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I tlons Years Ago.
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"In my younger days , (
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"Jack" 1t'lnherty , "I was directing
destinies of n. small troupe of trained
amateurs through the West. And
when I say West I do not mean Ohio.
I mean I was so far West that Denver
wan regarded as an effete Eastern
city. I
" "The1 stores out there are more vel' .
satlle han any co mod Inn who over
played hamlet at 11. matinee , Uncle
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1'om at' night , and
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t parade. You simp.
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t I store by asking for
\ unexpected Ul'tI-
! 4 4 cles. Hardware ,
\ T 1 groceries , ammunition -
tion , patent medi-
cineD , hoots and
shoes , dry goods ,
d mining 1m I p 1 e-
' - month , toilet arti-
cles - all those
were the stock In
trade of the morchants.
In one little Arizona town I was In
the leading store , when a solemn man
entered and said : 'Have you got any
crackers ? '
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swered : 'SUI' thlugl ! ! : I What kind do
you want-whip , fire , or soup ? ' " -
New York Times.
A Wonderful Tree.
Most people have heard of the polyp ,
that wonderful marine animal which ,
cut into a thousand pieces , grows into
n. thousand now anhnals. The same
thing Is true of the polyp tree , a
species of serous , which Is abundant I
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In Paraguay. The minutest piece of
this tree , cut from whatever part , .
grows into a now plant. It Is not necessary -
essary to plant it ; all you have to do
Is to throw it on the ground , when it
will strike root at its own accord. I
These plants , with their relatives , the
cacti , have the remarkable habit of
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deriving their suatonnncc entirely from
the rain and the atmosphere for they
will grow and thrive in clefts in the
naked rock where there is not a particle .
cle of earth mlltter. Their succulent
sterna arc full of a viscous matter
which makes an excellent gluo. Rid-
. ding a garden ot the weird tree would
probably be n difficult business.
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A Remarkable Operation.
The lef arm of Thomas Shay , .11' ,
which had been shattered with bird-
shot , was saved by forcing the impoverished -
poverished limb into his stomach for
nourishment.
The operation ranks among the
most skilful ! surgical feats ! performed
nt the Now Orleans Charity Hospital.
By nourishing the arm in the bdom-
Innl region the torn ligaments became
reunited , n. complete new skin ! grew ,
and after the parts had grown sufficiently -
clently the arm was removed from the
stomach almost intact.
The operation obviated the neces-
sity of amputation , and soon Shay
will bo able to use the arm.-New Or-
leans correspJndonco Philadelphia
Press.
Spanish Professional 8eggars.
There are 1\10,227 \ professional begs -
gars in Spain. In some of the clUes
beggars are licensed to carry on their
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tralle. Seeking alms is recognized I\S
legitimate business , and thO municipality -
. pallt demands n percentage upon the
. collections. Seville Is the only city
In the kingdom which forbids begging
in the streets.
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my brother twelve years ago. " The
. . pickpocket ; : was secured , tried and con-
denmed. The evidence showed that
immediate } after the murder he had
. . " enlisted and gone to India. He had
hut just landed 'In Liverpool when he
went into the public house , and his
first act ill that city was to attempt
to rob the brother of the man whom so
long before he hat 1\111ed.
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PLOWS WITH MOOSE TEAM.
American In Alaska Profits by Ingenious -
genious Idea.
It Is claimed by the Chicago Rec- .
ord - Herald that "Jack" McQuesUon ,
who runs a farm at Forty Mile on the
Yukon river in Alanltn , has the moat
remarkable farm team on the American -
can continent. It ia a pair of ( our-
year . old moose , captured ; while young
broken \ to the harness und trained to
servo an draft animals. 1\IcQuestion
was an early alamped(1t into the Klon-
dike ; but \ ho did , not succeed in locat-
Ing any valuable claims , and the high
price of farm and garden produce in
the country Induced him to abandon
prospecting and take to farming in-
stead. So ho located on the Yukon
river in American terrItory and the ,
first season raised a . good crop of gar-
den truck which brought him fancy
nriceB. But ho was considerably handicapped -
dicapped in his operations by not hav-
Ing any horses or other farm Ilnhnnls.
Ho had heard that moose could bo
successfully tamed , so In the following -
Ing spring ho took to the hills and
captured a pair ot moose calves
When the calves were a year old they
were quito tame , and he succeeded In
getting them to work in hartess , first
singly and then together That year
he did some work with them , increas-
ing the amount from year to year as
they grew' older ; until now he has in
them a valuable pair of farm animals.
They are as strong ap cattle and much
more active , as well as more can-
trol1ablo.
A Tibetan Monastery.
Nagar.tse Jolg , In Tibet , Is situated
on the shores of Yamdok.tso , or Scorpion -
pion lake. On the summit of a coni-
cal hill stand Samdlng monastery , . a
well-known establishment , of both
monks and nuns , presided over by a
great abbess , the Incarnation of the
Goddess Dorje Phagmo , The hill on
which the monastic buildings stand Is
ascended by numerous stone steps ,
now In a dilapidated condition. From
the top there Is a striking view , not
only of the great loJte and its moun-
tainous peninsula , but also of a gloomy I
inner lake just below the southern :
cliff , known as the Dudmo.tso , or Female .
male Demon lal\O. The abbess Is a
great Incy and the only female in
Tibet allowed to be carried In a Sedan
chair. When she dies she is succeeded -
ed by a female infant in whom she Is
supposed to live again. The reincarnation -
nation of the gOljdess.abbess is now a
child of 7 years of age
To Avoid Seasickness.
Regarding seasickness a traveler I
says : "Beforo sailing It Is just as i .
well for a man not to take too many
farewell dinners and not to start out
'with a head on him. ' One of the
worst cases of seasickness I ever saw
was , accumulated by a man who had
never been seasick ! before and bad
sailed all over the world But he was
sailing from Honolulu and the day be.
fore had been to a farewell 'luau , '
where he had eaten rot and raw fish ,
mixed with a great deal of frapped
clmmpagne. His friends came down
to see him off and hung many floral
leis about his necle They also poured
more champagne into his necle. As a
result the acute case at seasickness
which ho developed alarmed ever the
ship's surgeon. " .
Born to Shine.
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needs to drink " "
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were born with an "lnnel' light of
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BOOK PLATE OF INTEREST.
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ISlued In New York by SocIety of
Colonial Wars.
Credit must be given to the Society
of Colonial Wars in the state of New
Yore ] and not to the Society of May- I
flower Descendants in the state or
New York for being the fIrst patriotic
society to issue n. book plate to bo
placed in the volumes of its library.
The accompanying print is made from
an original book plate of the Society
of Colonial Will'S This artistic book
plate was adopted in 1898 , and it
bears an honored place in a large
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number of volumes that have been
collected since that time by the soci-
ety. The seal of the society naturally
occupies the central place , the predominating -
dominating feature of the seal , how-
ever , being the early seal of New
York state , showing the beaver on the
larger part at the shield , surmounted
by the royal crown.
So far as is known , these two book
plates are tile only ones designed for
and in actual use by the numerous
patriotic or hereditary societies that
have multiplied so rapidly within re-
cent years. In view of the fact that
sam'll of the larger societies , as the
Sons of the Revolution and the Sons
of the American Revolution , possess
corpfortnble libraries , It. Is quite possi-
ble that the desire to possess distinctive .
tive book plates may result In several
additions to the list of book ; : plates already -
ready , extant , thereby enlargIng the
field for the patient collector of these
library plato marlts. ' .
Joseph's Well ; .
At Dolhan , in upper Palestine , is a
pool whIch has refreshed the traveler
for centuries. It Is the well of Joseph.
Its envIrons form a dreary enough
prospect-above it a low , Insignificant
hill , upon whose summit cluster a few
miserable mud huts , and at the Base
Is the sordid anachronism : of a puffing
steam mill , while away from It
stretches In all directions the faint-
toned , almost lmclesfl , expanse : of the
Syrian landscape , long reaches of palest -
est blue and gray and yellow , with only
an occasIonal blotch of brilliant color
in the foreground. Dreary and wast.e ,
and sad , indeed , is the Ecene to the
eyes of the flesh ; hut , to the eyes of
the spirit , that squat bald hill becomes
a veritable Honnt Qf Visions = vlsions
a thousand times more real and vivid
than the spectacle of mud huts and
steam mill , and rocky wastes-N. .
Woodrow , in the Metropolltau.
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Canceled Draft Came Back -
Last spring during high water E. A
DavIs of Bethel , Vt. , ball a general
cleaning ont at the bank and dumped
several barrels of old papers , among
them being a batch of canceled Boston - I
ton drafts , into the Connecticut river. I
In early April Frank Ladue went fishing - :
ing in Lynn harbor. On his return he
noticed Q. piece of paper near the
shore. He poked it with his oar and
saw the name of N. A. Davis on It.
Knowing Mr DavI/ , he was interested -
ed , and examining the paper , found
that It was 11 Boston drnft. Ho sent
the paper back to Mr. Davis , who
states positively that it was one of
the canceled drafts that he had
dumped in the river. ,
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Frightful Conditions ExistIng tn
Prison of Portugal. , - :
Entombed In n grim casMe on the x.
outskirts of Lisbon are norm oS ; the . $ . , c
most miserable men o'n earth. These . : ' , : : :
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are the i inmates of Porlugal' deadly ' .w , . : ' . . . ,
prisons of alIence. In this building . . .j
everything that human ingenuity can " - '
suggest to render the lives of its pris - . ' \ ; . ' . ,
oners a horrible , maddening torture I. , ; " : " .
is clone. The corridors , piled tier on : . . ' ' ' : ' ' ' ' ' ' ' : f
tier five stories high , extend from a t 5 . ; . . : . '
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common center like the spokes of a , > , ' , '
huge wheel. The cells : ; are narrow- -.1. . : . . '
t.omb.lItte-and within. each stands a , .frd ; , ,
coffin. The prison garb io a shroud . _ . . . ' . " : .it > : . O/fl .40. , i ( ! '
The attendants creep about In felt ' . . . ; : : . ; , ; . '
slippers. No one is allowed to titter . , ' ' : Jr. . . . 'r : '
11 word. The silence is that of the 'i' : r' , 7'
grave , Once a day the cell doors are < ' ' : . : . \ . . .
unlocked ] , and the half a thousand 7. ' ,
wretches march mit , clothed In , ; { , ,
shrouds and with faces covered with . ' :
masks , for It is ! a part of this hideous - . ' ; .
punishment that none may look upon ' . / * , t : ' I , . "
the countenances of his felld'w-prlson- - . . ; 41 ' : j r
ers. Few of them endure this torture . . . . . ! i.'lt
for more than ten yea.rs.
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A cow owned by John Heffernan , . . : , .
who has a small farm near Danbury , 'e.
Conn. , has adopted a colt a few days ? \
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old and is bringing , It 1V along with n . -4. . ,
calf of about the same age. The . , . , *
mother of the colt , which was a valu- 1 r. 1'
able brood mare , felt a few days ago rand . . ' ,
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and broken one of its legs , with the . " " .
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result that it was necessary to shoot it. . , " . :
The expedient of bringing the colt ' " ' ,
up on a bottle was adopted , but the . . ' : ' : ' ( iJ" " ;
little animal did not lake kindly to this . J : ! : : ;
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means of llve1thood. Mr. Heffernan
found the colt oneof - his 'oJ IA .
following one : ; . : ; : . ; ; )
cows contentedly about the pasture lot ts : # . ,1t
with a calf , which is , of Its own age. . , " " * - , " ' : '
The watched the , with u . . ' '
cow over two Jit : : : :
Impartial motherliness and suckled , r (
them both when they notified her in ' ; ; f" ' *
their own way that they were hungry , : : . . . ,
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The favorite month for weddings is
June.
Old Jug Repaired a Church.
A church-warden of West Mailing ,
Kent , ( Eng ) parish church discovered
il1 a lumber-room some time ago a
pecu1inrly-shnped jug , which was subsequently -
sequently identified as a rare old ,
Elizabethan. stoup. An offer at $125
for It was refused and the church
authorities decided to send , it to . , " : " ' f , ; , .
Christie's , \\there It was sold for $5 ; . : . . . . . . . ' : : > .
700. With the proceeds the authorities 4"
ties have just completed several im- ' _ y +
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110rtant improvements in the fine old . . . .
church. Parts of the fabric have "
been : . . . . . ,
restored , a new porch has been erect- . . " , "
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has been - .
greatly improved. .
Overtaken by Retribution. - '
Lord Eldon records a strange coin : . , } i
cldenc9. A man was murdered and his . / f -
assailant escaped. Twelve years later " : . ' : .
the brother of the murdered man fell . . ' . . $ . . ' ' .
asleep in the bar of a Liverpool public . : : ; "
house. He awoke , feeling somebody : .t
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In the act of picking his pocket. The . " ; .
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moment' he opened his eyes he ex . ! i ; , . , '
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