come juto use on the race track asa stimulant Horses that are worn and ex- So iE le uleon We build a brides of troet CL Puan fo pbs friend, And often Dreak the span © We cannot mond. We bel! a bridge of tro LU Prom shove th shore, : And shadow figures shoal across CL AL pease forevermore. rence A. Munroe fa Detroit Free Prem. | THE USE OF COCAINE. Morsé Tralnérs snd Jockeys Find It Use : . _ hanuted, or are ancertain a4 to speed and endurance, are given 10 to 15 grains of | _ cocaine by the needle under the skin at the time of itarting, or a few moments ~The effects ave very prominent, and a _ veritable muscalar delirinm follows, in ~ which the horse displays nnosual speed | and often unexpectedly wins the race. This agitation continees, and the driver | hme difficnity in “dlowing down'' the hore after the race is over; not unfre- quently the horse will go balf way round _ mgain before he can he stopped. The ex _ haustion which follows is not marked exeopt in the great thirst and loss of ap. petite. Sometimes diarrbes sod trem bling follow. But good grooms give un usual attention to rabbing and bathing the legs in hot water and stimalauts The getieral effect on the horse is de- premion, from which he soon recovers, but it ia found essential to give cocnine again to make sure of his speed. The aotion of cocaine grows more transient | a8 the use increases, and when kmg period of seoring follows before the race gins drivers give aseoond dose secret while in the saddle. Sometimes the "horse becomes delirious and anmanage- abls and leaves the track in a wild frenzy, often killing the driver, or be drops dead on the track from cocaine, al- though the canse is anknown to any bat the owner and driver. Some horses hava been given ss high as 30 grain at a time, but this is datgerous and ouly | given to wornont animals, who ay by | this means win n race. Tt sppears that | oothipe is only used in running races andl ma a temporary stimuiant for the ‘eyes and trembling exritement of the | hotee are strong evidence of the ase of | pogaine. —Clociunati Eoquirer. § Guinna's Vile Climate, The climate of Guiana is uot by any means agreeabis Glevapetown 18 within wix degrees of the equator, and the mer. outy generally lingers around #0 and 100 degrees. The land is abo iow and marshy in places, so that fevers are prewalent nt al seasons of the year, and | white man cannot Jive there unless be Ctalips extreme precantion to observa pertain essential roe Negroes, on the © potitrary, oan lies auveiers and breck | © thy health rules laid down for the white eetlers Yellow fever ix am anneal plague In Georgetown, bot the negro poarulation pives Lith thmght to it, and cf fe Bese of ame of Dhenly ‘pumber taking iL | omppose bent oo oad XmoTe suscep jin the pegroes, bot are pinch hardier x + STORY OF ON | greatest bercine of the Revolationary tire. It is claimed that the flashing | Tan E OF THE WOMEN OF REVOLUTIONARY DAYS. How » Massachusetts Farmer's Wife Ron- | dered lmeaicniuble Amistancs te Mev Distressed Country — Furnishing Feed and Clothing to Patriot Soldiers Lhave searched everywhere to ascer- tain the maiden name and parentage of the woman who is, to my mind, the days, though, if objection iv made to thin assertion, I conld modify it by claiming that she was certainly the most patriotic in the state of Massachosetta She was Mary Draper, wife of Captain Draper of Dedham, Mass, married Jong before the war, and with children well grown up when the tronbis began af Lexington ; therefore the weeming im- possibility of finding any history of her early life Captain Draper war a thriving farm. | or. and had always prospered, if one ronkd judge from his sarronudings and large, and the latter were always filled to their utmost capacity with the stores for winter for his family and the dumb animals which belonged to him. The honse was built with two args ovens, either una of them lnrge endogh to bake bread for the whoik village. When the news was heard of he ex pected attack of the Britich opin our patriots at Lexington, General Puolpam, in Compecticont, was at work in bis field | plowing. He left ail and seized his musket, and, pot waitiog to change hie: apparel, marched on to Cambridgs, call ing on all he saw on bis way to jin in, bring any weapons they had, and 251 Jow withuot delay. Their route bappen- od to bw tha road passing the home of the Drapers in Dedham. Men thonght of nothing but liberty and the safety of their bomen snd fami | Hew They put thar trust in the Lord, | and left all in the hands of Providence, | hat strock with their right arnes their first Blow for freadoan 12 this Lexington ; fight. panity ax this wonkd develop almost any | | character and sueh a benevolent woman | | ax Mary Draper wonid betopre a bright | and shiping bight J : At the frst cull she exhorted heer bas | % ila : hastening tn the scone of atin her own hands she boned knapsack and | It may be Jods sueh an oper. | tine . jaepariag aod | With | $i ey 337 Blanket to the shoulders of beromiy sa, a boy of 16 years, bidding him hasten 55 do his doty and follow in the foiteteps | «I bis father. The daoghier antrested | the mother to allow his to remain aud | protect thers, bat she snewered, * Noy, Le must go, bot you and I Kate, willl have enough to do to feed the hangry i who will pass bere on their way before tomorrow night. Huondreda did come and were fod, and passed om, only to be filliwed by bos dreds more, who were all treated in the same generons manner. Refreshed and | pasted and sneonraged to go oon by Mary Draper, they contisoed 10 poss song | this road that sed by their home fur sev. | eral days, til} coder and diiplius were | eabiishnd, Mary Draper, assisted by ber daughter | anid a domestic to her {mn ily, spent the | pias ephn the whiten The eonlicn are a ~ Yighter und more slender race than the moderately faithfnl workers, while the negroes are lazy and indolest. The teal bard and difficelt work io the fieids hut requires muscle is performed by the _ megroes, but the steady, continuons, Hght work is allotted to the eoolies, The tw) races are naturally hostile, mime so than the Enropeniss and the na tives —5t. Logis Giobe Democrat. 3 SL A Lesson In French. “While I was in Paris," sare a wom: an whose recent trip shroud was inter: rupted by family ilines, "I tonk one ~ Jesson from a famoux Preoch teacher. | paid a Jurge price for ft and had torosh home bifors a second was doe, bat | : | ae that my money was well invest. fod i one important lingoistic fact upon my mind. This wus that the French lan. | guage has po soutd of ‘a,’ as dn abl’ . Nips-tenths of the Americans who pre: tend to speak French say la wort, In gerre, la this, that ang the ther, as brimd as a Bostonese gays can't and _ shan't. It is absolutely wrong The sound fs ss in mat, chat and those | wards; the tongue is placed quite dif ~~ ferently. The observance of this ane dis | thwotion more than almost any other gives the real Parisian tang that we call . mecent, but which is really only French, pure and simple. I consider that my of stnight in Frapce was pot wasted, pough I brought home ouly a sound. Beried Vieline i i 3 § negroes, but they ure indosttions and | for she (it was a woman) impressed | b required ammnnity whole day and pight and {diiawing day | in baking brown bread. The tw ovens | that 1 have mentioned as buing of an’ nxually large capacity were set in fall Bast, sand they never bad been before pushed to their fullest extent, and i doubt if ever sipes, in soeh a small space of time : : With the help of a disabled French. van. a veteran of the French war, who | bad been gives & home ia the Draper tainly for many years, Mary Draper had | all the tefreshmentys in readiness to offer | the weary patriots as they passed along A long wooden form Was wrected by the | rome de, large pans of bread and cheese : wers Blaced upon 11 sel replenished aa wlten ax pecessary. The old veteran | brought tuys which were filled full of citer rons their cellar, and it was served out by two lade who valuntesred their Mes. Desper prisided at this etertainment, sud when her stock of | provisions gave out, ealled pelghboes fn sontribations Her husband had purchased a ballet | wold to supply himself! und son with | this article of warfare, and Mrs. Draper, | fot satisfied with giving the pewlir to the general demand, sone of it the greatest ornament of her abd Bone, bes gan herself to melt her platters, pans | Cand dictes and tramform them itu the | BTV ines, 4 Winter was now approaching and with i5 fears of the want of suppbes for the army. The country cond wearcely yinld | what was sure 1o be the demand wade | grou if should the war continue. The cally upon private beneviience became imperative and the guestion of ciothiog fir the patriors, who mouse spend the winter in 5, WBS a YOY puomantons | Violins are rested for varying periods, piuchape for a woek. to a visitor in the “gity. They ure often rented by the month, like piinos The bulkier "celln and the double Hass are sometimes rent: ed for sipgle wocasions, for converts iu private houses’ The instrument is de- livered and tal ‘n away, the player pre ‘ferring to hire » 1 instrument rather than | © to oarry or to itend to the carrying of nia own. —=Nev York Bun ii A Thou itiess Compliment. She—It is i» very pretty ring, indeed, dear, but it is a good deal too lurge for | me. He (though "sly )— Yes, I was afraid “it might be. .iildred’s hand is bigger hy twa sizes, sur, than yours. ——Somerville Jiurpal : Ts asda he Churclonan refers tu the Protes. tant Episooje (church as ‘‘the Anglo Saxon church in this ccuntry,’ which lands The Con regationalist to ask if the pilgrims were Celts. Wyoming fas 1,144 persons Pngdged fu wanufaciv ring and makes $3,867,601 £ £ 1 even garments already munie tone. Mm Dr dd the Bret Wo Cen thos sPTne ; bas carpe deeply ative fn effurts to render a) + aid in her power, and fospired her neighben ta do Likewise. Her hone besn a8 asyiom fue the des pow her deepest svmpats sd for the newly forms in which the hardships of wir were almos entirely onknown, ; Bhe considered their own pessessions | only as a means of assisting ber distress. | od country, The supply of coitl, moven i for use a her own family, Was cunivert ed into eouls for soldiers by ber dangh tir and maid, onder her direct supers vision, and sheets and lLlankets were furbicped into shirts for them alse, and | of the "last now weavings fur bersel! were tun verted into such men's wear as was | west needed. These deeds of disinterest. ed generosity were scarcely kadwn be yond their own neighbarbocd. Tie sand she lived to the age of 100 yeurs, in thie same house, aud contipped tu befriend the destitute and peedy wayfarer. —Wo- yLE prick I ries were wi iist it weoeth of goods oy Progress. 1 how a wits of 1 the manner of living carried on in bis family. His hones and his barns were ior i bo luwtoned into her prods | be hopped off the car and k | ia tlie renter with you? | trol his voice mafficientiy to tsa adie | the ntmost sincerity, I wonkin'z go FC Wee Bad snd mies The Atlas Pv Annals of th 3 431. NG ompds and eid | tn hearing distance of any 2 Won bave a bawgain —-hudiasapolin | : 358 ¥ ! daaghtn Washington Mar. PREVENTED A DUEL. B] hates or 5 ies ats Wom Ae There is a man is Washington who ha baer type, but, like a good many hasbuuds with that kind of wives, he dvr n't always appresiate her at her {rae “olan Well this hossand hud been inmited ; outrageously inspiied. a4 ba 1hought, being a sens tive man of a flery temper, and he was borping with a spirit of re rege. He had thonght to resort ti violent wonsates in defense of his mered honor, bot A second sober thought came to bim of his despondent wife and children, and for their sakes he had staid the avenging hand. Again be had thrught of appealing to the law, but that seemed almost cow: ardly to bis high born spirit, and be set it aside as quite impossible Ail dsy the inenlt rankled m bis bosom. and when the shades of evening bad comes and he wended his wiry home. ward on an avenos car, he was in a con- ditiem of the most irremediable indigne- tion. He had some kind of a vagne idea that a night of sleep might heal the wound of the insular, bat, thas failing, be knew that blood alone ocosdd make storement Au4 he pearad home, thinking every second of what he would, ronld or mast {| 40, be happened to think of his wife, and it dawged opon him Like a sunborst that she was a woman of spirit and judgment, and that aba might be able to help him in bis sors difflonity and sopiest a soothing balm to hiwiaort han With this new thenght vrging him on OW HR ROOD DR famed] Ber Ha did nie thinking possibly that by this ime tomortsw evening he wonid be beyond the power of oscuint igus. Naturally, this orasmal in tration surprised tie good woman. J They hid been married 5 fears “Why, Jarry.’ sho axclsimed, what | strangely acited, It was a minote Before he sould con. | it for | talking purposes. of am, he fairly snorted | heen inspaed File? Who did it? | spirit rose, ‘Re a scoundrel who oaron into my fos this morning 1 bays jiprasd ny | wrath all day apd now come to yon for What wonid you do if a man | ware ti tall yon to go 10 the devil?’ A# he strode aboot the room be Kicked faeur a table, two chairs and the eat “Why, Harry,'” she replied, after the | ! {mspulsive oanner of women, and with we Then be sat down and conelnded that a good wife's advices was an sochor to windward in a husband 'v moet tam pesto- out moments ~— New York Telegram. AMERICAN ECCENTRICITY. Pronchmen Never Tire of Talking of yar | Queer Frenks, The French paple never tire of re : lating sneodotes of the ecomntrieity and | J Pw pvrE dally enormnas wosith of Anwricans An American ‘went orn ahop in Paris recently and found a | charming but poorly dressed: girl en gaged iv pegotistions with Lhe progr Lar. ya agnifoent bead of bair for three aX BEERS Jeans-—the man would give wr oo wore i than one. way with tears, aud the barber was about to employ the fatal wihecrs whe | the American bitervened apd demanded | the case of the sad affair He found that the girl s parents, who formerly had been weil off, were io the | lant extremity of poverty. and that she bovd determined to make so great a sac : boriflen in order to obtain them a little broad. Ths stranger drew out two bang motes sued cereal then fo the gard, say: uigt 485 Will 37m let me Boy vinr ¥ is GRIT Without even aking aston notes, the | gird St ome said, Yea > Bair, put it in his pockethook-—and tod, | | Not till be bad gone did jibe look at : : bat bank sotes, und found them to ba of gly yalueof $100 —Elmira Telegram “To Hang Our,” The following is an enriy ie phrase And von his sad competivend to whome Lend Pisces word lonten by thi aceiilent Peacedortl your waiving Sage Bo Sk Play sow no more ab alll Wstasiae when rend slvinta Hr aar sbhenre, Bi Fa a ths le Aga bow weg you delieht HAT LEe when Hoel woarsing soe alentotn utile) md This quotation is from ke dnanymons alegy cn the death of Riclsani Borbage, tize actor, who died [830 What comfurs have wi AL a Stage, valame 1 ue oN ann Yneries Cheap at the rics 1 paid a dollar and 8 hall sear, mand AREY front row, “amd 1 dida’y uerely to listen to your cbatier © “My deal fellaw,”’ suavely rpondud the pinabiag i #oonal set Juarpal es A A RN ct oe A Csmamon Error, Cme of the very funniest mistakes that nipe-tenths of the members of Congress | ipake, neither house being excepted, is | to sontinnally speak of a woman who | has Jost her husband as a “widow wo nan.’ Even Mr Barrett used the tarm. The swallow, in preparing its pest, drives its tupne! frst opward and thes downward, be properly drained 32 srder that the nest may A flowering plant is said to abstract from the soil 300 times ite UWD weight of watar. } doysof the Mar Yon seem He Waa Kot Welcome. : An amusing story if told of the early Maret Lonise home. The | home. as ix well known, was built by | | Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard as a woman’ hotel, ander the auspices of the Young | Women's Christian association i The first day the building wax open Miss Alrmap, the directress, was fold shat a gentleman hud oslied to Jook at | poomn. Taking it for granted rhat be wished to @ngage honrd for some women | welative, she sant an attendant to show Bim the rooms He jpxpressed himself as much pleased and engaged a sit. At) nightfall the following day Mise Alt man wan informed hy the horrifleq-at sendant that *'a may had coms to « y the rooms’ which he claimed ¢ ve engaged the preceding day. In the hail her startlad eyes recognized the dignified gentleman of the day befors, socompa- | mind by a colored valet with a dress suit ! ease in one hand, A portmnntesn in the other, und with an| expressmman with » hig tronk bringing - the rear, | ek Miss Altman sdvapced amd politely requested an explanation. This canned the gentleman to grow very rad in the face, while the vaipt rolled his ayes in disapproval sid the axpresaman waited The gentlemun declared that he had enme to take possesion of the rooms ha had engaged and bad been refused the Beys “Oh, hat yon | cannot oconpy the rootns!’ she exclaimed. “This is a wo. man’s hotel” The valet dropped the portmanteau, the | expressman wailed, whiln beads of ould perspiration be. spangled the woolll de bonrder’s horas, as he explained, that going by. he bad seen) the place ahd, mistaking it for a select hotel, ‘was fo much pleased with his ipxpeation that) he had vernon his gephew to come [also and that prob ably the young nian would arrive hy 8 ooh Then, with meny apaiogies, | ha beat 8 hasty rdtreat. That evening Miss Alrman recelved the nephew, who! proved to he a dashing young wan, Whe, when hp beard of his onele's fapnocent mistake | was greatly smued and Isoghed Bdartily — Newt York Word, wae tet 3 “1 have | And thawifa's into a hairdos. | She was offering th sell him ber | AL Last the fair gird gave he American delicately tok a single | OTR Ban Lit i | fathers, wh hes LSI Ro i and CiRroni. i eipime model ho 4 5 i t (il % LH 9) —_— Lo bi (ihyollia frome thie BOX, THDABRW persons | nda hatitaes who have gone to the expense of thoa were auable to get with | + have vou i arch-itect, you i GOTHAM'S ELEVATED ROADS Pieces a Year Tuarved Property Department, Ante on the alevated erry, fir example, the nk po taronggh the cars thing that may have bassengiers asd tors i dispatcher at the ata tion, who dedivery it to the soparintend: | ent of the lest froperty department of the Manhatlas Riilway company, at 58, Greenwich street. There the articis | ineperted atid a record of the finding of | jt, with a description of the article, 8 made in a book Rept for that parpose there is a hook fis each division of the road. Then it iy wrapped up, properly tagged or labeled, and held to await ie | awier. Sometipges the ownership of pe Kage is discovered upon examining it i Then if it i pot geliad for the cumpansy potifies the ownel of the fOnding of it Jo this way articles are restored [0 their i Thirty Thoownd Over tn the Lost. At terminal pd ratiraads, Booth goards on the tral Jand pick ap any | been ef: by the | ver fo the tran the artiches gost no IY (hess there ate fonnd | from 3.500 to 3.000 & year: they ara of Fall kinds and quibtion The number of { wmbreilas foand inecresdes from year to { year about in the same proporticn a th | increase of travel Next to ombrellas in ed pine satebals, and in the order hanesd, books and the various done 9n in packages. : Thera are found iso wate, didrnonads, | hardware, tous, leatles and in the cenrse of the rele many other things in great varisty, Altogether fro of tha road thera ost property de | pieces a Tear. JN b articles are onli Umbrellas ars | mereasiy funnd, | othe pumbers foul | after them, abou Gane bate, shoo Binge that am ai the various divisions Are tgrned over Bo lhe Bartment aboot $0000 bom fail of theses lost for. Artiches of small | value are kept fix months. arficies of | greater valoe arg kept a wear Things net called for nid finally sald by pubic qaction af sajes held senilappoaily. — | New York san if Denial, off WD hrogsd Be now, or oar Nobody standg pr 3 iE eats hia dinner clothed whieh, hy the way, think, have gradoniiy habiitaal wearer at jeast arsed 18 LO AXE ROCUK- neh of lineh garments ¢ atall in + iar liam his Life up nd wiiee, | does Big work or Lin a hair mast, cone wand eens to the I ! au bearable asf tipued to the 10 | Wa have to deny | fistie things, and if wa never do i, how ya the hate, which zs bY no means in- | ghinetive with the natural man, ever to 7 That seeras siund, and yet he olemr that one grad tivated SiH anifiah than onrse ves, decidedly % Sys and Biyis Cia VR, he penarnted iw BW nO meas v4 aninii anif niale, wore less they were oss philan- Monks A ¥ + be oa x Mita Detter srriotar ariers ars very ale all than Knglish oler wiry go periodionily ab ives much sevarn 8 x ola 3s 14 § sresigEe DRO LORE is Jf character or of 13 Pps iarer ES ERATE £ aE preciative. Tinsel, Mra Rich, } eely oil FEENEAN rien presented 1D my Bring Biahis-N I id ne £ i 5 I have not ted, Mra Know Mr ruiose pail Mrs. Tiusel-Oh, pst beaatifally. He dashed off this painting for Amelia in half an howr. So clever—he's an know, thongh be studied 8, = Vigne ¥ to be a scuiptan Conscientioas. “Walt coe moment, said the emis pent statesmaig to the reporter who bad some for the manuscript of his speech. “1 want to make a little correction,” And be made a hasty erasure where he had written the bracketed word ap. plagse ’ and thy applanse had failed wo some in. — Chicago Tribune 4 | juvestments in eypress swamp hind, Jog merely forests throngh which the living sequently the Jnmbermien have to work "from eight months to a year in advance i thes sireniation af the san The aye rile of of mom the hardships for #1 a dav | branches, which . only to return Cte the full extent © ¢ fureman of same negro straddle thie Tog, am mg to the chain or grapuel, rides ont the bonseboat to got his ditiper or grind | an ax. It ix a wild ride, sud appears far | Ar dm Pri PECULIAR LUMBER INDU a STRY IN Standing Waist Deep In Water Log Set Up In Pollboats. Cypress lnmber has not made much progress in the markets of this city, but | it is dificnlt to ocomvinos a sontherner chat it is not the coming wood for both interior sud exterior construction, and its eonstantly ineressing popularity in tha sonthern states has led to enormons ging machinery and mille for working up the logs junto planks, moldings, shin: gles and other building material typress Jogging in an amphibloos sort of a bosiness. The best of (he trees grow in so called swamps, which are often water courses toward the sea in u thou sand channels It is weldom found on | stagnant swamp land, and the best tin bar grows where olear ronning wate sironintes ronnd the roots of the giant trons. There are hondreds of mach places in Florida and Looisisua Live cypress timber is so heavy that it sinks if felled when green, and oon of she cotting to prepare thn Dniler by gindling the’ trees and thos preventing trons are killed thus far in advanes of the felling Girdling 18 both axioons aud dangers work It is dune by ae gro chopper who stand afien waist doesn in water in the hiants of the driadeut | moccasin snake, the sliiignator aml the wildeat, to sav nothing of the swarm rsa pitied other sgunliy pestif oy Phe pegrocs endore sid yk 23 STOUR IERIE 4 On the pietaresgoe Ocklasiabi river, in Florida. one phass of the oy press | The moon was bright, 1 stole s Jon 1 ives there That Lileful vights 1 stain & msrch on other Bee; 5 Eun my part I owss woos | at stenling hat 1 sive ber cars How we are happy mamand wife Why sevm i strange 11. when I'm fast asleep in bod, Fhe steals my chauge® ~ Yonkers Slatenman, CABLE CAR STUDIES Partrait of a Passenger Wy the Conduston, Ditto by the Pameuger. * He was a cheerfal locking citissn when he got on the Broadway cable esr. He nodded pleasantly to the condaetor, and then felt in his pockets for change He went throogh ome after another, found none, and Jocked Jess cheerful Finally be took a pocketbrok from bis breast pocket, snd pleking a $5 bl from the roll banded it to the conduoet- or, apologizing at the same time. The sondunctor snatchedithe bill and looked oly. He counted out the change in chicken feed, as small coins are enlled ont the railroads, and shoved it iwto the man's hand with a Take it!" Then be turned to another passenger on the plat- form and began wo talk loud enough for the other to hear about “*Bogs™ who rods on card “Did yo wa that fellow that jost give me the Bili% he said “Well, he's a skin, yo know, That's an old game They git on wear with a $5 bill and | band it to the conductor. Nine times gut of ten the condpetor don’s have the change and the wan rides free. 1 know this fellow. I'vo bad him a doen i times v See hers, my friend,” seid the man who had had the bill changed, his face as red os @ beet, you're 8 deed liar." The conductor Jooked startled. The man repeated the declumation and pro- oiled : “1 want to tell yom, sir, that yom have spoiled a8 good a friend as the ' street veiirond men ever had. 1've been piogdi] ber industry is setn To the best advan tage. This wonderTal in fad hs esar, cold springs of at we amd af whade river tree i fur fous vol any me Lx - throngh endless acres of Duss draped oF It hax bandrads of Too lemwe 31 al one point O10 nat anitlar batween te sourea amd ite Jometion with the Bt Johns Between main river and Pranches, which rs ail more or navigable, is foeeded forme land theooagh which the whter slowly circuintes to the depth of 2 or 8 and sometimes § or 5 feet. It im in these flooded tracts that proses treo # % ihe thie Town the cypress frees grow fo perfection. | Coa company, with headquarters at Pa Istha and an office at Boston, controis the lombering on this river. The com pany bought 300 000 acres of cvnress nnd for 50 cents fo Kl an sce, and soy. aral years ago engaged a number of sturdy loggers from Saginaw, Mich. to take charge of the wark. It was'ail pew to the Michignnders, but thay togk hod with aptusss and gatokiy broke in the negroes to the work, Noon the dark re oewses of The Ockinwahaswaup rsoond. ad with the Blows of the ay. the shone i of wen, and the crashing of the old giants as they broke through the tranches of their peighbars and fell with a prodigions splash into the waters af the swamp Then shove all could be heard the rattling, jarring and olank. ig of the novel JERIDg machinery as it snaked tha hoge logs from the veces of the swamp fo the swift stresn spon which they wers ralted to the Dig Yiver. A gout camp in this swamp oon. sists of a bookbost with wn Blehen at ait tached amd x puilbeat The pulibost contains a powerfal Boisting engine, and in secursd with its ugoars bow so the bank against a tall and standy cypress tree. denuded of brooches and decorated with a band of red cloth pear The op Stretching away [ram an elevated patos upon this trea to another gimniinr giant a quarter of a mile back by tha swam ina tant steel cable, from wieh depends a troiles or eartier attnched 15 an end Toms steal cable, which winds sad une winds atau the sposl of the engine. Lo Autaeined to the rolley a huge pair of ship pronged tongs capable of span. Caing a log G feet in dixmeis i nar kos Fees ver sway froma the boat Gx 4 Wd lane travensd by the rralley. sleared away on each side of the cabie ¥ A ¥ ¥ lana terminates oniy wiers the end tres of the troller Loe stapsds This paint reacted, the cable is taken da and anther we soon sadiates Som te pail boat. When five ar sis lunes have been made, the tract bad wen prey alisired of serviesahlo trees, nod the boa and clamp ars moved ta a new plank When a ovpress 15 felosl nn ane these [aves it 18 cross ott in lengths o Yt 10 Tet, and the J0wa id sel or aoa it of chain gop pnd Iv Sr rowed toe boar, AX Wiha than thw pues fies peer, wha Diows ls wis Zia As the saaveyar vighiteas, the forward dn of the water asl ether end trails thraagh tu ng foputains of sp wn Weil * 33 1 : do heg came thie gran 2 3 Vis i vk + Phe Frias oF Pg Mix Ti 3 od RE ghd GER RATE #13 sabia af Cite SOR Tine stim and the water, send TEArs 5% ; . ay W a over knees and stumps aml splashes in mofpnd IInes g ventnre mR the open pouis fod re Aim mare thrilling than the spectavie of a tenderfoot open a bucking bronobe This, however, ix only one of the nor merons cypress grinstries mn Fiorida, and there are many more of the same kind in Lonisiooa and Alabama, where living watercourses penetrate the cynress swamps. Where there is not good water way in Lonisianns an even more costly plant is used frequently. placed at the edge of and from the siabs and sawdust of the | nearby trees a railroad bed 1x built ont into the swamp, and the place of the puliboas is taken hy a himvy Oat car secured to nearby trees WIHLH guy popes and having on board a powarfal pal gugine — New York Son Legion | pin grass and the | SNE 4 Toter Ocean. A sawmill is! a Uy press swamp : | their friend for 230 years. When passen- | gers kicked at them, I always figured | that if there was any trouble it was the | passengers’ own fault. When friends told me of rows they had, T always said ‘Well, it's a hard job on the back plat. | form of a car. The man was caly doing | kis duty.’ Now, I've been the friend of the ratiroad wen through thick and | thin. When they have struck, I've been with ‘ers. Bat yon're an infernal lar, gir, an infernal jar. The next railroad mun that sasses me will get panched in the jaw. Lo you hear, sic? Ponched in the jaw! Panchod The cheerful citizen was fairly daoe- ing with rage. “Well, vo peefin't get hot abont i sid the conductor. snd he went ip and sollected a fare The cheerful citizen got off the car muttering to himself. —~ Now York Sun. i Londen or Kashmir, A man who had traveled much, we isg many lands avd varied peoples, oonfossed that be bad pever felt the delight of satisfled curiosity in such fullpess aw on the day when bo first walked into London, a mere youth, and sticst amid the crowd aud shops of Regent street, A born wanderer by Ba tare and possessed of the jueans to gratify his desires, bis fancy bad xed on Kashmir, out of many places full of wonder and romaoce, as a land whern he shonld find roest enjoyment. Tos foster thin ides be avoided all books thar affected Io treat of Kashmir and refused 16 believe that anybody had ever been there, In Bis imagination he saw it as a region of Huwery valleys, soft Cwaterst meals, peaceful vistas and per fia suns He duly reached Kashmir, and be thing hs cnoe has long since retard, a | thought wight never happen, Of Raa mir he speaks reasotably and with {calm appreciation, but ssk him to tell sagan of how he Het came 10 London, Dandi in answering his voice mkes a tape Caf enthnsiacn aml mystery He refuses to sally the recullection by suatysis or dim it by any later disenchantment. He was youug then, and it was London. — Chatubera’ Jourand Boy “Meroines All thowe divine creatures, those her pipes of Shakespeare, were acted in his day, and for some time afterward, by youths and bonng men, May we pot fancy that this bard condition was a sorrow to Shakesnears, who, of all men, most mest keenir have felt how much better his geilike women conid buve been realized by actresses? It most have . been hard Tor boys 10 turn their mason. | ling natures to favor asd 10 preitiness when they had to enact women—and Cguck women! Shakespeare must have Topped to see the boards trodden by the Hight foot of woman, with ber pom parable grace amd witchery and feeling. What manper of youth could be found, evan in Elizabeth's thme, worthily to personate the divinity of womanhood? Wo know next toauhing of these boy {women sctars, bat a demand ereates a supply) and they may have been mors satitig tory thay we can well maggie Ther must have been bandsome—deli- | eatery handsome —Gentioman's Mags- ine. Exception In Favor of Kata { They are very literal in Japan. Nat | Jeng ago u bridge was built which was | #0 slight that a potion was put ap, **Ne “anttoals allowed to cross 'T But it was | found impossible to keep the rats off it, | and in order to have a rule which conld | be enfurced the notice was taken down ‘and "No. large animale allowed to gross’ was put up in its place.~Chicago emma The kedge anchor is modeled after the It is destined for mee gn sandy Boitoms, whebe a common | mochor wonld fad to hold, pommon mushroom, | The coral flowers, so called, are ant: {mals A coral reef resembles a bed of | Buemones. i
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