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SUBSCRIBE} NOW! And start in with the first chapter of the great SENSATIONAL SERIAL 00,1 &* uen through the columns of the Courant-American. DUR HEW SERIAL Soon to Appear in the Columns of this Paper. illlllllllllllllinilliiiiiiiiiijdiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiitiiiiiiiiniiiiiKiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii OVER TIE BORDER!' miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii)(||||||||||||||||||||| l || l ||| mm ,|,|| immm , mumum A Delightful Story, by that Popular Novelist, Walter Besant. SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRHTED. MORWICK MILL. Legends, and the most delightful stories of daring, adventure and love. The hero of ‘OVER THE BORDER” is Ralph Kmbleton, who leaves home at the age of seventeen, on icoount of the cruel treatment of his, guardian, Matthew Humbß This la f ter character is so generally ".nean a. id unlovely that the reader 0 continiu.il/ desirous of adminis- TO STAY WITH THEM AND HE HER ROMEO. that, the ending is peaceful, and lovely, and everything that could >e wished. We volunteer this in tormation for the benefit of out lady readers who may, perhaps, this crumb of comfort to sus tain them through the varying, and sometimes trying, situations, *-trough. which the plot: winds to its ySv,-‘ A r.- i** J h r- ' j; ---- Is'" ■ ' ’ * ; If! CHAPTERS The location with which this story deals is Northumberland, England, and the time about A. D. 1764. The Northern coast of En gland has always been noted as the scene and source of innumerable BUT THEN THE TABLES WERE TURNED tenng to Matthew personal cmo tisement of the most emphatic ... . undignified character. However, it is not our design L here detail the incidents of ti i. charming tale further than to assn; • the reader that he (and she) wii miss a rare treat in passing by, un read, one of Ilesantds very best, as well as latest, efforts. While the story abounds in ad venture, and hope deferred, and all MATTHEW STRANG TO HIS FEET. culmination. Besant does not write any thing Uninteresting or Tame, f and YOU should read “ OVER THE BOBBER” from the first chapter. Once beginning its peru sal, there is no danger that you will step short cf the last line. 'SUBSCRIBE NOW! TRAVEL IN THE WEST. CONVENIENCES WHICH EASTERN & PASSENGERS DO NOT KNOW. Privileges of the Dining Car—Traveling Lunch Chests —A Good Result of Low Rates —Travel In the Xlgbt Time —The Train Men. In one respect the western railroads go ahead of the eastern railroads, and that is in feeding their passengers. Hardly a road in the east has a dining car on its local trains. The limited and through express trains have dining cars, but they are generally for the parlor and sleeping car passengers only. A man who is going from New York to Philadelphia, or New Haven, or Albany in an ordinary car must off at some station to eat or go with out, unless he can make a meal from the cigars, fruit, candy and novels of tke train boy. Out west they do this better. Almost all the main lines make provision for I‘eed ing the passengers on the trains. More dining cars are run than on the eastern 1 roads, and, though the m lals are not so elaborate as on the New York Central and Pennsylvania limited trains, the price is seventy-live cents instead of sl. The door of the dining cars that the passengers who are not in parlor cars would enter is not locked, and anybody in the train may go in and eat. This is*hot so pleasant for 'the parlor car passengers, but it is better for the general travel of the road. In many trains where there is 110 dining car there is a sort of a lunch counter rigged up in the smoking car. There is an attend ant who v/ill serve a luncheon in any part of the train. He brings the things on a tray, and they can be eaten with much more comfort and leisure on the train than in the hurry of a short stop and the crowd and confusion of a railroad lunch room. The apparatus is kept in the smoking car during the trip, and at the eud the things are packed up in a big chest, the way a newsboy packs up his outfit, and the chest is taken away to be restocked and put on another train. This is a convenience that the eastern roads do not seem to believe in. The prices are moderate a little lower than those charged at the average eastern railroad lunch counter; the dishes are clean, and a nap kin goes with them. * 111 one way those traveling lunch chests must be educators of the people. No knives are served with pie. An order for pie, coffee and a sandwich brought a fresh sandwich wrapped up in transparent paper and covered with tin foil like a prize pack age, a thick, white china Gup of coffee with a little jug of cream and some sugar, a piece of pie on a plate, a spoon and a fork. There was no knife. The western inhabitant who undertook to eat pie with a knife would have to furnish it himself, for the attendant brought none. The only ways of eating the pie were with a fork or with the lingers. This is better than in the east, where at four railroad lunch counters out of five a knife goes with pie, and usually it is vigorously used. “Don’t you give a knife with pie?” thi attendant was asked. “Oh, no,” he replied. “You don’t need a knife to eat pie.” “Is this a scheme of the railroad to edu cate the travelers?” “I don’t know about any scheme. All I know is that pie don’t need any knife. ” “Have you ever reflected on the results of this denial of knives to the pie eating public?” . “Look here, young man, what’re you asking that for? Do you take me for a kid? Knives don’t go with pie, and that’s all there is to it.” There is less expectation of fees among the waiters in western dining cars. They sell ten cent cigars, too, and cheap beer. Altogether, the railroads seem to bo run more for the accommodation of the aver age passenger and less for the people who pay extra. That may be because there is more competition. One good result of these low rates is that traveling is encouraged. Western smen travel many times as much as east ern men. More western men come east than eastern men go west. A Brooklyn man would think a tyip to Chicago some thing to be thought over, and he would not go to Boston without making some preparation. A Chicago business man thinks nothing going to St. Louis, St. Paul, Kansas City or Omaha, and a trip to New York simply means the expense and a day lost. They do not think any more of a trip to St. Paul than an old Brooklyn' citizen would think of a trip to Westchester county on the elevated road. Ono result of the universal western habit of traveling is that the bulk of the passenger traffic is done at night. Every road from Omaha runs a night express, * arriving at Chicago in the morning, while i the day trains are generally slower and more for local traffic. A western*man is accustomed to do his day’s business and then start off, while an eastern man looks on the act of traveling as a serious under taking, and starts off in the morning with a feeling that he will be more tired by evening than if he had worked iu his office. A western man, on the other hand, finishes his business, goes to the station in time for supper on the train, smokes his cigar in the smoking compart ment of the sleeper, chats with his fellow travelers, goes to bed and wakes up in the morning in time for breakfast at his destination, and goes at once to attend to his business there as if he did that sort of thing every day—indeed, some of them do- The relations between the trainmen and the passengers are more pleasant in the west. The trainmen are not ser vants, but workmen and business men. They look forward to promotion on the road or to striking wealth in speculation. Among their passengers every day they see men who a few years ago were worse off than they are, and know on equal terms. In the east big men in the parlor cars are bowed down to by the trainmen, who make things even with themselves by ordering around the second class passengers in the smoking car. Western conductors are more civil and less subservient, though the sleeping c&r porter is the same everywhere. Tbte conductors are less stringent in en forcing the rules of the railroadheompany. Occasionally they will let a passenger stop over on a limited ticket, and it is common for them to accept tickets the time of which has expired. They allow one man to travel on another man’s mileage book, and a fair proportion of the cash fares never reaches the com pany’s treasury. This is regarded as legitimate. A road that was too strict with its passengers would lose traffic. The difference can be told at Chicago as soon as one gets off a western road and changes to an eastern line. Ho at onco encounters a multitude of rules and *an unpleasant way of enforcing them. —'New York Sun. .. THE BELIEF IN LUCK. v —■ Kesnlt of an Effort to Explain tlie Appar ently Inexplicable— Example*. The belief in luck results from a per sistent effort to explain what is to the majority inexplicable, and we may sus pect that as the inexplicable is usually attributed to an unseen chain of causes, a good many senseless efforts to change the luck—as, for instance, turning the chair at whist, or changing one’s house — are efforts, conscious or unconscious, to break the chain of causality, to deflect the stream, as it were, and make it pass by us. But this explanation does not in the least meet the strange feeling which attaches luck or ill luck to inanimate things, a feeling which, avowed through out the East, and nearly universal with the vulgar of the West, lingers even among cultivated to an astonishing degree. We have met men and women entirely free from it, or at least so free that neither they nor we could detect it: but we suspect the majority of our readers will admit that they are aware of its existence in their own minds—that is, that they possess or know of things to which, in spite of reason, they attach lucky or unlucky influence. The extent of the feeling varies with temperament, but few are wholly free from it, and with some it is an abiding conviction, leading, in the case of the loss of the thing thus valued, to acute mental suffering. It, is not all association which induces women to sob over a mislaid wedding ring, or brave officers to put on a particular sword when going on a spe daily dangerous expedition. It is not an inexplicable but continuous experience, for tliere has been no experience. That solution would explain the belief of Not tinghamshire that a particular house always kills the first born of its owner —wh’oliy irrespective of descent—while the owner is still alive. That idea, so strong as to affect the value of the property, is no doubt the re sult of a long series of singular coin cidences, the breaks in which, not being remarkable, have not been remarked; but. in most cases there is no justifying ex perience. The vase, or cup, or jewel, or house to which a family attaches honor as in some way connected with the “luck” of their race, has never been broken, or lost, or sold; and they themselves, as they show their treasure, reject with their intellects a belief nevertheless so opera tive that no price would purchase its ob ject from tlieir possession. The man who has kept a lucky coin for years has never had any luck from it; it is the miserable often who feel this charm of the inani mate, and go on for years preserving the article, whatever it may be, as a kind of amulet which is to bring the happiness never yet possessed. Indeed, men have been known to buy things under a fancy that they would be lucky to them, which is to express the belief in its fullest and most unreasonable form.—Once a Week. Labouehere’s Method of Composition. The talk after this drifted on to a dis cussion of some of the characteristics of the leading figures in English political life, and the duke of Marlborough spoke of Labouckere, for whom he entertains the warmest admiration. “I believe,” said he, “that Laboucliere writes nearly all of Truth himself. He always has a pad of paper with him and takes down what he hears on all kinds of diverse subjects. As fast as he fills a sheet of the pad he tears it off and stuffs it into a pocket de voted to the reception of these slips. At night when he goes home lie turns out his pocket, arranges its contents and sends them on to liis editor. 111 this way Truth is Laboucliere and Laboucliere •is Truth. “The smoking room in the house is his favorite lounging place. Here he sits and chats with everybody that comes along, and uses his pad and pencil incessantly. ‘What was it you were telling me about that dynamo? Give it to me in a few words now—-in plain English phra.se.’ And he writes it down as you talk it. He says that the three necessary qualities for attracting newspaper writing are that it shall be short, concise and always have a point. From all these sources, which Mr. Laboucliere conveniently commands, the paper is filled up weekly. lam sure that lie lias no extensive editorial bills to pay, and that very little matter appears in the columns of Truth which is not either ab solutely his own or suggested by him. The London ‘ World, which is, of course, Truth’s chief rival, on the other hand, pays out a great deal of money to con tributors, and is always presenting prom inent features.”—Cor. New York World. Run. ing the Sewing Machine. A complication of pipes and brackets on one side of the room attracted my at tention. In answer to my inquiries, Ada told mo that she l%;d run the sewing ma chine by water power for all the sewing she had to do in her fitting up. This was an unspeakable relief to me, as I feared that she had overtaxed herself at the ma chine. She protested that she had not. and in proof of the statement she turned a crank, adjusted a belt, and showed me that the needle of the machine would pass with the greatest ease through the thickest cloth and would sew about three times faster than one could do by foot power. “But what and where is the motive power?” I asked. “A tiny wheel under the kitchen sink,’’ she replied; and so it was—a small motor that one could almost put in a dish pan! A stream scarcely larger than a large knitting needle furnished the power, and a leather belt was carried to the upper room through,/! casing. This belt was either attached to the large driving wheel or run in a groove in the wheel shaft, according as more or less speed was required. A lever, moved either by the foot or hand, started or stopped the wheel. This was one of the most sensible of the many improvements; for Ada would sew, and with this arrangement she would be able to do so without overtax ing her strength. —Demorest’s Monthly. Apparel for Hot Weather. When it comes to the apparel question, we find a problem difficult of solution. What to wear for the greatest comfort? I hear my fat and hasty friend say, “Why, the thinnest white cotton garment you can possibly buy.” “Not quite, old fellow. If you do that you may find it a snare, and one o-f these days, with their sudden%changes, will bring you a summer pneumonia. Cotton is not and is no more fit to be worn next the skin than a coat of mail would be. It holds the perspiration and excretions of the body—of these millions of little sewers—in its meshes, in suspen sion as it were, and when you stand in a breezy place you feel this’foreign presence by the cold, clammy sensation which brings out the expression that “some one is walking over your grave. ” Underwear should always be constructed of woolen material, which may be made as light and filmy as desired. It is cooler than cotton, and far more cleanly.— Richard Guernsey, M. D., iu Once a Week. Acrnra and Ci'AuinondfM. “Have you no word of comfort for me, Aurora?” Epaminondas Chugg gazed in strong despair at the young woman who, in a few brief and coldly spoken words, had ended the brightest dream of his life. Aurora Fitzgarlick was beautiful as a showman’s SIO,OOO dream. To a faultless face and elegantly upholstered figure she united a voice like an echo from the choir of para dise and a paternal progenitor with the largest bank account of any operator on the street. Many and many a time had Epaminondas sat in & Queen Anne chair in the Fitzgarlick parlor drinking in her Eastlake Michigan beauty until his head ached. Many a time had he proudly at tended her to the theatre, the opera, and the restaurant, and subsequently tossed upon his restless couch the livelong night in the pangs of love and indigestion. The hour had come at hist when he could keep silent no longer. He had declared himself and been informed with cold politeness by the heiress of the Fitzgarlick millions that she regretted to be compelled to return his proffered hand and heart as unavailable for her use. “What can I say, Mr. Chugg, that will soften the blow which it deeply pains me to inflict?” she said, in reply to his despair ing question. “Add a postscript of some kind,” he said, wildly: “give me an open date or a chance to hedge. If you can’t grant me a rehearing don’t crush me by a cold sen tence of death. Commend me at least to the mercy of heaven.” “Mr. Chugg,” e." Claimed the lovely maiden in alarm, “yefh. speak with strange incoherency. You have read too much campaign poetry. ” “Aurora Fitzgarlick,” replied Epami nondas Ohugg, in a voice whose tragic misery thrilled her to the remotest fiber of her being, “I have read nothing for six weeks except William D. Howells’ last novel.” “O, my poor Epaminondas!” impulsive Iv burst from tho lips of the beautiful girl, while her eyes kindled with tender pity and her face lit up with a passion bora radiauee, “you have endured enough affliction already 1 If a lifetime of loving devotion will compensate you for the suf ferings of these six weeks take me—l am yours!” —Chicago Tribune. Normandy Coast Fishing Excursion. I was most anxious to go on a fishing expedition, and a few days after I arrived quite a large party of us started from the villa. It was all such anew thing to me that I examined curiously all belonging to it with no common Interest. My cos tume, as well as those of the other ladies, was most peculiar. We had on our bath ing suits, over which we wore short jackets of striped flannel; pretty cork shoes and large straw hats completed our attire. Some carried pitchforks and buckets, others nets and poles. The gen tlemen wore knickerbockers and short jackets and went barefooted. On the beach we found a number of donkey carts awaiting us, and small boys in attend ance, who were to beat the poor beasts in case they became refractory. The tide was well on its way out—it falls or recedes from two to three miles each day—and we had several hours be fore us for our trip. With much urging and slow advancing we arrived at a good spot, so the gentlemen assured us, and seizing the pitchforks we all began to dig The first removal of sand showed" me quantities of small fishes squirming around in tlio wet and loosened sand. Grabbing them up in our hands we de posited them in our pails, and so went from place to place fishing in this most curious manner. It became quite exciting toward the end, for we made wagers as to who would gather the greatest quantity, and in our hurry to grab all wo could see half would squirm out of our hands like eels. These tiny fish are a species of an chovy, and make a most delicious friture, well repaying one at dinner time for the trouble of hunting them.—Cor. Argonaut Medicine for Canine Pets. Never treat your dog roughly in ad ministering medicine. Kindness will bring about quicker and better results than force. Give medicines that are in the form of powders in gelatine capsules. To administer these take the dog, if a small one, on your knee, if a large one, between the knees, open the mouth gently but firmly, holding the head up as high as you can, and have some one to put the capsules as far down the throat as possi ble, now close the jaws and give the dog a sharp tap under the chin, which will cause him to swallow the capsule. When liquid medicines are not of a disagreeable taste they can be given in drinking water or in broth. When it is necessary to force a dog them, hold him in the same positions when giving capsules, but do not hold the jaws so wide open, and have your assistant pour the medicine from a long necked bottle into the back part of tho mouth a little at a time; hold the nose until you* are sure he has swallowed the dose. As soon as all is down give the dog a morsel of meat and take him out for a run.. This will often prevent him from vomiting the medicine.—Globe-Democrat. Preying 1 Upon People’s Grief. A nuisance, and one that should be abated, is a practice that has grown up among a class of people wfto prey upon grief and affliction. Every day these ghouls who live upon the friends of the dead use the mails to send hundreds of their offensive missives to a list of ad dresses gathered from the newspaper death notices. These are nothing less than advertisements of florists, embalm ers, tombstone cutters, dealers in mourn ing goods, etc. One shrewd Philadelphian generally sends a black card with some doggerel and the name of the deceased printed on it, for -which he modestly asks the bereaved family to send him .$1.50. But -worst of all is a seedy locking fraud who purports to sent from some newspaper and offers (for a consid eration) to write an obituary notice which he says will be printed in the newspaper he pretends to hail from.—“ Miss Justice” in New York Star. Dreams of the Blind. The dreams of the blind are of great importance, and the fact that persons born blind never dream of seeing is estab lished by the investigations of competent inquirers. So far as we know, there is no proof of a single instance of a person born blind ever in dreams fancying that he saw. The subject has been treated by Joseph Jastrow in The Presbyterian Reviews He h'as examined nearly two hmJ&red per sons of both sexes in the institutions for the blind in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Thirty-two became blind before com pleting their fifth year, and not one of these thirty-two sees in dreams. Con cerning Laura. Bridgman, the blind anjd deaf mute, Professor y G. Stanley Hall, quoted by Mr. Jastrow, says: “Sight and hearing are as absent from her dreams as they are from the dark and silent world which alone she knows.”—Rev. Dr. J. M Buckley in The Century, Question of Vital Importance. Who should marry and who should not marry is a question of vital imi>ortanco in the deliberations at Boston of the Ixisoa association It is a question that sooner or later must be boldly confronted church and state alike Like begets like all the world over, from nmn down to animalcuia As the parents are so will the children he It is a law of nature that cannot be repealed, yet in its effect is filling the prisons, hospitals and insane asylums of the land to overflowing, add ing to the .sum total of crime and misery everywhere and faxing the sound, the law abiding, the industrious, to support the diseased, the criminally base and the constitutionally depraved and lazy An. Indiana delegate to the association put the matter in a terse and thought inspir ing wuV Mr. Reeves attacked the civil marriage contract, saying of the state that no matter who comes for a permit, the strong ortho weak minded, the sound and healthy, or the deformed, tho million aire or the hereditary pauper, all are given a permit alike, and this civil con tract is thus fully completed by sanction of law If a man wants to run a locomo tivo or practice medicine or plead in the courts, he must submit to a rigid exam ination as to his fitness for the position aud be able to pass one. • But when he comes forward to get a permit to enter iuto a contract, the most sacred that can be assumed, which vitally affects the bodies social and politic, as well as corporal, not a word is said. All are licensed. The church regards mar riage as a holy covenant. It makes little or no inquiry as to candidates. So we have a shocking view of marriage upheld by church and state. A constant increase of pauperism and crime must follow. Men find it to their interests to improve the races of horses, dogs, cats, cows, chick ens, pigeons and other animals, but that race whose members are formed in the image of the Creator must take its chances and do its mating after the fashion of a lottery. Chance rules the selection of tnen and women for the holy offices of parentage, and that chance does its work is shown by the statistics of criminality in this and other countries. — Pittsburo’ Bulletin. How Policemen Wear Gloves. Did the man who notices everything in the busy life around him ever take heed to the fashion of the police force in the matter of wearing gloves? On Broadway, down town, where the tall, stalwart of ficer guides unprotected females through the labyrinth of endless lines of trucks, horse cars and drays of all kinds, his hands are neatly encased in, a pair of white, closely fitting gloves. At the end of the day their original color is some times not apparent, but he wears them both. On the avenue, where his duty consists of walking up and down, up and down in a monotonous manner, the policeman fol lows the fashion of the swells that parade before him. One glove only is worn, aud that on the left hand, which clasps ten derly the other neatly folded white bit of cotton, while his right hand is free to swing nonchalantly his club. In the business portions of the city the presiding genius in bftio discards gloves as a rule, and his hands are free to grapple with any obstreperous member of the ex changes who may feel particularly happy. But he possesses gloves, you know that, for you see them just protruding above his breast pocket. And down where the outcast portion of humanity exists, the strong, muscular guardian of the law walks about bare handed, for the men with whom he comes in contact scarcely know what gloves are. But there is an exception to the general rule —anew man on the force always wears both gloves until he finds out the fashion of Iris district and accommodates himself accordingly.—New York Evening Sun. < American View of English Manners. No class in the world, probably, is judged so little on its merits as the Eng lish upper class. At home it casts a glamour on men’s eyes, a glamour so great that Mr. Darwin absolutely believed it physically superior to other classes, al though another social observer, Mr. Ed ward Jenkins, mr !e, a few years since, the remark: “Why noble earls should be so ugly is a problem of nat ure,” and this strikes the Ameri can visitor to the house of lords as being nearer the truth. So great is, at any rate, their lingering prestige among Liberals, that a leading London reformer once told me that it was almost essential to the success of a radical meeting to get a lord to preside at it, and I have myself been present at such a gathering in Lon don, when one of the few really good speakers I ever heard in England —a man full of information on the very point at issue, and expressing it admirably—was put down, in that brutal way only seen among Englishmen, through the impa tience of the audience to iiear a dull and inarticulate lord, who had nothing to say and said it. A class thus situated cannot bo judged by what is said about it in its own nome; and when it is transplanted it is apt to drift among a class of Similar admirers abroad. No doubt there are noblemen in England whose manners a critical Ameri can would call high bred; but it is cer tain that one may travel a good deal in. that country, and even go through a con siderable course of London dinner parties, without having the good luck to encoun ter a specimen.—T. W. Higginson in The Forum. { The Indian’s Bark Canoe. The bark canoe is the Indian’s chef d’ceuvre. It seems to me not only a beau tiful object, but a suggestive emblem of his life. It is the most natural boat in the world; to make it he peels the bark from a birch, splits a cedar for timbers and planks, binds it together with roots, and closes the seams with pitch from the pine. His tools are an ax, a crooked knife, and an awl made of a deer’s bone. No compass and square cover his weak ness, for every piece tells the exact truth of his hand and eye; not even a bench removes him from the earth, nor a root covers him from the sky; he kneels at his ■work. And the women embody their at tachment in the pitch they press into the cracks. It is nature’s model, made by the wild man in the woods. The life of the bark canoe is equally poetic; it floats through mountain lakes with the beaver, and runs rapids with the otter; indeed, all its companions are creatures of the forest; it is faithful to nature to the very last, when it retires to the shore of some lonely pond to mold under its mound of feathery moss.—G. H. Farnham in Har per’s Magazine. Weather Changes. It has been observed in' Italy by Pai mieri that on a clear day, with every in dication of continued fine weather, the electrometer will indicate a change long before the barometer.—Arkansaw Trav eler.