THOUGHTS IN SEPARATION.
We-asvermeet, yet -btb meet day hy day
"ST-f6 h? dim. and. iannensp;
Sr M 11 AdlSS
"P? mt at-pnxycr and play,
beyond pain, joy and hope and. lang-ns-
Above the ipnlts of onr sonta, f ar-hence
An angel met aa.angI an the tray.
2eyand an good I era-henered of th
T "ft these always lavs and lira.
And thtmgh I fail oi thy ideal of me
Xransel falls not ahart.
other.
They greet each
TOiQjmowsf Theymayexchansethekiss-WT
give.
Thou to thy cmcinx, I ta my mother.
Alice ateyneR in Sew Torfc TrSmne.
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CHE TTTT.AfiE PEIDE.
3Jrs. Silvester Dean, Leveen was pol
ishing herfcassfcucckEE. Her Icjig, thin
hands mbbed and rutted till the little
"white curls on her forehead danced like
street children, Tet the later had no
perceptible effect The metal shone lite
light, "bat so it did -when she began to
clean it. It had shone like that yester
day and the day before, and Indeed
every day fr 60 years. There was a
smooth circle all around the knock
er "where her delicate hands had
worn into the hard, black "Freed of the
dear. Nevertheless the old lady robbed
away just as she had done every morn
ing since the spring cf 1833, when she
was brought, a bride, into that house.
She was the pride of Greenwich village
then, and she meant to be sail
On this particular frost v mcrnnux
-Mrs. Leveen. tarried longer thrm -usual
at her task. After the IionTs head -was
satisfactory even to her sharp eyes she
worked on. Hut it was evident in the
glances she shot across Bank street that
her attention was not given wholly to
the work cf her hands. Neither was it
-diverted to her customary inspection of
the neighbors' knockers. Theirs glisten
ed like hers, and, besides, every time
she looked up her eyes turned to but
one door, that of the bouse in front of
which stood two sturdy horses and a
truck.
Pretty neon 1he dear opened and a
young man in a carter's blcuse came
out. rxe saw the old lacy across the
street, though he pretended not to. He
busied himself ostentatiously about the
horses' heads for a moment and then
turned back to the truck. Mrs. Leyeen
had seen him. She bent herself earnest
ly to the knocker and in a few strokes
finished it off. The she faced toward
the street and feted the truckman with
her eyes till he had to look up.
"Good morning. Aunt ilartha," he
said as he doffed his cap.
She beckoned to him to come to her.
"Good morning, Percy, " she answer
ed pleasantly as he approached her, cap
in. hand. "Come in a moment. I wish
to speak with yen."
The interview he had dreaded for
weeks was upon him now. He knew
from the first it was inevitable, tut day
after day he had put it off, omitting has
usual fTTs on F'fc aunt and avoiding
her sight and summons. Now that she
had caught him he was glad. As he fol
lowed the old lady into her prim, com
f ortahle sitting room he made a pitiful
figure cf humility, tut in the meekness
of his soul there -way the -eerfuhss
of finality.
,!SI& down, Perry," she paid in the
pweefc toned voice he levcd,
He took the chair she indicated and
she-seated herself in her old rocker.
"Percy, dear," she began, "is this
true that I hear you mean to marry
this girl?"
"Yes, Aunt "Martha. I was going to
tell yon, but knowing- cs you were agTin
it knowins that von yrnl ?k J flee to
have me do so I was afraid to coiae-fc
you. about it."
"Don't twirl ycur cap, jny dear.
Gentlemen don't do thai; you. knew."
He stuck his cap between his kneeg.
'I am sorry; Perry, you. felt that
waw It is my intention always to be
kind and sympathetic; Yon should have
been quite suref! "would have heard your
sturv through Ith understanding. Now
tell "me eTrythrcg. She is the daugh
ter; I m told, cf a German in Hudson
.street"
the biggest corner grocery over there,
and he has made his pile I mean has
made money since he's teen there."
"How long has he been licit 3'
"Going on 25 year. Oh, he's almost
an old 2Jinth warder now. He's some
in politics, andhisfamflyisrightin.it."
"Percy, I never knew them.'-
fj know, but you. wouldn't. It ain'p
my fault- I wanted to have themaQ
ever to mother's so as you. could be inr
troduced to them,"
The old lady looked as though ghe
would answer this, hut did not. She
was silent a moment before she pro
ceeded: "Sa"her father is a grceerr"
"Yes, like Vr-- Jamison, who yon
like well enough. "
,rMr Jamison is a gentleman, my
dear- The misfortunes of hiaf amlly can
never alter that. The Jamisons are of
the oldest Greenwich: families on both
sides. He is a grocer by necessity. This
person of whom we are speaking is one
t t r ,r
"WeUr Aunt Martha, it's as good as
being- a truckman, and: better."
Mrs. Leveen. winced.
"You. might haver been, a judge like
your father cnraiseriatcr like- yourgrand
fathec I wanted von ta enter political
life."
-"Politics is pretty low down these
xiays; iny rpm-nnrprr. z am i wnac
- TtrxraK: "Rpsrr?pi T rrrpd tn mrt. art office-
rromMike McSamara, but he- said I
rouldn't do in any office where the pay
was as much as the trpefcirtj-pays. And
i nies mac a ocuut tu.
The last sentence, was cheerfully
spoken, jwrs; jjeveen icoKea at ner
nephew's ruddy cheeks and sighed,
. "I do wish, Percy, " she said gently,
"that yen could, have found some one in-
where these people live is way beyond
the outskirts of the old village, cul
where the- hce- fields were till the immi
" grants begarc to settle around us."
Bct what's the difference, Aunt
3fartha? Itrs all one now. There ain't
no Greenwich anymore; it's all just
2tewYcrk dry. So what is the use of
pretendrffg?rT
" 'The fhfnatience in the yccngman's;
fo .asiMed his asrifc almost as pTurli
as the senrirRPPt he ottered. Isever be
fore fad he failed to show her respect.
Oa the ccntrary, the humbleaess of hii
ctemeaacr fad been. a. griev auce to her;
it" did not" bectsse cee-of her own. blood
to mmiSesti the stnae awe tef ore her
t&at as ordrsary Tinth. warder aid.
The olcT lady" straightened in licr
chair, the lines about her mouth stiffen
ed, and her eyes glistened like her
knocker; as she answered:
"Percy Dean! Ton. forget to when
you. are speaking. You forget yourself,
sir, and your good brteding is evidently
suffering- frcm the associations you per
mit yourself."
Percy was frightened. The last time
he had been rebuked in this temper by
his aunt was when he was a hoy. He
meant no offense.
"I beg your pardon, Aunt Martha, "
re murmurccL
ins. .Leveen teak her knitting frcm
the tnhfc. rrnri MT-I.-m? tmc?l-p- it- tt- t-rll I
T. Til ii h I t UHi I k . AW till
she was quite calm. Sheloekedup after
every few thrusts of her needle, indig
nantly at first, then coldly, and finally
the habitual expression. Gf krntfnpg? re
turned to her face.
"I dare say you are in a hurry to go
to town, Percy, and I shall not detain
yon much longer. Yon may tell me
something about this young fhig g-frl.
How old is she?"
"She is going on 19, Aunt rTthn, "
"Is she cultivated, educated? Come,
Percy, tell me all about her."
"She went through the grammar
school, I think, but she had to work
after that. So she can't play the piano
or sing, but she is a nice girl and can
tend the house a-nfl cook, now that her
mother's dead."
"That's right. She ought to be able
to manage her husband's household
But tell me more about her. Is her
voice soft, are her -mmo-rc gentle, is
she modest? Describe her to- me, my
dear. Is she pretty r"
Percy was encouraged by the few
word of approval he had wen.
"Aunt, she's a beaut, that's"
"What do you. say a what?"
"I mean she's a beauty. She's got
Hue eyes and blond hair and the nicest,
biggest, reddest cheeks. She ain't what
you. would call quiet; she's more lively
like. Yen ought to hear her hough when
we're down on the decks nights with '
the rest of the crowd. I'll bet yon could !
hear her across the river in Hotoken.
And jolly? If she gets a mug as is tea
fresh, she cas jolly him along te beat
the bead. But she's on the level tco.
She dees the square thing by her old
man every clip. The housework has to
be done before she's in for the game.
And she slaves for her little sisters and
brothers, just slaves for them, and yet
she dees it as willing. But then she's
good te everybody; always ready to
help cut with work when neighbors are
behind or sick or have company, and
she sticks up for horses and cars and all
like that. You wouldn't believe she
was that way, though, to see her at a
ball or dancing on excursion, boats up
the river. She's a geed leaker and a seed
dresser, and when she's out in fall rig
well, say, she's a sight. The other
fellows don't do nothins when we're
out"
Percy stepped short. Mrs Leveen. had
risen snddenly, and she stead erect be
fore him, tall and white and proud.
""Why, Anat Martha!" he eselaimed
"That is enough, Percy. Tfamk yen.
I see I have been wrong, all wrong in
this matter from the first. You shall
have your way, for it is right. I con
sent." "Oh, Aunt ATartie," he cried, spring
ing up and seizing her hand to kiss, "I
arafo glad! Butlknew yen would after
hearing about her. And, say, aunt, you
ought to see her once. Yon couldn't
heip but Kke her and admire her.
Everytcdy in the ward dees. "Why, dc
you kaow what they call her, the men
down at the Grapevine? The way you
leaked then made re think of it. They
call her the pride of Greenwich vil
lage." J. Lincoln Steffeng in New
York Pest
The Telling- of It,
The other day at a Eeeial function I
'some ufcn. tire friends, one of whom
kefe-jest returned frcm a Insurious voy
age retted tie world in a millionaire's
steam yacht. ' fHave you found anybody
wining tc sit down and hear yen tell
about it?" mischievously asked the
other. "2o. ' ' was the laughing answer,
"I have iot even ventured to make the
attempt. ' And I applauded this discre
tion, for ' 'telling about it" is the most
dangerous indulgence possible to ene
who would be loved as a csmpanion. It
is the way that tores begin, and a first
vie1 diss: to the enticement has often, led
h'to ene el tnese ratal cases ot serr con-
sideratien which stamp the afflicted
sp'eaker forever with a brand.
He may have seen a ghost ar a mur
der nay, even may have chance ji to
meet an emperor in his shirt sleeves.
Nip matter; let him he silent upon these
subjeess in which his own. pcrsonaiitr
mast ehaim the lien's share." The time
will came, perhaps, in some autumn
twilight, at the ejid of a. long house
party, when the whale company may
gather about him and clamor eagerly
for his adventures. But until then he
should clinr to the first precept of con
versation, which commands him to leave
anrpie ream for the display of wis in
ethers, gcrfbner'ti.
TIic Rhine ITortifi cation.
The early Remans found the swift
current of the Rhine sufficient defense
against the gigantic Germans, but to
protect the peaceful settlers against all
possible danger every ford on the upper
Rhine and every convenient crossing
place en the lower stream was fortified,
ind thus a nTmfn of pests was extended
frcm: the sea. to Strasburg.
Buttons.
Zfearxy all the elegant buttons are
now shown, in- three distinct sizes de
signed for one costume. Many of the
smaller buttons are veritable Jewels in
their artistic beauty of color and desgr
and" they are set exactly like actual
gems, on Iawmountings of whitened sil
ver or pure gold er pearL Jet, pTomb
colored enamel, and bronze buttons set
in riveted points are all famxEjar styles.
Same of the handsome Jet and iridescent
eord passementeries have buttons to
prn which are not intended to have
gny strain upon; them, but are raerely
nsed as decorations aR over the cloth or
nthpr costume.
JLalifiveil of Terrible gains.
TL E. Merse, Traveling Salesman,
Galveston, Texas, says BaHard's Snow
Lmnnent cared me of rheumatism of
three months standing after nse of two
rattles. J.S-Ikmn.DariviHe,IILTsaysI
have ued BaBards Snow Liniment
for vears and would not be without it.
J. R. Crouch, Rio, Ilis says Ballard s
Snow Liniment cured terrible pains in
back of bend and neck when nothing
else would. Every bottle guaranteed.
Price 50 cents.
Sold by The North Platte Pharmacy,
J. E. Bush. Mgr.
WISER THAN BOOKS.
3y love than Loots is -reiser far.
Iecasred the countless pagea
"Where all tho--c-crtis of -wisdom.:
The pruwrLs cf the sages.
T fi.fn TifT T TTmrrr -xhat mean? a kiss.
What turem- component pars cf bits.
But, thocgh I conned them, o'er and. o'er,
It vras no plainer than before.
At last I fonndmy love, ami he
Explained i: clearly, all, to me.
Katrina Trask: in iTew Ycric Times.
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EHETETEEAK
Qut of the low window could be seen
! three hickory trees placed irregularly in
a meadow that was resplendent in
springtime green. Farther away the
old, dismal belfry of the village church
loomed over the pines. A horse medi
tating in the shade cf one of the hick
ories lazily swished his tail. The warm
sunshine made an oblong of vivid yel
low on the f oor of the grocery store.
"Could you see the whites of their
eyes?" said the man who was seated on
a soap box,
"Nothing of the kind," replied old
Henry warmly. "Just a lot of flitting
figures, and I let go where they 'peared
to be the thickest. Bang!"
"Mr. Fleming " said the grocer. His
deferential voice expressed somehow the
old man's exact social weight "Mr.
Fleming, yon never was frightened
much in them battles, was you?"
The veteran looked down and grin
ned. Observing his manner the entire
group tittered. "Well, I guess I was,"
he answered finally, "pretty well scared
sometimes. Why, in my first battle I
though the sky waa falling down. I
thought the world was coming to an
end. You bet I was Ecared."
Every ene laughed. Perhaps it seem
ed strange and rather wonderful to them
that a man should admit the thing, and
in the tone of their laughter there was
probably more admiration than if old
Fleming had declared that he had al
ways been a lion. Moreover, they knew
that he had ranked as an orderly ser
geant, and so their opinion cf his hero
ism was fixed. None, to tc sure, knew
how an orderly sergeanf racked, tut
then it was understood to- be scraewhere
just shy of a major general's stars. So
when old Henry admitted that ho had
been frightened there was a laugh.
"The trouble was," said the cU
man, "1 though they were all shooting
at me. Yes; sir, I thought every man
?n the other army was aiming at me in
particular, and only me. And it seemed
SO darned unreasonable, you know. 1
wanted to explain to 'em what an al
mighty gcod fellow I was, because I
thought then they might quit all trying
to hit me. But I couldn't explain, ai-J
th3y kept on being unreasonable blim
blam bang I So I run."
xwo little triangles or wnniries ap
peared at the corners of his eyes. Evi
dently he appreciated some comedy in
this recital. Down near his feet, how
ever, little Jim, his grandson, was vis
ibly horror stricken. His hands were
clasped nervously, and his eyes were
wide with astonishment ar this terrible
scandal his most magnificent grandfa
ther telling such a thing.
tThat was at Chanceilcrsville. Of
course afterward I got kind of used to
it A man does. Lots of men, though,
Eeem tq feel all right from the start. I
did as soon cs I 'got on to it,' as they
say now, but at first I was pretty flus
tered. New, there was young Jim Conk
Iin, old Si Omkiin's son that used to
keep the tannery ;you none of you recol
lect him he went into it from the start
just as if he was bem to it. But with
me it was different. I had tQ get used
to it."
When litfele Jim walked with his
grandfather, he was jn the habit of
skipping along on the stone pavement
in front of the three stores and the hotel
of the town and betting that he cculd
Yoid the cracks. But upon this day he
walked soberly, with his hand gripping
two cf his grandfather's fingers. Some
times he kicked abstractedly at dande
lions that curved over the walk. Any
one cordd see that he was much trou
bled. "There's Sickles' colt ever in the
medder, Jhnmie," said the old man.
"Don't vcu wish you owned one like
him?"
"Urn!" said the boy, with a strange
lack of interest. He continued his re
flections. Then finally he ventured,
"Grandpa now was that true what
you was telling those men?"
"What?" asked the grandfather.
t4What was I telling them?'
"Qh, about your running. "
'Why, yes, that was true
enough,
Jiromie. It was my first fight,
and
TTOTT
there was an awrul lot el noise
know, "
Jimmie seemed dazed that this idol,
ot Ita own will, should so totter. His
staur, boyish idealism was injured.
Presently the grandfather said:
"Sickles' colt is going for a drink.
Don't you wish you owned Sickles' colt,
Jimmie?"
The toy merely answared, HHe ain't
as nice us cur'n, " He lapsed then to
another mcody silence.
One of the hired men, a Swede, de
sired to drive to- the county seat for pur
poses of his own. The old man loaned a
horse and an unwashed buggy. It ap
peared later that ene of the purposes of
the Swede was to get drunk.
After quelling some boisterous frolic
of the farm hands and boys in the garret
the old man had that night gone peace
fully to sleep, when he was aroused by
clamoring at the kitchen dear. He grab
bed his trousers, and, they waved out Be-
hear the voice of the Swede, screaming
and blubbering. He pushed the wooden
button, and as the door fiew open the
Swede, a maniac, stumbled, inward,
chattering, weeping, still screaming;
"De barn fire! Fire, fire! De barn fire!
Fire, fire, fire!"
There was a swift and indescribable
change in the old man. His face ceased
instantly to be a face; it became a mask,
a gray thing, with horror written about
the mouth" and eyes. He hoarsely shout
ed at the foot of the little rickety stairs,
and immediately, it seamed, there came
down an avalanche .if men. No one
knew that during this time the old lady
had been standing in, av iiightclathes
at the bedroom deer yelling: "What's
th' matter? Whafs th' matter? What's
th' matter?"
When they dashed toward the barn,
it presented tq their eyes ta nsuaj ap
pearancesoiemG, lathes mystiain the
black night. The Swede's fanrprn was
overturned at a point some yards from
in front of the barn doors. It contained
a wild little conflagration of its own,
?mrT even in their excitement some of
those who ran felt a gentle seccn cars-
vibration of the thrifty part of their
Tnfnfte at sight of this overturned lan
tern. Under ordinary circumstaaces it
would have beat a calamity.
But the cattle in the born, were
trampling, trampling, trampling,, and
above this noise could be heard a hum
ming like the song of innumerable bees.
The old man hurled aside the great
doors, and a yellow flame leaped out at
one corner and shed andsped and waver
ed frantically up the old gray walL It
was glad, terrible, this single name,
like the wild banner of deadly and tri
unrohant fees.
The motley crowd frcm. the
garret
had come with ail the pails of the farm.
They flung themselves upon the welL It
waa a leisurely old machine, Jong dwell
ing in indolence. It was in the habit of !
giving cut water with a sort of reluc
tance. The men. stormed at it, cursed
it, but it continued to allow the buckes
to be filled only after the wheezy wind
lass had bowled many protests at the
mad handed men.
With his open, knife in his hand, old
Fleming himself had gone headlong into
j the barn, where the stifling smoke
swirled with the air currents, and
where could be heard in its fullness the
terrible chorus of the flames laden with
tones of hate and death, a hymn of
wonderful ferocity.
He flung a blanket over an old mare '3
head, cut the halter dose ta the manger,
ied the mare to the door and fairly kick
ed her out to safety. He returned with
the same blanket and rescued one of tho
work horses. He teak five horses cut
and then came out himself with his
clothes bravely on fire. He had no whisk
ers and very little hair on his head.
They soused five pailfuls of water on
him. His eldest son made a clean miss
with the sixth pailful because the old
man had turned and was running down
the decline and around to the basement
of the bam, where were the stanchions
of cows. Some ono nuticed at the time
that he ran very lamely, as if one of the
frenzied horses had smashed his hip.
The cows, with their heads held in
the heavy stanchions, had thrown them
selves, strangled themsplvea, tangled
themselves done everything which the
ingenuity cf their exuberant fear could
suggest to them.
Here, as at the well, the same thing
happened to every man save one. Their
hands went mad- They became incapa
ble of everything eave the power to rush
jnta dangerous situations.
The old man released the cownearest
the door, and Eke, blind drunk with
terror, crashed into tho Swede. The
Swede had been running to and fro,
babbling. He carried an empty milk
pail, to which he clung with an uncon
scious fierce enthusiasm. He shrieked
like one lest as he went under the cow's
hoofs, and the milk paiL rolling across
the floor, made a flash of silver in the
gloom.
Old Fleming tack a fork, beat off the
cow and dragged the paralyzed Swede
to the open air. When they had rescued
all the cows save one, which had. so
fastened herself that she cqnlci not be
moved an inch, they returned to the
rrcnGcf tbe barn and eteod Eadly, breath
ing like men who had reached the final
point of human effort.
Many people had come running. Some
one bad even gone to the church, and
now, from the distance, rang the tocsin
note of the old belL There was a long
flare of crimson on the sky, which made
remote.peopIe speculate as tQ the where
abouts of the fire.
The long flames sang their drumming
chorus in voices of the heaviest bass.
The wind whirled olGuds of smoke and
cinders into the faces of the spectators.
The form of tbs old barn was outlined
in black amid these masses of orange
hued names.
And then came this Swede again,
crying as one who is the weapon of the
Ehiister fates: "De coltsl De colts! You
have forgot de colts!"
Old Fleming staggered. It was true ;
they had forgotten the two colts in the
box stalls at the back of the bam.
"Boys," he said, "I must try to get 'em
out." They clamored about him then.
afraid for him, afraid of what they
should see. Then they talked wildly
each to each. "Why, it's sure death!"
"He would never gat out!" "Why, it's
suicide for a man to go in there!" Old
Fleming stared absenrmindedly at the
open doors. "The poor little things, "
he Eaid. He rushed into the earn.
When the rcpf fel in a great funnel
of smcke swarmed toward the sky as if
the old pian's mighty spirit, released
front its bedy-a little" bottlehad
swelled like the genius of fable. The
smoke was tinted rose hue from the
flames, and perhaps the unutterable mid
nights of the universe will have no
power to daunt the color of this soul.
Stephen Crane in Sc. James Budget.
X! Kays and S9iiioUt
One excellent nfie to which the new X
rays can be put should interest women.
It seems that by their aid one can read
ily determine whether diamonds are
real or false, far the rays pass quite
through real diamonds, leaving them
transparent, and not at all through false
ones. A real parure when photographed
would show only the mounting, but in
a false one an the stones would turn
7Arji
wHI notr Vfrme glass. Eyeglassesif ;
out hfark. Strangely enough, the X rays
photographed,, come out black. This
proved useful in the case of a Vienna
ghissworker who got a bit of glass, into
his finger. By the aid ps the rays it was
discovered, extracted and the workman i
cured.--fct. James uazetre.
practical PatperI want to buy a
watch far
my boy the cheapest you
have.
Honest Dealer I'm afraid I can't
warrant the cheap ones to keep very i
geed time.
Practical Father Oh, that doesn't
matter. Just make it so hecanopen thej
Ia-rtted to Can.
He I suppose that snrj headed dude
has proposed to yeu u deen times.
Sherfrt. Once was fmrrnTr Come
and see us when we get settled- De
troit Free Eress.
The writer who has time, ts explain,
everything; has net ?m4i time to write.
?he reader who is tco indolent or indif
ferent to Icok up references ought not to
read -"Vsndamf
Nails arc now made by machinery,
ribbons or long slips of iron, or steel
being fed
which cut cut
the nails complete ar one stroke.
THE NAME CAME BACK.
JLsxL Tor- Awkne titer Xtectsr- Ceald
Sec tire Hsaer of It.
It is a. frrmftTrrf contention, among
psychologists that on, incident ones
thoroughly presented to the human
mind cannot be effaced from the mem
ory. In. this connection. Dr. Cyrus Ham
En, the well known missionary to Tur
key and the founder of Robert college,
Constantinople, is reported by the Wash
ington. Star as telling ahumorcus story.
Among Dr. Hamlin's friends and
substantial helpers was a PfrffruTpTph
' gentleman, whose nam e could not be re
called by the doctor, who was then, in
SS&SS? Zfl
number of the house in which his bene
factor had lived, was as plain, to the
doctor as if the events had occurred but
yesterday, but to save his life he could
not think of the gentleman's name.
As time went on this failure of mem
ory caused him serious annoyance, and
he adopted aH sorts of expedients to
bring back the name. He would take the
letters of the alphabet one at a time and
think over an the surnames he had ever
heard, but to no avail. Then in his
imagination he would start down, the
street where his friend had lived, enter
the house, go through the ceremony cf
rntrodnction. and repeat ward for word,
as nearly as he cculd remember it, the
conversation which, had taken place be
tween, them, but st 01 he cculd not recall
f- the name-
When, after 30 .years, he returned ta
his native land aa a visit, he took the
trouble to go to Philadelphia, in order
to settle the question, which had been
puzzling him so long. He visited the
house, but found only strangers, who
could teH him nothing of the people
who had lived there so many years be
fore. So finally Dr. Hn-mTi-n abandoned
the search, thinking that here at last
was a case where something had been
thoroughly presented to the human
mind, and as thoroughly effaced.
One night, after he had returned per
manently to this country, he attended a
large dinner where were several dis-!
tinguished psychologists. During the
evening the conversation, turned upon
the subject cf memory, and the wen
known scientific principle was discussed '
This was too gcod an opportunity to be i
lost, and Dr. Hamlin proceeded to relate !
his experience at length, as an p-mmpTf s
of the opposite kind.
He was, ot course, listened to with
great interest, and as he approached the
end of his story he said, with great im
pressivenesst " Gentlemen, there was an incident
presented ta my mind more than 40
years ago, and I have not been, able to
think of the name of Captain. Eobinscn
from that day to this."
When his climax was greeted by a
hearty burst of laughter, the worthy
doctor looked round in great astonish
ment, for he thought he had told a
pre try good story and could see nothing
ifl it to provoke mirth. It was some time
before the truth of the matter dawned
noon him.
Eock Pictures In Oregon.
W. B. Wbitteraore while in. Alturas,
Or., recently discovered some remark
able hiercglyphics about I a utiles north
east frcm the north end of Warner val
ley en the edge of what is locally known
as the "desert" in Lake county. Sir.
Whittemare says the hieroglyphics had
been cut with a sharp instrument in the
surface of the hard basaltic rock: They
eover the face of the bluff for a distance
cf about three miles and consist of pic
tures of Indians with bows, arrows and
spears, besides deer, antelope, dogs n-nd
wolves, geese, ducks, swans and reptiles
of various kinds. Intermingled withthese
.mfmnfe are characters which, ef course,
he could not decipher. He says that the
execution of the pictures was very gcod,
and he is satisfied that it could not
have been the work of cninary Indians.
Throughout the entire distance the char
acters and pictures are in rows.
The Indians of the ricinity have na
knowledge of the meaning of the hiero
glyphics or of the people who ages age
chiseled them on the surface of the
recks. From the description given the
picture writing bears a cjewe resem
blance to that found VA ilexico and Cen
tral America. tiiis supposition is true,
a careful study might reveal to the
archaeologist same insight into the origin
or wanderings of a dead and forgotten
civilization. Ccx. San Francisco Can
Answered.
There is a utcry of an mquisitive old
gentleman who asked a cabman whether
he thought that his horse preferred
standing still on the rank or drawing
the cab.
"WeH, sir," replied cabby, "I i-WV,
on the Tole he'd rather pun the cab.
Yon Stic, he reads the names over the
shop winders and they makes him
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