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Snake Hypnotism. By Graham Feclc T VSMM la a certain power to fasclaato la a nako'a n^.?ifl iflMro ?to. I saw only the oUkt day a typical I Itust rstlon of .Che power of a make to fascinate. - | Over la the pine woodi I caw a ground squirrel fascinated If a Mack gopher snake. The forked tongue darted out of (ho gngkCfc arauth almost as regularly and rapidly as the needle of 4 sewing ak^chlne r<?as and fa.Is. The squirrel seemed to watch It epeelWeal. r W*? tho gopher make was within two or tVee laches of the aqulrref it save a leap and threw three coils about the squirrel. Instantly Um spell was gone. The fascination or charm there had been over the' little ant Ml waa Da doubt broken the very mom. ut the serpent'* colls <wrro about tha against far the animal save three convuls.ve. terrified chirps and realized that its daath moment had come. I believe implicitly that all snakes hare a certain decree of power to ite their victims to death. Wacksnakcs. gopher snakea and racers hare power to a large degree. Rattlesnakes have the most fascinating power all tt>e poisonous serpents In the Southwest. The indications of charm lag among poisonous snakes are* deceiving sometimes. Poisonous snakes fang their prey once cnty. The poison does not kill at once. The victim fluttera to ? branch. It may be. or runs a short distance snd stops. The snake watches It. The po'son dots its deadly work, and the bird falls. Any one who comes up. mot having seen the attack, might be readily deceived Into imagining that It waa the glance of the *aakc and not the poison that caused the victim to fall. Suicide is Hereditary. By Ooroner Moves P. Jackson, of New Yorlc. I there such a thins as hereditary suicidal lmpluse? Is It curable? Medical authorities answer both questions affirmatively. It I had wt?r read a medical work. I could answer tho first question affirmatively out of my experience in the Coroner's office. Ex ample* of inherited suicidal impulse mre frequent. The existence of suicidal impulse as a form of insanity and its transmisslbllity hare bsea positively established. The question grows In Importance as suicide increases. It does not follow be sura, %-at, because one or the other of one's parents commits suicide Chat the suicidal' impulse exists In the offspring. The < xact contrary may ob tain. But Whrsn It does exist, what Is to be done? Consult au alienist. That to the only common he nee advice. If your eyes are lmpa red. you consult an onliat If you And your mind manifesting tendencies whleh are beyond the control of your will, you don't need u surgeon, but an expert in mental dlu T*?e cure for Inherited suicidal tendency is very much the same as for atiancholla. The alkn'st will work to build up the general system, insist on hygienic surroundln-s correct dieting and cheerful environment. The tendency la hardest to fl?ht wh~n It is developed by chronic illness. Then the cure Is most often solely wrought by strong mental Influence. Dr. Maudslev. the noted E?n*lish al'enlst mentions a remarkable method eff treatment. He was consulted by a patient who had a history of inherited aa!ddal Impulse throush five generations. When lr? reached the age of thirty- j ?ve, +e became subject to spells of Intense depression in which the tendency to self-destruction was almost Irres'stible. Dr. Maudslev..aft t studying the ease, decided that tho periods of depression were augmented by the patirnt's j excessive appllcstlon to his business. He advised him to take a dally nap in ! the mldd'e ef the day. j The man protested he couM not. spare the t'me from his business. Then tlr? physician told him promptly ot *noon to lean back In h's chair, close his wyes and dose off with a d!nn?r bell In his hsnd. Wh:n ho lell asleep, the hell would drop from his -hsnd and awaken h'm. The man tried It and. thou eh h!? nap oten lasted but a few moments tho mental re'avation proved of immense benefit and with'n a short time his fits ef denre**loM ejit'r-ely pa-sed away. He overcame bis suicidal tendency and ' *ras the ftrst of hla line for Ave geneTat'ons to die a natural death. The Summer Sneeze. What Happens When a Particle of Ragweed Invodri the Olfactory Region. By Walter Beverley Crane. T ra philiaopby of aaeezfog should bo thoroughly nnderttood "Iftr" hay fever victims. It is a well known fact that a sneezo al ways indicates that there is something wrong. It does not oc cur in health unless some forolgn substance irritates the mem branes of the nasal passage?, upon which the nervous filaments are distributed. In hay fever these aro unduly excitable, hence the repeated -sneezings which then occur. The nove receives three sots of norves; the nerves of smell. those of feeling, and those of mo tion. The former communicate to the brain the odorous properties of sub stances with which they come in contact, in a diffused or concentrated state; the second communicate the impressions of touch; the third move the mui-1 des of the noee, but the'r power is very limited. i When a sneeze occurs, all these faculties are excited In a high degree. The mo?t minute particle of flowering ragweed excites the olfactory nerves, which despatch to the brain this intelligence. "Ragweed has attacked the triVj." The bra!n instanty sends a mandate through the motor nerves to the lea, saying "Cast ft out!" and the result is unmistakable. 80 offensive is tbe en?my besieging the nostril held to be. that the Is not left to Its own defencc. It were tco feeble to accomplish this. An allied army of muscles join in the rescue; nearly one-half the body is Touscd against the Intruder; from the muscles of ?he lips to those of the ?hdomen. all un'te fn the effort for the expulsion of the microscopically minuta particle of the weed. | Let us consider what occurs In this instaneous operation: The lung become fully Inflated, the abdominal organ* are pressed down* - ward and the veil of the palate drops down to form a barrier to tho escapc of the air through the mouth; and now in all the muscles which have relaxed for t-be purpose contract simultaneously and fore? the compressed air from the lungs in a torrent out through the nasal passages, wifh the benevolent deter mination to sweep away the particle of ragweed which has been causing irri tation therein. Such, then, ia the complicated action of a sneeze; and if the first effort 4oea not aucceed. fcven follows a second a third, and i>. fourth; and not antll victory is achieved does the army of defenders dissolve its compact and settle down tnto the enjoyment of peace and quietude. By removing the nose from the face and replacing it down ahlo up the Vfbol? procops la reverted. Bv leiv'ng it off hay fever may be avoided. Thia advlco is not to be sneezed at.?Now York Sun. WOLVES INCREASING IN NUMBER iurf* Amounts Still Paid by Western States In Bounties. wolf Is more dreaded of hu ?sanlty than any other animal. No 4ouht we of to<day inherit that droad from ancestors who had occasion to fear the long-fanged quadruped, for {&?re are few portions of the world today whorj the wclf is rcall** dan gerous to mankind. Dangerous to man's pocket, to' his tk?rds and Seeks, he Is still to>day In aaaay portions of tho country. A ran eh in Montana or New Mexico may pay many hundreds of dollars * year for fray wolf scalps. Such a scalp Is cheap at 912 or 9U? to the rancher, for tho gray robber would certainly hare destroyed many times that Value in calves or colts from Uie range. Yet <n spite cf all tho warfare made upon them, and all t*e tnrlces put upon their heads, these ?lrYaaed, mysterious, ghostlike, terror fbsplrlng creature* at.111 hold their own. Outcasts for ages, hatad, per secuted, they still cndv.ro, ?ach for himself, antl without a friend oa earth, even among his own kind. I?ast year the Stato of Minnesota paid over $G,000 a month in the beat of the wolf season. Ono day of the month of last March tho State Au ditor paid $C, 158.50 In wolf bounties. The total for the few months pr2ced Ing was |3C,G48.50. On this basis the currant year will foct up nearly as much as ttio two yean* prece??.ng. which appears to indicate that Broth er Wolf is holding his own, even as a mattier cf commcrco. In many parts of the Western cattle range tho gray wolves are Increasing rather th&n decreasing.?Field and Stream. Curtain Prills. In making curtains at homo it is well to remember that only in the cheaper grades are the frills put on with a heading. In fhin curtains of the best quality the "rills are always luwrted In thy hont New* ef the Day. Aa derated road fs to l>e built at Ahnorla, Spain, to connect tha rail road elation with tho harbor of that ?Jty. Dr. A. R. 80(ford, assistant librarian ?f tho Library of Congross, lian ro taraed from a throe months' stay In Kurope. While nbroad lie made ar tangenenta for the purchase of books drom time to time, and to recolve .1 large numhor of catalogues of books. The Portland and Anlotlc Steamship Arabia will carry 5,200 boxes of Ore goo apples to the Orient on Its next $tlp. This Is the first consignment of apples to go to tho For East this year, and is one of the largest thru kss over gone forth frcm hero to thai dest* nation .?Seattle Post-lntelllngen* ccr. Dr. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins ttalveraity, has returned to Baltlmoro from his annual vacation trip to Bn R>e. As a delegate from tho coun* , be attended the fourteenth la* ??national Oongrses if Americanists, Mi at Odds snu Er.do. William, Mary, John, Elisabeth, Thomas, Ooorge, Harwh, ? James, Charles, Honry, Alice, Ann, Joseph, Jano, Ellon, Emily, Annlo, Frederick, Margaret, Bmma, Robert, Arthur, Al fred, Edward, these, In the order giv en, aro the most popular Christian names, soys ou exchange. A steam railway line 4s projected which Is to connect the Lagoon Qu*> moveto with tho Aguan river. In Hob* uuras. The town of Eothcnhoffen, Davarla, noted for Its quarries of lithographic stones, lias decided to erect a monu ment to Senefolder, tho inventor of lithography. An industrial school for boys, with I'rof. Oscar Ix>vell Tripgs, late of (he University of Chicago, ns president, *111 soon bo ostabllshod In the vicini ty of Chicago. Prof. Trlgga has been closely identified with tho Industrial movement In Chicago, and has Just returned from a three months' trip to Europe, where he studied the Indus trial schools in Bn gland, France and ROMANCE # REALITY. By Miss Annie Edwards. CHAPTEB V. > . . Continued. "Gentlemen do "not usually pay morning visits to (iris of eighteea. tAj dear Henrietta." Mid Miss Theodora, with her little air of superiority. "Mr. Chester aslced leave to inquire for ujj health after the fatigues of the ball? a very pretty and a very natural piece of attention, too. Unless I am much mistaken, we may look to receiving a visit from Mr. Cnester before tbn day is out." * And Theodora was right. Just at the hottest hour of the afternoon. Aunt Hosle and Daphne, picking cur rants and raspberrle. for the annual Jelly-making, torth ruslied Margot to say that a fine English dandy in u tan dem (un beau Dauuls Anglais avec sen betall en flicclic) was inquiring before the front porch for Demoiselle Vansit iart. And Daphne's cheeks flushed crim son! She had spok?n truth, rigid and unvarnished, ns respects the ball. The l>artners who held her till her breath was gone, the ladles who smilej ut her chasser-croisees behind their fans, the crush, the glare, the empti ness of the whole sccne. had disap pointed her simply as a child Is dis appointed with actual,ties falling short ? ^possible expectation. In this mo ment she lost the child, assumed the woman; a sense of power, a thrill of vanity, dangerously sweet, if only by virtue of their newness, sprang to life within her heart. "I don't want one bit to see Mr. Chester." so she told Aunt l.osle, who stood gravely watching the changes of rolor on the girl's face. "And of course the visit is to Aun. Theodora, not me. Mai. after giving lilm so many dances 1-st night, it might look odd If I did not go in to see him. Just for form's sake." And in three minutes' time, he* An gers .(nlned with raspberry Juice, and in her garden dress and hat. she en tered the parlor, where Mr. Chester -waited her alone?Theodora, who had not expected her visitor so early, ^e jug still occupied with lappets and laces, in tlio maiden secIuUon of her own chamber. This first visit did not prove a bril liant success. Mr. Chester's conver sation was modeled after the elliptic <*r THegraphie fashlo* prevalent among gentlemen of his class-a form of ut terance wherein noroinat.ves exist aot p-ononns are supplanted l?y ??urns'* "aha ." or perusals of the ceiling-and which altogether gives you more tfie idea of a message framed at so much per word than of an attempt made by a rational human being to communi cate with his kind. n bnl1 ,a8t "lRh,? Tired. Bulls in hot weather deuced mistakes. T?Ut ?f London deuced mis trv Is P0U5e' "Pretty <oun 11 Woek* Sc<' U ?" In a week. See everything in a week" A longer pause. "Know Cheltenham?" V,SS Theodora's entrance had Infused temporary vigor Into the conversation. "Know Cheltenham ?well. Too well. Hunted there couple of seasons. Deuced slow set of peo Cheltenham people. Warwick ' kfoimers?inost iutilImie friends." Such was Mr. Harry Chester's style; If the style be the man. such was a tolerably fair index to Mr. Barry Ches ter s menial powers. Fortunately, there hung a strip of mirror above the par lor mantelshelf, in which ho could us hi '' ",in,J>ses his charms, on th? M flrst "n ol,c' foot ?nd then on the other, pulling restlesslv at his mustache, while Miss Theodora en r "" MP lhe ???>? ?n his d.s liain r I ? ' l,1*h l,ow^ Chelten ham reminiscences ?f her own. For tunately, too, as far as Chester was Sr\DrnC'- J"<lK,npnt ^^in conditioned by experience. She had absolutely no standard, either of mnn ?hl"l.r. """? n,(!? ? book., Uy which to measure him. ir'.AM??8LpreRcnt",>,? creature, real ly. Miss Theodora pronounced, when nl'n~ i'?Y hlr<,d Cof! carr' high-step Ping. broken-winded hacks, mock Hv X T QV,0d dn',,,e<, " \nd i m "Ul,d h,,,S ?,!t of #h?i? ?Ue carp* for Iook? In iSj,*.?* 8ex' 80 unusually hand J1"" co,d ?3"os nnd a hnrd mouth, said Aunt Hosle. who had been present, critically taciturn, dur ? "a*..* ?8t eo m,n"tes of the Visit. And he Is not a gentleman! No, Theo < ora, not In spite of all the Warwick shin, Stnmers ia the world. Mr cill t< r is ill at ease with himself. lie tries hi" best to forget his origin, and sue cteds-Just sufficiently well to make you renieinber It." Nor did It please heaven to soften '"it Hosle's opinions upon further iH?u'aintance. r **??>ore a month n^s over Sarry Chpg. <?'? i-nd contrived excnscs for paying ...? i: ?-.? afternoon vlsils at Quer !!?? ;',iTnon" ???* time enhanced by tl-c Hiftart hired dogcart, "belnll en niuli. and mock private llvcy. n? he end of ? fortnight It had grown to be an accepted tiling that the young Fief iln tT'i'/ [ronH,;ml,>- hover around ..h/t,!"!!'' I:wt daphne attentions that ns yet could be called aevlons but always flndlrg some rea son thnt necessitated bis speodlng lone afternoons or eveniug, )?, lUy .iclghb..,! Interrupted. Ho was In the society of manv rat^s tau.l old malda at a tea port? The conversation had turned on th, qu?3t?on raised by the Leeds Pin-?? CH society, "Does tho Wearing \i Fats Make Men Bald?" and hefool u.? his parablo. "Not hats de?! friends, but shirts. Now you will haU T takM "? ""r over his bead, thereby dragglna th< h.|ro?t by U,? root,. iber^T.^' Hera three teacups 4ro?**l~-l?B ?porting News But Annt Hosic's first verdict against him remained unmodified. She (tare him m actual dltcunracr ment. boldlag the fine old orlliouox doctrine as regards the celestial or providential (orginc oi men's marriage chains. 8he never strove to blaa Daphne for or against his suit. She simply disliked him intensely, and did not see that It fed within her duties as a Christian to put a cloak upon her dislike. "And I believe, right down in my heart. I feel as you do. Aunt Hosle." ssid the girl, in a moment ot half-sad. halt-Jesting expansion. "Air. Chester is everything that is fascinating, of course, he is lurodsome. has seen the world, too! I am s ~e, In his presence. I feci as impressed as Annt Theodora herself by the Warwickshire Stamers. Yet. If it comes to liking?If you were to r.sk me whetuer I shall miss Mr. Chester when he leaves, or whether I wish I had n?ver known him at all, 1 could not answer you." Aud eight days later she accepted him! Itan Into the bouse one evening, lsh face, with the news that Barry Chester loved her?loved her'to such a new, trembling happiness in her girl an extent he could not possibly face existence unless she wonld become his wife. Apd she-how could she have the heart to say him nay? They were to start at once and colonize In Virginia. You could buy an estate I? Bedford County, with stabling for thirly horses, and an icehouse on it. said Daphne. . for a few hundred pounds, and peaches were grown in orchards like our cider apples, and?and please might she ask Mr. Chester to come iu-rhe has only waited for her on the terrace?and everything might be talked over quiet ly after tea. She waa so without guile, this conn try nurtured child of eighteen?her se questered life, the fine inborn white ness of her nature, raised her fo high above the level of all falsehoods, that even Aunt Hosle forgave ner for being dazzled by Barry Chester's protesta tions. Besides, stifling her personal dislike and some natural jealousy at J descending from the first place In | Daphne's affections, what objection I could Aunt Hosle urge against Mr. Chester's suit? The modesty of his worldly prospects was laid bare by him. without reserve, on this first evening of his engage ment. He bad sold out of the army some months before, and the money, or remainder of the money, realized by the sale of lain commission crastltuted bis actual fortune. At the sam#> time, his expectations from rich friends. Warwickshire Stamers and others, amounted to moral certalutles. He was young, not yet tweuty-clgbt. and fond of an outdoor life. (Did you ever know a consummately useless man of the Barry Chester type who d!d not make the same profession? The outdoor life, writ large, signifying pigeon shooting, race courses and general polarity, per hups, toward horsily cut coats, a Jewel set whip, and gaiters.) His project was to emigrate this coming autumn to Virginia, the most hopeful of colonic, 'twas said, for gen tlemen settlers, buy a farm at a cost of six or seven hundred pounds, and live upon It. Net a brilliant outlook, hj knew, and yet all that he had to offer! This and his own great love on expression for a moment flushing His face that made even Aunt Ilosle think him handsome. Would Daphne accept him? Daphne accepted him: three weeks later knelt at bin side before the vil lage altar?caring for him?well. hi the dreamy fashion young girls do care for the flrst man whose lip-worship hns raised their lives from commonplace to drama, but sobbing in earnest terror when the moment neared In which fd'.e must loosen her arms lroru Aunt Hosle's neck and drive away, amidst on avalanche of old shoes and huzzas, Barry Chester's wife. She was In nature so r!ch In good as to render her passionate nlloKiance to every new phare of duty n matter of course. Whatever Mr. Chester's shortcomings, and they were many Daphne clung to h!?i during the eight months In which they lived side by side with an unswerving, blind tender, ness that does not always fall tc the lot of worthier mer. Did she, at any moment, love him v ith such full meas ure as she had tr ~lve during these eight months? Rc.Jer. she believed she loved him. and W here a but Ion goes, 'twere an epigram To offer tho stamp of every Guelph. They spent their honeymoon in Sark. It rained, and I;ef.?ro ten days were over Mr. Chester li.;d ceased to repress his ynwns or gild over bis expletives In his bride's prcsei -e. After this camp their wedding visit to the old aunts at Pief-dc-la-Kelne, a visit during which It was understood that preparations of every kind pliould be set on foot for the coming exodus to Virginia. Weeks, however, glided away Into months, the harvest was gathered In. tho russets of lite autumn came to settle on field ni I hedgerow, and still Mr. Barry CT.c*' r's projects look 110 definite form. v, lie began at times lo talk about r ceplccliasc 011 Qucr t ec Common {he coming spring, about flat rnrr .luly, after a while | to discuss the wiHilom of stnrtlng for . \ irginin at all. ('??initial life a deuced ciimice. even for a man with capital. Taucht Sunday-School Many Years. Ti e officials of the Wesleyan Sun I'sy-sc'.iool, Swlnt'jn, England, lay claim to having upon their roglntei tho oldest Sunday-school teacher lr KnTtlnnd. If not In tho United King (torn. Mr. Oeor.To Doxoy, who is now !n his clghty-el?;Mh year, has been t teacher slxty-nlno years, and hold* tho rGmarkablo record that for half a ctLlury he waa never absent frorr school, and durlrg forty yeari he wai novel once lato. Though clghty-sev on years old be Is able to read with out the aid of spectacles. Just m much to bt plMdVthe ? country as si^aA if ? MW bad p%. tlencc to l>r?A utUUf Why. here la th^piiUiflft afwwy goo< thins might he j^ne iAmlllux an| exporting homit If one coold ofl^ rent pitf^c ground enough somewhere In the neigh bor hood of Qnerufc, he was certain n moderate fortuue might be realised by horse breeding, and at less risk t'um In any colony goiug. Feudlug this?? Pending this, Mr. Barry Chester spent his days?as the wiuter wore ou. Ills evenings?more and more away front home; won. flashier ties, wore showier Jewelry^ and showed bis pro clivities for outdoor life in general by taking a prominent part In the mau ly exercises of the island." Perilous runs In pursuit of bags of newspaper; steeplechases where the stlffest fence was a furze-crowned hurdle; the most breakueok leap a two-foot-deep tank. Ailed beforehand from the parish water cart; trotting matches, pigeon mur ders. and all such llllputian field sports as the limited area of dry land and the shaky financial condition of the Nim rods themselves permitted. Who should reason with him as to the error of liis ways? Not his wife, for certain. Young. Ignorant, devoted though she was. Daphne by this time must have entertained suspicions, you may be sure, as to the fineness of stuff In Mr. Chester's nature. But she hid these suspicions Jealously, even from herself; believed in all things, hoped all thiugs, never by look or word re proached Chester for. his neglect, or questioned him as to the hours that he passed away from her side. And by li~r reticence unknowingly helped on bis ruin! , There are human temperaments so adjusted that the mere contact of vir tue seems poisonous to them. Daphne Vaiislttnrt's simple, truth ful character wart one. to have called forth every higher quality in a lover endowed with ordinary delicacy, or dinary manhood. L"pon Barry Chester (who shall say through what hidden moral chemistry?! her devotion acted as a directly evil influence. Does not the same ray of light bleach or blacken, according to the nature of the substance across which It travels? It was just a piece of old, miserable luck, so he thoroughly and honestly believed; possessing in a conspicuous degree that hallmark of incapacity, the habit of laying his failures to the door of others! Circumstance** had handicapped him before his birth?for Aunt Hosle's intuition proved correct. Mr. Chester*s mother was the daughter of a gamekeeper. ' As a child his fath er had sent him to the wrong school; as a lad put him into the wrong pro fession; ami now. just precisely at n time of life when n fellow wants worldly couusel. worldly judgment, he had been fool enough to snddle him self with n wife!?a creature with a waxen baby face, a heart and temper sweet If you will, sweet to mawkish ness!?but about as tit. she and the old auuts together, to help or giildt? a man with practical wisdom as if they had all been picked up off some desert Isl and In the Pacific. From the comparatively innocuous follies of paprr hunting and pigeon killing Mr. Chester sank, step by step, to grosser pleasures; was heard of at length by the nffrlglited Miss Vanslttarts as frequenting taverns, skittle alleys and the like places of unhallowed resort. He grew morose and slleut during sneli hours of the twenty-four as It was his pleasure to spend at home; threw the quiet house hold Into ever Increasing disorder by the lateness of his hours; comnlalned of his meals, complained of Margot's waiting! In fine, gave every symptom cf the morbid discontent which, born of Idleness, shadows all the innocent environments of such men's lives with its blackness. And now. at length, the Miss Van slttarts, taking counsel together? Daphne they durst not admit Into their secret?resolved "to speak!" Sol emn and warning looks, parabolical hints, leading remarks thrown out at the dinner table?and the small artil lery of domestic warfare had long been employed without result. Barry Chcs tor's delicacy was not of sufficiently line texture to be wounded so long as Flef-de-la-llelne offered a convenient roof under which he might abide free of expense. He must be spoken to In perfectly plain nnd unmistakable tones, and Theodora Vanslttart, of her ! own free choice, undertook to be spokeswoman. Aunt Hosle, to T.l'om Chester's sins of omission nnd otherwise were spe cially abhorrent, was yet, at this crisis, the most lenient of the three sisters toward the wrongdoer himself, .lust as the law of her own life was effort, so was the law of her judgment upon others m^rcj'. She had the charity born of strength, the Insight of a pure, unselfish heart into the temptations and backslldlngs of her frailer breth ren. Miss Theodora's imsglnation ex ercised Itself more upon the fictitious trials of young ladles and gentlemen thnn U|H>n thos? of flesh nnd blood. an-I her condemnations were unchangeable as a stone-carved drcnlogue. Ilarry Chester Idle because he was weak? A coin, though light, need not necessarily be bad. Give him time, ant1 under the Influence of Daphne's affection, things would yet come straight? Never! Mist Theodora had no belief in men coming straight who had once sunk to taverns nnd skiUle alleys. And as to his tine friends, as to his Interest 1hrnu?h tho Warwickshire Stamen?"I ? don't be Htve." said Theodora Vanslttart, with a kindling eye, "that Barry Chester knows a Warwickshire Stainer by sight!" And the helnousness of Ms crime really swept away any lingering scruple or pity she might yet have felt toward the eulprl*. , To be Continued. We all struggle fer that which we "an enjoy bill for a brief hour. ? Shoes for a Giant. A Cstumet shoemaker ha? innt fin Ished s pair of shoes for I ouls Mol linen, known as tho "Qnlncj HII giant." Mollcncn Is 19 years old stands seven feet eight Inches It height and tips tho scales at 30< pounds. Tho shoes aro sixteen ant a quarter Inches In length, six Inchet in width and weigh flvo potinds each Mollonen will nso them while at worl In the Qulrcy mine, where he is om ployed. A number of offers to exhlbl> the young giant have been made bj showmen, but all have heea refused.-* Chicago Record-Herald. CHLDRSN'S DEPARTMENT. SOLDIER BEETLES. There'are beetles in England <of the faintly known to scientist. as Tele sliorldac) that are popularly chIUhI fi llers and sailors, the red species being Milled by the former name and ttie blue species by the latter. These bee tles are antoiig the most quarrelsome 3* Insects i?ud light to the deith on the ?east provocation. It has long been the ?ustoiu among English boys to cnteli and set them lighting with each other. They are as ready Tor battle as gnuie socks, and the victor will both kill and ?at his antagonist.?From "Nature and Science." in St. Nicholas* THE VIRGINIA REEL. Have you ever danced a Virginia reel? If you liaveu't. you surely will Kome day. It is iuteresting to know what the dancc .symbolizes, or stauds for. it Is an imitation of weaving. The first movement represents the shooting of the shuttle from side to side, and the passage of the whoof tcrosswlse threat!*). The last movements indi cate the tightening of the threads, and the brluglug together of the cloth. In some pluces the boys and girls stand in the row by sevens to imitate the dif ferent colors of the struuds.?Indianap olis News. A rARTUIINiE NEST. As 1 was going through the woods 1 heard a partridge drumming and so 1 went up that way. I was with a few of the farm l>oys. We were picking some flowers called fox gloves; all of a sudden 1 heard a lierce flutter of wings; looking around I saw a partridge flying away. We all ran to where the nest was. Such a sight as I saw! The feathers lined the bottom of the leafy nest, and fourteen eggs were counted. They were brown and about the size of a bantam's egg. The out side of the nest was lined with maple leaves, which were pasted together with mud and a few little twigs. The nest was against a .rotten stump and near a great maple tree, which gave me some very nice syrup this spring. I have kept wutch of the nest since I found it. A little while ago 1 found . Can you guess what? Well, I'll tell you?a tine brood of young partridges, with the mother in the middle of the brood: she made a queer noise, and away those little chicks did go for the leaves and brush faster than 1 could sec where they hid. One little follow was left. I picked liini up; the mother came and tried to fool me by jumping around and mak ing believe she was hurl. You see she tried to make me catch her, so that she could save the young one. or tell it to run away when I ran after her. I knew her tricks, and so 1 kept my chick.?Meiers M. C? , in the licrksbirc Industrial Farm Record. A HOME MADE BALL. There nre ninny kinds of balls for Sale in the shops, but most of them are too hard for ordinary hand play ing. The writer of this has never seen anything to etjual the balls he used to make for himself when he was a boy, and he wants to tell the other boys how he did it. <Jet a perfectly round orange nnd out the peel into even quarters, num bering them at one end so as to be able to put them together again in their proper order. Ask your mother or your sister for ft pair of discarded kid gloves with long wrists, and out of these wrists ?rut four pieces exactly like the four pieces of orange peel. Number thc.ni as you did the pieces of peel, and with linen thread new over and over tlirif seams, thus putting the four pieces together, but leaving one seam open. This Is the cover for .your ball. ? Cet a solid rubber hnll about three quarters of an inch in diameter, and on it wind the common woolen yam of which stockings nre made. You can buy the yarn at a shop, or, if you can get an old stocking, ravel It out. Do the winding evilly, so an to keep the ball perfectly round, and try it now and then to see whether it Is large enough for your cover. You must make It so that it will fit In the cover exactly, and then you draw the re maining edges together and sew them over and over, as you did the other seams. The hoy who uses a hnll of this kind win never willingly use any other. It Is plenty hard enough, and yet It is soft to the touch, and tiie rubber centre gives it all the needed bounce. GUEST ATK TIIE ALMANAC. The boundary riders of the great Australian Mieep ranches have each a <Iistrlct to look after, in which one must keep the wire fences In repair, nnd see that the sheep come lo no harm. It is a hard nml lonely life, iiv ing, as each boundary rider does, quite nlone In the wilderness. A writer In the Young People's Pa per tells of some of the curious ways In which these solitary men keep count of the day*. We are indebted for the account to Miss Lena Ciotild. Beaverton, Mich. An oid man, wlm had lived In the back country for thirty years, used I wo Jam tins and seven pebbles. One tin t was marked "This week." nnd the oth er "Last week." On Mommy morning j he would take a pebble from "List week" and drop It Into "This we?k," ! and one every subsequent morning un til "This week*' had swallowed the seven. They were return to "I.asi week," and the old fellow know thnt another Kttnday had passed, | Another man had tried and failed I with several plans. At last he hit on a , new Idea. lie made h big iIuniMcr . (cake of Hour and water) on Sunday J night, and marked It into seven ser t tlons, each suction being a day's allow ' ance, so that every time lie picked the | damper up the grooves would remind him of the day. I'nfortonstely, on? Tu?*';?y therti fame a visitor witli n ravenous appe-, lite. The bust Mlntwl himself tliat the hungry one uiigbt be satistied with the! tiny'* sot-1loir. But he wasn't. WltK anxious eye* the host saw the knife clearing the boundary Hue. and the hungry man ruthlessly carved Into hi* almanac. At lu?t be could fctand it no longer. ? "Stop! stop!" he cried, ns he grabbed the damper and glared a't it. "There," he said. "you've en ten Toosday and We'u'sday, and now yer wanter slice the best o* the muri.in* off o* Thursday, au* 1 wou t know tho day o* the week." A CLEVER RUIXFIXrir. ' Don was very unhappy when I was out of sight. His cage was hung at tirst Hi a glass conservatory, where he had sunshine, flowers and two canary birds for company. Hut he did not cat s for theui. He wanted something else. He was silent and moping. So the loving little bird was marie happy by being placed iu my room upstair*. It was wonderful how soon he learned to distinguish my step. Often his clear, sweet tone couiri he btv.rd pouring from his dainty throat. Or peMiaps he was silent. It was *11 the same. The instant my stop souudiMt in the hull below or oil the stairs, the whistle ceased, or the silence was brok en. "Come he'ere. come he'ere, coine he'ere!" was the eager cry. Of course. I always did "come he'ere.** And then the delight of the dear little fellow was touching. Down be jumped to the door of his cage |K>st imst<v Ttn>n. puffed up like a hall, he Itowed right and left, dancing to ami fro an If wound up to run tor hours. And sucli a sweet piping as there was, too! i But he never played about the room when 1 was away, lie was too sorrow ful for that. His favorite lmunt. next to my ln*ad or shoulders, was my bu reau. He loved to hop all over it; but he loved best of all to mount the big, fat pii'fushion. li was such line fun to pull out all the pins and drop them on the bureau scarf. Koine times he carried them to the edge of the bureau and dropped them on the floor. One day 1 bi?nt the point of a pin and twisted it well Into the cush ion. It was rather naughty, to be sure, but 1 wished to see what Dou would do alMiut it. The other pins camc out and were dropped ns usual. Then came the tug of war. The poor Utile birrt pulled and pulled and tugged and tugged. The big pin moved, but did not come out. He put his head en one side nnd eyed it severely. He was not one of the "giveup" sort. lie had made up his mind to conquer that pin. He worked very haul for at least ten minutes. Then the plaintive "Come he'ere, come he-ere, come he-trie I" raug out. I waitr?l to see what he would do next. Ami what do you think? lie thought a little, then mouiiied the cush ion again, and whistled and danced to that obstinate pin. But it stayed right where it was*. Then he seized It onc.? more, and tugged ko hard tiiat his tiny feet slipped and lie sat ri^lit down. Next he got up and stared at It, (lieu hepped to the edge of the bureau auit called again, "Come he'ere, coin* he'ere." 1 could not tense him nny longer and went to the rescue. The moment that, pin was loose, Don seized it with * happy chuekle. Hopping to the back part of the bureau, he dropped the pic down between it and the wall. It wh? in disgrace, you know. One day the dear little fellow had been very busy indeed. 'I he cushion had been freshly tilled with pins. That' gave him a great deal of work to do, of course. The plus had a'.l to be car ried to the edge of the bureau and dropped overboard. That* taslc fin ished. he weut into hi# house lo set his dinner. ; I went to work to pick up th" pins, telling Don that he was a liautfiiiy, bird to make me so much trouble. It seemed as If he understood every word. At once he stopped- eating his seeds, came out and peeped at me over tin* edge of the bureau. Then down he cainc, making steps on my head, shoul der and arm until he reached the floor. And there the dear lit lie bird liurriHl around with all his might, picking up the pins. He Hew up to the cushion, laid them down and came back for more, until they were ail gathered up. Then he sat on my chair, whistled his tune and finally went to sleep.?Helen llarcourt's "Stories of My I'cls," in Bt, Nicholas. KmIc and H|| kttprnrf. The Central Kmerxency Hospital find a curiosity yesterday in an Intoxicated and unkempt laborer who knew hi* Shakespeare "from end to end," as he expressed It. r.nd who proved It to the entire satisfaction of a skeptical audi once. T. J. Nagle Is the mail's name, and his ocerpatlon that of n marble cutter. He had fallen down n stair way at Klghth and Mission streets, and a cut over one eye had been the result. While Dr. Kusicli was spong ing the man's face he began to talk about the Hard of Avon. Nagl:* made the assertion about his intlmnfe knowl edge of Shakespeare, and when lie was asked to furnish proof, he arose. In toxicated as lie was.coilarlrss, and with his clothing streaked with marble dust, and recited correctly long sec tion* of nmlet," "Hielmrd the Third'" :i?m! other plays.?San Francisco Chron icle. Ilfcnpll illtm mi liifiitl, The following Is ?|it< ?r<' by Ihe flnrt '?ois from a Fr'Mich !r ?ermn nt report? "To cut olT 1i!h head Is ihe moat s-rl ous Insult that can be shewn to a Cam bodian; happily, this prejudice In not shared by the oilier people of huh* China. .< There are more than 4 <NH).<!00 stool pena used up every day in Unglaud. ]>