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SUNDAY MORNING. HOW LIKE THE STARS. How like the stars are men, Springing so full and bright Into a sombre night— Casting their beams afar. Then, like the sleeping star, Fading away again. Men, in their orbits moved, Each with hie changing light. Live thro' uncertain Night; One, ere the dawn of grace, Falls into mighty space, Forgotten and unloved'. —Baltimore News. “Tie House Hat Jack Built” Jack <aring was bashful, but it was -a question if he was any more bashful than Ethel Talcott. They could not speak to each other on even the most trivial subjects without stammering and blushing, but Jack p-'risisted in calling, despite the apparent discom fort his visits caused both. Everybody -could see that he was desperately in love, and it was a saying among their friends that if Jack could ever summon up the courage to propose, Ethel would he. too bashful to recuse him. whether she loved lura or not. She had just come out at the beginning of the sea son, about the same time that Jack, who had just graduated from college and entered his father's business, of which he was prospective heir, ilrst be gan to attract the attention of de signing mothers and attractive daugh ters. Perhaps it was while avoiding them that he met Ethel, who had found that there are ways of keeping out of slg... when a- ballroom was crowded with other girls who were enjoying themselves. Anyway', some common (herd of sympathy made them embar rassed friends from their first meet ing. Although Jack was bashful, he called on tihel as often as he dared, but in spite of all resolution to overcome nis diffidence he ma le little progress with his sun. They could get along fairly well when there were others in the room with them, but when left to themselves tuey suffered. Ur'”" most young people in a similar case. Iney courted rather than avoided the com pany of Ethel's luue brotner, Gus, and Jack sqon, became such friends with him that (he felt called upon to re mem)' r nis birthday. This lie aid by .son •■’ k nlm an elaborate box of tuildfiy- jocks, which Gus dragged into :, parlor on the occasion of his ric.xt At, and insisted that the donor tench him how to build with them. “Whitt shall i build?" Jack asked. “Build me a big hotel like the one Ethel and I were at last summer." Jack obediently drew his chair to the middle of the room and began on a suitable design. But he soon found that building while sitting on a chair was difficult, and as Gus was sprawled comfortably on the floor watching the work, he presently slipped down beside him. Now, it is a peculiar thing about building Weeks that although they are always bought for children, very few children can work out the designs that, go with them, and consequently they are forced to call on their elders to help them. Moreover, their elders us ually take kindly to the task, and are apt to get cross if the child interferes in any way and delays -the work in hand. In a very few minutes Jack was as deeply interested as if he were building a sure-enough hotel and Gus watched with admiration. Presently he tried to put in place an arch that was in two pieces and needed no other blocks to be placed beside it in order to keep it in place. Gus tried to hold the pieces in place, but in doing so he knocked a corner out of the building with his elbow. “You clumsy boy!” exclaimed Ethel, who had been watching witn the most intense interest. “Hero —let me hoiu *hem,” and a moment later sne was sitting on the floor with them. Jack patienny rebuilt the damaged corner anu then Ethel held the arch until he had built around it. “Now make some bathing houses on me beach, commanued Gus. Jack obeyed, and then Gus brought out some men and women cut out of cardboard and set them around to re present the guests. “Here’s you and Ethel. I’ll introduce you. for you weren't acquainted then, said :he young rascal, as b, placed the figure of a man raising his hat befoje that of a young woman- with a parasol. "All right," said Jack. “Bu. I am noA raising my hat at her as I should. I am ! raising if at the far corner of tne building. Here, let me set them right.” slaying this, he reached out and turned the rtgure representing himself *o that it faced the figure representing Ethel. Immediately a white hand shot out and turned the back of the paste board belle toward the bowing figure. “Snubbed!” exclaimed Jack, having a boldness for his pasteboard repre sentative that he never would have presumed to have for himself. “But you don’t know him yet. He's the cheekiest r.atn on the beach. at heart;” and he moved his representa tive with his bow in front of the maid with the parasol. “And she's the haughtiest gill at the beach,” said Ethel, as she again snub bed her cavalier. “Try them behind the hotel where the hammock is and folks ain t look in'.” volunteered Gus. “Great head!” exclaimed Jack, pick ing up the two figures to make the change. “Take care whom you’re handling like- that!” exclaimed Erne], grasping him by the wrist and striving to pry his fingers loose from her figure. There was a struggle full of the abandon gayety of the nursery, to which the block had brought them back far from the formelities and embarrassments of social life. Gus jumped into the struggle to help Jaclg, and in the general mix-up the hotel was wrecked worse than any house that was ever built on sand. The clat ter brought them back to themselves again, but the nursery spirit remained with them. They once more had the frank fearlessness of children and could look one another in the face without blushing. "Now, you must build me something else, you two," whined Gus, over the ruins of his hotel. For an hour they built and rebuilt all kinds of houses to the infinite de light of the boy, who watched and crit icised. At last they disagreed about what should be built. "Let's bui.d a cottage,” said Jack. “No, let'3 build a church," said Ethel. "No. lot's build both." said Gus. So, as there were plenty of blocks to build both, they started a race to see who could finish first. But it was a peculiar thing that Jack built with his left hand and Ethel with her right while each leaned on the hand that was supposedly disengaged. But an obser ver less interested iu building than Gus might have noticed that the two hands not used in building were try ing to rest on the same spot of floor, find occasionally the fingers intertwin ed in a way that brought the color to the cheeks of the two young people, whose faces were carefully averted. “Jack's cottage is dene first," cried Gus, sprawling forward with his card board figures. "And here you both are going in the front gate.” "But we should go to the church be fore we go to the cottage," said Jack, gallantly. "Don't you thins so, Ethel ?” A gentle squeeze of the hand was the only response. “Then it is settled." he exclaimed, in a trembling voice, glancing at the back of an averted head. “First to the church and then to my cottage." Another pressure of assent. Just what would have happened next, in spite of the presence of Gus, will never be known, for his mother, who had entered the room unnoticed, suddenly exclaimed: “Well, bless my heart, is this a nur sery? Biess you, my children.” They both sprang to their feet in confusion, but Jack still citing to Ethel's band. Her mother looked from one to the other, and then Jack man aged to stammer: "That’s right—wo want your bless ing.” “Engaged!" exclaimed the mother “Well, I never. And that boy in lac room all the time! Talk about bashful people!" "Never mind that," said Jack, sud denly grown as bold as brass, as he planted his first kiss on Ethel’s lips. "The question is, do we get the bless ing?” "Yflu'll be able to tell better after you are married," said the mother, as she pushed them ahead of her toward the study, where her husband was sit ting. pretending not, to overhear. —P. &I Arthur, in the Ledger Monthly. UNIMAGINATIVE MULES. Tills lad On** of th* liouftoiifl of Tlirlr Yrtl n*. “Mules are utterly without, any sort of imagination,” said an old veterinary surgeon, “and this fact alone has placed humanity under an immense ob ligation to this creature. Many acci dents have been prevented, many lives have been saved because of the fact tnat the mule does not know this ex traordinary thing we call imagination. The imaginative faculty is not un known in certain other orders of life. Dogs frequently show evidences of im agination. They hear imaginary sounds because of some peculiar asso ciation. Dogs have been 'known to bristle up at shadow's or at certain na tural formations which sugested the idea of immediate attack. "Every owner of a dog is familiar with the dog’s dreaming habit. Horses, too. imagine tilings and dream a great deal. They have that more delicate and more sensitive temperament which developes the imagination, and the fac ulty for dreaming. But the mule never imagines anything. He never dreams, ne believes simply in what he. can see, feel, smell, hear and taste. When the possibility of these senses are exhaust ed he is at i.iie end of his row, as far as his mind goes. He rarely shows ner vousness, and even at trying moments, at critical times, he simply deals with the situation with stoical Indifference, making no effort to go beyond the grange of the five senses. This fact has ri vdc him a safe member. For instance, hrrn i %' are in the habit of riding through dangerous parts of the coun try, through mountainous regions where there is almost constant danger of falling over a precipice, would rath er be astride a species of the mule tribe. He is safe-footed in the first place, and makes no guesses. You sim ply cannot force him into a place where he will lose his balance, and possibly liis life and the life of his rider. He is not. going to shy around things ImV a horse will. It is not a matter of cour age with. him. He is not gamer than the horse. But he is simply safer be cause he does not imagine vain things. “He believes in the five senses at his command, .and puts implicit trust in them. He never dreams, and this fact, has, no doubt, saved many lives under circumstances which would have work ed the horses up to a nervous pitch that would have caused him to plunge over the precipice with his rider. We owe much to the mule, and we should not forget the fact because of his dis placement by electricity and other hinds of motive power now used in certain lines of business.” —New Or leans Times-Democrat. It’s all right to love your neighbor, but don’t let him impose on you. THE BRUNSWICK /DAILY NEWS. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. No day so long but has its evening. —French proverb. The middle path is the safe path.— German proverb. What three know everybody knows. Spanish proverb. Fools build houses, wise men buy thorn. —German proverb. Tel! everyone your business and the devil will do it for you.—ltalian proverb. He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play fool on occasion.—ltalian proverb. Better a salt herring on your own table than a fresh pike on another man's.—Danish proverb. If we keep our souls in patience, it we hold fast to our faith and hope and love, the soft streams of healing power will flow into us and through us. We shall receive and give out the infinite good.—Charles G. Ames. Good would it be for men if, re membering that life is something more than toil and struggle, they would snatch an hour from their labors, and seek in t.ie stillness of their souls that voice which only the humble can hear, that strength which only the meek can obtain. —James Drummond. The universe is as full of truth and goodness as it is of light. And no more surely does the constant day re turn alike to the "just and the un just” than true lives will rebuke our untruth, earnest opportunities rebuke our reluctant sloth of spirit, by their brave and cheerful solicltings.—Henry Wilder Foole. Thrift, sobriety, industry, these are good; but these alone do not make a great nation or a happy people. Nor can they ever be securely taught where courage, self-sacrifice, devotion to country, the consecrated service due to freedom and to truth, are not taught alongside of them as part of the equip ment of a citizen of earth and a child of GoJ. —Richard A. Armstrong. HAIR TRANSPLANTING PROFESSOR. Sickly \\ liUktH'g :iiil l T’y**l>ro\r 4 Contribute to Su<><•<•••* in Chinese physiognomists say the eye brows and whiskers of a man are just as essential in their relations ty his success in life as his other qualifica tions. If the eyebrows are feeble or the whiskers are sickly, his luck will ht thin and his health popr. There fore, to stop the train of bad luck which nature unfortunately lias or dained for such a man lie orders his eyebrows changed or replanted by a hair-planting professor. This is done by first carefully pull ing out the rebellious or unlucky hairs in the eyebrows. The next operation is to select a spot of hair on the neck of the patient or behind his cars, that would suit for a fine eyebrow, and reduce these hairs to the right length. A pair of sharp pincers is picked up with the left hand, and, selecting a suitable sized hair, the operator jerks it out by the root, and with a needle-like instrument in the right hand he pierces a minute hole in the skin of the bald eyebrow in a slanting direction, and while the point of the instrument is still on the edge of the hole the root of the pulled-up hair is carefully inserted. But if blood oozes out of it before the hair is planted the hole will not be used on that day for fear of inflammation and not suffi cient nutriment for the hair to take proper root. The operation is repeated till every hair in the eyebrows is re placed. The patient is said to experience pain in the eyebrows for about 24 hours, after which he is all right. The professor charges more for planting eyebrows than whiskers, because of the many varied degrees of slanting each hair to make the eyebrows look natural to the man or to suit the ideas of the physiognomist. \ litirgiai *rf CUunre*. A man who was arrested by local detectives a few weeks ago and after ward sentenced to the penitentiary on a charge of burglary talked freely to the officer concerning his manner oi living. “Will you tell me why you prefer a life of crime to that of an honest, up right irian?” the detective asked him. "I have often wondered." added the of ficer, “why burglars will take such des perate chances, when so frequently there is but little to be gained." “But we don’t take the chances," said the burglar. “The man who comes after us takes the chances. He takes his life in his own hands when he leaves his bed-chamber and goes in pursuit of an unwelcome caller. The odds are all against him and in favoi of us. We know where we are and have an idea from where, the occupant of the house will come. Of course, we only go to rob, and, when necessary, tc fight. No burglar is going to gel caught if he can help it, even if he has to resort to murder.” “Still," the detective reasoned, “you are bound to he in danger some time and that some' time, I should think would (Jeter you from taking the chances.” “There are remote chances,” the burglar said, “but they are so remote that they are never considered. If you will consult the records you will see that not one burglar in a hundred cases ever gets hurt. Until there is a great change in the results you may depend upon it that burglaries will not cease.” —Washington Star. Thincs ffv* CTmng*<l. “And she used to take dictation al 130 words a minute.” “Great speed. But is she so slow now?” “Well, I guess! She's married.”— Baltimore New° RELAXATION CURES ILLS NEW SYSTEM OF EXERCISE BASED ON PSYCHOLOGICAL LAWS. N'iltur* lint** VlnlotM'o Htid I>▼ rutting H >*lf In (omrol of lit* r|y ! eiTtrrs oral lon to ll*ul:li I> ftOMRMM Ho ped lf KoirtXnt ton. Anew system of physical exercise, formulated by a former supervisor of music in the public schools of Wash ington, has to do with the subcon scious mind, says the Chicago Inter- Ocean. Yawning and s.retching are not generally considered important, but as part- of the so-called natural movement exercises they are regarded as significant, as they arc usually the initial movements. The following ac count of ilie exercises and their theoijr comes from their chief teacher: The first step in these exercises is to lie loosely clothed, with closed eyes and perfectly quiescent, until there is consciousness of gravity—in other words, until tiie weight of the body is realized. There must be relaxation not only of the body, but also of the mind; the grasp on things in general must be lessened and all action suspended as far as volition is concerned. This de pends on whether o’* not the person ueeds the breath expansion which yawning brings. He may be so in ihe habit of deep breathing that ho nas no need of this particular form of interior exercise at this time, or it may be that a habit of insufficient breathing has so atro phied certain parts of his body that they must be relaxed by other move ments before yawning is possible. An assertion made for ihe natural movement exercise is that it brings about an exact meeting of need and help, if one is nervous, general re pose is gained; the inert are stimu lated, and, in one part of the body is over-active, leaving another part ab normally inactive, an equilibrium is established. No two individuals have exactly the same experience, but while differ ing in rate and power in each person, the spontaneous movements are all in accordance with certain general prin ciples. For example, a hysterical pa tient, when perfectly relaxed and when the will, for the nonce, is in abeyance, will massage one arm and hand from tile elbow downward, with ihe opposite hand, alternating from time to lime. This at once indicates the disease, and is the movement which quiets over wrought nerves. The involuntary tendency, when a person has remained long enough quiescent to be subject to the subconscious mind, to press with the fingers ovqr the eyes, along the upper orbit just under the eye brows, is another indication of ex treme nervousness. Another is the lifting of the spine when the patient is lying on the back. When the trouble is insomnia there is a tendency to bring the head for ward, repeating the action many times. As an act of will this movement tends to induce sleep, as by stretching the nerves and muscles of this part of the body the nerve particles are sepa rated as by an opiate. Dolbear points out that sleep is sim ply a separation of the nerve sheaths, and this movement lias a tendency to tiring about such separation. This is why a kitten curls itself up when it sleeps, and all animals drop or bring forward the head in sleep. In activity the particles which form the nerve sheaths are in intimate contract, and the more intense ilie activity the closer the contact. When there is contraction along the spine ,or in the region of the back, there is a tendency to clasp the feet with the hands and straighten out the limbs, which acts as a self-adjust ing derrick, stretching and strengthen ing the muscles and nerves. Brain fatigue is indicated, and also relieved, by wiping off the face with the hands. Rubbing of the skin denotes ner vous irritation of some sort, and deep movements, as taking as much as pos sible of the flesh of the arms and limbs with the hands, indicate gen eral muscular contraction. The move ments of a neurotic are rapid, often almost a whirl. It is also asserted by the author of this system that these involuntary mo tions follow geometrical forms; that they are at first in straight and hori zontal lines, then vertical and oblique; after this, arches, circles, double cir cles and ovals are described. Also that there is just as much stretching as there has been contraction. Nature hates violence, and the part most affected of.en comes into motion tardily. More than this, like a coiled spring, a nerve or muscle long con tracted tends to return to the abnor mal position, so that a cure is often a matter of considerable time. Stated briefly, the foundation fact of the natural movement system as a cure i3 the one well known, but not so generally realized, that absolutely per fect circulation is perfect health. That is, when all the exquisitely delicate and infinitely numerous tubings of the human mechanism are normally open, so that the life fluids flow un restricted through them, there is the equilibrium which is unconscious health. That this state is not common the briefest and most superficial obser vation demonstrates. To hold one's self tense, as if braced against some thing, is so common as to be almost universal. This habit of body has its source almost invariably in uncon scious habit of mind. The value of various forms of phy sical culture is the correcting of this fixed tension in various parts of the body so that the tubings are normally open. It is pointed out that there are two reasons why ordianry physical culture doe* not reach the more intri cate of thess conditions. First, a person is not by any volun tary act able to locate them, and would not, oven if they were discov er e:l to him. be able to reach them by movements controlled by his con scious mind. Again, physical culture is racial rather than special, and as each indi vidual is different from every other it is only when allwise nature is set in operation that the need of each is adequately met. To understand just what 13 asserted for ibe natural movement system ol’ exercise it is necessary to take into account that man’s inherent and per sistent tendency in his subconscious ness is to bo healthy and to return ever and again to the normal. This Is demonstrated by the healing of wounds by first intention, and in many other ways. Still, man is so truly a free moral agent that in a thousand ways his body is contracted and hardened by his own action; while the strong nat ural tendency is to openness and flexi bility. When the tense and stiffened condition is continued so persistently that it becomes fixed, the human mechanism can do but partial and imperfect woik, as certain parts are then Incapacitated and their duties are thrown on others, which have no capacity to fulfil them. It is said that the natural movement system of exer cise by putting the subconscious self in control secures restoration to per fectly normal conditions. As the author relates, this system was worked out from a very simple beginning. When preparing herself so teach, in waiting as her instructor directed, perfectly quiet for the breath to come with which to sing, she ob served that certain uniform move ments followed. She became interest ed and began a series of experiments and observations. In doing this she found that when ever she completely relaxed herself and waited in quiet silence she was invariably inclined to movements which were quite involuntary. Yield ing to these, she found that from day to day they progressed in a reg ular sequence, and, also, she found her health constantly improving. Incited by her success with herself, she set about studying as did Preyer and Darwin. When she wa3 satisfied that slie had found a law which, while simple, was far-reaching, she proceed ed to test the value of the system thus evolved. To make sure that she had made a valuable discovery, she obtained per mission to see what she could do with patients at the Boston dispensary in Boston. Here she treated, and is said to have cured, several cases of St. Vitus’ dance, and a case of sciatica of long standing. One child w'ho had spinal trouble was, by actual meas urement, four inches taller at the end of six weeks’ treatment than at the beginning. It was found that nervous diseases were almost invariably helped by tnis exercise. A United Stated senator, suffering from extreme nervousness and Insomnia was cured, and he now constantly practices these exercises. FROM TEACHER'S DESK TO FARM. A Woman Who I>e<ipl*e* 111* Aid of the Dilatory Hired Man. Miss Abide Pfeifer bears the distinc tion of being the only woman in In diana who conducts a farm without any assistance. With her aged mother Miss Pfefi'er lives in a quaint little house three miles southeast of Misa waka. She takes care of 40 acres of land, ploughing it, attending to tha harvesting, and doing all the necessary chores. Miss Pfeifer is a niece of former Sen ator Pfeifer of Kansas. When her father died ten years ago she began teaching school. She had then just fin ished her studies at the University of Indiana. But at tnis time Miss Pfef- IVjr's mother became an invalid. She bad been managing the farm after the death of her husband, and when she was stricken wiih an ailment that pre vented her from leaving the house she appealed to her daughter to manage the land. When the young woman took charge of the farm several men were working on it. Miss Pfeifer was a most exact ing employer. Furthermore, she did not think the men got as much out of the land as it was able to produce. So she discharged them. Since then no man has performed a day s work on the Pfeifer property. The former school teacher has “run” the farm during Ihe summer and win ter; the girl who was graduated from one of Indiana’s leading universities guides (lie plough through the soil: she who at one time saw a brilliant future before iter harvests the grain. Her hands, which were once white and soft, have become callous and brown in the performance of that work which calls her to the fields at sunrise and finds her in the garden at sunset. But in spite of all Ihis she says that if she were asked- to choose between farming and teaching school she Would keep right on working in the fields. The hardest work performed by Miss Pfeifer is raising strawberries. She is the recognized owner of the finest tract of strawberries in the state, and the name of the “Pfeifer berries” is a widely known one. The greater part of them are shipped to Chicago, where they find a ready market, and it is from this product that Miss Pfeifer de rives most of her income. In addition to cultivating the forty acre tract, Miss Pfeffer also does all the marketing, churns butter, and maintains an inviting lawn, with floral beds, in front of the house, around which she herself built a well-made picket teace. —Correspondence Chicago Inter Ocean. SEPTEMBER 14. HER EMPHATIC OPINION. J'lxrrna.ed In Various Tsrin., but Not la Wy to Huts Effect. There were plenty of vacant seats up forward in the open car, but the hat chet-faced woman with the baggy um brella and the faded reticule didn’t want to see them. The conductor, with his hand on the bell strap, motioned uer witn the other hand to one of the forward seats, but she didn’t want to see tne conductor, either. So she de posited herself and her baggy umbrel la and her faded reticule in the next to-the-last seat, alongside a short, squat man with a bristly reddish mous tache and a fixed 3tare right ahead. This individual was puffing industrious ly on a ravelled, pale olive-hued cigar, that gave forth eccentric clouds of brownish fimoke that looked as if it mi gut be issuing from a burning out line. No sooner bad she taken her seat than the hatchet-faced woman began to glare at the man with the freak smoke. The man, however, kept right at his work of puffing, never seemingly tak ing his eyes from the back of the mot orman a neck, straight ahead. “Ugh!” ejaculated the hatchet-faced woman when she found that her glares weren t relieving the situation any. "Ugh!” The man with the eccentric turner pulled harder L.an ever, and continued to regard the back of the motorman’s neck, as if fascinated by that spec tacle. “Some folks' manners, if I must say it! snapped the woman with the bag gy umbrella, wriggling in her seat and continuing to direct vitriolic glares at the reddish-mustached man. The latter removed the cigar from, his mouth, gazed at it in a contem plative, affectionate sort of way, damp ened some of the many loose ends of the thing with a forefinger, replaced it in his mouth and continued to fill the air with deep, brown smoke. “No more respect, for ladies than so many rabbits, some of ’em, I do de clare!” exclaimed the hatchet-faced woman, fetching the ferule of her bul gy umbre,.a down on the car floor with a bang. The squatty man with the piece of burning, raveled rope, crossed his legs and continued to smoke with great ob vious enjoyment, although he was still interested in the general contour of the motorman’s neck. "Blowiri their filthy seo-gar smoke right in the faces o’ ladies old enough to bo their mothers!’ went on the wo man w.ih the faded reticule, while the other men in the rear seats, none of whom happened to be smoking, snick ered and glanced at each other grin ningly. But the man with the hempen arti cle only redampened some more of the loose ends of his smoke and then wenl on pulling on it with even more en joyment than before. “An y’ might jes’ as well talk t' some swine as I could tell of as t’ so many cobblestones!’’ continued the hatchet-faced woman, raising her reti cule from her lap and putting it back with a jolt. The’conductor happened to be pass ing on the sideboard just then, and he smiled as he said in a courteous tone to the liatchet-f&ced woman: “Lady, these seats are reserved for smokers—move up in front at the next stop and you won’t be bothered. The woman with the bulgy umbrella shot tiie conductor a look of the most overwhelming scorn as she made re ply; “They ain’t no. sich thing as reserv in’ no seats on no cars nowhere for hogs, an’ you know it, young man, as well as I do." The conductor shrugged his shoul ders and passed on forward. But the man with the blazing bit ol cauliflower bad never turned his head either to the right or left during this colloquy, nor had he given the slightest indication, by any expression of his face, that he was even aware of what was going on. “Th’ very idee o’ ladies bein’ ast t’ change their seats in cars f’r th’ sake o’ lett.in ’ common, every-day cattle make noosances o’ themselves!” snif fed the hatchet-faced woman. Just at that moment a man with a singularly plastic countenance climbed into the vacant seat on the other side of the man with the ravelled smoke. The two recognized each other instant ly, and instantly they began a quick exchange of conversation—with their hands, deftly and swiftly going through the ever-interesting and ever-mystify ing language of the mutes. 'lue expression that swept over the sharp features of the woman with the baggy umbrella could never be de scribed. “Well, I swan! —he never hecards a word T said!” she ejaculated, and then she signalled the conductor to stop the car at the next crossing and there de barked, while the men in the rear seat chuckled aloud and the two mutes went on, all unconsciously, with their language of the hands.—Washington Star. Unis Srtf* in lodlit. Although the famine over the greater part of Rajputana, Gujerat and the central Indian states is less widespread than hitherto, there will nevertheless be much suffering during the next few months, and 100.000 people are already on government relief works. The rats have to a largo extent disappeared, but have destroyed a considerable por tion of the cotton crop. The inhabi tants of Gujerat are convinced that the rats are reincarnations of their friends who died in the last, famine and it is for this reason that the Brit ish officials have found it impossible to get any assistance in destroying the pests.—London Mail.