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THK -TOKEN'S TII OOET.
THE FINNY THINGS WE FIN’D.
GETTING EVEN.
Indignant Hm-band—“Now T think
this is going too far. Yen promised me
you would countermand yuur order for
that dress.'’
Meek and Lovely Wife-—“I wrote to
the firm that very day.”
“But here is the dress and the hill for
it—enough to bankrupt me almost. How
do you explain that ?”
“I gave you the letter to mail, and I
suppose you forgot it as usual. — Omaha
World,
AN AO ARMING INTERRUPTION.
Agent (selling patent compound for
Jerking store butter bald-headed) —“I’ve
got. here”
“You have got here, have you?” in
terrupted the servant girl. “So has
Towser,” she added as the dog came
around the corner of the house.
Then the agent and Towser waltzed
around to the front gate together.— St.
Paul Herald.
HE MEANT A TjIFT, YE KNEOW.
“Have you got a raiser in the house?”
asked an Indiana man who registered
himself at Willard’s late last night for
one night only.
“I don’t know of any, sir,” replied the
clerk, “and the barber shop has been
closed for two hours.”
“Barber shop, thunder!” exclaimed
the impatient guest. “J don’t want no
barber shop. I’m tired out. I want to
go up stairs to bed.”
“All right, sir, and I’ll send the wjzor
to you in the morning so you can shave
be/ore breakfast. ”
“Young man,” said the Indianian, as
a light dawned upon him, “you’re oif
your base. I don’t want no razor to
shave with; I want a raiser that will git i
me up stairs without havin’ to walk.”
Then the clerk tumbled, and the J
bell boy led the guest over and put him f
in the elevator.— Washington Critic.
A FLATTERING COMPARISON.
Children are very sympathetic.
There’s one quite young who’s got an
aunt whom she loves very dearly, but j
the child does not understand every
thing. The aunt is single, but she does ;
not hope to be so long, although judg- !
ing by the child’s remarks the position
of wife is likely to be a very trying one. j
The gentleman who is the object of flut
tering interest lias been in the habit of
making long and frequent calls. These
calls the child has studied with some
regard to the aunt she adores. The
last one the child assisted at ended
abruptly.
“Aunty,” she said sadly, “which
would you rather do, talk to Mr. Jones
or go to a funeral ?”
Mr. Jones felt like making the subject
for a funeral right then. — San Francisco
Chronicle.
NOT CONTAGIOUS.
Several evenings ago Major Stofah
went up to Sixteenth street to see a
young lady to whom he has hcen very
attentive for some months. She was not
visible at first, and her twelve-year old
1 "other entertained the major. After
various questions the kid remarked:
“You ain’t contagious, are you ?”
“Why, Johnny, what do you mean by
that ?” asked the major with an innocent
laugh of surprise.
“Oh, nothin’, I guess: only I heard
mother say you wasn’t, ’cause sister lias
been tryin’ to catch you all winter, and
she couldn’t do it.”
The major remained the rest of the
evening, but hasn't been back since Lent
began.— Washington Critic.
A STORY OF TRAVERS.
Seated in a street car once with his
little son, Mr. Travers edged gradually
up as seat after scat was taken by in
coming passengers. Finally he lifted
the lad on his knee ,ind so sat for awhile.
The car grew more and more crowded,
and a gnesl-looking young woman, see
ing no seat, stared rather impertinently
at Travers, as though e cpeetlng him to
rise. His eyes twinkled in ohm: teteristic
fashion as lie turned his face to his boy
and said audibly:
“G-g-get up, my sor:, and g-g-givethe
1-I-ltuly you! scut.”
The young woman looked another
way.
THE WRONG DAYS.
Kenneth, age six, and Philip, his
brother, two years older, asked permis
sion of their mother to go out tor a little
walk on Sunday afternoon.
“Yes, vou max go,” she said, “if you
will not forget that it is Sunday, and
walk quietly, as you should.”
The boys went out and returned soon.
“O mamma,” said Kenneth, running
to his mother, “Philip didn't do at all
as yon said. He acted just like Monday
anil Tuesday all tin time.”— Vo nth’s
Ccmpa nion.
IT WANTED IT.
“Mamma, didn’t you tell me to do
inst what liabv wanted me to . asked a
ittle Gass avenue boy who bail been
,est in charge of his baby brother.
©h t Jltoti tic ti| ittonUor*
“Yes, my dear,” replied his mother,
j who had just come in.
“Well, baby wanted me to eat up all i
the sponge rake, and now Flo’s mad, be
cause Mr. Brown’s coming to tea anil
there ain’t no cake.”
“But baby can’t cut cake."
“No, but it amused him to see me eat
it. ” — Detroit Tribune.
teddy’s idea.
Teddy’s papa always gets his ‘•'shaves”
at the barber's shop in town, and so the
little hoy never had happened to see the j
operation of shaving gone through with,
until grandpa came visiting to stay a
month. Grandpa shaved himself; and
j Teddy wntolled him for the first time j
with xvide-open brown eyes.
All at once he cried out:
“O mamma! mamma? gram‘pa’s brush- 1
ing frosting all over his face. ” Youth's
Companion.
SHIFTING THE RESPONSIBILITY.
1 . Critical Husband—This beef isn't tit
i to eat.
Wife—Well. I told the butcher that if
it wasn’t good I would send you right
around to his shop to give him a thrasli
| ing, and —I hope you will take some
i one with you, for he looked pretty ugly,
and I didn't like the way he handled his
big knife.” |
“Humph ! Oh, well, I’ve seen worse
meat than this.”
IN KENTUCKY.
Kentucky Coroner (sarcastically, to
witness)--Yon say that a quart bottle
full of whisky was found in the pockets, j
and yet you think the unfortunate -nan ]
i committed suicide (
Witness—Yes. sir.
Kentucky Coroner—Well, if you think
that anybody would commit suicide (
with a quart of whisky in his pocket !
you must boa person of very low intel
ligence. •
THE SPRING SEASON.
French Cook “Plase, mum, the !
i guests is a sayin’ that, the butter We’re
usin’ is oleo.”
Mistress —“Mercy ! Did they seethe
stamps?”
“No, mum, oi attinded to them me- |
self.”
“Well, Jane, its about time for spring j
butter now. Just mix a little garlic |
with it.”— Omaha, World.
i ,*
TOO LATE.
At the Butcher’s—“ Mali mammy, she
gvvine tor hah eomp’ny ter night. Wan’s
ter know ’f yo’ll go len her a luilim foi
ter ornymen’ de table viv.”
“Am de Clay boys gxvine ter be dar?”
“Umph.”
“Yo’ go tell vo’ mammy I done shot
down on de chart’ble interiah dee ra
| lion bizness las’ time dem boys ate ’way
! frum hohni.” —l id Hits. I
/ TAILORS ain't BUILT THAT XVAY.
' “Will you trust me, Fannie?” he j
cried, passionately grasping her hand. !
“With all my heart, Augustas, with all !
my soul, with all myself,” she whispered,
nestling on his manly bosom.
“Would to heaven you were my ■
j tailor,” he murmured sntto voce, and j
: tenderly he took her to his arms.— Wds/i
--| ington Critic. :
NO FLIES ON TIIE GROCER.
j Grocer —Yes, madam, I can swear to
you that is fresh, this year’s maple
sugar.
(Justomer —But how camo these fly
specks on it.
Grocer—We get the flies quite early
here, ma’am. They come in the dried
currants. —Burlington Free, Press.
!
POWDER.
“That fellow calls himself a soldier, ,
and he never smelt powder, ” said Jones *
! to Smith.
“Never smelt powder, eh !”
j “No, sir.”
“J think you’re wrong. I saw Tiino i
kissing a society girl the other night.”—
Boston Courier.
A GOOD FELLOW.
Wife (to husband)— Why is young
Tompkins called a good felloxv by his
friends t
Husband —Because he is always good
natured and pleasant, can tell a story
well, spends his money freely, and
shamefully neglects his family.— N. Y.
Sun.
didn’t go OFF.
“I saxv a spark touch powder the
other evening, and it didn't go off,”
said Clara.
“How so ?”
“Why, I saxv Charley kiss Ella’s
cheek, and, so far from going off, she
only came closer.”
THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
“Pardon me, sir,” he said, politely,
“hut it strikes me as somewhat odd that
so well dressed a man ns you are should
wear such a shocking pair of shoes. Are
you doing it on a wager ?”
“No, sir,” xvas the reply. “I’m a
shoemaker.”
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THE DINNER.
i Waiter—l lx-g pardon, Mr. Brown
; but you don’t order Such dinners a
I \'onr boys.
Mr. Broxvn—Umph ! My father isn't
as rich as theirs.— Harper's Jiazae.
ODDS AND ENDS.
It is a wise stock that knows its owe
par.
A little boy’s first pair of trousers
always fit if the pockets are deep
enough.
MT. VERNON. MONTGOMERY CO., GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11. 1887.
Fame is like a river, that bearoth up
things light and swollen and drowns
j things weighty and solid.
A Nr.xv Haven paper boasts of a eat.
that sits up like a kangaroo. Kangaroos
must sit up all night, then.
Science is a big thing. It makes su
gar from coal tar. Tt can do every
thing except make maple sugar from
Vermont.
“Alas! even doctors don’t know
i everything,” says a contemporary. No,
child; that exclusiveness is reserved for
editors.
A foreign lady, who had not become
used to the English language, was in
id tod to partake of some oysters. “ Oh,
thank you,” she replied; “ a little of the
j juice, please; none of the beasts.”
“I xx’isii I xvas a public house," said a
loving woman to her husband. “Why?”
he inquired, with some degree of sur
prise. “Oh, because you would run in
ighteen or twenty times a day to see
me.”
Advertisement in French newspaper:
“Fritz X ,an experienced accountant,
desires a place as a cashier. In the in
terest of tiie security of patrons he would
stale that he is afflicted with two wooden
legs. ”
I The ancient, proverb says: “You can
not get more out of a bottle than you
put in it.” That’s an error. Besides
what he put in, he can get a headache,
a sick stomach and perhaps ten days
in the loek-up.
A good mother xvas horrified the
other day when her little daughter in
formed her that she had her hair cut at
the blacksmith’s shop. When asked to
explain she replied: “Mr. Smith cut my
j hair, and he is black, isn’t he ?”
They tell of a very precise woman who
sailed into a dry goods store and
asked to he shown some, “dignitiers.”
“Wh-n-a-t?” stammeredtii<>clerk. “Dig
nifiers,” said the lady, severely. The
clerk had togive it up. “ Well, bustles,
then,” snapped the precise person, scorn
fully.
A newspaper correspondent writing
from Jacksonville, Fla., says that the
town is full of Northern folks, and that
| the position of the natives is well stated
| in the words of it little darkey xvho,
asked how he got a living, said: “In do
summer, sail, we lix’es often do fishes;
and in de wintah xve lives often do sick
Yankees.”
With His Mother.
A few weeks ago in this city a poor
widow died, leaving one child, a little
I lame boy, to the cold charities of tlio
, world.
i After his mother’s funeral the little
' fellow was taken ill from the combined
results of grief and neglect, and it xvas
I then evident that he would soon be
i united to his only friend.
He was left alone much of the day,
there being no one xvho could spare the
time to stay with him. It was often no
j ticed that the voices of two persons
could lie heard in his little room. But
when those r.i charge entered he would
be alone and apparently asleep.
) One day they listened, being quite
; sure that no one was with the child, and
they overheard this strange monologue;
“Is you rite there, mamma ?”
“Yes, my little boy, I is rite here.”
“War. you went away yet ?”
“1 wonted back to heaven to tell God
about, my little boy.”
! “Did you xvas afraid, mamma?”
“No, my own little boy, ’cause God is
nieer’n people.”
“Did you told him about me, mam
mn ?
“I told Him I had a little boy named
Harry—an’ an’ ”
There was a. loud noise of sobbing
i then, and the listeners without cried,
too. Presently the child’s voice re
sumed:
“Did you told God to let me come up
there, mamma V
“Yes, ray boy, an’ He said ‘himeby,
bimeby.’ ”
“Mammn, I’se—so—tired— an’—sleepy
—an' I want to come an’ stay with—
i you—an’—God.”
There was a long silence then, broken
by no cry or sob. The listeners went
in after resolving in their hearts to he
thereafter very patient with the mother
! less one.
But death had been kinder than they.
I — Detroit, Free Press.
The Old “ Back Log.”
It will surprise many persons of the
present flay to be told that the “back
log” of which we read so much in old
time stories was a large stone, a porous
stone being preferred if possible. This
stone xvas buried in the ashes, and on
top was placed the “back stick.” The
back stone in those primitive times
played a very important part in the
economy of early housekeeping; matches
were not then invented; flint, steel and
tow were the only means of lighting a
fire or a lamp; imagine for a moment
the “Bridget" of to-day thus engaged
with the thermometer ten degrees lie
low zero in the kitchen. The stone, to
, gather with the ashes with which it xvas
covered, served to retain fire and heat
through the night, and all that was nec
essary in the morning was a little kind
ling and gentle use of the indispensable
bellows, and a fire xxas as readily made
as at the present day.
Back stones were not in much use in
bedrooms and parlors after the begin
ning of this century, turf having taken
its nlaee and served equally well, while
taking up less space. The stone log in
my possession which la-longed to my
grandmother and was in use down to
within a few years of her death, half a
century ago, is at the service of the Bos- j
ton Society if they should think it of
sufficient importance. It is not less
than 150 ycais old.— Boston Transcript,
“SUB DEO FACIO FORTITER.”
CANOE W ILDING IN MAINE.
How Graceful Birches are Made -
as a Substitute for Bark.
A letter from Bangor, Me., says: The
ennoe Inis become so popular a craft
among sportsmen and tourists, even in
dispensable to the former class, that the
building of this light and graceful lioat
has grown to be quite an industry in
Maine, especially on the Penobscot
river. Time xxas when the big birch
trees were to he found dose to the water
all along the Penobscot, and clear,
straight cedar xxas near at hand and
plentiful, so that the materials for a
canoe worn easily obtained. Nowadays
the birches are from ‘2O to 100 miles dis
tant from the upriver towns, back in the
dense forests, and txxo suitable trees are
seldom found within sight, of each other,
while tlu> cedar is also more remote and
scarce. All hark for canoes come° from
the white birch trees’ outer thickness.
In winter its inner side has a reddish
brown coat, but in summer it is smooth
and yelloxv. The winter peeled bark is
preferable for canoes because it is
tougher, and because, also, of the op
portunity for ornamentation of the craft,
afforded by its brown coat, on which xii
lions designs, such as deers’ heads,
arrows, etc., may be easily traced.
The canoe builder fells a white biroll
which is at least one foot, in diameter at
a distance of eighteen feet from the
base, allowing it to fall across some small
logs to keep it from the ground, and
then strips off its outer coat. The bark
must be warmed toasted, ns it, were—
before it car. be straightened out and
rolled up in the proper shape for trans
portation. The hark and cedar are car
ried out. of the woods in boats or canoes
when the streams are open, otherwise on
a “tout sled.” When the builder is
ready for work he drives stakes into the
ground, and thus forms a frame the
shape of his eanoe. Then the hark,
after more toasting, is smoothed out and
fitted to the frame, after which the gun
wales, strips of clear, stripped cedar, are
nut ill place, and the top edges of the
nark secured to them by means of cop
per nails. Next the whole inside of the
birch is lined xvith lengthxvise strips ot
thin-shaved cedar, after which about, GO
cedar timbers are “sprung” into place
over them, the timber heads being sc
oured under the gunwales. All cuts
made in the bark in bringing it into the
required shape and forming the ends of
the canoe are sexvn up with cane threads
and gummed over with a paste composed
of resin and oil. Ash thwarts, very nar
row, are put, in, strips of canvas glued
over the ends of the eanoe where the
two sides of the bark sheet meet, and
the graceful craft is done. Paddles are
shaved from poplar, maple and ash. If
the canoe is meant for deep water, where
there is likely to be a sea, she is built
rather deep; if for shoal xvater, such as
front fishers require, she is made very
flat. A good canoe will hold four men
and carry them safely, if properly han
dled.
About, ten years ago canvas began to
be used in place of bark as a material
for canoes, and a great many of this de
scription are now made in Bangor. They
are covered xvith a thick coat of paint to
make them watertight, and are lighter,
fully as cheap, but not so symmetrical
as birch. The duck for an ordinary
eighteen foot canoe costs 3fi, and gener
ally requires a seam, being too narrow
for a single breadth covering. The only
tools required bv either white man or
Indian in making canoes are a knife
with a curved blade, an axvl, drawshave,
and hammer. The Indian often has
only the knife. The red man is not so
near a builder ns some whites, but, he is
the best of all navigators of the birch.
Canoes of both kinds and all shapes and
sizes are tie rage at the uinm-r resorts,
being popular among the dudes, lie
cause it requires very little strength to
propel them at a, rapid rate. They are
also pretty to look at, and are safe
enough in careful or experienced hands.
Canvas xxill never entire!;.' supersede
birch for chirk*, for the later bends very
gracefully, and is a more romantic ma
terial than duck.
MRS. TILTON’S PENSION.
AN AGET) CENTENARIAN, THE XVIDOW OF
A revolutionary soldier.
The sole surviving representative of
the Revolutionary War, as recognized
by the government, is Abigail B. Tilton,
of North Woodbridge, Rockingham
County, N. H. Out of the army of
persons who are entitled to pensions she
is the only one who receives hiicli as the
wife of a soldier of the Revolution.
Mrs. Tilton is the widow of Benjamin
Stevens, who, according to the musty
records of the office, participated in the
battle of Bennington as a member of
Captain McConnell’s company, under
the command of (tenoral Stark. Mrs.
Tilton is now a trifle more than one
hundred years old. She was married a
second time in 1831, but was divorced
and resumed her maiden name.
Her second marriage invalidated her
right to a pension as the widow of Benj
amin Stevens, but the State of New
Hampshire subsequently granted her an
allowance of 32 a week for the remain
der of her natural life. Aland eight
years ago Congress further increased
this by the addition of 316 a month, to
lie paid to her as a special revolutionary
pension, it having been alleged that she
xvas “houseless, homeless and childless.”
The old lady is represented as enjoying
excellent health and in the full posses
sion of all tier mental and physical fac
ulties. Until a year ago three other
relies of Revolutionary heirs drew sim
ilar pensions through the Knoxville
agency. But they have all died within
the past twelve months and Mrs. Tilton
if, now the only link that is left connect
ing the government of to-day with the
stormy scenes of 1770.
lIOW GOLD IS EX PORTED.
Something of Interest, and New to
M any Readers.
The Boston Commercial Bui'■ tin says:
Each keg contains 350,0(10 in clear gold.
It is from the Bank of America, at Nexx
York, that most of the gold is shipped
from that city. The foreign steamships
sailing from this oity noxv carry little or
no gold, although the reverse was the
case years ago. The shipments of gold
are not generally on the hank’s account,
At a first glance persons might well sup
pose that, when the demand arises for
gold to send abroad the shipper would
onlv have to send in his order sot hishun
rh •edsof thousands to the sub-treasury,
xvhere millions of specie are on deposit.
But there are sufficient reasons why this
plan xvill not work. The sub treasury
can pay out its coin only to creditors of
the government. With the Bank of
America the associated hanks keep on
deposit constantly an enormous sum of
gold, sometimes amounting to if -
000. To the members of the lmnk asso
ciation the Bank of America issues its
own certificates against these deposits,
redeemable on demand. So, xvhon there
is occasion for making a gold shipment,
the coin is prepared for that purpose in
the rear office of that hank; hero it is
bagged and kegged and made ready for
that purpose. Kegs in xvhieh gold is
packed specie kegs, ns they are called
are made of extra laird wood. They
must have an extra iron hoop. Specie
is not thrown loosely into a keg, nor,
upon the other hand, is if carefully
wrapped in tissue paper and piled up
one coin upon another. The keg serves
only as u protection for canvass hags,
into xvhieh tiie gold is placed in the or
dinary hit and miss fashion of pennies
in a man’s pocket. Into each bag goes
35,000, unit ten lings till a keg. In the
interest of security each keg is treated
tu xvlmt is technically known among the
shippers ns the red taping process. At
riich end of the keg, in the projecting
rim of the staves above the head, are
bored four holes at equidistant intervals.
A piece of red tape is run through these
holes, crossing on tiie head of the keg,
mul the ends finally meet in the centre.
At the point of meeting the tape is seal
ail to the keg’s head by wax hearing the
leal of the shipper. Gold crosses the
ocean very much as does every other
kind of freight, without any special look
ing after. The average rate of insur
ance is about 32,0011 dollars on a ship
ment of 31,000,000. There are shippers
who do not insure. Having to ship
31,000,000, they give it in different, parts
In half a dozen different vessels. It is a
strict rule xvith some firms never to trust
more than 3250,000 at a time on anyone
ship. A certain party furnishes all the
logs for gold and packs them. The man
who does this's a monopolist, in Ins way.
Shippers of large amounts always lose a
few dollars by abrasion, lint not exceed
ing sixteen ounces on a million dollar ship
mi nt. The only protection to he found
against abrasion lies in the shipment, o|
gold in bars instead of coin. Gold burr
nro not readily obtained.
AN EMPEROR’S WAV.
II ow Kaiser William of German;
Lives.
While nt home in the palace at Berlin
lie breakfasts nt half-past seven o’clock
every Vnorning, invariably using coffee,
with a large, alloxvarn eof milk, and bread
without butter. Weather permitting,
betakes walking exercise daily before
luncheon, xvhieh is served at one o’clock.
Boiled crabs is a favorite dish at this
meal, and is partaken of with great
relish. Between luncheon and dinner
affairs of State are attended to for three
hours and sometimes longer. Then lie
rests until it is, time, to dress for dinner.
The fixed hour for this is four. Every
morning tin- Chief Cook submits the
bill of fare for approxul. It usually con
sists of five courses. The Emperor has
a decided preference for plain food. Ho
is liberal in the use of fruit, and drinks
mineral water procured from a natural
spring.
A cup of ten, without bread or cuke,
is the only refreshment he talo-s between
dinner and bed time. He makes a point
of resting a half an hour after breakfast
and luncheon, and an hour after dinner.
When tie re are guests invited to dinner
they meet him in an ante chamber. A
quarter of an hour is spent, in chatting.
He then leads the way to the dining
riKirri. The invitations are always sent
out at an early hour, and the seats dis
eussed with tiie Court Marshal. When
there are rio guests the Emperor dines
with the Empress, and the cook takes
orders from her.
In summer, while at Gastrin, or some
other watering-place, the Emperor goes
to the hath room at half-post seven
o'clock in the morning. He breakfasts
at eight, walks at ten, accompanied by
a personal adjutant and special attend
ant. Luncheon is served at eleven.
Betvxeen twelve and three lie confers
with the officers of the civil and military
cabinets who are in waiting. Dinner is
served at four. It consists ot soup, fish,
boiled beef, two entrees, dessert and
fruit. All the members *f the Imperial
suite attend. At six o’clock he takes a
carriage ride, makes a social call and
chats for an hour or longer. He is never
out of fieri later than ten o’clock.
The Emperor takes considerable in
terest in sanitary science, and is very
particular in the matter of air and ven
illation. Rilling to hounds has been
one of his favorite amusements. He is
a splendid figure on horseback.
A devout Arab woman xvas asked in
her lust illness how she '•ndured such suf
fering, and replied, “They who look up
vii God’s face do not fgel his hand.”
VOL. 11. NO. to.
A NIC E HORSE STORY. \
It Carries Its Oxvn Moral, which is a
Most Excellent One.
[From the Chicago Heral I.]
Un Madison street one day I paused
to pat the nose of a beautiful horso
which t food by the curb and to com
mensurate his misfortune. For this
beautiful animal, though sleek of coat
and shapely in body and limb, was ap
parently suffering most excruciating
torture. His head had been checked
inhumanly high, and the cruel bit,
drawing tightly into his mouth, disfig
ured an animal face of unusual charm
and intelligence. I was just fancying
that the horse had begun to understand
and appreciate my words of sympathy,
when tlie lady who sat in the carriage
holding the reins fumbled in her pock
et, produced a lump of white sugar,
and asked me to give it to the horse.
“He is very fond of sugar,” she ex
plained, “and T have quite won his
heart, by feeding it to him. T always
carry sugar in my pocket while out
driving, and give him a lump at every
opportunity. I never know a horse to
be so fond of sugar. Will you please
give him another lump?”
“Certainly,” T replied, “I see that
von arc quite as fond of the horse ns he
is of sweets.
“Yes, I think everything of him.”
“Then why do you torture him."
“Torture my Prince?”
“ Yes, that is just what you are do
ing. Do you not know that the poor
animal suffers agony because his head
is checked so unnaturally high ? His
neck is drawn out straight,, producing a
most ungraceful angle, he holds his
head awkwardly, the bit is hurting his
mouth,'and that, graceful curvature of
neck and carriage of head which are his
nature arc now entirely lost. Why do
you check him so high ?”
She didn’t know. She was not aware
that high checking was a source of pain
to horses, nor that it destroyed their
natural beauty. She was amazed at the
discovery.
“May I trouble you to loosen liis
his check ?” she asked.
vVhcn the strap was unstrapped the
horse immediately lowered his head,
straightened the cramps out of his hand
some neck, shook himself to make sure
that lie had actually been released from
bondage, anil then looked around with
such a grateful, delighted expression in
liis intelligent eyes that his mistress
declared no more checking straps
should be used upon him.
lion lie Escaped.
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WAS SAVED FROM THE IHTFFA IiO FIRE.
Foster Milliken, a resident of New
York city, was in the burning Richmond
House iii Buffalo, and in a letter gives a
thrilling description of how lie managed
to escape from the fourth floor of the
hotel to the street. After telling how
he was aroused by the electric bells, he
writes:
“Hastily (Hilling on my trousers, I
ran to a window overlooking a court in
the rear, and discovered the interior of
that place to be one vast sheet of fire—
| the space anting liko a huge chimney,
up which the flames were forced. The
staircase, I knew, was of wood, and liable
to go under any minute, and the flames
were curling up this arid over the balus
ters, and it seemed almost suicidal to go
, down that way; hut there was no other,
for every one in that part of the hotel
was cut off from the main street. I
started to run. On the first step my
hare feet slipped on the carpet and
threw me on my back, and T fell, or
rather slid, down head first to the floor
j below. While descending I was actual
ly under the flames which swept up the
stairway, singing and burning those who
followed me. On the third story I was
obliged hi run through the flames aliout
twenty feet, to reach the stairs from the
third to the second story. Here T slip
ped again, arid crawled under the flame*
to the second floor. Seeing a bedroom
door ajar at the end of the hull, I thought
that by reaching that room 1 would be
close to the street. In this room I
found myself in the comer of the build
ing, and from the window I discovered a
balcony which projected over Eagle
street. From this I managed to climb
to a lodge over the show window of
the store adjoining the hotel, from
which I slid down an iron post to the
pavement.”
A Boston Maid Servant.
The Providence Jmirnnl tells this
story: A lady living on the Rack Ray
has a servant to whom is justly to be ap
plied the term “superior” in its most
elevated meaning. While the Paint and
Clay Club exhibition of paintings was
open, this superior young woman in
formed her mistr* -s thntslie hail a ticket,
and requested a special evening out in
order to attend the show. For aught I
know to tho contrary it may have been
the evening of the opening reception,
when I am sure that the servant element
was pretty generously represented; but
at least (lie fact remains that at one time
or another the girl saw the exhibition.
On her return home she sought her mis
tress at the first opportunity.
“Here,” she said, extending her ticket,
which chanced to lie a “season,” “you
must go and sec those pictures. It is
the finest exhibition I ever saw. Fou d
better go right off, because I shall want
to use the ticket again myself.”
Her mistress has a keen sense of
humor. She took the ticket, invited her
most aristocratic aoquantunoe, and visit
ed the exhibition on the girl’s ticket.
A holy man, who lives in habitual com
munion with (lod, has a living influence
1 on his generation.