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IN GOLD BOOT.
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Whftt Is it now to livi? It la to breathe
The air of heaven, factoid the pleasant earth,
Tbo shining rivers, tU inconstant sea.
Sublimity of mountain, wealth of clouds.
And radiance o’er all f countless stars.
It Is to sit before the ccerful hearth
With* groups of frleuq and kindred, store of
books.
Rich heritage from nun past.
Hold sweet communis, soul with soul.
On things now pust, or pesent, or to como.
Or muse alonfe upon my urller days.
Unbind the scroll, whiyou is writ
* The story of my busy He;
Mistakes too often, but st-eessus more.
Ami consciousness of d|y done.
It is to see witli laugliing yes the play
Of children sportiug on he lawn.
Or mark tlio eager strife of men
And nations, seeking can and all,
Bellko advantage to obtan
Above their fellows; suelts man!
It is to fool tiiu pulses qulcku, as I hear
Of great events uear or air,
Whereon may turn perehnee
The fate of generations, age hence.
It is ttf rest with folded arm betimes,
Aud so surrounded, so HimUned.
Ponder ou what u*rv yet lifall
In that unknown W sterlus realm
Which lies beyond the rang of mortal ken.
Where souls immortal do foover dwell;
Think of the loved ones when wait me there.
And without murmuring or iwurd grlof.
With mind unbroken And o fear.
Calmly await the coming of to ixtrd.
—David Dudley Field lu Net York ludopond-
ent.
A Stout Hearted fegro.
A negro man displayeda phenomena'
amount of courage at the vy Street hue
pitul Saturday. He haaqnite a local
reputation as a "fiddler." He was re
cently «Ictim of an teddent tliut
necessitfleil the aiuputalon of one o.
his legs. He was at the lospital when
the surgeons arrived to conduct the
operation. Not withstands;? his serious
and painful condition, am the fact thul
he was to nndergo the excruciating
agony of huriug one «of da legs, and
probably bo-.li. cut off, lie greeted the
surgeonB witi a broad sniil.
His injnral limbs were carefully ex
amined, and one of the sui-uons, with a
solemn and significant siaku of the
head,eaid:
‘‘Boh, it’s i biul job; but tour legs are
In u bad coiditiou, aud nnpntution is
necessary."
Bob looked up quizzically and asked:
“What ytr mean by luupertusbou,
bo3s.'”
“1 mean ylurlogs must como off."
“Gee wind cip’u, bufo of 'em','’'
“Probnblyso, I can’t tell yet." wattlie
reply. .
Tim smile os the ebony face wia ut
once succeed'd by a dark aud trouiluil
look, and tot oegan to explain the
change tlius|’:
“Cap'n. if foa took Ixifudeso her,mud
pedals off 1 Isa ruined nigger Eiore’s
God. i will luvo to quit do pereshon
which I have I dlered utility life. I doun
mine do cnlitioperashot . Imt yoi see's
I'm a fidilkTjm if yon int hofe bgsoff
1 won’t havohnttmt leftjm pat wd, and
I will never 1 is, no mo) count a a tid
dler. Pleiue, floss, path tqi (tie leg
fur ano ter pvt will an cut nthqr’ei off,"
Whether bo surgeon vas totalled by
the story ornnt JiO coni|iied will Bob's
request, mil lie si ill Ins a leg to pat
with. —Atlinta Constitiiion.
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lie Alwaya KiiJrtJ'wl llio Fire
How often we fail U Ray wlut we
mean even when we want to say jwf. the
right thijg. They tell tlia story, I n- in
stance: The daughter of Deacon C
was a tiitio “slow,” both of speech and
understanding, but “as gpod as the day
is long.” After her father's death she
was talking with u nei^ibor, who had
just “dropped in,” concerning sonu of
the characteristics of the departed.
“Father,” said she, “xvasahvays a gmnt
hand to ’tend (ires. Hu jest enjojed
pnttin in wood *u theil spreadin lis
hands out to fo«*l the warmth. I lo
hope”—reflectively aud with consider*
able tenderness In her tom—“1 do hole
they’ll have n good fli’e wpcrepa’sgoml”
—Buffalo Connnerrial, |
Stout Women Should Not Smoko.
The question of whether women sha)
smoke or not hasevidently not yet beel
settled. Any woman win has a lurking
desire to bo cnrolh'd utldur the bauuei
ot the [vagrant leaf vill *|<> well to read
this caution from 'Mr. James Payn
Says he;
“It is noticeable ti.il \^|»en I his prac
tice among women is advocated the-
lady smoker is always represented n».
young and beautiful and handling her
cigarette as if it wen a flower. From
an artistic point of viev 1 tad hound to
confess that no lady 'of nature years
and inclined to fttontiiuni slum Id venture
upon this enjoyment." ) j
Freak* of lli#
An elderly man in Deenog recently
recovered from an attack of the grip
that cost him his teeth and nearly cost
him his life. Ho was takei suddenly
and Violently ill aud the saim day every
tooth in his upper jaw became so loose
that ho could move them with his tongue
and so sore that ho could not masticate.
They were sound enough bofdre to war
rant their lasting several years, but they
all had to be extracted.—Lewiston (Me.)
Journal.
Natural InqtilMlUreiicm.
At one of tho grammar schools in this
city the fourth grade pupils were not
long sitico reading tho story of an im
portant liattlo during tho rebellion. The
text read, “Both sides fought with
dogged pertinacity.” When thispoiift
was reached a boy in one of tho back
seats raised liis hnnd and calmly in
quired, “Wliat kind of weapons are
those?"—Buffalo Express.
A Remarkable l'i.h.
•txolotl, or fish with legs, is the name
Mexicans give to a queer creature which
can swim like a fish or run up a smooth
wall like a fly, can live and grow when
kept constantly in water like a true fish,
and yet can live and grow entirely away
from water (excepting a little to drink)
like, n true air breathing animal.
HOSPITALITY AMONG WOODSMEN.
When the Stransor Is Taken In null
Made to Feel nt Home.
Anong the genuine woodsmen in
eastern America great hospitality to
s trim fere is tho most distinguishing
trait. By woodsmen is meant those
who make their living by chopping
and huffing logs, and who live all
winter in log camps, half buried up
in th» snows of a vigorous northern
climate, far away from the outor
world Among these people there is
no lav against tramps. The solitary
hunter or the lonely traveler whom
night lias overtaken in hiB journey
alwayi receives a cordial welcome,
not horn one, but from all of tbo
crew. i
As toon ns the stranger's head is
inside if the low door by which tie
hut isenterod, the cook calls out
him t* walk in. for it is this fun,
tionarj who does the honors of
camp. He is then invited to take
place <n the “deacon seat,” that
may 1» better able to warm his ft
before the fire. The question is the'i
put, "Hove you had your supper it
and the wanderer is asked to stop up
and lure a bite; even If he has al
ready rapped he will be almost forced
to take a piece of sweet coke and to
drink a cup of tea.
Thetcakettle always sits beside the
Ore, nod on tho stranger's arrival tin)
cook gives this “a good boil,” foi
woodsmen want their tea boiled.
Some fat pork is cut and put into tlio
pan and is soon simmering over a
cheery fire. While the stranger ii
takiig off his moccasins and putting
on ndry pair of socks, with which
the look is always ready to furnish
liin; the cook is plying him with
questions as to what is going on out
in fie settlement.
fo soon as the "boss” or owner of
tht camp and crew como in at night,
tlcir day’s work over, the Btranger
is.'ordially greeted by all; in fact he
bicomcs one of themselves and is
repected to walk up to the bean pot
o' tho frying pan and to help himself
t> anything that suits liis palate
vithout asking anybody. Ho not
only becomes ns one of tlio crow, but
die best place in the berth is reserved
for him, sorno one turning out of it
and Bleeping on tho deacon sent
(the hewn plank on which the crow
sit when eating tlioir meals). Some
times the deacon scat is preforable
to tho berth.
Many yours since, late one stormy
winter night, I .arrived nt Mr. W.
Richard's logging camp at the “Otter
Slide," on the Nashwalk river, New
Brunswick. Tlio crew had retired.
When I entered tho camp Mr. R.
raised his head from tho fir boughs
on which he was lying and said to
me, “Como, take this place.” I
caught at the moment a glimpse of a
bod of snow beneath the green
boughs, “No, thank you, I prefer
tho deacon seat.” On this I gladly
stretched my weary limbs with my
boots for a pillow and coat thrown
over my shoulders for covering; and
yet, after all. my sleep was Bonndor
and more refreshing than that of one
amid all the luxuries of the town.—
Forest and Stream
Til® Ota l-'itrJner'* Gltlii Pieces.
VOne day when I was receiving
teller <Jf n bank," said Otis Htidley,
president of the Kansas City Car
riage and Omnibus company, “an old
farmer. came in with about $5,000 in
gold pieces in a sank. Tlioy were all
black, like an old copper, and looked
as if they hail boon soaked in tea
grounds or acid. I asked the man
where be got them.
“ ‘Well,' he said, 'Iliad that money
when the war started. I never had
no faith in theso here banks-in them
days, and wasafeard if tho war went
tho wrong way, they'd all go up the
spout. So I buried the money just a
hundred paces from my well. 1
never had no use for it since, but al
ways watched the stone on the
ground there to "see that it wasn't
moved. The other day I got to dick
ering with the man that owns the
section ’joining mine, and if we swap
I’ll want this ’ere gold, I reckon. I
thought I’d fetch it up here so Icould
draw it. I got mighty ashamed of
leaving it in the ground. The farm-
MODERN RACHELS AT THE
parts makes what they
Mi you fellers.’
that the money
Uy kept, and gave
■it book and he went out
Gtit thteo weeks he returned,
i hiB faoe, but he said he
t was the feller what took
and he produced the
A Substitute* fur Cnnul Locke,
H. G. Kotehum. engineer of the
Cbignooto ship railway, is credited ns
the author of a scheme by which
vessels drawing upward of twenty
feet of water can be pushed through
tlio present St. La wrence canals from
Port Arthur to Quebec, and through
the Soo canal now being excavated,
without deepening the canals or en
larging the locks, thus obviating tlie
expenditure of millions of dollars
upon canal deepening.
Mr. Kotehum proposes that large
vessels bo placed upon steel rafts or
pontoons, and thus floated through
tbo canals nnd over river shallows,
tho vessels to be plnced upon the pon
toons by means of hydraulic lifts
established at the entrance of each
canal. He says $500,000 would pro-
ride pontoons and lifts for all tho ex
isting canals; but these lifts could be
toed os graving docks; but little time
would lie lost in placing the vessels
upon tho floats, and the plan has been
successful el3(swliere. — New York
Telegram.
One Way to SuCbceto a Frog.
A frog cannot breathe with his
month open. The conformation of
his breathing apparatus is such that
when his mouth is open his nostrils
will Ikj Closed and, paradoxical as it
may seem, all you have to do to suf
focate a frog is to put a stick in his
mouth so he cannot shut his jaws. It
is a strange phenomenon, probably
unparalleled in anitnai history, but
nevertheless any one who pledges
may make the experiment, though it
certainly will be disastrous to the
Vog. -St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Olive Oil Becoming it Myth.
The development of tho cotton seed
industry has been so great and tho
many articles now made from it are
so useful that it has supplanted the
famous olive tree products in a ma
jority of cases.—Now York Journal.
No Time to Look.
Dashaway—Wliat did Miss Palisade
have on last night?
Staffer—I don’t know; I- only saw
her at dinner. —Cloak Review.
et* in
call
would
him a
smiling.
"Inal
I’d forgo!
‘reckoned
his mom _
hook. I remembered film then, and
he said he’d mode the deal with his
neighbor and wonted hie money. I
showed lihu how to draw a check,
and sent him to the paying teller.
Tlie cheek was cashed in bright and
shining gold.
“ ‘That ain’t my money,’ he ex
claimed In a forlorn Bort of way,
•What have you done with my mon
ey?’ and a look of anxiety and fear
was on his face. The teller told him
it certainly was his money. Ho began
to examine tbo coins and found some
old pieces in the lot, and then he
smiled and said : ‘B’gosh, you fellers
must V had a fine time rubbing all
tliom pieces up in this way. I reck
oned you all had something else to
do.’Knnixu City Star.
Tim London r»ntmuu«
No whistles are used by tho car
riers in: London. Instead, they use
tho postman's doublo knock, which
is roade|l)y giving two distinct raps
on the door. 1 Every door is provided
with q kW'Jiprimdthe doors ara.al-
ivays locked; leven tlio dwellings of
the very poorest of London’s popula
tion urd provided with their knockor
and kept clotpd. There are perhaps
a few that have four stories, but they
are very few. 1 . Of course this refers
to dwellings only. They have large
office buildings such as are found in
npy city in this country.
Tin- postman in Englund is looked
upon as an integrate part of the gov
eminent, and ns such is treated with
the greatest of consideration and re
spect. Such a thing as u carrier hav
ing to wait in the hallway of a house
for two, three, or sometimes five
minutes before he gets an answer, as
we liavo to do, and to be unable to
deliver a letter and to have to mark
it “no answer” is something unheard
of.
When a carrier starts at the head
of a street to deliver liis mail he gives
his double knock on the first and sec
ond houso, nnd tho entire street al
most is awake to the fact that the
postman is coming. The result is
they are waiting for him. In an or
dinary city block it would not be
necessary to knock more than, two
or tlireo times, once or twice at the
head of tho street and agnin in the
middle. Tlio carrier nevor has to
wait, and this onables him to make
better time.—Foetal Record.
Fires In New Fork City.
Do you know at what time fires
usually break out? Is it during the
busy, hustling hours of the day or
during the still, silent hours of the
night? Tlie report of the fire coin
missioners answers the query. Tho
average number of fire alarms in a
year in Now York city is a little
more than 4,000, which is at the rate
of more than ten alarms a day. Lees
than one-quarter of the fires start
between 11 p. m. and 7 a. m., while
about three-quarters start between 7
a. m. and 11 p. in. Oddly, the alarms
are rarest lietween C and 7 a. m.,
when fires for household and busi
ness purposes are kindled generally.
Tlio busiest time for firemen is be
tween 8 and 9 p. m., about the timo
that fires for household purposes go
out. Thera is no particular differ
ence in days regarding the frequency
of fires, except that they are materi
ally fewer on Fridays than on any
other day of tho week.—-New York
Sun.
Cblncio Ginger Jars.
The ginger jars of haivthom and
other decorations which are so high
ly prized by collectors of Chinese
porcelain, are so called because they
are made at the Imperial Porcelain
works under special orders from the
palace and sent to Canton, where
they are filled with preserved ginger
and similar sweetmeats by the vico-
roy and returned to the emperor at
Peking.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Tho Beautiful Madonna Faced Woman
nt the Fountains of Mnjorca.
Ono of my first intlirallmonts here
was by tlie water carriers of Palma.
They are not so naive as those of the
Azores, so bold us those of Italian
cities, so voluptuous ns those of Lis
bon, nor so languorous eyed nnd
petite os these of Grenada and Se
ville. But I eoflld not help thinking
that hero an artist would find hun
dreds of perfect models for a “Rachel
at the Well.” Toll, lithe, slender,
but shapely maidens are these, and
their dress, carriage, features uud
ways Constantly increase ono’s ad
miration and interest.
For dayB I found myself, against
all apparent mason, drawn to this
fountain, and that, making all man
ner of mental excuse for wliat my
own judgment scourged mo with ns
an accusation of impropriety, at
tempt os I might, to study all other
features, become interested in tlio
majestic cathedral or essay tramps
Into the interior, bock 1 came to tlie
fountains to contemplate these fair
maidens and endeavor to unravel the
strange spell they hod cast upon mo.
In the first place, I never eaw but
one woman whose unrivaled art
gave her the perfect carriage these
women unconsciously own as na
ture’s heritage. That woman was
Sarah Bernhardt. Added to this was
a conscious dignity and a not coylsh
but superb and stately modesty
which lent positive radiance to every
movement, gesturo or look.
Their attire added a rare charm to
all elso. Theiv tiny feet were inrased
hi dainty slippers. A skirt of loosely
woven dark stuff fell in close and
graceful folds about their long and
shapely limbe, Over this lay a short
napkinlike apron, spotlessly white.
A dark bodice, low at tlie neck, dis
played exquisite shoulders and brenr'
and its sleeves stopping at the elbow,
where nn edging of white wns seen!
showed tho lower half of beautifully
molded anus. Tlio head is baro, cov
ered by a wealth of hair coiled low
nnd heavily in tlio neck, giving in
tlio suuliglvt tlio blue black luster of
tho grapo. Tlio forehead is strangely
wide for tho Latin typo, and tho eye
brows, which almost meet, hnvo tlio
low, wide arch.
Tho eyes are largo, luminous, melt
ing, sad, and never wore seen oyo-
Inshcs of Ruch length and blackness
oil other wornOn. 'Htltri'iethS is finely
chiseled and the nostrils tiro thin and
have a perceptible tremor. An oval
chin, dazzling teotli, a mouth that
suggests tho hot blood of tho south,
chastened by endless repression, with
lips of crimson, complete a face of
Madonnaliko depth end fooling. This
face looks out of a filmy white ker
chief drawn close beneath the chin,
with points fastened with a roBe or a
triflo of jewelry to tho hair at either
side of the head, while its longest
point covers the neck and breast to
the girdled waist below.
In processions of a dozen to n score,
wending tlieir way to and from, or
when loitering beBido the fountains,
they form groupings against the
quaint old walls beneath the lonely
palms fit for Tadema’s master hand.
Tlieir burdens are never carried upon
their heads. Tlio bottom of the empty
or filled ewer always rests upon the
right hip, the handle against the car
rier’s breast, nnd her half bared
white arm is flung carelessly around
tho vessel just below its mouth.—
Palma Cor. Chicago News.
▲ Remarkable Clock.
Japan possesses a remarkable time
piece It is contained in a frame
threp feet wide and five feet long,
representing a noonday landscape of
great beauty. In the foreground
plum and cherry trees and rice plants
appear in full bloom; in the rear is
seen a hill, gradual in ascent, from
which apparently flows a cascade,
admirably imitated in crystal. From
this point a threadlike stream mean
ders, encircling rocks and islands in
its windings, and finally losing itself
in a far off stretch of woodland. In a
miniature sky a golden sun tarns on
a silver wire, striking the hours on
silver gongs os it passes. Each hour
is marked on tho frame by a creep
ing tortoise, which serves the place
of a hand. A bird of exquisite plum
age warbles at choclosoof each hour,
and as tbo song ceases a mouse sal
lies forth from a neighboring grotto
and scampering over the hill to the
garden is soon lost to view.—Iron.
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Thu Dentil Rattle.
A correspondent tells this interest
ing snake story: “A few days ago I
sent two boys to tho spring after wa
ter, and in a moment ono of them
camo running back 'in great fright,
saying that ho saw a stinging rattle
snake with rattlers on his head and
a horn on his tail, and one-half of the
snake' was black and the other half
spotted. I went with them to see
tho monster, and when wo got thero
a black snako about five foot long
was swallowing a rattlesnake about
2 1-2 feet long. Tho rattler was rat
tling with all bis might, while liis
colored brother was swallowing with
all his power. We left them, ant'
went back in about onhour and both
wore dead.”—'Great Divide.
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