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The snow, driven by tbe wind, had found its way here and there through the "chinking" of the cabin and lay in miniature drifts upon tho floor, the fine, dry crystals sparkling in the firelight. We were fairly warm and comfortable where we sat on our rolls of blankets, placed upon the rudely laid rough hearthstones, but ten feet back from the fire the air was bitterly raw and cold. Tired thongh we all were from the day's rough journey, there was but lit tle temptation to leave tbe comparative comfort of the fireside for the hard, drafty bunks which awaited us, and Calkins and I still sat drowsily listen ing to the theosophist as he discoursed monotonously of reincarnation, Karma- Loca, and kindred topics. He was a fidgety, clean shaven little c man, with weak eyes, long iron gray hair and a pasty complexion. He spoke in a confidential half whisper, lest he c should awaken his unsympathetic friend, the professor, rolled in his blan- I kets near by, and provoke controversy. "A mahatma," he said hesitatingly, in answer to my inquiry, "is a being difficult of exaot or satisfactory defini tion to a mind unfamiliar with at least - the elements of esoteric philosophy and unattuned to the harmonies of oriental thought. He has been tersely but inade quately described as 'one who by in tense self absorption has attained super s natural powers aud faculties.' He is of the 'Illuminati,' of the 'Brothers,' an 1 'Adept,' in the occult sense. Developed . and perfected by a spiritual asceticism, he finds himself able to read nature's occult laws, to pass v .unhindered from one distant place to another in the twinkling of an eye, to melt from view and reappear at pleasure, to surround himself with phantasms"— "What do you call 'em what does all this?" queried Calkins, with awakening interest. "Mahatmas," rather snappishly re plied the theosophit, not relishing the interruption. "I run against a pair of 'em once way out on the desert east of 'Old Woman's Springs,' and I recollect well how they done me. That's why I asked," explained Calkins. "A pair of mahatmas I 'Done' yu! Impossible!" exclaimed the titeoso phist. "Well, if you say it's impossible, I reckon that settles it," said Calkins, and he spat aggressively into the white ; ashes in the fireplace. "But, my dear sir," remonstrated the theosophist in a conciliatory tone, "I I did not, of course, intend to suggest any J doubt of the perfect sincerity of your assertion. But the idea of your having met two of these phenomenally gifted beings and of their having, as you say, 'done' you struck me for the moment, you know—merely for the momeut—as , —well—as certainly most remarkable." "Well, it was just that," said Cal * kins, softened. "It was, as you say, the remarkableet racket, considered all 5 round, I ever was in, and I'll allow I've c seen more astonishin things in my time - than most men." "Would you mind giving us the par s ticnlars of your experience, Mr. Cal | kins?'' nrged the theosophist, with gen i nine interest. "Well," said Calkins after a mo ment's panse and with the tone and air ? of overcoming a reluctance to speak t ; , further on the subject, "with a man t who didn't know me"—he had met the ? theosophist that evening for the first s time—"and hadn't the learnin and uu £ i derstandin to tackle such matters I'm ~ i free to allow I'd hesitate to give 'em v ; this account But with you it seems c different somehow. You'll see the bear e in's of it as praps some wouldn't g "I had a claim abont 40 miles south t east of Old Woman's springs, and there ,t was a rock 'tank' within a mile where a | I could get water for camp use. I'd rig- I I ged up an arastra near the 'tank,' and s had been packin ore down from the ' claim with tho one mule I had, and then turned him into harness to run the , arastra, but it made the work hard and j slow both for me and him. s "So after I'd made one pretty good , run out of abont a ton and a quarter— I got three balls of amalgam, which, ; when I'd roasted and hammered 'em, weighed risin ten ouuces—l started to go in from the desert, cash my bullion and bny somo burro to pack with. "It was well into November when I'd finished my run and started to come in, and the nights was gettin too sharp for sleepin out with any comfort. I planned to make Higgins Wells first night out, for there was an old stone oabin there, half built into tbe side hill, without much roof, to be sure, bnt fur nishin some cover and givin a she) from tho wind. "Well, I cached i and straightened tl fore leavin, and so until well on toward not [< toafcaboti eight hours steady hn . liti to b tint Wells, bnt I knew I h.irl a moon t travel with when lite sun went dow so I didn't feel hurried, though thu da . was gettin short. "About sundown it grew raw right away, and then the-mountains to tm cast and evrry little knob and botte stood out sharp, With a ohilly dead light on 'em, like tbey was gettin purple With thooold. Thart wasn't a ( ndjKrwhere to be seen, nor a breath of wind stirrin, and I knew it was goin to bo a still, pinchin, frosty night, and I buttoned my coat np tight, and for the first tim<»" on the trip begun to hurry up my mule. "Just after sundown on a clear, sharp night's the louesomest time to be trav elin on the desert when you're by your self. With the dusk comin on and the ' red fadin out in tho sky you feel some how like overytbin in the world but just yon and your mule had teen stone i dead for a hundred years, and feelin that ■ way your animal gets to be great oom nanv. When tbe moon come up, it was STAUNTON, VA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13,1895. some cheer fuller, but l reit gian enough when I seen the butta where the Wells and tbe stone cabin was and thought of a fire and blankets. "When I'd got to within praps a quarter mile of the cabin, I see some | thin I never seen before and couldn't > no ways account for. It was like along, 1 wavy line of mist, comin from the east, movin through the air just above the j ground and makin for thobutte faster'n j a locomotive and straight's a beo flies! "It didn't, look like mist exactly ; neither, but more like a string of misty figures, with long, while streamers blowin out behind 'em on tbe wind! I scarcely had time to spec'late what it was, when just by the cabin it melted away and disappeared altogether. The air was clear and as dry as a bone, so I knew it couldn't be just a flyin vapor I'd- seen, and besides there was nary breath of wind to drive it. "While I was wonderin at all this, a light broke out of the cabin door and through the little window, like some one had just started a fire inside. Then next I see a campfire flame np, just down the hill by tbe Wells, and men and animals movin abont near by. I thought it was queer I hadn't seen 'em j till just that minute, for the country ! was open all ronnd, and up to now there hadn't been a sign of life anywhere. "Then I says to myself, 'Most likely j it's a prospectin party, and tbey was hid by the willows growin round the Wells,' but somehow this explanation didn't satisfy me, and I rode up toward the cabin, feelin glad at tbe prospect of company, but still wonderin considera ble. The place bad got to bo sort of public property ever since old man Hig gins died, and I didn't feel no kind of delicacy in ridin right np to the door, even if there was some one ahead of me. So I dismounts, unsaddles, and after hobblin the mule steps in. "I'll never forget how all struck stiff I was by tbe sort of old man I see stand in by the fire and just startin to corns toward me, with both hands stretched out and a smile on like he'd been ex pectin me. But when he seen who J ' was he stopped short, and the smile died out, and he looked sort of disap pointedlike, and his hands dropped, and then I see he'd thought I was some body else he was waitin for. "He was dark*complexioned aud verj i old, judgin from bis long white beard and tbe wrinkles on his face, but he was tall and as straight as a tampin stick, and his eyes, though deep in the sockets, was as bright as a hawk's, but kind and friendly, I thought. He was dressed out queerer'n any man ever I see outside of a the-a-ter. His head was wrapped all about with great strips of white muslin, which bulged out all round in a roll. He was buttoned.up olose in a long dull yeller colored, quilted silk overcoat, with a broad fur ' collar, and his shoes was red and turned np in long points at the toes. "I seen at the first gla::co ho was somethin ont of the common and wasn't Ino prospector,but what, ho was I couldn't ! make out neither. I said 'Good evenin,' I and he said 'Good eveuin' back, pleasant I enough, but speakin queer, liko he ' want much nsed to speakin English. Then he motioned me, lookin very hos pit-able, to take a seat in ono of the three old rawhide bottomed chairs* be fore the fire, which I done witli a 'Thank you,'for somehow, without bein any ways uppish, tin: old man acted like he owned tho whole place, a;td I frit some how like he did too. Well, when I set j down, be set down and mumbled some \ thin I didn't just make ont, beiii in a t language I'd never heard before, and, j though lookin pleasant an smilin, he Beemed sort of absentminded and kept lookin toward the door, like ho was ex pectin some one. "While I was gazin at him and won T | derm who and what he was, and where |he come from, and was makin up my | mind how to lead tbe conversation round kind of delicate up to them points, I was startled clean through by seem the old man's chair suddenly get empty— | that's the clearest I can put it—and findin him standin just ontside the cabin . door lookin off, over the desert. He | hadn't got up from that chair, so far as I I could see, and there he was, 20 feet away from it, without so much as stir rin a leg. Naturally this excited my cu riosity considerable. And I got up and ' went to the door, too, to see what the old man might bo up to next. He was gazin off toward the south, and I hadn't Jnore'n just looked that way, too, when I see what took my breath-away. "There was another of them misty, wavy processions kitin in through, the air from the south and makin dead for the cabin. Before I'd a chance to rub ! my eyes and look again it had got close to the door, melted away, and another queer dressed old man was embracin the first one, the two of 'em standin there within five feet of me. Next second they was sittin together inside the cab- ' in, in the chairs before the fire, never havin got there in no natural manner, with me standin just in and fillin up the doorway and only realizin where they'd gone to when I heard 'em talkin foreign languages behind me. "I was gettin sort of used to this 'lit- ' tie joker' business and begun to feel t ready for most anything in the surprisin ' line. Bnt I hadn't seen just nothin yet to what was comin. Seem the two old gen'lemen was busy talkin over a roll of parchment with queer letters and figures on it, which the second old man had brought along with him, I thought it would be considerate to let 'em b6 alone together for awhile, and I stepped ' out and down toward tbe campfire to try and pick up some points there and I take a look at tho animals. "I found four men standin close round the fire, tryin to keep warm, two of 'em dressed somethin like the old gen'leman I'd seen when I first come, only plainer, and two of 'em rigged out like the other ono, with black sombreros and wrapped up in garments lookin like Mexican scrapes. There was about a dozen animals, all told—three white mules and one coal black one, and the rest was fine, stout, big necked burros. My mule had got friendly with three of the finest in the whole outfit, and they was nibblin round apart from the rest, like they'd been raised together. Right away I begun thinkin that if I could cet hold of them three it would make Just the packin outfit I was lookin for, and then I could quit my trip in • iff tbe '3 -- crt, go right back to the arastra and make another run or two. Then I coujd start in with considerable of a tt and not have to come right away back, . as I'd been intendin. "So, havin this in mind, I told the men by the fire what I wanted and showed 'em tbe biggest ball of bullion I had—weigbin close on to five ounces \ —and offered it for the three burros, pointin 'em out. After about a minute they seemed to catch on, and lookin pow erful |erful solemn pointed up to the cabin, !! as much as to say I'd have to see, the ' | boss. So I just went on up", and steppin '- in found the old gen'lemen where I'd 1 left 'em still talkin 16 to the doaen over tne roir 'ot parenment wicn tne queer figures on It. They didn't pay no attention to me cuniu in at all, they was so took up With what they was talkin of, but I stood by waitin for a lull in the conversation, and when it come I cut in, and addressin tbe old man in tbe yeller silk overcoat I told bim, plain as I could, what I wanted and showed him the five ounce ball to let him know I meant business and was willin to pay well for what I got. "Ho looked at me in tbe same sort ot absentminded way he did when I first seen him, bnt he smiled and nodded like be meant 'Yes' and said somethin 1 didn't just get onto, but it seemed clear j to me from his way of goin on that it was all right abont the burros, and then I handed him the five ounce ball. Ht wouldn't take it to begin with, but me j insistin, and the second old man gettin impatient—at meinterruptin their talK, I reckon—he bowed and smiled again very pleasant and dropped tbe ball kind of carelesslike into a little fancy cloth bag he wore for a pocket fastened on the belt ronnd bis waist. Then he went right on talkin again with the other old man just like I want round, and hed clean forgot me and my business. ' Findin I want fir it with theold men, I started to go down and see the burros I'd bought, feelin very well pleased with the trade. Just then the necro mancin begun all over again, only this time for keeps, as you'll see. They was, as I've said, both talkin together very earnest, sittin in the chairs before tbe fire, and when I turned to go out tbey was there still, but as I stepped outside there they both was, miraculously, out side, too, ahead of me, embracin and oarryin on like tbey was sayin goodby. "Then things begun developin pretty lively. When the old gen'lemen had wound up the goodby act, they stands facin each other, both of 'em holdin np their hands and lookin up into the sky. Then they says some foreign words to gether, like it was a verse they was re peatin, and then—there want no old men standin there at all. "I looked down toward the campfire and all about, and there want a livin thing in sight. Not a man, nor a mule, nor a burro! But goin through the air like a streak—one toward the east and one toward the south—was two of them cloudy lines of figures, with the misty streamers wavin, like I'd seen 'em when the old men first come. "Yes, sir, everything was gone, pretty near, but me, and tbe cabin, and the campfire. Not only them two designin old men and their circus outfit, but with 'em the three bnrros I'd just bought and paid for, my live ounce ball of bullion and actually the mule I'd BUM on. When the rest of the party j blew off in that interestin way, he'd i somehow got caught in the draft, I sup pose, and had to go along too. "Next mornin early I started out on foot, packin my blankets, for Old Worn- ! an's springs. There I hired a bnrro and went in to stay for the winter. Now you can see, sir," concluded Calkins, addressing the theosophist impressive ly, "I want far off wiien I said I'd met a couple of them gifted bein's you was talkin of, and that they didn't use me no ways square any way you look at it." "A most extraordinary experience, Mr. Calkins, most extraordinary!" ex claimed the theosophist, with some ex citement. "I shall want, with your per mission, to take notes of the occurrence j for submission to our little Society For i Psychical Research at Beaconsville. I believe, thongh, that through even my limited acquaintance with occult sub jects I can pat the conduct of those venerable men, whom yon were so for tunate as to encounter at their desert rendezvous, in quite a different light from that in which you now regard it— that is, when I have had time to digest fully the particulars of your most re markable narrative." "I said you'd see the bearin's of it, as praps some wouldn't, yon recol lect, "said Calkins, as, yawning, he arose with his blanket roll and turned to his bunk, As he moved from the fire I thought I heard a low, husky, little laugh, but when I caught his eye he coughed un pleasantly and regarded me with a va cant, solemn stare.—Edmund Stnart Roche in Argonaut "Shoes Half Soled While You Walt." "Your shoes half soled while you wait" is a Seventh avenue sign which recalls many pleasant memories to tbe man who was raised in the back coun try and paid periodical visits to the crossroads cobbler dnring boyhood days. j The face of an old man with all of bis hair on his chin, and that white with age and streaked with tobacco juice, sitting 0-, a low shoemaker's bench in a little back kitchen of a log house in the woods rises before me as I pass. I smell | the sole leather soaking in the tub near the redbot kitohen stove and hear the play of the shining hammer as the old man beats the stiff cowhide on his knee. And such knees 1 Many a time have I seen bim crack walnuts on them with j no other protection than his shoemaker's I apron. The old man always performed , that trick for my boyish edification as I 1 sat metaphorically at his feet of a cold winter's night and my shoes were being half soled while I waited. It seemed to give him as much pleasure as it did me. He was a philosopher who had seen much of the great world and had re tired from it to the low cabin in the backwoods of northern Indiana, and as he drove the boxwood pegs homo with ! certain aim he awoke in me the over mastering desire to see some of that same world on my own account. He seemed to mo to know everything worth I knowing and scrupled not to part with fractions of that knowledge upon the slightest provocation. Ihe shoe p'-gs or Waxed ends in his month never inter fered materially with his volubility Kotliing ever disturbed his good humor. That was 40 years ago, but I remem ber the deeply sympathetic glance from the mild bine eyes of tho old shoemaker as he turned them from the shoe he was trimming and bent them upon me one night after I had given crnde expression ; to a desiro to ' 'see the world.'' j "You'll be disappointed, boy. There's nothing in it."—Now York Herald. Surprised, but Equal to It. The marshal in a western town had occasion to arrest four or five ugly citi zens, and he called on Mr. William J. Smith, better known as Bill, to act as a posse comitates. The offenders were . found in a saloon, and Mr. Smith went . in there with the sheriff very modestly. The sheriff hadn't more than stated his business when he pulled a pistol and the crowd broke for the back door. The sheriff fired and missed, and Mr. Smith tumbled the hindermost man, the oth ers escaping. Then Mr. Smith looked at the sheriff with a look of pain. "H—-1, Jim," he said, "why didn't you tell me you was goin to open the meetin with pra'r and I'd 'a' had a fall house fer yon?"— New York Sun. BURNAND OF PUNCH. Ghat With a Man Who Furnishes Alleged Humor Once a Week. When I wrote F. C. Bnrnand asking him to grant an interview, I did it with trepidation, having beard that he ob jected to the modern inquisition of the interviewer. My eloquence evidently prevailed, however, for he replied that I might have the satisfaction of execut ing my editorial commission. It could only be a "sketchy" affair, as at the present time he was so very busy that his leisnre moments were few and pre cious. As probably I knew as much about him as was necessary, I should let him off easily. j I had to be contented with merely ! oatcbing a glimpse of him in his com- ' fortable stndy nt the "Boltons." He was preparing to start off for the Savoy, | where he was occupied in rehearsing his new pioce. j "Of the many comio papers Punch is decidedly the only one that appears to excite a vague, mysterious interest in the bosom of the reading public. What , is the cause, Mr. Burnand?" "Probably the hebdomadal dinner, at which it is supposed, no doubt, that the jokes are handed ronnd to be digested.'' "When was Punch started?" "Punch was started in 1841, a year of three eventful Ps—the introduction of penny postage and the birth of the prince. It was to be a comic chronicle of the times.'' "And its first editors?" "Were Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks and Tom Taylor." In their identical chair now sits Mr. Bnrnand, who no donbt, through his other works, is better known to the gen eral public than his predecessors. Fran cis Cowley Bnrnand was born on Nov. 39, 1886. His very earliest years show ed a promise of literary talent. At Eton his little plays were acted in his tutor's room, and at the age of 14 his "Guy Fawkes' Day" was produced at Worth ing. He carried his energies on to Cam- ' bridge, where he founded the A. D. C, which Btill flourishes Mr. Bnrnand qnite made np his mind that the chnrch shonld be his profession. ' And from reading at Cnddesdon he passed to St Charles' seminary to stndy j nnder the late Cardinal (then Dr.) Man- ; ning, which resnlted in his discovering ' that the cure of souls was not his voca tion. His earliest contribntion to Punch dates back to 1855, when he sent in a drawing which was reproduced by tho i great John Leech. Though thestogo has ; always possessed a great attraction for ■ him, journalism equally claims him as , one of its successful lights. With what} other papers was he connected? He once j edited a small paper, The Glowworm, j when Arthur A. Beckett was his 'sub." • He contributed a good deal to Fun. In fact, it was through Fun not Boeing his idea of a literary joke that brought him directly in connection with Pnnch. j "What was tho idea?" I asked him. j "Ihe burlesquing of popular novel-. ists of tho day. Of these 'Mokanna' ap- j peared in Punch Feb. 21, 1863. It was attributed to Thackeray. The idea reg ularly caught on, and soon after that I joined tho staff, on which for a long time, owing to my youth, I was called 'The New Boy.' " The new and original style of "Hap py Thoughts" won him popularity as a trne wit. Its very simplicity of qnaint humor appealed to all. "Happy Thoughts" and Bnmands are synony mous, and not undeservedly co. The same keen sense of hmnor runs through every line of his writing. "When did you become editor?" was my nest qnestion. "I succeeded to the editorial chair in 1880. Though a post of honor, the life of an editor of a comic journal is not exactly a happy one, for many people seem to imagine that a joke has only to be made, and it becomes 'good enough for Punch!' The home of the feeble fun ny story lies in the waste paper basket of.The Punch office."—London Sketch. A War of Pamphlets. The two leading features of the fa mous sermon preached by Dr. Sacheve rell in St. Paul's cathedral on Nov. 5, 1709, which led to his trial and all the paper war which raged around his name, were the denunciation of religious tol erance and the upholding of tbe doc trine of nonresistance to the crown in its extremest form. The Sacheverell pamphlets consist of short and catch penny lives of the reverend hero, several sermons preached by him at various dates, attacks by dissenting writers on such sermons and their preacher, and other sermons and replies in support of the high church doctrines. The list of Sacheverell pamphlets is a record of sermons, speeches, answers, letters, replies, thought, vindications and considerations, with endless varia tions of title, in long and wearisome procession. The total number of distinct and separate publications connected di rectly or indirectly with the controversy, enumerated by Mr. Falconer Madan in his "Bibliography of Sacheverell," amounts to no less than 220, and most of these are tracts, broadsides and j pamphlets of the most ephemeral kind. Their enumeration is a trinmph of bib- ' liographical industry and patience aud '. an astonishing proof of the strength and indeed violence of party feeling, both ecclesiastical and political, at the crisis of Queen Anne's roign.—Gentle man'b Magazine. "Gie Cs a Lead." Dean Hole, in his recent book, "More Memories," tells an amusing story of how an old woman got die better of her clergyman in an argument The villas 1 churchyard was overcrowded, except on its sunless northernside, in which the suicide was buried. One day the vicar, while visiting a 'poor old woman who was nigh unto death, tbonght he would try to get her consent to be buried in tbe roomy northern plot. He began by assuring ber that the common aversion to burial in any par ticular portion of consecrated ground was a silly prejudice and a foolish su perstition. Then he besought her, as a personal favor to himself and as an ex ample to others, to permit her body to be'buried in the northern plot of the churchyard. The old woman thought it all over for a few minutes and then answered, "Well, sir, as you seem to think as one part of tbe churchyard is as good as an other, and that it makes no difference where we be pnt, perhaps you'll gie us a lead." The vicar did not grasp the argument; rat he changed the subject A Black Sheep. Mrs. Highmind—lt worries me sick to think how my little boy is growing np without a taste for literature. Friend—Hasn't he any? Mrs. Highmind—Not a bit I bought him a beautifully bound copy of Bus kin's "Sevan Lamps of Architecture," and I actually had to whip him to main aim read it. —Mew York Weekly. ECCENTRIC WAttEfLS. CURIOUS BETS MADE BY PROMINENT MEN IN OLD LONDON. A Contest In Masquerading Which Went to the Wrong Man—Bets on Eating and Drinking—Bat Lord Lome Won the Best of All These Wagers. So far as we can go back into the ' world's history, we find tho rage for making wagers prevalent. The Romans Bad a great inclination for betting, and they had a conventional form of ratify j ing their contracts, which consisted in ' taking from their linger the ring, which i the higher classes invariably wore, and giving it to the keeping of some third I party. In the old days some very ci ' traordinary bets were made. Thomas : Hodgson and Samuel Whitehead wager ' ed in the castle yard, York, as to which should assume the most original char acter. Umpires were selected, whose duty it was to decide upon the compara | tive absurdity of the costumes in which the two gentlemen appeared. On the appointed day Hodgson came before the { ; umpires decorated with bank notes of various value on his coat and waistcoat, a row of 5 guinea notes and a long net ted purse of gold around his head, while a piece of paper bearing the words "John Bull" was attached to his back. Whitehead was dressed like a woman ' on one side; one half of his face was painted, and he wore a silk stocking and slipper on one leg. The other half of his face was blackened to resemble that of a negro. On the corresponding side of his body he wore a gaudy long tailed linen coat, and his leg was cased with leather breeches, with a boot and spur. Much to the astonishment of the crowd, the stakes were awarded to "John Bull." The Duke of Queensbury laid a sin gular, wager with Sir Charles Bunbury about the end of tbe last century. The former was to. produce a man who was to walk from his grace's house in Pic cadilly, London, to the ten mile stone beyond Hounslow in the space of three ; hours, advancing four steps and at cv i cry fourth step retiring one step back ' ward. The bet was for £1,000. Most ' probably the Duke of Queensbury had sorrowed the bint from a circumstance : recorded in the history of Catherine Medicis. This celebrated and beautiful | queen made a vow that if an enterprise • of oonsequenoe in which sho was en ! gaged should terminato successfully she i would send a pilgrim to Jerusalem, i traveling on foot in the manner de- I scribed. Having succeeded in her first . I point, it remained to discover a man . ' with vigor and patience enough to nn- I dertake the journey. A citizen of Ver berris, Picardy, presented himself and promised most scrupulously to accom j plish the vow. He fulfilled his engage"-" I ment with great precision, of which tho I I queen was well assured by those whom t she had appointed to travel by his side and watch his motions. There was a notorious gambler at the : end of the last century who ruined him self finally by a very extraordinary bet. He had been playing with Lord Lome. Tbsir stakes had been very high, and luck had gone steadily against him. Ex asperated at his losses, he jumped up from the card table, and seizing a large punch bowl said: 'For onco I'll have a bet when I've got a chance of winning! Odd or even for 15,000 guineas''" "Odd," replied the peer calmly. Tho bowl was dashed against the wall, and , on the pieces being counted there proved to be an odd one. The rash gambler paid his 15,000 guineas; but, if tradition be correct, it , was only by selling the last of his es tates that he was enabled to do so. Here is a record of another wager: A member of parliament bet a gentleman well known on the turf that a man should go from London to Edinburgh in any mode he chose while another made , a million of dots with a pen and ink upon writing paper. Eating and drinking have at all times been the subject of bets, and we hear of t a courier, by name Aristocratic Tom of the Old Lion, London, for the trifling bet of a shilling undertook to drink three gills of lamp oil of tbe most ran cid and nauseous quality that could be procured, which he performed with as ! much gusto and relish as if it had been the most delicious cordial. The money he had won was immediately converted into strong beer, which, with a penny t loaf soaked in another portion of oil, he > likewise swallowed. About two hours ' after this repast for another wager he ' swallowed 20 eggs with the shells in 30 minutes, but the last having a young chicken in it he complained it spoiled his stomach. . ' Feats of strength, too, have been a fruitful source of wagering. In 1793 a wager for £50 was made between a Mr. Hopkins and a Mr. Dalton that the latter could not carry 600 sacks of flour weighing 20 stone 20 yards in 13 hours. Mr. Dalton began the undertaking, but there not being a sufficient number of ' sacks in the town he used but one weigh ! ing 20 stone 8 pounds, which he carried 350 times each way 21 yards, and, not withstanding he carried above the weight and the distance one yard more - than agreed upon, the feat was per- i formed with great ease in seven hours I and 2o minutes. —Chicago Tribuna .■resident Hayes Watcnes. Tho late President Hayes was always , noted for his thrifty habits, but some I things which impressed the multitude : as signs of meanness were really nothing i but ordinary prudence. For example, we all used to wonder why he would persist in wearing a silver plated watch, worth possibly $3. He was aware that < this practice was known, and any aiton- ■ ishment manifested amused him instead ' of making him angry. In answer to a look of surprise he would say, "I think that is a plain watch for a president of the United States to carry, but it is good American make," as if assuming ' that this act would counteract the effect ( of the oheapness of the article. Tho truth was that almost weekly a deputa tion of western Indians called upon him, always bringing presents of some kind to the great father. Of course he was expected to give something in return. ' and the object was to find something ' cheap and at the same time acceptable. Watches were a novelty to the Indians, ' and to present a chief with a watch which the great father himself had been carrying always impressed him greatly. Having discovered this and not ' caring to distribute gold watches or even silver ones, Mr. Hayes hit upon , the expedient of buying nickel watches at $36 a dozen and always made it con venient to have one with him against an emergency.—Kate Field's Washington. 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FUNERAL OUTFITTED In every detail and under careful personal at tentlou BICKLE* RAMRICK an* «-tf N os. and W.Frederick St. CHUROH DIRECTORY. First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick Hi between New and Market streets, services na. m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. A. M. Fraser Second Presbyterian church corner Freder lck and I ewis streets. Services at 11 a. m and 8. Pastor. Rev. Wm. Cununlnic. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship at Y. M. C. A. Hall. Services at II a. m., and Bp. m. Rector. Rev. R. C. Jet*. Trinity Episcopal church. Mam street, be tween Lewis and Church streets. Services at 11 a. m., and Bp. m. Rector, Rev. W. y. Hul llheh rmced Brethren church, Lewis street, be tween Main and Johnson streets. Services at 11 a. in end Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. ,1. D Don ovan. Method! i church. Lewis street, hetweeu Main and Frederick streets. Services at 11 m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. J. H. Boyd, D. D Christ Evangelical Lutheran church. Lew- Is street, between Mam and Frederick streets services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Pastor. Rev. rH. F. Shealy. Baptist church, cornei Main and Washing ton streets. Sorvices at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m Pastor, Rev. W. J E. Cox. , St Francis Roman Catholic, North August* street. Mass at 7 and 10.30 a.m. Vespers and. r benediction of Most Blessed Sacrament «*" p. m. Pastor, Rev. Father McVerrv. Young Men's Christian Association, corner Main and Water streets. Services at 4 p. m. Sunda . PISETORY OF UODC ES. MASONIC LODGE. Staunton Lodge No. 18, A. F. and A. M., meets every second and last Friday night in eacV month, in Masonic Temple, Main street. Jas M. Lickllter.W. M: B. A. Eskridge, Secy. UNION ItOYAL ARCH CHAPTER. No. 3, meets third Friday in every month. In Masonic lemple, on Mam street. W. W. Mc Guffln, High Priest; A. A. Eskridge, Secy. ODD FELLOWS' LODGE.; Staunton Lodge, No. 45,1. 0. O. F. meets cv cry Thursday night In Odd Fellows' Hall, ovet Wayt's drug store, on Main street. John C FretweU Noble Grand: C. A. Craftou, Sec' . KNIGHTS OF HONOF ODGE. Staunton Lodge. \o. 756, of Honor meets every first t~il third Tuesday In each month, to Pythian Hall, Main street. W. L. Olivier. Dictator; W. A. Burnett, Recorder. MOUNTAIN CITY LODGE. No. 116,1, o. G. T., meets every Friday night In their lodge room over Wayt's drug store on Main street. A. 8. Woodhouse, Chief Templar F. B. Kennedy. Secy. DISTRICT LODGE. No. 28,1. O. G. T., meets every three months Dist'ricfSetV 0 - °' *8" * *"» e ™» ROYAL ARCANUM. Augusta Council, No. 4W, Royal Arcanum meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the month, at Pythian Hall, Main street. W. W. Kobertson, Hesrent: Jos. B. Woodward, Bec-' retary. SONS OF TEMPER 4NCF Charity Division, M. A., Sons of Temperance meets every Monday night at Odd Fellows all. W. A. Rapp, Worthy Patriarch; John B. Coff elt, Secy. CNIFOBMKD BANK, KN.GHTB OF PYTHIAS E. v. Stuart Division. No. io, meets seconu id fourth Monda\ > each month at Pythian .tall. Sir Knight Captain. K. B. Berkley; 8 Knight Kecorder - H fosenhaum. KMIGBTe 01 PYTHIAS Valley Lodge. No. 18, K. of p., meets Monday night at Castle Hall, on West street, over Dr Wayt's drug store. C. T. Hajji-' innnn. Chancellor Commander; Albes Seer r of Record*aaa Head, KNIGHT TKHPLABB. Staunton Commandery, No. 8, Knijjhts Tem plar, meets first Friday night in every month In Masonic Temple, on Mam street. W. B. McChesney, Eminent Commander; A. A. E k rldg-e. Recorder. ONEIDA TRIBE, NO. 88, L O. B. M„ Meets in their wigwam. In Valz Building every Wednesday at 7tb run 3ftth breath Betting of the sun. B. 8. Tetrrson, snrhm ratoes w Blackburn, chief of rocortfß, . ••Kiting brothers welcome. AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOB. Valley Council No. 736 meets on the first anu third Mondays to each month, Commande- A. 8. Woodhouse; secretary. Dr. J. M. Hange collector, Isaac C. Morton, Jr. CATHOLIC HIBEBNIAN BENITICALJ SOCIETY.! Meets flrst Sunday In every month in their ball on the church lot. M. T. B presi dent: J. J. Kiliralen. first vice-president: J. 3 Mnrnhv. second vice-president; D.J. O'ConneU recording secretary. "STONEWALL" BRIGADE BAND. Rand meets evory Monday and Thursday orchestra every Wednesday, at Bp. m.aln City Kail. Mr. J. M. Brereton, director, •'. *. Armentrout, president, and C. Harry Haines, secretary. CENTRAL PROHIBITION CLUB. ' ■*e«t on Thursday night of each week, in the v room, 1U bast Mam street. Jas .W. Bod y. ACfng President; Preston A. Bon, Seer* CHAMBEB OP COMMERCE. Monthly 'neettntrs. Fourth Tuesday In the . month at 7:30 o'clock. Boom In City Bail build tmr mv *ha .•rasi.laul: .1.0. dtuelds, met