II "AIU IQ BE A FOOL
Why He Vm Down on 1IU Brother -
There weren't but three of its on the
depot platform the man who checked
my trunk, a well-dressed man walk
ing up and down and myself. After a
bit I noticed that the two men looked
almost as much nlike as twin-brothers.
I also noticed that the well-dressed
one evidently wanted to sjK-ak to the
other, but was given the cold shoul
der. It was none of my business, of
course, but there was a mystery about
it to excite curiosity, and by and by I
followed the dcjMl man into tin
freight-shed and carelessly inquired if
ho knew the other man.
"Know him! Of course, I do!" he
indignantly replied.
"He looks very much like you."
"He ought to, as he is my brother
-Ham. Consarn his pictur', but the
sight of him makes me bile over!"
"Family trouble, I suppose?"
"No. it's jest because Sam is the
biggest fool in these United States!
We didn't use to calculate in our fam
ily that ho knew enough to chew gum.
I've actually had to go out and bring
him in when it rained!"
"Well, he seems to be all right now.
How did he get dressed up so line?"
"How? How?" he repeated, as he up-
Met a barrel of dried apples and kicked
it around. "He got dressed up by be
ing a fool!"
Seeing that I did not understand, he
sat down on a box and continued:
"Sam owned five acres of land next
to me up the road. One day about
two years ago a feller comes along
here, and he says to me that he thinks
there is a pot of gold buried on my
land. He'd dreamed about it, least
wise, and he offered to point out the
spot for $50."
"That's a very old game."
"Of course. I let him go on for a
while, and then I took him by the ear
and dropped him off the platform. I
read of that swindle before I was
knee-high to a toad."
"Well!"
"Well, what did he do but go and
hunt up Sam and tell him the same
thing. Somelwxly probably told him
Sam was a born fool and didn't know
enough to climb a fence. Sam guljed
it all down, of course. I warned him
and wrestled with him, but it didn't
Jo no good. He jest scrubbed around
and got the money and handed it
over."
"And the swindler slid?"
"He didn't hurry very much. He
walked Sam around, told him where
to dig and was around or a couple of
days before he sauntered oft". Drat
that fool of a Sam, but I want to go
out and knock his head off."
OUT IN THE WORLD TO FHUD HER.
Tw of m Obacnro AdhUror off Vow
York Atf .
Seeing Nellie McIIenry frisk about
en the stage a few nighu ago remind
ed me of an obscure admirer of hers
who is buried in the Virginia mount
ains, says Jean Merry in the N. Y.
World. He has "never told his love"
and probably never will, but it is none
the less sincere for all that.
More than a year ago I found my
self, just as darkness was falling, at the
Jour of a cabin in the heart of the
mountains. My horse was tired and
o was I. They took me in and kept
me over night. I needn't tell you how
I slept with the ten or twelve members
of the mountaineer's family, and how
we all washed in the same tin basin in
tin; moriiinir. That's another storv.
Dnt 1 do waut to tell you of the work
of art which hung on the log walls. It
was a poster, representing Nellie Mc
IIenry. It wad old and stained and
time worn, but it was the shrine at
which the oldest son of the house wor
ehiped.
"Shep ain't studyin' about marry
in'," said his mother to me next morn
ing. "Hut he does 'low that ef he met
that gal he'd think a heap o' her. He's
a ra'l fool 'bout thet, 'n' won't Lev it
tuck down, nohow. He 'lows some
day 't he'll go out in the worl' tuh fin
her."
So if a tall, raw-boned mountaineer
with flowing locks and a determined
look penetrates Nellie's seclusion some
day she may know that it's her Vir
ginia lover "out in the worl' tuh fin
her." For I told him where she could
be seen.
"The first tint Ireraiw aaael
Sullivan Cox, kaown as Sunset Cox
was in 1850." aaid Thomas Snick to a
&(. ixuis vnromete reports .
i was tnen superintendent of
bridges on the national urnpike in
Ohioand Cox was making a tour of
taverns on me road uelive.ng political
"The turnpike in tfyse d,,yS WM the
great highway betV tAt thr East and
the West. It was thronged night and
day with teams from every part of
Ohio, and country taverns, , with big
wagon yards, were located miles
apart.
"Every night these taverns were
crowded witli teamsters and travelers
and Cox spoke at every one of them,
beginning at the Indiana line and end
ing at the Pennsylvania liorder.
"Mr. Cox was a young slip of a fellow
with realdudish ways, but his speech
es were so inexpressibly funny that he
captured the hearts of the rough team
sters, who carried his fame to every
part of the state, and as long as he
lived they were always his solid
friends.
"Ex-Governor Allen once made a
tour of those taverns and made friends
that stood by him for years, and I have
no doubt but that that influence still
existed and aided in electing him
ernor thirty years later."
Taken Up.
. Taken up at my farm 24 mile
outh of Plattsmouth, Wednesday
Februry 3rd, one yearling heifer calf
and one yearling steer calf, both red
marked with tip of left ear cut otf
and "V" cut on under aide. Party
may have same by paying for ad
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ship. Ben F. Horning.
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A PHANTOM FACE.
She Asked for a
Slsn, and
Her.
It Was Given
"He lost the $5 , of course?"
H! dug where
and may I be
didn't find au
'J.X in it!"
"Did he? Not much!
the man told him to,
hung by the neck if Jk
old crock with over i
"You don't say'"
"That's what he did, and that's what
built him a new house, got him elected
alderman and put them fine duds on
his back! Blast him! 111 go out and
knock his blamed tom-fool head"
But 1 seized him and held him up
arainst a barrel of cider vinegar until
the lit of frenzy passed away, and left
him weak and trembling and just able
to mutter:
"The idea of it! Why. he dont
know enough to-dav to turn a grind
stone the right way!" X. Y. World.
THE MAN WITH A PLAN.
He ffu IJttle. Hat Ilia Scheme Wan
Great One.
There were five of us in the stage,
and a sixth man had a seat with the
I river. There was a second lieutenant
td cavalry, a civil engineer, and the
rest of us were only common folks who
had been out in the hills prospecting
and were returning broken in hopes
and "busted" in pocket. The engineer
was a little man of feminine appear
ance, and we hadn't been together an
hour when he confessed that the bare
thoughts of the stage being held up
made him tremble all over. The
officer was a quiet sort of chap, who
seemed to have plenty of nerve, and
though none of us had much to lose,
we by and by a greet 1 that in case the
stage was stopped we would make a
light for it. Ail were new to' a hold
up. Din we tei it!eu that it we nau any
show at all we could make it hot for the
road agents.
The little man at first agreed with
r ur plan as formed, but later on he
broached one of his own. The driver
told us that the point most likely to be
selected by the highwaymen would be
at a rough spot in the road, just before
it reached a certain hill, and we were
about five miles from the spot, and
darkness had fully descended when the
little man unfolded his plan. . When
within a mile of the spot he was to get
out and follow the stage on foot. Iq
case it was stopped he would be in
position to sight the robbers and open
tire at once.
We jumped on him at once for a
flunk. It was simplv a scheme on his
part to bolt and save his dollars in case
the agents appeared, and each one
gave him his opinion of such conduct
in very vigorous English. In his soft,
gentle way he replied:
"Gentlemen, you do me injustice.
Please suspend judgment until you
see how v.y plan works. I do assure
' ou I liriiii v e: et to kill a robber
.tnd save the ?tage.
We were too disguted to argue with
him. and when he liuallv irot out in
Accordance with his plan the army
liicer was fain to make a kiek at him.
Ve couldn't tell whether 1 hat! lolt
d back down the road or .as follow
ing on. but w e all got ready for a hold
p. Every one of us had a revolver in
and, and everv one was on the watch.
!nd vet it came aliout leforcwe knew
. The horses were still at a walk
hen a man appeared at ehr door of
e stage and covered the .iriver and
le passenger with a shotgun. It was
jmply a dead cinch ou us. auu we
rre not over ten seconds realizing it.
I stood alone looking at the uncon
scious face before me, which was dis
tinctly visible, though the light was
heavily shaded to keep the glare from
the dying eyes, writes Sarah A. Under
wood in the Arena. All her life my
friend had been a Chrijtian believer,
with an unwavering faith in a life be
yond this, and for her sake a bitter
grief came upon me, because, so far as
I could see, there were no grounds for
that belief,. I thought I could more
easly let her go out into the unknown
if I could but feel that her hope would
be realized, ami I put into words this
feeling.
I pleaded that if there were any of
her own departed ones present at this
supreme moment could they not, and
wouiu they not, give me some least
sign that such was the fact, and I
would be content? Slowly over the
dying one's face spread a mellow,
radiant mist I know of no other way
to describe it. In a few moments it
covered the dying face as with a veil,
and spread in a circle of about a foot
beyond, over the pillow, the strange
yellowish-white light all the more dis
tinct from the partial darkness of tne
room.
Then from the center of this, im
mediately over the hidden face, ap
peared an apparently living face, with
smiling eyes which looked directly in
to mine, gazing at me with a look so
full of comforting assurance that I
could scarcely feel frightened. But it
was so real and strange that I wondered
if I were temporarily crazed, and as it
disappeared I called a watcher from
another room, and went into the open
air for a few moments to recover my
self under the midnight stars.
When I was sure of myself I return
ed, and took my place again alone.
Then I asked that, if that appearance
were real and not a hallucination,
would it be made once more manifest
to me: and again the phenomenon was
repeated ami the kind smiling face
looked up at me a face new, yet won
drouslv familiar.
Col. F. N. Barksdale of the Passenger
Department of the Pennsylvania rail
road has a dog that can tell the time
of the day. Col. Barksdale has a very
fine clock that strikes only on the hour
and then very slowly. The Col. got in
to the way of making the dog tap with
his foot at each stroke of the clock. He
fot so he would do so without being told,
ust before the clock strikes it gives a
little cluck, and whenever the doi?
heard this he would prick up his ears,
raise his paw and gently tap his paw
at each strike without being told. After
awhile he got so that when anyone
clucked like the clock he would get in
to position and wait for the strokes.
He was fox a long time confused at
not hearing the clock, but after awhile
began tapping his paw anyway. The
remarkable point is that after a while
he remembered how many strokes
were due at each succeeding hour, su
that now when the Colonel clucks he
gets into position ami taps tiie num
ber of strokes the clock should make
next time. Thus, at any time after ID
o'clock h taps eleven times; after 4
o'clock, live times, etc. Some learned
scientists are going to investigate the
matter to see whether the dog actually
possesses reasoning faculties. Col.
Barksdale will not part with the do
under any conditions. Bdlfo.iU (I'm.'
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A Regular Scimitar
That Sweeps &ll beore it
Why He Couldn't Believe It.
"Talking about snakes," he began
ro one nau said a word about snakes,
Dut ne thought it aoout time to spin
a vara, "lalkmg about snakes there
was a man down in our township
"You knew him?" interrupted his
companion."
"Certainly I knew him."
"I thought so. He was a truthful
man, too."
"George Washington wasn't a Cir
cumstance to him."
"I knew it. Go on with your story."
"WelL sir, one day he was out on the
marsh and he saw a snake that "
"Told you about it himself, didn't
he?"
"With his own lips. Now that
snake "
"Pardon me! He isn't a drinking
man, is he?"
"No, sir."
"Never touched a drop of liquor in
his life, did he?"
"Never since he was born."
"I thought not. Say! did you ever
hear of a snake story being told by a
drinking man?"
"I'm. well "
"Did ypu ever hear of a real good
one that wasn't told originally by a
man who never drank a drop in his
life."
"Why, now you speak of it "
"A strictly temperance man is al
ways willing to make an affidavit to
the truth of it. Bring me one verified
by a drinking man some lime and I'll
take some stock in it."
An interesting story is told how
George Wcstinghouse, the millionaire
inventor, obtained $1,000,000 when he
needed it badly. When the Westing
house Air-Brake Company was a new
concern the directors gave to Mr.
Westinghouse a paper vesting abso
lutely in his hands the power to fix the
selling price of air-brakes. The object
was to cripple competitors. When
the Westinghouse Electric and Manu
facturing Company was in trouble
Mr. Westinghouse applied to the air
brake company for a loan of $500,000.
His application was refused and men
tion made of the fact that he owed the
air-brake company $650,000. ,
At the next meeting of the board
Mr. Westinghouse produced the paper
fving Jiim the authority to fix prices,
ts existence had been forgotten and
the directors saw the importance of
rainin? possession of it. Attorneys
were consulted to ascertain what could
be done. All said that the only thing
would be to make - terms with MrT
Westinghouse. Then he - was asked
what he would take for the paper.
He said $1,000,000, stuck to the figure
and got it. The directors whp refused
the loan -of $500,000 and then paid
over $1,000,000 don't like this story,
but its truth is vouched for. PhiladtU
p'tia Time.
Mark Twain's Brother.
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Mark Twain has a brother living in
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It is related that he drank violet ink
for blackberry cordial and took an al
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his cough medicine; but his latest
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last summer when his wife had gone
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Mrs. Clemens instructed her hus
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On her way home she inquired of Mr.
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"Well," said Mr. Clemens, "I didn't
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Mrs. Clemens discovered that he
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yeast put to raise for the next day's
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Keully Quite Merciful.
te had just got tne oraer 10 nana up
tr cuns aud step out when there was
! t t m .1...
Kp: pop. pop: iroiii tne uuitiur.
ie briirand at the rurbt-hatid window
ed out and tell; the one at me mi
nd window disappeared witu-
a sound. There were three shots
re from the front of the stae, and
f a minute later, and before any ol
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It was iu the New York Central
depot. A well-dres-ted lady with her
littlt? Urd Kanntleroy son approached
the dKr leading to an outgoing train.
Both were laden with bundles. A
railroad official stood by the door.
"Ojn-n the door or I'll punch vour
head.? exclaimed Fauntleroy in a verr
swagger voice, and the ofhcial.amused
by the six-year-old's audacity, con
sented to become doorkeeper for the
occasion and complied.
The mother showed that she was
angry a she swept throngh the door,
ami as it closed she seized Fauntlerov
by the shoulders and shook him se
verely. "Aren't yu ashamed of yourself. n
she asked, "to be so imjxdi'te to the
gentleman?"
"Sho, mamma." replied Fauntlerov.
"I was only jest foolin'. I wouldn't
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An llalian professor predicts that in
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