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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1898)
A SAGE BRUSH : : : ij : : : NIGHTINGALE. KITTY Ml MS la not a common name, uor ran It truthfully af firmed that It Ik at all suggest ive f romance. Yet Kitty Mima was a remarkable young woman, but this wo due an tuiK'h to her unusual sur rounding an to her undoubted personal charms. Jimon MimH, Kitty's father, wag the landlord of the Aurora Hotel, the only tavern In the mining town of Experi ence, Nevada, that agreed to furnish accommodation for man and beast and kept Its pledge to the letter. Simon Mim was known far and near as "the doctor," and he felt not a little proud of the title, "I ain't never grad dyated, an ye moiit say," he would ex plain to strangers who raw for a pre scription, "but thar's two pains I net on relieving every time, and they're the pains that moKt troubles folks In these diggings - they're hunger and thirst. Are yon troubled that way, friend?" The population of Experience was mostly transient and largely composed of rough miner, many of them foreign rs, who seemed to bare acquired the English language. In a Tery profane at mosphere. The gentler vx was not well repre sented. Four of cotillons exhaust ed the supjily. But bad the ladle ie'en represented by the usual proportii.;.. and had Ex perience been many times more popu lous, mill Kitty Mima must have been the belle. Her education was limited to a not very familiar acquaintance with the three Its. Hut the miners, one and all, were ready to wager their "bottom dol lar" that as a singer "Kitty Minis could give the odds to Nellson, I'atll and the hull caboodle of 'em, and then come out many lengths ahead." Judged by the effect of her efforts, no prima donna that ever trod the boards could surpass her when she sang "The lone starry hours give me, love," which was always followed by a storm of "angkores." Hut she came out the strongest In "'Way Down Upon de Swanee Kiblier" and "Home, Sweet Home," songs that invariably produced a great deal of coughing on the part of her bearded auditors, ami the use of handkerchiefs Just as If they were troubled with aitdde l colds or dust lu their eyes. Of course Kitty Miius had suitors, and of course she was the cause of vinucu heartburning among her many admirers, for It mnst be confessed she was not ignorant of her charms, and she used her charms with a fascinating tyranny against which the strongest did uot (hire revolt. Hufus Kurd, the superintendent , of the mine, was a confident, flue-looking fellow, and he boarded at the Aurora Hotel, t'p to the tlnio of his meeting Kitty be was In profound Ignorance of poetry as an art. Hut his soul was touched so that he attempted to com pose a aoiig in which he designed hav ing "darling Kitty Minis" at the end of very stanza, lie failed miserably In the effort, as a more practiced rhymer might have done. "If the name bad only been Ford," he aid, "I'd had no trouble with. It. Tbere'i 'adored' and 'floored' and 'gored' and-and " "And 'swored,' " said Tom Reed, com ing to the foreman's aid. Mr. Ford refused any assistance In this direction that savored of profanity, and it tuny be added that he had no ad miration for the young man who volun teered his help. Tom Iteed wits a tall, well-built man of six and twenty, "bashful a a fciil," bis companions said. He was the only man In Experience who neither drank nor gambled. It was Hufus Ford's privilege to sit at the table on which Kitty Minis wait- j ed. He was always Kitty's first part ner at the dances, and the very first time a buggy drove down the one street of Experience Kitty sat In It beside the young superintendent. The older men Joked with Simon Mlms, and though the landlord was non-committal, he gave the Impression that ho would not object to Hufus Ford as a on lu law. ' The younger men prl-ally dropicd off oue at a lime, reluctantly leaving the field to Kuftis Fo.d: Hie only exeep- tlon was lorn H 1. It might be said, however, that Tom Iteed was never really In the field. He did not board at the Aurora Hotel. i&MiAnc&ittteTX'H' Vil I' Vai' ? i J i -lrx mr uiw MOlIMTKT) A f II A AND SANOIHK PAVOIHI K SO.NOH. Kitty had never "sweetened his coffee by looking into il"-a plan that was thought to save her father much sugar. 'He had never danced with her, though once when lie did muster up courage to sk her hand for the next set she was engaged. Tom Heed sei!t many of his spare hours at the hotel, waichlng for Kitty Mlms and pretending not to si her when she came In sight. Od her llttu birthday Ttm sent her a bouquet of wild flowers be had gath- I la U bills that moruing-in uouur IK of the occasion the whole camp took a holiday and in the center of the flow ers he hid a golden heart which he had himself rudely fashioned from a nugget he had long kept by him. It waa rumored that Hufus Ford bad sent to 'Frisco for a "dime-ant ring," and that Kitty would wear It at the dance that evening. As often before, the dining-room frf the Aurora Hotel did service as a ball room that night, and from the crowded doorway Tom Keed looked at the danc ers, and he caught the flash of a jewel on Kitty's hand. After the dancing bad progressed some time the men abot t the walls be gan shouting: "A song'. A song from the sage brush nightingale!" Having no cold to urge as an excuse, and being as willing to oblige them as they were anxious to have her, Kitty Mlms mounted a chair amid great applause and sang the fa vorite songs. During the evening Kitty managed to get near to where Tom Keed waa standing, aud she whispered: "Thank you, Tom." Ilia eyes did not deceive him. Some of his flowers were In her dark hair, and the golden heart hung from a chain that encircled her smooth, white throat Tom Heed did not wait longer, but went to his cabin up the mountain side and lay down, but it was not to sleep. He could not define bis feelings, could STOOD AND KITTY, WHITK-V Af KI EXCITED. give, if questioned, no adequate caust for the tumultous joy at his heart. He was too happy for reason, too much ex cited for rest. It was near daylight when he fell Into a doze, but In hi dreams he mill i saw the blossoms in tier iiatr and me heart of goal upon her breast She was calling his name louder louder. She was bea ting on the door. "Tom Keed! Tom Heed! For God's sake come out! The mine Is on Are!" He sprang up and threw open the door. There stood Kitty, white-faced and excited. "See, Torn! see! There are eight men In the shaft aud all of them mar ried " Tom Heed did not wait to hear more. He saw the pillar of smoke shooting up from the mouth of the mine, about which the people crowded, the bravest not daring to descend the fatal opening. Even Hufus Ford had lost his bead and seemed paralyzed. "What are you about, Tom Keed? Don't go down, maul Don't!" shouted the people. "Stand by! the fire has not touched the shaft. Full up usual signal!" That waa all Tom Heed said. The next Instant he was lost to sight. He had gone down the chain, "hand over band." After long minutes, a signal came up from the smoking depths. The station ary engine was started, and the bucket row;, holding four blackened, half suffo- ; cnted men. i Again the signal was given and again I the bucket rose, with four other men, j and one of them gasped out: "For i heaven's sake, lower away! quick! Tom Heed is roasting!" Thn tim-kpt flew down the shaft from ! ... . t . r.h j U)(i Kmok,, j Au gwfj jflpse of agonizing seconds, i (h(in cam(, fl f,(lnt iKnni l0 "nani up:" . lm,UH ,!(,w 10 ;De Brrm.c envel- , (n )1;im, . rrv nf horror burst from the throats of strong men, and Kitty Minis fell, fainting, beside the blackened, blistered form that was snatched from the mouth of the pit. "Any other man but brave Tom Heed would have died." was the gener al comment weeks afterward, when It waa found Tom would live live, but never again to look up at the sky and 11,0 m ll"lt m 1"T0'1' "Why-why did you go down?" i h!"' no j'w,''',i r,n now' asked ngers 'I thought of the wives of the mar ried men, Kitty. I was single. What mattered it so that I saved them." "Hush. Tom!" He felt a tear on his hand and he knew her lips were near his sightless face. "You will want a wife now, Tom. Let my eyes do for both. Father Is will ing." It Is the privilege of queens to pro pose, but then Kitty was a queen, and she is none the less one now that she Is Mrs. Keed and the landlady of the Aurora Hotel. If Tom Keed ever bemoaned his ca lamity no one knew It not even the wife, from whom he could have no se-erets.-UUca Globe. ' When Ood Is carving our rough block UitA an angel, ws weep over tha chips. HORRORS OF METEMMEH. DcrvUhc Tranafom tk Cits- lata a' Modem Calgatha. The town of Metemmei stand about a niHe from the waterway, but the In- tTveii!iiir nlaln rvr.-iu.ni.w1 a moat won- derful sight, one of the moat wonder-j ful that have crossed my path in four campaigns. The dervish army had evidently remained, after the fall of tli Jaalli at Metemmtfli, encamped for some time in this plain, behind their erhain of intrenchmentB, and had lived on the fa-t of the Land; for this place, and here I am not exaggerating. 1 over an ares, not less tian five square , imii, waa aimpiy one mass oi lue refuse of flesh meat-a modern Golgo- tha. AnimaJ must have been slaugh tered In thousands wiLli rutMe&s waste, since even now the sand-driven plain Is but a mttss of animal's skulls and hone, Tine Mdm even were uot pre served, but are there to this day, rotr ting In the sun. We rode acroea this ghastly Wretch to the town Itoelf. In Its day Metefli meh must have lxi-n one of the most nourishing Arab towns upon the Nile. To-day It is a ghostly catacomb, a veri table city of death. As we rode down the dieried streets and pasod througn the crumbdin; alleys a feeling of deep depression hJd us. How could It have been otherwise, for here we were lo what a few months ago had been a flourishing, busy town, with Its coin- mercial lnU'rets, it family and later- of higher notes on a cornet the ordinary nal ties, its markets, it homesteads ' mouthpiece is Inclosed in a spring-cou-and Its byres. Now It Is a gutted city,! trolled sleeve, which Is pressed in by given over to desolation, decay and the foul acavengurs of the desert Fire awl sword had done theJr work. There was not a roof but bore evi dences of Che Invader's fire brand, nor a courtyard but held Us complement of. dead. The very domestic animals had been slaughtered at theJr tethers, and i the infai-Ls at th.'lr mothors' breasts. I From the dry-brk-k mansion of the leading sheikh to the hovel of the j meamwt flsherumn every dwelling bore' testimony to the rutililiwa tragedy j which had overtaken them. Bleached boucs lay In heaira In every corner aud sun-dried carcasses foultd the air of. every open .ace. ' Doorways ami alleys showed how j they had rapidly been mudded up, and ' In aU the scrub by her riverside house-i hold belongings showed how tShe j wriiUhed Jaaliu had tried to save their' simple pemiiee by a hurried flight. Hut the bones around these caches were only a d.ttail of the one great tragedy, which wai almost a successful attempt! to Mot out not a nomad family but an ( agricultural ra-e. j From the town we went into the d- ( ert to the BiKt where the dervishes hd madu thuir second camp. The Intro duction was grewsome enough, for upon a dry sandy knoll we ciime upon the conqueror's gallows. It was but a eruftstree of blat kened lot's, from which a lcngth of rope was still listing to the' breeze, but at its base were evidencx-s of its use In all their creepy details. I collated eighteen human skulls, toUVllllnm Mariner.'" said a German. the bleaclM-d Jawbones of which the"wbo hH(i iive(i twenty years on the beards of the victims were still adher- ,remiy Islands, referring to Mariner's lug, wliile a clean-cut shin bone show- "Account of the Natives of the Tonga ed that niuUlatiou had preceded death. isiaujSi- edited by Martin. The remark Soudan letter In the London News. bur His Old FnenU. A writer lu the New York Herald says that there Is now on one of the United States battleships a lieutenant, l the story of whose admission fo the Naval Academy at Annapolis Is of a somewhat romantic nature. . j The father of the young man was a I young olllcer at the military post at Omaha during the period when Grant was under a cloud, and no one dreamed of the Immortality that awaited him. The two men had been classmates at West I'olnt. Early in the war, before Grant achieved distinction, the otiicer fell on the field. He left a young wife and three babies almost penniless. Bravely the widow struggled to raise aud edu cate the children. The eldest was a soil It was the mother's ambition to have him enter the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Hardly had the boy reached the re quired age when an accident deprived him of a linger, which, according to the law, deprived him from entering. It was a cruel blow to the doting mother. At the time General Grant was serving his last year as President of the United States. Hecalllng the warmth of the j Flnow snatched the paper on which friendship that had existed between Mariner had written the chief's name, him and her husband, the widow's which another Englishman hail read hope rekindled. aloud, the writer's back being turned. Heading In a paper that President ( lie looked at It with astonishment, and Grant would sail on a certain day from turned It round and round. New York for Newport, she went to j "This Is neither like myself nor nny I he metropolis and boarded the same body else," said he. "Where are my boat. Then she scut ber card to the u-gs? How do yon know It to be I?" Fresident, who responded In person. He no then desired Mariner to write was delighted to meet the widow of his j Tarky, the name of a chief whom Marl old friend. Together they talked over m.r had not yet seen. He was blind In the old days on the frontier, and the one eye, a fact of which, of course, the changes war and time had wrought writer was Ignorant. When the name "And now, my dear Mrs. X.," said Tarky was read, Flnow asked, "Is he Grant, "what can I do for you?" i,inii 0I. I1()tr .Mliell,' was me repiy. Aim uie mother told her story. Grain listened. "Go home," he said at length, "and leave the lxy to me. I will take care of him." At the next landing the widow got off the boat and returned to New York. Within a month her boy received his appointment, and In due time he quit ted the school with honor. Do you, like most people, give more to relieve distress away from home than you give to relieve distress at home? All women are plensed with the Judg ment of Purls when It comes to fash ions. Many people have lived for a half, a century, and failed to learn enough to soak salt mackerel before cooking. Whenever a bachelor begins to Inves tigate a girl's cooking ha means business. RECENT INVENTIONS. A Texas woman ha patented a new toy for children, consisting of a Jack- ln - tfca - box, to be released from the box by striking the spring catch with a fcaM attached to an elastic cord. a handy device for hanging clothes g formed of ring to be screwed to the top of a post to support a number of arms, which are dropped into a hole In the end of the post when not In use. A Missouri woman has designed an Ice creeper to slip on the sole of the shoe, a steel plate, with curved ends, to grip the edges of uie sole having terth eIlCe u,e ce as the wearer walks ' . . m,w ! kitchen utensil which has the bottom formed of a perforated receptacle which strains the vegetables after cooking and mashes potatoes, etc., without re moving them. , Instead of reshoelng horses with sharper shoes when the ground freeze, an Ohio man has invented a device which screws on the under side of the shoe and can be removed easily when the ground thaws. Flics are prevented from entering the house wnen the screen doors are opened by a new attachment, which has sev eral rows of brushes on the ouuside of the door to scrape the flies off every time the door opens. In order to facilitate the production the Hi on the high notes to form a smaller opening in the rubber mouth ring. For heating water where no tank Is connected with the stove a new tank is desgmMi t0 replace the first section of gtoropip.L., and is formed of a double gecton 0f sheetiron, with a compart- ment Tor the water ano iwei anu ouuei pipc. The lead in a new pencil Is screw threaded and is brought forward through the screwed tip by turning the exposed end with the fingers, the tip beiug partly cut away if the lead gets broken or wears down too short to reach. In a newly designed coffee pot the fluid Is not poured from a spout, but is distilled by means of a funnel-shaped device suspended In the top of the pot, which opens into a slanting tule above, to condense the steam, aud discharge it Into a recptacle below. Life-saving buoys on shipboard can always Imj depended upon In an emer gency If provided with a new attach ment, consisting of reels containing lines, to be fastened to the sides of the ship, with a hook to carry the buoy which disengages itself and rises to the top of the water when the boat sinks. A SHREWD TONGA CHIEF. He Would Have Nothing to Do with Modern Civilization. "Yoa should read Doctor Martin's was addressed to the passengers of a steamer, voyaging among the South i Sea Islands, and the German added, "It Is a classic, and every word of it Is true, I used to lie on my mat in the after noons and draw all gradually out of ' Achima Achima was nn old, old worn I an. She Is dead now." j In one of his volumes Mariner gives a quaint commentary, uttered by the Tonga chief, Flnow, on modern political economy, and money as a medium of ' exchange. Flnow had been advised by ' the white traders that if he would ' adopt, In place of yams, bananas and cocoanuts, the money of civilized na tions, his people could exchange It for everything they wanted, and grow rich. The chief puzzled over the suggestion for some time, and then decided that the money system of civilization would not benefit his people, and he would have none of It. "The power to hold money aud hoard it up," said he, "which could not be done with yams or ba nanas or cocoanuts, must make people very selfls. " Mariner tried to explain to the chief the art of communicating by writing. "It solidifies speech so that you can hand it round." "This," nays the author, (iiiulntlv. "was putting writing to an unfair test.' TJed His Hand lor Hliaric Unit. The fish lu some waters are a hin drance, and are greatly disliked by the diver. Perhaps the diver's worst foe Is the conger-eel. This creature attacks In swarms, and Is inimt daring and ex ceedingly voracious. The congers bark like dogs, and never hesitate In the least to bite a man. "At oue time my right hand," said a diver to us, "was exposed for a moment In the water, when one of these Metro creatures made a dash for It, nnd took a large piece from the back of the halid. It bled freely, and I was obliged to come up lo the surface and get It dressed," 'Tint how about the sharks? Don't you And them troublesome?" 1 asked. "Not very. Vou see, sharks ncc like rats; leave them alone, and they run way If they catch sight of you. Cor- ner a shark, and be will fight But If you want a shark story, I can give you one of Lambert's; he once had a thrllliug fight with one at the bot tom of the Indian Ocean. He had been sent to the island of Diego Garcia to fix copper sheets on a coal bulk that had been fouled by a steam er, and was aonoyed during his opera tions by the same shark for nearly a week. The monster was temporarily scared away, however, every time Lam. bert opened the escape-valve in bis helmet and allowed some air to rush out. One day Lambert signaled to his attendants for a big sheath-knife and a looped rope. Having these, Lambert used his bare hand as a bait, and wait ed until the shark commenwd to turn on its back, when he stabbed it repeat edly, parsed the noose round its body, and signaled for it to be drawn up. The diver brought home the shark's backbone as a trophy." St. Nicholas. Crispl's reminiscences, now complete, Cil tlev n large volumes in manuscript It is said that they will be published first In England. Maxwell Gray's latest novel Is enti tled "The House of the Hidden Treas ure, it Is now twelve years since the Silence of Dean Maltland" took the novel-reading public by storm, but since 181)4 Maxwell Gray has principal ly confined himself to short articles and essays. A George Meredith birthday book is to come forth In a "special fine edition" of seventy-five copies. This is being select with a vengeance, but fortunate ly for Meredith's admirers there is to be an edition not so fine, which may be had by more than seventy-five purchas ers. New books soon to lie expected art Mrs. Gertrude Atliertsu's novel, "The Californlans," which will be published by Mr. John Lane; a volume of short stories by Paul Leicester Ford, entitled "Tattle Tales of Cupid:" Octave Tha net's new book, "A Slave to Duty" (also short stories); George Ade's novel, to be called "The College Widow," and a posthumous volume of tales by the late Edward Bellamy. Miss Margaret Benson, daughter of the lte Archbishop of Canterbury, is an Egyptologist of much energy and some note. With another lady she has been engaged In excavations at Karnak and has written a book describing their discoveries and giving an account of the daily life of excavators in Egypt Henry Seton Merriman's latest story, "Roden's Corner," has Just been pub lished In Loudon by Smith, Eder & Co. Merrlman is one of the most entertain ing of contemporary F.nglish writers, and It seems that there is a brisk de mand for his books in continental Eu rope. "With Edged Tools" hits been done into French and German, "The Sowers" into German, Danish and French, and "In Kedar's Tents" into French and German. Mr. Zangwill, the clever and popular author of "Children of the Ghetto," and other novels dealing with Jewish life, tells how, when an obscure lad, engag ed In teaching In an east end school, he sent a short poeni to one of the best known American magazines. The poem was speedily returned to him, and Mr. Zangwill put it away safely till some little time back, when tie again s.!nt, it to the same magazine. This time its reception was a contrast to the last. The proprietors of the magazine cabled to Mr. Zangwill offering to buy thn "world rights" of the poem and very shortly they Issued a huge poster, pro claiming the fact that their next issue would contain a poem by I. Zangwill. The pis'iii was the same as before, but the tide had turned, the ship of the erstwhile Jewish lad hud come in, and his very signature was worth money. His Hobby. Things not to be smiled at in them selves may take on a humorous aspect through the manner of their expression. An English paper says: Au old country sexton, In showing visitors round the churchyard, usi-d to stop at a certain tombstone and say, "This 'ere Is the tomb of Tuminas 'Iloper an' 'is eleven wolves." On oue occasion a lady said, "Eleven? Dear me; that's rather a lot, isn't it?'' The old man looked at her gravely, and repliiMl, "Well, mum, yer see, it was an 'obby of Ms'n." Poetical Figures. Common people ofteu use figures of speech which are both poetical and strong. While visiting In Norfolk, near the North Sea, Tennyson was much im pressed with the 'saying which he there heard: 'The sea is moaning for the loss of the wind." This poetical saying he used to com pare with another he heard used by an old llshwoiuan who had lost two sons at sea. On a stormy day she, clenching tier list at me advancing mic, cried out: "Ay! roar, do! How 1 hates to see thee show thy white teeth!" At the Olber Kurt. The deep research of London Judy enables us to see how a certain portion of the "submerged" view those on top. "How are you getting on?" asked the first fish. "No luck at all!" replied the second fish, "The man at the end of the line is an Idiot." "What's the trouble?" "I took the bait an hour ago, and I've been waiting ever since for him to put gome more on." About two-thirds of a man's so-callad frleuds would fall to stand tha teat. - CEDAR FOR ClQAR BOXC3k Hist for a New Soarca at nwl Mm Necessary by tha Was- ta Cahsv Vessels com Into New York week with cargoes of cedar, bat the trouble began In Cuba their have been lengthened by a good hundreds of miles. The beat cedar for cigar boxes comes from Cuba, when this source of supply wi off quite an impor;:in. Lulu ry was built up in the Bayano Kiver, abosH thirty miles from Panama. The royal cedar of I 'una ma comes nearer to rival ing the Spanish cedar of Cuba than any heretofore discovered. It baa a strong, penetrating odor, is very bitter in taste, of a pronounced red tint, and rich la medicinal properties. For many years manufacturers of ci gar boxes used only the Spanish cedar, cut in the districts where the best Ha vaiia tobacco was raised. All other cedar when made up into boxes tended to spoil good cigars, but the Spanish cedar not only helped the cigars to re tain their flavor, but even improved It. The cedar found growing on the keya off the Florida coast was excellent for making lead pencilsbut it was useless for cigar boxes. Besides deteriorating the cigars by its peculiar odor, the gum in It melted when exposed to the beat and caused considerable trouble. When the war with Spain began the common cedar in the South was used. In Mex ico a variety of cedar grows that makes' a fair substitute for the Spanish cedar, but It is ruinous to pack first-class Ha vana cigars in boxes manufactured from it. For the cheap trade it is all right, and smokers of cheap brands of cigars would never notice the peculiar flavor the wood Imparts to the tobacco. Formerly when the Spanish cedar wm so' cheap and plentiful the makers of cheap brands of cigars always packed them In good Spanish cedar cigar boxes to improve their quality. Cigars thus packed for a few months would have a delicate aroma which smokers would attribute to the tobacco, but which was due entirely to the flavor of the cedar. The cedar forests of the United States were never so extensive as thoe in South and Central America; but In recent years the drain upon them has been so tremendous that they are rap idly disappearing. The most valuable ait oue time were !hoi on the islands and keys off the Florida coast. One of the largest lead pencil companies in the world acquired- the right to the best, of the cedar Islands, and it hrn been systematically denuding the for ests ever since. Millions of lead pen cils were annually made out of the cedar trees that fifty years ago clothed these keys. Almost the same Is true of other ce dar forests in this country. The moun tain slopes of Tennessee and other Southern States were at. one time cloth ed with vast stretches of beautiful cedar trees. But they have been going very fast. In Tennessee the bucket fac tories use annually 5,000,000 feet of ce dar lumber; 1,000,000 feet go each year to St Louis for fence posts, and the telegraph and railroad companies use, cedar almost exclusively for their polea and railroad ties. The famous cedars of Lebanon are the most durable of all cedars, but the tree is of very little value commercially outside of its native habitat IMs cul tivated In Europe for ornament, and a few specimens are in existence in this country. It can be grown In parks and gardens, but it does not thrive under natural conditions in the United States. The wood of the tree is fragrant, but It is not so strongly scented as the red cedar of America. The wood is of a reddish white color, and sometimes the grain is so close that It can be carved. As to its durability, mention should be made of the timber work of the roof of the Cordova Cathedral, which was built eleven centuries ago of the cedar of Lebanon. New Ybrk Sun. A KhoHhIi Wager, In a Paris cafe, as the story Is re lated in a London newspaper, a man had been astonishing his fellow-workmen by drinking extraordinary quan tities of water. One of them remark ed, very sensibly, that it must be bad for the health to drink so much. "Not a bit of it," was the reply, ac companied by the assertion that twenty-four pints of water was about what a man needed to quench his thirst In such weather. A lct was offered and taken. It was arranged that the man should lie on the floor with a funnel between his lips. Into this the liquid was to be poured until the limit of twenty-four pints was reached. Au obliging but ill-advised bystnnd- er agreed to pour the water In. The man on his back gulped down pint after pint with apparent ease. After a time, however, somebody noticed that he lay motionless and drank no more; and for the very good reason that he was dead. A I.ittlo Quern' Loneliness. Joannette May Fisher has an article In St. Nicholas on "A Girl Queen." The author says: Although the Queen Re gent has brought up her daughter a simply as possible, yet there Is alwaya a certain amount of ceremony and roy al etiquette which must needs lie con sidered. The life of a queen Is not nil that can be desired. A little story It told which pathetically illustrates tba. , loneliness of this little Queen's early childhood. Wlllieliiiina when a small child was once overheard by her gover ness while scolding a favorite doll aa follows: "Now, be good and quiet; be cause, if you don't,. I will turn you in to a. queen, arid then you'll not hart any one to play with at all!". Where Doctors Are Genrroaa. The doctors of Sweden never send bills to the patients, the amount of re muneration being left entirely to tbt generosity of ti:e latter, , ' . Brains Is the lawyer! stock la Jtai and be tells them by tba i t