{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,