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A NOVEL OF AMERICAN L1F
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Copyright, 1892 #nd 18?:
/ CHAPTER VIII.
CONTINUED.
Bnt Mrs. Vernon's arm clasped ber
daughter's waist and gave caress for
caress with genuine creole vehemence.
They walked from room to room,
in a final round of review, hand in
haml, and commenting vivaciously on
the beauty of the decorations.
"Bnt I wonder why papa doesn't
come?" said Pauline; "he promised
to be in by eight."
"Some affair or other has detained
him," answered the mother; "you
know he has had much to look after
since we returned. We have scarcely
had an hour with him for a month
and more."
"I think he might lay aside affairs
for this evening at least, when it
would be so very Dice to have him."
"Oh, but he will be here in good
time; he likes such a thing as this;
he's never so light and bright and engaging
as when in the midst of a
company."
"And you are so beautiful this evening,
mamma. He will be very proud
of you."
"Ah, if I were young like you, you
might say that; but I'm not going to
flatter yon. Do you know, Paaline,
that it is positively dangerous for a
yonng woman to think herself beautiful?"
,
"Why, no! If she really is beautiful,
why should she not be perfectly
frank in acknowledging her good fortune?"
They were passing before a grand
mirror set in a bronze frame; they
both looked in and stood for a moment
contemplating themselves as reflected
there.
A momentary pensivtoess passed
over Mrs. Vernon's faoe; but Pauline
blushed just a little and smiled with
an expression of sincere delight as
ehe glanced over the reflection of a
slender, graceful girl dressed in a
gown of clinging, dull-white brocaded
silk with a fluff of delicate lace at tho
upper line of the modestly designed
corsacre. It was a radiant face that
threw back her smile, and the white
arms and throat with their curious
bracelets an 1 slender pearl necklace
shimmered softly.
At this moment Mr. Vernon came
in, accompanied by a tall, swart man.
The two went directly upstairs to the
room prepared for tho gentlemen's
dressing room, but returned almost
immediately, when Mr. Vernon presented
his guest to the ladies as Colonel
Philip Loring.
The gentleman's bearing was military,
soldierly in the extreme, and his
form and facu suited well the air of
studied dignity he wore. While not
strictly handsome, his features were
strong and well-formed, and his eyes
had a singular power, as if of concentration
and steadiness. He was
bronzed by exposure to wind and sun
until his face was olive-brown, although
it could be seen that it was
not naturally dark, and there was a
white scar, a saber-cut it appeared,
running in a slender lino across a part
of his left cheek and ear. ?iis necK
was corded with muscles and his
hands were shapely, large and sinewy.
"You have a lovely home here, Mrs.
Vernon," he said, speaking French
with a curious accent. "I have been
telling your husband that he livos like
a grand duke."
Mrs. Vernon had often heard her
husband speak of Colonel Loring as
' one of his most trusted friends; but
8ho had never before seen him.
His smile, as he looked down into
her face, was peculiarly attractive, albeit
there was in it something remote
and inexplicably unsatisfactory.
"And you, mademoiselle," he continued,
turning with a bow to Pauline,
"must be as happy as you look, in
euch a place of enchantment. You
will not charge a rough old saber like
me with flattery if I tell you that you
look like an especially dangerous fairy
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Paulino's cheeks showed the slightest
access of pink under his bold yet
not unpleasant glance.
"Your father and I," he added,
"have long been great friends, and I
account it one of my far-apart pieces
of good fortune to be here, even by
mere chance, to-night."
"My father's friend is my friend,"
Pauline said; and she could not have
accounted for the embarrassment she
felt in delivering this bit of formality.
"And mine," joiued Mrs. Vernon.
"We are glad to welcome you as a
chance guest this time, and we shall
be proud to greet you as a privileged
one hereafter at all times."
The conversation could go no further
than these stiff commonplaces characteristic
pf the period and the place.
Guests were arriving, and Mrs. Ver
non and Paul ire bad duties to meet
at once. They both turned away,
leaving Colonel Loring standing, tall,
straight, grimly attractive, beside a
magnificent flowering cactus as tall
and strange hs he. Somehow they
took his face with them, clearly set in
their minds, and the scar on the cheek
and ear was as white and the features
as dark and magnetic as in the original.
Among the early gnests was Litu*
tenant Ballanche. He shook hands
V. with Mrs. Vernon, anc1, alter a few
words, passed on to meet Pauline.
"Yon were mv prisoner the other
morning. I am jours this evening,"
he said, with a happy look and referring,
of course, to the little adventure
on Lake Borgne. "But you will be
generous, I know."
Ho did not look so tall in his fulldress
uniform as he had in undress,
but the tine high-bred air seemed to
be more pronounced.
Pauline Lad seen him frequently
flinco their first meeting. At present,
however, he impressed her as much
handsomer thau ever before. Not
that she really took time to think this. I
It was the imptessiun and nothing I
more.
4_ Fairfax came rather late. He had ]
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venture -which, although at the time
it appeared to have do connection with
his future, introduced an active element
into the drama of his life.
At the entrance to a dark alley, a
struggle was going on between two
persons, and Fairfax heard, through
his open carriage-window, low cries of
anger and distress. He signaled his
driver to stop, and at once sprang out
and ran to the spot. A burly man
was choking and beating a small
hunchbaok, who fought with tooth and
nail like a tiger cat. Fairfax called to
the big fellow to let go his hold of the
dwarf's neck, and not being heeded,
dealt him a heavy blow on the ear
with his fist. A watchman appeared
at this moment and reached the spot
just as the ruffian was trying to rise
from where the cuff had landed him.
Some time was spent by Fairfax in ex
plaining to tbe officer ins connection
with the matter.
The little deformed man declared
that his powerful assailant was trying
to rob him of a small amonnt of silver
mbney, but the accused stoutly maintained
that the money was his and
that the other had stolen it from him.
The light of & distant lamp set at
the gate of a private house permitted
Fairfax to see the dwarf's features but
dimly, yet they were so unusual, so
hideous indeed, that they fixed themselves
firmly in his memory. The
watchman knew both of the combatants
and, laying his hand on the
little fellow's strangely distorted
Bhoulder, called him Crapaud Crapousin.
"Crapaud Crapousin," he growled,
as he shook him rudely, "you are always
into mischief! How many times
must I chuck you in jail?"
Of course Fairfax got away from
this scene as soon as he could. The
delay, however, was longer ttian tms
brief telling may make it appear.
When he reached Chateau d'Or his
right hand, with which he had delivered
the blow on the man's ear, was
paining him greatly, amf later he discovered
that he had broken a finger
on the fellow's sknll.
"Bat you must have it attended to
at once," said Mr. Vernon; "fortunately
there is a skillful surgeon
present," and forthwith he hurried
Fairfax into a room apart from the
company, and sent a servant to bring
Colonel Loring.
"It's nothing," Fairfax insisted, as
a matter of form; but his pain was by
no means hidden, and his hand was
beginning to swell.
"A gentleman should never strike
with his unarmed hand," said Mr.
Vernon. "Why didn't you shoot the
scoundrel?"
"I shot him with the only weapon I
chanced to have," replied Fairfax,
with a grim half smile.
The music was swelling merrily and
rippling through the house; the dancers
were flashing buck and forth and
in and out; and the breeze coming in
at the open windows and doors gently
fanned the flushed youug faces as they
whirled.
When Colonel Loring approached
and Mr. Vernon was about to speak,
Fairfax looked up and saw before him
Pierre Rameau. He could not help
showing his surprise and astonishment.
"Let me present my friend, Colonel
t>u:i;? t?at*.
x uiiiji; jui i x mi iua. vviuugi
Loring is an expert surgeon; he will
d?a? cunningly with your hurt hand."
Fairfax was staring, glaring, his
lips compressed, his chin thrust out,
his face white and rigid. He did not
hear a word that Mr. Vernon said.
"Don't offer me your hand, Pierre
Rameau, you base and conscienceless
villain!" he exclaimed in a low, measured
tone of voiae, husky with rage.
He appeared about to spring upon
Loring and throttle him.
Colonel Loring without changing
countenance turned to Mr. Vernon
and, with a simple inflection of inquiry,
said:
"What does this man mean?"
The wrath anil the insulting epithets
seemed not to have affected him
in any way. Not a line of his face
had changed its expression. He
turned his eyes slowly and with a peculiar
steadiness from Fairfax to his
host and stood in an erect but supremely
indifferent attitude.
The indignation of Fairfax was irrepressible;
ho could not be still.
Doubtless he would have made a
memorable scene of it if he had been
left free to act.
Mr. Vernon stepped between the
two men and made a gestnre that
meant a command for them to be
silent, and when he spoke it was
scarcely above his breath.
"This is my house, Mr. Fairfax;
you are both my friends and my
guests; if you are enemies to each
other, let me beg you not to make a
scene here."
"I never had the honor of seeing
the gentleman before," said Loring,
in a tone that gave no suggestion of
feeling, unless it might have been
that it hint of contempt rang in it.
"You are the robber, Pierre Kamfau,"
Fairfax boldly declared. "You
cannot put me aside with yonr cool
effrontery. I have seen your face
once before; I would know it twenty
years hence at a glance. You arc the
verv mau who robbed Vaeseur.
"How can you ostt tbis scoundrel
your frieud, Mr. Vernon?" he added,
after a moment's intense gaze iuto
Loring's face. "He's the very
man "
"But, my dear Mr. Fairfax, you are
mistaken. Colonel Loriug is not
Pierre Rarneau or uuy other robber.
He iB my frieud, just returned from
Mexico. I understand your feelings
now," Mr. Vernon went on, rapidiy
and earnestly, "but I assure you that
yon are suffering an honest mistake
and your excitement to lead you too
' far."
"But, Mr. Vernon, I cannot bemistaken
ia (his matter. _ You o#q axia- |
taken, sir, yourself. That fnce?thai I
scar?that mao, from bead to foot? '
that villain, when hie mask slipped
aside "
The melodramatic almost hysterical
excitement of Fairfax contrasted curi ,
ously with the perfectly cool and even
deprecatory manner of Mr. Vernon i i
and of Colonel Loring; and yet Fairfax
was very 6teady?rigid, indeed?
and his look was dangerous. The j 1
apparition of Pierre Rameau could j
not be counterfeit, and for the mo- M
ment be felt that Mr. Vernon could*
not help being aware of it, so dis#7
tinct and complete was the idontifica j
tion to himself. He felt eo intensely, ; *
under tlie sudden strain of recog I '
nition, that his bearing was awkward [
and stagy in comparison with the j '
grace and ease of the waving figures j j
seen through the flower-draped door *
way giving into the parlors where the 1
dancers were in full career.
It was at this moment that Fail-fan (
saw Pauline pass across the Held of *
his vision. She was dancing with
Lieutenant Ballanche, and her fucp
was illuminated with pleasure.
CHAPTER IX.
SOME SYLVAN SURPIUSES.
Vnsseur gathered together hie
slaves and his other personal property
and with them loaded two luggers
and a small schooner. Mr. Vernon
had warned him that it was no longei
safe to remain on the exposed coast
of Bay Saint Louis. To be sure, the
warning was scarcely needed after tho
raid of the cavaliers; but Mr. Vernon
did not refer to this dauger; it was
the British fleet that was expected to
appear in the gulf waters.
As a matter of fact the fleet did not
come immediately; but the British j
were sending emissaries to the Indians
all through Alabama and Mississippi,
inciting them to war against the <
whites. General Jackson Had defeated
the savages, after bloody fighting,
on the 27th of March, at To* I
hopeka, and was taken steps to or I
ganize an army with which to gain
possession of the Spanish forts' along c
the gulf coast. t
Everywhere among thewbite settle-- i
ments the rumors had gone forLh that t
great military events were impend- j
ing; that most probably an English c
force absolutely overwhelming was <
about to be thrown into the country, i
to ravage it far and wide. <
The frontier people were mostly
poor, uneducated and possessed of i
but ljmited knowledge of the current |
affairs of the world, and it was no j t
more than natural that they should i |
receive an exaggerate 1 impreosion of ,
the threatened danger. i,
They were as brave as lionsj how- |
ever, and their patriotism knew no ,
limit, Indian naiers irorn mmr < <
cradles up, it needed 110 more perfect'.
goad than the British coalition with ',
the savages to make evory man, worn-; {
an and child in the Southern settle* ; (
ments au implacable foe of every- ' j
thing English. Even the outlaws of j
Barataria and of Pearl River, when si \
last the test came, took the side of (
the United States in the straggle, !
although justice had set' a price upon ;
their heads.
Yesseur betook liimself, with all j
his movable belongings, to a plautation
southwest of New Orleans, in .
the La Fourche country. He thought
that his slaves would be safe in this j
wild, out-of-the-way place, and here,
in the care of an overseer, ho left | i
them, ^hile he, dreaming of nothing j I
but the recovery of his jewels and re- 1 j
venge on Pierre Rameau, went back '
to iloff the tracks of that intrepid and
successful robber and pirate.
Mounted on a strong, spirited pony, ! |
he made bis way iutf> the Pearl River I t
country and found little trouble in i I
associating himself, under an assumed
name, "with Borne of the free-and
easy inhabitants, who were more at '
ease on account of crushing defeat
that had befallen their enemies, the
Indians.
Like most of that class of men who
had sought the remote gulf-</oast '
region to hide from justice, Vasseur
| did not have the least respect for the (
legal methods of righting 'wrongs or
of bringing to punishment those who '
did him injury. His nature was revengeful,
and the only law he dreamed j
of appealing to was that of which he ;
could appoint himself sole executive.
Small as he was, his strength was 1
great, and no wolf was more savage j 3
or untiring. CuDDing and full of ex- | (
pedients, sly as a fox and quick as a
cat, he passed from placo to place, at- '
! trading little notice, but always , '
managing to collect, little by little, I '
information concerning the where- 1
abonts nnd the doings of the cavaliers
of Honey Island.
(to be continued.) 1
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Sure of nimmlf.
Most men are quite convinced that 1
in a moment of sudden danger, sucli j {
as ban lately demoralized Bome friend, 1
they should be perfectly cool and de- '
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liberate. rsome wouui ue, uut mat
this is not trae of all, the following J
incident bears witness.
There is in Chicago a business man 1
who, above all things, prides himself 1
on beiug level-headed. He makes it i 1
a point never to "go off at half-cock," j 1
under any circumstances. Hisoffici'-J
is in the top story of a rather ta'.l
buildiug, and wlieu, one afternoor,
the alarm of "hre" was given, be felt '
instantly and naturally quite uncom- 1
fortable. 1
His first thought was thai; the ofjee
books must bo carefully locked up in
the safe, but just then a number of
peoplo rushed throngh the entry past
his door, and the methodical man hail I
a confused impression of having sought I
io vain for the books for a very long |
time.
The smoke was rising slowly j
through the elevator well as ho dashed j
into the hall and down the stairs. At i
me loot lie met ms partner.
' It's all out said tho partner,
"Where are the hooks?"
"I looked everywhere for them,"
said the methodical man, "but they
weren't to be found."
They went back to his private officc,
and there tho books were lying open
on his desk. Strangely enough, the
methodical man never fully under- j ^
stood how it happened.
A crane having a span of 158 feel, |
has just been installed in the erecting ]
shoo of a certain locomotive works, j j
It will lift a 19o,000 pound locomotive (
forty feet in the air, carry it 33G feet,1 ;
and set it down agziu in threo min-1 (
utes and thirty-Bix seconds, '
I TIE PMPP1MS lH1
B # Luzon Method c
John T. MeCutcheon, Philippine corespondent
of the Chicago Record,
writes as follows: It is very difficult,
n^n hore in Manila, to get a comprehensive
idea of "the situation in the
" hiiimiinfs." The most we know is
liat oyr troops are scattered over
sveui' J^v>nce iQ Luzon, as well as
n tK <^hief cities of the other islands,
inSf'^t in Luzon alone there are
!1G separate garrisons holding cities
tnd villages and strategic points in
he twenty;8even provinces of the islmd.
Tiie Filipino method of warfare has
changed from their old, defiant meth>ds
to a new and more insidious one,
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rENTS and soldieb-made huts OF 1
8ULU, OUB 60UTHEBNM08T PO?
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hat Is as muct^lf not .fnptp to be
ie heard tha^^ was
;oing to JncrieaSe the Philippine a^my
:o about 65,000, a force that- could
mnihilate him ir ue contested its aurance
or will. He thea issued, along
n October, a proclamation advising
nany of bis followers to return to
:belr homes, hide their rifles and await
i call at some /future time. Others
)f his followers were held under arms
ind directed to begin a guerilla war'are
in the territory held by the Americans
at that time, or to be held by
:hem later on.
That proclamation, which was unloubtedly
forced by the vigorous camaaign
inaugurated at the time by Generals
MacArthur, Lawton, Wheaton
ind Young, marked the end of organzed
resistance on a large scale. ,It ivill
be remembered that Tarlac was
SPANISH FILIPINO MESTIZ i GIBLS.
taken without a shot, and thnt our
troops occupied 1n turn all the provinces
of the uorth with fewer than a
ilozen fights of any consequence. From
that time on it became a foot race
after the demoralized bands that were
leaving the Tarlac lowlands. There
was no established capital, no machinery
of government, no grand army and
half the cabinet surrendered or were
captured.
nffl/iloll-ir too? PrilsllPfl.
but General Concepcion, Aguinaldo's
chief of staff, uttered a dissenting
opinion which, as since proved, was
prophetic.
"You think it is over, hut it isn't.
3fou have now disrupted the army and
scattered it far and wide. You have
some of the leaders in prison and your
troops occupy the whole north country.
But how many rifles have you
:aptured? When you've pot the arms,
then and only then, will the revolution
ae over."
They have a curious custom at the
Filipino halls. All the girls sit in a
row on one side of the room and all
the men on the oth(;r. When a man
tvants to .dance he goes over across
the dead line, selects his girl, and, after
dancing, delivers her back to her
:-hair. He returns to his own side,
rhere is no chance for any flirtation.
The Filipino girls are not flirtatious.
On groat occasions they always seem
to he overwhelmed with a sense of
rigid propriety. There are no soft
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)rown eyes coyly glancing, 0r little I
liands gently pressing. When Miss 1
Filipino treads the stately national <
juadrille or whirls lightly:to the stir- t
ing measures of a quick-fljayed waltz :
jhe dedicates her and soul t
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>f Salt Making. C|
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to grace and symmetry and completely
forgets those dainty little coquetries
which every maiden is entitled by ancient
decre to use.
There was an extemporized supper.
All the girls sat at one end of the
table and all the men at the other.
All the chairs at the man end were
taken when I weat in to the feast,
and, contrary to all precedents, I was
consigned to the heart of the enemy's
country.
On each side was a mestiza. Across
the table was a row of dark girls who
were evidently overwbeimea uy me
radical departure from an old custom,
and I suspect that I figured prorni
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'HE AMERICAN GARRISON AT BUNGAO,
38E98ION IN THE PHILIPPINES.
nently as the subject of many of their
whispered Visayau remarks. By exhibiting
industry in passing things I
finally won their friendship and restored
confidence.
Everybody his own salt-maker, so
the Ilocanoes and Pangasinans of
Northern Luzon believe, and they follow
out jthe theory in practice, for
nearly every family living on the coast
of the great Lingayen Gulf manufac- j
^Cures salt for home consumption, and
sells the surplus to th< villages of the
Interior.
In one settlement near Dagupan the
occupation reaches the dignity of an
SALT MAKING IN NORTHERN LUZON.
Industry, and an entire village Is engaged
in crystalizing the salt out of
the earth. The process is the exceedingly
simple one' of scraping the saltsoaked
land of tne low coast country
with a wooden harrow and allowing
the sun to evaporate the moisture
until the ground taket. on a condition
of dry powder. This almost impalpable
dust is Bcrapdd up in baskets and
packed into a narrow bamboo splintwoven
trough, some six feet long,
plastered with clay. Water is then
poured upon the dry salt earth by
the jarful, and leaches through, passing
out by a small tube at the bottom.
The cl?ar water with salt in
solution is then boiled down until it
prystali3es in an iron kettle built in
.the top of a clay oven, as seen in the
fA.nm.nnn/1 tha nir-f-nrrv which is
reproduced from Harper's Weekly.
In the south, among the Tagalogs of
A FILIPINO BAMBOO BAND.
Cavite province, the process varies
somewhat. Every family living on the
coast lias its own salt-ponds, which,
skirted by beautiful bamboo clumps
and great mango-trees, make very picturesque
artificial lakes. These ponds
are shallow basins, sometimes more
than nn acre in extent, walled in with
a low mud dike, and provided with
an entrance sluice, through which the
tidal waters may overflow the ground
and be penned in. Over the eutire
surface of these-Huts are raised circular
beds, ten to twelve feet in diam
eter, flat on top and a loot in ncigiit.
The salt water of the ocean is allowed
to come in till it reaches just to the
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*T SOUTHERLY F03SE&I0N OF THE
iTATES.
tops of those circular beds, soaking
I hem through and through. The sun
loos the rest of the work by rapidly
vjipornting the moisture from them,
iiul the salt appears as a white efflorescence
at tb-j surface, to be carefully
scraped off by the owner. In ' this
way. they become practically self-feed
lug nuji-iumjiniK-n VIL ;iu cA?.ccu>ub>j
novel character, though the output of
salt per diem from each bed is very
small.
The native music of the Philippine
Islanders.according to Harper's Weekly,
is rendered almost exclusively on
home-made instruments. These are
built of bamboo, the big horns having
but oue note each, while the reed (at
the left in the picture) carries the air.
CLEAR WATER FOR SOLDIERS.
A Pocket Filter Designed For Dae In
Warfare. f
Below is a sketch of the Hamilton
pocket filter, after the name of the
patentee, says the London Mall. The
Bushmen's Corps, of whom every man
was a specially selected volunteer,
trained to all the hardships of Australian
up-country life, was supplied
with 500 of these little filters.
Lejjfllng medical authorities of Australia,
where the evils of drinking bad
water and tke 'difficulty obtaining
jgoood are most apparent'pronounce
*thls to be tbe test flit* known to
them. Inside the flat white metal box
a carbon disc that has been chemically
treated Is fixed. By an ingenious arrangement
this can at arc time be
removed and boiled, wheffiu 1# again
ready as a preventive dt'jfach awfnl I
seoiirges among soldiers-^nterft arid
dysentery.
As witness of,. its yaffle, It may be
noted that not a single man in the
Bushmen's Corps is reported to have
died of disease wHlle In 'South Africa.
The long tuba ls for insertion in the
receptacle containing the i(Rrter, while
S feljll
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POCKET FILTER FOR SOLDIERS.
to the shorter tube may be Attached
a flexible pipe through which the purified
liquid may be drawn.
The great advantages of the Hamilton
filter are its shape and lightness.
In aluminum the entire thing could
be made to weigh less than two ounces.
The invention, which is both durable
and cheap, should commend itself
to the military authorities, and all interested
In our soldiers.
INVENTS A SELF-ACTING TRAP.
S. Buckersberg Think* Ho Can Make
Kuts Annihilate Themselves.
A Milwaukee avenue inventor thinks
lie has solved the problem of how to
induce rats and mice to exterminate
themselves and assist in the annihilation
of those that come after them.
He is S. Iiuckersburg, and his annihiIator
is a self-acting trap.
The first night the trap is in action
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i I. JB U?JJIA4V V.lVO(;U uuu IVtlUVU " Iiu
a table d'liotc dinner. The second
night the hearts of the hungry rodents
are made glad by the sight of an open
door at one end. As it advances the
rat's weight overbalances a sheetiron
false floor, the door falls with
a click and his ratship is doomed. Inspection
discloses" but one way of escape
? up a boxlike flue ? and this he
accepts. Once again an automatic door
closes. The way leads into a large
funnel. The rat walks on until the
funnel tips and it is precipitated into
THE SELF-ACTUTO HAT TRAI\
1 ? i
a cau of water. The tipping of the
funnel raises the door to the first entrance
and things are in readiness for
1he next adventurer. In four nights
113 rats were captured and disposed
or m one or rue oig ciuuuousus.?*_uj- i
cago Record.
A Hint to Any Man.
Education is seldom the controlling
factor in success. What! Must wo
belittle education after all our furore
about the value of education? By no
means. The secret of success is a
man's disposition. The man who is
willing to and able to take responsibilities
will heat him who is unwilling
or unable. The man who has the disposition
to lift the burden of trivial
matters from his superior's consideration
is the man who will be looked
for when promotions are to be made.
The question is not. Have you done
your duty? hut. Do you rise to greater
responsibilities? The opportunities for ,
rising to greater responsibilities are ,
ever present.?The Manufacturer. ,
THE CONTENTED COW.
The placid beeve, to contemplation wed*
Moves lazily along the sunny slope;
Unanchored by a galling chain or rope, N
She swings her tad of soft Venetian red
UntU she knocks the hungry horse fly head*
Over-heels, and, unannoyed, proceeds Uf
mope .
And munch the raead, or suddenly tC ,1
lope r -a ; V
'Around the green, by fairy fancy fed,
And kick her hinder members high, joy?
fraught, ,
V?Vt fondlv reckine that within a time,
As brief as that which scoops or scad*
and scoots, -i
jffer lotus dream will crumble into naught,
E'en while her shell shall rise to height* 54
sublime, ->j?3
In etews, roasts, buttons, gelatine an#
boots.
?R. K. Munkittrick, in Puck? ,^j
PITH AND POINT.
"Yes; I've got some money invested '*
In a flying machine; "but it's nothing
?merely a fly spec."
The telephone damsel
Remarks, in low tone, ? ?
That a ring on the finger's a
Worth two on the 'phone. .. .
Ostend?"Is the world round, mam* |9
ma?" Mamma?"Certainly, ray son."";;*
Ostend?"Then how can there be ao . f
end to it?"
"What a strong face that Mr< /J
Mimmsley has." "Yes. He used to be
the strong-jawed man in a circus."? "
Washington Star.
Little Willie?"Say, pa!*' Pa-"Well, ;
what is it now, Willie?" Little Willie?"Does
grape-shot jzaw on am*
bushes?"?Chicago NewjLtf^
elded to walse u mustach#?/ Misa jga
tique?"Good ideal HoVjufe
ting along with your ijjfjlrT' '
v Ut m tae scaiea upon na eyes wm
That helps him^Jtrnd Wii^
i;v^5r?I want some sort of a present/.
! fbira young lady." ''Sweethewjf or ei$r?.
Ktfer^. "Er?why?she haatft said
which, she will be yefr^ttsborg
the blo^.-We/jtltjit^liassed,'' remarked
the proactive Jftfcehaser, sadly. \
Horatius was bi^Hng tLe bridge. '%
"Why so m4et^SWrolretl a friend. "I <
am thi3j(ltffc??^?B Responded. "Of
1 *|'|| ft ill n ?J AO *"A rt *
1 >Vlicit; .AMfHIHfr WI1CIUCI A \.an ur
1 tain more beeping the bridge
a beat sometimes," re- <
marked Beecbwqj&j# "What are you
drlfin? at?" aiifcwF Home wood. "He jH
can b<*t a ?trtet."?Pittsburg Chron- 1
icle Telegraph. . . \ J
'"That fellow Bumbleton is a
cne."f^BK%?t has he been doln^** "";1
"Wh^s^e^ot the new boarder intoi^S
a brisk jgontroversy with the landlady
over th^>reasons for woman's mental
inferiority; and under cover of It' j
sneaked a second piece of'huckleberry 'i
pie."?Cleveiand Plain Dealer. -vij
* ' *
.t^Polion Ivy Kvll.
The. efforts of Evanstonians to e?
.irl'. i?-* ...
terminate poison ivy are to l)e comfoj
it is high time that this
wiwjr enemy was removed from the
path of danger for which
man is responsible that threatens
health wftnbe complained of speedily,
but natural forces are more lightly
'regarded. Perhaps the reason for this
is found in the fact that some people
are impervious to the ivy evil, can
pick it with impunity, nnd are rather
inclined to scoff at the susceptible sufferers.
But to those who have memories
of the hours of misery that came
unmerited after so innocent a pastime
as picking leaves the subject is serious
and these victims feel that the posslbility
of others enduring the same kind '
)f suffering ought to be removed.
Of course the chief danger Is for 1
rhose who are unfamiliar with the a
foe and whose love of nature Is unmixed
with fear. For such people to
.liscover that Wordsworth's doctrine
lhat "nature never did betray the n
ncart that loved her" is untrue, brings
the same shock that comes to the
country man when he learns of the
poison ivies that grow upon city walls,
't will be some time before this vicious
vine can be completely exterminated,
nut like moral evils it will finally
yield to brave and worthy efforts.?
Chicago Tribune.
A Strange Amusement.
There is to be a new amusement at
Earl's Court next year, says the London
Express.
Somebody has obtained the consent
of thf> .'inthnHttos thore tn proot Jl irl
gantic pendulum, at the end of which
will be suspended a car tor the purpose
of swinging people from one station
to another and back agai.*..
The pendulum will do all that is required
of It, by reason "of its own
momentum," with, perhaps, u l'ttle
electricity to elevate people to the station
and depress them to the ground.
Delightful Orowl of Wild Car*.
Among the fauna of the Itritisli Tsles
in danger of extermination are the
wild cats of Scotland. They have,
however, found a gallant champion
in a Scottish minister, the Itev. John
Menzies, of Ferdotin. Wild eats, he
[leclares, are a joy to look at, and their
trrowl is delightful when yjn tease