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CALDWELL TRIBÜNE.
«TKI NENBRBG BROS., Puhllab«*«.
CALDWELL.
IDAHO.
C olone l Robert G. I no ersoll re
gards gloves u a superfluity and nevei
wears them.
Mb. pcrsr C. S mith , the successor
of Mr. Eugene Higgins, is a handsome
old bachelor.
Congressman Scott of Pennsyl
vania will spend $25,000 during the
winter on social entertainments at hie
Washington home.
Moody is in his 51st year, and has
been engaged in evangelistic work
twenty-three years. He is mnrried and
has three children.
There is a famine of pennies all
over the country, and the Philadelphia
mint is trying to supply the demand by
making from $5,000 to $7,000 worth o!
them every day.
The new French president belongs
to a family of Scotch origin. The
orignal name was Cairn, the French
diminutive of which would be Cairnot,
or little oniru. This was soon corrupt
ed into Carnot
Herr Paschke , a Berlin butcher, re
cently celebrated a curious "jubiloë" —
the slaughter of the 100,000th goose in
establishment He begau busiti ess in
1869 and on December 2, was able to
kill the jubilee goose—a choice spec
imen specally fattened for the occa
sion.
J ohn O'S ullivan , aged 70, a veter
an of the Mexican and late civil war,
started from his home in Beckett,
Mass., Thursday, went to Pitsfield and
drew his pension money. He was
found Saturday frozen to death in a
field near his home. He had spent the
money for mm.
T he ruthless spirit of the age has in
vaded the Old South church, Boston,
whose spire will soon be crowned with
» cluster of electric lights. This
would bo regarded as sacrilege by old
timers. In their opinion the light from
ihe open Bible on the pulpit was enough
for any church.
G eologists say that the iron ore of
the Adirondack regions was one of the
first formations of the earth's crust, and
that the folding of the strata and the
dislocat ons and uplifts which the rocks
have undergone bave caused the ap
pearance of t>re at the surface, descend
ing vertically in the form of a vein.
O ne James Schrimsher has secured
and talmn to Missouri (says the Omaha
Republican) one of the biggest prizes
Nebraska ever gave. Ho lins married
and taken away Mrs. Jane Waldon.nee
Hickley, who tips the beam at 840
pounds and is Johnson county's biggest
daughter. The groom is somewhat
«lender and stands almost seven feet in
liight in his stockings.
T he large timber raft lost off Rock
island last Sunday contained 2,890,169, •
600 cubic inches of wood. As the or
dinary restaurant toothpick measures,
one onc-liundredth of h cubic inch, this
raft was composed of sufficient mater
ial for the manufacture of exactly 239,
016,960,000 toothpicks. From these
ligures, possibly, a comprehensive idea
of the size of tli at raft may be form
ed.
Mohini M. Chatterjek , the young
Brahmin philosopher who came to this
country last year, has returned to india
nfter a long and pleasant visit On
Iiis return to his own country ha will
settle at Benares, where he will devote
himself to a work explaining all de
partments of modern science in the
light of Aryan teachings. He says
that America is the heart of the world,
but ho will never return to the wesl
again.
Mrs. Cleveland recently received
from Achille Olivieri of Venioc, Italy, a
jeweled casket made expressly for her.
Olivieri is a manufacturer of elassware
and mosaics. Colonel Lamont has sent
the caskot back to Venice with a note
to tho donor in which he says that the
gift was one of two great value to be
acceptod by Mrs. Cleveland, who does
not receive presents from those whe
«re not her personal friends. The note
is couched in polite language, but seems
likely to wound Achille in the heel.
Indications now point to the exist
once of a submarine volcanic crater
between the Cauary islands and the
coast of Portugal. From a cable-lay
ing steamer in 30 degrees 25 minutes
north, 9 degrees 54 minutes west, the
water was found to measure 1,300
fathoms under the bow and 800'under
the stern, showing the ship to be over
tho edge of deep depression in the
ocean bottom. The well-kuown great
inequalities in the bed of the Sea of
Lisbon are thought to bo due to a sub
marine chain of mountains.
Miss Anna E. DiCKinsoN, who has
been ill for nearly a year, is slowly im
proving, and will shortly leave her
home at llonesdale, Pa., for Florida,
where she will winter. Miss Dickinson' s
illness is due wholly to overwork and
worry, and her physicians precribe a
long rest as the surest cure. Sbo will
go south accompanied by a friend,
while her faithful sister, Susan E. Dick
inson, will remain to care for the
nged mother, now an invalid. Miss
Dickinson expects to undertake ]>en
work as soon as she returns in the
spring.
Sebastian S. Marble , who by the
death of Governor Bod well, becomes
the chief executive of Maine, is a na
tive of Dixfidd, Oxford county. In
cariy life he worked in the sawmills
aud woods. He received a common
school education, und lias been a
teacher of schools in Maine and in Miss
issippi and Louisiana. He lilted him
self for the bar and began the practice
of his profession at Waldoborougli,
where lie has since resided. Ho was
collector or tho port of Waldoborougli
in 1869, was removed by President
Johnson and was Un led States marshal
for tho two terms undor President
Grant, declining a re-appointment.
His first experience in tho legislature
was as senator from Lincoln county in
1883. Ile has been twice re-clected,
und aji tho last session of the legislature
#M CÎI0SCÛ ol tfa« 9CBHM4
— 'Il
pact and fancy.
The «ball of Persia has more than $100,003,
UOO worth of jewelry.
The next Ohio legislature will have »even
editors as members.
Scotch potatoes are now being Imported la
considers tile quantities.
The duke of Connaugbt will aasume com'
maud In Ireland Its April.
Tli# president has 10,000 imported cigars to
consume before next fall
Queeu Kaj-lolant of the Sandwich Islands
will luvest $iî,000 lu American real estate.
The £iri[>rcs8 Eugenie has recovered her
heiiltb aud now talks about a tour in the Holy
laud.
The conductors of the New York elevated
trains arc called "guards" by the Anglo
maniacs.
The marriage fees of some New York clergy
meu are sjid to amount to more than their
salaries.
Fifty hogsheads of saurkraut were received
from Germany by Germans in Philadelphia
last week.
During the last few years the growth of the
towns on the Pacific coast has been very re
markable.
Kaiser William wants to abdicate in favor
of fait son, the coronation of the latter to take
place in May.
M. Grevy saw twelve cabinet», with 130 min
isters, serve under him while he was presi
dent of France.
There was found In the stomach of the de'
ceased Alice, the eminent elephant, several
dollars In pennies,
South Carolina has only two legs in the
United States senate—Butler has one and
Hampton the other.
A new academy and technical school for
homeless and destitute boys Is shortly tobe es
tablished in San Jose.
Henry Laboucbere says that the prince of
Wales is furious over the publicity of his re
ception to John L. Sullivan.
At the Weslevan university, Mlddleton,
Conn., J, R. Henshaw, a sophomore, has be
come insane from ovcrstudy.
A well within twelve miles of Cincinnati Is
producing 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily and
roars like a thunder storm.
The mayor of Harrisbure:, Pa., makes the
tramps who take lodgings at the station
houses sweep the streets after midnight.
It appears that Bismarck has an elder
broiber, who has been under perfect of Min
tard since 1841, aud Is about to retire, aged
77.
"While the lamp holds out to burn, the
vilest sinner may return," as Mrs. Brownjug
remarked as she left a light burning for her
absent lord.
General Longstreet Is in sad straits, nnd has
just applied for a state pension under the law
passed by the last Georgia legislature, making
provision for such eases.
December Y the king of Spain, aged 18
months, was taken to the senate house and
placed In hi* father's throne, with all the Par
aphernalia, amid great enthusiasm.
Khode Island Is not a good state for the
newly nutrallzed. Under her registry laws
no one can vote at any election next year who
was not registered prior to January 1.
A Mexican banqnet may consist of thirty
two courses or of nothing but hard boiled
eggs. It is a country where the customs are
classic and the eggs reasonably fresh.
A Hastings (Mich.) merchant has caught
the wishbone craze and Is trading 50-cent
handkerchiefs for the wishbones of turkey
gobblers. They are way up on the New York
market.
The health officer of PilUburg reports that
durinjr 1880 the cases of typhoid fever In that
city aggregated 1,045, nhile from September I
of this year until the present time there have
been 1,300 cases.
An Immense locomotive has Just been con
structed at a Paris foundry. Its builder pre
dicts that It will realize an approximate speed
of ninety-three miles an hour. A trial trip Is
to be made In the near future.
In the sprlug the Duc d'Orléans, eldest sou
of tho Comte de Paris, who Is now at Sand
hurst, is to leave England for New York on a
lour round the world, which Is to Include vis
its to Japan, China and India.
lu au after dinner speech, not long ago, Mr.
Gladstouc said; ''Whenever a youth desirous
of studying political life cou su its me respect
ing a course of study lu the field of history, I
always refer him to the early history of Ameri
ca."
A man In a western town hauged himself to
a bedpost by his suspenders. The coroner's
jury, which was composed of mothers, decld
ed that the '"deceased came to his death by
coming home drunk and mistaking himself
for his pants.
It Is said tbero Is a minister In Saginaw
City who practices what he preaches. He
walks between tho two cities on Suuday
rather than pay 5 cents to encourage the
s'.reet railway companies in carrying on busi
ness on that day.
A vein of coal sixteen feet thick has been
found at Whitewood, Dak., twelve feet below
the surface, and seventy feet beneath that
another vein more than three times as thick
has been discovered. The coal Is said to be
as good as any In the country.
Says the Virginia (Nev.) EnitrprUe: Hal
leek is the coldest place ou the line of the
Central Pacific. It is a terror to railroad men.
At that point a current of air ccmes down
from the north through a series of valleys—a
Fort of trough that extends up Into the Arctic
regions.
In writing of his youth to an autograph col
lector Gen. Lew Wallace says: "I fear you
wouldn't have callcd me a if nod boy, and I
hunted, fished and ran wild generally until I
wus eighteen, and then I became a «tudent,
nnd that is the course I would lay down for
every life."
A mortgage dated 1S4'1, which effects the
title of oue-slxth of the real estate of Sharao
kin, Pa., has been found. It is for $43,000,
aud has never been paid. The sheriff of
Northumberland county notifies the proprie
tors of the property affected that the property
will be sold December 80.
About twenty of the richest residents of
the City of Mexico have been fined under the
law forbidding religious ceremoules and ob
n-rvances In the streets, they having placed
email altars with lighted caudles on the bal
conies of their houses on the occasion of the
feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Frederick Villlers, the well-known war cor
res)>ondent and artist of the Loudon Graphic,
has entered the lecture ffelJ. He went with
Archibald Forbes through the Franco Ger
man, Servlau and Russo-Turklsti wars, and
has a great fund of Interesting experiences,
which he relates with grapnlc eloquence.
In a Spanish paper printed at Mutanzas,
Cuba, uppcars the fol owing advertisement:
"Photographs of the most beautiful woman
In the world, Seuora fiances Folsora de Cleve
land, the lady of the White house, the Idol of
W),(*0,000 people, the wife of the president of
the United States. Call for the 'El Rayo
Verde' cigarettes."
H. 8. Foster, superintendent of the Mlll
v llc-Schuyler electric light company at New
tek, met with a serious accident on Saturday
iilght at the engine room of the company
lila arm was caught in a switch board aud the
: rm and hand were burned to the bone, the
liesh bursting In some p'accs. A ring on hli
l.ttle finger was melted.
Quill toothpicks come from France. The
largest factory In the world Is near Paris,
«vhere there Is an annual product of 30,093,
OJO quills. The factory was s 'urteil to make
(.ulll pens, but when thca- went out of use It
was turned into a tootbp'ek ml il. Wooden
tmthplcks are made principally Iii Michigan,
Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio.
Two prominent. Masons of New York cJty
who recently visited Peruainbuca, a marl
time province of Brazil, conviuced some of
i heir brethern In the order that slavery was
inconsistent with the order, and as a result
thirty-two Brazilian Masons signed an edict
declaring that they would neither purchase
uor hold slaves after November 7.
At Carrollton, O., Mm Linda Martlaud was
to be married to James Wright of Chetopa,
Kan., to Whom she became engaged through
( orrespoudente. But when he arrived she
declared slid Would never wed liim and he
loft with his sistfer, who had aecompaiiicl lilm
fiOtn Cincinnati. II« is laid to bo worth ffr),
m K«4 prtfOffi ym te win Ibi i Irti
Follow the Bula
"I think it is a shame to have to ge
home at such a time every night," he
would mutter to Jimmy. "The other
boys don't have to. When I'm a little
bigger 1 won't do It, so there!"
It was the day before the Fourth of
July. The townspeople had got up a
celebration, and hired the band from
the city to play on the occosiou, which
band was to give a concert that evening
on the fair grounds, a half milo out of
tho village.
"We are ali going, aren't we,
father?" asked Jimmy at the dinner
table. "The fair ground is to be all lit
up and people can drive about in their
carriages and hear the music."
"I would like to go," said their
father, "but I have lo take thé evening
train for New York to meet a man on
important business. And I don't dare
to trust anyone else to drive the ponies
in such a crowd and with so mnch
music in their ears."
"Never mind," said the mother,
"you'll hear the band to your heart's
content tomorrow."
Eight o'clock that evening fonnd a
large rabble of small boys, Johnny and
Jimmy among them, following along
behind a huge wage which was slowly
carrying tho band from tho depot to
the fair ground. Why they should
follow ihe wagon is as hard to tell as it
is why small boys do a great many
other thiDgs they do, for the band was
not playing nt all. But their instru
ments were in sight, and occasionally
some member of the band, as he un
screwed his instrument aud wiped it,
would give a little "toot," which sound
always gave the boys fresh courage to
think tliey would play pretty soon.
"We mustn't go any further now,"
sa'd Jimmy, when the clock struck.
"Come, Johnny."
"Oh, it's awfully mean to have to go
just yet. We want to hear the band."
"But we mus t go," urged Jimmy.
"Come, I'm off" and oft' he went like
a kite. Johuny turned doggodly to
ward the wagon.
"I am going to risk it to-night, any
how," he confided to Sammy Staples,
a not too good boy who had great in
fluence over Johnny. "I presume
father'll punish me for it some way,
but he don't lick me very often and I
can stand anything else. "
"Glad 1 hain't got any father to boss
me round," remarked Sammy, who, as
may be imagined, was a sore trial to
his widowed mother.
When Jimmy turned into the home
yard, there was his father in his best
clothes, ju3t harnessing the grey ponies
to the shining two-seated carryall.
"Why, father, I thought you were
going away!"
"I got a dispatch half an hour ago
that I needn't go to-night, so I hurried
home to take you all to tho concert.
Where's Johnny?"
"He wouldn't come home with me,"
"Well, he will lose the concert, thou.
Hurry in and wash up and dress as
quick as jon can."
Jimmy ran in an d found his mother
putting on her best bonnet, while sister
Fan, in gay attire, was just coming
down stairs, drawing on her gloves.
They both took hold and assisted at
Jimmy's toilet, as a mother and sister
know how to do so well, and in ten
minutes they drove gaily off.
"It, s too bad Johnny didn't come
home," said his mother, with a sigh,
he will loose so much."
"The best punishment he could havo"
said his father. "It is a good thiug for
a boy to learn that it is for his interest
to obey the family rules."
The band wagon had just gone inside
the gate as they drew near the fair
ground. Around the gate there was a
gang of boys who had trudged out
there for nothing, ail sweaty aud dusty
and tired. Johnny's eyes opened wide
when he espied his father's carriage
driving up for tickets before going in
side. Rushing to it at full speed he
was about to climb iu.
"Stop, stop, my boy," said his fath
er, "you are a pretty object barefooted
and dirty, to come in among clean, well
dressed people."
"I didn't know you were coming,"
faltered Johnny, "or I should have
gone home."
"Neither did I know it an hour ago
or I should have told vou. But Jimmy
didn't know it any more than you did,
and yet he came home.
Johnny hung his head. No doubt he
was ashamed to have his tears seen.
"I'm sorry, Johnny," said his moth
er kindly, "but if you had only come
home with Jimmy it would have been
all right Of course you would be
ashamed to go in now, looking as you
da"
That was so. Johnny was very
proud of his appearance when dressed
up, and could never bear to go looking
worse than people around him.
' Conldn't I go home and dress and
then come back?"
•It wonld be too late," said his fath
er. "Go home and go to bed and get
rested for to-morrow, That's the best
thing for you now."
Johnny went home a sadder and
wiser boy. If his pillow was not wet
with tears that night, there were tear
marks in the dirt on his face; for he
was too thoroughly discouraged when
he got home to think of washing up or
doing anything but goin" to bed.
'Its kinder hard to follow rules al
ways," he said to Sammy Staples next
day; "but sometimes a fellow 'makes
it' to do so, after all."
Three Kinds of Kentucky Kisses.
Outside of those kisses bestowed by
affectionate relatives, there can be but
three recognized classes of the genus
kiss—as viewed from a male stand
point. The first comes upon your Hps
as if they were touched by a smoothplau
ed, cool and insenate board, without
life or animation, unproductive of any
agreeable sensation whatever, and not
worth being garnered with heart's
mementoes of golden, happy hours.
The second is a gentle, velvety kiss
very sweet and plensent, but vcxatiously
unsatisfying to an ardent nature, and
but little more pronounced tjian a fas
cinating cousin would like to bestow.
The-third is such as coral, tempting,
passionate lips bestow, for about ten
sooonds, upon your lips—"a lingering
sweetness Jong drawn out"—that not
only steals your breath, but seems to
be drawiug your very soul from out
your body. a fellow may forget his
mother—and about harvesting such a
kiss ho is sure to forget her—but the re
collection of that undwarfed, honest
kiss will abide with him a source of joy,
and be commensurate with life Hselt:•—
letal, -
the HOOSIER poet.
How Riley Forced Himself Into No
tice and Worked the Indlanlana as
a Blind Sign Painter.
The applause which followed th«
appcarance of James Whitcomb Riley,
the Indiana poet, says an Indianapolis
correopondent in the Ke<y Tori
World , at the recent conventioc
of authors in New York has nat
urally attracted attention to him am'
has lent additional interest to his earl}
life and to a career which, when at
tended by many vicissitudes alwayf
had like Riley himself, its comic side
aud distinguished him from those witt
whom he associated. Riley is a nativt
of Hancock county, this state, and is
now about 35 years of age. His early
education was limited, not because his
father was wanting either in the means
or the desire to give him a classical edu
cation, but because the son preferred a
pursuitless dry course rather than por
ing overbooks and wading over through
the declensions and conjugations ol
Greek and Latin nouns and verbs.
Befors his school days were completed
the young Riley abandoned his books
and took up the trade of a sign painter,
and soon began traveling from plact
to place, apparently contended of hi.«
day's work brought him money euougl
to pay for tho night's lodging. Ever
his signs partook of his comic nature,
and both the grotesque letters and th*.
peculiar expressions were entirely ori
giual, and served to attrack attentior,
to him and his work.
Nature gave to R ley a peculiar pait
of eyes, and they often served him in
his summer tramps over the country
as a painter. He would frequently
enter a town as a blind sign writer,
and solicit work while being guided
from house to house by a boy, and
when his ability to do the work was
questioned he asked a trial. Running
his hand over the surface as if to take
the dimensions, the "blind sign writer"
would hurriedly and apparently with
out eftbrt. write the sign, while the
people would gather arouud him and
express the greatest astonishment at
the accuracy of ihe work. On one oi
these summer tramps Riley fell in with
a vender of patent medicine, and for i
time the two traveled together, Riley
amusing the crowd with his banjo and
comic songs and sayings as "medicino
man" extolled tho virtues of his won
derful catholicon and sold it to the
people. As a sign painter, Riley be
came perfectly familiar with the lang
guage of the street, the ignorant anc
the unsophisticated, and thus laid the
foundation of his future and poetry.
Riley's first production appeared in
print between 1875 and 1876, but they
attracted little attention because their
publication was limited to the country
press, the author not being able to
reach the public through the periodicals
of larger circulation and more cnltured
readers. Believing that his writings
possessed merit, and were rejected by
the publishers of periodicals simply
because the author was without a name
among writers, Riley hit upon a plan
to bring himself into public notice, and
to prove that his productions were not
without merit, even if the writer was
without fame. With the consent of the
editor of the Kokomo Dispatch, he
published an excellent poem which
was an excellent imitation of Edgar A
Poo's style, introducing it with the
statement that the poem had been
found written on the IjJank leaf of a
book once belonging to Poe, and found
by a relative of the deceased poet whe
moved to this stale from the East many
years ago. The poem and the accom
panying statement of its discovery
were reproduced by many papers, and
a heated discussion was the result,
some insisting that the poem was un
questionably tho work of Poe, and
others that, while striking similar, it
was wanting in some of the essentials
that distinguished Poo from all other
writers. Finally one of Poo's publish
ers sent for the book in which tho poem
was alleged to have been written, and
the truth came out.
Though Riley was severely criticized,
the encomiums which the poem receiv
ed from those who really believed that
it was the production of Edgar A. Poe
convinced him that he himself was
lacking more in name than in merit as
a writer, and he soon atter secured
employment on the Journal, of this
city, at a moderate salary, and, while
thus engaged, wrote the most of his
dialect verse. Within the last few
years he has contributed a number of
pieces for Eastern periodicals, and has
published a book of selections, in
which, however, the piece in imitation
of Poe's style does not appear.
Sounds Of The Sanctuary.
A little miss recently attended re
ligions service where she heard the
gospel hymn. "Scatter Seeds ofKind
ness," oue part of which runs as fol
lows:
"Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-half so fair
As when winter's snowy pinions
Shake the white down in the air."
On returning home she told her
mother such a fanny piece had been
sung at church.
"My dear, what could that have
been?" inquired tho interested parent
"Why, mamma, they wero all singing
»shake the night gown in the air.' —
N. V. World.
Natural History.
Gees hisses, but ducks quacks, and
wen Franky, that's the baby, is painflu
in his lap he hollers, but the lion roars
like distant thunder and makes the
welkon wring !
Uncle Ned, which lias been in Injy,
and evry were, he says one nite a
lion come ont of the woods and went
to his correl to eat Iiis cattle. Uncle
Ned he got up and looked in the correl
thru a crack the lion shode his teeth
and Uncle Ned sed, "The idiot thinks I
am a dentist, but I havn't no time for
to tend to him. He send for the lion
tamer for to quell him with his L"—
Sun Francisco Examiner.
Found in a Street Car.
A travelling man upon arriving homo
from Kansss City, where he had been
for the past year, carelessly pulled a
vest out of his trunk, and from one of
the pockets dropped a lady's ring. His
7-year-old boy picked up the ring, and
papa told him he could have it
Mamma says: "Where did you get
the ring ?"
Papa: "I found it in a street oar in
Kansas City."
Boy: "Ye-e-s you did !"
Mamma and Papa simply exchanged
g lances but did loti of thinking— ï*ur»
Ur*JiHrmU , „ ; - v .
mr. and mrs. bowser.
BY MRS. BOWSER.
lor some weeks past I have been
nervous about burglars, but every time
[ have suggested that we ought to have
i burglar alarm he has replied:
"Bosh! Burglars know irhat houses
to enter."
"But wo have something to steal."
"Certainly we have; but no burglar
s going to enter a house when he
knows that the ownor stands ready to
»hoot the top of his head off. Don't
you worry about burglars. They all
inow me, and know enough to keep
*wav from me;"
A week ago the house next to us was
sntered "ind despoiled, aud next day
I begged Mr. Bowser for Heavens's
».ike to get an alarm connected with
our doors and windows.
"To scare burglars away!" he ex
claimed, in the key of G. "Not much!
Let 'em come in. I want 'em insido."
"And you—you would capturo
lliem?"
"Never a capture! The burglar who
çets into my house dies there! The
coroner may come and sit on that body,
but it will be a lump of lifeless clay."
"And you won't get an alarm?"
"No, ma'am. I'll bring home a
shotgun nnd a base ball bat but just to
jomfort you. Nature has given me all
the weapons I want against burglars."
Then Mr. Bowser crossed bis hands
tinder his coat-tails and walked up and
down in such a self-satisfied way that
I took courage. Next day he brought
home the gun and the club, and as he
deposited them at tho head of the bed
he explained:
"It's simply to give you more confi
lence; understand? For my part I'd
give $500 to find a burglar in my
house."
That night, soon after midnight, I
heard something fall in the house, and
I nudged Mr. Bowser into wakefulness
and told him of it.
"It's that infernal old cat !" he
growled in reply. "You'vo got bur
glars on the brain, and I hope one will
come!"
Ten minutes passed and I was sure I
heard some one creeping upstairs. I
nudged Mr. Bowser again and told him
so, but he replied:
"Mrs. Bowser, if you wake me up
again I'll go down town to sleep the
remainder of the night! You can be a
lunatic on shorter notice than anybody
I ever heard of ! Now, go to sleep
and !"
The reason he stopped there was be
cause a dark-lantern was flashed in our
faces and astern voice exclaimed:
"If either one of yon make a move
to get up I'll blow your brains out!"
The burglar had come. The victim,
whose blood Mr. Bowser was hunger
ing for, stood over us. Tho m dnight
marauder, on whose lifeless clay the
Coroner was to sit, was ready to be
"sot" on. I confess I was badly fright
ened, but I did not loso my senses. I
knew ho was there to rob, and that he
had all the advantage, and I did not
move a linger.
"Come, old chap," continued tho
burglar after a moment, "I want your
services. Get out of that!"
"Take all we have, but spare our
lives!" pleaded Mr. Bowser.
"That's what I'm going to do, old
duffer! Climb out o' that and hunt me
up your wealth!"
With that he lighted the gas, sat
down on the edge of the bed, and Mr.
Bowser brought him both our watches,
nnd the $200 hidden in the dresser. I
never saw Mr. Bowser so obliging and
thoughtful. He even rummaged the
dresser to find my last rhinestone pin,
and he said "yes, sir," and "no, sir,"
to that burglar with the greatest res
pect When everything of value up
stairs had been collected, the man said:
"Now, old double-shins, wrap that
swag in a towel and bring it down
stairs for me!"
"You won't kill him!" I grasped.
"No, marm; I haven't the time to
spare for that. What's that gun and
club for?"
"To defend ourselves from burglars.
I wish I knew how to shoot"
"Exactly, ma'am; and I admire your
spunk. Here's your watch and jewelry
back, and I hope you'll pardon this In
trusion. Sorry you've got such an old
funk for a husband, but divorces cost
money. Come along, old shingles!"
Mr. Bowser meekly followed him
flown stairs, got out all our choice sil
ver from tho safe, found him a basket
to carry off his plunder, and was then
driven up stairs while the burglar made
off. Mr. Bowser got into bed without
a word, and I sat up and listened until
I heard the rascal go. Then I said:
"Well, Mr. Bowser, your wanted
burglars. We've had a real, live one,
and the house is cleaned out"
"And who's to blame for it? Mrs.
Bowser, I didn't believe you would ever
dare speak to me again!"
"Who's to blame? Am I?"
"Who else can be? Here for forty
successive nights you've kicked me
awake from two ten times to whisper
•Burglars!' into my ear! You got mo
off my guard.
"But I told you I heard a burglar in
the house."
"But I knew better! It was your
business to have been awake sooner
and to have given me a chance to got
the gun. Ah! if I could have got that
gun!"
"But you never even protested."
"Protested! Protested! Do you
think a man of my standing is going to
bandy words with a burglar? My ac
tion was taken with a view to save
your life,"
"Well, let's go down and see what's
left."
Not an inch would he move until
daylight and before we got up
he promised me a silk dress uot
to mention the affa r. No sooner
had he swallowed his breakfast,
however, than ho posted off to po
lice headquarters and the newspa
pers,' and the result was that a column
article with tho heads:
"Terrific Fight for Lifo —A Burglar
Catches a Tartar—A Midnight Visitor
Flung Through Ihe Window—A Faint
ing Wife and a Cool Husband.".
"Mr. Bowser, did you tell 'em any
such yarn as this?" I asked him, after
reading the account.
"Yarn! Mrs. Bowser, do you know
who you are talking to?"
"But you never offered any resis
tence, and j ou even suffered him to
call you names!"
•Tdld, eh? You, lying there in a
dead faint knew all that went on, eh?
Very well, Mrs. Bowsor; I'll send the
doctor up to examine into your mental
condition. The »train has probably
been too muolt on you. Poor woman I
Pool WMMttf'-JTM PfttH . _
saved by a break-down.
Wliat Made a Train Dispatcher*!
flair Turn White.
I have a brother who is now iu the
grocery business in Riehmond. Va.,
but he was for eleven years a dis
patcher ou a Southern road. He is a
sober, quick-witted and iudustrious
man, but although he is only 36 years
old, his hair is almost as white as
snow, and there are times when the
cold sweat stands ou his forehead and
he trembles Lke a leaf.
When he was dispatcher, one warm
afternoon in August he was fauuing
himself aud trying without meeting
with much success, to counteract the
effects of the hot winds, which some
times blew in that part of the Coun
try, in addit on to the intense heat
from the sun, which shown on an awn
ing overhanging h s window. He hail
been closely confined to tho office for
many months, and the constant strain
had probably wearied both body and
mind. At auy rate he had sent an or
der for an express train to meet a
special, 011 which wero a number of
officers of the road, at a oertain sta
tion; then, by one of those unaccounta
ble slips made by the most well-traiued
and careful minds, ordered the special
to a station by the meeting point. He
took his finger from the key and his
eyes from tho train sheet and again
began to fan himself vigorously and
allowed his mind to wander at will.
A few minutes afterward, more from
force of habit than from any other
reason, his eyes were cast over tire
train sheet. Like u flash of lightning,
almost at the instant he saw his mis
take. He seized the key and was
about to correct it when he realized
to his horror that it was too lato.
Both trains had been reported as hav
ing passed their stations several min
utes before and were now fast making
toward each other at not less than
forty miles an hour. When tho cer
tain result of h's fearful blunder dawn
ed upon him he tried to get up, but
his knees wero numb and refused to
fulfill their function?. As he ex
pressed it he saw the two trains as
they wero rapidly approaching each
other; saw them but a mile apart with
their precious loads of human freight.
He knew every iuch of the road, and
knew that where they must meet there
was a high wall of rock on one side
and a deep ravine on the other; knew
that a horrible death awaited in anoth
er instant almost two-thirds of the pas
sengers of both trains, for it was on a
curve where the éngineers could not
see each other until it would be too
late. Then a mist came before his
eyes, and, as he almost fainted, he saw
in his mind's eye the crash of the two
engines, the telescoped cars roll over
the embankment and piled in a great
heap. Loud above the hissing stea m
he heard the cries of tho dying. He
fainted away.
When he recovered consciousness he
heard his call on tho line. With al
most a supernatural effort he arose and
answered. The operator at tho station
to which he sent tho order to the spe
cial then told him that the engine of
the special had broken down as it was
pulling out and he wanted further or
ders. 'Hold it!' lie flashed back, and a
monntain rolled off his mind. In an
other moment, when he had time to
colloct his thoughts, he attempted to go
to .a window, and found that his limbs
were numb and tho cold sweat was
standing upon his hands aud forehead.
There was also a strange stinging sen
sation at the roots of h's hair, as
though someone was pricking him on
the head with some needles. That
night when he left the office and with
a great effort walked home his wife
jokingly asked him what ho had put on
his hair. Upon looking into tho glass
he was horrified to see that it had in
those few moments become almost as
white as snow.
He resigned his position next day
without giving cause for so doing.
Often since then he has told me that
money could not h ; re him to again ac
cept a position as a train dispatcher.—
Philadelphia News.
Afghanistan Wind Mills.
A clipping from the Milling World
says that Thomas Stevens, who recent
ly bicycled around tho world, has given
the following description of peculiar
windmils used on ^the frontier ol
Afghanistan, in Asia: High noon
finds us at our destination for the day,
the village of Tabbas, famous in all the
country ronnd for a peculiar windmill
used in grinding grain. A grist-mill or
mills consists of a row of one-storied
mud huts, each of which contains n
pair of grindstones.
Connecting with the upper stone is a
perpendicular shaft of wood which pro
trudes through tho roof and extends
fifteen foot above it Cross pieces run
through at right angles, aud plaited
with rushes, transform the shaft Into
an upright four-bladed affair that tho
wind blows round and turns the mill
stones below. So far this is only a very
primitive and clumsy method of har
nessing the wind, but connected with
it is a very ingenious contrivance that
redeems it entirely from tho common
place.
A system of mud walls is built,
about the same height or a little higher
than the shaft, in such a manner as to
concentrate and control the wind in
the interest of the miller, regardless of
which way the wind is blowing. The
suction created by the peculiar disposi
tion of the walls whisks the rudo wat
tle sails around in the most lively man
ner. Forty of these mills are in opera
tion at Tabbas, and to see them all in
full swing, making a loud "sweshing"
noise as they revolve, in a most extra
ordinary sight. Aside from Tabbas,
these novel grist-ui lls are only lo be
seen in the territory about the Seistan
lake.
Rest Would Saye Him.
Dr. Hammond says in an article on
"Overworked Brains:" As a rule, the
American never wants to retire. Ho
has an idea that it is his duty "to die
with the harness on." Accordingly he
keeps himself in the traoes, he works
day and night, his hours of recreation
to a minimum, he doesn't even give
himself sufficient time to eat his meals'
in such a way that his food can bo most
easily digested, tho tension of his nerv
ous system is rarely if ever entirely re
laxed. He has his wish—he dies • with
the harness on;" but his death takes
place eight or ten years earlier than it
would if he had knowu how to do his
work without excitement and to give
himself tho repose which advancing
jrtMiNquir«.— gwii»g WUmti*
gambling.
Scenes At The Houle»»« Table Iu New
Orleans.
One of our rich and impetuous young
men hail been playing at tho rotilette
table and losing heavily. His excite
ment grew nioro intense in proportion
as he lost. At last he became frantic
011 perceiving that he no longer had a
cent iu his purse. Ile felt and fumble«!
in vain with trembling hands all over
his wearing apparel, nntil in the pro
found recess of a huge pocket iu his
overcoat he unexpectedly discovered a
bank note that seemed tp have carefully
and prudently hidden itself to escape
from the general wrock. Eagerly un
rolling it, lie joyfully exclaimedi "By
heavens! It is for $1,0001 I'll stake
it in a lump. Fortune favors the bold."
7'hen, leaning over the voracious board
of black and red, as I10 raised his arm
lo fling his last note 011 it, he caught
the eye of Stcrlain, who occupied his
usual seat as dealer and was keenly
watching tho movoment. Immediate:
ly Ihe youth straightened himself up,
still holding the bank note, and thus
apostrophized Sterlain: "Ali! Ali! I see
that you greedily expect this $1,000
note to swell your pile. Well! you
shall not have it! and, to escape all
temptations, here it goes. Whereupon
he twisted the note nslf it had been waste
paper, and holding it up to the flame of
the chandelier,he wrathfully hlsed those
words through his clenched teeth:
"Burn, my poor note, and evaporate
into thin a : r rather than bo swallowed
up like your lost sisters, by a bloated
monster whose maw yawns for you,"
After this he broke loose and rushed
away amid tho loud laughter of his
friends, who shouted: "Bravo! Bravo!"
We had in Louis ana at that time
many individuals full of origiual char
acter. Among others was a member of
one of our best families, whose name
was St. Amant, with the additional
sobriquet of Bois Piquant (Prickly
Wood), given him 011 account of his ex
treme touchiness. Ho was. however, a
good fellow and pleasant companion to
those whom ho liked, and really at the
bottom he had a kind heart, but by a
freak of naturo he had been coaled all
over with the quills of the fretful por
cupine, and was more prone to seek
than avoid a quarrel. Fighting seemed
to improve his. digestion and humor,
and he evidently, whother wounded or
not felt better in consequence of that
stimulating oxerciss of which he was
fond. He was not thus inclined from
malice prepense, but from uncontroll
able temperament Perhaps we would
have been more accommodating, less
sensitive and aggressive, if he had not
had some cause to be fidgety and irrit
able. He had a very light purse at his
disposal. Perhaps, also, as he was of
gentle birth, poverty prickcd his
pride and ruffled his feathers. But be
it as it may, Bois Piquant St. Amant
was but too ready to crow, flap his
wings and strut defiantly on his well
spurred legs. Nothing, above all, do
delighted him more than to get into
difficulty on behalf of a friend.
One evening the Bols Piquant was
seated at the roulelte table—not to
stake anything but to look on, for he
had not a silver pioce to play on tho
board. • He bad nt his elbow, seated
also at the table, one of the most in
fluential citizens of historical ancestry
and heraditary wealth. Let Do Mor
nay be his fictitious name. This gen
tleman had been playing heavily and
by a lucky turn of the wheel of fortune
had won a largo sum. This fretted
Sterlain, who pushed with irritation a
big pile of dollars toward Mornay,
saying: "Pay yourself." Mornay in
his turn shoved it to his neighbor, Bois
P.quant "Take it all for yourself, my
friend," he said. "I don't accept what
is so boorishly handed to me;" and he
rose to depart. Bois Piquant coolly
began to count the money, making
piles after piles of $10 each, and at the
completion of eaoli pile repeated in a
stern tone: "Sir, it is not to me that
you would have thus handed over this
money!" This counting of dollars and
repetition of the same words lasted
several minutes. Tho spectators ex
pected, with much auxiety, an explo
sion of wrath; but the bulldog did not
even snarl.
Not long after this incident another
one more severely tested Sterlain'g
nervous irritability. It was on a Mardi
Gras evening. Davis' saloons were
crowded, and Stcrlain was in jubilant
spirits, he even cracked jokes, for the
roulette was winning largely. The
stakes had been high aud confined
solely to a few players, in whose ven
tures, on account of their magnitude,
the numerous bystanders felt keenly
interested. So absorb'ng was it that
the small fry of gamesters abstained
from risking their potty dollars and
gold pieces, aud gazed with a sort of
awe at the heavy pile of bank notes
that accumulated in front of the croup
ier as a rich harvest under the reaper's
sickle. The excitement was at its
height when, just as midnight struck
on the bell of the neighboring cathe
dral, there stood side by side with those
magnates of the roulotte table, without
anybody having noticed how he came,
a gentleman apparently 25 years of
age. It was such an apparition as
could not but compel instant attention.
He was of m ddlo height, fragile and
«pare body, elegantly proport oned in
form, His features were almtfst femi
nine and of classic beauty, and yet at
the very first glance there could be de
teoted in them an undefinable expres
sion which givve warning that under
this mask of softness there lurked
something to be guarded against—hard
iron or sharp steel within an envelope
of velvet or silk. Intensely black were
bis hair, the beard on his upper lip and
his lustrous eyes. Black wa9 his whole
dress from head to foot, its neatness
evidencing-the unmistakable cut of a
fash onable artist Black, also, tvere
his closely fitting gloves. His coat, of
the finest cloth, was buttoned up to his
chin, and Bhowed to advantage his
statuesque bust Altogether there could
not have stood in any princely hall a
more aristocratic looking personage.
a poet would havo called him the god
of darkness.
This stranger—for no one present
knew him—seemed to abstract himself
completely from his surroundings, and
for a while looked intently at the gam
ing board, as if he meant to impregnate
it with the magnetizing fluid of h s w.lL.
Then suddenly addressing Sterlain, in
front of whom he had stationed him
solf: "Sir." he said in'Spauish, with a
courteous bow and a musical but some
what motnlllo voice, "arc the »takes
llMltcdf" "Wo," briefly fcuittered
^ -
croupier, ^he nnknown deliberately
took off his right glove, showing a hand
which a woman might have envied,
with long nails exquisitely shaped and
pearly in color. With it ho drew out
an apparently well filled pocketbook ol
black morocco ornameuted with gold
clasps. He extracted from it a few
bank notes, which he laid on the table,
saying calmly.' "My deal is for $10,
000." An electriö shock seemed to
have struck the bystanders, and •
thrill shot through every one s hear!
that almost stopped its beating.
The wheel turned. The bank lost
"Take your plunder!" shouted Stei>
lain with an oath.
"No. Let it stand. I go the whole."
The ball was again set in motion,
and again fortune favored the Spaniard,
who by this time had become tho only
player, all the rest gazing with absorb
ing interest at the terrible duel which
had evidently begun between th«
two adversaries. Unused to such bad
luck and suoh crashing loss. Sterlain
appeared to be beside himself, and
growling like an angry mastiflt jumped
up. "Excuse me, trentlemen," lia
said. "I am out of funds, and must
apply to Mr. Davis to replenish the
bank."
A few minutes elapsed,durlngVhlcb
the spectators remained clutered to
gether in profound silence and staring
at the lucky gambler, while meanwhile,
without taking the slightest notice of
the surrounding crowd, kept his eyes
steadily fixed on tho roulotte, as if bur
ied in tho deepest meditation.
Sterlain returned with his hands full.
"Why havo you not removed your
trash and cleaned the board?" he said
gruffly to the stranger.
"Beoauso." replied he, "I ohoose to
leave it where it is and stake the
whole."
Sterlain turned pale and breathed
heavily as if something prossed against
his chest. Again tho ivory ball of fate
twirled in the bowl. Again it stopped.
The bank had lost Up started Sterlain
frenzied with rage, to get another sup
ply from those ample funds which Dav
is and his associates always kept in re
serve. O11 his coming back Sterlain
was so demoralized that all he could
say to his adversary, 011 whom I10 cast
a bewildered look, was: in a tono of
freightened interrogation: "Well, what
lioxtP"
"I stake all I have on tho board,"
was the short reply.
Round and round wont the roulette
and for the fourth time the mysterious
stranger won. Tho total game was
enoroiuous.
"The bank is completely broken and
closes for to-night" Sterlain announ
ced iu a voice which emotion reudered
almost inarticulate, and vaulting over
the table he rushed upon the Spaniard,
brandished his closed fists and exclaim
od: "In the foul fiend's name;
what havo you eaten today."
The stranger had retreated a few
steps at the sight of the threatened as
sault and stood still, waiting for a
closer approach. With a diabolically
sardonic smile on his lips, with a look
which frozo the blood of the spectators
and made Sterlain reel back as If a
stiletto had struck him full in the
chest, the Spauiard with perfect com
posure, answered in his rich native
language: "If you are, amigo mio, in
terested in knowing what I havo eat/^f
to-day, I have no objection to telling
you that It is chocolate, senor, para
servir a listed."
Tho reader may laugh at this ridi
culous finale, but wo were assured by
one of the spectators that none of tjiem
was so disposed at the time, so tragio
was the intonation with whioh the
stranger pronounced in Spanish the
word chocolate. It never was known
who this man was. When he retired
he was followed by many who wished
to gratify their curiosity on that point
Bat on reaching the street ho jumped
into a carriage, which seemed to have
been improv sod for the occasion, and
drove furiously away. That was the
last seen of him in New Orleans. The
prince of darkness was never better
personated. Was he Mephistopheles?
—American Magazine.
Spider-Web Paper.
The Hon. George West of Ballstou
Spa, is in possession of a cariosity in
paper sent him by a friend in Hong
Kong, China. It is a sheet 11 by 14
inches, made from the web of the
"sacred white spider" of the flowery
kingdom. It is as light as air and al
most as transparent but is also beau
tifully printed, and contains about the
equal of two columns of matter, giv
ing in English the story of "How
Midshipman Copplestone was present
ed at the court of Pekln." Mr. West
has made the manufaotnre of paper
his life work and study, but it is safe to
soy that he never ran a spider-web
paper factory.— Saratog ian.
Yery !Funny for Tom.
Intimate Friend—Have you been en
joying vonr honeymoon at Old Point
Comfort?
Heiress (lately married)—Yes, we've
been there; but do you know, I over
heard Tom tell a friend of his it was
"harvest-moon" with him instead of
"honeymoon." What do you suppose
he meant? Funny, wasn't itP
Friend (knowingly)—Oh, yes, very—
for Tom.
Back In the Market
He (at a Chicago evening entertain«
ment)— Do you know that very bril
liant-looking woman at tho piano, Miss
Breezy?
Miss Breezy—Oh, yes, intimately, j
I w.ll be glad to present you, Mr.
Walda
He—Thanks. Is she an unmarried
lady?
Miss Breezy—Yes, she has been un
married twice.—.V. Y. Sun.
A Poser.
"Bobby," said his mamma, "I hear
that you havo been using bail words."
"Who told you, ma?"
"Never mind who told me; a little
mouse, pcrh a[is."
After a brief contemplative silence
over tho inouso busitioss Bobby in
quired:
"Well, did tho little mouse say whioh
was the worst to do—use bad words or
tell wrong stories? 1 '— Puck.
■ — — ft
Lett Them for a Reproach.
Husband— (dr«aa n«)— Where Hi tlift
world arc mv boots, my dear?
\\ ifo -Ou flie mnnllcpivco, whor^
,vvu left them last algbt*