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Ma Ban! wikUy around aaoog
Terebinth Rockwell s da-Uss axi cams- po
tions, with that fair maktea foSV-wi-g j jmo,, tvni on Purl-hill eom
eioae in pursuit her cheokeJ suLK-em . that uitrht Calu-
waved above her bead like ay3 of
war. Leander flood aad watched the
pursuit with the cool, ir. amil
of a ointered spectator ua-.l U
apeekled fuiUTa beihour hmsf tc
dartbeadkooZ into the najfaWthm, rrora Klriw Atkinson and
taatooawall,wbthtfrkijtomiteto,,tU(, Wchsi
of ripening tonuses basked oa a 1 te pjn.h-4 lin
wooden frame. At the surHW Caji1. Cell and pretty
be swooped no-Jly down fram j Aljw Affies wlipM 8 W'
unaeenTantage oint aad i , t fcnd , f ro -thM 1
Speekte by her flutting wxngv , wJlh Mis& Tere-
IVfWiTTx,intTlS! IbinthMdnertrirna, Hannah
UdeclarerdMmTern M lit
!itl who had he.n i at
r
dtaain'the creature this tea minutt.
Jgoin'tohaTeafricasfdin.".
"Company comin ?
"I mean to ask Elder Atkinson and '
his wife.'
Don't ask -em,- said Land. It
It off till some other time, Terebinth.
"Got goodness sake! why 5T
Leander drew three squares of yellow
pasteboard from his pocket.
"Look," said he; "I've got tickets for
the circus tonight for you and me and
Ally Ames."
Miss Terebinth's careworn risage
brightened up. To these simple coun
try folk the annual visitation of the cir
cus signified opera, theatre, polo and
athletic games all in one.
"Good !" cried she, releasing the strug
glingheu. "Then I'll let Old Speckle
go this time. But, Leander, have you
asked Alice ?"
"I'm going there now."
"Are you sure she'll go ?"
"Of course; why shouldn't she V
Terebinth hesitated as she tied the
Bimbonnet strings under her chin.
"Perhaps that young English tourist
that boajds at the hotel Capt. Cassell
they call him, don't they T'
Leander's handsome, sunburned vis
age darkened.
"What of him? " said he, sharply.
; "Be may have asked her. Don't be
vexed, Leander," aj added, pleadingly.
:. "Folks do say she's dreadful took up
With him, and I don't know's I wonder
. ao much arter I heard him talk t'other
. ' Bight to Mary Bailey's Chinese party.
Be' traveled most everywhere; and if
yon could hear him describe the tigers
be killed in Ceylon and the elephants
he's hunted on the Niger river
"Oh. hand the Users and the ele
phants r impatiently broke in Leeadet
OJaa't beU--Hlrtoit I dare
. I v aay he's nil very well; bwt, for my part,
I haven't much tfiafcmof a fellow that
fmfr around a hotel piazza in hay mak
ttm time, doing nothing, with a white
amrf on his hat, and a sash, for all the
Vorid like a girl's tied around his
vaistr
. "It's the fashion," said Terebinth.
"A queer fashion, I think," comment
ad Leander,
"He's a very brave man a regular
hero," went on Terebinth. "II
in her majesty's White Jtbar a Horse
once duringjMBfttiuon riot, and "
'And did wonders, I don't doubt," in-
"terrupted Leander. "But I don't see
what all this has to do with us and
Calumet's circus."
He took up his hat from the grass
where it had been reposing among but
tercups and white clover blossoms all
tuis time, and started off at a brisk
walk. Terebinth looked dolefully after
him.
v "Poor Leander," said she, half aloud.
"I'm afraid he's going to be badly dis
appointed." Alice Ames was sitting on the porch
under the green, shifting shadows of
the hop vines shelling Lima beans to
dry aa Leander Rockwell's fine tali
Ague came swinging up the path. lie
was very handsome, thought the girl,
bat be lacked the ease and polish of the
dapper little captain of "her majesty's
White Heeled Horse." His clothes bin
evidence of country cut his boots were
powdered with dust, and his face was
bronzed with August heats.
"How do you do, Ally?" said he, and
Alice, remembering the deferential
saaniMir with which the captain always
addressed her as "Miss Ames," an
swered, with a toss of her head:
"I'm pretty well, thank you!"
6 "I've been gettia' some tickets for
the circus to-night, Ally," said he,
ftangiag eon amore into his subjectl
-Wm you go with me f
"Thank you, ever so much," said she,
gaaonwg for a fresh handful of the vel-
wetar .green pots, "but I've promised
Cert Caseei to go with himr
"Sasap&r observed Leander, "so I'm
too tour
, TsSralKas too lata."
- it tabs always so. AllyT
1" ntaatksjow whs you mean, Lean-
CxT vv- 'Vv. .
TaaeiUeereforeahttJe be
tiCJM laarts j; r;Mn of bona cam
ncafnifdi mmk bow, Lean
yr, ..- '---it
r-"i r-sZZza? KU Alice.
; aland f the Ug bunting hero. Wr- oi
1 . " - i.:.. irt .i.in n.wu ! "IWiliWe. A
Thi. mtin BMtl
' owuf-tw. eu,
' . i- TU and 1 will have
' sni to, owttwft.
. ' ' . , , ...
; M , the circus o nrTO . i-
tart's r:rcu was a
wwwiw and i
i . . . , .T adwrtwwl. T1
h8d J)A) nmnv opjv.rt.mitk of i
' rf ..rment and did nnt proivse to!
010 cote Every one j
i eit'VfiilB lionr 'imr " -v
j . . Vj TereWnth had said.
r -niiparalleJed attrac-
Uoiis" had le put forward -the time
. nv. rfii-n the srotneled coiuniuine.
nA -u.-ih.r,ts tiie bicvcle riders and
v' r witll tl,e
I gold crescents dangling from
! and the Rreat glittering stag"
his ears
diamond
in the front of his turban.
Oh, isnt it wonderful.'" c.ied Alice
Ames.
Tretty fair, pretty fair," answered
Capt. Cassell, tapping the ivory knob of
his cane against his teeth. "But those
rattlesnakes don't compare in size to a
cobra capello I once killed in our tent
at Dungapore when"
And the rounds of applause drowned
the end of his sentence,
"Ah! a tiger taming act!" said the cap
tain, consulting his programme. "The
Marvelous Signor Mahmelli and his
pupil, Rajah!" Call that a Bengal tiger,
do they? I wish you could have seen
the fellow I shot, that last summer in
the jungles at Hoodah. My sister has
his skin on her drawing room floor now,
made into a rug. It had killed four men
and a sacred ox, and the natives called
liim 'The Scourge of the Shore." Oh, yes,
I don't deny that the fellow handles
hira very neatly, but"
At that second, just when the "Beast
of the Tropics" was drowsily going
through with his list of accomplish
ments, the lash of his keeper struck a
trifle sharper than usual, or some other
unseen cause ignited the powder maga
zine of the atuaaaTs slumbering savag
ery With a ferocious roar be sprang
forward, felling the keeper with a single
blow of his paw, and leaped toward the
row of footlights, whose fitful nicker
aaecaad to irritate him as a red rag en
rages a bull.
There was a shriek, a rush, a moment
or two of wild confusion. Ally Ames
uttered a scream. Capt Cassell had
turned as pale as a tallow candle.
"We'd better get out of this," said he,
hoarsely. "Quick! quick!"
But Alice, paralyzed by fear, sat as
still aa Heath a.
"I I can't mover sheigJI!
think rmjroinfcifjr i?'"
ltrti( hesrUt.Hl a second, and
y decided matters by taking to his
heels, with the rest of the flying crowd.
Alice shut her eyes with a cold shudder;
she could not see the tawny death spring
upon her; but in a moment she opened
them again at the sound of a triumph
ant shout that went up around her.
Leander Rockwell was in the arena
lately occupied by the vanquished band,
struggling with the savage monster.
She could see his set teeth, the veins
standing out on his forehead, the red
fire in his eyes, and she knew that it
was for life or deatlu
"After au," said the minister, 'these
circuses are sinful risks to human life.
I shall never see my way clear to at
tending one Again. Suppose that brave
young fellow had been killed before our
face and eyes in the noble effort he
made to save our lives."
"Golly, though, pa, wasn't it grand?"
said John Henry, the good man's eldest
hope. "Most equal to a Spanish bull
fight Everybody knows that Lee Rock
well's the strongest fellow inDurklil
Four Corners, but the old tiger'd got the
best of him if it hadn't been for that
lick Lee gave him over the head with
the sharp edge of the cornet that the
music men had dropped when they got
under the stage, like lightning. It was
as good as a Damascus sclmeter, Lee
says, and once stunned, it was easy
enough for the property men to kill
him. ItH be an awful loss to the cir
cus folks, though," reflectively added
John Henry. "There ain't many tigers
of that size in the traveling ring in this
country.
'But wasn't it funny, husband," said
the minister's wife, "about Capt. Bas
sell's being found hiding under the
sin the trained ponies' stalls.
with the door tightly locked. A Inaa
who, according to his own account, has
killed scores of leorards and half a
dozen elephants in India, and is afraid
of nothing. I'm toil that the engage
ment between him sod Alice Ames is
off, and that she is spending a week
with Terebinth BoetwsfiL Tbsfricbt
andtaadancsr bars suds poor Tara-
btathoiiteEl.''
Eat if sUaiators win kada&iy
kaswatt, Zsnbteta was a great deal
tZZxiam, wad aba aa J&$ warn busy
toft hw snd rib-
ARv, laughing.
-jwtir-
-HT'd a lOSSl
.M.-fit to
i who i -nnq.wr a tipw oupritfil to
triuivl bv a womim.
ttMn r MlJ
Von rwtUj- love- me, t!xn ?
'smter,
I "1 mt1!v low yon. fr -"
i ..... j "i i m sa rr. vert
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proud ol yoii. a ui; i"u,i'"
ort '-
,-Uably
who
York Ledger.
Cured.
saw the
Brvpolis aloue lart
:ih d effect a weapon
i.nih lnrod efficacious in deling
j titeHiLlerof the Hut. One of
m a parasol with a loug and
ihich ended in a point
j J, ' M brad awL She
SunT ely occasion to use it in a
jTwrd avenue. She and her
paln occupied a cross seat, and
the double seat opposite was soon
taken by one of the most offeiive of
the masher tribe. Xot satisfied with
staring impudently at the ladies he
presently attempted to insinuate his
foot between the feet of the one carry
ing the parasoL Apparently by acci
dtut, she brought the point of her
parasol down smartly upon the fellow's
foot. He gave an involuntary ex
clamation of pain and withdrew to the
end of the seat opposite the other lady.
The lesson seems not to have been
severe enough, for a few minutes later
he insulted her in the same manner.
This time he was punished in earnest
The woman carrying the parasol
watched him, and suddenly leaning
over to look out of the window she
jabbed the bard and point into the
fellow's instep and gave it a quick turn
before tie could draw his foot away.
1 lie man cried out with pain, jumped
to his feet and limped out of the car.
The passengers could not understand
his actions, and the lady with the
parasol looked as much surprised as
anybody. X.Y. Sun.
A Tragedy Enacted
ia the
Swamps.
It was down on the Great Jackson
Route. A freight train had met with
an accident, and so our train' going
south was off-time and had to run in
on a siding and wait for the lightning
express earning up from New Orleans.
Many of us were strolling about, pick
ing blackberries or gathering flowers,
when some on suddenly shouted:
"Everybody keep quiet and listen!
Hark!"
It was toe deep, far-away bay of a
hound, and after half a minute we re
alized that it was coming nearer.
"The dogs are running a deeri" shout
ed one of the men, "and if we string
out we may get a shot!"
Fifteen or twenty men, each with
revolver, strung out along the track,
and just then we beard the iron rails
begin to sjj(Bakluat the express was
fuetf&ig. Two minutes later we heard
her whistle. There were three or four
dogs in the chase, and as they drew
nearer it was evident mat the game
would cross the track below the bridge.
We ran down to it, though no one cared
to risk the crossing. We were hardly
there when a coal-black negro, Dare-
headed and in rags, leaped out of the
bush on the track and stood facing us.
The dogs had somehow lost him and
were baying in the thicket forty rods
away.
What his crime was we could not
say. He was a powerful big fellow,
and as he stood there, arms folded
across his heaving breast, his face had
a terrible look. He was only a pistol-
shot away, but no one raised a weapon,
On the contrary, one of the crowd
shouted to him.
"Off the track or youll be killed!"
He turned and saw the express thun
dering down the level stretch and then
faced us again. The engineer blew an
alarm, but he stood there like a rock,
The train was running over the stretch
as a pigeon flies, sparks of fire flashing
from the rails and a great cloud of dust
whirling behind it, and the speed could
not be checked. The black man looked
to the right nor to the left The dogs
were coming nearer, but they were too
late. Those who did not turn their
faces aside saw the pilot fling him fifty
feet high, and as the body fell it
splashed into the creek at our feet and
lay there, only half hidden by the shal
low waters bruised, broken, dead. It
scarcely struck the water when five or
six dogs broke from the thicket and
crossed the tracks, and close upon
them were three or four men. But
they arrived too late. The hunted
man had taken his choice of how be
would die. Detroit Free Press.
tmaaias' "P Har Frlnaa.
Mr. Hankinson (at the party) What
a dainty eater Miss Kerjones is!
Miss Kersmith (bosom friend of Miss
Kerjones) Indeed, Mr. Hankinson. vou
do the dear girl injustice. After hr
tea and angel cake at a banquet like
this you have never seen her at homo la
front of a plate of cold sausage.
. ther Will Be Thar.
Miss A.: "I wonder why angels an
always represented as woman V .
Miss B.: "I guess it is because tats
nerer go to besven."
. Has A. (with decision): -Then 1
ma 111-7 lrori
XV R W. Richardson finds that Is
I tax of Queen Elizabeth the an
aal dkath rate of the whole of London
tasttper 1,000; that the death rase
krgely exceeded the birth rate; that
be death rate of children under 5 was
0 per 100; that only 7 persons in 100
Cached the age of 70; and that it was
koasted that there was not more than
Ine murder annually fur each 2,000 of
population. The purification of Ue
sty has added much to its beaanrui
iesa, which, however, is yet far below
i hat could be desired.
The anuual mortality is now about
per 1,000, but one-third of these
Waths are due to preventable causes;
be birth rate is much greater than the
teath rate, while the death rate of
ihildren under 5 has been greatly re-
tuced, but still is 27 per 100. Even in
he city proper IS per cent of tlie In-
Ub:tants-a proportion that should be
buch greater still live to the age of
K); and good local government has re
duced the murders to an annual aver
age of not more than 12 to the entire
population of 5,000,000. Arkansaw
rraveler.
A Joke with Variations.
You ought to get five cents worth
f chlorid of lime."
"What for?"
"For a nickel"
The above was passed around freely
imong a number of St Paul's citizens.
ind was in each case recognized as a
practical joke of considerable merit
acting on the suggestion, a prominnent
Merchant of this cify determined to
vork it off on his bookkeeper, with an
iriginal variation. So he said;
You ought to get five cent's worth
f potash."
Contrary to the merchant's expecta-
dons the taciturn bookkeeper meekly
towed his head and went on footing
lis trial balance, while his employer re
tired discomfited at the affaire flam bee.
Fbe next morning he received a note
from his bookkeeper to this effect:
"1 took the five cents' worth of pot-
ish, and I am as sick as a horse." St.
aul Globe.
A monster grape vine at Athens, Ga
which covers more than a quarter of
an acre, has been known to produce
uiough of grapes in a single year to
bake 100 gallons of wine. It was
slanted by Professor Rutherford about
thirty-two years ago.
Lancing Abscesses Without
Pan.
The pain caused by opening small
ibscesses is almost always intense,
'or a few moments at least, and many
people naturally shrink from the sur
geon's knife and prefer to bear with
(he troublesome visitations until they
tpen themselves. It cannot be general
ly known that by the use of a spray it
Is possible to so deaden sensibility
trer limited areas that such operations
u lancing boils, enlarged glands, fel
tns, aad the like can be done almost,
If not quite painlessly. A spray wblch
Is most effective is composed cf ten
tarts of chloroform, fifteen parts of
hilphurlc either and one part of meu
IhoL This produces local anesthesia
ti about one minute, ana the same
lasts for four or fire minutes. Fall
ti er Herald.
She Favored the Tunnel Route,
A young couple entered the Union
lepot and bought tickets for Troy.
there was a belt line train ready, but
ihe persistently refused to board it
"W uy won t you come, Maud?" he
fsped.
"Oh, Chawley, I don't want to go ui
n this side," she gushed in reply.
"But, Maud, we'll get to Troy just
(he same.
j cb, vuawiey, oui we won t go
through the tunneL I want to go
inrougn the tunneL
"What do you want to go through
tunnel for, Maud?" queried the
(lense young man.
"Oh! Chawley," was all she said.
Then Charley appeared to catch on, for
te Diusiied, They waited until the belt
train went the other way. Albany
Argus.
The badger s scientifically classified
ft one of the plsntigrade carnivora,
which means that he puts his whole
oot squarely down on the around whn
he walks, and eats animal food. Hs
lias a somewhat remarkable endowment
In his lower jaw, which locks itself into
ne cranium in such a way that it can.
(lot be pried open; and his grip upon
anything which he has seized, there
fore, surpasses even the bell-dog's in
tenacity. His feet. too. are arm4 it.
fiowerful claws, though he uses them
mostly in burrowing.
t -
Wbo't to Bla-at
Wife Horrors! Our daughter hai
poped with your typewriting young
Husband-Well, you wouldn't let n
tire a romur woman. Va v
Weakly. '
E?W,rrlt7. of "3
whmaTo
uSbvsS
wdlaat to rasiathsheartof STLSZ
ac4 to aay those things which s-oaS
enaartatn and mak w t v J
' ' mm . wmot.
FORTY MINUTES LATE.
1 be most fearful accident that ever
. s
happened on a locomotive r ecnoea
the engineer, looking round at mo. The
brave man was a member of my parish,
and I was sitting at his tea table.
After a momeut's thought he pushed
back his chair, for the frugal meal was
finished, and looked hard at his wife.
It was a curious gaze of his houest
eyes, and the lady met his glance with
an almost pathetic entreaty: Do not
teli it!,' wriit.-n oa her kind f jce.
"?he don't like to think of it, he re
turned, laughing at the same time he
shook back the long hair thU fell in
waves over the left side of his brow,
uncovering a blushing scar and reveal-
ng that he had 1-een dismembered of
an ear. "Hut 1 am not so uaa a loom
ing fellow, after Jill," he said. In fact,
he was singularly fine looking.
"Itisoue of those memories, his
wife interrupted, rising, "that one fears
to recall. But, thank God, it will be
no more likely to occur again for the
tilling of it, aud he may tell it while 1
put the boy to bed upstairs.
It was one of those accidents that
nothing can prevent, resumed the en
gineer. o loresigul can guaru
against the hidden flaws which the best
of steel sometimes hides in its own
false heart The best crank or shaft
ever forged will sometimes break on a
steamer in mid-ocean. So of s connect
ing rod on a pair of drivers. Now, I
think the thing I am going to tell you
is the most terrible accident that can
happen on a locomotive, because it is
the worst I ever experienced. It
forked the most havoc and scared me
core than any otlter I ever went
-irough. 1 cannot get over the dread
Kit evn caw, and probably never
ihall. KUU another man might single
it another as the worst"
My friend still runs, as he did that al
most fatal day, the fastest train that
ipeeds between two large cities. At
ue end of its flight the train is obliged
o traverse a long tunnel Millions of
u-ople pass through that tunnel yearly
in perfect safety. But if they knew
ihe hair breadth escapes of the first
lew year, aud especially during its con
struction, even now they might not al
ways sit to comfortably; but the best
.if appliances have somewhat lessened
the dangers.
"When we were ready to leave the
depot nt the new general manager
of the division came along down the
platform with the agent and was intro
duced to me. 1 pulled off my greasy
zap, and was about to get down, when
he said, "Never mind," that lie was go
ing to run with us. Of course I of
fered him his choice of seats, as you
wouldn't do to your own father; for
whoever rides in the cab he must take
a stand up or the fireman's box, if the
"ellow is good natured enough to offer
it A big officer, like the manager, was
different, however, and I gave him
anything. To tell the truth, I was re
lieved to know his errand was only to
ide; for this English gentleman, a
tiiismaii of our big owner, had been
turning up lots of good men. lie
eemed to think wb Americans couldn't
(rake fast time, and be forgot that our
machines and cars are heavier, our
viuls not so straight as the English.
' We are forty minutes late,' he said,
is he straddled in front of the fire box
md consulted his watch. This occurs
bout every day, r.iy man, more or less,
nd it is about time the blamed prac
.ice was stopped.'
" 'Traffic is heavy in October, sir, I
said trying to smile my prettiest.
" 'Can you drive this machine in on
time? lie kind 0' growled at me.
"I gave him a real Yankee stare back
for a moment, and then my blood was
up. That was ten years ago, before I
s d any wife and babies. It is wife
babies and a ditch or two that takes
the dare devil out of a locomotive engi
neer. At first a man knows no fear,
but any of the aforementioned things
kind 0' tempers him down. He can't
keep his pluck up as at first, do what
he wilL My wife, by the way, was ex
pecting me to come around, with the
minister to be spliced a week from that
very day. She had sent out some wed
ding cards rather showy for humble
folks to do. The wedding had to be de
ferred," and be tried to smile as he re
ferred to that incident, though it was
evident that the remembered tragedy
was oeginning to overshadow his owtt
manly face, as it had his wife's before
she left ut. "Well, nastor. 1 hi.t
frowned on the Englishman, and said.
'If you'll choose which seat you'll take,
and let my fireman get in some of hit
work, we'll show you what the Saga
more can do when she is mad.'
" 'I will take the stoker's box,' he
said; that's English fireman,' you know.
And be climbed up, rolling a cigarette
and lighting it with a funny kind of
foreign machine in his hand.
"I started her easy, we pulled ten
cars. We had a run of seventy-four
miles, schedule time two hours. I was
to run it in one hour and twenty min
utes. There were to be three slow ups,
aad one dead stop at a drawer. Thai
would give me most of the miles to do
in sixty seconds. We often do that for
Xtlte or two. Every fast train does
every day. But seventy four such miles
iirs mifbty trying on machine, now
I tell you, before you get through; and
light onto t end you don't know
what minute the poor aid
break her heart on you. I Vsaaedtb
gagamore over as 1 took her oat of Us
shop. I always do that with say owi
eyes, but if I bad known what wa war
to try on I'd given those cwnsetlni
rods more attention. Wo used t
wedge them on the wheels; yon ha
seen the steel keys? Nowadays the;
are fastened so the men cant weds
them too tight It is this now way o
fastening that causes the ringing Boia
that you now hear as the big drive
wheels pass you. Did you never notice'
"Well, I soon began to feel of ha
wind. She wss not long in nuinf
that fireman's box too uneasy form;
general manager. He danced like a toj
man. Then he closed the wiadot
ahead. Then he shut the one at Us
j ..ui Ira Tl ka !
ilk uv wi w -
the windows aloue, though they rattle
open, and he lost his hat, which Un
fireman caught on the baggage ca
brake; but Mr. Manager could not k
go his clutch on the seat to replace bit
hat The hat was all coal dust, any
way, so it was put into the tooichest
Xow we were just flying. I never tool
my eyes off the iron, but out of the cor
uersof my eyes I saw bow distreasM
he was. He undertook to holler some
thing, but I paid no attention. Th
fireman shoved in the sprinklings fine
be knew exactly how. Firing is hall
the battle in a big run. Well wa wen
going so well that I was aftetwardt
told the paymasters car, which wi
were pulling home, could not keep tbt
dinner dishes on the table. No, sir
Twice, going round curves, every disk
the boys had was swept on the door
If we hsd had dining cars in those dsyi
wouldn't the soup have spilled?"
I should have thought your con
ductor might have interfered," I sug
gested.
"I expected be would," was the reply
"But as time went on, and our rati
grew simply fearful on the passengers
I knew well enough the conductor had
been scolded as well as the rest of us
No; he told me afterward that he sim
ply sat dowu and said his prayers
But to go on; I saw that he had madt
up twenty-eight minutes, then thirty,
then thirty-three, being only seve4
minutes behind. But there we hung,
She could not increase her lead, do m)
best.
"1 knew then that we should soot
begin to lose them, for she was beating
W hether the boxes were lugging on thi
cars or engine I could not be sure
Then, too, it might have beeu tbt
curves, at all events we were lugging
and losing. We fell off, I calculated
some five minutes, when we struck thi
tunnel. It was a heavy rail and I
straight track there, and I palled hei
out for one more spurt, lire or die, at
we dashed into the aterm and darknet I
of that long hole. In there you caul
see anything but signals. The Saga
more answered me for just one plunge
But the next Instant enrsh' God hell
me! The whole side of the cab waj
flying in spliuters. I knew what thai
meant. I jumped from my seat it
front of the fire box. There, unda
my seat, was the general mana
ger. He had been merciful!;
knocked in instead of out, but In
was senseless. My drivers held theii
rod yet but I knew the strain oouli
not last long without snapping that rot
too, as I could not find the throttle U
shut her off. It was so queer about
that throttle. 1 turned round an
round, trying to find it; I kept turnini
to the left I thought I had an extn
eye just over my ear' and my other twi
eyes were blind. That new eye showed
me a clear beautiful light, but not th
throttle. Round and round that fear'
ful stell hammer, the broken rod, kept
crashing and tearing out the shreds 01
the cab on that side. Then the othei
one twisted, which threw old Sagamon
plump into the granite wall We wen
all piled up there, dark as pitch si
about, and finally still. Mow, the curi
ous thing about it all is that with mi
new eye over my ear I actually reaj
the time by my watch, and we we
only seven minutes late. Yea, air, wi
had made up thirty-three minutes li
the seventy four miles, slow ops and
stops included, and a minute mon
would have brought us to the station
I just yelled, 'How's that, old tEngtisbi
aud raw new eye seemed to go out it
darkness.
"Were there many injured fl added,
in the pause that followed his cojclu
sion. ,
"Don't ask me yea. Thank God)
I'm alive! Now, Mollia," addressing
bis wife, who bad just entered, "I've
(old that story for the last time, excepj
in my prayers., Emory J. Haynes iii
New Y ork Ledger, v - (
A physician has succeeded in graft
ing the skin of a frosr to that at a tor
toise, and the skin of a tortoise to that
of a frog, and also in securing the
growth of s frog's skin upon the skin
of a man M years okt Bone grafting
is not so far advanced, but hat met
with the time success as akin graft-
Have lots of tan US a!l m ess
and keep the suilshhM la your heart U
you want to be WeO. and popu
lar. The world haiai a ' with t
grievance. It payato kekfistly hrf
py. There Is abaotatT bo aroflt iit
being blue and Terr Ki ercset-T at
tending U.
