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SUNDAY MORNING.
are two fold* upon the hill,
And one is lone and very still— ", . .
Only the rustle of a leaf
Clives happy sound of life and stir,
And warbles bubbling bright and brief
Where the bird skirn-s with fearless whirr,
Or a bee rifling on his way
The honey from a wild rose spray.
Sometimes a soft and summer shower
Props gentle music hour by hour,
Or a long breath of wandering air
Makes melancholy murmur there,
And all is calm and full of peace
There where the dead have sweet surcease.
II ’ . is.
Ik f
y ”* HE superintendent of the Kil-
I dee Insane Asylum was, ex-
I 1 officio, n great personage In
the little town. The simple,
homo-keeping Inhabitants dignified him
In their minds with the great men of
the Nation, for the institution over
which he presided was the biggest
thing they knew about, and the official
residence of the superintendent was
looked upon as the type and paragon
of all domestic excellence.
The new superintendent, however,
had not been content to move majesti
cally in the beaten path of hi* prede
cessors. The degree of awesome aloof
ness which enwrapped him surpassed
anything ever known In the town, but
he had a knack of mingling with the
affairs of the people without abating
an lota of his dignity or laying him
self open to the familiarity of his
neighbors. He hadn't been In office
r Ji
six months before tlie asylum garden,
worked by the Inmates, began to yield
extraordinary quantities of kitchen
truck, flowers and fruit, which Superin
tendent Trlggton, with pompous eonde
eenslon permitted the public to buy at
prices that added heavily to his already
large income. Then It became known
among certain struggling tradesmen
that Trlggton had a certain sum of
ready money which ho was "willing”
to loan to reputable citizens on "terms
which could be privately arranged.”
Within a year lie "owned” enough
mortgages to make him master of the
destinies of a dozen less fortunate Kil
deeans. He bought lots in town anil
acres adjoining the village and guarded
his holdings with n jealous tyranny
that was quite new to the easy going,
friendly people.
Itoys caught playing "I spy” iu Ills
orchard w*cre cuffed off the premises.
OshLk#
Stray pigs, cows or horses foraging
along the roadways were promptly im
pounded liy Triggton and the owners
mulcted for their "keep.” Frolicking
dogs which had ventured upon the
Triggton estate had been found mys
teriously defunct, lying at their own
ers’ gates. Pullets foraging abroad iu
the vicinity of his house had failed
to return to their roosts, and the va
grom peddlers who occasionally in
vaded his inhospitable yard were set
upon by a murderous bulldog which
held the unenvied honor of being Trigg
toa’B only companion, counselor and
friend. A year of this kind of “aelgh
boriliness" made Superintendent Trigg
toa the most hated and at the saute
time the. most feared person in Kiidee.
The Widow Denny was the first who
dared to oppose him. One of her pigs
had got away aud never returned, and
about the same time Triggtou's porcine
family of ten yearlings was augmented
by the presence of a plump boar,
which, from a distance, looked suspic
THE (BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
THE PATHS OP DEATH.
Within that other place of graves
The wild rains tail, the wt! wind rav—
In every dusky alley met
Sad ghosts, ■who heat an aching breast
With anguished longing and regret,
Remember that they once were blest,
The heart gone out of them, the soul
f'ieu onward to some unknown goal.
Tor them no glad and further year,
A*he* the rose, and beauty sere,
Without a wish except to fill
Their eyes with dust —the dead who still
With ruined hope and joyiess mirth
Go to and fro upon the earth!
—Harriet Prescott Spofford, in Scribner’s Magazine.
lously like the Denny derelict. The
widow demanded her beast, and Trigg
ton laughed at her. Then she filed suit
and gave the community u shock of
delight, by bringing her son, a young
Chicago lawyer, to help her fight the
superintendent. Everybody hoped and
even expected that the smart young
attorney from the city would bring
the hateful Triggton to account, but
when the ease came to trial and the
evidence was all in, even the tacit tes
timony of the squealing pig, the ques
tion remained one of veracity between
the woman and the possessor of the
pig. He swore that his sow had Ut
tered eleven pigs, and the widow swore
that the beast, in evidence was her
property. She mentioned the split ear,
the marks, even the kinks In its tail,
recounting these signs of identification
before the debated beast appeared
and pointing out the accuracy of her
statements when the squealer was in
troduced. In this quandary, Judge
Tufts, who was mortally afraid of the
superintendent, fell hack ou the old
sophism, “possession is nine-tenths of
the law,” and awarded the pig to the
triumphant rascal.
The Klldeeans were sorely disap
pointed, though they dared not show it.
and Superintendent Triggton swag
gered out of the courtroom with a
sneer at Lawyer Denny that stung
him all the deeper when lie saw the
tears tu his old mother's eyes. The
widow aud her sou were having a
rather sad farewell supper that even
ing when Hank Lee, who was a sort
of town weigher, came in with the
startling announcement:
"Thc-y's a mover gone and ramped in
Triggtou’s orchard! Fulled down a
panel o’ the fence and tuk his team
an' wagon right in an' squatted ou the
clover kerplunk! He's put up a tent
and his hosses is ratin' away at their
best lick! Geewhillikens, won't the ole
grizzly holler!”
“Lot's go see what happens. Hank,”
said Denny.
“I’ll go ye. We kin hide behind the
manure pile.” And off they went in
spite of Mrs. Denny's cautious warn
ing to “keep out o' Triggtou's road.”
From their lurking place they could
see the mover sitting beside his camp
lire, shutliing a sizzling skillet over the
blaze. lie was whistling merrily, ob
livious of the burly man standing bolt
upright at the fence staring at tbe
intruder in livid astonishment. Denny
aud Lee nudged each other and
chuckled as, they saw Triggton dart
under the top rail, rush tip to the non
chalant trespasser and bellow: “Get
off this lot, d'ye hear!" The mover
calmly laid down his frying pan.
stopped whistling and smiled into tbe
purple face of the enraged Triggton.
"Why, good evenin',” he laughed.
“Glad to know you, Triggy! X heerd
•bout you. Always been wantin' to
meet up with the feller what owns the
whole world!"
“Get out of my orchard, you blamed
fool!” roared the superintendent,
flinching his fist and trembling with
the rage that seized him.
"Whoa, Triggy,” quoth the mover,
stepping back as the smile faded from
his brown face; "don’t get sassy, or
I’ll have lo use force. Come now,
you’d better come along with me up t’
the 'syluin. I been told to fetch you
in. I know you own the whole world,
got it fenced in an’ all that, but ’f
you’ll come along with roe I think
mebbe we kin give you a mortgage ori
the moon, too. Come.”
For answer the infuriated Triggton
leaped at the throat of the stranger.
Too quick for hla assailant, howevc.
the vagabond had grabbed the iron
skillet and with one quick swing
brought it smash upon the bead of
Triggton. The men behind the manure
pile saw him waver, stagger and fall.
The mover bent over him for an in
stant, said, “Don’t git up, Triggy,” and
as the prostrate man jumped up again
struck him full in the eye with his
clinched fist. “Guess that’ll hold ye
fur awhile.” said the stranger, going
into his tent. They watched him come
out with a rope and tie the fallen
tyrant hand and foot. Then, by a
great effort, he loaded his victim into
the wagon, and Denny and I,ee, un
willing to remain longer, made off
through the twilight, laughing with
delight. They stopped at the widow’s
house long enough to see the mover
come galloping up the road, his wagon
rattling behind and Triggton sitting
helplessly In the rear, his yells and im
precations drowned by the clatter of
the Jolting vehicle.
Denny ran into the house, much to
the wonderment of Hank, but the
mover drew reins at the gate and
cried:
■‘Hi, there, come show me the way to
Jedge Tuftsses’ house. I got the
'Reaped lunatic here, raptured him
single-handed down younder in the
orchard. Don’t bo skeard <’ him. I
got him tied as light as a yearlin’
bull.”
Hank, rot trusting himself to look
at the prisoner, jumped up on the scat
and away they dashed for Judge Tufts’
house. That grave if not learned per
sonage happened at that moment to he
presiding over a political mass meet
ing In the square of Kiidee, surrounded
by a glare of oil torches, and in the
act of Introducing the “speaker of the
evening.” The thundering arrival ol
the wagon with Hank and the mover
on the seat aud the raving, disheveled,
dirty captive In the rear, created an
uproar that prtt an end to tbe judge's
speech. He jumped off the stake
wagon, elbowed his way through the
crowd, and catching sight of the woe
begone superintendent, asked: "What
does this mean?”
"That’s your escaped lunatic, Jedge,”
explained the mover, while the crowd
roared in irrepressible delight, “that's
him, Triggton. 1 ketched him single
handed down in the orchard, he jumped
me *’
"Whose orchard?” asked ihe excited
Tufts, fumbling to release the crest
fallen superintendent.
"Why, Denny's. Mr. Denny told me
I could camp in that orchard ”
“But this gentleman, what in God't
name did you do to him?”
“Why, he's the ’scaped lunatic,
Triggton. Mr. Denny told me about
him, said he was ling-house about own
in’ the whole world, 'scaped from the
’syluttt. and that If I ketched him an'
turned him over to .ledge Tufts I’d git
the reeward. He fetched me a wallop,
an’ I jest fetched him a couple aside
o’ ihe head, and yonder he is!"
The disgruntled captor of the Kiidee
tyrant looked around for Hank Lee
for corroboration, but that worthy was
then running as fast as his legs could
take him to the Widow Denny’s eot
tuge.
"Where's your son. Mrs. Denny?”
he panted, as he bolted into the
kitchen.
“He's gone on that S o’clock train
for Chicago,” she said, quietly.
"Do you know what he's done?”
“Y’es. Hank, I knew. It was the
least he could do, don't you think?”*-
John H. Raftcry, iu the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Compulsory Ilonsc Service in Australia
Probably compulsory domestic ser
vice will have to lx* resorted to some
day. That will not only help to solve
a difficult problem, but it will also lift
the nodal stigma off the kitchen indus
try by main force. Compulsory mili
tary service for men is common enough
and even Australia will almost certain
ly find it necessary some day. Compul
sory domestic service for women—say
from the age of nineteen to twenty-one
—is no grouler a hardship. There is
the same reason for compulsion iu
both cases—a great national demand
anti as insufficient snpply.—Sydney
Bulletin.
One f Carina's Witticism*.
Ourrsn, says a writer iu the G?'ecn
Bag, once had as colleague iu a case
a remarkably tall and slender man had
originally intended to take orders.
When the judge observed that the
case iuvolved a question iu ecclesiasti
cal law. Curran said: "I can refer
your lordship to the high authority be
hind me, who was once intended for
the church, though in my opinion he
is fitter for the steeple.”
Safe Trait**.
All the new vraius on tbe Centra!
London Railway are to bo of fireprcoi
construction, steel and asbestos being
largely used. Other precautions lot
the safety of passengers are being
taken. x -
Chapters of Life’s Oddities, j
STRANGE STORIES GARNERED FROM
DIVERSE SOURCES.
Hawk and Crown Buttle u Denlh.
Druid Hill Park, near Superintend
-nt Cassell's residence, was the scene
jn Sunday of one of the fiercest battles
ever fought between crows on the one
side and a large chicken hawk on she
other and, perhaps, the only battle of
Its kind in which the hawk suffered
defeat, says the Baltimore Sun.
It is a well-known fact that the
relations between hawks and crows
have been strained perhaps since crea
tion. hawks neglecting no opportunity
to destroy young crows before they
leave the nests. Representatives of
the two species of birds rarely meet
without a battle. They usually fight
in midair. This is no doubt the reason
why the hawk has wou so many vic
tories.
Fully twelve or fifteen crows took
part In Sunday's battle. The hawk
was attacked in midair while hovering
over a crow’s nest. The onslaught
made him furious, and he retaliated
by swooping down on the tree in which
the nest was built. The crows were
determined to drive off the enemy and
made a systematic and concerted on
slaught on the intruder. First one
and then another would drive at him,
and in a short time the ground under
the tree was strewn with feathers.
The hawk fought with bill and claws,
while the crows used only their bills.
The fight became so hot that the hawk
was compelled to leave the tree, and.
being too exhausted to fly. sank to the
ground. There he made a final stand,
and the battle was an interesting one,
passengers on the Empire Grove ears
being among the spectators. First
one crow and then another would give
the hawk a dig with its bill and then
jump back to escape the savage
plunges of the hawk.
The hawk fought as long as he could
stand on his feet. Even while lying
on his side or back he kept up the
struggle. The crows, however, were
relentless and kept on peeking away
until tbclr adversary fell dead. They
then Hew off a considerable distance
apd patched up their cuts and bruises
as best they could. Not a single one
of their number was killed.
. _
A Mammoth.
ProfeSsor Herz.wbo has been search
ing for mammoth remains in Siberia,
was fortunate enough to meet with
success, and lately Talbot Clifton saw
the specimen at Irkutsk. This, of
course. is not the first occasion on
which the entire body of one of these
extinct elephants has been procured.
At the commencement of the last
century a large specimen was found
imbedded In tlie ice at the mouth of
the River Lena. The auimal was so
perfectly preserved that sections of its
eyes could he made. Its skeleton was
set up iu the St. Petersburg Museum.
Professor Hera's find also appears to
be in a very excellent state of preserv
ation. In the stomach undigested food
was found. The hairy covering of
the body which protects the mammoth
from the rigors of the northern climate
was also in part intact. The wool ts
of reddish-brown color, and a huge
mane appears to have existed. In
these elephants the tusks were long
and much curved.
The interest which attaches to a find
of this description consists in our being
brought face to face with an animal
still “in the flesh.” which lias long
since been extinct. That it was a com
panion of primitive man is evident, be
cause of the association with mam
moth fossils of human handiwork in
the shape of implements, while on v.ne
tusk some aspiring artist of these early
days scratched a rough outline of the
great beast.
The Yegntable I’.rflion.
Such is the chisia of tropical forests,
which, instead of growing up from
the ground, grows down to it from
the tops of other trees.
Its seed is provided with a pulp
very pleasant to the taste of many
birds, and it is carried from tree to
tree by them and deposited on the
branches. There it commences to grow
by putting out innumerable delicate
3EQISXIXO or THE PTTHOX.
roots that look like small streams of
pitch flowing down around the tree
trunk. When they reach the ground
they begin to harden and spread wider
and wider, throwing out side branches,
which run together and unite, until
the whole tree is bound with a series
of irregular living bands. The bark
between them bulges out and tries to
overlap, but the clusia prevents this
by making its roots more numerous
and wide.
As the tree becomes more tightly
bound its leaves begin to fall, and
finally it is strangled to death. After
a few years it rots to the ground,
leaving only the clusia’s column of
tangled roots tc mark the place where
it stood.—Cincinnati Commercial Tri
bune.
Swordfitk Kills Fisherman.
The drowning of a ciaa by a sword-
fish is reported by the crew of tlx
schooner William B. Keene, which ar
rived at Gloucester. Mass.
The Keene was fishing on the south
east part of George’s when an enor
mous swordfish was sighted. A har
poon was driven into the big fellow,
estimated to weigh about 500 pounds.
Isadore Bouche was despatched in a
dory io pick up the fish. He had gone
about a quarter of a mile from the
vessel when he observed the buoy
floating.
Just ns he sat out to pick up the
fish he was cautioned by the master
against getting his leg entangled in the
rod line. There was seventy-three
fathoms of rod line connected with the
harpoon. Bouche had hauled up ail
but eight fathoms when liis left leg
became entangled in the line and he
was hauled overboard.
The fish ran down to the limit of the
line and held the man there. The ac
cident was observed from the vessel
and a dory was despatched to the
rescue. The men found the buoy and
hauled it ill.
Eight fathoms from the dead sword
fish was found the body of Bouche.
entangled in the line. Life vras ex
tinct
I*oi*<ne><t Arrow*.
It is a practice of savage tribes in
most all parts of the world to put
poison on the points of their siiears and
arrows that they may be more effect
ive aguinst tlieir enemies, for a wound
which under ordinary circumstances
would heal quickly, if made with a
poisoned implement will probably
cause death.
The poison is generally obtained
from a plant or tree, such as the
deadly upas tree of Java. The Ameri
can Indian has used the venom of
snakes. In order to procure it he tied
a small piece of meat to the end of a
stick and then went in search of a
rattlesnake or viper. Upon finding
one, he induced it to strike the meat
as often as possible by getting it into
an angry mood. This was repeated
with other snakes until the meat was
filled with venom. To poison the ar
rows the points were jabbed several
times into the meat, after which a
wound from one of them was as deadly
as the bite ol' the snake itself
Cnriou* Phenomenon of I'elee Eruption.
While the fiery tormfto. passing to
ward the south and west, widened the
sweep of its destructive power In or
der to extend its devastations farther,*
another remarkable phenomenon came
to stop it in its course. Two strong
atmospheric currents, laden with rain,
moving, one from the southeast, the
other from the north, fell of a sudden
ttpou the sides of the fiery spout, and.
encircling it along a distinctly marked
line, cooled it to such :t point that I
have seen persons who. finding them
selves precisely upon this line of de
marcation. were struck ou one side by
fiery missiles, while on the other, ami
only a few feet away, nothing was
falling but the rain of mud. cinders
and stones which descended on the
countryside everywhere.—From the de
scription by tlie Vicar-General of Mar
tinique in tbe Century.
An OklnltoitiH Giant.
T,cw!s Wilkins, whose homo was in
Enid. Gkla. died iu Chicago, where he
had gone for medical treatment. Wil
kins was twenty-nine years old. eight
feet and two inches tall, weighed 3tis
pounds, wore a 9Vi hat, 24 shoo and 14
glove. He measured fifty-eight inches
around the chest and fifty-two inches
around the waist. He had been on ex
hibition since ISSS and made several
trips around the world. Ills death
was caused from a swelling in the head
which began six months ago while o;/
exhibition in Europe. He came to
home of his parents here for vmx,
thinking that he would recover.
sas City Star. Jp
The Pad lie Coast’* Exposition.
There will be held in tlie city of
Portland, Oregon, in 1905, a great fair,
to last several mouths, to commem
orate the centennial of the arrival of
Lewis aHd Clark on the Pacific Coast,
after their journey from the mouth of
the Missouri on the first aud tlie gn-at
est of the American Government's ex
peditions of exploration. The histor
ical and political consequences of that
expedition were momentous. It fur
nishes the United States with one o’
the earliest and one of the strongest
of the claims by which it gained undis
puted possession, in the treaty with
England in 1840, of the'vast empire on
the western side of tlie Rocky Moun
tains. comprising the present States of
Oregon. Washington, aud Idaho, and
paus of the States of Montana aud
Wyoming.—Leslie's Weekly
A Rich Find.
The richest gold aud silver strike
ever made in the famous Parral dis
trict in Mexico has been made in the
San Juaniea property of the Hidalgo
Mining Company At a depth of 200
feet an independent and unexplored
vein was discovered carrying $509 a
ton in gold and silver.
SEPTEMBER if
A horsefly will live for hours after its
head has been pulled off. The head of
the mosquito hawk will continue eating
its victim when separated from the
thorax.
The umbrella and parasol were used
by the Eastern nations many centuries
before the Christian era. The oldest
chinaware shows pictures of ladies
and mandarins shaded by parasols of
patterns similar to those now in use.
All employment of natives in ihe
Philippines is on the padrone system.
No American can walk out and hire a
dozen Filipinos to go to work for him.
He must instead arrange with a “boss''
and on a commission for so much la
bor. This is the Philippines substitute
for trade unionism.
The English King and Queen liar,
accepted an interesting curio from Mr.
George Scovell. a member of the
Twickenham District Council, in the
shape of a wooden inkstand carved in
the form of a Viking war vessel. The
wood is taken from the ribs of a Viking
ship wrecked near Southampton ten
centuries ago.
The Trinity House authorities have
just completed the blowing up of the
wreck of H. M. cutter Hunter, which
was lost, with all hands, off Halsboro
on February 27. ISO 7 Tbe divers re
covered some interesting relies in tlie
form of an anchor ring and stock, and
part of one of her guns. The relies
have been handed over to the Yar
mouth Museum.
Wardley Hall, six miles from Bolton,
England, dates from about the time of
Henry VI. In the staircase was a re
cess containing a skull, supposed to be
long to Roger Downes, a roisterer in
Charles ll.'s time, and YVnrdley Hal!
became known as the Skull house, as.
according to the legend, whenever the
skull was removed from its resting
place trouble would befall tlie inmates
of the dwelling. On oue&cension the
relic was lost in the moa™ which had
to be dragged for its reeov^^
Hie growing of panipa has
become an important Cali
fornia. When they are cut a day or so
suffices to dry the plumes* and at such
times the ground appears, from the
hills, to be covered with snow. After
the drying the plumes are taken.to the
curing house and then finally sorted
into various grades by expert bauds.
The finest and most beautiful plumes
are about thirty-six inches long, and
they are packed for shipment either in
packages of 2000 or in large cases, the
prices ranging from #2OO to SSOO per
thousand, according to the demand. In
all. California produces about £500.090
plumes a year, which are sent all over
this country and Europe.
Hydrophobia.
Hydrophobia lias always boon a rare
disease Id this country, iiut within the
past few weeks a surprising number of
eases have been reported. Cats are
liable to rabies, hut it is more common
to dogs, and seems to arise front over
eating and too little liberty, Pets that
are kept iu a house all the time live an
artificial life, especially if jjiev are
stimulated by high feeding. One ani
mal also communicates the germs to
others, and sometimes a dozen dogs,
cats, horses and cattle wiil !>. affected
by the bites of a single dog running
at large. While there is faith in the
Pasteur treatment of the bitten sub
ieet. prevention is far easier. Ailing
dogs ought to be watched, especially
if they slink under furniture, whine,
appear uneasy and dejected, and. in
stead of shooting a dog that has hit
ten a person, the animal should he
chained and kept under watch to see
if genuine rabies is developed. Many
“ases of supposed iiydrophibia are
merely hysteria, and if a bitten person
knows that tbe dog who has inflicted
the wound is healthy, he will be re
lieved from much anxiety, whereas if
the animal is quickly killed*the urieer
tr.inty as to the danger may result in
simulated hydrophobia, with nervous
breakdown. On general principles it
would be well to cud the lives of the
poor dogs and eats that Wander about
ou* cities, uu fed. uneared for. sickly,
a nuisance to neighborhoods, a burden
to them selves.—Brooklyn Eagle.
The Tramp. East and WeM.
II hen I say that the average tramp
does not understand Trampland, It will
bo readily understood that the average
sociologist, tentatively dabbling, does
not and cannot understand Trampland.
A single instance of this should suffice
Now. it is notorious that Eastern
tramps do not know bow to “railroad.”
The tramp whose habitat has been
confined to the East aud South can no
more “hold down’’ a train iu spite of a
“horstile” crew than can lie step into
Rockefeller's office and “hold down”
Standard Oil. Conditions do not de
mand it. Conditions do not demand
it. He is not trained to it. The crews
are rarely “horstile.” Speaking out or
icy own experience. I hare been bnt
twice put off trains between the Mis
sissippi and ihe Atlantic Ocean: while
west of the Mississippi I have been
put off. and thrown off, and beaten off
more times than I can recollect.—Jack
London, iu the Bookman.
Keeping a Goo* Cook.
Maybe the only way to keep a good
cook would be to many her. and maybe
then she'd stop being a good cook.—
Mew York Press.