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Dorothy’s ScLne.
T*wi know ho* n »La-n*' ,, y one’s apß-filt® (
To ride In an open si* A;
WtMin ic s cold and Um- w1r..l Is Mow.T.s |
In <t«tt cMMßHvablr wna-.
Weil. D-rosy ftincmd t kt Santa
M:gbt h* hrncry when canoe.
80 She thought of a *•-■»;■ id project.
Tr. quaint iittSe brwwnrojed dans*.
On the mt.jn*-!i-‘*ce over her stocking.
Vpon a tine china plav.
S', lad a cdirtnus cno'tie.
With a note written on i>er riatr;
*l>u' Santa. for frar y.w are 'luntrry.
And It’s laorv than likely you’ll
I’ve put a nice cake here for you;
Meara* oil it ana think of me.”
Then a«w went back to he I. the schew.T. |
An J a > . t°
Unconscious of !»!s arry. ...
She lay Kiere. f -■ I - : -
“What a • —tty. ’*" l lit.!-- maiden:
1 nr.'l iktv. iwr sMtv-thsng qu.te nice.” |
Said Santa. ”<*• pdhawl—They w:ll wake
m<! The pesky young mice!” j
He ha;t !<- 1-1 through th* dOSgWBf.
And *twrn th- wide naH stair: 1
When ••
What do you think h»- found there?
Why a state >f utter •->»nfim <«■!
Heap*-! tn front of the »i- n prate.
W'-rv a family of nr**-. a t -w --rumba.
And the ci. iv of a Shattered plate.
When Dor-t <y. Christmas mornl
Cam* • * v . w.t . • --•>? *.1:1 I surprise,
Sh. rx-»i .n-'i; “Why. m- •t*wJn»-’-s me.
1 can .cirdly heK«-ve my «•>*•*
1 tlnwdr that S-ir.ta'd • hu--sry.“
An.l »*w»k h.-r curly p.s*.
“But I never supposed 1» ’ I try to eat—
tl_. gracious! a e-h-t-n-a. p-.-a-t-e!”
A LESSOS IN WHEEUIG.
RY SIDXKY.
“X«w s'.” i I ’if- Tinkle, looking
vp from the uper Is- »i’ reading. “what s
„n tn-,- n.- «• a'.w.rf ! >• ms to me that
the morn* •■ I -it down to—”
“|j |s Ardr-w with his bicycle,” inter
rvpt*vi Mr* Tnk!-. . Iv.
“Is It m' -3 try ” • »".- :. J ’’ Mr. Tinkle.
>p ami hjWl like .*. w.l-J
Indian rtdin,-? Also 1 would lk>
to know nwanitv of tie occaatonal ;
vxcfamaUun.' «.’» n a .i a--*> of j :
itear.”
”Andnw is only Jrasmbur.” explained •
Mnt. Tnkle, "an-I 1 'Ut>,-ao<> ifwt be tails :
mtT osio In a whlh and cannot restrain :
fta« Mnsprw at fi s repented failun-s.”
TThat is a wry !**■• trail. itu!>-«l.” aaid I
Mr Tinkle, vhaking hi* head. ‘ The w.iy
?2 *- l*sir** jw.y's ti tro it c«K>ily !
’’ rsdrr’K. si-
- tak- nr f“w •* '*
•H- r-. TVih- M k'.uxe
-Is’ , ; b * t pn u ’
.
Win .fi* n the -sr - wuy.” r.-’!•'!
• >n w*r’ «*r I’ll take- Cse Ir’.cycle away
-ec* 84 *•» straight, move your feet
. u ; ‘a“.i guide • » •I m a perfectly
r„ht I m- ’’
*“I yam’t." w** n-'l Andri w ”?»>tiodv i
can do all tbow» thing* until he haa a ’**.
of pm- ;• ■
“t'an'U ei? Rnr.g •;>»• wheel h tv aru
let mr sh* - you h«w- to -*!•• Jtf '
amrnfii. lode and rtood alongside tlie j
br-ycl.- U ■• a cin.iMent air.
—l»it Brs. “mr to d<» is t • pirt war
Sx,- ,M> r-ie p. - said he. mttttng the aw
tian t»» the w “I. "throw j our leg over on ;
to th- o ..er p.e.,1. .rd gtw a push-”
itad*" v o- «r»'l •*» pick ' * fath.w up an-1
brr.i <f. hi- rfTjtus, while Mrs. Tinkle
■nt!b:<y iotiutrod *at twmea wc«
t— >rtTi.
“Is* nr alone.” be mid. brurqitrly, “my j
fw-t X**w I will take a firm •
of th.’ m tie—a v -ry rnnxir ant thing to •
r«—n Utibrr—take a stral-glit s:art and—”
atrajrttt a« an arrow and then lb— wheel |
mra % • *!. 'l. 4’ •» all’ ports of i
tarna -1 wtet a■i-■ up bj throw
him v Xi. great rioScswe ato tie- goranitun
b~l
H.» pfe-Vd Mtnev’f ’c- rorafiiHy and Irn '
hecsn V> examirsn t iv. bk-ycle with tns-iute
ms*.
“Ar* J™*-! «ur* ■>.-*»• are nn mecha-alml
d.'--c.-ts. m thia wfmei?" he as-ked, suspid-
“Ikatt BMtke -n the nmrket," Mwnd Hi*
■n.
“ll'mf Very qu*—r. S*--ar« to te bwwse In
•H J zWs I kept a U ;Wt hold of th*
hural'..' and mnded It tv rfently. but the
Wii—d tnrno - in spit* Os me.”
"Thnt'a th* wav it c I with me,” said j
Androw. w.-.b a sWe grtu.
Mr. T “kb- nsm ”ited w;- a owl raMr ,
.•a—- :» )'■ t tr- -*■•*: mi i- .-I to natirate
ft.r fully e.x \ vls befswy th* wheel l»«n I
•» cut up canrm. Th*.- - uju, a crashing |
*»f b’tsh—- ami strap - d trellis *.»rk, j
nr.n.-:**! a* h I’* aewis f Mr. Tinkle, wi<o ’
naw ftlmsolf g • *° c**rtam de- ;
etru-'on a* :dr*--t the !•• k ».«H at ti.-e end I
of th* yard.
FV>rt , *r.a** J ly Trs lifo was saved. The (
w i’»d <t«r»k a sn*!«fe-w turn and rhe ven-
SnwjMU'- rider was buried moo a clump j
<g nx*- butd»e«, a.w! when he aram h’s i
fh.se and hands wore s-Taurhed m a pic- •
tnnr»r»- manr.- '
—Pal-* that tntag out of th* yard.” bo
’Ta- mar that *n:«ie siedi a f
mw-raab'-- conirtvam-.' eagrtft to b< in-
It Is -rook'd from top to tiettom.
ar ,l no son of nrthe stmll rtsk his neck on
Take U away b-fore I birok it Iran
•ra,an b* won* brio th* Hvao. to starch
Jus vxninds. wf»!!v Mra Tmkle whispered
to her son dnl he bra ter not practice
wiy more that day.
A Dog’s Sixth Sens*.
Frn.-n The Philadelphia Times.
L. C. Meachamp. living near Hom*r, La-,
on th* edge of Arkansas. Is a -Teat la nti-r
ar,J hat- a hue de-r hcund. Dan. of which
h*- is justly protni. A few days ago Mr.
Meachamp »a« goiter squirrel hunting,
aitd in order to k«*-p Dan at home he was
compelled to th? him up. T ne hound
and b-tv-d. hut finding flat hts
master was obdurate hr at last lay quite
p*ac«abty befor* his kennel alt day.
At 5 o'clock in the aft*rn >*n. however,
vrhen Mrs. MeuchMPP was beginning to
look for her t.o<banu’s return, Dan be
came so unusuau'ly restless that che w* nt
out to see what was th* matter. In spite
of her repeated efforts she c/iM do r.oth-
- to pacify hicr. and at 'ast. to her
• '•ji-tnnau, he broke Vt rope and
p Department Dcuoted to ttye lt>“
«tructior>, as U/ell as tlje /)muse
mept, of tljc Youqs Readers of
■ yi?c U/eeKly
I bounded away over the fence and into the
woods. He was gone probably a half hour
when he came running back panting and
1 almost breathless v. ilh his master's hat in
his mouth.
I Mrs. Meachamp became at once alarmed.
[and calling her. son, thry set out to ilnd
Meachamp, the d«>g all the time bounding
along in front and leading the way. At
| last they came upon Mr. Meachamp lying
f helpless in the woods, where at precisely 5
I o’clock he had fallen In a little ditch and
broke n a snnill lone in his leg. Tin- dog’s
knowlwlge of the accident at the very mo
ment of its occurrence seems almost in
credible, but the truth of this is beyond
■ dispute.
UNDER THE SNOW.
* Warm Winter Homes of Meadow Mice
and Woodchucks.
XVhat ’s going on there under the <l<*ep
imov whi-rv <-v rythlng seems so Pupthlike
• and still? S- v.-r.il things arc going on; tne
i d**sth is only apparent, in the nr*t i-lace
’ tlio snow s slowly drawing the fr >st out
of the ground: or more accurately, it is
' checking the cs.-ai- of the great earth
j warmth, a >» , ch r* -■ towani the surface
and expels the frost, the ntiglo worms
work upward with It. *n*l th* sap in the
nwrts of the tn-* s and grasses st'rs a little.
• Then here and tnere ar- warm Jets
! of Ufo that ehoot and play beneath the
Colal white expanse.
I There are th* field m'ee that now come
• out of their dons in the ground or bc
n-rth the tint stem's and lead a free, active
Ilf* tin 1i r the • now. The snow is th* T
i friend. It keeps off the cold and it shields
I their mov.-men s fr-m the ey* -of the r
enemies, the owls, harks nml foxes. N »w
th*-v can venture c.'irond from their re
j treats without fear. They make l-'tilc
• tunnels and roadways ev»*ryv le-re over
< th* surface of the ground. Tliev build wln
ter hous*-s under th* gr- it drifts. * hey
, r.-,-md It::!*- m:«-<- colonics In places wee-•
they are n> v*r seen in summer. The con
diHons of life with th*-m arc entirely
I changed. They can get at the roots of the
| grtspes or th* various herbs and seeds
fhev feed upon, as well ns in the snowless
reason* and without exposure to their
I fancy they have great tlm*-s there be
neath th.- drifts. Maybe they have tn. ir
p'cnl. s nod hnlMnys th*n ns We h.-iv*
ours in run m«; When the drifts d'seppear
. in spring you may often s.— wti. re they
h ice had th.-Ir little encampments: a tew
J **iare ynrds «.f the pasture or m« adaw
■ h*-t cm will look a« if a mnp bad t>e*-n
I
tiing a”d u nding in every direction and
*X*on*ct nc th.- nests of dry grass which
rpight land forth cities and towns on the
rgxp. Th <•• runways an- smooth and round
13- f its'* and just the size of the hoclles
the mice.
1 hit k it is «■*’-. t* * n-i <!• ■■ h'-’d mouse
t|| • lives in tl -s wav !•• n« ath th* snow.
I
th Wl--«e-f... • ■ arc more or less
-.tr*' -■ al| w n;* The-- : >nv* t* *• tiinn*-**
and rentin' *. u! o. -ir .tigl, tit d l‘*n-nth
t! • si- w. Du unlike tile nt« ::dovt tr. >-i*c
til y Often com* t- -ic sttrfnc and run
ov.-r th* ’op f the snc. . •• • r tracks
l->»k 11 •■ iot.g double stitching on a wliite
T v ’ !**-f o’- •’ mouse u~ i.-’lly ' as its
rust in th*- cav'iv <-f :* tr *-. w*-. re it lays
up ;-s winter stor-s of nut: One winter
•lay in my youth, my brothers in get. inc
wnmi for th* sugar bit !i. .- it down a
I--,-.,, IT -ce i :i:it !i.-><’ four .marls < t ts-ecn
nt:tr. ie<-.-ly pc*|. d, stowe-l away in a
cavi.y in it.- t*p. Th> y were clean ana
dr-, and were inv tlng t > *ric- or hets.
Another '-renture that is ulive there be
neath th.* snowbanks. th.m*-h wrapped tn
a ili-' P :ir.d long slumber, is t v.< - d'-httek
at tiie bottom of bis burr v He retired
from t’-.c wor d probably in ’>ctol*er and he
gets nl .rg very w. II wl “out any favors
from anyl-od*- tll April. How does he
know it is spring and tim- io <-ome term
Mdh eight or t.-ii f.'-t of snov* nbov* inm?
lie t-nds t out in tome way d digs tp>
through the sne-w to the urf-.-c and
looks out e.‘g< riy upon ;he ! are Apr 1 tu-ids.
He Is han and hungry and soon knows
wb-re ti •• first fdar-:. In or ■ toi.-*- I'-af lias
start. 1. JOHN Bl RKOt OHS.
CATARRH SYMPTOMS.
A Few Pointed Questions That Will
Help Evety Man To Know th®
Truth About Himself.
Have you {rental lu - Jach , atity eyrs,
' mulling or u:s< barge from tie me-, t-cabs
in the noe*. stopping up of on* ur 1* th
t - rds. <:i-ippi: ; from the !• e k part . t
r ... • II iv you any r a.l of these Bymp-
t -ns If so, you have catarrh of the
| teed.
I! iva you hawking, sore throat, coated
tongue, rawness or aryne-s the throat?
If so, you have catarrh of th* ihreau
Have you boars n- -s, cough, p :in In the
ch st, w-*:ik lungs, much spttug? If so,
you have catarrh of the lungs.
Have you in*:, stio i, h--uvim-ss or pain
after eating. < Lange-Ude appetite, sour
stomacii, c-iat.-d tongue? It st*, you have
catarrh of the stomach.
Are you bilious, sallow skin, constipated
or irrer-.ilar towels, t>**aVi: c * in the r.*;ht
! side, bad breath? if so, you have catarrh
■ of the liver.
< l’e-r«i-na cures catarrh wherever 1 catc-d.
j Dr. Hartman has us*-d this rem dy for
nearly forty years in the treatin' nt of
■ catarrh. Pe-ru-na is un intern .1 n medy
.--■■■ 1 - S- I. t
i d- s not relieve tenif**. rarity, but j*erma
■ n* ntly. Aft*-r using this r* m* dy ter o-ie
j nioath. aa direct'd on the I*-til , a 1 tier
| should be wrltl* n to Dr. Hattra..n s;a:i..g
: th" case, and he w.H give prompt any-aer
I free ts <-harge. Dr. Hartman is the uu.her
I of a *.l-| *ge Instructively dlustrited bo k
devoted entirely to catarrh and catairi>al
I da-*at*3, which will be sent fr>••• lor a
Short time by the i’l-ru-lia Di ug Al.uiu-
| lacumng Company, of Columbus, O.
Why is This Thus?
From The a* » i uia »* or.u.
A baseball went around a curve,
A bat went on a strike,
A tooth from sheer fright lust its nerve,
A pise polo lost its pu,'X
A fuotliall raised a mighty kick.
A needle hurt its knee,
I A sickle died from being sick,
Au eyelet couldn't see.
And once a bullfrog barked his shin,
A tish weighed W.th his scales,
A dinner made an awful din,
A nail keg trimmed its nails.
A tree had just as leaf as not,
A polecat polled its votes,
A garden made a garden plot
To make goatees of goats.
A sidewalk fell and hurt its Bide,
A coai mine caught a cold,
A chipmunk ate a chip and died,
A bowlder grew more bol«I.
A crematory made iee cream.
An "houri” told the hours.
AB seams are not just what they seem;
Ail bljumers are nut how era
TILE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA, GA.. MONDAY, JANUARY G 1896.
J ACQUOT’S STORY, , *O
) a Clever French 'Bov Entered the
Grand Army and Won His Spurs.
By GERALD BREAK
I.
i “Pau’ Pan! Va-r-en Monette! Kn avant
! Nez Rogue! Zut, men vachcttco!”
You .oiiid hear Jacpiot calling to his
cows half-way down the Nosgent valley.
Only a cowherd, i<oor Jncquot—a cowlierd
before his time, too, without even the
small modicum of learning possess*.! by
til.- peasant children of bta ng®, Hln ts.t'i
er and mother, the kindly cure told him.
■ had gone away in the great golden dili
gence to that wondrous city which Is fa.r
--; er even than Paris, and ever so much
; farih.-r away.
Then M. Hanot, a small proprictalr* or
land owner, bad taken the child to be a
sort of g. n.ral help about his farmhouse
i and in this condition of little less than
I slavery, Jacquot grew up. When work
, was slack on it. Hanot's lands he went
; to the school at Cadillac; but for cons'.der-
I ably more than half the year he labored
hard fcr his bread and onions without see
ing th* inside of a school nook.
Hmall wonder that the children of the
district thought little of Jacques Lavigne—
for such was Ids real name. He was ap
parently nobody's son, lie never had a sou
to buy sw’ec't -• :'s with, and he could not
i even t. II i stmy. All the children of Cadil
lac and th.n-by are continued story tellers
and .i ■■ i tent ra Tha hab is '!<>'■. o®
• kmbt, to th* cure, who is deeply imbued
with the. legends and romance of old
France, and who !ov-' nothing better than
to w< avc long skeins of adventure and he
, or til'- small, r mem-
bers of his Kock.
Tb'-n th* little people get together af
ter M. Cure Lu- gone bcm* to his frugal
dhuv r. a d th.y tell the tales over again;
or sti*h of them that have special ta.ent
astonish their fellows with new stories, in
vented troubadour fashion by themselves
or else from their parents. •
But J u quid, who toiled for M. Ganot,
imild not spin yarns, nor could lu sing any
of tlic quaint obi romances In verse, of
wld< Ii the children w*re likewise fond. Ho
dearly loved, however, to be one of the nu
i di. nee at the m rry mo dings under the
v in. x, and to h< nr about th* great deeds of
It -land and Oliver, al mt the ch'.valric Bay
ard. about .!■ in of Ar. and the gnat Na
t -d*on, and all the heroes and heroines of
Frat-ee. S > long as M. Cure was present
Ja«'plot was w h-om* to these feasts of
pure delight, but v !>.--. the good cure’s back
v. • s turned the children were too apt to
make it uiiplem ml for the little cowherd.
11.
Ro, coming ovr th* sunny hillside one
afternoon, driv’ng Farmer Hanot's cowa
before him with many "Yut Nca Rouge!"
am! "Va-t-en 1 Ke-a-f I !■ rhe came upon
a n. -t of < 'i l ten tilling the story of Na
poleon and Ids vi< t< r’« s under the vines.
I nccnseiou ly he stayed to listen, allow,-
1111- th* < <>v. to graze undisturbed in thd
SW' ct * loi er.
i Little Jules, the notary's son, was reclt
j ing the deeds of the great conqueror, and
hid just reached that glorious period of
i the vi -lory at XuHerlitz Ja< quot's eyes
i sparkled a- the other boy paint*<l with elo-
I q-i< ■ **, urn- ms'-ioiis of th* !*i-pir!ng scene.
' 11* <iw th. dark '<-pions of the eni-niy. the
I bright unii 'inis ot th* French troops—the
< Hl non. the horses, the drifting smoke of
1 -.ttl; .md in th* mid-t of all. silent upon
I (’ | batth h.-i’-u.-r tn*
r. . nip tor l.'rns*-!''. “Boom! ' roared
i t>i< guns; an’! "rul>-a-did>" rattled a thou
sand drums. Swords were flashing and
‘ 11'.d cl inging against horses' flanks.
n gu 111 tn. I. -V os e* Ir- • I s'.n t. m-.'i
to a’ld smile upon Napoleon's golden
eat !e when -
••ll.da Ja.quot! Lock out for your cows
n■*n v .mix ' '
•• • ♦’ ■ ■ ■■!!■’•.
: t ;I I by the sight of the gaprig
Jp .j. . t l-::d slipped short in his narrative
m. The other children
took up the erj "HoU Jacquot." they
shout, d, “mind your cows and not our
BP rt.-s Von d. n't r- t bread and cold cos-
s . to Jul Get along with
you mv brave cow-herd.”
■ -I-,; .x 1-, can tell us a story himself.”
nut in J d. -a j’ st which brought shrieks
of laughter fr .tn th youngsters.
J . <. ..♦ Lung his h. nd and stammered:
”1 ; .n't t> II any storlc-* you ill know
that. I can't do anything, except-except
best the Jiii'n ”
It wis tru.-. His sole accomplishment,
taught him l-y Mr. Ganot's brother-in-law,
an "Id : 'l l < r. was to beat the army drum
I calls. Tj ; r.. ii--*d upon an upturned
' k"ttle or old tri biuket in lieu of a drum;
but tii.il v.as no di.uT.it of Jaequot's proli
c.i I* 7 in drumming.
“Beat th* drum. Indeed!” exclaimed Hec-
I tor Malltn. tne InitK- eper's sturdy heir.
“Who wants to hear you sound the old rat-
d’ A? 'S F , -i’ll
||
I ■?
I '.■*s * i ■
i x- ?. |
'-"'A '
a
' 'LI
-
*£ * ■
Hr- Fancied Himself a Drommer Boy Lead
ing a Charger.
aplans that on* -legged Simon taught you.
V, >'ve heard you do it once and that's
I enough. Get out with you." *
"Let me listen to the end of the story
1 about the battle,” pleaded Jacquot, with
! tears In hie eyes
“No, get away! You can't come h*re till
you have a story—a grand b!g battle story—
to t< 11 us yourself "
So Jacquot brushed away the tears, call
! cd to "NeX-Gris” and "Mouette,” and
“Bec-a-ril'-rbe,” and sudly hied his way
■ to Farmer Hanot's house beyond tiie vil
lage.
HI.
The cattle driven into the milking yard,
milked (Jacquot helped In the milking, too)
and finally bedded fur the night, the lone
ly little cow-herd took his supper ami went
to the summ'-r liouse l>y the roadside to
! eat it. Be loved that summer house, first
because it commanded a view of the road
and of the good people passing up and
' down; and second, because ft was within
Its trellised walls that old Simon, the onc
le 1 v. teran, had taught him to beat the
I diuni.
Tnere wer* still upon the earthen floor
the batt'led kettle upon which he had
learn d the drum calls and tiie two broken
ladles which he had used fur sticks. Me
chanically he took up those improvised
sticks, when the last ot the bread and on
iuua liad been eaten, and mechanically be
great joy: “Oh, M. 1* Cure! Oh, boys
began to sound the stirring “call to arms."
Th*- strange music—if Indeed it might be
called bo—cheered him not a little, and he
continued whacking his kettle through the
entire repertoire tri light him by old Simon.
"Rataplan! Rataplan! R-r-iataplan!” rang
out (he voice of this v.ritable "kettle
drum" upon the evening air. Jacquot for
got all th* slights and slurs—all the mis
ery and squalor of his life. He fancied
himself a drummer boy leading a charge,
with the bullets whistling like hailstones
past his head, and th* brave Frenchmen
charging valiantly behind. "Rataplan!
' * c — l '.uv;
■
V■' I '•■•••■S’’ -
Mo / - :
■
"HOW CAN WE SERVE YOU, I
Rataplan! R-r-rataplan!" rang the drum
sticks.
".varne of a chicken! we have found our
drutnm* r. Haiti"
The graft t ii* - broke in upon jaequot's
drum-taps like Farmer Ganut's tick upon
his morning dreams, lie started, lirnked
up, and saw, in l.ie broad roadway bv'luw .t
troop of cavalry tn ng to ti.c halt. It
was the man at the soldiers' head, a line,
white moustached 'ld otiieer, who hid
Sl> >ken. In tl.e twtii;-lit J i quot could not
nghtly d slinguisii • > what branch of the
< •. rv .1 • f i-< a . L
“V. t.o i up ti er* in tiie sumni’ r house
sound.ir’ drum-’'iii ’ d’ inan.;i d the colu
li .-i ■-such was tl." *id leii-r's talk.
Jatquol was too frigiii'n--d to answer.
"bp.uk up, drummer!” call’d tiie colonel
again. "I nkss you're an iniuuiry drum
mer, and tin ■■ !>.- silent. Who are you?
C* me lorw.iid."
Treml’i.m-iy grasping bis laid* drum
sti’ks the bo} stepp'd from Hie arbor,
through tiie Ik dge und into mt; road. His
In "d only reaelicu to tiie colom i's uroop.ng
snail!' r.-.n.
"Why. it's a child!" cried that gallant
campaign-r. “Was it you who played
those drum-calls mon p’tlt?"
"Yes, mom.eur 1 mean monsignor,"
stamm-Ti-d Jacquot, who kiv*w not by what
name to address tl. ;:;• at pet.-oi ig' . "My
um !•■ Utt n ' H san 1 • ul ‘-" r -”
"All!" said the eniighleued colonel. "1
.. rcelve. V our um le taught you w* U. Now
tell tne rotuelhiug about yourself ami don’t
be afraid."
Jaequot, plucking up courage, reveal* d
his sa l history in simple but eifce-tiw lan
guage, while the colonel and some of tl.*
other "tilers listened attcnnvely. When ho
had tinish. i a y -mg lieutenant < xel.um-1:
"Mon colonel, he's the very O,IC * Hu * s
sent by providence.”
"Name of a chicken!" answered the colo
nel. ”1 b' iieve you’re right. No father or
mother; no relatives or friends! The very
one surely .... Tell me, mon p tit,
how would yon like to take s-rvice wit!)
the 15 ieme Hus.ards, and beat tin: drum
fur us In Algiers?"
Jaequot nearly leaped for joy. “Oh,
mr-monslgnor!" he cr-ed —"tho beautiful
id* a!"
"Can you ride?”
"I have ridden bareback for years, mon
signor.’
"Then you’ll do. Two of our drummers
are down with typhoid fever at Nosgent
barracks, and we are off to Algiers without
our full compl* ment. The dignity of the
regiment cannot he compromised. . . Can
you com? as yon are, boy?"
“Yis, monsignor," said Jacquot, fearing
lest delay or M. Ganot. the farm.-r, might
prevent him from going to tiie wars.
"Then jump on the horse in front of tho
dnim-serg. ant. We’B give you a uniform
when we reach our stop for the night.”
Jacquct kicked off his sabots, threw
away his "1-cttle-drum," and, with one
naked foot on the boot of the drum-ser
geant clambered to the croup of that
worthy's saddle.
"Eu avant!" cried the colonel—and they
were off.
IV
For two years they never knew tn
sleepy Cadillac what bad become of Jac
quot. Farmer Ganot at first thought that
the boy was a thief and had run away
with some of his property. Indeed the
farmer was even somewhat dis appointed
when he found that this was not so—th®
boy having even left his wooden shoes be
hind him. As for the children they soon
forgot tile little cow herd, save to recall
him now and again as “the fellow who had
no story to tell." Only thi euro mourned
in any way for Jaequot. and often won
dered what had become of th* wander* r.
One fine day the children, all two y.'ars
older, but all still addict'd to story-telling,
were sitting under the cure’s hedge listen
ing to the good pastor telling alwui his
favorite hero—fearless, reproaehless Bay
ard. They were just in the mddle of
chevalier’s ad ventures when the cure's
servant, Clemente, followed by two visi
tors cam*: down the path. Strange visi
tors these! —tho tirst a tail man in the uni
form of the 15 leine Hussards, the second
a boy dressed as a drummer of that fa
mous fighting n gini* nt. The soldier's
right arm was in a siing, and the drum
nu-r Imy se« med pale, as though recently
recovered from grave illness.
The cure and all the children arose at
their approach, and the pastor removed
his black skull-cap in acknowledgment of
the soldier's awkward left-handed salute.
“How can we serve you, messieurs?”
asked the cure.
Then eceiirr. d something which th* peo
ple of Cadillac are never tired talking of
to tills day. The little, pale-faced drum
mer boy ran quickly forward with tuuia
outstretched, exclaiming In accents of
and girls! Don’t you r< member me? I am
Jaequot!"
With a cry th* cure grasp d the boy in
h’s arms; and, open mouth'd the ciiUoren
gathered round. “Jat qaot!" th- y Whis
pered. Ili' i Jaequot bak'd c-me back?
The despised cowherd, in a dazzling drum
mer’s uniform; and wiih a medal-y*s, a
n-al medal on his breast!
“Sir." said the cure, turning to th* llus
sard. “tell us, pray, wnat mems this?"
St luting left-handedly once m re, the
I in-sard told all. Jacques Lr.v gn*. other
wise Jacquct, had gene as drummer buy
with the 15 ieme Hussards to tight
the savage Ka-byle in Afrl< a. At the bat
tle of El Wada, when the other drummers
had b«en shot down, h* had lieuten the
rat.'pl.ni at the head of tho regiment, wh.le
they charg-d the savage foe. Finally at
the very moment of victory a bullet had
pierced his breast. I.oi g months in had
lain in ’he hospital at Algiers, but skillful
surgery finally saved his life. The French
government had decorated h‘m wth the
Algerian medal and award'd him a com
fortable pension upon which he was to
be educated until oil enough to enter th®
MEBIVRS?” ASKED THE CURE.
military college.
"In liiie,” said tiie stalwart Hussard, "I,
' being an furlough, bav* und< rtaken to
I guide our littl* hero where lie *an enjoy a
! vacation. Jaequot is now th* ward of the
i From ii government, as well as th*- pnd.
i of the gallant 15 ieme ll'issards.’’
Then the honest soldier, overcome by
such unusual elcquenee, took a quadruple
! pinch of sautf out of tiie p:istor‘s proffered
! Lox.
I As fcr Jacquot. if pnrnp* ring and ca-
I resses could make up for the past, the
; p".". -i..-uid Lav - > a by him for,‘otten
'file . lire, tile 'h.lii-' i, ti,.- V il :g is, am’
' even Farmer G ir.*>: (who a qu s m
.. .- i ; . t ■ ■ in i'. . i d’s returaj,
united in praising and pettii.g lum.
But to .Hi and ca*:h he would say:
"t.h I'i'-nl They told me nil to come back
until 1 iu.il a story to t 11 t pan."
•
COI’GUS AND COLDS. Those who are
i sufiemg from coughs, coins, sure throat,
etc., should tty Brovin’s Bronchial Troches.
Sold only in b* xes.
Snowball Made by the Wind.
A Flint. Mich., correspondent writes to
Th* Chicago Tribune: "Passengers on the
Flint River division of the Flint and I'ere
Marquette railroad, who came to tiie city
today report o*s< rving a strange ph*nome
■ mm in a large, level tii Id not far from the
city. 1 lunJr*ds of siiov.balL . some of th. tn
' of colossal size, have la <-n rolled together,
‘ it is thought, by tiie notion of tile wind. The
fields are covered with them, and nature
I accomplished in one night what it would
take a large forco of boys several days
to do.
A Rose That Grows in the Snow.
• A lady residing in North Kingston, R. 1.,
’ has just picked through t.h> snow a deli
i cate flower, which is termed a winter rose,
i Tim flower is odorless, find resembles a
j rose in fortn, but unlike the smnmtr v:
I rl'-tv, grows upon a stalk and not on a
| bush.
Discovery of Blotting Paper.
Blotting pa;** r was discovered in 1155.
| Previous to that, when a man dropped a
j splotch of ink on the lower left-hand cor-
I n. r of his page, he would give it a lick
1 w th his tongue toward the upper right-
I hand corner, and Irak? a b-'.t* r picture of
I a comet than any that has yet appeared
1 in Jiie illustrated papers.
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NCW YORK. ’
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chemist considers it his religious duty, a duty which be owes to humanity, to
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The cheapness of tiie remedy—offered freelv—apart from its inherent
strength, is enough to commend it, and more so is the perfect confidence of the
gentleman making the offer, who holds out life to those already becoming
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ETCHED AND S CETCHED.
“There Is no reason in the world why
the south should not get thousands of th*
best classes of European settlers now," ,
said Dr. Schule, of Chicago, who is at the ;
Marion, "in th* past there has been a 1
prejudice against th* south, but this ex- i
position and the grow’ng fi-eltrg of fra
ternity between ail parts of this country
have rem >v* d that. The northern and th*
western papers u.**d to b* till'd with
flings and slurs at th* south. Th* rail
roads of the W’-t encouraged this, tor
they h id lands to sell to the Immigrants
Th.- German pap. is of this country copied
many of these slurs and caught the same
gem ml tone. This was reflected in the
home papers in Germany. What is true of
that country is also true of the press ot
other European countries. None of them
had a k’nd word for the south. On the
other hand, glowing eulogies were constant
ly paid to th*- lands of Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas and adjacent territories ami .‘tales.
Henry Villard brought prominent Germans
to America and carried them over his lines
in private cars, dined them and had wino
and every luxury in tibundanc ■ No won
der that Europeans got grand ideas about
th* northwest and had a pour opinion of
the south.
"But now that Is changing and the south
is b*!cg Letter understood.”
• A••• l< • tor, what t th® best meth •!
of promoting immigration?" was asked by
Th* Constitution reporter
"The letters wiiicti the Immigrant writes
horn*, are the b<-st propagating literature of
all. The letter which goes silently over
th* sea, telling the old folks, the brothers,
sisters and friends of the struggles end the
rewards, th* economy and the savings,
the opportunities and the new made tr ends,
does more to encourage others to follow
than thousands of <’< liars spent on im
m’rmtion ture;.iv«. The friends In the old
countrv I’ ll .<■ Vv-hnt »h*v -rod In the let
ters wh I-h I''y r*--tv*." Here th- -I
smil'd at the recclFetlon of ro.-h l*-u*rs
whi' h I"- ha I written himself whin a young
man. "The frl'-nds !n the old country know
that w’ at is written by lov. .1 ones who are
over h. ■— .-m hr r Bed on. There is no
selfish .mi to be attain'd by the writer.
Get your first colony start* <l. and if it
gets along well th* settlers will com*, for
each suci-es-ful colonist is an Immigration
ar»'nt himself.
“I am a bcHovor/* doctor con-
tinned. “In mixed populations. W. can all
learn something from *-aeh oth-r There
are many things which the immigrant
must learn from the Americans as soon
as ho lands. There are s >ni* lessons in
thrift, economy -and patTnee which it
would be w. Il for Americans to learn from
th* German immigrant. 1 have traveled all
o*< r th* world. I have cro.<~.-.l the ocean
several times am! have seen th* great expo
sitions of Europe. I hav.-seen ail tide coun
try and have been across the Pacific, but
nowho-o. in no fart of th* world, is there
a country like America. There ar* few
Cities which make so good an impression
on tii*- cosmopolitan traveler as Atlanta
does. This city would attract the atten
tion of the most wid-dy traveled man un
the sun. One can tell at .a glance that
tl ■ people here are enterprising, full of
spirit a.u*l progress, self-reliant and bold in
their business ventures, but tempering their
boldm-s.s with sound judgment. And every
body is S" court< ous. Ah, that makes a
wonderful Impr'-ssion on a strangi-r. Throw :
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«. L. McCRARY. Helena. Ala.
In man among people whom he does na
know and he Is apt to b*- blue unless hi
can find somebody who Is sociable. It .|
only necessary here to a k the first gentla
man you meet some question about a street
J to lead up to a conversation in which vol
can gain a whole volume of information!
■ The Chicagoans who were down here earli
1 in th*- fall were delighted with their trip!
Chicago is a fast friend of Atlanta he: ■ -♦
forward.”
•
wonderful,” says Mr. Carey Tc-wnstnd;
••Eight'• n m >r.ths ago the r- was hardly ;
silver man down in that part of the coun
try. Didn’t they score The Constitution in
those days because it was for the free
coinage of silver? Bnt now the people ara
with The Constitution. It is almost a lynch
ing matter in V.-Jdosta now to balk about
the gold standard, and it used to be only a
short time ago as serious to say u word
for silver. You would b<- surprised to see
the change in sentiment which has oc
curred even !n the last ,-ixty day M»-n who
had d" !ar<-d th* nis-lves unalterably for
the gold standard have acknowledged that
it means ruin for the farmers and business
men. I am not in politics. My business
is to buy turpentine ar.d travel all over
south Georgia and come in touch with
the people. You can set it down that tho
whole country is with The Constitution *n
its financial views. Things which have oc
curred since congress met have had a
powerful effect on the vir-ws of the people
and this en.!’- ss chain busin> s of draw - g
gold from the treasury one w.—k nn 1 pay
ing it back the next for bonds is making a
bimetallist for every gold dollar paid for
bonds. It is hard on the taxpayer, but it
will solidify the country, or at least this
part of it. You ought to hear the farmers
and merchants in the turpentine belt talk
nl>out candidates son congress and tie
United States senate. If s< me cf the can
didates cou! I g.-t out among tin s • people
: * 1. w k or t>. 1 they v uld eitiivr
out of the race or char.ge their platform. ’’
Th*- g >v<-rnni*nt is on- -ibtedly doing a
great work toward ■ -dm atir.- the seal-eat
ing Alaskans. Out :n the g vernment
: uilding is an exhib:t will- h illustrates
t’.' ir advance. Examples f fee hand
drawing show what tiie 1. tl* Irost-bitt. n
fingers fan do in the wav of representing
such articles as hair brush s. tr ley cur-,
wheat fields and other thi -gs will* h du
not belong ir t!i<-ir cl.me. C»ne mu.t c n
f* ss to himself that whi! ■ th.- nl or.gines
are progressing, th y could probably dra.v
a tx-ad on a licar better than th.y cou!d
draw the hear on paper. The gov ri;m*-nt
is dning the hands--me thing by its wards
tin in the extreme northwest ■ rner of the
continent and one Is impress .1 by ti t
fa.-t while studying this display. We can
imagine Low smoothly the youthful Alas
kan expresses h'.ms-if. using th- end est
language and c. rresting ;he old folks
aroimd the t’lubber fires!'e in the ice
house home during tl.e var y part oft! »
six months’ long winter even ngs.
Yesterday while s me visit rs were tak
ing their last glimpse at *ht g. vernment
l uiidlrg. one of the at'a*h*s approached
the young man who sec-ms to have charge
of th* Alaska corn*r and lnqu.r*u if ho
bad seen Mr. Jei.es.
’ No. 1 have rot saw him this morning.”
replied t- assistant in the cdueat.on.,l ue-
; partment.
A* I still th* work of teaching th* Alas
kan h- iv tn draw and pair*, and the western
| *:.ilian how to miik v. >ll be Sept up.