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: A HERITAGE OF FEAR jj
ii
ST was tlie wan with the samovar
who was talking. There wai ft
general refilling of pipe anil a
readjustment of fift about tbe chim
ney place.
"'A fellow named Royal well, that's
enough of his name, 1 guess and 1
were out in West Virginia looking ttf
ter some Umber land for the Susque
hanna Lumber Company. It was a
glorious October, and many of the
summer visitors were still up In the
mountains, ainong them a family Roy
al bad once known in New England.
There was a girl named oh. well,
she had other names, but the one I
know U?. best by was Just Sweet
heart, so we'll cail her that. Roy.il
managed to see a sood deal of her be
tween whiles, and kept lingering on,
givlu tu- company one pretext after
another, until a sudden change in the
weather decided the girl and tier moth
er to start at owe for California, where
they were to spend the winter. Then
all at once it occurred to Uoyal that
It mightn't be quite the square thing
to sit there breathing the air ami let
ting the company's money slip through
our fingers, so the party of us planned
to leave the next day but one.
"That night a wheezy old freight
train disgorged Hagenback's whining,
growling, roaring troupe at the little
station. They were on their way to
Wheeling, having had no Intention of
putting up at our small village, but a
variety of complications and cross cur
rents, a broken cage and a sick lion
had combined to sidetrack them there
for a day or two.
"Royal and I were both down at
Sweetheart's that night, and she was
teasing Royal to take her to the men
agerie. He chaffed her for wanting to
see a lot of mangy brutes It was a
poor show, anyway, he declared, and
to go would mean a pure waste of good
October weather. She suggested, then,
that .he take her hazel-nutting In the
now something to mark their last
day there on the mountain. He was
HE COOLLY STEPPED BETWEEN
willing enough to do that, and it was J
arranged that we should start early j
In the morning, taking the trail up the I
mountain on the other side of the
railroad.
"The fall of snow was light, but
crisp and crusty, crunching under cur '
tread as we made our way up the 1
ribbon of path, 'for all the world like
icing on a wedding cake,' laughed !
cheek glowed In the stinging air, and
her merry laugh echoed In the frosty
stillness. Royal worshiped her big.
blor.-le and splendid, tramping there
by her side, folding back now and
then the overreaching branches, toss
ing aside a stone or a fallen longb
from her way.
" 'Is It Just your name, I wonder,'
laughed the girl, 'or la It a courtly,
embroidered way yon have of doing
even the smallest things that always
makes me feel like a princess with
you a attendant?'
"Royal laughed, and she went on,
mischievously:
" 'You see, it's merely as a compli
ment to myself that I like to have you
with me,' with a richly contradictory
glance, however, from under the mys
tery of long dark lashes; 'yon have a
way of making me feel positively re
gal, and then,' measuring bis six feet
two with her dancing eye, 'yon are o
comfortably big and strong you make
Die brave as well. I wouldn't be afraid
of a regiment with you or a whole
menagerie.'
"The man turned deathly pale at the
Inst words, and in a flash I recalled a
scene of our childhood, which, though
I was much younger than Royal at the
time, made a deep Impression on me. j
Royal's mother had been terribly
frightened by one of those dancing
bears with which men used to tramp
through the country a generation ago,
and when her small boy opened his
eyes on the world at last she deter
mined to make him love all animals
as much as she herself feared them.
But from babyhood he showed an un
mistakable antipathy toward even
dogs and cats: a cow would make him
bowl with terror, and once, when he
was 4 or f, he actually went into
spasm at the sight of a monkey. The
Incident I mentioned, however, oc
tnrred several years after that I '.va
fi or 0 myelf, and had Just begun to
lit tend the new school that waa built
imiewhat on the outskirts of tha lit
re village, with an eye to civic growth,
a nd which was also attended by rather
roiia-h element from the facta? act
t rim at further down tha aka. Thar
were great numbers af eatti raised
fct oar part of the coaatry, and It wu
ta atnwd
4 , It il car
tr as lit
toada, ta
save fencing. We boys knew all that
in a general way, of course, but we
had both been kept pretty closely at
home, and when, as a great conces
sion, Royal and I were allowed to
spend a half holiday with one of the
big boys at the settlement, we felt
immensely important.
"Well, you know what brutes boys
are; some of them liad heard that
Royal was afraid of auimals, and
thought it would be tine fun to see
him scared. Of course, neither of us
knew what was in the wind, but my
childish shyness made me stick closely
to him, and we were both told to stand
on a low, flat stump in the middle of
an open space in what was then called
the "big woods.' Our eyes were ban
daged and we were to wait till the
lioys gave three mysterious calls, when
something wonderful would happen,
they said. Royal had protested about
the bandage.
" 'You're afraid,' jeered one big boy,
and Royal was silent.
"He was no coward, but he knew
his weak point, young as he was, and
was abnormally sensitive about It.
We submitted to having our eyes ban
daged, and stood there together on
the stump, every nerve alert. I re
member I had the Impression that
something like a cloudburst would de
scend upon us nothing was further
from our minds than animals of any
sort, when from a distance we heard
the boys give a long, quavering hal
loo, once, twice and again, and then
there Was a great rustling and twTg
cracking throughout the woods; It
grew louder and louder, with what
sounded like short, gusty puffs of
wind, and presently came a steady
rumble, like tramping soldiers. The
few moments of silence seemed like
hours, till we heard a short bellow,
and, tearing the handkerchiefs from
our eyes, we found ourselves sur
rounded by a herd of excited cattle,
brandishing their horns and pawing
THE GIRL AND FCRIOUS BEAST.
the ground and each other In their
efforts to reach the stump.
"Then it dawned upon us that we
were on the Kilt lick for the herd,
and the cattle by dozens, as we saw
them, and by hundreds as they would
soon gather, would be trampling us
down in their efforts to get the salt
always found on the stump when the
halloo was given. Suddenly a shot
near by brought down a great horned
brute, and the others halted and closed
In about it, snorting and pawing the
ground at sight of the blood. Roy had
fainted and falleu off the stump, when
a strange, brown, red-hooded woman
made her way to us, and. taking him
In her arms, ordered me to follow.
"It was weeks before Royal was
himself again. As he grew stronger
physically be seemed partially to out
grow his Inherited terror. Once, years
after, when he mentioned the matter
to me, he said, bitterly: 'It's worse
than any physical infirmity, or even
Insanity, for it's both, and yet the
world will never call It anything but
cowardice? Somehow It all came back
to me that morning on the mountain
side, with a sort of paralyzing horror.
After a moment, however, I got my
grip again and put the thing from me
as I would a nightmare. It was cer
tainly out of place at sucb a time, they
were so radiant! happy, those two;
I could hear them laughing like chil
dren and see Sweetheart's scarlet cap,
not a dozen yards away, through the
bare, frosty branches. There was a
charcoal clearing a little further up,
where the thick, stunted undergrowth
aliout its edge was dense with the
piles of lopped branches, and Sweet
heart started a game of hide and seek.
No one remembered very clearly
afterward Just how It happened; I
didn't get upon the scene until just
in time for the appalling climax, but
at the edge of the clearing a man
rushed past Royal, calling:
"'Climb the lion's loose"
"His daft terror was Infections.
Roy's old fear swept everything before
It, and he rushed blindly across the
opening, plunging madly over obstruc
tions and past, trees that would have
proved safe enough refuge, forgetting.
In the Insanity of the moment, Sweet
heart everything, until on the far
edge of the clearing he came face to
face with the girl, paralysed before
the lion, crunching, lashing Its tall to
spring. It was then that I, all uncon
scions of the sensation, and uncon
cernedly rattling the nuts Id my pock
et, saaatered op In time to sea Boy's
fact biaacb and a violent tremor sbak
his whsts frame. Thea be coolly
sUrcad bstwsea the girl and tha fsv
and stood tam, his syaa.
on the balls of green tire that Hashed
from the great tawny bead. It seemed
ages It could scarcely have been sec
ondsno one of the four of fli moved
a muscle till the Hon, with a crj
that was like a howl and a sob, turned
and slunk off into the thick under
brush higher up the mountain.
"Then we both rushed to Royal, whe
still had not stirred. Sweetheart put
her little arms about his neck and said
all the things that a woman would
say at a time like that. Still he did
not move, and there was something In
bis eyes that chilled my marrow.
Sweetheart was frightened, too, when
be-would not speak to her. After a
moment he turned and went with us
down the mountain. We two talked
at intervals, and Sweetheart spoke to
him, but still no word passed his white
lips. The girl Insisted we should go
to her cottage, and there her mother
at last persuaded Royal to go to bed,
a physician was called, and after days
of anxiety and consultation, the poor
boy raving in delirium, it was pro
nounced brain fever. His life and ul
timate sanity In any case were de
spaired of. The California trip, of
course, was given up, and Swetheart's
mother nursed the boy as if he had
been her own. I told her of his ter
rible heritage and the gypsy Incident
and she understood, as n woman
might, what a vital crisis in bis life
his love for her daughter had proved.
Afterward we learned that the lioness,
which had been almost unmanageable
since the death of her old keeper, a
giant Swede, of whom she was very
fond, had become frantic on the death
of one of her whelps and broken from
the cage, attacked the new keeper and
fled to the woods. She had not eaten
during the whelp's Illness, and must
have been ravenous when she saw
Sweetheart. Whether she thought
Royal was her old master, or whether
his superhuman sang froid cowed the
brute in her, or whether, who knows,
the love that conquered hunger met
the love that could conquer fear
'Jove nodded to Jove' over the shoul
der of a man and his brother beast
we speculated endlessly in whispers
during those weeks Royal's life hung
in the balance.
"One night the doctor had called for
a second time. 'I'll stay with him a
little while,' he had said. Sweetheart
and I sat together liefore the library
Are her mother and the nurse were
resting. There had been something
nnusual in the doctor's manner. Pres
ently he lieckoned to us from the door
wa y.
" 'He is conscious at lasl,' he said,
and tears of relief sprung to Sweet
heart's eyes. 'It is a most peculiar
case,' he went on. 'I never knew of
but one other 'of the sort.' Then he
hesitated. 'He has no fever, but his
mind is a blank it is a question
whether it will ever be anything else.
Again, It may come back to him
slowly, with all the old memories, the
old terrors ifhe turned to Sweet
heart 'if there were any great joy In
the future for him anything that
would engage and delight every fac
ulty and emotion for a little time I
think we might hope for his complete
recovery.'
"The warm, conscious color flooded
Sweetheart's face. I stepped buck to
the hearth and busied myself with the
ashing embers. I heard her confused
murmur and the doctor's 'If anything
will. It's our only hop-:' and tii
portiervs fell on tbelr retreating foot
steps. When Royal looked consciously in
to- Sweetheart's eyes for the first time
In weeks he fainted. When he recov
ered the doctor withdrew, and then, ;
though the gtrl legged him not to
talk, he Insisted upon telling her the
truth- that he had not rum to ber as
sistance, as we all believed, but had In
his terror utterly forgotten- her.
" 'I'm a (toward." he prtested, in I
agony, 'and not fit to look in your J
face!'
Then Sweetheart, at her wits' end
for his safety, said what had in no
wise been la her mind before:
' 'Well, I'm going to marry you, any
how; I've sent for a minister, and
we'll be married right here In half an
hour. If what you ve been telling
me now is true, and not some night
mare of a weary brain, you're a hun
dred times braver than we all believed
you Just the telling makes a hero of
you.
'A light seemed to break over the
sick man perhaps, after all, t hero-
were different kinds of cowardice. He
lay very still for a while, thinking, in.
his weak, dazed way and then:
'""Do you know. Sweetheart,' he
said, 'I think somehow I'm not afraid
of of animals any more; couldn't we
have a a lion tt our wedding?
"Sweetheart laughed.
"Wouldn't a dog do or a cow?
"'No,' he returned, wits the childish
persistency of the weak, 'I want a
liouT
" 'We'll make a tour of menageries
on our wedding trip,' she smiled.
"'No,' he pleaded (be had evidently
accepted unquestionably her arrange
ment for Immediate nuptlalsi; It will
be a long time liefore we can take a
wedding trip and I want the lion at
the wedding now!
"Then the doctor came back, and
took In the situation, after a word or
two. Ills patient was cur;Kl even le
yond his hopes, but be clung to tbe
whim, which was. In truth, just the
reflex phantom of his madness he
craved childishly now the one thing
he had all bis life dreaded.
"'Would a bear dor tbe old man
asked, as If tbe sick man's desire
were the most natural thing conceiv
able. "Taa, a bear will do.' Royal aa
s wared, for aU tha worM Ilka a Itttta
cattd deciding apoa a saw tar
"Sweetoeart oM-n'd her eyes, but
held her pence.
"'.Ml right, we'll have one here by
daylight -and the minister'!! be here,
too, and you'll be a well man before
you know it.'
"It was certainly the weirdest cere
mony ever seen. The December dawn
was just creeping through the shut
ters the big. brown cub, whose moth
er the clergyman from the other side
of the mountain had killed two win
ters nefore, and which had since lived
in his house and grown up with his
children, sat solemnly on the bed.
Roy's arm aliout his neck, while his
other baud refiled in Sweetheart's, and
the clergyman himself stood before
the three, reading the service. For
some inexplicable reason the cub
seemed to take u violent fancy to Roy,
and was reluctant to leave him when
bis master's duties were over, so we
let him stay, and Royal fondled him
as he had never had even a dog in all
the other years of his life Whin
at last he was able to be moved, and
the California trip was replauncd for
the three, the cub's master was In
duced to part with his pet, and when
I last heard of them they had settled
near Boston. 1 think the big. brown
cub was still one of the family, which
had been Increased, also, by a little
Royal, whose playfellow he was. and
who loved all four-footed things as he
did his own kith and kin." Phiiadel
pliia Ledger. ,
HUNTER'S DEAREST TROPHY.
Bportman' Ambition Marred L'nlett
He Ha Killed a Hear.
A big black bear is the trophy that
all sportsmen who have been in the
woods are after. Shooting deer is all
right, and a moose, of course, is a
sportsman's ambition until he gets one;
then he must have a bear. It sounds
so much bigger, you know, to say that
you have killed a bear, comments the
Bangor Commercial. Bears ure sup
posed to le very dangerous and only
shot after hand to-hand encounters and
thrilling escapes from death.
Bear hunting, however, is not so
precarious as the sportsmen often
make it out to be. Tbe killing often
consists of merely running across one
In the woods and shooting him before
he can get away. Then dogs are often
used In hunting bears. While the dogs
by their barking and snapping are
keeping tbe brute excited, the hunter
has time to take a good aim and get
his game. Bears are often found In
their dens and smoked out. They are
sometimes inclined to be Utfly when
this Is done, but do not stand much
chance against two or three 43-90s.
Practically all bears which are shot
by sportsmen are brought out of the
woods and either mounted whole or
made into rugs, or the heads are set
up with tbe mouth open to give them a
fierce expression. Bears are outside
the pale of the law In Maine and may
be shot, trapped or killed In any other
way wherever they may be found.
Whenever a bear comes down from
up river the owner can always be
found at the western depot. Perhaps
he has a deer or moose along that he
has to identify. After doing so he will
always ask if It is necessary for him
to prove property In regard to the
bear, and he smiles proudly on the
crowds which are always gathered
around the wardens. If the bear is all
the? game he has. why he will make a
big touse about not beiug able to find
the warden so as to identify his bear;
for, of course, be wants to be sure that
tbe bear Isn't seized. He wouldn't
have that happen for anything. Oh,
no. Nor would he have the crowd re
main ignorant of tbe fact that he cot
his Iwar.
Cat of All Kinds.
A dangerous cat (catastrophe1).
An aspiring cat (catamount).
A cat that can swim (catfish).
A cat that ean fly (catbirdV.
A cat that will be a butterfly (eater
illar).
A library cat (catalogue).
A cat that asks questions (cate-
tnism).
A cat's near relation (catskin).
A cat that is good to eat (catsup).
A horned cat (cattle).
A cat that throws stones (catapult).
A tree cat (catalpa).
A water cat (cataract).
A cat that flavors grapes tcatawba).
A cat that covers acres of ground
(cataclysm).
A subterranean cat (catacomb).
A cut that, living, appear dead (cat
alepsy).
A cat prized as a gem (catseye).
A cat with a cold (catarrh). Ladies'
Home Journal.
I'leaaeis the Mlrds.
A scientist once put an automatic
music box on the lawn aud spent many
hours watching the robins, blue tits and
other birds gathering aliout It. A look
ing gl.s put up where the birds can
see themselves In It is also very attrac
tive, while a combination of a musical
box and a looking glass pleases th
bird more than anything else oiu
could put out for their amusement
Itcbuke to a Churl.
A small negro boy went Into a gro
cery store a few days ago and asked o
"smart" clerk for a match. The clerk
said they sold them and didn't glvt
them away. The boy fumbled In lib
pocket, got a penny, bought a box ol
matches, took out a few and handed
the rest to the clerk. "Put these on the
counter, and when a gentleman ask
for a match give him one," said the dig
nlfled little man as be walked away.
No Talent Kcqoliwd.
"Marie Tompkins Is going on the
stage."
"How did she gat the chancer
"Why, It's la a revival of 'Ha mist,
and anybody la good enough for that.'
-;ivaUad rials Dollar.
saeijiVeirtion
The electric light bulb at the end
of a long wire has been found by Dr.
Forrest Wiilard to be better than th
water bag for applying heat to head,
chest or abdomen.
In one hundred analyses of the sir
on Mount Blanc's summit, not a single
microbe vrns found, although they were
plentiful in the observatory. The num
ber showed a steady Increase in de
scending the mountain.
"Weather shooting" has assumed
such importance in southern Europe
that not less than three international
congresses to consider It have been
held. The latest report shows that ex
perts are mostly convinced that gun
firing is useless for influencing rain
or hail, although experiments are urg
ed until the possible effects are fully
understood.
The mysterious "sleeping sickness"
of West Africa, which lias been the
subject of late scientific investigation
proves to be a form of meningitis, dif
fering from cerebrospinal meningitis
in its chronic and almost invariably
fatal character. It is classed with hy
drophobia as one of the most deadly i
diseases known. It is communicated
from person to person in some un
known way. beginning with slight list
lessness, which passes into coma and
then Into death, Its duration being from
one to six months. Thus far it ha
been known only among negroes. II
has depopulated large districts, how
ever, a rid its spread is f tared through
the opening of African trade.
The fascinating legend, which ha
led to many speculative theories and
fantastical stories, of the former ex
Istence of a great and populous eontl
nent in the Atlantic ocean west from
the Strait of ;ihraltar, occasionally
occupies the attention of men of sci
ence. Such an occasion took place at
a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy
in November, when the Atlantis prob
lem was discussed by Dr. R. F. Schnrft
who contended that the evidence show
ed that the fauna of the Atlantic Isl
ands was mainly derived from a for
mer land connection with Portugal and
Morocco. Dr. Scharff also defendec
the theory of a land bridge, In tbe
same latitudes, connecting Europe and
America, and persisting until Miocene
times.
In Austria and Germany an auto
ma tic system of stopping fast railroad
trains without the co-opera tlou of th
engine driver or the brakemen has re
cently been tried with satisfactory re
suits. The apparatus consists of tw
parts, one carried by the locomotive
close to the rails, and acting directly
upon the brakes of the train, and th
other attached to the track and con
nectcd with all signal points at curves
gates, ami so forth. If It becomes nec
essary suddenly to stop an approach
ing train, the turning of a lever throwi
up a connection from the track to tin
apparatus under the locomotive whicl
governs the brakes. At the same tlnn
an automatic signal whistle warns th
engineer of what has been done. Th
brakes can be released In a similai
manner. Between Vienna and Krerm
the device has worked successful!)
s-lth trains running Cr miles an hoir.
One on lepew.
Returning recently from one of hii
annual trips b Europe, Seuatoi
Chauncey M. Depew was, as usual
the center aud life of the group whicl
had gathered in the stealing's suiokinj
room after dinnersand all of his mo
ancient stories were brushed up an
made to do duty onee more. Near!?
all of the ether passengers volunteered
various contributions to the genera
entertainment, but one old country
man sat la a corner every evening
smoking his pipe in silence, broket
only now and then by a guttura.
chuckle. As the steamer neared Ne
York Mr. Depew proposed to the oth
ers that he should have a little fui
with this old hayseed anil try to ge
a rise out of him, aud, calling acrosi
the room, he said:
"Mr. Jones, all the rest of us havi
been doing what we could to amusi
the company during the voyage, bu
we have not heard from you. Can'
you tell us a story?"
Mr. Jones could not think of anj
rtory.
"Well, can't you sing us a song?"
Oh, no'. Mr. Jones could not sing.
"Well, you certainly ought to df
your share; perhaps you can give U'
a conundrum."
Well, he bad been thinking of a co
nundrum, Mr. Jones Dually admitted
ami it was this:
"What is the difference between Mr
LVpew and a wild turkey?"
When no one present could angles
the answer Mr. Jones drawled out:
"Wall, a wild turkey ain't stuffe
with chestnuts till after he's dead."
American Onf enarlan.
Mr. Simon, addressing the Hundrit
Year Club in New York, cited figure.
furnished by the United States censa
bureau recording 3.433 centenarians, In
eluding eighty-six of upwards of Rfl
years old and fifteen upwards of 1.1)
The oldest white American Is IL'o, nn(
there are an Indian of 1.7) and a negn
of 143. The oldest women Is a negi cK
aged 137.
Now It's All Oft.
"1 thought ber marriage was corulii)
off during New fear's week?"
"It was, but her engagement cam
off during Christmas wek." Ilrooklyi
Eagle.
A maa can't marry every woman a
falls La tors wttft. I
PRINCE HENRY'S "CONFE88ION.
Lively Noblewoman, Making for a
Compliment, lliiul lilm.
A story Is now going the rounds of
the London clubs concerning Prince
Heury of Prussia, who, rumor says,
j will before long pay another visit to
the United States.
j A few weeks ago his royal highness
pahl quite an unofficial visit to Eng
land, and during bis stay in London
was the guest of a certain very weal
thy and deservedly popular America u
millionaire. At dinner one evening
Prince Henry happened to sit next to
a marvelous!- beautiful but ilrenaly
conceited English woman, who used
all her "dangerously winning ways"
to please and captivate the popular
Ueruiau prince.
"Oh! your royal highness," softly
remarked the society beauty, "I'm so
giad you like dear old England mid
the English people. Now, will your
royal highness tell me quite candidly
what bus impressed you most forci
bly what has given you the greatest
pleasure during your visit to this
country? I'm simply longing to have
your 'confession' oil this point."
Prince Henry, who was genuinely
bored by the "beauty's" silly "g.i-di."
looked around his host's hospitable ta
ble aud then, with apparent d-ep earn
estness, replied: "Viiii ask me, Iidy
, what has Impressed me most forc
ibly during my short lsit to your
country. Well, I'll tell you -you shall
have my 'confession.'"
Tim blushing Lady , naturally
expecting some sweet compliment, 1 ' m t-
cin'd eagerly.
"I have been fascinated with ma:iy
things sini-e I have been in Kugliind."
continued the prince, dreamily looking
down at his plate, "but what has given
me greater pleasure than anything else
what has fascinated me most has
been I think your glorious roast
beef:"
"Oh: your royal highness:" almost
shrieked the shocked and bitterly dis
appointed Ijidy at such a pro
saic "confession." "Our roast Iwefl
Rut surely something else besides our
roast beef has Impressed you -something
else, surely?"
"Yes, Ijnly ," tenderly replied
Prince Henry, according to the New
York Tribune, "yes. Indeed. I think,
next to your Kngllsh roast lieef, I nava
lieen most impressed by your Kngllsh
boiled beef:"
B0W-rACIG ROWING MICHASISM.
From time to time Inventors devote
their attention to designing a method
of propulsion for rowboats which shall
enable the oarsman to face in the di
rection the boat is being driven, with
the purpose of enabling the man hand
ling the oars to steer the boat without
the necessity of craning his neck at fre
quent Intervals or taking easily mis
understood orders from another occu
pant of the boat. The mechanism hera
illustrated has been designed by Dan
iel H. Sheen of Peoria, III., with the
above object In view. The oar itself
SHOWIMO ONE OAR 15 POSITIOW.
is a straight blade mounted on a carv
ed handle, which, In turn, is pivoted
at the end of an arm extending from
the horizontal shaft to which the pow
er Is applied by means of a short crank
at the inner end. In the yoke in which
the oar is pivoted is a spring which
tends to throw the handle, at right
angles to the supporting arm, and In
this position It will clear the water in
returning after each stroke. In the po
sition of the oar here shown a projec
tion on the handle is engaging a brack
et on the side of the boat to bring the
oar In position to exert its leverage lu
the water with the next atroko by
throwing the upper end of the handle
down against the shafts. To back tha
boat the end of the handle Is clamped
fast on the shaft, but normally the
spring and bracket alternately exert
their influence to throw It Into Its Inop
erative and working positions respec
tively. About I bo Human Body.
Some statistician has been contrib
uting Ills studies of the human body to
French Journal. In Its normal condi
tion, lie says, the human body contains
enough Iron to make Beven large sl-d
nails, siiflicient fat for the supply of
13 pounds of candles, enough carbon
to make 3 gross of lead pencils and
enough phosphorus for over 8,000 wax
vestas. Or. reduced to, another state,
the same nmn possesses tho possibili
ties of supply of m cubic meters of
gns and sufficient hydrogen to inflate a
balloon of a cnrrylng power of 150
oou nds.
Population Is Inclining.
It Is estimated that the Ksklmo pop.
u la l Ion of Alaska, Ijibrudor and Green
land has declined from 30,000 la 1890
to 15,000 at tho oresent time ml.a
to the thinning out of tbe seal, walraa,
poiar near ana other sources of
uppiy.
It should occur to a man t ia
his friends don't maan alt taay any,
iaai bis i