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blziahe. B. LOUISIANA -- -s o se t 'sttauson seems atill over the Fair millions. -" /0 m0 much thinking on the subject Smierobes will dull the heartiest ap r ",. ?here is a double reason for calling t hard coal, since it has become .so ,': aG to get. s The fact that coal and diamonds a-re 'hemically identical ceases to wear an Air ~at paradox. An Indiana man burned up $6,000 in g:&Ireenhacks before committing suicide. Sxs ,this patriotism? 'Grave diggers are taking risks when tihey go on a strike. There are no •r;Mlikes at crematories. .Since his father's will was read S.ong Mr. Mackay has not had to - r ry about his board bill. We have not read the coronation 1 -4de written by William Winter, but it N BMetter than Alfred Austin's. . in Edward should remember that .l.ay lies the head that doesn't take ..:ofr its crown on going to bed. President Castro should know how .!0 take his medicine. It is the same -deoe he has served out to others. -The Viceroy of Chi-1i means well '.aougb, but his proclamation reads -'ak. something from a comic opera. enril Rochefort of Paris wears a straw hat which is said to have cost *- 1 000; but then one can say anything. SIt is a severe strain on the transpor ?' ation facilities to move even the stories that are told of this year's ps. fr it is to be hoped that the rest of a ~ahe South American republics will h.t insist positively on having revo- of s now. ar ge @'anglagnd is drinking California wine, Sith "California" on the label and yo aAkewise on the cork. Will the "inva- ar " never end? bo ,.- ro takes courage to buy a big. daily paper only to suppress it, as Mr. any has practically suppressed the an plphia Times. fa die ------------ - t ie ambitious and able-bodied mos- - will catue more bloodshed than .the (eitral Amervican and iaitian put together. :One of, the first signs of autumn is *prima donna's annual interview at the fabulous salary she has had 8 :decline because of a previous con. of in pla T ile farmers' $50,000,000 trust will need to go east after financial a g stance if i can hold on to its othe M4pmi .hU east really needy gan wer Wol _' merican women led all others for as yjewels at the coronation, a fact pla3 d the customs officers in New kin, k will try to recall a little later in "' ¢ year. afte Inte The empress dowager has caught his Chinese reformer and suggest- out 'that he be sent to the place where trou s are either unnecessary or im, last mon Seigh *o dSbly the cigars that a Texas rail is kffering as a bonus to travel- a m sre of the kind that make the dis. In I of travel seem as nothing by ~ ecause a waitress hands a cus et' a piece of peach pie when he Pro 'Give me the kind that re. you," would you accuse her being egotistical? live :;g Y ly that New York woman who put sai g her first husband for abandon. thei t after she has tried six othet stati monial ventures is paying him a in g _ compliment. abou ad~y who drenched her husband a ye to must have been an extrav mea housewife. It is not necessary adv Smore than a few ounces ot high •I d about. Besides there was grow binper. artic S. nflu e, the walls of Solomon's temple pusts n discovered in Samaria and for 's ark has been found in Green hous there appears to be a chance fot wage scientist to locate Adam ang hotel first tepee. a gr times folstor's latest book the Russian man) ast sserts that English fiction expe th Dickens and American lit. plifle ceased with Emerson and Lo. more ;rhis is tough on Samuel Eberly ard C and Mary McLane. any tecteu .w York mendicant has admit. lies -p-urt that h,. makes $1,800 a scale t, poor fellow, how seems pect to cut any kind of a conve New York on $1,800 a year. ing 1 .than n man is trying to start a econo poor inventors. It should be Just SWith a number of padded ou tl the perpetual motion crowd. epidel 3, artistic wr~ys of serv- Act elons as one reads of! At words e, for pure relish, can believ "the small boy's way,g, BY THE SALAY ACOVERNENT. BY THE GOVERNMENT. Among the long list -df -government employes who draw saiarles from Uncle Sam's porketbook. ,thu distinc tion of being the smallest salaried of any falls to Charles Henry Gibbs, keeper of the "btlg light'" at Nan tucket, Mass.. who annually about the the 20th of July receives :a check of $1, his year's salary, and cashes it with as much concern as if it were $1,000,000 Instead of 100 cents. What is known as the "Bug light house" is situated on a hill -icar Mo nomoy, on the south side iof Nan tucket harbor, and at the time when the Island was at 'the height of its fame as a whaling port was consid ered an invaluable guide to ,vessels entering the harbor at night. 'It -ranged with tihe light on Brant Point in such a manner as to indicate the channel entrance; but fo" over twenty years it has not been used at .all, the shift ing sands of Nantucket bar and the buildings of the jetties bringing it several hundredu feet out of range. The name "Bug" was applied to the light by the old mariners as .a nick. name, evidently from its resemblance to a fire fly when seen at a distance. However, the government still re ta3ns the lighthouse and is willing to pay a man $1 a year to live there. The keeper has no work to do. but is it allowed to keep hens and breed cats [ tor a livelihood. Mr. Gibbs is one of a- Nantucklet's eccentric (.hb-racters and tf Jives alone, coming to town only when 5, his stock of provisions is getting low. - He is a native of the island, and in e early life learned the cooper's trade, f afterward going whaling for over It twenty years, and made several voy e ages "round the Horn." visiting nearly every sea on the globe. Since giving - up the sea he has made a living at I- whatever kind of a job he tcoluld se I- cure, and about eight years ago he accepted his present posifion as 9 keeper of the lighthouse. Despite his threescore and ten years he even now hires out to neighboring I farmers in haying time, and is an expert berry picker, claiming he can I pick more berries in a (lay than the liveliest youngster on the island. Mr. Gibbs wears neither shoes nor stockings in the summer time, but in the winter resorts to the old-fashioned leather boots. He says he does not get lonesome, for his cats keep him company, and he always has one event to look forward to each year the coming of 'his cheek in July, when he indulges in a few delicacies for his table and one or two heads of tobacco for his enjoymenit .luring the long winter months. TWO CLASSES OF MEN WHO MAY BE PITIED. In fine, I hardly know who are most to be pitied, the rich or idle and lazy who underwork, or the very poor who must overwork to live. The former grow flabby or tense, according to their heredity, in both muscle and mind, become fastidious, finnicky and sentimental, are especially prone to yield to temptations to drink and of sex excesses, must aimlessly change their interests, location and pursuits from sheer ennui;, are easily bored and finally lose the power of being strenuous about anything. The effects of an inactive life upon the offspring are sometimes sadly and markedly de generate. The overworked, especially if young, are prone to many forms of arrest. Children are undergrown in both heighth and weight; they are robbed of the paradise of leisure, Which is the literal translation of the Greek word school. The high ideals and ambitions normal to adolescence fade into a dull state of apathy and t diseouragement, and, at worst, of smoldering revolt against the existing order of things. To be always tired is miserable, and individual or social misery is a powder magazine liable to explode at any time. Man is endowed with a fatigue sense that tells him he is tired, con- f tinues a writer in Ainslee's. It seems to be a specific feeling, due perhaps U to accumulated products of decompo- t sition in the muscles. This pain-tire o is a warning to stop or let up. It is, f, however, possible to press on in de fiance or it, and if we persist in so do- r; ing there comes a point when this e fatigue sense is itself fatigued and tired out and ceases to act. This is , when runners get their second breath; when those beginning night work n, have fougat through tke period of le sleepiness that comes when they have oi wont to go to hed and feel very wid6e i awake and alert as if they could go w on forever. But the day of reckoning pl comes. They are now living on their ai capital, which is being rapidly over- h( drawn. Cc U-,,,, - _ WOLCOTT'S BIG LUCK IN GAME OF POKER. of the coolest of men when engaged in a game of poker. In describing his play, Albert Watson of Denver said: - "The senator once found himself in a game of poker where three of the other players were playing a 'sure game.' They were professionals, and were after a big bundle of looney Wolcott had in his possession, as well as looking for that which a fifth player, a rm"ining operator named Dur kin, was known to have. "Wolcott knew in twenty minutes after the first hand was dealt that the Intention was to robhim, and wearied his wits in trying to find a way to get out of the game without making trouble, but he could not do it. At last he was dealt a pat flush of dia monds, made up of the five, seven, eight, nine and jack. "He skinned the cards over and did a mighty piece of thinking. He felt In his bones that a flush would be U----ýý~,,--------------- of no account in the world when it came to a showv down, but he chipped in to draw cards. "He pondered a long while between discarding the five spot or the picture, and at last tossed away the jack and called for a card. The dealer looked estonis'ted at his wanting any, but gave a card. "Wolcott picked it lit) and found that he had got the six spot of dia monds. HIe l1ver turned a hair. The betting began, and he nursed his se quence along, letting the other fellows do the raising. At last it got down to Wolcott and one of the profes sionals. "Finally there was a call, and the other man showed four queens. Wol cott laid down the five, six, seven, eight and nine of diamonds and swept in the money. The game stopped right there. 1 reckon that was the a greatest piece of luck any man ever had in a poker game." 1H'GH COST OF LIVING. Pro4lil ality Has Reached a Stage That Is Almost Epidemic. It seems to cost a great deal to live nowadays. Most persons notice It, especially persons who are hard put to it to find the money to pay their bill, says Harper's Weekly. The statisticians report that commodities in general use cost, on an average, about 10 per cent more than they did a year ago. The rise in the price of meat contributes a good deal to this advance, though breadstuffs have been high, too. Articles of luxury have grown dearer in proportion than most articles of necessity, because the huge Jnflux of money that the country has pustained has made a brisk market for luxuries. Rents are higher; houses cost more: servants get higher wages; board is higher at summer hotels. Another thing that counts for a great deal is that in prosperous times like these the incomes of very many people are increased and their expenditures are proportionately am plified. They spend more money, live more luxuriously and raise the stand ard of living. The living expenses of any given family are very much af fected by the expenses of other fami lies of their acquaintance, and the scale of living of "other families" seems just now to have become in ýonveniently liberal. There is noth .ng that we are readier to share han our c'onomies. It is easier to 3conomize when it is the fashion. lust now prodigality is so conspicu ius that is has become more or less I)idemi Actions may speak louder than rords, but you can't make a woman elieve it. Fi. F. WAS DIFFICULT TO ANSWER. t Secretary Wilson's Question Effectu. ally Squelched Interrupter. Secretary Wilson has gained the name of the "l)avid Harum of the cab inet," not only through the stories which he keeps on tap appropriate to all occasions, but also because of the ready wit with which he meets all conversational attacks. Not long ago he was one of the guests at the board of the Clover club in Philadelphia, an organization which has acquired a rep utation as being a most difficult body to address. The members seem to take a fiendish pride in rattling a speaker by their interruptions. Mr. Wilson had just risen. His first sentence had contained a reference to the fable of the lion and the ass. "Which are you?" called a voice from down the table. "The lion," answered the secretary, without an instant's hesitation. "'Which are you?" The Difference. An American ;::."1, pretty and bri.ght. had bleen sl Ilding some time in Leamington. EI, rnd(l. The afternoon bet re her departure she suddenly remIn .ibered that sev oral hooks from the public library :hould be, returned. She took the vol umes, sallied forth, and presently en countered a young Englishman whose acquaintancce, though brief, had not been without attraction. "Really, now, how queer you American girls are," he said. "Now, I suppose if you were at home, walk ing on Fifth avenue you would never be seen with a fellow lugging all these books." 1: "Certtinly not," she quickly and archly answeredl. "If I were in Amer ica the fellow would be carrying 0 theun" B'. TIMOE MSAN W-iO LIVES IN PIANO BCI\ I 13 l' Ic :l'Im the Stran l t. tp!a .of t ".odle fuor a humila being has just l been dliscovered in .nt'tet rlle. It is n a pianoll o;x, locat .l ' brin.:ch of t. Lie Chesapeake Bay, and i t oc,..upted n by James Bailey, a w\'oodl',.-^Il" -(.fl tish er*nan. Tlhere alr St'ev l boxes on r tile side of t w river, a!!. with the, r. exception o' the one occ'urtied by y Bailey, bhe'g used as locker's by fish g ermen who live in the vicir.ity. The t box in wh. h Bailey live s is made . of rough boards, and 0 as once the a me of ai, upright piano. It is about 3 ; feet it: length. 3 feet wide and a little over 5 fee" 'high. It is known as " No. 2.511," awl has been used by SBaiicy for the riast fourteen years. l 'ron thlic first of Februl.ary until the last of Novemnbcer he eats, sleeps and ,lotunges in this box, deserltirog it only when the winds wihlih s\oeep over the river rnlal it itnir.habita' le, even for an animal. The old fls'lcrman has never known a eta; of sic'ke rs. and says that he is ll'fc''tl hai..py, relports a writer in lh . New York ilerald. 'itogih he has t ve\'cral children liv\in in onaltimnore, n all o'f whonm are at:ions and willing i for him to spend his dic Jlining days at their homes, tBailey stoitly re fuses all invitations. pref'rring to b end hi? days in nis "'cnansion'" bv the river, of A mattress and seer ral bed cover st iigs hhide the bottom. Along tae is ::ides are two shi Ives, on which are of rantged blts of tisning tackle, a tea, Id pIt. a coftee utre:, a bottle of milk, h- kn ves, forks and cooking uitensils. in Arou'1l the sides are Ils clothes, I'r neatly hung on hooks. At one end ) is a litghlted lantern. On the whole, II- the place looks extremely cozy and e colnfortable. .e "I've been here since the blizzard e of '88," said Bailey. in answer to a It question. "''p to .net titl I'd lived in a cabin a little fartner wn on the . shore. but the place w . too cold, y and I :,nd to find morEconmfortable . uarters. I bought this box for 75 e cenlls--rather cheap for a home, d wasn't it? 1 "' a-us. 'tis a little cold in winter. e sonti i i- s. Bliit then. you see, the r place is all my own. I'm protected Ironl the rain." and ne pointed to the 1 rough t1 lcof that covered the top of "1 t tie box. ''and in sumnnler time I'd I I Fooner slep) i he r,. lwhere I can open the lid ancd tget the full benefit of the bre'o-zes, than illn a hot, stuffy bed in a real house.'" The Inonokramrn ata, is all right, but h better let it aleh e. There are times a when positive ildentiflcation nmight be a embarrassing. 0 SOLDIERS BELIEVE INS AND CHARMS AND GPELL9 During the South African war a number of instances have 'ropped iup showing that the idea still prevails that there are such things as charms and spells against wounds and death. Not long ago a paragraph appeared in some of the papers to the effect that a soldier's watch. with a charm at tached to it. had been found on one 1 of the battle-fields. and was being held for a rightful claimant. Earlier in the c war a i)livate'8 letter told hcw a com- c rade had come in safety thiough a hot t engagement by virtue, as he' thought, a of an amulet he wore, to bIe mortally t wounded in a subsequc:t sl:i;mish, ti when, by the merest chance, he was a not wearing his char m. A relative's E letter from the front tells the writer ti of a young fellow who wur! a charmed o ring suspenlrred from his ncc.k. The a wearer had it from hit sw.e;thc art; he tc placed the most perfect faith in it, t. and, though he had baen in several ti hot corne:rs. he hadl hitherto always. tc come out scathless. in Although this kind of belief is of ar very ancient date, it is curious as gi well as interelsting to find it still in do existence in the British army. Per- w haps we ought to say 'traces of it," th for it is hard to believe that it is E widely prevalent. And yet it would not be very surprising if it were so, seeing that a certain proportion of of the rank and file are illiterate. and come from a stratum of society which is largely superstitious. It is curious to compare our army in this respect with the German. Those who happened to be in the fatherland during and immediately after the war of 1870-71 must have been struck by the amount of super stition that, hidden under ordinary cir cumstances, in the then excited state of the public mind made its way to the surface, much as the mud of a stagnant pool floats to the top when the water is agitated. Nothing seemed too Wbsurd to be believed. Portents and warnings were seen everywhere. Black 'ltosses, observed for the first time in window-pares of the houses of the peasantry throughout Baden and the south generally, were held to be signs of divine wrath against the turn things in general had taken in the fatherland, especially in regard to the church. The excitement touch ing this phenomenon became intense, and was only allayed when a Baden glass manufacturer came forward and demonst;ated that the warning crosses were marks imprinted on the glass in the process of making.-.-Ne- "-York Evering Post. The man who is bravest in words is often weakest in action. VILLAGE BL4OTED OUT BY SILNTING SANDS. Not aione v\!canoos. floods and cy clones show the inability of man to cope with the aroused forces of na ture. as a recent dispa.tch from Los Angeles, Cal.. show. Just across the mountains to the east of Redlands. Cal.. in the M\ljava desert, lies the village of Indio. a sta tion on the Southern Pacific railway. Two years ago it was surrounded by an arid waste of sand. Nothing grew there-not even sage brush. It was as desolate and dreary a waste as Death Valley. n00 miles to. the north east. Someone put down an artesian well and found abundant water a short dis tance below the surface. Other wells were sunk. Water was turned on the land and the desert began to blossom. Land which had been worthless began to sell at all the way from $20 to $100 per acre. And this land grew anything. It pro duced melons every month in the year. It grew alfalfa six crops yearly. Any thing that was planted produced huge crops. Indio was the center of a fer tile and fruitful district. i Two or three weeks ago the desert wind began to blow. It had blown often before and the people or indlo were not alarmed. This time. how ever, it continued to grow in strength. Fine particles of sand fillel the air, and still the people were not alarmed. They had had sandstorms before. But not this kind of sei storm. The wind grew fiercer an" . r, rolling clouds of sand before it and finally swooping iup whole acres of -r and hurling it upon the cultivatedftelds and fruitful gardens of Indio. At the end of three days, when the desert wind ceased, the whole culti vated region was once rore an arid desert, buried under sand many feet deep. Not a green thing was spared. Everything had been obliterated by the fierce breath of the simoon. The jealous desert had claimed its own again. Crops, irrigation ditches and improvements valued at over $1.000, 000 had vanished-blotted out by the shifting sand. To be contented you must be good friends with yourself. WHEN IS A MAN WISE? Differences of Opinion Concerning a Most Important Point. What age brings with it of wisdom on the one hand or irresponsibility on the other deplends largely on the point of view. Tho recent unfiortulate slip of Gen. Brigg's pen regarding the Culbans was under d iscussion the .ether day, betweec'n two iilen. )both of whoml had seen, in their timel, a good deal of ulblic life. "I ani sorry for It;'a.,." (' arltarked one of themn. "lut lit, is far too old to be placed in a Ipositi:,i of the dllicacy of that of c(onsul 5'('erial in ('uba at this stage.'' "I ani noit so ;:e of that." an swered thli; tlh'. '"I was once'. as a youngster. with I'Pre'idlent Lin coln and Secretary Seward ewhen the lat ter was urging that fi certain diplo matic mission requil.ing the ripelst and soundest juldgmenntt should be givt'en to a certain nlan he had selectted. .1r. Lincoln inlquired how old tlhe c'andi date was. and was told that he was past middle life. The piresident shook his head. "'te won't do.' said he: 'lie's too olu for such a post. I shliul hihe too old for it: you would I(h too old for it Seward.' "'No,' answered Seward, equally t:gd earner-tly, 'the trouble is just the othemM way. I am not ,ld enough to fill it properly: I never shall hi' .1 enough.' " In Haunted Wayc. Tni h:auntl ti ays I s .t i' fleet. Vhiten tales the wistl'tl a:ftter-glow: T'lhe gthostly tl' ,'ene is so swe'et, No lighlttest feit.r my hart m:r.y kniw: T'lhl sigh oif ,ltkii l'l-i , bi.oIsh.s [ heair- On,' talhll ti'e whisti rring ltintve repeat; ()Iit ,,a I3 vo<,ice., inl all, Il hear, I' la'. t l ishit Iher' 'ir I rang,. T iht, ;il'::tly r -.n , is s. , weet, Si\' h''t. ',i '. th. I tt"'irts ti n change (h a rimi.rs ile, t irish's i ttil i ! in. T h-' iti l s 1i11 Ll ts o " to v, : ., (rl t. 11? 1 , iý". I h , : ll' InI .1:'.:. iin oI : ti . I fii. il In l:tntel si ast . i ltily lf, l o \ Il lre' I ;;o \V lt'e're r 1 ge-- \vh,'re'or I >-'o The mlyslie thrall, oni is eotl l. . AnlRity as sit nwas not :le t on to I nli 1o ,1 sin 'e .st to r--a Then lir "1 i m , ort ,1,1 truly heat. I.-lt t , t i ilt"y Voice I heair. - El ith "lh ni:ts. ua I irli I ; '-r s Jr ii t:lr. An enthusiastict ratan loses Ils pop llarity as soon as p)tople get on to To be found in batl t (lpanly is often equivalent to being losi.t. U The adies' Ho nmonth has a long husbands should d wives. When you room, reading, and in, arise to your f1 cover bow.-Atchison Glob, ch are The British consul a tea' pie reports that It i r onewslalpers as packlin enils export for Turkey, as ls. examined at the custol lothes, it contallis "seditious" to end moved. whole, y and Msr. Samuel McCaugll lian sheep king. has sit" Iizzard loss on account off' to a It has diminished 1 a lived flock of 1,250.00 -u0 on the world which belong old, no fewer than 1,000 ' Mrs. Winslow's S, ttFor childrten teething, softenJ . home, gamatlton,allays pain, curas w. inter The eminent German pd (U er. Franz von Lenbach, adP AIN th berry blonde' more than an tet'ted of women, though he . declares o the they are so ethereal that tbey ca :op of " bhhappy in marriage unless they a e I'd adored and petted all the time.. open lit of Prof. Stetson of the Univers of lied Chicago told the students L*. fth course of a lecture on- "PSychsgY ,y and the Preachers" the other day atht a minister should "compose his own but hymns, words and music; shou1 b84 :imes skilled art critic, hal i,.AZ It be architecture and be an expert psy ogist." Hearts may be attracted by as. . ed qualities, but the affections ar ly to be fixed by those who are rear. L'e Moy. The loyal bill poster sticks up fo - his employer. and Marry in haste and repent in the hich court room. ,ious pect the Keep Out the Wet tely '/ ain cant touch the sn ptodby! pe SAWYER'S cir- EXCEASOR tate BRAND nto CKERS hen he be.t oiled cloth.ing i the world. Warranted water nedtond notgh R Yad nts -.ether. tietthe g,,0. if our dealer dolnt rep tbem. f ere. rite for tloue o f first d ybestrElthmd stwle Y]EI "fie n nd se, dnd tes in wrk wIt WE DEj' 9 PIYOURR A11 If anyone offered you ort dollar for an imter - tn "rwould you lake itt' t to t30.00 S If anyone offered y s cation. h. dollar for 75 cents of cationo the n Towr t-e nbt would you take it? Ato t We offer you to , e very best starch made tg No other brand is so , ly all others -ost IOc. for Is Ours is a business pro DEFIANCE STARCH is Sand cheapest. tI We guarantee it satisfacto" Ask your grocer. S The DEFIANCE STARCIl is. He wilt e htoill sell for" cf. ue on the eastern coast.To ir t whe Wt nd were called ,Iickers by 'L n.ne has come into suc! general use that it is frequently though wrongfilly applied / Look for the Sign of' the rh.ad 'SOLD IY RaPRSELNTATJIV TRADI / mTe WORLD OVeR. A. J. TOWER C.BOSTON. 1AS. , The Twentieth Century Se; MONEY MAKER. iO ,ooO profit, per mere. Lare % est. Garden In America. Addre.uus . . R.E.BARNARD, Houston, Mo ., EVERY BOY thdtph,~yeootfaltohrnd ha,-,. AcogS -o ver