An Illinois farmer hr.s taken the
tew woman movement seriously by
applying to an employment office for
a woman to plow his farm for him.
, What to do with our had boys is a
question which a New Jersey Judge
has answered satisfactorily liy order
ing the mothers to spank them in open
court.
• Twenty-eight States have declared
through their Legislatures in favor of
an amendment to the Constitution of
the United States providing for the
election of United States Senators by
direct vote.
The postal cheek currency idea is
endorsed by business men and news
papers all over the country and will
surely he adopted. It will he a great
convenience to the millions of people
who are out of reach of hanks and
money-order offices.
The inscription prepared by i'resi
'dent William A. Tucker, of Dartmouth
College, and accepted by the State
Committee for the tablet for the
United States battleship Ivcarsarge
reads: "From the State of New
Hampshire to the battleship Kear
sarge. Dedicated to Justice, Honor,
and Freedom, iu the Service of a Re
united reople."
"Elder Benjamin Harrison, Indian
apolis," is announced as one of the
committee on the revision of the West
minster Confession appointed by the
Moderator of the Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly, his name following a
list of nine ministers and being among
seven laymen at the end. Thus in the
precedence of the Church worldly
dignity yields to religious dignity.
A French educational journal pub
lishes the answers to a number of
questions put to the pupil:; of the acad
emies in the Department of the Nord,
or Northern Province of France. The
questions were placed in the hands of
37,000 children, who had to answer the
questions without consultation with
each other or with their friends or
relatives at home. Among the boys
interrogated more than 14,000 con
fessed to smokiug cigarettes, cigars or
pipes. One question put was: "Are
you happy?" To this question about
32,000 boys and girls answered "Yes."
On the contrary, 1553 boys and 000
girls had the courage to say "No."
Another question put to the pupils
was whether thoy hoped to be happier
after they left school. The majority
of the boys answered "Yes." A large
majority of the girls answered "No."
They were also asked: "Do you wish
to be wealthy?" to which the great
majority of the boys and girls very
uaturally answered "Yes."
We are so accustomed of beating the
world at everything that it is difficult
to believe there can be a railway train
in France that exceeds the speed at
tained by our fastest expresses. Yet
the Journal of German Engineers de
clares that the fastest train in the
World at present is one on the French
Northern Railroad, which makes its
regular run from Paris to Amiens, a
distance of eighty-two miles, without
stop, in one hour and a quarter, which
is equal to sixty-live miles an hour.
The time schedule of French railways
contains not less than ten trains
which, in distances of more than six
ty-two miles, make an average of over
fifty-six miles an lionr. Compared
with this record, says the Journal, the
English railroads are considerably be
hind. The best time—sixty miles an
hour—is made on only one train be
tween Perth and Forfar, a distance of
thirty-three miles. The German rail
road management does not permit a
speed of more than tifty-six miles an
hour, and the average is much less.
Liberia has, through its Minister
at Washington, made a request of this
country for a navy. This may seem
strange, but there is a precedent for
the demand, because a corvette was
presented by the United States when
that republic was organized as a sov
ereign power. Unfortunately, the cor
vette was lost and Great Britain then
presented the West African republic
with two flat-bottomed vessels. They
also disappeared beneath the waves.
The government of Liberia, thinkir.g
that the United States might have a
surplus of vesoeis in her auxiliary
navy purchased during the Spanish
war, made its wants known to the
Navy Department, specifying that
only light-draught vessels are needed,
because they are to be used to patrol
the shallow waters of her coast .
prevent smuggling. The republic
wants only two ships, hut Secretary
Long lias found it impossible to grant
even this modest request. If he had
been able to do so, Congress would
have to be called upon to make the
gift.
THE SUMMER GIRL.
BY SAMUEL MMTTttX PECK.
Tl<s daisies in the meadow grass are smiling at the sun.
The apple blooms have drifted iu the lane.
The feet of Spring are passing, Summer's revels have begun—
Don t you hear the happy robin's mellow strains?
Yet there's something that i miss,
A lacking mars mv bliss
.did the blossoms which the dews of morn empearl.
She tarries. What belates her?
Behold a throne awaits her.
That love hath built her in my heart—
The winsome Summer Girl.
I know that she will smile at me in just the same old way,
I know just how her tiny teeth will peep.
Her frolic laugh will lure me o'er the hillside, through the spray
J- ill I see her dimples twinkle in my sleep.
Naught will alter but her gown,
When she hies hc?r from the town
So set the brains of all the beaux a-whirl;
And when the blossoms shatter
t And the birds of Rumnjer scatter,
She'll vanish with the butterflies—
The winsome Summer Girl.
Harper'9 Bazar.
ITHET(STFHSOMINEI
§ A
By Henry Hdelbert Tl~|ornpson. 3
MIXES have been discovered
iu many strange ways, but
any one from Gila Bend to
(, Beuson will tell you that
there is nothing stranger iu the min
ing history of Arizona than the way
In which "Tom" Harper, then a raw
Easterner, found the lost mine of the
rieaelio Peak. Most people In that
country say it was "tenderfoot luck "
but the lion. James Pentield contends
that his partner worked it all out iu
his mind beforehand.
Harper was then a young man from
tiie East, who had a little money.
Penlield was a young man from 'lie
West, who had no money, hut who
knew cattle. This was the basis of
their partnership. They leased the
Tortilla Ranch iu Arizona lor ten
years, with the privilege of purchase
at the end of the time.
I'eufleld one day bought a pair of
mules, led them home, and turned
them into the stockade corral; then he
went into the house to supper.
"Too dark to see them to-night," he
said to Harper, as he tossed his som
brero in the corner and sat down at
the table, "hut wo will have a look at
them in the morning. I know them
of old, and they are all right. Used
to belong to Barlow. But I was forget
ting, you never knew Barlow. If you
like, I'll tell you his story after sup
per."
"Well, it was this way," Penfiehl
weut on, later. "Barlow kept the first
stage station this side of Plcacho Peak
for twenty years. He was an eccen
tric old fellow, with a taste for soli
tude, aud he kept no one about Ids
place except a Mexican half-breed
who acted as cook. In fact this Mexi
can was the real manager of the es
tabishment. Barlow devoting most of
bis attention to cattle-raising in a
small way.
"One morning, about three years
ago, he found that his ouly pair of
mules had escaped from the corral and
taken to the brush, so he started out
on their trail. In the evening lie re
turned with them, but stopped at the
station ouly long enough to eat sup
per, which he ordered the cook to get
In a hurry. The Mexican was used to
Barlow's ways, aud paid little or no
attention to ids movements. When
questioned afterward he remembered
only that Barlow changed his clothes,
which were very wet, ate a hearty
meal, jammed some provisions into
his saddle-bags, saddled a horse and
rode off in the darkness. The next
day, near sundown, he came back,
agala ordered a hasty supper, and
took the west-hound stage, which
passed his place about 8 o'clock that
ivening for Casa Graude.
"When Barlow had been at Casa
Grande tweve hours, and had made ..
mysterious visit to the assayer's office
every man in the town knew tnat the
grumpy and drunken old fellow had
struck one of the richest gold mines
ever found in Southern Arizona. His
pockets were crammed with speci
mens which assayed S3UOO to the ton,
and this in a country where ore which
runs 3100 to the ton is considered
rich.
"Barlow told everybody that he had
come to Casa Grande to get men and
tools to work the claim, lie blabbed
this in all the saloons, and that was
the beginning of the great spree that
killed him. Two days after he was
dead. The secret of the location of
his claim died with him. He had
been plied with questions, but had uot
given the slightest clue which might
lead others to his new mine.
"Wlieu it was told iu Casa Grande
that Barlow was dead, there was a
great hubbub. I was there, and was
one of the first to leave for the Pieacho
station. All the men of the town
were racing at the heels of my horse.
It was then that we put Barlow's
Mexican cook under cross-examina
tion, hut we soon saw that he knew
nothing.
"The one important piece of infor
mat ion lie gave was as to the length
of time Barlow was absent from the
station when lie weut after the mules.
As he had been gone only twelve
hours or so. we knew that ills discov
ery must lie in the Pieacho Peak yon
der, for it is the only elevation within
thirty miles of Barlow's place, and so
the fact of his being absent only a
short time was positive evidence that
the rich ledge was somewhere in the
Pieacho Peak, so we went straight
to it.
"I think that in twenty-four hours
almost every stringer and outcrop of
quartz on the sides of that mountain
were located. From the very edge of
tlio desert on the east, up the long
slope to the high peak at the west end,
the surface of the mountain was
dotted with corner pots of claims.
In fact, the mountain was examined,
as it were, microscopically.
"But nothing more valuable tt-sa
the commonest kind of 'bronco' quartz
was ever discovered. The location of
Barlow's gold-bearing ledge is a mys
tery to this day."
"I would like to find that m.ue,"
said Tom Ilarpcr.
"So would every man between Tuc
son and Yuma," Penfield replied.
"But where tho most expert mine' s of
Arizona have failed, it is not likely
that a New Jersey tenderfoot would
succeed. It would be fun to see vcu
try it."
"I intend to try it," said Tom, reso
lutely. "Will you come along?"
"Why, certainly, nothing would
please uie better. But what line are
you going to work on?"
"Did any one think of following tha
trail of the mules from the Picacho
station and back again?" asked Har
per.
renfleld says he had to laugh before
he replied: "I suppose that the idea
of trailing the mules was uppermost
in every man in the crowd at the
Picacho station the morning after
Barlow's death. But every trace left
by the animals had been washed out
by a thunderstorm, and considerable
rain fell while we were prospecting
the mountain."
"Did any one think of turning the
mules loose at the station," asked
Tom, "and then following them up?"
"No," replied Penlield, feeling sur
prised.
"Well, It might have amounted to
something. Animals are creatures of
habit. They follow the same route in
feeding day after day; they go to the
same place for water, although there
may lie equally good springs near.
Now those mules of Barlow's proba
bly had the run of the range often.
When they bolted that morning the
chances are ninety in a hundred that
they took a trail that they were used
to, and followed it until they were
overtaken. And mules, unless closely
pushed, would not climb the mountain
side, but keep on or close to the level
ground."
"Go on," said Penlield, now becom
ing much interested.
"Now," continued Harper, "we may
turn our attention to Barlow. He was
simply in pursuit of his runaway ani
mals, and it is not likely that he
turned aside to make a prospecting
trip up the side of the mountain. So
if ho found a gold mine that day he
stumbled on it accidentally, and he
found it at or near the base of the
I'ieacho Peak."
"And you may add," Interrupted
Pontleld, "that he succeeded In hiding
it away effectually."
"Yes, that is a point. The problem
is to find something which has been
concealed somewhere in the neighbor
hood of the route of two wandering
mules. If we knew their route the
problem would be simplified."
"And you propose to find it by tak
ing Barlow's mules, which 1 bought
this afternoon, to the old station, turn
ing them loose, and following their
trail? Bright boy! The scheme is
worth trying. To-morrow we will
take the mules up to the Pieaclio sta
tion and turn them loose, and the next
morning wo will take their trail. We
shan't find the mine, but we shall
have done our best to find it."
"Tho surprising thing to me," re
marked Harper, "is your way of mak
ing a practical application of ideas.
The notion of following the mules was
simply something that occurred to me,
but 1 am ready to try It if you are.
Anyhow, it will give me an "opportu
nity to see the Pieacho Peak at close
range."
Peulleld says they both felt foolish
the next morning but one, wben they
started out from Barlow's old station
with provisions for twenty-four hours,
and each carrying a light prospecting
pick over his shoulder. Barlow bad
gone afoot, and Harper insisted that
• hey should follow bis example.
The trail of the mules, plain to Ten
field's experienced eye, led them in a
southeasterly direction, around rather
than directly toward the peak. The
animals had fed leisurely along for
some time, and then, us the Western
partner announced, had moved on
more rapidly.
The two men made easy progress.
The occasional patches of mesquit
through which the animals bad wan
dered gave them some shade as the
sun rose higher and higher over the
desert.
Gradually the trail led them to the
base of the' mountain, and they began
to ascend the extreme end of the long
ridge In which the peak ends to the
eastward.
At this point a well-defined cattle
trail led over a low "saddle" in the
ridge, and as they reached the top of
this saddle Penficld saw the mules
calmly switching away the llles under
a mesquit tree on the desert beyond.
"There they are," said Penfield,
pointing.
"Then," remarked Harper, "I think
that we are close to the lost mine."
"Why?"
"Because this is the only point at
which the trail of the mules has
touched the mountain."
.Standing on the summit of the
range they carefully looked over the
ground and then went slowly down
the north side of the ridge. Near tho
foot of the slope the trail skirted the
edge of a small pond. "One of old
man Barlow's tanks," Pentield said.
There had been a small spring in the
side of the gully, and when Barlow
first began to pasture his stock on the
range he built a dam across the g'Uly
below the spring, and so made a wa
tering place for his cattle. After Pen
field had explained this the two young
men set about prospecting the ridge.
They were at this more than three
hours, carefully examining every
square foot for a hundred yards or
more on both sides of the trail. At
last Penfield said:
"We are simply beating over ground
which has been searched again and
again by the best mine*s in Arizona."
lie wanted to stop, and before long
Harper agreed that It would be use
less to waste fruther time in looking.
They caught tho mules without dlffl
city and started in the direction of
the station.
Harper was silent and looked moody
—he was thinking hard. After they
had gone about a mile he proposed to
go back.
"What has struck you now?" Pen
field asked.
"Why, we looked everywhere except
in the place we ought to have looked.
There is only one place near the trail
over the ridge where Barlow coulli
have hastily concealed the outcrop
ping of a quartz ledge. Come and I'll
show you."
Penfield turned back without protest.
Harper rapidly led the way to the
watering-tank on the nearer slope,
aud attacked the dam vigorously with
ills pick. Soon he had made a breach
near the base of the roughly con
structed bank which backed the
waters of the spring. The water began
to trickle through the opening, and as
the united efforts of both men dis
lodged a large boulder from the soft
ened earth, the pent-up flood burst
through the aperture with great force,
and in a few minutes the centre of the
dam was swept away.
The down-rush of the water carried
with It much of the sand and sedi
ment which had accumulated in the
bottom of the pool, and exposed the
original rock floor of the gully. A
projecting knob attracted Penfleld's
attention. Sliding down the bank to
the bottom of the pool he struck this
knob a few resounding blows with his
pick, stooped a moment to examine
the broken surface, and arose with a
cry of exultation, holding aloft a frag
ment of white honeycomb quartz.
"Gold!" he cried. "The richest quartz
I ever saw! Harper, we've got it!"
The mystery of the lost mine has
been clear since that moment.
Barlow, following his mules, over
took them near this tank. At the same
time he discovered that the dam had
been broken by the rush of the torrent
down the gully. This torrent, by
washing away the accumulated sedi
ment, had exposed the ledge. Bar
low, contemplating the wreck of the
dam, had seen the outcropping quartz.
A quick examination convinced him
of the richness of his find. Hastening
to his station he procured the neces
sary tools, returned to the tank, se
cured some speciments of the gold
bearing rock and then rebuilt the dam.
It was a simple, but most effectual
method of concealment, for five hun
dred of the sharpest men in the South
west had passed over the place and
passed by it without ever thinking of
drawing off the the water from Bar
low's tank.—Youth's Companion.
I.lttte Foxes Kescuetl by Their Parent#.
Some weeks ago a den of foxes was
discovered on the bank of the Miami
lliver near Itedbank, by three boys,
John Bain, Lewis Shumate and a boy
named Lloyd. Young Lloyd took two
of them to his father's place, near
Itedbank. They were fastened to a
kennel with stout cords attached to
collars. It is stated that persons in
the vicinity frequently heard the old
foxes bark at night, and a few days
ago Farmer Lloyd, hearing a commo
tion in the barnyard, went out and
saw the parent foxes scurry away. He
tlietf went to the kennel and found
that the cords which had confined the
young animals had been chewed in
twain and the little ones were miss
ing. It is the supposition that the par
ent animals released their young and
carried them away in their mouths, as
a cat does her kitten.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
Tho Wettest Hours of the Day.
.jr. It. H. Scott, who was until re
cently the chief of our lueteorlogical
office, has made a detailed examina
tion of the records of the fall of rain
in each of the twenty-four hours of
the day, in order to find out which arc
the driest and which tho wettest
hours. The results show that in the
West the heaviest rains occur in the
early morning hours, and the least
lain in the early afternoon. In the
Bast, and also at inland places, the
heaviest rains occur in the afternoon
The records as a whole show that
everywhere in our Islands the hours
from about 10 o'clock in the morning
to noon are drier than the rest of the
day.—London Leisure Hour.
te Tenf-Tenf.
Teuf-teuf is the nickname bestoweu
upon the automobile by the inventive
Parisians. The name is supposed to
express the murmuring plaint, half
grunt and half gasp, which these ve
hicles give vent to when en route.
-J^FFAIRS
Useful Ilium For nlao Monday.
Clothes soaked over night are more
readily loosened of dirt than if washed
without any preparation. Mend all
rips and tears before allowing the
clothes to go to the wash and remove
any stains.
Prepare the clothes for soaking in
this manner: Sort them into three
piles, the tine white pieces that are
little soiled, the medium soiled pieces
and the dark, heavy pieces.
Fill tubs with tepid water, mixing
dissolved soap shavings and washing
soda well into the water. There
should be three tubs, one for each pile
of clothing. Allow the clothes to soak
over night.
In the morning ring the clothes from
the water and plunge them into a tub
tilled with hot water and dissolved
soap shavings and soda. Wash and
rub them until they are as clean as
they can be got, then rinse them in
a second tub of hot water and soap
and put in a boiler over the fire. The
water in the boiler should be cold at
first, and a little soda added to it if
the water is hard. Let the water
come to a boil in order to scald the
clothes, then rinse them in two wa
ters, and then in bluing water. The
bluing water should never be too dark.
A good way to test it is to take a hand
ful from the tub, and if it is a light
blue it is the right color.
Flannels will require more care.
They should be washed in water as
warm as the hands can bear and in
strong suds. The water should not be
hot. Itinse in waters of the same
temperature, and quickly. Do not rub
the flannels nor wring them with the
hands.
Iron them before they are quite dry.
FurniMliins: tlio I'ftrlor.
In every parlor there must be a cen
ter of interest to which the way is
clear. All fire lovers make the hearth
the point toward which all the inter
ests of a room converge. Sofas are
drawn up by it, chairs arranged near
it, the best picture placed over it.
The question of lights is carefully
studied, and wherever a comfortable
chair or sofa is placed, some pro
vision for a lamp or a light from the
window is considered.
The grouping of chairs, tables and
sofas is another point not to be neg
lected, so that different sorts of in
terests may be provided for without
interfering with one another—that one
may sit by the piano, for instance,
and others have a tete-a-tete some
where else.
When one has 110 pictures, a flow
ered paper on a parlor wall is effect
ive. Sometimes relief is lent by a
dado of velours or jute running to a
height of some four feet, and finished
by a narrow braid to match the body
color, nailed on the wall with invis
ible tacks. The furniture in this case
should be covered lo match the dado,
so that all the lower part of the room
is left in one tone. Brass scones and
mirrors alone should be hung on the
walls.
Yellow on the walls gives brightness
and cheerfulness and sometimes a
sense of uplifting, but one cannot get
coziness with it. Much white is per
missible with yellow. Relieved with
a note of crimson, as when a red cur
tain is hung at a door or a red cush
ion makes itself felt, a yellow and
white parlor becomes individual and
charming.—Harper's Bazar.
Orange Fritters—Divide the oranges
into quarters, previously removing all
the pulp carefully, so as not to break
the skin. Dip each piece into frying
batter and fry in deep fat till a golden
color.
Chicken Mayonnaise—Remove skin
and bone from cold cooked chicken.
Divide in rather large pieces. Just
before serving dip each piece into
mayonnaise dressing. Arrange neatly
on a bed of lettuce and serve very
cold. ,
Currant Buns—A piece of dough the
size of a pint howl, add one-half cup
sugar, one-half cup butter, nutmeg
and cinnamon to taste, one cup cur
rants, a little lemon peel. Knead well
and form into a loaf, put into a deep
buttered dish and rise two hours.
Bake slowly for one hour.
Mexican Cod—Pick fine a cupful of
salted cod and soak in different waters
until fresh enough to use. Fry a
'chopped onion iu a tablespoonful of
butter to a rich brown and add the
drained fish, with water enough to
cover it, a green pepper chopped fine
and a cupful of stewed tomato; cover
and stew slowly for one hour. Serve.
Corn Meal Crumpets—Two cupfuls
of buttermilk, one heaping tablespoon
ful of flour, one beaten egg, one tea
spoouful of sugar, one teaspoouful
of salt. Add Indian meal sufficient
to make a batter of the proper con
sistency. Dissolve a teaspoonfui of
soda in a little warm water and add
to the batter. Bake on a hot griddle.
Molded Cabbage—Put a head of
Savoy cabbage into a kettle of boiling
water; cover, put in where it will keep
hot—just simmer—for thirty minutes.
Drain and chop fine; season with a ta
blespoonful of butter, a teaspoouful of
salt and one-fourth of a saltspoonful
of white pepper. Tress into small
**■ tlds, stand the molds in hot water
for fifteen minutes. Turn onto a hot
platter and serve with white sauce.
Caiibage cooked slowly in this way
will be white and delicate.
MONEY TO BURN.
tit a Cigar With It anil Stopped a lino
on the Hank.
"A run on a bank is a funny thing,"
said the old banker, who was in a
reminiscent mood. "They will start
without the slightest cause, and you
never know when to expect them. It
may be only a rumor, it may lie in the
air, and the deed is done. Many a good
bank has gone to the wall simply be
cause there was 110 way to know that
a run was in prospect, and there are
times when the soundest bank in the
world could not stand an unexpected
run.
"A number of years ago, when I
was a young man, I was cashier of a
bank in the interior of the State. The
bank was in good condition and per
fectly sound, and we did not dream
that our credit would be questioned.
But one day a run was started with
out warning, and inside of two hours
there was a howling mob around the
bank, and we realized that we had a
serious situation to face.
"It was simply impossible for us to
meet all the demands, but I paid out
the funds that we had on hand, know
ing full well that it was a question of
only a few minutes when we would be
obliged to close.
"Finally the president of the bank
came to me and said in a low voice:
" 'How much longer can we hold
out?'
" 'Not over ten minutes.' I answered,
wiping the beads of perspiration from
my brow.
"Calmly and deliberately he reached
over to the money case, picked up a
$lO bill, rolled it lengthwise, stepped
to the stove and lit it. Thdn. with
out a quiver of an eyelid, lie produced
a cigar, bit off the end and proceeded
to light it from the burning bill.
"That move saved the bank. The
man to whom at that moment I was
handing his balance gasped and then,
shoving the money back, said he would
leave it. It was the turn of the tide,
and the run ceased. We didn't even
lose the $lO bill, as the president was
careful enough to see that there was
enough left to be redeemed."—Detroit
Free I'rcss.
Some Sea Yarn*.
Among the officers was one most,
amusing old follow, generally distin
guished for his slovenly appearance
and bad language. He had served
most of his time in brigs and small
craft, and was not quite at home in
a big ship. Some of his yarns are
worth repeating. As midshipman of
a brig 011 the West Coast, the gun
room officers were kept waiting for
their pea soup, and, going forward to
ascertain the cause, he found the
black steward washing his feet in the
soup tureen, preparatory to "dishing
up!" The boatswain of the brig was
challenged by the captain of a French
ship for having Insulted him, and a
rendezvous was arranged on shore.
The boatswain landed with a ship's
pistol, and observing the Frenchman
waiting with his second under a palm
tree, he at once opened lire 011 him,
and advanced loading and firing till
the Frenchman took to his heels The
captain of the brig was much disliked
by his officers, and being ill with yel
low fever and likely to die, the first
lieutenant used to drill the marines In
(lie burial service on the deck over the
captain's cabin, byway of cheering
him up, the corporal giving his or
ders in a loud voice, thus: "The corpse
Is now a-coming up the 'atchway—re
verse harms!" The skipper ultimately
recovered.—From "Hurrah for the
I.ife of a Sailor," by Vlce-Aduilral Sir
William Kennedy.
A Dog'* Supplication.
"Mike" is the name of a little gray,
silky-lialred spaniel, whose home is
on Maryland avenue, and lie is a most
cunning and amusing animal, and as
wise as it is possible that a little dog
can lie. His mistress lias taught him'
many tricks. He can tell you what he
does when the policeman comes, play
ing dead dog, and he can call his mis
tress when the telephone bell rings,
and is altogether a delightful dog. He
lias been taught to beg for things, and
his begging looks for all the world like
coaxing, so cunningly is it done. The
other day his mistress sent him up
stairs to get her slippers. He came
down presently with one, and she seut
him back for the other, but again he
returned without it. He was sent
back, and this time he stayed so long
that his mistress went up stairs her
self to see what was keeping him. A
heavy satchel bad fallen upon the slip
per, and the little dog, after trying in
vain to move it, sat on ills hind legs,
with his little paws raised in supllca
than, hoping that he might persuade
the satchel to get off the slipper. He
was probably convinced that his pray
er was cffleaeious when ills mistress
lifted the hindrance.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
An Iritili ITorie-Tniner.
It is no easy matter to quell "the
fiery untamed steed." "The man who
can hreak in a vicious horse is not to he
met with every day," observed a horse •
breeder, "and when a really good
man is found he may command a lot
of money.
"I suppose that an Irishman named
Sullivan was one of the greatest of
horse-tamers. His power was wonder
ful. and owners of vicious horses clam
ored for his services. He always per
formed his work in secret, causing
himself and his fractious charge to be
shut up together for about half an
hour.
"When the signal was given, the
door w?.s opened, and the horse, cov
ered with perspiration and trembling
violently, was seen lying down with
the Irishman familiarly playing with
him. The spirit hitherto so intracta
ble was completely broken: the steer,
from which the boldest rider shrank
to mount a child might have ridden
with the utmost safety."—New York
News.