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^ »/t -i § \ r€iu&&£>$>;<',. ^ ify' ' * W ? - » H . '• - ' E bad been at work on a sur­ vey in the Bitter Root Moun­ tains since early in the spring, £'.'/. and the autumn had found us all dls- K » - gusted and homesick--all but McGln- Rc ̂ ' mi, the cook. Besides, we were fam- Ishing for news. Our mail and the late k"" papers and magazines should hare jptf , been sent to us every two weeks, but ij .• .for nearly two months nothing had ^been seen of the old trapper who acted •* mall-carrier, and no messenger or Hfr raeasage of any kind had reached as / from the outside world. Every day we exacted from the cook jjfe : >a promise that he would bring our let- f 1 ^ters out to us in case the carrier should ;L> r- • arrive while we were at work on the |»f:' . line. Then we would watch impatient- *ly till evening and hurry back to camp, £ f more than half-expecting that the post had come in spite of the non-appear- ?*•*' ~ *ance of McGinnis. Expectancy was tdr- , turing us. Disappointments repeated . every evening for several weeks deeply affected the spirits of the party. We ^became restless and unsociable. We jtried to imagine What bad happened if* 1 \out in world since we had lost $ 1 iftoucli with it, and each feared that '$! < ^ ̂ ,,somp one dear to him liad been fuized 1%. >7 illness or had met with misfortune. ^ |We worried and fretted and tormented *'v \ ourselves with impatience. One night after supper we lounged on J ;-=»• <our damp beds, ten of us In one tent, waiting for bed time. The work of the - ' i day had been unusually hard and the hours long. We were too leg-weary ? it and heavy of spirit to do anything but , the little patching that was regularly * necessary and to lounge. ,j . ^ McGinnis came over from the cook & ^ V J tent to tell us one of his tales of forty W 0! + J**18 a£0- His stories possessed one fc/7- >re quality. They were reminiscent of £3' *.the wild life of the mountains In the ^ pearlier days, but McGinnis played no ** * ^prominent part in any of them. We ** were all curious to learn something A',', . about the old man, but our curiosity £* , * was never satisfied. Frequently as a ^ *4- story in which he figured gave promise - of showing his younger self put to a p : test of strength or of courage, he would J§ |\ break off suddenly or change the entire trend of his story. But he enjoyed spinning his yarns, and our silence of kr late bad afforded him the opportunity. % "Well. 1 see yous are the same merry |$ ' ; =t crowd as ever," he said, cheerily, as he 1g, . took the only chair In the tent "But 1 , which of you Is It that's com in* up t he slope yonder, I'd like to know?" Several of us looked at him wonder- ' ingly. Those who were busy paid no . attention whatever. ,/T~W -The camp dog stretched, went lazily p_ , to the opening, then grew suddenly ,X alert and began to bark. Almost in- W' stantly ten heads were crowded be- +JL> tween the tent flaps. % S u r e e n o u g h , s o m e one whom we X " could not see clearly in the dim .light ' p' was coming up the valley. It was evi- ^ dently a man. following the line of our W .*• survey higher up the mountain slope, §> though only a short distance away. . W: We finally fell over one another in our sudden excitement. Every one . , " seemed moved by the same impulse. A c"- half-dozen pairs of wet and worn-out ' p ' boots disappeared from the passage be- ..y tween the two rows of bunks at the .iff ^. same instant. Some one ran out and shouted to attract attention. Then !>"' , everybody else shouted, because there 'f; *' was suddenly shouting In the soul of eacb* v|5 McGinnis went quietly and lighted fy •*> the fire he had laid for morning in the "• eook stove. The head chainman made ^ a place near the tent opening for an- ether bed. : The rod man and the "ttake-artist" ^ J (ell to wrestling, and rolled about in the tent and then out of It with most unexpected agility and high spirits. fXf A voice said it was not the old mall- carrier, and we became still more curl- k -7 * oui#. Not » member of the party doubt- ed that It was some one bringing our mail. *' Is* Two or three of the boys went to meet the newcomer, and the rest of us, jri half-ashamed of the eagerness we had 1 shown, went back into the tent, threw fTt J ourselves down on the beds and assum- ed attitudes of indifference. We heard McGinnis calling: "Come over to the cook-tent and eat before the boys start you to talking; they'll P'a" never let you istop after." "I've e't," a strauge vo#ce answered. my foot was so lanae I couldn't get far through the brush.". " _. There was a sudden movement In the tent, but no one spoke. The boys shook out their coats and put them on. Every one understood what was to be done Those who owned rifles took them down and provided themselves with cartridges. Every weapon in camp was hurriedly put in readiness for use. The chief of the party had come over from the instrument teht when our guest arrived. "What kind of tracks were there?" he now asked. 5 "I couldn't make out," the stranger answered. "Take tfce lanterns and plenty of can­ dles." said the chief, "And, Turner, you stay to watch camp." ... "I'll stay, too," said the stranger; "I'm too lame to travel. You'll have no trouble finding the place." "I'll stay and read my letter," an­ nounced McGinnis, quietly, to the sur­ prise of every one, for old Morton, the trapper, had beeto a friend of his in the earlier dayd. A moment later Only the stranger and Turner were left at thi; sleeping-tent. The searching party was well down the valley, and McGinnis had gone to the cook-tent. Presently be came back with his hat and spectacles on* "It's fr&ffi my little granddaughter," he said to the stranger, as he opened the letter. "Would you mind readin' It to me? My eyes was never much at hand- writin'." The man read it--a child's note of only a few labored lines, chiefly words of love, but he read It unsteadily, for the cook held a lighted candle before his face, and whenever he glanced up from the page the old man's eyes were intently fixed upon him. "Ah, It's bad business--bad business!" repeated the cook, as he put away his candle. "Now 'at I know what's in the letter, I think Til go on down an' help find out What~it all means--all this blood, here." , , Turner grew uneasy after the old man bad gone. The stranger said little, but he watched his companion closely and waited till the sounds of the cook's footsteps had died out la the distance. Then be got up, and without limping Into the sleeping tent, where there were lighted candles. "I never liked this one's looks," Mc­ Ginnis said, by way of explanation* as he wlpfcd the blood from the face of the man who had brought the letter. "He looks like he'd set a bait for you, an' that's why I wlnt away an' come back unbeknownce to 'em. I seen 'em whin I got to the cook-tent, and whin they come over I was waltln* for 'em wid the bear-trap, the only thing I could and." Both men soon returned to conscious ness, and after an effort to free them selves they sat in dogged silence. In about half an hour several of the searching party returned with our pouch of mail, but most of the letters had been opened, and many of them were torn and almost destroyed. Soon after, others came, accompanied by three or four strangers, carrying a limp form, which they laid carefully upon one of the beds. The prisoners looked on Intently and with unmistakable signs of fear. Morton, our malKcarrier, had been shot in the back, and, though danger­ ously wounded, was still living. "Is he dead?" asked the smaller prisoner. « At the sound of bis voice Morton, with a convulsive efTort, sat up and put his hand to his side as if to draw his revolver, but it was not there, t The men who had come back with the party relieved the old cook of his prisoners and took them out to civiliza­ tion. They were deputy sheriffs, part of a large posse that for nearly a week had followed the trail of the two des­ peradoes. The old mall-carrier, unavoidably de­ layed, had fallen in their way when they were hard pressed for means of escape, and they had shot him for his horses. Then, learning from the letters of our presence in the neighborhood, they had played at a bold game to ob­ tain provisions and had lost. We felt that we knew McGinnis bet­ ter after that.--Chicago Record. A FOOT.BALL STORY^ OS THE TRAIL. mm We inside sat up again, our anticipa­ tion reawakened. A short, heavy-set, square-jawed man, without grub-pack or blankets/limped painfully into the tent and sat down on one of the beds. He was evidently much travel-worn, bat his small, bead-like eyes were in­ tensely bright, and their glance from one to another of us was rapid and searching. "tMdn'i you bring any mail?" asked tbe rod man. abruptly. We all looked at the stranger eagerly ud waited. "So." be answered. In a disinterest­ edly calm voice that lingered unpleas­ antly in our ears. lite stranger felt in the inside of his pocket. "Only a letter I found in the trail at the la#t creek crossing," he said, quiet­ ly. as he again searched us with bis •mall, restless eyes. "1 t's for some offle named Patrick Me- Gttjnls,*' he continued, holding up an unopened tetter- "Do you kno^ him?" The old man. reached for his letter «id silently held it to the light of the nearest candle. Then we all saw that It was crumpled and deeply stained. "Widout my spectacles, it looks like Mood on it." said McGinnis, slowly^ *t thought it was blood, too, and fresh." said the stranger. "The trail was torn up near where I foond it, and the bushes beat down. I fljOTitr* without flndlng\ainythlng; bnt walked to the tent opening. After standing there a moment be whistled and sudenly turned upon Turner with a drawn revolver. "Keep still and walk outside," be said, quietly. "*"* Turner obeyed promptly. He had no weapon with which to defend himself, and he was badly frightened. In a few moments a second stranger, lean, raw-boned and taller than the first, caane out of the brush leading two horse9« one {saddled, the other bearing a pack. The rising moon shed but a dim light along the mountain side; yet Turner saw at a glance that the ani­ mals were the old mail-carrier's. "They bit easy," said the shorter man, with a low laugh. "There's no one at camp but this. Now hurry." The. last arirval emptied the grips and bags and selected whatever was of value. He also took a couple of pairs of blankets and all the ammunition the boys had left behind them. Then he began to make a p&ck,^f what be bad taken. /• • 1 "Never mind thAt," &aid bis compan­ ion. "Go over aud lay out; all the grub you can." The tall strah^f went to the cook- tent. ffte ottier knelt doVni, laid his re­ volver on the ground, kept his eye con­ stantly en ¥broe¥. and made a roll of what the first had put down. When be had cinched this onto the pack-horse he marched: Turner before him to the cook-tent < The flaps of the teht Were slightly parted, but there was no light inside, and everything was quiet. He stopped before the opening, gave Turner the bridle reins and made him keep his hands abpve hi? bea£ while at the same time he'held the bdraes. "Hurry up with the stuff," be ex­ claimed* looking into the darkness of the tent JJp waited a moment, and, getting no answer, pushed aside the flaps and started to enter. But be had put only one foot inside when the sound of a heavjr blow was beard, and with a muffled cry he fell forward on his face. * ^ Instantly McGinnis emerged from the tent, and the surprised Turner saw him drag out both strangers, almost to­ gether. and dexterously bind their bands and feet A new vigor had come into the old man's frame, a new alert­ ness. There were purpose and positive ness in his every movement as be went about his task. When the men were secure he looked at Turner. The latter suddenly came to himself and put down l.is bands. M« Ginnis took the weapons from his pris oners befote they regained conscious­ ness, and with Turner's help got them The Player Performed a Great Feat, bnt Didn't Know It. Harper's Round Table contains a capital football story, in which the fol­ lowing vivid description of the sensa­ tions of a contestant in a game between the Harvard and Yale teams is given by one of the Harvard players: As-the play was started I was shot forward, tipping the opposing guard completely over, and we all went down together. I can only remember scram­ bling savagely over two men, jumping wildly from one man to another, with the ball just ahead of me under the legs of what seemed to be a thousand people. Then I beard a wild, unearth­ ly yell. Nothing like it had ever come to my ears before, and ' I remember wondering what it could be. It swelled and grew with each moment. Now it died away; now it spread out stronger than ever. 1 had a queer feeling of wonder if I were still playing the game. Nobody seemed to be near. Then a black-faced, fierce-looking fig­ ure rose up in front of me. I must get out of his way at any cost. I moved aside and thrust my open hand straight into bis face, caught bis hair and ear. and scrambled all over him. He seem­ ed to be the only one out of the game except myself, and the maddening feel­ ing that I had made some mistake lent me the strength to throw him rolling away on the ground. There was that same wild, exultant yell again. It swept over the field as I have seen a cloud of dust sweep up a street. And then all in a moment I knew the cocaine had given out and my strength was gone. I got a swinging blow on the head, and lay quietly down with the feeling that I was tired out. Still there seemed to be no explana­ tion for my being alone, and I started to get up, saying between my teeth, "Get 'em low. Jim, get 'em low!" "Oh. Jimmy, my boy! Jimmy! Jim­ my!" cried a voice, and an arm went round my neck and lifted me up. "Low. Ja<>k, 1-o-w!" "Oh, Jimmy," said Jack himself, hold­ ing me up. "It's over, and--look at the crowd!" I could scarcely see, but over to the right somewhere there was a wave of red color that swung back and forth. Then I looked up at the faces about me. and they wavered, too. "Peter," I cried, with tears rolling down my cheeks--for the life of me I couldn't help It--"Peter, get me up! I'm all right. We'll stop 'em yet. They can't get over that line." "He's gone," said somebody; "he's mixed. Take him over to the house." But I couldn't let them take me off now. It was too critical a time. Why don't they go on with the game? I'm all right, I tell you." "Go on, man, go on? Why. don't you know where you are?" I looked up and saw goal posts over my head, and the next .instant there was another wild, wavering cheer and a ball went sailing over the cross-bar. "What is it, Farragut?" I asked. "Good heavens," said some one near by„ "he doesn't know! Why, man, you've run the 130 yards of the field through the whole team, and that's a goal from the touchdown!" DAUGHTER'IN.LAW'S DUTY. THE daughter-ln-Iaw who contem­ plates inviting her mother-in-law to become a permanent inmate of her home should hesitate. One need not court discipline. If, bowevel*, duty im­ poses the obligation, then. Indeed, there Is no alternative but to accept the charge as God-given. This may sound heroic, but it is a time for heroism. It is no light thing to have anyone enter your intimate family circle as one of its rightful mem­ bers, perhaps "until death do you part." Your happiness as well as that of your husband and bis mother Is largely at stake, and its preservation will depend almost wholly upon you.^ If you are childish and easily moved by petty jealousy you will only' make misery for all; but it is possible to turn into a blessing what seems to threaten as ^ calamity. Love only can do it. for love alone can work such miracles. I do not say love her--love Is the only rebel to the authority of the kingly power, the bnman will--but I do say that the onSy' chance for harmony In your relations lies in making her love you. Put forth all your magnetism, all your powers of pleasing. Try to win the mother's approbation as yon did that of the son. Do your best to sur­ round her with the sunshine of a genial, sympathetic atmosphere, and do you know what will happen? All uncon­ sciously you will learn to care for her, for it is a curious fact that we grow to love those to whom we minister, and in the effort to win love we often end by bestowing it Encourage your husband in paying ever-courteous and fond at­ tention to bis mother. It will be an ob­ ject lesson, too. to your own little sonsy and at a time when tb?ir minds are apt to be most impressionable.--Pittsburg Dispatch. e Hank Account*. The up-to-date woman no longer fears masculine ridicule, when deposit­ ing or drawing aw>ney. She has learned many things with the passing of her fmpecuniousBess. Goiwned. gloved, shod and chapeaued in the latest style, she steps up to the desfe lira, business­ like way, takes out her check book and fills oat a blank check at her orfn dis­ cretion. She also knows- the right end »t which to indorse a check,, even the right distance from the neat little ser­ rated edge. She doesn't write Miss or Mrs. before her name, unless the draw­ er of the check has been so unbusiness­ like as to do so. And, best of all. she has knocked the last prop from nnder the comic paragrapher's would-be wit by keeping track of her bank account, and knowing enough not to overdraw. Better than the best, perhaps, she has learned many ways of replenishing that account by her own unaided ef­ forts. The bread of independence, of self-earning. Is far sweeter than the manna of the "wandering Israelites- even if there are days when it Is eaten jamless, perhaps butterlesst perhaps drier and more crusty tihan would suit the palate of a princess. Yet the wom­ an who works for it, who pays cash down for it before the knife ever enters its brown, sweet, wholesome heart- she is the true princess, after all.-- Housewife. grimily heroic, but by a cheerful, equa­ ble demeanor, neither overhilarious at some little good fortune, nor merged In the deepest Prussian blue at every set- back. •' *'• Get A Ion at Wlthont Kxtrae. ' There are women who, when they economise, will do so at the wrong end. She comes to the conclusion that when­ ever she doesn't buy anything or cuts off an Item of expense she is economiz­ ing. She will attend to the grocers' bills. That is well, but sometimes she will expend 20 cents' worth of time and strength to save 5 cents. Then the sa me woman may economise on her luncheon. She will convince herself that eating a midday meal Is a mere habit, and will dispense with it. She finds It all the easier to do so because her husband is not at heme at that meal, and. of course, she does not wantj him to go without enough to eat. She thinks that he needs; more food than she does. The woman who practices this sort of economy will find that the depriva­ tion impoverishes herself and her chil­ dren mentally and physically. Often, in the long run, it Is more expensive In actual cash, for the doctor has to be called In. The right way to economize is in extravagances, not in necessities. The Ambition to Be "Literary." The reading-club, on the whole, has- been a blessing as an educational influ­ ence; but there are cases where light draughts from the literary spring have not been beneficial. It must be owned: that an ambition to become literary, when aroused in a shallow mind, often has the effect of unfitting it for proba­ bilities of achievement, wliile falling to refit it for possibilities.' To the super­ ficial woman whose det»lt*e is to get into the trend of the fashiOtt lh# "paper" Of the literary club becomes a delusion and a snare. It tempts to mental mas­ querading and plagiarism, ahd in many cases has robbed women of needed! rest and of a naturalness that Is at part of their charm. Having no very original thoughts of a given subject; and no well-defined Idea of Its proper treat­ ment. she takes the reference books, not as suggestive helps, but in the way of completion, and so unconsciously often becomes a cheat, and subject* herself to Intellectual demoralization.-- Woman's Home Companion*. The Height of Her Beauty. The question of when a woman reaches the height of her beauty is dis­ cussed by a writer, who maintains that "the fullness of beauty does not reach its zenith under tbe age of thirty-five or forty." But in this, matter much de­ pends upon the race, and not a little upon tbe woman. In some southern lands women are either wrinkled and shriveled, or fat and shapeless grand­ mothers before they reach the age men­ tioned. The question of ta»te, too, has much) to do #Tth the question/ and it is a canon of criticism that in matters of taste there can be no unvarying stand­ ard; of judgment. The age limit is very elastic, depending upon health, temperament heredity, conditions of life;, and a dozen other things tha^.help to- preserve or Impair beauty. > Married Travelers Are Privileged. Husbands and wives traveling to­ gether in Norway pay only a fare and a half on the railways, and In Austria and ECuogary this is also the case. In the latter countries a child: under 0 yearn* of age traveling with an adult is not charged for, while considerable re­ duction1^ the fare is made for children of a family, according to their ages and to the number traveling. The Feminine Laugh, A feminine laugb has to be decora­ tive, and so it should be the laugh of gayety rather than of humor. There can hardly be a question as to the sweetest laugh to be heard among na­ tions of women--it is surely the Frenchwoman's. Taking Wives on Trial* It is seriously proposed in a Lordon newspaper that a man should take a wife on tbe same principle as he en­ gages a house--for three, five or seven years, renewable at the husband's pi tasure. The idea was once discussed In parliament. Carea for Grave*.. A Georgia woman, thrown upon her trwn resources,.-bas hit on a novel plan for earning her dally bread. She takes care of graves, assuming the responsi­ bility of keeping cemetery lots in order, with well-trimmed grass and walks. Keep* Hospital for Animals. Miss Alice Shaw, of Chicago, main­ tains a private hospital for animals, and makes a special .business- of treat­ ing and caring for dogs and Angora cats, combining tbe duties of physician and nurse iu her work. Tbe Oris in of Scalping. At the annual meeting of the Balti­ more Folk Lore Society Miss Alice C. Fletcher gave an interesting contribu­ tion in a paper entitled "The Signific­ ance of the Scalp Lock; a Study of the Omaha Tribe." The Omaha Indians, like many other tribes, have peculiar ideas regarding a continuity of life and & kind of spiritual link between ani­ mate and inanimate objects. They be­ lieve a piece of any article connects them with the entirety. The hair is thought to have a close connection with life, and one possessing It may work bis will upon whoever or what­ ever the hair belonged to. From this idea came the custom of scalping ene­ mies.--Boston Evening Transcript. Quinine in India. There was a time when the govern­ ment of India bad to import annually $250,000 worth of quinine and did not get enough of it even then. After a great many experiments tbe cultivation of the cinchona tree was made success ful in India, and now there are 4,000,- 000 trees In Bengal, and every rural postoflftce in India sells a five-grain packet of the drug for half a cent 1 while the government makes from | $2,000 to $3,000 ft year ont of tbe profits. Utility of Women's Club*. That many of the women's- clubs- in. America are doing valuable work in many directions admits- of no doubt. And so long as a woman's club keeps within its sphere--Chat of the social, mental and educational Improvement of the sex and the children--and does not extendi and take up political ques­ tions and go into a maelstrom of purely municipal matters, the conduct of which is not given women to rightly understand, and in which they can (Jy» no good, bat. on the contrary, effect much harm, it serves- a purpose high and mighty. For a woman to make her club tbe all-absorbing element In her life is wrong. But used as a wett- dtreeted means toward her own devel­ opment her own exhilaration, to the companionship of the sexes, and sot their further separation, tbe woman's club is commendable.--Ladies' Home Journal. Women with a Purpose. It Is the women students, of any kind of art, who often present the most heroic front to discouragement and dif­ ficulty. They may be as resourceful as the men. but their opportunities are fewer. A man, on occasion, can turn his hand to so many things, but a wom­ an finds comparatively few possibill^ ties of eking out a livelihood while studying art That many of them suc­ ceed Is a fact and speaks worlds for their bravery, patience and resourceful­ ness. And one has to be very intimate before discovering the terribly anxious^ harassing time they are having. At woman instinctively surrounds herself with little conveniences and elegances, when the average male would be get­ ting along In a shiftless, untidy fashion, that often comes near being squalor. So her little den never betrays her tromi bles, nor her face, as a rule. Thoujjh many people do not give them credit for It women have a fund of endur­ ance. which sbows itself, not by set- the npyer tip star ant iMfctag Finally Acquitted; It Is* probably an unusual thing in any country for a court to sit in< judg­ ment on the dead, but in a Berlin letter to> the- Chicago Record ani account is given: of a trial in which* tbe accused was a dead man. It was his first trial. That had taken place in bis lifetime; audi Its re­ sult had been a sentence of Imprison­ ment for eighteen months. The delin-' quent was bureau chief in the tax of­ fice of Schweidnitz, Silesia, and it was proved: that he bad embezzled funds and forged documents. Soon after his sentence, however, he showed signs of unsettled reason, and at length died a menlatt. His widow, anxious to. -dear Us memory from the stain that rested upon it, had the case reopened, and proived by expert testimony that her husband had been demented at the time he committed the crime. Thus occurred tbe peculiar cirewm- stance of a dead man cm trial. The trial resulted in the reversal of tbe former sentence, the court pronouncing tbe deceased not guilty. Saving Sixpence. Patrick, a thrifty tradesman in tbe neighborhood of the Dublin docks, was, as the story goes, a man who never spent a penny more than he needed to spend; but he was, nevertheless, as good a man at the making of an Irish bull as any that lived between Bantry and Ballycastle. Having one day urgent occasion to send a letter to Glasnevin, Patrick call­ er a messenger and asked him his price for going such a distance. p "It'll be S'shillln'," said the man. "T'woice too much!" said Patrick. "Let ut be sixpence." "Nivver," answered the messenger. "The way is that lonely that never go it under a shlllin'." LUCK IN PISGUISTt. Ill-Gnarded Speech. Led to the Opera* tor's Fortune, It isn't easy ito t^l whep Fate means well to a man. Some of het; apparently hardest knocks are,a0 far. the victim's good. A crushing piece of misfortune may be tbe means of spurring the crushed one to more ambitious efforts. It did so in one Clevelander's ease to a certainty. , He was a telegraph operator, and a good one, but he wasn't in favor with the chief. In fact, the chief didn't pos­ sess many friends among the boys. He was disposed to be sharp and quick with them, and telegraph operators ve a sensitive lot. t There was a vacant room that hafrn't been occupied for some time, and the chief one day took possession of It as a sort of private office. Tbe operator whose story we are telling didn't know about this change, anil that very day when he happened to be in tbe wash­ room with one of the boys be opened up on the chief in a particularly savage fashion. The wash-room was separated by the thinnest kind of a partition, and every word could be heard distinctly on the other side. The operator dipped his face over the wash basin, and as he sputtered and splashed he blessed the chief in a shockingly left-handed way. Tbe man with him tried to stop thq^ tirade, but he couldn't catch his eye, nor could he get near enough to him In time to shake him. Finally the other man exhausted himself a ad turned around with,a towel in hJ» hands. Then he saw tbe loqk of horror en his com­ panion's face/ He knew .that he was doomed. As be stepped from the wash-room with a jaunty air, be met the chief. "I suppose," said the latter, "you are* ready tp express your personal opinions in public as well as behind your vic­ tim's back?" The operator never wavered a halt's breadth. "I ani," he said, smilingly, "and I caq add a little to what I have already said." And with that he expressed his opinion of the chief in still more vigor­ ous language, took his hat and stalked out t ( It was the%mt time he had been an idler since he was a boy. He felt a little dazed. .Then he resolved on a bold' stroke. He would go straight to New York. - That night hi was on his way. With. In a week he had secured an' excellent situation. To-day he cdftunands a sal­ ary of at least $6^000. "And I owe it all," he said-not'long ago to a Cleveland friend, "to the fact that I fired myself out of the old oper­ ator'» room."--Cleveland Plain Dealer. WHAT THE LAW DECIOES. The mere assertion of the value of property by the vendor to the purchaser during negotiations for a sale, though consciously untrue and relied upon by the purchaser to his- hurt l»- held), in- Gustafson vs. Rustemeyer (Conn.), 39- L. R. A. 04, insufficient to constitute an actionable deceit. The right of the State to protect fish in all streams through which they have freedom of passage to and from the public fishing grounds is sustaiped: in People vs. Truckee Lumber Company (Gal.), 39 L. R. A. 58l. although the streams flow over lands entirely subject to private ownership. With the case is- a note reviewing the authorities on governmental control oyer the right of fishery. The remedy on promissory notes and warrants of attorney under statutes ex­ isting at the time they are made, which authorizes entry of judgment and issue and enforcement of execution thereon notwithstanding an assignment for creditors, is held, in Second Ward Sav­ ings Bank vs. Schrank (Wis.), 39 L. R. A. 609, to be an essential part of- the contract which cannot be taken awajr by change of statute. A subscription to secure the location of a college at or in a certain town on condition that a certain amount is sub­ scribed Is held, In Rogers vs. Galloway Female College (Ark.). 39 L. R. A. 636, to be enforceable where the parties ac­ cepted the amount subscribed as suffi­ cient and the college was located ac­ cordingly, although there proved- to> be a> deficiency in the amount Pawning a Bicycle. It you are a cyclist and in- Paris for tile winter you may find It convenient to pawn your wheel. This does- not necessarily Imply that you arc finan­ cially stranded, but simply that the French Mont dc Piete, which is an in­ stitution under state control, affords-a safe and inexpensive means- of storing your machine during the three or four months that its outdoor occupation is gone; It costs less- than a franc a month and the authorities make spe- efel provision for the accommodation of blcyclesv of whaeh they are bound to take good eare. So the fair but im­ provident Parisienne--- who Is the llv- Ung prototype of la Clgale in the fable of the grasshopper and the ant--bjr- pothecates- ber wheel when the saow begins to fly, and with the proceeds takes out her fur-lined circular wrap from the same Institution, where dui> ing the summer it has been doing pas­ sive service as collateral security for a loan. Next April she can change back agaip, and all's merry. Really, when we thiqk of sueb con­ veniences as this and contrast them with our common three-ball "hock shops" We have to admit that they manage such things better in France. --Leslie's Weekly. "Loneljr, Is It?" said Patrick, scratch­ ing hW herid. "Faith an' ye're rolght. "Now, maiC' l'fi tell ye what we'll do; make It sixpence, an' I'll go wld ye to kape ye company."--Youth's Com­ panion. . . Among the papers of President Mc- iKinley'Sf mother was found the other day a copy of her answer to a letter which asked "how she brought up her children." "I had six of them," waa her answer, "and I had my own work to Kin, bet 1 limply 4!d tbe best I cotilO." Signs of tho Bead mmI Face. Wide, round heads and faces indi­ cate selfishness* joviality and animal propensities; narrow and long heads show soberness and strong character. A deep thinker carries the head bent forward; a woman capable of deep af­ fection carries her head thrown well back. • -- - -------- -- Oak - Ahead. •'What are you crying for?" asked the mother. "Will 8 pratt igot ahead of me," bawled tbe child. "His -papa was killed in the war, and mine wasn't."-- Philadelphia North American. ' There are people who actually believe their troubles interest others. The man who starts out to meet trou­ ble never has to go half way. A shee^-kiUiag -dog seldom kttte sheep at borne. Over 8,000,000 loaves of bread are con­ sumed daily in Greater New York. ^ The trusts now in existence in Amfe*- tea have an aggregate tiepjtallzatiOn of $2,788,773,900. J British trades union printers tyg*"n taken a decided stand against fiftM who print tbe Bible but refuse to Ipiy living wages. Tbe largest sewing machine Ih K|he World Is in operation' In Leeds, Eng. It weighs 0.500 pounds and sews cotton^ belting. « A plan Is being arranged to establish tn tbe mills at Orneyville, l|. I, tli* sys­ tem for small savings similar to that In the public schools. > - , *• The Dutch fishermen kill tbe fish caught as soon as they reach :lbe'shore, while the Frencb fishermen leave booty to die of suffocation. ^ A shift building liltire.:?" land, has received instructions from a Liverpool company for the construction of a cargo steamer, to be SSO feet long and 7J> feet of beam. ' A new kind of cloth » beteg made ttt Lyons from the down of bens, ducks and geese. Seven hundred and fifty grains of feathers make rather nrar# than a square yard of light waterproof ek*h. The silk industry in the United State* la assuming gigantic proportions. Thir­ ty years ago the value of silk produced I** tbe United States was less than $6.- (*>0,000: Last year It exceeded $87.- 000,000. The glassworfcets hava se* asi«jje $!.- 250' a year to send representative to- lawmaking bogles, and tije miqer§<,ma­ chinists and telegraphers "bilvo' alsa made provision-to*keep' members tt^gov­ erning IXMlitfflK At Shefi}«14.a.single machine will turn out 5(000-. finished knives per dajr^ and' : it can be adapted for either table .or pocket cutliery, razore--hollow Tar - straight--sheep shears; indeed* A»r afe : most any kind of tool?. i ^ The combination'^policy of the Vftn* derbilts on the Lake Shore and Michi­ gan Central railways and the cbangea and consolidations on the Vanderbilt system between New York and Chicago Is; expected to result in laying off 5*000 mien. " During the last twefre months tbe Parsian shambleareceived 21,667 horses for slaughter, 52 mules and 31 donkeys; Only one mule, 310 donkeys and 734 horses were condemned a» unfit for hu­ man food. Prime cuts of horse brought 18 cents per pound, while the most Jn* ferior kinds sold for 10 cents per pound; During 1897 there were 1,015 separate fatal accidents in and about all the mines and quarries, more than 20 feet deep, in the Unlt&d Kingdom, Involv­ ing the loss of 1,102 lives, showing, on comparison with the previous year, an increase of eleven In the number of ac­ cidents, and a decrease of 86 in the number of lives lost. An apparatus has been invented for recording the work of firemen in the stoke room of steamships, ft not only tells tbe fireman what be ought to do regarding the raising of steam, but ac­ curately- registers- tbe character and amount of work. It is* in fact, a regu­ lar tell-tale, which knocks revolution gauges out of use. ; Judge Holmes of the District Cofirt of Des Moines, Iowa, has handed down an opinion In the case of George S. Hughes against the Des BAeines Typo^ graphical Union. It favors the latter, holding Hughes cannot recover dam­ ages from the union for being kept out of employment because its members re­ fuse to work in tbe same office with him, he being a non-union man. Hughe* had: sued for $5,000' damages. "' \ Parmer R. Cross of Hammond; ft. XL, has received letters patent on a paper banging machine, which experts say will revolutionize that branch of th« Interior decorator's art The principal: features claimed for the new device aza that It will: paper a gjven waM- or celling in less than half the time usually re­ quired under the ordinary method. The machine trims, pastes and' liaoga paper direct from the roll at any point or an» gle. In appearance- it resembles- a car­ pet sweeping machine; and. as- it weighs only seven pounds- ia easily handled and) manipulated. * ' Tba Paor City W. » Oh, the city boy is bundled f! In bis heavy overcoat, With his costly leather leggings** With a silk thing round his thrqji, And he slides upon the sidewalte V Where the ashes have $>4ea stfeead. And. imagines 'I' 0tt his'.-- - 'M M iiM. <%•- bgN$t. '...Jit* ' !»:>• t « There's a hill that's high and ntepiag, ; In the country, far away, Where a boy who wasn't bundled Fit to smother used to stray; With the swiftness of the lightning Down the gleaming hill he a And no ashe* grated g •Neath " -his home made M rW:. •led. - Oh, I pity the poor city Boy who never gets beyond The narrow, ashy sidewalk Or some hampered little pond; Ah, the hill was high apd sloping. And the way was clear ahead Where a country boy went coasting On --Cleveland Leader. Some Causes 6l It is estimated by a competent foreign authority that ouly 900 l>erSon¥ out of 1,000,000 die from old'age, while 1,200 succumb to gout 18,400 to measles, 2,700 to apaplexy, 7,000 to erysipelas, 7,500 to consumption, 48,000 to scarlet fever, 25,000 to whoping cough, 30.009 to typhoid and typhus and 7,000 to rheumatism. The averages vary ac­ cording to locality, but these are coo- sidered accurate as regards the f tion of the globe as a whole. The.mo$orojkatt en g* nonconductofc T * "Mi • - i - MM&