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.iv- itt 1 4 fc a N 'i la -. .s«J1r a i: PI *:. HS I i* IS' 1 You lose much of your success by publishing to all the world your plans, hopes and ambitions. Keep them to yourself. Whether the New York Tribune quoted the following or got it out of its own head, it deserves to be passed along. "Whoever makes one word grow where two words grew before is a public benefactor." Kenan was an agnostic, but even religious women will forgive him after reading this remark for his: "I often fancy that the judgements which will be passed upon us in the valley of Jehoshaphat will be neither more nor less than those of women, countersigned by the Almighty." Talk of great estates! No English man or American has an estate to compare with one that used to belong to an old Spanish grandee in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico. It comprises 1,200,000 acres, and has just been sold, presumably for taxes. A syndicate '•ought it for $5,000,000 and will try to develop mines there. The name of the tract is the Cedros hacienda. In India when an eclipse of the sun occurs the natives regard it as a solemn religious event, and troops from all parts of the country by the thousand to bath in the sacred Ganges while the shadow is on. It would not be a bad idea if some Dcople had that kind of a superstition in the United States. They would get a batli at least once in their lives. One of the most appropriate Columbus celebrations in all the country was that at Pittsburg where a beautiful grove of trees was planted and named Columbus grove. School children ought to plant such parks in every neighborhood before next autumn is over. They will stand in honor of the great discoverer when perhaps even this mighty republic shall have gone down. Census flguring shows that the whole textile industry of the United States increased 38.51 per cent, from 1880 to 1890, while the population of the cotntry has increased a little more than 16 per cent. Does this mean that people wear out more clothes than they did previous to 1880 or that tue clothes do not wear so well? Or if neither of these, then, do we make more cloth at home and import less than we did ten years ago? Apparently it is not necessary to wait for electricity to propel railway trains 100 miles an hour. Steam is nearly equal to it now. An express train between Buffalo and Rochester lately traveled ten miles at the rate of ninety-flve miles an hour making a mile in less than thirty-nine seconds. The only question to be settled is whether electricity cannot accomplish the fast travel with less dust, noise and expense. It has been proved by actual trial that a storage battery street car hold ing seventy passengers can travel thirty miles at the rate of six miles an hour making stoppages, rounding curves and climbing hills, without recharging of batteries. This was done at Milford, Mass. The storage battery car costs no more than the horse car. In cities where the trollery overhead wire is objectionable it is a satisfaction to find that the storage battery car will do the work. An advertisement—and it is not joke—appears in a Australian paper as follows: "Wanted—1,000 j'oung cats delivered at Wirrialpa station. These cats are intended to kill rabbits. Australian farmers sixty cents apiece for them. The supply is not sufficient, hence the advertisment. The cats have proved very useful. But how will they get rid of the cats after the rabbits are exterminated? In the United States the dead ones might be used political campaign documents, but Australia is not America. The number of acres which will be open to settlement under the recent agreement with the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians is nearly 3,000,000. It is situated in the south western corner of Indian Territory For this land the government paid the Indians $2,000,000. The members of the three tribes named will take lands in severalty and the new tract is what is left after they have chosen their farms. It will soon be opened to settlement, then their will be another boomers rush. The Indian territory is being gradually carved up and parceled out. Just wait till we get that great electric railway between Chicago and St. Louis. The cars will have very large driving wheels, will carry only high -class freight in addition to passengers, presumably also high class, and will run 100 miles an hour. To prevent one train from running into another the road is divided into 10-mile section, each alternate section having the current switched off to kill two birds with one stone, the power houses for the road are at the mouths of coal mines owned by the company along the road, and the mining is to be done by electricity. Electricity is the magician that is to solve all material difficulties and make human life happier, lighter and more comfortable. In time lie will relieve mankind of physical drudgery. In England lie has lent his aid to the production of chlorine, caustic soda and other chemicals directly from sea water and brine, making them 50 per cent, cheaper. Presently he will whisper in the ear of some Edison in a dream the exact clew that will lead him out of bis hiding place within a lump of coal without the intervention of a steam engine. Then a revolution in mechanical science will indeed begin. The prettiest light furniture is made of bamboo, which comes from China. In that country it is used for every purpose for which the cane reed is here, and for making houses, clothes, bridges, water pipes, fences, pillows and mattresses besides, not to speak of umbrellas. The young shoots of the plant are eaten, being used as a salad or garnish. The inter esting point about the matter is that most of the vegetation which grows in China will thrive here, and this beautiful plant would probably do as well in our southern states as it does in China. Then every woman could have a bamboo rocking chair. At least it is well worth the trial, and bamboo culture is commended to the attention of Secretary Rusk. A historic movement has been proceeding so quietly for the past ten years that few have noticed it at all. This is the return of the Jews to Palestine. So many hace gone thither that it begins to look almost as if the Bible prophecy were to be fulfilled. The ancient land now contains more than 100,000 of the chosen people. One of the first effects of this movement is an upward tendency in the Jerusalem real estate market. The country is being irrigated and cultivated waterworks of an improved pattern are being constructed, and electric lights of the Yankee type are already flickering from the street corners of the Holy City. Railways will soon criss cross Palestine like spider webs, and the improved Bystem of agriculture which the wide awake Israelite immigrants have already introduced will give them business. There is no more hopeful sign on the whole horizon of civilization than this new movement of the Jews to Palestine. A Model Club. Mrs. C. C. Chickering furnishes to the Christian Union a paper contain ingsomc admirable suggestions for winter evening gatherings of both men and women. In 1890 Mrs. Chick ering originated the Current Isewi club, an association of ladies. came about in this way: She tells us she all at once found herself left be hind in the march of current events If she went anywhere of an evening with her husband he and his gentle men friends would talk about the in creased speed of the Atlantic steam ers or some other interesting news of the day. The ladies adopted the suggestion Ever since on each Monday afternoon the women meet from three to half past five. They are among the wisest women of their day, for they let past history alone and learn all they can about the history of today. "Our aim is to keep in touch with the his tory that is making," says Mrs Chickering. Among other matters they have kept up with the history that is mak ing in regard to the Chili trouble, the McKinley bill and the Nicaragua canal. Only two papers have been read sincc the beginning, one a re sume of the Farmers'Alliance plat form, the other Mr. Blaine's letter on the New Orleans riot. The rule is that all must be spoken off-hand. This is about the best feature of the club. The women speaking extempore get a command of language and memory that give them ease of man ner and confidence in themselves. The lady congratulates herself and her fellow members that now and hereafter when their children ask them some question of current history these club mothers will not be obliged to say, "Ask papa." Such a club not only learns facts, but, what is far better, learns to think about them. "Old Glory.'* Here is the grand army of the re public,was an exclamation that involuntarily escaped the lips of those who witnessed in Cincinnati the Columbian procession of 20,000school boys, each carrying an American flag. It stirred the hearts of old soldiers strangely—that moving forest of gal lant young saplings with their wav ing banners of red, white and blue It made others remember the brave young Indiana girl teacher who first set the fashion of having the coun try's flag float over the school house during study hours, and defended it with a loaded gun when some ruffians sought to tear the glorious banner down. Patriotism and every other noble sentiment is fostered by appealing to the better emotions, For a hundred years after 1892 those 20,000 boys and their descendants will tell with pride the story of the school procession in the Columbian year when 20,000, youths carried the American flag through the city streets, and if war should come we may be sure that those 20,000 youths will be among the first to go out to battle under that banner. An old soldier says lie thinks there ought to be a stars and stripes celebration of some kind every year to keepalive in all our hearts the love of country. So there ought, with pa triotic music, flags, historic and heroic tableaux and all that nobly stirs the soul and kindles the imagi nation. A Literary Curiosity. The following literary oddity con tains fifty-eight words, in which no owel except Is used and there are 112 of that letter out of a total of 336 letters used: "We feel extreme feebleness when we seek perfect excellence here. We well remember men everywhere err. Even when Eden's evergreen trees sheltered Eve, the serpent crept there. et, when tempted, when chcerless ness depresses, when helplessness fet ters, when we seem deserted—then we remember Bethlehem: we beseech the Redeemer's help. We ever need the rest the blessed efcpect. It The women knew nothing of these things, but talked together of cliil dren and servants She found that she herself, along with the other with the other women, knew nothing about what a majority of the intel ligent people of the world were inter ested in. So, just two years ago this October, she proposed to some of her women friends to meet her for an hour or more one afternoon of the week, each lady bringing with her some news item that was occupying public interest. Washington, Political, Foreign, and General Domestic, Happenings of Note. Telegraphic News of the Worltl Condensed for the Benefit of Busy .Headers. GENEKAL DOMESTIC NEWS. Welcome, Minn., had a $20,000 fire last Monday. Tacoma and Seattle are affected with the small pox. A panther in Oklahoma carried off and devoured a woman and lier baby. Private lams loses his suit against Col. Streator and other military offi cers at Pittsburg. The Great Northern Railway com pany has abolished .its short line trains between St. Paul and Minneap olis. Fire at Brooklyn Saturday night caused a total loss of over half a million. Twenty-two buildings were destroyed. The whaling bark Helen Mar was crushed in the ice in the Arctic and thirty-five of her crew are crushed to death or drowned. The latest use of electricity is in the performance of the marriage cer emony in Philadelphia. The affair went off like chain lightning. A press reporter proves the so called miraculous window in the Catholic church at Canton, Minn., and the reported supernatural cures to be a fake. A well known Baptist divine in Minneapolis knows what's what, lie runs a neat two-inch ad in the Satur day dailies announcing liis services for the next day. F. B. Turpin of Gallatin, Tenn.. was convicted of murder in the first degree. Turpin shot and killed W. N. Carter about a year ago. Turpin is wealthy. He came from Phila delphia a few years ago. The report of the superintendent of the dead letter office shows a decrease of 48,-ISO during 1891, not withstanding the fact that the postal businessof the country has increased nearly 8 per cent, the past year. Kemper county, Miss., is in the throes of a bloody feud. Several years ago Tom Tolbert, a white man, committed rape and was sent to the pen for life. lie escaped and his gang fought the sheriff's posse and killed one. More bloodshed is expected. Canada has failed to convict its boodlers. Ex-rremier Merrier, against whom there was believed to be ample evidence, lias been acquitted and the great and much advertised investigation lias ended in a fiasco. At Buffalo. N. Y., the grand jury reported an indictment charging murdcr^in the second degree against Clifford Cassidy, of the Second regi ment, and Richard Roc for the shoot ing of Michael Broderick during the recent strike there. The steamer Cheltkat, from Alaska, brings the news that four men were found in a ramp at Point Barry. CuprenolT Island, with their heads off and all their clothing stripped from their bodies. The crimes are supposed to have been committed by the Indians. It is said that there is one railroad in the United States which operates its entire length under the block system—the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, which has 6,100 miles of main liue signal blocked. The train dispatcher has positive Instructions to see that no train, passenger or freight, leaves a telegraph station until the preceding train has reached the next telegraph station. Mr. Sand of London, England, who came to Homestead to confer with the advisory board of the strikers regarding a scheme to establish a steel plant, said lie had an option on a tract of 90,000 acres of land located in Allegheny county, Virginia. This tract is rich in coal and iron. Ac cording to Sand's proposition the Homestead men are to raise $50,000, and an English syndicate agrees to invest $4,000,000 in a co-operative plant. Anton M. Fouger, a Chicago lawyer, was shot dead on the 5th by James Dalton, a manufacturer of pianos. According to Dalton they quarreled over the ownership of a house which they had purchased as partners. They were unmarried. They occupied the house jointly, keeping two servants, one a negro and the other a Japanese. They had a line stable, and did a bit of horse trading. Dalton claims to have acted in self defense. The officers elect of the W. C. T. U. for the ensuing year are Miss Frances E. Willard, Evanston, 111., president: Mrs. Caroline B. Buell, Evanston. 111., corresponding secretary: Mrs. Mary E. Woodbridge, Ravenna, Ohio, recording secretary: Miss Esther Pugli, Evanston, 111., treasurer. These officers, with the exception of Mrs. Woodbridge, have served in these positions since 1879. Mrs. Wood bridge havng been elected one year earlier. Of 333 ballots cast Mj^ss Wil lard received all but five. During theprevalent rainy weather dozens of the college girls at Ann Arbor, Mich., have appeared on the streets in the Jcnness-MiHer ''rainy day dress." The skirt is plain and tight-fitting, but the striking feature is that it reaches only about half way from the knee to the ankle. To make up for this gap the college girls wear long gaiters, and can now splash through the mud as well as the boys. They have been threatening to udQRjjf this suit ever since Mrs. Jenness Miller lectured last summer. All lines of the street railway at Columbus, Ohio, were tied up on elec tion day by a strike of the conductors and motor men. The cause of the strike is the discharge of conductors who refused to take mutilated dimes from passengers, as the company makes the conductors stand the loss on mutilated coins. Trouble which has been brewing between the men and the management for some time is believed to have precipitated the strike, which was a surprise to the company and citizens. A Marshal Englishohas just returned from Chillicotiie, where he nabbed Charles Johnson, who is wanted at Delaware, Ohio for obtaining money on false pretenses from Lizzie Pfound, who became infatuated with Johnson over a year ago. An engagement followed. He then induced her on different pretenses to lend him $2GiJ, all the money she had saved by hard work. He borrowed in large and small sums ostensibly to go to a short hand school at Marion, Ind., and to help purchase an interest in a book store there. Last August he left his betrothed. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Manitoba and the Canadian north west territories are making extensive collections of the natural products of the country for the world's fail. Uganda, Africa, is said to be admirably adapted to the raising of cotton: that enough could be raised there to make Lancashire indepen dent of America. A dispatch from Santiago says that the Chilian cabinet lias resigned as a result of the troubles that have been for some time brewing between the Clericals and the Liberals. The Odessa correspondent of the London News says: During the year 1891 100,515 person emigrated from Russia to America. In 1890 85,588 emigrated thither. The Madrid'correspondent of the London Daily News says the inter national judicial congress, now in session in that city, is discussing the question of an international agree ment for the arbitration of disputes. At an interview with Court Szarpary, the Hungarian prime minister, had with Emperor Francis Joseph oncdav last week, he tendered the resignation of the members of the Hungarian cabinet and his majesty accepted them. Mrs: Charles S. Parnell has claimed the protection of the English bankruptcy court and a receiver has been appointed at her own instance to take charge of lier affairs. This action will probably have the elicet of placing obstacles in the way of the release of the Paris fund. A band of women robbers has been discovered in l'aymago, Spain. They met once a month in a cave on the outskirts of the town to plan bur glaries and they had a full stock of burglars' tools and about 15,000 francs' worth of plunder. They usually worked in men's attire. Osrnand Dignia, who has reported dead dozens of times, reappeared in the Soudan, lie occupied Sinkat, and with followers raided the neighborhood. The Egyptian outpost fifty miles fromSaukim has been cvacualcc and the friendly native tribes have fled before the invaders. and at midnight the robber captured at California Junction. The guards at the armories of all military companies have been doubled and arrangements made to call the troops out at a moment's notice. There has so far been no demand on their services. Streetcar travel has beeri suspended. When the news was published that a Chicago man had eloped with three telephone girls at once, everybody said. "Jleilo:"' been has has his IIAU HIS XliliVli AI.ON'G A During Kol1i«»ry Or«»urs on Hoard a Train Near Mixsourl Vulloy, la. A daring robbery was committed near Missouri Valley, Iowa, on the Omaha train last Monday. A tough looking man boarded the train at Blair, Neb., and as it was approach ing Missouri Valley, running at full speed, the desperado arose from his seat and walking to within a few feet of a passenger sitting in the forward end of the car, drew a revolver and taking deliberate aim tired a bullet in'o his victim's right side. Five more shots were fired in rapid suc cession only one of which took effect As the wounded man sank uncon scious to the floor of the car the rub bery coolly picked up a sample case belonging to the injured man and pulled the cord applying the air brakes to the train. He then drew another revolver and keeping the passengers and train hands at bay walked out on the platform of the car and when the train had slowed up sufficiently he jumped to the ground and ran quietly into the woods. The victim of this fendish crime was AV. G. Pollock, traveling sales man for the Bergman Jewelry com pany, Omaha. His sample case, which the robber secured, contained $15,000 worth of diamonds. He is seriously wounded but it is believed that lie will rccoyer. When the train reached the town the authorities were promptly noticed and a posse of a dozen well armedmcn left at once to take up the trial of the robber. Neighboring towns were also notified was IH'SINESS SITS IM2XD !•:!. Nearly Kvcrv Trades Inion In Xrw Orleans Agrees ID Ouit Work. The strike of the labor unions com posing the Workingmen's Amalga mated Council has assumed alarming proportionsand the prospects are that all of the? city industries with possi bly one or two exceptions, in which union labor is employed, will be at a standstill very soon. The con ference between the merchants and labor committees was dismissed with out result. The men are firm inthefr demand that the differences should be arbitrated at once bofore the men are ordered back to work. Discussion on both sides was heated. The electric light works union has decided to join the strike and when the strike is on the city will be in darkness as the gasmen went out during the day. The Typographical union has also decided to go out. This will probably suspend the pub lication of every morning paper in this city except the Herman Gazette. The musicians union have joined the strike and the theaters are com pletely without orchestras. A Growing Nuisance Far More Annoying Than Their Male^ Brethren. There is anew element to scarc the women folks in country houses half out of their wits that Is yet in its in fancy, but endowed with the strength of a young giant so far as terrifying qualities is concerned. This new bugbear is in the" form of a woman tramp, says the Philapelphia Times. A month spent on a farm situated on the main road between two thriving towns, yet distant enough from habi tations to make it quite isolated, has revealed the fact though men of the genus tramp are annoying and both ersome, the women of the same ilk are ten times more so. To beirin with, being women, no farm hand or any man about the place cares to deal ith them in the summary manner to which the male species is accus tomed. Knowing this, these tattered vagrants in female form intrude even into the very living rooms and whine and beg until they are given some thing, or when refused will turn abusive and hysterical, a combination that frightens even strong men. Every visit from one of these gentle wanderers means so much less prop erty, as they steal everything they can lay their hands on. No nap in a hammock or a morning stroll can be taken without being disturbed by one or more of the homeless viragos, who are lost to all sense of shame or de cency. Sometimes an unhappy little mortal that calls the tramp mother is taken along on these summer wan derings. They fare better than men, for scarcely anyone is hard-hearted enough to refuse a woman a night's shelter in some outhouse, therefore they generally sleep under cover. On being questioned as to why they have taken to the road they tell a tale of the difficulty of obtaining work in the large city they have just left and the hope of employment in the one toward which they arc journeying. If, however, work is offered them they either find some excuse for not accepting or stay one night and de camp before daylight with edibles enough to last several days and other trifles they can conveniently carry. Notwithstanding that they are lost to nearly every sense that adorns womanhood, they still retain a gen uine feminine characteristic that proves the only stronghold of the wives and daughters of the farmers whose victims they are. This one re serve measure of protection is in their fear of cows and dogs. A mild-eyed, gentle Alderney will keep out a trio of these harpies where a man with a club would be of no avail. Likewise a dog with a fierce bark, is almost, though not quite, as effective in scar ing them off,but once let them within the gates nothing daunts them, and a meaner, uglier nuisance does noi exist than the roving and whining woman tramp. THi: I1KV WICATIIlCIt KAST. 11 Has Caused Cretil Apprehension Among The Farmers. The •continued fair weather which has been prevalent during the last month has been a source of disappoint ment to the agriculturists. Their land has been so dried up arad they have had so small a water supph to draw upon that they have nm dared to plant the seeds which will ripen and bear fruit next spring and bring dollars to their pockets. At least that is what the truck gardeners of New Jersey say. The soil of New Jersey, and of New York, too, in the immediate vicinity of the city, is unusually dry. New Jersey is not more of a sufferer than any portion of the country about here. The wells and cisterns of Orange and Glen Eidge and Summit and other places are dry, and the people who sleep in those, towns, but work in New York, say that the roads are so dusty that the carriages carry lighted lanterns by day. Bushes and trees by the wayside are covered with a soft, cough producing powder of parched New Jersey soil: the sky is darkened 'with the smoke of burning leaves and the fields arc baking and cracking out of pure aridity. In one side street in Orange a reporter saw a small boy whose sole occupation seemed to be to keep chickens out of the roadway to prevent them form wallowing in the dust and thus makingthcaireven harder to breathe. Farmer Dunn said the atmosphere was so dry from lack of rain that it was full of minute particles that will float about until a heavy downpour from the clouds washes them to the ground. Long Island is drying up under what is said to be the greatest drought known throughout that territory. No rain of any account lias fallen in more than three months. Brooks and ponds arc dry. Even the springs in some localities are exhausted. Wells and cisterns are empty. The highways arc knee deep in dust, and for miles arund the dry woods arc afire. Clouds of amoke and dust fill the air. Every wind raises a duststorm. and covers the country with a gray coat. There is dust everywhere, and at times it is suffocating. Owing to their numerous unfulfilled prognostications local weather prophets have lost their prestige, and the people are seriously considering the advisability of petitioning the general government to send Uncle Jerry Rusk's rainmaker to bombard the piece of sky that stretches over Long Island. Forest fl res are reported all over. Frequently farmers and workmen are called from the fields to fight the (lames. Monday the whole population in the. vicinity of Cold Spring turned out to fight a brush lire. A gale was sweeping the flames toward the village, and a bell on Totten's liverv stable was rung to alarm the surrounding country. Men and women flocked to he scene, and after several hours of hard fighting the flames were finally put out. It Lias been calculated that the right hand of a good compositor in taking the type from the frame to the stick, while setting up 0,000 ems in eight hours covers a distance of 36.000 feet, or about seven miles, this being an average rate of speed a little less than a mile an hour. KILTED MEN OF MUSCLE, AID AND TARTAN IN OUTDOOR GAMES. Pattlug lite Stone—Flinging the Ham mer—Whirling the Caber—Tlie Com petitive Skirling of the Blpei. There ar^ilft people in the world so fond of out-of-door sports as the "canny Scots," and in no other nationality is BO ranch interest taken in field games. The Caledonians have ever been fond of competition in the qualities of strength agility, and endurance—* A CONFERENCE OF CniEFS. fondness born of their old fighting in stinct, perhaps, and perpetuated in the. tribal form of government which still exists, though greatly modified in in tent, throughout both Highlands and Lowlands,though more particularly the former. The Scots in Canada and the United States have their athletic societies and Held days, and are ever ready to enter any amateur competition from which thev are not debarred, but back in "auld Scotia" the Scottish field sports are to be seen at their best, and no where better than at the tvnnual re gatta at Oban. The regatta at Oban has always been attended by a notable series of games, and is the occasion for the annual "gathering of the clans" and for an influx of English visitors as well. The London Pall Mall Budget has some good illustrations from sketches made during the regatta two weeks ago, several of which are repro duced. There is no prettier sight than Oban bay before the regatta. Crowds of sraft of all sorts are there, and others' ire hurrying in, anxious to get a safe anchorage in sheltered water, and lucky if they find it in less than twen ty fathoms. Racers and cruisers are there, old-fashioned boats and the latest thing in yacht building,from the rakish'schooner of the slaver type to the newest design in center boards,and rUTTtNT, THE 8TOXK. large ocean steamers that make Madeira their port of call. The day of the games it was not raining—indeed, the sun was trying to shine pipes were skirling on all sidcS1 Gaelic was spoken in every key, abd kilts and tartans Were plentiful. Pro ceedings began with the mustering of the competing pipers. They all struck up and off they marched to the ground at Mossfield, followed by the admiring townspeople and crowds of l'ustic visit ors. The park, as they call it, is a !ort of amphitheater among the hills: fl wooden platform serves for a stage and wooden benches for seats. The crowd ratified themselves round the barriers, while the ticket-holders began to tti*-1 rive. It was most imposing to watch the judges marching about in their kilts giving directions with a great aif' There were tall chiefs and short chiefs stout chiefs and thin chiefs. CoL Malcolm of Poltallock's, six foot siSi was well thrown up by another chief tain of hardly more than five feet, and the captain of Dunstaffnage acted as a foil to Maclaine of Lochbuie. Camp bells of every description, of course, abounded. The competition of pipers went on simultaneously with the games. Putting the stone was the first event, and a very pretty perform ance it is. The stone weighs from six teen to twenty pounds. The best throw was by an Aberdeen man—33 feet 9 inches. Throwing the hammer came next. This looks a formidable weapon, and to see it, flying round a clansman's head at lightning speed makes one fear for the surrounding company. Alex ander McCulloch made it fly 111 feet 0 inches. After this the caber was solemnly and laboriously borne out by four men as most people know, it is a pine tree trank, pure and simple. When they bepan it was about twenty feet long, balancing it on his hands and resting it on his shoulder, the first competitor raised it slowly from the ground then, running forward, es sayed to toss it, but the caber refused to revolve and fell limply back toward the performer. Another and another tried to toss it. but in vain. 'Then be gan the usual performance. A man TWIRUNO THE CARER. with a big saw came forward and cut off a foot or so. Again the kilted men tried their skill and again they failed. At this point the rain began* to fall heavily. Another piece was sawn off the caber and this time it was made to revolve in good style, amidst the en thusiastic applause of the spectators outside the barriers. Then the racing and jumping began. The cross-country race was the most characteristic, bping up a neighboring hill: the return, down rocks and crags with bounds and leaps of the most alarming description, was calcu lated to give the Sassenach an idea of the agility and good wind of the hard 7 Celt. Brave Sailor t»d Sared The Cruiser Philadelphia. A warship in time of peace doesn't offer many chances to the ambitious young man who burns to become a hero. Supposably our new navy is full of young men with tense, throbbing, Surging longings to bccome heroes, but the opportunity isn't very frequently offered. The new steel cruiser Phila delphia needed a hero the other day, however, and one was found read\' at hand. Very naturally the crew of the Philadelphia is proud of their acquisi tion, and rather looks down upon the crews of leBS fortunate ships. Young, fair-haired, and handsome, Harry Eilers, a gunner's mate, has proven his worth in a moment of the greatest danger, and by his coolness and bravery saved not only his own life, but those of his 100 shipmates. It was at Baltimore, while the snarn bombardment of Fort McIIenry was in progress. The big broadside guns of the cruiser were belching forth flame and smoke in mimic warfare. Officers and crews were at quarters. Young Eilers was down deep in the vessel's hold superintending the hoist ing of ammunition. With him were sp QUARTERMASTER IIARRV EILERS. four or five men to help him to do the work. They were busily engaged in the magazine when the premature ex plosion of a powder charge in the after starboard gun on the upper deck terri bly injured the officer in command and three or four members of the gun's crew. Fragments of the burning can vas which wrapped the powder charge fell down the chute into the small iron compartment where the men were at work, and where tons of powder and hundreds of shells were stowed. In stant destruction was threatened. If the fire communicated to the powder the ship would be blown up and every living soul on board instantly hurled into eternity. It was a time for heroism, but all but one of the men started on the run for the upper deck, shouting "Fire in the magazine!" Alone and unaided.young Elarry Eilers remained at his post, the flames all about him, fighting the fire with his naked hands. Death stared him in the face,but he did not hesitate, and he succeeded In smothering the last spark that remained. He stood at his post of duty until the excitement on deck had subsided and he was regular ly relieved. Then he went on deck to muster with his division at quarters. The ship wan saved. Harry Eilers, who is a native of Newark, N. .T., has been in the navy nearly eight years. lie shipped on board the old Minnesota when 14 years old and completed his apprenticeship on his twenty-first birthday, a year ago. After a short vacation ashore he re-enlisted as a seaman, and was rated as a gunner's mate He is an American lad. and a universal favorite with officers and men, says the X. Y. Re corder. While on the training ship Saratoga he was selected from among 300 competing boys to be examined for the Farragut incdal. lie was on the man-of-war Pensacola when that vessel took a scientific party to the west coast of Africa in 1SS!, and held the rate of quarter-master. Irto Short Story ip to Once. They had been so happy. He thought of those rosy days by the Seaside,- those dreamy walks in the wood, and of that first ecstatic kiss. Ah! 'That kiss! He remembered how. in that delirious moment of psychic intoxication", when their very souls rushed to their lips and com mingled, how the crescent- moon had whirled and danced before histears-of joy-bedimmed eyes, until it took the semblance of a pin-wheel in the throes of epilepsy. And now the end had come. The end of all. She loved another. He wandered Ut the Woodshed. An object struck his gaZC. It was the meat ax. An awfid thought took possession of him and seared itself into his plastic soul. As one in a dream, he took the awful weapon from the wall and strode to the grindstone. He placed the ax upon the stone. His foot fell on the treadle.and the insensate disk of grit began to re volve as of its own volition. Its sibillant. savage, serpent-like hiss was music to his ear. Plucking a lnir from the magnificent brown mustache that she had once loved,lie tested the edge of the horrible instrument of fate. The test was satisfactory. He strode to the trysting place. 'Twas to be their last meeting. She came. Her lips wore the same false, sweet smile they had worn in other days. He allowed his eyes one last look at her transcendent loveliness and smote her in twain. AncLagain in quarters. And in eighths. And in sixteenths. Then he calmiy walked to the police station, told his story, and waited for the end.—Indianapolis Journal. Wearied the Mule. "Once." says an old Californian, "wheu Niles Searls was district judge up in Nevada and Sierra counties, the late Judire Belden and I were on op posite sides of a case which was to be argued before him. When we reached Nevada City we found the judge about to depart for Downieville on niule back to hold court there. He made the novel proposition that we should ride over the mountains with him and argue our case 011 the way. We ac cepted the suggestion, secured horses and started 0(1 on either side of the judge's mule. I opened the case and concluded my argument as we reached North San Juan. Then Belden re plied. He was very much in earnest, grew quite warm over the case anil didn't conclude until wc hail passed Nigger Tent. Then Judge Scarles ruminated a short time and delivered his decision, fiat against Belden. Belden was so much worked up about the case that the decision made all three of us a little uncomfortable for a lime and not a word was spoken as we joirged along. Then, just as we rode down to Goodyear's bar the judge broke the strained si lence with the remark: 'Mv mule seems very tired.' should think he would,' replied Belden. 'after such a decision as that.' Arkansn-w Travel er. A "Young-looking Grandinuher. Mme. Bernhardt has returned to Paris for a few days. She rides out with her devoted daughter-in-law and little Baby Bernhardt, and with her long, white cloth coat, white straw hat, and blue, waving plumes, she if the youngest-looking grandmother ir the world. After Bernhardt premier? maniere, she is getting to be Bern hardt second fashion, for she is gath ering flesh, but, with true artistic ii* st ::ct. she takes it iu by^omin^ liuci. )i»uiWiiin«en The Successful Farmer. The young farmer who thinks lie can farm as did his grandfather and succeed with an education that cover? a meager knowledge of reading, spell iior, writing, and arithmetic will hnd when »oo late that he has made an error that will render his life well nigh useless. The farmer of the next twenty-live years will be a thinker. He wiil be the dominant factor 111 gov ernment. His papers will bo the dailies and his mail will bu delivered to his house. His business will be sys tematic and he must keep accounts that will show what crops and stock are profitable. The coming successful farmer must not only be educated in the ordinary English branches, but he must have" a good practical business training. Such an education is as es sential^ the farmer as to the man in the counting-room.—Cedar ItapicU Gazette. The Dog Question. The cattle commissioners of Massa chusetts take an advanced ground on the dog question. Their plan is "to confine the annimal on the premises of its owner, or, when moving abroad, to compel the owner to keep it con stantly under his surveillance and, if it escapes therefrom and is running at lar"e, to make it a subject of seizure ancTconfinement by legalized officers. Who will say that is not right? What business has a dog outside of its own er's yard unless the owner goes with it? The dog makes a bigger issue than the tariff. At a recent "primary" it was proposed to tax every dog$l, and put the money on the roads. In the township there are about 750 dogs and 400 voters. It was generally held that such an issue would defeat the party. Stopping a llunaway Horse. Professor Gleason, noted as a tamer and trainer of vicious hor.ies, thus ex plains the manner of stopping a run away horse by using nothing but 3 straight bar bit and lines. For in stance, your horse attempts to run away. Let him po for a distance oi fifty" wards, then haul in your lines per fectly tight. When you* get ready to five" the command to stop, say "Whoa!" at the same time you pull the right-hand rein, giving a powerful jerk, and repeat the word "Whoa." Don't move the left hand but do all the work with the right. When you o-ive the terrible jerk twist the horses jaw to the right, and if you have the presence of mind to repeat the word whoa at the second jerk of the lines, you will l^surprisod to find your horse standing still. Rural Notes and News. Sheep do not like close confinement. Sharp-shod for slippery roads. Liberally litter the stables and sheds. In feeding animals adapt the food to the end in view. Don't make hen-roosts of your barns, stables, etc. Never miss a meeting where rural topics are discussed. The Russian mulberry- is said to be excellent for pies. Causes of soft-shelled eggs—lack of lime and a loo fat hen. Cheese must have butter fat in it to make it good to sell aud eat. Protect, encourage and improve your district school—the people's col lege. A Dangerous Potato Pest. The entomologist section of the United States Agricultural Depart ment reports a very dangerous insect enemy of the potato. It is known :»s the potato tuber moth, and has been exceedingly destructive in Australia. It first appeared in this country in California, la.-- November. Efforts will be made to stamp it out by de nlroying potatoes infected with it. and if necessary suspending potato culture for a year or two where the moth has appeared. The Broker Fireu It. A broker who is well known on the •tock exchange for his proclivities as a practical joker, made considerale fun for some of his associates last week. He is sojourni-gg in the country at the present and dispensing hospitality to numbers of his comrades. lie is rated among thcni as a particularly bad marksman, and so it is that when he took a number of them around back to the barn a few mornings since and dhowed them a target painted on the back of the barn and a bullet imbed ded in the very center of the bull's eye the first inquiry was: "Who fired the shot?" "I fired it and from a distance of 200 yards, too." was the earnest reply. "Oh! rats, rats." "Come off, now." "You could not hit the barn at that distance." But he persisted in his assertion and finally suggested that perhaps some of his friends would like to bet 011 it. lie got two bets, one for a dinner for the crowd ami another for a case of cham pagne. He then brought out two wit nesses who solemnly declared that they had seen the shot fired by him from a distance of 200 yards and from a ritle. The witnesses were beyond suspicion and the bets were paid. During the jubilee that followed the broker confessed that he had painteri the target on tho barn after he hud tired the shot.—JY. Y. World. She Had Been There. "I beg your pardon." soid the ehenk youth to the calm and austere maiden in the Pullman, "but I think I have seen you somewhere, before." The maiden fixed a freezing stare upon him. "I think i.*.)t," she replied sev erely "I have been there several times, but only to pass through." Then he passed 011 .—Detroit Free Prcm. She Was nn Honest Woman. One of the first women who were as signed work in the Treasury building was a colored woman, Sophie Holmes by name. One night when Sophie was sweeping the refuse papers in her room she found a box of greenbacks that had been cut, counted and packed to transfer to the vaults and had been accidentally overlooked. She did not dare call the watchman for fear he won hi be tempted beyond resistance. She thought of her four small children at home alone with 110 one to give them their supper or put them to bed. but the one duty that stared her in the face was to protect that moiiC3-: she sat down upon the box and quietly waited for the hours to go by. At 1 o'clock in the morning she heard the shuffling step of Gen. Spin ner in the corridor and heard him open the door to his room. She quietly slipped along the corridor, knocked at his door, and told him what she had found. The general had the box taken to his room and sent Sophie home in his car riage. The next morning when she returned she fouml the general still keeping guard. That niudit he sent for her and placed in her hand her appointment papers, given for honesty, and for thirty years she has earned and drawn her $50 per month. Fifty thousand dollars was in this box. At another time she found 000, for which the testimony can be seen over Gen. SpiDner's own hand writing. The Vhautauqunn. SSSJW.UK 0patpi farSOEte CMi KJilt] Bio., IlffB ^4