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OOD-BY, good-by yes, we'll write
and tell you all about it, and per
haps send you some of the drawn work."
And with these and the other
usual messages the train carrying the
big excursion to Mexico pr.lled out of
the station.
2t was a common, everyday sight to
the station hands, and they gave it
only a passing glance. Bu to most of
the travelers it was a novel experi
ence, and they looked on it as only the
beginning of the days of sightseeing in
the land of the Montezumas.
There were two passengers in one of
the sleepers who attracted some atten
tion. One was a woman of GO, tall and
straight, with a carriage like a queen
and who seemed as young and gaj* as
the youngest. Th other called her
"mother" and was about 25, a beautiful
girl. Their son and brother had come
to the station to bid them good-by, a
man of 30, well groomed and well made,
the typical American man of that age.
He had provided them with every
thing that his affection could suggest,
and told them to be sure and let him
know day by day where they were and
if they were well.
"And you will look after mother,
Alice, won't you?
A he spoke two j'oung ladies turned
and looked at him—his sister and a
younger woman, about 22. She turned
involuntarily, and the pretty blush
that covered her cheek showed that her
name was Alice, too.
Eobert Duncan glanced at her and
*vas struck by her beauty. Bu she
saw his look and turned away and
busied herself with her baggage. Hi
mother and sister both noticed the co
incidence also and smiled.
"So we will have two Alices along,"
said his mother. "I hope we shall be
eome acquainted with the young ladjr.
She looks very pleasant and very nice."
Just then the porter shouted "All
aboard!" and Robert jumped from the
train. As the car passed him he
looked in vain forth faces of his moth
er and sister. Bu he did see the face
of the other Alice looking at him with
some curiosity.
Then he returned to his office.
was the junior partner in a prominent
HE MADE FAIRLY GOOD HEADWAY.
law firm in Boston, and had a hard
afternoon of work before him There
was a brief in a case that had puzzled
both himself and his partner. Bu try
as he would to concentrate his mind on
his work, he could see nothing but the
beautiful face at the car window and
hear nothing but the droning of the car
wheels.
At last he became so nervous that he
threw down his pen, and, telling the
boy he would not be back till morning,
he walked up across the common and
the public garden to his home.
The evening at the theater did not
help him and he was rather horror
struck to find himself no better in the
morning. This was a new experience
for him N woman had ever before
come between him and his work. This
as silly. never saw the girl before
and he never would see her again, of
course. must have dyspepsia.
So on his way to his office he made a
call on his old college chum, now a
promising physician. did not
tell the doctor what the most promi
nent symptom was but was sure he
needed medicine for dyspepsia. Ac
cordingly he felt rather foolish when
he was obliged to say no to all the doc
tor's questions as to whether he had
certain symptoms inseparable from
gastric trouble.
Th doctor laughed and gave him
some harmless powder and he went to
the office strong in his resolve to finish
the brief. made fairly good head
way, but still the image of the beauti
ful girl would come back to him and
*s the day wore on, more distinctly.
Late in the afternoon he got a telegram
•ayin the party was at Chicago and
signed "Alice." An that started it all
over again.
The he became alarmed and feared
his mind was going. Fo he wras not
believer in "love at first sight or
hardly in the grand passion itself.
Then he found himself with an al
most resistless longing to take the first
train and follow his folks. Of course
he did not admit to himself that he
wanted to see the other Alice.
That afternoon one of the firm's best
clients came in said he contem
plated purchasing some thousand acres
in Mexico with the idea of establishing
a coffee plantation there. was not
Satisfied with the title to the land, and
felt that som« one ought to go down
there and look into the matter more
closely. could not spare the time,
and came to them, thinking that pos
sibly some of their men might
have enough knowledge of Spanish to
a the trip.
Robert Duncan regarded him as an
angel, and said that as the office as
not very busy just then he thought he
should like to make the trip himself.
Thi as better than the client expected
and the matter as soon fixed up
••PerMgs' you will meet your folks
there," said the senior partner.
"Why^perhaps I will," said. Duncan,
as if he had just thought of it. Bu he
told his partner that it as hardly prob-
able, as he as going down on the low*
er table lands near the coast, and the
excursions usually kept pretty well ur'
on the higher plateaus.
That night before he started he got a
letter from his mother, and in it she
said: "Alice Chambers is lovely, and
we enjo3' her so much." So that was her
name—Chambers.
The next morning he started. Hi
journey was a tiresome one, and after
several days spent on the train he found
himself one glorious afternoon climb
ing a little mountain path on the back
of a burro. Duncan had told his folks
by wire of his intended trip, and found
by looking over their itinerary that they
had passed quite near where he now
was.
He had left the train at a little town
through which they had passed some
days previously, and was making his
way into the country to interview an old
Indian whom he expected to find the
next morning. The title to Mexican
landsoftendepends on information only
obtainable from the kindly Indian.
That night he slept on his blanket
under the stars, and early the next
morning was pushing on, the path
growing still wider and more beautiful.
At last, about nine o'clock, he came
over the spur of the mountain and
'•coked down on a lovely valley. His
guide and interpreter told him that in
the little village which he could see was
the old Indian.
About noon the3* arrived, the matter
of the title was soon fixed up and ar
rangements were made to leave the
next morning on the return trip. Bu
that evening something happened that
altered his plans.
A small party of the villagers
had been up on the mountain cutting
wood had found a burro wandering
alone. They did not recognize it as
one of the village burros. I had a
side saddle on it, and tucked under one
of the straps was a little glove. They
knew that a young American or Euro
pean woman must have ridden the
burro, and they began a hunt to find
her.
Some miles back they found her un
conscious by the road, and putting her
on the burro which they had led back
they brought her into camp. A they
brought her up Duncan walked up the
little village street to see what the mat
ter was. He was astounded to see Alice
Chambers on the back of the little mule.
She was still unconscious. One of the
old women of the village took her into
the little open shelter, and in a very
few minutes she revived, and, opening
her eyes, smiled a wan smile. When
her eye caught that of Duncan's she
started, and he stepped up and said:
"I am Robert Duncan, Miss Cham
bers, and my mother and sister have
been traveling with you. I am here on
business, and will be happy to help you
in any way possible. When you are
stronger we shall be glad to hear your
story."
She regained her vigor quickly under
the ministrations of the old Indian
woman, and soon told them that she
had started out with a party to make an
excursion to some famous caves. In
some way she had become separated
from the others and had tried to find
her way back. She became confused,
and, meeting several natives, they had
tried to understand each other, with the
result that she became more and more
at sea.
She had eaten only what some kindly
Indians had given her. At last she went
so long without food that she felt a
faintness coming over her, and she
knew no more till she woke and found
herself in the little village.
In a few days she was strong enough
to travel, and Duncan made himself a
demi-god in the village by leaving a
sum of money that to the Indians was
fabulous. They calculated that the ex
cursion party must be at the City of
Mexico, and when they reached the
railroad they telegraphed the party. A
answer came back which they got at a
station further on. I said: "Thank
God, she is found."
They were met at the station by an
enthusiastic crowd made up of the ex
cursion party, the American minister
and a great mob of Mexicans, who
cheered the couple to the echo. In
some way the story had gotten into the
papers.
Duncan decided to stay for some days,
and telegraphed his partner to that ef
fect, who wired back congratulations,
and Duncan found himself a hero.
drove with them and to see the
sights.
One afternoon he asked Alice if she
would drive with him to the grove of
Chapultepec. They dismissed the
coachman at the entrance and told him
they would meet him there in a couple
of hours. Then they wandered through
the majestic grove, where it is al
ways twilight even at midday. They
had been talking over their strange ex
perience. "Alice," said Duncan, "you
of course know that everybodj- \hinks
you are my sweetheart and was before
we left home
She blushed and owned that she had
heard something to that effect.
"Well," said he, "wh not make it
true? Alice, I have loved you from the
first day I saw you in the train in Bos
ton."
She looked up at him and said, archly:
"Well, Robert, it was quite mutual, I
assure you O, there are some people
coming. You mustn't."
Fro which, I infer, that he under
stood her to say "Yes."—Boston
Globe.
Hono for Old in Cole.
According to Anglo-Saxon chron
iclers, Colchester owes its name and
fame to old King Cole—Coel Godebog,
to give him his true title. Fro a book
compiled by Messrs. Wilson Marmage
and Gourney Benham, ex-mayors,
have taken in hand the building of
a new town hall, we learn that Coel the
Merry is to be honored in stained glass
and sculptured stone, with the other
worthies, ancient and modern, of the
town. Municipalities in this country
too often lose their opportunities of
making their municipal buildings
storehouses of local history and quaint
traditions and customs. Colchester's
town hall is to be a show place as
well as a work place, and we commend
it as an example to other municipali
ties.—London Globe.
Great Valu to Shipping
Th French navy is installing wire
less telegraphy between the light,
houses along the French coast. Judg
in firom the results of the prelimi
nary experiments, the installation wiD
prove of great -"Siae a shipping.
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS IN THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events that Have Occurred In
the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a Week
or So Just Past.
SWEDEN.
The government Is expected to propose
special laws for colonizing the sparsely
populated Lappland country. At the com
pletion of the Ofoten railway a great
number of men will be permanently
thrown out of work, and the government
Is of opinion that special inducements
ought to be offered to these to settle in
northern Sweden.
Many conservative papers praise the
minister of foreign affairs, Count Doug
las, for resisting the Norwegian flag law
to the bitter end, and Nya Daglight Al
lehanda passes a severe censure on the
King for yielding to the Norwegian stor
thing. The same paper styles Premier
Bostroru as "our first Norwegian minis
ter of foreign affairs—for one day."
The faculty of the University of Lund
is composed of 25 regular professors, 15
extraordinary professors and 58 lecturers,
and the whole number of persons teach
ing in the institution is 103. The number
of students is 610, of whom 67 are study
ing theology, 112 law, 80 medicine and 351
philosophical branches.
The two detectives that were sent to
America in search of the authors of the
counterfeit one hundred kronor ($27) bills
receive $120 a month each during their
trip to the New World.
A silly story is cabled from London to
the effect that "two white men supposed
to belong to the Andree expedition" were
shot by Eskimos north of Hudson Bay.
There are 561,000 deposits in the postal
saving banks, amounting, to $16,000,000.
This shows that more than one out of
every ten persons in Sweden has deposits
in this safe and deservedly popular bank
ing institution.
The Swedish Red Cross Society has sent
Dr. Hammar to the seat of war in South
Africa.
The government has announced that a
new man will be appointed for permanent
service in the position which Prof. An
dree held in the patent office before he
started on his North Pole expedition.
The aggregate assets of the cities of
Sweden are $67,000,000, and their public
debt $45,000,000, the debt being about 6S
per cent of the assets. When the debt is
deducted, the average wealth per inhabit
ant of the cities is only $20. The wealth
of Stockholm alone is almost one-third of
that of all the cities in the Kingdom.
The rails have already been laid on
the first sixty (English) miles of the new
Ofoten railway. This portion runs from
Gellivare to Riirunaara.
Hundreds of public practitioners, in
cluding public school teachers and offi
cials in the service of the railway depart
ment, have applied for an increase in
their salaries, the reason given for this
move being that the necessaries of life
cost from 10 to 25 per cent more than a
year or two ago.
Very many photographs sent in letters
from Sweden to America fail to reach the
proper parties on account of the Ameri
can tariff.
The water supply at Lund was almost
exhausted Oct. 18, and on that day the
water was shut off from all factories
and all residences.
"Gustaf Wasa," a new drama by Strind
berg. scored a brilliant success at Sven
ska Teatern, Stockholm.
The feverish activity which has char
acterized the building trade in Stock
holm for months past has been checked
by the general stringency of the money
market. It is claimed that only six new
buildings will go up in the course of next
winter, and that no less than 7,000 men
in the different branches of the building
trade will be thrown out of work.
A four-pound salmon was so scared by
a pickerel at Engelholm that he jumped
clean upon dry land, and a girl who
came down to the river to fetch water
was not slow in picking up the unlucky
fish.
A new railway line is to be built be
tween Walung and Limedskorset at a
cost of about $200,000.
It is estimated that the police depart
ment to Stockholm will cost $309,000 for
the coming year.
A whole class at the Hillersjo Sloyd
school went on a strike, and the teacher
found the strikers at play some distance
from the school house. But this budding
spirit of independence met with but scant
appreciation. An hour a day was added
for the balance of the term, and the us
ual recess was devoted to the study of
arithmetic.
Pickpockets reaped a rich harvest at a
mission meeting in Gothenborg. But the
police was notified in time to put guards
at the door of the church and two men
were arrested and found to possess about
$100 which a few minutes before had been
ensconced in the pockets of others
The L. M. Ericsson Telephone Manu
facturing Co. is the leading employ
er in Stockholm. Fourteen hundred men
are employed now, and the number will
soon be increased to 2,000.
Leroy-Beaulien, a famous French writ
er on economical and political questions,
says: "Located between three powers
of the first rank, all of which are equally
enterprising, not to say aggressive, Swed
en and Norway would, if separated, per
haps some day find it more difficult than
now to maintain their independence and
integrity. May God guide them and show
them their real interests."
NORWAY.
It is claimed that Norway will be visited
by a greater number of "winter tourists"
during the coming season than before.
Special efforts will be made to turn the
tide in the direction of the Gudbrardsdal
en country.
Liljedahl has been elected president of
the odelsthing (a branch of the storthing)
by 45 votes, Jorgen Knudsen receiving 30
votes.
J. T. Sternberg and wife, Kristine Ha
rle, nee Thorbjornsen, of Sannesund,
celebrated their diamond wedding Oct.
18. They are 89 and 85 years old, respect
ively.
The ravages of the recent hurricane are
far greatw than was indicated by the first
report of it. From 200 to 220 fishermen are
said to have perished off the coast of the
diocese of Trondhjan alone. The govern
ment immediately set aside $5,000 for re
placing the fishing gear lost by those
who managed to save their lives.
The national debt of Norway is $53,000,
000. This is fully $25 for every person in
the country.
Mr. Lagerheim, who' is to succeed
Count Douglas as minister of foreign af
fairs, receives the following mention in
Verdensgang: "He entered upon his dip
lomatic career at the age of nineteen
has a thorough knowledge of Nodweglan
affairs, "and speaks and writes our lan
guage has always shown our countrymen
a most amiable disposition and is looked
upon as the ablest diplomat in the service
of the united Kingdom. In regard to the
Union question he occupies practically
the same standpoint as our conservatives
and the more liberal Swedish politicians."
German authorities have advised the
Norwegians to locate their proposed in
stitute of technology near the capital city.
The national convention of the Liberals
agreed to propose the following platform:
(For campaign purposes): 1. The inde
pendence of Norway achieved by means
of a separate foreign ministry, and a
separate consular service for Norway. 2.
Agitation for exhibition and neutrality!
3. Insurance against inability to work,
comprising the whole Norwegian people.
(For practical work): 1. Legal reforms,
including general suffrage in local affairs.
2. Removal of special taxes on agricul
tural pursuits. 3. Provisions for enabling
farm laborers to procure homes of their
own, and for loaning money to city lab
orers on houses. 4. Protection of the po
litical and social rights of the working
men. 5. An eight hours' day on all public
works and in all private enterprises which
endanger the health of the employees. 6.
Stricter immigration laws. 7. Public sani
tariums for consumptives. 8. And the ad
vancement of sobriety by timely legisla
tive reforms.
This question confronts the present
storthing: "l it advisable to pass a law
establishing a separata consular service
for Norway, or is it better to wait for a
first-hand expression from the people?"
It is realized that such a law cannot be
come operative unless it is passed by
three successive storthings, for the king
is not expected to ratify it.
Nansen, being asked what-he thinks of
happiness, answered: "When we have ac
complished our purpose, our joy is gone.
The struggle for knowledge makes man
happier than does knowledge itself hence
childhood and youth mark the time of
joy."
The government proposes $22,000 for tak
ing a census at the close of the year 1900.
The returns from the fishing grounds
were considerable during the week ending
Oct. 14, and the whole quantity of fat
herring caught up to that date was 130,000
barrels.
DENMARK.
The scarcity of buildings is so great in
Copenhagen that 18 families applied for
lodgings at the poor house the same even
ing. Some of these were able to pay their
way, but they found it impossible to ob
tain quarters for the night.
A bill will be introduced in the rigsdag
about furnishing meals to the school chil
dren at public expense,
A number of ladies' societies have peti
tioned the rigsdag to grant the women
practically the same political rights as
those enjoyed by the men.
The cruiser Valkyrien has left Den
mark for a nine months' trip to the Ori
ent. The cruiser is commanded by Prince
Valdemar.
Private parties are said to be planning
the extension of the city of Copenhagen
towards the sea. It is proposed to fill
up the basin to the east of Refshaleo and
Kvintus and thereby add 180 acres of dry
land to the area of the Danish capital.
The filling is to be taken from the bottom
of the sea to the east, and the deepen
ing of the water at this point will make
it a harbor for the largest vessels. It is
also proposed to build a bridge from the
new territory across the channel to the
custom house. The elevation of this
bridge must be at least 120 feet, and its
length be 300 feet. If this improvement
is made it will necessitate an expenditure
of $1,500,000. Those who are planning to
do the work are said to be willing to let
the city have the new bridge and the new
harbor in return for the privilege of turn
ing ISO acres of water into valuable real
estate.
A new daily paper will be started in
Copenhagen Dec. 1. The publishers are a
number of men who are strong believers
in the views of life held by Bishop F. N.
S. Grundtvig. Alfred Ipsen has been en
gaged as editor,
FINLAND.
Rudolf Ericken, professor of philosophy
in the University of Jena, Germany, has
an exhaustive and sympathetic article on
"The Finnish Question" in the Forum.
The writer looks upon the future of Fin
nish independence as dark, but closes his
write-up thus: "However powerless Fin
land may be externally we have no reason
to despair of her future, so long as her
people do not abandon hope. An element
of strength may be found in the fact that
all national differences formerly existing
have now been extinguished in the face
of a common danger. Moreover, the peo
ple are upheld by that consciousness of
right which is a tower of strength in it
self while, at the same time, their high
er culture endows them with all the pow
er of resistance that such inward posses
sion implies. Besides, there is still some
hope that the monarch, to whose broad,
human sentiments the initiative of the
recent Peace Commission was due, will
guard the country against serious evil.
Indeed, it is said that even in Russia,
among the royal liberal circles, there is a
pronounced sympathy in favor of Fin
land. Everywhere the danger threaten
ing this able and well-beloved member
of the European family of nations is
painfully felt. At the same time it is
hoped that the popular expression of
sympathy will not only inspire the people
of Finland with hope, but will also work
a lasting impression upon the bareau
cracy of Russia. For no gentry can be
permanently indifferent to the unanimous
moral vote of humanity at large, irrespec
tive of nations and parties. If, therefore,
the Finish question may be regarded as
one affecting all mankind, America sure
ly will not be content to stand in the
background. Should not the valiant ana
legitimate struggle of an able nation in
behalf of constitutional liberty and higher
culture meet with the sympathies of the
American people
NO NAMES MENTIONED.
Yukon has one woman physician.
At Baltimore a coachman was lined
ten dollars for delaying a car.
A N York waiter recently paid
&18,000 for a house.
A Duquesne (la.) man has a dog
which as sent him by express all the
way from Manila, 1.
Des Moines boasts of a printer
has passed his fifty-fifth-year at the
case, and Milwaukee union sees this
and goes him a couple of years better.
A London coroner on resuming duty
after an illness said he wished to offer
advice to the public—never to use med
icine which they had kept for any
length of time. Hi illness had been
caused by taking stale medicine.
A spasm of generosity was experi
enced by a gentleman of Sullivan, Ind.,
(luring the delivery of a sermon for
charity, and to the church he gave his
note for $50. No he refuses to pay the
note on the ground that it was drawn
on Sunday.
An ex-judge is cashier of a certain
bank. One day recently he refused to
cash a check offered by a stranger.
"The check is all right," he said, "but
the evidence you offer in identifying
yourself as the person to whose order
it is drawn scarcely sufficient." "I've
known you to hang a man on less evi
dence, judge," was the stranger's re
sponse. "Quite likely," replied the ex
judge "but when it comes to letting
50 of cold cash we have to be careful."
Miss Alice Rothschild, was
recently naturalized in England, as
sincerely devoted to her brother, the
late Baron Nathaniel, and inherited a
large life interest in his immense for*
tune. Th lady is very clever and a
social success.
MY DAYS.
3ood ays and bad days glad days and
sad days
Days when all is mournful, and days
when all is bright
Days I have a happy heart, and dance
and go a-singing,
And days I've naught but trouble from
the morning till the night.
tJp days and down days wise days and
silly days
Days I lose my playthings, and days I
bump my head
Days I know my lessons, and jolly times
are plentiful,
1
And days I cry for nothing, and get sent
up to bed.
Big days and little days young days and
old days
Days that come and days that go, a long
and passing train
And days when I am grown up, like days
when I am little,
Will still be sad or happy, full of sunr
shine or of rain.
Days, days, and more days my lifetime
will be full of them
And to make the sunshine brighter, and
the darkness seem less drear
To make more bright than dark days, more
glad days than sorry days,
I've a stout heart to welcome them, and a
hearty voice to cheer.
—Eva Lovett, in Youth's Companion.
HELEN'S GRASS PLOT.
It W as Quite Prett Until He Pe
W ms Interfere it He Suc
ces as a Gardener.
Helen loved to play on the grass, and
it troubled her greatly when it became
hard and dry and brown in winter.
Ho unpleasant it looked! I some
places it was "frost-bitten," in others
it looked as if "the moths had been at
it," Helen said. There were great bare
places, sometimes as big as your hand,
sometimes a foot square, all over the
grass that used to be so pretty last
June. Somebody suggested: "Why
not have a grass plot in the house?"
That was a fine idea! Auntie had
her flowers, a a had her birds. A
little girl surely could take care of a
grass plot!
A box was procured, about four by
three feet, and in it the earth was care
fully prepared and grass seed planted.
After some days the tiny green spears
began to appear, until, before long—
oh, joy in the house and in Helen's
window!—there was a lovely green
grass plot. A charming expanse of col
ors, and Helen kept it there in good
condition all winter.
She watered it regularly, kept it in
plenty of sun to "help the water to
make it grow." She cut it at certain
intervals all over with auntie's scis-
"HELEN'S GRASS PLOT."
sors. An one day the door was
shut she indulged a long-cherished
wish.
She planted her small feet carefully
up and down on the soft grass, walking
on grass as tender and yielding as if
the month were May and not January!
She was very careful when she did
this, because, to Helen's delight, two
lovely brown worms had come to live
in her grass plot. Where they came
from nobody knew, but they were
there! And Helen sometimes consider
ately dropped a few crumbs for them
among the grass, where no doubt the
worms discovered them
There is some reason to think that
the worms believed that the grass plot
and the sun and the water and Helen's
bread crumbs were all intended for
their sole benefit, and that to make
them a comfortable home was Helen's
only duty. This was Helen's idea, for
the worms grew quite fat and bold
and finally Helen was quite willing to
have them put out into the garden to
hide themselves as best they could in a
corner. They were too conceited and
needed punishment. Bu that is the
a with worms!—Brooklyn Eagle.
Bull Defies a Locomotive
While a a of workmen were re
pairing the track on the main line of
the Pennsylvania railroad, a large Hull
made its appearance and scattered
them in every direction. For about half
an hour there was a running fight be
tween the men and the bull. was im
pervious to showers of rocks and an
occasional crack from a shovel, and
finally the men were forced to retreat
up an embankment. Jus then a heavy
freight train hove in sight, and the
bull stationed himself in the middle of
the track. The engineer blew a warning
blast the bull, accepting this as a chal
lenge, sent back a defiant bellow. Then
there was a collision. Th train went
on serenely, while the bull—where was
that misguided animal? Then the men
came down the embankment and re
sumed work.
Prett Rattl for Dolly
Crack an English walnut in halves,
and having first taken out the kernel
and put in either a bell or one or two
small pebbles, paste the two shells to
gether again. Lay it to dry for a quar
ter of an hour. When dry it will be
found that there is a small opening
near one end. I this opening insert a
match (from which the sulphur has
been broken off) and glue it in. When
this is dry gild the rattle. It may then
be tied around the doll's neck with rib
bon, or it may be fastened to a necklace
of beads. This a be improved upon
in various ways and makes quite an at
tractive little rattle.
Defined.
Bobby—-Pop, at is domestic econ-
Papa—It is the fine art of reducing
the grocer's bills and smoking ten-cent
cigars at the same time, my son.—N.
Y. World.
GIANTS AT CAMBRIA,
Surviva of a a Custom Whleto
Ha Obtained In a for
Hundred of Years.
Eacn year in the middle of August
the parish feasts at Cambria, in France,
are concluded with the march of the
giants. Th cortege was particularly
fine this year, the Gayant family of
Douai and Eeuse of Dunkirk having
responded to the invitation of ti« Cam
brians.
The various programmes published at
Cambria have taken care to recall to
mind the origin of the institution of
the popular giants of Flanders. It was
Charles V., said some of these, en
dowed the subjects of the north with
PROCESSION OP THE GIANTS.
this divertisement, to the end that he
might engage and amuse these people
of restless spirit. Others affirm that
the giants arose spontaneously out of
the soul of the people. They are the
heroic warriors who have saved the
city, and of the remembrance is
perpetuated under this symbolical as
pect.
However that may be, for the most
part the towns of Flanders, Belgium,
have their giant. For instance, there is
Grandfather Giant at Malines, Druon
Antignon at Anvers, who came to take
part in the fetes of Van Dyck Hercules
at Louvaine, Ommegan at Brussels,
Lideric and Phinart at Lille, Goliath
at Ath, Longeman at Hasselt, The Drag
on at Mons, and, finally, Gaj-ant and
I^euse at Dunkirk. Each one has a local
history. Th date of birth of others is
unknown and uncertain. They are due
probably to the desire each village had
to make the most droll, most amusing
and most eccentric display, in the words
of the learned M. Theophile Denis, to
amuse big children with playthings.
A WEATHER PROPHET.
Th Tortois W It Is Going
to a in a A a Make
for Shelter.
The tortoise is not an animal one
would naturally fix upon as likely to be
afraid of rain, but it is singularly so.
Twenty-four hours or more before rain
falls the Gallapagos tortoise makes for
some convenient shelter. On a bright,
clear morning, when not a cloud is to be
seen, the denizens of a tortoise farm
on the African coast may sometimes be
seen heading for the nearest overhang
ing rocks. When that happens the pro
prietor knows that rain will come down
during the day, and as a rule it comes
down in torrents. Th sign never fails.
This pre-sensation, or whatever you
may call it, which exists in many birds
and beasts may be explained partly
from the increasing weight of the at
mosphere when rain is forming, part
ly by habits of living and partly from
the need of moisture which is shared by
all.
I
The willow mannikin, which repre
sents Gayant of Douai, was constructed
in the year 1530, to figure in a religious
procession. Gayant has been repaired
very often since that time, and it is be
lieved that there exists little of the
original carcass. Hi wife dates only
since 15G4. Th children followed—
Jacquot., Filian and Binbin. Gayant is
over seven yards high, Mme. Gayant
six, Jacquot four, Filian 3.5 and Binbin
between 2.5 and three. 'Gayant, the
most beautiful of the giants, who has
figured at Cambria in the procession
of the 15th of August, is costumed as
a soldier of the sixteenth century.—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
If we want to find a country where
nature has turned things topsy-turvy—
that is, according to our notion we
must go to Australia. Many things are
reversed in that country. I is summer
there while it is winter in America.
Trees shed their bark instead of their
leaves fruit has the stone or kernel
outside swans are black there is a
species of fly that kills and eats the
spider, and a fish, called the climbing
perch, that walks deliberately out of
the water, and, with the aid of its fins,
climbs the adjacent trees after the in
sects that infest them.
Scotch W in Machine
If you were a Scotch boy and were in
clined to get into mischief you
appreciate the value of a recently in
vented Scotch machine. I is a device
for whipping young folk who have been
unruly. It is said that this ingenious
machine works like a charm and will
turn out more well-punished boys in an
hour than the average person could at
tend to in a day. The machine is in op
eration at the town of Airdrie. Th
complaint that the boys make who have
been birched by the machine is that
too much time passes between the
strokes, and each one of them feels like
a sound thrashing in itself. Four
strokes is a pretty severe punishment
for any boy. Th lads about the town
of Airdrie are said to either be growing
better behaved or are moving to anoth
er part of Scotland.
Hi
Hickle—Which of the actors in the
play impressed you most favorably?
Bloozin—Winderly.
Higgle—Why
Bloozin—He gave me tickets for
the show.—Koxbury Gazette.
a W a
Ta Assessor—Can give me some
idea of at your husband is worth
Lady—Oh, I don't I would
not take a million for him.—Chicago
Daily News
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GRADUAL PROGRESS.
he Do Ha a Situatio a the a
the W as Goin to an
Agriculturist
"How's your boy doing?" inquired the
man whose business takes him occasionally
to a rural community where he knows all
the inhabitants.
"Fine."
"Has a good job, has he?"
"He ain got a job no more. He's got a
situation. He started in with a job, where
he didn't get nothin' but wages—four dol
lars a week. But he done so good that they
boosted him right along, so that now he's
gettin' ten dollars a week. That there ain't
wages. That's salary."
"How are your own affairs prospering?"
"First rate."
"Still pursuing your old business?"
"No. I'm a farmer now."
"Why, isn't that what you always were?"'
"No, sirree. I don't fool myself with no
flatterin' notions. Up to a little while ago,
when the wave of prosperity struck, I
wasn't nothin' but a common cracker. But
I've bought an extra piece of ground an'
lifted a couple of mortgages, an' now I'm:
a farmer. Ef the luck holds out I'll have
some money in the bank in a few years.
Then I'm goin' to buy a three-minute hoss
and a buckboard and mow the grass in front
of the house and be an agriculturalist."—
Washington Star.
Conventiona Confusion
"It is curious," remarked the Lay Fig«
ure, "that people think the dumdum bullet
poisonous."
"Not at all," rejoined the Unconscious
Imbecile. "You see, immediately the dum
dum bullet enters a body it mushrooms.
Now, most people don't know the differ
ence between a mushroom and a toadstool,
and a toadstool is poisonous. Curious?
Why, it's the most natural thing in the
world for people to think tlsAt."
Of the others, not one forgnt that he waj
a gentleman.—Detroit Journal.
A the a
Long—Family troubles, eh? What rock
did your domestic ship split on^
Short—It was the absence of "rocks" that
caused the split.—Chicago Evening News.
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