t lived, or ho Ot pity oe “for Rida Seve are | : Route upon the | : Foun Thane? And see 8 The sw i 0 gan And ail a ail +4 sed and Cw rest? Kop Fouttns Won vet Then > Pex ders id draught of pain ey noms not sorrow-hxs not feit the Of pi Ses aed ton write, 3 Look ot Bening! on hire. Yoon fortune s i Yew fen sour, and fortune can be Why not? AlN We 1s change ; Ravn An range. Aream * Loo Flori Sf, the The owing fe wees the heavenly “lIsiands of the | Thee ie love is trae and things are as and fair ; nnsclenes sienr work: or head the hurry: % ger sanch : he has lred 1n love; 10 higher went! Sying any. in 1 a back the man fhe hor ome marble op W- fe: it 1 will; 1 80. Cable. se “TRESSOR." ater 3 Mr. Tressor got out at the Gare du Nord and keques” to a tall man ry long face adorned with a A and expente money. 1 don't . Tresor, throwing away bis cigarotte. {Ite gold brick : thriven bere because the goversment | keeps a monopoly of good thiogs to i le, 1 arrondissement is so exactly like you | + In appearance that {t took me a month | { to satisfy myself that you had not set- for his affiiction, the drawing. | no trouble In winning “What's the game?” : Penard's sharp eyes wmt es but with apparent carslessness, about the room. There was nobody within 1 ten fest of the pair, | For elght years | have had mo trou: le,” began Penard = “1 have sold { ee works of art, enough to make a It is safe enough, for your fel- ‘1 low citizens, who are my principal cus- | tomers, think too well of themselves | to admit that they have bought smok- { vd chromos for oid mastirs | indulged In one luxury. 1 have bought { lottery tickets. | “You know, my friend, your favor- living. “Got the coin?” industry has never itself. Every arrondissement in Paris, the city, the republic fteelf, hos a fot { tery whenever there is rsoney to be had-—and the pickings are not bad § One day when I was hard up | bought | a lottery ticket fur twenty sous and Kot twelve thousand francs. Since then 4 | I have become a patron of the lottery and I bave something coming. 1 have been watching the method of conduct ing the lottery and yon and I. my 4 friend, are about to draw » capital prize. lottery of the Fifteenth arrondisse- On the fifth of February the ment is drawn, a million francs. The capital prize 1a cs. The drawing is pub- It happens that the mayor of the tied down with us and gone in for re- | spectability, The poor man is, how. ever, deaf and dumb—his selection for the magistracy was due to sympathy He presides over This is the procedure: “A great wheel containing copper tubes, each holding the duplicate of one of the numbers In the lotiery ia placed on a platform in the hall of i the mayoralty. of the orphan asylums Is set before | The disk is given a sharp As It stops the boy thrusts his | A boy taken from one the wheel turn, hand into an opening in the wheel and brings forth one of the cubes He hands it to M. le Maire, who takes out the enclosed paper and writes the number printed upon it on a great! blackboard beside him. The first nam- ber drawn wing the capital prize # “Do you follow me, Tresor? A man as clever In paiming thlugs as you were when you sold little cubes of soap wrapped up in fifty dollar bills actually sold them, for fifty cents each without losing any money, and who is the exact replica of the mayor of the Fifteenth arrondissement should have the capital prige—If the mayor were out of the way." “It looks easy.” sald Mr. ‘Fressor, “and 1 eertalnly need the money, You buy the ! Scket and show me how. Wg pe Gavin, It was cool enough in the hall M ¥igneron had been taken clirs of 80 very mech lke him that It was not forlably disposed of where he would { bearing the number BIRO —-which teenth arrondissement. was very certain that he could vee the | “i had ‘been brought forth from bis home when assuring purchasers of zoup that i Be had really no means of deceiving | them, even if he was 30 disposed, staring eves of the multitodo— after Wrote: iI have { welldressed men met at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool {was first drawn in being found with the goods dn me” regia {the drawing of the lottery of the ot. Lennth paoing of that gootieman, was the Elea on that akip's trip 1o the Antare. | wax only deflected one minute from Lor whether . | fires and firemen which may be secured upon presenia- tlon of the ticket contaluing it. of the mayoralty of the Fifteenth nrron- dissement of Parla to account for the | { shiver that was'indulge] by M. Pe- nard as M. Vigneron-—who would have ently. yh 3 had Buppased, The roa : ght before. He had been so re Joiced 8 meeting the American art contodsseny, M. Trossor—who Jooked | the least trouble in the world for his donible fo Insinnate “knockout drops” by Mr. Tressor-into the green glass filled with absinthe that M. was sipping. MM. Io Maire was come I# very certain to ge! another drink with more chloral, at any time those next three days. MM. Penard had among as Hitl buns die of tickets in an inside pocket one was destined 10 win the million frane prize, Mr. Tressor was superb In the aplomb with which he saluted the fo} low citizens of the mayor of the Bi M. Penard morsel of paper held by Mr. Tressor between the third and fourth Augers of his left hand Mr Tressor knew! that nobody could possibly see It He bowed to the man at the wheal and the monster disk was sent whirl ing. Tha interesting little ory who in the orphanage maintained .y the thiizens of the arrondissement thraost an sttenuated hand and arm into the opening in the wheel and drew out »! little, glistening copper tube. He Mr. Tressor was in his slement He thrust out Bis arose and pushed baek bis slesves-uas he was wont fo as Ha received the copper cube gingerly be. tween thumb and forefinger of lis laf} band, extracted the bit of paper it contained, and opening it before the exchanging it for that other morsel which had been concealed betwen his | fngors—turned to the biackboard and B11R.059. Whereupon every man in the crowd | examined bis bunch of tickets, and | the drawing wont on. It was remarked afterwards that Mo 1a Maire had never conducted & draw ing with more empressement, Three dave later two smooth faced, They secured x room together. When they were alone the fair mas turned to the dark one and said: Got the coin?” Yes Dig you #8ve that tie Ret that Vieneeon by step “Paid not; ate it. I don't believe “No? Well, my dear Tressyr, you Tean order me 8 callon of your cursed American whisky. Then read that.” | | fio handed Mr. Tressor a vony of La. Tomps of February 7. Mr. Tressor “it ts pow practically aettied that the impersonation of M. Vignoron at | arrondissement, and Oe kid. sull of &8 wager or an odd practical Joke An examination of the contents of the lottery whee! B118,0563, the winning ticket, was regu farly drawn” pissed TO FIND THE MAGNETIC POLE. Capt. Amundsen, the Norwegian, to Lead an Expedition in 1503. Captain BH Amundsen. the Norse glan, who was first officer of the Reb tie in 1867, proposes to start pext spring with an expedition to locate the magoeilc north pole In 1321 Sir James Clark Ross reach. od a position whore (he dipping seelle an abzolutely vertical position, but the | fquestion has been ralsed whether the magpetic pole is sctually only a pant the peculiarity of the needle assuming a vertical position extends over & jarge area, and further ; whether the magnetic pols changes | its position. With the object it solv: ing these two questions Capt Amupd- | sen has purchased the Gloa, one of the strongest and best sailing vessels of the Norwegian arctic fleet, and will start for the north in the spring of | 1803. The Gioa is to be fitted with a | petroleum engine and will carry a crew of meven men. It is proposed to leave the ship either at Maity island or King Wil. {fam Land, sass the New York Mall and Express, and as soon az the gover. est part of the winter ls over to con! tinue the journey with sledges to the place on Loosiia reached by Boss, a one King Edward a “Fire Fiend.” King Edward, from childhood, has always shown the keenest intorest in| Of all thy enter! provided for him by the! talnments { city of New York, he has most often! remembered, and savas he mpst en joved, a parade of the volunteer fire! department in kis honor. There wera B.000 firemen in uniform. and all save those in charge of ropes and tillers, bors torches. It was a great specta cle. and the Prince as he Jooked at the britliase display In Madison square ¢ried repeatediy: "This is for me; this is for me!” with unaffected glee, | During many years of ais life he used to be informed whenever a really big blaze was signnjed, and he has at tended, incognito, most of the big fires in Londen during the last thin ty years--Everyhndy s Magazine, A AR ay Fr pe Ma ny ies Many a man fails because hi would rather make money quickly than hon- tadde the Siow retreat, { Ianeying all Lis master need do was freaking womd mean »afety in a concerted at Bot the majority of ue wore | | away, shown that | Dangers of Lion Hunting. In “A Tale of Several Lions,” Her- cales D. Viloen, in the Ere. says: Van Asrdt come to me and suggosted a little lion stalking. Now, 1 know Uons as well as be; delitwrate Juliting for a Hon who mourns a murdered mate was & foolhardy proceeding. Put | in the near neighborhood of the spot | { where Madame Lioness had been Kilied was one Hon, with an earthquake voles, whose rumblings fascinated the Lery gpirit of Van Aardt. “1 am going,” be sald. 1 could not Jet bim zo alone, for we ‘had fought too often side by side. Wa siarted off, my reckless comrade lay- Ing out, in caknest confidence, the art- | less plan he had of walking up to that tumultuous bell of wrath incarnate | and of blowing 8 few holes in it with his Mauser. As We came nearer, the | toars ceased. The lon, weary with | his fmprecations of the night, had gone away from the scene of his Deresve | ment for rest and sleep. In the jungle’s depths the footway be had trod: in a sentry path of twenty i bowed as he banded it to M. js Maire. | fest, he bad statked hack snd forth | for twelve lon Yesngeance, Kristmanser, who Jooksd upon Van | Aart ay 2 bot-beaded madman for the time, doch ook bis Kafr toy along. After fir, who Id been h advance appeared | st hla otbow with an impish sodden. ness, and 8 whispered word: “Bans, a lon” ain Kristiansen siarted ahead of hm. There, in a tiny clearing not thirty yards away, the monarch stood, his mane quivering with the lotensiiy of { bis attention and his brilliant eyeballs gleaming in the effort to penetrate the single veil of cover that hid the hnnter | from his view. The Kaflir had a faith in his master that was sublime. | Ribot, Hass, shoot Kristmansen knew that death stood { waiting for him in the clearing beyond | The chances were sll agningt a fatal first shot. The wounded lon would tear hig Tats shirode of mangled fend belore be could have tie to Gy. His very breath pent up. he The Katie, fire 8 single shot, accompanied Bim wiih an expression of disdain, For ten good Kiinnten. Kristmansen paced backward; and then i the eamp again wpon the chance of up a party whose suinbers tank, and that lon, with all the | oibers among the spouses of Paris's Botess, were untolested from that day | forth. I was In Pretoria a litide later and saw a wight that told me bow wise Kristmansen had bean. The oldest Uos aunter of the Transvaal shook ne by the band--and waed bis left hand for the greeting. The other arms Bung, withered asd helpless, at hls wide Only half his face was thers fo speak 10 pe. The other half went ints a Bon's maw a few months earlier, was bunting springhok with Bu sen. and carried an ancient morse loader | A dead shot, the old man desertnd a buck pot fifty feet away; and toeel | ing, fired. The crack of the rifle was answered Ly the snarling roar of a plisaing | wounded lion. The bullet, through the buck, bad streeh the t mighty beast as he was abant to ispring. And ft Bad no more than “wounded Bm. He leaped for the smoke, coming on in fiying bounds | while my old friend frmbled wikily | with bia powder horn He was too slow. The Lullet had not dropped tuto | the barrel before the lon was ures | One crunch of lls tremendous him. (Jawa, and su arm was stripped to the bone. Another and the side of his face had vanished, The throat alove the prostrate man roared otic Ware, before the teeth shoold clash together, when the son. running up, put his rite barrel to the Hons sile and drove a Balfounie bgtler through bis heart - Tabitha Sanborn's Ride. Bome of the feats which cur fore piothers perfornwed quite as a patter of course when domestic emergencies emluranes and courage of the hardiesy | athletic maidens of our own day. Han nak Banborn Philbrook, article on old aime Saphornton, relates how an ancestress of hers supplied al t deficiency in her weaving apparstus. She found unexpectedly that and harness which conll be obiained only at a place five wiles distant, reached by a read leading over a number of steep and dangerous hills Nhe way glone in the house with her baby and sposther young child, whom ghee could pot leave to go on an errsnd. Nevertheless, she could not endure the kica of wasting time in | waiting for that reed and harness when ¥ she only bad them she could make eh good progress with her web Her pedi owned the “smartest four | Your-old colt in town,” and this lively | anlinal, pothiog daunted, she mounted | can into the Red Raven with ber baby in her arms taklag the other child on & pillion behind baw. Bat we found | gr Bours, calling aloud for! selded he would ose the worn. Ing for & pearefni springbok Dont, and | He went in the Blrection opposite to ours, half sn hour's close tracking. the Kat. 1 cate swilily tol He In a Doorn] 0 sartle tows rons Dmousecolored pony. with the J eyes of a doe sinad before os occurred were such as would tax the yup. vou: me ride i t i Borse and followed, said, ‘to Sid Tabitha and the ¢hiidren | effect of tho fire. “There's an end of | can get on all right” Killed Bim, | Colonel of the King's Royal Rifes, was shot by a bullet through the Bead | probably burst forth into som chao oitths: "Pray, moderate yoar | language, followed to the foot of the tree, and seeped ft oorife and from an upper f window be shot nnd Killed two of tin CRY SITIONS | ! holder. hier | work required the nee of a certain reed | ov La sack of meal dor and Tete x wers territle, Ar goon 8s it cleared off he saddind his ‘expecting’ he | dead in the road Bat went clean | over all the way, and there she wis, i getting supper amd singing, as lively as a eTioRet! 7 She was not oven wet: for the smart | four-yearald urged to the utmost, had | succeeded], In spite of his queer and cumbrons lead, in racing the shower and beating it. Supper over, Mire Sen. born, with a tranquil mind and the proper implements, was able to restos ber interrupted Weaving, ~ Youth's Companion. ‘Wow Soldiers Can Die. When Lioutenant Egerton of the Powerful and one of the best of the | younger officers, was directing ene of | his gous against the envy, ode leg | and one foot were onrried off, as he lay | on the sand bag parapet watching the | my ericket,” be sald. simply. He was carried to the rear with a cigar te |? tween his toeth, and died soon after. _ Splon Kop saw some of the most memorable [nstances of the cool good | hnmor with which wounds and death | were received. Capmin Muriel was | shot through the cheek while be was handing a cigarette to a private, but | be continued to Tend his reghinent anti] % bullet crashed through Lis brain. Beott Moncriefl went op after three bmijet wounds: it was not till he was | hit the fourth tine that be was dis abled. An even more remarkable story | was that of Grenfell of Thorpeyeroft's, When be received his first shot, he { erledl: “That's sil vhgbt: it's not math” | A second wound pande bins ressark: °1 The third shot | Buchanan Riddell, the as he zion up 10 read a note from Lyttleton, kis General. When poor Tait was hit on the advance to Kim- | beriy--he had one wound already Jast barely healod—he exclaimed: They ve | got me this time” But perhaps the death whith freee presses one most in all the Jong and | A pre glorious Het Is that of Lord Alrlle. He was shot down in a shower of bullets {rom A hidden body of Boers just afer | bis men had fnlkbed a splendid and ca succesalal charge. A few moments bw. a ie ¥ fore he bmi said to 8 serpoemaf, who, | drunk with the passion of battle had acteristic The text moment a bullet | bad sped through bis beari—M, A. TF. % ede Had to Fight Three Bears. Fremont Bourne, who Lees In Bate and. Yt. ath and but for hia pluck and ene duminee he wonld sndoubtedly have been killa. Whaes Mr Bourne started ott to flak in the vicinity be feared | Jolie fu that of gratitude when It fs not in our power to repay Franklin po danger and west unarmed. He had wipes! 10s brook half way up the mountains when suddenly be heard a risstie in the bushes and three bexrs broke inte the closing, : Mr. Bourse wide for a young syea- move tree and climbed 2. The bears vite behind suotler began to asceml, ! When the foremost bear pot pear the | Brapeh on vwehieh Mr Boprae had ken i refuge be psanaged to Keep the animal | from approschiog nearer by jabbing fim In the wyes with a snail Nraneh i which he had fauken from (he tree, but the bear Ltthe by [tle came pea | er, and the pther two were fust below | Shin before Mr. Bouroe bad decided to! run. He moved ent as far as be could | on the branch dropped 10 the provad asd started dewn the mountain for the neared hovse, hal? a mbes dwisns © Hoare pat 30 yaeds belind Bia be. fae ote of the bears rescind the groaml. The aplimals gained on him, and when be reached the fav hove | the foremost was hardly 1080 feet bes hind. = At the farm house M2 Baume hears, the thisd escaping to the woods, | A Man-Killer. Frank Leslie's Popular Mentally sare: town of Les Plaga and a cowipunrber | in the vrowd bet be had a pony that would shale the teeth ous of a prairie fen YRuo Bim our” yelled a chorus, and soun wo bros-ehested. weil setup, wile “Ma me dig ons Bide kt was a Mexivan who spoke. The bar. guin was gelcRly clinched, 83 money in | fred Than water, by the csabing of twenty dive shining silver dollars in the hand of 4 stake The Mexican secured bis sad die aad devw the clpeh up without the | Hix foot torelied thet sitgbitest trouble reared, whewded, and | Hike a pamiber sprang Gt the Mexican i Que foot enoghr him a sickening blow | full (n the face. Down be went lke! shutebing and conyul- sively working his fiogers in the dust tHe was in the svt of repeating his: { deadly wrk when a shet rang out and | | the mfuvinted least deoppod Hike a teap, fell on the prostrate body of the! : Mexican A | The pony was rolled off and rush | | though méutle hands carvied the Mex | Kobe blow bad completely crushed in his face and 1s bad vassed over the long tad Ix bad an encounter lately with ex hree arg back bears op East Moun | | Have! | midame? : your country. My brother lives in Mel | boarne.” : fodnd, arch is he of all be survess know, 4% Editor Herbert declared 4 other day when in this city, that oo man ix so well situated as the country ; ediger, with a well-equipped printing office in good town, with a (air share of the county printing. a good eirens lation and plenty of Job work and | advirtising ; : It may be that he takes & turn occa 2 - sionally at working the pross, m aii up the forms of even setting his own i torts in type; but he takes ag honest pride in being able to do these things. He is willing to give every mati his doe but insists on bls own rights and dares to maintsin them. SE Bich an editor is Ewing Herbert. : Acdording 15 # story which bas some foundation. & custonier whom he knew 4% 3 close fisted man came 10 pot many 9838 280 to get a hundred small post- €'s ordered the day before. : posters, neatly tied up a § ack _ te bale ou the tmponing some and to be six over and above the busdred. Wiihout a word the man who wonld rather be an editor fn Kunsss than in Netw York took the six extra posters off the pile, crompled thems in Ms hard, threw thems into the office stove andl bowed bis crest-fallen patron out with a smile. Fourth Estata, A voluntary urden is Bo purdes.— ftaltan proverb, Not every one that dances is glad~ Friuch proverb. “The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks.--Spanish provert. More are drowned In the bowl than in the sea. German proverb. ; What Is learned in the Sadie Insts "1a does a good duy's work who ride 3) hiniselt of & fool French proverb. I¢ you have no arrows in your quiver, | 0 not with archers. ~Cerman proverb, A single penny fairly got is worth proverh. A peasant between two lawyers is j fits 2 Sub between YWo cais-Spantsh prdvert. Worsan's bappiness is in obeying. She objects to men who abdicate too pitieh ~ Michelet. With money you would Bot know | yourself. without money nobody would : know you.o~Spanish proverb Time is the great comforter of grief, | butt the agency by whic it works is exliaostion 1. E. Laodon There will always remain something | to be sald of women aw long as there | Is due on earth De Boutlers. To the generous mind the heaviest Name Melda's Wie. If Lord Welseley is a strategist on the field of battle, at the dinner table be proved spything but a warrics when | parrying the wit of that Jamous singer, Mine. Melba : At the dinner in question Mme. Mel : ba was seated at the right of Land « Wislseley, who was on the right of the hostess. The great soldier, turniog to bis hostess, asked: “Whe ia the lady on my right?” “Why, that is Mme. Melba" “Who is Mme. Melba?” “Ix it possible that your lordship does not know the great sfugee?™ 0h ves! Born In Australia, I be EW And with that the general applied | himself to the conrse then served. Af [tel a few momelis be turned to the i prina donna, greeted Ber pleasantly and sail: “You are an Aastralian, [| believe, { know a great deal about And pray, sir, what is the name of your brother? the singer naively In | quired. “Goodness! Why, Ms name is the : ! sane as mrine—Wolsley" anawered the. It wos the Foorth of Joly lun the small | surprised officer “Who is Wolseley? I do not recall that namie. Mme Melba rontioned, “Why. 1 am General Wolseley!” re plied the astonhibed offiove. “Waolseley! Wolseley! Wolseley. ™ whispered the singer, as if appesring to refresh ber memory. And then the gomeral applied bimsel? again to the He had learned his lesson. Phils adelphia Yaguiver. A Most Important Individual, 1¢ you ask me who is the most ime portan: Individual in New York I shal) point out him who drives the six horse : ho 4 | trek laden with steel beams. Mon sffrrup, then, with the quickness of a! ek x = cat, that pouy In Broad. way a king, among ondipary drivers of one or two horses a tyrant! He and his ‘truck, a woaster sometimes fifty feet in length, rule the street wherever they go. The loquacious i motorman of the surface railroad, whe ‘loins it over other men and beasts i by the force of epithet and platform, ! ginks into insigniicance when his ear i approaches the King's chariot Experis ence bas taught him that éven the trok | ler cannot budge the monstrous ves hide aud its load, therefure he 18 cons teat to wait ~Nietor Smith, In New York Press, |" Editor Herbert watched the toms. | When it wis concluded there proved
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