{ane 8 eas never, mever slows away | ber change in her trunk “for safety.” | Her tickets and ber loose change are | in a small ontside pocket, immediately | come-at-able, and her : { smelling bottle, etc, are not in the same pocket, but In another, or in | { the chatelaine bag, which Is the proper | handkerchief, J receptacles for such articler only. Therefore she does pot keep a wiole = +! train waiting while she is hunting for | a ticket that has been flirted out with fier handkerchief on the floor; she does not keep prodding and fumbling at ber in a series of heartabock- : garments | Ing convictions that ber pockets have ‘been picked, and she never finds her be | gelt whirling along toward the growing of the city of her destination { with a ticket and $1 in silver for all capital because ber trunk has got left station miles away with all A Dan when traveling bes the com | mon sense to “do himself well” even ng car Inncheons and dinners | oe $300 furs will nibble a. “bun and a spobge cake and have a cup {of tea on the host, arriving at her a | Journey's end utterly wearied out for | : | want of proper food. © “Traveling Is so fatiguing” she says, | 8. | as she pulls the blinds down and pre- | ® | pares to spend a day in bed with this dress is com ; and black chiffon. The ka Jittle painful experience. | never do. They are even past praying Mean time her next door neighbor, who had | a hot breakfast on the train or dined well an the boat. arrives bright eyed and brisk, and goes off to golf for the =| 2a, with & dance in immediate pros | Some women learn these things after A hers | 0 for. -New York Sun. Where He Wan Golux: bully was subdued on a rafl- road train by A COUrBECOUS | more Sun by I. E. Monroe, of the Bal. | timore bar. Mr. Monroe was coming eastward over the Atchison Raliroad one night in the fall of 1877. The train the most important point for the ship ment of cattle in Southwest Kansas frontier made thelr there. A number of passengers of the _troe frontier type boarded the train. Among them was 8 fellow who par ‘ tienlarly attracted my attention be cause of his burly form and coarse features. He wore a sult of bockskin profusely adorned with a fringe of the same material "in his unattractive face and was shown In his every movement, The conductor of the train. a very courteous and efficient man, small of stature, named Bender, some time after leaving Dodge City, came | through the car collecting fares. Bend- ar had some naxal trouble, which made it appear when be spokes that he was | talking through his nose. He drawled Ce RRR i out his words very slowly, and alto} gotber his ntterances were rather droll He approached the Dodge City bully | and asked Tur his ticket AGot po ticks” he sald, surllly, I. "Where are you going? ci Bender, Japan's first statve in memory of & woman was unveiled recently at Shijo- Nawate, near Kioto. | Mrs. Beliods Bell Adams, of War | . | remeville, Obio, born 1811, is still Kiving | Tiy | Io the house to which she went as a yer | bride In 1829. Wonien teachers in Prossian schools tne | get, Desides tres dwelling. only $175 | to $390 stter thirty-one years ot ser-| a year to begin with. This is rajeed Mrs. Jolla Ward Howe told a wom- en's suffrage meeting in Boston the | + | other day that she expected to vote bee | fore she should die, and that she would Leave bis ultimatum Bender eyed him t be | novelist, says that the essential differ | ence Detween the Americans snd { English is that the forme: are ancious | i “Goin’ where I please and it's none! of your business where Im goin’,"” re plied the bully. “Yon've gol to pay your fare or get {off this trajn: and I want to know how | far you are going.” again demanded : Bender, i “I sell you I'm not tellin’ you or | the bully, at the same time placing his right band on one of the two revolvers lof Iarge ealibre conspicuously dis played in his bejt. emphasized Lis words with the coars {est profanity, The other passengers Lin the car beeame a little excited, and then I shivered Not more than sixty | feet away a huge snake, balf-colled were evidently curious to se¢ what thd | end would be. ‘When the bully thus threateningly { upset the boat, HE following story of how 8 conductor ix told in the Balti stopped at Dodge City, which was then Some of the worst characters on thei headquarters Land 1 eould pot but think, cowardly | “Bully” was written | mather) Company G that Sergeant McHogh was obliged to go on sick report after Bis experience. Alaska Prospoctor, drawlied | he encountered. any one else where I'm goin’!™ replied ‘shont. "SAYS | if she had to live to the age of 143 to Cooly for 3 moment in silence, then important go it | passed on, collecting his fares, In per- Mra Howard Kingseote, the English | the to hear facts, while the latter desire to | | be mused, The only woman who ever owned a “| street rafiwsy, Mra George Brown Al s | Jen, Has zold a Delaware (Ohlol line 1 She was first to give all fare rates en on Sunday, and by that means ‘made | ber road, which she bought from 8 re ceiver, profitable. Miss Alice Robertson has passed sno. | cessfully through the ordeal of her public examination for the deégrew of doctor of philosophy from the Univer- | { sity of California. Miss Robertson is | the third woman to receive friun the § University of California ita highest | | academic distinction. The first ‘woman { to be made a doctor of philosophy at! a | Berkeley was Miss Millicent Shinn, eql | DOD Whom the degree was conferred | {in 1808, The second was Miss Jessica vo | Pétxotto, who was given the honor ia **{ Bhantung waists elaborztely | broidered in the front in fancy designs, | Bheer white lawn stocks, with fhe ends of the bow embroidered tastefully girdles for summer ‘wear In jce of inexpensive styles Large fancy hatselaborately crimmed | With green and white mixed plumes. in black. Summer corsets trimmed top and | { bottom with satin ribbon usually io { self-color. Dotted Swiss dressing sacques of | very light character, especially suitable | the | for summer | Women's sailor duck, pilgue and other materials, aod Grasscloth tallored gowns, many of | them finished with the postilicn effect in the back. White fur boas touches of brilliant mediamly dark. | green ostrich, © Linen shirt waist suits, principally in pastel tones, and adorpmed with white blind embroidery. blouses, made 8 | cut quite low in the peck. | Gingham dresses in very neat check | {designs and combinations, | white forms an almost invariable part, i which Printed liberty dresses in dark i brown, adorned with small, bright fig. ures, that look as ir they had been painted on. Loose taffeta jackets, with very fonse also, and with the skirt of the | not coming below the walst, ! pally, although white Loh relfeved by little] of | Lear from the direction of the express lear with a double-barreled shotgun, i cocked and before the bully bad rime 1 face, “Now where are you solng?’ sald Bender, coolly drawling out the gues tion through the nose, : “I'm goin’ to get off,” replied the | thoroughly cowed bully. | A brakeman pulled the bell cord and the train came to a halt. Bender, keep: fog his man covered with the cocked gun, followed him unt Le saw him Jump from the steps of the car pty from the pearest station. Then the tray moved on and the passengers sel. tied Into 8 normal quiet. at aun ad A Walter's Ferllons Walt, Robert Rosevere, 8 waiter at the Ho tel Metropole, Avalon, Cal, was re ened from death after a terrible ex { perfence of ore than forty-eight bours on the south aide of Santa Cats- lina Island, i He went across the island alone to bung for shells. When he did not re: 1 torn at night searching parties starved out and hunted for him till midnight | The search was continued Friday by several island guides and a launch 11ip made around the islund, scanning the beach, bet no trace of the missing wan was found. On the third day. bow ever, by mere chance, » party of mes: ene | cuers caught sight of him lying on a parrow shelf of rock jutting out from {a high bla®. He had attempted to «le scend 10 the water's edge. and in doing . so had fallen about fifty feet and {lodged on the shelf of rock, He was i #0 severely injured as to be helpless There he jay. with the hot sun beating {on him all the afternoon, with an ab ropt precipice of 150 feet just beyond, His water bottle had been broken ip . the fall and his suffering was extregue, | Darkness came and his sufferings were {intensified by the nipping night ain t anguish of mind, juriss, had thrown him jute a raging fever. This was heighteved hy Lis ses. i ing one of the band of rescuers at a | distant point Friday while in his hdp less condition, Catiract his attentivn. and much danger. The rescuing party, four in sumber, were supplied with ropes, with which they let one another down to where Rosevere lay, and then fn tarn were pulled up agaln with the wounded man. Rosevere ls suffering severely, and has a high tever, but, being naturally beslthy and robust, it ls thought he wi recover, An Alaskan Life-Saver. ‘Sergeant Josef Froellch bad an ex citing adventure. in which he played the role of a lifesaver Tessa ta wave | lives Slermiiny. oy had him covered. the muzzle of the gun | being within two feet of the bully's the darkness. at least twenty miles was in 1872 : Ally, { Another day and night passed and his! coupled with his in 1th but be was unable to Vent day boy His rescues involved great difficulty No doubt! he Mrx McCabe i pot a Heht woman : oy auy means and during some femis nine movement lost her balance and | causing both of ita oc £ tupants to be precinitated into the ley waters of the bay. now what to do. coolness and presence of mind, saved | Mrs. McCabe from a watery grave by jrrasping her and taking her asbore. Hhe 1d not look much the worse for lier trying experience. The fort's new wireless telegraphy tirought foto use and a message hastily gent to Dunc for warm clothes. Our friend Josef had on his best sult, and it was utterly ruined. Mrs. Duncan McCabe, being a somes what heavy woman, displaced a con- | siderable amount of water as she fell | in the bay. At about the same thine The affair was treated as a joke at the fort, and Josef was unmercifully guyed by his companions. It Is a good thing that it was not a young lady, | or perhaps there would have been a wedding at the fort in the pear foture, It 's much regretted hy the members ————— Mesting With an Ansconds. A New York lawyer, who has trae elad a great deal. had an encoupter with an snsconda, which he describes : “an follows? 5 “I was riding shead of my party | along a aarrow road in the Amazon Valley, My mount was a large white whose only ambition in iife mule, : seemed to be to bite and kill every one the Matteo grotto. On either side of the rotd rose the forest. The branches of the frees met bere and there overs head. so that the thoroughfare looked more Ihe a& verdant tunnel than a coun try road. Suddenly my mule stopped. | ‘dropped bis eyrs and turned his bead : Thinking that this was evi dence of a desire on his part to bite my ] { { leg. I was about to whip him when The bully during the colloquy had ‘noticed that be was shivering all over in BD agwe. “1 looked up and down the road, and around a bough which projected over the road, lay swinging and looking at mre with a glare that was not at all as suring. 1 had left my rifle behind on a i haps a half hour Bender came Into the : baggage mule, and bad nothing with which to fight save a hunting knife. drew this promptly from the scabbard, ‘and, with the conrage worthy of 8 bet. Cter eanae, used It As A spur upon my [to offer any show of defense Bender . oo 0 oad which turned snd gal. loped for dear life in the opposite direc. | tas curs the constrictor. The reptile and 1 must have hdd the same brand of bray. ery. He hind dropped from the bough | and good, to seek that better life which comes so much more frequently when and vanished in the recesses of the jun. gin" =New York Post, * Fearless Sclentiots. On the side of Mount Vesuvius, which bas been comparatively qulet during the lust few years, but may break out at any thue, !s an observa. tory. Here live some scientists whose task it 1s to stody the volcapo. Noth ing san exceed, says Mr. Arthur Nore way in The last great eruption of Yesuvins While it was proceadiog the posivion of the courageous men fo the observatory was rather glorious | than safe. fire” Vesuvius was “sweating in the observatory at the time, “Om the night of April 26." be writes, “the observatory lay between two tor routs of fire. The heat was insuffer able. The glass of the windows was hot and erackling. In all the rooms there was a smell of scorching.” When one pounders on what is i volved in these words, and learns thut “stones fell on the observatory of such | : : | ing questions staring them in the fare, size that the glass of the unshottered windows was broken,” one is ready with Mr. Norway “to take off his hat” to the stout hearts and keen intellects, § to these “outposts oi mankind” wo do not merely dare danger secasion- ity win | tnt live in the midst of fear nothing that comes 10 them while wy serve the cause of science, Children Overdressed. There was a time when the small bors Freates happlagess consisted [o puing about bo his bare feet. The pres: derdressed, today he is overdressed, The former grows up ino a stundy fad: the latter ls tall and scrasay. How times change Chester (Pay Be publican, Boetile's Long Journey. A bottle which was thrown into ths Mackinaw River. near Bloomington, Lil. by Willlam Reoder, of that place. | has been found in the Pacific Ocean off the coust of California. The bottle was east adrift on January 27. 100, and must have made a 10.000-mile wip around Cape Hom, Other boats were | § | near, but the parties were so colifused J} hy the novel sight that they did bot Josef, with grest systems was | 1 do not know but | what he was a more dangerous quadru- ped than any of the wild animals io which worked not harder than bimuelf, “Naples, Past and Present.” | the value of the services rendered to seience by these gentlemen, who elect to spend their lives upon a spot which is always dreary and exposed to con~ stant danger.” to use the words of Professor Palmier!. one of the scientists who was | Car twelve think of anithing seriously. wets shoes, and if is quite a povellty to sce a shoesless Indl. Where! as in former times the average bay uns; SUPPOSE ; an Indian’ 5 idea of mort is ery different _ palefare. Our braves play no hillinrd, no poker, no plug pov. ama " squawe do aot know the meaning of “bridge whist” Lh An Indian's beaven I8 a happy hunting ground, and hunting is not only the Indian's greatiést sport: it is his very lite. I am ap Ojibway and come from the country S00 miles west of Montreal Our idias of sport are bunting big game. like moose, cariboy nnd red deer. The delight of x young Ofibway 8 to excel in potdeor sports—cance racing foot racing, ball playing and other like games. something shmilur to those used in that game ; The squaws’ Idea of sport is a game of ball, toe: but it is played with twe 5 fittle sticks fastened together and used dis a ball When a boy is five years old he Is given a bow and arrows and Is taught to shoot Birds and squirrels. And this is hls idea of sport. The first bird or squir- ye! that is shot is the cause of a great feast by the elders, and it is ssunily taken to mean that plentiy will follow the buster and that be is to be & great ae $portsman. Trapping is considered sport by our young min. avd all children; bays ang girls alike. think swimmitig is sport until they reach the age of twenty of Sergeant McHugh, our provo, was twenty-two, when thelr sporting dens undergo a change, walking along the beach nearly a mile | { from the scene of the accident, in com- pany with Sergeant Daggett. He was nearly drowned by the tidal wave that suddenly appeared, but was rescued by the timely action of bis companion. Soc of our best men and JI of the others cinsider gambling mort. Our dice are made of horn, bone of the stomes of the plum. Then there is the | rioccasin game, that some consider sport The (Mjibways are grest gamblers and will risk everything they possens on the turn) of & number on one of the dice. Ca a ge ; Our tribe bax never berm noted for horseback riding. but we live In & cous ‘| try of plenty of snow, and snowshoss are our horses. We race on them, and glide over the snoweruss like so many foe yachts. AU Indian's ides of happiness is to bave phnty fo eat and drisk. The more ghme there is to be had the bappler he is, for his Wife is spent if the pursait of it. and it furnishes him what he most desirés—mest to eat and . covering for himwelf and family—to say nothing of the joy of the hu Shey 1 like to see You city people getting out more into the open. It shows that you are getting pearer our idea of the enjoyment of life—nearer nature. When you get so that your can leave your big money shops. and, with a rifle over your shoulder, come out where danger lurks and where nature is at ber | best. then you will find what troo sport ls—-thio you will be Wiese with | true health and Eappiness By Mrs. A. E. C. M HE taviner’s Howe 1s Becoming more and more the ideal tome, time sdvances and progress i written upon every object under sun. Not so very many yenns ago farmers did not get the give muecl attention to the besutifying of thelr homes time © it was Ing but work. work from morning until night, vot culy for themselves, - for every member in thelr families. When night came, tired almost to death, they crept Into bed to arise at 4 o'clock the nest moming for another weary ; Aud go the days came snd went. the averafe Ssmer sesredly the is day of til poticing the beauties everywhers about him more than he did horse or We often near protests against so much inachinery. It ruining t workingman It Is taking food from the labor's mouth, we hear over over again. Fut it surely Is 8 great advantage to the farmer. Now farmer and his wife do not have more to do In a day than they can ggt with. Look at creameries, for instance. No more churning of butter » working and pounding ft. No more skimming of milk and ‘washing pans, but to the creamery all the milk goes, wile the farmers wife § time to devotes to makiog her home beautiful and her loved ones Xow you will ind the average farmer's botde the happiest spot even during the long winter evenings. They are well lighted. books and plotures, and scarcely a furmer's home of my lee but possesses either a piano of an organ, ard in some of them you will find grame- phones to entertain without troubles. Then there is the kodak to coax pretty bits of senery around on glass Defors transferring them fo cardboard, to be a joy forever. Truly, the farmer's home is growing more and more lke like what God designed it for at the beginning. Machinery is the golijen lever that is lifting the heavy burden of the first curse from man's shoolilers, and is making him walk firm and erect, grow. . bie : | ing more and more every day bask fo that image with which God stamped him “I reached my party, got the rifle, amd with my men galloped back to se at first. What wonders the nipeteenth century has sccomplished! If such rapid strides gre accomplished in the next who knows but the millennims will be full up Jon us before the close of another century! As machinery multiplies’ the more time will men have to be true and pure | there in time for the awikening of its neads. Anything which gives man more | ime to know himself, his fellow creature and the God above him can be ' pothing else than a blessing, Farmers’ lomes, with the ald of machinery. are becoming little Edens which the farmers of x few years ago never dreamed of. No ned now to fly away from n well regulated, up ts date farn, for you will find more rest. peace and happiness there than anywhere else upon the face of the earth. without you except, indeed, God's chiprel. By Mrs. M. E.R. Formerly Supervisor Of New York Clty Truant School. » HEN vou ask a person that question he looks at you and smiles Afterward, when you have assured him that you mean it. he will gy, “Well let me see” and ther his thought will travel right pack to his chikibood: he will think over all the things that hap pened in his ¥ vouth, gradually expanding his recollections, and coming back again through the years thar have passed to the present thue. And when he answars he will say: aud thirteen” I thoroughly belfeve that 1s so. It is the tine when boys and girls are full “The happiest time of life is between the years of nine | of hope, when they know no cape, and live only in the pleasure of the day In every walk of life the rule is true. You ¢snnpot make a boy or a girl of ten Later «nt, when they have reached the age of fourteen, fifteen or sixteen, they begin to have troublesome thoughts They are nat allowed to do as they please 80 puch. There are more perplex The girl begins ro think of getting into society. She is restless; it iz hard to convinces bor that abe cannot be beard from for some years. Meanwhile she is jnst betwixt aud between, so to speak. She can't go to the places she thinks she ought to go to. and sbe can’t go to the places and do the things she formerly dd withont cansing tik. She is i a measure isolated and restricted 10 certain pleasuees, wal is unhappy. “There is another period ing gis life when she is happy. almost insanely so tnt it does pot laxt leng apd cannot be called exactly a “time” ~when she comes engaged. Perhaps after she is married and settled down ia life she is © happy, to, bat the Ure of obler persons (8 never free from cares and responst bility, aml while they are happy toa certain extent, they are not wholly so, A boy is happy when be earus his first dellar, but that is za jockiest and pot a period of bliss. The same rade holds good with the man as with the woman when they have grown older—the added responsibilities, the cares of family and biasduess And so in will work itself our in the minds of those who have lived long enough to have had experience, that the happiest time of life is between the years of nine and thirteen. The times we have within that period are always remmnbersd the lopgest and with the most pleasure, and when we think of being hoppy and of Imppiness, when we are alone, we recollect those wild, Ie respousible, glorious days Rosors to a Hen. a gigantic omelet, The function was Our ball playing is soriething lke 1a croiwe, and is played with clade Gandershein, a German village, has recently been on fete The accasion ‘was the honoring of a hen which had laid ifs thousandth egg. Many of the houses were decorated with Hags, while in the evening the proprivioy of the hen entertained his friends at a supper at which the principal dish was a splendid success, and the health of the hep was drunk with great enthasi asm, The Gandersheim hen. not sat isfied with the unique distinction, st Lance jiroceeded to sel up a new rec ard. But should the Gandersheim hen not have been a goose®—Pall Mall Ga mete,