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• >tb«« wan Itt ring forward, In atara- itoerry, and th» toft «outh ltb*tr*w««tnM», *nd my tit wad pgr. I"# Bon® wh rinftinc bj •#<•* lifted, lUfning 1*« &lwwIy7i^ftS2e»unllght gleamed above t«th.b~**~.'i fg-; joUNi bmtfu. 4M ft» --r^^irtafalr ind,glidiomi, and the «fcy Wlthtfce flMey cloudlets drifting o'er its sar- . Kov tb( doodad, tided ia tbe " !4? IffU-b. ~ fV bright aud gay. - tbe ocmtoQi noisy chonw of th® Wrtl Is " Andto'Stitok tbat any mortal thinks the bat- » taromM like sold 1 . » i*. fllfletbateffodilfi' and daistos'foolish move- ^ menu are perplexing. _ « - •• ,><taa tne wind uuu boih nuem dancing is lult# Y : w i n t r y - l i k e a n d c o l d . ; ' £»kl a step awn tbe gravel, and a laugh--'tis V ; eurely w illy . Who is passing ia ahorry throngh tbe narrow .v.v.y garden gBt6. Wall, I don't mind now admitting that I have if •• beea oro«s and silly ^ ^ With the world, because my lover chantMd to be aa hoar too lata. •JOtumbere' JouraaL rr? HAPPY DICK. Sf*Sf!st6r, do you think I'll meet«o§^ tears or panthers between hero and Malvern?" , The speaker was a strong-built, gpod-looking boy, and the place was on a railroad track in a deep valley ill tbe Ozark Mountains, in Arkansas. It was not the idle question that timidity might prompt any boy to ask when he found himself alone in a groat forest, with night approaching; it was a question based upon sound reason, for their are bears and pan­ thers in those woods, and in the neighboring towns' bear meat and panther skips are staple articles of trade I had seen this boy ahead of me on the track for some time, and had,no­ ticed that he was evidently waiting for me to overtake him. This per­ haps made ase grasp my hickory •tick a little tighter, for in the dis­ tance I took him for a mau, and we were on the little branch railroad running from Malvern to Hot Springs, which, as I had often been warned, was a dangerous promenade, op account of tbe many desperate tramps who infested that neighbor- hood in winter. ••Probably not," I told him; "but •till you might, for there are both bears and panthers in these woods." •'Do vou think 1 could get there beferc dark?" he asked. "I am sure you could not," I an­ swered. "It is growing dark now, and Malvern is more than twenty miles from here. This is no time of day to start; you should set out in the morning, if yon want to walk to Mal­ vern." "Well," said be, as cheerily and uncomplainingly as though he were Jingling golden eagles in his pocket, and trying to make a choice between two first-rate hotels." 1 shall have to so willing always to sacrifice his comfort for mine, that 1 named htm Happy Dick. No boy ever better de­ served the title. , ^Little bv little I drew bis story ! from him--for one of hi § &ood points | was that he did not talk too much-- { he let off his superfluous happiness by ! whistling. "Waco? No, sir, It was not Just exactly in Waco where I lived, but close by. Oh, yes, sir, I can read and write, for I went to school--two win­ ters. In the summer I worked in the cotton fields. But I don't think much of that, sir. You see, it's like this, sir. The gentlemen that have worked in the cotton fields for fifty years are worse off than I am, sir." "You mean the colored gentle- meu?" "Yes, sir, the colored gentlemen. Wbit.e genttemep don'twork in the cotton fields." "But how," I asked him, "can they be worse off than you If you haven't a cent?" "Because they're old fcnd Fm young, sir. It don't make any differ­ ence what happens to me, A generally manage to live; but they're old and poo'ly, and they can't get along like I can. That's lust the way I'd bo some day, if I staid in the cotton fields, sir. So I made up my mind to come away." "1 suppose you ran away?" "Oh, no, sir," Happy Dick an­ swered; "I didn'vdo that sir; 1 didn't have any need to run away. If my old pop had wanted me to stay, I'd have staid anyhow. But I told him I thought I'd go away from Waco and get rich, and he said go ahead, and I went." "So you want to be rich, do you?" 'Oh. yes, sir, 1 intend to be. Col. Crawford said to me, (Col. Crawford was my boss), 'Dick,' said be, you try to please people, and they'll try to, please you.' Don't I keep the fire up good, sir?" Yes, indeed, he did, and I told him so; so good that the old cabin fairly shone with ».h« blsj.r.« every night, and the cold mountain winds had not a l eunnot tod ttiis little sketch of Happy Dick with the familiar finite of my going to pi powerful friend and gotting him a ' situation as bask Stent or ii^iiiranee director at 910,000 q year. Dick did not need any such assistance. He traveled from Arkansas to New Orleans in seven days, and made money by the journey, while it took me twelve or fourteen days, and cost me a number of dollars. I might better have paid him to give me some lessons in cheer­ fulness and thrift --Harper s Young People. A GIRL'S SUCCES won Work and Wl&otft Aid from Aajrone. A few years ago a New England girl had an ambition to become a successful novelist She was almost as shy and retiring in manner as Charlotte Bronte. She had seen little of the world,and had no acquaintances In literary cir­ cles. She had good powers of observa- ; ion, had studied the conditions of life about her, and was not withotit humor. She wrote a short sketch of New England rural life, and sejit it to the office of a metropolitan journal There it fell under Intelligent eyes, that recognized in it merit and prom­ ise. it was immediately published, although the author was unkuwn. Another sketch from tbe same hand followed the first, and v?as ac­ cepted. After a number of these social studies had been produced, the author submitted to the same office a more ambitious work for publication in weekly instalments. It was ac­ cepted immediately,and when printed was widely read. One long story followed another,the author receiving satisfactory com­ pensation for the original publication and retaining her copyrights, by which she was enabled to re-print her novels, {and to secure royalties upon them I Solely by her own efforts and with- | out a friend to help her, this shrink­ ing. sensitive Hew Eujriauu girl siio- Treaeheroos Sable, Which t* WeU Called Y | the Cemetery of the Oreaa Sable ibtfand Is again reported to have partly disappeared It is not always correct to infer that Sable Is­ land is becoming smaller because a slice of it has been whittled away. It may be found a little later that the debris had been plied up against some other part of the coast, extending the groat sandbank about as far in one direction as it has lost ground in an­ other. There Is no doubt, however, that in the past two centuries. Sable Island has lost much of its area A good deal of the 1 island ' is now wr, come. Bi with him.* 50 cents. in* oneheroftr Me Was th6 Other Snllivfgi* „ It is Sir Arthur Sunilp' tiimseW who in Mr. Willeby's memoir tells how, when he was traveling on a stage coach In a rather wild part of California, and was about to stop at a certain camp of miners for refresh­ ment, his self-esteem was gratified by the observation of bis driver, ••They expect you here, Mr. Sulli­ van." The announcement was.conflrmed (ratteiSTove; the boUotuor VK i «?««»» >•*.# Pf- lantic, where all mariners In the Bhost of a chance in the chink* and cecd.ed lo the few '» « cr.eating a market far her work, and crevices. When tbe breaking-up day came, there came with it a great division of property. The cooking utensils, all the pots and pans and dishes that had made us so conifortable, had been ptomised to our gentleman cook be­ fore Dick appeared upon the scene. But I had some few articles of my own to be disposed ot Item, a ham­ mock: item, a blacking-brush; item, a white-glass, shade for a student- lamp, which could not be packed In a trunk with safety. Tnese things, and some others, went to Happy Dick. No boy can ever have been as much | pleased with a new gun or a new I horse as Dick was with tbe hammock. ' He wrapped it around his neck and shoulders and tied the ends behind | f.™: him. . Y i j "It's just the thing for a hoy like i me. sir. Now I shall know where \ in making a reputation in current literature. Success so pronounced as this shows that it is possible for a writer of merit to obtain recognition, and to make progress without having intro- ductions to publishers or literary in­ fluence. The authors of rejected manu­ scripts are accustomed to inveigh against the ignorance or prejudice which causes their humiliation. That is a misconception. Wherever manu­ scripts are examined in large numbers there is ordinarily a keen eye to de­ tect originality, force, and excellence. Editors are more eager to secure sat­ isfactory contributions to their publi­ cations than authors are to furnish deep in a tree anyhow, and I suppose i I'm going to sleep every night. And it might as well be on the road to | it's so easy to carry, sir, and keeps me Malvern as anywhere. Money's! warm besides." rather tight here in Hot Springs." This philosophical answer made w*t look at the toy closer, and I was surprised to see that he was colored. He was so very light that I had taken him for a white boy: not tbe pale yel- * low of a mulatto, but like a country boy with the tan of two or three sum­ mers left upon his face. j i "Do you live in Hot Springs?" I ( , v,, asked him. | ' "No, sir," he answered. "I just: |I*ewherever lam. I did live yij Waco, Texas, but I've left there. i*ut the lamp shade and tbe black­ ing brush, what would be do with them. I wondered. He bad made up his mind to strike out for kittle Rock, which was the opposite direc- tioa to mine; and when the carriage came for rue, I bade him good-by. The hammock was snugly wsapped | around his shoulders, tbe handle of the blacking brush protruded from j his coat pocket, and he wore the lamp j wt(, shade over his left arm like a cuff, i I'q ; As long as X could see him I heard his j I merry whistle down the road. "And where are you going?" 11 isked. j. /. • | ." "Oh, 1*1x1 noways particular, sir," j tie replied. "I suppose I'll get along j somehow; I always have so far. I've j been traveling for live weeks, sir. and j I've got as much money now as l h&d when I started." "How much was that?" "Not a cent, sir.*' ft. occurred to me tihpt X had an for this boy for a few days, where be could be of service, and at tike same"time earn comfortable board and lodging, ̂ for my household ar- jr&Qgements that Christmas week Jmn very pwuiliar. 1 was living Slofe in a cabin In the Ozark Moun- Some milesvfrom anywhere. There bad bees four^f us in a camp- . ^utg party, and some very fine weeks I aid not expect that I should over see Happy Dick again, and 1 rather regretted it for there was something contagious in his happiness. His whole property wa? a hammock, a brush, a shade, a little change in his pocket, and tbe clothes he stood in. Yet how many rich men I know who would give a great deal for as much happines* in a week a* he had every minute. My journey to the West lndias was to be a roundabout one by New Orleans and Key West There was a delay of several days at Shreve- port waiting for a Red River boat, and the trip down the Red Biver took seven days more Nearly two weeks after leaving the Arkansas cabin I i landed upon the levee at New Or- ' leani,, and almost the first pcrccn l This author's success was due in large p&t to an instinctive adjust­ ment of her talents to her surround­ ings. In her first sketches and in her subsequent novels she did not go far atlekl for plots or incidents. She was content to describe homely scenes of New England life with which she was familiar. Mr. Stedman's first volumeof poems | contained classical pieces and Ameri­ can lyrics. It was submitted to the j judgment ot Mr. Lowell. The great j critic condemned tbe mere ambitieus poems, and warmly praised the lyrles. "There you are at home," he said; "on your own ground, breathing your ! own air." That is the teaching of the library shelves. Every great poet and prose- writer has belonged to his own coun­ try and people From the homely soil where they have learned the aspi­ rations, the harassing perplexities, and the moral purposes of men and women around them, has come a touch of life to make their work immojt.iL --Youth's Companion. neighborhood of the Grand Banks would be glad to have what is left of it stay at rest Sable Inland is about a hundred miles nearly east of Hall- fax. Sailors never know whether last year's chart is a safe guide for navigation in the adjacent waters. Many a ship has been wrectced upon its treacherous coast. It has been called the cemetery of the ocean, and the New York Sun thinks it deserves the name. It would have no popula­ tion if the Canadian Government did not find It necessary to support a score of people to look after the lighthouses and care for castaways who are thrown upon the island. If the French maps of two cen­ turies ago told the truth Sable Is­ land has since that time lost more than half it^ area. Maps of the Is­ land made at intervals si ncc 1818 show remarkable changes in its form and position. Its western end is now about twenty miles farther out to sea . than it was a century ago. The high­ est sand dune, which was foimerly about two hundred feet above the sea level, is now only about eighty feet high. The shifting sands are con­ stantly changing the outline of tbe curious little lake in the interior just as they do the contour of the coasts. Sometimes this lake is wholly cut off from the sea andatother times a wide channel joins it with the Atlantic. Years ago two small vessels took refuge in this lake from a storm, only to find that they were prisoners, un­ able to put to sea when ready to pur­ sue their voyage. In a single night the Atlantic sometimes eats up many acres of the great sand heap, only to build it up in some other direction. Its present form is a crescent, with its convex side to the south. Two of the three lighthouses built since 1880 were undermined by the invading ocean, and a while ago the third was badly damaged and will probably have to be replaced. It is fortunate that there are not many similar impediments in the most frequented tracks ot commerce Sable, however, is only an exagger­ ated type of moving islands in vari­ ous parts of the worldf Winds, storms, and currents are constantly changing j the outlines of not a few low, sandy islands in the Pacific. Baker island, lying under the equator north of the Phoenix Archipelago,is a very curious instance of these changes. In sum­ mer the wind blows almost steadily from the southeast and the axis of the big sand bank extends directly east an<l west. In winter, when the dominating atmospheric current comes from the northeast, the bank moves south, the extreme annual os­ cillation in the position of the island being about 700 feet. fjx we had spent in "'inountaios, with a heigh boring j ^•colored gen tie man" to come in, iaily an!d do the cooking; but the . foming of Christmas had left me : : alone, with a lew days to spend in • ,, jolitude before the time appointed to itart for tbe West Indies. . ; There was one great .drawback to r*VW solitary life in t^it Arkansas fsabin. A "cold snap" had come on; those Arkansas16aw there was Happy Dick. He bad Jjady Brooke ae an Autnor. Lady Brooke of baccarat scandal fan* has contributed an article to way of i Mr. Astor's Pall Mall Magazine. She writes on "What is Society?" acd has given some very optimistic views on various subjects. She thinks--at least she says that "things were never so interest­ ing as to-day, and people were never so pleasant." She also notes that '•there is to day very probably mere that is artistic in tbe cottage of the a blacking-box, with my brush in it, i peasant than a previous century could and wai plying hi* trade Re had learned already to watch the arriving steamers and find customers as the passengers landed. But the ham­ mock was gone and the shade was gone "Dick," said I.whi e be was polish­ ing my boots, which he insisted upon doing as a sort of jubilee for seeing •you have lost your prop- Si:' \"r vY ' the weather had changed suddenly J me a^ain b~ from almost tropical warmth to arctic ert,y- Your hammock is gone, and ^. k coldness. This made little difference ! y°ur beautiful lamp shade is gone." jt'r*; In the daytime, but night brought I Instead of replying with words, he trouble. Arkansas cabins are not, as i straightened up, put his right hand a rule, fitted with furnaces or steam j In his trousers pocket, and smilingly pipes. There is an open fireplace, s Jingled a handful of coma "I sold have shown in tbe palace of a prince." | Lady Brooke says, a great many ; more things about general topics-- ! very nice things--so that one is some­ what consoled that she omit* to tell "What is society." I Lady Brook® is a favorite with the ' Prince of Wales, so Mr. Aster's editor did not return her manuscript with any rude criticism, but printed it at , once, in splendid tvpe, .especially tbe name of the writer. V;: ' Vr|v 4>!« open where the cooking is done, and that must supply all the heat. We had bought great quantities of wood, but wood fires bave an unhappy habit of burning out rapidly. I might leave as great a fire a» I could on going to bed in my hammock, and in two hours the cabin would he as cold as Greenland. This was tbe principal use I had for the young philosopher T found on the railroad track. Why should he not be my night fireman, and .keep - tbat tire blazing from bedtime till j : breakfast? Then there were the er-' ; rands to run (and how many errands j ' even a camping establishment re- j quires nobody knows until he tries it • ; several miles from any settlement), :and there were the guns to be: •cleaned. . This proposition I made cautiously, ' for a boy who could cheerfully con­ template sleeping in a tree, probably without supper, and who could travel for five weeks and go hundreds of miles without money, might scorn such a position. But he accepted it willingly. * Dick, for si^HiiiiAls n ful a boy Ijfce and so ttMi$l&bty that he almost mad the cbrninf of the day tain hearthstone shi and wbon smoke longw curi from :i»y : " the lamp shade in Little Rock for 10 Cheese. of the undeveloped . resources of the creamery, is cottage, or mo: inent citizens at the whlskf store, tbe foremost of tt$e group oaue up to a burly bystander and inquired, "Are you Mr. Sullivan?" "No," replied the burly man, while he pointed at the jungltsh traveler. The oitizen looked at the stranger rather coDtemptvionsly and said: "Why, how much do you weigh?" This seemed a curious method of gauging the powers Of a composer, but he received the prompt answer, "About 162 pounds." "Well." returned the man, "that's odd to me, anyhow. Do you mean to say that you gave fits to John S. Black man in Kansas City?" "JSCS X did not give him fits," was the reply. Conferring further, it proved that tbe pen-on expected was Sullivan, the prize fighter. It appeared, how­ ever, that the musician's fame had, in a dim sort of way, reached that remote settlement, for this "promi­ nent citizen," in an outburst of cordial hospitality, finally exclaimed: "O, Arthur Sullivan! What, are you the man that put 'Pinafore to­ gether?"--London News. HOW DRUGGISTS GET MUSK* Mr. Ferguson's Saving PrayeiP. Away back In the early '60s Mr. Ferguson was defending a man ac­ cused of beating his wife The case was on trial before a justice of the peace, probably the same justice who decided that stealing a sack of pota­ toes out of a canoe in the river was "piracy on tbe iiigii seas." The ac­ cused was convicted, and tbe justice promptly sentenced him to be hanged. "But you can't bane a man for beating bis wife,'^ expostulated Ferguson. "The devil I can't," said the justice, bridling up "Ain't he guilty? Oughtn't any man to be hung who would beat a woman and that woman his wife? And ain't I the only judge in this county? If I haven't got the power to hang a man, who has, eh? I'll hang him within an hour, won't we, boys?" he con­ cluded, addressing the crowd stand­ ing around whose sympathies were evidently with the woman. "That we will," shouted tbe crowd. Seeing that tbe case was beginning to look eerious for his client* Ferguson said: "Well, your honor, before the man is hanged I'd like to take him out behind that big tree and pray with him." "All right," said the justice, and off went the prisoner and Ferguson. When they got behind the tree Ferguson said in an undertone: 1 'Now git, you d----d hound.n he got.--Seattle Press-Times. And A Tippler's Stratagem. Sanerant relates the following anecdote of Schwartz, a famous The Swimming Rodent ot the Jersey German painter. Having bee,n en- Meadowa la the Source of Supply. j gaged to paint the Ceiling of the tOWU. "As to the musK, now," said the j ball at Munich, by the day, his love young man man In search of informa- j dissipation Induced him to neglect cents, sir; andswhen I got here Uncommonly called, "Dutch cheese, found th^t if I^didy't sejl the,,|?am- j Buttermilk, which is so plentiful and mock they'd steal it from Ufa so<«f' apparently of so small value, makes sold it for $2, sir." I| aline, creamy cheese which seems to "But tell me," 1 asked him*: "how j bp very digestible When creameries •u got to "New Orleans before I did. are Situated near a city ou must have come down in a parlor car;" "No, si r, ** b# replied, qui te seriously; "I came down In the boats; one boat' U9ed lo thc ordinary creamery. down the Arkansas River, »n,i -- -- other boat to New -Orleans. tion, "I dare say that the race of fragile but aromatic little deer from which musk is obtained must be nearly extinct by tbis time is it not?" Well," replied the frank druggist, says the New York Sun, "not the fragile and aromatic little deer that furnishes the musk I sell. That fragile and aromatic little deer isn't any nearer extinction now than he was when he first began to dive and burrow,' and that was 'way back In the pristine years" Why," exclaimed the young man in search of information, "the animal that supplies the musk of commerce lives among the paim-clad hills of : and seeing the well-known Central Asia, where picturesque native hunters follow its tiny tracK, risking their lives and undergoing great toil and hardship to secure the almost infinitesimal sac which en­ velopes the precious perfume, and by painful journeys of miles and miles bearing it to the marts of trade where it is sold for many titoes its weight id gold. Everybody knows that." "Yes," replied tbe druggist "I've heard of tbat But the way .1 find the facts is different Tbe animal that supplies the musk of commerce around these parts lives largely in those luxuriant realms of bog and malaria kriown as the Jersey marshes. Where tbe following of its trail is at­ tended with no risk of life, no toll n6 hardship, that 1 ever heard of. I never knew it to be attended with much*>f anything btit a' jug of rum and a long-handled spear. The hunt­ ers are picturesque, though. An old his wotk, and the magistrates and overseers of the work were frequently obliged to bunthimout at the tavern. As he could no longer drink in quiet, he stuffed an image of himself, left the legs hanging down between the staging where he was accustomed to work, and sent one of his boon com­ panions to move the image a little two or three times a day, and to take it away at noon and night- By means of this deception, he drank, without the least disturbance, a whole fort­ night together, the inkeeper being aware of the plot. The odicers came round twice a day to look after blm, stockings which he was accustomed to wear, suspected nothing wrong, and went their way, greatly extolling their new convert as the most industrious and conscientious painter in the world. Thackeray's Blunders. $ri t6nfusing his characters Thack­ eray was perhaps more unfortunate than most writers of his kind, and he himself has borne testimony to the num ber and grievousness of his own shortcomings. "As sure as I read a page of my own composition I find a fault or two--half a dozen. Jones is called Brown. Brown, who is dead, is brought to life Aghast and months after tbe number was printed, I saw I had called Philip Firmin Olive Newcome Now, Clive •is the hero of another story by the reader's most obedient servant The | two mon are as different in my ! mind's eye as Lord Palmerston market this could be made a source of considerable revenue,. .especially as no additional apparatus is required beyond tbat and an? I had a line time, sir. I got this box in Lit-, tie llock, and blacked my way and waited my way right°8dwn the river." "Waited your- way! Wba$ do £ou mean by that?" x . . ' "Waited on a gentleflaaa. fir, that had his horses on the boafc I made money coming down. But isn't this a beautiful place, sir? Is,]Sew York as big as this?" " - ' **• "This is a beautiful place Dick, I am told, though moist And If you; were to put eight cities like this inf a epw, they would be almost the size off ew York." : \ "i'intend to go theco some time, sir, and 1 hope you'll tsa hac% tyy that time. But, my! what a fine place I#*81 is,; sir: Monty's i^ot t gh-t herft, sir! I' never made so Much in my _ life. It's just like a fair ali the time ; And Pve been trying what Co?. Craw­ ford told ine about phasing people and it's all tip* sir. * f'vo pleased : ; 4'-- Artillery. ^Plie British Admiralty ban Jstet adopted the new wire-wound", quick- firing six-inch breech-loading gun for the navy. The new weapon is 40- cailbres lopg and weighs seven tons. It will lire an elongated projectile weighing 100 pounds a distance of over four miles. It is such a quick- firing gun that at long range when fired With cordite it has three or four shots in the air at the same time and Mr. Disraeli, let us say." In one fur cap, a large chew of tobacco ooz- j place he revived Lady Kew after hav­ ing over an unprotesting red chin j mg buried her; the elder Newcome is THE father of a St Louis bride pfesented his srin-ln-law with 80,COO head of t^tie. , "Papa, dear," .ex* ctkimed frisd.aaghter, when she heard of It, "tni^ #a« so kind of you; Charley's/-af my y 60Up. food of ox-tfli do you fill your pock- , great stones?"--»*Be- I always feel bowlder, their noses. whisker, and a pair of gum boots filled with the legs of hickory overalls and a long, lank Jerseymag--that ought to pass for picturesque, hadn't it? But none of the hunters ever said anything to me about an infini­ tesimal sac qpveloping pre'eious per­ fume, nor <iven complained about having to journey many painful miles and miles to reach the marts of trade, nor have I any recollection of their demanding many times its weight in gold for the precious perfume. Not any hunters tbat 1 ever dealt with. They Just jumped aboardiu ferry boat landed on tbis s:de, and hoofed It up here, and chucking on the coupler what they had to sell, said: on one page designated major, on an­ other colonel. Jack Belsize at one time is designated Charles, and Mra Raymond Gray, in one place Emily, becomes in another Fanny. -- St. Louis Globe-Democrat . * mm, How Is* Calebs* It and Eajoya |ft WhfU _. Caa^fet. Didyp»Ot«ri eat bit #bpp*r? good fortfcne,%ftdi I was sitting ottfV yard, contentedly ... log with some prido at amttfMdeii patch, wbero I bad spent many bouis on various vines and plants tbat were now rewarding me by jft vigorous growth. Tne garden was the home or resort of many toads, and We bad become well acquainted Witfe ^BQh other, although I thought tbem rather a stup d lot It However, when I accidi turbed one among the hauled- ottfc :«& too „ where he was rostlng,tt> see the ! fellow p&tt him»elf out to tbe point of bursting and roll up tbe whites of his eyes at me with an expression of sleepy reproach. I think the? soon became accustomed to my presence, and would only take one or two hops from under my feet, and tben watch me with stupid gravity. I had about finished my pipe,when I observed one of my loads coming to­ ward me along the path tbat led to the garden. He was, as usual, quite deliberate in his movementa A hojv a long wait, and then another hop. As he came near my seat he eyed me solemnly for a while then hopped be­ tween my feet and disappeared under the chair. On turning around a few minutes later, I saw blm on 'the graveled w&lk leading to *h« front, of the house. »uy object I arose and strolled after him. The sun had disappeared; but It was light enough to see even a small object at quite a distance. The toad paid so attention to me as I came up with him. Suddenly he made a leap to­ ward the edge of tbe path and van­ ished from sight, I knew he had not reached the, grass border, and I was puzzled at his strange disappearance. I took a step forward and stooped over the spot where he had landed. The mystery was solved, although I could scarcely believe what I plainly' saw. The toad was there, but the fat chunky body seemed litoraiiy pasted to the walk, and was scarcely discernible from it It looked as if he might have been ran over by a cart-wheel, so perfectly flattened was the body. * As I looked, there was a lightning change. Like a flash my toad threw himself at tbe grass border, I thought I saw a darting tongue, and then he leisurely hopped back to the Walk--tbe same rotund, stupid-looking fellow I knew so welL I opened my eyes very wide and fol­ lowed him closely. Again and again was that marvelous flattening process repeated, as he caught sight of objects to me utterly invisible; again and again he launched himself like an ar­ row into the air or at a tuft of grass, and I do not believe tbat he onoe missed his prey. In this manner we traversed the wbole length of the walk, when tbe toad turned and re­ traced his steps, or rather hope It was now quite dark and I bade him good night 1 bad found out my friend of the garden. Instead of be­ ing a loggy, slow-moving animal, ho was as cunning as a cat and twice as active. I am afraid be is something of a hypocrite in his daily life, but Who is not more or less one? Every summer my garden is filled with toads. I treat them with profound respect I hope my old acquaintance is among them, and I think he is. 1 bave often noticed one sleek-looking fellow hopping after me as I move about, and it seems to me there is a twinkle in his eyes I see in none of tbe others. Probably be is aware tbat he cannot humbug me again with his pretended clumsy ways. We under­ stand each other. -- Forest and mpi inpniji£ wmew wbat was once considered to^^%nthe Sun, 1 J , 1 viy 4a Incident la at Sister. The' buifpfl of street cars for' elevenflwU on each' side Wistbe-alWpsntw *rst WttOdi^d tbe average ania of ttie tfi materially increased in person; Jtromen *nd .Imb. are la*#^Tbe obance Introdt&tioai of yofj^^^liiliM and children still permits eleven peo­ ple on a side, but with a full com­ plement of passengers Nos. 21 and 22 must stand. Tbe increase of girth on the part of New Yorkers in limit- _Jons of tho«S|r» r. somebody to yield ' the right;:* Nine oitii-> % nary;Jjtstengers and one fat man or woAaa'.rwjtilisoa readjustment of the car, just as ten slim women and a child will admit another slim pas* sengwr. These are matters that a Judicial-minded person will always take into account The judical mind, however, is hot $1 ways taken aboard, and odd combinations of passengers often throw the entire car Into a state of mind in the effort to adjust them by main strength of strategy. The other day there was a mixed lot of persons on one side that left a space large enough to be tempting, but not large enough to accommodate a woman extended unreasonably be- f v yon ber natural proportions by a thick gown and a long, full cloak. The woman seated was slim, with a v-' ^ fane acd reserve^ manner. The woman standing looked at the Space S\T'.: and seated herself, obscuring the - 'V smaller woman, who was plainly sup- ^ porting part of the burden. "If you will allow me I will give you the place," the crushed woman said. She rose, when the other nodded ~ triumphantly to a friend. , **" • "i often get a seat that way," en-•;." joying her success. t |V? The mild-faced woman gave no * sign, tben said. • "Will you kindly let me see if I _Y •' left a parcel on the seat?" Yflp The stout woman got up and the v i little woman quietly reseated herself. The stout woman stood, and the passengers laughed. , * ^ lis i ^ ' Stream.; To Prevent the Cock Crowing. Poets and nursery rhymesters alike have encouraged the notion that the cock crows only at bTeak*of day. They talk of chanticleer proclaiming the dawn, and so forth; but as a matter of fact--though it is quite true this bright particular barndocfr fowl is very fond of saluting tbe dawn--the cock likes to hear the sound ot his melodious voice at all hour.^. There There ye be, cap'n. , Dind't hey | jS one simple device, however, by which even he can beredu -ed^to com plete and acceptable sil«nce. The bird cannot c.ow unle-s he is able to stand erect and raise bis head to the fullest extent Now, if a plank, or even a lath.be placed above his perch so that he cannot gain an upright po­ sition, be cannot possibly lift up his much luck yisterd'y, an' only slashed the pods out o' ten. They're good uns, though. O't to be wuth 10 cents a pair, cap'n.' "Yes. Those picturesque hunters who risk their lives on the trail of the musk deer in Central Asia moun­ tains can do better by packing their grips and coming over here and chas-; voice, but, on the contrary, must, as ing the w'ily muskrat on tbe Jersey marshes. Thev might have to wear} mo e clothes, but they'd get morel musk and find a market right under | Yes, my son. The ef Sam WeHer exprcs ed it, remain ' dumb as a drum with a hole in it" Her Point of View. ' An „ esteemed correspondent takes ̂ issue with a recent comment in the- Yf*Y New York Times on the deficiency of - \ humor among women, as evidenced v ^ by the fact tbat they are rarely &e ;u buying funny papers on the ra lway * At trains. Y---YY "Don't you know," writes this pro­ testing suburban friend, "10 cent?,,-, seems to a woman a good deal to" r' spend for a few moments, while to men, who are constantly throwiog dimes and more away on cigars, |Y : drinks, and the like, the sum of no.Y ' , value" " To which may be added the remark . beard not long ago of a man who is p o s s e s s e d o f w h a t m i g h t b e c a l l e d ; iaverage habits In the matter of drink- "Y.-- ing and smoking. : In that moment of genial Intro-5* spection which not infrequently as- V Y*Y sails a man after a glass or two of fK wine and in the enveloping clouds of A a good cigar, he was discussing with: the partner of his joys and sorrows tbe merits and demerits of his man­ ner of life "You are quite rtjibt, my dear," he r replied, as his wife finished a little ' homily on the injustice of her trying to save 50 cents on the quality or theR s children's underwear while be tossed away a dollar a day in dimes and- Y nickles for things that did him no good. "You are quite right* it's my change pocket that keeps us liarclup all tbe time" The Battle of the Wares. Of all the Swiss lakes, the Lake of Lucerne has the most itregular shape, its many bays running north. or south, east or west. Owing tofYYll? these windings it is often exposed to-4 violent storms, but while in one bav^ ' tbe waters may be lashed ift perfect fury, in an adjoining bay not a ripple;, - x will discurb the surface Thus when ai- -~f J strong south wind blows down the| Bay of Uri, the very same wind,i turned from its course by the mouu- _ tains, comes from its course by the" ; mountains, comes from the WesV-<..•.><- from the Bay of Buochs. There is point, just opposite Brunnen, where^YY Yl the two sets of waves meet and then" a terrific contest ensues for mastery. such a moment the spray is' driven into the air in vast sheets to a£ height of fifty reet or more While the battle rages there may be seen'1,' under the shelter of the promontory at Treib several of the J - | - - 'Y Bfentbel. :Y- • Tbis valuable drug has been known in China and Japan for ages. It is not known with absolute certainty when and by whom menthol crystals were first brought to tbe notice of European pbarmaoeutically on tbe continent as long ago as the end of the last century; but if that state­ ment is capable of proof, the drug must have fallen into oblivion shortly after its introduction, for it was cer­ tainly utterly unknown, even by re­ pute to most persons in the drug trade twenty-five years age To a Scotchman belongs tbe distinction of first having called the attention of British pharmacists to the valuable properties of menthol Mr. Mackay is believed to have brought "Po IIo oil" with him from Paris, where It was then sold, In the small, red labelled Chinese bottles familiar to Eastern travelers, as a kind of pro­ prietary article. Had menthol been an utterly valueless quack medicine it would, perhaps, have taken Europe I of Crockery, Stone- by storm then and reUned for a sea-1 ,, son, j istlong enough to gather a f°rV . reasonable tune for its first exploiter. But asp suit. the drug happened to bave a solid therapeutic value it had to wrestle through the familiar stages of contumely, ridicule, animosity, and unreasoning popularity, Just like any new creed or reformer. The com­ mercial history of menthol practi­ cally dates from 1978, when aa English firm in Yokohama, made a small shipment of it to London, de­ termined hot to rest until they had succeeded in securing for. »he remedy n footing upon the market. After many months their shipment went back, with a note from tbe agents an­ nouncing that "the stuff*' could not be sold there, as no one knew what to do with it But the Yokohama firm persevered, and they reaped their reward. Four years later menthol crystals were tbe rage of tbe season, selling at sixty shiliogs per pound, wholesale and carried about in cone shape by all persons with any pro- tense to the possession of a civilized nervous system. W- A Unique IMng. Samuel T. Crosby of Bingham, Mass., has in his possession a mourn­ ing ring on which is inscribed. "S. Thaxter, Esq., Oh. 2a, Nov. 1740." In the ring is set a brilliant shaped like a coilin, and through tt can be seen a body prepared for burial. The ring was one of those given, accord­ ing to the Custom in those times, at the funeral of CoL Samuel Thaxter, who commanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company more than 150 years ago. He was grand­ father of Maj.-Gen. Benjamin Lin- - - r • - r • v,#j# . ini'>igti4in'it' 41v-*-W«r . tutu OIII hem in my pocket*." 'WW oneos iroo piaee for tne funs* Si"..!».. i'J WOMAN IS like the reed which bends \ in every breeze but breaks not in tbe | coin, of revolutionary fame, who also -*• v^wnmoded tb»-Ammonia,,", II vm tue ear lest A New Photometer. A simple photometer has been de-:y vised by a Russian scientist, which ; , also serves to test the power of thdjY; eVe It consists of a pamphlet ofY twenty-four page?. The first page of a clear gray tint, the next is o|- double intensity, and so on to the&-Y, twenty-fourth, the tint of which la^vr nearly black, being twenty-four time i more intense than that of page one*; - • O n e a c h p a g e a r e p r i n t e d a r e w Y > ' phrases in black letters of differentYY sizes Consequently the degree of ease with which the words are read on different pages whigi held at a cei^w^ tain distance from thre eye-Twill indi* cate the illuminating power of tho,' right in the room, or on the otheifil m hand, tbe selves. power of the eyes chem* A Laundry Wrinkle. Tbo oxoellent laundresses of Hal? <3 W îl {<•" *• k • o \ land use refined borax instead of sodaY\ in th§ proportion of a large handful^ of powder to about ten gallons o( boiling water. Borax, being a neutral salt, does not in the slightest degree injure the linen, and those who try i^ will be pleased with the result Th« Dutch washerwomen have been fa| inous for centuries, and when;muslh and lace ruffs became fashionable|:' Qfieen Elizabeth sent for some op& those laundresses to instruct thotY English how to wash and dress thes# ,; dainty articles of the toilet ' • • Y' Oub prayers should be for blessf In general, for God know# feeft what H good for ua --Socratea M ••t . . . . . . . . l i ' . A _ '~Y&la * Site