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She-Weekly Expositor, & A. Msxzirr, Editor and Proprietor, r TALK, MICH Censure and crltlclem never hurt inybody. If false, they can't hurt fou unless you are wanting ia manly Character; and If true, they show a man his weak point and forewarn aim against failure and trouble. Nothing really succeeds which Is ot based on roality; sham in a large lenso, is never successful. In the life of tho individual, as in the more somprehensivo life of tho state, pre lention is nothing and powor la every thing. It appears that during tho last forty years the population of tho col leges haa increased nearly three times, r, exactly, by 25G per cent, while the population of tho union as a whole has increased by 1G5 per cent only. The growth was most rapid between 1880 and 1890, when tho increase in the number of college students was )ne-half, though tho population of the anion increased by one-quarter only. A person pretending to be in need )f relief solicits aid of all tho char itable organizations. He is not in need at all. So far as the purposes of ihe organization aro concerned he is in impostor. If he had obtained the relief he asked it would have shown .hat the charitable funds were expend sd In a manner to permit and enoour tge imposture and mendicancy. But he did not get relief from any one of the organizations. Perhaps the chari table agents might say that the im. posture was such a shallow one that they wore ablo to detect it on sight. Whether they do or do not the fail ure of an attempt to got charitable funds bestowed on a man whoso pre tended need was a fraud is an un qualified vindication of tho charitable organizations. It Is a peculiar satlro upon Ameri can civilization that no one knows to what emlnenco the American intolloct may roam, because our great men rarely live beyond sixty-five. Now that Americans have recovered their country from a wilderness and have made It tho richest nation of the world there is really no reason why they should still bow to tho old-timo ethics which bado every man to work steadily from tho cradle to the grave. What is tho use of life if it means naught but a constant struggle for vast wealth while tho beautiful things of life and naturo aro passed by with out attention? It Is a great thing to have moro miles of railroads, more telegraph wlro more rolling mills and a larger crop than any nation in the world. It is a better thing for a man to so divide his labors that ho can live a little by the wayside and drop into his grave at eighty instead of Bixty-five. Like individual character tho farm never remains the same for any long time. If not improving it is necessa rily retrograding. The longer im provement is delayed, tho loss oasy It Is to mako a beginning. Yet in tho West tho process of soil exhaustion from which Eastern farmers havo suf rered began with its first cultivation, even when the farmor was ono who left the East to secure new and fertile 6olL If a system of carofully saving manure and frequent seeding with clover had been adopted at tho first, it would havo boon much easier to re tain fertility than it can bo when lost to restore it Put tho cheapness of fertile soil inevitably leads to its de spoliation. What inducement is there to maintain fertility whon tho crop of a 6ingle year will buy as much fertile land as it was grown upon? High jricos for land aro therefore helps to good farming. They ma :o it neces sary to grw on few acres what used to be grown on a great many. There is a class of people who pride themsolvos on their honesty and frank ness because, as they toll us, they say just what they think," throwing out their opinions right and loft just as they happen to foel, no mattor whore they may strike or whom they may wound... This boasted frankness, however, is not honesty, but is rather miserable imperlinonco and reckless ctdclty. Wo havo no right to say what wo think unless wo think kind ly and lovingly; no right to unload our jealousies, envios, bad humors and miserablo spites upon tho hearts of our neighbors. If wo must bo bad tempered wo should at least keop our ugliness locked up in our own breasts and not lot it out to wound tho feel iii7 and mar tho happlnoss of others. If ivo must speak out our dislikes and prejudices and wrotchod foolings, let us go into our own room and lock tho door and closo tho windows, so that no ear but our own can hear tho hato ful words. If , a man seemoth to be religious, or oven morally decent and brldlethnot his tongue, thatmani religion i,i vain and his character U -unprincipled atid base. i TABERNACLE PULPIT. THE SEVEN STARS OF ORION AND THEIR COD. Dr. Talmage Traduce the Heavenly Realm for Truth Told by the Star A mo of Tekoa- and III Interest in the Heavenly llodlei. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 20, 1832. In this sermon Dr. Tulmago traverses wide realms of thought to teach useful every-dtvylesBons.bttsed on the text, Anion A: 8: "Seek him that uiakoth tho seven stars and Orion." A country farmer wrote this text Amos of Tekoa. He ploughed the earth and threshed tho grain by a new threshlncr machine lust Invented, as j formerly the cattle trod out the grain. He gathered tho fruit of the sycamore tree, and scarified it with an iron comb Just before it was getting ripe, as it was necessary and customary in that way to take from it the bitterness. He was the son of a poor shepherd and stuttered; but before the stammering rustic the Philistines, and Syrians, and Phoenicians, and Moabites, and Am monites, and Edomites, and Israelites trembled. What a life of solitude, all alone with his herds! Poor Amos! And at 13 o'clock at night, hark to the wolf's bark, and the lion's roar, and the bear's growl, and the owl's te-whit-te-who, and the serpent's hiss, as he unwit tingly steps too near while moving through the thickets! So Amos, like other herdsmen, got the habit of study ing the map of the heavens, because it was so much of the time spread out be fore him. He noticed some stars ad vancing and others receding. lie as sociated their dawn and setting with certain seasons of tho year. Het had a poetic nature, and he read night by night, and month by month, and year by year, the poem of the constellations, divinely rhythmic. And there are some things which makes me think that it may not have been all superstition which connected the movements and appcaranco of the heavenly bodies with great moral events on earth. Did not a meteor run on evangelistic errand on the first Christmas n'ght, and designate the rough cradle of our Lord? Did not the stars in their course fight against Sisera? Was it merely coincidental that before the destruction of Jerusalem the moon was eclipsed for twelve con secutive nights? Did it merely happen so that a new star appeared in constel lation Cassiopeia, and then disappeared just before King Charles IX. of France, who was responsible for St. Bartholo mew massacre, died? Was it without significance that in the days of the Roman Emperor Justinian war and famine were preached by the dimness of tho sun, which for nearly a year gave no more light than the moon, although there were no clouds to obscurs it? In the first place Amos saw, as we must see, that tho (lod who made the Pleiades and Orion must be the God of order. It wr.fi not so much a star here and a star there that impressed the in- i spired herdsman, but seven in one I group, and seven in the other group. He saw that night afier night and sea son after season and decade after dec ade, they had kept step of light, each one in its own place, a sisterhood never clashing and never contesting prece dence. From the time Hcslod called the Pleiades the "seven daughters of Atlas." and Virgil wrote in his lEniad of "Stormy Orion" until now, they havo observed the order estab lished for their coming and going; order written not in manuscript that may be pigeon-holed, but with the hand of the Almighty on tho dome of the sky, so that all nations may read it. Order. Persistent order. Sublime or der. Omnipotent order. Amos saw that God was not satisfied with making one star, or two or three stars, but ho inalses seven; and having finished that group of worlds, makes another group group after group. To the Pleiades he adds Orion. It seems that God likes light so well that he keeps making it. Only one being in the universe knows tho statistics of solar, lunar, stcllar.meteoric creations, and that is the Creator himself. And they have all been lovingly christened, ! each one a name as distinct as the 1 names of your children. "He tellcth i tho number of the stars; he calleth ( them all by their names." The seven 1'ieiaues naa names given to uiem, anu they are Alcyone, Merope, Ccla?no, Electra, Stcrope, Taj'gete, and Mala. But think of the billions and trillions of daughters of starry light that God calls by name as they sweep by him with beaming brow and lustrous robo! So fond is God of light natural light. Again and again is light harnessed r for sytubolization Christ, the bright daybreak; tho redemption of nations, . Sun of Righteousness nsing with heal ( ing in his wings. Oh, men and women, j with so many sorrows and sins and ' perplexities, if you want light of com fort, ligh of pardon, light of goodness, in earnest prayer through Christ, "Seek him that makcth the Seven Stavs and Orion." Again, Amos faw, as wo must see, that the God who made these two archi pelagoes of stars must be an unchang ing (Jod. There had been no change in tho stellar appearance in this herds man's life-time, and his father, a shep herd, reported to him that there had t been no change in his life-time. And ! theso two clusters hang over the ccles ; tial arbor, now just as they were the first night that they shone on the Edenic bowers, tho same as when the Egyptians built tho Pyramids from tho top of which to watch them, the same as when tho Chaldeans -calculated the eclipses, the same as when Elihu, according to tho Book of ! Job, went out to' study the aurora borealis, the same under Ptolemaic system and Copcrntcjan system, tlie , same from' Calisthchcs to Py thagonfs, and from Pythagoras to llerschel. Surely, a changeless God must have fashioned the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid the ups and downs of life, and tho flux and reflux of the tides of prosperity, to know that we have a changeless God, tho same yesterday, to-day, andeforcver. Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that tho God who mado these two bea cons of the Oriental night sky must be a God of love and kindly warning. The Pleiades rising in mid-sky said to all the herdsmen and shepherds and husband men: "Come out and enjoy the mild weather, and cultivate your gardens and elds." Orion, coining in winter, warned them to prepare for tempest. All navigation was regulated by these two constellations. The one said to shigmaster and crew: "Hoist sail for the sea and gather merchandise from other lands." But Orion was the storm signal, and said: "lleef sail, make thirfgs snug, or put into harbor, for the hurricanes are getting their wings out." As the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the spring, Orion was the warning prophet of the winter. Oh, what a mercy it is that in tho text and all up and down tho Bible God induces us to look out toward other worlds! Bible astronomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in the Psalms.in the prophets, major and minor, in St. John's Apocalypse, practically saying, "Worlds! worlds! worlds! Get ready for them!" Wo have a nice little world hero that we stick to, as though losing tbat we lose all. We are afraid of fall ing off this little raft of a- world. We are afraid that some meteoric iconoclast will some night smash it, and we want everything to revolve around it, and are disapo.'nted when we find that it revolves around tho sun instead of the sun revolving around it. What a fuss we make about this little bit of a world, its existenco only a short time between two spasms, the paroxysm by which it was hurled from chaos into order, and the paroxysm of its demoli tion. And I am glad that so many texts call us to look off to other worlds, many of them larger and grander and more resplendent. "Look there," says Job, "at Mazaroth and arcturus and his sons!" "Look there," says St. John, "at the moon under Christ's feet!" "Look there," says Joshua, "at tho sun standing still above Gibeon!" "Look there," says Moses, "at the sparkling firmament!" "Look there," says Amos, tho herdsman, "at tle seven stars and Orion!" Don't let us be ko sad about those who shove off from tnis world under Christly pilotage. Don't let us be so agitated about our own going off this little barge or sloop or canal-boat of a world to get on some "Great Eastern" of the heavens. Don't let us persist in wanting to stay in this barn, this shed, this out-house of a world, when all the King's palaces al ready occupied by many of our best friends are swinging" wide open their gates to let us in. When I read, "In my Father's house are many mansions," I do not know but that each world is a room, and as many rooms as there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hall ways, stellar windows, stellar domes. How our departed friends must pity us shut up in these cramped apart ments, tired if we walk fifteen miles, when they some inorn ing, by ono stroke of wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar system and be back in timo for matins. Perhaps yoader twinkling constellation is the residence of the martyrs; that group of twelve lumi naries is tho celestial home of tho Apostles. Perhaps that steep of light is tho dwelling-place of angels che rubic, seraphic, archangel ic. A mansion with as many rooms as worlds, and all their windows illuminated for festivity. I had studied it before, but the Cathe dral of Cologne, Germany, never im pressed me as it did tile last timo I saw it It is admittedly tho grandest Gothic structure in the world, its foundation laid in 1348, only eight or nine years ago completed. Moro than 000 ycais in building. All Europe taxed for its construction. Its chapel of the Magi with precious stones.enough to purchase a kingdom. Its chapel of St. Agnes with masterpieces of paint ing. Ksspire springing Ml feet into the heavens. Its stained glass the chorus of all rich colors. Statues encircling tho pillars and encircling all. Statues above statues, until sculpture can do no more, but faints and falls back against carved stalls and down on pave ments over which tho kings nnd queens of the earth have walked to confession. Nave and aisles and tran sept and portals combining the splendor of sunrise. Interlaced, inter foliated, intercolumncd grandeur. As I stood outside, looking at the double range of flying buttresses and the for est of pinnacles, higher and higher and higher, until I almost reeled from dizzi ness, I exclaimed: "Great doxology in stone! Frozen prayer of many na tions!" But while standing there I saw a poor man enter and put down his pack and kneel beside his burden on the hard floor of that cathedral. And tears of deep emotion camo Into my eyes, as I said to myself: "There is a soul worth more than all tho material surround ings. That man will live after the last pinnacle has fallen, nnd not one stono of all that cathedral glory shall re main uncrumbled. He is now a Laz arus in rags and poverty and weari ness, but immortal, nnd a son of the Lord God Almighty; and the prayer he now offers, though amid many sup erstitious, I believe God will hear; and among the apostles whoso sculptured forms stand in the surrounding niches ho will at last be lifted, and into the presence of that Christ whose suffer ings aro represented by the crucifix be fore which he bows; and be raised ia due time out of all his poverties into the glorious home built for him and built for us by 'Him who maketh tho Seven Stars nnd Orion.'" The motional' insanity style of murder b making business for 'the florists, it re njuirei a large number of bouquets to run a first ci&ss murder trial Washington A QUEEN OF THE RANCH. A YOUNG WOMAN OF IDAHO WHO SELLS HORSES. Her I'artner Are H or Father and llroth ers, and Wli le The Are on the Han Hi In the frprlnj, She It on the Itoad. Ono spring day a boy attached to tho lookout of tho Grand Pacific called at tho office and informed tho clerk on iuty that a young lady was in tho ro septlonroom and wished to see him or jomo one in authority. Tho clerk at tended tho summon, and tho young lady gavo him her namo and requested l room. She was registered Miss Katio V. Wllkins, Idaho, and assigned. There was nothing about her appear mco to excito comment or ralso any curiosity. Hut it leaked out later that sho was a horse dealer. Sho said so herself when asked about it. and the news spread about tho hotel that there was a woman horso dealer in tho build ing. It was tho first arrival of tho kind that tho Grand Pacific had ever recorded. Miss Wilklns is in partner ship with her father and two brothers. Tho company owns a hor3 and cattle ranch in what is known as tho Bru neau Valley, in Idaho. It is a country where there is no society. It is a country whoro few women would caro to live. But Miss Wllkins finds life thero very much to her liking, and thero Is nothing about her to indicato that sho is not as much Df a woman as any of her sex who live down on somo of tho fashionable avenues of Chicago. Thero is noth ing masculine about her manner. She Is self-possessed, and not at all giddy. As a mattor of fact tho giddy girl is not indigenous to tho Wost. Sho calls herself "Tho Lady Horso Dealer." liy that namo sho Is known out West Whllo her sox turns to mon. and flowers, and music, and dancing, and novels. and all such, to lovo and caress. Miss Wllkins turns to horses. They aro tho embodiment of all that Is noblo to her, and at the same timo sho is not so wrapt up in tho study that sho is not at all times roady to barter away horso-flosh when sho can strike a good trade. They 6ay sho seldom gets tho worst of it in a horso trade. When sho is at homo sho occupies her timo in mounting the most spir ited horso on tho ranch and in her own way sho gallops away over tho prairios, stopping whorever she is apt to find a herd of horses that suits her fancy. If a bargain is to bo driven sho has tho mo.st to say about it Tho herders and dealers nnd raisers all know her. and her judgment on a horso is law and gospel. Then sho gallops away home, dismounts without any assistance, ungirths her charger and calls her partnors about her to tell them what sho has dono and they at tond to tho rest When tho season comos for shipping sho loaves tho ranch in charge of tho stock. For tho most part thoy nro what is known a3 wild horses. Tho caro of such animals generally gives a man all ho can do. but this young woman makes no complaint Sho has no troublo with her horsos. They seem to, understand that they are un der tho caro of a woman, and act ac cordingly. Arrangements havo been mado In advanco for tho shipment of theso animals from a certain point on tho railroad. Sho has mapped out be fore loavlng tho cities sho proposes to visit with her stock. Tho train pulls out and Miss Wilkins is in tho ca boose Tho railroad men know her, and no ono could bo trcatod moro eon sldoratoly than this young lady, who is traveling alono. No chapcrono for her. Whon she roachos her first point of destination her cars aro switched and sho looks nftor tho horsos hcrsolf. That is. sho hires men at tho point of her destination and tells them just what sho wants dono, nnd It is dono just in that way. If sho wants them stabled that is done, and then sho calls on tho men in town who aro in tho habit of buying horsos. When she has mado all tho sales sho can sho goes to tho railroad company and makes arrangements for her horses to bo placed In cars and all other ar rangements that aro necessary. Sho is on for tho next place. Tho samo programme Is observed here as at tho first place and sq on until the stock has boon disposed of. With a bank account to her erodit sho occasionally stops ovor in any leading city and pchaps takes In tho opera. Sholovos music. Then sho goo to the ranch, tolls her partners what sho has dono, divides according to tho agreement and then in the evenings, when there is nothing around for milos and miles and no ono to intrude, and the stars twlnklo from tho bluo on tho sea of prairio. sho tolls hor partners, her father and brothors. what sho saw In tho visits mado to tho citios. They look upon her. as thoy well may. vlth pi ido and wonder. Sometimes, before tho season for shipping, sho loaves tho ranch and makes a trip to tho places whoro sho has been before, and makos her pales nhoad. but sho always delivers tho goods in person. Whether on tho ranch, or on tho corral, or on the road, or in tho ce n ters whero sho sells. Miss Wilkins is alvrays treated with all consideration. Tho roundors-up on tho broad plazas, whero tho trails aro tho only nvenuos, lift their hats to lor whon thoy meet her. Tho mon at tho station havo for her tho most profound respect Sho comes to tho city and, although nlone, she goes about her business, ' is not molested, is not questioned,' has no complaints to mako about dudes on tho corners, transacts her business and leaves. Thore is no. nonsense about her. says the Chicago Tribune. She told a reporter the other day that she had 'no.flosTro to M called aHTi CtiflM4 that sho had no ambition to fig'w fft a heroine. Sho said iho was just a plain, every-day woman horse-dealer. That she liked the business; that she mado money out of it and was satis fied to livo just as sho is living. Which is due notlco to any young man who may read this 6tory with ex pectations to drop the same. LOG ROLLING IN EARNEST. Some Difference Itetween (he Politic it Kind and the Itoitl Tliluj. An old farmer in Morgan county, Indiana, was busy in his clearing some years ago, writes a correspond ent of Tho Companion, rolling logs to gether, stacking brush, pulling stumps and the like, when two hunters emorged unexpoctodly from tho bushes. They "passod tho timo of day" with tho farmer, and tho younger of thom said to his companion: "Did you ever do any work of this 60rt judge?" "Yes, indood," answored tho second man. "Well," said tho first speaker, so did I. a good many years ago. Lot's try our hands at it now." "Agreed," said the judge, and the two men laid aside their guns, took off their coats and went to work upon tho logs with a will. At tho ond of an hour they had finished thoir stint and tho farmer offored to pay them. "Oh no, "the strangers said; "you aro welcomo to what wo havo dona" "Well, I don't know your names, gentlemen, nor whom I have to thank, but " "My namo Is Elliott." tha judgo broke In, "and my friend hero Is Sen ator Harrison." "You don't mean It!" exclaimed the farmer, and as tho United States sen ator and tho judge of tho supremo court started into tho woods, ho said to himself: "Well now, I'vo read a good deal in tho papers about these politicians a-log-rollin', but I'm blest If I thought they ever did it!" Youth's Com panion. A Jntl(lubln . A Now York man had just got off a train at a Wcstorn town when ho met a mob of fifty or moro citizens drag ging a poor wretch along to a troo with a ropo dangling from a conven ient limb. "What's tho row?" ho asked of a party on tho outskirts of tho gang. "I reckon it s goin to bo a hangln'. stranger," was the Indifferent reply. "Anyhow, it looks that way." "What's the chap done?" "Shot a show actor for singin' Comrades' beforo a housefull of our best socioty." "Great Scott! you wouldn't hang a man for that would you?" "( ourse not. stranger; but you seo ho didn't kill him." Detroit Freo 1 riiss. Tnkliiir the Hint. The llov. Mr. Choker (feeling his way) How sad is tho comdition of tho heathen! Tho black shadow of sin forever Mr. Binthayr I. Taurc (a sago) I know what you mean, parson, but I haven't a cout to spare. Puck. IScrtlia' AVUdosu. Bertha Grandma, is oor tecf good? Grandma No. darling; I'vo got none now,' unfortunately. Bertha 1 hen 1 11 givo oo my nuts to mind till 1 como back. Tho Pacific Methodist CURRENT GOSSIP. Tho emperor of China has bought him self a grammar and a first reader and is studying English. Mrs. Henry Villard fans presented to Howard university, in Washington, a bust of her father, William Lloyd Garrison. Sarah Bornhardt's last week in New York was in tho line of pood fellowship and netted 3,000 for the French Benevo lent society. Knto Field was at one time, it is said, a leader writer on tho London Times and U the only American who ovor achieved that sort of distinction. Andrew Lang, the English journalist, poet and essayist, i forty-seven years old, and tall, dark and thin. His hair has recently begun to turn gray. Mrs. Marshall (). Roberts is several years older than her new husband. Col. Vivian. Her wedding present to him was a policy on her owu life for 100,000. Bernhardt astonishol the people of Macon, Oa , by sponding 17.57 for a cablegram to relatives in Cairo, Egypt in forming them of tho state of her precious health. Congressman Hatch is said to have curod himsolf of a strong taste for liquor ten years ago by adopting Edmund Burke' i cure-all of hot water, lie drank quanti ties of it, and thinks he derived great ben efit from it. Tho son recently born to Prince. Fred erick Leopold is tho twenty-fifth living prince of the royal and imperial house ol Hoheuzollern. Thore is little danger that Prussia or Germany will ever bo in want of an heir. St. Petersburg papers say that Thomas A.' Edison intends to pay the capitals visit in tho near future. They add that ho will deliver a lecture at the coming electrical exhibition there upon his new est discoveries in oloctricity. It is said that tho translation of 'The Counloss Uriku's Apprenticeship," brought out last month, is tho last tlor of wnrL which will come from the pen of Mrs. I Annis Leo Wister, tho famous translator. Mrs. Wister will, hereafter, live a retired life, and entirely give up literary work. J Rev. Dr. Thompson, the negro whom J President Cleveland appointed to th ofllce of chargo d'affaires to San Domingo, found a negro barber in Philadelphia th j other day who refusod to shave him bo- cause the shop was run exclusively foi white men. The opening of some graves on the battlo-fleld of Calebee and the discovery of some other relics of that battle which "Old Hickory'' fought against the Creek Indians recalls the fact that the last sur vivor of the battle, Her. John Dennis,' died some years ago in Alabama, at the age of ninety-four. ABLE TO TRAVEL ALONE. Full Faro for the Uoy and D d t't Wank to Answer Question. now old is that boy. ma'am P" in quired tho conductor of a south side suburban railway train the other morn ing, so the Chicago Tribune says, halting in tho aisle and addressing a well-preserved and self-possessed ma tron in ono of tho seats. "I don't know that It makes any difference to you sir," sho answered. "I only wanted to know " "You don't have to food and clothe, him, do you?" r "Certainly not madam, but " "You ain't taking a government census of this car, aro you?" . Of course not ma'am, but I repkoa I'vo got a right to ask you how old. that boy is; I'm tho" "Yes, you'vo got tho right to ask it and I'vo got the right to answer you. 'Taln't any of your business how old he is." "Why, great Scott ma'am, I'm tho conductor of this " 'I don't caro If you'ro tho president of the road. What's that got to do with your wanting to know how old ho is?" "It's got this much to do with it: If he's over 0 years old ho'll havo to" Over 5 ycara old? IIo's over 9." "Then you'll havo to pay a faro for him." Who asked you to carry him freo?n .Why" "Do I look as if I was a person that would try to beat tho railroad out of seven cents?" "Certainly not ma'am, but " Then what have you been raising all this fuss about?" "I haven't boon " Tl leave it to the other passengers if you haven't You'vo been asking impudent questions and making insin uations, and acting as if you thought folks were all thieves." Everybody in tho car was looking at hor by this time, but sho kept right on: "And you waked up tho wrong pas senger this timo. I haven't anybody to travel with mo but this boy, but I can get along all right 1 don't need any assistance from any ono, and don't you forgot it Here's a ten-rido ticket. Punch out a rldo for me and ono for him, and if you seo us on your train again don't go to asking poople's ages and making remarks. That' s all!" "Yes, ma'am." gasped tho con ductor, meekly punching two rides out of tho ticket and passing on to the next car, utterly crushed. FISH CHARMED BY A SNAKE. Fuse nation of Denizens of a Pool for a WtUar Kjptlle., Approaching a pool as largo as a big dining-room wo found "millions in it" and tho fright that our moving bodies gave thom sent them scurrying in every direction with such energy that tho more contact of one with an other killed them by dozens. Then wo laid ourselves quietly down upon tho ground by the pool says tho Amer ican Angler, ono on each side, and re mained motionless for a few minutes, and wo wero rowarded by a sight en tirely new to us. Tho water was perfectly clear and not above two foet deep, tho day calm and bright and tho proceedings below tho surfaco easily observed. In tho deepost part of tho pool a school of llttlo fish was swimming around and around in a ring of about two feet in diameter, tho school boing about six inches wide and apparently two or threo layers deep. Around and around they went at tha least motion on our part broaking ranks, to resume their circus at ohco whon wo wero quiet again. Wo wero Interested, of course, and puzzled, and wo tried for half an hour or moro to learn tho cause of such unusual movements. Our talk, for wo did talk, did not disturb them, from which wo Inforrod that they could not hear us; our slightest movement 'did, from which wo inforrod they could seo us. Carofully crawling a little nearer, wo discovered tho center of tho mov ing circle was a largo water snako, coilod, quiet and watchful Ornitho logists havo told us. in unrollablo school books, that snakes can and often do, charm birda and somo havo, in tholr moro elaborate works, tried to substantiate that theory. I never bollovod it and I certainly never hoard of snakes charmic fish but what wero theso shad doing? Wero thoy charmed? If they wero afraid of his snako shlp, why didn't they swim away, as they did when wo stirred? Why, when our disturbance ceased, did they persistently return and tako up tholr coaseless round in so dangorour a neighborhood? Those aro conundr ns that I can't answer. A Paying I!ii!nes. "My dear, how soon can you get roady to move? "Move? Why, hubbj, aro you go ing away?" "Yes, dear. I soo tho papern say there is f GO. 000. 000 lying idle in tho Now York banks." "Well?" Well, I'm going to got somo jf it" Why. how?" You'ro not go 'ig to rob tho banks, I hope?" "No. I'm going to open a hotol in Canada," Texas Sittings. Then He IlerelrpM. "All the world's n stage, you k'ow," fla'i tho actor, who was havlt;; his hair trimmed. "Yes," repllod tho barbor, "al though I don't realize It except whet I have a bald-headod man in tho chair." "And why thon?" "Because I . hav,o to" act a part" Washihgton Star.. 'Mr'.. , .. An infant at birth usually weighs one. twentieth the maximum it oueht ta attain. in middls life. 'A;