FROM DAY TO DAY.
Still we reap, from day to day.
Thorn*, with rosea, on tho way;
Yet, in even tho darkest night,
Cometh dreams and gleams of light I
Sorrow—coming to destroy,
Is foreshadowing of Joy '
—Atlanta Constitution.
< HOW THE TENDERFOOT ►
J MET THE BEAR. [
The tenderfoot sportsman who goes
(to the Wheelertown settlement in
these days finds himself treated with
kinder consideration than he has any
reason to expect—far kinder, in fact,
than any real woodsman would accord
him elsewhere around the southeast
corner of the Adirondacks. This is
not due to any natural defect in the
Wheelertown woodsmen. They have
Just as hearty a contempt for the ig
noramus as all other good woodsmen
have, but since Abner Chase came
from Buffalo last spring they are will
ing to give even a tenderfoot with a
shiny outfit a chance to show what's
in him before they turn him over to
the professional guides.
Mr. Abner Chase brought more joy
to the community than any tourist
that has fished Little black Creek dur
ing the last three years, for he was
confessedly the tenderest tenderfoot
that ever combined experience with
silver-plated outfits. He couldn't tell
spinach from turnip tops nor corn
from quack grass, bat he said he was
"ambitious to learn the woodcraft,"
and when he expressed "entire confi
dence in the ability" of Wheelertown
backwoodsmen as "instructors" they
"calculated" they'd "learn him some
thing, sure."
So far as the arts of fishing for trout
and applying tar oil to keep off punkies
and deer flies were concerned, Mr.
Chase was carefully and sincerely in
structed by Mr. Bob Allen, with whom
he boarded; but when on the third
day after arrival he said he wished
Ihe "could have a hand-to-hand con
flict with a hear after the Norwegian
style," and then explained that in the
Norwegian style of conflict the hunter
used a knife only, the boys thought
they'd give him a run for his money
in away that would make him and
them remember for years to come.
fTliey admit now that it was a low
down trick to plan for any tourist, but
still they aren't sorry they did it.
Because bears are scarcer than they
used to be, and because they know
iwell that men carry guns of marvel
ous powers, the chance of arranging
a personal meeting between Mr. Chase
and a bear was too remote for consid
eration. But Ben Gratrix, who lives
half a mile north of the Wheelertown
schoolhouse, had a big, shaggy, black
mongrel dog—an ugly brute —that the
boys thought would serve instead of
Ursus, and they told Mr. Chase they
guessed they could give him a chance
to try.
Accordingly, Bob Allen and Bud
North took the tenderfoot into the
■woods, one afternoon, .and with a big
rag well soaked in fish oil dragging
behind hjm at the end of a rope they
led him to and fro for four hours and
finally stopped in front of the big hol
low birch that stands beside the old
reservoir trail, near the abandoned
Pardy clearing. Then they all went
home) for the night, but just before
daylight the next morning they got
Chase out of bed and sent him alone
up the trail to take a stand in the hol
low birch and wait for a bear to come
along in search of the bait they had
been dragging the day before.
Mr. Chase had no doubt that a bear
would come, for the boys assured him
ithey had seen abundant signs, and
that the bait was sure to draw. He
accordingly prepared himself with
care for the occasion. He wore a fine
leather coat which, as the boys had
been careful to learn, cost $lB, On his
Ihead he put a scarlet cap, because, as
lie explained, the Indians always wore
red handkerchiefs around, their heads.
Corduroy trousers and twelve-dollar
hunting shoes completed his dress,
and for a weapon tie carried a carving
knife whetted to a razor edge.
Meantime Ben Gratiz, Jr., a lad of
17, had gone up the trail leading the
dog, and to his delight he was having
much trouble in doing it. For the un
fortunate beast had been kept without
food since the morning before, and
just before starting for the woods lie
had been allowed to smell of but not
to taste a comfortable piece of meat
flanked by bread and potatoes covered
with gravy. Young Ben had gone up
the trail to a point half a mile or so
beyond the old hollow birch to wait
till sunrise, and then to release the
'dog. It was absolutely certain that
the dog would go tearing down the
trail, bound for Its breakfast, and the
>vocdsmen hoped the tenderfoot would
jump out and try to stop him. They
knew the dog might get hurt in such
an encounter, hut they calculated on
his plunging between Chase's legs, giv
ing liini a nip, and then flying on.
They had to snort as they thought of
the way the tendefoot would come
limping in, with eyes bulging, to tell
hew the hear thawed him and then
fled.
Having seen Mr. Chase disappear up
the old trail the boys made haste to
do the eh ores oil the Allen farm, and
then, with Mrs. Allen and the chil
dren following, they started for the
woods, just at sunrise. They were ex
pecting to meet the 'flog any moment
after reaching the woods trail, hut it
did not come. They were approach
ing the last bend 111 the trail before
reaching the old birch, and Mrs. Allen
was saying she believed the dog had
taken a short cut through the woods,
pcor thing, when Chase came around
the bend. He was plainly running for
life, but the moment he saw the wo
man with the children he stopped
short and yelled.
"Get them up a tree, Bob! 11l try
to stop him, but I don't believe I can
do it."
With that he grabbed an old sled
stake that lay beside the trail and
started back around the bend, while
Bob Allen and Bud North began to
howl with laughter. The children
joined ecstatically, but Mrs. Allen
caught her breath, and then, turning
to Bob, said:
"Stop your fool laughing. Didn't
you see his coat was all ripped and
bloody?"
No, Bob hadn't seen that; neither
had Bud, and they were going on with
their howls when Chase came walking
back around the bend.
"All right!" he shouted. "He fled
into the woods when he saw the club,
but that's more than the other would
have done."
This would have amused tho boys as
much as his previous words but for
the fact that they could see now that
his coat was ripped and bloody, as
Mrs. Allen had said. Moreover, his
corduroy trousers were slashed and
bloody, too, his scarlet cap was gone,
and there was a row of deep cuts from
the top of his head down through his
right ear to his shoulder.
"Lordy, will you look at that?" said
Allen. "Why, man alive, what's hap
pened? Ye're all chawed up."
"Why, yes," said Chase, as they
gathered around him, "I believe I am
cut up a bit. You see. the affair did
not fuuction quite as I liad premeditat
ed; I didn't anticipate seeing a flock
of bears, you know.
"I took my stand in tho hollow tree,
as you instructed me to do, and I as
sure you I hadn't waited more than
two minutes when two small bears
came from the thick brush on the oppo
site side of the trail, one right behind
the other. They crossed over toward
me and were almost, in reach when the
one behind bit tho other in the heel,
and the next instant they were, ah,
up against each other and slugging
away like prize fighters you know, if
I may use the vernacular.
"They were quite young, and it
seemed almost a pity to do it, but I
supposed I should not have another
chance, so I attacked them. By a ra
pid movement I grasped the nearest
one by the neck, and at the same time
plunged the knife into the other. Then
I tried to knife the one I held, but its
struggles were most extraordinary, I
assure you, and I had to give it three
distinct thrusts.
"Meantime it had been screaming
like a baby, and while I was striving
to control it there was a crash in the
brush and out came the mother bear
with her lips drawn back and teeth
prot rnding.
"I don't recollect, ah! precisely all
that happened, then, for she was very
much more active, you know, than any
one would imagine. But the worst of
it all was that as I gave her the last
thrust the knife became fastened in
some way so that I oould not with
draw it, and just then I saw another
bear with a bushy tail coming down
the trail, and it's mouth was open,
too.
"It was quite embarrassing, I assure
you, but 1 remembered seeing a slend
er tree down this way which I thought
I might climb further than the bear
could, and I was running for that when
I met you.
"I hope the lady will pardon my ap
pearance," he continued, as he drew
the bow of his necktie from behind his
neck and wiped some of the blood from
his face with a handkerchief. "It's
unusual, I assure you, to find myself
in such a predicament."
Finding that Chase was exhausted,
but not seriously hurt, the party hur
ried up the trail t the old birch.
There they found young Ben Gratrix
standing, with his eyes bulging, beside
a dead mother bear with two dead
cubs close at band. And the carving
knife in the last and fatal thrust had
pierced between two joints of the old
boar's backbone, where it was held
fast, as Chase had said.
"He didn't know a bushy tailed dog
from a bear," said North, as he tried
to withdraw the knife from the old
bear, "but a tenderfoot who'll mix
into a mill like that has got the mak
ing of a good sportsman."
That opinion has been adopted by
all who have heard the story, and
while they remember how this ten
derfoot faced a mother bear in a fight
for her cubs the Wlieelertown woods
men will give the tourist due consid
eration until he lins had a chance to
show his metal. —John S. Spears, in
the New York Times.
ltwle Awakening Tnr a Flelinrman.
George Chaffee of Dyndonvillo was
fishing in the lake thiß week. He was
anchored a short distance from shore
when his sport was disturbed by an
angry steer charging down toward him
at a fearful rate, jumping into the
water and swimming directly toward
him. Chaffee did not have time to
raise ids anchor or to get away from
the enraged creature, BO he yelled ait
the top of his voice and beat off the
attacks with his fish poie, finally head
the Fleer toward shore. The animal
climbed up the bank and dropped down
r.s if dead, it appears that the steer,
which belonged to Dewey Denyon,,
waa pasturing about a mile away, be
came erased and charged through the
barn, across the fields and over fences,
not stopping until he was out in the
lake some distance. After awhile the
beast returned home, apparently noth
ing the matter with It. —Rochester Un
ion and Advertiser.
Statistics show that one out of every
j 22 Danish emigrants to the United
j Slates becomes a Mormon.
MONSTER STEAM SHOVEL
THE MOST WONDERFUL OF ALL THE
MECHANICAL WORKMEN.
Ton* of Earth lfuloed at One Fcoop
lifti'ee liucketK Wliic-h I-ill an ()pn
Car with Great It tpitllty Engine*
Which Dig, Curry and Elft.
Of all the mechanical workmen
which have of late years been devised
to assist human energy in performing
great undertakings probably the most
wonderful are the monster steam shov
els. A number of those giants with
their arms of steel and tireless mus
cles, have been in service for years
past, but the increasing variety of uses
to which the steam shovel has lately
been adapted has directed an increas
ing degree of attention to this import
ant family of time-saving and labor
saving machines. Simultaneously new
demands have been made upon the
manufacturers, and the new recruits
in the army of inanimate shovellers
are each fully one-third heavier and
correspondingly more powerful than
the old type.
Already these machines have some
surprising achievements to their credit
in making excavations for railroads
and canals. Thus far, however, one of
the principal uses of the steam shovel
has been that of handling raw material,
such as coke, coal and limestone; un
loading from railroad cars, transferring
from stock piles to furnaces, etc.
Practically all of the steam shovels
in use throughout the country are of
one general type. Inasmuch as the
shovels are designed for almost con
tinuous service at the hardest kind of
work, aud, from the nature of things
and the undeveloped portion of the
country in which they are often em
ployed, must not only bo subjected to
all kinds of weaihor, but also receive
but scant care, every effort is made to
have them of staunch construction—
in short, as nearly unbreakable as pos
sible. In the construction of the up
to-date steam shovels there are em
ployed steel beams, steel and Iron forg
ings and steel plates and castings.
Comparatively little cast Iron is used
In any part of tho machine, even the
gearing being of cast steel and the
shafting of hammered steel. The parts
are joined with a filling of white oak.
To manipulate the monster scoop
that does as much shovelling as a force
of 100 men naturally requires consider
able power, and this is furnished by
half a dozen engines. There are a pair
of swinging engines, a pair of revers
ing engines and a pair of thrusting en
gines, so that every motion of the pon
derous shovel is accurately controlled.
The water tank connected with the
shovel and the storage bin for fuel are
of sufficient capacity to enable the
largest size shovel to bo in operation
continuously for fully eight hours.
There is a wide range in the size of
the scoops or buckets, of steam shovels,
according to the work for which they
are intended. In some instances a
shovel is fitted with a bucket which
will not held more than one or two
tons, but as a rule the capacity is such
that from four to 9ight. tons of rnater
' ial are lifted ait every scoop of the tre
mendous mctol arm.
Steam shovels, in order that they
may be moved quickly and economical
ly from placo to place, are mounted up
on extra heavy trucks that are of
standard gauge, and. in the main, very
similar to thosewhich support thelarg
e9t freight cars. It is thus equipped to
travel as the railroad cars in the load
ing and unloading of which it may be
engaged, or if it is desired to transfer
the shovel from one place to another it
may be hauled as an ordinary freight
car.
One of the remarkable attributes of
the modern steam shovel is tho ability
of the great, ungainly machine to lift
masses of material above its head, so
to speak. Almost any of the steam
shovels now in use will dump ma
terial 16 or 17 feet above the
level of the rails on which the shovel
stands, and some of them, which have
exceptionally long arms, will lift the
huge dippers 20 feet or more above
the track. As might be expected, it is
necessary when constructing a machine
which is to perform such work as this
tc provide every possible safeguard
against the constant wrenching and
twisting which are inevitable, particu
larly when the dipper is operated rap
idly. To minimize the strains it is the
custom to place cushions of wood be
tween the steel parts of the machine.
Probably the most interesting steam
shovels in the world are to be found
on the "Mesaba Range," one of the five
districts which go to make the I.ake
Superior mining region. Here they ren
der possible in its present scale of mag
nitude the so-called "open-pit mining,
the shovelling of iron oro directly from
its natural resting place in the earth
to the railroad cars which are to carry
it to market. An "open-pit" mine is
nothing more or less than an Immense
hole in the ground, perhaps half a mile
square. Into this railroad sidings are
run, as they might be into a vast
quarry, and in some of these mines,
where fully a million tons of ore is
taken out each year, there is in opera
tion simultaneously anywhere from
half a dozen to a dozen of the large
shovels.
Th type of shovel moat eitwislyely
used In mining operations la 48 feat
in length and nearly 10 foot in width.
The boiler is nearly 5 foot in diameter,
and the boom or arm of the ahovel
ranges In length anywhere from 25 to
30 feet. Such a shovel weighs more
than many a locomotive, and coals
from $7,000 to SIO,OOO. It is in the iron
regions, previously mentioned, that
the most remarkable records of rapid
loading by means of steam shovels
have attained . As a rule five trips of
the dipper are required to fill an
ardimry freight car, but so rapidly is
the long arm raised and lowered that
it is accounted slow work if more
than five minutes be consumed in
loading a car, and not frequently cars
are fully loaded and pushed out of
the way of the shovel at the rate of
one every two minutes. Prom eight
to a dozen men are required to
operate a shovel of fair capacity, and
by steady work they can place fully
7000 tons of ore aboard the cars in a
single working day. In order to
make such a record as this, however,
it is necessary that the men have an
opportunity to work on the side of a
pit or mine, where it will not often be
necessary to resort to blasting to loos
en the ore, so that it may slide down
to the shovel, and it is further essential
that a locomotive be constantly at hand
to shift the cars as rapidly as they are
filled, thus preventing delay.
New types of steam shovels are to a
considerable extent displacing the fam
iliar locomotive crane in many manu
facturing establishments. Some of the
machines put to such use are operated
by electric motors instead of by steam.
Numerous improvements have of late
been made in steam shovels in general.
One of these gives greater latitude of
movement to the dipper. The old-fash
ioned steam shovel dipper was limited
to a verticle thrust, but in the newer
machines the big scoop is not only
enabled to revolve in a complete circle,
but the dipper is fitted with a sliding
trolley, to which is suspended by an
adjustable arm, and about which it ro
tates. Indeed, the present mechanism
even renders it possible to remove the
dipper entirely and make use of the
machine as a locomotive crane. In the
new-style machine all the movements
are controlled by levers so arranged as
to be operated by one man stationed
on a platform at the front of the ma
chine. Within the past year or two
many steam shovels have been ex
ported to Europe, where they are com
ing into extensive use for railroad and
canal excavation, as well as for trans
ferring material in manufacturing es
tablishments. —Philadelphia Record.
GUAINT AND CURIOUS.
A curious coin used by the Gauls
about 2000 yoars ago was shaped like
a horseshoe or the capital letter U,
and was about a quarter of an inch
thick and two inches across.
Pennsylvania was originally settled
by Swedes in 1G27. They were forcibly
subjugated in 1655 by the neighboring
Dutch of New Amsterdam (New York),
who themselves passed under English
rule in 1664. Philadelphia and Penn
sylvania proper were founded by Penn
in 1682.
A St. Petersburg medical student, M.
Kolomaizeff, has just completed a cu
rious scientific experiment; he has
hatched out a turkey's egg by carry
ing it about for 18 days under his arm.
In consequence of his success quite a
crowd of people in St. Petersburg are
now endeavoring to hatch out geese,
hens and ducks in the same manner.
It is a healthier occupation than hatch
ing plots.
The dwarfs as well as the giants are
caught in the net of French compul
sory military service, and the last con
scription has brought out a recruit of
\ery diminutive size. His name is
Francois Finas; he comes from Mont
meillan; his height is three feet three
inches; he weighs only four stone
three pounds; he cannot carry a flag
or keep step with his comrades, but
trots after them as they march
through the town.
At one time, if a Japanese girl mar
ried a foreigner, she was instantly de
capitated. A Portuguese was proba
bly the first European to marry a
daughter of the land of the chrysan
themum with impunity. He went there
30 years ago, and fell in love with a
Japanese girl. Her parents warned
her of the fatal consequences of mar
rying him, but she persisted, with the
result that the Mikado decided that
she must be beheaded. However, after
a correspondence of over five years'
duration between the Portuguese and
Japanese governments, she was per
mitted to live.
The horses of the Pilgrims were all
alike in form and size. After cutting
down trees and sawing logs of suitable
length, the men dragged them by hand
along the ground —for there were no
horses or other beasts of burden —and
laid tliom one upon another, thus form
ing the" walls. Probably the chimneys
and fireplaces were of stone, crevices
being plastered up with mortar, made
by mixing straw and mud, and oil
paper taking the place of glass for
windows. At the best, these log-houses
were poor makeshifts for dwellings in
the severe winter along the bleak New
England coast. For furnishing these
simplb homes, the Pilgrims had
brought, over such articles as large
arm-chairs, wooden settles, high-posted
beds, truckle-beds for young children
and cradles for babies. The cooking
was done in a big fireplace. Hero the
housewife baked bread in large ovens,
roasted meat on iron spits, which they
had to keep turning in order to cook
all aides of the roast alike, and boiled
various kinds of food in large kettles
knag ovor the fire.
Manlinn.
Next, to being manly is to appreciate
manliness. Next to being womanly is
to appreciate womanliness. There is,
indeed, a measure of the high quality
in a man or woman that makes one re
cognize It when exhibited in another.
It is the lack of the high quality that
makes one undervalue it as it stands
out in its commendableness. In view
of this truth, we must remember that
we disclose ourselves by our estimate
of others.—Sunday School Times.
LABORS OF ROYALTY.
Manner in lTlilcli Hint; and Oneen Dlt*
charge Their Dutle*.
Before Mayfair is astir the king is
at his desk, dictating through tele
phono messages to his secretaries at
work in another rom, writing such let
ters as demand an autograph reply and
attaching his signature to those docu
ments which are ever present with the
monarch. It used to be the boast of
V'illiam IV. that he never retired for
the night until he had signed every
thing which awaited his signature
each day, and he would persevere in
his task even when forced to allay
the cramp in his fingers by bathing
them in hot water.
King Edward is not less conscien
tious than King William, and signs
documents with extraordinary dis
patch. Indeed, his majesty does
everything quickly and promptly, and
will see through a thing before other
people have begun to discuss it. After
state documents and correspondence
have been dealt with the king receives
ministers, ambassadors and official
personages in audience, or there may
be a levee to hold or a function to at
tend, or, in these days, some corona
tion matter to consider.
The afternoon and evening frequent
ly bring public duties and always so
cial ones, while in between whiles the
king manages to dovetail a little pure
ly family life. Too much emphasis
cannot be placed on the, fact that the
royal family preserve a real home life
amid all the calls of state and public
duties.
It Is less easy to tabulate tho vari
ous demands on the queen's time and
thought than to describe the details of
tho king's working day. In palace, as
In villa, It is the many littles which
occupy a woman's time and make her
day arduous.
Apart from those hours which the
queen must give to matters of dress
she undoubtedly may claim to be a
hard-working woman in virtue of the
unfailing graciousness with which she
accompanies the king to all public cer
emonials, the ready ear which she
has for the demands of philanthropy
and the kindly patronage she extends
to art, music and the drama.
The queen must often perform her
social duties in London when a rest
at Sandringham amid the simple coun
try life which she loves so well would
be more agreeable. But duty first
must ever be the royal watchword.
It Is not easy to be always bowing and
smiling and saying the gracious thing,
even though the body may feel weary
and the head ache, and I think it must
be in justice admitted that the queen
and all the princesses show a fortitude
in this matter which few women
would care to emulate. —London Mail.
Trolley LIDKI Rights.
A recent decision of the New York
court of appeals has placed the trolley
on a par with steam railroads as re
gards the carrying of freight. It was
contended by a trolley company that it
had a legal right do effect a junction
of its tracks with those of a neighbor
ing railroad, which right was denied.
The court decided in favor of the trol
ley company, affirming their right to
make connection with any railroad
and to interchange freight with same,
in accordance with the rules govern
ing railroads. The court stated that
Inasmuch as It is neither profitable nor
practical for steam roads to connect
with every village and hamlet or pro
ductive district in the country, and
since the rapidly Increasing network of
trolley lines does afford an outlet for
trade products, it is due the farmer,
mill owner and merchandise vendor in
distant places, that they should bo able
to avail themselves of the trolley sys
tem running before their doors. In
commenting editorially on this Impor
tant decision, the Street Railway Re
view declares It is one of the most far
reaching that has been rendered in this
country. It is apparent, says the same
authority, that the court does not con
sider the interest of the two classes of
roads to be antagonistic to any serious
degree, but regards the electric lines
as filling a need which the steam rail
roads have as yet been able to supply
with advantage to their own stock
holders.
A Jumbo I.lfjhtninc Hut?.
What is believed to be the largest
phosphorescent insect known to exist
has Just been shipped to Prof. Charles
W. Woodworth, the University of Cal
ifornia entomolgist, from Madera by
a woman who discovered it and has
been in correspondence with the agri
cultural department in regard to her
valuable find. The insect is 31-2
inches long, exceeding all other phos
phorescent varieties that have ever
been studied. The largest one pre
vious to this was a specimen two
inches long, found in the eastern
states. Neither the name, species nor
genus of the new insect can be deter
mined. It comes at an opportune time,
however, for scientists are at present
making careful investigations in phos
phorescence in the hopes of discov
ering the secret of obtaining light
without heat —San Francisco Chron
icle.
Ch'ini;fK In Mode* of Living;.
One of the enjoyable features of
Greenfield's colebration was a long re
miniscent letter from the Hon. John E.
Russell, which opened as follows:
"He who can remember the events
of 00 years has marked greater changes
in modes of living than were made in
the previous 2000 years. Tho world
has been rapidly shrinking in size, so
that the dally paper contains yester
day's news from every part of it, and
a man in Greenfield can now send a
message to the shores of the Pacific,
and get and answer three hours by
the San Francisco clock before the
message left Greenfield. —Boston
Transcript.
THE MAN WITH A SI,OOO BILL.
Ho Securod Smaller Money by an Ingen
ion* Scheme.
Of a man with a SIO9O bill in his
pocket and no smaller amount of mon
ey, a story has been written that
traced him through many experiences
and took him to the verge of starva
tion. But, as a matter of fact, one
man who had- nothing smaller than a
SIOOO bill got through his
very easily in this city a few nights
ago.
Ten of these coveted promissory
notes of the United States had been
paid to him in the afternoon. In the
pursuit of business and a modicum
of pleasure he had, after the receipt
of his SIO,OOO, spent the last dime he
possessed other than the big bills.
He was with some friends, any one of
whom could and would have accommo
dated him with sufficient money for
his needs, but a discussion arose about
what he would do if he were a stranger
in the city and had no money other
than that which was in his poeket.
"I wouldn't care if I were dressed
as a beggar," he said. "I can get all
I want so long as I have a SIOOO bill
in my pocket."
"You would be a.-ested or turned
down if you tried to use it," said one.
"There are not many places where
SIOOO in change is kept handy. Be
sides, most people would be shy of tak
ing such a bill from any of us. We
don't look as though we carried SIOOO
bills around in our pockets."
"Well," said the man with the $lO,-
000, "I'll bet a basket of champagne
with the bunch that I can spend my
money as freely as though these were
$5 bills instead of what they are, and
I won't have any trouble about it,
either. I'll get change the first time
I try, too, or lose the bet. And I
won't go to any man who knows me."
The wager was accepted, and the
man with SIO,OOO, taking one friend
with him, walked out to a pawn shop.
He said to the clerk only this:
"I have received SIO,OOO in 10 bills.
They are mine and were come by hon- J
estly. It is difficult for me, ast-ang
er, to get a SIOOO bill changed!. Here 7
are the 10 bills. Look at them. 1 '
need some money, and I want to pawn
one of these bills for $25. If you are
Afraid of me, call up police headquar
ters and I will satisfy the people there
by papers that I can show that I am
honest. Or, if you like, call up Mr. ,
who paid the money to me, and he
will tell you if I am all right."
The pawnbroker looked at him keen
ly for a second and then said:
"I never took money as a pledge,
but you are sober and seem all right,
and you can have the $25. Give me
the SIOOO bill."
The pawnbroker examined (he bill
carefully and then, to the astonishment
of the others, took another SIOOO bill
out of his safe and compared them.
Then, just as he would make out a
ticket for a ring or a watch, he IssucV
a ticket for a "SIOOO bill," turned over |
the $25 and closed the transaction.—
New York Tribune.
Athletic Training for Soldier*.
The advantage of athletic exercise
as a means of fitting a soldier for
the better discharge of his duties was
signally demonstrated on the occasion
of recent trials of certain heavy ord
nance. When the officers in charge
reached the point where they wanted
the speediest possible handling of the
big pieces they called for the men
who had achieved a reputation as base
ball and (football playefs, and the
rapidity with which they used their
muscles contributed not a little to the
success of the test. This, it is true.,
was merely a special case, but it war
rants its application for the purpose
of a general deduction, which is that
just in proportion to the athletic train
ing of a soldiier will be his value in" "M
any field of active duty to which he *
may bo assigned.
In this particular, as In others relat
ing to the training of soldiers, the
German army, the best military es
tablishment in the world, may be
pointed to as setting a good example.
From the moment when the recruit
makes his appearance and to the very
end of his service he is drilled in ev
ery kind of gymnastics.
In some degree, it is true, the Ger
man soldier is prepared while at
school, for here, too, gymnastic exer
cises are compulsory. It is evident,
then; that in our own army, even
though it may not be thought advis
able to compel the soldiers to under
go gymnastic training regularly, ath
letics ought to be encouraged in every
way consistent with discipline.
Widower Wan Consoled.
A lawyer who has won some dlstinc- i
tlon through his success in comprom-
ising Bill ts for damages by accident
says his most Interesting client was a
Swedish farmer from Delaware county,
whose wife had been killed here in
Philadelphia by a train crossing the
street at grade.
The widower was simply inconsol
able, and, having been told that he
could get SIO,OOO 1f he insisted on push
ing the case, refused for months to
talk compromise. The lawyer, of
course, did all possible to keep the
hearing back, In the hope of discour
aging the Swede; and at last lie was
rewarded by an offer to settle at a
reasonable figure.
The Swede called, the lawyer said
SSOO, and the bereaved one quickly ac
cepted. As he folded the check and
pocketed it he observed: I
"Veil, 1 deed not do so padlee! I'fe
got HP hoondred tollar and a goot teal
better vife than I had beefore. She
and me was married yesterday."—
Philadelphia Times.
The average woman writes a large
hand Just for the pleasure of turning
over a new leaf.