8
if
)EATHINTHEAVt)ODS.
WANDERINGS OF THE LOST PER
SONS IN PATHLESS FORESTO.
Frenrled by Dread When Alone It Yon
Are Lout Don't Flunge lleedleiily on,
bat Walt for Frlendi to Find
Yon.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD.
V
T IS NO ODD
thing in the path
less forests of Maine
and New York to
come across a bun
dle of bleaching hu
man bones hung
about with weather
ragged bits of cloth
and leather. Such
a sight 1b to the
woodsman no more
THEIR OWN EXECUTIONERS.
than a reminder that the greatest peril
of the forest Is In being lost. In the
woods of Maine and New York are the
unburled bones of hundreds of men and
women who have lost their way In the
pathless miles of timbered country, and
have run on terror-stricken until death
overtook them In their madness. Such
a death Is the most horrible of all
deaths. Those who have been rescued
when at the point of death In the
wilderness sometimes carry the mark
of the horror upon them until the end
of their days. They have said that
when the dreadful fear came upon
them they plunged madly ahead, dash
ing Into trees and rocks, unconscious
of their surroundings, and possessed
only with the frenzy to keep moving.
The madness which befalls a person
lost In the woods most always militates
against rescue. Numerous Instances
are recorded of lost persons wandering
past Inhabited clearings, crossing well
traveled roads and even evading rescue
parties. - This, of course, happens only
In the last stages of the madness.
J An Instance Is cited of a Bangor
woman who was lost in the woods of
Chalrback Mountain In Maine. She
left a hunting camp alone at daybreak
to shoot squirrels. When she did not
return In the afternoon, her husband
and his guide, thoroughly alarmed,
started out to find her. Late that night
their shots were answered, and they
hurried over the ridge and trailed the
reports to a hunting camp more than
nine miles from their own. They found
the woman, Just returning to conscious
ness, being held by sheer force from
running back into the woods.
A guide who knew her had seen the
woman while he was fishing In Pleasant
River. The woman rushed past him,
although he called to her, and kept
on at frantic speed. When he realized
the situation, he made after her. When
he caught up to her, she tried to break
away. Her eyes were staring ahead,
and she was as those who walk in their
sleep. .Her face and hands "were cut
and bleeding, and she staggered at
every step, but still she tried to dash
on. It was with great difficulty that he
got her to the camp, where first she
went -into hysterics and then into a
fainting fit.
In the Bog River country of the Ad
irondacks a man who knew something
of the woods was lost for two days. He
had kneeled to drink from a spring, and
when he arose his companions were out
of sight. For fifteen minutes he hur
ried on, hoping to overtake them. Then
he realized that he was lost. Instead of
sitting down and waiting until they re
traced their steps and found him, he
plunged into the wilderness. All
through the night he wandered, and at
daybreak the madness came upon him.
He remembered nothing more until he
found himself, weak and trembling, in
camp.
His companions, having missed him,
returned to the spring. They fired
their rifles in the hope that he would
hear the reports, and then cast about
In circles to find his trail. When they
came upon it, in a bit of soft ground,
he was heading directly away from
their course. They followed him all
day, and at nightfall lost his trail on
stony ground. The following day they
hunted In vain. But on the next morn
ing they chanced upon a tumbledown
camp In the woods. On the floor they
found the- man, unconscious. His
tongue was lolling from his mouth, and
his face was puffed with the stings of
black-fly and mosquito. How he had
found the camp they were never able
to explain. To this day, the man never
refers to his wanderings without a
thrill of horror..
A simple knowledge of woodcraft
will In nearly every case prevent one
from going astray to death. In every
country all streams are drained by
some broad waterway. On all these
waterways are human habitations. It
is rare In the Adlrondacks and In the
greater part of Maine that one may
travel more than a day without seeing
some camp or cabin beside these
streams. So in the case of being lost
follow a stream. It is bound to bring
you out somewhere.
In a hilly country set your course by
some prominent mountain. Allowing
for the change of position In the zenith
one may set a course by the sun and
Jceep it with ease. But the great dlffl
- culty with the novice Is that he forgets
the sun's position changes continually.
When the sun Is obscured a course
may be set In a wooded country by fre
quently climbing some tree which
throws its crest above the others In the
forest. It Is hard work, but It Ib better
than lying out all night. But if you
are lost and your friends are pear by,
don't rush off Into the woods. Sit down
and wait until they find you.
How Indium of the Far North ItrlnK
TTolven tn the Slaughter.
The Northern Indians, particularly In
the Hudson Bay region and the Eski
mos, possess a fiendish Ingenuity In
their method of capturing game, nnd
their way of applying It for killing
wolves is horrible. They tako a flat
piece of flint a foot or bo long and
chipped to extreme sharpness at the
edge. This they fasten to a wooden
stake, which they drive Into the groilnd
firmly, so as to leave the blado of flint
projecting above the surface. Then
they cover the blade all over with n
good-sized piece of fat from a seal or
other such animal, which quickly
freezes. Now the wolf-catching appar
atus Is complete, so that the person
who sets 'tho trap has only to come
back In a day or two and gather his
prey without trouble. The wolf has an
Insatiable appetite for blood, a nil It Is
ot this weakness thnt the hunter takes
advantage. A little while after the trap
described is set along comes the wolf.
He Ib hungry, and licks the pieces of
fnt. and ns It In thawed by the warmth
Cork has a gum which great of his tongue it tastes better and bet
ter, presently ms tongue cohiub i
tho
rUnttl Made ot Cork Are to lie LUIIIutd
In Our New Warship.
Several months ngo the Board of In
spection nnd Survey of the Navy De
partment wa8 directed to make an In
vestigation with a view of obtaining
some practicable substitute for wood In
fitting naval vessels. Tho desire for a
substitute was the fact that a lighter
material was wanted if possible, one
that wo'jld not take so much spaco In
the vessel, and more than nnythlng else
a material that would not splinter. It
was also desirabia to have a non-combustible
substance. The board has
made n report to the Secretary of the
Navy and some of its recommendations
have been adopted by him, nnd It Is
probable that several ot the new ships
will be fitted with the new material as
a substitute for wood. One of the best
materials which has been found by the
board Is a wood substitute composed of
waste cork, or any cork. This Is sub
jected to 400 degrees of heat, and It Is
then pressed Into blocks of any re
quired size. It can be sawed Into thin
strips or handled very much as wood is
handled
heat melts and glues Its particles to
gether In a compact mass. After being
pressed it sticks together as tightly as
If It had grown that way. The cork
boards may be made heavy or light.
Some of the lighter kinds are used In
the walls of refrigerators. It is n non
conductor, and can scarcely bo made to
burn. This material Is used In the
place of wood In German vessels. Com
mander Bradford, who made the search
and examination of this particular sub
stitute, found that the Germans were
using It under a patent takcu out by
John Smith,' of New York, and that
companies In tho United States had ob
tained rights for Its manufacture here.
FATAL HANI) PRINTS.
THEY ARE UNERRINC3 IN ESTAB..
LISHINQ IDENTITY.
SALVATIONISTS COME TO GRIEF.
James Hender
Main and its b
square. There
that the police
band playing t
quarters. May
an edict prohi
holding meetl
sign Crawford
Bill had no p
elded that the
to discourse m
He says the a
furthermore, t
thorltles and
women who b
Incarceration
ing of hymna
privates of the
but Ensign Cra
were held und
wenty-flvejtstrong,.
'i urawioru, l-icutt
While I'awiicc Hill's Wild Went Show
IIimiiI Keepit ItlKht on I'lnylnc.
While Pawnee Bill's Wild West band
was giving an open-air concert in Getty
Equare, Yonkers, the other night, the
salvation army
headed by Ens,
!,j Secretary James
appeared in the
sr iso 'much disorder
frjhed the army,' Us
hlle, to police head-
oeno recently Issued
the army from
In the square. En-
y - Li n
Jf
IS
n
I
Jtmed that Pawnee
to parade, and de-
had also the right
q to tno multitude.
hv. is an outrage, and,
WdrBecutlon-of. the au-
fl'd'evll. Four young
' (a,mborines took their
Jiyhnd led In the.slng-
y-MendqutirterB."'"" The
ray were discharged,
ra anu ms associate?
1$) bonds.
contact with the sharn edges of
flint and is cut. Ho tastes the blood not
knowing that It Is his own, and the
flavor drives him wild. Eagerly ho
licks and licks It lacerating his mouth,
and becoming more frenzied in
mouth, and becoming more frenzied In
his desire for his own life fluid.
Meanwhile other wolves have come up
and hayc begun to lick at the fat,
cutting their own tongues nnd becom
ing In their turn wild at the taste. So
presently the bait Ib surrounded by a
pack of ravenous and crazy creatures,
which soon turn upon one another and
fall to devouring each other, until the
merciless flnt Is the center of a strug
gling mass of ferocious combatants
fighting for very life. It is like the
struggle that followed tho planting of
the drngon's teeth of old, only that
none of thoso who participate live long
after the fight Is over, the last survivor
bleeding to death. At his leisure the
hunter appears on tho scene and skins
rt'fiEflnA'rtMiPflntiitfor.market.. The skins
cost him .mmtisvm
removing them, and the value ot me
hunk ot fat; the stake with the flint
blade is ready to be set again for other
victims.
Criminal Headlly Kipoed Some Inlrr
mtlnr llediirtlon and 1jw hy Whlvh
the KcUntUt Una Kedtiivd 111 8) Mem
to One of Value.
H E INTRODUC
tlon Into the Henry
case of tho relation
of finger and hand
prints to crime at
tracted general pub
lic attention, and
alBO aroused tho In
terest of tho Brook
lyn authorities en
gaged In Investigat
ing tho case, says
the New York Recorder. Tho interview
with Mark Twain published in Tho Re
corder on Monday, nnd tho conclusions
reached by Chelro, tho palmist, served
onlv to helEhtcn this Interest. Francis
Gnlton, F. R. S., nn Oxford and Cam
bridge man, long known for his writ
ings on heredity, nnd, later on, this
subject of the Impressions ot finger
marks, has written a number of works
on this subject. Gnlton has got so far
as to publish In the present year a
scheme tor classifying persons through
their finger-prints, and so supplying an
absolute directory of names discover
able only by this means. By this ap
plication of his Ingenious theory Prof.
Gnlton provides a list as perfect as a
city directory, so far as it goes, to fa
cilitate tho Identification moro par
ticularly of criminals; and of pen
sioners, whoso pensions may otherwise
be drawn by designing persons. So far
has this distinguished scientist suc
ceeded in his undertaking that in one
directory of 2,632 different persons he
had no difficulty In finding tho ono
sought for by the finger-print In less
than three minutes.
Prof. Galton nlleges that it is prob
able that no two finger-prints are ao
alike that an expert would fall to dis
tinguish between them.
ic Is nt present obtain
TngthTtrasiBTHB
Ject by observation will have no diffi
culty In discerning tho illfforonco be
tween these rnitterns. Whether tho
Bltnllarlty or pattern In different la- j
dtvldtinlfl has nnythlng to do with char- ,
actor remains to bo discovered by
Chelro, perhaps.
There are certnln general stylcB ot
inarklnR that occur In ninny Indlvldu- ' proceedings
nls, nearly In the Banie degree and In wealth concealed about his person or
considerable likeness, but there nppeara , elsewhere, says tho Now York World.
MARK TWAIN IN COURT. .
Sued for OUImk HI Wife IIU Copy
right.
If Samuel L. Clements, alias Mark .
Twain, the humorist, Is as poor aa ho
looked yesterday, there la not much use
In examining him In supplementary
to ascertain It he hai
to bo no difficulty In classification oris
Ing from this fact. What la most re
markable tn regard to these finger-patterns
Is tho fact that oven ulcors and
cuts cannot destroy them beyond Iden
tification, whllo they are restored with
oxactness even after serious burns. Tho
objection Is raised that they might bo
removed by some manual labor, but aa
"habitual criminals," or any criminals
for that matter, aro not noted for sovere
mnnunl labor, this objection Is not
found to hold good. At tho great Pen
tonvlllo Prison In England n warden
Yet thnt process was gone through with
nt the office of Stern & Rushmore, 40
Wall street. Thomaa RitBsell & Son,
bookbinders of 34 New Chambers street,
aro judgment creditors to the amount
ot $5,046.83 ngnliiBt the bankrupt pub
lishing firm of Charles L. WebBter &
Co. Mr. Clemens had the air ot a poor
but willing debtor. William It. Wilder,
counsel tor the dissatisfied creditors,
however, said thnt even In his most
affluent dnys Mr. Clemens' personal ap
poaranco never betrayed hla wealth.
Ho refused to consider the clothes of
with no previous practice whatover j the debtor nB a symptom ot his In
took In nn hour thlrty-flve Bets of im
pressions of three lingers, each In
duplicate every ono of which was
enBlly decipherable.
A THOROUGHLY MEAN MAN.
Sympathy
How poor an
noble deed.
lftt Cherokee.
ttruraent may do
u
If records of
dlan women had
doubtless fill ma;
stance will shov
that may nil ev
During the revoi
wanese Indian
Cherokees nnd s
stake. He was tie
it snnKespeare..
noble deeds of In-
e'i kept they would
wolumes. One m
tyfe high impulses
he savaco heart.
jbji a young Sha-
captured by the
ed to dlo.at the
" tt rv -??- .
antttp-tagaiajseri
gathered for the fire, whenaOhero"JTe,
woman went to the warrior to whom
the prisoner belonged, and throwing n
parcel of goods at hiB feet, said she waft
widow and would adopt the captive
as her feon, and earnestly plead for his
deliverance. The warrior granted her
request and the prisoner was taken tin
der her care. He rewarded her Dy his
fidelity, for, in spite of the entreaties
of his friends, whom he was allowed
to visit, he never left her.
The "llrnnk rami" limine To-day.
The "Brook Farm" house Ib now a
German Orphan At?lum, supported, I
think, by tome union of charities In
Boston, writes Hezekivh Butterworth.
Large additions have been made to the
solid house associated with Professor
Ripley's literary and philosophical com
munity, then called the "Phalanstery."
To an eye like Thoreau's it would be
regarded as a beautiful estate, but its
charms are subtle and simple. The
brook sings forever by the roadside
under the pond willows, and goes
vr'r.ding through matted grass of rici
prstures to the river Charles, that
glitters afar, a silver sheen guarded by
priestly savins. The hills are hearsed
with pines. A little way from the old
house Is the so-called "Margaret Fuller
Cottage," and a little beyond, in a long,
cloudy cloister of pines that forever
chant the monotonous Bweetness of tho
passing world's life, is "Pulpit Rock,"
where, according to tradition, the
Apostle Eliott used to preach.
SWIM AND HOLD TO A ROPE.
A New Way Tor Getting Chinese Over
the Lino.
ThekWly Chinese have- lately been
adopting new tactics for gaining ad
mission Into the United States from
Canada. In the neighborhood Iro
quois, Ont on the Canadian side, and
Hpgansburg, N. Y. a newjajethod'- for
BjnuggUng Chinese Is In. vd'gue. The
plan Is a"clover-one. A long rope orb
been stretched' across the St. Lawrence,
which Ib narrow at this point, and firm
ly secured to large 8take.s on either Bide
of the river. On this, and aided by
darkness, the celestial manages to cross
the lines by swimming and holding on
to the rope. The method 1$ not as
dangerous as it appears; In fact, it Is
quite easy to deport the Chinese across
the lines wUhout much risk to anyone
but the unhappy traveler himself, per
haps, and the expense Ib trivial, while
those who manipulate the trick get all
tho way from $75 to $150 for every
Chinese smuggled by them. There are
renorts that these lines' are In use lal
Beveral places. Three mlnor.Urr.t
7nrnriraov-neen maoe:
11lWffWrt(fcaW l -
Canadian LellatIon.
The Cnnadlan Parliament has voted
down the bill to give Parliamentary
suffrage to women, and also to raise
the age of protection for girls to 18.
The member who Introduced the bill
to raise the age of protection voted for
the suffrage bill, and every member
who spoke in opposition to raising tho
age of protection voted against womnn
suffrage. Another mediaeval decision
against the rights of woman has just
been given at Berlin. An antiquated
law still exists which prohibits woman
scholars Und apprentices from joining
a political society. A few women Ruf
cently formed In Berlin a womnn suf
frage committee, having for Its object
to obtain for women equal political
rights with men. The leaders of this
movement were arraigned by the pub
lic prosecutor, and the magistrate be
fore whom they were brought fined
them all, and ordered the society to be
dissolved. Woman's Journal.
Not a Reporter.
In a recent magazine article the au
thor tries to explain why lightning
never strikes twice In the same piace,
but he fails to note the fact that the
fluid getB In itfl work so effectually that
there is no reason to try It again.
A l'ar'.tir l'lstol.
The prrlor pistol will afford much
amusement and Is very simple of con
struction. For the cylinder take a
goose quill five or bIx Inches long. The
piston can be made from a pen handle
or a small rule rounded off except at
the top, where tho square part serves
as a handle The projectiles should be
safe, elastic and slightly moist. A po
tato will furnish you with very good
ones. Cut it in slices ot the thickness
of a finger and press the quill through
It as many times as you need projec
tiles. These will be of the exact cali
ber of your pistol and in every respect
satisfactory. A target made of paste
board and pierced at the center with
a bole through which the projpctlles
may pass can be set up In any conven
ient place for practice.
j llnllt llllimelf ii Wooden ll'lie.
An employe at the Kentucky Wagon
Works, Loulsvl.. , who Is somewhat of
an artist In his line, has gone all the
builders of novelty bicycles one better,
and has constr-ted a wheel entirely of
wood. The frame Is of bent hickory,
nnd tho wheels, axles, etc., are of wood,
but it Is a flyer, nnd few wheelmen of
high grade wheels are able to pass It
on the street. The machine, as It
comes tearing down the granits streets,
bearing its owner to and from bis work,
rattles like a road wagon, attracting
considerable attention, and creating a
great deal of amusement, but the rider
gets there just the same. It answera
his purpose and saves car fare.
Untitled to Her Kay.
The otory of a scene at a funeral at
the Mount Moriah Baptist Church, on
Bull Skin Creek, has reached this place.
Miss Madle Walsh had died apparently
and the funeral was being held at the
church. When the colfin waB opened
for a last look several persons declared
the girl was not dead. The undertaker
noticed a spasmodic motion of the girl's
hand. In a moment the supposed
corpse rose and eat up In the coflln, ex
claiming: "Thank God!" She said she
was conscious all the time, but could
give no sign.
Vd6HUWlOilSW!RXOTHri
detective authorities In IndToTnfreTOnwaSiat
gradual formation ot many nunarea
separate flHer-prlnt directions Itt' tho
form ot classified cards or papers. Each
enrd refers to a separate adult malo
prisoner, and contains as a part ot the
means of his future identification the
finger-prints utider consideration. Now,
It will be fouad by any one on exam
ining the fingers of different persona,
that theBe differ In a marked manner
In 'the different instances.
. It Is best to tako ,the forefinger and
thumb, for this 'Blm'plo experiment.
These will be found to furnish varieties
LlttJWe master ot he curves wjileh make
me nnger-prinis, same ueuiK 'wmu,
some angular at the center, others In
whorls, or almost concentric' circles,
others', again, with a termination in
a well-defined line,
It la found that 243 receptacles will
contain tho finger-prints of 121.C0O pris
oners, each receptacle carrying an aver
age of 500 cards, all of which are'clna
slfled and treated ao aa to form a sepa
rate finger-print directory na to each
receptacle. It has been found neces
sary tbhiave a sqparate classification
for adult female prisoners and for those
of either sex who have not ceased grow
ing, Not only is this, work being carried
on In England under the Galton sys
tem, and In France through the. efforts
t?alUaaJmUn..rndla--- especially
l
purpose
very much like the "Rogues' Gallery"
In the Central Police Office In New
York. It Is being applied to checking
fraudulent re-enllstments In tho British
army and for identifying pensioners,
as has been already stated. In sixty
three English prisons there nre now
being taken finger-prints by trained
wardens, which are forwarded to the
central bureau In London for classifi
cation by experts. So far has this won
derful plnn for identification been car
ried already without Its very existence
being known until made public In the
columns of The Recorder.
Prof. Galton states that there are no
very serious difficulties in the way of
classifying the peculiarities of differ
ent finger-prints, asserting that It Is
rare to find "a pattern whose peculiari
ties are not due to a few eaclly recog
nizable characteristics, occurring sing
ly or Ib combinations of two or three."
In 1624 the Secretary of State for the
Home Department in the British Cab
inet appointed a committee to Inqulie
Into the best means available for Iden
tifying habitual criminals. Tho report
of this commltte furnished a very full
account of the method adopted by Prof.
Galton In his finger-tip scheme. Ac
cording to the evidence furnished to
tho committee, Prof. Galton worked
from materials derived by taking Im
pressions in printers' ink on cardboard
from tho bulbs Immediately below the
tips of the flngera and thumbs. After
ward these imprints were examined
through a lens or microscope, or en
larged to any size by means of photog
raphy. It was found in experiments
that the patterns and ridges exposed re
tained their peculiarities through life,
and that these peculiarities were suffi
ciently marked, though In an Indefinite
variety of forms, to be distinguishable
alwayB after having beon onco taken
by the methods employed. Prof. Gal
ton reaches the conclusion that the
chances of two finger-prints being Iden
tical, where these are of different per
sons, are as one In sixty-four thousand
million, which Is, to say the least, suf
ficiently remote for all practical pur
poses. Prof. Galton arranged his sys
tem of classification on three forms of
pattern, viz., "arches," "loops" and
vJjorU." Anyone who testa the sub-
lln Worked the ItentKiirant Walter Ho n
i Jto KconoiiiUe on Ilia Wlfe'a Appetite.
The champion mean man paid San
Francisco a visit yesterday, says the
Post. Ho was n big, long-legged, rnw
bonod fellow', with a iiobo like tho blade
of a hatchet. Ills eyes, like little black
beads, were Bet within half an inch of
each other and glistened and gleamed
nt everybody and everything at onco.
Ho clutched the arm of a snd-facod
woman with a long, bony hand and
clawed nt hiB whiskers with tho other
as ha ordered tho waiter In n Market
Btrcet restaurant to give him a cup ot
coffee. The waiter brought It with
some bread and butter nnd laid down
a check for 10 cents.
"Would you givo mo an extra pitcher
of cream?" asked tho mean mnn. The
waiter brought It.
"Yes, by the way, glvo mo a cup of
hot water, will you, plcaso?"
The waiter brought It and watched
tho mean mnn curiously. Ho poured
the cream Into tho hot water, put a Ht-
itlauaarJnJL shoved It at his wlfo and
iS!r,?,TaSffiiiR::wa1.iit-.
THlilWBHEl)W-l UIJiHU- w I l.msiTl.iirnFvll
i'n her direction. Thelirao-iTOSSSii!
it hungrily and the waiter added 5
cents to tho mean man's check. .
Tho row was heard threo bkieka up
Mnrkot Btrect. He declared he was be
ing robbed because he .was from the
country, but ho anally' paid when
threatened with arrest,
ability to pay. Boforo his publishing
firm failed Mr. ClemenB transferred to
his wlfo thlry-threo copyrights cover
ing all his works. Lawyer Wilder said
that he did not allego that thla was
done to defraud his creditors, but ho
wanted to know exactly why It had
been done. The firm was Indebted to
Mrs. Olivia demons to tho amount of
$05,000, nnd It wao to protect her that
tho transfer of tho copyrights was
made. In return sho wnlved her rights
to any share ot tho firm's other asaetB.
Webster and Co. owed about $80,000,
and possessed property worth $25,000.
The humorist gave n hlBtory of his con
nection with the firm. He said his wife
Inherited tho money from her father.
Tho hope of Lawyer Wilder Ib thnt the
courts may set nside tho transfer and
glvo Russell fr. Son a Hen upon the copy
rights. A medical certificate waB pro
duced declaring that tho humorist had
a carbuncle on hla log. There wna no
element of humor In tho proceedlnga.
Not a single burst ot laughter floated
over the open transom, nnd tho defend
ant cracked no jokea and put no side
splitting conundrums. The evldenco
tuken will be submitted to tho court,
who will then decido whether Russell
& Son may hope to got their money.
Tho Arm of Charles L. WebBter & Co.
(Mark Twain) had expenalvo offices on
tFjKthiftvenuBrtbelow Fourteenth Btreet.
CwaoRa Memoirs and
paid Mrs. U. S.TJraaTv4ri .$250,000 in
. . i t - a v vh
royalties. .. , t .- , 1 )
V
MARRIED IN A MINUTE.
USEFUL ELECTING
The Norwegian Have "
Harbor Jt'juweHsB-'rterrlre.
An employment jiaflpJieRt' made In
Norway o tho elcctrilJaunch that Is
Quick Time In Nuptial Knot-TlHir !)"
In VlrKlHHt.
A, record tlmo for quick marrlag wan
made in the'nuptiaU of Kennedy Tut-
rller"iwMlt-MVeMw,y Ar-Hwnihr""n
year-old groom' and & IS-summera
brldo, at Staunton, Va., laat Monday,
Tho couplo went to to,wn U get a license
and got married, but were Unable to
find a nrcaeher.. and aB evening was
ctfmlng on they started disconsolately
back; for the home pf tho prospective
bride. They had hpardod the cwa, ngd
In "Walking through saw the Rev. Johrt
Donovan They hurriedly explained"
their plight, and Just as the conductor
waa giving the signal to .start the train
the clergyman started In to perform the
marriage ceremony. He got through
In jUBt forty seconds by the conductor's
watch, and the happy par jumped ,off
tho cars aa the tralautarled nd went
to "their ueW home rejoicing,
American Mosey.
n nJsitihairg5Bmnni iyJ-JW omtr 1 a
,... nt dlnnnvprlni? old offenders. ""-There;! eM WW wm-
iumivuv w.m w.x.- cj - ---. I . sT-t mr a. a. iT
America who nnve never Kepi -,ih
genealogical record, or, If they have,
take no particular Interest In consult
ing It, and find more amusement In con
templating their own or their fathers
assets, writes the Rev. Charles II.
Parkhurst, D. D., In the July Ladles'
Home Journal. Then, per contra, on
the other side of the sea there are a
good many languid male scloni of no
bility whose original royal blood has
been diluted down to almost the van
ishing 'point of attenuation, but who
find In thnt feeble dilute more satis
faction than they do In their still more
attenuated bank account. Limp nobil
ity anxious for his exchequer meets
opulent commonality concerned for her
pedigree, and propose not to marry one
another but to wed their respective
commodities his blood and her dollars,
and go before the priest and decorate
the occasion with orange blosuoma and
stringed Instruments, In order to throw
over the whole the glamour of regularity,
The IHcyi'lM u un IMuuutlng A (cent.
The bicycle Ib, In fact, the agent of
health and of u wldor civilization. It
will glvo stronger bodies to the rising
generation than their fathers have had,
and It will bring the city and the coun
try into closer relations than ever.
What tho Bummer boarder has beon do
ing for the abandoned farms and de
serted villages of New England the
wheelman Is doing for the regions sur
rounding our great cities. Ho is dis
tributing through them modern ideas
and modern ways of living, and la for
tifying them with gentle distillations of
city wealth. Above all, ho Ib teaching
their people that a sure way o prosper
ity Hob before them In the beautifying
of the country In which they live, and
In the preservation of all lta attractive
natural features.
sure to be widely fell
Bergen, wlileh Ik the.,
wcglan land and ea
on two aide of mm
Ink an inlet aadlArr
M - - -L "- '.--- - -
p.rimng greuna.' k
side of the harbor
Imperative and a Hn
boats has been eetal
harbor la very nar;
yards, It was
struct the boats bo t
erate without turnln
one station to tue
consequently made i
two screws, ono at e
nected directly to
motor weighs CG0
three-horse power
two cells of storage
5,280 pounds are pi
The speed pf the h
Inches per r.eeond
threading eafeJy tl
ot the harbor,. Sac
seven Miles .us
nurabefieC naeset
-AUNCHES.
i'Tliem for
wm
iteriSf
iiaterce,
ie city ot
the Nor-
rangca
harbor form-
d4jby rapidly
it from one
L ether became
electric ferry-
hed. As the
.itly about 330
rable to con
'th'ey could op-
bout to go from
err They were
me-enueu, wuu
end, both con
It shaft. The
ads nnd is of
pacity. Thirty
itt'ery weighing
d, jn each boat.
UJfBeven feet bIx
He'' enough for
ewueu snipping
covers thlrty
the average
tmrrlcd since tho
rvlce has been
1,800. The costbt the fleet of eight
boats was $16,000, and of the charging
station $12,800.
The I'hraie "Four Hundred."
Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman colnea
the phrase "Four Hundred," aa applied
to the aristocracy of New York City, In'
a satirical poem called "The Prlnce'a
Ball,"relatlng to the Prince of Wales
visit to New York. The poem Is divid
ed Into the three parts, one of which is
called "The Council of the Four Hun
dred," and refers to the committee con
slBting of just thnt number, which had
the arrangements for the ball and sup
per In hand. Here are Mr.Stedman's
HneB:
"For the honor and commerce of the
city.
'Twas nlaln to :ee there must be a
committee!
So men of means and might were chOH-
en,
Score by score, and dozen by dozen,
In all four hundred names.'
"
Capped the Cllurtx.
An exchange tells that a good stir7
was hoard the other day of a father and
mother who were trying to find names
for their twin babies, who, by the way,
were girls. It was decided that tho
father must name them. After casting
about and finding no names that ox
acMy suited him he determined to md
the strain on his mind and named tham
Knto and DnpllcaK In the courao of
time another pair of twins came and
they were boys. This was the hus
band's opportunity to get even, and he
wanted his wife to chirsten tho boya.
Imagine his feelings when the mother
one day told him she had named them
Pete and Repeat. But when the third
pair came the father grew frightened
and named them Max and Climax.
If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrows thou wouldst tain forget,
If thou wouldst read a lesson that will
keep
Thy heart from fainting and -thy soul
from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills, No tears
Dim the sweet look that nature wears,
Longfellow.
What Man Kipe-U of IIU Wife.
A man expects his wire to be better
than he, writes Mr8. Burton Klngsland,
No matter how little rollglou a man
may have himself his Ideal wife la al
ways a woman with the purity of soul
that only a Christian can have; and
to a good man it is usually part ot uU
religion to believe that his wife Is mor
ally higher and nobler than himself.