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A PASTORAL.
f set with Deri die shepherd maiden;
a creak was ladeaed with wreathed flowae:
IatMd wooed her through sanUsht wfeeeUag.
Aad shadows afaaliag for hoars and hours.
Asa aha, way Doris, whose lap lactoses
milium f iif faint rrrfiimr
ItowhBa I sad her, kept hotbed, and bearkaaei
TO shades had darkened from gloss to glooe.
She fiwrliwl mjshCTiM wh fearful finger:
8ha said: "We yager; we must not star;
JXy flock's la danger, my sheep will wander:
Behold them yonder how far they straji"
I aaawered bolder: -Kay. let me hear you.
Aad atffl be near you, and still adore;
Ke woV aor atraager will touch oae yearUng;
1 atsy, "y di"g. "nmnt more.
e whispered, sighing: -There wifl be sorrow
Beyoad to morrow. If Hose today;
Hy fold unguarded, my flock unfolded.
I shall be scolded, and seat away-"
galdlrapryteg: -If they do miss you.
They ought to ktes you when you get home:
And well rewarded by friend and neighbor.
Should on the Uhor from which you come."
-They might remember," die answered meekly.
That lambs are weakly and sheep are wild:
Bat, If they lore me, it's none so fervent;
I am a servant, and not a child."
Then each hot ember glowed quick within me,
Aad lore did wis me to swift reply:
"Ah! do bat prove me, and none shall blind you,
Nor fray, aor find you. until I die."
he blushed and started, and stood awaiting.
As If debating In dreams divine;
B I did brave them-I told her plainly
doubted vainly; she must bo mine.
So wa twin hearted, from an the valley
Did chase and rally her nibbling ewes,
Aad homeward drove them, w6 two together.
. Through blooming heather and gleaming dews.
That simple duty from grace did lend her
My Doris tender, my Doris true;
That J, her warder, did always bless her.
Aad often press her to take her due.
And bow In beauty she flOs my dwelling
With lore excelling, and nndeflled;
Aad lore doth guard her, both fast and fervent
No saore a servant, nor yet a child.
A STORY OF PIRATES.
I had run away to sea on a vessel
bound from Liverpool to Shanghai, and
had left her on arrival. I found that
the captain of the Silver Crown, one of
the cofnpany's traders, was an old i riend
of my father's, and so it came about that
I took service in the company under
him, with the rating of cabin boy. The
schooner carried a dozen muskets, a lot
of hoarding pikes and half a dozen cut-
as an armament, but everything
boxed up and stored away, if not
forgotten. Capt. Wharton bad been in
the service for six years and had never
met with any trouble.
When we got away it was with orders
for the Philippine islands, among which
the company had many resident agents
who collected products. Our course was
to the southeast, to pass between For
mosa and the Loo Choo Islands, and we
bad made the run thus far without inci
dent when one day about noon a junk
rigged native crafjt, which doubtlep"
came from some port in Formosa, inter
cepted us to the eastward of that island.
We were about thirty miles off Bhore
when she hailed us. She claimed to be
ahott of water, owing to an accident;
bat this, as we afterward came to know,
was only an excuse. When she learned
that we were bound to the Philippines
she had three passengers to transfer.
They were three natives of Formosa,
who were going down there to found a
colony, and would pay liberally for a
passage by the schooner.
I am only giving you the gist of what
was urged in excuse. We lay to for a
couple of hours, and I heard only a part of
what was said. It did not seem to strike
Capt. Wharton or Hato Williams as
queer or suspicious, and after haggling
over terms for a while the three natives
were transferred to our decks and the
vessela separated. Then I had time to
look the strangers over, and 1 was not
long in concluding that I did not wish
for an intimate acquaintance. They
' were a tough looking trio, and the cook
had scarcely eet eyes on them before he
declared that we had made a great mis
take in taking them aboard. We had no
accommodations for them aft, and as the
schooner was in ballast they bad agreed
to occupy the hold.
I took an early opportunity of com
municating my suspicions to the captain,
but be laughed at me in a good natured
way. I tried the mate, but he saw noth
ing to arouse distrust. It was singular,
however, that every man ci' the crew
outside of the two officers was satisfied
that there was something wrong with
the trio. While their excuse was rea
sonable enough, the looks and actions of
the men were suspicious, and it was
plain toall that they wero sailors. They
let us all severely alone except the cap
tain and the cook, and I called it to mind
afterward that while one interested the
former the other two were occupied with
.the bitter. I could ''chin-chin" a bit
and the cook could apeak a little En
glish, and so we managed to understand
each other pretty welL Three days
after the men camo aboard "Slop-Slip,"
as we called the cook, assured mo with
cry serious face that the strangers were
evil minded men, who had planned to
capture the schooner. They had asked
him to join them, and he had refused. I
posted off to the captain with this news,
and be greeted it with contempt.
We were getting well down toward the
northernmost island'of the group, when
something happened wliich should liave
opened the captain's eyes. The leader of
the three borrowed the glasses and went
up to the croastrees of the mainmast and
took a long look around. We saw the
sailor in bis every move, and ho had not
l down an hour when a native craft
I creeping up from the south, bows
on to us. She had a free wind, while
we had been beating down all the fore
noon. We were at this time forty or
fifty miles to thektorth ward of the group,
with a beautiful afternoon and a smooth
sea. Half an hour after the native craft
bad been sighted, one of the natives and
the captain retired to the cabin. Five
minutes later the native showed his head
above the deck and called to the mate,
who bad just come on watch. He dis
appeared down the companionway, ana
at the same time I entered the forecastle
to look for something wanted. I was
'down there about five minutes. I heard
bo particular row on deck, but when I
' reappeared I was struck dumb by the
spectacle. One of the natives was at the
wheel, and was bringing the schooner
iato the wind to lie to. The decapitated
bodies of the two Americans and the
cook were lying amidships, while the
tiro Swedes were at the foremast cross
trees. Not a shout had been raised nor
a cry uttered. The work had been done
with terrible rapidity and in silence.
'As I reached the deck one of the na
tives came forward with a bloody creese
ia his hand and called me "good boy"
sad Hid I should not be hurt. He left
aae sitting on the windlass so scared and
: that I could not stand, and then
his companions to lower the
When this had been accomplished
they called to the Swedes to come down.
The poor fellows began crying and
IsaMHtiagand refused to descend. The
awsivb paokad up the bodies from the
leek aad tossed them overboard, and
thea descended to the cabin and brought
sptbebodiesof captain aria mate and
served them the same way. Both had
bees killed by the one native who en
tacsdtlssmdown. About the time the
Jsat body was flung over the rail the na
tive craft drew alongside. She had
BasTtysaen on board, all of whom seemed
t kmoKjrax three jasaanjerfl and their
plana, There was great rejoicing over
the capture of the schooner, 'and for a
quarter of an -hour no one paid me any
attention. Then there was a hot discus
sion, a part of the gang seeming anxious
for my life, but the result was that I
was conducted to tho. cook's galley and
given to understand that I was to do the
cooking. Although our cook was a
Chinese they did not spare him. What
saved mo was my youth, or they might
have planned to cut my throat after I
had served their turn.
When my fate had been settled the
Swedes were again ordered down. One
of them descended, begging and plead
ing, but he was cut down the moment
his feet touched the deck. The other
refused to come down, and half a dozen
natives ran up the foremast shrouds with
knives in their hands. Before they could
reach "n the sailor made his way hand
over hand along tho triantic stay to the
mainmast. His feat was greated with,
applause, but others ascended, and there
was no longer any hope for him. The
poor fellow made the best, defense possi
ble, but they cut and hacked him until
he lost his hold and fell to the deck. His
body was thrown overboard, deck and
cabins cleansed of blood stains and about
sundown the schooner, with twenty-five
men, was beaded for the. Philippines.
The rest of the gang, numbering 6even
or eight, followed with the native craft.
1 boiled a large quantity of meat and got
the best supper possible, and was glad
to find that no one gave ine any atten
tion. We had a brisk wind all night and
during the next forenoon, and at about
2 o'clock we reached an anchorage on
the east side of the main island and
within a quarter of a mile of the beach.
The native craft passed us and entered
the mouth of a river. From what 1 could
gather she was going to bring out men
and cannon to the schooner. A hunt
was made through the schooner for gun
carriages, and the discovery of the small
arms seemed to put the fellows in good
humor. There was about $2,500 in gold
aboard in tho cabin, and this was count
ed out and divided pro rata, or in some
other satisfactory manner as we lay at
anchor. Then I was ordered to draw a
pailful of wine from a cask in a 6ort of
lazaretto or store room reached from the
galley. Tho cook might have known of
the presence of the wine there, but I did
not. I had never looked into the place.
There was a tin pail holding about ten
quarts in the galley, and this I filled and
carried to the main hatch, with several
glasses, and everybody proceeded to help
himself. Now that wo were at anchor
all discipline had ceased, and one man
was as good as another. They were
prowling all over the schooner and per
fectly at home.
The wine must liave tickled their
palates mightily, for a second pailful
was soon demanded. It was while I was
drawin it that I noticed the barrel liad
no bung in it, and I wondered why the
wine had not soured. I retired to the
galley as soon as I had filled the second
order, and for half an hour there was a
good deal of loud talk and laughter. All
of a sudden, while I was reflecting on
the situation, and perhaps crying a bit
in my sorrow and anxiety, it struck me
that things were wonderfully quiet. I
looked ont of the galley to see Iialf a
dozen figures lying on the deck, and
later on, when I had summoned courage
to walk the length of tho schooner, I
found every man aboard apparently
sound asleep. Their breathing was la
bored, but I supposed this was tho result
of too much drink. Tho night had come
down dark and gusty, with tho wind
directly off shore, and as the sleepers
continued to lie quiet 6ome strange ideas
came to me. I was tempted to take one
of their knives and begin killing, but I
doubted my nerve. The yawl was at
the davits, and I planned to lower it and
let the breeze carry mo out to sea.
I held to this idea for a few minutes,
and then surrendered it for another. I
would swim ashore and hide in the forest.
I had to abandon that scheme as well,
forlsaivata glance that the tide was
running out strong. I was wondering if
I should not start a fire iu tho forecastle
or cabin when I discovered that the craft
was under way. She liad her light anchor
out and had been tugging heavily under
tide and gust. The chain had ground oft!
against some 6harp edged rock or the pin
had slipped from a shackle. It was prob
ably tha latter case, as I heard a splash
as of the end of the chain falling from
the hawse hole. She drove off stern first
aud then, as she began to swing about, I
stepped softly back to the wheel, put it
over to get her off , and then extinguished
the two lanterns on deck and the lamp
in the cabin. I am not boasting of my
nerve in stepping over the sleepers to do
this work or of my sagacity in getting
the idea. I was working like one in a
dream end could hardly have identified
myself.
What occurred between the time I put
out the lights and daylight next morning
I never can clearly remember. The
schooner took care of herself for any
effort of mine, and I think I went into
tho galley and crept behind the stove.
At least I crawled out of that contracted
space soon after daylight, in response to
a call. I suppose I was called to pre
pare breakfast for the pirates, but I was
no sooner out of the galley than I saw a
large ship hove to a quarter of a mile
away, bile one of her boats, with five
men in it, was alongside tho schooner. I
must havo looked and acted like a stupid,
for as a couple of men came over the
rail one of them gave mo a hearty shak
ing and growled out:
"You idiot, can't you get year mouth
openT
There were twenty-five men lying on
the decks and in the cabin sound asleep.
No! Dead! Every one of them dead and
cold, and I the only living thing aboard.
It took ssme time to explain matters and
get at all tho particulars, but with what
I could tell them and what they could
see it finally became plain to all. That
barrel of wine had been dosed with some
deadly '' tig. The cook must have done
it previous to the attack, or .the bung
L I been left out by another andsomo
poisonous reptile had crept in to die. No
one could tell for certain, but the drink
ers were all dead, and all had died ia
sleep. The ship was English, and the
schooner was over thirty miles off the
land. One of her majesty's men-of-war,
assisted by a civil functionary, attempt
ed an investigation, but nothing came
of it. Our crew had been slaughtered
and the schooner captured, but she had
recaptured herself and brought off
twenty-five corpses. Nota living man
could ever be found among the islands
who would acknowledge that he had
ever seen tho schooner, much less par
ticipated in her capture. New York
Sun.
. Complete "Kest.
Fred's mamma was not at all well, and
the doctor said she must "take a com
plete rest" at once. So presently the
family took wing for Northport, in the
wilds of Maine. The first night of their
sojourn there mamma was putting Fred
to bed, aad, as usual, called him to her
side to say bis prayers. The little fel
low's faca was an interrogation point of
astonishment and dismay, and no per
suasion could induce him to pray. Slam
ma looked puzzled and grieved; where
upon her little son, with an unlifting of
his small pug nose suggestive of infinite
disgust, proceeded to enlighten her mind:
"Why, mamma! the doctor said we must
take a complete restl" New York Tribune.
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Bevivemyi
And blow upon I
Until she smile, aad 1 1
Yob rosy wag of Cupid.
Ah. bow rm really goag to i
Hake haste to cool bar ht
So that her heart grow warmer.
And seed a sweetly brokea yea
Up to her hpa. my heart to bless,
My radiant little charmer.
Susan Hartley fat Harper's Weekly.
THE PADRE'S CATS.
Padre Mateo Verdugo was the vener
able priest in charge of an Indian, mission
near the coast of California. The mission
is now a majestic ruin, and the race for
whose regeneration it was founded is
nearing extinction; but sixty years ago
Padre Mateo was the busiest man in the
world. There were the massive struct
ures of adobe to be erected, neophytes to
instruct and discipline, infants to bap
tize, hordes of hungry Indians to feed
and funeral services to preach, for be
fore tho benighted savages could be
brought to understand that the mission
was being established for the saving of
their souls they had sent many a Chris
tum to join the army of the blessed
martyrs.
But-when, after ten years of toil, the
buildings were completed, and the last
martyrs were buried, and the infants
were all regenerated, and the Indians
were pacified by gifts of trinkets and
clothes, time began to weigh rather
heavily upon the zealous padre. He
lengthened the services and sang mass
every day and performed all the cere
monies of the church with scrupulous
exactness; he provided the mission with
cattle and sheep, and taught the Indians
to sow grain anjd,to labor with tools, yet
there were long -hours left unoccupied
and the priest was often lonely.
After the soldiers were removed to a
younger mission the padre's parishioners,
with tho exception of Gaudaloupe Cor
teo, the ancient sacristan, were all In
dians. Now, Gaudaloupe, it must be
confessed, made but a poor companion;
for, his work being done, he straightway
stretched Ids lank body upon a bench be
tween the great arches at the sunny aide
of tho building and went to sleep.
Years passed away. The mission pros
pered. The harvest of souls was bounti
ful, and where once had been an un
broken solitude now uproso a picturesque
Indian village, with houses built of reeds
or of adobe, and the winding streets all
leading up to the great gray pile on the
hill.
One morning, whilo tho sacristan slept
on his bench, Padre Mateo sat outside his
door with a big book on his knees.
The rugged mountains were veiled in
miles of blue mist, but their snowy crests
shone in the sunlight. Upon the velvety
slopes of the foothills grazed cattle and
sheep. Tho wide, fertile valley was
bathed in golden light Far off a silver
line gleamed the Pacifio ocean. The
village streets wero deserted. Save tho
droning of insects and the regular respi
rations of tho dozing sacristan, not a
sound broke tho stillness.
The padre liad almost fallen asleep,
when, hearing the patter of bare feet, he
looked up to see some dark skinned boys
carrying a litter of kittens toward the
creek.
"Que! Quel" cried the padre, rubbing
his eyes. "Adonda vaV? Would you
destroy tho poor kittens?"
"Si, padre," replied one little Indian.
"Para que?" questioned the priest.
"They are too many, padre," answered
the little Indian, poking his great toe in
the dust and looking longingly toward
the creek.
"But wait! The pretty things! They
have not yet beheld the light of day.
Give them to me!" cried the benignant
priest. "They shall not perish, for I will
care for them myself. Are they not
pretty, my worthy Gaudaloupe? Open
thine eyes for an instant. See! are they
not pretty?"
Surely, had the sacristan foreseen the
consequences, he would havo made re
monstrance then, before the padre's pas
sion strengthened: but, being sleepy and
selfish, Gaudaloupe only chuckled as he
settled liimself for another nap, think
ing, "Now that the reverend padre has
somewliat to amuse him, perchance I
may be permitted to doze in peace."
One of the inconveniences arising
from the adoption of a family of cats is
the manner in wliich it is prone to in
crease. At the end of the second year
Padre Mateo's cats were the bane of the
sacristan's life. Every day the priest
found it necessary to reprove Gaudaloupe
for some sad dereliction. Either he had not
bathed Celestine's sore eye, or the dose
of catnip tea for Antonio had been neg
lected, or Christafus had been allowed
to scamper off before breakfast for, be
it understood, each cat had a high sound
ing name, and a place at the padre's
table, and regularly partook of a repast
three times a day.
Had Gaudaloupe not so highly vener
ated the padre's 6acred calling, there
would surely have been an open rebel
lion; as it was, tho sacristan had to con
tent himself with thinking his indigna
tion. "Must I," thought he, with rising
spleen, "I, who am 70 years old and have
a stitch in my back must I, besides
dusting the altar and ringing four heavy
bells and 'tending the padre's house
I do obedience to an army of yowling
cats? Es vergonzoso, indeed!"
Had he not feared the padre's male
diction he would have murdered the
creatures without compunction. He even
gave up his morning nap, sitting with
his little red eyes open and a scowl on
his wrinkled, yellow face, while he tried
to devise a means of ridding the world
of the pests. In vain he pondered. The
cats flourished, and the padre's fondness
increased, and Gaudaloupe was scolded
more frequently than ever. "Heart of
stone!" the priest would exclaim.
"Would you let them starve? I am sure
you gave no milk to Carmina's new kit
tens this day! and well you know she has
not nourishment enough for them all!
You shall do penanca for your iniqui
tissT "But, your excellency ," the sacristan
would remonstrate with great humility,
"I had no milk left after supplying the
sick babe of the squaw who died last
week. Surely the kittens can wait"
"Wait?" stormed tho padre. "Are they
not wailing from hunger even now? Their
cries pierce my heart! How can I leave
them to your charge and go away for
eight long days and go I must! know
ing that they will not be fed?"
At these words hope sprang up anew
in Gaudaloupe's perfidious heart.
"Art thou going away, reverend pa
dre?" he asked, meekly. "Am I, indeed,
to be left alone for eight long days?"
"It is true," replied the priest, sadly.
"I must go. I am summoned to report
to my superior at San Luis Bey; and the
journey will require eight days. But
how can I go? The Indiana can get along
well enough, to be sure, but what, I ask
you, heart of wood, what will become of
my cats?'
So Gaudaloupe promised earnestly to
attend to all their wants, to call them
regularly to their meals, to administer to
the ailing ones their allotted spoonsful of
herb tea, and to endeavor to solace and
cheer them during the absence of the
priest. Next day, as Padre Mateo trudg
ed, slowly down the road, a sardonic
amile came upon the cecmtanaace of the
wicked sacristan. As.tblJatflwe portly
TO A FAN.
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figure diminished m tne distance, Uanda
toupe, forgetting the stitch in his back
and the ache in his bones, skipped nim
bly into the house and began prepara
tions to carry out his evil designs.
It was nearing midday. Already Ig
natius, the oldest and leanest and 'hun
griest of the cats, had appeared, sniffing,
as he entered the kitchen, to learn if din
ner was being cooked.
"I will teach thee, villain!" muttered
the sacristan, fiercely, as he busied him
self building a fire. "I will teach thee
to sit and glower at me while I work till
my body shakes with weariness!"
When the meal was ready Gaudaloupe
went to the door. "Come, Carlotta,
dearest! Come, my Pedro! Come, Car
los!" he called, tenderly. "Hastenwithin,
for thy dinner waits! Be quick, -then:
all of you!"
When the cats were seated, and wait
ing, as usual, for Padre Mateo to take
his place and pronounce the benediction,
Gaudaloupe, after tightly closing the
doors, hurried to the chapel. From the
altar he selected the largest crucifix,
and, bearing this in tho left hand, and a
great whip behind him in his right hand,
he returned to the padre's house.
Holding the crucifix before him, the
sacristan entered the room where the
cats were assembled. "Now wretches!
brutes! villains!" he shouted and at
each word came a cut from the whip
"fiends! monsters! .ungrateful beasts!
Receive your punishment!"
The astonished creatures leaped .from
their seats and tore madly about the lit
tle room, but they could not get beyond
the reach of Gaudaloupe's whip. He
lashed right and left, still holding the
crucifix before him, till at last he could
no longer wield the heavy whip.
"Enough for this time!" he panted,
throwing open the door. "Now, crea
tures of evil, depart!" and as the last cat
disappeared the sacristan dropped luV
whip in a corner, assumed a devout ex
pression and carried the crucifix back to
its place on the altar.
Thrice each day a similar 6cene was
enacted. The cats wero called tenderly
by name, arranged in their respective
places and generously served to a savory
repast, only to see the sacristan appear,
bearing the crucifix aloft in the left
hand and the whip behind him in tho
right till at tho sight of the crucifix the
creatures would spring wildly from their
seats and seek to escape.
Padre Mateo returned at night and
was welcomed cordially by the perfidi
ous sacristan. In the morning, when
the breakfast was ready, Gaudaloupe
called tho padre to the meat
"But where are the cats?" asked
Padro Mateo, upon seeing their seats.
unoccupied.
Gaudaloupe shrugged his shoulders
with a look of sadness as he replied:
"Speak not of them, reverend padre!"
"But I want my cats!"
"Your excellence I fear you havo
been befooled."
"Where aro my cats?"
"Well, then, I will call them, venera
ble padre; but first let me speak. I fear
the creatures are not mero common cats,
else why did they conduct themselves so
strangely in your absence?"
"Nonsense!" roared the padre. "Of
what do you speak? Call my cats!"
"But wait, your' reverence. As your
reverence.knows.it is my duty always,
of a Thursday, to clean the candlesticks
and tho sacred crucifixes on the altar.
Your reverence well remembers that it is
my custom always to bring them outside
into the air that tho dust may not soil
tho altar cloth. What will your rever
ence think when I reveal the wickedness
of your reverence's cats? They are all
devils, surely, else why should they run
from the crucifix, as the evil one would
flee from the presence of the Virgin?'
"Nonsense!" roared the padre. "Call
my cats!"
So the sacristan did as he was bid.
"Now," said Padre Mateo, triumphant
ly, when all the cats were seated about
the table, "we will test this thing! Bring
in the crucifix!"
Without a word the wicked sacristan
flew to the chapel, and, returning, en
tered the priest's room holding the sacred
emblem aloft before him. At its ap
pearance the unhappy cats gave a dis
cordant howl of rage and despair, and
fled, as spirits of evU flee from the pres
ence of the Virgin.
As the last swollen tail disappeared the
padre gave a gasp and caught the sacris
tan's arm for support.
There was an interval of ominous
silence, and tho vene:able priest's coun
tenance was agitated by conflicting emo
tions. "Devils!" he wailed at last, wringing
his trembling hands. "Things of evil!
Alas! alas! How ye have deceived me!
My worthy Gaudaloupe, thou hast spoken
truly but oh! how I have loved them!
Get thy gun, my Gaudaloupe. They are
fiends! Get thy gun and rend their
wicked hearts! Amy Elizabeth Leigh
in Pittsburg Bulletin.
Punching His Ticket.
They were telling experiences the
other night, and CoL Granniss told one
of his. He made the trip through the
southern country here just after the road
had been opened. The festive cowboy
liad just begun to enjoy the sport of
running the train in the rough region,
and at one of the stations a formidable
specimen of that tough human boarded
the cars. The conductor came along
punching the tickets, and this cowboy
did not pay any attention to him. At
last tho conductor laid his hand on the
cowboy's Bhoulder and said, "Ticket
please." The cowboy turned in true
cowboy style, pulled out his revolver
and pointed it at the conductor.
"Here's my ticket."
The conductor walked on and punched
everybody else's coupon. Then ho dis
appeared. The littlo incident liad been
forgotten by almost everybody on tho
car. The cowboy was in a quiescent
state and tho car was -quite still whea
the conductor came in. He walked lei
urely up the aisle and suddenly stopped
before the cowboy, placed a great big
knifo dangerously contiguous to his vital
part and said, quietly:
"Lemme see that ticket again.
The cowboy paid his fare. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
A Wise Dog.
Tho possession of an intelligent dog
in tho family may be a very useful
means out of emergencies. Not long ago
some members of a family returning
from an evening entertainment were un
able to gain an entrance into their house.
The key had been forgotten and the ser
vants were evidently asleep. -Ringing
the door bell produced no response. The
only sound indoors was that of the dog's
tail gently thumping against the rug,
but 'after a time that ceased. The dog
had recognized his friends and refused
to bark. When all efforts to enter
seemed fruitless, thedoor.was opened by
a sleepy servant accompanied by a very
wide awake dog. It seemed that this
friend of tho family bad made his way
to the servant's room and had gently
awakened her to a realization of the sit
uation. As ho had never been permitted
to enter the room before it is evident
that his sense of the needs of the occa
sion had shown him that he should not
wait for a ceremonious invitation. Bos
ton Journal.
It has just been found out that com
mon nutmeg is a powerful narcotic poi
sen. but as one must eat several before it
becomes daneerous. careful cooks need
not banish the flavor.
WMhMt
London never fails to impress the tour
ist with its peculiar place among the
cities of the world. There are many pre
senting far finer groups of buildings; its
main thoroughfares, such as Regent
street and Oxford street, are not to be
compared with those'in Paris or Phila
delphia: but there is asolidity in its pave
ment, a steady progress in its vehicles, a
sense of continuity in the endless succes
sion of its streets, an air of unpretending
confidence in its crowds, an unabashed,
monotonous ugliness in its lines of subur
ban villas which is unique. London is
the place where incidents and gatherings
which would move many a metropolis
"to its center" are wholly unnoticed ex
cept by such as happen to come across
them. Even the most popular events,
which may attract some hundred thou
sand people, do not make a sign or ripple
in the surface of the great brick and
mortar sea which surrounds the city
proper.
He must be a very big man, indeed,
who can draw direct personal notice in
London. Metropolitan news is conveyed
not by conversation or verbal rumor, but
by journals. The "talk of the clubs"
(exalted by some "society" papers) is as
mfinitesimally small fraction of that
which engages the metropolis. There is
really no "talk of the town" as distinct
from that of tho nation. It is sheer size
which distinguishes London. Not long
ago I stood by the castle in Edinburgh
and noticed that I could discern men at
work iu the fields all around me. There
were indications of separate outside life.
It is so, moreover, in the large transat
lantic cities. Down the straight streets
of New York you can catch glimpses of
white sails on the Hudson or East river,
but when you look at London from any
square or open space within its borders,
there appears no proof that it lias any
borders at all, or that it ends anywhere.
It might cover the whole earth for all
you can see. The Cornhill Magazine.
Wolverines Are Ugly Customers
Few Washington people know what a
wolverine is. They know that Michigan
is called the Wolverine state and that
Michigan people are called Wolverines.
But they have little or no idea why the
state was so named or what the nick
name means.
The state is named after an animal
that used to infest, and still frequents,
the dense woods in tho northern part of
tho state, as well as in tho woods of
northern Wisconsin and Canada. This
flnimnl 13 tho wolverine, or, as the varie
ties of him found in northern European
countries are called, tho glutton. They
are savage beasts, these wolverines arc,
and they play sad havoc with the cattle
of the Michigan farmers. T!syy are like
a cross between a wolf and bear. The
tail and tho temper resemble those of a
wolf, but in strength -and size and sav
ageness they much resemble a bear.
They are lessclumsy than bears.though,
and they can climb trees. Many a hunter
has walked under a tree up in Michigan
without looking for a wolverine in tho
treo first, and tho wolverine dropped
down on him from one of tho lower
limbs, and before the next morning liad
eaten him up, buckskin breeches and all,
even to the heels of his hunting, boots.
They are ugly looking beasts, tho only
pretty thing about them being their
bushy tail, a foot or so long. Their claws
are longer and sharper than bears', and
their teeth just as sharp.
Altogether the animal is a very un
pleasant sort of one to see outside of a
cage. They are so savage and so wary
and suspicious that it is almost impos
sible to catch them alive, and so the v
don't liave them in circuses and zoologi
cal gardens, and most people don't know
what they are. They are so 6avage that
hunters don't care to hunt them, and so
the wolverine has things about his own
way where he lives. Washington Critic.
Oscar Wilde aad Joe.
I asked Pryor about the buncoing of
Oscar Wilde by Hungry Joe. Said he:
"I saw Wilde give Joe the check over
at the Brunswick, but Joe got away be
fore I could interfere. I camo at once
to the Second National bank and told tho
cashier not to pay Wilde's check if pre
sented, but send for me. It wasn't
twenty minutes until I was sent for, and
there was Hungry Joe himself with the
check. Of course he gave up. Inspector
'Byrnes took all the credit of the affair
nevertheless, and I never got any credit
in the matter at all. Hungry Joe got
$4,000 in cash and checks out of the
president of a large bank in Montreal,
who was a guest at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, but when I told him the banker
was our guest Joe gave up like a little
man. He came pretty near getting $150
out of Gen. John A. Logan once. The
general was in one of the rooms on the
ground floor on the Twenty-third street
side of the house, where tho ladies en
trance is located.
"The boy at the door came and told me
that the general liad gone into his room
accompanied by a bunco man. I went
around and knocked at the door. Hun
gry Joe was just going away, but I
barred the door and asked the general if
he had given the fellow any money. The
general was inclined to get nettled at
my question, and blurted out that the
young man was the son of the president
of the bank In Chicago whero the gen
eral's account was kept. I said: 'Why,
general, the man is a thief, a common
thief.' He would scarcely believe me.
But presently Hungry Joe took $50 out
of his pocket, which he got from Logan,
handing it back said I was 'on to him
and the general might as well have hie
eyes opened.' The general had given
him $50 and was going to givo him $100
the next day. This story of Logan has
never been told before." Cincinnati En
quirer. Precious Water.
Ascension Island cannot bo a very de
sirable place in which to live, if one may
judge from the following description of
the difficulty of procuring fresh water.
A. B. Ellis at the island meets an old
friend, who shook hands, reached down
a coat from a peg and put it on, saying:
"Excuse my not putting on a shirt,
will you?"
"Of course, of course. Take off more
of your clothes, if you'll feel more com
fortable." "N-no, it's not that, but the fact is that
I haven't a shirt clean enough to put on."
I could only murmur my sunrise at
this strange circumstance, and endeavor
to look sympathetic. He went on: "I
dare say you think it odd that I don't
have them washed?"
I thought perhaps he had had some
difficulty with his laundress, had not paid
her bill, but I could not say that, so I in
quired: "Why dont you?"
He unfolded a horrible tale to the
effect that the water supply of the island
consists principally of what is distilled
by a condenser, a small quantity being
obtained from Dampier's Drips and
Brandreth Wells. That water was al
ways so scarce that it was served out
like a ration of rum, only more sparing
ly, the allowance in prosperous times
being two gallons a day per man.
When clothes were sent to the wash,
the water for washing them had to be
sent with them. That the condenser had
now been out of order for some nine or
ten days, and' everybody on the island
bad been put on short allowance, so that
they bad not enough for drinking, much
less for washing either themselves or
their clothes. Youths Companion.
A Caeire List ef Samrner ateaerta.
In the Lake regions of Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa and the two Daltotas,
there are hundreds of charming locali
ties pre-eminently fitted for summer
homes. Among the following selected
list are names familiar to many of our
readers as the perfection of northern
summer resorts. Nearly all of the Wis
consin points of interest are within a
short distance from Chicago or Milwau
kee, and none of them .are so far away
from the "busy marts of civilization"
that they cannot be reached in a few
hours of travel, by frequent trains, over
the finest road in the northwest the
Chicago, Milwaukee .& St Paul Railway:
Oconomowoc, Wi3. Clear Lake, Iowa.
Minoequa, Wis. Lakes Okoboji, Ia.
Waukesha, Wis. Spirit Lake, Iowa.
Palmyra, Wis. Frontenac, Minn.
Tomahnw Lakes, Lake Minnetonka,
Wis. Minn.
Lakeside, Wis.. Ortonville, Minn.
Eilbourn City, Wis. Prior Lake, Minn.
(Dells of the Wis-White Bear Lake.
cousin.) Minu.
Beaver Dam, Wis. Big Stone Lake, Da
Madison, Wis. kota.
For detailed information, apply to
any coupon ticket assent, or send stamp
for a free illustrated guiri liook, en
titled "Cool Retreats." Address A. V.
II. Carpenter, General Passenger Agent,
Wilwaukee, W'ia., r .Kiiin K. MeClniv,
Western Passenger Agent, C. M. .t St.
P. By. 1501 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.
He that loves to lie Mattered is worthy
of t tie flatterer.
!it a California Bear.
Anybody can catch n cold this kind of
weather. We advise our readers to.pur
chase of Dowty i- Becher a bottle of
SAxNTA ABIE, the California King of
Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Coughs and Croup Cures, and keep it
handy. Tis pleasing to the taste and
death to the above complaints. Sold at
fl.00aboUleor3for20. CALIFOR
NIA CAT-B-CURE gives immediate re
lief. The catarrh virus is soon displaced
by its healing and penetrating nature.
Give it a trial. Six months treatment
1 1.00, sent by mail $1.10.
Men find it more ease to flatter than
to praise.
C'oRXRBiptioH Snrrly Cored.
To the Editor Please inform your
readers that I have a positivo remedy
for tho above named disease. By its
timely use thousands of hopeless cases
havo been permanently enred. I shall
be glad to send two liottles of my reme
dy free to any of your readers who have
consumption if they will send me their
express and post office address. Respect
fully, T. A. Slocum, M. C, 181 Pearl
street, New York. 30y
When flatterers meet the devil goes to
dinner.
Little Women
are as a rule, posessed of happy disposi
tions; but when these sweet dispositions
become soured and iritable, in conse
quence of the long train of distressing
features peculiar to female complaints,
they aro then not companionable to say
the least. It is the duly, not only of
little women so afflicted, to bring aliout
the subjection, and immediate remova1,
of these painful maladies. This is easily
accomplished by the use of Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, the great specific
for "female weaknesses." It is a positive
cure for the most complicated and ob
stinate cases of leucorrhea, excessive
flowing, painful menstruation, unnatural
suppressions, prolapsus or falling of the
womb, weak back, "female weaknesses,"
anteversion, retroversion, bearing down
sensation, chronic congestion, inflam
mation and ulceration of tho womb, in
flammation, pain and tenderness in
ovaries, and kindred ailments. All drug
gists. If you want enemies excel others; if
you want friends let others excel you.
The New Discovery.
You have heard your friends and
neighbors talking about it. You may
yourself be one of the many who know
from personal experience just how good
a thing it is. If yon have ever tried it,
yon are one of its staunch friends, be
cause the wonderful thing about it is,
that when once given a trial. Dr. King's
New Discovery ever after holds a place
in the house. If yon have never used it
and should be afflicted with a cough,
cold or any throat, lung or chest trouble
seenre a bottle at once and give it a fair
trial. It is guaranteed every time, or
money refunded. Trial bottle free at
David Dowty's drug store.
The way to fame is like the way to
Heaven through much tribulation.
Aa Absolute Care.
The ORIGINAL ABD3TINE OIN'x
MENT is only put up in large two-ounce
tin boxes, and is an alv"'-'. v...t lor
old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands
and all kinds of skin eruptions. Will
positively cure all kinds of piles. Aak for
the ORIGINAL ABITTNE OINTMENT
Sold by Dowty & Becher at 25 cents per
box by mail 30 cents. mar7y
It is conferring a kindness to deny at
once a favor you intend to refuse.
Baeklca'x Araica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is gnranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by David Dowty. 3
All is lip wisdom which wants ex
perience. A Seaad Legal Opiates.
E. Bsinbridge Munday, Esq., County
Attorney, Clay county, Tex., says: "Hav
used Electric Bitters with most hap-v
results. My brother also was very lo
with malarial fever and jaundice, but
was cared by timely use of this medi
cine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters
saved my life."
Mr. D. L Wilcoxson, of Horse Cavo.
Ky, adds a like testimony, saying: He
positively believes he would have died,
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off. as
well as cure Malarial Diseases, and for
11 IT'iinav. TiTr and Stomach Disor-
dars stands uneaualed. Price 50 cents.
and $1 at David Dowty's drug store.
Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and
the ingredient is a devil.
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"GOLD DUST WASHING POWDER"
Is purely vegetable, dissolves instantly in HARD
or SOFT, HOT pr COLD water; will not injure
the finest fabric, is soft and soothing. to the skin,
and for bath, laundry, washing dishes, or scrubbing
and cleaning of any kind, "GOLD DUST" stands
without an equal.
ASK YOUR GROCER
IF HE DON'T KEEP IT, ASK
Made only by
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ST. LOUIS.
N. B. Fairbanks "Fairy," the great complexion soap.
SCOTTS
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Almost as Palatable as Milk.
Sa 4tsgmtsrd that it caw fee takes,
tlfajested, aad assimilated fcy the aaast
heaaittve aceasaea, Hbea tae alala all
rsaut ae tolerated ; aad ty the eoaa
jtnatlem ef t!ie ell rlta tae aynepaes
pUtse Is maea. saore ealcaclesu.
eaTssS6 es fesli prstEcer.
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SCOTTS EMULSION is acknowledged by
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COKSUMPTION, SCROFULA,
Ct-KSRAL DE3IUTY, WASTIRQ
DISEASES, EMACIATION,
COLDS and CHRONIC COUCH.
Tht grtnt rnnedij for Consumption, and
Waatlnij in Chjidren. Huld by all DruggUts
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Bestcros the Senses of Tasto, Smell
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A particle ia applied lata each nostril ma
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It. SAWS CATAim KME1T.
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obstruction ot nose, discharges falling; Into
throat, sometimes profuse, watery, and acrid,
at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent,
bloody and putrid ; eyes weak, ringing in ears,
dcafnfgw dilkulty of clearing throat, expecto
ration of offensive matter; breath offensive:
smell and taste impaired, and general debility.
Onlya few of these symptoms likely to be pres
entatonce. Thousands of cases result in con
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By its mild, soothing, and healing properties.
Br. Sage's Bemedy cures the worst cases. 50c
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