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»l»eu the riding wm over and wlu n u'""'
bu! the !>•«■»«* were preeenl * n 1 ’
ni l <•»< b other in scor .rig bn '
the • uve door tlir wr ier m<> cf »‘i
•f g angers who End lon-n eng -d n
tr|| of hot summer* mid 1 “d
wrntP dist ni'de even the thermometer
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»t me introduce you totbeoc lolK*
taid Mine Ho»t
fl.e reporter had no ob rcti »n> so h<
had mr time t> Bp ire and wai in
of news He WM introduc'd to »!' 1 •'*
cekbritW' of the tm llwick in turn. n»*<l
each introduction wbm ac< mpanied by a
h<* «rty gnp that caus’d the reporter to
Spend m'rtd of tbe r niainder of the night
in picking his finger* apart
“If you r an tret o.d Punkinhead there
to tell you the tied ftlorv, you’re io
luck.” said mine host, aside He* ft
ch oMcter’ Hi* name’* So and So, but
u« oil him Old Puokinhead, because
h< m • mt m Id* wavs. He never reads
a nrwspa|>er and doesn't mdieve *u any
of th*- new fangird notion* of our
day.”
“• an’t you fell this young mm that
bed wtoryl” he a*;kcd. turning to the old
’un . 1
Jt consumed n<- tri an hour before < >|<l
Pu&kinbead was wound up to the spin
ning point. He wnu thin almost to
transparency, and h»* had one of those
economical fa< * for whatever his now
dropped his chin caught He bad it
whi«k broom beard that poked out in
front as if it dared anybody to c me
ne »r it.
*’ Tain’t much ova story”’ he began,
as hr scored another bullseye, but it got
me inter trouble. Now, at hum Ive
alien hed a bed wot sooted me. It
w i«fT» much ova lied, ter !>*• sure, but
my gradpop alp' inter it an’ it’s good
eno gh fur me Ihdn t proud es lam
han •» im. It is one ov them high posted
bed* an* whin I gits inter it I hain’t huv
tip ter the wall like somebody wus under
it bo siiii' ov it
“Wall, one day I hed ter go Io taoun I
on bizncM, an’ ez I wus goin' ter be uout
all night. I takes my grip along, with
m night gownd an’ nigh'rap in it. I
wen* ter ther circus, walked around an'
aren the sights, hed rny till ov peanuts
anil bolivars, an’ about 11 o'clock I
sashays up Io the hotel wat’s kep’ by
Mr •'t. Micaylas, on Broadway str <• I
walk* up terthr de».k and sez to the fil
ler behind the bar *••/ I. *1 want i
room '
■ How high/’ m’z he.
“’1 don’t care.’ sr/. I ‘cnnywhnr be
t« ixt yer an’ the roof.’
“He lilfs and -<•/. ‘I mean ther pr.cr
W il. (10 *<M»t yer?’
• I tolr htm that I didn’t want ter
buy th** house, and that | onlv kern to
stn\ our night Hr srd he’d compel
mi-' on f . an I finally gev it ter him
• 'XV ant rnr tin keep thrin vidlcybiilsi’
aed h« pint in' to my grip.
“I wuin’t a* green as thrt ind I tuck
It up with mt A nigger showed me
up to thei a'ti an’ to make a long story
•hoU, I got inside ind lock' d mvselt in
I’b' win abe I in oar ?»nd o' the r« om,
but it loukr<l tno puity to muss up. an'
Ig i« ». it wuz ul th r fur show
i h iiit« d through ?hr other room, an’
tbai I found a l»e I ft wus a tu <n\
lookin' tbititr an wu« mrd ov tin with
wo 'U ti side* I didn't like ther look*
o* it. .'tit I wusn't g in' to be green, so
I • ndrran jumps in lli t folks at
hum had tolr mr not t blow thrr gas
ouX ait ter urn it out. nn’ when I ge’s
in I looks fur thfo crank I limls it ail
right an l give* it a vank What hap
pint 1 wasahuirit dmonded Some
t>od\ ip Mairs I gues pours about a
in Ilion piihof wa’et ovci ine, an' I yells
an yell until the hired man cum in
an' \ auks me o it
*• I'iyhi t»> commit sewerdde, hay’’
hr <M«z.
■’’Who th mc I that w »ter sc' I;
‘aho'> :nr tin r man wot throwed that
watri <r II p Lcrizr him I will, by
gr»-«l> ■I'lH r- ''
' Ill'll hi* <>ill< <1 mr n (mil tin' xiliii it
wm h Inth tub Then I lu-.i ter iro
down In ther kiloh u move nn »la
tlur nil in;*lit ter uil dn \o more ho
tel* fur me, an' if I'd .1 . a ioht "Id St.
Nickvia* I d a maahed him, I would, by
chowder I"
"I* that alls"
•I» that all? 1 ahould holler! Ther
■ext night I iterred clear ov hotel* an’
tiethought im ov my granddarter wot
ma 'ied a a onehrokcr or nothin' "i th t
kind on It ad street, *o I >koot* up to
her homie in lirookhn I'hi" was
rale glai? to arc me, an »s they hed
a )»arty I went to lied urlv. after I
hed winked at ther gals all around I
Was showed up t. my room In mv g’ *ii<l
darter after she had su n hat everythink
was all r ghi She p’ii.to.l out ther bed.
wot wus ten times nicer than ther one in
ther hotel l> t I wmn't goiu* ter in*
fooled ag m if 1 busied it all ter pieces
1 told her lei turn iher gas out .in’ put a
lamp on ther stand. Then 1 undresses
an anps iu.
• hat d'yer think ha -pint •”
"Couldn't aay."
•'1 her lied dies up in (her air an'
ketches me last. Ihe lam * was unset
an Ida bin burned up alii, fl hedn't
rea. bed out an' put the He o it with my
hands, hornin' ov ’em ter blisters.
■ w tent did I ,i..- Wall I wusn't
foin’ ter let ’em h ive the- lad on .inter
me like ther hotel folks did I didn’t
know but it was an the hath-t *b r ick t.
h t when 1 laid still fir awh !e a > I
wura’t drowndet. 1 thought me be it
wua a new kind of Icd an’ 1 jest made
nnself as comfortable as possible an
slop' 111 » le down most of ther nigh' In
ther morula they had ter break therdoor
ore ter let me out in’ I've never been
tbar sj D ee You can l»ct vi r boots f het
my lad's good enurt fui me. an' I don't
s!»ep upside down again es tis fashions
b .in' von heat mi sho ;t " ,).
it I.
Mister, (job? ' is an ~| in r-sembiuu
gol in appea sne, ami wight, and
WI tamis the at leer's test ot strong
a< - Its anab S S a ghen as follows'
•sili r. .'.4* platinum. .'<2 '.’.copper, bv
d -’ence. i Mi. Strong ts'iung in
uitrtc acid, even wl eu an a tiv’e made
of it s lefi th ,t | ( .r some t tne, has ip
paren iy noetfeit npon th allov, which
is coming extensive!i iat iuse
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V iffbtlHC <>ne Inolbrr.
I mler the new game law of penn-vl
vama .. large boon y is autfa rtz.erl to be
P„,l for the killing of wildcats and
foxes These siiimals say a recent I <>•
■ lo m-w York .•.«», nave
inm-'sed arcativ within the past few
years in the bar k woods of the State, but
wolves have entirely disappear!, lie
annual loss sustained by farmers by the
on. aught of catamounts and foxes on
s’ ■ 'folds nn 1 poultry yards ha- !»■ <:n no
gi that the placing of a premium on
th.- d th of tip s" animals, by the re co
actment of substantially the same law
w in. h protected the farmers in the early
days of the backw-.ois settlement#, but
which wa- repealed as unnecessary yean
ago, became a necessity, and huntersand
tiappeis are now paying especial atteo
non to the killing of foxes and Cata
mounts.
The general impression that the cata
mount, or wildcat, is aggressive it. its
nature, except upon the small game and
domestic animals which it seeks for
food, is an entirely erroneous one. Ihe
catamount is so shy and quick in its
movements that one is rarely seen >y
hunters. Coon hunters frequently en
counter a wildcat that has been treed by
the dogs, but they may roam the woods
tor weeks without seeing one cn any
other occasion except by accident, or by
luring the animal into ambush by bait
ing for him. But while habitually keep
ing itself out of the way of human be
ing*. ami only approaching their haunts
when pressed a catamount
wounded and brought to bay is some
thing that the bravest hunter fears, for
then it will tight with fierceness -mr
passed only by its ferocious and bloo I
thirsty cousin the panther. I here are
cases on record even in this region where
hunters have attacked a wounded cata
mount and given their lives as a forleit
for their rnshness. Few dogs care to
try conclusions with a catamount,and no
dog will enter the second time into
n contest with one. Catarnonnts
rarely attack larger wild game thana
rabbit, but they will quickly thin out a
sheepfold. They have been known to
spring upon a deer when made savage
and bold bv hunger, and they
will lurk on the outskirts of him
tier and hunting carnps watching
an opportunity to carry off such game or
meat as is frequently left exposed in the
absence of the campers. Cutainounts will
follow in the trail of hunters, and if a
deer is killed and hung up during the
day they pounce upon the carcass as soon
as the hunters are out of sight. After
making a meal they will drag the rem
mints of the carcass to some secluded
spot and bury it for some future feast. A
carcass of any kind placed iu the woods
will call to the spot every i iitamount in
the neighborhood This «eli known
(haracteiistlc of the animal is taken ad
vantage of by trnppers, who set their
about the carcass, and rarely fail in
gathering in one or more catann.tints,
(hie wildcat trapper has captured
thirteen very huge ones in this way
d'ning the past week, m the neigh
borhood of the Iligii Knob, in Bike
county.
The meeting of two or more cata
mounts at the same dead body of an
animal in the woods is always the signal
for frequent and tierce contests between
them dining the meal. While eating,
they keep up a constant snarling and
growling, and if one of them tear- but a
morsel which another one covets the
lane, proceeds ut once to secure it for
himself il he < in. The cries of two
buttling w Ideals i e blood-curdling and
may be heard for a mile or more.
Breaking iu upon the stilness ot a mid
night in the wilderness, these sounds arc
an tiling but conducive to the repose ol
a party that may be camping within
hem ng di- am e of the tight, especially
if the sounds of the combat are heard
for the first lime.
The other div Ed Quick, the pioneer
hunter of the Knob region, was a wit
ness to a tight of this kind between two
big eiitamuunts. He was hiding behind
a tree “laying for'' wildcats to come to .
the dead body of a sheep he had placed
in the woods to draw them together.
The animals both iqipenred on the scene
at one time The hunter was not fifty
feet away. The snarling and growling
began a! once over the carcass, and sud
denly one of the catamounts sprang upon
the other. The battle waged lien ely
trom the start, and both animals seemed
determined to make it one to the death.
The hunter watched the light for ten
in uutes, and then ended it with n rille
ball. At a moment w hen both animals |
wore clinched closely together Quick
tired. The bullet entered the back of
one catamount's bend, crashed through
its brain, and, coming out at its nos’ril,
buried itself in the other one's brain, |
killing both animals at a shot.
In tlie old days of paying bounties for I
w bleat scalps, the trapper produced his
scalps before a justice ot the peace, made
attidavit that he had captured the
animals, nad received a certificate to
that etfect. He retained the scalps, and
it is told of tn-.iny an old trapper
that one lot of scalps served to secure
him bounties from the county every
year for many years, or until long use
wore them out. In the days of wolves,
n.> hunter who had tbe interest of him
- If an l his fellows at heart would kill
i ■mammy'' wolf, which was a she wolf
with young. Their litters were always
laig . and they kep' the stock of scalps
replenished A tra-> e. who could trap
a -he wolt aid her liter was c.'ii-i lered
a lucky man. for he raised the young
omsand killed tin n wheneverhewanred
to collect m nev on scalps One am
bitious in I enterprising trapper, who-e '
des eudsnts still trap and huut in th s
region, ct illy captured a male and fe
ms < w.> f and kept them ill captivity for
i-an. ree ;i.'.g wolves for the bounties
c -clips brought. But nowadays
th- law t- different Any scalp on which
a bounty is paid is retained bv the coun
ty and destroyed, thus curtailing a
rather luctative ba. kwoo.is industry .
In the German universities there are
now 15? professors between eighty and
ninety, of whom 132 continue to give
lectures.
The nutn'er of cattle on the plains is
e»: -i te-i to be over 40,t)00,0tW, ot a
, value of (1,190,000,000,
Tbe Chase estate in England i- repute.'
Io be worth (M 00.000,000. and there are
ibout HOO persons in this country who
-laim to Im- heirs to it. England wi!
have to mortgage some of her furnit ir<
if she pays all these demands in cash
Will some one write a history
| China? President Angell considers tins
i fair field for the future historian. He •
will have to struggle w ith the lists of th* |
Han. the How-Chow, an I the Tae I Mug ,
dynasty, but that is nothing to an enthu- !
siastic spirit such as is needed to con
struct any living picture of the past.
A prize of ♦’i.OOO was offered some
time ago by Mr. I.oril'ard. of New ork,
for the discovery of the key of the an
cient Maya alphabet. The offer is still
standing" Dr. I.e Biongeon, who has
recently returned from a twelve years,
study of the ruins and monuments in
Yucatan, is thus far tbe strongest com
petitor for the award.
A noble instance of courage and pres,
ence of mind is recorded in a New Zeal
and paper. A child, which was on the
track of a down-grade train, was rescued
when the ongine was within two yards
of it. bv the engineer leaping down and ■
seizing it. He was himself thrown off I
without severe injury by the cowcatcher.
An English paper frankly says: "Had
the affair taken place in England, where
engines are not provid' d with cowcatch
ers, the driver would have paid the pen
alty for his bravery with his life.”
According to the New Y'ork Cemmer
iia> a company of fruit grow
era has been formed in California, witk
1 capital of |250,000, to carry on the
business of shipping fruit to the eastern
markets. They expect to run fruit trains
laily from Sacramento, made up of cars
for the principal points of distribution
in the Eastern and Middle States, and
by putting them through on passenger
train time to supply at the metropolis in
good condition and at reasonable prices
the vast quantity of fruit that now goes
to waste in California for lack of some
such system for utilization.
A traveler entered a town in south
western Kentucky on ‘‘court day,” when
the streets were full of people from the
country and the stores were crowded
with customers. There was quite a bri- !
gade o' horse traders on hand, and from
the well-to do farmer, with his prancing 1
roan, down to Ihe dilap'dated darkey,
with his rickety old tnuie, that looked
like a reli'- from Noah's ark,all had their
say and their trade, and imagined that !
they had the best of it. That is one of
the mysteries of the business. One him
died men can make fifty trades, and
everv man of them make money by it. It |
reminds me of a group of boys I once
knew who boasted that they could meet I
together every Sunday and make two or
three dollars apiece trading jackets.”
Crater lake is thus described in ape
tition that is being numerously signed in
Oregon to make a national reservation
of the wonder. The surface of the lake
is (1.300 feet above sea level, and it is
about eight miles long and six miles
wide. It contains a circular island GOO '
feet high, on which is found an extinct !
rater which is ninety feet deep and 475 ■
feet in diameter. In another portion of i
(lie lake is found a conical shaped rock
whicli is perpendicular, and rises to an i
a (itudc of 2,2 '0 feet above the water’s j
uirface. Other rocks of remarkable :
form and elevation tower high above the
i l ike. The lake walls are nearly pernen- ,
ilicuhir. and vary in altitude from 1,000 ;
to 2,000 feet.
The microphone—an electric stretho
scope whose sensitiveness to the faintest
sounds as making "the walk of a fly
seem like the tramp of an elephant” —is
likely to become of great use in medical
diagnosis. In the Atlanta Medical and
Surgical Journal, Dr. Eve describes an
I interesting series of experiments made
i by him with the instrument. He was
able to detect the nature of obscure
fractures by the character of the sounds
conducted through the instrument, and
I could differentiate aneurisms from tu
mors by tne sound of pulsation. Intra
cranial and muscular sounds were made
out with great clearness, and in diagno
sis for stone the instrument worked with
mathejnatical accuracy. The doctor
sugge-ts that an audiphone constructed
on the principle of the microphone
would prove inestimable to people of
impaired bearing.
Many cases of heroism occurred in the
city of Saragossa. Spain, during tbe re
cent cholera epidemic. Every citizen
gave money, food or labor to the suffer
ing. A poor washerwoman, bringing
li une c o.hes to a lady whom she found
m i s ate of collapse, in which it was
mi ossible to warn her, threw off her
• l es- mmpi'il into bed, took the dying
woman into her arms, and chafed the
i n l-nibs until circulation was re-
-,n I When ihe disease had spent it-
Hi- '•;> nish government offered re-
. •- ’he principal officials, who
.in ■ v refused them. Il then be
-el egr ind cross of the Order of
. nee on the entire city. This
-- - civen on y t > n few individuals,
| w~o ii.i e risked their I ves for the help
t . - 01 re is no order more highly
1 v .1 n Spain. Never before h-.is it
in i i- red on an entire town.
The Boston llccrd gives the following ,
good illustration of the confusion which
the blending of o.d and new fashions in
some of our modern hruses produces in
the minds of plain people. "A visimi
at a fashionable West End mansion, th’
other day. was from the country, an
hud not l»een in Boston for several - ears.
During thi* period his host had built a
spick an span new house on the site of
hn old one- After going over the gayly
decorated cs'.ab’ishment, surveying thr
sumptuous drawing rooms and the (es
thetic attics, th ■ guest came down to the
lower floor, where the rooms, in-tead of
h iving large plate glass windows like
those above, had exceedingly small
panes, in imitation of the fashions of a
century or more ago. The innocent
rural visitor naturally supposed that here
was a veritable vestige of the past.
"Well, John,’ said he, ‘l’m real glad
vou've kept part of the old house, though
it’s an awful small part.’”
The wild beast pest but slowly disap
pears in British India. There is, how
ever, a slight decrease in the loss of life
from the bites of wild animals and ven
omous snakes. The numbers are 22,1)05
for 1883 and 52.125 for 1884. The num
bers representing those due t• su ike
bites are 20,067 and 19,629 in the two
years respectively. The reported loss of
eattle amounted to 49,672, against 17,778
in the previous year. Os these, 47,944
are said to have been cuused by wild
animalsand 1,728 by snakes. Tigers
and leopards are shown to have been
about equally destructive, having killed
19,680 and 19,699 head of cattle respec
tively. In the number of wild animals
destroyed there was a satisfactory in
crease from 19,8 q 0 in the previous year
to 22,775. The destruction of poisonous
snakes is enormous, but the numbers
have declined from 412,782 to 380,981.
Wherever the system of rewards have
been pursued the figures have shown a
satisfactory increase, although it natur
ally happens that here and there a too
adventurous snake killer pays for his
daring with his life.
Rescue of the Monitor's Survivors
From a paper on the “Loss of the
Monitor,” in the Century, we quote the
following: Aftei a fearful and danger
ous passage over the frantic seas, we
reached the Rhode Island, which still
had the tow line caught in her wheel
and had drifted perhaps two miles
to leeward. We came a'onjside under
the lee bows, where the first boat, that
had left the Monitor an hoar before, had
just discharged its men; but we found
that getting on board the Rhode Island
was a harder task than getting from the
Monitor. We were carried by the sea
from stem to stern, for to have made
fast would have been fatal: the boat was
bounding against the ship's sides, some- I
times it was below the wh el, and then, 1
on the summit of a huge wave, far above
the decks: and once, while Surgeon
Weeks was holding on to the rail, lie lost
his fingers by a collision which swamped
the boat. Lines were thrown to us from
the deck of the Rhode Island, which
were of no assistance, for not one of us
could climb a small rope; and beside,
the men who threw them would imme
diately let go their holds, in their excite
ment, to throw another—which I found
to be the case when I kept hauling in
rope instead of climbing.
It must be understood that two vessels
lying side by side, when there is any
motion to the sea, move alternately; or
in other words, one is constantly pass
ing the other up or dawn. At one
time, when our boat was near the
bows of the steamer, we would rise
upon the sea until we could touch her
rail; then in an instant, by a very rapid
descent, we could touch her keel. While
we were thus rising and falling upon the
sea, I caught a rope, and rising with the
boat managed to reach within a foot or
two of the rail, when a man, if there had
been one, could easily have hauled ;ne
an board. But they had all followed
after the boat, which at that instant was
washed astern, and I hung dangling in
the air over the bow of the Rhode Isl
and, with Ensign Norman Atwater hang
ing to the cat-head, three or four feet
! from me, like myself, with both hands
clinching a rope and shouting for some
j one to save him. Our hands grew pain
ful and all the time weaker, until I saw
his strength give way. He slipped a foot,
caught again, and with his last prayer,
“Oh, God!” I saw him fall and sink, to
rise no more. The ship rolled, and rose
upon the gea, sometimes with her keel
out of water, so that I was hanging
thirty feet above the sea, and with the
fate in view that had befallen our much
beloved companion, which no one had
witnessed but myself. I still clung to the
rope with aching hands, calling in vain
for help. But 1 could not be heard, for
the wind shrieked far above my voice.
My heart here, for the only time in my
life, gave up hope, and home and friends
were most tenderly thought of. While
I was in ibis state, within a few seconds
of giving up, the sea rolled forward
bringing with it the boat, and when I
would have fallen into the, it was there.
I can only recollect hearing an old sailor
say, as I fell into the sea bottom of the
boat, “Where in the deuce did he come
from?”
The Season’s Peril.
Now the neat and careful housewife,
As she often did before,
Rises in the morning early,
Sweeps the sidewalk at her door,
Pours upon it pails of water
Just as hot as hot can be.
Then admires that shining sidewalk.
All so clean and fair to sea
Scarcely is the job completed
Wtieu the water warm and nice,
Parting with its heat directly,
Soon converted into ice.
Forms a film upon the sidewalk
Thin and cola as charity.
And a slide is there established
By the urchins speedily.
Then the good man. outward going.
Somewhat old and short ot sight,
Strides that sidewalk and discovers
1 AU the stars that shine at night
I Harsh and wild the words he utters.
Not a bit like songs of praise,
As he rubs himself and wonders,
IVonders at a woman’s ways,
—.Vnr York World.
SllffiTlXG Till! DESERTERS,
av extbaobdiwaby xscipbyt oj
THE CIVIL WAS.
K«cr «l«n o Two B >u»r» ' “
- < ne of Them *hol O©ad ouij
After ICrpented Efforts* | ,
In September, 1663, wr.ics I.l*. Gal
wev, in the New Yoik Tribune, the
third divis on of the Second corps, in
camp near the Hapidan river, had its
first execution. There were two con
demned both "bounty-jumpers” who
had enlisted in a regiment of this
division and had escaped after receiving
tbe advanced bounty, hoping probably
to repeat the game with some other regi
ment. Esrlv one fine afternoon the
division marched out to the chosen
ground and formed three sides of a hol
low square, the fourth side being a little
ridge. At the foot of the ridge were
two open graves about twelve feet apart.
The division, consisting of about 8,606
men, rested in place until the notes of
the dead march were heard. "Attention ! ’
was sounded by the bugles, and all was
rigid silence as a procession, composed
of the provost-guard surrounding two
two ambulances in each of whicli one of
the culprits sat on a rough coflin, entered
the square at one of the angles and halted
near ihe graves. A coffin was placed at
the end of each grave and the two desert
ers were made to stand up in front of the
provost-guard, facing the long lines of
attentive counte ances of the division,
while the findings of the court martial
and the orders for the execution were*
read. After religious services the two
were arranged sitting on their coflins,
their eyes bandaged, and their arms
pinioned behind, in front of each a
firing party of the provost guard took
position, and the word of command from
the provost marshal was given. One of
the deserters fell back on his coflin, but
only wounded, for he sat up again. The
other, who was not hit, jumped to his
feet, burst his pinions, and snatched
away the white handkerchief from his
eyes. There was a murmur of disap
proval throughout the division at the
awkwardness of the provost-guard,
which was now adding unnecessary de
lay and torture to the penalty of the un
fortunate men. The wounded man was
placed again, end his party dispatched
him with its next volley. He lay mo
tionless on his coffin. But the other
seemed almost invulnerable, for the
second volley from his pirty, thewgh it
may have scratched him, left him still
struggling vigorously to free himself.
A brilliant idea then entered the
provost-marshal’s mind. He brought
up his men one by one close to
the condemned to have them shoot him
successively. But, for some reason, the
muskets would not go off; merely the
caps flashed. It had rained hard the
day before, yet that was no excuse for
‘he provost guard, who had known for
some days what they had to do and
ought to have had their muskets clean by
this time, rain or no rain. Seven or
eight men went up one after the other
and presented their muskets within a foot
or two of the deserter s head: but only
to snap caps; a low growl of indigna
tion ran along the ranks of the division
and became tierce when one of the pro
vost men's guns went oft' finally only to
wound the poor fellow who sat there on
his coffin squirming about under the slow
murder. The general of the division
was m a rage and sent his staff one after
the other galloping up to urge the pro-
vest marshal to do the disagreeable duty
promptly and properly. Minutes went
by and still the repeated efforts of
twelve veteran soldiers to kill this sit
ting, blindfolded, pinioned, helpless
man were all in vain. A superstitious
feeling spread through the division that
he would not be killed, because he could
not be. Nearly half an hour of volleys
and file firing had passed, when the pro
vost marshal, placing the muzzle <f his
long-barreled seven-shooter to the un
fortunate man’s head, discharged all the
loads. The victim fell back, and at last
all was over.
Over-Exertion.
In the London Lancet is reported the
case of a healthy boy (belonging to a
robust, healthy family), who had never
suffered from rheumatism, scarlet fever,
or indeed from any disease save chicken
pox, who died suddenly under the sad
dest circumstances, because his death
was so thoroughly preventable. After
coming from school one day, he ate a
hearty dinner and immediately began to
play cricket. Finding the time draw
| ing near for the afternoon session,
I he ran to school (a quarter of a
mile), and as he entered the yard,
i fell unconscious to the ground. In a
very few minutes he was dead, notwith
' standing the persistent practice of arti
ficial respiration. The Medical and Sur
gical Reporter states the results of the 1
post-mortem examination, and adds:
‘‘Here clearly was a death due to exer
cise, the loaded stomach and bowels
being the needed exciting causes. We
have ere this sounded the warning
against violent exercise; iron muscles
generally indicate an hypertrophied
heart; the athlete is not destined to be
come the long lived respectable, and
useful citizen: the slugger is all right in 1
his place, and is a popular beast, but he
is doomed to an early dissolution. It
may be accepted as a general truism that i
any kind or amount of exercise that '
will cause the heart to jump and thump
against the chest wall is exercise carried !
to an excessive and alarming extent.”
The “Thompsonian” Cancer Cure.
Dr. Samuel Thompson, the founder of ;
the 1 hompsonian school, grandfather of
the modern eclectic, botanic, and phvsio
medical schools, describes in his book a i
method of treatment which may have I
something in it. It is to make an extract 1
in the following way: Fill a brass ket- I
tie heaping full of the blossom of the
red clover add a little water, place over
a tire, and let it boil for some time- re- 1
move the heads of the clover bv strain
ing. and evaporate the liquid c’arefully
to a solid extract. With this material he
directs a plaster to be made, which acts
as a caustic to the growth to which it is
applied: the patient to drink freely of a
tea made (fom the red clover blossoms,
lie cl .ims to have cured many cases of
i cancer in this way. No recent menticn
of this cancer cure appears to have been
made. It certainly should be tested
again, now that the difference between
tumors are more readily made out than
forty or fifty years ag., when Thompson
flourished.- St. Loui, Globe-Democrat.
WISE W »RDS.
Method is the very hinge of bnsincs*.
ami ihere is no method without punetu
ality.
A little praise is good for a shy tem ■
it teaches us to rely on the kindness o;
others.
Whatever you would have yourcl,;'.
dren become, strive to exhibit iu yo
own lives and conversation.
There is no manner of speaking s .,
offensive as that of giving praise, a:ul
closing it with an exception.
He that blows the coals in quarrels ho
has nothing to do with has no right to
complain if the sparks-fly in his face.
Good nature and evenness of temper
will give you an easy companion for
life: virtue and good sense an agreeab e
friend: love and constancy ( a good wife
or husband.
The best rules to form a young man
are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect
alone upon what has pa-tied in company.
t<> distrust one’s own opinions and value
others that deserve it.
Women govern us; let us try to render
them more perfect. The more they are
enlightened, so much the more we shall
be. On the cultivation of the minds of
women depends the wisdom of man.
Retribution is one of the grandest
principles in the Divine administration
of human affairs; a requital is imper
ceptible only to the willfully unobservant.
There is everywhere the working ot the
everlasting law of requital; man always
gets as he gives.
How Vanderbilt Met His Wife.
There was considerable of a romance
attached to the marriage of the late Wil
liam H. Vanderbilt, the railroad mag
nate. On a bright moonlight night, at
about 10 o’clock, Miss Kissam was walk
ing through the quiet and deserted streets
of Albany. Suddenly she was startled
by the clatter of horses’ hoofs. Soon
she saw coming up the street a break
neck pace a bay horse, on which was
seated young Vanderbilt, handling his
horse with ease and grace. When the
horse and rider had reached the corner
where the young lady stood, she, being
of a modest, retiring nature, withdrew
in the shadow of a doorway. The horse
saw the movement, and being a spirited
animal, shied and threw its rider, who
fell heavily on a pile of stones, striking
the left side of his face. Miss Kissam
screamed and sprang forward, supposing
that Vanderbilt was either dead or very
badly hurt. Hardly had she reached his
side when he jumped up, shook himself
and brushed the dust from his face.
“Are —are you hurt badly;’’ timidly
inquired the young lady.
“Not at all, Miss —Miss—a—” stam
mered the youth.
“Miss Kissam,” whispered the young
lady, while many blushes suffused her
pretty face.
“Well, I’m not hurt, Miss Kissam,”
said William H. Vanderbilt, as he intro
duced himself, “but I’m pretty badly
j shaken up.”
Miss Kissam appeared embarrassed
and insisted upon young Mr. Vanderbilt
going to her home, as he suddenly ap
peared very faint. It did not take much
persuasion to induce him to escort her
home. Here he was introduced to Miss
Kissam’s father. A pleasant evening was
spent, and William proved such an ex
cellent conversationalist that when he
took his departure that evening he was
invited to call again, which he did re
peatedly until they were married.
A Sailor's Wonderful Escape.
Captain Sterling, of the schooner
Mercury, which arrived at Chicago re
cently, tells an exciting story of the
marvelous escape of a seaman who was
washed overboard in Lake Michigan
during a storm. About midnight a tre
mendous sea struck the vessel, which
was laboring heavily, and carried John
Anderson over the side. It was impos
sible to round to, and his companions
gave him up for lost. Captain Sterling,
who was at the wheal, was thunder
struck a few minutes later to see the
man holding on to the port quarter fen
der and endeavoring to climb over the
side. Captain Sterling sang out to the
mate to take the wheel, and rushing to
the fender rope, reached over and pulled
Anderson on board.
The man says that the sea which
washed him overboard carried him about
fifty feet from the vessel in the direction
in which she was sailing. He is a good
swimmer, and when he came up on the
crest of the wave he could see the ves
sei’s lights shining faintly through the
driving enow storm, and struck out as
best he could to get as near them as pos
sible. In his life-and death struggle he
was materially assisted by the undertow,
or back sea, which, being strong, drag
ged him toward the vessel. At this mo
ment another wave swept over him. and
as he came to the surface his head struck
against the side of the schooner. He re
tained his presence of mind and began
reaching for the fenders. Fortunately
he succeeded in grasping the last one on
the port side and was helped on board
more dead than alive.
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The Delusion of Growing Fat.
If you continue your present dietary
and habits and live five or seven years
more the burden of fat will be doubled
and the insinuating tailor will be still
congratulating you. Meantime you are
“running the race of life”—handi
capped by a weight which makes active
movement difficult.respiration thick and
panting. Not one man in fifty lives to
a good old age in this condition. The
typical man of eighty or ninety years,
still retaining a respectable amount of
energy of body and mind, is lean and
spare, and lives on slender rations.
Neither your heart nor your lungs can act
easilyand healthdy, being oppressed by
the gradually gathering fat around. And
this because you cominue to eat and
drink as you did, when youth and activ
ity disposed of that moiety of food
which was consumed over and above
what the body required for sustenance.
Such is the import of that balance and
unexpended ailment which your tailor
and your foolish friends admire, andthe
gradual disappearance of which, should
you recover your senses and diminish it.
they will still deplore, half frightening
you back to your old habits again by
Baying: “You are growing thin; what
can be the matter with you?” Insane
ami mischievious delusion.— Nineteenth
Century.