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THE MONROE
VOL XXXIX.
DON’T MI SO IT.
Don’t mind trouble, for ,Ih ' " or d r0 1**
on
Rollin’ an’ rollin'!
The day dawn* bright, but the light’!
kooii gone—
Itolli an’ rollin’ !
Don’t mind trouble, for the time si ,,J
flic
Flyin' an' flyin'!
The storm soon pa from round bint
kie
Flyin' an’ flyin*!
Don’t mind trouble, for a life ain t long
Coin’ an' goin’ !
Just swap your hi irroiv for a glad, sweet
MOttg —
(Join’ an’ iroin' !
Atlanta Constitution.
Us Silver Siren.
(BY Kit A is i.r.r.ns.
T was walking along Regent stroc*t,
London, in tin-autumn of ’!)2, with
an cy <* indifferent to the charm of
that guy precinct, when suddenly in
ftpito of my preoccupation 1 noticed,
in a brilliant shop window, a sign
bearing this announcement, “Latest
Novelty Silver Sirens. ’
11 wa in direct cons.•quenco of the
delusive glamor of a Silver Siren that
my spirits were, at present, node
pressed, that my luck seemed to he a
traitor and my whole desriny thwart
od. lienee as 1 read this sign I
paused. Being an engineer by pro
tension, 1 had gone to Nevada some
inonths previously, to superintend a
pumping process in sum silver
mines, and while there my interest
In the science of hydraulics had been
superseded, owing to t ho babblings
of those sirens of the West who wins
pered their alluring deliriums into
my ear. At their holiest i laid aside
my professional work and launched
into the vortex of speculation,
disastrous results to myself, my lam
ily and my friends. The briefest men
tion of the fluctuating hope and
annihilating despair of that under
taking must suffice My telegrams
to my “governor’’ wore daily para
doxes, the buoyant optimism of one
day defying the predentin d possim
ism of the next
1 )efeut ed, disgusted, heavily in
de Ul. father seriously handi
fo rced
ami
‘•by. ll::j| iiAl
Hub,
.‘Ur oil i
glanced with grim curiosity upon
that, confused mass of burning gems
and burnished gold in the jeweler’s
window, ami as I did so a shopman
advanced to the light of the door at¬
tending a young girl, 1 le held in his
hand a silver whistle which I soon
found was the very object of my in¬
terest. 1 overheard the man say,with
subservient blundness :
‘ ‘ These a re whistles, lady,
made he my
on I principle of nnr fo-
horn sirens or semaphores. ' They are
si,., •
, , i , , ar ,
■
“;j, e.l l v I, >ilelitmg elulis n tins sea
n . ?. 1 i l.H ° ed Ti the i n thing • 4 to lus , ■ bps and
'll i V h!l0U H , H the
cronJn" - ! f, ‘ lono ’ il ?'T;
n . 1 ,
witii T: ,- 0(1 h 16
air air with ■ « Mich 1 a penetrative r quality ■
tviusM-u‘I ini ' sld cwalk
V. ‘ d "Km-G d ,n to tlu shop. 1
< vlvn„„K,l,m,l,of tb.,s,; sihlJoi,
impu-t - ". >, i .'-u. some. Hues, to
ini°.? > ,ai * tors in
out our own own do^m.o, lost fn to buy tho , bauble,
l'i'ng' l lrom'"im Ul w S 11 ^'V,®' !' <l , u " s " "
slorl In I vw ni 1 'U
™1 l forgotten
bout
, ,
ofniotlifv
to , vhu voT-1 .i uiv a! -u nf ;
r For?mn,tclv ol U, fir I. u '
London' , -7, n' . '
whose oonlhlence in v cu
pacify ns an engineer had not been
shaken by mv fiu-k of iud"mem 1 v>
onginoerTii" West en>“e'ed soheinj me to e ... I,, si,ne •i saTt
in
mines tei ha^been in Ru--i iimsl i ;•! \vlii-h K mlU mn hettp1 h . . ■ '
i
1 need not s , v 1 wrs "l-i il 1 -.f ti 1A
r
fovuil to "et awav fi! n 1 n V ' m ''' i"' m ‘ U 10 1
o’.htl '
I 'i ' T ni l ,0n
of mvucts nevm Dm '* IU
friends l « >s . nvi'h T :
tivo Wb and wln'n „i -i llZnlo “ 1
b«n
and relatives called" out t . m > fr V.
the pier at Calais, in one of those it
tempts at pleasantry which so'fften
contain a stin-: 1 sav! Fr-n iJ N
don’t go and buv a salt mine w„ .
sia!” 1 felt clnlll that" the time la!
for me to
some new line of action ' 1
I imln4o^i; was confident ib 1 “ , - !
These t tho many fail, the one’suecc-dV
mints could not b worked
‘ ’
owin iiX. ' to the novo^io .•
redirect lt» ehannel
my task. j
I hurried across the continent and
had made good time. Ha*tewasim- !
perativc for wint r was closin - unoii
the heels of autumn and the deep
snows would delav my pro gress \ j
went well with me as*I crossed tho-c
lonely versts, over which melancholy*, there seen s
ever to dwell a bro .ding i
My kibitka. or hooded"' >ied-c r' was
very comfortable I, ,va, wn by
•tardy FI.......... which
changed at the different station
along the route. I !
NVhen about two days from t he end
of my journey m } yun.schik or !
driver, tell seriously ill. When these
•trong and intrepid sons of toil yield
te the influence ot disease the on- f
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TIES DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1894.
slaught is usually sudden and rlo
' cn1> J dt0 a "‘ nd which fells, with
i crashing fury, the oak which has
I long swayed to the storm’s rough
lashing. I wrapped the poor fellow
in my rugs and placed him in the
easiest part of the kibitka. As the
lights of W'oleki twinkled in the di 3 -
tance, while I guided the Finn ponies
as roads, dexterously as I could over the
, I knew from Va’rika's terrible
delirium and fever that the poor
yamschik was making his last life
strugglo.
My Russian vocabulary was put to
the test, as I pulled the ponies up at
the door of the station-house, 1
managed to explain, however, that
the sick man was the yamschik and
that I was the passenger. As the
stable , ,, boys , 1 held ,,., the lights , High , , to
enable them to draw poor \anka
l0 8 e< ge ^ s:nv ad wa3
11 ( ?> , i°' , \m
*,/ u moaned i the i host, . as , he
.
h me into the contracted and
-uiDAy 8it,i mg-room, (> In, the little
a n-r s prayers are more necessary
t,ou i°r vanaa than are the doctor s
drugs. 1 he poor lad is called to
drive the white horse into the pres
j 01106 Him of his St. reckoning.” Peter to-night To and great give
my
j annoyance, I found that I could not
pi o. ute unot hei yamschik at that
station to drive me on that night. I I
n,ado Hold promises of a vedro of
vodka, if one could be found but no
0,1,3 seemed willing to take \ anlca s
P Iace - 1 He mystery of doa h had for
he moment checked the interests of
Hfe in those superstitious hearts.
j gumentswith '' Hue I was employing knot of useless in the ar
a men
room - ‘Hero was a noise of Horse’s
feob uounced a,l! J b the ; 10 «Hnll arrival cries of a which sleigh. an- A
fat Russian maid was in the act of
I Pacing a steaming samorer before
mo when, with much stumping of
foofc °u fc3I °®. the door of the room
opened and a man of very noble bear
came in. He saluted me with
(li gmty and then withdrew,
j diately returning with a young girl
upon lus arm. I Icr face seemed to
make a sudden summer spring into
tho wintry place.
My experience had evidently been
told th em, for as the girl glanced at
,n0 > 1 1 10ard Her say : “ l ho poor
yamschik . ! Dear father, how awful is
J su [[ ( } itii e " tloab a little H • hesitation the man
advancea to me and saul in good
, »h ^ H°8 pardon. this
,s • C an
uy chance, Air Francis Adams,
.>V5' U )r, 1 ' 1 ot 110 f! 1 ^ 1Tlines in
>oudn,'Jii \ e ^ pruujptjj^oRuwed a
“I » Ilf
thither, JiopiiT^b reach the place by
the time of my arrival, and this cross¬
ing of our paths had hastened our
meeting.
Tho count, of course, introduced
mo to Ins daughter, the Countess
i?""""* ° a " A “1
1 Tl,'“ 'i‘7r"V’-‘ , UK :i ' i
i !“'hStaSl
very
too fond ear to her entreaties, in con
seating r? to bring ‘ her. An hour later
r ]><> lUMiuous ,,™ 2 T°U sleigli , t of , TO .I the Count ’?
n 1,10 '° ung Uountess
pHanio , . s , face glowing , with loveli
: J 1033 JUS, opposite me.
! 'n ,H ii 01 If - 1 '. atchcd 1 l ° bIi U Jf at
k u 7 f "\ S
on o the plains of Russia ? spoke to her,
/ * au>'- t0 -f I J! he 3 word “ffmd'ty eljjsiNe °f her
con
B ant y came to.me, as expressive of
1 1 i.ii.Hteiof tier charm. Beauty
U ^ “tl th e 1 ace f ro 111 1 ho
depths of l her blue-grey eyes, and
hor»ttr«nt! IS^ m'n Vul 1 ,e ‘.“"j 6 . ot
wh » »h ,r? ch L,? < l fro... the, ?"rV;l f l u mg S,mle ...
1 5 11 ,( - 1 c aud
.. .. mini
would chan-e JhJ midthenl \\
would Ite InZiV “VO to ih,T nmnth th i .fi
1 ' the flr3t
h ,rm mv o th wlmlc her’
Thus i watched while the old
count twaddled on about vinsefifk mints and
mines, and the liveried eveePeV-v- Vee*! on i
-Yootmen of his "then ni with
the ni"!it even now an J'r ‘
their ’
strident L^ Kn - inn
dearmenUo
cntlvtheoldL,®'Vi ried us swiftIv over t h '?'!?„ ? sm rw /
'voi nJ ° “
the ni > r' ^ ^ ^
unon X ’he ivi"in * S i "*****'* of the
,. v .i nTi ^ meguarnow, .
andiw hnUn
«uBln- u« to ni
sea." everv now was' and durin-r" then lik.. n
It the**' tortuous
movements that smile'of l 'bo-m to Conn't- watch
for the radiatin" the
ess Stenlianie while the Count rn le
lv IJoild jostled scoli from vam4htk his dizin" fn Iream
his a vo lev
of expressive Russian * When c\.,m this
5 itt-ick enhnnrvould became violent lin^ a - Q
s W
hersablc muff, and" caress her fat h
er’s arm till the vituneraUve an
lT ., r 0 r tbp ( > , llnf .
lion! H was s ”eet q to 2? ,’he ?Ue,k
influence of the girl, and one felt that
she took the part of that poor ser
vant, whose cringing phrases showed
How cruel his training accept”with had been en
abling him to patience
reprimands which he did not de
serve.
The snow ion" had ceased Tt h»d onlv
lasted enough to veil the d'mH tU
and ?l?Ue» decor it e with n soft nliht lfi-e
StetUie v he p oramaof the Xol
dreams of a primeval seenmd'susnende i m Th«vcrv
The" heart-beats of Pan I
sound* which we e*sociat - with
man’s inheritance of the earth seemed
u strange suggestion in that hour. So
far have we become removed from
the im actual ttv i nai reserve reeerve or ot nature nature that Ma, the me
4
natural seemed supernatural, and the
hush which pervaded all was like a
palpab'e incantation breated upon
the earth by some mighty spirit of
j ■ the air, which held the night sub¬
servient to her will,
j We had entered a thick pine forest.
i The trees, those voiceless children of
j the Avoods, were held in an icy calm.
i If architecture be indeed frozen mu¬
sic, the brush seemed put in abstract
| f orm before us. The branches and
vertical lines made cathedral and
| | vista aisles under their moulding of
j ice and snow. Sometimes whole pro
i cessions of cowled monks seemed to
be lining our route, or spectral arms,
stretched outward frem the gloom
beckoned us to the murky mystery of
| the dark forest. Those soft thuds of
gnow which fell whe n the top of our
kibitka touched the edge of some
! protruding pine branch, fell behind us
bke ghostly steps trying to escape
their thraldom to the midnight by
following our lead to life and light.
But no weird influences of the
night seemed to approach the con
sc iousness of the young countess,
A s I looked at her that song of
Heine’s seemed written for her,
“Thou art like a lovely flower!" All
but peace and purity seemed separa
ted from her.
The count moved uneasily in his
seat> The s i e dg e made a sudden
j unge) as it heaved through one of
the deep transverse ruts, and our near
horse (we were driving three abreast)
gave an ug ] y tllg at the traces, as he
Bwa yed outward from his place. The
count, now fully awake, cried out:
.. Ivau i van0 vitch, are you forget
tin" whom you are driviii"?”
“ No, gracious excellency,” the
man rep i ie( j f “but his lordship’s
i lorge pet.rovitcb is restive”
Almost at the instant, the horse
av0 a secon d pull, which was so vio
j lent that the whole kibitka was
; erket i as ] an t.
j j “Somethin" is out of "ear with leJ the
harneM called the count, “ one
] ot t h e g roora s see to it ”
Tho two footmen were half asleep,
ftnd j c0ll]d liea r b’lui mutteri, ig to
them> whUe he waa bringing the
sledge to a less rapid motion,
Suddenly there was a cry, piercing
and pe tulent, like a peevish child’s
_ a cry w i,j c li made my blood curdle
in my veins . I glanced at the Count
ess Stephanie and saw her face blanch,
as s ] ie shrank into the corner of the
sledge . The count sprang to his
f eet and t-lio awful word was spoken :
“Wolve**!”
In an instant, the horses having
ii eard c ^ yi f e it gome subtle sense
which hastened their si
r'noticed that he’w-as"that
he fitted the key into the lock with
accuracy.
“Are you armed?” he asked me. I
drew my pistol from my pocket, as he
spoke.
hav0 never heard of tho brlltes
coming so far south at this season,”
<» «W- The., ho turned to the count
esSi “He very calm, my daughter,”
toU >“ wlU
'
reply, though n?',, ,.c , her i ’ -- voice T™ was .. the thick i
and her lips trembled. The count
turned ,,uiekly, and cut the straps
which held the closed openingat the
back of the sleigh.
“Crouch down, my child,” he said
to the Countess Stephanie; “crouch
down in the bottom of the sledgeand
heaven cover ^ur shield head thee!” with this rug. °May
A 11 the concentrated love of pater
n ity J was in his _»" voice.
Itslk> y OU y0U r pistols
ready?” lie said next.
“Ready, excellency,” was the re
pl „
Tho count and I peered into the
darkness through the opening of the
*1^ Behind us there appeared *| a
1110Tement like a rolling ooJ> re .
sembling dust at night.
“ They are «ponusI”the
excla >>ned, and fired. As I imitated
him 1 heard the countess give a
little stifled scream. On came that
m0Ting column ' and ,he cries of
an S r - v ’ ravenous mouths filled the air
Wlt 1 a dee P and ° ,ni nous rumble.
dow they were gaining on ns !
? horses, van 1 va!10vit and they, c h was brave yelling creatures, to his
drained every nerve and muscle to
obey lus commands. A sudden awful
thought passed through me. What
if there were something really wrong
with the harness! How long could
any mal-adjustment stand the strain?
Somewhere from the recesses of
memory came the recollection of a
st0 rJ lhad ?”« «?'••«' lu,ntin S
wolves , in a battue in Russia, and
tha t it was stated there that unac
customed and peculiar sounds had a
terrifying effieet upon these beasts—
even that a clattering of pans could
accomplish what pistols failed to do.
Agai mass “ oJ { yelping in , horror. t0 tlie a As PP«> my a ching hand
resumed its position after doing so,
t0UcheJ the Co!d surfac ® <> f th e
httle Sll | er Siren whlch Hung upon
watch chain.
Instantly it flashed upon me to try
«»*«•<*»p»» «hu pack i imsn
?n .'af'? “T 1 p3 . ''“'j
‘V’ ’ u ftrengta of mx lungs forced
tiuit ' veird crescenuo note into the icy
nigU " r, tHmg serpent of the air
tha t t t , python of sound, which
, P ’ er J ng J ing mto J, 1 ®
11 enea , Jlearts 01 those wud
, a ? *„ ts
‘
1Ue countess Hunted dead
aiVa -', 1 Ij e horses gained electric
'° ar - rom "Hat they t nought was
F 11 "" 1 '’ K " ^
1w °lves with a ;
b ’ lIo ' in g h°w l of fear, tumbled pe.l
black ^?P ths of the for ‘
,
-T' L3mn o:
\s thev ntth*t*hiuJhtJ di- 1 so Ivan 1 f c. 1
n J‘
in eight, " anl and saved' 1
we were i
A year later I was aloftie |ngaln in
street, but not nor
nor depressed, for / Stephanie was
there!
I was showing her! bite shop where
I had bought the silt 'or siren !
“Now take me, dearest, to the
place where you bourn t my wedding
ring,’’ she said. “Irid you not say
that that was near I.or.d street?"
“Yes, near Bona ;*»-:ephanie,” I
began, but this has n< tilling to do with
the story of the sil ’er siren, which
lias now been told.
CHIEF OF ARWkV SCOUTS.
Frank Guard Reared r by the Sioux
was
and Shot Sittjing Bull.
Frank Guard, chie.t of scouts in the
United States Wyoirrjng army ys esteemed by
the people of as more than
a rival of Buffalo BilE. Guard comes
of mixed French nts^| Kanaka paren
tage. Ilis pare thH-^rlm, ^TJftin bv the
Sioux in crossing halfipof ahd the
lad fell into the the sava
gcs. He was a n.YfSr youngster,
and he so pleasea bv'ting Bull that
the chief adopted hip and brought
him up. The youffi h in due time
went Dance, through declared the torjtures ,a brave, of the aad Sun be
was
came of in the all plains thing, P^vve ra;e, a sav¬
age 1
Knowing the hop«n rt "sness of the
Indian outbreak massacrtA thaa brought about
the Custer Guard deter¬
mined to desert to the whites. He
was detected and pursued. The In¬
dians shot his horse Guard swam
a river, and lodged foihr bullets in the
fugitive’s body. ceased Bejlioving that he
was slain, they we pursuit,
but Guard reached Die shore, and,
wounded as he was., continued his
journey to Crook’s / amp. On the
way he read afar thh Indian signal
fires announcing the massacre of
Custer and his men. \ ile brought the
news to Crook’s cam nic. r4 and the latter
asked whether Gua could lead to
the scene of the battle. Guard said
ho could if Crook »ould have his
wounds dressed and bjuUets V c Him have a
good horse. Tho were ex¬
tracted, and Guard', mounted on
Crook’s favorite hovsb, rode away.
He reached the bat* iefield to find
Custer and his met: lying stiff in
their blood. As Gu:» d, his Indian
blanket about him jNd his hand to
his forehead Indiab fashion, sat
watching the scene, J n Indian ap¬
replied proached Sitting and asked RuH’sf ffj brother. o he was. The He
Indian asked half dozen other
questions, and final? isked Guard
how it was that he t* a grain-fed
» ,. ib
<i!an* iiemafnaea his -Mme. Guard,
seeing that the Indian was unarmed,
unblanketed his face and looked him
in the eyes.
“Ugh, Frank!” said the Indian,
starting back and turning to run.
Guard permitted him to get within
ton feet of the shelter of a tree and
then shot him dead.
From that time to this Guard has
^ u on ce ottered l.fOd ponies f’T" for his
/»'P. he , ever and fall Guard into always the hands knew should of the
savages, death in its crudest guise
would be his fate. He escaped from
the savages after hearing them do
bate as to the most unpleasant
method of death for the prisoner.
Upon one occasion Guard, then out
as a scout, became convinced that he
and the command, under a Lieuten
ant, must certainly fall into the
hands of the Crows unless the troops
slew thTdarTpess their horses and office? erect w^sun- awav in
The
willin- to slay the horses but Guard
said that he meant to escape at once,
This convinced the officer anfi al
the horses save one were killed,
That one was left by a Are to attract
the savages, and the men crept for
mi les and escaped. On that night
Guard, with tears in his eves killed
the horse that Crook gave him. Ac
cording to tradition, that is the only
time that any man ever saw Guard
cry.
Guard was the man who finally
killed Sitting Buil, when the old sav
age refused to give up liis arms. Sit
ting Bull made ready to shoot as
Guard, his foster son, approached,
but Guard, with characteristic quick
ness, shot him dead. When there is
a dangerous duty to be done up about
Fort McKinney, Guard is the man to
do it. He went after a noted despe
rado with a warrant not long since,
and was met with a bullet from a
Winchester. Guard dismounted in
leisurely fashion, took aim, and sent
a bnllet through the desperado’s fore
head.
Guard is now forty-four years old,
and if his apprehensions are well
founded he is likely to have a chance
for further distinction. He believes
that the Government has not had the
last of its Indian wars, and that
another uprising at Pine Ridge is in
evitable. That would be accompa
nied by uprisings at other agencies
and a good deal of trouble.
has been constantly warning his su
periors on this head.— New York
Saa .
5r„.,.
-
Some recent experiments atCornell
University. Ithaca, have aroused
much interest on account of the de
veiopment of what appears to be a
form of plant dropsy. Tomatoes
grown in the warm, moist air of the
forcing-houses had leaves that were
swollen and semi-transparent. The
swelling continued until the veins of
the •>“«< »«« considerable I
by too much water ““V at the roots «“«<} and ;
an over-supply in the air. The leaves
w *re n °t able to give off the water
supp-iec from the roots and stalks, ‘
f' ; t ie ’ c ° a - :t:an the j
aad *ausequent bursting or:
t U ® vehis .f r f 8 a ty ^ °{ a dro P’
eical 1 1 condition.~[New York . Ledger,
t
A FOUR HUNDRED
!
OF LADIES WHO ARE DEVOTED
TO PHYSICAL CULTURE.
A Glimpse at the Well-Appointed
Club-rooms, at the Girls Who are
Training and at the Distinguished
People Who Look On and Approve
of the New I i Fad. ”
The well-built man, woman, boy or
girl is acknowledged by every intel¬
ligent person of to-day as on the
increase. Why? Simply because the
develojtment of the body is now
f fi
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t | ' I j O Iff fw i
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THE BERKELEY INSTITUTE.
recognized as one of the most im¬
portant branches of education. The
aim of every school is to have a
department of physical training
whore the students can secure for
themselves the best health, strength
and endurance possible, and the im¬
portance of such physical develop¬
ment is thoroughly appreciated now
as an essential part of complete
school discipline .
The Berkeley Ladies’ Athletic Club,
of 23 West 44th street, New York
City, is a striking illustration of the
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IN THE WOMAN’S GYMNASIUM.
advancement , that the study of phy
sical cultureand athletic sports have
mado upon the young ladies of this
cit y- It is a new departure in the
Physical training of women, and the
completeness of the appointments of
the bu51din S and the S reat variety
and perfection in its apparatus pre
sent an establishment equal to that
of the best athletic club building for
»>«»•
The parlor, decorated in old gold
and blue, is on the ground floor. Here
also are the offices of the director
and secretary. Three bowling alleys
“ rein ‘ he basement; these
th « Ration width and
!*■>««>• A plunge bath Is in the
rear - T His is lined with white and
j bein )lue 2 tiles, decorated the in walls the same and manner. ceilings
A series of dressing rooms, needle
baths and a large swimming bath
complete the floor.
1 mate bathrooms, with separate
? tub r f S ^ baths, in .? alcoves occupy ’ lockers two floors; and needle then
comes the gymnasium the favorite
H all in the club building. It is 100
by 50 _ feet, provided with a noiseless
running track, with a gallery nine
Jet above the floor. Lp a short
fl ‘ ghfc of stair s. opening adjacent to
the running . track, is a smaller gym
“ asi «m used for individual work.
The appliances used for instruction
consist principally in sets of light
clubs, » f? wlng we l g! Ms f nd ian
dumbbells and , French v bai
bells. The apparatus is attached to
the walls or suspended from trusses,
leaving space clear for classwork and
inarching exercises- The beauty of
the apparatus is in its nickel platings
and noiseless workings.
In the use of foils our ladies are
becoming experts, and only by at
tending some of the private parties
that rent the bowling alleys for even
mg games can one thoroughly appre
ciate the skill with which the dia
<!»*.»«»»«d« y b*u«
play the game.
Classes began Oct. 1, and as the
ladies return from the country they
make their appearance at the club,
The membership is limited to 4u0
(but not to “the” Four Hundred;,
aud a candidate for admission must
be at least 16 years old, the admis
sion fee being .$15 and the annual
dues $40. The management of the
c’ubis intrusted to a board of ten
governors.
«» •«•»? /rid.y of
every month friends are admitted by
card, and from a balcony built pur
posely for their accommodation they
can watch the exercises in the gym
tauura.
Do I notice any Improvement?
ia,d of the members in repeating #
one
a question put to her, “I should think
I do! It is simply wonderful. I
have an appetite that is greatly
alarming my mother, it is so raven¬
ous. I feel so cheerful 'ter a day
spent here that grandmother calls me
giddy. 1 sleep like a top and awake
so refreshed every morning. My
lungs are strong—listen!" and she
halloed at the top of her voice forex
ample, “Look at my arm —and just
wait six months—I’ll have it twice
as hard. I am straight, too, and don’t
feel half so awkward as I did a year
ago, when I first, came."
“However exaggerated these effects
may appear to those who pav no at¬
tention to the subject of athletic
sports and physical culture," said a
looker-on, who was an able doctor,
“one cannot help thinking or being
convinced that if the same plans
which are no>v pursued with the view
of fitting individuals for the demoral¬
izing exhibition of brute force were
more generally adopted as a means of
improving the health and vigor of
the constitution, the people would
be in a great measure emancipated
from physical suffering, and the full
possession of active powers would be
prolonged far beyond what is now es¬
teemed the bounds of human life."
To Shame Drunkards.
It appears from a statement in a
Russian newspaper that General
Wahl, the Governor of St. Peters¬
burg, has devised a new method of
shaming the tipplers of the Musco¬
vite capital into sobriety. In order
to encourage the spread of temper¬
ance the General has issued a per¬
emptory order that the names and
addresses of all people, whatever may
be their rank or sex, found in the
streets in a disorderly or intoxicated
condition, shall be printed on large
posters and publicly displayed at cer¬
tain points of the city and also pub¬
lished in the Official Gazette. Gen¬
eral Wahl’s procedure is only a modi¬
fication of a system put in force some
fifty years since by one of his prede-
. j
cessors in office. Drunk and disor
| j derly cases, whether they belonged to
the upper or the lower classes, were
compelled, under the supervision of
the gendarmes armed with stout
canes, to sweep the streets for a cer
tain number of hours every morning,
and the moujiks, whether male or fe
male, were subsequently taken to
the police station and regaled with a
copious dose of birch There is a
curious engraving representing those
involuntary scavengers at work in a
book entitled “Les Mysteres de la
i Kussie,” by M. Fredio Locrolx.—
| [London Standard.
Children’s Festival in Japan.
In the article, From my Japanese
Dairy by Lafcadio Hearn, in the At
,antic, is this reference to the chil
drer/s festival of Japan:
; The third visit was that of a depu
tation of children asking for some
] ie j p celebrate fittingly the festival
0 f Jizo, who has a shrine on the other
side G f the street, exactly opposite
j my f bate house. their I was very glad to con
j tr to fund, for I love the
gent l e god) and I knew the festival
[ would be delightful. Early next
m0 rning I saw that the shrine had
already been decked with flowers and
vo tive lanterns. A new bib had
been pu t about Jizo’s neck, and a
Buddhist catpenters repast set before him.
'-ator on constructed a
dancing platform in the temple court
f or the children to dance upon, and
be fore sundown the toy sellers had
erected and stocked a small street of
booths inside the precincts. After
dark I went out into a great glory of
‘ lantern fires to the children dance,
see
and I found perched before my gate
an enormous dragonfly more than
three feet long. It was a token of
the children’s gratitude for the little
help I had given them—a kazari, a
decoration. I was startled for the
«™» t . T o. e 0 »ti, e
but upon close examination I discov
ered that the body was a pine branch
wrapped with colored paper, the four
gleaming wings were four fire-shovels, and the
head was a little teapot,
1 ho whole was lighted by a candle so
placed as to make extraordinary
shadows, which formed part of the
design. It was a wonderful instance
of art sense working without a speck
o* artistic material, yet it was all the
Ub» of a poor little child only eight
years old:
WOE FOR CO MINI GENERATIONS.
Tommy—What you ervin’ about,
crybaby?
Jimmy—-Aw! You’d cry, too, if
your punts was made outer yer sis
tor's old bicycle bloomers!—[Cincln
natl Tribune,
NO. 50
THE MODERN GAME,
flow they jam ’em,
How they ram ’em,
How they slam ’em,
In the football game I
How they squirur with ,
Ghoulish joy,
When they’ve killed
Some bright young boy!
How they roar and
How they laugh
When they’ve orushod
Some youth in half,
In the football gamol
How they mangle,
How they strangle,
How they wrangle,
In the football gamol
How sweetly soft
Their joyous tones,
Mingled with the
Awful groans!
Listen to their
Happy cries
When they’ve knoeket
Out some one’s eyes,
In the football game!
—Harold McGrath, in Truth.
IIUMOR OF THE DAY.
Keep off the grass—Lawn mowers.
A theorist is a man with perfect con¬
fidence in his imagination.
The comjietition of vanity has dono
much to 6well many a fund for char¬
ity.
It is tho first step that costs; and
sometimes it costs so much that wo
can’t afford to take a second.
There is nothing poetical about
money. Distant prospects of it lend
no enchantment to the view.--Puck.
A gallant youth—a protty miss—
A trolley oar that’s dark—
Would it be right to say that this
Was an electric spark?
—New York Herald.
The samo woman who laughed at
you with riches, will smile with you
at poverty—if she takes tho notion.—
Fuck.
“I’ll tell you a talo that is positively
hair raising.” “For Jupiter’s sake,
tell it to Jobson; he’s bald headed 1"
—Judge.
Some men show remarkably good
taste in their selection of ties until
they put their necks into tho matri
monial halter.—Statesman.
“Virtue lends dignity to a man,
but wickedness sometimes lends dol¬
lars,” said a cynic who had never
dared to tell a lie.”—Puck.
Bacon—“It’s nqt difficult, nowa
days, to gejjnen toi do your bidding. ”
Egbert—‘w; I’ve often noticed the
ap
Can-a woman a secreHHPB
There is one such, Pit eugago,
As the years upon her creep—
’Tis the secret of her age.
—Judge.
The man who never knows when ho
is beaten would be perfectly happy if
he could get rid of the suspicion that
other people may be better posted.—
Puck.
Miss HasbeeD—“I’m very tired af¬
ter the party last night. ” Little Ethel
—“Yes, you must be. Sister says you
held the wall up the whole evening. ”
—Brooklyn Life.
She—“I like this place immensely
since they have had the new French
chef.” He (weak ia his French, but
generous to a fault)--“W'aitah, bring
chef for two.”—Harlem Lifo.
Mr. Snapp—“Is tho gentleman in
the next room a somnambulist ?” Land¬
lady— “Gracious goodness, no; for
generations back they’ve all been Bap¬
tists.”—Chicago Record.
There’s heads and heads and heads and
heads,
Long heads, round heads, and flats ;
Some Deads are made to carry brains,
And some just carry hats.
—Spare Moments.
“Why’did the football game stop?”
“The ball got mashed to a pulp.”
“How did that happen?” “A practi¬
cal joker on one of the teams slipped
a wig on it during the game.”—Puck.
Patron (to laundryman)--“John,
how did it happen that the Japanese
killed so many Chinamen in the last
battle?” John—“Noteeknow. Maybee
bigee rain makee bad runnee. ”—New
York Weekly.
“I don’t see how you dare trust
yourself to young Dr. Pills. He hasn’t
any patients.” “That’s just the point.
He strains every nerve to keep me
alive; I’m his only source of income.”
—Harper’s Bazar.
“Every tree can be distinguished by
its bark,” saidTwynn. “I deny that,”
replied Triplett. “Name one that
cannot.” “I maintain that a single¬
tree cannot be distinguished by ita
bark.”—Detroit Free Press.
“And what kind of a chin has she?”
she asked, as he paused in the middla
of an attempt at description of her
features. “A movable one,” said he,
after a moment’s sober thought. And
then he heaved a deep and pensiva
sigh.—Somerville Journal.
The poet was in a brown study, and
his wife was sewing over by the win¬
dow. “A penny for your thoughts,
Algernon,” she said, looking up at
him. “That’s just it, mv dear,” he
replied. “A penny is about all I can
get for them, and that’s what worries
me. ’’—Detroit Free Press.
Dragging Fish.
There are various drugs that have
been employed for stupefying or
making fish so drunk that they could
be caught by hand or with small dip
nets; but fortunately for the fish,
laws have been passed in nearly if not
all of the States prohibiting the use
of such means for taking fish, In
many old books of recipes the coccu
lus berry is recommended as the best
material for this purpose, but we do
not think the Fish Commissioners
would care to have us tell you bow to
prepare the noxious compound, — New
York bu