Caught
flapping
;By C. 11. Sutdif/e
1»«;_ In- I*. Kastmrnt |
IV ably s e i» not tlio safest
touch in tli n m ul. but Owen Masters
w is g n'u to the unevi»ected. and she
iuj s; retched at full length on a blank
et s*. retched over the ttoor.
The loir sides of the tiny craft shut
••at a view of the shores of the lake
•»ud the 1 right camps that spangled tho
dark a of the undergrowth here
.tii< 1 there. Above rose the mountains
lu t!.--ir majesty. and above all was
the blue sky, flecked with tiny white
clouds drifting as Idly on the surface
of th • blue as did tbe cauoe on the
placid waters of the lake.
It was a complete escape from civ
ilization, and she dreamed her day
dreams comfortably until the sand
man sprinkled her eyes and --lie dozed
off
It was her first day In camp after a
hard j ear In the city, and tbe air was
at ono* like wine and opium. So
soundly did she sleep that she never
heard the chug chug of a motor boat
until the Instaut before its sharp nose
struck the side of her canoe, overturn
ing It completely aud throwing her
Into the witter
The shock of the cold water roused
her, and. diving, she came up against
tie side of the little motor boat, now
lying silent in-side the canoe, while a
young man with a very white face
eagerly searched the water.
In at; Instant he had grasped her
shoulder, ami the nest moment she
lay gasp.n- in the boat, while he
busied lumseif with righting the canoe
and making it fast to the stern of the
boat Then he turned to her with con
cern
"I don't know what you think of
me." he began awkwardly, "and. In
deed. I'd bate to know, but really I
bad no Infe ition of upsetting you."
' I don't supjKwe you did It deliber
ately," she admitted, "but it would
seem to me that with a lake as large
as th.s you should have had no trou
ble lu avoiding the canoe."
"That was Just it." be said appeal
ugly "I wasn't trying to avoid it. I
thought the tKjat was adrift and I was
gjlng to wio the thanks of the owner
*>y returning ft Then Just as I came
<
SUE « \H TRIIOV'N TVTO IHE WATEK.
olo;u:- le 1 t ught u glimpse of you in
the bttloui, audit startled me so that
U} baud sh'»>k on tL wheel aud 1 ran
pl ■ up into ihe si.lv in read of coming
-living as 1 hi intended "
"I s;ij !>os • that it was rather star
tl;L- sj ( , HV'<fd. i»ut there are so
few ■ .tui;ts «>u the lake that 1 had no
a!* I <• iirljt t<» put up a sign to tbe
effet; that 1 as aboard."
"In y. V ..g they fly the owner's
:!ag. Ie - • -ted Yt»u might have
aI" u ..nit .u • say a white one, with
• pt.j . y >u '
I i: uk I iiad 'tetter do my sleeping
on s.|.jf»» a;ter this." she laughed:
"then I «•, 't r>sU l-eiiiir wakened by
■ ooUl lw. t *i
She sii .e. • : .i little as sin- spoke, for
there wa- a Iresli wind blowing, and
her wale - iked garments were un
pie.isi, nly .|.i The man sprang to
iht w bet i .-. iii came back bearing a
blanket, which he wrapped about her.
"Thai is our camp over there." he
saiii. ;• _ . tiny while dot a half
mile up the lake. "The folks are all
BMOiit.i i> climbing today, but I can
get you some of my sister's things,
and then 1 will take you to your
camp"
* ! tli nk it would IK* belter to take "
iu • right h ii." -he oiijected "It is
not very f.ir "
It's a g.i-1 three uules, and with
this lireeze you would l»e chilled
tbr> ich t«efi»re you got tbe.e."
"But I want togo straight home,"
►h* pers conscious the moment
after oft .• r sildishtiess of the words.
* I i'jt you into this trouble." he sab!
fir tub and I'm eoing to set yon prop
erly nut off
Tb< re was H delightful mastery in bis
«pe«-c|i ami iJ* IMI s;ink back against
the < 1 -1, . - t ding it rather pleasant
to lie on!- I aiiout In this fashion
Kh- b I I " liver her set all
so-i n l w is nice to have this
clear eyed i n g fellow taking the
whip b IIMI.
At • los, the • iin|* appeared to
nt» II •••!■•■ |i • te;i oils est .bh-hmenf
for • leai a'er J Ine tent was
merely ,'l • ..miex to a commodious
A- t .»• '.i i 'i grafed against the
r. I slm .-I ! I!ii|ie<l out and
w • a ■ • i < nrhf her up In Ills
uri ■.'i I * ■lt i toward the lodge,
it- ' i , one •if the piazza
i. .-i ft ion to sit still.
'I ie '1 11•(• : I illfi> til' house.
I'rt *I > b .etit i".I. a sniil on his
T'l. : ill I've lot of dllds." he
' ' Hi-1 -i :: ud help } ours. If/'
He Indicatea toe rooui ami .vent o"
toward the lio- •
Twenty mi IUII-S later she emerged
to tiinl that in the meantime lie had
ftrepar -d a tasty lunch with the coffee
thit bubblin rt. r the camp oven. "Cof
fee's better tl. n whisky to take the
cold out." h laughed. "Will Miss Mas
ters do me the honor to lunch with
me';"
II -n «lil you know my name?" she
asked curi I'isly.
He po nti i to tbe '■•mk drying by the
fire
"It took n.» Sherlock Holmes," he
■aid "To even things up, my name Is
Tod Crawford. Ib lleve there was
sometniug -am aoout i ncouore wuen l
was named, but I m \er could live up
to the dignity of the full tide and lu
mercy tiny call me Ted."
Owen blushed redly. Lottie Nellis
had been -insi u <'raw ford's ]iraises to
her for the lasi ye.i Lottie was an
Inveterate matchmaker, and Gwen had
taken a malicious pleasure iu avoiding
all of the meetings Lottie had planned.
She wondered if Crawford knew any
thing of Mrs Nellis' tactics, but Ills
jrave face reassured her. and she ac
knowledged the introduction with the
stiffest of Iwws.
But it was in possible for any one to
maintain reserve with Ted around.
When he wished to he could make
himself most fascinating, aud almost
before she knew it Owen had forgot- '
ten Lottie Nellis nnil her schemes and
was chatting a- freely as if she had
known him for years.
After lunch there came the ride '
down the lake in the launch, and she
was sorry when the home landing
came In sight.
"Shall I see you soon?" he asked as
he handed her out and busied himself
with fa ening the canoe. "1 think you
need an escort In your rambles. May
I call and take you out tomorrow?"
"Perhaps," she smiled.
"The moonlight will be awfully pret
ty tonight." he suggested. "Suppose I
run over about 7. and we'll go out on
the lake and see It rise over the top of
Old Bald. May I?"
(J wen nod<led and ran toward tho
house She was ashamed of herself
for yielding so easily, yet she was glad j
when in thee :, ig th<> puffing of the
launch broke the summer stillness and
Ted guided the boat alongside the
dock.
That evening was the commence
ment of Ted's campaign, and long be
fore the summer h.ul begun to grow
old he had v. • n tier promise to wed
him when tin " returned to town.
"1 fancy that Lottie Nellis will be
pleased to heir the news."he laughed
mischievou iy.
"Did you know all along?" she asked,
"That It was the dearest wish of her
neart? Ves," he answered. "Being
her cousin, lie naturally orders me
about a little more than even the rest
of the poor fellows she Is trying tc
push into matrimony."
"Well," said Cwen defiantly, "yoli
never would 1 e met me if you ha''
not caught me napping."
"In a double sense." he admitted.
"Heaven bless that nap."
Tlii- Itlsclit Ajte.
Among the litigants before the Eng
lisli courts some years ago was a Mrs
Welilon, who. indeed, was so constant
ly at law that Baron I'ollock once re
marked "This lady has now such a
very large business at the bar that we
must give her every Indulgence." Mrs
WekloU was not abashed by the Judges
and saiii many clever things in court
The reminiscences of the late John
George Witt. K. Include an anec
dote of oie of her appearances in the
court of r.f; ai. She was endeavoring
to upset a judgment of Vice Chaneelloi
Bacon, and one ground of complain!
was that the judge was too old to un
derstaud the case. Thereupon Lord
Esher said "The last time you were
here you complained that your case
had been til- il by my brother Bowen
and you s,i 1 he was only a bit of a boy
and could not do you justice. Now you
come here and say that my brother i
Bacon was too old. What age do you
want the judge to be?" "Your age,'
promptly r> ;»lleil Mrs. Weldon. fixing
her bright eye- <,n the handsome coun
tenance of the master of the rolls.
She «.<>t si Seat.
A woman entered a well tilled Broad L
way surface car. She was reasonably
young, fairly well dres-ed and good
lookiug. but she walked with a deep
painful limp As she clutched for a
strap half a dozen men arose hastily
aud offered her seats. She took the :
nearest one and sank into it with a I
look of relief. The other men resumed
their seats, anil the ear sped merflly .
on Half a mile larther uptown tin :
woman signaled the conductor to stop j
and as the car slowed down she arose. |
walked Jauntily out aud stepped off j
the car with the nlmbleness of a
schoolgirl
The man whose seat -he had been
occupying looked first amazed, then
sheepish, as the other passengers be
gan to grin at him. then joined in, as
becomes an Americ m when placed in
trying circumstance
"She's an actress at one of the
Broadway theaters," chuckled a man
sitting near him. "I know her by
SIL'III. and when she earn I thought i
»di" 111u~« h •• b« 'i hurt in an ac
cident '- .Ne \ Y »rk Sun.
THI-: BOOMERANG.
On# of the Peculiar Weapona of
War I*!* or Invented.
The boomerang is ai> instrument used
both iu war and ita tbe chase by the
aborigines of Australia. It is usually
about two feet in length, made of hard
wood bt nt into a curve resembling an
obtuse angle, flat on one side and •
rounded ou the other. The method of 1
Using IIJI- I nrious weapon is very pe- ■
Caiiar TIM thrower takes it In one
Vaud. i oldiii- the bent side downward, j
end hurls n forward as it"to hit some '
»•'• ifft ie1 11■■ or twenty live yards in j
inl\ iia • 1 sie-iil of continuing togo!
directly forward iu accordance with j
the Newton'an law ii slowly ascends
in the air. whirling round and round,
•
• in ed line till ii reaches a < oiisidera- !
ble height, w hen ii begins to retro- '
grade tiualh sweeping over the head !
of the p' oje. tor. striking the object foi
which if vs is intended, which Is al
ways in the ie ir
An English itti<er has Hi.- to say of !
the sj i, -11 rwea p' .ii The boomerang'
>s one ..t i i-i eur <.iis weapons of I
war evei invented, at least by a bar
b.ll ins |.<- /j e. n,i s.i easy to conipre- !
bend by e, hat I w of projectiles it is '
n ade io t.i e the singular directions j
tb .I il tie |tie ifly doe | have seen a
lint he thr. • one so as to make it go 1
forty or : if. yards horizontally and !
no* more than tour feet from the j
grou: • It would then suddenly dart i
Into t : to the height of fifty or
s.\ty yard- • escr.ne a very considet
iible -ii .(■ : | r..ially fall at his feet.
Li all <v no matte.- how thrown,
the lo.it ring keeps turning with
i.reiU rapidity, like as if ou a pivot,
ii . r a Innd w hi/./, ng noise all tbe
while."
\ outhfiil lin |»r*»s*ioii lain.
"One • the lads in my Sunday
school cliis-." writ"s a c >rrespondent.
"had ecu to a musical service and
had In ird there a violin solo In which
a ii >: of the imte were played
with I i • II te. loft e bow -pizzi
cato. | ih . i tl mush al term. The
boy ib • ; ! i i- 'a p>c<» with a hic
cough in ii " M iche-'cp Guardian.
Rurnl BldttMtat.
"Was till e mill Ii life i the country I
town fr "n which you came?"
■We 1 ' i uess! You ought to have
-11•:i t! _ ithcna in our cemetery of
a Sunday."—Harper':-. Bazar.
0 . -==Q j
POLLY'S
MASQUERADE
By BELLE MANIATES
CopyrfgUt, l«ert, >o Heiitrfx Keade
i
"Hlllman! Hillman:'" lustily called
the brakeuinn, thrusting open tlie car
iloor as the train slackened.
Two of the passengers were roused
from a state of passivity by this an- ;
nouncement and, gatlierlng their bo
longings, hastened out Into the cold
night. One was a young girl with a
city bred air and appointments; the
other, a man distinguished In appear
ance. They both looked bewilderingly '
about them as the train slowly pulled
out.
"This doesn't look like my recollec
tions of llillman," said the girl, looking
about the small, deserted station.
"It isn't llillman!" said the man de
cidedly. "What station Is this?" he
asked as a railroad employee came out
of the depot.
"This? This Is Bollins. llillman Is
six miles bcyant—next stop, except the
siding."
The two passengers looked at each
other i mutual dismay. The girl spoke
"I>EAH ME! HOW CAN 1 TELL VOL'—BHB
SWEAHS !"
first. She spoke one word, aud that a
man's word. The railroad employee
looked shocked, but thf other man ap
peared relieved.
"Thank you very much." he said.
"Yon voice my sentiments exactly.
Our common misfortune should allow
us to waive all ceremony aud conven
tionality. My name Is John Winters.
1 have recently taken up my abode In
Hlllman."
"Mine is Polly Lester," she said
frankly, "and I am only going to Hill
man to visit. I trust I will never take
up my abode there."
"It isn't an enticing spot." he ad
mitted, laughing. "When can we get
a train to HillmanV" he asked of the
railroad employee
"Not till tomorrow morning.
"Then we must drive there. I pre
sumc there is no livery here, but there
must be some one who will drive -is
over."
"1 guess Hank funis, the barkeep.
would take you over In Ills automobile
I'll see."
He returned shortly with the bar
keep and a runabout. John Winters
made a bargain with him for the trip, j
and as Polly climbed to tbe seat beside i
him he said:
"I have some good news for you. It }
seems our tralu meets the western ex j
press three miles from here, and that
train is reported late, so we can over
take our train and continue our way as
we started."
I'olly quite enjoyed tills little adven
ture. She always did have a weakness
aud a tendency for adventures. She
chatted freely with her new acquaint
ance. She was almost sorry when they
overtook and boarded the sidetracked
train, receiving apologies from the
brakeman and grins from the passen
.-oi-s. Polly and John Winters contin
ued their ci-.ittc' until they approached
Hillman. Then she said abruptly:
"llillman is a small place, and people
have narrow views regarding proprie
ties. It would be as well If We got off
singly and separately and meeting, as
we doubtless will, as strangers."
"Certainly. You are right," agreed
Winters, going forward to the smoking
car.
Polly was met and whisked away to
the one hack by a spinster aunt.
"Has Hillman changed much—any
new people moved in since I was last
here. Aunt Cornelia?" asked Polly de
luurely as they were unpacking her
luggage.
"Ob, yes. Hillman is growing fast.
Lots of people, and we've got a new
minister, a city fellow."
"What's bis name?" demanded Polly,
looking up interestedly.
"The Hev. Mr. Winters."
"Oh!" gasped Polly feebly, bending
over a refractory liox cover. "What
does he look like?"
"I am ashamed to say I haven't seen
111 HI." replied her aunt. "First Sunday
lie was here I had a cold The next
Sunday it just poured. He bus called,
but I was not at home."
"Well I presume he will call again."
remarked Polly.
Later, when she was alone aud re
posing comfortably in the billowy
112 ther l>ed. she laughed wickedly and
deii hteilly.
•■oh, what would Aunt Cornelia do j
If s11 . | now I - ore rulit before th • ,
t II! lister! She'd leave town. I do
! ..ve. 11 bought | 1! Ed him very
\ :: in 1...m i Know. I like a minis
rto ve up to h - calling, and he i
! o i!d It have been amused It Was I
frivh,- lii him to know so much [
about (be world If he weren't a mln |
lster I iOM I'd like him, but as he Is
a minis r I'd like him to be different." i
'!"!••• nevt afcriiooi her aunt tin
noiinccd that he had to attend a club
...tM.tt-.."- 112 > I li ulu> i-O'TWtted to
say, outsiders were excluded. Polly
appeared resigned, however, and after
her aunt's departure she wandered
aiiout the boils • sc -king diversion Sin.
found It In her aunt's bedroom In tin
sh. :m- of a wig. for her aunt had tore- i
s '"t to a false I • adgear. having lost 1
her hair tlirou ,'li ii ac-s.
Polly promptly donned It and sur
•. eye ! hersi If.
I don't look unlike aunt." she
thou, lit, "only iii ii young and plump.
We iok like tli dvertlsemenfs for
'before and after taking.'"
In pursuance of the resemblance she
tiled on a black silken gown of her
Runt's, She had just pinned on a ion*;. 11
a huge cameo pin when she looked out
of the window and saw her fellow ,
traveler coming up the steps.
"Coming for n ministerial call. He i
wou't recognize me In this outfit, and
he has never seen annt I shall per
sonate her!"
She hastened to admit the caller.
"How do you do-~Mr. Winters, Is It
not? I am Miss Cornelia Laflin. Be
seated, please. I thought I was never
going to meet my pastor 1 was so
sorry I was out when you called be
fore "
lie politely regretted the fact also j
and proceeded to talk of the church
matters.
"Hypocrite!" thought Polly. "I'll test
him further."
"Mr. Winters, 1 don't suppose I ought
t>» tell you my troubles on our tirst
meeting, but 1 feel I must unburden
my mind and ask your advice."
"Certainly, my dear Miss Laflin. You
may command and trust me."
"I have a niece visiting me—a well ;
meaning girl, but brought up in a
worldly way, and, Mr. Winters, will j
you believe me. she actually at times
—dear me. how can I tell you—she
swears!"
"No, Miss Laflin! You amaze me!
It cannot be possible!"
"Horrid hypocrite!" thought Folly |
again.
Hearing voices on the porch, she look
ed out and beheld her aunt entering in !
company with a man. lilsmayed, she
snatched the wig from her head re
gardless ot' the effect upon the min
ister. She had Just concealed it when
her aunt aiul companion entered.
"I made a mistake In the date, Polly, j
This Is our pastor, Mr. Winters. My
niece. Miss Lester, Mr. Winters. I met
Mr. Winters on his way here."
"Well, John, what are you doing i
here?" flsked the minister after ac- j
kuowledging the introduction to Polly.
Li t me Introduce my cousin. Mr. Win
ters. though 1 presume you have lntr«v
dueed yourself."
"Yes, 1 Introduced myself," here- j
plied cheerfully.
"Polly!" exclaimed her aunt, staring j
at her niece. "What in the world have |
you got ii.y dress on for?"
• Why. Aunt Cornelia. 1 was just try '•
ing it on wl "ii Mr. Winters rang and :
1 had no time to change."
"And do you kn iw." said John, com- ,
pelliug Polly's averted eyes to meet !
his, "for lust half an instant as you
opened the door 1 thought you were
Miss Laflin. and then I at itiep reeo-_'
ni/.ed you as the young lady I saw
allgh'imr from the train last nitrht "
PALISADES FORMATION
AllkPtl lii i inn* and Type to >lount
Ilolyokc ami ( ape Itlomidou.
Tbe complete* bright of the cliff was
much higher, originally, for the glacier
that buried North America down to i
thi-' latitude eroded billions of tons
which went to the upbuilding of Long !
Island, trap bowlders being common in
the soil of Brooklyn, and I have found
on the top of the Palisades opposite j
Spuylen Duyvil glacial groovings and
polishing-! that have survived the pre I
sumptive 1.-.tMto years since the glacier
melted. The outpour of this mass from J
a volcano whose crater we cannot so
much as piec- in this day was tremen
don-, and it cut the Hudson and Hack
ensack valleys asunder and pushed tli»;
harbor several miles to the southward,
while related activities thrusi above
the surface, either as downpours or up
pours, the thousand miles of basaltic
hills that chain the Carolinas to the
Bay of Funny, so that our Palisades
are allied in form and time to Mount
Ilol.voke and t ape Blomidon.
To the mineralogist our Palisades do
uot yield as much of Interest as we
find In the rotting trap of Patersou, a
few miles away, from which have been
taken the largest prehnltes In the
world, sea green and wonderful; royal
amethysts, balls of silky pectollte and
quartz pseudomorphs that copy them;
but we find in these cliffs occasional
duplicates of the columns that make
the Giant's causeway and Fingal's
cave—geometric shapes of three, four
five, six and more sides, not a result of
crystallization, as was once imagined
for trap is a rock, not a mineral, but
of lateral shrinking when it has cool
ed. —Charles M. Skinner in Century.
REVELED IN PERFUMES.
The \u«-lent» liicliilcrtl Iti Thriu lit
nn ICxfrnvaeant
The ii <• of perfume was indulged in
to such .in extravagant degree by the
ancients that some of \he more ascet'c
men had good reason to denounce It.
Solon is-ued an edict prohibiting its
sale in Allien- Julius Caesar and Hi
cinus. who were Roman consuls in
published a law forbidding the
sale of exotics in that city, and by
the laws of Lycurgus perfumers were
expelled from Sparta as being wast
ers of oil and eneouragers of seusuous
ness. Clearclius wrote against the ex
cessive use of unguents, and Socrates
declaimed against them in strong
terms, preferring, he said, "the smell
of healthy toil and the perfume of a
good and manly life." It was custom
ary at festivals to pass round to the
guests perfumes served In alabaster
boxes and vessels of gold. At one of
these feasts Cynulcus, who loved to
deride the youth for the use of per
fumes, was made a butt for their rid
icule. Some mischievous youth anoint
ed the cynic with much ointment,
pouring it lavishly over his head and
face. Wher. he awoke be exclaimed
In an angry voice "What Is this? Oh.
Hercules, will not some one come with
a sponge and wipe my face, which is
thus polluted with a lot of dirt?"
At the Syrian banquets It was usual
for the slaves to come In with bladders
full of Babylonian perfumes and be
dew the garlands and walls and hang
ings and till the halls with delicious
fragrance In some of the more mod
ern feasts statues and ornaments were
provided with Jets which threw out
diluted essences and attars —London ]
Society
No Ir.fliH'iioe Willi 111 in.
1 Miring i municipal election in a
town in the west of Scotland a youug
lady who was canvassing on behalf of
one of the candidates called at a house,
the door of ivhich was opened by the j .
good wife lli :se culled to -olicit your |
vote on belia'! <>l Mr. said the j
young lady
"But it's llot toe that's git till' vote j |
It's me man." replied the woman.
"Yes." said the > oiitig lady, "but 1 !
thought you might perhaps use your j
Influence w ah liini "
"Me inllo >eiice him';" »uid the good
wife ' I h!\ nae luflonence wl' him.
Only »11i- morning I asked him to wash ,
the Qoor afore he went out, and he I
wadr i ilac it • j '
No Hurry.
The minister was shocked when the [
young w •«i- n declined an introduction
to some of his parishioners. "Why,
my deai \ >'mg woman, did you ever
think tli 11 pcih ips you will have to
mingle with these good people when i
you g- ' to heaven?"
"Well," -he exclaimed, "that will be
soon enough."- -Life.
I*AIINI M S OLD PLACE;
THE HISTORIC MUSEUM THAT STOOD
IN LOWER NEW YORK
Fuels About the I'amnuN Curio Hall
'I lint Drnnslil :i lorlum- <•> the En- '
'•ritclic Sliotvninn—l'Virty Thousand
I'ei-honn II 112 oiiMiuiied li>- Eire.
"We will : I to the top of St. ;
i'aid's skyscraper and take New York;
City in at a ..lance," said my friend as j
r p: sod the corner of Broadway and
Ann si,, Ml ■; the doorway and
taking the et r it took but a few
tcoii: Mils i . ! ourselves at the top
where from the windows we not only
"took in"the entire city, with its brick
walls and t; 'king chimneys, but as
far as tin eye could reach we saw
water and iT'-en Holds. As we de
scended we c.niid uot help thinking that
on this sp')t t >r many years stood Bar
uuin's mu- in, oin e the dream of all
■ children and a place of universal in
terest to evi ry one.
Among th ■ i ny sights and curiosi
ties seen In the mus< uin some are fa
miliar to fi day, as Niagara Falls,
with real water, trees, rocks, etc.; Joice
Ileth, the au<d colored woman, 161
years old, w ho had once been nurse to
General Washington; the woolly horse,
said to have been captured by the Fre
mont exploring party In the Rocky
mountains; the Indian wedding dance;
the club that killed Captain Cook;
Tom Thumb, the dwarf who drove
around the city in a stylish little coach
and who married Miss Lavinia War
ren, the wedding taking place before a
1 vast assemblage at Grace church while
multitudes lined the sidewalks outside;
the living whale that was kept in a
tank of salt water pumped In from the
bay; the hippopotamus, the tropical
fish. Commodore Nutt, known as the
$::O,{)00 Nutt; the two dromios; the
lightning calculator who could add a
equate of figures at a glance, and wh#
became a Methodist minister; the fat
boy; Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia
giantess; the tallest man in the world;
the fat woman; Pashasharend. "the
what is It." no one knowing whether it
was a man or a monkey; the boa con
•? trie tor, seen inside a large glass case;
the cherry colored cat; the happy fam
ily, a collection of cats, rats, adders,
rabbits, parrots, birds, etc., all In one
ca::e; ,'iso two vast alligators, the liv
ing skeleton, the baby mite that
weighed only three pounds, the fish
with legs. the Fiji mermaid, the
siraffe, the rhinoceros, with the tropi
cal bird-, I arrots, cockatoos, mocking
birds, humming birds, vultures and
eagle, . id the well remembered dog
and baby shows
Then there were the wax figures of
pirates and murderers. Franklin
Fierce, Patrick Henry, General Wash
ington. James Buchanan, General Mar
ion. General I.ifayette, James Madi
son, Governor Morris, Prince Imperial
of France, Mine llolaud, M<dl Pitcher,
Nathan Hale. Poor Richard, Daniel
Lambert, the Veiled Murderess, etc.
In many of the plays thrilling scenes
were produced, as in"The Storm at
Sea," where a vessel was struck by
lightning and the crew rescued by be
ing drawn by a rope up a rocky sum
mit and the arms a: nding through
the narrow defiles of the Swiss Alps.
The mtis 'Utn w.n burned on the aft
ernoon of July 13, 1865. The fire, it
was thong or:, nated in the engine
room, it being necessary to keep up
steam to pun.;) fresh air into the wa
ter of the to'ia; i and to propel the
fans tit i* kept the heated halls cool.
The flame- be; a in the manager's
office and <\t u<:• 1 to all parts of the
building lie i nager showed great
presence of mind by depositing several
thousands ■ 112 dollars in a safe before
lie escaped t'roii the building. Fully
40,(H H1 persons w;tne--ed the tire, who
*aw the tall woman lowered by means
of ropes to the sidewalk and heard the
shrieks of animals in the menagerie
and the u >\\ is of the Bengal tiger.
The lion and h!s mate, who had es
caped from their cage, were seen walk
ing al >iitr the floor and an encounter
beneath the roof between the eagle
and a serpent, when the victorious ea
gle bore off his enemy In his talons
amid loud cheers. The polar bear,
escaping from the building, walked
through th" s;reets to the custom
house, where, ascending to the bal
eony. he fell and broke his neck. Oth
er animals, jumping from the win
dows, caust I the crowd to stampede,
when some lost their hats, others had
their coats torn, and many became
awfully disfigured by falling In the
mud l'he remains of the two whales,
the liatiiraro.) and crocodile were found
In the ruin.- i l.e 1 i-» of no other
building in the citj could have caused
so much excitement anil regret as Bar
uuin's mu- uni Brooklyn Citizen.
SUMplcloUM.
"Mother." ;iis the doubting wife, "1
do not believe Henry is all that he
should be."
"What is wrong with him now,
Agne.-V A short time ago you were
complaining that he stayed out too late
of nights is he staying out later than
ever ?"
"No. He spends every evening at
home u. :. 1 really that looks tr» me;
as though he i d something on his con
science."—T.lfei
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TYRO'L-ESC CUSTOMS.
! Peculiar Maimer In Which I'ropoMal*
of \r«' Made.
There i- an old custom prevailing
among the Tyrole.-e regarding propos
• als of marriage. The tlr t time a young
I man pax > a visit as avowed lover lie
i Prints w iih him n Iwittle of wine, of
I which h' ] "iiix out a glass anil pre
| ems t to the object of his desires.
1: she .ecej»,> it the whole affair Is
j settled. \"er> often the girl has not yet
; in.ale up her luind, and then she will
ta!:e re l11 ■ • * iii excuses so lis not to
• r dv the wine and yet not refuse it
j oint Idai .. i >r that is considered a
;:ro sin.- . . | inir that she has been
me.ely triwith the affections of
her lover.
i> ill, , instance, maintain that
ti. . i tie "la air" or that wine dis
a . -I- - with her or that she is afraid of
, T'ttiu.; ti;>- ; y ~r that the priest lias for- j
l»!i' ! <•,' « take any— in fact, she j
ma. ■: .iy suiiterfuge that.pre
■< n i' i t'lat moment.
The ptiipiit of these excuses is that!
she h i ii ! i nae to a decision and that '
the wae e lg is premature.
This i custom, dating very far)
bark- accor .if to one account, it was
ktiuv un- !y ;is t!ie ninth century-
Is called bri. ing the wine" and Is
syti u.yui.ii!- with the act of proposing.
• i tli II m ike sure of
liieir case :-et' jrehand, tind it a very
ha, / In t.ir.tlon. Not a word need be
sp s. and the girl is spared the pain
ful '.mV of civilization.
L any <»i" the -vine Is spilled or the
glass or be tic broken it is considered
ein -i unh . y omen— in fact, there is
a peasant's saying for an unhappy
marriage, "They have spilled the wine
between them."
SACRED CROCODILES.
I'h«- l'umoil* und the "I.Hby
rliiCli"' in l.gyiit.
The crocadile, one of the most sacred
animals of iho east, has given its name
to several ;; e ent sites. Of the various
cities of er / -o iiles the names of which
have beeu handed down to us by Ile
rodoui-. I'iiuy and Strai>o, jierhaps the
must -.tr.king WH - the "CToeodllopolis"
ot the ancient Egyptian province of
Faytuu, which, according to tradition,
wa built by that pharaoh who "made
the li eo f tlie children of Israel bit
ier with hard service." This province
lies within : n almost complete circle of
hills—a little oasis In the midst of the
desert, where roses and grapes mingle
with tiss and olives and luxuriant palm
trees gro'.v almost into forests. Its cap
ital i- Mcdmet, and a little to the north
o!" tls ■ city are a number of irregularly
shaped tj inds Beneath these are the
ruins of the pharaoh built "Crocodilop
olis." the lily of Crocodiles," later
called Arsiuoe and the shrine of the
sacred e;-.ji odile of the neighboring
Lake M >eri-. which was then -lot) miles
in circtiin. eience. This lake held the
sacred • roc i iiies, and as each died In
turn it wa I uricd in one of the 1,500 i
imdergrot'.iul sepulchers of the world
fame I "labyrinth" at hand, side by side
with the en k'tltnod bodies of succes
give pharaohs
v ■ .» Vcrpent I<l«*nt itled.
Some forty yea rs ago. when out wltt
a boat .: p rtj for seagull shooting, 1
epple 1 a. ai .a-ter 11 sh basking on the
surface of the water, with its head weli
up in f. e air. The creature allowed us
to get within thirty yards, when I sen
two cli ; "es of shot into its head, witb
there- ;lt that it rolled over on its
back, and >ur boat soon came up to it
It proved to tie a large angel shark. 1
thought I would make quite 1 sure it
was dead and sent two more charge!
Into Its upturned belly. I must have
unfortunately, burst Its air bladder, fot
It began slowly to sink. Had I uot
killed it at tirsi. and had it reared its
head and flapped Its wings, we shoulu
probably have added one more story
to the long list of sea serpent fabrlca
tlons. —Manchester Courier.
Incredulous, hut ( lieerful.
Father >.-• head of stairs)— Ethel,
what time .- it? Ethel (In drawing
roonn It's oiiarter past lft. father.
Father All "i lit Don't forget to start
the clock ■ n ter the young man
goes out u h' breakfast -Stray
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CAUCASIAN AND NEGRO.
I \r«* I' ii (a II j OppOMlte
Kilrcmei In lOvolvition.
Tin* faurv! i.-ui has the subjective fac
ulties veil ilc.eli.jjed; the negro the ob-
Jeetivo. The Caucasian, and more par
ticularly (lie Anglo-Saxon, is dominant
and dotnitif ci ing and possessed prima
rily with 'lt lermination, will power,
»■<inir-»». >eif government and all I
the attributes of the subjective self,
with a high development of the ethical
and aesthetic faculties and great rea
rming powers The negro Is In direct
fontra ;f bv reason of a certain lack of
tlie.-u power>, and a great development
of the objective qualities. The negro
is primarily affectionate. Immensely I
, etnoti >nal, tijen sensual, and, under
i provocation, passionate. There is love
of outward show, of ostentation, of ap
probation. He loves melody and a rude
; kind of poetry and sonorous language. I
; Tii'»re is undeveloped artistic power J
and taste—negroes make good artisans ;
and handicraftsmen. They are defl. j
j cient in judgment, in the formation of •
j n v ideas from existing facts, in de
; v! ing hypotheses and in making de
j tluctions in general. They are imitative
! rather than original, inventive or con
j structive. There is Instability of char
| «cto: incident to lack of self control,
! especially in connection with the sex
ual relation, and there Is a lack of
orientation or recognition of position
and condition of self and environment,
evidenced in various ways, but by a
peculiar "bumptiousness," so called by
Professor Blackshear of Texas, this is
particularly noticeable.
The white and the black racr-s are !
antipodal, then, in cardinal po .as. The
one lias a large frontal region of the
brain, the other a larger region behind;
the one is subjective, the other objec
tive; the one a great reasoner, the other
pre-eminently emotional; the one domi
neering, but having great self control,
the other meek and submissive, but
violent and lacking self control when j
the passions are aroused; the one a
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backward one. The Caucasian and the !
negro are fundamentally opposite ex- i
tremes in evolution —Robert Bennett ;
Bean In Century.
It is not enough to run; one mnst i
start In time.- French Proverb.
\ Sly Poke.
Nell When met May today I had
my new -'own on. Of course I expect
ed her t«i say something about it, but
she prete>ul»d not to have seen it.
Belle—Yes she's an awfully consider
ate d ; 'iider hearted girl. Phila
delphia 1. I.i
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" MLOOMSUCJH(4 DJVISiON
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western
Railroad.
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In Effect Jan. 1, 1905.
TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE
EASTWARD.
7.0T a. m.daily tor Bloomsburg, Kingston,
: Wiikes-Barre and Scranton. Arriving S'-ran
! ton at 9.42 a. in., and connecting at Scrantoi.
i with trains arriving at Philadelphia at HAH a
m.and New York City at 3.30 p. in.
10.19 a. in. weekly for Bloomsburg. Kingston
Wllkes-Barre,Scranton and intermediate sta*
tions, arriving at Scranton at 12.35 p.m. an<3
connecting th re with trains for New Yorn
City, Philadelphia and Buffalo.
2.11 weekly forßloomsburg,Kingston, Wllkei
Barre, Scranton and intermediate stations,
arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. no.
5.43 p. in.daily for Bloomsburg, Espy, Ply
mouth, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Plttston,
Scranton and Intermediate stations, arriving
. at Scranton at *.25 p. m. andeonnecting thert
with trains arriving at New York City at 0,5'
: a" m.. Philadelpeia 10 a. m.and Buflalo 7a m
' THAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE
I 8.15 a, m. weekly from Scranton, Plttston,
Kingston, Blooinsburg and intermediate sta
tions, leaving Scranton at 6.35 a. m., where it
l connects with trains leaving New Yor City
I I at 9.80 p. m., Philadelphia at 7 ('2 p. m.and
j Buffalo at 10.80 m.
i ' 12.44 p. in.daily trom Scranton Plttston,
Kingston- Berwick, Bloomsburg and interme
diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a.m.
and connectingthere with train leaving Bufl
i aio at 2.25 a. m.
4.83 p. m. weekly om Scranton. Kingston,
Berwick. Bloomsburg and intermediate sta
tions, leaving Scranton at 1.55 p. m., where II
connects with train leaving New York Cltj
at 10.00 a. m., and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m.
9.05 p. in.daily from Scranton. Kingston,
Pittstoi). Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme
{ diate stations, leaving Scranton at 6.35 p.m.,
where it connects with trains leaving New
! York City at 1.00 p. m., Philadelphia at 12.0 C
p. m.and Buflolo at 9.3 C a. m.
T. K. CLAKKK. Gen'l Sup't.
T. W. LEE. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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