rorns OF TIIK T1.MES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF
TERESTINC IT5MS.
IN-
Inanikv has liopn made to cover
a multitude of ius. cut the piact.ee
Is Incoming very tiresome.
Tiik Fremh crisis is ended. The
reader should not, Ik. we er, conclude
ttut F rance is entirely out of crisis;-.
Tiik men who wear Ion coats and
who walK fast in them, aie no longer
in position to laugh at the
woman runs.
way a I
i
I'ki I't.K whom we have thought
ail summer were very polite, are be
ginning to hold the door wide open
when they go out.
That cigarette crusade, by which
it Is Imped to prevent Itiys from in
haling the noxious rolls, will prole
ably all end In smoke.
A m silk man who never takes bis
mother or iter to th theater is
very Indignant when he sees a mar
ried man there alone.
A s tiikhk are none w wiik that
we may venture to Injure them Willi
Irupuu ty, so there are none so low j
that they may not at some time be j
able to repay an obligation. There-:
fore, what benevolence would die- '
tale, prudence would confirm. j
At the Hoston School biy's-oclety's
recent reunion Joseph 1. Jones gave
his reminiscences as a schoolboy In
Hoston rilnety-'wo years ago. He is
07 years old. No! ody can IjC a mcm
tr of the society w ho has not been
out of school a full half-century.
IIcman wisdom makes as 111 use of
her talent when she exercises it in re
Hrinding from the number and sweet
ness of those, pleasures thatare natur
ally our due. as she employs It favor
ably and well in artificially disguising
and trl king out the Ills of life to
alleviate the sense of thorn.
Sisck the war liegan In I'.razil the
correspondents have killed more men,
shelled more towns and destroyed
more Ironclads than could le found
in any other country under the sun.
The queerest thing about it all Is
that the royalists and revolutionists
have still sufficient soldiers to carry
on the lighting.
""" Is building the modern house,
there is not enough attention paid to
the cellar. Old-fashioned people had
cellars that would hold enough pota
ties, cabbage, apples, turnips etc,
stored in the fa 14- when they were
cheapest, to keep the family ail win
ter. They not only saved money,
but got the best
1,'Ni'M'Ai. sequela; of diphtheria
have been made manifest in I!en
frew (bounty, Canada Diphtheria
was prevalent there last year and In
every family whero there arc chil
dren who had lecn victims of diph
theria nearly all are suffering from an
a fTectlon very much like whooping
rough. Those su cririg from it
cough until they are black in the
face.
A ot'NTitYJi as took his seat at a
hotel table opposite a gentleman who
was indulging In a bottle of wine.
Supposing the wine to le common
property, our unsophisticated country
friend helped himself to it with the
gentleman's glass 'That's cool!"
exclaimed the owner of the tiottle of
wine, indignantly. "Yes," replied
the other, "I should think there was
Jce in It."
Tins country has become within
three decades oiks of the most imHjr
taot olive consuming countries in the
world. When olives were Imported
into the I'liltcd States thev were a
luxury of the rich. They are still
consumed in cities rather than In the
country district s: and New York,
with Its great imputation of people
from the Medlterranean'reglons Is, of
all American cities, by far the great
est consumer of ollvea
A wMKwiiAT unusual engineering
teat has Just been accomplished at
the Hons cor Spinning Works, at
Nancy, France. Without stopping
the works for a single day the height
of a chimney about a hundred feet
high was Increased thirty feet. The
first workman to reach the top of
the chimney gained that height by
driving Iron hooks lctwccn the
crease of the bricks. He then
hauled on his scaffolding. It
oc-
i..t. ii,t. iavs- t.lm to do the
work.
Wiikn one paranoiac commits mur
der for the love of notoriety of being
hung a down will commit it on the
supposition that they will escape
strangulation on the lawyer's plea of
doing It under an Insane impulse,
while at the same time they will en
Joy the notoriety of the bloody deed,
the trial, and the acquittal on the
Josanlty dodge. If they are executed
with promptitude and inexorable
certainty othe cranks will Dot I e so
i.tti fe k notoriety by committicg
murder to ;ic ;Uire it; and the fas'er
those paranoiac are removed froni
the eaith the fewcrsucb . p!e there
will l.e to go on marrying and breed
i g moral monsters impelled to take
life for sake of morbid notoriety,
t-elf-prc-ervation of sane jeople is
more importance to society than
propagation of paranoiac.
Tiik popular belief that the Indians
are a doomed we and are rapidly
di-apearing Is not borne out by the
,eoitof the Secretary of the In-
terior.
ing in
Ile savs they are not de- reas.
number. On the contrary,
"t ibal wars and wars with the whites
having ceased, they - are increasing
rather, than decreasing." All the
greater, therefo e is the need of their
le us s i cared for and so trained that
t: ey will become useful citizens. In
manv caes this seems ,t hopeless
pro-pect, but if the children are
rightly dcait with the outlook for the
future is l.y no means altogether dis
couraging. I ft politics be elimina
ted from the management, of tiie In
dian and let Civil i-emce principles
prevail in the Ind an service, and
two most important, steps toward the
solution of the Indian problem will
lie taken.
Tiik ridiculously low prices at
' which World's Fair buildings are -old
1 is a feature of the closing events of
j the fair which the most sagacious
! speculators in salvage values had nol
I anticipated. It was supposed that
I the World's Fair struct ires proper
J would have b ought at leat a mill
j ion dollars in the market, and that
I the Stale and foreign buildings would
I have brought something at least near
i the cost of the materials. Instead
of that the fairy I ireclory nlTcrs t.;e
buildin s and Jjim.i on bonus t t e
South Park Hoard merely to get. rid
ot them. The other buildings are
sold at prices that arc but a small
percentage on their cost. The .Mid
way palaces were bought for a : ounts
less than the value of the lumber for
kindling wood. There was no de
mandno market tor the materials
of which the buildings were con
structed. The wreckers liought them
at nominal prices and will have U
use up the rubbish gradually In their
contracts with those erecting build
ings.
Tiikhk is a ways something coarse
and vulgar In a breach-of-promlsc
case, The nature of such nulls is
revealed by theoid Fnglish pleadings;
the father ol the girl was the plain
HIT, and he sued per uuod servltium
amlsit, it lelng assumed as a matter
of course that Kngll-h g rls did cook.
ing and washing for their papas.
Those who are (urious about that
branch of legal practice should read
the rejiorts of the cases In which
Ilroiighman and Erskine were usually
pitied against each . other; they will
arise from the perusal with a curious
impression of the English middle
class a century ago. The notion of
those days was that the sole honor
able destiny of a girl was to bo the
wife of some man and the mother ol
his children. If she could not at
tain this destiny, her life was a fail
ure, and if she could charge the
failure on any one, she was quite
right to sue him for damages. An
idea has been gaining ground in this
country of laie years that women may
possibly have other destinies; that
there are avenues of usefulness for
spinsters, with perhaps as much
promise of happiness as Is offered in
the average married Ufa As last a
new occupations are discovered foi
women an 1 self-support is brought
nearer their reach, this Idea ac Uiref
stiength. When it becomes general
breach-of -promise suits will cease tc
encumber the court calendars. Hut
the fact remains that the female re
formers who demand ''equality of the
sexes," only want it when It come
their way. There Is probably not a
woman In the 1'nited States who doc:
not agiee with the doctrine just laid
down by a New York court con
cernlng engagements of marriage.
Hut, correspondingly, there Is prob
ably not one. either, who would give
damages to a man who brought suit
against a woman for breach of prom
isc W here, then, does trie 'Equality
of the sexes" come In?
Women ox f Jimlener.
Women in America apcar to
successful in making a business
gardening. One lady in Mississippi
has started a good business in ship
ping rosebuds submerged in water,
thereby making them retain their
i freshness. Another In California
' two orchards, of ten and twelve
n.Md lit mm if uhlti aha crmura nnrl
co s and cherries so successfully that
they net her .",000a year. A widow
In the same State, who was once the
reigning belle In her town, Is at the
head of a cut-flower industiy. She
has twenty acres of violets and chrys
anthemums; In her chrysanthemum
plantation alone she has 18,000
blooms this year.
"I'm stuck on you," the chewing
gum said to the boarding-school man
teln eon.
MEN OF MILLIONS NE.'.R DEATH.
itu,Brkallr f: !- More the AtK-iiipl to
Mow l'p MuMrll Hag.
"Quite a number of meu of mil
lions have had narrow escapes from
sudden d. atli during the past year or
so," remarked a Wall street man to .1
writer for the New York World. "I ;
was reminded or the fact a few davs
a.'o by the repo.t in the new-papers
of the narrow escaie Ceorge (iould ,
hi 1 from a quick death by the pre
mature discharge of his gun while
minting in the Adirondacks. Kussell
fsage started the hall rolling by escap
ing the bomh of Noreross. .Mr. ."-age
had a narrow escape, indeed, but not
more so than did William K. Yauder
hilt, who barely saved himself a year
ago when his big yacht, Alva, went
down at night Cornelius Yander
biit just escaped death from a tram
of cars ab ut the same time Then
John W. Mackay, the California bo
nauza king, was shot at and wound
ed by Kipey, a San Fraric sco crank
w ho fancied he had been wronged by
the money king. C. T. erker, the
hicago cable king, was In a rail
road wreck out West snortly arter
Mr. Mackay's escape from being mur
dered. A passenger sitting in front
of .Mr. Yerkes was instantly killed,
mt t he ca le king got out of the
wreck without a scratch. Ldd.e
ould is reported to nave had a nar
row eseaie trom death at the hands
of one or the iiulTalo Jlailroad strik
ers a year ago while doing guard duty
with the Seventh l.egiment. l.eorge
anderhilt was almost drowned
j,, 1
the private bath at Newport a short
tiiu .iiT.i lln vu'ja rniienpfl tiv A.
vn,r t.i.e r, wsr,a.,rs reported. !
J ' "- r
John Jacob Astor had a narrow es- ;
,..,,,..... H hiu tmr-ht in u ei ill isinri I
In New York water recently, and a
Up' Ul1'UIU I I I .J J UV-Oli w -s- " ' - " ,
son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., was
so.iouslv in u red while following the
hounds at .Newport, his horse falling
ind throwing him against a wall.
Men of millions are lucky in other
things than making money, you see.
She Wrote Too Well.
In an after-dinner talk, ;.s iciKirt-
ed by the Ho ton Transcript, a lady,
whose handwriting has never driven
he,- pu Mistier to reuuest. the use
of a typewriter, told a most amusing
story of what happened once, because
she wrote a hand as finished and legi
ble as copperplate. While she was
in England, at a friend's country
h use, a lormer maidservant wrote
to her hostess, requesting a written
character." The hostess was glad
to comply with the request, but be
ing for the moment much engaged,
she aski-d her visitor to write the
"character" from her dictation.
About a fortnight later, we were
interrupted at au afternoon lea ny
the parlor maid, who said that sarah
the one to whom the "character"
had been sent was in the ball, in
charge of a policeman, crying bitterly
and begging to see Mrs. , . mv
hostess.
We went to the hall Logetner, and
found the girl In an agonv of shame
and distress.
"() ma'am, " said she, "1 applied at
Lady Oraywhacke's for a situation,
heailn' as how a maid was wanted.
"Her ladyship asked for my char
acter; and 1 showed her, immediate.
1 he one you was kind enough to semi
me, ma'am. Anil she looked ai it
awh.le, then she touched a bell, and
said to the footman:
'"Send for a pleceman at once!'
says stie. j his gin is Using a lauy
name without her permission,' says
she. -She has hired n unc professional
clerk or accountant to write out this
paper, with Mrs. 's name in it,'
says she. 'No lady ever wrote such
a hand as that" says she, Only peo
ple who write for a living write such
a hand,' says she and that's how I
know it is a forgery!'
"Well, ma'am, I cried, and 1 stuck
to It before her and the pleeceman
that you'd sent me this paper just as
she saw it. And at last she told the
pleeceman to bring me down here, in
charge, and get your word for it.
ma'am. And ( 1 ma'am, you'll sjieak
for me?"
My friend spoke for her to such
purpose that the good-natured Hobby
was soon on his way to London. The
girl was comforted with the assur
ance that, in addition to the message
which the policeman was to take,
she should have a decisive letter, in
111 y friend's own handwriting
"which is bad enough to be a
duchess's." said she.
The most truly English part of the
whole queer matter is that after
Lady Craywhaekc's outrageous insult
to the xor unoffending girl, the
girl meekly and gratefully went
Into her service, ami has continued
there these ten years.
W timed In Tlrnr.
It was the Hilic.y of the pioneers,
says the chronicler of West irginia
history, to cultivate as far as practi
cal the friendship of the numerous
tribes or Indians on the west side of
the Ohio River. As a natural conse
quence of hospitalities repeatedly ex
tended to the Mingoes and VV'vau
dottes, a feeling of good will existed
in many Instances between these
trilies and the whites. In the case
of the ane brothers and the Wyan
doltcH, this friendliness was Increa-ed
by the adoption of Isaac 'ane by the
tribe, and his residence among them.
Among the personal mends ol Jon
athan Zanc was a Wyandotte warrior
of great sie and courage, known as
Captain Jack.
One evening about iH'dtime Mr.
Zane and his wife were surprised by
an unexected call from Captain
Jack. Mrs. ane, 11s was her custom,
((Hiked venison and prejiared a sup
per, but when the Indian was Invit
ed to cat, he refused and sat in grim
silence.
This unusual Isjhavior foreboded 111, I Faint heart never wen fair lady,
and aroused the most serious fears in 1 and we cannot lust now put our fin
the minds of the nnes. Had they gers on the Indy that ever won a faint
offended the Indian, aid had he come heart
j at that late hour to do them harm? t
I Mr. ane moved near to his rule,1
and with a glance or the eye inlimat-
ed to his wife to have the butcher j
! knife ready to aid in defending them- J
j selves.
i Meantime, Captain Jack sat gazing
i into the tire lor a full halt-hour,
speechless and motionless. At length
he rose from hi.; seat, and fixing his
keen eyes uron Mr. ane, he said:
Jirot her, I eat salt in your house
manv time, and many time you gi e
me blanket to make me warm. In
dian don't forget. You my I rothcr.
I come t 1 tell you he killed liefo e
morning. Indians come soon', leaf,
now."
He sat down, ate a few hurried
mouthful of venison, asked for the
pile, took a few whiffs, and then ex
claimed, "(Jo (io to fort, quick!"
and went hurriedly away.
Mr aneand his wife seized suWi
things as were within easy grasp, and
ran Willi all speed toward the fort
They were none loo soon, for scarcely
were they half a mile on their way
when, looking back, they saw their
cabin In llames. Hut for C aptain
Jack's timely warning, they would no
doubt have lost their lives.
A Miiiiiijg Opportunity Mifcse:!.
"Speaking of gold excitements,"
said (ieorge W. Heal in the presence
of a little social gathering in West
Hark street a few evenings since,
"reminds me of a chance I once had
to purchase a placer claim in Con
f( derate gulch. The men who owned
the bar offered it to me for no cash
and wereanxious to sell at that figure,
but 1 hesitated. Finally I told them
I w,lu!(1 liavR au exP'rt examine and
. .!, ... .,,! ,f II
"' '
was what
be I would
v-liey ic nem-im-u ii, u.
lJun "1M5
it. This was satisfactory,
tnd mv expert made the lest and re-
1 ported unfavorably upon it. That
settled the deal, and 1 went on my
way in search of ol her fields. About
( two month later 1 returned to Con
federate gulch and found a six-mule
' team and a wagon behind it contain
I ing two Urns or gold taken from a
! portion of the bur those men wanted
; to sell me for too. The team was
ready to start for Fort Kenton with
! the gold and was surrounded by thirty
' armed men, who were to guard the
1 metal on the way. After I refu-ed
i to purchase the ground the men con
! eluded to work it themselves and
j from a spaa; of loo feet square had
: taken t he two tons of gold. I have
not seen the 'expert' since then."
! Hutte M iner.
How lo You Cross Vonr "T's?"
A graphologist has discovered that
character can be lead from the letter
"t" alone. He claims that the ver
ticle line represents the fatality of
life ahd the horizontal bar the influ
ence! human will exercises over this
I fatality.
' In addition, he claims that the
iViigher or lower a writer crosses the
y-t Is a guide to the amount of
' ideality contained in his nature and
; that the lower part of ttie letter cor
responds to the practical and ma
terial part of the man's character.
For instance, the optimist crosses
his t's with a line that slopes upward
fiom the giound to the sky. as it
were. The poet ! ten crosses bis t's
quite above the verticie line: in other
words, in the sky.
The pessimist crosses his t's with a
downward sloping stroke. The line
which is below the ideal portion of
the letter descends little by little un
til it is lost among the sad realities
or earthly existence.
The practical man, it appears, al
. ways steers a middle course, and
; crosses his t's neither in the ideal
'. nor in the material manner, but ex
actly midway between both.
I Recognized Ills I-in 11 re.
The newltookkeeper entered Hank
er iiock's private office in a state of
i great agitation.
"There's a young man out there
who says he's got to see you, sir. and
1 refuses to state what his business is.
1 1 I I'm a-afraid he a dangerous
crank, sir."
'Tell him he can't see me unless
he states tiie nature of his errand,"
said the banker nervously.
The bookkeeper returned a mo
ment later and whisperet' hoarsely:
'He says he must have some money."
Hanker l ock's face blanched and
as be slid silently into the great
vault and swung the heavy door
nearly to, he gasped: tj "Ask him how
much he wauls."
There was a moment of awful sus
pense and then the trembling clerk
returned.
"lie says you better make it "00,
and be - quick alioilt, it
The great door swung open once
more and the banker erne glng seized
ache 'kbook. lemarking: "Only .'i00,
eh.- Let me see it's the llrstof the
month, ton! h, that's my son B11L
Send him In; I want m talk to him."
I I ill.infc t be Text s.
A house in I'hil.idelpliia formerly
occupied bv a (.ospel mission is now
tcnated by a shoemaker, who has
turned the former character 'if the
place and the signs st ill remainingon
the walls and windows to queer ad
vertising account. One sign, a sam
ple of all, reads: '-Cobbler's Mission.
Soles saved and heels repaired."
sThls sacrilegious
transformation is
paralleled in the case of a chapel in
Hrooklyu, recently torn down to
make way for street improvements.
It was occupied for a few weeks be
fore its demolition by a cheap cloth
ing concern, and one of the mottoes,
chiseled in marble over the main en
trance, was altered by the addition
of a word; "Come trade with us
and we will do you good." New
York Sun.
KING OF ELEPHANTS.
How
Ho Boat Bruun' W!l! Animal
Cmirhmr and th Dooy.
j An interesting character sat chat
ting in the reading-room of the
United States Hotel on r ul. on Street
one day la-t week, lie looked a'out
i 0 years old. and his b.ou.ed face
showed marks of exposure to the ele
ments of many ciimes.
To a small group of friends, who
knew him as J. B. liaylord, for
twenty Ave years a catcher of the
.largest species of wild auimais for
circuses, au i for many years Har-
num s tnend and lareign agent, ne
was telling of a thrilling exp rience
w .lie attempting to capture wuat ne
bel cved was the largest elephant in
the world. I
"I was in Hongkong, ready to leave ;
for America wilh a cargo o.' lions, 1
t gers, and elephants," said he, j
"when I received adi patch from Mr.
Harnum informing me that Jumbo j
was dead and directing me to go to i
India at once and secure, regardless
of cost or trouble, the largest ele- :
phant to be found. 1 met my part-:
ner, a nat ve, in alcutta, and we ;
started away j
We bad received word of the dis- I
co very of th" largest elephant ever:
seen in Southern India. He was;
said to Is- fifteen feet high, to have !
lord 'd it over a large herd for many i
years, and to be. the most ferocious
e ephant ever encountered by the !
nati.es. I made up my mind to have ,
that elephant, no matter what the;
risk or cost. Hut, as it turned out, I j
came near losing my life in the at- !
tempt to capture Jupiter, the name
1 gave h m in fancy.
We re;iehefl the eleriliant, country !
well provided with natives, decoy ele- !
piiants. and all necessary parapher
nalia. We selected a spot near the
stream to which Jupiter and his herd
went to drink, and natives began build
ing the trap in which we noped to
catch the king elephant. When the
walls of the corral had been com
pleted we cut a path, gradually wid- t
euing it from the mouth of the c ir-
ral until it was 100 feet in width a
quarter of a mile away. Its sides
were built up of trees and heavy
underbrush in a natural manner. At
the entrance of the corral a mam
moth gate was swung high In the
trees, ready to drop the moment the
signal was given.
' Then we had to find our elephant
We started a number of herds, and
finally located JupitT, with twenty,
others of the finest and largest ele-,
piiants I ever set eyes on. j
"Now the real fun began. It took :
two days of th most skilful work to
get the herd anywhere near our cor
ral. Our four decoy elephants did
tteir work splendidly, though. It
was most interesting to watch them
coax the wild ones into the trap.
They would rub up against them and
trumpet and caper about, all the
while leading the unsuspecting ele
phants nearer to the lane that led
them to the corral.
".sear the entrance 100 natives
were stationed in the trees and when
the elephants entered they began a
tremendous shouting and throwing
of elephant spears. The herd dashed
rightstraightahead and were quickly
in the corral. The big gate that
closed the only aperture then was let
down.
"Here began the artistic wortc.
The tame eiepharts were mounted
bv professional elephant tamers, wno,
arter the wild herd had quieted down
somewhat, started to single out the
leader, an exceedingly difficult task,
for on the approach of the mounted
elephants the big fellow would bellow
with rage, and endeavor to run the
traitors down. Finally all of the
tamed elephants got Jupiter in a
corner. 'I he four native tamers each
lassoed a leg of the big beast, and
their mounts started in different di
rections. 'Jupiter found himself in a sur
prisingly unpleasant predicament.
He could neither go ahead nor re
treat, and the four elephants pulled
a little harder when he made an ex
tra plunge. His trumiieting served
to frighten the rest of the herd, and
they made wild efforts to break
through the corral. Unfortunately
they found a weak spot, but before
the entire herd could get through the
natives killed several and captured
some baby elephants. Then the en
tire force of natives aided in getting
the shackles on the Pig fellow. This
was accomplished in a few hours,
though generally it takes several
days, but the tame, elephants aided
very maetriallv.
"The heavy chains once on Jupi
ter, we felt as though we had indeed
secured the largest elepnant in the
world. While he was not fifteen
feet high, we could readily see that
he would measure at least twelve and
a half.
"We bad to starve, him three days ;
before we could do anything witn ;
him at all. Then we placed one ol j
the trained elephants on either side, ;
released him from the trees to which
we had tied him and moved him
about the corral. He made terrific
plunges.
"We got Jup ter to Hombay, but
there our troubles began afresh. He
became more ferocious. We kept on
starving him, and then we fed him
for a time, but only made matters
worse.
"I cabled Mr. Harnum that he
could announc that I had captured
Jupiter, an elephant larger than was
Jumbo. Hut while waiting for a
steamer that would take Jupiter to
America 1 watched with uneasiness
his increasing ferocity and extra
shackles were put on him.
"One day 1 entered the paddock
next to his and unthinkingly got
within range of his trunk I was
seized and hurled aloft My body
struck the board ceiling, knocking
me senseless. When they took me
from the floor I bad a broken arm
and leg, three broken ribs, and was
ornised from head to foot It wai
teveral weeks before I could leave
my bed, and Jupiter becoming so fe
rocious that he could not be handled,
I determined on his execution after
cabling Mr. Harnum. He was an
elephant it wa simp y impossible to
tame, and was shot. His body
weighed l,.,00d pounds.
"See, here is a piece of his tusk on
my watch chain. Jupiter cost about
$ ,00o, and I never expect to see his
like again. New York World.
Good and Bad ''Advice" to a Boy.
In one of the largest railroad o 1 ces
in tiiis country is a comparatively
young man. who is at the head of a
large department When he en
tered the service of the company, Ave
years ago, he was green and awk
ward. He wa given the poorest paid
work in the department. The very
first day of bis employment by the
ccmpany a man who had been at
work in the same room for six years
approached him and gave him a little
advice:
"Young fellow, 1 want to put a
few words in your ear that will help
you. The company is a soulless cor
poration that legards its employes as
so many machines. It makes no dif
ference how hard you work, or how
well. So you want to do Just as lit
tle as possible and retain your joh.
That's my advice This is a slave
pen, and the man who works over
time or does any specially fine work
wastes his stre gth." Don't you
do it."
The young man thought over the
advice," and after a quiet lilt e
struggle w th himself he decided to
do the best and the most he knew
how. whether he received any more
pay from the company
or not. At
the end of a year the company raised
bis wages and advanced him to a
more responsi. le position. In three
years he was getting a third more
salary than when he begun, and in
five years he was head clerk in the
department; and the man who had
condescen ,ed to give the greenhorn
"advice" was working under him at
the same llgure that represented his
salary eleven yea s before. This is
not a story of a goody-goody little
boy who died early, but of a live
young man who exists iD flesh and
bllod to day, and is ready to give
"advice" to other young men just be
ginning to work their way into busi
ness. And here it is: "Whatsoever
thy hand fln .eih to do, do it with
thy might." Youth's Companion
An Ancient Teacher.
Charles Thomp on, secretary to the
first American Congress, on e boarded
in the family of a school teacher
named Dove, who. withhiswife, was
much given to scandal. Wishing to
leave them on account of their of
fensive propensity, butdreading their
tongues, he adopted an ingenious ex
pedient to prevent them from slander
ing him.
One evening he asked them if his
conduct as a boarder had been satis'
factory, and on their answering,
"Yes," he said:
"Would you be good enough to give
me a certificate to that effect?"
"Oh, certainly."
A certificate was given, and the
next day he left their house.
This man Dove was a humorist,
and in his school, instead of whip
ping an offending pupil, he made him
ridiculous in the eyes of his school
mates. The birch was stuck into the
back part of the collar of the culprit,
who, with this badge of disgrace,
was made to stand upon the plat
form. If boys were late in arriving at
school, a committee of five or six
scholars was sent into th9 streets,
with a bell and lighted lantern, to
hunt up the delinquents and escort
them to the schoolhouse. v
One day the scholars enjoyed the
sport mentioned in "Hamlet, "... "to
have the engineer hoist with his o'wn
petard." Dove had always professed,
a willingness to have his own punish
ment meted out to himself in case he
transgressed the rules.
One morning the teacher was late,
and a committee of boys, with bell
and lantern, meeting him on his way
to school, escorted him through the
streets, to the amusement of the
spectators. He had the good sense
to submit quietly. Youth's Com
panion. Hiding Down a Woir.
It has been often noticed in India
how fast a wolf travels bv means of
a lounging loping trot that is by no
means suggestive of speed. While
one gallops after it as bard as a Rood
horse can go, the wolf pursued, never
apparently hurrying, lollops along at
a pace that equals that of the follow
ing steed. 1 have beard it said that
no horseman ever rode a wolf down;
i but to this statement I must demur,
: Inasmuch as I have done this thing.
; Perhaps my wolf was sick,
j He that as It may, I did, when out
I pig-sticking in the Ganges country
over against Colgong, follow a wolf.
' and that wolf turned sharply when I
closed with it, and the horse 1 rode
(a rare good one) kicked it over with
his fore feet, and made the matter
of spearing my wolf simplicity itself.
One of my companions of thit day
found explanat on of this perform
ance In the fact that I had ridden
another man's horse with my own
; spurn Black wood's Magazine.
I mack Knot.
Hlack knot is a rough, spongy en
largement of the twigs and limbs,
and Is a fungous disease The only
reliable treatment yet known is cut
ting off tbe knots and burning them.
This should be done as soon as tbe
leaves fall at latest It is essential
to always burn the knots, else the
spores or seeds will develop and
' spread even though the knot may
j be detached and lying on tbe around
not only through one orchard, but
1 from one orchard to another.
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