UVE A HERO AND DIE A MAN.
Bravely into the haul of life.
Bravely into th rattle of sinfe,
Eater Li-ini that are noble and true.
Doing the work you are fitted to do;
Dagger M ail t b'tMr who their duty would
li 1114 ;
He's safe who feela ure that the field
shall be won.
So rent uot In aero, rise hleh a you can;
Lire like hero and die like a man.
Never at now were heroes required.
Never aa now the divinely inspired;
The world waita for leader to lead it
along.
In aid of the right and opposed to the
wrong;
It welcomes the poet who soars as he
sings.
And the word of the Lord which the true
prophet brings.
So don't be a Nero, all evil to plan,
But live like a hero and die like a man.
The cross needa uplifting to point men
above.
To tell thetn God Uvea full of mercy and
love:
That no aoul need perish, redemption ia
near,
Though yonder ia heaven, the kingdom la
here;
That the true life that I lived is the living
for others.
For God la our Father and all men are
brothers.
So rest not in zero, np. high as you can.
Live like a hero and die like a man.
Rev. J. P. Hutchinson.
HAPLESS HEZEKIAH.
DOVT know any
one for whoin I
V-V am sorrier than l
O yvjl ara for Hezeklah
good fellow and
always was, but
he never seamed
to have the luck
a real good man
should have, and
very often does
not
But I have been particularly sorry
for him since that Kitty Clone affair.
Kitty was by all odds the prettiest girl
In town, and Hezeklah, like most of the
other courting men In that vicinity, fell
In love with her. She was tawny
haired, with snapping black eyes and a
tongue that was as sharp as a two
edged razor, but she was as bright as
a dollar In a basket of chips, and she
had only to smile to have a retinue of
men at her beck.
I stood closer to Hezeklah than any
man hi town, and practically knew bis
Inmost thoughts. In fact, I was the
only one he confided In after the Kitty
Clone affair, Kitty, before that, being
a little nearer to him, he thought, than
I was.
He confided the whole sad story to
me, and I cannot refrain from telling It
now.
For some subtle purpose, not at the
time apparent, Kitty had Indicated
very plainly her preference for Heze
klah, anil a happier man no one ever
saw in our town. But preferem-e, mere
ly, was not what Hezeklah sought, and
he let her see that quite early.
It began to happen one moonlight
night on her father's porch, where the
honeysuckles clambf ed over the roof
and the sweet w!M t .e vine entwined
t!:e corner. Throrgb the trellised Tines,
the silver shafts or the moon shot that
soft night in June itnd fell In sifted
strands over Kilty a:; 1 Hezeklah sitting
In the mellow shadows. If the night
ingale had lieen indigenous to that sec
tion, I am sure It world have added Its
liquid notes to the music In Hezekiah's
heart, but there w as no nightingale, and
Hezeklah did not miss It. Kitty was
enough for him. and Kitty sat dose
beside him, and every word she spoke
was a bird song to him.
"Did you know. Miss Kitty," he said,
tentatively, for-I Jexckiab was not a
brash lover, and he had not mentioned
the sacred subject of love to her, al
though he had thought up a thousand
ways by which he might, and had
thrown them all aside when the time
came, "Did you know that I have some
thing to say to you?"
"Well," she twinkled, "I should hope
you had, Mr. Heston. I'm sure I don't
want to do all the talking."
"I could listen to you if you did, I am
sure." he replied, with a halting help
lessness of manner that men have sonie
times In the moonlight
"That sounds so much like sweet
hearts talk," she twittered, as she shook
the gold of her pretty hair out into the
line of the silver light with Its scent of
honeysuckles and roses.
"Perhaps It is," he ventured, doubt
fully. "But I am sure you don't want to
talk such nonsense to me," she pro
tested.
"Why not?" he answered so promptly
that he frightened himself.
But not Kitty; oh, no.
"Because," she answered, "we have
known each other so long that it would
sound silly for you to say such things
to me."
"Must a man select a stranger If he
wants to confide to a woman all that is
In his heart r he Inquired with a grav
ity that made her laugh.
"Ob, I suppose not Still It doesn't
seem quite natural for you to make
love to me."
"If I did, what would you say?"
"I really don't know, Mr. Heston,"
he said, tucking her head down and
blushing, perhaps, though It was not
risible In U shadows of the porch.
"Too know," be went on, with more
courage, now that he had made the
start, "that I have recently come Into
a little fortune of something like $10
ooe, and "
"I thought It bad come In to yon," she
Interrupted, with a ptaneaat little bird
not of n chuckle.
BeMttta was ynst stnptd aad dew
XpMC te be deUgntsd with soefc
tJrtw of fMrtalM wit, and Kitty's
U cat nma waa always
n. E Lied tt new, tat
MS
with a shade ot refle, action, 'or the I
nasn or it uau uazzicu mm wnen ue w as
on the path to telling her what was la
hi heart.
"Isn't it Just the same?" he asked,
with a laugh, half of admiration and
half of nervousness.
"Jh, of course, but what were you
about to say ? Excuse me for Interrupt
ing yuu."
"Do you want me to say It?" be asked,
bo eagerly that she laughed at him
again.
"How do I know? It may be some
thing dreadful."
"It Is something about the sweetest
thing In the world." he said, bravely to
her.
"Frank Moore said I was that," she
answered, with a demurcuess that was
distracting. "Is It about me?"
Hezeklah got up and walked to the
edge of the porch. He looked fiercely
up at the moon as if he thought there
ought to be blood on It, but there
wasn't, and the sweet odors of the night
were wafted to him on the silent stir
ring breeze, and he was soothed.
"Whatever Is the matter?" she asked.
In the querulous tone of young women
under similar circumstances, and he
turned to her again.
"Kitty," he said, dropping the polite
title of young-ladyhood, "it Is you. and
It Is me, too. Both of us," he added, re
gardless of syntax.
"Who ever said you were the sweetest
thing In the world. I'd like to know?"
she laughed, and Hezeklah thought he
could see the keen edge of her tongue
flash In the moonlight
"You never did." he replied. In the
surliest manner.
"Oo," she crooned to him, softly. In
the language of the cradle, "has de 'lttle
toosty wootsy pinched his b'essed 'lttle
fumr
Hezeklah went to the edge of the
porch again and was about to shake his
fist at the moon, when he saw some one
open the gate from the street and come
up the walk toward the house. It was
the hated Frank Moore, and Hezeklah
had only a minute to make his peace
with the sarcastic goddess.
"Kitty," he exclaimed, desperately.
as he came back to her, "there conies
Moore. It's only 9 o'clock and he will
stay here all evening. I can't say all I
want to say. but I can say this much
I love you, Kitty, and I want you to be
my wife. Will you?"
In his excitement he had taken her
hand and she had risen to his side.
"Come to-morrow night" she said. In
the softest whisper, and the gentle pres
sure of her hand spoke a sweeter lan
guage to hltn than even the music of
her lips.
"Ah, Frank." greeted Hezeklah, as
his late rival came up, "I'm glad to see
you, real glad" anil he was speaking
the solemn truth, for there is no telling
how much time he would have wasted
If Moore hadn't come just as he did
"I was about going, and It looks like a
pity to leave Miss Kitty all alone amidst
this bower of honeysuckles, moonshine,
roses and June. Come and take my
place. I'm sure she will welcome you
with open arms, or words to that
effect."
"Why, Mr. Heston." protested Miss
Kitty, "you are really brilliant this
evening. Who taught you how? It
must be an acquired habit. I'm sure it
Isn't natural."
Moore laughed at this pleasant persi
flage of Kitty's. Everybody laughed at
Kitty's wit except the victims of It
but on this occasion, even the victim
laughed, for he could yet feel the
ecstasy of Kitty's hand clasping his,
and could yet hear the music of her
words. "Come to-morrow night."
Of course, Mr. Moore apologized for
disturbing their tete-a-tete, and said he
had merely dropped In for a minute,
but men are given to that kind of pal
liating prevarication, and he sat down
In tlie most comfortable place he could
find, before Hezeklah had left the porch.
Hezeklah did not tarry long after
this, but Mr. Moore remained for two
hours, chattering with Miss Kitty, and
then they separated, leaving the moon,
the honeysuckles and roses out In tbe
June night all alone. The stars twin
kled in the silver blue sky, the fra
grance of the flowers filled the air, and,
far down the quiet street, Hezeklah sat
by his open window dreaming the night
away, and there was a smile on his
face as if an angel bad come In the
glory of the moonlight and touched
him with tbe breath of June.
And tbe next night It rained.
But there was sunshine, and moon
light and honeysuckles and roses and
June in Hezeklab's heart, and be was
promptly In piquant Kitty's pretty par
lor early on the night of the morrow
which had promised so much to him.
AlasI how easily things go wrong
and so forth.
They quarreled, and Hezeklah went
out Into the night, gloomier than the
night was. All the music of her voice
waa a, discord, and the dank dark air
waa filled with an odor as of dead
honeysuckles and roses, and adecaylng
Jane.
But the next night was perfect again,
and once more Hezeklah sat with Miss
Kitty on the porch and the moon was
flooding tbe valley with the yellow
Ugbt that marks it as it rests npon tbe
distant moan tain tope.
"Kitty,' said Hesekiaa, in the voice of
penitent, "can yon forgive meT"
"I . Kr. Heston, but wUl ir she
newired, net unkindly.
" AH, FRANK, I'm GLAD TO SEE YOtT."
"Won't JouT' be pleaded.
"And If 1 dor' she asked, with a coy
ness that charmed him.
"You will many me," be said so firm
ly that she trembled.
"Then I'll forgive you," and hersancy
face was buried in his coat front and
the gold of her tresses threw a soft
.
2fcfaW f
"K1TTT.CA3I VOU VOKOITE ME 7"
light Into his face that gave It the look
of a seraph's.
And It came to pass according to the
prophecy of Hezeklah.
That's why I'm so sorry for Hezeklah
Heston. I'm Hezeklah Heston, and
Kitty has been my wife for twenty
years, and her hair Is no less tawny,
nor is her tongue less sharp, than when
the honeysuckles, the roses, the moon
light aud June threw their gentle
glamour o'er the scene. L'tlca Globe.
Effective.
Rome beautiful effects In the orna
mentation of glass are now produced
by Gorllu, of Zurich, his method In
this kind of work lieing. It Is claimed,
a decided improvement in the art The
design Is first engraved on a printing
plate of rublter, positively, that la. In
the same way as that in which it will
be afterward seen, and the plate is
coated then with varnish color aud
pressed upon a glass plate; the latter
is strewed with bronze powder, sheet
aluminum, or other suitable material,
the iMJrtions forming the design re
maining empty, and being, therefore,
transparent
At this stage the glass plat-j Is placed
in a frame having a backing of strong
pajier board, on the front of which Is
mounted a brilliant sheet of tinfoil or
tin plate, provided with prominent
squares In suitable positions. The de
sign Is thus shown by a brilliant, re
flected light through the transparent
part of the glass. Its other portion
forming a backing stamped In relief.
Heretofore, raised enam.-led writing
and deslgus In relief on glass have been
produced by means of a brush and thin
enamel paint but Gorlltz us-.-s stencil
plates of tinfoil or other flexible ma
terial and a glass-powder ?oiiiosltion
made up of the consistency of molas
ses, with turpentine and "glaze."
Science and Sorrow.
That sorrow and grief exert a bad
Influence on the functions of the body
has long been known, but the nature
of this effect Is now receiving careful
atteutiou from physiologists. Accord
ing to Dr. Louise Fiske, sorrow Is a
disease, and should be treated as such.
The internal organs of dogs which
have died of homesickness or otber
forms of depression, show a deteriora
tion similar to that caused by starva
tion or Infectious diseases. Dr. Louise
Fiske considers that sorrow, as a dis
ease, must run iu course, and that all
attempts to banish it and cheer the pa
tient up are futile. As a disease it
must be tn-ated in a siHtial way, and
she recommends quiet drives In the
country, or gentle walks with Nature.
In the woods or by the seashore. The
patient should not be tasked either In
mind or body. The bright, sweet so-
lety of children Is preferable to that
of adults, and the presence of the fa
miliar newspaper or magazine may be
a comfort where the most tender and
sympathetic friend Is troublesome.!
Mourning wear !s. In her opinion, use
ful for a time, a year at most, because1
It secures consideration for the suf
ferer; but If continued too long. It be
comes a burden and a source of low
spirits.
Jt Was the President' Sister.
Several years ago a lady entered one
of the large dry goods stores In Warfb-
lngton, and the tired saleswoman, com
Ing forward to wait on her, lnvoluntarl
ly said:
"Oh, the violets!"
The lady, who had forgotten she was
wearing a bunch of tbe spring's beau
ties, as she took them off and handed
them across the counter, said:
"Yes, did you not know they are in
bloom In the park?"
The other woman's eyea filled with
tears as she said:
"Oh, I never see the park now. Iam
too tired when Sunday comes to go out
there.
"But you surely can go some half hol
iday." "Perhaps, and I thank you so much
for these."
As she was leaving, after making
ber purchases, the lady said:
"If I call for you Saturday afternoon,
can you drive out to the park with
me?" Then seeing the gladness In tbe
other's eyes, without waiting for an
answer, said: "I will be here at 1
o'clock for you," and banding ber card,
left tbe store.
As she passed through tbe door tbe
saleswoman looked at the card In her
band It was the President's sister's.
A Faithful Doc.
A coroner's Jury at Elizabeth brought
out a touching story of a beautiful dog
here. Little George Martin was playing
with a can of nitroglycerin, when It
blew up, Injuring him fatally. Hie
large Newfoundland dog waa with him.
The dog wore a collar, and to this the
boy clung tightly. Then tbe faithful
dog started borne with bis precious
burden. Tbe little sufferer was dragged
thus for a mile. After reaching borne
tbe dog refused to lent bin young mas
ter's rooca and remained there until
the tad dtadV-Pkltadelphla Reooro,
HE rest cure Is now practiced at
home by many women who have
come to a proper realization of its
value. It used to be an expensive rem
edy, necessitating an absence of six or
eight weeks In a private hospital, with
trained nurse, masseuse and the rest.
Including a trunk full of pretty tea
gowns rr the convalescence. Now the
sensible woman has discovered she
can take her cure In homeopathic doses
without stopping her work or quitting
her family.
A half hour daily of complete retire
ment, lying down In loose clothes and
banishing all w orry, all thought Indeed.
if possible, works wonders If iterwe-
vered In. Have tbe shades drawn anil
close the eyes. A tired brain strays
restfully In darkened ways; even uie
ctianlcal eye-impressions of w hich one-
does not seem to be thinking at all
consume a little force; blindness, physi
cally ami mentally, is what is sought
and It Is this that rests aud restores,
ror tne woman whose work Is at
home the half hour Immediately preeed
ing or following luncheon la apt to be
one that could be spent In this nr
When there are children old enough
to go to school after the meal Is better.
for the little folks will have turned
back to their lessons, no callers need
be exacted, and the afternoon's task
or engagement can usually brook this
little delay. For the mothers whose
babies are still In arms the rest should
be taken while their little charges
sleep.
The business woman, whose work
must be done at office or shop, must
Invent her chance for rest. It Is a com
mon habit of several young newspaper
women, reporters, to step Into one of
the big shops or hotels, si-ek the parlor
and conscientiously rest for fifteen or
thirty minutes, ns their time penults.
In shops It must be taken with the
stop for luncheon, as a rule; In ottices
It may also have to be. but often there
Is a lull In business that may be almost
regularly depended upon.
The bod-carrier finishes the contents
of his dinner pail, then lolls against a
friendly fence in sheer animal rest
Perhaps he lights a pipeu often he
does not but he rests In every liber
of his being. A shop girl hurries over
her bread and ten to try her eyes and
tax her Interest with a story paper,
eagerly devoured till the last moment,
or she sjicnds her rest time In exciting
gossip with her neighbors. Either is
foolish expenditure of needed force.
The closer the strain the greater the
need for the complete and daily respite,
however brief. Such winkers should
pursue the opportunity to take It re
lentlessly. To Clean Hilk Waists.
Both light and dark silk waists, when
soiled, may be greatly Improved in ap
pearance by sponging them well with
gasoline or uaptha. Take a clean piece
of old bleached cloth, wet It In the gas
oline, aud rub quickly all over the
waist rubbing the silk lengthwise.
Wipe the silk over with a clean dry
cloth and hang In the open air for the
odor of the (ieaiiitig lluld to evaporate.
If wrinkled, press the silk on the wrong
side with a moderately warm Iron,
first laying a cloth over its surface.
This kind of cleaning w ill remove all
grease ami much grime, though not nil
kinds of spots. Carpets and furniture
coverings are often greatly Improved
by cleaning In the same way. Do uot
bring the gasoline or naphtha near a
fire or light, and thoroughly air any
thing cleaned with It When a carpet
has been cleaned by It leave windows
open for an entire day.
Worth' Laxt Gown.
Designed by tbe famous French
dressmaker shortly before bis death.
Msit Wives Promise to Obey
Writers for several religions news
papers In Oreat Britain are threshing
over old straw by discussing whether
It la right for women to promise at fhe
marriage altar to obey their husbands.
Whatever theoretical objections may
lie urged against the Me of the word
"obey" In the hymeneal service, It is
evident that It baa few terrors for tbe
modern generation, tbe "advanced
woman," to the contrary notwith
standing Marrying and tbe giving In
marriage go on pretty much tbe name
aa In tbe days of tbe Noaehlan cata
T
cijsm. wnettier this la a tribute to
the superior sway of human 'iature or
a tacit admission tt the re-rvel right
of womau, that "when the will she
will, and when she won't she won't
opinions will differ. The probablli
ties are that the employment of tbe
term "obey" is commouly treated in
the spirit with which the diplomatic
ami venerated founder of the Pick
wick Club was accustomed to confront
a parliamentary condition. It is looked
upon as a sort of poetic license war
rantl by the marriage license.
Girls Mast Be Weil-Bred.
The reign of the unconventional soci
ety young woman Is over. She shocks
now her own country women even more
than foreigners.
There are thousands of daughters of
well-to-do mothers In this couutry who
are brought up on the old aristocratic
theory that a woman should study mod
erately hard until she Is eighteen, then
look as pretty as she can, and devote
herself until she Is married to having
what Is called on this side of '.he Atlan
tic a good time.
To be sure. In France the good time
does not come until after marriage,
aud there are other differences; but the
well-bred lady of social graces Is the
well bred lady, whether it le In Lon
don, Paris, Vienna or New York, and a
ball-room In one capital Is essentially
the same as In all the others, unless It
be that over here the very young peo
ple are allowed to crowd out every
body else.
There are thousands of mothers who
are content that this should lie the lim
it of their daughters' experi -nee: A rea
sonably good eddeation and perfect
manners, four years of whirl and then
husband, or no husband and a con
servative, afternoon tea-drlnkingsplns-terhood
-and they are thankful on the
whole when their girls put their necks
meekly beneath the yoke of conven
tion and do as past generations of
women all over the civilized worlfl
have done. Hcrlbner's Magazine.
The Model Wife.
She rises every morning,
Just when the roosters crow;
She gently spl!t the kindling
Makes the old stove puff and blow.
She puts the breakfast on to cook,
Ami sintrs as if at piny;
Am! while the batter uakes are made,
Uer li lisl.u ml snores away!
The children show her gentle car,
Their nightly slumbers o'er;
She dresses half a dozen.
Ami she whips a dozen more!
Then to the room she doth repair;
Her hnliand hours her say:
"I've almost worked myself to death!
Are you going to sleep all duy?"
-Atlanta Constitution.
A Woman Is the Contractor.
A woman, Mrs. Henry 1). Cram, of
Boston, will furnish the Paris Exposi
tion of i:xi with seventy-five derricks,
to be used in the construction of all the
buildings that are to be of durable
stone. Mrs. Cram will personally su
perintend the placing of these derricks
An Excellent Reason.
The sexes can never be truly equal.
No mutter wlnit's written and said and
done,
While the utupiilost tnan has fourteen
pockets
And the cleverest woman has none.
-Life.
Hetty Green has ?00,(X0,00, but
is
said to live on $7 a week.
Mrs. John J. Ingalla Is a famous cook,
and can serve a dinner to perfection.
The University of Aberdeen has con
ferred the degree of LL.D. on Miss Jane
Harrison.
Miss Anna Shaw, D. D., says the bent
way to address an audience Is to talk
as If you were scolding your husband
An authority on anthropology says
that the ears of women are set further
forward on the head than those of men.
John Hunter, the famous anatomist
once said that the feminine love of con
versation was In consequence of a pe
culiarity In brain tissue.
The woman's club movement has pen
etrated even Into the heart of the White
Mountains, and there is a very flourish
ing club at North Conway.
The idea Is tteing considered to unite
all the women's dubs In Kentucky In
a stock company for the erection of a
handsome woman's building In Lex
ington. Tbe real and personal estate of tbe
late Mrs. Cock ran, wife of Congress
man Cockran, of New York, Is estimat
ed at $110,000 aud Is left absolutely to
her husband.
There Is now a crape paper craze, and
flowers, photograph frames, lamp
shades and mats attest the possibilities
of the flimsy fabric In tbe designing fin
gers of woman.
Vests to be worn with tailor gowns
are made of bengallne and various
kinds of silk, both fancy and plain
They are closely fitted and buttoned
downthe front with horn buttons.
The daintiest underwear Is made of
nainsook or batiste In white or pale
colors ana nanasomeiy trimmed with
Itlier nsrrow Valenciennes lace and
Insertion or Alencon aud Venice laces,
with much band embroidery for vart
ty
SLEEPING CAR RIGHTS.
Condition When the Company la Be
ponsible for Luvkts.
Charles Peak rode from Oakland, fat,
to Ixs Angeles, ou the night of June 5.
a Pullman sleeping car. Hefoie he
went to lied, about midnight, he went
to the smoking room, and there found
the porter sound asleep. He occupied
.1 lower berth, and put his coat and
waistcoat In the unoccupied lerth
above him. When he got up In the
morning they were gone. He sued the
company, and a San Francisco Justice
gave him a verdict The company con
tended that It was absolved from re
sixuislbllity by Its notice on the back
of the Iwrth check, which says: "Bag
gage, wearing apparel, money. Jewelry
or other valuables taken Into the car
will be entirely at the owuer's risk."
The Justice held that this notice was
not sufficient and that the company
must be responsible for tbe clothes a
passenger actually wore, otherwise the
whole schemeof the sleeping car failed.
The Justice says:
"It Is enough to say, upon the evi
dence In tills case, that If this colored
porter had done his duty the loss of
this coat and vest could never have
happened. .It Is uncontroverted evi
dence that this porter was dead asleep
about midnight of the night In ques
tion. In the smoking-room of the car.
out of sight of the aisle of the car, and
everything which might go on In the
various sections of the car opening
upon the aisle.
'I am prepared to hold that the proof
of the loss alone of the w earing apparel
of a passenger In a sleeping car like
this In the night time Is enough to
make the defendant liable. In the ab
sence of any showing on the part of the
defendant that Its servants did their
duty to the fullest extent. As a matter
of law, there Is no presumption that
they did. All parts of the sleeping car
that Is. all parts not occupied by oth
er passengers should be safe for the
passengers to deposit any article of
(crsoual projwrty in or on which he
usually wears on his person, or carries
with his person, such as a coat a cane,
an umbrella, or hat"
Punning Philosophers.
When some of the first thinkers of
New England formed themselves into
a community, to live and work together
at Brook Farm, they did so to demon
strate great moral and economical
truths; but they also, It becomes evi
dent, managed to have a "good time"
by the way. Mr. J. T. Codman, in his
"Brook Farm Memories," says that
these men and women kept up an In
terminable fire of small fun and Joke,
punsand lions mots, Inoffensively shoot
ing them off right and left In all times
aud places.
Some little children were chasing one
another on a very warm day.
"Why are thime children friiC11"
Africans?" one of the phlloolhs&
asked. And he answered his own (jucs-
tlon:
"Because they belong to the hot and
tot race."
"Is Mr. much of a carpenter?"
"Not a bit of one; that's plain."
"What sort of a man Is that long
haired fellow opposite?"
"He's good. In the main (mane)."
"Mrs. Is a regular steamboat!"
"Yes, I know; she goes by steam,
self-'steem."
"Have you seen my umbrella?" asked
one.
"What sort of an umbrella was It?"
"It had a hooked end."
"I have not seen It but I had a nice
one once, and the end was exactly like
yours. It was hooked, too."
Passing a rosy but unkempt lljtle
Imy, Miss remarked to a friend:
"Isn't he a little honey?"
"Yes." was the reply. "Honey with
out the comb."
"Do you thing Miss I!, beautiful?
She bows to iierfectlon."
"Yes, but she hasn't bowed to me.
Has she to you?"
"Who are tbe girls out In that boat
with the old man?"
The name of the boat was the Dart
"Why, his darters, of course!"
An Iron Tree.
Mr. W. E. Armstrong, Waco, Texas.
sends an account from a well known
serial, of a tree discovered In Africa by
a well-known professor," which only
feeds on metal. The natives "worshlu
It" and when they get any coins bury
them as sacrifices beneath the ground
around the tree, and which the tree
feeds on. The trunk Is like Iron, the
leaves like tin, and every part of It
simulating some form of metal. The
only surprise Is that such Intelligent
magnilnes should be taken In by such
transparent newspaper Jokes. Every
once In a while something like this Is
gotten up to the astonishment of the
world, attributed, of course, to "tbe
well-known German," Prof. Moen
sbeln, or some other equally well
known myth. They are pretty to read,
but bard to believe In.
Expense of Living Abroad,
A traveler who has tried to live
abroad In "refinement and strict econo
my," epitomizes as follows: "In Italy,
well, there are many families who take
penslonalres, but comfort Is not always
great there. England, without a show
of doubt provides the beet comfort all
around, the best table with the moat
wholesome food, and tbe most refined
style of living. After this comes Ger
many, with a bountiful table; France,
with a more delicate one, perhaps, and
Switzerland, with a combination of
the two."
A Tidy Cat
A cat In an Exchange street ofllr h.
a unique way of disposing of any re
mains of food given to ber on paper.
After she Is dose she narJunMr ...i
carefully folds the paper. Inclasnn. v
x-raps, and will occasionally take the
further precaution to remove tbe pack,
ge she hss formed to some entof -the-way
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