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most correct way to judge him is by
his disappearance.
The German Emperor has increased
the pay of his military commanders
fivefold during their service in China—
the money to come out of the Chinese
treasury.
The French Senate has passed a bill
allowing women to practise law.
France ought to be a good country for
women lawyers. The law of evidence
is very elastic, and counsel may say
pretty well what they like.
King Leopold of Belgium admires
American writers for the reason that
they are "not monotonously immoral,
like the French. " Immorality is really
the most monotonous thing in the
world, as more than preachers will tell
you.
Immigration is increasing at such a
rate that the total figures for the cur
rent fiscal year promise to exceed
450,000, and beat all the records since
1892. The main stream of it is reported
to be coming from Italy and going to
the west.
Vermont has awakened to the neces
sity for good roads, and has decided to
issue bonds to the extent of SIOO,OOO
And invest the whole amount in high
ways and byways. Vermont will get
her money back in the enhancement of
the real estate throughout the state.
The disturbances in China have
struck a severe blow to the silk indus
try in Europe, and, according to Con
sul Hughe, at Coburg, in a communi
cation to the state d partment, that
industry is suffering greatly in Ger
many, Italy, France and Switzerland.
A large falling off in the yield, as com
pared with last year, is shown, and it
is feared that deliveries may be sus
pended. The situation is made more
serious by the fact that China silk is
the essential material for cheap fab
rics.
"What is known as the rural free de
livery system is likely to he of untold
benefit to the agricultural districts oi
the country in the near future. Al
ready the system has been put into
active operation in many of the states
and territories of the Union, but in no
section of the country as yet has the
system become generally operative.
In other words, it is being tried on a
limited scale in different localities
scattered about over the country, but
such has been the success of the ex
periment up to date that it will un
doubtedly meet with universal adop
tion.
Count Zeppelin seems to take his
ah : hip seriously as a machine that
in considerable measure has solved
the aerial navigation problem." It
certainly worked better at its recent
performances than it has worked be
fore. When there is not too much
wind it can go up and make a circle
in the air and come down gently.
So much it has done. But it is
clumsy, and the believers in the aero
plane think little of it. In appear
ance it is like a steamship in the air,
for it is a long, narrow balloon, made
in compartments,-with propellers to
drive it and rudders to steer it by.
Its projector has now got to the point
where he con make his trial and ex
periments in the air instead of on
land, and that is undeniably an ad
vantage, thinks Harper's Weekly.
Tn Scotland a twentieth of the area
forest land. The greater portion cf
the country is mountain heath and lake.
The cultivated land is comparatively
very limited in i*t? area.
Tt is planned to establish in Boston a
day nursery for blind babies who arc
not received in other nurseries because
they require more care than the ma
trons can five
IF I HAD GIFTS TO BRINC.
If T wore King of Fairyland
And had the right to say
How blessings should be passed around
Down here, from day to day—
If r might give to each and all
Whatever gifts I chose—
V. hat should I give, my little boy,
To you, do you suppose?
Not heaps of gold nor mighty ships
To sail the ocean bine.
Not wealth to make of other boys
The hired slaves of you—
But ruddy cheeks and sparkling eyes,
A laugh that had the ring
Of honest pleasure in it. and
A heart for everything!
|HGW IT Wf\§>
—
By J\. J\. Beck With. M
IN the Far West, particularly in 1
the Far Southwest, the newly .ar
rived settler often finds that he
has strange neighbors—not only
Indians, but white desperadoes, who
are more to be feared than even Utes i
and Apaches.
Two young friends of mine—good,
steady, New England born young men
—were so unfortunate as to buy land
In the vicinity of an especially ugly
member of this outlaw fraternity.
They had been brought up to obey the
law, and respect the property and
rights of their neighbors.
They could bo brave enough In the
defense of any just cause, yet they
dreaded and shrank from the use of
deadly weapons against a fellow-being.
Plain, farmer-bred boys, Gilbert and
Charles Small had, by steady labor
and economy, saved up a capital of
[>l7oo. With this they emigrated to
Colorado and started a small stock
farm, fifteen miles from Alamosa. By
availing themselves of the Homestead
ace and the pre-emption law, they se
cured a tract of 320 acres of land lying
upon a creek, with a range extending
back over the hills which was not
likely to be taken by other settlers.
At a point a short distance below,
where a mining trail passed them and
where they judged there would in time
be a railroad, tliey built a frame house,
which they opened as a hotel, and In
which they also kept a stock of grocer
ies.
Some eight or ten miles from them
lived a man named Peter Hergit, who
professedly worked a mine, but whose
place was really a rendezvous for ren
egade cowboys and other desperate
characters of the Jesse James type.
It was intimated that several dar
ing robberies had been planned, and
also that Clate Walker made it one of
his stopping places.
Walker was a notorious gambler and
dead shot. He was supposed to be the
leader of a band of train robbers, and
was said to have killed not less than
ten men in various affrays.
It was said, too, that occasionally,
when times became too monotonous
because of the lack of excitement, he
would kill a man "for fun," just to
keep his hand In.
He had a pleasing habit of riding
through small towns and camps, shoot
ing promiscuously at everybody he
saw, to keep up the terror of his name
—a matter he appears to have been
vain of.
It will seem well nigh incredible that
such a man should be allowed to es
cape justice and to run at large. Such
is the ugly fact, however, in scores of
similar cases, owing, probably to the
circumstances that no officer likes to
attempt the arrest of these despera
does, who generally carry two, and
sometimes, three, heavy revolvers, and
are marvellously quick and sure of
aim.
As an example of the wonderfully
rapid and accurate shooting of some
of those frontier men the writer re
members seeing a cowboy at Raton,
New Mexico, ride his horse at full gnl
lop past a telegraph post to which was
pinned the round white cover of a
paper collar box, and lodge four balls
from his Colt's pistol in this small
mark while passing. Afterward he
entertained us by throwing into the
air, one after another, a handful of
peanuts, ami craking each as it fell
with a single bullet.
Then lie did the same thing again,
tossing the nuts up rapidly, and twirl
ing the revolver round his forefinger
after every shot. Finally, throwing
the nuts up more slowly, he replaced
his pistol in its sheath at his hip after
every shot, drawing It for each suc
ceeding nut, and did not miss one out
of six. This shows the accuracy and
quickness of aim of inaiC of these
lawless fellows; and sucli a marksman
was Clate Walker, who added to his
reputation, moreover, the more mur
derous one of being a "killer," which,
In the phrase of this section, means a
desperado who will shoot a man upon
the least provocation. Our two young
stockmen had heard of this border
molester, but their first actual ac
quaintance with him began the first
week after putting up their sign,
"Small Bros., Hotel a .d Grocery."
Walker chanced to pass one morn
ing, and seeing the new sign, and by
nay of calling attention to himself,
reined in his liorsc, drew his revolver,
and opened fire on the sign, shooting
the first letter, "S," to pieces. Then,
dismounting, lie kicked the door open,
and walking in, demanded n "cock
tail."
Gilbert, who chanced to be inside at
the time, told him civilly that there'
was no bar in connection with the
house, for, true to their home princi
ples, the young men had determined to
keep a "temperance house"— -a greater
If I were King of Fairyland,
With none to say me nay,
O. little girl, what think you I
Should bring to you to-day?
Nay, I should bring across the sea
rrom some knight-ridden strand
No mincing little "nobleman,"
To ask you for your hand!
I would not raise up castle walls
W here you should be the Queen,
But I would let you play with dolls,
•Still artless and serene.
And I would put within your heart
Ike everlasting grace
That lifts a woman out and leaves
angel in her place.
—S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald,
anomaly in the West than many may
at first suppose.
"A temperance house!" shouted
Walker, and he vented his astonish
ment and disgust in a burst of oaths
and revilings. "No'man shall keep a
hotel with nothing to drink in it in
these parts!" he said. "If you don't
have liquor, and good liquor, too, the
next time I call, I won't lenve a whole
dish or a whole bone here!" And as a
foretaste of what he would do ho
kicked over the table and smashed
three or four chairs byway of leave
taking.
With such a customer on their hands
it is little wonder that our young
friends felt very ill at ease. Still they
were bold men, and were determined
not to be bullied into keeping rum; so
tliey went übout their business as
usual.
Nothing further was seen of Walker
for two weeks, when one morning,
while Charles was getting breakfast,
Gilbert having gone out to look after
the cattle. The first hint that Charles
had of his visitor's presence was an
other volley of shots at their sign
board.
This time Clate had shot the second
letter to pieces. It was apparently
his way of knocking. Immediately af
ter ho kicked the door open.
Under these circumstances it is not
very strange that Charles stepped out
of a back door . t about this time, and
went behind t lie corral, from whence
he heard Walker firing repeatedly and
a great smashing Inside. When at
length the desperado had taken ids de
parture it was found that he had made
a complete wreck of the crockery and
furniture, and in the grocery room he
had helped himself to tobacco and
emptied his revolver at the kerosene
barrel, which, tapped in half a dozen
places, was deluging the floor.
I shall not undertake to say what
the duty of my young friends was;
whether they should have resisted the
outrage anil defended their property
at the risk of their lives or moved
away from so dangerous a neighbor
hood. What they did was to get out
of sight whenever they saw Walker
coining, and lot him do his worst. It
chanced that after a time a second
cousin of my young friends came
West to see them. li s name was
Forney, and he was then a student at
the military academy at West Point.
He dropped in upon the Small broth
ers quite unexpectedly one afternoon,
and it is needless to say that they
were very glad to see him, and that
they passed a very pleasant evening.
Nothing was said about Walker, for
Gilbert and Charles, having an hon
est pride in their ranch, were loth to
let Lieutenant Forney know how bad
ly they were off In respect to neigh
bors. The di sperado happened to
come along, however, thy very next
morning.
Charles and Forney were sitting in
the dining-room wlun Gilbert came
rushing in, having seen the gambler
coming up the road.
"Old Clate Walker's coining!" he ex
claimed. "Put out at the back door!"
Charles leaped to liis feet, but oil'
young West Pointer rose more leisure
17.
"Who in the dickens is old Clate
Walker?" he asked.
"A regular border terror! A desper
ado! A killer!" exclaimed Gilbert.
"He's likely to shoot any one of us at
sight! Come on!"
"What! Run from your own house?"
said Forney, surprised. "Why, what
hold has this fellow on you?"
"No hold whatever; but he's a dead
j shot and a double-dyed murderer!"
' cried Charles. "You don't know hhu
as we do. Come along with us and
get out of his way."
"Not I!" exclaimed Forney, who per
haps felt that his military reputation
was at stake. "Take your two guns
and stand ready in the kitchen, t'l.
stop here auil see Mr. Walker."
He hurriedly took his revolver from
his overcoat pocket, then stepped U
the window behind the desk on tilt
counter.
With his customary oath, the gamb
let - and dead shot kicked open the door
anil strode in. The young lieutenant
■sat on the high stool behind the desk
apparently reading the newspaper. He
(lid not look tip.
"Hello, you sneak!" shouted Walk
er. "Where are the tender kids that
keeps this temperance hotel?"
"I think they've gone out to hide,'
said Forney, carelessly turning hit
paper. "They said there was a man
enter, a regular anthropophagus', com
•ing, and they were going to hide some
where."
Walker stared,
i "Well, well!" he ripped out. "If you
■ ain't the freshest kid I've struck in
ten years! Right fresh from the East,
aren't you, young feller?"
"Yes," said Forney, moving the pa- '
per. "I'm from the East, and I'm
pretty fresh, I suppose. I'm a young ,
fellow, but I'm a pretty nice one."
"Don't you give me any of your lip!"
thundered Walker. "Do you know who
I am?"
"How should I?" said Forney. "It's I
none of my business. I'm only here I
on a visit. I don't care who you are."
The bully flushed, stung by the care I
less contempt in Forney's tone.
"Suppose," he muttered, taking a
step toward the counter, while amur- I
dermis gleam crept Into his eye, "sup- j
pose I were to tickle your Adam's up- |
pie, with my dirk; what then?"
"Then I'd shoot you dead for the
scoundrelly hound you are!" exclaimed
the youug cadet, sudden presenting his
cocked revolver full in Walker's face
"Move—stir a. hand—and I'll shoot you
like a dog!"
"The first man that ever got the best '
of me!" gasped Walker; "and you n
little whipper-snapper from the East!"
"No mutter what I am," said Forney,
sternly. "If you mpve a hand, I'll
shoot you! Gilbert! 6hnriie!"
The two 1 co! hers, who from tilt !
kitchen had heard the above dialogue, '
and were several times on the point of !
taking to their heels out at the hack ,
door, now entered guns in hand.
"Cover him, Gilbert," said Forney
"If lie stirs a hand, put a load of buck
shot through him. Now, Charles
come and take his pistols and his
knife."
Having disarmed Walker, they
marched him out of the door and
around the house into the cattle cor
ral in the rear of it. This corral was
built of adobe bricks, the wall being
from seven to eight feet high, and in
closed a space about eighty feet
square.
They gave him no chance to get the
start, but kept him covered with gun
and pistol. They gave him a chair to
sit on, however, and there he sat all
day, watching the cadet and Gilbert,
and they him, while Charles rode post
haste to Alamosa to swear out a war
rant for his arrest, and summon the
sheriff and liis posse to take him. The
officers, hearing so dangerous a ruf
fian was really waiting their disposal,
were not slow in responding to Charles
Small's summons, and by three o'clock
that afternoon the young lieutenant
had the satisfaction of seeing the "bor
der terror" taken into legal custody
and marched oil to Jail. I
But, as is too often the ense in the
Far West, the prisoner was lynched
instead of being tried and convicted of
his crimes. He was taken forcibly
from jail by a masked party from one
of the mining camps, the third night
after being lodged there, and hanged,
without any form of trial, to the near
est tree.
Lieutenant Forney had proven him
self a hero, and was greatly respected
for what he had done in bringing
Walker to justice.—Waverley Maga
zine.
Must Put the Blame on Somebody.
The young man had returned from
hie wedding trip, and was again at his
desk in the office. ' j
It was the day after his return that
the junior partner called him to his
desk and said:
"Now that you're married, Mr. Quills,
I trust you will lie considerate in your ■
treatment of me."
"I don't quite understand you, sir!"
exclaimed the young man, in surprise.
"Oh, It's a little early, I know," ad
mitted the Junior partner, "but there's
uothing like taking time by the fore
lock. I suppose you haven't been out
late at night yet?"
"Certainly not, sir."
"And it's none of my business if you
have. But when you do stay out some
night, be considerate. Remember that
I have a reputation for fairness and
humane treatment of everybody in this
office that I would like to retain. Don't
tell your wife that you're sorry you're
late, but that that slave-driver at the
office piled work upon you to such an
extent that you had to work right into
the night; don't tell her that the tyrant
you work under gave you one-and-slx
pence for dinner, and told you that
you would have to post all the books
in the office before leaving for the
night. Just invent some other excuse,
you know."
The young man thought the matter |
over for a minute or two, and then
asked, anxiously;
"Well, If I should be late, what shall '
I say?" I
"Oh, put is on the senior partner, as
I do. He can stand it."—Tit-Bits. ,
31 icrnbes on Donrknolig.
The latest lair to which scientists j
have traced the merry microbe is the
doorknob. The organisms thrive on
these innutritions substances, it ap- j
pears, and in a round of calls one may j
collect, a variety of germs from the I
doors of cabs, houses and trolley cars, j
The danger may be obviated by anti-1
septic gloves, it Is said, but, consid
ering the unconcern with which wo
men now gather up the bacteria of the
streets with their sweeping draperies,
one does not expect them to be Inor
dinary nervous about the few orgnn
isnis that may attach themselves to
their fingers.
Colors Htitl Children's Moods.
According to a writer in tlfe Nursery, I
matrons of infant asylums say that u
young infant will be cross all day if
dressed In u gray frock, but contented
and happy if dressed In a bright red
frock. Children from two to four an j
much less affected by the color of their
dresses. It is commonly observed ill
kindergartens that the younger chil
dren prefer the red playthings, while j
the older children prefer the blue. i
; ESCAPED MOM SIBERIA
REMARKABLE STORY AND THRILL
INC ADVENTURES OF AN EXILE.
riio Sufferings of Frank Grygiaszewskl,
Who Was Sent to the Mines For Par
ticipating In the Rebellion of the Kus
j siait Poles.
i Here is the remarkable story of the
exile of Frank Gryglaszewskl, who
was sent to Siberia 011 account of his
I participation in the rebellion of the
; Russian Poles against the Imperial
j Government In 1803-65, who are five
times wounded by Russian bullets,
j who walked seven thousand miles
through Arctic Russia and Siberia in
I chains, who escaped his captors by a
method almost miraculous, and re
traced his steps for seven thousand
miles along the great Siberian road.
"During the two years 1803 1804,"
I said Mr. Grygla, as lie is now known,
j "sixteen hundred political prisoners
were executed in the prisons at War
saw. My two brothers, who were cap
; tured, had been too prominent in the
revolutionary movement to remain
long unidentified. At their trial they
: were sentenced to (lie together, and I
stood among the Polish prisoners and
looked 011 while they were being shot
to death. My own trial came soon
after. When I was led out by the
guards I was informed that I had been
sentenced to a life of banishment in
Lublin—one of the uttermost provinces
of Siberia.
"Late In August the transport left
St. Petersburg, and at the end of three
months we arrived at Tobolsk, just ov
er the Siberian boundary line. Our
line of march was along the great
Siberian road, of which much has been
told and of which so much more can
never be told. The prisoners walked
in chains, and were tied to one anoth
er to prevent any one escaping. In
front, to either side and behind the
guards marched, with loaded muskets
unslung. Their orders were to shoot
any who attempted to escape,
"Following the main line of march
came the 'telegas.' These were rough
wooden wagons without springs. If
n man fainted or dropped in the lino
from sickness he was loaded on one
of these until the next 'etnp.' or sta
tion, was reached. Here a stop was
made for the night.
"Even during the journey of three
months in Russia there was much dis
ease and death in the transport on ac
count of overcrowding in the prlson
j era* rooms. But it was the hospitals
that we feared the most. Time after
time I have seen men drag 011 un
til they dropped dead in their tracks
rather than enter one of these hos
pitals.
"Long before we reached Tobolsk the
horrors of what was to come had
dawned upon us. The pittance which
the Government granted us for support
was qmall enough, and permitted our
buying only the coarsest kind of meat
and flour. But for many days before
our arrival at that city the officers in
charge had withheld the greater part
of the allowance, and no one received
more than three or four kopecks a day.
After we had talked among ourselves
I was selected' to present the griev
ances of the transport to the Governor
of Tobolsk. This I did when occasion
offered. He immediately flew into a
most violent rage, and roundly abused
the officer in charge of our party.
"I was stripped to the waist, and
two soldiers were detailed to give me
a hundred lashes with the knout. I
was beaten accordingly until 1 fell In
a faint from pain and loss of blood. At
the conclusion of my punishment salt
was rubbed into my wounds and I was
thrown 011 a 'telega,' where 1 was left
to recover my senses. That the ex
ample might prove even more efficient
the officer ordered that I receive on my
bare back twenty lashes with the
knout before the transport entered
every great town.
"In the 'etaps' the vigilance of the
guards increased, if anything, .and
uuder no conditions were the prisoners
ever allowed to leave their room. No
water was allowed, except for pur
poses of cooking and for drinking. The
penalty for the infraction of the rules
was death.
"The women and the children num
bered at first about two hundred. The
children died first, then the women.
As long as any of these unfortunates
could hold up they stayed afoot; thou
they look to the wagons.
"We pushed 011 through the winter,
spring ami summer of 1805. The pris
oners had dropped off from to
1000, and with the coming of the win
ter of 1805 only about eight hundred
were left alive. One day the
prisoner next to me procured
a small knife—a mere play
thing, fashioned for wearing as a
watchcharm. With this he managed
to sever the arteries of both wrists.
As he held it in his hand for a moment
while the blood began to How, I
reached for it and quickly concealed
it by sticking the blade in the bark
thong which bound me to the prisoner
opposite the dying man.
"When the guards stopped the trans
port to drag the suicide away my
pockets were searched. No pointed
instrument was found about me ami
the incident was soon forgotten. But
with the knife I managed to slowly
saw away the thongs which bound me
to my neighbors on either side. Oil
the morning of December 5, ISOS--1
have always celebrated the day as my
Fourth of July—having severed my
bonds and awaited a favorable oppor
tunity, I broke from the transport and
ran.
"I was muffled up in the same great
coat that I had worn from the hospital,
and my feet and Rands were heavily
covered, as was my head. The
guards were also encumbered, and I
bad run perhaps a hundred and fifty
feet before three or four shots rang
out almost simultaneously, and I fell;
My fall was due rather to chance than
to intention on my part, for as it hap*
pened the bullet which struck me
could not have knocked me down. For
some time I lay in the snow motion*
less. 'I
"I had learned while with the trans*
port that it would be useless to at*
tempt to escape by going East. Aci
cordingly I turned back upon the road
over which I had come.
"If I had been supplied with weap
ons of any kind I might have been
comparatively safe from the attacks
of the wolves. As it was I was forced
to sleep at night tying myself In trees
along the roadside. Living in this
fashion I followed the trail for six
weeks, growing weaker day by day.
Finally a blinding snow storm came
on. Feverish and confused, I wan
dered from the trail and lost my way.
That night I ascended a tree with dif
ficulty, tied myself to the trunk and
went to sleep—rather, J should say, I
must have waxed into Insensibility.
"The fever must have seized strong
ly upon me, for when consciousness
returned to me in the morning—if I
may call it consciousness—l was dim
j ly aware that my hand was almost
frozen, while I thought that I had!
heard the sound of rifle shots. Some
one came under the tree and spoke to
me, I felt myself btFing untied, and for
six weeks 1 know no more.
"I was in the exile home of two Rus
sian university students, who were
serving out a term of some years for
having been suspected of plotting
against the Government. They had
been hunting 011 the morning that they
had found me.
"I followed the road a year, and
came in the spring of ISO7 once more
to the city of Tobolsk. Here 1 ob
tained, through the agency of frieiuls*
a <lisgtiise, and here I was furnished,
with additional funds.
"I passed the Austrian line in safe
ty, and, learning that my 1110 liter and
j only sister were living at Cracow, I
| made my way to that city."
I There Is little more of noteworthy In
cident in the life of Mr. Grygla. For
a while he lived in Cracow with his
mother, but his proximity to the Rus
sian border made liis friends and fami
ly advise that he either enter the Aus
trian military service or leave the
country. With SSOO in gold h bade
a last farewell to European shores and
sailed for the United States in 3870.
I-Ie was then but twenty-three years
old. In Minneapolis young Grygla
went into business as a contractor. In
18S8 he was appointed Assistant Su
perintendent of Public Buildings un
der tlie Harrison Administration. After
leaving the Government service he
traveled extensively throughout Cen
tral and South America 111 the inter
est of American capitalists, and in
1808 he accepted the position of spe
cial land agent to Alaska for the In*
terior Department.—New York Herald*
Naval Rattles at T.oilg Rnngp.
Three of the new -15-calibre O.tMnoh
coast guns are being mounted at Do
ver. They are sighted up to 10,000
yards. These guns fire lyddite shell*
and such shell fired experimentally]
havq tiling fragments a mile away.
Against ships there seems no reason
why such guns, mounted high up and
well supplied with range finders,
should not fire and stand some chance
of hitting at a range of six or seven
miles. These 45-enlibre guns are not
mounted afloat in our service, though'
the French are fond of that length for
all naval guns. Without range tind
ers it is a waste of powder to fire at
any range much over 4000 yards, prob
ably, at sea, for the range must be
known to a yard almost. But even
with such appliances, the naval battle
of the future should begin directly
the ships sight each other. It is ai
cheerful prospect, when one bad hit
may mean out of action. —Loudon En
gineer.
Reform In St Lonta.
A St. Louis reformer proposes to
have the authority of the Board of
Health invoked to stop a habit of
whistling 011 the public thoroughfares
which is said to be peculiar to that
city.
The whistling habit as a rule gives
as much pain to others as it gives
pleasure to the whistler. Still it mighti
be as Weil not to attempt to check it
by official intervention. It is often
merely the spontaneous expression of
a cheerful frame of mind, and its prev
alence in St. Louis is probably dua
to confident anticipation of the success
of the Louisiana Purchase celebration.
If this is the case the St. Louis whis
tle should be encouraged rather than
suppressed. And in any event, if the
Board of Health of that city has dis
charged its more important duties so
completely that it can afford 10 take
up tin; whistling question, it must be
a remarkable and exceptional Board
of Health. —Xi.w York World.
A Now Rue l'or Ragplpi?.
A new use for the bagpipes has been
found by a Scottish Highlander, who
owns a sheep farm in a mountainous
district of California, and is in the
habit almost daily of playing his pipes
all over the ground. The skirling has
had the happy effect of scaring eagles
out of the locality, in which birds of
prey had formerly done considerable
damage by carrying off lambs, and bad
even attacked grown sheep.
I.atln Now HII Optional Ntmly.
At a public school in Armstrong,
Mo., a pupil refused to study Latin,
and was expelled. Ills father, a Meth
odist preacher, took the matter before
the board, with the result that Latin
is now an optional study.
The Osygtn We Croat lie.
Every human being; uses uy, on ta
average, thirty ounces of oxygen a
day.