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of the alked fratorna 1
i are fairly looked at,
tt snQSsts whether tho American
wagis, toppoeed to ba ewblwaatle ot a
nhsrp sighted people, sot really
v.It ia very dearly the Intention of
' nature that man ihall 'Ttiitle" for hit
living. . Kature abhors a drone almost
. M moon at a vacuum, and every crea
Jture whoaa physical or mental format
tioa denotes a fltnew for activity is
placed under the neoeeslt; of exerting
feu powers, " .
ComnoiHci in the courts li one of
Abe mott lmpoVtant guarantees of good
Ardor. If the habitual criminal be.
lieres that punishment ia reasonably
certain ia esse of detection, he will be
plow to commit a crime, and if the
reputable citizen" feels sure of the
tribunals of the law, he will be slow to
take the law into his own hands.
. Tbb careless and apparently indis-
criminate manner - with which the
courts of to-day destroy the wills of'
'rich men, documents that embodied
the purpose and object of a lifetime of
toil, has become one of the notable
' and notorious abuses of the day, and
; against this evil there is rising a vig
orous demand for rectification and re
form. " '
There is no excuse in these days of
Cewspapers for any sane . person of
dult age petting victimized by green
goods men, or pocket-book droppers,
or sweaters, or card sharps, or than
, beggars, or bogus reformers, or any
other such frauds. Not to know of
. them is to be convicted of gross lack
of information, for which there is no
' PCBUC opinion in the United States,
stimulated by innumerable and glaring
miscarriages of justice, for many years
has been steadily ripening to the con-
vlction that radical remedies are need,
ed in our system of trial by jury.
' Events are imminent, international in
. their character, which inevitably must
wield a powerful influence toward
'focusing this sentiment.
Whew man knows in part, he' is
eager to know in full. He is sure to
make effort to know. His mind works
'u-uui his Mown rowara ine uaxnown
by varied processes. He reasons. He
truces analogies. He imagines. He
.adds surmises to his certainties. And
after a while one Is puizled to know
. now nrach' of his rtory is dream-stuff
, and how much tho substance out oi
"Mel. true history is made.
. Thb Idea that the development of
Alaska will impoverish that country
, would have been queer doctrine in the
v ears of Secretary Seward. Still the
fish and the gold avid the furs and the
woods that will come from Alaska for
years to come wfil enrich people in
other territories of Uncle Sam, and
' When her own roanurnAS n.ra AxhuiiBfari
, Alaska may get rich herself by a ju
dicious series of summer hotels.
W expect brutality from the de
- graded and ignorant classes, for their
training has been such as to dull the
edge of sensibility; we look for less
sympathetic and considerate impulses
. from nien than from women, because
of the constitutional difference between
the sexesr and the influence of the hard
; fight with the world to which most
men are subjected, and from which
most women are spared. Yet it is not
1 , from the, slums or from brutal mascu
linity that we find the worst cruelty
comes.
'THB cost of cool production In Eng.
, land has increased very largely of late,
necessitating much higher prices. At
the same time the demand for It, owing
to the rapid extension of manufactures,
has come at last to equal, if not exceed,
the supply, and fears are entertained
even now that fuel will have to be
imported from abroad,, so that it will
not be lonir before wo of the United
States can compote on more than even
terms with the home produot All
that we need now is the vessels with
which to conduct this trade. '
It is a great mistake to imagine that
Success without effort will ever make,
a man or woman happy. What we
.cease to strive for ceases to be success,
and gradually "becomes more and more
worthless. , Suppose the same wages
1a be paid for nothing that are now
rendered for skill and energy and per
severing work, or the same applause
at ds saowered on tho mere trlOer that
Is now given to the public benefactor.
'MU they possibly kindle the same
J-ylnttoe heart of tho receiver that
sow dor They would, mean notb
IT, rend for nothing, and shortly
ie nothing. :. -.
j 1 evening of our first oentury
" J - of great mea The ending
, seems to be an age of
V stately forma of Wash
:rjslUooand Jefferson and
W we to dwarf the leaders
opening of onr nrat
,X us to have bam
. f3i and lofty spirit
.! Vttoney counted
",.Ot Men were
tSemhyshek.
1 ecr.ary Is an-
t mhi to
n heet
5T -NOBODY CARES. ,
, A waartyr-waa littls faet,
.ASNfala,farlaraUttlesBfle,
roor fsltoring feet.
That mast tare this heat
For BMay and away a mile
A star Mealing eat ot the dusk; '
A lama that luridly Bares, i .
Ia the wide city's whiri
Jut a tmeltat girl
Nobody oaraal
A desolate, death stricken room,
A pillow poshed ap to the wail;
A flicker that shows
A face in repose:
Buenos, and that is all,
Bare just on the woebegone chret
The look which sta a rtnnt wears,
The light on the brow
Ah, who shall say how,
"Nobody cares!"
LOST IN A FOCL
When I Was eighteen years or age I
was a strong, handsome girl, ardently
fond of the water. My father was rich,
and, during the summers we lived in
his cottage right on the sea-shore. I
was a capital sailor and had a tiny cat
boat of my own, in which I cruised up
and down the river just back of our
home, the stream being separated by a
narrow strip of sand beach from the
ocean.
Careless of sunburn or freckles and
rigged in a natty blue flannel sailor
costume, I spent most of my spare time
sailing and rowing and fishing, and the
enjoyment and health I got from thoso
delightful sports did me much pood.
But though 1 caught many fish in tho
pretty river I wasn't satisfied. I want
ed the bigger ones from the great, blue
ocean and i watched, with longing eyjs,
the sturdy, native fishermen in their
little dories going out over tho high
rolling surf and returning with their
boats filled with all kinds of deep sea
monsters. Of course they wouldn't be
bothered with a girl on their exciting
and adventuresome trips, so I hod to
content myself on tho safe river and
wish I was a man.
But one day in September, after a
week of wonderfully quiet weather,
the ocean became as calm and glassy
as a mill pond. Along the beach
where the surf usually raged and thun
dered only the faintest, laziest ripples
slowly lapped tho sand.
A child could almost launch a boat
and float on the still, shiny sea where
a mile or less from shore the hshermen
were having royal sport, as I saw
through my glass.
The longer I looked the easier It
seemed for me at last to realize by
ever recurring dreams ot fishing in
the ocean provf ..eg I eould get my
small and light bono across the narrow
sand strip iajx it as the men did. Soon
the temptation proved irresistible and
regardless of consequences I deter
mined to at least make the effort.
Bowing my boat up tho rivor where
I couldn't be seen from tho houses, and
getting a dozen boys who were there
crabbing, to help push, we soon had
the 'Foam" out of the river, across
the sand and into the dear old ocean.
With a "Hurrah, bovs! Good-bye!" I
was off alone, ami after an hour's hot
work at the oars, found myself an
chored and hauling in more big fish
than I had over dreamed of. It was
afternoon and not a breath of nir was
stirring.
Enthused with the glorious pleasure
I was having, I neither cared nor
thought of anything else. I saw not
the distant boats making for land,
never noticed the line of gray sea-fog
creeping up from the eastern horizon
till I was enveloped in it. Even then
I only got my waterproof cloak from
my locker, put it on and kept fishing,
for the fog Vas warm and didn't chill
me.
Suddenly It seemed to grow darker
and thicker, and then I thought where
I was and felt that the Booner I got
safely ashore the better it would be. I
raised the little anchor, got out tho
oars and began to pull as quickly as
my tired arms would let me for home.
For a long time, over an hour it
seemed, I rowed before I felt alarmed
at not striking tho beach. I had no
compass to guide me, and the darkness
was rapidly increasing. Tho sea was
yet quiet, but I expected the tirn of
the tide would roughen it. By and by
I laldW my oars to listen for a sound
from the shore, which I was certain
must be near. All, but tho fish flop
ping on the bottom of my boat, was as
still as the tomb and nearly as dark. I
gave a halloo and another, but my
straining ears caught no reply. I
shouted again and louder. No response,
and I was becoming chilled. If by the
beach, where I knew they must be
searching for me, I would have been
heard and answered. Then I became
frightened and realized my danger. I
was on the ocean in a tiny boat with
out a cabin night coming on and lost
lost in the awful black sea fog.
After a momentary panic I grew
calm enough to think and tako s6mo
observations to try and make out, if
possible, my whereabouts. If there
had been a sea breeze I might have told
the direction of the land but there
wasn't If I had known the time of
tide, It could have helped me;" but I
didn't
Finally I concluded that In hoisting
anchor I had missed my bearings and
instead of pulling toward the shore, I
had, rowed out further to sea or else in
circles like lost people always wander.
As nothing was to be gained by row
ing, save exercise to keep warm in the
oolder growing fog, I got out my
woolen jacket from the locker, put it
on under my water proof, and prayed.
ow and then I gave a .dlspalring
"halloo."
Tired and well nigh exhausted I
soon found myself dozing nnd was just
falling asleep when a low, distant
steam whistle started me to hope and
action. Again I heard it and louder,
then again apparently approaching.
: O! it was a steamship surely, feeling
1e way through the fog. .
Would it come near e nough to hear
my orles and save or would it run me
downf . ,
Nearer, nearer it came, but not so
eloaeasto hurt or help ma Vainly
I shouted, and despairingly. I heard
the deep, fearful pounds die away.
Then I knew I had rowed and drift
ed tar out to tee, and in the line of
passing vessels.
I mifbl nave known that before,
keeaosr waves were making, and my
UMte boat was dtngorously rocking
eetd tipping. 1 dared not fall asloep
tw. far anises 1 held the boat's bow
1 'I M, would soon swamp and
tn , . ...
, .rr: L.'ct W to m! tot keep
me afloat much longer, at the son was
evidently rising.
I had often heard that drowning was
not only a painless death out a pleas
ant one, aud althoueh that was noma
sort of consolation, still it was far from
cheering.
I was too young to die, and yet it
seemed as if I must soon perish.
Pitchy blackness surrounded me, tor
the fog was utterly dense, and dripping
with chllllrg moisture.
t couldn't tell hardly which way the
Increasing waves were coming, so, de
spite my efforts, my frail craft was fill
ing with Water,
In another short half hour, probably
loss, t must drown.
Then faintly from somewhere came
the sound of a bell, "Ding-dong-ding-dong."
Was it from a ship at anchor?
Catching its direction I slowly and
painfully worked my oars in a last do
perate struggle to reach it "Ding-dong-ding-dong.11
i was gaining
now I was close to its welcome sound,
straining my eyes looking for the an
chored vessel, and calling, and scream
ing for help.
"Ding-dong.11 I was on top of a
big wave, powerless to guido my boat,
the bell sounding not ten feet away.
A bigger wave struck me broadside,
filling my boat I was sinking, and
aid apparently at hand. "Help!
Holpl" I shrieked.
"Ding-dong." Then tl crash a
flood of water and I was pitched from
a Wave's crest against a floating ob
jectwhat for tho moment I knew
not I felt the boat sinking. With
the Instinct of a drowning person I
leaped and clutched as I struck the
second time the thing and found my
self, as the poor boat disappeared,
gwalldwcd by the water, on the Iron
skeleton frame of u bell buoy.
There, standing on Its platform,
grasping the iron uprights, nearly
washed off with every wuvo, and lis
tening to its awful ding-dong ' from
the bell over my head I stuck 'till the
blessed daylight came and tho fog
cleared napy in the sunshine.
An incoming steamer found mo half
dead hanging there, and rescued me
from the sharks, which they said were
swimming around and waiting for the
breakfast., which, thank heaven, j
didn't make.
Caught In Thrlr Own trap.
The playing of practical jokes Is apt
to be disagreeable for the victims, but
now and then tho jokers themselves
get the worm of it A case in point A
few months since a party of men about
town in Detroit, including several city
and country officials, went "out the
road" to havo a little celebration. They
wero accompanied by a Chicago news
paper man, who was not their equal in
capacity for imbibing and soon became
talkative. Ho repeatedly said that he
considered Detroit nothing better than
a country village, and finally one of the
party slipped out of the road house
where they wero and, going to the
office of the justice of the ponce,
explained the condition of affairs, and
tho official, somewhat indiscreetly, fell
in with the joko and issued a warrant
for the reporter on tho charge of at
tempting to provoko a breach of the
peace.
This was given to a constable who
nrrestcd tho offender, handcuffed him
and took him before tho justice follow
ed by the wholo party. Ho Was suffi
ciently befuddled so that he did not at
first regard the matter at much less
than one of life and death, and after
the evidence was in and the lawyer as
signod to his defense had made an argu
ment he arose and saidi
"I would like to ask the court for
permission to say a few words. I do
not understand the customs of this
city. I am from the West, as any one
can sco by the way I wear this slouch
hat," at tho same time putting it on,
"You can judge, also, by the pecu
liar manner in which I put on my over
coat." and he assumed it. "Most
readily of all you can judge by this."
and he drew a revolver, covering the
court, jury nnd spectators, and with
tho words. "Now, if any of you jays
trios to stop me I'll bore a hole in
you," backed out of the room, sprang
into one of tho carriages and told the
driver to get bock to the city as fast as
ho could.
"I'll wait for the rest Of the party."
said the driver. "No, you won't;
you'll go now." And when the driver
saw the revolver ho went and wont
fast. "They do say" that it required
a half hour to collect tho jokers from
under tho tablos and other places of
refuge.
What a Home Would Say,
Don't hitch me to an Iron post or
railing when the morcury Is below
freezing. I need the skin on my
tongue.
Don't leave me hitched in my stall
at night with a big cob right whore I
must Ke down. I am tied and can't
select a smooth place.
Don't compol me to eat more salt
than I want by mixing it In my oate. I
know bettor than any other animal
how much I need.
Don't think because I go freo under
the whip, that I don't got tired. You
would move up if under the whip.
Don't think because I urn a horse,
that iron weeds and briars won't hurt
my hay.
Don't whip me when I got frightened
along tho rood, or I will expect it next
time and maybe make trouble.
Don't trot me up hill, for I havo to
carry you and the buggy and mysolf
too. Try It yourself sometime. Run
up a hill with a big loud.
Don't keep my stable very dark, for
when I go out Into the lijht my eyes
ore Injured, especially if snow be on
the ground.
Don't say "whoa" unless you moan
it Teach me to stop at that word. It
may check me If the lines break, and
save a runaway and smash-up.
Don't make me drink ice cold water,
nor put a frosty bit in my mouth.
Warm the bit by holding it a half
minute against my body.
Don't forget to file my teeth when
they get jugged as I cannot chew my
food. When I get loan it it a sign my
teeth want filing.
Don't ask mo to "back" with blinds
on. I am afraid to.
A native of Borneo stole a hammock
belonging to an English missionary,
and his chief sentenood him to eat the
plunder or lose his head. He was
liven seven days In whloh to Uokle
his palate with the outfit, and he an.
eomplished the feat Us Is now "heap
A POPULAR RECREATION.
ASTONISHINO GROWTH OF THB
BICYCLING FAD.
etwee t (0,000 mm tOO,00 wrheele
la th 1'aaalrjr at Um Prianan Ttew
Will the BHke mick t With
the Trettlna Heraet
There wat a time a few years ago
When cycling teemed to have reached
its limit. One would have said that it
Wat likely to remain stationary, or
even to decline in public favor. Since
that time a few things have happened,
however, which have changed the ap
pearance of thing wonderfully. The
perfection of tlie safety wheel has m ida
it possible to ride without the constant
fear of a broken pose. The invention
of the ladies' bicycle hat relieved the
weaker hex of the burden of a third
wheel and set women all over the
country to cycling. The pneumatic
lira has placed the bicycle racer
abreast ot Hie trotting horse for short
distances and aw.iy ahead of it for long
ones. The prices of 'machines" have
dropped at their quality improved. The
improvement of the common roads has
been due largely to the persistent
clamor of cyclists and reacts to in
crease their number,
There are between 250,000 and 300,000
Wheels in the country, not counting
the myriads of children's velocipedes.
At some of the cycles lire hired out and
tome owned in "partnership and some
hie tandems and carry double, there
hlny hot be so very many short of 500,
000 regular uud Occasional wheelmen in
this country.
The safely or "goat" bicycle is the
UDIKS' SAFETY.
Universal favorite nowadays with men
aim women aiiKe,
Even in racing the safety is only
about five seconds to the mile behind
the big wheel, Such a record us twenty-five
miles on the road in 1:20:40
shows 1 1 nit the safety is by no means
slow when vigorously propelled.
Robert Bonner says t lie bicycle rider
will never catch up with the trotting
horse for a single mile, but Mr. Bon
ner is u prejudiced witness and apt to
lie mistaken. The mile record lias been
much more rapidly reduced bv bicycle
riders than by trotters, and 'that the
makers have not exhausted the possi
bility of improvement is nltonelher
probable. The cushion tire proves to
be not much of an improvement upon
the old solid kind, but great things are
expected of the pneumatic tire, which
consists of n hollow rubber tube blown
full of air. The great trouble with
this tire so far is that it, hns to bn
made soft and flexible, and soon wens
out. unci bursts. It may be doubted
wnhther It will ever be liiucli used on
cheap road, machines,1 but for track
rucine it is certainly a great invention,
saving several secynils on tho mile.
One inventive Philudelphiaii has de
Vised a steam bicycle which, he snys,
will go fifteen miles an hour with ho
more labor than that of steering. With
such huKe profits to ba mnde in the
ple of wheels, the inventors are likely
tn keep improving them every year.
The English Bicycling News says that
a ladies' college debated the question
Whether wheeling was a proper sport
for women. Afterward the women
THB NEW STEAM TRICYCLE.
voted on it, thirty-two favoring the'
sport, fourteen denouncing it, and seven
"hedging." It is difficult to see why
any one should wish to negative such u
question, provided the woman has time,
money, and strength. But no; time
and money nlone tire nrce sarv. The
strength comes by using it.
The best sport of all is sometimes
seen when husband and wife go leisure
lv trundling along upon a tandem nnd
three or four children of assorted siei
come following after mounted, singly
or doubly, ponJJieirjmnjvheels.
A Village Slicn.
Words taken from a ticn at a villain
feed null. Judge,
Maaleal Ban Machine.
The musical gat machine, culled the
pyrophune, seems to have uttructed
much attention abroad. Dm coinptiss
it three octaves, and It has a keyboard,
being played in the some manner as an
organ. There are thirty-ieven fcliist
tubes, in winch a like tet of gas jets
burn, aud these jets, placed in a circle,
contract and expend. When the small
burners separate the sound is produced:
when I hey clots toaelher the sound
cesses. The (ont depends on the nuni
btr of burners and the site of the tubes
In which ttiev burn; to that by a care
ful arrangement end teleullnn all the
notes of the musical tuale may be pro
d need In several octaves. Some of the
glut tubet In which Hit jttt burn are
nearly eleven feet long.
Aa R laical Point.
Li rieeoee I am sorry to hear papa
It tpeuuletlnir te heavily,
La Fiance By Jovef It Is almost
rimlnal far man to speculate with
teatey that ought to be saved for hit
eslalaw, ,
FOR THB PARLOR.
How Kaatlr I
aacnt ajar
R Material!, three-quarters of a yard
Of yellow aatie nbbon, four and a half
inches wide, and on and ooe-eightli
yards of black satin ribbon, four inches
wide; aixiy-oce braaa rings about one
half Inch ia diameter, and one ball
knitting silk to match the thads of
yellow aatiu, and one yard of one end
a half inches wide yellow ribbon,
first cover twenty-four of the rings
A PRETTY PARLOR SACHET BAfl.
wilh the yellow silk in single crochet
stitch, working all the way round one
ring before joining to the next, then
half-nay round Hie second nnd join to
the third, nnd so on, until you come to
the twenty-fourth ring, which you
will work uli round and then follow
down the uncovered halves of the rings
and finish them, until you come hack
to the one you started' from. Your
lust join will then come between the
two rinK, a ml all this time you have
not, broken your thread,
Mnke u second strip of twenty-four
heels in exactly the same manner,
Fold the yellow ribbon in halves, and
sew the strips of wheels alone its
sides, so Hint they will stop at equal
distances from the opening at the top,
Which is to be fringed to the depth of
two inches,
The black ribbon is now to be folded
along iis entire length and fastened in
a similar manner to lhe rings on both
sides of the yellow strip. A row of
rinps Is crocheted and sewed to the
bottom of the bug, anil twenty-five
threads of tiie silk tied into each ring
for a fringe (to he two nndahalf inches
long When done) completes this lovely
bug. The fringed yellow lop of ribbon
is tied together with about n yard of
Tom Thumb ribbon, and the black han
dle is suspended from the wall by a
pretty bow of one yard of one-and-a-half
inch yellow satin. A narrow strip
of sheet wadding, neatly concealed,
may be laid between the yellow rib
bons, and sachet ponder lie sprinkled
th ough it, Ludies' Home Journal.
THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
Nome till mk About ll.ivtil . Jordan,
Who Will Be It Prrxldrnl.
Senator Lelund Stanford has chosen
for president of his now university
Dr. Joi'dun, who has been president of
the Indiana Uni
versity for the past
seven eurs. The
term of ollice at
Taio.Mlo will be
gin next Septem
ber, the salary be
ing If 10,000 per
annum and resi
dence. Prof. Jor
dan is a scientist
of acknowledged
ability and stand
ing, and has had
also abundant ex-
FtlOF,
JORDAN.
perient e as nn ed
ucntor. Dr. Jordan was horn at (Jains'
ville, N. Y in January, 1S51. In 1870
he became instructor in hotuny at Cor
nell iiuiversity, meanwhile studying in
that institution and graduating In IHi'l.
Subsequently lie moved to Indianapolis
and graduated at lhe Indiana Medical
College in 1H75. Uuring his educational
career Professor Jordan served as Pro
lessor of Biology in Lombard Uni
versitv at tfalesb'urg, III. In 1N84 he
wus elected president of the Indianu
University, Under bin administration
the University has been ractically re
modeled, and Presdent Jordan's in
fluence has been Celt all over Indiana
in every brunch of educational en
deavor. THE EXTRA HORSE.
BfneAcciH French Institution Which
Oiiichl to llo Copied Here.
HlT fcVonnl, Ittiv mi ttt.n.x. I.i.rl. ...n Ih
.... tici , ,i.,r III
France, and on every street which has
a sleep griuie, uieie is stationed at n
point where the rise begins, un "extra
horse." The law .compels the use of
THE EXTRA HOHSK.
this lionA until the summit of the hill
is reached, and there is n heavy line for
refus ng to hira the extra, at a small
fixed rate.
A plucnrd by the roadside Indicates
the point where the extra horse mutt
I taken ou and another, hightr up,
shows where he may lie dispensed with.
All truckmen and other tennisteis in
large cities pay strict-attention to this
regulation, fnimed in the interest of
toiling animals, ,
Jens' Inf Brokeu Clint
A good cement for mending broken
gluts is made as follows: Plaoe in a
large mouthed bollle two ounces of
laingluttt. shredded finely, and two
ounces of gum arable. Pour over these
enough alcohol of highest proof, to
cover them. Put (he cork In tightly,
and place the bottle in a sa net pan and
boll until the gum and Isinglass are en
tirely dissolved. Htlr It, from lime to
time, with a little stick. Put a bruth
through the cork, end keep for utt.
The Value t Waahla Soda In Ptpae,
Keep sewer plptt connected with sta
tionary elandi, eltun and wholesome by
enabling once In a week with boiling
water In which wishing aoda has been
dittolvtil, remembering that many a
oaaterdiplithtrlalHw bees attributed
to feu I sewer piptt.
BLACKBEARD. Mrr
Wat a rtrata Bald With a Wife ia
nl Park
He wat a beau ideal pirate, possessed
with a mania for getting married.
During his first sojourn at North Caro
lina his friend, the governor mar
ried him to his fifteenth wife, a young
girl of 16, whom he treated most bru
tally. Unlike tho French Bluebeard,
however, he did not, so far at least as
our knowledge goes, kill any of his
wives. He had them at different ports,
and presumably visited each just when
he happened to be in her particular
neighborhood. He was a man of some
humor, but humor of a grim, sardonic
kind, which is illustrated by a couple
of stories I take the liberty of relating.
He was drinking one night in his
Cabin With his pilot, with Hands, cap
tain of One of tho sloops, and with on
other man who is Udnamed. Sudden
ly the diabolical fit came upon him,
and quietly drawing out a pair of pis
tols, he cocked them crosswise under
the table, blew out the light and fired.
The anoymous man had heard tho
cock of the weapons, and knowing
that mischief was whistling in the air,
made tracks for tho companion, but
Hands and the pilot wore not quick
enough, and the former received a shot
in the knee which lamed hira for life,
while the latter escaped with nothing
worso than a grazed leg. Hands, with
a loud oath oskod what was the moan
ing of this diversion, whoreupon Black
beard, with another oath, answered if
he did not now and then kill one of
them they would forget who he was!
Tho other story is illustrative of
Blackboard's ambition to beat the devil
In his own line. The fit came on him
again, and ho said abruptly, "Come,
lot us mako a hell of our own and try
how long we can bear it." With that
he drugged two or three of his subordi
nates down into the hold, closed up all
the hatches, filled several pots full of
brimstone, and other combustible mat
ter, and sot it all on lire. Before long the
men cried for air, but ho would not
open tho hatches, and kept them down
there until they wore nearly suffocated,
and until tho wholo three fell down
nearly dead from tho poisonous fumes.
Ho piqued himself ever afterward on
being "the best dovil" on his ship.
In point of fact, the arch-fiend seems
to have been the only being of whom
Blackbeard was the least afraid; and,
on another occasion, ho was in much
trepidation owing to the prosonce on
board of some individual who came
from no one know where, and who,
after some mysterious conduct, disap
peared without leaving a trace behind
him. '-They verily believed It was
the devil," we are told. Blackboard
died fighting, as beseoms an old sea ruffi
an and in his last encounter against Lieu
tenant Maynard, did not finally drop
until he had received five pistol shots
and twenty saber cuts about the body.
HARPS KNOWN TO FAME.
Grnphlo Account of Instruments that
Have Hone Sweet Service.
For years controversy was rifo con
cerning tho ago of a eclobratod harp
now in Trinity College, Dublin. Tho
result of much speculation and corre
spondence places its date in tho four
teenth century, with a margin of a few
loose years before or after; all of which
is quite satisfactory to people in gener
al. There is a cast of this antique
instrument in the South Kensington
Museum.
Next on the list of honorablo years
given to sweet and tender service may
be seen, in the Highlands of Scotland,
the Clarsach Lumanach, also called
Lamont's Clarshoe. This venerable
harp was included in the belongings of
a lady of the Lamont family, who took
It from Argyloshire about the middle
f tho fifteenth century, on her mar
riage into the old Perthshire family of
Robertson of Lude.
This Lamont Clarshoe is described
Us having thirty strings, tunod singly.
'but the scalo was sometimes doubled
in pairs of unisons," like lutes and
other instruments popular at that time.
Tho Dalway harp in Ireland in
scribed "Ego sum Rogina Cithararum,"
nnd dated 1021, is said to have had
pairs of strings in tho center only.
These wero of brass wire, and were
played with pointed finger nails. The
Italian contemporary "arpa doppia"
was entirely upon tho duplex principle,
but with gut strings and was played
entirely by tho fleshy ends of the lin
gers. He Would Grow.
A much-admired girl was overheard
while carrying on the following briof
conversation with a young man who
was known to be desperately smitten
with her charms. She whb fondling
her dog, who was walking by her side.
"I wish I were your dog!" said he,
giving the girl most rapturous glances.
The girl looked at tho dog, and then at
her adorer, and said with a patronizing
air: "You'll grew!" New York Suit
lllabubb' Scope,
"Now," she said to Mr. Sillabub, as
she lixod herself comfortably, "sit
right down In that easy chair and toll
me all you know."
'Why, daughter," put In hor mam
ma In surprise, "I thought you wanted
Mr. Sillabubb to stay all evening."
Washington Star.
Drawing the Line.
A native New Zoalander was Induced
to wear a shirt, a paper collar, Bhoet
and a hat, and he almost concluded to
eat with a knife and embrace Chris.
tlimity. Then thoy asked him to wear
suspenders and he Went out and hanged
himself. It was pushing civilization
too fast.
An Intelligent Hone.
A horse at Alexandria whloh was run
over by a Texas & l'acltto train and
had one of its legs broken, hobbled to
a t tore near by, knocked at the door,
and by signs and brute language ap,
pealed for relief.
Advance In Value.
Lands near the oontor of population
have advanoed in value, at the follow,
lng lnitanoe will show; "A lot of land
in Cincinnati, 80x00 feet In dimensions,
once bought for 14, recently sold tot
190,000 oath.
iMgleae Americans,
Those who ennnot go as nature la.
tended them are very mtmorom. A
doaler In artificial llmbt says that K00,.
000 Amerioans have lost one or both
THB INTELLIGENT COlaWSITOIa
UL OiuiaaliaiiT ' " Owr
aaUamt ay Hla Goad Puda,
There are some things that theaver
age printer cannot or will not do, and
eome that be both can do and does.
The former are not nearly to numer
ous at the latter, so they may be cata
logued before a schedule is attempted
of hit virtues.
The average compositor says the
San Francisco Chronicle, cannot be
persuaded that there is such a word as
ingenuous." He is certain to make
it into "ingenious" at least nine times
out of ten; and then, to restore tho
average between the a and the L he is
very likely to make "insidious" into
"insiduous," possibly misled by "de
ciduous," which he uniformly gets
right
His pons asinorum, however, is
"consensus," which he will set up
"concensus" in spite of the united ef
forts of writer, proof-reader and tho
whole staff of editors. Tho word
"census" teems to carry him off his
feet, and he lives and dies in the belief
that the longer word is "census," with
the "con" prefixed.
Every printing office has what are
called "style rules," which are Intend
ed to be followed as closely as possible.
A common, though not universal, rule
is that figures are to be used instead of
printing the numbers out at length,
but this rule could hardly excuse the
compositor for setting up the familiar
line of the old hymn so that it read,
10,000,000" (ten thousand thousand)
"are their tongues, but all their joys
are 1," or for spoiling the editor's
quotation from the song, "Meet Mo in
tho Lane at Half Past Nino," by set
ting it up. "Meet Mo in the Lano at
9:80." '
Ono more illustration completes tho
category of his ordinary misdeeds.
Whenever an attempt is mado to quoto
the celebrated chapter, "On the Snakes
of Iceland," which is comprised in tho
words, 1 'There aro no snakes in Ice
land," tho compositor, no mutter how
legible his copy, will convert "Ice
land" into "Ireland." tho St. Patrick
legend being apparently more familiar
to him than the history of Iceland.
But now let us see what the compos
itor can do and does every day of his
life. He takos a manuscript, tho chi
rography of which would make the lid
of a Chinese tea chest blush with envy,
translates it into the vernacular as ho
goes along, corrects tho spelling and
grammar, and oftontimes the rhetoric,
and turns it out, not as tho author
wrote it, but as he intended to write it.
He sets up better English than most
men can write; ho can detect errors
of fact as well as of stylo; ho can givo
the horse editor points on sporting
matters, and tho religious editor on
theology; he can appreciate even tho
merits of a discussion on the tariff,
and detect the fallacies in a profound
loader on economics; and ho can do
more hard and intelligent work in a
given time, if ho has to, than any other
sort of handicraftsman.
Sotting off, then, his ccccntricitios
and idiosyncrasies against his fund of
general information, his knowledge of
a wide range of subjects, and his ability
to discriminate between good and bad
literary work, it is suroly no misnomer
to call him tho "intelligent comiosU
or."
Her Opinion of Men,
jhe was a slight, delicate little wo
man with a determined, fear-nothing
look on her youthful face. Her jacket
was unfastened, her bang tossed back
in a careless manner, and altogether
there was a brisk, breezy look of the
advanced woman about the slim little
body. "I've been a business woman
for three years," she said, decidedly,
"and have invariably found men in
every way courteous and polite to mo.
The great mistake the independent wo
man makes in her relations with men
is in letting them see that sho is inde
pendent Now, when I am with men
I am tho most helpless, clinging crea
ture on the footstool, and they are al
ways lovely to mo. Men don't liko
smart, clover women half so well as
gentlo, timid creatures that appeal to
thoiovsenses of chivalry, nnd the nine
teenth century man has as much of it
as a medliGvul knight if you only know
how to find it. Now, when I was first
married and my husband asked mo if
I was afraid to stay at home in the evon
ing, I almost laughed, for I really
thought nothing at all of going from
Staten Island to Yonkors after dinner
on business; but I managed to keep my
face very serious, while I told him that
I was a perfect coward, that the dread
ful shivers ran down my back every
time I heard a little noise when I was
alone. Result: He always stays in
every evening, and thore isn't a queon
on the globe that has as nice a time oh
I do after the dinner is over. Don't bo
too smart is my advico to women, or,
if you can't help being clover and capa
ble never let tho man you lovo know
you are able to pick up yourown hand
kerchief when you drop it if you
want to bo treated liko a princess royal
all your life. '
Heaiita or Burden.
Among the earliest hieroglyphlcal
records of man in tho East wo find
boasts of burden playing an important
part as the servants of our race, but
we do not find any trace of tho migra
tion of thoso usoful anlmnls from thF
eastern to tho western hemisphere.
Thoy are undoubtedly with ono ex
ception natives of the East, and they
were found there by the early tribes
who Invaded the country from America.
Tho horse may have been the one
exception, for the fossil remains of
several species are found in this coun
wii there 18 no evldence or prob.
ability t.iat any of them were ever
domesticated or used as beasts at
burden.
A Deadly Urns.
Absinthe is known to our pliarnm
oopoBiaat a preparation of tho cssmitlal
oil of wormwood, generally diffused
in alcohol and tllsguUod by theaddl.
won of a llttlo oil of unite, 'lit primary
ofTooU lon the tyttom are stimulative
win tonlo. Iu secondary effects subtle,
obtoure nnd dettruetlve. Liko mott ot
tho drugs which ontlnvo, tt sooner or
ntor alfoou the volition, breaks down
the moral control nnd toll up nn lib.
normal and In-lunt MlNoontoioutnott.
lhe ronoli phytlolnnt, who have had
the bett opportunity tn study lit
Jimlomntology, dooltrc that the eon.
Mnued utt of the polton ends In otro.
Jfal. letlon, opllouny end ctaruUlve
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