Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1897, Page 14

Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. “Thovgh I was born and raised In Massa- chusetts, where some of the people are much bent in their ways, and now and then a trifle superstitious, especially the women folks," remarked a resident of Falis Church, Va., to a Star reporter, “I was never a believer in such nonsense until I became a resident of Virginia. I am not a believer in it now, though it does not seem to do any harm. I moved into a new house a couple of years ago, and some- how things seemed to go wrong constantly. First it was one thing, and then it was an- other. I mentioned the matter to an old colored auntie, who did our laundry work, and she told me that it was because there was no toad frog in the cellar. She said it was good luck for a new house to have a toad in the cellar, and that many builders always left a frog in the cellar when they finished a house. As it was such a simple matter to set things right I caught a toad and put it in the cellar, and strangely enough things began running all right im- mediately. Since then my cellar has never been without a toad frog, and to that ex- tent I am superstitious c ** * 4 “We are very frequently called upon to give elevations,” explained an official of the geological survey to a Star reporter, “and have issued a map giving elevations in nearly all parts of the United States. By examination of these maps any one can see at a glance exactly how high any particular locality is above the level of the sea. In the immediate neighborhood of Washington it will be seen that the elevations on the Virginia side of the Potomac are about as follows, the figures, in feet, being approxi- mately given: Carlin Springs, 80; Nauck: 6G», Arlington (railroad station), 200; Arling- ton cemetery, 100; Baliston, 260; Upton Hill, 3No; East Falls Church, 300; West Falls Church, 340; Dunn Loring, Wedder- burn, 420; Lewinsville, 360; Ash Grove, 4); Freedom Hill, 480; Peach Grove Hill, is Munson Hill, 3%; Bailey's Cross On the District side the elevations are: . 340; Chevy Chase, 340; Sligo, $20; ing, 320; Takoma, Glen Echo, cho Height Reno, 40); sley Heights, 340; al Observatory, sity, 150; Burnt Mills, ete & & “Though it is not generally known, for the reason that there has been no official announcement of the fact,” said an em- ye of the New National Library to a Star reporter, “the new library building has been open to the public on Sunday after- noons for the past couple of months from 1 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Ail who epply during that time are admitted and allowed to inspect all the completed rooms. It is not known as yet what will be don+ in the matter of future openings on Sunday Howard Univer- afternoons, but it is understood that the librarian will not oppose any legislation looking to that end; that for a limited of hours in the afternoon. Of there will net be anything an- $ to the future until after the transferred and the building bas Leen aly opened to the public. The accomm »iation now offered on Sunday af- ternoons 's only of a temporary character, entirely unoficial, and has been allowed to give th whe have taken ad- Vantage of it the opportunity they woul not have had without i * x Ke are ten bicycle suits worn by men mer for every one Jast summer, rved a clothing dealer to a Star re- i the proportion is rapidly in- Sconomy has more to do with it, than the fashion, though the rs paved the way for it last summer. 1 who wear bicycle suits, however, are and some of them never will be. ted the clothing because it is much more convenient than anything and for the further reason that many of them will manage to get through the simmer at an expenditure of four or five while it would cost them two or that much if th hing. It ts th dres: St kind or neglige suit. The statis- ‘ould be obtained, would be ling. L am way inside of the I tell you that I am confident been over ™ bieyele suits mmer so far, outside of the many hundreds of linen and crash suits which have become such a rage during the past couple of we 5 * *“* * “I never see high heels on a pair of shoes er ts," volunteered an old detective officer to a Star reporter, “but I am re- minded of the capture of Atzerodt, one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. It Was the high-heeled beots that be wore that brought about his arrest. It came in tbis way. Lewis J. Weichman, the War Department clerk, on the night of the as- sassination of Lincoln, whe was one of the boarders at Mrs. Surrajt’s, gave consider- able information as to the conspiracy. It Was at first thought that he was in the conspiracy himself, but he managed to clear himself to the satisfaction of the au- thorities and was never prosecuted. With another detective officer I went to Mrs. ‘att’s house about daybreak on the ruly afterward a man came to the with a pick and shovel. He was a laborer anc ad he had been oyed to wanted house jo'some digging in the yard » see the lady of the hi going to work. Mrs. Surratt, H se who street, near 6th northwest, i under arrest during the The make-up of the man was very so much so that for a time he threw us off from suspecting story was very clear, and there jons that there was work need- in the yard. I told him to i later on I would see about on the work to be done. He took a seat on a box, and it was then I noticed that he kad very high heels on his boots. On a further exan on I noticed that the boots were boots that laborers wore, but were ifskin and showed that they had hed the day before, though the g the night had washed much of r and T had him locked up. le of hours I ascertained that he was © the man who had been selectec by the conspirators to murder Vice President Johnson, but who had failed in his purpose. As it was, it was his high-heeled boots which first directed my suspictors to him, and it was his high-heeled beots which hung him. When he was executed he wore the same high-heeled boots, and they were buried With him.” «eee “If you have room for a short bicycle said a War Department clerk to a Star reporter, “here is one, but don't ever ion my name in connection with it. ‘The victim is one of the most noted of the century riders of Washington and he has Gene many centuries with credit to himself and his Some evenings since he agreed to pilot a party of congental riders for a jong run down in Maryland, some of whom knew a part of the road, but did not know anything of the further end. The pilot told them he would meet them near Marshali Hall at a certain hour in the evening, though in riding there he would not take the usual road he desired to call cn a friend who resided on a side road. He made very good time in getting at the 2ppointed place, and, not meeting his party, he sat down on the side of the road and ‘Went to sleep. Shortly afterward the party wore other | ng after the night of the assassina- | came along, and, finding their pilot out, while they went over to Marshall Hav, It happened that one of them turned his wheel around so the road. When they returned it was near- ly midnight, but the pilot or his wheel was not to be found. When he went to sleep the front of his wheel was turned toward Washington, but in moving it the head got the opposite way. When the cez y ter awoke he concluded that his friends had giver up the ride, so he started He was exactly twenty-two miles further down in Maryland when he found cut by asking a man he met on the road than he thought he was. He thought, con- dering the number of miles he rode and the speed he used, he was in the immediate vicinity ef Washington, only to find that he was nearly forty miles aw: Sines then he has not offered his services #s pilot, and he never speaks of Marshall Hall.” ~ HAD A VERY QUICK EYE. A Man Surprises Another Man Whe Writes a Letter. The typewriter was clicking away at a great rate, and a man was sitting near watching the flying fingers of the operator. He was waiting to see the aitorney who was the employer of the operatcr, end when the attorney finally entered the visi- tor did not observe his approach. “Hello,” exclaimed the proprietor of the office, “what are you looking at my type- writer so absorbingly for? Have you been dreaming that he was a lovely maiden in disguise, or some other fairy story lke that?” “No,” replied the visttor, “I was just trying to realize how difficult a feat I saw a man perform yesterday, down ai one cf the hotels, where there is one of the fas‘est operators in town." “What did he do? Jump a board bill “No, that's easy. What he did was dif- ferent. A man who was with him and some sort of a trade on, I don’t know what, but Just before they proceeded to conclude it, the other man said he wanted to write a letter t> his partner in Chicago. He had it already drafted in pencil, and he took it over to the far side of the writing room and handed it to the operator, saying to be careful, as it was very important, and to get it done at onee. Then he joined the other man, but before they began talking a third party called the first man aside for a short talk. As these two talked, the operator at the machine,clicked at the let- ter, and the man who was waiting for some watched the operator very closely as her fingers flew over the keys. “The letter was finished at least three minutes before the talk was, and when that was done the operator handed the man the letter in an envelope duly addressed and went back to her machine. The man put the letter in his pocket just as it was handed to kim. **] Fope you'll pardon me,’ he said, turn- ing to the waiting man, ‘for so much delay, but it was unavoidable. However, I'm ready now to close with you at the prices named.’ “*And I'd see you hanged before I'd sell to you at any pr said the other man in a suppressed tone, greatly to the surprise of the man with the letter in his pocket. “In another minute there would have been a fight on, but I rushed in, as did an- other party and in the excitement the man with the letter goi away and disappeared. In response to our inquiries as to what it was all about, the man told us that he had | made a study of training the eye to quick- ness, and that he practiced it whenever he saw a typewriter at work. He had so per- fected himself in it that he could follow the fingers of the fastest operator, and he | could read whatever he might happen to be writing. In this case he had done the sime without thought, because the man with whem he had the trade on was engaged for the moment. Before he had read five | lines of the letter, however, he discovered that the man was making arrangements | with his partner in Chicago to swindle him cut of $5,000. It was a cold-blooded case of I steal," and the wonder to him was that he {hadn't hit the scoundrel first and told him why afterward. “That was all there was te it,” concluded the visitor, “except that we tested him and found he could do what he said, and now | if you don’t think it is a difficult feat, you watch your operator as she flies along | scme time at sixty words a minute, and see if you can read the letters her fingers dance among.” — A HAUNTED BURGLAR. Choking Was Done With the Left Hand and He Had None. From Lippincott’ When quiet was restored the lawyer handed the photograph to the jury and quietly remarked: You may sce for yourselves that the choking w done with the left hand, and you have observed that my client has no such member.” He was unmistakably right. The im- | print of the thumb and fingers, forced into the flesh in a singularly ferocious, sprawl- ing and awkward manner, was shown in the photograph with absolute clearness. The prosecution, taken wholly by sur- prise, blustcred and mids attempts to as- sail the evidence, but without success. The jury returned a v his gag and bonds h: he recovere@ at the moment when the*ver- dict was announced. He staggered to his feet, and his eyes rolled; then, with a thick tongue, he exclaimed: “It was the left arm that did it! This one—" holding his right arm as high as he could reach— r+ made a mistake. It ‘us always the left one. A spirit of mis- enief and murder was in it. I cut it off but the spirit stayed where ‘o be, and it choked this man to death. I didn't want you to acqu't me. I wanted you to hang me. I can’t go through life having this thing haunting me and spoiling my business and making a murderer of me. It tries to choke me while I sleep. There it i Can't y ee it?” And he looked with wide staring s side. gravely said the judge, ke this maa before the commissioners of tunacy tomorrow.’ oo _______ Writing on Gla: From the Crockery and Glass Journal, The easiest way to write ‘or paint on glass is to take a solution of fish glue and distribute it with a soft brush over the surface of the gless. Of Gourse, the solu- tion must be carefully filtered, and when it is apphed to the glass pane the glass must | be held over a stove or lamp in a slanting direction to allow the surplus solution to flow off and to dry thoroughly without streaking. When the pane has been pre- pared :n this way it is ready to write or paint upon. Even writing of microscopic minuteness can be applied to the prepared glass surface without the danger of the ink running. On this surface colors, India ink and any kind of pigment may be em- pioyed. ————_+ e+ —_____ The New Jersey airship.—Lite. concluded they would let him have his nap to give it a safer position in chance any wagons passed along TWO ROOMS FOR’ RENT FOR RENT—TWO LARGE FURNISHED ROOMS, third-story front amd lack; all modern conven: fences. Apply at 1623 ‘Sammy Side street, (eamperee ‘le northwest. Gentlemen pre- That simple advertisement appeaged in The Star of a recent date. It is appar- ently innocent enough in appearance, but back of it is the story of two hearts whose romances were sadly shattered. It is the tale of a case, not exactly of mistaken identity, but of a misconception on the part of two highly overwrought imaginations. The persons of the comedy were two “roomers” in the house, the number of which appeared, somewhat changed, In the advertisement above. Be- sides these two several fun-loving young women occupied rooms at the house, which, by the way, was not very far distant from Connecticut avenue. The two roomers in question had never seen each other. They were both of a omantic disposition and belag aware of this fact the girls played upon this weak- ness of both until they became the veriest simpletons in consequence. Both the prin- cipals were over fifty years of age, and, as it happened, both were fortune henters. One followed an occupation which kept him up, and still keeps him up, to an early hour in the morning. The other was, a music teacher of consiterable note, who kept a piano, and before going down town in the morning was accustomed to in- duige in a number of selections, principally of a love character. In his early morn- ing slumbers the other often listened to the iano, which, with its owner, had entered the household since the man of late oc- cupation had made his habitation there. 1t happened that several weeks passed b: fore the two met, and in the meantime the scheme was set afoot by the roguish girls in_the house. One day, about noon, the late riser, who had a third-story back room, while the one with ‘the piano fed the third- front, came down the stens and met one of the youns ladies in question. He stopped to have a little chat with her, and she _ perceived that he was anxious to learn something, but did not wish it knewn he was at all curious on the sub- ject. Being a woman she divined what it was instantly. “I suppose you have heard the piano player?’ she asked, arch- ly. “Have you not yet me the player?” she continued, with surprise. “Then we have a treat in store for you, for I know you admire beauty. Beauty, with money, teo. Ah! that is a combinatien that is hard to beat.” More conversation followed of a like nature, until all the sentiment which the victim possessed was aroused. Well con- tent with the work begun, the siren al- lowed him to depart. The music teacher was also met quite accidentally, of course, on the stairway one morning by three of the girls. A dose of the same medicine was administered, and the instructor in sharps and flats was sent away, head over heels in love with the occupant of the third-story room back. The music teacher was told that the other was enormously wealthy and of surpassing g00d looks. After the ball had been set rolling the game was kept up for weeks. The young ladies managed so skillfully that neithe of the two met the other, no matter how hard he tried. They did actually meet once, but neither was conscious of the fact. The piano player had long ago dropped all classical music, and all that could be heard, rendered with a tender, plaintive air, which was very touching, were such airs as et Marie,” “In the Gloaming,” “Farewel ard the like. The effect of this on the third-story-back occupant was very evident, as was shown by his new style of dress. It was youth- ful, very youthful, and had evolved from the black Prince Albert coat and high hat to a blue serge suit with striking shirt pattern, russet shoes and straw hat, with red_and black bands. “It is just killing,” the girls declared, and they nearly laughed themselves into hysterles over ft. Everything was dull in the summer, they said. Departmental work was flagging them anyway, and they must have something to keep up their spirits. No, they did not think it cruel. If people want- ed to make geese of themselves, all right. They were not re- sponsible. And so it continued. The finale ap- proached swiftly. Both the third-story- front and third-story- back were wrought up to such an extent that the girls feared the third-story-back would not wait for an introduction, but would grasp an opportunity when the third- story-front was in, knock at the door, and so spoil the whole thing. He threatened to éo this, and it was resolved by the girls, at a session held in one of their rooms, that the meeting should be arranged for next dzy, which, by the way, was Sunday, at 11 o'clock. “Come out of your room at 11 o'clock,” the maid with the demure face told the third-story-back, “and the one you want to mect will come out of the front room at lgnal of a cough from you. I will be and make the introduction. Be brave ; don’t forget. The victim I¢ft the house, hand on heart, ard the girl sank down on the stairway as if she had suddenly been deprived of all her strength. She had, too, but it was only laughter which had caused it. The music teacher was instructed the Same as the other and the plan was well laid. The next day the people in the house showed a strong disinclination to attend church or leave the house at all. They seemed to prefer lurking on the stairway by twos and threes, while the large front room on the second floor had particular charms for them. There was a premoni- tion of hilarity in the very atmosphere. Prompily at 11 o'clock the door of the third-story room back opened and a figure dressed in the height of fashion advanced. Despite the fact that the person was some- what on the shady side of fifty—short, fat and pudgy, with “round watery blue eyes and white side whiskers—an air of gal- lantry was assumed wonderfui to witness. The young lady was in readiness. With a measured and stately step the pudgy fig- ure advanced to the front and coughed loudly. Instantly the third-sicry-front door opened. In another moment two figures, both men, one short and fat and the other tall and lanky, with Ko- man nose and long hair, stood looking at each other with looks of surprise, which changed to glares of hatred. “Prof. Keynote, let me introduce you to Major Shortsight,” said the young maid- en, with a charmifg smile. ‘The roar of laughter which followed was best described by little Johnny Jumpuppe, the infant marvel of the household. He re- marked to his parent: “Say, mommer, it did —— = Fourth of July wiv crackers Now-ups and evewything, didn’t. 1t7” - Simultaneously the victims turned and fled into their rooms. Not long afterward there was a sound of trunks being dragged out into the hall. That is the real reason why the advertisement of rooms to let ap- peared in The Star. ——— BIS ELOQUENCE GOT MIXED. The Sad Result of Tampering With an Orator’s Speech. A certain representative who lives up town has a habit of acquiring new meth- ods for doing his’ work, following them for a short time and then, tiring of them, he either discards them or gets something new. He has had a stenographer and a typewriter; he has worked the typewriting machine himself, and for a long time hé sat down and wrote his speeches in long- hand, and then had. them’ copied, believing that a man was at his when he could nibble the end of his and then hear it THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1897-24 PAGES. bought a phonograph, but he didn’t tire of that—he just natufatly and simply gave it up—and thereon hangs the tale. The chosen one%of the masses generally occupied the iorning hour talking into the machine, ana his'itypewriter would come about 2 o’clodk inthe afternoen and tran- ye a ee ca eore in the se a lawyer Fecognized ability from & southern state that is noted for its genial, quick-witted men, and the judge in quéstiom was by no means an exception to’the'‘rule. There were ‘also several young people in the house, and the judge was their recognized leader in mis- chief and fth-making. One morning the representative went out early after dictat- ing a speech of ‘uttusual tartness and bril- Maney, and te judge and his followers im- mediately seized the opportunity. The law- maker had Used up four cylinders in his effort to get into a fight with his col- leagues in tte House, and the judge and his young friends':filled the same number with the utmost nonsense they could think of, and, according to the language of the little Arab of the street, “it was a-plenty.” Just as they finished their work and had put the cylinders us the representative had left his, the typewriter was heard coming in. He did not, of course, know hat anything was wrong until he struck the first cylinder, and then he pondered Yor a moment. Finaliy he went ahead, and, according to his instructions, copied everything that had been put on the four tubes. He left his manuscript nicely ar- ranged on the table and fixed the cylinders just as he supposed his employer had left them. That worthy returned about 6 o'clock in the evening, and when he saw the first page of his speech as type writ- fen from the phonograph he was a sight to behold. He grabbed up the cylinder that happened to be nearest his hand, and, putting it on the machine, turned on the current while his hand lay over the two connecting buttons. But the shock he re- ceived then was mild to the one he got when he put the ear tubes up and began to listen to what he thought would be thé florid eloquence hé had bestowed upon the machine in the morning, but which turned out to be the worst conglomeration of stuff he had ever heard or said in his most ex- cited hours. He was-powerless for a mo- ment, but the effect of having ‘You're not s0 warm!” shouted into his ear with the strength of a speaking trumpet brought him to, and the judge was edified a few minutes later by ‘seeing the remains of a phonograph lying in the corner of the backyard. The representative will not even let a typewriter go over his copy now. its and was well-known to the inhabitants. “What has become of Jake Gorby?” he inquired of one of them. “What's become of Jake Gorby? I dunno what's become 0° Jake.” “He hasn't gone to work, has he?’ ‘Mebbe so.” Jake left .ae township, Jake ‘Well, I guess it is a good riddance.” “It's so considered.’ “Did he go of his own free will?” “Yes. He jis’ seemed to take a notion to go an’ when he got started there wasn't bo stoppin’ him.” “it's a pity he was so lazy. He seemed a harmless sort of fellow.” “Harmless! Wal, idees about things dif- fers. If you call lyin’ an’ thievein’ an gittin’ drunk harmless, Jake was a reg’ iar angel.” “I hadn't heard that he was in the habit ‘of stealing.” “I don’t like to say nothin’ about a man behind his back: but the last thing Jake Gorby done was to walk off with the Wid- der Darby's feather bed.” “The scoundrel! 1 have heard of steallog nnies from blind men, but to rob a poor widew of her feather bed seems the very pth of heartlessness!” tain’t quite right to say thut. 1 nt to do nobody an injustice. Jake Was guilty of a lot of meanness, but I dun- no's we ought to lay the feather bed up agin him. You si the feathers was stuck onto Jake with tar, an’ I mus’ Widder Darby ruther seemed to in, tin’ rid of her property thet way.” ——_— THE PRICE OF A HORSE. JOHNSON Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. so much that it cannot be long before our "A Juvenile Adapter. ‘superiority is admitted.” “Johnn: said Mr. Blykins to his son,| “Of course,” said Miss Cayenne, “women “don't neglect the classics, whatever you; have always shown facility in certain do. I know that there's a great tempta-| branches of art. But that does not imply tion for a boy to devote all his time to | ny obligation on her part to participate in sporting columns and dime novels. But he | the more rugged affairs of life. makes a mistake and I sometimes think | “She can do all that men can. Take, for that teachers would get along a great deal | €xample, the occurrences of the past few better with the great and giorious-respon- | Weeks. Literature has educated us to be- sibility to mankind which they have as: | Neve that the natural course of events is for a girl to fall into the water, and for a sumed if they would take the trouble to| young man to come along and rescue her. point out to the minds beneath their care | But see how things have changed. Recall that there is a great deal of fun and ex- the reports which have appeared in the citement in the classics if you only know | "¢WsPapers from day to day. Scarcely a where to louk.” week has passed without seeing some Mr. Blykins paused for a reply, and young man who couldn't swim fall into Johnny, who could think of nothing else say the Oy get. An Incident Which “Speaking of bicycle: remarked the drummer, “I presume it is largely in the nature of a chestnut to mention the fact that the bicycle has done more to re néer this the horseless age than anything vise that kas happened to it, but Tl say it iluminate my statement by an ¢ which lately came unde> my notice “I was down in a West Virginia not more than a week or ten days ago, and as I had a jaunt of ten miles to make into the country to see @ rural customer of mine, I hired a horse at the livery steble and proceeded thither on horse back. ‘The liveryman being a friend of mine, let have his own saddle horse, a really fine animal, and I felt proud of my mount I rode out of town. Arrived at desti 1 soon transacted my business and while waiting for my customer, who was Roing to ride part of the way back with me, an old farmer came along and hitched his horse near the block where I was silting on mine all ready to ride away. H. took a side glance at my nag and with the usual freedom of the country began looking my animal over. {What's he wuth? he inaufred when his investigation was completed. and “HOME, SWEET HOME, FIRST SUNG | 80s first on four legs, and then on two legs, and then on three legs.’ That's the question the monster asked of Ulysses.” “What did he do?” “He told the answer immediately. He said it was man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, who walks on two legs in his nd who goes with a cane in old Isn't that interesting? When you think it over, you realize that Ulysses had to think mighty quick, and that he had about as narrow an escape as if he had been chased through a canyon into Over the Grave of an Indian Who Died to Join Wife and Child. From the Atlanta Constitution. When the boundary line between Ten- nessee and Georgia was established, it pessed half a mile south of the spring Tuck-a-lee-chee-chee, among the foothills cf the Unakas, and as it crossed one of the principal Indian trails, it became a pla of much importance. the water. And whose strong arm was it tM font knows" replied Miss Cayenne to sey, replied, “Yes, sir SS ae Bie. ake, for example, the riddie of the “It was a woman's! What,” she added, Sphinx. It’s as'likely as not that you nev-| in a tone of quiet triumph, “does that gv to er heard anything about it. And yet it's Snore sy Goeh ib aioe bkkn how Eien just as int -stin; “It simply ce ld ae <4 Z os FHGe Se SS Pook of [runy scarce men ure getting to be at sum- You see, the Sphinx was a monster who | ™eF resorts. agked people a riddle and then devoured aS ey failed to guess “What was the riddle?’ "inquired the woe ee eee boy. Down to Center, some of us, Bein’ tired of waitin’ On the politicians’ fuss, Done our own debatin’. Pertection was, we all surmised, The trouble with the nation. So we sot ‘round an’ organized A free-trade ‘soclation. Uncle Jim, he made a speech Concernin’ next election; Started right in fur to teach The dangers of pertection. Said there shouldn't be no tax grizzly bear's den ty a band of Apaches. “Oh, about ightect a There had already eo On anything but cotton; sashitcen dollars, I said, Yes,” replied t! be = ° thinking I wou rise . Bet Srown up a strong rivalry between the | 4 pretty good... But Pena es Which, to tell the bottom facks, and at the same time mene Schon fu ocx Tennessee tribes, headed by Chief Ross, | The answer's pretty good, but that riddle He has raised a lot on. htm. ~ z : and the Georgia tribes, headed by Major Ridge, both half-breeds and men of ex- traordinary ability as leaders. The estao- ishment of 4 new boundary line fixed the limits of their respective territories, and to try and harnionize as far as possible the contending factions the government esta)- lished a trading post there. John Howard Payne appeared upon the scene, and was accused of inciting the Indians to insubor- dination. He was placed under arrest as an incendiary and carried to the council house. While Payne was held there one of the first bends artived,‘and among the Indians was the chief) Oo-¢hee, or Rattling Gourd, a broken-hearted man. He was moodyeand atstracted, an refused all invitations to the council house, and would partake of no festive enjéyments whatever, but spent the most of the time at the graves of lils wife and child, farther up the valley. One ought to be changed.” “What do you mean?” 3 “It sounds too much like a back number. It ought to be: ‘What animal goes first on four wheels, and then on three wheels and then on two wheels? Nowadays man starts out in a baby carriage amd then he gets a velocipede. After that he rides a regular bike, and if he uses it right along he'll keep his health so that he won't ever want any cane.” ‘But he never showed a sign in his fa and merely walked arcund the horse crit= iy. ‘I might give you fifteen,’ he sa! great indifference. races “If you do,” said I, hanging on, ‘it w' have to be cash.’ ee ee nee “TI ain't acti he e: »be we kin do som thin’ in the ‘critter bizness. Trot. him up the road a piece and Is's see what he kin Up riz Jabez Spicer, who Has an orchard growin’ -Ships a loi 0’ good fruit, too; Finest that’s a-goin’. Says free trade is what he'll sing While the eagle screeches. Take the tax from everything!— Everything but peaches. Tucker Tompkins—him as is Gardening, successful, Says this here pertection is Something ‘most distressful. Yet, he ‘lows ‘twould be a shame An’ clean out o’ nater, Ef the statesman didn’t frame A law to tax the ‘tater. * I hadn't bargained for this exact! I was in for it, Well see it to th * * An Ideal. Layin’ in de sunshine wif a wrinkle in his ear, He jes’ waits fch tomorrow wif a mind dat’s free f’um fear. He doesn’t hab ter uce hypocrisy ter gain his erds; He growls at dem he hates an’ wags his . but nd I thought I might as finish and I rode away as he directed. When I returned he took another turn around the horse, shaking his head as it not altogether satisfied with what he was likely to get in the deal. “Is fifteen yer lowest figger?” he as ‘Yes, it’s the best I can do. “ “Well,” he said with the greatest delih- So it went, from man to man, Each one thought the nation Orter stop this old-time plan Of taxin’ all creation. morning he was missed. Weltering in his tail ter all his friends. But with each there came the rub, Sen oh. ‘Bfteon dollars is a good deal to cwn blood, his body was found between the > 5 . pey fer a hoss these days, but ride him little meunds ‘that’ covered ls squaw and | € G0esn’ feel regretful at de settin’ ob de Bout his own perduction, 4 up the road ag’in run Ull I hell when I holler swing him ‘round and him back on a slow walk, an’ I'll git the mcney somehow." “I thought it was a fine joke and started away on a dead run, expecting to ge: the call at a turn in the road some thr sun, About de heaps o’ fings dat he laid out an’ ain’ got done; He nebber had ro doubts ’bout how he'll breakfus, dine or sup; An’ yet he isn’ nuffin but a no-’count yaller And that's why our Free-trade Club Ended with a ruction. * * * An Apprehensive Frame of Mi It was one of the hottest days of the papoose. In some'tvay, he had secre! a bayonet, fell upon. the point of it and died on the spot where he had often expressed a desire to be laid for nis last long sleep. A grave was dug on the spot where he lay, and the ’ehief'was buried by the sol- diers, one off:the Moravian missionaries officiating. After ,jhe services were over, John Howard,Payne, who had been a silent witness of the, path ing softly to;hi etic scene, began sing- elf the song which has since been echoed through every land on the earth. song and “Young figh’ “where did “I wrote Payne. that. song myself,” Gen. Bishop, who had kept a close scrutiny on his zctions, ailed Payne to him. man,” said the stern cld Indiu heard the you. learn that song replied “And where did you get the tune?” composed that also.” “Would you let “Certainly I will. “Well, a man may be against you, you free. I shall w: immediately, and pass yous choose through the ie have a copy of it?” ho can sing and write like that is no incendiary. Appearances , but Iam going to set rite owt Your discharge where you nation.” pup. When I beholds de carriage-folks wif all. dah clothes so fing I doesn’ go ter sighin’ an’ a-wishin’ dey was mine, 2 I knows dat good old mule ts safe ter drive, f'um day to day, An’ de fine clothes ‘mightn’t fit me ef I had "em, ary way. Dem folks wif so much wealth, don’t git a chance ter rest a bit, "Case it’s gwireter keep ‘em settin’ up 0” nights a-countin’ ft. It re'ly seems, when I hab summed de situation up, Dat dar ain’ no one I envi *co.nt yaller pup. * * * ‘A Moment of Doubt. The ycvrg man who insists on dressing s but dat no- “I knew you would be interested. What the Sphinx asked was this: ‘What animal summer and a nervous, perspiring man in crash clothes made a rush for the ice water tank. He filled the glass and raised it eagezly to his lips. Then he set it down witkout tasting it. Going over to the hotel clerk he said in a voice that was tremulous with agitation: “Did you see what almost happened to me just then?” . “I saw that you were about to take a drink of water,” was the reply. “But you don’t seem to appreciate the narrowness of my escape.” “I'm not one of these people who think that Ice water in moderation is injurious.” “It doesn’t occur to you that it was my great presence of mind that prevented an accident which would have shaken this building to its foundation and scattered > hen- dred yards away, but I didn’t, and when I had passed out of sight and Still no call came, I tumbled to myself and went righ back to where I had started from in the morning, without saying a word to any- Sess A Little Knowledge. The following answers were given in re- ply to questions asked a certain New Hampshire school at the beginning of the term. These questions were asked to de- termine the standing of the pupils, with a view to grading the school: 1. A sentence are words used to limit or modify the meaning of a novn or pronoun. 2.1 is used as the meaning of yourself; we is for more than one; you another pet- son; us for a lot of them. as elaborately in hot weather as he does in the winter was looking at some pictures of cannibal chiefs. “I guess,” he said in a meditative tone, as he mopped the perspiration from beneath his lofty collar, “that I won't bother giving any more money for the education of the heathen.” ‘But you have taken such a great interest in such work in the past.” “Yes. But my ideas cn the subject are undergoing a change.” ‘You can't deny that such people nee¢ civilizing.”” ‘Of course. There's no disputing the fact that when they go to war they kill one an- other one at a time, instead of using a Gatling gun. And they don’t have harrow- ing details worked up in such a way that pecple can’t avoid them whenever there's a shocking crime committed. But I don’t feel as much like putting on airs over them as I used to. . “Of course, it is not proper to flaunt ycur superior advantages in a boastful spirit. But there is no reason why you shLculd not pity them.” ‘No; I can’t pity them, either. I don’t feel like assuming a patronizing attitude. I must say tkat I don't feel sure of my ground when it comes to looking upon any man who has sense enough to wear a cuff around his ankle instead of around his neck as my intellecttal inferior. * Open to “Conviction. Mrs. Corntossel had been reading one of the books that her son had brought home from school with him. A look of surprise spread over her face. It deepened into astonishment and then faded into incre- dulity. Then she ejaculated: ‘Well, I swan’ “What ye readin’, Mandy?” inquired her husband. “It says on the outside that it’s natural history. But on the inside it seems mostly like natural-born foolishness. “That's what I object to about these orthers,” was the response. “They don’t come right out an’ say what's in their minds to yer face. They put it into a book an’ then put it at ye at long range, so’s ye can’t conterdict nor ask no questions.’ “Yes; but there is some things so non- sensical that they shows it right on the An adverb is a word used to gratify or mortify the meaning of an adjective, ete. 4. A interjecticn is a word esses a prize or a notion. 5. A verb is a word used to assist or as- sault some perso. or thing. 6. The boy fell into the pcnd is a prepo- sition. 7. The trade winds come from the north and are caused by the gulf stream; they ~ of great use, because ships can sail on em. 8. The Vice President is the chief magis- trate of New Hampshire. 9. The sun causes day and night; when the sun turns on its axis it thus causes the seasons. 10. The flages and stripes on the flag mean how the brave men fought to save their country. Payne had been housed at the home of a family living nearby, and on his return there he exhibited his pars and related the circumstance That was the first time that ‘Home, Sweet Home,” had ever been sung in public. ———__+e+—______ - A Warning. Frem Harper's Bazar. A word of warning against too much “clubbing” wes sounded in a well-known wcman’s club recently by a widely known club woman—a woman who was one of the first woman's club instigators in the coun- try, and who has done more for the help and support of woman’s clubs than any cther one woman. She said, in substance: ‘Women, do not waste your force among too many clubs. With all my heart I believe in clubs and iv the wonderful good they are doing in the interests of reform and education and for the advancement of women. But with some women clubs have grown to be a fad, and the woman's aim is to belong to as great a number of clubs as possib! instead of to do some special good wo. in any one. “It Is no uncommon thing for one woman to belong to four or five clubs, and there are many who claim membership in from six to eight, or even more. How can any one woman find the time to attend all the neetinge, to say nothing of performing the special duties she undertakes in accepting a club membership? “If a woman's club means anything, it Means union, systematic work, and a com- bined effort in some special direction, and it needs the best strength, the thought and vital force of its members to make it a success. No woman can give these in half a dozen different directions. “Therefore choose ycur club and your club work—that which appeals to your na- ture most strongly, and in which you feel you can do the most good. Having chosen, devote yourself to that work, and do not lessen its value or weaken your own ability by undertaking more than one woman can ever accomplish.” eee—___ No Active Service. From Harper's ‘Bazaro “Why, that ‘buckle you are wearing, Miss York, is a regular army one! Is it a souve- nir of some great'hattle?” “No; but I got it in a short engagement.” —_+e+—_____ Our Country Cousins. my remains all over your nice, new fres- coing. The clerk looked at him uneasily and moved toward the telephone. “Did you ever have anything to do with an engine?” “Never. “Maybe, though, you studied physics when you were a boy at schocl. “Certainly.” “Then you are probably aware of the fact that the great danger about an engine is that the water may all get out of the boiler. This allows the metal to become red-hot and if, while it is in that condi- tion, even a small quantity of water is turned into it, it w'll make steam so quick that a terrific explosion is inevitable.’ “I don’t see what that has to do with Of course you don’t. That ilus- trates the manner in which this world fails ‘to bestow appreciation where it belongs. Ill never get any medal for saving a life. But I deserve one. You have heard of peo: ple who had cast-iron stomachs, haven't that ex- ——.___ “Fare, Please!” “Nine of every ten women,” said a street car conductor the other night as he settled himself at the end of the route for a few moments’ needed rest, “will give you a coin So that it is the hardest work in the world to keep from spilling it all over the car. They will hold it out to you between the thumb and forefinger, and hold it so tignt that you feel as though you would like to take a purr of pincers to pull it out, or a crowbar to pry open their fingers. Then when you do get it, if you are the most careful man going, the force you are obliged to exert to get it will probably throw it on the floor. I cannot say that the men are much better in this regard, either, although they do not hold on to a 5-cent piece as though it were made of gold. The proper way to give up a coin is to put it in the palm of the hand—I think you will gener- ally find it outstretched to get it—end then let it stay there. When it gets in my hand- like that ycu might just as well put it in a bucket, it'll never get away. You can see how awkward it is if you are obliged to take two or three coins in the way I men- toned first, and you can imagine taking five pennies that way.” —___—__ “On the Nail.” From Herdware. “On the nail” means on the spot, at orce, immediately, vrithout delay or post- Porement, as, to pay money on the nail. This phrase is said to have originated again. But it w: the inspira- | trem custom of making payments, in Cee eee eo trccly woled berone a; | the exchange at Bristol, England, ‘cnd ceased to flow. Fatigue had sealed the | elsewhere, on the top of a pillar called crystal fount of his imagination. - Then | “the nail. she spoke. “Be of good cheer,” she said. “I know eee “Well, I'm one of them. I have walked in that blazing sun until I am superheated clear through, and tf I had’nt caught my- self just in the nick of time I'd have swal- lowed that glass of water and launched this whole room full of people into eter- nity!” * ** The Threshold of Success. A youth with a pale, Poetic face sat writ- ing. One slender hand flew eagerly over the page. The other was pressed against his marble brow, as if to detain the thoughts which sprang within his mind till he could give them fitting ut- terance. A fair girl entered the room un- heard and gazed at him in silent admira- tion. She thought he lvoked like Shake- speare, or Dante, or Racine, Goethe, or any of the old poets. She hesitated to disturb him. She feared to earn the reproaches of posterity by in- terrupting his thoughts. And so she stood in silent reverence. He took his pen from the paper and sighed. Then he strove to age London nus, Miss Milly Gushington—“Wait-a bit, un- cle.” Sniff.) “Oh, Desn’t it just smell Miss. 0 scratching over the paper. Finally he about it—only sniff!” isn’t it lovely, ? of the filed S “Don’t speak face, an’ ye don’t have to do nbd question- in’! Fur instance, this piece says thet there was an elephant thet was in the habit of trumpetin’ in his rage.” “You don't say so.” “An’ the worst of it is that a whole lot es folks that don’t know no better’ll be- Heve it.” - “Well, Mandy, sometimes I think ye git riled kind o’ sudden, but I must say that this time I am inclined to agree with ye. But it doesn’t do to be too suspicious, fur present time. There's no denyin’ that ele- “I'knew it would come in time,” said the young woman who wants to vote and wear bicycle clothes for evening dress. “We are reaching a point where we cannot fall to be recognized.” ‘ “What do you mean?” inquired Miss -“I mean that our sex has been achieving some wonderful things happens at the that the rewards of your endeavors are but slight at present. But some day you shall have the recognition you deserve. Your writings yet shall bring you fame and money.” “I still have doubts of fame,” he swered. “But I am beginning to hope money.’ “You have completed someth:ng there in which you feel confidence?” “No. It isn’t quite done yet. But it’s an- for