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TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1897.
A ten line item in The Tribune j
produces a two-column spasm in
the Era. The Era is a very nerv
ous creature.
An editor of a paper down in
Havana wants to spit in the face
r ii.. tt i c i i inn : !
or tne uimeu oia.ics iuu nines.
This is additional evidence that
there are a number of Spanish
sympathizers in Cuba who need to
be hauled across Uncle Sam's knee
and spanked.
The Omaha World-Herald is
positive that republican prosperity
is a farce, yet in a speech before a
meeting- of the commercial club its
editor was positive that prosperity
was returning. The political end
and the business end of the World
Herald is greatly at variance.
The Era should not forget that
in two of the years in which the
number of descriptions in the delin
quent tax-list were the greatest, its
idol, Butler Buchanan, was filling
the position of county clerk, and
that it was he who made up the
descriptions. If there was any
breach of honesty Mr. Buchanan
was the guilty party.
The action of the state board of
public lands and buildings in the
case of Dr. Fall is exactly what
was expected. It was not the in
tention of the board to be influenced
by any evidence. The superinten
dent of the home for feeble minded
was doomed to dismissal before a
scrap of evidence was taken. The
grounds for his dismissal are de
cidedly flimsy and will not be sus
tained in the court of public opinion.
Hub.
. Senator Allen's position toward
a protective tariff, and the protec
tion of Nebraska sugar, chicory and
hemp industries, is creditable. Of
course he assumes, to maintain his
populist position, that it is the cur
rency and not the tariff that con
tains the cure that congress is look
ing for, but he states that he will
throw no obstacles in the way of
testing the tariff panacea, and
while it is evident that a protective
tariff' law is to be enacted he will
favor protection for the industries
of all parts of the country. Ex.
In speaking of business, Dun's
last report says that a comparison
of prices "shows a remaakable sim
ilarity to the course ot prices in the
earlier months of 1879, when the
most wonderful advance in produc
tion and prices ever known in this
or any other country was close at
hand. The key to the situation is
the excessive production of some
goods in advance ot an expected in
crease in demand. So in 1879 con
sumption gradually gained, month
by month, until suddenly it was
found that the demand was greater
than the possible supply. All know
how prices then advanced and the
most marvelous progress in the
history of any country resulted
within two years. Reports from
all parts of the country nqw show
that detail distribution of pro
ducts is unusually large and in
creasing." ls his recent speech before the Cin
cinnati commercial Club Secretary
Gage gave utterance to the follow
ing: "As to the financial question,
I must content myself with few
words. If any of you harbor the
suspicion that the administration
but just now installed into the re
sponsiblities of the high office has
forgotten or is likely to forget the
mandate of the people, whose voice
in behalf of honest money and
sound finances rang out loud and
clear in November last, put that
suspicion aside. It is unjust and
unfounded. In good tune and
in
.proper oraer tne amrmative
evi
" dences of my declaration will ap
pear. In the mean time, my iriends,
do your part to help those charged
. with legislative and administra
tive duties. Do not let the inertia
..engendered by fear and distrust
creep over you. We have been
passing through a period of great
trial and nobly we have endured
the. strain. The future is not dark
with forebodings. It is illuminated
with rational hope. The revival of
industry is near and with the es
tablishment of a revenue law suf
ficient to bring into the treasury an
amount adequate to meet, the rea
sonable needs of our government,
and with the establishment of our
finances on a sound and enduring
basis nothing now forseen can delay
the recovery of past losses and the
inauguration of a new forward
movement along the lines of mater
ial advancement and social oro-
gress. which we may humbly trust
lu ucucvuiciiL mina or troa to fle does not stop to reason over the ab
bestow upon the American people." .surdity of so brilliant n creature finding
The Bradford manufacturing district in England,
which se nt about a million dollars' worth of goods a
month during the existence of the McKinley law, sent
six millions dollars' worth in April and four million
in March of the present year in anticipation of the
protective increase in the tariff.
LOVE COMFORTLESS.
The child Is In the night and rain
On -whom no tendcrest wind might blow,
And oat alone in a hurricane.
Ah, nol
Tho child is safe in paradise I
The snow is on his gentle head.
His little fect are in tho snow,
Oh, very cold is his small Led!
Ah, no!
Lift tip your heart, lift up your eyes!
Over tho fields and out of sight,
Beside the lonely river's flow,
Lieth tho child this bitter night.
Ali, no!
The child sleeps under Mary's eyes!
TVhat wandering lamb cries soro dis
tressed While I with fire and comfort no?
Oh, let me warm hira in my breast!
Ah, no!
'Tis warm in God's lit nurseries!
"A Lover's Breast Knot," by K. Tynan.
DUPED.
The big, white steamboat backs away
from tho wharf, swings about and goes
slowly down the river sounding her
whistle at intervals, for the fog is com
ing in rapidly.
The few loafers on the pier eye curi
ously tho tall, elegant woman who has
come ashore.
She, casting a half scornful glance
about, approaches old Jed Eawson and
puts this query:
"Can I hiro any one to tako mo
across tho river?"
"I reckon not," declares old Jed, tak
ing out his pipo to stare at her with as
touishmeut. "Tho steamer goes into
port jest below hero ter wait fer tho
fog ter lift. Thar's no gittin across the
river ternight, inarm."
"Can you manage a boat, my good
man?"
All the. loafers smilo at this. Old
Jed breaks into a mellow laugh which
sends a perfect network of wrinkles
over his brown face.
"Why, leddy," ho says, "there ain't
nary a boy of 10 or up'ard aloiigshoro
as don't know how to handle a boat."
Tho lady laughs too. She is very
charming, even old Jed realizes that.
Sho takes a gold pieco from her dainty
pnrso and says:
"If you will take mo and my trunk
across tho river, this shall be yours."
The trunk is a huge affair, aud Jed
looks at it with one eyo closed and
shakes his head.
"If it warn 't fer tho fog, marm, euy
one on us 'urt tako yer acrost fer noth
ing. But wo couldn't seo tho boat's
length tonight."
Tho lady utters a sharp exclamation,
anger and disappointment clouding her
features. A brown faced lad steps from
the --corner of the little red baggage
house whero he has been standing.
"If you dare to go, madam, I will
take yOu," ho says.
Sho gives him a radiant smilo, at
which he flushes to tho roots of his fair,
waving hair.
Jed and ono or two of tho other men
remonstrate with him to no purpose.
A small brown wherry is brought up to
tho flight of weather beaten steps lead
ing down from one side of tho wharf.
Tho big trunk is lowered into it, aud
tho lady handed down ty Andrew Rus
sell, who is thrilled by the touch of her
cool, satiny fingers. Ho pulls off into
tho fog bank while tho loungers on the
wharf make their comments.
"Mighty fino looking craft that"
"Carries too much sail. "
"What can sho want over tho river?"
"P'rhaps she's bound for Barring
ton's." "P'rhaps. She looks like his kind."
It is late in the evening when Andrew
Russell returns. Old Jed meets him
hurriyng up the village street.
"Well, Andrew, yon got acrost all
right?"
"Yes, I had a compass."
"Whero'd sho go?"
"I can't tell you," is the curt reply,
as the boy passes on.
All subsequent inquiries elicit no fur
ther information than that Andrew
landed her at tho road which leads up
by Barriugton's, aud that sho expected
some sort of conveyance to come for her
there.
Barringtou is reported to be immense
ly wealthy. Ho never mingles with the
people there, and he lives in a lordly
fashion. He brings his own company
from distant parts, and there are stories
of gay and wild doings at the great
house which fill the unsophisticated na
tives with amazement.
He comes and goes as ho likes and is
altogether very mysterious.
Andrew Russell has a sweetheart on
that side of the river pretty Jen Hardy,
tho fisherman's daughter.
It is only natural that frequently he
should row across in his wherry. But
Jen Hardy does not see him every time
ho goes during tho next fortuight He
tramps through a strip of woodlaud
across lots until he reaches a sheltered
vale this side of Barriugton's.
Hero ho meets the mysterious lady
again and again. Andrew is 20 tall,
strong and manly looking. Cars Ferris,
as she calls herself, uses all her blan
dishments to complete his inthrallmeut
Sho tells him a pretty story how that
her uncle is determined to make a nun
of her; that, Barringtou being her cous
in and friend she has come to him for
protection, until she can get out of tho
country.
Sho wants to go to Europe, for as
soon as her uncle discovered her hiding
place he will follow her. She is appar
ently very confiding with Andrew, who
s too innocent to see tho flaws in her
story. " Would he think she was 25?"
she asked coquettishly.
Andrew returns a decided negative,
never once dreaming that, she is 10 years
older. Jen Hardy is too proud to own
that Andrew does not como to seo her
any more.
lino nr. j,
his father, who is not a very clear
sighted man, sees no change in his boy,
Who is moody or exalted by fits.
Tn fernweoto' tfmfi Aiidrp.w imncinpo
mseif madly in love with this woman.
any attraction in an ignorant boy like
himself.
Ono night he goes home intoxicated
by the memory of a round, white arm
about his neck and the pressure of soft,
warm lips to his own. A week later,
one nour uetore midniRiit, lis crosses
tho river in his little brown wherry.
un tne Dig rocic wincu serves lor a
pier a man and a womau await him
Barringtou carries a valiso in each
hand. They enter the wherry, and An
drew pulls swiftly and silently down
the river. In about an hour they come
to a small cove, where a commodious
sailboat is tied to a ring in the rocky,
shelving bank.
They go aboard this, the little wherry
is fastened astern, the sails are unfurled
and on they go, dancing lightly out into
tho waters -of tup bay.
At nightfall of tho next day they
come to a great city. Barringtou and
tho lady go ashore. Some purchases are
to be made here, aud Barringtou is to
see a man who will buy the boat this
is what they have told Andrew. In the
meantime ho is to wait with the boat
until their return, when they will all
go aboard tho great ocean steamship
whose black funnels rise from a neigh
boring wharf.
Andrew is jiot particularly pleased
that Barringtou is to accompany them,
but nothing can dampen the joy of his
belief that she loves him, aud ho can
never forget that her lips have touched
his own. The poor bov is Quito daft for
the time and does not dream that he is
being duped.
The city clocks are striking 10, when
a ragged street gamin crosses the wharf
and hails Andrew.
"Hi, there! Be your name Russell?"
Andrew nods, and tho boy hands him
a note.
"A big swell up town sent this to
yer."
Andrew takes tho note and tears it
open. lo knows, of course, that the
big swell" is Barringtou. Tho note
reads as follows:
When you read this, wo shall bo aboard an
outward bound express. Goodby, mv dear
boy. Many thanks for your gallantrv. Mr.
Barrington makes you a present of the boat as
a reward for your services. C. F.
For a moment Andrew stares at the
note in dumb amazement. His brain
reels. The letters dance blood red before
nis eyes. ie stacners down into the lit
tic cabin and throws himself prostrate
upon the floor. He breaks into great sobs
which shake him from head to foot. To
bo fooled, played with, cast aside, when
he had served their turn!
Oh, the bitterness, the grief and rago
in the boy's hot heart as he rolls to and
fro upon the cabiu floor 1
All night long ho. battles with thin
first great trouble. In tho morning ho
rouses himself aud goes up into the city
to find a purchaser for his boat, for tho
sight of it is hateful to him, aud ho
must have money to get home with. He
sells it for .$150, which is a pretty sum
for a poor lad. At noon ho has a sun
stroke and is conveyed to the city hospi
tal. Wheu he comes out of his stnpor, he
finds himself under arrest for beiug the
accomplice of an adventuress. He learns,
to his horror, that Cars Ferris is Madge
Delaphiue. That she engaged herself as
companion to a little, miserly old wom
an. That she and Barringtou, who is
her loer, plauued the old woman's
murder, in order to obtain possession of
the money and jewels which she hoard
ed about her. That Madge Delaphiue
accomplished the murder by means of a
subtle poison, packed the body into a
trunk aud conveyed it to Barriugton's
house, where it was buried iu the cellar.
The very trunk which Andrew fer
ried across the river 1 Andrew is taken
before a magistrate, where he tells his
story, omitting the love passages. But
the magistrate is an astute old man and
reads between the lines and pities the
lad.
"The woman and her lover have been
arrested. I want you to identify her."
Ho opens the door to an inner room
and utters an exclamation of dismay.
There, prostrate upon tho floor, with
her jeweled hairpin stuck through her
heart, lies Madge Delaphiue quite dead.
"Is this the woman?"
"Cars Ferris had dark hair," returns
Andrew, who is white to his lips.
The magistrate lifts a wig of dark
hair from a table near by.
"A very simple disguise," ho says
and motions Andrew back to tho outer
room, where, after a few more ques
tions and some fatherly advice, ho dis
misses him. Tho misery of Andrew's
journey homo is boundless.
When he reaches the familiar spot, he
is taken ill and for weeks is delirious
with brain fever. Jeu Hardy is his pa
tient and faithful nurse. To Andrew it
seems as if the memory of his folly
must torture him forever, but as the
months go by tho shame and agony die
away little by little.
Jen, faithful soul, believes in him
and loves him. He is young aud the
world is fair and lifo is pleasant after
all.
So, gradually he returns to his old
allegiance, aud it all ends as it should
with a wedding. Dublin World.
At tho Back Door.
Tramp Have you anything, madam,
to spare for a pcor wayfarer this morn
ing? Madam Yes. You caii go right
out to the wood shed and indnlge in
cold chops and cuts to your heart's con
tent. Boston Courier.
Easy Proof.
Prospective Purchaser You say he's
a savage watchdog?
Owner Yes, indeed.
"But how am I to know that?"
'Try im. Jes' go outsido with mo
"ua ,ra m ac taac wintJer- Chicago
KeCOrO. -
Ennui.
''We have found out why Nora breaks
w aiuch chjna."
"Why is it?"
"She says sho gets so dead tired
j wasnmg the same old dishes over and
over and over." Detroit Free Pres3.
The Co rs I can Vendetta.
Wc often see allusions to the Corsican
vendetta, but few people know its real
nature aud to what a fearful degree of
cruelty and bitterness it is carried. Tho
vendetta consists in the practice of tak
mg private vengeance upon thoso that
have shed tho blood of one's relatives.
It is believed to have originated at the
wiuo u bU ouuoiae uommuuou m oor-
sica when lawlessness was rampant and
time of the Genoese domination in Cor-
justice almost unknown.
As thoso in authority would not pun
ish crime, individuals took tho matter
into their own hands, and long oppres
sion, intensified by tho cruelty to which
we have referred, imbittered a people
whose feelings are naturally deep and
violent.
This spirit prevails among tho wom
en as well as among the men. They
sing songs of veugeauco over tho body
of the slain aud display his blood
stained garments. Sometimes a mother
cuts a bloody shred from the dead man's
clothing and attaches it to her sou's
dress, so that he may have a constant
reminder of his duty in seeking revenge.
If a murder be committed and the
murderer escape, vengeance may be
taken upon his relatives," and as it may
bo taken whenever au opportunity offers
tho relatives live in constant apprehen
sion and surrounded by incessant pre
cautions. Persons that were "uuder tho
vendetta" havo lived shut up iu their
houses for 10 or 15 years and have been
shot tho first time they dared to como
out.
The vendetta is made all tho more
terrible by tho forco of public opinion,
for it is considered in the highest de
gree dishonorablo not to take the re
venge called for, and the next of kin
who fails to tako it without delay falls
under the contemptuous reproach of tho
community. Philadelphia Times.
Value of Breathing Properly.
Thousands of peoplo die every year
because they do not know how to
breathe, or, knowing how, they do not
fill their lungs as they should. Thin,
pale, sallow peoplo should wrap them
selves cnorouguiy it mo weatner is
cool, step out upon an open porch or
stand at an open window and fill the
lungs moderately full, breathing pre
cisely as cue docs for the most violent
exercise that is, in short, quick, deep
inspirations, each one occupying not
over two seconds. Use the muscles to
expand tho lungs and chest, aud inhale
all tho air possible. If the exercise
causes pain or giddiness, stop at once.
This is the natural consequence of the
action and does no harm, provided it is
not continued. After a few miuutes,
when all unpleasant feeling has passed
away, repeat the effort. This may be
dono two or three times within an hour
or so aud should bo followed up day
after day at intervals of from one to
several hours. If the patient is very del
icate, threo times a day is enough for a
beginning. In a very short time a
marked improvement will be perceived.
Another exercise with tho lungs is to
expand the chest with the muscles to its
fullest exteut, then fill the hums aud
hold the breath as long as possible.
This causes a heavy pressure of air ou
undeveloped and defective luug cells
and after a time will open all cf tho
passages ot the lungs and create a con
dition of health to which a great many
people aro entire strangers. New York
Ledger.
Twisting: Tobacco.
"When the raw leaf tobacco reaches tho
factory, it is in large hogsheads, packed
tightly and done up in "hands," just as
it comes from tho curing house. The
first process is to strip the stems out o
tho wide red leaves and smooth the
heaviest of them into long strips for
wrappers. These are dampened so they
will roll readily without bursting. Then
they are handed over to the skilled
workmen, who turn them iuto hand-
somo twists like magic, luis process is
most interesting and shows what skill
may be acquired by practice. Each
workmau stands at a long table, upon
which are piled tho loose fillers aud
wrappers. At ins right is a rack pro
vided with a slat bottom, which allows
the twists to dry. Deftly takiug up
handful of loose tobacco aud two long.
slender leaves, the workman quickly
transforms tho mass into a long roll and
doubles it into au ounce or two ounco
twist. Each workman has a small'couu-
ter scale at hand, set to weigh tho exact
amount of tobacco he is to put in each
twist. So skillful do these men become
that they scarcely ever miss the correct
weight the fraction of an ouuee. The
best workmen roll from 1,800 to 2.000
of theso twists a day. Kansas City Star.
Baseball Terms.
"I mentioned the other day as a base
ball term that had fallen into decay,"
said Mr. Bifferly, "the 'goose egg.'
This term, time honored and once com
monly employed, is now no longer
heard. Two other terms, onco as famil
iar and almost as commonly used, but
now put away on tho same shelf with
the goose egg, are the 'redbofc grounder'
and the 'daisy cutter.'
"Tho daisies grow now juBt as they
did then, for which let us be duly grate
ful, but the baseball is a daisy cutter
no longer. Tho balls are heated now
as redhot as ever if anything, a little
hotter but such a ball is no longer de
scribed by the phrase, once familiar, a
'redhot grounder. ' Tho extreme warmth
of the sphere is now referred to in some
other mauner.
"Tho fact is that in baseball, as in
all things else, fashions change, and
phrases that today seem to glow with
descriptive fervor may tomorrow seem
dull and spiritless indeed." New York
Sun.
Dwarfs have been kuawn to live to
the age of 00, and to the patriarchal age
of 99 years, whereas giants usually die
while comparatively youug. But, as a
general rule, tall peoplo are the longer
lived.
The smell of fiuely scraped horserad
ish is said to be an effectual euro for
headache.
A Poet's Explanation.
Question Why do women always
writo love poems in tho masculine gen
der? Answer Because we know women
too well to writo iu tho feminine gen
der. Lillie Barr Munro in New York
Sun.
The Caller.
"Mary, ha3 any ono called while I
was out?"
"Yes, ma'am; Mr. Biggs was here."
' 'Mr. Bigga? I dou't recall the name. ' '
"No, ma'am; ho called to see me,
raa'am." Strand Macazine.
The Bryan newspapers predict for the near future a surplus ).$V
ij ot aangerous proportions, iiie repuuiicu.ua icei uauucu auu
JJJ appreciate the compliment, and will see that the surplus is not juk
all right and the country was prosperous, with plenty of money
in circulation, our factories running- full time, and every man
who wauted work found it. Wages were good, the termers
found a ready market for all their products, money went beg-
w ging for loans and still people were not happv. They wanted
fc free trade, they got it, and they have been getting it ever since
111 m the neck. The reoublican
Jf( soon the country will prosper
AN UNFORGOTTEN KISS.
tho rain i-i rattling on the pane, the wind ij
sweciunc r.
Now with discordant shriek, anon with melan
choly cry.
A lonely man, I sit and read beside tho dying
nro
Tho daily tale cf lovo and crime, of Breed ""rt
vain acsuv.
Tho letters blur and fade, tho room grows dim
ana disappears,
And in its stead old scenes como back across
the waste of years.
And set in frainSS of golden hair a fair young
lace I see,
Whose two soft eyes of deepest blue look wist
roily on me.
Once, on a memorablo eve, when heart and
hope were, young,
Those luminous eyes upon my lifo a sudden
glory flung.
As sho was then I seo her now, my young, my
only choice,
The brightness on her sunny brow, tho music
in her voice.
One question, and but one, I ask, then for an
answer wait.
My very heart is motionless, expectant of its
fate.
A wondrous ligjit the light cf lovo glows in
tho tender eyes
Her breath is warm upon my face Oh, sweet
est of replies I
But, bless my heart! Tho driving rain is com
ing m, I f'ar,
Or is that shining littlo drop upon tho pago a
tear?
Well, who would think an old gray head could
do so soft as this
When more than thirty years havo fled since
that fond, foolish kiss I
.John Scott in Chambers' Journal.
ONLY AN ACROBAT.
Tho first night of tho season at the
Hippodrome et Meuagerio des Nations
in that laughter loving and light heart
ed city of cities Paris.
Well might tho proprietor, tho genial
Artelio Milaijdri, hum a tune as ho con
tentedly counted tho "takings," for
there was not; a seat to spare. One sim
mering, sweltering mass of gay Paris
ians, patiently waiting the idol of ev
ery liuropean capital, the ono and the
only, the inimitable Paolo.
Paolo, better known to his friends
and associates as Bob Sinclair, was a
young Englishman a well setup, fresh
colored, curly haired Yorkshire lad.
Appreuticed as a tiny boy to the pro
prietor of a traveling circus, ho had,
willy-nilly, gone through the mill, now
horseman, now acrobat, now clown,
now ringmaster, anything and every
thing. A day camo at length when, tak
ing advantage of tho "strong man"
craze, Bob's muscles, thews and sinews
suddenly launched him iuto fame, and
as "Paolo, the English Hercules, " he 1
blossomed into the sought after "star,"
whom tho crowded houses had paid
their hard earned francs to see.
wnen raoio stepped into tne ring,
tho public cuthnsiasm knew, no bounds.
It would be only taking up space to de
scribe tho "sfroug man" performance,
'which is now so familiar to everybody.
Though Paolo worked that night as
cleverly as usual and without any ap-
parent effort to the eyes of the onlook-
ers, yet within himself he felt weighed
uwuu uj oix.iutji; lUlL'UUUlIljj UJilb CUIIIC-
thiug unusual was about to happeu, and
he felt really relieved when at last his
performance was finished, and he was
nt liberty to return onco more to his
dressing room.
Scarce had. the heavy velvet hangings
separating the ring from the "back"
of the houso fallen behind him when
his "dresser' rushed breathlessly up to
him, his knees almost smiting together
and terror contorting every feature of
his countenance.
"Heaven help us, M. Paolo!" he
gasped.
our, c uu.owi.iu
has got loose from hiscago and is mak- j
iuy xur iuu urtiuu. it is ino ouiy ouuee
were he can escape, aud lo bou Dieu
aloue cau savo us!"
Scipio was a lingo lion, purchased as
a cub by Milandri for exhibition to the
patrons of his meuageric. Owing to
some carelessness in the fastening of his
cago door, the beast had managed to
escape, and, attracted by the smell of
tho horses, Was now making his way to
the arena, on' the opposite side of which
the stables were situated. What could
Paolo do?
Beads of perspiration stood upon his
forehead as he thought of the effects of
a sudden stampede among that vast con
course; how in their wild alarm hun
dreds of women and children aye, aud
strong men too would bo crushed aud
trampled to death.
"Where aro Francois, Jean, Pierre
and the rest?" he asked.
"All flown, m'sieur; all escaped!"
"Now listen," he said to tho attend
ant. "You aro the only one who has
shown nny pluck, and I won't forget
you. Uet through my dressing room
window, run as fast as your legs can
carry you to the barracks at the end of
the road, tell the officer on duty what
has happened and ask for help. In the
meauwhile" grimly "I will do my
best for Mr. Scipio."
As the last sound of the man's hurry
ing feet down tho passage proclaimed
him well ou his way for help, Paolo has
tily suatched up a small stiletto which
had been used in a juggling trick during
tho evening $ud, concealing it m bis
vest, stepped once more, to the astonish
ment and delight of the audience, into
the arena.
Whispering a few hasty directions
into the ear of a clown who was filling
in between the "turns" to stop the next
artists from appearing and to close the
stable entrances, Paolo made a bow
and, holding up his hand for silence,
announced:
"Ladies and gentlemen, J canuot
thank you sufficiently iu words for the
kindness with which you have received
my efforts tonight, so as deeds speak
louder than words I shall bring before
you for the first time in public my fa
mous traiued lion. He and I will give
an exhibition of wrestling,
Au, you J
hear him, I think, answering my dial
lenge," as i loud roar burst from be
hind the curtains and caused a few of
tho more timid to move uneasily in
their seats.
With one magnificent bound the no
ble beast was through the curtains and
; s.
puoncans were in power tne surpiu
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partv js arain m nower, and
again. Jl
lii uie liijuuie ui uiu xiuy. jliicic iju juj
crouching in the odorous tan, as though
scarco realizing his unwonted freedom
and struck by the strangeness of his
surroundings, his bluodshot eyes rolling
uueasily and his quick, gasping breath
disturbing tho dust beneath his dilated
nostrils.
Paolo had braced his limbs to give
himself a strong position in expectation
of Scipio's onrush, his weapon conceal
ed in the hollow of his baud, and as li9
stood in all the grace and strength of
his magnificent manhood, every symp
tom of fear vanished, he felt within
himself that he almost welcomed the
moment that would bring to him vic
tory or death.
Littlo time for thought, however, had
Paolo. With ono fell spring the mighty
beast was at him, his open jaws drip
ping froth, his bloodshot eyes blazing
with fury.
But not this time did ho grasp his in
tended prey, for quick as thought the
practiced eye of the acrobat detected
the movemeut, aud bending forward,
head and kneos almost touching tho
ground, he made a rapid shift in tho op
posite direction and avoided by almost a
hairbreadth beiug crushed breathless
beneath the lion's bulk.
Quick as lightning's flash the lion
turned onco more, crouching low in the
dust, his eye warily seeking some weak
spot in the armor of this strange an
tagonist, whose lithe limbs aud siuuous
movements puzzled him, and who show
ed less signs of fear facing him here in
open fight than tho crowds of frail hu
manity who had mocked and jeered at
him so often from the safe sido of his
prison bars, but who shrauk back af
frighted when iu his wrath ho gavo his
awful battle roar.
This time, with catliko tread, ho
slowly advanced upon his adversary,
striving, as though conscious of bis
power and strength, to drive him back
and pen him helplessly and without
chance of escape against tho side of tho
ring, and then to seize him at his
leisure.
Paolo was also thinking. "When would
tho soldiers come? Could he survive to
carry on the unequal struggle till they
arrived? But while thinking not a mus
cle relaxed.
Seeing tho lion 'a tactics,.he gradually
managed to skirmish toward the ring,
though by so doing ho passed within a
few feet of his nose.
"Come on, Scipio," ho said aloud,
with a gay bravado ho little felt, "this
is not how lions fight. " And he made a
slight feint, as though playfully to touch
his adversary on the head.
With a deep, liollow roar of anger
Scipio reared aloft on his hind legs, and,
throwing all prudence to the winds and
realizing that the momentous strugglo
had come at last. Paolo rushed madly
at him, man and beast closing in a ter-
J rible death grapple, tho lion continuing
erecr, as tuougii wishful to wrestle on
equal terms with the brave biped.
In the swift onrush Paolo dropped his
d and weap0uless but fren-
zied with aud dJ fr he cxcrtcd
every atom of his marvelous streueth
and with one giant upheaval overthrew
the wild beast.
But Scipio's mighty claws were busy,
and the blood lust was on him too.
Crimson streaks through Paolo's tuuio
niade it apparent to the fascinated
beholders that this little wrestling bout
was npt all that jtr seemed, and many a
timid heart, sickened by tho sight pf
blood, "edged furtively toward the near
est outlet
But what sound is thia that breaks
4 lift CTlol 1 'ill t fionpf fKn 1 -T- OT-UCs.-nsv.- i
o mquiry to swell into a babel of
tongues? In another moment tho
semi-
solitude of the arena is broken by tho
appearance of a body of soldiers from
tho neighboring barracks, all converg
ing rapidly on ono point where lay the
doughty combatants.
The yonng officer iu command, has
tily disengaging a revolver from his
belt, fires one, two, three shots into the
prostrate brute's car, and with ono
mighty groan the spirit of tho erring
Scipio returns to haunt the solitudes of
the African deserts.
Tender hands lift Paolo, unconscious,
bleeding and nigh to death. He is homo
from tho arena as tho audience slowly
files out of tho building under the mas
terful direction of some of the-soldiers
told off for the purpose silent, awo
stricken, sobbing, praying, walking as
in a trance.
Jn a peaceful little God's acre just
putside tho walls of Paris sleeps Paolo.
His grave all the year round blooms
with lovely flowers, and its fond tend
ing shows that, though his body has
passed away, his memory still flourishes
as brightly as tho blossoms that wave
over him. London Answers.
j Tho Charm of a College Room.
I A college room is a delightful place.
Its occupant for tho time being is its
master. He can do as he will in it
) lock his door and be not at home, ad
J mit all comers, sit alonn and read or
study, or sit with his congenial friend
j and talk out whatever ho may havo tho
good fortune to havo in his mind. One
Harvard graduato certainly, who found
many pleasures of very varied sorts in
college, remembers very few with such
a sense of solid comfort duly taken as
certain talks had in college rooms with
good men, though young, about letters
and life and people, the immediate en
vironment and tho greater world on tho
brink of which all college men stand.
Music has charms, superlative charms,
in college too.
In fhis same graduate's memory there
are few musical associations more con
soling than tho memory of what ho
beard, half asleep iu a chair before a
fire, while a good mnsiciau who was
his classmate sat at his piano in the
corner. Some of the calmest and most
ine
peaceful memories of college aro the
best The more boisterous pleasures wo
smilo to recall and wonder as we re
member them at the vigor and the folly
of youth. But about thoso quieter
3treaks of happiness there was no folly
and they involved no remorse. Edward
Martin m fccrimier's.
THE OLD TREE.
Wavo not so sadly in the wind.
Thou old and ieaness tree.
Nor sob that summer nevermore
Can beauty brinff to thee.
That but a desolation thou
Must stand upon the lea.
Tho inspirations of the sprinj?
Lions vears were at thy heart.
Thou gav'ct through many n suazie:
space
Omnd lraacca to art.
Old tree, thou acted'st gloriously v
"Within tho world thy part. -
Then sigh not such a mournful dlrs3. j
Yet If thy voice must be j
Like anthems let the undertone ;
Be breathed exultlngly.
For thine was not a wasted life.
Magnificent old tree!
Man, white haired man, if thou hast dono
Bravely in life thy part.
If true humanity has made
Its music in thy heart.
Say why chould'st thou at death's cold
wind
In grief and terror start?
Oh. stand beside the grand old tree.
And. gazing on its dim.
Scarred trunk, lift bravely up
Thv last but fearless hymn.
For thou hast nobly done thy part.
"What more ran cherubim i
W. R- Wallace in New York Ledger.
Gladstone and lte Queen.
Gladstone is tho ono living man
wheso political experience stretches be
yond that of the queen. His is the. ono
figure that fer a longer period than that
of the queen has filled tho political
stage. That is a remarkable position tor
any public man to hold. To all otners
the queen represents knowledge, experi
ence and training which none of them
i rt? .
can pcssiDiy possess, one khows more
about politics, persons, movements,
routine, than any man who may bo ono
of her advisers. She began by learning
from the least of them; she ends by in
structing them all. No ono knows so
much cf the private history of men and
of families, aud in all her lifo there has
been, wil tho exception of the Lady
Flora Hastings case, cf which we yet
know littlo or nothing, no example of
any mistake or indiscretion on the .part
of the queen. She has hated some of her
advisers, distrusted some, and merely
disliked others, but every one of them
has testified to her perfect faithfulness
to them all. "Yoke of the Empire, "
b- R. B. Brett
Captured by Schoolgirls.
At Columbus, O., on ono occasion
Grant, after shaking hands with tho
crowd for threo hours, was worn out,
and tho committeo of arrangements re
tired him to some steps abovo tho
throng, says an exchange, and stationed
General Wilcox and other officers along
the lino to say the general would not
shake hands. They had just got to rnu
ning on this programme when the girls
of the high school camo through, a3
bright a cluster of pretty faces and fig
ures as any man ever looked ou.
As they camo within sight of tho
general a littlo miss in tho lead began
to take off her gloves. General Wilcox,
with all tho severity of military polite
ness, said, ' No, you can't shake bauds
with tho general," and so tho word was
passed along, tho other officers each ono
saying to tho girl, "You can't shako
hands with the genoral." Butjnstas
sho came to whero the steps that sho
must take began to descend she held up
her hand with an appealing look to
Grant. He looked down nt her face, in
to her eyes and said to the committee,
"I can't stand that, I can't stand that."
And he stepped down and shook hands
with tho girl, and in an iustaut was lit
erally overwhelmed with a tornado of
girls-. They not only shook his hands,
but jumped up to kiss him, kissed his
hands and fondled his hair, and for five
minutes all discipline was gone.
Fixing a Price.
"What's that job worth?" they asked
tho coutractor.
"Well," he said slowly, "that de
pends a good deal upou circumstances.
If it was ordered by an individual, I
should think that 100 would be about
tho limit, but if done for the city or
county I shouldn't think of charging a
bit less than 850, with a elauso iii tho
contract permitting me to make an ad
ditional charge for extras." Chicago
Post.
Teaching a Lost .rt,
'A New York woman." ho r.hM.
looking ut her over the tops of hfc?
glasses, "has gone into tho business of
teaching women how to walk."
Somehow it seemed to strike her as a
joke.
"Think of it!" she said. "Just when
the price of wheels is coming down too l
I began to think you were right, John,
when you said that women had no busi
ness cense. "Chicago Post.
The Hebrew ceased to bo a vernacu
lar laugnage nt the Babylonian captiv
ity, in the fifth century before Christ,
but was preserved in the sacred writ
ings of tho Jews.
Disease is always
waiting to pounce on
weak people. When
your appetite is poor
and you are losing
weight you are a
ready prey p any
disease that comes, alopg.
Lung complaint, liver conw
plaint, and a hundred other
.'i l aiseases carry people qir Dp
V I cause thev are not armed with
fi la strong constitution to resist
the disease.
If you are not Iu prime.
robust condition you will get
au immense amount Ql
help from Doctor PJerce'3
Golden Medical Discov
ery. It builds up the con
stitution by giving fresh
vitality to the blood: it
aids the digestive and
blood-making organs to
tjroduce an abundance of
the rich, red corpuscles which vitalize
the circulation and create healthy tis
sue, solid, muscular flesh, strong nerves,
ana sturdy energy.
Sidney Bergestra. Esq., of Clear lake, Deuel
Co., So. Dale, writes : " Last spring I was taken
sick with a very bad attack of Ia Grippe, and
had awful pains in my lungs and breast, with a
bad cough. My doctor's medicine gave me no
relief, and when I set up for five minutes I
wanted to lie down again. My wife got very
much discouraged ana said she would try Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery: so 1 tnnt
two bottles. When I had taken half-a-bottle
mend ygur medicine, and must say it will do
haf it is said 9 -fig." " ' " " ' - r
PIFRCFN men tte bowels are
1 IL'iVVU O constipated Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets will set them
right in a natural way; comfortably,
but thoroughly. These little " Pellets "
mildly stimulate the liver, aud cure
biliousness. They are ourely vegeta
ble and perfectly harmless. No other
pill acts so natur- tt-t t rwrr
ally and perfectly. FbLLblO.
ine papoegan 10 leave, ana alter taking two
bottles pF it I felt like a new man. and could
do ray own work airain. r can fniiv rl
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