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, ■' . ,•>*- 1 - at- ••• LEFT ON TRAINS. - L- All Sort. of Article* Are ForgeUei- by Absentminded T***.ncer*. Recently a Chicago railroad displ y«d in its unclaimed parcel room five bt rela of robber overshoes and a box ful. of false teeth. All this property and more during a period of six months had been left on the suburban and through trains by absent minded passengers. The gen eral baggage agent, upon being asked what was the oddest occurrence of this kind, said that a woman once left on a train a 6-months-old baby, and she did not miss it until a trainman overtook her with the little bundle of humanity before she got outside of the train shed. It was not a case of abandonment. She ‘ had forgotten to take up her own off spring. Only one-half of the articles left on trains are claimed and returned to own ers. At all the railroad offices in Chi cago there are to be found motley col lections of about all the articles which man or woman ever owned. It would be impossible to list them in a whole page of a newspaper. The article which figures most exten sively among the lost and found of the big railroads is the umbrella. An offi cial of the Illinois Central says he re ceived in the baggage department 1,600 umbrellas a year. General Agent Sadd of the Burlington says his records show about 600 a year, and the other lines report large collections of thia service able article, which are left on trains in all kinds of weather. On a recent fine, sunshiny day the Burlington railroad showed on its record a whole page of abandoned umbrellas. Next come the overshoes, which are daily found, singly and in pairs and of tentimes.odd in size and kind. At, all the offices they axe accumulated to the extent of barrels and barrels. It is a common occurrence to find upper, low er and partial sets of false teeth. Some give evidence of long service, others have been too new and have been “laid out” to give relief. But they come in all shapes and sizes. Wearing apparel in large quantities is to be found in the lost parcel rooms. The clerks in the Alton’s quarters at the Union station fitted out a dummy figure with every single article that a man is likely to wear from head to foot. The articles were all 16ft piece by piece on the train and gathered up by the em ployees until the figure was togged out in newest fashion. The young woman stenographer in Baggage Agent Sadd’s office has a pet kitten which was found in an envelope box on a train, and, there being no claimant, young Tom is being taught to earn his board by mousing in the bag gage room. Cripples- frequently leave their crutches on trains. There is a collection of them at all the offices. Hanging up in the parcel room of the Illinois Cen tral is a big anchor made of moss gath ered from trees in the far south. The maker had taken care of it until Chica go was reached, only to abandon it to the care of the parcel man.—Chicago Tribune. Frw In Spite of Himself. Under the first French empire the ad ministration of the prison of Sainte- Pelagie was so loose that it was not rare for accused persons to lie there six months without knowing the cause of their incarceration. The following ad venture, narrated in “The Dungeons of Old Paris, ” discloses the fact that re lease under similar conditions of igno rance was not impossible: The doctor had given to a prisoner who was slightly ill an order for the baths. Not knowing in what part of the prison the infirmary was situated, he presented his order to a tipsy turn key, who opened the outer door of the I prison M. Guillon, a free man without being aware of it, took the narrow street to be a sentry's walk and went a few paces without finding any one to direct him. Returning to the sentry at the door, he inquired where were the baths. “The baths?" said the sentinel. “The prison baths." “The prison baths,"said the sentinel, “are probably in the prison, but you can’t get in there. ’’ “What—l can’t get into the prison? Am I outside it, then?" “Why, yes, you’re in the street. You ought to know that, I should think." “I did not‘know it, I assure you,” said M. Guillon, “and this won’t suit me at all.” He rang the prison bell and was re admitted, and his recital of his adven ture restored to sobriety the turnkey who had given him his freedom. Sheridan and the Joke. Sheridan, himself a brilliant orator as well as a shrewd observer, was one day asked how it was he got on so well in the house of commons. “Well," he said, “I soon found out that the major ity were fools, but all loved a joke, and I determined to give them what they liked." The great advantage of a joke is that it puts the speaker at once on good terms with his audience. Hence Cicero recommends it for an exordium. A common way of winning the good will of an audience is flattery. When the Jews brought down the orator Ter tullus to accuse Paul, Tertullus began his speech with flattery of King Agrip pa, “Since by thee we enjoy," and so on. Another way, a subtle form of flat tery, is to describe yourself as a native of the same place or county as those you are addressing. The forensic formu la, the fustian apostrophe to the 12 “in telligent and patriotic and high minded men" whom the rhetorical Buzfuz sees before him, is played out, but it has its modern equivalents.—Westminster Re view. W . Diaconeertiny. Mrs. Manycooks (severely)—Didn’t I hear a man talking loudly with yon in the kitchen just now, Mary? Mary (complacently)—Oi hope so, mam, for thin Oi can call yes as a wit ness in a case av braich av promise suit, ma’am.—Brooklyn Eagle. ——— - —>■ UNTAMABLE TENDERFOOT. —— .it „■ .. The FlraS to Open Up * Greet Territory In the Far North. To a certain extent all the 6,000 argo nauts who have flocked to Alaska this sea son belong to the Underfoot family. A rush to the arctic regions is a new thing with the Anglo Saxon race. The MdfSe men traveled south for their promised land, and the setting of the current in the opposite direction cannot be gauged in the Heretofore the tenderfoot has tackled many difficulties, but never found them piled as high or as forbidding as in a Journey to the Klondike. Yet the tenderfoot,- with his heavy burden of sup plies, plpda op over glacier? and narrow mountain paths, wading through rapid torrents, cUufiberihg around boWlders, toiling throiigh swampy ground, shooting rapids not too dangerous, and making a packhorse of himself around water too rough for a raft with any cargo. If he is exhausted or sick, the only remedy at hand Is the rest cure and the friendly interest of his fallow advbnturera. He has cut loose from coxnlurt and safety, but all he asks is a chance to struggle on. About the worst punishment for tnc burdened procession of pilgrims would be to compel them to turn back. ■* » , The Ateakatenderfoot, in spite of his disposition to be too venturesome, de serves the sympathetic attention of his countrymen; Ho is the first to open up a great territory in the far north, and he represents civilization in his inarch. Ho is necessarily a builder of roads and towns, and every squad of mon whoreach the dig gings make the conditions better for those who follow,. A yepr .from now the routes to the upper Yukon will fie comparatively' easy. The thousands who have gone there will use all possible energy to open up lines of travel. They want regular mall service and pqreonal access to the outside world. Already the large niJmbcr of min ers who are assembled near uhllkat, but will not be able to cross this fall, have founded a town, and their first business will be road and trail improvement. The long polar night. will not repress their American energy. Many a tenderfoot will fail at the mines, but Alaska will surely present other op portunities. More than 50 years ago coal was found there and mined by the Rus sians. Copper and other minerals have been located. Vegetables, hay and other needed crops can be raised in the southern part of the territory. Thorough prospect ing for gold on the American side of the line Will be encouraged by the unusual and greedy restrictions on mining adopted by Canada. By the end of 1898 the tender foot of today willbe an Alaskan pioneer, and whether he bo rich or poor the world will admire his indomitable pluck. The tenderfoot should be dealt with generous ly, and that is where the .Dominion is making a mistake. Men could not be hired for wages to do what he Is doing. It is the thought of a competency for him self and his family that inspires the ten derfoot and nerves him for his tremendous task, and eVery manly nature will wish him success.—St/Louls Globe-Democrat. • ' .• - i ■■ ,* ■..fT.i £ s j 1 1. 'Cz- Value of Unpopularity. As the tall, angular, stoop shouldered man went by the house the host took his feet down from the railing of the porch and, indicating him by a motion of his cigar in that direction, suggested to his guest that he was the only man in the whole neighborhood that he epvied. “He doesn’t look like a very jolly or companionable man, ’ ’ suggested the guest. “He isn’t,” replied the host. “He is the meanest, most disagreeable and most un popular man in the neighborhood. Why, it’s a popular impression around here that if a boy ran across his lawn he’d blaze away at him with a shotgun loaded with rock salt. And he’s always kicking about something.” ‘ ‘ I should think you’d hate him. ’ ’ ■ “Ido. Do you know he even made a complaint to the police because the boys used his sidewalk for a bicycle path, and now there isn’t one of them that doesn’t take to the road when they come to his property.” “Incredible!” 4 ‘ Fact. And he raised such a fuss about the peddlers that there isn’t one of them dares go near his house. He’s just as mean to people who solicit subscriptions for churches and charities too. ” “Really?" y ; “Yes, l ideed. Why, he actually insult ed the last committee that waited upon him to ask him to subscribe |6O to help build a tower on a needlework guild hall. The women who composed it have sworn that they will never go near him again. ” “But I understood you to say you en vied him.” •‘That’s what I said,” admitted the host. “It may be a big price to pay for it, but think of the advantage he has over the rest of us!” “Advantage?” “Yes—the luxury of being let alone by his neighbors and his neighbors’ children and of having his rights respected by everybody. Oh, it must be glorious!"— Chicago Post. Obstacles to Ke form. A short time ago an order went into op eration upon the Boston street railways re quiring conductors to address feminine passengers as “madame. ” The always cheerful chatterer of the Boston Herald tells us that, in pursuance of the order, the conductor is trying very hard to cure himself of his habit of calling his feminine passengers “lady” and “Mrs. Lady," but he has not as yet hit upon a uniform meth od of addressing them and in his inde cision has resort to “hi, say,” “missis” and “ma’am,” but he will doubtless settle upon the right thing eventually. The other day on a Huntington avenue car a conductor who had evidently given much attention to tho subject won special dis tinction for himself by the use of the word “madame” in this regard. But there is no rose without a thorn. Among his passengers was a colored girl who carried a Ihrgo bundle, doubtless the week’s wash of some patron. She asked him to stop at a certain street, and when the car ar rived there he said to the gentle Afro- American, ‘ ‘ This is your street, madame. ’ ’ She at once gave him an angry look and said with marked asperity: “Who’s yer callin madame? Watcher mean by insult in me? I’d have you to know I’m a lady, I am,” with which she hustled indig nantly to the street. The conductor looked perplexed, and as he rung the bell with a vicious jerk he sententiously observed, “She ain’t no lady anyhow, even if she ain’t n madame.” It is hard to please everybody. The Uttle Critic. “Why, papa, ” said Frances, who was looking at the family album, “surely this isn’t a picture of you?” “Yes, ” replied papa, “that is a picture of me, taken when I Was quite ycung.” “Well,” commented the little girl, “it doesn't look as much like you as you look now."—Harper’s Bazar. OLD TIME SWEETNF SS GONE Molmw, la Wow Mqd« I» o Bu> and Brown Sagar Can't Ite Bought. "The old fashioned mola sea is rapid ly disappearing as an artrnle of com merce,” said a prominent ;rocer, “and in its plaoe have come a number of | sirups which are more costly and by no means as satisfactory, especially to the little ones, who delight, as we did when we were young, in having ’leases on their bread. Moat of the molasses goes into the distilleries, where it is made into rum, for which, notwith standing the efforts of our temperance workers, the demand is constantly on the increase, especially in the New England states and for the export trade. The regular drinker of rum will take no other liquor in its place if he can help it. It seems to reach the spot more di rectly than any other dram. “The darker brown sugars have also disappeared, and they are not likely to return, owing to the methods of boiling and the manufacture. Granulated sugar is of the same composition, as far as saccharine qualities are concerned, as loaf, cut loaf cube and crushed and differs from them only in that its crys tals do not cohere. This is because it is constantly stirred during the process of crystallisation. The lighter brown sug ars taste sweeter than the white, for the reason that there is some molasses in them. Housekeepers have difficulty these days iu finding coarse, dark sug ars, which are always preferred for use in patting up sweet pickles, making cakes and similar uses. As they cannot get brown sugar any more, it may. be Well for them to remember that they can simulate brown sugar by adding a teaspoonful of molasses to each quarter of a pound of the white granulated sug ar. This combination does as well in all household recipes that call for brown sugar as the article itself, and besides it saves them a great deal of hunting for brown sugar, which, as said before, has disappeared from the market."—Eastport Sentinel. HE COULD FORGIVE HER. For In Hl* Opinion Mrs. Slddoas Did Not Marry an Actor. Mrs. Siddons, the actress, was born in 1765 at the Shoulder of Mutton inn, Brecon, South Wales, of parents con nected with the theater, her father, Roger Kemble, being a strolling man ager. The child Sarah, was reared in a theatrical atmosphere, and at 10 she was playing ArieL As she grew up she became very beautiful and had many admirers, among whom was Henry Siddons, a young actor in her father’s company, who had little difficulty in winning the girl’s heart. Mr. and Mrs. Kemble had made up their minds that Sarah should not marry in the profession, in conse quence of which they strenuously op posed the marriage, and young Siddons, in a fit of retaliatory humor, composed a song detailing their opposition and his trials, which brought about his speedy dismissal from the company. Sarah left the company, too, and hired out as lady’s maid in Warwickshire for two years. During this time the lovers carried on a lively corespondence and finally, gaining the reluctant consent of the Kembles, were married at Trinity church, Coventry, in 1778, when Sarah was 18. It is said that Mr. Kemble told her if she ever married an actor it would make him discard her forever. After her marriage he said, “I may forgive you without breaking my word, for you have certainly not married ‘an actor,’ whatever the gentleman himself may think is his vocation. ” This is on au thority of Lady Eleanor Butler, who knew the persons.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Hi* Bread Upon the Water*. Fifteen years ago Carrie Burch was a servant girl in a California household where William F. Hastings was also employed. The girl became ill and had to leave, but had no money. Hastings loaned her S2OO, and she went away. The years rolled by without the S2OO being returned, and Hastings had for gotten the occurrence when he received a letter from a banister in London stat ing that an estate of $73,000 had been left him by a Mrs. Hall, formerly Miss Carrie Bnreh of California. Hastings could hardly believe what he read, but he has the money now, and for his gen erosity to a strange girl years ago he has become independently rich. When the girl left California, she went to Australia as a nurse and there married a retired English merchant, who died some years afterward, and the widow then returned to London and lived there until Jt~r death.—Exchange. A Good Reason. The general passenger agent of one of the Chicago trunk lines received a letter from a Kansas man the other day requesting a pass for himself to Chicago and return. There was nothing about the letter to indicate that the writer had any claim whatsoever to the courte sy he requested, but the railway man thought that perhaps the Kansan had some connection with the road in some way, possibly as a local freight agent. So he Wrote back, “Please state explic itly on what account you request trans portation." By return mail came this reply, "I’ve got to go to Chicago some way, and I don’t want to walk."—Ex change. * A Bakeahop Machine. One of the latest appliances for use in a bakeshop oven consists of a machine which takes the whole meat and grinds it, mixes water with it and kneads it into dough ready for the oven. Open the doors of opportunity to tal ent and virtue and they will do them selves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.—Emerson. In 1620 the first large copper coins were minted in England, putting an end to private leaden tokens. —' ■ :v_ r sn : ' i A SEA ABOVE THE CLOUDS. Mriraordtnary Buponrtittam Obm Fseva tea* la Kaalacd. The curioui superstition that there is an ocean above the cicuds is illustrated by the following strange story by an old English writer: “One Sunday the people of a certain village were coming out of church on a thick, cloudy day, when they saw the anchor of a ship hooked to one of the tombstones—the cable, which was tightly stretched, hanging down from the air. The people were astonished, and while they were consulting about it suddenly they saw the rope move as though some one la bored to pull up the anchor. The an chor, however, still held fast by the stone, and a great noise was heard in the air, like the shouting of sailors. Presently a sailor was eeen sliding down the cable for the purpose of unfixing the anchor. When he had just loosened it, the villagers seised hold of him, and while in their hands he quickly died, just as though he had been drowned. "About an hour after the sailors above, hearing no more of their com rade, cut the cable and sailed away. In memory of this extraordinary event the people of the village made the hinges of the church doors out of the iron of the anchor. ” It is further staled that these hinges "arc still to be eeen there," a bit of evidence much like Munchau sen’s rope wherewith he once climbed to the moon. If you doubted the story, you were confronted with the rope. There is another queer tale about this aerial ocean. “A merchant of Bris tol,” it is said, “set sail with his cargo for Ireland. Some time after, while his family were at supper, a knife sudden ly fell in through a window on the ta ble. When the merchant returned and saw the knife, he declared it to be his own and said that on such a day, at such an hour, while sailing in an un known part of the sea, he dropped the knife overboard, and the day and the hour were found to be exactly the time when it fell through the window. ” All of which was once implicitly believed by many and regarded as incontroverti ble proof of the existence of a sea above the sky. One is at a loss to conjecture how that "unknown part of the sea” connected with the rest of it A phys ical geography showing this would be no small curiosity.—Boston Poet SILKWORMS OF LEBANON. How They Are Cultivated In tho Moaa , - tain. of Tripoli. Harry Fenn, the artist has written a paper, entitled "Silk and Cedars," for St. Nicholas, describing his visit to the famous mountains of Lebanon. Concerning tho silk industry, which plays such an important part in the lives of the natives, Mr. Fenn says: As the time approaches for the silkworm to hatch out the egg the family move out of the house and camp under the trees, giving up the entire establishment to the worms, after having placed the eggs on shelves made of a reedlike bamboo. At first the young worms are fed on finely chopped leaves, bat as they grow larger the leaves need only be broken in two. The people have to feed and watch the wormq night and day, or they wander in search of food and get lost, and in the silence of the night the sound of the worms feeding is like a gently falling rain. The worms fast three or four times during this period, and about 24 hours is the length of each fast. A curioui feature about their fast is their posture. They assume the attitude of a cobra snake about to strike and remain rigid ly fixed in that position for the entire period. When they are ready to spin, small branches are placed on the shelves, and as the cocoons are formed upon them the dead twigs seem to bear golden fruit. When the worms get through that part of the business, the neighbors are called in—something as to an old fashioned New England ap ple paring bee. They call it “qtaf’ in Arabic—that is "picking," and soon you see piles of pale green, pure white and golden yellow cocoons'heaped upon the floor. Later they may be spun into hanks, but usually the cocoons are sent down the mountains to Tripoli or Da mascus, and after their 80 or 40 days of toil they, too, often have to sell the produce for next to nothing, as the Chi nese are always ready to undersell them. Another curious use Mr. Silkworm is put to is to soak him in vinegar for some hours, after which he is drawn out into so called “catgut" to make enells or leaders for fishhooks. Ser-ring Carrot*. Away of serving carrots is the fol lowing, evolved by a cook desirous, as all cooks should be, of “something new." The vegetable is scraped, diced and boiled till tender. Meanwhile a slice of onion is browned in a table spoonful of butter. With this one table spoonful of flour is rubbed smooth and stirred until the flour is cooked. Then one cup of tomato juice, not heated, is added to the mixture with a half tea spoonful of salt and a dash of pepper. The whole is stewed together three or four minutes before being strained over the carrots, which have been drained. This dish is much more palatable than the creamed carrots because it adds a needed flavor and is none the harder to prepare than the better known prepara tion.—New York Post What I* Really Needed. “Somebody has Invented another talk ing machine.” "That’s a stupid thing to do. Won’t these scientists ever learn that what ths world needs is listening machines?”— Chicago Record. To the poet, to the philosopher, t» the saint all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.—Emerson. The man who has not passionate lo cal attachments can never become pa triotic in any broad or generous sense. —American Friend. ■ * AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ‘‘CASTORIA,’’ AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA," as our trade mark. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, wu the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now 0/1 ever y bear the facsimile signature qf wrapper. This is the original - PITCHER’S CASTORIA;’ which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty gears. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought /-rs /yrrsz ' on and has the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. 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