CAPTURING A BRIDE. THE UNKISSED KIS3. THREE STREETS. l i i 11 if- ill if! Hi it it My One Wy Savajre Have of Choosing it Wife When Mitny MfiiQVant Her. The oblong wede, tile Maori order of battle, advanced, fringing in a low t"ii-, and gesticulating in what thy would have culled a mild iiiatint-r. On they ad vanced, the Kioveini-iit raising no KUsii'e ion in the breasts of tln-ir adversaries, it being part of the cnstujnary ritu.il of the war dance, until the thin end of the pha lanx overlapped the Mania, and stood be tween them and the gates of the pa. Suddenly a change was visible in th antiH of the Ngatiroa. Their gesticula tions becauie violent, their eyes protrud ed, their heads were thrown back, and their throats uttered a mighty shout A he cry passed their lips a stream of warriors rushed up the hanks of thr: gully and joined the cluster of their com rades, now bwolleii to a compact mass oi COO me!:. When the Mania realized the nse prae ' f.iced upon tljem tney never for a mo ment thought of giving up the fair cause of the incursion without a struggle. Into the ia poured hotli parties the Mania to rail' round the gil l: the Ngatiroa. except the unall party expressly told oif to carry away the lady, tec-king every man an opponent to. wrestle with. Each party was anxious to avoid bloodshed, both be ing "Tribes of the River." The uproar was therefore greater than hud they been engaged in actual warfare, it being moro dillicult to muster a man by strength of muscle than to knock u hole through him. At length superior numbers pre vailed. Those who fought around the lady were dragged away. She was roughly seized, and such a tugging and hauling ensued that, had she not been to the man ner born, phe must have been rent in pieces. At last but one young man. a se cret admirer of the lady, retained his hold. An active young fellow, he had so twisted his hands and arms into the girl's hair, and fought so vigorously with his legs, that he could not be removed until he was knocked down seiistles;. The contest ended, and the bride being borne in triumph to the canoes, both par ties proceeded to pick up their weapons and smooth their feathers. Everything had been conducted in the most honora ble and satisfactory manner. Lieuten ant Colonel A. B. Eliis in Popular Sci ence Monthly. A Wonderful Sense of Smell. The buzzard's wonderful sense of smell is a curious subject that has often been discussed, the discussion of the matter having resulted in a general uniformity of opinion among scientists that they lo cate their food by their sense of smell alone. C. L. Hopkins, the noted biologist, says that he has noticed that in Florida they never leave the roots where the night is spent, especially on damp, foggy mornings, until the moisture has been dried by the sun. They then move slowly across the wind until a "scent" is struck, when they move more slowly "up the wind" until the carrion is located. Some times they will drift down .the wind past their prey, until they have struck the scent, which they follow up until they have found the object of their search, sometimes in the densest thickets. Mr. Hopkins says that he has upon several occasions killed wild hogs i n't he thickets, and after dressing them and taking what meat he wished would see twenty oi more buzzards coming down with the wind. On one oeeasioif they had discov ered some animal remains he had covered up, and on another had found a dead nake which he had buried: St. Louis Itemiblic. i The Old and New Way tit Semiring Wool. Our ancestors scoured their wool in tubs, much as our wives and daughters scour our clothes today. In the hand washing of wool, a tub was filled with the suds, in which one or two men with long ioles stirred the wool until clean, when they lifted it upon a traveling apron, which carried it between a pair of rollers which squeezed out the water. The same principle is applied in the au tomatic scouring now in vogue. Great forks or rakes seize the wool as it is carried by rollers from a fee-ding apron into the iron tanks, and by alter nating motions of their teeth give it a thorough scouring. Thus cleansed, the wool is delivered ly rollers to the dry ing machines, where hot air ami great fans are now utilized to extract all the moisture without tearing the fiber. S. N. D. North in Popular Science Monthly. A Learned .Jewess. Eve Cohen Bacharach was born in Prague in the latter part of the Sixteenth centur3 The mother, who was a "woman of great knowledge," carefully educated the daught'r. and together they took great delight in studying rabbinical literature. The most abstruse works written by the learned men among her jieople were thoroughly appreciated by tiie youthful pupil. Later in life her explanations of the "festival and ieniten tial prayers" were listened to with rare pleasure. She was, it is recorded, ir. on the Bible quite at home." "No less marked was her proficiency in Hebrew, which she read and wrote with ease and elegance." Will Kat in Heaven. We cannot discuss the subject of heaven with editors who show by their statements that they have never studied the question of the resurrection. Our bodies will be material after the resur rection. This is an article of faith. Heaven is ;l material place. The object of the resurrection is to reward the body for its partnership in the good done by the soul in the flesh. It shall have bod ily enjoyments after the resurrection. Will eating and drinking be one of them? We think so. Why not! West ern Watchman. A Candid Confession. He Life with me has been a failure. She You must have had and wasted eome opportunity. He No, I have spent half my life rais ing whiskers to conceal my youth, and the other half dyeing them to conceal ay age. Mansey's Weekly. I have kissed the girls a-plenty, Accil from nuu year fdd to tv.-cntT, IWn lietter tar than honey, 1 can taale their mit-a.iH yet: I. lit lur ' ai'cr thnn the klss.cs (ivcu me hy kindly missi-st fc Uie ever verdant mciu'ryof a kiss I did not tret. For olio u inwiiuc little fairy. Wit !i a r:n e so iij;ht and airy. Kept rnc ever toimly baying, "I'll achieve my imrpose yet." Hut at Unth she shyly vanished With the fiit l'r w uih I f.iini-lnd. And hlii.' lelt mo tsadly oiyhiug for the kitxi I did Let yet. Header, pardon this digression. I)oe pursuit or does possession The greater pleasure briiiK'f I really caar-ot bay, and yet I've toriroiten innny misses Who irMii el on inc their kiss"". Put I'll always reeolleel the girl w hosu kiuts 1 tiid not, yet. Now, of eour-e, there is a moral In this simple story for all Those iudisereet young ladies, who will eom times much regret 'Hint they fan: their kisses freely. For they'll lind a lover really May reiiieiulter inoro than ail the rest the kiss he did not get. Chicago Herald. The First I'ost itiluvittn Family. An English divine has prepared a startling table of the figures, perusal of which will make one thankful that he is living in the latter part of the Nine teenth century instead of in the days rtnmediately following the landing of the ark. lie shows that if one of Noah's boys had lived to be 500 years old, hav ing his first child at thirty and his last at four hundred and seventy, and allow ing for but one addition to his family every three years, and supposing them all to live to the ripe old age of 450, he could gather around him at least 147 Bons and daughters. With a reasonable degree of prolific bearing his grandchildren would until ber between 10,000 and 12,000; tl. ) great and the great-great grandchildren taken with the others enumerated above would swell the figures to something like50,0i;0; this, too, if monogamy alone were prac tised. If polygamy were the rule, as it probably was at that time, the figures would be still more startling. St. Louis Republic. Method of Se;i Doctors. It is related that a lieutenant in com mand of one of her maiestv's gunboats deemed the responsibility of the charge of a medicine chest too much for him. ' Immediately she was olf soundings th ! gallant officer mustered all hands and ' divided the contents of the chest equally, ! so that each had '"his whack and na mair." There are two other naval yarns i in this connection well worth mention ! ir.. j A man-of-war doctor whose name is , unfortunately lost to posteritj' had a ! simple method of locating a man's ail 1 ment and alleviating it (save the mark!) ' by drastic and infallible remedies. He ! wonld tie a piece of tape around the ! waist of the complaining mariner, and ' command him to declare whether his j pain existed above or belowr the tape. P' j above an emetic, if below a dose of salts j followed as a matter of course. Pall ' Mall Gazette. How the Tea riant Started. As you drink a cup of tea do you ever think how tea came to grow? Tell your next visitor the story. A Persian prince, on his way to meet his betrothed, vowed that he would not sleep until he saw her. After traveling seven days, he stopped to rest under a shade tree, and j there, being no longer able to resist the j temptation, lie fell into a sound slej' I When he awakened he was so sorry I that he cut off his eyelids and threw ! them on the ground. From them grew j the tea plant. It is rather unfortunate j that the story stops here, because it j would be interesting to know what the lady thought of a sweetheart without eyelids, and whether it would be possi ble for them to grow again. New York Sun. Sat I'pon by an Ostrich. A gentleman had a theory that auy creature, however savage, could be sub dued "quelled," as he said, by the hu man eye. One day he tried to quell one of his own ostriches, with the result that he was presently found in a very pitia ble predicament, lying flat on the ground, while the subject of his ex periment jumped up and down on him, occasionally varying the treatment by sitting upon him. Doubtless it was safer to lie down than to stand up to be kicked, but to be sat upon as if one were an egg must have been indeed lm iri hating. London Spectator. Future oi ierm del Fueffo. The notions of Terra del Fuego which prevailed ten vears ago have been com pletely upset by recent explorations. The latest travelers there are Messrs. .Roussou and Willems, who have re turned to France from their scientific mission in Terra del Fivgo. These ex plorers believe the northern part of the island can be turned to good account, and that th clay is not far distant when large herds and flocks will be raised upon ranches established all along the river valleys. A large district north of the Straits of Magellan, in Patagonia, which was wholly unoccupied twelve years ago, is now full of little farms devoted to raising sheep and cattle. The owners have prospered so well that the territory they occupy has be come too crowded. It is impossible to extend this business further north, and the farmers will therefore be compelled to turn to Terra del Fuego, which will receive the overflow from Patagonia. On Dawson Island, near the northwest coast of Terra del Fuego, Jesuit fathers are now engaged in stock raising, and for two years or so a fine ranch has been established on the northern coast of Terra del Fuego, where there are today about 30.000 sheep and 6,000 cattle. The English have been the first to establish themselves in this territory. Stock raisers are now reaping a profit of 50 per cent, per annum. The explorers say the availability of the island for 6tock raising has been amply proven, and there is now no doubt that a prosperous future is before it. Chicago Times. I nonpht the new, unknown to meet. And found a Kay and favored Htrert Where fashion walked with flitting feet; And as I watched, a golden gleam l'iercl swiftly through the summer air And darted o'er the human stream; Then nestled 'midst some dusky linir. I ciied upon the hair's dark trace. The tender frame to woman's face, 'I hat pictured all its charms so sweet. Then its I looked I met her ejes, I)ecp as the blue of southern skies. And from them glanced a lany smilo My own poor treasure to beiruile; Through every vein, throughout my frame. There swept a dry, an ardent llame, Love's passion! 'Twos in the time of Ixve's defeat, I wandered through a busy street. And paced to where four crossways meet: And as I gaxtil, the thronging crowd Pressed onward, without reck or heed. With hasty feet, too anxious browed To cast a gl.iucu upon my need. Th. -chill neglect, the biting blast That o'er my he;u t as ice wind p;ussed. And turned to bitter all the sweet. Brought Iron) its frozen realms a gift. The love of self, a careful thrift To guard its treasure and to guide The current of its burning tide Through every vein, through every pore. An angry summons at my door! A uil.ition! 1 wandered for a dim retreat. 1 found a quiet moss grov n itroet. And trod its length wilh tired feet; And as 1 pas-ed, a door ill kept And battered with the strife of years I'ui liiv.'il. and forth a iigtire stepped Ami met me with a face of tears. A ligure that had iH-auty's mien, A face that iu a mood serene, I'umarred by grief, h;id leen more sweet Than aught (hat painter's art had traced. Or chiseled marble cildly graced. And as I gazed with anxious will There came a glow, a silent thrill Through every vein, through every lrt, The swift borne message to my heart. Life's mission! II. Boyd Carpenter in (rood Words. Arc we in it? Are wc in it?? Are we in it'rr'r Well I should say so. when it comes to wall paper, or wall paper or wall paper, wc arc clear in it. thai is with the l:irj;vst stock o-rent est varictv and the lowest prices We call the attention of, and in vile, every one to conic and ex amine our stock and prices. no arc we that advertise thus? Wc arc the lowest price, and the leading house in the wall paper business, th ntilv small lliiMirs about lis i-- our price.-. Goring; Co., ilruggist. A Scrofuluos Boy Runniug Sores Covered His Body and Head. Fones ArTected Cured by Cuticura Reme dies '.Mien six months old. the left hard ot our little era i di-hild beg 1 t swe'l ;i,d had every appearance of a large boil. We pelt iced t our all to no purp se. A b in live ' eiilhs after i became a turning sore s. en other sores fon-i .rn-.,- ' ed . He then had two o v Mieiu on earn luiuit. -iiim ; S' ""-rTiT " his b.oi a be-ame nior all 1 - more impure if to '3 I ui e to l.i e;ik our. ) enme eii hi- chin !' ink less eneaui .the under lip which va It,';' V rv ( llei.sive. ilis head " - i. i i. ., i charging a g-e;t deal. 'I his as niit sui;n ,ii was Ins condition at twen Iii-Iki' months old, when Ii.I'l .nil' t 1... . .... ,.f 1 !), -i; UUUT I il Iliev inn "jj his mother having cWei when he was a uifle nior( than a year old, of eon uinntien (scrofula, of coursal. He could walk a little, but e uld not get up if e fell d w ti. and c.-uld not move !: n i bo.i. ha leg no u-e of his baud I immediately coimneiiei with tie ( fill i t'A km kii Ks, i euig al freely. One sore after another lieali d. u b 'i y matter totming in each one of hese live iei oi es just In-fore healing, which wauhi fnnlh glow io.ie an-' were taken out: then they would heal rapidly. lie of these ugly bone formations 1 pi es.hved. After takeing a doen and a ha f botl les he was completely rureu and is new . at the age of six years. a str.mg and healthy child MKH. h . S . BKItiO .May 'u. lss.-, t.12 K. Clay St.. P.loointiigton, 111, )!v gr in; son remain.'! perfecly well. e signs of scrofula soul no sores. MK-. K. S. MilGCS Peb 7 lss.",. 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