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PRINCE LOWS RAPOLEOR. WHO IS FTCHTM6 THE JAPANESE FDR RUSSIA Prince Louis Napolco.. lias been put Id comuiaud of tbe cavalry division of tlie Russian Arui.v in Manchuria. Prince Louis wns born at tbe Chateau tie Meudon, near Paris, in 1804. He Ik tbe second ami youuger son ?.f Prince Jerome Bonaparte (Plon-Ploui and Princfestf ' Clotllde of Savoy ami grandson of Prince .lerome. King of Westphalia. When the Kram'o-Kns aian alliance was formed he went to St. Petersburg and joiued tbe Czar's Army, with the rank of Lieutenant. Tbe Czar took a great interest in tbe descendant of Naj>oleon, bis ud vance was rapid, he finally bciug given coin mand of the Empress* Lancers. Prim e Louis' life has been purely a military one. He Is an accomplished linguist, and among tbe many languages in* speuks he is master of French. Italian VAST DESERT GUARDS THIBET ? * * * Forbidden Land Reached Only After Arduous Journey. T IIIBKT ? the inhospitable f and mysterious land of the I Lamas? is at the present ( time occupying; the atten tion of tin* Indian fJoveru meat. Much bus beeu written about the country; Marvelous and thrilling adventures have been relat?*d by trav elers, but. from information obtalued on the spot, it seems that their imag Inatious were responsible for most of the dittlculties. Three leave seasons were spent by the writer on the bor ders of Thibet, and a view of the coun try obtained, and perhaps the time so spent was not wasted, as a knowledge of the language, customs and lay of the land goes a long way to Injure the success of any military operations. It Is a long walk and a hard one be fore one arrives on the Itordcrluud. ami progress Is slow, as all baggage lias to be carried by coolies, to whom a march of twelve to tifteeu miles Is a full day's work. The road is only a few feet whl^. made np as a rule of large sharp stones, and often long circuits have to be made, as landslips are of frequent occurrenee. A few miles from the borderland there is almost a com plete absence of vegetation, owing to the biting winds, which rise at 10 ?. in. and fade away at r? p. m. The road via Milam is a good example of the Jaud ott both sines of ttie mountains foriniug the boundary, and is much used by traders. On the way large flocks of goats and sheep are met. each carrying Its load? those coming from Thibet carrying salt and those return ing calicoes and Indian teas On arrival at Milam the sahib Is al ways met by t|/e Kae llaliadur. a most celebrated personality. He ob tained his title as a reward for services rendered. Disguised as a fakir, he traveled all over the Forbidden Land, making a survey of the country, for which he has also received rewards from several geographical societies. Three mouths he spent in Milam, learn ing the language and customs of 'he country, and then commenced his work, being the victim of the curious ouly, and these he appeased by utlerlng Inaudible devotions and turning his and Russian. To anyone who itms not know liliu lit' is a pure Slav, resembl'tug smill.v the Cossacks, whose tler.v ami renol n teness ho |>osscs#es. 1'rluee Louis' I rump rani is I lint lie is an officer in the Russian Army. As Rus sia lias become popular in Frnnoc. liis dinners ol' ascending (lie throne of the latter ari* iiuprovrd materially. At the time of th?' lJrey fu* scandal, when |M?liti?'S was ko disturbed. he was con sidered the most eligible randhhitc. iftid was tiie favorite or the peop!e for the throne of Prance. lie is also the favorite ?.>f the Kmpress Kngetiie. ami ii i<: sa'd that at her death he will lu lu rit t lie whole of her immense for tune. IVinre l.ouis wielded the Cr.iml lutchess H^I.'iic, a eoiisin of Nicholas ii.. in I tlie public to suppose. The tirst tiling 1 that snakes an impression is that fhe j Kngllsh pronunelation of Thibet Is | wrong, both syllables Iwlng short. The ?thootiaus are the tribe living ou the ladders, ami they are in the habit of calling Thibet Hhot. Then again it lias another name, being spoken of by its own people as I'heen. China being ???>. . laUM w a? w tm tk? la*i for the ilapto www that f*m?U? babin <iy Dot Mi t? bo r?r v p?|*lar. and tht gmtcr iobImt mm wntok. -A British OOcer la Black ami Whit*. * ' . ? ' n imftVumK antes. In the matter of bliMUhf post* II. would that th*^f In little rooui fo? Ol.lt* W'IKK UISOEH. Improvement ovor tin' standard wrcv post sit universally used. ltowevei says an electrical exchange, an imio \ation In the const ruction of |>o*ts bj wlilfli the sot sore iv or set nut is doiu away with nud tin* wire is held by tin action ??f a spring is Illustrated by tin accompanying picture. It is cialmet for this construction that the wire can not work or Jar loose and that the coil tact is always insured because of tin coiiKtaut pressure exerted by tlu spring. It is estimated that the win ??an be connected or disconnected I? one-tent!) tli?? time it takes to set t screw post, and the makers say n* at advantage that there is no possibility of the wire being broken off by t' process of bimllug. COFFEE-POT ? INDICATOR TeH-T?!e 'W?t?r Column in Hant'e' Stows Contents. The water gauge kIuss ou the Menu, coffee urn of the restaurant is u fa miliar sight to , every business man and woman, who at one time or an other, from choice or necessity, putron i*/.e the modern light lunch establish ment. New Orleans, famed for Its col' fee.' however, is the home of a nqvel application of this well known princi ple. A Louisiana inventor conceived the idea of combining such a tell-tale column with the handle of a fun.il.* coffee pot. thereby eiiabllug the cook map sbcotc rogmp^ or THJgcr asp m delation to mrr^i and rossiam tekxcliuiW^ or known ns Mu-Clieen, or the. bigger (Ibi't'ii. Keing originally iiilin t?it ?>?1 by heathens. It Is remarkable llmt It is now tin? most priest-ridden country in the world, ntnl for this the inhabit ants have to thiink nil ancient king, who married two wive*-- Hip one a ! princess from Nepal, and the other from rhino, and these being of .1 re ligious turn of mind Introduced their respective creeds? lllndoolsm nnrt Hud dhiflm. It is not generally known that there is a vast desert to the northwest of t.hnssfl, which the Rne Hahadur states is impassable. nnd thus forms another barrier to that most romantic city. The marriage customs, to the civilized mind, seem apt to lead to compllcu Hons, as the women are polyandrons; to gauge I lie exael amount of eoffee t herein. Tin* Illustration sliowx sueli tin imlieator applied to the well-known "drip eoffee" pot. The handle Is hol low anil contains :i glass tuhe. gradu iited to corroMpnnd with th?- eapuelty of the pot ut different heights. The user of the put is a Me. therefore, to A VI KW 01' TI1K HAKHOU OK I'HKMt'MH). (Th<? photograph *hotv$ a vl*w from tho xt?*ps of the Chemulpo <'lub. overlooking the Harbor of Chemulpo. n Htratoglc point in Korua). prayer wheel. (Ill maps, sold watch And medal* he sbow* with natural pride, and be mention*, with a twinkle ll his eye, the fact that explorers often remained nearer to the border than their amps and writings would lead but nt the same lime the superior nei linve wmo mjt In the mutter, n* they make the lady confine her attention* to the family, the huftbuml'fl place be Itig tuken by IiIh brother when he Iiha to leave bis hotne to look after hi* UAt'UK OF THK COfrRE HOT. tell at n glance How miiiiy cup? there are remaining In the put, ho that there etui bo no excuse for ruuniug short through Ignorance of the amount available. K?bblt? Klltrd by Potion. An Injurious implement for use in (ho perpetual warfare which |h?? Austra lians are forced to carry on against th?? swarms of rabbits which Infest that country has lately been nicuted willi at Victoria. It consists of it cylinder II I led with poisonou* liquid, with a foot plate attached to it. which Is placed in uny thickly in fcsteU spot. Ah hooji as a rabbit presses the plate it open* a valve which sprinkle* the animal with suuie of the poison. The rabbit then licks the poison off Its fur, and the farmer is relieved ?!' one more of his pests. Number of Whit* Kl*pb?nt? Caught. A great elephant catcher is authority for the statement that but twenty -four widte elephants huve been caught siuce the commencement of the Christian era.? I.ahore ilnillai Trlbii"* News el Merest AflO-AflERICANS New Application of Color Llns. Recently la Richmond. Va.. fourteen colored wagon drlan of th? Richmond . T?<a asfor Company notlflej lhe ?>?Paay that t hoy would not work *r-th a white man who had been em ployed aa a driver - Tho company then dl< harged the whole colored force and substituted white driver*. ? e? ? % Wealthy Negro Dead. Warren Coleman. one of the wealth lest colored men la North Carolina died recently at h!a home at Concord, of erysipelas. He was the origin.* tor and promoter of the Coleman Manufacturing Company at Concord, which is operating a cotton factory solely by Negro labor. . Enforce Jim Crow Law. The street car company in Rich mond. Va.. has announced that it will enforce the law which permits con ductors to separate white and colored passengers. Any person failing or re fusing to observe the direction of the conductor Is liable to a fine of $25 and may also be ejected from the car for such refusal. ? ? ? e Interesting Lecturee. Grecian and Roman art and the ar* galleries of modern Europe were the subjects of Interesting lectures at Morris Brown college In Atlanta. Oa.. recently, by Professor John Hope, of the Atlanta Baptist college, and Pro fessor W. E. Surghardt OuBois, of Atlanta University. Professor DuBoia Illustrated his lec ture by a collection of reproduction! of the paintings of ancient master) said to be the first of their kind ever uSed before ? a . colored audi ence. There was a large attendance at the lectures, and the colored peo pie are taking av decided Interest in the matter. ? ? e *e Colored Industrial Farm Work. Sam Daly, a Tuscaloosa county well to-do colored man. has donated 125 acre# near Tuscaloosa. Ala., for an industrial farm for Negro boys. He proposes to make the farm self-sup porting and with that idea in view has stocked It with hogs, cows and chick ens. He proposes to take from such of the courts as des?re the wayward boys who are imprisoned for failure to pay fines, etc.. and who ar? toj young to be of service in a coal mine. udge Hagln. of the criminal court here has encouraged Daly In his un dertaking and promises assistance. There Is no such reformatory for col ored youths in the state and the place ofTered is at. ideal one 10 miles fror a railroad. ? ? ? ? To Teat Anti-Co-Education Law. There was a full attendance In Cin cinnati of twenty-four trustees of B3 rea college. Kentucky, to whom Hon Guy Mallon submitted a legal opinion on Ihe Day law recently enacted by he Kentucky legislature prohibiting the ro-education of white and colore! children, as is done at Berea and it was discussed by President William (loodell Frost. Mujor Curtis F\ Burn ham, of Richmond, Ky. : W. R Belk nap. of Louisville; Dr. Barton and Ad Ison Ballard, of Chicago, and other, while the college is conducted for the purpose of whites as well as colored people of Kentucky, there ar^ propo sltions pending to remove It to Iron ton. Portsmouth or some other poin: on the Ohio river, owing to the Dav law. Work has been stopped on the new chapel building constructed at Be ??*" ? "u ,*^e,,eve<l the constitutional y ov the B** will be tested before any radical changes are made at Jiu ree college. ? ? ? ? Franchise Cases In High Court. A Washington special says: Tho n? th ?toverrun ?>y colored people uJ KD,strlct. Virginia and Maty, land, whose destination was the su preme court chamber. Tho first tw > cases on the calendar for argument were those brought to test the const! tutlonallty of the new Virginia state constitution disfranchising chein Bv 11 O'clock all the available space open to visitors In the supreme court chain her was occupied and later arrival* could not gain admittance. The peo Pie on the outside lined up lr a loiw procession of waiters reaching far out, almost to satuary hall. Although the court room was already filled, au l no one showod any intention of leav Ing. the people outside waited In Hue for several hours without showing the Isast disposition to give up their plan to get Into the presence in the ar< preme court. th? wh,t# oooole. at to aeys and otners, wno appeared upon ?he scene wer* unable to get w k.i.u searing distance of the court. Those who got Inside were charmed at the jloquence of Messre. John Wise au l James H. Hayes. i#?!* J""* occu*>l?d greater part *Ud fo,low^ by Hon. ,#!J. Ander?<?n. attorney general of the state of Virginia. hu? ???? st the dose th?? th Mf- WitH contended hat the Virginia codfchution. was null because the convention by which It was adopted never was organic. auJ because the Instrument never was sub a Vot* of th* P?0PI? of th. * Th? constitution was. he de clared. in contravention of the feder.! constitution; and he urged on the court the Importance of the case to the col cred people. "If." he said, "there Is no protec ion for tham here, then all their pre ended vested rights are but as sourd 'ng brass and a tinkling cymbal - Ilth\i? *k,?' lh?y WOU,d 1)9 ?lt|gon? m J..!- *at,OD * clt,a?n?. but in no boslt on to claim the advantages * clUseashlp. u| U7 right to claim prouetlot of tha lava o( Uw Iflfefl * ' . a ? ? ? Mwntlinii Nm4i of South. Dr. Charlas W. Dabaey. prasldoat of the Utility of T^wmm ud prosldeat-oloct of (ho University of Cincinnati. in mi Mdnaa before the Southern Indiana Teachers' Assoc!* tlon. in milm at Indianapolis. under the subject. "Educational Needs of the ? South.** outlines the work which ha* been taken up by those Interested la the movement. Dr. Dabney. by way of introduc tlon. said that the present educatlou.il needs of the southern people arise from circumstances wblch to a large extent grew out of peculiar conditions In the past. "The war not only freed the black men; it freed the white man as well," said he "Itjnade a way for the small farmers, liberated the poor white man trom the bonds of a semi-feudal sys tem. and established both for the first time in full cttlsenshlp. It also free 1 the minds and spirits of the aristocrat ic classes, and by throwing them upon their own resources made them a ?tronger and a better people. "The old civilization, whi.se ruling class was an aristocracy of laud aud slaves, has given place to a political and industrial democracy with no rul ing class. But herein lies our daugcr and out of this fact grows the spectil 'necessity for a system of popular ed ucation, which shall train all our cltl ?ens to think clearly and act fearless ly each for himself. Dr. Dabney quoted statistics t? show the Illiteracy of both whites and blacks and continued: Every intelligent southerner now believes that the right kind of educa tion makes the colored man a more thrifty, a more useful, a more moral and a more lawablding citizen, as It does every other man. Every south ern state is now committed by its constitution and laws to the pricipld of Negro education, aqd In their legis latures and courts they have so far successfully resisted all proposals to divide the school funds. In fsct, the disfranchisement acts are all working to compel his education. The south ern people will be fair to the colored race In these matters. "Any plan of national aid shoull provide, not a largess of the south, hut a consistent, rational plan for uplifting the retarded and depressed popula tions in all portions pf the country. The people in some counties in Maine and in New York are as Illiterate as those in counties in the southern Ap palachians. This is truly a national problem, not one for the south alou3. "Methods can also be found to aid needy communities without paralys ing their powers, either of Initiative or support. While we are helping the Porto Rlcaus and Filipinos to estab lish schools, we should aid our own neglected people, whenever they need astfiar^ace." ? ? ? ? Bishop Turner for Congress? According to the Atlanta ConstitM-' tion It seems likely that BIbIiop II. M. Turner, the well known colored m nister, will be put In the field for congress by the republicans of tha fifth Georgia district In opposition to Colonel I .on TJvlngston, the present in cumbent. The matter lias not been definitely settled, but the indications are that Bishop Turner will be asked to make the race. Georgia republicans are si ill con sidering the advisability of placing a state ticket in the field to oppose tho democratic state ticket at the general eleclon in October, and according *o information there is a strong proba bility that Major J. F. Hanson, of Macon, president of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, will be as;; ed to bead the ticket for governor. Floating Prairies. A curious phenomenon, known a? prairies tremblantes. or floating pralr ies, prevails in Southern l.ouisiaua. and is responsible for much damage during the annual overflow of the Mississippi river. All along the gull roast the large border of laud float * on the surface of the water. Tito land Is made by fallen timber ami grasses. It gradually accumulate? earth and becomes In the course ol time sufficiently firm .to supporl bushes aud even trees; but the soil Is only three inches or a little less thick, and below it Is the water. ui>on which it floats on account of Its light ness. Occasionally pieces of tr<.-m bting prairie are detached and become floating islands. There are quite a number of theae islands, floating from side to side, being frequently carried at a rapid rate by the breeze. tree3 acting as sails U> catch the wind. Tibetan Customs. Kawaguchi Kel-Kal. a Japanese priest, who Journeyed into Tibet. In describing the customs of the people, says that as a substitute for soap the men ordinarily anoint their faces with butter instead of washing them. The combination of the butter with the natural secretions of the skin give* the countenance a lustrous black pol feh. The females do not use buttei In this way, but boil down chips o! tocba wood, which is a species of mahogany, and with the resinous wax thus obtained, usually of two tints black and red, they color their cheeks In a fashion that they doubtless be lleve renders them exceedingly attrac tive to tb? Tibetan males. Voyagers From 8ea. The gray rat, of which you arc so frightened that you will not go down (nto the cellar after dark, is a natlvo of Asia, and was unknown In ancient Europe. Only It the year 1775 did It make Its appearance In that part of tbe world, coming from India by way of Russia. Some people believe that It arlglnolly came from Norway, but that (s a mistake. , The common house rat. by the way, nsed to be black, and made its way from Asia to Europe t-i the sixteenth century, arriving not long afterward in America. pto Kick 0 RdVentGre. SAVED BUFFALO BILL'S HOME. T HB bravery of the Codj j woman was never better Illustrated than during the llerce and destructive prairie Hr* which swent the oneu range of North Platte front the West Wednesday nijcht. Miles beyond the dry grass *nd weeds of the prairie became ignited from the sparks of a passing train, aud a stiff wind soon fanned the flames Into a conflugratlou and carried tiery waves toward the east at the rate of thirty utiles ait hottr. The sheaf of wiml wits not so very Wide, else the destruction to the couii try west of North Platte would have reached greater proportions than it did. As it was. everything in the path of the tire was burned, und when the last embers Lad died out there was a black strip hundreds of yards wide extending across the prairie as far as the eye could reach. 1 he big Cody ranch, belonging to Mrs. W. F. Cody, wire of "Buffalo Bill/' was directly in the path of the tire. Mrs. Cody had *??eii the red flautes from Iter iionte in the darken ing twilight a long distance away, and she knew that unless the wind shifted the flames would soon descend upon her broad acres. .Mrs. Cody mounted a fleet horse, and taking a itowcrful pair of Held glasses rode to the far western boundary of the ranch to bet ter watch the progress of the lire that was so swiftly and surely eating its way towards her home. Only once, aud then only for a few moments, did the wind veer, but tu a few minutes Boreas had changed his mind, and again fanned the flames into greater fury, aud drove theui with increased speed toward the Kast. It was then thai Mrs. Cody realized that the big ranch and its expensive buildings must surely fall prey to (he fire. She turned- the horse's head for home, and applied the lash with such vigor to the flanks and sides of the anitnal that it broke into a territic gal lop. When the ranch home was reached lioth rider aud Itorse were al most in a state of collapse. She gave orders to the employes to prepare to tight the flautes. which had now reached the western outskirts of the ranch, and were rapidiy eaiing their way toward the farm building*. Men w et e sent back to clu ck I lie I'amcs with water and earth, flows were hastily rigged and altaciicd !?? four ami six horse tvums. ami wide fur rows turned across the path of the tire. But all these measures served to hold the flames ia control for a short time only, and wlieu the wind suddenly increased the tire drove the brave men and women back aud con tinued its onward sweep. By this time townspeople of North Platte began to arrive in answer to the summons for help. They came on foot, on horseback, on bicycles, in bug gies, in automobiles, and in wagons. Kacli squad joined the lire lighters, all of whom perform imI yeoman service under the personal direction or Mrs. Cody. The wind crowded the flames stead- ' Ily forward, driving the half suffocat- j ed and now exhausted lire lighters to ward the ranch buildings. Here a last determined stand was nfmle. but all to no avail. Mrs. Cody continued to direct operations, and it was due to her unerring judgment that the losses entailed were not greater. She was calm and collected throughout the try ing ordeal, and it was not until t li?* flames had caused all the damage they could did her .woman's nature assert itself. Then site fainted. , 'I he Cody home vas saved, but I wo immense buildings, one contained 41)0 tons of liny and the other all of the farm implements, were destroyed, causing a loss of Hilly $ 10, 000.- Denver Po*L ADVENTUBK OF A BOY, This is a Coitise County communica tion to the Kepublicau from Frank Aley. who hold* u medal Tor veracity awarded to him by |lic Chicago World's Fair management. He wears another bestowed by the Buffalo Imposition, ami he is now training for the truth fulness competition at the Louisiana Purchase Hxposition. "I was down to (Tncle Dave Williams' shack lit the Solomon Springs district day before yesterday, and I never had such a fresh pork feed since 1 attended the last hog killing in Missouri Just before the tire in t lie woods, and il hap pened this way. Bobby Butler was out about a quarter of a mile from the shack prospecting for fuel to keep the beans simmering, when he jumped up a bunch of javiliuns, or wild p'gs, aud he had no sooner jumped I hem up than they jumped him, loo. Now, the javllino is about twenty inches high, two Inches thick, ami about three feet long, the length being absorbed in aqua I proportions by the body and the snout. He Is culled a javllino because .f|e resembles a javelin. He is equally well adapted to cultivating greasewood and boring wells. His hair is like por cupine quills, and It" has the nastiest .temper ever discovered. ' "He will light anything from a pel noodle to a railroad company, and Mr. Butler, being perfectly familiar ;vi?h his reputation, llew. He hud nude about three jumps when he was .'onfronted by a giant mescal, the same nrhiclt grows to a height or about thirty feet on those flats. Hobby gave one grand leap, went over the bayonet? which surround the base of l lie bin mescal stock aud glued hi nisei f to the iforcsaid slock, and wrapping his h-gs around it, looked complacently down at his relentless pursuers. In a second they were on the ground. "Frenzied beyond description at see ing their prey securely plastered to thai mescal stock, they dashed frantically Against the greut green bayonets below in the hope of overturning his vantage tyole. until one by one they, became lupalcd on the terrible points aud *?uld only twist their tails and squeal u helpless rage. The. triumphant Hob rt descended, drew forth his' glistening tar low and cut their throats with pain 'ul deliberation. That Is. it wus pain ful to the javilinos. There were just tight of them, and I helped him take whlek bai ppy bMir we tew tei aid liver and tetrt and iparwlte uf rtait pig till we sQoeal every tla? m tottchw m. Hereafter Bobby pcipow to wear a pair of tbeee linemen's bod* book attachments." ? Pboeuix (Aria.) Republican. ?MONEY TO BURN." Not Ions ago tbe paaseugcra on I steamer lying lu tbe barbor of Mif sellles were interested to aee forty, sacks of bauk notes taken below ami fed to the furnaces when tbe engineer got U|? steam to leave |H>rt. The half-naked stokers poking iril* lions of francs Into the furnaces as U they had been handling shavings wera^ indeed. a .curious sight, and even when it was explained that the novel kind* ling was composed of cancelled note* on the Bauk of Algiers, souie of the passeugers still felt as if they had been - witnesses of a distressing spectacle. In the Hank of Kuglaiul a million dollar tire is not at all an unusual event. No Hank of England nota which gets hack to the bauk in ever put in circulation again, hut is laid away in a special place for future in cineration. When a sufficient number of notes have bc.'ii accumulated they are put in a furnace and hurncd up. Once in so long pedestrians .11 the street near the hank stop ami gaxe up at a lit lie chimney rising above tint structure from which a volume .of black smoke is pouring. Ami the im pecuiiious man heaves a sigh as lu* thinks of the millions of pounds which that smoke represents. Another spectacle of wealth which lj not wealth at all is afforded by a resi dent of I.oiulou who has a room papered with Government bonds and paper currency. As the bonds and bills are those of a defunct South American government, the wall paper is not so valuable as it appears at lirst, but it represents a fortune which the owner's misguided father invested in these "se curities" in the days when they had a market value.? New York Press. FIGHT A MOrXTAlX I. ION. While A. CI. Marklein and Mr. Me Curtby. New York oil prospectors, were riding along Bushy Kane < 'reek. Ivy., they were attacked by a moun tain lion. The beast sprang on the horse ridden by Marklein and bore him to tiie ground. Marklein's leg was caught under the horse. McCar thy drew a revolver and tired, the bul let sinking the liou and siiiniiitiK him. The iiviti J'.*!! trom the horse 011 Mark lein's body :.nd buried its reel It in Marklein's breast ami shoulders, tear ing the tlesh. McCarthy continued to shoot at the animal, and. after empty ing his revolver. u??t a club and beat the brute, which was weakening from loss of blood. Marklein was mortally hurt, while McCarthy's c'otliing was torn to.. shred* ami lii-? body scvtrely scratched. WOMAN KILLS WILDCAT. Killing a wildcat weighing led pounds a ud nearly sis feet from tip to tip. is the feat credited to Mrs. M. .1. Warden, of Pueblo. Colo. The an imal was killed by two bullets front a thirty-eight -calibre revolver after it had pounced upon her lift een -yea r-ohl brother, who had gone to the barn t?* see why the family horse was so rest less. When he opened the door t|in huge animal sprang at him. throwing him to the ground. Ills yells for help reached Mrs. Warden, who seized a re volver and rushed to the barnyard rind tired at the beast. Two shots, one en tering the head and the other, ih# shoulder, ended its existence. Tt boy's injuries were not serious. -. HEROIC SCHOOL TEACHER. Plttn^iim into the l>:>splahios Itiver. Miss lionise Jackson, a seltoo! teacher, of May wood, a suburb of Chicago, resetted one. of her pupils, the little daughter of Samuel G. Kline, aftet the mother of the child had fainted and two I Riy * who had accidental!; knocked the little one Into the river had run away. Fnnided. Miss .lack* son fought her way through the swift waters of the Desplnines, which is -at a higher flood stage than for years, and it was only after she had slipped back into the river from lhe<orumhIliin bank several times that the young wo man brought the little girl safely ashore. PRI NCESS KILLS HEAR. At a limiting parly at Gatshina. Rus? 4 sia, given by the Grand Intke and Grand Duchess Vladimir recently. th?? Grand Duchess. who is a famous shot, had a narrow escape. She killed on? bear >1 ml then shot at another, wound' iug it. The enraged animal slrucV one of the beaters, ripping the clothing from his hack and tearing hi;, should der. Then, rising to his full height, ? >\ , f six feet. I lie bear rushed upon tl)? Grand IMtchess. In spite of her datv gerous situation, she retained her prew enee of rniud. calmly shook off n fui coat which impeded her free move* ment, raised her gun and bred, pub ting a bullet directly between the eye? of the animal. Why Vail. Trivial incidents get so engrossing that life becomes unprepared for th* 1 great issues. A man gets all absorbed in his business and intends some day to enjoy his home; a woman gets ein snared in the burdensome details o( life and loses her peace of mind: and one day some great overwhelming ex? perietice of trial or sorrow suddenly attacks such a life, and the life simply surrenders to the unforeseen assnult stricken and unprepared, because tb* strength which ought to have beeu nurtured for the crisis has been e*. ho listed in the insignificant skirmishes of daily affairs.? F. G. Pen body, L?. D, Why Me Wept. The $30,0f Hi schoolhottse hnd Jusl gone up in smoke, and the taxpayer* iu the crowd looked at <>ne auothef and groaned, for the building was ln? sufficiently insured. A small boy gaw lug upon the smoldering ruin suddenly burst into uproarious grief. "Why. my little man." exclaimed n sympathetic bystander, "you musf have been very fond of your school H y " 'Tisn't that." howled the boy; "bul I left n nickel in my desk, and I'll never be able to find It in all that mess!"? Womau's Home Companion,