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A SONG OF The world is white in the mild moon'i light; The lilies bloom in her silver sight; Meseems some wonder is waking under The star-flowered quiet of middle night. From pole to pole, like a singing scroll, The spheral sounds of the star-songs roll; The air is gleaming with shapes of dream ing; A mystic music is on my soul. ? Ch The Cloudh I M 0i / S BY DANE . two years before 1h< MMl' Mm tlay ttiat Ezra Shaw, tin Jllj p,jjHI desert prospector, campei IjM. J.'il| at Old T'ehaehapi the rocky -\?)j mountains above him Lai barely felt the touch ol Tain. Those were the years of drougln 5n California, 1897 and 1808; and when the low lands along the const wenl dry, it was a drought indeed in tlu "Tehaehapi Mountains, for they face<] the Mohave desert. On this day in June n great mirage ol lieat overspread the shimmering sands in the semblance of a vast lake dotted with islands and trees; but tlie heated dryness of the bed of tlie Tehachapl River dispelled all illusions as to the Jake below. It "was not the first time that Ezrn i Shaw had camped by the river. Foi five years he had stopped at the same place on his way to his prospects or the desert, and more than once he had seen that dry river-bed bank-high witli muddy water. But to Philip West ibrook, a young mining expert from the East, it seemed a very unreasonable precaution to cross the river-bad ant] camp upon the hot mesa when there was such a fine cottonwood tree dowr in the bottom. "How long since there's been a flood in this stream?" he demanded, wheii Ezra drove past the cottonwood on his !?ttjr IV U 9UUUUJ JUUI^CI v/u Uiiv v/ site bank.' ."Let's see," said Shaw. "It was two jears ago last Saturday." "Well, if that's the case, let's camp down under that cottonwood. I'll risk a cloudburst to escapc a sunstroke any day." It was frightfully hot on the open mesa, but a cool breeze drew up the canon and fanned the cottonwood Jeaves into a soothing rustle. Far up above the mountain heights puffy thundercaps loomed against the sky, radiat ing a sultry, oppressive heat. Ezra Shaw looked them over criticalfly before he made reply. "As I was saying," he continued, "it was two years ago Saturday, and the weather was hot and muggy, just Bike this. You see that mark on the * cottonwood tree down there, about six feet above the ground? That's where the water came. Came quick, too. Do jou want to chance it?" "I certainly do," replied Westbrook. "Those clouds have hung round up there for a week, and not a drop of _ rain have they given up, with all their ;wind and thunder." Sr> rlnivn in fhi* hnnlrlpr-stTPwn river toed they camped, and the prospector eoon had a meal cooked and spread in the shad,? of the Cottonwood. West: brook was going out to inspect one of ihis mines in the interests of an Eastern mining company, and Shaw knew the desirability of humoring him, even at a slight personal risk. But for twenty years he had lived on the changing desert, and he knew its -extremes too well. So while he cooked and fed the horses, he cast an occasional glance up the canon. The suggestion of the act irritated young West'brook, who took it for a silent rebuke. "What's the matter with you?" he demanded. "Are you afraid a cloudburst will jump round the point up .there and drown you where you etand?" An indulgent smile wrinkled the heatblackened face of the old prospector. "Two years ago last Saturday I saw something like that happem" h?' said. [ "'A teamster was camped here at the time. That's one of his wagon wheels <down there by the lone cottonwood on lrn/->l 1 TTrv trot /Trnvmivl hill , !he was sure surprised. And now, il you have no objections, I reckon I'll \ ihook up and pull out of here. It looks kind of black away up there on the peaks." "Well, I'd like to rest a little in this ehade before we go on, but of coursc if you insist " "No insist about it! None at all! Yoi just lie right down and rest, and I'l 'harness up and drive out of. this rivei .(bottom. It hasn't rained in a lonj time, but if that water up there hap f \ pens to come this way, it will come 01 the jump. It's ten mifrs up to when you see that black cloud, but it's al down hill." Without seeming to hurry, Sha^v packed the dishes in the wagon ani set about harnessing his horses. Yet if he had been alone he wouli lave worked like lightning. A grea ^insh lay ovei* the deep canon, and tin iwind blew in little gusts toward tin , * towering thundercaps, which touchec the mountain peaks with a base of iukj aind frightful blackness. T7S?/-?*-w-? h1or?L? haco rain wnc -foil i'w"1 ????? ing somewhere. And whichever canoi happened to receive that torrent at it: head was sure to be swept like a grea sluiceway. On those peaks the rail did not fall in mere drops?it fell ii eheets. In the canon of the Tehachopi scarred and scoured by the torrents o S the past, a tense silence settled. Evei to Philip Westbrook, dozing lazily ii the shade, the stillness seemed om inous. He raised his head and idly watchet the old prospector as he climbed int< the wagon. "Going to leave me?" he asked, a lit tie scornfully. "That's right," replied Shaw. "An< if you'll take a fool's advice you'll ge -\ ?ut ?f this wash quick!" He turned his head up the canon an< I listened a moment. Then he kicke< I off the brake, yelled to his horses, aw | started for the bank on tbe run. I _ 'Tile in behind!" lie called back t< THE NIGHT. i The wonder grows, lilce an opening rose; The face of heaven with a halo glows; For joy or fearing, some charm is ncaring I feci lis wings o cr the world unclose. It fills me; there, in the middle air, A splendor as of a meteor's hair! The gates of heaven arc open; the seven" Great angels glitter upon the stair. ?John Payne, in The Living Age. m urst !i lei TehacHapi ^ COOLIDGE. ^ * > Wcstbrook. "Don'4 yon lieaT it roar - We're in for it this trip!" 1 Above the hammering of the wagoi wheels against the rocks there rose ai I unmistakable roar?a dull rumbl ' mingled with sudden cracks am t crashes. i Then a s<jlid wall of brown water t eight feet high, swept majestically ? Tound the point above fhem, rearinj 1 its crest'in the air and seeming to leai forward in its flight. ' Writhing in the depths behind, grca , treetops slashed up ancL-plunged fron I sight like spectral hands; and, racins 1 furiously before the wave, there racec i a little cloud of dust, only to be Jickec > up the next moment by the toweruij: wall of water. t One glance at its immensity, ant young West brook scurried over th< ! washed boulders of the river-bed like i i desert lizard. ^ "You can't make the bank! Catch or 1 behind!" cried Shaw, as Westbrook rar " past the wagon. ' The bank was indeed too far away ! the inundation too imminent. No1 ' krowing what else to do, he obeyed * n r> >1 a Avf rv-i ?v> nn /\ ll/vnfiAO TTT/lH/ uuu. LiitT iit'Ai aivniCiJi titer xiwioco ?tuv 1 headed down the canon toward th< lone cottonwood tree on the knoll?th< t tree which showed the water-mark sis 1 feot above the ground. 1 In a mad runaway the two horses ' jerked the light wagon over rocks ant bushes, fleeing from the bank of water ' Spreading far out across the widening river-bed, the torrent lost for the tim< 1 its burst of speed. Then a second great rush, like th< surge of a tidal wave at sea, leapet high above the point, and rolling on swept down the middle of the canon. When that tremendous mass ol water, twice as high as at first, appeared, Ezra Shaw knew that he was caught. Yet he pulled the horses intc a new course and lashed them into a fury. Fighting against fate, he now tried to get in nue wiui lue lone tuuunwuui knoll, so tliat when tlie water strncl; them they might perchance bo washed against it, if it stood before tlie storm, Whishee ? whishee ? whishee! thej heard the sage brush bowing before the wave front. ' Brr-up! came the slapping water be> hind the wagon, and then up they went, while a great surge of icy watei lapped over thein, taking their breath like the cold douche of a shower-bath, For a moment the horses rose with the water. Then, as the bed of the wagon began to float above the run ning-gear, they sank from sight. The heavy wagon wheels dragged them back and down, and the wagon bee1 swept upon them. But although tbe leaky wagon bed rocked wildly beneath him, Ezra Shaw did not abandon his struggling team. Gripping the reins, he braced his feel against the dashboard and heaved theii heads up from the muddy water. Ther the wagon bed crashed into something solid, and stopped. The horses were swept past, and the wagon wheels fouled and stuck fast. Thev had struck the lone Cottonwood [ that stood upon the knoll, and in a ( moment there was a bewildering tangU ! and uproar?the horses hung by th( heads against the current, great clots of brush and small trees smashed against the wagon bed and stuck fast , . and above all was the thunder of th< brown water rushing past. | For a second the two men balaneet ! where they were and looked at the ( roaring torrent. Then the old pros . pector handed the reins to Westbrook J and clambered out on the swayinf I wagon box, now stacked lngb witl . drift. > Back he came .vith a long pickei rope, one end of which he tied hur ; riedly to the bending cottonwood. ? "We've got about three minutes t( get out of here before the whole islanc i goes!" he shouted in Westbrook's ear 1 "I'll go down and cut the horses loos< < first, and then we'll swim for it." ; Then he threw the free end of th< . rope out over 'ie horses' backs anc cKA /Irtti'n in^A 4 iirnfnr ] oiivx uvn ii iinv iut' tvaivri. > First he passed the rope through th< 1 slack of their belly-bands and knottei it swiftly. Then, as they hung by thi! support, he twlcbed the reins fron 1 Westbrook, out the horses apart reached down and slashed the tugs I aud beckoned for him to follow. [ Before the pressure of the flood ih< j lone cottonwood groaned and popped > bending slowly. On each side of tin i accumulated snag a mill-race of bob > bing- trees, posts and bushes swop past, and the rumble of huge boulder . rolling on the bottom sounded abovi i the swash of the tumbling waves. 5 But deepest of all, like the growl o t some destroying monster, came tin i roar of the immediate waters, burrow j ing beneath the roots of the sturd: cottonwood, washing its little island o soil away like sugar, and threatenini at every moment to root it up and over whelm horses and men alike, as the: hovered behind its protecting bulk. There was no choice about it fo Philip Westbrook. He went down th< rope with a rush, clutched the firs horse, and was passed on by Shaw t< the secondThen. at the touch of his knife, thi pic ket rope popped like a rifle shot, an< they were swept on with the torrent! Huge, sinuous waves, four and fivi feet high, yet flowing smooth and oil; over their new-formed bed of sand showed where the current ran swiftest and into this Shaw headed his horse j making for the left-hand side of tin ) I stream, where, in the perpetual wind ing of'{hp river, a long sand-spit jutted out almost to the opposite shore. But hardly had he reached the middle . of the current -when there was a great ', crash behind. Rising on a wave, lie saw the lone cottouwood and all its mass of drift heave forward and rush down upon them. Beckoning frantically to Westbrook, he turned Ills horse's head from the . shore, and drove straight ahead with the swiftest current. Behind, the confused mass of trees and drift, bound * together by a great section of barbed[ wire fence, spread out like an enormous drag-net and swept after them. Although at each plunge their horses' heads went through the crests of the waves, Shaw and Westbrook still held to the swiftest current, for to be caught in that tangle of barbed wire and splintered wood meant certain death. Already light sticks of wood and masses of punLy drift were bobbing I round them, but the drag-net of barbed * wire and trees was held' back by its greater weight and the catching of , scraggy roots. th<. /mrrpnt w?iK strongest 1 a great loop, a drifting tangle of wire and cedar posts, reached after them ' like the feelers of a great" monster , clutching at its prey. Then the more buoyant of the free cedar posts shot past them and darted on over the ' -waves. In a ruck of sticks and driftwood the j swimming horses were carricd swiftly round the point of the 6and-spit and t into the lower bend of the river. Part j of the wire fence caught on the point ? and hung dangling; (ben, as the other j end was sucked past, it tore loose and j dragged along behind. But no sooner did Ezra Shaw pass ' the turn and see that the wire was j caught than he puiled his half-drowned , horse to the right and urged him for ' the shore. Below them stretched out another point;, it was their last chance to escape. Desperately the tired horses 1 pawed the water, fighting to gain the 1 shore, yet swept on by the current. As they checked their flight and turned against the current, once mure the loops of barbed wire, hurried on by the swiftest water, reached out to enwrap there. J Nearer and nearer they crept, and SliaAv saw that they were caught. : "Swim for it!" he yelled to Weslbrook, who followed near, and plunged 5 into the muddy waters. Desperately he kicked and floundered, but his heavy boots weighed him down, and lie was r glad to seize upon a fence-post and float. Just then he saw his horse, freed of its burden, striking boldly 5 out for the shore. Throwing aside his float he lunged ' fiercely after it, and with a final flurry of hard swimming managed to catch it by the tail. There he clung until, ig^ uominiousiy, he was dragged into shal' low water. ' liut Westbrook proved a oener swim1 met', and was able to gain the shore unaided, while his horse, landing on 1 the tip of the point, barely escaped 1 the onrush of the terrible barbed-wire ' fence. I Two hours later, mounted on their . draggled horses, Ezra Shaw and West' brook rode back along the clean! 1 scoured river-bed. Scarcely a trickle of water mean* dercd down the channel in the wake of. that awful torrent. In the dusty road} down which the travelers had plunged i into the treacherous dry-wash the . tracks of their wagon wheels were still i clear and fresh?not a drop of rain i had fallen to lay the dust; but that wagon was now probably ten miles > down the canon, its wheels buried deep i in the sand, the bed piled up on some' I mountainous snag. "These cloudbursts are sure sudden," I . said Shaw, surveying ,the river-bed ruefully. "I reckon you understand now why 1 generally camp on the t bank." Ami Wnsfbvonk said he did.?Youth's [ Companion. r ~ Art In Advertising. ! The man desirous of keeping in touch ? with the doings of the commercial world- around him may find a walk ' along any prominent thoroughfare in 1 any large city merely a piece of invigJ orating exercise, but if his eyes are i wide open it may be u liberal educai tion. Eternal vigilance is* not only the ; price of liberty, it is also the price of sound, up to date business methods. ' A merchant's show window is without a doubt the one in which he is most interested, and the one that he wants * to have the most attractive, but it must be remembered that his compet'r itor also has the same object in view, ' and his mothocL3 for attaining it are 1 worth careful consideration, not only that one may get some good ideas, t but also that one may learn wherein " he is wrong and '.void Uie saibe mistake in your displays. J But there is another field open to 1 tlie student or business meuious, ami while at the present time it is one of 1 the widest, yet the likelihood of even greater development in it is evident to - all, so that it behooves the merchant, 1 be he ever so obscure, or ihe clerk, though his position be of the humblest, > to carefully watch it. It is the adver1 tising Jlumns of the daily and class papers. There is no oP^er barometer 1 of trade conditions than these same ' advertisements; there is no indicator ? of the tendencies of the public tasto that is quite so sensitive, nor is there - one that the wide awake business man watches more closely; for it shows him what his neighbor is doing to at* " tract custom, while in his class or trade I journals the advertisments give him s the latc.it development in his own flekl ~ of labor. The day is long past for a flamboyant announcement that the goods described below are better and ? cheaper than they have ever been be~ forp or will .or bo again. The best ' form of advertl ing would speak of these goods as unusual!., attractive, I i_ ?/iart tlinl , | auu il 1U UUUliluu lL nug vmiiuvu ...... "| tliey were low in prices as well, the ' reason for tliis would be plainly and simply stated.?Press and Printer. P Ko Cause For Alarm. t Tlie silent partner was glancing o over a statement he had found on the cashier's desk. e "Do you mean to say this is all the 3 money we've made this year?" he yelled. "Why, there's brcn gross mise management liere and somebody is gof ing to get fired!" "Don't get excited, Bill," said th< ^ head of the packing-house gently >, "That'* just a little document we've e been /otting up. There's an inves' - eatinr committee arouud." I FOOTBALL'S DEATH.LiST. Slaillinf Kecord of "UnneceRnary HoughncM" i*or Only Five Venn*. Forty-five deaths niul hundreds of * serious injuries is 1 lie record of foot- 'tki ball for the last five years. Hardly n single game lias been played during aT1 which it has not been necessary to carry one or more of the players from to the field. In almost every instance the SX! death or injury was due directly to the e* heavy mass plays against which President Roosevelt and the country at ' large are protesting so vigorously. To chronicle all the injuries would ^nJ require th- use of thousands of names, m< and even then none would be included where the hurt was of a less serious ' character than the breaking of a collar of bone. The more spraining of an ankle "w( is not considered of sufficient importanee to interest anybody except the thi individual player, and perhaps bis parents. 00 W?tf 11\ 4hn Kir- nn1Ifi?yA <rnm^C DQI the list of injuries is large enough to *01 prove interesting, showing, as it does, to ten legs and fourteeu collar bones <>* broken in four years of piny for a brief to six weeks each, to say nothing of four nP skulls fracturcd, five spines injured, tic four shoulders dislocated and a couple nd of broken nosfs. One player got his toa neck broken without its causing his death. ch Of the forty-five who gave their lives to football, nearly every death may be a traced to the "unnecessary roughness" ^ei against which Mr. Roosevelt has pro- wl tested. Picked up unconscious from co: beneath a mass of players, it was gen- - an orally found that the victim had been toi kicked in the head or stomach, so as co to cause internal injuries or concns- ba sion of the brain, which sooner or later as; ended life. Sixteen died as a result, of internal Injuries, four from broken necks, six' th< from concussion of the brain, eight an from broken backs, three from paraiy- tic I sis, two from heart failure, one from a lockjaw, one from blood poisoning, due W to a cut received in a game; one from an hemorrhages and two from meningitis cei induced by spinal injuries suffered in no play. P? Football casualties in five years: Deaths 45 8(* Collar bones broken in college games be alone 14 mi Legs broken 10 Ankles broken fi Skulls fractured 4 1 Arms broken 4 tOl Spines injured 5 ?0 Knees injured 6 . ct.?m4 tri tzujuu juci o uiai\/i.oi>cu Noses broken * 2 I Internal injuries, serious 4 th; Necks broken, not fatally * 1 Complete Education. A girl's education is most incomplete he unless she lias learned no To sew. To cook. rei To mend. To be gentle. t To value time. To dress neatly. P? To keep a secret. To avoid idleness. ?.u To be self-reliant. e To darn stockings. *ai To respect old age. To make good bread. sni To keep a bouse tidy. on To be above gossiping. ^r( To make home happy. th' To control ber temper. To take care of tbe sick. To lake care of the baby. ,y To sweep down cobwebs. To marry a man for his woutb. th' To read the very best of books To take plenty of exercise. To be a helpmate to her husband, To keep clear of trashy literatim*. 'aA To be light-bearted and fleet-footeu. en To bp a womanly -woman under oil y? .urcumstnnees.?Philadelphia Inquirer. tbi A Kesular Bogton Joke. OU The professor bad been summoned as ftn expert witness in a ease involving the ownership of a tract of coal land. ^ "I -will'ask yon, professor," said Ihe attorney for the prosecution, "if the /fe] geological formation of this land cor- ^ responds with the published data per- fu taining thereto?" en "It does, sir," lie answered. ^ "You have thoroughly read up the De' geology of the tract in question?" cj{] "I have not." no "You have not?" "No sir " a... ar "1 ask the jury to noticc that the sh" witness flatly contradicts himself. Now, er sir, if you haven't read up the geology Jg involved in this case, "why do you pre- ca] tend to know anything about it?" 1n "Eccause, sir," said 1lie professor, au "in studying geological formation it is an my invariable custom to read down." "Silence in the courtroom!" thun- ^ dered tlie judge.?Chicago Tribune. ne, jnf A Tramp Chemist. J "I am Nicholas Giulot, professor of chemistry," said a tramp gathered with p other vagabonds in the streets of Faris, when asked by the police lieutenant to identify himself. And from his liltby clothes he lished documents proving w:i that he spoke the truth. Investigation th< showed that the tramp was a former be; lecturer at the University of Paris, me that for years he had astonished the fel scientific world by his discovereies, and cir that finally the Government sent him to the Congo to study certain topo- th; graphical and other conditions. When we ho came back from Africa the former I society man seemed to have lost all his ?ncrgy, and gradually vanished from TL sight. "Send me to prison for a week, sai it least," he begged the police. "I tal nust have regular food and a bed, lest Hn I perish."?Chicago News. pu Ln< Known the Kaiiineie. Little Harold's father is at the advertising end of a big paper, and the ^ youngster often hears technical terms fl.'. (n the talk about him. A family friend recently brought a box of choco- " lates when he called, and giving them to the boy, said: "Now, Hal, I hope j you'll mention me in your prayers for , that." of "Put your name in ODe time for p0I that," was Master Harold's reply. "If you want to be mentioned every night aQ( until further notice you'll have to ^ bring me a bigger box."? New York ^ l'ress. Kasslun Lav, In Russia laws are made to be I broken. A native critic said that Rus- Afi sian legislation was like a horseshoe; <>v? it came so hot from the anvil that no ;mt one dared to touch it, it soon grew so aw cold that every one handled it, and ant finally it was trodden under foot?New sv York American. " H . A PERSIAN CURE . el* Cinde and Superstitious Method of Doctoring. 3f the progress of medical science s Persian people know little. They ride diseases into two classes, hot d cold. A cold remedy is applied a ''hot" disease, and a hot remedy, a "cold" one. In "With the Pil[ms to Mecca" the author tells his perience with one of their physiins: rhe eveninc peforc I left Mecca for idah I was suffering from a rack; headache, and my friends advised j to consult a certain Arab physim. [n the East they never break the ice silence with a remark on the ;ather. The customary opening is to juire if you are in health. I told e doctor, in answer to his question, at I had a bad headache, and had me to him to be cured. He asked ? on which side the head ached. I uched the spot, whereupon he fell rubbing it vigorously with the palm his right hand, calling out the while the urchin to fetch the necessary paratus for the forthcoming opera>n. The boy disappeared. In a Tew nates he came back, bearing in both nds a round, hollow plate of clay which wsre a few lumps of burning arcoal. The next thing he brought in were couple of iron Tods about twice the lgtli of an ordinary pencil, together th a cup filled with a black liquid, mposed, if I mistake not, of starch d the soot of an oil lamp. The doc thrust the rods in the glowing charal. The fear of being branded thed Jiy brow in sweat. The doctor sured me I had no cause to be afraid, rhe tips of the rods by this time ;re red-hot. Having tipped them in e cup of ink, he closed hi9 eyes, d then raised his voice in an incantan that lasted several minutes. Not single word could I understand, hen it was over he opened his eyes, d saying the word"Bismillah," proeded to draw with one of the rods, w cool, on my right temple, five perndicular' lines crossed by five horinfnl AV1AO flmo +Int7 uares. Several magic hieroglyphics sides -were inscribed in the same inner behind my ears and on the pe of my neck. ifter every operation the good doc* would pause to ask me,"Is the pain ne now?" Four times did I tell the ith; then, fearing further tattooing, assured the persevering little man it I thought I was better. 3is joy knew no bounds. He said e secret was left to him as an inritance from his father, and that on account must I wash off the signs til the next day, or.the pain would turn. His Parting Shot. 'Beggin' y'r parding, mum," said the lite cabman, gazing at the shilling iieb reposed in his palm, "but this :u nin't sufficient to liquidate your rbilitirs. C'rect fare's one and a iner." 'Nothing, of the sort, my man," apped the elderly female standing the pavement. "The exact distance >m the Bpot Avhere I engaged you to y door of this house is just 200 yards ort of a mile. You cabbies can't eat me," she continued, triumphant"I know too much for you. I ven't Deen riuing aoout in. cans iur f? last: twenty years for nothing!" 'No, mum?" said the Jehu, inquir;ly. with his head on one side. "You prise me. 'Taint your fault if you en't, mum," he went on, as he gath>d up his reins; "I'll bet you've done ur little best." Vnd before his Tate passenger could ink of an appropriate reply he was t of sight.?Tit-Bits. Victims, All. The West Philadelphia Era neb of the itional Fratrenity of Hay Fever Suffers has assessed its members a arler each, to be paid into a national tid which, it is hoped, will be large ough to induce some fellow with lins to invent a positive and permant cure for the malady. This assottion is no joke with the sneezers, matter what the outsiders may ink. The officers work without sal7, and no one is eligible to memberip who is not a full-fledged hay fevsufferer. No puny snip of a sneeze accepted as warrant for an appliot's eligibility. One must be able rip.out a sneeze that for violence d virulence equals a scream before application for membership is so ich as considered. At a meeting of i West Philadelphia Branch it was cessary to dispense with the read; of the minutes because of the sec ?i "nh: in/!/%!_ iir.v o w cuuv.uuvu.?i unuuwiia Record. Didn't Want the "Whole Lot. ,Vlien several years ago Billy Ht^o is running for office in Indianapolis i "boo" gang was alive. A few days fore election one of the most glib tubers told Hays that he and his lows absolutely controlled ten preicts. If yon want them precincts," said i boo, "we can get 'em for you. All ask is a dollar." Jays thought a while. " Ten precincts, you say, for a dollar, at would be ten cents u precinct," d Hays in all seriousness. "I'll just co two precincts," and with this lys reached into his pocket and lied out two dimes for the boos.? liana pol is News. Insurance For Fist. L scheme for the co-operative insur:e of pigs has been started in Wiltre, the idea being to strengthen by algamation the hundred or more pig urance cluhs which already esist the county, and to form new pig bs in villages which are the source 5imA of our best breakfast ba i. The new association, which is to known as the Wiltshire Pis Insur:e and Provident Association, is to registered under the friendly socles' act?London Express. Camels ai Petg. !aby camels are great pets in South rica, and are nursed and tended and >n carried about by their attend:s. The very young camel Is an kward creature with a loHg neck 1 uncertain legs. During the first 7 months th?y weigh no more than ordinary uo;. I . LAP DOCS; How Tt?y Ham Figured in History mod How They Are Made. Tlic making of new kinds of dogs lias been a profitable industry since remotest history, and promises, especially in the case of lap dogs, to go on forever. The "latest thing in lap dogs" has been very clearly defined ever since the days of the Greeks and Romans iu . Europe and from a much earlier period in Europe. In the sepulchral halls of the great pyramids sculptures have been found in which a small species of elegant greyhound is seen following members of the royal family. Both are chiselled in the stiff "one foot in front of the otlier" style of old Egypt, but the dog A unmistakably a special artificial breed just as much as a modern dachshund. China evolved her Pekinese spaniel in lier progressive days, some SOOO years ago. Chinese inertia has preserved the breed unchanged to this day in the regal palaces of the Empress. When the Summer palace in .Pelcin was searched in I860 by European troops six specimens were found. These dogs, whose unbroken ancestry is older than any royal family, kven that of the Empress, were found upon silken pillows, each in its own special apartment. Each had a special retinue of attendants, who had fled. ui an ine jap aogs 01 aiurvye uuu America, perhaps the first to be mentioned is the "Maltesedog," or "Maltese terrier," as it was once called. This silky little toy of a creature is said to have been originated in tbe town of Melita, in Sicily, whence it was exported to Rome and Athens in their days of greatness. Strobo, the historian, describes them as "not bigger than corampn ferrets or weasels, yet they are not small in understanding nor unstable in their love." From the first century until the nineteenth the Maltese dog was only heard from occasionally, but that it retained its individuality and feminine fayor are shown by its description eighty years ago in the European Magazine as a "pampered creature waddling and wheezing its pampered way after its fashionable mistress." In the eighteen-sixties new and superior breeds of dogs appeared as -f- --b xi- - ?1. - velous and rarely wonderful spectacle. There are long rivers the rushing sweep of which drain the heart of the continent. Tlie Rocky Mountains, lifting granite peaks, alien and remote, far up into the clouds; scarred clefts and canons, deep wooded valleys that hiut of savage withdrawal from human association. The mysterious and barbaric land of the mesas, and the great primeval forests that whisper and rustle, and gleam and gloom in light and darkness, and through every season of the year. The forest that is never ecn twice in the same aspect and never tells the same story; is as silent as the grave, and yet is filled with constantly moving, hidden, unseen life; as I changeful and mutable as numan ? thought, and as mysterious as the im- ^ pulses that sway human acts.?Metro- ^ politan Magazine. r Onr Sophl?tlcated Foods, Suppose you ask for the grocer's DPSt strawberry jam, and he charges you four-pence a pound for it, and you get y a mixture of foreign fruit-pulp, sweet- ^ ened with glucose, colored with aniline 1 dyes, with seeds alien to the straw- c uerry put iu; umt nu i^ai musof complaint; and the dealer is quite f free from prosecution, provided he has 11 included in the composition one or two ? trawberries.?I/^dOE Magazine. v v* rivals 01 tue XUUllVSt;, WIJU rajjiuijr juoi his supremacy. Dog shows gave great impetus to Improvement and variety of the little canines. In the efforts of their breeders to" hold their place the Maltese was reduced to live pounds In adult weight. It is said that one of these little animals could be placed in a lady's glove. This appatently ungallant inference to the size of feminine hands of the time is explained by the assumption that the "glove" was a hawking gaiintlet with sleeves reaching almost to the shoulders. The pocket beagle enjoys popularity to-day among many Women. Anne of Denmark and Mary of Modena, two Queen consorts of the Stuarts, both "fancied" Italian greyhounds, and in the well-known painting by Ward, R. A., of James II., hearing of the landing of William of Orange, an Italian hound sniffs suspiciously at the messenger, while a court lady entertains the infant Prince of Wales with a King Charles spaniel pup. At one time, not so long ago, it was 60 fashionable and sought after that an attempt was made to improve on nature by interbreeding the Italian greyhound with the toy terrier, but with most lamentable results; and it was with the greatest difficulty and patience that the ill effects of the mesalliance were overcome, and the breed puiiWied by the infusion of fresh blood from its native Italy, until it once more displayed those true traits and that exquisite grace which makes this fragile little creature so. admired by ladies of taste and refinement. There are doubtless several newtypes in formation at this time under the careful experiments of breeders. Each one should have its day of popularity and bigh prices, to be succeeded by a later canine freak. Reinforcing His Explanation, The editor of the Gory Gulch Vindi cator happening to look out of His window saw Comanche Pete approaching the office with an expression of wratli on his face and a rerolver in each hand. Glancing hastily at a copy of the Vindicator that lay on the table before him he sought to ascertain the cause of the impending visit. His eye was caught by this item: "They are talking of running our illustrious fellow citizen, Comanche Pete, for town marshall. He's a huckster?that's what Pete is." He had barely time to snatch a big revolver from the drawer in his table 1 when the door opened and Comanche Pete came in. ; "Pete," quietly remarked the editor, leveling the weapon at him, "throw up your hands. I've got the drop on you. I wrote it 'hustler.' "?Chicago 1 Tribune. 1 i The BeantJ?8 of Our Land. Nature's beautv in America is a mar VANITAS VANITORUXL . B BALLADE. Good and Bad, \ Saint and Sot, ! .Wise and Mad? H Matters not; |B Earth is shot Pull -with inanity? HH Hence the mot- v to, All is Vanity!. i% MB . ^ Girls that glad |fl Gowns have got, HH Fashion, Fad? V HM All such rot One may spot V With mild profanity: Hence the mot- BH to, All is Vanity! Khig and Cad, M Love, too, add Hfl In the plot, H( With a lot : S Of fine urbanity: $' Hence the mot- JH| to, All is Vanity! > EJTVOY. B These are what ' > > Make up Humanity: .Hence the mot- . to, AIT ia Vanity! ? IB ?Felix Carmen, in Life, H Knickcr ? "What caused the acc^' ' 9 dent?" Bocker?"He suddenly gained! M control of his machine."?Brooklyn B Poet?"This, sir, is the only poem ? H ever wrote." Editor?"Well, cheer up*' Nobody is going to take it away from H you."?Cleveland Leader. , H Autumn all our sorrow doubles, '* g "Kb the season of despair, S But I'd stand the other troubles H Were it not for football hair. H "I notice they've got some insurance men on the stand in New York."| "Looks more like they've got 'cm Ofl the <run!"?New Orleans Times-Demo* ^ crat. K . y. Bob?"Miss Subbubs bas asked me to ' call to-nigbt." Dick?"Xes?" ..Bob?' "Yes. What shall I wear?" Dick (y?b?/ bas been there)?" 'Ware of the dogf'-J Philadelphia Ledger. . I ; "A man always gets on easier by tafc^ ing hid wife's advice." "Yes," aiw swered Mr. Meekton. "When things turn out badly there Isn't so mueW / said."?Washington Star. The chap who's on some jury. Receiving two per day, . _ J?? Ne'er bursteth forth in fury * About the law's delay. ' f "Do you think it is honest for a man to accept money for a campaign fund?* "Why, yes," answered Senator Sor-?' ' ghum, "if he really turns it over to the . fund."?Washington Star. Sox?"Has your young brother made up his mind what he wants to v.0?1* Fox?"Not yet; but I think he would like the position of special adviser to/ a lady's golf club."?Judge. Edith?"Papa is immensely pleased to hear you are a poet." Ferdy?"I? ' he?" Edith?"Ob, very?the last of my/ . lovers he tried to lick was a football player."?Chicago Daily News. Singleton?"Have you decided what you' are going to call tlie baby, old man?" Wedderton?"Certainly. I'm going to call him whatever my wife names him."?Chicago Daily News. Mrs. De Fashion (at a children's party)?"Marie!" Nurse Girl ? "Yes,j . , ma'am.* Mrs. De Fashion?"It's time for usMo go home. Which of these children is mine?"?New York WeeklyJ Burglar?"Here's a bill from a sunn, mer hotel." His Pat ? "Ptecelpted?"*, Burglar?"Yep." His Pal?"Den we>ret too late. Leave a nickel on de bureau fer de poor guy, and we'll skidoo."? Puck. k Nurse?"Bridget, come here, and see a French baby born in Dublin.'* Bridget?"Poor little darlint! It'a ai great perplexity you'll be to yourself*' I'm thinkin', wJaen you Degm sup^m.in'!"?Punch. I ".Remember," said the serious friend, "that you are a serrant of the people."1 "Yes," answered Senator Sorghumj "The trouble is that nowadays you are expected to serve the people without) accepting any tips."?Washington FtarJ i 'Bub Top Information. f A portly, middle-aged schoolman* from interior New Jersey engineered: her juvenile nature study class of six! boys and six girls on a Saturday afternoon trip a-top a Fifth avenue double-decker stage. The youngster# availed of the opportunity to treat, teacher to a rapid-fire series of all manner of questions. Many of the'ih-J " * - V? All fV-V 4 c* / quiries relating 10 -wwjsc uvuo? ^ , , that," etc., stumped tbe educator and! V | she in turn was dependent for this, ' ! information upon the lone man wboj , \J found space on tlie second-story tier of| 1 seats. As the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel wasi passed Gracie asked Herbert allj about it He replied right off the bat:i "There's -where Mrs. Astor lives.1') When the Vanderbilt mansion at Fifty-j eighth street came in view llttla, "Herby" vouchsafed this news: "That's old man Vanderbilt's flat"?New York! Press. How Fog Strains the Ejes. Many of the officers of steamships running in this port are afflicted with ft new disease, which for want of a better name some of them call the "fog >ye." It is an inflammation caused by; jeering into the fog, and while painful t soon passrs away. Captain ]?jgglns and the officers of ie United States Fruit Company's jassenger and mail steamer Admiral Sampson, which arrived at Long iVharf this morniug after a good run Tom Jamaican ports, were among iose whose eyes were affected by the :og. Running through fog and trying x> distinguish objects when it is alImnAecihln fn ttvo n V^KKpl's f iway is a heavy strain on the eyes, and * ho fog, combined with the" heat, proluces a smarting sensation. ? Boston Transcript. Love and BZiddlo Age. Rumor teils us that the middle-aged vc*nan is again to oust the jcune fllle, rho has had a sort of "innings" of late. Vnd as the stage sets a great many otf >ur fashions, it looks as if rumor were :orrcct for once in a way. At all >vents, the love affairs of the middleged are just now occupying our tage to a considerable extent.?Lon* Ion World.