in A eS pod ra EES i Sale im Er = ADVENTURE “WITH A A MUMMY. ame Archmologist Lom His Treasure, but Escaped With His Life. A French archmologist traveling among the Andes in search of knowl edge and specimens had a great desire $0 explore some caves in the sides of the. precipices. They were doubtless ancient tombs and would probably yield him a treasure. Hv selected a favorable spot, therefore, rigged a sort of chair or seat petween two leather cords and engaged two Indizns to let him down from the brow of the precipice. “A descent of 800 feet made in this way,’ he telis us, ‘*ig extraordinarily long,’ However, he reached the cave in safe. ty, and on forcing a passage into it was rewarded by finding two shally and a mummy, ‘‘thoroughly dry,’”’ he says, . “and pretty solid.’’ He passed a string through the eycholes of the skulls and attached them to his belt. Then he took the mummy in his arms and signaled to the Indians to draw him up. With his heels he defended himself against the jutting rocks, and in a few minutes was . almost on an even with the top. The Indians knew nothing about his load. Just then the yellow skull of one of their ancestors appeared before their ‘eyes, and the idiots gave a start of sur prise. The Frencliman thought they must have let go the cord. ; : “1s wis the affair of a second,’ he writes. ‘“What passes in the brain of a man at such an instant is indescribable I.did not drop a yard, but I experienced all the horror of a man in rapidly fail- ing through space. My Bands let go the mummy, and while, covered with a cold sweat, I was helped over the edge of the cliff by the Indians, the mummy. bounded from rock to rock ang landed in bits at the bottom of the chasm.” He overwhelmed the Indians with in- vective, but to no purpose. Such dead men, they assured him, if disturbed in their sepulcher, had the habit of kissing the Indians, who perished infallibly un- der their deadly breath. One of the two declared that his own father had aied in that way. The other assured the Frenchman that at the moment when the head of the mummy showed above the edge of the rocks it opened its mouth. If it had:not luckily fallen into the abyss, it would have cursed forever. —Pittsburg Dispatch. LY The Origin of “Linger.” " A correspondent sends the following derivation of the term ‘‘linger :"’ *‘Early in the forties there moved from Ver- mont to one of the then flourishing cot- ton manufacturing villages of New Hampshire s man with a large family of children, to keep one of the corpora- * tion boarding houses. He was a tall, lank dyspeptic. There was but one shoe store in the village; in the rear of the - wtore was a room for making and re- pairing shoes. Here was a Frenchman, and a lover of mischief. | One day the tavern keeper entered the shop and said : ‘Hello! Are you a shoemaker?’ ‘Yes,’ was the answer, ‘and linger at it.” The Frenchman caught on, and in a day or - two there was hung outside the build- ing, with other store goods, probably the most uncouth, bung lingly made pair of shoes ever seen on the continent, ‘labeled ‘Lingers.’ There they hung un- til every man, woman and child in the : bad looked them over. From that day the members of the dyspeptic’ % . family were known as ‘lingers.’ And ‘the word was applied to everything as a - superlative, to a finé yoke of oxen ora . big fish. '’—Boston Jorunal. The Thoughtful Chauncey. A good story is told on Chauncey De- . He received a letter from a young married friend in Albany asking for a pass for his mother-in-law, who was - coming to make him a visit, and closing with the delicate bint, ‘Don’t forget to ~ bave the return coupon attached.’’ Mr. Depew is nothing if pot worldly wise ‘and sympathetic, and in sending the pass he wrote, *‘I bave uot neglected the re- turn coupon and have limited it to three days. "Minneapolis Journal. "© Valley Forges Lone Gravestone, ~~ Only one grave, that of John Watter- man of Rhode lsiand, marked with a pudely carved sandstone, has been iden- Sified of all who died at Valley Forge during that perilous winter of 1778. “J. W., 1778," are all the marks that ~ are on the stone, but the records show whose grave it is. All the other graves have been plowed over for more than a century. —Richmond Dispatck. In wealth Pennsylvania ranks next to : New York, having an assessed valuation “of $1,688,450,016, owing largely to the enormous marufactures carried on with- - tn the limits of this oommcnweal:: Water Wheels. * The point is made by a writer in one of the mechanical journals that the greatest obstacle now encountered in . the successful operation of water wheels is, from an economical aspect, the too often entire absence of engineering skill in utilizing the power, and that many a water power would develop greater effi- olency were it properly controlled and had the turbine been selected because of its adaptability to the conditions and been properly set. On their introduno- - tion. he remarks, turbines were used - singly, but now they are used either - singly or in sets of two or three or more, “as expedient, und in battéries of sets; by the use, too, of iron or steel pen- stocks and feed pipes the expense of in- stalling has been largely reduced and far greater economy in the use of water secured ; the growing demand for large units of power has also been satisfied, so that whercus a few years back a 500 horsepower turbine was almost unheard of, turbines of 5,000 horsepower are now employed. Too Funny ww Half. “Do you keep bloomers to rent?" she asked aa she sailed into a fashionable dressmaker’s.on Fulton street. %No," said the polite salesman, ‘but {we keep materials for repairing rents in Have you''— X But she was gone. —Brooklyh Eagle. 3 for governor had gone into the private "Westmoreland county received a letter pdvisers of Quay outside of Andrews and | m———" oa 3 ——c Sd S18 A 8 NOT A MARTYR. Senator Quay Cannot Be Posed as Such. This Is a Fight of Iii» Own Making. . A great effort is being made by Senator Quay’s adherents to held him up before the people as the victim of unprovoked and wanton attacks from men whom. he | Loud appeals are uttered to | bas ‘made.’ the sympathies of Ripubliéans, and they are called Ipon to rally to his cause and defen of selfis tor (ung is heing posed as a martyr. Xothinking Republican ean be d ved by such ta'’k as this The fu in the niatter are tco well known oi liey have been public broke the pest When the Ropablican party took {eH control at Hirrishurg six months ago sil was harmony within the party. It was Senator Quay hifnself whe carelessly anhiensied Republican leaders, i : 1t was he who introduced strife into party | It was he who openiv broke | party pledges. It was he who bolted a | Republican caucus and, with the aid of | nnhliean ap: It was Senator Quay | ! i : | ‘and to say that I was mach ple the idea is putting it mildly. We part councils. Démocratic vores, defeated Rey portionment tills who began a fight ypon Chairman Giike son, a party manager who had the party's confidence. Sénator (Juay cannot be suc cessfully posed before the Republican party as a martyr : In the sani line with this effort to make out that Senator Quay is being trampled upon is the charge so many of his follow ers are mouthing that Governor Hastings 1s belittling bis high office by taking pars in a party conflict, and showing ingrati- tude to Sepator Quay in daring to oppose him in his contest for the state chairman- ship. The first part of the charge needs no reply. What a United States senator may do with propriety, & governor may do with equal propriety. Into the party arena any Republican insy enter. "As 1¢ the second part of the charge, what ingrat- itude to Senator Quay can be jald at Gov ernor Hastings’ door? Senator (Quay cer: tainly did not nominate him for governor. In 1800 General Hastings had the pomi- naticn won. but Senator Quay and State Chairman Andrews turned all the power of the party machinery against him and named a man who was rejected by the party at the polls. In 139% the Republi ean voters nominated General Hastings His nomination came directly from the people. Neither Senator (Quay nor. any other leader could have prevented it. His majority showed that liz was the party's choice. - Governor Hastings has been true to the party that trusted him. Not an act of his has given Republicans reason to regret their choice. He has manfully stood by the party's pledges and the constitutional requirements on the question of appor- tiomment. He stands squarely upon every Republican issue, and upon the Repub lican platform. There is no reason why he should have no will but the will of Senatcer Quay. Re publicans want and expect him to have a will of his own. The party does not elect governors to be mere puppets. No true Republican can be led awsy by these mouthings about “ingratitude.” They know the situation, and they admire and respect a governor who bas opinions of his own and who stands steadfast for a friend who ie unjustly and gauselesly as sailed. SINGERLY HELPING QUAY. The Late Democratic je Candidate for Gove ernor Writing Letters to Republicans. The latest accession to the Quay rankals William M. Singerly, editor of the Demo cratic Philadelphia Record. Mr. Singerly’s newspaper is one of the Quay organs in Philadelphia, but it was not known till last week that the late Democratic candidate letter writing business for his friend Quay. Last week each one of the Republican delegates to the state eonvention from from William M. Singerly, asking bim as a personal favor to vote and work for fram the unmeriied onslaught | ad scheming politicians, - Sena- | property for months Répator to 0 oo ed me od th Qu forced the present chintest He frst | ny SIX WEEK ; 146] Lhey fin : I no disposition . matter | i the public M.S. Quay, and besceching them to cast their votes for him at. the state conven- tion. Nothing lke this was ever before known | in Philadelphia politics. © It has been | known ail along that the Domocrats were | with Quay heart and soul. bus it was not | known that they had. taken to writing | begging personal letters asking Iepubli- | cans to stand up for Quay. What do the Republicans of Pennsyl: vania think of this? Will they tolerate this sort of warfare in their own camp? | Will they permit Quay, Singerly, Mc | Clure et al. to dictate to them? The closest Leach are McClure of the Democratic Times and Singerly of the Democratic Philadelphia Record. This only shows | t':e more conclusively the hopelessness of | Quay’s. fight against thie mass of the Re. publican party; a bitter, hopeless fight, in which the silver men and the Democrats have combined with him to defeat the will of the Republican masses. : Routed the Bull A lumberman attached to Joh Crane’s camp, up beyond the Katahdin Iron works in Maine, was tramping across to a pond late one November evening when he ran upor a bull moose. The lumberman had no rifle, so he ‘yelled and waved his arms, expecting | that the broad antlered bull would dash fear stricken down the mountain. But it didn’t. It rushed for the lumberman. He dodged about a tree and dropped his ax. For ten minutes he dodged, half scared to death. Then he climbed the The bull butted the tree with ita ant- lers until it swayed to and fro, and then walked away a few yards and rested. The lumberman yelled some more. When he could yell no longer, he set his wits to work. Just above him was a dead limb. He broke it off, and as the bull advanced again he set the wood afire and dropped it on the bull's back. half frozen lumberman made a line for camp. —New York World. Always on ‘Time. Washington had many admirable traits worthy of imitaticn, and one of them was rigid punctuality. This was well {llustrated by an incident during his visit to Boston 100 years ago. Having appointed 8 o'clock in the morning as the hour at which he should set out for Salem, he mounted his horse just as the Old South clock was striking that hour. The company of cavalry which was to escort him did not arrive till after his departure and did not overtake him till he had reacted Charles river bridge. — Excher % With a | - bellow it ran down the mountain. The oa te mip mnt tt - —————— . NO MONEY, A NO FIGHT. bett's Combination. | Pitz Says He Has Been Shut Out by Cor- Here is the story Pugilist Fitzsim- | h g mons tod A reporter the ther day: “Well, 1 don’t care abont saving too munch in the newspapers about my griev- ance. I have one, though, and have had my mind to keep quiet on this jest in the hope that the people who have Re ‘ been arranging this ¢ ido lomo px affair wihnld seo the error of thelr way and they have not, and now that tae with the facts, ‘About fi fhowing w th Cincinnati, a gentleman named Latham called on me and unfolded a scheme for the reproduction of the coming fight We talked the matter over thoronghly, ased at wally company in ed with the understanding that we were . Gilkeson victories Pit for a bug time. I had fully made up i i make a fair arrangement with me. Bat i mt ep emi be THE OPPGSITION HARD HIT. Representitive Men From Perry and La. | gerse Assure the Gaversor That Those Coanties Wiil Go for Him and Gilkesos. HArnssuRs, July 16. —The Hastings. in Lackawanna counts on Friday and Saturday were a sever} biow to th o Qriayitos here, while thafriends great satisfaction and construed it ay wanna county grate ected hight vote for Jadge Wil: my and Governor Hastings, and not for Colonel Gilkeson, in viéw of the fact that ti {=r had. placed ‘in the fied] their f yw ers in opposition to the Hast. 3 ida f : rate yiysnard, anumberef ent Rections Fin ul news nan loeisenringe, of laizernes and Mr Robinson. chairman of the [Luzerne county Repa there was no doabt of his carrying all the | | i ber of sleeping hours by grada i finally arrive at a state Where, tice, one wonld be sati fied with a much | tien had a phonographbic record of the iican comrnittee, to.d hiry i passed nntil he bh: districts of : he county except that eoverc i! bv the proposed new county. Represent: ‘ative Buckwaltor assured him that Perry to meat the next. day and agree as to) what I should receive for the permission of being eidoloscaped the world over. “Well, to make a long story short, Mr. Latham never came back the next day, nor did any one connected with! him cr his invention. Now, this of it gelf does not constitute much of a griev ance’ but you will see the point before! I finish. and John Wi ister Arid Colonel {yi kegon. | the Duncaunan iron manufacturer, was : here t way nd the governor onfirmed the news gives no doubt of their position, and in stand ing by Hastings they ware simply reflec ists now, ard has existed for many years The «ardinal issue now pen jing “iH: : Yas sms : I much. e presaging a complete triamph in Lacka: | si H hic ida The iden that the deie. | VANCE IN SUPPOTT of his idea. 1&— The Man Who Tried It avd the Way Mis! Scheme Worked. Colonel Hénry Watterson tells a story | of an old compositor whose life had | | been given up to hard work and the fol ! | lowing of eccentric ideas, one of which | g of the governor received the news with | was that the human race slept too | had several theories to ad- them was to ent down the neta rRm- by prac. smaller amount of sleep than one was getiing. : T 1 1 . , To show his ennfidenea in his therry he began to practice follimes: He psnally slept nine hours of sleeping hours to. two, which, he claimed, was all that was needed by . re i any one. county s two delegates wanid be for hira |} ‘ The time went by, and the old fellow | had kept to his rule laid down aod { finally re ached the two hour time. He added that thers was | He went along for several werks i sleeping but two hours daily, devoting ! the time gaiusd in reading and advo- ing the Republican sentiment which ex. | cating his idea, While there was a no- | ticeable decrease in his weight, he Shall Messrs. Quay and Cameron longer “Now, this concern prophses to take. § pictures of the championship fight, of “each round, and to exhibit them in ally the big cities of this country and abroad. Their & ote i is to Eire a the- ater or large hall in each place and give a reproduction of the fight i cans be supine aald ni br eptrosted with jommissions from Pear | gylvania Republicans to represent ‘then | in the v nited States senate? That is tle one pivotal question around which all others revolve and are subservieat The present fonlest is merely a preliminary skirmish for ‘position’ in the greats struggic ict gow —-Wiikes | barre Record “No man can fail to see the hig mor ey that is in this thing for thé people. = “Sheer | was telling some friends the other even- ing about a plucky deputy and wound controlling it. I don't, st all evens, and now those who eontrol this thing must step up and pay right handsanely | too.’ “What 0.3 yon expect ?'’ asked tie re- porter. “Twenty thonsand dollars, and not a cent less,” said Fitz firmly. . ‘“There was no figure mentioned at that time, hut I name mine pow —§20,- 000 or no pictures and no fight. ”’ "*‘No fight? Why, what bas this ma- chine got to Go with the fight?’ queried the reporter. “Oh, I see you don’t catch the drift of this thing. Well, I'll tell you. Do] you know who owns the Florida Ath- letic clab? Joe Vendig. Ah, yee, in my eye. You know who made Vengdig, don’t you? Well, what is the use of saying more? Now, further, don’t you know that Vendig & Co. are going to share the receipts of the fight and that Corbett and Brady have 10 per cent of the club? Doeen’t that tell a good deal? Further than that, when this Mr. Letham saw me in Cincinnati he told me that he| came to town to see Corbett and Brady, | who showed in Cincinnati the week pre- vious to me, and that he was about to leave the city when hs learned that] "svcuid be 1n town the following Mon- day, and be therefore decide to wait over to see me on this subject. © ““There must be $20,008 for me if they want to bring their a the building at Dallas. I will see Dan Stuart persoually, just as got as I get to Texas, and unless I am paid this money I won't go in the ring to fight. Mr. Stuart must give me eXery assur-. ance that these people will not be per- mitted to make the pictures without my sanction. aratus ini ill 1st J = % i x I will trust Dan Stuart if he| ol 0 «0 Mercury. gives me his word, for I believe he is; an honorable man. “Some people may think that my fig- | iz high, tn on't. Ssop for a mo- | ] ure is high, tut I don’t. Sop for a mo-| japility of locking the barn door after | ment and think that when this fight was | being arranged the Edison Kipetoseope be fought for them in private, and their | Kinestosc: ps2 will only permit of one i company bid $50,000 for the eomtest to | while this eidoloscope can portray the bettle to 10,000 people if they ean get | into the building where it is eshibited. : : “These pecple, Vendig, Brady and Corbett,’ concluded persist - ‘in making the pictures they won't peed any proclamation from Gov- For Impertinence. Two months ago Charles P. Dobson, a young man of Sicux City, addressed a strange woman on the street as night. The woman answered with a blow from her umbrella. At this Dobsoa slapped her. It seems the woman knew his face, for the next day he was arrested charg- ed with assault and battery. What was worse, his father, a weil to do business man, thought his son needed a toning down and refused to fign his band. Dob- son - accordingly spent the two months until conrt met behind the bam. Then he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to another three months’ impriscnment. His father is bestirring himself at last, and the sentence will probably be sus- pended. — Exchange. Bicyclist Stung by Horne. Mrs. Charles Orelup was severely stung by hornets while riding her bicy- tle near East Marion, N. Y. She had stopped to rest and was leaning against a post, still sitting in the saddle, when the swarm attacked her. She abandoned her wheel und fled for safety. stung on the hands and face. Egbert (riffing, who lives pear the -scene of the attack, finally suoveeded i- regaining the bicycle from the battle ground of the hornets and returned it t: its suffering owner, who mounted and resumed her journey. Farm Implements, New York has the greatest amount of capital invested in farm implements and machinery, the sum total being $46, - 650,465; Pennsylvania is seband with $30,046,855; Iowa is third with $36, | 665,315. : Fitzsimmons, | ‘“‘know a good thing of course, but they! Qhe was in it. when Tears Are Dangerons. M. 8 Gregory, sheriff of Amadcr, 5p by saving: “‘When you find a mun | as cool and steady as a rock in the face | of danger, you can bet on him. But tie | most dangerous men are those who | laugh or cry when they have a dispute on hand. I knew a man named Drew, | down in Texas, who was noted as avery bad man. Wnen he was doing any shoot- ing, hé wcald laugh londly—a bard, ¢e- moniacal laugh, without any merriment Up at Indian Digginzs, masy years ago, two men named Archer asd Pawson had a dispute with a German about a claim. When they claimed the property, he broke down and cried, aad they, supposing. they would have’ no trouble in taking possession, marched on the gremnd. The German took uj a broken pick and laid them both out Archer wis hadly hurt and was a loog time getting over hie injuries Afrex that whets 7er he saw a mun start to cry he got: cat of the way.”'—8an Fran cisco Call. - He Could. A well known and busy actress has a little dadghter who is a jurecocims young pagal, and the other night, : the nurse was away, she was put to ted by a friend of her mothér's. “Do yom not say your prayers, dear ™ “Nop! ' responded the infantile baa then. ‘‘]I don’t know any, and mama 13 always away when I go to bed. ”’ *Perhiipe you would like to learn . | prayer.’ ' suggested she of the missio: ary tendencies. ‘‘Do you think jos could?’ “Could T learn a prayer?’ repeass’ the younger in derisive tones. “I shot. eay I conld I'm very quick study.’ A Proverb Revised, | . janitor and the sleeper. : § > ba . . Shall Cameron and Quay “Boss” the State? ! seemed to stand I very well Then he began to talk of further re- ducing the time, and when enthusiastic talked of the possibility of one doing without sleep entiraly. : : He set type and was an old hand on the paper. Ome morning about three weeks after he had reached his Jow gleeping mark the compositor at the : -~ 1 which is sure to come if Republl- | $858 Dext to his noticed the old man had dropped his head npon his arms, that were folded over the case. It was near quitting time. All the forms were up, and the old chap was not disturbed .He had gope to sleep. The office was soon deserted, with the exception of the The janitor was instracted not to bother him. The next day when the first men ar- rived he was still sleeping @s they had left him and sporing so hard that he JarTea she ype i the case on which be ma one told his wife where he was, and she concluded to let him sleep. : ‘He slept on in that position for 20 hours. Then they carried him to a bed at home, still sleeping. He sleps for 32 hours, and when he woke np he had for- ‘gotten how to pet type and had to learn to read again, although his memory was} good in other respects. —Exchange. SPEEDIEST OF ALL. | a Niékel Alaminium Yacht Designed te De Thirty-five Knots. an Heur. A full working model of a nickel and aluminium steam yacht which, it is claimed, will be capabie of a uniform speed of 35 knots an hour was exhibited at the Maritime Exchange, New York, the other day. The model is a beauty, and its clean cut lines indicate strength and speed. The design is by Charles D. Mosher, who is associated with Lewis Nixon, who has practically constructed the last cruiser built for the navy. The proposed vessel is to be 100 feet | long, with -a beam of 11 feet, and to draw (nly 4 feet. Twin screws; driven by high speed engines, with a capacity of 2,000 horsepower, will induce the | great speed which, it is claimed, can | be attained with 4 feet draft. We ars frequently reminded of the | the horse is stolen. bat we ares now tld | - wr TU Dee : i's § 1 § } 4 i : 2% 3 ¥ Trt of a case where a man’s stable bas bed | gimilar to those sapplied for the United The adage might bo revised, | | however, so a3 to read, : A os, | horse in his stall after ycur stable is | person viewing the fight at ane time, i stolen. “Don't put your stolen. ''-—Beston Transcript : SWAPPED AWAY HIS WIFE. | structed. Gave Her In Exchange For Farmer Thozap- son's Daughter. Toledo, Wash. A farmer named Thorap- son lost lis wife a short time ago. She | nam to te cared for. Of course frequent visits were made to see how the baby was getting along. Mrs. Putnam was quite a comely per- son and very soon attracted the atten- tion of the widowed farmer Then he soon learned to love her; but, worst of all, his love was reciprocated. The Lus- band discovered the situation. The loy- ers naturally expected a scene, but there was none. Instead of making the neighboring hills resound with jealous rage Putram called upon Thompson, and they dis- cussed the matter in a business.ike manner. Putnam professed to be tired of his wife und said he ,would as lief that some other fellow would take her away as not, but he wanted something in return. He wanted some one arvand the house to minister to his wants, sume one he could learn to love. Thompson had a daughter who suited him very well, and if it was just the same he was willing to trade his wife for her. That suited Thompson, and the girl too So a bargain was struck and the ex- change made. Thompson and Mrs. Put- nam went to Aberdeen und the girl tc Castle Rock. --New York World Their Chance. Fourteen well known chambermaids in as any prominent hotels have an- nounced ther intention of starting in cne night towns since Mrs, Langtry's refusal to visit us again. Yon see, (om- petition is ever keen -—New York Re- corder. But the American People Are Nox American travelers this seashn will have left, it i: estimated, $23,000,000. Well, Europe ought to be satisfied if the Anerican travelers are. —-New Y ork Telegu. ernor Culberson or any one else to pre- i left him a Little baby girl The child he | vent our battle, for 1 simply won't | TOOK to a neighbor of the name of Put- ght." New York Journal. The machinery is to be weblike and A duplicated—that is, there will be two . | independent sets throughout. ‘The yacht | will have a complete electric light plant. Two boilers will contain over 4,000 square feet of healing surface and are tc be of the water tube type, States torpedo boats mow being con- The coal bunkers will have sufficient capacity to carry the yacht | across the ocean at her most economical i speéd. The sctonymodations will be luxu- rious and commodious. The wheelhouse : | is to be fitted with a telegraph signal The very unopsual story of swapping | an bet their lives that if these folks ® daughter for a wife is reported from | S¥Ster. The famous Yankee Doodls (origi- pally Jmown as the Buzz), the Feiseen and the Norwood were designed by Mr. Mosher and attained speeds of 29.6 miles, 31.6 miles and 30.3 miles an hour respectively. Who is to be the owner of the first nickel aluminium boat is not known yet. — New York Journal. WU DOLLARS FOR ONE. Aladdinlike Porformanee ‘Which Secretar : Morton Proposes. Secretary Morton announces his in- tention, «- oon as the silver market “‘sags a little,’ to pay his clerks ip sil- ver again, $2 for every §1 due them, using Mexican silver dollars for the pur- pose. + Mexican dollars at market pricea have within three months been worth as little as 45 cents, United States money, but are pow worth 33 cents. As the Mexican dollar usually passes —anywhere except at a bank—as well as the American dollar, and in point of fact contains 15 more grains of silver, and is therefore intrinsically worth more, the clerks say they shall watch the silver market anxiously, and when it goes down sufficiently to justify the gecretary’s proposed joke they will see that he is politely reminded of it.— Washington Star. Feeds His Horse by Clockwork. George W. Belt of Acburn has invent- ed an ingenious device for feeding his horse, and he does it with one of the or- dinary little alarm. clocks. The horse! gets its feed of grain when the alarm goes off. For instance, if Mr. Belt wants the horse to have its morning feed of | grain at 5 o'clock, and he himself does | not care to turn out until 6 o'clock, he | sets his alarm for 5 o'clock, and when ! the morning comes the horse gets its breakfast an hour before its owner's eves are open. It is so arranged that the alarm pulls the slide, letting the grain run through a sluice to the manger, — T iwirean Jonrnal § Ome of | LINES ON A GREEK we Bind a wreath for faithfal Phylax. : for be gave us sleep, ; Smilax from his Deipbian steép. Say his wine we conid not qusff, Praise his salad and pilaf. Whisper be world better please } Were his beds quite free from— pe «Good Words. | A MAN’S LAUGH NEVER CHANGES. on and) How the Fact Was ITusteated by an Io cident In Chicago. : If the Bertiilion system of identifica- Janghs of criminals it wonld probably { be as near perfect as an identification the pew idea as | i gy=tem can be. The fact that man comes into the world wailing has been regard- He explained that he wonid ent this, ed as a sort of prophecy of the truth ri to $1; hires For sails “week that | that as a rule the sorrows of life out- ¥ amber] number the joys when all the retarns are in, but an optimist might see an opposite significance in the fact that a man's laugh ren.ains the same through i ail the changing years. When the cares i - ment during the war. ! i | of manhood succeed to the happy go | Tocky days of boyhood, this laagh of his "muy be called into nse, as as it were, very little, bat when it is pat into operation it is the same old laugh, and every boy- hood friend. would know it instantly. An old soldier who fought throngh “the war with Fred Hartwick, who drivés a mail collector's wagon on the North Side, happened to be in Chicago for a week not jong since. He heard that Mr. Hartwick was on its postmaster’s staff and went to the federal building to find him. He took his station at a point pass which all the carriers filed to report for duty, and as Hartwick me aiong $Ome one pointed him out. Withont disclosing his frwn identity the veteran approached and began ask- ing Hartwick if he remembered varions : incidents in. the history of their regi. and very soon fell into conversation, or- ganizing a kind of campfire meting between themseives. One member of .the regiment was in business in New Orleans, another was in a bank down in the state, several were farming, one was the local manager {or one of the big commercial agencies in one of the large cities, and so on. 2 Several timses Hartwick a: bed his old ‘companion at arms his uue. bat the latter only smiled and went on wikis the conversation Finally. when it became necessary for them to separate, as Jart- wick was obliged to go ont on his ram, the man laughed ontrizht as he said: “Well, Frea, I never thought voa'd forget me after whit we vent throagh together.” . Phe minute he lan~hed,” said Mr. Hartwick, relating the incident, “°} herr Sait Who he was and all about him, but I hadn’t scea him for 30 years, and he had chanved so I couldn’ have told him from Adam. His laggh had grown older, toc, of ConE -o, but it was the same old lavgh ° ane. BAD ST. BERNARDS. All except the most depraved cynies will grieve to learn of the sad Padict- ment of the St. Bernard dogs, which are supposed to be trained to rescue belated travelers in the Alps. These noble beasts, which everybody has bees told possess fidelity more than human. have ‘been accused of base treachery ty cer- tain mountaineers. . Thus one traveler writes: “I was approaching the summit of Piz Langnard in company with a friend ‘when a huge St. Bernard met nson a parrow path. Wirth a very transparent assumption of good feeling toward us the brute ran at us and tipped us over the ledge. Providentially the next ledge was near, and we fell softly cn the snow. Then the fiendish ingenuity of the brute became apparent. Instead of attempting cur rescue, as the dogs in foolish old legends do, this great cur busied himself with the lunchecn bas- ket, which had burst with the impact, and ate our cold chicken, whils we, with some deft alpenstock work, at | length retrieved our safety. The sooner | these mountain pests are extinguished the better. "'—New York Sun. —————— i ar A A But of all the Vanderbilt rumors the | most grotesque is that young Cornelius L Vanderbilt, a mere chit of a boy, is paying serious attention to Miss Grace Wilson, the charming daughter of the luckiest family that ever lived By Jove, but these Newport qonsips are funny! We shall next hear that adorable old Peter Marie is to marry some. niss in “short dresses or that John Jacob Astor's son is engaged to Miss— But my gal- Jantry and her age forbid me to mention the lady. —Cholly Knickerbocker in New York Recorder. : g ; » 5 The granite monument marking the Mexican boundary at Tia Juana, in San Diego county, was upset last January by a flood saortly after it was erected by the international be indary commis- sion. This elaborate shaft fell into quicksand. Strenuous efforts were made to recover it. The sand was probed to the depth of 35 feet, but no tracy of the. lost monument could be found. It has been necessary to buy a mew site for another monument, 100 by 100 feet, ang erect a second shaft thereon. —Los “Angeles Times. Married and Divorced Her Four Times. Thomas Courtney is one of Mcntgom- ery county's wealthiest farmers, who lives near Waynetown, Ind,, but his married life has been rather trouble - some. He has been married to bis pres- ‘ ent wife four times and divorced three times, and his wife now makes npplica- tion to the Montgomery courts for the fourth divorce, also $6,000 alimemy. The other cases cost considerable money, but this is promised to eclipse them all —Cincinnati Cow riercial Gazeta : a ri Of course bo did —Chieago Trib- RR 9% eA Sp A + NF SO 1 a a cenit att
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