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. .V I j TI1E KJLNXmrENSE. In Tunis, once. I rambled down 1 I A winding Arab street. When suddenly broke upon the wind A s'.rain of music sweet. 1 If Pan had tuned his fabled pipes, 1 j And blown them in my ear, They had not made a song so sweet, And tine and true and clear. ' ! 44What hand has touched so rare a chord? What lip lias charmed the air ' To lusic so divine." I said, "So wistful and so fair?" 1 1 *They must have looked into the flowers, And twined each fragant face Into the melodies they play, 1 To give them such a grace! i "And every bud that has a birth, ] And every rose that dies. 1 Has breathed her first and last sweet breath . Into their soulful eyes! **They must have stood at Dido's tomb, ' ^ Above the lonely plain y Where Carthage lies in tears of dust, f Thrice r:?on?and thrice slain! < "How must they con the songs of old, { Of Sapnho, Schiller. Poe. . To.sing so well the canticles ? Of freedom, love and wo!" i i C I found them playing on the curb? A humble Arab band? With want on every magic viol, ? - And age in every hand! i I dropt a coin unon the nlate: * For thanks of heart ana mind. Eipht grateful eyes were turned to me, ] And all of them were blind! t ?Aloysius Coll, in Youth's Companion. ^ \ THF I AST NlliHT IN CAMP. 111U liliui lllUlli ill VI1II? f 3 ! < Iv I By FRED. L. PURDY. -v*-?sar t Nestled amoqg the tall trees of a \ river valley in New York State's wil- ^ derness is a little cabin. Before the 1 open fireplace in the one large living room two men sit, dreamily gazing I | at the leaping log flames. Afcout s them arg'scattered hunting paraphernalia of all kinds, from boots to guns, s On the table well-thumbed volumes s show signs of sudden neglect. Pipes, T dripping ashes, strew the wooden t mantel. The boiling kettle drones s ,lazily. It is the last evening of the i ^ last day in camp. To-morrow?back i to the world. f ; i Charlie, the merchant, rises, stretches, sighs and moves to the west t window. His eyes wander afar to the t mountains beyond the river, lit by the r lights of heaven. In the gathering \ ?loom he marks the place where the t trail to the pond bends between the 1 "hills. Beyond he measures the reach c of the dry swamp, where the big deer a hide. Around the lessening horizon ^ he follows the outlet's flow until it t Joins the river with a rush?and then i he sighs agaiD. "I wish we could stay longer!" i There is a plaintive note of regret a In his voice. Leslie, the editor, hears, c but does not answer. He is seeing r things in the fantastic movements of i the flames. * Charlie picks up his gun, looks over t the eights and then slowly pushes an oil rt.g through the barrel. Then he t sits down and gases again into the C fire I Leslie stirs and sighs. Ke, too, I Tlses, and, from the north window, c peers afar to Hardwood Island and 1 Pine Ridge. With his eyes he follows the cranberry swamp to the old lum- I toer camp and on beyond to Silver Brook and the raspberry patch. < ! . "It's tough to go back to the desk," * lie says. His voice is no more joyous t than that of the merchant, and his t words bring no response. Leslie lifts his mud-stained hunting 1 lioots, cleans,and greases them and 1 hangs them on a hook?for a year. 1 Then he drops again into the chair before. the fire. The kettle sings its , .song louder and louder. An hour slips by?an hour in which the long tramps, the wading of streams and climbing of hills, the shots that meant . meat, and the weary but happy far- j 4ng toward the open grate in the even- ( ing?were all silently reviewed and ( weighed and measured, and measured j And weighed and reviewed, by ttie , dreamers before the fire. I/eslie turned to the man-made i satchel and took from it a man-made ,, linen collar. He looked at it more i than casually. He encirclcd his bronzed neck with it and shuddered. "Did you ever think that there must bo a hades?"heasked, reflectively. "Else there would be no hereafter for the man that invented the stiff linen collar." The merchant showed symptoms of , taking notice. J "The collar fiend does not deserve ^ the measure of torment that has been , completely won by the inventor of the J boiled shirt," he replied. Then thev gazed into the fire and j lost themselves in iought. "Well, we must pack up, 1 sup- ' pose," said the merchant at lasc. "Yes, we must pack up," dreamily echoed the editor. And they continued to stare at the fire. The moments flew by and outside the gloom increased. The mountains across the river were no longer dis cermijie ana tne snaaows in me woods were deep and dark. By the flicker of the fire the merchant sought his razor, while he ran his tanned fingers through his facial undergrowth. Finding the desire:! instrument of human torture, he?sat down and again gazed, into the flames. The editor yawned and reaching \ for the drinking cup, interrupted the song of the kettle by filling the cup with hot water. He, too, was thinking of the mowing that civilization <lemands of man's face. Then he? fixed his eyes on the tire. "It's no use," said the merchant, finally and desperately. "Here goes." He arose with determination and began the work of preparation for the departure. Lamps were lit, sweatv ers were doffed and the razors were applied. Then came the packing. It was a busy hour or more unbroken by words. Buckles clicked, straps creaked and the kettle sang. Inwardly the merchant and the editor groaned. Morning came only to emphasize the regret. Stiff collars chafed necks, j stiff hats pinched heads, stiff shoes crowded feet and stiff shirts held unwilling bodies as in a vise. The sun was shiulug in the sky, but there were clouds over the hearts of the two men. That world ther? ;n the wilderness was beautiful, but the ather world?that was different. The nrilHftrnocc ivnrlri was marlfi hv find? the city world was made by man. Who -would not feel a pang on being impelled to leave the grandeur and freedom of the one to mingle with the pinched soul of the other? It was almost time for the wagon that was to carry them over the nountain road to the man-made rail oad. They listened for .the chug of :he wheels and hoped that noise" n*ould not offend t.heir ears. They loped the wagon-man had forgotten lis orders. They grabbed their grips and great :oats out of the cabin and listened igain. Chug-chug! There it is. rhe wagon is lurching through the voods. Side by side, the merchant and the editor turned and looked far oft on ;he mountains across the river, a-glit:er in the early morning sun. They must soak their souls full of the ;cene. for they would not see it again 'or a year?perhaps they would never >ee it again. "You sports bettar git spry, if we vant to catch that train!" The driver's words fell upon the merchant and the editor as a >ludgeor.. They tumbled into the vagon and the rough journey from paradise bacfi to the world was be;un.?Forest and Stream. OLDEST LONDON POLICE CELL. Supposed to Ee More Than 200 Years Old?Underground Passage. Beneath a building known as the Did Court House, Wellclose square. Stepney, stand what are said to be he oldest police cells in London, and inder these is the entrance to a subvay believed to have o/ice led to the rower, nearly a mile distant. This subterranean passage is now )locked up, and at the entrance there itands a skeleton. The building was formerly known is the High Court of Liberty and is mpposed to be over 300 years old. rhe court house is now the home ol* he German Oak Club, and the fine ipartment in which trials took place s used for dancing, while the adjoinng rooms provide accorambdation or billiards. A winding stone staircase leads to he two cells at the rear of the court louse. At the top of, the stairs is a nassive and strongly barred door, vith a peephole in it. This leads to he first of the apartments. The only ight which penetrates these dirty lens comes through gratings high up igainst the ceiling, and each is fitted vith a shutter, by means of which he cells can be plunged into darkless. Nearly half the floor space in each oom is filled by a wooden bed, and ittached to the walls are the rusty hains with which the prisoners were nanacled. Another object to be seen s a straitjacket made of stiff canvas, rith iron rings which can be fastened o the chains. Many names, inscriptions and picures are carved on the wooden walls. )ne can still read the name of Edward 3urk, who is said to have been langed for murder. Close by is :arved "Edward. Ray. December 27, ( .758;" and another inscription runs "Francis Brittain, June 27, 1758.< 5ray remember the poor debtors." On the floor of the first cell can be listinguished the squares of a chess)oard, cut in the solid oak. Over the loor between the two cells can be raced the words, "The rule of the louse is a gallon of beer," and just jelow, in neater character, are the vords, "John Burn came in April 11, 1751." One prisoner broke into verse thus: The cup is empty, To our sorrow; But hope it will x Be filled to-morrow. Another prisoner signed himself 'James Carr, smuggler, 1787." The pictorial efforts include churches, a :rude representation of the Tower >f London, an armchair and the ;riple emblem of the rose, shamrock md thistle. Running under the roadway of IVellclose square is a dungeon lined ivith brickwork a foot thick.?London Evening Standard. Japan's Hair Export. Japanese hair now floods the human-hair market. In 1904 this export totalled but 6075 pounds, valued at $1400. In 1906 these figures had risen to 337,500 pounds, worth 564,000. France?Japan's chief customer?in 1906 bought 117,000 pounds of hair, while the United States in that year purchased 42,500 pounds. Such bales of human hair are not, however, the luxuriant tresses of the mousras sacrificed to benefit her family, but constitute cookings.?Harper's Weekly. Miser's Gold is Meltec*. Afraid of banks, Frank Marks, a farmer, of Berea, Ohio, converted all his money into gold coin and hid the metal under the floor of his pig pen. While he and his wife were in uieveiauu, a rooDer searcned His house, ripping mattresses and upholstery to locate the hidden wealth. The thief set fire to the barn and pig pen. Upon his return home. Marks surprised his friends by digging in the ruins of the pig pen and drawing forth a huge lump of gold. The coins had been melted by the heat. Russia Supplies Japan. Vice-Consul Harry Suslow of Moscow, writes that the administration of the Russian Dnieprovskiy Metal lurgie Company recently signed a contract in St. Petersburg with the Japanese Government for the supply of 360,000 poods (5806 tons) of steel rails. The weight of the rails is to be twenty-four pounds to the current foot. The rails are to be delivered at Port Dalny for the southern parta of the Manchurian Railway.?United States Consular and Trade Reports. Tobacco was successfully grown under Government supervision in Ireland last year, but as the crop has not yet been marketed the financial result will not be known for some time. .. STRANGEST CHAPEL [ IN THE WORLD r t In the very heart of London, Eng- c land, not far distant from the Marble s Arch, there stands oni. of the Strang- s est temples of worship in the whole a world. It is called the Chapel of thn Acnnncirtn nnH it pnntninQ nn nnl. I 3 f VV/-WV..MM ? v f - pit, no altar, no font, no band of a choristers. No services *are held in it and no priest or minister crosses v its threshold except as a visitor. The d chapel is a place not of Christian rou- * tine and service, but simply where a a man or woman may "rest a while a and commune with his own soul amid r pictured walls," as the notice which a hangs over the door says. y The chapel is the idea of Mrs. Russell Gurney, who, during her life- 1 time, was a member of one of the g best known families in London. She t received her inspiration from a small f chapel in Florence and conceived the a idea of building a place of commu- c nion in the heart of London, set " apart for rest and filled with conse- * crated art. fc But while the purpose of the chap- c el itself is unique, more remarkable q still are the religious paintings that c cover its walls from floor to ceiline.' d For fourteen years Frederic Shields,1 the famous English painter and friend y and contemporary 6i Ruskin, Dante, f Rosetti and Ford Madox Brown, has I "" 1 '' **~* world:s odde! devoted his whole time and thought t to their execution. Although the r task is not yet oflmplete, there are 1 but few vacant "spaces on the walls I ' of the little building. Very nearly i: two hundred paintings, illustrating o the Scriptures, have emanated from ii the fertile brain and gifted brush of j f this artist. j o The chapel was finished in 1894, e after considerable difficulty had been y experienced by Mrs. Gurney in find| ing a site that suited her. In that year Mr. Shields began work on his paintings. The little building has n been open for a few weeks now to E th? general public. As one enters and looks around , one may see the whole story of thetBlble told by the pictures on the four rralls. The scheme begins over the gallery arch with the creation of man, followed l$y the union of man and woman. On the south wall is pictured "The Good( ly Fellowship of the Prophets," beginning^ with Enoch,-caught up and delivered from a violent world flowing with rivers of blood, ending with Malachi, who looks back on his predecessors and pointB across the space of the channel to the north wall to John the Baptist and his successors, "The Glorious Company of the Apostles." Some are preaching, I others praying, prophesying, confess ing sins, beholding the beatmc vis- i Ions, or standing triumphant as martyrs. Below the Prophets and the Apostles are small subject pictures; I above, in intimate relation with these h figures, are angels performing mis- a Bions of mercy and judgment; while a alternating the figures are large t< paintings, giving spiritual renderings r of the familiar stories of the Gospels f< and of the incidents of the Acts of li the Apostles. o But it is to the east wall where c "SPORT I j Machine Gun Used for Duck Shootin g r"?- J rn 1 V "tXfV? l~U ? + 1 JBllHU luruugu tvuitu n i I A Weird Carriage. s To a world accustomed to ride in 0 Its automobiles, there is something j li | v fir j . q ^ t: Remarkable Carriage Still in Use in t! mana. p almost uncanny about this venerable ci fragment of antiquity which may be e. ! : : .f syes are first directed and are hel ly the pictures which give the key loto to the whole of the designshe conceptions of the Crucifixion am if the Ascension. Subject painting urround them, and many figures uch as those of Faith, Hope, Lov nd Patience?the final virtue. Mr. Shields began his career as ai pprentice to a firm of lithographers .nd went through a long period o rUolhr AT>A A O LLC UII U3L [jyvci LJ, r mail; uug v*c*, ^liile in the deeps of despair, he wan lered into an exhibition of painting n Manchester and decided to becom .n artist. He immediately went hom .nd made a water color sketch whicl iot only sold for $45. but brough .nother commission to the need outh. A few years of this work brough ilm an order to illustrate "The Pil jrim's Progress." He took the con ract at so low a figure that he soo: ound that he was reduced to a breai nd water diet. A little later he exe uieu some uesigus jlui an euniuu u 'Vanity Fair," which so pleased Rus :ln that he said to him: "I do no mow of any artist in England wh ould have done these pictures t>u [ourself. You may become mor elebrated than any painter of th lay." Prom this time on the path of th oung artist toward success am ame was a smooth one. He came t< London in 1874, when his reproduc e L ' ^1 s i f 3T . CHAPJJL. ions of his drawings of town am ustic children were very popular. Ii 886, when Mrs. Russell Gurney wa ooking for an artist capable of carry ug out her id^as for the decoratloi f the chapel which she was to build t was to Mr. Shields that she turned 'ive years later, when the little hou& f rest and communion was complet d, he set to work on his fourteen ear task.?New York Press. For Treating Animals. A novel apparatus for treating ani lals has been Invented by a Nojtl >akota man. It consists of a cabine aving open ends and gates to perml n animal to be driven in at one en( nd out at the other. In the bottom ap and sides of the cabinet is a se ies of pipes. Each pipe contains per orations through -which a liquid so iition can be projected in a small je r stream against the animal in lh< abinet. WYAL." by the Prince of Monaco, and th< s Discharged.?Sketch. een almost any day in the street! f Malta. The vehicle belongs to an elderl: idy who has come down in th< oiid, and this clumsy calessa i! radically the only remaining testl lony to her former greatness. Thi Id dame is very religious, and hough poor, still drives to and fron hurch in her remarkable carriage. It speaks volumes for her couragi hat she should consent to enter th< alessa at all. for if the horse were t< ail, tut; ui;cu|;aut nuuiu na.?o vjun* s uncomfortable an experience a; he unfortunate tenant of a hanson ab when the steed comes to grief. And when one considers that th< orse attached to her conveyance ii uite as out-of-date as the chariot he aged lady's pluck seems greatei han ever. Still noblesse oblige,and true to th< raditions of her erstwhile grandeur he aged dame sallies forth in all th( ride, pomp and circumstances of hei razy carriage, and will no doubl ontinue to do so until death claimj ither her c.: her ancient horse. \ e The smallest electric motor in tn world was made by a Texan electri a clan and watchmaker, who uses it a i, a scarfpin and drives it with a tin f chloride of silver battery. y Experiments are b?ing made i s Europe with a microphone for th e discovery of the presence of shoal e of fish. The instrument is sunk int h the water, and the constant tappin t of the fish against it as they pas y warns the fishermen. t Dr. Alexander Schaefer, a note - scientist, says cattle have the sliarj I- est sight, the second place being b a man and the horse which have nearl a equal visual power. Sheep do nc i- see as well as cattle or horses. Owl f and buzzards possess great acutenes i- of vision. Dogs have such poor sigh t that, as a rule, they are not able t 0 recognize their masters by sigh t alone. e A recent re-discovery in the chem cal world was a liquid preparation t e prevent the bottom of ships froi 1 rusting or gathering marine growth: o Although the secret was known to th Romans, it was lost about 600 yeai - ago. Professor Louis Agassiz. .man years ago, first announced that tb ice sheet, or glacial flow, at the norti west of Maine could not have bee less than a mile deep; while late geologists have confirmed his stati ment, adding the more recent concli sion that the ice was of that thicl ness at least over the larger part c New England. Green is a mixture of blue and ye low. In this green light of shallo' 1 water all seaweeds grow, and, fc want of the red rays, they have gold en and taiyney leaves. Green an red seaweeds are the exception, an blue seaweeds are as rare as blue tre leaves. At this rate, land plant grown under green glass ought t turn golden brown, like seaweet They do. Experiment has shown thj under green glass plants grow neai ly as well as under clear sunlight. A petrified forest covering an are 3 ox one hundred square mileB has e: 11 isted for centuries in Arizona. Thov 8 sands and thousands of petrified log strew the ground, and represent heai a tiful shades of pink, puiple, ret ' gray, blue and yellow. One of tb stone trees spans a gully of forty fet 0 wide. " PELT OF THE RARE BLACK FOJ V Orily Abont Five Arc Brought Doiv Each Year From the Far Norcb. 1 In the estimation of trappers c t the Canadian Northland, as well i in the eyes of the nobility of Ru3sii there is only one king of beaststhe highly prized black fox. On a average five perfect pelts of this rai fur-bearer are brought down froi th& Northland each year, and in rai years as many as ten or trelvi though each year thousands of me make a living trapping and th yearly catch of fox skins amouni to over 100,000 from Canada alon In no way except in color does ti black fox differ from the red fo: whose pelt sells for about $2, c from the grey fox, whose winter coi is valued at from $150 to $400; bi whenever a hunter can secure a blac fox and remove its skin without ma: ring the fur he is sure o? receivin from $800 to $1500 for his troph; Not only is every black fox pe bought as soon as taken, but a doze Russian noblemen nave paid ageni t traveling in North America a i through the winter seeking out r< . mote hillside farms and abanacne logging camps where it is possib! that a shy and elusive black fox ma have been seen. t Within the las* twenty years o numoer oj. wea.ii.uy lucu wuu ua? owned fenced game preserves hav ' spent vast sum3 of money in buyin young foxes alive and turning thei loose within private enclosures. B j and by it may be .that some skilled c I fortunate breeder will y-oducc black pup or perhaps a pair of blac foxes may be captured alive and froi these a new breed of black foxes wi arise and cause a great panic anion the men who hunt for black foxei He who can wrest the secret of breec ing black foxes from nature is a; sured of riches past counting and ca command the worshipful homaga i the Russian nobility and ariscocrac; who seem willing to sacrifica untol wealth for the pleasure of weariu overcoats made from the pelts c American black foxes.?Sdmonto Correspondence Toronto Globe. ( Fear or the Law. "in Switzerland this sum res/, said a Philadelphian, "I heard C'aa:*;( mange Tower describe the stringer police regulations of Berlin. "Mr. Tower, by way oz' illustrc J j tion, concluded wil": . little sco;-y. "Schmidt and Krauss met on i morning in the park. } " 'Have you heard,' says Sehmid 'the sad news about Muller?" . " 'No,' says Krauss. 'What is it' , j " 'Well, poor Muller went boaiiin 3 | on the river yesterday. The boat car : sized and he was drowned. The wa< er was ten feet deep." " 'But couldr't he swim?' " 'Swim? Don't you know ibai a! persons are strictly forbidden by zh police co swim in the river'." j Washington ;tar. Preferred Mercy. "You needn't be afraid," said th defendant's lawyer, reassuringly. "But the felloe's sot a pull," gruna bled the defendant. 3 "But we've got sufficient pull t nrnmnt iustice." r "Huh! that's just what I don'l want to get."?Philadelpnia Press. A pair or robins have built a nes ; and hatched a family in the pocke of an old waistcoac which had bee t left hanging on the wall of an unoc 3 cupied cott"?? at Lodswortb, i land ' i I The Perils of Riclies. By TOM P. MORGAN. "Dese yuh 'saults an' 'sas3inatlons in de rich has done become plumb Q ilahmin'!" peevishly announced a di[. apldated-looklng colored zitlzen not 3 ong ago. "Much as I's heered de y ehlte folks 'spatiatln' on de subject, ' never organized de heenyusness ob t twell jes' lately?man kain't pre n izely sense a thing, sah, twell it's e irung right home to him! g "I takes a load ob chickens over o o Timpkinsville ap' sells 'em fo'? g sTow, dar you goes wid yo' 'sinne*a;g Jons! What dlff'ence do it make how i 'cumulated dem fowls, Ion's I bad em? In a 'scussion wid a gen'leman d ies' stick to de bone ob extension, an' lon't git to flingin* no oarcastics y round loose! Man's had a rock v >ounced on his head fo' jes' dat :awtah foolishness befo' now! Da [3 >'int am dat I got six dollahs an' is lemtv cents fo' dem chickens, an' it :omin' home, well-uh, bless goodness, 0 > done found a fi'-dollar bill an' a it lickel in de road! Sho'ly looked lik? twuz ulwainin' merricles dat day; )ut right away atter muh tribbylai .ions begun! I hadn't much mo' dan ,0 ;ot back twell it 'peared like de whole n mdurin' popularity was atter me. s. Vlizzelaneous pussons dat I'd donf ie lo'got I eber owed 'em money come at s ne wid claws; niggers dat I skacely *nnnrA/l TT?V? a /I a /IioVona rlou x&qerf I luuncu TTUU UO UlVUVUtf \*VJ >. %.H lopped onto me to borry muh wealth; .y le Puhsidin' Eldah/de most slingin* l9 jen'leman you eber seed in all ob i- woe's app'inted ways when dar's anyn :hlng in it fo' him', took muh trail ?r like a houn' dog an', hung on; an' len dat yallah-complected widdah i- ady dat I's been mo' or less shinin* c- round?uh-well, I 'knowledges dat >f t went too far wid her; I axed her did ihe s'picion her last husband's best :oat could be cut down to fit me (de 1- late' gen'leman was sawtah broad w icross de shouldahs, you knows), an' >r Jich as dat, but she didn't precipitate I- {udder at de time dan to threaten to d fling scaldin' watah on muh pussond ility, an' so I don't see how she flgie gered out dat she had any claims. ;s But widdah ladies ain't got no reason, 0 kou knows dat, sah!?dat was when I i. was po', but soon's I took rich, muh it suzz, she come at me wid a smile; an' r- den, when I 'lowed dat I could do bettah widm uh money, she 'nounced 3at she was uh-gwine to shoot me a to' triflin' wid her 'fections. An' she c* ain't none ob dem old-fashioned i? ladies dat can't shoot straight, ;s needer! 1 "Dat was bad enough, goodness i. knows, but when a young white doce tah wanted to operate on me, uh-kaze it I looked to him like a man wid a brain-stawm, dat settled it, an' I put fo' home. Yes, an 'den when I went Z. out to do barn to add up muh flnanclals in secrecy, ding-busted if dat v mule ob mine?triflin' scoun'rel dat 'I'sbeen uh-feedin' an' uh-pomperin* fo' Io dese many years!?didn't haul ' off an' kick me in de face! Dat't what de varmint p'intedly done, sah; on' 35 T lnld rtnr ripad to de world. yuh come de Puhsidin' Eldah, a little .D bit shawt ob breff, but still on de f trail, an* stidder po'in' oil an' wine down muh t'roat he went th'oo mub e clothes an' picked out de whole 'leven8 semty-A' fo' de chu'ch-buildin' fun'. "De only Joyful thing 'bcut d* [e whole business was dat de Puljsidin Eldah swelled up to de rest ob dem e> hungry people an' talked 'em plumb ie down an' out?wouldn't be a Puh? ' sidiJP Eldah if he couldn't!?an' dey 11 has since left me alone. An* den, l; bless goodness, muh nose was nach'ly . so flat anyhow dat de mule's kick f didn't degrade muh pussonal appear ance to mourn. 10 uuuiu . f "But, as I says in de beginnin', de I' way things has been uh-goin' ob late, a plutocratter ain't safe fo' a minute! 11 Jes' as soon as he finds hisse'f in de p'session ob money he'd better*'whirl in an' take a good dose ob pizon an" '' be 'done wid his troubles. Yessah. dat's what he better do!"?Woman's Home Companion, y a ENEfflES OF ARIZONA CHICKENS.. e re Bullsnakes and Big Frogs Get Into g ! the Poultry Houses. j About four days ago r. u. uunoru, i y | who owns a fine lot of poultry, was j ,r ' out In the yard engaged in doing the ? chores when he heard an unusual * commotion in his hen house. On ** opening the door and lighting up the 1 building he was astonished to see a s large bullsnake lying in the middle of s" the floor with its body coiled around two chickens, which were yet alive. 3" Mr. Clifford struck at the reptile, " landing a blow on its head, when it immediately tightened its coils and i crushed the chickens. The snake I ^ measured between three and one-half ? and four feet in length. ' On Saturday evening the owner was 11 again disturbed by a noise among hi? fowls, and this time the cause for j , j alarm in the hen house was ma<je Dy I a large frog who had just finished ' ; making an evening meal of one of the * broilers. Mr. Clifford killed the frog. ?Arizona Republican. t- A Hairbreadth Adventure. Small Sister (politely) ? "I am ' afraid it will be some time before sister will be down." Suitor (anxiously) ?r- "Isn't she well?" Small Sister ? "Oh, she's well 3 enough, but Tommy hid the rat for her hair, and it was the longest time before she could find it." Suitor (smiling)?"But you say she has found it?" " Small Sister ? "Yes. but Tommy e hid her hair, too, and she is looking " for that now."?New York Times. Fine Ruling. T?ie finest rulings thus far pro3 duced by any of the machines are at the rate of something like 250,000 k lines to the inch. Some idea of the closeness of these ruled lines can be 0 obtained from considering that 2000 such lines would occupy only the ^ i^jace included in the thickness of a sheet of ordinary writing paper.?The American. \ t Seaweed may be planted in tha Schuylkill River iu Pennsylvania as :? an experiment to attempt to filter the ;? water which is used for drinking purposes in Philadelphia. I f ' " -1||B WHO AM I? [ come from many a maiden's lips, I fly through airy spaces. Between two hearts I make quick tnpt; 1 linger on sweet faces. " [ bind love's bargain manv a time; I heal up many a quarrel, . ->'3 Adorn a tale, inspire a rhyme, And blot out many a moral. Wv firof ia Vioffor fVian mv last! With age I grow much colder; t linger often in the past, ? j My memory makes men bolder. ' ( may be false, I may be true, I may be sweet or bout: For me the kings of earth may sub, . ,*95 While babies wield my power. / I'm nothing; yet I'm everything; . ) I die when consummated; From death to life once more I spring, With love's sweet message freighted. No rule for me beneath the sun! I scorn all mathematics; ?Vith one'and one, why,-1 make one; True only to ecstatic*. . I . 'f ; Dividing two, then one I've made Bv adding still another; v. i. ? Che best laid plans men hare essayed I lightly touch, and smother. [ add, subtract and multiply, I've never been refuted; ' V'tf.* JTet my sum totals always die As soon as they're computed. I'm full of sadness, full of bliss, 1 And everything that bliss is; ' Vet, though I've never made a miss, I've made too many Mrs. ?Thomas L. Masson, in Life. , >^5 "Ever experience a stage robber?" "Once I asked a chorus girl out to r.Vj lunch. " ?Philadelphia Public Ledger. 1 The Heiress?"Oh, papa! The earl aas proposed!" Papa Bigwadd? 'H'm! What's his proposition?"? "Mrs. Bildad says that she talks in M her sleep." "That isn't the worst of it, either. She talks when she is iwake."?Life. Servant?"Please, ma'am, there's a burglar down stairs." Mistress . (sleepily)?"Tell him, 'Not at home,' , Jane."?Half-Holiday. \ i&M Wigg?"Slllicus says he is working .\J| for all he is worth." Wagg?''Is that so? Then I suppose he is getting |4 a. week."?Philadelphia Record. Of all the "white lies" the one white lie That most deserves the crown Is that atrocious stuff we buy . For "country milk" in town. ?Catholic Standard and Times. ' ' . Perks?"I'd like to have you help as out at bridge. Play?" Lane? "Not a very good game." "So much. the better. We play for money."? ' Caller?"Is the cashier In?" Bank President?"Yes, I think he is, but :J\ we don't know how much yet. The examiner is going over the books."? Puck. Blobbs?"A politician always reminds me of a piano." Slobbs? "How so?" Blobbs?"If he's squar? . he's considered old fashioned."? 33 Philadelphia Recor/i. . Tommy?"Pop, what Is retribution?" Tommy's Pop?"Retribution, my son, Is something that we are sure .\'m will eventually overtake other peo- -/j pie."?Philadelphia Record. Golfer?"You've caddied for ipe ^ oefore. Will you give me some hints before we start?" Sandy?"Weelr'H ye'll just no dae what ye're gaean' to, dae, ye'll no dae sae bad!"?Punch. Die man who drinks "to beat the Dutch* . t And puzzles wine and stuff, 1 First thinks enough is not too much? Then calk too much enough. v \>;iV ?Philadelphia Press. "Gee whiz! here's the rain coining. down again, and somebody'^ stolen V my umbrella." "Somebody's stolen what?" "Well, the umbrella I've Kaon narrvlncr for thfl DaSt ^W O JivSl weeks."?Philadelphia Press, t Sassenach Humorist (amusing him- . ''33H| self at expense of Highland caddie) ?"Hoots, ye ken, ma wee bit laddie, you was nae so muckle bad a shot the noo. What think ye?" The Bit Laddie?"Eh! Ah'm thinken ye'll learn Scotch quicker'n ye'll ever learn gouf."?Punch. Power From the Mines. A central plant of 8000 horse-power is about to be erected in the midst of the bituminous coal fields of Indiana. It is believed that a large saving of expense, especially for transportation of coal, can thus be effected. It is intended to distribute the power over a wide territory direct from the mouth of the mines. The distance from the plant to Indianapolis will be about 100 miles. This in invnivn a email Toss nf nower in transmission, requiring, according to the calculation, an increase of about ten per cent, in the amount of coal consumed above what it would be if the coal were burned at the points where the power is used. But the saving in other respects is expected to much more than counterbalance this slight disadvantage. ? Youth's Companion. s : /! His Kisses a Cure. H In accordance with a belief ol many of the old residents here that the kiss of a colored person will cure a child of whooping cough, or will act as a sure preventative of the disease,. Charles Miller, a well known negro, is kept busy just now, owing to the prevalence of the disease. Miller's kisses are said to be especially beneficial as a cure, and during the past week more than thirty white babies have been brought to him to be kissed. Many cures are reported. \ " Miller is a kindly, cheerful darky, ' V about sixty-five years old, and charges nothing for his services. "I love 'em, bless 'em," he said today, "and even if iny kissing 'em didn't do 'em good, it couldn't do 'em any harm. I'm willin' to kiss all the babies that are brought to me." ?Philadelphia Record. Here's Balm For Fat Men. According to Prof. Berthold, of Vi-> enna, a man's intelligence, honesty and good nature are in proportion to his portliness. His brain espands with hie hndv sn that a stout man is, as a rule, more intelligent than a ihin man.?Kansas City Journal. All over the world there has been -ince 1890 a decided increase in tha umber of female pupils in school. . -i.VOirk.t-. . -sa