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KEPT THEM IN LINE.
inside History of the Passage of the
McKinley HilL
Deputy Seruennt-nt-Arm of the
Uouho Tel In How He Manased to
Keep a ttaopum Countant-
Ij on Hand.
[Special Washington Letter.]
“The voters of this country like to
Rear the politicians talk to them about
“the sovereign people.’ because it
tickles their pride and makes them feci
that they are really running their gov
ernment; when they are not,” says
Tom Cavanaugh, the long-time deputy
*ergeant-at-arms of the national house
of representatives.
“For example,” he continued, “the
people imagine that they cause legisla
tion, and compel public servants to do
thus and so; when as a matter of fact
they seldom produce the results which
they aim at in casting their ballots.
Tens of thousands, and probably mil
lions, of people to-day believe that Wil
liam McKinley formulated and passed
the McKinley* bill, the measure upon
which he bnilded his presidential hopes
and aspirations so successfully.
“Asa matter of fact, in the passage
of that bill I did as much solid effective
work as McKinley did. Moreover, the
bill, as it came from the committee on
ways and means, was the work of the
whole committee, and not merely Mc-
Kinley's work. Then again, the bill as
it came back from the senate was an
entirely different bill, and might bet
ter have been called the Allison bill, be
cause it was formulated under the di
rection of the lowa statesman.
"But as to the final passage of the
bill in the house of representatives, as
reported from the committee on ways
and means, let me tell you that I did t he
bulk of the real hard work; did lots of
it while McKinley was sound asleep.
This will seem strange to your read
ers, although of course the watchful
newspaper men knew what was going
on at. the time, although they did not
know all of the details of the work
“One morning a messenger came to
me and informed me that the speaker
wanted me to come to his room. That
was in the Fifty-first congress and Tom
Reed was speaker. I responded of
course at once, and when I entered the
speaker’s room 1 found there McKin
ley, of Ohio; Cannon, of Illinois; Hen
derson, of lowa, and other leading com
mittee chairmen and ffoor leaders of
the republican majority. The speaker
informed me that the tariff bill was to
be taken up for consideration, and that
I must make it my duty to keep a
quorum of the majority members pres
ent all the time. I stated that this
could only be done by order of the ser
geunt-at-arms of the house, and that
gyitleman was sent for. The speaker
told him what was going on, and he is
sued the order which enabled me to de
vote all of my time to keeping a quorum
present.
“You see, the republicans only had
about a dozen majority in the house,
and the democrats were refraining from
voting, some of them remaining absent
from the house entirely. The members
of the majority party were somewhat
indifferent. That is to say, quite a num
ber of them would absent themselves
from the house in order to look after
CONFERENCE IN THE SPEAKER’S
ROOM.
business in the executive departments,
or to look after their correspondence.
Some of them, only a few, paid more at
tention to pleasure seeking than to
business. It was thus made my duty to
keep a quorum present; and it was a
difficult task.
"I personally saw every republican
member of the house, and informed each
of them that no absence would be ex
cused at any time under any circum
stance, except sickness in their fam
ilies; and that before leaving the capitol
at any time, even for a few minutes,
each member should go to the office of
the sergeant-at-arms and leave the ad
dress at which he could be found most
quickly.
“This was done systematically every
day. You would be surprised to know
how many representatives had to be
watched like school children in order
to keep them in line of duty. For three
weeks 1 kept watch of all of them. I
had the page boys divided off into
watches, like sentries on guard. One
page, for example, would be expected
to particularly watch a certain ten
men. and he ready to go after them
instantly. I '.ad horses for mounted
pages, and carriages for myself and
other deputies in the work. When
there was *, roll call demanded on any
paragrapl of the McKinley bill, or on
any proposed amendment, 1 went after
certain members myself, and sent my
assistants after certain others. Thus,
whenever there was a roll call I man
aged to have a quorum present. Con
sequently, every paragraph of the Mc-
Kinley bill was passed excepting one,
and that was of minor importance.
“Sometimes the representatives were
found in their committee rooms, some-
times they were found nt their homea,
sometimes they were found at the
aters. sometimes they were found play
ing billiards, sometimes they were
found in barrooms, but few of them
were found in the latter places. Bui
wherever they were I always knew
where to round ’em up. The system
of leaving their addresses each day
proved to be quite successful. But
even with that precaution some of
them would leave the capitol without
complying with the simple require
ment. In such cases we would have to
scurry about the city to their best
known rendezvous. We had to get
them and bring them to the capitol as
soon as possible in order to have their
votes recorded in time.
“I said that I was at work while Mc-
Kinley was sleeping; and that is true,
for often at night I was out looking
for men and locating them so that
they could be found on the next day.
Some of them went to hospitals for
necessary recuperation, under certain
conditions. They also had to be
brought to the capitol in carriages and
sent back to the hospital afterwards.
Oftentimes I was busy at night with
the sergeant-at-arms, pages and mes
sengers. and with the speaker, in order
that the next day’s work might be well
done. Some of the pages and messen
gers needed looking after in order to
keep them sober and on duty. It was
a hard campaign that 1 went through,
but it was a successful one.
“Ho you see that, although McKinley
had plenty of work to do in debating
and defending his bill, he didn’t do it
all. by a long shot. There were others.
The bill would never have been passed
had it not been for the executive work
SUMMONED FROM THE THEATER.
done by the boys and men under my
direction. I do not say these things in
any sense of disparagement of McKin
ley, who did his work well; but simply
to give you an insight into the ways
of securing practical results in legis
lation of national importance.
“When the Wilson bill was passed
in the Fifty-third congress, the demo
cratic deputy sergeant-at-arms had
Just as much work to do to keep up a
democratic quorum, and, to hear him
tell the story, you would be led to be
lieve that he had even greater trouble
with his men than I bad with mine.
“When ‘sovereign people’ are casting
their ballots they do not half of the
time know what kind of men they arc
electing to congress. They do not
know anything in detail of the ways
things are done in congress, and they
are often received by the men whom
they elevate and honor. Men who
realize the importance of the trust com
mitted to them would not need to be
watched and chased about to keep
them in line of duty.”
All of these things are true, and the
people ought to know the facts. The
lessons of the past should prove to b®
advantageous for the future. The
parly .now having a majority in the
senate and house of representatives
proposes to enact considerable nation
al legislation of importance during the
coming session of congress. The ma
jority in the house of representatives
is only 14; and it will be almost impos
sible to keen a quorum present all the
time to do business. The people in
every district should know this, and
they should resent having their repre
sentatives come to their homes on po
litical missions while the congress is
in session. The people should compel
their representatives to remain in
Washington and attend to their busi
ness.
When the congress convenes in De
cember the house of representatives
will elect a speaker and other officers.
Ex-Secretary of State Henry Casson. of
Wisconsin, will be elected sergeant
at-arms, and upon him will devolve
the duty of keeping a quorum present.
He has had great experience in public
life and will prove to be equal to the
task. He was seven years private sec
retary to Gov. Husk, and four years
private secretary to the same states
man while he was secretary of agri
culture. Afterwards he was secretary
of state for Wisconsin; and in these of
ficial positions he has not only gained
great practical knowledge of affairs,
but he has become acquainted with all
public men of the republic. Conse
quently it is assumed that he is well
equipped for the duties of the office.
But, judging from the experiences of
those who have filled the office in the
past, it may be assumed that he will
have his hands full all of the time, and
that he will be a very busy man dur
ing the entire session of congress; a
session which will undoubtedly be pro
longed far into the summer of IIHIO;
a session which will be full of epoch
making events as well as of partisan
acrimony and heated discussions.
The moral of these facts is that the
peopk- should themselves see to it that
their representatives do their duty and
that Hey shall each be compelled to
earn the salary of $5,000 which the gov
ernment pays for their services.
_ SMITH D FRY.
Evidently.
“Wigsby strokes his nose as though
he hoved it.”
“Yes; he’s strongly' attached to it,
you know.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A DEWEY PORTRAIT PAINTER.
He Turned Oat Four Hundred of
Them nltb Drf ConufqurßPfi
to Himself.
This is ft story told in an uptown
studio, by a young man at a canvas:
“1 suppose you believe that story
about Pygmalion falling in love with u
statue he had made, and how his re
quest to Aphrodite that it might breathe
was granted?”
“As much us 1 believe some other
stories,” replied the brother at another
canvas.
“I've got one that beats it. and mine
is true. I can show you the man. Just
after Dewey turned his ship this way
from Gibraltar, a sign writer down-tow. u
made me a proposition. He wanted me
to paint 200, 300, or as many portraits
of Dewey ns I could. Offered to pay me
extra for overtime. He wanted Dew
eys to sell by the hundred. Although it
was a complimentary offer for aspiring
genius, I declined. I sent him a young
fellow, poor boy, who thinks he has in
spiration. Ho can’t paint a lamppost,
but I vouched for his work. 1 knew he
would stick to it. He began painting
Deweys, and after he had turned out
•bout a gross the celestial limner came
to his rescue, and he got so that he
could put a face on a canvas without
writing the name under it. Well, he
painted on and on until he had turned
out 400, life size, bust portraits of
Dewey. Then the rush was over, and
he was out of a job for two days. He
accepted an offer to do some portraits
in the family of a high roller in the
upper end of town. The boss sat first,
and'the second day hist face w as finished.
It’s a fact. The boss looked at it and
complimented it. Said it was the best
Dewey he had seen, and asked the
artist when he was going to
begin work on his (the boss’). The
next day the mistress sat for my genius,
and he finished her portrait in snx
hours, life size. And when she looked
at it she said the hands, arms, dress and
jew els were hors, but tbe face was that
of Dewey,
“The man and his wife had a con
sultation, the result of which was that
my inspired genius was asked to get
out a canvas of the family horse, and
he made a beautiful four-legged Dewey.
Then lie quit the place, and I heard lie
was in a sanitarium. Of course I went
to see him. I didn’t know him. He had
changed completely. Looked just like
Dewey.”
The work in the studio went, on the
remainder of the day iq silence. —N. Y.
Sun.
GASOLINE HAD NO TERRORS.
Roy with n Can anil Clsrarrtte Give*
I’liHHenKerß on “L.” Train
a Scare.
That “familiarity breeds contempt”
is an axiom too well proved to admit of
contradiction. The workers in powder
mills, the men who handle dynamite
and nitroglycerin and men engaged in
other extra-hazardous pursuits all be
come in time so used to the perils that
environ them every minute as to for
get them, and only by the enforcement
of a rigid discipline can they be made
to take the necessary precautions.
A painter's boy gave a good illustra
tion of this tendency of human nature
on the elevated road the other daj - , and
incidentally gave .a severe shock to a
car full of people. The boy got on the
train at Western avenue in company
with a ten-gallon case marked con
spicuously “Gasoline.” He entered the
smoking car, and, lighting a cigarette,
was soon deeply interested in “Old
Avoirdupois; or. The Terror of the
Apaches,” As the train neared Green
street everybody in the car peered out
of the windows to see the ruins of the
Ritchie paper box factory. The boy,
who was on tbe other side of the car,
dropped his dime novel, took an extra
puff on his cigarette and then carefully
laid it on the cork of the gasoline can
while lie passed over to the other side
of the car to see the fire ruins.
Just then a gentleman happened to
turn around and saw the smoking ciga
rette on the can. lie gave a yell that
startled everybody in the car, and as
all eyes followed the direction his shak
ing finger pointed there was a general
blanching of faces.
“Who owns it?” was the cry.
The boy by this time had seen all that
was visible of the ruins, and, return
ing to his seat, calmly took up his ciga
rette and regaled himself with a few
puffs. One or two excited gentlemen
remonstrated with him on his careless
ness. “Why, yon might have blown tbe
car up!” they said.
“Blow up nuttin’!” said the boy, dis
gustedly. “Youse guys make me tired.
What do yon know about gasoline, any
how? Why, I handle the stuff every
day, and I’ve never been blown up yet,
have I?” and with that he returned to
his novel.
Several of the passengers hurried into
the next car as quickly as they could,
but the boy, undismayed, smoked on un
til he reached a loop station, and then,
with a glance of contempt around the
car, toddled out with his deadly bur
den.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Apple am! Ginger Preserve*.
Choose apples that do not cook to
pieces easily. Pare, core, cut in pieces,
.tot slices. For every pound thus pre
pared allow three-fourths pound suirar
and one ounce sliced ginger. Prepare
the sirup by adding a little water to
the sugar. Simmer the ginger in this;
then add the apples, heated and tender.
Let it come to a boil and simmer awhile.
Then sea! in cans.—Housewife.
Graliom Ginger Bread.
One cupful thick cream, one cupful of
molasses, one teaspoonful of soda. i. ie
teaspoonfnl of ginger sifted with the
flour, a pinch of salt; add graham and
white flour, about equal parts, enough
to make a rather stiff batter, and bake
in a modelattly hot oven.—Home Maga
zine.
HUMOROUS.
“You can’t keep a secret, Mzrie.”
‘Yes, I can. but 1 always happen to tell
things to other girls who can’t.” —SC
Louis Republic.
First Collegian —“Did your dad re
spond when you struck him for some
money?” Second Collegian —“Respond!
You should have heard him!" —Sault
Ste. Marie News.
Why She Sings.—“l like to hear a
servant girl sing tit her work. It show s
a. good disposition.” “Not always, I
think our girl sings because she has u
grudge against us.”—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
“I really believe Misa Blumer would
be willing to run for president, she’s so
ambitious.” “Land, yes; but she ain’t
bo particular. She’d run for a smaller
man that that if she thought she could
catch him.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
“That tramp just going away w as tell
ing me a most heart-breaking story.”
“How much did you give him?” "Noth
ing. It was a story to break one’s
heart, all right, but breaking a five-dol
hir bill is different.” lndianapolis
Journal.
“Anybody who knows enough,” said
Mr. Spilfins, “can learn something from
anybody else, however ignorant thelat
ter may be.” “That is true,” assented
Mrs. Spifflns, cheerfully. “Now, 1 can
occasionally learn something from you.”
—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Podsnij) (meeting elderly person)—
“By Jove! Is it possible! My old
school teacher. By the way, do you ye
membor that you said when I was in
your class that I’d die on the gallows?”
Elderly Person—“ Well, you’re not dead
yet.”—Philadelphia North American.
Mrs. Grimes—“ Does your husband go
to church, Mrs. Brown?” Mrs. Brown
—“Certainly. Sometimes he goes to
the Unitarian, sometimes to the Ortho
dox and sometimes to the Catholic.”
Mrs. Grimes—“Ah, I see! An agnostic.”
Mrs. Brown—“No! he’s a plumber.
When there is nothing for him to do at
one church there is pretty sure to be
something for him atone of the others.”
—Boston Transcript.
PAWNED TEETH TO GAMBLE.
How a Sport In Hnrtl Luck Got
on Tb.'ni anil Recouped Hi*
l,o**e*.
“This advertisement,” remarked an
old gambler, pointing to a notice pub
lished by •> man who had lost a set of
false teeth, “reminds me of the ex
perience of a gambler in Denver some
years ago who had to pawn Ids grind
era for a stake. Jt was a cold winter
night and 1 was bucking the games my
self in a big Denver establishment,
when 1 happened to notice this pawning
event, A stranger from the east was
playing faro, but lost so heavily that he
changed to roulette. At this game the
last of his bunch had disappeared be
fore he knew it. He felt in his clothes,
tut found nothing, not even a watch,
lie had loaned his fine overcoat to a
friend curlier in the night with the
promise that it was to be returned by
midnight, but the time had passed and
the coat was not there. Ail at once the
gambler threw his hands to his face. A
thought struck him.
“ ‘Gents,’ he said ‘is there a pawnshop
for gamblers near here?’
“The faro dealer told him where to
find one half way down the block, and
the information was added that the
owner had a soft spot in his heart for
gamblers in hard luck.
“The eastern sport walked into the
pawnshop a moment later and asked
the owner how much he could advance
on a fine set of teeth. The shopkeeper
hesitated for a moment, but finally con
sented to loan S2O on them. The articles
were carefully pht away, and the gam
bler walked back with a S2O bill. He
bought a stack of chips, and during the
night played with remarkable luck. By
five o’clock he was SBOO ahead, after get
ting back ibf' slj’>oo lost before the deal
with the pawnbroker. After he quit
playing he hail to sit about for three
hours until tbe pawnshop was opened.
“That same winter in Denver,” con
tinued the old man, “1 saw other pawn
ing experiences which taught me that
the gambler’s best friend was the man
with the three balls sign. It was in this
same house that 1 saw a sport pawn a
SIOO overcoat ten times in as many
hours. The sport was playing craps
and he seemed crazy about that kind of
play. The first time he went broke he
stepped out to the same pawnbroker
ami ‘hocked’ the overcoat for $l,O. He
came back, got a good streak and sent
the boy out with $22 and the ticket to
redeem it. He played for awhile and
was broke again. A second trip was
made to the shop, with the same result.
Ami then a little later he was strapped.
This juggling between the table and tlie
pawnshop was continued for hours,
though the sport finally quit when he
had the coat and $450 in the pockets.—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
“Cnm*-Eil neat Ion.”
This term is used to describe a phe
nomenon which has recently been un
der investigation at the Ya> psycholog
ical laboratorj - . Experiment curried
on during the past year have shown
that the effects of practice on one fide
of the body are transferred to the other
side, where, there has been no practice.
For instance, a fencer, practising
lunges with a foil, and using only his
right b and, gained in two weeks 56 per
cent, of accuracy in aim. At the same
time iv was found that his left hand
had also gained 36 per cent, of accuracy
in the same exercise, although it had
no actual practice. So the exertion of
the muscles of the right arm likewise
increased the strength of the left arm.
—Youth’s Companion.
Harmless.
“So you consider Jones an honest
man?”
“Honest? He gives himself short
change at his own store and cheats
like the deuce at solitaire.”—Detroit
Free Press.
TWO DAYS.
Hobby and Johnny and Tommy stood
Under a tree in u chestnut wood.
They could see upcn the branches high
The green burrs wave against the sky.
•'But what are they good for, there?” they
said.
"When every one Is over your head.
"A boy may try as hard as he can:
The world was only made for man.”
But Jack Frost heard and laughed with
glee:
Then he took from hla pocket a tiny key
And each green burr so closely shut
Flew back to show a shining nut.
The Jolly West Wind heard them, too.
And thought: “There's woik for rne to do.”
Bo he mstud at the tree with a sudden
bound.
And shook the chestnuts to the ground.
Hobby and Johnny and Tommy flood
Tbv very next day In the chestnut wood,
And I think If you'd heard their fun and
noise.
You would say that the world was made for
boys. _____
—JCllen Bherman Corson, in Youth’s Com
panion.
TOM’S GREAT MISTAKE
He Forgot Thnt the Man Who Suc
ceeds Must Use His Head ns
Well ns Ills Hands.
On the station platform two men
stood wailing for their train. Another
man, with a pick and shovel on ins
shoulder, was passing, on Jus way to
work.
lie was not more than 50 or 55 years
old, but ids gait was stilt and labored,
and there was a pronounced stoop in
the figure. His overalls, once brown,
were lime-bleached and faded to a soft
‘‘old rose,” and bagged dejectedly at
the knees. The face under the weather
beaten cup was stolid and listless.
As he clumped along in his heavy
cowhide boots, he apparently embodied
that most persistent and most pathetic
figure which medieval Europe called
tin serf, and more modern Europe calls
the peasant, and the census enumerator
of free America to-day sets down as
"unskilled labor.”
As he crossed the track, the elder of
the two men on the platform pointed
him out to his companion.
‘That man and I,” he said, “were
schoolmates. Ho was not dull at his
books, and ought to have made a better
condition for himself in life.”
“What’s the matter with him? Does
he drink?” asked the younger man,
“No. Nothing of that kind lias hin
dered him. When he was about 15
years old he was offered a dollar a day
to dig on a cellar. This seemed large
wages to him, and he left school and
took the job. He was proud of his size*
and strength, and this offer made him
feel so independent that he rather
VI" ■ "
MUST USE HEAD AS WELL AS HANDS.
looked down on the rest of us boys. Jit
never went back to school, lie found
work to do that required no skill or
technical knowledge, only muscle used
under an overseer’s direction, and he
kept at it.
”1 remember Judge Haines, one of
the school committee, met Tom —his
name is Tom Mahan—and said to him:
‘My boy, you’re making a mistake and
doing a foolish’ thing, if you must
work, why don’t you learn a trade?’
“ ‘l’d have to give my time for three
or four years for nothing. What would
be the use of that? I’m as strong as a
man, and I’m getting man’s wages
now,’ said Tom.
“‘Strong?’ said the judge. ‘Are yon
as strong as one of my horses? They
work for their keep, but I have to pay
the man that drives them $3O a month
besides his keep; and the man who
shoes them gets three dollars a day. If
strength counts for so much, I wonder
the horses don’t strike and look for a
job laying brick or carpentering.’
“Hut Tom thought the judge was only
joking with him. He couldn’t see why
he should give his time to learn a trade
or some profitable business, and work
for nothing, us he said, when he could
work for wages, and so he went his own
way.”
“There are thousands like him.” said
the other man. “They never learn to
do nnj' special kind of business, and
never seem to realize that the reason
the trained blacksmith or the skilled
carpenter or the salesman gets higher
wages than they do, is because he has
given time to learning to use his head,
as well ns Ids feet and hands.
“If boys only keep the impor
tant fact in mind, that muscle—mere
physical strength is always one of the
cheapest things in the labor market,
and that so far as price is concerned it
matters little whether a man furnishes
it or a horse, (here would be fewer men
to be classed as ‘unskilled labor.’ ”
Youth’s Companion.
Socialists will hold at Paris next year
♦.t" largest congress in their history.
THE LEAPING MOUSE.
A Curious l.ittle Animal Found Only
In Ksj pt nt Present, Bat Once
Quite Numerous,
Many thousands of years ago, before
the great “ice age,” when the climate of
Europe and America was about that of
Africa, little mice like those in the pic
ture were jumping around here. Queer
fellows they are, with their large eyes,
long, bare tail, save for the little bunch
at the end. and legs like a kangaroo.
This mouse is the color of the ground,
and at night and when it runs about
seeking food is hard to distinguish.
When the young are ready to leave
the nest the mother sticks them to her
body with some kind of clay and then
goes abroad in search for food. While
feeding the long tail is curved into a
letter “S,” but when about to leap the
tail stiffens out, aiding both in the leap
and as steering apparatus. The mouse
jumps 20 times its own length nt a
single leap. When near inhabited
places it becomes a pest, though not
quite ns bad as our house mouse. It
sucks the eggs in the hen nests and dig*
up the onions in the gardens w ith great
zest. These depredations are made at
night, for in the daytime these little
fellows lie hidden in their underground
EGYPTIAN MICE.
burrows, which are very ingeniously
constructed. The entrance is left un
concealed, but the exits are many and
well hidden, so that at the first alarm
they are off and away by leaps. At the
beginning of September they close the
entrance to the burrows and begin
their winter sleep, which lasts until
the following April. They are to be
found to-day only in Egypt. The in
habitants of the districts in which
they are found have little love for them,
and flic shepherds are often startled to
see them leaping and dancing in the
moonlight of a bright summer night.
Some of these people think that there
is a special virtue in their tails. When
is killed or found dead, (lie tail is cut
off, dried and pounded up, when it is
given to any horse that appears to be
ailing. In ancient times the leaping
mouse was well known, being called
mures bipedes (two-footed mice). The
city of Cyrene had a picture of one of
them on its coins.—St. Louis (Ilobe-
Democrat.
GIRL AND ALLIGATOR.
The True .Story of n I.title Florid*
MnUl'n Narrow Escape While
TiiklnK a Swim.
Here is the story of a brave little girl.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Fields, who
lives on Laku Hibson, near Lakeland,
Fla. The country is wild, and the child,
among other accomplish men ts not com
mon with the fortune-favored daugh
ters of our owu section, is uu expert
swimmer.
A few days ago she was standing by
the lake side. The day had been hot
and the water looked invitingly cool.
So in she Jumped, as she had often liout,
and struck boldly out.
She was scarcely in deep water, how
ever, before she felt a violent pain in her
leg and a great tug that drew her below
the surface. She struggled hard aud
came to the surface again. She did not
know what it was, but suspected an al
ligator.
Now, this little girl must have been
very different from most little girls, for
she did not stop to scream. She turned
shoreward and struck out with all her
might. She did not feel any pain Just
then. Perhaps she was too frightened
to notice it.
She reached shoal water all right,
when there was a swirl of water beside
her and a great black nose came up
from below. ,She felt a great pair of
jaws close over her side, between hip
and ribs, and again she was {lulled be
low. Struggling with all her might,
she again come up, and in two or three
strokes found bottom and began to
run for the shore, screaming now and
making a tremendous splashing.
There was more splashing alongside
of her and, as she ran out on the land,
s).e glanced back and saw her foe, an
alligator, near her.
You may be sure she lost no time
getting home, where she sobbed oui
her story to an unbelieving family.
But her mother removed her clothes
and there were the bleeding wounds,
and ugly wounds they were, ioo.
Now here, mark you, is another dif
ference, between this little girl and
many other little girls we all know’.
What a chance this was for a ten-foot
alligator story to make all the coun
try stare! But, no. Little Miss Fields
declares very positively that she had
a good look at the beast, and it could
not have been larger than five feet.
Thin Ih n IlnrinlPMn Joke.
Place a spool of cotton in the inside
pocket of your coat, and, having thread
ed n needle with the beginning of the
cotton, pass the needle through the
front of the coat, unthread the needl-i
and leave about two inches of the cot
ton hanging ns if it were only a stray
piece. The tirst person you meet will
be sure to pick it off for you, and his as
tonishment when he finds there is no
end to it will give plenty of innocent
fun.