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riz; love of ms life.
Oh, no. T never mentioiiMier,
1 ne er bmtthe her name,
T?r,,-, ,u memory totir
uo Me a wasted n.une. ,
JNo vimn of her haunts nie now.
Lnhroken is my res.,
Io Jdss is Hid upon licr bro'v,
None on her Hps is pressed.
I never bother as to how
ls worn the forehead tress,
lieru turns and freaks. lon't rrifeiacnow. ?
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J lion i no unuWi in my soul
ivi Mic Knottier choose.
lien no lovesick lin.irolc
io conjure up the blue".
Ah. no 1 never mention her.
The pirl who'll rule my li.c,
ho-e maiden nanial'lf alter
To the ik-ai er naiiif r w tr..
1- I t-ll no f riendt. dehjrhtedly
Of the treasure I !iall pt-U
1 t-peak not of her. For you Beo
1 have not met her yet.
y. Y. Jmirnuu
THE IIAUNTEW TOOL.
The -sun was setting over tlie Gangas
one l)riglit .summer evening in 1871.
The day liad been a hot one even for
Indh., and it was an unspeakable relief
to every one when the scorching sun be
gan to decline at last, and the length
ening shadows of the tall palms along
the riverbank told that night was tit
hand.
And now the Hindu inhabitants of
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viiu uui"iiuoiiuf vuiaire, who nan neon
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ling uiotionlcas all the afternoon under
jc shade of their reel-that ched roof.
The IIed
oroftlii-vastoM-nirchiiig banvan tree.s " """li"1 L " I' -
SSS!.li,ir,'itTe ln,I,ill dow,lto The Commissioner nodded with the
Sl?.? 'i 1 1 f.i nir of a man who understood the whole
ri?; ilf -i rwboe VtalTair perfecllv, but .till he said
river so lovely and silent all throtijrh I nr,tu;n
burninir dav became all alive
vin iiuisu auu nubile. t.iui(iren nrni
i.r. ...:.. 1 1 .. , . -,.-i, ,
k'd in the broad, still pools.or chased
jiqr in anu out 01 tne tall.
bamboo clump that grewaloii"-
. Women tilled their earthen
pitcBcrs from the stream, or washed
their threadbare clothes. Vlcn began
" il 1 1 . 1 rlV
to -oour uieir orass loians (ar-nicing 1
l" , Z 1- ji .- e .7 P
vessels), or to kindle lues for the cook-
iu.r of their evening meals; while a little
farther d(w the stream, a group of
T. 1J . .. .t f It
yming gir. n:miHR win
water, fell to splashing
niiglit am main, amid
,'minir jn"- waning out in tne siiautnv
g each other with
shouts of merry
lausrhter.
'Jro anVnc unaccustomed to tlie wavs
, i 1.1 1 j .
Ol musa iuiiiti u;ie si-i-uieu sil.iuge
enouirn.o
see.
upon tlie wn-ts and
ill the girls, and nianv
unkles i nearly
of tleiiiothers likewise, heav bangles
of soliisilver. which any Western lady
rti"htave been proud to wear. But the
tindtpeasants, to whom savings-banks
ire ijsrly unknown, have no way of
ceejnr their money safe except by
arA'iig it about with them in this
fasAo a somewhat hazardous plan,
it? must be owned, in a e-iuntry
Swarming with the most expert and
.. aanng thieves in the world.
r Suddenly, one of the girls, who had
ventured a little fa'th'r out into 1
sjiyam than the rest, disappeared under
xv ater with a piercing shriek, as if
"ragged down by .-oni" overpowering
force. A few bubbles that rose sullenly
to tho surface were the only token of
her fate, while her terrified companions
turned and rushed back to the shore as
fast as possible, screaming: 1
"A crocodile! a crocodile!" '
Several day passed before an' of the
villnge'women dared to approach the
scene of tins terrible mischance. At
length one. bolder than the rest, ven
tured m again, and the others, seeing
that no harm came of her daring, began
to follow her example. More than a
week passed without any accident, ami
everything was beginning to go on as
usual, when, one eening, a second girl
disappeared in precKeh the same man
ner as the first.
The terror was now universal, and all
tlie bet hunter? of the village st them
selves with one accord to get rid of this
destroying crocodile.
ililf T. mt 5 .v.rr. l'liil
Baits
Ave re laid
traps set, men posted along the bank
with loaded guns to keep watch for the
monster; but. look for him as tney
might, nothing was to be seen of him.
Several days later tluMwfu of one of
tho villagers" was washing her ivhite
xvrapper on the bank of tlie rier when
it slipped from her hands and lloated
slowly out into the wide, still pool
formed by the bend of the stream. The
woman at once waded after it, and h:id
just succeeded, in clutcliing it, when she
vras seen-by those ou'the bank to give a
Hinwa biwi, uuun au.s .u. in-
Nveiy xmo inn air itiiu uimiwmi iinuei
water just as the other two had done
before. 1
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About three days after this last catas-
tropneiMr. uenrv parK. uic ltntisn
Commissioner for the District ol
Cstf-F'liU
'5- J unley wallah, was at work in his ollicc
- Vvaraid a. perfect mound of paper, halt-,
ing every now and then to wipe his
streaming face (which, despite the
enormous punkah, or swinging-fan,
worked by his native sen-ant outside
with a cord passed through a hole in
: the wall, looked very mncli like a half-
, melted snowball), xvhen he was sudden
ly disturbed by a knock at the door.
"Come in!" cried he. snappishly.
ex
pecting the entrance of some Hindu
farmer or peasant with a complaint as
long and unintelligible as anAssria'n
inscription. But at the first glimpse ol
the person who eutored his face cleared
at once.
The x-isitor was a tall native, with the
handsome features and stately bearing
of a Mahratta. Ills figure, nearly six
feet in height, xvas so gaunt and sinewy
that it seemed to be made of pin-wire,
ond his piercing black ees looked out
from beneath the lolds or nis wnue tur-
ban with the quick, keen.
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11 IIIVIUIU
glance of a practical hunter. ..
Jn truth. Ismail, the jvianratta, was
xvell nscd to tracking other game beside
deer or tigers. Over and above his oc-
cnpations as scout,
,,. -
hunter anu mvern-
ment courier, he -was in constant re
quest as a detective, and, for tracking
down either.a wild-beast or a criminal,
-.he had no equal in Bengal.
Gliding into the room as noiselessly
as a sliadow.ntc made a low salaam,
and said in hispwn language:
"May the humblest "of his servant,
speak tothe Sahib?" master).
,. there v:.v noLJiing,pariicui;u i nun
hie. -it must be ..dm.UeJ. in- the
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ir'S b??rin; 0n contrary. lielie.d
! h,mci crettt. and looked the Con.mis-
! sionur full in the face with the air of .1
1I,an ""-'ho knew his own value, and had
Jsoniethingto tell which hi; frit to his
Mortn hearing; but Mr. Sparks,with
xvlmm Ismail was an old acquaintance,
:i)M-arul to understand these signs per
feclbyi, and said
"What has Ismail to tell? lam list
ening." Thavo been at the village of Ram
ganj,'" answered t!ie Mahratta, laying a
fclight stress upon the last word.
"itamganj?" echoed Mr.- Snarks.
"Ah, to be sure the place where that
CrOCOdlll' I.T1 Tir-nli rur m. c. iiinv iwu.
crocodile's cen beatin.rim so manvneo-
, pie."
"Are you quite sure. Sahib?"1 asked
the Hindu, keenly watching the effect of
his words, "that" it was :. croc-ad. le tiiat
did it?'1 -
Tl:e Engliilimau .started, and looked
fixedly at Ii..air.- imumvable face: '
"That's how I heard the .story told,"
rejoined he. "If it wasn't a crocodile,
what w:ls it?"
"Dili the Commissioner. Sahib," in
quired Ismail, "ever hear of a crocodile
being so nice in hi eating as to devour
t none but women, and only such women
as had plenty of silver bawlcs o?i?"
Again Mr. Sparks gave a slight
' start, and the sparkle- of his
ee showed that lie was beginning
to truess the riddle, but he took care to
make no interruption, seeing that Ismail
wished to have the pleasure of telling
the whole .story himself.
"I went to the village," continued Is-
i mail, "and talked with the people.
i Then I dived into the river fmv lord
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Sahib understands how it was
done," proceeded the Hindu. "When
any woman worth robbing went into the
water, the nooe tangled' her feet, aud
the robber, hidden among the bushes on
the opposite hank, dragged her down
and drov.ned her. and then plundeicd
the corpse at his leisure."
1 see, sain .ir. sparks, "nell,
Ismall k ,, . ' Government
I see, said Mr. Sparks. "We .
reward of a thousand rupees .$."00) for
everx murderer brought to justice: see
what you can make of the cr.se."
The Mahratla'.s black e.es flashed
fin', for live bundled iloll-ir- is mure to
a Hindu than lie thousand to a while
man, and such a change did not cmie
to him every dav. lie wiil out witli
out a word, "but Mr. Sparks felt satisfied -that
there would 1k news of the crim
inal before long.
Ismail plunged at on-e into the sur
rounding jungle, and traered it at a
pace which few men could have kept up
over such ground and in such a climate,
till he came in sig:-; of liamganj. but
instead of entering the village he struck
down a In -path to the river, swam
across, went slowly up thn opposite sMo
till he came to two bamboo-clumps ch-.se
together, ami groping in the wateV be-
sule them, pu'u
7?c .mvt turn
suie them, pulled a rope.
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stone upon the
j;jIU.,u'j tia.L.,srd
n:s ncxi n.oe "a:is to nun: out a e:r
sharp edge of . h'oh In
to ami fro t.HithcM
only bv one strand. One .slash of hi
long, sharp knife would have done the
work mueh quicker, but Ismail doubt
less had his reasons for what he did.
Then placing the stone in the shallow
water with the sharji side unnermost.
and the rope lying right aero-.s it, he
x'anisjied in tlie thicket.
An hour had passed since iris disap
pearance, and nigiit had already set in,
when a dark ligme cam-' ertepingup
to tne sani snot, :
hnlf-sevcrf.l cord,
aitod in his hand.
tnd pulled at the
which instanth
and held up the
lignt of the rising
l.icm rough and
The man stalled,
broken ends to the
11100:1, but .hiding
frayed as it by constant rubbing, and
feeling the sharp-edged stone liin-just
underneath, he appear. d satisfieiTlhat
it must l:ae been an accident, and
knelt down to knot the cord together
again.
So engrossed was the villain with hi
treaeheious work that he ncer lific-i
his head lo look around him, hutcien
had lie been less prooccupid he would
scarcely have l.e.trd the miviIe fo it
fall of one who had been tracking the
tiger-and; antelope through their native
jungles ever'since he was ten ears ohl.
The rogue was stiil quite un-u-jK'-iou
of harm, when a tall, s'-adowy figure
rose behind him as suddenly as:f it had
started up t'ir.iiig'i the earth, and a
tremendous blow livmi a heaw bamboo
elubf faijm:r .)(;n his femed herd like
a thunderbolt, felled him
the earth.
senseless to
Th-t v..i-v- n.n-i.. ii...w,.(f..ii... ,.i.i.
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was sent oil lo
jon pSC.nrted
the nearest British -.ui-by
a strong guard ol
native
pujjceuiun, io oe trieu am
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executed, as he deseived, while Is
mail received from the hands of the
Commissioner himself, together with a
warm commendation of his shrewdness,
the thousand rupees which he had so
well earned. Uavid Kcr, in The Conti
nent. A good many young people try to
he original, ami make a in" sorablc "mis
takc in tlie endeavor. The. imagine
they can turn the whole world loiinil op
sonic eccentricity of dress or t. ha-.io.-.
or by some method of speech. In gen
eral, they ofl'-nd their friends, and de
light their enemies. As a matte r of
fact, people had better let well al'.ne.
take up the custom of those about them.
and rest assured that what t hi collective
xvisilom of the world agrees to do, is ou
the whole, best
The Household.
In the
neighborhood of Agra
. in
few-
India, sit-fiu children
from a
monhs,to four
hsito four ear old,are stated to
been carried rfT'oVyolvfes duriu"-
have
the recent hot weather 'and the raitisC
The"ra'ines bordering on Mho Jumna
and Chumbal Rivers are infected bv
these animals, which are annarenilv hrl-
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iar bv
x-car.
Along the side of the Sierra Valley,
at an altitude oP fifty "to. one hundred
feet, there is a warm belt, free from
frost and climate changes, and which
can produce all (he hardy fruits to great
perfection. San Franchr.j Call.
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moneydoncd himaaMMf a judgment.
.H-. .-..t.tl. .
Imltatlou Stained Class.
Among the many Uses of the printing
press none is more novel than the pro
duction of imitation stained glass. De
signs for any pattern desired are en
grayed on wood. The blocks of wood
are placed on-anold-fasluoned band
press, and then arc inked with oil colors
compounded with special reference to
the use for which they arc intended.
Then a sheet of very thin hand-made
porous paper is laid on, and a prolonged
impression given, in order that the color
may thoroughly permeate the paper.
j-acn color isol course, printed at a
separate impression. Having com-
pleted the printin
rr iirr.rva tlin r1.fT.T
ent pieces of paper' xvhich compose
the sign are soaked in warm water
half an hour, taken out, the water
sponged off and then coated on ono side
with a thin cement. A similar coat of
i !.... .,, ..iiit-i-
cement is given the glass to which the
paper is to be applied, and then the
-isner is laid on in nl:uR. and vn.rnUh.l
over. I lie plain glass window becomes
at once, to all appearances, a window of
stained glass. The effects of the lead
lines, the irregular pieces of Htaincd
glass, the heads of saints and soldiers,
the antique, or the modern Japanese de
signs are all to be had as brilliant in color
T
as the genuine glass.
Will the stuff last?" was asked of a
Broadway dealer. I A Washington correspondent writes
"We have had it in all sorts of places, ' that in one of tho departments at Wash
where it was subject to the action of ington a needy female descendant of
frost, moisture, the direct ra.s of the George Washington's relatives was np
sun, and artificial heat for live years, pointed not long ao. In the War I)e
We warrant it for ten years, if the owner partnient is a irraiidniece of Kosciusko.
of the glass will varnish it as often as
it as oiien as
he would a piece of furniture."
"Suppose it gets dirty?
"Use soap and water as vou wonld on
any other varnished surface. Its merits
are onlv now becoming known because
of a prejudice against imitations, and a
fear among some people that the frost
will nun it. Hut within a year we havo himself bv his gifts of works of art to
applied over forty thousand square feet ' various institutions, recently celebrated
of it. Our customers include the best his seventv-third birthday by o-ivin" to
Long Branch and Saratoga hotels, own- tlie Women's School of D'esiTin Phila
ersof new business blocks on Broad- delphia t went v-t wo choice copies of old
way, -fashionable churches in New York masters, especially imported bv him
and Brooklyn, aud apartment houses. I self. Tliev- eomi.i;,e i-n.-ix ..f ivnrl-a
When the reporter of a Brooklyn paper
wrote up one of the churches there as
having magnificent new stainexl glass
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' w.in,,ow-S when. 111 fact, the old six-by
nine glass in the old trames had been
covered with our paper, we naturally I
church for eleven dollars. A real glass
window opposite cost one hundred and
sixty-live dollars. Members of the con
gregation have assured us that our.s is
more admired than the other. Thecost
of decorating a window is seventy-five
cents a foot. Any one can do the work.
X. Y. Sun.
A Chinese
Prince and
ii'cte.
His Cabalistic
I We shall shortly
-Franco-Chinese ti
have in the courts a
rial, which promises
some ot tlie spiciest developments. A
Chinaman, who had saved come money
while a waiter in a cafe, and arrayed in
the most gorgeous Oriental costumes,
poised as a Celestial Prince.made the ac
quaintance one day in June of Mile.
G at a concert in tho Champs
Elysees. Harassed by her creditors,
who threatened to eject her from her
home, the supposititious Chinese Prince
was a perfect godsend
They hail din- !
Tll Mffntn!4 .lfli-iiifr lililoli tli& PtMrtn, I
spoke of his immense wealth. To be
lieve him he owned half of the city of
Shanghai. As he had forgotten his
pocket-book Mile. G had to pay the
bill. The next day, perceiving her eni-
' harrassed position ho told hor he would
give her a draft for -.'JO.OCXJ francos, and
drawing from his pocket a long sheet of
Chinese paper scribbled it full of gro
tesque characters. At the bottom he
wrote the following address in French:
"M. Escn-Ang, banker, 18 Kuo dos
Europcens, Shanghai."
As soon as he departed
Mile. G
reflected that no one here would cash '
the draft, and as her creditors would not '
wait until a remittance should arrive
from Shanghai, she quickly made up
her mind to leave for the Flowery King
dom. That same evening she departed
from Pnris for Marseilles, where slie
took passage on the Nadyr. The voyago
lasted forty days. At last she arrived
at Shanghai, and showed the draft, but
no one knew the Chinaman. There
xvas no Rue des Europcens. The de
ceived voyager had the writing on her
slip of paper translated, and it read:
"I am very happy at the attentions
which Mile. Hortense G has shown
me from the moment I made her ac
quaintance until this morning. That is
why I have delivered to her this certifi
cate as a recommendation.
Paris, June 21, 1883.
Mile. Hortense G returned in the
steerage. Three days ago she met the
Chinaman in tho Place de la Concorde.
The yellow-skinned visage and pig-tail
suffered considerably in the encounter.
She has begun suit against him for 100,-
uuo francs for damages and her x-oyage
to China. Fans Cor. X. Y. World.
A Little Romance.
-
Even Vermont now and then has its
little romance. Here is the .story of one
from the Burlington Free Pre.s:
"Last summer some Burlington peo
ple were visiting in a Western town,
and there formed the acquaintance of a
furniture dealer who had recently buried
his second wife. They ioked him n little
.aooui ms future matrimonial prospects
and he candidly admitted that he would
like to many again, and asked them if
iney knew an eligible lath. Subsc-
quentlyhe looked at their photoo-num
album, in which was the picture of an
unmarried lady of this city, which took
the widower's fancy, and he was told
her name. The Burlington people
thonght no more of 'it, but after their
return home were surprised to learn
that the Western gentleman had opened
a correspondence with the lady alluded
to. The course of true love ran smooth
ly, the Western widower came to Bur
lington on Friday of last week, saw his
lady-love forthe iirst time, aud the mar
riage took place on Tueadav- the happy
eoupls stalling at once for the West."
fill mm in whiM. -uvic thn ninlnrn .. r.
The
latest slang
--
is "slim.'
'sum" is a dude: a "slimeMi "
"
dudenc. - Chicago Journal.
, hopped on to the top r;ul of the fence, uf th,. :UKient 1)eIau..irt. Iml5rms ,vl;,
llappe.1 our wings and crowed. occupied the State, diet! at Hamil-
1 "How does he cost compare with t()II N imr. u MnaH VlU T
genuine g huss. ,on, reeentlv. lie was seventy-one
"It costs about one-tenth as much. XIMrs ,lf . aml ,vas , -
He put a large window in a country ,iM(Ui,.,i t,T.i;.. ti ... 1 1
n.BS03AL AND IMPERSONAL.
,u.u.... .I......... i .s.s., ... ,,. ....u
pbi win. i an hip laxts eoiicete.t in ;.an
Sam Ro," the son of awcalthy China
man of San Francisco, has disowned the
boy who, as student of the Chicago
university, has become a Christain.
Chicago Xcws.
A remarkable instance occurs in
the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Weeks of
Porthmd, Me. Her bath, marriage and
death oecti -rod-alike on the 21st day of
the month. B6sttiL-Po$t.
General Washington aud General
Sherman, by a curious historical coinci
dence, issued their farewell orders to
t lie army on the same .day a century
apart November 1, 1783-1S&5.
Mitchell Putnam, one hundred and
thrca ears of age, tiaveled alone from
Texas" lo South Carolina to see his
I ,,
! lorm,'j'
"" ot
home. He was a soldier in tho
1811' and
in the Texan htrnjrirle.
1 .- ... .
ari-en county, ueorgia. boasts or
a resident who participated in seventeen
naiNes lor the lost cause, was wounded
several times. Las been struck by light
ning three times, lay insensible from
one shock three days, is now not more
than forty years" of age,' and is as
l.calthv as nil. mnn 51 ml ..7i-lic ..v-nr-
two "ndred pounds. Chicago Times.
In the Interior Department is cn.plo.cd
n ine interior ucnartment is eninlo.etl
a great-granddaughter of Thomas Jef-
fer.vm. Her little salary .supports her
aged and invalid mother, who is tho
. last surviving grandchild of Jefferson.
I. Sun.
-Rev. Dr. U.
L. Magonn, of Phila-
delphia, who has alread'v distinguished
by Giotto. Fra Angelieo.' Michael An-
1 gelo. Lei
' revfrj(, '
onanla da vmei, Kafl.icl. Cor
ritian and Andrea del Sarto.
it 1 umripii ta 1 'res .
Samuel Build Riley, believed to be
I ne last descendant left in New Jersey
ago most
Dejawares remoed to a reservation in
New York, and the race is now prac
tically extinct. Xi ivark Register.
-Rev. Dr. J. W. Seott, of Washing
ton. I). C. recently visited his daugh
ter, Mrs. General Harrison, at Indian
apolis, and stopped for a few days in
Oiiio. For forty years Dr. Scott was
prominently identified with educational
i:i:Mitions in the West, and no liring
man ins 1. 'oore loving eonstitucney
than he has, scattered 01 oadcast over
w land. He was a Professor in Miami
University, one of the Founders of
Fanners" College, and the organizer of
two successful female seminaries, and
in every place was loved and honored.
He is now in his eighty-fourth year, as
full of life and energy as many men of
lifly. and takes a full interest in all
questions to make the world wiser ami
better and hnnnier.
Chicaqo Irwunc.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE.
You'll have to take the will for the i
deed." is what the heir said to the lawyer
w hen the latter presented his bill.
After Decern tier tho yard-stick
will he llvuil no lnno-nr in nmnsnrmir
r(W(R Thirty-six iiTche.s is thought to
be long enough. A. i. Intlcpaulcnl.
' A sick friend writes to us to as
' certain the shortest road to health.
, Tiiere are two paths allopaths and
I liomu'opallis; ou lake your choice and
pay our money. Huston Louncr.
A Yankee has invented a new
procc: for huling boots and shoes. If
he can last a ten- ear-old boy's shoes so
that they will last two weeks without re- j
quiring naii-soiing, ne snoui-i open
a branch ollicc m this town. Aorm
loirn Herald.
It is said that a baby can wear out
a one dollar pair of kid shoes in twenty
four hours. This is pretty fast work,
but a Brooklyn baby can do much
better. It can wear out the patience of
an average man in about seven minutes.
A". V. Mail.
"Never mind, my young kid, I'm
going up to see our mother aboutthis."
"That's all rhrhr," yelled baek the
small boy: j ou just go right along up
there. Pa filled a man full of buck
shot the other dav for goiug to see my
ma. Texas &ifttngs.
A course of lectures on the arch
narchctype, the entomarchetype, tho
onithmarchetype, and so forth, opens in
Boston this week. Persons are re
quested to purchase their tickets in ad
vance and avoid the rush at the door.
Rockland Courier-Gazelle.
A Chicago young man in a rash
moment, says an exchange, told his
girl that if she would hang up her stock
ing on Hallow E'en he would fill it to
the brim it h something nice. When
he saw her Mocking he was undecided
whelherto get into" it himself or buy
her a sewing machine. .V. ". (Iraphie.
A G"orgia farmer bought a grand
piano for his daughter. His house is
small, and, to economize room, the lower
paitof list' partition between the kitchen
and the parlor was cut out, and thu
.'n.- .Vn,, OI t,M. l,'an., ?l',t'k through.
1 1'lsClll-
a now s;t,s at the keyboard, sing-
iiur. "Wild will enre for mot!iii nntt1'"
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and the mother rolls out doughnuts On
the otherend of the piano in te kitchen. .
Louisville CouricAjounutl. t
tit. itfii" nullum tin
Oh, yes," said tlie eldest Miss
Culture at table d'hote, the other even
ing, "I breakfasted xestorday with Mrs.
Brainwait and wo en joyed a delicious
repast excellent cofi'ce, superior breud
.and piseatorial giobes done admirably.
fUliaif s.'.cd her friend. "Piscato
rial globes," repe..t line- Ifostou miss.
"And what under thesmiare they?" "I
heliexe," said Miss Culture, drawing
I hessojf u .stiffly. "I believe HiieuHured
iLsh balls." yor
, ui-i'ii.ii .(tia. iu l,n IJUlll Illt
rair-ed near Crookstown. Man j-ears
ot the descendants of the
IS a i iit(iiile ivili then.
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'Running Trains by Signal.
, Welt ,t ,., .0,ne Vi,ajs
since T
have
worked at train-dispatching.
" aid the
old train-dispatcher, "but I suppose it
hasn't changed much since I quit it. cy-
oepting that it is easier now that they
have double tracks where they used to
have single. No. there's no secret about , the more lonely from the tokens it beara"
it; I don't mind telling you how i of the busy sceiru it has been. The way
it is done, but I'm afraid you'll find it so that once led down to the stream is
simple it will not make very interesting most likely growing up to bushes Tho"
reading matter for )-oar paper.- First, ' fnill itself was dismantled" years ago,
you know, there are divisions of a rail- and you wiifl see wheels and other parts"
road. For instance, the main line of of its ma'chinory leaning against tho
th old Chicago, Burlington- & Quincy walN, where they have stoou so long
road, where I-usotl to work, is divided that they have grown gray and mossy
into three dispatchers' divisions the as the granite boulders which support
first from Chicago to Mendota; the sec- thenr. it is a peculiarity of people who'
ond from Mendota to Galosburg, and the have such property that they never"
third from Galesbnrg west to Quincy throw awav nor destroy anything which
and Burlington. I used lo work at An- has ortve been- of -Jervicc, although no'
rora, and we had charge of the first, or one knows Iwlter tharf they know that
east division. When a regular train 1 for all coming time these" objects must
was ready to leave Chicago on its sohed-. remain utterlv worthless. Tho tmo
ule time it started without orders, each , lumberman will never be found convert
telegraph operator on the lino reporting ing his worn-out yokes and sleds to"any
to us when the train p-issed his station, other purpose, nor using them for fueL
This report we entered ou a sheet kept They have acquired in his eyes sacred
alwavs before ' us, and at a glance we ness from their associations; and he"
coukl tell where every train on our divi- leans them carefully tenderly, we may
sion was at any time. If a train was say against the walls which flank his
not ready to leave on or near its houso 011 the roadside, and' there they
schedule time it lost its right to tho will rest so long as he lives, with the'
road, and had to run as an extra. An hope on his part that no one will come'
extra train always .had to have orders after him to disturb their repose. Seat
before it could leave the Chicago yard." tcred along the path to the mill one wilF
"How do trains get those orders?" sec lying on tho grounds beams and
"Well, when Conductor Smith, say, planks which had been brought so far
is ready to pull out of Chicago he goes in their purposeless removal and there
to tnc telegraph ollice ami a-skv lor Ins
nnloK rriinrtv.ra..i-ir.nh .;..... r.i,,-
at Aurora that the train 'is readv to start.
and the dispatcher sends a reifular tele-
gram to the conductor and engineer of
the train. If the train is to run wild the
telegram reads:
".To Conductor ami Enplneer Train Xo. 13
(forlnstunw): Hun to Aurora ns u wild train.
"This is signed by the chief train dis-
natcher. Then the' conductor .semis .in
! ancivur In tl.u iKmf iIIuiuiL-Ikik !....
" 'I understand I am to run to Aurora us a
wild train. John Smith, Conductor, No. 1...'
"The dispatcher replies thus:
'To John Smith, Conductor No. 13: Tour
andentamlinff is correct.'
"I he conductor now delivers a copy of
the order to tho engineer, ad the train
is ready to start. Of course, abbrevia-
tions are used in much ot tins telegraph
ing. For instance, the conductor's un
derstanding of his order is sent over the
line thus: '13, run to Aurora as a wild
train 13 meaning I understand': and
the dispatcher's reply to this is simply:
ToJohn Smith, conductor No. lo; O.
K,' with the dispatcher's initials."1
"What is a wild train?"
"A train that has to look out for noth
ing on the road but regular trains. It
keeps out of the way of all trains that
have schedule time, that's all." I
"Suppose then; are extra trains on the
road for this No. l."i to meet, how do
vou give orders then?"
"Simply add where he is to meet ' Har in layers along the side of the tim
extras. As 'Run to Aurora as a wild bw.t nmi lhertf show how slowiv an(
train, meeting extra, P.rnwn conductor, . Iimv gcntlv the forces of Nature are
ai xiiusuait;, uuu tira, uuva wuuuo
tor, at -Mapcrviiie. '
"But do ou never hold regular trains
for extras ?f'
"Oh, yes. often. If a wild train can
gain more time than a regular train
would lose we sometimes hold the regu
lar train at a station uutil the wild train
gets there."
"How do vou do that?"
"Well, suppose
Smith's
wild train
was coming west and
I should see that
it could reach Hinsdale five minutes !
later than the reerular eastward-bound !
train's time for leaving there: I would
rather delay the regular train livn
minutes than have the wild train wait
twenty or thirty minutes at Riverside, so
I send" a telegram thus:
"To theOperntor. IlhiP'lalo: IIld train No.
12 until I0:.Vi o'clock for No. 15.'
"Then to the operator at Riverside I
send thus:
" To Conductor and Engineer No. 13. IMvr
lde: Vou have until 10:.Vi o'clock to mako
Ilinsdnle for No. 1.V
"There you see I have one train held
while another train is on the road."
"How does the operator at Hinsdale
stop No. 12."
"As soon as he receives orders to
hold the train, he shows a green flag or
lantern which alwa s means that there
n I
are telegraphic orders for the train."
"That seems verv simple," said the
Daily News representative, but often
there are many accidents attributed to
the dispatchers."
"Yes, but most of the collisions that
arc so attributed are results of careless
ness on the part of tho line operators.
Sometimes an operator receives an or
der to hold a train and forgets to show
his green signal. If the train does not
happen to stop at that station regularly
it may go whizzing by and get away
from the operator before he can catch
it. That is one cause of accidents, for
of course the other train thinks it has a
clear road and coine-s right along. An
other cense is the failure of engineers lo
see the green light. This is not of very j
frequent occurrence, however, for en
gineers are the most watchful men on
earth, I believe. I often wonder how
they manage to see everything along
the road and keep watch "of their ma
chinery and clocks and steam-gauges
and time-cards all at the same time."
"How do dispatchers keep this record
sheet of which you spei.k?"
"They have ashcet ruled into squares.
The lines across the sheet indicate the
stations on the road and the lines up
and down show the trains. Every lime
a train is reported as passing a station
the dispatcher marks Ihe time in the
square that indicates both that train and
that station. Thus, if train No. 13
leaves Riverside at 9:10 the dispatcher
makes those figures in the square that
is below tiie number of tiie train and to
the right or left of the name of that sta
tion. A glance, therefore, shows him
where the train was last reported as
leaving. If in due time it is not re-
j" ...
J". I," ."iT nPXl iauo? .
)Vter caljs uptheoperatoraml asks
t
ii me tram is in sight, it it is not. aud
the dispatcher has reason to think tho "i
train is stalled or broken down between
stations', he gives the operators on each
side of it orders to hold all trains until
the troublo is removed. There is noth
ing intricate, you see, in the system.
If every ni.in does his plain duty there
is no danger from running trains by
telegraph. The main trouble is, cheap
operators are apt to bo stupid men, and
jrood, smart opera
me companies rareiv pay cnouri to rnt
i" p
s't;ons. Uucaao
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Relies la Maime.-
Mam-
of the old mills are gone, but
' now and then one is yet to be met with
on the bank of some" rapid streim, alf
t fallen into ruin, however. It is com-
. monlv off the traveled road a little,.
and the spot where it stands seems all
abandoned.
i'i m;n win koo rnoi-i-. . iM n.
, lect. Boards arc irone from its walfL
leavinr tho frame exposed asa skeleton-
The roof is broken, and a portion of it
t has fallen from the weight of snow with'
which it was loaded in winter. The'
foundations have been washod away on:
one side, and the old frame leans out
; over the water. Braces have fallen at
one cud. ami hang swinging by a single
11111 TliO Vltir-1-lfll h'lH hmbon 1nOSP
from the side of the mill, and fallen into'
fho channel of the stream. There it
lies, its rim half filled with sand, its
' floats gone, and the joints all open from
alternate shrinking and swelling and'
i w,irn:n. in tho .in. I-pt" i?nwn thn
; Ktreani"hu,rc ,wa,ns aru lodged among
the rocks. lliese wero parts of the
foundation of the mill. Mud-sills they
max havo been, laid deep and firmly
bctfded in the ground to sustain the'
weight and jarring movemont of the
mill-gear resting on them. Now the
water and weather have rounded ofl
their corners and worn the surface
smooth. Knots, if there xvero any, pro
trade in rounded knobs. Spikes aud
nails are left prominent, and are coated
thick with rust. The worn surface ol
the wood has a silken lustre, where the
loosened libers, bleached almost tc
whiteness, show the sheen of a satin
finish. The rings of annual growth, as
I tliev- u-rf flit flirnnrrh In hewinrr. an-
ooer.-itino- to take anart and to scatter.
I I "I - T
atom bv atom, the fabric the sunbeam
wrought ages and ages before. lioston-
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A Bad Place.-
The country hotel is not a place of
blissful repose, and there is one in Ar
kansas which is rarely visited tho seconc
time by tho same man. Several nights
ago a gentleman, hungry, wet and tired.
stopped at the place, and after parth
satisfying his appetite with cornbrcaa
a
and bacon, went to bed. Just as he sun
to sleep, a negro entered the room,
shook the tired man, and said:
"Boss, yer'll haftcr git outen dis bed.
De boss's son hab jes' got married an
hah fotch his wife home. Hate tei'
'sturb yer, but de happy pa'r must hal
dis room."
"Why didn't you tell me before I too.'
the room?" said the tired man arising
"Case da wan't married den, sah."
"Didn't .you know that he was golnj
to marry?'
"Sorter 'spicioned it. sah, but yor set
de laity dun fooled de boss' soli threi
times, "an' we didn't know but sho was
gwine ter fool him agin.1"
"I wish she had. I don't see whi-
people want to marry when it imposes f
hardst
hip on others. '
"Doan sec rayse'f, boss. Jes' step dii
wav, an I'll show yer a good room."
The tired man was shown into a roon.
which could not have been much worse
than the one he hail jnst left, and whlcb
was certainly no better. He throw him
self on the bed. and had probably beet
asleep live minuter, when the negro en
tered again, shook him, and said:
"Hates tointcmip' yer. Colonel?"
"Then, why the devil do you?"
"Showed yer in the wrong room, sah
Dis one habdun been engaged by s
travclin" gentleman."
He cau't have it."
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I'd 'vise vcr. boss, not ter argx wid
vise vcr. boss, not ter argv
Bad man an' totes a elf-cocker.
Showx-er ter ver room, sah?"
The tired man followed the colored
gentleman to another room, which was
little better than a stable. "Yer ken
rest here, sah, mighty peaceable."
The man was soon asleep, but aftei
nwhile he was aroused by the negro,
who said:
"I Iiastcr 'sturb yer again, sah. Trav
elin' man down stairs what 'gaged dis
room. Said dat ef I didn't gix-e him de
room or de dollar extra what he paid
fur it, dat he'd kill bof ob us.-",
"Here, take him the dollar.-""
"Thankee' sah
I feels safe .now,'
and he left
The next morning the man
learned that there had been no marriage.
but that the negro had been paid
extra by travelers for the best rooms,
and that the dollar had secured him his
room as the last man who arrived only
offered the black rascal fifty cents.
Arkansato Traveler.
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The first published proposition for
the adoption of uniform time standards
came from Prof. Charles F. Dowd, of "
Saratoga, N. Y. "The development of
the idea into practical shape, and the"
securing the assent of the railroads to
the adoption of the plan, are the work
of W. F. Allen, editor of the Travelers'
Official Guide, ot New York City.
X. 11 Sun. J
Speaking of French peas, the New
York Mail says: "They must be eaten'
to be appreciated." Thus French ppjw
differ very little in one respect from all
other kinds of foodr-
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