to save their cattle they
aaved thnmselves by dexterously turn
ing at light aritfle* at full speed and
ridJng out of the way. They next re
turne<l to the flank and held a council
of war. A few seconds decided them,
and ail bands commenced shooting intc
the herd, the object now being to build
a breast-work of can-asses and save the
rear end from the destruction that had
overtaken the front. The gulley wai
nearly full of cattle by this time. They
were snorting and bellowing, crashing
and tearing, and still heaping up; and
when the firing began the wounded
onis tumbled over on the others, and In
a short time tb« gulley. like the sunken
roa«l ut Waterloo, -was Bridged by car
cusses. The herd surged up in billows
like an ocean, and bent now, because it
could not do otherwise. The semi
circle was formed, and Wilson and hi>
men crossed the giilley below and rode
around the o^xjidte»Jde. and re<-ro».sed;
and In a short time they had the cattlf
baited, forming an Incomplete letter O,
and there they stood, blowing, bellow
ing, shivering. All hands remained on
watch all and in the morning
when a count was ma/te it was ascer
tained that 2,7W head were inlsaing
There were afterward pairs of
ln*rn« taken from -that gulley. It was
called Htampe<ta (Julley fur many year*
afterward, and perhop* will always,
with «w>ine people. ,l»«. remembered by
that name. V V fndeiiertilert
A. (ißMtlss of < slslne.
When at barnstorming a/:tors
The ribald audience pegs
Ht»ls eggs, ssy, am they serving
A lot of hams with eggs?
—Judgs.
Her Oflslos.
"One of the greatest evil* In life,"
•aid the elderly woman, "is procrasti
nation."
"I .think so, -too," replied tho young
married woman. "I dbu'tsee the sense
of putting off your golden wedding an
niversary till you are 00 or 70 years old."
-—Washington Htsr.
A Rslssil.
The-Editor—ii regret t.lmtyour manu
script, though good, is r»ot available at
the pr*sent time.
Hcribbler—sAh, then may I presume to
hope tihat your esteemed periodical will
aomn day Improve to audi a degree as
to be worthy of my eowtrlbutloms?—
Yslloss Hank
Uksi the B*r Too Moafc.
A boy who haul been up for an
exariiUnatlou Lu Horiptnre Jiod ut
terly failed, and the relutlon* be
tween him and the exam!nAr lirwl
liteonw sornewllat strainer!. The
lather naked him If thero were any
terl. la the whole lllble ho could t|*M»tc.
He )>'*nlered and repeated: "And
Jqitus went out n*>d lnuignl himself.'
"Is there any otlserverseyou kmivr lu
rise Wide?" theexngnbicr iiafced.
"Yes. 'do thou *nd do llkeswlae.' "
There was n solemn pause uiad t he pro-
Ves-dlngs terminated*- ' atholW: Stand
ard niul Times
Ample rroeoistliis.
"I uiwlcrstaml you pounded the mart
Irt the next flat?"
"Pound hiirrf I should think
I did. I nearly killed l»w scoundrel."
"What waa the tronWr?"
"Me Insulted me urtHially Inwultcd
me with deliberation and malice wfore
thought; and It was tios trifling Insult,
either."
"What did he aay*7"
"He imked me If I wsis-the man wlmi
played the cornet every night."
"Why rlkdn't you kill Jllin?' 1 - Chicago
I'oat.
Her Krai an.
I klaassd her on the j.e a'hy cheskl
, Ht»e frownsd. «■ I <-o. il'l see;
I "Oh. maiden." ssi<l I. ' V" >'««>. sp«-sk
And ssy you pardon roeI'* 1 '*
Hhs turned her protly fsce assy
Arid bit her flii*»r ll| m.
I Arid then 2 h*-«rd tiT r*«~tly nsy;
"Whst's the matter ■ l'*s my llpsT"
News.
| KICKING IN SINNEMAHONE. f S
: s |;
• KOTHIHG UH TEAT FEVER EITHEB •
• BEFORE OR SWCE. • i
• « '
' ' T WONDER if any of you on thisiside ,
I the mountain remember the |
strange ailment' that visited us folks on j
the other side when I was a young !
man?" said the man from over Sinne- |
luahoning way. "A strange ailment it j
was indeed. Sort of nil uncontrollable j
i>erangement of the muscular tissues |
of the leg, the doctors called it, but it
was known as the kicking fever of the j
Sinnemahone. I wonder if any of you
remember it?"
"Xaturly, it ain't likely that any
body does," said' the man in the red,
blue, green, pink, yellow and purple
Mackinaw jacket, "but any fever that
ever got mixed up with folks on the
Slnwmahone an' didn't kick must n
been of setch a mild on' forgivin.' a dis
position as to make it a sham* to feed
quinine to it."
"Thanks, Mackinaw," said the man
from over Sinnemahoning way. our
gentle humor goes far toward dissipat
ing a certain sadness ar.d tendency to
abstraction and a fit of the blues that
! always assail me when I think of that
kicking fever of the Sinnemahone. and
| I thank you! When I sec the fertile
acres of the Jepheniah IlifTkins estate
spreading along the Sinnemahoning's
classic bottom and think how they
would now all be mine but for that
kicking fever I am prow to sadness.
Hut you've knocked 'em silly this time,
Mackinaw.
"Yes, ye s. Those rich Jepheniah
Blffklns acres would now be mine but
for that kicking fever that came to the
Sinnemahone country. These acres
then belonged to Deacon .Tudd Peeler,
and the deacon's daughter Nancy had
promised to be my wife, and Nancy w as
heir to all the wide Peeler estate. So
when I think—but let that pas*. It Is
all over now.
"Wherevef that most singular ail
ment could have come from no one ever
knew, but it certainly cut a wide swath
along the Sinnemahone. I was off down
the river when it began its attack, and
consequently I dicKn't know anything
about it until I got bock home a couple
of weeks later. The first person it struck '
was Uncle Billy Tope. i'ncle Hilly was
a mild and easy-going citizen that tto
one would have thought had any l.fe
In him at aIV, and he was a strict tee
totaler. Consequently you may Imagine
tho astonishment of Squire Bunker,
who owned the sawmill where I'ncle
Billy worked, to M*e the old man com
ing up the road one day, giving a tre
mendous kl'-k every two or three steps
he took.sometices to flie right and some
times to the left, us if he might have
started out to kick nil creation into the
middle of next week. Squire 1' .nker
was scared, and he edged off to one side
of the road- as I'ncle Billy came along,
kicking and scufllng und looking as
•wild as an Indian. The squire ventured
to say as the old man- was cavorting by:
" 'What's up, William?'
"Uncle Billy only shook his head, and
giving a kick that didn't inlss the
squire'* Jaw by more than half an inch,
went on Ills way toward home, kicking
as he went.
" 'Astounding!' exclaimed the squire.
'I never thought I'd live long enough
to we Uncle Billy Tope turn out to be a
drinker!'
"Then the squire started l Tor home,
lie hadn't gone a hundred yards before
he. began to feel a Little mulish himself,
and tlte first thing lie knew he was
kicking away as unreasonably as Uncle
Billy. He couldn't stop It any more
than he could have stopped his mill race
with a three-Inch plug. The squire
didn't have for to go, and before he
could reach out and open his door he
had kicked it open with a bang, and hln
wife came running outof the kitchen to
see what was the matter.
" 'Clear the way, mother!' the squire
hollered, 'fllvc me room! Don't get In
my way or I'll make a widower of my
self at one swoop!'
"The squire's wife, acared almost to
death, locked herself up In a closet, and
the squire kicked his way outof the
back door and brought up in the ga t«*n,
where he jelled for some one to come
and tie him down, or else turn him into
a ten-acre lot where he could have room.
"And that's the way that most unac
countable kicking fever started along
the Sinnemahone. In less than a week
It had taken a whack at almost every
man, woman and child In. that baili
wick. The kicking was only the pre
monitory symptom of the fever. After
tie victim had kicked high and kicked
low, and to the windward and to the
leeward, for half an hour or so, the fit
would pass away, but It would come
hack again after awhile. The kicking
st;ige of the epidemic lasted two days,
ami then the second stage came on
This was a scorching fever. Sum Mctta.
when he got over his attack, declared
that his fever was so hot that his wife
had to keep the sheets wet to prevent
their catching fire, but Sam wasn't a
native of tin- Blnuemiihonlng country
lie was from this side of the. mountain
somewhere, and folks didn't Iwlleve
him. The fever lasted a day, and leit
behind it. a consuming longing for
something to d'- nk not water noi
coffee nor tea nor milk, but runt, rye,
apple Juice, anything that had tooth
and edge to It. This strange symptonr
of the malady was discovered In nstart
lllttf Will Dominie Dibble wan the first
victim that It developed In. Orcein
lng while hnlf a dozen of his ft... I, werf
mingling thrlr sorrow «ltli tin- doniln
le's o\er his affliction he suddenly
shouted:
"'(live me rum! Ketch me sonn
scorching rye or biting gin!'
"The brethren r ■> sisters wen
shocked, but Dominie Dibble kept or
i hollering for rum. No one made n ntovi
to i"'t him any, and a t last 1»« ■ prang on I
of his chair, rushed out of the hoti»«
ami made straight for the tavern like n
man running to a fire. By and by lie
came back singing:
" 'Horns attain, home nun In,
Kr"in a foreign shorn."
"lie had ft bottle of rum under his
arm, and the. brethren ami l sisters hur
'rlcd home, feeling that, the end of all
things couldn't be far away. When it
got. out, though, that, the dominie was
simply suffering from the third »t a»c«- of
the kicking fever, they excused him and
rejoiced. Hut the dominie always de
clared that he never hadsneh a pleasing
I antidote for pain. Then It begun l»
that rlils lust p« < ulliii stage of
I lie ailment Mimed to have no regular
' period of existence, and It Is noted as ii
fuel, that the iilllietrd district wasn't
entirely able to be out and around as
' usual until the tavern ke|M-r gave
notice that there wasn't a drop of any
' thing left that the I"*' «Inge of the
kicking fever culled for,
"During the time the fever lasted
three leading Htlwna of the Hlnnema
honc were mrrled "ff In their bloom by
It. not one of whom even had the con
solution of enjoying the treatment for
the last stage I'lrst, there was Ahiram
Hirikle. When the kicking fever llrst
ntrnek tlie iHstrlct, the doctor said that
the hapl'T the. victim* had to ki< k the
better it wotlld be for them, for If they
couldn't kick hurd it would »trik« in
or.d that would be the end of 'em. The
kicking- always came in the right leg.
Now Abiram H inkle didn t have any
right leg, :t having- been taken oft clean
in the saw mill. When the attack seized
him he couldn't kick. It struck in and
away nc went.
"Next was Simon Shelly. Simon
swore by Klijah Pink, the horse doctor,
who could cure anything', according to
Simon's belief. Elijah hadtcured a kick- 1
ing horse for Simon one time by rigging
him to some sort of a contrivance ;
that threw him every time the horse
kicked. Simon made up his mind that
he was just as apt to have the kicking
fever as his neighbors were, so he sent 1
for Elijah to rovide against it. He had i
Elijah fit hiin with a rigging some- .
thln-g like the one that cured the kick- :
ing horse. The very next day the ail
ment seized him. Simon was standing
by a window in his house. He gave one
tremendous kick. The rigging worked.
It threw Simon. It threw him out of the
window and head first Into a barrel of
rain-water that stood beneath It. They
didn't discover Simon In time, and that
mnde two fellow citizens the eplderolo
carried away.
"Its third victim was Erastus Sleeper.
Erastus went out to milk his cow one
evening, and just as he began the kick
ing fever took hold of him. He shot out
n kick. It hit the cow in the shin. The
disease was so very contagiousthat just
that one kick gave it to the cow. The
cow kicked, ner kick landed in Erastus'
stomach, and knocked the wind out of
him so far they couldn't get it back.
Erastus* widow married Jeff lloner, the
sheep-pelt buyer.
"Well, this brings mo round to my
own deep disappointment. Jephenlah
Ttiffkln* had been paying more atten
tion to Deacou Peeler's daughter Nan
cy than seemed to me safe, and when I
came back home that time I made bp
my mind I'd settle the matter right
then and there and kn» w whether Nan
cy was destined to be a Rlffkins or a
Pettibone. I went straight to the dea
con's that very evening, before I had
been home half an hour. This was just
at t.he time the kicking fever was get
ting In its licks, but I didn't know
a thinjj about it. Nancy was home, and
I nadn't been tlwre long before she'had
promised that her name should be
Pettibone. I was happy, I tell you, and
just before I got ready to go Deacon
IVcler himself came in. We had a very
eh«*nring talk for a minute or two, and I
started to go. Just as I opened the door
I felt a tremendous shock, and at the
same time I rose in the air more than
three feet. When I landed I was stand
ing out In the yard. Before I had come
entirely to I felt the shock sgalQ. Again
I was lifted and swept several feet
further out in the yard. Then I looked
back. Naiwy's father was just behind
me with a queer look on his face. Hli
right foot rose up and shot out, nr.d the
shock came u third time. Deacon Peeler ,
was as strong as au ox. and his foot
was shod with a No. 12 cowhide boot, i
This time the shock lifted me over the j
gate and Sft me down in the road. Nan
cy bad come running from the hou»e,
and she cried out:
"'Father ain't kicking you, Praxyl
It's only the fever that's workin' on
him! He ain't kicking you!'
"Well! If lie wasn't kiekLng me I
didn't know what they called kicking
along the Slnnemahone, and I think I
made a rwnark to that effect us I hur
ried home in sorrow and went to bed.
Next day 1 heard about the kicking
fever for the llrst, and then I knew
what Nancv hmj meant when she de
clared I'll at her father wasn't kicking
me. I went right back with a heart
lighter than a fwither, but Nancy made
it heavy as lend in loss than half a min
ute.
" 'Praxiteles Pettibone!" she said,
'you went and ran away from father
lust night, when he was sick and suffer
ing! You're too hearties* for me!'
"Tltfit ended it all between Nancy
Peeler and me. The kicking fever had
done it although, as I remember it
now, I saw Deacon Peeler out in his
garden hoeing potutoe* that morning,
us <|iiiet and steady a* evnr lie was.
Itut Nnncy married Jeplienlu.li, and the
broad acres of old Deacon Peeler to this
day spread themselves out over yonder
along the Slnnemahone as the ltifTUlns
estate, actually calm and peaceful and
smiling, as if they hadn't missed the
opportunity of 1/elng this day on the
tax list In the name of Praxiteles Petti
bone."—N. Y. Sun.
Com rnlrnrra of
The Count I haf been told, madam,
your daughlaire haf re bad tempalre.
The Jlamma Ah. ye*, count, but you
k now she loses her temper so easily.
"Ah. how loafly!" Detroit Pre#
Press.
"Ton to It# Tr«t."
Htm's beautiful—that's «ood to know,
Mho's good—thart's beautiful to »e«;
Bho I* »" koo'l. while I'm not so,
Hl.e s "100 Icood to be true" to me.
— Judge.
A KATt ItAL HKTAKK.
v '
Hntcher—-I hare soma nice canvas
back ducks this morning
Mrs. New bird How lovely! How
much are they a yard? Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Ilrsans Ksouak.
'TwIkI niedhouss walls hs sits alone:
Ills foolish thoughts In chaos rovs.
The '-siise for hlasn'l fsls Is known—
lie ln lpe.J his wife pur Up Hie stove.
- N. V. Journal.
*<■ t l.awK* In View.
"Kitty thinks llarry doesn't Intend to
propose."
"IIMS he i|tilt visiting her?"
"No; but he gave her a silver tisins
plate for lier wheel " < hlcago Ileoord.
A llsmss* Wusiss.
The Caliiimii Olmnie your hag. lady,
aud I'll put It on lop of the cab.
Mrs. Oatcako (as she gets In) No;
that poor horse of yours has got enough
to pull. I'll carry lion my lap. Judge
"That man with the red hair acta ai
though he was oue of the proprietors.*
"Do you think so? I thought his all
was altogether too haughty and over
bearing. "■ Chicago Journal.
IMftlnmiiri',
lllank What! You voluntarily of
fpred to lend him a dollar?
■ Isij.li Vca; you see, I was afraid ha
1 hud < onto to borrow flvc. —Uo to-Date.
No 49
AN INTtntM ING FAMILY.
The Jlmssa Weed anil Its Vnmeriia
and linp. •r' --. i u. istlves.
"There i« ui.i iuii;j: luat is on a boom
this year in St. LouL anu that is the
jimson weed," said u dii-gusted real es
tate ageut, who had just cut down the
needs on his vacant lots in the West
End. "I have cut them down a dozen
times aud still they grow."
"It is an interesting- family to which
they belong," remarked his neighbor,
who doesn't own any vacant lots.
"Prolific family certainly, but 1 can't
say that I find it Interesting," was the
reply.
And yet these weeds belong- to a
family not only interesting, butof great
importance from an economic point of
view. The Jamestown weed is only an
other species of the plant from which
the prii sts of Apollo made a decoction
to induce that Mute of ecstasy in keep
ing with the prophetic character of
their revelations. Tonga is a drink
made from the seeds which the Indians
of Darien give to their children ttiat
they may discover the location of gold.
Klondikers might take a baby along
and a few jimson weed seeds to make
tea, and when the baity has its "dope"
and falls down, there daddy could dig,
sure of a find.
Of course you eat potatoes, which are
(cousins of the jimson weed, but you
'very likely eat them with or without
'their jackets, in salad, prepared a< Sara
toga chips or in other ways too numer
ous to mention, but it is safe to say that
• you never eat them preserved, and yet
Ithat is the way Parkinson, writing In
' 1610, recommended that they be oooked.
|IIe suggested that tlie tubers be roasted,
srteeped in sugar or baked with marrow
•and spices. Here is an opportunity for
some enterprising chef or housekeeper
striving for originality !o -\v'n distinc
tion in the way of serving pommes de
terre.
You probably eat tomatoes, too, which
you probably eat with sugar and call
tomahtoes, while your plebeian friend
cat.s his with ' u'.t ard calls them plain
tomaytoes. If you are partial to vege
tables the egg-plant, also a night shade,
is found upon your table, possibly sea
soned with cayenne pepper, another
of the same family. The great sweet'
smelling mawse« of white and magenta
petunias which arc ho familiar, grow ing
seeimlnp-'v from the crevice# of the
rocks at the suburban gardens and at
the Cott. ■in Forem j .irk, nr» alsoot
this enterprising family. Ritt< r iveet,
the Jerusalem cherry, apple of Peru,
henbane and the ugl.v horse nettle are
a few otliei p famil..
The loiiir-oroHed i cot.ina nicoti
llora, which opens, a: its :tnmesuggc»ta,
in the cvn.il . , ii ii favorite garden
flower, as Is l.he rambcrgla, named
for the gvnt e scholar-priest of Buenos
Ay res, who fir'-t collected It. Another
ohM-'-hio: cd i f tb'« family is
, |he matrinu-i. v vim, u h ■ h i* not a vine,
b 1 t a shr b w : th <li. IT- ■< nt branches,
j Helladonna, aUo hi.->wii as atiopa, la
| a night shade. The ladies need It to
make ii wash for fi < k I: • ~> e it* name
"lielladontin," beuutifui lady, poi
eonous properties got for I' the name
of the cruel fate, Atropos, who cut the
thread of human life as fast as it was
drawn out by Lachesis.
I<ust, but not least, conies king to
bacco, product of our own soil, the
royal weed against which popes have
issued bulb; ami kings mandates, and
nt ill vive le roi! And Irony of fatel Our
own blessed pope orders his own par
ticular brand of snuff made enpecdally
for him at Baltimore. Rut even a mod
cut Missouri man its he rests after din
ner In «lipperc<> feet, sans waistcoat,
sans necktie, watching tlie blue smoke
curling above his head and dreaming
such dreams ha only nlcotlna tobacum
can produce, takes as much comfort afi
his holiniwM and can echo the remark:
"It is a very Interesting family."—St.
Louis filobc-lVmocrat.
A Italabow the (iroand.
Will you allow me through your
paper to ask If other jx-ople have db
•erved a rainbow "on the ground," in
stead of, as usual. In the air; and, if so,
would they bo so kind as to give, the
scleiitifli: reason for such an appear
aince? I have never before to-day
watvhed such a curious sight as that of
which I Kpeak. While taking a long
country ■walk I was overtaken by a
heavy sh-ower, and while taking refuge
from the rain I watched the light* and
shadows moving along the valley below
me, being myself on thecrestof a down
like hill. I was strorkiby the unusual
glow and brightness of the colorsin tb®
valley, and an I watched they formed a
most brilliant rainbow, perfect in »hnpe
anil color, but lying "lljit on its s.idc,"
■o to npeak, on the pasture land lwloiw;
the top of the are nearii 1 1.■ opposite
hills, mid the two ends towards the
down I was on. T! ! s •■t-ange and beau
tiful effe«-t was also witnessed by a
friend who was with tne. 1 should be
iniK'h Interested to k' "\v if ollu'rs have
at, any time see: ihe i h•*. und could ex
plain the cause, better in I.ondon
Post.
Man and llie nestles* Oceans.
A <fue>; ion now being discussed
among et h nologir ts is: TV> w' at tent
did the great oe< , i-ui ents i>.fluer.ee
the migrntlon of mankiud from eon
tlnentto* ■ rent In prehlntoriO times?
The fnx't thiii a 4-mrrent, startinr near
the Mai v peninsula, nvd the
sens of t liii.n and lap t . crosn tha
Pacific to the western coast of the
I'lilted Stat- ' vr •■ 1 !by K • r>*
Her I • 'r> possll'illty
of \h.nti. ■ 1i,.-- r<-!i' ■ ' \mcaie.i by
M«y <>( the I Other vant
movements ~f f the sea, to
which alter" 1 recently been
railed in connection with this subject,
are the " " • t. which
flows fton • Uiwnrd the
p<,|\, . • !—ln i- »; ih. I ' le A luliliu
curi nt. ,v( - -i, • 1 ' ' 1 ' •' a and
the northern con t ' A.rtca. reaches
Po-iih America a-' 1 " I I'dies;
and the N- .. All .ircnt.wMch
awei-jis along our eastern seaboard sod
then crosses over to the coasts of
rope - YmithV Companion.
COHroIITINU.
"How's yer mother grttln' on, Mary?"
"Oh, she's batter; doctor dou't think
' she'll dio afora IViday iiowl" St.
Paul's.