The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, February 25, 1892, Image 4
TWK OU UVMK. I steal iat the o M. oil Wmr. IT lib ailoaL smiu pic -. For the dwrlliae of my HnMauixi days 1 now a aauated pafn All ibewnioriMii &.vpo w,trs Kiand furth before mf mi i. With ekadoar flnter- bee luninf To what is left behind. 1 list for souods wkere all Is still, " For voices that are sfon : But I only bear my howl tread Alld tO broil's t III OKI to. I see for forms ttia re no more Amid the twilight ion: B it 1 only i-emysl ilow drlc Flung wide across -lie room. And i wander sadly on. ..'.uou-cilid fancies '.iiru';' I see mj mother's sj.-ei Tb tt 8 viutihed aow so lou?. I the for ns of those 1 loved. Oi-i f ri . is ol bappie- yean ; A id as- i g.z. my achioz heart O'crflowa iu Hoodie- tears. Ki. home, old home thou art not here I Thy shudox only stays; Tjou art no", in these silent rooms. These loue. deserted ways. But where the frien Is of other d ys Have gathered, orient and fair Where mtling forms of thote I loved Are waiting Home is there. Arf.ur L. Salmon- WOMEN'S GARB. Press Opinions To It. in Regard VTswsaa'aOne BmiuIiii CmIui. Vhe new dress reform movement very en ergetically insists on women show ing the beauty o! their outlines from under the arm and downward. , But how about thoe hapless women whose Forms Are lackisg any line of beauty? It is all well enough to set up the Venus de Miio for women to study, but such Venuses are rare in real life, and study ing the statue till eternity will not round an angular form into one of graceful outlines. Woman has never worn but one costume mat is Decoming to the whole sex, and that is the cos tume that was worn by the Greek wom en of old. Boston Gazette. A New Feminine Garb. The women's central committee of dress reform that has been organized at Chautauqua and that is to take com mand of the hosts of the new crusade ugainst corsets, skirts garters, high heeled boots, fantastic bonnets and sev eral other articles of feminine apparel, is made up of notable members of the fair sex, among whom are a poet, a doctor, two lecturers, a business wom an, a novelist, a preacher and a fashion plate maker. It is to bs presumed that the esteemed members of this brainy, learned, progressive and aspir ing committee will practica what tney preach as dress reformers, discard the garb which they denounce and appear publicly in those garments which they urge other women to wear. Some of the most notable members of the com mittee are residents of this city and the reporters will be on the lookout for their appearance in Broadway, Fifth avenue and other street. New York Sun. Men's and Women's Clot Iii a;. There goes a man with a palm le fan, linen trousers and a duck poai. How unevenly the pleasant,. -thlugs of this life are distributed." Why should that walk In a single thickness of linen and go forth without swaddling binds, and why should a woman be forced to lace herself up in a corset, gird herself with banns and swathe herself In drap eries? What is to prevent her donning :i pair of linen trousers and a straw hat and taking things easy? Conformity, my dear; that is all. That hydra-headed, cast-Iron boweled, obdurate and un flinching old gnome who presides over a, woman's destiny from cradle to grave has made cowards of us all. I wish we women might devise a costume wherein we should look like flowers rather than like freaks. I wish we could leave off being theorists and be 'me practical exponents of dress reform. The old Eve is too strong in us yet, even " after the lapse of six thousand years, to lead us to take a step to cause Adam pain, and imagine the state of mind, our ow" particular Adam would be in should , ' encounter us on btate street in a co tume of linen trousers, palmetto I it and the aroma of Iced beer. Chicago Herald. KOAD MAKING. It It KeMOwar to Build and Maintain Good Roads. It is difficult to wake tip the American peonle to the value and importance of good roads. You cannot drive a dozen miles out of Boston, north, south or west, except through Brookllne and Newton, with out finding the highways capable pf marked improvement. One reason why there are so many abandoned farms within twenty-five or thirty miles at; Boston or our other New England cities is that the roads ore so ba 'iat people will not use them or cannot make them of service at all seasonerol the year, and cannot therefore, afford to live without communication with the outside world. Our system of rood making outside of tbe great cities and their suburbs is worse than that which is now current in almost any other port of the clvllls. rfi world. In the .,- towns it is ' usually hjft toa roodmaster, or the people are allowed to work .out. their taxes in nveadlng tha highways, with as little knowledge of what ought to be done as DootMacK am m tne making of a newspaper. - Shoveling on dirt is tbe American method of improving a coun try road and all through New Hamp shire ana otner states you win nod the roads repaired In the spring and im txoved in the summer by this process. One might say that in nearly every state this Is the process by which the was are made. Hot so are tha roads cons true ted in England or France or Germaav. Sev eatv vears oco or mora England had Hsti roads as we have to-day, but since Tsifora want oetora parliament ana ex MbUaJtiM condition of British roads M 1 sad since parliament paasad the atgaway act, cngiaaaaaagrM ac: improved the quality of Its r f- tai aow they ore as good is an, ea the eoatiaeaV Evei ' . I H bone of the delights o vt-tetad a sjaai road. t arivrjei im ti eharaotor of its mr: It has 134,000 miles of 1 KrawsTt, aad spsati ,v tohwM them la I. Jisfies la franee is also vLt. JJL Clsffiaaiij a I ' control the policy of the governmental ooirol of th-ae roads are that tha put llicr.Nid. line the public posioffico a--" i the court house, is public property ee 1 tabtisbed by law for the use of ai. the ! nMin!f auu'Miat the true resource ol the country arc brought out by the con struction and maintenance of good mad but Tresaenet and Ins Knglish ' disciples. Telford and Macadam, have ' improved upon the Roman structures, , and it-is now reported that the roads in France and many in England are the ' best in the world. Cur.-.. was many ' centuries in wakinj n to tho value of ' good highways; the Lnited SLatca is as ' yet far behind the most backward Eu j ropean countries, and yet wherever the 1 state or the citv or the town has uuder ! tak n to secure pood roads, ithe-e has been an immediate p blic response that amply compen ! sated f r the outlay. In New Hampshire and in Pennsylvania the governors nave publicly advocated tho improvement of the common roads. Not loner aero the ! attention of the legislature pf New York was called to this matter. In otner states the public necessity has been perceived. It may seem that the rail roads have superseded the common roads, but there is an indefinite amount of short travel athich the railroads can not touch, aud a great part of the local prosperity, of the country depends upon tb.e'fccility''w'lth which the city mar kets can be reached by the farmers who live from ten to twenty miles out of town. It is to-day a problem of increas ing importance to make quick business connections, and there is nothing like the facility of intercourse between the town and the country to build up trade. The civil engineer,Mr. Isaac H. Potter, gives. In the Engineering Magazine, many statistics to show the quick in crease in the value of property that could be reached by improved high ways. He states that the improvement in the roads of the country could be al most paid for by the saviug of money to the farmers and others in ' the expense 0( teams that are required, in excessive numbers, to overcome the friction of bad roads in transrortation. It is not a question of pleasure, but one of serious economic importance, that our roads, especially the great thoroughfares through the country,, should be built and maintained in the same style in which they exist in Eng land or on the continent The unani mity among the great nations of Eu rope in maintaining the common. roads at the highest possible grade of excel lence . is a remarkable testimony to their sense of their value, and tbe time has come when their destin? of our own population, and the economic im portance or easy ana quicic communica tion by roads from one part of the coun try to another cannot be any longer kept out of sight. If we had put one tenth the money into good roads in New England which we nave put into railroads all over the country, we should not now he troubled with the de caying districts and the dwindling of the small towns; at least the New Eng land farmers would have had an en couragement to stay at home which was not presented to them at the time of the great openings in the west. No one begrudges the railroads, but before we can develop any pait ot the U nit? States as it may be developod, we must increase and improve the common roads by which the people are brought into close and immediate relations. The American farmer and legislators are slow to be convinced that these im proved common roads are capable of making adequate returns for the ex pense incurred by the state or towns In constructing them, but the experience everywhere in Europe is that these splendid roads practically bind the different parts of the country to gether into a lively s;ial common wealth. In the face of this large ex perience, and of our growing population it is not possible for us to give too much attention to our great common thor oughfares. Chicago Herald. An Amer'cana Politer Paul Lindau. tho German writer,con tributes to a Berlin newspaper an arti cle on impressions of the people of the United States gleaned during the course of his recent tour in this country. His chief criticism o.f the Americans seems to be that they are deficient in polite ness, a criticism, oy tne way, which will strike most' Americans as rather cool coming fro .1 a German for the Germans, notwithstanding their many excellent characteristics, are generally supposed to be. as a nation, somewhat lacking In superficial polish 0f manner. The observations on' .which he base his conclusion seem to have been made In business offices. His specific char ges are that when a stranger bearing a letter of recommendation enters an American's business office the Ameri can does not always get up from his choir to receive his visitor; does not re move nis nat,nor take nu cigar out of his mouth- norxcuse4jimsorf If It be a hotfcy andlie happens to be in -his shirt sleeves. Worse than this, the American Is verv llkelv to motion to the visitor, with a short wave of the hand ''not beggingly" to ' take a seat. It will occur to most Americans that these specifications provo that the American is busy, rather than he Is im polite, snd that he takes it for granted that his visitor will not care to be bored with excuses for things that should be accepted as a matter of course. Tbe kind of formal politeness to which such excuses belong nourish most, as a rule, la soli to which the true politeness of se.f-oaerlSce is a stranger. Americans are ever ready to give up their seats on the cars to ladles and ever ready to go out of their way to di rect a stranger in aa unfamiliar locali ty. Politeness of this sort Is of some utility to tbe recipient The Milwau kee Wisconsin. . Tbe attorney general of Pennsylvan ia has served a formal notice upon those Philadelphia papers that saw fit to pay W per oent of the mooev they received for city advertising to the city oOeials who procured the advertisement for them to restore that meoey to the etty treasury oa or before the first of Sep tember, or they will be proceeded against aooordlag to law. The restora tion of this 40 per oent rebate wUl leave tha offending newspapers Just 20 far ceat of their original charges far ad vertising. They will have had the ban sit of sobm very valuable axpiriiaas, however, wfakih ought to be some oaa solaUoa to them for. their loss at ms y- A. UwJiaw fcfltwl at Aafeim Vwawr JT has ha Cd I1W for sstvutt ! myar'-j to Ua f warts. I3THS' DEPARTMENT. torn th k - rmi.uiu:. IhsChll. .A ranrrnn' tha Yeatafol wiaa. :r33rw Tfcs Kindergarten Boy. Pawr-v was a queer bey. Or h aan't a W at, -all. Mr. perhaps Wiggin savs he wan one of the weirdct appari tions ever seen in human form-tie might have been a century old wh. n he was born. A shrunken, somewhat de formed body; a curious, melancholy face: a head of dust colored hair that might have shocked for a door niat- .TW , - j . . Iw.i 1 hut tin eye were rig inu p''"i tiiere was a clean circle like a race track aroupd his iiose. which member reared its crest, untouched and grimy. Now Puv had a friend: it was the one nhiuing' object of his little life; and Mi. Kate Douglas Wiggin, of r rinco, was that Mend. And in the art insti tute of Chicago the other day, says the Tribune, she told his story. Mrs. Wiggin formerly worked in the Silver street free kindergartens of San Francisco, and from that experience uame "Tbe Story of PaUy." To talk of Patey is to suggest the kindergarten, for if it had not been for the latter there would have been uo Patsy for children and grown people, too-to laugh and cry over. It seems that Patsy's paet a past of humiliation, of mean make-shifto: for ho was an off spring of Our Lady of Poverty was largely in the shadow until he appeared at the Silver street klndergarteu and inquired. "Kin ver take me in?'' "Why, my boy, you're too big; aren't you? We have only tiny people here, you know; not 6 years. . You are more, aren't you?-' This from the kind o' pretty lady with towzled hair. "Well, I'm 9 by the txwk, but I ain't roore'n skerce 6 along 0' my losiu' them three years." "What do .you mean, child? How could you lose three years?'' "Why, on the back stairs. My father he trot fichtinir mad hen he was drunk and pitched me down two flights of 'em, and my back waz inos' broke in two so 1 couldn't git out o' bed till jest sow. His mother was dead, which was a pity; his father was dead which was not. The boy eked out a poor little life at the Raffer'ty's. The woman Rafferty took in washing, the man HalTerty marched with workingmen's proces sions and held ban..ers. Patsy told his squalid tale to the end and said for a titling finale: "Here's an on rouge 1 brung ver! It's skwuz somo, but there's more in it." So Patey became a klndergarted boy. He had tits occasionally and his back sometimes hurt, but he became in the main happy happier than he had ever dreamed of being and there sprang up between the ylittle boy so cruelly dealt with by fortune and the lady of towzled hair a great friendship. Thcbm-'s uUvL developed anufWuEl, lull of strange " -Sclent thoughts, of queer fancies. But' he strove in a feeble way to find those three years again. It was hard to think of this poor little invalid, so young to struggle with languor and pain. 11 was a pretty picture airs, w lggins gave of the conversation, as the days went by, with this child of cbanee. It showed, too, what a grand work Is the free kindergarten among the poor. There was one instancs where the boy, open eyed, sat In front of a picture of victor, a brave St. Bernard, whilo the lady, with his cleanest hand in hers, tola him the story of the dog. It was an experience as she told it, and never to be forgotten. And in Chicago this lady said: "As you sit at twilight in the 'sweet, safe corner of the household fire,' the sound of the raindrops on the window pane, mingling with tbe laughing tre ble of the childish voices In some dis tant room, you see certain pictures in the dying flame, pictures unspeakably precious to every one who has lived, loved, or suffered. I have my memory pictures, too, and from the fairest frame of all shines Patsy's radiant face as it looked Into mine long ago when I told him the story of Victor." From that time on Patsy was the first to come in the morning, and the last to leave at night. He took the whole institution under his guardianship, and had a watchful eye for everything and everybody belonging to it. He had a stormy temper which, however, he was fast learning to control; and perhaps he was not always Kind tor he was reared in a hard school. But he was greatly cnangea tor tne miter, lie was never joyous; born under a cloud, he nna uvea in its snaaow, ana sorrow too early - borne had left Its indelible im press, haang was gradually eliminated from his speech, but it was never eradi cated altogether. The tune was too short. It was Petoy who sorted the wools and threaded needles, rubbed the btaek boards and scrubbed the slates, But contented always. He once went so for as to openly caress the lady; his nrst ana last, inaeea, lor ne was shy ana reticent in emotion, and never showed his affection before the other ohildren. . But one day a severe fit came; the lady was summoned In baste. The bov had grown years older with tbe night's pain, hut ths eyes shown out with new luster and brilliancy. There was a bit of prayer, and then "ier never saut amen. Taint no good thout yer say amen!" rne amen oame lerventiy. Then "I guess heaven is kind o' like our klnaairgartent don't you? na so 1 am i goin- to reel strange Tnervll be nice places for Dlonics- with flowers Moomin' in 'em, and lota 9 ataaia' like we have and the neonlaa at good to each other "nd wait on the sags is Td run errants for God, lipase, nd everybody'll wear- Petty ' had found hut three lost years, . a ' A sjitssley Br ttwry. ; TM best time to hunt the grialy u OSMOubtedly ia tha months of Septem- bsr and October before they enteiflond Iwtlre into their remote dens, and In SajuoBih Of AprIL when they appear ran aiier long nwp uunng tne win' m : . " . .. . ... a ngm anowiau win 1 suitor greatly in tracking JPf isairiiaei has pi f bsar ls tastas smart as A lign snowtau win assist the ine beast proved that IS man UawHOTjrw -as m nunters of the . H u . .. . ' Si y anue smw nim-wlll lead thev 1 t-m fer.asa, and 11 at once waa 44. ajet'i rTiiltr."??"' jM-.WB V? a after aC xv?f www turn in other direction entirely different from the one ly Wck followed - i mensebrar for nine long fort, mile, northwest of DaSf. and before the tired hunter artuaHj knew how far Master Pet astray he found himself near Nez Pcrc Pais a few miles north of Crown Peak the biirgest mountain ia the chain In Shoo? of finding and surprising the "mg?y skinned" f ho had uo am-!ll he powder of a rifle before. Thatlri'ky brute lay down at that point to rest fv a while. H must have weighed about .W pounds and measured by the imprint ' , .u. t v, fuller, nnw about made on tur irau - . h , even and a half feet. Knowing that darknews would overcome tne j.u.m. he walked into a small o. Perces Creek, and instead of wading through aud coming out on the other side, kept on drifting down the creek for a few minutes and landed on tne same side of the creek where he enter ed, to return to his family which he had prolmblv left in the morning I hen be retraced "his old trail, after walking once in a half circle of alout ten ie't in diameter on the ground, finishing the other half of the circle iu the c-rerk to make the hunter believe that he had crossed tie water. But nevertheless Captain Dick, being up to his trick through the dearlv learned eiiei'ienc ofnianv lone aud l"'d j'irn,,.vs' 'V'" lowed "alongside the creek until he struck the new track and hunted Mas ter Pet down just in time, when the bear was about to retire for the ni:ht under a big rock The gri'zily is almost blind at night. 1 selves a very lnrKe wardrobe an. one n.-eu-iuvh j rlemalie rare in the melbral 1r,..rais.. t'aotalu Dick UllL'Ilt HHH tracked him for many days. The gri.zlv rarely tights, unless forced to it bv the hunter facing him and Uking a shot at him. This eve ning, at the sound oftherillo, he started up like an enraged Hirer, knowing that he was trapped, and blindly made ready for vicious attiu'k in the direction of tho tree, from behind which the lire came. When the. bear was within fifty yards the ( autain fired aaiii. Though it was almost dark the bullets struck the shaggy monster right in the fore head. Alas! instead of dropping dead he started on a run, infuriated by the fiat tenniiitf o( a piece of lead on his tender skull. Within twenty yards one more rang out from the never failing Win chester rifle and the bear gave a bound in the, air and tumbled over with w enraged howl in his last breath. He rolled over once more, stretching out his mlehtv paws as if to reach for his enemv and crush him. In a minute all was over he was shot through the heart. timer Hie same rock where poor Master Pet intended to prepare his night meal the hungry hunter, lit a big fire, and by the unsteady flickering light bean to skin the beast with his bowie knife. Being an expert the task is completed within thirty-five minutes, .and a slice of juicy meat of the ham cut out, stick run into it and hung over the now bright fire on a cross stick lying on fjtwo forklike branches stuck into tho rground. Detroit Free Press. A SenatbU (lander. It would hardly be supposed that a gander would be wiser than multitudes of men, but such is the case, as the fol lowing incident proves: Many vears ago a saloon stood in tho out skirts of Mount Vernon, 111., on tho spring Garden road leading southeast. A mile or so away on the road lived a sot who visited this saloon almost daily, drinking when ho could pay for tbe liquor himself or when any one else. treated him" to it. In fact this fellow spent most of his time at this "grocery," as a drinking place was called in those days. This toner's wife had at home a small flock of geese and among them was a gander which, for some strange reason, followed hi-; muster evcrv tune he went to the saloon, plodding along a yard or two behind his miserable mas ter's heels. At the saloon the faithful eander would wait ontside, hungry and patient, for the appearance of the unworthy man he loved so well. Once, while waiting, near by, he was worried and cruelly bitten by a dog. Another time, in the night, when following his drunken master home, a fox sprang from the bushes and pulled some feathers out ot his wing. But none of these things kept him from going . daily with his mastm- to the saloon. If the man eot too drunk to travel going home, and lay down In the corner of the fence, as he often did, to sleep, the gander sat close by till his master could go on. Thus matters went for a long time, till one day at Christmas time a crowd of drinking fellows at this grocery caught the helpless creature and pourd down his throat a half pint of rum. In a little while he flapped his wings, squalled, and went rushing about uere ana mere, ana tumbled over drunk, There he lay a long time as If deid, and did not get home till the next day. , From this the gander learned a lesson anu was never seen at the saloon again. C. E, Cllnu Tha Birds' Banquet. When deep snow covers the earth and crust of ice seam highways and by ways, so that the little birds in the air know no where to turn for a grain of corn anywhere in field and meadow man s compassion saves them from star vation. In every household through out Norway, be ft rich or poor, a largo tied to the top of the "starbur" fgranar 1 ZtZ eTery No:'flfi" farnTnitheV th T flockiDir. celebrating ble bunch of golden grain. A Clever Pony. Up o n - .. iitttnRh-.u-i 1 T"18 rei"rkaWe to m'J:1 V?l th-tsffordsdelight ITT," than the one and it la L aI i.1, Ita Mmo Ily Ukesuchadog it wUl .hake hanl. frneThf! ' lndu0ed tO give IU two hhTd once Md ,Und P on lu honeshWe any human bipea who alr Ihe Children. - - - &&&&& KUN,ftOUS UNIFORMS. br U Prim ,f Wales. . , ,i f uniforms navnt. mm- lmM.!"- of cur-. .!. pertalni.1,'; Iu u orders of knighthood the 1'nnor f W t - . (.-... a. r,. i'ruui 1 bold csnnol be lis niao ..".." . -. -'a L.n-lon writer. Thi nmv m a si art ifing fsrt to some of my revfrrs. b..t I may remin l them that of mililary. militia. .nJ , .!(m, hi KOVal Oliui toiuii ::'," " - Illirt'v ,,. M. -4! niu - - . .- .i.1,.i.i. neoide ere aware tni ne i 1 -hii f of each f the tun f'";-"""' ii'h-v I...M ( srulrv.of the Tenth Hussars. al)J of l be Itirte Il'iicnde. but it l so renerallv known that he also honorary Colonel of eleven Ka-t Indian reem.en.s Including the Sixth Bengal Guides tn. and the aecond (.boorkhas. OfcMnmiJionsin militia and volunteer regiment he holds seventeen in a'l, ami. a, every one knows, he i bnnrarv o lonel of the Pomeranian lltcsars (lil.irhert D,i a well as a Field Marshal In ihc German army. Among the I rimes more miscellaneous iiniform may De rtyk(-ned those attaching to hi oniee . Ixrd of the Hes (if. indeed. lhi ofiice entuils even this mrtonal ic-ton ibllitv). Hii!h Htewart of I'h.moutu I)oc tor of' Mosie. flrand Mason of the Iree masons, Elder Hrolhrr of Trinity Howe ComuKMloreof live yacht rhibs President of tbe Societv of Arts, Governor of ( hnr terhoue, and Hencher of the Middle Jem pie. Thus it will be seen how easily a three fieure l"tl "y reached; and Kranliu that in a liberal r entaL'C of cases no uniform has ever to I worn there must 1 still a sufficient number f vnr : .1 i..ft ti, .nsiitnif- in lhem- Itsi uii,niuirs . - --- - .A in arrHiiveinents. I have doum. 110 " - , , . .... . , . ever, whether the sugpestion of a kind of Mme. 1 uvsauil ilevoioi rnumy iu im bibition of the Prince or sles in ins various unilornn wouiu oe a show, fven if admirably carried out. It la well to remember tbe moral ot tue say ing, -Toiijours pcrdrir." whirl., Wiifj translated freely, means it U e)ssihle to have too iimih even of a good tiling. A Telephone for Writers. One of the luort Iwautiful of modern In ventionsit retmilns to I wen wneiiier 11 U as useful as it i' beautiful Ihr iiislru mcnt devised by Mr. John ItoU-rison f-r the transmission of writing by electricity, was exhibited nl the American Exhibition In Ixmdoti.. tint of the top of a box. which Is alout the size of an ordinary dis patch lxx, protrurlii what has the ps-r-auce of a alylographlr n. This, how. ever, is not a pen, hut the handle of the "transiuitler," and its lower end is- fixed to a light brass perpendicular bat. Any mo tion given by the hand you hold it just like a pen to the handle of the transmit ter is commiiiiVatcd by this bur to two series of rartsjn diski contBiiied within t lie Isjx, and, ufler various adveiitiin-s union? magnets, ele., in carried nffiiin to Ihe lop of the box, where it ii reproduced exactly by a small inn -Holding p-.n, po.ni ri-stj on a white pajMT tape. A clock wotk ap paratus pulls this -tape along at a gentle pace, and fu-r a little practice you find that it is quite easy to move I lie handle 0 the lr:inuiiiler so that the en shall . write legibly on the moving tuc. .Now, w hat ever is written on Ihe .ta ln-fore y,m i written siiniiilsneoiisly mile oft", ' or it may be fifU mile off, on a similar lnje by a similar insinimeni at the otlierenil or the wire. The instrument Is verv comoaet uud apparently efllcieat, and as U is quite ilnt tiiere seems no reason uv a reporter nt- ting lu tlie House or t ommons could not straightway write oh his report of a debate to be instantaneous v read off in Priming House Square or XorthiimlK-rland street. A name will be wanted for this machine. Perhaps the "wire writer" will do. Ills Wife Xfas Manetnz Krtltor. Down from a secluded mountain village comes this story of one of the ornaments of the Athenian pulpit. The Hev. Mr. is enjoying his vacntion with his family in one of the most quiet and charming vil lage in New Hampshire. The oilier Ia hcjwas out on an all day fishing excursion with his young sous and a visiting Inymau from town. During his nliscnrc his" wife received a large parcel of new pafs-rs and magazine from town, and, according to her habit, began marking as she skimmed ihe articles she thought would e most helpful to her husband. He returned at night successful. lie and his friend bad caught plenty of lish and were in as high spirit as the hoy who went with them After supper they nd down to look over the mail, and Ihe visiting brother saw the plentiful pioneer pencil marks of the tniu Ister's wife. "How' thi?" he asked, jokinglt "Aren't you allowed to read auvihing ex cept the tliingc Mrs. M piek', out for you?" "No," answered Mr. Jf , Sot a thing. My wife U ilic managing editor of my pulpit, and she 1, getting ready for the fall campaign." "And while you go fishinR " ' ' "She stav iu and looks awir-r my Inter- ?,,s-,!!'' h''T tr "-il eye on the said Mr. M . ouicklv A Orllijr Western Olrl. A Towka wonmn lit 11 11 I has taken s claim In western Kansaa at hold. it. H,e "rmitler" of thai section has endeavored to annoy her and force hr to abandon it, hut she i, , American -r and thus talk, to thm ft a nolice .iVk upon her house and In ll, local tuner- "Further depredaticiu In the way of poking and peering in al ruy window, .fter liifiht, or rarrv nir off ,J .. . ",lCT otherivise snooklmV .m.3 'ZJ" ' "1 r or mine, will result f. . 1 , , " r' K." is s..niHhing ,WU the house' lo.de.i aud with further provocation will go off and you will most lik.i 1...... ...1 K na iii .I0'.' do'I t Uke -- , ii, , au rxiu r get your neiifli bor to read 1 hi. iiM ... .."''Rn igh- hican 1o Cenfaslea sf Terbe. ( listomer Will i.i. ..v . . . idotthinku;,,r Customer If. It wild wash 1 would take fifwenvjrd, ClerkZoh,Th.m.3a be washed f 11..1 1. -k.! " . tnw Quite plain; quite forcible, and gran 1.7 Ically, aljsohucly correct Zl? T f verbs there, CaVh! "'"'ob A Hallf' eeo''"' wf a White Lie. sble excuse to giveA tt2 f, Mw ta ths "drowv',"' bll ml a rsrasas aca , a Hay last r. talker Y. W 1 the nrm of Breaks A Pike, eUihoeJV rltsnt and mounters, rame aero. r.ei r.u in -rri inu purcnasrd aa" ",en..nwbo barf jut Jlfe rum i mouniMiiu 1 Its fna .. IfOlU IIH- III..U.IIA.IM SUV iioaw sa, came out of a lerlge oa top of ths 1T,V tain, ncr-.r Portland, shout flirre tfcwUf i feet alove tbe Icvrl of the tea Tkt-TtT ne icvri 01 ine tea TwirI it was olHaine.1 nun ; the lime Nr. Kr.wk, J; 5 tail of the fish could tc !' from wlilcu lavers, At . ,.u II Hie 1:111 01 I lie Bah mi, ,l l ' and that was all. He art to tNT moving Ihe rock that covered u, V' mainder of Ihe fish. He workej JL fully aud jlowly for scvrral bourn for ix wee ks, and was rewarded taining a fine clmen of s petrified is probably thousand of years old. ?! fih is alxi'ut seventeen and one half w lone and six inches through the wjjj - thU kest part. Tbe outline of ih q'i'i perfect, and the mnall rib hones rt,i tincl as though they had Just bees pV there. The upper and lower fini irTi plainly seen, and tbe brad has retail , hse' The vctebral column is alwdaX defined. Tbe stone proper is of t y graybh tint, forming sn excellent rtiiXt Imck ground for ihe dark ci At of kV. ti.-.li. it is not unlike a codfish, a r Blinded v Saallgnt. - J Iii thf wn ol Nillrnova, X. Y.aJf'' is a case that is puzzling the ocak t ( hiirlet Oilaon and his family lire,. log house on a twrnly ecu- frm p not find existence a bed of ruses, daiiKhter. the eldest child, 11 yi-an f birth was found to have some jwu, . aliout her eyes, but nothing w u uJ of it until she reached the ajtewpT children notice objects, snd th n Ok 4 J covery wn made I hut the wa UHnd, W later on it was demonstrated that bt m flclal licht she could see, bul suullrVi veloped her in daikncM so far a her asA evea were eoncerncl. This w romkr; to the present day. 8he p'ayeil aiu. Ik weI ty tne lamp 01 ugm ami she grew older. Bbe Is very ittnrti nersona v. and as If lo coniuenisb se her iecufiarity of sight, ber faeultie s 1.- ,r v-.. 1 . "K most persons of her rank. Ili-r sfvitjA the wonder of those who have lta'f l.r ineniory retains Ihe hulk of what t f red. It is a very singular cam 4 oculists, w ho have made an xwcan of lier ryes, contess ineins ivu ,, unable to tlelerminc the Catw of the Ji Mindiir 1 C ollege Courtship. There is a New England Vtni m niissionnrii-s used to resort to Mount Btl yoke N-miiiary to pick out nivtsottV, eve of a voyage to the land of the hwh k The Irgrnd may lie untrue, but hardly a si miiiary town in the cooti-f ,1 where theolops of any . di-rtomiattiaf abound In which lieing mlniMtn'rirw Imi not bccnuie a recognized pro'ftii among the feminine population. (Ak students arc not so much given to w.-f mony, brrauv there i no other profess In which a wife Is such s nceesry irt. of one's stfM-k in trade, bul separatimw sexes is not going to hinder loe -mU The chances are that In tlie ronlucatMbf school the student masculine will still jaj his leisure hours with the society girb 4 the college town, while the student te -nine w ill al lend strictly to her nDhbCJi X. ness. which is that of beating liimU4 'if j c-lKs-rfs)ni she having, as a llarw a oaVsnian put U, Dolhinvelse to fcikeuplr-.rtf, mind if sho can. If it turns ojl a& (fatly, it would be hard to bring lorsii "oni tact or tnory any reason worw lege nisrr ape should not bequl'citr ami quite as happy as most oilier Iciadi. Ahnwed Them llnw It Wn Haas A jolly party was silting around 1 Ml at a restaurant at Frankfort on the-Vsa. tt (fermany, talking about the numeral thef U of fall ovcrcoaU whit b had laa tiecn reported from every part of th They all agreed that such a thing osC. not Kssibly happen to any one of ttal ) as they had their eye open. "Xenrwfc less,' lnlerose.l a pnlleman. sitting tttiB next table, "I winiid, if need lie, ott lake to prove that any one of your aM could easily be alistracted from underraalC, very noM-s." They were astuni-h d. (-Hett he explained that ft was only iit-ciiiptettU engage a man in an interesting ronmlStlt. lion, and while he continued underuViaxf 1 nuenre lo atise, take hi overcoat, pel on, light a cigar and leave ihe rm a J gracioti bow. The entire compsnt Hi np a continuous roar of laughter star amiislrg talc and the stilt more entrttil ing practical illustration with whM? relator accompanied hi wordsnd ni l 11 t'r, mv Lk S out of the door. He did not corao hu e? neither did the overcoat with a p-'" l ook with f 100 In It. jjf Mis Tod Her Tabbv at II Ian. The inability of a woman lo throw siittllaW thing so that It will hit tho object tlar i, she aim was rather qnesily rfcmfttutnir. in a London street the other eveeisr. J,ijZi young person of 18, who m wlk"5T along with a cat in her arms, was mdMr7,L ly seized with a desire lo throw iwnictbta at a young man of her scZusfntttnce, aJ for lack of a better projectile, cnuj nUSSV bp the l.iil and lliri'n- her St ll!tV. Of coup the young man was unhni, the cat went thVough s hon window,. . F. T. P. O. C. T. A. took tip ibes. Ier, nlmiit sii nollimcn were r.-quiresj arrest the girl, and abe found herself W a line and costs of 18 shilling to pit X less she preferred fourteen day' imprit r-c-t. v- i!me she will know l.cr lis X i s i.u.. t.id lay the cat in the year! man' arm, pull it ull, see him duly pa J isbed. and save her money. An Okie Her A rase of undoubted falsehood, kty rapid working of one's wiu, was brooni to light in the Columbus, Ohio, city finiiary director's office recently. A" man had applied for a pass to Bucirf whither be wished to go to see hi) a '; and he laid great stress on hi old H" jn evens tnr . . k ( . . inm Ik. 11 . ,s . "Ilr, nM .! ..Ll llr Ilow a 'i "One hundred aad five." "And Is your mother living t ' "Yes, sir. she Is." "How old la ah.r 'Vi "One hundred aad dfty this rnonu- It And the old man wm betrayed t! rri w look that ha was bnaklag th r,. for the greatest liar oa earth "J "w Ike OI4 aesrttaw. W.rkei t Arnaudeau pUuhesla the i(evuS-s iu an essay upon lb question so"r ancient Erypllan ataaaged lo trsssj sod II :t tbe Umeass rocls found os 1 (if temples sad bow they raised their llak. Ha ikl.k. k.. .H.nirt rlss af the Nile. Cl?-1 wock with as much wow. WSS nrrriai I to saJaa at e liltl R " ground they puthed H forward to her waaud It to Ha sad held It in PJ -mie soey rmerved the wood, wtt Z i iwi ,ttc PK H was to twVh A pbslMi was lifted horteoaully sndsjj' e Waers thav waatMi K. esssrt 1L 1 ms e, lar a tMtfC y it -v wooa sway noa tae -M s V !J.wVl-taa la