Nebraska Newspapers

    I MY SHBSTITUTG ,
K wasn't really what Is
known in military parlance
-L- - * - as a substitute , but I always
regarded him as such. A notice was
tacked up : it the foot of the steps lead-
lug to the little hall in Kingston. The
L crooked characters , laboriously formed ,
proclaimed to the world that a com
pany would be formed on a certain
night. Without any previous intention
whatever of being present at the meet
ing. I strolled to the village that even-
lug and mechanically ascended the
steps : nof that 1 had any intention of
enrolling none in the world. Kate and
I had lhn married but three months ,
and I kn-\v ; it would break her heart
it' I left her then. And , besides , my
profession required my constant atten
tion. If things had been so I could
have gon" I would have been among
the first to put down my name I guess
I -vouW. Still , impelled by some mar
velous fascination , I wandered in. My
_ > old friend Troutman , a fellow whom I
had tolerated with a sort of patroniz
ing imliflVrence. was making a vigor
ous speech , and the listeners howled
approval ; it everything he said , though ,
goodness knows , it was dull enough to
violate any rule of oratory. But I sup
pose to their untutored ears it sounded
very line. At its conclusionTroutman
invHeYi every one who wanted to join
--tfiiTcoiupiiny to come forward and sign
the roll. A rush was made lo the front.
I started to go out , when that chump of
a Trout man announced that one more
man was needed. He waited , and I no
ticed several glanced at me. It was rath
er impertinent , but you couldn't expect
anything better from people with such
raising. I looked over in a corner and
my eye * rested on Jack Hastley. He ,
too. was gazing at me , with a straight
lock of contempt. I was about to repri
mand tiie unmannerly beings for their
insolence , when Hastley , with a curious
glance nt me , walked to the register ,
took up ( he pen and completed the list
by sift-ring his name. I met him out
side , drew him to a corner and handed
him . * ? " ' > . He took it and thanked me
witha little more feeling than I thought
01:0 of his breeding could exhibit. Then
I noticed that he wasn't s > uch a bad-
K-ukiii.u fellow after all. He had a
broad forehead , clear-cut mouth and
arse , du-i- : . intelligent eyes , and then
hi * had n resolute air about him that
mde ; you think he was .something of a
man , even if he was a pauper. When
lie lookfd at me that night there was
someth-ntr of such pxpre > sive earnest
ness in his face that I almost forgot
l\\ \ < position in life.
Well , the volunteers were called out ,
r.ml Kiite and I went to the depot to
st-e them off. She bur t into tears
when tisistli-y got on the train and
wavc.'l tus hand , but I suppose it was
lu-cans. ' she was thinking of that poor
i old father : ud mother he was leaving
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Afte : that came the Santiago fight
nnil sonic of the Kingston volunteers
got hurt. 1 w r sitting in my study
and my thoughts reverted to "my sub. "
It and all the windows
wara warm night
dews A\ore up. I don't know how he
got in. there was no noise of the door
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opening but when I wheeled my chair
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to the desk I saw seated opposite me
the subject of my meditation. I was
naturally somewhat astonished , but
welcomed him as courteously as I
could vudcr the circumstances. He
gazed wearily around the room. His
complexion was a curious mixture of
pallor nud sunburn. His face was
much thinner than when I had seen it
la.sj. and he had the appearance of one
who had been about starved to death.
IIis eyes roved constantly , but they
lacked lustre and intelligence. I told
him I was glad to see him and asked
him how the'boys were. lie jumped all
preliminary movements and began de-
S'-ribsng the attack on Sun Juan and El
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Cjsney Heights. His voice sounded 01
strangely unfamiliar , but I attributed
it lo his rough experience.
" ! t v.on't do to say th . : : > e Spaniards
can't shoot , " he went on. "because as tln
we went up the air w.-i ns full of bul n
lets as bees around a hive. I had never cn <
been under fire before , and I believe I n
would have gone back if it hadn't been h
for the brave fellows around me. We 01hi
rushed on , tore down those damnable hi
barb-wire fences , and I began thinking tl
we would soon l > e at the top and give
a rousing cheer lor the American flag ,
when I was struck , I think , by six
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Mauser bullets. One passed directly ii
Iii rough my heart. " iid
I jumped out of tlie chair and ex ;
claimed : "What on earth do you mean ?
You must be mistaken , Jack ; how in
the mischief did you recover so soon ? " si
.
"O , I didn't recover , " he said , coolly ;
"I am here yet. "
I shivered and moved away from him.
Then he went on :
"That's what I came to see you about ,
Will. You're about the only man I've
any claim on , and I want you to do me
a favor. "
Then I noticed the sunken condition
of the eyes , and that his lips never
moved while he was talking.
He abruptly asked :
"Where's Kate ? "
I flushed at the familiar method of
referring to my wife , and coldly told
him I supposed she had retired.
He looked disappointed and said , as
if in a hurry to change the subject :
"What I want , Will , is this : They
have got me planted on the side of one
of those clay hills down there along
with a lot of the bravest boys in the
world , but I want to come home. That
hill will wash away in a short time ,
and I don't want my bones mixed up
with the trash that will go down the
"GOD BLESS YOIT , WILT. ; THAT is GOOI >
gully. I want you to go down there
and hunt me up , and bring me north.
There is a photograph if they haven't
torn my clothing off fastened to the
shirt. You will know who it is. And
then there is a great tear on the left
arm from the hand clear to the elbow.
That was made by the barb-wire.
There are two bullet holes through the
left leg , one through the right shoulder ,
one near the right knee , and one
through the heart. There may be oth
ers that struck after the last one was
fired.
"I want to be laid alongside sister
Grace" his voice shook through the
thin lips "and then some one may
some time come out there to the little
cemetery and put a flower or two over
us. I know mother will and I hope
some one else. I have had a hard life ,
Will , and a few months before I went
si"O
to the war I passed through one of
those experiences that stay with a man.
You know what I mean. She was very
kind , and I loved the very air she '
breathed. Of course , she was away
above me. She married and I well , I
died. No , I'll not tell you who she is ,
but I want to be where she can come if
she's amiud. I almost fancy that I
could feel those footsteps near me. Will
you do this for me , Will ? I know it's
asking a lot of you to make that long
trip , but remember , you couldn't have
got out of it that night if I hadn't taken
your place. "
And as I made him the solemn prom-
ise to faithfully execute his wish a
glad smile stole over his face , and he
glided from the room.
I told Kate the next day that Jack
Hastley had been killed at Santiago ,
and that I intended to go south , recover
his body , and bring it home for inter
ment in our own town cemetery. I ex
pected nothing else but a storm of pro
tests , ending in a fit of weeping. But
there was nothing of the sort. At first
she turned deadly pale and sank in a
chair. Then she arose and walked to
ward me , and placed both hands on my
shoulders , and said :
"God bless you , Will ; that is good of
"
J'OU.
Then I knew who the girl was that
poor Hastley had loved and lost.
TV here the Czar Cycles.
When at Peterhof , the grand palace ,
'plendid and luxurious as It is , is sel-
lom used by the Czar for his own dwell-
ng. He prefers the seclusion of the
mperial Datcha , or villa , at Alexan-
Iria. This villa , which was built by
Nicholas I. , lies within an immense
ark , about a mile from the palace , and
surrounded by a high wall , wherein the
Emperor can bicycle or otherwise
imuse himself without being stared at
jy his subjects. There is a guardhouse
it every gate , and swarthy , careless
ooking Cossacks , in long blue gowns ,
vith rifles flung over their backs , roam
ceaselessly up and down on horseback
mtside the wall. London Figaro.
In Pursuit ol' Health.
In New York they are saying that
.he cable car is a sure cure for rheu-
natism : As every new theory has its
converts , a number of spruce , elderly
nen : ride miles daily in pursuit of
icalth , sitting always on the right side
f the car so that the regular steady
icat may combine with the jolting of
.he car to happy ranilt.
In HCL Honor.
There is no surer way of flattering
me woman than by speaking slight-
ugly of another. She takes all you
letract from the rest of her sex to be a
ift to he'r.
The individual who stands still Is r
sure to lose ground.
HOT AND COLD WAVES.
Bottt Kindn Flourish Beautifully in
This Happy Land of Freedom.
Speaking about cold waves and
weather in general yesterday a mem
ber of the Maryland Academ } ' of Sci
ences said :
"We have some kinds of weather in
the United States that arc unknown
abroad. Take the cold wave , for ex
ample that struck the far South a
couple of years ago. It was a record
breaker , you know , carrying the rigors
of winter to a lower latitude than has
been known for sixty years at least.
Florida suffered $4,000,000 worth of
damage. At Pensacola the oranges
froze hard on the trees. The thermom
eter at Tampa fell to 18 degrees above
zero , 5 degrees below the lowest ever
noted. At Orange Park ice two inches
thick formed on ponds. A cold wave
of equal severity , it is said , struck the
flowery peninsula in 1835 , but tempera
tures were not recorded with reliable
accuracy.
"Cold waves are unknown in Europe.
We may justly pride ourselves upon
them as an American institution. It is
the same way with blizzards. Who
ever heard of a blizzard in Europe ?
Cold waves are very strange phe
nomena. Nobody knows with certain
ty where they come from or how the } '
are formed. They are formed some
where inland in the far northwest , in
tbe latitude of greatest cold , which , as
you know , is a good way south of the
north pole. At the north pole it is
probably comparatively warm , and
that extremity of the earth's axis is
perhaps surrounded by an open and
unfrozen sea. As for the typical cold
wave , my belief is that it is composed
of air drawn from the higher and more
frigid regions of the atmosphere.
Ascend to an altitude of thirty miles
above the earth's surface and you
might find a rarefied air at a tempera
ture of 100 degrees below zero , or even
much lower. The body of cold formed
by the dowurush of this frigid air from
above starts on a journey eastward
across the continent , traveling at the
speed of a fast railway train , thirty-
five or forty miles an hour. As it pro
ceeds it spreads out. Obviously the
cold air would be gradually warmed
during the trip unless the waves were
replenished with cold in some fashion.
My notion is that while the wave is in
transit fresh cold is continually drawn
into it from above , where there is al
ways an unlimited supply of air at an
extremely low temperature. Finally ,
the wave passes off over the ocean. In
some manu sr the Alleghany Mountains
seem to interrupt the passage of cold
-caves , to a certain extent , as if the
cold air was banked tip sgaiust that
range of hills , and its passage thus im
peded. On this account it is very diffi
cult to predict cold waves for the re
gion of Baltimore and Washington.
"The lowest temperature ever record
ed on the earth was taken at AYcrcho-
jansk , in the interior of Siberia , Jan.
ID , 1SS3. It was 90 degrees and a frac-
tion below zero. Werchojausk is in the
latitude of the pole of cold. There the
earth is frozen to a depth of about 100
feet , and in the warmest season it
never thaws. The highest temperature
recorded is 124 degrees and a fraction ,
taken 1 in Algeria , July 17 , 1879. The
lowest temperature on record in the
United States is G4 degrees below zero ,
at Tobacco Garden , N. D. Greely , the
Arctic explorer , has probably experi
enced a wider range of temperature
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than any other living man. He record
ed GO degrees below zero at Fort
Conger , on Lake Franklin Bay. On an
other occasion , in the Maricopa Desert ,
of Arizona , his thermometer in the
shade ran up to 114 degrees above. A
,
lucifer match dropped upon the burning
.
ing sands of Sahara will catch fire. It
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is very difficult , even with the finest
thermometers , to get accurate records
of extreme temperatures , and on that
account such observations in general
are to be regarded as only approxi
mately correct" Baltimore American.
Sufficiently NameJ.
The fondness of colored folk for big
words and for high-sounding names is
proverbial. Too often , perhaps , they
are assisted to gratify their liking by
fuu-loviug white people. The author
of "Twenty-five Years in British
Guiana" reports one such case. A re
spectable black gentleman asked a
registrar to suggest names for two new
arrivals twin boys.
"Well , " said the registrar , "I think
you'd better call them Waverley and
Guy Maimering. "
"Tank you , massa , dem name fust-
rate. But me beg you write dem on a tlS
crip of paper , else me no 'member S
dem. " Iifi
A country parson was once taken fi
aback when the happy father , present isn
ing his tenth son for baptism , insisted n
that he should be called "Judas Is- ei
caviot. " eiyi
"Dat's de boy's name , " said he. "Ju yi
das hez been slighted. Nobody hez lac
ebber had de immortal courage to c
name a chile from dat man. But dat 27
ain't de main reason why I named him 25
Judas. I'se got de Bible to 'stain me ji
in gibbon de chile dat name. " : i
"How is that ? " asked the amazed
parson.
"It's dis fac' . Christ , in remark-in' C
of Judas , said it would hab been better y
for dat man if he hadn't been born. " tl
"Well ? "
"An' cousideriu' how many mouts is
opened at de do' when 1 goes home \ \
wid a side of meat , it would be better hi
fur dat boy ob mine if he had iiebber
seen daylight. I takes de Scriptur' for
de references. In de fuchcr , ef I finds ly. 1
dat boy hez made improvements on hisli
self , den I change his name to Jim. "
Stokers and Eiigincerrs. ,
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"When it's all written out and putdown
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down in black and white for the Amer Sid
icans to read , " says Mr. Ross in "He
roes of Our War with Spain , " "we shall
Ond that no man in any line of duty did fi
better than the naval engineer and the
men under him men carefully trained ,
and who , when their hour of hard work
came , fulfilled their duties in stifling
and almost unendurable heat. "
During the long sail of the Oregon ,
from San Francisco to Key West , the
crew of the engineer's force worked
night and day in the boiler and engine
rooms , where the thermometer regis
tered at times leO degrees , and the gas
and bad air were almost stifling. They
deserve credit for the Oregon's remark
able voyage.
While our iron-dads were chasing
Cervera's fleet , the engineers , standing
at the big engines , and the stokers
feeding the fires of the great boilers ,
knew little of what was going on. "Are
we catchiu' 'em ? " they would shout
out , as some stoker , who had fainted
and been carried on deck , revived and
was brought down to his work. When
the engineers and stokers rushed out of
the Brooklyn's fire-rooms , begrimed
with smoke and soot , but madly joy
ful at the victory , Commodore Schley
said , from the bridge , "Those are the
fellows who have made this day ! "
Over eleven million fans are exported
in one year from Canton , China.
It takes 72,000 tons of paper to make
the postal cards used in the United
States each year.
When the railroad across Siberia is
completed , it will be easy for a person
to go from London to Japan in thirteen
days.
The national h3111 ns of China are of
such extraordinary length that it is
stated that half a day would be re
quired to sing them through.
Sand registered the hours during the
middle ages. For this purpose black
marble dust , boiled nine times in wine ,
was a favorite recipe with learned
monks.
An interesting test has just been
made b3 * a French woman. With a
view to testing the sustaining powers
of chocolate she lived on that alone
for sixty days and lost but fifteen
pounds in the interval.
The year 47 B. C. was the longest
year on record. By order of Julius
Caesar it contained 445 days. The additional -
ditional days were put in to make the
seasons conform as near as possible
with the solar year. .
Swiss steamboat companies , to avoid
disputes as to the age of children , have
established measurement rul > s. Under
two feet in length ride free ; children
under four feet four and dogs ; pay half
fare. Traveling mothers do not like the
rule. I
rule.The
The largest tin factory in the world
is situated on Sulo Braui , an island in
the Baj * of Singapore. It turns out
monthly ! 1,200 tons of tin , more than a
the product of Cornwall , and more than
that of Australia. The ore comes from
Selangor and Perak , in Malacca.
Vienna telephone girls are required to
change their dresses ana wear a uniform -
form wneii on utity , as the dirt they , '
brought in from the streets affected the -
-p
instruments. Their costume is a dark
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skirt and waist , with sleeves striped
black and yellow , the Austrian national -
al colors.
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Drivers ol' "Automobiles. " lo
Horseless carriages are more than a Ic
fad in Paris. Although still the pri 1
vate playthings of the rich , they have IcL
been added to the list of public con L
veniences also. a
The Electric Cab Company , which n
will control the public service , is busy
just now training the men who have P
applied for position . as drivers. The tl
trial-place is a stretch of ground a half- sc
mile in length at Aubervilliers , a sub SJ
urb of Paris.
This Icsting-groMiid is fiat in places.
In other places there are sharp inclines.
Here and there it is macadamized , in tli
spots it is paved with wood , and in C
others with stone. All along the road gfm
arc strewn bits of glass , sticks , piles of m
stone and other obstacles which the J
men who would drive a cab with pneu P'
matic tires must learn to avoid. tow
But the notable features of this road w
way are life-size iron figures , made and fo
painted in imitation of pedestrians. few
They are held upright by wooden sup w
ports , and located at points along tlu CO
route selected with a view to testing te
the skill of the apprentice in avoiding hi
running over them. qi
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Simple Calculation.
There is a very simple rule for tinslin St
the average number of years which per fe
sons of any given age may expect to p.i
live. If the present age be deducted pn
from SO , two-thirds of the remainder pnm
the answer required. The result is
not absolutely accurate , but it is near m
enough. For instance , a man aged 20
might , by this rule , expect to live 40 si ;
years longer , which is just what the th
latest actuarial tables give. At 40 the AV ,
expectation : of life works' out at nearly * r
years , while the tables give it as over
years. At GO the above rule allows
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just over ij : years , and the tables show ba
little less.
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No Accent. in
Many stories are told of a former to
Canadian bishop who had parsed his
youth ( in Scotland , but flattered himself Ti [
that not a hint of his origin could be
gained from his speech or manner. be
One day he met a Scotchman to pa
pami
whom lie said at last abruptly , "Hoo mi
miW
lang hae ye been here ? " W
"Aboot sax years. " was the reply. in
"Hoot , mon ! " said the bishop , sharp wi
wiwl
. "Why hae ye ua lost your accent , wl
like myscl' ? " Sti
An old-fashioned woman only calls ;
the doctor in when her husband is sick , :
keep the neighbors from talking :
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she thinks she knows as much as he <
does. . try
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Too often we mistake companions for ta
friends. pa
LAW AS INTERPRETED.
The liability of a landowner for the
defective condition of that part of a
division fence which , by agreement , the
other proprietor was bound to keep in
repair , is denied in Quinn vs. Grim-
mings ( Mass. ) , 42 L. II. A. 101.
Statements b3 * an injured person to
show his own contributory negligence ,
though made after the injury , are held
in Hclman vs. Pittsburg , C. C. & St. L.
Railroad Company ( Ohio ) , 41 L. R. A
SCO , to be admissible in an action
brought after his death by an admin
istrator for the iujary causing his
death.
The presu.uptiou of a carrier's negli
gence in case of injury to a passenger
is upheld in Whalen vs. Consolidated
Traction company ( N. J. ) , 41 L. R. A.
83G , where a passenger on a trolley car
was thrown off from the running board ,
upon which he stood , by the conduc
tor's stumbling against him , though the
cause of the stumbling was not shown.
The unnecessary destruction of
Iiealth3 * and valuatJTo cows b3 * State of
ficials , who suppose them to be dis
eased , after applj'ing the so-called tu
berculin test , is held , in Houstin vs.
State ( Wis. ) , 42 L. R. A. 39. to give the
owner no claim against the State with
in the meaning of statutes relating to
claims , as that does not include de
mands based upon lawful acts. With
these cases there is a very extensive
collection of the authorities on the
question what claims constitute valid
demands against a State.
Mere advertisers who place advertise
ments upon a signboard set tip upon
the roof of a building , by virtue of what
is called a lease of part of the roof , but
which does not give them possession of
aii3 * part of the building , although they
are required to keep in repair the portion
tion of roof which they use , are held , in
Reynolds vs : Van Beuren ( N. Y. ) , 42
L. R. A. 329 , to be mere licensees who
are not liable to a stranger for the fall
ing of the signboard from the building
during a high wind.
THE LETTER FROM HOME.
Aunt Louise's Excellent Plan for Mak-
incr Her Letters Interesting.
"I feel as though I had met a whole
roomful of my old friends. " said the
girl who is hying in spite of homesick
ness to make her own way in the city.
"I've just had a letter from Aunt Lou
ise. ; It isn't filled with her own aches
and pains and trials and troubles. The
home news is all here , but there isn't
one selfish , whining word.
"She writes eight pages. See ! She's
mentioned most of the people and
nP
places I'm interested in , and told me
ilozeus of things I wanted to hear about.
littl litI don't mean to say they're important
things ; but it is nice to know the name
tlo
of Cousin Carrie's babj * , and to learn
that Etta Mayo is taking music lessons ,
and to have a description of the new
minister's family , and even to hear that
they've laid a new sidewalk over the
tln
muddy place above the postoffice !
" 'Gossip ? ' Perhaps it is , but it isn't
mean gossip. I wouldn't hesitate to
.
show it to anj- one who is mentioned
here. And it makes me feel as though
I'd made a visit homo , and found that
wasn't forgotten.
"I know how Aunt Louise does it. She
makes a list of the people we know , and
when the time comes to write , she just
looks at the list , to make sure she hasn't
left anyone out. She says she doesn't
pretend > : to be a letter writer , but her
letters do me lots of good , for all that.
Little things look large when one's
away from home , and eveiything is
news < ! "
Perhaps there is a hint here for young
people < and older ones who profess
that : they would be glad to write to ab
sent friends if they only knew what to
say. : Youth's Companion.
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Quick Work. !
Achievements which our fathers „
thought wonderful are not only dupli
cated , but far surpassed b- the present ij
generation. In 1811 , Sir John Throg- C
tnorton , a Berkshire baronet , wagered ?
1,000 ' guineas , that at S o'clock on a
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particular evening he would sit down
dinner in a well-woven , well-dyed ,
well-made suit , the wool of which had
formed the fleece on sheep's backs at
o'clock that morning. The wager f
was eagerly accepted , as the feat was A\
considered impossible. On June 28 the j1
test was made , and the baronet won
jis wager with an hour and three- O
quarters to spare , the suit being ready ? *
a quarter past G. '
May IS. 1898. Thomas Kitson. of °
Stroudsburg. Pa. , attempted a similar ?
'eat. The sheep were shorn-at lialf-
ast G in the morning , the fleece was
Missed through eighteen processes of 7j.
nanufacturc , and came out finished
loth in three hours and thirty-four
ninutes.
The cloth passed into the hands of
ix : tailors , and in two hours and a half
he suit , complete hi every particular ,
vas : ready for Mr. Kitson. n.
The whole process , from the time U
hat the AVOO ! was on the sheep's backs , Qi
Qim
mtil the suit was ready for the man's
m
jack , occupied six hours and four min-
tli
ites : less than half the time it took to
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nake the suit for Sir John Throgmor-
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on in 1S11. Youth's Companion.
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'rain Boy's View ol' Club AYomen.
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The traditional train boy who Ji.-is
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jeen wont to offer chewing gum lo fair
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mssougers , and newspapers to th >
nen , evidently considers the modern
voman ( somewhat of an enigma. Not
naiiy ; inmins ago a Jively party of club '
vomen w-rc en ro te to a convention . -
vhen an interested spectator at a little
itation stepped up to the uniforined
outh and curiously asked about the
rowd.
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"Don't know , " gloomily grumbled th >
rain-vender. "They say they're liter-
, but I don't believe 'em. Nut out
bought a book. They just talk and
alk and talk. " Woman's Homo Com-
mnion.
William Morris' library , recently sold
at auction in London , brought nearly
? 53,000 for 1,213 lots.
Jeremiah Cm-tin , who has translated
most of the novels of Sienkiewicz ,
speaks eighteen languages.
Julia Magruder considers "Struau5-
her best novel. It differs from most of
her other works in not having appeared
serially.
Two new novels by Isabella 3VI.
Witherspoon are "The Tragedy of
Ages" and a Cuban story called "Rita
de Garthey. "
Anthony Trollope , the novelist , was
one of the first Englishmen to speak up
In favor of the United States annexing
Cuba. This he did thirty-eight years
ago.
ago.Herbert
Herbert Spencer , although an Invalid
and no longer a young man. is working
as hard at his home in Brighton as he
has ever done , tie is not writing any
thing new , but is revising all his old
books , and it is his wish to live long
enough to complete the task. His
friends think that if he did not stop to
answer the numerous letters he re
ceives from unknown correspondents
he might have more strength for his
work. There was a time when he found
it necessary to decline answering let
ters from any but personal friends , but
ho did not keep that good rule very
long , and the result is that his time is
very much encroached upon by the un
thinking.
Fogs remind an English writer of
Jerome K. Jerome. On the night of
the great London fog a few years ago
ho was at a Lyceum first night. He
had a cab , a four-wheeler , waiting for
himself and his wife , and away the } *
started through the Avail of fog to their
home in St. John's Wood. But they
kept running into things. At last a
brilliant idea hit the brilliant author of
'The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fel
low. " He and his wife got out and
walked behind the cab between the
two hind wheels , keeping a hand on
the back rail. Then nothing could run
ute them , and when the cab crawled
nto anything they were only buffered
back gently.
Anthony Hope was led. it is said , to
become his own dramatist by the fact
that so much money had been made
by others than himself out of his plays.
It is said that ho was invited by George
Alexander to visit him at his country
place , a newly acquired mansion and
grounds that filled Mr. Hope with de
light and envy. When he was express
ing his admiration of the place Mr.
Alexander , with a friendly pat upon
the back , said : "Made it all out of
'The Prisoner of Zenda. ' " Then Mr.
Hope came to New York and dined
with Mr. Sothern , in his new house ,
purchased and furnished at large ex
pense ; and again he was struck with
admiration by the way actors live and
made some remark to show that he ap
preciated such luxuries. ' 'Made it all
out of 'The Prisoner of Zenda , ' " said '
Mr. Sothern , at which Mr. Hope
groaned. Reflecting that his play had
enabled two actors to live in palaces ,
while the author had not even a house
of his own , he now proposes to make
all the money he can out of his books
by becoming his own dramatist.
TO FISH TRIBE
Science Claims that Human Bciiip-s
Once So Belonged.
Did you know that there are many
natives in the East that have webbed
hands ? They are coast residents of
j
Malaya and the South Sea Islands.
,
This pro VPS to scientists that men or
iginally ; belonged to the fish tribe. Ev
ery person has dominant gills and fins ,
some more pronounced than others.
The birds occupy a different depart
ment of natural history all to them
selves. There Is nothing about a man
that descended from bird life. On
either side of the neck is a dormant
gill. It is a muscle standing upright
and \ hardly perceptible. The fins are
muscles on the back and sides of the
body in about the same position they
occupy < on fishes. Men who habit the
water a great deal more than others
have these muscles abnormally devel
oped. | The scales of the human body ,
while smaller and of an epithelium extraction
,
traction , are c-xact reproductions of the
scales of the fish. Iii brief , my dear-
sir , it is claimed on high scientific authority
.
thority that your ancestors were very
fishy , but science never was a great re-
snector of delicate sensibilities.
Hinjjs on Index
Rings never were more fashionable- ,
and it is the latest
! fashion to wear a
ring on the index finger , and this is
quite as awkward as wearing a circlet
jewels on the thumb. The ring
most approved at present to weir on
the index linger is large and costly. It
consists of a ruby surrounded with dia
monds. An emerald set in this s-aniy
fashion is also in vogue. Women of
fashion are also wearing curious an-
-ient rings , many of which cover three
lingers , after the style of Mrs. Mac-key
ml her $27,000 ring.
High-Pr ced Doctor.
Dr. Willis , the medical attendant oC
'Ling George III. , of England.vn
-led to Lisbon to attend the Queen of
rtugal for a mental disorder , fie
c $50,000 a month , traveling exiu-nset.
n I board for himself and suite , : nM
m restoring the Queen ryvirivefj
JO.OOO in addition to the monthly
copulation.
' : i persons are born happy , but In
-ier to continue so to the C-iul thvy.
die young.