Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 27, 1890, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MONDAY OCTOBER THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. Little Giri Who Failed to Appreciate a Kind Hearted Deed. EXPERIENCE OF A LOCK MAN. 8AD How a Couple of Irrepressibles Startled the Natives—They Nearly to Blows - Changed Conditions of France, Come The Pullman section of the C! press had just pulled out of the union when ummer dashed through the vay. He sighed as hesaw the last s disappearing in the distance, and then watked with a dejected air over to the track where the second section of baggige cars, smokers and day coaches lay, Io a few mo- ments the signal was given and the train moved slowly outof the depot. The drum- mer glanced around him. Among the pas- sengers Le spied several of his ilk, but they were truveling salesmen of a grade that do fcago ex- depot. gate- ot usually take Pullmans, consequently he beeded them mot. In frunt of the car sat o little girl with her head buried in her arms, which wero spread on the window sill beside her. A mass of golden ringlets fell upon he shoulders A large man sat beside her, evidently her fath- At the next station the man rose w. ut 8 worl and left the train, leaving the little one alone in the seat. She still slept. Half an hour passed and the ringlets moved A piteous, haggard little face was slowly ra and two large, frightencd eyes looked Strang, Iy around the car. Then toelittle head s down upon the arms_and the child went to sleep, Later, when the drummer tried todoze he kept thinking of those tearful, lonely eyes, and often during the t of th ho glunced at the mass of golden curls before him. Twoo'clock in the mornming foundhim ke. The little girl. moved re she looked around with the same scarcd expression on her puny face. The other passengers were curled “up in their scats, and no one but the drummer saw lher. His heart was touched. He pitied the child in her loncliness, Walking 10 the front of the car, he sat down beside her and tenderly stroked her curls. When A her name she did rot answer, but om him. Where was question she looked sul b something to and pouted er. SWell, my dear, good rod drummer, I willsea that you do not get lonely before daylight, at any rate. Would you like me to tell you & story that my mother used to tell me when I was small like mmer then proceeded to tell the 1y tale, and followed with another, I , before he stopped. The lit didnot brighten. The child stared the window at the dim outl 'S mountains past_ which the train was speeding. The ~ drummer tried another plan. He told a funny story about a little boy who built a fire in his father's silk hat, and he lwughed so heartily when he bad finished that the little iri looked up in astonishment. Thon a bright The drummer folt gir smile stole over her face. encouraged, He had begun another funny story when the child, still wearing the samoe amused look, drew from her pocket a card, which she held up before her persevering ent terteiner. On it was written: ““This Tittle girl is on her way to Philadel- phia, where friends will meet her. She 1s deaf and dumb.” The drummer took one sheenish glance around him to make sure that none of his fellow passengers were looking and then slunk back to his_scat, curled himself up with his overcoat for o pillow aud went to slecp. s Lifetime. S0 recent is the origin of the modern com- mercial drummer that, like the ‘“forty- niner,” ropresentative pioneers in this Line are yet in the land of the livingand still on the road. As @ concoctor of colossal yarns and a never failing fountain of anecdotes and humor, the drammer has no rival, atleast not in the general estimation of the public. Hlis fund of spirits is no small portion of his stock in trade, and this, together with his acquired and nimble kuowledge of human na- ture, makes him as dextrousa foeand as su cessful au advoen nmercially speaking, as the trained 1 in the legal forum In a Drum A drummer’s of the commercial changes in the life and conditions of this country within the memory of some of these veteran knights of the road woull make an intercsting and picturesve volume, and one sure to be widely read. Here is an opportun- ity for the right man to make the most of. One of these old-timers, who began his 1if long career as a commercial traveler in 1836, and to whom his brethren are soon to give a testimonial, in aking of his experiences the other day, and of the changed conditions of travel, cte., remarked “In 1839 I took a trip south, utilizing every possible mode of locomotion by land and water, by horsetack and by footas well, it be- taking me 226 days to cover the territor tween Montgomery, Ala., and Columbus, Miss, Now I goabout in vestibulo cars and put up at palatial hotels instead of tenting or staying in o log hut. Iascend the rivers in magnificent steamers, whereas Iused to be glad to get keel-boat' transportation. 1send & telegram and get an, answer in an hour. FurmerlyI had to wait two months for answers to my letters. I used to write with quill pens and seal with wax wafers, Since I haye been ontheroad Ihave seen the invention or perfection of the railvads, the telegraph, the screw-propelier, the sub: marine cable, the telephone and the electric light.” The Ameriean drummer’s story s vet to be written. To be done wellit should bedone soon, ere some of its most characteristic iinksare missing and its chain of events hopelessly broken. On the Train. Blossom (to drummer sitting by open win- dow)—Excuse me, sir, but that open window is very aunoying. Drummer (pleasantly) —I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you'll have to grin and bear it. Blossom—T wish you would «10se it, sir. Drummer—Would like to acommodate you, but I can't. Blossom—Do you refuse to close that win- dow, sirt Drummer—I certainly do, Blossom—If you doa't close it, I will, Drwmmer—I'll bet you won't. Blossom—If I go over there, T will Drummer—'ll give odds you won Blossom > more, sir, you cle will sir; L will not. Blossom (getting on his feet sir. Drummer—T would like t0 see you o it Blossom (placing his hands of the obje able window) or not, sir, Drummer (as Blossom tugs at the wiidow) —Why don't you close it ! Blossom (getting red in the face) sppears—to be stuck, rummer—Of cou it before you came in “Them Dr rs Reat AN A fow weeks ago 1 boarded the train at my home, the Garden City, said Jobn T. Waldorf, and alter securinga seat in a half- filled car began to size up the passengers ‘while ting for the train to start on its Journey toward the scene of my aunual vaca- tion, Santa Cruz. The car contained among the mixed crowd always found on the ril two of the genus I O. 1. E. drummers. The [ O.T. E. in this case stands for “I own the earth These worthies were about as near opposite as pos- sible, for while one was sleek, loud-voiced and sported a plug hat, the other looked care- less, spoke low, and generally in monosylla- Dbies, and his head gear was in keeping with his general appearance, being one of those soft huts that can be rolled up and Jput into ouo's pocket The sleek looking oue of the pair, who had probably been talking wlmost continuously ince leaving Sun Francisco, barring the sev- Then I will, ion. VAL show you whetber I will It— itis. Itried toclose s g inspiration in a su picious looking straw covered flask, seemed to have secured his second wind, and just as the train was pulling outof the San Jose depot he started in with grest animation. His com- nion, who had slipped down in the seat so ar that the top of his head was just visible, seemed to hold about the same position as the interlocutor of a mingtrel show, as his answers were brief,and it was plain to me that his de- sign was to keep up the conversation while the possessor of the plug bat startied ‘‘the natives, Their conversation to me was immensely funny, knowing as I do what & beautiful city and desirable place of residence San Jose really s, but one old lady who sat directly behind the irrepressibles’ took it all in as gospel truth, The sleek-looking individual began, his ut. terances being mostly in short, jerky sen- tences, a style of speech peculiar to drum- mers, and the following conversation ensued: *“This is San Jose, eh?"* “Yes.” *‘Horrible S\lnu\." “‘I've heard so, “‘People half civilized here; have rogular bull fights in the street. That so!" *‘Fact, I assure you." Terrible place for heat, eh?” es, " >eople sleep outside in summer. Believe ‘Oh, T know it.” “‘Heard a thousand people dropped dead from sunstroke there lasc summer:'? (hat's a low estiuate, "’ By this time the old lady was simply horri. fied, and leaned forward in open-mouthed amazement drinking in every word as it fell from the lips of this modern Ananias, ‘That incorrigible continued Bad town for floods (" 5 1t so that people went about the main in boats 1ast winte for a whole month." rrible place for earthquakes I'm told " *Worse than Ecuador. “Hav often About twice a yoear. rd they didn Vandome in town on that , 10 big buildings i “How far out is it?" “‘About ten miles.” ust think of it. in such a town."” Worst place I ever heard of." The man with the soft. hat seemed to be getting tired of romancing sbout San Jose, so he turned the conversation, smokes 1! my sample case in the smoking re put up the Hotel ount!”” town.” Don’t see why people £t's go and take a smoke." “Go you." They nd made their exit, and the old lad after they were gome. 1 took the seat vacated by the drum- mers andsoon engaged her in conversat was ts and was intending to take up te with a married daughter in ville, but from what she had heard ne drummers she was half inelined to Itold h lon tiful place San Jose is, that it is never oppressively hot, that the nights ara cool and delightful, that boats s traversed our main streets, that bull- ts were unknown and that in the history place noone had_ever becn killed or even injured by an earthe ; Before the train reached Watsonville [ had convineed her that the drummers were base fabricators for whom the mantle of Ananias and the gown of Sapphira would not make a vest, and at her destination, where her overjoyed relatives gave her a hearty recep- tion, she bade me good-bye, remarking at the same time “Them drummers do beat all." Touched Douglas for Ten, A. W. Douglas, representing the big Sim- mons hardware company of St. Louis, lost 10 worth of confidence in a lock of famous reputation while in Omaha the other day. Ho was tiying to sell some of the pattern to Himebaugh & Taylor when @ bystander inti- mated that Douglas’ locks were no good, as they were so easily picked. Douglas Said that this was impossible, and finally backed his belief with $10 against a proposition that no one in tho store could pick one of tho locks within ten minutes. Tn just threo minutes after the money was up F. B. Gib- son, representing a rival lock firm, had picked one of Douglas’ warranted safetys, As a vesult of the wager the lock expert is today wearing o pair of fino gold cuff but- tous, each being a & gold piece appropriately engraved as follows: “Awardod to 1. B, Gibson by A. W. Douglas for picking — lock Omana, October 24, 1500, Register the Drummers, Every drummer who lives in Omaha and desires the prosperity of his employer and his city and state should get in this week and register and make 1t a point to be home on Tuesday of next week to vote. Every whole- sale merchant 1o Omaha should order his commercial men to register on Friday or Sat- urday of this week. s L A Citizens of Omaha at home and abroad should remember that the remaining days of registration are Friday, October 81, and Saturday, Novem- ber 1, — A Remarkable Gotham Oat. There is a remarkable cat on the East Side. It is the property of Miss Clara Guerlin, The intelligence of this feline goes farto prove that cats have the pow of reason as well as instinct, says the w York Morning Journal. The animal’s name is Mollie, he lives with her mistress at No, 62 Avenue D, Among the numerous tricks which Mollie performs is to lison her back and personate death. No amount of slapping or knocking about will arouse Mollie from her lethargy until her mistress tells her to get up. Miss Guerlin has made a suit of cloth- ing for her pet and on state occasions sho arrays Mollie in petticoats and skirts and puts a queer little bonnet on her head. Then Mollie stands on her hind legs and walks gravely avound the room to her own satisfaction and the delight of the whole famil But Mollie, notwithstanding her ac- complishments, i3 not generous. She does not allow any of the other cats around the house to drink milk from her saucer. When oneof them approaches and tries to lap from Mollie's saucer she deliberately raises her paw and upsets the milk upon the floor. e Unless more care is given to the hair the coming man is liable to be_a hairless anim hence, to preveat the hair from falling Hall's Hair Renewer. e The Mustache and the Character. There is a great deal of character in the mustache. ~ As the form of the upper lip and the regions about it has largely tod with the feelings, pride, self-re ance, manliness, vanity and other quali- ties that give self-control, the mustache is more particularly connected with the expression of those qualitics or the re- verse. When the mustache is ragged, and, as it were, fiying hither and thither, there, isalack of proper sel-control. When it is straight and orderly, the reverse is the case, other things, of course, n into account, If there isa tendency to curl at the outer ends of the mustache, there is a tendency to ambitioa, vanity or display. Vhen the curl turns upward there is geniality, combined with a love of ap- probation; when the inclination is down- ward the sednte turn of mind not unaccompanied by gloom, It is worthy of remark that good-na- tured men w'll, in playing with the mus- tache, invariably give it an upward in- clination, whereas cross-grained or mo- ie men will pull it obliquely down- use —_— Ctiizens of Omaha at homs and abroad should ber that the remakiing days of registration are Friday, October 81, and Saturday, Novem- ber 1) ° 1602. Sixteenth and Farnam street the new Rock Island ticket office, Tic reme | ets to all points east at lowest rates. [THEY FELL BACK INSTANTLY. For They Saw a Huge Serpent Outlined Against the Wyoming Moon, BIG ALMOST AS AS A CABLE. He Chased the Hanters but Stopped to Swallow an Antelope and Was Finally Killed by a Well Directed Volley. There has been for some years in cir- culation throughout the vicinity a rumor of an enormous ser- pent which had its haunt in the Sweetwater mountins, lying north of this place, says a Wyoming corre- spondent of the New York Press. This serpent was supposed to have been one that was found about ten years since in a bunch of bunanas imported by Michael Costello, a fruit dealer, and which es- caped before it could be killed. It was then only about three feet in length, but was pronounced by Costello, who is anative of South America, to bea young anaconda. Whether the same or not, hunters and the people who live in the mountains have reported from time to time, coming across a snake meastiring many feet in length, and with a body large in proportion, but which always managed to get out of the way before it was overtaken. These stories grew in size and fre- quency, until it was sald that those told of the sea serpent were eclipsed by the accounts given of the one inhabiting the peaks of the Sweetwater. But the thing has long ceased to bon joke among the smail farmers and herders living near there, for sheep and fowls, and even an colt, occasional have to sized calf or disappeared so mysterious vreclude all jdea of having v to panther or ly and to e suspicion to fall onthe monster In addition to these losses, it is d dangerous for the moun- children to wander far from home, for it is credibly hat a child of Eph 4 from its companions while on 'y ex- pedition this last spring, encountered the sn ich, according to the little fellow's account, was making towards him; when a pet dog following him darted at the serpent in his defense and was at once caught, encircled by the snake’s folds, which crushed him to death, aft which he was eaten by the reptile, which operation gave the child ts companions. The s old and too young sated the story, which is corroborated by the continued absence of the dog. Numerous parties have been organized good fallen pre oau - to search out the anaconda and capture it alive or dead, but have proven un- successful, s the ereature, with tare astutene has refused on such occasions to materialize. On Saturday last, how- ever, the big snake was finally met in open field and fair battle. A party of hunters, comprising three or four of our most prominent citiz had camped for the mnighton a grassy kuoll, about the foot of which ran a small stream, by which the horses were tied. They had been asleep some hours when aroused by the startled scream of onc of the horses and the instant stampede of the rest as they broke their stake ropes and rushed madly down the valley. The moon was shining brightly, and by its light the gentlemen wbled to disc a shape lying on a s close to the banks of the little stream, and onapproaching the object, which looked like the straight black limb of a tree, were soon satisfled of i seeing an ugly head, with bri eyes, lift itself for a calm survey of them, arly overpowered by a waft s fetid, powerful breath. They fell back instantly to a respectful distance and then, ng ascareful aim as pos- sible, fired on the serpent, but the only effect appatently produced by the volley was tocause the snake to draw out its full length from the heap of rocks about which it had coiled itself in and out to start towards them. Seeing this the party readily recalled what the copy books had taught was the best part of valorand beat a hasty re- treat up the little knoll. This was guined just as the snake reached its foot. It seemed about to pursue them to the summit, when a ersion occurred that distracted the reptile’s attention from the hunters, During the afternoon afer antelope, having with her a couple of young ones, had been killed, also one of the fawns by aecident, nnd the other had been en alive and tethered close to where the big smake paused to deliberate over pursuing the party up the kooll. It would probubly have not have seen the ammal had not the frightened animal given ventto a piteous bellow, ran as faras the length of its rope would allow, and when checked fallen on itsknees. The snuke instantly writhed its direction and with a rapidity almost incredible wound itself about the fawn, which continued for cond or two crying ina stiflod, horro; on way, till, as there was kening crunch, it suddenly became silent and the head dropped to one side. The snake immediately un- coiled itself and stretching out its folds il it lay nearly straight, with its head to the dead antelope, the carcass with spitile, repeating the process several times. The moonlight shining full upon the spot enabled the gentlemen to watch the proceedings closely, und, presuming on his snakeship’s preoccupation, ventured to the edge of the hillock in order to ob- serve the curious sight of the anaconda absorping into his own body one that seemed three times its circumference, | Having cnveloped the antelope in its | glutinous saliva, the snake commenced the slow process of swallowing it, and, taking first the head, the fawn gradu- ally disappeared, while the body of the sorpent swelled in the same ratio, until if the sleek, dark skin When the antelopo had it it seemed as would burst. been entirely absorbed the snake raised itselt and was evidently about to off when, the play over, the spectators avenged the poor fawn by a well di-| rocted volley at the anaconda’s head. It in its death sted hideously, elf ur as the rocks bordering m, but was too_much hurt to o much progi However, so vio- lent were its switchings and twistings crawl agony wr attempt that the nimrods declared that the air | sung with them, asthe cut of a sapling | twitched rapidly in the hand will make : it. | At last the snake grew quiet, and thinking it dead the gentlemen ventured | to descend and were bending over to ex- amine it when the suske, rearing itself | with an expiring effort, flung itself | nearly into the air and with itstail dealt Mr. Marshall Hope a blow violent | enough to knock him backward twenty foet into the brook. But the next in- | stant, with » long quiver all over its great body, the anaconda was dead, | though it was 86me time before the hunters would trust his seeming quies- cence. When measured he was found to bo exactly thirty-five [get and seven inches, It was with the greatest difficulty that horses were induced to haul the ana- conda back to town, for they seemed to regard the carcass with the utmost hor- ror. The skin was stuffed by n local taxidermist and placed on exhibition before being sent to the natural history association at Cheyenne, ——le Citizens of Omaha athome and abroad should remember that the remaining days of registration are Friday, October &1, and Saturday, ) ver 1, e e THE FORGOTTEN MILLIONS. Genuine Americans Who Live Well on a Small Amount, The cost of bringing upa family of five or six children comfortably in the town of Mount Desert does not exceed $250 a year if the house, a garden patch and cow-pasture be already provided from savings of the husband and wife before marriage, and if the family, as whole, have normal health and strength, writes President Eliot of Harvard in the Century. Very few heads of families earn more than that sum in a year; for, although a day's w : summer is commonly $1.75, work is ree, the win- ter is long and few men can get more than five months’ employment at theso wages ina year. The man and boys of a family can, however, do much for the common support, even when there is no work at wages to be had. They can catch and cure fish, dig clams, trap lob- sters, pick the abundant blueberries on the rocky hills in August and oot ducks at the seasons of migration. Wild nature still yields to the skillful secker a considerable quantity of food without price. Dwellers ina eity may wonder how it is possible for a family to live so cheap- ly, but there is no mystery about it. There isno rent to pay; the schools are free; water costs nothing; the garden patch yields potatoes and other vegetables, and the pasture milk and butter; two kerosene lamps and a luntern supply all the arti- ficial light needed at a cost not exceed- ing $2 a year; the family do all their own work without waste; there is but one fire, except on rare occasions, and thatsingle fire is in astove which de- livers all its heat into the house; the wife and daughters knit the family stockings, mittens and mufilers, mend all the clotr nd for the most part malke all their own. The ready made clothing which the men buy at the stores is very cheap ($10 to $15 a suit), being made of cotton with but a small admixture of wool. The cloth is strong and warm and looks fairly well when new, but soon fades and wears shabby, For children the old clothes of their elders are cut down, the wear being thus brought on new places. The Hesslan girls wear proudly her grandmother’s woolen petticoats, and well she may, for they are just as good and handsome as they were sixty vears ago. A Scoteh shepherd’s ail wool plaid withstands the wind and rain fora lifetime. The, old Swiss porter, whois carrying the mounted traveler's valise over the Gemmi, puts on a thick woolen jucket of o rich brown celor when theshower begins, with the re- mark. **The rain won't wet me, sir; this coat has kept me dry for twenty-five years.” The American farmer and laborer use no such good materials as these, and therefore they and, their children look shabby most of the time; but their clothes are very cheap in first cost, and, like the cotton clothes of the Chinese, they answer tne main purposeof all clothing, In a city the best clothes of the city mustalways be put on; in the country but seldom! Shoes and boots must be bought for the whole household, but these articles are also vel eap in New England, and the coarser sorts are durable in proportion to their price. For protection from rain the Mount Desert n who is obliged to be out of doors in bad weather uses in sailor fashion no rubber clothing, but suits of oiled cotton cloth, which keep out not only water but wind, last long and cost Httle—32to 33 a suit. However hard it may be for city people to understand it, the fact remains that 3250 a year is a sum adequate to the comfortable and wholesome supportof a family of seven or eight persons in the town of Mount Desert, provided that a house, a garden and a pasture are secured to them. ——— Citizens of Omaha at home and abroad should remember that the remaming days of registration are Friday, October 31, and Saturd1y, .ovem- ber1. \\'()OE& THE DEVIL. in Love wiih a Russian n a Rather Serions Thing. Among the middle and lower ordersof Russian society the model wife is she whose good conduct and slavish obed- ience to the will or whims of_ her hus- band give him no excus to lift hand or rod against her and who never beats her husband when he isdrunk. Wives beating their husbands is, however, a recognized phase of Russian soc life. Among the cheapchromos that adorn the walls of village tea houses and trakters, one of the most familiar scenes is a drunken moujik on the ground and bis wife beating him in no g y anner, The merchant’s wife and daughters still keep out of sight,in accordance with oriental custom, when male friends call on the husband, and when they go shop- ping the husband and father goes witk them, assists them with their bargains and pays the bills, Themerchant's wile paints~ her checks and is very fond of bright-colored clothes, You often see them arrayed from head to foot in garish red. She speunds the greater part of hertime in drinking t smoking cigarettes and gossipin, siting feiends. There is a saying that ‘At merchant’s wife can drink’ a whole samovar of tea.” Her mental abfilties are held in light esteem by her spoase and his friends, who, though keeh merchants, are, for the most part, mén of scant education, They will tell you'that “a woman hus long hair, bar ashort mind,” t she is a child of the devil, and that when you fall in love with her you fall in love with theevil one. It is¢onsidered bad luck to meet a woman when you are going fishing or shodting. In’ the churches *neither women nor dogs”’ are permitted to penetrate the inner sanctuary,though men and boys ure {reely admitted, — Citizens of Omaha at home and abroad showld remember that the remaining days of registration are Friday, October 31, and Saturday, } ber 1, Falling Wom: 8 vem- e —— THEY MATE FOR LIFE, White Swans ars Models of Devotion in Their Domestic Relations, In this country the white swan is the best known of the family, a pair being found on almost every piece of ornamen- tal water of sufficient size; they may be said to exist in a state of semi-domesti- cation, being undoubtedly the de ants of the wild swan, which | large flocks in tle temperate and cold latitudes of the world. . The swan is migratory and leaves the polar seas early in the autumn; when flocks, pumbering about twenty-five or thirty, make their way to more genial Hand Sewed Shoe Co. OMAHA Are the Exclusive Western Agents for the Voonsocket an The largest manufacturers of rubber footwear in the world. goods in the city, Prices always the lowest. Correspondence solicited 1 hode Island Rubber Goods. Wa carry the only complete stock of first-class rubbap TRY OUR LEATHER SOLED RUBBER BOOTS, THE BEST MADE. AMERICAN HAND SEWED SHOE (0, NEB. climates, It is therefore neces: pinion individuals retained in in order to prevent their es he migratory instinetcomes upon them. According to Y was iutroduced in this country about the swelfth centur d therefore has a good right to be nsidered as a domestic twaterfowl, while it also the proud distinction of hav- ing being long considered as a royal bird, only to be held in England by sub- jects as a privilege from the crown. uring the breeding season the swan be- comes very savage and is then danger- ous toapproach. The male and female swan pair for life and are models of devotion one to the other. The male bird may be seen during the period of incubation either swimming as a sentinel or seated close beside his mate, half hidden by the water reeds, among which the nest is usually built. Their food consists in great part of acquatic vegetables, but they feeders and consume snails, small fish, eels, as well as the various sorts of in- sec They arve extremely have been known fifty years. The plumage of the birds isof adaz- zling whiteness in both the male and female, the latter being rather the smaller in size of body. The feetand legs of both ave black, the bill orange red, with a black tubercie atthe base. When hatched the young are of an ashy gray, becoming white when about two years old. long-lived, and to live for more than T G FELL OUT OF HIS BERTH. Very Funny Experience of General Passenger Agent £ustis on a Sleeper. Some ludicrous experiences are occa- sionally met with by the occupants of the upper berth, says the Chicago Her- ald. i’, S. Eustis, the general passen- ger agent of the Burlington road, en- countered one of them during a trip from Chicago to Omaha several years ago. The weather had been intensely hot and when Mr. Eustiscrawled into his upper berth, which he oceupied by choice, he determined to depart from his usual cus- tom of retaining his underclothing and proceeded to shed it. It mght be well to state that M. Eustis is long and thin and it is only by sleeping on the biasand letting his feet hang over at one corner of the berth that he enjoys anything like rest in the ordinary sleeper. = How- ever, thisis not relevant to the story. Mranspiring freely and almost suffocated by the heat, the railroad man sat up in his berth somewhat after the style of a camp chair and began to work himself loose from his dripping underclothing. He tugged wildly at his singlet, pulling it up from the neck, but after gathering in nearly all the under sheet on the berth he changed tactics and worked from the base up. In peeling this gar- ment he skinoed his kouckles against the berth roof, but asa good member of the Episcopalian church said nothing audibly, Then he tackled his balbriggan Srdn, awers, and after a number of ex- ceedingly clever gyrations shook them loose,, but in unraveling them his cling- ing summer hose still remained. Then began the real tug of war. He was warm both physically and mentall and so were the socks, only not menual- ly, but they were mighty obstinate though. Revolving around as on a pivot, Mr. Eustis worked desperately at those socks, and just as the right one left his foot the car e a sudden jerk and the gentleman, losing his balance, slid under the curtain rod and dropped with & mighty crash into the aisle below, Everybody dozen heads curtains to was undressing and popped out. beti see who had been killed. Those who were prompt to look saw a very slim figure clad only in a striy a the ell the common swan | DOssesse | behind a pair of curtains, te and who was leisurely systom. She porter when she | tion, and her sore yelled loudl aw the na ms only ces Mr. Eustis, from his position t curtaing, apologized for the | and explained his accident, any embarrassing feelings story might stato that the berth under was occupied by a railros helped to rub arn bruises that same evening. event Mr. circumstances, attempted to disr slecper, ye to say, nues to oceu he is on the road. th b and bowels thro new principl sness, bad taste, Splendid and constipat Sp nallest, mild and chilare doses for 2 8, Co.’s, 15th and Dou g ST PRICE OF A WIFE. est, sul nuts in the Solomon Island 10,000 cocoanuts. The islanders, says All the Ye ists of strings of shell be size of a s trung in fa ed’ and money s ‘white” money. coinage. Only jaw are legal tender, £20. like stone ar The follow! island money and e also current coin. change: or fif marble ring), one human heu one medium yoing mun, oAbl B “It is all over tow, “What 1" wind, this morning.” buy it everywhere for Oil handy. The Brute Within Us. Contemporary Review: tant periods than that which by the Murechel de Re of child murder of which narrative; and when confe the o we ha gin of his he desire to « came upon me eight yearsag court to go to Chapsonce t! mes: child Thercupon T resol imitate and surpass these same ( d sockc, making a frantic effort to hide and that very night bey ot would bo proy Mr for 0t igh rest In falling Mr. Enstis bumped very hard against a lady who oceupied the lower berth oppo- disrobing when he so unceremoniusly” jarred her the hind the intrusion To relieve this on his friend’s Since this Justis has never, under an upper berth whenever - Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills, An important discove They act on the the Good Ones Quoted at 10,000 Cocoa nples fres atKubin & In the Solomon islands the market quotation on a “good quality” wife is of the e ved w r Round, con- about the hirt button, well made, and hom lengths of two Kinds, | This is the base of the currency, above which comes dog’s teeth, which ave the gold of their two teeth from a dog’s A lole is drilled in each, and when a native has accumu- lated a sufficient number hestrings them together and wears them as a collar. Such a collar may be worth as much as Porpoises’ teeth are one-fifth the value of dog’s teeth, and rings of marble- g is the basis of Solomon Ten cocons nuts, one string of white money, or one stick of tobacco; ten strings of white money, one string of red money, or one dog's” tooth: ten strings red money, one porpoise teeth; ten isas, one good quality wife; one bahika (or one dis- s afforded the strange and horvible history of A man of noble birth, great weaith, great distinctiona s a soldier and high in favor of his sove eign, he took to the most horrible course I know of no more appalling example of the power of one life to iufluence another in far bahika, one very good pig;une bahika, “The cold So it s, but Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is all over town' too, you can 25 cents a bottie'” he careful mother always keeps Salvation Twenty-five cents a bottl any mmit these atrocitie at last driven to on, he made this statement as to left at [ might claim the properly of my grandfather, deceased. In the libvary of the found a Latin book—Suetonius, 1 be- lieve—full of accountsof the cruclties of the Romun emperors. 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