THIS COW
SAT
Perhaps the strangest pose in which
a cow was ever photographed-was on
the occasion illustrated herewith. The
cow actually "sat far her picture."
The cow had been driven 16 miles after
being purchased, and the day was hot
and trying to man and beast. Upon her
arrival at her new home the animal
DIVES ON A BICYCLE.
Most daring of bicycle feats is that
being performed abroad by a cyclist
tamed GiOord. Like Kilpatrick, who
made the descent of a long flight of
steps, this rider has only one leg. Gif
ford sites at full tilt from a tall gallery
straight out over the edge and into the
air. He drops 90 feet into a shallow
tank of water.
NAILLESS HORSESHOES.
Ever since men began to shoe horses
they have been using nails, but now a
Cuban inventor says that nails are quite
unnecessary.
The accompanying picture shows the
kind of horseshoe which he proposes to
substitute for the one now in use. Its
main feature in a plate, to which the
various shoe parts are pivoted, and
which Is so constructed and arranged
that it forms a protection and a sup
port for the pivoted ends of the parts.
Connected, with the plate is also a
mechanism for binding the various
parts and keeping them in proper position-Not
a single nail ia used when this
shoe is twt on a horse, as the plate suf
fices to koop the shoe firmly on the
foot
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was very weary, and, on being led up to
the house for Inspection, deliberately
tat, or squatted," upon a board walk.
In this unusual position the cow re
mained, seemingly satisfied with the
comfort of it, and showing no inclina
tion to lie down ia the more natural
resting position.
BARS RATS FROM SHIPS.
Ever since bacteriologists drew atten
tion to the fact that rats play an impor
tant part in disseminating infectious
diseases steps have been taken to ex
terminate these animals, and, as they
are very fond of frequenting vessels and
thus often carry deadly germs from one
country to another, various devices
have been tried with the object of free
ing vessels from them.
When rats want to leave shoe and
get on a vessel they generally avail
uiemselves of ropes or anchor chains
for that purpose, and for this reason the
Vancouver authorities have ordered
that in future all vessels in the har
bor must have the ropes and chains
connecting them with the land protect
ed by smooth hard plates.
WHO FOUND AMERICA t
The subject of the discovery of Amer
ica has been rather prominently before
the reading public for some years.
There has been much speculation as to
whether or not the hardy Norsmen did
really establish settlements in this
country some hundreds of years before
Columbus made what he thought the
greatest find in history. To those who
are not wrapped up in archaelogical or
historical studies these speculations
hare not been without their comic side.
but the rank outsider has at last come
to believe that Christopher Columbus
was not the only pebble on the beach.
and that there is solid ground for the
contention of the advocates of the
Norsemen. To these latter, a recent ar
ticle by Prof. Scrsus B'Jgse. published
In the Berlingske Tidende, will prove
an additional prop with which to bol
ster up their theory. The article in
question is a study on a runic inscrip
tion found, in 1817. on a farm in Ring
erlike, Norway. Some years after its
discovery the stone disappeared, and
has not since been found. Fortunately,
the inscription was copied in 1823, and
a copy of this drawing, the original
drawing having also disappeared, is
now in the Bergen museum. The ab
sence of the names, both of the persons
to whom the stone relates and the cut
ter, seems to imply that the original in
sscription consisted of two parts, cut
on different stones. Prof. Rngge'g Dan
ish rendering may be translated as fol
lows: "They came out (on the ocean)
and across great stretches, and, need
ing clothes to dry themselves, and food,
away towards Viniand auu oil the Ice
in the uninhabited region. Each can
take away joy, as that one dies early."
This is clearly an epitaph over a young
Norwegian from Ringerike, who had
been wrecked with his companions,
and, after wandering over the ice, had
finally yielded up his life near the coast
of Vinland. The character of the ruins
indicates that the epitaph was cut be
tween 1010 and 1050 that is, within
half a century of the discovery of the
Western continent by the Norsemen. It
is, therefore, the earliest document
known to us containing a reference to
America. The striking nature of Pro
fessor Bugge's conclusions has roused
fresh interest in the search for the lost
stone, which must be regarded as. from
the cultural side, the most important in
Scandinavia. Of even greater impor
tance would be the discovery of the
companion stone. If the theory with re
gard to Its existence be correct
Mr- Pierpont Morgan is reported by
New York society gossip to be off for a
European trip In search of something
too expensive to buy.
SUMMER 13 HEBE.
The crimson rose is climbing up the string.
Th small boy gets the hornet in the
neek;
The coalman thinks his business a
Wreck.
The iceman's on the dance and on the
sing;
Tbe w-nt of new-mown hay begins to
wing
Across the sunny mead that daisies
f!-ck.
AnJ now the auerated dog's on dick
To caraeole, and loi, und leap, and
Rprlng.
The baHi ball clips the cloudhip on the
fly.
The umpire 'neath the bat disintegrate.;
An1 while the swallows round the sta
ble veer,
AnI. we're Descul pi iired with the cherry
pie,
We ip our pikra and iVfy the fntes
UeoauHe we know thut dear old sum
mer's here.
Judge.
Ta.le of Five Cents.
BY MRS. MOSKS P. HANDY.
(Copyright, 1901, by Authors- Syndicate.)
NEVER, thought Bensie Ayres. had
she been In so unpleasant a pre
dicament Her purse was gone;
it was not in her muff, nor yet
in either pocket of her Jacket. When,
where, or how she had lost It she had
not the least idea; not that that mat
tered much, except the disagreeable
fact that she was in the Ktreet car,
mile3 from home, with the rain outside
falling in a steady drizzle, and that she
hati not 5 cent wherewith to pay her
fare. What could she, what would she
do?
"Will the conductor put me off?"
she said to herself, "or will he trust me
for my fare, if I promise to mail it to
him as soon a I get home. He must
know papa by name," and then she
thought that if he doubted her honesty
ia one respect, he would do so in all,
and might not believe that he was
Judge Ayres' daughter. "Well, he may
put me off if he like. I can go to a
drug store and telephone for a cab."
Then her face grew blank with the rec
ollection that in order to telephone she
roust have twice the amount needed for
car fare. As the thought drove her
sense of helplessness home afresh, she
ioked up involuntarily and caught two
blue-gray eyes fixed on her, and twink
ling with amusement. She turned pink
with vexation. "Thinks it funny, does
he?" she thought "I Just wish he
were in my place!"
The young man, standing near, look,
ed away instantly. When he boarded
the car Bessie had at once attracted his
attention as an unusually pretty gjrl,
and be had watched the little panto
mime with Interest, thinking, mean
while, that he had rarely seen so ex
pressive a face.
"Poor little girl." he thought, pity
ingly. "She looks as though she ex
pected to be arrested. Evidently she Is
not used to taking care of herself; be
lated by accident, no doubt, or has had
her pocket picked."
The flash of resentment which lit
her eyes, as they cought his, confirmed
his ideas as to her social standing, and
completed his amusement at her plight
He turned bis back and faced the con
ductor, who was rapidly approaching.
The sound of the bell, as the fares were
rung up, Jarred Bessie's nerves.
"Fare!"
She parted her lips, but before he
could sp?ak: "Two," said her neigh
bor, handing the man a dime, and the
dreaded crisis was past
For a moment Bessie fancied that
the conductor had overlooked her in
the crowd the car was packed to tlie
utmost Nor was it until she saw the
ed her. making his way towards thelart with let us suggest how a httle
other end of the car, that, finding him
alone, she understood that he had paid
for her as the other one of the "two."
The discovery not only found her un
grateful, it filled her with indignation.
The one thing needed to complete her
anoyance was that a young man, with
whom she was totally unacquainted,
should treat her as an object of char
ity. How dar" he do such a thing?
Fortunately, sue remembered that
there was still something worse; to
make a scene and call public attention!
to the fact. She had no choice but to i
ignore the transaction and appear un
conscious of the man's existence. She
knew that ber cheeks were burning,
but she clenched ber hands Inside her
muff and ioked neither to urn right Dor
to the left
Bessie had always been quick-tem
pered. As & small girl, when she got
into a passion, her mother used to
make ber repeat poetry until she quiet
ed down. She had kept up the prac
tice, of herself. In later years, finding
It wholesome and easy discipline. She
tried It now, and became so absorbed
that her thlngllng nerves soon found
relief.
By that time, the stranger who bad
come to ber rescue had left the car, to
her great satisfaction. Her ride was a
long one. and before reaching home
she was cool enough to conclude that,
except for staring at her, the man bad
done a kind action in a gentlemanly
way.
"He meant well enough, I dare say,"
she told herself, "but If I ever see him
again I shall psy him that 5 cents, or
die."
It was with this resolve that for
weeks and months she kept a constant
lookout for the unknown. All In vain.
however, notwithstanding the fact that
he carried? away with him a mental
photograph of a charming face, framed
In a fluff of brown hair, with large
brown eyes, and rosebud mouth, qulv
erlng with the look of a frightened
child, a face which he told himself he
could not fall to recognize wherever he
might see It
Nearly a year afterwards Bensle
Ayres went to a neighboring city to
officiate as matd-of-honor at the mar
rlagp of ber father's niece. T:.ere was
to be a round of garetles. of luncueons
and dinners and theater parties, a4
he found the bride-elect bemoaning
lad Snd.
"I think I have heard," said the ten
derfoot, "that the man you called Rat
tlesnake gam came to aa unfortunate
end hanged for horse stealing, or
something of that kind."
"Wuss than that, pard," replied the
cowboy, shaking bis bead with ineffa
ble eadness. "He waa killed by beln'
th rowed fm a boas."
A Christian Chlraasaa declares that
In the city of Foochow and suburbs
there are LWO.WO persona who spend
annually on rttan connected with idol
atry t sum of tij&fi.
the fact that the best man could be
present only for the wedding ceremony.
A substitute had to be provided for
him even at the last grand rehearsal.
"I wonder that Mr. Itoss didn't choose
Home one who had more timo to give
him," Bessie remarked.
"So do I," agreed her cousin. "I
told Ned as much, but no. my dear, be
thinks more of Mr. Benson than of his
own brother, and won't have even him
really grateful to Mr. Benson for com
In his place. Indeed, 1 believe he Is
ing at all, and it is had for him to get
off. You see the head of the firm is
ill, and in Europe, and only Mr. Bnson
can fill his place. As it is, he comes
and goes at night, so as not to be away
but one day. i"
Bes3ie was not pleased. In Epite of
the serene confidence felt by every one
else that whatever Mr. Benson did was
sure to be done well, she had her 'mis
givings, and the maid-of-honor plays
a responsible part at a fashionable wed
ding. Still she was wise, and held her
peace.
The all-important, day came. The
bride was a radiant vision in 'sheen
of satin and shimmer of lace," and
Bessie, after completing her own toilet,
turned away from the mirror with the
sustaining consciousness that he. also,
did credit to the family reputation for
beauty; pink and silver became her
marvelously well.
Mr. Ross and his best man were wait
ing at the foot of the wide staircase,
as the bride and her attendant came
down for the start to the church.
"Miss Ayres, Mr. Benson."
Lloyd Benson Instantly recognized
the girl of the street car. Bessie did
not raise her eyes as her father al
ways said, she was a person of one
idea at a time. Just now that idea was
the duty of the hour. She bowed me
chanically, and attended to the bride'R
train instead of looking at the man who
handed her into the carriage.
It was not until the ceremony had
passed off beautifully, the wedding
breakfast was over, and bride and
groora had departed for Mexico, in a
shower of rice and rosebuds, that Bes
sie found time for a really good look at
her fellow-second In the great event.
Once more a pair of blue-gray eyes,
twinkling with amusement met hers.
For an instant Bessie felt dizzy, and a
startled look of recognition swept
across her face, then she recovered
herself and smiled.
"I think I owe you 5 cents." she paid.
"Indeed, why, and wherefore?"
"I think you know," she replied.
"Besides, there is a year's Interest due
on the debt, and I shall be glad to pay
It."
"You are a conscientious debtor."
said Mr. Benson, laughing. "Will you
pay me with a cup of tea? Ned tells
me that you and I live in the some
city. Seriously. Miss Ayres, I have
been looking for you ever since that
evening. If only I had known you
were Judge Ayres' daughter! I know
your father slightly, as who does not?"
Bessie picked one of the flowers at
her belt to pieces while he spoke.
"Mamma's day Is Wednesday," she
Eaid. softly, when he paused.
"Thanks; then I may all? Since
my best friend has married your coo
sin, you and 1 are connections, of a
sort, arc we not? So this is au revoir.
not good-by?"
And Bessie whispered: "I hope it
Is not good-by."
A Little Amusement From a Cent.
Don't gay penny; say cent A penny
is an English coin. The Standard Dic
tionary says penny may mean any coin
of trifling value, but if you mean cent,
eay cent as a penny may or may not
be a cent.
With this little piece of advice to
amusement may be obtained from a
cent:
What official is suggested by this
coin Copper.
A messenger Is mentioned on the
coin. Where' One cent (one sent).
Where do you find the first American?
Indian.
Where do you remark a snake? Cop
per head.
Point out a Southern fruit? Date.
Where do you find computes? Figure?.
Something denounced by audupon-
ists? Feathers.
Piece of ancient ermor? Shield.
Name n emblem of victory repre
sented. Wreath-
Where do you find a great assurance?
heck.
Where do you find what all families
should be In feeling? United.
Point out a swift animal? Hare
(hair).
Where ilo you discover an emblem of
rovalty? Crown.
Part of a hill? Brow.
Part of a river? Mouth.
Pertaining to an Eastern country?
Indian.
Place of worship? Temple.
Where do you find a negation? Knot
(not).
That of which our rountry is made
up? States.
Announces or affirms? States.
What our ancestors fought for? Lib
erty. Principal foremost, greatest? Chief.
Abandons? Departs from? Leaves.
Where is an orchetra found? Band.
Name a part of a bottle represented.
Neck.
Fastens bolts? Ixwks. American
Bor.
A Cautious Claim.
"Is your wife one of these women
who look at their husbands and say. 'I
msde a man of Mm'' "
"No," answered Mr. Meekton, "Hen
rietta Is very unassuming Bho mere
ly says she has done her best" Wash
ington Star.
Handle With Care.
"Mug o beer?" said the bartender.
"Certainly, sir. Wouldn't a glass do
Just as well?"
"Certainly not." repsonded the cus
tomer. Irritably. "It's muggy weather."
Waiting la Turn.
And when you're knocked the meat
trust out.
And It totters to Its fall,
Then tackle the coal trust. Uncle Ram,
The meanest of them all,
Emoeror William ha ata th.i
hereafter no statue of his grandfather
hall be erected In Oermany unless it
bears an Inscription alluding to the
dead emperor aa "William the Oreet."
Wneo the Introduction of penny-tn-fae-elot
meters, the total eonaunintioa
of cm la certain dietrteta la Bertta ana
y neany TCP per eent
VESSELS SHAPED
skilled potters are the Kadleno In
Cians, of Paraguay, and nowhere is
their skill more strikingly shown than
on the vessels which they use to carry
water.
These vessels are formed to resemble
certain animals, and most of them are
like armadillos, tortoises and stag".
After the vessels are molded Into these
forms they are richly decorated, and
except in the case of the large ones,
which are sometimes roughly bandied,
are treated with great care and are re
garded as specially valuable property.
They are made in several sizes, the
largest bt.'Ing used for the purpose of
A Thousand Dolllar Bill;
A Relic Saves a Fortune.
HERE was a time in the life of
the confederacy," said the
Southern colonel, "when we
had so little rcsird for the
North, or so much for ourselves, that
we didn't think a roll of greenbacks
was worth any more than a roll of wall
paper. Out of this feeling grew a very
pretty little romance which began In
Holly Springs. Miss., and ended at the
Fifth Avenue hotel in New York city.
"I waa a young fellow of the enthusi
astic sort that believed utterly in the
final success of our cause, and when in
Van Dorn swung round into Holly
Springs and captured Grant's money
and stores I was on hand with the boys,
whooping It up in great shape. Among
the articles captured was a big lot of
greenbacks, $2,000,000 or $3,000,000,
more or less, and we had plenty of it.
"I had about $50,000 In my saddle
hags that I was taking along with me
to give away as souvenirs. It wasn't
good for anything else in my opinion,
bnt it was worth carrying along for that,
as part of it was in $1,000 bills and
didn't take up much room.
"I knew a pretty girl near Holly
springs, and 1 incidentally called on
her.
We had a good deal to say about
the success of our arms, and as a little
remembrancer I got out one of my
thousand-dollar greenbacks and stuck
it in her autograph album, writing my
name and the date below the bill. I
don't suppose there is a picture page In
any of the best illustrated magazines of
today that represents 1,000 in cash, as
did that illustration I put In that girl's
album.
"Later I rode out to our camp, some
miles away, and, putting up my horse,
I adjourned to the banks of a little
stream near by and was. pouring my
foul out through a flute. There was
only a small bunch of our men, and
we weren't thinking much about Yan
kee soldiers. 1 know I wasn't
"I wasn't even thinking about my
saddle bags full of money which were
lying under a convenient tree, where
1 had thrown them. I was thinking
about the girl. Suddenly there was a
row and a ruction, and a troop of Yan
kee cavalry had swooped down on us.
"There was no time given for prepar
ation, and thinking only of how to get
away, I made a grab for my horse, and
without saddle or bridle, and guided
only by his halter, 1 cut out through the
woods. The saddle bags I left undpr
the tree; also the Bute, and I haven't
played the flute since. How I got away
DOLL OF WITCHCRAFT.
Recently s very curious doll was dis
covered In Hungary by Franz von Gab
ney, a noted ethnologist, and It has
been presented by him to the National
museum of that country. It Is made
of wax, and was fashioned by an old
witch for a girl who had been forsaken
by her lover.
In order to make a doll of this kind
effective as a love charm a long cere-
mony Is necessary. ' First the witch and
tne girl meet at midnight In n room
which has a window facing too out.
and the wltcb bands the girl the doll
and at the same moment utters the
false sweetheart's name. The girl re
peats kls name throe times, and after
that the two women attar this strange
invocation
"Come, hack, 1 nay; come back, if 1
yaw don't, may the demons prevent
yam (rasa anting and tram nleinlag
LIKE ANIMALS.
bringing water from brooks and riv
ers, and the smallest as drinking cups,
or as vases, in which pearls and other
trinkets may be kept. Those of inter
mediate size are frequently kept m
nets, as in that way they can be carried
more easily, and when uets are not
used they are fastened to cords, which
serve a similar purpose.
While Some vessels are decorated
with symbolical figures, which have a
religious significance, others are orna
mented with flowers and leaves, the
Kadleuos having been taught by mis
sionaries some years ago to embellish
their pottery in this manner.
I don't know, but I did. and that was
all I had in mind Just then. I reckon
those aVnkees knew what to do. with
the saddle bags.
"The next chapter begins long after
the war, only about 10 years ago. In
fact, and I hadn't seen the girl in all
that time. One day I was passing along
In front of the Fifth Avenue hotel when
a gray-haired man, standing near the
door, stopped me. I didn't know who
he was, and he begged my pardon and
asked if my name wasn't Stuart I told
him that was my first name, and gave
him my last name. Then he grabbed
me.
" 'You saved me and my family,' h
said, putting his arms about me nnd
steering me toward the bar. "We'll
have a drink and I'll tell you about It.
You don't know how glad I am to see
you.'
"I Instinctively Nit that it was no
case of bunko, and went with him. He
had told me his name before we reached
(he bar, and I knew he was the father
of the Holly Springs girl. We had the
drink, several, indeed, and he explained
how I had saved him and bis family.
"When the war wp over he had lost
everything, and it was decided that the
family should gather itself together
and leave Mississippi for some point In
the West, to mane a new start In the
process of packing up what was left the
daughter came across the autograph
album in which I had pasted the thousand-dollar
bill.
"Thousand-dollar bills of United
States money had somewhat appreciat
ed In value to the Southern mind by
that time, and Instead of tossing It aside
as waste paper, the girl made a running
Jump with It to her father. Very, very
carefully, they soaked the album In
warm water, and very, very carefully
they detached the bill. It was taken to
the bank and pronounced sound in
every respect
"There Isn't murn more to tne story.
When a man hasn't a cent In the world,
and the people around him aren't any
better off, 1.000 Is a great, big pile, and
the Holly Springs girl's dad had it He
hurried off to Memphis, laid in a stock
of all kinds of necessaries, and coming
back to the old place, he braced himself
and held on.
"He hadn't grown rich, but he had
enough to give me back the thousand
by a little squeezing, and be wanted to
do It. but I was pretty flush Just then
myself .and I told him to keep it and
make more with it to give to his daugh
ter's children, for the girl was married
and had a houseful"
quietly In your bed. If you do not come
back 1 will drive my knife Into your
heart (at these words the girl sticks a
kliittlug Ii"vi! thrGugh tun uOli), SHu
then you will surely die and the ants
will eat your flesh- I pray, too. that as
I the tongue goes Into the mouth, so may
you go aiu-r me; ana as i cannot live
without a tongue, so may you not be
able to live without me."
If the faithless swain does not ap
pear In due time the following curse is
shouted up the chimney by the two
women:
"Demons, bring him bark, wherever
he Is, for he shall have no rest May
my curse follow him and, as formerly
St. Peter betrayed Christ three times
before the cock had crowed twice, so
may the devils persecute you, and I,
too, will torment you as long as there
Is breath in your body. Here by this
elder bush I bury you, and may the
devils and their servants throw you
Into their mill and bruise your body
until your blood gushe out and only
your skeleton remains."
Having uttered these words, the girl
splu three times In the doll's face, and
then buries It under the elder bush.
It Is doubtful If there Is a single gen
uine old wltcb In Hungary now, and.
therefore, common wax dolls, which are
made In factories, are used by girls who
desire to punish their lovers.
Office Hours of Bead.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed goes to Maine
occasionally and occupies his summer
home near Old Orchard Beach during
the warm months. He has become se
mnch In demand In New York that he
Is often asked. 1 he Intenda to become
a permanent resident of the city. The
way he parries the question la Interest
ing. "I find." he aald to a group of friends,
"that the financial Importance of a
New Yorker la ganger by the esrllneae
with which be leaves the city and the
lateness of hla return; his riches are
measured by the length of time he
stays away."
"But how about youreelfr aaksri
"Well," he aald alowly, "f aiB mil
keeping office hours." Saturday Font
The Injunction aninat th -t --
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