5 i i i 3.0 ~~ «A SONG. ) Bring me the juice of the honey truss, The large, translucent, amver hand. Rare grapes of southers tales, to ewid The luxury thot Gils wy moed _ And bring me only such a grow Whore fairest ma‘dena tend the conor, Aad only fed by ren nnd dew Which first had bashed & Banu of fowers They must have nung oa spicy traw In airs of far enohunved vnles And all night heard the ocsineies Of noble throated eightingales. 80 that tho virtves which beloag To flowers may thorein tested be, And that which hath been tarillod with song May give a thrill of song to we. For I would wale that string “or tl we Which hath too long in si'2nee Lung, And sweeter than all clse ~'ionld Ye The song which in thy p:o w= fs snag, —Thomas Hi »ever ead THE SQUIRRELS IN rn. OAK, How They Kept House #nd u.i Their Provisions. My favorite. boarders in the oak were the gray squirrels. The boys knew their hole from the woodpeckers’ at a glance, for it was in tho living trunk cof the tree, and the red brown r:argin ale showed where their powerful teeth had been cutting away the bark that threat ened to grow in and close them up. 1 have oftened wondered how the wood peckers knew that it would imprisva them, and that they must put up with the dead limb. As for the grays, they were not afraid to live in the heart of the oak, and what stores of nuts, harvested in the hickories on the hill, they did hs to ‘‘tote”’ up there. There must hg at least when I ruthlesely ', MISS-MISS SPARED. 3 been a peck | = HE CAPTURED THE GRIZZLY JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME. Ilow the Hudson Bay Tribes Dispose of the Old and Indigent Members—This 01d Warrior Sought Another Death and Got a New Lease In Life. “There is but one beast that the Indi- ans are really afraid of,’’ said Egerton Young, the Baptist minister who re- cently returned from a long sojourn among the Hudson bay tribes, where he was the pioneer missionary. “That is the grizzly bear, the tiger of North America. Only once have I heard of a grizzly being captured alive, and in that case the feat saved the life of a fa- mous old warrior. ‘‘Among many of the Hudson bay tribes it is the custom for the ablebod- ied to put to death the old men and wo- men who are no longer able to do their share of the work. The old women are simply knccked on the head without ceremony. The process of getting rid of an old man is more elaborate. The In- dians do not think it well to stain their hands with the blood of one who was once a warrior. So they delegate the task to their hereditary enemies, the wolves, to which they render all assist- ance in their power. “When it has been decided at a sol- emn powwow that any particular old max is to die, instructions are given to a number of young men to take meas- ures to get rid of him immediately. Among the cxecutioners are always the sons of the coudemned man. The day after senteuce has been passed these ex- chopped into | ecutioners call on the veteran, attack the hollow with a sharp hatchet and | him with stones and spears and drive captured a fine brood of young ones that vere soon tamed into graceful and af- fectionate pets. The old father and mother we did not want, even if we could have caught | them, because they are fierce and un- tamable in captivity. The abduction of their pretty chil- dren did not seem to weigh much on their minds. They gave no sign of the poignant grief, not to be comforted, that I have seen, for instance, in blue- Wircs whose nest had been despoiled, but refitted their den as snugly as be- fore and raised another family. Wien my squirrels went harvesting, one of them first held his head in the mouth of the hple for half a minute to «8e0 if the coast was clear. Presently out he whisked and stopped again to make sure, while his mate followed. Then Mr. Squirrel gave a rasping, long drawn bark of defiance, which must have filled his lady’s heart with admiration for his boldness and with apprehension lest some unwary creature should come within reach of her loxd’s anger. Then—if you didn’t betray yourself and send both scampering in wildest fright back to the hole—after playing hide and seek for a few moments they ran in single file out to the topmost twigs of a great bough, gained a branch of the neighboring bare walnut and, crossing to its farther side, made a des- | perate flying leap into the top of a | young hickory. Running half way down this, they used a succession of dogwoods “and oak saplings until they had reached Yhe grove of tall, straight hickories on the hill, an eighth of a mile from their hole in the oak. Come on them sudden- ly now if you would care to see fast time made over this queer course and some record breaking leaps that fairly take away one’s breath.—Secribner’s Magazine. Autograph Fiends. The author of ‘‘Chats With Celebri- ties,”’ Mr. Guild, says of the demand upon Longfellow for his autograph: I remember one very pleasant party at the poet’s dinner table, at which Mr. | i : . I = y 36 Which M | chest quite unprotected, tried to insert Monti, Professor BE. N. Horsford and myself were present, when Mr. Long- fellow related a number of amus anecdotes respecting applications that were made to him for autographs. He was very kind to autograph seekers and used to keep in a little box upon his writing table a number of slips upon which were written, “ Yours very ¢ruly, Henry W. Longfellow." One of these would be sent to the applicant by a member of his family to whom he passed over their requests. But the autograph seekers were not always satisfied with a mere signature, and he often sent a verse from one of his poems signed with his name, The most remarkable request, however, came from a lady in Boston, who, the poet said, sent him by express a package of 150 blank visiting cards, with a letter Vr requesting that he would inscribe his | name on each of them the next day, us she was to have a grand reception at which a nomber literary people would be present, aud she wished to present each one of her guests with the poet’s autograph. This was too much for even Longfel- low’s good nature 2nd would seem to be hardly credible had I not heard it from the poet’s own lips. of Finally Digested. It is said that : 1m American went ito a London booksciler’s and asked for Hare's ‘‘Walks Iu London.’”’ In the United States it is printed in one vol- ume, in England in two. “Oh,” said the Vankee as at them, ‘‘you pu:t your middle, do you?" “I, sir?’ said 1! dered look. ‘Ob “I saw he did: the Yankee, *‘s bought the bo week later I ent soon as the cler me, exclaiming your hair in th: sir—capital!’’—- he looked Hare in the a clerk, with a bewil- no, sir!”’ 't see the joke,” said [ didn’t explain, but sand went away. A red the same shop. As saw me he approached ‘Good, capital! Part middle? That’s capital, Anecdotes. The elephant i: the chief beast of bur. den in Siam an | Afghanistan. An “‘ele- phant load’’ is + stimatefl at two tons. Y The oldest building in Chicago is the Green Tree tavern, in Milwaukee ave- nue, and it is ouly 63 years old. : 1 struck the bear in the flank. him into tie wilderness. There they | lave him to bis fate. A few days later they return and collect a few well gaawed bones, which they bring back with fitting ceremonies. ‘‘Among all the warriors belonging to a tribe with which I made a long so- journ, none had a more glorious record than Miss-Miss. But Miss-Miss was get- ting old. His eyes were dim, his hands were slow, und rarely did he bring home a fat buck. Furthermore. food was scarce, and Miss-Miss retained an excellent appetite. One morning Miss- Miss got orders to be prepared to receive the next day a delegation of young braves led by his two stalwart SONS, ‘‘But Miss-Miss, though he had as- sisted in many such ceremonials in his day, had not yet come to consider him- self old and useless. He was very angry. Just as Miss-Miss had done reviling the ingratitude of the young a boy rushed in to say that a huge grizzly was feed- ing a short distance from the camp. Here was the veteran’s chance. All the braves were away at the hunt. Children and squaws and Miss-Miss were the sole occupants of the camp. He knew that to face a grizzly single handed was certain death, but it was the death of a man. So Miss-Miss armed himself with his spear and tomahawk and went forth to seek the bear. | ‘‘He had not far to go. Within a few hundred yards of the camp he espied the largest and leanest bear he had seen for years, making a scanty meal off dried roots. Crawling up as close as he could, he hurled his spear. The weapon As he had calculated, the wound had no further effect than to infuriate the brute and turn its attention upon him. Miss-Miss took his stand with his back to a tree, | grasped his little tomahawk firmly and | M awaited death, ‘Now, had it been an ordinary little black bear the peril of Miss-Miss would have been small. A black bear would have risen on its hind legs when it came to close quarters, and leaving its its paws between the man and the tree in order to hug him to death. All Miss- s would have had to do would have been to wait until it came within arm’s length and plunge his hunting knife in- to its chest. One thrust would have been sufficient. But a grizzly is differ- ent, It strikes with its mighty claws. Mrss-Miss awaited the onset. When the bear came to close quarters, it rose on its hind legs and made a mighty, sweep- ing blow at his body. Setting his teeth, Miss-Miss struck at its head with his tomahawk, The weapon was dashed from his grasp and he was hurled to the ground, but, much to his surprise, uninjured. Instead of the sharp claws in his side he had felt a mighty buffet as if from a huge boxing glove. Miss- Miss scrambled to his feet. The next glance explained matters Like himself, | the bear was av Ir had lost its { claw Miass-Miss dodged Ss tree aud from gue + bear, whose sight was dim with age, simed blow after blow, with no cther effect than that of bruising its paws against the trunks The fight went on, and Miss-Miss’ strength was givi , when through Lo opening in the fore he espied the biaze of the campfires close at hand The bear saw it, too, and with a of disgust and disappointuient turned roand and trotted back into the depths of the forest to resume its meal. ‘*Miss-Miss hastened back to the camp and called the oldest of the boys together. ‘Take your lassoes,’ he cried, ‘and we will capture a grizzly alive.’ So out they went. When the party ar- rived within range, Miss-Miss whistled, The bear raised its head and the boys cast their lassoes. One noose fell over the brate’s neck, “When the braves returned in the evening, prepared to chase Miss-Miss into the wilderness, they found a huge, roaring grizzly tethered in the middle of the camp. No one of the tribe ever had done such a deed. They concluded the Great Spirit bad willed that Miss- Mss should Jive, and Miss-Miss is alive today and in high honor with the tribe. ’~—New York Sun. grunt Counting all classes of reserves, Ger- many can in 24 hours raise an army of 4,000,000 disciplined men. MONEY TO BURN. ' They Burned It and Later Wished They Had Kept the ‘nel, When Burau a mas mud merch on to Fredericksoarg, we wen io {ae advance had somo gay times, '’ remarked a veteran of the civil war, ‘‘It was a long while before the 'Johnuies would let us cross the river, but when ‘we did get across we made the fellows who had been shooting at us for the past three hours get right up and dust for safer quarters. The infantry soon followed us and took up their position along the river toward Falmouth, while we skir- mished through the town. When we came to the Planters’ hotel, we just walked in and took possessioy. Every- body had deserted the place and we did just as we pleased. In going through one of the rooms I eame across thMe bundles of Confederate notes. Each bundle was labeled to contain $5,000, and as I held them aloft I shouted to the rest of the men that we now had money to burn. They laughed, and I thrust the notes in my pocket. The Johnnies had taken or destroyed every- thing to eat, and, as for liquor, there wasn’t any in the town. ‘¢ After satisfying ourselves that there was nothing further to be had in the Planters’ hotel we sallied forth and walked up toward the home of the mother of our country—George Wash- ington’s mother. We had had no break- fast yet, and now it was close on to noon. One of my companions had some coffee in his haversack, so I thought we might have a little coffee if nothing else. Well, we got the coffee out and then discovered that we had no firewood. There was some tall swearing just at that time, for the Johnnies hadn’t left go much as a match behind them. ‘“ ‘I’ve got it!’ I cried, and I hauled out the three bundles of notes I had found in the Planters’ hotel. My ex- pression was greeted with a shout by my companions and—we had money to burn. We soon had the fire going and the coffee cooked. Need I say to any soldier that we enjoyed our coffee at a price whi¢h seems rather high—§15,- 000? We were soon through and marched back into the town only to see our men trying to buy some tobacco without money. How strange it seemed! They had not a cent, while we had money to burn and burned it. “Four years after I regretted having had this money and burned it. While in Washington in the winter of 1865 1 had the mortification of seeing an ad- vertisement for this identical package of notes and offering 50 per cent cn their face value for their return. They were Virginia state bank notes; hence their value. Whenever I bear that a man has money to burn I think of my $15,000 and shed a tear of regret that I burned it. ’—New York Telegram THE SUBJECT WAS DROPPED. Tilt at a Banquet Between Two Well Known Men. ‘That reminds me, *’ remarked an old pioneer to a San Francisco Post reporter, when General Halleck’s name was men- tioned, ‘‘of the banquet we gave Hal- leck in 1865, when he returned from the war. The people here were proud of him, for he had more than regained the laurels he lost at Corinth, when he per- mitted the enemy to escape under the cover of a big battery of wooden guus that had been made out of logs during the night ‘Among the friends of Halleck who met him at the banquet was ‘Bully’ Waterman, the old sea captain, who in early days commanded a clipper ship plying between San Francisco and New York. On one voyage he had laid a big wager to beat a rival clipper, but when he found on going to sea that some of his crew who had shipped as ablebodied seamen were incompetent he was so mad he hanged three to the yard. Just how many were hanged was never known, but Waterman was tried for murder and acquitted. will fall over the merriest of banquets General Halleck called to Waterman, who was at the other end of the room: ** ‘Now that you have been tried and acquitted, Waterman, won’t you tell us how many men you hanged on that voy- age?’ ***Yes, general, I will,” responded Waterman, ‘if vou will first tell us how many wooden guns stopped you at Cor- inth.’ *“The subject dropped there,” An Acid Procf Glue, The following has been recommended as producing a cement which will fas- ten glass or porcelain, ete., together firmly aud will not be affected by strong acids: Mix together two parts of pow- dered asbestus, one part of barium sul- phate and two parts of sodium silicate of specific gravity 1.50. A still firmer glue can be made which is particularly valua- ble, since it is not attacked by hot acids, by mixing together two parts of sodium silicate, one part of the finest sand and one part of finely pulverized asbestus. If potassium silicate is used instead of the sodium salt, the glue will harden immediately, but otherwise it will re- wuire about an hour to set. —Exchange Opened the Wrong Door. In a letter to one of his children Guizot tells how on his first visit to Windsor he lost his way and opened a wrong door and beheld for a moment a lady having her hair brushed. The next day the queen (for it was she) joked him about it, and he says: ‘‘I ended by asking ‘her leave, if ever I wrote my memoirs, like Sully or St. Simon, to mention how, at midnight, I opened the door of the queen of England. She laughingly gave me the desired permis- sion.” i ‘‘During one of those silences that: | pipes. ‘STREET CAR CONDUCTORS. They Work Harder and Rate Lower Than | Their Steam Road Brothers. You often think it’s hard for the pas- genger conductor of al accommodation | train which stops at two or three stu- his fare and who has not. The conduct- or of a short ran accommodation train especially must be a peculiarly gifted man. He must be at once both cool headed and even tempered, or if not he is a total failure. But if the requisites of a railroad conductor are such, what are the re- quirements of the man who runs a com- mon street car? Why, as much as those of the railroad man and several times more. The railroad accommodation con- ductor on one of the short run trains which leave the big cities has little more work, little more responsibility and requires less real skill than the man who by grace is called ‘ ‘conductor’ on a trolley car of one of our cities. Both men, of course, have thousands of, cares. The railroad man has a certain number of stops to make and a certain schedule time allowed for getting over his run of the railroad. The street car conductor has an uncertain number of stops to make, yet he still has his cer- tain scheduled time to make on his run, and he must make it, too, or be able to give an ‘‘A No. 1” excuse for failure. The railroad conductor is always the biggest man on his train. Is ever the street car conductor the biggest, unless every passenger is off and the motorman also? These things make it hard for the patient man, who must be polite and who is expected by the company for which he works and spurred on bya dozen or so sharp eyed ‘‘spotters,’’ or ‘‘street car detectives,” as they call themselves, to feel as lovely as a spring morning, and they make his already nervous work doubly so. The railroad conductor doesn’t meet that phase of existence once in a decade, or if so not any oftener. No one presumes to expect so much from the knight of the ticket punch us he does from the knight of the trolley rope. Every one who travels on street cars expects the conductor to know every cross street on his line and just where it strikes that street, and, in- deed, he should know this much, but in addition he is expected to know every one who lives on the streets along which his line runs, every one who lives on all the countless streets which cross the route of his car and then all the immediate streets and their inhabit- ants the whole length of his line. The street car conductor is expected to be porter as well on his car. He must help people on and off, lift up and lift down huge baskets and bundles, never get tired of all the questions which only the city directory could answer, and then, in addition, keep all of the strict rules of the company for which he works and see to it that all of his passengers do so too. For this work he gets $2 or §2.25 a day, while the rail- road conductor, who is a very king in comparison, draws his $5 or $6 per day, or $125 a month, and is not classed as a ‘‘social suspect’’ either.—Pittsburg Dispatch. New England Meeting Houses. Cotton Mather said: ‘‘} find no just ground in Scripture to apply such a trope as church to a house for public worship. A meeting house is the term that is most commonly used by New England Christians, and every town, for the most part, can say we have a modest and a handsome house for the worship of God, not set off with gaudy, pompous, theatrical fineries, but suited unto the simplicity of Christian wor- ship.” : The people were seated in the early days, says Dr. Ezra Hoyt Byington, in i tions to the mile to tell who has paid | A SOME ROYAL DOGS. Nearly All the Sovervigns of Europe Are Yond of Canine Pots, Nearly every one of the sovereigns of Furape, i arp rs, hus one or pine i tooas Lheeniit os of Queen Viera, the fox terriers 0: Princess Beatrice, with Jock us prime favorite, are known at least by hearsay to everybody. The emperor of Russia is also a great lover of dogs. A Loudon paper reports that he is always accompanied in his walks by a couple cf fine Danish hounds, whose strength and vigilance their master considers his best safe- guard, The grave czar is often seen playing with these monster pets. He himself has taught them their tricks, and they are nearly always about him. The king of Greece shares the czar’s taste for the Danish hounds, which are as intelligent as they are strong, and which, with hardly a bark to announce their intentions, will fly at the throat of any one whom their master may point out to them in case of need. When tho empress of Austria goes on her long walks or rides, several pet dogs always accompany her. But per- haps the most widely known of all the ‘royal dogs’’ of the present day is Black, the pet dog of the Russian Grand Duke Alexis. Black is a sportsman’s dog, of no very aristocratic breed, Indeed, if the truth must be told, he is a member of the race of mongrels which the fisher- men in the south of France take out to sea, employing them to recapture any wily fish that may fall through the meshes of their nets or slip suddenly back into its element after it has been once landed on board the barge. Black is still rejoicing in the days of his youth, but- his record, not only as a common fisherman but as a ‘‘fisher of men, ”’ is already great, for he hassaved no fewer than six persons from a watery grave. Some three or four years ago the Grand Duke Alexis was staying at Biarritz. One stormy night he went out on the cliff to get a view of the angry sea. A boat was just being wrecked be- low, and he saw a dog dashing with angry growls and barks into the water and bringing to land, oue by one, three drowning men, while the crowd cheered the brave mongrel to the echo. The grand duke approached to caress the dog, and the animail’s master then offered Black to him, refusing to accept any payment. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. CURIOUS INSECT, A Butterfly That Enjoys Only Five Hours of Life. It is in August that the naturalists observe the marvelous insect which is Marne, of the Seine, and of the Rhine. It is the ephemere of which Sirammer- dam has written and which is spoken of in Aristotle. The life of this insect does not last beyond four or five hours. It dies to- ward 11 o’clock in the evening, after taking the form of a butterfly about six hours after midday. It is true, how- ever, that before taking this form it has lived three years in that of a worm, which keeps always near the border of water in the holes which it makes in the mud. The change of this worm in the water to an ephemere which flies is so sudden that one has not the time to see it. If one takes the worm in the water, the hand cannot be taken away before the change is made unless by pressing the worm slightly in the region of the chest. By this means it can he taken from the water before the change takes place. The ephemere, after leaving the his book on ‘‘The Puritan In England and New England,’’ on rough benches men and women on opposite sides. Pews were not provided first. Now and then a special vote was passed by the | { town authorizing some person to build | a pew in the meeting house at his own | expense. Squares on the floor, about 6 feet by 6, were deeded to individuals, on which they erected pews to suit themselves. The best seat was some- times assigned to the man who paid the highest tax in the parish. Sometimes the committee was instructed : | have respect upon them that are 50 years old and upward, others to be seated according their pay.’’ In one in- stance we have a record that the com- mittee was instructed ‘‘to have respect | to age, office and estate, so far as it tendeth to make a man respectable, and to everything else that hath the same tendency.’ Turks and Meerschaum. According to the best authorities upon the subject, the idea of using | white tale in the manufacture of pipes | is of comparatively recent date, com- pared with the age of the habit of smok- ing, and what is still more curious is the fact that in the oriental countries which produce white tale, or meer- schaum, as it is called, and where the use of tobacco forms part of the educa- I tion of the faithful, the people never { dream of making this substance into They make bowls and goblets of it, but no pipes. It may be that the | long pipestems which allow the smoke | to cocl and lose its acridity before | reaching tho mouth leave the oriental smoker quite indifferent in regard to the quality of the bowl. At all events, one never sees a Turk with a meer- schaum pipe. —Conrrier des Etats Unis. The Ancient Umbrella. | On coins in the rock carvings of the ancients the umbrella often shows its | familiar form. This goes to prove that Jonas Hanway did not invent the um- brella, but he saw the value of the east- ern sunshade and soon it became the The state of Vermont seems to be dis- tinguished in many notable and dive i fied ways. It transpires that the first | patent granted by the United States was to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont (July 81, 1790) fer making pot and pearl ashes. fashion to carry this useful article. There must be a great difference be- | tween the umbrella of the eighteenth | century and the modern steel ribbed, silk covered, slender article which it is regarded as a misfortune to get wet.— Irish Times. | entirely covers it. { was printed, by whom or what were water, seeks a place where it can divest itself of a fine membrane or veil, which This second change takes place in the air The ephemere assists itself with the point of its little nails as firmly as it can. It makes a movement similar to that of a shiver, then the skin on the middle of the back breaks apart, the wings slip out of their sheath, as we sometimes take off our gloves by turn- ing them inside out. After this strip- ping the ephemere begins to fly. Some- times it holds itself straight up on the surface of the water on the end of its tail, flapping its wings one against the other. It takes no nourishment in the five or six hours which are the limit of its life. It seems to have been formed but to multiply, for it does not leave its state of a worm until it is ready to deposit its eges, and it dics as soon as they are de; sak In thre time one sees appoar | 1 and i sproies of ephen gL last 1etimes until the tifth day, the reason that some malady has affect- ed some of them and prevents them from changing at the same time as the others. —E=xclLange. Gold mac I Silver Gospels. “The Gold and Silver Gospels’ is the name of a very peculiar book now preserved in the Upsala library in Swe- den. It is printed with metal type, on violet colored vellum, the letters being silver and the initials gold. When it the methods employed, are questions which have great interest for the curi- cus, but have never been answered. Maid and Widow, By the old Saxon law a maiden and a widow were of different value. The latter could be bought for one-half the sum which the guardian of the maid was entitled to demand. A man, there- fore, who could not afford to buy a maiden might, perhaps, be able to pur- chase a widow. The herd of European bisons protected by the czars of Russia in the forest of Bjelowski, Lithuania, numbered 1,900 in 1856, but is now reduced to 500 and shows no sign of increase. The dwin- dling of the herd is ascribed to inbreed- ing, due to the confined area of the res- ervation, | ON THE STRENGTH OF A FIVE. A Young Man Who Found It Cheaper to Travel Without Change. *“Washington, from what I have seen of it, is a peculiar place,” said the vis- iting young man to a reporter. “I'll tell you why I think so,’ he continued. ‘*The other day I was going over to Baltimore, andl on consulting my watch discovered I had but a few mindtes in which to catch my train. I struck the avenue at Fourteenth street and boarded a car. ‘‘When the conductor came round for my fare, I put my hand in my pocket and found I had nothing less than a $56 bill. The conductor glanced at it, then at me, and shook his head disapprov- ingly. ‘* ‘I can’t change that,’ he said. “I told him it was the smallest 1 bad, but he said then he could not change anything larger than a $3 bill; that they were not required by law to do so. I began to think I would have to get off and walk, when he came to my relief by saying that I could get the bill changed and pay him at the end of the line, near the depot. *‘I thought this was very considerate. When we reached the terminus, I told the conductor that I could have the $5 changed and pay him, starting for a place on the corner. ‘‘ ‘That’s all right. Go on! Go onl’ he told me, waving his hand as if he owned the railroad. “However, I tried to* have the bill broken unsuccessfully. Just then I re- membered I wished to communicate something to a friend up town and asked if I could use a pay telephone in a corner of the room. ‘*“ ‘You could use it all right if yom had 10 cents in change,’ the proprietor told me, ‘but you haven’t it. Come back here in my office and use my private phone. That’s all right,’ when I was profuse in my thanks. ‘‘Say, do you know what I think,” continued the young man. ‘‘I believe I could get a $100 bill and live in the capital for weeks for nothing, simply by getting things and shoving it uiider the noses of the people I purchased from. They would rather give them to me than take the trouble to break it.” And then he remarked that the only difficulty would be in securing the bill in the first place.— Washington Star. A GOOD STORY. The Native Seemed Innocent, but He Was Very Knowing. I was sitting on a keg of nallsina West Virginia mountain store watching a native dickering with the merchant | over a trade of a basket of eggs for a 2 nS | calico dress. After some time a bargain born, reproduces and dies in the period | of a single night, on the banks of the was closed, the native walked out with the dress in a bundle under his arm and I followed him. ‘“It isn’t any business of mine,” I said, ‘‘but I was watching that trade and was surprised to see you let the eggs go for the dress.” *“What fer?’ he asked in astonish- ment, as he mounted his horse. ‘How many eggs did you have?’ “Basketfnl.”’ “How many dozen?’ “Dunno; can’t count.” “That’s where you miss the advan- tages of education With knowledge you might have got two dresses for those eggs.” “Bat 1 didn’t want two dresses, mis- ter,’’ he argued ‘‘Perhaps not, but that was no reason why you should have paid two prices for one. The merchant got the advan- tage of you because of his education. He knew what he was about.” He looked at me for a minute, as if he felt real sorry for me Then ho grinned and pulled his horse over close to me. *‘I reckon, ’’ he half whispered, cast- ing furtive glances toward the store, ‘‘his e’ldication ain’t so much more’n mine ez you think it is. Hedon’t know how many uv them aigs is spiled, an I do.” And he rode away befcre I could argue further.— Boston Herald. Soldiers’ Beds. The soldier’s bed varies notably in the different European armies. According to Dr. Viry, the following are the prin- cipal varieties, in which, perhaps, we may see tho reflection of national char- acteristics. In England the bed is hard. The soldier lies on a thin mattress that rests on canvas stretched over a frame. In Spain the soldier bas only a straw bed, but he is allowed besides this a pil- low. two sheets, two blankets and a | tif, sometimes even a cover ct It 1s almost sybaritie. In and Austria he bas a simple bed with one or two covers, neither sheet nor mattress. In Russia, until recently, the soldier slept with his clothes on on a camp bed, but now ordinary beds begin to be used—the re- sult of contact with more civilized countries. After this it cannot be doubt- ed that the French soldier’s bed is the best of all, with its wooden or iron bed- stead, a steaw bed, a wool mattress, sheets, a brown woolen coverlet and an extra guilt for cold weather. Thus the bed of the French soldier is the soft- 2st of all soldiers’ beds, as that of the French peasant is acknowledged also to be the best of all European countries. — British Medical Record. S straw Rough on the Unmarried. The North Frisians are very unmer- ciful to people who don’t marry. One of their legends says that after death old maids are doomed to cut stars out of the sun when it has sunk below the hori- zon, and the ghosts of the old bachelors must blow them up in the east, run- ning, like lamplighters, all night up and down a ladder. An oll ruin has been uncovered on the Moqui reservation in Arizona and nearly 200 pieces of perfect pottery found. The star gazers of the Mount Hamil- ton observatory say that there are 500,- 000,000 burning suns in the milky way. J
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