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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1898)
a TV ttAWN- HUME. Vhen Mler wifi jm ka lilt trap B' njr from Lome, J'lar tl.e bird air a!)u iiiiigin', u' th Imiiej'a in (lip ((.ml, Vbar tbe KiiiiK'.iii.t- i tup brighter an' lbt In-art teat alt in tune An lire's i-f.i-t in winter aa in rosiest tiaya o' June Ito matter how the skies look ef they're ' jnt ns I r V I an' bine 4 tlie eye with which ymir sweetheart 1 bil led iiK'h i gi a tu you i lou'll fimi 'em growin' misty with a haze on field mi' plain, j Au your t-yt li wirter twinkle, an' the lids'll lide the rain! Fer the distanci- it looks lonesome, an' though ruM'fc red an' white. Air jcrt aa avvret of yonder, with dewa an' with the light. Aa the omn in old-time gardens, jrit-mi-i.ty fur to roam An' you know inre of the rosea In littie kjm.i railed "Home!" the it'r the fo. parkin' up fer lenvin aorter mnkea J"'"' f'M'ii 'e n un' Fer Lan'ker-lier.4. to dry the teara that v, ill onie irieklin' down! An" though jon say it's foo 'ishness, jit world so wide to roflin! An' the best world fi r a feller U the little world at boine! Atlanta Constitution. AVENGED BY . A S KR PENT. HKN I got George's letter, telling uie that all was uow ready our recent iua were to come at ouce, I wan de lighted. Within a week- we uiulher r ai.d J were on our wj; out, ami In about three week' time found ourselves belwef utile swampy shores of the Ksse (julbo, near lng ,' it i feorgetown, where uu the quay the b-ar fellow was waiting to take us up to the home he had made for uss ou bin pi.llll.KioIl. George linden ami I had met ft year before during his visit to the United Slate, aud the Id;;, uuiet, sunburned tii.iu aud I, who tell thin story, had fall en lu love with oue another almost at tlie 11 rat sight, t We were to have Ueeu married before lie returned to Guiuna. hirt lie was re tailed suddenly by the death of his only in-other at lilo, and it was arranged I aeouM follow later wHh mother. You can or, rather, you can't Imag ine how delighted I waa to free in) wpethcirt ng.iin. But I wan startled nd a good di-!il troubled by hi appear ance; he looked tiilu and worried. At liriit I put it down to bin grief at llar ry'a dealt)', but later, after out quiet wedding, on the way to my future borne 1 gathered by degrees there waa aiore than that. t Ills brother Harry had married a fpanlnrd-a lieauttful woman who had tiled nearly eighteen year before, leaving hint with one daughter, Ten s.u It waa chiefly mi this girl's account that tjeorge had hurried back, and he bail mentioned In writing to me that Le had brought her up from Rio to tsuty with him In (iulatiit until other arrange ment could be made. Since then I had heard Utile of her, aud almost, Indeed, In tny own happiness and excitement forgulteu her very existence. Now my qucaUon elicited from Ceorge that she waa not a pleaxant lempered young womati. or e.iny to get u with, but my wor.it anticipations ilil not touch the reality. We on me up the river In a small teamer, which dropped us at my litis hand'a very wharf, and we three walk ed up a alope through a wonderful trop ical garden to where a long, white washed, green-Khuttered bouse dlione clean nud bright In the evening sun. On the veranda atood a tall figure In pale yellow gown, her black hair rrowtird with crimson hibiscus. A ph-ndldly handsome woman: She looked at me in a balf-dlsdalnful way. "So you're my new aunt?" she said asunll.r. "Aud Uow do you do, Uncle eorge'r Her calm assumption of superiority was unbearable. (Jeorge- Wg, steady, good-tempered man that be w as flush ed with anger. He whispered to me: "Never mind, uiy dear. She knows no xtter; and It won't be for long." Hut It was for longer than we reck ened. 1ip was to have been sent to her godmother, who lived In .Madrid. JS nt the old lady was III, and begged us (o keep the girl a while hunger. It was trying to a degnv, and each Jny got worse and worse. Teresa's temper was something unbearable, and her general lack of manners only equal ed by her sweetneaa when there whs anything to Ik- gained by Jt. Kt i 11, for xny husband' sake, I bore with her. Toward the end of the fool weather ur old English overseer died, and, as stop gap, Ceorge took on a young epnnlsh-Amerlcnn, Itamon Martinet. Ramon was a smart looking fellow, but there was something In his black yes which repelled me, I always felt a shrinking repulsion for the man, and Ceorge didn't much care for him. Still, It was necessary to have some one who nderatood the suKflf. "d "l,n wl, knew anything were no tewe you couldn't pU-k aud choose. Tervsn. who loved thu rheip jrsyetlca f Rio, had Imh'Ii simply lored to death ail the winter. Itnmon was a godsend to her, and tho two used to chat In ftpanlsh erery evening ovr thlr soffee on the veranda. Romptlrm I blame myself for letting them he so morn together, but. to toll the truth, the relief of jrettlnfj rid of her va for an haw or two waa ?ary mm t - . gmat. And how ifmld I knoiv what a n-oimdr'l the man was. or hat un s ieakabli- wh-kedness those two were brewing together? And nn-.v 1 must pass over the events of the next ten months, and tell ymi what happened on that dreadful day which so in-arl;' -oved fatal to all my haipiuesa. Old Juan, a half-caste Indian em ploye on thp place, came tip that morn ing wanting to see my husband. They talked for a time, and thpn I saw fjeorge go out with a gun on h!s shoul der. II saw me at the window and called out some-tiling, but I could not hear what he said. He was u keen collector, and I sup posed It was some rare bird or beast he was after. The day passed, and the short, tropi cal twilight was closing over the forest when I saw George returning. He was followed by two negroes, who slowly dragged some long, ueflvy object up the path to the house. This they pulled nloni:. traillnsr in the dust, round to the south end of the house, where George's big so-culled study, really a sort of mi:seum. opened by two French win dows on the lawn. I was fin sslng for 8 o'clock dinner, so did not go out. Soon I hfnrd George's long stride pass upstairs by my door to his dressing-room, which lay beyond my room at the extreme north end of I he house. To make you understand what fol lowed I must partly explain how the house was built. It was from north to south, loni and narrow, with a veranda nil the way round. A wide ball ran through from east to west, and a long narrow one from north to south. The dining-room was the front room at the north end. under my room; George's study at the south, under the room Teresa occupied. There were two stair cases, one at each end of the house. A couple of hundred yards nway. higher up the slope at the back of the lious:?, was the cottage where Martinez lived. He. Martinez, generally dined with us, and was to have done so that night. Now, so far as I know, and judging from what we made out afterward from letters we discovered in the cot tage and In Teresa's room, this is what brought alKiut the tragedy that fol io wed: Ramon must have long before this have made up lihis mind to many Teresa. Her small fortune was nn Irre sistible bait to the Indolent Southerner. The only thing that troubled him was that she was not of age for another three years, and George was her guard Ian and scle trustee. He knew well enough what George would say or do if he once heard of his pretensions. With a man of Ramon's type almost consclenci less the next Idea was sim ply to get George out of the way. Once pet rid of the uncle, njid what was there to binder his making off with Teresa ami her money? Undoubtedly he Inslllled these Ideas Into Teresa's mind, and she. her sullen temper already aflame at the bint of opposition, was soon ripe for any mis chief. Whether this precious pair had already concocted any definite plan I don't know, but that they were only waiting a chance what follows proves. On this particular evening Teresa had dressed earlier and gone down. For some reason I don't know what. she went to the study and opened the door. A French window was open, and In the moonlight which had already succeed ed the ditk she caught sight of some thing moving through It. undulating In rustling colls up from the grass be yond. TcrrUM, she closed the dr.or nnd stood an Instant panting with fright. What was It? Suddenly It flashed across her. She had just In-fore sii-n from her window the men bringing In her uncle's spoil, a great anaconda, or wnteHion, the largest and most powerful constrictor In the world. This was Its mat Her chance had come. Always before din ner her uncle would go to his room to fetch the cigar he lit Immediately din tier was over. ,Ite would go once more for the last time! How I can Imagine her stealing quietly away from the door back with stealthy footsteps up the stairs to her room and silting there watching the clock, counting every moment till the gong should summon her uncle to bis fate behind that closed door. Closer and closer crept the hands to 8 o'clock, and still she sat and watched. Suddenly In the hall below sounded footstcjnt across the polished boards. Unnaturally loud they seemed as they passed slowly down the passage lie tieath. There w as the sound of a turn ing latch, an Instant's pause, and then one long, horrible sound, half shriek, half yell, which grew shriller, then uiullled. and then abruptly ceased. The shriek I heard with almost equal distinctness away at the other end of the house. To this day I can sometimes hear It. and It couica back to me In drpfldful dreams. I heard my husband rush from his room nnd his (lying feet down the stairway. Other sounds I heard cries of terror and alarm, hurrying footsteps and slamming of doors. Then I sum moned strength to follow. Aa I ran through the hall two shots rang out In rapid succession. A frightful pound ing, llku u down sledge hammers going at once, ensued; nnd next I heard a scream of maniacal laughter, and Tere sa rushed by nie nnd out Into the night. The next thing I remember Is Oeorge's voice, Id tones of strong colu mn nd: "Ke'p back, Marian!" be called; "It la no Ot sight for you." 1 itood there lu the middle of the pna aairc, while around the oi;n study door stood a little knot of our black ser vants. Their faces were ashen with terror, and the whites of their eyes goggled horribly, A thin smoke floated out of the room and the keen smell of gunpowder filled the air. The throb- blag beat had almoat ceaaed, Gcorgt passed Into the room. wMl I stngsir.'d t ack, and. sinking Into a chair In the hall, fainted dcaii away. I tie-d hardly explain w hat bad hap pened. The wretched Ramon bad conA? In finiier thin usual to dinner; had, contrary to his usual custom, gone to the study, evidently to leave the pass book for the day. and had walked straight Into the trap s:-t for another. Those horri! le colls had crushed him to death long before even George could reach tile spot, .while thp great sna-ke, In Its terrible death agonies, had r-nl the wretch's body In a allocking way leaving It an unrecognizable mass. That was what Teresa had si-en. Thf shock no doubt had crazed h;T. When slie ran out she went straight to 'the river at least, we suppose so. for we nevpr sa-w anything of her again. There are alligators In those waters. Since then my hesband and I have al most forgotten the tragedy. We ar( very happy alone together In our sunny tropic home. Chicago Times-Herald. This Is the s?nson of the year when bird stories are plentiful. Near Yar mouth, It is wild, a pair of wrens have built tbtlr nest In a pillar-box. and thf ben sits on calmly when the postman clears the box. Near by a pair of b.ue tits have built in a hat with which u gardener had adorned a scarecrow. Recent activities In the Philippines have brought to light many interest ing items. Not long ago an eag'e, three times the fclze of any yet discovered, was found there; and uow a German savant has come across a gigantic flow er of which tlie smallest buds are as bl as the head of a child. It has live petals, a stalk two Inches thick, aud b over three feet high. The llowet "plucked" by the discoverer weighed twenty-live pounds. The dowager empress of China fs de voted to birds of all kinds, and Innu merable bird pi-ts are kept about the palace. She is reported to have wcpl copiously about the death of a favorite nightingale not long ago. Upon being told of n Chinese girl who hud com plained bitteily of the dreariness ol life, this exalted lady remarked sagelj that a woman ought to take so much pride in her home that It could be a heaven to her, adding: "There are al ways birds and lowers." She Is a clever artist and delights lu palming from un tine. There Is something very remarkable In the almost reasoning powers mani fested occasionally by birds In eluding pursuit or In turning intention from their nests and young, but lu few is this more noticeable than In the duck tribes. In On id. Black's narrative of his arctic land expedition the follow ing instance of this is given: "One of his companions, Mr. King, hav ing shot a female duck, tired again, and, as he thought, disabled Its male companion. Accordingly, leaving the dead Mrd, which he had the mort titra tion of seeing shoitly afterward car ried off by one of the while-headed eagles, he waded into the water after the drake, which, far from being flut ter. d or alarmed, remained motionless, as If waiting to be taken up. Still, as he nea red It, It g.ided easily away through Innumerable little nooks anil windings. Several times he reached out bis hand to seize It, and having at last with great patience managed to coop it up In a i o. ner, from which there appeared to be no escape, be was tri umphantly bending down to 'take It, when, to his utter astonishment. It looked around at hlin, cried 'Quack!' aud then flew away so strongly that he was convinced he had never lilt it at nil. The bird's object clearly was to draw the gunner away from Its com panion." 'the Hnvate and the II r l (' gc. A gentleman who went out with Stanley to Africa took with him a mini ber of bird cages. In which he hoped to bring back some specimens of the mrer birds of the Interior. Owing to the requiring such equipments. They hare death of one of h! carriers, he: was to send with the machinery men who obliged to throw away taw bird cages, inow all about operating it. As a rules with a mimlier of other articles. These the men they send out are shop hands, were seized by the natives In gmtt 'end, beyond the rule of thumb experl glM!, though they did not know wiiat to ence with these Identical machines, do with them; but they eventually de- 1l,ey know but little. The builders say Clded that the small circular cages there Is a constant demand for road- were a kind of headgear, and, knocking off the Ixrltom, the chiefs trutted nlxiut In them with evident pride. One chief, thinking himself more wise than the others, and having seen the white men eat at -table out of dishes, thought they were receptacles for food, and took his meals from one, ceremoniously oven lng and shutting tbe door between mouthfuls. Brevity of Heoent Warn, llecent wars have been remarkable for tuelr brevity. The war between Turkey and Greece practically lasted only three weeks. The war between Japan and China lasted six months. The French declared war ngalnst Ger ninny In July, nnd Sedan fell in the fol lowing Hcptemhcr. Russia declared wnr on Turkey April 24, 1S77, and on lec. 12, the Porte requeati'd the media tlon of the powers. IlonttiblHi-k In tlerlln. Ilootblncks nro seldom seen on the slreets of Berlin, owing to the fact that It Is one of the duties of German ser vant girls to shine shoes In the house- hoid, and of portcra to attend to It In hotels. There are bootblacks at the principal rnllway doiKds, but they find more pntrona among women than among men. Wben a man geta Into a hack, and la not uaod to It, bo abowa It lu bla ao tlooa. K (-j J' - 1 it ' Pon't fnnBt-ict ion. A most excellent departure has been made In Rhode Island, where a course of Instruction in practical roadbuilding has been Instituted In the Agricultural College ot Kingston, aud the papers announce, with Justifiable exultation, that "this Slate leads the world" In such nn undertaking. The course of Instruction Is to extend over two years and has been laid out after consultation with General Stone. In the classroom theoretical Instruction will be provided, and the roadmakliig . plant of the college will furnish ample i opportunity for the acquirement of practical knowledge. Students who I wish to enter the course must be well grounded In the common branches, in cluding tilgebra and geometry. During . the first year the course will Include I higher geometry, trigonometry, survey- lng and other English studies. In tlx second year physics, electricity, physi ography, geology, mineralogy and team engineering will be taken. The practical work will run side by side with the theoretical during the course. It will include actual work on the roads, bundling the shovel, driving horses, running the stone crusher, trac tion engine and road roller and all ma chinery operated by the department. The student will thus actually perform nil the varied operations connected with roadbuilding ns well as receive competent Instruction In all that per tains to the art. In this way not only will a large number of young men re ceive most valuable training, but a de mand will probably quickly arise for special Instruction for older men, who now are superintendents of streets, commissioners of highways and engin eers. There Is here a field which is not yet crowded or even full. As the Provi dence Journal remarks: "Of late years there has lieen a demand for compe tent roadliullders all through the States that have been constructing macadam highways. In most Instances either theoretical engineers or highway su perintendents have risen to fill the places. And to the sorrow and cost of the big cities and the disappoint ment of the counties, In many in stances, the latter have been compell ed to pay for the lack of practical knowledge of the civil engineers and the lack of theoretical knowledge of the highway supervisors. "lint even with this school of men who have been educated by building the roads there have not bpen enough to go around In all the localities where pood roads are needed and where there Is money 4o build them. A man who thoroughly understands road construc tion to-day may easily get a position. What Is needed Is tlie educated man, who not only knows how to build a costly, Ideal road, but one who can eco nomically construct an eight-foot coun try road a man who knows bolh the theoretical and practical end of road construction. This Is the style of grad uate which the Rhode Island Institu tion alms to turn out. At the end of the course they will have graduated a man who can plan the highway, draw the contracts, and who Is able to run the machinery to build the road; a man who knows the business from the hoe handle to the tripod, from shoveling coal under the boih'r of the steam roller to drawing the plans a road engineer. "There are ft number of openings which a practical rondbuilder may fill. He niny become a road expert for tlie United States Government. By pass ing the civil seniceexamin ittons of the road division, department of agricul ture, he will be put on the list of ellgi Meu, and as soon as a vacancy occurs will receive an appointment from the Government. Then the builders of road machinery have a constnnt call for men to set up their plants In the various towns nnd cities which are constantly builders with these plants and that ihey consider that this Is a good Held or young men. "Un the largest lield for men edu cated ns reiiilbullders will probably be found ns highway superintendents imong the various counties nnd towns. There are few first-class men In this line, and, with the spread of the good roads movement, the demand for such experts Is growing." WARFARE IN THE PHILIPPINES. A f oclety Whose Member? Swore to Kill n hpiitiliird Kvery Hx Months. Uprisings of the people of the Philip pines ngalnst Spanish misrules have becii Intermittent for many years. Five thousand Insurgents were killed lu the revolt of 1S70. Six yenrs later aeveral thousand more lost their lives In an attempt to gain freeedom. and (MIO of their lenders were cither be headed or shot at Cavlte ns a warning to tho natives. Malays and Chinese In the Islands formed In 1H!K1 the order of Katlpunan. The ceremony of lnltla- tlon was performed by making a gash In the member's le-ft arm, who then rrossed himself, daubed his mouth with the blood and swore to kill at least one I Spaniard every rIx months. The Spnn- I lards soon discovered the plot, huprls- oned mnny persons, and. after trhila lasting from twenty to thirty minutes, 14,700 wera convicted and shot. On tha ou:.-iins of Mifiilia KuO.were execuieel, nnd as many as 75 were shot In out day. The present rebellion, In which Agulnnldo took a prominent part, be gan last June. It was supposed to have been quelled lu January, when of the rebels were shot in ih suburbs of Mauila. Aguinnldo was transported to Singapore. Soon after- j ward the rebellion broke out again. Agulualdo remained at Singapore un til the probability of hostilities between this country aud Spain, when he and I """Sj Kong to join the American fleet at that port. Admiral Dewey, when he started for Manila, took Aguinaldo with him on the Olympla and landed him on the itliiif f ti on vim ri t tAnii t fo n-Ant r f T n n i island of Luzon, gome distance to tbe north of the city. A large quantity of ammunition for the Insurgents waa put ashore at the same time. RECENT INVENTIONS. Carpets, rugs, etc., are kept In placa on the floor by a perforated plate which has a number of sharp points set lu its surface to hold the edges of the carpet after the plate Is screwed down to the floor. A handy seam-ripping device Is form ed of a wire handle with the ends of the wire brought close together and rounded off, a sharp blade being set a short distance back of the points to sever the glitches as the tool is pushed along. In an Improved collar button a two part expansible shank, Is fastened on the flat head, with shoulders on the shank to hold a small slotted plate, which fastens the collar in place, a loop on the plate retaining the uecktie to prevent its slipping over tbe top of the collar. Porcelain Is to be used for monu ments and tombstones, the Btone being hollow and filled with concrete, after a tablet has ben. inserted in an open faue on one side, having a flange cut around the edge to prevent removal from the outside. Kettles, saucepans, etc., are provided with covers closed at the bottom to prevent steam gathering Inside the cover and se-aldiug the hands when the cover Is lifted, the steam passing around a flanged rim at the top of the kettle and out through a curved spout. Stovepipe sections are securely lock eel by a new fastener which Is made by cutting a V-sbuped tongue ou oue end of the pipe aud a slit in the con necting end of the next pipe, tlie sec tions being turned around uutil the tongue tits in the slit. INCIDcNTo OF THE WAR, How Capt. Wood with a Crippleel Vet el Got Into the Kant auo Fiicht. The spirit that permeates the Amer ican navy was well illustrated nt the time of the bombardment of Santiago by Commodore Schley. Capt. Woeid, of the Dupont, had had the misfortune to run on a coral reef and puncture the bottom of his boat. Coming to the flag ship toward night, he reported the ac cident, and said he would be unable to make repairs without going into dry dock. Commodore Schley asked If it was entirely safe for the Dupont to pro ceed alone to Key West, and on learn ing that it was, ordered her to go. It was after nightfall that Capt. Wood beaded away for that port, aud It hap pened the Dupont was still In eye range of the flagship when her lanterns or j dered the move to Santiago, and Capt Wood read the orders. Up to that moment the Dupont was a lame duck with a sorry crew on board, but tlie prospect of a fight worked a marvelous change. She was, Indeed, punctured, but If a fight was to be found anywhere In that region It would never do to let the chance for taking part slip by. A lame duck was better than no duck at all, for the purpose of Capt. Wood and his crew, and with the smoke belching from all funnels, sh came tearing along after the flagship. "I've come to ask permission to go to I Santiago with you," shouted Wood I through his megaphone. j "I thought you ran on a coral reef and knocked a hole In her," replied the commodore, dryly. "Yes, sir; so we did, sir. But we've plugged the hole, commodore, and she'i able for this time, sir." I To have a man so eager to fight that he'd go Into battle with a crippled ship rather than miss It altogether was something that appealed to the commo dore, and Capt. Wood had his way. , Wives Com llleh. There has been a rise In the market price of wives nt Natal, South Africa. Before the rinderpest killed so many cattle the quotation was 11 head of t-attlt!, valued at W; but 11 he-ad now re-present lo2. It Is being urged that the government should fix three head as the price of a wife for the present, nnd should make It a rule that the mon vy equivalent nwiy be paid where cattle are unprocurable. No Spot Cnsh. In the British settlement In the great Chinese city of Shanghai ready money Is practically unknown. After you have had lunch nt a restaurant you calmly get up and wnlk out without a thought of paying In cash. Some time later in the day coolte nrrlves at your residence with a tiny slip of paper a "chit," ns they call It simply a mem orandum of the amount. Every woman we ever hoard of who kept boarders was finally able to re tire. Still, they say there la no money In keeping boarders. A boy soon Ipnrns thnt It Is one se against the other; before be la In long pants be refuse a to admit to bla mother that some other boy la wild. People who talk a great deal about having the bluea, uiuall bara a great deal of Idle time. ft DOOLEY. IWey, the A nrlo-Pi-ion. .Vell," said Mr. Dooley, "I see be ta pa.a, ers that th' snow-white pigeon ir peace have tied up th' dogs iv war. It'e all over uow. All we've got to do ia to arrest th pathrite-s an make th recon centlirndios pay th' stamp tax an' b r-ready f'r to take a punch at Garmany or France or Roosliia or anny couuthry oa th' face iv th" glob( "An' I'm glad iv it. This war, Hin nissy, has been a gr-re-at sthrain on me. To think iv th' suffrin' I've endured! F'r weeks I lay awake at nights fcariu' that th Spanish ar-ruiadillo'd lave th' Cape Verde islands, whe're it wasn't, an' take th' thrain out here an' hur-rl death an' desthructinn into me little store. Day be j day th' pitiless exthries come out an' be-at down on me. Ye hear iv Teddy Rosenfelt plungin' into ambus-cades nn' sicrety Iv wars, but d'ye hear iv Martin Dooley, th' man behind th' guns, four thousnn' miles behind thin), an' williu' to be further? They nr're no bokays f'r me. I'm what Hog.m calls wan iv th' mute, ingloryous I heroes iv th' war; an' not so mute, aytlie-r. Some day. Hognn, justice'il be done me, an' th' likes iv me, an' whin th' story iv a gr-reat battle is written they'll print th' kilt, th' wounded, th' miasm', an' the sery ously disturbed. An' thini that have bore thimsi.ves well an' bravely an' paid th' taxes an' faced th' deadly newspa-apers without fline'liin' il te advanced six pints an' given a t-lianst to tur-rn jack f'r tb' game. "But me wurruk ain't over jus' because Mack has inded th' war an' Teddy Rosen felt is comin' home to bite th' sicrety iv wnr. Yon an' me, Hinnissy, has got to bring on this here Anglo-Saxon Mieance. An Anglo-Saxon, Hinnissy, is a German that's forgot who was his parents. They're a lot iv thim in this connthry. They must be as mauny as two in Boston; the'y'se wan up in Maine, an' another liveos at Boggs Ferry in New York State, an' dhrives a iniik wagon. Mack is nn An-,'lo-Saxon. His folks come fr'm th' County Armagh, an' their naytional Anglo-Saxon hymn is 'O'Donneii Aboo.' Teddy Kosen felt is another Anglo-Saxon. An' I'm an Anglo-Saxon. I'm wan iv th' hottest Anglo-Saxons that iver come out iv Anglo Saxony. Th' name iv Dooley has been th' proudest Anglo-Saxon name in th' County Roscommon f r nianny years. "Schwartzmeister is an Anglo-Saxon, i but he doesn't know it an' won't till some wan tells him. Pettier Bowbeen down be th' Frinch church is formin' th' Circle I-'rancaize Anglo-Saxon Absinthe Club, on' me ol' friud Dominigo thnt used to boss th' Ar-rchey r-road wagon whin Cal highau had th' sthreet conthract will march at th' head iv th' Dugo Anglo-Saxons whin th' time comes. There ar-re twinty thousan' Kooshiun Jews at a qunr tlier a vote in th' Sivinth ward, an' ar rmed with rag hooks they'd be a tur-r-ble tiling f'r anny iiiitny iv th' Anglei-Saxon iicance to face. Th' Bohemians an' Pole Anglo-Saxon may he a little slow in wak iu' up to what th' pa-apcra calls our com mon hurtage, but ye may he sure they'll be all r-right whin they're cslied on. We've got together an Anglo-Saxon 'lie ance in this wa-ard, an' we're goin' to ilict Sarsfield O'Brien' prisidint, Hugh O'Neill Dnrsey vice-prisidint, Robert Immitt Clancy sicrety, an' Wolfe Tone Malone tliree-asurer. O'Brienil be a good wan to have. He was in the Fenian r-raid an his father carrid a pike in forty-eight. An' he's in th' Clan. Besides, he has a sthrong pull with th' Ancient Ordher iv Anglo Saxon Hibcrnynns. "I tell ye, whin th' Clan an' th' Sons ir Sweden an' th' Banana Club an' th' Circle Francaisse an' th' Tollaeky Benivolent So ciety an' th' Rooshian Sons of Dinnyniite an' th' Benny Brith an' th' Coffee Clutch that. SchwartzmeiBter r-rutis, an' th' Tnr-rnd'ye-mind an' th' Holland society an' th' Afro-Americans an' th' other Anglo-Saxons begin f'r to raise their Anglo-Saxon battle cry it'll he all day with th' eight or nine people in th' wurrnld that has th misfortune iv not bein' brought up Anglo Saxons." Chicago Journal. A Moment of Awful Suspense. "The nervous strain on the engineer of a fast train is something enormous," said oue of them tho other day. "Not only the lives of the passenger are at stake, but there Is the constant fear of running over some one on the track. An accident, no matter how Innocent tho engineer, is always a kind of hoodoo." "What was my worst accident? I shall never forget It. If It had been traced on my mind by a streak of light ning It couldn't have made a more last ing Impression. It happened one bright moonlight night In November. We were spinning over the rails at full speed across country where there were few people passing nt that time of night, when I looked out ahd saw the figure of a man lying across the track not ten feet In front of the engine. I stopped as quick as possible, but too late, of i course. We had run over him, and the v lifeless body was under the wheels. ; "We got out to look for him and found bis hat, a piece of his coat sleev and one of his shoes, but the rest seetB ed to be further buck under the train. I backed up the engine and got out to look again. There lay the body. I near- -ly fainted when 1 saw Its distorted i form. I felt like a murderer. "Did I know the man? No, not par. tonally. He wns a scarecrow from L neighboring corn Held." Detroit Fro " P rors. : House 'lelcphune-t in Kn gland. h houses where there are flectrio bells for servnuts, telephones may bo attached to the same wires to proaioto better communication between roota and room or house and stnlilea, Tbkf Idea Is being carried Into pnMtico ta Fnylaud. Hhonlel lenrn to Kep Out. Painters who visit the Oomlsh cC3 ore now mobbed frequently While iy lng sketches, because tin took a kit 3 - : , lu trJrn' ,0 olTe U)e "Of ProMo.r I tha town alantloue. : T -. t 4 .-A T
