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SPORTINC BREVITIES. Tale is the basketball champion in the Intercollegiate League. New York has released First Base man John Gauzel. Automobiles can run weuty miles an hour in New York. In New England there arc 115 race tracks which are members of the Na tional Trotting Association. George 11. Brooke and llugb D. Scott have won at Philadelphia the racquet double champion hip of America. The unbeaten pacer, Dan Patch, rec ord 2:04%, has been I ought by M. E. Sturgis, of New York Ciiy, for .$20,000. The women's golf championship will be at the Country Club of Brookline, Mass., beginning September 20 and con eluding October 4. Iticliard Croker lias bought from Lord Clonmell two highly bred year lings. The price for the pair is said to have been $-5,000. August Belmout may place the Con stitution in commission the coming summer, Willi the view of having her ready for the next cup race. Jack Haskell, who umpired for the American League lust year, announces that he has signed a contract to umpire for the American Association during the coming baseball season. The track record for the half-mile speedway on Lake Monona, Madison, Wis., lias been broken by W. J. Gamin's pacer, Diamond J., who wen the lialf mile in eoiupelitiou in 1:04%. Both steam and gasolene machines require mnfilers. In a steam carriage tlie muffler serves a double purpose—lt reduces the sound of tho exhaust and helps to render invisible the exhaust steam. It is safe to say tlint at least 4000 young men will m ike a good living next season playing baseball, and out of this number there will lie less than 100 first-class men—men who can hit, held and lteen their hendfi. NEWSY GLEANINGS, London has an army of 15.500 police men. Sugar duties have been abolished in San Domingo. A street railway strike at Borne, Italy, has been averted. Tlie Indiana Democratic State con vention lias been called for June 4. A new salmon combine of forty-five firms is contemplated in British Col umbia. Several German steamship companies have reported a large decrease in divi dends. General satisfaction has been ex pressed in Anstrin over the intention to send an Ambassador to Washing ton. A Swedish Count will put 300 acre's of land in Michigan inlo peat beds, an entirely new industry for tbo United States. The Swiss Federal Council will eon tribute to Harvard's Germanic Museum plaster casts of representative Swiss sculptures. A Referendum League lias been formed in Chicago to further that fea ture of municipal rule all over the United States. Harvard University will probably send an expedition to explore Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria and Palestine for Semitic relics. Nearly $10,000,000 was expended by Belgium last year in establishing new Government railroads and Increasing traffic and transportation conveniences. The proposed gigantic coal combine of Indiana and Illinois miners has gone up in smoke. The operators of tlie lat ter State demanded too high a price for holdings. The San Jose scale has wrought great havoc in the orchards of Ohio, and it lias been necessary to dig up and burn thousands of infected trees. Next season's fruit crop will be short as a consequence. An Old American Gold Mine. The oldest American gold mine is said to be the Calhoun mine In Lump kin county. Georgia, It was discov ered by whites in 1828. The Indians had known of it before that time. Senator John C. Calhoun once owned and operated it, and It received Its name from him. it subsequently passed out of his hands and was do nated to an agricultural college. From thai time until recently it was worked In a desultory way. Lately It cams into the possession of a Pacific coast miner, who has pushed the work and the placer deposit i 3 returning him a clear profit ranging from S2OO to S3OO per month as the result of tho labor of six men. A recent clean-up of 35 days' run produced $300.93 In fine gold anil SSO worth of nuggets, all of which cost $370 for labor, leaving a net profit of 50-10.33. COMPENSATIONS. He found success most For joy tho keenest seems Who, having trio* 1 and failed, Where grief has been before: The lesson of defeat. After night's troubled dreams. Upon his standard nailed, There, at tho open door, Then straightway bade his soul Thriee glorious she stands- Take up the task begun, Dawn, with her roses gay, Nor paused until the goal And in her outstretched hands Of his desire was won. The shining gifts of Day. —Youth's Companion. j AT THE POINT OF THE UMBRELLA. : g # 5 By Helen M. Palmer. J This was the second stop tho train had made since leaving Trieste and no one had got into tho carriage; Bea trix congratulated herscll' that Uncle George's fee to the guard had worked so well, and opened another roll of shawls and rugs in pursuit of a miss ing novel. Suddenly an uproar of tongues arose on the platform; the door was jerked open and a stout woman stum bled through it, followed by auother lugging a big basket; behind came a drove of children, all screaming, push ing, and smeared, as to mouth and fingers, with some sticky black com pound which they were devouring greedily. Beatrix gave, one glance of liorror and began to gather up her scattered belongings. "Y'ou must find me a place," she said to the guard. "You were paid for this carriage." "I cannot help it," he muttered; "it is a carriage for ladies alone; behold, these are ladies alone —the train is going, there is no time." For answer Beatrix cast her rugs and bags upon him, and snatching up "-er umbrella, books and dressing case, j.ade her way through the scramb ling children, who were fighting for places at tho windows, and dashed out upon the platform. Tlie whistle was sounding; evidently there was no time to lose; the guard opened the near est door, threw in tho bags, and gave Beatrix an impulse that propelled her tho entire length of the carriage. An other jolt and tho train was off. Beatrix was aware that she was be ing steadied upon her feet by a strong arm, the arm of the man whom she had caught a glimpse of sitting at the further window, and upon whom she and her traps had descended af ter the manner of a whirlwind. Stam mering "Millo pardond, monsieur!" she sank upon the opposite seat and endeavored to regain her composure, her natural color and the dignity which befitted a young lady travel ling alone. There were three other persons in the carriage; two sleepy looking women, past whom she had shot without apparently doing them any damage; and the gentleman oppo site, who was now reading, holding a large book quite close to his face. This gave her a chance to examine him. He was tall; not too young— 3eatrix was nineteen—and distinctly "nice" looking, she decided. His gray tweed clothes looked English; the scarlet fez he wore byway of a cap suggested the East. His luggage? Yes, there was the bag of golf sticks and the folding bath-tub—he must be English. Beatrix had just readied this con clusion when the book was dropped and tlie stranger said in a very agree able voice,— "I beg your pardon, it is—er—very warm here, don't you think? Per haps you would like to have your win dow raised." Beatrix assented with thanks, think ing she would like to ask him how he knew that English was her native tongue. She stole a glance at his face; it was a delightful face, with a grave, kind smile that showed very white teeth, and a nose that might have been supercilious but for a lit tle irregular ripple in the middle of it. But what a pity that one of his eyes was injured! It was closed and the eyelid drooped. She wondered if he were in the army and had lost an eye—perhaps under "Bobs." Presently she began to collect her belongings, scattered by her violent entrance; and again her vis-a-vis came to her aid so naturally and sim ply that it would have been impossi ble for the greatest stickler for the proprieties to take offense. Before her various parcels were recaptured and reduced to order, they had laughed heartily over her misadven ture. "Here's your umbrella," he 'said, fishing it up from the floor, where it had fallen. "It's not a bad weapon for a charge." "Did I charge? said she. "I'm so sorry!" "Oh, well, you Americans are so impetuous, don't you know? Ono ex pects little things like that." "'You Americans!' How did you know that I am an American? I thought I spoke beautiful English." "Why, so you do, I assure you, but —there is something—l can't exactly tell what, but you have a quick little way with you, and you look different from most English girls I know—and —and —you must he tired of hearing about your boots and your gowns." "I don't know ihat we are ever ex actly tired," admitted Beatrix, slow ly. "I know what you mean; we have a great many faults —oh, I know it!" she sighed. "But wo do not let our skirts hitch up in front or on the sides, and wo always make connec tions in the back. How frivolous that sounds!" she thought. "He will think I am one of those dreadful free and easy Americans he has heard of who have no manners and will take up with any one." She buried herself in a book, re solved to be very dignified in the fu ture. A shower had arisen; the rain was beating in and it was necessary to close the window; he seemed glad of the interruption, and seized upon it to make some remarks upon the country they were passing through. As she lay down her book and gave him her attention, she noticed that lii 3 right eye was no longer closed; it was almost as wide open as the other, although it still drooped a lit tle, as if it had been hurt. It sudden ly flashed upon her that she must have hit him when she made her vio lent c-ntry—that was what he meant by his speech about the umbrella. "Your eye"—she stammered, the image of remorse, "Did I? Did you mean, oh, I hope I didn't hurt you very much!" "It was nothing, really nothing; I scarcely feel it now," he hastened to assure her for her eyebrows were drawn together and her lips were quivering, and altogether she looked as if she were going to cry. "But I might have put your eye out!" she gasped. "You might have done many things with that deadly umbrella. But you didn't—please don't think of it again," he pleaded. "How good of you!" she murmured, gazing at him with admiration. "May I ask," he resumed after a moment, "whether you were at Shep herd's some weeks ago with the Van Duzcrs?" "Yes," she said. "Mr. Van Duzer Is my uncle; I went up the Nile with him and my aunt. Were you in Cairo?" "Unfortunately I reached there just as your party was leaving. I met Mr. Van Duzer, whom I have often seen at home, in—er—England, but I only had a glimpse of the rest of hi 3 party. I was sure, though, that I remembered you. I am—er—Sir Hugh Chester," he added after a pause. "I don't sup pose Mr. Van Duzer will have men tioned me." "But of course he did!" she cried. "He talked a lot about you, and was so sorry that we missed you as we did. Isn't it odd that I should hap pen on you in this way?" "It's uncommonly pleasant—for me." "But supposing I had put your eye out with that wretched umbrella? U'ncle George would never have for given me." "'Uncle George?'" he queried with a quizzical expression, and they joined in a light hearted burst of laughter. "You see he thinks so much of you," she explained. "Well, then you ought to feel that I am properly presented, and you'll let me take you out to get some lun cheon. Here's where we stop for food—such as it is." "And you won't think I'm one of those dreadful American girls who keep 'mommem' and 'popper' in the background and just stram around having a good time regardless? There are a few specimens left, but not nearly so many as your novelists would lead you to suppose." "I won't tell you what I think," he declared, "but I shouldn't mind tell ing Uncle George." The long hours flew by in discus sions of books and people—for they found some acquaintances in common —and the exchange of what Beatrix called "views of life." Together they laughed over the queer dishes of their makeshift dinner, and when Sir Hugh returned from a smoke at the next stop, he found Beatrix pensively watching the rising moon. "Please, when you next discuss Americans," said she—"you do dis cuss us now, you know; the time has gone by when you confounded us with the outer barbarians—do not say that the American girl on her travels is In the habit of talking a dozen hotirs on a stretch with the companions Heav en sends her. They are not all so spoiled as I am; I confess I am apt to do what I like." "I don't think I shall judge the American girl by you," said Sir Hugh. Then, after watching her a moment. "Since you are speaking of yourself, don't you think you are rather a per verse little person? Even your dim ple is in a place where no one else has dimples." "Is it?" said Beatrix. "Do tell mo more about that delightful Political Reform club; I am so interested in it!" It was amazing how much they found to talk about; one stout old lady got out and another got In, but as no tourists appeared to Interrupt their tete-a-tete, and as the night f ell and the train climbed the heights . f the Semmering Pass they were left alone. The full moon was flooding the deep blue spaces of the sky and Ailing the valleys with a mystery of silvery light and deathlike shadow. Sir Hugh drew the green silk curtain over the Impertinence of the glimmer ing lamp, and lighted only by the soft radiance they gazed inlo the shadowy jepths that unrolled below them. At one station they seemed to pause high up in air, and from the platform beneath bouquets of wild flowers were lifted on poles to the level of the car riage windows, accompanied by a shrill announcement of the price. The biggest and sweetest of these, a great mass of white and purple rhododen drons, was selected by Sir Hugh, and together he and Beatrix detached tha flowers from the spectral pole and followed the tinkling sound of the silver coin as it went dropping into space until it struck the rocks below. "It seems like a dream," said Bea trix, with a sigh, rousing herself from the charmed silence in which they had hung over the beauty of the sleeping land, "and I shall feel like an opera singer en voyage when I arrive in Vienna with this." And she buried her face in the great disk of dewy petals, framed in a stiff rim of pierced and scalloped paper. "Vienna? Of course; we shall soon be there, and your people will be meeting you and taking you away, and this journey will be a forgotten episode—you Americans run about so much," he added, as if to strike a less personal note. "But I never run about alone —at least over here. This is a great ad venture, I assure you. And—l think I'm net likely to forget that umbrella, however good you may be about for getting it. You're sure it doesn't pain you now?" And she lifted her brown eyes anxiously to his gray eyes. "Oh, well, of course there is the bunch of flowers, too," she rejoined, dropping her eyes to the rhododen drons, which she still held. He stole a glance at her, and his voice was steadied a little consciously when he next spoke. "One never knows exactly how to take you—you are quicker than we are and you may be laughing at me— but I want to say i m more glad than I can tell that I have met you, and I'm sorry the journey Is over; but I am not going to lose you now, If it is over. May I come to see you in Vi enna?" "Yes," said Beatrix, softly. "May I come tomorrow?" he urged. "Certainly," she said, recovering the self possession which his earnest ness had shaken. "I shall be delight ed. and so will mamma, I am sure." It was midnight when they drew into the big. bustling station; they looked at each other and found it harl to leave the memories or the day crowned by the poetic charm of the moonlit night. "They will be here In a moment," Beatrix thought, "the boys and Uncle Archie, and I shall be going home, and yet, in away, It seems as if I belonged here, too." As for Sir Hugh, he turned away when the door opened, and her peo ple seized upon her with kisses and jocose greetings. But there was an instant when he caught her hand and pressed it, whispering, "Tomorrow," and they botu knew that tomorrow meant "Forever and a day."—Waver ley Magazine. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Wasps may often be observed de taching from fences, boards or any old wood the fibres which they afterwards manufacture into papier mache. Matwatchin, on the borders of Rus sia, is the only city in the world peo pled by men only. The Chinese women are not only forbidden to live in this territory, but even to pass the great wall of Kalkan and enter into Mon golia. All the Cninese of this border city are exclusively traders. The Hawaiian islands must be ■ damp place. It is reported that one Monday night at Pakalkow it began to rain and the next morning at 7 o'clock the gauge showed 13 inches. In Ave hours at Sanpahoenoe the gauge measured 10 inches. At Papaaloa, in 24 hours, the gauge showed 40 inches. In the city of St. Louis, Mo., there is a certain hairdressing saloon the ceiling of which is entirely covered by the photographs of stage and music hall celebrities. Every likeness bears the autograph of its original, and a step ladder is invariably kept in the shop In order that any patron may Inspect the curious ceiling at close quarters if he so desires. A street in Paris, France, that has been opened to the public is paved with glass. It was thought that the surface would be slippery, but on. the contrary it has proved to afford an excellent foothold for horses, and will not become dusty or absorb filth. All kinds of glass debris was utilized in the manufacture of the pavement, and the inventor of the process is sanguine of its adoption on a large scale. The Indians of America were gen erally Polytlieists, or believed in a plu rality of gods. Some were considered as local deities, yet they believed that there was one supreme God, or Great Spirit, the creator of the rest and all creatures and things. Him the natives of New England called Ktchtan. They believed that good men, at death, as cended to Kichtan, above the heavens, where they enjoyed departed friends and all good things; that bad men also went and knocked at the gate of glory, but Kichtan bade them depart, for there was no place for such, whence they wandered in restless poverty. This Supreme Being they held to bo good, and prayed to him when they desired any favor, and paid a sort of acknowl edgement to him for plenty, victories etc. A slip on the ice may fracture n leg but a slip of the tongue may fracture a reputation. HOMES OF THE BEAVERS. FAST DISAPPEARING BEFORE THE VANGUARD OF CIVILIZATION. How tli Little Follows Build and Live in Harmony-tiller Title to Distinction ltestn on Their Ability us Engiueurs— lliey Have Exceedingly Thrifty Habits. The beaver is another of the ani mals which are fast disappearing be fore the barbarian vanguard of civi lization. From a common and widely distributed animal, he has become rare and local, and in most parts of the United States he is already but a faint memory, kept alive by such names as Beaver Fall's, Beaver Dam #nd Beaver Brook, given to places which he formerly inhabited. His beautiful fur coat was coveted by man, and according to the universal law of nature he died because it was tc the immediate interest of a more powerful animal to kill him. Per haps he has fulfilled his mission; at any rate, few animals have lone more toward forming the contour of the country. Wherever he has been he has left lasting monuments to his in dustry in the torm of meadows, ponds and waterfalls, and his name will al ways be associated with peaceful, in telligent labor. In appearance, the beaver reminds us somewhat of a muskrat and some what of a woodchuck, though he is larger than either of them. In length he measures something over two fe„t, from the tip of his blunt nose to the root of his tail. His body is roughly cone-shaped, being largest in the rear, and covered with the rich, shining fur, which is at onco his wealth and his death warrant. This fur is of two kinds, one composed of long, coarse, glossy chestnut hair, which is short, thick, soft and silky. The nose of the animal is blunt, the eyes small, and the ears short and rounded. The fore feet are short and slender, but the hind feet are large and web-bed to the toe nails. The former serve the animal in place of hands, while the latter are the propellers which urge him through the water. But the most peculiar part of a beaver's anatomy is his tail. This appendage is flat and broad, and Its horizontal outline is almost a perfect eclipse, about a foot long and three and a halt inches wide. It is about an inch thick and covered with angular scales. It is used by the beaver as a rudder to guide him while swimming, not as a tray on which to carry building mate rials, nor as a trowel to plaster the walls of his dwelling, as some old writers would have us believe. The beaver also uses it to slap the water s a signal to his companions when there is danger in the wind. The beaver's chief title to distinc tion rests on his ability as an engi neer, which is perhaps unequalled by any other four-footed creature. When a colony of beavers take possession of a body of water, usually a small, clear river or brook, they first of all make a dam, which throws the water back, flooding the surrounding land and creating a pond, the site of a future beaver city. The dam is made of mud, small stones, moss grass and the branches of trees which have been cut down by the sharp and powerful incisor teeth of the beavers. The branches form the frame work of the dam, and the mud, stones, moss and grass are plastered in between the sticks, forming a strong water-tight structure. Such a dam is sometimes eight feet high and almost a quarter of a mile in lengtn, extending far be yond the original banks of the stream. It is perhaps ten or twelve feet wide at the bottom, but much narrower at the top, as the sides slope toward each other. In the pond thus formed the beav ers make their lodges or houses, great dome-shaped structures, six or eight feet high, and some of them from twelve to twenty feet in circumfer ence. The doorways are under the water, and in front of each the beav ers scratch away the mud, forming a deeper channel that they may sink the wood intended for winter food without danger of its being frozen in, and that they may pass freely in and out, even when the ice is thick upon tlie pond. Tho tops of the houses are made of branches matted together and plastered with mud and moss, and when this is all frozen together it forms an almost impregnable fortress. Sometimes as many as ten or twelve beavers occupy a Bingle lodge, each with a separate bed near the wails, and each sharing the laborious work which is necessary to the welfare of every beaver community. When an accident happens to a dam or to one of the 'houses, the little animals are quick to repair it, realizing, apparently, the value of "a stitch in time." Hunt ers used to take advantage of their thrifty habits to work their destruc tion. After breaking down a portion of a dam tney would sometimes hide in silence until the little citizens turned out to repair the damage, and then shoot the beautiful creatures in cold blood. At other times they would set steel traps under th ■ clean of build. They remind you of Gypsies, also of Moors, and in their veins flows the blood of the Indians who once owned the pampa and lost it to the Spaniards. There is Spanish blood in them, too. The flourish with which he touches his hat, the grace with which ho waves you to a stool made of a cow skull, the grave hospi tality with which hp hands you the teacup, the politeness with which he receives your remarks about the weather—everything about him when he is at his best has a Spanish sug gestiveness. But still the gaucho is not a Spaniard. The pampa looks out of his eyes, is in his voice, his dress, his manner. The wilderness speaks to all who love it and teaches them things which make them different from other men.—Wiliiam Bulfln, in the World's Work. It is calculated that in London ,i alone there are Jiseharg d into the mosphere daily 18,000 tons of uncon sumed fuel.