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THE BED CLOUD CHIEF.
M. L. THOMAS, Publisher.
RED CLOUD,
NEBRASKA.
THE OLD BAItN.
A. thousand miles ill vide us, and full twenty
years hav e lied
since my eyes Inst rested on the Toot that
sheltered ray ynutiK head:
Vet I sec it just as plainly as ir but a woek had
llown
rincc 1 became proficient Intho art ot picking:
Ktone
Fortbofarm wa? very rocky and we yearly
ued to haul
Sufficient stones from each old field to build a
rod of vva'.L
Vet 'tis not of farm or farm-bouso dear that I
would sinir to-night
Those themes by other poet? havo been worn
in tatters quite;
Hut rather let tbo Bubjcct of my humblo
rhythmic yarn
Itoone.tbnt Kramlcrpocta spurn, the bis old-
fashioned barn
Dear scene of many a IiIk'i old romp when
youthful blood ran free.
Andthcyounir folks did tall courting at the
oldtimc buskin? bee.
1 sec it yet. in fancy, with Its old nnd wheel
worn Hour
The wooden latch, the hired man's name
carved deenlv in the door.
ThcbTrE',,PO'1 tb ' th manfrCf '
Where stood the old straw-cutter howl us-d
to ilrend its siirht.
Tor th re were cripples It had made of theso
I hear a few
Arc drawing army pensions now sharp nsents
put 'cm through.
Again I hear the sound of Hails upon the
inutl'cd l!oor;
The -hirken scramble for tho grains that
reach the open door;
lip in the Init a laying hen slugs or a deed
sublime.
Unmindful though her daughters lanes were
picked at dinner time;
While near a pat I -nt tUtcr "sits," resolved to
incubnte
An unprolinc corn-cob nnd the hinges of a
gate.
,r i .k m i ,. tni,..i h..
How verv huge the old barn lookcl when ,
viewed through iKylshc3-(H. I
Kven Home's big Colosseum seemed inferior t
And luMdVo think, when treading down the
hay they
'J'hnt that old
iiitehi.f tn me.
mow should hold enough to last
a century
.And I alsothouzht. when near the roof, wal-t-
dcep in scorching h:iy.
That for weeks to conic that mow would roast
all cgjMS the hens might lay.
I see'the iron grain-scoop on which I "rode
down hill"
It leans confidingly against the old red fan-
ning-mlll
And the worn half-busbel measure which we
boys ort trid to walk
Like circus men, by plar-tering our itocking
feet wi h chalk:
Itishtrancenow boys of e'gbty pounds and
even smaller oik's
Can sae their bones nnd fall at times with tho
weight or cluhty tons!
I.at woek the old barn vanished nnd anew
one took its place.
The staunch old structure ran with time a
long and noble race.
For in spite of rain and hail-storms, nnd light
ning rods and wind.
They found the timbers sound as when to
gether they were pinned;
While the youth whose father, when a boy, ort
wondered at its age.
Now feebly play an "old man's part" on
Life's uncertain stage.
lMtmil Free Prc.
UNCLE EPHRAI3I.
" Oh, dear me! it docs look sort of
dilapidated," said Mrs. AngelinaSpark
ler, surve3'ing the high, old, rambling
villa, which was to be her future homo.
"1 hone it won't tumble over."
"This old balcon3 looks picturesque;
but it's horrid damp, and there's a lot
of fungus growing out of the edge," ob
served Miss Cassandra, kicking over a
chunky toad-stool with the too of her
delicate boot.
"Ah, well!" sighed Mrs. Sparkler,
sitting down upon one of the trunks
the porter had just brought in, ami
folding her hands with dejected resig
nation, "I suppose poor creatures in
reduced circumstances like us ought to
be glad to have aii kind of roof over
our heads."
"That's all stuff!" returned Cassan
dra, Hinging her hat and parasol upon a
sofa. "We'am'f glad, arc wc?"
"Say, Cass, see that house across the
hedge?" demanded Miss Theodora
Sparkler, fluttering into the room, and
pointing through the window to a state
ly residence, whoso grounds adjoined
their own.
"I suppose I've got eyes," retorted
Miss Cassandra; "and I suppose it's
ver3' comforting to see an elegant man
sion like that so close to our antedilu
vian ark."
"Hold on! lemmc tell 3011," ran on
her sister, talking so fast she could not
take time to pronounce her words prop
erly. "Our girl told mc that it's owned
by a fearfully rich old bachelor."
"Goodness sakes! why didn't 3ou
say so?"
" Keep still for a moment, Cass. Ho
isn't home now, but will be homo this
fall "
Here a third young lad3 came flying
in, withhcrhattumblingou" backwards,
and began to talk before Theodora could
finish her sentence.
"Who do you think' s over at that
house across the hedge?" she demand
ed, dancing about until she tripped up
on her skirt and fell over a flower-pot.
"Guess guess! I s.iv him."
"The rich old bachelor?" cried Cas
sandra and Thcodoro, in a breath; and
Cassandra added, tartlv: "You always
do get the start of us, (Joral. you littlo
minx: '
"'Twasn't the rich old bachelor.
. -
Ho
L.ie?,,'4- nr.r Itftmn ,-! "
iitiau i Luiuu aivmiiu
vet," answered
Coral. "It was
Laurence Harley. I
wasprowling around in our garden to
see what I could discover, anil the gar
den over there joins it, and he came
out of the house and saw me, and came
right down, said he knew mc b3 tho
way ni3 hat was tilted up on edge, and
he sa-s he's thought of us so often and
wondered where wo were."
"Good gracious!" uttered Cassan
dra. "M3' patience!" chirped Theodora.
"Dear dear! how it brings up old
times!" murmured Mrs. Sparkler
"when we were somebodies in the
world and soc:et3 was glad to know
us. It's a wonder Laurence isn't
married by this time. But, then, ho
was always a careless creature and
never cared for an3 one in particular."
"Don't be too certain," quoth Miss
Cassandra, tossing her tawny auburn
braids consciously. "If we hadn't
moved away so suddenly and left all
our friends in the lurch''
"What if wo hadn't?" broke in Miss
Theodora, arching her jotty eyebrows,
satirical. "Don't let your conceit
mu awa3 with 3-ou, Cass. If I only
hadn't flirted so with that dreadful
Major"
"But, oh. dear me!" Mrs. Sparkler
was beginning her lamentations. "I
dare say Laurence won't care to come
and see us now since our fortunes are
so fallen."
"Oh, yes, he will!" cried Coral.
"That don't mako a bit of difference.
And his fortunes are fallen, too. Ho
he's the rich bachelor's head-gardener
now." "
"Head
Sparkler.
gardener!"
gasped
exploded
Mrs.
Miss
Head gardener!"
Cassandra.
"Head gardener!"
wailed Miss
ineoaora,
"Yes," assented Coral, in a
frightened tone: "but I don't see
half-
as it
makes such atcrriblo deal of difference
After his father failed, ho felt he ought
to do something to holp him, and
couldn't pick and choose had to do
what he could and it was this or
nothing. Ho's helping his father now
and saving money, and says ho will do
better in time "
For mercy's sake, hush!" groaned
Mrs. Sparkler. " I hope you didn't ask
him to call. Coral?"
If she did, I trust he'll have better
sense than to do it," aid Cassandra,
holding her head very high in the air.
it wouia do a nno ining, wnen tne
ewaerof that house comes home, to find j
e& intimate terms with his head
Brr
n
ty he asked her if he couldn't
;in Theodora. "He always
was as impudent as the mischief. Now
didn't ho ask if ho could call. Coral?"
"Not only that." retorted T3bnil,
"but he asked me if he couldn't marry
me as well. Ho meant to ask me that
last night, before we moved, but wo
got interrupted, and the next day we
were gone; and his folks got into
trouble right away after so he thought
he'd wait till he was in a better posi
tion before hunting us up. Hut now
that he found me, he said, he must tell
me, anyway, and "
"The saints preserve us!" choked
Mrs. Sparkler, ou the verge of fainting.
"What oh, what did 3ou say?"
"Well I kind of said yes, if you
didn't all object too strongly1'
The exclamation that interrupted hot
convinced Coral pretty thoroughly that
they all did object very strongly, and
made her wish devoutly, for a minute,
that she had been Lorn without any
cars.
"You will never have my consent
while the world spins," wound up Airs.
Sparkler.
"Nor mine!" "nor mine!" echoed
Cassandra and Theodora.
And Coral, quite persuaded in her
own mind that the world might as well
come to an end now as at any other
time, curled down into a little bunch
behind the curtains and cried till her
handkerchief was soaked.
Late in the evening, a little, old gen
tleman, in a tall, woolty cap and a pair
of painfully-brilliant spectacles, stood
on the step of the Sparkler residence
nnd rang the bell violently; and when
the door was opened by the girl, Mrs.
Sparkler, who. was peeling down tho
' staircase in the dim light, exclaimed to
the two Misses Sparkler behind her:
j"Oh, it's Uncle Kphraim'" and ran
down stairs into his arms, with the two
j young ladies at her heels, in a state of
great curiosity; for, though they had
? , " ' ' , - ,, .- .
heard a great deal of Lncle hphraim,
tjioy ail never seen him, owing to a
streak of eccentricity which led that
gentleman to ram me auoui mo worm
and cut his relations-.
His pet peculiarity had long been
keeping himself secluded in a veil of
mystery from all his kindred and friends,
and the last tidings the Sparklers had
received of him Had been wafted from
Brazil.
Having concluded to show himself at
last, his relations could do no less than
be grateful therefor.
"And these are your girls, hey?"
said Uncle Ephraim, surveying Cassan
dra and Theodora through the brilliant
; spectacles; "and not married j'ct, hey?
t'l;I, ...,.' .1,. Anil;ti.i !,., ,,.,.Vf
do at all!"
Uncle Kphraim shook his head, and
evidently losing his temper at such a
state of affairs, ho continued with a
frown gathering above his nose,
"It won't do it won't do, Angelina!
They mut get married."
"Hut you see, uncle," began Mrs.
Sparkler, " we know nobody now, ow
ing to our fortunes having- fallen."
"Bother your fortunes, cried Uncle
Kphraim. "Who cares for fortunes? I
know a nice young man splendid
young man. I'll fetch him to see 3 on
line young man; sure to make a for
tune some day; saved my life once. I'll
fetch him to sec you line young man!
He's only a gardener now head gar
dener over 3 onder "
"(jooil gracious! don t bring a
doner!" shrieked the ladies.
gar-
"I'ncle, how can 3011?" sobbed Mrs.'
Sparkler weeping wUh the disappoint
ment of having had her hopes raised
onh to bo knocked over "a man I hat
digs a man that raises vegetables!"
"What of that?" cried I'nclc Kph
raim. bouncing out of his chair in a
rage, and growing angrier and redder
with every word. "I'don't care if he
docs. I don't caro if he's a vegetable
himself. I don't care if he's a cucum
ber, or a case-knife bean, or a Hat
Dutch cabbage, or a gumbo he's a
line voting man. Sure to make his for
tnnel tell you, Harlc' is. I'll fetch him
to seo 3-011."
"Oh.dcar! oh, me!" wept Mrs.Spark
lor. "It'll upset everything to bring
him hero. Coral wants to many him
bad enough now. and "
"Hc3 1103, he'?" shouted Uncle Kph
raim. "Does "Coral want to marry
him?" And Coral that minute enter
ing the room, he caught her b3 the arm
without waiting for an introduction,
thus terrifying her half to death, and
whirled her around so ho could see her
face. "Needn't be scared," he vocif
erated. "I ain't no ogre; I'm Uncle
Kphraim. And who is it 3-011 want to
many, 1103, 1103'? Is it Laurence Har-103-,
hey?"
And in his excitement tho little man
shook Coral about so she could on'3
gasp:
"Y-yes. it's L-Laurencc Harlc3."
Mrs. Sparkler and Cassandra and
Theodora instantly set up a wail.
"And, oh, dear!" said Cassandra,
despairingly, "what'll tho rich old
bachelor think when he comes back?"
" What rich old bachelor what rich
old bachelor?" demanded Uncle Kph
raim, squaring his elbows and transfix
ing Cassandra with his shiny spectacles.
" 1)03011 mean tho old bachelor who
owns "the house across the hedge hey,
hey ? Who do you reckon I am 1103 ?' '
"I presume 3-ou'rc Uncle Kphraim,"
said MissSparklcr, with a slight hint of
sarcasm.
"Yes. ves. of course!" said Uncle
Kphraim, beginning to prance around
again; "and I'm the rich old bachelor.
too. Didn't know that, did jou? Didn't
know 3'ou'd settled down next door to
Uncle Kphraim, did you? But
you're a set of lunatics all but
Coral. Can't tolerate a gardener,
can't you? But I tell you he's my
gardener, and a line young man I'm
going to take him in partnership; he'll
bo as rich as the old bachelor himself.
You're all lunatics won't speak to a
gardener nice country this! lovely
country this!
Coral shall ride in her
carriage yet.
all lunatics!"
I'm going homo you'ro
And Uncle Kphraim skipped off be
fore he could bb detained.
" And I suppose 3-011 don't object to
my having Laurence now? said Coral.
"I suppose not," said Mrs. Spark
ler, still a littlo injured, but ready to
catch a stray gloam of hope. "Seems
like Laurence '11 be quite a catch after
all."
"And here's all niy hopes of a iich
old bachelor gone up," said Cassandra,
"since ho turns out to bo Undo Kph
raim." Saturday Xight.
Answers to Correspondents.
J. W. M., Little Kock: "I have some litcrarj
aspirations. Would you kindly give mo some
information as to how editors are paid?"
So fow editors are paid, that it is im
possible to procure data sufficient to
base an answer on. Wo have referred
your question to tho ex-editor of a daily
Eaper, and he says: "If you want to
e paid in full for your labors, swap
your literan aspirations for a hoe, and
go to work on a farm, but do not bo an
editor."
Laura S.. Huntsville: "How do you fix cas
tor oil so that you do not tado it? 1 am told
there is some way to do this."
This is tho way we fix it so that wo
1 .a mwt . .
uo not lasie ir. we mix it Wiln some
sugar and the white of an egg. in a
glass, and bribo the office boy to drink
it. That is tho most successful w.13 wo
have 3et discovered.
Jane P. R., Sumter, S. G: "What could I
resent to s gentleman friend on his birth
ay?" Youcould, if you so desired, present
him with a piece of soap, a couple of
lengths of stove pipe, or a cheese, but
none of these articles would be appro
priate birthday presents. Wc presume
VOU wanted to learn what v.-mi shnubl
present to him. Try him with an ul-
ster or some warm -underclothing. He
will be more likely to need'that at this
season man anything else. uveas Sifl-ings.
Women as Telegraph Operators.
An official of tho Western Union
Company, speaking of men as tele
graphers, said to the reporter: "Tho
general public has a very insufficient
idea ot what it owes to female opera
tors. Little more than five 3'ears ago
we were the slavcB of our men. They
formed a high.priced, a thoroughly- in
dependent body. The3 made money
and spent it. Telegraph operators aro
as Bohemian in their instincts as actors
and newspaper men. They never
work while thev have cash or credit to
pla3 on. Their pay-days fall bi-month-I3,
and ever3 pay-day left us crippled
for operators till the roystcring ab
sentees had run their money through.
If wo ventured to expostulate, thoy
would refuse to work at all. If wo ex
pressed disapprobation at any thing
the3 did they would let messages ac
cumulate till 'there would bo half a
da3-'s, and even longer, delay in the
most important business. There was no
actual trades' union among them, but
the3 stuck together and had things
prett3 much their own way.
" Then the suggestion was made
that we should employ yvomen as ope
rators. The late President Orton yv:w
the originator of this idea. His friends
would frequently send 3oung ladies,
who had learned te!egrapli3 in pnvate
schools, to him for employment, and
ho knew that a number whom he had
found positions in business houses for
were capable of excellent work. Final
ly yvc employed a few on the short and
easy lines. Thc3 did their yvork ad
mirably. The were not as fast as the
men, and could not yvork the hcav3' dis
tance yvires. But for all ordinary yvork
thc3 yverc quite capable aud satisfac
tor3. "The male operators made a vigor
ous kick, and distinguished themselves
In no littlo boorishness toyvard their
sister professors, but the had to cave
in. TI1G3 made a strike of it and held
out for a yvcek, when the usual break
up occurred, and tho3 staggered in till
all yvere forced to terms. " From that
time forth the publicwere betterscrved
than it had ever been before. The old
nile or ruin reign of the dandy opera
tor yvas over. But the greatest con
venience the employment of yvomen
rendered possible yvas tho establish
ment of the small local offices in hotels
and tho up-toyvn districts, where it
would never have paid to keep a high
toned male operator at a salar3 of al
most as much as tho office brought in.
Man3 of our local offices yvere at the
start attended to by young yvomen yvho
took commission on their returns as
pa3. Noyv, hoyvover, yvo have them all
under salary. Out of toyvn ve have
hundreds, I yvas going to say, of offices
in the care of female operators. TI103'
are small offices, at places yvherc a man
yy-ould not slay. For instance, at a vil
lage of a couple of score of houses yvo
could not afford to keep au operator at
a cit salar. But In p.aying some
young girl yvho lives there tyvent3'-livc
or thirty dollars a month, which is more
than she could earn in such a place at
much harder labor, yvo aro able to keep
the lino open to furnish facilities yvhich
the residents find frequent need of.
The same remarks appl) to many
branch offices here and in other c'ties
yvhero business is light, but there is
still a demand for local service. If it
yvas not for our yvomen operators these
places yvould not be supplied yvith tele
graphic service at all."
If the public have been benefited In
tho introduction of the female opera
tives into telegraphy; the malo
operatives certainly have not.
There has been a marked decline in
salaries since the yvomen entered tho
busmess. Tho best operators, giants
in their lino, yvho send and take mes
sages yvith incredible speed, still make
handsome salaries enough, as salaries
in telegraphy go, and less able opera
tors, by doing' extra yvork, earn good
livings. But among the mass of opera
tors salaries have been seriously cut
into. Women arc doing for from $'23
to $.10 a month noyv what ten years ao
men got from S.iO to ?S0 and .$100 for
doing. The jiay of operators outside
has similarly suffered. Maii3 manu
factories and large business houses cn
jby private telegraph lines. These used
to emplo3 men. Now yvomen do the
service at ncarl3 nil of them. In tho
same yv:i3, at hundreds of minor coun
try stations, yvherc a man. by combin
ing tlm yvretched salaries of station -agent
for tho railroad aud operator for
the telegraph compa, contrived to
eke out a comfortable living, yvomen
noyv do their yvork for oven less than
half their old remuneration.
"And it's going to be yvorse 3'ct,"
said an operator, yvho yvas standing
guard over a Park Boyv lunch-counter,
to a reporter. " For the telegraph col
leges keep grinding 'cm out like corn
at a mill. Give 'cm .30 a month and a
looking-glass and a cheap novel, and
tho3 don't ask am more. What shoyy
has a decent man got alongside of such
opposition, I'd like to know?"
"Did he sa3 that?" asked the y'oung
lad3 at the Hotel, when the re-
)ortcr communicated tho remarks to
lcr, and asked if thc3 yvere true.
"He did."
Tho young lady tapped tho lever of
her instrument with expressive vehe
mence. "Well, ail Pvc got to say is that ho
is an operator," she replied. "I don't
knoyy 3113 yyorsc name for him than
that." jfew York Sunday Xcu:s.
An EnRlish View or Traveled Americans.
Americans of a certain class have a
manifest advantage over Kuropeans
that is, from the traveling point of vioyv.
Politicians on promotion, and other
pushing English persons, 113 to America
to endeavor to catch the tone of the
great new country during a hurried
tour; but Americans have been used to
stud3 Europe and "Kuropians" for
several generations. The ropes of the
effete oligarchies are supposed, at least,
to bo fairl3 yvell understood b3 the
American people. Tho sportsmen, in
tho Knglish and better sense of tho
yvord. arc pleased, of course, b3 the
victorj of American horses, but this
fooling only extends to a limited class.
Tho best class of Americans know as
littlo of sport as ot politics. When the
lato patroon of Albany spoke of a
showy young man as being cither a
gambler or a politician, ho accurate
defined one class of American feeling.
To the highest and most traveled class
of traveled Americans, a person yvork
ing in the political "machine" of his
country appears as littlo better than a
professed gambler. Ho is a person of
no family, as a rule of no connections,
of no set. It may astonish oligarchic
England to hear that such claims are
recognized in a Republic, but it is true,
nevertheless. That this is absoluteh
truo will be seen b3 any person who has
traveled among .a croyvd of Americans
voyaging in Europe, But it is nothing
to the amplitude of the space which
separates the Knickerbocker or the cod
fish aristocrat from the "drummer" of
Xeyv York or Boston. To comprehend
tho traveled American one must com
pletely get rid of tho Republican idea of
equality. There ia little of this in the
United States and less in the permanent
or transient American colony in Europe.
In classifying American travelers the
first place socially must be given to the
an ti-Americans. It was said by a great
authority that claret yvould be port if
if it could; and of these "upper-ten-doni"
Americans it may bo said that
tfcey would bo English if thoy could.
Of course, they would deny the soft
impeachment most emphaticallv; yet
even yrord, act and deed .of "theirs
emphasizes their preferences of the old
country to the new. Many of them
hail from Boston, Mass., but have been
brought to Europe for education so
young that they speak in the syvectcst
flute-Tike tones of Young Oxford, the
seat of learning they most admire.
Others come from the Knickerbocker ,
set in Ncyy York, people to whom the
nouveauz riches are an abomination;
and yvho knoyv only tho Van Bensse
laers, StU3vcsant3. and other bearers
of good old Dutch names. These most
agreeable of American travelers are
precisely like other yvcll-bred rcople,
and. of course, havo few peculiarities,
except that of being not onh very
rich, but havinir a vast quantity of
j available ready money to spend on an
J passing fancy-. Highly cultivated and
entirely ignorant or contemptuous ot
American politics and national pecu
liarities. ijUicy give as false an hiea of
thoir conntrj as tho yvatcr-drinking
j parsons, yvho sometimes send hngltsh
' travelers home from the States yvith
, tho idea that Americans are the soberest
people in the yvorld. The males of the
codfish or Knickerbocker ari.stocrac3
are in no way distinguishable from
I Englishmen of tho higher middle class,
except in a certain slightly ceremon
ious courtesy, yvhich is again quite dif
ferent from that of Britons of tho first
rank. The American lad3, hoyvever. is
ver3 different from her English sister.
She is generally very vivacious as yvell
' as accomplished, and is also yvell
dressed as yvell as pretty. Very fas
tidious carpers might object that she is
sometimes over self-conscious, and per
petually conveys the idea that .she is
under arms; but she is chnrmin;.
nevertheless, and yvears the prettiest
shoes in the yvorld. London World.
Industrial Schools.
Mr. George L. Harrison, a yvoll-known
philanthropist of Philadelphia, recently
made a tour through Great Britain,
France and (icrtnaiiy lor the purpose of
examining into the institutions foe the
education, rofonn, or punishme-nt of
the poorer classes. Mr. Harrison
brought back a remarkable collection
of specimens of the work of boys and
girls in tho industrial schools: articles
made of yvood, metal, etc.. as perfect
as if they had conic out of tho hands of
the skilled craftsman. Similar exhibi
tions yvere made ljy different countries
in the Philadelphia exhibition of 170.
In some European countries, yvhere
education is gratuitous, children are
taught, outside of their text books at
least the rudiments of a trade. Their
lingers are thus trained as yveil as their
brains. Hence when the boy and irl
leave school they have some knoyvledgo
yvhich yvill help them to earn their live
lihood. In countries yvhere education is not
furnished by the Government, these in
dustrial schools aro often maintained
bv the charit of individuals. One of
the most interesting of the centennial
exhibitions yvas tint made 13 an indus
trial school maintained by a Ituian
noble ou his estate, for his quondam
serfs after emancipation, in which tho3
yvere trained in all kinds of handicrafl.s,
in mechanical drau hsiinr. ship-building,
etc Tho specimen-! ' yvork sub
mitted yverc of a high order of merit.
Another quite as inteiesting yvas a
pile of enormous volume-, on yvhose
pages, instead of printed word", yvere
found the minature j-h rts. dres-es,
stockings, etc., specimens of embroid
ery, lacc-yvork, etc., made ly the litt'o
girls of the industiial schools of tho
Swiss cantons. Kaeh volume bore tho
name and coat of arms of a canton, and
each page the little girl's name yvhoso
yvork was shown.
From Belgium came an exhibit of
lace by little gjrls. and from Sweden
nnd Norwa3 tiny ho ies, stoves, 'chairs,
thoroughly built an I mushed ly bo3
carpenters and .smiths, and yvooleu
jackets, hosiery and the like, the work
of the girls. On one pair of knit stock
ings yvas a card with tho pathetic littlo
message, "Knit by little blind Olga,
ageil nine. She sends her love to all tho
people of America."
The peopic of great America could
take a usetul hint 110111 these industrial
scnools, and learn how to train their
own boys ami girls to future useful
ness. iouL't'ls Lomiiuion.
Detroit's .Mysterious .Man.
He is a man yvith a light beaver over
coat on. He drives a white horse and
a top buirgy, and all of a sudden he
stops in "the middle ot the street and
looks fixedly at his horse. In two
nvniucs fift3 people line tho curbstone.
"What's the matter?"
"Balky."
A. man steps out to seizo the bridlo
and start the horse, but the driver
shakes his head ami motionsdiim ayvay.
"I'll bet he's an ugly brute."
Of course he is. Look at that
wicked 03-0 of his!"
The crowd has nov. been increased
by fifty, and several vehicles have
stopped.
"Anybody hurt?"
"No; balky horse."
"Why doesn't some ono whisper in
his ear?"
Four men stepped out to give advice,
but thc3aro hastih motioned back, and
a liver3-stable"mau in the crowd ob
serves: "If that horse doesn't kill tyvo or
three men hero I shall bo much mis
taken." Three minutes more and the croyvd
numbers 2U). Tho man yvith the graj"
horse looks up and down tho street,
braces his feet, takes a firm grip on tho
lines, and softly sa3s:
"Come, Peter."
And Peter drops his head, dangles
his ears and moves off as sloyvh and
soft 13 as a river of grease,
"What yvas it?" calls a man yvho has
run four blocks and is puffing like a
whale.
But there is no one to answer him.
The croyvd has dissolved like a hand
ful of sugar in a barrel of yvater. It is
vor3 mysterious, and tho croyvd doesn't
enjey the climax at all. Detroit Free
Press.
Hjcrler.ic Conditions of Coal Mines.
Some interesting information as to
the way in which the human system is
affected under the peculiar conditions
of yvork in mines has been furnished by
M. Fabre, from experiences connected
yvith the coal mines in France. He finds
that the deprivation of solar light causes
a diminution in the pigment of the skin,
and absence of sunburhing. but there is
no globular ana-nra that is diminution
in the number of globules in the blood.
Internal maladies seem to bo mororare.
While there is no essential amemia in
the miners, the blood globules are often
found smaller and pa'.cr than in normal
conditions of life, this being due to res
piration of noxious gases, csrccially
where ventilation is difficult. The men
who breathe too much the gases liber
ated on explosion of poyvder or dy-na-mitc
suffer more than other miners
from affections of the larynx, the bron
chia, and the stomach. Ventilation
sometimes works injury by its cooling
effect.
Supervisor Griffith,of Remsen,Onei-
aa county. .. 1., lias a bureau that
once belonged to Baron Steuben.
While carefully examining it lately
some yoang men. found a secret drawer
yvhich contained a lock of hair within
an envelope Possibly this memento
j may have had something to do with the
male society in his later days.
At a ball iriven in New York Cityj
in nonor ot tuc rrcaen and bcrru:
guests there yvere many remarkal
toiieis, ma uiamonus 'riittcreu au Ofer
the room. Of these precious atones
Mrs. John Jacob Astor wore lfJ0.O0O
worth.
The St. t.V.hard Taaacl.
Six hours in the bowels of the earth,
lttcnded with as severe phj-sical excr
iion as I ever went through in the same
pace of lime; six hours in an atmus
ohcre rapidly alternating between the
neat of an oven and the clammy chill
ol a wet morning in late October, be
side being thickly impregnated yvith
the sinell of explo-fed dynamite and the
jreasv, sickening smoke from innumer
able "oil lamps of the most primitive
construction; in addition, no slight ncr
ceutage of danger from being crushed
b3 passing trains or single trucks loaded
yvith building material or debris, knock
cd in the head bj the pick of some vig
orous workman, unseen and uneeing.
in the gloom, or brained -by a stono
from the archAd roof, loosened by an
explosion of dymm:te in'the floor be
low such are the nece-siry experi
ences to be gone thronrrh by any indi
vidual desirous of obtaining a thorough
knowledge of the pre-ent condition of
this most gigantic enterprise.
On arriving in the Alpine village of
Goschenen the traveler yvho has visited
the Western frontier districts of America
yvill be stnick yvith the rcsomblauce of
this place to the settlements in the
Western yvilds yvhich are just beginning
to assume the garb of civilization.
Rygularh--built stone houses and hotels
are surrounded b3 yvoo.len shanties of
simple, unplaned board c mstntctiou.
yvith the interiors fitted yvith
rough tables, benches and sleep
ing bunks for the accommo
dation of the yvorkmen in the
Swiss end of the tunnel. The engi
neer's office of the tunnel division is a
small, barren-looking room, in yvhich I
found Monsieur Zollinger, in charge of
this portion of the line, yvho not only;
readily acceded to my request to visit
tlio tunnel, but volunlonrod to take mo
yvith hiui on his tour of inspection,
yvhich he repeats four times per yveek.
At two p. m. I yvas shown into a grimy
room conta'ning a ben.-h. rough yvash
stand and a grating, behind vhich a
stock of dingy clothing was hanging.
This yvas the "dressing-room," yvhere
neccssaiy preparations are made before
entering" the yawning mouth of the
tunnel. I had put on 1113 long war
boots, ami yvith a yvaterproof coal con
sidered myself capitally equipped
for any subterranean exploration. To
my surprise M. Zollinger directed mo
to doff my yvaterproof a.s yvell as my
coat, felt hat and tic. M. Zollinge'r
himself donned a rough garb, and then
needed his sjeetac!es to evon faintly
distinguish him from anv ordinary
"navyy. With a gre:isy cap and yvofl
oiled and tarred blue linen blouse, I
mounted the little locomotive, yvhich
yvas to transport our train to tho point
yvhoru the compressed air locomotive
would ro'ieve it. As yvosoramblod into
the corners of the dirt3 machine. I
could not help contrasting M. Zollin
ger's equipment anil means of making
his rounds of inspection yvith
tho.-e yvhich an Ainerlaa engineer
would have sported in like
circumstances. The latter yvould have
invented a natty dress, suitable for the
yvork, yet readily distinguishable from
tlio yy'drkmcu's garb; then he yvould
have had a light steel haul-car. yvith
cushioned seats for three persons ami
cranks for tyvo men to yvork tho ma
chine behind him. This car could be
casih lifted off and on the track when
trains yvero oncountered, and the engi
neer yvould havo made his rounds in
one-quarter the time and with one tenth
the plysical yvoar and tear of tho St.
Gothard member of the fraternity.
The tunnel is perfect straight from
end to end, aud tho engineers met each
other so accurate that their center
lilies yvere yvithin a hand's breadth of
an exact coincidence. AS the hea lings
approached ea'-h other, the explosions
of d3naniitc yvere distinctly audible
through nearly 400 meters (C":.'i feet)
of intervening rock. The total length
is fifteen kilometers (nine and one third
miles). The grade .ascends uniformly
from Goschenen to tho .summit of the
tunnel, yvhich is 1,1."1 meters above tho
sea level, and fortv-iive meters (list
feet) above Goschenen; yvhile it is only
nine meters above the mouth at Airolo.
The ascent from ('oschenen to the sum
mit is .".8J per cent., yvhile the descent
to Airolo is 1.2."i per cent. The summit
of the tunnel is 'SOO meters (SU0 feet)
below the surface at Andcrinatt, and
J.000 meters (fi.UOO feet) beneath. tho
peak of Kastclhorn. of the St, Gotfiard
group. This tunnel summit is
1,15 1 meters, tho Mont Ccuis
Tunnel summit is 1,;138 meters, anil
the Pacific Raihv.ny summit is 2.."i:l
meters above the sea level. There are
no air shafts in the St. Gothard Tunnel,
tho two entrances being tho 01113 open
ings. When the mechanical operations
cease inside, and the many existing ob
structions to a free passage of air, such
as scaffoldings, heaps of debris and un
finished parts near the center, are done
ayvay yvith, there yvill be nothing un
pleasant in the passage through this
tremendous tunnel, yvhich is 2.700
meters (one and five-eighths of a mile)
longer than that through Mont Conis.
The engineers assert that the tunnel
yvill bo ready for traffic b3 the 1st of
Januaiy next, although tho yvholo lino
from Lucerne to Biasca yvill not be
opened until next July. Although this
great enterprise is "successfully np-
iroaching completion, and that is tho
icst evidence of good management,
there is room for some improvement in
what nm be called the niceties of con
struction". The means of access to tho
tunnel could bo advantageously im
proved. There is too much del.ay in
getting the shifts of men to their yvork.
much valuable time being lost at the"
points yvhero they have to change tr i:ns.
Another thing struok mc a? being desir
able. There yvas certain absence of
clearing up the completed portions of
the tunnel, nnd this, of course, nerc
sitatos needless expense in sending
gangs of men to places yvhero there
should be nothing to do There if
nothing to prevent ballasting being
finished yvherevcr the tunnel is com
pleted, and the temporary track, trans
ferred to this improved surface, yvould
be much safer, aud fcyvcr accidents,
with consequent loss of life, anil mone3,
yvould occur. There is also an absence
of scientific methods of lighting the great
Eassagc. Monc3 yvould have been saved
y a more general system of illumina
tion. In fact, the general impression
made upon a foreign professional mind
is that of. " main strength and awkward
ness" to a greater extent than one
yvould expect to find in this highly in
ventive and suggestive age. There is
no doubt in my mind that a large ma
jorit3 of the cases of injury to tho em
ployees has been due to the absence of
a general system of lighting the tunnel,
and of thoe more scientific details em
braced in nn phrase of "the niceties
of construction." Cor. London limes.
A Rebuke From a Urston Waiter.
Boston is the center of so much in
telligence and knowledge of the pro
prietors and exactness of speech that
even the hotel waiters Ualk like so
many Lindley Marras and appear as
animated as tirst fruits of the science of
orthoepy. An evidently foreign gen
tleman yvas at breakfast in one of our
leading caravansaries the other morn
ing, and seeing salmon on the bill of
faro ordered some. But he was unac
quainted with the correct pronuncia
t'on of the word, and so. in saying.
" Please bring mo some salmon." gave
the "V in the name of the fish in foil
force. The waiter's countenance was
agitated by a spasm of pain, butJie
soon recovered himself enough to 533:
"Salmon, sir! Sammon. sir; samnion.
sir? Ye5, sir." and glided ia a stately
way to the kitchen. leaving the foreign
gentleman staring blankly after him,
and wondering at the amazing cheek of
the Boston waiter. Boston Journal.
PERSONA!, AND I.ITKUAKV.
In the Iat letter that Charles Dick
fns wrote (on the day be 'on? died)
he said: "I will have leisure to-morrow."
- Mr. Bufu3 Choale xvas onc2 de
scribed by an old farmer n.1 looking
like a mixture of jaundice and juris
prudence. Frederick Douglass i worth 100.
000 or more, and has a imhI office a
Commisj-ioner of Deeds at 7,000 a
year, and the duties light
Tho "Memoirs of TaHyr.uid." ac
cording to tho terms of tho will made
by 0110 of the great diplomat's literary
legatees, on n not be published bdoro
the year 1.
Efforts are making in Bohemia to
havu tho distribution of llod-nd-thunder
romances prohibited by the
Government .This species ot l.terature
is :d to bcexercis ng a pernicious in
llucuce upon the population of the coun
try. , Whito-ayv Bcid. the neyvly-marric I
editor of the New York Trilinc. is thus
done tip in tho sooJwtv column of a
Vicuna papor "The correspondent of
the New York IhrnU, Mr Raid, has
married Mis Mills. yitha dowry of
.l,0tx.0.
Kristofer Jansou. a Norwegian
poet, is now in this country f r the
pnrros?for visiting tho ScaTfdinavian
settlements iu the. North wot He is
one. of the four poets iu Norway (the
other three are Biornson. Ilisen and
Lie), yvho receive an annual salart from
the Storthing or Parliament as a re
cognition ol their excellent produc
tions. "As I grow older," Walt Whitman
remarks. ! am more and more ready
to take -the notnl there is in men nnd
authors, without concerning iny.scli
about the bail. Of the American jocts
I like Bry-anL bcttcr.lhau Longfellow or
Whittier, and Emer-on bettor than
either. I could not tolerate Poo a few
years ago, but now 1 am getting to.
like him."
The Dents -he ZcUunj of Vienna
offers a prize for a good National ong
that shall satisfactorily suppry the
palriot.o needs of Austria's German
lopulation. The "nacht am Litem
said to he inappropriate and inade
quate for the Germans of Austria. What
is wanted "is "riiymn llial all German
speaking populations may- bo able to
join in with equal fervor.
For the benefit of persons about to
yvrite novels, and who yet have no ade
quate idea of yvhat even a plot is, the
following definition is given from th,
Loudon AUicwvnm: A plot is "a se
quence of mutually inierdcpenden:
events, leading up to a conclusion
yvhich, even if sometimes unexpected,
is felt b3' the reader to bo inevitable."
IIL'.MOKOl'S.
Assistant sculptor yvantod. On-j
yvho is quick and correct at li :ttros pre
ferred. Sfirtm;li!il t num.
The Philadelphia .lmriiri says
"slang is the dost rover of conversa
tion." You bet it is. and the American
people should sit down on it with em
phasis. I'turrutloirn 11- rit'il.
Is 3'our father a Christ 'an?'' said
a gentleman to a little bov on ono o--c.-vsion.
" Ves. sir," said the little, boy;
"but I believe he has not worked much
at it lately." -. calami.
A little child was adilros-ed by a
gentleman tin- other day. " How old
are you, my dear? ' ho asked. "Oh!"
.said" the child indignantly. " I'm not
obi at all. I'm quite new?" l!tagoio
Keen in j Times.
The young couple yvho talked too
much at the opera live in a boarding
house ami have not suflicient opportu
nities to court at homo. People sitting
near them sintered. A'. O. licaynnc.
The 011I3 man we know of who
doesn't want tho credit for the work ho
does is the burglar. He is quite willing
that some other fellow should have tho
name of doing this work. l!ton l'ot.
Sailors frequently niutitn-foran in
crease in their allowance of grog, and
bread riots are of common occurrence;
but the only strike for water on record
was when .Sloses smote tho rock. Dc
trod (Jhnjj:
Tho growing custom of yvoarlng
mourning for a deceased sweetheart
should bo dis-ouraged. When half a
do.on different giria suddenly appear
iu black at a young man's funeral the
situation is embarrassing. Hnlu lelp.'aa
Xcrrt.
-"What is wine made of?" asked an
Austin teacher of .Fohnny Fi..letop.
who said he didn't know. " You ought
to know, for last summer I saw you
climbing over a fence to get into a
grapo arbor. What did 3011 get there?'
A licking.'' Tcris Sijtuiys.
An Accident All Around.
A most ridiculous scene occurred at a
church, in Newcastle, a few Sunda3s
ago. A policeman was passing tho
church as a gentleman came out. The
man jokingly accosted the policeman
and said ho" was wanted inside. Tho
stupid policeman thought there was
tome trouble in the church, anil went
in. Tho sexton, seeing a polieem in.
said: " Come right in here." and he
took him to a pew and waved his hand,
ns much 'is to say, "Help j-oursjlf."
There was another man in the pew, a
deacon with a sinister expression, .as
the policeman thought, and ho supposed
that he was the man the3 yvanted ar
rested, so nc tapped the deacon on the
arm, and told him to come along. The
deacon turned pale anil edge 1 a'ong as
though to got awav. when tho jkiIico
man took I1.ra.-b3 the colLar and jerked
him out in the isle. The deacon strug
gled, thinking the policeman 01-37.3.
and tried to got awav. hut he was
dragged along. .Many of tho congrega
tion thought the deacon had lieon doing
some'hing wrong, and some of them
got behind the deacon and helped the
officer to fire him ont The piiireman
saw the man who told him be was
wanted in the church, nnd asked him
yvhat the charge was against the deacon,
and he didn't know; so the sexton was
appealed tor and he "didn't know, and
finally tho prisoner was asked what it
yvas about, and he didn't know. 'Ihe
policeman was asked what he arrested
the man for. and he didn't kuow. and
altera while the matter wa? cxplaincl.
and the policeman, who had to ar
rest somebody, took the man into
custody who told him he was wanted
in the church, and he was fined live
dollars and cosfs. He sais he will
never try to convert a policeman again,
and the policeman says he will never
go into a church again if the, get to
knocking each other down with hymn
books. lcct"s Sun.
Under a Wrong Imprcsiioa.
Uncle Mose met Sam Jbhnsing on
Austin avenue rcstcniay afternoon.
What's de matter. Sam? You look?
as happy as cf yon had done writ a booc
What arc y-ou grinnin' for like a fried
po-sum?"
Sam chuckled, took Uncle Moe aside,
and told him in strict confidence that Le
had made an impression on Mrs. Gab;
Snodgrass; that at the part3 on the
evening prerioas she had refavd to
dance with anybody but him, Sam John
sing. You fool nigger," said Uncle Moe.
"don't you know why she picked oat
sich a bandy-legged, goggle-eyed, flap-
01 a 4 -.Is. lr-T- rwsa a ..m J.V
Sam was bewildered.
"I kin tell ycr." continued Mose;
" her husband am so jealous, dat ha
nebber leu her go to de ball onlcss ab
promises ter dance wid de mo hideout
and repulsive niggah in de room! beak
heah! heahf Tmzas Sitings.
Our Yoiiiiir Headers.
BR CAttKFfl. OF YOlH WORDS.
Krcp n waU'-i on rur wrrt. ror dirtNw-s.
Tr"r wnl an- wnnJrrful ttWHir
They rrrte. Ilhflh 1-h ftr-oli &nry
Uk thot'", iliivh trrrWtiff:
Ttioy own Wi-t. Ul- in rm, ufcuJ ntii
Ant lT.(tbtM tiir4r Mtru
Th- cm cut. in Hi trtfr nncwr.
14k r au ot'ii t-!s! knit
J,t thw th'OHjrfiiiMiriir- aaHnwwl.
If iiM-ir 1 rt! Wmc an-1 V wi
ll ihry ' 1 irt tftc wf.rj-.
Iu istntturt awl hsi !! Wind;
If n M'ler irtnfnl Hclt
Iht-r iy HhihrtitTiuulMi-f.
. m - .a. .- a k aa saraKi-
or (nil -ii a fcoirt UV !eat
Ki th- m NwX. If thoy nrr l ami cruel,
I nilf r lr nl 1-W nn-l :
Tlic oiiuikU thry wake t' !' HHS.
.roatAi iuw Ufhuoi.
ly HMt irwn'il mr lr. n .
Kn n ifcMlwf j.-ur plr 1 .
M.tv Uio word tuat ) on 1W utter
tk the wor.lt f UtUlf ut l"-- ntf,
THE WHITE. FACED BEAU.
Tho dearoId""ran,am6tirftr yho .o
often told me thft bvaWttVy hu been
' tyvrnty ars tn her gravy- Slid "a
t efhtv When she died, anil thi- hap-
polled to her when she was only ten
1 mr. iM
" Hbe lived yvith her father and mother
in on., of tl.rt oivttv illae in Eastern
4 MassaehiHCtts; but thoy were not verv
yvell o:l. and the family was largo, d
thev Tew jioorcr and poorer every
I year, until at lat her father and mother
thoip'ht thov would leave their old
home, and go -away oil in tho northern
' yvood where thov could have more land
I to ralo food. So. yith half a doien of
I their old neighbors, who were as jnur
j a thoni-ulvo. thoy wunt up among th
! irri'i-n NVn- Haiinv-hint I11IU. 'I here
woro no railroads jn tho.o d.tx's. and it
s-- --- : .
tHk as long to journey over tho hun
dred mllos ns it would HOW to mako a
l journey to Ktiropo.
j Thov yvere alino-t two weeks going to
I their now homos, but at last, when thev
wei-w beginning to bo thoroughly tired.
they tame to the place a broad bonuti-
fid table-land -hut iu oil every side !v
' loftv uiouutains, jiust gmwing green 111
j tho'bright spring .suuhinu- Huru, on
Iho banks ot a Kivoly littlo lake, thev
made thoir homes, ami not very near
j each other. At l'rl thev had pieitv
1 hard limes, and thoy could not help bo-
j mg a liltlo hiunojiiok when thev thought
' of the blue sparkling sea that they had
I m;cu every dav of their lives until now.
Tho mountains scorned to .shut thum in
; imnassabh from their old homes and
j-neighbors, and it yvas hard work clear-
inglho land, planting and gathering iu
crops; but women and children worked
together with the men folk, nnd tho
clearings grew larger and larger each
ear. I hey rauod cows ami .sheen, and
at last each faintly owned a yoke of
OAOll.
"I hoi:," said grandmother, and hero
s-ho always began to warm iu her nar
ration, "wo thought ourselves, pretty
forehanded. There was only 0110
churn iu the neighborhood.aud that be
longed to Mrs. (Viig. who lived on tho
river road about a indcfiom our house.
Oiil night when father uont over to ,,lnko ft(,,.r,inner a cup of . -
borrow the churn. Mrs. I ra.g t... Inn ,,,,.,. t ,,, ,igost.ou It I
tobe.si.ro and i.img it back m.elimo t..u, al IH,,lllo ,M,or of .!-.,
inuieiiiornii.g. as sno wain.-, u i.or
eoll. N. mother burned round and Xol
the cream 111 belo.e miiii-.i. and ent.io
to m bed ami tul.l me it I won d lump
up and churn I m.ght carry tho chut 11
.'.'i'.'' 1 . . 1 1 1 .
-It was about ten .. oloofc when I
--!.... . . . 1 - I .-
Pl.U.fOM.. ..lis- .;lKs ! s ..,..
In. i!v .nriinr iln. run! tint imirn tvn4
.,...., - -.-- ...... . ... ........ .....
lo'.e.v
li 'lit in my .stttriU bti'e arms, and I en-
ji3Cl my walk, whuh lay along tho
banks of Iho littlo river, now swollen
with the lato spring ra iu till it tu-he I
foaming and tumbling over the stones
I weni happily along, now nnd then
stopping to pick a violet, till just as 1
got about half w.y there I heard a
great noise of crackling hu.ihcs.aud then,
right iu the path before me, came a
great black bear with a white face. lie
t'tk il tritit lltur t4f i u if lt finl litt iximio
i... ...o .. ti.H -,t..r ,.,,.1 1 :. ? .,..-
iinscl to .see inc. for he stopped ami
.w.k...l m ... ms .......1, , I.. fcii .yy..n
I
little girl, where did uuu conn; from'
" "-. . ; J
Hut he didn t oiler to touch me
"At tirst 1 tvns Wxi frightened to run.
and I onh stood and stared at him I
Mipposo this must have saved mv life,
for since I have often heard th it a wild
'lH!Rt never attacks a 113 one who has
! Iho courage to look him steadily In the
j face. Anyway, tho bear dulii t offer to
touch me, and bv and 113 1 began to
j think I might gotawav. So I Mil iho
I ..i...... .1, ..-..u- I .1
. iiiiiii ii'miii 1 .11 .-niu. . .niu iiii-ii ii-nu
to go backwards, all the tun., lookuo'
Mr.i!"ht at the bear. win. -nt down 1.1-7.
1 a big dog and looked after me. but did
j not oiler to follow.
1 "At last a turn in Uio road hid him
from sight, and thru I ran as fast as I
could, father was at work in a held
only a little way otr. and I ran all Iho
way them. Ho stopped working when
he saw mo loming. and 1 -iippo.; I
' must have looked singular enough, for 'oriner iiinvs uni not n-quiro to aura
I had lost my bonnet, and mv ha r wn , high extent as our present ago.
living in the yvind, and I jumped right W" havo now suuVinntly uxpfoJ-!
over the Ioyy fence, and ran up to hhn l' new! of rolo- drinking and .
! and put 1113 arms rouinl him and began must coiifos that nil wo havo saH kr
to cr3. doos not iu tho le.-wt aired our ih.hk
j "Wh3, Ik'tt3!' he said, 'what's tho twm that, according to Lioblg. ouflw .
matter?' alo nutritive. Ami no onti can h-l!'
j "Hut I couldn't speak. ' iMrlicving UiU who ha s.jn liwr iml
I Hetty,' he cried, 'tell m- quick ' people subsist on but very little ll.
what U ihe matter' Arc tho children providing thoy can havo plonty ol 4
I or 3our mother sick or dead?' 'fee. Tho objnotion rnl tkat
"I shook my head. No,' I man- J should be bettor for those popon. to
aged to sa3, it's the lear.' take tho nitrogen contained in naif in
I -'I'hi' boar!' he exclaimed, looking ' the form of meat, is corn t. but, on lb
1 quickly around. 'Why, child, there s fdliur hand. w intuit Uptak wloHkr
, nothing here' Did 3011 think you avv ineat would bo good for the tuiaw h
J a bear?' " at all such tines as a cup of coffo
, " Hy this time I hm gmwn a littlo Th's would rnrtn'nly not lo tlir r
calmer, and I said, I did ee o&c. carl? in the morning and if in th
Mother ."cut me to cany tho chum foe wo enjoy a beverage whioh giv"" s
, home, and jpt as I got by the Hend. I nutriment, r trengtln;n? thi nUmarh
hoard a noise, and a groat black bear and at the name time timulnte or
1 with a white face itood right In tho mind, wo havo good roaon U rv-r
roail before mo.' cnce Ihe iriitmct of man which raw
I "Oh. how father laughed at thU cofTeo to an rjntial moatn of aMbwtot-
Why. Pitty.' he said, 'there nvv. enro, and divorcrcd iu UmeftcUi m-
; cr wm a bear with a white face. It JJuenre long before It was ilwo br
wa? onlv Mr. Craig's black sheep; you science. licrmU.itCM I'oputor wtuv.
t know that ha? a whito faco.' " ' -, .
J '"Hut I known wa? a bear.' I per-' A JSra Catrhrs the Plak-Krc.
1 sisted. 'and it -alright down just liko '
, 7arlo. and watched me out of Mght' About a week ago one of the hr
I -'.' WelLi sauL fat'ier. ! iC t,u I belonging to Haworth A De-wknra
. must go with ton and se alotit St but C!I1U8 alfecUnl with "pink-ete. Oim ot
, I gii(s you'll find it was nothing but a tne drivers named Travolta carwl U"
I sheep. ami ho laughed again. I aid the horse and wa up with the ammo
nothing, but took hi? hand and wc went " night "Ihe horse died ami tk
j bat. k tc-the road. welling broke out on "I ravolki" fju-r
Well. aid father a? we came in Hm jaw becam greatly i-wolleM. -.
sipht of the churn still standing where po-'n? in hi? bock were quite ?err '!
I I had left it 'well, 1 city, there's your day he wa ?till suffering, and a rrmuc
j chum, but wherh'.i yoor bearr grew current that he ton had h"imm
I ' I don't know where he i now; but a -icteI with "pink-eye." As t)l ws
. he at in the nad th other ide of the the first instance on reonl of wbm 1
churn wken I ran off.' I a.iwjred.
Fiiher neat up to th thum. still
hoM ng my hand. and. stonng donn.
i Iffikcil at the ground li:H Ur got
1 up, be w.x? not laughing, bnt In- hohl
my nanu ngnier tnan tie;orc a? he
f aid A bear sure enough, and a big
; one. too! HTiy. Hcttr. child! Where
..; ju.ii c.n nut you nwn ;. sec mm
beforer
Why, be came out of the buibej.
I said.
-" Father looked at the traeks again.
Well, he's gone off into the wor.I
now, and I guest you and I ha1 bolter
j carry th! churn home, and then I'Hsee
ryotf safe back to mother "
"So he picked np tho chnrn, and.
t Riii noiaing nw tightly by the haad, we
went on to .Mrs. Crai'.
could do it, or I shouldn't havie mI
t wonl about iu being brought horse this
, rcorntnV
j Then father ha1 to tell her about
j the bear, and finished by saving 'She
j wao frightened thotibereallv thought
j it bad a white face.'
.. uj. Jir. v.rusv cnea irs. Lraig ia balrs ot cotton at (Jldham. hngU-
1
&a bob as us. 11m too JeaTe roar are military accoutennents. largs
I wore to bring thatlioroe-" Kttvr. thafji tne-. nalnntc particle of ind. a kax
JtOO baL I thought one o' Iho rfiiidrn ' am! rmt Atui iomi oiil Smrmi nn.ln.
Woll. it did have a whU faro,' A
cried.
.Mr. Craig laughed. l don't wr.
tier you thought so. rhiW. hi vUL
Why. It -euros- inn to think nf it,
Tlion father wont howo with w,
and mother was frightonwl rnowgh
when shi' heard tbo story. l nan t
j my sight again. .ho aid. but h. t..
tangac-d a mtw ovr inn nn ! 1
5Ufo. 1 most bay 9 Ihmmi a )itt' cn .
ntxHit Uii. an way. father U44 m m
to y na 11 tWnt it had a w hi l (-.
! mother told me to jfo al 4on
a little wlitti am! I dnln t dam to 1
oIm-v either f thfm. I i im
I uuun on my iMnii--r"F. ; ' 1
I iitt: lnt I koj t nyiHt uwU. U
I did luwo .1 wht to fac. I kmw dtd
, . II.. . I -l l -..! .
n 011. . i" k
bnlv In town know tknt IMli tr
J had tome prutty uear Ihih?; ontm hi
Ihsar. aud wa, o fr)ttriMMl itwt imV
' thtniht it had a nkl far; .-! !
otiur.-o oyerybiMly lan;hHl at tlfcit. I
dknt .say anything, but I !; I
r'ht. and oh. ho I dnt kotxt nm-
UmIv i!d kill the In-ar. awl then "W.
would know 1 wa rigltt
Well, ono day mv idt brother
unnio homo ftom the mitt. Wr Ir
hadUctito hayo some corn tcfmaat
Ho n.s groath oxpiUhI, and n
ho enu.ti into the !ivu nu oyclntww I
'Well. Holly-! 11 thi rtewt tm'x' Th.
i.nr did havo a whliw Inoo lr nc
M-o Burn- who hvoi tho olbor Uo (
ihe rner. and ho . tho War. H
,yi it tho grxwlcit wonder Kitv
wasn't kdU-il. tr tho War . nan
ry that ho to'ljod oho of ki t-jer
old steer-, and wouM hnvo krikni rt I
ho and his hired ti.an hadM't drwt km
off with pitehfotkv aitdtHo boprrwv
mlo the rier mid iwnin turn. a-l
must havo come right t in (hm1 I
... . .. .. " . .
liotiy. lor Mr minis .1113 11 wji o
by tho Itend '
" Oh, how I e'apj ed my httmNI n I
1 cried- "l know H hnd a wlo (h-. I
know it had '
.Moihor didn't sny muvk thou. tn'
wl
k
vhen I wont to hod that 11 rhl h.-
"cl mo and nn! 'Thank .l. n
"iiilc daughter i -wo at Komn antl 1
. kiiuw ho wa thtnkiug of t tmor.
Wo hetird a tew woks Hftr th
t o ' ear wai killing shoop in ! U :
part ol the town, and thero nil ti mr .
tttriitnl out and had a jrrnnd hour '.
and nt last tracked him to lm 4wn n
the wihmIi. wheio ho was sn kiUl
Ho was an mutioiuto animtd. anl aiMM
everybody wont lo soonnn. but I 4Ai t
carv'to. "l thoHvht I had ?on Wiw d
noedid to; ami I Imuo mtvwr mtm
scon nor hoard of a whito-lncod boar
HidAKiikv.
Colfee ns a .Mrdlrlnr.
In recent timos coffno hns horn -n
ddcrod not '. mix nrtteJo of Ih1. Iit
partly as n spice and jrtlr a a km) (
mediciuo. Spioo It l", limMiiHok n it
cnu-os like many other spieco. two
nch to ."ocreto an itureu-od iinlU !
gastric juico. Digosti.ui imIj- tnk
p'n o when lh dos of the HnmArn .
creto a liquid having tho qwrdttv t
gosling lonl ( living to thl. wmI-hmi
- irKi. ..u j,---.
,,, ,,.,, ....tedded ioo.ro t.
, ,nt 5,; nUl.r ,,,. Uati mWu MW,
h ,,,,m..,,U ,( .jj, MIH, Www
lh ;,,,.,, M ,,;,.,, aIM, iIWM..
tmt ft (,(J (f tn.. , ,(, ,- r..
' fresho. and stiuiulati's tho omta ortt-
Ml,m., ., .. thr rilHWWr,,
,. . .
It in a cotiiti n
sorvnton. Hint moro nppitito fci M
after coffco than be'oro it Jo mn- !i
for tho )in 1 ortnneo of colf.-o as n so r
Very just 13 wo ascribo to iniIToo ! 1
medicinal tutlunucc; wo (Hinidor it -v
miMliciuo for our moutal activity, mi I
for the activity of tho norvos.
Il is well known that nt night fofl--dispel
fatigue, ami that by tho n '
strong i-olleo. sbn p umv Int lnnnn' l
for a long time. And mom. tlowoi lb ..
aro busy mentally, often tool a froK
1 inviKoratuig impiil
sc alter inn on
1 n'0",1 "J "ai" V,,"n ''
I wrk, they make It a moans ii
si...... .if .....f.. yVt..t,i fnlt..ajl 1. ill.
rnorui
1 ti -1. 1. i-..- ......i r -.
.11. ii I'll KVkll. .'t .k nlll.f4.t iwwr'9.
colfee can aiiimalo conversation. Wjn
wo moot eldorl) Indioi Iu soeietv. and
iiotu-e them sitting quietly and talking
but in moiioivllabliK. wo need noli.
surprised tlii.y havu had no ootfun ,,t
Itut when, afU'r a little, eonvoretMi
, Hows with full furvo like a rapid stream
of water, wo may from OiUsnftttr mi;'
nio tho mtihl3' iiitlurtico of eollo. t
has loosened not only tho louguo. but
more, tho looks, tho htuidi. na tk
"'holu body nnd tho wholn soul. Al
though tin) mind has rnst.-d during th-
"",. w' v,!- J, l,'M "lorning liii""
; of stimulating our nervous system wiii
'" "M "f ollec. preparing, ai Jt wf .
our mind for Iho day's work. A mod
VTn naturalist, as genial as ho Is htnmol.
Moleschott, ascribes the latoly Inennww I
otiMimptlon of eoir.-e to the grontrr
tlegree of inontnl activity, which IU m
Jiuman being was reirted of le4ge af-
f-ctel with funk-oje a rep'irtor --'l'l
03 TrariJla. acd found Uun sufJoniiK
wth swollen and licaled face. He -
plaln! rHarute pain?, bnt didn't tMak
11 was rnic-e?c in leg? werr ir--
from pain, and he had no wrene ol
the eyes. Said TrareHa. "I w ai
g"'. uw wie norse gt icz and umi.
aau seme 01 lue nyrapwm? are simiwr.
bat I hardly U'Ijctc that ii.wkat
trouble me.
There arc others. bowcTer. wko k
rrre Travella is afflicted with tk
genuine "pink-eve." and no doubt tk-
phjsician will le called upon todUc
i the mrrtlon of th dLseaie afilfctiog
human beicg. Pittsburgh LtaUr.
--AnKin the article rcorntl ttmnd
blr rel cjj of the American war. 'Ik
promised action of the United Stat
Consul at Manchester to check these
irrogtilariliea U waited for with murk
iatercit. TkU gentleman pfciged klai
sell at a pablic meeting at UMkam to
take action ia the mattrr.
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