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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1897)
RELICS OF OLD TIMES. ANTIQUE TREASURES IN A CANADIAN HOME. Au Old dork Thsl Jtn More Tick* (he Ilnur* A.ij —-A Spinning Wheel »nil Nome Memon(«>e. of Kuril .lu.flc#— A .fudge** ftn.tr (Detroit letter.) HE shore* of Cana da abound In an tiques, and many of the old build ing* contain much that is interesting to the antiquary. The old Stuart House at Sandwich is no exception to the rule, and Mr. James Moore, who now holds possession, own* some relies thut have an Interest outside of their antiquity. Mr. Moore was for many year* an actor, and took the part of Happy Dan. the tramp In the play of the "Old Homestead." I.atcly he re tired from the stage and has settled In Canada. When he left Denman Thompson there were some things thut he took with him, among them a clock, a spinning wheel anil a heiklc. There Isa scene in the play which represents the Interior of an old-fftrbloned farm house. This scene was ore of the best In the play, and the settings were genuinely oli. Among them were the arflelea mentioned. The dock Is a work of art, a<cording to the standard set by the manufacturers at the date of Its building, and Its weather-beaten face still shows some traces of the en amel that was spread on It nearly two hundred years ago. The sons of Mrs. Httiart used It for a targei, and this lias had a detrimental effect ou the face, hut the works are still Intact, i he only needful article in the make-up of the clock Is a string, as the old one gave out some time ago. The. weights, works and hands are still there, and with a little attention now and again "It» „ ^loi k OflJI <lo you I r< iin. I Illuminated fare still carries In almost undecipherable letters the name of Its ricottlsh maker. Geo. Allison, or some thing like It. The original arrange ment provided for the keeping tab on the hours and the day of the month. The latter department Is out of com mission at present, hut the remainder of the clock Is as ready for business as It was when It left Scotland In all the pride of Its new works and ease, ('lose by the side of the old clock rests a tiny sewing machine which has a guaranteed speed of one stitch every nlnutc, w hen the hands of the operator are brink. In spite of Its slowness, however, the little machine is valuable. What does It matter that It Is only eight Inches long and live high, when It can boast of being the first machine of Its kind In this part of the world? And the claim Is a Just one, and seems to be fully substantiated. A somewhat old-fashioned array of cogs eonnect a, Ing the hand-wheel with the shuttle drives the needle reluctantly through the material to lx; sown. The needle In the machine at present, looks to he very old, linked, as do the rest of the works, but neither date nor maker’s name appears on this toilsome fore runner of the speedy and easily run sowing machine of modern times. A spinning wheel of great age In the corner to the left of the entrance to the house Is another Interesting ar ticle. Ah has already been said, It was used for several years In the produc tion of "The Old Homestead,” anil has a glamor of romance attached to it on that account It was once the property of Mrs, Stuart, the former owner of the place, but Instead of humming be neath the foot of this lady's great grandmother, and turning raw prod ucts Into articles of protection, If not •>f comfort. It now has the easy task of lending additional dignity to the hall. Its work and Its travels are both over. The worn treadle shows how much en ergy has been put into the turning of Ihe wheel, but now It rests. At one side of the wheel rests a heckle. This wsh an Instrument used In reducing (lax to a more convenient form for handling than It possesses In u TUB 01,1) MIMXN1XIJ WffBBU. tb* Irat stats** of |(J» gr*|taratioa for lb* Mar to Which It WM 4r*tlmd, The "r«*K" which would do for tb* giant Hiuodcrliuii cuiulitt of lung, thin ■gib** arranged around m a win of rkwin d* frtm Th« agiboa *lt«h out about fmtr Inch** lu length (rum * baching *d oak Th»« ••rw tb* to, an* ua*4 la dw*»ik« the lUi down grug*r< If, aad It la •»<* »* vvntur* that after taw trial tf th*a# *gta«* ib* bat gat* up all Idea *f r*al*l anc* and aut.atll tad pMtatll) Aa a prutftioa gr» ouambty U) lb* touag cbtidfu *f tb* gar Uni there Mi a f*« *klr| gll.l o**r tb* *glh*a fk» *ul*» and log of tbi*. Ilb« lb* *l*h which lor at* tU baebtag fu* »k* agib** at* mad* out «f rough gt*oaa *1 agitt m ot *011,1 oab with lb* odd taahhMMd atattarb. t<ad*r tb* *tr*tUg*t»‘i>M tb* *lab* ar* r*gMwb«hi) Muoatb, **4 tb* Mai* of |b* bga do** aot rtk* • dt*r radii on • he dead and gone joiner. The whole j thing is put together with hand-made nails. which look very odd beside the clean-cut naila of tosday. A few rusty stains on the spikes suggest that per haps the box was not. enough to keep little fingers out, and even a serious accident may he conjured up by the imagination. Home of the relics In the Old Homestead are no relation to the peaceful clock and the spinning-wheel. They carry the memory of old mys teries with them and the trail of vio lent deeds Is upon and over them. The first one In this Class Is an old horse hair chair. This looks harmless enough to the present observer, but some men of the old regime found that as far as they were concerned It was enough of a harmful thing to send them to the gallows. The chair Is a solid and mas sy thing and bore the weight of the honors thrust upon it In a becoming manner. It was the first chair to be used In a court of Justice In tbe coun ties of Sussex and Kent. There is a complete record of the criminals sen tenced to death from this chair, but It Is enough to say that their name Is legion. Murderers, robbers, and all the classes of criminals that existed In the bard old days when this por tion of the world was In an unsettled state have stood before this chair and heard their sentences pronounced. The chair has had a great Influence on the manners and customs of the peo ple who Inhabited the surrounding country, and now, its good work ac complished. It Is used only as an orna ment, and Its present ldi< condition gives no hint of the stirring times through which It has passed. flyves for feet and hands that were worn by some of the more famous anti desperate of the criminals brought for trial before the curule seat are still shown. The ankle manacles arr sug gestive of a very bad quarter of an hour to th' person wearing them, for the-, are smaller than the smullest ankle that can In- Imagined. The idea of them was to have them pressed Into the flesh ANCIENT SEAT OF JUSTICE. of the felon to his additional diatom fort. A binge on one aide of the man aides permitted their opening wide enough to admit the ankles of the eon demited; then the sides were pressed slowly together, and when they hit deeply into the flesh tfiey were taken to the prison smith, who riveted tlnr,. on with nice warm rivets. The fit of these anklets would have pleased tin taste of the most faddy person that ever lived. But they were a bit too clinging for anything like permanent wear. The handcuffs are less brutal In their make-up, but they held 'th> wrists quite tight enough for safety t the state. Unlike the modern wrist - conflners, they did not permit the mov ing of the hands, being made In one piece. A spring lock of ancient pat tern and boundless rust still bol ls the cuffs locked, but a woman with small hands can easily slip them on and off, seemingly Indicating that the size of the human hand is decreasing, or else that there were no feminine transgre: sors In the days of old. The las* number of the collection os antiques ts the most gruesome, and hence, perhaps, the most Interesting, li It nothing less than the model of the gallows-tree upon whirl) the malefai tors were bunged for lit11*- peoeadllini like murder and so on. The model Is very iugcnloux; the frame is light and ntrong and every precaution la taken tliat the remilt shall he all that can he desired--for everyone hut the pris oner. \ hi out post la luxhed to the in alde of the prisoner'* window-fram. and I* the main Htipport of the frann - work. Front a aort of "T"-*hape.l frame him** the fatal rojieIn th. model repreaented l.y a tlahllne. Di rectly underneath the rope la a amatl platform, hinged to the wtndowatll and aupporied l.y a eord running up to I he top of the framework and down Into the room occupied hv the condemned man. When atl waa ready for the etc eilltun the erlminal waa led out onto th# platform and a rental of the rrlntr for which he wua to he executed wan given. Then at a signal the rope which supported the platform waa cut and the prisoner wa* laun. he.| Into eternity a (Told* ttmde from thla model were ] In active u*e In ('nnada until the hill providing for private evecutton was pa—ed, and then the— old denth ma | chute* went out of rowin'—ton. to to j replaced by more modern m i lush. . \part front the gruesome fan. to I that laevttabD cling around telhw ... thin aort. there is a great deal of real (Merest la be found tn the es.atewpu (ton of an tin or* and a little near. King I la sad around hotel alt, would taunt I le— reveal many ... - git) ... • tereattng an tbuae ef Ur U«.. Vl<*> j Ml-h* I understand a>«Didst it ! ; mah lag a barrel of ntuaet Wi. k* j - ttet frwea his wrtt.ngv* Hkka ¥*# k# j bae ertttew n book In th golf dials, r I j Phttadsipbi* Heeaed A HAPPY COUPLE. HOME LIFE OF MR. AND MRS. WILCOX. rh.lr Huiom.r Sojourn nt Ilia Bungalow fli. Ailjar.nt « olinter, (i.nrrally Inhabited by l.llrrary Folk Mr. Wilcox'. Travel*. (New York Letter.) MIC home life of Mrs. Kiln Wheeler Wilcox, during the summer months, makes a pleasing picture ofAmerlcan life. Mr. and Mis. Wilcox have hill It themselves » charming retreat called "The Bunga low” on a rock on the shore of I>mg Island Hound, elx miles east of Yale college, I climbed the rugged rocks up to "The Bungalow” phur.za. Oriental rugs, Merman ueollan harps, Japanese screens, Indian wicker chairs and Mexi can hammocks were all around, "The Bungalow,” like a gnat, pelican icrched upon Its rocky home, has for Its companions four cottages on the shore side of the lawn, like a row of "Mother Carey’s chickens.” Those belong to the Wilcoxes, anil are cosy cots, named ’’.Sea-lawn, Mid-lawn, Rock-lawn, and Oak lawn," and are occupied by people of the literary, musical and artistic world, who thus share a part of "The Bungalow" life, their relations being fraternal rather than financial. It Is therefore a frequent occurrence for them to meet In "the Bungalow" and to I M_. 0 amusement by mimic, soiik ami the otliei- accomplishments, ami to Joiu in the impromptu dances which almost nightly, In the height of the season, are liable to occur. Imagine the great le viathan, stranded upon a pebbly beach, around which remnants of a former for est grew with green grass almost to the wuter’s edge, and a bay of sapphire stretching before you fora mite, where It is merged Into the darker waters of the Hound. Consider, then, the rock upon which "The Bungalow” Is built , that leviathan; upon Its gray track stands the house, twenty-live feet above the water; The winds buffet It, and the angry waves thunder In impotent fury ilnst Its rock bane; the hurricanes It with the spray of the surf In ,u. From the windows of the home then, as they madly turn, they blare as you might, from the windows of u lighthouse, observe the tremendous workings of the sea and wind. Jn stormy weather one In a is musical notes swelling like .■ .gan through the windharps swinging in the breeze, then, as they madly turn, they blare as the wind Increases, u strange, weird nlrncnt to the shrieking do th* storm. uit of the house faces the bay .td lo the south, and Is reached -li ps cut and built In the rock, or on the cast side by means of a natural stairway of rock, which was left with out uny artificial touches, and with the rugged storm-torn cedars clinging to the crevices. "The Bungalow" was built, so to speak, by letter. Mr. Wilcox being absent. The architect who su perintended the construction of the fluently made by her; she has a very beautiful stroke. Is an excellent In structor In ihe art, and she bus con vert ed all her young dryad friends Into naiads. "The Bungalow" Is a feature in the social life at the bench. Annually Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox send out cards for a "Bungalow" hop. These are character istic fetes. The Invitations are written In the scrawling hand of the fair host ess on pale blue cards with “The Bung alow, .Short Beach,” raised Iri deeper blue letters across the top. Throngs of guests from New York, New Haven, Hartford, and the numerous summer re sorts along the Connecticut coast are In evidence for this annual gala night, the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Wil cox extending to an almost unlimited circle of friends and acquaintances. Mrs, Wilcox Is very Industrious, and although she bus no regular Medo Perslau rules as to time, she generally writes some every day. She works with Intensity and earnestness: and what her literary conscience tells her has been neglected one day, she makes up the next day, being capable of rapid and effective writing under pressure of circumstances. She also possesses a faculty of concentration of mind under conditions that would madden most persons. Ordinary conversation, music and laughter, she docs not mind, but 1 am sure she Is more often hindered than most writers are by well-meaning bores, who monopolize her valuable time by nonsensical conversation; or by boorish Idiots, who allow their curiosity to drive them to the Indecent at some wild beast, show. Mrs. Wilcox writes without the use of many notes or hooks of reference, und her original manuscripts show a wonderful lack of changes or corrections. "I wrote my first novel,” says Mrs. Wilcox, "on the hacks of old letters, seated from time to time In the houghs of an old apple tree. My home was In Central Michigan, and I saw noth ing hut that hit of country until tny marriage. I divided my novel Into chapters, and put little poetic lines at the top of each chapter. Original? Yes! Hut my friends told me that authors always quoted those verses at the head of their chapters, and so, ever after I had a contempt for authors who could not write their own verses." <Jlrl« aiHl Kiarrlif, in these days, when much Is expected of women, the question of their phys ical training ought to receive more at tention. In this respect girls are at a disadvantage as compared with hoys, for up to eight or nine years of age a girl mixes often oti equal terms with her brothers In their sports, but after that age healthy exercise Is sacrificed to the Ismdage of genteel deportment. The young girl Is confined, and any gymnastic exercises that are permitted are too often performed In a close room instead of the open air and un der the restraint of ordinary clothing. Anything like vigorous muscular movements are thus rendered Impos sible. and almost the sole exercise Is the torpid walk. Owing of the want of functional activity of the muscular system, the muscles waste and dwindle, and the nutrition of the body becomes Impaired. Many of the troubles women suffer from in later life are undoubt edly due to impaired muscular vigor. Girls need not emulate their brothers lu the cricket Weld, but rackets ar.d lawn tennis might with advantage he „ it • TUB UUNGALOW. building whh happyln having a man of Mr. Wilcox'* art I* tic temperament a* a coadjutor, consequently not a tree wu* cut down, nor a rock chipped or blasted that wa* uot actually in the way. Mr. Wilcox ha* been a greui traveler lu many pari* of the world, an Indt fatl uaide collector, and hu* many »,Hre and beuullful curio*. On one side of the big room, on a Navajo blanket, Is a hue collection of American Indian relics. On the other above a large and luxurious divan, I* another of Oriental arm* atul armor, from a Damascus blade to a murderous double beaded dagger; cu rious wallets, with Mohammedan prayer* on parehincut. a rug from Innc t-rB*lble Thibet a strange little straw and wicker gate to the stall nay In the corner leading to ths upper library tomes from fores Karh lortter, a* well ss each central panel. Is instruc tive. over the ptsno a Ued no in lent; th«* ! southeast corner Is the pwt'suss, con taining a ilesh and a great Inkstand Ihsl holds s quart she evidently be- 1 Here* In pWuiy of smiuunithm but llhs a (toil ■••Idler, she dues not sssts It The little rove to the east of ' The Mungatow ' la si high tide ih*- meeting place of a swarm of good swimmers, of whom Mhort in *, h hwa a large number The writer him often a-com ponied Mrs VV n. m vat her swimming pan lew awA can voo, h that as an amateur she la very expert The »w m |* and from tit«m Island a quarter of a mile away end enm*<im»* In rough aster la fre Indulged In not. however. In tight si ays and tight boots. Swimming, also, should lie taught in ail girls' schools, as It Is an admirable exercise and brings into play all the muscles of the body. fr'aiitiittff hu, running proceeds from different • .ium», the commonest being u dts turlianee In (he circulation of the blood in I he brain. t*'or an ordinary faint ing fit. lay the patient tat. Great harm has ofen resulted from the treat ment of ignorant people In trying to make the patient alt up or propplug up the head wllh pillow*. To send the blood back from the heart tu the brain, the flat posture Is atuudutely necessary, lad the patient lie so that the feet are higher than the head, throw the clothes about th" i best and throat open, sponge i te fare with cold water, and giti some »old water to drink t Mery at tests. A elafy which M deliciously chaise tsrtstb of Mark Twain waa lobi at a dinner ky Ue* IWtef, Just before bs left for hie kVench mission One* when Mark was going away. IWtef said tit kiwi 't local by, Mark, mar God ba with you always. ’ tie drawlingly re* pl ed "I bop* b< will, but I bug*. Ire. that be «>«* bad sum* tnrure motucnis to lab*-ear* of yew." Tbe prioitm of Germany test tb# era p •<* M* a tear THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VII NOV. 14. ACTS 28; 17-31. tiolitfn fill ‘T ini ^Ol A• In*me<f of flie Uoipel of €’lirlgl: for If li the Power of Uod Unto Nilvation to Ktrri One Tlii*f Hulleiclli"' lloan* I# Id. Tim*. I 'mu I t*u*hed Home about March t, A. D. 01. Here Is Lowin'* scheme of dates: Man'll 1, arrival at Koine. March l. address to the .lew*. Hummer of &i, martyrdom of Janies, "the brother of out lx>rd,M In Jerusalem. Autumn Of <*-. Paul Wrote epistles to the llptiesluiiff, lb# Co losstans, and Philemon. Hprlna of wroto epistle to the Philippian*#; <mji» af ter was released from prison, ilsitlna An tioch, Cologne, Kphesus (pci hups Hpatiih July, 01, tlie ffn'ut fire Iti Home, chars 1 to the Christians; Nero's persecution. Autumn of 04, Paul visited Philippi ..i.d Corinth, und wrote First Kplstle to Tim othy and Kplstlo to Titus. Autumn of «*•>. Paul was made u prisoner at Kl»b< ‘ • and taken to Home, where lie wrote th# Heeond Kplstlo to Timothy In prWin. Hummer of 14 (other authorities, ' *>, Paul w.‘H bshsa llttli earlier, « rotwtbly Peter hud Issm martyred, foui >*. v latoi Jerusalem wus destroyed. Place. Homo, the capital of 4n Hor.irj.i empire; center of the world. Horne In Paul's Day. "At the line ..f Paul's visit the city had ouurrowu th« >M Hervlan wall, uud consisted of an » \*« n sivo and Irregular tnsis.- of Imlldlnff un protect#'*! by an outer wall. It was the boast of Auaustus that In found ># city or brick and left one of marble. Within a circuit of little mor# vhi# i twelve mite* more than iwo millions of Inhabitant* were crowded. #»f whom shout <m# mlilUm were slaves. Th# free eltlr ns w« < mor# than a million; of tlnse the dm tors were ho f«-w In number to to he hardly upptc « labl# ; the knights. who nil d j'*u I proport ton of the public oflic* we*, not rn#»r#» than ten thousand: the troops tju/ir fere#I in the city may be reckoned at fif teen thousand; the rest were the fiUjn urhuna. or common limn nit eltlucn# ” llowsoh. "Tin «*lt> had h* * » enriched with th#* spoils of many <*»mju*,rcd in tinti* and on #<verv hand War lUJilirJ-. With Its fit tf riflMIlf vlf MVItl'h’* , •J«'l»LlU4 !'* l > find sensual pleasure*;- which. Imbed, eon HtltUted the dally 1 If# of the people. The arts were cultivated as ro ver hefoi - . arid they were made t»» minister to the • lev' •mil most beastly lusts and passions and an almost wholly unrest ruined dissolute ness had taken th* pine# ol th* simpler virtues of earlier limes. Tl* religion of paganism Is wholly divorced from moral ity, and I in lead the rx’lll'd worship was In many cases ill*- grossest ami th** most Impure orgies. There w*re also whool* *d philosophy, chiefly ol' On-clan origin, which pretended to leach nun* thing call ed 'virtue,' hut their preempts were with out authority, arid the practice; of the inn hers gave tho 11* to ihel’ profession" and with the common peoph the s*iim*« of *lght rind tin* claims of duly were almost absolutely unfclt and disregarded Of this seething pool of moral corruptloi and charnel house of spiritual death » view H given h» the beginning of Paul’s Kplstlo to tin* Homans, written only a f*w y* ft* 4 before. "• t’urry. Paul In Prison. I Paul > la bo rs. tl) lb proa*died and taught; 42) he wrote to tho churches. We possess four of hi* writ ings composed while In prison at Homo tin* epistles Pi tin* ffiphosla-ns. Oolosslans, and Phlllpplana. and the short letter to Philemon; <H) ho prayer! for them <Eph., I. |«; ;{. II, Phil. 1 4, 9); (4) h** sent rnes sengtu's ami helpers to them fKph. 21; Phil. 2. 19. 25). 2. Paul’s trials. 41) Anx kty find danger (Phil. 2. 29;; (2) envy and strife in the church (Phil. 1. 14-19); (Hi a sick friend (Phil. 2. 25-27); (4; tl** confine ment and apparent disgrace. H. Paul's comforts. (I) Faithful friends. (l#uk*% Timothy, Wpaphras, Mark, Aristarchus and Tychlcu* wore among llu* fri*mis who, ‘luring the who)* or part of this film, were with the apostle (we* (’ol. 4. 10-14), Advantage of Paul’s Position ut Home. "1. He whs r.'if* from all the intrigues and plots of the Jews. He could not have been bettor guarded. 2. lb* was brought Into conspicuous notice. Kveryone could hear of the famous prisoner and learn he story of hi** pant labors and of his journey t » Horn**. Tim Gospel at Homo was thus 'a tdty set upon a hill.’ H. Ho could preach th** Gospel with perfect free dom i*; ail who came U« could converse with Individual* or preach to companies. I. The soldier chained to him was relieved at stated Interval*, mo that a large num ber of soldiers would conn? under his In fluence. They would hear all he said to others; he would converse also with them personally, and they would be won by the sweetness of his spirit, his patience, his earnestness and love. Tradition says that the great statesman Seneca was among tho converts to Christianity by the preaching of Paul. It is quite possible, according to Professor Lumby. that the Gospel was Introduced Into England by Homan soldier* who heard Paul preach the Gospel In prison.”—Peiounei. 1*1. lii’u Mii»tv...11 w111 I I tutrifv —.**11 lut m tn the epistles and traditions supply ull that Is known or conjectured ms peeling this last Stage of the? apostle’s ministry. It is supposed that, on being liberated (writ ers do not agree as to the precise order) he visited again parts of Asia Minor and Greece; went to Crete and founded, or more probably strengthened, the church* t'H there; made his long contemplated Jour ney to Spain; wrote ids First Epistle to Timothy anti his Epistle to Titus; after several years of effective labor was ap prehended again as a leader of the Chris tian sect, was brought a second time as a prisoner of Christ to Home; wus tried there and condemned to suffer death. His (toman eltlxenshlp exempted him from the Ignominy of crucifixion, and hence, according to the universal tradition, he was behegded by the ox of the lletor. The same testimony place* Ids martyrdom In the year A l>. 9S, the last year of Nero's reign It was In the daliy expectation of thi* event that he wrote the last of Ida epistles, the second to Timothy."— liuckett Hint* to Teachers* We have here a sermon. Note the cir cumstance* under which It was preached. I'aul. a prisoner, chained to a soldier by his side (vine tb, though in his own house, the Icadcfa of the Jewish colony at Itoiuc gath*re«| to listen. The dream uf the apostle's life wa» now accomplished and he was at Home It matured bill* t * hint whether he < ant* as a prisoner or as a freeman, for he was th«r* as awry* v. h« r* under the cat* of ids lu > i I lad us look at the pr earner of (hie r rniitii t He was a saved loan I'aul himself had felt the |mw«r* of Hat Uuepel which i« preached Yt»*> man who ha* ln*n hatred *» the only <*im wh** at talk lu u'*a%*d n**m a howl naUatfcm MdiSINJ LINKS. t he refute* of the dog taxre vlh'» I that there arc S t*** <*»•*«* lu Krwk# Tk* liin )I»M I.Wu.Wi) It »!*»» I >«» *f»u »‘bh-*n*i bub..* hi«* r*«**' ■» u|wb*4 Mb 44. i (uf (brumbm* tv lit* IIMf rlllht M'kuwt* Uf pr 1.411 HUll.Ul 1141* tb*‘<b «m 44 f wtktdl A H* ktrftlf h'tb ku 4b .41 . h*<u • t»f lb .41* ill* «*»bb*'*f*,l bi lk Ikf* *4>l 14.M by **rf Ab* Ink** tk v ifk *k* h Ik* *11 *H*bljr lb k*»l* Ik* &**»• !*•* Ibhfl**t*4 HIS FLY BOOK. If !• Hearer to the Angler Thee Any <11 tier ro*«c«iton. Is there anything closer to an an gler's heart than his lly-book? I know of a case where a burglar, among other things, took a fly-hook. He was ar rested and speedily convicted and Im prisoned. He cleared things out pr»-t;> well In the house, hut Ihn owner seem ed to care nothing about the missing fur coats, sealskin sacks, silverware • ami other valuable lares and pennies, but he did bewail the loss of his hook ij of flies. The other things ho could buy \j again, but to ger together such nil as sortment of vnliiuble flies seemed to him an Impossible thing. He had been years collecting them, picking up odd ones here and there, until, for quality and variety his book ciuld not be ex celled. It was a fly storehouse, as It were. No matter where he intended Ashing, or whether for trout, buss 01 salmon, he could always find a chob < assortment to draw from’ with which to fill up n supplementary book. At though It was some lltnn ago lie ye; bewails th> loss of that fly-book. Many have been thi efforts to get truck o' it. but nil In vain, lie has gone to tin expense of sending to the prison. In a distant city, and endeavoring to pre vail upon the convict to divulge tin hiding place of the book, but willimit success. A persistent search of rh< pawnshops arid periodical advertising have produced no better results. There were flics Iri that book fo. trout and salmon In Irish waters; lllc for the salmon and trout of the Scotch lakes and the ICngllsh streams, and ftfg.u f/xe It.ii ...I**.,... ynoomu *T I . . favorites from Maine to California, und from one end of Canada to another, wer< collected in that wallet anythin; and everything from the feathordowi midget with cobweb gut. to the lordly salmon fly, absolutely Irresistible to the lurking salmon deep down In tin , ley pools of the Cuscapedia. There were Hies in that book on which fnm oils bass, trout and salmon had lieeti lo oked, each lly carrying with It mem ories of battles fought from cunoc among the rushing, swirling waters. Pittsburg Dispatch. * MISERLY WITH DYING BREATH. runtime of llultu Xvffu, Worth » Quart;r of u .llllllou. from the Chicago Tlmes-Herald; Haltc Sven,” a character of the North Side for some fifty years, died ut the Alexlan Brothers' hospital last Thurs day us the rcKitlt of a fall from the second story of n hullding at Hobble street and Milton avenue. "Haltc Sven" which means “Damn Sven" was a miser. Ills name was 8 I'. Johnson, hut few know It. He owned u score of apartment houses on the North Side and hls wealth Ih estimated at $250,000. But the old man hud lived for years on what he could find In tlx garbage boxes of the neighborhood. It any of hls Swedish countrymen offered him a drink he requested to be given the coin It would cost and pocketed ft with thanks. Many stories are told of "Haltc Sven’s" peculiarities. One day h>- cull ed at one of hls handsome apartment houses, and a servant who did not ' know him came to tfie door. She assum ed he was a tramp, und without ques tioning him gave him some food. H< eagerly devoured the food and then as tounded the girl by requesting her to tell her master the landlord had been there for the rent. Ho died bewailing the expense incurred ut the Alexlan Brothers’ hospital, and almost frith Ills last breath begged to be removed to the free County hospital. A sister In Minneapolis is his only uoir. The Hint of I'aradinp. A creature of most gorgeous beauty is the bird of paradise. As an oriui ment of beauty and grace, the bird of the sun- -or bird of (Jod, as it is some time! railed by the people of Ternate [ stands unrivaled, and no bird has given ! rise to more romantic and fabulous tales; such, for instance, ah the ridicul ous assertion that the bird of paradise lives all its life long on the wing and In the air, ami is horn without legs The natives of Gilolo and New Guinea have a curious « us tom of cutting off the legs of all dead birds of parad1st offered for sale or barter, and this may ] have given rise to the legend us to th< : bird being without legs. The true ren ■ son, however, for this peculiar opera tlou Is that the birds are supposed u tie much better preserved, and the ua tlvee are also enabled to moru cast I > wear them as oruamets to their bet , met* in mock bnlttee. Ah *:>|»u«lv« Appatltp. “Men arc very stupid about some thtugs.” she remarked. “Thty have no Idea of the value of some of tin { i ommonret things. I never knew on< 1 who could tell the difference la'tween j » high-priced and a low-priced (,iw. of goods." “Iki you regard that a* a test of In teltlgence?" asked her husband "Certainly; in one way tmn't you. * “No. I can't admit that (here's ant merit In a maa'e studying for year* I tu learn what cornea natural!* to s moth " Waaktngton Otar. t <ao««tu*d ihik* Charley," aatd young Urn Twliiu I eirh that the United ntatee u nate . were in wranlco-" ”1 don i w* why.*4 tin out it ilvtrk't net anything in i g*« W- ' tun * hat make yun want to g«t '' » '’ltMt wild real* rla| tfeal eugt* 11 mew i ih* pttseedtng* of • ke asnat* wees n | net to t far* * Am! yon knew tk«y Ja I any w many «!»»»* tloege *t fart eg." I ► Wwkis|k's dim