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IN THE ODD CORNER. SOME STRANGE. QUEER AND CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE. ^ « Peculiar Method* of a Kentucky Horae Trainer -The Oldeet Kali road Man In Maine—A Chicken with Rehblti Feet —The Shoogy-Shoo. The Shoogy-Shoo. DO be thinking. 1a* sle, of the old days now; For, oh! your hair Is tangled gold ubove your Irish brow; And, oh! your eyes are fairy flux! no other llower so blue; Come, nestle In my aims, and awing upon the shoogy shoo. Sweet and slow, swinging low, eyes of Irish blue, All my heart In swinging, dear, swing ing here, with you; Irish eyes are like the Max, and mine are wet with dew. Thinking of tho old days upon the shoogy-shoo. When the meadow-larks would singing be In old Glentair Was one sweet lass had eyes of blue and tangled golden hair; ^-'She wan a woe bit glrleen then, dear w" heart, the like of you. When we iwo swung the brues among, upon the shoogy-shoo. Ah, well, the world goes up and down, and some sweet day Its shoogy-shoo will swing us two where sighs will pas* away; 80 nestle close your bonnle head, and close your eyes so true. And swing with me, and memory, upon the shoogy-shoo. Sweet and slow, swinging low, eyes of Irish blue. All my heart Is swinging, dear, swing / lug here, with you; A Irish eyes are like the Max, and mine are wet with dew. Thinking of the old days upon the shoogy shoo. —Wlnthrop Packard In the Chap-Book. A Kentucky Horae Trainer. Readers of George Harrows famous "Lavengro” will remember the "whis perer” who tamed the fiercest horse simply by whispering in the animal's ear some magic gypsy words. Logan f county, Kentucky, has a noted horse tamer, but he Is no whisperer nor does he know aught of Kommany ma gic. HIb methods are far different and more primitive. He is, strangely enough, a Shaker, and an honored member of that sect. His name Is Lo renzo Pearclfieid and ho lives at South Union. Mr. Pearclfieid is now close to 70 years of age and weighs about 300 pounds. Now, there are plenty of peo ple in good old Logan who weigh near on to 300 pounds, despite the cry of hard times jfhd starvation that the sil verites raise in that section, and there are plenty of people in Logan county very much older than 70 years, but it Is these two attributes combined with another that distinguishes Lorenzo Pearclfieid. There is not another man In Logan or any other county, so far as known, who is 70 years old and weighs 200 pounds who is noted as the most suc cessful horse breaker in his section. Yet this is true of the colossal old Shaker. The secret of his success in this direction seems to lie In his great strength and courage. He Is absolute ly fearless and almost as strong as an ordinary horse. He has a system all his own, which consists in first demon strating to the perfect satisfaction of the horse that he is the master of the situation. To do this it is sometimes necessary to throw the horse down and .u_1,;.. t.,.,.,1 does In the most approved style. After 300 pounds has sat upon his hor.se shlp’s head for a little while he is sat isfied. Mr. Pearcifleld then hitches him to his little cart and drives about and looks at the country. So great 13 his fame as a tamer of wild horses that the farmers for miles around bring him unmanageable horses to break, and none has baffled his skill and strength. Olriftfit IlihilroMtl Mitn. The oldest railway man in New Eng land if not In the country Is Water man llrown. who, though 80 years old, is atill employed at Woburn, Mass., as gato tender, having been employed by tho laiwell road sixty-six years. Ho lost ?n arm In an accident while firing on tho road In 1860. He is eccentric, and Is so renowned ns a collector of curiosities that people ull over New England send him presents of queer things. Among the curiosities he has is a bit of the first rail laid on tho l.owcll road in 1834. He has a model of the Stephenson. the first locomotive, and he owns the first engine belt ever made. He has 400 circus tickets In a trunk. They were given to him In the laat thirty years, and he never used them. It was Tuesday morning two weeks ago that Mr. Prow n received a small box containing a solid silver elephant erratic I '■ .i pin to fuvrn It to his lapel, lu the box wj* a note, unmis takably written by a woman. He was told the other day that thers would be an assistant to help him emit and that then wh*s*ver was in charge must tie there every minute right at the gate, ‘‘ttallroadlag Is getting tun nice for me,** he anld. "I have to he here from 6 In the morning lu II at night and hondays I >*• eat nty din ner la Just seven minutes. I have nj cap right by the chnir where I nut let ft. nod the house to right ever there, side nf the treefc"* Hie nrnviy eep-la'ly oacrtstN the htatery of the rune, to wonderful Me anld: “I guess people don't lies that the Itaetun end lateell railroad arse hull! •tore tn carry freight thee fur pumas - gem. You see it was this way: In 1834, I guess It was.two men were driv ing around in a buggy. They were looking over the ground with an idea to build a flfty-foot macadam road from Boston to Lowell, to team cotton over. The old canal wouldn’t accom modate all of it even then. Well, just about that time they got wind of the engine Stephenson had made and they turned to that Instead of their mac adam road. But I ran the first gravel train, yes (laughing), you can say that I ran the first gravel train on the road with oxen." A Happy Family. There was a happy family at the West Thirtieth street police station In New York the other night which was the outgrowth of persecution. When the summer began the rats around the building began to make declarations as to the summer games, and midnight vaudevilles were held on bandy roofs and In convenient ailcys. They became somewhat of a pest and received as saults from people who were disposed to regard them as disturbers of the peace. The police when coming In from the 12 o’clock post would fre quently take a fling at some Thomas cat who happened to be making a de topr of the street In search of a chorus. Finally things reached such a pass that a eat was as good as gone when he appeared In range of a flying club. Frequently u fusillade would occur that sounded like u tenement house falling down. So unerring became the atm of some of the policemen that they would kill a feline serenader at thirty paces with their clubs. The boys of the neighborhood took a hand In the sport and the man who has the contract for collecting dead animals In that district was In a fair way to make a small for tune. Then the neighbors complained fl I"! ft I V.l 11*!. I.t rt Vli'iv ..Ail t r. nubdtio the cuts by more humane means. Night after night when he rame In from his post he would bring wraps of moat, crackers and other food, which h« distributed In front of the station-house Judiciously. At first the persecuted animals raroo to the feast gingerly, but afler a week or two they came out In droves shortly after midnight and partook of the supper spread before them by the animal-lov ing cop. As time went on the eats eame to know their benefactor and they pasgfd around the word that he was “all right.” Those who came to sing re mained to eat, and when they had eat en they went quietly awt.y. Feline an imosities were forgotten, and now they gather on the front porch ns though they owned the place. The other po licemen have suspended hostilities and the war has been declared off. Some times ten or twelve sleek-looking tab bies can be found dozing around the entrance, waiting for Shay to come In, and It Is a dangerous thing to attempt to disturb any of them. Chlrkfn With Itnlililt'ii Vevt. This country seems to he. especially productive of freaks In the animal A GOOD CIRCUS INVESTMENT, world. The museums do not get hold of all of them, and the scientists are puzzled to explain their probable cause. Here Is a picture of a chicken with rabbit feet. The photograph of the curiosity was sent In by Mr. Sleight of Peshtlgo, Wis. The chicken was one of a family of nine, ull of which had rabbit feet. Sentenced for SOD Year*. Wllllstou Palmer Is tho name of a white man against whom there are sentences of 20# years In the Georgia penitentiary. Palmer was originally sent up for eleven year* from South Georgia for burglary. Shortly after ward. while working In the mines of Dade county, he attempted with other convicts to escape, and In the melee that followed he killed two of the guards. He was tried some time ago for the kitting of the first guard aud got ninety-nine years. lie was then put on trial for the killing of the other man and got ninety-nine years mure. •Uaiklw «r Huliao im Sportsman. Iloheintan sportsmen during the year is«»6 shot and killed So men, women and children and wounded S.lot per sona, chiefly gamekeeper* They alto killed, among other game, over IS.W .log*. T,T*3 tats, two looses, fifteen rows, 133 talt*w. 31* *• at* and If* cheep. For this they had to pay «*d l*< lively over Idee,moo fnr dorter*, fine* sad IndemattM*. and to *pwnd IU*t days m Jail Th* Austrian govern ment collect* the statistic*. At th* fekitae ImUiIIIm of King tt* ear of tiwedsn and Norway, on* of th* feature* that appeared hi m to later •st him ru th* e v h t fen ton of th* ft • vie fir* hrt*»4* *1 k -t. I here •rw Id* of I**ea r«•(»* •■•me* from twenty to thirty year* old. tlrwlnl hy * mat* rvmmaader a he I* Buttled FOR BOYS A.ND’GIRLS. I — SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. A Little Heroine, a story of tlie Pen insular tT»r — Otioit Htortee That Caused l aughter - True Nobility, a Poem. True Nobility. OR this true noble ness 1 seek In vain. In woman and In man 1 Km! It noi: 1 almost weary of ray earthly lot. My Hfe-sprlng* are drleal up with burning pain. Thou flnd’et It not? I I pray tlice look attain, I.ook 1 n w a r al - through tho depths of thine own soul llow Is it with lInto? Art thou sound anal whole? Doth narrow search show lltee no earthly stain? Be noble, anal the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead. Will rise In majesty to meet thine own; Then wilt tlion m-aa It gleam III many eyes. Then will light around thy path he shed. And thou wilt never more be sad and lolls. - James Russell Dowell. Ii . • . - A Little llsrislne. Buron Lejeune, who played a con spicuous part at the siege of Saragossa during the Penlnmlar war, narrates In his "Metnolrcs" a singular atory of that terrible time, a story that speaks equal ly well for the chivalry of the soldiers of France and the courage of u Spanish girl. There had been fearful rarnage with in the walls of the unfortunate city; even (he convents und monasterle* were reeking with evidences of war fare, and the inhabitants of Harugossu were In n desperate plight. A band of Polish soldiers, belonging to the French army, had been stationed on guard at a certain point, with or I from one to another, and then, moved j | by a chivalrous Impulse, they lowered saber and musket, and with one ac cord a hundred voices called out, "Do 1 not bo afraid little one! We will not hurt you!” And the Spanish maiden passed with 1 her gruesome burden between a double line of her country's foes, who made a silent salute as she crossed their boun daries and returned to her desolate home. A Cl host Story. A narty of people had been telling ghost stories, the ghosts in every ease being accounted for In some matter of-fact way which aroused the laughter of the listeners when they came to an I end. At last the host was asked for his contribution. "I saw a ghost once," he admitted, 'and although It's n good while since I've thought of it I can well remember my fright. "I was a boy about 12 years old, and I had been off fishing nil day. I stopped lo take supper at my uncle’s farm on tho way home, and ufter sup per went out to the barn with tny cousin Him. while he did tho milking. Then Him ami 1 sat down in the hay loft for a while discussing some plans, I have forgotten what, and It was dusk before I started on my lonely wilk home. “I bad never known v.hat It wan lo lie afraid, but I did remember as I started off down tho long lane, close lo the graveyard, that some foolish girls had said ghosts walked In that lane after dark. "Just after I had turned Into the lane I saw what seemed to be a sha dowy figure walking, or rather Hitting, a short distance In front of me. In voluntarily I lagged a Utile; the sha dowy figure seemed to do the same. "Then I hastened my steps, and still the Hitting figure In shadowy garments kept before me, at exactly the same distance. In spite of myself I began to feel frightened, and then I turned out of the lane on to the loneliest pictures. When the Iasi Jaave^ddlij dropy--Aftthe peasant summer daifv ‘ t"4*dP f ( _ JmT ' ■ —From the Youth * Companion. ders to Are upon any Spaniard who might pass them. Suddenly a girl ft about fifteen years of age appeared among them. A cry of warning was heard on every side ns she approached, but the child seemed not to hear. She only continued to utter one ceaseless and piercing wall, "Mlu madre! mla madre!” as she hurried from one group of dead and wounded Spaniards to an other. It soon became evident that she was In search of the body of her mother, and the pale, agonised face of the child, whose filial love had made her almost insensible to danger, touched the soldiers' hearts with pity. A mo ment later a despairing cry announced that she had found that for which sh« had risked her life. The I'ollsh guards watched her movements with some thing like awe as she stooped and ten derly wrapped the mutilated form of the dead woman in a clonk and lagan to drag It away. Suddenly the girl paused aud seised a heavy cartridge Ihis that lay In her path with an energy that tee to* d almost supernatural. Her frail, delicate form swayed and stag gered beneath the weight of h*r bur den, but she did n«t hesitate A thrill of mingled horror and ad nitration tilled the astonished watca* era a# they perceived that them, be fore their »*ry faces, she was taking Iron them an Instrument fur fumes vengeance upon them. tbs Inhabitants of the h*»i»g*d city were almost destitute of ammunition, end the moth*flees daughter sought to put mm tbs bands of bar •ooMrymsn a means by whnb her «><>»ge might be la some degree avenged Hot tbe aireta so be* >mieg almost more than sbe esinM t«»», the alum bled, and a try **f terror broke from bar Ups Tba thrleh a liars glassed stretch of road anywhere about, and saw the hovering figure still before me the perspiration started out of my fore head In beads. "I put up a damp hand to n still damper forehead and brushed away a whlsp of hay which had been hanging from my hat brim In front of my eyes. I saw no more of my ghoBtly compan ion. it Is needless to say, and 1 was so ashamed of myself that It was years before I could make up my mind to tell such a Joke on myself.’’ Ksplslueit. Having been absuat from school for a whole duy, a small boy was called out from his class the next morning ! ! by the head master, who wished to I know the cause. The boy replied that | his brother went lo have a tooth pulled '< out. aad that he went to "holler’’ for : him. , , "What*” said the schoolmaster, "you | ! had to holler for him?" "Yes, sir," said ihe hoy, The schoolmaster, believing that the hoy was telling a II*. Immediately went for hie ease, and threa'.aed to thrash him soundly if he did not apeak the I truth. "I am speaking the truth,” said th» ; h«y. "ft l« like thta. air. My rather •» a greea grocer aad govs his rounds •very morning, aad lather's gat asth ma very bad sad cannot rati not what 1 he's gut to sell, so my brother gust • ith him to hollar hr him, aad he, having hu troth polled wit ysstsrdsy, I went and did the haltering for him ” The hoy was placed nt the top oi the ; class Did gossips are t •eart at human oh* through whirh the tear* eift mi the good, leaving behind only tha hash* snd grMty part* 3AMPFIRE SKETCHES.! JOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. iflm« St4tl.Ur* Relative to the I'te War—The White. Killed ami Wound ed Coat t'nrlfl Maui Over E'gbty Tlioti.and Hollar.. The Vacant Chair. E .hall meet, but we .hall ml** him; There will he one vaeani chair; We .hall linger to can .a him. While we breathe o n r evening prayer. When, a year ago we gathered, Joy wus In hi. mild blue eye: Hut a golden cord I. revered, And our hopes In ruin lie. We shall meet but we shall mis* him; There will he one vaeant chair; We .hull linger to rare.* him. While we breathe our evening prayer. At our fireside, sad and lonely. Often will the bosom swell. At remembrance of the story, How our noble Willie fell; How he strove to bear our banner Thro’ the thickest of the fight. And upheld our country's honor, In the strength of manhood's might. True, they (ell us wreaths of glory Evermore will deck Ills brow; But thla soothes the anguish only, Hwceplng o'er our heart-string* i.ow; Bleep to-day, O, early fallen! In thy green and narrow bed; - Olrge* from the plno and cypresg Mingle with the tears we shed. J The t'te War Ten Years Ago. Tl._ I - 4 ..4 4_* 4 # ....4 1.1. Iho Utes of the majesty of Colorado law cost Just. $80,314.72, when all tho hills were allowed, exclusive of inter est, which has since piled up to quite a fortune within itself. Two whites were killed and four wounded. This happened In August, 1887, when all the White Klver valley was Included In Garfield county. Under their treaty the Utes could oc cupy the unsettled part of their old res ervation, not only for the hunting ground, but to pasture t'.ielr herds or ponies, goats and cattle. Tills privi lege they used to the utmost, and they became very undesirable neighbors for the whltoe, who were Just, occupying the country themselves. A young Uto buck gambling for ponies designated os a stake a horse belonging to a white man. He lost, and when the winner went to take tho pony and found that It was not his a warrant was sworn out for tho Ute on a charge of horse stealing. ArrcHt was resisted, tho Utes Belittled into the hills and the sheriffs posse was swelled hy every man in the country that could carry a gun. The Utes knew every Inch of the hills, and the whites knew only the valley trails. No one know where the Utes were and terror seized the whole region, every ranchman feeling that a band of hos tile^ might sweep down niton him it any moment. Urgent appeals were sent to Gov. Alva Adams, who Is governor now, showing such a condition of af fairs that the whole state ml lit fa force was sent Into the Held, United States troops were sent in from Fort Duch esne, too. Tho militia found tho In dians at the mouth of Miller creek, hut while complicated military strategy was In progress tho Utes stolo away. Next day scouts found thorn at th" Forks of White River, where Buford postofflee Is now. There was a lively tunning light, In which tho only cas ualties of tho "war” occurred, us be fore enumerated. Then the Utes, mi nus from seven to twenty of their men —no one knows how many—abandoned their flocks and raced back to Utah. The settlors took In the ponies and cat tle, the goats were left to the moun tain lions, and the Utes abandoned the idea of anything more than brief and fugitive visits to Colorado. Colorow, after craving permission of the whites, paid a last regretful visit to the White River Valley and then died In his lodge in Utah. Since then the Utes, though had tempered enough, have had no leader whose name bore any terror to white ears, and so have avoided any collisions, sneaking In and out by unfrequented ways.—Denver Republic an. Mia-rlilmi In Haiti*. Gen. Horuce Porter In his "Cam paigning With Grant" In the Century says of Sheridan at Appomattox: "No one could look at Sheridan lit such a moment without sentiment of iindts Biilnofl ndmlnition. Ill thi« Aimnfllirn as In others, he had shown himself possessed of military traits of tho highest order. Hold In conception, self reliaut, demonstrating by bis acts that "much danger makes great hearts most resolute,'* fertile In resources, combin ing the restlessness of a Hotspur with the patience of a Kahlua, It Is no won der that he should have been looked upon as the wlsard of the battlefleld. Onerous of his Ilfs, gifted with the Ingenuity of a Hannibal, the dash of a Murat, the murage of a Ney, the mag netism of his presence roused hta troops to deeds of Individual heroism and hta unr inalterable e iluinns rushed to victory with all the cenddence of a Caesar's tenth legion. Wherever blows fell tMrhest there was hu ersst. fte splt* ills valor of the defense oppuslag rank* went tluwa before the Itergeaeat ut his assets, never to rise ass n, gad he would not pause till the folds uf his banner waved above the alMjngholde he had wrested from the foe. Brave Shettilaa. I rag almost see him sow, his sit*»t elav agaia gate hasted tat* Ufa sac# mure rtdlng Hosst through • »f hell, leaptag opposing isrllsorlt It a vtagle baaed snd I saving a-thlag »f those who hawed hta wap esc pi Ihs r>ssweat• scattered la his path. As lec g as mast* courage la lathed «f np herow deeds are honored the beam uf a grateful people will beat responsive to the mention of the tallsmanic name of Sheridan.” ModMt, hot Self-Reliant. General Grant neither overestimated nor distrusted himself. He was modest a:nl inclined to claim less than his due. Lut he was also self-reliant and per sinent. An anecdote, related by Mrs. Sherwood in her "Epistle to Posterity,” sets forth his disposition to Accord to others their due and to claim little for himself save the virtue of "getting there." Mrs. Sherwood told him on one oc casion that an English officer who had been present at the dinner given hlni u/ tne Duke of Wellington In the Wa terloo chamber had told her In Isindon that ho thought him a very learned soldier. "Well. I am not." said Grant. "I had neither the genius of Sherman, nor the learning of Lee nor Macphor son. I only meant to get there." In 1866, just after the close of the war, General Grant visited West Point, his old alma mater, accompanied by Mrr. Grant. "We were In the library," writes Mr.. Sherwood; "the examination was going on, and Professor Rartlett left, the room, coming bark with Grant on Ills arm. The professors roso to re ceive him. 1 think poor General Ornnt nearly sank through the floor; he winced as ho never had done In the face of the enemy. ‘‘Those dreaded professors rising to do me honor! Why, I felt all the cadet terror all over me," he afterwards said. He was more eomfortablo when he got outsldo and began shaking hands with all mankind and womankind, but. no one who saw that notable scene cau forget Ills modesty. Cngeil f'lkn ii Wild Capt. UreyfuH 1h the man who wai condemned by Kranco to exile on tho _1 f'l.i.eni.o nff I ZIAOuf of French Guiana tor revealing French army secrets to the enemy. Whin Dreyfus was first placed on the island a hut was erected utmost In the center and placed at his disposal. Near by three other huts were erected, one for the officer In charge, the second for the six soldiers doing guurd duty and the third for two convicta who acted us servauts. Now a great Iron cage has been built around the hut occupied by Dreyfus. It was begun six mouths ago and has Just been completed. It cost 00,000 francs to build aixl is as elaborate as CAPT. DHEYFUS’ IKON CAGE. If Intended to hold a small regiment of wild beasts. The French government feels that It has Dreyfus safe at last. Very Much In I,ove. “While Admiral Porter was in com rnand of the Mississippi squudron, and ut a time when they were most ac tively engaged,” said Capt. Lloyd G. Harris, of St. Louis, “a young ensign made his appearance on the flagship and astounded the admiral by asking him for a leave of absence. ‘Why, sir,' roared Porter, 'don't you understand that no officer can leave at this time, no matter who he is or what his ex cuse?’ “ ‘But, admiral, It Is a case of life and death; 1 must go.’ ” 'But you can't go; It la Impossible.’ " ’Please hear me, Admiral Porter. When I entered the service I waB en gaged to as pretty a girl as there Is in northern Illinois. I havo Just got word that one of those miserable home guards has been courting her, and my friend says it looks as though if I didn’t come back pretty soon I will lose her. Now, admiral. I think under the circumstances, you might let me go for a week, at least.’ “Porter’s heart melted; the ensign got leave, went home and married the girl In triumph.’’—Chicago Tlmeg-Her aid. Ills Narrow Korspe. To the Editor of the American Tri bune: Few, except old veterans, know how nearly Jeff Davis came to b>‘lut; tried by a court-martial In Georgia soon utter his cipture. Maj -Gen. Wil son. commanding the cavalry troops, by members of which Davis was matin prisoner, had convened a court of which Col. C. G. Thomson, of the sev enty-second Indiana, now a resident of laifayette. whs mad* president, ami while the Judge advocate was looking around for Ink and paper to record the proceedings a telegram from the War department was received ordering Da vis lo be sent to Washington, tioldivr* who were on the mens say tbe war spirit waa far alsive fever heat just then, and If the Washington dispatch Had been delayed about forty-sigh' hours tbe Government would have been saved a large evpense and much worry in deciding wbai court* should be pursued toward Davis J |g. ft. There D nothing faith ran not nuke ! noble whom U touch** It Vou meed not say 1 *•“' •» «*t nwny from m/ daily business ev from any dumeutw concern* in nrd«r to show my fsith, No n« stop where ywu ate and show it D I* M‘«ody digs men grieve two dollar* twin >««r every dollar they lose.