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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
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*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!
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"How must they con the songs of old, {
Of Sapnho, Schiller. Poe. .
To.sing so well the canticles
? Of freedom, love and wo!" i
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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.
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By FRED. L. PURDY.
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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.
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STRANGEST CHAPEL [
IN THE WORLD r
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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
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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
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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
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JBllHU luruugu tvuitu n i
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A Weird Carriage. s
To a world accustomed to ride in 0
Its automobiles, there is something
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Remarkable Carriage Still in Use in t!
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almost uncanny about this venerable ci
fragment of antiquity which may be e.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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a ENEfflES OF ARIZONA CHICKENS..
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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