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TRI-WEUKLY EDITION. WINNSBO-RO, Sm C., MAY 2 1895. SALSE*89 FISHlPr. One day Sally said to me; Let's go fishin'," (Just the very thing. you see, For which I'd been a-wishin'Z) So I got my tackle up Bait enough for twenty; Hand in band acrost the land, Went where fish was plenty. But the honeysuckies dangled. An' we hear i the blossoms fall: An' somehow the lines got tangled An' we couldn't fish at all! s- An' so we let the tackle go Forgot about the bait; An' I told her thiat I loved her An' that all the fish could wait. An' there I won her for my wife The joy which I was wishin'; Them lines, they tangled us for life, An' don't care now for fishin't GOING THRQUGH FIRD "But, Estbei, you know well enough that you,aid you'd set the day after harvestL was over, and here it's in Oc - And the tall, sunburned young man caught the girl's hand and looked arnestly in her face. Esther Hilton shook off his hand, turned her brown eyes away to the sweep of foothills that bounded the hor izon, and pretended to be intently studying the shifting cloud shadows on :rown and in cleft, but did not answer. "Esther!" And his voice grew more pleading. "Tell me what ails you! I've loved you for so long, and worked hard to get out of debt, so that I could ask you to marry me, and now, just because you've been contrasting me with that young Springer and his black mustache and tailor-made clothes, you vant to throw-me over." The girl started an& turned indig nantly, to protest or defend, but the blue eyes of the young man were turn ing darker, and anger was on his face md in His voice as he continued: "-i haven't any mustache; and if I wanted to raise one it would't be black, and I buy my clothes at the ready-made counter, but my mouth is never touched with either tobacco or profanity, and my clothes are always paid for-yes, xnd with money honestly earned, too!" Esther, now thoroughly roused, and on the defense for the absent and as aailed, blazed out. "Hal Morrison, if ycu think I'm small enough to be brought over to ou by such mean talk about Mr. you're mistaken in the girl. He's a gentleman," with a withering and unnecessary accent on the word, "and that's more than some people that I know. Just because he is better bred than you, .and knows how to treat a lady, and doesn't have to work, you are jealous, and try to turn his friends against him, but I-" Hal stopped her with a gentle earn estness, so quiet in his regained self control that he arrested her indigna tion. "Esiher, I didn't come to hurt your feelings or insult your friend, but to tell you about my little house that I'm building up the river. I began it after you told me that-that you'd some time come to live with me, and except your father's and Mose Hunter's it's the only one for five miles that's got a shingle roof and is plastered. Yes, and I intend to put a picket fence around the yard, so the chickens can't get at the flower beds; and," his voice sinking tower as he enumerated, "up in the barn, in the evenings, I'm making a set of book shelves for those poems that you are so fond of, and for my tolitical Economy." Esther's voice sounded harsh and marcastic in reply. "Mighty nice that blue plush copy of Tennyson that Mr. Springer gave me would look on your pine book shelves, wouldn't it? You can just go back to your shingle roof, Mr. Morrison, for I have no intention of spending my days here on a Kansas farm. I guess you don't know that Mr. Springer's sent out by a Chicago syndicate to buy up land, and that lhe says father's farm up in the bluffs has enough coal on it to make us rich.'' And while Hal sat by the door of his nalf-built house, with his head in his hands, until far in the night, Esther swung in her hammock in the grove of cottonwood trees near her door, watch ing the shifting pattern of the moon light falling so softly through the branches upon the ground beneath, and listening to the poetic, softly spoken phrases of Mr. Springer. The next day, as Hal rode Jim, his -favorite gray, to a farm up in the slopes of the bills, where the "gvng" or threshers had gathered to finish up their autumn's work, he noticed the purple haze on the horizon, and as tile wind swept down on the valley farms from off the brown hills, he viewed uneasily the curls of smoke, far in the south, "mingling with and darking the haze "First-rate day for a prairie fire," he soliloquized, with a feeling of confi dence in his own well-plowed fire guards. All day Hal worked like one poss essed-worked in the dust and roar of the threshing machine. Late in the afternoon one of the men shouted to him above the din: "Hal, got yer guards plowed? Look thar!" And the grimy finger pointed away to the southwest, where a cloud of blue and black gathered, roared, ad vanced, upheld by a line of red flame. Pillars of fire lifteli themselves aloft and fell in advance of the line. licking hungrily at the rich brown grass. Hal stood a moment with feeling of irresponsibility common to all of us when we know that we and ours are safe. The other man was speaking. "Hope Hilton's sife. It's bearin' right down his way." Speed and action suddenly came to1 Hal, He knew that Hilton's ipuards were set, but he remembered the ex panse qf brown pasture south of tle house. This wind might sweep the fire over the widest guards. Within two minutes his horse wab racing toward the valley. Alexander Springer strolled over the half mile between the farm-house where he boarded and Esther Bilton's home, and sat under the cottonwood trees, reading Tennyson, in his mellifluous voice. Esther was almost in paradise. ThE wind swayed the tree tops, but did not reach these two in their retreat. Suddenly she sprang to her feet and stood with head raised, inhaling the air. Then she ran swiftly around the house, followed by her companion. They saw the fire coming down on them with a hiss, roar and crackle. "The horses!" she cried, pointing out on the prairie, in front of the ad vancing flame, where several of the animals pawed and sniffed in terror. "Come, they are picketed fast, and we must save them. Father left them in my care." "But, Miss Esther," expostulated Mr. Springer, with white face, and wringing his hands, "we can't really, you. know, for it wouldn't be safe. I -would help you if-if- Well, I must think of my duty to my company and I don't know what they would do - Oh, really, Miss Esther!" And his voice wailed despairingly, as Esther turned a long, scornful look up on him. Then, in utter despair, he turned and fled. Once again the girl looked at the frightened horses. Did she dare? Just then her own pony threw up its head and whinnied at her loudly, as though caliing for help, and her mind was made up. Swiftly she sped over the browr grass, so soon to be blackend, holding her head low, that the advancing swirls f smoke might not blind her. She reached the first picket rope, threw all her str6ngth on the heavy iron picket pin, driven deep into the rouud, and it yielded, and the horse galloped away, thea the second and tne third. Last and farthest out was Gipsy, her pony. Reaching it, she tugged wildly at the rope, but it resisted. Again and again she tried. The pony was straining at the length of the tether, hindering her. The smoke blinded her, and particles of charred grass were whirling about her Just as the impulse came to her tc throw her face downward on the ground and let the flames sweep over her, the iron pin loosened. Then there came in her ears, along with the rushing of the fire, the sound of a hurriedly-galloping horse, and out of the Very breadth of the flame, Esther was caught in a pair of strong arms nd lifted to a saddle, and she heard Hal Morrison's voice, urging his good gray horse. Right at their heels roared and tow ered the flames, but the horse passed the guard in safety and reached the greener grasq of the yard. The fire chased them to the edge o1 the plowing, and then san~k down, silently. Esther raised her head and looked into her rescuer's face. It was grimy with dust from the threshing machine and soot from the fire. in his effort and anxiety: rivulets 0: perspiration had trickled down his cheeks, leaving white paths, but his veyes of steadfast blue held a world of love and of relief that the threatened danger was passed. "Oh, Hal, I wasn't worth it!" And her arms were clasped around his neck, while her brown head found refuge on his breast. But Hal,though he never said a word told her; by the close embrace he gave her, that he did not regret going through fire to gain her. Odd Preferences in Plows. Manager Frank M. Whitney, of the 'e'* Castle Plow Works, makes a curi ous assertion. He says: "Plows are made differently for certain counties and States. The tendency of a son is to use the same kind of a plow used by his father. In Lawrence County the use of the left-handed plow Is al most the rule, but in Mercer County the right-hand plow Is used, and this' anaccountable difference in the kind of plow used extends to other States n the Union. In central and castern Pennsylvania the left-handed plow Is used, and wherever the Amish German farmers have emigrated from this county the Eons are almost sure to use the left-handed plows. We would never dream of sending a left-banded plow to Michigan, neither would we to Ohio. Among German p~eople only left handed plows are used, while the re verse Is the case with people from Mex co and Italy. I cannot tell why this Is so, but t is."-Pttsburg Dspach. Newspapers of the World. The total number of newspapers pub lished in the world at present Is esti mated at about 50,000, distributed as follows: United States and Canad1a,I 0,034; German, 6,000; Great Britain ,000; France, 4,300; Japan, 2.000;! taly, 1,500; Austria-Hungary, 1,200; Asia, exclusive of Japan, 1,000; Spali, $0; Russia, 800; AustralIa, 800; Greece, X'0; Switzerland, 450; Holland, 300; Belgum, 300; all others, 1,000. Of these uore than half are printed in the Eng lish language. Whenever you buy or sell, let or hira , make a definite bargain, and never rust to the flattering lie, "We shan't lisagree about trifles."-Anon. About all that a college education ;oes for a young man is to Inflate his concei. A little learned thorougbly is suipe ior to an abunudance that is superficial POWER OF BRAINS. Yntellect and Not Capital, the Key to Wealth. The unthinking advocates of labot often point to the colossal fortunes made by manufacturers, and assume that like results could be obtained by co-operation, says EngIneering. But it will usually be found on examination that manufacturing had very little to do with the accumulation of the wealth to which they refer. An example is to be found in the history of the late Sir William Pearce, related by Lord Kel vin at the unveiling of his statue a short time ago. Under his ownership the Fairfield shipyards advanced by leaps and bounds, and in a few years he amassed an enormous amount of money. But it is well known that Sir William was a skillful and most suc eessful speculator, and that without em ploying a single man, other than clerks and secretaries, he could have gained great wealth. Even in his business the methods were entirely his own and %egal in their audacity. Instead of waiting in the anteroomb of ship owners to crave for orders, he put a pressure upon them that could not be resisted. He boldly placed a ship on the Atlantic that eclipsed the renown of all that were then running and announced that lie would build others which should run either for or against the existing lines. In the Isle of Man service he forced the running in a similar manner, and, in a word, was a power that some ship owners had to take into their business calcu lations. His gains were those of intel lect-not capital. Of course, capital constituted the tools he worked with, as it was also the reward of his efforts. Such gains are as inaccessible to co. operators as the moon to the crying lhild. -, ' - Capital alone has ceased to be a source of wealth. It may produce a moderate return if carefully managed, but the days when it grew like the roll ing snowball, by being simply turned over and over, are passed in this coun try. In the hands of a man of com manding ability, however, it acquires another significance. Just as a crowd of Ignorant peasants can be converted into an army and used by a Napoleon to create an enormous empire in a few years, so money can be manipulated by some men to achieve marvelous re sults.' But such men know their worth, and If they are ever co-operators, it is only until they have climbed the first rung of the ladder. The possessor of the philosopher's stone does not need a partner. Sorrow and Human Kindness. A pale little lad in a west-bound .rain glanced wistfully toward a seat where a mother and her merry children were eating lunch. The tears gathered In his eyes, though he tried to keep them back. A passenger came and stood beside him. "What's the trouble?" he asked. "Have you no lunch?" "Yes, I have a little left, and I'm not so awful hungry." "What is it, then? Tell me; perhaps r can help you." "It's-it's so lonely, and there's such a lot of them u, er there, and-and they've got their mother." The young man glanced at the black band on the boy's hat. "Ah," he said Tently, "and you have lost yours?2" "Yes, and I'm going to my uffcle; but1 r've never seen him. A kind lady, the doctor's wife, who put up my lunch, hung this card to my neck. She told me to show it to the ladies on the car and they would be kind to me; but I didn't, show it to anyone yet. You may read t if you like." The young man raised the card and read the name and address of the boy.1 Below were the words: "And whoever shall give drink ontc ane of these little ones, a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple.I rerily I say unto you, he shall in no1 wise lose his reward." The reader brushed Il1s hand across iis eye" -":1 was silent for a moment. Then, "I-ll come back very soon," he said, and made his way to the mother and her children. And presently little George felt a pali of loving arms about him, and a worn an's voice, half sobbing, calling him a poor, dear little fellow, begged him to come with her to her children. And for the rest of that journey, at least,. motherless Georgie had no lack of "mothering."-New York Tribune. Napoleon's First Essay. 1 Before the close of this trip his fur ough had expired, his regiment het i been put on a war footing, and orders had been issued for the return of every i officer to his post before Christmas day. But in the execution of this fixed purpose the young Corsican patriot was heedless of military obligations to France, and willfully remained absent 1 from duty. Once more the spell of a wild, free 17~e was upon him; he was en listed for the campaign, though without I position or money to back him. The essay on happiness which he had preeted to the Academy of Lyons had failed, as a matter of cor-se, to win the prize, the judgos pronouncing It 1 "too badly arranged, too uneven, too dIsconneCted, and too badly written to deserve attention." This decision was I a double blow, for it was announcedC about this time, at a moment when t fame and money would both have beenC most welcome. The legacy of the old archdeacon remained the only resource of the family for the lavish hospitality which was required of a Corsican can didate according to. immemorial semi barbarous tradition.-The Century. The total depravity man, who drops In occasionally, says he knows a good many people, but not many good peo Die.-30toQl 'jip JOHN CHINAMAN GOES HOME .an't Resist Temptation to Celebratt new Year's in the Celestial Empire. Ching-Wah-Chang laid a big rot )f greenbacks, held together by a rub ber band, on the long counter 'n the ,ffice of the Canadian Pacific Itknead Dompany and asked the clerk in charge for a ticket to Hong-Kong. After show. ing the proper papers entitling him tc ntry into the United States, he wai anded a slip of bluish tinted paper fully a yard In length. Then he slid yff ten $10 bills from the roll and passed them over to the clerk. The ticket was 2arefully tucked away In the folds ol his loose-fitting coat, a pair of blinking yes hastily took in the surroundings, ind then Ching nimbly lifted hImsell aut of the office and made straight for Elarris- i avenue. "How is the passenger business to It China?" asked the Boston Herald re. porter of the young man who had cc waited on the Celestial customer. "Very good at this time of year. Wi 4 send out on an average about thirty. fve of the pigtails from Boston oii so very steamer between August and Jan uary, as the Chinese new year's cele bration takes place during that period, j it being an event that every Chinamar lelights to participate in." db "What's the fare from Boston to the Celestial kingdom?" t "One hundred dollars. This entitlei the traveler to a plain board seat from t ere to Vancouver, where he takes the steamer. These seats are so arranged ' that they may be pulled out like the berth on a first-class sleeping car, and is John has provided himself with a mattress he manages to put in thc aghts with comfort and ease." bi "How do they manage with regard te meals?" "They carry with them boxes ant ags of food prepared here, designed r to last them until their arrival at the mnd of the rail route. On the steamer the company provides the food. They c ire a happy-go-lucky crowd and amuse themselves during the long journey o n various ways. We allow them to de xbout as they please, knowing that ne tl idvantages will be taken of the privi. .eges extended to them. They are neal ?L n their habits, and,. best of all, nevei t. tick, no matter how great the grievance nay be. .te "On all our steamers Chinese coc re employed for thesteerage passen gers, so that the 4ngolians among :hem may have a for of the Flow ry kingdom many,= before they -each their destinatioi. -hile there ia iot any too much moneyfln carrying a 9 assenger nearly haltfway around the th obe for 4000, yetwhid the buinesa s brisk a fair profit Is realized. After in [)ecember the travel fron Boston will or Irop down to an average of three pas engers per steamer." hi HIS TOMB A WELL. inguia? Means Adopted by a Re it formed Gambler to Stay Reformed. 4t As incredible as It may seem, it h ievertheless a fact, says a Mount Clem ms correspondent of the Detroit Jour th ial, that there is a man now living fi :his city who has dug his own grave In bs he side of an old deserted well, several m 'eet down from the top. and placed a udely constructed coffin therein in such AS a manner as to baffle detection. AJ2 icquantance, bordering on to sincere 'riendship, for the last twenty years a etween the writer and this eccentric ndividuai, is what led to the divulg ng of his secret An ironclad oath not o reveal his name was demanded. He J0 hen proceeded to relate how the de rice and Intrigues of supposed friends 1ad led him into bad habits some years cr tgo In this city when gambling and dis- TI ;ipaton was at its height. He kept : :hem up until ruin stared him in the as 'ace. Resolution after resolution to 'm thange was broken. The hated vices 1d him with an Iron grip. "God ~nows," he said, "I tried hard to escape hem, but like the siren in ancient my-I ho-agy did these habit raw on ad oe time ago. Since that time all de ire for the fascinating but cruel siren e ~eems to have left me. Perhaps this to ~rewsome sight, which I often come td look at, has caused the change. But should my passion again return pu 'or the old life, and I break this, myj'w ast resolve, I shall come to this old 'orsaken well, climb down to where la! coffin is embedded, get into it, and ake a sufficient amount of chloroform 0o .o produce an everlasting sleep, wrapt he drapery of my overcoat around me o1 or a shroud, and declare myself inas- si er at last" The seriousness with which this mar h poke would leave no doubt as to hia fL >resert Intention, should the occasior dei lemand it. He is a man of intelligenco, nd is strongly averse to wrong-doing al other channels, but rather than fall >ack Into his former rough and rugged 6X )ath, and continue there, he will comn nit suicide, as above stated, and hide ed inmself forever. i Libellous. toe Is it unlawful to quote Scripture1 i'es, in some cases, and for some pur >oses. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reporto hat a grand Jury in Ohio has indicted r Sman for sending slanderous posta! !ards to one of his debtors. The objec lonable matter consisted of three Bibli co :al quotations; s "Owe no man anything," d( "Let us walk honestly."m "Many days and years shall ye be roubled." The grand jury of the English Ian- I ;age for the making of paradoxes, or .pparent but not real contradictions, is most unlimited. ID Themor las he orepetifgges' IRUMPET CALLMS wftarm Sounds a Warning NOW to the Unde"d. REASURE laid up in heaven is the only kind that Is absolutely safe. When you give others ad vice, take some of It yourself. The sermons of Christ were all to sinners In the church. No man back des while he is praising God with all s might. Love never complains that the price has to pay is too high. [nfidelity never wrote a line that was mforting on a death bed. n the drunkard's home the devil mn't try to hide his cloven hoof. t is because God loves us that he tries hard to tell us that sin will kill. When God gives us a cross it is a oof that he will also give us grace. The bolt which fastens the door of e heart against Christ is unbelief. The devil is still buying souls very Leap for the promise of spot cash. A baby sin has no more right to live an one that Is old enough to vote. No matter how much religion we pro ss, all that counts is what we live. Keep the Bible open and the door of e poorhouse will have to stay shut. No matter what kind of a house truth tilds, It always puts it on the rock. The best thing to do when we feel eak is to think how strong Christ Is. f our joy comes from God there Is n ason why it should not always last. o matter who has the floor, self-con it will always find a way to speak. The man who makes his own god has te that drives him with an iron whip. All truth Is nonsense to the man who Ls let a lie make its home in his heart. There is no land flowing with milk id honey that does not have giants in The Bible is the only book ever writ a that tells man how to become truly sh. There Is no good pasture anywhere the devil's country for the Lord's eep. Those who are sure of going to heav. want to take the whole world with em. The devil is proud of a grumbler, n. atter whether he belongs to a church not. The man who knows that God ti with , will always be very careful where steps. When God gives us a burden to carry is to show us that we need his rength. Keep the devil away from the chil en, and he will soon have to give up e saloon. - Dur neighbor sees our faults, but ha tsn't seen the bitter tears they have ade us weep. We hat. ouf' own sins most Wben we e them walking around in the shoes somebody else. As long as the devil can have his way out the saloon he will have one claw in through the church. All lies- have the -smell of brimstone their garments, no matter whether ey are black or Wrhite. Every time the devil makes a' hypo. Ite he has to admit that love Ia the eatest thing In the world.I If the devil ever rubs his hands with tisfaction, it is when he gets a good an to oppose a good cause. God often shows the sinner that ht wrong by bringing him in contact th somebody who is right Look into the drunkard's home, 1I. u would .see the tracks that have en made by the cloven hoof. There are people who seem to thini. at God only expects them to keep the n commandments on Sunday. Going out on a wet night to hear elec ) returns is one thing, and going to ayer meeting in the same kind of eather is another. The Woman in the Case. One very warm day in the mountanm. Tennessee I rode up to a house where ere was a woman drawing a bucket water with an old-fashioned well eep, and asked If she would give me drink. Shxe was only too glad to be spitable, and brought me out a gourd 1. As I drank it slowly and with cvi t relish, she watched me curiously. Purty good critter you air ridin'," .e ventured. "Thank you, yes; ihe belongs to a lend of mine." "Purty nice looking yerself," she add 1, in quite the same tone she had used speaking of the horse. "Thanks," I responded, surpriscd in blushing, but she never noticed it. "Air you married?" she went on. "No; I'm a bachelor." "Rekon yer erbout ez well ofL' that1 ty; p'raps a leetle better. I'm mar ad myself." Well, I think it would have been a eat improvement over my present dition if I had married some good, nsibe girl ten years ago and settled iwn. I'm sure I should have been a uch happier man." he thought for a minute before an 'ering. Likely," she saId, at last; "but how'd e woman be feelin' by now?" f course I had an argument to offer, t when I went away ten minutes later could see plainly she was thinking out the woman in the ase, - SET RID OF SMALL PESS. L State Entomologist Gives Bozn Points to Housekeepers. Those notorious household pests, but 'alo beetles, moths and ants, have fuL iished material for a report by State 0ntomologist C. H. Fernald, of Massa -husetts, which will soon be made pub. lc. The following abstract from the report is given by the Boston Tran. icript. "I have tried many methods for thL lestruction of the buffalo beetle and ind no more successful way of keeping L house free from them than by a very !areful watch for the beetles on the indows in February and March, a Irequent inspection of all woolen cloth pg not in constant use, a daily examin ition of pieces of red carpeting on the loors which are liable to be infested, o.nd carefully excluding the beetles !rom flowers brought into the house. It s desirable before putting down a car' ,et to saturate the cracks with benzin4 ind cover the floor very carefully witi !arpet paper or even with newspapers .n such a way that the larvae cannot ind access to the carpet from beneath. rhe beetles usually lay their eggs and :he larvae attacks the carpets under heirexposed edges,and theseparts may )e protected by washing over the edges tnd a few inches of the under sides ith a solution of corrosive sublimati b alcohol in the proportion of sixt.4 rains to one pint. The alcohol quickly vaporates, leaving the corrosive sub imate over all the fibers of the carpet here the application has been made. t must be remembered that corrosive iublimate Is a poison, and cannot be afely used where children play upon ,he carpet. "The larvae of the pitchy carpe. eetle Is often found feeding on car ,ets in the same manner as the buffalo eetle, and sometimes associated with t. There is but one generation in a rear, as indicated by those which have red, for larvae found in June did not ransform to perfect beetles until the ollowing May. The remedies for this est are the same as for the buffalo eetle. It is desirable, where rugs are sed instead of carpets, to take thein i1p and shake them out of doors fre. uently during the spring and summer. f carpets are used and they become in ested it is well to lay wet cloths along :he edges and to use hot flatirons on :hem. If this is done properly it will orce the steam down through the car )et, killing not only moth, but also any !arpet beetles that may be feeding be. weath. All garments liable to -be at. :acked by carpit beetles or clothes noths if not to be used during the sum. ner should be thoroughly ~shaken and :hen packed away in tight paper bags >r in pasteboard boxes, with a strip of >per pasted around the edge of the .over so as to leave no cracks. Small -ed ants often infest dwelling houses Ld become an intolerable nuisances. he important thing is to find their iests, for it is then a comparatively ,ssy matter to destroy the whole :olony. It may be that the removal >f a board where they come into a 'oom will expose their headquarters, when a little kerosene poured over it will destroy all the inmates. If they :ome from some ant hill outside of the iouse they can be destroyed by making ioles a foot apart in the hill and pour. ng a tablespoonful of bisulphide of ~arbon into each and stamping down. he bIsulphide of carbon quickly evapo ates and, permeating the ground, de ~troys all in the colony." In the Crimea, 1854. On April 25 our battery bad a forto iate escape, for the Russians managed :o drop a thirteen-inch mortar shell ight through the roof of a magazine. :t broke the magazine man's neck, but id not explode. Although the regular >ombardment had closed, there wvas at his time always sufficIent fire of some ort to prevent perfect repose, and the ollowing day Capt. Peel had a narrow ~scape. I was following close behind imn through the covered way to the ad rance trenches, when a bullet passed etween his legs and cut a groove in ny left gaiter, but such incidents were 0 common that I should not have re :orded it had I not been so anxious for ts safety. Toward the end of the month thero as renewed activity in advance of the ght attack trenches in which many ficers won distinction, but there were Iso many unrecorded acts of heriosm, e of which is remarkable also for the ero's contempt of praise. During a truggle for a rifie pit an Irishman col. ared two Russians. and. having sluing s rifle over his shoulder. led tlm mack into our advanced trench. one in ~ach hand. Said he, "Sit down, with re," and, having relit his pipe, lie was ~njoying it while contemplating his risoners, when several soldiers of all snks came round and warmly congrat lated him on his prizes. He was sit ing with his back to the enemy, and lis ened for some time in silence, till, vithout removing the dht~deen from his nouth, but pointing significnntly over is shoulder, he observed. ''Deed, but here's many more for the bringing." jir Evelyn Wood, in the Fortuightly eview. The first conditiou of humian god mess is something to love: Uthesecond is omething to reverence.-Geor;;c Eliot. Misunderstood. Ho-I hope you don't thrinkl I nected Ike a cnsummate fool last night? She-Why, no; I thought you were nerely trying to be easy and unatural. lchange. When a man tells us that he lie t work, we do not say so to his fnec, bmw are tink it inJst the same. News in Brief -Napoleon's coronation robes cost $4000. -The next total eclipse of th sur will occur in the year 2057. -The Chmese kill 10,000,000 dogs annually for food purposes -The average annual amount of de in England is equal to five iches of Irain. -In England it is difflcult to enum, erate the number of clergymen who Ars tutors. -"Orts" are the stub ends of straw left by cattle in feeding from the manager. -Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad pas senger trains are lighted solely with electricity. -A Chicago man is the proud owner of a parrot that speaks both English nd German. -A number of Western water powers transmit electric power from ftteen to thirty miles. -A snail ranch has been started by a farmer of Ant t, France, to supply the Parisan market. It is probable that Tampa and Port. Tampa, Fla., will be connected by an Alectrie railway. -Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, is supposed to be able to eat as much as iix ordinary men. -The United States fish hatchery ir I Green Lake station, Ellsworth, Me., is valued at $2,500,000, -In Indasthe native will shave you while asleep without awakening you, zo light is his touch. -Greenland was so called because in summer its hills were covered with a beautiful green moss. -A German match manufacturer has invented a machine capable of making 15,000,000 splints a day. -There is said to be a florit ja Portland, Me., who makes weekly shipments of flowers to Florida. -It is estimated that two years are required for the Gulf water to travel *rom Florida to the coast of Norway. -Since the organization of our mint in 1893. it has coined, of gold, $1,612,. W05,375,50, and of silver, $669,299,323. -The Turkish Government is the least enterprising of any old world Government in the matter of electricity. -Queen Victoria's will is engrossed on vellum, quarto size, and is bound as a volume and sacured by a private tock. -The electric cars in Frankfort-on the-Main, Germany, have been sup plied with stoves, after the American pattern. -Mr. Gladstone has become a sub. subscriber to the fund for providing a memorial to "Llowelyn, the last Prince of Wales." -in France the population averageb about 187 to the square mile. In this country the average is twenty-one to I the square mile. k -Vinegar and yeast should never be kept in stone jars, for there is an sacid in them which attacks the glazing, and mixing with it has a poisonous prop erty. -A recent survey has established the number of glaciers in the Alsat 1155, of which.249 have a lengt of more than four and three-quarter 'niles. -Steelyards dug up in Heroalanbum are like those of to-day, with a pa, and a bar with graduated scale and.a weight molded into the head of Mer cury. -It is said that one company operat.s ing several London cafesoconsmg last year 53,000 pounds of tea, 8S0,000~ pounds of beef and 328,000 pounds of mugar. -A new barometer showing minute variations of pressure has been in vented in England. The maker claims accuracy to one-two-hundredths of an inch. -Cicero, it is said, had a theory that any disease conld be overcome by fasting, and often abstained from food for days at a time, drinking only water. -Stanley found tobacco perfectly acclimated among the African tribes tha+ had never seen awhite man. 'The use of the weed is universal in thedark continent. -It has been discovered that the unsanitary condition of the Capitol at Washington is due to the vast accumn lation of unused documents that ir rotting in the basement. -At the cold of 420 degrees below zero produced by Pr of. Dewar, the tensile strength of iron is doubled, and it will stand a strain of sixty instead Iof thirty tons to the square inch. -J. W. Jones, of Rtobertston, Ky. has found a pearl on which is the per feet outline of a man's hand. Seen througn a microscope even the veins I 'ppear. It is valued byexpertsat $150. -The cold of Canada seems to diminish with an increase of population. Between 1828 and 1837 Hudson's Bay was closed an average of 1&k days every year; now the ice last 172 days. -A runaway horse in Canlton -N. Y., recently after two miles-of good sleigh ing, turned down a railroad tack and crossed a high and long bridge, care fully picking its way over the ties without accident. -The deepest ice ever foUnd hies at a depth of 116 metr'-s unser a great for est betweera the Ural.. Mountains and the sea of Ochotsk. A well was driven and the ground was found:to be frozen stiff at that depth. -About the year 1400, the Queen of F. ance astonished the kingdom by driving~ about in a swinaing chariot mou.ted with gr la and 5emis. It was the only wheeled vehicle for pleasure purposes in France