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HUES ENTERPRISE, THOMAflVILL*.
THE LINOTYPE.
: »l th* linotype machioe, . Porter, footer, erer footer, like o pelting
of worthy nutter we con mimmer roin!
Merry word., in levies nutter,
i.Ynletide otory
hymn of Joy ond dodneoo
I of woe ond udneoa.
:, elotter, clotter, in the neTer
chatter.
r of the linotype machine!
Speak to m above the clatter—
Laugh away our morbid fancies and the
demon darts of paiu.
Speak not of fair Luna's phases,
But of daffodils and daisies;
Of some happy situation, of some mirth
Hmgnnjl scene.
^ear the rattle!
ir the rattle, rattle, rattle,
» the musketry of battle,
of surging thousands on the
f shrapnels* shrieking,
As |t tells df camps* dire reeking,
.•peaks of warring columns m the
fBFss»„
i to see the soldiers flying,
rig wounded, bleeding, dying—
- provoking soe H «,
Till our hearts cast out the hateful
And we're truly, truly grateful
For the laughter of the linotype machii
Then the dirges!
Then the solemn, mournful dirgee,
As the plunger deftly merges
In the moften, unskimmed metal in
the
Then the tinging!
n „8t.W,tedKSti , *°‘ .
■ Gut* to many hungry humans in the grue* From the clatter of the linotype machine,
superheated pot!
Lo! it tells in sombre measure
Of the fleeting life of treasure,
yells of visions of that laud the Joy of
which man knoweth not.
Who haa passed thro* death's dark
portal,
Who must stand before his Maker with
soul uncouthly mean.
His had been a record gory,
And we marvel at the story
In the dirgee of the linotype machine.
_ aome lanes and ways!
In the offal-crowded centers,
_ Where no sunlight erer enters,
Where little ones are born in vice, and
What a world of worthy matter we can
£iean!
As the skillful operator.
From the I
With a mystic sort o/ ease.
With
As the majrfcea^are dropping from'th'e
Like the sound of water fallii
>tted machine,
J the sound of water falling—
Like e feathered songster's calling—
Is the tinging of the linotype machine.
How the matrices come dropping.
And the spacebands, never stopping,
Like a scented summer shower
In a leafy elfin bower—
Oh, the mignty, mighty power in the lino-
Then the laughter!
Then the dear, contagious laughter,
Am the matrices drop faster,
type machine!
And what thoughts we gain each hour
From the clatter; clatter, clatter,
From the never-ceasing chatter,
From the chatter of the linotype machine!
—Sunlocks, in the Bowler.
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j** Outwitting a Father. **
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A llRV Ellen Hornier!
Marry a perfect bagger!
Why, Herbert de Lille,
are you a fool, or crnxy,
or wbat, that you dare to
talk to me about that girl?"
And old Ralph de Male brought bin
cl Inched flat down on tbe marblo-top
table betide wblcb be waa aittlng with
an energetic movement quite uuuannl
to lifyn. while hla low brow contracted
and' hie apart, bloodleae face grew
pnrple with rage.
"Then you will not content?" enld hr,
calmly.
"Never!” and the old, wlilte-hnlred
. father, fairly roared the wonl. “Have
I tolled and economised all them, yenra
tq ate my money thrown nwny on u
pauper? We aball aee about that, air.
I alwaya said yon bad pot a particle
, of the de Msl4 pride. You are Randall
all aver. There’s your mother, now:
I’ve uo doubt aba would rejoice to aeo
yob tied for life to tbat girl. 1 eon-
aldoyed my promlae lo ber dying fattier
fulfilled when I brought her home to
feed and clothe her, and It waa no plan
of mine that aha abould ho educated
aud taught to All n daughter’s place In
' the family, where, by rlgbta, abe abould
bare been bnljr a menial. Will, 1 did
not object ae I abould, and now the un
grateful minx wnnta to elep In an the
future Mistress de Msle, does slip?
AwAy from me! nnd remember, Isnlid
. Denver Is the womnn you on, to
merry: and mind, too, that yon Imre
nothing inoro lo any to that baby-faced
creature of my bounty."
Herbert moved toward the door lu
scornful allottee, which but aggravated
the old man the more.
Springing to his feel, ho exclaimed,
vehemently:
“I shall watch you. air. Thera must
. be no more bllllug and cooing, 1 can
tell you that. If you lint so much os
apeak agalu to that girl, 1 will cut you
off will, a dollar!"
, for a moment nn angry tldn swept
ncroes the face of the younger de
Male. When It passed. Ills face was
a trifle |ialer than before, and Ilia lips
were slightly compressed, hut there
was a mocking gleam of mischief In his
eyes ns he.answered:
"father, I ahull marry Ellen yet, nnd
with your full permission.”
Tbe old mnu was more than ever en
raged. and Ills voire sounded hollow
aud sepulchral, nnd every word he m-
tered was cut off with n pugilistic ges
ture of his clenched list. ,
"When I give my consent to your
marriage with Ellen Hosmor I shall
he either an Idiot or a luuatlr, xml she
aball be at once Installed mistress of
de Msle Hell."
Ralph da Male waa not to lie hood
winked by any pretty devices of the
yonng man or bis mother. He fol
lowed Herbert about the bouse like
hla shadow. Mrs. de I.lsle waa vexed;
ber tonwas angry.
"An old aa 1 nut.” bo muttered—
"nearly thirty—to be followed about
like a baby that’s In danger of tum
bling Into tbe Ire."
Ellen grew morbidly sensitive under
this constant espionage, nnd would
run nwny whenever abe saw Herbert
approaching.
If Mrs. de Msle look Ellen under
ber wing for a walk, nnd glanced cas
ually on departing at ber son. tbe old
man understood perfectly well that the
glance "meant something." and Her
bert waa kept aa closely under bis eye
na a cat ever kept tbe prey she luid
doomed for her dinner.
Bat After e time Mrs. de Msle de
sisted from ber strange maoeuvres.
Herbert garn up nil attempts to con
vent privately with Ellen, and be
gan a been ting himself from the house
for whole day* at n time.
Not long after this, Ralph de Uale’i
1 aaaartloa that Ellen- waa
How or whence he came .inJph did
not know. His wife aasuretL him that
the sailor had been properly Introduced
by n mutual friend, nnd bp was too
rejoiced at tbe turn nffnlrs had taken
to ask many questions. How glad
the old man felt Hunt hla son stayed
away front home no mucin He was
uneasy every time he saw the sailor's
broad hat overshadowing Ellen’s lit
tle sundown In the garden, lest Her
bert should return nnd Impede the
progress of this, to him at -coat, de
sirable courtship.
The sailor's devotion to Ellcnlbecamc
more and more apparent, and 'Herbert
absented himself more than over, and
mndo no attempt to regain Ellen’s
wandering affections when be vyns nt
home.
Mrs. de Lisle watched the progress
of the sailor's love-making complacent
ly,' and the old nmn was perfectly de
lighted both with Ellen nod Iter eullor,
nnd liegnn contemplating puccbnsliig n
certain cosy cottnDn he kneav of ns n
bridal gift to hla wnrd.
Ralph de.Male was seated In his li
brary one evening, thinking delighted
ly how. with Ellen married. It would
lie nn easy thing -to bring about the
inttoli-dcalred match betvfeen Herbert
aud Isabel Uenver, when a servant en
tered to any that Miss Ellen's beau
wanted to see him.
Tbe sailor entered nnU bowed awk
wardly enough to ,1ho dignified man
who rose to twelve him. The broad-
brimmed bat. wblcb uot one of the
family had yet seen lilrn remove, kept
Its place even In the nugtiat presence
of Ralph de Ltsle, who wondered men
tally wbetber he worn It In bed, atul
concluded that custom nn shipboard
must hnre been the amstant wearing
of his lint n habit with tbe sailor.
"Von ward, ,Mk«a Elb-u, Is .very beau
tiful nnd good," liegnn tbe young man,
stammeringly, and no doubt blusblng-
ly, though llttlciof bis .wbiaftered face
wan .visible.
Old Ralph mills si his liatnls together
gleefully, amt determined to help the
emhnrnkun'd lover. •
"That's n fact.” mid he: "she Is
handsome, nnd a better girt never lived.
You wish tuy consent to marry her?”
The sailor hung bis head.
"Yes, If yum plemse.”
"She's the same as a daughter lo us.
you see. and we shall miss her terribly.
Hut tier happiness Is the main thing.
If the dear giul loves you. amt wishes
lo marry you. I haven't the least ob
jection. Sailors are good, whole-souled
fellows. 1 knoni and ynull be kind to
our darting."
“I’ll try my bad to make her happy,"
said the lover, In a mumbling tone
"but I’ns not a sailor, as these clothes
make yosi think. I got them under
price, so I Ixsnght them. I am poor,
nnd have to economise. But 1 am
young and strong, and will take care
that your wnrd does not lack for the
comforts of lift*." Then, after a short
pause, he artdert: "I feared you might
withhold your consent on account of
my poverty."
“Poverty! Noietenael" said old Ralph,
magnanimously. "Not consent be
cause you are poor? Why. riches
should never he weighed against the
heart and Its affections: aud If you are
not a sailor, as we supposed, you are
a noble fellow, ! am sure; and let you
he who you will, I believe you un
worthy to be Ellen'a husband, and you
shall have her, too. since you are
both agreed. In spite of poverty or any*
thing else. So you see, 1 have great
confidence In you."
"H'm!” muttered the young man.
and with a repetition of hla awkward
obeisance, be left the room.
Ralph de Male, through hla wife,
supplied Ellen's purse handsomely for
the purchase of her wedding trousseau,
but ai.sbe was to many a poor man
'■—*—‘-‘i not to spend money ao
said. Bober bridal dress
to mull, and very
tbe greet drawing-room of de Lisle
Hell In tbe presence of n very few
friends of ber own and tbe family’s,
who were met to witness tbe marriage.
The bridegroom gave ber loving
glances from under the Inevitable
broad-brimmed hat, which he shocked
Ralph de Lisle by actually getting mar
ried In.
“Ifs tbe most outlandish thing
ever board of, and some one ought to
tell him," mattered old Ralph, as the
ceremony waa about to be performed
“but If Mrs. de Male and Ellen can
stand It, I’m sure I can. Bnt he don’t
go to tbe table with tbat thing on hla
head. If I bare to kvock It off with my
cane. I’ll teach tbe Ignoramus a little
decorum."
The words were pronounced which
made Ellen Mrs. Somebody—old Ralph
neither knew nor cared wbat her new
name might be as long aa she was
well out of the way of hla son.
Aa tbe little company were about
being led to' tbe dining-room to partake
of tbe wedding dinner, Ralph stepped
np to tbe groom and said, as politely
aa bla rising cbolor would let bim:
“You will oblige me, air, and bestow
a trifle more respect on your bride nnd
tbe company present, if you remove
yonr bnt.”
“Certainly, air. What a forgetful
fellow I am, and wbat a boor tbey
must nil think me,” returned tbe new-
made husband. In a tone which startled
Ralph strangely.
In a trice tbe great, unsightly bat
was off, and tbe beard wblcb bad com
pletely concealed tbe lower part of tbe
quandom sailor’s face was gone, nnd
ltnlpb de Lisle looked Into tbe pro-
voklngly calm face of bla son. Before
tbe old man, In bis amusement and
cbagrln, could utter a word, Herbert
bnd taken blm by tbe arm and drawn
blm aside.
“Now, father," said he, with comical
gravity, "don’t say a word that will
make It nnplraaant for my wife in her
new capacity as my wife. Yon know
married her with your consent, and
betides you know that ’riches abould
never be weighed against the heart
and Its affections.’ ”
Ralph de Lisle came near choking at
flrat with rage and disappointment, and
we are very sure that the quantity of
good thlnga provided for the wedding
feast was not much diminished or their
quality appreciated by tbe gloomy-vla-
aged “bead of the house,” hut be fol-
owed his son's advice and said nothing,
and soon learned to listen to hia wife's
oft-repented rehearsal of the old adage,
tVhat can't lie cured innst be en
dured.” with something like acquies
cence In the decrees of Hymeo.
In a short time he became more than
reconciled to hla son's choice, and when
he heard of the marriage of Isabel Den
ver he wont so far as to any that he
actually felt sorry for her husband, aa
Isabel was such a Tartar, and In no
way comparable to Ellen, hla son’s
wife.—New York Weekly,
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Pluck, Romance
and dWoenfure.
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HER WEIGHT IN WILD CATS.
ARMER BEN WHISTEN’8
eighteen-year-old daughter,
Sally; of Eaetland County,
- Texan, taken a dally gallop
on b«»r pony over her fath*
er'e prairie farm, accom
panied by her dog and her .38 revolver.
8he lias come home from more than one
ride with ae many ae half a dozen
prairie chickens which her .38 has
stopped In their flight.
While on one of ber rides the other
day her dog scared np a bnnch of wild
cats out of a mesqulte ridge. Five of
them scurried up a low, scrubby ines-
qulte, but four pitched Into the dog,
made short work of him and escaped
Into the tall grass, followed by three
shots from Bliss Sally’s six-shooter,
which left but one cartridge In the
weapon, the girl having fired twice at
prairie chickens on the way.
With vengeance In her heart because
of the doing np of her dog by their com
panions, Rally dismounted, tied ber
pony to a mesqulte bush, and tamed
her Attention to the five wildcats In the
scrubby tree. Having bat tbe one
charge In her pistol, and no more cnrtv
ridges with her, she hunted up a heavy
cudgel, a gnarly plecfc of mesqnite six
feet long, with which she would be
able to reach any of the wildcats where
they were crouching In the low tree.
She first sent her lone pistol bullet
Into tbe wildcat (hat seemed the most
Inclined to show fight. It tumbled the
cat from Its perch, bnt with no more
serious a hurt than a broken sbonlder.
Thus crippled, the enraged animal
sprang from tbe ground toward the
girl, who met it with a whack from her
clnb that sent the cat sprawling. Be
fore It could make another hostile
move she smashed Its skull and killed
AGED MAN TAKK8 EAGLE. I
Will Fight Harm! Delivery.
A concerted movement against the
continuance of th© rural mall delivery
system In Its present character lias
been started by‘organisation* of bnsl
ness men nnd merchants all over the
country, says Fourth Estate. The men
these organisations will protest to
Congress against the extension of the
present system nnd will advocate Its
curtailment along sweeping lines.
It Is understood that the system has
never been pronouucediy popular with
business men and opposition against It
has become more pronouueed than ever
recently on account of the exposure of
some of the uses to which It has been
put, mid especially since the publica
tion of Postmaster General Wynne's
estimate of the cost of the extensions
nuthorixed by Congresa for the coming
year.
The class of business men who are
supposed to be the most directly hurt
by the rural free' delivery system are
the country merchants. Through the
o|>crntloit of the system they are said
Ih» more than ever exposed to tbe
competition of the mail order houses,
and they declare tlujt lu many sections
the farmers have stopped coming to
town to buy since the establishment
the free delivery routes. This, of
course, reacts on the jobbers nnd
holesalers In the large cities, nnd the
result Is that the trade of both city
nnd country lias suffered severely.
Mr. Wynne’s estimates show that In
order to carry out the plans authorized
by Congress there will be needed an
additional appropriation of more than
$0,000,1X10, for the extension of tbs
rural free delivery system alone. This
will make the total cost of the service
nbont $27,000,000, which. It Is estimat
ed, la a cost of about $2.23 a head for
the beneficiaries of tbe system.
These beneficiaries, however, pay
only 23 cents a head of the cost, which
leave a tax of $2 for each one to be
paid by the general business commun
ity.
Aa Interesting Brldgv.
There is In process of construction
across the United States ship canal at
Duluth, Minn., a bridge which will be
the first of Its kind in the United
States, the fifth In the world. This
aerial bridge, wheu completed, will lie
very Imposing structure. From the
lowest point of the truss work it is 133
feet to the water Hue, and 183 feet
from the highest point to the water
line. The distance spanned is 381 feet
nnd 6 Inches. The car, which will he
usp^uded from the truss by stiff ca
ble*. will be 12 feet dbovc the water
Uue when In motion. The size of the
car is 30 by 80 feet, and its capacity
03 tons. The cost of the bridge will
about flO&OOO, and the annual cost of
maintenance will be about $8000. Tbe
bridge U built to withstand a wind ve
locity of 70 miles an hoar. The bridge
was built In accordance with an agree
ment for free ferry service made by
t^e city some 20 years'ago in consul-
of a grsntof right of way j for
it.
Then, without waiting to give the
remaining four In the tree a chance to
make up their minds what they In
tended to do. Mis* Sally swung her
chib and swept the wildcat nearest her
from the limb it was clinging to.
twisted around, as it came down, and
landed with Its claws fastened In the
skirt of the glrl’t dress. She Jumped
back nnd left that part of her skirt In
possession of the cat, ond finished the
beast with another blow from her club,
os she had despatched the first one.
The three eats still In the mesqulte.
aa If taking warning from the fate of
their two companions, leaped from the
tree and attacked the girl all together.
When the fight was over Mlsa Rally
was In a tattered and badly scratched
up condition, two of tbe wildcats were
dead, and the third was dragging Itself
away ns fast as Its Injuries would let
It toward the dense high grnss.
The girl, although nearly tired out
by the struggle she had bnd. started
after this one to finish It, too, bnt It
got nwny out of sight In the grass. In
following it. however, she stumbled on
the dead liody of a wildcat, one of the
four that .had killed her dog, which
had been stopped In Its flight by one
of her three shots.
After she had rested nnd patched
herself up sufficiently, Miss Rally put
the five dead wildcat* on her pony atul
rode home with the' trophies of her
pluck. The wildcat* weighed within
four pounds ns much ns their slayer.
She declares that she will not be con
tent until she lm* run down the four
remaining wildcats of the bunch nnd
hung them nt the horn of her saddle.
•New York Sun.
“JERRY, THE WHITTLER.”
. Eigbty-tbree years old, but sound and
hearty aa a man thirty yean younger,
Edward Baker, of Steuben County, has
captured single-handed and alive, and
with hla own bands, an Immense Amer
ican eagle. He believes that no man
living can boast of anch a feat.
While walking on hla farm near Loon
Lake, be saw a dark object in the' mid
dle of a wheat field. Hfc says it looked
like i stump, but he knew no stumps
were in that field. The object stood
out prominently In the field of now.
Rtealtblly tbe old gentleman ap
proached it, and saw . by the fcathera
ruffling in the wind tbat It waa a bird.
He at once concluded that it was an
eagle.
Hastening to bis house, he got bis
old gun and came back, ne crept np,
being ready every moment to fire upon
tbe bird as it flew. When within a few
feet of the eagle Mr. Baker suddenly
determined to try and capture the bird
alive. He laid down hla gun and
slipped up and threw bla arms around
Its body. Tbe eagle bad not seen blm,
having been asleep, with Its bead over
Its back and under one wing.
The bird’s efforts were more than
heroic, Mr. Baker anys, bnt the pioneer
kept hla hold. Finally the man secured
neekhold with his left band while
bolding the body with his right arm,
and he triumphantly bore the eagle to
his corn crib, where It is now in cap
tivity.
The captive If pronounced a fine
specimen of the American eagle. It is
three feet high, and measures seven
feet from tip to tlp.^^Gosben (In&J
Dispatch in Chicago Chronicle. _
The University of Washington pro
poses to establish a permanent marine
station at a point to be decided on, at
Puget Sound. During the present sum
mer a temporary station was estab
lished at Friday Harbor, in charge of
Professor Trevor Kincaid aud Dr. T. C.
Frye. ;
The Westlngbouse-Parsons 600 horse
power steam turbine engine nt the
World’s Fair ran from June 20 to De
cember 2 without once stopping, at a
speed of 3600 revolutions a minute.
When taken down the engine showed
no signs of wear from thia remarkable
performance. j
SAVED A DROWNING MAN.
Plunging off Pier, 47, North Elver,
to rescue a man who bad fallen over
board, Roundsman Charles Becker, of
the Chiles street station, had a des
perate struggle with the drowning
man to sa%*e hla own life, and then,
after bringing the man successfully to
tbe shore, discovered that in the strug
gle he had lost his gold watch and fob,
which he valued highly, and a hand
some new revolver.
All day a troop of small boys dived
off the pier In on unsuccessful effort to
bring up the watch and gun and earn
the $20 reward,that Roundsman Becker
offers for the recovery of his property.
Becker was waiting ou the pier for
one of his squad, when James Butler,
who had been balancing unsteadily on
the striugplece, suddenly toppled over
into the water. Quickly tossing aside
his helmet and stick, the roundsman
plunged after him.
Butler grabbed Becker around thg
neck as soon as the latter came up,
nnd though tbe roundsman la a power- •
fnlly built man, Butler drew him under
twice before the officer, with bla dia-
engaged arm, managed to beat the man
off. Then, after a swim of forty feet,
tbe two were landed with the assist
ance of Policeman Martin, of the
Charles street station, and several by-
■tnnders.
Butler, who gave bis address as No.
183 Houston street, explained at the
police station that he had really suf
fered from an epileptic fit. The police
took his word for It and discharged
him, with a caujion not to sit on string-
pieces In the future when he Is In thlt
condition.—New York American.
“Jerry, the Whittier,’’ wanderer over
the earth, teller of strange stories, is
keeping “bachelor’s hall’’ In Philadel
phia, shoveling coal for money to buy
food and waiting for spring before
setting out in search of further adven
tures. To a Ledger reporter of that
city Jerry lately told something of his
history. First, he was a sailor, but
that occupation grew monotonous, and
he went to Montnua to become a
boy. From Montana he drifted to Ok
lahoma in the days when life was vivid
“west of ninety-six." Whether
Started west from Oklahoma on his
way around the world Is not stated,
but he did make the long tour In some
fashion, starring incidentally as a song
and dance specialist lu the music hnlls
of Belgium. In all his wanderings be
has stuck to his sharp jackknife and
soft board, and lie lays claim to the
title of champion whlttler of the world,
It la his one Instlng passion. All else
is vanity, be says. He lias never lived
long enough In one place to be entitled
ote, and doesn't look forward to
doing so. His interviewer, after find
ing that the job of shoveling coal on
the docks would not last him beyond
the winter season, asked If he meant
to go back to cow-puncbing. He re
plied: “No; that life was a bit too
strenuous. Once In Oklahoma I got
strayed from the ‘bread wagon,’ seven
ty-five miles away from the nearest
habitation, and for four days had
nothing to feed on except prairie grass.
Shortly after, when I got working as o
cattle puncher, one of them Western
vigilance committees hauled me Into
court for branding another man’s cat
tle. I was lucky not to have been
strung np. When I got my freedom,
after serving time, 1 made up my mind
to quit tbe profession for good.'
“In which direction will you go
next?"
“My ambition now la to go throngh
Yellowstone Park. I want to foot it
from one end of it to the other, and
then go farther West I aball have a
much longer trip of It this time than
I have been making of late years, for
there Is not much to cal) me hack to
j xmi citj any more.”
RANKIN’S QUICK WORK.
Mr. Rankin was a resident of Raw
lins, Wyoming Territory, and had ac
companied the command of Major
Thornburg ns guide. The Major and
thirteen men of the command bad been
killed nnd a number wounded, and all
tlie horses lisd been killed or wonnded.
Mr. Rankin volunteered to make an
attempt to get through the Indian lines
during the night by using one of tbe
wounded animals, nnd succeeded, get
ting out on tbe side toward which the
troops had been In march, as that was
hut loosely guarded by tbe Indians, and
passing around them till, several mllea
away, he regained the trail. Early in
the morning he met a small detach
ment, driving a cattle herd, and ex
changed his wounded mount for an
other; but that one soon, failed, and be
was on foot when, luckily, he found a.
small force In camp guarding some
supplies, nnd made another exchange,
nnd on that he reached the telegraph
line at Rawlins. 170 miles from where
he liad left the command. He bad
crossed three mountain ranges, had led
bis horses for miles, over trail* too
rough to ride in the darkneas, or be
cause they were too exhausted to carry
him* and had done it all in twenty-
four hours.—Major Henry Romeyn, U.
S. A., in Outing.
One of the cariosities of the Farit
Automobile Exhibition was tbe airship
Lebandy II., exhibited in a reduced
model. To November 18 the Lebaudy
dirigible balloon has executed not lest
than fifty-four ascents, nnd on the
fifty-first the return to the Molsson
Aerodrome, the starting point, was ac
complished. From the last day of Oc
tober to November 18 ten ascents were
successfully executed. .
Dr. Charles Waldstein gave a lecture
recently at the Royal Academy, says
Nature, of London, on Herculaneum
and the proposed International excava
tion. Mr. Waldstein remarked that
from Herculaneum many beautiful
works might be expected. Tbe city
and district of Herculaneum were
overwhelmed with volcanic material,
but'thfs is not the Impenetrably hard
lava commonly supposed. Geologists
have shown that, apart from actual
contact with air, the material Is per
fectly friable and manageable for the
excavator. ,
Among the most interesting ethuo
logic exhibitions at the 8t. Louis
World’s Fair was a group of pygmies
from tbe WIssinanu Falls region of the
Congo Free State. Although they do
not look ns small as the imaginations
of many renders of books of African
travel have perhaps pictured them,
yet they plainly belong to a diminutive
race of mankind. A writer In Science,
comparing the various measurements
of these pygmies, and others allied to
them, krrlves at the conclusion that the
average height of these, small men Is
a little more than four feet, eight
Jnchea, or about one foot less tbsu tbat
of the normal man.
Attacks of fits may appear but a few
times In a long life, or they may num
ber hundreds and even thousands In
twenty-four hours. There are four
chief forms, viz.: (1) a sudden severe
fit, with loss of consciousness and mus
cular control; (2) a mild fit. with par
tial unconsciousness; (3s a spasm In a
single leg or arm or group of muscles,
and (4) a temporary blauk in the mem
ory. Feebie-mlndedness usually fol
lows epilepsy. Instantly developing lu
fully twenty per cent, of the cases.
Considering the oft-claimed relation
ship between genius nnd epilepsy. Dr.
W. P. Sprntllng, a specialist In epil
epsy, contends that the disease always
impairs tbe mental powers, and that
Cneaar, Napoleon, Mohammed, Swe
denborg and other great epileptics
must have become affected wbeu their
strength was on the wane.
CHARGE OF LIGHT BRIGADE.
On the mornlqg of Balaclava I was
In a tent with eight comrades, and only
two of them returned at night. I rode
throngh the charge on the left file bnt
one. the outside man being called Her
bert. We had not gone far before Her
bert was killed by a cannon boll. A
moment or two after my right-band
man bad his bead taken clean off by a
round shot. His trunk kept upright
on the horse for several yards, and then
fell over near me. Men and horses now
began to fall very fast, and we gal
loped as hard ns ever we could.
Wc got among the guns at last, and
if It was a proud moment for us, tbe
feeling was short-lived. We fully ex
pected to be supported, bnt when tbe
smoke cleared we discovered that what
we took for British troops were in real
ity Russian cavalry. They came for
us in a perfect cloud, and we faced
about and rushed right into them.
There was an awful dash of swords,
and almost before we coulrf realise it
we bad cut right through them. * This
opened a passage for the remainder of
th{ Brigade, and waa the only hit of
ml fighting we had; the other waa
eslv slanahter—A« toM k* Biwt i
Actual Coat of Protection,
“Would you be willing to pay some
thing to know of a sure plan for cir
cumventing a robber when be comes
Into your place of business late at
night and tries to hold you up?” asked
n man In a suit of faded black, who
liad stepped into a north side drug
store.
Sure,” said the druggist, staring at
him with good humored incredulity.
"Well, I have devised a method that
can't possibly fall. I’ll tell you all of
It but one particular, and if It looks
promising you pay me a dollar, and
I'll give you the whole scheme. If it
doesn’t look all right you can say so,
and save your dollar. There will be
no harm done. Does that sound fair?"
“Yes; go ahead.”
The caller whispered in his ear for
the next two or three minutes.
“That’s all but the final nud most
important part of It," he said. “Is it
worth s dollar to know the rest?"
“Yes; here’s your money.” tbe drug
gist responded, handing it over nnd
listening with entire satisfaction to the
unfolding of the whole plot.
What waa this man’s device for out
witting the murderous thug who boldly
Invades your store or office and roba
yon while you wait?
This Is the question you ask, per
haps.
Dear friend, don’t you see that to
give it away In the public prints would
not only forewarn the hold-up men,
and thus defeat >the end* of Justice,
but would be taking the bread out of
the mouth of a man in a suit of faded
black who is trying to earn an honest
living?—Chicago Tribune.
Three Thine* Desired,
As a result of observation and reflec
tion daring a long life touching public
men and measures in wide variety, I
would desire for my country three
things above all others to supple
ment American civilization: From
Great Britain, ber administration of
criminal justice; from Germany, her
theatre, and from any or every Euro
pean country save Russia, Spain nnd
Turkey, its government of cities.—A&t
drew D. White, in the Century. fir
“*«• VTorm” Mmdm to Ordar.
At Munich a Urge swimming bath
has been fitted with a .motor, connected
with a contrivance which creates each
_ _ | Macauley, wbo died on Jaunty flfwOS, I Perfectly natural look-
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