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see - "t -s -iiisjr.?sv3rv25?-!Kr&s1r5-? &j,siesmewsTT!'r ggp tot- 2wv r"T' '- vrw 3'- 'rii -r 'j VHsP s. jST --? -. .- reoi "? Tgfi "i v3 3r & g x. i r hsSL- r&i :" v fe? i-t Fv N. rS &Jz W. s fe i 1 - --- A LECTUBE ON WIDOWS. POLICEMAN CONTR WELLER'S FAMOUS VERTS MR, REMARK. He JSays That Many Grea Men Have Married Women "Who Ha Iost Theii Haseands and Have lived Happily A Qaestlon That Buffled the Sergeant. It was five minutes past 1 on Sunday morning in the Thirtieth street station house. Cantain Reilly was fast asleep in hiaxoom restoring in sweet slumber the wear and tear of the Arion festival, and Sewreant Oliver Tims, the scholar, leaned K j., 'back in his chair behind the desk, put the RS. T i -m lr- Amiv 4-sn&f lioi anrl nacf. Thia V taps OI JA13 nuncio wjj.ui - v. - 5,4 eyes up to the ceiling after the manner of the stained glass saints in church windows, tx and began to ponder. $ The interesting thing about the situa tion was that the hour of l-Qj a. m. on bun day is the time that the police of Captain Beilly's command all concede is properly devoted to pondering by all true philoso phers, and so, by common consent, nobody interferes witn Sergeant Tims -when he leans back in his chair at this particulai hour every Sunday and gives himself up to thought. When the sergeant had looked at tha ceiling for ten minutes a young man with an elongated brown overcoat and an En glish setter trotting at his heels opened tha door of the station and gave the police philosopher a wished for opportunity ta make public the substance of his peaceful and enlightened reflections. The ruddy cheeked sergeant fairly beamsd with smiles, and he fired off the thoughts instantly in the following surprising fashion: THE DISSERTATION. "The pages of history glow with eulogies of widows, my boy. Have you ever re flected uppn the instructive fact that some of the most famous men of the world have married widows? There was King Charles XII and Frederick the Great and Admiral Nelson, and the First JJapoJeon and Georga Washington and Lord Beaconsfield and ever so manymore noted for their genius -and for those attributes that fit men to be leaders of their fellow men." The sergeant stopped to take breath, and the setter sat on her haunches and gazed at him with a sort of fascination and tried to get through the railing to shako hands with him. "Then you don't agree with the late Mr. Weller?" ventured the young man with the elongated brown overcoat. "What! the man who said, 'Samivel, be vare of the vidders!' " exclaimed the ser geant, with disapprobation. "No, my boy, I do not agree with Mr. Weller. He was wrong, all wrong." "To what do you attribute the choice oi the great men you have named?" asked the young man. "There were plenty oi maidens around in those days as now." "I ascribed the selection of widows by these brilliant men to their superior intel ligence. They were men of rare good judg ment, and they reasoned that the women whom they chose understood men and were already trained in the management of homes. They were men, you see, who did not care to run any risks of the matri monial lottery, which I may be permitted to describe simply as marriage with women Who have never been married before. A HARD QUESTION SOLVED. "The widows whom Nelson and Napo leon and Washington and the other great men married had already earned an hon orable fame as excellent wives, and there could therefore be no chance of disappoint ment in wedding them. And you will ob eerve, if you examine the pages of history, that.tkey made most admirable wives to their second husbands, just as they were devoted and 'useful to their first. As the pursuit of happiness is one of the chief ends of Iman, according to the Declaration of Independence and common sense, and as $ a well considered marriage is a sure road to happiness, therefore it follows, don't you see, my boy, that to marry a widow who has proved her ability to make a good wife is the best policy to pursue in the pursuit of happiness and will quickest yield the result sought for." The police orator rubbed his hands to gether, aud the setter gave a delightful bark. "Very good, and very elegantly put,'" said the young man in the elongated overcoat. "But," and ho leaned over the railing, and his voice grew solemn, "if all the men who believe in marriage as an in stitution are to marry widows, Mr. Tims, what is to become of the maidens? You Burely wouldn't deprive them of a show." The studious sergeant sat bolt upright with a start. He scratched bis head and looked up at the ceiling. He bad struck a Buag in the suggestion of the young man with the setter. "True, very true," ho muttered. "Let me see, now. What could we do with the maidens?" Then his face brightened again. "I have it. Let them marry and become widows, of course, and theu they vill be in the field all right," He leaned back in the chair once more with that air of satisfac tion that marks the man who has tri umphed over an obstacle. A 2TEW QUESTION. Just then the station door opened and two weeping women came in and walked up to the railing. They were both dressed in black. "Well, ladies, what's tho matter? What can I do for you?" the sergeant asked in a kindly tone. A very curious look came into his face when one of tho women, be tween her sobs, told her story. Boiled down to facts it was this: "A year ago I married a man who had lost his wife the year before. I was a wid ow. He has turned out to Ue a very wick ed man. He beats me and has just driven me out of the house, and I want him ar rested." The sergeant directed the woman to g to Jefferson market and get a warrant fox the arrest of the perfidious widower, and wheeled around with his back to the rail ing and stared hard at the wall. "Sergeant," ventured tha young man sfv$ with the overcoat, after a Iodr and painful silence, mis moment reminus mo inai you haven't told what rule in to be applied by women who think of taking husbands Is the Weller injunction to be changed tc Samivel, bevare of the vSddervers,' or Is" "Young man," exclaimed the sergeant sternly, wheeling around ami cutting the interrogations abruptly short, "this sym posium is ended. Sufficient unto the night is one proposition for philosophic rumination. I'm going to bo very busy hJ tow. uood morning. .New lorksun. Some of the ancient superstitions are very pleasing and in the highest degree poetic. There is a superstitious belief prevalent in the east that eclipses of tho moon are caused by a demos who, out of the malice of his nature, affikts the queen of tho stars. And on these occasions the inhabitants leave their dwellings, and by pouncing upon pans aud pots, and shout ing ;ad discharging firearms, endeavor to frighten the monster away from his work 7 Waen Baby tras sicfc, -we gave her Castorla, yfim. aha was a Child, sho cned 'or Castoria, Whea she oocams Miss, she clung to Castcna, y-aeaaha had Caflares. she caTO them Castoria, fSh& houses given below are representative ones in their line, and thoroughly reliable. They are furnished thus for ready refer ence for the South generally, as well as for city and suburban buyers. Dealers and inquirers should correspond direct with names given. - v - " GLOBE x IRON -. WORKS,, MANUFACTURERS OF Bteam Engines, Boilers and Pumps, and Dealers in Brass Goods, Rubber and Hemp Packing, Steam Fittings, Etc. Bepainng of iQLluuds of Ma chinery a Specialty. Orders promptly filled for all Tiinds of Sheet Iron Work. AH kinds of castings made. A. FLAGQ, Proprietor. Wichita, Kansas. 'ROSS: BROTHERS, Wholesale and BetaU Dealers In HELD GARDEN AD FLOWER SEED. Orders by mall ca efully aud promptly filled. 819 East Douglas Are. Wichita, Kan Tlie Stewart Iron Works, SIANOTACTUKEKS OP IRON FENCING, Architectural, "Wrought and Cast Iron Work for Buildings. Factory: South Washington Avenue Wichita, Kansas. TO ART DEALERS AND ARTISTS. ArtlBt's Materials, Pictures. Mouldings and Frames Wholesale and reUiL Catalosue free. JTAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDKD. F. P. MARTIS, 114 Market Si l.tf UKLEPHONE 233. THOMAS SHAW WHOLESALE DBALEIU: Pianos and Organs Eheet rouBic and looks. AH kinds ot mnlca noods. Braps band and orchestra music. 128 Main btreet. Wichita. Kansas. THE CRYSTAL ICE COMPANY Now ready to supply all -wishing their Pure Distill, ed "Water ice. at usual piices. Office and factory Cor. Oaatre and Pearl street. Vest Side. Order Hooks at W. W. Pearca iDb East Douglas Arc. aud Occidental Hotel Cor. Second And Main. Eelephone NC.2U. J.A.SOHN dllltf ' iaecr o L. M. Manufacturing 215 and 217 South Main St, THE C. E. POTTS DRUG CO. (Formerly Charles E. Potts & Co., Cincinnati, O.) WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. Goods Sold at St. Louis and Kansas City Prices. 233 and 235 Soutli Main Street, - - - - Wicliita, Kansas. -LEWIS B. Wliolesale Cigars, 3JOAKD OP TF.ADE BUILDING, WICHITA, KANSAS. THE WICHITA OVERALL AKD SHEET MAMJIACTUMSG CO. JiANUFACTOKEHS AND JOBBEKS OP Overalls, Jeans, Cassimerc aud Cottonade Pants? Duct Lined Coats and Vests: Paucy Plannel and Cotton Overshirts; Canton Plannel Undershirts, Drawers, Etc. Factory and Salcsiooiu 139 K.Topeka, AMchita. Correspondence Solicited Luxury of tho Bonapartes Criticised. The luxury of the courts founded by Na jnleon,it is opportune to observe here, was absurd. The luxury of the Bonapartes was neither German nor French. It was a medley a kind of learned luxury. There was a touch of gravitj' in it, as in that of Austria. There was something half Eu ropean, half Asiatic, borrowed from St. Petersburg. There were a few imperial mantles taken from the old Rome of tho Caesars. But, on the other hand, there was very little visible of that ancient court of France where the art of good taste veiled the gorgeousness of personal adornment. What this kind of luxury displayed was an utter lack of propriety, and in France whenever les convenances are lacking nd icule is not far off. This Bonaparte family, coming from a lonely isle which was barely French, aud where it lived in mean circumstances, having for its chief a man of genius whose Elevation was due to military laurels won at the head of republican armies, which armies were themselves the outcome of a democracy in a tate of ferment should not this family have discarded the old lux ury anil adopted a new method even in re lation to the lighter side of life? Would not a noble simplicity have made it more imposing and inspired confidence in its pow er and its durability? Instead of this, the Bonapartes so far deluded themselves as to believe that a childish imitation of tho kings whose thrones they had taken was one way of succeeding them. Talleyrand's Memoirs in Century. How People Disguise Themselves. Most of us hide behind disguises. Some do it innocently, from shyness. They shrink from standing in naked per sonality before the world. So they cloak tberuseh-es in mannerisms. Usually there are lonely souls which brood over them selves. Thus in isolated farmhouses, whither the poets send ns for the simplici ties of nature, one is likely to find mora affectations and tricks of manner than in our city dwellings. Tho affectation of a quality, of an ac complishment, is a covert roguery. The overt rogue picks your pocket in his game of hide-and-seek with society. But the man who would win your esteem, admira tion, affection, confidence, by appearing to be what he is not, is a rogue so subtle that he often ends in deceiving himself. There s the sweet infantile creature who simpers and writhes, and drops her chin to look up from under her lashes, and uses all manner xjf guile to show you how guileless she is. There is the strong minded woman who talks in chest tones, is always posi tive, and holds advanced opinions on all points borrowed opinions, since the strength of her mind is not. in the direction of originating any. There are the ignorant people who affect culture. This sort of dishonesty gulls only the dullard. Such affectations are open adver tisements of poverty, since no one affects what he possesses. Harper's Bazar. He 'Tired" tbe Reporter. J Mr. Hesing, editor of The Staats-Zeitung, of Chicago, had an experience with a new I reporter not long ago that, almost caused, a I t of asclcry. One night tetip ire WkoloBiil FLOUR DEPOT, C. Eiienmarer, Sr., MipinB and Elevator Co,, oi Halstead. Kan., carry a full line of hard and sof: wheat flour at their agency In thl3 city. prices and samples. Send for SWAB & GLOSSER, TAILORS And Jobbers of Woolens and Tail ors Trimmings. 143 aV Main Street, - Wichita. WICHITA BOTTLING WORKS, 01 TO ZIMMERMANN. Prop. Bottlers of Ginger Ale. Chainpngne Cider, Sada Water, StandardKerre Food, also General Western Agents for Wm. J.Lemp's Extra Pale. Cor. First and Waco Sts., - "Wichita. HETTINGER BROS. 216 E DOUGLAS AVE. Physicians : Supplies. nd Surgical Instruments, Ecnd for our Illustra Catalogtie, COX,- -. Confectioner Wichita, Kansas. SOLOMON- Just across the street from the office, and Mr. Hesing called on Schmidt, the new man, to "go over and take a look at it." Mr. Hesing and Schmidt stood on the office steps for a short time, and then the former left for his home. The blaze was a serious one, and all the morning papers but one gave the item from one-third to one-half column. The exception was The Staats ZeitungJS Mr. Hesing always talks English when he is angry, so when he called for "Dot fel low Schmidt" we all knew things for the new reporter were not going to be so pleas ant as might be. Schmidt appeared before his chief. "Vy didn't you write up dot fire?" asked Mr. Hesing. "Vy, you saw do whole blazes yourself. Vat vas der use of writing it? If j-ou hadn't seen dot fire I vould have written somedmgs." Mr. Hesing was hot. "1 tell you vot you do, Schu-idt," yelled the editor. "Ven any body asks you vas you working mit der Staats Zeitung, you yust tells dem no." Interview in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Chameleons as Pets. A Fulton street dealer in birds and ani mals does quite a trade in chameleons. These quaint little creatures are affected as pets by people both in and out of tho 400. Tho cost of a chameleon is from two to five dollars, according to the season of tho year. They are brought from Mexico, and tho location from which they are taken is kept a strict secret. The cha meleon apparently feeds on air, as they are known to exist for months without taking food or water. The tame ones, however, will eagerly take a fly or small insect from the hand of their owners. Those people who affect chameleons us pets keep the little creatures in a box, the bottom of which is divided into differently colored squares. When the chameleon moves from one portion of the box to the other he changes his color in conformity with the squares on which he is resting. Hence as a show pet ho is interesting and valuable. New York News. ..Little Known of Oar Arctic Province. For many years public interest has cen tered around the most remote of our pos sessions, and many are the tales related of the wonders of Alaskan scenery. Examin ing all the data extant today very little is found outside the beaten tracks that is, those portions where the tourist steamers yearly go. If you look in an ordinary gazetteer the result of your search will be that Alaska covers about 5S0,0CO square miles, is rich in minerals and fur bearing animals, has large fishing interests, im mense snowy peaks and huge glaciers. The charts show its coast line in a general way, but the interior is almost a blank.- iL B. Kerr in Scribner's. Or Course. "And you recommend and say that this oleomargarine is as good as or bet ter than the natural butter?" 'Why, certainly,'"- replies the butte vender. "The man who made it says it is, and surely your ladyship would rather take the word of an intelligen.; manu facturer than that of a senseless, unrea soainff cowP Fliegende Blatter. e A Mannfactrtig Houses. Cigar Headquarters w. T. WICHITA, Send Us a Trial Order WHOLESALE BOOTS AND SHOES. THE GETTO-McCLUlsrGr BOOT AND SHOE CO., 135 and 137 N Market Street, Wichita, Kansas. Are now m receipt of large consignments of Goods for the Spring Trade, to which they invite the attention of merchants. Orders by mail carefully filled. Send for price lists THE JOHNSTON & LARIMER DRY GOODS CO., WHOLESALE Dry : Goods, : Notions : and : Fiunisliing : Goods. Complete Stocfc in all the Departments. 119, 121 & 123 N Topeka Ave. Wichita, 'Kansas. -CORNER '. & EOTAL SPICE MILLS, Jobhers and Manufacturers, Teas Coffees, Spices, Extracts, Bakms Powders, Bluing, Cigars, Etc. 112 and 114 S Emporia Are. BURR FURNITURE CO., Wholesale and TCetaM FURNITURE 125 East Douglas Ave. CITY MAP. A hanflsomo lithograph map of thia cttjr. contain. ngJhe names cl all the streets, parks, colleges and public baUdlaBB. hotels, etc A complete taap, twelve hy fifteen laches, on linen paper, can t ha3 itthlsomctforlOcffiUMoh. B. VAIL & CO., WHOLESALE WATCHES, JEWELRY, CLOCKS AND SILVEBWEAR. 106 E Douglas Ave., - Wichita. Arkansas Valley Fence Company Manufacturers of Steel Wire and Picket Fence. Dealers in Hardware, Lumberj Imple ments or General "3Idse. Write for airency and prices, loa v lcnua &i., "Wichita, Kas. 8 WICHITA WHOLESALE GROCERY CO., Wholesale Grocers, OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE 213 I Keep everything in the grocery Une, Sole agents for tbe state for ''Grand the "Royalty" and "Lalnnoceucia" brands. LEHMANN-HIGGINSON GROCER CO., "Wlaolesale Grocers. 203 AND 205 N. WATER STREET. Are now ready for business. Keep a Full Line of Staple and Fancy Groceries Wood en ware and Notions. Imagination in Sickness. "The power of imagination," said an up town druggist, "is past comprehension. Not long since a domestic in the employ of a prominent family came into the store in great haste with a prescription which called for two grains of morphine in two ounces of aqua pura that is, distilled water, the accompanying direction reading, 'A tea- spoonful every hour until the pain is al- layedV The patient for whom it was in- ,l tended was the head of the family, who was suffering from a severe attack of nerv ous neuralgia. "Now, it so happened that the family physician who had written the prescrip tion was behind the counter when the messenger arrived, having dropped in, as was his wont, on the way to his office. While I was putting up the prescription we chatted ,and laughed and joked, and passed the time of day as only professional men are capable of doing. I filled the bot tle, corked it carefully, and labeled it prop srly, and when the retreating form of the domestic had disappeared out of the store door, returned to my companionable physi cian visitor. As I did so I Eaw to my amazement the two grains of morphine reposing upon the prescription armies. " 'Doctor,' I ejaculated, 'I've given that girl nothing but distilled water. The morpliine is here; look at it. What shall I do?' "'Do?' he replied, with admirable sang froid, 'do? Why nothing atalL I'll wager pou that the aqua pura will work as well without the opiate as with it.' " 'Agreed,' said L And do you know," concluded the pharmacist, "the doctor was right, and the patient with the nervous neuralgia an exceptionally intelligent and college bred man was sleeping as peace fully as a babe after the second dose of the mixture.' Faith is everything where medicine is concerned," New York Times. The Strasbmrg Clock. The present clock in the Cathedral of Strasburg was built in 1533 by a German clockraaker and machinist named Schwil gue. It, however, replaced a similar clock which was built in 1571, and which in turn took the place of an earlier clock that, ac cording to local records, was constructed in the Thirteenth century by an unknown clockmaker. Many pieces of the two former clocks enter into the mechanism, of that which is now regarded as the pride of the city, and it is belFeved that tie main feat ures of ail three were identical. Theremark able points of this great timepiece are its calendars and its display of automata, The quarter hours at all times o tha day and night are struck by an angel with a ham mer, while by the angel's side an allegori cal figure turns an hour glsas as the bell ia struck. A skeleton, surrounded by figures repre senting childhood, youth, manhood and old age, tolls the hours, while Tarious de ities, symbolical of the day of the -week, show themselves as each hour. At noon the twelve Apostles pass in review before the Savior, who, with outspread hasds, gives his benediction; a cock, crows, Satan appears and claims Judas, and other auto mata go through various movaneats more or less replete with laMBng Tbe calen dars are as wonderful a the saechaakm, ai&cc by them ar .ndjoam. not ssJj Utt Cor. Main and First Streets. ISHOP & SONS, KANSAS. or Call and See Us. FARNUM.- SPRAT YEAST. A new process dry compresaedyeast cafce. Quick, strong and sweet. Al ways in the house ready for use, and will Iceep a year. Price 5c a packag Factory cor. Kellogg & Mosley Ato J. A. BISHOP, Wholesale and KetaU WALL PAPER Paints, Oils and Glass. 150 N Market St., Wichita, Kan CHAS. LAWRENCE, DKALEIi IN 102 JE Douglas Avenue. Wichita, Kan. Telephone Connection BUTLER & GKRALEY Wholesale Dealers in PIECED :&:PEESSED TINWARE. Joh Work of all kinds promptly attended to, 213 South Main, Wichita, Kan, CHICAGO ZUMBER CO. WHOLESAI& .AND RETAIL LUMBEE DEALEES! Corner First Street and Lawrence Avenue. Chicago Yards. 35th and Iron streets. Chicago. A. hmlth. fialeman. Geo. L. Pratt, and Ue W; Cross. Kesldent Partners. TO 223 SOUTH MARKET STREET. show cases, Hepuhlic" cif show cases, Scales and grocers flxturep. igars, also soie proprietors oi d5 minute and the hour, but the day of the week, of the month, of the iteason, of tha year and the time of the moon. The most wonderful thing is the fact that the clock is said to be self regulating for an unlim ited number of yeare in tho iutnre. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Wild Tdea. Said a prominent patent attorney: ld nd bushy bearded man entered my office the other day and gravely pro posed that I should present to the patent office at Washington his scheme for firing a cannon ball to the moon. His idea, briefly put, was that a cannon ball might be constructed big enough and loaded with a sufficiently heavy charge of a high ex plosive to fire the ball outside of the at traction of gravitation on the earth, and once beyond tho earth's atmosphere he ar gued that it would be attracted to the moon and eventually find lodgment there. "I settled him by going to my library and taking out a magazine more than twenty years old In which the late Pro fessor Ingraham had set forth a precisely Bimilar fancy, with the exception that in Ingraham's case it was purely a scientific skit, while my wonld-be client imagined that he had got hold of a new idea. Bat it is difficult to show his folly to a fanatic, and he left my office swearing that he would go to some other attorney who pos sessed more brains than I had." Philadel phia Press, Improred Sabxaarise Vesela. The Detroit Boat company is construct ing a submarine craft which is 40 feet long, 9 feet beam and i4 feet depth of hold. The mechanism is somewhat similar to that of the submarine torpedo boas. Elec tric storage batteries will be used for tor ing oxygen, giving light and furnishing motive power. The improvement over other submarine boats is claimed ia the buoyancy of the craft, which will ccsae to the surface as soon as the electric motor in stopped, wher in other cases tife ma chinery must bo working to bring it to tbe surface of the water. Bridea a screw wheel at the stern there will be two wheel on either side of the boat, Taraisg aa electric switch will cause the vessel either to rise or plunge deeper in the water. It if being built for pleasure New York Tel gram. A 2flcktaar. CboOy Bullseye Did you erer dreaa of me. Miss Ball? 3Iis3 ifinnis Ball Tes; two nighta running; and the third Cbolly Bullseye So delighted! Xnd the third? ilisB 3Enni0 Ball I took an opiate.' Puck, Am Am.MM.mcat. Mrs. IQagley The worse ot it ia that when ooe gets anytMny new ia team at the end of tha week your servant hat it. Mrs. Bingo That is if job hare Ota esmd servant at the end of tfee wwk- Cloak Beview. CWrtfi Cry fer Pteiitr't Supplies ! MAILS ON SNOWSHOM PERILS OF THE SERVICE IN ROCKY MOUNTAINS. THE Haw Xtfien Are CwM fraa Clvilta Uml t ta Haw am,M1i Cmmp Amid ta Sm Cal Hills f tfc Far Wet Tracts Deatln f SwaaHllMm. The most welcome of allia tb saining camps far up the Rocky aaoantaia peaks are the mail carriers. Brave, hardy fellows they are that climb the peaks oa anow shoea, delireriBg the aoail and many pre cious packages that always fill the pouch. Delivering the mails in the mountains ia midwinter is a difficult and dangerous work. Sometimes the carrier is swept away by a snowslide, and meaths roil away before tbe brave fellow and his pouch are found. About afty of these mountain mail carriers lose their lives yearly on the dangerous trails in Colorado carrying the mails on snowshoes to the frontier mining camps. In Utah, Idaho and other parts of the west in taesame manner they force their way over the lofty ranges. Some mountaineers are snowed in for the winter, and it is impossible to reach them; bnt as far as possible the remotest settle ments in the valleys and on the peaks of the Rocky mountains have the mail sent to them. The carrier in the frontier o the Rocky mountains straps the mail sack, usually a No. 4, on his back, puts em his Norwegian snewshoes, and with a long guiding pole starts on his weary climb over the range. Usually there is a crowd at the little frontier postofEce to wish him good luck. Onlymeaof known strength and courage can do this work, for twenty five pounds of letters, papers and packages become very heavy and burdensome in climbing the mountains. HABDT CAWUEB8. These carriers know the peaks, passes and trails as well as tbe city carriers do the streets and numbers of their districts. But sometimes tha storms are so severe that even the old mountaineer grows weak with his heavy burden, and sinks almost exhausted in the obscure trail. With a compass in his hand, ho carefully feels his way along the precipices and dangerous places, and often the storm is so severe and blinding that he is compelled to find shelter under some friendly cleft or dig for himself a bed in the snow banks. If no fuel be handy he must keep awake all night, for sleep would mean a rest from which he wonld not awaken. Although their great overcoats and cloth ing may look rough, yet their underwear wonld please the fancy of the aesthetic. The most of them have silk underwear, costing from twenty to forty dollars a suit. Under the rough looking gloves are band some silk ones. The silk keeps the cold out and retains tbe heat, and, if hard up, a mountain mall carrier will buy cheap outer clothing to save money for a handsome and warm suit of silk underwear and gloves. On reaching the summit of the mountains the carrier shoulders the pole, and, placing the snowshoes close together, begins his descent. The old timers on the trails will go dewn the mountains with the swiftness of the wind, a mile a minute, but woe to the one who is inexperienced, for out slips tho guiding pole, up come snowshoes, and tbe unfortunate carrier, mail sack and all, goes rolling down tbe mountain. Sometimes the ice and snow are as hard and smooth as glass. The carriers of the Rocky mount ains are as expert and agile as the chamois hunters of the Alps, and the man who can not keep his equilibrium, rushing with lightning speed down the mountain side, is hardly worth a position under Uncle Sam for this work in mid-continent. The perilous trip brings him to some llt tlo mining camp nestled in the mountains. What a joyful greeting he receives! There are people there from the east, far away New England and the sunny south. Some times he is delayed by tbe storm on the range, and already the men of the camp have been searching for him, fearing that he had been lost or swept away by the ter rible snowslide. Where is the postofDccf In the corner of the little store or rude ho tel. The villagers collect, and all are eaer to learn the latest news and read their let ters. BTJEIED ISr EXOW TWO TEAKS. Swan Nilson, the Swede mail carrier oi the San Juan, was lost in a snow slide Dec 23, 1803, and was not found for nearly two years. His route was from Silverton to Opbir. Only the bravest would attempt the trip through a storm. Nilson was warned against making tbe attempt. A terrible storm was raging between Silver ton and Ophir, and those who had been longest in the Rocky mountains told him he could not reach Opbir in that mountain tempest. But Nilson would not listen to their warnings, and eveo if it were peril ous he must go. It was two days before Christmas, and his mail pouch was larger and fuller than usual. He spoke- of the old Christmas time in fax off Sweden, and how people of every clime loved to celebrate it. He knew his mail pouch contained Christmas pres ents from the east, and the people of OphSr would eagerly look for his coming. "It will not be Christmas at Ophir," said tbe carrier "unless I get there with this pouch.' At Ophir the miners of tbe camp were waiting and longing for the appearance o! the faithful letter carrier. Christmas eve came, but still Swan Nilson had not been espied on the mountain trails, where many an anxious eye had been turned. And thus, while those at Silverton were anxious, the miners at Ophir were becom ing apprehensive at the delay. Christmas came and went, and still nothing of the mail carrier. Searching parties went out on tbe trails, bnt there was nothing to be seen or heard of tbe lost carrier. During the summer the search was continued by one or two 'friends, but still there was nothing learned of the fate of Swan. Another year rolled round, sad during the summer another search was mad, and on Aug. 12, 2815, at the bottem of a ssow bank, tbe picks and shovels ef the search lag party uncovered the body of Swaa Nil son, and still strapped to his back was tha old peach with Oahir Christmas xasiL The lock was ractyaad the pouch had to be oat open. The wax on the currcscy pack age had rotted a bole through the green backs. Some of the mail was moldy, hot a part of it could be read quits easily. Seattle Poat-Ictelligeacer. ZtMtvga Ktoa Wee. Miss Twitter Papa, the paper atatea that Mrs. Oldstager's wedding rtag wise sever ofl. Mr, Twitter Harnp i Pity as mack east be said ef ese or mare of her mac riages. Jewelers' Magasfar. Aa Otter. That was a sa coat yo sada Bsster, Mr. Smith. WmUdrn keeeyfertkatr" "Netkisg, returaad Scia sadly. "3oF saii Wak. "Ill Sake twa at the lajsa price," Harper's Bsaar. WeUtm DM ursu call out? . 3Tew Gfri Yla, ham, fchre laddies aa tWO ffstlHBML IQstnmt Whcr an their cards? New Girl Thera was so sed o thhn lavia amy. Mietrees Why aset, I sfecvld Hk to know Ke w Gfrl-Oi was at kooa. Xrw Otri-Tia,mmm. TWr iSEMHmfSK I ' XarwWM XIXS. Mots. & EMcTI Hew fa OU Oaeaem Orietaasefl. During Aagle-Samm times, whea flaw ing at banquets was common, it was emv tomary for the one who rose to driak frosm the great cap, which passed from, haad to hand, to aik some oae to become his "pledge," that he should mot be stabbed while both haads were raised. Ta "pledge" res, ofte. with sword drawa, and stood by the side of the .drinker to pro tect him from treachery. Sc Ipuls Globe Democrat. Teleaheee m SaJpaeard. The French navy has not beea slow to avail itself of the many recemt adaptations of electricity to modern naval warfare, and besides the lighting of its ships, the work ing of guns, windlasses, ammunition hoista and other devices by electric power, it has fitted up many of its ships with special telephone sets. The parts of these instru ments are so constructed as aot to he dam aged by damp, even if dipped ia sea water for several hours. The line kas Ave wires with a distinct circuit ior the bell. Ex periments show that speaking is distinct, even when the firing of the big guns is go ing on. New York Commercial Adver tiser. Cold Zrea Saw. Asaw has been design edfor catting iron, mild steel or other metals af fairly large sections. The inventor-ot this appliance claims that it is a cold Iron saw, atones simple, powerful and effective. It Is al ways in readiness for work, and can be manipulated by inexperienced workmen. Tbe machine is fitted with fast and loose pulleys, strap fork and bar, and is stated to be capable of making 40? cuts through bars of Bessemer steel 4-lach diameter, each cutting occupying six minutes on the average, without changing the saw. New York Commercial Advertiser. A Usual. Wife Ton wanted to get up early. Now you aro awake, why don't you rise up? 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