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A SINGULAR.
TRESPASSER.
By LEVI T. YERRISH
P IE Snohomish region was a very
wild tract of country ten years ago,
Whera bears were numerous, as well as
waive* and wildcat*. The seweltel—a
borrowing rodent about the size of a
muskrat—made havoc with our first
crops, and eagles often carried oft our
lambs.
My brother. Hudson Gerrish, had emi
grated to Washington, then a territory,
la the latter part of the year 1879. In the
spring of 1881 he wrote home to me in
New Jersey, asking me to join him in
dearing up a farm.
I was only 16 then, not a very strong
hoy, and the Journey alone by way of
tip Union Pacific railway to San Fran
cteco and thence by steamer to Portland.
Ore., wa* a great undertaking. But I
reached Portland without accident, and
there my brother met me. We made the
trip northward into the Snohomish
country with a horse.
Hudson was confident that his farm
would be the site of a thriving town at
no distant day. He had already made a
clearing of five or six acres, and built a
log house. As the spring advanced we
set at work to clear more land and plant
potatoes.
But I had been engaged in this new.
rough work for only a week when I
slipped, fell between two logs, and broke
my right leg,a little above the knee. To
procure a doctor who coqjd set the
broken bone proved a difficult matter.
Nearly three days passed before one
could be induced to come to me from
Centerjdile,
After much Buffering on my part, the
disabled limhjWas extended in a kind of
trough, excavated from a small pine log,
and so placed that I was compelled to lie
flat on my back upon our one hard little
bunk on the floor in a corner of the log
hopse. In that unrelieved position I
passed nearly five weeks.
I was quite helpless, and had to accept
such care as Hudson eould give me at in
tervals of his work out-of-doors. There
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HH APPROACHED THE PEN, BUT SAW
NO ANIMAL ABOUT IT,
is little need to say that the time dragged
heavily for me. Ah, how I longed to sit
up, to turn over, or in some way change
that uncomfortable position! But the
doctor had strictly enjoined that I must
not move my leg—unless 1 wished to be
a cripple for life.
During the second week of
forced imprisonment Hudson
obliged to leave me one entire day and
night, while he went to Port Madison for
a load of seed-potatoes. For almost 36
hours 1 was alone iu the little dark log
house. My brother made the door fast
on leaving, and set a bumper of water
where I could reach it. The water and
gome dry biscuits were all 1 had in the
way of provisions. Several times during
the night 1 heard the cries of panthers.
Besides the potatoes, Hudson brought
home a pig, a sheep and a basket con
taining three barn fowls. He brought
them into the house, one after another,
for me to see. and my Interest ip them
rose to a very hopeful height. It
seemed a great hardship to me that I
could not assist him to make the little
shed or pen in which they were to be
kept near the house.
On the following day an Indian hunt
er shot an elk in the woods near our
clearing, and gave Hudson both fore
quarters of the meat. We had some of it
fried for our supper that night. It
seemed to me that I had never tasted
anything one-half so good in my life. I
suppose that I must have been badly
starved.
Hudson hung the two quarters up in
doors on high pegs, to save .them from
the panthers: and it was a great satis
faction as 1 lay In the bunk to look at
them in the firelight of evening, and
think that in the morning I should have
more of the meat.
From lying in bed so much I did not
sleep at night as soundly as my brother,
my en
was
HIS POSSESSIONS.
He bought himself a palace and he bought
himself a pucht;
When he saw a thing he wanted, he Just
bought on the spot;
He bought himself a beauty—she was fair
est of the fair—
And bestowed his name upon her, bought'
her Jewels rich and rare;
He bought a string of racersatid he bought
a pedigree;
He bought himself an entrance Into high
society.
He bought the loyal services of men of wit
and force;
When h« wearied of his pretty wlfehe pur
chased a divorce; ■
He bought ai] kinds of pleasure It is pos
sible io buy;
He purchased art In carloads and he piled
his treasures high;
When he saw a thing he wanted whether
bric-a-brac or fame,
He never hesitated, but stepped, up and
bought the same. a
Ht bought whatever promised'to afford
him any fun;
H* bought a and was sent to
Wa*hlngt
But he couldn't buy a moment he had
wasted In the pa*t,
And when age pressed down upon him.
bringing soberness, at loftt,
H# <fi*cerii*d (hat he'd been guilty of a
*orrowfuj ngglect
In his failure, ere the chance waagone, to
purchtie *#1f-re*f>eet.
—S. E. ,Kl*er, In Chicago Record-Herald. *
®n,
Ireland has now a bank holiday all to
It** If—namely. Bt Patrick'a day.
who was at work planting potatoes all
day. That particular night 1 Woke sev
eral times, and after awhile I heard the
little pig squeal and one of the fowls
cackle. Feeling much concerned lest
some animal had broken into the pen, I
waked Hudson.
He rose in haste, and taking his gun
opened the door and went out. The door
had wooden hinges which were apt to
creak, and he did not close it after him.
It was & warm,.dark night near the
last of May. Stealing out on tiptoe, he
approached the pen, but saw no animal
about It. The pig and fowls were now
quiet.
As he stood listening, he heard a
sound a little distance otf in the clear
ing. as if some creature were digging in
the earth. At once he surmised that
bears or hedgehogs or badgers were
scratching up his newly-planted seed
potatoes—a thing whieh had occurred
on several previous nights. He there
fore crept forward, and quietly got be
hind a rick of partly burned logs, at a
distance from the house, and lay In wait
there for some time, trying fo catch a
glimpse of the creature, for he heard it
several times moving about not far off.
Meanwhile I was having an adventura
all by myself in the house.
For atohile after Hudson went out I
lay aqd listened. Hearing nothing, I
m asjeep again, but probably only for
a few moments, for Immediately 1 heard
what I supposed to be Hudson coming
back into the house.
I heard him stepping about and the
floor creaking under his weight. It was
too dark to see anything, but I was on
the point of speaking and asking him
what he had discovered at the pen, when,
with.what seemed an odd shuffling sort
of step, he walked along to the bunk,
and trod heavily on my left foot under
the blanket. The touch of his foot gave
hie a strange sensation, and I felt In
stantly, rather than knew, that it was
not Hudson!
Whoever or whatever it was, it ap
peared to stand still in the dark for some
moments, then took another step on the
bedding of the hunk.
I lay breathless, terrified and not dar
ing to stir. Was it an Indian who had
attacked and perhaps killed Hudson out
side. and had now come in to murder
me? My heart thumped hard, but I did
not stir, and a whole awful minute
seemed 'to pass.
Suddenly I felt on my face a curious
puff of air, a warm breath that had a
singular, fresh, wild kind of smell. It
came again after a moment, hotter this
time, as if nearer. I could scarcely keep
myself from crying out in terror.
Again and again It breathed In my
I was so
face, close to my mouth,
frightened that I turned cold all over.
It came into my mind now that it was
some large animal sniffing at me—a
grizzly bear or a panther that had killed
Hudson, and then come into the house
in quest of our meat.
I dared not mo.ve. 1 expected every in
stant that the beast would seize me by
the throat.. It continued sniffing at me;
then suddenly I felt its rough tongue
touch my face.
I scarcely know what prevented me
from screaming outright and attempt
ing to spring up; but it was probably
fortunate for me that I did not. The ani
mal may have thought me dead or
asleep. If I had stirred it would prob
ably have seized me or cuffed me with
its paw. it is said that wild beasts will
rarely lay hold of a sleeping person or
a dead body.
After sniffing at me thus familiarly,
the creature moved a little to one side,
and I heard its tongue scrape on a kettle
which had held porridge, and was set
on a low shelf a few feet from the bunk.
It had stepped off the bed-blanket, and
again I heard the boards of the floor
creak under its weight.
It walked slowly down to the other
end of the room, clattering over the
frying-pan, bucket .and several tin
dishes near the fireplace. A moment or
two afterward 1 heard a low. deep growl
and a rustling noise, as If the beast had
raised Itself and was scratching against
the logs of the house wall. Plainly it
had found the meat which hung there.
I heard its jaws close, grappling one of
the quarters, then the creaking of the
floor again as it walked out.
I listened awhile, then shouted to my
brother. "Hudson! Hudson!" I called
out, then listened again. I was afraid
that he had been killed. There was no
response. I shouted again, and imme
diately heard footsteps running to the
house. He had heard my first outcry,
but instead of replying, had started to
A moment after he rushed In, ex
run.
claiming:
"What's the matter with you, Leve?"
"There's been a grizzly or a panther in
the house here!" I cried.
"You dreamed it," said he, laughing.
"No, I didn't dream it, either!" I ex
claimed. "Just you light up and look at
our meat!"
Hudson sU'uck a match and field it
near where*the quarters had hung.
"Great Caesar!" said he. "One of
them is gone, sure!" He seized his gun
and ran out.
Quite ten minutes passed before he
came back. He had been unable to trace
the animal; and In point of fact, we
never knew exactly what sort of beast it
was.
It is likely, however, that it was
a grizzly bear.—Youth's Companion.
DOLLS BY THE THOUSAND.
Bewildering Array of Them Displayed
a« Samples In Toy Store
No Two Alike.
The adjective bewildering might
properly be used to describe the
of dolls displayed as samples In
importing house.
Great assortments of dolls are to be
found in more than one large retail
store, but here is an entire floor of a
building given up wholly to dolls.
There is to be seen nothing but dolls.
From one end to the other of this
long floor run lines of counters, each
with a rack over It. And ranged along
as close together as they can be placed
on the counters and racks are dolls.
There are thousands of dolls and no
two are alike, for these do not consti
tute the concern's stock of dolls, but
itg doll samples. There are jointed
dolls four feet long, and jointed dolls
half an Inch In length.
Twins In No Danger.
As regards the possible partition of
Slam by the powers, it Is consoling to re
member, says the Chicago Tribune, that
the Siamese twins are beyond the reach
of any danger.
BaJ tempers have destroyed as
many homes as drink.
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SENATOR SMOOT IS SAFE.
Republicans Will Stand by Mormon
Church Until After the Fail
Electiin -
A seemingly well informed corre
spondent at Salt Lake City is authori
ty for the statement that if Senator
Smoot should be unseated Utah will
give her electoral vote to the demo
cratic candidate for president, and will
send two democrats to the United
States senate.
No one who Is familiar with the af
fairs of church and state in Utah, says
the Chicago Chronicle, will question
tjje power of the chur.-h to make the
correspondent's prediction a reality,
but there is little, if any, prospect that
the senator will be disturbed, at least
before the national election.
While there is abundant evidence
that Utah mormons who lived in po
lygamy previous to the enactment of
a state law forbidding It continue to
sustain polygamous relations, there
has been no evidence that Senator
Smoot has more than one wile, or that
he has ever advocated polygamy since
the enactment of state legislation
against it.
For the existing polygamous prac
tices In Utah the political party to
which a majority of the investigating
committee belong is largely, If not
wholly, responsible. Had Utah been
compelled to remain a territory federal
legislation faithfully referred could
have eradicated this evil, but, to gain a
party advantage by increasing republi
can representation in congress, it was
admitted as a state, and thus the con
trol of polygamy was given into the
hands of the polygamists of the mor
mon church, who controls the politics
of the state.
It is a late day now to shirk respon
sibility for the folly of making Utah a
state and to indulge in the practice of
manufacturing party sentiment by per
secuting a monogamous mormon.
The Smoot investigation, which is
not an investigation of Smoot, may
drag along several weary months, but
there will' be no Smoot verdict to in
cite vengeance in Utah until the elec
toral vote of the polygamous state has
been again recorded for the presiden
tial nominee of the party in power.
FACTS IN A NUTSHELL.
-Senator Dietrich may confidently
inform Senator Burton that the true
measure of statesmanship is in haying
a masterly command of technicalities.—
Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.)
-It is promised that the postal in-
vestigation will be revived "after the
presidential election." This will give
the president of the senate and the
speaker of the house time to select the
committees on self-exoneration.—Wash-
ington Post (Ind.).
-Judge Parker is a strong candi-
date. He occupies the highest place in
the judicial system of bis state, a place
of great dignity and honor. He is per-
sonally a man of superior professional
emulition and of upright life. He is a
candidate without any taint of the dema-
gogue. Such a candidate cannot be whis-
tled down the wind.—Portland Oregon-
ian (ind.),
-No class of our people is so de-
pendent upon the foreign market as the
farmer, none suffer more keenly from
any restriction upon American trade by
foreign countries. But the American
farmer has never received much consid-
eration from the republican party in
All of the energies of that
congress.
party in the national legislature have
been directed toward maintaining the
home market for the American manu-
facturer without foreign competition.—
Galveston News.
-Mr. Grosvenor, speaking in the
house the other day, said that "we do not
want to reform the tariff; we do not want
to revise the tariff, and if we do we are
poing straight ahead when we get ready
and we will do these things if we see fit
to do so." Mr. Grosvenor merely gives
voice to the spirit of the present admin
istration.
the Roosevelt idea and method. ''Wg?
will do just as we please." That is the
notice that is served upon the country.—
Indianapolis Sentinel.
He is only a spokesman for
Republicans' False Promises.
It is announced that there is little hope
for the statehood bill to pass congress.
Indeed, there has never been any hope
at all for It In our Judgment. Several ob
stacles have beep placed in the way of
it. The fact that the republican party
In its national platform in 1900 declared
that "we favor home rule for and the
early admission to statehood of the ter
ritories of New Mexico, Arizona and
Oklahoma," was virtually conclusive
evidence that it favored nothing of the
kind. Senator Quay has been trying for
two years to get the republican party to
keep its plelges, but it has been to no pur
pose. Nothing else really was to have
been expected. The republican party
never had any idea of keeping its prom
ise with regard to statehood, and that
plank in Its platform was planed there
purely for buipcombe.—Memphis Com
mercial-Apepal.
Something New In Politics.
The probability that Mr. Roosevelt
will be the choice of the republican
convention in the fast-approaching
summer seems to weigh heavily upon
the public mind. It Is doubtful whether
In the whole record of American poli
tics there can be found a parallel In
stance of public uneasiness over a prob
able nomination. There have been
cases of grave democratic concern over
a republican nomination and vice versa,
but the uneasiness which attends Mr.
Roosevelt's almost certain chance Is not
confined to party. It ts public uneasi
ness. It is no less manifest In repub
lican circles than In democratic.—St.
Louis Republic.
Genteel Employment.
This advertisement was unblushlng
ly Inserted In a London newspaper a
few weeks ago: A lady moving In
good society is required at once to wear
and to make fashionable very beautiful,
dainty articles.of Jewelry; liberal re
muneration. Strict secrecy." Often a
deltcfite suggestion will be made at
fashionable shops 'that In return for
a tactful recommendation the firm
would be only too delighted to supply
dresses, hats or Bhoee, as the case
may be, gratis, even paying a com
mission upon new orders obtained. The
system of female touting is done in
London to an almost Incredible ex
tent, women acting as secret agents
for wine merchants, soap manufac
turers, and even as touts for money
lender*.
FEW FACTS FOR FARMERS.
shMp Bnd Heng >nd Woo , and Eggs
, nd Thelr Relatlon t0 T . ri ff
Legislation.
The Insignificance of our aheep and
wool Industry is seen whep compared
with our poultry and egg itylnatry.
While the total value of our woo! pfod
uct last year was only $583*15,373, that
of our egg product was $145.Q0n,OOO in
1899 and probably $200,000,000 last year.
The value of the 91,000,000 dozens of
eggs laid in Ohio in 1899 was over $10,
000,000, while the value of the 12,320,000
pounds of wool produced there was only
$3,134,208, and yet Ohio is by far the
largest wool-growing state east of the
Rocky mountains. If Ohio sheep could
be made to produce as much value a?
do Ohio hens the protectionists there,
from Grosvenor down, might he excused
for doing more cackling than do all th*
hens in that state.
Even the value of poultry killed for
food Is $130,000,000 a year, or 2Va times
the value of"our wool products.
In view of these facts, why is there so
much fuss and feathers about protection
to our sheep and wool industry and so
little said about the industrious hen
and her valuable egg product, on the
part of our tariff worshipers? Could not
our farmers be made to believe that
their far more valuable egg and poultry
industry is entirely dependent upon the
duties upon the eggs and chickens?
Is it*not certain that this Industry
would be ruined and that our domestic
hens would immediately retire from
business if the'tariff duties were taken
off and the pauper liens of Europe and
their cheap-labor products were put on
the free list? Are not our protection
ist friends overlooking a good thing
when they neglect to fill the Congres
sional Record with speeches and statis
tics showing the great benefit of pro
tection to this great and growing indus
try? Would it not, in fact, be better for
their cause if they would lose the de*
dining sheep and wool industry and let
it go to the dogs, where it appears to be
going in spite of extremely high duties?
A SENSIBLE LABOR PLANK.
Pennsylvania Democrats Give Utter
ance to Sentiments That Are
Wise and Patriotic.
Among the many admirable planks
in the platform of the Pennsylvania
democrats there is none that appeals
more strongly to conservatism and a
sense of justice than the one defining
the party's' attitude on labor unions,
whieh follows:
Labor
nions organized for the better
ment of the condition of
Ing within the limits o:
versive of public order o
ly lawful but commendable, and
should be met, recognized
accordingly.
This accords not only with the tra
ditional friendliness
age earners, aot
f 1 j
' and not sub
individual rights.
are not
nd dealt
f the democratic
party' toward men who labor—for the
strength of the parly h
and must be among those engaged in
honest toil—but it expresses the senti
ment which should prevail among all
classes of people in dealing with the
so-called labor problem,
the right of worki^men to organize as
an inalienable Individual
one which they should be encouraged
to exercise for the betterment of their
condition. That right is indorsed both
in its legal and moral aspects. The
only demand it makes upon working
men is that the right shall be exercised
within the limits of the law, the main
tenance of public order and equal con
sideration for the individual rights of
others.
ever been
It recognizes
right, and
The Pennsylvania declaration, says
the New York Post, deals with the la
bor question frankly, honestly and in
telligently, and without demagogy. It
could not have contained less and it
would have been a waste of words to
have said more. It should be incor
porated in the St. Louis platform.
FAITH THAT MUST BE KEPT.
The republican party of Massachu
setts, having placed itself entirely in the
hands of Senator Lodge and one or two
others whom he can trust, lias been com
pelled to take the hack track, so far as
reciprocity is concerned. Reciprocity
is alt very well to figure as pledge In a
party platform, but It becomes quite an
other matter when the republicans them
selves—those who are not in the secrets
of the party management—undertake
to promote It. For while the republican
leaders can afford to make solemn prom
ises, so long as those promises are con
fined to the party platforms, faith must
he kept with the powerful interests that
have heretofore furnished the campaign
corruption funds for the republicans
and who are expected to do the handsomi
thing In this campaign —Atlanta Con
stitution.
Can Animals Count?
That a dumb animal cannot have the
arithmetical faculty, as we understand
It, is the conclusion of tPrucsto Mancinl
a recent student of an final psychology.
The animal Is lacking In the power o!
drawing a general, as opposed to a par
ticuiar, conclusion; it also lacks articulatt
speech; hence it is wanting in the explic
it exercise of intelllgencd—that is, In at'
that contributes to the formation of the
idea of number and Its development. Up
to a certain limit, Indeed, an animal maj
have a notion of numbers—not of ab
stract numbers, but of groups of ob
jects or of simultaneous and consecutive
Images of them. Here there is a cer
tain likeness between a dumb animal
and a child, ora savage, with the differ
ence that the two last may progress
further, while the animal cannot do so.
A dog, then, according to Mancinl, may
kftow the difference between two cats
and four cats, while the notions of the
numbers "two" and "four" are beyond
him.—Success.
Doctor* Disagreeing.
The 1904 address of the Protective
Tariff league declares as follows:
"That reciprocity In competitive product*
Is unsound in principle, pernicious In prac
tice and condemned by experience. It is
contrary alike to the national policy of pro
tection, to the fair treatment of domestic
producers and to friendly relations with
foreign countries."
The last republican national plat
form said that "reciprocity and protec
tion are twin measurers of republican
policy and go hand-in-hand." There
seems to be a misunderstanding here—
a case of doctor* disagreeing. The
adoption of a democratic policy will
make such things Impossible.--In
dianapolis Sentinel.
WHITE COAL IN MEXICO.
Another Name for the Enormous
Amount of Hydraulic Power
That Is Going to Waste.
Modern Mexico has often had occasion
to call attention to the fact that, though
fuel Is very scarce in Mexico, still the
country is supplied with an abundance
of power for the movement of prime
motors. We refer, of course, to water
power, says Modern Mexico. The con
struction of electric plants for the pur
pose of furnishing light and power has
hardly begun In proportion to the de
mand and tha water power available.
Mexico, which undoubtedly stands in
much greater need of electric powej - than
either France of Switzerland, on account
of the higher price of fuel, is supplied
with an almost unlimited amount of
hydraulic force. In the central mesa of
the republic, which a\erases 6,000 feet
above sea level, rise a great number of
rivers and streams, the Balsas, Lerma,
Tamesi and Panuco being but a few of
the more important. While no accurate
estimate has been made of the available
water power, It is probable that at least
15,000,000 horsepower are running to
waste at the height of the season. Less
than one-half of 1 per cent, of this
amount, or, say, 75,000, is being utilized
for motive power, Including that used
directly by flour mills, cotton mills lo
cated directly at the fall*, and absorbed
by electric plants for transmission to
distant points. In the City of Mexico,
under present conditions, is probably
costs at least $190 a year, Mexican
money, per horse powerto produce power
from steam, and even in the most favored
districts, where fuel Is cheap, It will
reach $125.
The coal barons of the United States
are, perhaps, her most solid aristocracy,
and those who get control of "La Huilie
Blanche" (the white coal) of this coun
try will hold In the near future a much
more important position. The power is
here, on top of the ground. It does not
have to be mined or transported. It will
carry itself with but a wire to go on,
and Mexico is a country that otters many
conditions favorable to gigantic indus
trial enterprises.
IRELAND WANTS ITS PEOPLE
Fearing Depopulation, Leaders Plan
an Anti-Emigration Congress
to Prevent It.
So alarmed have the people of Ire
land become at the depopulation in the
country by emigration to the United
States that plans are being made for
the holding of an antiemigration con
gress at St. Louis, according to a report
from Consul Waterman, at Dublin.
Irish leaders argue that those leaving
Ireland are the bone and sinew of the
country and their emigration means a
lower marriage rate and a much lower
birth rate, says a Washington report.
On the basis that it costs $200 in Ire
land for raising a person, one-fifth of
what it requires in the United States,
emigration has cost Ireland since 1851
$80,000,000. The total number of emi
grants, natives of Ireland, who have left
Ireland since 1851 to the end of 1902 is
3,921,220, of whom 2,040,236 were males
and 1,880,986 (emales. The larger pro
portion of emigrants came from the
southern and western portions of the
country.
The total number of emigrants for 1902
was 40.190, of whom the United States
received 83.8 per cent., against ap aver
age of 84 per cent., for the four preced
ing years. Great Britain received 11.7
per cent.; Canada, 1.8 per cent.; Aus
tralia, 1.3 per cent.; New Zealand, 0.2
per cent., and other countries 1.2 per
cent. Probably 85 per cent, of all the
emigrants from Ireland during the last
100 years have come to the United
States.
The Antiemigration society will ap
peal to the Irish people of the United
States to do all in their power to pre
vent further emigration from Ireland.
Its plan of campaign is to show that,
while some of the emigrants bettered
their condition, many almost invariably
reach a lower state of misery than is pos
sible in Ireland, where the worst they
have to face Is poverty, but poverty
without the moral degradation common
In large cities.
Preserving Bodies After Death.
Recently the papers of Philadelphia
contained an account of a body so well
..embalmed that It had lain exposed to the
air in an undertaker's room near the
city for over nine years. Of course, this
body will in time wither or dry up like
those of the ancient Egyptian mum
mies. An inventor has now seemingly
gone a step further and devised a pro
cess by which a body, preserved from all
contact with the air, should withstand
decay Inmost Indefinitely without any
change taking place visible to the eye.
This consists in coating the body first
with sodium silicate or water glass.
After the water has been evaporated a
shell-llke casing completely covers the
surface. Then an outer casing of molten
glass is applied, and the body has the
appearance of having been frozen in a
cake of Ice. How long bodies can be
preserved in this manner, of course, re
mains tc be determined, but the process
seems a very plausible one from the
practical viewpoint.
Building a Home.
The building of a home calls for
good business mind and business pur
pose. The partnership must be In
good faith; there must be an absorb
ing sentiment that will continually feel
its Interest, a courage that will not
quail before the efforts that must be
made to sustain it, a cheerfulness that
does not falter before the monotonous
round of duties that must be kept up
year after year to establish It; a har
mony that seeks the united interest and
courtesy that ever obeys the Golden
Rule. We betteve there Is too much
complaint entered against the exacting
duties of home building.—National
Magazine.
Russian Police Training.
There Is a policeman's college In St.
Petersburg to train applicants for the
force. In a museum connected with
the schools the pupils make themselves
familiar with the tools of criminals—
jimmies, drills, chisels and contriv
ances for robbing collection boxes. The
Russian passport system is studied In
detail. The duties of the dvorniks, a
sort of assistant police, are taught.
They keep watch on the residences, re
port on the habits of the tenants and
their visitors, examine the papers of
newcomers, and direct them to report
themselves at the police station.
THE CARNEGIE DIALECT.
When He Resorts to the "Brogue"
Andrew Can Get the Beet of
Them Balled Up.
Though Andrew Carnegie's English is
singularly elegant and pure, lie has at
his eoniruaiid a wend Scotch dialect, aais
the Minneapolis Tribune.
Mr. Came
w ords mid i<
tiie oddities ami freaks Ttf his
gk* is a student of Scotch
lioms. He likes to point out
native
tongue. Recently. at a dinner party in
New York, he haul to a young woman:
4, So you think you can undcratand Scots,
eh? (Veil, then, what do we mean in
Scotland when we nay a |»erHon is just
fishy"
"I don't know. What do we mean?"
the young woman a*ked.
"We mean he in a bit of a weed haruin
•oarum," said Mr. Carnegie.
"A weed karum Hcarum? W hat is
that?"
"It is the name an wowf."
"But what is w'owf?"
"W< in nook or ml. That is to say.
a bit by the east. Havers, lassie, hu'e ye
no Scots at all?"
Then Mr. Carnegie laughed and ex
ceed harum-scarum, and
plained that
wish, and wowf, and nook, and nal, and
by the east all Hignitied one thing, "crazy."
Prayer Answered.
A preacher who went to a Kentucky
parish where the parishioners bred horses
was asked to invite the prayers of the con
gregation for Lucy Grey. He did ko. They
prayed three Sundays for Lucy Grey,
the fourth he wa* t< tld he need not i
»ny more. "Why;" said the preacher, "i.
she dead?" "No," answered the man,
"she. won the Derby."—Washington Post.
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Mount Hor, Ky., May 9.—Tiie records
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more interesting and instructive case than
that of Mrs. Lillie Jacobs, of Mount Hor.
Mrs. Jacobs tells the particulars of her
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just gasping for breath. I had Kidney
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The theory that boys are descended
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back. A Philadelphia gentleman possesses
a monkey who washes himself with soap
and water. -Punch.
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If stains are difficult to remove, place in
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dipping the bottle in clear Water.
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"if you would not be forgotten as soon
as you are dead, write"things worth read
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A man feels much safer with a wife and
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