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The Green Man's Burden.
Take up the green man's burden ,
Stand forth and do' your best
To ripen him II little ,
80 ho can do the rest.
Ito Is not altogether
, Beyond nsslstllllce yet ,
c And promptness Rtlll may save him
From many n trap and net
Take up the green man's burden
And let him know that he
Call't monkey down In \\'nll street
/ With great Impunity :
Strive earnestly to teach him
That It Is scarcely meet
For lambs , yet young and frisky ,
'ro butt Into the street.
- Take up the green mun's burden ,
Show him that bonds und stocks
And lightning rods und gold bricks
Are tilled with painful shocks :
Teach him the bunko steerers
Ale hot upon his trail
To catth : the guileless lobster ,
By interview or mull
Take up the green mail's burden ,
Awake him from his dream
That woman's wiles and witching
l Are always what they 'Ioem !
Restrain his ! fevered fancies ,
Lead him WilY to cool ,
Before the maids and matrons
have turned him out a fool
Take up the green man's burden ,
Show him the devious ways
The wide world 18 pursuing
1'0 make It needed raise ;
Persuade him , curse him , kick him ,
Do anything you dare
To make the green mUll's burden
Less hard for him to bear
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Green Diamonds Are Seen.
Considerable interest , writes a correspondent -
respondent , has been aroused in Johannesburg -
hannesburg by the discovery on a
1 mining property at Klerlsdorp of a
green diamond of about three - quarters
of a carat. The gem had slipped into
' ' a crevice in the iron plates of the
crushing mm , and was found during
the dismantling of the mill to make
. - room for a new stamp battery.
t -rte In 1893 over seventy similarly colored .
ored diamonds were found upon the
same property They had all slipped
between the dies and escaped destruction -
struction It Is conjectured that
many other green stones got crushed
out of existence.
For the first time since the date
the Klerlesdorp G. and D. Company
Intends to resume operations on this
particular ground , and the prospects
or unearthing more of these green
gems are being eagerly watched from
the Rand.
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Fire In 1rktown.
An old member of the fire department - I
ment wa talking about some of the
: . . big fires he had fought in his day and
I ' . the remarked :
. )0r "But the most interesting fire Is always .
. )0 ways a blaze in Darktown If you
I want to see a' tot of excited people
t " you just ought to get into the midst
or a small conflagration in Darletown
I at night The negroes begin to empty
houses of their contents for blocks
. ' around. That is fun , enough , but the
real fun commences when they try
to get their goods back Into their
u uses for it Is a sort ot grab game ,
everybody taking everything they can
get hold ot. I'll bet that alter a fire
in Darktown there Isn't a house In
the neighborhood of the blaze that
was furnished like it was before the
tire.-Atlanta Constitution.
Sliver Watch Averted Lightning.
. To a silver watch which he carried
' t- In his pocket during a lightning storm
the other day Napoleon Dutil , a tl'l k-
man livin „ at Lewiston , Maine , owes
! I his life The electric bolt struck the
watch , leaving a dent in its edge and
smashing time cr'slal. Under the
watch the flesh was badly burned in
a circle.
Keys and a key chain which Mr.
Dutil had in his pockets when the bolt
struck him were destroyed. No one
has been able to find even a link ot
. , the chain.
! ' . . Dutil his son , aged fifteen , and a
- \ son of ' Isaac Leclair were In a barn
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whets the lightning struck , knocking
the three from their chairs Young
Lcclair's feet were badly burned and
the Dutil boy was unconscious for
some time.
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Cavalrymen Who Ride Oxen.
'fho oddest cavalry in the world iR
m&1intuinod on the west coast of Mnd
ngascu' by Gov General J. 0 .
lietii While the French troops ! in
that country are ample to meet the
occasional revolutions , the governor
general malls use of native talent for
police work in out of the way local'
itles. On the west coat ! : or Africa 11:1 :
a tribe of natives , possibly racially
connected with the Hovas , who arc
known as the Salmhova , the most
warlike tribe of the country The
natives , in Imitation of French ; troop'
ers , organized an oxen cavalry corps ,
under command of a French ofl1cer.
They are armed with modern long-
handled lances or spears and side
arms
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Col , William Derris ! : of Huntington
enjoys the rare distinction of tm vel.
lug on u Pennsylvania railroad pass
issued in 1850 , which is without lim-
it. This pass is a curiosity , having on
it , in addition to the necessary ! : wording .
lng , the picture of an engine and two
cars which arc unique , as might be
imagined The engine Is anything but
modern , and the coaches have the
old time "possum helly" in which bag'
gage was cal'1'led. The colonel retains .
talns this pass because he was one
of the original stockholders at the
compllny-'l''rone ( Pa ) Herald.
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Old Woman's Treasure Lost.
A remarkable story of buried treass
ere comes from Courtown Harbor ,
WexCord. An old woman , living !
alone and in apparent poverty , fell 111. :
By the doctor's order a jacket I
which she wore was taken off with I
the aid of scissors ! : , and was , in such a
condition that It was buried. Th old
woman , contrary to expectation , recovered -
covered and asked for her jacltet.
When told what had been done with
the garment , she grew excited and declared -
clared that In one of the pockets were
sewn a deposit note for 1,000 and
.E 12 in cash. The jacket was ex
burned and the pocket was discovered
in the position Indicated. But it had
Leon ripped open and was empty.-
London Daily Mail
Ferocious Rabbits.
A correspondent of the Washington
Post tells of a rabbit which tllled a
hound with one blow of its claws
A rabbit is more dangerous than is
really thought. Last winter on P0-
eosin Creel John Hobbs while hunting -
ing rabbits , had his dog run one Into
a hollow log As he stopped to peep
into the log the rabbit leaped out full
against Mr. Hobbs breaking his nose
and knocking him upon his dog with
such force as to crush that animal to
death The 'abblt escaped We don't
know as to the truth of the story In
the Washington Post , hut MI' Hobbs
is a living but disfigured witness of
the tragedy on Pocosln Creek-
Princeton ( W. Va. ) Journal.
Horse Went Home to Die
Allen Gilmore of West Glover , Vt" ,
found that one of his horses was
slcle. He turned the animal loose
on his lawn and went for a veterinary .
ary When ho returned the horse
was nowhere to bo seen and later
he was found dead before the stable
door of J. G. Calderwood. 1\11' Calder-
wood sold the horse to Mr. Gilmore
three years ago and the sick animal
had covered full two miles that ho
might die at his old home.
Had Adventure In Plenty.
While two young men were returning
from a fihing : : trip at Bennington , Vt. , I
the other evening they came sUddenly
upon a large bear in the middle of
their path through the woods. Both
men were unarmed and fled deep into
the forest. Later as they were skirtIng -
ir.g the locality occupied by the bear
they ran across a wildcat whose pres.
ence served to further accelerate
their speed.
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MOTH CAUSE OF EPIDEMIC.
Residents of Boston Suburbs Smart-
Ing Under Visitation.
A new epidemic from u wholly tul-
looked for quarter has , for the past
few weeks , been spreading among time
people in the more open sections of
Somerville , the Newtons , Arlington ,
Wntm'town , Waltham and nearly the
whole of the rural locality north of
Boston , until hundreds ot people liv.
lug In the vicinity of the swarming
places of the hrown.tull caterpillars ;
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Magnified Spines of Brown.Talled
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are already suffering from its ravages ,
and recently so many new cases ! : have
been added to the list that the epidemic -
demic' has now begun to be regarded
most seriously.
Reports from the board of health In
Newton from Somervlllo and from Arlington -
lington all agree that the painful skin
disease caused by time flying spines of
the thousands of caterpillars swarm-
ing In those districts has already been
time cause of great ar1l1c. 'ance and suf-
torlng.
The epidemic Is caused by the
minute spiked hairs ot the brown-
tailed caterpillar coming in contact
with the skin of people living in the
Infested districts. '
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A Mexican Wondcr.
The physicians of the Juarez hos-
pital had something very unusual to
talk about all day recently. Ramon
Espinosa , who was murdered some
three or four days ago , was taken to
the hospital for an autopsy.
When the physicians were sawing
the skull the saw touched a strange
object , and as the physician attempted
to continue his work the saw was
broken in two pieces. Another saw
was brought and the skull opened ,
when It was found that the strange
object was a big steel piece , half the
blade of a 1'nICe that evidently had
been there for years. Even limo scar
produced by the wound hall already !
disappeared from the man's forehead ,
How this man could live with the
steel piece in his skull Is something
that physicians have been unable to
explain-Mexlcan lerah1.
Monkey Trap.
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The greedy monkey is thus made an
easy captive , for , having circa grabbed
the nut he holds on and cannot with-
draw his hand.
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WHY TOM "LOST INTEREST. "
Would Attend Church , hut He Didn't
Lille "de Pastorage "
1\laJ. E , ' 1n. . 1\1)'crll : , Ill'esh1ont ot
the rich little road over whose rails
all Houlhbouncl trains must run be'
tween WUHhlngton and Richmond , has
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U family nef' \ 'nnt-a -
ho Is much atlucholt.
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R'1'om'is prominent in all mnllel'R
concerning his church , and it was !
therefore wit l h
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some S\II'llI'iso unit
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the muJol' IlIl\cov' ' : , j"
eyed him cleaning tf'i0
silver one Sunday
afternoon recently
during c h u I' C h 1
houra ' "
'folll , " he said ,
"what in thunder , r i
arc you doing
there ? Why IIren't
you at church ? "
"Ain't hUll time
toll go Ills evon'
lug , tuJOI' , sib "
"Nonueu8e , " answered the major
testily , "You always have time to go
lo chl1l'ch , Stop dawdling there arid
bo off with 'ou , Are 'ou u backslid
Ol' ? " .
"Nn wHuh , dot lain 't , " anRwet'ed
1'011I "Do chu'ch stilts ! : ! me mighty
wul1 I'He n Dlclwn in hit , en I lul1es
de music on de III'ILI'S on de HQlellln-
Irons ; hut , tell you de h'uCe , Major , I
don't like de HlHI01'lIge ) , en dut'H
hoccum l'e ! : lost Inll'uat.-Now York
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Immense Cask Made in California.
A cask recently constructed for 1\
California fIrm has : ! put } tire falllouH
lun of lIt.'ldelborg cOIIIllcloly ) In tire
hncllgrounll. It la made of California
red wood throughout , and the Helec.
lion of the limbel' and snaking required .
qulred two 'carB , Eleven out of
every twelve trees selected were rejected -
jected Its unsultahlc. 'l'wo entire
trains or wagon ! : wore neolled to convey .
vey the selected tilllber to the vine-
yard , 'rhe hoops of the cask , which
are of the finest steel , weigh eighteen
tons , while the COlllllteled cask Is 38
feet high and 78 feet in circunlfer
circa , and large enough to form a
three-story house where 300 people
could dine In comfort.
Ancient English Pastime ,
A curious clause , tatting one right
back to the middle ages , appears ) In
the title deeds : ! of a house In 1110 vil-
lago of Of'fham , in Kent , Eng This
Is that the owner of the' house ] must
keep In good ( repair the vllluge quiIr
taro , which Btlll swings on Its stout /
eatOn } post before the hOURO
One end or the swinging crossbar
of this ulntaln ) ( said to he the only
surviving specimen 1n England ) Is
shaped lIIw a square ) target pierced -
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with a numhor of haleR Into which thin
point of the player's lance would in'
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ter.When
When structt It would swing around
and unless the player were nimble tire
sandhag hung on the other end of the
crossbar would swing { around and un.
seat him
Blossoms on Dead Limb.
A rather romnrlmhle curiosity cnn
be seen In the orchard of the Dresser
Stevens place at Ncwmarl , N. II.
During one of the severe storms ot
last winter a large limb was broken
off ot an apple tree and lies upon the
ground. The apparently dead lImh ,
with not a leaf on it , is covered with
blossoms