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That gave me an Interest in the case. She lived at 8urbiton. I had never seen her be­ fore I was called in for this particular Illness; hut one day her husband came to my house in Harley Street, and wanted me to go down post haste With him to look at her. He was Particularly anxious to get a first-rate London specialist's opinion. They Had a general practitioner down at (heir own place, he said, hut that Wasn't enough for him, he distrusted Q. P.'s. He insisted upon ifetting the very best advice for her. A tall, dark man, the husband, With keen, deep-sunken eyes. He looked like > a Spaniard, and might have been Grand Inquisitor. But what struck me most about him was the queer little fact that, though he •x pressed the g. eat est anxiety, and desire to show the deepest affection. 1 couldn't help feeling it was my opinion that he wanted far more than my assistance. He laid great stress upon the point of ray being an undoubted authority. Whatever 1 thought of the case he would know it was right He didn't care about the diagnosis of these •Oburisan doctors: he didn't trust their prognosis; but I--if 1 told him Ills wife would live, he could be sure •he would recover; and if I told him --well, the worst--why, he knew he most accept it with resignation. (Cambric pocketrhandkerchie .) 1 went down with him and saw tier. She was very ill indeed. A •lost pathetic woman. She aroused if keenest sympathy. But it was 'm pttlAaftd for the worsts Btckly smile. ia CM? t recover," do you desire me to give yon the honest opinletrfPve formed, I asked* *<*t the ri& bf offendin you?" "Ves, X want your opinion," Im answered; but his lips quivered faintly. • It's that I called you in for. I stared Straight In tats eyea I fixed him with mine, Be couldn't avoid them without catching Har­ vey's. "Then my opinion !s this," I said, slowly and distinctly, "that if your wifli dies you'll be Ranged for it" He never moved a muscle of his face, but his color Went with a rush. He was white as a ghost in a mo­ ment He rose with an effort This is a raauvatsti* plaisanterie," be cried, "at such a time as this! A mauvaise plaisanterie!" No pleasanterie at all,* I an­ swered, vety" gHto, <%dt a simple statement of my medical opinion. Look hero, Mr. So-and-So, we are two, you are one. Now, I give you fair warning. This lady up stairs is being slowly poisoned, t/nielS she recovers, we will hold you answer, able. Tou wan tod the best advice. Well, now you have got it Don't, suppose you can deceive me by using a littie poison. 1 won't let you mur­ der her. Your wife must recover. 1 have my eye upon yon. If anything ever happens to her, noW or hereaf­ ter, I shall take good care there is full inquiry; and so will Dr. Harvey. I say no more than that; and I wish you a very good morning. To-mor­ row, when 1 come, 1 shall expect to see a marked improvement" And so I did. She was dee'dedly better. In three weeks she was welL In a month sh6 Was at Harro­ gate. I never undeceived her. She loved the creature, and ! allowed her to goon loving him. But I confess I was relieved when, four years later, he providentially broke his wretched neck on tiie Schreckhora It un­ burdened my mind of the responsi­ bility of watching Him. in other cases l have my doubts; but in that one 1 am confident 1 really saved my patientfb life--and i should think you agre# with me.-- Boston True Flag. rwSjfejft- COUNTRY URAL WITH MANY NAT ADVANTAGES. * -KUwilw Miami Oc poatta--Kleh Farming aad Cralt buMb --America's Ftaaat Tide-water Harbof-- Ooaiac Port for Alaaka aad tto Orient. * HUMOREP QR ^UMBUQGEDl / • . V »• Anaoaat rf HnaMag Witt Mate M Ob> atiaato Casaet Badge aa lath. Camels are not like horses, says the Asbton lie porter. If a horse does not want to do anything we make J him. If a camel does not want to do i anything be leaves it undone. No | amount of coaxing, no amount of cruelty will make him, budge. He ass the determination of a mule com­ bined with the strength of an ele­ phant A camel is one of those ag­ gravating brutes which will drive a hot-tempered man to distraction. Nothing will persuade him to listen __ to re?son. He will oppose your will the queerest case I ever knew in my j **tb * passive resistance that is ab- • solutely unconquerable. The only life. I couid make nothing of it I told her husband she was seriously IB; I doubted her recovery, she had eunk so low: but I didn't understand It His eyes had an inscrutable way to treat a camel is to humor if you cannot humbug him. They will often lie down if you load them with thfc proverbial last straw, and you fleam in them when I told him that; ! "S.1 S*rat them death or offer up |wt he answered very anxiously: "Can't you put a name to it? It Would be satisfactory at least to know What it is that's the matter with her." "No, I can't," I replied. "In the whole course of my experience 1 never jet saw anything like it" His face fell a little. Long medi-1 cal practice has made me observe the I quick shades of emotion that pass ( Wver faces. i "I was in hopes you would have understood it," be said, very slowly, with a hard look into my eyes, point­ ing each word with emphasis "It was for that I went to the best Lon­ don authority. 1 thought these suburban men might fail to make it out but that I was sure of an opin­ ion froiju agreat London specialist Vbey told me your forte was diag- - Clever of him, I felt at the time, us to work upon my profes- ide, and my professional illties. He fancied he or cajole me into giving e. That was decidedly sharp but it over shot the mark. It ve me the first real clue to the real nature of her illness. Next day, and next again, I went down to see my patient Money Was no object, the affectionate bus- band said often. All he wanted was to be sure his dear wife had the ben­ efit Of the very best midical advice and assistance. The third day I was paxzled: I took my assistant down With me without telling him why. ( sent him in to see her. When he came out I said to hiu: "Well, Harvey, what do yon make it?" make anything of it»M he 1 can't It looks to me don't iu the least under- all the pleasures of paradise before i tbey would get up They are pig- | headed lieasta Sometimes when they I have quite a light load tbey tarn ; nasty and throw themselves to the j ground. £ut although they are ob- { stinate, they are not cute, and an j Arab, by pretending to submit can generally get the better of the stub­ born beasts. The drivers will os­ tentatiously remove three or four packages from the load, and the ani­ mal with an inward chuckle of satis­ faction, rises at once, without per- ceiving that the parcels have mean­ while been returned to their former place. As he flatters himself he has shirked some of bis duty he swings away with a light heart, gratified be­ yond measure, like a spoiled child, at having its own way. The camel is an unsociable beast He is also habitually dull, except when he is sniffing the salt air of the desert. When he is treading the sands, with the burning sun on his back and the boundless waste before him, he feels himself at home. The immense heat makes him bubble over wit$} pleasure and fills his frame with sttliiime in­ toxication. It has been stated on the beat authority that he can go nine dayswlfijbnfet water. And if you had ever seen ^otmel drink water when he does ^Ira^bance of quench- Sptondid SeMMwjr. No oountry has yet been discovered in which the natural conditions are perfect There are a few localities in this world of ours which from experi­ ence and by common, consent are agreed to be unusually favored as a habitation for man. Among these the State of Washington and the Puget Sound country especially take high rank. None will dispute the well-es­ tablished fact that Puget Sound is the largest and safest land locked tide water harbor on the face of the earth. To the east rnns a range of ma­ jestically pictures iue mountain* Irith countless spurs, slopes, and glens, covered with primeval forests more valuable commercially than the gold that Cortez and Pizarro sought. Stored away in these snow-capped and forest-clothed peaks are mines of gold and silver, coal and iron. A veritable Monte Cristo is even now developing, which will enrich thousands in this and generations to follow. Far up in these snow-covered moun­ tains are th© scources whence spring the multitudinous streams making the valleys as fruitful as any on earth. To the newcomer from the prairies there may seem to be a scarcity of tillable land, but quantity is made up in qual­ ity. The fifteen inhabited islands of the Bermuda group contain an aggre­ gate of W.000 acres capable of cultiva­ tion, less than a half township in area, yet last year the export value of the potatoes, onions and tomatoes sent to the United States exceeded half a mil­ lion dollars, and in addition a living furnished to thousands of persons on joho- >h and Skagit of less than three years tttmade marvellous prog* .... ^ .^Without municipal aeol, industries wefi established, its future is assured. Its location is most sight­ ly» giviafr* view of the C4ympie range in the Wfst, and the mighty Cascades in the e«#t from Ranier to Raker--100 miles apart--the only city on the Sound where these two mountain monarcha arevisible at the same time. , There are openings here for many new Industries, and the Everett Land Com­ pany, Everett, Wash., invites corres­ pondence from persons seeking new lo­ cations. LEON STEVENS. Telegrapher*' Peculiar Penmanship. 'An expert telegrapher can always be told by his writing,* said an oper­ ator to a Pittsburg Dispatch report­ er. "No matter how different the writing of expert operators may be, there is a similarity that can always be distinguished by a fellow-manipu­ lator of the keys. It, seems that there are certain muscles of the hand capable of quicker motion than oth­ ers. A telegrapher who is compelled to take down thirty to fifty words a minute develops these muscles and makes them do most of the work. So the writing of expert operators has a peculiar resemblance, which is particularly noticeable to persons who follow the business. A telegrapher is compelled to adopt a different style of writing from that usually taught In the schools. In the latter beauty is what is most desired; in the case of the telegrapher he must have speed, and great speed, too, or he will be thrown aside. The other day a fellow-operator and myself saw 'i 3* ' ' v/' '•$ EVERETT HARBOtt, CASCADE MT& TO K1GHT AND OLYMPIC MTS. TO LEFT. ing his thirst yo prised at thib. to put away isevea at a time. .» - the islands. Many times the area of the Bermudas can be found in the val­ leys and deltas of Puget Sound, and intensive farming will bring as large results here as in the Atlantic islands. "Ten acres enough" is being- daily exemplified here, and each season in­ creases the number of examples. While nature has been generous in her timberal, mineral, agricultural, horticultual, and piscatorial gifts, she has been moit liberal in bestowing a be­ nign climate. It is not the long-drawn- out, enervating clime of southern lands, but the health-giving, vigorous climate of the British isles, from whence has come the race that rules the world. Is it too much to assume that like con­ ditions here will breed the heroes who must go north and south and west to conquer and build new lands? The mountain barriers to the east ward off the blizzard and cyclones that desolate the midland States, and from the tepid waters of the Pacific comes the chinook wind to temper the ar­ dent heat of summer and dull the icy fangs of winter. Storms of thunder and lightning are unknown. Excessive heat is as rare as severe cold. Flowers bloom in the open air ail through the winter in sight of peaks of snow and ice. Vegetables keep in the ground through the winter, and are dug as needed. A study of the map shows the stra­ tegic point on Puget Sound to be Ever­ ett. the tidewater terminus of the Great Northern Railway, the shortest route by many miles to and from the east From Everett ships with lum­ ber, wheat, and flour will go to other countries, bringing back in return teas and silks from the Orient, fish and furs from the vast waters reaching to Alaska and beyond, the ocean being of easier access here than from any other city on the Sound. Far-sighted men have shown faith in this location by establishing here some of the most important industries west of the Mis­ sissippi, representing a capitalization of over $3,000,000, and giving employ­ ment to over 1,0"0 men, with a monthly pay-roll amounting to 960,000. Visitors to the World's Fair may have seen samples- of paper made by the Everett Mills, and among others the largest continuous roll ever made, he­ ld not be snr- ve been known ions acid a halt ••Jfeithe jny elfin do V' I replied, stroking ^That's why I brougnt pjfiou to see it: v We sat and stared at each other in ^ .1 silence for a minute. Then my as- , - aistant said very dubiously: "The fact is, Sir Everard, It ap- iPftars to me » < V * ko on man. Out witn it" ̂ u"fca case of natural disease at kut a case of iwisuulflg." i;'MI , "^wtfsfclymy opinion," 1 answered, start 4,l brought you here r to confirm it»' ' agaiWeDt ^ the sick woman's tomb "I want to ask you a question," .ff4' ln *s soothing a voice as pos­ sible. "You may think it an odd one. Is there anybody who would benefit in any way by your death*'" She gazed at me feebly. "Not a soul" she answered. **All 1 have in the world I've left by Will to dear Archie." That settled the question. I felt j sure I knew a prescription that would cure her I went down again to the dining-room. The husband was there, Sitting uneasily Dy the window. He looked at me with an anxious face. "Well, I've formed an opinion on the #«e at last," i said, ' 'and so has «y here, but perhaps it may y<Mi br annoy you to hear it." ~ nervously at. my assist- at me in fetufa. 1 had myself on purpose so that oar eyes weio up* him from Bow to Draw * Witt. The wisdom of WvYiig the will drawn while in health, when the i ngrvous and morbid fears engendered' t by illness are absent, and the person J making it is able to order a clear and reasonable distribution of her prop-i erty, should appeal to every one,.! writes Mrs. HaoiiVtQQ Mott in an: article entitled "Making a Will" in the Ladies' Home Journal. The fear that the attorney's fee will be exorbitant, or efen that it will he large, should be neither ex­ cuse nor reason for delay. All pro* feseiooal work is done on the basis described in the old saw "WlMtt you find aiat gooae pinak It riaan, Jjadim fchefavCOoaal y ihilMo." Ana ieeai cbargta are regulated iioi only by the amount of work done, but bp the ability of the client to pay. Go t$ any reliable attorney and t il him that you wish to have your will drawn, and that you can only afford to pay a certain sum for a fee. If he has reason to believe that you have stated your pecuniary position truthfully he will become your ad­ viser no matter bow small hts recom­ pense is to be Determine in ad­ vance exactly wbat you wish done with your estate; make careful mem> oranda of all the points, the lull names of all who will appear in the document, and of anything else which may seem to you as of importance. Take this data with you to the law­ yer; tell him clearly what you wish done. Answer without questioning -whatever he may ask you: avoid ir­ relevant remarks, and then leave him t ) prepare the document, after mak­ ing an appointment to return with your witnesses for signatures, etc. "If !»> a postal-card. I had only glanced *at it when I remarked that it was the writing of a man who had once been a telegraph operator. My companion agreed, and lurther suggested that he had received his education in a railroad office, inasmuch as be dated his postal In the right-hand corner, whereas a commercial operator al­ ways writes the date in the left-hand corner, as the blanks are made In that form. Yes, and he has been a bookkeeper; for, although the figures were written hastily, they were in perfect lines, added my friend. This all came from our noticing the class distinction in the writing of a teleg­ rapher. We asked the man who. re­ ceived it who had written it. He gave the name of a now prominent business-man wbo began life as a messenger in a railroad office, then became a telegrapher, next was given a position of trust where book-keep­ ing was one of his duties, finally launching out for himself in a line entirely foreign to railroading or book-keeping. The characteristics that had crept into his writing dur­ ing his early training were still vis­ ible. We bad guessed the history of the man from his writing." "Soon Forgot When We Are Gone.'* A strange lesson Is taught by science that, in the death of all or­ ganic forms, nourishment, essential to the growth and maturity of new forms, is furnished. Then in death the best good of new forms is served, endless and ever-recurring change being the only permanent thing in nature. Ceaseless change, the out­ come of which we call evolution, prostrates daily in death one hun­ dred and twenty-dve thousand hu­ man beings, and also brings a slight­ ly larger number into the world by birth. The same idea probably gov­ erns in the higher domains of life, and applies to the social, Indus* trial, and business phases of ex­ istence. If this be so, every one serves a certain purpose in the scheme of existence and passes into oblivion, so far as this atom of stellar dust we call the world is con­ cerned. It is by no means a flatter­ ing utterance, though it may be the truth, that this world is bettered by the death of mortals and that those who go can be spared as well as not, and that those who are left behind, and interests which the dead aban- On of paittitf t ottelaJe often to M'4lwai|re for people. A writer i that she bad torn of loden, a §ort of __ made only in the Sytst, '•*&& 'pMiced it in the top of her troth* fcrtbein spection of the Italian officials. One alter another the trenail were un­ locked and dosed again until nothing was left but the unpretending little itraw one which had been overlooked. "You have notWiur In it -nothing, slgnora?" asked the officer. ' ' Yes, I have," was my unexpected reply.< "It is jnst here on top." 1 opened the trunk and displayed my uncut goods. The train whistled, officials grunted, people' jostled past us and glared at me 1 knew he wanted to say: ' 'Why do you bother me by declaring it?" He wrenched the loden out of the trunk and stared toward an inner of- ficet bidding me follow. There I was greeted by another official in these words, spoken with excitement and much gesticulation: 'How is this? Just now at the last moment and the train ready to ga How is this?" One man was weighing the goods* another poising a pen In his hand, and half a dozen looking on. Why is this?" repeated the chief officer. "Why do yon declare this at the very last moment?" "Perhaps it would have been bet­ ter if I had not declared it at all," 1 said in my suavest tones. •Hut to come at this moment ** Surely it is not for my pleasure, Mr. Officer, that you ransacked my trunks," I reminded him. Then ne looked at me wi£h the air of childlike helplessness so character­ istic of Italians "But there is no time mm to took over your other baggage and see wbat else you havaw I laughed. "1 put this on topa»d<te«!airedlt," I said. "There is nothing else, I as­ sure you. But be tranquil; next time I pass the frontier I will smug­ gle everything and declare nothing. I promise never to put you to so much troubie again." . A quiver of a smileerosscd his lips, but he growled: "But the train is waiting." "Yes," I replied, "and it miiststill wait until you are pleased to return my goods and allow me to relock my trunk." The end of it all was that" I was bowed out of the office after paying $1 duty on a $4 piece of goods. m A NOTED MENDICANW don, do not suffer much by the sepa; ration. A nation, or even a group of centuries, resolves itself into a mere ! that he had fallen Baaa Hlekman Made Consraaamea "OMpr far Ma Acqaaintanoc. Robert Hickman, or "Beau" Hick­ man, for many years a noted charac­ ter in Washington, was not a beau at all, except in one particular--like all English beaux be was a gambler, wit, and loafter. He belonged to a respectable family in V irginia, and went to Washington in 1845, at which time he had a considerable patrimony, and could have gone into the most exclusive circles of society, but he preferred the hotels, the pub­ lic places of resort, and his money was soon lost at the gaming table. Then he began living by bis wits. He had a shabby, genteel appear­ ance, an inoffensive, cadaverous countenance, and although commonly known as "Beau," during the latter years of hie life, he dressed almost the same in Grant's administration as he did twenty years before. He was a fair story teller, but his stories were not told for nothing. Indeed, all who went to Washington were ex­ pected to "chip" for the privilege of h s acquaintance. If newcomers were not introduced he would intro­ duce himself, and hint suggestively that they were expected to contribute something. Representatives to the Lower House were let off by paying 92.50, while Senators were taxed $5. He would represent to strangers that he was an institution at the capital, and the only fault he bad to find with the constitution was that he was not recognized in it Those who objected to the "chipping*' he avoided in the future, but these were not numerous uutil his late years, when he became shabbier than ever, and was imaily excluded altogether Irom one of the hotels. His family disowned him when they learned his mode ot living, and allowed him a small annuity ou condition that he remain away from them. His abid­ ing place seemed to be a mystery, since he spent so much time at the public lounging places, but he proba­ bly lived over a restaurant near the Metropolitan Hotel, where he was found dead. Contributions had be­ come comparatively rare during his late years, but he was ever an object of pity, it being generally believed from a greater thought, and the individual actors quickly fade into the azure of the past and are as nothing to their suc­ cessors in time. It is not a pleasing thought that when we shall have en­ tered the tomb the world will ha better off without us than with us. AIMW ; < I " j t J » • " i'jf [.'! LOCATXOK or iriBiTT, KBAMSC COM*?A- cinc OCKAJf. SWEET, trusting dlspositioilfe jkrt rarely found in married womeh ̂ ing eight feet wide and 28,000 feet long. The mills have a capacity of fifteen tons a day, making only the higher grades of book paper and writing manilas, together with hardware pa­ pers. The plant has cost $4001,000 and the buildings and yards oocupy twen­ ty-eight acres. The possibilities of tne wood pulp industry are limitless, as the supply of material here is boundless. The Barge Works, with a steel whaieback steamship 360 feet long and of 5,100 tons burden oa the ways. Is the only ship yard of its kind ana impor­ tance on the coast. The Wire Nail Factory is the chief concern of this kind west of the Mis­ sissippi, having a capacity of 1,000 kegs of nails and fifty tons of drawn wire a day, making everything from a thirteen-inch spikfe down to the small­ est brad, in ail oyer 250 varieties. The gold a£<i silver smelter, built ata cost of i25O,O0tJr is the finest on the coast, handling all kinds of precious ores. There are a dosen or more lumbar and Adoration. Looking into the blue stillness of a nightly sky sown with twinklihg hix*I n, every one of wuich is a sun like our own, or much larger, as A re­ turns, which is 550,000 times larger than that sun, every one of these millions of suns, no doubt, having in­ habited planets revolving around it, can we marvel at the words of the psalmist, "What is man, O God, that thou art mindful of him?" An infinity of suns and systems of suns, in infinite space, in infinite duration, controlled by infinite Power and in­ finite Wisdom, and guided to the minutest atom and aggregation of atoms by infinite intelligence, all be­ get In rightly constituted mortals the deepest humility, and cause their hearts to overflow with adoration and worship of the Creator.--Pullman Journal. The Smallest Tree to the World. The distinction belongs to the Greenland birch. Its height is less than three Inches, yet it covers a radius of two or three feet ..... •«* likely to M willlo telloverybody the ghi.of the poor, strqgilinff arttot salStff he may*et some measure at ftwtke. His name is J. F. Burns.---Detroit Tribune. • , • DeitNfMt of American fT(lines No one with the best interei|i ai our American life at heartcanluok bat with disfavor upon the enormous torn** M»d *P*rt- tkmi tmrnm our liiwe etttes, writes Edward W. Bok in "At Rome With the Bator," in the tad*,' Home Journal̂ To a far greater ax- . dnniat andh*' ypUR stationed; Ou iitt afc tfea tent than maBy suppose are these growing factors the destroyers of our American home system. Each year fiads the apartment bouses mesa generally patronised by families* It will indeed fee a pity if our American women shall continue to eschew housekeeping during the next twenty years as they have in the past score of years. Nothing bodes so ill for our children. What recol lection dees life in an apartment house, a hotel or a boarding house give to a child in after years? The sweetest memory to a man is the home of his boyhood, and how little sweetness can there be in the memory of a childhood spent as a "cliff-dweller!" A child has,a rightful claim to a home influ­ ence, and a mother is untrue to her highest trust when she deprives her child of that right To offer the ar­ gument that a home circle can be established in our modern apartment houses just as well as in a home is simply to excuse what we know in our hearts to be an untruth. Home life is only possible in a home A poor apology indeed for a heme is even the most comfortable and gorgeously-appointed apartment. Women excuse their resort to this form of life because of the freedom from the annoyance of servants. But the servant girl problem cannot be solved by shirking it It seems to me that if some of our American women would trouble themselves less about municipal and suffrage prob­ lems, which men will take care of, and devote their much-flaunted capa­ bilities for municipal executive abil. lty toward the solution of the servant girl problem, which is theirs and theirs ooiy, it would be better for our American. was* RUSSIAN troops are with snowshoee.' to be height than he had really at any time occupied. He died about twenty years ago, and was buried in the Pot­ ter's field. The Father and JBfs Boy. Dan't be a hypocrite before your boy, writes Robert J. Burdette in the first paper of the series 'Before He is Twenty" in the Ladies' Home Journal. When he believes you to be infallible don't encourage the be­ lief. Take him into your life as you desire to be taken into his. Don't tell him that when you were a boy you never gave your parents a mo­ ment's uneasiness, were never cross to your little sister, never disobeyed your teacher, never cruel to dumb animals, and always kept the tiiolden Rule. Be honest with him above all things. Don't be too dignified with him. The more he loyes you, the more he lives in vour arms, the more be plays with you and the less he fears you, the more profoundly will he respect you. Pity the man, who. in order to secure and retain proper respect from his child, has to wear at all times an uncomfortable veneer of artificial dignity. Result or an Artistic Conceit. About a year ago a clever artist in mere caprice, made an ingenious pic­ ture of a canal boat being propelled by the trolley. He received a few dollars for the picture, and, so far as he was concerned, that was the end of it Some scheming fellow up in • Learn Tribute. ̂; . , •There is a very peculiar eostotn among the Sioux Indians," said Emanuel French,of Bismark,N. Dak., who was at the Lindell recently. "The Inaians take kindly to European cooking utensils and aids to comfort, and it is quite common* for an explor* ing or picnic party to trade off ket­ tles, frying pans and the like for skins or curiosities. A cooking utensil thu* acquired becomes practically the com- ifios property of the tribe, on the general understanding, however,that whoever borrow* it shall pay for its use by leaving in it a porton of the food eooked. As the Indians seldom waste any time in washing or clean­ ing eating or eooking vessels, this practice, has some conveniences from a red man's point of view, and often a saucepan is returned with quite a large quantity of meat or potatoes clinging to the bottom, and perhaps covering up some of. the remains of a preceding and entirely different pre­ paration. it is not long since that an exploring party I was out with lost its kettle, which had evidently jolted out of the wagon on the bad road. After considerable hesitation one was borrowed from a friendly squaw, and, after water had been boiled in it three or four times and it had. been well scoured out with sand, it an­ swered its purpose admirably. When we were through with the kettle we thoroughly cleaned it again and re­ turned it and it was not until an Indian guide explained the custom that we understood the look of su­ preme contempt which|came over the red lady's face when, on looking into the inside of the kettle, she saw that it contained no relic whatever of our eveningl feast"--St Louis (ttobe- Democrat Ostrich Feather Fans. The handsomest feather fan on rec­ ord is that owned by the Countess of Lonsdale, which consists of five wide white feathery the longest twenty inches; with a handle of amber, hav­ ing her monogram in diamonds, and costing $1,500, writes Emma M. Hooper in an article on "The Use and Care of Feathers" in the Ladies' Home Journal. Pearl, shell and am­ ber mountings and shorter feathers in the lyre-shaped fans cost from $25 to $100. Even for $20 a dainty one, though simple, may be had. in the closing fans a really choice specimen costs from $15 to $25. From $8 to $.15 came very stylish ones, but undei that price they have a cheap look, though many are carried in black, light colors and the natural mixed gray. The sticks or mountings have much to do with the price. A feather fan is supposed to last a life­ time and should always be kept in a box. It is quite a favorite bridal present and is never out of style, but remember that a handsome design of this kind is only suitable tor full dress. - Eight Tons Ibr Three Horses. The great esiabiisuuieuie u»*£ S8l a standard of good and humane treat ment by which the London horse has been greatly benefited. Better and larger stables, good food and litter, and steady work, with regular days of rest, have lengthened the life and Improved the physique of the Lon­ don horse. A good brewer's horse, standing 17.2, was weighed by Mr. Gordon and tipped the beam at just over the ton. The driver weighed twenty stone, twelve pounds! The van, fully loaded, six tons, fifteen hundredweight, to which must be ad­ ded the harness, making a total, with the driver, of nearly eight tons. Three horses drew the whole, and It was stated that, on the average, three horses now do the work which four did twenty years ago. The vane haVe improved, the roads have im­ proved, and the horses have improved --especially the horses.--The Spec­ tator. STATISTICS will prove that people have become rich in every professior and business except teaching school Dr. J. M. «f Loafcrtlie, but m wae told I* Jir. Gi it to James R Iftnl tbm , deht- | the anarnft] at Hi ai ji ' war a challenge. i comparative Kellar to act as, him tetters or iBftrodwidtes£ soldier. Preliminaries were arranged* and the belligerent* wlth the* son* onds met on the fieM of boner tb* neat morning at naarlso The dl«# tance was measured off, the prlMlt pals war* station#, and "one ̂ tw<7> had been counted, when the GMMdjjf threw up bis hand and declared h# codid not and would not fight H« declined to give his reasons and wai# branded as a coward, ft. Kaiiarlp , who knew the man must hare a valid ' excuse, stood by him and requested the dtheis to say ootfrisg of t&a a&i# until proper explanations were mil# i When the doctor reached his hotel hf' 1 found a note from the Colonel, whicv: only added to the mystery. He defeC dined to explain his apparent cow*. > ardly action, but said that time woultf show he had acted rightly. He leffK Nashville and was afterward hear#! of only from the seat of war, and iijp!: all cases was spoken of as a bravet# fearless soldier; At last came th#t news of his death, and with it a let­ ter to Dr. Kellar that had been fount# ^ • oh the dead man's body. It cleared; i the mystery. This letter stated that?) just as the Colonel raised his weapon' 1 to'Are in the duel his antagonist, th4. ' Major, had given the distress sign of- ; a secret organization of which bott|"* were members, and the Colonel could|; not and would not violate his oattp| by disregarding the signal. DrAj Kellar bunted down the cowardlif§£ Major, made him acknowledge the" truth of the statement, and then him dismissed from the army in grace. Pretty Romance ot * Southern Oil), Mrs. Thomas Smales died in Orange, _ 1ST. J., Saturday, from the effects of ife* bullet which she carried in her skull-' , since early life. Her maiden namd' was Miss Frances Dayton, and shf ' ': was a daughter of wealthy Virginia parents. Her beauty won for he# " many admirers, one of them, Thoma4 . - ' ] Smales, whom she loved above aUfr, - others. Among the rejected suitori was a Southern lad, who, being ret'V ' ^' pulsed in his advances, shot her iri . thehedcL All efforts to locate th4 ; ;?f: ball proved futile. Miss Dayto^ studied telegraphy and then took ^ vi course in medicine in order to treaf |11 herself. She finished her medical -I studies in Berlin and we»t to Loa*-./.- v. doa, England, to practice ̂ Her lover waa still true to her aad although hia family had removed te Australia h# ̂ kept up correspondence With her.; * He returned at length to the United ̂ Statss and established himiMlf in th4i! . /5 photographic business!» Brunswick^ ••Mm »K v .a,, f. • Ga. He prospered greatly and seof ! for his intended. She crossed th<* j water and they were married ia 1882., i She devoted herself to charitai ' work and founded the first traicin , school for nurses in all the Sout i also a hospital at Brunswick. Ti • bullet in her head, however, stil {troubled her and about a year ; she came north to visit a friend a Orange, N. X. with the hope of gainC ing her health. All efforts prove# futile and she gradually wasted away; * K--; Ii"Enfant Terrible* • Congressman from the Western •: slope tells several good stories at th$ ,, expense of his wife, who is an inde*. •' ^ fatigable caller. There are two chil* - dren in their family, and the lady, l having a couple of visitors from hei^ native State, decided to take one o|' . the children--aged 5--with her whil^r ^ the visitors were put through th$ round of cabinet calls. As they we: going into the home of the Secretar, of Agriculture Mrs. Congressuia said to the ladies: "I'm going introduce you as farmers* wives. I I don't I won't have anything to tallf * 1 about here." : V ;1 The ladies assented^ regarding th^u -Ck deception in the light ot a good joke*- ' • The laugh, however, was on them. , l. i for when Mrs. Congressman performed the Introduction with explanatory additions. Master Flve-Year-Olc opened his eyea la wide astonishment followed suit with his sweet littU mouth and lisped: "My Aunt Carrie isa't-a farmer" •>' The first call had been at the Vic^i President's, where the infant regalec|% himself with the good things of­ fered him. The next piace hap­ pened to be a tea call, where hq| wasn't asked to partake of penpeif ;/• mints and the like. The small genfc tleman endured the sit-down chat aa long as be could, but finally created . ^ ; a minature reign of terror by pipingy ; ^^ out: " "Mamma, theweain't any wefwesh*- ments here!"--Kate Field's Washing^ * $ to a. ; Harfl te Pl-^-e. f ^ Susy is a young lady of fire year# , and also of a very difficult disposition. . ; The other day a visitor at her fafcher'^ & f house found Susy weeping bitterly lot the corner. ,» , "Why, what are you crying about?'* she was asked. '-i " 'Cause all my b-brother* and sis- ters have a v-v-vacation, audi I don't have any! Boohoo!" "And why don't you cation?" 4 "Cause---I--I don't yet!" have any ya* ge to school This Call Meant a Babe. Deacon Heavyweight--And so yott are going to leave us, parson? Rev. Mr. Thankful--Yea I hav* had a call to another parish, where,; by the way, the salary is considerably! larger. 1 am sorry to leave my flock, but I must obey the call. Deacon Heavyweight (dryly)--Wa!, It may be what you call a call, but it seems to me a good deal mere like a raise "-7..? ^ .* ,' •• % • • r'1 •:' ..." * - .' ' H r , _» ,'JC