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OHE LOV1NO HEART.
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'W'hat worth i* thy wj*Jom, thy wit,
Thy name am fame’s hattleinenU writ*
^ hat profit to th<v> ar*» thy ship* oin the sea
■ If no lamp for thy coming is lit*
TVhen rich** have vanished in flame,
And friends turn away at thy name;
nor* precious than gold, thy wealth u ua
f
one , loving heart i« the same.
—If 1! Heath, in Journalist.
r:' CRIPPLE JIM.
j
BV william f. brown,
, t . iour was late, but Cripple t Jim
bad hardly slept at all, and now he was
tuny aroused by hearing his father's
voice, somewhat bushed but still heavy,
through the thin board partition.
’*1 tell you, boys, it's got to be dono
to-morrow Dl ....... f 'V — m 1 1 tho yoict.
• •• ■Th There ’11 Hbnnolioii, i there , bet Wueh,art
HnsutitWasI, w- ! . w" e M,,g« k" 1 -T"* that rentword r^'T. to
r dt?r? r, 1 B '| l,1,r0k ''
A ,n. «»'
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eli.rgeni euttia- Mike Wood.-ell, which
fimkiiow was all an ace,deal! lima t
West, into every sort ot mean,, ss fust
one way mid then t other? I've lowed
to get even with him for a good while,
and I suy now, the time has come.”
After tlii, Jim herd a clinking of
cups, and lie knew the men were drink- rj,
mg. ... shivered will, fear,
were desperate men, yet Huse furlev, '
their leader, was hi, own fa,her.
jv One of the mountain feuds had long
Iliviiled the Magees and the Turley.. Its
UUliicncc baa extended until friends and
rda'ives had been drawn into it. It had
*acnficed life and ruined good names; it
^ldre a n ’ 6,1 ^ ^ ^
. ,. . nti
wt-iv'lookc "'n l,r ®« v f [ " ash
Mupf.' I
rt'VPimt. nffirtitm ,. n ,i ,, 'iut^M , ..
■non, „t tho county court hah
th. nocicat hatred, st.,1 oread,nied the
bv"t'"',mb jin,! *“ 1 ’” tia " y 0Whwd
'“That preacher, Lamb, is some kin to
him together down by the gap this very
day.”
Title) “MV lim 1 ”
brought l,is lid heavily down
upon t)ie taiile before them. “'Lingo'
that ineiielie. Lamb. wi,s he! 1'ii w l.ip
lim, ,1 I hot.li lii i lii *,. after hi,
father's enemies! if* 1 ' *
„ listenin’ u, . t r • ' ■
Jim had risen to a sitting posture ou
1he bed. He ......is an agitmed move,
ment, and his crutch, which till had been
leaning gains, the be I, to ,1m
floor.
Thc talk lnid stopped. Then Jim
heard his father rise, open thc door and
approach bis bedside. A heavy hand
was laid upon him, and he was dragged
out into the next room.
“Were you a listenin'?” IDs father
asked.
“Icouldn’t hclphearin’, whenyc talked
ro loud,” replied Jim.
“Hnd you any idee of tollin’ any one
whnt you beard- -jour preacher man, for
instance!”
“ Dny—why, no father! I'd ska sc Iv
thought-.....of that—yet—”
Turley struck the fable with Impatience
ns he noticed Jim's hesitancy.
“Hee here, son,’’ he said, “I’m a man
<’f not many words, nor do 1 chew
Vm over more'n once. You’ve heard,
«nd likely you know something of what
we’re up to. If you cheep a word to
nnyone, I’ll find it out—mind that!
(hen the punishment you’ll git from me
you’ll never forgit the longest day you
live!”
Jim's silence, his very fear of his
father, seemed to exasperate Turley the
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more.
hy don’t you hold up vour head?”
hr roared. “You look like a sou o’
mine, don't you?”
Jim still did not reply. Then, as the
father gazed, the eon's infirmity began
to plead for him. Turley saw two large
tears upon thejad’s cheeks, and some
thing stirred him to remember that this
poor boy .was, after all, his own son.
“Come, now,” he said, more gently,
11 l only want to warn you what you 3
might expect if you was fool enough to
be tattlin’. Get back to bed, and—
here’s a elram to settle your narves.”
Jim, disregarding the cup that was '
otTerefl lnm, fixed his eyes appealingly
upon his father.
“Father, he said, “you know I only
wish you well. Who else have I got to
keer 1 want for since mother give was buried? But |
you to up this plan. You
mu ^ }1S U have been a-joweriu’ fee
. months, and
what good do it do?”
“Git to bed, I say!" exclaimed Turley,
•
ns auger rising aguiu.
“1 must speak, if you strike me!”
«mt . nn, excitedly. “What good, do
", ‘“rn* nnd dl ’buking and fight- :
J.V What . 1 thing? '; l lCr ; d D ” n 1 the , do boy thls th,u g ’• ’
rurk'j gazed at the others crazy?”
in pretended
Ain— uhy— . „ Jim . hesitated. He
had heard nothing definite, yet he felt
h:.t some rovengfu! deeu was con torn
p.ated “You know what, father!”
•Listen at him! He 11 be rankin’ out
next that h,s pop wants t> hurt some
one. bee here. Jim, don't you bother
.vour head I want to be good to you,
if you 1! let me, but you mustn't meddle.
Now git to bed, and when you feel like
bMcnm agin wrop up your head iu the
blanket; hit’ll be safest for you.”
The boy gave his father one haunting
look and hobbled awav. After that the
men conversed in low :
tones for a while
Then the visitor, rose to t’.enur,.
iS ■‘Miudnou-to-morioiT-iaboutmoou.
’ ^: That was all ..... J, m heard. It did not , '
1 b19 leari that saeo w.cked thing
was on toot ,0 injure foe Magees. '
.loreoser, there was not much in com
boT lovedhim'm a^umb
pity way, rather and the father repaid*this kwaTyrho*
than with affection
Jim spent much of his time wand*rm,v
in the mountains. With his cue st ’
and pointed kb solitary crutch he life was singularly actfv' ’
had bred iu him a “
unreasoning love of nature.
The next moraing after the seen • * ? :
his cabin, Huse Turley shoulder'd h'
loDg jpoken rifle to and his went a who, way.. He had lone! hard! 3
son, feeling •' *
wandered off, after he had eatenhis mil '
duy meal, i"“? t woods. He took
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out of the way course, fearing that he
| *hould meet Mr. Lamb or some one of
j the Magee family.
He was tortured by a lie conflicting sense
of desire and duty. felt that some
one should be warned of what his father
and the othefs were about to do, and yet
''hat did he know gf itl Was it right
to go against his father, or to assume
j that he was worse than he knew him to
be? .
He was still debating this when the
crack of a rifle rang out near by. Then
a gcntle-faced, tall young man came
the ridge with two squirrel at his belt
and n gtln on his shoulder.
“There,” thought Jim, “it’ll all come
out now! I came this way on purpose
not to , ueet him, and here he is.”
“Why, Jim,” said Parson Lamb, ’
pleasantly, .. “I ... dida , ,. t expect . ; to meet .
you
lure!” . *
“X.itber aid t you," replied Jim.'
Mr They spent some time together, ? while
. wlked „; thoa soemini; to
rare to hunt any more; but all the while
j;,„ tl , oulM ..Shall 1 tell him? shall I
M*>‘” •
Sa to’leave m ™r«hr?*A * m , ”^' lie r
c ,i m „l him the boy When
h ,., gone, Jim, more distressed and
decided than ever, wandered still further,
dreading to go home. Loitering on thus
fanW an/I farihcr ht> fmimi
sundown “m" u ; thin a mile of Wish Mw, S
^ .»i i nw r > w „„ i,r, rr .9’» u„ neir „ i
to on-n* this r
didn’t tell the parson. I'm k isteAiied.
' likf i’ll i,, v „ .„ 6 t ■>
Instead of making his w'ay homeward,
r; m i, lv n c ,w
gathering twilight, he could see through
the open door of bclow°him? Magee’s cabin. The
t-i« passed just
His long mental struggle was growing
painful, yet he could not decide whatto
uignt wind signeu, anu many wierd
L?,n ’“Halkr’ll °f 8 P '
wonder what has 'come of
y'’ 'J^to It W
cither to return home or to go forward,
wsvTtt whHhcrr C0UW5 °°“ fi,ldhlS
,,l >—but whither?
' thcTmumsilc of' 1 mo^atafsW^'ao"^^ ffii-’nh
course the trail was vwible line dark’ta T
, Mck ,,o noticed a of
.cots crawling around a bare shoulder of
' ilU e e |iir . '' hiel, lie knew the road
;^iugfro,n his father's cabin must
i Mn ^ ami ^ Jim friends understood were that evident,y their
““g.
"'7 ? >«i-s threat, were soon to be put
m force. Violence of some kmd-per
baps murder—was intended!
Jim hesitated no longer, but set out
for Magee’s cabin. He had nearly a
mile the start of them, and he had but a
mile to go. His excitement was so great
I Il lie iat scrauiblcn hc Uid not down uotice the ro glen - ksa ml aud thickets, onward
j al,; mg the trail.
; Iusule the cabin Wash Magee and his
| Wlfe ’ two S1 " al1 Rrandchildren, and the
)r P rt?aclie J, Lamb, were sitting by
thehre when there came a sharp rap
U P«“ the door. Before any one could
rwe Cripple Jim hobbled into the room,
m P al - fa ^P al f than ever, his bare
j head wet with dew, and in his eyes a
str!in S e ! eager hght. He turned to the
3’ouug preacher.
| “ They re comm . they ve got their
g(1 ns ' I wnuted to tell yon to-day, but
T co " l<1 " t!
'
^ „ aah seized h!s . rifle,
ami , hash sent
'* . lfc nd hc ch,ldrcn
s "' ? to tho loft -
Mr - Lamb led Jim to the fire -
! Soon there was a sound of rapid foot
"teps without; then the door was violent
ly l )Ur st and 111 ru?hed Turley
and 1 three u others fully armed.
J n * uc 1 encountera no time is lost,
an , Mash Magee, havmg his rifle ready
i “
i Z would doubtless have fired
, , d a ur p' ', u 3°' ln g pieach
f “ uot ste Pj> ed between them, leav
:1 crouchtng iu the corner.
( ran o^i, fcudlurley, this yens a
f ;im ly matter. If you are tor Magee, say
tfl uS°
. f ath and f , f r! grasping cried • , Jim T lus - father hobbling . , , s arm. to the ,
m \ . nd a ^ thl8 heje, eh. w hea1 said Sf the 4 father. 3’ ou home?” “I’ll
’
.
a er ' crie “ tlie boy, “have you
f .7*7 , ,j , C m:m Avt1 0 Ul ! rs ® lt yo u 1 trough
, .
, io-r" S camus” Hoi- 1 k’nis^Tf hinC ’ ^ h C J °" 0 ! T
„ t ^ M Y s a no ’.
‘ “
Tuney and ms companions . had cov
ered the two men in the cabin with their
n “ e f» but now Turley fell back a step,
staiiug at the young preacher.
hat? ’ he exclaimed, “it c.an't be
the same and yet you favor him might
''p
‘ Jim is right, said Lamb. “I should
Dave visited you, but I am Magee's
and seeing the state of feeling
between you all, I waited to see what
count be done.
hurley turned to his companions.
‘He a right, boys, said he. “I know ;
him now. If he wv.sn t kin to tne Ma
gees I d fight for him anywhere in the
world. I reckon I owe him my life, for
he stood byme when every one else run
fromline I can’t touch Wash, with him
landing by. So our job's up-for to- !
night, boys.” j
Tne men grumbled, yet seemed to
»«cnt. Wash Magee stood silent, xvatch
nig Turley with his finger upon the.
trigger of hts rifle.
Suddenly Cripple Jim sprang forward |
on Ins crutch.
“Father,” he said, “now you and ; 1
IVash must shake bauds. I know ye X
both-” inter-!
"Here yon are again I” Turiey
rupted, not sorry to find some one on !
whom to vent the disappointment .S“" he
really felt. “AU-ays a
f^ets over this ”
Turley and his friends were now leav
,n ^* ® nd Ji ni seized his crutch.
,~ no ’ he ’ must g0 ‘ 1 !
1 e ^ Ve f athcr; , He , 11 be for
sorry
S ’ e a gets ® obe r—‘ or they ve
, .
be Urmkm . . , . , : all of'em.”
^ “ n tiut J ou 5 out. You can't
A ou look feverish. j
id make out to get home, I reckon.”
a? } the Pj m< l n saw of him he was
i ,, ° ,. ‘ ug ournedlt . down the trail after
th ot f rs
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t “ e ' norn m . ^ whea Turley called
l • & °t\ Lri FP‘ , e Jl ™ dld uot j
answer,
tk he father had made the lire. Jim’e j
usual task was to “put op” the break
fast. In the night Huse thought he bad
heard the boy moaning, as if in pain.
but half-stupefied himself, he had paid
no attention,
Jack Hardy was with them, though
the other men had gone to their homes,
Turley walked over to Jim’s bed and
shook him, but the lad’s arm fell back
limp, and his flesh felt cold andclammv.
His eyes were half closed, and the pupils
unnaturally set and staring.
a*way3 loving boy, his only ZSsfis child,
was
he leaving him forever?
He felt a sudden horror, as if he had
found lumscff bis son s murderer, lie
sank on his knees beside the bed.
“Go,” ’ he said to Hardv, “fetch some
. here! . Jims taken bad. Don’t
one stand
Don't you see my ' poor 1 boy ^ is a- “
dym'!”
The man left the cabin at ,rm/and a run
Tericv raised the bor n his
roehed him to stro°“”es and fro. !Ie had never
realized the W of nature the™ uuti
..ow-ww to feel ™
a "T V '
Ibirdv it retuTnrf ,, IX ST ■ meal ,
fore
Parson Lamb and Wash Ma-rce
.‘They was the fust I s°ce ” Hards
said,anniovctieatlv A; ° ’ to Hnae ’ who il10 looked looked
^ ! l1 ' en ' iu ‘“o'b ll( rc ' ,as nc
” “ h h,art ‘ am3t ; llv
“ UC “ 3 = '
a,kid £ Lamb"/1 . ' ,, . , , “ ilia itputa , . P uli5e
.,„,i .. Ya'''had’’“"con^eTfive f n , , .
'
“He f chill ’ I
...,v „ „ , by'ovOT-eMrt T , .. T iXaiTelp^ ,
brought on
fabil!” . P , ; ’' u , , ,
. . C dUgCI '° nSj JU U ° a
‘
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ways
Then he busied himself waT like one who "he
knew what he about wMle
father watched him as if life hunc unon
his every, movement. Magee surveyed
At last Jim s breathing grew regular.
^ "“A **“*•
Maget'Aeuding T “oVr^him! fTff.!' ho'‘smiled , .
atld mad « a raot j OQ a3 if to
pressed his lips and held out his hand.
found f “T“ out ! F’ what it is to T* have a °“ ly son, j r‘ by
”?"<■ VlTv° "Tf if, ‘j “ i “Tf S>“ il’itTi •» ‘o lose t'" one. 'V’ru Jim
now (ouiplrdou-eh, Tim'? „nd°if
ast tha
aiut enough, I might make out to git
* plum down on my knees-eb, Jim?"
Here Wash struck his iarge hand into
_W o hamt been -X neightorm ~o£ he for eyoiaime^ a good
b,t Huse, but it^ won't be m, fault it
*efon-t»isutot.
After this, Huse turned to bis son toi
his approval.
“There, Jim,” he said, _ “me and Wash
have shook hands. But if there’s any
thing more a-bearin’on your mind, youf
poor pop’ll get down on his all fours
)' et t out what you shall be satisfied.”
Thus, while Cripple Jim hovered be
t'vceu life and death, peace was made.
^ r-sence e f ha P s he might , wa » s soothe P a ^ d ^ the ordei after ’ that irnta- lils
tions that would occasionally rise.
I uon t begrude anybody anythin
no’u, said Huse, long afterward, “and
id as soon a cirkylar saw as to
raise a disturbance with that thar boy a
settm by. Therefore, me and Wash
stays friendly—but it s mostly owm to
Jun. Youths Companion.
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Suicidal Tendencies.
Besides imitation there are other social
influences which lead to suicide but the
most powerful!? that which wo denote
by theterm % “crime of" in’
k in; ncr ? emphaticallv 1 ‘ ‘ the j
sava^s^ tej , cc ual rS P L‘ h VImost MmlZ unknown 2
ra fe , re * a ^ onn . the na t i(ms ^Tadvancr ‘a
in cu iturc'and refinement with To menta‘1 fierce
their
dev -elopment. It is said that Rome knew
nothing of this curse till after the estab .
lishment of the empire. Ic was when
the lioirian le? j on3 p ad carried their
ea gi es triumphantly through the world
and brought a back the means of luxury in
the BpoiU ot Europe, Asia and Africa
that life in the Eternal City be-an to be
n wcar y »» stale, flat and unprofitable.
foundest'thinkers To-day the Germans, who are the pro
ami the most cultivated
p eo pj e> are a i so the mest suicidal race in
Euro P e * France comes jiext,
third, Italy and Hungary fourth; while,
on the other hand, Spain, the most back
ward of European nations in culture, !
Ireland, Portugal, Corsica, and Dalmatia,
rank lowest iu the suicidal scale. Of
the different regions, of the same country
the north and northeast of France out- 1
rank in culture and in suicide the centre
and southwest; the north and centre of ,
Itlay outrank the south and the islands;!
and Saxony, which in its schools and I
general culture surpasses the rest of Ger- j
many, surpasses it also iu the number of
its suicides. In short, so universally does
the rule hold that the strength of the
tendency to self-killing may almost be
regarded as an index to a people's civiii
zation .-North American Bevierc. |
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A Fur Auction. !
:
“People who have never attended , _ the
mid-wr^ter fur auction m London,”
a fu r dealer “can have no idea of ?
lts magnitude. . Buyers from ail parts of
the world-America, China, Australia j
««ssi a , everywhere-come here to bid '
furs ana stay there until they secure ;
■
their stock iu trade. The winter just
past has been the coldest on the conti
nent of Europe tog for fifty yeare, and furs of
all sorts consequently been higher
in price than tor many ^ a season. ^ For
: ^ t ‘ cI f 3 J? 6lt la8 \ yea f’ D0 ?’ br } a % s |
lITl> sate , 0 suvei lox Sivias |
*W0 5«. ««..•>» ■
oro»
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Sand as a Fire Protection.
Fine sand, placed within easy reach
of each workman employed where oiling 1
and finishing is going on, is strongly rec
ommended as au essential part of the
for fire protection in wood- ■
working establisments. This practice ,
can be followed with advantage where- :
ever there is a possibility of fire starting
in oii or oil-soaked materials. It has been ;
found that nothing will subdue an oil-feft
^ re so quickly aud effectually as sand,
and the subsequent freedom from water
damage is a strong point in its use.— I
Courier-Journal.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
N'otice—An Invitation—A New Way
of Putting It—An Appropri¬
ate Costume—A Pair ot
Pearls. Etc., Etc.
h ^sxzssssis?™ •*?
A.nd her papa-s soul is troubled with the size
ber ‘Small bills.’'
£< * m<UdenS
To seek out her dad and offer to relieve the
man of her.
-New York Herald.
-
a new way of putting it.
Her Little Brother (to »r<ta>t admirer)
—“If you’ll give me a nickle I won't
,eU J ou *K»» «W«r said about vou to
day.”—Y« Yort Sun.
_
Ton forgive me if I
SiieI“I_I don't know but vou can
find out, you know >>_v« Tori Sun
— _
a pair of peakls.
. “^hy not marry ihc little Clara!
She'., veritable pearl.”
j ^ lat ma 7 Ge, but I’m afraid _ of the _
^ ^V-P, M el P Ua Ti^.
-
“ Arra0PMATE
“What . was the idea of dressing the
W'°l H estern P “ S d desperado?” “ ,hc . }ie J, era U*F« »
“Oh he was to hold up the train, you
° W
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A WISE merchant.
Doctor (to merchant patient)—“What
Merchant—“Great tocott, man, I can’t
advertisement out of
~ WMhm *< a Star -
void or mntnoam. .
Miss Ethel-“I can’t make anything
w r hcn you know him.”
Aliss Ethel ‘-Has het Well, then,I’m
sure it s a vacant lot.”— Bazar.
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K0T A SATlsFACTOnT interview.
«“tf . f gologto behome fcaddleberry, «,» CTemngl' “is your
A du “ n ° ' Ale you comi "S around?”
,
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 1
^ «>“
.
an EcoNOM,cat. stove.
Yoiiag Husband-“Well, my dear,
did you succeed m finding a stove to
suit you?”
Young Wife—“Indeed, I did. Such
good luck, too. I’ve got a stove that
will never cost us a cent for coal. The
dealer said it was a self-feeder.”— The
Wasp.
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refection and reflection.
Mrs. White—“What beautiful cake
Mrs. Brown makes I Whv, the frostin
on the cake we had this evening was so
dear and glossy foa could actually see
y0 ur face in it.”
Mr. White—“That is what one might
caI1 food for reflection, I suppose”— '
Boston Transcript. '__
1TAT)T)TT q , TA>T
0!d Maid— I T m beginning , . to think , .
^ ?i * **? & ° d i ° tv L
° id SI ,f d ~ how can y° u t tel1 n tdl ....
Heartiess n CaUcr— „ 1 ‘Oh! *, , _ I , have tried.
T l endeavored to get your father s consent
an ^ mV^ U Cd ~ 7 NeW T^ 7 ° rh if^
’
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amicable relations.
A fragment overheard on the boule
vards:
“Have you heard lately from your old
friend Zed?”
“Not a word in three years.”
fiends?” “However, I presume'you are good
“Why, yes, certainly. Under the cir
cumstances, a quarrel has been out of
th e question .”—Paris Figaro.
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A sensitive tenant.
Indignant Landlord—“If j-ou don’t
P a y up, out you go. I’ll have you fired
rjght out into the street, bag and bag
gage, YYiu haven't paid a cent in six
months.”
Delinquent Tenant—“Don’t do that,
I U be disgraced in the eyes of the neigh
bora. Rather than have you fire me out,
I’d stand your raising the rent from §20
to §30 a month .”—Texas Siftings.
a trifling oversight.
“Aha!” exclaimed Mr. Billus, triumph
antly. “Remember that little magnify
ing glass I save a dollar for the other
clay? You said it was a clear waste of
money. It has more than paid for itself
already, madam.”
“How so?” inquired Mrs. Billus.
“Detected one of those new counter
feit two-dollar silver certificates in this
roll of bills. They’re * so well executed
that eveu th e P rts can hardly teii
*
thcm from the | uine .»
„ Who it on you r
Mr Billus's law fell
„ Bv George!” he said. “I don't re
memb er "-Chicago J_ Tribune.
indean chivalry.
fruiting Omcer B J !’ e Stur f.P‘
bailed pog, won du t you r the to , enlist
10 *) e \owed States _ H °"
”
“Thirteen oientv dollars a month.”
“Hean What ,That Inlun have to
iiT - , squawk , TJ 'do thTt/ , . "injun , T
jun got stay
right here and draw rations.’ —Chicago
± ribune.
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a neat turn.
At five o'clock yesterday afternoon a
rag stopped a citizen in front of the
pitv Hall and asked him for a dime to
get'a ' bite to eat.
*‘Look here, man,” sharply replied the
other, “on Wednesday you hit me fora
dime, on Thursday have* I gave vou another j
and now TOU the cheek to demand
a third.” j
“Is that so?” .
“Of course it’s so, a ul I think it's pil¬
ing it on most too thick. ”
“Then you are the man I struck
Wednesday over on the corner?”
“I a;n.”
“And now I've tackled you for the
third time?” *
“You have.”
“Well, old man, I beg your pardon.
That’s too much gall, even for me, and
my excuse is that you have improved se
much in your looks that I didn’t recog¬
nize you!”
He was handed a quarter.— Ne>.c Yo'rl:
2fe rcury.
Father of Pedestrian ism.
Edward Payson Weston, the veteran
nedestrian pedestrian, has has been been interviewed interviewed regard re mrd
mm nXnntmm recent track events. The several
newspapers nuntmer quoting the the old old athlete athlete as as
»“ l
csonis eorigm.ior.of. ns tci cx
press it, “the fa her of peilestnumsi
it ts hardly worth while to offer as. they
say m court “any evidence in rebuttal,
but giving Wostoa credit for all hts great
t “ of .Mh “°^ ^fomane™.* Every S
try w re k f # * has *‘.“ m0 ! ime
markable m Tn endurance in this respect H but i
the hrst individual to whose porfor
mances special reference has been made
was Foster Powell, an Englishman boru
in 1731. That hta records were genuine
and in everv sense high class there is no
doubt whatsoever, for they were with
few exception accomplished on roads
leading from place to place, the distances
of which were well-known and by no
““»* “*»P‘ il 'le to the “shortening''
process practiced m any number of re
cent ring-track events; besides most of
his greatest feats were accomplished with
out recompense^ wager of any knul
b hen thirty }ears of age he talked
j m . v mile ® on J^e Bath . road in seven
hours” . nA flf^twoTm ‘covered , . , ,
when WO
miles on tho Bath road in twenty-three
hours! an ,f «toe» MostTemlrkable »l?utcs and one Ill year Vis
four of
ito r-info fm’-n t r-trin + v The ■ 11 i
aga i„ for the fourth and in tat Urns
l.e „r,ov a thTfonc^siou a . nu
hours andn quarter.’ At
of the feat he was given an ovation bv
the people .-Chicago Hem.
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Tito Wizard of tho Treasury.
In a.i the United States Government.,,
hM^Cn^ their peculiar abilities. Among ETSgttaf these is
Patrick Bynum of the division of ioans
m the Treasury Departmeat. For*
dozen years uot an interest cheek has
left the department that has not passed
through his hands. The interest on the
bonds is paid quarterly, and, to insure
absolute certainty that none of the checks
go astray, it is absolutely accessary that
they should be scaled by one individual.
As the holders .of the bonds are repre
sented in number by many thousands,
J would take three ordinary clerks to do
the work but Bynum does the work
^le-handed do T- fhe loan a he checks division are and brought piled
on his desk like cord wood. Each one
T lst get ia its r3 ° ht enveIo P e > which
haS beea P revi0Usl y addressed. Then
Bynum begins.
With no mechanical assistance except
a wet sponge he starts to do the sealing,
Those who have seen Bitz or Herrmann
handle a pack of playing cards before a
wonder-stricken audience might have
s ° me ld< : a of the v ' a 3 r B 3' num riffles
cheexs , into the envelopes. Fifty a
minute. How he does it no one knows,
It is a sleight-of-hand, but so rapidly
performed that the eye cannot follow the
Thump, thump, thump, all
day lon ^> and at the close the depart
mental day be has filled three store boxes
-th sealed envelopes. Does he ever
ma, ' c Y eU, no. The checks
vai T from to $5000, and a single
mistake on ms part might cost him a
year s samry. It: is safe to say he never
makes one. Of the thousands of people
who quarterly receive these interest
checks, few know of the wizard through
^ h ose hands they have passed.-iRn*
Orleans 7 New Della.
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Comic Things About Wires.
Attentinn hn« Ur
the ' mpHoles fact that out West the allckedtid red cedar tele
are often
dered useless by the borings use” of the wood
pecker, which not only the pole as a
kind of apartment house but makes it
into a granary also. Some uole-have had
as many as 700 holes, Nataf lawm and small
made in them. In trouble' South Yfrh
ca conespondin" has resulted
f r om the ingenuity of a bird whose eo-us <
had hitherto been °
eaten bv snakes Tt
seems to have struck the birds smooth'poles that the
snakes could not climb the
as easily as thev could the trees ’ and c 0 !
there has been' an emigration to the
poles. A singular fact"is that since
making this change of base, the birds
which had placed the rider opening 0 f the nest
at the bottom, to entry bv the
reptile difficult,* have now under earlie! the
safer conditions, leaving reverted to an
} practice of fn the BnSdl orific-in tXSmh the side
t is Btated that the Lwow^h
wRes have suffered from the
around them of orchids. Similar ntipr Wole \
regions' has been exnerieneerl in monkeys +
from the tricks of whe“ at
which have not oniv used the i a
free o-vmnasium but bav- t-mrl loir * >
toun°do the L painful work of the ineman i
d x.„ f of . ,, V*" 6 ;
m ™aKey onkevs-wm s sj, , -A<r ng f tom r -• the wue i by tne,,- - I
???>. - hX? r
ing specially festive, will ride across the
pl h a '* ns at full tilt, glhs aimino- as they Soto "o
the glittering knobs of
*--am---. j
Probably Smallest Salary ia the World. j
the smallest salary in the
world is that paid to the village watch
man of Springstille, in Hessen, Germany. :
The amount of his daily income is four :
pfennings, or less than'one cent in cur
money. This is the same amount that
was paid to the village watchman in the
last century. However, the “fortunate - ’
man receives an additional allowance of
thirty cents.a month for clothing, etc.,
and is entitled to free board and lod'*
mgs from the inhabitants of the village.
The present watchman, “Old Heinrich,” i
seventy yean of age .—Chicago Ecrald.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
SALTING BUTTER IN THE CHUBS'.
The mischief of the frequent recom¬
mendations to salt butter in the churn is
that they mislead persons who do not ua
derstaud precisely the principles in¬
volved. Salt can' only be mixed with
butter and cannot be dissolved in it.
Therefore 1 is useless to put the salt in
the churn with the milk, as.tlie salt will
be dissolved in the milk and washed out
with the water in washing the butter.
To salt the butter in the churn is to put
in the salt when the milk has been
washed completely from the butter and
this is in a fine granular condition. It
is no saving of time or labor anil is not
so convenient as salting in tho bowl Or
butter worker, and it can only be dona
with churns that have no dasher. It is
wise to let well enough alone, and uot to
adopt uncertain recommendations, of
which a clear understanding in not given
as a guide to inexpert persons.— Jew
York Tima.
coffee left over.
As it is quite impossible to gauge the
contents of the Coffee-pot exactly, it is
important, writes Aunt Chatty, of Bel
mond, Iowa, to know just what to do
with the “remnant,” that nothing be
wasted. Some have a very bad habit of
setting it away in the coffee-pot, when
at the next meal they either throw it out
ov add some fresh. In the first instance
there is just as much waste and more
trouble than it attended to nt the close
of the meal; and in the latter you have
poor, muddy coffee. 4
After considerable experimenting I
find thc following method the most
economical aud satisfactory:
Coffee, if properly made, is sufficiently
steeped before going to the table, hence
the grounds are useless; so at the close
of a meal 1 at once carefully drain tho
coffee into a tin pail, kept for the pur¬
pose, and thoroughly rinse aud dry the
coffee-pot. At next meal, or when
needed, I just lieat this coffee hot—but
do not boil—and use by itself or add it
to the freshly made just before using.
It can scarcely be distinguished from the
latter when used«in this way .—JS 7 cio York
Voice. ■ri
washing woolen underwear.
A. T. asks how flannels (underskirts,
etc.) can be washed so as uot to shrink
them. The following recipe given by a
Philadelphia manufacturer of fine under¬
wear is excellent, says a correspondent:
My husband gets underwear costing from
ten to fourteen dollars per suit. Wo
wash it by this recipe, and he uses the
garments for three winters. They avo
pretty badly worn, but soft. Use one
pound of dissolved soap in four gallons
of warm water, in which rinse well tho
articles to be washed, drawing them re¬
peatedly through the hand (never rub
them with the knuckles nor on wash¬
board, as it would shrink aud destroy
the material.) Wring them as. dry as
possible to remove the soap, rinse them
briskly in clean lukewarm water, wring
and stretch them to their proper shape
and dry iuthe open air if possible.
Another reliable method: Dissolve a
sufficient quantity of soap in warm water,
adding a little borax to soften it. Wash,
wring, and then rinse in clear, warm
water, after which shake well and dry
quickly. Do not rub on soap or use a
washboard. We use this latter method
for all oui flannel skirts, baby flannels,
etc., and always have them nico and
Boft .—New York Observer.
RECIPES FOR riES.
The scarcity of apples and other fruits
at certain seasons renders it difficult for
housekeepers to have an acceptable
variety of desserts daily. The following
recipes for pies which will be found both
economical and wholesome for the house¬
hold will be an assistance to those who
are at a loss what to have in the way of
desserts:
Cream Pie—Put one pint of milk on
to boil; moisten a tablespoonful of flour
with a little boiling milk; stir it into tho
boiling milk until it thickens; add half a
cup of sugar. Beat the whites of four
eggs to a froth, and stir with tlie boiling
mixture; take from the fire and flavor
with a teaspoonful of extract of vanilla.
Line pie-pans with paste, bake and fill
with the cream; set ia the stove until
colored.
half Cracker dozen Pie—Pour boiling water over
a crackers, and let soak; pour
out the water and squeeze in the juice of
a lemon; add a cup of sugar. Mix and
pour in puff paste and bake.
Home Pie—Grate one Irish potato,
add the juice and grated rind of one
lemon, the beaten white of an egg,a cup¬
ful of sugar, and one of cold water.
Line pie-pans with rich crust, fill with
the mixture; spread with white of an
egg, sweeten, set iu the stove until the
crust is done. •
Sugar Pie—Two cups of brown sugar,
half a cup of butter, half a cup of milk,
and three eggs. Mix all together, flavor
with nutmeg. Pour in pie-pans lined
with crust and bake.
Rice Pie—Pour a quart of boiling wa
ter on a teacup of rice, boil soft; take
from the fire and add a quart of milk,
five eggs and a spoonful of extract of
lemon and a teacup of sugar, Bake in
deep pans lined with crust.
Vinegar Pie—Beat one egg, a table¬
spoonful of flour and a cup of brown
sugar together; add half a cup of cold
water and one tablespoonful of vinegar.
Flavor with nutmeg and bake in two
crusts.
Custard Pie—One quart of milk, five
eggs, spoonsful of sugar; flavor to
taste. Bake in plain rich crusts.
Cheese Pie—Beat three eggs with a
cup of butter and sugar each, flavor;
pour in pans lined with puff paste; bake;
spread meringue over the top anti set in
a hot oven one minute.
Chocolate Pie—Take four table^poons
ful of chocolate, one pint of boiling
water, and let simmer a few minutes;
add the beaten'yolks of two eggs, two
tablespoonsful of cornstarch and six
tablespoonsful of sugar mixed together,
and boil until thick. Make rich piecrust;
put in pans and bake; pour in the choc¬
olate. Beat the whites of the eggs with
powdered sugar; spread on top and set
in the oven to brown. Serve cold.
Lemon Pie—One grated lemon, one
cup of sugar, the yolks of t’aree eggs, a
tablespoonful of butter, half a teacup of
milk and two tablespoonsful of corn
starch; beat all together and bake in rich
crusts.
Molasses Pie—Moisten two table¬
spoonsful of flour with six of vinegar,
mix with a pint of molasses, add a table¬
spoonful of butter, flavor with cinna
mon and nutmeg: line 'pie pans with
crust, pour in the mixture and bake in a
Quick oven thirty minutes. -
A FAMOUS FAIR.
RUSSIA'S COSMOPOLITAN MART
AT MUM NOVGOROD.
A Place Where Merchants From
Every Clime Meets for Commer¬
cial Exchange—The Town and
Its Bazaar—Tea Tippling.
The union of the Oka with the Volga,
both long and navigable rivers, makes
Nijui Novgorod a place of importance
and a mart of trade. Tho former rivei
runs eight hundred mile3 before it p$tr«
into the Volga, ana the united streams
flow two thousand miles together before
they enter the Caspian Sea. By these
waterways the extreme north, the shores
of thc White Sea and the Baltic, are
linked to the great southern countries of
Russia which lie upon the Black Sea,
Azof and the Caspian. It is uot wonderful
that mercantile interest, ever keen to rec¬
ognize fne value of position, should have
seized upon the junction of these two
great rivers for the establishment of an
international commercial exchange. As
early as the middle of the fourteenth cen¬
tury Nijui had its fair, but the present
bazaar, which is very extensive aud elab¬
orate, was built in 1824 to replace the
buildings destroyed by fire eight years
before. The bazaar is built on the plain
of the northern bank of the Volga, a
huge sandy expanse, and consists of a
long mass of houses, twelve long rows
arranged in regular lines, and divided
into four equal parts by transverse
streets. This is the centre or kernel of
the fair, which was erected and is still
owned by the Government. It contains,
between five hundred and six hundred
shops. Beyond and around this bazaar
are thousands of buildings of brick, wood
and mats, red and yellow and green in
color, and stretching out in every direc¬
tion.
The bazaar is surrounded on three sides
by a canal crossed by a number of bridges,
and on the fourth side there is an open
square, in which nre tlie residences of the
Governor and the other officials. r [ho
whole enclosure is thoroughly drained,
and these stone drains are flushed twice
a day during the continuance of the fair.
Admirable arrangements are also made
for preventing and putting out fires, nnd
n'o one is allowed to smoke within the
limits of the fair.
Here are shops with tho choicest furs
from Siberia silks from Perl, and pre¬
emus stones from the Oral Mountains, to
getber with fancy goods from Engined,
viroicctiu^ it^S'iSTSth
roofs with bolls at X the cor
gilded characters. Here are to be found
thr. thIheir Affirm n f .1 ^ ?he 1^01^8 j
W1 samples fiUed
with vast stores bekm on the Siberian
quaVt Tea is aufl'cottoii the «weat staple of tilt fair
Hon and silks and Caucasian
goods have a large place in the market
] >u t S pj te 0 { t[ ie supply p v wa ter of
Canton tea, the Kiakhta which comes six
thousands versts overland, and takes ei<rh
teen months in transit, still rules atNijni.
We visited a tea merchant and sampled his
tea. It is packed in a case of lead, which is
protected by a papered wooden chest,
which is again packed in a strong cow
hide covering with the hair on. Our
shopkeeper had the cowhide covering
unfastened, and then with a long steel
auger in which there were an oblomr
groove and a very sharp point, he bored
into the centre of the chest. When
pulled out the groove of the auger was
full of tea. A professional buyer tests
the tea by rolling the leaves iu his fingers
and then smelling of them; sometimes
also he chews a few leave*. We pre
ferred to take our little package to
the hotel, and we found it a deliciously
flavored black tea. The cost was less
than half a dollar a
Tea drinking is the universal habit in
Russia. My guide in the Adirondack
could never build his fire in the
till he had taken a “chaw of terbacker”;
and Sulieman upon the desert was good
for nothing before his coffee and pipe;
so my Russian servant, like all of his
countrymen, swallowed hot tea as soon
a3 he awoke, and repeated the act a
dozen times a day. Teahouses are as
common in St. Petersburg and Moscow
as “saloons” are in New York or Chicago.
The “samovar” is the household god,
aud no peasant is so poor as to be witti
out one ) though he may be destitute of
sbo es and hav e no clothes besides those
’ wElc . ^ , 1 are upon his body. There are forty
° f samovars in Toula alone, and
G00 ° dozens are sold m Ni j ni every year.
dhe samovar u a Large urn made of brass
or copper, with a tube running through
uic centre, in w'hich charcoal is placed
and bgnted. This burning charcoal, like
tIiG £acred dre ttlc Jewish temple, is
never aliowed to go out, and hence the
water around the tube is always hot.
Thc teap0t ttands upon th6 to P ol tllG
® amo ^ ar ; A- , scoop of tea is put in thc
tca Pf** ^ boiling water from the samo
var isturned upon it; the infusion is m
a sdc ^ of lem ? a or a a gl f lam 8 tum P of , bler 6u ’ ? ai and '. ls
-
^ ed as a flavoring by those who like it.
^ f 1 ? rai,road ^ U Statl ? a ? ° 9 DS US ® m ne a11 jJ h the T*
and + \owns, at every hour I of the
day an ? “tchai” was to be had,
evea thou ^ bread or beer “W hk bc
Tlf . ^ u ho
7 bought h t tea was “T only “ fit for ,° Ur only P f rty women ^
aad W ° V Id no t dri nk it, learned, after
Pf + rubles , , for f a bottle of ginger
ale and raaKin S himself ill with petor
shallow the national ^ ^ beverage ^ without '° a
g rimace ’ aa d also to like “the cup / which
cteers but not iml)rtotB/ . be oro ho
Wt the dominions of tho Tsar. On the
“ 3£?A tT**- T'tl^
1 oroug 1 uf goo a s “Z™? to the fair, ° f there
Tsts ofto tae^e’oSAeT 0 ^, 0 '
ucte of commerce at Nijm—we saw enor
^the BazifsomeofVhefamo^UkrSa
wool. They have timber,too, and stone
and bronze, aad carts and all' their sepa
rate parts, and, in fine, all things which
men can use, or wear, or eat, or drink,
Among these last articles were literal
hill 3 of watermelons. Every man
woman town seemed and child be in some parts" of the
The lucious to fruit eating watermelons
heaps the wharfs, was everywhere markets', in
on at the hands'and in
wagons, and apparently in the
the mouths of most of the two hundred
thousand strangers who are said to flock
ia August .—Ntw Fork Observe*