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According to the State Entomolo
gist of New Jersey, its native mos
quito is a much maligned bird.
Expositions are becoming so numer
ous as to afford a constant means of
diversion for people who have abund
ant leisure.
Kansas lias a compulsory school law,
but the State Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction asserts that of the 400,-
000 children of school age in the State
120,000 do not attend school.
The credit men of the world are put
ting funny marks opposite the name
of the Sick Man of Turkey. He is so
utterly bankrupt that if he were an or
dinary merchant he would he closed
out.
Can the sea be fished out? Is a ques
tion asked by the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
There would have been no difficulty
in answering the question if it had
been phrased to read: Caa the sea
be fished in?
A large number of people have come
to feel that nothing extraordinary is
occurring in the Southern Republics
so long as the lighting continues. A
peace proclamation might cause a rip
ple of excitement.
Torpedo tubes set in the sides and
hows of battleships and cruisers above
the water line have been declared
worthless by the British Admiralty,
and they have all been ordered taken
out. Ouly the above-water torpedo
tubes set in the stern will be retained.
The importance of roads for military
and commercial purposes was early
recognized in the United States, and a
great system, or rather, three great
systems, were projected. One from
New York through New England, an
other west through Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Indiana and Illinois and another
through the South.
Tho Lincoln Park Commissioners of
Chicago have authorized the erection
in the park of a monument in memory
of David Kennisou, who is declared to
have been the only soldier of the Revo
lution who went from Illinois, returned
to Illinois, and lies buried in Illinois—
in fact, in that park. A boulder, prop
erly inscribed, will probably be placed
over his grave. The Sons of the Revo
lution will bear the cost.
Some classes of wood appear to ho
even more durable than iron. Sections
of old water pipes of cypress that had
been under ground and in use for near
ly a century were recently exhumed at
New Orleans, La., and to the surprise
of all the wood was perfectly pre
served and as hard as when laid.
They were part of the first water
works of the city, and it is thought
tho wood was from trees 100 years old
when laid.
Interest Is added to the anti-mos
quito war in Hawaii by the possibility
that the little pests spread leprosy as
well as malaria. However, many
scientists are pointing out that, if mos
quitoes were responsible for the spread
of leprosy, the disease would a ill let
white residents in the same proportion
with natives. A lack of sanitary pro
cautions is the more probable cause
of the communication of the disease
among th* natives, who often eat out
of the same dish, smoke the same
pipe and wear one another's clothing.
Too Mnch to Export.
Farmer Swackhammer —I lost my
wife yesterday. Farmer Pildecker—
Fe! Bead? Swackhammer—Naw!
Kun away with a lightnin'-rod ped
dler! "Wall, .Tosh, T offer ye my sym
pathy! I'm mighty sorry fer ye."
"Yes: I never did have any lurk a
losin" things. Why! I lost a yaller
dog fourteen times before he stayed
lost." —San Franciico Bulletin.
REST SOMETIME.
The torrent rushes with frenzied might The life we live and the race we run,
To rest on the quiet plain; The gorrrow and doubts that rend,
The avalanche roars in its downward Some day—the victory lost or won—
flight, Will come to a quiet end;
Then a century sleeps again.
For mad the torrent and strong the wing,
And fearful the headlong flight,
The eagle that sweeps with a tireless wing Yet time the end of the day will bring,
O'er the dome of a brassy sky, And after the day—the night.
At last must droop to the pines that cling —Lowell O. Reese, in fcjan Francisco Bui-
To the crest of the mountain high. lccin.
"T~ ANNOGA, an Indian boy of
I the tribe of the Coeur
[ \ d'Alenes, was sitting one
evening with Aakloo, his lit
tle sister, at the edge of the forest on
the shore of Coenr d'Alene lake, and
was telling her a favorite story, when
at one of her interruptions he laughed
and leaned carelessly back and looked
straight into the eyes of a cougar.
"If I were drowning you would swim
out into a great lake, too, like Grand
father Gray Beaver did, wouldn't
you?" the girl asked. She spoke Indig
nantly, for that day she had heard an
old man say that boys like Ivnnuoga,
who went to school In the reservation
instead of into the forest, could never
be bravo Indians, and she was sure
that her brother was very brave.
It was her show of indignation and
her eager confidence thnt caused him
to laugh now and to lean back.
She waited, but ho did not answer.
With both hands clasped over his
copper-colored shin, and one bare foot
raised slightly above the log on which
ho was sitting, ho stared into the grent
restless eyes that looked down at him
from the nearest limb. He was with
out a weapon of any kind, and the cou
gar was full grown, with a body dry
looking and gaunt with hunger.
Although its glance was for the mo
ment fixed on him he could see that It
had been watching Aakoo and that Its
interest was still centred in her, as if
It had chosen her for Its victim. He
was seized with sudden fear that she
might move unexpectedly and thus
cause the creature to spring upon her,
yet he sat there seemingly unable to
speak or to think what ought to be
done.
"You would, wouldn't you?" asked!
the girl. Her voice broke the fascinat
ing spell ef those terrible eyes. Ivan-
y ml"h *\T **
11
"HELD TJP niS HAND."
noga know that she would turn in a
moment to see why he had not an
swered, and in order not to direct her
attention to the panther ho lowered
his glance and met hers.
But there was something in his face
that made her afraid, and lie looked
with startling intcntnoss far beyond
her. down the long, darkening stretch
of deserted shore, toward the skin
covered topee by the spring, where
Mar-tain, their mother, and Sls-sos-ka,
their father, lived during the hot sum
mer.
"Stand still!" said Kannogn, as calm
ly as he could. It cost him a great ef
fort to remain quietly there, without
looking up, when he knew what was
overhead, but the effort caused him to
think more clearly.
"Shut your eyes!" he said suddenly.
"What for?" asked Aakloo, fright
ened still more at the unaccountable
change is his voice.
For a moment his fingers tightened
convulsively over ills shin, then grad
ually relaxed and unclasped. He low
ered Ills uprnised foot, moving it slow
ly. very slowly, down beside the log.
and when It rested firmly In the sand
he reached cautiously forward anil
caught the girl by the arm.
"We shall play a new game," he said
then, and the strange, eager suggestion
of a smile that flashed over his face
reassured her.
"Oil!" she exclaimed, and at oneo
shut her eyes.
Knnnoga now looked steadily at the
cougar, while he turned ills sister
about so that she faced along the
•here.
"Walk as slowly as you can—with
your eyes shut," lie said.
She started slowly enough, but the
fierce eyes overhead began to watch
her intently again and to grow rest
less, while a yellow foot advanced un
easily along the limb and broad tawny
jaws stretched farther and farther
downward as she moved away.
But Ivannoga silently held up his
hand and waved it in the air. At this
the panther's attention attracted by
the unexpected and rapid movement,
was withdrawn from the girl.
"Go faster," said the boy; "go fast
er."
She was out of reach now; he could
tell by the fainter sound of he. bare
feet In the sand.
"Run!" he called. "Open your eyes
and run, but don't look back, and don't
stop till you stand In the tepee with
Mar-tain."
"Is that all of the now game, Kan
noga?" she asked, doubtfully.
"No," ho answered; "there Is more."
Meanwhile he still sat in the same
place, watching the cougar and hold
ing its attention by the constant move
ment of his slender arm and of his
grimy, tattered Sleeve.
When Aakloo was at a safe distance
the sense of his own danger catne sud
denly upon him.
If Sis-sos-kn would only come with
his rifle—or Gray Beaver, an old man
now, but still a great hunter. If he
had only told Aakloo! He turned his
head and looked after her. Down the
winding track of sand beside the still
lake, both grown a dull gray In the
evening light, he saw her running, and
he knew that long before she could
reach the tepee he would be beyond
the need of rescue.
ne had turned his head for only an
Instant, but in that instant the cougar
had crept nearer and Its long tall had
begun to swing slowly, stealthily, from
side to side.
Ivannoga saw no hope of escape, hut
with every sense alert ho studied his
desperate chances.
The panther lay crouched with Its
head toward tho forest, while he sat
facing the lake. When ho had care
fully measured tho space betweeu
them aud tho distance to the water he
jumped uwny from the log aud ran di
rectly under tho panther.
The animal Instantly shifted Its
head, as If to leap down from the other
side of tho limb, but the hoy dkl not
appear there, and it turned with mar
velous agility before its groat yellow
body shot out Into the air.
Kannoga was crushed down under
its weight, but ho had reached the
lake and fell where the water was
nearly knee deep. He felt the panther
release Its grasp into order to And firm
footing, aud when he raised up for air
discovered its dripping head little more
than an arm's length from his own.
I Then lie took a deep breath and lay
down upon the bottom, hoping that the
panther would leave him.
I It stood there, however, watching
j over him and waiting.
I He started to crawl out from shore,
' but It seemed to him thnt he lind
! hardly mover when heavy claws sunk
| Into his leg and dragged liiin back.
! Then, without letting go its hold, the
panther Immediately shifted its pos!-
I tlon and began to drag hltn out into
shallower wafer.
' I-Ie made desv-rnte n"orfs to hold
i fast to the lake bed. for he knew whnt
the end would be If he reached the
shore, but his fingers only plowed
through the sand.
The sharp point of a rock that tort
him as he was dragged over It gave
him hope; he grasped it with both
hands and clung with all his strength,
but in an instant his fingers were dig
ging vainly In the sand again.
At last he raised his head for air.
The panther at once let go of his leg
and came at him with open mouth, but
it moved slowly in the water, and
Kannoga, by a great effort, stood up.
Then the beast sprung upon him.
The boy had nerved himself, how
ever, and fell as far out from shore as
he could.
When the feeling of dizziness that
followed the shock had passed he
found that the panther held his arm
in its mouth and was swimming—that
its feet did not touch bottom.
Then, in spite of the terrible pnln It
caused him, he pulled his arm down
until the cougnr's head was sub
merged. Very soon it released Its hold.
Then the Indian boy stood up again,
and this time he became the aggressor.
Grasping the slick, wet head with
both hands he forced it deep Into the
water. The panther's feet touched
bottom, and its violent struggles
threw him down, but he got up again
and held the glaring eyes and the red
mouth with its white teeth more care
fully—just under the surface of the
lake.
Ivannoga became very weak and his
legs trembled feebly under him, but
he was thankful that they were long,
for he could stand with his hend in the
cool evening breeze while the cougar
was drowning.
At first the panther made fearful
sounds as the water filled Its lungs,
but these presently censed, and at last
It hung a dead weight in the boy's
hands. lie let it sink then and loos
ened a stone from the lake bed to roll
upon its head.
His wounds were slight, but painful,
and the terrible battle had so weak
ened him that when ho reached the
shore he fell exhausted, with his face
toward the tepee.
lie could not see Aakloo now, nor
even the canoe that came in a moment
to where he lay.
Gray Beaver and an old friend, pad
dling out from camp, had called to the
girl as she ran on the shore, and had
laughed when she told them why she
could not turn her head to look after
them.
Then they had seen the boy and the
cougar in the edge of the lake, and
their paddles had swung faster and
with stronger strokes than they hud
used for many a year.
When Kannoga opened his eyes Gray
Beaver leaned over him and spoke gen
tly:
"Aakloo will understand that game
better when she is older," he said.
And ncross a nan-owing stretch of
water the boy saw her waiting with
Mur-tnla. Robert W. McCulloch, in
the Chicago Record-Herald.
Fnrla Postnl Stories.
Some Fnrls postal stories are going
the rounds just now, says the Paris
Messenger. One of them hns refer
ence to a letter posted at a little coun
try place In France to the Minister of
Public Instruction, Taris. The sender
did not put a stamp upon It, knowing
that Government officials' letters are
carried free.
The provincial lady official, however,
evidently not. knowing this, put a
stamp upon the letter and sent the
postman to collect the fifteen cen
times from the sender, whose name
by some mysterious means, the secret
of which Is In the possession of her
sex, she manage*! to discover.
Another anecdote relates that a
well-known Parisian lawyer sent a
letter to M. Mlllerand and put a fifteen
centime stamp on it, evidently forget
ting that a stamp was unnecessary.
Now, the letter was over weight, and
the postoffice people, apparently think
ing only of the stamp and not of the
Minister's privilege, claimed thirty
centimes excess. This, of course, M.
Mlllerand declined to pay, and the let
ter was sent hack. The unlucky send
er was forced to take it back and pay
the thirty centimes, making in all
forty-five centimes out of his pocket,
whereas had he put no stamp at all It
would have been safely delivered.
Sliuuu'ock and Clover.
There has been a great deal of dis
cussion as to whether the Irish sham
rock of old times was the plant that
is now known as the clover, many
persons contending thnt it was the ox
ulls acetoeelln, and that it could not
have been the clover, because, they
say, the last named plant was intro
duced into Ireland from the Continent
at a period subsequent to thnt when
the shamrock was originally known
and used. According to a correspond
ent of the Gardeners' Chronicle, of
London, who has made a painstaking
search through all the literature of
the subjoct, reaching back hundreds of
years, the shamrock is clover, and nl
wayu was clover, and nobody ever
had any doubt 3 on the subject until
they were raised by Mr. Eielieno, in
1830, who was Secretary of the L'.n
naen Society. This ccareh, however,
has shown that Mr. Bicheuo was
wrong, and that the clover leaf, long
before St. Patrick's time, was used as
an emblem of tho Trinity.
A Complicated Hunting Accident.
An unusual accident occurred in the
woct'.s at Stephenson. George Rich
ardson shot a deer and the bullet
! passed through the animal and hit a
! tree. From there It glanced off and
' hit IV. Everhardt. It struck his wrist
1 aud hit the gun stock, from which it
! glanced off and entered the man's
mouth, inflicting a serious wound.—
i Milwaukee Daily News.
FOLLitS OF EARLIER FASHIONS.
Men Who Rtarchoil Their Heur<lß and
Wore Shoes u Yuru Louie-
It is a little gratifying to reflect that,
however the man of to-day may com
pare with Ills ancestors of bygone cen
turies in physique or morals, his dress
Is much more moderate and inexpen
sive, even if it is less picturesque than
theirs.
It is true that here and there one
may find some foolish young man
whose taste in dress is as extravagant
as that of any "buck" of the days of
the Georges. There is, for instance,
a son of a well known peer who has
the reputation of never wearing a suit
twice. He lias a wardrobe of waist
coats of all the colors of the rainbow,
ranging from a light blue spangled
with silver stars to a deep green satin
with buttons of eighteen karat gold,
each of which is adorned with the
painted face of a beautiful woman.
Another wealthy aristocrat is cred
ited with having as many suits and
uniforms as there are days in the year,
and with spending on his tailor's bill
a sum which would pay the yearly
salary of a minor cabinet minister.
But such men are modestly arrayed,
compared with the dandies of many
a past century. The Earl of Northum
berland. who lived in the latter part
of the fourteenth century, boasted no
fewer than sixty suits of cloth of gold
alone, and the Bishop of Ely, of that
time, had a change of raiment for ev
ery day of the year. Much later, in
Queen Mary's time, the wardrobe of
a bishop might have been the envy
of Solomon for the veriety and costli
ness of its contents, and even a simple
village priest, according to Fuller, wore
"a vestment of crimson satin, a vest
ment of crimson velvet, a stole and
fanon set with pearl, gowns faced with
taffetas," etc.
In the days of Chaucer fashionable
men wore clothes as mnny-colored
as Joseph's coat, so that "while one leg
would lie a blaze of crimson the other
would be tricked out in green or blue
or yellow, without any regard to har
mony or contrast."
Even as late as the middle of the
eighteenth century a dandy would deck
himself in "a vivid green coat, a waist
coat of scarlet, yellow breeches and
blue stockings," and the gentleman of
a few years later wore, among similar
sartorial vagaries, a coat of light green,
with sleeves too small for the arms
and buttons too big for the sleeves;
a pair of Manchester fine stuff breech
es, without money in their pockets,
clouded silk stockings; a club of hair
behind, larger tlina the head that car
ries it, a hat of the size of a sixpence
on a block not worth n farthing."
At one fashionable epoch our an
cestors, to quote the words of a quaint
chronicler, ""would weare clothes so
tighto to ye skin that it might well be
conceived they wore no clothes at all;"
and at another time they would wear
them "so voluminous that a single
suite might well have afforded rayment
for a whole famlllie; and so stuffed
out with feathers that, of a verity,
their wearers resembled nothing so
much as walking snekes."
At another period it was the gro
tesque fnsliion to combine on one per
son the dress of all the countries of
Europe; the liat would be Spanish,
the coat French, the trousers Turkish,
and so on; so that the wearer was a
"walking epitome of the dress of a
continent."
At one time shoes would be worn
with square toes of such width that
a royal proclamation was issued limit
ing the width to six inches, and these
shoes were succeeded by others that
came to the flnest of points at the
toes.
In Henry ll.'s time shoes with points
two feet long were worn by the fash
ionable, and In tlie reign of Henry IV.
these points bad grown to sueli an in
ordinate length Hint, in order to be
able to walk at nil, it was necessary
to attach t lie tips to the knees by
chains, which were of gold or silver,
while tlie tops of the shoes were ejfved
with all kinds of fantastic designs.
11l tlie early part of the enghteenth
century it was a common thing for
n man of fashion to spend several
bom's a day with ills valet; among the
many quaint operations being "the
starching of the beard and the proper
perfuming of garments, the painting
cf the face and anointing with oils,
tinctures, quintessences, and poma
tums." It is even said that some of
the dandies of the time bathed in wine
and milk, "for the preservation of their
complexions anil the rejuvenation of
their energies."—Tit-Bits.
They Have Long Court Hill jis In Norway,
Norwegian weddings nro almost al
ways celebrated at tlie close of u short
Scandinavian summer, a season which
the industrious Norsemen ilud too
short In which to work, and from
which they would never dream of tak
ing tlie days that nre necessary for
the long-drawn-out festivities of the
Norse wedding. So the maidens who
are wooed all the year round are us
ually wedded at the beginning of win
ter. Norwegian woolugs are very
frank and very long a-doiug. On sum
mer Sundays the lanes, the highways
and byways are uteem with lovers.
Eaeb couple saunters slowly along, not
in the least shy, his arm about lier
shoulders, her arm about Ids waist.
Nor do tliey untwine their arms if
they pause a little to cliat with friends,
not even if they stop to speak with
casual acquaintances. Ten or a dozen
years often elapse between the first
day of courtship and the day of mar
riage, while a seven-years' betrothal
is considered of very moderate length.
—Woman's Home Companion.
The membership of fraternal organi
zations in the United States and Can
ada, according to a compilation of last
reports, is o,Tiki,ol6.
The Important Part of It.
He said: "I'll write my name
Upon the scroll of fame —
The world's applause I'll clam
In cycles yet to be."
And as he turned to leave
The lady plucked his sleeve:
"How much will you receive
For doing this?" said she.
—Chicago Record-LeralcL
Tils Diplomatic Keplj'.
"Is a diplomat ever justified in using
prevarication?" asked his friend.
"Well," said the diplomat, "ho is cer
tainly not justified in calling it by that
name." —Puck.
The Loss. J
Harry—"Well, yes, I suppose I was "
rather hasty in proposing to her, but
the fact is, she looked so charming I
lost my heart."
Dick "You mean you lost your
head."—Boston Transcript.
Disclplinarj' Detail.
no (desperately)—" You have ruined
my life." A
She (knowingly)—"Oh, no; my refu
sal will only equip you to make some
other girl a devoted aud deferential
husband."—Detroit Free Press.
His Explanation.
"I am afraid," said a certain small
boy's mother, "that you are overeat
ing. Aren't you a little apprehensive?"
"No," was the answer, after due de
liberation. "I'm not afraid. You
know ladies are naturally timid."
Willing to Try.
Harold—"Could you learn to love
me?"
Amelia "No; but I'll try awful
hard. Fapa lias promised to seiul me
abroad if my health breaks down
from overstudy, you know!"— Puck.
Bolf-Dopreclatlon.
"You oughct to marry a good sensi
ble girl," said the friend.
"Your advice is paradoxical," an
swered AVillle Washington. "How am
I to find a sensible girl who is foolish
enough to marry me?" Washington
Star.
Timidity.
"Don't yott love children?"
"Some children," answered the man
who Is slightly bald.
"But don't you love children as a
rule?"
"No. I once taught school. I don't
love them. I fear them."
Admiration.
"You admire your grandfather very
much, don't you, my little man?"
"Yes," answered the youth.
"You think he could do things that
no one else could, don't you?"
"I know he could. lie used to pun
ish father whenever he felt like it."
Bruln'tt Affliction.
Mr. Bruin—"Doctor, I suffer so ter
ribly with Insomnia that I rau't sleep
more than two mouths at u time dur
ing the winter."—Life.
Tlie Model Farm,
"Does your son know much about
farming?"
"I should say he does," answered
Farmer Corntossel. "lie says he reck
ons lio'll go to town an' make about a
million dollars, an' then cum back an'
run this farm proper."—Washington
Star.
All Artistic Achievement.
Ethel—"Why, Aunt Emily, this is a
lovely photograph of you! What were
you thinking of to get such a charm
ing expression?"
Aunt Emily—"Well, when the photo
grapher got me properly posed he for
got himself and said: 'Now, look stu
pid, please.' "—Detroit Free Press.
Varying It.
The Damsel—"But til's is sueli a
queer, unromantie way to propose to
a girl, Mr. Wellup. In the daytime,
anil on the way to a suburban train!"
The Widower—"! know it, Miss de
Muir. I've geuerally proposed whilst
takln' a moonlight ride with the gal,
but I thought I'd'go anil do it differ
ent this time."—Chicago Tribune. ,
Disappointment.
"I suppose you are disappointed be
cause the critics condemned your
book."
"Yes. I don't mind what they said
so much as the mean way in which
they said It."
"They teemed disposed to be mild."
"Yes. None of the denunciations
were sufficiently violent to attract any
attention whatever to the book."—
Washington Star.
On© Reason For Marrying.
Vera is five years old. As a rule
she Is a very Joyous little maiden, but
one dny she came home from school
looking exceedingly pensive. By and
by she voiced her woe.
"Ob, dear," she said, "I do wish I
didn't have to get married."
"Well, you don't have to." said her
mother, consolingly.
For a moment Vera's l'aeo bright
ened, but soon the clouds gathered
more thickly than ever. L
"Oh, yes, I do," she said. "If I stay r' ,
single everybody will look down on
me."—New York Times.