II I
ETTY RAWLINS had a bank
account, and a huge oue at
that But Betty had a ureter
fortune In her face, for she was aa
pretty a a spring beauty, and though
be was perverse and pouty when she
Wanted to be sue was ordinarily- a
aweet as a violet.
Betty lived In the aummer time at
Lowland Glen, not many miles remov
ed from Fort Sherman, a big garri
son with enough young office on
duty to fill the ranks of a company
bad they been forced to drop the sword
and shoulder the Krag-Jorgenson.
Betty loved the mlltary what girl
doesn't? and If the truth be told
Betty's heart was set on marrying luto
the soldiery, but she had made up her
mind secretly that he couldn't think of
looking at anything less than a colonel,
and when she thought of It she sigh
ed, for the colonels In Uncle Sam's
regulars were all so dreadfully old, and
Betty was only 19, mind you.
There was young Roy Lanyard sta
tioned at Fort Sherman. lie was
mighty good looking, Betty admitted
this to herself, and It wouldn't be n
bit hard to love blm, but Roy was
only a captain, and nothing but a
colonel would do. Captain Lanyard, to
get into the middle of things at once,
was just as desperately In love with
Betty as a young soldier just old
enough to know his own mind can be.
He didn't care a rap alwut Betty's
1 s SrlJ VI V ft
CAPT. BOY LASTAHD LOOKED 0!t ISO
WAS MISERABLE.
bank account; In fact, be never gave It
a thought. It was Just Betty herself
that be wanted, but be didn't dare say
SO.
' Now Betty bad another failing, not
uncommon among American girls not
old enough thoroughly to understand
that Yankee husbands are the best In
the world, and that was a firm belief
that the Ideal condition in married life
would be that which would come from
a husband who was a combination of
Englishman and English army officer.
"The colonels are younger over there,"
aid Betty to herself, "and they are
all of aristocratic family, and, ob
well, Englishmen are just too lovely
"for anything."
The summer colony at Lowland Glen
was unusually large that season. There
were bunches of swell doings, as the
slangy Tale counain of Betty would
put It. The army officers from Fort
Sherman were much In evidence, and
one young captain In particular was
very much In evidence la the vicinity
of Miss Betty Rawlins. Betty saw the
evidence clearly, and how she did wish
that the president would retire some
few hundreds of superior officers so
that Roy Lanyard could tack the ab
breviation "Col" to the front part
of his name.
One day there was excitement at
Lowland Glen. Mrs. Calumet bad In
vited two Englishmen, one of them an
army officer, to spend the month with
them at their summer home. The
news reached Betty the morning after
the arrival of the Calumet's two
guests. Twenty young women had
told her about It Let the girls alone
for spreading news of this kind. "And
Betty," said one of her Informants,
"one of the Englishmen is a colonel In
hi majesty's service, and young and
good looking at that"
Betty's heart gave a thump. "At
last," she murmured to herself.
The next afternoon Betty met the
Englishmen at the Dexter Country
Club. Her heart fluttered a little as
the younger of the two men the other
was old and out of tbe running was
Introduced to ber. Colonel Reginald
' Southcote was hi name. It fairly
rang of aristocracy and militarism.
Betty knsw that be waa a simon-pure
Englishman all right enough because
of his) aama, hi accent aud hla clothe
which didn't flt
For the n vaak Colonel Reginald
SgatbM wm Betty ewlin's shadow.
Captain Bay Luait leoked on and
waa miserable, fcwry gave him two
. dancee and about thrat word daring
Oe astir waa.
"Ko abow for oee at UacU tarn's
ftar art!3erymea Whoa there's on of
lzj Ciward BMa with a drawl and
? CjmiCt stoat," ejgkai poor Captain
aw. 7
' t '-zJi Eedaatt SowOoote waa mi
i ft a fee cawy - tkat a
ICJ cTXacf. Catty aaket Um
t 3 tU actiaat
III
Betty had beard tales alout English
men pretending to be what they were
not, but the colonel looked honest
enough, and the girl was half ashamed
of herself when she went to a library j
In the city and took down a British
military gazette from the shelf and
looked for Royal Torlckshlre Regi
ment. She found It all right, and with
the name of Reginald Southcote set
down as colonel thereof.
From that time Betty was very cor
dial to the colonel. She turned the
conversation occasionally on the Boer
war, expecting to hear some deeds of
daring modestly told, but the colonel
was strangely silent on the subject of
field service, and Betty put It down
to a brave man's reticence when it
came to speaking of his own acts on
the field of battle. Betty might not
have liked it had she known that when
she whh looking uj the colonel's regi
ment lie was making Inquiries in cer
tain financial circles about the extent
of her bank account. The report seem
ed to please him, and he proceed il to
make hay while the sun shone, and it
was a particularly cloudless month at
Lowland Glen.
Betty knew with a girl's intuition
that an ofTer was not far away. Mie
felt a pang, however, every time she
saw Captain Lanyard and saw how
miserable he looked, though he tried
to put a brave face on the matter. If
the. truth, be told, Betty cried a little
In the privacy of her room when she
looked ut the glorious old fl;ig fl .ating
in the sunshine at the flagstaff peak
In the fort beyond, and sighed and
sighed again.
One day Lawyer Coke, who looked
after Betty Ruwlin's estate, heard
from a close friend that a certain Eng
lishman had been inquiring about Bet
ty's financial standing. "Fortune hunt
er If not a fraud," said old Coke to
himself, and then, as luck would have
it he happened to pick up a copy of
the Broad Arrow, the Journal of the
united services of Great Britain.
Lawyer Coke looked at it. His eyes
fell on a paragraph and he chuckled.
He folded the paper up, put it lu his
pocket and took the first train for
Lowland Glen. He marked the para
graph lu the paper and put it where he
knew Betty would be sure to pick It
up, and from the nature of the publica
tion he knew she would be sure to read
It from start to finish.
Betty Rawlins felt that the hour was
coming when she would have to an
swer a question put to her by Colonel
Reginald Southcote. She was think
ing of this when he picked up tbe
Broad Arrow. She knew what the
paper was, for she had heard of It.
She read It eagerly. The date of the
paper was three months back. The
marked paragraph caught her eye. She
read this:
"General Powell Baden Inspected the
Royal Yorickshire Regiment last
Thursday. It war tbe first training
day of this militia organisation for a
year. The new men were In poor trim,
and Colonel Reginald Southcote, who
has seen no foreign service and very
little at home, had hard work to give
commands and to sit his horse prop
erly. The regiment will need overhaul-
lug to bring It up to even militia stand
ards." The paiM-r dropped from Betty's fing
ers. "Militiaman; never aw a day's
real service; couldn't sit on his horse;"
and then Betty gasped. Her thoughts
turned to another paragraph that she
had read In an American journal. It
told how one Captain Roy Landyard
had received the Congressional medal
of hon r for personal gallantry in the
saving of the life of a comrade under
fierce fire in the Philippine Islands.
Betty knew that night at the bail at
the h.tel that Colonel R-glnald South
cole was seeking bw out, but she
avoided him. Captain Roy Lanyard
met her and she smiled on him, and
there was a look lu her eyes that made
the young sol lier's heart leap. "Won't
you go for a walk with me?" he aid.
"Yes." she answered softly.
As they passed down the hotel steps
the moonlight fell full upon them, and
Lawyer Coke, who was standing on
the veranda, smiled, and, being a bit
of a wag, he turned to a friend who
had been watching the course of
events for a month past and said:
"Alas! Poor Yorickshire." Chicago
Record-Herald.
Gladstone' Statue.
A statue to Gladstone has recently
been placed In Westminster Abbey on
the spot marked for It years ago by
Hean Stanley. It occupies the last
vacant space for a standing figure In
the north transit. The London Time
describe the statue.
It was made by Mr. Brook of tbe
Royal Academy, and is a marble figure
on a marble pedestal, which at prev
ent contains no inscription. On one
side Is tbe statue of Sir Robert Peel,
on the other, that of Lord Beacons
field. The aisle la called the "States
men's Aisle," and is near tbe pulpit.
Gladstone stands in tbe robe of a
doctor of civil law of Oxford, with hla
face turned slightly to tb left.' The
likeness la good.
There la no ceremony of udreillng
monument which, Ilka this, art erect
ed by the authority of Parliament. No
display la ntcosssry to cab attention to
the honor which the nation pay It
woaaaa aeoally follow faahtoaa la
bar hair till the second baby
whea aba baaat time to ezperl-
aa4 ctta-a to tbe atto preratoai
PLEA FOR TH BRIDGEGROOM.
He Well tha Bride la Dticrr a:
of Consideration.
Rhapsodies on the bride are bounti
ful. The dear creature, of course, Is
worthy of all the good things said
about her. She Is the loveliest, sweet
est, most charming and altogether most
delightful thing that ever came down
tb pike or the central aisle of the
church. Her very presence Is a bene
diction and a suggestion of the Bplced
Isles, and her dresses ah, tbey are
dreams! If you don't believe it Just
get into the company of any of her
girl friends; you wou't have tbe trou
ble of asking about It The bride Is
"It" She Is always "top of column
next to reading matter," which being
interpreted means that she gel choice
poaitlon, where she and her beauty and
ber gown would positively demand at
tention If It were not given freely,
gladly and voluntarily. She deserves,
and has. the admiration of ail creation.
And yet we make bold to put In a
little plea on behalf of the bride
groom, that he Is not forgotten. Or
dinarily he cuts mighty little figure in
the proceedings. He is regard) d rath
er In the light of a piece of the stage
settings, or a foil to show off the ra
diant beauty of the bride-elect. That
he is a very necessary adjunct to the
function which brings the bride all
ablush Into the public eye will be ad
mitted. But who notices how 'he is
dressed? Not even the bride herself.
She and the others have a hazy picture
of a man with something black on
his body and something white on his
hands, and some of the spectators may
observe a scared look on his face. But
that Is about all. Nubodv says,
''Wusn't he handsome!'' "How per
fectly his costume sets off his splendid
figure!" "Wasn't he just too sweet for
anything!" Comments and compli
ments of this kind are reserved for
the bride. The bridegroom doesn't get
them, And. to tll the truth, he Is
glad of It. He is well c intent for "her '
to tte the recipient of all the attentions
while he stands meekly In the back
ground. It's less embarrassing and
1 ss bothersome.
It Is after the wedding and in the
home life that the bridegroom shows
tip big. if he Is of the right sort,
and most of them are. It is when the
honeymoon has waned that be proves
to the bride the wisdom of her choice.
It is when he takes off his coat and
hustles hard at work all day and is
tender, loving and true under rue ev
ening lamp that he demonstrates be Is
not the clothing dummy that he ap
p ared to be during the wedling cere
mony. It may be that the world will
not notice It. No mention of the fact
will be found In the society columns
and the neighborhood gossips will have
nothing to say about It. But when he
has made her a happy home the bride
will understand and appreciate the
fact. If she Is of the right sort, and
most of them are, and will biews the
day that brought to her her own
bridegroom. Tbey are both good peo
ple; may they live long and prosper.
Chicago Chronicle.
Further experience of the recent
storms of dust is told by the African
mail steamship Borneo, which, before
reaching Teneriffe, ran through a ter
rific sandwtorni for thirty hours.
The record of voracity belongs of
right to a stoat recently caught at
Pcnnyhlll, Pa. During the night the
bloodthirsty little creature had killed
eleven turkeys, thirty ducks and twen
ty chickens.
"Most people are aware," says the
Scientific American, "of the power of
egg-shells to ieist external pre sure
on the ends, but not many would
credit the results of tests recently
made. Eight different hen's eggs were
submitted to pressure applied extern
ally all over the surface of the shell,
and the breaking pressures varied be
tween 40 ounds and 070 pounds kt
square inch. With the stresses applied
Internally to twelve eggs, these gave
way at pressures varying being thirty
two aud sixty-live pounds per square
Inch. The pressure requind to crush
the eggs varied between forty pounds
and seventy -five pounds. The average
thickness of the shells was thlrteen
oue thousandth Inch."
Tbe Idea that alcohol or any other
stimulant can ever Impart strength
must be abandoned, says a writer In
Tbe Hospital. A stimulant has a cer
tain efl"ect on tbe circulation, and this
may enable the person who takes It
to exert more s rengtb temporarily;
but the energy that he uses comes
not from the stimulant, but from hla
own blood and tissue. A similar mis
take Is made in tbe administration of
a stimulant to relieve a feeling of de
pression or sinking. An injurious re
action always follows. Alcohol Is
harmful also In diseases of the kid
ney or of the liver, but It seems to be
good for disease of tbe lungs, and It
effect on appetite and digestion my
be good when properly employed.
When "stimulants" put one to sleep
and quiet agitation, tbey are doing
good; when, on tbe contrary, they
raise the pulse-rate, and cause excite
ment and wakefulness, tbey are doing
harm.
Am Opleloa.
"Do you think that betting to
wrong?"
"It depends on circumstance," an
swered the town oracle. "If you can't
afford to loee. if wrong; if yoo can,
if merely slUy."-Washington Star.
A aua'a strength develop whea be
baa watbif to do; aot when be to
k2a
It has leen noted that vessels may
fliit down stream faster than the wa
ter. The explanation is that b ith the
water and the floating object are being
pulled down the hill by gravity, but
the water is much more retarded by
friction.
Pointing out the need of protecting
egrets, or white herons, an English
naturalist calls attention to the possi
bilities of egret farming. This bus
been succetsf ully established at Tunis,
and as egret plumes are worth more
than their weight hi gold, the profit
from cutting tbe feathers from tht
birds should be large.
Meteorology owes Its origlo to Italy,
which, as lr. H. C. Bolton not, pro
duced every one of the fundamental
instruments now used In weather ob
servations. The hygrometer was in
vented about 1-1 SO, by Nicolas tie
Cusa; anemometer, 1578, by Egnatia
liaiite; thermometer. 1M)5, by Galileo;
raingauge. l'i'IO, by Cartel!!; barometer,
l(Wy, by Torricclll.
The new peat wood of Joseph Hem
merllng of Dresden takes a high polish,
aud Is thirty-three to fifty per cent
cheaper than oak. It Is especially rec
ommended for panels, parquet flooring
and ceilings. The material is produced
by adding to tbe wet peat some bind
ing material up to five per cent of its
total weight, then forming Into cylin
ders under high pressure, and finally
drying at a "high temperature for four
or five days.
An effort to determine from geysers
the upper temperature limit of life
has led Prof. W. A. Setchell to con
clude that no animals exist In strictly
thermal waters, or those heated above
43 degrees or 45 degrees C. (KiJ de
grees or 113 degrees F.l. A filamen
tous plant, one of the bacteria, was
found at 89 degrees C, and a few oth
er simple forms were found at 77 de
grees and below. How the protoplasm
of these organisms is made to resist
the coagulation that usually destroy
life at a little above 40 d-grecs C. is
not clear.
By means of cross-breeding Mr.
Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa, Call
fornle, has developed a variety of
blackberries which are perfectly white,
as bright as snow In the sunshine, aud
so transparent that the seeds can be
seen Inside the ripe fruit. The seeds
are said to be unusually small, and
the berries are as sweet ai;d meltingly
timder as the finest of the black varie
ties. 'The familiar Lnwton berry Is
described as the great-grand-parent of
the new white variety, to which ba
been given tbe name of "Iceberg."
The white berries are as large a tbe
Lawtons.
There ha been some talk in Eng
land lately of endeavoring to shorten
the voyage across the Atlantic by de
veloping the harbor of Galway, on
the wes coast of Ireland, and connect
ing It by swift teamers with St. John's
In Newfoundland. The distance from
Galway to St. John's Is 1,815 miles;
that from Liverpool to New York Is
3,110 miles, and from Southampton
3,005 miles. It is assumed that transit
between New York and St. Johns,
nearly all by land, could be performed
so rapidly that tbe time from London
to New York would be cut down a
whole day below the present fastest
records.
Many naturalists believe that ani
mals possess Benses unknown to hu
man beings, something not Included In
our fivefold range of seeing, heating,
feeling, tasting and smelling. Insects
especially give evidence of possessing
powers of perception peculiar to them
selves. The wasp Bembex. says J.
Carter Beard, makes her nest In sand
banks that are sometimes acres In ex
tent On leaving she covers It up so
carefully that it is Indistinguishable
from tbe surrounding surface, and yet
on her return she files direct to It
without hesitation. AnthT wasp, as
if possessed of a kind of X-ray sense,
unerringly locates the bidden eggs of
the mason-bee under a thick layer of
unbaked clay, and deposits her own
eggs In the same cells.
NEWSBOY PICKPOCKET8
Two Little Experiences with Thieves,
with an Interval of Thirty Years.
"One of my earliest experience In
thl city," said a New Yorker of now
thirty-odd years' standing, "wax .vith
V a newsboy who tried to pick my
pocket; and among my infest expe
riences has been one precisely simi
lar; this last experience showing, I
suppose, that I am getting old and
so have come to be regarded as an
easy mark again, as I must hnve been
considered when 1 was young aud new
in tbe town.
"Tbe methods employed by the two
boys, working thirty year apart, were
Identically tbe same, the boy la each
case attempting the comparatively
easy pocket-picking task of extracting
money from tbe outside change pocket
of an overcoat. ,
. To do thl the boy carrlc bis news
papers, to the casual eye, held out in
front of him quite in thj ordinal y
"way; but be actually holds them with
the loft band only, carrying the right
hand under the papers ont of sight
asd apparently .helping to support
theta, bat wholly free.
"Offering bto papers to a customer
tbue tbe newsboy pickpocket advance
them eloeer aad closer to tbe custo
mer, with aa appearance simply of lio
portOBlag blm to bay, aatll be gets
tbe papers doee to tbe' man' coat
rarer tbe ebaaaw pocket. . Under
payer Uaa aatasia he pats
forth quick, out of sight, his rigid
hand, with which to ride the pocket.
If you leave it unprotected, though
he may lose a chance by bungling him
self, and so give you a chance.
"This last boy that tried me was a
novice and a bungler, who did Just
thai; and I felt the pressure of his
lingers on the coat plainly before he
got luto the pocket at all; and I turn
ed on him, but not angrily, nor even
threateningly, but with a sort of re
proachful aud regretful eiclamatlon.
Besides being chagrined for myself at
being picked out as easy It really
seemed a pity that this youngster
should deliberately set out, as be
seemed to have done, on the wrong
road; to follow a way that in the na
ture of things, could lead to one end
only ;and I am sure that the boy knew
how I felt.
"I don't mean that he figured It all
out as exactly as I have tried to tell
!t to you, but lie certainly did know
In a general sort of a way. He start
ed back with a shamed face, and at
the same time with a scared sort of
look, as though he thought I might
get after him, after all; but when be
realized that I was Just soft-hearted
and sorry, and wasn't going to do
anything about It, why, though I
stood and gazed at him for a moment
he, after big first momentary look of
shamcfacedness and alarm, Ignored m
completely, aud simply went on offer
ing his papers to the passers by at
though I had never existed.
"He had had a good shaking up,
from his failure with me and my dis
co very of him. and what with his
wonder after that about how It wa
going to come out; but he was rattled
for a moment only. He was a novice
but he was comiug on.
"The moral of all this Is that,
while the great bulk of the newsboys
are independent, self-reliant, capable
little chaps, who are strictly on the
level, there are among them, more's
the pity, some who will pick a pocket
If they get a chance; and when you
meet a boy who Insists upon working
his papers up close against you, ovet
your outside change pocket, why ol
him you want to fight shy." New
York Sun.
Tale of a Grateful Moose.
Tbe moose aud elk liberated In thi
Adirondack by the State of New
York and William C. Whitney during
the last two years have played rathei
odd pranks In the gardens of the na
tives and with loads of hay In tran
sit, but it cannot be said that they
are ungrateful animals, says a New
York Times writer. The home of the
moose this winter has been In the
vicinity of the Brown's Tract ponds
and there on Saturday evening tbe
crew of a freight train on the Rac
quetto Lake railroad discovered a cow
moose In distress. The animal had
been walking along the shore of a
pond and broke through the Ice and
plunged about in the hole for some
time, unable to help Itself.
According to the story told by
trainman, be and bis companions
looked on with varying emotions, bul
finally summoning their courage, they
went to the animal' assistance and
got It out of the water with the aid
of boards. Instead of taking to the
woods after its rescue the moose fol
lowed the trainmen about as a pet
dog might te all of their luncheon
that they could spare, warmed Itself
at the side of the locomotive, got in
the way of the train and refused to gc
even whan the train was compelled tc
move away. Its gratitude was evi
deht.
The elk and moose with which It If
hoped to restock the Adirondack bavt
taken gowl care of themselves dur
lng the winter. The killing of a young
bull moose near Newcomb has aroused
public feeling considerably.
Had Liont Track or the ('-.
The young woman who, when askei
If she had read Romeo and Juliet, re
plied that she had never read Juliet
but she thought Romeo was lovely,
was of the same temperament as a
village postmaster who knew or pre
tended to know something of all tlx
doings of the world, great and small
Some wags from' a neighboring towt
who strolled Into the postofflce one daj
thought I hey would have some sport
with the wise man.
"1 suppose It's pretty dead up here
Mr. Pratt." said one.
"Well, not so dead you think 1
guess there ain't much goes on lhai
we don't hear about, even if It don'l
happen right here."
"Why, you people don't know th
war's over," said another, falling bad
on the stock phrase.
"Oh. you can't work that dodgo od
me," replied the postmaster, looklnj
shrewdly over his spectacle. l gUMl
I follered the negotiations with Kltch
ener lu the paper."
"But there are some things thai
aren't In the paper," said anothei
youth, "I don't believe you know
when Shakspeare died."
"Well, no," Mid Uio postmaster, "1
didn't know that he wa dead, but 1
heard last week tie was pretty ,)w,
Humanity ami Policy.
Hklmper wa finding fault becaus.
tbe Are engine home are driven
recklessly fast."
"I'll bet if bis bouse wa on On
he'd favor driving tbein a good dea
faster."
"No, he wouldn't He' got that ok
shell of hi Insured for twice lb
value." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Maacharla Klvals Oreftwa.
Manchuria rivals Oregon la fertility
timber and climate, aad has abuod
ance of gold, silver, Iron aad coal. i
has tbe area of Texas aad three timet
tbe population tf tbe State of Nev
fork.
I LOSI IN IHt CRASS.
There is surely no country half a
world away lu which the Occidental
traveler expects so much delight aud
o little adventure as in Japan.
Vet Ernest Pox well ha recently
related a tale of terrible adven
ture experienced In Japan y n
Englishwoman but a few day after
lier arrival. She wa staying at a
ittle country village among the hills,
4nd bad gone out- is the morning to
gather flowers. The path ran across
J,e uplands, where there 1 a wild
md lonely stretch of country extend
ing for several miles; and the beauty
sf some wild flower growing In the
lall grass led her to kve the trail
unthinkingly, and press farther and
arther into the waving tangle. She
wa a short woman, and it reached
ibove ber head.
"If I had been a foot taller." she
ld, In telling her story, "I should
nave laughed and been out In a min
ute or two; but those few Inches bur
ied me alive.
"Almost Instantly I felt sick, as you
lo at the beginning of an eart!nUk:
Tor although I must have been quite
icar the path, yet with the grass all
,-ound above my head there was no
Knowing what would happen. I might
he going right away at that very
nouient. and the possibilities came like
it shock. I believe I lost my haul at
once. 1 could not think, so I kept
moving one way. then another. But
nerciy pushing through this tall, tough
grass is very tiring work, even if you
ire on sloping ground and can Judge
A-here you will come out; and when
t is level all round, the heart is taken
ut of you from the feeling that every
pp Is probably burying you deeper,
(t was like being drowned."
Il was not until sunset, after a
whole day In the blazing sun. without
food or water, constantly wandering,
constantly pushing and tearing at
Uems so stiff aud Kcrrnt-d that they
ipiickly make the hands bleed, that she
walked suddenly out on to open ground
'did fell fainting In a heap. When
"he recovered, stars were shining, and
she' was alone on an unknown moiin
ainside. Hho slept from exhaustion,
.md the next day followed a winding
iiountaln torrent over rocky land, her
shoes and then her stockings worn
from Iter f'-ct. only to find, at sun
iown, that it had led her to a narrow
',-orge, without one Inch of foothold or
diore. The stream dashed through In
a torrent lii.it hopcii-ssly barred tbJ
way.
Light-headed with terror, hunger and
weariness, she crouched for a time In
li-spsir. Then she suddenly waded In
to the stream and stood until after
iiiwn waist-deep In water, while a
rain storm pelted upon her from above.
Whim or instinct, she lielleved that by
:he coo rush and sting of the water
ler reason and strength were pre
lerved. The next day she retraced her weary
-ay along the watercourse back to
:he heights; thence, fixing anew tbe
;olnt to which she must direct her
teps, she successfully made her way
tiack to civilization. When at length
die reeled Into the hut of a kindly
lapanese woman, she had been four
lays lost without food, and had walk
d until her feet were so torn aud
Inflamed It was thought she must have
iieni amputated; but she fortunately
(gained her health uncrippled.
AM ah ted Too Koon.
It bad taken considerable persuasion
:o Induce the old lady to trust herself
In an automobile; but finally she con
sented because, says the Automobile
Magazine, she was anxious to reach
the bedside of her sick grandchild lu
i village some twenty miles away.
The owner of the big automobile.
who was touring through Img Island,
had U'en very kind about It. He
chanced to be near the station when
the old lady found she had missed her
train, and when he overheard her
lamentations he insisted that she
should accompany him. 'Ills route lar
:hrough that particular one of the half-
io.eu Iong Island villages named
Hampton where I he sick grandchild
lay.
They started at last, and everything
went well until, in attempting to lias
a wagon which occupied most of the
road, the flying automobile went titiex
pectislly Into the ditch, n nd rather vio
lently deposited Its occupant In an
ailjolning Held
Recovering from the shock, altbouzh
somewhat confused from the rather
unusual method of alighting, tbe old
lady asked of the chagrined chauffeur:
"I this a a a Hampton?"
"No, ma'ani," he managed to sain:
"this Is an accident."
O dear:' snld the old lady. 'Then
', hadn't oughter have got out here,
lad IT
A Hanging Railroad.
A hanging overhead electric rail
oad for Imdon, similar to that In
iise In Klberfeld, (lennany, I pro
jected by a group of Merman, Ameri
can and Kngllsu financier. A parlia
mentary concession will be asked to
twlng tbe single track required orer
lie Thame from lu south end for
dgbt miles.
Consamptioa of Irosi H Oerataay.
In Germany toe annual coniamprlon
if iron per capita I If 18 pound mil
(be production lust douhi it..
i mount
After an angM reaches thlrt...
jind wears an old wrapper across tbe
ui7 10 oorrow butter from a netgb
or, aha looks pretty tough.
After aU tbe neatest all a kai
a ragaktlag the Cat.
