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SUNDAY MORNING. Where the ruddy sunbeams blaze Through the drowsy morning haze; Where, with shifting sheen and shimmer, Winking whitecapa gleam and glimmer, And the wooing south wind plays With the laughing summer sea; — Take me thither, Memory. W here the breakers comb and crawl Underneath their gaunt sea-wall. While their winnowed spray is laving Sedges in lone crannies waving, And the gray gulls dip and call' By the sleepy summer sea;— Take me thither. Memory. I HIS “WILDCAT” TRAIN. | How Engineer Pow ers, in Honduras, Ran jv the Jaguar Special. r ,4SS\ /SIC ‘M* aJSs, /St fe, .Sfc, <3** .-se*. .'ssr. TItANGB affairs happen iipnii of Spanish Honduras. Hold ups, collisions and runa way trains are of frequent occurrence on its fifty miles of length, but its most extraorduary incident was that in which George Powers took part. It was in the "dry season.” when the banana plants were weighted with their bunches of green fruit, ready for cutting. "One day”—as Powers tells the story —“the fruit steamer Breakwater an chored unexpectedly in the offing of our Caribbean Sea harbor of Porto Cortez. Soon, at her agent's orders, there was hoisted at her masthead the signal indicating, ‘ Fruit, ready for a quick cargo.” And when the ship had reached the dock u fruit train was being made up. “Then we learned that the Break water was expected to sail for New Or leans with a cargo of bananas early tU[>* next morning, extraordinary of- Brts must lx- made to load her with a suitable shipment In less than a day's time. To hurry was decidedly nut top ical. but the bonus given by the rail road officials was as oil to lubricate the machinery of tin* ‘transportation de partment,’ and 1 was handed these or ders: “ ‘Engineer Powers'will take Engine No. J3. with eighteen platform cars, and proceed with best speed to La Pi ntienia, load cargo of bananas, return to San Pedro, load fruit there. Beport at this office after the run. and not later than 10 p. m. to-day. ‘Colville, Supt. of Trans.’ “Such an order meant ‘hurry.’ My fireman oiled 13. the only locomotive available, and the yardmen made up the train. By noon we were started. There was work enough ahead to keep us ail out of mischief for the next ten hours. To cover a round trip of 100 miles, load eighteen cars with bananas and pull them Into Porto Cortez within ten hours would be the record for speed upon the Honduras Railroad. “So old 13, with throttle wide open, was soon puffing up the rough roadbed to La Plmlenta at an unaccustomed pace. Tlic telegraph line was equally busy, and when we ran past San Pe dro the ox-cars were already unloading their nine and ten hand hunches along side the track in readiness for our re turn. Between 4 and 5 o'clock we whistled far La Ptmienta, the ter jp.ntJt', > “There the station agent had a gang fof 'load rs' ready, and before tile rain had quite stopped the green bunches were being passed to rfh- loaders in tin* cars. In an incredibly short space of time the bananas rose, tier upon tier, to a heavy load, and all the time my fireman fed the sticks of soft pine to our roaring tire-box, for we should ted a good load of steam to get back San Pedro in season. The agent sa • stically asked me. ‘ls the engine good for the heavy pull without a breakdown?’ and I replied, “Number 13 is ab.our to surprise everybody by it rec ord trip.’ And so we did. both because of and in spite of an unprecedented ad venture. “At t> o'clock we had loaded all tlic fruit in sight, ami whistling for ‘open brakes,’ we started for .Sail Pedro. The down grade helped us materially. In less than an hour we had covered the distance and were taking the fruit aboard from our last stop. “Delay began here. There were few men to load the fruit, and f|e handling of it was slow: every buiicif was thor oughly inspected by tbc loaders, lest they should grasp tarantula crawling ■among the bananas. But at 8 o'clock the train was loaded, the pitch-pine headlight was lighted, the throttle opened and the whistle shrieked its farewell to San Pedro. “Two hours only were left in which to make the run in schedule time over thirty-five miles of rolling country and with a weight of eighteen heavily load ed cars. The ‘passenger.’ with her light freight, was allowed four hours for the same run. The darkness was intense, and the vibration of the train soon became so great (hat the head light was shaken into a mere sputter ing, and at a lurch went out. The front of the engine became the limit of my vision. “The white rnile-rna rkers were passed so quickly that my fireman lost his count, and we could not tell where we were. But No. 13 was doing her best. Not a valve had blown out nor a rod broken. Our clattering over the track was va ried only by the frantic squealings of a fine, fat pig, sent by the* agent at La Pimienta to the captain of the Break water as a delicacy for his table. Piggy . continually squealed from its berth in an open fruit car. “In one place a large limb extended from a tre4fc>nt over the track, just high enough to clear the stacks of the AN INVOCATION. EI 0. P. LESTER. Where the wee, hushed ripples croon To the stars their wizard rune. While, from out the purple ocean. Venus-wise, with languorous motion Trembles up the golden moon O’er the magic summer sea; — Take me thither, Memory. Where, betimes, the straining ear Phantom-like, may faintly hoar Old-time voices melt and mingle \\ ith the surge upon the shingle. And the night-wind wailing drear, To the sea. the sea. the seal— Take me thither. Memory! passing engines. The pig seemed to scream more loudly than before, and we heard anew sound. “What was that?” asked my startled fireman. ‘Did you hear that crash?’ * ” ‘Oh. never mind, give me more steam,' I replied, for I knew we must, he nearing a stefp grade. I blew the signals to release the brakes, but with out avail. “In a minute we struck the bill. It was a hard one to climb, and the en gine puffed so loudly that l did not no tice the cessation of the pig’s squeals. Slowly but surely we were coming to a standstill. The brakes still seemed set. I again blew the signal for their release, hut the train came suddenly to an irresolute stop, although making herculean efforts to keep going. “The incline had but begun. To start the train was impossible. “I lighted *a pine torch, sprang from the cab to ascertain the situation, and had passed several cars when the most terrible yells echoed through the for est. The men from the rear of the train were shouting at nie. It was im possible to distinguish what they were saying because of the yells which were rising apparently between tne and them. These did not alarm me much, for the creating screamed like a wild cat, n reckless hut not dangerous, night prowler. So on 1 walked toward the rear of the train. "Approaching the trainmen I heard them shout, ‘Look out for the jaguar, Powers!' "Now, no wild creature is more dan gerous to man lv night than a jaguar. I halted and stared. 1 could now see the glaring eyes of the fferee brute as he pawed the lifeless pig. These eyes followed me with such hostile intent that 1 hastened back to the cab for the fireman and iny Winchester. “Of course one of us had to stay with the engine, so I left my fireman in charge and returned alone, with torch in hand and ritle ready. The trainmen came toward me front around the rear of the train. They told me that the jaguar SSist have been crouch ing on the overspreading limit, and having heard the squeals of the pig. must have leaped recklessly into the passing train for his prey. The train ’met had discovered hint when they started to answer my signal of ‘brakes off.’ The brute held them at bay. They were in the rear car. ttie Jaguar was in the next, one, and they could not pass over the train to release the brakes. The eighteen loaded cars, most of them having tightened brakes, had stopped No. 13 on the Incline. “f must either give tip hope of getting to the port: hi tins'* for loading the Breakwater,, or else kill or drive away the .jaguar. The tire of his eyes was intensified by the fiielif’Tihg light of the torch. It was not. a pleasant, gri mace when the brute suggestively wiped his lips and tongue with those huge paws. “The engine gave a sudden lurch. My fireman must have been meddling. It threw the animal from its balance. His tail lashed. Handing the torch to a man 1 raised my Winchester. The beast glared ferociously, and meas ured the distance to the ground. Some of the men run. As the animal seemed about to Jump I tool; hasty aim and pulled tile trigger. Apparently the .ja guar was unharmed, but he bad changed his opinion about the jump, and calmly trotted along the tops of the bananas toward the engine. I aimed at him again and pulled the trig ger. Then I remembered that, the oply cartridge In the Winchester was the one I had fired. “I shouted to the fireman, but before I could make him understand the cow ardly fflfynv jumped from the cat) and scampered into the forest. Luckily there was no other jaguar awaiting him. “I wont toward the cab, expecting to find the jaguar in possession, and de termined to club him out with the butt of uiy gun, but he was not in the cab. I blew ‘brakes off,’ and casually looked around. On the floor of the tender, among the wood and casks of water, stretched it at full length and appar ently crouching for a spring. I saw the jaguar. I jumped from the engine. The thought: of the fireman’s cowardice did not then amuse mo. As fast as pos sible I ran toward the rear of the train. “Ten o'clock was approaching. The ship could not receive her fruit unless we started immediately. In tuy baste I had left the rifle ip the cab; now I took a crowbar which one of the brake men handed me. But the plan from which I hoped most was his suggestion that I should climb upon the engine from the front of the cab and then reach in to open the steam valve, on the chance that (he escape of the hiss ing steam would frighten the brute to the point of fleeing from the train. “I opened the valve —the jaguar never moved. THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. ™ “I then reached a heavy iron wrench and threw it at the beast with all my strength. It struck him upon the head, but h!Wi<l not stir. I was startled. Olimbing-t* the fancied security of the top of the cab I poked him with a long handled rod, but I could see no sign of life. v “After a elosAvatcli I deseenod to the floor of the on And opened the fur nace door to have more light. The ja guar was dead. There was a hole through his head caused by the lucky shot from my Winchester. He had walked to the tender in a daze and died there. "I blow the whistle vigorously. It was a welcome sound to the tradition. The brakes were speedily fole:\ed. The fireman came scrambling back: l opened the throttle and slowly the train went up the incline toward Porto Cor tez. “At a little after 10 o'clock that night the whistling of No. 13 approaching with her load of bananas summoued the crew of the Breakwater, whose captain congratulated the officials of the Honduras Railroad on the remark able expedition of their fruit service. But when he saw the nine feet of ja guar stretched out In my tender and heard the story of the difficulties of the run, he remarked that the railroad offi cials should pass a vote of thanks to me upon the success of the record trip of the road.”—Youth’s Companion. Tlic Vflluo of Books. Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it lv readable. —An- thony Trollope, autobiography, chap ter xix. Society is a strong solution of books. It draws thi‘ virtue out of what is best worth reading, as hot water draws the strength out. of tea leaves.—Holmes, •“Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.” It Is chiefly through hooks that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these Invaluable means of com munication arc in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us. give us tlieir most precious thoughts and pour their souls inlo ours.—Cliau uing, on Self-Culture. No book is worth anything which is not worth much: nor is it serviceable until it has been read and re-read, and loved and loved again, and marked so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armory.—Rus kin, Of King's Treasures. I have ever gained the most profit, mnl the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most; and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have struck the deepest root, not only In uiy memory and un derstanding, hut likewise in my affec tions.—Hare, Guesses at Truth. When all that Is worldly turns to dross around us, books only retain their steady value. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and com monplace, these only continue the un altered countenance of happier days and cheer us wit hthnt true friendship which never deceived hope nor desert ed sorrow.—Washington Irving, Sketch Book. Cos Reverso Way of Ihe Truck. To avoid danger of accidents the very sensible suggestion has boon made that automobilists should race on the track with the right hand on the pole instead of the left, as is usual in other lines of sport. Louis It. Smith, of this city, who offers the plan, truly says that on almost all tin* racing machines the seats for the drivers are on the right-hand side, and that in driving 10_the left on a track, as is the custom, the operator in passing a machine on the.outside ibis to look clear across the body of his follicle in order to figure out his clearance room. The same applies 1011011 an operator is traveling around a track alone. Seated on the right-hand side of the car, he must necessarily guess liow close his front wheels arc to the pole. The construction /if the automobiles will hardly permit of a shoft in the seat, or steering gear, and for that reason the suggestion is a timely one.—Philadelphia Record. A Live Museum of Dress. A Hue de la I’nix magnate is think ing of opening a sort of live museum of dresses, says the London Telegraph. In galleries, to which a few privileged visitors would lie admitted by special invitation, the couturier’s latest crea tions would be exhibited on the persons of a numerous staff of “mannequins.” The latter, of course, the young ladles who usually show off dresses before customers. Tlie couturier explains that a specially large staff, providing a “complete assortment of figures,” will be required for tlic purpose. That is to say, it would include a slim 4 j)ut well-developed “mannequin” for “cos tumes de sport,” another with shoul ders suitable for setting off ball dresses, a third familiar with the special stage walk and deportment and so on. The expert “living dummy” is the envy of ordinary shop girls, as she gets on an average $lO a week, her board—that is to say, luncheon and dinner—and four dresses a year, made in the establishment in which she is employed. An Esquimaux Arrow. An Esquimau arrow ol’ walrus ivory, found imbedded in the breast of a healthy Canadian gray goose shot near Spokane, is on view in a store in that city. No arrow of that sort was ever seen in Spokane before. The bird had evidently carried it thousands upon thousands of miles from the Far North, where it was shot by some Esquimau. fit © I LD r\E N’SiM ilipi£iSUl\E HOUiX HlKh Title. Scarlet frock and golden curl— Such a very little girl— Bessie wanders up and down Where the seaweed lines are brown, Something plainly on her mind. Something she would like to iiud. Now. whatever it can be Bessie's seeking in the sea? So 1 ask the little maid. And she answers, half afraid: “Sir, high tide has come and gone; Where were all the strings tied on?” —The Delineator. Two Easily Mailt* Toys. tt 1 AfrSS ft \\rM yCcffl?CX£P To make the dandelion juggler stick a short piece of straw through a pea, then place the pea on the end of a dan delion grtem and blow; It will dance about in the air without falling away from the stem. To make a red rover, get a good sized cork and stick through it a sharp horseshoe nail and place three feathers in the top. Throw it by grasping the PURITAN PUNISHMENT PUZZLE. i'iinl two oHicpi's who took part in the proceedings. end of one of I lie feathers. It will al ways fall point first, like an arrow or spear, and stick in anything that is not not harder than wood. Thy Itutterfltes. Two butterflies cut out of tissue paper fly about as if alive, set in mo -tion by a fan. They livid on the fan. play in the air, descend on a flower—in short, imitate real butterflies to per fection. All that-is needed to make such butterflies is colored tissue paper THE BCTTEUKLIES. and a pair of scissors. Fold the paper and cut the shape of the butterflies, as shown in the circle of our illustration. Fasten the butterflies to a long hair with the help of a diminutive piece of wax. Tie this hair to another which is fastened to your head likewise with wax, as shown In ihe illustration. Throw the butterflies in the atr with the left hand and move your fan un derneath them to keep them in the air. It is very amusing to have a bipntu of artificial flowers on which the butter flies can alight, only to fly away at a motion of the fan.—New York Tribune. Trick of the .lumping? Frog. Here is anew and amusing experi ment which any one can try, as the only materials required are a tumbler, a cork, some cardboard and a small piece of paper. If you place some cardboard over a glass filled with water you will notice after a little time that it has become raised, especially in the middle. If no y— —- such change has taken place, the rea son is either because the riui of the glass was not entirely dry or because the cardboard does not completely cover its surface, and, therefore, be fore beginning the experiment atten tion should be paid to these two points. You may next place on it a small cork, intended as a seat for a little frog, that you can easily cut out of the paper. After a few minutes the card board will become depressed as the result of moisture, and this quick transformation will cause it to expand so greatly that the frog and cork will he sent flying into the air. This simple trick is becoming a favorite in many homes, and never fails to evoke a good deal of laughter. New York Herald. Honc.t Little Diels. In all my life 1 never saw so honest, a little eat as our Dick. He not only never stole himself, hut he would not allow any other eat to steal if he could help it. The dear little fellow, how ever. was strongly tempted once, and came very near to losing his good name. One day the cook carried out a pall of nice little frost fish, and set it down in the yard. Dick was there. Dick always was near by when there were good things to eat. The cook went hack into the house, and I):ck sat down to wall for her return; and two of His especial friends were at the window upstairs to see what “honest lltlle Dick" would do! The cook was a long time coming back to dress the fish; ami .all Ihe while Dick kept watch—now on the pall, now on (lie kitchen door. At last lie went somewhat nearer to the pail, then nearer, then nearer, Ah! frost fish smell so good. Dick's little nose almost touched them! And then lie sat down and cried at the top of his voice for cook to return quickly and save Him from becoming a thief! Still she did not come. At last Dick -put his fore paws on the edge of the pail. Then he looked at t lie kitchen door and But the door did not open. So'‘gfcts}'4,v, softly, a paw reached down into the But. lie fore it had gone down as far Tig, the fish, it came hack with a jerk emptjT and its owner ran around the corner of the house where lie could not see or smell those nice frost tisli any more. He did not want to lie a thief: and we believe that the little fellow never came so near it again.—Little Folks. VejjotiiblcH Whittled. If the reader ever amused himself by constructing a turnip lantern he must have observed liow readily the vegetables yielded lo his knife. Tur nips, carrots and apples are capital things for the youthful sculptor to exercise his skill upon, and with pa tience he may succeed in turning out some very interesting objects. We have seen a bouquet of imita tion flowers, formed of carrots, beets and turnips, Ibat presented a most natural appearance. A chrysanthe mum may lie carved out of a carrot, a camellia out of a small white turnip, and a damask rose out of a beet. Other natural objects may bo Imitated in carved fruits and vegetables by an ingenious lad, and il' lie lias a taste for the grotesque lie may try his plas tic skill on caricatures of his friends. •TapaiiAgo I’t'flrage. Peel's were first created in Japan in 1884. There are already 778, including 11 Princes, 34 Marquises, 8 Counts and 363 Viscounis. Greatness. IV.oated Jack Horner Sat in a corner Kating a “trusty” pie. He put in a million Amt pulled out a billion, And said, “What a great boy am I!” 1 —Life, M Careful Man. “Docs your husband ever lose liia temper?” “No; ho it in such constant use it has no chance to get lost.” Hath Unsuccessful. Stella—“ Mabel tries to keep it a se cret that she is engaged.” Bella—“ Yes, and Clara tries to keep it a secret that she isn’t.”—New York Sun. lie Know. Teacher—“ What is a blotter, Tom my?" .Tommy—“lt’s something to hunt while the ink gets dry.”—Los Angeles Herald. . Up a Tree. “Why doesn’t it drop, inn?’* “Patience, ray child, perhaps it isn’t ripe yet.”—New York Journal. His Symptoms. Mr. Newlywed—“ How did you know I really loved you?” Mrs. Newlywed—“ Oh. you acted So —so sort of foolishly.”—Philadelphia Record. Had Ills Doubts. “And so you have a little baby at your house. Is it a hoy or a girl?”- asked a neighbor. “Mamma thinks it’s a boy, but I be lieve it’ll turn out a girl. It’s always crying about nothing,” answered the little boy.-Tit-Bits. A Commercial Success. “Do you think there is any prospect of inventing a flying machine that will he commercially useful?” “Certainly,” answered the aeronaut. “I have one which is bound to make money. All you have to do is to get people to pay for the privilege of seeing it go up.” Precaution. “I hope that people will say tlie world is a little better because I lived in it," said tlie intensely serious young man. “Well," answered the cold-blooded politician, "the best way to arrange that is to employ somebody to write your biography now, so that you can overlook the transaction.” deceptive. “Dey oughter pass a law,” said Hun* gry Higgins, nursing his leg, ‘‘ter com pel people ter call deir dogs by appro priate names.” “What’s de matter now?” inquired Dusty lihoads. "Why, a woman down de road said if 1 didn’t get out o* her yard she’d call ’Fido.' O’ course I laffed. Don she called Fido and Fido didn't do a ling. He was a big brindle bull.”—< Philadelphia Press. ~ ' Chopping Him Off, “By Jove, Grimshaw!” chuckled Lap dad. “I’ll have to tell you the—ha, ha! —funny thing my little boy said this morning. He looked right up at me, and " ’ - “Sorry, I.apdad, but I am out just now," interrupted Grimshaw. “Oome j around some time when 1 am in, will | you':"— New York Journal. Scientific Kxactitufle. | “And the voltaic current,” continuecl the lecturer, "was the discovery of Volta, and its development is a com paratively recent achievement of sci ence.” A still, small individual hoisted him self to a chair in the rear of the hall. "Hold on there, Professor! What about the earlier discoveries of Noah?" “I don’t understand you, sir." “Then brush up! Didn’t Noah make the ark light on Mount Ararat?”—Bal timore News. OCTOBER S