j With Claudia's > Assistance By INA WRIGHT HANSON I / < op) right, MM) t>> t- C. Fknelia \ From the d -way Fitzgerald looked moodily at me front in front of the dress, r I looked moodily at Fltzger aid "She refused me," he said. "I've got togo to Mrs. Whiting's din ner," 1 answered. Fltz nodded and threw himself heav ily into u chair. "I woul in't go, you know, after Mrs. «. Mng's niece refused me, so she had 1 j 1 stle up you." I hired at him, then jerked open the top drawer. "St-euis to me, in the interest of hu ll rilty. you might have staved off 1 »ur old proposal till after the dinner. Fve got to take Miss Whiting in What :1 I y to her? I'm no society man." "You 1 tight talk about me. It's da 1 ued strange she refuses me," Fltz r« aided modestly. "Of course I'm 112.; but what of that? Look at my u. juey Y' 1 turned from my hair brushing and regarded Fltz with surprise. "She's different from other girls," he went on mournfully. "You never know what she Is going to do or say next. SLi said if she ever found the man she wasted to marry and he didn't ask her ohc would propose to him. You say a word for me. old man, and maybe she will change her mind abont It." "All right," I said and started for the Infernal dinner. If I had been left Iu pen e I could have translated a few more pages of that I.atln work 1 was ou. Why 1 sh> I have (figuratively of inursei falli i, on my face aiul wor stuped CluiMi.i Whiting Uk- Moment I an w her 1 don't know. Tliat any man vuiilJ help adoring h*n- after lie came to know her Is incredible, hut I think I be ui U-l >re ever she said a word to me It coulin't be Itecauoe her eyes were the bln.iit 1 ever saw or lier hair critikh-d sunsliin sui>|»' >se a jK>et would describe it l>etter—or her lips red ;*« the rosea she wore ill her belt, (iiie day since that dinner she told me something a 1 ut affinities. It may be tUat uiystcri IUS word holds the reason. What we tinned of is vaguely reuiem bt.-i.-d 1 ki»-.w that I walked home ward carryi.i with me a vision of sweetest sen -lies*. /or that describes Claudia an ' api<eared that day. When I tuiued the corner, beyond winch were ui> l<jdKings. I saw Flts gerild at uiy it his broad back to ward me I n»Lueuil»ered my forgotten promise auu tied Incontinently. I couldn't face h'iu. Later I stole into my room like a thief in the night. Next day I w nt to call on her and to make my pe. .• with Fitz, who had in terviewed tu> t!mt morning. She was tu tlie gardei . ind i stated the object of my rail at <-nce. "If you kn w him U'tter you would appreciate lr.ii more," I said and launched forth it some length into his peculiar graces and virtues. Claudia listened, and when 1 hail finished she leaned tow aid me. suilllug roguishly. •\\ud di In t you care al«>ut coming tuse- me 7 If it had not been for Mr. Fitzgerald you would have come any way wouldn't you ?" To flunk ;hat she should have looked straight Into my heart and discovered my perfidy! I almost let goof my se en; I almost answered, "I came lie cause I love you." And tills on the second meeting. Then bo auae 1 must talk, and there were Home things I must not say. I began talking of myself my college life, my failing health, forcing me to live for y< ir-< In the pine forests; then when my h -tilth was restored how the woods still Pel 1 me with their soli tudes. BO tli it 1 was unhappy and 111 at ease In society •'I have quite a pretentious cabin there." I r aid. "In It are my IMHIRS and my violin. Back of It flows a clear stream HI !i trout waiting for me to catch tli -in for my breakfast. Noth ing is wan' ng tli.Te to make me en tirely comfortable." My face rrew Lot, for all at once I realize*! there was a want a void—to tie tilled *1 tint If 1 went back to my cabin now it would l«- as lacking as the body hose soul is not within. "I whs b irn ninl bred In the woods!" exclaimed Claudia. "The stars look closer ami .Igger than they do In the titles of th • lowlands Fp there In the mountains are ferny nooks and man zanita; time Is water cress which muk>-s iue hungry this minute. Oh, I kiiov. about the woods!" Her blue eyes were shining like the stars of which she spoke. Then she asked tne about my books, and I told her of my published ones and those iti contemplation—dry old tomes why should I have supposed that they would Interest a young crea ture like her? But I ramblel on, lost in her sweet companionship. till the sun suddenly dropped out of sight, and 1 saw lier bhlvcr In The breeze that stirred the poplars Then l remembered Fitz. "Ini give huts another chance," I said perfunctorily as 1 rose to go. She look ltd at me seriously, but made no an swer For the greater part of a month Fit* was away fr an town, and I saw Clau dia nearly •• •ry day. Before going he asked my pr iiuFe to say a word in his favor every time 1 saw her. There are limits to the duties of friendship, but 1 promised I-ecu use I felt that lie would muke her a ir owl husband, lie was an honorable • m and had more money than h<- kne-v what to do with. Sin- was siii - h a liewllderlag llttl'j creature v. n (laudia At tin- tlr«.t -eting hlc* w;. h w sweetly serious. ;>lie ha<t t i in*' since that she was ti ightem-d t> death nf me because I knew s.j iiitieh Fancy it! The day she t JLD III«\ though she was bubbling over with la gliter. ml 1 suspect she was pokiiit! fuii at me ill her Irrepressible way Then there was the morning when we walked together to liiurch iilul she l.iikisl so quietly of holy things, and there was that last after iioon iu the garden before l it/, came home That da> it was the hardest of all to forget myself and remember Fitz. Jennet iines when the tender new of my h< at t tvould creep into tnj words little spot* of color would come and go in ler t'.rli h face. I seareely saw her eyes that day.the white lids drooped »-j lie teutlj over their blue beauty. At last I pulled myself together with the thought that he could do so much Luore for lien Ilian I, even If she could bring herself to think of me at all, and mad** my last earnest speech for him. She frowned a little, then she smiled and looked thoughtful. '•| think I shall have to teach you to read poetry," she said. *"\Vdl you'/'" 1 asked eagerly. "Heifiii ii I lie t ourtshjp of .Miles ■ then >l'c ansvered and ran, laughing, up the wait. "I did the best I could for you, Fltz," 1 told him when he returned that even ing. And 1 rehearsed the last speech In full. "What did she say?" hi' demanded. "Why she didn't say anything to that. She told me—or hinted that my education was deficient because 1 had little knowledge of poetry, and she told me to begin 011 'The Courtship of Miles Standlsh.' " Fltz looked at nte mournfully. "That's my finish then. Have you read it?" "I was Just beginning." Fltz walked heavily from the room, and I took up my new Longfellow. Short of stature he was, hut stronsly I milt uiul athletic. Brown as a nut wi-> lit* face, but his russet board v. is already Fluked with patches of snow. Prettj good description of myself, I thought. Not exactly patches, but there were certainly threads of gray. I read ou till the speech was finished, the egotistical words of Miles Standish; then 1 bowed my head in shame aud anger. 1 had talked steadily of myself and my work, but she had led uie ou. She had 110 right to call me down so. Tomorrow 1 would go back to my cabin and forget, but yet 1 knew I should always remember. I was still brooding \\ hen Fitz came back. "I don't blame you. old man,"he be gan. "Probably you'll make her hap pier. but. Lord, look at my money!" 1 blinked at him as he settled down. "Neat way she had of bringing mat ters to a focus," he went on, picking up my liook which lay face downward ou the table. "Why. darned If I lie lieve you've read It all!" "I've read enough," I said resentful ly. "I read what she thinks of me." One moment that blessed Fltz gazed at me, then in words of one syllable ho gave me the gist of that poem—made nie to understand that my Claudia was impersonating the Puritan maiden In her immortal speech, "Why don't yotl speak for yourself. John?" And to think I ever had deemed Fitzgerald stupid! I found my blessed girl In the gar den. but she did not hear my approach. She was on tiptoe, trying to reach a rose which swung above her head. "I have come to speak for myself, Claudia," I said. The dear hands ceased from their quest to hide the blushes of her sweet face. lb r girlish form trembled. "Yon think me liold!" she cried ap prehensively. It was such a glorious affair to prove to her just what I did think of her, and it took a long time. And then she ex plained to me about affinities. Some Kn 1111 > Sprrrhen. An Irishman who was very 111, when the physician told him that he must prescribe an emetic for him, said, "In deed. doctor, an emetic will never do rue any good, for I have taken several and could never keep one of them upon my stomach." An Irishman at cards, on inspecting the pool and finding It deficient, exclaimed "Here Is a shilling short. Wli > put it in?" A poor Irish servant maid who was left handed placed the knives and forks upon the dinner table In the same awkward fashion. Iler master remarked to her that she had placed them all left hand ed. "Ah, irue. Indeed, sir," she said, "and so I have! Would you be pleased to help me to turn the table?" Doyle and Yelverton, two eminent members of the Irish bar. quarreled one day so violently that from hard words they came to hard blows. Doyle, a power ful man with the fists. knocked down Yelverton twice, exclaiming, "You scoundrel. I'll make you behave your self like a gentleman!" To which Yel verton, rising, refilled, with equal indig nation: "No. sir; never! I defy you! You could not do it!" London Specta tor. The Queer Horman*. One who has lived among them says: "The Btirmans are a primitive people. They are a very young people. There Sre certain marks and signs by which physiologists can determine the relative youth or age of a race. One of these Is the physical differentiation between boys and girls. In early races It Is slight. As the race grows old It de velops. If you dressed a Burman boy of eighteen in a girl's dress or a Bur mese girl of the same age in a boy's dress you could not distinguish quickly true from false. Face and figure and voice are very similar. In as old people such as the Freiwh or the Brahmans In India a boy begins to differ from 11 girl very early Indeed. Their faces seem al most different types. Their figures even at twelve could not be disguised by any clothing. 'lliclr voices are ut terly different." jne smallest bird cannot alight upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to Its Inmost fiber. Every mind Is at times ro less sensitive to the most trifling words. niiinlnK a Verdict. Sir James Scarlett, the famous Eng llsh lawyer, held that verdicts could be won without eloquence, and he proved it many a time in his own career. Ills skill iu turning a failure Into a success was wonderful. In a breach of promise case the defendant, Scarlett's client, was alleged to have been cajoled Into an engagement by the plaintiff's moth er. She was a witness in behalf of her daughter and completely ballled Scar lett, who cross examined her. But In his argument he exhibited his tact by this happy stroke of advocacy: "You saw, gentlemen of the Jury, that I was but a child In her hands. What must my client have been?" l.i'n of the Olymplmlii. The "era of the Olympiads," or the "Olympian era." began July 1, B. ('. 770. An Olympiad was a period of four years, the games iseing celebrated every fourth year. When it was first propo-cd to use the Olympian era the earlie I record that mid be found was that of the victory of Clioroebus, who won the great foot race long before horse racing and chariot racing were lilt odueed. His victory was taken as the tar' il; poivt of the Olympiads. (.<»«•<! Ni'Wi. Cash i r Have you heard, sir, that John ■ins is a bankrupt? Banker — Well thai'-; 1 news. We'll now get a little of what lie owes us, whereas, If he ' ! remained In business, we'd nev er Ir g«t • • :it. I'lieg •tide Blatter rhil ». In r.s uvttl rrnfllc, Mil . .i j ; • ,»Iht hi tlie course of • i; • I - falli n Into a ditch— 'j be fate of Professor i uric, the discoverer of radium, who, *1 * it i' on it possibilities, fell under i!i • v,h -e| of a wagon and was crushed to Valh, niiuhl be parallehsl by several ii tames of the kind from lives of phil o notably that of Archimedes •112 . yracu- •.:i,» was so concentrutod • i ma'h I'iatical problem when Its I: .:an 1.1 - . • - t | t burst into that city tlraf ! " fell under their swords In ; l!e of hN impatient. "Noll turbare ' ul .s ii,e stepuiak, too, the Bus si-'!! i'"f!tg* i■ was si engrossed with th study of nihilist questions in the Cot; ' eof ilk iii a London suburb that lie w run over and killed by t ti in at a level crossing. Londor ( hroiiicle. I WOOING j CINDERELLA 112 By Kuth Sautelle '■ ' "i") rln'it, lUUS, by Homer Sjiiitgiie ► Scarcely had Dudley forced his breathless way through the thicket into tlit; little cleared space at the edge of the bluff when a young voice as hailed him. "I thought yon would come before long. You are the prince, of course." He wheeled with a start and stared. Klie sat on a low rock, looking straight at him out of smiling brown eyes. There was a general impression of browuness. It seemed to be a gown of some shimmery brown stuff -or was it gold?—and a kind of aureole of fluffy, light brown hair, llow the deuce did a girl up that cliff? About how near lv a pulling porpoise had he sounded, anyway? Pity a man couldn't keep track of his breath! He'd go into train ing on*that hill till he could take It on the run without turning a hair—he would, by Jove! Must be something the matter with her eyes. He'd never seen that is to say, they sort of— "You said yes, didn't you?" she inter rupted sweetly. "Surely you must be the prince." *1 beg your pardon," began Dudley, sii hl'-nly realizing that she had asked a ; nest lon s uiie minutes ago and that a.! is wer was expected of him. "The P . , you say? I've never been ac <■ .<d before, you know." And then, In a i ho£ c imprcheiision, "Most assur t .lly 1 am the prince—lf you are the prin.s . he finished triumphantly. The brown eyes twinkled into his more distractingly than before. "Oh, not at all!" she laughed. "I'm only poor Cinderella." '•Cinderella?" questioned Dudley, looking the mystification he felt. "Why, yes- you see"— She hesitated. And then a very wonderful thing hap pened. A line of rosiest pink appeared just above the brown collar and crept up stealthily, enveloping the tiny ear, flashing into flame 011 the white brow and hiding at last In the light hair that blew about her face. Dudley, fascinat ed, watched its progress and forgave the intrusion. "Of course it's very simple, only dis gracefully stupid of me. And"—sit ting tip straight and suddenly beconi ing very brave "I'm not In the least afraid to tell you." Dudley mumbled suitable assurances, while the girl moved uneasily 011 her rocky throne and continued to look brave. "I Just—l only—the flower was way over the edge of the bluff, and I held onto a branch and leaned down—and — my heel got wedged by a stone and"— There was a tentative shifting of the shimmery skirts, then 11 hasty motion of withdrawal beneath them. "And I I lost the mate to that!" she finished, with desperate courage, thrusting Into sight the other foot. Incased In a stout little brown walking boot. Two furious blushes were in full op eration by this time. Dudley gazed fixedly at the small trim l>oot. "You say the one you lost was just like this?" lie questioned, with great solemnity. "Oh, 110; It belonged to the left foot, you know," she responded, with corre sponding earnestness. And then came the welcome relief of laughter, under the relaxing influence of which Dudley sank upon the ed«e of the rock. "I only meant to suggest," he an nounced fervently, "my unbelief that there could be another like it In the world." "Bravo, bravo!" she applauded gay ly. "That is pretty enough to savor of much practice In such speaking." Dudley's anient expression was re placed by one of due submission to re buke. "It Is meet," lie said as his hand sought a capacious coat pocket and dls apjieareil therein, "that the downtrod den should arise to do thee service. Perhaps I can aid you better than you know." "I'm sure you can," she interposed hastily. "But let me tell my plan first. 1 couldn't let you goto find it and leave me helpless aud alone again." "Of course not." Dudley's fuce as sumed a thoughtful expression, and his hand feowly left the big pocket. "1 a—hardly suppose you could bor row mine." Again her bright laughter rang out. "Oh, flattery, where is thy stiug?" she cried gaspingly. And Dudley, looking ruefully from his own generous boot to the adorable mateless one, realized that once more he'd "put his foot In It." "Forgiven," she declared In a mo ment, "because of the pretty one you said lirst. And so, togo back to our muttons, I see only one way. And yet, of course. It's such a little distance the camp's just back In the trees there I could hop on one foot, I suppose." She paused mischievously for the mere pleasure of regarding his look of frank disappointment; also to observe whether if occurred to him to wonder why, with friends so near, she had not called for help. "But I should be sure," she relented, "to lose my balance and let the wrong foot down." 1 >udley brightened per ceptibly. "And it's very stony and, I know, would hurt dreadfully. So after nil there Is just the one way, as I said " She tilted the lonely boot back and forth on Its heel and regarded It pen sively. Dudley did likewise. When this had on long enough she raised to him an expectant look. "Yes," he said, almost mournfully: "there only remains for me to help you. I suppose 1 ought," he continued, while his hand moved again ever so haltingly toward the pocket, then rap- Idly away from It,"to to"— "Oh. pray don't feel any obligation In the matter!" was the hint, with just a bit of ice iu the tone. "To avail ui\ self of the most fortu nate opportunity that ever befell an undeserving b.-ggar!" he Anlshed, hilariously as he assisted her to her leet Ih.it is to say, her foot. Men- vor.ls cannot approximate the i'h llfjht of that trip in the neighboring lll.i.cli || .1 lie; hboriu;?) camp. They lat giied like children and clutched each other iu frantic mirth. And with what exceeding care and deliberate ni-ss it was necessary to pro-eed! The most inoffensive pebble'was occasion for a i■ ie ilelour, In spite of the la mentable fact that It increased the dis tance. And did the little uii-'iod il' a foot so much as caress the groun I in its wabbling career Dudley \ is i ly to weep in worshipful cont.itioii It was almost too much joy to di ■ iver in the course of the hysterical c.iuver sat ion that tliis v. ;s Tom Mutton's ranch dear oil Turn that he hadn't '•■•n since the college days and Cin den II I his w!;V ;;a« t. But as all (.a , .it moments come to an end. m» i iloi, as Cinderella droniied tir- t •ut !»*»•••■* ciiair on me uungalow piazza. "And then the prince," he said slow ly, looking down upon her with com pelling eyes, "caused his heralds—no; 1 think you know what the prince did without my telling you." "Ah," she cried, her own eyes falling under his scrutiny, "but first you've to find the slipper." "Yes, first I've to find the slipper. And when It Is foun.. I've the advan tage of knowing where dwells Cinder ella and that the slipper will lit." "Which last is yet to be proven!"— teasingly. "May I put it to the test?" he begged. "Oli, Faintheart!" she whispered I mockingly. "Try and see." Whereat Dudley began a most peeul j lar course of behavior, doing quickly around the corner of the cabin, he humped his head softly several times against the logs, gave himself a vio lent shake and then strode through the trees to the low rock in the little clear ed space at the edge of the bluff. Sit ting down, lie plunged an empty hand into the deep pocket and brought it out full of a st.nit brown walking boot of small dimensions. To his credit be it said that there | was sell' denunciation in his aspect as | lie sat turning it miserably over and over. Oh, yes; of course he'd had it there all the while. Well, hadn't he tried to let her have it at the very first, and didn't she keep interrupting till he couldn't that is to say, didn't want to? Suppose lie was the biggest cad on record, he'd wager no fellow ever had a better excuse! Hang It! What did she have to look at him that way for? How could he deliberately hand the thing over and put an end to the happiest few moments he'd ever spent, or ever expected to spend, for that matter? For surely by this fool ishness he'd dished any prospects of further acquaintance about as effec i tively as possible. Well, anyhow, this was torture; might as well have the confession over with and go off and shoot himself. In three minutes he was back. The | trial trip had taken twenty to navi i gate. She was waiting and still alone, olt. yes; rub it in! She might have cared if he hadn't spoiled it all. "Most eager knight!" she called in greeting. "Was it wings? Nothing else could have taken you down the ravine atul up again in this time." For answer ho knelt without a word i md put the fateful shoe in place with ! elaborate care He would have that privilege before he forfeited her favor forever. Then "I found it in the ravine before I rlmihcit up ;it all," he s.iid abruptly, j "it was in my pocket all the while. | Now send me away, for I can't go un less you do." l'.ut i indeteila leaned forward to take ■ hi< remorseful face between two but terfly hands. "Oh, laiy, boy." she cried softly; "most innocent of boys! Did you think 1 didn't knowV I saw you pick It up down lie low no, j oil shall have all the j truth; it fell I let it fall because I saw you!" I Just then Tom Hutton. coming ! around the corner of the house, de ! cided he could quite as well postpone i his errand U>lli:iKlun'M Integrity. The great Duke of Wellington was noted for his rigid integrity. Here is an instance which occurred in refer dice to his large est.ite. Some farm ad joining his lands w as for sale, and his agent ing iti ited for him for the pur | chase. Having concluded the business, he went tu tin- duke and told him he had made a capital bargain. "What do you mean?" .asked the duke. "Why, your grace, 1 have got the farm for so much, and 1 know it to be worth at least so much more." "Are you quite sure of that?" "Ouite sure, your grace, for 1 ha.ve carefully surveyed It." "Very well, then, pay the gentleman from me the balance between what you have already given and the reiil value of the estate." Argonaut. W lien Soft t'rabie ire On nireroiiN. "There is no danger in eating soft shelled crabs." observed an epicure, "If they are fre.di, but they are poison if ; they are not They should be well sea soned and an extra lot of pepper put on them as a precaution, especially If the weather is very hot when they are eaten or if they are eaten shortly be fore one retires. It Is the habit of many poison ■; to cat soft shelled erabs at nighttime Ido not know but that they taste better then. It is somewhat dangerous to many to drink milk after eating crabs. Milk seems to develop the colic that follows eating soft shell ed crabs with some persons. Anothet thing that should be remembered, and that is a sharp .thunderstorm will kill soft shelled erabs, and even the hard shelled crab at times. Unless the soft shelled crab has been cooked before the thunderstorm I think the safer plan would be to decline to eat It. Under all other conditions there Ls no danger in partaking of them, for 1 do not think any one would bo criminal enough to cook a dead crab, hard of soft shell. The proper way to kill a crab Is to throw him into a kettle of boiling water. I know that some peo ple think this Is cruel, but It Is no more cruel than to stab them with a needle or kill them with chloroform, as I have known some extra sensitive persons to do." Washington Star. \pni'lifM !W\or Took S<-UI|IM. The taking of scalps has been spoken of so commonly In the press of the United States that It has become a general practice, when speaking <»f a man having lost his life among the In dians, to say, "He lost his scalp." Nov elists even of today, when locating their stories in Apacheland, almost In variably scalp tin' victims of Apache vengeance. As a matter of fact, one can say that the Apache never took scalps. Men who have lived In tho Apache country and have been closely associated with them for thirty years or more claim that no full blooded Apache ever scalped a man he killed. On the contrary, he would not touch a body after death and would throw away his weapons If stained with hu man blood. Their own dead the men never help to bury. This task ls left to the women. E. S. Curtis in ScMb ner's Still*)-. "It seems strange," snld Deacon Mayberry as he counted the money aftei church, "that a large congrega tlon fan be so small" I'hlladelphla Telegraph l»y Proiy. In Holland, says a Scotch paper, | man .; \ pro yis allowed. This is j tin- >» < •<! "mariiage by the glove" in; ! i . II tally putin practice by a Dutchman who is sojourning abroad and, wanting a wife, Is too poor or too far oh to return home for one. In such .1 i ohe \\ rites home to a law y. w h<> one conformable to tho re<l1 1 n ' >1 Ins client. If the gen tleman apprises he next sends the law- j ycr a soiled left hand glove and * power of attorney, which settles tho business. A friend marries the woman by proxy, ami she ls thereafter prompt ly shipped oft' to her new honic TRIAL BY ORD£AL. The Queer That Eilnlit In the Simai I'eniiiMiilit. In the Sinai peninsula trial !>y ordeal is still practiced la nil criminal eases where no witnesses are forthcoming the jiulge, "el mabashaa," tests the suspected person hy fire, hy water or by dream. In the first the judge places au iron pan in the fire until It is rcdhot and gives it to tin- accused to touch three times with his tongue, If marks of burning are shown on the tongue the accused is pronounced guilty. The theory apparently Is that If he Is not guilty the moisture on the tongue pre vents it from being burnt; if guilty his tongue would dry up from fear of be ing discovered. The test by water is described as fol lows: "The 'mabashaa* sits with the accused anil the spectators in a circle with a copper jug full of water placed in the center. This jug Is then made to appear to move round the circle by means of witchcraft or hypnotism. If the jug returns back to the judge the accused is pronounced not guilty, but if the jug stops opposite the accused he Is pronounced guilty." This description is rather wanting in detail, and it is difficult to know how a jug which only appears to move can be a trustworthy index. In the test by dream the "mabashaa" sleeps and sees In a dream if the accused Is guilty or not.—Chicago News. The Sinner*. "You opera singers are all jealous, aren't you?" quizzed the friend of the prima donna. "Oh, no," replied the prima donna, "lots of us never sang in church choirs. 1 ' Philadelphia Record. (irent Title Wave*. Those who see the rise and fall of the titles in our Atlantic harbors sel dom think of the wonderful career of the moon taised ocean waves which cause tin- tidal 11 ux and reflux. Such billows not only cross the sea, but flow from ocean to ocean, and In this way complicated movements are set going. Thus once in every twelve hours the moon raises a tide billow in the south era Indian ocean. VVbon this billow passes the ('apt? of Good Hope at noon' its successor is already burn, and by the time the first billow has reached the Azores islands at midnight the sec ond is rounding the cape and a third has come into existence in the southern ocean. I'.y -1 o'clock in the morning fol lowing its passage of the cape the.tide billow reaches the English channel, and there the shallow water delays It so much that it does not arrive at the strait of Hover until I<> a. m. Here the narrowing channel causes the tide to ris • very liirh and almost puts an end to the wave. In the meantime another branch ol the billow runs around the western side of the British islands, rounds the north point of Scotland and moves slowly down the eastern coast of Kngiand until it Anally flows up the Thames and laps the wharfs of Lon don. London Graphic. Reaping? There is no mouth In the year In which ttii' song of the reaper is not heard in some land on the glol>e. In January is the wheat harvest of Aus tralia, New Zealand, Chile and the Argentine lb-public; in February and March, upp t'.'.vpt an.l India; in April, lower i. ypt. India, Syria, Cy prus, l'crsia Asia Minor, Mexico and Cuba; in May, Texas, Algeria, central Asia, China. .I.ipan and Morocco; in June. California. Oregon, Mississippi, Alabama C<or ia, North and South Carolina. Tcuiic--.ee, Virginia, Ken tucky. K ins s, Arkansas, Utah, Colo rado, Missouri. Turkey, Italy. Spain, Portugal and south of France; in July. New Fugland, New York, IVniisyh ani.i, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, lowa. Wisconsin, southern Minnesota. Nebraska, upper Canada, Itouiiiauia, Bulgaria, Austria Hungary, south ol Km la. Germany, Switzerland and south o| Fat land; In August, cen tral and no: !h-ru Minnesota, the Ha kotas, Manitoba, lower Canada, Co lumliia. ! iuin, Netherlands, Great Ib-itain, l'eumark, I'oland and central ICII - i; in September and < (etolier, Scot la ud. den. Norway and north iif kus i; in November, l'eru and South Africa, and in Heceinl»er, Burma and New South Wales. An I*«<*4*l t*Mliimtflint. A milliner who works In a large city says that one day a woman came into the store very much excited and want ed the trimming on her new hat chaug eI. She said that it had been trimmed on the wrong side. "But." said the saleswoman, "the trimming i; on the left side. That is where it ought to be." "it doesn't make any difference whether it ought to be In front or back or right or left, it's got to be on the church side." "Church side!" gasped the astonished girl. "Yes, church side! I sit right next the wall in church, and I'm not going to have all that trimming next the wall. I want it on the other sido, so the whole congregation can see it." The trimming was promptly placed on the "church side" of the hat. KILLTHB COUCH ANO CURE THE LUNCS w,th Dr. King's New Discovery ___ /CONSUMPTION Price FOR I UUGHS and 50c «. SI.OO Free Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for all THROAT and LUNO TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. SOMETHING Ml! A FLellablo TIN SHOP For all kind of Tin Roofings Spoutlne and Qonoral Job Work. Stoyes, Heaters, RanM>i Furnaces, oto. PRICKS TIIG LOWBST! QIIILITY TUG BEST! JOHN IUXSON NO- 118 E. KRONT BT. THE SAVAGE MORO. Iff* Terrllile Ite||fciou« Frenzy Wtileli It lot.'. Isi Murder. The .\loro is a savage, a primal man, u Malay, which is a oranch of one of the oldest stocks of which we know, lie is subject when not under the In fluence of a s.e.f contained ruler to strange, murderous fits of insanity. When a Moio, without effort on his part, become ■ "i;ed with a desire to murder he i-. said to have"run amuck," and it such tinii - lie will rush wildly, ■la hiiig and killing every One he chni.i s to meet, even his own people. Wh n. however, lie purposely works liiu elf int.) a religious frenzy it Is with the di ire to kill Christians and the faith of the prophet ascend ortli -iiii into paradise The Moro In 1 1i- stale of passion Is said to be "Ju an i iitadii " lie has then taken a re i i us until, perhaps administered by <on • ten I "h nljl" who had duly •i ide ! pi! rlmavre to Mecca. He has I ion ,d himself up 'ii that he suffers •vc. iieiatin .r:o;iies and through phys ical i! "eritig is reduced to a nervous fr"ii"\\ Having once taken the oath, the Mo o "jiiramciitado" is doomed to •lay iiuiil at last he himself is slain. Tl • Moro is a Mohammedan, but he lias perverted the Mohammedan lielief until at times it is a weird, grotesque and terrible religion. In the heart of the V >r i there is no fear of death. It i' to him but an incident of life, and Irs belief, as he has fashioned It, is l' at he who dies in battle Is cleansed i'l >lll sin and goes straight to the bos oms of the liouris in paradise. The Moro's idea of government Is force, lie has never known anything else. If you are kind to him he thinks you fear him. His world is ruled by fear, not love. Hamilton Wright in Leslie's Weekly. A MODERN ARCADIA. Xoivherp ire I.ife nml rroperty So Safe as In I.Hlirndnr. A traveler who recently visited the coast of Labrador says that nowhere on earth are life and property held so sacred as in that little known and bar ren land. A thousand miles of lonely seaboard, along which is scattered a population of some 10,000 people, about one-third of whom are white, would seem to give every opportunity for crime, yet there is no police officer of any kind, no court and no jail. Nor are they needed. The only criminal charge within fifty years was one against an Eskimo, who shot a rival in love. In addition to the resident popula tion the coast is visited every summer by about 10.000 Newfoundland fisher men, and, while Newfoundland Itself is not by any means free from criminals, none appear to come among the lishers or else the example of the natives of Labrador causes them to refrain from any wrongdoing while there. Years ago a circuit court visited the coast every summer, but as it found nothing to do it was abolished. Now should any serious charge be made against a man a magistrate would be sent from Newfoundland to investigate it.—Har per's Weekly. An Giiklc'h Kill ol rare, The voracity ol' the eagle and similar birds of prey is well known, but the contents or a nest which was recently discovered in the Alps by a Swiss hunter show the following remarkable variety in the daily menu: A hare, twenty s ( \en chamois' feet, four pi geons' feet, thirty pheasants' feet, elev en heads of fowls, eighteen heada of grouse and the remains of a nunjbe? of rabbits, marmots and squirrels.— London Chronicle. A j'oiiticiiiii'N War, Somebody suggests that the boy who ran away from h> me because he dlq&'t get enoogh pic has the Instincts of a great politician. Wrong. The politician would have stayed at home, stolen the pio and made his mother think she had eaten it herself. Philadelphia North American. The bashl-t»a?.oul. his bead e.\ eept a tuft at the crown, which is to tie used by the angel to jerk him »o para illse If he should be slain by I is h tended victim. The Home Paper I of Danville. Of course you read j i »i II 1 THE HEOPLE'S KQPULAR 1 APER. i ! Everybody Reads It. i ' Published Kvery Morning Except I Sunday at I No. II H. MahoMig St. i Subscript ion 6 ceni r Week. j DEATH BY DROWNING. TITO MinuleN I ndrr Wolrr Sufficient tot liune l ulill IteNult*. Drowning is n quicker death than most people suppose. Insensibility Is said to begin iu nhout one minute, und fatal unconsciousness generally su porvont s In tile neighborhood of two. Even practiced divers cannot remain under water more than a minute and a half, and it is almost fatal to remain be neath the surface longer than that. At Nuvarino, where there are many expert divers who plunge Into the sea after spon;;es. not one was found who could remain under water for two minutes. In the Ilod sea the Arab divers generally remain down one and n quarter minutes, while at Ceylon the pearl fishers can seldom stay below for even one minute. There is a case on record at Falmouth, England, where a diver had descended eighty feet and on giving the signal was drawn up slowly, so it was two minutes before he reached the surface. Blood ran from his ears an 1 nose, and he was in sensible. He died without speaking. Insensibility, however, floes not al ways Involve death, for In many cases a person may be resuscitated by the use of energetic measures. The bring lng to of people who have been under water for five consecutive minutes,how ever, is considered doubtful by phy sicians. There have been extraor dinary cases related, nevertheless, where persons have been brought back to life after having been submerged for fifteen or twenty minutes, but It is probable that they have come to the surface again and again during that time.—Black wood's. A Will Iu Word*. In the probate division of the London county court Sir Gorell Barnes was asked to admit to probate the will of Frederick Thorn of Amesbury avenue, Btreatham, who died leaving property valued at $4,000. A day or so before he died, counsel stated, Mr. Thorn had a paralytic stroke. lie asked for a piece of paper, and they gave an en velope to him. He wrote on the back of it, in the presence of his wife and two of his children, "All to mother. F. T." This was witnessed by Arthur Thorn and Percy Thorn. The will was handed up to his lordship, who remark ed that It was probably the shortest one on record. It was duly executed and witnessed and he therefore pro nounced for it. Worse Than Lout. "You lost your money in Wall street, did you?" "I wouldn't say I lost It," answered the precise though unworldly man. "The word 'lost' implies a remote pos sibility of Its being found again."— Exchange. 1 V KA WANNA KAILKOAD " -liIjOOMSBURH tMVIHION Delaware. Lackawanna and Western liailroad. in Effect Jan. 1, l«0. r >. TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE. EASTWARD. 7.07 a. in.daily tor Bloomshurg, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre a..d Seranton. Arriving S«tuh ton at !M2 u. iu„ und connecting at Seranton with trains arriving at Philadelphia at ".IK a. in.and New York City atp. in 10.lit a. in. weekly for Bloouisburg.Kingston. Wlikes-Barre.Hcrantou and intermediate sta tions, arriving at Seranton at 12.116 p. ui and connecting there with trains for N«-w York City. Philadelphia and Buffalo. 2.11 weekly for Bloomshurg,Kingston,Wlikes Barre, Seranton and intermediate *tations, arriving at Seranton at 4.50 p. in. 5.1.1 p. m.daily for Blooiiisljiirg, hsny. I'ly moutli. Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, I'ittston, Seranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Seranton at •>.25 p. in.and connecting the" 8 with trainsarrlvine at New York City at ti.so a' hi.. Philailelpeia 10 a. in.and Buffalo7a tn. TRAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE 9.15 a. in. weekly from Seranton, Plttston, Kingston, Bloomshurg and intermediate sta tions, leaving .Seranton at t1.35 a. m., where it connects with trains leaving New York City at !».!(0 p. in., Philadelphia at 7 flfi p.m. and Buffalo at io.lio a. m. 12.44 p. in. dally from Seranton I'ittston, Kingston, Berwick, Bloomshurg and Interme diate stations, leaving Seranton at 10.10 a. in. and connecting there with train leaviug Butt alo at 2.25 a. in. 4.:tt p. in. weekly om Seranton, Kingston. Berwick, Bloomshurg and Intermediate sta tions, leaving Seranton at 1.5 a p. in., where II connects with train leaviug New York City at 10.00 a. m..and Philadelphia at 0.00 a. 111. 0.05 p. in. dally from Seranton. Kingston. Pittston, Berwick, Bloomshurg and Interme diate stations, leaving Seranton at 6.86 p.m., where it connects with trains leaving New York City at 1.00 p. m„ Philadelphia at K'.Oli p. hi. and Bultolo at 9.110 a. in. T. K. CLARKE. Uen'l Snp't. T. W. LEK. 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