i + LAST CENTURY HIGHWAYMEN. : When They Went to the Scaffold, Titled | The Trick They Use to Clvenmvent the | Ladies Wept For Them. ~The gentleman of the road was long the terror of the highway between Ken: | | od gave som As late as | gington and Knightsbridge. the year 1799 a detachment of hight horse was employed to patrol nightly ‘from Hyde park ccrner to the former . Foot passengers waited until a conld be made up sufficiently strong for mutual protection, a bell be- ing rung when a start was deemed t. An extract from Lady Cow- per’s diary in 1715 speaks volumes: “1 was at Kensington, where 1 in- tended to stay as long as the camp was in Hyde park, the roads being so secure by it that cae might come from London at any tine ~in the might without dan- ger, which 1 did very often.’ The ro..irvee which such writers ae Ainsworth Lave given to the highway- men is not se highly calored as may be supposed. During his brief term of of- - fice he was a man of note, the dariing of the fair sex, the hero of play and .ditty. He danced at Ranelagh and dined at the clubs with impunity, and when at last he became notcriouns enongh to be worth apprehension he passed in trium- phal procession from Newgate to Ty- burn, dressed in the newest fashion, bowing gracefully to the windows, where ladies of position shed real tears of grief, and gayly quaffing a farewell | cup with admiring friends of his own sex. ~The courtly McLean—grocer and gal- lant—made Hyde park his chief scene of action. Here on a November night ip 1749 he: nearly put an eud to Horace Walpole himself. That gentleman's coach was stopped by McLean and his scoomplice, Plunket, as he was return- ing from Holland House. A pistol, no cidentally going off, grazed the skin un- der his eye, and stunned him. ‘The ball went through the top of the chariot, "and if 1 had sat aa inch nearer to the. left side must have gona through my - head.” But he freely forgave the fasci- nating scoundrel, when the Jaw at last intervened. Ho writes: “My friend Seles is still the fashion. Have not I reason fc call him my friend! He rays if the pis tol’ had shot me he had nother for him- 3 ping expedition, whare the . candlestick, a pair of bellows. golf. Can I do less than say I will be hanged if he is?! He gives an amusing description of the rash that was made to see the condempad man in Newgate, Three thousand people visited him in his ceil on the first Sunday after the sentence, ro that ho fainted twice froto the heat. The noble members of White's eapio in a body. Lady Caroline Peter- ghar and other ladies of title wept over him avd uttered broken words of com- fort. ‘Sco of the brightest eves were at this time in tears, '— Atalanta, : Watch the Thomos. A physician in charge ot a wen ~ known asylum for tie care of the insane recently said: *“There is one infallible test either for the approach or the presence of lun- oy. If the person ‘whose case is being examined is seen to make no nee of his ~ thamb, if he lets it stand ont at right yal from the hand and employs it meither in salutation, writing nor any other manual exervize, youn nay set it ‘down as a fact that that person’s men- gal balance is gone. He or she may con- werse intelligibly, may in every respect be guarding the secret of a mind dis- eased with the utinost care and cun- ning, but the telltale uh will in- ~ fdllibly’ betray tho lurking madness which is Sanenled ‘behind a placsitre, A German Custom. One of the most ioteresting fonctions. of the up to date betrothal is the shop- two mother with their re- and fathers in-law 10 be, spective son and daug iter, go out on an appointed morning and bring home a broom, a carving krife and fork, a salt cellar; a Bible, a brass door knocker, a Thig is a revival of an old German custom of presenting a young pair with what they .oonsider the seven emblems of those virtues that go to make up a perfect houschold. The shopping party is con- ‘cluded by a luncheon of the united fam- ‘Put to Strange Use. “The old bell which in early days stood’ on Belfry hill, north of the town of Council Grove, Kar., and was rung to warn the settlers of the approach of In- diana, is now mnsed by a citizen as a flowerpot in bis garden. For many years after its original purpose was gone it was the common property of the varions religious denominations of the town and was rong to call the people to devotions, One day it was blown down in a storm and broken This destroyed its nuefulness asm bell, and the citizen sat it inverted in his garden tnd planted flowers in it. t.—Phil ude iptia Led HEE. Fame. “Mr, Speaker,’ excluiried a member of the New Souoth Wales parliament, “‘my colleague taunts me with a desire for fame. I scorn the imputation, sir Fama, sir! What fanie? It a shaved pig with a greased tail, which slips throagh the hands of thousands and then is accidentally caught by is 8 ‘some lucky fellow who happens to liold - on to if; I let the greasy tailed (uardru- ped go by me without an effort io clutch it, si sir !'’—London Tit-Bits, | The Pope Sixty Years Ago. The pope .was upostolie delegate at Benevento in Italy nearly €0 yeoors ago, and when the bishop of Brindisi arrived in Rome recently be arked the bishop gbout the friends of his yonth there. “Holy father, I 'was not even born then, ’’ said the astonished bishop as the names of forgotten celebrities fell glibly “from the pope’s lips. the only one of Leo’s faculties that is igularly clear, but physically he is a oy old man of 83 years, with a face a8 pale as wax and with white hairs ri- valing the whiteness of his robes. —Ex- | : * 000 invested in diamonds. Smge, — mercury bia should know by hoart- will do opposition to the ideas bell by many “prematurely of consamption. | "may be defined as a eapacity for holding | | His memory is not | . course he marvelously preserved. His intellect is | Ee SLE DIAMOND THIEVES. sikAMER CHAIRS. A Plece of Furniture That Has Developed Throngh Ocean Travel. Steamer chairs were, Ww {in this country, chifrs They were Tuetinned afwr a air Dis hive, Engloyd, on Bison and Terns and in emai! ‘WW archial Dealors. I dealer recently interview- of his experiences ns fol- “A Fis weeks ago a foreigner! came into way swie and desired to see rings. After choosing for a long time he picked out one valued at $18. He made | ‘me a ridiculously low -offer, which I naturally refused. He then desired to! 08 buy on oF Sis te A Sie 100) | The use of this chair gn steamers was tke show window. While I reached into| DegUD abont 25 years ago. ‘the window for them I observed in the | S2© #0 popular that it received its pres- mirror on one side of the window how | ent pame. Chairs of this style are stil] | the stranger slipped away two rings sold for land use, both indcor and out- each worth $150. I did not turn aréund, | door, and their nse ashore is increasing, | but went to the door, opened and then The principal manufactorer of these ; chairs in New York sells them in al- | ot at, ior 1 hat uso arsed, Be mest if not qnite every state in the Un- | def wonld have thrown pepper an {ion and in Central America, South sand in my eyes and ran away with his | : t eT: 2 St gdp il Steamer chairs are made of maple, of | ‘sand ready for use in his hand. 1 oni and Hd a ° “Another time a thief dropped two” prico from D200 10 § 5 rings into his umbrel'a, and at another | | steamor chairs were introduced not ong | time another slipped one into a hole in| 20, but not many are id. When! his glove. A very common trick of dia. | Steamer chairs first began to be used, mdnd thieves is to as! to be shown looss one man in this city made a small for stones, which are thoicupon handed to YD DY selling thers on the piers on him lying upon 8 Waiter, He breathes #81ling daye. As much as $15 was paid upon them, and thereby seeks to get ono | to him for 2 chair. or more into his mouth. Others study - _man emtroiled the best of the chair sell- | the rings lying in the show wimdow and ing privileges, but others took up the have one made exactly to pattern de- | business, and bis large profits were soon ' scribed. The gold is good, but the jewel | ‘materially cut down by competition. is paste. They them come in twilight For a time sellers of chairs on the | fnto the store and seek to exchange their | Piers handled more steamer chairs than. ‘imitation for the gentiine. remJewelers' the regular dealers. The practice which | Circular. then sprang up of offering chairs in the | Tides In the Aiutuphor, | street on sailing days in the open space | Distinct tides in the atmosphers, eon ' in front of the pier shed is still contin-! responding to those of the sea and pro- | ned to some extent. This space is called | duced twice daily by lunar atiraction, | the farm. Tiere are offered on sailing | have been traced by M. Bouquet de Ja | days fruit, cinware and other supplies (#5e in the barometric records of sta- such as gi yas Re Bgers Hight tions rem ved from powerful local dis- | quire, an eamer chairs and other turiances. The recorded observations of | 101diDg chairs. Brest, 8t. Helena, Cano Horn, Batavia and Singapore ive pusitive evidence of a regular ebb aul flow according to the | moon's position. The oToet is slight, bat megsarable, crentest atmos. pheric tide at Prost siown by a movement of ovagna wh ir a water! : raient to abont on hv inp tha Ever A diamond lows: need in game uses. The Devonshire chairs were rather larger and more elaborate than | the steamér chair. Children’ <add ness of renting steamer chairs. A num- |! ber.of the larger steamship companies’ now rent steamer chairs to passengers. the Atlantic is from 50 cents to $1. - Comiman as their vse has become, it i3 estimated that not much more than half the total number of cesan yrovide thems — New York Sun. THE oL D, ot D STORY: : : Both I oved the Swine Womnn, Who Pla ded : With Them. - A leading Lit In the country town of Pikeville, best kiown ¥ Tepn., out on the Nashville and Chat- there are Fst thipo Boy? : § : > tap YL A I -ailrcad, lives a raral (quien of the name of Geneva Marks, Many suit- . i 3 ors hal Geneva, bat most arde: 3r t: £80, an ; V worn Lon Mitchell a Li Erase avs La ad 2 poral youths of prominence, > Ob INGE ewan LR the gerength os have loved her for many imagination than apy other process that months, but with the : yh Sond problemafical | I know of. And I regard imagination as | willfulness of her sex Geneva has alter- the most important of all menial facul- os nately encournged one then the other. ties.” This is in direct aad significant | A few days since sho made her choice, The choice was Mitchell When Knight heard of her decision, | he got drunk. He was worse than drank. ! | He was crazed with liquor. Appearing | an i bear about of the atmos; to the deprh «of Nights, to Aliea ln Mt “6 fri {a ge parents and teachers that fairy tales are | injurious reading for the young. —New | York Sun. Questions of Health, The popular notion that an athlete, | because of his athleticism, is a healthy maa is a delasive one. Muscnlar devel- opment is not an affair of the copstita- tion. Iti an accident. Strong limbs and a weak heart are not infrequently associates. Many a “strong man’ dies if health ‘evening of devotion, he startled the. “Mitchell, I want sody knew there wo tO &¢ 5 trou by enlling, you.’ Everyt ble, al so game and apswered the call ws, a knife Kneeling in rivals mot. There were bl i flashed and Mitchell fell on to life, then, in many cases, the wenklings are the hemdthiest. If neh a definition is aecarate, wom: en aro healthier than rnaen. Their aver- ago leogth of days is greater than curs, | But iris dogbtful if ce tenarians, meve- ly because they are contenarians, sre the heaithiost, | Han who recently died at the age of 1005 who vas slightly paralyzed, even a8 a child, and who was practically completely go for more than 70 semrs. Could sacha one have ever been correctly described | as healthr ? It is as hard tosay what life | is as to say what healtli ig, and the way | in which unhealthy folks are tenacious | of life is not the least of tho marvels. — | All the Year Round. Caffeine. Caffeine, the active principle of coffee, was discovered by Runge in 1820, In a pure state it takes the form of long silky needles. In ordinary coffee it is present to the extent of about 1 per cent, but Java coffee contains 4.4, and Marti- nique has as much as 6.4. It is said by some chemists that caffeine in its essen- tialities is identical with theine, the ac- tive principle of tea. Claus affirms that the inferior qualities of tea contain more caffeine than the best commercial grades. ; atid wiricaied qu step chore ty, (ieroon Wonan, £ in tt} gw eetiigart in an vneol When Knight there was talk of a robe and a lvne but the crowd dispersed under the vice of cooler heads, Nest mor Tin Ter Was cumaparati proportionately remorseful Geneva is at the {cor of death grief. — Atlanta Constitution. wil laa Marks, Wis CATs t & JN WOO Ul Bh WO TE Hine! o } . ‘ $A DULL Gah with Manual Training. About 20 years ago, being in Boston one day, 1 called upou him snd was ushered into his library unannounced. As the | -door opened I heard a singular scraping | sound, and the doctor rose to meet me with a slightly en.barracsed ais, When the servant was gone, I sid, “I am afraid I disturbed you.’’ He laughed. ‘‘Yes, you did, bunt I was at work on neither a poem nor a lecture.’ - He touched a spring, and out from un- der the library table rolled a little bench | fitted cat with a turning lathe aud tools. | Would Not Make Tibet. | said. Mr. Wilson relates an arcusing story | who would of an officer who determined to enter made ‘jimeoracks’ Chinese Tibet by stratigem. This oifi- when I think cer managed to erces the frontier at I touch this night, and so escaped the frontier guard. | works Next day, however, while he was jour- chara neying deeper into Tibet the Tibetan in. soldiers Uvertook him and informed hi fu] puysicians to see that as the conutry was unsafe; be ger in th of robbers, th 3y ran ld go wi vihiich bran order to proie y which pe- | often Ful ment the traveler wus compelled to agree, In a fow hours they came toa river,« which was crossed hy a rope bridge: The Tibetans passed over first, in order to show that the Lridge was safe, and then the oficer got into the basket and wus pulled gloug by the Tib- | etans. however, they ¢ pulling and left the Eiglis ; ing in midair above too inv In vain the travelsr sho Tibetans to pu:l They 1otely mek and nodded their heads. T b & hours pass ed, and still the officer hung aboye the torrent. At last the Tibetans agreed to! pall him back if he would promise to! leave Tibet immediately. This of e was compelled to do and took | his departure from the forbidden laud. —Gentleman’s Magazine, think that 1f a he muat ba physiciar mad, neh, aud r, bending over my b ‘fer Hol a THO Wis ( Ye Li» Wiint ause Aad EL th him in 1 Workers 1 arrange- ject th Gpon tne vais iztion differd Or pt 11 at peen? business brain « r ; H RISE a AN Bd eWspaper For the Blind. £11 4 y 1% assed JADE - Suda aly, Woria that i f Blind sg ERR a odie. ated to the Hof Load Y. 3 0F. 1893 and now e! me Enheer 11s Jot time i every quarter of the gobe printed in ‘‘raized,’”’ or Braige considered a literary curiosity. will succeed may be fact that it has been twice eria ged since the fall of 15&3.—>5t. Louis Re- PELs ea | A witty Fre nchm 4 is an excuse for not rite 9 + 1 nat it ans ain kes I 11: 10°18 sant nat here are 1: 3 Yanik es iu New York each of <vhich hag over §500,- woul send the undertaker to apolog | for him.” hen first made called Devonshire’ rooms and wore first made here for the It soon be- | i America and as far away as Australia. | and they rangs | For some years this | The charge for a steamer chair across! 2 WW travers. Ives with steamer chairs, i$ of all snd Will’ Wuight, | With equal | - 1 at the door of a church where Mitchell | and his sweetheart had gone for an | Cecongregation and broke up the meeting! a i attentl did Mitchell, but he was! At the threshold of the sanctuary the i the lifeblood that flowed from his sida An old friend of Dr. Holmes says: *“This is the way I rest myself,”” he ‘‘Bnt there are people in the world | id, “Only death |; g a dinner | engagement, and even then a volite man |! ik no more at schoolmasteriug {TO THE NORTH POLE. {| A Correspondent Thinks It Will Soon Fe a Favorite Samer Trip. How to reach the north pole is a¢uet- tinn that will pct down. Peury, after nis recent failure, says he thinks it will yet bo reached, Let it rather be said in this age of electricity that it is not only it will not only be reached, but con mu- | nication with it established, making the journey there a new axcursion roots for : the pleasure seeker during a month or | two of the year. | Instead of the ill devised ard ir ade- i quate attempts which have hitherto been , made, when sufficient means combined with intelligent operation ara eqoaled i by a determined purpose, with more recognition of a dependence upon Gord, h| every obstacle will be overcome. Conld capital see profitable invest- ment in the enterprise; efforts woud he | made more in proportion to the oista- cles to be encountered. "A smitabia station fhonid be sealocted as far north as could always be con- , veniently reached as aoon as the seveii- | ty of the winfer had abated. tion bave comfortable quarters, every- i thing suitable to the climate and noces- sary to a winter residence and for a . journey northward. Here have a sorm- pléte electric plant and run electric | sledge trains to the north pole, the elee- tric locomotive engines made of alumin- | inm to be as light as possible and rest- | ing on wide toboggan runners, thy es- gine propelled by paddle wheels, metal i shod, and the dip of the paddle mala to | adapt itself to the lightest snow or hardest ice. The sledge cars should ho : built of the lightest material, iniper- | vious to the cold, heated and made som | fortable to live in. | With a construction train of this & | soription advance northward cond he made, locating the route, choosing the most level course to be found, it leing } There is a company that shakes a bust lof no consequence how winding the ; road, as there is no right of way to be purchased or points to be stopped at to accommodate local travel. Along this route as progress is made Jay an ¢lectrio : bari ly it, trie to 3 with from i he estat lis ire on tue sow-—1o be for that ma connect another the £ and Com I a tt We 118 $ pratic ev—-thiis ole habitable coma distances x a ermld thins Led all along che ine with tion in case 1 If there is no open pale and it can be reached 18 a plan thay is feasible. Xk pm gome enfers will i tablish a musk y and reindeer farm and enlti i ater ‘on and Sopp! ly fresh meat the excursionists to the north pole, — Delolin Be: edict in New ’ York San. the firs were derrane ut the hy ana, f that vet § Ww ¢ 13 0g, Rey perth Li3i8 rE rising Yankees 0X ranc ate Sorin them } WITH A SINGLE RAIL. . Novel Project For a Line on the Canisdian Border. William E. Seeley, a resident of Brainerd, Minn., but now in the Rainy Lake gold country, has in proce: s of completion a project to build a rai. ‘road ‘from Tower to Rainy Lake City, on tho Canadian border, over a ronte where an ' ordinary railroad could scarcely be ron. Bat the rcad planned by Nr. Soeley Will not be an or i ne in any eins of the word, and his plans and spec fica- “tions are ¢ ready adiractin sible n from railroad én | ehinists generally. . Tha track of Mr. Bcalev’s consist of a single rail and the that sects ready referrmig to it as road. The great advan this road 18 Hs cheapness, it of than one-half as much ble track, standard ract and oper: KC t nsidi and tia of two, are al mstead in ors od n No the tage plains the ground, structed so that the 1s feet below the lovel of the ‘ each side of the cars will be loaded as | nearly equally a8 possible, so that the | vehicle will ride easily and smooth iy. That the cars cannot be upset will be geen at a glance, as the weight in them rail, | will be below the rail. The piles ave to ‘be set 10 ar 12 feet apary and will be capped with heavy wooden beams, upon which the single rail will rest. 1t is jSisimed by Mr. Seeley that such a road ‘has already been operated successfully a that he has demorst rated by models that the plan will be a success in this case. Ove of the great needs of the | northern part of Minnesota is a railroad (from Tower to Rainy Lake City, and the residents of those places are raore | than enthusiastic over tho proposed line. ; = hicago Times. Rerald. f | TEACHERS IN ENGLAND. iA «r From One Which Tells oe Own Story. Pathetic Let judged from ine 5 ul ¢ £10), fight ¢ any own but, as tis; 1 oan § he pe r notndig better. What will bucome of to thin "a ‘Fliers neve | wlaated youn ng ame I tread Xen United Sang lon » i mie Li kd iy via are hunareds of ¢ fdlovs in ta CHA eEra and Luv, ca M. A. (Gem). xr A cerely yours, ——— possible but among ‘the certainties that. At this sta- nd milk to- and. should be ‘being dragged under by the weight and ‘most prevalent in Cornwall and various | will take away his luck ip fishing and | {And the sare { will | meadew grows more and more conip rong Wii i i face. ” } the 21 hy { zonand flu t they we: vrei + Tez rwe CUTTEN | JOEWH Linto bis h me " lantic | with lgss purposeless expenditure wih. | UNLUCKY 10 SAVE ¢ FROM DROWNING, | Some Queer Superstitions of People the i World Over. strange - that be Superstitions, yet it 18 80, he small boy who sods companion sinking ita: a vite yg grave | without attempting to rescue him, whether be sank becanse he was not an expert and got beyond his depth, or whether he was seized with cramps. It seems ridiculous to think of, and no} doubt it will save many a superstitious person from risking his own neck by It gems nor 18 3 ig it slo ne t struggles of a drowning person to know it is connted unlucky and worse than madness to try to save the life of a drowning person or to resuscitate bim, as sooner or later he is bound to do yon some mean turn. : It is another one of those oid super- stitions handed down from generation to generation from our European ances- tors, and of which no one knows the der- ivation. Traces of it are found am ng the Sioux and other tribes of the Indians of the west, who seem to have inherited that belief from their forefathers along with 80 many other qnaint things. They gtill believe, and it’s a part of their ¢éreed, that in hunting the body of a drowned perscn you can discover its resting place by floating a chip of cedar wood, which will stop, even in the strongest current, a torn around over the exact gpot. In Great Britain the belief that you must not rescne a drowning person is parts of Scotlmmd. The French sailor and the boatman of the Danube bow to the decree, together with the Russians, and let the people drown. Dr. Taylor, in his ‘‘ Primitive Cul- ture,’’ declares this lingering fondness for this ¢ld creed is becanse the water spirit is angry at being despoiled of its victim, and should the unlucky person who has dared to frustrate him trust himself to the water's power he will drown as sure as fate. : . The Eohcmian fisherman shrinks from snatching a drowning man from the waters, fearing the water demon drown him before he gets to shore with the would he victim, In Germany, when some one is drowned, they say, "The rivir spirit claims his yearly sac- rifice,’’ or, *' The Nix has taken him.’ belief is eurrent not alone countries above ntioned, Tho thosa the Kameha at man cut ¢f the water, wonld force him | ander, and if he should escape to the | shore no one wonld dare receive him! or dare to give him {oud | He is sopnosed to be dead falling ino the w ater, m voy 0 1 i: ont thane vasrha rl ae Te ERANR, fatner 1nan hegr after cuca | THE SARGASSO SEA. A Wonderful Region In the Atlantic Which No Man Has Explored. The surface of the Sargasso sea seems | like a perfect meadow of seaweed! It is supposed that this enormous mass of | gulf weed may have been partly grown: | “at the bottom of the shallower parts of | the sea and partly torn from the shores | of Florida and the Bubama islands by | the force of the gulf stream. It is then! swept aronnd by the same agency into | the Sargasso sea, where it. lives and propagates, floating freely in midocean. is ever inc oust beth | by addition and propaga! ion, 80 that | the and no daaht at the inner parts extenc to a consilerable depth below the sur Nor is this all, for at least twa: thirds of all tlie infinite flotsam which the gail | stream carries along with it in ite conrse sooner or later finds a resting place Fere may 1 xb tn trees torn from he for ssigof Petr 1 by the waters of the Anu ated down far out to sen u nt wapht and » we pt along by {] od from Honduras, an Florida, ean the islands, staved in, br ) Sargasso £24. De Bed viaks of } a Grange 3 and boat frog coken and bottom trees fro ‘mpward ; wrécks and remains of all ports reaped from the rich harvest of the At- ; whole keels ar skeletons of ruin- ed ships, so covered with barnacles, shells and weeds that the original out- | line is entirely lost to view, and here .and there n derelict ship, transformed from a floating terror of the deep into'a mystery ut out of reach of man ina museum of unexplained enigraas.— | Chambers’ Journal Praises the Rieycle. It seems to be coming—scientific ap- proval—in all directions. Dr. Cham- | poniere, member of the Academy of Medicine, has made ‘observations on | Frenchwomen who have used the wheel, and he finds they are better performers ‘than men, learning more easily and | of | He finds a marked increase in tO0 Lined all aver the! force. amount o f muse le deve i eupacity 13 inereascu action «1 toe {ae aeposition of Tat ria t Arad 3 . ¥ x heart 1s 1 15 av 1 » i. 10 Cal dy nes too | ond. swinnmets | - young man came in snow. white, with his; | Will Ventnre Tio and most zanortant even | great - picn 3 spread npon the roand, 86 elt i» of which the way i opposing tribes ruage theilie TOWNS OF SETTLED HABITS. London and Philsdelphis Alike In This ely In her article on ‘The Myth of the 400,” in Cosmopolitan, Mre. Burton Harrison tolls of an Awerican calling upon a lady in London and finding her seated in a big chair by the window en- gaged in some sort of needlework. A ) and paid his re- Fpects, as it was her day at home, and then bowed himself out. Three years | later the American was again in Lon- don, and again he called upon the lady. “Jt was her day at home, and there she sat in the same chair by the same win- dew with the samo needlework, or inme very like it, in ber hand, and, more re- markable still, the same young man called and made the same remarks he ‘had made three years bofore. Mrs. Har- rison tells this anecdote to show how’ unchanged things are in England and how you are pretty sure to find people just about as yon left them. The illus- tration is a good oue, But I dan auaweh it with a better one over here, : I bave the pleasure of knowirg a family in Philadeiphia svho have lived - in the same Louse for 40 years. As the children of this family grow up they developed a murical talent from forr or five generations of men lenrned in the law as well as skilled with the bow. Every Sunday between 13 and 1 o'clock it was the custom of the father and the sons to play classic music, the father be- | ing first violin, one son viola, one see- ond violin, the other violoncello. They played well, and as 1 lived nearer Phil- adelphia in those days than I do today I often dropped in at these rehearsals, as they calied them. Five years ago I was in Philadelphia on a Sunday. I had not sven my old friends in 15 years, but 1 was sure fey were living at the old placa. I walked around to the house, and as I mounted the marble steps I heard sounds of mu- gic. Could it be possible that a ‘‘re- hearsal”’ was going on? Yes, sure enough. There sat the father, his hair : violin tueked un- der his chin, and the thrue ‘Boys’ fathers themeolve smi] playing awa; a8 they had been doing s:nce they were children. To ba snve, they were ranyried men and did acl BY at home, hat they met every Snnud: at their fa- ther's for tiie’ i expent wn ran on to Phil nig before long, and, though it 1 at Joab five years since J was at on friend's house, I expect iG hor a insiy on Sunday morning, for i shall the my visit 80 as to meine a Sunde y.~-Cridie. re wag INDIANS E CAM:Z BUTTORS. ir All on a lovee Raee - Their Chiel Diversioa. “An Indian heise race is the greatest of tha year to the tribes who part tate in 1g," said Ramon Thornton of Cleyeune to a re- porter. *‘It is totally unlike our equine ! contests, for, to begin with, there is . only one race, for which it takes months and weeks to arrange the desis and I must tell yon thut the average Indian is ‘a remurkably good matchiouker. I do not think [ever suai race thal was not Jroductive of a cluse, exciting finish. *As Boon gs ig sat for the soniest a, wonan and papnogs tf bath frihes assembio at the appointed piace, beisgiog worldly wealth to sappore their cham- When the day of i.e race arrives, ared bi is ts ra tae Hay sow v several large puri ors wid chiefs of tha ives, wile 3 cach ge Jord ono REOTaR iY bot. Silently aod with sha sbeng fn ward aad 2 UH Si IR N08 le to the gid» then behind sya toa bearing the U4 The head eiief of makes the fret stolid ecuant deposita bis tars aad oloer vu the blanket, gang to add his much prized nd whole The leader of the other places artic! the first heap, A grunt is a bet. So it poes do gering being conduetd wi that befits the oceision, challéring span WUE Od wile CRATE yy $:1 Alachida Glren evan OR 3 or 3 ned, wn the hue, wa. - @ prravity for ech tribe . knows that its oppe cents will bes all they have got. Even little groups «f peuies are led off to cueside and buach- ed together, and that means that the loser will walk many a weary mile through blinding alkc i 42ot before he gees tho topes of Lis pera Bas tLhae is po haggling, vo disputes, no excla- mations of sarprisa or cl agrin at the re- salt. It is impossible, as far as aay out- ward demoustration is concerned, to distinguish the victor from ho vane quished, and in that respect. I think the American Indian stands acne among ; the nations of the woud ''—Atlauta Journal Oh, Eostont A funny incident-—und not so funny, tor all——ocep red oft the Foun the ofl. er afternoon. Two erelicis ye pectedy. The the right, and tiie mm her svkeel, ne bled to their feet, rio and glared at each Then woman's: face wheel, rolled np le An eyewliness lant exough said, Ly bu 10 Was 4 Way A domestis im Chicana . nl some vu ; purposes the The doctor disclal theorize, bus at th article. | port homself to ness Frenchwornn as the! product of the bi CVOLe, J : The Peirl river, Mission, wos called hwo th “the rv ¥ 1 £ CHF OF dream of 2 hte, Uiuguay was named from the. : which flows through it. tals was theo way ok 8 their Si are
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