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1 * 'Y A WOMAN -•n. She wore a high hnt to the. play, ~) tAnd what did the man behind say? Well, not what he ought, : If he'd said what lie thought; But he didn-'t--lie just'<veut away. ' 4 . •' -< . ' •From..the slow moving car, without fear, She got off with her face to the rear; ~ All who saw her revolve Made a solemn resolve No,t to go and do like her this year. •She made a small bet with a man On a most satisfactory plan. < ,t No matter which way .< r It went, he had to .pay, ! , x So now she has got a new fan. She never had learned how to cook iBttt she studied receipts from a book-- I .Her first lemon pie J, • Delighted thp eye, But the crust of it cut like caoutchouc. She got to the theater late. For her pa and her ma had to waif , While she stood at the glass I For an hour, alas! :lt. To see if her liat was on straight. But we love her in spite of all this. For she s\Veetens our dull life u;ith bliss. • She is tender and true \ • When troubles pursue,: And our woes vanish all at her kiss. --Somefrille Journal? HENDERSON S PUP. ME came in a crate'by the even­ing stage--an ungainly St. Ber­nard puppy with' legs long enough for a, dog twice his size. A card pri the top of his wicker cage read: BILL HENDERSON, Keene Center, Adirondacks. The crowd on the store porch wait­ ing for the mail to be sorted'looked at the newcomer over and expressed their several opinions as to his breed. Some "calated he had shepherd in him," and others " 'swan' be hadn't." "See that: taaow he bobs that head of his'n," said Israel Lukens. an old hunt­ er, peering into the crate. "Hello, thar, 'Long Legs,' haow goes it--hun- , gry, be ye?" And the puppy licked the old man's hand." "What ye got thar--a lion?" shouted Alfred Hamner from the road on his way to the lumber shanty. By this time the mail was sorted and the crowd shuffled ,-hito the store. A kerosene lamp sent long shadows scur- rying over the ceiling and diffused a mellow light half way down the coun­ ter at the further end of which was strewn a tumbled assortment of lum- "DOG HE TIE voi r, r OI.K bermen's shirts and some old pairs of ; children's boots, the remnant of the winter stock. Great drifts of blue to- j bacco smoke floated lazily toward the j lamp and ascending were lost in the ; shadows. The puppy left alone on the porch heard the laughter and the voices of the 1 men-inside, and began to whine. Then j realizing this only added to his loneli- I ness, he cocked his head and looked | tip at the stars and the great range j slipping clear nrjt against tliem. He i could hear the roar of the river as it. j swung through the valley, and far down the road the baying of a hound, Then came the sound of a wagon clat- , tering along, and the next instant Bill i Henderson reined in his team and called out: "Dog here for aour folks?" The door was opened by the postmas­ ter. "Some of my womern's relatives i daown in Fort Ti," Henderson contin­ ued, "writ that they had one of them I St. Bernards and wanted we should take it. I told my wife, sez I, we got I enough baounds to feed without goin' | into no fancy breeds." Ten minutes later the puppy was lift­ ed out ot the crate and tumbled into ' the wagon, and Henderson drove off. j As they rattled down the road the cool air seemed to revive the puppy, it felt good to get out of the close crate, and though at first "he cower&Pagaiust the dashboard he began gradually to fed more like himself. Now and then he would put up his foolish shaggy head and try to make friends with Hender­ son. But Henderson was surly. He regarded the puppy as more of an in­ cumbrance. than anything else. Such friendly beginnings on the part of the puppy were greeted with a" kick that sent him shivering under the seat again. Henderson hadn't much heart even toward his neighbors, and when it same to animals he had less. When Henderson reached bis cabin Mandy, his "womern," came out with a candle to see the new dog, and the His feet began to bleed and he kilned piteously. • ' -y Wlien the,cart reached the valley, six miles distant, and stopped in front of the po'stoffice, the puppy lay uncon­ scious' against the hind wheel, his eyes were closed and blood poized from his nostrils. Some onp unhitched the chain and dragged him afewfeetaway on t h e g r a s s u n d e r a t r e e . ^ Two men passing stopped. "Guess he's dead," said one. "Looks like he'd been ugly, anyhow," said the other, and they passed on. * ° ' • The shadows lengthened until only the great slides far up on "GiantMoun- fain" werehigh enough to catch the rays of the red sun. A -few lamps beamed at the windows down the sin­ gle street, and a gentle breeze • rustled the leaves overhead. When the dew fell the puppy opened his eyes. 0 It seemed to liiiii that "li e was back once more in the crate at the store, lie could see the stars glitter and hear the roar of the river, '- As the wind freshened and blew down the valley lie staggered on his feet and tottered up the road, whining. For a moment he stopped in front of the store and stood in the glare of the lamps. Soiiie village*urs snarled at him. Limping up the/wooden steps, he Waited until a man opened the store door, then he slunk in, bobbed his head and wagged his bedraggled 'tail.'. "I'll bet ye the cigars that dog's mad." said a rough lumberman in a slouch hat. , "I goll. Bill, you're right," replied his partner, jaOdding approvingly. "This dog your'n, Ed?" lie shouted sar-' castically to a big felllow in a blue shirt, as he opened the door, and the crowd roared to a man. "I'll tell ye what I'll do," said anoth­ er. "I give half a dollar for his hide if anyone'U shoot him." A butcher's boy lounging against the counter bet he could hit him "first crack." Just then the puppy settled slowly on his haunches, looked up at the butcher's boy and wagged his tail. "Look out--don't ye come near me," said the butcher's boy. " The next instant a well-directed boot rolled the puppy into the road. He staggered to his feet and stood gazing up at the crowd on the porch, his limbs trembling. The storekeeper came out with a box of cartridges and a Win­ chester. Throwing a shell into tha magazine he handed" the rifle to the* butcher's boy. There A as a pause. "Git that hind sight fine on him." It was the man in the slouch hat telling the butcher's boy. "Hyar!" came a stern voice out of the dusk, and the next instant the old hunt­ er, Israel Lukens, had the butcher's boy by tin1 throat. "You young skunk!" he thundered, wrenching the rifle away from butcher's boy. "Thought ye'd be pnow- erful cunnin', didn't ye? I see that there puppy when lie come daown to the Center. Thar ain't notliin' the matter with that dog; he's been used awfully. Henderson's folks had him and them young ones liked to kill him." The old man loosened his vice-like grip, and the butcher's boy slunk into the store. One by one the crowd fill- lowed sheepishly, while the puppy trembled against the old man's boot­ leg. ° When the latch clicked on the last men Israel took the puppy in his arm?. "Poor leetle cuss," he said as lie car­ ried the puppy down the road to his cabin. Ami so the puppy lived with Israel, and one August day the old hunter left his cabin at daylight witli the dog. "Hadn't ye better git a couple of (he boys to help ye, Israel, if you're a goin' to""git aout them hemlock?" said Je- rushy, his wife, as he left ~ i "I presume likely I had," said Israel, leaning on his ax at the gate. "Era --he's ought to went to the Centtv ., | day to get them shingles, and cai- j | ated he'd go fishin'. No," hereon tin- | i ued, "I guess I'll make aput well i enough alone, thar ain't so much but , i what I kin handle it." And shoulder- j I ing his ax he disappeared in the woods, j | talking to the dog. | It was noon when Jerushy finished j j her washing and sat shelling peas in I the coolest corner of the summer kiteli- I i en. Outside in the tangled garden the j i bees tumbled .lazily over the flowers I and the yellow jackets crawled in and ! out among the bunches of dried herbs hung under the eaves of the rickety j porch. Below from the valley, swim- | ming in the August heat, came the | harsh droning of the mill, broken at I intervals by the delicate ping, an the j log left the saw. "Thar!" she said to herself, slartiug | up as the mill whistle blew. "I hain't i more'n had my hands out tha dish ; water ami it's plumb noon." Si.e felt j something tugging at her skins, and ; looking.,around saw the dog. "Wall, if that don't beat all," said the old lajdy, | readjusting her steel spectacles. " Wli.it j ails ye--stop it, ye fool!" " \ I But the dog kept tugging at her I dress. "Got a muslirat, have ye?" said the old lady coaxingly. "Wall, I presume dog" wouldn't perform like that, i;il' warrant ye, she said hurrying on. T h e b a r k e e l s h a r p l y a n d p l u n g e d on through the woods, the old lady fol­ lowing as best she could, calling at in­ tervals., ,v • "Israel, Israel, whar be ye? Bp ye hurt?" i / {Suddenly the dog ^topped arid 11s- fo^ed,, and Jerushy hear-} far up the, mountain a faint lmlloo. Ten minutes later she found the old man buried under d fallen hemlock, un­ hurt but unable to move. •» As Jerushy stood by wringing Ivor hands the-dog tried to ferret beneath the pile of debris, tugging at Israel's coat. ' "Oh, Israel, be you a dyin'?" moaned Jerushy. ; '. \ "Dyin'? No," Israel replied. "I hain't hurt none--ye see I mistrusted this here free wan't agoin' to fall right; ALP INC TORRENTS IN HARNESS. OH, ISIJAEl., BE YOU A DYIN but 'fore I knowed it she come down top of me. If it wan't for that young spruce I presume likely it'd killed me. And he conic aud told ye!" said the old man. "Wall, I swan!" When the neighbors came and hauled the old man out the dog's joy knew no bounds. "Thought he wasn't no good, did ye, friends?" said the old hunter, turning to the bystanders. "Ye hain't no bones broke, have ye, Israel?" asked a mild old man, once sheriff in the county. "It's a good thing the dog came daown and told yer woman, Israel, wasn't it?" drawled a tall, lanky fel­ low. "I'm tickled to see ye wan't hurt," said another as the procession filed down the mountain. , But Israel did not answer; he was talking to the dog.--Utica Globe. Gait ol" the Stout Woman. » "Did you ever notice," said a young woman of observation to a writer for the Washington Star, "that no matter how heavy any of my obese sisters may grow to be they can always move more lightly ? The airiest dancer that I ever knew was a woman who weighed over 20<> pounds, and the boys used to tell me that it was positively a comfort to waltz with her. for she seemed to float about like a balloon. Of course, there are plenty of stout women who come down like a falling keg every time they stir a step, but that is because they hold their shoulders bowed back and their stomachs bowed out until they look in profile like a bow window. They have thrown themselves off their center of gravity and prance about with all the grace of a walking beam. But the stout woman who knows how to hold herself, how to poise herself, I should rather say, can move as lightly as a sylpli, as everybody can testify who keeps his eyes and ears open. I repeat, too, that she can move much more lightly than a man of corresponding bulk. I don't know why it is, but it's certainly so. I suppose that if a close series of experi­ ments were made, something in the na­ ture of comparative measurements, it" would be found that in the woman's case there is a more equal distribution of. avoirdupois than in the man's case. 1 offer the suggestion as opening up a new field of interesting inquiry." .Wafer Power Now Used to Light Moun­ tain Villages with KlectrJcity." "All over the Twol, Switzerland, and the Alpine couitfry generally, you find to-day. a curi/us conjunction of the modern and trie mediaeval in the vil­ lage streets, the stores^^a-n-d the inns," 'said a traveler, "In the smallest, the most remote,fond the most ancient ,vil- lngessin Jthe Bavarian Alps, the Tyrol and the Bernese Oberland you find the streets, the stores, the inns, and not in­ frequently the houses, supplied ..with electric lights. I revisited last August a little village in the Tyrolean moun- taiii.s^neai'iltinsbruck, which is one of the most,characteristically mediaeval communiies one could well find. The people live in the houses of their grand- sires, and follow their customs and ways. "This yea?' I arrived there in the evening, and was amazed to find the streets as brilliantly lighted as Broad­ way, where formerly the only light was from a swinging horn lantern here and there. There were clusters of incan­ descent lights strung across the streets every few yards. The little inn had a complete installation, and -so had the few little shops. I was prepared to learn that the formerly quiet village had become a fashionable watering place. But it hadn't." It was as r$iiet and as slow, antiquated, and out of date as ever. Later, as I wandered about the Tyrol and Switzerland, I found the same change-everywhere. "It is very natural that it should be so, too, for in all that region there is power in superabundance, running waste on every hand. From every rock leaps a cascade, and over every cliff roars a waterfall; there are streams that flow evenly with a steady,^yhiall power, and torrents that thunder down with tons of force. The village of Mur- ren, perched on the edge of a cliff op­ posite the Jungfrau, at a height,of 5,000 feet above sea level, has a very com­ plete electric lighting system,i and pow­ er enough within avfew hundred yards' radius to light half New York. The villagers get their light almost free. "This is, so far as I could learn, the very first use to which the vast water power in the Alps has been put. Hith­ erto it has run idle. Materialistic travelers often wonder why Switzer­ land is not a big manufacturing coun­ try. Alas! it soon may be. now the patient plodders there are finding what a wonderful capability for work is in the waterfalls." On Laughter. Don't forget to laugh. Laugh when you are happy, laugh when you are 1 amused, laugh at yourself for being ! bored. There is always something to ; laugh at, and even when one is re- ! duced to laughing at one's self that ! is very much better than to be "glum." This is what laughter does for a | woman: It keeps her heart young. It makes her like people for the sake of j the pleasure they give* her, and they In turn like her. It makes her steps buoyant. It keeps her eyes bright. It | kepps, her face from wrinkling. It is 1 a beautiful second to no other one. It I does for the muscles of the face what | exercise does for those of the body-- keeps them supple and prevents them from falling into those stiff and set­ tled lines which mean old age. There is no situation in life except, \ of course, the inevitable tragic mo- i ments, that may not be bettered by laughter. It is hard to burlesoue one's ; griefs and annoyances, but it can be done, aud it is worth doing. To trav- ; esty one's emotions and to make a : mockery of one's annoyances may not Tkeem to be the highest form of phil­ osophy, .but it is not, so low a one as ! to fret ovpr trials and grow pessimis- I tic over personal woes.--New York i World. How People Bothered Owen. Owen wasknoWn to all circles pos­ sessing tlyf slightest tincture of sci­ ence as the man who could reconstruct an entire extinct animal if you gave him the fragment of a fossil tooth. The public would not buy his books; but tli<5V showed their appreciation of his genius in various simple-minded fashions. All reports about the sea serpent were referred to him for ex­ amination. People who fancied that they had found live toads imbedded in rock or coal wrote to ask him what he thought of it. One day, just as he was setting out to keep a dinner engagement, he was detained for half an hour by a note from a stranger wanting to know whether something lie h^ul found in a sausage was or was not the tooth of a dog. and requesting an immediate an­ swer. To the credit of the sausage vender it proved to be the tooth of a sucking pig. Time for Reflection. By the French mode of conducting auctions the seller is secured against serious loss. The estate or property to be sold is placed in the hands of a no­ tary and examined by competent judg­ es, who fix upon it a price considerably less than its value, but always suffi­ cient to prevent any loss by a preconcert­ ed plan or combination of bidders. The property is then offered with the fixed valuation stated, the bids of course, to be an advance upon it The auctioneer is provided with a number of small wax tapers, each capable of burning about five minutes.. As soon as a bid is made one of these tapers is placed in full view of all interested parties and lighted. If, before it expires, another bid is offered, it is immediately extin­ guished and a fresh taper placed in its stead, and so on till one flickers and dies out of itself, when the last bid be­ comes irrevocable. This simple plan prevenyyftll contention among rival biddenffijnd affords a reasonable time for relKSnon before making a higher On another occasion Earl Ilussell, having received as a present from ; offer than the one preceding. By this President Grant what purported to bo means, too, the auctioneer is prevented a bear ham, sent the bone for examina­ tion to Owen. One is sorry to hear that the great anatomist at once pronounced it to be the ham bone of an ordinary pig.--The Academy. from exercising undue influence upon the bidders or hastily accepting the bid of a favorite. ~ tore this projec­ tion starts out from the mountain, pass through a great, elegantly carved stone tarch, and find ourselves at one end of what 1 suppose is called a peristyle. This faces the house and about thirty to forty rods from it. It is a massive cut stone puppy was brought into the kitchen, structure, with carved figures^ fountains TC,'°"n ,w' - etc. It is solely for a pointy of observa­ tion. The top is reached from either end by a brond walk of rougti tile, protected on the outer side by a wall of proper ^heighth, and running diagonally from end te-eenter and from center to end at a moderate incline until the top is reached, at an elevation of about sixty feet. But 1 cannot tell you as it should be told, nor even mention the, many wonderful by the eldest boy and lashed up and things of this wonderful place. Of the great, beautiful hot houses and grounds, of the elegant stables, the main doo.r of where lie walked about awkwardly and was mauled by the children. After a scanty supper lie was turned out among the hounds in the woodshed, whete lie lay shivering with cold and fear until Henderson's eldest- boy came for him in the morning aud hitched him to a cart If he w as not harnessed to the cart down the road in the broiling .suu. in wa^ dragged into the cabin on 'we days aud mauled by the rest of the children. One morning he growled. Henderson's "womern" said "sue kmnVed that dog was ugly as soon ;is 1 she got her two eyes on him," and that "it was notliin' short of Providence lie hadn't bit some of the young uns." Henderson said he'd take him where he wouldn't get back in a hurry, and -the next day the puppy was hitched, under a peddler's wagon and departed ainid the gibes of the,Henderson cliil- ? diW and' the. syarling of the Hender- hounds. JjHie peddler drove along in the blinding heat and dust, aud be­ fore he had gone two miles the puppy had hard work to keep his chain slack. ti alone cost about $1,500 with its m A Remarkable Child. That remarkable child, Holes Keller, is in New York, and it was my good ^fortune to meet her at the house of a friend. She is a young girl in her teens | colt with its back to you when startin„ now, and is much better informed than ; in the morning on a fishing excursion, most girls of her age, though she is j it is the worst of luck, only to be ox- blind and deaf. She was dumb as well, ! ceeded should you hear a cuckoo before but has been taught to speak. Her ar \ breakfast In Scotland it is considered t;ticulation is slow and strange, but it is j unlucky to meet an old woman wired rfectly distinct. Of course, her one git your satisfy." ^ At her willingness to follow the dog loosened his hold and ran ahead, barl:- in^r incessantly. The two crossed the road and fol­ lowed the trail leading to Israel's "lee- tle piece," as the hunter called his lum­ ber cutting. When he reached the brook the dog stopped, snulfin' to the-, right and left; suddenly he stopped and began to howl, and Jerushy looking at the edge of some alders saw the print of Israel's shoe in the imidb Then the truth seemed to flash across her mind. "Suthin" \s happened to Israel or that I> ..sense of touch, and she has developed "it to the highest capacity. A death- mask of Keats was laid on her lap and. passiug her hands over it, she expressed her admiration for the evidences of in­ tellect that she found in it. She even ^.detected, the smile that parts the lips mof the dead poet A bust of Napoleon of was also given to her. After passing her bands gently over it, she recognize, l the features, and said tliat she thought it must have been made during hia,vic- sults to his basket Many anglers hata to see magpies when fishing. This su­ perstition is also founded-W reason, and is thus explained: For anglers in spring it is always unlucky |o see a single magpie, but two mpy always be regarded as a favorable pinen; and the reason is that ih . cold and stormy weather one magpie alone leaves the nest llT search of food, the other re­ maining sitting upon the eggs or the young ones; but, when two go out to­ gether, it is only when the weather-la mild and warm and favorable for fish­ ing. Y, _ *• . •; THE GREAT ARMY OF TRAMPS. Larger than That of WellinKton at Waterloo an$ Twice as Dirty. The first of a course of six lectures in the local university extension course was given last night by Prof. John J. McCook of Trinity College at the pub­ lic library. His theme was "The Path­ ological Aspect of the Tramp Problem." Prof. McCook stated that lie made as exhaustive a study of the problem as seemed possible, as it is a pioneer sub­ ject and information on it difficult to obtain. He deciiipjd-that he had writ­ ten to the maymgfof ovek forty cities in­ fills country a^kirlg/foj^niformation on tramp stutist^Sr/akd had received re­ plies from fourteen, gfving statistics upon about .1,300. tramps.. Pr(^. Mc­ Cook has also obtained statistics from the Wliitechapel district, London, and from Germany, and bases his state­ ments about tramps on all the answers from these, countries. * -- , Pnaf. McCook said: "A recent writer asserts that there are about 60,000 tramps in the United States. This num­ ber is a trifle lai'ge, although it is safr to state that there are over 50,000. This is larger than the army of Wellington at Waterloo. "We look on tramps as human wrecks and driftwood, and yet the majority of them are in the prime of life and in better than the average health. Only 8% per cent, of the tramps from whom my statistics were gleaned, claimed, in the dead of winter, while the^grip was raging, that they were in bad health. They are robust, and will fill you with envy, malice, and all other jealous feel­ ings when you hear them suoriug at midnight. o "From this we may easily say that neither age nor health is a bar to their working. Most of them have been out of work for mouths, and a majority of them took the road at once after leav­ ing their last job. "Eighty-one per cent, of the tramps declare that they took to the road be- 1 cause they were out of a job and only | tained its full development. one man because machinery took his i --^ place. Over GO per cent, of the English ' Hunting the Giraffe. tramps are given as taking the road be- | Tlie bush is horribly dense and cause of vagrant habits. | thorny, and the thorns are of such a "To the question, 'When are you go- i nature that the strongest cord breeches ing to work again ?'00 per cent of them S can scarcely withstand their assaults, replied: 'When we can get a job.' j The old giraffe bulls, with hides nearly "In the South the tramp is compara- , au in°h thick, care for no thorn in the tively unknown, only one State being i for®st and plunge through (lie armed represented in the list j thickets as though they were black "The majority of our tramps are Of | currant bushes. There is only one thing American birth, 05 per cent, of 1,342 ! to done--to forget the sickle thorns being of American parentage, and 272 j au^ follow them. The spurs go in, the APPLES BETTER THAN WHEAT. The State of Oregoln Rapidly Rolling Up "Wealth Vlth Fruit. "" That it will not do to put all of one's eggs in one basket lias been thoroughly demonstrated by the berry crop this season, says the Hood liiver (Oregon) Glacier. With thous'auds of crates ripe, the ability to reach a market is, with­ out any fault of Ours, suddenly taken away. The strawberry crop has been the principal one of this section, and while it will not only hold its present yield but" will double and treble1 it; it will in a year*er two become^of second­ ary importance. Prunes, peaches, cher­ ries, and small fruits generally are a necessity to the fruit-grower because they furnish him with money early in the season,as well as early in his busi­ ness. They are a means to an end, fur­ nishing money to support the family and to inSprove the farms. They all bear one fatal objection as a crop to be relied on and that it is absolute neces­ sity of finding a market for them as soon as they are ripe. This may not be true of the prune, but for it the same condition exists^-tliat it must be taken care of at once when ripe. The fruit of Hood River, the,one that is to make her famous as well as prosperous, is, the winter apple. That can be kept. It can be-gathered leisurely, once in bear­ ing, bring better and steadier returns, and at the very least outlay. ' John Sweeny's orchard last year, its first year of bearing, produced more net money than would or could have been deriv- ed from the same area of land sown to wheat in thirty-six years. This year it should yield fifty times as much, next year seventy times as much, and then for twenty years 100 times as much. In other words, one act*es of winter apples is worth more, year in and year out, than 100 acres of wheat. Six acres of good orchard .will-yield a largoB net- yield than'a section of wheat land. Mul­ tiply the acres in Hood River Valley by 100, and some idea of the wealth that it will eventually produce may be gain­ ed. In other words, every section in fruit will produce a cash value equal to three townships of wheat The winter apple is going to accomplish this result. Aud the next few years as the young orchards come into bearing will prove the truth of 'this assertion, though it now seems a wild one. We can but re­ iterate our former words: "Plant apple trees; twenty acres if you can, one tree if that Is your limit, but plant at every opportunity." When this valley is an orchard, from the hills to the summit east of us and from the river back for twenty miles, then only will it have at- Irish, who come next. Fourteen ua- j tionalities are represented. "Over 1,000 out. of 1,378 tramps could i read and write, and they all spend j money on the daily newspaper. "More than half of this list of tramps toescape a bough which all but scrapes had never voted, and most of the rest the withers. gallant pony springs forward, and the chase begins. It is truly headlong. Crash go the tall giants, (lieir' long necks rising and falling rhythmically, their heads sometimes beudiug low had voted in half a dozen States. "A Worcester tramp has voted in Maine and California, and they con­ fessed that they generally vote for rev­ enue only. "Out of 1,389 only 70 are married, 57 are widowers, and 84 have children. It is wonderful how such monstrous game can evade branches and tack this way and that among the interrup­ tions and obstacles of the forest. It is a tough gallop indeed, but in ten min­ utes the hunter has driven his pony right up to the tail of the nearest bull, "Some one has called the family the 1 and, from the saddle, has tired his shot bond a person gives for his good be- ! behind a little, then closes up havipr, and when this, bond is broken 1 a_nt? fires aga5n- Both bullots' planted flight ensues. "Thirty-eight per cent, say that they work for their food, 24 per cent, that they beg for it, and 50 per cent, that they steal it "Over 400 sleep at cheap lodging- houses and nearly 300 in police head­ quarters. About 100 sleep in boxes. "Thirty^,of the 1,300 were total ab­ stainers, or else were too drunk to un­ derstand the question and declared they never drank."--New Haven Palladium. Superstitious Beliefs. If the modem fisherman paid heed to old superstitious, his chances for a day's sport would often be seriously hampered. In the Western Highlands it is currently believed that if you see a starting on a fishing expedition. A good start mean? a good finish with the Scotch, just as it did in the old Greek proverb, "The beginning is lia'f of the whole." The Japanese carry the belief about luck in meeting certain persons as you go fishing still further, and say, "A fisherman meeting a priest,, will have no luck that day." Swedish- folk-lore has something to say about the start in fishing. Tell no one, it pre­ scribes, when you are going out to fish, and never mention on 'your return Potatoes Here, There and Elsewhere Secretary Morton states the cost of producing potatoes to be only $7.29 to $12.15 per ton in England. To get them to America costs 00 cents per ton for drayage, $3.03 for freight to New Y'orlc and $1.80 for sacks to ship them in; a total of $5.43 for transporta­ tion charges, which makes them cost in New York from $12.75 to $17.50 per ton. To this must be added duty, in­ surance, commission, and custom house charges, besides the profits to the retailers and tjie- cost of shipment to the consumers' market. Last year English potatoes sold at $2.25 a sack of 108 pounds in New York. The area in potatoes in England hasn't varied j" much from 500,000 acres for twelve or fiften years, although in Ireland I during the last fifteen years the area | has decreased from 842,000 to 72,000 j acres. The crop in the Channel Isl- j ands, France, a lid Belgium lias re- | mained about the same, an average of 150,000 tons. close to the root of the tail, have plow- ' ed deep into the short body of the gi- i raffe and done their work. The painted giant falters, sways, and then in au t instant rails crashing to earth, cariy- i ing with him in his ruin a stout sap- ; ling. Dark chestnut of coat (almost black | with age upon the back), this old bull, i measuring nineteen feet from the hoof j to the tip of the false horns, forms a noble prize indeed. As lie lies there i in the long yellow grass, he looks, sure- i ly, the strangest of all survivals of the ' fauna of the dark ages; a priceless 1 and pathetic relic left to the modern ; world by the ravages of time.--The Saturday Review. torious days, for the expression wa^3yhether you have caught many or few. less anxious than in one she had "seen" a day or two before. Not only has this child a most remarkable mind, but she must have the most careful training, for she is,not merely well-informed but cultivated.-i-Tlie Critic Lounger. '\ Mrs. Newrich--1 want a pair -of the dearest gloves you'.ve got. Clerk--How long do you want them, madam? Mrs. Newrich--I ^vant to buy them, young man; you don't think I wanted to rent them, do youV--Philadelphia- Record. No stranger should on any account see how many, fish you have taken. When starting for the driver, if you have to turn back and get something that you have forgotten, you are sure to catch j little or nothingJhat day. This is an • article of Devon folk-lore, and has rea- ' sou to back it. The disappointment, r the hurry, and the bringing of wrong ! things always act prejudicially upon j what ought to be the unrullled temper | of a successful angler. He becomes 'hasty and rash, most often with "ill re- Washington's Birthday. A curious delver in the early history of the nation, Mr. 'TSaac Myer, in the American Historical Register, has dis­ covered that the celebration of Wash­ ington's birthday should properly be held upon February 11. He cites as convincing proof the entry in the old Washington family Bible which records the birth upon "ye lltli day of F b- ruary, 1731-32." The act of parliament, A. D. 1751, known as Lord Chester­ field's act, enacted that ~Septeniber 3, 1752, should be considered September 14, thus adding eleven days to the cal­ endar. But although our February 22 would thus seem to lie old February 11, there can be no doubt that Washington and his 'family obsei^ed the actual date of the 11th to the end. The earliest public celebration of . Washington's birthday was, indeed, held upon February 12, the lltli having come on Sunday in 1781. There was on that occasion a parade of the French troops at New­ port, the firing of a salutejyuLa general holiday. When aud why was the date of celebration changed?. --Philadelphia Record. Story of the Gravel, Some 10,000 or more years ago the conditions which had brought about the great ice age were beginning to I change; the elevated, land began to sink, and a higher temperature slow- I ly followed. The long winter was ' gradually drawing to a close, and the ; great spring time of the world was L beginning to hasten its influence upon : an ice-covered land. Tons, rather I- mountains, of ice began to melt, and | the water filled the river valleys to j overflowing. Gravel, sand, and mud werelxiHie along by these raging wa­ ters and deposited whenever the con­ ditions were favorable. Ice rafts cov­ ered the surface of the flood, bearing rocks and bowlders from more north­ ern lands. ' a v All rivers which had glacial sources were greatly influenced by the final melting, says Lippincott's. As the southern part of the ice sheet rested over Northern Pennsylvania, the Dela­ ware and the Susquehanna were tj p- ieal rivers of the age. The rocks and gravels which line their banks show how well they have kept the record. In the Delaware valley brick clay and gravel are laid out in beautiful terraces, especially at Stroudsburg and the Water Gap. Here the waters rose some 200 feet, and an artificial dam is suppose® to halite formed the river into a broad lake. The Indians, it is said, have a curious legend about this flood. They tell us that the "Min­ gles" were the first race which mvrit here, and the region round abotri :h.-< call r"Minisink," meaning tha: -h. "waters are gone"-- a vague r< brance, perhaps, of the post-gla.-iai floods. \ j Burns.was the Ayrshire Plowman, from his place of residence and his vo­ cation. ACUTBDYSPEPSIA: SYMPATHETIC HEART DISEASE^ OFTEN ATTENbS IT. Mirabeau |Va« tin*. Demosthenes of France and the Hurricane, from his eloquence. Cobden is called the Apostle of Free Trade on account of his labors in that directum The Modern Treatment Consists in. Removing the Cause. (From the Republican,. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.)' Mrs. V. Curley, who has resided in Clar­ ence, Iowa, for the past twehty-two years, tells an interesting story of what she con­ siders rescue from premature death. Her narrative is as follows: "For ten years, prior to 1894, I was a constant sufferer from acute stomach troublj?. I had all the manifold symptoms of acute dyspepsia, and at times other troubles wete present in complication--I did not know what it was to enjoy a meal. No matter how careful I might be as to the quality, quantity -and . preparation of my food, distress always followed eating. 1 was despondent and blue.- Almost to the point of insanity at times, and would have been glad to die. Often and often I could not sleep. Sympathetic heart trou­ ble^ set in and time end again I was obliged to call a doctor in the night to re­ lieve Sudden attacks of suffocation which would come on without a moment's warn­ ing. .. "My troubles increased as time wore on and I spent large sums in doctor bills, be­ ing compelled to have medical attendants almost constantly.^ During 1892 and 1-893 it was impossible for ;sne to retain food, and water brashes plagued me. „ I was reduced to a skeleton. A consulta­ tion of physicians was unable to deter­ mine just what did ail me. The doctors gave us as their opinion that the probable trouble was ulceration of the coats of the stomach and held out no hope of recov­ ery. One doctor said, 'All I can do to relieve your suffering is by the use of opium.' "About1 this time a friend of mine, Mrs. Symantha Smith, of Glidden, Iowa, told me about the case of Mrs. Thurston, of Oxford Junction, Iowa. This lady said she had been afflicted much the samp as I had. She had consulted local physi­ cians without relief, and had gone to Davenport for treatment. Giving up all hope of recovery, she was persuaded by a friend to take Dr. Williams' I?ink ^llls. The result was almost magical. - • "I was led to try them from her expe­ rience, and before many months I felt better than I had for a dozen years. I am now almost free from trouble, and if through some error of diet I feel badly, this splendid remedy sets me right again. I have regained my strength and am once more in my usual flesh. I sleep well and can eat without distress. I have no doubt that I owe my recovery to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I only wish that I had heard of them years ago, thereby saving my­ self ten years 'of suffering and much money." Dr. Willitfms' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all drug­ gists, or may be had by mail from Dr.c A\ illiams' Medicine Company, Schenec­ tady, N. Y., for 50c. per box, or six boxes for $2.50. |SLATE PENCILS AND SLATES. Millions of Them Used Yearly in Schools in This Country. Only one firm in the United States is making slate pencils from native slate. There are imported slate pencils-- that is, pencils made of slate--from Ger­ many, and also some soapstone pencils from abroad. The native soapstone pen­ cil industry languishes, according to those interested, because of the recent reduction in the tariff upon imported soapstone pencils. Millions of pencils made of slate are turned out at a quarry in Pennsylvania.- The rough slate is sawn into suitable pieces by machinery, and from each piece a special machine cuts six pencils of standard length, five and one-half inches. These pencils come out rounded, but not pointed. Deft boys take them by twos and threes and quickly point them at an emery wheel rapidly revolved by machinery. The pencils are then put up in paste­ board boxes of 100 each, and these boxes are placed in wooden cases con­ taining 10,000 pencils. The wholesale price of slate pencils is only $(5.75 a case. Pencils that break in the making are made up into "shorts," measuring three and one-half or four and one-half -inches, and the- shorter-pencils are made also from small fragments of slate. Pencils wrapped in the Ameri­ can flag printed on paper cost al>out $2 a case more than the ordinary stand­ ard bare pencil, and pencils 'wrapped in gilt paper come somewhat higher. It is an easy bit of ciphering to make out that pencils at $0.75 a case of 10,- 000 are worth about two-thirds of a mill, or one-fifteenth of a cent, each. Pencils imported from Germany sell in this market at about the price of the native product. The American labor is much better paid than the German labor, but the cost of the American pencil is not much greater than that of the German pencil because machinery is so much more used here than abroad. The German pencils are in large part made by hand in the homes of the Ger­ man work folk, and tlie price paid for the work is wretchedly small. As to slates, they are produced of all sizes and for a great number of pur­ poses. The best are for school use and for blackboards. Notwithstanding the many compositions invented to serve as blackboards, slate is still used for the purpose, and immense slabs of the finest quality are cut, smoothed, and set up in school houses. They will out­ last any composition, and if properly cared for will always show a clear mark from the chalk crayon. Millions of slate pencils are used up yearly in schools of all kinds, and if all the school slates were taken for roofing they would roof a large city. Queer Custom at Southampton. Of the many quaint and picturesque survivals of old English customs surely one of the .oldest and.most delightfully suggestive is the engrossment and pre­ sentation on the 9th day of November every year, at Southampton, of grave­ ly worded certificates vouching for the fact that no carracks of Genoa or gal­ leys of Venice have arrived at the port. Poetry is not to be looked for in offi­ cial documents, but if this voucher be read between the lines, is it not verita­ bly a three-centuried sea song of the freshest and breeziest, full of the bril­ liant color and strange circumstances of old world shipping?--New York Ad­ vertiser. Paganini was called the .Devil Fid­ dler, from his marvelous skill." A prosperous Philadelphia banker was noticed by several friends a few days ago on a suburban train dpeply absorbed in a large table o'f figures^ in a newspaper. Every now and then the banker made some memoranda iu a small note book, a circumstance which led the watchers to "believe some, im­ portant financial deal,was in progress. Finally, ohe more intrepid than the others approached the financier and begged to be let into the secret of tlije figures. With a smile the banker hand-f ed over the mysterious table, which proved to be the league baseball sched- ule. - --- • i- [:}Ml