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OOUNTING APPLE SEEDS.
•Bride the hearth one winter night,
Made rosy by the great log's light,
That, flaming up the chimney dark,
Hit every cranny, every nook,
Upon the rug a little maid
Sat curled in pose demure and staid.
In pensive mood, with dreamy eyes,
She sits, while up the chimney flies
A thought with every fiery spark,
Glinting and flashing through the dark,
Till with a sigh profound and deep
She moves as one moves in her sleep.
A rosy apple in her hand
A weight of thought seems to demand.
She taps it witli a finger light,
Then carefully she takes a bite.
Another bite, now one, now two.
The core is thus exposed to view.
Another sigh! What can it be.
My little maid, that aile:h thee?
Ah! What is this? Some incantation,
Muttered with such reiteration?
Hark! As each seed her bright eyes se»
These are the words that come to me
"One I love, two I love,
Three 1 love, I say!
Four I love with all my heart,
Five I east away."
Here a tear rolls brightly down.
What the secret she has won?
Who can say? But just behind
Bounds a voice so soft and kind:
"Loot: again! Thou must indeed
Find for mo another seed! ' '
Hosier her knight cheeks grow
In tho firelight's ruddy glow.
Sure enough, a culprit seed
Finds she i:i tho core indeed.
"From thy lips I fain would hear
What the sixth one moans, my dear."
"Six h" loves," she murmured low.
And the inorigin's flicliering grow
Two bag v luces now disclose.
With cnee::.! a- do'.via ; like the rose.
But hole we'il let the or.atari: fall,
For tho end is best of all.
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PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
Tlio Hot I Didn't II
Would lli\
"Do sou belief
times i.c 'warned
askui tile i>ii::>r>
am, lmt if TS Hail lie
Been Fixed.
e that we arc some
of great dangers? '
traveler. "Did
you ever have—v.iat; voa call it?_pro
monitions? Well, I was premoui: bed
the other night. I had to put up at a
junction hotel, and they sent me clear
up to tho top of tho building into one
of these rooms with a slanted ceiling.
You know the kind. You pay for the
room, and the roof occupies it.
"There was one window. I looked
out of the window, and it seemed to be
at least 00 feet down to the ground. It
was a wooden building, and an old one,
understand? While 1 was looking out of
the window a freight train went by,
and the engine threw out a million
sparks.
" 'Well,' I says to myself, 'I can see
my finish light now. There'll be 40
trains going Ly on th°se two roads to
night, and it'3 a four to one shot that
this hotel is going to catch fire. ' I
looked out again. There wasn't auyfire
escape, and they didn't have any rope
in the room. You see, in a good many
places like that they have a big coil of
rope in one corner and a sign that says,
'In case of fire take hold of the rope and
jump.' A man reads that sign and then
be can't sleep all night.
"Well, I looked out of the window
again, and a switch engine pulled past
and shot out a lot of live cinders as big
as your fist. That settled it. 1 went over
to the bed and found it had two sheets.
I took out niv pencil and figured that I
could tear each sheet into four strips,
and, allowing for the kuols, each sheet
would make about "4 feet of fire escape,
although, of course, there would be
some waste where 1 would have to tie it
to the bed. I figured that 1 could push
the bed over to the window, fasten one
end of my rope to the headboard and
play out about 45 feet. I had it all ;
fixed —some water all ready in the bowl,
so as to dampen the knots and pull them
hard. Of course I still had some dis
tance to fall after I got to the end of
my rope, but that was ail right You
know, as soon as I had my rope fixed £
was going to drop the mattress, so as to
have something to full cn.
"I took my cardcase, watch, money
and keys mid tied them in a haudker
chief, which I very carefully placed on
tire winnow sill, so that it would not
be overlooked in the hurry of getting
away. There didn't seem to be anything
else that 1 could do until the alarm was
given, so I turned iu and fell asleep
right away. 1 wasn't worrying, because
I was ready, no matter what happened.
I had been asleep about three minutes,
it seemed to me, when somebody pound
ed at my floor and told me to* get up;
that it was 7 o'clock. 1 got up and
dressed, and you can imagine how badly
I was disappointed. Ob, I was sore I
But, eay, suppose tho hotel had caught
flro I. .. 1
fire. Wouldn't that have
Story?"—Chicago Record.
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Uar yj ors amI Uniforms.
lVho is that rather plainly dressed
man with the iron gray hair sitting in
"If/. , TT
That is Colonel Blank. Ho is an old
campaigner who has won considerable
celebrity as an Indian fighter. "
£ have heard of him. Who is that
fierce looking man in the gorgeous uni
form, with epaulets, cocked hat and
gold braid?"
"That's Colonel van Cleave."
"Whom has he ever fought?"
"Mosqu itoes."—Chicago T ribune.
According to the computation of the
Russian chronologists tho creation took
ytaw B. C. 5508.
i PASSING- OF TRADES.
FEATURES OF OLD TIMt CITY LIFE
THAT ARE FADING AWAY.
Changes Wrought by the Iconoclasm of
Civilization — Itinerant Junk Dealers,
Tinkers and Glass "Fud In" 31 eu Give
Way to Modern Methods.
"Ole rags! Ole iron! Ole rags! Ole
iron!'' Who does not remember the itiu
erant tradesman with lusty lungs who
rp,-hed his little curt, with its string of
t_:e streets
u strident
ess to pay
Old ike
noisy, jangling hells, tliroie.
and alleys of tho city am
voire announced his willin
e:r h for the household ret a:
pers, rags, empty hot ties,
i discarded horseshoes, bottoms of dilayi
! dated wash boilers—everything was of
' merchantable value with this acconmio
: dating individual. His sharp eyes never
; failed to discover some glaring defect
that lowered the worth of the articles
j offered, and his scales wrera seldom in
accord with those upon which tho goods
had been previously weighed; hut, for
all this, his visits were none the less
welcome to the thrifty housewife and
energetic small boy. Who is there that
dees not recall the bickerings and lively
badinage cn hack steps or at area doors
over tho transfer of a lot of old junk?
With what eager anticipation of his vis
eonr
rap iron,
its did the beys scour the neighborhood
before circus time, picking up pa
pers and bottles and rags and iron un
til the streets and lots were as clean as
a freshly swept barn floor!
It is a scant half dozen years since
the old junkman w T as a prominent fac
tor in household economy, but he is
quickly passing away. Cheapening of
production and new business methods
have led to his undoing, and he is a
character now rarely seen. New paper
can be made so cheaply these days it
dees not pay to pick up the old, and the
result is seen in badly littered streets
and lots. There is no money in han
dling scrap iron, and as for bottles the
new custom of blowing the names of
the OWKers in tile 8 Jass lias made them
contraband and dangerous to deal in. i
Nearly everything once salable as junk
now goes into the ash box, to he carried I
away to the city dump, where a baud j
i of Italians make a little money out of
it because they can get it for nothing.
In place of the jollying, sharp dealing
chap of old we now have an airy indi
vidual with a pretentions rig, who dis
dains to cry out his trade and confines
his purchase to secondhand goods, for
which he offers prices that cause the
average housewife to turn up her nose
in contempt.
And the traveling tinker—that idle,
dissolute old fellow who used to go
about with a kit of charcoal, furnace and
soldering irons calling, "Tinware to
mend," in a subdued tone, as if afraid
he might really get a job—he, too, is
gone. When tinware was dear, it wa«
rarely thrown away so long as it could
be soldered into serviceable shape, but
the newfangled granite ware is fast
driving tin out of use, and what little
remains is so cheap that even the most
economical of women do not hesitate to
cast out a pan or a dipper at the first
sign of a break or a leak. Tinware now
forms but an insignificant part of kitch
en furniture, and the traveling tinker,
whose fame even poets of note rvere not
above singing, has passed into obscurity.
The school children can no longer
gather about him in crowds and watch
with wondering awe his deft manipula
tion of pans and kettles with dislocated
spouts and handles or sievelike bottoms,
nor pursue him with mocking calls to
rouse him to deeds of indignant retalia
tion. Yale the tinker, itinerant philos
; and friend of our childhood days!
The generations to come will never
know the pleasures of the confidential
chats with which the urchins of 30
years ago were honored, nor hear in
similar ways the marvelous tales of
travels and adventures those interest
mendacious rascals trolled out.
Then there was the "glass pod in"
Iaajl —a patient toiler, generally a for
p i?ner with Hebraic countenance, who
lcn 'cd about looking for odd jobs in re
pairing broken windows. His equipment
IJ * fiBiss, putty and tools was carried in
a crudely formed rack slung on his
back, where it made an attractive tar
f° r fbe stones and bricks cast at
bim by rude gamins. Windows, for
ti0me reason, don't break as easily now
as they did years ago, and there is less
' Ttir k for the itinerant glaziers. Besides
this it is fast getting to be the custom
*° sen cl for a regular mechanic when
work of this kind is to be done, and as
a natural result the "glass pud in"
ma n is on the decline. In this instance
if in a AL.. _____ • v A . ■ „
R ls a case of the survival of the fittest,
for at his best this ancient character
a shabby chap. He had no reaeem
ing features iiko the junk dealer or tin
ker—he brought no circus monev to
the hoys and was devoid of interesting
Farms. The most that can be said for
him is that hi? visits were marked for
several days afterward by the suspicious
supply of putty tho neighborhood voung
sters had for blowpipe purposes. House
wives accused the itinerant glazier of
botching his worit, making exorbitant
charges and carrying away the broken
bits of glass he removed from the sashes
upon which he was called to operate.
He had no timely gossip to retail while
doing a job, and his services were only
in demand in cases of emergency.—Chi
cago Tribune.
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HIS AMANUENSIS.
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SHE WROTE A LETTER FOR THE SICK
SOLDIER BOY TO HIS MOTHER.
She Also Brought Hiiu Flowers and Dainty
Things to Eat —He Didn't Know Who
His "Hospital Angel" Was Until He lit
turned Home and Saw the Letter.
"I have a letter yon would like to
fee, I guess," said Assemblyman James
H. Agen of West Superior.
" With you?"
"No. It is too precious to carry
around in a grip or pocket."
"Who wrote it and what does it con
tain?"
"Let me tell you a story before an
i severing your double question: In 1804,
while following Grant near Richmond,
and when we had come so close to it
that they could hear our muskets and
vo their church bells, I was stricken
with a fever and sent to hospital. Ini
time they landed me, more dead than
alive, in one of the great hospitals at
Washington. I was a very sick hoy.
Boy is right, for that was all I was—
sweet Hi, as a girl of that ago would be.
For three weeks I had no ambition to
live.
"One day, after I had passed the dan
ger point and was taking a little notice
< f what was going on, a number of la
dies came through the hospital. They
had baskets containing delicacies and
i bouquets of beautiful flowers. One of
j them stopped at each oot as they passed
along. A hunch of blossoms w r as haud
i here
ed to each sick or wounded soldier, and
if he desired it a delicacy of some kind
was also distributed. Every now and
then one of the women sat in a camp
chair and wrote a letter for the poor
fellow who hadn't tho strength to write
himself.
"I wanted nothing to eat or drink,
hut those pretty posies held my atten
tion. One of the ladies stopped at n,v
cot. I hadn't yet got my full growta,
and in my then emaciated, pale condi
tion I must have looked like a child.
Fhe seemed surprised as she looked at
me.
'You poor child, what brought you
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of flic Potomac. '
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" 'But you are not a soldier?'
'"Yes, madam. I belong to a New
York regiment. The surgeon here has
the record. '
" 'Can I do something for you? Can
you cat something or take a swallow of
wine?'
" 'I'm not hungry or thirsty. '
'Can I write a letter for you?'
'' 'Nor today. I'nr too weak. '
'"Then I will leave soma of these
flowers with you. President Lincoln
helped to cull them. I will come again
in two or three days. Keep up jour
courage. You are going to get well.
You must get well."
"She was the first woman who had
spoken to me since I reached the army.
Looking at the sweet flowers which Mr.
Lincoln had 'helped to cull' and think
ing of the dear woman who had spoken
so kindly and hopefully had more effect
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th-iMm 1 t,ia . u aI1 ,!lse
"T m. 7 h0SP \ ta l- <
Unto days later the same lady came :
again and direct to my cot.
_. " 'How is my little soldier boy to- 1
day?' she asked in a way so motinrly
that it reminded me of my good mother
back in New York, the patriot motaer
who had given her consent to my going
to the war after praying over the inaiter
many times. The hospital angel—that,
is what we learned to call those ncble
women—after giving mo a taste of
chicken and jelly asked if I had a
mother. She saw by the tears in uiy
eyes
" 'Now we will write mother a let
ter. '
"Then she sat by my side and wrote
the letter. I hadn't been able to wsite
for a month.
" 'I have told your mother that I am
near her soldier boy and have talked
with him. What shall I tell her for
you? That yon are still too weal to
write yourself?'
" 'Please don't tell her that. It will
make her worry. Tell her I am fast get
ting well. '
"The first day I got home my motaer
asked me how I liked Mrs. Lincoln, the
president s wife
I never met Mrs. Lincoln. What
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Then she took from a box closely
guarded in an old bureau a letter,
read like this
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"Dear Mrs. Agen-I am sitting by tho ,ide
of yonr soldier boy. Hr, has been quite sink,
but is getting well. He toils me to say 'to* you
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that he is all right. With respect for the moth
er of the young soldier,
"Mrs. Abraham Lisrcouf.
"That was the first I knew that it
was tho president's wife who had made
me those two visits. I begged my moth
er to give me tho letter. 'Yon can have
it, when I am gone. ' When she died, a
box aud an old letter folded in a silk
handkerchief were among her gifts to
me.
"The box, kerchief and letter will
too sacred for everyday display,
cago Times-Herald.
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pass along the Agen line as mementos
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Melting.
It was evident to the practiced per
ceptions of the young woman that he
was in a melting mood.
As if to verify her acumen, as soon as
her father appeared the young uian rau.
—Indianapolis Journal.
A LUCKY FIND.
J Tale of a Valuable Watch That Was Lost
«« * tevate.1 Railroad.
"This watch in itself is a valuable
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he took the timepiece from the peculiar
looking fob in which he carries it, "but
it had an adventure last week that gives
j it a still greater value to me. The fob
j is an heirloom, and, as yon may see,
| would be apt to attract attention any
i where.
"One afternoon last week I was go
ing up town on a crowded train on the
Six'll avenue elevated. The train was
so crowded that I was compelled to
| stand on a car platform close to the
i brake wheel. As the train was rouud
! ing the curve out of West Third street I
j took my watch from my pocket, re
I moved it from the fob, and, after not
ing the tirin', shoved it back into the
fob and returned it, as I thought, to
the pocket. Instead of getting it iuto
the pocket, however, it was on the out
side, and as I let it go it fell. The
guard saw it as it fell and reached out
Ins foot to save it from going between
the platforms, but failed, and down it
went.
"I got off tho train at Eighth street
and ran hack as fast as I could to the
spot where the watch had drooped, hav
ing, I may of course say, not the
slightest hope that the watch would be
anywhere to be seen. When I reached
the place, my heart almost jumped out
of my throat, for there in the street,
conspicuous among its surroundings,
lay the fob. I picked it up. It was emp
ty. No watch could 1 find anywhere.
" 'Some cue has found if.' was natu
rally my conclusion, and that was the
last I ever expected to hear or see of it.
"But as I walked back toward tho
Eighth street station I got to thinking
about the matter differently. If anyone
had found the watch, why should he
have left the fob? The more I thought
of it the more I made up my mind riiat
the watch hadn't been found. I board
| ed a train at Eighth street and went up
| town to the railroad headquarters.
| Thera I told of the singular thing that
i had happened to my watch, and the of
ficer in charge told me that after the
commission hours were over for the day
the track walkers would start from
Fifty-ninth street down the line, mak
ing their regular inspection of the rails
ing their regular inspection of the rails
J.nd roadway, and ho would instruct
t.''i to keep aa eye oat for tho lost
watch.
'"But,' said he, smiling, 'I guess
you will have to come to the conclu
sion, after all, that some one else will
tell the time by it hereafter if it hasn't
been smashed to pieces by the fall. '
"Next day 1 went to the office. My
watch was there. A track walker had
discovered it by the light of his torch
at.midnight lying snugly on one of the
girders or braces of tho iron roadway
beneath tho track. The ring was sprung
out of its fastening in the stem, and
the watch was open. There was a dent
on the case at the hinge. In falling tho
watch had struck in some mysterious
way so that it had been forced from the
fob, which went on dotvn to the street.
Beyond the trifling damage I mentioned
the watch was not injured in the slight
est - If there ever was a luckier find
< tb ™ that. I "ever heard of it.''-New
: York Sun.
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SERPENT POISON.
The Venom of the Cobra la Deadly Al
most Beyond Belief.
It was in the autumn of 1891 that
Calmette, while acting as director of
the Bacteriological institute of Saigon
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Cochin China, first commenced his ex
periments on the neutralization of ser
pent venom in the animal system. He
had exceptional opportunities in the
matter of serpent venom wherewith to
carry out his investigations, inasmuch
as a band of cobras had recently attacked
a village in the, vicinity of Bac-Lieu,
and by order of the governor of the dis
trict no fewer than 90 specimens of the
terrible Naja tripudiaus, or cobra de ca
pello, were forwarded in a barrel to the
institute.
Forty of these reptiles arrived alive,
and several were at ouce sacrificed to
■ecurc their venom glands. Each gland,
resembling both in size and shape a
shelled almond, contains about 30 drops
of venom, and in this transparent limp
id liquid is embodied a toxinoof extraor
dinary strength. As is well known, this
cobra is the most dreaded of all serpents
and il is widel Y distributed over India!
Burma, Sumatra, Java, Malacca and
Cochin China. Until Calmette, however,
set to work to systematically stndy the
nature of this reptile's venom, but little
precise or reliable information had been
obtained as to its character. It was, of
course, necessary in the first instance to
ascertain, within as narrow a limit as
possible, the exact degree of toxic power
inherent in the venom, and to deter
mine, if possible, the precise dose lethal
in respect of each variety of animal ex
perimented upon.
A correct calculation of the quantity
of venom required in every case was,
however, found to be quite impossible,
for so virulent is the poison that a sin
drop of an emulsion produced by
pounding up 8 glands in 800 grams
of distilled water is sufficient, when in
troduced into the vein of a rabbit's ear,
to kill it in five minutes. All the mam
mals to which Calmette administered
this cobra venom, such as monkeys,
dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, suc
cumbed more or less quickly, according
to the size of the dose.—Longman's
Magazine.
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