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ind ran, Dvr mhp deep. Lies # ti» • itemed ears HkI sleep, Where cmrmands greet the sun. Lift tip your weary eyes, behold The golden fields, the goidemalr; The WNt wind flecks the swaying gold Withlifbt «nd shadow manifold, .. Alia *©!ll fleams every where. Reap, O reap ! while the sickles sing The harvest song of ft world at rest; Beap with a rhythmic sweep and swing Till silence falls with evening, « . And peace is manifest. Lift ap your joyful eyes and see The silver night, with pliding feet Move from the sunset giimmerirafo. A»d, priestess of God's ministijj||' ^ ? Hallow the garnered wheat. " *i U *' S. h ' EED JIM." W£ ( Mesa City lay scorched and brown- * " tog beneath the blaze of a July sun. t'ViV Thi wide streets, flanked by rows of paint'uly new brick stores and wooaen dwellings, the court house, city hall, graded schools and churches, the dla- mond shaped plaza, boasting a dry «§; ' t urned Niobel and even the discouraged 1*4 trees that had been planted near the 3$. , doors or the tempting suiouus, wau ox* and all white beneath the alkali dust, S-' and quivered and shimmered in the . burning glare like the unstable city of mirage. Few inhabitants ventured forth, for tbe heat was unusual even for New D \C •" f$~ Mexico, and while it lasted work must wait But In one building there had gathered quite a concourse, notwith- !"'•' V- st'"ding the temperature, and Judge 1*5 >V,' • Gary looked from the bench across a ^ - Kt' crowded room as the crier arose and 1% wlt^ sonorous voice announced the opening of the court for the trial of If * ^criminal cases. 9*; : Led by Sheriff Jack, Ironed and a trifle pale, James Brownell was led into the room and took his pl$be in the ,<iV,/ prisoner's dock. The murmur of low conversation, the occasional squeak of v-| -, a pen, the shuffling of feet, all ceased , ,f,-yV as the clerk arose to read the indict-M f e - J * * ? * - - W.' ®aentS- n . *v „ Violations of the liquor laws; viola- f?S> frt < tion ofthe gambling laws; horse steal- ,|£ ;:,itag. robbery, burglary, and last of all One by one the black record % ^ t was spread before the court, the re- i>'5 ' teult of a series of years of iniquities, the work of a half dozen grand Juries; f a *nd now for the first time the much in- dieted man was in the hands of the law, k \ v-i* *'? answer its repeated sumnsons. pi? Judge Gary looked toward Brownell. gr »i. , "How does the prisoner plead?" fc4 M^ot guilty to every count in every p v'i. . ,'ndlctment." replied his attorney, one |KV ' ©f the younger lawyers in the city; "and gl/* demand a separate trial upon each pi0 1^1. charge." >\. rV" J n»urmur of disapproval ran through i&<r * *- 7 room- Was this notorious despera- | 1 i ' } ' ' ̂ ° t o e s c a p e t h r o u g h t h e v e r y t e c h n i - f/s # ^ calities and delays of the law he had , , defied? . f j . " T h e n i t b e c o m e s t h e r i g h t o f t h e d i s - trict attorney to move whichever of the Indictments he may choose," replied the judge. "Mr. Arnold, what is the desire on the part of the people?" $** The gray-haired prosecutor for the county arose and in a deliberate and d^rnified maner announced that he s v would elect to try under the principal ^ „ ,-indictment. i\ V "Ixe greater might be said in this <5ase, your honor, to include the less. K~t>V , Should the prisoner be convicted of ,Ji m"rf1°r it wilt relieve both him and the if,* commonwealth lrom the weariness and i,, .f expense of trials for the lesser crimes; Wll,. should he be acquitted I shall move an {, immediate trial tinder the indictment j for burglary." 'iV Tbe crowd breathed more easily; Brownell was not to escape after all. "°ld Amold '11 do him," whispered * one listener to another; "the evidence | .. is a dead sure thing! He's bound to I3}/ £ hang, an' the sheriff's posse thought so, ||| er they'd never a' brought him in!" %jf ^ , The preliminaries were soon over, a $J.' t:. Jury drawn and agreed to, the raao 1|' „ opened, and the trial begun. - Witness after witness was sworn in , rapid succession, and the dark story of | ' the crime with which Brownell was charged--a street riot, resulting in the death of one of the rioters--was retold ; In all its hideousnesa. The crowd lis- ' * N " tened with eager ears, untiring for | > * hours, though the heat seemed to grow jg?; ?; ! with the day; the lawyers bent more closely over their notes, the judge for- fv- , got to lean back in his chair, and even • ^ the prisoner, resting with manacled IK hands upon the rail of the criminal's M*"; , box wherein he sat, showed by the ? gloom that gathered upon his brutal tace» au<i the dull, anny glow in his ®ye» that he appreciates the desperate , strait in which he stood. fe, - When the prosecution had rested the %&- ; attorney for Brownell bent toward him • * and whispered earnestly in his ear. The man shook his head. Again the tfC lawyer addressed him, urging some plan • • ' of defense newly thought of, but still the prisoQer refused his acquiescence, and at last, with a gesture indicative of iritation, young Stewart arose turned to address the jury. He told them of his client's early life; the lack of good influences, the hard paths for childish feet, the tempta­ tions of youth, the struggles and fail­ ures of manhood. He told them of the fight for inert* existence against fate and fortune, with no one to lend a helping hand or breathe a heartening word; of the frowning face of virtue a ad the tempting one of vice; of aspira­ tions smothered, efforts unavailing, good intentions trodden under foot, and at last of hopeless, friendless, despair­ ing wickedness. He warned them against circumstantial evidence only; he spoke of the inherent right of self- > defense; he prayed their pity and the benefit of the smallest cloud that might cast a shadow of doubt; he opened and closed his case without a witness and sat down. Mr. Arnold summed up for the peo­ ple, <?oldly, logically, convincingly; and when, as he closed, the level rays of the western sun shot through the dusty windows and lit the waiting faces of the court and jury with their glory of crimson and gold, the prisoner, un­ touched in the falling shadow where he aat, seemed to the breathless audi­ ence to rest beneath the gloom of a cer­ tain punishment, desperate and with­ out reprieve. In a few words tbe court charged the jury so clearly, bo fairly that even Brownell raised his ashen face from theptii whereon he had bowed it, once more to study wtjth gleaming eyes the ; countenances of the arbiters of his fate. A« tb» tw«lve loft the room l&ere •litcred lt̂ cklld, a wee thing In white, aft" her Ctfi tho little ffcoe MfgfctMMO, shout of "Gnuidpfcr * _ through the ettalx% the Uyry&b, and clslased a af«t M hta ride, where for some momenta she whis­ pered softly to the old sum aa h« wait* ed for the hour of adjournment. "OramliJA. It's goln* -to raiu, aa' mam­ ma wants 'oo to come home! Zey'a a great big cloud over sat way, an' it's awful black!" And with round eyes of Wonder she pointed toward the south. "But, pet," said the Judge, "grand­ pa's busy now. Who said that you could come h^re?" "No one, only mamma's 'fraid, an' I knowed she wanted 'oo, an* It's a big cloud, an' it whirls, an' whirls, a$* scares me, tool" As the Judge was about to reply a slight commotion attracted his atten­ tion. A moment later the jury filed in* to their box, and the foreman arose and faced the court. A hush fell upon the room as the clerk called the roll; then, In a voice that shook a Utile, be said: "Have the Jury agreed upon their verdict?" "We hare," replied the foreman sim­ ply. ~tiow ao they rind r5 "Guilty, as charged In the Indict­ ment" A sounQ that might have been a sigh ran through the listeners. The Judge arose and faced the prisoner. In the silence that reigned the voice of a dis­ tant wind, roaring afar off, fell upon the waiting ears, and the last gleam of sunlight faded from the wall. Solemnly the District Attorney moved that sentence now be passed upon the prisoner. "Brownell, stand up. Have you any­ thing to say why the sentence of this court should not be passed upon you?" The prisoner had noted the return of the jury and listened to their verdict as one in a dream, as a man stunned by a thunderbolt watches the destruction of his home wrought by the same messen­ ger from heaven, dazed and unnerved. As the sound of the Judge's voice beat upon his dull ears he turned his' head slowly and looked at him wonderingly. "Have you anything to say?" The ni«n gathered his feet beneath bim, and, with an effort, arose. For a long moment he gazed about him, at the jury in the box, the Judge on the bench, and the dense and waiting crowd behind him. Then an ugly smile spread across his face and a fierce light burned in his heavy eyes. "Hev I anything ter say? Yas! I dare ye all to do yer worst! Do ye think Red Jim is afeard, er thet ye kin cow him? Ye don't know him. Murder, is it, fer a man to save his own life, an* ye threaten ter hang me? Do it! Go on an' read out yer sentence. I defy ye, Sheriff an* all! Red Jim never squeals!" And with a snarl like that of an animal he waved his manacled arms above his head. "I know the trouble; ye're all afraid o* me, an* ye'd better be, fer ef the devil lets me live I'll be the curse o' this thin blooded town, an' everyone in it! I hate it! Curse ye one an' all, root an' branch,Voung an' old! What hev ye ever done fer me? Nothin' but ter foller tiie\an' drive me out o' decent livin' an' Wake me an outcast an' a criminal aa I am! When I asked fer work what did ye give me? Jail! When I found a place, ye told my boss thet I'd rob him, an' he turned me out! When I tried to be decent, every man's hand an' every woman's tongue in this black town was agin me, an' I curse ye all!" The man had worked himself Into a fury. His eyes glared, his face was _ ouf «vwythiiig,*«iam! th* rending of wood and iroo, the of victims, and the wlt& taum- ftettng of the storm, the cyclone sjfrept on, leaving a mass of ruins where tho court house had stood. • • • V Half a dosen hours later, cm the res­ cuers labored they came upoti an open- lug, a sort of protected chamber, as It were, in front of the desk where the bar had formerly been, made by th£ great beams falling one upon the othel, And within it were found three per* sons--Judge Gary, stretched upon the floor, stunned but breathing; and bend­ ing above him Red Jim, holding In his shackled hands, sheltered close to his breast the little form of the Judge's granddaughter, living and unhurt But the central iron support of tho court house dome had fallen directly across this group, and Brownell had yielded his life in the effort to protect and save the others. (From a story by Francis B. Hamilton, In Munsey's Magazine.) "I DABE YE ALL TO DO lift white as death, and his shackled hands swung to and fro, clanking the heavy irons as though they were bells. His listeners wetfe stunned--all but Sheriff Jack and the Judge, and when the former would have seized the pris­ oner and conveyed him from the room, the Justice stopped him. As Brownell paused for breath the dull roar of the wind sounded louder in the ears of the people, and the dark­ ness, unusual except as the forerunner of a storm at this time of the year, thickened momentarily. The Judge's granddaughter had crept into his arms and hidden her face. "Ye hev forgot thet I war ever bet- ter'n jthe dogs at yer doors, er the snakest at yer heels; but I hev notl Who saved you from the Injuns thir­ teen years ago, Tom Bodoin?" he shout­ ed, turning suddenly toward one of the jurymen and stretching his manacled arms in his direction. "Who saved ye an' yer fambly up on the Rios? Red Jim! But he's wuss nor an Injun now! Who caught the man thet tried to steal yer daughter, Dan O'Neil?" he contin­ ued pointing to another juryman, "when he hed shot yer hoss under ye, an' the girl had fainted In ,his arms? Who? Red Jim! But ye don't remem ber it! Who went Into the engine-room o' the Last Chance Mine an' shut off the steam when every d----d coward had run, an' the biler was at tbe point o' burstin' an' the cage with fifteen men would a' gone to the bottom o' the shaft? Red Jim! But that don't count! He's a desperado now; "hang him! Hang him!" His voice was raised to a shriek, and sounded shrill through the gloom above the deepening thunder of the Btorm. "An' you, Jedge Gary, thet are to sen­ tence me to hang by the neck ontil I'm dead, I talk to ye with yer grandchild in yer arms! Who refused her father drink times without number, an' cared fer him nights without number? Who druv him back to ye when ye couldn't git him yerself, an' tried to make a man o' him? Who saved him frum tbe , hands o' the men who would a' torn him in pieces the last night o' his life fer his devilish work with his knife, when he hed no friends? Red Jim! Who gave yer son a bed to die in, old man, when ye hed refused It yerself? Red Jim! An' now he braves ye an' curses ye, one an' all! Curses, double curses, ten thousand curses on " He Struck Oil Once. "I see petroleum has been discovered up in Marion county and a company is buying up all the land In the neighbor­ hood," remarked a rancher to a report­ er of the San Francisco Poet, and it was noticed that there was a tinge of incredulity in his tone. "Yes, I believe they have struck oil up that* way," was the corroborative evidence of his hearer. "Well, I'll believe it when they com­ mence piping it Into the tanks, and not a minute before. I struck oil once." "Is that the way you made your fort­ une?" "Yes, that's the way I made my fort- £|£!gr S-t tllB H.ma lacks $2,000 of being a blamed cent. Those are my liabilities; assets nomi­ nal, as the papers say." 'How did it happen?" Well, it was this way: I had a min­ eral spring on my ranch up in Lake county, and the gas that came out of it used to kill little birds that came to drink. 'Natural gas,' says I, and com-, menced poking around a little with & spade. Then a yellow, greasy scum formed on top of the water. 'Coal oil,' says I, and I commenced dreaming of tanks of petroleum and barrels of mon­ ey. Igot a cheap drilling outfit and bored a hole down about eighty feet, and all the neighbors sat around laughing at me, but I reckoned on having the last laugh. 'One morning when I went to work the hole smelled awful strong of coal oil, and the first lift brought up a lot of oil that burned for half an hour. 'I've struck oil,' says I to myself, but I kept it quiet I let a few of my friends in, we organized a company, bought up all the land around there, got an ex-, pensive outfit, and commenced drill­ ing. We punched the ground full of holes for about six months and couldn't find enough oil to make a grease spot on a silk dress. It broke the whole crowd of us." "How did you chance to strike that little pocket of oil In the first place?" 'I just found out that one of the neighbors' boys poured a five-gallon can of oil in the hole one night to make me me feel good, and if anybody should ask you, you can tell them that I am feeling a blamed sight better than he is right now, for his dad went broke on it too, and we took turn about wallop­ ing him." A Woman's "Word or Two.** ,, Telegraph tolls are moderately light as a rule; but sometimes they appear to b& excessive, as in the case told some years ago of a man whose wife was go -i ing abroad. He asked her to telegraph him a word or two letting him know of her safe arrival in London. In a few hours he received tbe follow­ ing message, marked collect: "Dear George--Arrived here safely at 6:15. The train was due at 0, but we were delayed fifteen minutes while en route. Had a perfectly lovely journey. Do not worry about me; I will get along all right And take good care of your­ self. Be so careful about taking cold this weather. Be sure to have the house open and aired as often as possi­ ble. Remember what I told you about your socks and shirts. Do not fotjget to keep the basement door locked. Write every day. I am sure I shall have a lovely time. So good of you to let me go. You must come over after me soon. Forever and ever yours, "MAMIE." An hour later Mamie wa& pained to receive the following reply to her "word or two:" "Do not wire from Switzerland. Am ruined If you do. GEORGE."' --Argonaut AFTER THE CYCLONE Ail Important Mdwb in the THeatxi' cal WOeW-P*T. Just before tbedeath of P. T. Bar- num the showman remarked that he did not know what his business was coming to, as there were no more good advance agents. "The advance agent," Mr. Barnum was quoted as saying, "is the mainstay of all shows, whether they be circuses, dramas, operas," or lectures, and the office is exclusively an American one." These remarks were caused by afe ac­ count of a railroad accident in a paper that Mr. Barnum was rea< It described how a successful magician on the derailed train had taken out a box of surgical instruments from his valise and attended to the injured ones. "That's too modest," said Mr. Bar­ num, "and it shows tbe weakness of the advance man of to-day. If one of my old boys had been managing this conjurer the paper next day would have described how the magician ha<I palmed the broken rail, pulled a dozen i&bbits out of bis hat and sent them tq near-by towns for medical assistance.** While it is true that the agents Mr. Barnum referred to have nearly all dis­ appeared it is by no means a great dis- fortune, as the new school of doing ad­ vance work: Is more reliable and effec­ tive. oiuen time agents were extremely able men is demonstrated by the fact that they are nearly all man­ agers of note to-day. One of the most prominent directors of theatrical enter­ prises is famous for his record of never getting stuck in any town, but he had a' close shave in Ogdensburg, N. Y., once. Upon arriving in town, he learned to! his sorrow that the advance sale for his show was but $3. The agent was dead broke. It was quite necessary that he Should get $25. Yet he couldn't borrow from the theater with only a $3 sale to the credit of his company. He studied over the. matter a while and walked up-town. Entering a drug store he called up the theater by telephone), "Is this the theater?" he asked. "Yes; who are you?" "Dr. Raymond, at the drug store.*" „ "Well." • "Save me four seats to-night" ' "Much obliged." Then the agent went to the biggest dry goods store, and In the same man­ ner telephoned for fmir aeata, A half- dozen stores anif gfflces were visited and several rows, of seats were re­ served. Then f$e agent carelessly strolled into the theater. "You are in luck', old mail," said ths treasurer in the box office. "How so?" innocently asked thq agent "Why, your sale has jumped up to $150." ' "Well, that Is no more than we de­ serve. Just give me half of that and I, will hurry on to Syracuse." > ' , "Will $75 be enough ?" "You might make it a hunsSmt; Is have got to send several cablegrams from there." After the performance there was just $11 in the box office. The treasurer of the company had his troubles in trying to make a settlement but tbe agent was in the next town ordering wine. The theatrical business is now so thor­ oughly systematized that opportunities for sharp tricks and illusions are lim­ ited. Attractions are now managed as are railroads, dry goods stores, or other commercial institutions. The tour is booked, printing ordered, railroad ar­ rangements made, and a score of little details are fixed before the company leaves New York. This simplifies the agent's work, yet he must have in­ numerable resources in case of an emergency. One of Mr. Frohman's managers, Alf Hayman, who is some­ thing of a joker, has applied to Wash­ ington for a patent on an agent's clock. It Is like the ordinary watchman's time­ piece and worn at the side like a pair of field glasses. This clock must be wound up by a different key each day. There are 365 keys, and at the begin­ ning of a season these keys are sent to 365 dramatic editors. Then, if the clock stops, the agent's salary ceases.-- Chicago Tribune. Tinielceepei. TO ascprt^tn the time at night, tho Apache Indians employ a gourd on which the stars of the heavens are marked. As the constellations rise in the sky, the Indian refers to his gourd and finds ' out the hour. By turning the gourd around he can tell the order In which the constellations may be ex­ pected to appear. The hill people of Assam reckon time and distance by the number of quids of betel nuts chewed. It will be re­ membered how, according to Washing­ ton Irving, Gov. Wouter Van Twiller dismissed the Dutch Colonial Assem­ bly invariably at the last puff of his third pipe of tobacco. A Montagnis Indian of Canada will set up a tall stick In the snow, when traveling ahead of friends who are to follow. He marks with his foot the line of shadow cast and by the change In the angle of the shadow the on-com­ ing party can tell, on arriving at the spot about how far ahead the leader is. Doubtless the first timekeeper was the stomach, which notified its owner when the hour for a meal arrived. P* "Say," said th#«^ker" to a writer for tho New York Trfbune, "don't tell me that we Americans do not like ti­ tles. Why, hang it we dote on titles. Just see how many of the rich girls go for titles abroad and are will- Ing to accept broken-down specimens of humanity for husbands simply be­ cause they call themselves dukes or marquises or counts or what not Now, I don't mean to say that we Americans are anxious to have any orders of no­ bility. But we make up for the lack of noble names. Any sort of a title we can get hold of is used with a vengeance. Consider military designations, for in­ stance. Look over the lists of people who are present at any public function. The number of military men is astound­ ing. Where do they come from? The war has been over nearly thirty years and a vast number of the officers who came out of It are dead. But the num­ ber of generals, colonels, majors and captains seems stupendously large still. Of course the militia of the States fur­ nishes a good many men. A man Is at the head of a regiment; he conducts a drill once a week or so, takes part in a parade a few times a year, and per­ haps spends a week in a State camp. professional man; his military associa­ tions are merely an incident of his ca­ reer. But to all the world he Is 'the col­ onel,' and he remains the colonel for­ ever. "Then look at the military staff of Governors. These are usually made up 6t civilians. They don't know any more about drills and tactics and strat­ egy than a South Sea Islander does about the Constitution of the United States; and, moreover, they don't learn any more while they hold their offices, but they get to be known as colonels and majors and captains; and the titles stick. Nobody, I presume, is going to kick against magnifying or manufac­ turing titles. A man may somehow or other be entitled to. be called a lieuten­ ant or a captain, but it frequently hap­ pens that in some Inexplicable way he sooner or later becomes a colonel or a general. This is •especially the case when he runs for a political office, and in these instances he rarely stops short of being a fnH-fledged general with the Inferential record of life imperiled, forts stormed and battles won. I have even seen the placid and peace-loving Wanamaker called general, merely be­ cause he was the Postmaster General of the United States under President Harrison. "But the title that I kick against in earnest is one for which some of the newspapers are largely .responsible. How the practice ever started I don't know, unless it was to save space. It Is the habit of making a title or prefix of a man's occupation. This is becom­ ing extremely prevalent, especially among certain newspapers in this city, we have Lawyer Smith, Banker Jones, Broker Brown, etc. I have even seen Butcher Green in print The worst case I recall was Driver of the Canal- boat Mary Jane Timothy Black, capital letters and all. A man Is very rich; he is frequently dubbed Millionaire Jones. He is a singer; he is called Tenor do Throatstrings. He coils ropes on a steamboat and gets into print as Deck­ hand McGlnty. He is a law-defying crank and is written up as Anarchist Smithkins, and so on. I don't believe they do such silly things as this any­ where else on earth. The only designa­ tions of any kind we should have are official ones; except in Kentucky, and, of course, there everyone has an in­ alienable right to be a colonel." Hysteria and Women's Bights. One notices in too many things which women do the touch of hysteria. Take the more or less neurotic novels which certain ladies have recently Issued from English presses. In every one of them one finds a .suggestion of the hys­ terical Inclination which Is an inevita­ ble accompaniment of certain forms of anaemia. I know nothing of their authors, but I should be disposed to wager, from the evidences which peep out from between the lines, that the large majority of them are childless women. Go where you please among the women who are shrieking out for this or that and you will find that 75 per cent of them are, in some way or other, the victims of their sex. From the point of view of modern femininity it is woman's right to be la man. If they would only be frank, It is nature they quarrel with--they envy man.--All the Year Round. * :/%j' An Aluminum Bcfib*. An aluminum torpedo boat built b> Yarrow for the French government has Just had a trial on the Thames. The boat is 60 feet long, 9 feet 3 Inches beam, and weighs with the water in its boilers 9 tons 8 hnudredwelght the hull alone weighing just vTtS tons, The ma­ terial used was an alloy of 94 per cent of aluminum and 0 per cent of copper. A striking result obtained from using the lighter metal was a gain of 3% knots over the steel boat of the same model, the aluminum boat making 20% knots; but it was also made possible to use thicker scantling, which stiffened the boat so that the vibration was not appreciable. The boat is easier to lift and more buoyant in the water. The cost of the metal was over £1,000, or twice as much as a steel boat of the same model.--Philadelphia Ledger. A mother is very "particular" about the company her daughter keeps when she is sixteen, but she is less pa<rtieu- lar every year after that jt/ Sometimes a man wants a thing so much that he forgets the other fellow doesn't want to part with it Of course It makes you feel bad to bite a worm in an apple, but think bow much worse tbe worm feels. Multiple Infection for Bacteria. Interesting results of experiments on the effect of associating virulent with harmless micro-organisms in inocula­ tions have been published in France by Dr. Duenschmann. Bacterium chan- voei, the exciting cause ofsymptomatlc anthrax, ordinarily kills guinea pigs in eighteen hours, but when a harmless microbe--bacillus prodigiosls--was in­ troduced with it the effect was delayed four days. Other observers had shown that animals are more readily infected With disease organisms of various kinds in tbe presence of bacillus prodlgiosis. Tbe influence upon disease of two or more varieties of organisms acting sim­ ultaneously is a subject thus far little considered.--Invention. Fish Kightt in Slam. The favorite sport in Siam Is fish- fighting. Betting on fish-fights is such a passion with the Siamese that they will stake, not only all their money and their goods but even their wives and children. The right to keep fighting fish Is bestowed only by the King and Is so highly paid for that the royal cof­ fers derive a large revenue from grant­ ing the requisite licenses. The fighting fish are little things of four or five centimeters iong and not thicker than a child's finger, but they are full of "fight" and fly at each other with the utmost ferocity as soon as they are let into the same water. In Annam, too, the same amusement pre­ vails. There the fish are kept in large, clear glass bottles of water and if one of the bottles is placed before a mirror the vicious little fish, seeing his own re­ flection and taking It to be the enemy, goes nearly mad with excitement at his inability to get at his adversary.--Ex­ change. On • A woman wboeo age was not far from 50, and Wfcee# avolrtfopois was close upon 200 pounds, arrived at the Detroit and Milwaukee depot the other morning with a bulky satchel in one hand and a pillow-slip stuffed full of something in ^he other, and the special policeman standing at the entrance no. sooner caught sight of her red face than he realized what was coming. "Look here!" she began, as she halt­ ed before him and dropped her bag­ gage to wipe her face. 'I want abottf forty different people arrested." "Yes'm. Anything wrong, ma'am?" "I should say there was. I am going out to Royal Oak to see my sister. I had scarcely left my house when a boy calls out 'Ah, there, my fairy!' Can't he be arrested for such sass as that?" j "Hardly, ma'am, though, it's very ill- manners." "Of course it is! I'm no fairy! Feel of that arm. Pat me on the back. Am I a shadow of a fairy or a solid chunk of humanity on my way to see my sister, who weighs twenty-five pounds more'n I dor "You are no fairy, ma'am,' replied the officer. "And I hadn't gone a block before a potuto-peuuier in a wagon sung one, There's my daisy? Oflteer, you have seen daisi<|s?" * - "Yes'm." "Do I resemble that fragile flower? There's a pair of arms which can, lift a barrel of pork." "No, ma'am, you do not resemble a daisy--not unless they've got out a new brand which I haven't seen. That ped­ dler ought to be arrested, but I'm afraid we couldn't find him." "And a little further on," she contin­ ued, as she wiped at her face, "a man standing in front of a saloon called out to me, 'Only a pansy blossom.' Officer, you have seen pansles?" "Yes'm." "Do pansles wear No. 6 shoes and tip the beam at 197 pounds?" "No, ma'am--you are no pansy. That man ought to be arrested, but now he Is probably safe In Canada. Anything more?" "Yes; somebody had something to say every few rods, and I'm mad all the way through, So I can't have nobody arrested?" "Hardly, ma'am--not under the cir­ cumstances." "Well, if the law don't cover such cases, they want to look out for me! I'll be back in four days, and I shall be carrying a pumpkin, a cat a bedquilt, half a bushel of apples, a jar of pickles, two squashes, and some other things which my sister is going to give me. I shall walk home, same as I walked down here. Some one will call me his fairy, or pansy, or forget-me-not and I'll drop them things and " • "And what, ma'am?" She struck her left hand with her right doubled up her fist and placed it against the officer's nose, and hoarsely whispered: "And he won't forget-me-not, wad don't you forget it!"--Free Press. Sawdust Bread. • Leon Lilienfeld, a young chemist and assistant of Prof. Kossel, has made a discovery which scientists here deem of great importance for the future, though in itself Jt is, perhaps, not of great moment lie has succeeded in preparing artificially a chemical pro­ duct which possesses all the properties of soluble peptones, including those of easy digestibility. Werner von Sie­ mens it was who, in 1886, prophesied that chemistry by and by would be able to prepare, out of waste material in nature, food stuffs, suited to the human palate and stomach. This discovery by young Lilienfeld is looked upon here as the first step in that direction. The second one, perhaps, is the invention of "wood bread," more correctly speaking sawdust bread, which is now being baked In a Berlin establishment at the rate of 200 hundredweight a day. The mixture is two-thirds to three-fourths sawdust and one-third or one-fourth rye flour. By a chemical process the sawdust loses its texture and taste, and liberates its saccharine and .©utritive elements, which, in combination with the rye flour, are baked into biscuits and bread. The price of thjs bread is five marks ($1.25) per hundredweight Thus far it has been used solely as food for the horses of the large Berlin horse car company, one horse disposing or from twenty to thirty pounds of this delicacy a day.--Evening posfpjj J JAPAN'S QUEER »fce Widjwwjr Are PoUt« »»4 Victiaw» t« »* XockJ. , Mr. Lafeadio Hearn, in the paper i"From My Japanese Diary,1* in tjte At­ lantic, tells of a robbery in the house ©f Ms neighbor, the dyer: . , ; ; He told me a queer story alxmt rob­ bers. Dyers are peculiarly liable to be visited by robbers; partli by reason of the value of the silks Intrusted to them, and also because the business t« known to be lucrative. One evening the family were robbed. The master was out of the city; his old mother, his wife and a female servant were the only persons In the house at the time. Three men, having their faces masked and carrying long swords, entered the door. One asked the servant whether p.ny of the apprentices were still in the building, and she, hoping to frighten the Invaders away, answered that tho •young men were all still at work. But the robbers were not disturbed by this assurance. One posted himself at the entrance, the other two strode into tho sleeping apartment The women started up in alarm, and the wife ask­ ed, "Why do you wish to kill us?" He who seemed to be the leader answered, "We do not wish to kill fou; we want money only. But if we do not get iV Into the matting. The old mother said, "Be so kind as not to frighten my daughter-in-law, and I v*£ll give you whatever money there is in the house. But you ought to know that there can- ,not be much, as my son has gone to Kioto.' She handed them the money- drawer and her own purse. There went just 27 yen and 84 sen. The head rob­ ber counted it and said quite gently, '"We do not want to frighten you. We know you are a very devout believer in Buddhism, and we think you would not tell a lie. Is this all?" "Yes, it far all," she answered. "I am, as you say, A believer In the teaching of Buddha, and if you come to rob me now, I be­ lieve it is only because I myself, !a some former life, once robbed yon. This Is my punishment for that faulty and so, instead of wishing to deceive you, I feel grateful at this opportunity to atone for the wrong I did to you in my previous state of existence." The robber laughed, and said, "You are a good. old. woman., and we believs ynn. If you were all poor we would not rob you at all. Now we only want a couple of kimono and this," laying his hand 'on a very fine silk overdress. The old •woman replied, "All my son's kimono J can give you, but I beg you will not take that, for it does not belong to my son, and was confided to us only for dyeing. What Is ours I can give, but I cannot give what belongs to another.*? "That ls quite right," approved the rob* ber, "and we shall not take It" ; After receiving a few robes, the rob­ bers said good night very politely, but ordered the women not to look after them. The old servant was still near the door. As the chief robber passed •her he said, "You told us a lie--so take this," and struck her senseless. None Of the robbers were ever caught v ------------------------ f fg^x ' Police and Politics. • Starting a Bank Account. Her Father--Has this young man any resources to support a wife? Birdie McGinnis--He is going to save $5 a week by giving up cigarettes. That's enough to begin on, ain't it pa?--Texas' Siftiugs. If any one gives you more than he gets in return, you can rest assured it is counterfeit We often wish people were not so polite, so we could toU wben thay ace telling the truth. r Sterilized Milk as a Prereutive, : About Behring and his diphtheria serum you all know, of course, by this time, but it may be new that Ehrllch and Wassermann, two other pupils of Dr. Koch, have carried this same line of experiments into another channel. Their experiences have just been relat­ ed In a medical journal, and physicians claim that these prove that milk, too. after being sterilized, may be employed just as blood serum has been by Behr­ ing, as a preventive against infectious diseases. This milk, of course, is swal­ lowed, not injected, and is not to be re­ garded as a cure, but as a prophylactic. Still, this discovery greatly widens the field of observation and of experiment. --Evening Post She Smoked Them Oti& Mrs. Outen, of New York, who rents ^furnished rooms, has discovered an efficient way of getting rid of unde­ sirable lodgers. Charles Burns and his wife have been living in the house for some time, but for some reason Mrs. Outen preferred their room to their company, and gave them notice to quit They were very comfortable where they were, and politely but firm­ ly declined to vacate. Mrs. Outen does not have a very fine opinion of the le­ gal machinery by which undesirable tenants are dispossessed, so she went out and procured a lot of sulphur, which she put into a pan, and putting it into a room Immediately under that of her tenants set It on fire. Present­ ly the acrid fumes pervaded the whole house, and came pouring through the Windows in yellow clouds, to the no small alarm of the neighbors, who did not understand what was going on. The tenants stood it awhile, but human endurance has its limits, and they were soon compelled to capitulate. When they were once outside Mrs. Outen locked them out and would not permit them to enter the house evenrto get their belongings. Electric Submarine Torpedo Boat. Mr. Allan, a resident of Melbourne, has invented an electric submarine torpedo boat which, he claims, oan be sunk to any depth and can be run as fast as a surface boat. It can be kept submerged, he says, for three days. A successful experiment with Allan's model was made last week in the pres­ ence of the Earl of Popetoun and many naval and military officers. After see­ ing the experiments Rear Admiral Bowden-Smith gave the opinion that the boat was all that Mr. Allan claimed and was destined to revolutionize naval warfare. When a man talks of the necessity of a neW field for his abilities, he means j guppoft you?' _ some place ,32- 1 You must know £ wasn't bis fault that known. * •- ; V / y ( J the chair broke.'\-New York Weekly. --Practical fatheiv-"If he Says lie loves you I suppose'he does, but can he Daughter--'"Why, papa! fit . ,i c ^ 'j 'S£f' t'M vlS m - -<«• j ? i ave you threatened to shoot a man . ? In this court?" V •"-'• Sll "No, sir; I only told him he was not fit to live." The question was put to a poltcemaji In the examination into the doings Of the New York police. When he was asked why he thought the man not fit to live, he could not "tell. Several wit­ nesses were then called, who testified .that the policeman did threaten to blow the man's brains out ^ What was it all about? The maa- threatened, or at any rate told he wall" not fit to live; was to be a witness be­ fore the investigating committee. He knew all about certain disgraceful do-. Ings by the police in one quarter of tbej city, and intended to tell what be knew.' A week before the committee resuoH ed its sessions, after the summer, one; of the former witnesses, who had ex­ posed the complicity of the police with' "green goods" men, appeared in one of the police stations with a gash In hisj throat He said he had been drugged, and stabbed. The police declared he, had tried to commit suicide. j Either supposition is possible--th^ first becauseCthe man Is one of low! character; the\second because it is the! interest of the phjice to stop the mouths of those who canted the tyuth about' them. _ The whole evil lies in the two mis­ taken ideas that all men--criminal ail# Jnnocent--have a right to a voice In the) selection of those who are to execute' the laws, and that the control of the police is a matter properly to be de­ cided by party politics.--Youth's Conp^N panlon. . "•;* Lord Cardigan's Gamekeeper. % ; It was said of the late Lord Cardigan that on one occasion he was extremely angry with his keeper when very little game was found in a certain planta­ tion. After blowing him up sky-high the choleric master ordered him to beat through another wood, which he point­ ed out, promising instant dismissal If. satisfactory results were not obtained. "But nay lord," urged the keeper^" but he was interrupted by Lord Cardi­ gan: "Not a word, sir; obey my orders at once!" Terrified, the wretched man slunk off and the wood was duly beat, up to the guns. There was scarcely * head of game in it Limp and deject­ ed, the unfortunate keeper now came up, and when his lordship had said all he had 'to say, and was compelled to stop for want of breath, the poor man meekly pleaded: "But my lord, lt?*s not your wood at all--only you told me to beat It-"--Blackwood's Magsidne. : By Wholesale* A young lady who was in a hurry to take a train, and wanted to buy % small shopping bag, walked into |l wholesale establishment by mistake!^: "Will you show me a bag, pleased- she began; but the clerk interrupt^ her politely. : J "We sell nothing at retail," he satiL "I could only let you have bags by tbm quantity." "Dear me! Not one bag?" "No, madam. I'm very sorry." ^ "And I'm in such a hurry! Well!*^ She turned toward the door, and h#" eye was caught by a sample bag on the counter. , "Ah," she exclaimed, "that's exactiir the bag I want! Couldn't you sell me the twelfth of a dozen?" She got her bag. . f $ '.<5 * " 4 V" V ^ .-•a • » v ̂ . . * • i';k - The women think that every timers ^>^1' man goes lq|o a diy goods star* l» It gets robbed. :