j|S iX| iTILES OF PLUCK ; AND ILTENTURK | •Jack Jouett Saved Jefferson. PAUL REVERE was not the only man who rode long and hard to warn patriots that the f. British were coming, in the days when the present entente be tween England and America was a tiling undreamed of. Worthy to rank with it was the adventure of Jack Jouett, a young Charlotteville innkeep er. who rode thirty miles to save Thomas Jefferson from capture. The story is told in St. Nicholas by R. T. W. Duke, Jr. Jack shrewdly guessed that Tarle ton would follow the highway into the main road that led by the country scats, the homes of the gentry. Jack knew a shorter route, an old disused oad that would lead lilm to the river, hence to Monticello, and then to. "harlottesvtlle—not a pleasant road *n ride or drive, though as picturesque a route as one often sees: for on either side grew great pine trees iiere, and passive oaks there, while dogwood and sassafras and sumac filled the spaces. The road had once been a uittalo track, then an Indian trail, then a wagon road for a while, but as no one ever worked it or changed the grade, it rapidly washed into a suc- C" -ion of red gullies and became wcll igh impassable. So it had been abandoned many years, and nature had covered up the r ears made by the animals and men. and only in a few places could one have known that it had ever been used as a highway. Broom-sedge grew wherever there was an open space; ferns of a hun dred varieties clustered in every hol low where water ran, and the wild bramble ran riot everywhere in the shade. Into this old road Jack pushed his horse, and soon was dashing .at full speed over hill and dale. It was a dangerous ride, even at a slow gait. Deep gullies lay concealed tinder treacherously smiling wild flowers. Grnund-liog holes offered pitfalls lia ble to break the leg of his steed; over hanging limbs swept him in the face, and the wild brier ever and anon caught him in a painful and harassing j embrace. Ilis face bore for many j years the sears left on his face by , tills brier, which, you know, climbs up trees and seems to throw itself from ! one to another. But Jack had uo time to consider these things. He knew that in a few hours the enemy would lie in Charlotte ville, and make the Governor and Legislature prisoners unless he could give them timely warning. His mare was sure of foot, sound of wind, and no other fox hunt er got the brush when Jack and she were in the hunt. So away he wont, touching iter light ly with the spur now and then, but often cheering iter in the race with a merry whistle or eneouraglug word. He had thirty miles to make. He could have as easily made fifty on a good road as thirty through this wil derness. At one point the disused road entered a field in sight of the highway along which Tnrleton's le gion was passing, and a few strag glers saw Jack when he dashed into the open. They followed liitn with loud shouts aud a pistol shot or two, but when he dashed into the woods they abandoned the pursuit. Onee his bay mare fell, her foot having caught in a mass of brush unjl brier and half rotten logs, but up she scrambled aud away she went, as if she knew that tlie fate of a commonwealth depnded upon her. In two hours Jack rode his thirty miles and paused ill the ford j just opposite the little hamlet of Mil ton, two miles from Monticello. Only a moulliful of water did he allow his gallant bay to sip, and then he dashed up the river bank and ou through the streets of the village, stopping not at anxious hails of men and women, but merely shouting: "The British are coming! The British are coming!" In ten minutes he drew rein iu front of a quuint brick house on top of the now famous mountain. "He was a Bight, too," the darkies said. His face was torn nnd bleeding from the wild brier thorns, his gray blue suit cov ered with mud and dirt, his mare cov ered with sweat and foam and pant ing as if her heart would burst through her sides. Down from the porch in front of which Jack had halted came n tall, thin man, dressed iu a suit of naukeen, lace at his wrists and shirt front, and with a little sword-cane In his hand. This m'an had clear, spark ling blue eyes, and a thin skin under which the blood almost seemed start ing. His hair was thin and curly and covered with white powder. For a moment he did not recognize the rider. Then, asj he drew nearer, "Why, Mr. Jouett," he said, "what brings you here, and with your good horse so well-uigh spent':" Jack could only gasp, "The British, Governor! Tanetou and his men passed Cuckoo Tavern at ii o'clock this morning;'' Aud Tarlcton was outwitted. Story of a Fall. Every time that Thomas Dougherty looks at the stump of his left leg he realizes that falling 100 feet into the water and falling the same distance to the ground are entirely different. Yt-t he insists that, once having started on the downward path, a mau can choose the way of his descent and land on his feet, according to the New York Press. He says if he hadn't been able to do this feat he wouldn't he telling his earthly friends now how it happened j Tom runs a little store in Pittsburg. | Years ago, when a-lad iu England, lie took to the sen, and on shipboard be got used to falls and jumps from liigli places. One time, while up on ths main truck in the harbor of Liverpool, lie saw a man and a woman struggling for their lives in the water. He jumped to their rescue, and landed 100 feet below in the water, feet down. When he came to the surface be succeeded in saving both their lives. Years passed, and Tom, a man, for sook the sea and went to Pittsburg, where he was employed in the rigging gang of a gas company. One day, while at the top of a chimney which rose 101 feet from the ground, he fed from the ropes and fell downward. He says: "When I found myself going to the bottom I wus not at first alarmed. I had fallen before and jumped from higher points. But just then I hap pened to remember that in my former experiences I had jumped or fallen in to the water. So, says I to myself, 'You are goiug to get hurt, Tommy, so look out.' Down I went, and, to tell the truth, it seemed as though I had bedn on the way a mouth before I struck tlic bottom. Finally there was a crash and I saw more stars than all the astronomers nave been able to dis cover since the world has been. After the first jar was over I felt a stinging sensation in botli of my legs. I tried lo get on my feet, but could not, and then was sure I liad been hurt." Wliat happened to bis legs was this: Both ankles were teloseopc-d nnd every bone in nis left loot and ankle was broken. That leg liad to be amputated at the knee, but tUe other leg was not hurt so badly, and It was saved. Dougherty recovered, and now he Is happy, and likes to tell how he felt when he was falling. A Story of Daniel Boone. 11l ills hook, "The Early History of Western Pennsylvania," Mr. I. D. Hupp tells an interesting anecdote of Colonel Daniel Boone, which is char acteristic of the humor and coolness of the famous pioneer. He was once resting in (he woods with a small party of followers, when a large num ber of Indians came suddenly upon them. Boone had little doubt as to their hostile intentions, but giving no evidence of his fears, he invited the red men to eat with him and his friends. The invitation was accepted. The Indians felt so sure of their prey that they could afford to wait. Boone, af fecting a carelessness which he did not feel, admonished his men in an undertone to keep their hands on their rifles. Finally ho rose tnd strolled toward the Indians, unarmed, leisurely pick ing tlie meat from a hone. The In dian chief rose to meet him. After saluting, Boone professed ad miration for the knife with which the chief was cutting tils meat, and asked to see it. The Indian promptly handed It to him, and the pioneer, who pos sessed some skill at sleight of hand, deliberately examined the knife, then opened his mouth and apparently swal lowed it. The Indians stared in amazement while Boone gulped, rubbed his throat, stroked his body, aud then, with ap parent satisfaction, pronounced the knife "very good to oat." After enjoying the surprise of the Indians for a minute, he made another contortion, aud drawing forth the knife, as the Indians believed, from ills body, he politely returned it to its owner. The old chief look the point cnu tiously and suspiciously between his thumb nnd finger as If fearful of being contaminated by handling the weapon, nnd flung it from him into the bushes. The Indians seemed uneasy after that, and very soon marched away, without showing their hostile intent. They did not choose to molest n man who could swallow a scalpiug-knifo and call it "good to eat." Fouglit. With an Eagle. A woman named Callahan, living at Carmel, IVnu., liad a desperate fight with an eagle which was trying to carry away her two-year-old child. The child's face nnd hands were torn by the bird's talons and Mrs. Callahan was seriously pecked before she suc ceeded in driving off the big bird. The child liad wandered into a clear ing near the house, and soon after ward Mrs. Callahan heard her scream ing. From the door of her home tlie frightened mother beheld the monster bird pecking, clawing and flapping the little one who, with her hands and arms was trying to break away from her antagonist. Once the bird caught the child's dress in its talons and prepared to bear it aloft, but the child's struggles compelled the bird to let go. The frightened mother secured a rifle and ran to the rescue of her child. She dared not shoot, but with the butt of the guu she rau screaming toward the eagle. It was not to be driven off without a struggle. It let go of the child and turned its attention to the parent. The bird Hew into tlie woman's face and peeked her eyes and nose, but with a well directed blow from the club tlie eagle dropped to tlie ground, and after a moment's scrambling took to the air and wont iiying away. It is said that during tlie past summer this eagle lias carried away several pigs and (hat once before it had made an at tack upon a child. Mrs. Callahan says that the bird was five or six feet from tip to tip of wing, and that its talons were almost razor-like in their sharpness. False Colors. "Occasionally there is a man," mor alized the professor, "who acquires the reputation of being a mystic when lie is merely pessimistic." Chicago Tribune. The trolley lines of Philadelphia 'JLW distribute the morning papers at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. lule Little .Johnny—Hampered— An All- Pervading Growler—The Preliminary His Occupation—No Change in the Menu—A Weakling Chap, Etc., Etc. Johnny with his little axe Dealt his brother orful whacks. He don't care it Mamma kicks; Ain't he cute, he's only six. —Cornell Widow. Hampered. •'lda never talks slang." "Then that's it. I wondered why it was she could never make herself un derstood."—Philadelphia Bulletin. An All-Pervading Growler. Mrs. .Wiggles—'"Does your husband have a 'den?'" Mrs. Waggles—"No, he roars all over the house."—Somerville (Mass.) Jour nal. The Preliminary. Visitor—"Ah, Antoine, beginning a painting, I see. What is the subject?" Artist—"l don't know yet. I've only got my name on the canvas so far!"— Chicago Record. His Occupation. "I once knew a man who didn't do anything but sign checks." "Rich, eh?" "Not exactly; he was u forger."— Philadelphia Press. No Change in the Menu. Star Boarder—"l see that meat has advanced in price." Mr. Sourdrop—"That won't bother us. The leather market is firm."— Baltimore American. A Weakling Chap. She—"You're getting tired of kissing me already." He—"What makes you think that?" She—"l saw you stop to take breath."—Harper's Bazar. Confident. Nervous Mother—"Are you sure, Wil lie, that the ice is safe?" Willie—"Oh, yes! It wouldn't be safe if there was another boy with me, but I'm goiug alone."—Life. School Wa All flight. Mrs. Von Blumer—"My children have been to school now two terms and have made scarcely any progress." Mrs. Witherby—"How sad. And it's such a good school, too."—Detroit Free Press. Profits of Ignorauce. "Why don't you bookstore clerks know more about books?" "Madam, we don't dare lie intellec tual, for customers would ask us so many questions that we couldn't make any sales."—Chicago Record. Depends, '•This is a hard world," moaned the young sparrow that had fallen out of its nest. "Oh, I don't know," replied the an gleworm, making for its hole as fast as it could. "I don't find it so."—Chi cago Tribune. Compassion. First Parrot —"I don't think you ought to swear at old Henpeck." Second Parrot—"Why?" First Parrot—"Oh, I don't believe in rubbing it in too strong; what Mrs. Henpeck saj's to him is a-plenty."— Philadelphia Press. An Cnnatural Mother. "I gave my wife a dreadful turn this morning; she thought I sat down on her pet kitten, but I didn't." "Wasn't the kitten at all, eh?" "Naw—only the baby, but I toll you she was frightened 'til sue found out." —Ohio State Journal. Agreed With Him. "I'm not at all discouraged in my efforts to become a musician, hut I must say that it requires a great deal of patieuce to learn to play ou the vio lin." "I have no doubt that your neighbors are all convinced of that."—Boston Courier. Covers Too Much Ground. Blinks—"Jinks Is continually telling me what a lucky fellow you are." Kinks—"Yes, hut I don't like the way he expresses it. Every time he meets me he says: 'Kinks, you're a lucky man. Yon don't seem to have anything on your mind at all.' "—ln dianapolis Sun. Bound to Make Trouble. First Waiter—"That man over at tlio corner table is an awful kicker." Second Waiter—"Yes; he complained the other day because there were no pearls in his oysters." First Waiter—"And now he wants to know what we mean by removing the diamonds from his diamond-back terrapin."—Philadelphia Record. A Natural Pride. He—"Oh. yes! I do a little that way now and then; I've written one or two plays." She—"How perfectly delightful! And have you met with much suc cess?" He—"Pretty well, so far. I once got a manuscript of mine back from the manager."—Life. An Asftumption. "I never saw a man put on such airs," snid the street car conductor, as ho rung up a fare. "He merely said that he hoped for some consideration because be was a regular patron." "That's what I object to. The Idea of his assuming such superiority and calling himself 4 n patron.' He knows as well as I do that we just permit him to ride."—Washington Star. I SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, A firm of Hauau, Germany, has suc ceeded In welding metal aluminum without the use of any metal, solder or acid. No seam can be detected, and the welded pieces can resist blows and temperature variations as well as if there were no joint. The process Is a secret one. The London Lancet calls attention to the fact that canned toiiintoes are now being extensively colored, in or der to make them look attractive and as if made from ripe fruit. Among the colors so employed are coal-tar colors and cochineal. The subject of artificial coloring and preservation of food is now receiving great attention In England. The third cable has been laid be tween the Netherlands and England. It comprises four wires, which extend from London to Rotterdam and Am sterdam. Telegraphing over these wires will be done by means of the Hughes apparatus, and at busy times with duplex Hughes apparatus. The cost of the construction of the cable will be borne by both countries. This will greatly accelerate telegraphic traf fic between the Netherlands and Eng land. In excavating for the drainage sys tem which is being installed in the City of Mexico, a number of articles were found which belonged to a perokl previous to the invasion of Cortex. Some of the articles found were golden ornaments with which the Aztec gods were decorated. On the extension of the Mexican Central Railway, work men dug out $50,000 in gold and silver coins, the Government and the work men sharing equally under the old law of treasure trove. The scarcity of agricultural labor In Yorkshire, England, has resulted in the widespread introduction of me chanical appliances in order to cope with the work. One of the most novel Is a mechanical milking device, hut which, however.has not been employed with very great success. The results of mechanical milking are far below those obtained by hand, which is prin cipally due to the fact that no two udders are alike, and also because the animals object to the tubes. The American red gum wood is now being largely employed in London for street paving purposes. Regent Street, Piccadilly, and the Haymarket have recently been paved with this wood, and it is to be employed exten sively in other parts of the metrop olis. Although the wood is not so hard as the red woods of Australia, it is more durable than deal or any other timber, while it affords the best foothold for horses. A prominent fea ture of the wood is that it neither shrinks nor expands under the in fluence of dry or wet weather, which are great recommendations for its utilization for paving purposes. A Claimant to tlin llrltl.h Tlu-one. Diversity of personal claim has ever constituted a hitch in the "divine right" argument to sustain a throne. It is an interesting manifestation in raonnreiiienl affairs even now, when that argument Is so little dwelt upon. At the present moment one gentleman Is abroad who considers himself the rightful emperor of the French, while another sees himself the proper king of the same people. Spain lias a pre tender in the shadow. And while Queen Victoria, of the house of Han over, lies dead in Osborne House, a lady watching events from Munich regards herself as a living Mary IV., direct from the house of Stuart. The pretender in Bavaria is the Princess Mary Theresa Dorothea, wife of Prince Louis. She is a direct de scendant of the Princess Henrietta Anne, sister of the deposed -Tames 11. If she has any hope in England it is In the Legitimist party. But her hopes are admittedly faint. When a state ment of the Legitimist cause was printed, nearly a year ago, she con tributed her photograph to the story. So little was thought of the matter in Britain that the Legitimist Jacobite League is permitted to exist un troubled and unwatchcd. This Mary in Munich is a devout Catholic. She has twelve living children, one of whom is regarded by her as the real Prince of Wales. Her ambitions need not trouble the rest of Victoria nor the dreams of Edward Vll.—New York Herald. Effect of Foreign Invasion in China. The effects of quartering the Ger mans, French and Italians in the city soon became apparent. When they moved in, conditions were about norm al. The streets teemed with life, and the shops and markets did business as usual. By the next day nearly all the shops were closed and the markets vacated, except in the quarter policed by the British. The major part of the population had disappeared. The ways were comparatively deserted. Carts trundled by French, German, or Ital ian soldiers, and widen with loot, could bp seen everywhere. The town was evidently being pllaged deliberately and systematically. Now and then a woman's piercing scream broke from the muffling depth of a cluster of houses, and spent its echoes in the empty streets. Such sounds, with their sinister meaning, were frequent in the French and Italian quarters.—From "Punishment and Revenge in China," by Thomas F. Millard, in Scribner's. A Very Wicked Berry. Professor Bottomiey gives the Arum illy a very bad character. 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