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I Washington Gossip Interesting Bits of News Picked Up Here and There at the National Capital NO FOOLISH LATIN ON STATUES, SAYS WILSON WASHINGTON.—P lain, everyday harnyard English, and no high falutin' Latin for Tama Jim Wilson. The secretary of agriculture has given a rude shock to the sculptors who heretofore have been wont to embel lish architecture and allegorical de signs and inscriptions suggesting lin guisitc association with the old mas ters and the classics. He has even gone so far as to compel the stone cutters to rechisel the inscriptions on the new agricultural building, the wings of which have been constructed ahead of the main portion. The new home for the department which, when finished will have cost about $3.0(10,000, is now nearing com pletion. and the secretary is taking as much interest in its progress as though ii were designed for a country home for himself. On the north shore are four pedi ments. in each of which are a male and a female figure, seated with a shield between them. On these shields Jr are inscribed the four words "Fruc tus." ‘‘Cereales,” Forestes” and “Flores." A few days before leaving Wash ington for the summer the head of the department come into the office of his assistant and friend. Dr Beverly T. Galloway, chief of the bureau of plant industry, who is also deeply in terested in the plans for the building, and in the course of their conversa tion the i>ediments were considered. These are in full view Of Dr. Gallo way's office. In glancing at. them and in looking at the photographs that had just been taken Secretary Wilson asked: "Doctor, what do these words mean? Fruetus,’ what on earth is that?" "Why, that's Latin for fruit, and the others mean cereals, flowers and for est," replied the scholarly Galloway. "Well, why in - don't we say so. then, and cut out this foolish Latin?" was the prompt reply. Orders were then and there given that the stonecutters erase the offen sive words and substitute up-to-date j "United States." Dr. Galloway closed the incident by remarking that it. was just as well to change them, ah there was no such Latin word as “forests” anyway, and that, at least, would have to be 1 changed. PRESIDENT CREATES NEW RESERVATION FOR BIRDS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has sign ed an order creating the Tern Is lands a Hird reservation. This is the i eighth reservation for birds created by the president. It embraces all the "mud lumps,” so called, in and near the mouths of the Mississippi river. The "mud Jumps" are islets more or less temporary, and created chiefly by sedimentary deposits from the river. They seldom exceed an acre in size and are elevated from five to eight feet above high tide. They are occu pied during the breeding season by large numbers of brown pelican and other terns. Many thousands of the venous species breed in these places every year. These islands are useless for com mercial or agricultural purposes and are reserved to protect the birds. The islands are placed under t)*e charge of the ^secretary of agriculture, who ap points wardens whose duties einlnace frequent trips to them, putting up warning notices and otherwise pre venting trespassers from molesting the birds, either out of curiosity or to collect plumes or eggs. The recommendation for this re serve was indorsed strongly by the National Association of .-tudubon soci eties for the protection of birds End animals, whose expert ornithologist and field agent visited the islands and filed an exhaustive report on the bird breeding qualities and feeding ground of the native fowl along that section of the coast. The creation of reserves of this character is strongly encouraged and supported by the League of American Sportsmen and similar societies. TARS DESIRE CHANGE IN STYLE OF THEIR TOGS JACK TARS of the United States have made such a protest against the headgear and blouse they wear ashore and on dress occasions aboard ship that to meet the clamor of the enlisted men the navy department has appointed a committee on changes in the uniforms. Capt. Hugo Osterhaus. commander df the battleship Connecticut, is chair * man of this committee. He has sent out a statement to the captains of all war ships in the north Atlantic squad ron and to the commander of every ship in the service, asking for sugges tions. The enlisted men are desirous of ob taining coats and visor caps. Many of them want the wide, flaring trous ers, the world-round, immemorial cut peculiar to sailor men, changed to the ordinary pattern, but the principal grievance relates to the blouses and the old-fashioned pancake caps. These caps are said by all seamen to be use less on a windy day, as they can net be kept on the head. They give no shade to the eyes a.nd seem to exist merely as a relic of the past. The protest over the blouse is con sidered justified, in the first place the seamen object to the wide coila which blows up around their ears on windy days. They want shekrter neck erchiefs and coats cut like those o? the marines. Should the sailors’ demands be granted seamen well wear coats foi the first time in the history of the American navy. The proposed changes would affect the 30,000 sea men in the navy and would entail a large outlay. It is believed that a change in the trousers will not be made at once, but that the tars will be supplied with coats and visor caps. A N official investigation of the coffin ' trust must be deferred until the department of justice can find a few spare moments in which to give it at tention. No inquiry has yet been in stituted. and none will be undertaken for several months. It has become known that practi cally every coffin manufactured in the country is turned out at factories own ed and'operated by a trust almost as remunerative as the oil trust. It is declared that the men who head the coffin trust have made millions out of the business, and that their dividends GOVERNMENT TO PROBE SIEGED COFFIN TRUST virtually equal those of the Standard Oil company. The prices of coffins, it is stated by undertakers, have grown higher and higher each year. The living are be ing literally pillaged through their love for the dead, and funerals have everywhere become exceedingly cost ly. It is asserted among undertakers that the growing popularity of incin^. erttionje due, in a large measirt^r wf* the great expense of a regulation fun eral. If incineration should become cheaper the coffin trust, would have a dangerous rival. How Roses Took Their Colors. "The roose in his radness is richest of flowres,” sang one of the old-time poets. The legends generally assume, however, that roses were originally white. But one day Cupid, whc, we know, hath oft’ disturbed life’s wine;’ upset the nectar of the gods, spilling it over some roses, and Immediately their petals were stained red. say3 the Circle. According to another story, roses were white until Venus stepped upon , a thorn, and her blood stained her W favorite flower. This last tradition lives in Spenser’s verse: ‘•White as the native rose before the change m Which Venus’ hlood did in her leaves im press.” Still another story is of a Bethlehem maiden as pure and sweet as a white rosA She was falsely accused of crime and condemned to be burned. When fires were lighted about her she appealed to heaven to save her and to her innocence. Htracutously the flames gave place to yellow roses and the burning coals to red ones. When the Greeks met in secret councils a rose was suspended over the table as a sign that nothing heard there was to be repeated. Hence sub rosa — nnder the rose — signified se crecy. Not, Love, But— Edith’s Papa—And so you love my daughter? Edith’s Admirer—I do, indeed, sir; I cannot tell you how much I love her. Do you know what it is to see a single face everywhere, to hear a single voice ever sounding in your ears, to be pos sessed by the one idea, to feel all the time that the one presence is be fore you, to— Edith’s Papa—No, young man, I have never had any of those feelings since I signed the pledget A Family Tree. Maude—Young DeSwell is always talking ^about his family tree. il18 •***■■*** * gen-* nine c&ftriuut Chicago News. f—.N 1__ Primary Law Instructions. The county clerk of Cass county tel ephoned to the attorney general that with the poll books sent to his county was enclosed printed instructions how to make up the primary ballot. It was stated in the instructions that a blank line was to be left upon which the voter could write in a name. 1 Attor ney General Thompson and Secretary of State Junkin have not sent out any instructions how to make up the bal lot, but have left that to the discretion of the county clerks, who are sup irosed to follow the law in the matter. Any instructions seat out with the jioll books are sent without authority from the state officials and should, according to Mr. Junkin. have no weight with the county officials. Just how the instructions got into the jm>11 book package, of course, is not known at the state house. These books are sent out by the printers, and the coun ty clerks get their printing done where they please. The following two letters contain all the matter sent out by the secretary of state and any matter other than this is without his authority: August 15. 1907.—County Clerk: In sending you ceitificates of filings of candidates to be voted for in the Sep tember primary, this department did not undertake the formation of an official ballot. We refer you to sections 8 and 9 of the Primary law as to who shall make up. and the form of ballots. We send you under separate cover blank forms to make returns to this office as provided in section 23. We also shipped you by mail one copy of the Primary law- for each voting pre cinct in you county. Please acknowledge receipt of laws and abstracts or notify ihis office in regard to them. ♦ To the County Clerks of Nebraska: Gentlemen: In accordance with the provisions of section 33 of the pri mary election law it has been decided by the attorney general and secretary of state that a separate poll book must be used for each of the political parties, and they shall be designated by having the colors covered as fol lows: Socialist, red: prohibition, white: republican, blue: democrat, green: people's independent, yellow. A Trip by Governor Sheldon. Governor Sheldon is soon to take a trip with other western governors, which in importance will exceed any journey he has taken since he became governor of Nebraska. He will go to Keokuk. Ia.. to help entertain Presi dent Roosevelt and accompnv his party to St. Louis, where the president is to speak October 2. At St. Louis the gov ernors will be the guests of the busi ness men’s leagtte and after viewing the Veiled Prophet parade on the streets and attending the giand ball at night, will go with President Roose j velt down the Mississippi river to Memphis to attend a deep water con vention. Governor Sheldon has a plantation in Mississippi and has spent much time there and became well ac quainted with southern people and their customs. Governor Cummings in vited Governor Sheldon to come to Keokuk to help entertain the president ia that city October the first. This will probably be Governor Sheldon's last trip outside the state this year and he may make very few journeys aw:ay from Lincoln. He has spoken at many towns in Nebraska since he became Governor, but now- finds that official duties require him to remain at his office more than in the past. Ht will be obliged to decline all in vitations to deliver addresses during September and October. Burlington Passes. Nearly 7,000 trip passes were issued by the Burlington railroad during the month of July, according to the re port filed with the railway commis sion. Officers and employes, their families and relatives, and even ser vant girls employed by officers, appear to be in the list. Many of the trips : are labeled visits. As in the past, the railway commission is in the jKJsses sion of no information showing that the persons listed as employes are entitled I to passes under the anti-pass law I which provides that only “bona fide employes, the major portion of whose time is devoted to the service of the company, and the dependent members of their families” may receive passes. F. L. Wolff of Cambridge is in the list as s lawyer who received trans portation from the company without paying for it in cash. In the entire list of nearly 7,000 only one case is reported as a charity case, a woman „~who was Carried- frqm Lincoln to Piattsmouth at the request of the Lincoln charity organization. Express Case Next Week. Federal Judge T. C. Munger in formed Attorney General Thompson he will take up the matter of the ex press companies just as soon as Judge W. H. Munger returns, which will be this week. Judge Munger said he hoped to have all of the state matters ' now in the federal court passed upon ■by SeptemBer'l. This includes,Jthe opinion In the case of the jurisdiction In the matter of the application of the state for an injunction to prevent the railroads from violating the legisla tion enacted last winter. Stay for Harrison Clarke. Judge Sedgswick granted a reprieve :*or Harrison Clake. the negro mur derer from Omaha, sentenced to hang August 30. The stay will be effective until further order of the court, which will permit the motion for a rehearing to be heard by the supreme court. . udge J. B. Strode of Lincoln and At torney Crow of Omaha appeared for Clarke. Judge Sedgwick did not take action until he had called Attorney the cans and Railroad Must Fix Tracks. Members of the State Railway com ; mission have returned from their in ! section of the Missouri Pacific tracks i and they are now at work on an order ■ having for its object a general over hauling and fixing up of the physical : property of the’road in Nebraska. /Tht 1 commissioners brought back the same | report, a stoiy of wornout rails and bioken ties and the absence of signs i of repair. In most instances sections ■ of six miles in length are looked after i by one foreman and a helper. Accord ; ing to the commissioners the photo ' graphs filed by the protesting trainmen ; are more than verified. Commission er Williams continued his investiga tions down into Kansas and where the state line was crossed the train ran ! onto seventy-five pound rails and j moved along as smooth as glass. He j was informed by an official on the ! train that it was the intention of the j owners to supply Nebraska with the j same kind of rails this year, but in I stead they had sent up the large size engines, and these are being used over the objections of the engineers who protested to the officials. It is the belief of employes interviewed by the commissioner that when the tracks freeze up these big engines will smash the present light rails into smither eens. In the meantime he said freight I trains a mile in length was a common i sight and fifteen trains a day are scheduled south of Auburn, just an indication of the business this road is doing in Nebiaska. Judge Williams was refused a permit to ride on a j freight, from which the public is bar red and he had to walk from Auburn to Howe, a distance of six miles, then drive to Stella, wheie he caught the train to Palls City. He then went on to Reserve, Kas.. and came back to Weeping Water and in from there to Lincoln. University Warrants Held Up. A large number of university em ployes and instructors and others are liable to go without their August pay for a long time, as State Treasurer Brian refused to sign the warrants which were issued by the auditor upon the certificates filed by the state i board of regents, Mr. Brian lefused to act because Secretary of State .1unkin refused to indorse the certificates un til the vouchers front which the cer tificates were issued were submitted for his inspection. Until the slate treasuier affixes his signature to the warrants they are worth just the pa per they are printed on. Mr. Brian said he would countersign no war rant when he knew the voucher had not been indorsed by the secretary of state, as che constitution clearly pro vides the secretary of state and the auditor shall audit and sign all vouch ers for money to be drawn out of the state treasury. Some time ago Mr. Junkin served notice upon the regents that he would not s\gn certificates is sued by them until he had examined the voucheis supposed to be on file at the State university. That month the vouchers were given to him for inspection, and he signed the certifi cates. Exchange of Land Prospects. The associate forester of the United j Slates has written a letter to Gov ernor Sheldon, detailing a plan for the state to exchange all its lands in na tional forest reserves for a solid block of national forest land in the state, to be agreed upon by the state and the secretary of agriculture. It is proposed the exchanged lands shall approximately be equaled in area and value to the land given by the state. This associate forester says the present situation involves hardships for the state, as some of them own other lands selected as indemnity on account of grants in quantity by con gress and included within the forest reserve, after selection, their holdings are scattered and cannot be economi cally administered as forest land or sold on such good terms as the state could get if the several tracts were not isolated. Free Freight to the Fair. According to a supplement of the special mles and regulations on freight traffic, effective after August 19, 1907. the Burlington railroad has announced it*- intention of hauling free of charge exhibits to the state fair other than live stock. This will be brought about by a rebate of the one way charges that must be paid when the exhibit is sent to the fair. If no part of it is sold while theie the return will be free of charge, and a presentation of a certificate from the secretary of the beard that the goods have actually been on exhibit will secure the return of the one way prepaid charges on the | outgoing trip. If the goods are sold, or any part of them, the amount of freight on that part will not be re funded. Horse Show at the Fair. The display in the horse depart ment at the state fair, September 2 to 6. promises to excel anything ever seen on the grounds in this state. Theie will be great numbers of Per cheron, and French draft. Clydes and Shirts. English, French and German coach horses. " *f * No Delegatee Wilt Go. Governor Sheldon is not going to permit Nebraska to be represented at a convention which he believes will be dominated by corporations. He has declined to appoint delegates to a convention which the West End Business Men’s club of St. Louis baa called for the purpose of harmonising the strained relations which exist be tween state ’And * -federal., courts vin many parts of the country. The gov ernor. being optimistic, does not be lieve the country .is so near a crisis as the St. Louis club thinks. Variation in Oil Tests. Oil Inspector Allen has discovered some Standard Oil company’s product which tests a different quality at dif ferent times and places, though fiom the same tank. The oil which went below the 112-degree test was found at Clay Center. The barrel from which it was taken was marked teet eti lie, showing that it came tour d» greea higher than the standard fixed by law. Deputy Inspector Whepler tented It at 110 ao^ rejected the bar . rel. A teat of the tank at Ornate f sbbwatP 113 decrees. ... " • • • • STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON DENSED FORM. THE PRESS, PULPITAND PUBLIC What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Readers Throughout Nebraska. a bed and rolled out into a jar filled with water. The Webster county fair will be held at Bladen September 23 to 27. The new Methodist Episcopal church at Columbus was dedicated last Sunday. The Nebraska Territorial Pioneers’ association will have a reception pic nic and banquet at Lincoln. August 30 and 31. W. E. Weekly has purchased the Valley opera house from W. G. Whit more and will remodel and enlarge it at once. ' In the death of Thomas Rearden. sr.. who was found dead in his bed near McCool, one of the oldest and best known pioneer residents of York county passed away. Secretary Mellor of the state fair board declares that the live stock ex hibits at this year’s exposition. Sep tember 2 to 6. will be the largest ever shown in all departments. C. E. Hicks has contracted to the farmers of the vicinity of Bladen for about 4.000 bushels of corn at 45c. The dry weather still continues and prospects for corn are poor. W. F. A. Meltendorf of Valentine re covered a valuable bird dog last week which had disappeared from him thir teen months ago. The dog had been kidnaped by a member of the Sioux tribe. • Guy Eastman, a young man 18 years old, has been arrested in Beatrice, and has confessed to the burglarizing of M. L. Kors’ grocery store about two .weeks ago. implicating several others older than himself. > A telegram reached Fremont noti fying the relatives of Jacob Thede that he had been killed by sunstroke while working on a farm in Oklahoma. Mr. Thede was born and grew to man hood in Dodge county. Mr. and Mrs. Hayward, who have had charge of the State Industrial school at Kearney for the last four years, and who are to leave on Sep tember 1. entertained about 400 of their friends at their ftome last week. In the recent powder explosion at Boulder. Colo.. Miss Leah Fisher, for merly at Geneva, was thrown to the ground and injured severely, w’hile her home three blocks from the disaster, was badly damaged, though some of .the inmates was hurt seriously. Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrew's has been spending the summer in Europe to recruit his strength. A letter from him recently states that he is at Bellaggio. Italy, oh Lake Como. He will not return until after the opening of school in the fall. Evelyn Daly of North Platte, while horseback riding was thrown from her horse, kicked by it and rendered unconscious. She was picked up and carried to a nearby residence and for a time fears for her recovery were entertained. Her condition, however, has improved. Rev. Joseph Schell, the Catholic priest, who formerly was located at Homer. Neb., where he made a fight on the white traders among the In dians. is reported now to be making a fight against certain bankers in Wis consin. against whom he makes charges of unfair dealing. Two great bands have been hired to furnish concerts at the state fair. Lin coln, September 2 to 6. One of them is the w'orld renowned Liberatti.s Grand Military band and Opera Con ceit company of New York city, an organization w'hich is the peer of an> band in the United States. For forty-one years a hermit living alone in the wildwood. and with a re ported disappointment in love as the foundation for his isolation from the rest of the world. John McKirahan. known all over northern Nebraska as “Uncle Johnny, the heimit,” has been declared insane and sent to the Nor folk asylum. Charles Lake, 21 years old, living with his parents near the Missouri river, Washington county, accidental ly drowned. He was with his father and two other men in a gasoline launch. In an attempt to remedy some defect at the rudder, a piece of tailing gave way and the young man was precipitated head first into the river. The people of Richardson county are prosperous and making money every day. This condition is well il lustrated by the mortgage records. During the six months from January to July there were fifty more pay ments of $13,885.90 of debtB. During the same time there were forty-one more city mortgages paid than given, •a' What is believed to ~be the'Mast’ homestead in Merrick county has been filed on by Lee E. Nichols of Palmer. It consists of seventy acres in a narrow strip of the county run ning up between Nance and Howard counties, north of the Loup river. Phillip Moller of Norfolk was killed under a Northwestern stock train on which he was serving as brakeman. ■JThe accident happened north of Nick erson. The " train' crew-suhifcad- the brakeman when they reached Fremont an-J wired back to find that he had been killed. Rev. G. desseler of Spencer, S. D„ baa accepted a call to the Salem Lutheran church in Fremont to re place Rev. J. F. Krueger, who has resigned to accept the pastorate of a German Lutheran church in Lincoln. The Burlington depot in Humboldt was entirely destroyed by fire, the Ware having originated, it is sup posed. from a spark setting fire to the shingles. The west bound passenger train No. II, had- gone through hot. a short tte* before, and the sn^aa of that train is thought to have A REAL HEROINE By Ella H. Stratton (Copyright, by Joseph I?. Bowles.) Forty-five years ago my great-grand father Winslow left his comfortable home in the western part of the old Pine Tree state and. accompanied by his brother, determined to found a 1 home for his family in the wilderness j of the fertile Aroostook valley. Railway facilities were not good in Maine 45 years ago; even stage ac commodations were limited, and did not extend to the remote region to which he was bound tfi go. Grandmother Ruth was the eldest of the family; then came Edward, a sturdy lad of 13; Joseph, but two years younger, and nearly as large; John, who was almost nine, and three girls, Sally, Molly, and little Jane, the [latter not quite two years old. ' The uncle's family, settled upon the .next “lot" of land, was much the same. 1 in these woods were the homes of I numerous wild beasts.* raanv of them 1 dangerous when startled or hungry. More than once they had seen the black form of a bear hovering in the edge of the clearing, watching the lit tle flock of sheep, doubtless with the thought of a mutton dinner. More than once they heard terrific screams i beyond the clearing in the silent night, ' and though Great-grandfather Winslow 1 knew the sound very well, he kept his own counsel, only commanding that the children should stay near the i house in the day time and be within doors before nightfall. He also purchased a new mvsket ] and loaded the old one. over the door, , while every animal was safely housed at night. He even drilled the boys in target i shooting, and tried to have my Grand mother Ruth learn to tire a gun. Once she did attempt it, but her frightened | face pleaded her cause so well that she was excused. “I need not tell you that I obeyed my father faithfully." laughed Grand mother Ruth, when she told this story. ; "I seldom went more than two rods j from the door, and I watched the ; others in nervous agony.” A needy j neighbor was hired to help in the j spring cleaning that spring. Mrs. Wal i dron. by name, an energetic Province | woman. “Law. now! You don’t tell me that you ain't heard of the Injun Devil | that's prowdin' these parts now,” she ! said in surprise, when they mentioned those mysterious screams. "What is it?” asked my great-grand father, coming in that moment, sus jpecting the truth by his wife's terrified looks. ‘ The Injun Devil. Square Winslow. You don't mean to say you didn't know the critter was 'round?" asked ! the gossip, curiously. "No. I don't mean to say any such ; thing, for 1 did know it," he admitted j ; reluctantly. "Ob, father!’ It was the terrified voice of thy Grandmother Ruth. "And that's why you bought the new musket! Why you kept the animals i housed: and why you were so anxious that we should all slay near the house for awhile?” cried my great-grand ; mother, nervously. • Just that, my dear," he replied, calmly. “It is always well to be pre i pared. But there isn't the slightest danger, mother. We will keep snug awhile, and the brute will soon go somewhere else. They never stay long in one place. I've been told." But, when weeks passed and noth j ing more was heard of the animal, everyone concluded that he had gra ciously decided to leave them in quiet for awhile. One fine morning, toward the last of June, my great-grandfather said as he pushed hi« chair back from the break fast tal'te: "1 think that your mother and I have earned a holiday, eh, Ruth? i A new family has moved in and set tled at the creek, two miles down the river—I suppose we ought to be neigh borly. You boys must husk what lit tle corn there is in the barn loft, then you can go over and ask your cousins to a candy-pull.” Then my great-grandfather and mother made ready and departed on their neighborly visit, with one last emphatically repeated caution not to leave the clearing until they returned. The rest of the story will be better, perhaps, if told in Grandmother Ruth’s own words, as she told it to us, her almost incredulous, but admiring i grandchildren: "When the boat went around the bend the boys rushed away to husk the corn, hurrying as fast as possible, with the thought of delicious, waxen j maple candy to urge them on. “1 had the work nearly done up, and was almost ready to take my knitting and go out and sit under the great maple tree by the door, when by I chance i glanced from the open win i dow, and a sight met my gaze which seemed to frets* every drop of blood l in my veins, and chain me to the 'Sp0t. - "1 stood and stared in speechless, helpless horror. 1 heard the soft love notes of the pair of robins which were building their nest in the great maple tree. 1 heard the boys laughing in the loft, and Edward's triumphant shout that the corn was nearly finished, while a new fear eame, the fear that it would be finished sooner than 1 wished “I heard the girls skill merrily count ing their needles, and shuddered when Sally cried out that she had only two more to knit before her stint was done. 1 heard something else—some thing which 1 can yet seem to hear— dear little Jane was softly singing to her dolly', as she sat on the bench under the maple tree, while not 30 feet behind her crouched the tawny form of that panther. ‘'Three limes he stole along and flattened Ms body for a fatal spring, and three times our darting was spued. I opened my lips to cry out, hut they gave no sound. My whole lieart went out in one voiceless, des perate prayer liar tittle Jane’s life. "That agonised prayer was very then that I was enabled to do that which I had never imagined that I ever could do; I went silently and swiftly across the floor and took j grandfather's old British musket from ; its pegs. ‘T rested it carefully upon the sill of the open window toward the panther, and raised it until it was, aimed directly between the brute's I gleaming eyes. "1 was not myself as 1 sighted along that polished barrel so coolly that. I wondered how my father kept the steel lock from getting dull and rusty. Every nerve was like iron, and I felt as 1 would feel when under the mes merism of another's will. "The great, tawny brute glided for ward again and paused; 1 felt that it was the last time—that the next in stant he would leap upon our darling. “I changed my aim hastily and fired —then 1 know nothing more for some time. The old musket never was put back upon the pegs; if you like, I will show you the pieces of it sometimes, my dears. "It was never restored to its place of honor, for that charge burst it, and I nearly shared the fate of the i panther;" here Grandmother Ruth paused with a sweet smile, and lifted the soft, white hair from her forehead, showing us a long, white scar. "But I killed the savage brute, children. The bullet went through one gleaming eye and lodged in his cruel brain. "The boys came running from the loft with startled shouts, when they heard the report of the old British Flattened His Body for a Fatal Spring. musket, and paused in amazement at the sight of that motionless form; lit tle Jane screamed and sobbed at the danger which she had escaped, and which her childish imagination could not. exaggerate . “Edward took the little birch canoe and started for father and mother, paddling so excitedly that the little craft made dangerous progress. “Joseph started for uncle's folks at a breakneck speed, shouting that I was killed, and John was divided in his anxiety for me and his admiring awe of the great, motionless figure by the tree. “My uncle and aunt soon came, fol lowed closely by my frightened, yet curious cousins. I learned all of thia afterwards; I had not recovered con sciousness when they came. “I was sitting by the window when father and mother came in sight. The new neighbor was helping him pole the boat along, and my mother sat in the bow very calm but very pale. I watched them in a dazed way while they landed and came hurriedly up the path. I felt rather weak and trem bly. and had a broad bandage around my head. “My mother sat near us, hugging little Jane as if she could never let her go again, while uncle and aunt and the children were wondering, cry ing, laughing and talking in a strange chorus. A note ucvci ivutucu • $uu atucc that day—I think that i never shall. I know that a stronger hand than mine aimed that old musket, a higher power sent that bullet crashing upon its errand of death and deliverance. I know that 1 never could have done such a deed by my own strength, never, my dears!” But we, who have not our dear grandmother's unquestioning faith, will ever think of her proudly as a real heroine, and not as the eoward which she would have us remember. INVENTS SELF-HANGING DEVICE. Fermer Baeeball Pitcher Teete New Plan on Negre Murderer. Pittsburg.—To save the nerves of tender-hearted officials, Sheriff A. C. Gumbert, formerly a pitcher oa the Chicago National league baseball team, the other day successfully put into lGe a self-hanging device ef hie own invention. The device was tried on Dowling Green, a negro wife mur derer, who went singing to the gal lows. While tiie deputy sheriff stood on the trap placing the noose about the condemned man's neck the sheriff stood with a wire held tight in his hand. The action of the deputy in stepping off the trap loosened the wire and the weight of the murderer sprung it. Green's body darted through the opening in the floor of the gallows and death, the physicians said, was almost Instantaneous, the man’s neck being broken. It is claimed for this device that no one person bears thw edten of
