li GREAT GOLO SCARE
When the Yellow Metal Was
First Found In Australia.
AFRAID OF THE CONVICTS.
The English Government Tried to and
Did For a Time Suppress the News
Because It Feared a General Upris
ing In the Colony of Criminals.
Gold in Australia was discovered
one might almost be pardoned for say
ing first discovered—many times. But
the news of the earliest discoveries was
jealously kept from spreading. The se
cret of this reticence lay in the pres
ence of the army of convicts which
then composed the balance of tlie pop
ulation. Had a gold panic broken out
it was feared that a general uprising
of the prisoners would take place.
Nevertheless the first gold found in
Australia was by convicts, iu ISI4,
near Bathurst, New Soutli Wales. The
discoverers gathered together a quan
tity quite sufficient to lead them to be
lieve that they had found a gold mine,
but when they reported what they con
sidered their good fortune to the keep
er he, instead of undertaking to rec
ommend them for pardon or easing
their hard labors in any way, threat
ened to give them all a sound flogging
if they ventured again to say a word
about the matter or to spend any more
time picking up gold. The next find
was made on the Fish river in 1823,
not far from the spot where the con
victs had come across it nine years be
fore. This news, being reported to the
authorities, was also ordered sup
pressed. Within the course of the next
two years finds were so frequent that
the London government began to take
great interest in the affair. Put the
fact that another region of the yellow
metal might bo at the disposal of such
as might seek was kept rigidly secret
until In 1825 a dramatic incident pre
cluded nil possibility of further se
crecy.
A couvict was discovered with a nug
get of gold in his possession. When
asked how he bad come by the metal,
he said that ho bad picked it up in the
bush. lie was cautioned and told that
the authorities had no doubt that lie
had stolen the gold, but the prisoner
stoutly held to bis original tale. At
length he was taken out and severely
flogged iu public as a thief. There is
now no doubt that the man told the
truth. After this, although the public
was every now and then keyed up to
great expectations by some reported
find, no further veins were discovered
until 1539, when a Russian nobleman
fouud a rich deposit in the Blue moun
tains. The British government again
became fearful of the consequence of
such news upon a colony of convicts
and ordered the matter suppressed.
Yet sufficient people had heard of It to
keep the story alive and give credence
to such rumors as arose from time to
time. So matters drifted on. Time
and time again buslimon, shepherds,
convicts and surveyors picked up small
nuggets and brought them to the cen
ters of population, but at that day peo
ple were nothing like so keen on gold
mining as they subsequently became,
and the subject of gold in Australia
was not pursued as one would expect
it to be.
The discovery of gold in California
changed all that. Those rich fields,
panning out their golden store and fill
ing the coffers of lucky individuals
and governments at a rate never
dreamed of, awakened a thirst for
prospecting all the world over. In
every part of the earth men went out
with pick and pan, hoping to come
across the precious metal.
When the news of California's for
tune reached Australia, many took
ship to America's shores, and among
these was Hammond Ilargreaves, an
Englishman, native of Gosport, who
bad emigrated to New Soutli Wales in
lSiiL' In Australia he engaged in
farming without much profit and was
among the first to rush for California.
On reaching the auriferous region the
first thing that struck him was the
similarity of the geological formation
in California and P.athulvt, Australia,
aud there nnd then he made up his ;
mind to inquire into the subject should
he ever return to Australia. lie work
ed for something like a couple of years
in California and then set sail for New
South Wales. Iterurning, he of <ourse j
carried in his mind the thought that
perhaps there might be gold iu Bath
urst. and when he landed he set to
work to make a thorough search.
Before this, however, he had made
the acquaintance of William and James
Toms and J. 11. O. Lister, who were
anxious to prospect for gold. Ilar
greaves taught them how to use pick
and pan, the dish and the cradle—in
fact, gave them a practical if rough
education into the mysteries of gold
and gold bearing rocks and gravel.
These men struck out, and hi April,
1851, the three pupils returned t > their
old master, and, 10, in their pockets
they carried gold to the amount of
four ounces! Ilargreaves. knowing the
ropes, took this gold and full dilu
tions to the proper quarter. The . owx
went forth, the rush began, ri h l— '
\ were made, and Ilargreaves wash
\ ed as the discoverer of gold i:i Aus
/ tralla. In reality be had won the title,
for It was bis knowledge that first ed
ucated the Tomses and Lister, and It
""as his knowledge again that sent
them in the right direction.
Duty is what goes most against the J
grain, because in doing that we do
only wlint we are strictly obliged to
and are seldom much pral'ed for it.—
I Bruyere.
Names That Don't Name.
Many chemical names convey no ex
act idea of the things they for.
Oil of vitriol is no oil. Neltli* are oils
of turpentine and kerosene. Copperas
is an Iron compound and contains no
copper. Salts of lemon Is the extreme
ly poisonous oxalic acid. Carbolic acid j
is not an acid, but an alcohol. Cobalt j
contains none of that metal, but arse-1
nic. Soda water has no trace of soda,
and sugar of lead has no sugar. Cream j
of tartar has nothing of cream nor!
milk of lime any milk. German silver |
has no silver and black lead no lead.— !
New York Press.
CLIMBING AN ICE SLOPE.
/ain and Perilous Effort to Scale
Mount McKinley.
The long trail to the north brings out
j the best in men and the worst, declares
| Sir. Uobert Dunn in"The Shameless
Diary of an Explorer." As a member
of a party which made a vain attempt
to reach the top of Mount McKinley
he tells something of the hardships of
one day's travel:
Furtively, imperceptibly, the steep
ness had stolen a march on us. As
one line of footholds gave out wo had
to slide dexterously to another. Tha
Keeper slope was swept clear and hard
Steps had to be cut.
We have only three ice axes. As i
never gave them a thought this morn
ing, all of them were gobbled up when
we started, and 1 w.is left with only
one long willow tent pole. It was never
meant to balance you in half cut steps
that may or may not hold your toe.
As the steps changed from a stair
way to a stepladder the other three
betrayed no excitement, no uneasiness.
Neither did I at first, but I felt both
It was not dl:«'.lm - s, not vertigo, but
simply that as I 1 ukeil down the sheer
2,000 feet from where we clung bj
our toes imagination reslstlessly told
over how it would feel, how long It
would last, what the climax in sen
sation would be. were I to fall.
As hour succeeded hour I lived each
minute only to make the false step.
Courage is only a matter of self con
trol anyway.
Climbing the highest mountain on
the continent with a tent pole! Some
times I boiled in those diizy, anxious
places that I had put myself in such
a position with such men. Yet I must
reap my own sowing. Onee I asked if
! it wasn't customary to rope on suet
steep slopes, but t:o one but Fred an
[ swered, and he said: 'T ain't goin' te
I ketch ie tied up to anybody. A man
don't want to take chances with any
i one but hi i'. I.aulln' him down
! from these pi. es."
One requisit • of exp'orers besides
aversion to soap and water is insensi
tiveness. They can't see: they can't
feel. They couldn't do these stunts if
, they did.
THE HUMAN GRAIN.
it Is the Most Marvelous Machine In
the World.
The human brain is the most mar
velous machine in the world. It occu
pies less space in proportion to its
capabilities than any machine it ever
invented. It sends a special nerve to
every ultimate fiber of some 500 mus
cles, to many thousand branching
twigs of arteries, to every pinhead
area of the numerous glands which
keep the machine properly oiled, heat
ed or cooled, to some sixteen square
feet of skin, which is the outpost
guard of its castle, with such complete
: ness that the point of a piu cannot
find an area unguarded. It possesses
special quarters for the reception and
; translation of a constant stream of vi
brations that are the product of all
things movable or still In the outer
world. On the retina of every open
eye is a picture of the outer view, a
focused imprint of every ray of light
and color, and in the visual chamber
of the mental palace stands a vlbra
scope. a magic lantern that receives
the retinal picture in its billion speed
ing series of light waves and throws
them upon Its mental screen as a liv
ing moving picture of light and shade
and color. In the chamber of sound is
a vibraphone, over whose active wires
passes every \ ave of sound fro: i th<-
dripping of the dew to the orchestra!
fortissimo, from the raucous scrcch
of the locomotive to the sighing of the
wind through the meadow grass. In
the chambers set apart for scent and
taste and touch are the secret service
guards to report upon the air and food
which give sustenance to the palace
and upon the solid qualities of the tac
tile world. And. wonder of all won
ders, this complex human brain cau
think i:i nil languages or in no lan
guage and even conceive its own pliys
leal mortality.—Edward A. Ayres in
Harper's Magazine.
A SMART ENGLISHMAN.
Tlu stn/ He Told cf His Exp.;ience
In"the States."
A tall, practical Englishman went over
to"the States" the other day from !
London lie took lodgings at m Inn i:i
a small village, which shall be name
less. lie ha i dinner, and among those
who sat at the table with him was the
waiting maid, whom he designated as
"servant." but he received an indig
nant correction from the landlord.
"We call our .servants, -r. 'helps
They are not oppressed: they are not
Husslan serfs."
"Ail right." said the Britisher: "1 j
shall remember."
And he did, for in the morning he i
awoke the whole house by calling out
at the top of his voice, which was like
the tearing of a strong r.-.g:
"Help, help! Water, water!"
In an Instant every per :i equal t ■
the task rushed into his ro i:;i v. ith : 1
pall of water.
"I am much obliged to you. I
sure." lie said, "but I don't want RO ;
much water, you know. I only wati
enough to shave with."
"Slmve with!" said the landlord
'hat did you mean by calling: 'He.';
ter?' We thought the house wu = j
u told me to call the servant
and 1 did. Did you think I j
would cry 'Water!' when I meant tire? '
The explanation, it would seem, was
satisfactory, and be can call the serv
ants "servants" ns much as he likes at !
that place now.—London Answers.
Have You Knee Jerk?
"Exaggerated knee jerk" is a dis- ]
case to which every electric car pas- !
senger renders himself liable, accord- j
ing to medical testimony in the First
district court of Newark. N. J., the
other day. The testimony was given
by Dr. Douglas A. Catei* of East Or
ange in the trial of the suit of Albert
Marsh against the Public Service cor- j
poration for injuries he alleges he suf- j
fered from one of the cars of that con
cern.
Serious Canadian Problem.
A serious problem for the people of
Canada to solve Is the fuel supply of j
the future. No coal of any kind has j
ever been discovered in Ontario. In j
the older part of the province the tlrn- '
ber is practically exhausted.
CARLOTTA AND NAPOLEON.
How the Crazsd Empren' Curse Came
to a Fulfillment.
General Henrico d*Almonte was from
j lSii;! to 18(50 the ambassador of Em
peror Maximilian of Mexico to the
court of Napoleon 111. The most Inter
esting and njost pathetic episode to
which D'Almonte was a witness and
which Is vividl.. described in ills
memoirs is the meeting between the
scheming French emperor and Maxi
milian's wife, the beautiful and ambi
tious Carlotta. who shortly before the
catastrophe at Queretaro- had come to
Paris to Invoke Napoleon's aid for the
tottering tin-one of her husband. Hut
Napoleon 111., who for his own per
fidious purposes had by promises and
allurements induced Maximilian, then
archduke of Austria, to accept the "re
stored" throne of Montezuma, faith
lessly abandoned the unfortunate
prince to his cruel fate as soon as he
realized his schemes to be impractica
ble.
Even at her arrival in Paris Carlot
ta's mind was already in such a high
state of irritation that it was deemed
advisable to have General d'Almonte
at her side during the meeting with Na
poleon, which took place in the em
press' apartments at the Grand Hotel
do Paris.
What lends special interest to that
interview is the fact that the empress,
crazed by desperation and fear for her
husband's safety and by Napoleon's
unsympathetic attitude, hurled a curse
at the latter which in time was indeed
fulfilled to the very letter.
"The empress." says General d'Al
monte, "pleaded, partly on her knees
and in the most beseeching terms, with
the stony Frenchman to no avail. Then
it was that I witnessed the most liar
i rowing and dramatic scene of my life.
Frantic with grief and excitement, the
| empress, with drawn mouth and flasli
| in;: eyes, sprang t<> her feet, extending
both her hands toward the retreating
j emperor. i
I " 'Leave me,' she yelled In a voice
| which cut through me like a sword—
j 'leave inc. but go laden with my curse
—the same curse that God hurled at
the first murderer. May your own
house and throne perl.-U amid flames
and blood, and when you are humbled
hi the dust, powerless and disgraced,
| then shall the angel of revenge trum
pet into your ears the names of Maxi
t mllian and Cnriotta!"'
; At Sedan and by the revolution in
Paris Sept. I, IS7O, the unhappy ('ar
ietta's curse was fulfilled to the letter.
| —Captain Charles Iviener in Los An
! geles Times.
Strength of Rings.
| Some elaborate calculations, backed
i by experiments, have bceu made in
England to determine the breaking
| strength of rings, it appears that a
j ring of ductile metal, like malleable
! iron, will bo pulled out into the form
of a long link before it breaks and that
I the ultimate strength of the ring is
! virtually independent of its diameter.
Fracture finally occurs as the result of
j almost pure tension, and the resistance
| to breaking is a little less than twice
| that of a rod of the same cross section
subjected to a straight pull. As the
ring Increases in diameter there ap
pears to lie a slight approach toward
j equality, with double the strength of
• a bar. Thus a three inch ring, made
! of three-quarter Inch Iron, broke at
j nineteen and one-half tons, a four inch
ring at nineteen and nine-tenths tons
j and a six inch ring at twenty tons, the
strength of a bar of the same metal
| being ten and one-half tons.
CURING A TCOTHACHE.
Remedy of a Cowboy That Proved Re
markably Effective.
Ope of tlic cleverest old customers
we over knew was Judge Booth, who
lived on the Ltell ranch along the lied
river in the northeastern port of New
Mexico. One morning out on the range
the judge rolled out of his blankets
with a jumping toothache, and. al
though he exhausted all the remedies
i in camp, nothing liiul any effect.
It was forty miles to the nearest
town, with the chances against tiudiug
; a dentist there, and it was finally de
cided to appeal to one of the Texas
cowboys riding herd live miles away.
He came over in response to the mes
sage. and after taking a look at the
tooth, which was a double one on the
upper jaw. he said. "Jodge, 1 can shoot
that tooth out as slick as grease if you
don't mind the scar it will leave on yer
cheek."
"Shoot it out?" shouted the judge at
the top <>f his voire. "Why, man, you
must be crazy!"
"Waal. then, mebbe 1 kin pick In
'uufT powder to blow it out."
"Blow it out'' Never!"
"Might possibly hammer it out with
a piece of iron." mused tlr» cowboy.
"And you might goto Patagonia and
beyond!" exclaimed the Indignant suf
ferer.
"Yes, that's generally the way with
folks. I'm only tellin' you tow we do
it out here, but if you don't want the
tooth out of course you'll have to stand
the pain."
The <- i.'.iio.v started back to the day
herd, but after a gallop of half a mile
he retnrned to i eckon the other boys
asi do and say: "The jedge seems to be
a purt.v squar* sort o' man, though a
leetel techy, and I'm sorry fur him.
Ivin he sit on a boss':"
"Some of the time."
"Kin be shoot?"
"Only now and then."
"Then I think 1 can cure that tooth
ache."
Ih' spent five minutes unfolding the
plot and then went over to the sufferer
and said, "Jedge. I've come back to
say that ye are a booby and a cow
ard!"
"What!" yelled the judge as he
sprang up from his seat before the
campflre.
"A booby, a coward and a squaw,
jedge, and likewise a durned old liar!"
The judge Jumped for him, but the
cowboy rau for his horse. There was
another near at hand, with two guns in
the holsters of the saddle, and the
judge sprang aboard and gave chase, j
Half n. mile out on the prairie the two j
men began to shoot at each other, and
it was not until the judge had fired his
twelfth bullet that the kind hearted
cowboy rode away and left his enemy j
to ride into camp and declare, "Well,
by thunder, if that infernal toothache I
hasn't stopped so dead still that I feel |
Just like singing!"— Denver Field and '
Farm.
WE SHORTEN OUR LIVES.
Human Beings Should Live at Least
a Hundred Years.
Every man who dies before he is a
hundred years old d'vs so because lie
has neglected the laws of health. I
believe the time will come when men
will commonly live to be 150 years old.
Hut to do this they must lie born right
and be taught matters of health with
their A 1! C's.
A majority of the people of America
lose about thirty years of life through
not understanding or not following the
demand of nature for regular and ade
quate exercise. Our systems of civili
zation have worked a vast improve
ment i'i production by training men
to special lines of work. Thus they
become wonderfully proticient. To see
a man rattling up long columns of
reading matter on a linotype machine
is inspiring, to hear a lawyer clearly
and incisively summing up a case fills
one with admiration, to read a strong,
forceful editorial affords pleasure at
the thoughts so well expressed, to
watch tho violinist and listen to the
sweet melodies ho draws from the
strings wafts our souls to higher
realms, yet the acquirement of each
and all these abilities has robbed the
trained or talented performers of some
thing else. The linotype is wearing
out his nerves in setting type at such
a rapid pace; the oratory of the law
yer has been acquired at the expense
of a dyspeptic stomach; the man who
wins us with his facile pen envies the
strength of the sturdy laborer shovel
ing in the street; the virtuoso would
fain have the appetite of the perform
er on the big horn in the little street
band.
lii thus specializing each Is npt to
neglect the routine work for all the
muscles that nature demands to keep
up the physique. Had each of these
performers or geniuses done liis stint
of work on a farm, raising the food ha
consumed, he would have been less
skilled In his vocation, but possessed
of vastly better health. And all would
live out not only their full seventy,
but a round hundred or more of years.
—Charles 11. Cochrane in Metropolitan
Magazine.
OUR FIRST FRESIDENT.
The Average American Knows Very
Little About Washington.
VBorn Feb. 22, 1732: died Dec. 14,
1 Tu;»; fought Indians; time and place a
little vague. Was he not with Brad
dock? Married a widow named Mar
tha; was commander all through our
Revolution; was our first president and
had two terms; wrote a farewell ad
dress; knew Lafayette and Thomas
Jefferson; crossed the Delaware at
Trenton just before Christmas and sur
prised the Ilessians-; beat Corowollis
at Yorktown and was first in war, first
in peace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen.
These are all public facts. What
does the reader know of Washington
the man? More than likely it will be
as follows:
Cut down a cherry tree with a
hatchet; owi od up to having dflne so.
saying, "I'ather, I cannot tell a lie;"
threw a stone very far across some
river; climbed up the side of the
Natural bridge and cut his Initials;
worked hard at school; wits steady;
was very good all the time, and every
body looked up to him; of course very
brave, of course very wise and a great
patriot; was one of the greatest men
in all history; was tall, strong; wore
those knee breeches of colonial days
and a wig; looked stern; would prob
ably lecture you and tell you to be vir
tuous and you would be happy. Such,
if I mistake not, is the reader's vision
of Washington as a man—cold, austere,
unemotional, without passions, grand,
not merely greater than human, sim
ply not human at all—a sort of marble
statue. A figure to prize, to be proud
of as an American, a figure to revere,
but not a character to love, to be
drawn to, to feel any kinship with—in
a word, immortal, yet not living.
Everybody's Magazine.
The Preservation of Cacte.
It Is well known how carefully, ap
parently at least, the Hindoos are t;>|
preserve their caste from contanilna-1
lion with anything of a lower order, j
In towns where Hindoos and Mussul
mans, followers of Mohammed, live
side by side the sellers of drinking
water supply the liquid through little
portholes, one for each religion. The
drinker is thus supposed to be ignorant i
of the caste of the man who supplies,
tlie water and his own caste Is conse- j
fluently unbroken.
TENT CITY FOR QUEBEC FETE.
Railroad Plans One to House Guests j
at Tercentenary Celebration.
Owing to the demands for hotel ac
commodation at the tercentenary cele
bration ceremonies at Quebec, which
begin July 22, the Canadian Pacific
railroad is considering the scheme of
erecting a tent city on the heights
overlooking the harbor to accommodate
a thousand persons.
Quebec has few hotels of importance
except the Chateau Frontenac, all the
rooms in which have been taken since
the beginning of the year.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet com
pany and the Quebec Steamship line
will run steamers from Now York to
Quebec In the celebration week, ami
the will be allowed to »lee;>
and eat on board while in port.
The Prince of Wales will attend the
tercentenary celebration and dedicate
the monument on the Plains of Abra
ham to Wolfe and Montcalm and the
men who fought under them for pos
session of what Is now the Dominion
of Canada.
Huge Russian Waterway.
Russia is contemplating the construc
tion of a huge now waterway across
Siberia, nearly parallel with the course
of the Transsiberian railway. It is pro
posed to connect five great Siberian
rivers—the Tobol, Ishim, Irtish, Ob
and Yenisei—and other less impor
tant streams by canals or light rail
ways, and with a view of this the
Russian government has ordered ex
tensive surveys to l>e taken.
Novel Uso For "Merry Widow'' Hats.
"Merry Widow" hats are being made
to do duty as umbrellas by several
Altoona (I'a.) girls. During the recent
rainy weather the girls appeared on
the streets in raincoats and the wide
rimmed headgear. The latter was cov
ered with a thin eravenette material.
:QFFEE AS A WEDDING GIFT.
Custom Which Is General In Coffee
Growing Countries.
"Wo have a custom in the coffee
-alsing countries," said a high lirazil
! tan official, "which is unknown in
cither parts of the world. When a child
Is horn in the coffee country n sack of
the best grain is set aside as part of
the inheritance to be received on at
taining its majority. Usually the sack
1? the gift from some close friend or
relative, and it is guarded as sacredly
as if it were a gift of gold or bonds.
No stress would induce a Brazilian
parent to use coffee which was made
the birth gift of a child. As a rule,
it Is sealed with the private seal of the
owner and bears a card giving all par
ticulars about the variety of grain, its
age on being sacked and the birth of
the child to whom it is given and
other details, which are very interest
ing when the gift is due.
"Generally the coffee is opened for
tlie first time when the child marries.
I The coffee for the reception or mar
j riage feast is made from the legacy,
I and, according to precedent, this must
I lie the first time the sack is opened.
: After the coffee is made for the wed-
I ding feast the sack is carefully closed
| and sent to the new home of the young
j people and should keep them in this
| staple for a year at least. When both
| bride and bridegroom have the birth
gift of coffee they have started life
under very hopeful conditions, so far
as one necessity is concerned. Few
people know that the older the un
parched grain of coffee is the better
the flavor, T.ike wine, it grows with
| age, and that which is over twenty
| years mellowing under proper coiuli
! tions will bring from $1.50 to $3 a
| pound from connoisseurs. The giving
| <>f pounds of green coffee is a common
[ practice in the coffee belt. Friends ox
i change these gifts and compare re
sults. When one cannot afford to give
a sack of coffee, it frequently Is the
j case that ten pounds of the best green
! grain are packed in a fancy case and
I bestowed on a newly born child, with
I directions that it must not lie opened
1 until the wedding day."
FIRST AMERICAN GLASS.
Made at a Factory Built by a Boston
Man In New Hampshire.
i The first American glass factory was
j erected in the town of Temple, X. 11.
Washington in his diary speaks of
j glass lieing made in New Ilaven, Conn.,
I in the year 1789.
] One would suppose by the language
; lie uses that he considers it a new and
j quite extraordinary affair. It was nine
i years previous to this and during the
i very war whose issue lirst enabled the
country to commence its own manufac
turing that Robert Howes of Host on
began to carry out the project which
he had long conceived, but had hith
erto found impracticable if not impos
sible under English rule, that of mak
ing glass in America for America.
In 17S0 Mr. Ilewes selected a site for
his factory secure from the British
forces (his glassblowers were Hessians
and Waldeckcrs, soldiers who had de
serted from the British army), and he
must have had an eye for the beauti
ful in nature. lie chose a spot on the
north slope of Kidder mountain, near
its base. To the northwest Mount Mo
nadnock rears its granite crown, stand
ing like a giant sentinel: to the north
ami running east are the Temple moun
tains, bold and precipitous; to the east
a beautiful valley holds in its embrace
the towns of Wilton, Milfonl aud
Nashua, while to the northeast Joe
English hill and the I'neauernucks
mountains conceal the city of Man
chester.
The place is now reached by a two
mile walk over an old road, long a
stranger to travel other than by graz
ing cows and nature loving tourists.
Tlu* stonework about the ovens and
the foundations of the building are all
that now remain to remind us that
here was another example of the Amer
ican people's struggle for independ
ence,—Crockery and Class Journal.
ATE HIS FILL.
The Sharp Traveler Had His Money's
Worth and Caught the Coach.
There was a coach that used to run
rietween Nola Chucky and l'alnt ltock,
a matter of some forty miles. For
lunch the coach stopped at a halfway
house in Tin Can, and here a good fifty
cent meal was put out—cake and pie,
coffee and tea and all the cold meats
you could mention.
But the landlord of the halfway
house had a mean little secret dicker
with the driver, whereby as soon as
the travelers bad paid fur their lunch
aud got fairly settled to it a call would
come for an immediate start. So off
they'd all go, grumbling. They'd have
paid for 00 cents' worth of food and
only eaten, you see, about 5 cents'
worth.
But along came one day a traveler
with a sharp, bright eye. The landlord
found this chap some ten minutes aft
er the coach bad started on again still
tucking in pie and ham at a terrible
rate.
"Why, i.ian," Bo said, "you've let tlie
coach go without you."
"I Uuow it," said the traveler calmly.
"I was too blessed hungry to stop eat
ing."
Suddenly the landlord's face paled
"Good gracious," he said, "all my
silver's gone!"
It was too. Not a knife, fork or
spoon was left except the sharp eyed
man's.
lie said as he kept 011 eating that he
had noticed n suspicious looking char
acter among the passengers, a man
with a red beard, a hump and a limp—
oh, very suspicious!
The landlord sent a hostler off to
overtake the coach and bring it back.
In about forty minutes the coach re
turned. Then the sharp eyed man
came forth, wiping his mouth. ttut he
made 110 efTort to Identify the sus
picious looking passenger. Instead hq
got aboard the coach, took his seat and
said coolly.
"Thanks, landlord, for the good food.
You'll find the spoons and things In
the coffeepot. Now, driver, off we go
ag'in."—Washington Star.
Imposing.
"The Swelltons seem to keep up an
exposing establishment," remarked the
canned goods drummer.
"You bet they do," replied the gro
ceryman, with a sigh long drawn out,
"and I'm one of the fellows they im
pose on."—Chicago News.
THE BLUE JAY.
Why Should He Be Selected as Sand
Eearcr to Satan?
It is said and believed by many that
all the blue jays disappear every Fri
day, and not one can lie seen until the
next day, and this disappearance is ac
counted for hy the statement lhat the
birds are under a compact with Satan
and that they devote each Friday to
delivering him a supply of sand to
heat his caldron at the point of tor
ture.
Hut why should the blue jay be select
ed as sand bearer to Satan when there
are so many birds of stronger and
fleeter wing? There are many super
stitions that have a reasoning basis,
but this particular one has nothing
whatever togo on.
The origin of it lies in the fact that
the blue jay is a most particular home
builder, lie knows how to build his
house, and he takes a great pride in it.
lie doesn't hang his nest to a limb nor
glue It to a tree.
Instead he selects a substantial fork
or crotch of a limb, lays down a few
twigs of goodly size and strength, and
on these he superimposes a strong
foundation of clay, with layers of pa
pers between, nnd when his nest Is fin
ished it is as substantial in proportion
ns one of our modern steel structures.
Thus fitted and finished, it is admi
rably adapted to the rearing of a
strong and healthy brood, nnd the blue
Jay goes about his business with the
earnest energy that characterizes all
his movements.
lie raises his young and loads them
about from tree to tree and from bush
to bush until they have tried and
found their wings, nnd then, his re
sponsibilities being over, he proceeds
with his career of gayety, a veritable
practitioner of rough fun and stage
humor.—Uncle Itemus' Magazine.
Pounds and Weights.
Here is a question that will tax thu
arithmetical powers of a youth. Sup
pose that for some reason or another
a shopkeeper who sold goods by
pounds and half pounds, but never in
quantities exceeding twenty pounds at
a time, was told that he must transact
all this business with four weights
only, what must these four weights
be? The answer is half pound, one and
a half pound, four and a half pound
and thirteen and a half pound. With
these it will be readily seen that any
weight from half a pound to twenty
pounds may be determined in pounds
and half pounds.—-Gateway Magazine.
Pleasant Anticipation.
The Rev. l)r. C. M. Lamson, once
president of the American board of for
eign missions, was called as a pastor
over a parish and was undergoing ex
amination before a council when the
question was asked him, "Do you be
lieve in a hell?"
The retiring clergyman of the parish
Kit beside him and, giving hiru a nudge,
said: "Tell them yes. If you don't now
you will before you have been here six
I months."—Argonaut.
Just i'-.c Other Way
Fortune Telle.' -Beware of a short,
dark woman with a fierce eye. She is
waiting to give you a check. Visitor
(despairingly)—No, she ain't. She's
waiting to get one from me. That's
my wife.—Baltimore American.
WIFE IN HORSE'S PLACE.
Drags a Junk Wagon Around, With
Husband Driving.
Harnessed between the shafts of a
wagon heavily laden with old iron,
bottles and rags, Mrs. Frank Muleaski,
fifty-live years old, wife of un Hvans
ton (111.) junk dealer, has taken up
the task left off by the family horse
at Its death a few weeks ago, says a
Chicago dispatch. Supplied with spe
cially fitted harness, she has made it
possible for lier husband to continue in
business.
Daily she draws the flagon through
the streets of Fvanston and Wiluiette,
responding with alacrity to her hus
band's cries of "Whoa'* and "t;id
dap."
Muleaski kept to the outskirts of the
town at first with his novel "steed."
As long as Mrs. Muleaski is willing to
perform the task the Humane society
cannot interfere, it is said, and there
Is no other agency which would be
empowered to act. At times Muleaski
stops to consult with his wife concern
ing purchasers and routes to be taken.
In addition, she is watchful for chance
customers, pointing them out when
her husband fails to notice them. This
is an advantage he did not enjoy when
his horse was alive.
HONEYMOON IN RACING CA3.
Auto That Won Briardivf Race to Fig
ure In Tyson's Homancc.
The Isotta Frascldni automobile,
which won the Uriareliff race a few
weeks ago, is to be the honeymoon
home of its owner. John 11. Tyson,
Jr., and his bride to be, Miss Grace
Starr.
Mr. Tyson, who is just twenty-two
years old, took out a marriage license
at the Greenwich (Conn.) town hall
the other day, and the wedding will
take place on May 23. The ceremony
will be performed at the Tyson home
stead, in Kivcrskle. After the cere
mony the couple will start on a bridal
tour of the United States by automo
bile. They will take the Isotta car
and two others.
Mis Grace Ethel Starr is the da ugh-1
ter of Commodore and Mrs. Alfred It.
Starr of the Uiverslde Yacht club. |
She is just twenty years old.
On the return from their honeymoon
the couple will live in a magnificent !
residence which Mrs. George Tyson is
having built as a wedding present.
When Lovers Quarrel.
Reginald staggered down the street,
black of eye, bruised of face and bear
ing other marks that made him look I
decidedly unhappy.
lie was met by his uncle, who stared
at him in amazement.
"What on earth have you been doing
to yourself?" exclaimed this worthy.
"Nothing serious," replied the young
man, with a faint, faraway smile.
"Merely the effects of a lovers' quar- I
rei."
"Great Scott, man," exclaimed the j
astonished uncle, "you don't mean to
say that your girl basted you like
that?"
"Oh, no," was the mournful response;
"her other fellow did!"- ~ ~~
PEN AND INK PIRATES.
Literary Theft Is Not Stealing; It It
Called Cenius.
All authors steal, 'flip capacity for
rteallng with art and elegance is one
I >f the most potent equipments of the
literary man.
Shakespeare was a magnificent thief.
He stole whatever be could lay his
hands on in a literary way and never
| marred In the stealing. lie stole
"Measure For Measure" from a play
called "Promos nnd Cassandra." lie
stole "Hamlet" from a play by George
Kjd. "Itomeo and Juliet" lie stole
from Italy.
Sir Walter Scott stole with a sublime
talent, lb- stole from antiquarian rec
ords. lie stole from Goethe. lie stole
from Sheridan.
Charles Iteade claimed the right of
the literary artist to set jewels, even
though the gems are the property of
another.
Alexandre Dumas, the author ot
"The Three Musketeers" and "Monte
Cristo," was one of the most remarka
ble fllchers in literature. In one single
year his name was attached to no few
er than forty different books. Not only
did he steal unblushltigly from every
author who came handy, but he em
ployed numerous literary ghosts and
passed off their work as his own.
Brought to book, he had a ready re
ply. "The man of genius does not
steal," he said; "he only conquers."
Alexander .Pope, who made thou
sands of (founds by his poetic transla
tion of Ilomer's "Iliad," was an indif
ferent Greek scholar. In addition to
i stealing from previous translators, he
j employed others to help and then
j claimed the whole work as his own.
When he translated "The Odyssey"
I he kept the public in ignorance that
i only twelve books could be called his
j and that the rest wore the work of men
i whom he paid badly,
j The arguments In Fope's "Essay on
I Man" were furnished by Lord Boling-
I broke, and his "Essay on Criticism"
was a poetic version of the conversa
! tion of Ills intimates.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, wit.
dramatist and politician, stole his fa
mous characters Charles Surface and
Joseph Surface In"The School For
Scandal" from Tom Jones and B!i::l in
Fielding's well known novel, and ho
abducted Tabitha Bramble ai ; Sir
Hubert Mackiiligut ami trans) ed
them into those still more entertaining
characters Mrs. Malnprop and Sir Lu
cius O'Trigger in "The Bivals."
Of modern authors w bo stole and are
stealing still the present writer does
not say a word. Only history can af
ford to bo free spokea.—Exchange.
Word Painting.
Mrs, Bradley, when questioned by a
fellow traveler in the Pullman car in
regard to her home, launched forth into
a rather long and detailed description
of its charms. Iler little girl, Grace
who had been rending when she began
to speak, soon closed her book and lis
tened with great interest.
"It must be very pleasant," remark
cd the chance acquaintance, somewhat
perfunctorily, when Mrs. Bradley tin
ished, and Grace, her eyes gleaming
with enthusiasm, said: "Oh, it must be
perfectly lovely! What place is it
mamma?"
"Why, our own home, of course,'
j answered the mother, somewhat em bar
rassed.
"Oh, dear," said Grace, sighing, "how
much better It sounds than It looks!"
I Youth's Companion.
Vaccinated the Rifles.
Orders that were issued by the Ger
man West African officials some years
Ago that all firearms In the hands of
natives should be stamped and regis
tered aroused much discontent. Lieu
tenant Eggers. in Damaraiand. how
ever, got along with no trouble. He
had Inoculated cattle for the rinder
pest three years before, as the Dams
ras saw, with good results. He there
fore announced that he was ready to
vaccinate their rltles so as to insure
their shooting straight nnd doing no
hurt to their owners, and the Damaras
crowded to him to get their gnus
stamped.
It's Sometimes Li'<e That.
They were rehearsing for the ama
teur theatricals.
"You mean to say," cried the heroine
clearing her throat, "that the people
In the back of the house enn't hear us
speak our lines?"
The professional trainer held up his
hand with a soothing gesture.
"Yes, but don't let that worry you."
he said. "They can hear the prompter,
«o they won't lose touch with the play."
—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Absentminded.
Sir John Burden Sanderson was no
toriously absentminded. Of the cycie
of anecdote that gathered arouitd him
much was fabricated. The story of his
boiling his watch while holding an egg
in his hand, often related also of New
ton, Is in La Uruyere's "Caracteres."
But there seems to be some foundation
for the suspicion that In his laboratory
he once lunched on a frog and was
afterward found deeply contmuplatlug
» sandwich.
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