nshine comes aad goes, has a oe, ty gleam wave divide, Ancestress Ee her dream “ glow sud ibe emp 2 soe "with the athers, and he house mentioned. The nt parlor. valting for ua, and that he burglar or turginre bed, and weithont making any com: an till she was in the hall had he Sear on the ouixide and at} pest beather, 5 the front and back ross ely on the sams floor. That's as We got before rapning up ring the door. There us policeraen, besides : Toole held the light 3 door, and 1. always fool in with my gon ready. 1 in my right band ready but as there was not a tir when | enterad the made hold 16 sirike ft hand and gine dy peat tor a safer ation. The intro : ‘es took off the the spring that the rohber's eyes sgged bim Ane then and skull wax dented as by ke of a parrow, dull 6. We called the Coro sald it was a murder, or %r bad been caught in the hing the room and had | one of the inmates of the latter supposition roux, I senrebed the open window, & door 3 Open. or avy kind of | tie In the cked or k, or a which the . gaten x + isterratie, a oaiby re and was ine in wn Seid of wild Oats, hig sitm prospect of con tm with the killing I had he arch his room, hig clothin night. 1 found = 1 test oh in nice explained that she had | awakened by a scream. she but In terror bad lain quietly | aL minutes before rising. Then : natel, and, seeing noth- with Leminine insiinot stooped | u der the bed. She saw a a faco stare. and, drop | took out her door Kev, i #1L locked the door be nd BAY: he iar. It it Was 1 by's room was one letter dated Haver- j pockets a postal card sddrissed to this | | & grand Blof then, just for a fiver, you {evered that the dead burglars name right, an old score, bat be wes tryfog | oot. bat 1 eonidn’t rob my own peo {ple 11st him in ot the front door and Innis was sound asleep when we got drop this thing if you can bring Jonlew's natne inte #8 I'M kM vhgo Réeovnd Herald, and he gives these reasons for declar his face ghastly. The AnnoysLee of the rate collector's call gardens: It is vot wasteful, because the Ht benelita the very poor and by encour aging them to be cleanly keeps the | | community free from disease. {taxes on personal property. and be is 4. | Just ax they pay the merchant's clerk i hire." New York Sun. : parson, ne resident squice and no pub. | | two by one man, who is c'msequently practieally all parish officers in one. 2 | suet ratepayers be calls himself { ble by the careful observation of sim- Then | ple, well understood and easily applied e. | measures of cleanliness, disinfection | an entrance, for, sv 1 sail, the doors wera all Jocked on the inshle, the win | dows latched, and thers wires no signs of a violent entrance. Among the papers. the letters and memoranda | which I had taken from young Tanl I Bill, Mass. and signed Kent Howard. It wax evidently from an old college mate, and 1 would have Ipored ff if 1 had not also found In one of Tanliby's same Kent Howard, and went by one | of thoxe Cireek letter societies they | have at universities. That gave he vagne bint, for 1 conidn't understand why Taulby should have Howard's postal card in Lis possession. | made Know. 1 got Randal In a corver one ~venlng, and told him thar 1 had die | vos Kent Howard [I thenght if my Eves wan Fight Bed fukh ip. or shake or show some sign. hut he sever batted an eve, snd 1 eonclnded | was on an thee bad wtesr. "1 started some letters enxt to the tollegs that Tanlhy had graduated from. and then resolved to keep & clone watch on Mm. | couldn't find him | commencing to got rattled when | got | the following Jetier: Pear MoUsriy--Yon are too cate altogether. I dent know how you found out it was Kent Miller, and I don't care now. Find me i you ean It was no murder, anyhow. | Jot him Inta the house. He wan a born thief, and was on the high road to the pen. any way. 1 owed him money all to Blackmail me I'm pretty bad my. turned him Joume to rob ths house as he pleased. 1 had to do senething for Bim, snd ne I had no money © did this, into her rosin. I couldn't stand what | he said then abont her. | struck him | with his own billy and shoved him nadey the Tadd. Then 1 dropped If aut the window and went to bed Please 1f you you: don’t forges cert wide of me thing against hor. “Awd I dropped 18” concluded Meo Carty, sighing saftly. “May be it was a erismed dail Roow-lamt iL wis 8 { decent erime. don’t you think ¥-Chs that. That's the de I won't stand any: RT SHOULD WATER BE FREE. TR SPR Cost In the Tax Badger. The city of Santa Ross Cal, bas been supplyiog Ha 7000 inhabitants with water free for the last five years and charging ihe cost in the tax budget, J W Keegan, one of its Coun- cilmen, Is anxious that other eltied | should follow Ranta Roma's example, ing It to be the only equitable system of supply: It Ix more sconomical Decanse the cost of sceounting and collecting Wn abolished: it saves to the consumer the Ing; it ix a strong Incentive to beautifi- cation of the city, for householders no | longer grudge water for lawns and consumer never believes that kis pay ment is fixed by bin cousunsption, and “The only man who may te injured” says the Counciltnan, “is ote whe pays no more injured than by a free sewer system. If he be a householder, be has free water, and if his personas) property ix merchandise which be sells, he can shift the burden of taxation | tpon the parchaser and the parehasers “1of the goods pay the merchant's taxes, | GR EA SR A seme hao : The Man of the Village, ; The population of Shelley, Suffolk, is seventy-five. There is no resident ‘lic house. Nelther is there any school, but there is » school board. The parish consists of four farms, two of which are occupied by whlows and the othet the Man of Shelley, The Man of Shel ley is clerk to the school board, and When he wants a mecting of the in together, communes with himself, takes the general opinicn of the mest ing. declares the proposition carried nem con, thanks the chaledaan sod in. struvts him to carry oul the will of the assembly of notables. ~Tit-Blts, Preventable Suffering. It is conservatively esilipated that there are now in New York City 20.000 cases of well-developed pulmonary tuberculosis. = All the suffering and death consequent upon the prevalence | of the disease are, in view of modern scientific knowledge, largely preventa- jand | isclation.--New York News, that day at all. nor the next, and | was | deer with another shot. and trust to eet charge. One Westarn City Thinks Se wand Puts th | the foot of the height. Ldrop to the ground. bot not to dle, for selves going over, and went crashing r of & million Brit. | troops In the South Afri. | WOU oan war the narrowest escape | from death was that of a sol. | dtor Named Stanley, in the Fortysev. enth Company of Royal Englncirs, And strangely enough the chief dag ger that mennced the sapper, as those In the engineer vorps are always called, was oot bullets, but deer. The affalr is described hy A.W. Northover, whe was In the same com pany with Stanley. and it scourred at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, on Apert) IN0L. They with two of their corarades were trekking around the Kisrksdorp neighborhood for forage for horses. They had to exercise great caution for it was known that Boers were In the vicinity. They had been searching for the best part of a day without sticcess, when upon rounding a kopje, which they nicknamed Gibraltar, they came in wight of & group of springbok, grazing About three quarters of the way up the ope. They decided to relinquish the anest for forage In favor of deer hunting. "The place where the deer were grax. ing was abont 400 feet above the veldt level.” sald Northover, in his narrative, “and the sides of the kople were al most as vertical as the walls of & Bouse. To get there from where wa stood would require 8 great amount of skill In climbing as wall as nerve, and to go around In front of the kople would require too much valuable time Bo rather than risk a long shot we tatse to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be for ons of ue to ascend the kopje and come upon the deer nuswares wih & charged mags “We tossed np to ses who should make the climb aml the cholce fell to Stanley, who, ‘grousing’ at bis bard Juck, commenced the as. cent and after some narrow a capes from slipping was succes fn} in reaching a practically close - sition to the deer. We could kee him taking desd afm. and at last, alter a period of suspense, beard the port of the shot and saw one of the deer fall to its kode, while the others msde & stampede straight for the place where Stanley wis lying. We could Bee him frantically seeking for & way of escape, but there Was none to le found. “Directly behind him was a clear drop of $00 fear, and In front tho desr | daabing af terrific spac straight at Bim. Hix only conres wae to mest the | | this either (0 xlop or turn them, This Be did, but lostead of turning them | a% he anticipated it merely gave force to their already great terror and fury. “Two big burke made a rash at Em simultaneously, bur, being Mind with terror, collided with each other a few | yurda in front of where he was. The reagit of this was that ote of them | eatne eraabing down to within a few feet of where we stood. The other. a larger one, soon recovered itself. and, seeing Stanley In front of him, made a catching him square In fest and sending him over the oe of the kopjle. “We all expected to see him smashed im full view of our eyes, But-marvel lous to tell-what we considered a real miracle happened, for as be fell back: ward his legging strap by some means came unfastensd and canght hy the buckle between two rocks. The Aver { could not stop ita rash and went with terrific voloeity well ont over our ehum's body down to rejoin its mute at “We all made a runs to help Stunley. bat stopped suddenly on heartpg it shot and seeing one of the remaining deer It rose again suddenly, and, followed by the remainder of the group which were foo tervified fo wes where they! were going. charged stralght for the edge of the height where Stanley wan! banging head downwanl “Too late! They trisd to save them. down, taking the rocks that held Sten. ley with them. Of course. directly the rocks went that held him sus pended Btanley followed, but had nat Rove far when his bandeoller caught on & bush, checking his fall slightly, but proving fortunate, as before by had much further he brought up on projecting rock which, but fur the bush checking his fall would have dashed Bim to pleces. This had wll oe curred In 8 minute, and when we got over our fascination we had time to sew who had fired the last shot at the deer. "We were soon assured as to the riflemen, for bullets began to strike around us, and befors we could realize ft two of us, myself Included, were wounded. We then saw a party of about fifty Boers. who 1 have so doubt | were there for the sane purpose as our. selves “It was abselutely nesless to fight in the circumstances, so we reluctantly surrendered and at ones called agp CAP tors’ atfention to our counrade down | the side of the height By knotting | tether ropes together wo were enabled | al Band, who sald that a trusted messen. Zen With 8 letter would auswer the urpose just as well, Mrs, Becord her elf determined If possible to warn the British of the prospective atiack. Khe Jeft her house toward evening In her ordinary dress, nor aven chang. Ing her light slippers for stout shoes, OF In apy way giving indication of a long and perilous journey by foot. At first she strolled along leisurely and her pass with a tale that she was look. ing for a stray cow, the began to walk rapidly, taking th taost unfrequentsd and roughest roads, of forest. She walked all night of the st Beaver Dams. The first people that the saw were Indians. They cone ducted ber at once to Lieutenant Fits (iibba, who had heard nothing of the danger that threatened, He instantly prepared himself, and that very day, siany Americans and two field pleces Mrs. Becord once got the betier of 100 Indians, lod by (he great warrior, Tecumseh, who had come to her hose ty carry away her fourteen-year-old daugliter for the purpose of making hier Tecumael's wife, She was slots in the honse and without a weapon of any kind when the Indians marched up and halted before the front door. But without showing any signs of fear she opened the door, and, liftitg up ber Bands ax a warning exclaimed, “Small pox here™ This divesse had Deen so fatal Among At Mrs Record's wwment of tarned away snd Jed his followers along the way they had come words. Then, after as ready wit, afterward becste the wife of a British Aroy officer. When the Prince of Wales now King | {of England, visited Canada he called af Mra, Secord and presented her with £100 in acknowledgement of her heros am. The old lady, un her fervent Joy. alty, would fain bave knelt before the Ginesy' & ®O8, i aud gent 8 je ded the lute Gim. & Prive British steamer Eifngamite who Were picked op on a raft by the Britian foop-of wir Penguin, were resvsed No. vember 13, sixty miles from West Ki ing Island, New Zealand, the scene of the Wires, They had been drifting since October 2 without any food sxoepl two Apples. Each apple war cut into sixteen pieces, there being fifteen men and the stew. acdens on the raft when it left the wreck, Three of the men became maddened By drinking sea water and leaped over. board. Four others aod the stewardess died of starvation snd exposurs, The survivors sefered -agonizingly a% the raft. This was twelve feet eg by seven feet wide. It was Balf drenching its occopants, On the night of November 11 the lowered a Boar, which passed within those an the raft continued shouting, the eries for help oipanis of the rate hatdkerehilef, When the Penguin's boat went along. side the raft only ems of the ship wrecked men was able to stand, Al off them were in a most emaciated con. ation, and their faces, bands and lege Were raw from exposure to the sun and water All hope of finding the remaining furty persons from the Elicgawmite has been abandoned, Fights Yor Lifes With Wolves. Iidisn, about twenty years of age. wag out with his rifle in the township of Preeman, near Moon River, Canada He was slone. Suddenly five wolves In a pack pared on the scene and made stratglit winded him, aod were trying to run Em down Sum walted until the fore Bost wis with him when boo rates bis rifle and sent 3 ballet into Lis bead squarely in the whldie and a litde below the eves. The sek Eeps on, amd were within thirty fist of hima, to let one of aur party down, and quick. ly bad Stanley up, He was a pliable sight, and was violently vomiting | blood, besides having three ribs and his left leg broken, ; “The Boers released ne and we found our way to enmp, with Stanley on oan Improvised stretrher. Thanks to a strong constitution and a good dactor, he has sarvived his illness and 4s at this moment as well as ever he was i How a Plucky Woman Saved an Army. i The Canadian Historical Soclety has | yecently erected a monument at Bea- | ver Dams, Niagara Falls, to commen. erate the heroism of Laura Secord in | 3 Yollet through spbother head. Then the maining three turned tall aad gal Nam Drowatt in the beads and Bites on Toe | Before the police Sgn to get the { fayanty allowed by the Govergment for He destraction of the tos wolves Tha leader of the pack measured six | fout six fuches from tip of tall to nose. He was an old veteran, and had been in many Bhs, as bis head was marcyed and seamed all over from old | wounds, one ear had Deen at some date Li] pretiy Dadly lacerated and tora, A A CS A AAR Sb do so rd. The hardest woman to please is the the War of 1812. This remarkable | ode who doesaf know what she wante eajoled an American sentry into letting As darkness fell | and occasional short cuts through belts | 44th of June, 1813, and arrived early i 3 the morning in a state of exhaustion after a slight skirmish, he captured i i the Indians a fow months before that even Tecumseh shnddered hesitation, be silently | but he would not permis | iy replaced her in her chair, in Ber bouse ia Chippews in| Thiviy few Days on» Ral: No Pood. The eight sorvivors of tha wreok of submerged and every sea swept over n castaways saw the light of & steamer | aid shouted frantically. The steamer | Bfty yards of the raft. Then, although | the boat turned and wens Haek to the | steamer, apparently not baving heard | After this despondency seized the aes : One of them tried | th appense his hunger Uy chewing Lis Sam Isaacs, a tall athietlc young sleep, should teach the child babits of personal cleanliness, and should see ain twenty-five yards of | When again the rifle sent i vy, and made ailavit | sspletely chewed off, and the other pq When the ambition of parents forces the child to endure exertion Fork News. or 10 stay » few days with the | bl Affairs, one oust admit, are 8 Sreat hax The prizes abroad are, as’ generat ie, my oy In America. Tie a at ener] rules rare, such as cups and Hike: but It fs nothing extraordinary to see an athlete departing from t faces with a sewing machine or hat-rack, and jo some canes [ have seen ond for beds. The lucky competitor. ss & rubs, can Bave any article be de Rod as many British athletes are married they generally take the most | viceable article. My prises last year consisted mostly of diamonds, sliver tea services and cutlery, altogether worth pearly £200. From oe “American Sprinter in Great Britain.” In in Outing. By Dr. Felix Adler. HERE sre many loventions which multiply the means of but is the world really the happier? How about thease who JON more wialth than they require; does it make them sony the happle The chinf source of pleasure or happiness, after all, is derived from | man’s social relations with his fellow men. If man were cut off L from Intercourse with his fellow men he would become like musical instrument Juid sside. : How will it profit you If you get all the possible wealth of the world saul are ent off from tha chief source of happiness with © your fellow man? Hivause of thelr success in life some people his country find democracy so little to {heir taste that they go sbrosd iseoclate with the foreign aristocracy, disdaining the association with demoee racy. Democracy does not mean that all men are equal, because it Is Dot trae ™ the sense that all are equally developed. Tre democracy contains three lee ments of reverence-reverstos for onr superiors, for our Bguals and for oup | 'nferiors. The sprrious democrat Is the nian who believes be is the squat of it Lineoln or anylody elne, only be bas tot had the opportunities te polish lve abilities, All great men are reverentinl. Oh, the pity of that carping, spiteful, mae Helons social set where they urs ready to tar each other's character Inte shreds and considir the doing af it a mark of cloverness. And yet that In the | nititude of a large part of what we call the world The social set whish tonsiders all who belong to it as persons of distinction is characterised by malice, BIpacriey | nnd grossness daughter, thus saved hy her mothar's pr * fliers in sothing fashionable or ponderons in the way he y ple take thelr pleasure at Sxratogs. Of “among those present,” especially during the polo season, thers might be made 8 mods ately Tong Hast of names which might appeal to the most erities] merican Yellowplush; but he would be disillusioned at the jst naeity of fie possessors of the names, That is what they are thers for. to gof away from the routine stupidity of selfs F conscious Newport, which not a few of them can stand for y 80 long at a time: just as Billy Bankelerk ls there w ges way from the stupidity of his routine existence--and both freely mn the paddock and swap tips in the ring, to the horror of Yel lowplash, who has come to warship. % It was to be expected that the establishment of sx places of this kind would be hailed as the creation of an “American Ascot™—-by these who get an ndded zest by such mental devices—Just as the maralists have anathematised It. as “the Monte Carlo of America,” It Is to be sure, the one place in the country where fle horses and fine people may De seen without much touting to interfere with either; and it 15 the ous example of resily regulated jmmbling in the United States. But it (x Dot very much like Ascot or Monte ‘arlo, though enough Nike both, possibly, th call to mind the rollicking old days of a previoms and very different century at Bath-if you have a ming to liken It to something foreign. ns To ma it seems quite interesting as a great American sporting rendesvous, "The grestest all-round” resort of this sort we have yet evolved though, to le sure, we are still rather young at concentrated frivolity. —From “Saratogs tod Ita People,” In Outing. ture School Normal Inara age Class. HE emphasis placed of late years upen Improved dyglenie coaditions in the schoolronin bas greatly Increased the tesehs er's responaibility fn regard to the physical well being of the children committed to ber care. She In Dow expected mot only to attend to the general question of temperature, ventila- tion and lght, bat to recognise the fndividosi peculiarities of her charges and to discuver means by which defects of ay kinds may he remedied on Now, it is manifestly impossible for any teacher, however willing and capable, to gauge accurately and speedily the physica and intel Irctual disabilities of a new cluss $f pupils, apd thoe ts lost and barm dons Before adequate tests can be made for coiditions that vary more or less from perms] standards. It the school is to do its Dest work 1t must have sducative services from the home, and it will bave that only as parents are alive to the situation sod are ready to further its ands First of all, the child should be sent to school with a weil-nourished body, he result of 3 dive that is simple, easily digested and eaten at regular ine tirvals, It should be provided with clothing that will not Interfere with the free movement of any part of the body and will give the suitable amount of warmth and protection. The parents should Insist on the maximum number of hours of tiaat it bas ¥ proper amount of exercise in the open sir and a plentiful supply of fresh air within doors. - full value of proper food, exercise, sleep, ete, upon resistance to dis upon the nervous system, upon goneml disposition and even upon come 5 lon ean hardly bo overestimated, and the tacher's work is greatly lessened when these matters receive systematic attention In the home, for the young Indian. They had Ly pir 3. ~The mother who has made a real study of her child knows the condition of his eyes on entering school and will be quick to notice any fallure that will occur later. So, too, defects in bearing way be more readily detected in the home than In the school, where they prove a great barrier to the chills mental progress. Many a child so afflicted has been called stupid, inattentive ot stubborn, until & physician's skill bas overcome the physical defects which gions were respoustide for hin sential staie It requires much time and patience on the teacher's part to overcome ne distinct and faulty enunciation as well as ungrammationl forms of speech aed mispronunciation. Much of the faunity enunciation observable In very : young children is dae to the use of “baby talk™ by parents in addressing them. The little ones are iniitative, and a ripetition in their presence of the wrong forms of speech day after day finaily results in fixing them indelibly In their minds The questions «f nervousness, undue restlessness, signs of fatigue, loss of perve force, are problems that confront the teacher at every tarn--problems which she cannot solve unaided. So much in these conditions depend on the home and are beyosd the conirol of the school that, unless the mothers recog nize the difficulties and are equal to the demands, the child must continge to wiffer and the werk of the whole school is fredl. Is the school responsible when, through excesses In the the child.at home, his vigor ts wasted and he is made unfit to squirements of the classroom? #motional life of meet the general Shall the teacher be charged with neglecy in order that te Dext promotion tine may mot 88d Man behind bie companiens—New