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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-08-30, Page 34 40.44.444ilef.......*********4Th****************4•4416.• ACTS Or MOUNTED rOl•ICE. I —. BraVery of Canadian Guardian!! Of Peace Our Scotch Corner Jo Marvelieue. When the necesaity arm of extending 1+1Malele411.14441,14.11.44104.1141444.41etiPeaoHele.4111444441S1111.41 (By Maggie Molten.) Ma chief reaaon for writin' la eiet thit Mier* may benefit free elea Iniseor- tune an' avoid ,the pit intae which I fell. Oor Rab had a holiday on Setturday, an' for weeks aforenare him an' sue tlIna cusned whaur eve wwl spend' cit. Of a' the places mon' aboot there's yin stan's head an' shouthers highest in ena heart, an' that's the Trim Since ever I wan a wean Pve had a day doon there every year that's passed, an' tan crown it', that's the spat whaur Rab an' me went for our hconeymoon trip. aid there were mane o' yer gran' hotels M time dare like the wan awa' doon at the Blank Reek. An' there weir nano o' Yer es- planedes an' sie-like, Na, na, Thao were the dugs when ye had ale a Sang Walk frac the station tae the shore that ye were gey an' glad to sit doon on the satin' an' smell the watt breeze. 1 need hardly say that Trin Wee the place we decided on for our holiday, an' by the time Friday nicht wore roun' we were a' in a high state o' excitement. lf ye had drapp't in that uielit ye wad ha' tbocht we were preperire for a waddine I had the two weans dressed up in their wed clues an' myser in ma new frock, as a. sort o' dress rehearsal, as Rab mkt it. But I'll no' weary ye svi' the oots an' ins fewer than tae say that I didna get a wink o' sleep the hale nicht fur lookin,' furrit tae eel. jaunt. Weel, Setturday mornee arrived, an' everything promise's weel for a gukt day. Sae ail we set for the station nearly an hoer afore the train was to start; for I tel't Rab there wad be that mony folk gaun that we wad need the be there Blume tae get a guid Bate. Noo, ever since that accident doon Barassie rye been awfte frichtit for the train an' I've aye thocht tae masel' that I wad. steer clear o' the front carriages. So the first car- riage I earn' tae, says I, "Ilab, I'm gaun in here." An' in I popp'd, wi' Jeanie in ma airms an' Wullie carryin' the bas- ket. Rab, hooever, svadua come in. He sakl it was ower lang tee sit, an' he wad jist walk up on doon a wee. In a short time he cam' back an' tePt me Jamie Anderson, his gaffer, was gaun tae stan' him a bucket, and he wadna be a jiffy afore they cone' back. But, by jing, an' it was a wheen jif- fies afore they' cam' back. Hoo - ever at last they cam' oat smokin' their pipes, an' glad I was tee see them. If there's ae thing I canna sten' it's pipe reek; so says I, "Jump intae a smoker, Rab, an' get me at Trin." Whit a time we had tae sit. The guard cam' up an blew his whussle an' then waived his flag; then the engin' whussle blew an' I thoeht we were awe', but no a bit did we budge Whit begun the annoy me was that naebody fash't their held unless some weans that stood lauch- in' at us. Wee', I sat till I was sair, an' gettin' angry, keepin' Wullie back fae the door in case he wad fa' oot, whin a porter went past. "Hi, there," says "when's this trein gaun the start?" "Whit are e talkin' boot?"'says he, "The trains awe. lang syne; this carriage has we me yet. An' efter me mein' ye yon been lyin' here a week." "Gracious good- grauvat, tae!" The stalwart speaker shakes her fist at the neglectful swain opposite hem. I fancy Jake will see the wisdom of ris- ing to the occasion shortly. By and by a wee lassie bores her way among the dancers and. clamors shrilly— "Hey, Jean! Come on quick. Feyther's ga,un tae fecht." Jean evidently knows the urgency of the case, for she vanishes suddenly from the quadrille, with the parting injunc- tion to her partner, "Min' an' keep ma place, Wull." By this time the bottle, the inevitable bond of fellowship, is circulating pretty freely on board, and the trek to see the engines is steadily maintained. But Jean's "feyther" is an exceptionally bad case; very few of the thirsty toilers have as yet reached the belligerent state of in- toxication. The greatest good. humor and informality prevail everywhere. A buxom "maw" beside me, who hes been busily distributing `pieces" from a capacious basket, plucks my coat tails suddenly and says: "Hey, mister, ye micht tell Mattha wee Jenny'e rale seek." Alas! I am as ignorant of the hall mark of Mattlia as of his probable whereabouts, but even my stolid eastern temperament cannot resiet the conta- gious sociability of the Glasgow crowd. make tracks to seek out Mattha in the direction indicated, and speedily return with him. His method with the ailing lassie is simplicity itself. "Noo, noo, Jennie, whit wey are ye seek?" he inquires. "Ye manna be seek or yell no' get oarin' in the sma' boat." Jenny revives instanter, and amid the general hilarity of the miraculous recov- ery Mattha's ".Henry Thomson" is press- ed into my hand, with the apologetic murmur, "We're oot fur the day, ye see; jist ,a wee hit enjoyment." Even my unsocial refusal is taken quite kindly, and the bottle finds ready acceptance with another of the group. We land at Rothesay without the staess and strain which we experienced in getting aboard. There is less need for self-assertion at the gangway this time, for, as one philosophic tripper remarks, "Thema' nae fear o' the quay gaun. item' an' leavin' ye." each havira found, Oust which Was boat,— Kilmarnock Standerd. HUMORS OP GLASGOW PAIR SATUR- DAY. "Rethesay and Back for a Shilling." On boare at leet. But for getting in the lee of a matronly female, I am afraid iny spare form would neydr have reach- ed the steamer's deck in safety, for "Bothesay and back for one shilling" attraota the democracy in Appallieg era wds. But the Weat Coast crowds are in- variably good humored. and even mirth- ful and the owner of tlie most active pair of elbows will genially chum bis victiins once the struggle of the embarlsation gangway are successfully over. Directly we leave the Broomielaw a cheer paterfamilias beside me dumps down on my toes the "box" with which his better -half has entrueted hine and launches into familiarities with the us- ual Glasgow frankness. "A'm awfu' licawed A brocht ma wee dug," he confided. "The wife telt me eicht weans wis a gey haunfu' theirsels, an' A see noo she wis richt, We missed the 'Derr boat last nicht. We missed the ime be daehe nee Rothesay fur the week. 0 coorse, we're jist gaun on spec —the same's yersel', rnebbe. But Meg's sure tae fin' a hoose; sbe's awfu' man - glance admiringly at the heroic lady referred to, Apparently the difficulties of the prospective house hunt weiglied lightly on her. She sat tight between a couple of her numerous progeny, her feet on a tin hat box, and a refractory infant on her knee, to which she croon- ed contentedly "Comin' through the Ryese All around are similar happy family parties, on whose womenfolk will devolve the responsibility of negotiating with adamantine Rothesay landladres for the immediate housing of the brood. My sympathies go out to them, as I view the pros and cons of tbe si aiation. May Allah be with them! But, Of course, the friendly shelter of the "Skeoeh" is al- ways available, and "back to the land" will doubtless be the experience of nutny a "spec." tripper before the night is over. And it is all part of the fun of the Fair. There are many pairs of sweethearts, too, among the motley throng, and pre- sently several of these betake themselves to the "neb" of the boat, where, among life -belts, coils of rope and other marine oddments, they speed the lingering hour by dancing to the strains of a concertina, Viewed from the eipper deck the scene is easily capable of idealization. The young men in their new holiday suits do not at all suggest. the engine -shop or the shipyard, which is the scene of their daily toil, and the fair maiden in the peek-a-boo blouses and picture hats might be princesses of romance instead of Bridgeton factory girls. But their speech and their jovial ease of manner betrayeth them, The breeze wafts up such fragments as— "Hist! Jake, ye've niver danced \wince Withal authority in the great lone land, eays a Winnipeg, Man., despetch to the Chicago Chronicle, the Royal Northwest Mounted, Police were organized, and dim- ing the thirty-three yeara of their exist- ence they have covered themselvea with honor and have carried "pax Britannie" into the furthest corners of the Domin- ion—from the international bounaary to the Arctic, from Keewatin to the Pacific Ocean. The blue book just issued by the Government contains many narrativeM told in the usual brief and official etyle, furnished many instances that crime within the jurisdiction of the police will be dealt with, no matter how remote the district or how dangerous the journey. The case of Inspector Clenereux, of Prince Albert, who travelled 1,750 miles by canoe and dog train to inquire into an alleged murder case, of Corporal Mapley, who left Dawson City by dog train for Fort McPherson in the dead of winter by an absolutely unknown route acrosa mountain ranges for a distance of more than 500 miles; of Inspector McGinnis and Sergeant Egan, who penetrated 200 miles into the wilds of Keewatin, whore the Indians say the foot of a white man never before trod, arrested a murderer there for a crime committed more than a year previously; of Constable Pedley, who traveled from Port Chipewayan to Fort Saskatchewan in the depth of win- ter with a raving lunatic strapped to a dogsled, and whom hardship and anxiety of the journey rendered himself insane; of Constable Conradi, who galloped from safety to this help of a settler and his family in deadly peril from a teismendous forest fire, and fought it, singed and ale most suffocated, uutil the greater part of his clothing was burned off him—of these and many other OEMS the report tells with drynesa and brevity. Behind these bald and brief statementa of official aets there looms up the out- lines of •stories of endurance and uneaten- tatious heroism that any one with a knowledge of the country and its condi- tions can reconstruct. At the time the report was issued the force consisted of 54 officers, 650 men, 109 interpreters, guides and artisans, making a total force of 813. During the year the police brought 4,627 offenders before the bar of justice, and of these the comparatively small number of 622 were discharged and 58 were still pending when the report was issued. These cases cover a great variety of crime, from murder to cattle stealing, and the report shows that but a very few offenders went unpunishel. Ars rangements have been made with the new Provinces of Alberta and Saskatche- wan for continuing the force, each pro- vince paying $75,000 yearly toward its maintenance. ness me,' says I, due ye mean the tell me Rab's awe', an' him wi' the wean's bottle and ma purse an' an'—" But oh, I fair broke doon, and the two weans begood greetin.' Hooever, the porter, de- cent chap, .did whit he could tee help us, an' said there was anither train pun in a wee, an' we would be a' richt. Sae, oot we got an' soon forgot oor troubles whin we got intae the next train. Weel, at lang an' at length we got stertit, an' in barely hauf-an oor we were jist aboot at Trin, when suddenly it dawn't on me that Rab had ma ticket. 0 pity mel whit were we tae dae ? Hoo - ever, thocht, maybe the man that liftit the tickets wad as seen Rab, an' so tell't im ma story. "Oh," says he, quite cooly, "that wad. be him that's away back up to Kilmarnock not five minutes ago." Whit were we tae dee? We trade for the nearest sate an' doon I collapsed in fair misery, whin, tee add. tae ma sor- row, Wunie says, "Maw, where's the bas- ket? I want a piece." "Guidness me, wean, did ye leave the basket in the ear- riage?" eays I. "I thocht you had it, maw," seys he. Nae purse, nae ticket, nae bottle for the wean, nee pieces for Wullie, ma basket awa' ae wey an' ma man awe' the ither I Presently the sta- tionmaster cam' up an' ask't me whit wis wrang, an' tell't him ma, story. Ho said he wad get a train up to Kilmarn- ocic in an hoer an' he wad wire tae Gete- head aboot lettin' me pass withoot a ticket ,an' tae Ayr aboot ma basket, an' he wad take ma, naine and address. thocht o' bein' pit in the jail, an' a' things, whin a wunian wi' a wheen weans spoke tae me an' geed Jeanie a sook oo't h.er wean's bottle, an' the hoor paetet, no sae bad. Ance mair into.° the train we got, an'T tvowed if ever I got hame I wad never budge awe' frae Kilmarnock again. Weel, jist as we wee puffin' oot o' Drybrig sta- tion, Wullie, who. wis lukin' oot the win- dow, cries, "Maw, maw, there's paw in that train oat there." I jump't up an' lukit oat an', true enough, there was Rab lookhe oot the carriage window o' the ither erten an' waivin' nie like mad, as if we could jump oot the train an' rin after his yin. But na, na. I wis on the wey Lame, an' Mune I was gaun. But it's marvellous hoo little we ken oor own mind. When we got tee Gatehea.d wha comes intae the e,arriage but Mrs. IiPSpree, that used tae leeve but an - ben Wi' us, an" whin she heard a' the carry on naething wad please her but Glasgow is already writ large over the coast town, and our packed boatel] is soon distributed anions,. the crowds who are disporting themselves on the shore, the esplanade and the public streets. The that She wad gie me the price o' ma bay le thronged with "sma' boats," con - ticket on condition that I wad gang doon taining family parties, the euidinan act - :vele the next train. An' VJul- ing as oarsman to the encouraging ae- lie, sho eat him a faul companiment of "Pie, paw, pu'!" from nervous youngsters. The electric tram route to Ettrick 13ay is specially well patronized. Inadvert- ently., in boarding a ear, I do violence to th brand new yachting MIT of an- other passenger. Uncomplimentary lan- gyve follows. "A wish A had twa welts o' ye on the shore!" But I apologize hastily and name a' that wig in't, an' the geard him. humble, and the hatchet is buried over ser said hp wis ten't it wis left, in the an exchange of cigarettes. At 7,30 we re -embark from a crowded quay, where the Glasgow environment is amusingly prOnounced. I noticed Jean of the interrupted quadrille cleverly engin. o' scone o' her ain bakne that she wis' takin' up tae her son wha wis in ludgin's. Weel, we got tae Kil- marnock, an' I was still switherin' whit tee dae whin I heard Wile shoutin', "Maw, there's oor basket;" an' allure's death, there wis the guard wr the bas- ket in his han'. wis easy enough tae prove the basket wis mine for I could MOTHER'S ANXIETY. The summer months ere an cautious luta sfor mothers because they ere Hens Cackled mark as hi* filipeture to a cheek with eafety. "The firiger prints will be the best identification we could have of a depo*- . jtor," declared. Mr. Neimeyer, of the in Dreams I same institution. "Under the system now in use, when a depositor who cannot write withea to make a. deposit we can +44.444444444444414444.4"0"1"e' identify: him only by his appearance and (N. Y. Sen.) a description we take. We also ask him questiona regarding his family. leut by ruled that Louie liubscli sbould no tenser , e, , The Mount Vern" lk)ard 44 Iielltb• t'44 the fizwer anark test there is little e rance I be disturbed by iale neightber's eilieleoes. ' 01 a mistake . Persona may be They have gentenece a thick and allot of Changed. in appearance by sickness] or roosters to banishment front the city limiee Other eaneee; the lines of the thumb do tied given due malice that tweiity 110113 will not change." With vocal accompaniment, "The ssYtem is being investigated," have to go too if they cannet lay their eggs Trouble has been bre/wing for a long tinee, mid a payinaeter of ono of the large What brought the trotible to a head. h iron Manufaetnring Companies, "and as but tile recent warm moonlight plehts are 1114011 110-8 tad Ouch an exhiarating effeetTell far as we have gone it, has provea satis- the poultry, whice on ordinary dark niget factory. Many of our eni.plOyees repert used to sleep riget through from sunset te that they have never reeelVed their pay. however, the two roostere got into the babit They are BO nearly alike in appearance 3 in Ihe morning. In the full of the moon, of runtime out or tee chicken house every that the Wrong Man is frequently paid few steuutes to have a goed crow. As the Wages belonging to another and in some Hubsch family got their beauty sleep be- tween 10 p. end 7 a. M., the all night their wrath. have been stolen or forged." le D. Raymond, treasurer of the Chi- hebits of their feathered nelgheors aroueed tho entire rise and fell of tlice chicken cem- say% that-theShore & Eastern Railway, Mr. Hubsch yesterday gavo acount of cases, Lake munity. "It was these large warm moon- railways will find. the fin - light eights that made the nuisance unbear- e'er print method of advantage in paying track gangs, where the men are illiter- ate. "While our road has not adopted the new method," he says, "yet it seems to be practical. It already gives a means of identification that cannot be surpassed." While thumb marks as a means of identification are in use in the police department of almost every city, hereto- fore there has ,been no attempt to use the scheme in commercial circles in this countiy, as far as is known. Irt eases where employees are paid by it each man when he goes tO work leaves an impression of his right thumb on a card with his name, The card is filed in the paymester's office. Receipts for the pay cheeks are furnished and when the employee is paid he also- snakee an impression on the 'receipt, where for- merly he made hie mark. In use in bunks, a card. containing. the fing,er impress is filed instead of one with the description. When the depos- itor who cannot write applies for pay- ment, a check is filled out and the de- positor annexes his thumb mark, which, of course, if the cheek is genuine, con- forms to the one on file at the bank. An ordinary rubber stamp is used. The thumb is iaked" and pressed firmly Upon a card or piece of paper. The ims prese shelve clearly the telltale lines, which, advocates of the measure declare, never change from youth to old age. No matter how dirty the hand or what work is done tlm lines never change, as the moisture of the skin keeps them clear.— Pittsburg Gazette -Times. eases We have cashed pay cheeke that able," said he, "but it hed been going en tor more than a year preview', Louis, bring me an umbrella; so. Now eome out here till I ahem you where they keep those chickens," Hubsch detaehed kitten from his trousers; leg, ehook the umbrella at some dogs WhO wouldn't stay on the piazza. stairs and acmes tbe lawnw, weich wee about ten feet wide. "Now do you look through this hole in rspberr bushes," he directed, holding the umbrella so as to suit. "Mat do yo4 000 there, ha? Well, that Is the Mame of O. A. Tier, the well-known real estate man of Mount Vernon. What? You ain't heard of him? Well, Tier, ton years ago, he sold me this house, where I live, and always we live quiet and friendly eke good neighbors end (played pinochle evenings. Sometimee I used to go over there and play, sometimes he comes here, nail about a year ago, What else do you see through the hole in the raepberriee." 'Them chickens you see are what caused the trouble. But you don't see now no remittal's nor no duck, eh? Ha! That is the Beare of Health. Well sir, a year ago, perhaps, when Tier mune home from the country, he brought with him thirty hens, and the roost - era and the duck. And the yard for thorn he made not over there beyond the pear tree, but right here just tee other side ot Mom raspberry bushes. I tell you that noise was some thing awful. Only thirty feet—thirty feet from our bedroom windews. "Well, rhrbt away I didn't say anything. I think to myself—pretty soon, perimps, hat poultry gets accustomed to the place and quietens eown. You eee I don't want any troubles yet with that Charles Tier, who 15 a large Teal estate owner, influential in the towm whose wife is also president of the Mount Vernon Christian Endeavor, and the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. So I keep still. "But it grew soon to be terrible. That duck had no water and he would sit out- side by himself and quack and quack the night 'when he was bomesick for a swipe. eisid the two roosters crowed in the morning to rival each other, back and forth, back and forth! And every hen, when she had an egg runs and cacklee about it, and some- times they cackle at night, too, when I suppose they drearaed about laying eggs, Why up M the room there"—Hubsch pointed Indignantly to the upper bedroom window— "it was terrible, the noise at night, It waa iust like trying to sleep in a hen roost. "So one day pretty soon I got up M Mr. Tier and I gay bim real nicely, 'Mr. Tier, t,he most dangerous months of the I believe I deserve my well earned rest year for young children. Stomach irnootseeersn thci tclumet sowhiperhevyeonlr eh ietkees antd and bowel troubles come quickly tine that I bay° in a month 1,3Sir SIX7MOUngdes." during the hot weather and almost "Then Tier he say he is very much sur - before the mother realizes that there wised; they cannot hear any noMes from is danger the little one may be be- Tuetteickw"ousigorthinviecnathottc.luictkatdhsiosehozoi yoncl aid. Baby's Own Tablets Will can be done. So after I complain to him prevent summer complaints if given some more to moves atter a while the chicken occasionally, because they keep the pyeaserd trbeeackweeroeutittlii:rutyowfeet, behind the stomach and bowels free from of- "But ev'ery night it is the. same thing, just fending matter. And the Tablets about as loud, because he did not move back will cure these troubles if they come le chicken house where they are in the i:.hetnhe Wnolugla: is britgilei t and suddenly. You may save your 3tEighllatOotinnles.hiner child's life by keeping a box of roosters. When the night wasowdarl antl. give ' rainy the duck would grow homesick from Baby's Own Tablets on hand to e rati.t tfalling and would quack promptly. Mrs. Frank Moore, of abler uacicn, Northfield. N. S., says: "I do not ease.4 So I Vent nagt7.1ne Vane: Illeener Pabo inutnnit know any medicine that can equal He said to me, 'Well, Mr. Hubsch, aro you. , satisfied now that I have moved back the Beby's Own Tablets for curing stom- ach and bowel troubles. I always keep nehoittewertih ytag ? re,:io Ibuttoldithe LthatodI sivias mad them on hand. in ease of emergency." i was as loud nor; as tivetore. e n se . whie'l Sold. by all medicine dealers or by mail I "Then he told me he could have made a doon train, an' that it wis men tee him tao foteh up. Sae it was haundit back tim nie, an' I wis that prood that, there an' then I slink Mre. M'Spreo by the imun an said I wad tak' the loan o' eering her festive "feyther" Omega the her slaullin'. Sae intae the train we got, packed throng to the gangway. 11; and by, too, the 'wee dug" trips aimed rather diseionsolately, evidently "wan - at," there being PO signs of the other members of the patty. On the return journey everyboay if possible, a trifle mare genial and in- formal than on the manna* LOA but the hilarity rarely readies a disreputable an" I tan tell ye we shone inado the bas- ket Wilier, esn. we needit it. Weel, oor luck changed, an' proved this auld main', "It never rains but it poure," for when es got back tite Trin who. Was ataunhe on the platform wr an anxioes Ink in his e'e but Rab him - see. .Ate believe he win! even proocler tee see us than we were tae see him, an' ye tan gneiss hoo prood we were. Aff P • Wei geed tem tho share, and nab tell% me Long live the fair, with its aasocia- his etory, an' I ten hint mine, while tions of merriment end relenntion, and Winne an' Jeanie played in the same. may the patient eity toilers reap there. couriell, more than twice as great. Then We went eot for a sail in a mei from all the benefits and blesshing whith They growl in London about aktravea cheek forgeries, Will be greatly reduced, boat, siud 'hue foripot a' or swore, they *0 tiohly deems. gouee.—New York Worid. 14 fact, anyone ould uso ethurob at 25 cents a box from The Dd. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. 4 • FIRE WALICING. A Strenuous Perm Of Worship and Devil Driving in India. complaint about My children long ago. Ain't that a shame, now, to %mak of chil- dren the same as poultry? I tell you I was real mad, and I made up my mind not to stand it any more. I am the confidential head clerk and credit man, thirty-four years with a large drygoods house, and I wouldn't stand it. "So I got a little ditery and in there I kept a record of every time that I am die- turbed by those chickens and that duck. A. largo trench is dug in front of the shrine Here it is, you see; eighteen pages. March —about thirty or forty feet long and ten 31, awakened by the duck at 2.30 a. m. feet broad and two or three feet deep. DIV' Lt is a rainy night and he is quacking gloom- ing the morning this is filled with logs of ily. Later—I got to sleep again at 4.37 a. wood and fagots, which aro set on fire by me I think, but I am not sure of the exact the evening become a mass of glowing, red- minute, hot embers. After dark the people essembla "April I One rooster' started crowing at with torches and tom-toms and music, and 3.42 a. m. The other joins in at 3.43 a. ra. them thirty of forty people prepare to walk 1 bright starry night. The hens began lengthwise over the embers. They are work- at about 4.25 with the morning racket. ed up to a great state of excitement by the Stayed awake until the alarm clock went off tom-toms and shouts of the orowd, and then at 6 a. m,, when, with a, cynical feeling, the whole thirty or forty walk barefooted, I threw my pillow at it. quite slowly, and deliberately, in single file, ) "April 6. Sleep lost this week on account headed by ono of the "pujais." of ehMkens and the duck, total 17 hours. This custom of fire walking is quite cora- Carried forward. April 12, a eat must have mon in Malabar, Kooriche, throe miles from come into the hen Imuse and seared the Telichory, in the direction of tho French poultry for at 3.39 a. in.—Well, you see settlement of Mahe, is a locality reputed for about how they rum Eighteen pages, hal fire walking. Here a famous "pujari" by And a grand total of sleep lost, 262 hours in the name pe Oochatta dwells. He actually fifteen weeks. And here; grand total pounds sits on a heap of tire at an annual f es- weight lost, 22. terse, but is sold to be protected by the , "Well that was before the warm weather. barb of the mom nut, Nvhich is known to When tbe 'weather came that I must have be a bad conductor of heat. At tho village all the windows wide open there was nu of Putinam, thirty-two miles from Tellioh- , h more sleep at all scarcely, and I saw that The Mysteries of Sleep. It is related of a, Chinese merchant who was convicted of wife -murder and sentenced to die by being deprived of sleep, that he was olaeed between guards UNDER THE UMBRELLA. 44++++44++++++44+4++++++++ A eistance of more than three kilonae- tree still separated them from their sumisner Mune when it canuraelitied to ream Signora Susanna looked up, extewied her arm and received the filet drops on the back of her hand and on iaer gime. Then she said to her nepecw, a boy of between fourteen and, fifteen years of age: "Ferrucio, jump over quick. to old Martha, and see if she can't let us have an umbrella for awbile. You stay here, Cecelia, Now, be careful yoe. aon't get the mud all over you." So saying, Signora Susanna opened her little umbrella, and said. to Itee daughter: "Come unaer my umbrella until Fer- rucio gets back. it will not do you much gooa, but it will keep off a little of the rain." "No, mamma," returned Cecelia, "it is eo use for two to try to get under that tiny umbrella." Ferrucio was not long in reappearina, breathlessly followed at a distance a?f several feet by a woman who carried a huge umbrella under her ann. "Wilted you not rather stop .over my house for a little while ?" inquired the newcomer politely. "A shower like this can't last very long, I ant sure. think that would be best, signora. But if you prefer to go at once I brought you this umbrella. it is a poor umbrelt- la, because we are poor people ourselves, but it is the only one I have." "Thank you, Martha," answered Sig- nora Sussanna cordially. "I should be glad. to stay at your house; but it is late and dinner is waiting for us. I will take your umbrella, and let you have it back soon. Thank you, thank you." Ferrucio and Cecelia exchauged smiles as they regarded the large umbrella of the woman whose wings seemed. calcul- ated to give shelter to an entire family. "Everybody arm -in -a rm ! Everybody arm-in-ann?" exclaimed the girl, clap- ping her hands. "What are you thinking of, child ?" re- torted. her mother. "You take my para- sol and Ferrucio will hold. the large um- brella and be my gentleman." This arrangement by no means suited the two cousins whose faces elongated several centimet'res but the signora did not observe it because at that moment her attention happened to be drawn away by the noise of an approaching carriage. It was the buggy, of Dr. Lonzi. "Signora Mellini,' cried t he doctor, stopping his horse and putting out his head from the buggy, "do you want to come into my carriage ? I have a place for you here," , "Really?" ansivered Signora Susanna. "If you assure me that you will not go out of your way on my account I will accept your kind offer. "Not at all. I am going in your direc- tion. And at all events, I would not leave yell out in the raM that way. I am only sorry that I cannot accommo- date the young lady and the young gen- tleman." "The young lady and the young gen- tleman have no objection to walking on foot," said Ceceilim with a smile of con- tentment. And, returning her mother's parasol, she plunged under the ample firmament of the red umbrella. "This girl will remain a child. until ex- treme old. wee," remarked her mother, freeze nu their veins. as she was ficiped. into the carriage by "Don't even say it, Cecelia!" °jam - the doctor, and, turning to- the young latecl Ferrucio. couple she added: "Now, don't f 1 - so° "You would really be grieved if I died? "Oh, what terrible la,nguaget" be *an- swered ,turning his humel eyes upon of your cousin. 1 intrust her to you.' her. Dr. Lonzi shook the reins over his In answer she pre.ssed his hand gently. horse's neck and he started off on a run. "Did you hear?" said Ferrucio, with an air of importance. " You are in - changed. hourly tor the purpose of pre- venting him from seeping. After the commencement of the eighth day his suf- fering was so intense that he implored the authorities to strangle, guillotine, burn him, drown him, garrote, shoot, quarter, blow up with gun -powder, or put him to death in any conceivable way. Natural sleep has been defined as mental rest produced by an appetite resulting from fatigue. But the ides. that mental rest means mental inaction is hardly tenable, inasmuch as it quite frequently happens that the solution of unsolved problems is the first thing to appear in the censciousness on awaken- ing, and. thus the mind must have been operative while asleep. It is commonly supposed that the greatest depth of sleep occurs about the end of the first hour. This, however, is not invariably the rule according to my own observations in the Cook County (Chicago) Insane Asylum, made some years ago, when I spent two successive nights in hourly testing the depth of sleep by light, sound, and touch. A. ma- jority of the ten cases I had under ob- be at about 3 aan. More recently Drs. trusted to. my care. Now, then, respect servation showed the greatest depth to for them at the g t f bh il ved at witheuet vnoltils,'Iwngheirts. the bad arri - a ° 0* Santo de Sanctis and N. Neyros, at the and awe in the presence of your super - University of Rome, tested the depth of Mr! Do you understand?" "Aynd now," continued Signoria femme- slee in four normal persons. by pros- "Ohl"exelaimed Cecelia, "what a sure upon the temple. One of these formidable cavalier. I can push you allowed the greatest depth of sleep in into that ditch with one turn of my the second and fifth hours, while the oth- hand." ers showed the greatest depth between "I should like to see it," answere'd the first and second hours. Feriae), irritated at this reflection on Talking in sleep is more common his manly strength. , than is generally supposed. Armstrong "Will you attempt to deny, peashaps, and Child ofund in two hundred. stu- that I am at least two imams taller than dents, between the ages o ftwenty and you are?" thirty years, that forty -ono per cent. "That is a calumny. We haven't of the women talked in their sleep, and measured ourselves this fall." most of them could answer questions.— "No, not this fall, but lest fall." Harper's Weekly. "There is the rub. You see, I have *• is grown in that year and. you have not, Must Be Taken Gradually. at least not in height." This allusion to the anatomy of his (Boston Herald). cousin seemed to him such a stupendous me a piece of audacity that he regretted it Invite a fresh air fiend. to sp ery. in tho Sava e, ' It Was now or never. so L circulate a nieht in the foul, fetid air of a Jamaica before it was well out of his mouth, and midnight, in connection with the worship of we, the residents of a respectable and gp , fnoegro hut and he would. be dead be- he blushed and lowered his eyes. the village deity, when the "puirtri," who to date community, shall not bo forced to re morning. Reverse the process and , For a moment the girl remained in weird ceremony 'is performed annually, at tition to the honorable board of health 'that Pe - goes by the name of chamandy, throws him- enudro these backwoods, farming eonditione invite a Jamaica. negro to spend a, night doubt as to whether she- would Saugh or self incessantly on a heap of fire, about six of life'—there you can read the copy—and - ng gale blowing through • grow angry, RO she contented herself feet high and fifteen feet broad, until he in the braci tho four opan windows of a fresh air , S,vith murmuring between her teeth, is able to knock every fagot down and level half a dozen of the neighbors signed It with fiend's domicile and before mornjng he 'Booby!" me, though they had not kept a diary, and , would. be on fire with lung fever. Just I of a rope is fastened to his arms, rwhile the did not live so nee% anyway. I the same with theology li:y way of a , some other year," said Partici°, satis- "Well, we will settle this account the whole heap with tho ground. One end 4.`1 +should say so. ens I unlit have a bump on my forehead," "And L too, here," ‘‘My poor little Cecelia!" oried, Eon' roeio. "Don't laugh so," oaki Oeceellin strik- ing up a come attitude ot alarm. "Ai you shake the umbrella too neleb, it wial start its funny tricks again and will shu.t up." "Oh, horroral After all, Cecelia, When I mane to thin.k oit it, it wasn't such a bad trick the umbrella. played On, lee was it?" Again Fennel° thought that he 0 - lowed himself to speak too rashly an, he flushed red, Cecelia darted him a glance in ninon there was it world of •Unconesieus co- quetry. Then disposing herself to rem - late mood she intid: "Came now fist vs walk the rest of the way like reisPectithle people." 6he passed her arm througit that of her cavalier and drew herself op againet him as closely as poseible. "Teat la the way," elte saki. "Now I ,will have my whole body under cover," Ferrucio felt a kind of uneaeineas, a discomfort that he had, never expert- enced before• but that discomfort wag so delicious thal at that moment he would not have exchanged it for anything else in the world. And Cecelia, inclining her pretty bead toward hit, spoke to Mtn as she never had spoken to him before until that day, as one speaks not to a boy or playmate, but to a young man. who ean be taken into one's confidence, to a friend. Seeing himself finally treated AS an equal by a young lady almost fifteen and a half years old, and so very pretty, Ferrucio was beside himself with joy, At first he Wits confused and embar- rassed, but gradually his tongue was un- loosened, and he began to speak with warmth and an unusual enlphasia, How many tbings tha two cousins said to each other under that umbrella! e'hey recalled the time of their ineancy when they lived in the sante eity and passed many hours together every day, quarrel- ing frequently, oceasiottally abso pulling each other's hair, but never able to re- main separated. Later the families went to live in different platiee and Cecelia and Ferrucio remembered 'how bitterly Obey wept on the day of their separa- tion. Yes, they wept and ,wept, and swore that they would write each other, but ine asmuth as they were then scarcely able to make strokes with their pens thew was no ,possibility of keeping their prom- ise. But in the fall Ferrucio carae to pass his vacation with his uncle and aunt, and continued to do so every year. For Cecelia this was the please -littlest season of the year. It was true that there was an interval of considerable cooling down when Ce- celia seemed to be bent on becoming a steeple, while Ferrucio evidently had snade up his mind to stop growing. Then she reallsr looked down at him. Basta! But now all this humiliation was at an end, and Cecelia failihfally recognized that Ferrucio would not eut a bad figure at her side. But whae a pity it was that they could not welk armen-arm the whole year round! , The two cousins passed into pathos, Who knew what the future had in re- serve for them? A eeties of disillusion- ments, perhaps premature death. Bra The very thought of it made their blood around, but go straight home, Ferrucio, you are the younger of the two, but you are the wiser, nevertheless. Take care rhas sentimental conversation wits in- terrupted by the ,sound of votes. "Eh, children, why don't yen hurry?" It was Sign.oria Susanna, wh.s waited id tl me out so mail from other end is seized by two Mayall low caste And yeaterday t o Board of Health de- bint to missionaries. No matter how foul if c sav lig co men, who oull the "pujari away each time he rushes on the heap of fire. Two women roosters and the duck must either be taken and murky the atmosphere of tradition - at the same time, with brooms bring the away or get put to deetht, and the hone if al surrstitions he has hitherto breathed fo. ote together as they aro knecked down they cackle too much when they lay eggs it evi I never do to fling open all at by tho "puled" and endeavor to restore the must either bo sent away or bo killed also this embarrassment. "Wthat amount?" "What, that about niy stature." "You will get to be a regular Goliath, him. The wood is the "puum," a hard jungle already; if they killed them or sent them te orice every door and window and think drive him out of his snug bed with `‘I dare say. Now here, you stupid lel- . heap of fire as it is being dismantled by . The roosters and the duck have disappeared whole heap is levelled with the ground tho hens continuo I shall got a, .policeman with a blast of cold, rational truth. It will low, can you or can you not hold that wood of the Malabar forests. When the to the country I don't know. And if tha "puiari" brings the ceremony to a close. a warrant Is) go in there and put an end to either knl him or he will kill you. famous umbrella decently." —sess•-•. Tt, INVA an undeniable fact that Fenn - memory is still green, had a great name TELL-TALE THUMB. cio managed the umbrella rather awk- wardly constrained as he was to walk Khaza Prabhm a popper merchant of Tel- theme." liehery, who died a few years ago, and whole of tho devil and was a great f ire cater on his tip -toes in order not to appear hero for curing people arho were possessed to boot, Ho believed ho was often sum- smaller than his cousin. To make mat- moned to the Sri Lakshmi Narasinaha temple No More Cheque Forgeries—Signing Re- thTell,oyouirianginciatnhsei:fneienroinaanexecy. In the open tors worse, the wind was so strong that to incarcerate many devils that was troubl- lin Smith; his thumb." That ex- 1 hundreds of people, they . . e Mg the people of Tollichery, and every loose "J° will plant a seed in the egrwouhniedh it to grow into a tree the top of out of sight and by climbing nanwbdholihl.:Silli now on one side, now on the other. "1 an'Yi gg si,' ting a showee bath on my by the diety of this shrine to cure people troubled with the devil. Imre he was wont a I-, ceipts With the Thumb. Some Tricks. (Chicago Chronicle.) ' 1 b • .11 earried stones aro granite slabs, are generally three antiquatea eerm, "John, Smith; his disannear into the clouds, to reappear from r,g1 t id » remarked ceedia. basket and run a Mord through the basket Timy will shut up an attendant in a wicker rude. stone one notices in the temple orecincts pression according to information secur- human body •and imprisoned by him. Theaa represents ono such devil driven, out of the ed to-da'y is likely soon to supplant the behind the inagician. s And I on my left," remarked Jecr- to five feet long and rest against a wan or "Will you let me try?" said the young lady, "Let yon have the umbrella?" "Yes, for five minutes." "I guess I won't." "Come, be a gentleman." "I tell you I won't." tut Cecelia, who Was obstinate by nature, aia not wish to yield, and. at. tempted to conquer by Sorce ,what she could not alo by kind, words. bhe began to pull it one way and another until the umbrellas which did not have a very solid spring, closed up all of a suddeit, eatehing the heeds of the two contest- ants as in a trap. When they finally Sueceeded see - opening it, Verrucio hal his hat cocked on one side, while Cecelia was altogether in a state of disarranpment. They were both dripping, wet, inmost as if they had just come out of a bath. "It is your fault!" cried the girl, "you , savage!" "It my fault, isn't it? 'Wm it not you who------" At this point, however, the humor of the eituation overtook them, and the two eousins looked ectelt other in the face nna laughed with ail their might. 'That was it fine blew you got Oh rout 1%4," tree. In the temples of Malabar there are sev- eral deities, but the number must never ex- ceed thirty-nine each. At Audaloor village, three and a half miles from Tellichory, ono of the village deities. Davdtha batman by name, committed atrocious ains and the other deities pulled out his tongue, and An- garaltatain and Ilapperan, two warrior del - deities, drove out the other deities from the temple, allowing only tiny number less than forty to dwell in any ono shrine. From thee date Angarakaran, the 'warrior, carries a long eWord, Bappurali beare a sword and a shield as well, and they are the prin- ciple deities worshipped during the cere- mony of fire walking. Some of the minor deities aro etutisupendalvyam lehandhakar- nan and Kuttlehathan, but all such aro not oropittated excepting Vassurymara, the smalls oox god; Chammidy, who puts devils into human boelea, and Illi and Makal—the ble- ther and her two children of the jungles— who smite maple with jungle fever.—Froln the Madras Liftmen; Magazine, • e Debts of Two Great Cabe. Tlie het debt of London is $225,00,- 000; that of New York was $421,557,114 last Noverriben no budget of the Lon- don County Council for one year is $50,000,000; that of New York, including some costs not borne in London. by the mark. Officials of the paymasters' depart- ments of steel and iron companies and other large industries in Chicago, where many foreigners are employed', are con- sidering the installation of a finger. print syetem of pay checks. Instead. of making his mirk .on the payroll the ent- ployee, if he cannot sign his name, leaves an impression of his right thumb as his receipt. Fred. Neimeyer, paying teller of the Union 'Trust Compar 18 also lin vestigating the method, as a substitute for "X" signatures of depositors who cannot write, says the Chicago Newe. The Illinois Steel Company, it is un- derstood, was the first large, Chicago eon. cern to investigate the new method, af. ter the •forgery of several theitsam dollars' worth of their pay cheeks sev- eral menthe age, 'When the employee's thumb- mark is required on cull pay check, forgery, it is elaimed, will be made impossible. "The means of identification of depos- itors by their thumb marka will certain. ly prove to be coneluaive," said R. P. Chapin, seeretary of the Union Trust Clompanyn "MA as the marks of no two persons' thumbe etre alike, keg fr011e. in every direction until the blood of t o tendoot all runs out aud his dying screams have ceased and then take him out of the basket alive, unscathed and smiling. Varying the teat somewhat, they svin place tee attendant in a eoffin, and bury him M the ground for two weeks. At the end of that thee the crowd of people that saw him interred will meet again at tho grave. The magician will then open the grave and the oeffin and present his ettendant to the spec - titers in as good health and as eheeerful as eny of them. na, "do me the kindness to explain why you keep the umbrella, open. It is twen- ty minutes eince it stopped raining." "It has stopped raining!" exclaimed. .Cecelia and Ferrucio in great surprise. "Yes, of course. Have you been wan- dering in the clouds? I am not eurprised at Cecelia, she never knows where her head is; but you, Ferrucie, shame on you! And in what a horrid. condition you are! All muddy from top to bot- tom. "Walk up quick and change your dress, and then come down at once, to the table. You, Ferntcio, give this um- brella. to Menico and let him return, it to old Martha at once. For all the it has done you might as well have End'e without it." "No, mamma, believe me, it was xery nice under this umbrella," said Cecelia, me she entered the house. "You little rogue!" rwhispered Werru- do in her ear, as he caught up tiegide her at the doon—From the Italian of Ernie° Castelnuove in Current letera- ture. Sophisticated City Pigeons. While loitering in Madison avenue the other day I stopped to watch a cab hors* munching his noonday meal. He had an oat bag tied to his face and on the street about him a number of hungry pigeons were gathered. Every now and then the horse would jerk up his head in oeder to secure more oats, and this act on the horse's part scattered oats over the street, which the pigeons quickly gath. ered up. At last the horse had finish- ed his meal, but the pigeons were still hungry, evidently. There was no more oats in the street. How were these birds to get the equine to jerk out mere oats? I waited to see the result, for the pie - eons looked appealingly up at the horse. At htst one pigeon, bolder than the rest, svalked directly M front of the horse, and flew up into his face. The horse, naturally, frightened at the mid - den fluttering, jerked baek hin head In a scared manner . This had the desired effect, for it :spilled snore oats into the street. The aeccess of this manoeuvre caiouns.ed the pigeons to repeat it again and again, and in this way its companions secured and enjoyed a relishable eella- 4- Plays Whist at ioe. Mrs. Luey Ripley, of West Wrenthitn, Mass., is visiting her nephew, Edwin Cook, of Social street, Woonsocket. Mrs, Ripley is a remarkable woman. She is 100 years old, having attained that age on June 8, and still retaitts all her Wed - ties. Mrs. Ripley went to Woonsocket lasit Saturday, inakieg the trip alone on, tbs electric elks from Weat Wrerithtett. /nit Saturday night in a party of lour she played whist without the aid of ewes, !ma in other ways impresied those pre- sent. She refuted to talk ebent Isere*, aaying that a, woman 59 'twig es &• feels has no right to be distbseridebook abore others. Pro's -Moms Tributo. .„