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KLONDIKE.
Over the mountains and far away,
In the regions of ice and snow,
Many a pilgrim is trudging hope to-day
With a heart full of and shouting
“Yo-ho
For Klondike!"
Over tho mountains, beyond the plains,
Where the great river winds to the sea,
Many a pioneer jingles his gains,
And slugs in a frenzied ecstasy—
In Klondike!
Thousands and'tlvousanda of miles away,
In the land of the polar boar,
Many a man is digging to-day,
Only to ilnd that there’s nothing there¬
in Klondike!
At Seafoam Lodge.
_
lly HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
HERE must be no
other boarders
* taken.” said Mr.
r- McCorkindale. “I
JEB 3 stipulate for that.”
“Oh, there will
none!” said Mr.
ing —Dewey, the board-
and real estate agent, nibbling the
end of his pen. “I know Mrs. Sweet-
clover very well—a most respectable
widow, in reduced circumstances—and
I know all about Seafoam Lodge, a de¬
lightful place, on the edge of the
ocean, where a man can’t help being
healthy.”
“Very well,” said Mr. McCorkin-
dale. “Let her know that I consider
the thing a bargain. I will send my
trunks on Monday of next week.”
Mr. McCorkindale had been sum¬
mering at tho Adirondacks, and had
found thut mountain breezes, black
flies and dried pine-needles didn’t
agree with him. Ho was now resolved
to try the seaside. And he went home,
well pleased with the bargain he hail
made.
Now, Mr. Dewey was in a partner¬
ship—Dewey <fc Salter—-and so neatly
dovetailed together were the arrange¬
ments of the firm, that Mr. Salter, who
dined at half-past twelve o’clock, came
to “keep office” exactly at the hour in
which Mr. Dewey, who dined at half¬
past one, took up his hat and cane to
depart. And scarcely had Mr. Salter
lighted his cigar, and settled his chair
back at exactly the light angle of the
wall, than in came Miss Mattie Mil¬
foil, a blooming young old-maid, who
gavo lessons in swimming at the Aqua
Para Academy.
“I want board at the Seaside for a
month,” said she. “At a place, please,
where there are no other boarders.
Prices must be moderate, and surf¬
bathing is a necessity.”
“Ah,” said Mr. Salter, bringing his
chair down on its four legs at once,
“the very place! Mrs. Sweetelover, a
client of ours, has taken Seafoam
Lodge, on tho New Jersey const, and
has a clean, light, airy room to let,
with good board, no mosquitoes—”
“Yes I know,” said Miss Milfoil,
“Just let me look at her references.”
The references proved satisfactory.
Miss Milfoil struck a bargain at once.
“Let Mrs. Sweetelover expect me
on Monday,” she said; and Mr. Salter
pocketed liis commission with inward
glee.
''Anything doing?” Mr. DeAvey
asked, Avhen ho came back from din¬
ner, with a pleasant oleaginous flavor
of roast pork aud applesauce about
him.
“I’ve let Mrs. Hweetelovcr’s room
for her,” said Salter.
“HeHo!” cried Dewey; “l let it,
this morning, to old McCorkindale!”
“And I’a ’6 just disposed of it to Miss
Milfoil,” sputtered Salter. “Why the
deuce didn’t you enter it on the
books?”
“A man can’t thiuk of everything,”
said Mr. DeAvey; “aud I avrs going to
enter it when I came back.”
“But what are we to do now?” said
Salter.
“Nothing,” said Dewey. “Ten to
one, one of the parties Avon’t keep the
contract. We’re not to blame, that I
can see.”
And Mr. Dewey, a philosopher after
his way, arranged his bulletin-board
anew, and sat down, a human spider,
to await the coming of any flies avIio
might be disposed for business.
Mrs. Sweetelover, in the meantime,
had swept aud garnished Seafoam
Lodge, until it was fresher than a cow¬
slip and sweeter than roses.
She had decorated her up-stairs
room with China matting, fresh mus-
lin curtains, and dimity covers to the
bureau and dressing-table.
“I do hope I shall be able to let it!”
said Mrs. Sweetelover, with a sigh.
“But there are so many seaside lodg-
ings this year that-Dear me! here
coines a gentleman aud a valise up the
beach-road, and as true as I live, he’s
making straight for my house!”
“Have my trunks arrived?” said
the gentleman—“name of McCorkin-
dale.”
**a- bir! said j ,, Mrs 0 Sweetelover ,
Dewey engaged the room through
A baiter, said Mr. McCork-
ast ' ve ®k-
san . } Mrs. t ., ^ l t, Sweetelover, hrst 1 ve all h e ® r d of flurry, it,
in a
Bui you re,kindly welcome, air, and the
room is quite ready, if you 11 be so
good as to step up stairs.
n Corkiui ii ?! : 1U m Pk■ 8au ^ Mr. Mo-
. around him with
a e, gazing
o eye o an e derlx eagle. \ ery
c oaQ to erably airy superb view'
from the window s. I pou my word I
e t e look of things.’
° you ^k the apartment will
* U «<Ja# coarse fk®''udow, it will suit, Lmully. said Mr.
, r cCorkmdale. n Here is a month’s
board in advance—-ten dollars a week,
e agen said. W may ser\-e dm-
ner at one o clock. Blue-fish, roast
clams, lobster-salad—any-sort of sea-
food you may happen to have. I don't
eat desserts And now I n going out
to walk on the seashore ”
Mrs. Sweetelover looked after him
with eyes of rapture.
‘*Tbe boarder of ail others that I
would have preferred,” said she. “I
h ?? eU *
v ,
tuveikL, "f U tT gedr t-f’ p
w h f f hU bl r f W wh,le
’
JhZ slung a flat ff black P ? i y satchel, ! h r , ? traveler- S ?’ aS
”*• bweetclover, I suppose?’
-j ,
„
"I Ilk. th. fiction T.tt tauoh."
Many a husband, many a son,
And many a father, too;
Many Is a man who is dear to some one
climbing the glaciers, leading through
To Klondike!
Many a mother and manv a wife
And many a ohe that is dear.
I s dreaming to-day of a happier life
And hopefully waiting to hear
From Klondike!
And thousands and thousands of golden
hopes,
And many a dream that is fair
Are destined to die on the frozen slopes
And And their craves out there
In Klondike!
—Cleveland Leader.
curling edges of foam that crept up the
: beach at the left, and then at a mur-
J i muring north. grove “I shall of probably maple trees remain at here the
i until Christmas, if I am suited!”
“But the room is let already!” fal-
j j tered Mrs. Sweetelover, at last recover-
| ing her voice,
“Taken already!” repeated Miss Mil¬
foil. “But that is impossible. I have
taken it.”
“There’s some mistake at the Board¬
ing Agency,” said Mrs. Sweetelover,
almost ready to cry. “It’s been let
twice; and I never knew of it until
this moment. Oh, dear! oh, dear! It
j never rains but it pours!”
“But what am I to do?” said Miss
Milfoil.
Mrs. Bweetclover’s faded eyes light¬
ed up with a faint gleam of hope.
“I’ve only the eligible apai’tment on
the second floor,” said she; “but if
you dor.’t rnind the ga ret, there’s a
nice, airy room finished off there, with
two dormer windows overlooking the
ocean-”
“I’ll look at it,” said Miss Milfoil.
She looked at it, and she liked it,
and she straightway sent to the village
for her trunks, unpacked her books,
her work-basket, her writing-desk and
her portable easel, arranged some sea¬
weed over the mantle and made her¬
self at home.
Mr. McCorkindale, going upstairs
from the dinner table that \'ery day,
heard a sweet, clear voice, singing the
refrain of some popular ballad, from
the upper story.
“Eh!” said Mr. McCorkindale. “Is
that your daughter?”
“It’s my lady boarder, sir,” said
Mrs. Sweetelover.
“Look here,” said Mr. McCorkin¬
dale, stopping short—“this 5von’t go
down!”
“What won’t go down, sir?” said
the bewildered landlady.
“No other boarders taken, you
know,” said Mr. Corkindale. “That
was my express stipulation.”
“I’m very sorry, sir,” said Mrs.
Sweetelover, “but—”
“And I’m not going to be trifled
with!” said Mr. Corkindale. “Either
she or I must go!”
“Couldn’t it be managed, sir?” said
the landlady, half terrified out of her
senses.
“No, it couldn’t” said Mr. McCork¬
indale.
At this moment, however, Miss Mil¬
foil herself made her appearance on
the scene, tripping down the stairs in
a quiet, determined sort of way, and
facing the indignant elderly gentleman
as he stood there.
“What’s the matter?” said Miss Mil-
foil.
“The matter,” said Mr. McCorkin¬
dale, “is simply this. I lia\'e engaged
my board here, on the express under¬
standing that I am to bo the only
boarder.”
“I see,” said Miss Milfoil. “And I
am in the xvay. ”
Mr. McCorkiudale was ominously
silent.
“But,” said Mattie, xvith an engag¬
ing smile, “if I promise to be very
quiet, and to refrain from annoying
you in any manner xvhatsoever—”
“It would make no difference,” said
Mr. McCorkiudale. “I object to
young women.”
“But,” cried indignant Mattie,
“suppose I were to object to middle-
aged gentlemen on no better pretext?”
“YY>u are perfectly Avelcome to do
so,” said Mr. Corkindale, stiffly.
“You see, I am an old bachelor.”
“And I am au old maid!” pleaded
Mattie.
_ ?, n ceaiall! .... ^akes , ? nodifference-Ro ai< * Mr McCorkindale. differ-
’
* T a ™ f orr ^ \° disappoint you, Mrs.
Sweetelover, but—
Sto £' Mattie, resolutely,
,,, Mra r ’ ^teWr, if either of your
. hoarders leaves it I. I
you is came
and I occupy the least remunera-
°\ tlv ® th room ® ’ J ^11 ^-morrow.” take my departure
And Mattie went back to her room
™d cried a little; for she had become
v f’ ^ foml of her P rett v ^tle room
*
already. _,
“At all events,” said Mattie to her-
se if ( «i wi n get up before daylight to-
morrow morning, and have one good
swim in the surf.”
She supposed, when she came out
the next day, in her dark-blue bathing-
suit aud the coarse straw hat tied
down over her eyes, that she would
h ftve fh e coast clear. But she was
mistaken. Mr. McCorkindale was
paddling, like a giant purpoise, in a
8U it of scarlet and gray, among the
waves. He had always wanted to learn
to swim, and here was a most eligible
opportunity.
».jj e don’t see me,” said Mattie, to
herself, as sh crept cautiously down
in the shade of the rocks. “If he
did, I suppose he would issue a pro-
clamation that the whole seashore be-
i ougea to him. But I hope there is
room enough for us both in the Atlan-
tic Ocean. ”
And Miss Milfoil struck out scien-
tifically, gliding through the waves
Uke a new variety of fish, with dark-
blue scales, and straightway forgot
j aIl about the troublesome old bach-
, e j or
“It's very strange.” said Mr. Me-
'arms and legs. I’ve always under-
| out aBd 1 uXtowtoiUing hel
; me ’ P “Yselfl
Whush-sh! Oh! ah! help! he-e-e-elp!”
And Mr. McCorkindale’s voice flj lost
iteeHin a bubbling cry, whUe the
; old fisherman upon the shore went on
! whistling and mending his net, and
I the solitary individual, who was pick-
Mrs. Sweetclover fainted away when
they laid the boarder on a pile of
blankets on her kitchen floor.
She was one of those nervous ladies
who always faint away at the least
provocation.
Bst Mattie had all her senses about
her; and, thanks to her courage and
presence of mind, Mr. McCorkindale’s
life was saved.
‘ ‘What is that rattling on the stairs?”
he feebly inquired, as he sat up, the
next day, in an easv-chair, with a cur¬
ious sensation, as if a gigantic bumble¬
bee were buzzing in his head, and
cataracts pouring through his ears.
“It’s Miss Milfoil's trunk going
away,” said Mrs. Sweetelover, with a
sniff of regret.
“Tell her not to go,” said Mr. Mc-
Corkindale.
“Sir!” said Mrs. Sweetelover.
“Do you think I’m going to turn
the woman who saved my life out of
doors?” puffed Mr. McCorkindale.
“But I thought you objected to wo¬
men.” said Mattie’s cheerful voice out¬
side the door.
“I’ve changed my mind,” said Mr.
McCorkindale, 5vith a fluttering sem¬
blance of a smile. “A man is ne;’er
too old to learn. And I mean to learn
to swim next week, if you will teach
me.”
He did learn. Miss Milfoil taught
him. And the old bachelor and the
old maid spent their month at the sea¬
side, to use Mrs. Sweetclover’s expres¬
sion, “as quiet as two lambs.”
“I declare,” Mr. McCorkindale pen¬
sively obsera’ed, on the afternoon be¬
fore his term avas up, “I shall be very
lonely after I leave here!”
“You’ll be going back to the city,
you know,” cheerfully observed Miss
Milfoil.
■“But I shall miss you!” said the
bachelor.
“Nonsense!” said Mattie.
“I wonder if you 5vill miss me?”
said Mr. McCorkindale.
“Well—a little,” owned Miss Mil-
foil.
“Did yon never think of marrying,
Mattie?” abruptly demanded Mr. Mc¬
Corkindale.
“Very often,’’she answered,calmly.
“And how is it that you never have
married?”
Mattie laughed.
“Because I nev’er found the right
one,” she said.
“Just my reason, exactly!” said
Mr. McCorkindale. “But I think I
have found her at last—and it’s you,
Mattie!”
“Is it?” said Miss Milfoil, coloring
and smiling.
“Don’t you think, if you were to
try me, I might suit you—as a hus¬
band?” he asked, persuasively.
“I don’t know,” whispered Mattie.
“Try me!” said Mr. McCorkindale,
taking hoi- hand in his; and she did
not draw it away.
How brief a time will sometimes
suffice to turn the current of a life¬
time! That month at Seafoam Lodge
made all the difference in the world to
Mr. and Mrs. McCorkindale.—Satur¬
day Night.
ELEPHANTS FICHT A DUEL.
Bulls Make a Mlfflity Interesting; Spectacle
For tho Hunters.
Hearing sounds that indicated seri¬
ous trouble in a herd of wild elephants
on the Upper Congo River, a native
hunter named Keema and a sportsman
named Bobard fled precipitately to a
sturdy tree near by. What happened
after that is told in Outing;
“They had scarcely reached their
perches ivhen a second division of the
herd came rushing down the path
which the men had just left, shrieking
and trumpeting in anger and fear.
The tree shook as the tornado of
brutes swept by. On the left the
shrieking ivas varied with cracking
and lashing as of ropes against a mast.
Keema climbed higher in his tree, and
through a break in the forest discov¬
ered the cause of the trouble. In an
open space two bull elephants avere
fighting. One of them avas a leader
of the herd, the other an old warrior
bull tramp who had lost a tusk.
“ ‘It is the rogue Ilunga,’ whispered
Keema, ‘and ho will kill the other
beauty-—no use to try to stop him.’
‘ ‘The huuters watched for a chance to
tire as the brutes drew baok a little
and sprang together with lowered
heads and big ears outspread, the
skulls coming together with stunning
force. On recovering they came to¬
gether again, rising on their hind
legs aud striking down with their
tusks as with a sword, shrieking with
rage, and using their tranks like whip
lashes. The men came from the tree
and drew near to the tight through
the bushes.
“ ‘Shoot the leader,’ said Keema;
‘it is no use to try for the other.’
“Then it dawned on Robard that the
savage deemed the wanderer an evil
spirit not to be tried for, since it pos¬
sessed magic power. The man came
into sight of the leader of the herd
behind Hunga, as the native called
him, and the beast drew back, startled
at the sight of a deadlier enemy than
the wandering bull. The shrinking of
the leader gave the tramp a chance,
and, like a fencer, he gax-e a sharp
thrust with his tusk. The leader
staggered, but a shot behind Ilunga’s
ear killed the other elephant. The
leader leaned forward as if to rush to
attack Robard, who had fired, but
Keema was just behind the elephant,
and with a keen, heavy knife ham¬
strung the beast with a single blow,
disabling it. A bullet above the eye
finished the creature.”
Eccentric Provisions For Death.
Dr. and Mrs. Thayer, of Framing¬
ham, Mass., had their coffins made ac¬
cording to their own designs. For a
long time the two coffins were finished
and exhibited before either the doctor
or his wife died. It took ten years to
finish the work on the caskets, which
were of carved rosewood, beautifully
ornamented with silver. They cost
So000 apiece. The doctor died two
years before his wife did, but she had
his body placed iu an ordinary coffin
and went on exhibiting the rosewood
coffins and delivering especial lectures.
She died not long ago, and left money
for the building of an elaborate mar¬
ble tomb where she and her husband
are to lie side by side. It is to be
lighted by electricity for one hundred
years.—New York Tribune.
Hittln* Force of Cyclists.
moving’at )he oTS'fpt* ""
counting the weight of his wheel. A
collision between two 150-pound riders,
deling at the moderate pace ‘result of seven
^ an hour. wo^Jd in a
smash-up with a force of 3000 pounds!
—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Com Tt”
ha ' Th. telegraph r.t.
BRIGANDS IX GREECE.
SOLDIERS WHO COULDN’T WHIP
TURKS BECAME OUTLAWS.
One of the Calamities Following the r.e-
vent Inglorious War-Merchants Held
for Kansom—The Country Returning to
the Conditions of Thirty Years Aso
One of the most lamentable conse-
quenees of the disastrous appeal to
arms recently made by Greece is the
sudden outcropping of lawlessness and
brigandage in the north, due to the nn-
settled conditions there. It is reported
from Athens that several rich mer-
chants from Thessalian towns, who fled
to the mountains to escape the Turks,
are held for ransom by bandits. If they
had stuck to their shops and trusted to
the moderations of the Turks, they
would ha%-e been all right, but they
could hardly escape, being “rattled”
when the entire province was
peded by panic fright.
The increase of lawlessness is pre-
cisely what might have been predicted
by one knowing the habits of the peo-
pie. Brigandage is in the blood along
the frontier, and it has never been
altogether suppressed. It is true that
in Greece, as in Italy, there have been
few recent attacks upon travelers. It
was in 1870 that brigands made a dar-
ing raid upon tourists about six miles
from Athens as the crow flies, and
finally murdered an Italian and three
Englishmen because of some difficulty
about the ransom. Nothing of couse-
quence has been attempted against
travelers since. Tourists usually go
in parties and armed. They are in-
variably accompanied by horse-boys
and generally by an armed dragoman,
so that a small band of road agents
might hesitate about attacking them.
A more powerful incentive to letting
travelers alone, however, is the fact
that a raid upon foreigners always
causes a sensation and leads to more
strenuous attempts to 'break up the
business. It is safer in Thessaly, as
in Sicily, to prey upon natives, about
whose misfortunes the outside world
cares little.
The proximity of Thessaly to the
border is one reason why bandits have
continued to thrive there, while in the
Peloponnesus they have ceased opera-
tions entirely. It is so easy to slip
across the frontier and return laden
with booty from a town on the other
side, and perhaps a prisoner or two,
that both Turks and Greeks have con¬
tinued the practice.
Mediaeval ways of looking at things
still prevail in Greece, Men often
carry guns when they go abroad, in
the wilder parts. The courier with
whom I traveled in Greece last Febru¬
ary, writes a correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press, carried a murder¬
ous looking sheath knifa. I asked
him svhy he did not use a revolver in¬
stead, but he said lie was afraid to
handle one, though he had served his
time in the army. Towns are placed
for defense against attack, not for con¬
venience, exactly as they were 2000
years ago. One of the largest villages
in Southern Greece is Dhivri, which
lies away up among the snowy hills, so
hidden from the main road through
the valley that during the war of lib¬
eration two or three thousand Greeks
hid there aud were never found by the
enemy.
Convents are like forts. I stopped
one night at the great Convent of the
Megaspelaeon, which is parched 1200
feet alwe the 5 r alley, built into a cave
in the face of a sheer cliff. This strong
point avas never captured by the Turks
in 1824-27. The monks tucked their
long gowns into their boots, and svith
consecrated cannon sent Ibrahim
Pasha’s troops flying down the valley.
The Monastery of Meteora, in Thes¬
saly, is holding out now in similar
fashion against the Turkish invasion
of 1897, rolling rocks down on them
in the good old-fashioned way. Prior
Kallistratos Papageorgios told of the
Megaspelaeon me, while he
showed the firmans of many a dead
and gone Sultan, that the monks were
really better off under Turkish rule;
but blood is thicker than water.
In the present lawless state of tho
occupied province young men in whose
hands guns have been placed are join-
ing the bandits in considerable num-
bers. There isn’t much else that they
can do. The practice of Avaging war
ty “irregulars,” too, is reacting
against Greece, Avliich permitted it.
These undisciplined bands are made
up of men of reckless character, avIio
from the very first could not be re-
strained from taking to pillage, with
warfare as a secondary consideration,
Supplied with rifles and plenty of cart-
ridges, many of them will not go home
until their ammunition is gone, and
meanwhile things are pretty lively,
The field correspondents of the Eng-
lish newspapers were fired upon more
than once during the short campaign
by these gentry.—Philadelphia Press.
Landslide Exposes Coins.
A large find of old coins, Avliich
have lain hidden underground for over
1550 years—since the time of the
Three Kingdoms—was accidentally
brought to light last May in the
Chushan district, in Northwest Hupeh,
during a heavy downpour of rain, savs
a Shanghai contemporary. On the
4th of May a considerable tract of
land washed off from a hill, and the
landslip exposed the hidden treasure.
The villagers in the neighborhood
flocked to the spot to help themselves
to it, and the neivs of the strange dis¬
covery was at once telegraphed to His
Excellency Chang Chintuug, who
ordered the local officials to gather the
coins w ith all dispatch.
It is said that the quantity gathered
represents strings, and the as many coins as *7,000,000
large, resembling in size are those unusually
of the
Hsienfung resign (about forty-five
, years ago) of the present dynasty.
The Viceroy is sending 300 strings to
Peking under charge of a Taotai for
the perusal of the Emperor. The
coins bear on one side the characters
of the reign of the monarch and on
the other (Szechuen) the seat of the
Government that issued them. *
‘‘Dost at Sea.”
Many a fishing schooner that sails
out of Gloucester with her ensign flut-
tering gaily from the “main truck”
comes in by Cape Ann, on her return
from the “Banks,” with her colors at
half-mast. A dory or two lost in the
fog or run down in thick weather by
an ocean greyhound that no more felt
the collision than if it crushed an egg¬
shell—at all events, a couple of men
£ Zw locker-such
only too often the tale brougnt
back from the fishing grounds to
chief fi3h i n S Port,
Tears at parting, xveeks v of anxious
suspense, and when the ship comes
home tears again for a lost husband,
enoriffb ugh nn°W«r on Massachusetts t i at Z r V Bay. S common And
even if neighbors say, "Don’t cry,
dearie. Perhaps some ship has picked
him up, and he’ll come back to you,”
r* 6 rt iy * d J* L ° st at
,,!L‘ V .K w riul r - S the deaili '!
&iouo#st » * r - j
*“***•’
THE INNOCENT CONVICTED.
Shot While Defending Ills Master and
Hanged as a Murderer.
“Appearances are deceiving,” said
an old lawyer the other day. “The
strongest case of circumstantial evi-
fience I ever knew was against an in¬
nocen t man. My father was a lawyer,
and in the criminal practice. One of
his clients was hanged for murder
which he never committed,
“Just at the edge of our town lived
a rich old man in a grand old house,
He had no family, and was alone with
His servants. One night there was a
fearful disturbance in his house, and
neighbors hurried in. Several pistol
shots had been fired. The rich old
man was dead, with a bullet in his
brain, and the butler lay with his
bands full of jeivelry and watches,
r ight in the doorway of th| old man’s
ro om, with a bullet somewhere in his
j bead, but was not dead,
“His revolver lay by his side, and,
; so far as could be seen, the whole
! who* story was told right there. The butler,
had attempted to rob his master,
j ! bad but been had killed caught the in the old act and in shot, the
man
ggbt. That wa 3 the only translation
to it, and here was no other for several
Jays, because the butler had a very
serious wound and 5vas delirious for a
week. Howe 5 r er, it 5vas not fatal, and
as soon as he was himself he made a
statement to the effect that he had
been awakened in the night by foot-
steps, and he had taken his pistol,
which had only two loads in it out of
f lve , and gone*down into the hall be-
j 0 w to see what the noise was.
“He noticed that his master’s door
was partly open, at the far end of the
ball, and* hurried toward it. As he
approached it he heard his master
8 p e ak to some one, asking who was
there, and with that there was a pistol
s bot and he jumped into the room,
grabbing a burglar as he did so, and
a t the same time getting a shot in the
bead from his master’s pistol. Beyond
that he remembered nothing more,
This was the condition of the affair
when my father took charge of it, and,
though he really believed the butler’s
story, and tried to prove it, he could
no t 'do it, and the man avas finally
banged. A year later a burglar avas
s bot by a policemau in the city near-
es fc us? an( j be confessed on his death-
bed that he was the murderer of our
rich man. He had hidden in the
house early in the evening, had col¬
lected all he could of jewelry and
other portable valuables, and was
about getting out Avhen he 5vas caught
both by the old man and the butler,
aud that the butler had got the bullet
intended for him, as he had run into
the room just as the old man fired.
Dropping everything in his sudden
surprise, he rushed down stairs and
hid in the hallway, from where he
slipped as soon as the front door was
opened. In the excitement he was
not observed, and he got away v'ith-
out any trouble at all, as the nearness
to the city made strangers so common
that their presence excited no sus¬
picion. I’ll never forget that inci¬
dent, and I’ll never be in favor of the
death penalty on circumstantial evi¬
dence, I don’t care how strong it is.
Even lynch law is less unjust.”—Chi¬
cago Post.
Drinking in Hot Weather.
On the whole exhortations to avoid
cold drinks are in order, but the advice
is just as useful as the advice to keep
away from the- ^replace when your toes
are half frozen. The temptation to a
man who has a little silver in his
pocket to cool himself, though but a
few minutes, ivith a beaker of frothing
beer, or a glass of soda or mineral
water, or one of those inventions of
seraphs, that contain straws—this re¬
fers to the invention,not the seraphs—
and slices of lemon and sugar and a
berry and curious red or brown or
yellow fluids and perhaps a bit of mint;
this temptation is to be resisted only
*t cost of a struggle that leaves a man
Aveak, crushed and more in need of
something to drink than before. Now
that exercise is more popular than it
used to be, now that people who used
to scorch their souls on the pavements
scorch the country roads on bicycles,
the desire to drink, if not the need, is
more urgent than ever. Road houses
have gone up by hundreds along lately
solitary highways, and their.proprie¬
tors wax comfortable on their vendings.
They protrude signs from their door-
wavs Avith the deliberate intent of
bringing the wheelman to a sudden
realization of the Avarmth of the day
and the absence of needed fluid in his
tissues. Spiegelmeyer’s beer and the
Half Bottle Bottling Company’s birch
beer and sarsaparilla and So and So’s
soda, to say nothing of cold milk and
iced tea, are advertised at these re-
sorts, and the advertisement is very
hard to pass at 3 o’clock on a summer
afternoon Avith the birds gasping on
the trees and tho thermometer crack¬
ing in the yard. Yes, it is vain to
preach against the use of cooling liquids
in hot weather, but, one may still ad¬
vise moderation. Never drink Avhen
you are heated; never drink when you
are exercising, never drink when you
are thinking, never drink when you
are thirsty. Where’s the office boy
with that ice xvater?—Brooklyn Eagle.
A Useful Ant-Eater.
When a horde of yellow caterpillars
infested the linden trees at the Zoologi¬
cal Gardens last xveek, Head Keeper
Manley, who is in charge during the
absence of Superintendent Brown, was
sa( ^iy puzzled for a xvay to get rid of
i pests. Poisonous.sprinkling mix-
tures, tar and coal oil were applied to
trees, but the results fell far short
of what had been hoped. The eater-
P illar s flourished in spite of all, and
seemed to increase in numbers. Then
ingenious head keeper had a happy
id ea - He took the South American
ant-eater from its cage, and, securing
^ a collar and a long cord, started
^ U P on e of the trees. The way the
creature laid about with its long sticky
ton gue, scooping in caterpillars by the
d ozen , more than realized Mauley’s
greatest expectations. It took to
them with as much relish as though
they were its natural food, and in the
course of half an hour completely
cleaned the tree. Manley put the ant-
eater up another tree and it ate until
it was gorged. Since then it has been
turned out three times a day, and so
great have been its industry and appe-
tite that the caterpillars are nearly
exterminated.—Philadelphia Record,
Why the Mosquito Poisons People.
The mosquito doesn’t poison people
purposely. It exudes from its pro-
boscis an irritating, lfbrica acrid poison P which
is supposed to te the deadly
seven lances enclosed in the pointed
protective sheath which is known as
the insect’s “bill ”
There are 130 known species of mos-
quitoes, and the Culex Jersiticus vicinity*
which plagues people of this
is not the worst of the lot by 7 any 7
means
It « said the mosquito has a bene-
floent P lace » the plan of nature. Its
poiioa.i icaat authority deolare, * U
*nti-»*l*.ial,-K«w York Journal
A CONTENTED PEOPLE.
Mexican Villagers Whose Habits Are Very
Sample.
The inhabitants of the little interior
villages of Mexico retain many of their
primitive customs. They are peace¬ Their
able, congenial and religious. the
life, though monotonous in ex¬
treme, is a happy one. They cultivate
corn, beans, wheat, and possess small
herds of cattle and goats. The
women , in addition to performing cultivate
their household duties,
vegetables, flowers, fruits and plants
for medicinal use. They raise cotton,
from which they spin and weave
manta (a cotton fabric) for clothing.
O 11 their feast days, which are
many, they go to church dressed in
their bright costumes, those of the
maidens being white adorned with
ribbons of many colors. The senoras
wear striped dresses of white and
blue. The hair is worn plaited the m two in¬
braids, while upon the head is
dispensable “mazclohuati ’ (a head
dress worn by the lower caste Mexi¬
cans), woven in red cotton. The
women's eyes are large, and expres¬
sive, and their teeth perfect and bril¬
liantly white. The form is slight and
the movements graceful. jackets
The young men dress in
without sleeves and knee breeches.
Upon the day of their marriage they
adopt trousers, w hich are made by the
“Novia” (sweetheart) who has already
woven the manta. They take their
places in the church with the children,
6enoritas and senoras on the right and
the men and boys on the left. They
pray and sing in the native Mexican
language, which is richer, sweeter
and more expressive than the Spanish.
In the “Dias tianguis” (market
days), they assemble and exchange
their goods. Money is a superfluity,
and the interchange is made by means
of barter and trade.
Their meals consist of “maza de
maiz” (flour of corn), which is mixed
with powdered chile, in making
tomales, tortillas, frejoles (beans),
and the native fruits and vegetables,
of which there is an endless variety,
including aguacates, nanches, tetec-
zas, tilapos, sandias, chicozapotes,
melones and others.
Every year the people assemble to
elect their judge, or alcalde, whom
they usually obey implicitly. This
magistrate is selected from the older
men of the pueblo.__
No Use to Cry.
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That won’t cure you. Tetterine will. Any sort
of skin disease. Tetter, Eczema, Salt Rheum.
Ringworm or mere abrasion of the skin. At
drug stores, or by mail for 50c. in stamps from J.
T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.
More men have been self-undone than have
been self-made.
MES. ElLA M’GAEVY,
Writing - to Mrs. Pinkbam.
She sa 3 's:—I have been using your
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does all that it is recommended to do.
I have been a sufferer for the last four
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back and exere-
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and while about “ '
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also given f/W% ''
up in des- ; ». •
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EDIBLE WEEDS.
rhe Department of Agriculture Tells of
Many That May Be Eaten.
The Department of Agriculture be¬
lieves that in the plant life of this
continent may be found many addi¬
tions to our dietary. Frederick
Coville, botanist of the department,
has spent considerable effort to exam¬
ine many of the plants now classed as
“weeds” which are capable of sustain¬
ing vitality in rn an. He takes the po¬
sition that a “wider use of green vege¬
tables in the dietaries of most people,
particularly those with healthy diges¬
tions, would be a marked benefit.’
Chemistry has demonstrated largely
the substances which the human sys¬
tem needs, and Botanist Co5’ille finds
the essentials present in a great mauy
plants, some of which are nowhere
considered as effective food for man,
and some of which have only a local
use as human food.
Mr. Coville points out that wild
herbivorous auimals feed on the fats
and carbohydrates stored up in plant
seeds in the fall. They fatten on this
diet and gather in bodily fuel for the
winter. Having exhausted their sup¬
ply of fat by spring, they make green
herbage their principal food. This
renews their muscular vigor and 5 _ i-
tality. This dietary system prevails
among savage peoples, and is largely
followed by the Indians of the West-
ern States” Man’s food has grown
more artificial with the advance of
civilization, until, as Botanist Coville
says, “foods are now selected more by
custom than by instinct. ” The Euro¬
pean races are more given to eating
salads and boiled green vegetables
than the people of the United States
are. The greater part of the plant
food consumed by Americans is made
up of seeds, roots, and tubers. It is
because of this that the people of this
country are bilious.
The first weed which Botanist Co¬
ville would have us eat is charlock.
This plant grows as a weed from New
England to the Pacific coast, and is
considered a troublesome weed in the
5vheat districts of Wisconsin, Minne¬
sota and North Dakota. It is closely
related to black mustard, another fa¬
miliar weed. Charlock is known in
New York State as “wild mustard,”
and is considered poisonous. Char¬
lock rvas a common potherb in north¬
ern Eui’ope centuries ago, but it has
not been recognized as a food for man
in the new world.
The leaves of the chiccory plant are
also good to eat, and in some neigh¬
borhoods are thus utilized. It occurs
as a weed in the Atlantic and Pacific
States, and here and there in the in¬
terior. Its leaves grow in form of a
rosette, after the fashion of the dan¬
delion. Yellorv rocket is a weed con>-
mon throughout the Eastern States
which man might eat. It is closely
allied to the rvinter cress, 5vhich is
used as a winter salad and pot herb in
Washington and Baltimore.
The dandelion is a weed which has
already gained considerable favor as a
food in the United States, though it is
not grown for market. It is v r ery
common throughout the United States,
except in the extreme South and west
of the great plains, though it has
rooted itself in certain parts of Wash¬
ington and California, The truckers
around Paris have been cultivating
the dandelion for many years with
good results and have developed
several horticultural 5 r arieties. There
it is used largely as a salad, the plants
being eaten gveen or blanched.
The Department of Agriculture
calls especial attention to the dock,
two species of which, the broad-leafed
and the curled, occur as common
weeds in meadows, pastures and cul¬
tivated fields. Se5 r eral species of
dock are used widely as a pot herb in
Europe. Dock 5vas used extensively
by two tribes of American Indians,the
Pimas and the Maricopas. Dock
grows in the arid regions of Arizona,
New Mexico, and Texas, where suc¬
culent vegetation is rare.
Lambs-quarters, or pig-weed or
goose-foot is a weed which belongs to
the same plant family as the beet and
spinach, and ought to be used as a
table vegetable. It is cultivated in
Europe, and is very common through¬
out the United States.
Marsh marigold, or “cowslip,” is a
native plant of North America. It
grows in swamp land all ox^er the
northern part of the United States
and British America. It has a local
use as a pot herb, but its value in this
respect is not generallp appreciated.
Pig-weed occurs in many fields all
over this country, but the average
American does not know’ its 5 r alue ft i
& food plant. It is eaten by the In¬
dians of the Southwest and by the
people of Mexico. In some parts of
California it is cultivated by the
Chinese.
Pokew’eed is used locally in some
parts of the South, but its more gen¬
eral use w’ould be gratifying to the
economic botanists of the Department
of Agriculture. The French people
ha\’e introduced this plant into their
country, and esteem it highly.
The department thinks it probable
that common nettle, milkweed, and
round-loafed mallow will come to be
regarded as good food.
The suggestions made by the de¬
partment may be offensive to some
people, but then it wasn’t so very
long ago when the tomato, or “love
apple,” was thought to be poisonous,
when the cucumber was looked upon
as a fatal dose, and when people of
the North w’ere prejudiced against the
banana.—Washington Times.
Invention.
“I see they’ve finally invented an
air-ship.”
“Indeed! What is it like?”
“I understand it’s something like a
cocktail.”—Truth.”
Venom Inhaled with the Air,
And imbibed with the water of a malarious lo¬
cality, has still a certain antidote. Experience
sanctions confidence in Ilostetter's Stomaoh
Bitters as a preventiveof thisscourge. All over
this continent and in the tropics it has proved
itself a certain means of defense, and an erad-
icant of intermittent and remittent fevers, and
other forms of miasma-born disease. Nor is it
less effective for kidney troubles, constipation’
rheumatism and nervousness.
A man may smile and smile and still be
temperance advocate.
A Prose Poem.
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EE-M. is used and recommended
By some of the best citizens
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If your dealer does not keep EE-M.
.Send 13c. for package of tobacco
AndOc. for package of cigarettes.
Direct to the EE M Company,
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And you will receive gcxxls by mail.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous¬
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