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THE LEWISTON TELLER, i CARLA. FORESMAN, Editor and Prof. LEWISTON, IDAHO. Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in ro mance. Has not romance been penned with history in viewP There is nothing which this age from whatever standpoint we survey it needs more, physically, intellectu ally and morally, than thorough ven tilation. The contemporary mind may in rare cases be taken by storm, but pos terity never. The tribunal of the present is accessible to influence; that of the future is incorrupt. A love of good may be cultivated tc almost any extent where the original foundation of an unselfish nature ex ists. A passionate ideal of excellence can so fill the mind that no pleasure is felt in anything but in strong persist ent efforts to realize it It is regretted that many judges are not of the same sterling quality, to deny the ignorant and base the saci-od franchise of citizenship. The amend ment of the naturalization laws, to re quire the alien applicant to satisfy the court that he understands the consti tution and knows to what he makes oath, and tD make this obligatory on the part of the court, is the much needed, essential want in protection to citizens. It is comforting to know upon the authority of Sir Joseph Fayrer, the eminent English physician and scien tist, that preventative medicine has made great progress in this century and promises, if it cannot exterminate zymotic disease^ it can make the soli upon which its seed is sown so inhos pitable as to render It sterile. Roughly speaking, it has been ascertained that of all the mortality m civilized com munities within the temperate zone a quarter is caused by preventable dis ease Mr. Beechkr used to say that when one thinks enough of you to write a letter asking for your autograph and to enclose a stamp for reply the least you can do is to gratify him. That was well enough when there were per haps a hundred autograph collectors in the country. Mow it is different. Autograph-hunting "breaks out 1 ' in a school like measles. All the boys and girls are attacked with it all at once, but the health board never elosee the school on that account and so the in fection spreads without restraint Tax real result of a general muster ing out of the armies of Europe would be that some of them would cause an' additional production in agriculture, ' which would be the purchasing power of an additional consumption for the products of mine«, mills and textile factories; others would go into mining, and with Hie increased production of that industry purchase more of the producta of agriculture, mills and tex tile factories; and so on through the whole round of industries The result mush under normal conditions, be in creased production, with equally in creased consumption, in addition to the relief of the people from an immense load of taxation. Wb are foremost in inventive, con structive and mechanical industries. In the finer departments of design and decoration we are far behind the na tions in Europe that have manual com bined with literary instruction in their popular schools; and in the higher grade« of all our industries demand ing trained hands and knowledge of design we were in the beginning, and to a considerable degree still are; de pendent on European races for think ers and exécutante. Had manual training been a regular part of the common school instruction of the country the last fifty years the position of our arts and crafts would be far more advanced and native designers and skilled artisans would have taken and handed down to their children the high and profitable places so long held by foreigners. Wb have no sympathy with the cry from many critics of our charitable institutions that too much is done for the inmates, and that our almshouses are crowded because they offer tempt ing retreats for the vicious and lazy. If we must err in the conduct of our charitable and reformatory institutions —and while they represent so serious a problem to the best minds the world over it is likely we shall not get right at once—let us by all means err on the aide of generosity and humanitarian ism. None but a morbid sense will fear that we shall be imposed upon to any great extent The life of an in stitution at its best is necessarily hard and barren of these features, which make leu material comforts endurable end far more desirable, It is st 9 rn ne cessity rather than desire, we are con ▼Inoed. that sends the majority to our public houses of refuge. i WHERE ST. PAÜL STOOD AND HURLED THE CHRISTIAN TRUTHS AT THE CRECIANS. Talmagr Draw» a Oomparlaoa II. lwe.ii Aeropnlla Hills—Truiha of I lie Latlar Live, ■ hi Idolatries of the Evniirr Dead. Rrooki.y*. N. Y., Nov L2. — It teemed cs if morning would neier come. We had arrived after dark- in Athens, lireece, and the night was sleepless with expectation, and my wateb slow ly announced to me one and two and three and four o'clock; and at the first ray of dawn, I called our party to look out of the window upon that city to which l'aul said he was a debtor, and to which the whole earth is debtor for Greek architecture, Greek sculpture, Greek poetry, Greek eloquence, Greek prowess and Greek history. That morning in Athens we sauntered forth armed with most generous and lovely letters from the President of the United States, and his Secretary of State, and during all of our stay in that city those letters caused every door and every gate and every temple and every palace to swing open before us. We nass through where stood the Agora, the ancient market-place, the ! nu seroiiagii. j j 1 j ; , i I j : I i ; : j ; : : ^ J j : locality where philosophers used to meet their disciples, walking while 1 they talked, and where Paul the Chris- j Uan logician flung many a proud Stoic, ! rfhd got the laugh on many an imperti- j nent Epicurean. Hut before we make our chief visits of to day we must take ; turn at the Stadium. It is a little way out, but go we must. The Stadium was the place where the foot-races occurred. We come now to the Acropolis. It la a rock about two miles in circnmfer enca at the base and 1,000 feet in - cireOinference at the top, and 3U0 feet | high. On it has been crowded more nnl Ch ^ C ho tUre i nnd 8 \?' Dt " l ' e ! than in any other place under the ! whole heavens. Originally a fortress, i afterward a congregation of temples j and statues and pillars, their ruins an enchantment from which no observer ■ ever breaks away. No wonder that | Aristides thought it the center of all ; l he ce *? ter M °* the i Athen, th™tor°nf e A i r ° f i Athens, the center of Attica, and the Acropolis the center of Athens. ! Earthquake* have shaken it; Verres i plundered jt. I The Turks turned tlio building into a powder magazine where the Vene tian guns dropped a fire that by explo sion sent the columns flying in the air and falling cracked and splintered. But alter all that time and storm and war and iconoclasm have effected, the Acropolis is the monarch of all ruins, and before it bow the learning, the genius, the poetry, the art, the history ; of the ages I saw it as it was thou sands of yeara ago. Yonder behold the pedestal of Agrippa, twenty-seven feet high and twelve feet square. But tlio over shadowing wonder of all the hill is the Parthenon. In days when money was ten times more valuable than now, it cost #4,000,000. It is a Doric grand eur, having forty-seven columns, eacli column thirty-four feet high and six feet two inches in diameter. Wondrous intercolumniations! Fainted porticos. architraves tinged with ochre, shields ! of gold hung up, lines of most j delicate curve, figures of horses j and oxen and the women and gods, ! statucsof the deities Dionysius, Promo theus, Hermes, Demeter, üous. liera, ' " to sacrifice, . _______ , Poseidon; in one frieze twelve divini ties; centaurs in battle: weaponry from | Marathon: chariot of night; chariot of | the morning: horses of tlic sun. the | fates, the furies; statue of Jupiter hold ing in his right hand tiie thunderbolt 1 ailver-footcd chair in which Xerxes ! watched the battle of Salamis only a ! few miles away. Here is the colossal j statue of Minerva in full armor, eyes of ; gray-colored stone: figure of a Sphinx, ! on her head, griflins by her side (which ! are lions with eagle's beak), tpozr in j ono hand, statue of Liberty in tlic ! other, a shield carved with bat tie scenes, and even the Blinpeis #i an r ticd . . 0n "itb ! thongs of pom. I nr out at sea the sailors saw the slat..« Of Minor»-» -i..! statues mude out of shields conquered i in battle: statue of Apollo, the ex- j peller of locusts: statue of Anacreon, drunk and singing; statue of Olyrapp- i dorus, a Greek, memorable for | sailors saw the statue of Minerva ris ing high above all the temples, glitter- i ing in the sun. Here are statues of ! equestrians, statue of a lioness, and \ there are the Graces, and yonder a ! horse in bronze. There is a statue j said in the time of Augustus to have ; of its own accord turned around 1 from east to west and spit blood: the fnjt that lie was cheerful when others were cast down, a trait worthy of sculpture. But walk on and around the Acropolis, and yonder you see a statue of Hygcia. and the statue of Theseus flghtiug tlio Minotaur and the statue of Hercules »laying serpents. No wonder that Petronlua said that it was easier to find u god than a man in Athens. Oh, the Acropolis! The most of its temples and statues mndo from the marble quarries of Mount Pestelicum, a little way from the city. 1 have licre on ! .....e Parthenon I my table a block of the made out of this marble, and on it is the sculpture of Phidias. 1 brought it from the Acropolis. This speci men lias on it the dust of ages, and the marks of explosion and battle, but you can get from it some idea of the delicate lustre of the Acropolis when it was covered with a mountain of this marble cut into all the exquis ite shape* that genius could contrive and striped with silver, and aflame with gold. The Acropolis in the morn ing light of those ancients must have shown as though it were an aerolite cast off from the noonday sun. The temples must have lookeu like rctrified foatn. The whole Acropolis must have seemed like the white breakers of the great ocean of time. We next hasten down the Acropolis to ascend the Areopagus, or Mars Hill, as it is called. It took only about three minutes to walk the distance. and the two hill tope are so near that what 1 said in religious discourse on Mars Hill was heard distinctly by some English gentlemen , _ -------- on the i Acropolia This Mars Uill is a rough oil® of rock fifty feet high. It was I f* mous J®»* ^before New Testante at bly assaulted tlm Àcro^U.""omettais ini I top. Here assembled the court to criminals It was held in the S 5 K. U Ï£."'£V faces of the lawyers who made the plea, and so, instead of a trial being one of emotion, it must have been one of cool justice. Hut there was one oc casion on this hill memorable abave nil others. A little man, physically ' weak, and his rhortoric described b ! himself as contemptible, had bv 1. a j sel . mons rockcd Athens with comino j lion, and he was summoned either by 1 writ of law or hearty invitation to ' j come upon that pulp'.t of rock and give J ; a specimen of his tlieo ogy. All the wiseacres of Athens turned out and turned up to hear bun. 1 he more vener able of them sat in an amphitheatre.the granite seats of which are still visible, but the other people swarmed on all sides of the hilt and at the base of it to hear this man, whom some called a fanatic, and others called a mad ca 5' ., and . others a blasphemer, 1 and others styled contemptuously "this fellow." l'aul arrived in answer to the < writ or invitation and confronted them 1 ami pave them the biggest dose that mortais ever took. lie was so built that nothing could scaro him, and as for J Jupiter and Atbenia, the god and the goddess, whose imagines were in full sight on the adjoining hill, he had not so much regard for them as he had for the ant that was crawling in the sand under his feet. In that audience were the first orators of the world, and they had voices like Mutes when they were passive and like trumpets when they j were arouset, and I think they laughed in the sleeves of their gowns as £this insignificant-looking * man rose to speak. In that audience were Scholiasts, who knew everything, I or thought they did, and from the end of the longest hair on the top of their craniums to the end of the nail on the longest toe, they were stuffed with hypercriticism and they leaned back With a crnAvniltmia lnnlz t r% liefen A -a with a supercilious look to listen. As in 1889, I stood on that rock where Paul stood, and a slab of which I . brought from Athens bv consent of the Queen, through Mr. Tricoupis, the j prime minister, and had placed in yonder memorial wall, I read the wbole st fT£' bibl ? *" hand : . I As in Athens that evenm&r in 1889, I we climbed down the pile of slippery ! roclcs, where all this had occurred, on j our way back to our hotel, I stood half-way between the Acropolis and ; Mars Hill in the gathering shadows of | eventide, I seemed to hear those two bills in sublime and awful converse. | V* am , c . hiefl , y I of th ,°. P aEt '" #aid tb8 Acropolis. "Iam chiefly of the fu turc." replied Mars Hill. The ,-cro polis said: "My orators are dead. My law givers are dead. My poets are _______ m ____ ____ __________ ; again unsheath the sword, and judges dead. My architects are dead. My aculDtors are dgad. I am a monument of the dead past. I shall never again hear a song sung. I will never again see a column lifted. I will never again behold a goddess crowned." Mars Hill responded: "I, too, have had a history. I had on my heights warriors who will never who will never again utter a doom,and orators who will never again make a p'ea. But mv influence is to be more in the luture than it ever was in the past. The words that missionary, I'uul. uttered that exciting day in the hearing of the wisest men and the ! that day aiiiid the mocking crowd, j shall yet revolutionize the planet. Oh, j Acropolis! 1 have stood here long popula.e on mv rocky shoulders, have | only begun their majestic roll; the j brotherhood of man, and^the Christy of j God, and the peroration of resurrection and last judgment with w hich the Tarsian orator dosed, his sermon ! enough to witness that your gods are < no gods at all. Your Boreas could not control the winds. Your Neptune could not control the sea. Your Apollo never evoked a musical note. Your | g> d Ceres never grew a harvest. | Your goddess of wisdom, Minerva, | never knew tlio Greek alphabet Your Jupiter could not handle the light 1 niiigs. But the God whom I pro ! claimed on the day when Paul preached ! before the astonished assemblage on j my rough heights, is the God of music, ; the God of wis lorn, tlie Goa of power, ! the God of mcr.-y, the God of ! love, the God of storms, the God of j sunshine, the God of the land, and the 1 ! God of the sea, the God over all, | blessed forever." Then, the Acropolis spake and said, as though 'in self-de- j ! fense. -.My l'lato argued for the ini- | mortality of the soul, and my Socrates praised virtue, and my Miltiades at Maratlion drove back the Persian op- t p ressers." "Yes," said Mars Hifi, I ■•your Plato laboriously guess;d at the immortality of the soul, but my 1 Paul divinely inspired, declared I Your* %'ocratcs * prais. d 0,n virtue 1 but expired as a suicide. Your . i Miltiadc > was brave against eartnly j foes, yet died from a wound ignomin ously gotten in after defeat. Hut mv i Paul challenged all earth and all hell | with this battle shout: 'We wrestle not against flesh und bloou, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, agaln-t spiritual wicked ness in high places, and then on the 3* th of June, in the year il l, on the road to Ostia, after the sword of the headsman had given one keen stroke, took the crown of martyrdom."' i ! \ ! j ; 1 Heuaembered Her Papa. A five-year-old East Liberty maiden ! " , .**°, WaS ta ' ten to see tbe *airies car-, I nlvn became very communicative tc I j , ! a lady who sat next to her in the car i on the way home. ! T liked the fairies so much, saul the little girl. n | ' '1 10 ßl* 4 * F®« d * d> replied th« . lady : . . . T wish my papa oould have seen ■ I them. "You think he would have liked to see thorn?" "Yes, indeed!" "Why didn't you bring him?" ••O, I couldn't." "Didn't he want to come?" T don't know, but I don't thiak he could if he wanted ta" "Why? Is he sick?" "No, ma'am." replied the littls maid, in a lower and trembling tone. "You see papa went to heaven last winter."—Chronicle Telegraph. WMM mahogany. it is said to be a whole day's task for two men to fell a mahogany t*-ee On account of the spurs which project from the base of the trunk, a scaffold has to be erected and the tree cul sfl above the spurs, leaving thus a stump of the very best wood from teu to fii teen feet high. K INDS OF RAIN. ' On Mare Than One Occh»I PHENOMENAL SHOWERS IN PAST CENTURIES. Blood Have Been Bitnenned Have Bern Explained Sdentlflc-illv. ' J No phenomena of nature have ex cited more widespread consternation j n ancient, and even in comparatively raodern tiraes , than so-called rains o ,, , „ , , ... „ blood, stones, fishes and reptiles, says the Kansas City Journal. I he peoples of antiquity regarded such occurrences ; as dire warnings and portents, and at ' present day their occasional hap 1 pening gives rise to much wonder and 1 * . , ? < a *, al ® a ' , , 1 Nevertheless, science has been I to ascertain the causes which pro duce these remarkable precipitations. J which are accounted for by reasons ! entirely commonplace. In 167ti a ; •rain of blood" fell at The Hague. The citizens got up one morning and found that a shower of crimson fluid had fallen during the night. There was great excitement and the occurrence fas looked upon as fore j tolling approaching war. »One level headed physician got a little of the uv """" ..... „ '""y- "• 6tr " n S e [mmoneol the canals and examined it under a microscope. I He found that the fluid had not real ly a rod color, but was simply tilled with swarms of small crimson animal culea. Further investigation showed tnese animalcules to be a species of waleP flca with branching horns. Pie _ from a ..v» . r. , ^ . . , . & re , at distance by wind and deposited ™ l* 16 rain. j However, notwithstanding this e:< planation. the Hollanders persisted in regarding the affair from a supersti I tious poiut of view, and manv declared I 1 i * -a . . _ ! aft3r T an * lt , Wa ? an ome * 1 . f 1V1Ii ° j warnln £ desolation which was subsequently brought into the country ; with fire and sword by Louis XIV. | In March, 1813, the people of Goracê, in Calabria, saw a terrific | clould advancing from the sea, which gradually changed from a pale hue to * j , n]t7 a K„**s* - 4 . a fi cry red, entnely shutting off the e 8un * b»oon after the town was enveloped in darkness and the in habitants rushed to the cathedral, supposing that the end of the world was at hand. Meanwhile the fiery cloud covered the whole heavens and amid, terrific peuls of thunder, accompanied by vivid flashes of forked lightning, red rain fell in large drops, which were imag ined by the excited populace to be drops of blood or fire. The strange shower continued to fall until evening, when the clouds dispersed. Analysis made of the fluid showed that its coloring matter was of marked earthly taste. Probably | tbis dust was ejected by an active vol j cano, carried for a great distance by j wind, and precipitated with the rain. A colored deposit resembling brick powder took place in a valley of Pied mont on an October night in the fol lowing year. The powder covered the trees and grass, and the next day < fin® rain fell, which on being evape rated carried away the less colored particles. The rema.nder, accumulating in the cavities of the leaves, produced the j startling appearance of blood spots and created the utmost alarm among the peasantry. It was decided that the deposit, which had an earthly flavor, was of volcanic origin. An analysis of some colored rain that fell in the Netherlands in 1819 showed that the red matter was chiefly chloride of cobalt. Doubtless the alleged rains of 1 blood, which were always looked upon | by the ancients as such fatal portents, were to be similarly accounted for. j On November 9 1819 the citv of | Montreal was suddenly enveloped in dapkl es , in d rain as hWk »a ink and tain as black as ink be t ^ an j , *- 0,ne Ihe liquid, ool I leeted and forwarded to New York city f° r analysis, was discovered to owe its 1 inky hue entirely to soot. I The explanation of it was that there 1 immense '° ,est . ® res of ibe Ohio river, the sea being remarkably dry. and the Ætmü sooty partieles from the conflagration had been conveyed by strong winds northward, so as to mingle with the rain when it fell. A shower of a character even more remarkable occurred in Sicily on April 24, 1781. On the morning of that day every exposed place within an ex tensive distance was found covered with gray water, which, being evap orated, left a deposit nearly a quarter of an inch in thickness. It was determined that this solid mutter must have come from Mount It is certain that vast quanti ties of solid substances are constantly afloat in the atmosphere. ____________atmosphere. i The sunsets all over the world are ! redder to tbis day on account of the dus t from the mighty eruption of the | Straits of Suoda, years ago, which has . no t yet entirely settled. Not only mineral substances, but ■ large quantities of vegetable material I likewise are always floating in the air. Astronomers have frequently mistaken such organic bodies for meteorites as they passed across the field of the telescope. They were finally discov ered to be the feathered seeds of plants carried by the breeze. Having been the first to find this out, W. R. Dawes of the Royal Astronomi cal society adjusted the focus of his nstrument so as to examine the seeds, ■which he found belonged to manv dif ferent kinds of plants, such as"this tles, dandelions and willows. Old Gold mines. An English syndicate recently sent an expert mining engineer to look up the old gold mines in Portugal. He etruok one of the old Roman mines worked in the days of C:e»ar Augustus. In those days they cut down to the vein, and this vein was ÔO0 feet deep before pay rock was reached. The mine was open for an area of ten acres or more up to the surface every foot of ground having been taken off. The debris around these old mines could be worked over at a profit were they in America, but in Portugal it would cost too much for the transportation of machinery. DEAD TO THE WORLD. Tlie Bur Foiin t to d* 1 of Ef I'ultccl S !> T». •I daresay that not one person in a hundred who read Robert. Louis .Stevenson's descriptions of the horrors ot leprosy in the booth Pacific islands is aware that there is a leprosy colony in the United Mates." said F. W. Me Nnmara. of St. l'aul. who was at the Palmer House, to a reporter for the Inter-Ocean. Mr. McNamara was for merly on the staff of the Cook County Hospital in this city. • Even in New Orleans." he contin ued, - it is not generally known that about 100 miles southwest of the city, in the Plaquemine'distriet of St. Mary s Parish, there is a colony of lepers. I have just returned from a visit to the colony, where I made a thorough study of leprosy from a scientific standpoint. The colony was established many years ago, and twenty-seven victims of the terrible disease are there now. Of these only two are females. Twen ty-five of the lepers aro French-Arca dians and the remaining two are ne groes. They are as completely iso lated from the world as though they were in the midst of the desert of Sa hara. They live in rude huts on a lit tle bay of the Gulf of Mexico. Their only food is the fish they catch and the v. ild berries which they can gather in certain seasons. The colony is twelve miles from any human habitation, the nearest house being that of a sugar planter named John Diamond, and the spot whereon the lepers' huts are built is a barren waste. • The wretchedness of their con dition is appalling. Their clothing is rotten with ago. and some of the men covered their nakedness with fish nets. It would require the peneil of a Dore to portray the horrible aspect which the disease has given its vic tims. I saw three men with their faces half eaten up and their eyes gone. The flesh on the face of one of the negroes was sloughed away until his jawbone and teeth were exposed. Others had been deprived of parts o f their feet and hands. "As a result of my study of the dis ease I am positive that it is not con tagious. The forms of the disease were tubercular and anislhetic. On some of the men and one of the wo men there were warty execreseuees as large as a cauliflower head. ■ The lepers are far from ignorant Their conversation among themselves is carried on in a mixture of French and English. All of them are patiently awaiting death. Near the spot where their huts are built is the colony's burying ground, in which there are now over 75 graves. When one of the lepers dies the body ij hastily thrust into the earth, without any ceremony whatever. • The ages of the lepers range from 40 to 70, one of the men being three score and ten. The French-Arcadian members of the colony came origin ally from Nova Scotia, where leprosy was prevalent as far back as 100 years ago, and where there is a leper colony at the present time." Vest 300 Yean Old. G. Kowley Ford, the well known en gineer, has in his possession a vest which belonged to his nnc.stors Jn England, in King George's time, some 200 years ago. It has twenty buttons on it, made of pearl, inlaid with gold; it has len pockets, richly embroidered with silver lace. While on a vacation to the old homestead in the suburbs of Byfield be discovered this ancient vest in an unused a tic. It is changeable in its color, haivng at night the ap pearance of a night -blooming eereus. —Newburyport Standard. Proof Positive. The teacher wanted to box my ears this morning,'' remarked Johnny Fiz zletop. • How do you know that he wanted to box your ears?" asked his mother. "If he hadn't wanted to box my ears he wouldn't have done it, would he, eh?"—Texas Siftings. OLD WORLD NOTES. Fere Hjacintöe. it is said, has tiecome a Theosophist, and will deliver lectures on his new faith. The king of Siam is attended by a body guard composed exclusively of 4,000 of the prettiest young womeu in bis realm. Phosphorous is now being made by elec tricity. The principal manufactory is in Eng. and where it is anticipated fully 1,000 tons will be made annually. There are more women workers in the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ire land, in proportion to the population, than in any other country in the world. Twelve per cent of the working classes there are women. Patti has very elaborate precautions against burglars in her Welch castle. Unless a certain lever is raised it is im possible to open a window at night with out causing the ringing of innumerable bells in the cottages of the gardeners and in the stables, white the same current of electricity releases a large dog from his kennel. A good deni of the bad filling which exists in Paris with regard to the English is due to the utter disregard for French manners and customs and prejudices which the free bom Briton displays on the boulevards and elsewhere. You can nev. r persuade an Englishman when he is abroad it is not ths native but. himself who is "the d— d foreigner."—Pall Mall Budget. The last Indian census shows that in the past ten years the natural growth of Indie's population has been 27,500,000. The population now numbers 280.000,003. India contains more people than all Europe exclusive of Russia. Its provinces are aa populous as great European states. Bengal contains a population larger than that of the United Btatos and all British North America, sud fully one f.Lh ■of the entire human race lives upon this little peninsula jutting out from the coast of Asia into the Indian ocean. CÀBRIED OFF BY BRC IX JOHN PETERSON FINDS A on. IN HIS ROOM. EA * :• A*'««ked by the Beast and o. , Off Through the Woode n, " 4 Screams Bring a N ei(tV * ber to ah Keseae. A rancher named Johnson !he southern part of Pierce fils of a most thrilling encounÄ a neighbor of his with a bie w. V bear, says the Tacoma News Th ; the story seems incredible J 0 h„ declared it to be true in ever» ? cular, and, at the r. quest of a r wno met him, gave the furls in S J hey are these: 1 • The man whom bruin attacked t John Peterson, who lives on a 8ma n ranch about twenty milts south o' T coma. Peterson lives in a small lot cabin, and one evening last week Us the door partially open when he to bed. to allow a better circulation o air through the cabin. For supper he i ncl enjoyed a beef-stew, and when the meal was over had placed the kettle containing the remainder on a board jt st outside the door. Peterson live, alone, his nearest neighbor beiai? Johnson, who occupies a cabin half « mils awav Peterson retired to his usual peace ful slumbers, intending to get up earlv in the morning and go fishing in the creek near by before beginning hit day's labor. But ho was aroused much earlier than he had expee'ed. A heavy tread on the floor awakened him. As he rubbed his t yes he felt tho hot breath of some large animal blowing directly against his fare The room was slightly lighted by the open door. Peterson rubbed his eye* and gazed upward. The next s ound he screamed from fright. The i n . trudor was a bear. llis screami brought on an attack. Bruin seized the prostrate man and bore him out the door and down the trail towards his lair. His teeth pierced the poor man's skin. The pain was intense. As the bear t rotte (j slowly along with his prize just one faint hope arose in poor Peterson's mind. If tho hear continued in the same course for half a mile he would pass near to Johnson s house. The bear did so. By this time the ranchor wbh neu-ly exhausted, but summoning Ms fast, failing courage he raised his voice to a shout as bruin made a turn in the path and came near his friend's ovbin. The shout was repeated again and again. Peterson's heart began to fail him. Would there be no response? But at last there was As tlio b ar left tho trail and struck off tiwi rd th; thicker woods the cabin door slamm-'d shut and Peterson's hopes began 'o rise. Then followed a race Peterson kept shouting, Johnson answering at inter vals and hurrying along as fast as he could. Bruin got tired and occasion ally dropped his victim. Thisallowed Johnson to catch up, but e ery time the bear dropped him he was sure te plant his teeth in another pari o: Pe terson's body. For two miles the race continued, and then the coining light began to turn the darkness of night Into the gray dawn of morning. John son finally caught up. Tlio »ear •dropped his prey and prepared to fight A shot from Johnson's rifle sent him i rod away, howling with pain and rage. He advanced, but a second bullet hit him in a vital part and silenced him forever. Johnson bound up Petersons wounds as best he could, and conveyed him in a fainting condition to his own room. He suffered greatly from loss of blood, and is still so weak as to require a constant watcher At his side. The next day a pfiysician was secured to attend to his wants, and with careful nursing it is believed he will recover. The bear was skinned, ami proved to be the largest one ever seen in !l5at neighborhood. It was estimated to weigh over 500 pounds. Bruin, it was found, had finished Peterson's slew and was probably attracted to his cabin by the odor from the kettle containing it Rise of the Lulled Stale» Softer. Statistics gathered by ike United States government in the latter ptrt of 1890 show that the enlisted soldiers of the United States army vary in heighth from a minimum of 4 foot in inches to a maximum ol 0 feet '! inches The giant of the army " serving in the department ol Arizona and the dwarf in the department o the Missouri. In weight the range 1» even greater than it is in height minimum being 97 pounds and t 6 maximum 280; the average through out the army being 158J, and the av erage height 5 leet 7 inches, d youngest soldier enlisted is 1 <> ' age: the oldest 66, the average be- n » about 80 years. ., During the war with Mexico oral Taylor's command boasted a - dier of 7 feet 1$ inches in height ■> one of 74 years of age.—St, Foui* public. The Other End. He was a little fellow, evidently in from the country, and was stro down West street with a pitc 1 carelessly thrown over ids »h® and with an air that seemed t ■ -Who caresP" When near High si a big bull-dog came running 011 yard, and. without any prelim 1 " began sampling the anatom', young farmer, who, wilhou ^ ment s hesitation, impaled the, ^ the pitchfork. The act was w* __ by the owner of the dog who cun' 1 • • >Wbi' running out, white with ra£ e u af *|. did you kUl that dog for? "'Cause he bit me," was W "Well. it doesn't help matter 8 »! to kill the dog." ..... buS •Nop." admitted the ooy, satisfies me." —Texas Sif wß 8.