THE bAlLY 11EKALD, rLAriMUuriiiirASIvAtTlHJUIj:snA.V, ' r, 18SS
.oOD COLLECTOR.
K0W DON M. DICKINSON MADE A
FIRM COMC TO TIME. ,
A ftooil Nlory Told ly a AVestern Con-Cirnuii-:
l(iiiK One IIiniIr-! Out a
u Ilin Hollar Out tf n Js:Ml Cane of
l:un. rii((y I'onnd Out.
A v.c: ( i-.j congressman tollj tlio following
nhout Mr. Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan,
tllO K.f.l llinslcr gCliernL
"Yes, I hiio.v Dickinson, of Michigan, very
w:l. I have lnt-n in wuno railroad case:i
wish him. lie is chain lightning. 1 lickinsou
lias ina.!.- Ih-r Lull; of his lor) uric in the prae
tio of one ..g,d ::,,iully. I!.i:i the 1 est
! ; or of ,ud li i ts on the ia-e of t!:o
arlh. i ,; J don't ;,.;, ,UI del it
Tl.i:; i.t t ho way t.X ii : In ti,.. ihst place, there
u::-d t. Ik a f i-wl many people with u ,nd
habit .f fading every lew yem-s. They al
ways owed I.inv Miias of money to custeru
men h.mts and capitalists, and did not mean
lo Jty a ( i:;. ir they could hclj To this
diss J)k kii: :on was inul ii u mortal terror
jl.x :c ii i... .Ii-.-ice ttiat the- swindling debtor
can niopt , .i;;t J )ii-k::i:.n caii nut see through.
aii.l in-it :,r; i.hai jj on I ho trail as the l:-t
1 .TviMnn . ;.. iv. Tli.s l.ian who can pay
aud wo:ii, i.; Hi,, feliiw Dickinson likes to get
hold of. .,tit tr 3 years ago to illustrate
v.iiat 1 mean there were three big failures
in Detroit. hie iir::i had the sympathy of
every. oi!y, i,.2iJ th,. olhet.i were unci rtain
.;.. t i:ii-r.i. The two doubtful concerns each
owed over y.:l'At,m to New York and Uostou
pcupio.
I.iK'2 A IIAi CASi:.
Anion;; oi her en-ditors war, a. New England
!.:.) i.i:i-i!:l'aciurer for u largo sum. This
iii-.n .juicily retained Dickinson as their
counsel, i: nd the largest other creditor did
the : ame i hiiig. D. .n't k-t t hem know I am
i:i ih-j i .'is.,1 hens he kit his clients. Ho
v.Ciit home. The agent of the New England
iir. i ;i::ie out t roe the broken mei-chant 1
:...i talking about. Ilo'.vasaOfi maii Jew
4'e:s-ra;ly ;;ood r.-spo.isii.lo cople, hut when
thc yar - ti-;. ky, h.ok out! The usual talcs
qv t. Id of customers who could not come
toi'ii , and ail that. It really looked like a
Lad I tho i!osto:i shoe concern was
! a e.-l n jsett'eiueni at twenty cento
o:i t'.- iloll-sr. 'Don't jjoit or a day or two,'
ha id Hi: kinso.i.
"Jii- t h:v.-ho was goin-j to f;et tho moncy
out oi the 1: raelitish customer ho did not
know, l.ut he was f.uro tliere had been soiuo
tsv.iiuMiii.;. It happened that ill his house
hold th:re had lx-uu a;i extremely pretty
ir.-.ii jjirl l.vhi; sis a domestic for many
year-. .':he wiv faithful, neat, and unusually
2i. id, and tho household was very much
iU:-..i!cd t her. About a year before this
t had ja.:i i'i ' 1 a very industrious young
o.::ilryma;i of her own, who was a thrifty
yo".i:i;j !..! i'riyp.:::i. That overling after
liiini r Dick iasi in k-arnc-d tiiat Maggie's hus
l.:ii:d had lir..k..a hia leg a week or two be
io.v. Ho v.eiit around V see the man. 'How
did it happen, i'ete;' ho iu;kcd. 'Well, ye
tee, sir, 1 v.,.:; on a hit of a job that but, sir,
til;; i..aii told me, sir, tliat 1 must not tell.'
..'o;:;.ei:se; you i.i;i tell me, can't you?'
raid D:e':;;::;.,:i; 'and why not tell Mr. Dicl:
itu:.y,i, IV!. ";' Kiiil the 1 riahmaii's pretty wifo
fcJo it came about thrit two weeks liefoiv, lata
i::;;i.!, IVUrhad lieo:i dray ing goods from
the lvar e::d oi a s-ore. A heavy box had
-ii;vtd :iad broke his leg.
saw tii Koran it.
'JJ'.il why did yon say you must not tcllf
s.-il ! t he lawyer. 'I'm sure 1 don't know, sir;
that'.; v.::;:t 'ir. Kati-eio-animer told me, sir,'
answered the man,
jCai;:. iiyamiiier; ko you are working for
.'ii:;;, c'.::' asked Dickinson. We coon gotoutof
irishnr.:! ail he knew. 'I see it now,'
said he tii hiii;;clf as he went home. Tho
.next j;io.".:i:ig Mr. K. was rather suj-irisel to
vt ei ve a call from the gi'eat lawyer, lie had
i(.t .s :it for him, und "was somewhat a little
imca.iy. 'i am the attorney for Messrs
r.iank, .f I V t :i,' he legan, very ixditely.
'i'l.ey Lave a claim against you of ir4i'..T7.bU.
"What !. you intend doing about it, M.r.
.ilaiiviryammer:'
I haf fiilt, yon know, M"r. Dickia
ro::; I .joti t know Low much I can iy on do
dollar.'
Yea must pay this in full, or I will send
juii to 1 ho penitentiary in less than a month,'
said Dickinson, sternly. 'You have boon
i".iu::::'g your j:oodi out of your store at
iiigat, iiit.l s.-n.lhig lbe!ii to Chicago auction
horses t be s..M for whatever tliey would
Lriiig iu t-asii, and you have tilled up your
books w ith false entries.'
ruder Abraham!' screamed the other, as
w hile a;; ho could become. '"How tit you lint
all di.; on.!."
" U ux.vi't matter how I know it all, and
if you il 'a't settle now, today, I will have
yo;i arrested before to-morrow night. You
are w;.".c'.eil : you can't tcet anuvjso don't try
ir. ai.d wiih that Dickinson left. It Lai
I ae.I t!i..t be bad dropped on to what tho
:hi:i had beo:i doing. How he giiesscnl it lie
f'. -y-.-.iit I. !." v himself. About - o'clock tho
j:::i;i i-a.'.io i;roiiud to see what terms he could
l.:.-!:e. 'Nolio. sir, except 100 cents on tho
doilur." was tho only reply. In three days
tho claim was paid in full," Missouri Re
publican. An I'liilcrgroiiiid I'orest.
A:i viergr.u:iil forest was recently dis
cov rod in $ he metal mountains of Saxony.
These nioiui'a'iis are covered with forests of
pines mid lirs, in w hich there are a large
number of open spaces serving as i)astures foi
the cattle kept t n them during th summer
.lanv of these forest Kistiirts are inundated
jn fall iv-i'l remain under water until the
summer following. The result of those'po
rindical i;iuijlati.nis is the ftrrmutiou of deep
la vers of nat, whi-h supply tho region with
valuable lu-ating material. Along a pass
throng" that forest region a railri-aij .now
l.uiidiag be; woen the cities of Annaberg aiul
'ocbwari't-nU-rg. In one of the ieat pastures
the navvies i;ive just laid open the stems of
ti primeval fore.-t in an advanced stage of the
TJi-oi-es-j of petrifaction, or carbonization. The
8tem-5 civ a!J of the (ir family, from fifteeii tj
thirty iin he ." ' ;;vu inference on the average,
and imbedded in peat some Ufteen to twenty
t;et under the surface. Jo reliable estiiiato
tji the age of the forest has yet beer pul
. .jjished. C'hxigo News.
An t'nforl unate Habit.
Brown -Li ha lxn reported to me,Ilobin
bo:i, that you sa"d I am a man of unsavory
repiitatic.n.
jtobinsoii (surprised) "Why, I never said
anything . f the kind. Brown.
jVi.ivi!-1 get the information straight.
Jtobinson Well, I assure you, Brown, that
I i.evcr.in: ended to fay wh a t lung, and if
I did, I attribute it to my imfortimat hah't
t)f thinking idou.k New York Suu,
.Srrv.ints in Oermany.
The servant ffv J question is not so much of
ajniMiiiiii)(rw;.flr?.s it is inthiscoun
try. The very pretty cubtoo? prevails there
t,t k-itratiiig household servuuts for long
1 .satkfai-tory service. One "union" ha$
vithiu twelve years decorated 400 servants.
r.oi:.eth:ng of a similar nature is done la
England. Cloveland Leader, .
CHINESE MONEY LENDING SYSTEM.
The rian of "Woo-ty" Ahsrea and
Shareholder Ilravjr Premlnm.-
The Chinese bare a way of borrowing and
lending money under a system that they call
a "Woo-ey, that allows its members to borrow
money in a stated sum and repay it by in
stallments. Any member of a Woo-ey who
takes a share ami does not wish to borrow
himself obtains a good interest on the money
he invests. The plan of a Woo-ey is as follows:
Ah Sing wants to lorrow $100 and repay
it in installments, so he starts a Woo-ey; his
first step is to Und twenty jiersons who aro
Willing to take a share in a $100 Woo-ey.
Ah Sing is known as the Woo-ey Tow, or
head of the Woo-ey; tho shareholders aro
known as Woo-ey Chi, or children of tho
oo-ey. Iiie o-ey lasts for twenty months
each Woo-ey Chi pays in to the Woo-ey
low, so that Ah King obtains his 100. At
the end of tho month Ah Sing gix-s to each
of the shareholders and asks for bids for the
next loan; each member writes his namo and
the amount of interest he is willing to pay on
a slip of p.-ier. Every member has tho right
of liorrowing money once during the v -ey,
Alter tins bills are all receive! tliey aro
opened ami read and tho money lent to tho
highest bidder. We will suppose that ii jer
cent, is the highest bid. Ah Sing, who now
pays the first installment, has to pay in the
full amount of 5, while the others deduct
the 2 ier cent, and pay in $4.!K). When tho
next installment falls due there are two
mcnilcrs who have to pay in the full amount,
and so the U oo-oy runs on.
At tho end of lifteen or sixteen months tho
interest offered is often as high as 25 or 30
per "ent., but as lifteen of tho members hav
lorrowed, and so have to jMiy in the full
amount of 5, it is only the four or live left
who get tho benelit of the heavy interest.
Sometimes toward tho last of tho Woo-ey,
when two or three different ones wish to bor
row, the rates offered aro often as high as 75
per cent., and in one instance that I know of,
just le fore tho Chinesfe rew ear, 100 per
cent, was bid on a 5 Woo-ey. As there
were three memttcrs that had not borrowed,
the hai M up Celestial had only to pay tho
heavy premium to two men. Sometimes tho
Woo-ey is as low as fifty cents a share, and
have known of Woo-eys as high as $50
hare. Those who go into a Woo-ey as an in
vestment, and do not borrow themselves,
ceuerally tret a large interest for their
money. San Francisco Cor. Chicago Herald.
i:ila Wheeler Wilcox at Work.
"I like to be interrupt.i said Ella
Whixler Wilcox, "and that i one reason
why I like Now York ; there is no other place
where interruption comes so easily.
"No, I am not one of the poets who fly to
nature. I don't mean any disresjiect to na
ture; tho pathless forests are very line things
in themselves, but they don t inspire me like
human beings, human thoughts and human
doings. I want to be among people and feel
the pulse of humanity throb. I enjoy having
my fellow creatures about me. I like to hear
the teams rattle by In tho street. I hko to
stop work now ami then and go out and walk
down town, and soo the world busy as it is
busy here in tho city every day.
'I lielieve I write best with people about
me in the room. Of couse, I shouldn t wish
to feel that they were dependent on mo for
entertainment, but I like the atmosphero of
a social company, chatting among themselves
and speaking to me now and then, I can
join in the talk and then go back to pen and
paper just as readily as if 1 were alone."
"And 3ou don't find th3tlu-ead of your
thoughts broken or confused?"
"If I stop half a dozen times I know that
the lines will run Just as smoothly in tho end
as if I had turned the key upon myself and
insisted on a fine frenzy in solitude. I mean
it ; I like to be interrupted. It is two months
ago now that a poem camo to me at the the
atre one night. I had time to write a few
verses only, and since then I have been out
of town, and I have been learning to cook
anil I have had other writing to do. It was
not until Sunday evening that I found time
to finish that ioem. There were people here
until 10::50, but when I was able to sit down
at my writing tablo tho stanzas came as
fresh and as. naturally as if tho thought
hadn't been interrupted for weeks in finding
expression." Eliza Putnam Ileaton in Buf
falo News.
The Immortal Texan.
Sam Ilouston was not rendered so cynical
by his first unfortunate venture as to render
him unfit for married life, as his more than
fifty yoars of unalloyed happiness in that re
lation amply demonstrates, Ho not only
married after becoming a citizen of the re
public of Texas, but was a devoted husband
and a judicious father, dying in the midst of
his family in 1H0J. One of his sons inherited
a considerable share of the father's sturdi
ncss und talents.
To illustrate ITouston's devotion to his
second and real wife, tho following incident
was related to tho writer of this by an old
Washington habitue and journalist, who
knew him well during his sonatorship
l15-,50; Houston was know to bo intensely
fond of amusements, but no friends could in
duce him to attend tho theatre, circus or a
public ball Being rallied on his "Puritan
ism" by Mr. Clay, the old hero of San Ja
cinto quietly replied: "lam not personally
of opinion that there is anything wrong in
those recreations; but my wile is a deeply re
ligious woman ; she is most strenuoiisly op
posed to the theatre, etc., and though she has
ncvei- even limteu that sne wouia ratner J
should avoid such places, yet, knowing her
sentiments, I think my foregoing so momen
tary a pleasure but a small cross for me to
bear to insure her more perfect happiness."
Chattanooga Times,
A Letter Carrier' Walk.
I have often been asked to explain how a let
ter carrier walks along, apparently with case,
at a rapid gait over slippery ground, and runs
lip and down icy front steps, while other
folks are barely able to keepjheir footing
while they creep along in rubbers pr with a
set of those steel prong nuisances fastened to
their shoes. Tho carriers soon learn to walk
over slippery places without falling because
we havp so much of it to do, and experience
has taught us how we should handle our bod
ies and legs when on dangerous, ground.
When passing over sleety places wo don1
walk erect, but bend forward, taking short
steps and never lotting one foot get far away
from the other. Then, when we step, the
foot is put down solidly, all of it at once, on
the ground, with no heel and toe movement,
which Jeads to slips and falls. It's not grace
ful, this way of walking, but it's safe, and I
can pass any ptijinary pedestrian on a slip
jiery day and bo in uo flauget pf falling,
while ho is constantly slipping. Carrier in
Globe-Democrat.
Mississippi's Agricultural College.
The farm pf pie Mississippi Agricultural
coilege not only "iays expenses, but is a
source of revenue. What is more, the Janii
is constantly improving. The farm was an
. A . . T 4.1 J J A 1
Old cotton plantation uuu lulu oeeu uevoieu
to raising one crop so long that it had bo-,
come practically unproductive. By adopt- i
ing a system of rotation, keeping dairy cows, '
and plowing undeF green crops, tho land has
become very productive.lujw9 Times, 1
A STORY OF THE WAR.
A Coward at Chancellorsvllle la Promoted
for Ills Gallantry
Some of the war veterans who wero guests
of the Twelfth regiment were exchanging
reminiscences at the table. One of them
told this story: "When reaching tho Army
of the Potomac as a recruit for the
New York regiment, twenty -five years ago,
just lcfore the Chancellorsville campaign, I
soon heard of a man in my com
pany whose notoriety for cowardice
had made him a subjtH-t of many
jests during his short service in the camp.
Plenty of men aro bitten by four ujk)h going
into action, but this fellow had tho rare
reputation of being an incurable jxltroou,
and tho mere crack of a rillo had often
thrown him into fits so violent that two of
his comrades had to leave the ranks to keep
him in order, lie was with the regiment at
Cluuicellorsville on the right when wo began
to exchange shots with tho enemy in that
quarter, and he trembled so violently that ho
could not handle his rifle.
A small relml cannon that had lieen pulled
on to a knoll some distance off, and that was
playing an indeiendent game apart from tho
Confederate force, threw a ball that struck
the ground just in front of him and soared
him out of his wits. He !ecamo blind with
fright, broke from the ranks, took to his
heels, and, not knowing where to fly, ran di
rectly toward the hostile gun, which was
maimed by two old Virginia militiamen
in gray, who had undertaken to render their
state some service. The two Virginians be
hind tho ridge suddenly saw tho infuriated
Yank rush upon them, and, believing him to
le followed by his regiment, took to flight,
leaving their camion behind them. The pol
troon stood aglio.it for a moment alongside
the piece of artillery, which he hail captured,
and almost simultaneously our regiment, by
a rapid advance and a few shots, drove back
the company of relels that had lieen lurking
in front, and we held the ground for tha
time being.
But tho wonderful deed of our comrade
who seized the enemy's gun had I oen wit
nessed by the mounted general of our brigade,
who happened to lo a relative of his, and
within forty-eight hours tho fellow who had
ton the laughing stock of the regiment was
promoted for gallantry iu the field. His sub
sequent rise was rapid, and when I tell you
that he afterward fell wounded at Gettys
burg, at the head of the regiment of which
he was in command, and that tho graj'-
bearded veteran himself, who now lives in
this city on his pension, uses only a sjoonful
of whitewash in telling the story just told,
you will admit that sometimes things are not
what they seem." New ork Sun.
"Goins Out" with a Ioctor.
"I remember," said Dr. Roscommon, who
read medicine in Chicago some thirty years
ago, but who has been practicing in Iowa for
a great many years, "I remember one night
I passed in Chicago, and I don't think I
could forget it if I should live to be a thou
sand years ohk I was a young fellow and
had just begun to study medicine. One even
ing Dr. Freer asked nie if I would like to go
out with him that night, and I said I would.
About midnight we accordingly went to a
saloon on North Clark street Conley's, if I
remember right and got a good supper.
Then we started away in tho doctor's chaise,
one of those old fashioned, jigglety jogglety
things, and finally came to the city ceme
tery. After awhile we started for Hush Med
ical college, then on tho north side, with tho
corpse sitting up between us on tho seat. The
old chaise joggled so that we both had to put
uir arms around the corpse to keep it from
falling over. When we reached tho college
A o drove into the alley at the south of it and
bundled the body into the shaft, whence it
was to be hauled up to the disserting room.
"Tho doctor and I parted then, agreeing
to meet at tho college at 10 o clock that
i 'mining to give the body the necessary in
ji'tion. I went into the shaft below and
n ado the body fait to one end of tho rope
which hung down from a pulley, and the
dector, on tho floor above, hauled away on
tlrt other end. When about half way up tho
lody stuck, and I went up and after 4a good
deal of tugging managed to loosen it. Final
ly, when we hail drawn it to the dissecting
room and ripped open the sack in which it
was confined, we found it was thp body of a
man who had died in tho confluent stage of i
small ix)x. What did we do? What could
we dof We buried the body that night in nn
orchard on the west side, and tho doctor took
his chaise off into the country and left it to
stand out all winter where nobody would go
near it. That was my first experience in 'go
ing out' with a doctor, and I don't think I
shall forget itr"-rChicago News.
Lunatics Cured by Kindness.
The strange colony of lunatics at Gheel, in
the Belgian Campino, has long engaged tho
attention of specialists, and so satisfactory
has been.,itB working that a duplicate of it
has lately been established. In these col
onies tho lunatics are boarded out with tho
inhabitants, live as members of the family,
assist in their work, and have liberty to move
about at will. The regularity and healthful
ness of the life led by the afllicted inhabitant.
of Gheel restores a considerable proportion
of them to their right mind.
Gheel, however, is in the Flemish speaking
portion of Belgium, and it ha3 of late yeai-s
been found that patients from the Walloon
country, who speak only French or tho Wal
loon patois, were awkwardly placed, and
their recovery retarded by the absence of
ready means of communication with those
about them. The experiment was thereforo
made of establishing a French speaking col
ony at Lieurneaux, in the Walloon country,
near Spa; and it has been so successful that
it has now been placed upon a permanent
basis.
The cost of paupet? lui.aticg to thej,; c;.m:
munes does not exceed a franc a day. Nei
ther at Gheel nor at Lieurneaux has it been
found that constant intercourse with luna
tics has increased the tendency toward insan
ity among the natives. St. James' Gazette.
Superstitions of Mariners.
In speaking of the superstitions ot' man
ners, Capt. J. W. Hall, one of the oh lest and
most experienced lake-faring men in Detroit,
said the other day: "Did you ever notice
that there is no vessel on the lakes named the
George Washington? The first vessel that
ever Lore that name was a steamer launehofi
in 1S33. She went down during the same,
j-ear with the loss of one life. Another was
built about 18Q7, and in foundered with
tho loss of sixty-eight lives. Tho idea that
there is bad luck in the name has never been
overcome, and I doubt whether you could
now induce an underwriter to take a risk
upon a boat bearing that name" Detroit
Free bi eoa,
Danger of New Diseases.
There is nothing to hinder the bursting on
the world of a new pestilence at any moment j
out of the unsanitary conditions of masses of I
humaij peinga. rue gei.m or cur worst
dreaded diseases ' aro pet transmissible
through pure oir. But in impure air
there are constantly going on the crossings, '
reimpregnations or hybridization of poisoa
germs that involve tho possibility of new '
forms of disease worse than our worst foes.
Globe Democrat. '
TRAINING FIGHTING DOGS.
Improving Tlielr Grip, Iteduclisi; Hofh
ami Cultivating Wind anil I.! nib.
A man who owns several lighting d-vrs and
who also owns a bnrrooin not many blocks
away from Washington square, cxiaiucd the
method of training a dog to a reporter, r.t
follows: "Well, take my dog Crip, for ex
ample. Hay I make a in.-Hch for him to fir-lit
at twenty-four pounds. Ho has N-en bang
ing about the bar doing nothing but eat and
.' leep for six or eight mouths und is con.-o-quently
fat, short winded and lazy, its well as
ten or twelve .omuls over weight.
"I must put him to work at once son;; to 13
ready, but I must begin slowly. Kve.-y morn
ing Ijeforo breakfast I take Crip out and walk
him around Washington square half a do:'.cn
times at a brisk walk uud then b:ic!: to the
house. With a rough towel I give him a d
rub down and sponge out Lis mouth with a
clean songi Ho is now ready lor ln .ik
fast, generally a piece of raw iecf. Iu ti;o
f I I - . . . . ,
unei noon i gi ve mm auoiuer iwo or mrco
mile walk, a ruhdown and sponge I,'..-, mouth,
(living him three times uday a good substan
tial meal.
"A few days of this and Grip ii feeling r.s
bright and chip;cr as you please. Then tho
walks lieoome longer, w ith an occasional run,
and I add some exereiso in the house. This
consists principally of chasing the ball. I'll
show you.
"Here, Crip! and a fat, lazy looking bull
dog camo lazily from behind the bar. A ru!
ber ball, alout half tho size of a baseball,
was taken nut r.f a box and sent spinning
across the floor and Crip went al ter it. Ho
picked it up mid brought it to his master,
giving it up with a wag of the tail as natur
ally as a well trained setter.
"When he is in tr- :.: T ' .- ' ' -.
.v iwj ...v.. ...i ....itx: lioui S ti o..y, i ki
t.aueil urips owner, "tiesides the walking it
fcui.-. n.e i.esu u:i oi mm anu gives mm
....... 4.... .'1 1. . ir . r i . .
gooa
wind. After the training has u one 'on for
1
couple ot weciis I give him long runs und
si.icl: up on the waikm-' Sometimi-s I'll lu'li li
him under a light wa;
"ii and drive
:io a
iimart jog up to Central park ami back. He'll
make it alter two or three trials without
turning a hair.
(Vnotla r es:;enl:V.l thing has to bo looked
after, his grio. The wav this is cultivated is
by taking a heavy crash towel and making
the dog bite it. Tho way that a bull dog wiil
hang oil is something marvelous. I can mako
that one take a towel and can drag him all
over the place, or even lift him on the floor
and carry him tho length of tho room, pro
vided his jaw is in good condition and tho
towel holds. He gets anywhere from half
an hour to two hours of this work every day,
and after he has boon ut it for two or threo
weeks he'll hold on until you kill him or his
trainer tells him to let tro.
"it generally takes about a month to get a
log like (!riii into iirst class fcha'io. and when
he is there he is lit to fight for a maif;; life."
New York Tress.
A Dlnlnjr I'.ooiu Mystery.
A gentleman who was invited out to dine
at a Delaware avenue residence lately. oI
served that tho c handelier over tho di'tunr
room table was of peculiar construction, so
that there was a lkrht over the head of e.idi
ast. The gIo!x..s wire of various colors,
some a:iilcr. some red and some blue. "Wlust.
is the object of having the globes of diflerciifc
colors?"' tho guest asked of Ids hostess. "Win-.
you see," said she, "when one gives a dinner
or tea, one may invito some pimple whom one
perfectly hates. Now last 1 ucsday I gave u
supper and I had to invito two women whom
I despise. Hut I had to invite them or some
of the young men I wanted wouldn't come
I had my revenge on my fair enemies, how
ever. 1 placed each of these two women under
one of those pale blue lights at the table.
They're usually considered beautiful women,
but under that light they had the most
ghastly l.Kk you ever saw. Thev were per
fect scarecrows. Thev seemed to have nm-d
twenty years the minute that thev sat down.
The men noticed it, of course, but thev did
not divine what caused it. 'Hiey were quiu
taken aback and aw fullv irlum at first. H;-t
ally one of them turned with a sigh r.:.d
l'gan talking to a real homely littio thm"
that was sitting under a ruby colored light.
Why, she war; peri'cc'Jy charming under i1:.
lo yon see that wucu I wa:it people to loo
K.-rfectly hideous I put th -m under the l iue
llrhki. It kills everything." The gentlemr.n
looked up. He was under a blue light. Uiu
falo Courier.
Tho III.:;:: lla:il a:ul tho Left.
As I stood on th:? curb talking with nn nc
compli.hed a:iator.i:.--.t tho other dij- l.o
cTerevl to bet mo that I could not fell which
was my right band. 1 iumie: iiately held out
my right hand for the wager; But ho ob
jected, lie said ho did not olior to bet mo
that I could not i liov.- him my right, hand, t r
extend him my right hand, but that I ooaM
not tell him which was my right hand t::t
is, that I could not describe it in words :.o
that iinc who never heard of tho distinction
we make Ktween the right hand and tho 1 .It.
would bo able tolind it. I thought that th:.t
would bo easy enough, also, until I thought it
over, and thou T had tu give $t up,
Said tho anatomisti "There aro plenty .-f
criteria within tho body which define i.s
place such as the heart, the liver and t!:o
duodenum. But on the outside of a perfectly
formed human In-ing there is nothing to dis
tinguish the right hand from the left, and 1:0
oi" can describe it in words so that mi ignor
ant ei sou can find it. If jeoplo were am.
bkie-vtroiu. and were t.ot taught, from child
hood, to uw one of tneir hands more than
tho other, it would be almost impossible f.,r
them to know which is which. I often thii.k
of this when I hear any one say to some o::e
whom he wishes to stigmatize as a fool th;;t
ho 'can't tell his right hand from his left,' j.s
I do also when I read that God said to, Jonaii
nbout Nineveh, in -,vhic h he said were -more
than six -sco.ro thousand pci-sons that can not
discern K-twet 11 their right hand and their
left hand.' "Chicago Journal.
A State Deer Tailt.
The state of New York is about to embark
In the enterprise of raising ami keeping deer.
Iv-t J'uir the legislature voted io.lK'O for tho
cstabHshment of a ttate d.x.'r park iu ike
Catskill mountains, r.n.l recently the fom-t
commisfiion designate! Frank C. Parker tc
take the matter in hand. .Mr. Parker will
try to find two men who know the habits oX
deer, and with them tramp the Catskii.s tc
find a suitable state paddock. "When located
ami purchased tho ground wij 1. fenced i;;
and efforts will thcji bo mad.' to catch deer
and keep them in the park. Chicago Ilei aLL
Drawing; Room Meet lugs.
An Englishman with a missionary spirit
has issued an appeal to evangelicals ; pi s.:
vi.b i'drawing jn, . lueetings," at which
those who attend should tie required to wear
evening dress. '-We dress to go out to dinat r,
why should we not dress to l ead the Bible to-
gotherf
Times,
is his original theory. Chicago
Natives near Aheville, N, C, get f 1.7$
a pound for ginseng root, which they dy
iu tho woods, for exportation to China.
The city of Madison is a phenomenon, from
a western point of view. It has never had a
"boom."
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