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And, With instructed vision, see the plan Of UfeunfoM on myriad shining worlds. And know man is, upon these lower earths, But O&e expression of th' immortal soul; And ail are students from high Heaven s abodft, To learn, to solve the mystery of life. And earn t he crown of more perfected being, We are but children, in our best estate, And thoughtfully should view omniscient power, _ii And strive His way and attributes to learm. Who is and was and ever shall be God. MARKS ON THE PRAIRIE. Boring one day over the Western KNtirie I came on a deserted "dugout." Near it lay a rustv old tea-kettle, a horse's skull, and a baby's shoe. Their story! This: Early morning, a May morning in Kansas. Over all the land a silvery mist, a palpable dewiness, a delicious freshness, the peculiarly rich and subtle scent of freshly turned earth, much of it being soil "broke" for the first time. A proud and prosperous young meadow lire poised upon a fence post, a spruce young meadow lark in gray coat, yellow •est and black cravat pours out a series Of tremulous triple notes, a roundelay to the little mother cuddling her eggs ID the springing prairie grasses. The mist begins to rise. Upward, still higher die marvelous scroll it curls, revealing the palid primrose of the eastern skv. And now the vapory veil is quite with­ drawn, and all the soft rose fires herald­ ing the king kindle into brillanee be­ hind the bluffs. Lighter and brighter it grows, Fraught with primrose is all that gleam and glow. Behold, , the promise is fulfilled! Up rises a golden fine which swells into a curve, a semi­ circle, a huge, dazzling, blinding ball of j sistance forces a reply flame. Up and up! A thrush from its nest in a cotton-wood lifts its voice in jubilant matins, which are chimed in upon by the brisk bravuras of a rival robin. Men and horses appear in the fields; plows are hauled out; the work of the day begins. In the phrase of the Kan­ sas farmer, "It is sun-up." Having lumbered through the tiny town which lies upon the State line sep­ arating Kansas fron Nebraska, crossed the railway track and a brand new bridge, up a steep bluff worn into deep lilts by the daily Mfaage of wagon* laden with stone to be shipped farther west, cGuiss slowly &ud heavily that most familiarly of Western sights a prairie schooner. Ponderously plod the horses up the ascent; clumsily lurches along the level attained the great white-caavased wagon. Unlike the ordinary emigrant outfit in some re­ spects, this. To be sure, evidences of habitation bulge from the interior, and chakv, stoves, broom, "with various household utensils are tied on behind. But thei^e are no cows, no dogs, no scrubby ponies bestridden by bare­ legged boys. Of the thousands of wag­ ons which trundle yearly over the WesteA prairies this presents a partic­ ularly lonely appearance. Whoever saw one without children? Children of all ages, tow-headed, brown skinned, healthy, hearty children, including the Inevitable baby staring solemnly from •;:0» clasping mother's arms. T-..V Perhaps you may have seen soma day», . BOMS crowding the selfsame vray, f "c" • . Oat of a wilding wayside bush. " The driver, whose broad back ob­ scures the light of the front arch, turns in his seat, and glances *into the com­ parative gloom of the interior. * "How ia she, Corry?" "Asleep." y. The woman within--a young woman Witk • pretty, pale, sad face--directs his •floation by a glance to the baby in her lap. _ He nods--draws up the horses by the aide of the road. "Don't you stir," he says. He de­ scends, unhitches the horses, finds $*|gs, builds a fire, goes to the nearest farm house for water, and comes baek *14 a full kettle, which he suspends over the blaze by a couple of crooked •ticks. Soon the smell of sizzling ba­ con and boiling coffee became appatiz- ingly apparent. Then he goes to the wagon. His wife lays the child gently down; alights. He notices that she is white, faAk you eick ?" he asks quickly. "No, no," she murmurs. But quite smddenly she sways and falls forward Into his arms. The journey, the rough, strange life, the variable weather, the -exposure, all have been too much, he decides, for one delicately reared as ehe. When she revives he insists thev ' ahall proceed no further for a few days, perhaps not for a few weeks. About fifty yards from the road is a little deserted "dugout." Some distance ^ from it a new frame dwelling testifies to the prosperity of the former occupants. From them the "campers" obtain per­ mission to take temporary possession of the queer little cabin. The whole in­ terior consists of one room, and that cooin ten by twelve. To enter it is neotssary to descend two or three rough •fjepa. The walls and floor are of earth fust as when dog, quite unconcealed by Ward or plaster. The sloping roof is Of logs, irregular in shape and length; thesecovered with sod from the prairie. through the changeable weather Of Majr and into warm, beautiful June, live tine three, the woman protesting all tile time she is strong enough to go on, fj|t growing gradually frailer, weaker. At ooi^pidto contrflst sti© &nd li.t>r litis- |and. He is a tall, brawny young fel­ low, animated bv intense admiration of fill Wife and gentlest devotion to her blrt Unmistakably her inferior socially mm Intellectually. She, delicate, dftttu? eyed, wrapped up in her baby «ad her memories to his almost utter «*dtapion. One day the child sickens gcows violently ill, dies. Her grief is intense. She will neither «otsor sleep; just sits still as stone in th* little "dugout," and looks and stares 1* ** wee waxen thing which lies fberein. So when her husband rides to buy the little coffin, he calls to see the doctor and ask him to come out and visit his wife. At sunset he ;h a small gravel All la Isolation, prairie, sky. The crwoMngon the ground near |N£Uilijg,'is the only other raourner. •task done, ite gom jiavn isdbo the "dugout," and comes up again with the littlA naiWl ^nwn box in hi* arm*. Ten­ derly he lowers it; softly he lets fall upon it each shovelful of earth. He is blind with tears. The fresh brown mound smoothed over, he goes up to his wife. She does not seem to see him. She is looking straight ahead. 1 "Conr!" . ~ "Don't !" she says savagelv. "Fve lost him--and rtfw it!* I wish I was dead!" Hurt, irresolute, he stands still a mo­ ment Then he goes within and sits down by the bed where the baby has lain. She is grieving still, then, for the man who failed to come to her the day set for their wedding! Jilted, deserted, yes! That was why in pique and pride she married him, the ignorant gardner of her wealthy uncle, and had gone away with him to Iowa. They had not prospered. She held no communication with those at home. This year, after their baby came, they decided to seek fortune farther west. And now--now the baby was gone and her new loss had brought back the old one. Hark! A voice speaks without. "Is anyone ill here? There was a re­ quest on my slate." A cry! Such a queer, wild cry it is that cuts across the stranger's words. The man in the "dugout" leaps to his feet,* as does the woman without. Through doorway, against the patch of sunset sky he can see her standing with arms out-flung. "Willie!" she cries again; "Willie!" The doctor from town speaks hoarsely one word only--her name. There is absolute silence for a little while. Then he bursts out fiercely, passionately: "Why couldn't you have waited--I did you no wrong! When I left you the week before we were to have been married, and went up to the city, I got into trouble. I was no saint. I never pretended I was. There was a drunken quarrel. I shot a man. I was unknown, and gave a false name. I was held to await the result of his injuries--held two months. I couldn't write you the truth of the affair. My part in it was too disgraceful. I wouldn't lie. So I was silent till I could tell you all and ask you to forgive me. The man recov­ ered. I was discharged. I went straight to Yanceton. I heard you had married some clod hopping idiot and gone away with him." v • - • "He is good!" she says slowly. The other laughs hashly. "And you love him, of course 1* "Gctf? she cries in weak, womanish fury, "Go!" 1 "Do von love him, Corry?" She is ill, trembling. His brutal in- She slips down by the "dug-out" and cowers there with her face hidden. "Oh, Willie! Oh, Willie!" The tone says all. It is full of love, but love that is only pathos, passion, despair. He turns, walks slowly away across the prairie. He is mechanically unhitching his horse when a heavy tread comes toward him. In the clear silverness preceding twilight two men face each other. One speaks' calmly: "I heard what you said. Answer me this: If she were free to-morrow would you marry her?" Quick as a flash came the reply: "By Heaven, yes!" Then Dr. Herbert, gentleman and student, drives back to town, and John Hilton goes to the "dugout"--to his wife. She is still in the same place, the same position. He gets her hat and shawl and carefully put them on her. Then he leaves her a while and har­ nesses up the horse. "Come, Corry ; fro, gojn' to drive you into town. There's going to be a storm. I seen the clouds to the north to-night. An' this place leaks dreadful. You must stay at the hotel a while, ef we have to sell the team." Without a word, stupidly it seems, she obeys him. Through the delicious June twilight they drive the five miles into town. Once he speaks. "Keep this!" he says, and gives her the canvas bag containing all their worldly wealth. At the hotel he procures her a comfort­ able bed, a soothing drink. She fall* asleep. Once, twice, thrice, he kisses her. Then he goes out, climbs up on his huge wagon heads the horses south­ ward. The storm he prophesied is blowing up. Lances of lightning stab the darkness. Now and then sounds a faint, distant rumble. A soft, strong wind arises. It flaps the loose canvas of the caravan. On the ribbed roof the first heavy drops of rain begin to patter. On. Across the State line, over the railroad track, up the bluff, along the level--right along. Is it here the "dug­ out" stands? The lightning gives bi»n answer. The night wean op. The storm in­ creases in volume. The prairies are rain washed, wind swept. A terrific uproar lasts till dawn. Then the tu­ mult dies down. Peace comes again upon the weary world. And the sun rises. Its radiance glitters across the wet green grass. Warm grows the air. The hum of insects becomes audible and sweet bird songs are everywhere. But what are bird songs to one who sleeps ? And surely he is not awake, he who stirless, silent, drenched lies by the little grave upon the breast of the prairie. Clutched in his hand is some­ thing which shines in the sunlight. Come away 1 Let thrush and lark and linnet sing never so lowly, sing till their hearts are empty and their full throats voiceless, they cannot waken one quiet sleeper nor change the peace­ ful current of his dreams! '* Not a Poor fan, Col. Blass and his friend were ont riding one day, and on the h*nV of a big creek they saw a man at work grub­ bing stumps. As they slowly ascended the hill, passing quite close by him, the Colonel, who is a kindly-dispositioned man toward his fellow-creatures, was heard to say: 'Poor man! What a pity that he has to work so hard for a living." The man straightened up, wifil « scowl on his face, and said: "See here, I want you to understapd I'm not so poor as you think I I only own (with a sweep of his hand) an acre of this ground:"--National Tribune. *82 OtgONA Kiel A. Vwtm Editor with SoMMftktae , SV>r. The last issue of ftie Arizona contains the following: EXPLANATORY--The abseaoe society column for the last three seems to call for an explanation, trouble was jealousy among the boi If we happen to make a five-li nouncement that Mrs. Col. Dash pected her brother-in-law direct the California penitentiary on a cer date, and only a four-line item to effect that Mrs. Judge De Soto impor her bustle direct from Zanzibar, th was an ill-feelimg whioh stirred up entire community. • WE BOOM. --While the towns aboui us have been bragging of their progress, we have kept quiet and got in our work without kicking up any cloud of dust. Brag is all right in its way, but we don't propose to come out with a doubles leaded scare-head article every time a citizen hangs a new front gate. Booms are good enough hi their way, but there must l»e merit behind them. With no disposition to claim the only growing town in Arizoi with no desire to kill the g rival towns, we humbly call a' to the fact that since January teen new saloons, three poker r four retail tobacco stores ha' opened in the place, and at the moment eighteen men are en building a jail capable or acco: thirty prisoner^/ We have do without any brag or bluster, propose to keep right on in t] quiet fashion, leaving the outsit to judge for itself as to where seek new homes and invest its IT PAYS.--Several months tablished a grocery and feed connection with the Kicker. York World, Herald and ot dailies of the metropolis p dismal failure, but the resultsh< they were mistaken. We figured tjiat this other business would be just w^iat was needed to distract our,, mind fiom the harassing thoughts of editorially running this oountry, and that we would be all the better and brighter for being occasionally interrupted in our literary labors. The result has justified our predic­ tions--and more. We were never in as good mental condition as now, while our sales have kept increasing week by week until we have been compelled to hire a clerk to assist us. The editorial entitled "Advice to the President" was written with more thatt a dozen inter­ ruptions to measure corn, draw molas­ ses, and sell clothe3-pins, and yet we will put it against anything which ever originated from the pen of the stuck- up and exclusive New York editors. OUR JEALOLt8 CONTEMPORARY.--The dyspeptic old excrescence who claims to edit the milk-and-mush publication down at the corner of Catfish alley is jealous of our advertising patronage. In a labored article this week in his poorly printed old apology he says that we practice bull-dozing to tring adver­ tising. What a liar! The Kicker prac­ tice bull-dozing! The idea is laugha­ ble, and if he was worth minding we would walk down to his shanty and ch ke the assertion down his brazen throat. There used to be several firms here which didn't believe in advertising. We couldn't make 'em believe in it un­ til we went at it and found out that they were composed of gentlemen whc had skipped from the Ea3t for barn-burning, horse-stealing, bigamy, embezzlement, etc. Then we wrestled with 'em,-and they came to see that the life of trade was in using printers' ink. We simply convinced--not bull-dozed. The efforts Of our knocked-kneed contemporary to smirch the fair fame of the Kicker will simply call forth smiles of pity.--De­ troit Free Press. Guarding the Profession. Ambitious Sport--Could you take me and put me in training and * prize-fighter of me? Great Pugiliat--Ain't you able to work? "No, sir." ' ' "Have you got a ^education?" "Yes, sir." "Well, I'll see. If yer able to write spbrtin stuff about yourself and hain't strong enough to do hard work, guess we kin make a fighter of ye. We's kind o careful, dough, not to let fellows inter de profesh what kin make a living by workin'. See?"--Toledo Blade, Lorn ig fall of compensation: The tongue of the deaf and dumb man i>wr«r g e t a i n t o t r o u b l e ^ ! ; ? - f v Wild Horses Oat West* Up in northeastern Wyoming and northwestern Nebraska many bands of wild horses still roam as fearless and as fleet as in the days when the country was an unexplored wilderness. Now that the buffalo has gone here is big game to hunt. All through the West ranchmen and cowboys have regularly organized parties to go out and mi off the wild stallions. The loss of mares sustained by horse- breeders has at last become so large that some measures must be adopted to reclaim mares stolen away by the wild stallions. In Colorado, Wyoming, southern Idaho, and Nevada there must be now roaming at large fully 5,000 wild horses. Each stallion selects twelve consorts. If a band is large enough they are divided into small lots of twelve mares and one stud. Occasionally a male is found wander­ ing by himself, but he is not a bachelor from choice, having been driven away by the stronger males. As far as pos­ sible these family relations are strictly kept up--that is, held at an even dozen. An old hunter who had scoured the Big Horn and southern spurs of these mon­ strous piles from childhood once discov­ ered far in the depths and beyond ah almost impassable rocky barrier a beautiful basin, wherein was one poor old stallion and twelve fine, beautiful mares. This old fellow, not able to hold his own against the younger and stronger males on the plains, had sought out this retreat and enticed a family of twelve to go with him. He was in clover, so to speak, keep­ ing his family intact without fear of molestation, as the entrance to this horse Eden was evidently known to none of his rivals. He never left the stronghold, and never allowed any of his mates to wander away. Had he chosen a home on the plains his family would no doubt have been stolen from him one by one. ! At the Mercy of Women* j Did you ever notice the conduct of a man who ^ forced by circumstances to enter a fashionable millinery store un­ accompanied by a female bodyguard? asks a writer in the New York Star. If not it will be found entertaining. His fellow-men will pity him, but the women will laugh at him. It is one of the few positions in which masculinity is wholly at the mercy of the fair sex. Said a well-known Fifth avenue milliner the other day: "It may seem incredible, but I have seen men--men who have led in battle, who habitually mount the rostrum, who pass their lives in constant friction with their fellows, or who enjoy-a reputation as favorites among women in society-- enter this plaoe alone to execute com­ missions lor their wives and fall sud­ denly into the condition of great, bash­ ful, overgrown schoolboys when called upon to face the girls and 'speak a piece.' "Why is it? That'» a metaphysical problem. But there ia always some­ thing in the atmosphere of the place devoted exclusively to the labor and personal adornment of women whioh painfully disoonoerts a nun unless he * i JV \ J. * n V --m tied by his wife, and ev« j no means at his ease. As of this, a gentleman of ao- rkklged nerve and prominent in il politics came in here recently »r a bonnet for his wife, to be sent ' on approval. Before he left I was sorry for him. A number of were trying on hats, and he be- > so nervous that I firmly believe In't know the color or the price of >nnet he selected. He kept ing and glancing about him like a and, when his business was con- |, made a dash for the door with- ing the address, so I had to call I shouldn't wonder if he ink to steady himself when he -de. queer thing, isn't it ?" j Friendly Birds. • ,'xhe birds are much better friends to fne fruit grower than many a man gives them credit for. Some birds feed on the wing, and therefore, live entirely upon insects. Of such is the king bird, the pewee. One writer says that "the Id fact that these birds make their of insects, and of insects exclusively, well-nigh beyond question. But, on ie other hand, it is not pretended that iey discriminate between the beneficial d injurious species. The swallow or ing bird, chasing even an injurious in- ct in the air, may be really only pur- tuing a creature already marked for "eath by a friendly little parasite, whose hole progeny are sacrificed by the -ition of a bird presumably 'beneficial agriculture.' Still, as these birds do [no direct mischief, and as they do un­ doubtedly eat a great many noxious in­ sects, they may be ungrudgingly left to the enjoyment of protection. . Then the following are classified as those which take their food partly oil the wing and partly at rest: The yel­ low warbler, chiefly taking its food on trees, eating a few insects on the wing, the larva) of moths and the eggs of in­ sects. The redstart, of habits very simi­ lar to those of the yellow warbler. The red-eyed and warbling vireos, also busy hunters for insects. The cuckoos, one of which, shot by the gentleman who makes this classification, had a stomach full of caterpillars. The blue bird is largely insectivorous. Of the wood­ pecker a writer gives him a different from the somewhat usual reputation. He says: The hairy and downy wood­ peckers are called sap-suckers, though there is very little satisfactory founda­ tion for the idea that they injure trees by suoking the sap. The nuthatch and yellow-bellied woodpecker are gener­ ally included in the same category. The last named is, perhaps, injurious in that respect. The writer says: "I have never seen an injury done to trees from the punctures made by these birds, and the trees upon which they have been operating generally appear to be per­ fectly healthy. From the number of holes which they make in the tree, I should say that if their purpose were to obtain sap the trees would die. I think that these classes of birds, with perhaps the exception of the red-headed wood­ pecker, are, on the whole, beneficial." Preserving1 Timber Lands, The memorial of the American Fores­ try Congress to the President of the United States in plea for more efficient measures of preservation of the remain­ ing timber lands on the publio domain is a very interesting document. The value of timber reported as yearly stolen from the National forests has risen from $891,888 in 1881 to the vast sum of $6,- . 146,935 in 1887; in 1886 it reached $9,339,679. In none of the years in con­ templation did the appropriation for services in protecting the forests from thieving lumbermen exceed $75,000, and in one year the timber agents were able to recover $128,642 from the depre­ dators. The loss by fires is, perhaps, little less than that by theft. In addition to these losses by crime and negligence, it is estimated that as much as 30,000,000,000 feet of lumber of all kinds were taken from the forests in 1888. The figures indicate a rapid denudation of trees, which may work very injurious changes of climate and which must do much toward diminish­ ing the volume of water in woodland springs, brooks, and rivers. The Na­ tional forests of Europe are carefully guarded as sources of health and wealth, and the time has come when like care must be taken in this country. A tree is no longer a nuisance in Amerioa; it is among the most valuable of properties. The memorial of the Forestry Congress is accompanied by a bill, the passage of which, or of one akin to it, the Presi­ dent is requested to recommend in his message.--Chicago Inter Ocean. When Pope Leo XIII. Dies. It has long been the unwritten law of the pontificial court that when a pope dies the cost of erecting a suitable monu­ ment over his remains shall be defrayed in equal portions by those of the cardi­ nals he created during his pontificate who may survive him, and Leo XIII. decided long ago that he shall be buried in that famous Bacred edifice outside the w alls of Bome known as the Church of St. John Latern. He has even ap- prpved the design for his sepulchrf l monument which the official Vatican architect drew up at his order, so that the cardinals will not have any trouble in settling the details. Meanwhile, hia holiness is himself spending money lavishly on the church in question, especially in connection with the erec­ tion of a superb monument over the tomb which now contains the ashes of Pope Innocent III., the masterful pon­ tiff, who, besides placing France under an interdict when Philip Augustus dared to divorce his wife in spite of the pope's caution, excommunicated our own King John.--London Figaro. Japanese Kindness to Animals. A picture of Japanese life drawn by Prof. Morse shows such a pleasant re­ lation existing between the human and the brute creation that no society for the prevention of cruelty to «"im>1i is needed: "Birds build their nests in the city houses, wild fowl, geese, and ducks, alight in the publio parks, wild deer trot about the street. He had actually been followed by wild deer in the streets, nibbling melon rind out of his hand as tame as calves and lambs on our Michigan farms. « "A dog goes to sleep in the busiest streets; men turn aside so as not to dis turb him. One day a beautiful heron alighted on the limb of a tree and the busy, jostling throng stopped. Every man's hand went into his pocket, jupt as they would with us, but instead of bringing out a 'copper* out came pencil and sketching paper." SMITH--Well, thank Heaven, my daughters are ugly. Brown--Why thanks! "Well you see, when their beaux call, they turn the gas down and save a great deal of expense." A PIECE of redwood bark brought to ViMiia* QaL, was three fe«t thick. wniffr rrowfiwa The greatest and deftptipt ot all human controversies is the marriage controversy. It appears to be surging up on all sides around us; and every book which helps definitely to map out its lines has on that account both inter­ est and value. It is in America that, from whatever cause, the controversy has reached a stage of development more advanced than elsewhere. More­ over, the present social life of America offers at all points a profoundly import­ ant field of observation, toward which European eyes have har "*ly yet begun to be turned. This social life, if it does not already embrace the largest province of the entire social life of civilized man, will shortly embrace not the largest beyond all comparison, and will form, in constantly growing proportions, a telling element in the general condition of Christendom and even humanity at large. The present social life of America may be said to be a new forma­ tion and to have begun at a date which would warrant our applying to it the alternative title of Waverly, " 'Tis Sixty Years Since." Mrs. Stowe must have drawn upon the experience of her early days in her admirable New England novels, such as "The Minister's Woo­ ing;" but the Puritan life which she describes appears to have vanished, at least from the wealthier circles of American society. The true meaning of a discussion which calls into question the ancient and si>eciallv Christian con­ stitution of the family is that it is a vast upthrow in the world of thought and fact which, if consummated, will change in time the whole moral surface of the earth, in a revolutionary sense, the popularity of life. The chief spur thrown out laterally from this great upthrow is in Amerioa. Many a reader on this side the water will be startled when he learns that in the old State of Connecticut one marriage is dissolved in every ten, and in the new State of California one in every seven. He may learn with equal surprise that in South Carolina there is (as I am informed) no legal divorce whatever; I mean, of course, divorce which leads the way to remarriage. Again, it is necessary to bear in mind that the divorces as well as the marriages of any one State are acknowledged in the courts of every other. I understand that the experi­ ence of America, as well as of this country, tends to show that divorce is largely associated with that portion of communities which is lacking in solid ahd stable conditions of life generally. America may suffer specially from the ahiftings of relative position and circum­ stances incidental to a forward move­ ment in things material of an unex-. ampled rapidity; and it may also be true that a State like Connecticut has to answer for many offences not her own, though she can not be exempted from full responsibility for the laws she has chosen to enact. s We must beware of all sweeping and premature conclus­ ions. But it seems indisputable that America is the arena on which many of the problems connected with the mar­ riage state are in course of being rapidly painful, and perilously tried out. In so far she is instructed, like a proerogativa tribus, with the destinies of others, and may do much by her example to make or mar them.--W. E. Gladstone, in the Nineteenth Century. They Were All Hanks* In the Western Beserve about eight out of ten men you meet are called Henry, or, rather, christened Henry and called Hank. A newspaper man who is given to amusing himself in eccentric ways was once at a loss for a hearty laugh while traveling toward Cleveland over the Lake Shore Railroad. He and his com­ panion knew that about three hours of accommodation train weariness lay be­ fore them, and though they had a good many broad smiles in a quart bottle they desired something to shatter the monotony. An idea struck the newspaper man first. At the next station the train stopped at there was the usual crowd of gawky rustics assembled to see the train come in and go out. As the train was moving out the two travelers in search of fun raised the ' car windows, and, leaning out with an air of intense eager­ ness, shouted loudly over and over again; "Hank! Hullo, Hank!" Nearly all the men sprang forward, and as they did so the jocose travelers fell back into their seats, laughing im­ moderately. They repeated this mild practical joke at several stations with the same results, and then the laugh went over to the other side. They were leaving a small town, and making the "Hanks" in the crowd go through the usual evolutions, wheii the engineer, for some reason or other, stopped the train. The jokers were still shouting, Hank! Hank!" when the cars came to a standstill. Several of the "Hanks" came up to the car window, and. wanted to know why they had been called. One very big Jarmer guessed the mean­ ing of the wnole business, and tried hard to reach the head of the newspaper man with his fist. The crowd was about to board the cars and take vengence on their tormentors when the conductor started the train in a hurry and pulled the latter out of danger. There was no more crying of "Hank!" after that.-- Pittsburgh Dispatch. Great Rain Storms.v In an investigation of 106 cases of rainfall ranging from nine to twelve inches in eight hours, Prof. Loomis has found the area of one inch rainfall to have extended at least 500 miles in length in ten cases, and to have ex­ ceeded 700 miles in three cases; while the entire rain-area was frequently an oval figure exceeding 1,000 miles in length by 500 miles in breadth. Con­ cerning these heavy rains the following facts seem well established: 1. No great barometric depression with steep gradients ever occurs without consider­ able rain. This is true not only^for the United States, but also for the cyclones of the West Indias, the China Sea, India and the Bay of Bengal. 2. In great rain-storms the, barometric press­ ure generally diminishes, while the rainfull increases. 3. The greatest de­ pression of the barometer generally oc­ curs about twelve hours after the great­ est rainfall. 4. A great fall of rain is favorable to a rapid progress of the center of least pressure, while a small rainfall is generally attended by a less rapid progress. It is, however, plain that the rate of progress of a low cen­ ter depends partly upon other causes than amount of rainfall. The Reason Shown* "I never play at another man's game," •aid the President of a financially un­ certain insurance company tp a travel­ ing man on the train. . ^ "That is natural." ^ . "What makes you think so-?" "Because it would take time from your business of inducing other men to p?»y at •fer. Are American Women Cleverer Hun Junius Henri Browne (with the e) is of the opinion that women are cleverer than men. In his opinion the character of a man may, like the character of a people, be judged by his own estimation of a woman. The lower he is in the scale of humanity, the less he amounts to as an individual, the poorer is apt to be his opinion of her. An inferior man is apt to speak of women patronizingly, if not slightingly, as members of the softer or weaker sex. He admits that their hearts and intentions are good, intimating that their minds and acts will not bear scrutinizing. But a man of intellect and insight, capable of un­ derstanding and sympathizing with wo­ men, will seldom accept such judgment. He is qualified to appreciate them men­ tally ; to Bee that they are often cleverer than himself; and that their instincts are correcter, their perceptions clearer, their intelligence quicker. This seems to be true, surely, of American women, who have many ad­ vantages that women of other nationali­ ties do not have. They are treated with far more consideration and chivalry and held in much higher regard than their trans-Atlantio sisters. Europeans think they are spoiled by their brothers, husbands, fathers; but they show their spoiling in very creditable ways--in in­ dividuality, in independence, in poise of nature. A common foreign criticism is that they are superior to their country­ men, particularly in agreeableness, in the faculty of being interesting, in what­ ever thing pertains to manners and social culture. The reason may be that they have opportunities for development and im­ provement denied to our, men, who are immersed in business to the exclusion of everything else, The money that these make they lavish on wives and daughters, who are thus enabled to travel, to increase their knowledge and experience, to perfect the graces and enhance their personal charm. In this land, where woman is not only respected, but honored and re­ vered as she is nowhere else, she is rarely, if ever, dull--albeit the same may not be said of men. She is clever by right of birth and by reason of her sex--clever by inheritance, by associa­ tion, by custom, by recognition and by preferment. Man really concedes this, whatever his assumption, by engaging her, when he has fallen into difficulties from which he cannot extricate himself, as his deliverer. Indeed, she is alto­ gether too clever to be a man, even if she could. Cleverness is her inborn prerogative.--Detroit Free Press. Death to the Carpet Bog* Where carpets are used and only token up once a year at "house-clean­ ing," the conditions are very favorable for the carpet bug's increase, particu­ larly where the house-cleaning is hur­ riedly and carelessly done. When a house has once become infested nothing but the most energetic jneasures will completely rid it of the pest, and in complete riddance is the only hope, as in a very few individuals will so increase as to do great damage. At house-cleaning time, then, as many rooms should be bared at once as possi­ ble, and the housekeeper should go carefully over the rooms, removing all dust, and with a hand-atomizer charged with benzine should puff the liquid into all the floor cracks and under the base-boards until every crevice has been reached. The carpets themsdves, after thorough beating, should be lightly sprayed With the same sub­ stance, which will quickly evaporate, leaving no odor after a short time. The inflammability of benzine should be re­ membered, however, and no light brought near it. This done, before re­ laying the carpets, it will be well to pour into the cracks with a moderately thick mixture of plaster of paris and wa­ ter, which soon sets and fills them with a solid substance into which the insects will not enter. Then lqjr around the borders of the room a width of tarred roofing-paper and afterward relay the carpets. This thorough treatment should answer in the very worst cases, and in a house so cleaned the inseot will probably not regain a foothold dur­ ing the ensiung year. Cloth-covered furniture which may have also become infested should be steamed or also treated with benzine, and chests or drawers in which infested clothing has been Btored should be thoroughly sprayed. Another method of treatment con­ sists in laying a damp cloth (an old towel or a folded sheet will do) smoothly over the suspected part of the carpet, and ironing it with a hot iron. The steam thus generated will pass through the carpet and kill all the in- . sects immediately beneath. If not too laborious, an entire' room could be treated to advantage in this way.-- Good Housekeeping. A Plutocrat's Code. With no more than $2,000 twenty years ago John D. Rockefeller has built a fortune of at least $100,000,000. His dividends amount to $500,000 a month, or $16,666.66 every day. Being a man of simple tastes and small personal ex­ penditures, he is called upon to do con­ siderable thinking to properly invest the gold that flows night and day, year in and year out, into his bursting treasury. He holds, to use a judicial expression, that so long as a man is in health it is his duty to accumulate property. No mat­ ter if he has more money than he knows what to do with, he should remain in business and get as much more as his capacity and opportunities will permit. But he should spend it wisely and for the benefit of those who are in need of it. He should build churches, educate young men for the ministry and rear oolleges. Moreover, he should be a friend to the poor, but in no case should he retire on a fortune, no matter how magnificent, as long as he is in health, and thus permit some other man to take the place God inteuded him to oocupy. Such, in brief, is the moral and finan­ cial code of one of the richest. men ia the world.--Ohio State Journal WISE ASH UKWISB. Grievously Shocked. "Grindstone,, is» that the morning par per you're reading?" "Yes. It's full of thati divorce case. I tell you, Kiljordan, there ought to be a law against publishing such stuff." "So there ought. And any man that will read it betrays a most depraved taste. When you are done with the paper. Grindstone, Nl look at it a moment" "It's simply outrageous. How any man--how any man--can----" (beoomes deeply absorbed.) (Waiting nervously for about four seoonds)--"Seems to me, Grindstone it's taking you a blamed long time to read that paper."--Chicago Tribune. THE family with a 16-year-oldi bov in the house has no use whatever iuctk, twenty-four-volume encyclopedia. ** A GOOD way of putting an extrnguiaher 3a a man is to oover him with a re­ volver. MAST a woman becomes some man's better half merely for a change of quarters. - ..." SMITH--Jones, were you enlisted dur- in the war? Jpnes- pathies were. i you -No; but my sym- THE new British Minister to this country is six feet lour inches in stature. He comes high, but we must have him. GAJJBY, whose father was & circus tumbler, now goes about boasting that he is one of the sons of revolutionary sires. ONE of the newest colors out is called "burnt "brandy." It is not worn oil the nose. The same old red clings to the brandy drinker's smeller. SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER--We are told here that the prophet rent his clothes. Why did he do that? Tommy Squildig--P'raps he oouldnt afford to buy 'em. WHEN a newspaper man gets into an arm-chair with his best girl he doesn't talk shop, you bet, even to the extent of saying, "We are overcrowded this evening." "MY sister wears gold beads." "Mine wears bugle trimming." "What do thtey call it bugle for?" "Because pa blows so when he has to pay the bill." --Chicago Ledger. MRS. WIAOEBS--Wiggers is the most aggravating man. He just nags and nags at me until I get so mad I can't talk. Mrs. Jiggers -- Perhaps that's what he does it for, dear. WAITEB (in all-night restaurant at 2:30 a. m.)---Gent orders lamb-chops and their ain't any. Proprietor (glano- ing at the clock)--Well, give him an oyster stew and say nothin'. _ GOLDSMITH--Mr. Smart, why are you like a large calibre cannon when you leave my store. Smart--I don't know. I give it up. Goldsmith--Because you always go off with a heavy charge. THE dying statesman raised himself in bed and looked appealingly around him. "I have only one request to make," he said bly. "See that no New York paper proposes a monument for me!" "WHO held up Moses' hands while Joshua fought the Phillistines?" asked the superintendent. "Hur and Aaron," shouted the good boy. "She and Aaron," softly corrected the new school- ma'am. BESSIE (looking oyer where her brother John is coloring an Italian sky) --How tired poor John looks. Brother Artist (who has his own opinion of art) --Yes, no wonder; isn't that a freight train he's drawing? Miss DECOLLETE (at fancy ball)-- Guess what my costume represents. Give it up? Jack--I am afraid I must. Miss Decollete--It is "Oklahoma," you stupid. Jack--In faot, it represents Oklahoma or bust. MANAGING EDITOR--Did you prepare that article on "The Intellectual Attain­ ment of the Four Hundred?" Reporter Yes, sir. Managing Editor -- About how much space will it oooupy? Re­ porter--About six lines. MB. SOGUS--Whad meks dat Miss Spioer ser kinder lon'sum t'night ? Mr. Wheets--D' boys ain't quite suah whed- der dat 'rangement stickin'out of her bodice is one ob dem new-fash'ned lawn- ettes er a razzer, an' dey's shy. DINEB-OUT--Waiter, how's this? I have just discovered a collar button in my soup. Waiter--Yes, sah, you's de lucky man. We has prize soup on Mondays and Wednesdays. A harn- some gift in every twentieth plate, sah. A DISPATCH from Fergus Falls, Minn., announces that Mrs. Anton Rubera, a Finnish woman, had given birth to six children at one time. Litterally speak­ ing, this might be said to be an under­ taking brought to a successful Finnish. SOFTLY--Weally, Miss Travis, I wish you would tell me whioh is the moah becoming to me style of.beauty, a stiff or a soft hat? Miss Travis--Since you ask me, Mr. Softly, I must say that I think a soft hat is the proper thing for you. STAMP CLERK (at postoflide window) --You'll have to pay letter postage on this package. It's flitit^class matter. Persevering Author (about to send his manuscript on its seventh trial trip)-- Ah, thank you! Couldn't you get a po­ sition as editor somewhere? FRIEND (to actor)--I am glad to see* Jim, that you are getting along so well Actor (proudly)--Yes; I've risen some­ what in my profession, and I think that I can draw pretty well now anywhere. Friend--That's good, Jim. Let's. go down to the bank and see if you oan draw a ten-dollar bill you owe me. DR. EBBONIE--Dat chile o' yours am lookin' poorly, Mrs. Yallerby. What's he done gone an' swallowed this time? Mrs. Yallerby--A bit ob lead pencil, dooto'. Dr. Ebbonie--H'm! What he wants now, ma'am, am an erasive remedy. I recommend him ter ohew a piece ob Injy-rubber half an hour bfr fore eaoh meal. • LESSON. "If I, a score of years ago, Had known what time has taught I need not then have wasted so the chances they have brought m®. So I remarked. My wiser friend. The truth I missed discerning. Inquired, "What better way to «peod The years than in the learning? "II none, then why should you oomplal^ That, taken at your showing, You were not able to attain ' Tfe* growth, withoutj the growing?* Father and Son. Twenty-eight years ago, when Charles Dickens was asked to stand for Fins- bury, he replied that nothing would in­ duce him to offer himself as & parlia* mentary representative of that place, or of any other under the sun, adding: "I declare that, as to all matters on the face of this teeming earth, it appears to me that the House of Commons and Parliament altogether is become just the dreaviest failure and nuisance that ever bothered this much-bothered world." A good many Englishmen of the present day are of the same opinion. Not so, however, the great novelist's youngest son, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, who, according to recent ad­ vices from New South Wales, is by this time a member of Parliament at the antipodes. The contrast between father and son is strongly marked in more than one respect. Charles Dickens re­ peatedly gave expression to the hope, that he should make "every man in En­ gland feel something of the oontempt for Parliament that he had." Edward Dickens aspired to legislated for the country of his choice. The fortaer was an absolute and enthusiastic free trader. The latter has prosecuted a vigorous canvass as a true-blue protectionist of the deepest dye.--New York Tribune. UNCLE JEBBY RUSK wants to know what breed of horses grow the best kind of horse radish, and we have no heater tion in telling him the fiery breeds. ] f i* f "** 1 * ' ** 'f J* ^ X * V i ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 '*' n - v/' *W,• J*':Sit *- ; I; J. . J „ * f i', '• .. -i