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A BABY PASSENGER. By Bram Stoker. One night we were journeying in the west of the Rockies over a road bed ■which threatened to jerk out our teeth with every loosely-laid sleeper on the line. Traveling in that part of the world, certainly In the days I speak of, was pretty hard. The travelers were most¬ ly men, all overworked, all overanx¬ ious, and Intolerant of anything which hindered their work or interfered with the measure of their repose. In night journeys the berths of the sleeping cars were made up early, and as all the night trains were sleeping cars, the only thing to be done was to turn in at once and try and sleep away the time. As most of tbe men were usual¬ ly tired out with the day’s work, the arrangement suited everybody, You can understand that on such journeys women and children were disturbing elements. Fortunately they were, as night travelers, rare, and the women, with that consideration for the needz of their men folk which I have always noticed in American fetaale workers, used to devote themselves to keeping the little ones quiet. The weather was harsh, and sneez¬ ing and coughing was the order of the day. This made the people in the Bleeper, all men, irritable; all the more that as most of them were contribut¬ ing to the general chorus of sounds coming muffled through quilts and cur¬ tains, it was impossible to single out any special offender for general exe¬ cration. After awhile, however, the change of posture from standing or sitting to lying down began to have some kind of soothing effect, and new sounds of occasional snoring began to vary the monotony of irritation. Pres¬ ently the train stopped at a way sta¬ tion; then ensued a prolonged spell of shunting backward and forward with the uncertainty of jerkiness which is so peculiarly disturbing to imperfect sleep; and then two newcomers enter- ed the sleeper, a man and a baby. The baby was young, quite young enough to be defiantly ignorant and Intolerant of all rules and regulations regarding the common good. It played for its own hand alone, and as it was extremely angry and gifted with exceptionally powerful lungs, the fact of its presence and Its emotional condition, even though the latter afforded a mystery as to its cause, were immediately appar¬ ent. The snoring ceased, and its place was taken by muttered grunts and f fl 35 I , ffi ! 'l wv I A» so, m » wm WHERE’S IT’S MOTHER, ANYHOW? growls; the coughing seemed to in¬ crease with the renewed irritation,and everywhere was the rustling of ill-at- ease and impotent humanity. Curtains were pulled angrily aside, the rings shrieking viciously on the brass rods and gleaming eyes and hardening mouths glared savagely at the intruder on our quiet, for so we now had tardily come to consider by comparison him and it. The newcomer did not seem to take the least notice of anything, and went on In a stolid way trying to quiet the child, shifting it from one arm to the other, dandling it up and down, and rocking it sideways. All babies are malignant; the natural wickedness of man, as elaborated at the primeval curse, seems to find an unadulterated effect in their expres¬ sions of feeling. The baby was a peculiarly fine spe¬ cimen of its class. It seemed to have no compunction whatever, no parental respect, no natural affection, no miti¬ gation in the natural virulence of its rancor. It screamed, it roared, it squalled, It bellowed. The root Ideas of profanity, of obscenity,of blasphemy were mingled in its tone. It beat with clenched fists Its father’s face, it claw¬ ed at his eyes with twitching fingers,it used his head as an engine with which to buffet him. It kicked, it struggled, it wriggled, It writhed, it twisted it¬ self into serpentine convolutions, till every now and then, what with its vocal and muscular exertions, it threat¬ ened to get black in the face. All the time the stolid father simply tried to keep it quiet with eternal changes of posture, and with whispered words, “There, now, pet!” “Hush; lie still, little one,” “Rest, dear one, rest!” He was a big, lanky, patient looking, an- gular man, with great rough hands and enormous feet, which he shifted about as he spoke, so that man and child together seemed eternally rest¬ less. The thing appeared to have a sort of fascination for most of the men in the car. The curtains of a lot of berths were opened and a lot of heads ap¬ peared, all scowling. I chuckled softly to myself and tried to oonceal my mer¬ riment lest I should spoil the fun. No one said anything, for a long time, till at last one yild-eyed, swarthy, long- bearded individual, who somehow look¬ ed like a Mormon elder, said: “Say.master, what kind of a howling piece is that you’ve got there? Have none of you boys got a gun?” There came frpm the bunks a regu¬ lar chorus of acquiescence: “The durn- ed thing had ought to be killed!” “Beats prairie dogs In full moon!” “When I woke up with it howlin’ thought I had got ’em again.” Never mind, boys, it may be a blessln’ in disguise. Somethin' bad is comln to us on this trip, an arter this twill be easy work to die! The man spoke up: "I'm gentlemen, , if sorry, she incom- modes you!” The words were so man- ifestly inadequate that there was a roar of laughter which seemed to shake the car. West of the Mississippi things j are, or at any rate they used to be, a bit rough, and ideas followed suit. Laughter, when it came, was rough i and coarse; and on this occasion even j only the lanky tried man hold seemed to feel it. He | j to the child closer to him, as if to shield it from the hail of ! ! ironical chaff which followed. “Incommode us! Oh, not at all. It’s the most soothing concourse of sweet sounds I ever heard.” “Bully for baby syrups!” ■ I “Pray don’t let us disturb the con¬ cert with our sleeping.” “Jerk us out a little more chin- music!” “There is no place like home with a j baby in It.” Just opposite where the man moved restlessly with the child was the bunk of a young giant whom I had noticed turning in earlier in the evening. He had not seemed to have noticed the disturbance, but now his curtains were thrust aside fiercely, and he appeared j lifted on one elbow as he asked in an j ; angry tone: “Say, you, where’s It’s mother any¬ how?” The man replied in a low, weary tone, without looking round: “She’s in the baggage car, sir—in her coffin!” “Well, you could have heard the si¬ lence that came over all the men. The baby’s screaming and the rush, and roar, and rattle of the train seemed unnatural breakers of the profound stillness. In an instant the young man, clad only in his under-flannels, was out on the floor and close to the man “Say, stranger,” he said, "if I’d knowed that, I’d a bit my tongue out afore I’d a spoke! An’ now I look at I you, my poor fellow, I see you’re most ! wore out! Here, give me the child, and you turn into my bunk an’ rest. No! you needn’t be afeered”-for he ! saw the father shrink away a little ! and hold the child closer. ‘I’m one of a big family an’ I’ve nursed the baby often. Give her over; I’ll take care of her, an’ I’ll talk to the conductor, and I we’ll see that you’re called when the | time comes.” He put out his great I hands and lifted the little one, the j father resigning her to his care with¬ out a word. He-held her in one arm j whilst with the other he helped the newcomer into his empty berth. j Strange to say, the child made no more struggle. It may have been that ; the young blood or the young flesh j j gave something of the warmth and softness of the mother’s breast which it missed, or that the.fresh, young nerves soothed where the worn nerves'of the sorrowing man had only irritated; but, with a peaceful sigh,the little one lean- ed over, let its head fall on the young man’s shoulder, and seemingly in an 1 instant was fast asleep. And all night long, up and down, up and down, In his stocking feet, softly marched the flannel-clad young giant, with the baby asleep on his breast, whilst in his bunk the tired, sorrow- stricken father slept—and forgot. And somehow I thought that, though the mother’s body may have been in the baggage car at the other end of the train, her soul was not very, far away. —Lloyd’s News. George Eliot’s Manuscript. The memoir of Mr. John Blackwood, the great Scotch publisher, recently Issued by his daughter, reveals many interesting things about authors, and none more entertaining than- the fact that the best of them, certainly from the artistic point of view, are modest and listening sort of people and not at all pretentious. George Eliot was con¬ spicuous as a person who was kindly and sympathetic in a high degree. She was “ever ready to be amused and In¬ terested in all that concerned hei friends.” She had also a keen sense of humor, and sometimes made her friends laugh, as well as laughed with them. She was solicitous about hex manuscripts, and was afraid she should lose them. Blackwood had oocasion to send her the manuscript of “Daniel Deronda.” She would not have it in¬ trusted to the mail, and Mr. Blackwood said he would send it by his footman the next day. “Oh, don’t!” the author said. “He might stop at a public house and forget it!” Mr. Blackwood explained that this footman was a per¬ fectly sober man of high character, and went on to praise the man’s vir¬ tues; but this did not reassure her at all. “If he is the sort of chivalrous Bayard that you describe,” she said, “he Is just the kind that would stop and help at a fire.” This was a con¬ tingency that Mr. Blackwood could not bear to consider. He promised that some member of his family would bring the manuscript, and next day, in fact, Mrs. Blackwood drove over with it. Was a Cruel Thought. Proud Mother—Oh, John, the baby can walk. Cruel Father—Good. He can walk the floor with himself at night, then.—Cincinnati Enquirer. IN CHINESE SCHOOL. MOST WONDERFUL ALPHABET IN THE WORLD. It Haft 314 Characters and the Pupils Have to Struggl© with Conflicting Sounds -Almost a Life-Long Study to Understand It# a of all their studies, the almond-eyed youngster finds writ ing the most en- joyable, says the Liverpool Chronicle, They use a small brush instead of a pbn and daub on the lnk with a lavlsh- negs dear t0 the juveni ie heart. They wrlte oue letter over anothe r till the page , 8 b , ack as a cooking stove, and the copybooks become so wet that it Is necessary to hang them over the fence to dry. A comical sight, truly, and one which proclaims to the passer - by bis prox i m jt y to a schoolhouse. It may he remarked that blotting paper is unknown in the flowery land. There are no public schools In China, or, indeed, schoolhouses of any kind. But the boys and girls of the flowery land repair to the house of their teacher to pursue their studies. They do not sit upon the floor, as is commonly supposed, for, although they have no school furniture such as is used in this country, they are provided with common chairs, upon which they sit while studying. During recitations they stand around their teacher. Long before reaching the schoolroom visitors may hear the pupils vocifer¬ ously shouting their lessons and mak¬ ing a din which is, to say the least, confusion to one unaccustomed to their method of study. But when one real¬ izes what an arduous task it is to learn one’s A B C’s in China, it is no longer a matter of surprise that studying aloud Is permitted. Think of .commit¬ ting to memory 214 elementary char¬ acters! (These characters take the place of our alphabet, for the Chinese language has no alphabet like ours.) That is what the Chinese boys and girls must do, and this is only the be¬ ginning of the trouble, for these char¬ acters are grouped together to form words - of which there are m0!e tllan 50,000 in the Mongolian language. Moreover, some of these words have forty different meanings, the signifl- cance of a word varying with its in- flection. Another peculiarity of the Chinese written language is that the beginning of the book corresponds to the end of one of ours * 80 that th ® P '^ 11 appears to us to begin at the end of the last line 011 the Iast P a & e and to be rea(JlB & backward. In studying arithmetic, Chinese pu- P'ls , use the abacus, or counting ap- P aratus - a f ram e strung with wires on which ar e say\y colored balls, such as we see in tlle P rimal T schools in our country, and which we have copied from the Chinese. They do not study geography, for the reason that the Chinese think there is no country besides their own that is of any importance. On their maps China is represented as occupy- ing the greater part of the earth; other countries being grouped around the middle kingdom—as the Chinese are accustomed to speak of their coun- try—and made to appear as insignicant as possible. Girls and boys dress exactly alike, except that the boys wear their hair in a pigtail, while the girls have a fun- ny little wisp on the top of their heads, In some parts of China it is very cold, and as the houses are not warmed like ours in winter the children—and grown people, too—keep comfortable by putting on one dress over another till they are so bundled up they can scarcely move. Possibly this may seena a very uncomfortable way of keeping comfortable, but the Chinese little folks are not given to complain- ing. New Blasting: Powder* Australia has produced cricketers and scullers, and frozen meat and Irish M. P.’s, and now it has produced a new explosive, the name whereof is kallenite. The advantages of the in¬ vention are claimed to be numerous, and it is worthy of note that it has obtained the approval of the govern¬ ment of Victoria, and mining man¬ agers assert that after blasting with it men can go hack to work in the faces more quickly than after using any other explosive. It contains no non-explosive material, whereas No. 1 dynamite contains 25 per cent, gelig¬ nite 4 per cent and blasting gelatine 2 per cent. The government chemist calculates that it possesses five or six times the strength of No. 1 dynamite. Moreover, it can he manufactured at a very low cost. Its absorbent material basis is composed of eucalyptus and ti-tree leaves, which are almost as common in Australia as blades of grass are in England. The remaining in¬ gredients are, of cours, as yet a trade secret. A most successful experiment was carried out quite recently in Syd¬ ney. The minister for works and others who observed the experiment carried out from a safe distance, were all well impressed with the power of kallenite, which is claimed to be an entirely Australian composition. It is stated that when the government tests are complete, if the new material is finally pronounced to be as excellent as it now bids fair to be, a manufac¬ tory for its production and export will be established in Sydney.—London Mail. Curious Contract. Girls employed in the crepe indus- tries are under a curious contract not to engage in any housework after their hours of labor. The reason is lest their hands should become coarse and unfitted for the delicate nature of their employment. WAS A GREAT INDIAN FIGHTER Jackson Farley of California Ono of the Few That Are Left. (From the San Francisco Call.) The great American Indian fighter, famed in history and dime novel, is rapidly becoming a memory of the past. With the taming and the thin¬ ning out of the Indian his occupation is vanished, and if you discover one to-day, he is either a very old man or else a very untruthful one, espe¬ cially in California, where the hostile savage has not been seen In many years. One of the few authenticated Indian fighters of California is old Jackson Farley, commonly known as “Uncle Jack,” who lives on his ranch high up in the mountains of Mendo¬ cino county. Uncle Jack has passed his ninety-second birthday, and will modestly admit the killing of 100 In¬ dians. Only he will not say that he "killed” them; "stopped” Is bis favor¬ ite expression—an expression, by the way, that originated with him in the early 50’s and subsequently became of¬ ficial vernacular among scouts and cat¬ tlemen. Between the years 1849 and 1865 Uncle Jack was engaged in al¬ most constant warfare with the In¬ dians of Mendocino, Trinity and Hum¬ boldt counties. He came to California from Virginia with the early settlers in search of adventure and fortune, and in search of revenge, too, for dur¬ ing the journey across the plains his best friend died from an Indian’s ar¬ row, and Uncle Jack fell easily Into the then common belief that the only good Indian was a dead one. Trophies galore of the balance of that bloody journey he showed to the Call re- porter. Scalps by the dozen, chairs bottomed with Indian hide, razor strops of the same grewsome material, and countless bows, arrows, toma¬ hawks and firearms. With neither wife nor child, only the comradeship of a big mastiff, Uncle Jack arrived here in 1849 , and settled down to the business of stock raising on the lonely moun¬ tain ranges of Mendocino. From 1850 to 1856 there were no Indian agencies established, and the advent of a white man was an invitation to the treacher¬ ous instincts of the Indian. Murder, arson, and cattle and horse stealing ran riot. Farley went out one morn¬ ing to inspect his stock, and found that 25 horses and 100 head of cattle had been stolen and that his favorite sad¬ dle horse had been killed and muti¬ lated, its mane and tail hanging de¬ fiantly on the gate posts of the cor¬ ral. Uncle Jack hastened back to his cabin, where he secured extra ammu¬ nition and another brace of six-shoot¬ ers. Three friendly prospectors, with an extra horse, were in the neighbor¬ hood, and they and Uncle Jack set forth in pursuit of the thieves. Reach¬ ing a deep canyon where one of the Bel river tributaries came cascading down the mountain, they were about tp water their horses when they were struck by the peculiar color of the water. It was blood red. This was enough to tell Uncle Jack that the Indians were butchering his cattle up the river and washing the carcasses in the stream. In a flash he and his com¬ panions were riding up the trail, where they soon met a shower of arrows. This was in the day of the muzzle¬ loading rifle, and every one of the re¬ turn shots had to tell. Uncle Jack and his friends dismounted and broke for cover. In the shelter of trees and bushes they poured a slow, deadly fire on the attacking red men. As fast as the savages could reorganize and surround, the rifles of the white men would cut gaps in the savage circle. Time after time the Indians were re¬ pulsed, their supply of arrows gave out, and they beat a retreat. Uncle Jack recovered only a remnant of his hand of cattle and none of the horses, but exactly forty Indians, “good and dead,” marked the quantity of his ven¬ geance. This was one of Uncle Jack’s most successful days. It soon became historic, and was instrumental in se¬ curing him a government scoutship when the first Indian post was estab¬ lished, in 1856 . Change* Her Mind Regarding Marriage When a pretty woman won’t she won’t, and that’s all there is of it. The great ocean liners, like time and tide, are supposed to wait for no man. But this time it was a slender slip of a fresh-faced young English girl who was the cause of the big Currie liner Dunvegon Castle’s leaving Southamp¬ ton behind time the other day. The young lady’s passage was engaged, all her boxes were on board, containing numerous presents and a lovely trous¬ seau, and the young lady herself was in the act of bidding her parents good¬ bye before starting on the long voy¬ age which was to take her to the wait¬ ing arms of her fiance, when, inter¬ mingled with sobs of parting, came the cn FROM THE VATICAN. The official year book of the Vatican, which has just appeared,contains many interesting statistics. From it we learn that there are today fifty-six cardinals, of whom five were appointed by Pius IX. and fifty-one by Leo. XIII. In the college of cardinals there are fourteen vacancies. During the twen- ty-one years of Pope Leo’s pontificate 124 car dinals have already died. Dur- ing the rule of the same pontiff the ecclesiastical hierarchy has been no- tably increased. Two new patriarchial sees and thirteen archiepiscopal sees have been established; seventeen bish- ops have been made archbishops; 100 new bishops, two apostolic delegates and forty-nine apostolic vicars have been appointed, and thirty new prefec- tures have been established. There are altogether in the world 1,328 ecclesiastical dignitaries, of whom fiat, "I won’t go.” To all the plead-* IngB and entreaties of parents, friend# and representatives of the steamship line the young lady only reiterated, “I wont; I’ve changed my mind." So the young man In South Africa will get the trousseau and presents, hut no bride. DRUMMER IS BADLY TRICKED. A Cyrano De Hcrgerac Nose Gets a Man Into Trouble. From the New Orleans Times-Demo- crat: “Saw a drummer get pretty badly sold at a little place between Chattanooga and Nashville the other day,” said a local traveling man. "He had slopped over lo sell some hard¬ ware and a merchant warned him to look out for a village wag who would drop around at the hotel that evening with a false nose. ‘It’s one of those Cyrano De Bergerac affairs, made of pasteboard,’ said his informant, ‘and this big lubber thinks it’s funny to scare strangers with the thing. If you show the least surprise they’ll make you set ’em up for the crowd.’ ‘I’ll fix the idiot,’ said the drummer, and thanked him for the tip. That even¬ ing he was sitting in the little hotel office, when sure enough in walked a fellow with a proboscis as big as an incandescent lamp and as red as a ripe tomato. ‘Hello, Cy!’ said the drummer. ‘What d’y mean, sir!’ says the man attached to the nose, ‘Give me that for a scarfpln,’ says the drummer, and grabbed hold of It to pull it off. Good heavens! You ought to have heard the row! I was writing a letter in the back room and I thought somebody had set off a dynamite bomb. By the time I got out Cyrano and'the drummer had just knocked over the stove and were mixing up in the woodbox. When they pried them apart they looked like they’d been run through a cane-mill, but the nose was still in position. It was the real stuff, and Its proprietor was a business competitor of the gent that gave the tip. Low down trick, wasn’t it? When I went away the drummer was just beginning to see out of his right eye.” Nickname Saved Him* From the Washington Post: “His name is Percy Algernon,” said the girl in the Seventh street car to her chum. “Pretty, ain’t it? But, then, it’s kind o’ soft-like, too, don’t you think?” “Kind o’,” said the other giri. “I like Bill, or Jim, or something like that, myself. Never knew a Bill or Jim yet that wasn’t reliable. I hope Percy Al- gernon’il prove to be nice, but I think his name’s awf’ly against him, honest I do, Min.” Then the other girl look¬ ed thoughtful for a couple of blocks. “Oh, hut he told me,” she said, sud¬ denly, then, “that the men down at the store called him ‘Spud.’ ” “Then you needn’t worry,” was the con¬ solatory reply. “He’s all right,” and thus it was settled that Percy Alger¬ non would do. Llgnt from the Loaf Sugar. A phenomenon, the cause of which has not yet been satisfactorily ex¬ plained, was - described at a recent meeting of scientists. Disks of loaf sugar were mounted on a lathe and rapidly rotated while a hammer played lightly against them. An al¬ most continuous radiation of light was thus produced from the sugar. It was shown that the light did not arise from heating of the sugar, and it is believed to be caused by some change taking place in the sugar crystals. The act of cyrstallization is known to be some¬ times accompanied by flashes of light. The practical bearing of these experi¬ ments is on'the question of possibility of obtaining artificial light by methods as yet untried. Keeping It In the Family. There is a hank in Tokio, Japan, with a capital of 85,000,000 and a re¬ serve fund of $3,230,000, which adver¬ tises the following board of directors: Baron H. Mitsui, Gennosuke Mitsui, Genyemon Mitsui,- Takenosuke Mitsui, Yonosuke Mitsui and Tokuyemon Mit¬ sui. The first named is the father and the others are his sons. Every share of stock belongs to the family, and it is announced that they assume an un¬ limited responsibility for all the liabili¬ ties of the bank. * Light Tubing. The lightest tubing ever made is of _ nickel aluminium, Three thousand feet of this tubing weighs only one pound. Its chief use is for the conveyance of air pressure to light pneumatic de¬ vices, and bells so actuated are said to he rapidly superseding electric bells. fifty-six are cardinals, ten patriarchs, 880 archbishops and bishops, 358 titu¬ lar archbishops and bishops, five arch¬ bishops and bishops who have given up their titles, eleven prelates of the epis¬ copal order, and eight abbots and pre¬ lates with episcopal jurisdiction. The majority of the high dignitaries in tbis jj st are Italians. Among the cardinals there are thirty Italians and twenty-six foreigners. Among the pac¬ triarchs, archbishops and bishops the proportion is still more remarkable, f 0 r out of the 9S0 dioceses in the entire world Italy alone has one-third. The former kingdom of Naples alone has 150 dioceses—as many as France, Ger- many and Austro-Hungary put togeth- er. If we add to these the numerous titular Italian bishops we shall find that almost half of the dignities of the entire Catholic church are distributed among Italian dignitaries. Knew the Scale#. **Wh#n you get your groceries to¬ day,” said the butcher to his wife, “don’t go to that little grocer next door to my shop.” "Why not?” she demanded. “Because he sent In yesterday and borrowed an old pair of my scales.”— Chicago Post. Fence in the Fliilipplnes. Peace In the Philippines is hound to prove profitable to all concerned. Warring con- ditions, whether they b»a in tho Philippine* or in the human stomach, are equally dis¬ astrous. If your stomach has rebelled, there is It on« HostetterV authority Stomach that will Bitters, qulykly subdue it. Is and it cures constipation, indigestion, biliousness, u er- vousneas Revenue Stamp and dyspepsia. Sep neck that a private covers the of the bottle. The Mikado of* Japan generally travels with a small bodyguard. E. A. Rood. Toledo. Ohio, says: “Hall’s Ca¬ tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen years aero and she lisa lmd no return of it. It’s a sure cure.” Sold by Druggists, 75c. For Whooi'ing Cou'^h, Piso’s Cure is a suc¬ cessful remedy.’—M.P.D ieter. 07 Throop Ave. t Brooklyn, N. Y., November 14. 1894 Do not tell the policeman your troubles, for he has many of his own. Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever* 10c, 26c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money. the A spring popular wish would be gratified to see poet tackle this weather. 44 He That Stays Does the Business ” AH the ‘world admires “staying power." On this quality success depends. The blood is the best friend the heart has. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best friend the blood ever had; cleanses it of everything, gives perfect health and strength. Jfood'A ‘ ^ mmm " SdAMpailKa " __ WUB 8 W A 300-Foot Column of Water. 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