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A CAPTURE. First post had gone on the bugle at Fort Saskatchewan, and the major waa sitting on the porch of his quarters, discussing with his adjutant the details of a practice march arranged the fol lowing week for B troop. The hard blue ct the sky changed to purple, then to steel gray, and Saturn appeared low down on the western horizon. Over ' the level stretches of the prairie the night wind blew softly, rustling the yellcw*.grass. It was peculiarly soothing -to the two officers, smoking in lazy con . ten tm eat after an arduous day in the blazing August sun. They paused in their chat, and their thoughts drifted to other lands. They saw faces, the pen sive faces of women and the laughing ones of little children, while they watch ed the stars come out, one by one, in the deepening dusk. Th?y remembered that taose same stars shone over the homes which sheltered those women and children ; they seemed like sentinel eyes keeping tireless vigil over those loved ones, separated from them by long leagues of hill and plain and by the vicissitudes of a soldier's calling, and ?their hearts warmed to vtheir friendly twinkling. At length . the major's vagrant thoughts reverted to the matter in hand. "Thirty miles will do for the first day, ' he resumed. "That will take you into* . the Beaver hills, where there's good camping, now the cool nights keep the flies* down. How's regimental No. ?2.142?"' "AU right again, sir, " said the ad jutant "Slight attack of influenza, the . veterinary surgeon said it was. He'll" The door: of the guardhouse across the square opposite swung open, and a bugle rang out shrilly on the quiet night sir. The two officers sprang to their feet - A shot went off. followed by. an-. other, and another. Forms-flitted back and forSh, through the bars bf light 'winch . istr?amed across the parade ground froin^^The^barrack windows. The . officer of 'the day hurried up, touched his bat and said- >" ' "I have to report sir, that the~pris oners McOewrkle and Milligan have over powered the guard and escaped. " The major muttered something not on record, took three strides up the porch and two back, and then rapidly deli ver ed his orders "Detail Kay and Hatherton to scout south toward Blindman's river; they'll ; probably work round to that vicinity* ; sooner cr later. Send Smith and Ed monds north to the Athabasca landing and Murphy and Kraus .east as far as Saddle lake Fontaine and Christianeon can take the north ?bank of the Sas katchewan as far as Lac Ste. . Anne. " Twenty1 minutes later the four de . tails pulled out of Fort Saskatchewan on a blind search for as choice a pair of blacklegs as might have been found any where within 100 miles. Up to the winter before, scr?e of the Saskatchewan fellows had cultivated the idea that "they knew a little about ? 'the glim i?> of poker, but after Cracker box-baptized William McCorkle--had dwelt among them for a month, they ' had been driven stubbornly b the con viction that somehow they had made an error of judgment A little earlier. Calgary had been a flower, a night. blooming cereus, from the professional gambler's point of view, but the bloom had worn off ; it had become too'slo-w ?nd staid, and Crackerbox had Iieard bf the Saskatchewan game and moved north. He thought there might be a profitable opening for him there, and he was correct. His operations at the green table had been quite satisfactory to1 himself, and necessarily anything but satisfactory to ?ny one else Still, the game went on, and Cracker box continued to pull down his jackpots with complacent regularity, until one night things happened. It had been his deal of cDursa He was discovered with four nines in his hand, and as. three were held among the other players round the board, Crackerbox was called on for explanations, which hei gave-at the point of a six shooter. They carried the wounded man home and Cracker box to the guardhouse: He had done fatigue duty on the woodpile and round the kitchen sink under the eye of an unsympathetic eentry and, while he did not ?ay so. thought it was no sort of occupation for a gentlemanly pro fessional gambler. He had been await ing with feelings of deep distrust the departure of the next stage, which should carry him to the territorial pen to abide events while the sick man lin gered. Perhaps they would even show so little deference to his cloth and sen sitiveness there as to put him on the stone pile with absconding bank officers and other low violators of the law 1 The thought made his nostrils cur}. "But now. " as he said to himself on the night of his escape, "we have changed all that " The stage would depart without him. Milligan, the other fugitive, was a promoter, and Milligan was in trouble, as promoters now and then are apt to be. He had been the chief instrument in the mutiny that had occurred in B troop three months before and was serving a year at hard labor in the guardhouse for his zeal in a cause which had been promptly frowned down. Early in the morning on the third day after the escape two cavalrymen were riding across the prairie toward a distant log shack beside the trail which connected Calgary with Saskatchewan. It was a stopping place for travelers and the only house in 20 miles. "They'll sure stop at Bennet's and eat "said Sergeant Kay. "We'd best not ride too close. " They drew aside into a bluff of poplars and fastened their horses arnon,; the trees. "Now, "con tinued the sergeam. "take a walk to the right and come in below the win dow in the back of tho shack. That knoll and the stacks will give you all the cover you require; mind, you don't sh^r yourself. I'll shy round by the left and get to the front door. When it opens, hold your gun on 'eui from the window." Inside Bennet's two men were break fasting at a rough pine table. From the raanner in which they ate it might have been inferred that it was long since they had tasted focd. "Great Scott!" said the smaller ot the two, a youngish, compact, sallow man, with a carefully pointed, narrow black mustache, pausing for a minute as Bennet set a second heaping plate of meat on the table. "This is great I It would take all B troop to chase me >fromsuch,a feed.".. .?;v;:. ' ? .-M..;. ? "Elegant, " assented Iiis ccmpanic with a mouthful of steak. "Shtill, I not askin to see any av th' clan. U good riddance, anyways ye take i an I hope ther's as many moiles betu us as there is behoind us. " The door creaked a trifle on its woe en hinges. Crackerbox looked rou quickly. Sergeant Kay stood in t doorway with a leveled revolver in 1 hand. "I'll trouble you, McCorkle, "he sa easily. "Oaka-quick now! You kne the formula. " The gambler's hands went up. M ligan raised his at the same instai His eyes were engaged at the windt before him. " 'Bout face!" Milligan came roui mechanically in obedience to the sba word of command. "Tut! tut I" K? went on protestingly, "you needr strike your dukes, Milligan. Keep 'e up; keep 'em up. They look first rate they are. Hatherton,. walk round he -i'll do the honors while you're coi ing and fit these new cuffs on the ge tlemen. I want to see how they loo Cutest thing in the market; lots starch in 'em and polished to make .'Chinese laundry ashamed of itself. ^ haven't had a chance to try 'em on real eligible candidate before." Ho bowed with mock deference to tl gambler. Crackerbox smiled amiab in return. "I'm right glad to see you, sergeant, he said. "Seems just like home agaii Funny how things tum out, ain't il I was just wonderin if you wouldn happen along - and here you ar< Well, all's fair in love and war-and fox chase. Some fools in my shoes wonl .probably see things-ropes, beams an hornpipes. I don't Life's too.short 1 waste in speculation over what proba bl wouldn't occur. Play your game ot akeep on lookin happy. That's goo( clean philosophy for a man. And if yo /do pass put before the rest of the pla} era, why you're only ajaand ahead, an they'll i?3 hot in 'your.moccasin traci to the sweet by-by. . We only just hi the ranch an hour before you, and seel we was here first we can't do less tha inake you welcome. You wouldn't hav grudged us a hearty'reception, I know if it had happened the other wa round." Crackerbox laughed. "W I was. right hungry. Mr. Bennet, here ? was so good as to fix us up a real enjoy 'able meal, an we've just wolfed it." And. as the bandea if s went on: "Am them bracelets 1 Ain't they - charmin Such finish ! Do you know, sergeant, a soon as I'm ont o' this I'm a-goin fr get me a pair, gold-miniature, yoi know-same pattern, to hang on mi watch- chain as a souvenir. What' wrong. Milligan? You don't look pleas ed." r The big Irishman glowered under hi thick, red eyebrows. "I" suppose this it another twelvemont' for me." h< growled. Crackerbox burst into a loud laugh. "Don't be downhearted, me eon,".h< returned. "They -can't give me tO( much of a good thing. I'll ask them tc let me have it. " \ "Well. Mr. McCorkle." said Kay, Vnow you're wearing government jewelry we can be more sociable. 1 guess.you haven't finished your break I fast yet It's ahead of anything you're likely to get between this and the fort, which the same is 90 miles, so you'd best make the most of it Jump in. And since you're so hospitable, if Mr. Bennett will be good enough to fry a little more steak, we'll eat with you. I guees you know better than to make any breaks," he added, significantly looking from one prisoner to the other. "Too busy to think of it," returned Crackerbox, sitting down to the table again. "Kind of a tough proposition, this, sergeant." he added a moment later after an ineffectual attempt to cut his meat, "tryin to handle a meal with your wrists sawin one against the other, like cattle in a yoke." . Kay glanced at Hatherton. "Help him put, won't you?" he said. "Mr. Bennett will do the same for the other man, I'm sure." '/Oh, I can't allow that!" protested . the gambler. ' 'I'll manage. ' ' He seized the meat in his fists and tore it between his teeth, like a dog. "Here, quit that!" exclaimed Kay. "You're a human at least, not an ani mal" He took out his keys and un locked one handcuff. "There, I'll let you eat decently and not like a pagan if you'll promise not to try to escape. '* A sudden brightness flashed into the gambler's eyes, but there was nothing of it left in the look he turned on Kay as he replied with a bland smile: "Sure thing. I'd promise anything under the circumstances. That's easy. I say, ser geant, you're real obliging. I'll see that you'r?,m.entioned in orders." "See that you keep your promise, that'll be sufficient," said Kay, shortly, unlocking a handcuff of the other man. Crackerbox laughed provokingly. "NoWi sergeant, I like your jokes. You two loaded down with deadly weapons, and us" Sergeant Kay was naturally a kind man. Also he dearly loved a game of poker, and, therefore, perhaps unsus pected by himself, nurtured a secret ad miration for this cool desperado, who looked on life as a game of chance, and took good or ill luck indiiferently, as it came, with imperturbable good humor. But perhaps it was hardly discreet in the sergeant to allow his amiable dispo sition to influence him to the extent of freeing his prisoner's hands. During the meal the talk drifted to poker. Kay knew enough about the game to have lost most of his pay for a year before. He was in terested in Crack erbox's professional skill, and when the gambler pushed back his chair after fin ishing bis coffee and remarked: "Just let me show you how that's done, ser geant, before you pnt the bracelets on again," and walked over to another ta ble on which lay a pack of cards, Kay did not demn/. but followed-he might learn something which would help him retrieve his los?<;d, or perhaps even do better than that. Hatherton was interested, too, and stood beside 'he sergeant. Milligan was still eating. Account for it as you may, they appeared to have forgotten him perhaps because he had once been a fel low of B troop, with a blank defaulter sheet. Bennet apparently kne%v all he wanted to about poker. He bustled around, banging his tin dishes and pans. The noise enabled Milligan to slip up behind the troopers unobserved. "You see," said Crackerbox, picking up the thread of his story again, "there was ?1,600 in tue pot, and they'd all dropped out except Wat Batty and me. i tooK t?e aeck m nay xem na'ud"-i was supremely interesting-"like this, and 'Cards?' says I. 'I want one,' says Bat. I gave it to him. 'I'm takin three, myself, ' says I, while he looked at his hand; and I toole 'em. They were good ones, and they carne right out o' the deck here, just like that. See?" "Hands up!" It was Milligan who spoke. The two troopers faced about and each looked into the unfriendly muzzle of his own revolver, which Mil ligan had deftly extracted from its holster as he leaned over its possessor's shoulder. "Get them up, now! Quick!" he re peated. Crackerbox laughed his exasperating laugh. "Yes, I would if I was in your place, sergeant," he remarked. "Ev erything has been real pleasant so far between us this mornin, and we wouldn't like to have any misunder 8tandin now we're, about partin from you. Oblige us. Did you notice how that game came out? Funny how it goes, ain't it? Luck with you one min ute and the next it's with the other feller. I didn't know you understood the sign language so well, Milligan. You tumbled handier than a tailed steer. You must have belonged to the Invincibles before you left the ould counthry. What was your number ?" Bennet looked on stoically, while, with some difficulty, Crackerbox re moved the handcuffs and replaced them on the wrists of his late captors. In ac complishing this the gambler hit upon what he regarded as a . neat arrange ment He stood Kay and Hatherton back to back and divided a pair of the cuffs between them on either side, se curely linking them together. Bennet did not propose to risk his health in any attempt to uphold the dignity of. the law. Why should he ? From an abstract point of view it seems rather a peculiar fact' that there should so seldom be ap parent any strong general antipathy to ward the man who has done nothing worse than shoot another man openly. It is only the wretch who lays unright eous hands upon a woman-the Bill Sikeses of this world-who find all doors of "hope, of human forgiveness, and forbearance shut against them. "You've been real hospitable, Mr. Bennet, and J ' just hate td put you out any, but there are times, you under stand, when a man has to burn all his crossed bridges, and this looks to me like one of the times. It's quite a ways to where we're going, and I guess you won't hold it against us if we rope you up with the others." They bound Kay's and Hatherton's ankles, and Crackerbox walked Bennet to his bunk in the corner and tied him on it hand and foot. Then, as he stood with his back to the others, he pulled a bill out of the silk handkerchief about his neck, winked and held it up so that the host could see the "50" printed cn the corner and then pushed it into Ben net's waistcoat pocket Milligan then went to the corral and turned out Ben net's stock and brought the troop horses from the. bluff. "Well, so long, sergeant," said Crack erbox as he stood beside Kay's saddle "We'd be glad to spend another half hour in your company; but you under stand we've no time to waste in social entertainment We thank you for a real pleasant mawnin and for bringin down these bosses for our use My feet was plumb playin out, but I reckon we'll get on now. If you look real hard, boys, you'll find the keys of them cuffs in the grass not more'n 100 yards from here,, and, Bennet, your hosses won't stray so far but what you'll be able to pick 'em up tomcrrer. Good day. ser geant. If you ever come down my way, look me up. I won't forget your consid eration. I won't, honest. " He sprang into the saddle and clat tered off, but at IOC yards he stopped and drawled over his shoulder: "And, oh, I say, sahgeant, remem beh me to the majah and tell him I said, with . my compliments, he wa'n't to fo'get to mention you in o'dehsl" Then the outlaws spurred across the prairie in the direction cf that line be yond which lay another government, driving Bennet's loose horses before them, and that was the last the two troopers saw that day- of Crackerbox and Milligan. In after years I sat often of an even ing over Scotch with Kay, when he no longer wore government clothes or nursed an ambition to shine at poker, but had married n "girl" and settled down to raising cnttle and a family. He spoke of many things, but he never told me what his feelings were as he lay through that hot August afternoon on the floor at Bennet's, counting the slow hours, until a traveler came along near dusk and released him, and I nev er asked. There are subjects which may not be touched upon even between friends.-Bleasdell Cameron in Argon ant Where Women Are Slaves. In no other country perhaps is wom an's lot so hard as in Tibet, "the for bidden land," where civilization has .sever penetrated. Women are forced to io all the menial labor, are treated worse than beasts and have absolutely no amusements. They are constantly kept shut up in their dark caveliko homes, seldom being allowed to appear in public or to visit friends. At 14 a girl is married to some man who is willing to pay her parents a small quantity of food or clothing by way of dowry. The marriage ceremony is simple. The girl's father ties a rope about his daughter's neck and drags her to her future husband's abode. The man pays what ia considered a fair sum in food or clothing, and she is henceforth his wife. She Won't Leave. Mrs. Bliinm-The Dobsons at last have a girl they hope to keep. Mrs. Grimp-Absurd I Where is such a girl to be found ? "She was born to them yesterday. " Philadelphia North American. CASTORS A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of - It is folly and sin to condemn other men for offences of which you yourself are often guilty. MARTYRS TO CUSTOM. Queer Things We Do hy Instinct Rather Than Reason. Why does a dog walk round in a lit tle circle before lying down ? Because his ancestors had to beat ont a hole in the grass or the snow to make a com fortable bed. Why does he lay his nose on the paws ? Because his ancestors had to keep their noses clear of the dust or snow, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Why does a cat wash herself so careful ly? Because her ancestors had to be clean, or their prey would smell them and escape. Instances might be cited by thousands of ancient habits preserved by animals long after they have ceased to be useful. Now, man does exactly the same thing, without knowing it preserves innumerable habits for cen turies after they have ceased to have any meaning. Man as a street building animal ia guided by instinct far more than by reason. A builder is accustomed to houses with windows all over. Suppose he puts up a corner house, where win dows are needed only on the front. Still he makes imitation windows on the side wall, with lintel, ledge and sills, and in some cases actually paints sashes and curtains inside the frame. Nb mat ter how hideous the result, he is accus tomed to windows on every wall, re gardless of cost. Posts are planted at street corners to keep vehicles off the pavement. Old cannon were often used as being both useful and ornamental-ships' guns sunk to the trunnions and a round shot lodged in the muzzle to keep out refuse The supply fell short, but as cannon were popular they were made on pur pose for corner posts. Look at a corner post now, and you will see that it is shaped and banded like an old gun, with a half bali on top in memory of the round shot in the muzzle. Look at any iron railing. The posts are shaped like spears, shaft and tip,. in memory of some ancient, forgot ten usage of weapons. Spears were used for the fencing of tiltyards in the tour naments of the middle ages. . On gateposts you will frequently find a stone balL Who would ever suppose that the balls on the gateposts were the heads of the family enemies? It wa3 once the custom to stick your enemy's gory head as a trophy on the gatepost On th-3 gates of towns were stuck the heads of traitors, criminals and other offensive persons. In old London, for instance, the bridge gate and Temple Bar were always decorated with ghastly relics of the kind, and the memory of the custom survives on the gateposts of modern suburban villas. On the back of a man's coat there are two buttons, because our ancestors needed them as rests for their sword belts. Now that women wear an imi tation of men's coats, they have the buttons, too, yet it never enters their heads that they are only useful for the sword belt. And the modern dress for sword play has no tail buttons. When railways first came into use, Toad coaches were mounted on flanged wheels and hauled along the track by the locomotive. Look at any English railway compartment today, and you will see that it is molded and painted in imitation of a stagecoach. Its seat?, shape, windows, doors and hatracks are imitations of the forgotten mail car riage. The hairdresser's shop has a painted pole in front. That pole was the sign of the old barber surgeon and meant "bloodletting done here" How would a modern surgeon like such a sign in front of his house? Nearly every carpet has a flower pattern, because in the days before carpets the floors were usu ally strewn with rushes, interspersed on state occasions with living flowers. At the head or foot of every business letter you will see the address of tho person to whom it is written, becauae in the days before envelopes came into use the sheet of the letter was folded up, sealed and addressed to its destination. On the flap of the envelope you will often see a stamped mark in imitation of a seal, because long after envelopes were invented people distrusted the gum and still used wax for security. . Animals have innumerable useless habits, but for every one of these we men have 100 almost unaccountable whims. Tine Modern Boy. The following quaint, but lifelike, description of the modern American schoolboy, given by the Rev. Sydney Strong, will find an echo in the heart of every mother who is the proud pos sessor of just such a boy: My idea of a boy : .He is half angel and half animal. He is wide awake all night camping ont, but falls asleep in church. He is superstitious, giving a dandelion three puffs to see if his mother wants him. He carries a lucky stone in his pocket. He cures warts by burying the dish rag. Burned cork, feathers, pins and father's barn make a whole day's show. He stones the dogs, but will work for hours over a dog that limps with a broken leg to the back door. No kinder heart ever cared for a motherless lamb. He disturbs family worship, but who make? UH think more of heaven when he knee ? and prays? He is half angel and half animal. . Then She Wept. "It's unfortunate in work like mine to have tender feelings," said the hos pital nurse, "but there are times when I simply can't help crying. I spoke to one of the doctors about it once and asked him if he thought there was any great harm in my going into the linen room to weep. 'No, ' he replied, 'not if you weep sterilized tears.'"-New York Sun._ The Dirty Work. Kidder-He does the dirty work for tho city administration. Goode-Horriblo ! Kidder-Yeti; he has charge of the street cleaning bureau.-Philadelphia North American. - ^ 9- ^ - - - - Near Kokomo, Indiana, ltobcirt L'arker, a farmer, u'8 years old, while assisting in butchering hogs, slipped on thc wet. greasy platform and fell head first into a burrel of scalding water, sinking down to the hips. Be fore he could bc rescued his flesh was literally cooked and he died in a few minutes. i - He who is truly good is truly great, though he be but thc humblest hewer of wood and drawer of water. ' THE MAN WHO GROWLED. He cursed his luck from day to day, His neighbor's fortune made him frown; He knew the fates were all ?a league To hold him buck and ?eep him down. He cursed because ho lost his job, He whined because his child fell ill, He came and went and slouched around And kept on sliding down the hill. One day his uncle died and left Him half the fortune he'd amassed, And people thought the man -who growled Had cause to crack a smile at last. But when they came to shake his hand The man let many a murmur fall, And sat around and growled because His uncle hadn't left him all. -S. E. Kiser in Cleveland Leader. Brigham Young. Brigham Young was a fine, tall, well developed figure, a trifle too stout, per haps ; a fresh, ruddy complexion, almost befitting a young girl ; keen blue eyes, not telling too much of what went on behind them ; a full mouth, a singular ly magnetic manner, a voice hard and cold in its formal speech, but low and impressive when used confidentially ; al together a man of mark anywhere and one whose wonderful influence over the minds and purses of men and the hearts and principles of women could bemu?h more fully credited after an hour's con versation than before. Glancing at Joseph Smith's portrait, we ventured the criticism that it did not show any great amount of strength, intelligence or culture. Mr. Young ad mitted the criticism and said that Smith was not a man of great character nat urally, but that he was inspired by God as a prophet and spoke at times not from himself, but by inspiration. He was not a m&n of education, but received such enlightenment from the Holy Spirit that he needed nothing more to fit him for the work as a leader. "And this is my own case," pursued Mr. Young, quite simply. "My father was a fron tiersman, unlearned and obliged to struggle-for his children's.* food day by day, with no time to think of theil education. All that I have acquired is by my own exertions and by fhe grace of God, who sometimes chooses the weak things of earth to manifest his glory." - Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. _' The Skylark. Need I eay a word about the skylark and its wholly joyous song? It inspired one of Jeremy Taylor's most beautiful and best known passages-the lark ris ing from his bed of grass and soaring upward, singing as he rises and hoping to get to heaven and climb above the clouds; singing "as if it had learned music from an angel as he passed some times through the air about his minis tering here below." And it inspired, too, one of the finest odes in the Eng lish language, Shelley's finest work, his "supreme ode. " But, as maybe said of another ode, it is "not in tune with the bird's song and the feeling it does and ought tc awaken. The rapture with which the strain springs up at first dies down before the close into Shelley's ever haunting melancholy." Like Keats' "Ode to the Nightin gale," it is no key to the bird's song. It does not teach us anything of the thought and feeling which inspire that quivering, ascending embodiment of joyousness, that pilgrim of the sky, hiding itself in the glorious light of the summer heavens. The skylark maj* be heard as early as January-I heard it. this year in November-as may also the rarer wood lark, whose song, uttered from trees or when flying, we recognize from its likeness to that of the skylark. { though it lacks much of its rush and ; spirit and haste.-Gentleman's Maga zine. Clubs and Gambling. Gambling is prohibited in every large club in New York city, and in most of i them the members who live in the club- ! house find that it is unwise to give ; poker parties in their rooms. One of the charter members of a club which now numbers more than a thousand mem bers said last week that this club was started by a lot of men who played poker regularly for high stakes. ' 'Poke* for high stakes is still played in this city," he said, "but not by the same class of men that started this club. I have'sat in when men at the table lost $15,000 or $20,000 in a night, and on the whole it was a very costly amuse ment for me, much as I enjoyed it. "The men in that little coterie who played poker were either wealthy men themselves who could afford it or the sons of'wealthy men, and from the lat ter I received a good many I O U's, which I still have. Themen who played were supposed to be gentlemen. When the club was organized, we played ' there, and other members did not criti cise us. That sort of gambling does not exist in any decent club in New York now. It worked out its own end in this club. Men who could not afford to lose lost heavily. Several disagreeable club scandals came of it, and the game was stopped. That sort of play is now left for tho professional gambler, and the clubs are free from it."-New York Sun. _ The Dread of Snakes. "The dread* of snakes is a mysterious human trait," said a New Orleans phy sician, "and has perplexed psychologists not a little. The great majority of j snakes are perfectly harmless, but the average man is vastly more afraid of them than he would be of some danger ous wild beast. I use tho word 'afraid' for its convenience rather than its ac curacy, because the sentiment in point is not fear, as we commonly use the term, and has nothing to do with cour age per se. It is a sort of instinctive horror and loathing, and, by the way, is more common in men than in wom en, the impression to the contrary not withstanding. According to the accept ed theory, it is a survival from the time when serpents were among the most formidable enemies of our man monkey ancestors. The danger has disappeared, but the dread still lives, all the more tcrriblo because it has grown vague and formless.-New Orleans Times Democrat. -- ty w - - The belief that Friday is a day of bad luck arose from varied reasons. One superstition is that, it was on Fri day that Adam and Eve atc the fatal apple, and then ?tis agreed that Christ was crucified on Friday. It is believed to bc bad luck to cut tho finger nails on Friday, and manicurists say their business is lightest on that day. - "Is she really so jealous about him?'' "Man, she won't even allow him to sing 'Annie Laurie.' " MEANING OF INDIAN NAMES. Picturesque In Themselves! and In Their Significance. The most of cur Indian names of riv ers, lakes, mountains, etc., have he come so altered and disguised by the English spelling of them that it is very difficult to recover their original forms and to be quite sure of the meaning that wa3 attached to them by the In dians. In all of those cases in which their significance can be clearly made out they are found to be simply de scriptive words, as, indeed, all names were originally, the object being named from some notable feature of it, and we are perfectly safe as a rule in rejecting as fanciful all of those poetical mean ings which have been attafSed to many of our Indian names. For example, the name Winnipiscogee has been said to mean "Smile of the Great Spirit. " Yet this is one of the easiest names to de cipher. It is pure Algonquin-Win nipe-s-au-kee - and . means simply "Beautiful Lake Place. " Winnipeg has about the same meaning-"At the Beautiful Lake. " Winnipegoes is a di minutive of this name and means "Lit tle Winnipeg." The word miche, "great," enters into several other Indian names. Missi-ouri is the "Great. Muddy, " Michi-gan is the "Great Sea." Michi-le-mackinac now shortened into Mackinac or Mack inaw-is the "Great Turtle," a name given to the island probably because of its resemblance to a turtle. Connecticut means "Long River, according to Roger Williams, the first part of it being the Indian work gnni, "long." Wisconsin, called by Father Joliet Misconsing, is said to mean "Turbulent River. " Ohio is an Iroquois name and was translated by the French Belle Ri viere, "Beautiful River. " Massachusetts appears originally to have been Mos-wetuset The fast part of this name means "hill " The mean ing of "mos" is not so certain. Some have rendered ;the name "Arrowhead Hill," aud have supposed it to have been given originally to a certain hill on one side of the islands in Boston har bor. Roger Williams, however, an ex cellent authority, says that the name means "Blue Hills, " and it is worthy o? note that there is a range of hills not far from Boston which still bears this name. Passamaquoddy means "Place Full of Bears, ' ' from mawka, a bear. This word enters into the name of a town in Pennsylvania, Manch Chunk, which means "Bear HilL" Piscataqua is the . "Many Deer Place, " from attuck, a deer. The Schoo dic lakes, in Maine, are the "Trout Lakes. "-Detroit Free Press. The Chinese Waiter. The chief glory of an average Chinese inn is the waiter. This indispensable functionary is the guardian of all your interests for the time being, and when you are not looking he dives intosecrets and matters of your own that seem to amuse and enlighten him to your in convenience and annoyance. Like his confreres in other and more enlightened countries he hardly ever separates himself from the inevitable napkin, but his badge of waitership is a very practical article with him. With it in summer he mops his damp brow or bare shoulders, while in win ter, wrapped about his head, it protects him from rain and wind. The Chinese waiter's napkin is put to all kinds of uses besides those just mentioned. It is used as a dishcloth, a mop with which to wipe the floor, a cloth for cleaning and wiping down ta bles and a duster. But Chinese landlords are very rea sonable in their charges, which in a measure compensates for the unpleas antness of living in their inns - At Mount Vernon, N. Y.. Thom as Manning, after an illness of two weeks, apparently died. For 23 hours his family believed he was dead. He heard the professional nomments of the undertaker, and only regained the use of his faculties when that person was about to prepare him for burial. Women suffer ing from female troubles and weakness, and from irregular or painful men ses, ought not to lose hope if doctors cannot help them. Phy sicians are so busy with other diseases that they do not un derstand fully the peculiar ail ments and the delicate organism of woman. What the sufferer ought to do is to give a fair trial to BRADFIELD'S Female Regulator which is the true cure provided by Nature for all female troubles. It is the formula of a physician of the highest standing, who devoted his whole life to the study of the dis tinct ailments peculiar to our moth ers, wives and daughters. It is made of soothing, healing, strengthening herbs and vegetables, which, have been provided by a kindly Nature ta cure irregularity in the menses. 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I suggest, that as far as possible, on fast day union meetings be held, made up of all shades of belief, including- all who are interested in the welfare of our State, and that in your prayers and other devotions and in your mutual counsels you remember and consider the problem of the condition of religion in the rural communities. There are towns; where no church bell sends forth its solemn call from January to Janu ary. There are villages where children grow to manhood unchristened. There are communities where the dead are laid away without the benison of the name of Christ, and where marriages are solemnized only by justices of the peace. This does not augur well for the fu- . ture. You can afford to devote one day in the year to your fellow men, to work and thought and prayer for your children and your children's children. -Chicago 'limes-Herald. NOTICE. NOW is the time to have your Buggy Revarnished, Repainted, and new Axle Points fitted on. 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