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tug gllaiutlealtt v*1 j. -4-1 •' «-V TV -*v ;*> I. WW tlYKfe, Editor irt PaMitlnf. MoHENKY, -* - ILLINOIS. ---- u 4 ' JfOTIIIN' TO SAT. ^ ** axu WHrflx>iiB au.**, Motfcln' to My, a>j daughter 1 Nothin* at all to ••T I-- Glrli that'* ia lovs, I've noticed, giawly baa tlioii wny! V, T«r mother did, afor* yon, when her folks objwt<>*J to me-- THbere I Am, and b«re vol air! andywmother --where ia «be? Ten look lou likeyour mothar: Party much tui* In *;«• ; AM about the same complected; and favor about the area. Lflce her, too, about UVt*' here; became 1X1 couldn't stay; It'll 'most seem like yon was dtad Ilka bar!-- but I hain't got notbin' to say 1 8ba toft you her little Bible--writ yw name }b» far you, af ever you oOme acrost the page-- ear-bob at age. And left her ear-1 I've alius kep' 'em and gfurM 'ana, but If y«r goiu' away-- Votbin' to say, my daughter! Kotbln'at all to •ay! Tou dnnt rikollect bar, t reekon? No; you wasn't a roar old then! And ftotr yer--baw o'.d air youf Why, Child, «ot "twenty!" When? And yer nW birthday's in April* f and you tut to git married that day? . . . I wisht yer mother was liTtn'l--but--I bAin't got nothin' to say 1 , Twenty years 1 a&d as good a gyrl as parent evor found' There's a straw ketched onto yer dress there-- ri( bresh it c-ff--turu round. (Her mother was jest twenty when ns two tx^n •wav !i Kothin' to say, my daughter! Kothin' at all to Say!- Crntury. JBICKS IN POLITICS. j ^ BY HAHOLD I. CLEVELAND. '•;*/" PART I. ' • ^Atnt l a politician?" That was the question of the Hon. Jake Slocum, as he sank back into his chair. A student of the faces of politicians •would not hare mistaken Jake Slocam for anything else. He was a politician in all that the name implies. His fox-shaped face, acutely pointed nose and bloodless lips; his small, twinkling eye, and thin, gray locks of hair, all betrayed the calling of the man. In dress he wore a costume of modest pattern but stylish eut Jewelry he eschewed save the gold band that glit­ tered on one finger. Pervading the man was an air of coarseness and gentility. He was so open in his manner of approach that honest men felt the chill of suspicion when in his company. He was styled Honorable for his serv­ ices to the High Taxation party, of which he was a kader in Jaco County. He had distinguished himself during legislative sessions in the Third House, and in the aTt of silencing the voice of the people he was an adept. "With these qualifications he possessed also a lack of sensibility as to right and wrong that gave him a still stronger claim to tLe title of politician. Despite nis advantages for arbitra­ tion through these experiences, he was vulgar but strong. His power was that of the middleman who acts as the agent in unquestionable transactions between men's consciences and his Satanic Majesty. He was unloved, but feared most by those who knew him best. < Yet as a politician he was honored for his unchanging partisanship. Fathers might desert their children but Slocum abandon High Taxation--never. His party was his religion, his love, his life. Men's opinions changed, new principles of government were favored, and free-holders were forsaking the old doctrines. Little that mattered to Slocum. His watchword was "My party first, then the people." ^ "Dang it, sir," said Farmer Jenks to him, "when you get done with your in­ fernal party there will be nothing left for the t e jple." Slocum smiled, looked curiously at the old man and re­ plied sententiously, "My party first" That was Slocnm, politically; morally, ugly rumors had been Afloat of his early days--of misdeeds more serious than boyish pranks. He had grown up with the prosperity of Jaco County as a warped tree flour­ ishes in rich soil. But hedged in as he "was by suspicion, it had come to pass that he had ascended the rounds of the political ladder from village constable to city councilman, and thence up until he stood at the threshold of the Legis­ lature. He toiled not, neither did he spin, yet the finest rainment and the fat of the land were his. On the western border there was not a man who re­ ceived more from men than he, nor who gave back less. It was in this day of his indepen­ dence that Slocum, asked by his party to solve a political problem, put the question to three of the members of that party, if he was not a politician. Of the trio, Luke Car ruth, Sheriff of Jaco County, answered "Yes." •"Then," continued Slocum, #'ef I say Scotty goes free, he does." ' "No, sir," said Carruth, springing to his feet, "Shall I dishonor myself to save my party or yours? Put myself in your power, Slocum, so that at your back I may be branded as a scoundrel ? For what ?, To keep me Sheriif of Jaco County for the next two years. 'Ask some other sacrifice than my honor. Scottv shall not go free.'4 "Boli," was Slocum's contemptuous rejoinder. Jaco County, lying on the border line of the Northwestern frontier, was in the throes of a political contest. The high taxat:on faction had be^n the dominant party for years. But the times were ripening for a change and the new party known as the Freeholders threatened to carry the day. The situation was critic^ for the High Taxationists, and in their distress they appealed to Jako Slocum to use his power for their salvation. Given carte blanche, he now at once summoned to a conference three of the strongest men, and among them Sheriff I Cairnth, who was a candidate for re­ election. Assembled, Slocum, his plan matured, thus unfolded to them: "I ain't trying to scare yer, bovs, but •f something ain't done pretty* quick our party is beaten. It's a bad year ifcr us, and we've to hustle ef we get the persimmons. The other fellers are WIK-oping 'er up, and Si Cade, down to tlie Corners, to-day offered to bet his bept span of mules that we didn't get a single office. Now, tain't fer me to talk* Action is my style, and .jf've figgerod out just where we stand 4nd what's going to help us. Jonestown, Cadon Corners,over to the Ford, and at Egan s, where we always had a big vote th< re ain't a man fer us. There's twr man fer us. There's two thousand good votes gone kerflummix AND us O'lt in the cold. Promises ain't ®y good; money's no use any where. ~ X (told them that if they'd stand by us 1 the disoovery of Scotty's escape. this time we'd lower the taxefe next year. They just laughed and stfid as how I'd said that ten years ago and it hadn't come about, and how us fellers in office were all robbers and living off the people. Corse the derned poople! So now boys, it's come to this: That losing these, we've only got about seven hundred votes left to win on and them votes over in Jacoville. Them votes are powerful shaky too, but ef we hold 'em we can't be beat. How're we go­ ing to hold 'em ? Set Red Scofcty free 1 Don't like that Carruth. You know Scotty." Carruth did know Scotty. He was the lfeader of the evil spirits in Jacoville --the head of an organized band of thieves who ruled the little town with lawless power. It was the heaven to which they fled in all times of danger. For years they had terrorized the border, but the summer preceding this campaign Sheriff Carruth determined to root them out, captured Scotty and locked him up. He had lain in his cell for months awaiting a trial, and then, though sev­ eral attempts had been made to free him, he remained a prisoner. His arrest had been a severe blow to the welfare of Jacoville. Its inhabi­ tants no longer found pleasure in tlieir pursuits, for their source of inspiration is gone. They gave themselves up to regret over his captivity and to invoking corses upon the head of his captor. Their day of vengeance came soon enough. Carruth's candidacy for re­ election opened the way for them to pay the debt. Even if Scotty could not be freed, Carruth should not remain his guardian. The ballot became their weapon of attack. At this juncture Slocum appeared among them, held several mysterious conferences, freely distributed liquor, and when he was gone, Jacoville knew that in consideration of its seven hun­ dred votes going to Carruth for Sheriff, S&tty might go free. The exact terms of the bargain or how it was to be car­ ried out no one knew. And Slocum returning home laid the plan before Sheriff Carruth. "Fer," said he, ignoring Carruth's plea for honor in political work, "ef yer don't do it, Carruth, yer beaten and so is the party. Yer derned squeamish' ness will bust ns all up. Do yer sup­ pose the boys will help yer after yer acting like that? . There's nothing hard about it. I don't care how yer let Scotty go. Fix it up any way yer choose. Only, if yer don't have him on the road ter Jacoville the night be­ fore elecshun, we'd all better scoot up Salt Creek." Carruth saw the point. But he could not answer yei. Tell­ ing Slocnm that he would decide the next day, he went out into the night alone. » PABT n. When once under the stars his self- possession came back and he reasoned with himself. To yield meant no par­ ticular harm to him, and much benefit. To refuse brought with it not only his own defeat, but the overthrow of his party. He meant to be honest and do well by all men, but now he was calmly considering a proposition to free a criminal that the salvation of a political party might be insured. He found no relief in considering either side of the question, so sought his home, and then through the railing of a woman's tongue, chose his course of action. wife--was feminine matter of dress. Hitherto her bus band's income as Sheriff had given her ample opportunity to be a leader of fashion. But now his impending de­ feat meant to her a change of circum­ stances, that implied ̂ economy and fol­ lowing, a reduced position in the social scale. She could not bear to think of that fate. It was heart-rendering and the more she brooded over the prospect the more her anger rose against her husband for not being able to win. She gave him no sympathy in his ef­ forts to check the tide that was running against him, but rather taunted him for his weakness. This particular night when Carruth, heart-sick, came into the cheerv parlor where she sat, she met him with the re­ proach, "It is a shame, Ltike Carruth. to worry me so. I suppose you know how badly you are beaten. I thought that when I married you that yon would always have protected me from such trouble as this. I wish the elec­ tion was over, and that we were out of this, and that I was dead," and here lacking words she burst into tears. Carruth stood in the center of the room where he had stopped when she began. He grew very pale as she went on, and when she had finished, turned and left the house again. He went direct to Slocum's, routed that worthy out of bed and told him in three words that Scotty should go free. Slocum chuckled, patted him on the back, swore that he was a man to be proud of, and showed him out of the door with great respect. Later, as Carruth was returning to his own bed, he said to Dolly: "Do not worry any more. I am elected." Whereupon she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. And that eased his conscience for the time. The morning before election day Carruth, entering the county jail, dis­ missed his warden on some trifling errand and alone entered the cell of Scotty. What was said between them will never be known, but when the Sheriff, an houi later, went out and left his prisoner, the latter possessed keys that would open the doors that swung between him and freedom. He was to escape that night at the supper hour when the vigilance of the turnkey would be relaxed. All the day Carruth was uneasy and BO ridden with the deed that he had committed that he would fain have re­ ceded. Twice he entered the jail to warn the turnkey. Each time the thought of his Eartv and Dolly's tearful face drove im away. I At supper he could not sit easily, but I started up from his seat and paced the floor, much to Dolly's wonderment. In his mind he could see Scotty softly creeping out of his cell, stealing down the corridor, and finally gaining the outer door, with a bou^d drop into the protecting darkness and speed away over the prairies to the comrades that were waiting to welcome him. He wished that he had not yielded. After all the reward for his act was not commemsurate with the suffering that it was costing. He might have refused to yield, he reasoned, and incurring defeat, taken Dolly, gone to a new country and won a higher position than even this. At any rate, he would have saved his honor. ' With an effort he ceased these re­ flections and awaited with a bold face He Pretty Dollv Carruth--his wii happy in all things but that fe would spend the evening with his w and in the morning act his part. He was on the point of telling Do that he would stay A; home that ev< ing when there came the sound of m running. His front door was violen thrown open and in rushed several ci zens, led by his turnkey, the latter oi ing out "Scotty has escaped!" Without hesitation, Carruth seiz__ his coa| and hat, kissed his frighten wife and followed his bewilder ~ deputy to the jail. He soon secured a posse from amoi the citizens, but by cleverly delayi: them under pretense of needing a gui< gave the fugitive quite a start. At last, when the guide who kn< just the route that Scotty would ta to Jacoville, was secured, and there w t0 nt> longer pretense for delay, Carrutl . heart sank. He must be in advanc and as swift as horses could go, ri down the man to whom he had pledg t. freedom. A momentary weakness seizjat him and then passed away. He sprang on to his horse, gave ti forwafd cry, and following the guid who was riding straight for Jacovill e prepared for action. All night the party rode, span neither horse nor men. Fields, lone farm houses, the fringing underbru; along small streams, were close! searched. There was neither laughing nor tal ing among them, bnt a silence that be tokened the deadly earnestness of the, pursuit. f The jack rabbit fled over t&e pr before them, and the coyote, at a tance, howled his protest at their turbanee. The long grasses tram; under the feet of the panting ho: gave forth a mournful sound, as if pain. At midnight they swept by a "shack" where a man, unknown to the occupant, but an hour before had begged for food. They learned that this stranger was armed. Further on they found a bewildered farmer cursing the loss of his gray mare, that some one had impressed into his service. Just before snnrise, when all the east was gray and the mantle of the night hung in dark folds in the west, they passed the gray mare, dead on the trail, and by this they knew that their man could not be far away. Now that he was near they grew cautious. Pistols and guns were ex­ amined, saddle-girths tightened, and a loose rein given to the tired horses. There was no need of haste now--onjB man against twenty could not hold oqt long. Just as the sun, warm from his royal couch, sent up a band of gold to burn­ ish the sky, a frontiersman came gallop­ ing back to the party, with the an­ nouncement that Scotty was asleep in a granary but a mile beyond. Worn out and not knowing that he was pur­ sued he had stolen into the building and throwing himself in a corner, fallen to sleep. There the scout, stealthily searching for trace of him, had sighted him, but fearing a single handed con­ flict had ridden back for help. Scotty had killed top many men to make him asleep a less dangerous foe than he was when he was awake. He had been known to shoot dead a deputy sheriff, who, thinking him asleep, had bent over him to put the shackles on. The verdict of the frontier jury was that the deputy was a fool for not kill­ ing Scotty first and then shackling him, but that is all a matter of opinion. When the word came back that Scotty was discovered, Carruth turning to the posse, said: "You stay here. I will arrest him." Not demurring, the men dismounted, while he rode off to the granary. Within shooting distance he picketed his horse, and without taking out his weapons, walked up to the granary, entered, and touched the sleeping man With his foot. The instant he touched Scotty, the latter, as if by intuition, with a quick jerk threw back his hand, and the Sheriff found himself covered with the mussle of a revolver. Then said Scotty, as coolly as if he had known all the time of the pursuit, "Git!" Carruth did not move. His face was very stern and sad as he replied. "Shoot ahead, Scotty, but if you miss you are my prisoner. I've come to take you back." "You can't do it, Sheriff. You made your word with me that I should get away and I'm going. Oa back or I'll shoot" Carruth shook his head. There was no going back for him now. Over there in the glory of the morning his towns­ men were waiting his return. He must take Scotty back, dead or alive, or die himself. With a bound and a blow he knocked Scotty's weapon up, grasped his gun and fired. The thief with a scream fell back, the blood rushed from a gaping hole in his breast. Carruth, trembling, and his face gray, bent over him to catch these words-. You--curse you--you said--you'd--• you'd--set me free--God!" Scotty was free and Carruth was re­ elected. Danger in Thunder-Storms. The chief danger incurred by human beings and other living animals is due to their bodies being better conductors than some objects, although they are bad conductors in the sense that the}' afford considerable resistance to elec­ trical discharges passing through them, and therefore give rise to the develop­ ment of heat and mechanical and mole­ cular disturbance. A man standing, walking, or riding upon an open plain dnring a thunder-storm is in a danger­ ous position, because his body is apt to be made a stepping-stone of the dis­ charge, offering less resistance to it than the air. The danger is increased by the near presence of large masses of metal in the ground. Dry, lowlyifig positions are safer than such as are elevated and exposed. The close neigh­ borhood of water-courses should always be avoided. It is better to lie flat upon the ground than it is to Btand or sit. If shelter is near, the individual should get at once completely under cover. To stand under the lee of a house, wall, liay-gtack or thicket of trees is more dangerous than to remain altogether ex­ posed in the open. The inside of a barn or out-house, well away from the walls, is comparatively safe. A dis­ tance of two or three yards away from the walls, is comparatively safe. A distance of two or three yards away from the trunks and branches of trees is a comparatively safe position; but to lean against the trunk of a tree during prevalence of a thunder-storm is especially dangerous. In the interior of a bouse not adequately protected by a lightning conductor it is b?st to keep to the lower rooms during a thunder­ storm, to remain, as far as practioible, in the middle of the room, to avoid ob jects hung from metal chains, gilt frames, fire-places, looking-glasses with amalgamated backs, and iron pillars and balustrades. '">1. 5 'i. , ai H •Si il PERRY- stoc on hand. is town, and cdr fit, best weari lowest prices' cracked \Theat with milk, oh, I don't know what I want. First Lady--I don't, either. (Bead­ ing.) Three up. What's that? Any­ thing liko seven up ? Waiter--Those are butter cakes. First Lady--What's butter cake** Waiter explains. Second Lady--What are you going to eat, sister ? First Lady--Oh, I don't know, I'm awful hungry. (Turning to waiter.) Have you got any coffee ? Waiter--Yea Will you have some coffee ? First Lady--I don't know. Do yon want coffee, Sally ? Second Lady-- No. I guess I'll drink water. Waiter (tired waiting) -- What are you going to order, ladies? First Lady--Oh, I don't know. Let me look over the bill again. [A pause.] First Lady -- What's ' fricasseed chicken ? Waiter explains. • First Lady--I don't believe I want that. Have you got any fried potatoes ? Waiter explains that potatoes go with all meat orders. [A pause. ] First Lady--What's oxtail soup? Waiter explains. First Lady--Well, I don't want that. What kind of pie have you? Waiter names seventeen kinds. First Lady--Just listen, Sally. Did you ever! Tell me what they are again, mister; there's so many I've forgotten. Waiter sighs, shift? his weight onto the other leg and goes over the list again. First Lady--Well, I don't believe I want any pie. Waiter--If youll excuse me a mo­ ment 111 come baok directly when you have your order made out. Certainly, (in concert.) Then the two ladies fall to discussing restaurants in general, criticising every­ body within range of their optics in their superficial way, and finally drift into a discussion of their shop pur­ chases. Waiter returns. Waiter--Have yon made ont your order, ladies? Both of them laugh hysterically and lady number one remarks that they had forgotten all about it. She picks up the bill again and ponders over it a long time in utter silence. Finally she asks: Don't you have a regular dinner? Waiter--You can order a regular din­ ner. What do you want ? First Lady--Well, I hardly know what I want. What do you want, Sally' Second Lady--Anything will suit me. First Ladj (hesitatingly)--I guess you can bring me some--rolls. Yes, and a glass of water. Now what do you want, Sally? Second Lady--IH take the same. A hurricane of disgust' breaks over the waiter's classic brow and he moves to fill the order. Banks. There are several kinds of banks in the world. Those oftenest alluded to generously allow you to deposit your money with them and take care of it for you, some of them taking oare that you never get it back again. There are various ways of getting money out of a bank. One is to draw a check on the bank; another to draw a revolver on the cashier. The latter was the favorite method employed by the lamented Jessie James, and the draft was promptly honored, as a gen­ eral thing, t When a corporation wishes to open a bank it takes out a charter, but a burglar takes out a jimmy. It is a fine thing to have a big balance in a solvent bank. Like aii old boot it is easy to draw on. But if the bank be shakv a depositor needs a clear head to avoid losing his balance. If you want your note discounted any bank will attend to it for you. They may require some little form to be gone through with first, such as tl»e autograph of some wealthy, man in the neighborhood neatly written on the back of it, not necessarily for publica­ tion, but as a guarantee of good faith; but this ia a mere matter of form puureu.uul uloou pres8Jng though yon will find yourself in bad centrea brings about the form at the bank if you neglect it. The savings banks of the country have been of great benefit to the poor. _hot foot bftth8| bleeding, etc., prom- The poor, as is well known, are liable j8eg ^ m0st useful in such cases. to squander the vast sums of money in dividually, but savings banks take their loose change and invest it for them, sometimes in the most permanent man­ ner. In thousands of instances the poor have put every cent they had in a savings bank, wbo'se officers lmve in­ vested it so skillfully that the depositors have never seen it again. The bank mere chips of fellows who not only put in their own earnings but occasionally act as agents for their employers in de­ positing funds belonging to them, with­ out consulting them in the matter, however. Finally there are banks of care and tronble, and we cannot expect' to be free from them until we have crossed the Jordan's stormy banks. -- Texas Si/ting8. The Invention of Printing. Before the middle of the fifteentii century Europe had a cheap material, paper; an oily ink,developed for block- book printing, in place of the fluid ink, which could be used only with the brush; probably the press itself; skilled artisans, trained in the block-book work; most important of all, the de­ mand caused by education. It laoked movable types that could be fitted evenly and readily together, for neither the porcelain letters of Pi-Ching nor the individual stamps of the early copyists had developed to this point. "The invention of printing" in its modern^ sense consisted in the simple production of such types, or. as De Yinne puts it, of the type-mould which should produce such types. Fifteen cities claim to be the birthplace of printing, but the honor rests between Haarlem, Strasburg, and Mainz. The Dutch legend is that some time about or previous to 144b one Laurent Janszoon Koster, custos or sexton of a church in Haarlem, while in the Hout, or Haarlem wood, cut letters on a beech tree, which suggested to him wooden types, from which he afterward developed metal types; and thatnr nian in his employ, escaping with the secret to Mainz, originated the art there. Haarlem contains many portrait-monu­ ments of Koster, and belief in him is an article of the Dutch faith, but later investigators claim that he is alto­ gether a myth, made up, with much imagination and some rascality,'of two Haarlem citizens, neither of whom was a printer, and of the "unknown printer" of much later days. The German story centers in John Gutenberg, of the family called Gens- fleisch-- -taking his mDther's name in accordance with a German custom, be­ cause her family was dying out--as to whom there is a definite historical chain of evidence, including the rec­ ords of two law suits. Nothing is cer­ tainly known of his first thirty years. He is supposed to have been l>orn about 1399, at Mainz, whence his family were exiled, going to Strasburg. In 1439 he appears as a defendant in a lawsuit brought in Strasburg by an heir of one Andrew Dritzehen, to compel Guten­ berg to admit him to the secret and benefit of an art into which the de­ ceased had bought by payment to Gutenberg. This art seems to have been printing, and the evidence in the suit shows that Gutenberg sent his servant to Dritzehen's house, immedi­ ately on his death, to have a "form" of "four pieces," "lying in or about a press," separated "by turning two but­ tons," "so thkt no one might know what it is." We do not know, for Gutenberg won the suit and kept the secret. Different modern scholars construe "it" to be parts of the press, pages of type, matrices, or a four-part type-mould, such as is known to have been used by early printers. It is not definitely known whether Gutenberg printed any books in Strasburg (some fragments of a type Donatus being most plausibly connected with him there), which caused a German critic to declare that if Strasburg is the cradle of printing, "it is a cradle without a baby." By 1448 Gutenberg had removed to Mainz, for there is record of his hiring money, and in 1450 he made a contract with John Fust, a money-lender, to provide money for "paper, vellum, ink, wages, and the other materials required," on half-profits, which contract was the basis of the second suit. In this suit, brought in 1455, Fust, who ha* been sadly confused with that later Dr. Faust, of Wittenberg, from whose wicked learning grew the Faust legend, foreclosed his mortgage, got possession of part of Gutenberg's implements and stock, and by help of Gutenberg's ap­ prentice, Peter Schoetfer, who after­ ward married Fust's daughter Christina, took up the business of printing. There is a legend that this Schoeffer, and not Gutenberg, invented the type- mould, but recent investigators show that this invention was peculiarly Gutenberg's.--li. R. Bowker, in Mar- Iyer's Magazine. When Sunstroke Is Imminent. When, during the heated term, one who has been exposed to the sun's heated rays begins to suffer from head­ ache, giddiness, naucea and disturbance of sight, accompauied with sudden and great prostra'ion of the physical forces, sunstroke is probably imminent. If such a one will take time by the fore­ lock and immediately retire to a cool place, making use of some simple res­ toratives, such as aromatic ammonia, etc., he may be scared further trouble, but if he persists'with his business he will doubtless soon become very ill, which illness usually takes the form of heat exhaustion, heat appoplexy or genuine sunstroke, the thermic fever of some writers. Those who are exhausted by the heat have a cool moist skin, a rapid, weak pulse and respiration movement and the pupil is dilated. In fact the symp­ toms are those of collapse. These pa­ tients will probably rocover promptly, an event which may be hastened by the use of a tonic and restorative treat­ ment. Those who suffer from heat appo­ plexy frequently become unconscious at the outset. The heart and breathing apparatus is not markedly disturbed and the pupil may be normal, but the unconsciousness deepens and the case runs on to a fatal termination. An ar­ tery has been broken in the bsain, and poured-out blood pressing on the nevre centres brings about the fatal even\ A treatment calculated to draw the blood from the brain to the extremities •hot foot baths, bleeding, etc., prom The thermic fever patient, is uncon­ scious and convulsed, and his body temperature may be 108 degrees or 110 degrees F., that is 10 degrees above normal. The skin of this patient feels 88 though it would burn your hand when laid thereon. In this case the thorough and pr >rapt application of cold is needed. Ji-e to the head and " 7, , ° 7. a A 7--- com is neo ieu. ire *o me neaa ana officers thereby remove the temptation cold water to the body generally will to spend it. And they also remove themselves when exposure oomes and the neighborhood gets too hot for them. Canada groans with them now. The banks of Newfoundland are cele­ brated the world over. They receive vast deposits of fog--banks of fog-et- me-nots, as it were. Then there are the banks and braes of Bonny Doon that Burns sings of. The braes would seem to indicate that there was a mule pasture in the immediate vicinity. Faro banks are plentiful in our large cities, and they receive extensive de- i posits. The depositors are frequently be in order. "Medical advice should be promptly had in either of the two.case last referred to. Complete recovery from sunstroke is rare, the brain being Eermanently crippled in many eases. Residence in a cold climate affords some hope for such patients.--Phil­ adelphia Times. IK railway circles nowadays there doesn't appear to lie much that is of interest it there isn't a "fereat deal." WHEN a resolution is once formed, half the difficulty is over. The Women ef Central Soudan. The women of the household have got over their first tremors, and come to the conclusion that we are a good- natured and a harmless lookiug sort of fellowE. At first they peep over the wall or out of neighboring door-ways, till growing bolder, they venture in groups out of their hiding places to see, and doubtless to be seen. Not to i alarm them, we take notes surreptiti­ ously, and observe that they make up quite an ethnological collection of African types. Fillani and Haussa women from the neighborhood, Nupe and Yornba sj esimens from the Niger districts, and others from the tribes of Adamawa and the Benue reigon. Clearly our friend is a man of catholic taste in the matter of women. His harem presents all kinds of face and fifpre from tlie copper colored Fillani, with slender, lithe figure, well shaped face, and positively beautiful eyes, to the shapeless form, black skin, ugly faco and muddy eyes of the lowest ne­ gro type. They are all drebsed alike, with a lower turkedi or cloth round the waist, hanging to the ankles, a second sheet wound around the body under the armpits, and a third worn in the varied modes of a shawl on the head and shoulder. The hair is gathered into a solid ridge of grease and hair, which extends1 from the brow to the nape of the neck, something after the manner of the crest of a helmet. From each temple hangs a kind of stiff love­ lock. The ankles are adorned with enormously heavy anklets of solid brass, the bar being little short of an inch and a half in thickness, the endsor- namented with neatly made polygonal beads. Nothing better finished could be turned out of a European workshop. Bound the wrist are placed several more brass bracelets, not so expan­ sively made, but collectively so heavy that to ease their arms, the wearers are frequently to be seen with hands clasped behind the head or hanging down their backs. Their ornaments usually include a string of agate beads made in the country. The women, un­ like the men, do not affect white colors, the more fashionable cloths being checks of dark blue, a medium tint of the same, whiie, and Magenta. Among those who can afford expensive articles the latter two colors are prevalent. Strangers are not usually admitted into the family compound, but it must not be supj 03ed that the women are strictly kept inside and never let out. Quite the reverse. In the evenings they are almost invariably left at lib­ erty to wander forth and" join in any dance or merry-making there may be afoot, and I would not like to be re­ sponsible for the statement that their behavior is alwayB of the best on these occasions. During the day, also, if any of the women have anything to buy or sell at the market, there is no restric­ tion to there going thither. In the more wealthy families, however, there is always one if not two wives who are kept in strict seclusion, and not unfre- quently eunuchs are employed to guard the morals of the harem. --Joseph Thompson; in Harper's Magazine. Calling the Boy to Tea. She came to the door, and in the blandest of tones called "Sammy," but there was no answer. She wa'ted a bit and then she raiqed her voice a little and "Sam-mee" if|oated °ut on the air in that peculiar intonation, the long- drawn rise on the first syllable and the lingering decadence on the last that only a woman can give, and to wnich the average man oould no more attain than he could button his boots with a hairpin. She leaned out by the corner of the house and listened. She could hear the boys down at the brook screaming and chattering, but they took no notice of her calls. She was a little riled. She gathered herself up for a mighty effort, and once more that "Sam-mee" ros^Jind fell through the deepening twilight like the wail of a banchee. Then she snapped out, "You'll see what you'll git when you do git here, young man," but the young man was busily covering a thin place in the ice with snow so the other boy would go in and wet his feet whei he stepped on it. He couldn't indulge in speculations as to what he would, get in the dinj future; he was getting too much fun now. She was mad, and she sung out "if you ain't up here in one minute, sir, I'll be down there after you." The other boy looked a little uneasy and wanted to know if Sammy hadn't better go up, to which Sammy returned: "Naw, d'ye 'spose she'll wet her feet comin' out here in this snow? Jes' see me plug that icicle over." The figure at the door stood irresolute, but she had on her best slippers. She tried a warning: "Supper's ready, sir, and then the door slammed and peace brooded over the scene. "Jest tell me if you see father's hat around the cor­ ner," said Sam to the other boy, while both redoubled their efl'orts at molding snowballs. In about three minutes the hat appeared, and directly after a man stepped on the door stone and said, "Sam--supper," and before the words had fairly left his lips Sam was stand­ ing on his head in his eagerness to get "up't the house" before the door could close, and a gray-headed man walking along the street wiped a tear out of the corner of his eye, and said he hadn't had such a glimpse back at his own boy­ hood for a year.--Lewis ton JotirnaJ, Medical Officers in India, f The grievances of medical officers in India have more than once formed the topic of conversation and comment, but there is evidently one appointment in the East the incumbent of which ought to be satisfied with, if a statement pub­ lished in one of the Bombay papers just to hand be true. That appointment is the post of residency surgeon with the nizam of Hyderabad. The horse- ikeeper, a native official of the State liaving died under suspicious circum­ stances, the residenoy surgeon _ was asked to inspect the body, but this he refused to do (so the report goes) unle§s ha received an honorarium of fifty gold mohurs, equivalent to a fee of 800 rupees, which was paid. The reason given for the charge being put at that figure was that the day was Sunday, and the medical goutleman declined to disturb his Sabbath calin for a less amount.--New York Commercial Ad­ vertiser. Wonld Seem So on First Thought. Business Man--Glad to see you, Mr. Spotcash. You're from GrubTille, I believe ? Spotcash--Yes, sir. Business Man--Well, sir, I've had my eye on your town for some time. How do you regard it just now as a location for a live dry goods house ? Spotcash--A first-rate location, sir-- first-rate! Grampney & Smith have just failed, Brown & Co. are on the eve of making an assignment, while the only remaining house is a one- horse concern scarcely paying expenses 1 --Detroit Free Press. PITH AND POINT. 1 :"y.\ HIGH BOLLEBS---the planets. ^ SOME old masterspSale professo|| MEN locked in jail are. always in £av(K> of a lock-out. ; .' • A CABLE dispa'ch-^killing a man M the cable railroad. ' • p. . IF any animal on the farm earns hit annual sty-penned it tonst be1 the hor. CATTLE are demure, innocent-looking creatures, but their language is "low." WHTis a drill-sergean| like several iron clads? Because he makes a squad- run. COOK books are evidently not. oi modern origin, for Bacon says: "Some books are to be tasted, £ome eaten, and some digested." ' ' £|V",; A *AN asks if he can join the Car­ penter S 'Union, not being a member oi that trade. No; but you can become ft carpenter and joiner.--Texas Sifting«, " AN exchange states that "William Sturgeon, the famous electrician, rose rapidly from a cobbler's bench." Ha probably sat on the rharp end of til awl. [T . • TALMAGB says that "the man who can sing and won't sing should be seht to Sing Sing." That would be too se­ vere. It is the man who can't sing aqd will sing who should be sent to Sing Sing. "A VEBY appropriate wedding took place in Boston the other day," re­ marked Staggers. "A Cincinnati man married a Boston girl." What was there so appropriate about that ?" asked Scroggs. "A union of pork and beanflL you see." • „ "NEXT Sunday," said Father Maguirii to his congregation, "the funeral of A. B. will be held in this churoh. I shall preach a funeral sermon on the oo- casion, and the man himself will be there--the first time in twenty years.* --Living Church. THE girl*vho keeps a dairy faithfully. wants to be mighty sure that she keeps it under lock and key. And if she doesn't want to bring her gray hairs in sorrow to the grave she must never read it over when she gets old.--Jcmr- nal of Education. "MY son," said the old man, "do you remember what Polonins said in his parting advice to Laertes--'Neither a borrfwer nor a lender be.'" "Yei, father," replied the young man, thoughtfully, "and I think Polonius was just about half right." "You are kept pretty busy now-a- days," remarked a stranger "to Mrs. Simmons. "Yes, hardly got time to turn around. There is always some­ thing to keep one busy. If it ain't the cows, it's the sheep; if it ain't the sheep, it's the pigs, and if it ain'tthe pigs, it's the children." PHILANTHROPIC Grocer -- Did Dr. Blank leave the paper here ? Grocer's Boy--Yes; he dropped it. It's a med­ ical journal and it says pepper isn't healthy. "Well, I don't want the • curses of widows and orphans. Take that coffee-mill and grind up a few more of those old cocoanut shells."-- Omaha World. MONISTBOL, at the ball, had ju$t taken a young lady back to her seat. But, instead of retiring after the usual courtesies, he remains planted before her, with a slightly embarrassed air. "You--er--wish--something, sir?" his partner asks him. "My hat, madem­ oiselle, which has the honor to--to be aotually--er--on the same chair as you." "Aw, ETHEL," remarked Charley to his pretty cousin. "I believe--aw--IH have the barbah--aw--.trim my whiskess this mawning--aw." "Do, Charley," said his pretty cousin. "And--aw-- how would you suggest that I have them trimmed?" "Well," replied the pretty cousin, after sufficient considera­ tion, "I think they would look very sweet trimmed with pink ribbon." "MOTHEB, why do they call a girl a •bride'when she gets married?" "Be­ cause that's the right name for them, I suppose?" "I'll bet I-know." "Well, why ?" " 'Cause 'bride' is took from 'bridle,' and they call her that 'cduae then is when she begins to put tlie bridle on her husband--or 'halter,M dunno which. Mebby she ou^ht to be called a 'halt,' 'cause she puts a halter on him. Was it a bridle or halter yon put on, pap?" "That'll do, sir." He Wasn't qualified. "Did you hire that young man who applied for your school ?" was asked of a Dakota school district officer. "Well, I should rather saywe didn't." "Why not?" "His edication didn't come up to the scratch." "What in?" "Gram'er." "How did you find it out?" "W'y he got in my wagon to ride from the field to the house an' said I, 'Did ye ever drive much ?' 'Of late years,' says he, 'I have driven very little.' 'Drove very little, ye mean,' says I. 'I beg yer pardon,' says he, 'but I mean driven.' 'Drove is right,' says L 'No, sir,' says he, 'driven is the most gram- maticalest.' 'Oh, well, mabby ye know,' says I, sorter sarcastic. 'I reckon I do,' says he, 'I'm jes' comin' out here to learn you folks something.' 'Do ye see that roadways I. 'I does,' says he. 'Well,' says I, 'it goes to town an' you want'o git right out an' hum pen yerself down it mighty fasten 'cause I'm goin' to l.ecrin kicken ye in about a minute by the clock!' He saw I knowed $ more 'bout gram'er than he did an' he got out o' that wagon and scooted down the road. You bet we're goin' to have a teacher that undertinds gram'r or none at all"--Dakota Bell. An Untenable Defense* Police Judge (severely)--Prisoner at the bar, you are charged with wanton and unprovoked assault on this district messenger boy, who appears here as oomplaining witness. What have yon to say in your own behalf? Prisoner (volubly)--You see, your honor, I was coming down the street when this boy dashed out of the bank and dashed against me--" Judge (doubtfully)--You say he ran out of tlie bank ? Prisoner (confidently) --1 Yes, your honor. He ran out, as I said, and--" Judge (contemptuously)--You dare to come here mid toll this court that a messenger boy ran ! I'll have you to understand, itir," thkt this court cannot l)e trifled with. Fifty dollars or fifty days in jail.--San Francisco Post. Burled Fifty Tern. : Before 1838 a book ran through tbo village of lioxbury, Mass., and then was filled up and houses built where once it flowed. On Friday workmen engaged in digging a collar on the site of one of theso old houses unearthed a big mud turtle. Thi animal was two and a half faet long, over a foot wide, and weighed twenty-eight pounds. Without doubt it had' been buried fifty years. It was alive and in apparent good health.--Brooklyn Eagle.