DOWN SOUTH PISHING STORY.
WHERE ONE HOBO RODE.
THE PATHOS OF THE CONFLICT.
Ban Antonio, Tex., May 8. The fol
lowing article appears In the lead In
Knglish angling journal, the Fishing
Uazette, and la from the pen of Mr.
Henry Kant, who was for some years
editor of th Fredericksburg News, and
is well known through that section ot
country:
Texas, the "Lone War State," Is the
largest and least known state in Broth
er Jonathan's domain, and It Is prob
ably the most attractive on account of
1 1 cumate, scenery land weajlh ot
game of all sorts, including the tinny
tribe.
In the summer of '7 we tried the
waters of the Guadalupe a fine stream
about 00 miles west of the curlou,
partly Mexican town of San Antonio,
which. In combination with electric
street cars, electric lights and other
modern Improvements, still retains
many of the habits, customs food and
language of old Mexico.
Hislng at sunup my attention was
first drawn to the Innumerable pits of
the ant lion. This is the larva of a
large fly. It has a flat body, its head
is armed with a pair of formidable nip
pers, and It always walks backward.
It constructs a cylindrical pit by mov
ing around In a circle backwards, dig
ging out the sand with, lu flat head.
With a violent Jerk It scatters It, and,
diminishing the diameter ot Its circle,
it completes a veritable death trap in
the shape of an inverted cone, then
burying Itself out of sight at the bot
tom, It awaits the approach of unlucky
Insects, who fall down the steep sides
of its hole, finding no foothold on the
slippery sand, only to meet death in
the grip of those merciless nippers. It
is dragged out of sight, and after Its
blood has been sucked out, the carcass
Is burled, the pit carefully repaired,
and the ant lion awaits another victim.
The question of bait came on the
board next, and a short stroll rewarded
two lucky shots by providing us with
a rabbit and a squirrel, and fishing
was the order of the day. No dainty
bamboo varnished tapering rod was
used, but a few long branches of the
sycamore, trimmed of ltaves and twigs,
a strong cotton line being tied to the
end, a bullet and a big hook baited
with raw meat completed the outfit.
Placing the butt end of our rough
poles In the roots of a tree we grate
fully lighted our morning pipes snd
calmly awaited results. By this time
the gun was gaining considerable pow
er, and although a thermometer would
probably have shown about 140 degrees
Fahrenheit, yet a soft, gentle breeze
tempered the heat and made us feel
quite comfortable.
Our dreams were soon broken off by
a sudden run on one of my lines; the
pule was bent double, and a hasty pull
up brought out an ugly catfish of
about three pounds. There Is no ar
tistic "playing" of fish known In Texas,
but as soon as a fish Is hooked he is
yanked out by main forte and "landed"
with great vigor. Soon after this a
chool of perch paid us a visit, and
a couple of dozen were soon landed.
There are four or five different kinds
of perch In the Texas rivers, none of
them appear to be the same as the
Knglish perch. The "sun perch" Is the
most handsome of all; It has a short
but wide body, nearly approaching a
circle In shape, and Its coloring Is very
brilliant. None of the Texas flnh are
game," and give up the battle as
soon as they feel the hook. The usual
method of keeping fish In good condi
tion is to thread them on a stout cord
fastened to a bush, and allow them to
remain In the water until wanted.
Some friends had a disagreeable and
dangerous experience while fishing.
Wishing to keep some small perch alive
for bait, they put them In a sack, and
tied It to a bush, but the next morning
Dn taking up the sack, they found two
large "water moccasins" (u very poi
A LIFE TIME IN 60 SECONDS.
(By Astronomer Q. P. Servlss.)
Some recent experiments by Prof.
Charles P. Sehllchter In magnifying by
means of the klnetoscope the rate of
motion In growing plants about 500,400
times suggest very Interesting possi
bilities In the application of a similar
method to men and animals. Prof.
Sehllchter placed peas and beans In
a glass case containing moist soil snd
made photographs of them at regular
Intervals, both day and night, on
continuous photographic film. At the
end of three weeks the film, wit hits
series of photographs, was placed on
the reel of an erdlnary klnetoscope and
run through the machine like any other
"motion picture.' The result was that
there appeared on the Illuminated
screen growing plants, which, starting
with the sppes ranee of the first germ
bursting from the seed, passed through
11 the changes of three weeks' growth
In a few seconds.
Suppose a child to be represented In
this way for any desired period, which
might be extended to years. Everybody
knows that changes of the most subtle
character constantly take place In the
features and expression of children
without even their parents or nurses
lng able to say Just how the varia
tions have developed, or what their re
lations to one another may be. By
she klnetoscope method of magnifying
the rata f development, sll such ob
scure relations would be rendered plain
and a permanent record of them would
be obtained. It would be within the
range of the possible to represent the
sonous snake) had entered their sack,
swallowed their baits, and stayed there
to sleep off their heavy meal. After
this these two "greenhorns" were rath
er more careful.
About 10 o'clock the fish ceased to
feed, and we didn't get another bite,
so, as the heat was proving almost too
much for us, we gladly retired to the
shade, where, after an Impromptu din
ner of fried fish, bacon, onions, eggs
and canned pears, we drowsily smoked
the pipe of peace until about 4 o'clock.
When we returned to the river I
caught some "minnows," probably
young catfish. At least they were un
like any minnows I had ever seen, and
when tried Just at the tail of a "riffle"
for what Texans call trout. Throwing
my hook Into the stream as It rushed
over a rocky ledge. I let It run Into th
foam below, and at once felt a tug at
the line. This proved to be a trout
about two pounds in weight. The fish
Is dark nearly black In color, and has
a large mouth. In fact, the head and
mouth are as big as the body. It was
a stranger to me, therefore I don't
know the correct name of It. This
fish Is not game, gives up at once; its
flesh Is white and wolly, and tastes
something like a fresh herring.
When I was pulling at my second
trout I became Introduced to another
new fish, the alligator gar. He rushed
after my captive, thrust his head and
wide-open mouth out of the water, and
made a vicious snap at his prey, which
he Just missed. This pirate of the
water was about five feet long (two feet
of which being mouth), and probably
six Inches thick. In fact, he greatly re
sembled a floating branch, He is of
great Interest to geologists, as I un
derstand he Is the only living species
of the poleologlcal fishes, so abundant
In the carboniferous era. He has bony
plates under the skin, so that nothing
less than an ax will be of use In cut
ting him up, snd is especially notice
able for having the backbone prolonged
Into the tall, the lobes of which are
of unequal size, the upper lobe being
much the larger.
Having tied three hooks together
back to back, and baited them with a
small perch, I trolled for Mr. Gar for
some time without success. He looked
at my bait and passed on. Being desir
ous of closer acquaintance with him,
I tried a charge of duckshot on his
bony side. He wagged his tall and
tried to wink at me. I then tried about
a dozen buckshot, backed up by 85
grains of powder, and supposed this
would make some Impression on him
at about four yards distance but it
didn't. This made me feel real mad,
so I got out my Winchester repeating
rifle and rammed a bullet through him.
This settled his hash, and I then pulled
him out and carefully examined him.
The havoc caufed by the gar is al
most equaled by the turtles, two of
which I pulled out, one being a hard
shelled turtle and the other a soft
fchelled one. These turtles can swim
and dive like a fish, and are extremely
voracious. The two I caunht w rre
about 1 3-4 feet long and a foot wl-1..
I executed both by cutting off their
heads. The hard-shelled turtle did not
seem to mind this much, as he walked
about for four hours afterward, and
even next morning showed signs of
life.
That night we set out a "trot line"
with twenty hooks on It, and the next
morning we had two catfish, about sev
en pounds each, but all the other baits
were gone. I thought turtles had taken
them, although the natives told me
turtles never fd at night. So far ur
my own taste goes, these Texas fish are
not worth eating. They have a mud ly
taste and the flesh Is woolly. But as
regsrds the scenery and the lovely
climate, I was always glad to make
fishing an excuse to be out In the
mountains.
entire course of a human life In this
manner, although, of course, that Ufa
would first have to be lived through.
After the more rapid changes ot' child
hood have been passed the successive
pictures might be separated by Inter
vals of more than a day perhaps one
a week, or even fewer, would suffice.
The final result ss shown upon the
screen by the klnetoscope would be
a baby face developing, changing, pre
senting the growth of new expressions,
altering from Infancy to youth, from
youth to the stronger features of man
hood, then gradually wrinkling, fading,
becoming furrowed deeper and deeper
with age, the cheeks sinking, the eyes
losing their fire until at last senility
would gibber where childhood had
smiled. And all this, which might
have required 7& years of preparation,
could be exhibited within the space of
a single minute.
It Is evident also that the method
might be applied to the study of cer
tain diseases manifesting themselves
by external symptoms.
When Qood Stomach, one of the
Sioux Indians wit hthe Nouvesu Cirque
In Pairs, was picked up In tho street,
drunk and Inarticulate, the police spent
the time In which he was sobering up
In hunting all over the city and sur
rounding eountry for an Interpreter of
the Slout language. They did not find
one. When the noble red man regained
the mastery of his vocal chords it wag
found that he spoke nothing but English.
Memphis, Tenn., May 8. Mr. Henry
Hooper, a St. Louis railroad man, who
was In Memphis recently, while talking
with a reporter, related a curious in
cident of his early road life, which
happened while he was braking on a
railroad which ran out of St. Louis.
"In 1893," said Mr. Hooper, "I was
running on a freight between St. Louis
and Sedalia, Mo., and it was during
that winter that I ran across something
that laid it oer all I ever saw In the
way of hoboing. Now, of course, I've
seen bums riding in all ways and places
Imaginable, and to a man hanging by
the rods on a fast freight or perched
on the pilot Is not surprising to me,
but this well, let me tell you.
"We had been some time out of Se
dalia, hitting a pretty good gait toward
St. Louis. That winter the hobos along
the ling of the 'Mop' were a fright, and
the whole crew was kept busy chasing
them off the train. As far as I was con
cerned personally, they could all have
had 'transportation,' for I have been
on the road myself, and believe that
when a man Is willing to take such
big chances of life and limb to get over
the country a fellow need not put him
self out of the way to find him.
But, then, the company had different
views In regard to the matter, and we
had to chase 'em or lose out. That
night ,and It was cold enough to freeze
a polar bear, I made a dozen poor dev
ils unload from the decks and rods,
and felt sorry for every one of them
when they hit the grit through the
now. Of course this sounds to you like
a 'pipe' coming from an old shack, but
It's so.
"Well, It wasn't long before we pulled
into Jeff City, and while the engineer
oiled around I started out with two of
the crew to chase hobos. Just as we
got to the end of the train, old rBen
nan, the finest 'eagle eye' who ever
Jerked a throttle, called to Pan Hlnes,
his fireman, to back up so that he
could oil and wipe his links. Dan was
cleaning his fire at the time, so, giv
ing it a final swipe with his slash bar,
he backed up. But, being a little care
less, he pulled back too far. bringing
the pilot half way over the pile of red
hot coals he had Just raked from the
fire box.
"Just about that time I thought old
man Brennan was going to throw a fit,
TWO BIG AMERICAN SHIPS.
The first plate of the keel of the
largest ship ever built in the western
hemisphere was laid recently at the
Carmps' yard, and, while no especial
ceremonies were arranged for, the great
steel sheet went Into Its place on the
blockB watched by all of the six thou
sand workmen who could possibly find
time to view the sight.
The tremendous vessel that v. Ill be
reared from this central plate is one of
the pair of mammoth twins designed
some time ago, and contracted for at
Cramps' by the International Naviga
tion company. The only pity is that
these magnificent ships will not engage
In trade from the port of their birth.
They will need deeper water than the
Delaware affords when the stream Is in
one nf its mean moods, and consequent,
ly will ply between New York and
Southampton or Liverpool.
The ship already started and the
twin to come are not only unique In
size, but likewise in design and Inten
tion, for, while much larger than the
splendid St. Paul and St. Louis, built
for the same company In the same
yards, they are In no wipe competitors
along the same line. The ocean grey
hounds mentioned are of 11.S00 tons
rating, they are 525 feet long, and
are englned with the power of 2000
horses by contract, and far more by
ictual count. They can steam better
RIDDING A SHIP
New Orleans, May 8. While talking
with some friends the captain of a big
freight steamer taking on cargo at New
Orleans told some queer stories about
rats.
"I have the ship cleaned out by pro
fessional rat catchers whenever we
touch at Liverpool," he said, "and be
tween times we try to keep them down
by trapping, but Its' hard work. We
don't dare to use poison. If we did the
hold would soon be full of dead rats
and the stench would breed a fever.
Our traps are of the wire cage pattern
and considerable craft has to be used
in setting them, for a ship rat Is a very
cunning beast, and he will steer clesr
of decoys that his land-lubber brothers
walk Into with their eyes open. If we
simply baited the traps In the ordinary
way and left them about In the hold,
we wouldnt' catch a dozen In a year.
'Our plan Is this: On the first night
we open trap doors to tie them In that
position with bits of string, so they
can't possibly spring shut. Then wc
put scraps of old cheese Inside and
leave them until the following evening.
That's to reassure the rats that the
strange wire contrivances are perfectly
harmless and that they may enter In
with a certainty of getting out again.
Next night we renew the halt and take
off the strings, snd. as a general rule,
wo catch all that the cages will hold.
have seen them so full that It seemed
Impossible to got another rat Inside,
and I got a prettysevere shock my
self. Before Dan could let go the
throttle it seemed to me bedlam had
broken loose under that engine.
" 'Lemme out," yelled some one. 'Lem
me out! Move her up! O Lord, I'm
burnln' up!' The sounds came from
under the pilot. Rushing round to the
front we saw a hobo, not on the pollt,
but squirming around ,on the cross
braces beneath it, yelling for all that
was in him.
"In a moment Dan had moved the
machine so as to put the poor fellow
away from the fire, and while he beat
out with his dirty paws his blazing
coat tails he still cussed, coughing all
the while like an engine coming up a
grade.
" 'How In Sam Hill,' roared old Bren
nan, not relishing the dressing down
the hobo was giving him, 'How in Sain
Hill did you git under my pilot?'
" 'I got here when this bloomin' tea
kettle was over de pit at Sedalia; but
youse fellows needn't try to barbecue
me for dat, need ye?'
"Oh, but old Brennan was wrathy.
'Come out o' dat, ye dirty porch climb
er, or I'll set ye back over the fire.'
" 'How c'n I git out did dls track
under me?' the hobo yelled back. 'Tink
I c'n dig trough It?'
"Brennan saw that It was Impossible
for him to come from under the pilot
till another roundhouse was reached.
This enterprising 'tourist' had crawled
Into the pilot while the engine stood
over a pit In the Sedalia roundhouse,
and of course could not get out till
another pit was placed under him.
Although he had plenty of room to sit
In, it was a very hazardous place to
ride In, for In wreck death would be
certain. When we reached Chamois,
twenty-five miles further on, where
there was a roundhouse, the poor devil
was released, but he was a sight to see.
His coat tails were burned off, his
whiskers and hair were singed, one of
his 'lamps' was groggy from sulphur
smoke and flying grit, and on the
whole, to quote old Brennan, he looked
like a 'raveled top string oa a rainy
day.' "
Puck: Fcrdy She is all the world to
me! What would you advise me to do?
Percy 8ee a little more of the world,
old chap!
than twenty knots for the entire trip
across the Atlantic, and can outrun ev
erytlhng afloat, with very few excep
tions. Now' for the new ships. They are of
a new type entirely a type made nec
essary by the changing demand of
travel and the tremendous Increase of
the rountry's export trade. Nea.rly
00 feet long, they rate at about 12,500
tons, but when It coes to engines, they
are content with about 12,000 to 14.000
horse power, capable of driving them
at a 12 to la-knot clip.
T;1h great Increase of size and de
crease of engine power sacrifices only
one thing, speed, while it compensates
by giving an Immensely more comfort
able ship for passengers and a very
much more profitable one for the own
ers. It was the success of the Kensington
and Southwark of their own line and
the mammoth new ships of the fler-
man and English lines, that led the
International company to prepare to
meet the demand of trade by construct
ing these two new ships. They will
make the passage In from ten to twelve
days, and with their greath length and
broad bilge keels will ride far easier
than the high-powered and tremen
dously driven ships of speed that go in
for record smashing to the exclusion
of everything else.
OF ITS RATS.
which Is pretty good evidence, asl
take It, that they can't communicate
with each other and give the alarm.
There Is nothing new about the trick
I describe It Is practiced on all big
ships when the rats get too bad.
"As long as the creatures have
enough water to drink," continued the
captain, "they don't give the crew any
particular trouble, and keep out of
sight down In the bowels of the ship.
But thirst makes them desperate, and
then they become an unmitigated nui
sance and will go boldly anywhere In
search of a drink. I have known them
to Invade the fo'csstle In such numbers
that they drove the sailors to the deck,
and at other times I have seen several
hundred make a combined rush for the
waterbarrel. It would surprise most
people unaccustomed to seafaring life
to know that water Is usually kept In
the hold of cargo ships especially for
the rsts. Its' done to keep them below,
and If for any reason the supply runs
short there Is sure to be trouble. I said
Just now that when the creatures were
thirsty they would go anywhere and
I mean It to the letter. They will climb
Into the rigging like monkeys, and It Is
a common thing for them to go clear
up to the topsails looking for the rain
water that accumulates In the bight
or fold of furled canvas,"
Bomervllle Journal: Even tho girl who
marries for love doesn't always get It
London, May 8. The pathos of the
war is shown in a strong light by the
pen of A. C. Hales, the Australian cor
tespondent of the News. He writes:
I was only a prisoner in the hands of
the Boers for about a month, yet every
moment of that time was so fraught
with Interest that I fancy I picked up
more of the real nature of the Boers
than I should have done under ordinary
circumstances in a couple of years. I
was moved from laager to laager along
their fighting line; saw them at work
with their rifles; saw them come In
from more than one tough skirmish,
bringing their dead and wounded with
them; saw them when they triumphed
and saw them when they had been
whipped; saw them going to their
farms to be welcomed by wife and chil
dren; saw them leaving home with a
wife sobs in their ears and children's
loving kisses on their lips. I saw some
of these old gray heads shattered by
our shells dying grimly, with knitted
brows and fiercely clenched Jaws; saw
some of their beardless boys sobbing
their souls out as the llfeblood dyed
the African heath. I saw some passing
over the border line which divides life
and death, with a ring of stern-browed
comrades round them, leanig upon their
rifles, while a brother or a father knelt
and pressed the hand of him whose
feet were on the very threshold of the
land beyond the shadows. I saw oth
ers smiling up Into the faces of women
the poor, pain-drawn faces of the dy
ing looking less haggard and worn than
the anguish stricken features of their
womanhood who knelt to comfort them
In that last awful hour In the hour
which divides time from eternity, the
sunlight of lusty life from the shadows
of unsearchable death. Those things
I have seen, and In the ears of Knglish
men and women let me say, as one
who knows and fain would speak the
plain, ungllded truth concerning friend
and foe, that not alone beneath the
British flags are heroes found. Not
alone at the breasts of British matrons
are brave men suckled; for, as my soul
llveth, whether their cause be Just or
unjust, whether the right or the wrong
of this war be with them whether the
blood of the hundreds that have fallen
since the first rifle spoke defiance, shall
speak for or against them at the day
of Judgment they at least know how
to die, and when a man has given his
life for the cause he believes In, he is
proven worthy even of his worst en
emy's respect. And It seems to me that
the British nation, with Its long roll
)f heroic deeds, wrought from the world
Dver, from Africa to Iceland, can well
afford to honor the splendid bravery
nd selfsacrlflce of these rude, untu
tored tillers of the soil. I have seen
them die.
Once as I lay a prisoner
ler In a roofcT
ravine, all through the hot after:
rrrdbff
heard the rifles snapping like hounds
around a cornered beast. I watched
the Boers as they moved from cover
to cover, one here, one there, a little
further on a couple in a place of van
tage, again In a natural fortress a
group of eight; so they were placed as
far as my eye could reach. The British
force I could not see at all. They were
DUt on the veldt, and the kopjes hid
them from me; but I could hear the
: BUY SECOND-HAND UMBRELLAS.: t
There are few things that cannot be
bought second-hand. One can get sec
ond hand anchors and secondi-hand
books; second-hand gas fixtures and
baby carriages; pianos and iron smoke
i tacks; water coolers and office desks;
It would be difficult to think of any
thing that cannot be bought second
hand. One of the things that at first
might be thought to come within the
category of things not sold In this
manner Is the umbrella. Inquiry, how
ever, revealed the fact that umbrellas
ire sold second-hand, though for va
rious simple reasons not so comonly
as some other articles of personal wear
jr use.
Common an article as the umbrella
Is In use and familiar to the eye, yet
It Is far less commonly used than, say,
for instance, shoes. In this climate, In
winter at least, everybody wears shoes,
and so would own at least one pair.
But by no means everybody owns an
umbrella. There are. In fact, plenty
of people who never owned one. Just as,
singular as It may seem to some per
sons, there are many people who never
owned a watch. Then, as anybody can'
use an umbrella, It may be that a fam
ily of half a dozen persons would have
only one or two umbrellas. There are
plenty of big umbrella factories, with
an aggregate output of millions of um
brellas yearly, but the number of fac
tories and of the umbrellas produced
would have to be multiplied If every
Inhabitant were to be supplied with
an umbrella.
A great majiy umbrellas are destroy
ed outright; blown Inside out In wind
storms and made useless for any pur
pose; It wouldn't pay to repair them,
and there Is nothing left to them worth
using. People commonly leave umbrel
las that can be mended, to be repaired;
and people often carry an umbrella
that Is In need of repairs with more
thought of Its Usefulness than of Its
appearance. The umbrella Is commonly i
not thrown sway until It Is useless to
Its owner; and when It Is In that con
dition, unless It were a fine jimbrella,
It would not pay a second-hand dealer
to repair It. For example, It would
never do to put a single panel ot cloth
regular roar and ripple of their disci
plined volleys, and I course of tuna,
by watching the action of the jJoers, C
could anticipate the sound.
They watched our officers, and whsi
the signal to Are was given they drop
ped behind cover with such speed sad.
certainty that seldom a man was hit.
Then, when the leaden hail had ceasedt
to fall upon the rocks, they sprang; out
again and gave our fellows lead tnx.
lead. After a while our gunners i
ed to locate them and the shells i
through the air snarling savagely, s
leopards snarl before they spring, ajsaV
the flying shrapnel reached many ot thsr -Boers,
wounding, maiming or kilUna
them; yet they held their positions witn
Indomitable pluck, those who were not:
hit leaping out, regardless of peraoaar
danger, to pick up thos ewba wets
wounded. They were a strange, motley
looking crowd, dressed in all kinds; C
farming apparel, Just such a crowds s
one Is apt to see In a far inland s bear
ing shed in Australia, but no boss
with a man's heart In his body couldk
help admiring their devotion to ose as
other or their loyalty to the cause
which they were risking their lives.
One sight I saw which will stay
me while memory lasts. They
placed me under a wagon, beneath, aw
mass of overhanging rocks, for saiety
and there they brought two wounds
men. One was a man of 60, a bard, oidr
veteran, with a complexion as dark as
a New Zealand Maori. The board, I
framed his rugged face was
fourths gray; bis hands were as rougO
and knotted by open air work, aa tas
hoofs of a working steer. He lookedV
what he was a Boer of mixed. Duxcb
and French lineage. Later on 1 gas
into conversation with him, and he tabs
me a good deal of his life. His father
was descended from one of the oiV
Dutch families who had emigrated ts
South Africa In search of religious lib
erty in the old days when the country2
was a wilderness. His mother bail eosssr
In an unbroken line from one of tstsv
noble families of France who had. IfcedU
from home in the days ot the terribler
persecution of the Huguenots. Hat
himself had been many things banter,
trader, farmer and fighting man. Bm.
had fought against the natives, and bat.
had fought against our people. Hs
younger man was his son, a tall, Bate
fellow, scarcely more than a strtDtlnav
and I had no need to be a prophet to,
tell that his very hours were numbenedu
Both men had been wounded by
of our shells and it was pitiful to '
them as they lay side by side.
elder holding the hand of the youns
in a loving grasp, while with his other
hand he stroked the boyish face wtthv
gestures that were infinitely pathstsc.
Just as the stars were coming out
night between the clouds that
over us, the Boer boy sobbed his youns '
life out, and all through the
waiches of that mournful darknes
father lay with his dead laddie's
In his. The pain of his own
must have been dreadful, but I heardl
no moan of anguish from his llnsv
When at the dawning they came tm.
take the dead boy from the living; mas
the stern old warrior simply pressed
his grizzled lips to the cold face, andt
then turned his gray beard to the haxdV
earth and made no further sign.
4-4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- 4- --Xr-
ln an umbrella top; It wouldn't match
the rest, and it wouldn't pay to put it
in anyway. Another reason why therw
are not more umbrellas sold second
hand Is that new umbrellas are soa
cheap. .New umbrellas of some kdnaV
can be bought In these days marvel
ously cheap; and persons who might;
otherwise seek second-hand umbrellas,
buy new ones; theywouldn't expect tar
get them second-hand at any law)
prices.
But after all there are to be fosse
second-hand umbrellas, Just as Dura
are to be found second-hand hats and)
shoes, though In smaller numbers. Some
of them are bought by the old clotbsar
men.
Another place at which secondbssxk-
umbrellas can be bought Is the pawn
brokers; in the pawnshops where :
sonal property of all sorts Is
umbrellas come In with the rest of
things offered; they are not
offerings, like some things, but not US
usual. These, if not sold, go with ota
unredeemed and unsold pledges to titer
pawnbrokers' auction sales; where I
are bought by second-hand dealers
sell that kind of goods; an addiriasi tav
the comparatively limited nnjsssssr
bought In the usual manner.
The matrimonial Joke of James H.
Fraser, a first-year student of tbs i
leal department ot the University
Pennsylvania, has terminated In
vorce. He was married In New
to Mlsa Lucia F. Huxford of Wa
Ington, D. C, on November IT.
Fraser was only It years of saw
had but slight acquaintance with
Huxford, who was five years his
lor. They had met on the day of the
marriage quite by accident and
Huxford, Fraser affirms, suggested I
they get married Just for fan.
supreme court of New Tork baa '
ed the marriage annulled.
Chicago Record: "Married that
man for love, did she? Well. I
my doubts shout It." May Why a
dear? Ida For the simple
I noticed no less than atx
Insurance blotter oa hay