IT 7 r M r r V - LT H J BURIED THOUGHTS IHott oflm does the chor per ef dome Mene While toillnB t hit V of heaic nd nhock Find In Die hrrt price of nciered rock The ImprtM of rome fern thiit once hJ grown Full of MplritiR life iml tolor tone Deep In the forest where the thiilcm floek Till eitiRht within the xUmantlne UoU lit ly tor tgn hidden and unVnownl Po mny leintcoi9 thought hloomt In the mind lint untjprcrtcd droops down Into the toul And lira umittered In the silence there until fome opener of the oul hall find fThkt fcrnllke losrlled dream complete nd whole Una tnarul t it leuty prt eomprcl Alfred S Donaldson In Outlook OOooOOoooOooOOooOOooOOooop THE SPECTER jr uuiuviruui s o BY M QUAD g o n Copyright 1P01 by 0 D Lewis 0 800OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I The garrison of Gomckpoor in tlie province of Onilh India in the yenr H802 consisted of 4000 men and about half of these were split up Into small detachments and stationed here and there in the north to keep order among the hill men and punish rnldiug ilncolts IDacoits nrc bands of robbers under commnnd of a chief who holds a re ligious influence over them and they are yet the pests of India along the foothills of the Himalayas They arc daring men nnd hard fighters and very few British soldiers who fall into their hands arc spared Wo of the Fourth comprising 80 iincn were stationed during the year 18C2 almost ns far north ns the bor ders of Nepal We had plenty of skir imlBhlng with the dacoitB for a time ibut finally dealt them such heavy blows that they drew off and left us lin peace We were in the midst of jwhat seemed to be peace when the government dispatched a large train of treasure and military supplies from Gomckpoor for Ghoorka Colonel Kern ible who had been ordered to take command of the garrison at the latter iplacc being just back from a years ileave of absence In England was with tho train and the whole was escorted Iby 250 cavalrymen The route for the DO YOU SEE THAT HOY SITTING ON THE CIIEST V train brought it past our station whore It rested for a day and then moved on In a defile 15 miles to the north of us it was ambushed by over a thou sand dacoits and suffered a severe misfortune There was not only a heavy loss in killed and wounded but the treasure and a portion of the sup plies were captured and run off The remnant of the train returned to us and went Into camp until could come up and the bullet headed tyrannical Colonel Kern ble whose obstinacy and recklessness had brought about the disaster pro ceeded to make it redbot for every body Any set of men except British soldiers would have mutinied and taken his life Raging over his de feat and feeling his helplessness be or dercd out detachments and command ed them to bring in every native they could overhaul It was a well populat ed country with hundreds of loyal na tives to be picked up but the colonel proceeded to look upon each and every one as guilty of having bad a hand in the attack on the train More than a score were shot or bung offhand while others were whipped at the post or ordered out of the district It was a reign of terror for three weeks and the end was a fitting one I My own detachment one day brought In a mere boy whom we had found cowering in a thicket I do not believe Ac had the slightest knowledge of the ambush or took any part In It He was a timid lad whose father bad been one of the first ones bung and be was so frightened that but little could be got out of blm The colonelbulldozed and browbeat him and finally ordered bis execution on the ground that he was a epy It was only when be knew that he must die that the young fellow traced up and showed bis courage and as be was being led away to execution toe said to the colonel 1 Sahib Colonel I am Innocent and you will be punished for my death You may shoot mo and bury my body rbut my spirit will follow you to the rave Half an bour later he wns dead but ine was the last one to bo executed That evening as tho colonel entered the officers mess tent for supper all of us noticed that he had a queer troubled look on his face and that be cast fur tive glances behind blm After a bit he tried to be jocular but the effort was a failure lie said something About not feeling well but nobody dar ed question him At midnight that night we got an explanation The colonel called the sentinel Into his tent and with white face and trem bling voice and the perspiration stand ing out on his forehead he said Man do you see that boy sitting on the chest 1 I see nobody Blr replied the senti nel 1 He is there I tell you lie fol lowed me to mess rd back and he haa boon here In plain sight all tho evening Take him nwnyl Hut theres nobody here sir And there wasnt Tho sentinel call ed In two ofllcers who looked and searched In vain nnd assured Colonel Ketublo that 110 boy was present Ho tried to turn It off with a laugh but In less than 24 hours every man In camp knew that the colonel wns hnunted by n specter He inntle a brave effort to bluff It out but It wns useless The siecter followed nt his heels by day nnd sat by his bedside nt night nnd In a week the strong nggresslve ninn wns becoming a mental wreck He turned to us for pity and syinpnthy but we hnd little to give He had been brutnl in his vengennce The surgeon looked upon the ense nt first ns some disorder of the brain but later on acknowledged that It was something beyond his medicine No one else could see tho specter The colonel would say tlint It snt beside blm or stood In the door but there wns nothing for other eyes to rest upon He would draw his sword nnd cut nnd slnsh nnd thrust nt the opectcr but he could not hnrm it lty the surgeons advice the colonel returned to Gomck poor It was reported ns n ense of breaking down over mental anxiety but hundreds of people came to know better The specter followed him bnck followed him to the house of n friend snt with him through every night and dogged nt his heels through every hour of the dny He could no more shako It off than he could change the color of his eyes He mnde the gnmest sort of fight knowing that his future career wns at stake and at length nil men came to pity him pity him nnd nvold him ns one accursed He was medically trcnted given brief furloughs nnd every effort made to build him up but nt the end of eight montliB every dny nnd every night of which hnd been a terror to him he ended by blowing out his brains Wns it n enso of a mnn haunted by a spirit seeking revenge it wns not so reported oHlcinlly but from first to Inst nnd from the highest to the lowest nnd this includes two surgeons It wns fully nnd firmly believed thnt It wns nnd the unennny nffalr hnd a great influence over other officers In their future treatment of the natives Mlitory of the IIUi There Is not nn nctor nn nctress a vocalist or other public performer In cluding the politician but must be In terested In the hiss and Its origin Dr Aiuslic Ilollis in The Humani tarian tells under the title of Before Babel of his researches ns to the pro vailing language before the confusion of tongues Referring to the aforesaid awesome word he writes Perhaps the sibilant ss st ts sh is one of the oldest sounds in animated nature as It undoubtedly Is one of the simplest to produce Vocalized In the English hiss hist hush we find the pure sibilant adopted by beasts birds and reptiles as an ex pressive of the warning in times of stress Eveu the crustacean cirrhlpeds can produce the sound when there is an adjacent source of danger although they are not supplied with a proper vo cal apparatus Besides acting as a warning not to its own kith some predatory animals as for instance some of the smaller carnivora and certain snakes utter the sound in n minatory manner to ward off objectionable intruders from their lair Equivalent in the former case to the expressions Keep quiet Stand still n hiss Is construed In its more widely known sense among animals of differ ent species as Come forward at your peril impressing a visitor in search of hospitality much In the samo way as did the legend Cave canem on the threshold of a Roman mansion The paragraph concludes sagely Our English hiss is mainly restricted to the use of dissatisfied playgoers The sound here retains its primitive mean lug a warning note He Barred Iewclle When Edward VII as Prince of Wales visited America in I860 Canada went wild over him and in Detroit and Chicago tho crowds were so dense that tho party could scarcely reach their hotel So many were the recep tions dinners and other social func tions In which the prince participated that he finally broke down through sheer fatigue and overexcltement The Duke of Newcastle who was the princes companion decided therefore to stop off on their way to St Louis at Dwlght Station a quiet village famous for its shooting The prince brought down a bag of 14 brace of quail and four rabbits But the pleasure of the day was marred by the following Inci dent As the royal party approached a farmhouse nn unmistakably British settler appeared at the door and invited every one except tho Duke of Newcas tle to enter Not you Newcastle he shouted I have been a tenant of yours and have sworn that you shall never set a foot on my land Accordingly tho party passed on and the farmer though revenged on his old landlord had to forego tho honor of en tertaining royalty under his roof DaaninK the Demi A Grundy county Kan physician recently sent to the address of one of his patients a bill for professional serv ices and within ten days received the following letter written on the back of his memorandum Deer Bur this noat was put in my box by mistake I hant the man bees dead and alnt any relation of mine any way I dont see how your conshens will Jet you dun the dead Why dont you live n better chrlston live and let live and try to meat that man who dlde in heaven which is worth moar than 4C tc enny doctor Itrnon Ciiotilth Po your engagement Is broken said the girl in gray Yes replied the girl In brown frowning nt the recollection Whnt wns tile mutter He basely deceled me answered the girl In brown You see It was this wny 1 nsked him one dny to prom ise me thnt he never ngnln would smoke clgnrettes nnd ho promised Then I nsked him to refrain from the use of tobacco In any form nnd he promised to do thnt Inter I told him I had n horror of any one who touched liquor nnd he ngreed never to touch It After thnt I suggested thnt I thought clubs hnd n bnd Influence tut young men nnd I should expect liltn to give them up nnd he said he would I also took up the subject of gambling nnd mnde him promise thnt he would stop playing poker nnd buying pools on tho rnccB Well you didnt demand anything of him did you snld the girl In gray 1 suppose he deceived you lu the mut ter He did Broke IiIb promises did he Oh no I could have forgiven thnt But JuRt when 1 was congratulating myself thnt I nt least hnd reformed one young man I found thnt he didnt need any reforming He wasnt addicted to n single one of the hnhlts I mnde him promise to break It was n terrible shock nnd I broke tho engagement right nwny There wns no longer any thlng In It to make It Interesting Chicago Post Mure nerpeclfnl Among the stories told of Charles Lever tho witty novelist Is one which concerns the days when he wns British consul nt Triest He hnd nccompnnicd his dnughter to London for n little soclnl enjoyment nnd hnd neglected to go through tho formality of asking for n lenve of ab sence On lils arrival in London he was invited to dinner by Lord Lyttou who was delighted to see him When he arrived at Lord Lyttons house his host said Im so glnd you have come You will meet your chief Clarendon the minister of foreign af fairs Tho novelist much embarrassed be gan to give reasons why he must tear himself away but before he could make his escape Lord Clarendon was announced nnd nlinost nt once espied him Ah Mr Lever he snid blandly I didnt know you were in England in fact I was not even aware that you had asked for leave of absence from Triest No o my lord stammered the nov elist disconcerted for a second but no more than that no my lord I thought It would be more respectful to your lordship to come and ask for It In per son Youths Companion StndlcB In Small Clinnffe It takes all sorts of people to make n earful said the conductor of a Market street trolley car If It wasnt so exasperating it might be amusing to study the methods different people have of paying their fares For instinct theres tho man who never carries his small change loobe in his pocket for fear of losing some of it He has a little purse and it takes him longer to fish out a nickel especial ly if he has gloves on than it takes a woman to collect five pennies from the vnrlous compartments of her pocket book Then theres the fellow who hates to break a quarter or a half dol lar and goes through ids pockets look ing for nn elusive nickel On the other band some men will Invariably offer a 2 bill and sometimes a 5 bill and if you refuse to accept It they will fork over a 5 cent piece with the reluctanco of a much abused Individual There Is one old chap who rides down with me every morning nnd who has never yet given me n tarnished coin He always has a pocketful of brand new nickels I think he must get them from the subtreasury Philadelphia Record Twelfth Day Caatoina The festival ofTwelfth day has an unfamiliar sound to most of us but for many years the night of Jan 0 12 days after Christmas has been commemo rated with special services This day is In memory of the visit of the magi to the child Jesus their Journey being supposed to have occupied thnt length of time from the appearance of the star until their nrrival at the manger It is known ns old Christmas dat ing from the old style calendar still Used by the Russian church In every European country this day is remem bered with gayety In the Isle of Man barn dances are given every parish biting a fiddler In Germany Twelfth dny Is called Three Kings dny and in France Bean Kings day The feature of Twelfth day Is the baking of a cake which contains one bean When the cake Is cut and the pieces divided he who finds the bean in his slice Is declared king and he must arrange all amusements until the following Twelfth day when the new king is chosen The Word Salary The way languages are built up very interesting and the derivation of the word salary 1b curious as well In ancient times Roman soldiers re ceived a dally portion of salt as part of their pay Sal is the Latin for salt and when the salt was In course of time commuted for money tho amount was called salarlum or salt money hence our word salary nnd hence doubtless the expression not worth his salt that Is uot worth his salt money or salary Not m KtrlcteU That gentleman who is being Intro duced to Miss Binks is a freethinker Which is he a bachelor or a widowers-Brooklyn Life RM y H brzfuAimtUM THENOttFOLK NEWS FK11MY MAltfll 29 1001 ifcwl stCiYNn r i 5FWKlszzSs fy HTjlrT t t 1 1 1 1 4t - zpi ffiU5i IN A HOMEMADE SUBSOILER An lttii1i uienl to Kullim Itir llrrnk Iiik IMimv In In SiiIikiiII A It u nil New Yorker correspondent n iitls to thnt Journal n plan for making an excellent little single horse sub mller thnt works to perfection nnd need not cot more than f2nt llo worked the Implement out thus In his home shop 1 HrM made n model this being cut from thin wood nnd as good fortune favored me I secured Just tho right shape the first trial The beam and htnmhird nrc formed of one liar of wrought Iron 0 feetlongnndfiveelghtlia by 2U Inchm lu size which Is strong rZ IMXIKMAMt SlllSOlI 1MOW rnough for u draft horse The slinre or point is of u peculiar shape nnd la made of a new large steel bull tongue cultivator shovel throe Inchos wide The bull tongue Is out as shown In the figure leaving a long piercing wedgelike point Tho three fourth Inch Incisions at a a allow tho upper half of the blade to be bent or rolled backward forming n long deep groove that chimps very securely around the standard of tho plow where it Is firmly boiled The long tapering point when the wheel Is ad justed for suhBolling to the desired depth lies perfectly flat In Its course through the soil the curvature of tho upper half of the blade being qulto sufficient to lift ground mole fash ion the entire bottom of the furrow while the passage of the standard through the midst of this upheaval breaks and pulverizes the hitherto hard compact subsoil In n very thor ough and satisfactory manner Tliu handles nre those of an ordinary cul tivator nnd the vyheol seven Inches lu diameter was purchased from a scrap Iron man for 1J cents There being some quite heavy forging upon the beam in bending It to the desired shape nnd In cutting the share down to tho proper form it will be necessary to call upon the blacksmith for that part of the operation To those unfamiliar with the practice of hubsolllng it may be well to say thnt this Implement Is planned to fol low the breaking plow tearing up nnd mellowing the bottom of tho furrow to tho depth of nhout eight Inches Thus It will be plain that If the break ing plow be turning to the depth of eight inches the subsoilcr stirs up another eight inches deeper leaving the plant or seed bed pulverized to tho depth of 10 inches A Iotnto of oil Yield nnd Quality The Joseph potato lias received fa vorable mention from some of the New England potato growers American Cultivator illustrates It from un ex- THR JOSEPI TOTATO cellent photograph of tho potnto as raised by a Vermont farmer nnd snyn It Is well to notice the size shape and general appearance of the potato The color of the Bklu is a light pink and the flesh Is white Tho tuber Is invariably free from core It never has shown an Inclination to grow nubbly or unshnpely It yields well Is of wonderful vigor and Is of excellent quality for n table potato Protection Asnlnat Grnhopper Apropos of recently reported damago from locusts or grasshoppers in vari ous sections of the country Professor Lawrence Bruner of Nebraska sug gests first of nil that natlvo birds be protected since nearly all of them aro especially fond of locusts as a diet during the summer months He says When our prairie chickens nnd other grouse were still numerous no harm whatever wns reported nB coming from native grasshoppers Quails plovers blackbirds sparrows hawks and even ducks are known to feed inrgely upon these insects A single bird of any of these species will destroy thousands of them Where the birds are destroyed the extra thousands of locusts soon In crease beyond the normal nnd Injury results Year after year the gap is made wider and tho possibility for harm increases Even frogs lizards snakes and other animals that come under our ban destroy many of these destructive locusta nnd every time we thoughtlessly kill one of them we make it possible fr their natural food to do ut harm MMMywwwtwwt Ullln WKIutnl lllttlnu Whnt If lyddite The high oxploslvv thus called firm he name of the small Kentish town nnd gunnery center whore the experiments with It were mnde Is nothing less than picric nclil brought Into a dense stale by rimloii Picric neld Is n bright yellow sub stance freely used In peaceful Indus tries for dyeing purposes It Is ol tallied by tho action of nlttlc nclil on phenol or carbolic acid It burns very violently and owing to the Icemen dous blast produced by he explosion the destructive effect of a bursting fchcll filled with It Is some 11 times greater than flint of 11 shell filled with powder All lyddite shell are equipped with percussion nose fuses otil htiice their explosion takes place on impact In I lie following fashion The percussion fuse Ignites a picric ponder exploder which In turn Ignites the bursting charge of lyddite the detonation of the fuse nnd of tho two explosives Inside the shell being InstaiitaneouH The picric pow der explodei we should add Is Insert ed lu a recess toft lu the lyddite for that purpose Lyddite shell Is to some extent less barbarous than shrapnel exploded by powder for though wide spread Us death dealing effects are due more to air concussion than to the wounding effects of the flying frag inentH In other wordN lu the case of 11 lyddite shell bursting In a group of men the greater number will be killed not by pieces of the shell but by the blow of tho suddenly compressed air Our of Iniiilid Irnnka A pretentious poet got his verses sub mitted to Chailes Lamb by a friend Just before the poet was to meet Lamb ut dinner Lamb found the verses to be feeble echoes of other poets and when the author arrived he was seen to be as empty ns ills verses TIiIh awakened Lambs spirit of mischie vous waggery At dinner he said lu the course of conversation That reminds me of Home verses I wrote when I was young and then ho quoted a lino or two which he recol looted from the poets book to the hit tors amazement and ludlguatlou Lamb wus diverted Immensely but kept per fectly serloun and quoted more Hues lu connection with another iciniirU beg glng the company to remember how young he was when he composed them The author again looked daggers at him Lamb capped all by Introducing the first lines of Panidlso Lost Of mans first disobedience etc as also written by himself which biought the poet to his feet bursting with rage lie said ho had sat by and allowed his own little verses to he appioprlated with out protest hut when he saw Milton also being pilfered from he could sit silent no longer Lamb leveled lu tell lag this story- Kev David Macrae in English Humor Inllnenni iiuai l Ozone On 0110 occasion the writer walked to the edge of Lake Michigan when a strong wind was blowing right from the lake The bodily condition was as near perfect as could be and yet 1 11 less than five minutes llieie wns every evi dence of having caught cold Tho se vere Inllueiizii continued until on walk ing away lu less than 500 feet It dis appeared as if by magic It Is very certain that the tempera ture had nothing to do with tills nor the wind but the influenza was direct ly due to the abundant ozone in the air By inquiry it was learned that liun dieds of residents who had lived upoi the Immediate edge of the lake hat been obliged to move back three or four miles in order to relieve them belvcs from such experiences Physicians readily admit that It Is not always possible to say when one catches cold It certainly cannot always be liecausc of undue exposure or change lu temperature but probably also to changes in the electric condi tion of the air Facts or iMs kind should lead to the cxtremcbt caution iu studying any supposed relation be tween the weather and health Popu lar Science Rentnnrant Thleyea Why dont you use nfter dinner cof fee spoons asked a womnn at a first class up town restaurant of the propri etor the other evening finding It some what Inconvenient to uso a large spoon with her small cup We did have them when we tlrBt opened answered the proprietor We had six dozen but they gradually disappeared until now only three nre left nnd we consid er It more economical to use the larger spoons for which people do not seem to have such a fancy At many restaurants when a glass of claret or sherry Is called for It is serv ed In a tiny decanter These miniature bottles are very attractive They seem to appeal as many small things do to the tasto of many people One mnn who visits now nnd again many differ ent restaurants boasts that he has over two dozen of these pretty little decan ters He doesnt say how he came by them but he didnt purchuso them New York Times ERcosraged to Hope When the EmprcBs Frederick eldest daughter of Queen Victoria was a lit tlo girl her disposition to tho great grief of the queen was haughty and arrogant Once when about to emlrnrk on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert sho wns lifted across to the deck of the boat by one of tho sailors who as he was putting her down gently sold Thero you are my little lady I am not a little lady I am n princess was the prompt and indig nant reply The queen who hnd over heard tho conversation detained the man with gesture nnd turning to her spoiled little daughter said Tell tho kind sailor that you nre much iudebted to him for his civility and that although you are not a little lady yet you confidently hope t mertt the title before long THEMALLEABLE KWHr pPmJii iliilb foHinjn HpHmn iSF3 rinn ali youh MALL A I L YtJUll IPS NOrMIUI AK SI LLLaio MALLU ABLE WITH POUCH Tor niln 11I ALBERT DliGNERS Dr Humphreys Specifics cure by noting directly upon tho diNOAiio without oxuitlug tlluordor iu miy other purl of tho system 0 cuniui rnicri I lcrr onireMtoiiii ftiltninmntlonii iS 2 Wrm Worm Worm Colic 25 i TeellilnirCotloCrlnKWftlcfiilnci 25 4 lllnrrln n of ChllilriMi or Adultn 125 7 OoiiiIi Colli llronclittln 25 H Nrtimliln Toollmclm Knooftcho 25 W lliMtdnrhr Sick llmiclacliri Vortltfo J5 IO lypriililncllKitloiiWinkloinaohJ5 i orlMnrul IVrlodn 2rt i Whiten Too Irofinio IVrloil 25 13 Oroiip lnrviutltK lloumoncmi 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