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His Friend's Thoughtfulness. "I think a great deal of this roc1 Ing-chair," said Rivers. "It's mad from wood that grew on a farm I Virginia once owned by Georg Washington." "I don't see anything extraord Pary about it."said Banks, "exde that it's big and ugly. How muc lid it cost you?" - "Nothing. That's the beauty < It. A friend of mine in the Eas sent It to me. There's nothing lik having good friends." "No. I suppose not. How did b send it?" "By express. Quite a relic, Isn it? Wood grew on one of Georg Wash-" "You paid the express, did you? "Of course. Wood grew on a farr that belonged to George-" 'How much was the-" "Farm that once belonged 1 George Washington, in Virginia. ] isn't every day you can-" "How much express did-" "It Isn't every day you see a rock Ing-hair made out of wood grown o a farm that once belonged 1 George-" "What express charges did yo aave to pay?" "Eight dollars and seventy-?t cents," said Rivers, with visible r< luctance.-Chicago Tribune. Mint and Its Culture. In some gardens mint is regarde as a weed; it grows so luxuriant and spreads so much that it eE croaches all over the ground. 1 large gardens it Is often given a grea deal of latitude, but in small ones : has to be restricted. This is genex ally done by nailing four boards tc gether lfie a frame and planting I Inside tbis. A piece from eight t twelve feet long and four feet wid will furnish taint to meet the whol of the demand of a large family Those who complain that mint doe not grow freely with them should tr it in this way. The boards shoul be from ten inches to one foot I depth, and, If the soil is raised u inside half this height and a quantit of grit or sand, and manure is put in It will alwas grow freely, &ad b covering it over 14 early spring it wi be ready very early. Mint may t raised from seed sown in April, an it may also 10e increased by liftin the roots and dividing and replantin them at once. It requires good draii age, and, where thIS exists under it a top ing of farm-yard manur may be put over It every spring, or s often as it shows signs of becomin weak. As a dressing for vaious aind of meats, mint is a great addition t the menu. Electric Energy ot the Thuntier Cloud. The average thunder cloud is esti mated by Professcr McAdie to contait about 300 horse-power of electri energy. A flash of lightning a quartel of a mile long practically means ai electromotive force of millions a volts. A flash occurs when the elec trieal strain on the air is 1.37 pound per square foot, so that the total elec trio energy in a cubic mile of th strained air just on the point of flasba ing is about 70,000,00G foot tons, tha is to say, the energy required to rais a ton 70,000,000 feet high. In thes days of "transfo'rmers" and "homE made lightning," Mr. McAdie ask~ whether he can tse this immense stor of electricity in the higher atmosphert It might be brought down by a md fication of Franklin's kite. Professo Trowbridge shows that a discharg keeps in the same path for 3003-100 part of a second, and imagines that "step-down" transformer might I able to render it fit for practical ust --Atlanta Constitution. .Sources oft Actions. It is perhaps one of the most use fnl practices to trace back our ow, actions to the sources from whici they must have sprung. We are gen erally only too willing to do tnis ii the case of our neighbors, but wi rarely do it for ourselves. We as sume the character of the tree free the quality of the fruit in the on. Instance; but in the other we declini to draw the same Inference. Let u honestly and fairly examine ourselve with this object in view. Let u find out the real underlying prin ciples of our lives, the secret motive of our actions, the most urgent de sires of our hearts, and we may wis] to lay the ax at the root of many o Friendship. Friendship has its duties. Yo owe your friend sympathy in h's so: rows and in his joys. You owe hii confidence and the information abou yourself which contidence implies Yet that information is to b'e give with a certain reserve, so that you d not seem to force your aff'airs upo him, or to make him responsible fe you. Of crises in which he could nj aid you, or would be paimed by hi Inability, it is often wise to say nott ing. There is a fine subtle inst nc which guides in such matters. How ever near your friend brings you t him, you are to respe t his individ1u ality. Information that is purel personal you must wait for. It b does not volunteer it, be satistie that he has his reasons. Ro no't see -above all, do not claim-it is right of your friendship. Be gener ous, not exacting. The more one speaks of himself th less he likes to hear anothaer talked o: What seems to us the merest accider springs from the deepen; source of dec tmny. If we are satisfied with what hi been found out, we shall find out notl ing more. If tact could be sold, only such as ar already possessed of it would want t buy it. Do your duty, and do not troubi yourself whether it is in the cold or b a good fire. Repentance clothes in grass an flowers the grave in which the past laid. The imaginations of men are in great measure under the control of .he: opimions. Content can soothe, where'er by foi tune placed; can rear a garden in a d TOR FATE WOULD HAVE IT SO. e L, years: The shadows fell across the way .r more than sunny beam: Fierce storms; and clouds, whose monotone of Unbroen was by gleam Of light; the wind in hurricane swept by, And laid my castles low t I never dared again to build them high, b Fate would not have it so! All passed: There dnward a better, brighter day. The softest zephyr-breeze Stirs myriad green-clad branches by the way. e And sings among the :r'es, In cadence of a thousand stringed harmony A chiming sweet an !f w. 6 The time is wondrous fair!-you came to me, For fate woul have it so. e HIS JEALOUSY CURED. Mr. Andrew Frosty chanced to re side in one of a long straight' row of houses, no one of which bore any special mark on its front by which it could be distinguished from another. Each had seven steps and a portico. Tack on another item. Mr. Frosty was terribly jealous of his wife. Now, it is an awful tlacg for a man to be C jealous of his wife at all, with or without reason. ' When man or wile falls into such a habit as that they may as well draw their cotton caps over their eyes and say good night to the world. Living is no sort of yi object to them. But whether Mr. Frosty had anj reason to be jealous of his wife is not what we are going to settle. And a yet we never thought he could have, Y for a more amiable wife than she - made him it would be bard to hnd. a Mrs. Frosty was young and beauti tul, and her manners were very tak. t Ing. It may be that these were Mr. Frosty's reasons for his jealousy: but I If so, why didn't he marry a plainer t womain? 0 Not many doors off and in the same e row of awellings livea Col. Sawyer, e who rather prided himself on being esteemed a gentleman. lVitnout as suming to be what is popularly, V .termed a ladies' man, he nevertheless was extremely particular in his car a riage toward them, aiming always to P Impress them with a sense of his Ler. Y fect purity, chivalry, and truth. No , one in the neighborhood ever sus y pected him of being capable of in. .1 ulting anyone-least of all a lady. e Mothers held him up to their sprout I Ing sons as an example. of the lofty 9 and true, and fathers spcke of him Z to their daughters, and hoped that it they ever thought of marriage they a would be satisted with nothing less 8 than a character like this. D Coming home musingly, and with ? his head bent, one evening, the s Colonel thought no such accident was D possible as that he should mistake his own house, especially as he had been in and out that way so many times. Perhaps the very fact that he felt such a confidence was the greater reason why he should make a mistake after all. But as he was very much occupied with his reflections he aban doned himself entirely to what he knew of the way bomne, and thought Ihe should reach there in good time. - The consequence was that he quietly Sslipped himself through Mr. Frosty's - front door, hung up his hat and coa$ Sin the hail, and startea for the din - ing-room. I As all the houses in the row were e so much alike on the outside, their e internal arrangements were pretty -much on the same pattern. Mr. s F'rosty's hail seemed like his own, and a the dining-room door opened where .h:s did. - The instant he opened the door he r began to awakcen to his error. The e table was spread in the middle of the i room, and Mrs. Frosty sat near the. a grate re'iding. e "Ah!" he exclaimed, bowing and scrap ng confusedly. "I beg pardoni Really, Mrs. Frosty, I beg pardon!" In a moment the astonished lad)' was on her feet, her face flushed with the nattural excitement of so un looked-for a visit. She knew not Swhat to say, -"This is a ludicrous mistake, I de oldare, Mrs, Frosty." said the Colonel. "Here I am invading your house, -when I. thought 1 was safe and snug in my own. This comes of these flkouses wearing such similar faces. But it Is my first mistake and I hope Syou will excuse me." Mrs. Frosty comprehended in. Sstantly, and laughed heartily. -"1 may get caught so myself, you know," she said, '-and we are always -grateful for a call from you, Col. Saw Syer. Nqow you are here, and dinner will soon be on the table, why don't you sit down with us? I am expect. Ingt my husband every minute." The Colonel began to thank her and excuse himself on account of 9 urgent business engagements for the evening, Dut while he was doing sc a the front door was heard to open. t "There," said Mrs. Frosty, "my -bush-and is comIng now. You'll not be detained any longer than you a would at home. Come, I1 think you'd 2 better stay." r Along came Frosty through the a hall, and his sour face would have a turned sweet milk in a ts,:nkling. 'The instant he caught the sound of a male voice in the dining-room - his old suspicions began to flame up 3 again. As soon as he could creep along as faras the door in his stealthy way and look in through the crevice and see who was there, his rage burst all bounds and made him a temporary madman. Colonel Sawyer and his wife were In the room alone, ~nd that was quite enough. "Now, what does this mean, sir?" abouted the enraged husband, dash lag up before the thunderstruck Colonel. "This is just what I have tbeen expecting for a long time. 1 -knew there was some mischief like this afoot. What are you doing in' s iny house? Tell me, sir-or march oursel~f out sooner than you came e The Colonel had got over his as o onishment enough to cominence a calm explanation, when Mrs. FErosty, bursting into tears, threw herself be 7 fore ner angry husband and implored him to be silent, for it was a trifling mistake. and Colonel Sawyer would immediat~eiv explain It all. But the enraged man would heaa s othing. "Leave the room:" he exclaimed to his wife. "'ll1 hear nothing from r you! I've had disgrace enough brought i me already. Leave the room!" - Mortiacd and in tears she passed -out to brood over her misery and mngtt fintinn alne. . eawyer essayeu to negimtnonutz t was exceedingly hard work and he cold accomplish n-thing but with almost super-huwan effort. "I mistook the house, sir, that it all," said he. "Mfy intentions were perfectly honorable, and out of this house, sir, you shall not call themn in question without being held person ally responsib!e. I am quite ready to leave the place, I assure you." le began to do so. "That is all very well to say," re plied the jealous husband. "I should advise you in the future, however to be a little more careful before you go into other persons' houses and see if your own number extends the whole length of the street:" Col. Sawyer withdrew, resolved te nave no further words with such a creature. He saw that he was be side himself with jealousy, and he knew that speech would be wasted upon him. Perhaps it was a couple of months after this that a party of gentlemen lingered rather late at luncheon at a tavern, and forgot that it was fairly I o'clock in the afternoon, until they found it had long ago struck 6. They were all jolly fellows: thei !yes were flashing and their cheeks were getting rosy. The luncheon must have put them in the best of spirits-or, rather, the best of spirits in them. Among them was Andrew Frosty. If there was anyone of them par ticularly "mellow," it was but fair to say it was Frosty. He bad evidently improved his opportunities during the luncheon. Going out into the bracing air aftei such a banquet, Mr. Frosty began to feel the eifects very sensibly. By hook and by crook he tinaly sailed found to the street in wh ch his domicile stood, pushing along till he thought he had got about where he ought to live, and went up the steps. After hanging up his greatcat and hat in the hail, he stepped along to the door of the dining-room and opened it. Who should suddenly ap pear to him as he looked around the room but Co!. Sawyer's wife! Fro;ty rubbed his eyes, stammered, made half a bow, felt wholly lost, and finally gave it up. '-1 declare!" he exclaimed, looking blanker than the wall; 'Ive mis. taken the house!" "Oh. no, my dear sir," said Col. Sawyer, immediately rising and going up to him, "you have done no such thing; you know you have not! You nave only stolen in here to bring dis race upon my family. . I've been suspecting this, sir, for a long time, and now, sir, I'll just walk out my self with you and be at the trouble of finding your own house for you." Upon this the Colonel put on his aat and coat, and insisted on accom panying Mr. Frosty home. Not a syllable of explanation would h6 listen to. "31h, no, no:" he would say, when sver Frosty began to apologize. "I understand it well enough- I see how it is. It's all very well to say you've lost the way into my house, but I should for the future advse you before going into other persons' houses to just look and see if your own number runs the length of the street." Just the lasnguage Frosty had be.. ore used to him, and just what sealed his lips. Frosty was iloored completely. But that was the best of it. The Colonel insisted on going home with him and going in; and he oYered his services in such a way that Frosty could not have shaken him off, even if he was not himself rendered submissive by reason of his own mor tification. The Colonel, therefore, went in. and told Mrs, Frosty about it, which so thoroughly pleased that amiable lady that, in view of previous circum stances, she set up a resistless laugh in the face of her bumbled lord, in the midst of which his very polite es cort took occasion to quietly writh draw. But Frosty was thoroughly cured f his jealousy, for he admitted that it was quite poss~ble for a respectable man to mistake even the number of his own door.-Tid-Bits, Favors Indefinite Sentences. A very strong argrument for the "indefinite sentence" of crim nals, with probationary Charles A. Collin at the recent anniversary meeting ot theMassachusetts Prison A ssociation. Professor Coll-n regards this system as,"the fdundation corner stone of any rat'onal, scientific methods of treating prison conve ts." "The transformation of the triminal into a servteable member of soc ety," hie said, "is the only effective protection of socety against h'm. The mere temporary caging of the crminal as a wild beast is a protection to society for the time being,it is true. But if, when he is let out of his ( age, he is worse than when he went in, he may be more wary and ( unn ng thereafter, but he will be more dangerous to so -iety than before he was caged." Under the present system the convict is discharged at the- end of a fixed term with a new suit of clothes andi a few dollars in his I ozrket. "How many graduates of Iharvard Uni vers ty," Professor j Collin asks, "dro; ped upon the world in such a fashion, with all the benetits in chara ter, ability, and reputaton which Harvard can give them, w th no friends except su h as beckon them to haunts of vice and criminal ways of earning a Hiving--how many Hiar ard graduates under such circum stances would get through the next two years without being compelled to beg, borrow or steal? How, then can you exi ect the d scharged prison con vect, wth the firmest of good resolu tions (as many at that moment have-, but with no satisfa~tory references to previous employment, with no friends of whom he can borrow, intoxicated with the sudden sense of freedom, to avoid the commission of new crimnes before he can earn an honest livine.:-' 3A5E BLANDER. Two visitors were observing with ad. miration the noble form of a passing pO liceman. MFine looking man," sai-i one. "Elegant," said the other. "Do you suppose he ever caught any body or anything?" "Don't know. The newspaperi1 though, say it's a poor policeman thi~t can't catch a nap occainally."-Detroit PRue Prea - NO MORE CHAMELE'ONS. Che S. 11. C. A. Puts a Veto on the Traff4 In Little Lizards. One of the largest men's furnish in stores in this city, located on Sixth avenue, and which has been >ue of the lar-zest dealers in the lit ,le li ards which have been sold as :hameleons, to-day posted notice in their window that no more were for ;ale. The Society for the Prevention >, Cruelty to Animals puts a stop te lhe trarlic. Yesterday the agents of the societ3 went to the aifferent stores and iotified all dealing in the little hings, that at a meeting of the sa ;iety it had been decidea that the minnerof conflningtbem with chains md the ignorance of buyers as how >r when to feed them, was downright :ruelty, and, therefore, the sale vould have to cease. It was not de :ideJ, however, what would be done ,vith aoout 10,000 of them now on 3and in this city, or the two car loads on their way here, from Mobile [ay, but it is suggested that they be 'etained until spring, and then let oo-e in this vicinity as an experi nent as to whether they could be ome acclimated or not to our rigor )us winters. Mr. -imon Flatow, 'ormerly of New Orleans. said to-day: "I am glad this 'fake fad' is playing ut. Down in Louisiana our little :hildren play with these lizards and cnow how to trep tnew. Here the eopfe do not seem to know an ani nate, suffering animal from a scarf )in. The real chameleon is no more ike these lizards than a shoe button s like a diamond. The chameleon is )rten a foot long. The chanzing of he color is brought about by the in usion of blood into grains, in the old, naked skin, plainly perceptible o the naked eye, and this renders it fascinating study to the average in. ellectual mind. "How New Yorkers can be so de, eived with such slimy little lizards is these is more than I can fathom. [t only goes to show that the average vew Yorker Is not well informed. ['hese lizards are found in millions )n the small tributaries of the blis ssippi, above and in the delta, as veil as on the banks of most of the ivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. ks for myself, I should like the con ract of supplying th s prolile uarket, so susceptible to 'fake fads,' vith these 'mud chameleons,' at four ents each."-New York News. AN INDIAN'S CHILDHOOD. Tany Adventurous Rides in Queer Convey ances. One of the earliest recollections 6! y ad venturous childhood is the ride . had on a pony's side, says a writer a St. Iicholas. It seems strange to hink of riding in this manner; nev theless, the Indian mode of life nade it possible. T was passive in he whole matter. A little girl ousin of mine was put in a bag and uspended from the horn of an In ian saddle, but her weight must be alanced or the saddle would not re nain on the animal's back. There ore, I was put into a sack and made *o keep both the saddle and the girl n the proper position! I scarcely bjected to the manner of the ride, or i had a very pleasant game of eek-a-boo with the little girl, until ye came to a big snowdrift, where he pt or beast was stuck fast, and >egan to -ie down. Then it was not o nice. This was the convenient and prim tive way in which some mothers acked their children for winter oarneys. Ilowever cold the weather night be the inmate of the fur-lined ack was usually very comortable t least, I used to think so. I be eve I was treated to all the preca. -us Indian conveyances, and, as a >oy, I enjoyed the dog-travois ride as uch as any. These travois con isted of a set of rawhide strips se urely lashed to the tentp: les, ivhich vere harnessed to the sides of the an mal as if he stood between shafts, hile the iree ends were allowed to rag on the ground. Both ponies .d a large kind of dogs were used as easts of burden, and they carried in his way the smaller children as well s the baggfage. This mode of traveling for children ras possible only during the sum aer, and as the dogs were sometimes nreliable, the little ones were ex osed to a certain amount of danger. or instance, whenever a train ot ogs had been traveling for a long ime, almost perishing with the heat nd their heavy loads, a glimpse of rater would cause them to forget verything else for it. Some of them, a spite of the screams of the women, rould swim with their burdens into be coolina stream, and 1 was thus ot infreuuently conipelled to partake f an unwilling bath. What Is Pride? 'Father," said his son, looking p from a book, ''what is pride?" "Pride," returned the father Pride: Why-a-oh, surely you nown what pride is. A sort of be g stuck up-a kind of-well. proud, ou know. Just get the dictionary; hat's the thing to tell you exactly rhat it is. There's nothing like ~a ictionary, Johnny." "Here it is," sa id the latter, after n exhausting search. "'Pride, be 1g proud.' " "Um--yes, that's it," repLed the ither. But-"' "Well, look at 'proud.' That's the ray-you'e got to hunt these things ut, my lad." "I've got It," answered Johnny Pre-pri-pro'-why-" "What does It say:-" S'Proud, having pride.' " "That's it. There you are, cleat s day. I tell you, Johnny, there is othing like a good dictionary when au are young. Take care of the inding, my son, as you put it back'" -musing Journal. Cheap Indellie ink. Banana luice is said to make an ad irable indellth'e ink. The juice of dead-ripe banana certainly makes a taim that even old Father Time h;m-. af does not seem to oc able to re iove. Tuiere are certainly, at pres nt no known chemicals which will assen it in the least degree. The uice from a thoroughly decayed a-n is a bright emnar carmine. OBJECTED TO THE MORGUE, An Injured Man Prevails on the Corones to Await the Result of BIS burr. A policeman at the Nicetown Sta Lion, while patroling his beat yesterday. morning,*found what appeared to him to be a dead man lying beside the - tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad A and promptly notified the sergeant of t his discovery, says the Philadelphia t Times. The sergeant telegraphed to 1 to the coroner to that effect and Dis- s: srict Deputy Matthews was sent ott to d investigate the case. In the meantime p the crew of the in-bound train, thi.nk- a ing to start the body of the unfortu- v nate toward the morgue, loaded it into o the baggage car, and when Matthews t reached the scene he was discomfitedto o find that his errand was for nothing. b The "corpse" was bowling along to- v ward Thirty-second and Market streets, a surrounded by the baggage man, con- tl ductor, and a traveling salesman, who a made remarks about the deceased. g Suddenly they were startled to hear b the object c~ their conversation re- h mark: e< "Where am I going?" b; "To the morgue," responded the con. ti ductor, when he recovered. 0, "Oh, I am, am I?" sarcastically re- t sponded the object. "You take me to P, 4 hospital." The baggage man tried to show the C sufferer how wrong it would be to A change the order -of his consignment, . but he insisted on a hospital, and so he P1 was sent to the Presbyterian. He had G not been there long when Deputy Mat- d thews, breathless, but triumphant, hav- h ing "nailed" the corpse, rushed in and r4 demanded: ti "Where's the man struck at Nice. town?" D "There," said a doctor, pointing to c the patient, and Matthews was pre- C paring to grab him and rush him into W the dead wagon when the lively corpse a demanded: "Who are you?" "Deputy Coroner," courteously re. sponed Matthews, proceeding with his preparations. "See here," said the injured man, f 'this is too much; I'm not dead." "Ain't you?" said Matthews. "Why, you're reported a corpse two hours qgo."o e The man protested against any suct proceeding and Matthews went away. The man gave his nanw at the hospital as John Hartley of Michigan street, Nicetown. He does not know how he keceived his Injuries, which are serious, but it is supposed that he was struck by a train. Tricky Ponies. IE The Western ranchman puts a bell 01 About his horse's neck as the people of r the East place bells about the necks of o their cattle, to aid in their detection I when at large. Occasionally, a horse shows a cunning determination to out- st wit this precaution of his master. The XE stable of the western horse often has fr no rafters but the outspread limbs of " trees; no ceiling but the vault of tl heaven; no flooring but the sod. The a: ranchman never had to put food in his d< horse's manger, and when he wants to tl us him he must go forth on the range 5t and seek him in unnumbered stalls. si To aid him in finding his steed bi guckly, he "hobbles" him, and pusa se bell abot~hicnel~fot 10a animal sometimes plays a trick on his in master. He gets behind some thick- th growing clum of cedar or mesquite,and fr stands still, absolutely motionless, so ed~ that his bell will not make the slight- hi est sound. The man in search of him 11 listens Intently for the sound of the w, bell. He is sure he knows the sound hi of that horse's bell from a dozen oth- ca ers. He hears nothing. Going fur- hi ther, he pauses to listen again; then, se not hearing the slightest sound to in- be dicate the vicinity of any breathing nc creature, the owner of that very Intel* tb ligent animal proceeds to travel much to further than he had anticipated, won- a dering-how the precious horse could a have strayed so far, all hobbled as he 44 is. All the while that precious hors Is in comfortable hiding in some shel tered nook,f it be winter- in aoool, shady place if it be summer-enjoying vi the joke, or the thought of the long ax journey or irksome task he has gotten ax id of. _______to: oI: Ee*8 a Youthful Voyagre. Willie Mackin Is a 13-year-old, very w3 small for his age, who blew in here the th other day from Winnipeg, says the Dui- de uth Commonwealth. The police picked ge him up at the Windsor, where he was th 1rying to get a job "bell hoppin," as he th ixpressed It. e He's a bright-eyed, freckled-faced, it ed-haired urchin. He rode on a freight chi some distance out of Winnipeg and at then hid under the seat of a passenger is a, He is without a relative In the is World, and two years ago was sent out is of Itamsgate, England, with 100 other ce. waifs to lve on the Manitoba prairies. the Ee didn't like it on the farm, so he pa drifted into Winnipeg. That place th< Udn't suit him, so he left it. co: Willi thought it very funny ~to see is the street cars running here Sunda. t was so different from Winnpeg,~ then he wanted to go to church, so the hef let him go. A lumberman with d small purse and a big heart shared o ;s bed with Willie at the Columbia. co otel and fed birg and togged him Qut Ne i new undefclotlies. When lhe showed Bi p at headquarters the Chief fixed hima , mt with a bath, and now Capt. Miller un s devising a way t~o send him be~ek to Vinnipeg, for whichi he has S. wamr th< pot than he thought. You think Willie's lot is a hard org., t is. And yet there are lots of pleas mt spots in it. Friends are bobbing j .p every day to give him a lift, how. s ver small. ba "How many meals have you m'issed, ol Nillie, singe you1 came to D'uluth?" ha ho ~as asked. e "Only one.' O No ~ Sshould be sntimental after e is thirty, or a woman after shg ia orty. A LIGET THAT FAILED. Mrs. Nothing-"Mary, what is this trouble between you and your .hus*. thi and?" to< Mrs. It--"He's a brnte! You know p that lovely piarno lamp I wanted for so long and gave him on his birthday! kii Well, he said it was lovely, and just col what he wanted; and then the horrid me wretch took it down to his office next ter HE -BOULDER WAS ALIVE Lf Apache Trick That Nearly Coat. Courier rIs Lift in Arisona. "Talking of Indians and their strata, ems," said D. A. Marston, lately of the Tnited States cavalry, to a New York un man, "they are past masters of the rts of skulking and deceiving. An .pache will lie behind a soapweed on ie open prairie, and you may ride past wo or three hundred yards away and ever have an idea that there is a red kin within fifty miles of you, unless he ecides to risk a shot at you. As you ass the soapweed he works his body round so as to keep It always in line 'th the plant and you. Even on the pen prairie, with no more shelter than iat afforded by some little Inequality I surface, he will sift dust over his Ddy, flatten himself out, face .down. -ard, against the ground, and, lying s motionless as a stone, will escape ie observation of any except sharp ad practiced eyes. Sometimes, In a rove of cactus or Spanish bayonet, his ckskin garments blending with thO aes of the plants, his face and neck mncealed by the head of i Spanish iyonet, he will stand like a post, Indis aguishable to the Inexperienced eye, ren at close quarters, from the gro sque plants hbout him. A queer ex ?rence of this kind occurred to me In y service In Arizona during Gen. rook's last campaign against the paches. Tom Merriam, of my troop, d myself were detailed to carry dIs itches from Camp Bowie to Camp rant, up on the Bio Benito. It was a ingerous service at that time, and we id to keep a sharp lookout and be ady to fight or run at a moment's no ce, for there was no knowing at what )Int on the route the Apaches mighl >t be lying In wait to jump us as we ume along. We were on our return tu amp Bowie and had just crossed the ooded canon where the cold spring is id were coming out upon the open ,alrie that stretches down to the San dro River when through the branch of a low tree I saw what I took to be i Indian on the plain, about a hal ile ahead. But on spurring my hors" rward so as to get a better look noth g was to be seen but the bare prairie, ith no sign of man or beast upon its ipanse. As we rode along I spoke o1 Le matter to Tom, who laughed at hat he called my scare, which he said Lused me to see imaginary Indians. le. came opposite a low, gray boulder >on the prairie 200 paces or so frou e trail. "'I don't remember ever to have seen Lat rock before,' said Tom, who had ,en over the route several times. Sow the devil didIt get there? I'li ride er and take a look at Itl' And he Ined his horse and rode toward the )ect. I followed him, a few yardt hind. "His horse had searcely takeri a dozen eps when the seeming gray rock oved slightly upward and there came om Its lower edge a flash and report, th the scream of -a big caliber ball at flapped Tom's coat with Its wind, id caused his horse to plunge so sud mly that Tom, one of the best riders In e troop, not being on the lookout -for eh a happening, was thrown. At the _ ue Instant an Apache leaped from meath the gray blanket that had rved him to u iriie kEdeer for thecanep g to left and right as he went to avoid e shots that Tom and I sent after him om our repeating carbines. We knock up the dust about his feet and made i do some tall dodging to the whist. ig of our bullets, but that was all, for a ddn't hit himn. To have chased m would have been folly, first, be use we were bearing dispatches in ste and needed the last ounce of re ee force in our horses, and, secondly, cause with the start he had we should t have overhauled him in his-run for a canon, into which we could not have Ilowed him. So we took the trail ai and rode our way with another -inkle added to our experience of -In m trickery and cussiness." A Life Insurance Scheme. I London manufacturing firm has de ied a scheme for attracting custom d advertising itself. On Dec.215 the aount receIved from each of Its cus aers from Nov. 1 last will be reck ed up. Should It exceed ?20 a free e insurance policy available for the ole of next year will be Issued for e amount received. Thus, If a retail aler has paid within that period for od purchased the total sum of ?65 is amount will be paid to his heirs In a event of his death from any cause cept suicide during 1895. Similarly, amount by the value of his pur ases during next year,-will be Issued the end of it. to be in force during 96. No individual Insurance policy to exceed ?800, and no customer who more than 60 years of age will, ex it by special arrangement, share In Sbenefits of this scheme. In case of rtnership the policy will be Issued to Syoungest member of the firm. The tract Is guaante~ed by an old-estab lied life office.-Troy Times. Ancient Boat Exhumed.' remarkable discovery was made_ ring the work of excavating the site a repairing slip now In course of struction on the shore of Lough agh, near the mouth of the River ekwater, in Ireland. The workmen ne upon an ancient boat imbedded der five feet of dense bla k bog, and asuring 23feet lo de in center, ta 2 feet S ,lbles in a Prison. the convict prison at Copenhagen >thrs are allowed to have their bes with them till they are one year: ; then they are taken to the work ase until the mother's term of sen Lce has expired., Ve wonder what the result would b te balloon sleeves the women wea~ >uld become Inflated. A MArrER oW scCrmTC DIEEST. Visitor (picking up the baby)-'-"Sc s is the baby, isit Bless his little tsie-wootsies. Echets-ei Watch me Ice u's ribs!" rhe Boston Baby~.-"other, will yon idly inform me whether the deplorable dition of this person is due to per j ent dementia or spasmodic and ini mittent insaniitg"a.Qhicago N@wV wKICK ME TILL I HOLLER." 30race Greeley's Request of a Proofe Reader, Who Was, of Course, Right. Greeley, as Is well known, was a %rank on election figures and knew ex inetly how every county ald town in the State was in the hait of going. A i.light change in favor of his own party would till him with satisfa-:tion. One tay, says the New York Express, he C:tue Into the office overjoyed that the lIepublcans had carried Westchester County in a local election. As usual, he wrote an editorial, and put a con jarative table in the middle of the arti *-le, compiled from the Tribune alma- i :ac. When the paper came out next 1 lay the figures were misplaced, the Re :iublican vote appearing in the Demo ratlc column, and vice versa, so that the comments did not at all fit the case stated. Mr. Oreeley came down in a towering rage, and in a whirlwind of [rofanity demanded of his subordinate in charge whether there was a proof reader on the paper and whether any >ody in the office had a grain of sense. "Why, yes, Mr. Greeley; you know >ld man So-and-So is the proof reader, .md has been for years. But what is *!e matter?" "Matter! Blankety, blank, blanki latter! Why, some blankety, blank, olank has gone to work and changed tl'e figures in that Westchester article so as to make the blankest nonsenso out of it." "I don't think anybody would havk rentured to change your figures, Mr. Greeley. Don't you think you had bet ter look at the copy before pitching into the proof reader? You know he is very careful." "I'll do nothing of the kind," said the I Ad man, as he shuffled upstairs. "I'll I kick him out of the composing-room. I C won't be made a fool of in this way." - I Upstairs there was a scene very likc that below, with the variation that Grceley told the proof reader that he ought to be kicked from one end of the composing-room to the other. With the proverbial placidity of proof read ers and their provoking readiness for such emergencies, the man assailed quietly went to the hook and taking therefrom Greeley's own copy held It under his eyes witui the single remark: ''ltead that, sir." Greeley did read it. There was si lvnce for a moment, and then his face assumed a look of mingled contempt and disgust. Then he turned around with his back to the proof reader, lift ed his coat-tails, and said, loud enough 'o be heard all over the room: "Iere, Sam, kick me, and kick me till I holler." GUARDING THEIR GRAVES. lueer Monuments Erected by the In diana of Alaska. The Indians of the Northwest, liki the natives of all other countries, have many customs which seem queer to the average man of civilization. One of them is that of placing totems over the graves of deceased relatives. This custom of marking grave~s is not of it sef so unique, for we do the same thing ourselves, but the objects used for monuments are peculiar. A totem ONUMIENT EREOTED BY AN~ INDIAN .1I s noth~ng more than an image of ~arved wood. An Indian cemetery resents a strange appearance. On the rave tay be seen a rudely carved hale, on another a dog, another has a erpent, or a lion or some other animaly familiar to the Indian. The picturei iven herewith was taken in an Alas an cemetery and represents the Im ge of a wolf (though the animal re-a embles an aligator more than any- 1 hing else) placed by a dutiful Indian girl over the grav-e of her mother. In Sheep's Clothing. One of the queerest animals in ex-D stence is now on its way to New York. U t is a woolly horse, covered from head I o hoof with curly wool like that of a heep. This strange equine overcoat d s of many shades--white, brown and t ray. The wool is knotted up In tight ~ Ittle curls all over the horse's body, so hat if seen at a distance, you would be ~ uite apt to fancy it was an uncommou y large sheep. Its head is rather small r than that of most horses. Altogether ennie (that is the horse's name) is a lt subject for a menagerie, and very ikely may yet see the inside of one in 'ew York. Jennie was raised In Sshen etady, where her owner made a great et of her for some years. All the chil ren in the neighborhood rode her as . ften as they were allowed, and none f them ever met with a mishap, for 5 the horse is as gentle as a kitten. A ew York horse fancier saw Jennie the other day and purchased her for ig sum of money, Intending to exbibiF er In that and other cities. Lefthanded Praise. i An exchange reports another of those miable criticisms that one hears some- j' imes between friends. Jones has come Into Brown's studio. ad is looking about the walls. Sud- a enly he pauses before a sketch. o 'I say, Harry," he says, "where dii: o get that?" "Why, I got it out of my head." "Well, it's lucky for your head thn ou got it out" Like a Man. n The skeleton of the leathery-wing.- ~ oat Is, bone for bone and joint for josin b imiar to that of man. A DELIGHTFUL BUMINIscEXcE. Mrs. Gothami-"What did you most njoy during your trip abroad?" L Miss Flightie-" My visit to the homn, ~ f Thomas Carlyle. 'You did?" "Yes, indeed. Thc handsomest young i an I ever saw was watching me when wrote my name in the visitors' book." -Neow York Weekly.