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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.