Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1897, Page 14

2 The Evening Star. tar Pointer, n Exelusively rd holders,such as 5 shn R. Gentry, a trio of pacers the world ever saw,” «1 a professional horse driver to a reporter, “have a field all to them- ‘There is no horse that can compete and about the only sport they the expla fastest n them, ean have is to race against each other. Gentry is hardly in the class with Star Pointer and Patchen, for, though he ouc- my living horse last season, he has en well this and has not » to touch the magic figure reached ne others. ‘Fhere is a fortune in a yhat paces or trots under two min- tar Pointer and Patchen are now formi throughout the west in rac h other. The racing associa- and fairs which have them have to season, against € pay $2.50 to the owners of each horse for their mer rance, with a special purse adde » the record is broken. They are drawi autiene ranging from to 1,000) hy pe! ch as can be readi speculation, as well ure them. Horses of this class much attention as do the most The siightest thing time they race, seen, is a hand- wh for the traci whieh requ famous prima dennas. will get them off their Th a to be wateh minute in the four hou xbout two perform- ances cach week, and have engagements mtil as in the fall it is speed s, the latter part of th in southern cit Gentry has most of this season in races reece a certainty for ance late nst time, h perform- * ee I never realized that people were such “s of habit,” voluntecred reatu a patent effice cierk to a Star reporter, “until re- cently, when I began looking into the mat- ter. Out of sixty men I have spoken to bout it, forty-nine admitted to me t was their habit to put on a certain and shee first. Some put on th first, though nearly three-fourths of the: put on the left first. It was the her matters of which I but I pre: ume the I found con- king the cle if they could re- streets they used in nd was surprised at d not do so, though sted it was their nabit to take cer- ets, and they presumed they did the morning I asked them some had itest difficulty in going over their 1 their minds ard nearly one-third willing to adm they could not their route. This was particularly with thos Out morning but the member rooms about me the exact the offic number who ecu vehing the recall ct upon their mind. I found fers that their ruling des! get there, and that they mace ef ifn outs, short cuts ng governe ther circumstanc > or desire. A periment, Jet K nis asso reets they 4 in making the journey down town on 3 than their and he will surprised as dat the replies. In nine of ten the answer will be based a habit rather than upon the ex- e+e ee * is rather a small maiter, and yet it is an important one,” explained the principal f one of the public schools to a Star re- porter, “and I may not be thanked for calling attention to it. 1 am satisfied, how- ever, that my experience is that of many o who hold similar positions to mize, and who are observant of the surroundings oft school children. The first week in schools, and especially to those who enter new grades, ts the most trying for chil- ‘The slightest thing that in any way annoys or irritates them should be avoided. It is equally trying upon teachers who are getting acquainted with the children us the children are getting acquainted with them in turn. Parents, of course, desire that their children should make a good ap- pearance when they enter a new school, y frequently overdress them. But not think so much about that as I do that parents make a mistake when they semi boys or girls to school with a brand- new pair of shoes. In the greater number of the shees hurt their feet and, dren. wi nking eut the reason, as older be they are ill at ease. Every mov pain, and, inde=1, . when they do not or that matter who attention to any mat feet py their entire time, and as a it is not surprising that th do net do as well with thet they hoped a: noticed two or three of the oticed Later on I asked the teacher room how they got along. for I mber they did good work in the grade were in last year. I was not ed, therefore, when told that th n to be able as yet to get their i on their work. It w ihe new shoes which had diverted them. By next week the shoes will be broken in, and the chil- dren will do better.” ae REE “Thovgh Washington is universally ac- knowledged as the bicycle city par excel- lence of this country, if not the world, observed a prominent wheelman to a Star reperter, “it is a fact that there has never been a really fine bicycle parade seen here. ‘There have been three or four attempts, but they were interfered with to such an extent by the people aiong the line of the parade that they were disorganized before they sot fairly started. The last attempt at a parade was made a faliure by a dis- agreement as to undes what auspices it sboald be conducted. There is no city bet- ter provided with proper streets, and none Where the number of wheelmen and wheel- women is $9 great in proportion to the Population. A bicycle parade, especially at night time, is ‘he most pleasing kind of aifair, and would be enjoyed here -bet- ter than in any city I know of, for the reascn that the riders are so numerous. I urderstand that it Is now proposed to have @ greet parade cn Thanksgiving day or evening, and thet the wheei clubs have the subject under consideration. : ee KK “Theugh the confederate army, when Gen. eral Lee surrendered, surrendered many at thousand -muskets,”” said an ordnance of- ficer of the army, “I have great doubts if one hundred of them are still‘in the pos- session of the government. In the armories of the government in Illinois, Massachu- they had on | FARD EEN? modern guns. They were hurriedly and cheaply made, generally by contract work. I can’t state new exactly how many thous- and muskets there were, but there were at least thirty thousand recorded as having | be surrendered. My own idea is that the | most of them were broken up as valueless, though a great quantity of them were sold jas junk and scrap iron. The cannon have | also gone out of existence—most of them ; im the same way. — ss ABOUT APPLES. The Crop is Not as Large This Year as Last. “The American apple crop this year throughout the apple producing regions of the continent will not be as large as last year,” said a wholesale fruit merchant in New York to a Star reporter recently. “The damp weather of the past sum- mer has rotted and played havoc with the fruit in seme of the most pro- j ductive states. Besides, the crops are large only every other year, and wherever there was an abundance of apples last se: son there is only a small crop this year. Hand-picked varieties are now. selling at from $ to $4 a barrel, according to quality, and a little later in the season an nee from 75 cents to $1.25 on a barrel may be expected. “The fruit is grown in almost every part of the United States, but it grows best in two states—New York and North Carolina. The second named produces only one fine apple, but that is surpassed by none other. | Many varieties are raised in this state, the best of which are the Baldwin, the King rd the Newtown pippin. The N pippin is the most widely known I: cofor it is delicate green, with a light pink blush that deepens toward the side where the sun has shone longest. is very smcoth and stroug. The flesh firm and crisp, yielding readily to mastica- tion, but not crumbling, as some of the softer apples. This variety is used prin- cipaliy for the foreign trade, not oniy on account of its firmness, but because it is hardier than any other kind of American apple. It will stand long voyages, and therefore it is shipped in large quantities to the most remote countries. It is the fayorite apple of Prince Bismarck, who as paid as high as $30 for a barrel such yould sell here for ‘Next in popularity to pippin comes the Baldwin. Th a dark red apple of medium size. It grows abun- antly throughout New York state and v i Like the Newtown pippin ‘t s for a long time, and is in great di mand for winter eating. The Baidwin the apple of the people. It 1d every grocery store, restaurant, railr ation, car and on street stands’ in nearly y city of the Union. ‘The King is next in demand. This i very fine variety of the fruit. it is a bright y red, free from blemish, and quite sweet. The meat is whiter and softer than the Newtown pippin, but it is not to the taste. [t fs a large apple, and, as its name implies, it is autocrat of the ap- ple family, but like all other exalted per- sonages, it cannot long withstand the ravy- ses of time ‘w Jersey turns out a very deceptive apple—the sweet greening. This looks like ihe common cooking apple which grows in rearly every state of the Union. But it is as sweet as the Baldwin, and is large and firm. lis ccat is a very pale yellow green, sometimes aimost white. It is rather ok the skin is thin and r way to eat it is to rin arm water, and bite it off without ling it. If peeled and quartered it will gt laste half so good. This variety stown almost altogether in Monmout county, N. J. Nearly all of the crops g nipped to the d gre’ Tr part of each crop is cc this city. the Newtown rolina sends us a magnificent most as large as a good-sized This apple is grown abundant- ly in the mountainous regions of the old colony, where it requires little cultivation. ' 5 “ ¢ that a quart re will onty hold one apple. Virginia sends to the New York mar- ppin which for flavor is not e: celled by zny other apple grown on this | continent. The fruit is known as the Albe- marle pipyin, and is grown quite exten- sively in and around Rockfish Gap, partly in Albemarle ond partly in Nelson ‘county More than forty years ago a barrel or twc of these pippins were sent as a present te Queen. Victoria, and from that day to this they have been the favorite apple of her court. “Apples form a considerable part of our exports 19 Europe, abdut 1,500,000 barrels being shipped atnually. Most of the ex- ports go to England and Germany, where the fruit sells readily at from’$s to $14 a barrel. In packing for shipment each apple is first carefully’ wrapped in soft white tissue paper and then in stronger brown paper. Then the fruit is packed in barrels so tightly that it ‘cannot shift with the rolling of the vessel. Nearly all the for- eign buyers send to this city for their ap- ples. “The apple grower who ships his frult to Europe does so without the slightest trouble to himself so far as the handling of the fruit is concerned. He delivers it at the shipping point, rail or water as the case may be, nearest his orchard, and then it passes under the control of the commission merchant to whom it fs con- signed. The commissicn merchant in New York pays all charges on it, and assumes full care of it from that time until it is sold in Europe. The proceeds are remitted by cable. The returns are prompt and the apple grower living anywhere within a thousand miles of the shipping port geis his money usually within two weeks ——— A Tamer Removed From a St. Bernard From the Brooklyn Exgle. A successful operation has been perform- ed on Heligate Defender, the St. Bernard dog, which won a ribben at the national show at Medison Squure Garden in 1996 and was purchased by ex-Senator Reynolds of this city for $2,500. Hellgate Defender has an exceilent pedigree, his progenitors being Champion Otis and Lady Bountiful. Some time ago the dog, which is a hand- seme specimen of the rough coat variety, became ill, two trmors appearing on his He was badly run down and his was despaired of when James A. Bol- of Hudson avenue bought him. Mr. Bolton placad the dog in the care of Dr. Redolph B. Plageman of Bedford avenue, who removed a tumor as large aS a man’s fist. Since then Hellgate Defender has im- proved rapidly and Mr. Bolton expects to have him in condition to enter the Brook- lyn bench show in November, The other tumor was removed prior to Mr. Bolton’s rchase, but the latter says that the op- eration was poorly done and may have to be repeated. Otherwise the dog is as sound as when he appeared in the New York ex- hibition over a year ago. A VISITOR'S ilcssi0n. Number of Street Pianos Regarded as Washington's Characteristic. _ “Do you know what strikes me as a strong characteristic of Washington?” said a recent visitor to the capital to a Star re- porter. The latter said that probably the number of bicycles in use here had struck the visitor forcibly, but this was not it. “It is the number of street pianos,” was the answer. “I have trave'ed pretty ex- tensively throughout the country, but I never saw so many of the pianos centered, I may say, in one place. There are plenty of them in“New York, but they are found dcwn on the Bowery chiefly, and in many instances in the tenement districts, though where the owners of the pianos manage to collect enough there to keep body and soul together I cannot imagine. The photo- grayhic reproductions of children dancing on the New York sidewalks to the music ‘of the pianos can be seen in tke original at any time. “Here in Washington, it seems to me, there are far more of the Italians and their perambulating music mechines, according to the population of the city, than in any other. I believe it would be possible here, if one wanted to indulge in such an ex- traordinary and, I may say, inexplicable task, to listen to the piano music all day long. “T started out from my hotel one morn- ing, after eating to the tune of ‘Rosie O'Grady,” and left to that of ‘There's a Hot Time in the Old Town.’ The air could still be distinguished as I walked down the street, when I turned the corner and ran straight into the arms of ‘The Girl Named Warner’—or the song of the girl of that tame—which was being ground out at t curb. “After tramping down street to the air of Sousa’s ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’ march, I stopped in a drug store to buy me soda. As I was quaffing it along zme another plano, stopped, and I poured the liquid down my throat to the air of ‘My Gifs a High Born Lady.’ I wended my way down street to the tune of a fine se- lection from ‘Cavalleria Rusticana." am not certain, but I think we in- spected the Post Office and Interior De- partments to the’ tune of ‘All Coons Look Alike to Me,’ went through the pension of- fice with “Take Back Your Gold’ dinning in our ears from the outside, and walked irto the White House as a piano regaled us with the strains of ‘Just Tell Them That You Saw Me,’ played on the Pennsylvania avenue pavemeni outside. “My recollection of Washington will be a jangle of popular tunes, big buildings and a kinetoscopic array of street pianos pass- ing before the eyes.” ——— ae THE GIRL FIXED HIM. When the Conductor Furnished Proof It Was Sufficient. She was on a train westward bound from New York, and traveling in her party was a fresh young man from the second larges city in the United States, who was dis posed to guy Chicago and Chicago people as persons of hjs environment are inclined to do. She rather permitted his little jollying at the beginning of the trip, having better manners than he had, but she began to srow weary after awhile and sought to get even. 3 It happened at a station about fifty miles out from Chicago, when a man weighing at least three hundred and fifty pounds, and not under six feet five inches in height, came aboard the train. A few minutes later the young man from New York, who had been out in the smok- ing compartment, came back to the young voman from Chicago. presume you saw the passenger we took aboard a few minutes ago?” he said to her. . ‘The big man?” she asked. Yes. “Oh, I saw him ‘ t like everything else with you— toed much overgrown.” “Why do you say ‘with you” I don't know anything about him. “But he is a Chicago m “Oh, no, he isn’t,” and confident. “I beg your pardon,” insisted the New Yorker, “I heard the conductor say he Was.” I say he isn’t,” persisted the girl, “and I'll bet you something on it. What do you say io a dozen pairs of gloves and ten pounds of candy to a pearl scarf pin?” “Done,” laughed the young man, “and Til go and get the conductor. Will his word settle it?” “Of course,” and he went after the con- ductor, who had a home in Chicago him- self. When the conductor arrived on the scene the girl took him in hand at once. You understand,” she said, “that this gentleman says that large party is a Chi- cago man, and I say he is not?” “I do,” replied the conductor, as if he were under oath. Goa “Very good. I say he isn't a Chicago man because he is only a Chicago boy. Isn't that correct “It is," said the conductor, solemnly, and the entire car load of passengers rose as one man and told the New Yorker that he had lost the bet, and if he didn’t want to go back east, feet foremost, he had better pay- it. Which he did. — A WIFE WITH AN EGG, —— Oklahoma Farmer Made Happy by a Random Love Message. From the New York Herald. Ross Williams of Enid, O. T., wrote a lovelorn message on an egg ready for ship- ment several weeks ago, and as a result he won himself a bride. What the young mzan said on the egg was this: = “On a farm in-the Cherokee strip I sit a sad and lonely bachelor, thinking sadly over my fate and would love to come off the rest and join my lif2 with thai of some comely young lady of not too many sum- mers’ growth. Should the message en this egg meet with the eye of a fair one who is matrimonially inclined on short ac- quaintance, and who thinks she could enjoy a prairie life with « student of nature's beauty, address Ross Williams, Enid, O. In due course of time this reply came: “Dear Mr. Williams—I'rem the quiet pre- cincts of my boudoir [ write thee. I am lonely, too, and have often longed to quit city lifeeand go west, where the tall, wild grass sways in the wind as if listening to the sweet songs of the chinch bugs. After chcpping wood to kindle the kitchen fire and after the fire was ready for busi- ness and the pan was sizzling in the sparkling fat, I was about 19 break an egg into the pan, when, behold! your mes- sage meets my gaze. It seemed like a dream of a lost, unknswn love. I am comely, but not fair. Ag twenty-three, no money, but plenty of grit. “Let us ex- change photographs. It may all end in another American union, long to be pre- served. Me thinks I know you now. “BESSIE CARROLL, Chicago, Ill." Further correspondence resulted, and a few days later the young people were mar- ried. A Story of Dickens, From the Edinbirgh Scotsman, ‘When I was a girl of about ten years of age, Says one of the oldest inhabitants of Broadstairs, dvring a dreadful wirter, I was sent by my parents, who were very Poor, to Ramsgate to buy myself a pair of strong winter Locts. On my way home the cold was intense, and, holding the parcel close to me, I found, when nearly my journey’s end, that the boots had slipped out of the parcel, and that I only held the brown paper in my hands. With my heart in my mouth, I ran back by the way I had come, and, meeting a man whom I had passed some time pre- viously, asked him if he had seen the poe and he answered, very gruffly, Continuing my search, I met a man in a doz-cart, who inquired what was the hurry. I told him of my loss. After telling him all my story, he told me to jump up with him, and soon we overtook the man whom I had met before. My good Samaritan in- terrogated him very closely, and eventually it turned out that he had picked them up. Re girl was very WON 4 thres OF A CURSE ng to a con- ts timents, ‘spirit ore%of the same kind of ered 9p be in.a bad humor The doctor had versation -on visitations and talk until “he about somethii “By jove,” hi weird stories the credulity of! of the spirit roke in at last, “all these ke me want to swear at eople. I've made a study stion, and I am here to assert that ghosts are subjective, and never objective. I mban by that that the ghosts are in us, not put of.us. ‘I have a hun- dred instances to prove it, but I shall give you the last one under my observation as a ir sample. Three years ago a man committed suicide -in New York, leaving a note to the effect that he had been driven to it by two editors who had per- sistently refuse@tg. accept his work and used their influence: so he alleged, venting others fri a vague and kind of a_ fellow. whom I knew wellyand he was a firm bi Hever in ghosts andwspirits _. He had pois- oned himself, and I was called in when ke was almost gone, for he had taken « quick Poison. I found a note addressed to my- self on the table, and one addressed to one of the editors in qué8tion. As * stamped ready for the mail I had it sent at once. Tt turned out to be a curse of the most vindictive and virulent type, 2nd as the man was really a strong writer he had: worded it ina style calculated to make any man wish it had not heen addressed to him. In the note the writer told the editor ke would visit him night and Way in- the spirit and so infest his life with evii that he would findlly throw it away as the writer had been compelled to do. “I talked to the man about the he was a sirong and 1 ly laughed he put it, the letter, note, but ty fellow and mere- at the vagariey of a crank, 2s but he would not let me take as I wanted to do. Once or © within a week after 1 happened into his office, and each time he made some Jocular reference to the curse and the spirit that was hovering over him, but I noticed that he dil not laugh quite so heartily gbdut It as he did in the begin. ning. In addition he had told everybody about it and showed the letter, and there were those among his friends who thought the letter pertended evii, and ‘hey said as much to him, which, of course, did not tend to improve matter: “The other editor in the meantime was congratulating himself on not being under the ‘voodoo,” and I-was glad of it myself, for he was a nervous, peculiar kind of man, whom such a letter would certainly have affected seriously, despite all rational argument against it. None of us could un- derstand why he had not received a letter as the other had done, but-two weeks after the suicide I discovered the reason why by discovering a letter in the suicide’s desk, Worse, if possible, than the other, which he had overlooked and not left to be mailed. My first impulse was to deliver it, reconsidered soon, and determined to watch for results until I had proved my case to ry own satisfaction. And it. was not a great while, either. The man who had been cursed fought it off for a month or more, but at the end of that time he had begun to take occasional drinks; he was nervous when alone in thé jiouse at nigh he wanted somebody to be with kim all th time; he laughed when the curse was men ticned, and pooh-poohed it; he smoked dozens of cigars a day, and at, the end of month took a vacation of a week. This was extefided two weeks; andthen tree, and wheti he did finally come back to his desk he!was uot the same man had knowa.before the spirit nad begun. to ‘ygodeo" him, $ “Now was my time, to come to the rescue, for a month’ more of this and the man would kill himfelf, I was sure.” So I got-the other: halt of the combination one evening to come tomy house to dinner, and fo meet him I invited the curs was onlY the party of three, I was reai¥y to: try my cure I sent the nts out ofcthe @ming room, and very fy I told the cursed man that he was ng his i ion kill him. He argued against the thought of his permitting such a thing to affecthim, ‘rut he couldn't stand it, and in a mine oF two broke down’ and confessed that unless.relief came he would do what the curse had imposed upon. him to do. ‘Then YT thughed at him, mych to his paid‘and surpttse,* and, ing attention to the fair mentab and physical condition of the other ,editor, -who had been even guiltier than, he in the opinion of the sui- cide, I pulled out the letter I had discovered and read “As a picce of literary work it was power- ful, but as a curse it was absolutely @ith- out effect, for the object of it, not knowing that he had been so elaborately cursed, and that the spirit of the suicide was con- stantly hovering over him to drive ,him to destruction, had gone right ahead with his daily business, and was having better health than he had had in years. The other man cursed, not so profoundly, but’ in- formed of the fact that he was cursed, was rapidfy letting his imagination do the rest. Fortunately, I struck my man at ‘the right time and in the right place, and be- fore he teft’the house that right “he was more like himself than he had been since the curse, and in a month he was just as as.he eyer was. BORE that is one of the reasons,” con- cluded:the doctor, “why I say that ghosts, spirits et al. are in us and not out of us, and I will not be argued out of my belief.” ——— oe A FATAL. OVERSIGHT. The Far North Estimate of the Real Value of Gold. Col. Digger, one of the Klondike’s most genial and popular mutti-millionaires, was as pale as a ghost. +The mercury was lower in the thermom- eter tube than the price of silver in New York, and the wind had blown the cold wave flag full of holes. The colonel sat alone in the gilt-edged brary of his more’ than palatial man- sion, and there was’ the look of expectancy in his eye, which comes to those who may mount upward to the ‘skies or sink to the abyssmal depths of the darkest despair, de- pending entirely upon what the news may be that he is expecting. For seme time he sdt as if stunned, but this could not endure, and shaking ‘him- self as if he would throw off the burden of his doubt, he. arose: to his feet and strode towerd the hall, where over the door hung the antlered head of that mighty caribou, which had mastered the Yukon for a dozen years. At ihe portals of the entrance the col- onel met Mrs. Digger, who had but at that moment emerged from the cellar of the mansion. For an instant':they looked into each other's eyes and the colonel spoke. “Well,” he said, with ill-suppressed emo- Bon ell, how many barrels did you find?” “They are all gone, Henry,’ replied the trembling woman...“ the last one last night.” _ Col. Digger clutched at his heart as if a fatal pain hat!’ caught him there, and he gasped like a stfickew-giant ere he spoke. “We are lost,” he shrieked, “irretriev- ably lost. There tent @ pound of feed in town, and thos¢ foo}, clerks of mine made a mistake’ and Shipped fifteen barrels of Pickled pork t® the San Francisco mint instead of the fifteen*barrels of gold dust they ought to Have thipped, Fools, fools that they werd?’ he°raved, and his wife sought to comfért hfni, but the millionaire refused to be forted, for his soal was above the dros8“of @6M and he had begun to realize what" evi was. : rn Adventure of a Sunday Sportsman. Frem the e used the last of | 7 cents; tickets, 20 for $L. One well-known @ 4 MITTED oy For A cent. The Story Which the Patent Office Clerk Brought Back With Him, The patent office clerk, who had been off tp in the mountains of West Virginia, where they come down to drink out of the clear waters of the upper Potomac, was talking at ‘the dinner table to the boarders who had been down by the sea. “One of the men I met up there,” he was saying, “was ah invalid, but as bright of mind as you could find anywhere. Of course, he had lived among those moun- tains always, and his limits were narrow, and his knowledge was not comprehensive, but he had read some, and he had been especially interested in mechanics. He had @ smail tool chest, and by his chair he had a table or bench at which he worked some every day. At rare intervals he earned smail sums by his handiwork, and he was the general repairer for his family and their neighbors. It was at his home I boarded for a week while I was in the mountains, and when he learned that I was a clerk in the patent office, I became at once to him the nucieus about which all his earthly interest seemed to gather. “For the first two or three days he mere- ly asked me to watch him at his work, and then, as he could, he asked me shy and cautious questions. Finally he unlocked a small box, which he seemed to treasure as the most precious thing in the world, " JOHNSON” Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. A Train of Thought. A ray of sunlight stcais across the dusty room and throws A bit of cheer once more upon the book- shelf where it glow A glimmer of content wrinkling visige make life plearanter for bein many human ometimes even that hoppiness is de- nied, ed h away times, | ic missi d the young man, as he br brow fon in an tu sh- hair from hi t his reflec nord azed far “Some- ArUst- sent spreads his i my 2 pain. th ~e and, opening it, he exposed to my gaze the | As the gentle=faced old fellow finds his is sometime without some model of some kind of a little machine. favorite nook once more. stocks to disturb the inentia which invites What it was I did not know, but I could see dee: that it was crudely made, and that it looked as if it might be the. model-fer some small household implement, such as a nutmeg grater or a ‘coffee mill. To the invalid it meant more than he could say, and when he had set the box open before me he could only nod between it and me, as if he were introducing us. “It's mine, all mine,’ he said, after a while, reverently. “Yes,” 1 replied, without especial object. “ "Yes, and I have been studying it up 50 long. But I have it now,’ and his face brightened, ‘and 1 want to get it patented. Only I haven’t money enough, and it is so slow to make money here.’ “But it doesn’t require much,’ I said, encouragingly. ““How much? he inquired, eagerly. “Sixty-five dollars.” “For this one?’ he asked, as if some- The present, with its cares, Is quite forgot- ten as he looks On the past with all its pageantry, unfold- |, ed there in books; And some Latin, as he reads it, makes him smile to think of how Begiuners sadly struggle “amare” now. . Ollriz coughed slightly two or three es, and remarked, “Yes. T think so, (00. After a pause she inquired: “What is tis with the verb Then a sigh half checks his smiling as he thinks how fate will teach The heart more than the mind by that illu- sive part of speech; And he leaves his bock to ponder on the days—ah! how time flies— When “they two” traced all its moods and tenses in each other's cyes. . * thing were choking all the hope out of re him. Rot Free. "Yes; one is the same as another, I eae yaaa ma amen The athletic young man was inhaling great lungfuls of the crisp air. “It’s almost worth the depression of a high temperature with lots of humidity,” he saying, “to fully appreciate this exhilarating atmosphere. It needs some “ “But why should it be? he asked, al- most pleadingly. ‘I saw the picture of a patent machine a hundred times as big as this little fellow, and it was only $69. Don’t yeu think if so big a one could be got for $65, that so little a one as mine might cost your favorite school of ccmy only as maily cents? And how can I ever} unpleasant expertence as a standard of | “I have a dicided prefercace sym- get so much money, sitting always in this | comparison to enable us to fully enjoy hap- Brachinah’ Sitabiiy. She eax oie quite beyond my province to help | Piness when we really attain it. rous of being polite and him out of his trouble,” concluded the | “It's very refreshing,” replied Willie ared that sh clerk, “but I never in all my life felt more | Wishington. at now she saw b like taking up a subscription for the benetit of the suffering.” ee Autumn Tints. “Probably not one person in a thousand knows just why leaves change their color “Ii positively makes a new man of me!” the rhapsodic triend persisted. “It makes -| me forget all about this life end its sordid cares. I feel as free a bird.” s free as what?” was the rather anx- fous inquiry. yes;” she exclaimad, “there ed and powerful in ion.” that compe should n order t “AS abil , Pc he com- a that Sti mas in the fall,” remarked an eminent botanist | parison DO YOu object to the com ni Sp ekg vatker cha Dokvion eee the other day to a reporter for The “Yea. L¢ “t Ike to interfere with your su thin: she added - Star. “The green matter in the tis-|rainbows vi iancy nor your flowers of T really must, you know. I sues Gf a leaf is composed of two | Speech. Bat I wish you could have ss to a lack of sympathy. f colors, red and tlue. When the sap | that in some other way. When I recull t hat is kind of noisy and We : fact that y. g, after the the ceases to flow in the autumn the natural | [ct Mat y Sat Coen ter, two 01 birds. were the cause of | to give it serious study, I growth of the tree is retarded and oxidation | my having to pay out something over $9 | ami sore would enjoy it.” of the tissue takes place. Under certain | to the waiter, your simile doesn’t sound | “That's what ever ys. And conditions the green of the leaf changes to| like anything but a gr gloomy sar- | shall certainly do so. 1 am going to rely red; under different aspect: on a] casm.” yellow or brown hue. The difference in color is due to the difference in combina- tions of the original constituents of the } | on you to cultivate my teste in that ¢ happy do anything Respect for the Law. Breen tissues, and to the varying condition | ‘phe ota colored man was on } mad! cosne to neg of climate, exposure and soil. A dry, hot | ena Dictricn ne Gueaniiiaines tee ae ee climate produces more brilliant foliage | the District government bufldings when he turned to the young ma than one that is damp and cool. This is the reason that American autumns are so much more gorgeous than these of England and Scotland. ‘There are several things about leaves, met one of the employes, in whose family he had done work now and th “Where are you bound for, the inquiry. you must nm ou rt m convinced that fail to invite x ipate in a concert, uncle?” was Yes: i . however, that even science cannot explain, | |“ Mab tnusiness wif de guv'ment,” was | for me to ket a tieht [av thefts ine heeded For instance, why one of two trees zrow-| the dignified reply. “I orter of ‘tended to like yourself, who really knows Inet | ius side by side, of the same age, and hav-| it jong ago. "Twan't nuffin’ but luck dat 2 2 | ing the same exposure, should take on a| ey me tum gitlin "rected foh vi in .. brilliant red in the £1 and the other should ea sang fe ogee eat eee oe Optiminm ture yellow, or why one branch of a tree} d¢ law. I knows a good deal “bout de law. 2 should be highly colored and the rest of the irce have only a yellow tint are ques- tions that are as impossible to answer as why one member of a family should be per- I wouldn't run no resks ob gibbin’ a pahior social ner a intertainment cb no soht wif- out er license. But ¥ purty nigh done goz If nothing at all w We'd find cre we slept e: That the world was : as fat ietin tie As if nothing at all went rig fectly healthy and another sickly. Ma- | COC? male “Two 5 cain eal ples and oaks have the brightest colors. | . Vat do you want a Saas ar plain ~~ ¥ ‘People shouid be careful rm to touch “Ter run a hoss- tit - - ‘ throng, the gorgeous red and yellow autumn leaves | jon. Garringe try io Though tears would vanish, hope, too or shrubs and climbing plants, which are | itreeta ake Waehae would die, hot known to be harmless. Our two pois-| ®! onous native plants display the most bril- ce methine Rt ail lwent wrong. liant autumnal colors of any. species. in our woods and highways. The poisonous sumach resembles a group of young ash treeg. "The poisonous ivy resembles the harmless woodbine. Its leaves, however, have but three leaflets, while those of the woodbine have five. What on earth do you use a horscless carriage for?” **Some times ter kyarry freight an’ sometimes ter kyarry passengers.” “Uncle, I'm afraid If nothing at all went wrong, you’ With never a task to do: With never a frendiy chance to give A hand where your help is due. With never 2 reed for a nature stout, ——— Nor the cheer of a simple song, your mind is going 7 = a A Four-Year-Old Runner. ree Ta Ke ao $ i And our smiles would fade with our frowng From the Chicago News. away from the Dis- be % on sae «He does not crack a whip loudly to can | trict ao if 1 73 nothing at all went wrong. the attention of the public to his vehicie. He dces not in stentorian tones demand of | the incoming passengers at Equality, Sa- line county, IIL, that they come to the hotel for which he is “runner-in.” And yet, considering his years, or his lack of them, he is one of the most successful members of his profession. He is Max Walters, aged four, the adopted son cf Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Walters of Equality. Max's foster father is an agent for ma- ckinery, and also a hotel keeper. Max is equally at home in proclaiming the ad- vantages of each business. He goes to “he depot each day to meet the trains tnd to accost every stranger with recommenda- ticns of his father's hotel. He usually suc- ceeds in marshaling quite a crowd to the paternal hostelry, which is not far from the depot. While he is not thus engaged he strotls about dispensing valuable infor- mation concerning his father’s machinery to all such as fre uninformed on the sub- ject. His youth and his engaging manner make him an admirable agent. ——<+-e+——_. Thrift on Wheels. From the Hartford Courant. They have had a queer trouble with con- ductors recently on the street raijroad line in Richmond, Va. The company estab- lished a special rate of six tickets for a quarter (single fares 5 cents). A number of conductors secured blocks of tickets and turned these in for fares received. Thus when six people had paid each five cents the conductor would pocket the 30 cents, but turn in six tickets that only cost him 25 cents. The performance cost several con- ductors their places, although the company was getting its price for each passenger. This recalls early days of Hartford horse- car history. At that time single fares were ——~__ Municipal Monopolies Berlin Letter to Chicago Record. ~ Among the odd things about official life in Germany are the monopolies that are “What you carry on the last trip?” % ne “A watahmillion. Isa heap handier | 8T@nted for all sorts of business. People dan a totin’ it by han’. It comes in mighty | have the exclusive privilege of doing things convenient ter carry de waskin’ home f'um | here that everybody else has the right to de white folks ter de ol lady. I reckons 1’! do without permission in other countries. hafter gib up runnin’ er’nds almost intiahly | For example, chimney eatlerand, saegeaiaigy eZ I has ter do wifout it.” rz “Uncle, where did you get this horseless | 9POlY, and the man who controls it has to carriage?’ be paid for sweeping your chimney twice a ‘You all's ma gin it to me.”. year whether he sweeps it or not. You may employ somebody else, or you may ‘Nonsease. not have your chimney swept at all, but ne “Doesn't yoh "member de time I was to you house an’ tol’ you "bout de twins an’ | and he alone has the legal right to de the business, and he will call upon you every yeh ma said she reckon she hafter gimme spring and every autumn for his fees. He sSumpin’?” never does any work himself. He is an im “Yes.” «Docs you ‘member whut she gimme?” | Hortant. and usually @ ore Ithy individual and in Nuremberg is said to enjoy a rev "Perfectly, It was a baby carriage.” “Dat’s whut T's talkin’ "bout. 1. sticks | 3" > 4 ; S| enue of $7.500 a year from his eb Tight clus ter de letter o' de law, no matter | Gut of hic teat ne we rand ey wey see how | gang of boys who do the sweeping for him. how often it changes. An’ I doesn’ yeu’s gwineter pint out any kin’ o° ca The number of drug stores in every town is limited by law—one to every riage dat’s hossless-er dan a baby car- population—and they have to pay a heav license to the city. Therefore they © hich prices for preseriptions and cet ri One of the restrictions upon the drug business—and it is an excellent provision— requires all drugs and medicines intended for use internally to be put up in round bottles. AN drugs and chemicals which are not used internally as medicines t be- placed in hexagonal! bottles. ‘Thus it is im- possible for any man who is in his right mind to poison himself by mistake. —ree, “Kain’t do it, suh. I's gotter hab_dat Neense. I can't git er- long wifout my hossless carriage.” “You say you take freight sometimes?” “Yassuh. So I does. * A Refected Comparison. The man with bronzed skin and longish bair was hanging upon every word that the charming young woman spoke. She Was telling of an actress whom she &reatly admired. “I will never forget how she locked,” the young woman said. “She was as beautiful as Juno.” ry" The weather-beaten auditor moved un- pagel ge Seach tomaaeed sneer easily, and then said: “I beg yer pardon, | From the Boston Herald. ; miss; but I ain’t sure that I heard yer re-| Put almost equal quantities of cayenne Saar, pepper and common table salt (with a little Juno. “It ain’t fer me ter c'rect a lady, gan in pee ag am quit> willing to be corrected when thoroughly. The fleas will be all in the there is any reascn for doubt,” she replied, , in_a tone with traces of congealment through it. “But I do not perceive how | the chimney wide open. The pepper kills this can be such a case.” or stupefies the fleas, and the salt prevents ‘I don’t persume to conterdict nobody, the dust from ff he replied. “I haven't no observations to make further than that there ain't no ac- countin’ fur tastes.” “Have you ever seen this actress?” “No, miss.” “Then I don’t see how you are qualified to speak.” mixture all over the floors. Shake out all he be- | @raperies and bedding, and brush off all stuffed furniture; citizen, worth his hundred thousand or more, used to sit by the fare box in the bobtail car, and, when 7 cents were passed tp to him, he would drop in a 5-cent ticket and pocket the cash. It was the custom then to pass up all fares, each passenger being expected to do his part as conductor for the company. This thrifty gentleman used to clear not only enough to pay for his own tickets, but a neat other uses. The company never interfered directly with his pastime, but it ange the system. a = a Gold Field Justice. Dyea Letter to Chicago News. Just before we arrived a young fellow from Seattle, of a wealthy family, was drowned at this narrow bridge while at- tempting to cross before the structure was complete. He lost his footing and help came too late. The teamster who had the boy’s goods returned to town with the body and demanded $10 from the partner. When it was refused setts and Calffornia a few may have been kept, but there are but few. The War De- partment has a few, but the wagon loads of them have disappeared mo one knows exactly where. As an arm the rifles sur- rendered were without value except in a few commands where they had secured e Farmer— ly objecks they do