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