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i ' ' t* #")<<• $«t > U f u Mt ;£}t iSt The Lost Key. For fifty years he turned the key. And always paused to say. *"I Wonder who will wind the clock When I am gone away?" It was a habit second grewn. When he would reach ,the shelf. To say it out aloud--more times To whisper to himself. Through all the years when babies played Upon the kitehon floor The good man used to wind the clock And question as before. Threw all the years when babies grew To man and woman state. The good man wound the Old clock Op Precisely ten to eight. !t was his habit'TrPthe dpys j Of peace and joy and bliss: ^ t Ah, he was never known to slip | A moment e'er remiss. 1 For fifty years, in storm and peace. He'd wind the clock and say- Sometimes beneath his breath so low-- v "When I am gone away?" There was a heaven in his eyes I never knew until He ceased to wind the old clock up, Apd, like it, was so still. --Horace Seymour Keller in New York . Herald. • i - - ; An Honorable Deserter. "A good many soldiers," said the doctor, "deserted to fceep out of a fight. I never knew but one man who deserted to get into a fight, and his story is worth telling. Peter Mayville enlisted in the Ninth Vermont regi­ ment, which, with 12,000 other Union soldiers, surrendered to the Confed­ erates under Jackson, Sept. 15, 1S62, at Harper's Ferry. Under the terms of surrender all the enlisted men were at once paroled and the N^ith Ver­ mont was sent to Camp Douglas, .Chi­ cago, to guard rebel prisoners, until exchanged. "This was a great disappointment to Peter Mayville, and as exchange was delayed, the Vermonter became restive, and then rebellious. One dark night he slipped out of camp and nev­ er returned. He was reported a de­ serter, and was so regarded by the men who knew him best. Mayville > made his way to Pennsylvania, and enlisted, under the name of Peter : Barry, in a regiment on its way to the front He saw hard service at once, and at Gettysburg lost both arms and received other wounds. Not,be­ lieving that he could recover, he told his story to the surgeon, and in the end was sent home to Vermont in as good condition as was possible under ttie circumstances. "Mayville had been something of a character in his home neighborhood, and was very generally known as Pe­ ter Newcome. This name was given him because his young Canadian wife, in the year they came from Quebec to Vermont, was constantly complaining to the neighbors when her husband was off carousing, 'Pete no come.' Pete was so persistent an offender that the neighbors came to call him Peter Nocome, or Newcome, and this clung to him after he reformed, and he was better known as Peter Naw- come than as Peter Mayville. So when he returned, and, as Peter Bar­ ry, was given a pension of $72 a month, there was less comment than there would have been under other circumstances. "Barry did not deny that he had de­ serted from the Ninth Vermont, but -he made it clear that he deserted be­ cause, with fighting going on in front, be could not bear the thought of idling away his time at Camp Doug­ las. As he could not be exchanged, and as he could not get into a fight •as Peter Mayville, because Mayville was a paroled prisoner, he took the bull by the horns, and deserted into a fighting regiment. The pension offi­ cials conceded that Mayville's notions as to oath and parole were a little loose, but there was no doubt about the success of his plan to get into a fight. I saw him only a few years ago, a v^ll-preserved, prosperous Vermont farmer, an armless hero to a people who didn't care under what name he drew }§>- « pension."--Chicago Inter s * Appomattox Apple Tree. "Gen. Gordon," says a veteran, "in a recent article said: 'The apple tree incident at Appomattox is a romance. The only connection between the sur­ render and the apple tree is the fact that Gen Lee and Gen. Grant met there for a few moments and agreed upon a place for formal meeting.' Gen. Gordon is misquoted or is mistaken. The famous apple tree was .across the Appomattox from the courthouse and inside of Lee's lines. The Confeder- , ate skirmish line was parallel to the Appomattox and between the court­ house and the stream, and that skir­ mish line was maintained until the Confederate commands moved out en route for their homes after the sur­ render. "Now, the truth is. Grant was not within the Confederate lines at Ap­ pomattox. He came through the Union skirmish and battle lines from our rear, and at no time was he beyond the McLean house, which was be­ tween the lines of battle, although our line after the surrender was advanced beyond it. The apple tree was on April 9, 1865, not where Grant and Lee could meet. "Ab Lee rode forward to meet Grant, however, he stopped at the roadside to await the return of his staff officer, sent through the lines to Sheridan, and to avoid the confusion on the road led his horse up the bank inside an orchard and sat down a few minutes under the famous apple " tree. There Col. Marshall, his chief of staff, returning with Col. Babcock, found him. Receiving their report, he mounted his horse and rode forward with them to the McLean house. This is the true story of the apple tree." thousand horses are mar^halieU in battle line, v Standing beside theai are five thousand riders, armed, booted and spurred, and ready to mount. The bugles sound the "Mount!" and in­ stantly five thousand plumes rise above the horses as the riders spring into their saddles. In front of the respective squadrons the daring lead­ ers take their places. The fluttering pennants or streaming guidons, ten to each regiment, mark the left of the companies. On the opposite slope of the same plain are five thousand hos­ tile horsemen clad in different uni­ forms, ready to meet these in counter­ charge. Under those ten thousand horses are their hoofs, ironshod and pitiltess, beneath whose furious tread the plain is soon to quiver. Again on each slope of the open field the bugles sound. Ten thousand sabres leap from scabbards and glisten in the sun. The trained horses chafe their restraining bits, and as the bugle notes sound the charge, their nostrils dilate and their flanks swell in sympathetic impulse with the dashing riders. "Forward!" shouts the commander. Down the lines and through the columns in quick suc­ cession ring the echoing commands, "Forward, forward!" As this order thrills through the'^&ger ears, sabers flash, ani spurs are planted in palpitat­ ing flanks. The madly flying horses thunder across the trembling field, fill­ ing the air with clouds of dust and whizzing pebbles. Their iron-rimmed hoofs in remorseless tread, crush the stones to powder and crash through tho flesh and bones of hapless riders who chance to fall. As front against front these furious riders plunge, their sweeping sabres slashing edge against edge, cutting a way through opposing ranks, gashing faces, breaking arms, and splitting heads, it is a scene of wildest war, a whirling tempest of battle, short-lived but terrible.--Gen. John B. Gordon in Scribner's. Kept His Battle Flag. Lewis S. Truitt died a few weeks ago in Abbeville, S. C. He was a member of the Nineteenth South Caro­ lina regiment, and was conspicuous for his bravery in the battles around Atlanta. In one of these battles he was the seventh man to take up the flag, six having been killed or wounded within a short while, and he advanced the standard to the top of the enemy s earthworks in the face of a galling artillery fire. It was at one time during the prog­ ress of this battle that the Confederate lines were badly broken, and Gen. S. D. Lee, riding up to Truitt, demanded the colors, but Truitt refused to sur­ render them. Gen. Lee said to him: "Do yon know who I am?" The reply was: "Yes, I know you are Gen, Lee, but it is my duty to carry the flag, and I will carry it wherever you order, but you cannot take it." Gen. Lee passed on to another regi­ ment and upon demanding the colors they were delivered to him. Several years ago, while Gen. Lee was visiting this place, Mr. Truitt called on him, and the incident just related being mentioned, Gen. Lee asked him: "Weife you the man who gave me the flag or the one who did not?" The answer being in the negative, Gen Lee replied: "Would to God there had been 10,000 more there just like you, and a different story would have been told of those fearful battles."-- Columbia Star. Loss of Horses in War. Deaths due to wounds received in battle constitute but an insignificant part of the losses of cavalry horses in war. It was only after a war ex­ perience of two years that a cavalry bureau was established in 1863. This resulted in economy and increased efficiency, for an enormous number of horses, temporarily disabled through excessive marching and lack of forage, were turned in at the general depots and recuperated sufficiently to be again issued. The number turned in was but a fraction of the whole num­ ber issued, owing to the difficulty of re­ turning worn-out horses from distant and isolated points. Some idea of the dimensions of the remount business may be had from the statement that 188.718 horses were purchased during the fiscal year end­ ing June 20, 1864. During the first eight months of that year the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac was sup­ plied with two complete remounts, which required 40,000 horses. The to­ tal number of mules and horses re­ quired ta keep up the supply for all armies was 500 each day. and the data collected showed that for every two men of the whole force employed one animal was required in the ranks or trains. The recent experience of the British army in South Africa indicates that the loss of animals in the civil war was not exceptional, and that whenever campaigns are undertaken in a sparsely-settled country history will repeat itslef.--United States Serv­ ice Review. Cavalry Charge at Gettysburg. A cavalry charge, met by a counter- Charge of cavalry, is still, perhaps, the most terrible spectacle witnessed in war. If the reader has never seen •tush a charge, he can form little con­ ception of the awe-inspiring fury. Imagine yourself looking down from Gettysburg's heights upon the open, wtde-spresiSing plain below, wthcre five Mhy Thrifty Individual Wanted His Money Back. A wealthy resident of Philadelphia who has recently built an expensive log cabin on an island in Penobscot bay tells of his experience with tlio fishing and farming population of tho island when he was building his rus­ tic residence. As many workmen were employed for all summer, the owner of the new home opened a small store to supply his help with tobacco and other needful articles, in­ cluding groceries for those who lived in camps with their families. One day an old laborer named Grant came to the store and told the clerk that his home was overrun with rats, which destroyed every bit of food as fast as he took it from the store. The clerk showed him a wire rat trap and told him he would sell it at cost, and that if it did not satisfy him he could bring it back after giving it a fair trial. Grant took the trap home, but brought it back a week later, saying that he did not wish to purchase. ' "Didn't it catch any rats tor you?" asked the clerk. "Every blamed one of them," was the reply. 'There isn't a rat on the premises now, and that's why I brought the trap back, as I do not wish to pay out money for things that I cannot use.";--Philadelphia Lied- ger. KEPT HIS DESK CLEAR. Here is the Secret of One Man's Suc­ cess in Life. Railroad circles, as well as a large portion of the general public, were greatly Interested in the resignation of W. A. Garrett from the general su- perintendency of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad a few months ago, to assume a more important position with the Queen & Crescent road. Mr. Garrett's rise in the railroad world has been phenomenal, but one little story which he himself told to a neighbor hints at a secret of it all. "When I first went into the rail­ road business as a young man," said Mr. Garrett, "I was called aside by one the clerks, who said to me: 'Now, Garrett, let me give you tip. You want always to keep your desk lit­ tered with papers, so that when the old man comes around he will think you're terribly busy. Then he won't pile any more work on you.' Well," continued Mr. Garrett, "I made up my mind, that contrary to this man's advice, I would always keep my desk cleared. And I have done so." To-day Mr. Garrett is getting a sal­ ary of $12,000 a year, while his clerkly counselor is still drawing ?60 a month and wondering why luck is against him.--Philadelphia Press. "Grant's Luck." "I did not go out to see the sur­ render of Gen. Lee. I remember well the event of Gen Grant's return after the surrender. I think there were not more than three persons present when the general came in and took a seat at a table to write. He looked up with some expression of animation, and remarked: "More of Grant's luck!" This was an( allusion to the newspa per critics who^had been in the habit of calling his sltcoess luck. This little comjment on the sur render of Lee wis the only word of ex ultation I ever heard from the victor­ ious soldier. It was a very Blight expression triumph to follow such a stupendeous achievement---but wholly characteris­ tic.--The National^, Magazine. Do You Wcjnt a Hippo? One wishing to import a'hlppopota- rans must have a Igovernmient permit to buy find another\to land one. of Hindo Boy's Strenuous Life. „ When he is four years old the Hin­ doo boy's time of idleness and happy freedom is over. His father then con­ sults an astrologer as to which would be the luckiest day to send the son to school. When the date has been fixed he is given a bath, his very best clothes are put on and he is taken to pay a visit to the temple and to offer up sacrifice to the god of learning, praying that in his school life he may become learned and industrious. Then he is taken to school and a period of rigid discipline begins. If he is the first boy to arrive in the morn­ ing he is given one stroke of the cane across - his back and each boy as he comes get an added stroke, the last boy receiving an abundance. How fatigued that schoolmaster muBt be! If a child is very late indeed he is made to stand on one leg /or an hour or hold his arms straight out before him or hold a brick high in the air. For every new lesson he learns he must give the master a present. The Woman in the Case. Since the day whea sinful Adam turned state's evidence on Eve, And a flimsy web of guilt around his wifey tried to weave, Down through all the countless ages time haa left along her trail Has the female had to suffer for the do­ ings of the male. ' 'Twas the woman! 'Twas the woman!" rang the cry through Eden's bowers. ' 'Twas the woman;" yet we hear it in these modern days of ours, As the false bewhiskered sinners desper­ ately try to place All the blame upon the shoulders of the woman in the cose. So 'twill be till time has ended, till the sun is stripped of light. And the earth is in the blackness of the never-ending night. Till the sounding of the trumpet calls the dead from earthly sleep And the heavenly inspectors separate the goats and sheep. Even at the bar of Judgment when we're called upon to show The extenuating features of our sinning here below, There may be full many cowards Who will stand with brazen face And attribute their transgressions to the woman in the case. '-James Barton Adams in Denver Post. A Southern Compliment. Chief Justice Chase of the Supreme court had a grand time on one occa­ sion when he visited New Orleans. Accompanied by his accomplished daughter, the Justice partook of the generous hospitality of the South. He entered heartily into the pleasures of the hour, not once presuming to im­ press the dignity of his exalted posi­ tion upon his host. One evening the Justice caught sight of his daughter, surrounded by man^,of the gallants of the South. Addressing himself to a fine old gentleman, the Justice, with warranted pride, said: "Sir, what do you think of my daughter?" "If you will permit me to Judge by present appearance," replied the gentleman, bowing graciously, "I as­ sert, positively, that she is the su­ preme court of the,South."--Detroit Free Press. Horse Has Wonderful Escape. A horse attached to a garbage wag* on backed over an embankment at Lancaster, Pa., a few days ago, falling more than 100 feet. The wagon was demolished, but the horse escaped without a scratch. FINE CITY OF TURIN S u m m e r H o m e o f I t a l i a n R o y a l t y (8 m C OlA UCj»$> titR IEONDCN .©' E) When King Victor Emanuel III haa returned from his visit to the presi­ dent of the French republic he, with his family, will go to pass part of the summer at the Castle of Racconigi, about fourteen miles to the south or Turin. The place is intimately asso­ ciated with events connected with the Italian "Risorgimento," which ended in the king of Sardinia becoming the ruler of all Italy. Here the young Victor Emanuel II lived with his moth­ er, Queen Maria Teresa, who was the daughter of Ferdinand III, grand duke of Florence. It was here, also, in the August cf 1840, that he saw for the "With the ideal ^nd with the example of his ancestors!" 'These ancestors are seen here doing oattle for their lands and homes; they are of varied periods and in costumes of the times, through which they lived. There is movement and life in the grdupS, and the whole series of figures appear to constitute a great gallery of sculpture. It has been said that, to the artist, th^statjie of Moses by Michael An- gelo, in thejQJiurch of St. Pietro in Vincoli, at Rome, suggested as many lessons in art as might be learned in a whole gallery of sculpture. Here, in Calandra's Priofte Amadeo of Aosta, Church bf San Carlo from Plaza San Carlo. first time his cousin, Maria Adelaide, whom he afterward married. She was the daughter of the Austrian arch­ duke. Ranieri, viceroy of Lombardia Venezia, who "Was married to the aunt of Victor Emanual. Thus, when the latter went forward to the making of Italy, he put down from their thrones several of his own relatives. •fhe monuments of Turin constitute a special feature in its objects of in­ terest. It has been said that Turin is the city in Italy which has the great­ est number of monuments. Nearly every one of its fine squares and its pleasant gardens is adorned with stat­ ues, either in marble or in bronze. In the very heart of the city, in the Piazza San Carlo, a fine equestrian statue, raised on a high pedestal, fur­ nishes a good specimen of modern workmanship. It is the worlf of Bar­ on Carlo Marocchetti, a native of Tu rin, but who lived and succeeded in his art in London. The statue repre­ sents Emanuele Filiberto, duke of Sa­ voy, sheathing his sword after the peace of Chateau Cambresis. Another monument which suggests a sad event in the progress of the kingdom is that of Duke Ferdinando of Genoa, the unfortunate son of Car­ lo Alberto, who was one of the heroes of the wars of 1848-49. It stands in the Piazza Solferino, and was given to the city by the brother of the duke, the late Victor Emanuel II. It is a work of artistic daring and has been the theme of bitter criticism and most exaggerated laudation. The work is by the sculptor Balzico. It represents the simplest spectator may see a sculpture gallery. The person commemorated in th6 monument was a "sympathetic" prince. He was very reluctant to as­ cend the Spanish throne when, in 1870, he was invited by the Cortes to that dignity. About two years later, several attacks having been made upon his life, he returned to Italy af­ ter the sad experience of a thorny throner and after the death of his wife, caused by her precipitate flight/ from <6pain while she was ill, he lived a comparatively quiet life. I:a a city wher.e so many princes dwell at present, as they have dwelt in the past, it is natural to expect pal­ aces. With these Turin is well sup­ plied. The royal palace in which King Victor Emanuel II held his court prior to .his acquisition of the numer­ ous palaces in the other states of It­ aly, and which made him master ot more royal residences than probably any other sovereign known to ancient or modern history, is a large but com­ paratively plain-looking building. It occupies the site of a palace which long ago was inhabited by the bishops of Turia, which in its day, was the largest and most magnificent palace in the city. Like most of the palaces in Italy, it has a spacious court yard sur­ rounded by porticoes. There is a statue representing in bronze the Duke Vittorio Amadeo I seated on a marble horse, with two slaves at his feet also in marble. This was the only equestrian statue in Turin which, until late years, gave an idea of sculp- wmmm >. , ** • PRAISES CHILDREN OF JAPAN. Writer Enthusiastic Over Infants of Flowery Kingdom. A recent book on the children of various countries says: "A baby Jap­ anese girl 4s the most delightful crea: ture you can possible Imagine; a radi­ ant, happy, beautiful butterfly. She is rarely known to cry, for she is rarely slapped. What mother could have the heart to touch so dainty a blos­ som as the childflov/er of this land of flowers? The baby girl loves fun; she loves toys, sweets and tea in little cups; • she loves to smoke, with a funny pipe made of brass and kept in her sleeve; and, above all, shq loves her big, round-headed doll. She is wonderfully playful and gentle, thisA child, always ideally dressed and al­ ways self-possessed. She has the loveliest mout^ and teeth and twinkl­ ing black eyes, and she knows it, too. The smallest Japanese wants to be beautiful; each baby girl has her dainty lacquer box of rouge and pow­ der, she is like some wonderful fantas­ tic tropical blossom, some dear little dragon fly. And her hair--how black it is, with blue lights, and shining where it is stiffened and gummed in loops and hands till it seems to reflect the gold lacquer and coral-tipped pins that bristle around her head! Great competition goes on between girls as to whose hair shall be most becoming­ ly arranged, whose the smoothest and most glossy, whose girdle shall be the most gracefully tied and whose dress shall possess the most harmonious effect. WAS NOT A CANNIBAL. But For a While the^at Man's Neigh­ bor at Table Fefihred the Worst. A fat man walked into the res­ taurant and, after knocKing down a few hats while hanging up his own, sat as much as himself down as the only vacant seat in the room would hold. He grabbed a piece of bread that had come with his right hand neigh­ bor's order and began to munch on it. Then he looked for the bill of fare. The ministerial looking man on his left was reading it. The fat man leaned over on him and began reading it too. "How's them pork chops and apple sauce?" he mumbled between mouth- fuls of bread. Just then the waiter appeared with a bowl of bean soup for a patron on the other side of the table. "Hey, waiter," bawled the fat man, "bring me one o' them soups, and hurry up about It, will yer!" The ministerial looking man heaved a/sigh of relief. • ' "Thank goodness, sir," he said, turning to the fat man. "I was so afraid you were going to o^der pork. I detest a cannibal." Would Not Touch the Pig. A recent traveler in Somaliland gives the following curious incident showing the Mohammedan hatred for pigs: "We shot two wart hogs, one a particularly big boar. Alan wished to keep the tusks, but, of course, none of the Somalis would touch the un­ clean animal. At last a bribe of 2 rupees induced the Midgan woman to chop the tusks out with a hatchet. Even then she would not touch them and with the help of two sticks, which she used like a pair of tongs, put them on a camel. Then there was a long dispute about the hatchet. No one would touch it; it had been defil­ ed. Of course this was pure affectation and playing to the gallery on the ayah's part. At home with her na­ tive tribe she would have gorged all the pig she could get. But it flattered the Somalis and we marched off, the ayah holdirig the hatchet at arm's length as if it were going to bit$ her." Two Views of a Marriage. These verses are to be read twice: once as printed, then the first and third and second and fourth lines. It will be seen that they give quite opposite meanings accordingly as they are read. The man must lead a happy life Who is directed by his wife; Who's freed from matrimonial chains Is sure to suiter for his pains. Adam of old could find no peacs Until he saw a woman's face; When Eve was given for a mate, Adam was in a happy state. In all the females' hearts appear Truth, darling of a heart sincere; Hypocrisy, deceit and pride, , Ne'er known in woman to reside. What tongue is able to unfold The worth In woman we behold T The falsehood that in woman dwell Is almost,-taperceptible. Fooled be the foolish man, I say. Who will not yield to woman's sway; Who changes from his singleness Is sure of perfect blessedness. Garibaldi MoniMoent. Widows of Old Soldiers. There are now on the pension rolls three widows and three daughters of revolutionary soldiers, one survivor of the war of 1812 and 1,317 widows. the duke at tifo battle of Novara, where his horse, being wounded to death, falls under him, while he fear­ lessly continues to show forth to the troops the path to glory. One of the most modern of the mon­ uments of Turin is that which rises in the vicinity of the Castle Valentino, within a spacious inclosure surround­ ed by a railing. It represents Prince Amadeo, duke of Aosta, brother ot the late King Humbert, and is the work of David Calandra, a sculptor of a daring genius and abundant artistic resources. Here, again, the prince, who was king of Spain, Is about to sheathe the sword in the flower of his youth and In the most brilliant episode of his life. Here one may read an allegori­ cal evocation of the most illustrious figures among the princes of Savoy,- who express in their lives the valor and the greatness of this race. The motto on the base of the statue reads: An Old Proverb Revised. Odl. John S. Flaherty was advising a friend who had a grievance not td go to law about it. "What's the use?" demanded CoL Flaherty. "What difference does it make if you have right on your side if the law Is against you? Ethical prob­ lems and facts are useless 'wnen they shan't be substantiated." "Truth crushed to earth will rise again," quoted the friend who felt that he hacf been wronged. "That may be," retorted the colo­ nel, "but it does not always get up be­ fore the referee has counted ten."-- New York Times. ture to the Turin people, and It was popularly known as the "marble horse," and was a source of wonder to the mountaineers who came to the eity from time to time. The grand ballroom is a spacious hall, supported by fluted columns, with Corinthian capUalB, and magnificent chandeliers. The throne room Is very rich. Qn a slightly raised dais, surrounded by a splendid balustrade, the throne is be­ neath a canopy of velvet and gold of great magnificence. The reception hall of the queen is brighter in its adornments,-but the abundance of Ori­ ental vases is somewhat overwhelm­ ing. Palaces nowadays, except in rare instances, are furnished in a manner that indicates unlimited wealth, rath­ er than severe and chaste artistic taste in the decorator. J*' &• A great deal of trouble in this world cmbss under the head of bonnets. Dry District Ruse. Rodrlck--That druggist had a great scheme for putting a "stick" In his soda water. Van Albert--What was it? Rodrick--Why, he soaked the straws in liquor and all his customers tasted It and thought it was the glass. Privations of the Poor. - A slum inspector told the Glasgow Municipal Commission on the Hous­ ing of the Poor that on some occa­ sions he had found families sleeping in tiers--the parents on the floor, then a mattress, and a. layer of chil­ dren on the top. •' • Returning Youthful nasi. , The hair and beard of Walter Craig of Cadiz., O., who is 35 years of age and which has been snowy white sev­ eral years, !# rapidly turning blaok again . j The H Who would not be a^b£ en. w no wouia noi i»e avoarnyard hen, To scratch and peck and scratch agattfc To lay a calm egg now and thei^?, To cackle when the deed is doh^V' :.-^, To welter In the dust and sun. f.S-' > * I think would be no end of fun.' Jyfe To have a comb and yet no hair. "JL;? Seems careless, trite and debonair, • And yet I think 'twere good to W«a A vigorous penetrating nose, And widely radiating toes, >i. . " And from-one's-skin-projecting clothes. Who would not be a barnyard hen. To scratch and peck and scratch again For families of eight or ten? --Arthur Colton in Harper's Magafcta* A Walled Town in Britain. In the old days when might right the city that was walled about was common enough, but there are very few towns In Britain which "pre­ serve their walls at the present day. Of those few, undoubtedly the most unique is Berwick-upon-Tweed, the old Border town, which has occupied many a page of the past history of the United Kingdom, and which to this Very day enjoys the distinction of special mention as. a place apart from the United Kingdom in every royal proclamation issued. Here the old battlements built in the time of Queen Elizabeth remain intact, with all but one of the ancient gateways, and even in some case3 the very ponderous gates themselves on their old rusty hinges. In reality there are two walls, the outside and older one, of which now only some fragments remain standing, dating back to the far-off times of Edward the First, who in the great hall of Berwick castle-- only a small part of which now re­ mains--decreed that Baliol should be King of Scotland, a decree which, as every schoolboy knows, was soon set at defiance by Bruce and his hardy warriors. On this outer line of the ramparts still stands the tower in which the warning notes of the war bell were rung to denote the approach of an enemy, an object naturally of great interest "to all visitors to the town. Her Life for Her Child. Capt. Wells, formerly commander ol the metropolitan fire brigade of Lon­ don, thus describes the bravest deed : he ever saw: "The scene was a fire at an oilshop and house," he said. "A woman and her two children were on the top floor, and without a moment's thought she snatched up one of her children, and, fighting her way down the stair­ case, through smoke and heat, deliver­ ed the child in safety to a pefswjd in the street.' Then she rushed through the burning shop and up the stair­ case with a view of reaching her room. "She must have reached her child, clutched it, and tried to make her way out. But in the attempt the de* ™ voted mother was forced back, only to be found dead by our men, who had just arrived. She was still holding her child close to her, and had evi­ dently kept hei* own back to the flame^ to protect the little one, while her arms and clothes were tightly round the little one." Cigars at $4 Apiece. Those who have attended the bit banquets at Delmonico's, such, for instance, as the one given to Cyrus Field upon the completion of the At­ lantic cable, and which cost „$50 a plate, had the privilege of smoking the choicest Havana cigars, costing perhaps fifty cents apiece. But what would the dinner cost with cigars at $4 each? Yet there are such cigars being made in Havana to-day, and some have arrived In New York. Fran* cisco E. Fonseca, a friend of President Pal ma, and who was born near where he lived in Cuba, received one of these a few days ago. It was wrapped in a piece of imported Japanese rice papei and inclosed in a handsomely decorat* ed box. In fact, only one comes In a box, and each is sixteen inches long and an inch and a quarter in dlametei at the middle. It is said that the to­ bacco can only be gfown on one plan­ tation in Cuba, and the duty on each Is sixty-eight cents. Horse Commits Suicide. When Commission Merchant W. K. Cassel went to his stables at Morris« town, N. J., recently, he was grieved to find that his most valuable horse was dead and from all appearances the animal had committed suicide. The horse was lying in a most pe« culiar position. Its head was b» neath its body and from the manner in which it was lying the horse muat deliberately have broken its neck. The strap by which the animal had been tied was torn and the horse from all appearances had by brute strength done tne act. Mr. Cassel went for Dr. Dengler, thinking perhaps that life might not yet be extinct, but upon the arrival of the veterinary he at once pronounced the case one o^ broken neck. The doctor said that ' the position of the animal was a most peculiar one and that the case seemed iils use eft suicide. . 't Paris a Clean City. One of the cleanest cities^in the world is Paris. It employs 3,20fr street cleaners every day in ordinary weath­ er. In winter, when snow begins to fall, this number is considerably Iq. creased, the snow being shoveled and washed away by means of hose aa soon as it comes down. Coins Many Centurlea Old. J. F. Bruce of Billerica, Mass., has Just received from a missionary who Is principal of an academy in Kn­ elling, China, weight historic old coins. The oldest of the coins bears the date of 221 B. C. while the others rang* between 768 A. D. and 1270 A. p. Eden Up to Date. But for lace and lingerie vonat would have little temptation to vain--and maa little tamptatlo Smart Bet -A.C •?\ • • f'.v-