"Hid name will live as long as the
heroes of the world are remembered."
That Is what Schley says abont Hob
eon. And iu Biblical phrase, "the
,-ieoplo Kay Amen!"
Engtnnd's colonies are nearly one
hundred and forty times as large as
her home possessions; France's twelve,
and Germany's nearly eight times,
while this territorial acquisition would
be less than one-fifteenth the size of
the United States.
Recent ofltcinl action in Milwaukee,
Wis., has excluded married womeu as
teachers in the public schools. In
Chicago no objection is made to their
serving unless they hare childrou un
der two years of age, although a wom
an member of the board of education,
herself married, says she thinks pref
erence should be given, other things
being equal, to unmarried women who
have to support themselves.
The pronunciation by the American
actress. Miss Annie ltussell, of the
word "medicine," in three syllables,
is condemned by the London Truth
as an error. The Encyclopedic Dic
tionary says that the first "i" is silent,
making the pronunciation "medsin."
Btorraonth s Dictionary agmu gives
"med-i-clne," and says that "med-sin"
is familiar, or, in other words, vulgar.
Both these authorities are English, so
that Miss Ilnssell may be not so alto
gether wrong as Truth intimates.
According to statistics obtainod by
Mr. W. H. Hornaday from sportsmen
and naturalists in all parts of the
United State', there has been a do-
crease of no less than forty-six per
cent, in the number of native birds
during the last fifteen years. Among
the alleged causes are killiug by gun
ners, plume-hunting, egg-stenliug,
fire, and the spread of the quarrel
some English sparrows. Game and
edible birds are becoming scarce, and
in their stead song-birds are used for
food. 1
The New York Times says: The de-
cision of the postofllee department
ihat publications printed in such good
imitation of writing tliut it is difficult
to distinguish them from written mat
ter must pay letter postage, seems at
the first glance to be a hard decision,
and on the face of it unjust. But a
moment's reflection will lead one to
the conclusion that perhaps the do
parturient is not so far out of the way
after all. The purpose of sending out
circulars, et cetera, in a close imitation
of writing is to flatter the recipient
by making him believe that he has re
ceived a personal letter from the send
er. If any advantage is to be gained
by such mild deception, the adver
tiser ought to be willing to pay for it,
For some time past the efforts of
argument, science, humanity and re
ligion have been largely . directed to
dissuading lovely woman from
conraging the slaughter of birds for
her personal decoration. The pnlpit
and the press have joined forces with
the Audubon society ami other humane
. associations in sotting forth the cruelty
of the fashion and the wrong done by
the extermination of bird life to deck
the female head with feathers. And
what is the result, questions the Now
xorlc World. The not of the season
is a fabric ot feathers. Where one or
two modest feathers sufficed last year,
he hat ia now an eflloresen.ee of plum
age. Where the birds were once killed
- by thonsonds there are now killed by
' millions. This is indeed instructive.
It is convincing, Holomon, the wisest
of men, declarod that there were four
things past finding out; the fifth is
the way of woman in tho matter of
millinery.
Spain baa long had her hands full
with the Philippines, although it has
been her asylum for the reception of
officials with empty pockets, remarks
MoClure's Magaziue. The wilder
tribes of the interior have never roc
ognized the rnle of any one, and not
thirty miles from the moats of Old
Manila are races of dwarfs who care
not or know not of Spain's existence.
For years the Spanish troops have tried
to battle the tribes on Mindanao Is
land into submission but without suc
cess. Peaeeful natives have been
taxed, and it taxes have not been paid
they have been drafted into service
for the campaign is that great fever
. atrioken graveyard to the south. The
prisons of Manila have emptied their
inmates into troopships, and the
hips Lava discharged their human,
." cargoes on to that disputed soil. If
the conviota were killed in assaulting
the rude forts of the wild wen, well
nd good; if the untrained boy who
wire drafted into service were cut to
r'aoee, it was not of great import If
f native troops were touched, it lie,
' i to look aerions; but it the Span
' 1 "ill to waver, it was !:ui.i to
A LETTER FROM CAMP.
Dear (jlrlt We're waiting at the front
(I much prefer your side),
Frpnrnd to benr the battle's brunt
W hntevnr may betide.
Mo casualties to it file, altho'
I'v not reeovered yet
From wounds recnlved at home you know
Vv hat I mean. Don t forgot!
While It Is true a sotrilnr'S "fair"
Is fit for any kin if.
The "fare" we have down hers I swear,
Is quite another thlnu.
And ninny mnttprs must nnnoyj
Hut, still, wni'n war s alarms
Are over, may I not enjoy.
At times, a can 10 arnw
miip.p.ctq'q
S A PIONEER'S STORY. f
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How the spruce-looking stranger
got iuto the little, old dilapidated
town np in the Sierras none of its in
habitants appeared to know, but most
of them were extremely anxious to as
certain. Seldom it was that any one
went to the town. Apparently there
was no particular reason why any one
should. The surrounding scenery
was grand, it is true, but the town
could make no claim to being an es
sential part of the grandeur. Its one
atreet straggled np the mountain-side
for a short distance aud lost its way
in the forest. A long, ramshackle
'hotel," several despondent-looking
tores and a number of saloons made
up what it was pleased to call the
business portion of the town. On all
sides and as far as the eye could see,
however, were the imperishable evi
dences ot what this little town once
had been the centre of a natural
wealth almost inconceivable. Vast
areas of white and yellow and reddish
clay, mountains seamed nnd gashed
and cut in twain, miles of rusty and
disjointed gigantic, iron pipes told
of the days when the miners with hy
draulic guns "held up" ?ature and
forced it to deliver its treasure.
But all that was long ago, and it is
Duly a pleasant memory with the little
town now, aud to the stranger'a not
unnatural inquiry as to how the peo
ple supported themselves came the
cheerful and cannibalistic reply that
they "lived on one another."
The stranger sat on a box outside
one of the stores, beside one of the
Mtizens,and soon found himself listen
ing to a monologue ottered for his en
tertainment. It would nave been a
dialogue between them, but the en
tertainer would not have it that way.
An old man, with grizzled beard and
weather-beaten face, was he. The
stranger noticed, with some surprise,
that, although staiued aud rusty, his
long frock coat and the trousers stuck
Into his boots were of good broad
cloth. A very conspicuous watch
ohain, a huge diamond pin in a set
ting of tobacco-stained shirt front,
mil the entire absence of a collar made
np a somewhat incongruous appear
ance. Yes, you're right," began the en
tertainer, starting the monologue with
sousiderable energy, "this town ain't
worth a whoop today, but you ought er
seen it ouct. Ain't a forty-niner my-
elf, and you got to make a good deal
of allowance for what some of these
old has-beens tell you, but thoy all do
ay it was a hummer before they
stopped hydrauloeking. You oughter
get old Nuggets to tell you somethin'
about it. Am t ye met Auggets yet?
Well, you should, for he's about the
only sight we got in town only
thiug th town bruz about and p'iuts
out to strangers. Nuggets was here
or seniors about here before they
ever did any hydranleeking wheu
everything was placer and sluice-rain
Ing. He'll tell you his story '11 tell
it without be in' ask I've heard it
o often that I know it myself. He
likes to hear himself talk. He was
one o' the first to como acroat the
plains leastways that's what he says
and when he got here ho just nach
erally stayed. He kein around by the
old emigrant trail back o Lake Taboo
and into Haugtown. Hnngtown ye
know, that s what they called Placer-
ville in them (lavs was a great place
then. Meals was three dollars aud so
was beds; whisky was four bits and
two bits a driuk, a"cordiu' as how
yon wanted it and flour was ten dol-
lars lor a small sack. Course, ye
know, most all snpplies kein around
the Horn to Frisco, was boated np to
Sacramento and teuined out to the
mines from there. Business was
good in California in thein days,
Most everyone had money, and it
twarn't no trick to get it The cricks
aud river bottoms was full o' cold, and
anyone could take a shovel, pick and
rocker and wash out as much as be
liked. Course, that sort o' thing
pout the Argonauts, as they call
'em, or a good many of ein anyhow
would 'a' spoilt most anyone. Kinder
seemed to thein that the supply would
last forever, and they duln t worry
much and wasn t pertienler about aav
in' it. They was all about alike, and
after a fellow had worked purty hard
for awhile aud cleaned up little pile
be d get to tuinkin' ha needed relax
ation, and down he'd go to Frisco and
blow in his pile. Then he'd strike
the trail for the goldflelds for another
stack of bine chips.
"Course everyone had a partner in
them days, and this here Nuggets had
one by the name o' Wilkius. One
day th y kein iuto this town with
nugget tuat waa a corker. Was aa
big as your hat red cinnabar, with
chunks o' pure gold atickin' out of it
all around. The jeweler offered 'em
11500 for it, but they wouldn't sell it
Nuggets aaid there waa mora of it where
it kern from, but no one believed him
Everybody thought that Nuggets and
Wilkins bad found a small jacket, aud
that was all there was to it; but soma
o' these pockets are good enough for
wie man, itavhow.
I've learned to read the bugle's rote
From morn to dewy erei
Bo, home airnin, I'll taoh each note
To yon, Noll, by your lesire.
And one command, especially,
Termed "taps" so sweet aud clear-
It mnkoe me think ot yon and me
lt says, "Lights out I" my denr.
Ton see, a military vein
Huns through the lines above.
It nil refers to a campaign
Whoso countersign Is "Lore."
Itelgh-ho! slouch lint and service suit
Have little to enthuse.
This circle, dear, Is a salute.
Good night! Your bov In "blues."
Edwin I.. Habin, In Tuck.
'cmDTi imp"?
irnErriTMF
"That night there was an awful
windstorm, and two days afterwards
Nuggets was found comiu' ont o' Hut
tlesnake Cnnon over there plum crazy.
Thy brought hint iuto town, Mid all
they could get out of 'em was a string
of the foolisbcst words ye ever heard
of. He didn't say much else for a
nood mnnv venrs afterwards vnnster
sit around the town here and get it off
to himself. Went somethin like this:
" 'Changed all the trees in the
Rattlesnake moved 'em and mixed
'em all up. Might 'a' been a dream,
but I don't think so. Ask Bill he
knows. Put a shot in her. Seen
rock in my time, but no rock like
that. Bill, old fool, gits scared, and
we kivered her up to come back to.
Didn't blaze no tree, but my old knife's
stickin' ou the moss side o' that tree.
Might 'a' been a dream. Ask Bill.'
"Course you can bet your life thnt
old cnnon was prospected pretty well
after that, but nothiu' was found. The
specimen was sold nnd the money di-
vidod between Bill Wilkins and Nug
gots's daughter, who hnd to tako care
o' him. Wilkins went over into C'nln
vei ns soon after that and fell down
a shaft about 500 feet deep.
"well, time went by, and the law
stopped hydrauleckiiig, and purty
much everyone left the town thnt
could git out of it, and it ain't been
worth a blame seuce. Nnggets'a
daughter she married Bob Hittel, who
was a teamster and didn t have much
f it to do neither. They was pore,
nut they managed to make alivingand
keep old Nuggets besides. Course
ye know the old man couldn't do
nothiu but sit around and talk those
words I told ye of. Everyone was
kind to him, except, perhaps, Jake
Openheimer, who kept the principal
store then. He rouster rue him
good deal aud josh Hi in and ask him
when he was goiu to open her up,
but I reckon be didn't mean a great
deal o harm.
"Every now and then Nuggets 'nd
wander over into Rattlesnake Canon
and spend nigh onto a day there.
When he'd come back he'd be worse
tuk than ever and go moouin' around
and snyin' those words: 'Changed
all the trees iu the Knttlesnake
moved 'em and mixed 'em nil up.
Might 'a' been a dream, but I don't
think so.'
Bout this time his littlo gran'son
was growm up, and .Nuggets began
to take him along with him in his
trips to the canou. Mrs. Hittel she
objected nt first, but when she seen
the boy liked to go and lior father was
dead set on bavin' him with him, she
didn't make no more objections. The
boy yoused to say that whilo they was
n the canon ftuggetx spent most of
his time liuutiu' for something he
couldn't find.
One evening in the summer time,
bout ten years ago I was here then
myself Nu'ggots and -the boy kem
into town aud gave it a surprise
that it ain't got over sence. You cau
believe it or not as you want to. but
he'd got back bis mind all right and
talked as sensibly as I'm tulkin' now.
Don't believe he ever was crazy my
self just think he'd got his mind set
on one thing and couldn't get it off.
But bo was purty near crazy with
happiness. He'd an old rusty knife
in his bund, and he kept saying' to
us nil the time: ' 'Twarn't no dream
after all 'twarn't no drenm.' Seems
when they was in the canon tho boy
got to plnyin' around and crawled
under a big tree that 'nd been blown
down and fouud the knife stickin' in
it underneath. Course ye know what
tuat meant
"Well, Nuggets is all right now.
so was lua claim. He sold it for a
purty nice sum to a couple of big
miuing men down below. See those
smokestacks in the trees over in the
canon. Well, there's a fourteen-stamp
mill on the spot where the knife waa
found.
"Bob Hittel runs this store we're
a-sittin' in frout of, and Bob's wife
owns her own borne. iuggets lins a
mortgage on abont everything Jake
Openheimer'a got left, aud the boy
the gran'son, ye know he's down be
low in business for himself.
"That's about the story old Nug
gets '11 tell ye when ye meet hiin.
Some of it's true I know myself for
faet, and I reckon, mebbe, some of it's
well, ye know, Nuggets is Mis
sourian aud a purty good liar him
aelf."
The atranger arose, stretched him'
elf and striding up the street en
countered the one-legged druggist
tanding in the doorway of hia store,
"Great story I just heard," said the
stranger.
"Been talking to the old pioneer'
'Pioneer? Why, be' not a forty
niner. "
"No, but ho' a forty-eightor. "
"Who is ha, anyhow?"
"Him? Oh, that'e Nuggets." Ar-
Ronaut.
The atmosphere is ao elear in Zulu
land that it is said objects oan be seen
by atarllght at a diitauoe of seven
milaa
PRATER BROKE THE DROUGHT.
The Snppllrstlon Was fr"a Onlty Wash
Trash Mover anil Pine Knot Floater."
"It was awfully ry iu Georgia
once," remarked Mr. George Dallas.
"There had been no rain for weeks.
and the corn nnd the cotton were burn
ing up in the fields. The creeks had
begun to diy np and even springs that
had never In en known to fail gart
signs that their supply of the aqueous
fluid was running low. It began tc
look as though relief could never come
from the heavens. Day after day
blazing sun shone down from a cloud
less sky, blistering and withering all
vegetation and oppressing the hard
working sons and daughters of tin
land with a fear that distress would
soon be their portion distress that
might, take ou starvation's form.
"About this time the religious poo
pie of theconutv began to hold prayer
meetings to invoke assistance of the
Deity. In every community the good
old farmers and their families assents
bled to pray for rain. This was at an
epoch when the scientific ideas about
producing rain from explosives had
not gained a foothold, and no fakirs
went about, as they lately have done
in Kansas and other parts of the west,
offering to bring showers at so nincb
per shower.
"No, indeed; these were the timet
of simple faith and belief in the effi
cacy of supplication to the Omnlpo
tent. In one neighborhood in the
county of Coweta, where the drought
war particularly severe, n prayer meet
ing bad been called for a certain day.
and at the time appoiuted a congrega
tion of several hundred sufferers met
to beg that the drought be broken.
It chnnced that a new preacher, who
had but lately come to that section.
and who was, as I remember, an ex
ponent of the 'hard-shell' Baptist
creed, was called upon to make the
principal petition.
"He prnyed fervently nnd with all
the fervor of an agonized spirit. 'O
Lord,' said he, 'Thou kuowest our
distress. We beseech Thee, come to
our rescue. Lord, we don't want any
of your drizzle-drozzles, but send us
instead a gully washer, a trash mover
aud a pine knot floater. Amen.
"I hope I may never gaiu pardon
for my faults in the next world if
there didn't come within the next
thirty-six hours after the delivery of
that prayer the biggest rain that had
ever descended on Coweta county.
The oldest inhabitant couldn't remem
ber such another deluge. It rained
abont three days without stopping;
washed two-thirds of the fences
through a big region into the Cbntta-
hoochie river; swept away every bridge
and played havoc generally. And the
worst of it was that those miserable
countrymen who had incited the
preacher to pray bis best wanted to
drum him out of tlie country because
of the emphntio response to his en
treaty for rain." Washington Post
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
A single banyan tree has been known
to Bolter 7(100 men at ono time,
A caterpillar in the course of a month
will devour 600 times its own weight
in food.
Little Chute is a Hollnnd village in
Wisconsin. Its chief manufacture is
wooden shoes.
The goldfish is a great coward, and
a tiny fish with the courage to attack
it can frighten it almost to death.
A Spanish inventor produces from
grasshoppers a fatty substance, which
is declared to make the fluest soap yet
manufactured.
A calf recently born on the farm of
Royal Mills of Leon, Jew York, has
wool an inch long, with uuud and
horns like a sheep.
A Kansas man is the owner of
floral freak iu the shape ot a geranium
plant that is more than twelve feet
high. It grew nine feet iu oue sea
son.
The largest mass of pure rock salt
in the world lies under the proviuce
ot Gullicia, Hungary. It is known to
be COO miles long, 20 broad and 250
feet in thickness.
The tolling of church bells on the
occasion of a burial is based on the
old pagan custom of banging gongs
when a body was to be interred, ia
order to scare away the bad spirit.
A man who lives ou the Sabatis road,
near Lewiston, Me., sells small fish
for bait from a well iu the dooryard.
When a customer comes along a pail
is lowered into the well and a large
number of little shiner are brought
up.
The oldest twins in the world, as far
as known, and undoubtedly the oldest
in the United mates, are Mrs. J, A.
Mighell and Mrs. E. A. Oivena of
Elano, 111. They were born at Sharon,
Schoharie county. New York, August
21, 1814.
FrnlU to Eat anil Those to Avoid.
Fruits as foods, are, then,-peaches,
apricota, nectariues; ripe, mellow ap
ples; dates, figs, fresh and dried;
prunea without skins; persimmons.
papawa; very ripe or cooked bananas;
gnavaa without seeds fresh or oanned
without sugar; pineapples, grated or
finely picked, never out; mangoes,
crapes: sweet plums without skins,
sugar cherries, and an occasional
cooked pear. Bartletta are excellent
when canned without sugar.
The fruits which must be used
sparingly are lemons, oranges, ahad-
dooks.ourrants, barberries, cranberries
and strawberries. This applies most
emphatically to those persous who are
iuolined to uric acid conditions. The
rheumatio and gouty should also moat
rigidly abstain. The tender liuiug
of a ohild a stomach cannot, certaiuly,
bear auoh fruits any length of time;
erioua results must follow. The ripe,
mellow peauh is really the child's
froit Ladies' Home Journal.
THE! REALM
Tlie Latest Headgear.
Snubonnets have taken on a new as
pect this season, writes May Manton,
and are the latest headgear lor the
maidens who play golf and tennis, or
indulge in any other form of outdoor
A TETCH1NO OOLP B03NKT.
recreation. ' Quite fanciful aud dainty
fhey look made of sheer fabrics, such
as organdie, silk, muslin, dimity or
fine lawn, with lace-edged frills and
rnohinsrs of the same material. The
front ia made over a stiff lining of
canvas, which holds it in shape away
from the face and protects the com
plexion from freckles. and tan. Piotur
esnue bonnets in tuis styie are maue
to match the gown, and are worn for
morning and afternoon walks in the
country, for boating and picnic par
ties. Tor more practical purposes,
such as working in the garden, ging
ham may be used. '-
The pattern comprises four portions
front, crown, enrtain and tiestring,
WOMAN'S
I the rnehing, hemmed or lace-edged,
and from two to three inches wide, be
ing laid in double box pleats and
titched on tn centre.
While quite as protective as the old-
fashioned sunbonnet,' this style has
the advantage of lighter weight and
coolness, the thin crown rising up
from the head and the flaring front
standing well out from the faco.
To make this bonnet will require
one and one-halt yard of material
thirty-six inches wide.
Yoke Effects on tha Inerease.
Ouimpe and yoke effects are on the
increase, and many new gowns are
made low-cut and sleeveless, several
atylea of gnimpes beiug provided to
wear with them, and thus give charm
ing variety to the toilet. Two styles
are shown in the large engraving.
No, 1, of white ailk monsseline, made
over a; lining of pink taffeta, is de
emed to be worn with a gown ot ash
gray veiling. The lining is fitted
with double bust- darts, nnder-arm
gores aud a centre-back seam, that
may end just below the bust or at uie
waiBtline, as shown. The closing is
effected invisibly in centre-front by
hooks and eyes. The lining is fitted,
the shoulders seamed and the stand
ing eollar joined to the neck before
the shirred material ia applied. The
mousseline is-arranged iu graduated
puffs by gathers at funnel-shaped
spacings, front aud baok, indicated on
the pattern by perforated lines. This
is applied to the lining at correspond
ing perforations on the eollar, bust
and back, as illustrated. Bows of
shirring to match extend the whole
length of the sleeves, that are arranged
over two-seamed linings. No. 2 shows
the lining out off below the bust, the
(uimpe and sleeves being made of
ale blue Liberty ailk, deeorated iu
he sun-ray atyle, with narrow ruch
ugs of the same material that radiate
.'rout the neck. A stock of the aame,
with ruohe-flniahed ends, covers the
standing eollar and closes in oentre
baok. While sheer materials are
ohosen for midsummer wear, guimpes
in this style will be made from silk,
velvet, brocade and guipure lace, over
atin, as the season advances. Inser
tion, gimp, ruohings of net or ribbon,
or rows of frilled ribbon and braid,
cau be used to deoorate in lattioe or
dismond outlines. ' -
To wake No. 1 for a woman ot
medium size wift require three and
one-quarter Tarda of material thirty
is inches wide. To make No. 3 will
require two Tivfa of tie wi Uh
material. -...,.. .
wazx
OF FASHION.
The Japanese fttraw Bats.
The prettiest things in hats of straw
are the Japanese. The most inexpen
sive ones are of eoarse material, per
feotly round, wilt no perceptible
crown, but shaped like the top of a
clothes hamper, and nearly as large.
Others of an olive shade and firmer
weave, with a black band ot the straw
at the crown, are shaped more like
hats. There are two varieties, both
with crowns. One shape is round and
the other is like a big poke. With a
shirring of silk or mull on the inside
it ia charming. If they are not used
for "headwear ' these hats are ex
tremely pretty for workbaskets, and
can be decorated with indefinite vari
ations.
Japanese Newspaper Woman.
Mase Takahashi, a Japanese wom
an, is the business manager of the
leading and oldest Japanese newspa
per, the "Hawaii Shinpo." This is
the only Japanese daily in Hawaii,
and is circulated in the Japanese col
onies throughout the world. Mase
Takahashi is the wife ot the proprie
tor. She speaks English and Hawai
ian and always carries her notebook
when gathering new.
For a Pretty Waist.
Very pretty waists classed with shirt
waists are made of linen batiste with
bands of lace insertion between groups
of tucks down the front and back where
the waist fastens. The collar is sim
ply a transparent band of lace with
cards long enough to tie in a bow.
A Stylish Waist.
Hydrangea blue silk, woven with
bayadere stripes ot white, that form
double cord, is here delightfully com
bined with a square yoke plastron of
finely tncked mousseline de soie inlet
GTJIXirt.
with laoe insertion over white satin.
The tiny revere that roll back from
the fronts are faoed with white satin.
Applique bands of white embroidered
chiffon form the handsome decoration
arouud the square-cut neck and on the
edges of each front, epaulette and
wrist. The stylish arrangement of
the waist is made over perfectly fitted
linings that close in centre front. The
seamless baok can either have the
yoke applied over the material or the
material can be out away to give the
fashionable guimpe effect, or it can be
of one fabric if so preferred. The yoke
plastron ia included in the light
shoulder seam, its edges being secured
to the lining under right front, while
the left edge and shoulder are finished
separately, and provided with hooks
to close at the shoulder aud under left
front. The standing collur, made to
match the yoke, is joiued to the neck
and closes at the left side. The back
is drawn with slight fulness at the
waist line, while the front is arranged
in the fashionable and becoming ponch.
A fancy belt or one of the material cau
be worn at the waist.
Stylish sleeves, only slightly full,
are arranged over fitted linings, smooth
epaulettes with square ends falling
gracefully over the top. Soft trillings
ot mousseline de soie with ruched
edges finish the neck and wrists.
Charming combinations of material
and coloring cau be readily developed
WOMAN'S WAIST.
by the mode, which lends itself to alt
qualitiea and kinds of material and any
atyle of trimming. To make this waist
for a woman of medium si as I wo yard
I of material forty-tour incbtt wide will
i be rtoulrea.