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'A Courteous Rival.
This is a tale of a courteous gentle
man, an impetuous lover and a fickle
'maid. The scene is in the gay Crescent
City, twenty years or more before the
I war, when New Orleans promised to
be the largest city on the continent.
when its shipping was enormous and
when dueling was the gentlemanly and
approved method of settling disputes.
The service? at the large Catholic
cathedral had just been concluded, and,
through the entrance, out into the pub
lic square, sauntered a middle-aged
. man with a young woman, as fair as
ay desired to look upon, at his side.
Her cheek had the hue of the sun
kissed peach and her sparkling glance
showed that she was by no means a
demure madonna, although she had
just come from the church. Her com-
. panion was tall and distinguished-look-
,ing, dressed in the height of fashion
and carrying himself with a military
erectness. Everyone admired Mr.
Marsden. the eloquent lawyer, the su-
. perb orator and the brilliant soldier
statesman. Kindly, but impetuous;
with generous instincts, but a fiery
. temper, he wa the ideal type of a
gallant, chivalrous southerner. The ten-
,der regard he exhibited for the young
m ."girl with the sparkling glances was in
. keeping with the attention he had be
stowed upon her for twelve months
. past, giving rise to much speculation
as to whether or not he would carry
off the prize. Many disappointed suit-
orsfor Helen Man vi lie's hand felt ex-
. tremely vengeful toward the gallant
c statesman, none more so than Jack
Culvert, a rich, talented and extremely
reckless young man. For several
months ho had sighed before the shrino
r of the divinity without making marked
progress, and then the statesman had
appeared and seemed to be carrying
her off, despite the young lover's most
strenuous efforts. So it happened that
.Jack, no better than he should have
been, resorted to the consolation of
mint juleps and similar beverages, be
coming a constant frequenter of the
. St. Charles cafe. In that great sub
terranean resort, where were found
men of all nations, it might be said,
,. he made the vain attempt to drown his
sorrow and his chagrin by means of
the beverage he so persistently drew
through two straws. He even plunged
Into greater dissipations. Helen once
saw him driving to the races (there
were two great tracks in operation
then) with the prima donna of the
French opera, whereupon the society
"belle deliberately looked the other way.
And many were the evenings passed at
the cafes, where hock, burgundy and
the more sparkling beverages flowed in
abundance. But the sorrow wouldn't
drown and the chagrin always floated
on the surface.
As the soldier-statesman and Helen
crossed the square whom should they
encounter hut Jack himself, who looked
somewhat pale and fatigued. She
bowed to him very coldly, and then
'ignored his presence, smiling her
sweetest upon her companion. Jack
ground his teeth, gazed vindictively
after them and then strode toward the
St. Charles, where he drank three mint
juleps one after another. At a fash-
"I LOVE YOU. JACK."
ionablc ball 'hat night he again met
his divinity, who looked simply inde
scribable. Jack forgot his resentment
in a sudden spell of admiration, and,
approaching, begged the privilege of a
polka. She responded that she was
engaged.
"You are always engaged when I hap
pen around," said Jack, savagely.
"You, tco, have certain engagements,
I believe," she retorted, with biting
sarcasm.
Jack thought of the prima donna
and was silenC As he turned away Mr.
Marsden carried off the j'oung lady.
Feeling the most profound aversion to
witnessing his rival's happiness. Jack
plunged into the smoking room and
"immediately ordered a bottle of cham
pagne. Then he lighted a cigar and
cogitated bitterly, trying to shut out
the rhythmical melody of the orchestra.
The more he drank and the more he
smoked the more enraged he became.
When, after a considerable interval,
his rival entered, Jack arose and de
liberately jostled against him in mov
ing toward the door. A flush of anger
crossed the other's face, while the lover
stood there with an insolent smile.
"You jostled me, sir?" said the ri
v&l . "Oh, did I?" said the lover.
"You have been drinking too much."
Sternly.
"Not at all."
"You imply intention. You shall
apologize."
"Beneath the Oaks, at your conven
ience." "Very well; I will send a friend to
you."
"I will be glad to receive him. The
sooner we meet the better. There isn't
room for both of us in New Orleans."
The rival bowed and left the room.
Twice more he danced with the belle,
while Jack resumed his attentions to
the ine wines of his host. Late that
night, or rather early next morning,
when the French maid was disrobing
her roistres?, the girl appeared anxious
to impart certain information.
"Mademoiselle, the butler at the ball
told me something."
"What is itr indifferently.
"He served Monsieur Jack with much
wine and many cigars. Monsieur Mars
den entered; Monsieur Jack jostled
him; Monsieur Marsden responded
with anger; they exchanged words and
are to meet early this morning at the
Oaks."
"At the Oaksr exclaimed Ma'demoi
srtle. "Oh, this cannot be. Are you
"The batler saw it all."
"It Is terrible; it is terrlWer
"Well, mademoiselle." ml the girl,
rnnsallngly. "Monsieur Marsden is one
of the best .vordsmen in Xc Orleans.
It is mot he, hut Monsieur Jack who
vfll TM kilted,"
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"Silence!" commanded the mistress.
Bright and early the next morning
Jack found himself beneath the Oaks,
with his second. His head felt a little
heavy and his hand shook, but not with
fear.
"We are caily," he said to his sec
ond. "Here they come," was the response.
Mr. Marsden "was soon, on the spot
and the swords were brought out. Afar
was another group and they knew that
another dispute was being settled in
this popular and gentlemanly fashion.
The elderly contestant drew the lover
aside.
"Sir, must this matter go on? An
apology "
"I have no apology."
"Very well."
"To him who survives she sliall be
long." The rival smiled rather pensively.
"Are you ready, gentlemen?"
"We are."
They were about to throw themselves
into position when a carriage was
heard in the road near by and the next
moment a figure rushed forward. It
was the young woman herself. Im
petuously she threw herself, not upon
the breast of the rival, but into the
arms of the bewildered young man,
then confronting with commanding
gesture the soldier-statesman.
"Stop," she said. "You shall not kill
him. It is all my fault. I have co
quetted with him. Do you forgive me.
Jack? Promise you will not fight."
"I cannot honorably do otherwise,"
replied the confused lover, who im
agined himself in the seventh heaven
with her arm upon his shoulder.
"You must, for my sake," she plead
ed. "I love j-ou, Jack. I have always
loved you. I have been cruel, but lay
it to waywardness, not to my real self.
Hereafter, I will be different. And now,
come."
"I cannot. I am at the service of
this gentleman."
The rival regarded them with a mel
ancholy smile. He had passed that
period of volcanic youth, but now he
felt suddenly as if the hand of age had
grasped him and made him twenty
j'ears older. How fair she was with
the dew of early morn upon her hair!
How impassioned she was when she
told her love to another! Those words
she had led him to believe, were to
have been addressed to himself one
day. But they were a handsome couple!
And he had imagined her all his? Then
he spoke to her gravel'.
"I am at your command," he said.
"This duel shall not go on."
"But." began Jack.
"Sir, I was in your way last night
and naturally you jostled me. 1'ou
had the right to feel offended, I pre
sume. I am convinced now that I
should have apologized. Having ne
glected to do so, this lady has made me
feel the error of my position and I now
do apologize for having been in your
way. My apology, I trust" with a
melancholy smile "will be accepted."
"Yes, do accept it, Jack," pleaded the
young lady.
The lover was about to make a
shame-faced response when the rival
saluted them courteously and turned
away. Jack returned in triumph, in
his divinity's carriage, while the rival
drove back slowly, telling himself that
one is never too old to learn.
I)Ic,:ens' Dummy ISooks.
"'Gad's Hiiy was a merry house,"
writes Stephen Fiske in fondly recall
ing incidents of his visits to Charles
Dickens, in an article telling of the
personal side of the novelist. "Dick
ens was a wellspring of mirth and
his humor affected the whole party.
Often, when I came down from Lon
don, he would walk out and lean
against the doorpost, while I was at
the gate, and we would shout with
laughter over the fun that we had had
and were going to have. When every
thing else failed, the library was an
unending amusement. The room was
lined with books from floor to ceiling,
even the backs of the doors being
bookcases, but the bocks on the doors
and along the floor were bogus. Dum
my books had been lettered with titles
and pasted on the glass, and the ti
tles had been selected by such wits as
Dickens, Yates, the Collins brothers,
Albert Smith and Mark Lemon of
Punch. We used to sit on the floor
to study this mock library and roll
over with delight at some clever
satire. I remember 'The Virtues of Our
Ancestors,' a volume so thin that the
title had to be printed lengthwise;
'Five Minutes in India, by a British
Tourist,' in two volumes as large as an
unabridged dictionary; 'Lives of the
Poets,' a mere pamphlet; 'Eggs on Ba
con,' to match 'Coke on Littleton;'
'Statues Erected to the Duke of Well
ington,' fifteen portly volumes, and
there were dozens of other quips and
cranks. A catalogue of these bogus
books should have been preserved, but
nobody thought of writing it out; no
body realized that Dickens would ever
die." Ladies' Home Journal.
The Czar n a Social Autocrat.
The Wiener Tagblatt, an influential
Austrian journal, has found an extra
ordinary reason for praising the de
meanor of the czar. He actually al
lowed Mme. Faure and Mme. Brisson,
who are not even hoffahg, to dine at
the same tabic with himself and the
czarina. Such a concession to repub
lican principles would, the journalist
continues, be absolutely impossible in
Vienna, where, though a low-born
man might be admitted to the empe
ror's table, his wife never could be.
The' fact was correct and was once the
occasion of a curious scene at the Hof
burg when the, emperor had to exert
his personal authority to obtain part
ners for his premier's daughter; but
our contemporary surely mistakes the
feeling of the czar. In his mind, as in
that of ever- true autocrat, there is
no rank except that derived from his
favor. His notice, in fact, as Nicho
las I. once openly said, of itself con
fers rank. The well-born in Russia
have social advantages, as everywhere,
else, but Pater the Great's ablest min
ister was a cook or butler and the tra
dition has never been forgotten. "In
Russia, as in every oriental country
without exception, all careers are as
open as. in the United States. London
Spectator.
SlI ! Coinage.
The firet deposit of silver bullion to
be coined was by the Bank of Mary
land, Jul' IS. 179L that institution
sending; ia $S0,T15,735 in French. cois3.
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BEAR ADOPTS
Special: Gordon Heights, Pa.: Lit
tle Fritz Yorst, a mere baby bud just
turned three years of age, who was
kidnapped from his parents six months
ago in a manner strongly dramatic, if
not melodramatic, has just been found
under circumstances as startling as was
the event of his taking off.
Fritz was the only child of Mr. and
Mrs. Hans Yorst, a thrift', happy
young married couple, who had a hum
ble but comfortable little home back in
the mountains near here. Hans was
absent from heme from early morning
to the evening, for he worked in a
bituminous coal mine some little "dis
tance away. One day about noon,
while Hans was away at work as usual
and his wife and little boy were in the
ccsy little kitchen eating their mid
day meal, Mrs. Yorst was startled by
the abrupt entrance of two men. She
was thoroughly alarmed when she re
cognized in one of them a former lover
whom she had rather unceremoniously
thrown over when she married Hans
Yorst, and who had made some ob
scure threats which those who knew
his dark, sullen temperament did not
regard quite so lightly as did Mrs.
Yorst
How Fritz Was Stolen.
The moment the startled mother re
cognized him and saw the fixed, vicious
determination that was in his face she
grabbed up her child and made a fee
ble, quavering effort at bravado, de
manding to know what the intruders
wanted.
We want that brat of Yorst's," said
the jilted lover, "and what's more,
we're goin' to have him."
So poor little Fritz was dragged
screaming and kicking from his moth-
er, who fought furiously but idly
against the overwhelming odds against
her. Mrs. Yorst then fainted away, of
course, which was a great help to the
villiins when it came to binding and
gagging her, a ceremony to which they
devoted so much skill and care that it
was several hours after she came to
before she managed to free herself,
and then she was too much exhausted
from the shock and fright to do any
thing save lie moaning and sobbing on
the floor of the house.
In this plight poor Hans found her
when he came home from the mine at
night, and when he learned what had
happened his fury knew no bounds.
It took only a glance to see that his
wife had not been seriously harmed,
so he left her to console herself as
best she could and plunged furiously
into the darkness to hunt for his stolen
boy and the scoundrels who had taken
him away. The neighbors for miles
around, when they heard of the out
rage, were almost as angry as poor,
distracted Yorst himself, and joined
readily in the search, scouring the
mountains in every direction, but with
out result.
For days Yorst and his friends
searched far and wide for the kid
napped boy, but as the days ran into
weeks and the weeks into months one
by one the kind-hearted neighbors
dropped out of the chase, convinced
that it was useless, until at last only
Yorst himself was left, and he losing
THE BEAR PUT TO DEATH AN1J
heart with every dragging day that
passed. Finally he, too, gave up in
despair and settled down in his blight
ed little home to live the thing out with
his heart-broken wife as best he could.
The Father's Vain Search.
So six months passed and nothing
was heard cither of the boy or the men
who stole him until one day recently
when old Cal Fisher and Jim Boone,
two famous hunters hereabouts, ap
peared unexpectedly at the Yorst home
carrying with them the strongest mite
of humanity anybody hereabouts had
ever seen, it was a iiuie, uegriaieu,
briar-scratched, inconceivably dirty and
besmeared boy. Only the remnants of
clothing were hanging to him, and
even that rotted and ia spots leaving
the body bare. He had no hat, his arms
were bare and his legs were bare. He
was trembling with fright, yet every
new and then made efforts to scratch
and even bite his captors.
But through all the hideous plight he
was in the mother recognized her lost
Fritz. Jim Boone went off to fetch
Hans home from the mine, and old Cal
meanwhile remained behind and told
the mother how it was he had found
her boy.
It was in a deep, savage recess In
the mountains about ten miles away,
Cal said, and he and Boone, who were
bear-hunting, had halted for a rest.
Suddenly they heard what sounded like
a child's laughter. Going in the direc
tion whence it came they saw Master
Ffitz, and with Master Fritz was a cub
bear, and between the two they were
having a high old time. They rolled
and played together, and now and then
Fritz varied the performance by
chucking the cub into a pool of ice-cold
mountain water close by and laughing
loudly as his playmate floundered
spluttering to land again.
Ia tbe Bear's Den.
The instant the hunters appeared the
boy fled in terror, with the cub lumber
ing and stumbling at his heels. Both
disappeared in a dark cleft in the
rocks, and when Cal and his companion
got there they were met at the en
trance by the grim muzzle of an old
she bear who gave them a hot fight be
fore she was killed. As she fell dead at
last both the cub and the boy ran out
and nestled np against her body, whim
pering and snarling at the common en
emy. The cub was killed, and Fritz
was captured, although he fought like
a little demon. At last he was coaxed
and soothed into quietness, hut when
be was asked where he lived only an
swered by crying in German for his
ipotkcr a4 father.
A HUMAN CHILD.
Then Cal and Boone remembered
Hans' lost boy and felt sure they had,
found him, and set out for the Yorst
home to see if he could be identified.
All the way on the journey the bojr
talked a strange jargon, half words and
half mere, animal grunts and growls.-
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nature seemed changed. Under a doc4.
tor's care, however, he is slowly resum?'
ing his former self although his moth-; Sii ii hold in certain countries
er is still shocked now and then to; ?-... , """ ,' , . - -om
hear him utter fierce, inhuman KnfJJ!
and to see him drop on all fours, using
his hands as forefeet.
A Bear as a Foster Mother.
The theory is that the boy was aban
doned to die, that he crawled Into the
cleft in the rocks for shelter and was
adopted as her own offspring by the
she bear who lived there with her cub.
It is even believed that he not only
became attached to his savage foster
mother, but that he and the cub both
got their sustenance from the same ma
ternal fount. The doctor who has had
charge of the boy professionally since
his restoration to his parents is fully
convinced of this and 'that in no other
manner could the child have been kept
alive.
WM. T. M'INTYP.E.
Americans Cup Crrcn Tea.
In a general way Americans use
green tea more than do their English
brothers, who are devoted to the black
variety. This accounts for the fact that
the United States gets most of its tea
l from Japan, which produces very little
J of the darker qualities. Dr. Edward.
Bedloe of Philadelphia, ex-consul to
Amoy, China, predicts that the island
' of Formosa, under the Japanese gov-
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ernment, will put out the best teas in
the world and that the product of this
island, which formerly sent its tea to
Amoy and Hongkong before shipping
it out to the western markets, will soon
ship directly from its own ports.
English and American tea buyers
say that it is impossible to secure the
best teas, as the Russians watch the
production of the finest qualities and
pay fabulous prices for the kinds they
want. The- official classes of Russia
are said to pay as high as 15 a pound
for a kind of tea which they particu
larly prefer an almost white quality,
which has a peculiar, oil-like flavor
that is not at all relished by foreign
ers. Exchange.
Hooker Washington's School.
The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute has become one of the most
famous of the schools for the education
of the negro, and its president, Booker
T. Washington, is recognized as one of
the ablest leaders of the negro race.
The school had a veiy puny beginning
fifteen years ago. To-day the institute
owns 2,460 acres of fine land, thirty
seven buildings, some of which repre
sent large expenditure, 265 head of live
stock, an abundant supply of wagons,
buggies, etc. The total value of its pro
perty is nearly $300,000. For the year
ended May 31, 1S96, the income of the
institution was $97,710, donations from
various sources making up $62,835 of
the amount. The number of students
in attendance was S67. Besides the aca
demic dcpaitment, there are twenty-five
industrial departments where practical
instruction is given in carpentry, brick
laying, stone cutting, blacksmith work,
shoemaking, plastering, plumbing,
trimming, and othsr trades. For female
students there is also training in such
lines as are appropriate to them.
In Emergency Cases.
Many a mother, says a physician,
has had a terrible fright by a child
running in with its clothes, hands and
face all smeared with blood, but you
will find most probably when you have
washed with cold water that the
amount of injur- is a mere trifle. If it
is difficult to stop the bleeding, a most
valuable remedy is the common whit
ing or pipe clay. Put a thick coating
of either of these on the wound, then a
bit of dry lint, and press it'closely for
a few minutes. Let what sticks to the
wound remain there, and cover with a
bit of plaster. Bleeding from the nose,
unless it goes too far, need not alarm
you nay, in many cases it may prevent
something much more serious but
when it requires to be stopped let the
child sit upright, bathe the neck and
face with cold water, and dissolve a .lit
tle alum in water and squirt it up the
nostrils. If this docs not succeed, send
for the doctor. Boston Traveler.
A Tragedy for Mother Goose.
The crooked man had gone a crooked
mile, when he suddenly stopped.
"Holy smoke!' he exclaimed. "And I
promised my wife I would come
straight "home!" He realized that she
would probably throw it up to him. -New
York Press.
French two-cent postal cards, issued
for the czar's visit to Pari3, are novr
sold for 1, if they bear the postmark
of .the day of the czar's arrivaL
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t-wae a leper'ww picked up m us
streets of Paris a few days ago and car
JHed to the St Louis hospital It was
found that six leper patients were al
ready there and the physicians did not
exhibit as much concern over the matter-as
the average man might expect,
says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tha
fact Is, leprosy Is not so rare as we
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been taught to think, and
throughout the civilized world the dis-
ry. " . ' . tUJ ni iri-
estimated that over
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-inSweden the nroioress of the disease
has been so rapid in recent years tnat i
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there are 462 victims of it. In bpain
and Portugal there are numerous lep
ers' hospitals, which are never without
patients, and in Turkey and the Ionian
islands it gains ground annually. There
are over 500 lepers in Crete, and the
latest statistics show that there are
100,000 lepers in .India. China, Japan,
Hayti, Trinidad, Guiana. Venezuela,
Brazil, Paraguay, Tonquin and Indo
china are all infested with leprosy. But
when we come nearer home we find
that the disease has made alarming
progress in certain quarters. The old
est leper colony in this country is lo
cated at Tracadie, In the provinco of
New Brunswick, Canada. Here prob
ably occurred the first death in North
America from leprosy. It was nearly
sixty-five years ago that a woman died
in Tracadie of a peculiar disease and
was buried by a missionary priest of
the Roman Catholic church. The phy
sician who attended the case went to
Europe shortly afterward and visited
all of the foreign hospitals to find a
parallel case, but he was unable to find
any one suffering from the same mal
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ady. While visiting in Norway he
saw several lepers and upon his return
to Canada he unhesitatingly pronounced
the strange case of the dead woman to
have been leprosy.
A Fatality.
"What has become of your backer?"
asked the idle person of Mr. Barnes
Tormer. "I guess I worked him too
hard," replied that eminent tragedian.
"I killed the goose by pulling his
golden leg, as the proverb goes." In
dianapolis Journal.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
The romantic gondolas of Venice are
being rapidly displaced by little steam
boats. Over 1,250,000 acres of the earth's
surface is devoted to the cultivation or
tobacco.
Fully one-third of the land in Great
Britain is owned by members of the
house of lords.
Every bicyclist in France must have
bis name and address on his wheel, on
a metallic plate.
All males who sell newspapers in
the streets of Moscow are compelled to
appear in uniform.
Large deposits of asbestos have been
found in the Ferris mountains. Car
bon county, Wyoming.
Anthracite coal, from China, is sold
in California, and is crowding out the
Pennsylvania product.
At the Baden exhibition the prize for
the best lager beer, a gold medal, was
awarded to a French brewery.
A fifteen-pound codfish, recently ex
amined by the fish warden of London,
was found to have a roe containing
4,872,000 eggs.
About a year ago Ben Reed, a Chi
cago policeman, bought a small Inter
est in a Cripple Creek mine. Now he
is a millionaire.
Rich gold fields have just been dis
covered by government surveyors on
the east coast of Siberia, bordering on
the sea of Okhotsk.
A school of carpentry for boys and"
girls is to be established at Highland
Falls, N. Y. The entire expense will
be borne by Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan.
Spain has more sunshine than any
other country in Europe. The yearly
average in Spain is 3,000 hours; that
of Italy, 2,300; Germany 1,700; Eng
land, 1,400.
Lulu and Flossie Sleppy of St
Joseph county, Mich., are sisters, aged,
respectively, sixteen and fourteen years.
Lulu weighs 435 pounds, and her sister
425 pounds.
When a real New York boy wishes
to say that a man is extremely ex
travagant, he expresses himself this
way: "He has money to burn, and car
ries matches."
The cats in North Gainesville, Fla.,
are suffering from a peculiar disease.
They froth at the mouth, their eyes
turn red, and the malady results fatal
ly in about five days.
In Brazil, at tbe funeral of an un
married woman, the mourning color is
scarlet The coffin, the hearse, the
trappings of the horses, and the livery
of the driver, are all scarlet
Thre copies of the Bible, written on
leaves of the fan palm are in the Brit-
jfeh siaseasj,
iXi.GROWTH OF LEPROSY.
THE LAST OF BOODLE'S.
Oae r tbe n:ttrfaalJCIaa at !
Another old landmark Is about td
disappear. Boodle's Is one of the his
torical clubs of London, a connecting
link with the dayjPot "dandies" and
fox-huntiug squires, says the Satcrday
Review. More than half a centary ago
Praed wrote:
In parliament I fill my Mat
Along with other noodles;
In Jcrmyn street I lay my head
And sip my hock at Boodle's.
The proprietress of Boodle's is dead,
..and, as there is now no one to carry
on the club, It must come t'o an end un
less the members acquire the property.
But there are only some 500 members
and this number would have to bo
doubled in order to run it as a mem
bers' club. But, then, Bcodle's would
lose its distinctive charm, which lies
in tho-fact. that in its lofty,.. aldrlastfc.
ioned rooms one is really at home. It
is the only club in Loudon where one
is unelbowed by a crowd and where
cne is never asked to pay for anything.
A member's house account is sent to
him only when he asks for it. Some
enterprising gentleman like Mr. Alger
non Bourko may possibly reorganize
the club upon the lines of White's, but
it will be the old Boodle's no more.
Electrict light and cash payment will
supersede wax candles and the conveni
ent "slate."
The UniT-ralfst Crcctl.
At the Universalist convention, In
Portland on Wednesday, the subject of
a new creed was debated with warmth,
indicating that schools of dissentient
thought exist in this as in other de
nominations. Conservative liberals
are as plenty as radical conservatives
in all the churches. One of the clergy
deprecated preaching evolution and
science. Another said evolution Is the
new revelation, and that the old uni
versalist creed is not up to date. One
issue was whether God created man
holy and he backslid from previous
holiness or from a state of undiscip
lined youngncss and" innocence; but
there did not seem to be anybody pres
ent old enough to determine this issue
except on hearsay. Another one of
the brethren denounced the three ar
ticles of the creed as "abominable"
utilitarian philosophy, and declared,
amid applause, that no one should
teach folks to do things because they
are good for them; but nobody ad
vised urging people to do things be
cause they are bad for them. The
speaker said: "Do right, though you
be ground to powder." The Rev. Mr.
Ropes declared that four-fifths of the
Universalists like the present creed,
and there was applause. Lewiston
(Maine) Journal.
Summer Heat in Yarionv Countries
The following figures show the ex
treme summer heat in the various
countries of the world: Bengal and
the African desert, 150 degrees Fahren
heit; Senegal and Guadaloupe, 130 de
grees; Persia, 125 degrees; Calcutta and
Central America, 120 degrees; Afghan
istan and the Arabian desert, 110 de
grees; Cape of Good Hope and Utah,
105 degrees; Greece, 104 degrees; Ara
bia, 103 degrees; Montreal, 103 de
grees; New York, 102 degrees; Spain,
India, China, Jamaica, 100 degrees;
Sierra Leone, 91 degrees; Frauce, Den
mark, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, the
Burman empire, Buenos Ayres, and the
Sandwich Islands, 90 degrees; Great
Britain, Siam and Peru, 85 degrees;
Portugal, Pekin and Natal, 80 degrees;
Siberia, 77 degrees; Australia and Scot
land, 75 degrees; Italy, Venezuela and
Madeira, 73 degrees; Prussia and New
Zealand, 70 degrees; Switzerland and
Hungary, CO degrees; Bavaria, Sweden,
Tasmania and Moscow, 65 degrees;
Patagonia and the Falkland Isles, 55
degrees; Iceland, 45 degrees; Nova Zem
bla, 34 degrees.
Illiteracy in the United States.
The 1S90 census enumerates 36,761,
607 persons of ten years of age and up
ward. Of this number 4,923,151, or 13.4
per cent, are returned as unable to
read, and 6,239,058, or 17 per cent, as
unable to write. The following states
show over 40 per cent of their popula
tion as unable to write: Alabama, 60;
Florida, 43; Georgia, 50; Louisiana, 49;
Mississippi, 50; New Mexico, 65; North
Carolina, 48; South Carolina, 55; and
Virginia, 41; and the following states
with less than 5 per cent unable to
read: Connecticut, 4; Dakota, 3; Illi
nois, 4; Indiana, 5; Iowa, 2; Kansas, 2;
Maine, 4; Michigan, 4; Minnesota, 4;
Montana, 5; Nebraska, 2y, New Hamp
shire, 4; New Jersey, 5; New York, 4;
Ohio, 4; Oregon, 4; Pennsylvania, 5;
Utah, 5; Virginia, 5, and Wisconsin, 4.
Little Tors to Co.
It seems that there are to be no
more little toes. A comparative anat
omist declares that the little tee must
go and announces gravely that already
it is showing signs of degeneracy.
Once upon a time it seems that the
horse was the possessor of four well
developed toes, whereas now he has
but one to save his life. But that toa
is a great one. And man's toe that is
to survive "the crash of matter and
fhe wreck of worlds" is to be the great
one, too, so this wise scientific anat
omist says. But if man is to own an
evolutionized foot at all, like that of
the horse, it does not appear that the
coming race is to pride itself on its
pedal extremities. New York Tribune.
He'll Get Caught Some Day.
A smooth bachelor in Kansas City
keeps himself arrayed like the lilie3
of the field, by betting suits of clothes
with the other fellows that they will
be married before he is. He hasn't
been caught yet, but that's no sign
that he never will be.
lie Stood for Seven Days.
When the seal of a lumber car was
broken at Plainfield, N. J., recently, a
much emaciated man tottered out He
had been in the car for seven days in a
space so small that he was compelled
to stand continually. He entered the
car in Ottawa, Canada. - -
Churches Offered at Tax Sale.
Fourteen of the local churches, half
of all in the city of Ishpeming, Mich.,
are advertised for sale because of de
linquent sewer taxes. The congrega-
! tions have temporarily joined hand3
I in an effort to find some way oat of
the trouble.
PLANETAEY POINTS
SOME HOROSCOPES MADE B
PROF. CUNNINGHAM.
Seaden Ara Iavlte to Scad la Itatu
and Haw Their ladlcatloas rrlnte.l
Free Flaaeta Iadleate Eveats, bat Do
Kot Caasa Taeas.
HE horoscope or
William McKinley
made by Prof. Cun
ningham a year
ago indicated that
he would become
president of the
United States
March 4, 1897. The
astrologer vlsitev'
the McKmlcy home
-at-Canton for the
purpose of obtaining exact data. He
was cordially received by Major Mc
ley, Mrs. McKinley and the president
elect's aged mother. Prof. Cunningham
is at present making a horoscope of the
McKinley administration, beginning at
noon March 4. It will be printed in
March. Persons wishing to have horo
scopes made should remember to give
Christian name, place of birth and
residence, date and year of birth, hour
and minute If possible. If you do not
know the hour, send two two-cent
stamps for particulars. Correspondents
should also bear in mind that the as
trologer wishes it distinctly understood
that he treats the position of the plan
ets at time of birth merely as indica
tions and not causes. A planet may
sihify an event, like the star of Beth
lehem for instance, but of itself it
has no ether connection with it- Cor
respondents are answered free in these
columns. Address Prof. G. W. Cun
ningham, Dept. 4, 194 Clinton street,
Chicago, 111.
Answers printed in order as received.
Here are some for this week:
Frank, otre Dame. Ind.
You have the zodiacal sign Scorpio
rising, with Sagittarius intercepted on
the ascendant, and Mercury, Venus and
the Sun also there, consequently you
have Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus
and the Sun for ruling planets. You
arc above medium height, and well
proportioned body; medium to dark
complexion, hair and eyes; the eye3
have a peculiar sparkle and sharp
sight. You are stirring and energetic,
and will always have an ambition for
a large business, with plenty of rush
to it. You are fond of anything that
has a mystery connected with it, and
are very original and Inventive in your
ideas. You are also fond of anything
pertaining to chemistry and pharmacy.
You have good command of language,
and you are also a deep thinker, and
do not always tell everything you
know. You have strong intuitions, and
have a good knowledge of many thlng3
without ever having had to study to
learn about them.
Miss 3fary K Galvn, III. S.
You have the zodiacal sign Scorpio,
which Mars rules, rising at your birth
and therefore Mars is your ruling
planet or significator. Scorpio usually
denotes a person of medium height;
well set and compact figure; rather
short limbs; the complexion not very
clear and oftentimes freckled; the hair
dark and of luxuriant growth; you are
reserved and secretive in your nature
and keep your business secrets to
yourself; you are ambitious, stirring
and energetic and inclined to take the
lead in anything in which you become
Interested; you are not very yielding
in your disposition and when opposed
are liable to lose control of your tem
per; you are fond of anything that is
of a mystical character and eas
ily become interested in any
thing relating to chemistry; you
arc a great admirer of surgeons,
soldiers, firemen, etc., when they
perform any operation that re
quires skill or any act of bravery, sol
diers on dress parade, etc.; you also
take quite an Interest in war and navy
news and all kinds of military affairs.
Juhn 31., Hrooklyn.
You have the zodiacal sign Leo,
which the sun rules, rising at birth and
therefore the Sun is your ruling planet
or significator. The sign Leo usually
denotes a wiry, muscular, slender fig
ure, with wide shoulders in proportion
to the rest of the body; the complexion
fair and ruddy; the hair and eyes light;
the eyes arc large and in some cases
they would bo called "popeyes." You
are of a sunny, cheerful temperament;
you are charitable and generous, toe
much so for your own good; you ar
very restless when not busy at some
thing; you ayj very apt to borrc
trouble in some way or cross bi-id?a
befcre you Si to them; yon art s&i
stly Tuk-k tempered yet seldom get
your deep anger aroused; yet when you
do you become very fierce like the lion;
when your cnger is once aroused you
will give somebody that was the cause
of it the full benefit of your opinion re
gardless of their position or rank. You
have more than average pride and am
bition and have a natural gift of
language.
A Towel of Hlottin Ijcr.
Paper has been put to a variety of
usc,fcutitr nest curious enslaj-nient is
foreshadowed in the recent patenting
of a blotting-paper towel. The idea
is that a person on 'stepping out of his
morning bath, instead of rubbing him
f " T in the orthodox maimer,
envelop his body in a owel o
:ng-paper, which will, without
.w-Lie, and in a few seconds, absorb
all the moisture upon his skin. The
idea is ingenious, but it does away with
that wholesome friction which many
believe to be so beneficial to the skin.
A cv iCC3 note of explanation ac
coxi : I some poetry received bj
a M"cL"r.an editor. The no'te ran thus
"There Hues were written fifty years
ego by a man who has, for a long
time, slept in his grave merely for pas
time." Imaginary troubles and ailments,
abundant among a certain class of pcf
jdo. are generally well aired, and a;
as depressing to those who have i?
"sten to them as real ones; yst iresi of
!.tm. if denied utterance, would socn
melt away.
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