# * $ $ rjr $ " &Ae : TOUCH of ❖ * $r * * ft & —— *"ir% I ill junior medical staff of the j[ ltaiidall's Island hospital sat iu Swuiuley's room discuss j ll} , eccntricities of Pe tcriiiun. Petcniiiiit was a (hick nosed, j intense e.\ >-«t student In whom men MW much or nothing, according to tin* point of view. lie possessed little of j that sense of offhand eomradeship wbieh couuts for so much in govern mental institutions, yet his colleagues ! always treated htm with considera tion in a certain expectant way. 1 hey were constantly oil the lookout for his latent sinuularities, and they talked much of him In-hind his hack. "lie was always so," said Jameson. "I knew him in college. lie used to Bit on the lowest bench at clinic, staring . into the demonstrator's face in that cocksure wav of his. Hi- fairly queered the Junior instructors." "Peterman has the faculty of getting himself talked ahout, at any rate," , nuid li« 11 ley. "Why, some of those ethical issues he brouuht up in the medii ill Journal- caused more talk than a cholera scare." "He has a new* fad now," said Sw idiilcy, who once had roomed with I'utermun. "What is It?" aske«l Baxter. "Idiots. Talks of ameliorating their | condition and all that sort of thing." "How can you ameliorate an idiotV" nuked Uenlcy. "1 know of one way that would ben efit S4 iciice, but i am atraiil the public wouldn't stand for it. Now, in Ber lin"— "Good heavens, man!" exclaimed Jam* sou. with a horrified stare, do not really mean" "Well," replied Swainley, with a shrug, "the idiots couldn't lie worse off than they are now. 1 notice you don't twem vividly glad to have jour 'attend ance week' come around, especially when there is a quarantine on. That time Central Park and Eddie Apple hail scarlet fever, and you thought you hud It.and we bundled you off togeth er in a tent, you got enough of idiots for aw hile, I guess." 'furious idea of the superintendent of charity naming them for the places where they are found," observed Ken ley. oh. well." said Baxter, who was g.izlng through the window at the twinkling lights of a sound steamer coming out of Hell Hate, "it sometimes l« ads to identification when the spon sors want to identify. But let's change the subject Hanged If it doesn't sicken uie! I hate the thought of the cursed old shed When 1 first came here, I used to tie up my liell In rags regularly every night so they couldn't summon nie over the" Il>' was Interrupted by a knock on the door and stopped talking as it opened und a man entered. He was one of the outside night watchmen. "Docthor Swainley." he said, nodding to the rest.'"was annyrtilng the inat ther wi' Hoether Peterman. I dunno?" "Not that I know of, Patrick. Why?" "Well. sor. before he left the institoo •hun a little while ago he" "What's that? lias Peterman gone • way? When did he go?" "About an hour ago. He wlnt on the steamer." "Why, the steamer doesn't run at night V" "Well, yes, I know, but this was a R|s-ciul ordher he had from the chnrl ti<*« department It sesnni, bur, there w«> some of the liHlt* wanted at the Twenty sixth street dock. He took tlinin away w Id him." "What?" It came with a yell as the men In the room bounded to their feet. 1 Ue watchman, startled, stepped back ward two or three paces. "Took the idiots away with him!" ex claimed Swainley "Cleat heavens! What for?" "1 dunno," replied the watchman un- MSlly. "But it was quite regular, sor. tie suid It wa n't necessary to report it to the csptultl of the l'oorce, and he *«*>• me a letther that's why I come— .▼Ll< h he tould me to give to you In the iiornlu'." "Why, good Cod, man, why didn't •ou give it to me at once?" Ile snatched t from the watchman's hand, tore it <peii und read aloud: I>«iir IT We have tnlkM no naujr times of tie IU ■ vanity tor iiin> liorut lig tha condition of the i<Uot that you vill uiijet«r«rn! me perfectly when 1 say a oH'ortunity 112 r < unyliiK out - nu of my ruj- ?■ has uiK Kf'-ct'illy arrival I liavo j • le«i In • 'inv< > ins tie- sr. iter jior- I .a of o .r pMtl< nil to tli> M'-amboat, and y tl»«* »lne> you (?< t this they will be ilis- F. l u f In what 1 think Is the only ra luiial l'r 1 .t<l> I shall not escape he o—<mu—i ij of the deed, so you will ut h' ur fiuui in<* analri You will under- ItDil -tlm- In v< ry pre. lous. I minht add Uat ti'ittur tie pilot nor the engineer, otn of when ordinarily ulecp on the bost, i,..w* unylhiitK "112 th.- jil.oi I a-itt one to iy .a an 'iriiinl foi me The other 3 I airily nsk..l I- i\- to no to town • jn... i > Hi .IS.M ,\N PKTKUMAN A Jumble of e\< lainatioie and whis- broke forth from the group. w liih*\ was the lie t agPated. iu 11 the era?.} fools"' he exclaimed. \ 1 to ii .I>ll. ale luc in the li isiliess ill lis dust at <ll \ way! Bill we must stop In.' " And h<> da tn-d from the room, ii'siied down the long stairs by the of Jainc i w! o called sweetly - , . ! 1 sa\ s i:ij. old man. Petey seems < i<. • nu > ing out your ideas perfectly, Ihe "allot ii i' dormitory, known call} as Pavilion P. loomed dark and iii-ti i ucaiit ' I; 1 half l;_ht of the il . V'lib.g It is all oblong, super- i i lured stall, w :Hi gallery piazzas '••i ! iroiu il it at eery tl"<ir and it*-. 'i.i - h »,.ti - up at the mm i it are undivided I'rl is not n<'<-«*s-arv to tin- inmates. > unukl imt appnH'iate It. A never • lliii: bench ex tends completely • tUiid tiie walls <if the ground tloor "in bratnth the high windows. Two ilu iy st.. <•- <'ii<-ire|<>d hy a wlri' • •<•11 sj a lid near • icli <n<l of the •in Thes.. gr»>at stov*'s even in sum i ii-i illy sinromah-d, almost KN vied by a mass of swaying hu mlt> but when Swainley burst rough the o' •• door of the room he i'<l '.nly i fe v poor, dejected crett < Is nd ll t. ii sitting on the i In d . ■ *ll|•<■< 1 atmut the stoves, t aifi i d.int is in siyht He ran t ;.u II 11 1<I o.i rto tlx* neighboring ling t«. t( . 1- nile wards and found th relief the usual coniplement of N In th ■ usual attituib'S and condl ns The women attendants were r< too I-.videntl}' Peterman hiul un away onh th<- male pnthnts W ell," said Henley as Swainley n< up he got :|w H y with all but the < and hwlph ss, took every one that iM walk alone." But." said Jameson, "how could he natte to j<et stvtj idiots all the way UJ 1 down to the wharf without be ij? *'? ij? 4{r l>v THEODORE WATERS j, ) 1 I'll Tib ll'itrrs OBLIVION • •»i •»• •»£. ■(• j. r,? r,? V V .... lllg seen ! "Aisy enough," volunteered the watchman. "They marched down the sunken road. It lades straight from P between the cornfields past the jail. It : 'd been a liiericlc if they'd been seen " i They went over to the superintend : cut's house. That gentleman smiled in credulously when first told that the idiots had been stolen, but when finally ; he became convinced that it was true his language was picturesque and his i activity tremendous lie jumped to the telephone, and lie - wore long distance oaths to all points of the compass. He j called up the department of charities, the fire department and police head quarters, and he entreated them by all political and civic deities to do things. But he found, with dismay, that the big island steamer, t In* Breiinan, which hails from Bellevue wharf, was in dry ' dock undergoing repairs; that the lire ho.ats New Yorker and Zophar Mills ! were at that moment engaged in hurl ing water at a burning warehouse on | the western city front; that the police boat Patrol had gone off on a special | raid. ,\s a last resort he called up the Ward's Island hospital and made hiin ' self personally responsible for the use of the Wanderer, the steamer which keeps Ward's island in touch with the mainland. The Wanderer luckily was lying with good fin- at her New York dock, and almost before the superintendent censed talking she had cast off and started diagonally across the channel to llandall's island While she was coming the superintendent called up th<' port wardens and learned that the liefuge had not passed out Into the sound She must have gum - mth Hen ley stayed on duty In case of a night call, but the rest went down to the dock to board the steamer. Two male nurses were taken along to be of use In case the chase was successful. < >n the wax to the dock they met the pilot and the engineer of the Itefuge. The men 111 R . ■ '-'}W Ip - - I |p [ k t f n 4 i i " .J. X<il Hl i nth mlniit irnn i II niyht. '.••ere much mystified and excited over the absence of the boat. What the su perintendent said to them and tin- man i or of the s.i\ ing decreased their mysti fication, but it added greatly to their i\i iti'inent. They were taken in tow. The Wanderer swung in and C< allied against the piling long enough for the party to jump aboard and then got away Immediately in the channel current and. with blowers full on, slipped away down the river at full speed. "What gets me," said the engineer of the Kel'nge. who. with her pilot, kept out of the sup rinti ndciitV way in the ci ji lie room of the Wanderer, "is how the fool was able to get awav without hi lp in such a current. You know the trouble we have, starting bar and all." "Oh, he used t.o starting bar, I'll warrant you." growled the pilot. "What he did was to slip his hawsers and let her go. But the next time a dashed pill roller comes up into my pilot hoi: -e and gets me to give him points about running a steamboat for his bad cigars he'll be up against some thing that Ml surprise him." "llow can a •!.•-• ainboat like that all 1.1. oniewhat disconnectedly : l. II one ot the male nur k s who had < m • down to get warm. "That's easy," replied the engineer, "if lie's got a good head of steam on and white tires, he doesn't need to do anything but go ahead. The liefuge 'll last him tiil lie gets past the Nar rows, and then, if he looks sharp and v.»!fts till there'-- no other craft near him. he can leave the wheel long ei.ough to give hr a t inch up thut 'll kc- p h'-r g IIL t !.• . ts outsidtt the Hool ." 1 ihe | if-I?boit • the Wanderer t! •:. ■ ■ ! uley, Jameson, I. I .ti ; i . t A.i others were night, discuss ing Peterman. I.!. lot Ml sped bo posslble thut on • 112 'i "i ■ erhups the po li' • ><• i ruturu to the after the Ke t er could round • : ry front which • IPs island and Brook I; 1.1 i :«i : iut would be so n ui : _ .in' l. but i i itild not be count ed on Suainlc\ t pea ted all he could r<'neinber itf his < ouversations with Pep in, a, and the clew thus fur nislK'd bristled with grisly uncertain ties. The amelioration of the idiot! llow did I"■ *< r111;• ii purpot i to acenm pllsh it - 'i'' ■ men exhausted the proh II b 1111J < J Inl !'• |II >ssi t ill i t l»'S of the situ Moii i do/' II times nvef while the str ~i .-r '.•"• I ilong th<' <'i'utei channel in the outgoing Hood, and after that the|-' nothing to do but watch ahead They might have cut through the Buttermilk channel 011 the inshore of (Joveruoi i 'ui but the iporintend ent V- as 11', to know if the lifeboat ha<l cue back, no they turned west ward to,, rd the Battery wall The boat was not at her dock, but the, saw her rounding the face of the aquarium, her In. 11 • /./lis sticking through her shields liki long guns from the turrets of a cruiser She was the New Yorker. Ilu' Wn in lei ■ r -low 1 d down to see what she would do There was not long to wait. A man stood upon the dock with a paper in lib- hand, and he handed it to the Iptait ..| the New Yorkel with a verbal injunction that caused the captain to start visibly He gave Un order to sheet off. and the (irelwiat turned immediately and headed down tin l hav In tin' wake of the Wanderer Through his lireliorn the captain of ' the New Yorker hailed the Wanderer and advised a series of zigzags as far as the channels would permit, the two boats to work down the bay until Homer Shoal light was reached But the arrival of a new ally made it un nee. 'ssar.i Soon after the boats left the ltatterx the Patrol, the steamer of the police department, returned from her raid and, with all the extra force she could muster, started to help in the work of rescue She is a very fast boat, and she went down under a forced draft and with a long, lean stride that uot her to the Narrows almost as soon as tlu- others. She signaled repeatedly to every boat that loomed up ahead and at last received an answering whis tle from the New Yorker just as that boat and the Wanderer were about to divide the uncertainties of the search Then commenced a hunt thut was without parallel 111 the history of the harbor. The three captains headed their boats in the form of an ever wid ening wedge, with the Wanderer In the middle, the New Yorker working to ward Coney Island and the Patrol veer ing toward Sandy Hook In other words, the Wanderer made u bee line for Dumb beacon, the Patrol went down the regular ship channel, and the New Yorker went out by the cast chan nel. There was a signal agreed upon to be given In case the chase was sighted. They hailed everything that passed, because it is so easy to mistake a boat in the night and because incoming ves sels might have sighted the Itefugo. But none had recognized the liefuge, with its load of human lrresponslbles. Once only did the captain of the Wan derer get a hall that gave an inkling of ; encouragement. It came from the cap tain of a tugboat, who leaned for out ot It is pilothouse window to shout that he had seen "a small dispatch tug going down with a party on board; had a scow in tow, a patent dumper; about two mile nor-norwest of Skin Nigger light." Skin Nigger is the shellback name for Bonier shoal. The light could lie seen about three miles out. a yellow, low lying speck midway between the blinking beacon 011 the highlands und tin- steady gleam of the Coney Island light. If this tug were towing a scow, there w as little .'lnlin eof her being the liefuge, but as she was in the path of the Wanderer they would shortly be able to make sure. Now, 011 the way down the bay they were being slowly overhauled by a big coast line steamer, and when they slowed o.iwn to speak the tug this liner, brilliant with electric lights nml gay parties of tourists on their way to southern resorts, surged past them heavily. When, however, the Wanderer regained her former speed, the coaster drew aw.iy less swiftly, and the Wan derer hung onto her port quarter and tossed about in the uillss of her screws for fully fifteen minutes. An orchestra was playing on the big boat, and her searchlight tlitted hither and thither about tin' bay The i^rlll was enliven ing to the men ill the pilothouse of the hospital boat It was so different from that of which they were iu pursuit. While they were looking wistfully after the liner. Swainley In particular making some Invidious comparisons, they heard off to the right a peculiar ypinc racking sound which brought them up standing with excitement. It began with one of the lower notes in the musical scale, the wonderful low it of "flolterdiunerung" which Is ter ror compelling In itself, and ran up, oc tave 011 octave, until it thinned out in to a sustained sht I In 11 it dropped swiftly, steadily, until it sank to a weakening moan. Ii was the siren call of the police boat, tin' signal which had j been agreed upon. There was a rush j of the liner's passengers to the star board side of the vessel, and the | searchlight, which had been playing ! along Coney Island beach, came around ' and shot out to the right. The Wan- i derer slowed down immediately, and ! the liner drew away, leaving an unob- 1 structed view of the bay There, about u quarter of a mile away, illumined by the quivering shaft of light, was what appeared to be a geyser sprung sud denly from the bed of the bay, a rising column of steam that dispersed In the upper darkness. I»eep in the middle of the rising steam was 11 dark object without form or shape. Near by a pat ent dumping scow tossed about help lessly iu the surges that qicd awmy from the liner's si rews. "Why, what can it be?" asked Bax ter, who with a pair of ui-lit glasses was scanning the queer cloud of vapor. "Must be the tow that fellow spoke of up above." said the captain of the Wanderer. "His engineer 'II lose his certificate. lie's let his water go down until his fuse plug has given way und flooded his fires. It'll rise off in a min ute. Wonder If he got burnt?" The liner did not slacken its speed and shortly drew so far awuy that the flectrlc light 110 longer plcki-d out the rolling folds of steam vividly. Y'ct the passengers did r.'it lose Interest in the spectacle. They crowded to the quar ter and peered astern. The lengthening shaft of light quivered as if some one were adjusting the projector. Then, strangely enough, the gigantic shadow j of a mun's hand was outlined juooieu- 1 tarily on the white steum. Some one on the liner had moved in front of the | lens. Finally the shaft Q/ Ugbt turned rapidiy awig- to the fi>rtlficutions on ' Suudy Booh. As It ewept around it lighted up the dumping scow for an in j stant. "Good heavens! Did you seo that?" ; ejaculated Swtiinioy, "What tho shadow of tho hand? Oh, thafs a common phenomenon," said Uustor. "Nol No! Tho scow! Listen!" From the direction of tho dumper came a strange, weird, discordant ; nolso. Its volume kept pace with the varying strength of the land breeze Sometimes it was faint; sometimes it enmo over the water in heavy roars. Out of Its vortex came words: . . . Star spangled banner lonn mu> . . . w .y-ayvo . . land th« I'll e-'e . . ho-ome thu brave Par in the distance the siren call of the Patrol caught up the last note of tin' refr. 'i and hurled it high into u | fe.intt! . i . which seemed to tap the , \ . pinnacle- of tli<. heavens with re- < proach at • 1 which, when it could go no higher, fell at into the lowest depths. "Why. 1! the quartet." cried Baxter, with tiie glas;es to In- eyes, "and all tbi- nt n| them too! But how did they get <lll the dumper: Patrick did not say anything of that." • There was a scow tied up at the lower wharf at the island." said the superintendent in a suppressed tone. "Peterit 11 miHt have taken that too." "Yes," continued Baxter; "there they are There's the .Mathematical Genius, | and I lot-key lit Is Hockey sure enough) and Central Park and East Itlvcr; there's the tandem, lockstep and all, just as though they wre in the pa vilion on tin' Island; there's that big j hydrocephalic nodding In the stern, and there's Kd.lio Apple leaning over j the bo v. What is he doing, 1 wonder'; Hero, Swainley, take a look " Swainley took the glasses and looked | In the bow of the dumper stood lift j enormous boy Ile was not over live I fn>t tn 11, I>ut tils girth wan so groat that Ik- had been dubbed Eddlo Apple. He must have weighed 3<H) pounds. He was not p itholopleally an Idiot. Ho be lonped hi tin- feeble minded class. 110 was lookiup toward the from which (he steam had cleared. A smoke begrimed maii stood in the stern of the steamer pesticulating wildly with one j band Eddie gazed stupidly at hlin across the rit't of waters on which the rope connected vessels rolled help lessly. "Curious," muttered Swalnloy "There is I'etev ill the Stern of the tug. Ills left arm seems to bo injured. He evl d< ntly wants Kddle to do something. He's |■ roilll siim to take ICddle to tho circus. There! Hear that? That is I.ddie's great hold the circus." Sud denly he yelled: "(iood Uod! 1 have It! In with her, captain! Work her in. lor <rod's sake! lie's trying to make Eddie dump the seow. Thafs a patent dumper. Eddie's pot his hand on the lever, and If he pulls it the bot ti m 'II go out of her, and the whole crowd will be dropped into the wa. For Cod's sake, hurry!" They worked her back and forth with the starting bar in a fierce en dt avor to pet close without ramming the scow, while every one who could spare the time and breath yelled to distract the bewildered Eddie from tho lever. The hip fire whistle of the Nt w Yorker sounded near at hand, J and tliej knew without looking that she was coming to their aid, while us close on the other side the internd- ' liable siren of the l'atrol worked tho p uenil din up and down the shrieking I gamut. "Eddie!" called Petcrman cajollngly j during the Intervals of comparative ijiiiet. "Eddie! I'ull it. That's a good i boy." "Coin' to circus next week. Clmme r. cents'.'" replied Eddio vacantly. "Yes. I'll take you to tho cirrus. I And. see here's ." cents for you. Pull it. I'ull that hip stick. Five cents, : Eddie: r» cents." "For Cod's sake, ivtey, old man, don't do it! It won't help any," called Swain ley entreat iiiplv. Hut the look in I'etennan's eyes showed that nothing short of physical restraint would keep him from his no was there to ameliorate the condition of those idiots. *" 1 *IIII it. Eddie; pull the stick!" lie called repeatedly. "Five cents." muttered Eddie dubi ously. lie had been asking for "5 ci nts" all of his life, and he had re ceived mam promises. Now. for th« first time, lie hesitated between an order and the Impulse to obey. I'eter irnn actually hurled a coin at him, but the aim was short, and It fell into the water Hut this did not disconcert Eddie. "Five cents" was to him only a name He never had seen a coin in his life. The prow of the police boat moved In lieside the Itefupe, and its captain, re volver in hand, threatened to shoot IV ternian if he was not instantly silent. Hut the peril of the situation was now centered not In l'eterman, but in Ed die. who had passed the period of promises and on whose slow rolllnp brain tin- mcanlup of I'd* Jinan's rn qijcs! was beginning to dawn. lie pa zed blankly at the lever. Ho even lingered it cautiously, lie might sud dejily draw it forward at any moment Hack of him the idiots tramped or stood in groups, pointing and leering at the lighted boats drawing nearer and nearer. It scented to the anxious men on the Wand' tvr that the black moat between the boats would never be closed. Only one thing In all the world sovtned to move slower.'and that was the thought impulse of the idiot brain. Jameson, who was coolest, said afterward that during the long interval (it was fully half a minute) he formulated the plan <**ll ■ jjj "I Iturc It! In with her, captain!" of a monograph to discuss the probable speed ol' an Impulse which from the brain of an imbecile might start to lu lluence his linger tips. The superin tendent, in whom the tension was greatest because his whole political fu ture depended on the pulling of that lever, laugl l gk'efully and perpetrat ed a joke which no one appreciated just then, but which lims come since to be regarded as the most remarkable witticism in the history of Randall's island. Hut lin i!;> the swell rocked the two boats to; 'tli.' so that Swainley was able to mak a llyinp leap at the rail of the t<. w He landed safely and then. . a-lilng. moved swiftly and stealthily o, d Eddie Apple. One of the «ri aturi on board got down on his hands and knees and followed after, mocking him, to the delight of the othc; ■ who laughed loudly ut the qu 'crperi !■ As Swainley Beared him i.ddie Apple seemed suddenly to be tilled with a limit resolve. The Un pulse had reached his linger tips, ills body straightened, and he clutched the bar and pulled just as Nwaiuloy, with a half s. ivam, half curse, threw himself at it and held it rigid. * * « » • On the wiij back to the city l'eter man exhibited almost no trace of uieii i. l derangement He did not even ehofo under the restraint Imposed upon htm in the cabin of the Patrol. He ragard • d Ins captors almost with amusement, the exact expression one might assume toward the rage of a willful child who Insists upon plucking the gns tlamo from it.s burner, lie merely deepened the expression ol his face at each of their many questions Once only did he reply and that was when Swainley made an exultant remark about the saving of the idiots "Saved them" he cried "Ye#, you saved them for what? Fvst.v ruotnlng of their lives the poor devils eat bread and milk, every noon they eat Btew t every evening t hey eat bread and milk ngaln 3H5 times n yeai Think of it - .ilw vs the same, day in, day out, never any change Koine of the older oni* have been doinp It for sixty long yonrs; honi' of the younger ones can expect to do it for .sixty years longer. Heyond I hat it is all sleep and drivel Yes. in deed, you have saved them. Your he- I role effort In their behalf has placed the crown of long life on their heads. It Is a distinction which will probably remain to remind you of your great work as lonp as you live." There was little said after that, but us the steamers panted slowly home ward under the stars the unanimity of thought was almost if not ijulte tele pathic. Ttai» Word (.roOnquo "Grotesque" is derived curiously from the word "grotto." Ancient llo maii families often had artificial grot toes in their grounds, and these were decorated with quaint paintings and whimsical lipures, such as we should term "grotesque." Commonly, these were fanciful and incongruous couibl nations of parts of plants or animals. Conspicuous examples of the gro tesque In classical art were the cen taur, a horse's body Joined to a man's head and shoulders; the grltlln, a mon ster combining a lion and an eagle, and Scylla, a :;ea monster, with wo man's head and fish's tail, a peril, as ancient po< I- sang, to mariners sailing ; between Sicily and Italy. In medie val times her place in grotesque art was taken by the mermaid, a more I poetical fancy. The middle •!£ 4 used the grotesque ; chiefly ill ccelesiaslle.il pargeyles, the j best of which are the "devils" of Notre [lame referred to in Victor lingo's I "Quasimodo." The idea of the devil ' as a man with horns, hoofs and a tail ' is probably drawn from grotesque art. .ilrill l)nlPr*. Many races of men live entirely on animal food, and these are t! e most j hardy and from all I have been able to gather on tin- subject the most free ' from diseas 's of all kinds. Sir I'lanci- Ilcad says of tlx- Pampas Indians. "They are all horsemen, or, rati or, pass their lives on horseback In -.-ite of the climate, which Is burning hot in summer and freezing In v:111• •r, these brave men, who have never yet been subdued, are entirely naked and have not even a covering for their head They live top ther ill tribes, each of which is governed by* a cacique, but they hav • i > lived place of r- ;iden«i*. Where the pasture is good th< y are to he found until it is consumed by their horses, and they then Instantly move to a more \ •rdant spot. They have nei ther bread, fruit nor vegetables, but they subsist < ntirely on the tlesh of their mares." Gentleman's Magazine. I•i \ I sin it f;«*ni»r«il Poor Spcllrr. "When I was in the civil war." said General Cros\enor, "1 had a division commander who was the finest look lng man on a horse you ever saw. He Was a good soldier, too, but he had some educational deficiencies. One day he thought to drill his division. After some maneuvering he pot them lined up in column of fours to start. "The proper command Is 'Column, forward!' The pcnerul didn't know this, and he waved his sword In the air and yelled 'Column!' Not a man moved. The general had a voice you could hear half a mile, lie stood up In his stirrui - and yelled again, 'Column!* Stih there was no move. Then he turned his horse and dashed back to the soldiers. "'W hat's the matter?' he shouted, so loud that everybody on the parade ground could hear him. 'Can't you tin th island w hen I give a command? Col until! Column! I'll spell It for you. you idiots—C-o I 1 o-m!' " \« IVfii-M I'tii* the tloj-. Teacher Your son, sir. has a very hipli temper, 1 am sorry to say. Father I am glad to hear it. sir. If fott will grind lilni Into shape, I'll leach him to keep his high temper for ftlgh purposes. Chicago Tribune. A sisad Breath A bad breath means a bad stomach, a bad digestion, a bad liver. Ayer's Pills arc liver pilis. They cure con stipation, biliousness, dys pepsia, sick headache. 25c. /.'! itru<*ffi*ts. Want your :or ln ;tril a beautiful brown or rich black? 'I hen u>ti BUCKINGHAM'S DYE Whiskers j I' 5 ' s » D*ur.i*T* N P. Mill A ' Nash. a N H spoil. rhilui'lMl. Spoiling cliiMicti cotisi is in letting olie'- darling have its MV.II p:e. i.ills v.it on all "Ci asioi:-:. aril the v. y u si;. Ii n I" -fy. • iv. iea r- way n • 'v can see any harm in it. Hill grown IIJ> willfulness is rpiite a different thing •' • • i bali.v u illfalne It hr.s claws anil led li. so t" speak, nti 1 is not nice to emili in plate. Spoiling appeals to r,t :.n a great mat y different tilings. o:ie ot its niil.l forms is a total disregard for the feel ings and convenience of others If yuii notice a disagit t able, unnccotamodatiag woman on the car or elsewhere y a may know that she was a spoiled child. Althoncli poor pople do contrivi oc casionally to s| "i| their chilli, n ly in dillgi'lice. l y nial.ii.g great sacrilices. this business is not carried on wholesale. n j it is among the rich. Poverty is a Ki-v re yet kind s:< pniethei In a large fani'ly. not very well to do. the older children care for the younpci ones and exeii more influence often in their own way than tin ir parents in teaching self denial and common sense. Self control is the one thing spoiled children never learn. They must have everything they want and have it with out delay. The child who kicks his nurse, bullies his mother and his young) r brotheis and >i-tirs develops into the passionate, >!i- i; a ted young man. The spoiled gi:l becomes an exacting disagreeable woman. The world niu.-t wait upon her, she makes everybody hioiind her unhappy and all hcc .us. she was a spoiled child. Her Inn haul is « martyr to her whims and cap! ices, ami Jier children are made wretched by her irritable and fretful disposition, ami all because her early training was not what It should have been.— llouijnet. Nasal CATARRH In all its et»i'«-» tbero r[ ,, r °' o F.ly'H Cream Balm J* < it ansi-ft.ioothrsainllii'ala J ■ oQ*'m It run -t catarrh amt driven away a coil IU the lit-u.il quickly. rreuin Tliilm ia placetl Into the nostrils, spreads over the membrane ami is *li«orlK'il. Heiiefi»im ini ilrai ami a cure followt*. It if D"t ilrying—<li>e» not |>rt>fliin- sneezing. Large Si/e, f>n oentt at nr by mail; Trial Size, 10 rents by mail. ELY UKOTUKKS, st! W trren Street, Nt w York. I.). RROWN, THE EYE A SPtCIALTV I yes tested. trcat)'«l. titled willi glass es 'nil Hitilici.nl eyes supplied. Market Street, l.loonisburg, I'.i. Hours 111 a ill. to a pin. Tel |»ln>ne I t:: THE GRAVE IN THE CELLAR (OrtKiiiiil. 1 Tom O'Neill w iih a fool mid a lie had inarrieil Jenny '"one, the girl of bin choice, before he hud put any ready money and -ince be could not .always get work was not prosper, ous. Then 1 Is an old saying, "A luck and a poor man for children," and Tom e Ttalnly illustrated the last part r»f the adage. One night after Tom and his famliy had gone to bed there came a rap at his door, tin opening It he saw a ronu who looked more like a n»g ptclM*r ( than anything else Htumllng ut tlV', door, lb' naked Tom if he Was not m mason When Torn replied that he was the II in it uskod him If he would do O Job of work for him that night. Hlccqj there was nothing In the house for; breakfast and the stranger ngrced to' pay him If ho would work til tnorninp, Tom agreed, whereupon, taking his tools, he went out with the, man, who after blindfolding him led him about In a tortuoiiH course and In to a small i-ellar, where he removal the bandage The place was lighted by. a candle. "I want you to take up a portion of the cement tloor and dig n grave," said the man. Tom set to work, took up an ohlonu portion of the tl«m»r and dug a tl feet by "J. Then the rag picker mount ed a tllght of steps, opened a door and' shoved the end of a pine coffin shaped box through tin- opening. Tom took hold, and the two carried the box and lowered It Into the grave. A barrel of cement stood ready, with everything needful for mixing It. Tom was directed to lay the tloor, smooth ing It so that when tho cement had become old no one would notices that the floor had lieen diaturlied. Tom, who was suspletoiiH that a murder had been committed, looked aliuut him to discover something by which he might Identify the ivllar, though there was no probability of Ids ever craning Into It ngain. There was absolutely noth ing unusual In tin- place, and all Tom could do when tin- rag picker's back was turned was to mnke n cross on the newly laid cement with the sharp' blade of his knife. When the Job was finished the rag picker hlludfoldod- Tom npaln and hfi him out of tin' eel lar. After taking him over a winding course finally the rag picker said "I am going to leave you now I'ount f>oo, ami when you have done si, take off the bnndage If you remove it be for*' you have made tho count you will Is- a dead man. You will find ou the ground something worth muck more to you than the sum I agreed to pay you." Tom counted 500, then, nfter consid erable delay, removal his bandage, tin the ground lieforc hltn was a pieco of paper on which was written In ficn ctl: "Always get at least a portion of your pay before doing work." Ten years passed Tom remember ed the rag picker's advice and would have profited by it, but there was so little work tn do that be was obligid to take his chances fur pay. He was turned out of one house after another till he brought up In a deserted hovel on a lonely road. It was an autumn day when the family went there, and Jenny sat down on a stump and began to cry. "Never mind, dear girl," said Tom cheerfully; "fools are usually cheerful under misfortune. It's darkest before day. Muytie something will turn up." "Or down," added the wife, with a fresh burst of tears. Tom, who w as never Idle when there was work to do, set about gathering thi» fallen wood lying about, which he carried into the cellar. After carry ing In the llrst load he came out with a sin gular expression on his face and asked his wife for a small hand magnifying glass that his youngi st boy hud used for a plaything The glass was given him, and he returned to the cellar. I'resently lie went upstairs ami told his wife that they wore In the house where he had hclpi-d make a burial. Jenny was depressed anew at having to live over a corpse and declared that she would not goto bed that night till Tom had taken tld- horrid thing up and buried It In the wood. Tom, who was a patient fellow, first prepared a new burial place, then opened the grave In the cellar and after much difficulty (l'or Jenny could not be bought to help him) got the box, much rotted, out of its resting place and carried it part way up the steps to the cellar door. There it slipped away from him ninl fell with a crash to the Moor, breaking ' to pieces. Tom turned round, expecting to see u ghastly corpse, but instead saw sev eral coins rolling over the floor. Seiz ing an ax, be eoinph t>sl the destruc tion of the box and found that It was full of gold pieces. "Jenny," he cried, "come here. The coffin's broken, and the corpse is roll lnp about on the floor!" Jenny pave a shriek, but a morbid fascination which impels people to look at awful sights led her to the cellar door, and the sunlight shooting through a small window showed her the shin Inp gold. Inquiry revealed to Tom that the fiouse had once been habited by a rag picker who was suspected of being a miser. But the mail was (lead, and no one knew who he was or whether he bad any relatives. Tom bought the house und gradually replaced and enlarged the space It oe cupled. His wife and children were well dressed, and general prosperity reigned In the family. No one knows where Tom got his funds, and no one can find out, for he Is his own banker, Ind Ills bank Is a grave in his cellar. F A. MITCHEL. l*roV»nl»ly True, Wabash—l wonder whut makes old Ootrox dress so shabbily? Monroe- Ills pride, my boy. Wabash Why. how's that? Monroe lie's afraid his customers will mistake him for one of his cl« rks Chicago News. l-'ortllleil llrrturlra, In an article on "Historical Houses" in the House a writer calls attention to a curious relic of the days when th»- Northumbrian pastor Was compelled to live In a fortified house If he wished to preserve his worldly goods from the plundering bands of moss troopers w! o Were continually crossing the S(ottish Isirder and raiding the homesteads of defenseless villagers One of the best examples of these fortified rectories, originally built In the fourteenth cen tury, still exists lu Itothbury It Is dc scribed In a 'lst of fortlets In 1.%12 as a "toure and a little harmekln. being tin* man'con of the p'sonape of Itothbury '' it has walls eleven feet thick lit th* base and six feet at the top it has turrets at the corners mid a cfiambt r rrilh :■ s'"ii" Moor. Into width the rec tors (lit ® their catth at night or on approach of the raiders PRIMITIVE PUMPS. I'hr HreliHiilviii I «m*«l In \n«*irnf 112 -'ac * |>t nn«i In ' tiimi ' ;■! occurs fn-'iiwiiily o* tin* early Kirypi It ! and Is jr«'fn r:»H> l»*l> »*d to ! • ; •••" | a portable pump Tin ( »< In .-lis.. attributed ! Ml |*' their main r«-I• • ha vp !>«t u tin where it I<>tiu I!>• t Invention nr ■ :»n«t cd tu tin ir mi •' • Substantia ll\ flu- win.* .'i' it ' li the 1 ' ii' . In van The SIIIIII t i chain pump In < hin , ;iri orhrin of whi h ant '• *- • era This sdmpl i.. chit never t«» Ir <* ' i In mirh «*om i<>' u-* t 1 * I j tliral latum i i- II |1 . 112 Wli.'rc Irritation b• ■ : i< f»-«l I r per wall' til' elinln ; t; ? ■ portlonatel} Inrijer and mmid !>■ a riTV atnipli* triad v . nrid ! 1 K»*r 'mm • ar»- oj • rated t MvaraHKmnliwil to a smi table driv hut iiHi' liim Thi* apple :i' Inn « 112 sti'i'n I r ? trnt'T Is of uncr! i'i >i In. I .or fori- th«* <lr.-fi:>ri irn certain np; ■ lions of fir» to v I< containing v i ti*r. hy which effect- n.r ; r-'d' -I ralnilnti tl t<> astm -!i iirrt.r i I ahipers. witi* practiced t >f tl •• j r l ,. ot Kjrypt, lirii'i* nml IC bnt knowledge ms m%ir t<> ! • tin mil Into • I r fulness. Vli« Art|fiovt« Captain Klu-'«* tills of a •• v< r-t tion lip ©nee ! (I l * f marines wlio k< r<* aruuln nt • trim t>n«l the n>irk to do c I ~,nJ ■ man-of war. "It's tin* chap I iin." « lid tti• f;r«tt. "Ilow'd yon ii t'* that outr aifecil the 112" fon<l. "IliTiunx hi* ain't pi no tcork to da ■nd all dajr to do it In." Tin* wrond marine «nnrt> 1 hH dl*- frn«t. "You ain't t t It * .li k " •aid h* "It's tli ' "■ 112 112 "How's that?" "\Vi*ll, uie Iwj*, a* yon mj, the rhap lain's pot not! in"to do i id i!i *' .y to do It In. hut t 1 ' ■ .p'r* nf t ti** ain't ir<>t anything to do ri-1 all •] 112 to do It In a-d ilh -ti • it of k .«w» to kelp him •! it." MOW*. LIVc . 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Wan«M, Furnace®, etc. PRIfKS TIB L9VBST! DULITV TDK BRST! JOHN IIIXSON NO- 116 E. FRONT BT, PUOCi The Coal Dealer SELLS WOOD AND COAL -AT -844 Ferry Street
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