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* V *!, t AN ADVENTURE IN THE ROCKIES. | H* p#' |b*MS9S99i Mi 0 coolly telling the wagon men to be sure, when ready to return, not to forget the grasshoppers! And I may as well say right here that in less than two months he was sound as ever, though around the edges of the replaced scalp appear­ ed a semi-circular streak of snow-white hair. It seems that on golhg for som& pur­ pose into the grove he almost tumbled over, not a grizzly, but an ; enormous cinnamon bear, at which he rashly fired. Then ensued a terrific fight, end­ ing in apparent victory for the savage brute, which, though wounded by feix revolver bullets and a number of knife thrusts, somehow managed to get away, only, however, to die; for as soon as Joe had left for camp, Peter, Tom Cooper and I took up the "bipod-stained trail and fqund the monster's carcass before we had gone a mile. "Ha! ha!" jubilantly shotted Pete, "my brave old father won the fight, af­ ter all, and he's killed the biggest cin­ namon ever seen in these mountains, I'll bet!" The dead bear, a male, lay in a clump of aspen scrub. All three of us had leaned our rifles against a rock about twenty feet away, and, stooping down, were beginning to remove the pelt, when suddenly, with open mouth, blaz­ ing eyes and a hoarse shriek of rage, a huge she cinnamon crashed through the surrounding brush, and before we could draw our revolvers, sent Cooper and myself spinning,|»heels over head, to the ground, where 'for a few seconds we lay, stunned and helpless... Fortunately, the furious beast, seem­ ing at the moment intent only upon ex­ amining the body of her mate, had merely whirled us aside by her own momentum without striking at us at all. and neither of us was seriously hurt. But the instant she found that her cousort was really dead, and while we still laydas^.^heJtu'jtaed upon us for veugeaose. * s • So great had been the force of the creature's, first rush against-and be­ tween us that we were hurled fully fif­ teen feet away, but, luckily, within five feet of the stacked arms. Yet this fact would not have saved us from being slain as we lay had not Peter, who never, under any circumstances, got rattled, bounded forward at the first glimpse of the bear and secured his gun --and not the fraction "of a second too soon. Too confused and dizzy to even recol­ lect that^e had revolvers, we were vainly trying to rise. The old she, frothing at tfye mouth with fury, was within three feet & our temporarily paralyzed bodies. /Next moment those terrible paws would have crushed our skulls liktt egg shells, or those gleaming teeth have been buried in our throats-- but something happened? In order, I suppose, to more effectually exert her N September, 1870, a small party of us went up from George­ town, Oolo., to e n j o y a f e w weeks' limiting and fishing In Middle Park. As c o o k 6 , c a m p - k e e p e r s and general util­ ity men we had lid Joe Bruette, a French-Canadian ex- YOyageur, arid his grown son, Peter, both thoroughly efficient, pleasant fel­ lows, and so warmly attached to each $ther that nothing less than inexorable necessity could keep them apart for twenty-four hours; nor would either of them ever engage with a party of tour­ ists or sportsmen unless the other could go along, even if both had to work for iae man's pay. . : After spending a day or two at Hot Sulphur Springs, we moved our camp down to Williams River, almost under the shadow of Williams River Moun­ tains, where fish and game were at that time plentiful. The trout, however, did not take kind­ ly to our artificial flies, so, early one morning, while his son was doing the 4!amp chores, Joe, taking a couple of empty pickle bottles along, went out toward the foothills to gather grasshop­ pers for bait. He had no more than half a mile to go, and as the night-chilled insects would be easily caught we expected luin to return within an hour. But he did not come, nor had he done so when Peter, already, as we thought, absurdly anxious, announced breakfast. About forty-five minutes after Joe left we had heard several rifle or pistol fhots echoing among the foothills, but Auch sounds were so common that at Hhe moment we paid no attention to them. While we were at breakfast one of us, calling these' reports to mind, carelessly asked Peter if his father had taken his revolver along. "Why, yes, for sure; he never goes anywhere without that," replied the young man, "but I'm afraid he's got In­ to some trouble this time, or he'd been back long ago. Maybe, though, he's wounded an elk and has followed it in­ to the mountains." After waiting another half hour in the vain hope of his father's return, Peter became so distressed that, at his earnest request. Dr. Lewis, Fred Reid and I agreed to accompany him on a .search for the missing man. Arming ourselves with rifles and re- tilvers, we set out at once and, on coming to a particularly green stretch of grass at the base of the foothills, found the two pickle bottles, both duly corked and full of grasshoppers, but no sign whatever of Joe. Then we three began to circle around. looking, but quite uselessly, over the matted grass for footprints, while Peter struck out for a grove of young cotton- woods, bounding one side of the mead­ ow. He had not been gone five min- «tes when from out the thickest depths rang a horrified shriek, followed by a frenzied cry of: •'Here, men, here! Hurry! Oh, for Heaven's sake, hurry!" V Dashing like madmen across the lit­ tle plain, we reached the distressed youth in a few moments, and then saw a fearful sight, indeed. In the midst of a patch of trampled, blood-stained bushes lay the seemingly lifeless form •f poor Joe. The scalp was stripped • from the front part of his head and I hung down over his eyes. His left; prodigious strength, tliit maddened shoulder was frightfully lacerated, and ; beast reared partially up; Peter, now the arm on that side badly mangled, j standing behind us with his great buf- and broken in two places; the clothing falo rifle leveled, was coolly waiting for was torn from the upper part of his this foreseen move. Thp bear's mouth body, and on his naked breast gaped j Avas wi<je open, apd he fired into It (our ragged furrows, evidently plough-: pointblank. The one and a half ounce ad by a single stroke from the claws of j pointed bullet, driven by six drachms ..Some giant wild beast. Whatever the ! of powder; tore its way through neck enemy, it was obvious that the old and spinal cord, coming out at the back Ifcunter had made a desperate fight, for of the creature's bead, and she dropped all the chambers of his revolver were • dead as suddenly as if struck by a finpty, and his knife encrusted with | lightning bolt. gjore, while the underbrush around was i in a few minutes Tom and I were all DEAD." YOUR FATHER IS is teaten flat and the ground trodden in vf* to blood-moistened dust. &. - Peter, dry-eyed, but plteously moan­ s'^ tag. was lying by the senseless body, f; tenderly clasping it in his arms, and on Seeing us, exclaimed: "My poor father i:- lias been killed by a grizzly bear; and, ;«b help me Heaven; I'll never taste food till I've destroyed the brute. Life is no use to me now." "Why, Pete, my boy," said Dr. Lew­ is, who had knelt by the old man's side and was holding a pocket flask of bran­ dy to his lips, "your father is not dead regain consciousness directly. £' Meantime, you run to the camp for my instrument case and tell our friends I there .to hurry along with the spring ! tvagon, a few blankets and such other i , y articles as they know will be oeces- I v*ary." v. ' ! ^ Actually hugging the doctor in his joyous revulsion of feeling, and softly mk kiting his father's unhurt hand, Peter | sprang to his feet and was off like a 1,, shot, Going and returning, he must jcover nearly a mile, but in less than ten minutes he was back again with th<? |vr v; Jittie box ef surgical instruments and ' V-* j*ome dean clothing for the wounded Lilian, now sitting up and in full posses- 7 <sion of his senses. On seeing this, the , affectionate son dropped to his knees in ecstasy of thanksgiving and fairly ^ ; wept aloud for joy. , v/-**? ? Two minutes later the wagon thun- . jdered up to the edge of the grove with p|-vjour comrades, who had thoughtfully / ^ ** 'brought splints, sponges, bandages and. * v-^most needful of all, two covered buck- . -eta full of warm water. s ; Then, assisted by his pupil, • fred } ^ 'Reid, the doctor cleansed and stitched Place the pendant scalp, dressed the breast and shoulder wounds, set and I ^ .bound up the broken arm and made his < patient as comfortable as possible. But ^ . • the tough old fellow would not -flder Si . j| back to camp. Accompanied by Dr. i Lewtssiui Jfceid*' ;lp-.'|Wttt^iy.. walked, right again, and by noon both bears were properly skinned, but the hides were so heavy that it was no easy task to carry them back to where the wagon still waited. On arriving in camp with our trophies old Joe ^veut nearly wild with joy, and I rather think that he and his gallant boy found this the most profitable trip they had ever undertaken.--New York Ledger. ' FRfeAk LldHTNlHa Wont Through a Hobm Without Ms4- insr the Family. During the severe storm Tuesday Vhe home of C. H. Redlidge, in California, Wicomico County, was struck by lightning. The bolt struck a big locust tree in the yard, jumped from that to the peak of the house and burned or melted some nails in the wood. From there it went dow,n the attic window post, which was splintered, went through the plastering in five small holes. It looked as though the holes were made by a gun. It set the lace curtains on fire and .partly burned a feather bed. The bolt seemed to part here, part going out front and part going back. The part going front dam­ aged the shutters, ripped off the plaster­ ing, followed same nails over the door head and melted the wire on a screen door, and went\lnto the ground" under the front steps. The part that went the back way doubled again before it en­ tered the ground, one pttrt taking one side, tearing out a window frame, fol­ lowing a tin valley down a doorway, ripping off plastering and liitbs and then Into the ground. The part that took the other side ran along a parti­ tion, ripping off laths and plastering down the back stairway and through a tin safe or cupboard. In this cupboard was a glass spoon vase, with silver spoons in it. The spoons were blacken­ ed and some of them were melted where they touched each other. In the same cupboard were knives and forks. These were melted and stuck where they came in contact with each other. From the cupboard It went through the corner of the house, tearing off the plastering and weather boarding and ripping open the corner posts. The family, strange to say, were not hurt in the least, nor did any one feel any shock.--Baltimore Sun. Entertaining an Angel Unawares. A newsboy took the Sixth avenue ele­ vated at Park place at noon, says the New York World, and, sliding into one of the cross seats, fell asleep. At Grand street two young women got on and took the seats opposite the lad. His feet were bare and his hat had fallen off. Presently the' younger girl leaned over and placed her muff under the lit­ tle fellow's dirty cheek. An old gentle­ man in the next seat smiled at the act, and without saying anything held out a quarter with a nod toward the boy. The girl hesitated a moment and then reached for it. The next man Just as si­ lently offered a dime, a woman across the aisle held out some pennies, and be­ fore she knew it the girl with flaming cheeks had taken money from every passenger in that end of the car. She quietly slid the amount into the sleep­ ing lad's pocket, removed her muff gen­ tly from under his head without rous­ ing him. and got off at Twenty-third street, including all the passengers In a pretty little inclination of the head that seemed full of thanks and the pos­ session of a common secret. It is unfortunate that such sensible accomplishments as bread making, sewing, "etc., are not given the pub­ licity in society that is given dancing and piano playing. When it Comes,^'believing that there is any heat in a 4V " A Preference. Once In a great while Mr. Blynkins develops an impression that be Is wiser than his wife. This state of mind is only occasional, owing to the com­ pleteness of demonstrations to the con­ trary which almost invariably follow it. The baby had been crying. All her efforts to sooth it had been in vain, and finally Mr. Blynkins laid down the book whose reading he had interrupted two or three times a page to cast blameful glances, and said: "Julia, are you aware we pay rent for only a portion of this building? Does It occur to you that while we have a right to fill this fiat as full of noise as we choose, we are not morally justified in causing noise to overflow and pervade the entire structure?" "It's the baby that's crying," she suggested. "You are not adopting the method likeliest to quiet the child. You have been humming to it, but what the child needs is music. Give him to me and I'll show you what I mean." He took the child ^and proceeded to chant a lullaby. The little one stopped crying and stared at him. "There," said Mr. Blynkins, as he reached the end of a verse; "what he wanted was music, real music. He wasn't to be fooled with any make- believing humming. Of course, the fact that I used to sing In a glee club and had my voice cultivated may make a difference, too." He had not gotten very far Into the next stanza when there came a ring at the bell. He gave the baby to his wife while he opened the door. A girl of fourteen or fifteen said: \ "We're the people wh^fi^ just moved into the flat above. There's a sick lady with us, and she says if it's all the same to you, would you mind letting the baby cry instead of singing to It?" __ German Thrift. An American in Munich writes to a New York paper concerning "German thrift,' 'with examples of petty econ­ omies he has seen in Germany, and that strike Americans as extraordin­ ary. He tells of a stout German gentle­ man who came into the lobby of one of the picture galleries of Munich one day last summer puffing a cigar. After depositing bis hat and umbrella, he looked around uneasily. Big signs on the entrance doors to the gallery warn­ ed him that no smoking was allowed. Finally his face lighted up as he strode over to one corner and deposited his half-finished cigar In a sort of metal rack fastened to the wall. "So!" he exclaimed with a sigh of relief, and marched in to see the pictures. Almost at the same moment, another German, having "done" the pictures, approach­ ed the rack in question, and, having scrutinized Its contents, selected a stump of a cigar as his particular prop­ erty, and proceeded io light it before getting on his hat and coat. This pro­ vision for saving the stumps of cigars was a novelty to the American, and he examined It with some curiosity. A sign, "Cigarre Ablade," placed above it in large letters, announced its pur­ pose--a "leaving place" or "depositing place" for cigars. The rack was of met­ al, and fashioned something like a miniature wire-rack; there was a spe­ cial groove for each cigar, but no par­ ticular mark,or number by which one could identify one stump from another, and no particular reason why the first- comer should not help himself to the best and biggest cigar of the lot These cigar repositories are common all over Germany in galleries, museums, and other places where smoking is not al­ lowed. Rats. They appear to be turning snakes to good account in Brazil, for rats have become so abundant that a domestic snake, the gibo/-a, which has about the circumferenre^f the arm, is sold In the market-ikac^ in Rio Janeiro to be kept in the hqiuse as a protection against ro­ dents. ft would seem that the serpent pursues Its prey more for the pleasure there is in it than from a sense of hun­ ger, since It is said It rarely eats the rats caught. Similar in its habits and attachments to the domestic cat of more northern latitudes, the glboya will, it Is said, find its way back to the house of its master, even if transport­ ed to a considerable distance. i'i ii' 4 'i THE HUSBAND'S FRIENDS, THERE Is nothing so absolutely false In this whole domestic menage as the fiction which the young wife generally voices soon after her marriage, and which at the time she absolutely believes in, namely, that her husband's friends will be welcome at any and all times. Every husband believes It, and, poor, rash man, acts upon It, thinking that he is wedded to the most perfect woman on earth and that his home is unlike any other founded on this mundane sphere. Alack and alas! be, like thousands of others, discovers sooner or later--generally sooner--that they were words, Idle words, afld that there are times and seasons when his friends are not only distinctly not welcome, but absolutely and horribly de trop. Now when this fact Is borne home to him with due emphasis, there Is no reason why he should put nil the blame on the poor little woman, who undoubt­ edly feels ten times more put out by the contretemps than he himself. Of course, remembering only her cordial sentiment, how would he keep in mind that Monday they always ate leftovers, or that she told him in the morning the cook had decided to leave that day. There Is no use when this annoying thing occurs for the wife to be so over­ whelmed with embarrassment that she sits silent and almost tearful through the entire meal, giving the visitor the Impression that he is participating in a funeral feast and Imbedding in his heart a rare pity for the poor fellow tied for life to such a stern and stony- faced disciplinarian. Every man, be he bachelor or bene­ dict, knows that "company" meals are not on tap In any save the household of a millionaire, and if the wife is only wise enough to realize this she can with her own bright welcome and a little tact make the plainest meal ap­ pear a veritable epicurean delight to the outsider. She ought to consider that what she deemed good enough for her husband should be good enough for any one else on earth. If she has so forgotten her wifely obligations as to palm off a really meager or unpalata­ ble meal on the one who provides for her support,: so that-by stinting the table she can swell the pockets of her dressmaker, then she ought to be made: to feel ashamed of herself and no les­ son can be too severe for her to learn. Hospitality is a keynote to domestic happiness, and it need not be lavish to act its proper part at making the home the first place a man thinks of taking his friends, sure that no sour looks will greet him If be happens to Issue the invitation on wash day or the maid's day out.--Philadelphia Timec. drawbacks and frequent discourage j ruent; but if she keeps always the great and blessed end In view--that of creat- l Ing and holding home happiness, com- ( foot and love--she must win In the end. | And this running will not mean neces­ sarily the sacrifice of any worthy am­ bition or of her most delicate tastes. Tight Lacing. Beyond the fact that a small waist Is as out of date as hoops, and Is very ugly, tight lacing destroys the contour of the bust and hips, and Is ruinous to the complexion. If the digestive organs cannot have room to perform their functions, dyspepsia--one of the worst things flesh Is heir to--ensues. Then follow the red nose, watery eyes and blotchy complexion. If a woman Is inclined to be stout, lacing her waist makes the hips roll away in shelf-like and uneven lumps, for the flesh driven from one part of .the body must seek another. The waist of the Venus de Medici, that accepted model of femin­ ine loveliness, Is twenty:two inches, though she Is just a trifle above 5 feet in height. Our grandmammas boasted of their eighteen-inch waists, but the girl of the period, even if she is dainty enough "to step upon a Illy leaf and not bend It," never allows her waist measurement to fall below twenty-two inches. M. N. Stevens. 'Amiability Attracts. Many a man has been scared off from asking a woman to become his wife by the assertion from her lips that she has a bad temper and Is proud of It. Men are selfish creatures, and, above all things, like physical and mental com­ fort. Perhaps the average man does not hope to attain happiness in this world, though In truth he never ceases to seek It, but lie does believe that there is such a thing as harmony, and he knows that a bad tempered woman and harmony don't go hand in hand. Amia­ bility is power, if women only knew It. By being always cheerful and amlft- ble she can get a hold on men that the bad-tempered woman, no matter how beautiful, rich and alluring she Is, never dreamed of in her philosophy. Amiabil­ ity Is not only power. It Is health. It is mental progressioa. It is long life one's self and to others. Laugh and Grow Lovely. Oywjg general physical condition is so closely-allied to the mental that laugh­ ing is a |&od, invigorating tonic for the entire^yslfm. A 16n$ hearty laugh expands the luugs< making the blood course through the veins'! <|t»ickly, and this simple pro- cepfe gives "a peach-like complexion to ,the wpjjajp :$0l$augb8. And when she Aatrgifs h6r eyes twinkle and the bright­ ness lingers there after the laughter has died away. Laughing, too, strengthens the mus­ cles of the face and banishes that drawn look so familiar to the sad-faced woman. The women who have adopted the laughing cure claim that they have nev­ er felt so cheerful and thoroughly good- natured before in their lives, and their friends tell them they are positively growing beautiful. The' successor to Frances E. WiUard as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Dressing for At-Home Parties. For at-home dancing parties young ladies are expected to be suitably gowned, which means in thin gowns of organdy, net, chiffon, etc., over silk linings, or light silk gowns with belts and sash ends of velvet edged with tiny frills of black or white moussellne. Silk at 75 cents a yard is pretty, and would be economical, as it would answer an­ other season for lining. White, pink, turquoise, light ye-llow and lavender are the favorite evening colors In the order named. White forms a conveni­ ent dress, as different accessories may be used with it and the skirt worn with odd waists. If merely a looker-on, a light dress or waist, made high in the neck and long-sleeved, in silk or chiffon, or a light-weight veiling trimmed with three gored ruffles around the low neck and a removable yoke of white lace over pink, or of pin-tucked taffeta, with collar, belt and sash ends of the silk, would be appropriate. Another suitable toilette is a black silk or nice white wool skirt, with a full gathered waist of light-colored chiffon, having collar and sash of silk or velvet. One more advanced in years might wear a light waist and black skirt or an entire black silk costume with lace yoke or •est.--Ladles' Home Journal. The Gentlewoman. . I St/metimes think, when I am all alone Rooking out on the great world with nothing between us but a sheet of glas&, says a writer in an exchange, whether the roughest and most ordin­ ary looking man, possessing even a bit of sense or feeling, does not know the difference between a big-hearted, gra­ cious, loving woman and one who is coarse in appearance, lacking in love and all the charming attributes that make one say of the former: "She is a gentlewoman." I wonder If you think, as I do, that a gentlewoman is one who likes to make people glad to meet her and regret to leave her? She seems to me to be one who gives courage to those who are tired and to quiet the loud, unpleasant argument, changing it Into Interesting talk. It Is a talent seldom possessed by men and an art belonging to women. A woman who does all the cooking for a family dreams of no greater pleasure than for the entire family to be invited out to dinner on Sunday. Head of Home Affairs. • woman's home must be an expres­ sion of her own taste, and must prove the fact of her economy of time and strength and money/ She must not feel herself superior to the most careful planning, nor reject the most trifling means toward accomplishing success in home management; Indeed, she should be proud of an ability to make a nickel go as far as possible, and so oil the ma­ chinery of service that It seems to run Itself. When the head of home affairs can arrive at this point of experience she has reason to be proud of her manage­ ment, says an exchange. It is possible for one who at the start did not possess Wear Trousers by Grant. They allow women to wear male at­ tire In France, but they are taxed for the privilege. The French government charges women $10 to $12.50 per year for wearing the trousers. This, how­ ever, does not give every woman who Is willing to pay the tax a right to wear such garments. The government con­ fers the right as a tribute to great mer­ it, and makes it, in fact, a sort of deco­ ration given to women, as the ribbon of the Legion of Honor is given to men. Feminine Personals. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, though In the seventies, is a well-preserved woman and a fine type of the old-school South­ ern woman. The routine of her life has for years remained unchanged, but her famous wit Is as brilliant as ever. In Vienna telephone girls are requir­ ed to change their dresses and wear a uniform when on duty, as the dirt they brought in from the streets affected the instruments. Their costume is a dark skirt an<f waist, with sleeves striped black and yellow, the Austrian national colors. Mrs. Lillle Devereux Blake announc­ ed at the convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs in New York last Thursday that the American eagle is a hen, and she wants It to be known henceforth as "the hen bird of Ameri­ can liberty." This Is indeed carrying the woman's rights question into en­ tirely new fields. Mrs. Adella A. F. Johnston, dean of the women's department of Oberlln College, first woman professor In this first college to practice co-educatlon, has inspired her friends to raise a sum of $50,000 to found a permanent Adella A. Field Johnston professorship, whose lucumbent shall always be a woman. A movement has been started in Georgia to honor the memory of Miss Winnie Davis by establishing an Indus- Man is a Cbrist&jjj, 8C! What has become of the old-fash- f, every wo-1 ioned woman who browned her own I coffee? the faculty of running things without fuss to become through training so sure j trial school for girls. The movement is of swift and certain effort that she can • * J ^ " stand serene and happy, a very queen. whether In her kitchen or In her parlor. The wife and mother who thus con­ quers does not reach her secure posi­ tion without much 4lsdplli% headed by the Daughters of €he Con­ federacy and will have the hearty sup­ port of the Georgia Legislature and of Georgia's people. The idea originated with Mrs. Hallle Alexander Rouodsa- •tUp. ONE ON QEN. WHCELEft^ Jeke of a Cmmtry Behoof B#t at th* Fanooi Fighter's Expense. "You cant nsost always swear t*>. tha- stories yop hear," remarked: the Phila­ delphia drummer,, "and I am not swearing to the one I heard the other- day on Gen. Joe Wheeler in Alabama, but It is just as good as- if I did swear to it, so what's the difference? It seems that once the general, whom you all know Is only a boy's size,, and not a big boy at that, had, in the course of his travels on one of his electioneering tours, brought up i& a remote school house, where, of course,, he was called upon to make a few remarks to> the scholars. This he did in his best style,, mid when he had finished be stood1 by the teacher while that worthy sa4d a few things, among them that time- worn suggestion that when the boys of the school grew up they, too, might be Congressman, like Gen. Wheeler,, such are the wonderful possibilities' of this great and glorious country of ours* "At this point a long, good-natured, gangling gawk of a boy, about M years old and about 14 feet tall, stuck up his hand, grinning sheepishly the mean­ while. *" . • \ " 'Me, toor he inquired.. " 'Certainly, Henry,' replied the teacher, assuringly, 'just as muchras- any other boy/ c " 'I reckon not/ Insisted the boy. 'I reckon I'll have t« ungrow ef I ever run »on that there ticket,' nodding to­ ward the general in a way that brought down the house, amidst the embarrass­ ment of the teacher and the great de­ light of the general. How Paul's Talent Was Discovered. It was in New York, enriously enough, that Arditi first met Pattl, then "a little dark-eyed, roguish, maiden, with red pursed-up lips and quick, rippling, laughter." He says in his memoirs: "The first time I ever set eyes on Ade* lina was In New York, when she and her mother visited the hotel at which I lived, In order to eat hiacaroni, which was always excellently prepared by an Italian chef of renown; and her deter­ mined little airs and manners then al­ ready showed plainly that she was des­ tined to become a ruler of men. "Mme. Salvador Pattl, veuve Barlli, Adelina's mother, was anxious that I should hear the child sing, and so she brought her little daughter to my rooms one day. Bottesinl and I were highly amused to see the air of importance with which the tiny songstress first se­ lected a comfortable seat for her doll in sueh proximity that she was able to see her while singing, and then, having said: 'There, my little dear, now sit still and listen while mamma sings you something pretty!' she demurely placed her music on the piano and asked me quietly if I would accompany her la tile rondo of Sonnambula. "How am I to give an adequate de­ scription of the effect which that child's miraculous notes produced upon our enchanted senses? Perhaps If I say that both Bottesinl and I wept genuine tears of emotion--tears which were the outcome of the original arid never-to^be- forgoten lmpressiofl her voice made when it first stirred our innermost feel­ ings, that may, in some slight measure, convince my readers of the extraordin­ ary vocal power and beauty of which the little Adelina was, at that tender age, possessed. We were simply amaz­ ed, nay, more, we were fairly electri­ fied, at the well-nigh perfect manner In which she delivered some of the most difficult and varied arias apparently without the slightest effort or self-con­ sciousness. ̂ --Saturday Evening Post The Youngster Cut His Fingor. "Well," said Mr. Gosiington, "the youngster has cut his finger; the only surprising thing is that he didn't do It the first day he got the knife. How he did it he doesn't know himself, except that the knife slipped, and the first thing he knew his finger was bleeding. Then he ran to his mother. His face was white, but he didn't cry, which I thought was. very brave, and I think so stilL His mother washed the finger gently and then bound It up with a strip of soft, worn, white cotton cloth, tied around not with a piece of com­ mon cord, but with a narrow strip torn off the edge of the cloth Itself. I heard her tearing It, and I thought It sounded familiar, and then I remembered that was the way my mother used to do up my finger. "Then the boy went around with that finger held out straight from the rest of the hand, and with a solemn look on his face; but he couldn't stay solemn long, and It was surprising how quick­ ly his finger healed, too. Then bis mother put a cot over it, a finger cut from an old kid glove (just what my mother used to do, too, and I wonder If all mothers do these things just alike), to protect for a day or two more until It got well. That was wholly new to him and it pleased him very much. He wore the glove finger with the proud but reserved dignity of one con­ valescing from a saber stroke instead of a cut from his first knife, and it all made me feel young again myself." Model Gucsto. An idea comes from Halle, Germany, which is worthy of adoption by enter­ tainers in every land. A limited liabil­ ity company has been formed for the purpose of supplying guests suited to every need, at a scale of prices gradu­ ated according to their value and gen­ eral utility. The following are some of the charges mentioned in the pros­ pectus: Dancing men In evening dress, two to fifty marks; dancing men, good talk­ ers, two to eighty marks; dancing men, with monocle, three to ten marks; cotil­ lion specialists, three to seventy-five marks; old gentlemen with decorations, three to seventy-five marks; retired ma­ jors for chaperons, three to seventy-five marks; noblemen to take hostess in to supper, twenty marks. Making Use of Him. Mr. Pendragon weighs 240 pounds. He called on Miss Flyrte the other evening. "Oh, Mr. Pendragon," she said, "I am so glad to see you. Would you mind sitting In this big Chair. I put a port­ folio of autumn leaves underneath the cushion yesterday." And later in the evening Mr. Pendra­ gon suggested that she should help him press them.--Somervllle Journal. About all that a married man goes through that a single man misses, Is the experience of being the center fig­ ure in a family group photograph. Atxsftisoa Globo Sights. The> druggist and' the dbctu^- cousins. ' \\ Peoplfe are tired' of peelfig-smart dren do smart things/ Some people act all the time though they were at a picrifc. Every man who starves his wife li^'t said by tfie neighbors to be rlch. ' ; 4 The woman whomever marries-ne--~ finds out what a poor cook, she ilk A good many cooks make a gootfl- quality of hard tack and don't know It is never safe to accept an amat singer's verdict of an opera company. A woman's idea of getting veal reclfc less is to* cut loose, and tell all shl-* knows. Clrosis. of the liver- is hard. to= spells , think how much harder It must be to«L * have It. ; Atchison hajf'a' am ccffUie* r go> to. places-because his-wife won't go> with him. & Every girl who has- never known- fr grief in her lite' tries- particularly hard> to- look pensive; ^ y > , A. woman never becomes^so'rich-thai t she can resist the temptation to wear -v calico shirt waists. " '< After a woman: passes 35< If she mar­ ries at all , the chabces are that she will marry a man younger than herself , . •'? As k rule, those who talk most about. longing for a higher life, do least to im* • prove the life they are compelK^i' t^» ; live; t- '; You. can occasionally meet all klndfc • •. of people; even the man who means It ' when he asks you- to come and visit him. ., About half the time a man feels like' a cat which has just eaten the canary;, he is getting a- lot of abuse for eating a mighty poor bird. The man whose hair has come out can make himself very interesting to- any woman by announcing that it^ssne out through a fever. There isn't any one so good that It doesn't make him mad to go home to- dinner, and find some one sitting iu- his chair at the table. Whenever we see a man having a 'good time,!' we are glad that we have , »¥ quit. There is nothing: so dlfemal as 'ff having a "good time." J) It should be as mucht the duty of th#> 'committee of safety" to get loaferf^ g out of town1 as it should bp to> bring d®' -*, -i ^ sirable men' to town. : ^ Whenever you see a girl with her hair neatly braided In two braids you can make a pretty good guess that her- mother is a neat housekeeper. A .man went Into a store to-day, and' said: "I want enough rope to' rope my bed." Are you old-fashioned enough to remember a bed that was roped? Young people are apt to stuff their pocket books with paper, to appear rich. Older people, however, have found it. wise, to appear poorer than they are. It Is well to remember that If yourr frlends think you are a charming con­ versationalist, your enemies regard, you. as a great gossip, and that they may be* right. Corean. Geomancen. The Influence of the geomancers- ex­ tends from the King to his humblest subjects, and illustrates the cunning: and simplicity which are combined la the Corean character. These profes­ sional oracles are consulted on all occa­ sions by all sorts of people. The King never thinks of doing anything without first asking their opinion. They axe- ~ more important to him than legal ad­ visers are to railways and other corpor­ ations that employ them, and they are- attached to all the departments of th» government. At the sauie time they ar» notoriously corrupt, and their advice Is always influenced by the payment of money. If any one desires to obtain a favor from the King he usually endeavors to secure the good offices of the geomancer who is likely to be consulted, and the amount of the bribe corresponds to the Importance of the matter. While the geomancer pretends to consult the spir­ its and observe the movements of the stars* his client knows that It Is the money that governs his action. Never­ theless, when the client is required to perform some official act, he consults • the same old humbug, who has been bribed by some one else to influence his decision, and he is perfectly aware of the fact.--Chautauquan. Perfectly Practical. An odd and convenient custom exists in Genoa. Many of the well-to-do peo­ ple as well as those In moderate cir­ cumstances do not own either horses or coaches; they own only an interest in them. Four or five or a half-dozen great families club together and buy a coach and horses, then they arrange among themselves the days the differ­ ent families will use it. Thus one fam­ ily uses the coach on Mondays, another on Tuesdays and a third on Wednes­ days, so that an establishment that would be Impossible for one family be­ comes perfectly practical when the cost Is divided among five or six. Each fam­ ily has a set of doors for the coach with" their own coat-of-arms on the panels, which are changed according to, the family which Is going to use the coach. The builders of these vehicles seldom think of building a coach without five or six sets of doors, and arrangements are made so that they are very easily changed. Whro Does Papa Conic In? The Leipzig Tageblatt devotes a col­ umn to the marriage iiiatiMfa, Ajmttd- vertisement published latelpiwWw fal­ lows: "A son, eltWrly, •sdHd'add'Hri. ous, is seeking for his father (a strict and solid man in a quiet business) an alone-standing widow and madden With some ready money. Offers, with full statement "of partlcnlar^f"to b^ add ress- ed . The son can be interviewed by appointment between „the hoim„4£f and 1L" Remedy lior 'StfrM. v-4 , A Frenchman has discovered a reme­ dy instantaneous In its effects for the horrible burns caused by the use of oil of vitriol. It Is a soft paste of cal­ cined magnesia and water, with which the parts burned are covered to the thickness of an inch. It alleviates the pain almost Immediately, and when the paste is removed no scar remains. Ungrammatically speaking the, «C baby must be twttMk - • ' * 4 .