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