. to The Mo9e4 Hotel Wark. The model hoteihotel olerkis a ye=ng man Who hA orlattialil created to ll on emperor's throne or .adown a duke. dom. biut when 4e areW u0N thee b4eug fewer thrones and diiedems than there were emperors and dukes, he was tema porarily forced to take a position behind a hotel register. His chief characterix ties are dignity of bearing, radiant gor. geousness of apparel, haughtiness of man ner. aud jeweJry. His principal duties consist of hammering on the cahI bell, in handing guesta the wrong keys to their rooms, and of keeping a supply of toothpicks at the end of the desk. When all his time is not taken up in the performance of these aduous duties, he will condescend to explain to a guest that he does not know whether the north-bound train leaves at 8 P. M. or not, and if the sauest insists on enticing it out of him, he 'was probably hand him a last year's official railroad time table. When a stranger comes in on a late train, jams his valise down on the coun. tei, and approaches the register, the hotel clerk, in a preoccupied and aus tere manner, turns the register and hands the stranger a pen-a pen that has an impediment in its legs, catches in the paper and splutters fragments of the guest's name all over "yesterday's arrivals." The clerk, after turning hround the register and examining the signature to see if it is genuine, expres ses some doubt as to there being a va cant room in the house. The stranger says Io is bound to have a room. The clerk retires behind the desk, and, after consulting some pigeon-holes, concludes that the gentleman may have No 1, 192. He writos some bioroglyphics on the register, and then lie talks for half an hour witi the porter and the baggage man about the trunk of the gentleman in No. 40 having got mixed with bag gage belonging to the gentleman in No. 64 Whe he gets that matter arranged b sits down to polish and admire the long nail that he is cultivating on his little finger, and forgets the gentleman that has routed No. . , 192, until he is made aware of his existuuce by an im patient tap on the counter. With the air of a martyr, and a sign that expres see the fact that he considers the whole traveling public his enuemis, he says : "Ah I would you like to go to your room ?" There in about as much hospi tality in his tone as there is in the voice of a bull-dog when somebody treads on his tail. It is not intended to be hos pitable. It is intended to impress on the mind of the stranger the fact that although he-tho clerk-is passing poor on $12.50 a week and board, yet he is proud and is merely filling tho ignoble position lie how occupies until lie can como into his dukedom, which includes among its perquisites a yacht on the coast anid a shbooting lodge in the high lands of 8cotland. The n John1 showed the gentleman to No. 1, 192. No matter how crowded a hotel is, the hotel clerk always finds one room left for the late arrival. When the hit ter kicks about it, when hie is leaving next day, because it was on the flth floor, and was furnished with nothing but a bed, a bar of soap. and crack mi the coiling, the clerk tells him that if he had only been staymag another day. .he con ld haivo had an excellent room, in fact, the best room in the house, wvhich woul be vacated aifter bireakfast, by a gentleminnwLo was leaving on the noon train. To our certai' knowledge, the gentleman has beon leaving that excel lent-that "bet room ii the house" every to-miorriow for the last twenty years. The hotel clerk is said to be dhstinctly rolattd to the raiilroad ticket elerk, b'ut this mus.t be. a mistake, having its Oi gin in the fact that there are ertain traits and ati-ocit ie of character com mon to both. T'ao hotel olerk has no relations. Not one mani in a thousand can remember over having aeon a hotel cha rk's father or uncle. Tue night clerk is not so gorgeous or inclement as the day cler-k. He wears a smaller linger riag and a larger boot. ils duties are not so onerous as ai-e those of the day clerk, lHe sleeps in a chair near the stove or reads novels all night, and his niostimiportant duty is to waske uip and suced the pa.rting guest whmo goe-s off on the mornmng ti-ain. The hotel clerk has muchi to triy him, and peihaps we would finud many ex cuses for what we consider his exaspera ting peculiarnties, if we stood on his side, of the roister and had the experi ence of how ir feels to be a targetior the grumbling, the fault-fladlig, and the Interrogations of the average traveler who live-s on corn broad and bacon at home, but howls loud andi long, because he does not get turtle soup and four kinds of pio thrqee tunes a day when lie stops at a hotel. ileat ronice niest.. "When Fox wrote is "Book of Martyrs" there wore nd subunrbani po lcenion with twenty squares to a baeat," said an officer of the Twenty-fourth district, Philadelphia, desomribiug 'him self to a reporter. "If we had existed then Fox would have slapped us ini along with the rest." The oflicor was standing in a puddle in a wild, un kempt street, north of Allegheny ave b4. -nue. The little highway rau between Frankford avenue and Rlichimond street, probably at an equal distance from bo0th. Everything had to be guessed at in that neighborhood, however There was no moon and the inky clouds, which chased each other -from the northeast, made a' glimpse at a watch dial omit of the question. The polie. manand-the-newspaper man stood in puddles because there was no choice whatever in the matter. "?es,'' be resumed, wiping the rain drtops off is faco, "wi liave a rather mooon~ous time of it af tpr aark, Can 0~ .0 you see that fara bounse 'way out there?' He extended his aim in a northwesterlj direction. 'AIittla moe to the left Now youe got'It, by the light Ad th( Window. Well, under a :little grating there 'that leads to a obiloken housi lives the dr.rndest dog in the whok ward. It's the end of my beat, and h( gets loose about twice a week. He' almost as big as a horse and grips liki a vice. I bet he's barking now an hungering after a leg or an arm.' Ani sure enough there was a faint baying noise in the distance. In the outlaying police distriots ther< is a general 'complaint of insuffeieenc: of men and consequent largeness of thi men's beats. A proposition is afloat t4 put some of the officers on horseback it order that they may be able to cove more ground in a shorter space of time Some of the lieutenants object to thi and only ask that a sum equivalent t< the cost of the horses and their koei for twelve months be given to then every year to spend on extra men. The Twenty-fourth district, whi] includes the whole Twenty-fifth ward and whose station-house is at Belgrad and Olearfield streats, Konsington, ha forty-six men on active duty. Twenty three of these are on by day and th rest at night. Eight are posted at th sub-statin at Nicetown and four v Bridesbitrg. Two have charge of th river front. Lieutenant Nester says thi the number of men at Niacetown an, Bridesburg should be doubled, Take a l around he could get along ver; nicely with sixteen more officers. 1 the northern section there is very littl, else but fire-plugs to relieve the ma notonous stretch of country, bat thes have to be looked after and the grouni has to be covered. The adjoining o Twenty-second district, which Is bound ed on the north by School lane, on th, south by Montgomery avenue, and thi river Schuylkill, respectively, has fort.; men. Tutere is one beat in it large than the whole Fourth district. anothi thirty-two squares long, one twenty eight, one twenty-four and the averag is twenty squares. Officers in the suburbs in time get t know the very footsteps of the neigh bors and caun tell a stranger a mile ofl They got friendly with the farmers who make them very often substanti.' presents. For this reason they oftei relieve their confined feeling by arrebt ing a pig with whom they are acquaint ed or al)prehending a familiar mulo aw returning him to Ins owner. Whe] Bergeant Peaco, who died in 1878 while holding a position in the Sixteoit] district, was a patrolman in the Tweaty second, he claimed to know every pi within a two-milo radius of his beat The census of pigs was never taken ii that district, but their numbers wcr vast. One night Peaice tho'ught he heard faminiar bleat. As it came nearer hi concealed himself and waited doveloy moents. A short, thin man, with a soal let muffler, was driving a hittle po~rke that wvas just old enough to know hol to curl its tail. Peace darted out an< captured both of themn. The ma: swore the animal was his ; Peaco swor it belonged to ' Squire Oohvell, up th road, and prepared to prove his oath 'Mark Anthony," lie cried. The pii wvagged his tail and nodded approvingly looking up into the face of the office with what might have been translate, into a smile. Pe-ace was triumphannt "Billy," cried the driver in his turn The ammual pirouted oin his lind 'es and gavo a resp~onsivo glance, bloatiu1 withal. Thinugs looked dubious, bu Peace took his man to the station housec where he found he had made his firs mistake in the pig connection. That Park Ouards have the mnat r mantle time of it. While in sonmc part of the county the moon ghiuits on empt; lots and artificial streets, made of brick bats and deceased calts, at Fairmnoun it shines on dewy turf and foliago. Th drnukards who pass the night wvithia the Park limits in sweet consp~irao; with Dame Fature trouble the men il the light uniforms. They are p'icke< up), prematurely lodged in the cene tories or dczing on the brmnk of a rescr vior or river, "as if they knowv anythinj about water" This is how a Park Guari put it to a reporter, speaking as if bi had reached the ae of his indignation On an average the number of animal spuriously gazetted as escaped from thi Znologicai Garden is two per week This tends to enliven thmngs somewhait anid the nowly-omnitod Park Ouardt apt to fancy himwseli in an ludian jungl when in reahity within a stone's throv' of Belmont. Rabbiit Shuoting, Rabbit shooting is always good fun in wvoods, in gorse, in hiedeoerows, it rough grass, whatever the ktndl 0; cover, there is no more lively sport, In low wood, whore you can seJ to shool them as they get up in frou~t of you, it is, porhaips, at its best, Capital sport is also to be had outside, aftei the covers have been weoll beaton, espe. cially if the holes have been stop'ped; the rabbits then lie in the hecduerows, in thq stubble, in the grass, whorevo, the~y can find ansything to hide them, but mostly in the hedges, amnd a couph of men, one on each side, with a span iel or terrier to find them, may have a day's shooting as good as almost any kind of sport uhlich the gun affords, Rabbits forced out of a hedgerow by dogs go at their best paoe, ailhd any one who can kill them well may call krimself a good shot, whatever his practice at other kinds of game may be. The chances are, however, that a good rab bit-shot is a good aL-round shot, though the converse by no moans holds good, for many men can kill pheasants and partridges very well who miss five reaits omtio s r. n hat To ESa Aad Drmk Waen Twiefiong Some riders ohoose to take no regular meals at all during thei journey, pro. forring to 0arry with them some plain and stl#ple food and drink, like a meat biscuit and a bottle of cold tea or milk, and to partake of a little very frequent. ly as they go along not even oaring to dismount for the partaking of the re freshment. We understand that this I plan answers very well indeed when a I long distance has to be made and there is little or no time for rest. It is botter, nevertheless, to dismouut take a light meal of mixed food, rest for a good long r time to let digestion have full swing, ) and then on again, gently at first, brisk ) ly afterward. Such a plan gives good I digestion of the food, quick and excel r lent distribution of it over the body for nutritive purposts, and a healthy and , sharp appetite for the meal that is next to come. The diet itself can scarcely be too simple. Animal food should be fresh, not salted, and well cooked; light animal foods like tish and fowl and mut ton are very good to work on; eggs and milK are very good. A couple of eggs beaten well up in a cup, mixed with 3 hot water, sweetened moderately with sugar, and treated with a small quantity of milk so as to make from half a pint Sto three-quarters of a pint, is with a little biscuit, an excellent sustaining meal for those to whom eggs are easily a digestible. To those who can digest it oatmeal porridge is very good to break fast on; and to all who can digest milk, milk is lightly thickened with wheat meal is most substaiining. Broad should be taken in moderate quantity, and 3 fresh vegetables und fresh fruit are al ways in ch %racter when not taken in 3 excess. Sonie fruits which for a mo I ment seem extromoly refreshing while r on the travel become a canso of thirst - if the day is very warm. I notice this 3 particulary in regard to oranges, the 3 most tempting perhaps and the most easily obtuined of all fruits. r Of 0riuking during tricycle exercise r I must speak with some care. It is not very dillicult to learn tricycle without i desire for too much drink of any kind. But if the beginner does not learn to > breatho through the nose, If he ac - quire the liawit of broothing through the mouth, he is sure to acquire also the desire to tako liquids far too freely. Lo will becoio so dry in tie mouth he 1 will feel lhe cannot got on unles he has - something to quench his thirst, and - that is an ovil habit even though the I drink be as innocent as the purt st water i itself. The first point. thereforo, is to , drink as little as possible: to drink as I much as will fill up the loss *that is - made by evoporating of the water from ( the body and not any more. What the charactor of the drink shall I be is not very diflicult to answer, and L) what it should not ho is atnMwered with leas diliculty, for cotaivly of all things 1again it shouldl not bo an alcoholic stim 3uhant. On thia last named point we wh~o are adlvocatesa for total aibstineqect' -from all alcoholic beverages haye se r cuired, beyond aniy mistake, a flue score Vfrom tricycling experiences. Those who 1are to some de'gree ini opposition to us ou ht: gejieral quaestioni, I mean those La wiho still hld that alcoholic drinks are 3 in their right place as luxurica and .should not be donied as luxuries, are I with us if they are practised tricyclists, ,in expressing that alcoholio stimulation r is fatal to good.* sure, and sustained I work. 5ho Obeyetd un In'puia B Fiftecen years ago. the daughter or a rich ( anid r sperous manil, living mn line style on Fi AvenueI, New York, went outL in a carriage otteily on a shopping expe diit ion. AL 1ew~ 'rn 's srore she left the carriage~nndl her coiechman waited for over two hours, untuil finally, becominng anxious, -he madte inqinrice. The young latty had disappeared, anid though a great (deal o1 moiney was si nt and~ 'nuch effoit niaade to ' .liscover her, there was no trace. Tne - years passed~ and the dletective who had t worked on the case very faithftully and Saoxiously, ro'sc by dngrees to tihe rank ol poh1ce captain, One cold night, just after a Cuaistas, tour or live of his ollicers en V tered the etation with eight or ten intoxi c ated women mn their custodly. Onec or jtwo were crying over their arrest, and the prospLet of a s~rison; others were fierce in their oaths at the ie ference of the pollen -with their orgie, white others again were Ssulky. draiidhing a little apart from the I group of prisoners the Captain nuticedl a a itl woman albout thirty. anid he saw that sie land once been beautitul, though now h r face w ai d aflauied by a bru se oa IlLe 'cheek and a lhck welt uinder die eye. 3 L'nere was, however, an air of refinement anout the woman that attracted the polIce captain, andi lie eyed her curiously while the sergeant recorded the names of the' prl)isoniers. buiddenlly the womnaf bsckonca to him. "Caiptnan dto you know me?" was her questiou-." "'No." "Didn't you once try to find Mis Grace ''Well, I'm her. I ran away just out of pure deviltry, and I've nad my full share of it." ..G0od heavenel Why did you do iti" ''Oh, I don't know. 'Il he notion canme into miy headl, and I obey ed the hn puilse.' *tAnd! where have yotu been all this timetc' ' Iight here In the ward, under your very niose. Yotu nover' suspiected me though I saw s ou of ten enough. "And have you not repented of the st< p?'' 'liepentcol" and the wvords thrilled In the ciaptain's ear like the wail of a lost, soul. "RepetoJl Oh, God, yea inut It ras too late." '-It's never too late." "Yes it is. .lrit it's not too late toi dlie." Anti Defoze the Captain could pre vent she had drawn a small pistol and shot herself. The poor creature livedl for two days, and when she dietd It was in the aims of her fstther. Trhe mother had (lied a few years before of grief. Thil~s is a true story andi shows how much stran ger real life is thuan tior Ion. ibomo F~renchi c'huuets1 have succeeded in soidifying raetroleuum; In which state it, burns like tallow. This solitication Is affected by adding to disetilled petroleum twenty-live per cent. of the purified jane of plants belonging to the family of the Euphorbiacee. A Dentes'. PP ghs. ThIs has bein an unusually su1csful hUntng seasn. A arer number of deer have been kilq4d in the inpuntans of Northern PehnsYlvania than ever before, end Many rewarkable adventureo have been met with, Dr. George W. Kliump, a well-known Williamsport dentist and a great lover Qf the chose, has just returned lr) L a hunting expedition in the Laurel Hill Mountain, near LlbertyTioga county, which involved one or two thrilinic adven. tures worthy of nottoe. He entered the mountales by the Trout Run Canon, and after traveling northward soine ten miles arrived at the hunting grounds. Before starting in he secured the services of Joe Bastian and Bill Urist, two old and ex perienced huntere, who had killed a great deal ot gaiue in their time. They pro ceeded to a hut in a lonely part of the mountain near the haunted spring, where they established their headquarara. The second day out the doctor succeeded in Killing a doe and sishtly wounding a bear the carcass of which he dressed and sus pended on a tree for safe keeping unitl it could be rentoved to the cabin. Joe Pat tian, who hunted In these wilds for thirty years, killed a wildcat the third day, and Bill Crist got a long-range shot at a bear, but missed it. One night, as thoy were resting quietly in their cabin and listening to some won derlul hunting stories by Christ, they were startled by an unearthly sureamu from some wild animal. It proved to be a wildcat., which had been attracted to their camp by tlie scent of venison and, taking a position on a hemlock whoe bianches overhung their cabin, commenced sending forth semeams that would have trightened any one not accustomed to them. Bastian suszed his title and after some time sue cOeced in shvoting the cat, which tumbled ol the tree almost in front of their door. I1 proved to be a very large and evidently was the same animal that had frequented tuose parts for a long time and had frightened a great many amateur hunters. on the fifth day the doctor succeeded in wounding a very large buck, which at otice attaoted bi.n. .Not having time to reload his rilte and knowing how danger - ous it was to encounter a door smarting under a wound, lie realized the neocssity of prompt action. The madt'ened buck dtshud at hinm, but the doctor escapel by crawling under the trunk of a fallen hem lock, where he suoceeded in reloading his gun. In the meanLie the deer was jump iug back and forth over tie log, pawing toe ground and snorting fiercely. The doc tor managed to fire ron his recumbent pt.sition, but only wounded the buck again, which seemed to inensify his an ger, and with glaring eyes lie tried to paw aim out from under the log. Matter were growing serious and the doctor hau about uiad up his mind to pass the night in that uncomioitable position, when Bill Urist caine along and dispatched the deer at the tiret shot. It proved to be a very targe and fine one. A day or two after this adventure tho doctor nad another one which was more exciting. In moving through the forest he encountered an old bear sleeping in a nest f leaves buneath the ion of a failen hem lock. -lie fired at it, but failed to kill it. In a moinent it was after him witb dia Leuded jaws and glaring cyes. The docto: realized iis great winger and prepared for a dcadly encounter. lie carried a good minting knite, which he drew and held in ins hantl ready to strike when it closed on himt. 'I he infuriated beast seemed utnus ually fleree, whicn causedt the uouitor to loojk around for a inoiiont. The truna 01 a large lallen pino lay wIthin a few leet 01 inmi, on wlhich lhe ciamabered. Trho beat folluwed witih an agility that was surpris ing chasedi him along it15 enitre length. ilei hei, rushledl to ai large tree standiog neart by and conmmenced running ar!)tndl the the trunK, whiceh was at, ieast twenty feet .n circunmferenice, lollowedl clowtly by Bruint, wlio scented inrent on niischief. r'is kind ol running was kept up for full) hail an hour, wnen thu doctor began t. tire. What, to do he knew not. If the ferocious beast once got liini in Its arms he wouid be cruished to (leath In a few annliutes. Tiuere was no time to lose, What, was dune must be done quick.). IFu ally in a fit of deuperation, lte iesolvea to gtaple w ith the beast and trust to him kuife lit. halted and faced it blkity. Tino atimtal reared up on its hind legs and came at himl with dmistendedl iniorih and bry eyes andm in a muomnett the doctor was in its otibraco. Lie heldnisl knile rirmly in his right iiand~, and as the bear hugged him to its breast, ho buried the long blade deep in its utek and fortutiately severed the jiugular. rThe blood mpiwted all over him, and be iore the mionster couild give himi the death aug he lelt, its gra-p reiarxing, when stad tienly it. rollets over on its side an'i died in a few seconds. The doctor crawled away; a few feet and wipod the bloo'd of the ani mal f rom hin face, wIch had well-nmgh blindedi him. As he Etood viewing the carcass and dii liberatin~g what to dn Joe Basian~ hap pened along, having heard the noiso of the conlhet wihile watchmng for a deer on the opposite hill, lie was an~azed to find that the doctor htad suicceedled In killing the bear as lie did. Such good luck is rare. rho. doctor was literally covered wit'. blood from nead to fool, his clothes were almost torn iruom his body, his hat was gone and lie preentedl a horrible appear anice. lie was nearly exhausted andi it was with some uhillculty that the old hunter aucceedid Ia getting him to the cabin, where he lai for two days before no was suflemtly recovered to return iomie. Hie say)s that he nat had enough hunting for this winter. OhamsacI by Co:,otes. Major P. Rlusoell, the sheep man, says that coyotes do not bother sheep much in Mlontana. They will, however, keep around the sheep iat a distance and howl in the early morning and at night. The shepherd dogs lie considiers a groat pro tection, as they wvill run the coyotes off, although they catnnot whip them. Re cently, however, the order of things wvas reversed, and a band of coyotes corraled a valuable shepherd slog and ran him off through the hills. Theb absence of the dog was afterwards, fortunately, soon discovered, and borders, mounted on fleet and sure-footed horsest, follo ecd in soarch. The dor wvas itt lonigth soon at a distance,-complete~y surrouiidcd by asbout ton of the onuning coyotes, wvho were sutccessfully