TMC WEAKER SEX.
"The weaker nn," they call them, but mortal couldn't make,
In peaking of the womenfolk, a more profound miatak.
Those precious parcel made of smile, of rihbona, teara and lace.
Have clearly proved thenwelvea to he the "Samson ' of the race.
Do you auppoae inai any man cmuu nri mo uji vuc msui.
In aome benhadnwed hammock where moauuitoes fiercely bite.
walk
And who, it mattered not how long he might prefer to atay,
Could preaa my hand o lightly I could never get away!
And where' the giant with the atrength to make me walk and
About the park ana Dame lorcn me wmnv ismu w mm.
And buy ice cream and lemonade and popcorn bar and such
And then declare I had enjoyed the evening very much?
I know a tender, ."clinging vine" who, by her winaome smiles. ,
Haa made me, lav a I am, walk aeveral hundred miles.
I've etood outdoor on winter niht and waited for her when
I'd not have waited half o long for fifteen down men.
The women are the one who rule thin planet first and lnf . ;
They bind n in their myatic chain and hold us good and fast.
Hut, though we men are shackled alaves, we mutually agree
We'll never do ft single thing to make them set u free.
Nixon Waterman, in Hood Housekeeping.
Caught in a Cave.
By HUGH F. CRINSTKAD.
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It has been Bald that after all the
surface of the earth haa been ex
plored there will yet remain many
vast underground caverns that will
furnish a field of research for the
scientist and adventurer. While the
short space of ono day was as long as
I ever spent under ground, the con
ditions under which this enforced and
unpleasant journey was taken has
sufficed to satiBfy any longing I may
have otherwise had for subterranean
explorations. Theclrcunistance which
I am about to relate occurred in
Southern Kentucky, near the head
waters of Barren River, twenty miles
south of Mammoth Cave.
In 1834 my father moved from
Virginia to Kentucky, where, with
the help of myself and brother, aged
respectively seventeen and fifteen
years, he had built a two-room log
house and cleared several acres of
land preparatory to planting a crop.
The spring following our removal to
Ihe new home was characterized by a
great amount of rain, and conse
quently much time was allowed us
for hunting. Wild turkeys were nu
merous, as were also deer and other
large and more dangerous game.
One morning about the 1st of May
I awoke carry and decided to go tur
key shooting before daylight, while
the wary gobbler was still on the
roost. Quietly taking the tniBty
musket from the rack over the door
I made my way out of the house
without disturbing the other mem
bers of the family. Outdoors the
moon was shining brightly, and with
out difficulty I found and followed
the path that led down to the spring
in almost a straight line when I sud
denly became aware of a faint sound
from the direction la which I was
traveling, and my nett step brought
mo against a solid stone wall. Care
fully feeling my way along the wall,
which seemed to curve to the left at
this point I had proceeded only a few
steps when my foot dislodged some
small stones, which went rumbling
from there Jam? the Intervening four
feet and catch '.be grapevine! Wae
the grapevine dead and rotten? Or
would I miss It and be dashed to
pieces on the rocks below 1
Laying aside my natural timidity,
I resolved to use every means of es
cape, and forthwith began the ascent.
I had some difficulty in making my
way to the stunted oak, but by pull
ing myself up by the scant bushy
growth along the face of the cliff I
soon found myself balanced on the
horizontal trunk ready to make my
spring Into space for the friendly
grapevine.
Only four or five feet to safety!
It was the supreme moment! Life
Itself depended on the success of thl3
leap Into space! Nerving myself for
the final effort I jumped! I caught
at the vine; It slipped through my
hands for an instant, but the grasp of
desperation held it! Slowly pulling
myself up hand over hand. I soon
reached a firmer hold In the branches
of the elm and thence to the ground.
The sun had set when I at last set
foot on the surface of this dear old
planet, and the familiar sounds of
the early twilight greeted my ears,
and, oh, sucn music! In a few min
utes I was at home, having traveled
three-qunrters of a mile underground
and that In tltal darkness. Search
ing parties were out after me, but
strangely enough, no one had been
to the "hog wallow" land.
A lattr visit revealed only a sunken
STORIES OF CASTAWAYS.
laggested bj the Finding ol a Stranded Hulk
on t Chilean Island.
From Shipping Illustrated.
Like the old time Roman poet,
jnio of the pioneers In exploration
ihuddcred at the watery mountain)
.n motion; but they were driven sea
ivard, in many Instances against their
wills,, by adverse gales. The virile
Vikings, long before Columbus put in
n appearance had accidentally dla
:overed what is now known as North
America: and Lelf, boa of Eric the
lied, Is said to have founded colonies
800 years ago where Boston and New
York now stand. Island after Island
In the Pacific was doubtless peoplel
in some measure by castaways who
.lad started out from Homo lonely Islet
under auspicious oinens, intending to
return at nightfall, but who were
saught in an unexpected cyclonic
Uoim and driven many miles to lee
ward of their Island home. Some of
them perished miserably nt sen;
some died from exhaustion, after ar
rival at an unknown land, and Bo-ne
remained jimt where they gained
safety, and eventually forgot whence
they came. A recent number of the
Chilean Times reminds us that even
place ten feet across and some Blx I In the, twentieth century successors
wa-s made by the BritU warsbiip
Comus on Possession Island, where
she landed provisions enough to last
fifty people fifty days. Another
French warship established similar
depots it the islands of Amsterdam,
St. Haul and Kerguelen. Nearer New
Zealand there are eU. depots of n
like nature on several of the Islands,
and a Government steamer visits the
Islands on co or twlco a year to re
place such Rtoros as may have become
unfit for ubo and take olt any casta
ways that may have arrived, Irre
spective of nationality. At Cape
Bealo and at Carmonah lighthouse,
Vancouver Island, there are similar
satisfactory stores for castaways.
Needless to say, perhaps, the direc
tion of the caches are clearly Indi
cated on shore, to that the famishing
arrivals may reach the provisions and
clothing in tho shortest possible in
tervals of time after landing, and no
tices with respect to them appear reg
ularly In the Government publica
tions issued to mariners by the sever
al maritime nations.
If tho report of tho Chilean con
temporary be true the unfortunate
castaways escaped drowning only to
die on shore. Very seldom Indeed
of recent years has such a sad find
been recorded as that Just made pub
lic in the lonely Islet of the Pacific,
for steam and telegraphy are utterly
opposed to any casualty to shipping
remaining hidden from the world for
a long interval.
JCVKMLK CltIMIX.lt. CODE.
3TILE
downward, and after the lapse of a feet deep to mark the r;-ot where I to Robinson Crusoe nre not alto-
second or two I could distinctly hear
the chug! chug! as they struck the
water. The sound I had heard then
must bo that of running water, pos
sibly of Lost Creek, where it disap-
pears in the rocks, just after skirting
fell Into tho cave. Years later a i gether unknown, although their wan
party of adventurers fully explored derlngs do not always have so happy
the -tve and found a labyrinth of j a termination. It is reported that
passages. Ey the merest accident I on the shore of Guafo Island there
had taken the one leading out. Any 1 have been discovered the remains of
Blackburn's Bluff. If this was the
case I would be more than 100 feet
below the top of the bluff, and half ous,
that distance below the bottom of the
deepest pit I had ever looked into on
that bluff.
With my hands against the wall
and by carefully reaching out with
my feet I found I was on a narrow
ledge, on which it was very difficult
ti retain my footing. I worked my
Way along this narrow shelf, which
was at some points alarmingly steep,
for possibly 100 feet, when my path
way came abruptly to an end. Evi
dently I could proceed no farther in
this direction, and was on the point
of turning back when that befel roe
which, though seeming for the time
a calamity, was in reality the guiding
hand of providence. -
I was sitting on the narrow ledge
throwing pebbles into the water be
low and mentally calculating the dis
tance, when I suddenly felt the grav
elly bench begin to slide, and in that
of the others would have taken me
miles through winding passages,
beset with chasms deep and danger-
Journal of Agriculture.
Eastern Invasion of tho West.
In fact, within the short space nf
three years after the Spanish War
there was scarcely an important point
of Investment left untouched by East
ern funds and Eastern promotlvo en
terprlse. And had we but realized
it then, as we do In beholding the
consequences now, we might long
since have wrapped around our
Bleevcs the mourning badge for the
things which were being lost to us
forever. For, when Harrlman bought
the Chicago & Alton, it was the cross
ing of the Rubicon for us. Behind
him rallied all the vast machinery
ct modern commerce and finance, as
the colossal power of imperial Rome
was massed behind Cae3ar, and after
he had taken under his command the
Pacific railroads there was nothing
for us to do. but like the Goths, to
and across the bottom to Barren awful moment I realized the extent forsake our perhaps cruder but cor
River. Midway between the Bprlng of my peril. It I missed the rocks tainly happier and mere peaceful
ana strucic me water me cnanccs
"DOCTORED" HASKHALLS.
and the river 'was a narrow strip of
"hog wallow" land, so called from a
series of short undulations resemb
ling the holes rooted out by hogs in
search of roots.
On nearlng tho "hog wallow" my
attention was attracted to what ap
peared to be a black spot on the
ground and almost directly in tho
path. Having beeu along tho road
the eve.iing previous I was at a loss
to understand the cause of this phe
nomenon, which In the uncertain
moonlight looked for all the world
like an Immense splotch of ink. I ap
proached cautiously and' was almost
at the verge of what proved to be an
all but bottomless pit, when, without
warning and before I could recede a
step to safer footing, the point of the
earth on which I stood gave way and
I was precipitated feet foremost
down an inclined plane. Would I
never stop? I was not falling, but
sliding and rolling down a mud-lined
passage which dipped at an angle of
forty-five degrees. However, such
was the impetus wained by my first
plunge that I was shot down as from
a catapault. Clutching wildly for
some means to stay my mad flight
my hands would touch the sides of
the narrow shaft, and once so small
was the opening that I stopped for
an instant, but the loose earth giving
away I dropped sheer downward
twenty feet into a shallow pool of
water.
Dazed and half stunned by the fall
I sat or rather lay there several min
utes before my scattered senses could
grasp all that had befallen me.
Where was I and how far had I fall
en? For a few seconds I could hear
tho rumble of dislodged earth as it
followed me, but was caught In the
small passage, finally shutting out all
sound from above, barring escape by
that way. Then I did what might
have been expected of a boy of my
age. Frantic with fear I called loud
ly for help. The reverberating echoes
of my own voice told me I was In one
of those vast cavorns with which this
section of the State abounds,
With this discovery came reason
and I began to think.
I had often heard Bob Clary, the
old bee hunter, tell of the caves on
Lost Creek, where the bees made
their nets, and I had seen the pits
on Blackburn's Bluff, less than a
mile from my father's house. These
pits were more or less perpendicular
in depth, forty feet or more to the
bottom and of Irregular shape. The
walls of some of these could not be
eca'ed by even the panther or wild
cat, while others could with diffl-
culty be cllmbod. In some of them
I had seen tho bones of cattle and
sheep, showing where some maurad-
ing beast had held high carnival.
were that I would be stunned and
strangled before I could regain my
breath. I clawed madly at the
treacherous gravel, and as I went over
the 'bank caught a projecting rock
and held on with the tenacity of des
peration. My feet were dangling in
the air and mr hold was weakening!
I shut my eyes and prepared for the
Inevitable plunge. I thought how
my body would be sought la vain. I
prayed !
My fingers slowly relaxed, and I
dropped six feet below to a flat
rock! Joy unspeakable! Shortly
before I was bewailing my fate and
now I was sobbing with very joy. So
overcome was I that it was several
minutes before I gained sufficient
strength to enable me to learn the
extent of the friendly rock on which
I had alighted.
I found it was but the entrance to
a small cave, running at right angles
to the ledge above, and so close was
I to the ledge, thr.t had I swung out
six inches farther I would have gone
into the water as did the pebbles
which bud easily bounded over the
rock. This projection was only a
few feet long, and the only way I
could proceed now was by going into
the small cave. I proceeded slowly,
having to go on my hands and knees
at times, so low was the roof.
At length the passage widened and
the roof became higher, so that I
could stand erect, and consequently
get. along faster. It was always up
hill. The floor was a series of ter
races, in places several feet apart
but always eusily climbed by aid of
the jagged stones.
After making my way from one of
these terraces to the next higher by
feeling my way over a path more
difficult than usual, I became faintly
aware of a peculiar sensation. I
could soo? Yes, there was actually
a faint glimmer of light discernible
by no eye save of one who had been
in total darkness for a long time.
I still had to feel my way, for
while the delicate organism of my
eyea felt the sensation of light it was
not enough to guide my footsteps
However, the light was steadily grow
Ing brighter. I was going toward it!
After passing up a slight incline, I
could see the floor of the cavern and
far ahead u small spot of light was
discernible. I shouted with joy. I
half ran toward my beacon light,
which gradually grevv larger. Now, I
was beholding the beautiful light of
duy and breathing tne pure air; for
I stood at the bottom of a large
jagged opening, which I Instantly
recognized as one of the pits on
Blackburn's Bluff.
I gazed upward and fairly drank
la the pure air and sunshine. A in
habits and habitats, and to become
dnclplos, followers or allieB of the
strenuous demanls and customs of
the maturer world to the eastward.
The Reader.
Willing to Compromise.
The mother had been having a
strenuous day with ter offspring, as
Mrs. Anna Garlln Spencer calls tho
story of a little cousin of hers. The
- tall boy had even more than usually
bean a peripatetic interrogation point.'
There were few things concerning
the construction of the world and all
things In It, with asides upon various
theological, phllosophlccl, and scien
tific questions, which the mother had
not tried to answer. She was ex-
haused and welcomed tho night as
she undressed her littlo Bon and pre
pared him for bed. But he had not
finished his questions.
Mamma, he asked, "where is my
soul?"
"Now, dear," replied the weary
mamma, I am very tireu, uuu i cu i
utiBwer another question to-night."
We.i, than, you needn t answer it
to-night," said the child, "but please
put your finger on the very spot:
New York Times.
A Fish Story.
There lives in Franklin, Pa., a cer
tain Mr. Allen, who a short time ago
caught a trout a foot long. He was
unwilling to eat such a fine Ash, and
so he took it home and placed it in
a large tank of water. Every day he
went to look at It and fed it with flios,
which it swallowed greedily, and
grew so tame that whenever he ap
proached, it came to the side and
asked for food. As tho trout seemed
so domesticated, Mr. Allen put it in
a stroar- which runs closely by his
house, but the fish refused to lake
advantage of its liberty, and when
ever he wont to the river it came up
and wagged its tall with the pleasure
of soelng him. But whenever Mr.
Allen takes a friend with him, the
flsh refuses to come to the surface,
and hides himself until the friend
has departed. Mr. Allen is usually
considered a very truthful man.
As this all came to my mind I took tla Dlld perched on a iimb high above
Husiness as Usual.
Lady Curzon made a point of col
lecting any amusing attempts made
by Hindus to write English that came
under her notice and had many curi
ous specimens in her scrap book.
Once she got from Bombay a letter
that two brothers sent out to their
patrons on the death of their father,
who had Veen the head oi tne nrni.
It ran:
'Gentlemen: We have the pleasure
to inform you that our respected fa
ther departed this life on the 10th
Inst. His business will be conducted
tourage. If my, prison had an out J twittered gaily and seemed to be sing- by bit beloved sons, whose names
let by way of the pits on Blackburn's
Bluff there was at least a chance for
my rescue If I could ever reach thr
I kaew It must be over halt a mile to
the bluffs, and thot distance I must
grope In absolute darkness. Once
there I COUld Ut lenHt linhnM u
Ing to me a soug of good cheer. 1
was elated at once more coming into
the light, but my hopes sauk as I
realised the utter Improbability of !
anyone coming to my rescue in this
remote place before night; and after
dark I stood In deadly peril from the
blessed light from aiwive. an ,, beasta that made their dens In the
iwuti iruiu some outside source. taYe-
inus buoyed with hope I began to I Tho slanting rays of the sun told
iuwvo cautiously forward on my me It was late In the afternoon. If 1
"Ul anees in the direction of Ip'-.nned escape I must work quickly.
wnai 1 tQOUKbt to be th lunar nirt I r xarofnllv avnmlnnrl fnv nrlson. I
of tho cave, judging from the sounds oorild acale the wall almost to the
are given below. The opium market
is quiet and Mai. 1500 rupees per
chest. O death, where Is thy Bting?
O grave, where is thy victory? We
remain, &c" London evening
Standard.
A Revolutionary Relic.
Senator Bard, of California, was
once conversing with a Jesuit brother
at the Georgetown University, when
he told this story illustrative of the
fine humor of Archbishop Ryan, of
Phitaddiuhia: The archbishop had
emanating therefrom as I shouted too. Here an overhanging rock would rebuked a priest for wearing a most
from time to tlmo
at-.. fnithAN nrno-roua HOWATAr.
ivuii iui vuvi 1 , vh(
i ine noor of the cave vu t,.r. .i I tmm tho imm of thia
most level a.n.1 t . .L..
area L. I rapia pro- rock was a gtuutea piuuaa, wuuo
- . . my timidity rrom the brancnes o a large eim
Jvancea I.had arlM to my which Btood on the verge above a
Z . Ti. . '"I without diffl. huge grapevine dangled within four
culty, I bad proceeded thus f ... .. it i -nut
bljr a Quarter ol mil aeeaUngly only ell nib out on th plaoak and Harper'i Weekly,
a ship's hull, many packages of cargo,
a number of skeletons, and a ship's
spar bearing tho inscription "Castle-
ton, Newport."
Some years ago the American sail
Ing ship Joseph Spinney, when about
two hundred miles from the Fellow
Islands, rescued an old chief and five
other natives of that group who had
been blown out to sea in an open
boat. They had been eighteen days
without food, were Just about to kill
and eat. tho Btxtoen-old son of the
chief when tho veBsel bore down on I
the curious object to reconnoitre, and
two of the castaways died despite
the most careful nursing and the
good food supplied to them by the
master of the Joseph Spinney.
Whilo ou her way from Australia
to China the American bark Tewkes
bury L. Sweat was wrecked on one
of the Caroline Islands during a hur
i 'cane. Tho castnwr.ys lived with the
savages for seven months; then,
grown tired of Involuntary ettle, they
sailed 1000 miles in boat and canoes
and were eventually picked up by
another vessol and taken to Honolulu.
A few of the old time American
whaleshlps met with curious adven
tures in the Pacific Ocean and the
men not infrequently preferred a life
of sensuality and ease on one of the
islands rather than risk their lives
in pursuit of the crafty cetacean for
a return scarcely worth mentioning.
And there were some whaleshlps
under Old Glory In tho:o days! Com
modore Wilkes, U. S. N., in his re
uowned exploration cruise saw sev
oral American whalers during a run
of a few miles, and Captain Coffin, of
the Plymouth whaler Mary and Mar
tha, spoken by Commodore Wilkes
to the southeast of Now Zealand, in
1840, reported that there were at
least 100 similar ships "fishing" In
the neighborhood. One of the whale
ships in 1S04 under Captain Folger
happened on tho descendants of the
castaways known for all time as the
"Bounty" mutineers, who after send
ing adrift their coramandor and those
who refused to join In the mutiny had
settled at Pitcalru Uland with some
male and female natives of Otahelte.
Captain Folger apparently did notl
disclose Ills nnu, lor six years had
elapsed before tho island was again
visited by any one from the outside
world. Four VeurB ago a Nova Sco
tia bark, the Angola, was wrecked on
a reef six days after leaving Cavite,
in the Philippines. Seventeen sur
vivors remained on the reef until
two rafts had been constructed and
then attempted to reach the nearest
dry land. During the night the
smaller raft with five men disap
peared and the twelve men of the
large craft were fated to undergo a
most terrible experience. After
drifting twonty-flvo days, destitute of
food and water, two men went raving
mad and drowned themselves. Next
day a French sailor killed the mate
with an axe, quenched bis thrlst with
tho murdered officer's blood and was
later on killed by the second mute.
His body was eateu and cannibalism
was resorted to again and again until
only a Swede and a Spaniard were
left to tell the horrible talo when
the raft driftod ashore, aftor fort
eight days' experience, on au island
of the South Natuna group, where
tha natives attended on their every
want until strong enough to proceed
to Singapore in n junk
. In 1892 tho metal bark Compadre
caught fire at sea and was run ashore
on Auckland Island to save the lives
of all on board. There the casta
ways spent about us monotonous a
hundred duys as tun be Imagined,
until rescued by a passing ship. An
other metal bark, the Henry Jamesi,
bouud from New South Wales to Cal
ifornia, piled up on a coral reef near
Palmyra Island. Hor crew and pas
sengers sought safety on this inhos
pitable place; a boat, with the mate
and four men who had volunteered.
succeeded in reaching Samoa after a
starvation trip covering 1300 miles
In nineteen duys, and the Mariposa
of tho Oceanic Steamship Company'
fleet of San Francisco, Cul.. went out
of her wav to rescue tho ruliiirg in
compliance with the urgent request!
of the dauntless volunteer boat's
crow.
Owing to the fact that quite a num
ber of sailing ships have mot their
fate o;i the Inlets of the lone South
ern Ocean, betweeu the meridians of
tho Cape of Good Hope and Austra
lia, the maritime nations have
deemed it necessary to establish de
pots of food and clothing ou a few of
the most Important of the islands
along this route. On Hog Island,
Crolzct group, a Freuch war vessel
left a considerable supply of necea
Silk O'Louglilln Says There's a
Itorheslor Sinn Who Makes TlM-m.
"Well, well," remarked Silk
O'Loughlin, as he read the stories
about the row in the Southern League
because Atlanta charges Now Or
leans with riuglng in a "phony" ball
In a rccont game.
"That is like old times," the um
pire Is quoted in the Louisville Courier-Journal,
"and reminds me of the
reasons I spent as the arbitrator in
minor leagues. Among the minors
some years ago it was not such an
uncommon thing as you might sup
pose to try to put over a ball that had
too -ch rubber In it, end the umps
had to be o.. the lookout tor that
little game all the tine. We not only
looked out for it, but occasionally
were pretty sure that we had caught
them with tne goods and made them
keep pitching out new balls until we
got one that bounced right. 1 re
jected twenty balls in succession in
one game l umpired, and they finally
got good and gave me what the rules
called for.
"It is not generally known that the
making of illegal balls, which even
the joklest of Joke hitters can bang
into the middle of next week and
when they hit the ground bounce
over the Chinese wall, is a regular
and thriving business.
"The enterprising individual who
has the largest and bounclest stock
is an old stager at it whose head
quarters are in Rochester. Give him
the quiet tip that you wont an as
sortment of nice lively balls, and send
the coin along in advance, and he'll
send you back a hunch that a tiny
tot can knock so far that Larry La
Jole's longest drives would look like
a beanbag tos -.
"This enthustastlcsupporter of the
win at any price theory also makes
legitimate baseballs, so unless you
know him and give blm the sign to
show that you belong to the same
lodge of bassball crooks, he'll ship
you the usual line of goods, which
necessitates a heap of hard work to
keep your average up around .300.
"Nowadays In the big leagues they
don't work the old lively ball gag
often, it at all, but tho various man
agers know all about it, and when
they sea a ball traveling far, far
afield after being slapped at by some
pitcher who hasn't put one out of
the diamond for a couple of months
they begin to do a heap of thinking
and suggest that the umpire take a
peep and bounce it a few times as a
test. If it goes too high it goes or':
of the game.
"Keeplnr an .-o on the ball is one
of the big duties of an urapiro. He
doesn't have to lo'.k out for phonies
so much as he doos or those with
loose covers or that have been cut,
accidentally or by design, and he
orders them out, as soon as detected."
Tiling riiiladelptiia Roys Cannot Do
' Without Danger of I'uiilwliniciil.
For the future guidance of Juve
nile Court prisoners, or yoifngsters
who bid fair to become Juevnile
Court prisoners, the Civic Club Asso
ciation has had prepared, under the
supervision of Frank G. Say re and
M. Joseph Pickering, a pamphlet en
titled "Laws Boys Should Not
Break."
None ot these '.r.ws Is set. forth In
detail, and It Is expressly stated by
the compilers that the pamphlet doe?
not. contain all the laws that a boy
can break.
A perusal of this little book will
plunge Into profound gloom any boy
who desires to do what Is right with
out surrendering all the rights of
boyhood.
He will learn, irr Instance, that
the flying of kites in streets or
squares is fprbldden under penalty
of $5 flue.
Any t oy who lounges in the street
or on corners that Is, a boy who
doesn't keep moving all the time
when he Is In public Is regarded by
the law as a nuisance and Is punish
able as such.
He must not throw a piece of
paper or a bannna peel or an apple
core on the street or sidewalk, for
fear of being fined $5; and that dear
est of nil boyish prerogatives, the
building ot bonfires. Is strictly for
bidden by rn ordinance ot 1864.
If he should "throw or fire any
squib, rocket or other firework in any
of the streets of the city, or discharge
at or from any house any gun, pis
tol or other firearm, or use any gun
powder or other explosive material,"
whether It be on the glorious Fourth
of July or any other day, he docs so
at his own peril, legal ns well as phy
sical, and Is subject to arrest 'and
fine.
For making a loud noise or annoy
ing neighbors, tho penalty Is 10.
He may not shoot an alrgun or
hunt, shoot or I'lbh oi. tho Sabbath
day.
If he says anything stronger than
"Crackey" or "Jlmlny crickets"
when he happens to stub his too in a
public place, ho may bo deemed a dis
orderly person and fined $10 and
costs. The leual charge for fishing
on Sunday Is $25.
Ball playing and the dear old
game of "pussy" are nuisances, pro
vided any neighbor chooses to report
them as such.
Boys must not write on fences,
hitching blocks, posts or buildings
or carve their names on trees or tie1
tin cans to dogs' tails, even if they
own the dogs."
For encouraging a dog fight a boy
may be fined $50, and it he shoots
craps in an alley he may be fined
$500 and sent to jail for a year.
He has no right to smoke ciga
rettes it he is under twenty-one years
of age, and it he is under eighteen
the law will not permit him to go
Into a billiard room or bowling alley.
He must not retouch with pencil,
charcoal or mud the posters on the
billboards, or rob a sparrow's nest, or
steal a ride on a car, or play hookey
from school, or spit, between his teeth
or otherwise on the sidewalk, or put
out a street lamp, or sell flowers,
matches, shoe-Btrlngs and the like.
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The eucalyptus sheds Its barks In
stead of Its leaves.
Fnlly one-third of the land in
Great Britain Is owned by member
of the House of Lords.
So late as 1813 the East India
Company decided that trade with
Japan was not worth cultivating.
For speaking French to him, a
landlord ot a Duesseldorf hotel re
cently charged a guest extra- In his
bill.
Men serve tho purposes of wagons
In China. They nre able to carry two
heavy loads hung on tho ends of
poles.
There Is no speed limit for autos
outside tho city of Shanghai, China.
Within the city thirty miles an hour
is allowed.
The average size of a laborer's
family In England and the United
3lntes is three persons; in Germany,
five persons.
Tigers appear to be on the in
crease in Burma, owing to the re
itrlctlons on the possession and car
rying of arms.
Babylon was probably the first
city to attain a population of a mil
lion. The area of the city was 225
square miles.
Labor unions are no new Inven
tion. Accurate records of their ex
istence in Roman times have been
dug up in Pompeii.
"Balkan" is a Turkish generic
term, referring to a range or mass
of wooded hills with pasturage and
meadow land in their slopes.
Professor Eulenburg has collected
data showing that no fewer than 950
school children in Germany com
mitted suicide in the years 1883 to
1900.
German women collect what are
supposed to be the smallest potted
plants in the world. They are cacti
growing in pots about the size of a
thimble.
The Fatigue of Metals.
It has been demonstrated by ex
periment that metals are subject to
fatigue and need regular rest. A
steel rail or a link in a chain will do
more work and last longer it it is
given periodical rest than if it Is sub
ject to constant strain. A persistent
Jar upon a bar of metal shakes the
molecules into crystals, presenting
Hues of easy cleavage, and then it
breaks; whereas it the bur has peri
ods of rest the molecules regain their
normal position and the bar recovers
its strength. The engineer knows
that his locomotive is the better for
rest, and oil engines and tools get
tired without It ond are the better for
it.
What Is true, of iron and steel is
equally true of muscle and nerve and
mind and heart. Continual activity
produces in them a state ot chronic
fatigue that is fatal to their best
work. Rest renews and refreshes
them and senus them back more vital
und vigorous to their service. A va
cation is no Idle whim or unneces
sary and unfaithful escape from duty.
but a universal need. Presbyterian
Earner.
Improved the Shining Hour.
"Sometimes," said Mrs. March
mont, ruefully, "I wish people
wouldn't apologize for their children's
misdeeds, but would spend the time
spanking the children."
"You speak with feeling," returned
the good woman's husband. "Wrhat's
the trouble?"
"Why," returned Mrs. Marchmont,
"right after breakfast this morning
Mrs. Sniffen came in with one of my
very best tulips in her hand. As
nearly aB I remember, this is what
she said:
" 'O, Mrs. Marchmont! I'm so
ashamed or my little Edward that I
don't know what to do. He came
right into your yard and picked this
perfectly lovely tulip, and I left him
on your horse-block and came right
in to apologize. I've told him time
and again that he musn't pick flow
ers out of other people's gardens, but
he's always doing It. 1 don't know
what you'll think of him. He isn't
a bad child, but lie does love to pick
flowers. And your tulip bed is al
ways so pretty that it seems just u
shme to pick even a cingle blossom.
I know how much you think ot it
and how much time and money It
takes to have a pretty garden.'
That's the way she talkod."
"I don't see," returned Mr. March
mont, "that there was anything out
of the way about that."
"There waBn't." returned the own
er ot the tulip-bed, sadly. "But while
his mother was apologizing for that
one bloBsom Edward picked all the
rest." Youth's Companion.
It Is a peculiar tact that Africans
never sneeze, neither do their de
scendants, if they be pure blooded,
although domiciled in other parts ot
the world.
The smallest thing with a back
bone is the slnarpan, a little fish re
cently discovered by scientists in the
Philippine Islands. It measures
about half an inch in length.
In the gardens of the Raby castle,
Durham, England, is a fig tree which
has a spread of branches from twen
ty to twenty-four feet. It was
brought from Italy in 1786, and is
kept under glass.
KATE OK THE OLD ST. LOVIS.
disreputable-looking hat
"I would not give this bat for twen
ty new ones," said the priest. "It
belonged to my father, who tell In
the rising of '48."
nlli wua A wli!ilahnn Rvfln'i rn
tort; "evidently he tell on tha hat." ' rle ,u htt,t f te ucttr , tha lttnd-
Ing place, and a similar arrangement
I'leasure iin a Husliiess.
Society takes its pleasure serious
ly enough, as we in England are all
wont to do. In the east end ot Lon
don there is far more genuine enjoy
ment, hilarity, spirits and spirit
than in Hyde Park on a Sunday even
ing, at Ascot or at Henley. Fashion
is not the world which amuses It
self, It amuses others far more. And
as for the deeper side of the ques
tion, w ', we are no worse thau other
peoples. Look a. Ascot on the gold
cu; day. It la a sight unique in all
the world such frocks, auoh beauty,
such wealth, such property! Would
England be the better for the absence
ot it? Go ask Pretty Polly, that
strange, sleek, "fast" mare, herself
symbolic of the race who race with
her. London Observer.
The Hutcherles of Teace.
Mr. Frederick L. Hoffman, ot the
Prudential Insurance Company, has
declared that the annual rate of fatal
accidents in American cities is be
tween eighty and eighty-five In each
100,000. On a basis ot 80,000,000
people in this country, that would
mean that 65,000 people in America
lose their lives every year through
accldonts. According to the same
authority, some 1,664,000 persons
are more or less seriously injured
every year, while 1,800,000 more re
ceive wounds ot a less serious char
acter. Now, tho two great armies ot
the North and South with all their
implements ot destruction were able
to kill only 62,113 men a year,
which Is a lesser number than perish
in time ot peace through accideuts.
Denver Republican.
Could Kat, Rut Not Set-.
A farmer who went to a large Uty
to see the eights engaged a room at
a hotel, and before retiring asked
the clerk about the hours for dining.
"We have breakfast from 6 to 11,
dinner (rout 11 to 8, and fcupper
from 3 to 8," explained tha clerk. -
"Wa-al, say," Inquired the farmer,
in surprise, "what time air I goiu'
ter git ter see the town?" Ladles
Horn Journal.
The Second Oldest Ship in Our Navj
May Re Riokon lp.
After years of buffeting by tbt
waters ot many seas the one lime re
ceiving ship St. Louis lies in the Del
aware River at the foot of Catherine
street, Philadelphia, awaiting final
orders.
These may be to hand her battered
timbers over to unsentimental junk
dealers, or to preserve her as the old
est vessel, outside ot tho famous
Constitution, in Undo Sam's navy.
According to the Philadelphia Rec
ord, it is seventy-eight years since
the then proud frigate was launched
at Washington, where she had been
built for service in tho Far East. At
that time Bhe was regarded as one of
the best vessels in tho young navy.
During the first ten years of her
service pirates were tho pest of the
West Indies and the Pacific. The St.
Louis, then one of tho swiftest ves
sels in the navy, was seiu a'er the
men who sailed under the rkull and
crossbonoB, and to her efforts la part
ly due the extermination ot the
looters.
Ou one occasion one ot the rakish
crafts, closely pursued by the corniog
Union Jack, ran aground on one ot
the large islands and her crow es
caped to the wooded interior. Lieu
tenant Horton, a gallant young officer
of that day, led a cheering company
of his men, urmed with cutlasses and
pistols, to rout out the desperadoes.
Over hills and copse the cbuse con-,
tinned, for a mile, when the fleeing
buccaneers ambushed the pursuers
and a pitched battle resulted. After
a fierce band-to-hand combat tho pi
rates were ul) killed or captured aud
the latter were hanged the following
day from tho yardarm of the St.
Louis.
At the time ot the naming of the
St. Louis there was much opposition
to thus honoring a city ot such small
importance and size as that placo was
thou. Much discussion finally ended
In victory for the St Louis partisans,
and It was only recently the Govern
ment changed her name to the Key
stone State, on account ot there being
another vessel in tho navy called the
&i. Louis. However, the new immo
wan hardly over applied except In
official ways.
Canal Cuuscs Room on (iulf.
"Tho construction of the Pannn.a
Canal will bo of boundless benefit to
every Gulf State, and to none of them
more thau Florida," said B. J. Stlll
inau, Collector ot Customs- ut Po:lua
cola, Fla., at the Raleigh' yesterday,
"lu anticipation' ot the time when
this canal ahail be completed con
ditions have taken ou a boom," he
continued, "aud in all the Uult cltlea
building construction Is being carried,
on energetically, land value are in
creasing and Industries ot all kind
'nre thrlvlug. Puuuucola Is enjoying
nn era of pr jseiirlty, aud her export
irude is incrcuulug at a wonderful
ratu."-Washington VonU