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THE LOST OPPORTUNITY
PART ,; ' -Kt'KWii;. PART
In Tl ! I'ltrl I
Fur many yonr.i Daniel Ditti-nheiouVr
ad ele-sfnd t ti - ruin of John V. Gree-n-r.
Dutch Dan. as th Street ralleil
f HI tonhoetfor, was a burly man with
blond hair, a reil nose and a loud
vedeo. Greener was a sallow, swarthy
nit. of a man, with blaerk hair anil a
snneaky oiee. He hail furtive In own
"yes ami a high forehead: while Dit
'piihoeffer hail frank blue' eyes ami tins
pugnacious chin anil thick neek of a
prize lighter. I'.oth wen; meiibe-rs of
Hie New York Stock L'xehang but
Ircim r never was Keen on the "Moor"
ifter one of his victims lifteil him
!)i!lly hy th collar ami dropped him
riftren fet Into the coal odlar on
Kxchange place. lie would plan thej
wrecks of railroad systems as a meas
ire preliminary to their absorption.
Inst as a boa constrictor crushes its
victim Into pulp II'1' more easily to
.wallow it. I Sit t the practice, uncheck
"d for years, had made; him nervous
nd soul fidgety.
Dan spent his day.-: from 10 to 3 on
the Stock llxehang'. and his nights
from 10 to Z at tho roulette tables or
before a faro layout. Host less as the.
-piiverin.c sea nml suiTe-ring from
hronic insomnia, he had perforce to
satisfy his constitutional craving for !
Dutch Dan.
powerful stimulants: but as lie hated
Icliriuni tremens he pave himself
noiselessly bis doses of the wir.e of
gambling it dors as much for the
n rves as tho best whisky. Ho would
buy or soil ii'VOi) shares of a stock
mil ho would bot $."0,ui)0 on the turn
Df a card. On oro occasion he offered
"o wacer a fortune that he could itups
which of two flies that lit on a table
would bo the first to fly away.
Greener found in the Stock Ex
rhanse tho means to a desired end.
Despite innumerable bits of stock job
'lin?. ho had no exalted opinion, in his
heart of hearts, of stock operations.
Hut IHttenhoeffer though, the stock
market was the court of last resort,
whither financiers should gn. whon
:hoy were in the ri?ht. to set their ies
:'rfs; and when they were in the
svronK to overcome their deserts by
the brute force ot dollars. It was nat
ural that in their operations in the
market tho two men should be as
lissimilar as they were in tlieir physi
cal and temperamental characteristics
MachLivelli ami Uichard C'oeur de
I. ion.
Nobody knew exactly how the en
mity between Grrenor and Ditten
l.uvf.er l-e.can. The -Little Napoleon
f
John Grsensr.
A Railroading'' Lad felt toward Dutch
Dan a certain passive hostility for in
t.rference with sundry stock market
deals, ll'it Dan hated Greener madly,
probably f ir the same reason that a
hawk hates a snake the instinctive
antipathy the uttrrly dissimilar.
Scures of men had tried to "bust'
Greener, but Greener had grown rich-
r by their efforts, the growth of his
fortune beir.ff proportionate to the
contraction oT theirs. Sam Sharpe
:.a l eccfe from Arizona with $12),
." avc-wcdly to show the effete East
how to cnA "financial skunks of the
class." And the financial
fl In
11 fs-A I'
skunk learned no new lesson, though
the privilege, of i ma i ii i ii he was siv
iiS one cost Hliarpo a half million a
month for nearly one year. Then,
after Shnrpo had learned more of the
anie uiid of , Greener no joined
hands with Dittenhoeffer and together
they attacked Greener.
They were .skillful stock operators,
rich and utterly without financial fear.
And they loa'hed Greener. In a more
Koroous ae they would have cut tho
Little NaMIeon to pieces and passed
his roasted heart on a platter around
the festive board. In tho colorless
nineteenth century they were fain to
content, themselves with endeavoring
to despoil him of his tear-stained mil
lions; to do which they united their
smile-wreathed millions some seven
or eight of them and opened fire.
Their combined fortune was divid
ed info ten projectiles, and one after
another hurled at the little man with
the squeaky voice and the high fore
head. The little man dodged the first
and the second and the third, but the
fourth broke his les and the fifth
knocked the wind cut of him. The
Street cheered and showed its con
fidence in the artillerists by Roing
short of the Greener stocks.
Hut just before the sixth shot
Greener called to his assistance old
Wilbur Wise, the man with the skin
tlinty heart and thirty millions in
cash. A projecting rampart. man-hif;h,
of irovernment bonds was raised about
the prostrate Napoleon, and the finan
cial cannoneers ceased firing precious
projectiles. The new fortifications
wore impregnable and they knew it;
so they contented themselves with
safhcrini; up their own shot and a
small railroad or two dropped by
Greener in his haste to seek shelter.
Then Sharpe went to England to win
the Derby and Dittenhoeffer went to
Long Branch to amuse himself playing
a no-limit faro game that cost him on
aa average $10,00 J a night for a
month.
(To be continued.)
FATE OF THE HUMBERTS.
Law Journal Shows Their Punishment
Is Severe.
The Law Times makes the follow
ing comment on the sentences passed
oii the Humberts, the notorious
French swindlers: '"Some of the com
ments in the press on the sentence
passed on Mine. Humbert and her hus
band (the other pair of culprits came
off more lightly) betray a very imper
fect appreciation of its nature. Five
years' reclusion. or solitary confine
ment as it is understood in France, is
not only a rigorous but a terrible pen
alty. Our own code offers no parallel
to it. and it is probable that a life
sentence of penal servitude in this
country would be far more easily en
dured. The solitude of the prisoner
in reclusion is all but absolute. The
strictest silence is enforced. Presum
ably the consolations of religion
whatever that may amount to in so
dreadful a situation are not entirely
withheld: otherwise the prisoner is
forbidden to speak, even to his guard
inn. Books are denied and (which
must be almost the worst infliction of
all) the most complete idleness is en
i'oreei!; no employment of any descrip
tion may mitigate the appalling va
cancy of days, weeks and years. Half
an hour's exercise is allowed daily in
a hood which covers everything ex
cept the eyes. This horrible life in
death may end in the tomb, but it is
mere likely to end in the padded cell
of the maniac."
Prerequisites to Success.
Tho various periodicals about the
country are stocked full of hints as to
how to attain fame and fortune.
Courses in this, that and the other
o!ogy or business are offered and ap
parently the only thing requisite for
one to succeed in life i? to send for
Jimjohn's course of instructions, read
them and presto! Dame Fortune
stands waiting. All of which reads
very prettily. About the best incen
tive t' become famous or wealthy
the two. however, are generally
synonymous is poverty. The man
who has, in the words of an old phil
osopher, to "git up and git" is the
one to accomplish great things. Give
a young man health, grit, poverty and
if he doesn't accomplish wonders it
will be because he doesn't live Ions
enough to carry out his plans. Mem
phis Comme; cial-Appeal.
As Usual.
"llns he any occupation?"
". !1. he. has had one."
What?"
"Trying to be 'a good fellow.""
"Did he succeed?"
"As long as his money lasted, yes."
Her Retort.
"Fish." he said, "is brain foo l."
"Hotter have some more," ahe urged
solicitously.
COSMETICS ALVAYS If' USE.
Belle of Ancient Times Well Knew
Their Value.
A German once estimated, from data
he aid was reliable that the money
American women pay for cosmetics
each year would paint 1 T . houses,
allowing S7.1 for each hoiiho. Hut the
moii in American woman is not the
only one who used cosmetics. Cleo
patra mod every cosmetic known to
l-er time, and also wrote a book on the
care of ihe skin.
When Ovid wrote about women and
their ways ho said that a fancy for
looking ill and delicate and playing on
the feelings of tho men had taken
possession of th'-m, and that it was
a Kmart thing to get a fetching pallor
on their "acres by white lead and other
stuffs.
In tho ruins of Thebes an entire
toilet case was found, with bottles of
perfumery, jars of powder and tubes
of paint, with brushes a-nd cloths, evi
dently showing that the belle of that
day was not unaware of the advan
tages of artificiality of color.
The belles of Nineveh were willing
to suffer to bo beautiful. They had
their skins made smooth with brim
ttone and then they were enameled.
In 1770 tho Engli-.h Parliament it
always protects its men considered
I his bill: "All women without distinc
tion as to age or rank, maidens as
well a.s widows, who should deceive
the made subjects of His Majesty anil
load them into marriage by means of
paint, salve, beauty water, false teeth,
lalso hair, Spanish wool, corsets or
padded hips, should be punished un
der the provisions of the law against
sorcery, and the maiTiage shall bo de
clared null."
The bill did not pass.
TOOK YEARS TO COMPLETE.
Picture Recently Fnished Was Begun
Four Centuries Ago.
The morbid streak in human nature
was evidenced during tho last few
days by the throngs that paused on
Hroadway to gaze at an old painting
that hung in an auctioneer's window,
says the New York Press. It repre
sented "The Day of Judgment." Pits
of sulphur, ghouls, fields, harpies and
serpents were all pictured in a way
to make the blood run cold; but the
most gruesome part of the painting
was the uper left-hand corner. There
Napoleon Bonaparte was shown stand
ing grimly witn folded arms in the
midst of enwreathing flames. The
victims of his ambitious schemes con
fronted him as skeletons and a dead
bodj' pierced with a sword was held
accusingly before his eyes.
This painting was begun by Jean
Cousin at Paris in 1530. The part ot
it called "Napoleon in Hell" was ex
ecuted by Wiertz in 1840 and the fin
ishing touches were added by a third
artist named Valiet.
It is a fantastic work, evidently in
spired in theme by Dante's "Inferno."
It is said there is nothing else like it
in the world. Many of those who
viewed it with a shudder say that one
painting of the kind is enough.
Yesterday's Loves.
Where are the loves of yesterday?
Sad ami sweet Is the old refrain; .
Horace sang of it half In play.
Villon, in measures that throb with
pain :
Lift- at the best Is a tangled skein.
We are the tools of time and chance.
Yet once on a time we lived in Spain,
And every htart has its old romance.
Vi'here are the loves of yesterday?
Ah! for an hour of youth again
Youth that was short a.s a month ot
.May.
Youth with its pulsing blood ane
brain:
Too soon came the Autumn with mist
and r::in.
Too brief the dream, too short the dance.
Yet one? on a time we lived in Spain.
And every heart has its old romance.
Where are the loves of yesterday?
Here is a note with a yellow stain;
And here in u hook a withered spray
Of sweet alys.siun for years has lain;
Hut why resret'.' All things must
wane.
Life's sweetest note, love's fondest
K la nee:
Yet once on a time we lived in Spain.
And every heart has its old romance.
Chicago American.
Undressed Kids.
Major Joseph L. Robertson, the
well-known Southerner in Wall street,
who recently returned from an ex
tended tour of Haiti, says that when
he reaced Porto Plata an American
woman residing there asked what he
thought of the country and of the
prospects of business there from the
American point of view. He replied:
"Well, madam, I have seen a good deal
of this country and its people, and
have made up my mind that one ol
the rnot profitable industries that
could be started here is a glove fac
tory." "What kind of gloves?" she
inquired. "Kid gloves," replied the
major. "There can be no mistake
about this," he added, "for in all mj
experience I have never seen so many
undressed kids as I have found in my
travels here."
Headed Off a "Touch."
Eugene Howell's morning training
on the Ardsley links was broken ir
on one day last week by a man with
whom he had but slight acquaintance
but who bothered the golfer by stick
ing to him like a burr. It soon became
evident that the fellow was planning
a "touch," and Howell planned to heac.
him off.
I've had hard luck lately," sighed
the man at last, "but I suppose I'l
have to wait till I'm dead before I get
any sympathy. Every one seems tc j
feel sympathy for a man when he's
dead."
"That's so." agreed Howell, cheer
fully, "but no one myself included
has the slightest sympathy for a
man when he's dead broke. Good
bv." New York World.
Whistler and His Enemies.
William M. Chase has a story o:
Whistler, the artist, who died recent
ly in London. A year ago Mr. Chast
went abroad to have his portrai"
painted by Sargent. He saw much o.
Whistler in London and they got aloni
famously until Whistler inauguratec
a series of daily quarrels. Chase stooc
it for some time, but as the situaiioi
become most 'uncomfortable, he toll
Whistler that they had better par
before they came to blows.
"Part," said Whistler, "what for?"
"Because I cannot stand this inces
sant quarreling."
"Too had," said Whistler, "it is sucl
re'axation. And I can only enjoy i'
w:th my friends, for my enemies or;l
!',-t ir.e do it once." New Ycrk Times
Commoner
SHIED AT 1G TO 1.
Mr. Bryan had an interesting experi
ence recently. He was leaving New
York and fell in with three residents
of that city. Two were democrats and
one a republican, but they agreed on
one thing, namely, that Mr. Bryan
would have been elected if he had given
up free silver. After explaining to them
how the silver question strengthened
the party instead of weakening it, he
told them that most of the opponents
of bimetallism did net understand the
subject. To prove it. he questioned
the three men men above the average
in experience and business ability
and none of them knew what 10 to 1
meant. One of them the republican
thoaght he knew and said it meant
that the government would coin 1G
silver dollars every tin.c it ( oinetl 1
gold dollar. It almost surpasses be
lief that intelligent men should fear
free silver and yet be ignorant of the
meaning of the simplest terms em
ployed in the discussion of the subject.
Sixteen to one, as readers of the
Commoner know, describes the ratio
existing between the silver and gold
dollars when measured by weight
that is, the silver dollar weighs sixteen
times as much as the gold dollar. The
silver dollar contains 412' grains of
standard silver, while the gold dollar
contains only 23 S-10 grains of stand
ard gold. The exact ration is not quite
16 to 1, but the difference is so small
that it is always spoken of as 16 to
1. If. as the republican above referred
to thought, the government would, un
der free coinage, coin sixteen silver
dollars every time it coined one gold
dollar, we would have to coin sixteen
billion silver dollars in order to off
set the billion dollars in gold coin,
but if we coined all the silver held
by all the people in the whole world,
we could not coin more than about
four billions. As a matter cf fact, free
coinage would not so much increase
the number of silver dollars as it
would restore to the silver coin already
in existence throughout the world lull
faith and credit and end the war which
has been made against one of the
money netals. The United States and
Mexico produce the great bulk of the
silver produced in the world and sil
ver would be exported from the United
States under free coinage, but England
would have to pay $1.29 per ounce for
it instead of the present price and
that would not only lessen the power
of India to compete with us in wheat
and cotton, but would broaden the base
of the world's financial structure. In
dealings with gold-using nations the
balances would be paid in gold; in
dealings with silver-using nations, the
balances would be paid in silver, and
our nation would maintain the parity
between the two metals as the Latin
union formerly did.
GETTING TOGETHER HONESTLY.
Men who were recreant in 1S95 and
1900 are now asking that they be sent
as representatives of the party to the
next national convention. They base
their plea on the ground of "harmony"
and argue that "it is best for the party
that we get together." Getting to
gether is all right and a thing greatly
to he' desired providing the getting
together is upon thoroughly democratic
ground.
The Chicago university has put over
one of the gates some hideous figures,
such as were employed in the middle
ages to scare away devils. But no
doubt Rockefeller known that they
were not intended for him.
It anybody a'-ks Russia why she does
not evacuate Manchuria doubcless she
v.ill reply that "the largest amount of
exacuation consistent with Manchuria's
welfare and cur duty shall be secured
to the territory."
When other excuses fail Russia still
has that one about "duty and destiny"
to fall back on to offer ;n explanation
of her continued occupation of Man
churia. The "head hunters" are being chased
in Luzon, probably by the "plate
hunters."
Perhaps the extra session has been
called for the purpose of giving the
fn.anciers time to explain what they
want. Then the regular session will
be devoud to giving it to them.
If the president still yearns for bif
game he mieht venture up into the
wiids or Wad street and gun for the
bears that have been chasing some of i
his great and good frienus.
If the continuance cf "prosperity" is
contingent upon the re-election of Mr.
Hanr.a to the senate then "prosperity"
is balanced upon a foundation that is
altogether insecure.
Republican Reward of Merit.
Comment.
WANTED A GO VERNM ENT.
On one occasion Henry Ward Beech
er said: "We have a country; we have
a cause: we have a people. Let us al
pray that God will give us a govern
ment." What Mr. Brceher meant was a gov
ernment worthy of the country, worthy
of the cause, and worthy of the peo
ple. Today, at a time when crops are
good, and when all natural conditions
would seem to contribute to the public
welfare, the people are made the vic
tims of oppression through the means
of combinations effected by greedy
men. Recently the methods of these
men to whom our president has re
ferred as "captains of industry" have
been revealed to the public and it may
r.ot be doubted that these revelations
will serve to open the eyes of a large
number of people who have heretofore
been misled with respect to the effect
the trust system has upon the public
welfare.
There stands today upon the statutes
of the United States a law known as
the uerman anti-trust law. The first
section of that law provides for the
criminal prosecution of men who con
spire in restraint of trade. The re
publican administration has never un
dertaken to enforce that chief provi
sion of the Sherman anti-trust law;
nor has any representative of that ad
ministration undertaken to explain the
failure to enforce that very important
provision.
Recently the administration, prompt
ed by public clamor to do something
with respect to the trust evil, com
menced injunction proceedings against
the beef combine. Since those proceed
ings were commenced, that combine
has come .to be more audacious than
ever. On the one hand, exercising tiie
power within its grasp, it has reduced
at a single stroke the price of hogs
and cattle in the hands of the farmer
and on the other hand has raised the
price of beet" and pork to the con
sumer. Many representatives of the coal
trust have closed down their coal mines
on the plea that there is overproduc
tion and they have, therefore, thrown
oat of employment hundreds of miners.
At the same time, the price of coal to
the consumers has been advanced on
the plea that there is an under-supply
and therefore the consumer must pay
a larger price for his coal.
The anti-trust law was enacted for
the protection of the people. Crim
inal prosecution was provided in the
very first section of that law because
the law-makers understood that the
rich rascal, just like the poor rascal",
stands very much in awe of the peni
tentiary bars. Is it net reasonable,
then, that the consumers insist upon a
serious enforcement of the chief fea
ture of the anti-trust law? What right
have these men to conspire not only in
restraint of trade, but against the very
life of the people? Is it not the duty
of the government to enforce this ex
plicit statute and to call these men
to account under the terms of the
anti-trust law?
In the presence of the trust system
of today and at a time when the rep
resentatives of our government show
very clearly their disinclination to hold
these rich conspirators strictly to ac
count, may we not in the language of
Henry Ward Boecher say: Let us all
pray that God will give us a govern
ment." These interniitten flashes from the
east are caused by Mr. Hanna's frantic
wig-wagging for help.
I Mr. Secretary Shaw is proceeding
i like a man who believes that congres
sional action on the financial situation
could be obviated by mere hitching an
enacting clause to the present secre
tary of the treasury.
If Mr. Shaw is going to make use
of that surplus to aid Wall street he
will have to hurry. Congress will
meet in a few davs.
The reputation Mr. John Hay made
by his Chinese diplomacy appears to
be in need of some new hems around
its several edges.
Those who have recently taken oc
casion to glance in the direction of the
truly good Abdul Hamid of Turkey
will doubtless notice a slight lowering
of that potentate's left eyelid.
The meat trust seems to be playing
i tag with Mr. Knox's trust busting en-
! deavors.
Speaking of date raisers. Russia
seems to have embarked in the busi
ness in real earnest.
The packing house trust has given
the law of supply and demand a hard
i blow.
-Courtesy of Tho Commoner.
LEFT THEIR PRINCIPLES.
The New York Commercial tays:
"The 'Iowa idea' is not getting the cul
tivation that it might be expected to
get right in the region of its birth."
That is true. Governor Cummins and
other champions of the "Iowa idra."
while pretending to remain true to Its
principles, seem to have abandoned
them.
Syren and Shipping, a marine jour
nal, has been investigating, and de
clares that it costs as much to keep
soldiers and sailois on a receiving
ship as it would to board them at the
Waldorf-Astoria. It might have addd
too. that some of the ships purchased
during the Spanish-American war cost
almost as much as the Waldorf-Astoria
without being any nearer that
hostelry's worth than the receiving
ship grub is like the Waldorf-Astoria's
cuisine.
Mr. Clarke is entitled to the thanks
of the whole people for making put, lie
tne fact, that Mr. Manna's legislative
prosperity-making has been confined
to introd.n ing t wo measures one to
pension ex-slaves and the other pro
viding for a ship subsidy. Mr. Manna
should be in his seat on the opening
day of congress and make prosperity
perpetual by introducing a couple of
more bills.
When the "grafter" is thrown out
he busies himself trying to get hack
in again. When a reformer gets in
he grows so careless and confident that
the "grafter" soon displaces him.
"Graft." is always busy. Reform too
often takes too much for granted.
Because President Roosevelt invited
John Mitchell to lunch with him the
Globe-Democrat shouts: 'Guess the la
bor vote won't be lost, after all." The
average republican organ always did
proceed on the theory that labor had
no higher ideal than a full stomach.
A federal judge has recently issued
an order restraining a body of nrn
from visiting, addressing, writing to.
making signs to or otherwise commun
icating with another body of nu-n. Is
the time nt hand when every citizen
must have a federal judge's "O. K."
on the visiting card?
The Cleveland boom has received
another boost. Senator Hanna said in
a meeting at Cleveland. "Grover
Cleveland i& another great democrat,
greater than his time or his party."
Now who will be so rash as to question
Cleveland's democracy or greatness af
ter this generous indorsement?
Ponderous piatitudir.izing on the sub
ject of "good citizenship," will not suf
fice to destroy the memory of certain
trafficking in office in order to crowd
through a measure at the behest of
men who thought only of their selfish
interests.
The gold bespangled colonels of Col
orada. who went down to Victor in full
panoply arrayed, were unfortunate in
meeting with Mrs. I.angdon. Mrs.
Langdon made the colonels look like
"steel common."
Mr. Shaw wiil be satisfied with the
present currency laws if he is per
mitted to iiolate their spirit when
ever his financial friends in Wail str-.et
feel the need of more he !p from Un
cle tarn.
The automobile can overcome al
most anything b at s sea of mud. And
reports from Ohio indicate that Mr.
Hanna is trying to throw enough of it
to stall Mr. Johnson's "red devil."
General Buckr.er declares that he has
surrendered his democratic principles.
There is a very general impression
among loyal democats that Buckner's
"surrender" happened several years
ago.
After they get through with the
"head hunters" in the Philippines the
oriental contingent of our army might
be utilized at home in the work of
scattering the place hunters.
Speaking of "calamity howls." have
you beon reading the Wall street re
ports lately?
Having talked at some length about
what yo ing rcn should be Mr. Schwab
is r.ow well fitted to pose as a "horri
ble example."
Quite a number of "captains of in
dustry" are trying to explain the mys
terious disappearance oi their shoulder
straps.
If the Dirgley law is responsible
for our "unexampled prosperity," pray
what is responsible for the recent
slumps?
"Steel preferred" has a slightly sar
castic sound.
MOOSE A SI'IMNTKi:
TAST HOnSC UNADLU TO OVER
TAKE HIM.
Mcnnh of the Woods Lar.ily Kept In
Front of the Pursuer Without Ap
parent Effort Gait Was Clurna,
but He Covered GrounrJ.
Ernest 5. .1 mil. Ins. bookkeeper for
the Klneo company, had a reaiarkabbi
experience with n bull moose on I In'
carriage road to Deer Head f;u ri. t v.
miles from here, early In the week
nays a dispatch from Klneo. Mo.
Mr. .Iiidklus was taking a niornl'.n
ride, galloping nlong a level i.tietch
when the horse oatlio tit II Midden
standstill with a Jolt iind a nii"ii
Looking ahead. Mr. .lud! ins saw a
large bull moose feeding on lie' I'll
der : proiits of Hie bushes growing by
(No roadside, nol vlxty yimlH away.
The moose apparently did iwt see the
horse? and rider.
Mr. .1 lid L i fir;' first Impul-to wai ti
ride Ihe moose dov.ll. but he llnHiglil
belter of this, an. I booted to attract
Ihe animal's utleutioii. and possibly
frighten him from Ihe io.nl, 4,0 that lot
could proceed, but the inoo e e calm
ly on. At the end of a few minute
the ens I moved down the road ill
search ol more food, and Mr. Jndl.ln 1
followed at a respectful distance, boo!
ing until his throat was bourse. Thl
process was repeated ou r half a inibi
of road.
At the end of that distance lh
mi lose faced about and began feeding
toward the horse and rider, casting
an unconcerned look in their direction
e very now and then, and Mr. Judkins'
Ktoed did the backstop for a few rods.
This was a little too much for tin'
horseman, and becoming Impatient he
t houteil to ultra t the attenllon ; I
4ho moose, plunged spurs into his)
horse ami made for the big animal.
With the first b ap of the horse tho
indifferent silt Undo of tho nioost
changed lo one of concern, and. turn
ing abruptly about, he slatted down
the road at. a clumsy trot. This gave
a now and more Interesting phase; to
the situation, and urging on his horse
Mr. Judkins proceeded to have his
.share of the :mr, only hoping that
the; moose would keep to the roitd.
The moose; obliged in this particular,
mm! ho horse, being a good one, en
tend into tho spirit of tin; r.'ie, but
try as ho could the- distance between
him and the Hoeing animal did not
lessen materially.
"1 nevr saw anything like it," said
Mr. Judkins. "That great. ungainl
animal trotted n ahead as clumsily
as a ra.orlia' k and maintained his lead
with apparently no rfort. whatever,
while' my horse; legged it f,r all thai
'was in him. I had beard that mese;
had speed, but w!ie- 1 1 Ktailed aflei
that bull I would have laid te-n to emu
ihat I would overhaul him Inside 01
L'uu yarels; that I oejuld have ridden al,
;ir)iine hii-."
After a race covering fully half 11
mile-, the; moose turned into the fore-sl
and disappe areel. Nw Mr. Ju lkimr
c arrie s a earbin: when lie rides.
LITTLE TOMMY'S GREAT IDEA.
Problem as to the Inhabitants of tha
Moon.
Little Tommy Tubbins was taking
his first lessons in astronemiy. and. in
his usual taking way, was putting his
ele;ar papa threjiigh his pace s.
"What I want te know, dad," hj
saiel confidentially, "is this. Can you
tell me- if the tnejon is inhabited?"
"Well. Tommy." saiel Tubbins'
senior, afler a frantic eiive; into thci
archives of his memory, "some; astron
omers think it is, ami ;ornc; think not;
but the; general opinion is that it is.''
"Many pple live; there, elad?"
"Ye-s," said pa. "It is suppos-'l that
therei are more: people, in the nioou
than on earth!"
"I say, pa!"
The obi man wiped his brow.
"What is it?"
"Mustn't they be crowded when
there's a new moon?"
Social Benevolence.
Signor Hafi, proprietor of a Jargi
publishing house at Castc-llo, who died
recently, has made? a ve ry pract ical
eontributiem to what has been termed
the "gospel of wealth" by leaving th'j
whole of his working capital plant,
business, an'l publisher's rights In
works already given to the public to
his workmen, to be; continued as a ce
opc rativo concern. Certain n;e n who
struck seve ral years ago were e-xcluded
from the; be ne fits ef the will as origin
ally drafted, but by a later codicil th'j
testate, r d'-clares that ho pardons them,
and wishes them to share on equa.'
terms with the rest.
Autumn Gardens.
In t'.if-lr gray v.inJ'-ri chapels sl'i'id
'Ih': il'.wrs' sulimts.-'ivi- t-i.ti-r lioml ;
Ami tin- Miinmi-r's surnlown tl,i-y
Turne-el mute ly -ve ry ;i rl-h-w a y.
T!i-n l'i Ms e haririe 1. wilh'iut lilnmi',
Tfc" t:rayb-ate Autumn suftly e ;irr,.
And. as a .r'M )ie-1. J-ir lln- halo
en' lllnse; faint-h'-M 1 1 d e.re-S he f-piike.
Thr-se smile-el as t'.e-y h;il ncvi-r 'iorei
Kr t v. 1:1 : Ik-Ii'-h t li ;t simini'T
T li(p;- they 1 1 ( . i ( nth. :inl tfrcw
J11 b a.jty 'in-aili tl." JvifXy I w.
shll they ti;i.- from e.-,.;, to il;'-;
(jf j?lory, tiil tne-y fall on s!e-i-p.
Frank Wabotl Halt In Boston 'rau
script. A Harmless Explosive.
Powdereel aluminum begins to play
an impejrtar.t part in the profession e,f
the c;igine;e;r. Mixed with oxble of
iron, it can l.o fired, and in burning
will produce pure inm at such a tem
perature that it can be; useel to unito
pieces of iron or steel such, for exam
ple, as the oncis of steel rails.
A mixture of pewelored aluminum
and nitrate of ammonia, called "am
monal." is a valuable e-xphisivo. and U
the safest known. It is not subject tej
?xp!ejsion from shock or frictien. nr
is it affected, like nitro glyce rine, by
2cA(l. By varying Tin1 amcjunt of jkjw
lered aluminum t lie- strentrth of the; e-x-'
plosion my bo varie-j. The- gases r;.--ulting
freun tb" explosion are' aNo
rBid to be harmie-ss. This. ef e.ur.;,
is of great iniportanc-L- in mine bla ;t
icg.
Railway Lands Advance.
TIio Canadian Pacific railway soM
list year from its sub.-ddy land nearly
2.':o.ci;i r.c res, at a price averaging
something less tn;:n 54 c:i acre'. la
tl.e previous year it :-o!J b-.-.-i ti.::n
l.GfiO.ooo acres, at a price avc-raginj a
.'ittJi over ?3 an acr .
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