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THE WINSLOW' MAIL. * J. F. WALLACE, EDITOR A t*D raOPRIDDDR. SATURDAY, AUGBUSI’ 27, 189$. A QUEER HABITS |t I* Contracted by a Cleveland Mas While Trying to Learn, the Ty obavjM tr n» A Cleveland man has set about learn ing the use of the typewriter, reports she Plain Dealer. Lp to the present limp lie has had spjnebody to do his typewriting for bitm.bul now he wants to know bow to run' it all by himself. He admits that he isn’t an apt scholar, it comes slowly. The letters are hard so find, and the spacing is so easily forgotten. But there is one thing that amuses him. He is learning to spell, and learning in the same way he did when at tunw-bpaded boy in the early ’6os. Os course he could spell when he tackled the typewriter, but not in the same way. Now he distinctly enu merates each letter, and does it, too, with the greatest care. It is a funny thing, but he finds himself spelling put the word* in the newspaper, and his wife say* lie spells them in his sleep. The other the minister met him ? nd asked him-Bow he was. “V-e-r-y w-e-I-1,” he gravely spelled' put, and when the pastor locked' amazed he realised what he had’dbne and hastily explainedthc oause of the peculiarity. And the minister pro fessed to be greatly interested and wanted te>know all about it, and the speller is now greatly worried’fbr fear the parson will write a special' paper on it for some magazine. When the minister finally left him he shook hands and said: “Good-by.” “G-o-o-d,” began the speller, and then uncollected himselfi and hastily added “by.” hopes in time to wear out this and when he increases his speed on the typewriter he no doubt VilL NOT AFRAID OF FIRE. A Philadelphia Retriever That Went Affey Firecracker! Without • Uga at Fear. Among the enthusiastic patriots up town the other day was a man who •wns a handsome spaniel and one es ge-eitolly good at retrieving. This man, repost* the Philadelphia Record, be gan his celebration by throwing a pack of small firecrackers into the strewt andi before the first one had a chance explode the dog rushed o«it and grabbed the bunch an<h was making toward his mq*4**as fast as he could. Before innocent dog reached his desjtLs&tiion, however, an explosion te>olfc place, and one after another the Sttle rolls of powder went popping at a great rate. Os course the spaniel dropped them, but he remained in the middle ot th.e pack, jumping at the *ue* that btew up into tha air until the entire pack had gone offt Then, after picking up one or two of libe ex ploded crackers, he returned: t>o bis master and landed them at his teet. Tbe man petted the dog awhile and I then looked to see if he had been in jured, and found that his beautiful coat of curly brown Bair had been so much singed that it would be neces sary to have it clipped. Tbe dog was held high as a retriever in the estimation of his owner and those who knew him, bujt hip stock has, risenlOO per cent*, uow and'no amoiurt of money- BOids hiSk GE&E&EIAES EAT BURDOCK. Many of the Chinese and Japanese Cultivate the Plaat for Home i Consumption. What ifc* e*eu>negardied as a vile weed can, with a little stretch of imagina tion be turned into an ornamental Elant or delicious vegetable, says Mee an’s Monthly. This is especially the case with the common burdock, lappa Tfrfjw. Schoolboys all know it from gathering the burrs and compressing them into a ball, tbqy being held to- f ether by the eur«ed> points of the oral involucre. This i 9 all they knqw about it. It is difficult to see anything more to be despised in the burdock than in the leaf of the rhubarb. It appears that it is largely used in China for food. But ijt is stated that, if the stalks be cut dt>w.q.before the flowers and then be boiled, the t-aste is equally with asparagus. The when young, are boiled and eatep, as we eat is use. Thousands of acres are to its quiture. But in this case th&qqqt, ip the object. It requires <Jeep soil to get the roosts to the best advantage. The common name in China is gobbo—a name, however, which, not replace' our common <ss,' of burdock. P CAN'T BE EXPLAINED. A Naval Qopaasder Says There M Why Sailors Will De sext la Time of Peace. ». " “Jj never knew sailor worth keep ing,”- declared ajfc ol<J naval com manded “that w;ou)d <Jcpfiut in, time of war. BaA in, khaiq's. qfc pqa.ce, Tfhqn everything appears to be going, alqijg as though it were greased, desertions, igrill begin from no apparent cause and will suddenly become epidemic. Away •QM.'y’ll go, and it’s tvnq, tq one thqt ip. * little while they will seq hunting, ground to see if they can’t get back mto thq sfii-vjpq having tq, suf fer 'puriishmepL h used to put in a good deal'of trying to find an ex planation of tlpe q.hd finally pre sented it to one of poj superior oiji cers. “ ‘Drop it, young man,’ was his Ip conic advice. 'You can’t tell why they (Jo it and you,can’t stop them. If you must worry, lei. i,t be about something where yqq, ipay have a, qbance to qp. complish gqftdi Til tell you right now, if you were to sail a sljip fop. Heaveq. qnd were obliged to touch at pell for coal half the crew would desert.’' t i V* W«r Tai Is is so much in need of funds person entering her limits ■Wearing 'glovep or boots nearly new, must pay a tax on them. '1 his rule aiso applies to a hat or necktie which seems new. —- AS THE WINDS BLOW. «-*■- Sweet Memories of n Once Hnppy Time Awakened by a lluudle of 01<1 Letters. See, mo damp, ’tis a bundle of letters. I found them a few evenings ago while rummaging through a pile of for gotten manuscripts, They were tied , with lavender ribbon and still retained the odor of the violets she used to 1 love. As mv eyes rested on the dingy and . • brown envelopes and the faded knot of . ! ribbon,, a thousand memories cf the old days surged through my mind— ' the old days when she and I would wan der along the banks of the river iirthe glad sunshine telling each other the story of hearts that is told so often yet never grows old.. You know the tale, madame.. Yes, you have heard it, and with burning cheeks and throbbing heart you lis tened to it, just as others had before you, and as others will after, you. and I are gone. It is a sweet, old tale, madame, is it not? I thought so when I heard it from her lips,, for she was the first to tell it tome.. Ah, that dear May day by the river, the flowers all about us, the birds sing ing their scr.gs of life and of love! I She plucked a daisy and tore away 1 the petals, repeating, as each fell to j the ground: “lie loves me, he loves me , not, he loves me—” That was the last, madame. It was then that I told her the story. I told her how my love had lived and burned unspoken for so long, so long. llow I had loved her ever since the day our eyes first met'across the path. She , listened, and when I had finished the , look she gave me told the secret cf her heart. Ah, madame, the joy of that moment, j She placed her soft arms around my j neck and whispered: “I love you.” I was young then, and cf the world, with all its whims and vagaries, I knew ! but little. j Then by and by I went away. I You know, madame, how sometimes faces are forgotten, how easy it is for us to cease thinking of those who are away. It must have been like that with her. This bundle, tied with the lavender ribbon and still exhaling the sweet ness of the violets, contains the letters she wrote me. They were warm with her love nt first. Slie thought nr.d dreamed of me alone. I was happy fer awhile. Then came the last. It told me she and I must part, that we were ur.suited, that henceforth our paths must lie in opposite direc tions. I crushed the cruel paper in my hands and returned it to her, but it was too late. She had married and seemed happy. See, here are the letters, madame. Do you not smell the violets? A last tie, you say? True, but I would destroy even that. There, they are among the coals. See how the flames twine about them and lick the knot of ribbon. Is it net beau tiful? There is one that burns slowly. See, I light my cigarette in its blaze. There, ’tis gone. Nothing but ashes. I have no memories now, madame. The ljast has left my mind, my heart, as that puff of smoke left- my lips. What? I shake? I spill the absinthe? Pardon, madame, you mistake; see, how firm is my hand!—Detroit Free Press. Gladstone's Place. In History. Gladstone’s place in English history will be high, and, it will be quite apart from any other. lie will have no near companionship in his fame. It will be, we think, an eminence assigned to mor al qualities more than to intellectual powers. The very sincerity that his en emies have denied to him will be count ed, perhaps, the loftiest of his claims. It will be seen that few men of brilliant gifts and great ambitions have sought with his earnestness f,or the right in what they did or stood with his courage by what they found it to be. When he braved the scorn and anger of the church, which has always been more to him than to most of its priests, and challenged by the same act his own past, in order to do justice to the peo ple of another creed, and when he made ti righteous peace with the Boers in the face of a storm of English wrqth. lie rose to a greatness in character that will be measured in future time with clearer eyes than now.—Atlantic. CHAMPION SNEEZER. A Small Sized Kentucky Man Coaid Break I'd a Camp Meeting: wltli Fuse. “Did you ever know a man who could sneeze loql enough to break up a camp ipqqting, to stop the taking of testimony in court and qause a bel lowing cow to stop in disgust and won der what the noise was that was drowning its thunderous voice?” said an old fisherman one night recently. On being informed that his sneezer was entitled to cake andt all the ac cessories. necessary to conduct an up to-date bakery the gentleman consent ed to tqll more qf his speezing friend, says the Louisville Hq&aid: “While fishing in a mountain town in eastern Kentucky lpst fall I went to the village near by one rainy morning to attend circuit court. Tine judge was delivering on impressive charge to the grand jqry, and. every ear was listen ing to. catch each word; when the still ness of the court was broken fcy an un earthly ker-cliew, ker-ehew. ker-chew, etc., etc., etc. The judge was thunder struck, and instantly every eye was turned toward the rear of the room, where a little unobtrusive-looking old farmer sat sneezing 36 if his head were coming off. The judge ordered the sheriff to bring'the iii-tisudeq before the bench, TJhe offender came forward and the judge had a fine entered agaixjgt the innocent cause of the dis turbance. “T\vo of the sneezer’s friends were called, who.testified to the man’s good character, and high standing, but said they could'hear liijn sneeze three miles any day in,the yeqjp One said that the sneezer qqce broke up a qamp meet ing with a spell, and that he saw an enraged bQ>;me stop a thunder -1 ous bellowing fit: to look in wonder at 1 the human who could make mere noise , than a mad bull'. But the old fellow , couldn’t help it, and the fine was re -1 mitted.” LAMONES. CAPTURED. y : A Possession That May Come Alorw with tbe Philippines. • : I o - Something Abont the Principal M?m --i liers of the Cronp, Their Popula tion nn<l Products—Kvlilooees 0 of Former Civilization. 1 The statement that the cruiser ChaV- leston stopped at the Ladrone or Ma- L rianne islands or. her way to the Philip pines and took possession of them in the name of the United States gov c eminent' is not confirmed at Washing ton, but as the group lies directly in 1 the way of our ship it is more than like ly that the report is true. ’ The Ladrone group comprises about ’ 20 islands, only five or six. of which are inhabited, the rest being mere dots ' on the ocean, the tips of volcanoes which have sunk beneath the sea as the crust of the earth at this point [ subsided. The principal islands of the r group are Guahan, Beta, Aguijan, Say -1 pan and Tinian; but the largest, Gua han, which has. an area- of only 2CO ’ square miles, forms nearly one-half the land area.of the entire group. Ly ing as they do. almost, directly under the equator, the}' have every variety 1 of tropical product, and under proper ! conditions their population might be come wealthy from agriculture alone, for no finer cotton, coffee, sugar or ’ tobacco can be grown in the world than arc raised in the Ladrone islands, ' but the curse of Spanish rule has blighted every industry. The people labor no more than they are obliged _ to, and iu the tropics no one is really compelled to work, for an abundant supply of food grows without cultiva ' lion, and clothing and shelter are al most. unnecessarj'. The present islanders are mostly de -1 seendants cf settlers from Mexico or from the Philippine islands. The peo ple do not differ materially from the natives of the Philippines, and al though the islands have several good harbors the Spaniards have done little | or nothing for their improvement. The i most considerable town on any of the ■ group is Saypan, on the island of the | same name, the houses of which, like most of those in the South sea islands, are elevated on piles from two to four feet above the- ground. There are few Spanish settlers on the islands, and the hold of Spain upon the group l:as been for the most part nominal. It is a singular fact, discovered by Anson, that there are evidences 011 several of the islands cf a former civ ilization. Cyclopean ruins exist, the architecture and dimensions of the stones closely resembling the great ruins found in the islands of the Greek archipelago. These lonely islands must therefore at one time have been a seat cf civilization. Perhaps it was before they became islands, for the Ladrone islands are the remains of a mountain chain which traverses the Pacific from north to south, having branches to the east in other scattered groups which here and there dot the surface of the sea. To the United States the value of the islands is at present military, as fur nishing harbors and coaling stations, but under enlightened government there seems to be no reason to doubt that with proper cultivation the cot ton of the islands would equal that produced along the.coast of South Car olina, the sugar would rival that of Cuba and Puerto it is said that the tobacco cf the Ladrones has a flavor equal to that of Vuelto Abajo valley. Any development within the limits of elimare and’ soil is possible ,under a civilized government*, and the [Ladrones may have before them a fu | tore as great as that which lies before Puerto- Kino.—St. Loun Globe-Demo crat. MOLLY LAY DOWN. Slie Followed tlic Advice of Her Loud- Voiced Husband and Was Saved. In his Fourth of July oration at Spartanburg, S. C., Senator McLaurin interpolated this: Senator Bate, of Tennessee, told me an anedote of Col. Tom Sumter that I have never seen in print. Sumter was a great big giant of a fellow, with a voicq like a foghorn. It is said his “holler” could be heard for miles. On one occasion when he was off on a foray the tories came and captured his wife, Molly, and stripped the plan tation of everything. When “Old 1 Tom”' came home and found “Molly” gone his rage knew no-bounds. Gath ering together such forces as he could he put after the Tories. ‘ | He overtook them on the third day i and hung about until midnight. Then Ihe deployed his forces around the camp! and told them tq await his or ders to fire. He was afraid of “Molly” | being shot in the melee, so when lie got everything ready he opened his big mouth and let out a yell that fairly jniade,the earth tremble: “Laydown, ' j Molly!* Lay down, Molly!” and Molly, {recognizing those stentorian tones, jfell prone on her face, and, after the ’ I last “Lay down, Molly,” came the com mand fire and charge. Molly was re [ [captured without hurt.—Detroit Free ' Press. Kentlnj? Clocks. Among the many things rented now ' mlays are clocks, whiqh are hired for ' use in private houses, cfnce«. factories ' mnd various places of business. Tlie ! ■ 'clocks thus rented are made to keep , ' accurate time. They are rented, the ’ hirer to care for them, or they are ■ cared for by the owner, the care in- I eluding winding as well .is regulating, ■ setting and cleaning, the hirer having ‘ - nothing to do about the clock but to . pay the annual rent. There are many 1 qlqcks thus rented.—N. Y. Sun. A Dewey Story. Admiral Dewey was always a strict , disciplinarian, qnd occasionally in- I diets punishment in curious ways. I Once while in a foreign port he sudden ly ordered the heaviest tackle to be ' gott-en out of the hold without delay. After two hours’ work his order was carried out, and he then directed that a large chew of tobacco which had been thrown under one of the guns be hoisted overboard. Never again on that cruise was such an unpardonable offense committed: FAIR PLAY IN THE Slow n Little Woman Silenced a Vol uble Neighbor Who Tried to Annoy tier. It was only a by-play at the theater the other evening, but it was enter taining to a limited portion of the au dience, says the Detroit Free Press. ; Behind the little lady with a dimin utive hat that had its chief beauty in its. daintainess, sat a member of the ' sex with Amazonian proportions and voluble tongue. In a brief, intermis sion of chattering to those about her she happened to look down and espy the pretty headgear which was a clear, foot below her range of vision with the stage. But it was a tempting op portunity. “Will you kindly remove your hat?” asked the one in the rear, as she leaned forward and spoke in a noisy whisper. “Certainly,” answered the one in front, as she made rather a vicious plunge for the anchoring pin. “Lwill 'kindly’ take off my hat. Will you kindly stop your talking and permit us to hear this play?” For full five minutes there was un broken silence. But it was a greater self-restraint than the large woman could endure and her annoying whis perings agaimbegan. Suddenly the one in front stuck the little hat upon the very summit of her head and pinned it there. It seemed to have grown taller and of greater circumference and looked just like a defiant chal lenge worked into artistic millinery. The large woman was too mad to talk and: thane was suppressed titter ing while those around beamed on the little woman and were sore tempted to give her a hand byway of applause. KEEPING PRISONERS.. The Novel Way in Which the Germans Prevented Their Captives from Running Away. “It has been suggested that when Santiago falls we shall have from 10,- 000 to 20.C00 Spanish prisoners to look after,” said a well-known German citi zen to the New York Tribune, before the surrender;, “Os course, the question of what to do with them is sure to arise, and with further campaigning necessary it will probably develop into a serious propo sition. “It recalls to my mind an incident of I the German revolution of IS4S. We were short of men and had a large number of prisoners to look after. That did rot worry us as long as we were r.ot moving, but one day we had to make a forced march. The country through which we were to pass was hostile, and extreme watchfulness was necessary. We had few enough men as it was. and we knew that those prisoners were ready to mak,e a: dead run at the first opening. “Finally a young officer made a bril liant suggestion and it was promptly carried out. We ripped the suspender buttons from the prisoners’ trousers, took away their belts and knew we had them. Their hands were busy after that, and fast running was cut of the question. We made the march safely, : and I do not believe that even Yankee ingenuity could have invented a si:n --' pier solutio'n.” TOUGHEST HORSES OuJXalo Dill Sr.ys Tliat the Dun Color Is n Good Shade to Stand Long Marches. “Dun colored horses are not the pret tiest by any means, but my experience has. been,” said Col. William F. Cody, when in Washington recently, says lire Washinton Star, “that they are the toughest of the hffrse kingdom. An ordinary dun horse will wear out three other horses. Put as much work on him as you may, he never looks as well or as tidy in appearance as a bay, a chestnut, black, gray cr white, but as far as service is concerned he will.run the others to a standstill. This is my experience on the plains, in the caval ry service, and is my experience in tlie show business, where I have nearly 500 horses. “Dun horses are somewhat rare, but when they can, be picked up I would advise that they be bought, especially when the question of wear and tear is considered. They are, as I said before, not strong as far as looks are involved, but for cavalrymen looks have to take a back seat alongside of wear. The cavelrymen who are soon, I hope, to | ride over Cuba, will find that my in- j dorsemenfc of dun horses is of some | value.” HOTEL CLOCKsTaIWAYS TRUE I I Hut; the Mosl of the Family Mantel 1 Timepieces Are ConNcicncelesß Prevaricators. When I am traveling I never put the slightest confidence in a household clock, write Iloberj- J. Burdette, of “Tongueless Liars, ** in Ladies’ Heme Journal. A, hotel clock I can depend upon. There arc too many watches in a hotel—good watches, watches whose absolute correstness means money to the commercial men wlio regulate the traveling life of this country. A lying clock would be spotted in a quarter of a second, and the unhappy clerk scourged wiVh pitiless sarcasms there- ! for. Tn the course of my wanderings up and down this part of the globe I missed a few trains and lecture en- I gagercents by depending upon clocks 1 Jin the homes of my friends. Having I thus paid for my lesson —$15,000 or • ! $20,000, i think—by my own computa tion of the value of my lectures (set ahead a little bit, you know, it may be a trifle fast; I haven’t time to look up | the exact figures), I withdrew all my trust from mantel clocks, especially the highly ornamented marble-ar.d gilt variety with silver bells or cathe dral chimes. Street Car Eye. A new affection of the eyes, caused, it is said, by the prevailing method of seating passengers in street ears and , “L” ears, has been discovered. The , effort to fix the gaze upon passing ob- Ijects results in a strain and twitch ing in the external muscles of the ' globes which is quite annoying.—Chi- ! tago Tribune. The Forests of Cuba. I The forests of Cuba cover about 13,- j ,000,000 acres, so forest preservation : [will probably not be the first problem 1 the new government will take up.— 1— tea T: nr.rcript. WHAT NICOTINE REALLY IE. A Colorless Fluid T»:at Becomes C ark When Expessd to Air and Lls'ht. Tn a communication about tobacco, in tho Scientific American. Prof. John j Vv. Mallet, of the University of. Yir j ginia, says among other things: “Ignorance of easily ascertainable scientific facts is, however, common ' enough, as often illustrated by the brown, oily material formed, in the j nicotine, though in reality this is mere- : i ly the tar produced by the action of . heat on.the woody, fibre of the. leaf, j “Nicotine when pure is a colorless j fluid of somewhat oily consistence and j strong, peculiar, penetrating odor, but I it darkens on exposure to air and light, | becoming first yellow and then brown, i so that it loohs, in this darkeneel con jdifion, something like the tarry mat | ter which soiis a smoker’s fingers or a i handkerchief through which tobacco j smoke is exhaled, or is often noticed , as deposited in the stem of a pipe, j This tarry deposit has nothing essen tial in common with nicotine, and con tains but traces of this alkaloid, when any at all. A part, but only a small part (about one-seventh of the experi ments of Melsens), of the real nicotine of tobacco is volatilized without de composition; the remainder is burned and destroyed in the process of smok ing. “The sensational statements occa sionally made in regard to arsenic, cop j per, etc., as present in the paper wrap j pers, would be at once seen to be gross ly improbable if it were but renrem- I bered that the wrapper is a single i cigarette weighs little mere than half I a grain, and that in such a minute quantity of thin, delicate white paper there could be introduced but in finitesimal amounts of such foreign adulterants without the presence be coming perceptible to common obser vation by the senses, aside from the positive scientific evidence that they i are not present.” RENT FLOWERS FOR HOUSES. Hothouse Proprietors Sutler Lons lit j Business Through the Advent ot Summer Months, This is the season of the year when keepers of hothouse flowers, who ,thrive in winter, are practically rvith ! out employment. There are more than 20 concerns in Chicago that make | a business of renting potted plants, palms and other interior decorations j to restaurants, cases, saloons, and to j families. These- plants are changed j as often as wanted. One day there 1 . may be one of the waving pampas i j plumes, and in the same place the day j ! following may appear a blooming ger- ; ' anium. The uninitiated would imag- | ine that the owner cf the room was j also proprietor cf a hothouse, when he j j isn’t anything of the sort. These J plants may be rented for one dollar j ; per month apiece, says the Chicago j Times-llerald. In summer they are. taken out and : fresh; flowers, bom of raid and sun shine, placed in their stead. Chica ' gonas do not like the looks of hothouse flowers when the weather is warm and natural blossoms are cheap. Bushes of fresh honeysuckles- grown wild in the mountains of Kentucky and Ten nessee may now be seen in many places. Violets are coming in in abun : dance. Tiiere may occasionally be j found magnolia blossoms, for they are , plentiful on the bayous of the south j this season. Then there are the native | roses and daffodils and dandelions that j ( give fragrance and take the room of i : the potted plants, which do very well j ,n winter, but look out of place when I the air is soft and balmy and the trees are clothed in green. I HEADS OF GREAT BRITONS. , Gladstone Had a Larj?cr Cranium Tlinn Benconsileld, Bright or Russell. Mr. Gladstone’s head was. it is well | known, of exceptional size. The story he told at Lord Ripon’s once about the man who could not get a hat large enough till at last the hatter called in desperation for an Aberdeen hat may well enough hqve been his own ex perience, says the London Daily News. The compliment to Aberdeen was, no doubt, relished in the granite city. Dr. Collins once gave to the world the re sult of a special study in hats, in the course of which it was mentioned that j Mr. Gladstone’s number in hats was {7%. The hatters’ number is arrived at by taking the mean of the length and breadth. Thus a hat 7(/.xG 1 is a No. 7 hat, which is the average English . size. Lord Beaccjisfield’s hat was this ' size, John Bright’s 7.%,, Lord John Bus sell’s 714, all smaller than Mr. Glad stone’s. But the Gladstone hat was exceeded in size by that of Dr. Chal mers’ 7%, and Joseph Hume’s was em phatically abnormal—Sl4. Dr. Collins had 120 hats measured at a meeting of Convocation of London university, and found that between 40 and 41 per cent, were above the British average, No. 7; between. 35 and 20 per cent, were just j the average size, and 31 per cent, were : under the average. Keep Tab on the Ministers. Every time a Itussian minister leaves , town his colleagues are notified of the journey, besides the council of the em- I pire, the. cabinet of the emperor, the I empire’s comptroller and’ secretary, i the sacred- synod, the emperor’s mili- j tary secretary, the impress, the gov- | ernors of Moscow, Varsovie, Kieff, etc., j ad infinitum to all appearance. When he. returns the same minute notifica tion performance is gone through. The Kaiser’s Brother. Prince Henry of Prussia is in every way the exact opposite cf his brother, the kaiser. A quiet, modest, unassum ing young man, he makes friends every where he goes. lie is idolized by his 1 brother officers in the navy, and by the j men also, who do not forget that on two j* j occasions he dived from the quarter,' | deck to rescue drowning sailors.. Bis; devotion to his mother in 1339 was ) most marked, and in embracing and '' blessing his sailor son on the occasion : cf his marriage with Lrene of Hesse, j i Frederick the Noble pressed into his j hand a slip of paper (for he could not j speak), on which was written:. “You j at least have never given me a moment’s j' ! sorrow, and will certainly make as true ja husband as you have been a loving • son.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. >' HILLING THE PI-13A BIRD.. The Order o" Red 3lc;s from. Spring- Celil ntpeat the Carious. Ln (!:an Ceremony.. An unique spectacular programme was lately carried cut on the grounds of the Piasa Bluff's, Chautauqua, by the organization cf Bed Men from Springfield. Thu exhibition was a pan tomimic portrayal of the old Indian legend of the original Piasa bird, which is si:pposed to have once lived, in this ! region. The story told is of a- huge bird so great that its wings gave the air vibrations like the tones of: thun der. its talons and beak and' pow erful body foamed the river, dashing the waves against the rocky bluffs Tike the modern dynamite of the American navy—an enemy so furious aud’ de structive and ready to devour that the Indian tribes suffered the loss of many of its braves. At last in council a sac rifice was agreed upon to save the tribe. The son.crf'the chief was to-offer himself. Th great sorrow the Indians assembled to-wit ness the sacrifice, and if possible to db battlfe bo save their youthful cliief. In the final struggle the bird was pierced by arrows, and the boy delivered'. For centuries, it is said, many tribes came from distant hunting grounds to feast and’return thanks. Everything on, this recent occasion was as like as-could be to the story. A huge bird of monstrous dimensions, cf fearful form, its tail that of a great serpent, its face slightly human, with horns like an antelope, body like both bird and' beast, its wings black and widespread, its limbs and talons file exaggeration of any and everything large and strong and cruel, was start ed across the valley from the highest rock on one of the adjacent bluffs, sus pended orr wire. The Bed Men-, with their war whoop, rushed to attack this enemy in the upper air. And sure enough, ns though loud shouts added the skill of (lie arrow, this monster j fell; enevelbped in a cloud of feathers. | The braves completely encircled him with the circular war dance of noisy triumph. AN OLD BELL.. How It Was Rrnipr In tlie Cause ot Justice in Italy Mnny Ycssas Aso. There is an old bell in a corner of the Glen island museum of natural his tory that attracts unusual attention on account cf the story connected with it. Tlie btll itself is net much to look at, | says the New York Mail and Express, I but its story appeals to the better ' side of human nature. It is to the effect that in one of the old cities of Italy, many centuries ago, i the king caused the bell to be hung in the tower in one of the public squares, • and called it. “the bell of justice.” lie I commanded that anyone who had been ■wronged should go and ring the bell, 1 and so call the magistrate and ask for and receive justice. In the course of time the lower end of the bell rope rot ted ! away and a wild vine was tied to it to lengthen it. One stormy night the inhabitants were awakened by the loud clanging cf the bell. An old and starving horse that had been aban doned by its owner and turned out to die wandered into the tower, and, in trying to eat the vine, rang the bell. The magistrate of the city, coming to see who demanded justice, found the 'old starving horse, and he caused the j owner of the animal, in whose service Ihe bad foiled and been worn out, to ! be summoned before him, and decreed , that as the horse had rung tlie bell cf justice he should have justice, and tha.t. during the horse’s life its owner ' should' provide for hifihproper food and drink and stable. Hon. John H. Starin, while traveling in Italy, saw tlie bell, and, hearing its history, determined to bring it to this country. The people, however, were j loth to part with it. > BAD BARGAIN IN DOMESTICS. Two Covetous Mistresses l’'i chniiged Maids and Raid More for Bad Service. Tiie reason of the cold silence be tween t.ryo pronriflenfMaywocd women grew out of a unique development of the perennially-appearing servant girl question. One of the women concerned was blessed with a good-natured, hard working Irish, w.Qman, exemplary in all ways save for the fact that she was apt to. return from her “Thursdays out” in anything blit a peaceful frame of mind. The other had been employ ing a rather stupid Danish girl, says the Chicago Times-Hcrald. Each woman secretly coveted and tried to. obtain her neighbor’s maid, but neither kngry, until the change had been quietly effected, that she had not been alone in this act ofjfeminine trea son. The resultant coolness manifest ing itself just as soon as each realized that she was paying 4 dollar a week more than her neighbor had done while the new maids were neither one of them the faultless they had been imagined, has deepened aud spread until at least seven neighboring families have become more or less in volved in tlie difficulty, and com plications are threatened every day. The two hired last accounts, were enjoying matters ipightily, but their respective mistresses prefer walking half a mile to meeting each other, and the husbands of the two indignant women absolutely refuse to travel on the same suburban trains. Britain’s Foreign Sailors. j Among the foreign sailors in the British merchant marine 9,000 are Scandinavians, 5.000 Germans and 2,000 Russian^. A, Puerto Rico Custom. William E. Curtis, who has been a good deal of a globe trotter, writes from Washington to ihe Chicago Rec ord: "I observed phenomena at San Juan, and the same at Ponce de Leon, for which I have never been able to ob tain a satisfactory explanation The . old negresses who- s : t around the mar- [ ket place and the shady street corners j selling dulces from large baskets are j habitually smoking long black cigars, j and they put- the lighted ends in their | mouths. Why they do so and how they | can endure it are. mysteries that could not be solved, but it, is nevertheless a fact and a custom that is unique in 1 Puerto Rico.” WAR HELPED WOMEN. ' Loss of a Million Men ia the Civil: Conflict. Opened the Way for 1 Women In Business, • One of the most interesting as well'. ; as.important factors in the labor prob • lem.to-day is the employment of worn -1 euin. the various departments of labor once reserved for men and the compe tition of women with men in the strug -1 1 gle for life. j 1 There were some 22,000,000 persons ot : , both sexes-engaged in gainful.pursuits ■ cf ail sorts in 1890. Os these about 4,000,000 were females and 18,000,000 j ■ males. There rvere, according to the ■ same census, about 13,000,000 families ; in the United States. In 1860 there 1 ! were about 10,000,000 workers of both ■ sexes, anil of these one-twentieth, or ■ SCO.COO, were females. These were en - gaged chiefly in clothing factories, ■ ; cotton mills and in shoe binding, and ■ they rvere found almost wholly in Nerv • j England states, whose men had gone ; away to.sea or to the new lands of the [ ! west and, left their women depend • ent. In tho west and in the south a > woman seldom went away from home to work, or, if sg, they rvere occupied ; rvith household duties in families. Aft er the civil Avar the.situation was.vast— i ly changed. A million, men lost their lives or rvere so disabled as to be in capacitated to support themselves. The south suffered more than any oth , ■ er section, and many rvomen \\ r ere left self-dependent. It rvas a nerv thing to. 1 see white rvomen in the southern staler : start out to seek work in avenues that; had been previously closed to rvomen. They could not take domestic service, because such places rvere monopolized by the negroes rvho had been brought, up to that sort of rvork. The posts of teaching the young did not afford, places for all rvho rvere forced to rvork, and thus the white women of the ! i south emulated their sisters of the north and west in seeking the means of earning a livelihood, in every hon orable work within; lihoir capacity,, and, horvever much the necessity, of; such a state of tilings is regretted, it must be recognized all the same. It is not only unmanly, but it is out rageously unjust for men to complain-, that women are throrving them out.of employment. There are 13,000,000 heads of families in the United States. Some- of these, are rvidorvs, but the greatest number are men. There are ; men enough in the country to support all the rvomen if they would. The fact is that they do not. It is their own fault... If. every man who gre.t.enda-tq> be a man were supporting a woman,, as lie should, there would be prob ably 4,000,000 places in offices, stores, shops and factories that are now occu pies by woman workers left free to, ( nien,. and the rvomen would be at I home; j The worst feature in the entire sit uation. is- that, the rvomen ar.e pub off, with about one-half the wages given to men for the same service. This is an outrage in many cases. When the women acquire the power in business which, they have always been 4-bln, no, wield in love they will correct the evil* e{ lower wages, too. —N. O. Picayune. | SHE DOES WELL AS A T.OUT. 1 —= A Western Yon cor Woman Who Sain-,, djes Ilacc-Goers Out cf Con sJUer.tible Sams.. A, female “tout” is. following the races, and no doubt will be in evidence qt the races here and at Anaconda. She worked the California and Den ver people, and.it is said was well paid for her work. Everybody that has at tended the races here or elsewhere knows what a “tout” is. They- are gen erally of the male persuasion, and in a town like Butte the “picking” is exr tremely good. | Women are much easier victims to the “touts” than the men, as they do not like to go down into the betting ring, and they frost to the honesty of the touts; | The female “tout” has worked cn these principles. She does not con fine herself to her own sex, but ‘‘touts" men as well. She would find a seat, near some aristocratic-looking people and would manage to engage some of them in conversation. Then she would; make a statement to the effect that she would like to bet on a horse. She had never done sueh.a thing in her life, and she would so much enjoy the sen sation. Would anyone else like to bet ? She would only risk a small amount, and what a good thing it would be if they would make up a pool, say five dollars or ten,dollars each, and pIaQQ-iA| on one fior«e to; win. | Then they would all put up their. m0ßc.3 and the female “tout” would say she knew a betting man who, would place the money for them. She would return with a ticket on a horse that had no possible show of winning. Os course, the ticket was a counter feit, but then the people who had con tributed their money didn't know it. When the race was over she would show it to the crowd and assure them, that their horse did not win, andthen, tear the worthless pasteboard into, pieces. She worked one crowd of six three times in one afternoon at Den ver, and defrauded them out of SIBO. There rvasgnot a (Jay that-she made less than SSO, and one day touted a well-known attorney for s27s.—Butte Daily Inter-Mountain. :i A Speaking Likeness. “Amie, dear,” said her dulcet-toned rival, “these latest photographs of yours make me think of Torn. They’re just like him.” | “Why, you old darling! Where’s the resemblance?” - “They flatter you so.” Chicago* Evening News. "Wasn't In It. Mamma —First you said you rvere in, a fight, and now you say you weren't. Willie —Dat’s right; you see I rvuz, licked! —Up to Date. Candied Popeorn. Put into an iron kettle one table spoonful of butter, three tablespoon- I fills of water, one teacupful of pulvcr ; ized sugar. Boil until ready to candy; j then throw in three quarts of nicely ! popped- oorn. Stir briskly until candy lis evenly distributed over corn. Take I kettle from lire, stir until it is cooled a little, and-you have each grain sep-. orate and crystallized rvith a sugar, taking care that corn does not. burn.—;, j N. Y., Ledger.