SHADOWS.
we are; and shadows we pur-
What are tne shadows black that talk,
Mimicking men in their daily walk?
We hear them not, feel not, nor long we
Are they the ghosts that the men shall be?
They idlv glide to the darkling door,
To vanish there, and appear no more.
Do they hide away in the grave and night,
With their shady fellows to sleep or light?
We shall go after our shadows soon,
No more to be seen by night or noon.
Like them shall we go, and leave no trace
On this earth where we ran our mortal
race ?
Can our perishing hands find no work to
do?
Our lips no utterance brave and true?
May our future motions weave no weft
Of deeds and thoughts that shall long be
left,
A legacy rich, from our life outworn,
To the coming souls that shall still be
born ?
When we hie to death's open green room
door,
Shall we quite go out, and our act to be
o'er?
Oh, brother men, when your shadows you
see,
Think: How much is my shadow like to
me?
—Springfield Republican.
I|A Bit of HumanH
11 Experience. II
jjtV)
* -r- OBODY knew where she had
X. come from or anything about
I her beyond the fact that the
* stage which brought the
weekly mail over the mountain to
Rougemont, late on Saturday night,
had dropped her and her tiny bundles
at the door of the little French inn.
She wanted a room, she told the old
woman who came in answer to her
knock—not the best one, she could
scarcely afford that, and she shouldn't
mind how small it was so long as she
and her baby might have It quite to
themselves.
Old Marie mumbled as she hobbled
along before: "Mon Dieu, hut what a
child it is! And so pretty, too. Where's
her husband?"
Then she held the door of the room
open and the young woman passed In;
her sharp old eyes noticed that she
wore no wedding ring. Marie shrugged
her shoulders signitieantly, then hur
ried down stairs to inform her col
leagues of the fact. As for the young
woman, once the door was closed she
laid the baby down upon the bed and
walked to the bureau, upon which
stood a lighted lamp. She raised her
left hand and looked at it closely. Di
rectly below the knuckle of her third
Auger the tlesh hud been compressed
and reddened, hut both the marks and
color were now gradually dying away.
"By this time to-morrow every trace
of it will have gone. As far as looks
go, it will he—exactly as though I
never had any ring at all."
The cure called the next day. He
was an old man and had seen queer
things even in that quiet place, hut he
believed in her instinctively. "You
must take me on trust for a little
while," she said to him in her gentle
way, when she caught his eyes wan
dering to her hands. "It doesn't mat
ter what you call me—Brown, Jones or
Robinson—anything. I was married a
year ago, but it doesn't matter to
whom. That's why I've come here. I
wanted to get somewhere where
neither my baby nor 1 need be known
by her father's name."
She was English, hut she spoke
French excellently, and her gentle
manners won his sympathy.
As he was leaving he called Marie
to one side and pressed a coin into her
hand.
"That's for yon, Marie—on one condi
tion. You must see to it that they all
call her inadnine."
"Mais, Monsieur le Cure."
"Enough, Marie! Do as I hid you
now, and say no more about it."
The dayb went by. hut none of the
village people came to see her. They
never "called" in that vicinity; they
were far too primitive for that. But,
nevertheless, had things been other
wise than as they supposed, they would
have soon shown her, after their own
fashion, that she was a welcome guest.
Due day the cure came and found her
knitting upon a long, white, fleecy
cloud.
"Look," she cried, holding it up for
him to see. "Isn't it pretty? Tell your
your people—all of them down in the
village there—that if they will pay mo
I will make them clouds and mittens
and all sorts of things far prettier than
they have ever seen. I don't ask them
to know me; I only want to earn my
own living."
So the cure told them of it, and put
in a word parenthetically upon the lit
tle mother's behalf. "Go and see her,"
said he. "She can't harm you. It's
lonely up there alone, and you older
women could help her so with the
baby."
But the good people would have none '
of her; it' she worked well they would |
pay her well, hut with her they would
have no fellowship.
One night about two months later old
Marie caine hobbling down to the
cure's house and told him Madame was
ill. Whcu he came to her she handed
bim the envelope in which she kept her
slender earnings. On the envelope she
had written the name of a well known
pawn broker in the city, forty miles
away. "There's just enough," she said.
"I have counted it. Take it to him
yourself, or send it by some one whom
you can trust, and who will lose no
time. They will give you a litlic box
with my ring inside it—my wedding
ring, you know. I had to pawn it to
pay my fare on the stage the night we
came. Even if lam not here when you
get back, you must put it on my flngei'
and show it to them for baby's sake
My name and the date of my marriage
are written inside of it."
The cure waited to hear no more. "I
will go there myself," he said.
It was snowing that night when he
drove away, and all through the day
that followed the snow continued to
fail. Early the next morning tire cure
returned. Mario met him at the door
and he saw at once that she had been
crying.
"Madame is dead," she said. "She
died just a little while after you went
away."
She led the way into the room, where
they laid her in a plain, pine-boarded
coitiu. Some of the villagers had gath
ered there, as well as the cure's ser
vant, Paul.
"Paul," cried the cure, "ring the
church bell, and when they ask you
what has happened, tell them that you
ring for a marriage, a burial and a
christening all at once. Tell them also
that tile cure wnnts them here."
The cracked old hell rang out on the
frosty air, and the people, startled by
tlie unusual sound, hurried to the inn.
They crowded into the little room, men
and women, and stood there in awed
silenee as the cure took the cover off
the little cardboard box. A plain gold
ring lay inside of it, and he held it up
between his Anger and thumb, so that
all of them might see.
"Look!" he exclaimed, as he read the
inscription on the inside of the ring.
"Here is her marriage cortlAcate and
her Christian name: 'Rosie—Septem
ber 20, 1900.' If any of you do not
believe me, come and look for your
selves."
There was a dead silence throughout
the room as, after waiting for a mo
ment to see if any one would reply, he
walked to the coifin, and lifting the
little, cold, white hand, he slipped tho
ring upon her Auger. "See how it
Ats," ho said: "you must all call her
Madame now."
Presently he spoke to them more in
the tone which he was accustomed to
use in the pulpit.
"On Sunday the child shall be christ
ened. We will name her Rosie, after
her mother, and Rougemont, after our
village. Y'ou know best whether you
owe anything to her or not," he con
tinued, pointing toward the coflilL
"But in ease your conscience pricks
you, Paul will stand at the church doc*
after the christening to receive what
you may wish to give."
And that's how it happened that juat
at the entrance of the graveyard,
where they laid Madame, there stands
a plain white marble slab. There are
only three words on it:
"Rosie was good."—New Y'ork New*,
lVlien DORS GO Hind.
"Speaking of mad dogs," said a man
who deals with members of the canine
tribe for the various ailments to which
they fall heir, "the popular belief that
(logs go mad because they cannot get a
sufficient quantity of water is not al
together correct. No doubt a lack of
water at certain seasons of the yeur
lias a great deal to do with it. Dogs
need a certain quantity of water, and
they must have it, else they will suffer
that kind of mental impairment called
rabies. But the most potent factor In
producing rabies, or madness In dogs,
is the lack of meat, the lack of blood
in the food they eat. The dog is car
nivorous. He must have meat. His
system calls for a certain amount of
blood food, and when he falls to get
this he is denied that which is essen
tial to his being. More dogs go mad
on this account tnan for any other rea
son. They are not given the right kind
of food. I recall one instance of a
dog in a mountainous region in Ar
kansas that went mad. He had simply
starved on account of a lack of bloqfl.
Before lie became violent, and utterly
crazy, he had attacked a calf and
had fearfully lacerated one of the
calf's legs. He was wild for the taste
of blood. We And in this an explana
tion ol' that ferocity the dog shows ill
the earlier stages of his madness iq
attacking animals of various kinds,
lie is blood-Hind. If dog owners would
see to it that the dogs get more blood,
more of the kind of food the dog na
ture demands, there would be fewer
cases of dogs with the rabies."—New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
Is tho Horse a Fool?
I have spent much of a long life in
the observation of horses. I have
reared them, broken them, trained
them, ridden tlieiu, and driven them in
every form from the plow to the four
in-hanil. The result of these years of
study is summed up in one sentence:
1 believe the horse to be part maniac
and part idiot. Every horse at some
time in his life develops into a homi
cidal maniac. I believe any man who
trusts himself or his family to the
power of a liorse, stronger than him
self, to he lacking in common sense
and wholly devoid of ordinary pru
(lopce. 1 have driven one commonplace
horse every other day for six years
over the same road, and then had bin
to go crazy and try to kill himself and
me because a leaf fluttered in front
of him. I have known scores of horses
apparently trustworthy, apparently
creatures of routine, go wild and in
sane over equally regular and recurring
phenomena. No amount of observation
can tell when the brute will break
out. One mare took two generations
' of children to school over the same
| (pilot road, and then in her nineteenth
i year went crazy because a rooster
i crowed alongside the road. She killed
j two of the children. If any one can,
! tell me a good reason why man should
! trust a horse, I should be glad to know.
I —Harper's Weekly.
The National City Bank of New York
City averages 51112,000,000 of deposits.
The Bank of England a little more
than $20,000,000 average deposits.
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Cradled by an Iceberg*
A thrilling story of a vessel's encoun
ter with an iceberg was told by Cap
tain Chester of the schooner Elwood
to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter.
While the schooner was on a fishing
cruise in the northern waters Captain
Chester sighted an immense iceberg
apparently fast on a reef known to
exist just off Hoonia. "It's a lucky
And!" thought the Captain, as he
headed the Elwood for the berg, that
he might fill the hold with ice to pre
serve the fish that he expected to
catch.
When the schooner was within a few
yards of the berg the anchor was
dropped. The vessel swung around
until she came alongside the berg, to
which she was made fast with lines.
The tide was at the full; a gangplank
was thrown over to a ledge on the ice
and the men began breaking off chunks
of ice and hoisting them aboard. All
went well until evening, when thirty
tons of ice had been stowed in the
hold.
Meanwhile the falling tide had
caused the berg to settle upon the reef
and to tip toward the side opposite
the vessel. The gangplank rose in the
air and had to be made fast to a ledge
nearer the water to keep it horizontal.
Captain Chester, suspecting that all
was not going to be well, ordered the
crew to make sail. Before they could
man the halyards the iceberg, with a
grinding roar, rolled off the reef and
started to turn over.
A Jagged spur of ice, which had
formed the bottom of the berg, rose on
the starbonrd side of the vessel and
beneath it. The ice struck the keel
and the vessel, lifted out of the water,
rested in an ice cradle. Chester or
dered his men to get into the boats
and out of harm's way. Cutting the
lines that held the schooner to the
berg, the men pulled to a safe distance
and waited.
The anchor held fast and the schoon
er tugged at the chain. The tide
dropped a few more inches, the ice
berg careened still further, and the
Elwoodo rose higher. This proved the
schooner's salvation.
The tendency of the iceberg to roll
over and rnise the vessel brought such
on enormous strain upon the anchor
chain that something had to give way.
Something did, and to the joy of the
fishermen it was not the anchor or the
chain.
The iceberg lurched, and the schooner
was seen to slide several feet along
the crevice in which it rested. There'
was another lurch and another slide.
Then the vessel readied a downward
grade and the next instant shot off
the Iceberg and into the sea, bows on,
like a racket.
She shipped a heavy sea as the re
sult of plunging her nose beneath the
surface, but quickly righted, and after
stumbling over her anchor chain and
tugging viciously to get away, settled
down to her original state of tranquil
ity, to all appearances unhurt.
Thrilling Fight With a Shark.
Harry M. Speerman, of Fort Wayne,
Ind., was bathing almost a quarter of
a milo out beside the Steeplechase
Pier in Atlantic City, N. J., the other
day, when he saw what he thought
was the body of a man floating near
the surface. lie swam to the object,
which was slowly sinking, and dived
down after it, clutching at the sup
posed body. To his consternation he
found ho had grabbed a lively eight
foot shark by the tail. The fish resent
ed interference and turned to attack
Speerman, who struck out lustily for
the shore, the shark after him.
Fortunately the jaws closed with
Speerman outside by a narrow margin,
and he shouted for help and swam as
be never swam before. The fighting
blood of the shark was up and its
appetite was keen, and it made another
rush for the bather, who was helpless,
having no weapon but his hands to
fight with.
Some of the affrighted spectators on
the pier and the beach ran to the life
guards' station and told Slep Calhoun
and James Neill of the unequal combat
being waged, and they put out in their
lifeboat to Speerman's rescue. They
were none too soon. Speerman had re
ceived several staggering blows from
the shark's tail, and was so weak that
he was keeping afloat with difficulty.
The shark made a final rush nt the
bather, turned on its back like a flash
and this time caught him. The big
open jaws closed like a vise on Speer-1
man's left arm and the water above
them was tinged with blood.
It would have been all over with the
bather had not the lifeboat arrived just'
at this moment. Speevman was sink
ing, faint from pain and loss of blood
as Neill leaned over the side of the
boat and caught him by the hair. He
was dragged into tlie boat, and ns the
shark came on Calhoun stood with a
heavy boatliook poised and skilfully
harpooned the monster just as he
turned on his side and made a snap at
the boat.
Speerman was rowed ashore and re
ceived medical attention. The life
guards went out again with a towing
rope and brought the body of the
shark to the beach. The man from
Fort Wayne, who will carry his arm
In a sling for several weeks, claimed
the shark, and said ho would have It
stuffed and shipped to his home.—New
York World.
Bruin Sells Life Uearly.
A huge black bear was brought to
Bluefield, W. Va., recently and sold to
local butchers. Its weight was 430
pounds and In cnpnuring it a young
man sustained possibly fatal injuries.
For some time past the farmers liv
ing in the "Wilderness" in Bland
County, Va., have missed their sheep.
Thursday the partly devoured carcass
of a tine ewe was found. A party was
organized to hunt down the carnivor
ous animal. The country was scoured
for hounds, and a line pack was gotten
together.
The hounds soon struck the beast's
trail, and in a short while one of the
hunters, Charles Burton, got a shot at
tlie animal. The bullet took effect, but
did not check the bear's flight.
However, others of the party fired
with equally effective air, and the
bear, after carrying ten rifle balls
around with him for over an hour, was
finally brought to bay by the hounds.
In his eagerness to bo one of the dis
patchers of the brute, John Burton,
aged twenty-two years, got too close to
the bear, and before he could get a
shot was bowled over by the bear's
heavy paws. His face was badly lac
erated by the blow, and after he had
fallen to the ground he received an
other blow which broke his left arm.
The bear then bit nearly through
Burton's left leg and was gnawing at
his stomach when the party came up.
A shot, fired by a man named Bamsey,
ended Bruin's earthly career.
The young man was removed to the
home of his father on Kimberland
Creek, where he lies in a critical condi
tion.
Bpar on the Hand Car.
The Railway and Engineering Re
view has the following: Some years
ago Mr. Jerry Sullivan, then of the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, told of
blowing a bear otit of a culvert with
sticks of dynamite. After that no
other railroad bear stories were told
for a long time. The Seattle Post-In
telligencer now relates the particulars
of a meeting between a grizzly bear
and a section gang of the White Pass
& Yukon Railway, whjfh, while per
haps not as violent in some respects
as the affair in Colorado, will neverthe
less pass at this period of time. Ac
cording to the reporter's account the
men were running a hand car around
a curve, when suddenly a large grizzly
was seen on the track. The car was
stopped about a rail's length from
Bruin, when the men jumped off and
gave the ear a push. When the car
struck the bear he jumped upon it
and held possession while it was get
ting up to speed on a down grade,
when he jumped off and let it go.
About this time a hunter happened
along with a rifle, but he had only
two shots left, and ns those were not
well directed, Mr. Bear suited his own
convenience about quilting the right
of way, but lie finally sid-stepped into
the snow and made off. After the af
fair was over it was "up to" the sec
tion gang to find their car.
lUver Uescue by it Woioun,
A rescue that was out of the ordinary
happened in the North River at New
York City, when Mrs. Thomas Simp
sou, with her street clothes on, jumped
in the river and pulled out a young
man and a boy who were drowning.
Mrs. Simpson, with her husband, con
ducts a public bath house near where
the barge Birmingham was moored.
John Campbell, aged four, fell from
the barge into the water, and William
McDermott, seventeen years of age,
who was working on deck, went over
tlie side after him. The child sank, but
McDermott dived after him and seized
him. McDermott rapidly became ex
hausted and he began to drift down
stream when Mrs. Simpson went to
their rescue. She did not wait to take
off her shoos or any of her clothes, but
jumped into the water just as she was
and struck out for the struggling pair.
Coming up to them she got hold of
Mc-Dcrmott with her left hand, and
then made for the pier, McDermott
still holding onto the child. The wom
an's strokes 'were powerful, and she
towed her human burden to the pier
with seeming ease. Young Campbell
was unconscious, but he revived after
Dr. Wolff had worked over him an
hour.
Mrs. Simpson has saved a number of
persons from drowning, among them
her own husband.
, Amex-icnn Soldim'tt* 15ravery.
The War Department, at Washing
ton, has been informed of services of
unusual bravery performed by enlisted
men at Santa Rita barrio, San Luis,
l'ampauga, l'hilippiue Islands, re
cently.
A native, frenzied by drink, created
a panic in the barrio by wielding his
bolo with such terrible effect that
throe or four natives were killed, and
six or seven others wounded. Chief
Musician George S. Thompson, Twen
tieth Infantry, and Corporal King, of
the Twenty-flftk Infantry, happened
to pass through the barrio in charge of
horses belonging to the regimental of
ficers. Iu answer -to the appeals of
the natives, both enlisted men used
their rifles, Thompson killing the mad
man.
Corporal King mounted his horse and
rode fifteen miles in the dead of night
through the roughest sort of country,
to the army post at Calumplt, where
Lieutenant Henuessy and Dr. Byers
were roused from their beds and,
equipped with surgical Instruments,
galloped back to Santa Ilita to minister
to the wounds of the wild Filipino's
victims.
Nearly one-third of the United States,
or about 550,000,000 acres, is vacant
public laud.
Feed l or Lambs.
As soon as tlie lambs "will eat, giro
them a little ground oats, bran, shorts,
corn meal or a mixture of all of them,
varying the composition of tlio feed
to suit the taste of the lambs. Only
a small amount will be eaten at first,
but gradually it will be better liked.
See that the feed is always fresh. If
any is left over give it to the pigs.
Pig Feeding.
Skim milk may form the largest part
of the feed of young and growing pigs
with advantage and economy.
For the fattening of swine weighing
on the average over one hundred
pounds each, live weight, it is economi
cal to give an allowance of skim milk
not exceeding five pounds a head per
day.
In every case the swine fed with part
of their ration of skim milk were
lustier, more vigorous and of a more
healthy appearance than swine fed
wholly on a ration of grain.—Canadian
Experiment Station Report.
Hats and Mien Easily Destroyed.
Some years ago my attention was
called to a granary in Maryland under
which a large number of rats had bur
rowed into the ground. The building
was double, set on posts raised about
eighteen inches above the ground,
with a driveway between. The earth
underneath was completely honey
combed with burrows. Two pounds
carbon bisulpliid were secured. Wads
of cotton, varying in size from a hen's
egg to one's fist, were saturated and
thrust into every burrow that opened
on the surface. The holes were se
curely closed. Only in two instances
were the holes opened by their occu
pants, and these were quickly de
stroyed by a second dose. Wherever
a burrow is found about auy building
it can be treated in the same way.—
American Agriculturist.
Sortins ERRS.
In handling eggs, a contrivance of
the kind illustrated is useful. Eggs
above or below a fair medium should
he rejected for either market or for
hatching. Small eggs are often infer
tile, while extra large eggs ape nearly
▲ SOBTINO BOABD.
always useless for hatching. If sent
to market, a few big eggs do not in
crease the value of the lot, but rather
seem to dwarf the appearance of the
other eggs. Eggs packed in one box
should ho of same size. The perfora
tions in the hoards should be made to
fit eggs weighing seven to nine to tlio
pound. To make the measuring holes,
bore with aD augur and enlarge and
shape with a keyhole saw.—New Eng
land Homestead.
Robber Docs.
The strongest bees are put on duty
for guards, it is these guard bees that
dart out at you. With the Italian bee
or the milder Cyprian, if you do not
notice them they will merely buzz near
j'our face a moment and leave you.
But often the cross black bees will
come at you with the intention of
stinging you, especially if there is rain
brewing, or they are short of resin in
the hive, or your clothes are perfumed
with some scent they dislike, tobacco,
for Instance. On account of these
guard bees, and the keen seent they
employ to single out enemies—as they
know every bee of their own house by
this scent as well as sight—it is almost
impossible for strange bees to pass
them into the hive. But the robber
bees do not come single handed, they
come when the worker bees are far
afield, and killing the guard and nurses
barring their way, they buzz in and
clean out the hive. Sometimes the
worker bees stay at home to resist the
attacks and the strongest side is victor,
hut it usually euds in the demolition
of the colony and the fighting, robbing
spirit spreads to other colonies. It is
strange about bees in this line; 11' they
find a starving bee they will feed and
care for it tenderly, but in case of a
weak colony they are almost sure to
sneak in and steal their small store.
They are very much like nations of
human kind in this respect.
Ants and those fiy bees which look
so much like a bee that even bees
are sometimes deceived by them, they
usually rid themselves of. But the bee
keeper must keep a close watch. Ants
are bad in this country, and most bee
stands are made with tapering legs and
set in cans or crocks of water. Last
winter I saw a fine stand of bees
brought to starvation because the
owner neglected setting the stand legs
in water. In every hive the bees
starved before half the winter was
over, and all on account of the fall in
roads of ants.
As the bee must go into over 100
blossoms to get just one load of honey,
It would oe natural for a big brained
thing like a'bee, to get it some easier
way if it could, and often in the height
of the honey season the smell of the
honey in other hives than their own
tempts them to threpe a little from
them. The beekeeper in taking honey
from the hives sometimes leaves
enough dripping around to set them
wild to follow the trail cn into the
hive. About the only way you can
break tliem of the robbing habit is to
put screens over the entrance ways
of the robted hives so that not more
than one bee can go out or come in
at a time.—l. S.. in The Epitomist.
FTcTI3
WtM
Several factories have been built In
Germany for the manufacture of "for
est "wool" out of pine needles. It is
used for making underclothes and I'm
stuffing mattresses and furniture.
Artificial woodwork will probably
soon be made on a large scale, as a
process has been discovered for form
ing sawdust into a solid substance
more durable than mahogany or ebony,
and capable of quite as brilliant a
polish.
Wire glass. It is claimed, adds much
to the fireproof condition of buildings.
In the presence of great beat the com
mon glass of a window will crack and
break and admit the flames into an
otherwise fireproof building. ire
glass, on the other hand, may crack,
but it cannot break and leave open
ings.
The use of heavy lubricating oils Is
made easy for automobiles by an oil
can provided with /fn air-pump, a few
strokes of which produce sufficient
pressure to cause the heaviest oils to
Mow rapidly and evenly. The flow of
oil is governed in quantity by si feed
valve attached to the base of the
spout.
Various objects usually invisible may
be seen under unusual conditions. The
flight of a cannon ball may ho viewed
by an observer favorably placed lor
sighting along its course, and the sea
bottom along coasts can be studied by
persons in balloons. It was while try
ing to learn whether submarine vessels
can be seen from a captive balloon as
far away as a ihile or two that a
French officer lately fell into the sea
and was drowned, leaving his secret
yet to be revealed.
An analysis of the chemical proper
ties of the millions of tons of volcanic
dust which now cover the islands ad
jacent to Martinique has been made to
discover the effect which the dust will
have upon the soil. There is a tradi
tion that a similar dispersion of vol
canic dust in the eruption of 1812 was
wonderfully beneficial as a fertilizer.
The findings of the Government labor
atory in Barbadoes, however, show
that the substance thrown out in the
recent ereuption is entirely deficient in
fertilizing value.
A Swedish Ccnsul at Bombay, India,
says that "because of their fear of
sanitary inspection and modern meth
ods of pre venting and curing disease
the natives of India in vast numbers
are the victims of plague. In conse
quence of the hatred and fear of
pitnls and medical men the populatlbvjj
of Bombay has decreased 40,(X)D in the
last ten years, while the increase in
the whole of India in the same time
was about fifteen per cent. Bombay
now has 7G0.000 people. The hospitals
and general medical service In India
are of the best and do much good in
the affected districts in spite of the
prejudice which prevails against such
things. The plague is generally fatal
without the most skillful medical atten
tion. The natives in their ignorance
seek only to be left to die in pence.
The ancient traditions of the country
are extremely difficult, almost impos
sible, to eradicate."
X.ovn and ISamlioo In .Java.
The young shoots of the bamboo are
covered with a number of very fine
hairs that are seen, under the micro
scope, to be hollow and spiked like
bayonets. These hairs are common!y"*
called bamboo poison by the while
men resident in Java, for the reason
that murder Is frequently committed
through their agency. When a Javan
ese woman takes a fancy to a Euro
pean she will either have him or poison
him if she gets the chance. She seeks
any and every opportunity of mixing
these infinitesimal hairs among his
food, and they serve the purpose of
irritating the whole length of the ali
mentary canal and setting up malignant
dysentery. It may take a long aims
and many doses of this so-called poison
to effect the purpose, but the native
woman does not tire, and death will
surely result. The male native will
also try this method of revenge for an
affront.—Japan Mail.
Origin of Perfume.
Tlio first perfumes were obtained by
the combustion of aromatic woods and
gums, and their original use was in H
sacrifices, to counteract the offensive
odors of the burning flesh. Hence the
Latin—per and fumare, "through
smoke." Every man to his own per
fume—and the dogs and horses recog
nize in every man that individuality
of effluvium without which neither
could track its master. The highly
educated pointer 011 the farm, tlie all
around hunter, takes ills orders to find
quail to-day, rabbits to-morrow, tur
keys the next day, and so on, and when
after one kind of game never allows
another to interfere with his duty. It
is all very wonderful.—New York
Pres3. -
The Longest Driver anil the Rubber Dull.
I am told that Mr. Edward Black
well, perhaps the longest driver living, -
plays constantly with a rubber-cored
hall, and finds that he has added great
ly to his length both with wood and
Iron. This coincides with my own
recent observation, and therefore dis
poses of the other idea at first enter
tained, viz.. that the new balls gave
no advantage to the long driver but
only benefited the short.—Golf Illus
trated.