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WILD OUTBURST OF JOY,
.11Mafeking Nleht, When 1.ornien Flung
Aside Ail Dismay,
"Mafelting night" gave 4 verb to the
10411611 iftegtlage. "To atialk," de*
lined In a phrase, memo; to tarn everys
thing unlade (town la a Wild. initburat
,of jey. Certainly we did, turn ereq-
thing upside dowa t.het tilniste-Eridey,
May 0, 1900-4n London, and we had
Jay Imo to spare to justify us, rt.was
ride merely that Mafeklog was relieved
-the town in Which Beden-Powell and'
his 'mein edging deantootarvatien, had
sat tight so loag Rad so nbeckilni it was
the far greater relief tut cellie to all
England at the end el that dark winter tkrough Which ail England, Silently?
doggettly, had taken Ith aasty ntailein
meat with the winning at last of a
substantial victory. The testae strain •
wait relaxed euddenlY, *ad Lensleaf
- with goad cause far it, snaked mee'
vulangly through all taat glad Right
long.
TEldAers are Pelee* Mil• featbers.
Tindiing Is tickling other people'
tioseg with them. With nay own hap-
PY eyes tlie4 nig*j seVr to.
chapel gide,, with proper Whitectiapel
curls twirled on their temples, tiddle
the nose of a Pali Mall policeman:
Arid that peliceman-imagine, it you
please, all possible impossibilities fused
into one single ulf.is violet ray of in-
credibility -fairly thrust forward hitt
law embodying nose to be tiddied by
those worse than regicides -he was a.
Pail Mall policeman, remember -and
tenignly rewarded them with the
sneeze of their desire!
On the same lines I may cite another
example frora that same evening. 1
saw on Piccadilly an intensely re'
spectable looking Englishman -middle
aged, stout, gray whiskered, dressed In
seemly black and wearing a seemly
top hat -who most obviously •was a
member et the conservative middle
-class, a well to do city man, I she:1131d
pay, with a tidy villa at Shepherd's
Bush or Hackney, who on Sundayd
Very likely handed the plate. And
this by rights typical/y, phlegmatic
Briton wee seated, with his chubby
legs very wide outspread before him,
on the roof of a four wheeler, and he
bad the uuion jack in one band and
the standard in the other, and he was
coming along the middle of one of the
• great streets of London in the thick of
the roaring crowd tilling it waving
those national banners with an Incom-
parable fervor and hurrahing 'just its
loud as le. possibly could hurt•ah:
But I saw no mote In the eye of my
phlegneith. English brother -we were
about of an age--tlag waving and lien
railing up there on the roof of his.
growler. possibly because at the me.
ment 1 had soinethi.11.4 of a beam in
my. own. Strictly speaking. the relief
of Mafeking was not my affair at all.
But, God bless me, there I •was, too,
with my standard and tny union jack
(they cost me sixpence apiece. mount-
ed on little bamboo poles. and as long
as I live I shall cherish them), and I
went about London that night waving
those flags just as crazily as anybodY
and roared away with the national
anthem and "Soldiers of the Queen"
and the• "Absentminded Beggar" just.
•as loudly as anybody. - Thomas A.
Janvier in Harper's.
A Chummy, Fearless Bird.
'So unafraid are humming birds of
Mfin 'that they will readily ebter•open
-windows of houses if they see flowerd
within. I have even read of their visit-
ing the artificial flowers on a lady's
hat wben she was walking out, and
other writers speak of •their taking
sugar from between a person's
In a ioom they become confused and,
being so frail, are apt to injure thern-
selves by striking against objects.
More than once I or members of my
'family have caught the frightened lit-
tle waifs for their good Madreleased
them in the open air. It is of no ase
to try to keep them in captivity un-
less possibly it were in a greenhouse
where there were plenty of flowers, for
no artificial food has ever been. -found
which will nourish • them. Yet even
there they would probably kill them-
selves by, flying against the glass. -H.
K. Job in Orating Magazine.
Lost His Suit.
"Lend my dress suit? Not on your
life!" replied the man. "I might get it
In the neck the way Corrigan did."
"What happened to Corrigan?"
'Welt, two years ago a fellow whom
he knew slightly borrowed Corrigan's
dress suit to go to a dance. Next thing
Corrigan heard was that the fellow
had drepped dead of heart disease.
Corrigan went to the funeral to do the
right thing. When 'he peeked into the
casket he noticed the deceased had on
his dress suit. The undertaker had
picked it out because it was the only
dark snit in the fellow's wardrobe.
0Orrigan wept real tears when he saw
them lowering the coffin Into the grave.
That„was his first and last dress suit
•He vowed he'd never get, another."
A. NARROW ESCAPE,
Uncle Bonbon's Story of Hie First Ride
an Elevator
Uncle Reuben Came heck from the
city exalted ad nervoua. go lied
gone to the city to transact some law
Misfires* ceneected with his farm with
lawyer whore otlice we* la' a mod.
orn elericraner end wheee address Hen -
tern Carried aloug ter memoraudurn.
be 'began' atterhis wife,
itittraied at his changed condltbini, had
threatened tO snumnett the doctor from
the ileareet village it he would net OP
'PlaIn 104 Penae, "I had about tb' Pisan,
niest skv frsilia death Ude sioradag
eVer heard Qui' it wan fa that law.
yee'S bolltfin' top. eee. I felled tlit
tight 'Piece ere.,started lookin" threagh
woos: Pr his same aa' Mininee.
MANY After welkin' up stairs after
stas rr over two bur a I set dawn
all tired out on tie top ;deo o' tli' twat
stairwaY, eeninletely discoaraged.
" Wirliere kin I and Lawyer Barnes'
office?! I .asked -4 man numbs' by
ffe, didn't stop, bet jut pointed
Ms thumb at it Yourig feller etanclia'
beside' finittle cagelike room cheWhe
gars like sixty. . So I stepped ever an"
into this little.room an' asked •th' boy
if he wuz Lawyer Barnes' clerk, 'No,'
he men a bit freshlike, 'but rit see that
r see 'tan Then that fresh young
feller nit tht. wall a piineh that did
th' hull busluess!" ,
Hege Reuben paused to cover hie
Oyes and shake all over,
"He hadn't any more'n • hit that
wall when io dislodged that room'
glteich-quick fastenin's," he wept .on
whela his IMO was over, "an' tie hall
floor io! that ,rooni fell right out an'
daown there fifteen stades to OP
ground, Mina' we an' that young tenni'.
with iti
"Waal, thank God, here Sarahy.
How either o' -ns escaned gittIn' every
bone in our bodies broke,I don't ,know
don't care. • Ail ,1 know is that
floor fen flat On tit' ground au' we
didn't- lose our footin', Wilma,. that
shock Wee. fiver 1. hugged young•
feller t'r Jay an' give him. a five dollar
bill f'r 'openin" th° door au' lettin' we
out ahead o' hftn. Thee I, hustled :fir
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HUSBAND AND • WIFE
The Pathetic Servel to a Tragedy .of
• ' . • the Alps #::. : •' •
Many years' ago 1 read -a pathetle
story, which :is conatantlY.rectilled to
mind as theduties of this compilation
compel me to read the records of past
years and reperuse. the long *closed let- •
ters Of my beloved,and liye over again
the happy .days when we Were all pa
all to each other. , I do net remember
all. the details of the' Ineident which se.
impressed me," but tbe .chief 'facts- Were
these: : • •
A Mere:led 'Couple .were crossing one.
of the•great .glaelers of the Alpine re-
gions whenat fatal necident acciirred,
•
The .husbahd fell down erre of•the huge,
crevasses wnicla anoitud.on all gleciers.
The ropebroke,and the depth of the
thasm was*. great that ne..help cond
be reedered, nor, could theibody -be re-
toveredT-:-Over.-thwiteguish--•-at.,
her loss we must 'draw the -veil of si-
lence. Forty years afterward saw, her,
with the ' guide WO • hadf-accompanied
them at the time of the aecident'stai-
ini at the nearest hotel at •the foot of;
the glacier, waiting for the -sea of ice
to give. tip. its dead, :for by the. well
410.0 jaw nf glacier pro,greselon the
form of. her •tong lost husbundt might
be expected to .'appear ; extieiled from
the niontin.nr the torrent Sheet; that
date :- Patiently , and with un.failleg-
consteecy they . watched and, waited,
and 'then' hopes were tit•laat rew riled
One day the body was released from
Sts prison An : the. lee,. and the ' wife
looked Adele- on the • feetares. of film
who had been So long parted from her
But the penes of the story ley intlie
faet. that She. was then . an „old, woman,
while the newly- reseued body was that
of quite a young -abd robust Wan, so.
faithfully: hadtheerYstal, casket pre
served the jewel which it held so long.
The forty years bed .ieft no winkles
on. that marble, brew,' Time's wither -
Ing fingers tepid not teach. him In that
i tomb, and so for a few brief moments
.the aged lady:saw 'the 'husband of ner
youthas be was in the days which
were gone 'forever.C. H. Spurgeon's
Autobiography... " •
MC 'IN MOROCCO.
Chlorine. and Spells That Are Used 'by
Moorish Women.
Mrs. Maliseb,Plodell writes of the
carton; chartue uoed by the woinen or
Morocco: "Moorish womea reeort much
to aerate to pin lovers er to keep,
their Affection; when Pined. There M
one •Cherin which Is.a0ioui Wiest* to
Vint It Consists of ahmdding small
pleee of all aadergarment widch the
inara hail *era and after certain in-
cautations'have Wee odd over it, of
roiling the Particice intthe ilb4iPa
et a eniatl ball. Thia is embedded in
a large bell of clay and, after being
slightly damped; it le kept in a pot
ever the embers ef Itve chareeel.
linid bee e *soured it as sOell
as the heat penetes.tea the clair the
am*, whoeeer he. maybe, will lay
asine whatever work be is doing at the
time aad fly to the arms ef the Woesent
Wtt intehea the charm.. As hong a*
.the ball ha kept *arm el tang win the
heat' of love.aaura in the begirt of the,
lover for that, woman. .
",nnothee spell Much reseeted to la
Nig by cutting oft' the tips ot ds -
key's ears, ears, cooking them arid saltine
them in the men's. food'. Ile thee Inn
'comes as foollela as donkey, with
jove for the charmer who has. provid-
ed bis natarvery repast."
• •-A .WHALE'S MOUTH..
The .Grove of Twelve Foot Quilts That
. Fills the Cavern.
The rifles for eating accredited to-
Glatistone"iunt.Plethlier, which' requir-
ed thirty-two. mere or less, chews to
effeli reo6thful, 'Were' never meant -for
the true whale. It has no teeth, and it
0.0111°74 its food whole, catching it in
the baieen, or stripe of "Whalebone,"
which depend from thesides. of Its
mouth, If a: whale saw the. whale -
brines that womankind are tccustomed
to ash:min their -waists he Would never
reeontnie then' as part of his • ain
mentary system, they are so small. In
the form "in 'which they would be fin
, to hiba they ;would be ten or
twelve feet . long and look like giant
brushes. with.a brindle ten inches wide
at the end. • • •
• , •
One; Might Wonder how any animal
conk" close its mouth, witb ti grove of
.twelve feet quillssticking out •of the
• root When the mouthcloses the slabs
of baleen fie Qat' in . grooves: When the
mouth opens the siabs spring feeward,
'completely . filling the cavern. .One
whalernbaye as .man'Y as:700 In its
mouth., Sometimes the 'weight ef this.
gimit -Mouth fringe is a ion, • and the
Contents of the,-niouth ef one . whale.
taken in Bering •sea;Pn •Oct. -20, 1083,
• NVelghed.3,100 pounds,. or. a. ion and ii
. .
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A Flareback. '
' "Brudder•jopes. ir you didn't smoke
you might own a brick house like what
I does." • .. •
"Look here, man, don't you come
pesterin' wit' nie like dat. Yon didn't
git dat brick house by not smokin'.
You got it,tby borrOwin' mah newspa-
per to read .an' with elothes to wear
an' mah vittles to eat: .You may be
a fly financier, but dat don't gib you
no itemise. to set up fer a human• copy
book!".
•
.No Woricier; „ .
Oayboze-When :By wife Saw the
condition I was in when I got home
from the club hist night it just stag-
gered her. hitittini-I'm not earprised.
Coughs. colds, hoarseness. and Miter thrOst Yeti liniew you Arank-enoughater ileac
ailments are qulekly relleoCtl Oresolene 'old Maud
tablota. tun cents per hos. ..911 druggists.
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schoolboy was tall,
A Boston
weak and sickly.
His anns were soft and flabby,
He didn't have a strong muscle in Ms
entire body.
The physician who had attended
the family for thirty years prescribed
Scoit'a Ernatrion.
NOW:
To feel that boy's arm you
would think he was apprenticed to a
blacksmith,
ALL Dfit)00181‘81 Sao. AND $1.00. 3
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, Discoverieg. Writers. •
The rejection .of a menuscript often
left a pangbut the acceptable naanu-
script, especially Qom , an unknown
fiendbrought a glow' .cf 'joy which
richly conmensated we for ail I sat
-
Need from the -others. To feel :the
touch never felt before, hi be the first
to find the planet unimagined in the '
illimitable: heaven of art, to inat
the dawn., of a new talent, with ,the
I tight that seems to mantle the .virittea
page who would not be an editor fox
such .4 priellege? I do not know how
it is with other editors who are also.
authors; but 1 can truly say for my-
self that nothing of my own which I
thought fresh andtrue ever gave me.
more pleasure than that I got from.the
like qualities in the work of some •
young . writer revealing his power..i...,
D.-Howelliti Atlantic.
l<new His Sister. •
Since the engagemeet of his pretty
sister ber small brother had been PU*-
zling his bead to understand whet it
meant . • '
"Why,". exclaimed his mother, "Mr.
Skaggs has diked sister to marry him. .
That means that ' he'll take care of
her."
"Buy her things?" asked the boy.
"Hats and dinners and ice cream
and everything?" he persisted.
"Yes," was the answer.
Tbe boy thought it all over for a mo-
ment and then he said: •
."Well, that man's got lots of cour-
age, hasn't he?"
-- • — • .
SAYS sHooTtI4,G WAS ACC! DENT,
Terrace • Declares He PeintelOun For
•Bt of Foolery. •
. Brampton, •Den. 2s,—Whol John
Terraee recovered consciousness and•
was told that William. Curry was
dead, he broke down and wept,
He Was preparing to go to bed, he
declares, when ?for a hit of foolery,"
he pointed 'the gut nt James Curry.
Curry answered him sharply, and
the old inan came to the door of his
bedroom in his nightdress and asked
what the quarrel' was about. Terrace
states he answered him that there was
no quarrel at all; and to go back, but
that the old gentleman rushed up
close to him andthe younger man
knocked the Weapon up in his 'hands:
In doing so the gun was discharged,
the shot entering the left breast of
the old num.
He declares he had no intention of
harming anybody.
Terrace arrived in Canada from
Welsen-on-Tyne only Dec. 4. He has
a wife and two children in England.
The eTorobto immigration 'officials
recall that Terrace arrived here Dee.
4, dead broke, having .been robbed
vvhile on his way over on the steam-.
ship' Manitoba. The next day he was
engaged by James CuitY•
MURDER STILL BAFFLES pouce.
Body of Beautiful Woman Pound In
Marsh Not Identified.
New York, Dec. 28. -While the awe-
tery surrounding the circumstances Of
the murder of the unknown young
wornan 'WhOSO body was found nearly
submerged in a pond ort the outskirts
Of Harrison, NJ., appears no nearer
solution than when the body WaS dis-
covered, the theory which the detee.
tives are now working on is that the
woman untie to her death in Newark
and her body carried to !Ire lonely
pond, that the real SCOW of the aline
and the identity of the slayer might
be eonceale'd„
The Newark pollee are smelting
for the slayer, who is believed to have
met the young vvontatt by appoint.
mein, in Newark, and then lured her
to her death. Evidenee was obtained
yesterday that the weman MIR seen
in Newark on Christmas eyening.
._SAVED BY ABET.
,Peoullar instanor of. the Power of
Mind Over Matter.
Tile power of the human ov01 over
fee weakness‘ of the hunaini body has
amities) heen more enviously eXernpli-
lled than in the following instance;
One et the bravest officers le Lord
pentiesslar army Was COIO-
nel Hay, who, hovrever, waa an note.
riots for hts love of gemnling and bet-
ting as for hie deede daring. At
Saionanea he Was strnek down by a
bul/et end taY !mon the llehl app*ret-
17 Two brother officers com-
ing UP, elle et them erelaimeg:
"per any! Hear gone at losti"
He bad iteareely uttered the woreks
when a faint voice fume rip from, the
grouad:
"I'll lay yeti a, level liseutred tient
not."
be colonel hen evened Ids mreo, but
they looked glitesY with deeds, and it
seemed but a came of mitautea.
"Enter it" he went :en, "ma you,
Captain Marto.*," addreesing the sec-
ond salleer, "be witneee."
Then, „ quite overcome, hifa eyelids
dropped again, and he lay motionless.
major Windsor, the one with Witelll
the bet wan made, at once heid the eolo-
aol
eonveyed to the hospital. It was
found to be a very grave case, and aft-
er the patient had been restored to
coneciousnees by meansof restora-
tives the doctor told him there was a
ball' in his, back which could milk be
extracted by a, very severe operation.
"But I must warnyou," added the
surgeon, "that ,you will very probably
die under, it"
"If anytedy will bet me 00 on the
event I'Irconsent," said the colonel.
"Eend for Windsor, and I'll endeavor.
to persuade him to make It double or
qnits."
The major was Sent for and agreed
to the terms. • .
"Now saw away with you," cried the
colonel. "I won't die,"
The operation was at once com-
menced, and.the gallant gambler pass-
ed triumphantlY through the . ordeal,
While the major, who was a generous
fellow, paid the bet with the utmost
satisfaction. •
"I tell you." Colonel Hay used to say
when relating,the story, "but for that
het I should be a .dead man now. It
was only my determination to wig that
kept Me allee." • •
GETTING BREAKFAST:
Experience That •Taught a Man to Re-
: ; spoot *omen's Ability.
"Ever try to get' Your own 'break-
fasts?" asked the Men. *hose wife is:
away: 'No? Well .it's a. most vale -
able educaticrn in the art Of holding.
More than one thing in. the Mind at a •
time. .1.. etin understand after a week
•of• it how 'Women get to he expert itt
.matters .ef detail. ' " • ,
"We men go • through ilfe blundering '
along...firet at one thing and then at
Other , with the Idea:that what' we itre
doing at the moment ShOuld he finish:
.ed bef04 anything'else IS taken up.
-"J'ee can'tget breakfast On that prInct
ThIe Women instinctively knowhos.
to ran half .e..• dozen things a once.
When they Wave the coffee on the
stove and thetoast is browning and ,
the eggs cooking they een put the fin-
ishing touches On the setting of the
table wttli a .light, and cheerful beart
At •the psychological moment: the
fee: Will .be Whisked off, the Mast ex-.
tracted ,and. the eggs removed to: e.'•
place Where 'further application. of
• heat is itepossible. It's a Wender to
•nie how. they: dO
"A man ir he essays to make•Coffee.•
Must devote bis whole attention to the
operation; likewise with .everythin
.elSe. If. he doesn't thereq be trouble.;
Ile isn't' a success in IC -doable Act,
and , when the question le one Of a'
triple or a quadruple • act be might as
well throw up his hands :At least,"
he concluded, with A shade of pride in
his tone' "till he's got the hang of it"
"So yecousider yourself qualified
tinW, (.19 you?" his friend inquired,
with Mock. aerfougness.. • •
"If a succession of .° Evened meats
qualifies me,". the first speaker rejohn ,
ed. "I'm it"
tors' say. Henry; had been expeeting
*AP AMBASSADOR DENIES.
Says Word** About Emigration Atari.
biated to Him Were Never Uttored,
San FranniSCO,. J'au, 0.-Vieeount
Aoki ZaPaneee ,arebaasarlor at Wash-
ingttin, who arrived in Sari Francisco
Saturday night, en route to Tokio,
having been recalled by his Govern, -
Ment at Ws own request, in an .inter -
View With the Associated Press last
night, denied the statement at,tribut-
od_ to him in an alleged interview
rridat night,. and 'in*whicli he was
quoted as earriS«
"Japan is restricting the emigre -
Una of laborers to this 4:Multi), and
will continue to do so," and "that it
would be regarded as offensive to the
dignity of japan for thie ommtry to
pass an exclusion law,or endeavor
to embody the subject in a treaty,"
"Sueh a etaternent did not, emanate
from me," emphatically declared the
ambassador, in Gentian a language
with which he is mach Mere familiar
than with English. "I did not talk
with any newspaper men lest night,
nor did I authorize any one to speak
for me, much, lose make any state -
meat Furthermore, I hove net dis-
cussed: the emigration queetiora with
anyone since I left Washington, nor
have I anything to add to my fare-
well statement, made by me to the
American pee* through the Atige-
elated rreee, prior to my, departure.'
I am returning to japan after a long
ablience, to confer with my Govern-
ment on various matters.
The attitude of ,Tepan toward this
country is of the frienclliest charae-
ter, but the emigration question and
ether 'matters of poliey betweeri the
two countries .are for statesmen and
diplartrate and cannot be so freely dis,
cussed in public." -
Being able to express himself readi-
ly in German, the ambassador talked
at -length on various topics; but de -
alined to discuss the Vancouver race
troubles, the immigration question in
general or comment on the transfer
of the battleship fleet from the Atlan-
tic to the Pacific Ocean,
FIREMEN NEAR DEATH.
Standing on Fire :Escape When Wall
,
GaveWay.
Moetreal, Jan. 6. --Five firenteir had
4 _Miraculous escape from death on
• Sdeurday at a fire in the departmental
store • of Arsene Lemay. at St. Denis
street and Duluth avenue. The build-
ing was totally deAroyed, and the
• loss will amount to between $50,000
and $75,000.. •
The firemen were standing oh a fire
escape. when the wall gave way, and
the men were thrown headlong into
the burning building..How • they man-
aged to escape is a mystery. All of
them were more or less ,injured, but
not seriously.
K I led by Street ' Car.
Buffalo, N. Y., Jen.
Sohn C. Cautley, 68 years old, a re-
tired British army 'Officer, who made
Ms Winter home at the Grand Union
Hotel, Toronto, was instantly killed
yesterday by a street car. • He had
alighted from a • car on his way to
the hoine of John M. Provost, *here
• his two daughters, students at the
Technical High School, are guests.
He did not hear a car coming- in
the opposite direction, and was struck
with terrific force.. Death was Matsu-
ttpeous, his head being crushed and
body man led; b.in carried 130 feet
on t e enter of t e car. • .
Col. Cautley fought througn• cam-
paigns- in India and 'Egypt, was with
Kitchener at Khartoum, and with
Lord Roberta in the Boer war. • .
Druce Case Not Settled. '
London, Jan. 6. -At a conference. On;
•Batardayof the lawyers and 'Others
• interested in the claim of George Acil-
lamby Druce to the estate and 'title
of the Duke Of Portland, it •was,
de-
cided after receiving the reports of
the doctor and .suleieycit .whoattended
the exhumation ef• the Druce coffin,
on behalj of the claimant; to-cen-
tinue the prosecution of Herbert
Druce for perjury when the ease comes
up in the Police Court to -day.
Whileno statement was given : ont,
it is understood that the 'prosecution
will :insist that the burden of prov-
ing that the body found in the coffin
is actnelly. of T. C. Druce, lies
with the .de..'ence. • • •
' Imagination KiIleI Him.
New •York, Jan, G. -Christian Hen-
ry is dead at the King's County Hos-
pital of 'pure iiriagiriation,' the doe -
Improving the 'Breed.
• Shortly after a new 'administration
took , hold of a. well kiaown southern
railroad' a great number of ,cialtas
were preferred' against the coragaby
•
on .aceount ofhorses and 'cattle being
kllIed aloethe line In ,Kentucity. To'
• make matters worse appeared that
every anitoal killed, • however worth-
less it may have been before 'the acci-
dent; invariablyfigured in the claims
subsequently presented as being of the
to have hydrophobia. 'for four yeare,
finally worried himself into all the
symptoms and expiired just as those
'do who. really have the disease. The
autopsy yesterday showed' he did not
have rabies at all, however. The phy-
sicians pronounce his case one of the
most remarkable on record. They at-
tribute death' to complete nervous
col-
lupse and a firmer form of brain chs-
eane. ,
Henry's pet dog was 'bitten by a
rabid animal four nears age. . There
were no. indications that, the deg had
beet blood In 'Kentucky.. One day in hydrophobia.
conversation with one of the road's:at-
torneys• the president became Very
Mueh excited inreferring to the situa-
tion.."DO you, know," he exelanned.
bringing, down his 'fist on the desk by
WO Of emphasis, "I bare reached the
cenclusion that nothing. In Kentucky
So improves live Steck as ereesing it
with a locomotive,", • •
. English Mateisiges. .
Every year from SOO to 1,200 couples
go to England from the contibent,
mostly from Germany'. to ger tnarrled.
To comply with the denditionin or the.
English lavYS the 'bride usually goes
over first, stays one bight in a hotel
anir gives noticEof the merriage On
the following day. Then the Man ar-
Iitos and the ceremony takea place.
It is 'generally by, lieense, at; other -
Wise both wotild have t6 be in Eng-
land for tour weeks. •
Diactptine
Prenekintln was teething, in a
large school. where he had a repute
tion for making some queer mistakes,
One day he was talking a clue Which
was farther disorderly, What with the
heat and troublesome boys he was
very snappish. Ileving punished see-
eral WS and dent one to the berttoth
Of the form, he at last shouted out -in-
pairsion, "Ze Wbele clads go to re bot-
toml"-London Seraph.
Waited Time. •
"Yen are winding your time painting
pieta rem" •
"nut 1 salt my Metures," protested
the artist,
"And that conrinees me that you tian
sell anything. Such being the case.
why not take up life Insurance oe
brklaes or something With big money
In it?" • , •
. City and COuntry Polk.
The rapid rate a life, the nuinber of
decisions Inan hoar, the many things
' to keep accetnit of in . a busy city
man's, or -woman's life, seeni mon
-
;Arms to eountry brother. He doesn't
see hewwe live at ell. A day in.New.
York or Chicago fills him with terror.
The danger and .noise make It appear
like a perratinetitearthquake. But set-
tle him there and in a year or two he
win have caught the poise beat. Ile
will vibrate to the city's rhythms, and
if he' only succeeds in his avoeation,
whatever that may be, he will find a
joy In an the hurry and the tension, he
Will keep the pace as Well as any of
Us and get as nit,neh Out of hinitielf in
any week 48 he weer did In ten weeks
in the eouhtry.•
The stinaull of those Who sudeetisfully
respond and undergo the transforeitt-
flea:here are daty, the example of oth-
ers, and crowd pressure and contagion.
The leansfornititiori. moreover, Is
clironie one. The new level of energy
bectimes permanent. The duties of new
offices of trust are 'constantly produe-
ing this effeet on the human beings ap.
pointed to theft. The phyalologists tall
Stimtilus dynaniogenie when it in-
treatieri the intadeultir .eontreetions of
men to whom it Is applied, but appeals
tart be dynataogenic Morelly tta Well
48 muscUlarly.,
Baby Saved ramify.
Niagara Valls, Ont., San, (le -About
three oielock yesterday morning the
residence of Albert Bush on Batter
street, WAS eompletely destroyed by
fire, with the contents, thefamily ea.
wiping partly clad, having been awak-
ened by their little baby erying, tea.
$1,1500, partly insured. Cause of fire
unknown.
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ugh cold CURE
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it doesn't cure you QUICKER than anything •
you evertried gi;eryO7riour money back
$bilob's is the best, safest, surest and quickest medicine for your ehildrenen coughs.
and, colds. It has been curing coughs and voids fee aa years, • Ali druggists -
2c., Sac., and 41,00,*bettle,
Cheap Feasting.
Bowline on the top of one of the -
shills at a church bazaar recently was.
a sign which ran. q..uncheope, 1 40 3
m., Is, ed."
couetry fernier and his Wife were
messing along achniiing the various
galls and their contents when be
espied the above sign ,and was hoard
to remark to hie wife:
"We'll Jima hey our definers here,
Jeannie. Two oors' steady eatin't; no'
bad fur wann an' sit" -London Tele-
graph.
A Freak of ;Memory.
"Why in the world are you carrying
two umbrellas?" somebody asked the
'forgetful man, and fm looked amazed.'
at the question. ' '
"I should think you'd guess that
eitnily. knowing .me so be said.:
"I'm carrying two so that if 1 torget
and leave one anrelliere I shan •still
.have the other!" "
• Lightning In South Africa.
• In South Africa, where thunder-
storms are terrific, lightning often
strikes the beds of ironstone, and blue
flames, sometimes firing building, are
alleged to play abont such Ironstone
ousttcorormppitigs two or three hoots after
a
' Hint to Housekeepers. ,
A 'penny spent on a receipt file will,.
often save potinds in litigation. -Judge
In Reynolds' ;InwsPftlier. rI
In Saxon Titnes. •
;In Norman. and Saxon limes an "es •
was always' roasted wboie over the..
Yule leg at Christians.
egatlaNIC114011.0.
Hoisig Herne;
.. Pastning-So, the family in the at
next yours has *phonograph, eli? Hour
tannY records have they? Pyipir-Eleave
en only knows! But they broke their
best previous record, last Baader by
five bourn and twenty -sir patentee. -
Puck,
Martial. a Spanish link of the Brat
century. wrote, "A faee that cannot
amile Is never good."
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He 'Knew the Play.
Mise Grace Lane, on, Englisb actress,.
Who achieved her'first success as Bab-
ble in "The Little Minister," told oe
her introduction to the author. One:
night at a Stoke Newington theater the:
manager told her that Mr. — was,
coming round to see her at the end a
the act. Elbe did not catch the name
and thought that a representative ot.
the local wiper wae 'seeking a chat.
with her. "Very 'well," she afarivered.!-
and ,gave the matter no more thought
.At the end of the act she 'found the'
manager and a small, delicate looking:
Man awaiting her; and without stop -
pin for an introduction, Miss. Lana,
started talking nineteen to the dozeit
that she might get the interview over
and take a little rest In her dressing -
room before the next aet. "1 hope you
are enjoying the play," she said vvhen;
she bad finished giving the astonished!
Young nr,\en a long account 'of her pr1-.'.
vate hiet6 rY and her early professional;
career. "Oh, yes," he tinewered. "Don't
you think it is a pretty play?" she ask-
ed. ."Quite a pretty play," was the re -t •
ply. "Did- you see it at the Elaymare
ket?" "Oh, yes, I saw quite a lot of It
Yeu see, I wrote it," said Mr. Jameril
Barrie. .
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