TB ico BR ANA 6 rt bo seit aang to chsse np my 14ping 10 the roots of my hair. w aa : , but peated an one nd ; y colored Jthograph. in the Aroop of Miss Lor regal head gave nw rudden age. 1 bent down until my eves hers, #04 in them | rend, as plainly » could say it the immortal re- bike of Priscilla to her faint hearted | ver: “Why don't you peak for your. df. John?’ And Stub? Welt, { may as well con. ex it. 1 bad been made the victim of | % diabolical ruse. Mr. Van Alan had the state of wy feelings | got the ides from a chatice remark of . | Helen's that it was ouly my cowardice | that stood in the way of making me the bapplest man allve, and forthwith oe sayed the role of matchmaker. | He was my best mun siz wonths | . Iater—Leslie's Weekiy, PR = Looked Quits Canning, fA three year-old girl, fair of balr and sunny face, was aitraiting attention {in an Erie ferryboat the other after. ' | noon, when a little woman somewhat 7 | past middie age came tripping fn with a mincing gait, in & very short rainy. day skirt, a bright red waist showing | under a Monte Carlo cost. and a girlish hat topping the whole. The obvious | OE | sttempt to appear youthful wouid have » said Stun, art. at me, It he had chatr at my head | all at once In Took: the window. I wasn't anx- to see my face. 1 had been in love for two years, Suttering about her bout the candle fine same resplt. 1 : ue even by my been pathetic had it not bein for the simpering expression oxi the woman's face. 7 YSee. mammal See” excitimed the | child, pointing to the womsn, “Hush, Gladys” sald the young mother, trying to divert the child's st. tention, “Bee! Ree!” pergisiod the rhild and {as the woman who wonld appear youthful smiled at the child, Gladys } raised her volee and clapped her little hands, exclaiming: “Ixn't it cunning 7° Amid the fllconcealad mirth of the | passengers the woman whe bad pro- yoked this apt though fanocent sail hurried into the forward cabin-—New York Thues. Trae Held Up For a CHINA. When traffic on Broadwis was most congested the other day, a feeble old | { woman, In tattered garments made ber WAS 10 the corner of Dey street, with a inte gir cintchiog pervously at her skirts. The stalwart policeman st the crossing approached them and gently taking the woman by the arm, started to guide ber through (he lane separat. ing trucks and ears. Half way across the street, the little girl dronped al package, and a few cunts’ worth of | = | peanuts were scaltered on the tracks, " said Stub, as if ith a bright ides. aren't you? I remember EBay once that Kenneth 1 of the nicest men shre Fean't you -- er — ef — Sor? r me? Tell her bow i me, aud that I am not really head ns 1 appear in her Tell her 1-1 lsve her—just oursel!, you know: may 8 thought I cared for her she take e me for a sstrimontal ed, sternly. “Do your . Do you suppose a girl Lorrington would think man who was lacking In Ww." sald Stub: “that's ing to find out. i : amp.” remarked my contemptuous tones, “Prom- K to her to-night, if you nee, at Mrs. Applebee's 1d do nigre for him than Well I arrived | t night with a to plead my girl I loved {stow She Jooked up at ber big guardian with a stare, and asked: “Can I get them back By this time the truck drivers were nf paling impatiently on their reins, for the progress of the trio had been Certainly, little one.” replind the po. llceman, as he put up his Band and beld the Broadway traffic in check | while the child gathered tiem all foto | { & newspaper. The drivers fumed, hat pedestrians who saw the little incident, smiled as h ther moved on—New York Mall and AAA rH gr a Effort of Newspapers on Fiction. There is a story told of a newspaper | ; correspondent who telegraphed his $ editor as follows: “Have eoltunn story fon go-andso, Shall I send 03 The editor, mindfal of the value of space, wired back: “Send six hundred words” In a few hours he receives] another messuge from the anxious correspond. ent, reading: “Can't be 193d 19 loss than | twelve hundred” The welitor promptly telograpiied back: “Story of ercation | of the world told in six hundred. Try iL” And In due time the correspond. ent sent In his story writtem within the prescribed Hmits, The condensas- tion of language in the pewspapers of our tims has undoultedly had a reac tionary effect on our Hteratare. Our novelists no Jonger indulge ta the ele gant efforescence of two chapters In a book where one can take {ts place. and {even the leisurely introductury pages of Scott, fine as they are. would not be read in a novelist of to-day, unless, Indeed, another Beott should arise, ow Te Was a nmertar, Occasionally a humorist ts fonnd among the toilers, and he is a ray of sunshine not to be ignored. Buch a ane was acting as guard on an “LI train Saturday. Humanity was strogeliog to got aboard; every third passenger | a -bwas asking, "What is this train? snd and I had been friends since there was a general feeling of hmpa- tience, It wag all dissipated in a moment, however, at the next station, ns the guard opened the gates, for he sung out ina cheerful voice! “Sardine express; all stops; take your time!” And the people harried aboard with Mr. | a smile on their faces that lasted for! -] several minutes Now York Man and | HE monemient reared m rom enmoration of the Spit Lake massacre, (he bioodlest frag. : ody in the history of lowe. » a peach ul shaft sbout sixty fest high built in al ste sevtions of rough and | : Polished granite . The story of the massacre ax relnted | 8’ Ly Mrs. Abigstl Garfiner Sharp. a sur- vive, loca of thrilling Interest ~The Rh of March 1857." she paid { “the Indians entered our honse, and {Instantly shod my father throagh the “host. He fell dead. Af fhe sare Pease | i ther solved ray mother 85d By Site hy the sre, besting heen over th beads with their pane and delving hi Lent of doors; they thers ktiled fleas dos fenseless women fo the wost shocking tanner, "They pert seized the ohildren, tear Ing them from my ots ons pt a thee The tle ones repr ed out thelr sire towerd me, crying io terror for the pro. tection that 1 wax powerless tn five. Heedless of thelr pitedas cries the sav: j mgen dragred them out of doors and Kid they with stloks of stove woud “Prgring thice awlul soenon | was both wpecchioes and tearions, but Yow, 1 slone in the presence of the dying and the dead, it geemer a8 thous 1 eoald pot wait for the missile of death to trike me vo 1 roshed torwand to one of the band and begreed him to BU oe Tgulck, He then roughly seized me by the arm and enid something whch 1 eould pot nallerstand, bat 1 well knew by bis actious that 1 was 10 be Wmkin captive ; “Of the forty porsgns who were then who was at bame wae killed except Ble snd mpeelf, whom the Inllsne took | with thes aa captives of their relia | to the netth : “Alper xin weeks of incessant murel. through what Ix pow koown ss Lake | Madison, in Bouth Dakota, we Wire visited by two strange Indisoe, who bought Mra. Marble, tre of Mr Marble we fll In with | party of Yaslhton Slogg. One of Them, | pimed Wandoekalhanke, or Brdaof. EmeSonke, bought Ms Xeble sud ny gat from the mierernsry Ink pa dn-ta, “ne evening a short time afier we wore seltied for the night. after 8 weary march, Mrs. Noble and | were of Ink-pa-dnta came into the tent of | the Yankton #84 ordered Mrs. Nobile to thar she would not go. No scoper did phe refuse to go that she was seized by the arm with one hand, aod, with a big war club in the other he dragged ber Junt outside the tent door and there ! ¥truvk her three blows such 8s onl Fan Indisn ean deal. The Dteous groans of pieread my ears-<leep, sorrowlnl and out to £0 to ber side. 1 was wo GLizror ¢ gtricken. "A few days after the death of Mrs Xobie we reached the Jim River in the northern part of Soulh Dakota. Jere: wis An encampment of 200 lodpes of the Yankton Sisux, a powerful braveh of the Slopx nation, “On May 3 thers appeared in the wearing oils and white shirts with starched bosoms J was cortain they well knew no Indian worsen rere shirts. 1 soon discovered thar [ wis the sublect of thelr conversation. | "At the end of three days I wan de. Hivered over to the ‘Indians in conte’ and the Journey toward elvilization was begun” FEROCITY OF THE CATAMOUNT “When it comes to savage creatures I will put the catanmount against wey. thing to be found in the woods” sald | come out in the lead with distanse io spare. The catamount fx a ferosious creatures sud you will have your hinds full to come ont with your Hfe in | the first place, they are well equipped provided them with kag curved and pointed claws and extraondis knife, snd if they could use a scythe {when it coma to mowing a pack of Boh shy of entamonnta, “They will scatter and ses per seribe when they suddenly jose 85 trail They do not care tH surprise a sia! mount by rashing upon him soddenly, They Epow what it will mean to them. Even pups, out on their first chase | seem to be wise enpugh instinctively They are desperate fighters and tn the | season when food Ia scarce apd when they become lean and lank from furag- ing. they are especially desperate. few years ago while @oating down the ft Francls River in a dugout, soe forty tee uh from the mouth of the river. 1 hed a friend In the dugout canoe, Bowas a catamsunt. The and the purpose of attacking us, and had | leaped from a Hmb which bung out ever the river at an elevation of Wirty | esc residents of the lakes region there wae | { not one lol to toll the tale! Every one Mrs. Nobile, Mra Thateher, Mra Mar | Ing over the trackless prairies amd “Rome four weeks after the depart. were sobl, lost pe we subpomd we Unbout to He down to vost when # aon | go out. She shook ber bead sv 8 signal | kis viethm camse through the tent snd | erow, Dewey said: “Jolin Jotea, 1 wo awiul to bear. I dul pot dare venture! camp of the Yankions thoes ludians {were from the white seftlements se 1 skilled in the art of laundering white | &n oid hunter, “and [ am sore wird |, for fehting ot close range. Nature hag! # 2 3 ua! sharp teeth. Their claws cot fhe 2 they could not meet With more SUoowes | xy dogs down. Dogs, for this reason, | aronnd to the sides of the frall, resort. | Ing to the same circular course they dei “1 remember an experieace 1 had al with me. Suddenly we heard a jimh | above us swish back as if relfeved of 8 heavy weight, and in an instant some. | thing fell {0 the river at the side of the rial had tried to land in the canos Tor tire. and you don't have to them fn order to get 8 Sght”-Slew | Orleans Times Democrat. BOY'S TRIP ON AN ON AN ICE CARE Ia the Missvar! River the other after. biy, who Hees st Por rowing song fosting Je Io the Min. £i28d. and to sere himself froen drown. In Dots got on 8 Big eaks of ee, Tle cake gor dieisdesd and fomted heir floated for severs] pubes. and st tion men, who, however, Were unable to bend him sexistanes, #3 Uhe plies st Kaness City, Kan. wore notified, snd the petrel wagon wis Goslly sighted in the middie of Pui Missetir] River. Imtmesse cakes of rested, and he was within a few fest be would protably freee to death. the boy. It was a perfions Journey that thy peliceman and the boy had fn the relurn to the Kansas Dank of the Mis satgrl, bot the boat flually landed. A thiers were proposed for Patrolman hardly speak. He was taken to No. 1 | wis petit to Pomeroy. The boy sys be | Missouri River —~XKassss City Journal, Umee when Admiral Dewey was ox- soitive officer of the old Kenraurpe, 0 1. ways the Ban Francisco Argpooant, | Cf the pun eek srising himeei? with twelve pists Iriveer, it Is related, warted low they, anil toe rail Jleaching the mutinesrs, the deatined bers of Manila Bay, facing them with 8 hockel pistol in each band and the hig cout, sald: “Call the roll” The frit same happened to be John Juoes Through sheer force of haddt he zn. swered “Here” Alsing his pleted at, Janes, who stood in the rear of he | Youu. 1 am gong to have your name ; 5 led pnee more, and if you do pot an | eJitn Joses™ yang out the voles of the sling writer. Xo answer. Dewey | k fired The miles weant for John Jones Fwy throueh the beat of the man © {gta nding beeide him, » std: “Now! wen, the roll will be con he will answer and po op on deck. Call the roi” “Elere” answered Bmitk puting hile af Dewey's natal frowned ancompro misingly upon Bim he stepped out from the ranks of his fellows and disap ofr the remaining forty-eight followed suit WOMANS FIGHT WITH A BULL Mir. 2nd Mrs. Henry Puller, who Hive with thelr five children on 8 farm | of Chester, N. J. had a terrible experi- jemle onl A recent morning About 6 wember. Otice corner one of these ‘hork Mrs Paller heard the bellow. ing of a viclops deborned bell owned he font of the Immortal Eliza of “1'neds Tom's Calin” wes dupifsted | fioon, Jebn Owens a fourteen Fearadd | wiles north of Kansas City, Kon, waa | sort River. He lost contral of Nis | bout, and Loally found himself? welped | in the ne cakes of or, The bout oape don streuts with Owens open 16 The | Quindiare was sect; Ly 8 gang of sees | whe ont to the Toot of Minsessta ave. | nar to await the srrival of the boy, He Mien had wedged the ope on whieh he of 8 sandbar in the middle of the riwt. ! This boy wae #11! om the ive s04 whily He was not In Bnminent pertl the polices rajilized that be rust be tescunt cles | Patrolman MeElrar secured 5 rows hant from 8 Gshermoan and went 10 the | | bay's ssxistance. The officer Sad a hart haitie with the ire oakex, but he Sanity resched the santbar and rescued | Ervat crowd witnessed the yesrue end | when the boy was finally landed on i terra firmua a shout went op. snd three | MuEirey. Owens was not at all wet, | buat he wos so chilled that be pould | stntion. and aftér being thawed out | wii pot do any more rowing In the | HOW DEWEY QUELLED MUTINY. | ify mallors mutinied asd went below | Humemoning the ship's writer, who kad charge of the watch muster. and | (they were of rather ancient patiern, = The ship's writer curried a iantern | olor tes tucked away in the breast of ser and limtoediately po Up on deck | you are a8 dead man. Call the roll™ Almint before Lis dead body rock thi deck Dewey, recocking bis weapon, | tinned, Ax each mays name ie valied eorge BEmBth™ hand to Bis foreton and as the muorsle | pwned throuel the forehateh, One by oy the oouniain about Sve miles north This weld a txtensire That there mens but hirthe Sage 3 pase oan over be msirtaisasd * Turmigaont 358 ighty sob Por when one country's got And renning email wud night Aided pote nnesey and Prigares Io mart 8 baht wo i = aston Star. AND SUE ENOWR *1s be a well-informed man? "1 shonddl may so. Why, Lis wife tells him wey Tng ww Tergiaviibe Post, I 3 A SE . ABSU RANCE, pletare takens-i bope that the ple fares will be handaoee.” hardly ecrgnize oursait” New Tork | Word, WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS. "Mark you. if we honest mea do Dot orgasize tie politictsns will ignorn we.” “Ax! But {f the organisation som to anything the politi | will enpitre 2.7 ~Prek A RUBBING IT IN, Wife-"10d you #ver notices that | domed talker is wanally a3 ignorant per | Tt Hosband "Well, you nest talk so Youd; T's not geal ~Yicagn News EXTREMELY RARE grose of humor? oe ; Father—"The sevise of Somer, my Young Lady (who ban fost bad Der | Vemmy--~Pop, what is meant by the mon, consis lempely of knowing when sot to be funny. “—Fhiladelphis Juserd. § SUPERIOR TO TEs, ; 1 Ones my litle brother wished to ride | with papa. Paps sald, “Na, not under; the clivuimstances™ My itl brother peplied: “08 1 can ride on the rircuinstasces, aja Putiadelphia Beourd. " A DURBAR ECHO. “1 see that the Hower elephants at the durbar were Introdoced by the SQbs™ “That's strange” “What's serange™ “Strange that they were not a Blkhly ot" —Clevieland Paln-Dealer, THAT SETTLES IT. "1 see that some one is sdvoenting | the praject of a sewspaper prioted in a | compact talidald forzs lke a book,” said | Mr. Torque. “The very Mea oried Mrs Toye; =it's simply ridicnions™ “In what way? i “Wily, such 8 paper would be simply | oles 10 put under 8 enrpet”--Ihaits more Herald Aa, — FACLUSIYE, Fh them, and renting to the Seid where | [it bad been pry ” bis % chest. wre ton stall fo be of sguin snes dws the proBgs Into the animes fesl hat it continmed to butt its victim with is broken bora. | Chunging ber tscties, Mrs. Puller i bravely assalind the rail in front and | rucpealed in drivine him from her | los) band's oe Then she xtoond beside | the prostrate min and checked the f rushes of the Inforiatad bull with the ! sliarp points of the plichfonk to give the catamount a wide range. | For ball an hour she sicod at bay, { Revping off the animal which eireled about ber and charged repeatedly, and | thon a number of men arrived to the Fresone and Mr Puller, who was une | his head and shoulders were badly Clrndsed, snd that 8 putiber of rida ware broken, Strang Pajeer, Ra strong ix Bank of England note paper that a single sheet will Nit rf weighty of pounds. The Maw Whe Wats, i The worst thing about waiting te | dead we's shoes is that yom are apt hd got cold feet Piladeighin Besard ig. saw the anim ad | stapling over he » prostrate Loshand | sul tex ving to drive the stump of is ming and wetpior rin i fitel the nearest pelphs | Bore slie seized] 8 pitchfork and at tacked the bull a the retr. Again and COTE hia wig carried to the house | | The physician sammoned found that! “Why you mnof scvent Manntae | turer Rchults at your cioh? He be! ngs to a good family and &s very | tieh : “Oh, that's all right. but be made kis own money," Flegende Blaetier, PRESENCE OF MIND. Black and White recalls a story of a Mishwarman who was ootwitted by al Bolom whom be waria ia yr OUT money or your He sald the | bere of the road presentinz a cocked | pistol at the window of z carriage on Hoeoozlow Heath "1 would not yield to one map” re. sponded the ocoupast of the vehibotas, “hut as there are two of you 1 muse CAA ibs round 0 see wheres the second man | was, andl st that mament receivind a bullet through the heart trom bis FN tend § viet i 3 CF bodily removed to iS i sole mrom the dir fo nomen the | tandr Spaniards to mass and served. | pany for $15,000. $s cintmed Fe, s #Park from one of ix sno caused business prevents at Erbel The tests tony showed that the Sante Fo train J | plogoed at Ethel four minotes the piglt of the fire. but iat diss the fre | was well nader way befove the fray pulled est, and the rond's attorneys srgibedt that |B owas ridicnions to male tain that 8 Sre could be started by % spaik and gor well poder wir in wool PR short time. Mr Norton detolsd praee tieally bis entire srzatwst to this eat, “Rin sa - says the Macon Repub Hewmiy, “if 2 young fellow was SilUINg on 4 sofa plaving bands with bis ght tixon traveled Nhe an expoesy tealing {hat if you desped = Jot of engine spats of the ph roof of 8 dry bulide t ing in surmiser tinge four minutes were ansyie to wets the fate of the strain fu owpite of all offerte to save i There were some incredalous soviles at this The attorney took out bis wateh sod | banded it to Jurrman LL. 8 Hares 2 hamker of Clinton Hil, Randolph County, and requested Nim to signal wiin four miswies bad passed. The Jurymen leaned over and lonked down #2 the wately, Then they got trad 30d petted back in their sesta. Mr Havise Jowired his hand and rested 1 on Ms kno, The sitorney so'fied his feet a few tiroes snd sa? down io 8 chaise Jodps Adams looked 31 the clock sod thes) ont of the window. “NX Geputy marshal pat Nis bead { 8% tie door 16 see what wis the mailer 1 and wilted the resull of the rurious 1 seegie. Nearly every man In the rons that had a watch was studying ts facts The speaker was sscrilelog four minutes of Bla alloted me bat be felt that It was well nvesiad. AS last Joror Harlan snnotresd the four mingtes Had expired 2nd handed the walich back to Mr Norton, Oaly four 1 mingtes, and yet to evry men in the roca It hed seemed under the sup presses] tension, ti have heen twice as long. The court remarked after the | cam Bad been decided that it appeared Pally Sftees minsies. The wearisome susjense was sn eToctive object eee sen te the fury and a starting exposh tion of what might transpire iu that tim. The fury found thar the de fendant's engine kad zople time In fom mingtes ta fre the restanrast batiding and they brongi In 8 verdiet for the pista tor 834. He, Hthe ex act sum ber proal? showed her loss be The case kad besn pending In the conte ten Juars—Kacsas City Jour Be Wornid Ostwit Fate. The man’s bump of elogoent en treaty was highly developed. Thus OM be joguire a saliroad pase The mars bump of cantion Stand way out on bis hesd. # 2 “I Bave beard” sald Bn “that pagsens gerd traveling on & pass always get into an accident. god fanGt recover damages from the rairoad by reason of tie fact that they were traveling an 8 piss. Therefore” zail be, “IT will outwit fate aod pot Disured in an sock Geni company.” Flom the fact that be sewared to outwit fate it will be dudocnd that his bun of conceit was alse highly de veloped. Troa The mass umd of } emit was 3 reguiar Knabibie As x matter of fart thers was 8 raf rondl soclkdent. The mas was in it. He i dnt even reveive x seratel. Other | pastengers who Bad paid $1.40 for a tk managed © reveive Ligdk ezew brolsed elbows, and thisgs and sve soe someting lke FNC aniece dam. agen from the sosllesy sod grasping raihoad company. To outwit fate! OL, the fatulty of masi-New York Bun, Bell Tha: Calied Columns lbw There is a bed] at Washinton whose blstipry dates book © the very tegine {ming of civiibzation on this continent, {It By a trifling afar as regards sive, ; Its Simesalions being only eight Oy six Cand ene-bail Inches: yet Hs pores ! sontided to vall the great discoverer, Myanbes fo waver spd sacred Wor it was lowoght from Spain in | Decimber, 14 3, amd set up La 3 church ar Ban Twins It was the soeeial ‘ean ad bears the we TF In old Gothie co 358 oer: ww, When thos ew oily of the phains, founded chur and bil were CS There is notes bow freanandtly pose con toll to recall {to he minds of the veaturenune ex- | ploniTs wémarivs of thelr sunny home bideous and utterly barbaric It reps land located far away soross the sed —~ Pittaberg Dispatels Artietie Tay-Makivg. Sonnelerg aad Nuorembery are the i. of the wooden tor atl doll mak. ng Hadostry, which bas found so ready a market In leglon this week, Years aon the toys tarped ont at Sonneberg were of the roughest description, made entirely of wood, with vopainted faces i But the workmen bave Decode more eriinge and (he Industry has been on araed. No ome factory make the en tire {iol The making of bisgue heads | Is entirely different from that of pa pee ache beuds wonden beads and ching beads. The bor of tov and { dott reaking is divided to 4 remarkable The mbdber, taken aback, skied | degre. For example, 3 toy tartle with R Cok In ite chesl Bas to pass through the lands of three men amd thirty. seven girls before it is ready tw be put Draper, on te mATRet ~The
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