5" | bad been resi, : 11ers out of every five; asd a round of hearty applause rewarded her. y The band-clapping seemed to give | ber renewed coursge. Blushing, abe stopped before the little group of spec | the skirt here fn my bundle. Wait a : ‘moment, please.” i She disappeared into the properties booth beside the performers’ entrance, “Will gome one please scatter tow small colns about the ring T" abe asked. A | THiS Was done, And meanwhile with own Bande, she. quickly removed ° mea ie thoes, umd a Joke & or warrior, with ber body banging far 0 to one side; only In her case the fest { as rendered tar more difficult ty hav. | tag nothing to cling to. With the horse running as fast as be could be made to go, she bent down | and picked up the coins, not only once but many times, for she tossed! them r.{ ahead as fast as she secured them. | This act won for her even louder ap | plause than the other, it wan so plain ial that she was a born vider. and could | learn any feat with eawe, that she was | cugaged ata good salary on the spot. oni the part of some of 1 against her simple directness, 1 na tor the same reason ter ogress 0- | in learning the new points of her toll J Soin profession were both rapid and : 1 was about th this time that chariot races came Into vogue, and every cirens ‘manager felt compelled to introdace ‘one into his program. { In Bt Louie wie were fitted ost with | tour gorgeous chariots, guaranteed to represent the trus Roman model, and ,1 matched teams to SHAW then. Ther after the ring was enlarged and made ur. elliptical, jo afford greater scupe for {the race, ~The swiftest teatro was assigned to | “Mademoiselle Lorence,” who by pre | arrnngement, was to be the winner in every contest. She drove with as great i spirit and delight nd i the struggle Her teats consisted of three blacks loosely harnessed to the swaying char. | ‘Jot by means of broad breast aolinrs | 1 20d traces of silver plated steel. They + | made a brave show, but only the out. | I side horse on the left was really | { traloed, the others baving recently | been bought because they matched | the other horse. Bl It was at Hot Springs, Arkansas, | that the girl's opportunity to be a hero. Ine came to ler. We played there early ln December, ay Wwe were swing {Ing to the Bouth after a summer spent | In the Northern Central States of the { Union. : I think the race had bres run in pub | ite perhaps twenty times, and horses ay well as drivers were becoming ac | 1 customed to it. Of the jatter two were “| men and two women, but all were attired very moch slike, In armor like costumes, glittering with spangies [They drove at a mad run, and the Tace was very realistic, The chariots, although pot so heavy as they seetned. were lumbering, two wheeled, springless vehicles, and, lack. ing thills or & tongue, they siued alarm. ingly in turning A corner, in efch race the chariots made six circuits, the last the swiftest of all other would forge ahead. but on the final turn Loremce would force her | three steeds to the front, take the out. side of the course and win by & length, amid great excitement and applause. That evening the tent was thronged, and under the canopy, which presuma- | bly was an exact copy of that covering | 4 proconsul’s throne, was a party of well known people. The fainlly of Btate Senator M., a silver mining mil- { llonaire from Colorado, were Mires tiers above the ring level. No one was in front of them. Their only son and child, a strong, active boy of aboot five years of age, sat between his par- ents, eo engrossed In what he saw that he forgot all else. : The chariots were swinging abont from the back streteh on the sixth and final round, the drivers ealilng to the | | plunging borses and urging them on. | The audience was in an uproar aod | the boy feaned far forwary in his | eagerness. : | Buddenly he Tost his balance and fell | forward. His father clutched at Lis little blouse, but the motion only thrust | him farther forward. Over and over he pitched down the steps, and then | rolled six ur eignt feet into the ring. ‘where be lay bhalf-stunped. The father sprang frantically down | : the seats, and Was at the edgy of the - plished within a few seconds Morse on the Jeft | ber coming, be swerved scarcely an giriah | two ttle thugs that 1 teed to do at | shoulder strap that upheld the breast: collar on the horse, she swang her body 40d 16 & moment emerged, wearing the | STREAM aud to the left, au In ber, : kt {by the heads. or course she had to encounter more | mother, kneeling on the ground, was |7if she ever does. He wine 8 ro tuim them i helpless stats the females are found hy i farewell when a baronche drove to tha { both was fully restored, Northwest, back riding is still her chief recreation: | an average, SOARS, for the freight on A dread Chinaman’s bones averages $05 | whije the ashes of & dead Japanese can tbe put In a large envelope and mailed | also the old trail of years Lwlfure the | Before this round now one and now an. | of # Chinaman takes, however, s long yeurs, as a rule, | to positions of such affluence that they yo | OWL private carriages and even a rage. | horse or two, whils they are able to ‘bet in sums that astonish the average wide-open eyes, a Ty : struggled with bis restraining friends, Whatever was done must be accom: Dropping the telus, the girl poised berself on the dashboard of the chariof, aud then sprang forward upon the contre borse. The untrained crestom cringed and leaped, ‘bat with soother { spring, even more daring than the first, she alighted on the shoulders of the he } This one she hadi ridden before, and unexpected as way inch. Not sven the smallest fraction of & second could safely be lost. Catching the toes of Ber right foot beneath the act of pleking up coins from the ground. A horse, unless gone mad from fright, | will not trampie upon a person. In this case the chief danger to the obihl was from the heavy chariot Wheels behind. As she threw Derselt forward the | Intelligent animal crowded Bis team mates away so that his boofs barely cleared the boy. ; oft arm around the child's waist and firew him to her hreast Lorence swept her Shifting the weight upward as bigh as possible, she made a mighty effort to regain the horse's barx, Lut In vain Thus outstretched and banging on one foot the young woman aud the Ting sgsin. But the other drivers had seen what she had dope, and as they checked thelr spied. the blacks alan Mr. Collins ran out and caught them Then we helped the fatmting girl to the ground and, amid almost frantie demonstrations on the part of the sulle | was summoned In all baste. But be holding Lorence’s bead In her Jap and sobbing over ber, while she expressed her gratitnde in disconnected words | snd phrases. The surgeon shook his bead. “She will not ride again in montha™ be sald wrenched, simost dislocated.” : “My poor mother” the girl kept say. ing. “What will become of her? When the canse of her anxiety was expisined to the boy's mother, she bat over Lovence again and whispered sarnething io her ear that seemed vn reassure ber greatly. Despite her pain, she soiled bravely sod lade us al i 8ide entrance, and she Wis carried away to the Reuator's bome. 1 never saw Lorence again or heard from ber directly, but through Me Lane 1 learned that the Senator and his wife formally adopted her, and also took ber mother to thelr Boma. | Alter & trip to Eurone the health of lorence pow is married and is live the vigorous young cities of the busy I do not doubt that hors. por do 1 believe that she Bax grown | ' ashamed of her brief experience as & professional equestricnne, ~ Youth's | Companion, Kending the Desd by Watl, The Chinese of America send home | the ones of their dead for burial bait | | the more economical American Japan | ! ene, charges, cremate theirs and only send to avaid such beavy freight | the ashes home. They save thus on Bt & cost of Alteen cents, The transportation of the remains | while—takes, Indeed, over seven years from the time of death -for the body | is first interred io an American oeme tery, and then It is Jeft till its tum coties for shipment home an interval | of walling that amounts to seven The powerful Chinese companies have charge of sll this work They look alter the burial of thelr deceand members much as the benevolent as sociations of this eountry do. The Japanese have no such companies They are, the Chinese say. too BOD. nomical to pay the necessary weekly dues A Baby Elephant’s Milk Diet. Kaiserin, the new laby elephant st | the Zoo, is being fed on milk. Five gunk ons formed her first meal yesterday. When the animal arrived at the gar deus Keeper Harris offered her rations of hay and vegeiabies, such as are given to Bolivar and Empress, ber | adult companions. Kalserin partook only sparingly. however, and on Sun day refused to touch the provendir Then the keeper tried milk, and he was surprised at Lier capacity. —Phljadeiphia Amusnt Policamen. It is stated by an Indian paper that many Calcutta policemen dave attained 2 + oo ebce, carried ber into the dres tig of Anta in the Black nest: room. Bhe could not stand, and the physician and surgeon of the troupe : . : io AtAte yh Bave wings fore be reached her side the boy's to. 'u =~ swarm because of bad alr, overorowd. | ing or other catise, the Young ants eave the nes: simply for teprodoctive pars | poses. Pairing the males and females | take thelr honeymoun trip In the air ihe invention of power 6 . #ERs in groups of six or eight, ‘dhe aprga are hatobed the dn then In the pupa state. This pigs sping Chon, Ww i ~Jeyoorn, and wi ! mnlstake for an “eg” | this cocont hatches info the perfect ant, | whieh, poses, ta be x “soldier” : colony gated {| work, 18 becoming Ing happily with her husband in one of | Cony of the ved a Lirace thelr stops-why? i pene of goed be with the and i of following the path taken hy furious baitle ensues, offsprivg. match for the slavetakers. Here amd! serfs will do anything to make com- ter have the bunden of all the work, It attend vae and to otherwise keep the colony | of the near. the satirance ino which in as | cored to keep om maranders. In the The Pian pes Catena. Ia the little cempiery at the St. ¥V cent Monastery, Latrobe, Westmore. | and Conpty, Pa. over the peaceful | L graves of the departed Benpdictine monke, there bas for fifteen years: waged a curious war, the outcome of | which is watched with interest by the | fathers of the institution, one of whony, | at least, Father Jerome, « known wide Ir sx an entomalogist of repnte, being at present engpigad (n Mestifying eniy- doms for the museum of the Carnegie Institate in Pittsburg, several pew spe cles which be has discovered being { named after Blin. The war in question | % certain Hirtle insects called aphides or | ix a perenninl contest waged between two colonies of ants. In the cemetery proper thers (x a colony of “slavedak- {jog auts” the boundaries of whore home are definitely marked pear the borders of the burial ground. Just over the hill from this is a colony of the | rommon red ante of larger size, and be tween these twa communities or form. fearin, for a decade and a half the hat. | ties have been frequent and furious As 8 Dalural consequence | being constantly depleted of thelr Ymentera ” or workers, are beroming Yous and lens numerous. while the Mack ants, living fo luxury and esse are Waring mors pawerfol i numbers each year. former will be compeliad ¢ Lwhers for serix Exhaustive stody, under the filer scope. has heen made of the two colo | Father Jerome and other priests st the monsstery. The black ants Barve con structed, with the help of their serfs, we ¢ % gtretoly Immense galleries in the cemetery, sawed dows, and on the back strteh which sre constantly being enlarged by | the additions of pew colonles sent out | from the mother honse and the extend: | fog of these by increasing potnlation. To begin with, thers are threes Kinds the mien, fo. males and the nenters, the latter being | : undeveloped fapales. When the males and females emerge from the pupae which leave the colotien after which the males die and the fe males uncouple thelr wings, never inure In this apparently ‘the neuters and ther brought hack to | the original hone nest or, surrounded hy » colony of nenters, the new queen takes ip her abode in a pew oolony. In thin she at once provesds 10 deposit Ber When gin Ren dy wile aw eh fookn Uke a I most people galekly suppose for descriptive pure PRRs k, snbdier In a Heuter JWR, The solony Ande that the Work: too much for (he slaves vaptared an the last raid inte the col ants down the hilikede With their attennse, the soldiers cone This with lon. manicate from one to anothir the in Relligence thst a foray to be mde s Fiewr & few soos eel ont, soldiers ke i a the way then re Procagpre the itn prea These seonts oo oa jit decessor. Tula fact bas been proven time sonst time agals hy crossing the pain with the human Bager ar other. wise interrupting the line of seen which case the ante hecorpe ad fanil, and anly afler seonts have been sent ont fn all directions by the main body of the army following can the teal] be} again found and followed, Following the mcounts-in this case, bindy of foragers crosses the borders of | the glavetakers and soon comes down the hill to the forsileariam of the red ante. The black soldiers rush ln. A Many of the red ants are killed in defense of thelr home, their Hoeage and their helpless But the red agis are no there, In this gallery and in that, the black ants are busy grabbing up the pupae fn their jaws Finally. each in- vader with a pupa In its mouth, black ants reirave thelr steps toward | their own colony, The kidnaped pupae fire now taken in charge hy the Burses * peuters of helpless | till they | Ey this tlowe probe aud attendants -the miner the black agt enlony The things are fed apd eared fuy Are perfect insects. abiy they have jost ull knowledge of thelr oid home, and being thoroughly domictied as serfs ald Knowing veil. | ing better, they are recovciled to serf- ton ; As the Romans were so kind to the Rabine women, wham they bad kid. waped that these same women risked their lives to prevent battle for their deliverance, so it is likely thar these] fortable and pasy the indolent lives of their abductors. In truth the black] ants treat thelr slaves with all kind: ness, aside froma tae fact that the lac is their duty to make pew galleries. to the which. unlike the bees. there may be several in the same bill: to (eed the lar-| ‘the red sole The outrotne will probably be that In the end the slave faking ants will externinate the rod ante. when the a Inve alee i the honey nectae Unlike the in ttle Bard In about us year morning the diligent nenters take np the jarvae in thelr piouths nud convey ‘them to the onter chamiwrs of the for. miegrium, where sun's rays may have sun. The serf ants are not the only cuts. slavetaking ants. If Is well known That ants He svvest things tracts them ripe froft, a ornst of bresd dipped In molasses. a plece of candy, will sxusliy be found ecoversd with groumd filled with the sugar, Is repented till the ant is satisfied. But fn this connection one prominent fest. fre has been ¢ tery. out to them as the Hehe Hos—for sue the ant.cows sre-climly upon plants. Bot [ust as soon as changes in temperature or other canes onere with ail exe, in order a pnoniy of dricks firaves to be a troll froars fof of nt figenve ered ir of the ane wirendy uf the met ceailorfyl drestures of Mie fms) Ife ranking with sons aaturallsls nest to man aud by faw slaved lower | than New York Codipsiercin Advertise, Loxeud of f Gunpander. Great honor is paid to St Rarbivs | in Germany and [taly. Why, very few pronie, apparently, bave up to now been able to disedver. A German off oor savas thor she is houared becsiim ina huge measure, dus ta her. Biarthold Rehwars af the Ralnte” og Bt and read the story of we martyrdom. | after whiny be reaeditied as follows: “The heart of the vicgin wis white as | Mai. the saul of wr luripefior Alas Benven which puniehed him for hig er wiry, 1 will mi these (hiree thing, and | viseber iF 1 do not disenier thie phiiosanhets sare” thet, amd as soon ax be pot the mix ture 8 OR Bre a frengeadons explonion | followmt, wan sobliers, was the origin of gun for such the | mmide for Dares Jamit) 1 It Bax been shown that the sroute | teacher nsikod the old man how much its pre HY | man saya ‘Vieal he queens, or females, of | powder “Golden t Peuny’ nent whe. erx Brought info the use of these Black Ants If jeft for a few minutes on fhe that oie: of the original colons is stil} a missing. There have been minny conn terfeits of the dollars, but they were anteows, which exudes a sugar from | rl i” fh A pstes. Whig to tell wheiber or not this 1504 dollar te genuine. As a result it was forwanded attensa, whereupon a tiny drop ieries | © 0® Chief of the Secret Service De forth for the “milker” This operation ; partmens at Washington. Also peturalists have digear. ered thet ante have lesrsed fo koow thelr bodies. Thi ant-cow has & gland rading inte un duct. whieh the ant touches with his discoversd at the mons | 1t has long heen 3 disputed point | Spon De swpesition that t was 8 as to wheather fh ants will take the | aphides into thelr nesta or simply 20 | who traveled a) the #it While Buel, acconling to the Gen: {the evening the subject of old colns Tare coli of the Untted saw and to worth aboni 3000 to collectors is bogus it will get sotie one ne; ; : Nr al “trouble. svcees fo them, Sometimes the Inrvae are exposed to the diver Hght of De ver dolls. Por op i other It was deckled to recall the inane; © 1508 of the dollars were returned te the Treasury snd destroyed. Four of Sogar ut: the dollars remonined in circulation. of reaay A% soon ax this became knows the . value of these dollars took a jump, sal since that thoe collectors bBave any In 1501 the Government insged 1900 - jously sought after them. It is claimed The coin In question wan obtained | by the Government officials from BH. Emith, ot Lima, O, a fow days ago, Smith was taken to To fede. It is said that he “ & gambler | 06 one of iis trips be went to Lima, would sem thai so long as the aphidies | are pleptifnl abint the Sslony the black | According to the steers ations made jt | T20re Be became stranded. He par Acrording fo the obwersations made it took henvily of Dine, it is claimed. and woted strangely. ants do not bother fo tate them prison. : Toppone Ja vated le Za Se ers, bur simply locate them upon tee | k ar : der plants and go to them for a ip of | pawwnieoke Xie the Tale e of She 1804 Bmith visited » | ported the matter to the police, Who In tiring about o dearth of the sphides the | turn reported to the United States ave black ante thereupon proceed to comer | DOTOeR. The latter decided to arrest the market in cows. soniething Like the | feet trist-and treat thove taken pene | Spin ion that the dollar was a counter to prolomg | If 1hiz observation it - ee | Washington ds to whether or not the + known as ote | dollar ls 8 counterfeit, Smith, me they ware strongly of the Smith te now In Jail at Toledo await- ing the decision of the authorities at The whole . case against Smith hinges upon this des Bod in the scale, man and the | bess the only srentares above thenu— ; i gision Attorney Sullivan were of the opiniow that the dollar was genuine money of npother date, but that hy Ayres had beens changed to read “1804” A close | inspecticn of the eon, Bowever, falled to emteniish This theory. Smith claims that be got the dollar from a school teacher at Hamilton, 0, | who wis in hard luck one day aad | gave Bim ¢ the coln ax security for a 835 a moti, he sxplaias evened the "Lb row Harhara's day, | ; Clean. The teacher failed to redeem the volo, sctordiog to Smith's story. The teacher waz sent for and > before the suthorities at T : wan asked how he came Talede, rll sion of ihe dollar, and be then told » | rather strange story. { Smith claimed that the teacher had ; told him be bad bad several such dol black ae coal, and 3 was sniphae fosm lars made in Clnciouat! every year and sold them. The suthorities do pot be- § Trews thin flo Aid mix 5 3 The teacher explained that he got the coln from an old German farmer In : the southern part of the Reale. at whose home he stapped one night while out on a Mmting trip. During i was discossed, during which the Ger | man ssid be had # place of money that He then went to a drawer | was a relic and took ont this 1804 doliar. The action of cordite wax soricusiy affect | | be would take for It. “I"ve been offered ng i ihe value of this explosive, and ($1.20 for i,” the farcer replied. not iy Wo B ¥ 3 3 il Soh the British adic ality sppointed a8 { knowing its real worth The teacher 5 itted fo make A series of tests and | bro Teva pon the subject, apd to bas veRbigate w Sid naval use, as powder, to ba | M.D” Psench as is geed in cordite tale. lite to a madi SNE York Tribune, SE Bani BT A A MEENA Wall Trained Tralian Awlinace, the proper places, shouting “Viva? and | “Bravo!” repealedly. sion of his speech the erator took his seal beside the chairman. He whine | pered that he was delighred with bis! CEs intelligent awmdience. “Haah!" replied the chairman; “me 8x all a dur, Me lol’ up seen Unger, eV Glan S2y8 Hurrah!” Me bol’ op two-a fing, Me bel” up tree's Goze, evra man sya Brivo? Me C Bed up whoele-d Bam, evra an saya Me fix alla | Hixi! like one great voll, dat.” —8t. Leuis Post Dhspateh, RRA re HO Ie siete Feonnies in the West, “They are pow using peunies In the Far West,” sald a traveler, “but they them much, “Back In 1500 1 got on a Western street cur. A Woman passenger handed the conductor fur ber fare five pennies, The man took them, and withour a word, waised out on to the back plat form and threw them In the gutter. I was a tenderfoot and the prodigaliny of the thing Impressed ne, “They didn’t, you see. give coppers in change because they had nege. [t is a liftie better out there now. but pennies are still much scarcer than they are ia the East. "—~Fhiladelphia Record, The big gray Anger of Australia (measures about seven feet frown the an run faster than a borse aud clear £he bast repale. Oue of thele chint ny fet mau, eV. are chary of them, They don't like | ‘tip of its nose to toe end of its tall It | whether sate other explosive | would Bor be substirated for military . maa toll the following story sbous Ge of “the results how the dollar came info his posses hive hewn the adaption of & new soles : slog: “1 got it In South Afriea many knows as “Contlte | years ag. | wan a soldier in the Eng- The pew explagive ix said 0 {ish army and was sent to South Afrien mave nirocellnlose as is base, and It | for service. When I was discharged in believed to wontain a certain per! I was paid off, and among the colns In | centage of nlinpgylesrioe, but pot Ho my pay was this dellar. ! i i § reception apd had never spoken to al sild he then offered $2 for it. and that the bargnio wis closed at once. The teacher also said that the Gere I did not it is know what It was worth, or what it claimed that ft does uot generate #0 was, except that it was an American much beat ax covdite, booce the [oapir , coin, and so I thought I would keep it an a relic of the war and of the United States. Shortly after my discharge § came to this country.” A political orator addressed a club of pp, alliaged history of the dollar could Italian voters is Eaglish, and, to lis . not be traced Dack any further. It res surprise and sathitaction, his listensrs | mains to De seen whether or not Swmfth pad strict attenilan aud applauded at | was tryliig to pass & counterfeit eoln. Whether or not Smith will ever get the At the conelt- | dollar hack Is a question. If Rt Is a counterfeit it will be confisonted by the Government. If it is a genuine coln the Government may confiscate it. ap all the 19M dollars were called in shorts "| iy after they were iwued. The other three existing dollars cannot be taken by the Government, as they are owned by certain perscns, but this particular coin has fallen into the hands of the Government, which will probably se tain it. ~teveland Leader. Tralley For Fire Xugiuen. A spevial trolley for conveying five engines by in use at Springfield, Masa The engine is carried on a platform only ning and one hall inches above the top of the rail, mounted on a truck at each and. The front track is de tach d and the front end of the plats form lowered to the ground when the ebgine is to be loaded ou the car. Plat forms over each truck afford space for firemen und equipment. The length of the cur over all is thirty feet tem and one-half inches, and its net weight is 14,000 pounds. The Springfield Firg Departmunt has loaded an engine em one of these ears in two and ones quarter inutes from the time the cap Was in position to ity being ready start, and bas anioaded an engine and attached the horses to it In one and obe-uarter minutes —Enginesring News, : nd On June T. 1745, Kaschan, Persia, Wa ayeftuined bY au carthauake ANG AOE pera. ila; : Captain Abbott and Districts “«
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