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EJ?TBE NOTTS. >- BT KTL CCCRTLAKD, Bnch a bonny royal lover Wotcan never had before, Coming through the rumpled clover, Standing in the open door. Oh, he only said. "Mv Katie!" (Sweet the vesper bells did ring]; Then I knew he would checkmate ma, Sol answered, soft, "My ring 1" "Kow a kiss, dear! Quickly dole it I* To my heart I bid farewell; Bnt I know the thief who stole it, And I mean to watch him well PXHDLBTON, 6. C. jaIetlee In the Shadow of the Gallows. BY DAVID LOWRY. CHAPTER IT?Con tinned. -Rise!" said Giles Ellis, sternly. A figure familiar to the wives and children In Salem stood up. It was an Indian deemed by thepeopie of Salem more fool than knave. His tribe bad deserted him. He had jnst sufficient cunning to know be was at well cared for by the whites as he oould have been by bis own people. A lame Indian, wltn a sjgnuess eye, ne appealed to the sympathy of the inhabitants of Salem, "If you ever breathe that yon met me here, I will see that yon pay the penalty. A word from me will be sufficient." "I know nothing. Joe Bleep by the rook. I hear nothing. ?llis looked at him BearchinRly. Then he pointed to hiB neck. "One Indian less will make no difference to Salem. Joe. If you value your life-?" "Indian eat like white man." Joe was crouching now before him. Giles Ellis waved a hand warningly, and hastened on. In a little while he approached John Lee's shop. John Lee's shop was as well known as any house in Salem. If a wheel was broken, who could repair it better or quicker than John Lee? If a screw were needed, who could match it, or find a substitute for it, quicker than John Lee? No article of furniture could be repaired more neatly and quickly than John Lee's Tin ttoo cabinet-maker, a conning worker in iron? a master band at all odds and ends was John Lee. Ho bad roamed over foreign lands when a young man?a shipwrecked ailor. He bad good eyes and deft bands. Besides, bad be not served bis foil term? It was not much wonder, therefore, if be was a cnnning artificer in wood. As Giles Ellis approached John Lee's shop, he saw before nim a figure be bad observed time and time again with admiring eyes. His black eyes sparkled now as he looked at John Lee's daughter walking quickly from tbe shop to her father's house. "Why so fast?" said Giles Ellis, bowing to her. Janet Lee started, turned, and answered him civilly. "There is mueh to do, and the sun it down an hour ago." "Tarry but a minute. I would sp#ak ?rifV Janet Lee paused, but 6he did not look at him. On the contrary, she looked anxiously toward her fatber'6 house. "I have that to say to thee, Janet, that it is best should be heard by thee alone. I am of good repute. I have ample means. No discredit attaches to my name or kin. I have long desired " "Stay. It were best unsaid," Janet replied with dignity. "How? May a man not speak his mind?" "I say it were better not. It cannot be," said Janet. "Let me pass." 'And why can it not be? Have yon no word for me?" "I never thought of it." "Aye, to be sure. It is man's place to think and to ?pe^. But I am not easily set aside, Janet .Lee. l will spea* to your father." No, no! It cannot be, Giles Ellis," Janet said. She was almost ready to cry now. "Strange words these. Can not?must sot Strange words from a girl who ahonld consult her father, and take conn* sol of her mother." "No stranger than has been said since world was," Janet replied passionately. "So?" Giles Ellis drew himself up to his fall height. "I have not heard; 'tis news if yon are promised to another." "That is no concern of thine," said Janet with spirit. She drew away from him with nashing eyes and burning ch?.eks. "Anger becomes yon well. I like a girl ef spirit." "It will profit you little whether I have roirit or am tame. I will bid thee goodnight." Tlaybe so. Time will tell. I said I via not easily set aside." "And I say, Master Ellis, it never can be. I will never marry you." "Oh, women have said as much and aaore and lived to think better of it." "It were wiser to end this now. Goodnight " As she left him his eyes glowed and his countenance grew dark with evil passions. *8ince whcnliavel become bo ill-favored here?" he asked himself. "Your will is law for the present, Mies Janet" Then as he beheld her disappearing in the hon6e without deigning to look back, he scowled. "Your high head shall be bowed, my lady. Aye, and the scorn that sits on your lips will be turned to another mood if my will prevails." Then he passed on. CHAPTER T. WHAT BUMOB FED OH. Dorothea Lee stood near the dresser with one hand on the back of a chair, lost in thought. A neat, trim figure, simply clad. She hod a beautiful, Kindly, and, better than 11 else, a true face with fine lines in it. A serene face with a sweet expression was Dorothea Lee's to all the world. As she stood there pondering, the involuntary iwwn nnopiKlw nifinRTlP.V tft A fftfA r-1 J | that men and women contemplated with ! pleasure. Her finely penciled eyebrows were slightly contracted; her gaze was bent npon the floor when she heard a step approaching, whtreupon 6he busied heree)f with the things on the dresser. The , dresser was wholly her husband's handiwork, and compared in neatness and finish with any piece of furniture in New En o land. The *tep was Janet*s. Janet was the counterpart of her mother, with the high color Dorothea Lee possessed when she was in her teens. Mother and daughter vere as beautiful as two women could be with the same number of yearB between them. Janet did cot pause in the room, or speak to her mother, but paBped across tie room and entered a lesser room that eerved her own nends. Ker mother still <ftood near the dresser, when a young woman with sharp features, high cheekbones, and keen eyes entered. Dorothea Lee looked at her servant sharply. "I find only half the cake I placed here two hours ago, Ann." "I know naught of the cake," Ann answered, sulkily. "It matters not, You and Ezra are weloome to all you can eat " 'Ezra can speak for himself. Here he comes." As Ezra passed the door, Dorothea Lee addressed him in evon tones: "It 1b nothing, l was but Baying yon are welcome to all yon can eat and drink. I put twice as much cake on the plate &b ie here." Then, like Ann Bigger, the apprentice answered sullenly: "Master Lee has the ifc!i muscies 'us kcl th? laLhiou io Btint one in meal and milk, mistress." "That is tme, too," said hia mistress, gravely. Tnen she added quickly, and with a note of pride in her rising tones, "So be very caretnl, both of von, never to say that any one serving John Lee, is stinted in meat or drink." "If meat or milk disappears," said Ann Eigger, nodding her head in a mysterious miwinfr "there's wavs for them to eo without hands touching tnem. Btranger things are 'witnessed every hour in the day." "Cease, Ann," her mistress said, and thea the apprentice and maid disappeared. When these two were alone Ann said: The mistress* tongue is sharp-6et ever eince yesterday morning." "I'll not have it sharpened at my ooet," the apprentice answered, shaking his head. Then, catching Ann in his arms, he was on the point of kissing her when she sprang from him. "There's master's step." John Lee entered the kitchen, and Feeing Ezra fumbling with a pair of bulletmolds he Eaid, as he glanced at the maid: "I marvel Ann permits you to make your bullets inside the house. However, there's poor light out of doors now." Then he smiled grimly and passed out. When he was out of sight and hearing the maid and apprentice turned to each other. "Now, see what you hare done, following me here," Ann said. WhArsnimn {be aDnrentice slammed the molds down and retorted: "We are not up to yon women. Yon can pnt a good face on the worst of things. But why need we care, when, if you only mind your ways, we'll be married some day? Yon are as good as promised to me." "There's many a slip between the cup and lip." "Aye, is there? I'm none so sure you would suit me every way." Then the apprentice walked out and slammed the door after him. 1 "Poor Ezra?he ii so thick-witted," said Ann Bigger, aB she pursed her thin lips and smiled. "How 1 wonder what | Mistress Lee means. It is not often I carry cake to Abagail. And she speaks 1 to me again?I'll say it is witches' work." An hour later John Lee re-entered his 1 house with a grave face and preoccupied manner, and, seeking his wife, immediately broached the matter that was on his 1 mind. "Dorothea, has our Janet refused Giles EHis?" ^ T' I 1 qo noi snow, uuuxi, iiiiHireuB jucv answered, calmly. "It will not be well to trifle with Giles, now above all times. My brother Martin's folly may prove a serious matter, J and Giles conld do me a good service. He wants onr Janet to wife. He has the favor of men in high places and 6ub- ( Btantial means." "There are others equally well-to-do," said Dorothea Lee. "Half a dozen for that matter. I hope there may never be need of his good offices." ( "If we connt those in favor in high , places, there are few can compare with Giles Ellis," Jofcn Lee replied. I passed , him within the honr, ana there was that in hiB manner I do not understand. I ( came straight to ask yon if yon know . aught that has passed between Giles and Janet." t "I know nothing?but I do not like Giles Ellis, nor never did." ' "Is he not industrious? Has he not a j presentable figure? Is nis family not as ] good as any between Salem and Boston?" ; "I have no objection to his people," * Dorothea replied. i "Is he not sober, saving, fair-handed in < everything?" 1 His wife was silent. : "What more would you have for our j Janet?" Then his wife looked up at him and replied: "I have never opposed yonr wishes, but there was a time when all these things would not?did not?satisfy me, John, and Janet is very like her mother." "Giles Ellis is nephew to Deputy Gov- 3 ernor Danforth no less, and if tbe worst happens my brother Martin"?here John ? Lee lowered his voice, and, leaning close to his wife, added, with a perceptible ] tremor in his tones?"Giles Ellis may . save Martin from the gallows. This misfortune of John Winslow's preys on me; there are strange reports. I am fear rrn j "Then you are not like yourself, John Lee," Dorothea answered. " 'Tia not like J on. And 'tis less like you to force our anet's wishes." "I would not press her?far from it. But surely you may speak to her and see she gives ear to Giles when he comes again." "Janet must choose for herself," said Dorothea. "It cannot be"?John Lee paused. "Surely you xlo not prefer Proctor? Where is Janet? I will speak to her." "I am here, father." Her parents turned. Janet stood near the door. "I have heard all jou eaid." Something in her manner told John Lee she had met Giles Elli6. "You have spoken to Giles Ellis. Did you speak him lair? 1 see you aid not. Yet you knew my wishes." "I could not help it, father." She looked at him appealingly, but he preTT^ntar? >i?r from snnftltina. an with Tin. lifted hand be said: "Have I not been a good father to yon? , And a just? I 'will not be nnjust now. We will tnke time to think?consider well ' before GileB comes thiB way again." < "But, father " * < "Peace, child. I 6ay we will consider ^ this matter well, and then we will know ourground." "Father, I cannot marry Giles Ellis." i "Cannot?" echoed John Lee, elowly, 1 "Why not?" "Because I hate and fear him." She . met his look now firmly. John Lee turned from his wife to his ' daughter, and from his daughter to his 1 wife, before he could find words to express his amazement. ] "What words are these?hate, fear?" Then was silence for a time. Then John Lee, who never did anything with- ' out deliberating, said, in the tone of a ] parent soothing a refactory and spoiled 1 child, very slowly, "Well, well. We will | say no more now. There?go to your mother, child." He advanced to the door, turned and looked at her an she 1 bowed beside her mother, and asking 1 himself, "What can possess our Janet? ( passed out of the door. ( When they were alone, Janet exclaimed, < with a burst of tears. , "I will never, never marry Giles Ellis." "There; what need to waste tears? There's no one pressing thee. If another I were to ask, you'd not say nay." 1 "Whereupon Janet suddenly kissed her mother on either cheek. " 'Tie only his mood. He is fearful on account of your uncle. But I an sure Martin Lee will not bring disgrace on any one." ' "My uncle is as good, nye, and better than many here," Janet replied, as she Btood up, as though prepared to meet her nncle'B accusers face to face. At that moment Ezra Easty and Ann i Bigger entered the house. Ezra's eyes | were dilated. Ann Bigger's hands wore lifted above her head. "0, mistress, ?he most cruel thing. ?* - 1 M tit: 1 mey nave iounu mree 01 ovuu iulhiuw o sheep lyinc in the field with tbeir throats cut. 'Tie like the same one tnat cat tne horse's throat killed the poor innocen sheep." ho told you this story?" Dorothea Lee looked from one to the other composedly. "I saw them with my own eyeB," Ezra answered, "as any one can. Now we know who makes the cows 6ick, and " "Well?" demanded Dorothea Lee, still looking at the apprentice calmly, "what more do yon know?" Ezra looked abashed, bnt a glance from Ann canned him to hold h>s head np wain. "I don't know, hat Indian Joe i- 5 . <;v ? r I'C" 'y- . , . j > . - ; " 1 1 Knows, and they trill maKe mm tell whether the witcbss or he did it; and he 68V6 he didn't " Bat Dorothea Lee did not ask any more questions, and Janet tamed elowly ana left the room. CHAPTER VI. THE FIR6T WHI6PEES. Thft Tniofortnne that befell John Wine low happened at a time when the people of Salem were led to believe men, women, and children were in league with the devil. The sermons of a minister who preached what many to-day regard as an arid religion excited the apprehensions of the intelligent, and intensified the prejudices of the ignorant and superstitions. The speculations of the educated, the guarded language of tfie men of the closet and the bookworms, ail proved like the 6park that fires the prairie or forest in autumn. The consequences of Cotton Mather's utterances were farreaching. The craze that swept over the community, influenced by hie and others' teachings,'was as appalling in a moral sense as the greatest conflagration that ever swept the earth. Men who had borne arms in defense of their families and their neighbors, who had displayed extraordinary courage in maintaining their love of liberty and re IigiouB laitn surrendered?oowea cravenlike before the etorm of prejudice excited against witches. Then was beheld the most pitiable exhibition of cowardice a too (trednlons people ever presented to the vorld. Women and baoes were imprisoned upon the most flimsy charges. Women, whose lives were pure, whose conduct afforded no ground for suspicion, were torn from Iheir homes, immured in prison, and hanged. Some wretched creature whispered they were guilty of witchcraft; the story was repeated until the authorities were compelled to take cognizance of the circumstances. A trial or hearings followed, which in these days would be termed a farce; those charged with witchcraft were returned to prison, confined there many months, ana some were hanged. The time was ripe for accusations of this nature when the people of Salem learned that JohnWinslow's horse and Bheep were killed in the open field. Instantly the tongue of rumor ascribed this act of unparalleled barbarity to witches. The rumor spread rapidly. A rr n rr/?i n nf UUUUICU lUJJgUOB VICIO Ui LUC game time. There were no detectives in those days of simplicity and severe living; no newspaper reporters assisting justice and competing for the latest news. The assumption that the horse's throat, even if cut by mortal hands, was evidence of the presence of witchee, was not openly questioned, and upon this assumption the community rested and based all future action. The public temper was iA this condition when the Marshal of Salem encountered Giles Ellis. "This is a strange affair of Master Winslow's," said Samuel Eobbs. "No stranger than many other things,* Giles answered. He looked meaningly at the Marshal. "You speak vaguely. Is there aught I should know in my capacity?" "No, no, Master Hobbs. I make no charges. Far from it. You will have plenty of work to your hands without any of my adding. But I hear strange rumors concerning the Leef." , The Marshal looked grave. "The Lees, rhen I. for one, speaking as a man, say it is time goBBips gave their tongues rest, [t will be hard to mak? men believe ill of John Lee. I know no braver, no better :itizen or friend than John Lee. Why, ffgs it not hiB band savtd my life when ;he Indian bad me at his mercy? No, no! Ton will co far. yet find no man in Mas achneetts who thinks ill ot Joh&L??," :aid the Marshal, warmly. | TO BE CONTINUED. 1 POPULAR SCIENCE. A man obtains his maximum height at forty years of age, a woman at fifty pears. According to the best authorities the neat geneiatea dj an Xja^umi sju-^om tvaa equal to 163.362 degrees. All but one of the forty-two cities in United States, with populations of from 50,000 to 200,000, have electric railways in use. Owing to the fact that counterfeit coins are bad conductors. Professor Elihu Thomson suggests the electric current as a means of detecting spurious money. Recent experiments in Germany tend to show that asbestos paper is not only of qo advantage in a floor as a protection against fire, but it probably aids in the conflagration.. A double-ender logging engine, built to order, for the Alexander Boom and Lumber Company has been aispatcnea from the Baldwin Works, Philadelphia, to West Virginia. Some large blasts of rocks have been made to provide material for the new barbor of refuge at Brest, France, as much as 100,000 cubic yards being throw n out at one time. The measles bacillus, discovered in Berlin by Dr. Canon, varies in length from one three-thousandth to one onethousandth of an inch. It possesses characteristics said to be different from those of any other bacillus known. In Scranton, Penn., there is a remarkable wheel which weighs 400,000 pounds. It is a cog wheel, fifty-foui feet in diameter and eighteen inches face, and has a capacity of 30,000,000 gallons of water and 2000 Ions of sand each day. It is now admitted that the inherent aue of water is blue. Even distilled grater ha? been proved to be almost exactly of the same tint as a solution of Prussian blue. This is corroborated by the fact that the purer water is in nature the bluer it is in Hue. A powerful lamp, which distinctly illuminates objects over half a mile distant S means of a great reflector, is to be opted in the French army. It is carried on a light wagon, behind the soldiers, and they will be in obscurity while the enemy and all objects in front will h? made fionsnicuou9. Twenty compound locomotives on the four-cylinder or Yauclain Bystern are being constructed at the Baldwin Works, Philadelphia, for the Chicago Elevated Railroad. These engines are effective types of their class for power and speed combined with lightness and durability. They weigh fifteen tons each. A tool has recently been invented that may be attached to any drill press for boring any geometrical figure, such as round, square, hexagon, octagon, triangle, diamond, star, oval, half round, etc. It can be fitted to bore auy sbape or hole having straight sides or curved sides, or both. Any machinist of ordinary ability can successfully use the tool. A scientist has computed that 10,000 il. 3. _t 1 e _ J..I1 wurcaub ui me wcuoi u luu gruwu spiuci are net larger than a single hair of a man's beard. He calculates thai when young spiders begin to spin,400 of their threads are not larger than one from a full sized insect. If this be a fact, 4,000,000 webs of u young spider are not as large as a single hair from a man's face. i fcim MODERN ATHLETES. RIVALS OP ANCIENT OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS. The Trotting Rancheroe of Mexico? Dr. Oswald. Gives Some Carious Facts About Feats ol Strength in iLit: variuuM tuuiuncg, OUR modern gymnasiums, says Dr. Felix L. Oswald in the San Francisco Chronicle, are often models of comfort, and their teachers and pupils enjoy the liberty and equality of sportsmanship, but the amount of physical prowess developed in that way cannot begin to compare with the results of the times when the safety of a commonwealth depended upon the bodily vigor of its citizens. ? - - " ' U--A 9t Gunpowder, "the villainous Baupeier that knocked out Chevalier Bayard in the first round, made the practice of tournaments an anachronism, and the invention of steam engines confirmed the tendency to rely on mechanical sub titutes for muscular strength. In physical agility (less dependent upon a basis of inherited qualities) modern specialists are equal, if not superior, to their ancient prototypes. Judging from the accounts of Aulus Gellius the tight-rope ferforaicre of antiquity seem to have been limited to a slow and cautious sort of rope-walking, and after the time of Trojan Italian cities wishing to enjoy a spectacle of that sort were, moreover, required to lessen the risk of accidents by providing a stout net, stretched below and along the entire lentrth of the rope. Chariot driving long remained the superlative of equestrianism, and our Hermans and Boscos would have been promptly indicted for witchcraft. But in feats of strength few of our modern champions could have hoped to carry off a third-class prize at Olympia A "running jump'1 of thirty feet wonl. ' A SPANISH break the record of our athletic clubs, ] East and West, while the very circumstantial accounts of the Isthmian games leave no doubt that a leap of forty feet was once considered a very ordinary performance, since a Spartan youth once cleared fifty-two feet, and a native of Crotona (a Grecian colony in Southern Iioly) even fifty-five. Teutolot, the leader of a predatory horde from Northern Germany, is said to have leaped in full armor over ten horses standing side by side, though a private soldier of Vandamme's cuirassiers once jumped over the tutelar deity of a brass fountain on the Frankfurt Market square. Leonardo da Vinci occasionally astonished his vifcit* Jlf a malat's agility. ore by jumping to the ceiling and knocking his feet against the bells of a glass chandelier, but the best modern jumpers are th? ape-like natives of Northern Hindostan, who have the further advantage of being barefoot and unincumbered with anything heavier than a short tunic and a pair of linen trousers. North America can claim tbe cnampionsbip of the wrestling ring, with Yorkshire and Switzerland second, but our most tolerant American cities would ' be apt to enforce the brutal sport limits against such wrestlers as the Athlete Milo, who had a trick of dislocating tbe spine of stubborn antagonists, in which j way he killed so many of his rivals that i at last nobody ventured to accept his challenges. That formidable bruiser (another citizen of pport-loving Crotona) is said to have played at tug-of-war with able-bodied horse3 and to have crushed pebbles in his clinched fists, but his steer-carrying exploit is rendered less incredible by the feats of Dr. Winship, a Boston physician of slender pnysiquc, who by dint of constant practico at least managed to lift 2900 pounds. Professor Millet and the Canadian Cyr have proved their ability to toy vrith one hundred pound dumbbells, and a mulatto who traveled with several American circus companies could lift a four ly six oaken table with all the men that could ait on \ top or bang on to the legs, but Barnum came too late to utilize the abilities of HOW A PEON TRAVELS. Thomas Topham, a Surrey Hercules of the eighteenth century, who once shouldered a sentry-box containing a stove, a bench and a sleeping watchman and carried his burden to a surburban cemetery. The Grecian hemerodromes, or footcouriers, could make 800 Btadia (about seventy-five English milte) a day, at a salary that would not hire a San Francisco messenger boy. In a stress of circumstances first class runneri could manage to doable that speed, but had tbe advantage of excellent roacu, bordered by forests or rows of shade trees, while the zagal, or poetboy, of a Spanish mail-coach has to keep up with a team of fast horses whirling the crazy old clatterbox through a series of suffocating dust clouds. Our sprinters generally confine themselves to short distance races, but I have -often wondered why the managers of our go-as-you-please matches of three or four days have never tried to "spring a cinch," as turfmen call it by importing a trotting peon from Southern Mexico. Near Puebla, Oaxaca and Acapulco gangs of hucksters can be seen coming along the Band roads at a steady trot, carrying bushel bags of vegetables, often grown at a distance- of ten or twelve miles lrom market. Minus _ _ r-?. i ^^KJ. : tostboy. that handicap of farm produce those hardy half-breeds could easily keep up th^ir tmt all dav and under the inspira tion of big gate money probably for a succession of days. Strange to say the two-legged pack mules are generally strict vegetarians, like the longshoremen of Constantinaple, who shoulder boxes which a New York drayman would decline to unload without assistance. Archery has experienced a lad revival, but God ha3 failed to save the mark of what the British longbowmen of the fourteenth century would have called good marksmanship. In quick shooting improvedfireanrs would, ot course, carry all prizes, but it might be questioned if our best sharpshooters could have broken the record of a first-class mediaeval archer at a distance of two hundred yards. At that range and up to threehundred yards the author of "Ancient Sports and Pas times" informs us a good bowman deemed it a shame to miss a willow wand as thick as a man's finger. Swordsmanship has less rapidly declined, and only fifty years ago Japan could boast of gladiators that could hare held their own in the Roman arena. The Emperor Commodus is said to have forced a swordsman to use a foil of lead against his own broadsword, but the astonishment of the audience at that innovation would perhaps have been exceeded if a pugulist had ventured to enter the Circus Maximus with a pair of boxing gloves. So far from dreaming of such modifications of the manly art the ancient thought a bare knuckle fight rather too tame for the purpose of a ' 1 * A? - ? J ? -.<3? 4-VkA ^ia/ilrilan puDiic speciacie, uuu uiauc uc m<n,i|w,o of Pollux use the cestus, a heavy halfring of iron fastened to the fist by means of a leather strap. Toe result of a tenround encounter with such implements can be only partly inferred from the description of a Grecian satirist who records the woes of a young man trying to share the heritance of his brother, but baffled by being unable to find anybody to identify his person. "I had teeth once and could speak, but can only mumble now; my ears hang in shreds, my eyes are swollen out of sight; there was a time when I had ft nose, but that time is past." It can be readily believed that many a prize fighter of that iron age was knocked "out of time"' into eternity, for accideuts of that sort still happen at the court of Baroda, in Hindostan, where the pugulists traiued for the amusement of the sovereign prince are made to fight with brass kuuckles. Pitching weights is a favorite pastime of the Albanian highlanders, and there are villages, which pride themselves so much on the possession of a champion of that sort that thev combine to purchase his dispensation from the service of the Turkish Army. The hammer thrower of the Scottish Highlands once were almost equally popular, and there is nosayingifthe mere stimulant of prize competitions could not be made to revive all the fun of the Olympic festivals. The yearly meetings (say in the form of a May Festival) of our National champions could be changed from ciU to city, after the plan of oar political conventions, and proprietor of a fairsizetf nark could achieve wealth as well u boundless popularity by offering prizes for supremacy in walking, leaping, swimming, running and weight-throwing,and bye and bye also for archery a nd lance practice (spear-throwing at a mark),with or without the supplementary inducements of the mediaeval tournaments. A gate-money charge of twenty centa would rnver all eTnenses. and with the steajy increase of patronage the corresponding enlargement of the prizes, in coin and glory, would be sure to attract competitors from all parts of the country and turn thousands of boy topers into young athletes. Queer Birds of Alaska. During the cruise of the Corwin in Alaska, several downy youns: were collected by Mr. J. E. Lutz on Otter Island. They ore of special interest, since the newly hatched chicks of the two species collected have never been received at any museum, so far as known, nor have they ever before been described or figured. The bill of the parrot auk exhibits all the curious peculiarities which characterize the genus Cyclorrhynchus, the "recurved" commissure, the falcate shape oi the lower mandible, aQd the sidewise com \ ' prewiuii ui uic wuuie \ beak. In fact, the \ bill ia very similar to V that of the adolt bird, V 'SfflNm of which Mr. Cassin said that "it seems to W attain a maximum ol pabbotauk. oddity amongst the queer bills of this family of birds, the whole affair looking as if it might be a nose of wax badly pinched upwards, especially to the disadvantage of the under mandible." The chief difference ie that in the chick the upper mandible is bent more abruptly towards the point, which, on account of the knob for breaking the egg shell still remaining, presents a truncate profile. The characteristic notch behind the tip is present. The nostrils are pervious. The color of the bill is a horny browish gray, more dusky towards the tip; corner of mouth in the fresh bird probably whitish. The color of the downy plumage above is of a dark smoky gray; darker, nearly blackish on the head and sides of neck; chin, throat and foreneck of the same general color, scarcely paler; rest of the under surface light ashy gray, with very slight if any fuliginous tinge, in strong contrast to the dark line of the upper parts and the neck, the darker line hfiincr verv pharnlv defined. "?? * rv The collector's label indicate? the color of the feet as "bluish, very light between the toes, under side black." The iris is "dark jjray." Two other specimens agree very closely with the one described, except that in one the sides of the neck are considerably darker in the middle. The bills are scarcely shorter, but the tip e7en more abruptly truncate. The bill of the crested nuk agrees in general shape with that of the adults in winter before the curious nuptial outgrowths have changed it so radically and is scarcely distinguishable from that $$$& of Bimorhyn c h u s pygmaeus of the corresponding age. Color, dark horny brown, lighter on ?/\'Wsk terminal halt of f lower mand i b 1 e. The color of the fwgHgl downy plumage is a uniform dark,bmoky and somewhat Wy brownish grey. scarcely lighter on the under parts. Ac- * Q/ cording to the col- crested auk. lector's label, "the legs and feet are aiate coior in ironi, disck unaerneam." Iris, according to the same authority, "gray." Two other specimens are on the whole similar to that just described, but the under parts are slightly lighter and grayer.?St. Louis Republic. Another Hairless Horao. A second hairless horse, a counterpart of the Indiana curiosity, has been discovered in Australia. Horses without hair are extremly rare, and so far as is ~~~ ' ^ ?1 I AUSTRALIAN HAIRLESS HORSE. known at present the two mentioned are the only ones on the globe. The Australian eqnine is well built and of perfectly normal proportions. The texture of the skin is soft and silky, the color a dark brown. This hairless animal has u?rr Vi i r> Vi never ueeu &uuwu m pia^iv, >. would in a measure accounts for the absence of hair, were it not for the fact that dogs do not perspire and are yet covered with hair. As is the case with dogs, mouth, nose, and tongue of this anomaly promote perspiration and secretion when the horse is put to labor. Jumpiug Ejgs, Place two Y-shaped wineglasses of the same size near the edge of a table. In or* inof me n^ub-uauu uuc put au ting the rim of the glass. Holding the base3 of the glasses firmly down, the top I rims touching each other. Now, with a quick sharp breath, blow upon jf|ffltlj l| \ the line where the egg and .#11' I'll the glass meet. The egg will jump to the other glass. With a little practice this can be done every time. Be careful to blow in a line with the left-hand glass, or the egg will jump in the wrong direction, and land on the table with riiAMttrnuA r#ui>)U Youth'? Hnmnanion. EUJLALIE. Hj Ughtiy wrings the southern rose, Hj LacM around with lisping leaves; K| Bweet Its fragrance comes and goes BR Hanging from my cottage eaves; . Pi-ankt with pearls of summer dew. Fair and free, BE Tender thoughts it brings of yon, H| Enlalie. BH Bortiy rails toe soutnern same n Stealing o'er my russet floor, SB Sifting through the wooing pine, Waving at my cottage door; \ H Sifting shyly all the while, Kfl Foil of glee, H 'Tis an emblem ot your smlla H Eulalie. ' J^Hj Gently laughs the southern breeze U Through the window at my side; SN Straying from blue Mexique seas, , S8 Where it kissed the dimpled tide, When its fluting tones rejoice^ IE Then for me, M Lives again your winsome voices H Eulalie. Q ?Samuel Mintnrn Peck IE PITH AND_P0INT. I The most elastic fabric is the trout yam. The record is the true Phoenix?yoo # can't smash one without making another, ?Puck. Advice is all right if we can only get enough different kinds of it to take oar pick.?Pack. A woman never stutters, because she speaks twice before she thinks.?Bingham ton Republican. It is easier to persuade a woman than to convince her, and a good deal pleas* anter, too.?Yarmouth Register. At first thought it seems a little odd that contracting bills should expand * man's expenses.?Somcrville Journal. Rose?"Does Mr. Verydull know any* think V' Lillian?"Know anything! He doesn't even suspect anything."?? Life. - ? g/i' Osim* men npver trv to smile onlv when sitting for a portrait?and even then moke a diurnal failure.?Columbus ; PMt She?"What is love, darling!" He? "It is sacrificing all my bachelor blessings, dear,for your sake."?Detroit Free Press. There is nothing in the world more aggravating to a man with a secret than . to meet people who have no curiosity.? '? Atchison Globe. It is not strange that very few men know themselves intimately. Host people like to get rid of disagreeable ac- . quaintances.?Texas Sittings. -3 -'-I -? - 1~. xne reccut utxuuuu u> o muusu jum^v ,,-v that soap is a medicine accounts for the intense dislike of the average small boy to its application.?Lowell Courier. Let's be jnst in our opinions; ~ ' It must be considered fair ' If the girla wear standing collars When the young men bang their hair. ?Washington Star. "I was an awful fool when I married you. Wasn't I?'' "You were, my dear^ you were. Ittoo me nearly thiee yean, though, to find it out."?Indianapolis Hmt.inpl. "Wht t'fl your sod Josiar doin'?" said a neighbor to Parmer Begose. "Wall," was the reply, "he. think* he's diggin' \f. bait, bat he's makin' garden."?Wash- , ington Star. "Well, Amelia, how did you enjoy i yourself during the last season}" "Oh, immensely! Only think, my dear, I was three times on the very point of be*: Ing engaged." ' "We went bang into toe iceberg and slid off to one aide. The ship fairly shivered." "That was natural. I think Fd shiver, so close to an iceberg."? / Harper's Bazar. ?, "My friend," said the experienced I politician to the young candidate, "your tuccess does not so much depend on puffing yourself as on blowing yourself. Bee!"?New York Suo. Charlie?"1 pity you, Jack, when I ? see your creditors pushing you. That is a trouble I never bad." Jack?"No. You probably never had any credit."? Kate Field's Washington. f Mrs. 8naggs?'*1 suppose the dog- I catcher drowns his victims, doesn't be?" I finagga?"Yes; the dark waters of the } rivers now close over many a stranded ' bark."?Pittsburg Chronicle. Ooslin?"I?ah?have called, sir, to ?ahem!?awsk for your daughter's hand." Old Kidder?"My dear boy have tou anv idea of the quantity of ) gloves she needs in the course of a year?" ?Black and White. / New wife?"To-morrow is your birth- / day, darling, and I am going to stop ay the jeweler's and buy you a present,,1* Her Hubby?"Get something cheAp, pet, I haven't paid him for my Christmas present yet."?Jewelers' Weekly, te "What is a propaganda?" inquired the teacher. The boy looked at the ceiling, wrinkled bis forehead, wrestled with the question a minute or two, and answered bravely that he guessed it was the brother of a proper goose.?Chicago Tribune. / Western Belle?"Here, paw, I have J borrowed Mr. Tenderfoot's twenty-two [ calibre revolver." Paw?"What jet doin' with that toy?" Western Belle? "I want vou to pierce my ears so's I kin wear the earrings Howling Hank gave me."?New York Bun. Colonel Gorehunter?"Ah, my dear Miss Pinkerly, this is an unexpected pleasure, to bave you alone for a few moments. Wouldn't you like to hear bow I got through the enemy's lines Chattanooga?" Miss Pinkerly?"I can easily imagine, Colonel You probably bored your way through."?New York Sun. Strange Guatemalan Indians. "Speaking of the peculiar customs of the people of Gautemala," Vice-Consul Chandler remarked, "almost all the freight is carried on the backs of Indians with us, the average load being about 200 pounds, and a day's journey for one of these natives thu3 loaded about twelve leagues or thirty-six miles. The stTange thing about it is that on the return journey, if the porter cannot get a load to carry back, he fills his pack or sling with stones. This is to keep his balance, for, having become used to &> forward leaning potition under his usual load.he cannot make such rapid progress without some burden. Furthemore, ?> safe is the country down there that a bag containing $1000 in silver can be sent with absolute security on the backs of these Indians from one ^ place to another,"?Chicago News.