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! Cupid In Town j
By CONSTANCE j!
D'AKCY MACKAY
Jt Cwright, IM, i.\ Ruhj Douglas <
t it*
It \ is a warm morning in midsum
mer Hi,- sky vis intensely tilue anil
the :i r rife with the smell df dust and
h -it par. hod p ineuients. Fifth avenue
■•rt'iniHl as arid as a desert. Houses
were • losed, their blinds drawn. Maids
go*si)»ed in area ways. Instead of
the pageantry of carriages which
grac. | the street 011 winter afternoons
there were occasional cabs, lumbering
automobiles and buses filled with
touri- ts.
1 was strolling along toward the
clnh and devoutly wishing I was any
place l»ul i town, when suddenly i
espie 1 Honoris Langham. She had
come In from a house party 011 I.ong
Island, and our meeting was the mer
est accident | at once suggested the
little <'asitt<> in Central park as a cool
aud tin ilia place for luncheon. Hon
""j IGM
. lii )
"I KNOW ITS HI Kit FOI.LY,"SAII> I."THIS
I>hl_\M OF WINK" -
oria agreed "Aunt Myra considers
}mi sneli n safe companion," she sai<l
demurely.
"it'- one of the compensations of be
iug Ineligible," said I. For 1 was in
eliiJMo, there was no doubt about that.
M\ income of a few paltry thousands
l« ■ \ sufficed to keep me on the social
nierrv go round. And 1 had added in
db -retion to |>ovcrty by falling in love
\\ 'i Honori > Of course no 010 could
1 it i:\en Ilonoria'.-? aunt
\\"ild ha ■ e s. ofTed the idea of my Ik»-
iug a probable suitor. In fact the very
dimness of my prosp»*ets enabled me
t.i ee more of Hoiioria than I other
w • coulil have done. I was consid
er**. I perfectly safe, fur Honoria's cir
c .• istances demanded that she make
a ' *\.:iaiit in itch, and I was the least
l.ii..nit man of her acipiaintauce. It
was the old. old story of the moth and
the star. If the moth was foolish, so
much the worse for the moth! And as
for the star Ilonoria and I had long
since decided that love was out of the
question So. on the way to the Casino
our conversation was strictly confined
to platonie platitudes.
We had luncheon at one of the little
tables close by an open window,
through which the green reaches of the
park were enticing to the eye. Sun
shine dappled the ' aves with the light
and shadow Squirrels frisked across
the pass The hum of the city sound
ed f.-.r av av and Indistinct. Now and
tin- i a l>,v/.e stole in. carrying with it
a 112 Int. half woodsy perfume. The inir
r c across from us reflected Honoria's
fi"• ii- and furbelows, her clear delicate
pi'i'ile and .-very turn of her graceful
head There were the clink of ice in
tall, thin g! i-ses and a gay bubble of (
festi ,uii| lighter from some of the
other iable, ii moria's eyes met mine.
"There an- wome places than K&w
York ' I obst-rved.
"<»h what i- so rare as a day in
town." mil nr.il Hoiioria.
' I bless the fate which prompted you
to leave the seashore and let me have a
glimpse of you," said I.
"It ■ .isn't fate; it was dressmakers,"
said H'l'Miia She put hack her veil
with aa adorable gesture. "Am i very
much burneii .' she demanded.
"Only enough to be becoming." said I.
"You're a bit brown yourself, Dick,"
she olmerved.
"I'eople who make hay while the sun
shines'' I began.
"Alt." said Ilonoria, "that's Just what
I was going to ask. Are you progress
ing well with the heiress*/"
•'Modestj forbids me to say," I an
swered "How's old Croesus?"
"IMng nicely, thanks." laughed Hon
or!.! Then her face grew grave.
"I'ick," s|,e said. "do you realize that
♦ his Is (he last liiii -lieon we'll have to
gether tete-a-tete?"
"I know." -aid I. "that our year of
camaraderie i- over. And it was fun
while it lasted, wasn't it. Ilonoria? All
our little walks and talks and drives.
And it's got to end because we're
afraid of jioverty."
"W"do love luxury," sighed Ilonoria.
"We'd lie miserable without it," I
argued.
"You," went on Ilonoria, "must mar
ry the heiress jn order to obtain a
ya.ht and all the other tilings you
can't possibly get along without."
"While old i 'roi>siis can give you a
house in town and several In the coun
try. not t i menti ii a box at the opeiTi
and gowns uf r. ;is creation, yet when
''m "teaming ai ,und Gibraltar aud
udid entertainments
aie front I dare say
ill - II lliese times we've
' . ' ' r with a good deal of
II ai ! SH; e regret. Kon't
i i 1 o, I lonoria ?"
i it i! iii.i was engaged in spear
i • >'• :.] 1 apparently did not
h.-ar me.
I ve .iften v I'idercd." she said mus
-1 i'A it • >iild seem to be poor.
' ' i 11 " I'd i ike my own lints and
> " r idy ma le tailor uits and live in
a little 11 »x ni' .an apartment."
"l!iit evi n n box of an apartment can
be made ntiraciive." said I.i know
of some dingy shops on the east side
where one can pick up fascinating old
prints and brasses for almost nothing
and furniture that is n j >y to discover.
There's a Tuscany lamp that's waiting
to send a cheerful glow over polished
wood and the backs of one's favorite
books, and there are curious andirons,
made solely to reflect the gleam of o
small hearthstone sm-li a hearthstone
us I have Imagined you sitting by,
Ilonoria, while the snow falls without,
and"—
"Some of our friends would give tis
up." said Ilonoria hastily.
"We'd find better ones to take their
places."
"Our greatest diversion," said IIouo
r!a. "would be the theater, and we
could go so seldom that it would take
us a lone time to decide which play we
really wanted to see."
''We'd enjoy It all the more," I de
clared. ' And after it was over we'd
go off together to same quaint cafe—
oh, I know of places that you've never
even dreamed of, Ilonoria places
where struggling poets and artists have
carved their names on the tables and
where a Hungarian violinist plays, not
the catchy music of the concert halls,
hut things that are heartbreak and
rapture and longing all in one. .Vnd
the people we know will be supping
at Sherry's or Delmouieo's—all the
wealthy, foolish people who haven't
found out that life is ashes and faces
but a picture gallery and talk a tln
klitiLr cymbal, where no love Is. Are
you listening to me, Ilonoria?"
'"Yes," answered Ilonoria very low.
"I know it's sheer folly," said I, "this
dream of mine. We've talked of It so
often and decided that it was Impos
sible. Hut now that we've come to the
parting of the ways, do you thiuk that
the other ihings of life really matter
so long as we miss the exquisite joy of
l>< 'iu together? Ah, Ilonoria, I know
it's madness worse than madness—to
ask it. but could you care enough to
give-up luxury for a poor duffer of a
fellow who isn't worthy of you and
loves you with his whole heart and
Foil 17"
"But the heiress"—
"Oh, d hang the heiress!"
"l>iek!"
"I mean confound her! Ilonoria, for
the last time, will you marry me?"
lionoria's answer was so low that I
had to lean across the table to catch it.
"Ilonoria," 1 cried, "is it true—do
you really mean it?"
"Don't, IHek," said Ilonoria. "Those
people at the other table are watching
us. They'll think we are engaged!"
"But so we are!" I cried exultantly.
"So we are!"
The t'nribou IIM n Swimmer.
Clad with a coat of oily wool next his
skin, thi> caribou is covered exteriorly
with a dense pelage of line quills. Ev
ery caribou, indeed, wears a cork jack
et, and when this is prime, the crea
ture seems on the water rather than In
the water. No other quadruped that I
know swims as high as the caribou.
Their speed afloat is so great that It
takes the best of canoenien to overtake
a vigorous buck. A good paddler Is
supposed to cover about six miles an
hour, so the caribou probably goes five.
There are many kinds of woodland and
rough country over which the caribou
cannot travel BO fast as this. What
wonder, then, that they are so ready to
take to the water as soon as they find
it In their course! Mr. Munu assured
me that several times he saw caribou
swim a broad bay that was in their
line, though a trilling deflection would
have given them easy walking along
the shore to the same point and with
but little increase of distance.—Ernest
Thompson Seton in Scribner's.
The Terrible (ockiitrlei".
The explanation of the origin of that
remarkable organism, the cockatrice,
leaves nothing to be desired as regards
accuracy of detail. We are told that
"when the cock is past seven years old
an egg grows within him, whereat he
greatly wonders." We can well imag
ine the dismay of any well conducted
masculine bird of that age 011 finding
himself in such a compromising pre
dicament, but how did lie communi
cate his feelings to the historian? That
the embryonic cockatrice had some
mysterious power of self advertise
ment Is evident, for we hear further
that "a toad privily watches him and
examines the nest every day to see if
the egg be yet laid. When the toad
finds the egg he rejoices much and at
length hatches It, bringing forth an an
imal with the head, neck and breast of
a cook and from thence downward the
l>ody of a serpent."—Pall Mall Gazette.
ffotv Dentil Feel*.
In a sermon at St. Pancras parish
church, the bishop of London gave an
Indication of his views as to what the
sensation of death would be like. 110
said: "At an operation, when you re
ceive whatever it Is that makes you
for the time being Insensible, you seem
to be carried for the moment out of
tiie body. You are, in fact, out of the
body. The body is for the time dead.
Your spirit, your mind, is perfectly ac
tive. I dare say It is the experience of
many others that you seem to be swept
swlftlj- under the stars toward your
God. When you are out of the body,
or seem to be. If only for a few mo
ments, you realize what death will be."
—London Telegraph.
A LOBSTER'S LEGS.
The 1 IVO Front Ones Arc Different
From the Other Fight.
A lobster's legs, all told, are ten in
number, but only eight of these aro
largely used for walking. The front
pair, or big claws, have been special
ized, as in the crab and most others of
the higher crustaceans, into prehensile
organs for catching and crushing the
prev. Their use is obvious. Lobsters
feed largely o(T niollusks of various
sorts and o;! er hard shelled marine
animals In order to be able to break
or crush the sh< lis of these and so to
get ; t the s ftcr tlesh within they have
required sin ii large and very muscular
Clippers or pinchers. That Is not all,
however Not only have the two front
lees been differentiated and specialized
from the e!:ht others in this manner,
but also, li i rare exception 10 tlio
symmetry of the body, the right claw
has been specialized from the left, each
being In 1 ended to perform a distinct
function One is a scissors, the other
Is a . .ill; one n a cutter, the other Is n
cracKer.
As a rule, the right claw Is the slen
derer and I '!!•_'••! it has toothlike pro
ject; >ti or - rated edges oil its nip
ping : ic.s. ami it is rather adapted for
biting nd severing than fir crushing
or : ilr 111 l-. The left claw, 011 the otli
1r ! ini s usually thicker, heavier and
rounder. Its muscles are more power
ful. .-li ' In place df sharp teeth It has
bin 1 t tubc-clcs. or hammers, of differ
ent siz- It acts, in fact, more a
nutcracker than like teeth or a
It is a smashing organ. Nevertheless
you t M d it Interesting to observe,
by n>t g (he lobsters served to you at
table, ' 'tl is Ifferentiatlon has hard
1. i yet be >:n- quite constant, for
so ti, ' ; it i . the light < law that dls
pi t o I MI erlike nutcracker type
and the left that acts as nipper and
biter, while sometimes 110 difference
occurs at all, both claws .alike being
sharp toothed or blunt hammered In the
same specimen.
V|n«»r.-iIM In Wnter.
Lead or 7ine ore can be so tlnely pill
verized that a tablespoonful may be
mixed In a bucket of clear water with
out being visible to the naked eye.
When thus powd-.'red the particles are
so minute that it often takes half 1111
hour for them to'se'ttlc to the bottom
of a vessel full of water This fact
makes It evident that a stream may
carry large quantities of minerals rich
In metals.
In ttic Smart
| Little Trap
My VIRGINIA LEILA WFIVTZ
"And lie l»:is the smartest Uoking
trap you ever saw, Madge! It's cham
pagne colored anil a perfect love
What do yon l>et I <lon't land liini, trap
and all, before the summer's flown byV"
Miss Irene Warden, a beauty (and
aware of it), was writing to her girl
chum concerning the bachelor who had
just taken the big colonial house with
the carriage road and Iron archway
which for several seasons now had
abandoned hope of usefulness.
She was writing by an open window
where the scent of the roses came up
from the fruit garden, lleyond lay
the pretty tree lined road over which
the bachelor and his champagne col
ored trap hud just flown by.
"Although I've told you Ids name in
Horace Matlock," ran on Miss War
den's pen, "1 haven't told you what he
looks like, lie's ;m old man. forty or
fifty. I sii > ild .-ay. llis nose is rather
too big, alt' >u.:h people call him hand
some, and he's a bit bald, but, then, I
suppose most men who live in big
houses and drive smart traps have big
nn.es. Whit?" Miss Warden smiled
a little s it't smile into the glass above
her dr.'.-sin table and then bent over
her p >: tfoli > again:
"<«f eour ■ I'd prefer dear old Tom.
He's yuan; and stunning and sings
college songs so beautifully, but, as
you k:i >w. he hasn't a red! And I real
ly i a. t <1 ) something this summer,
Madge. My already meager allowance
will bee; t • mslderably in the autumn,
for in September pa's going to enter
the niatrim > dal game himself—a hor
rid, designing widow too! So I must
'step lively.' In the parlance of street
car officials.
"In point of fact, though," pursued
the voluble pen. "it'll be pretty easy,
plain sailing. I haven't a single good
looking rival up In this out of the way
place except old Professor Thornton's
daughter, and she's the quietest poke
of a girl—a regular stay at home. And
as for dressing well, Madge, you and
I spent! as much on our gloves and
veils. I reckon, as she does on her
whole outfit. That's what comes from
having a bookworm for a father."
The next week In the little village
postollice a friend presented Mr. llor
ace Matlock to Miss Irene Warden.
Apparently the meeting was by acci
dent, but Miss Warden felt her smooth
cheeks Hush, and her habitual com
posuiv was rippled for a second, while,
for his part. Mr. Matlock scarcely look
ed ut her and, having passed a con
ventional "glad to meet you." lifted his
hat politely and walked out to his
smart little trap.
"I had on my chic voile, the one
Aunt Tessie sent me from Paris, j-<>u
know," wrote Miss Warden to Madge,
"and my big white hat with flopping
fuchsias. |sut It was all rank waste."
She couldn't understand It Her
dreams hadn't ended that way at all
One day in the tiny Idle little hank
Mr. Horace Matlock stopped short as
be recognized a stooped, gaunt figure
with a patrician face.
"Why, It's Professor Thornton, isn't
It?" he cried, stepping up to him with
a cordially outstretched hand.
When Matlock years ago had entered
Vale as a freshman Thornton had been
tutoring, and quPe a friendship had
sprung up between them Subsequent
ly they had !o t track of each other
Hut the satlsfact'ou of the younger
man in meeting the older o'.e again
was genuine.
"Poor old professor! How thin and
worn and aged he's become!" thought
Matlock as he drove the professor
home to his modest little cottage.
Out In the cottage's side yard by the
hollyhocks n girl was picking a great
bunch of sweet peas for the lunch
table. When she heard the smart lit
tle trap stop at the gate she looked
quickly up from the blossoming vines
and wonder -d. Who was the distin
guished looking stranger? And where
had he picked up dear daddy?
A few days later Matlock drove up to
the cottage again. It was only decent,
he told himself, that he should show
the professor some attention and take
him driving now and then. Pecfcjps
some day also lie would take IMb pro
fessor's daughter. He liked her. Ho
liked the natural, unabashed way in
which she had acknowledged her fa
ther's presentation of him, with her
sleeves rolled up and her arms full of
sweet peas; he liked tlie width between
her eyes, the breadth of her brow, the
lines of her mouth. She was less pret
ty than many young girls, but there
was about her a freshness, a sweet
ness, that pleased him, and he had no
tlced that her figure in her simple lit
tie gown was well molded and slim.
One evening toward twilight, when
out In the open lawn bats were whirl
Ing aimlessly and tirelessly, Matlock
dropped In upon the professor to make
him a little call. lit; had fetched him
his afternoon mail as pretext. While
they were sitting out on the porch from
the shadowy little parlor came the
first chords of Hecthoveu's beautiful
"Moonlight Sonata."
"That's Cynthia," said Professor
Thornton in answer to his guest's start
of surprise. "She's never too tired, 110
matter how hard or long the day has
been, to play that sonata for me in tho
evening. I love it above all other writ
ten music, ami she never forgets."
The;* while the tree toads droned
their harmonies he tohl Matlock a lit
tie about his daughter how four years
ago he had suffered a pffralvtie stroke
and she had been obliged 1 > leave
school In Per graduating j. r mil
nurse him 11 lit >nd day with ml ring
bwee i« ; how, w hen their slender in
c lie was e.harsted a year back, she
li <1 1' 11 t > 111.ike use of her musical
-kill ati i give 1< -'in. on the piano.
And u h 11 the profesMir tohl of Cyn
thia's triwivkh trips, to Adams, the
nearest t iwn, his silvered head went
down on his 1 oat sleeve, ami In the
gloaming behind the h uieysuckles the
two men were silent.
Presently they smoked their usual ci
gars and Indulged in their usiu'l con
versation newspaper topics rlv>ppo<l
fine by individual opiui >ll, a goo/i ileal
of politics. 11 little of art ami -■ icn<
Last i>f all. Cynthia came out
"I flighted!" she -aid. going preii.h
:p t 1 Matlock with utstrctehed hands
'While you two have gotmiplnp
fve a rememlwring your weakness
for tea and have drawn yon a flip.
Will y 1 »ii come in, shall we have It
out here?"
Tii -y went in. ' \ir the little fern
sere nel fireplace was a tea table,
dainty in its arr:\ of polished sliver
an! thin china. The hanging lamp
«he 1 the rich, soft glow of olive oil,
and there was an air of Intimate home
li. a'; about everything. Matloek
had been a stranger to that sort of
thing for so long that it sent a kind of
thrill shivering through him. After a!!,
t«i have a cozy tea table and a slim
white hand to inclose in yours Cyn
thia's hands were slim anil white
enough as thej moved among the china
In the half light, lie pulled a chair
close fur the professor, juid then sat
down himself.
Hefore Mr Horace Matlock went to
bed that night lie reinci:ibered that ou
the morrow Cynthia Thornton was to
drive with him in his champagne col
ored trap. Mow It would harmonize
with her -"ft hair before the ambitious
sun touched it to gold! What a dear,
womanly i'ttle treasure of girlish
brightness she was, anyhow!
Cynthia on!\ returned from Adams
the next day a half hour before her
drive and was, consequently, a bit
tired She was not one to make con
versation, and the quiet and beauty
of the scenes stretched out before her
made her very silent. Matlock, as he
handled the reins, watched both her
and the landscape. There was a cer
tain peace about them both. And
peace was. above all things, what he
wanted
The next day Miss Warden wrote to
her girl chum again:
"In the beginning of the summer,
Madge, de.ir. I wrote you that a cer
tain matrimonial venture would be
'easy, plain sailing.' Alas! I'm afraid
I shall never lind port not. at least,
with my bachelor up on the hill. And
In the name of wonders, who of all
people do yon suppose has taken tha
wind out of my sails? Cynthia Thorn
ton. the old bookworm's daughter! He
had her out driving in that little
beautv of a trap three times during the
fast* week to my knowledge! I'm
afraid Cupid isn t very kind to me.
You'll find I'll die an old maid after all,
unless Tom"
At this point Miss Warden's pretty
te 'th absently caught the top of her
penholder, while she looked dreamily
toward the sunny, tree lined street.
Then sh.- began to hum.
As she started on the fourth bar of
her song a champagne colored trap
skimmed by. In it was the charming
bachelor, and by his side vas Cynthia
Thornton.
SOME FIRST OCCASIONS.
Cannon :ind small arms were intro
duced in 1300.
Spinning wheels came to the rescue
of women in 153i>.
The first stere (typing was done in
ISlin New York.
Shirts resembling those now worn
were In use hi iv.'Ui
I'hreiioloiry. "discovered" by Franz
Jo-eph Call, a Vi -nnese physician, in
17! MS. became n > called science In
150.",.
The fir-t submarine telegraph wire
in this country was from <lovernors
island t > the flattery in New York, laid
in IML'
I M.ithle entry bookkeeping was first
used in the mercantile cities'of Italy,
notably Venice and Florence, in the
fifteenth century.
S<!i • ,'z • elite 1 gunpowder in
I'l-S I»111 I' >'-■ r Itacan, a thirteenth
centurj. alchemist, gives a recipe for
it in a work of I.is in 1270.
\iilni 11 UelN In \ ucntlin.
Since Yuc.itan. where the Mayas
built their strange cities, is a coral
llmeston-' formation, it would, says a
writer in Records of the Past, have
been a I a iron desert but for its sub
terranean ri\ers and the cenotes, or
water caverns, which give access to
them, 'lhe Mayas noted the courses
of the underground streams and built
their towns round the cenotes. Many
cenotes are : ow found surrounded by
ruins and give indications of the meth
ods employ!-! by the Mayas to reach
their cool waters. In t'xinal a cenote
II I»ont forty feet deep is inhabited by
a peculiar species of l ; »h At Bolan
chen there is a cenote having five open
ings In the rocks at the bottom of the
cavern. Ladders made by tying tree
trunks together lead down a total dis
tance of 1. ion feet, but the perpendic
ular depth from the surface to the wa
ter is not over .">oo feet.
The Mixture In lion nut n in.
Rouunnia :s inhabited by a bewilder
ing variety of races, but whether of
Greek, Slav or Teutonic lineage, the
modern Roumanian makes it a point of
honor to claim descent from the colo
nists whom Trajan planted In the con
quered province of Daeia A. I». 107.
(.'ailinu thei:, -elves Romuni and their
languat:-- lit. usinie, the proud citizens
seldom draw out a legal document
without sonic allusion t i their founder,
whom they style "the divine Trajan."
The Roumanian language reflects the
composition of the race and now but
faintly suggests the language which
Trajan spoke.
T«*nn> HCIII'N lirufl'iiesn.
Apropos of Tennyson's gruffness is a
story repeated by the I.ondon Chroni
cle. Tennyson, in his last days gave
audience to an American, a friend of
Longfellow and Lowell, who came
armed with credentials. "1 hope you
don't writety was the cautious old po
et's first re;:: irk. "No, my lord, and 1
don't talk!" was the swift reply. This
respons ■ set Tennyson at his ease, and
ho at least "talked," to his guest's vast
< ontentmei;t.
GUIMARD, THE SPIDER.
Tlii' of ili«* Great I)ay>
of tin- l!:i I let.
The elder Vestris, who flourished in
the middle of the eighteenth century,
called himself the "g nl of dancing"
iiltd declared iii all sincerity and with
out rebuke that his century had pro
duced hut three supreme men himself,
Fredeil'-k the Great and Voltaire On
one occasion when reproving ids son
Augustus 112 >r refusing to dance before
the king 112 Sweden at the request of
the king of France lie said that he
would not tolerate any misunderstand
ing between the houses of Vestris and
Itourl'oi). which had lived hitherto upon
the most friendly terms.
Madeleine Guimard made her debut
when >he was thirteen years of ago
and for nearly thirty years kept all
l'ari - worshiping at her feet. This
win .a iici ss if art and not of beauty,
for Guimtird v as sn aggressively thin
that she is known as "the spider."
Mie di c - i lhe gre it painter l>avld,
vim h 1 r>« i'r oiiard to adorn her
house with fresc.ics. Indeed, Frago
nard, for whose paintings today fabu-
I .us anis I ivo been paid, lost his corn
mi ion be. iuse lie dared to fall in
1 th | ;i itroii <luiinard had a
lie.itei in in i- own house, and her en
tertainments there were deemed ex
it iva: ui in age of luxury. Faris
■ ■ould it >t ire her to London until she
•.vas pi i I r fortieth year. She was
i >rt of 1M •! i- ir adviser to Marie An
|n in ite, a: I so great was the esteem
in ivh -h siie v is held that one of tho
in di uiigiii- hetl sculptors of t.e
ila\ it oltled her foot, and when her
arm v - broken in a stage accident a
mass for her peed) recovery was cele
bratt d nt Notre l»anie. Macmlllan's
Magazine.
A MUSTARD POULTICE.
ft <I 1. 01 of Trouble IIIMI Didn't
Cnn* tin* (old.
Lord <'uri'iiiiii HI used in ho a (jront
practical Joker, hut lie was once tho
victim of I.is mvii reputation. Accord
ing to the IHindoo Advertiser, he was
nt a hotel in rape Town. In the same
hotel were a VIMIIIK couple, and, the
liushand having a had cold, the wife
left her room to obtain for liirn the
M.lace of a mustard poultice. She left
him asleep and. thinking she knew her
way, descended the stairs and, procur
ing a particularly virulent concoction,
made her way hack to her room. Hut
floors are much alike in hotels, and,
seeing one ajar, as she had left her
own. she entered. Creeping quietly to
the hedside, she saw, as she thought,
the form of her sleeping lord and mas
ter. Hastily bonding over him, she
placed the fatal irritant upon his chest.
No sooner had she done so than a
movement of the sleeper revealed, to
her horror, that she had made a terrible
mistake. Too frightened to recapture
the incriminating poultice, she fled
from the room and, rushing down the
passage, discovered her own door and
bolted herself in. It was but a inln
uie, and the storm broke. The hotel
was in an uproar. The mustard poul
tice had been placed on the chest of
the elderly governor general! The ex
plosion of his wrath, his howls of rage
as the mustard did its work, brought
servants and manager to his bedside.
The situation did nit permit of an
explanation. Furious with indignation,
he declared himself the victim of a
gross joke, and the efforts of the mal
fre d'hotel to pacify him were In vain,
fie swore that the practical joker was
nobody else than Lord Carrington, and
tic next day, fuming and indignant,
left the place. So did a very contrite
young wife and a husband whose cold
was 110 better.
JAWS AS WEAPONS.
Chief Menu* of Defense Among; All
Olil Worlil 1 |M*M.
Among all old world apes the teeth
are the chief weapons for defense
against natural foes and for combats
for mates or tribal supremacy. The
canines are in most cases enormously
developed, insomuch that ill informed
naturalists have suggested that a near
relationship must exist between the
primates and the carulvora. As a mat
ter of fact, these formidable teeth have
nothiug to do wiili alimentation, but
are as purely weapons of war as are
the bayonet and the Ma im gun. In
practically every emergency demand
ing unusual energy, obstinacy and
courage they c mie Into play.
In every conflict with the world, tho
flesh and the devil -as such things are
understood in pithecoid society—the
temporal and inasseter muscles are the
chief arbiters of war. To become a
great and powerful anthropoid it is ab
solutely a in] brutally necessary to have
a large and >:rmg jaw, to give them at
tachment to the teeth and good lever
age i i thi* muscles. That for an Im
mense epoch our prehuman ancestors
achieved success in life in like man
lier is as clear as the print of "Maga"
to th >se wlii h ive learned to read na
ture's handw i iting.
Since tlio • days of true Arcadian
simplicity i r life has become bewil
derim lv c i:i.• ■lx ami our methods for
settling s . .. I difficulties have changed
genera 1!;. I' • the better, l'.ut here, as
in so ii.any other instances, the habits
of a p.i ! au'e have left an indelible im- .
pros i i th- 1 i ■•rvous system.—Black
wood's Magazine.
I'«»r \RitiPKilkc.
Whoii M L milKinl hoard that th* l
baby of!.< former co >1; had boot; j
named for I <T she bought a suitable ,
rattle witli many jingling bells and
went to so.' I <>r na:nes:iko.
"Why. I' i -get," she -aid to the late |
Miss Leahy, now Mrs. O'Sullivan. - I
thought you i 1 the baby was named j
for me. My name is Hannah, and yotl !
are calling the baby ('destine."
"'Vie tine L, ma'am," said Mrs. '
O'Sullivan hastily. "Tho 'L' is for 1
I.om'iar.l. :i 1 folostine Is just a koind ■
of a i ime to describe you, ma'am J
There ain't : my Hannah to your looks, i
Mrs. Lunbard; anny wan would tell
you lb it." Youth's Companion.
\ HemnrknMe I'or I res*.
lii then irtheni part of Madagascar
is the mo-! remarkable natural fortress
In the world It is occupied by a wild !
tribe wli call themselves the people .
of the r i • The fortress is a lofty !
and proci. i! nis rock of enormous size, j
I.O<KI feet !,: hand eight square miles
in a: .1 If ; sides are so steep that It
cannot be (limbed without artificial
means. Within it is hollow, and the
only entrance is by a subterranean
passage.
Orisrin of I lie *i<]eNntltlle.
The use of the sidesaddle for women
riders is traced to the time of Anne of
Bohemia, eldest daughter of the em
peror of Germany, who married Rich
ard 11. of Km.land. Previous to this
date all Hie .dish women bestrode their
horses man la iiion. but on account of
a deformity this Cerman bride was
forced to use a sidesaddle, and the cus- J
torn became general. I
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STONES SET ON FIRE.
Truly Itemurknhle Action of Sen Ha
ter In I ■•ln ml.
All tin* tall: was of the olil country,
its marvelous beauty, Its marvelous
happenings. si ml Casey said to the
Texan
"The sen s.Milng lire to tall cliffs—
you wouldn't l»elieve that jiossihle, I
suppose."
"Assuredly not," returned the Tex
an. 'Wei.her iu Ireland nor else
where."
"I'.y tlios • words," said Casey, smell-
I sli iniock tenderly, "you prove
your i- no:aof rreland, sir, and
slio . yon In; never lieen to Bally
hunion.
'"J he tali el iff s of Ballyhunion wade
knee r. ep in ;h • rough Atlantic. They
:ir«' lli • hu'.u:of Erin's west coast,
and inee tli • world's beginning the
wild Atlantic sur ;es, breaking against
tlieui, h;ivc c iten them out In caves
ami hollows.
"These ciifl's of Ballyhunion contain
in their depths masses or iron pyrites
and aluiii. Now and then the salt sea
water eats into these masses, and ox
idization at oaee takes place, find
(lames burst forth, and the rocks crack
and melt in the great heat.
"Once the cliffs of Ballybnulon burn
ed for weeks. I.ike a volcano, they
sent up yellow tlaine and black, foul
smelling, bitter smoke, and the Irish
came from hundreds of miles to see
that wonderful sight.
"Only in Ireland, only In Itallyhun
iou, sir," siiid Casey, lingering his
shamrock, "may you see cliffs set afire
by the salt sea they stand knee deep
in." Minneapolis Journal.
TAMED BY KINDNESS.
riu» Methods of llie Klephunt Hunter
In the l-'ar lOnxt.
This is how elephants are hunted in
Ceylon: The people begin bj- clearing
nn open space near n forest, part of
which is strongly fenced in with trunks
of trees, with open places for doors.
Then the elephants are found and with
blazing torches, rattling of noisy in
struments and spears nre driven to
ward the open doors.
At hist, with a rush, the great herd
enters, the entrances are barred, and
the poor giants of the wood find them
selves hopelessly imprisoned. An ele
phant's rau • is dreadful to witness, but
the Ingenuity of man has found a way
of subduing It. One by one each pris
oner is freed again, and tame ele
phants, remarkable for their sagacity,
come up to him. stroke him with their
trunks anil otherwise cajole him until
they lead him onto a good strong tree.
The natives creep up behind, and In a
minute the elephant Is made fast to the
tree by his leg.
AH the time this Is going on the tame
elephants sire humoring their deluded
victim, but as soon as he Is secured
they go away and leave him. Then
the men bring him cocoanuts and
leaves to eat. which, of course, he re
fuses. as he is again in a great passion
and struggling to be free.
But hunger subdues even the fiercest,
and at last his wild roaring ceases, and
he eats, rrom that time the taming
process I■: comparatively easy. Again
and again be Is fed. as he requires it,
by a find 1 and.and the elephant, sus
ceptible to kindness, becomes nt last a
docile servant of the man.
Titter mill I.lnn.
"One time, in order to test the cour
age of a Bengal tiger siiul a lion," said
a well known showman, "we placed
Chinese crackers in the respective
cages and tired the fuses. As soon as
the fuses began to burn they attracted
the attention of both animals, but in
widely different manner. The lion
drew into a corner and watched the
proceedings with a distrustful and un
easy eye. The tiger, on the contrary,
advanced to the burning fuse with a
firm step and unflinching gaze. On
reaching thr cracker he began to roll
it over th< floor with his paw, and
when it exploded beneath Ills nose ho
did not flinch, but continue I his exam
ination until perfectly satisfied. Tlio
lion betrayed ■ resit fear when h • heard
the report of the c.vp' i' >n •id f>r
quite a time c mid n >; l>e <• > r.e.l out of
Ills den." 7 MI lon Tlt-Blts
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j of Danville.
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THE HUMAN BODY.
Componitlon of (lie IIOUN«» In W hlrli
MJIII'N spirit \L»i<l«*N.
The foundation of tin* human body
is composts! of 2i»«> bones, covered
with 522 voluntary muscles. The
smaller blood vessels are so numerous
as to he beyond ttie telling, but we
have no fewer than about 1,000 fcrterles
through which the blood is always
flowing under the government of the
heart.
The bio >d is composed of two constit
uents. termed by physiologists r«'d and
white corpuscles, numbering some thou
sands of millions.
Our house has something like GOO
tiny telegraph wires, called nerves,
connected with the brain and spinal
cord, and these little wires are always
throbbing with messages which they
telegraph to the main olHce—the brain.
Besides these there are the sympathet
ic wires, or nerves, numbered by thou
sands, which help the former.
The front of our house, the skin, has
been measured up and found, If spread
'•ut. to cover fifteen square feet.
The ventilation scheme by which we
get our fresh air Is built of such fine
porous stuff that, if spread out, it
would be found to cover a stretch of
land big enough to contain a fifteen
roomed house. We refer to the lungs
which have hundreds of millions of
air cells.
To every square inch of the palm of
the hand are 2,500 pores, while the
number of sweat glands in the skin
generally Is 2." MM HI. Their function
is to deposit - "i-I'TL JIIS upon the skin;
hence the necessity of a daily tub to
wash this si:,.', a way. otherwise it clogs
the sweat jd: a:: 1 prevents their
proper working.
He CliniiK*»d.
"Greymair's wife brought him homd
a suit of clothes, but I understand he
mustered up the courage to tell her
that he bad made up his mind to
change it."
"L>id he change It?"
"Oh, yes; he changed his mind."
The first smile of an infant, with Its
toothless gums, Is one of the pleasant
est sights In nature. It Is innocence
claiming kinship and asking to l>«
loved In Its helplessness.—Dr. D. Liv
ingstone.
Benham—l don't like your actions;
you should remember that you are my
wife. Mrs. lienhai:: 1 am not likely to
forget it when everybody tells me how
they pity me.—New York Press.
The people In the flat above seldom
call the baby what the fond parents
do.—Sonier ville Journal.
I ACKAWANNA KAILKOAD.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad.
In Effect Jan. 1, 1905.
TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE.
EASTWARD.
7.07 a.m. daily tor Bloomsbnrg, Kingston,
Wilkes-Barre ai.d Scranton. Arriving Scran
ton at 9.12 a. in., and connecting at Scran toil
with trains arriving at Philadelphia at :(.4K a.
in.and New York City at S.:jo l). m.
10.19 a. in. weekly for Bloomshurg. Kingston, I
Wilkes-Barre.Scranton and intermediate sta- |
tionH, arriving at Scranton at 12.H5 p. ni. and \
connecting tliore with trains for New York
City, Philadelphia and Buffalo.
2.11 weekly forßloomshurg,Kingston,Wilkes
Barre, Scranton and intermediate stations,
arriving at Scranton at 4.f>o p. in.
5.43 p. in.daily for Bloomshurg, Espy, Ply
mouth, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston,
Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving
at Scranton at -.s n m.and connecting there
with trains arriving at New York City atb.SO
a* in., Pliiladelpela 10 a. m. and tiurtalo 7a in.
TKAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE
9.15 a. in. weekly from Scranton. Pitts ton,
Kingston, Bloomshurg and intermediate sta
tions, leaving Scranton at 6.H5 a. in., where it
connects with trains leaving New York City
at 9.80 p. m., Philadelphia at 7 o'2 p. m.and
Buffalo at 10.80 a. m.
X 2.-14 p. in. dally from Scranton Pitts toll,
Kingston, Berwick, Bloomshurg and interme
diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a.m.
and connecting there with train leaving Butt
alo at 2.25 a. in.
4.38 p. m. weekly om Scranton, Kingston,
Berwick, Blooinsourg and intermediate sta
tions, leaving Scranton at 1.55 p. in., where it
connects with train leaving New York City
at 10.00 a. ni.. and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. ni.
9.05 p. in.daily from Scranton. Kingston,
Pittston. Berwick. Bloomshurg and interme
diate Htations, leaving Scranton at 6.85 p.m.,
where it connects with trains leaving New
York City at 1.00 p. m.. Philadelphia at 12.01!
p. in.and Butlolo at 9.30 a. in.
T. K. CLARKE, Oen'l Snp't.
T. W. LEE. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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