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NUMBER NINE IN MYTHOLOGY.

ROUGH RIDERS.

What a t.^rman Profraiior Ilaa to Say of

Thrre Tlmra Three.

It is not often that a single figure has enjoyed the distinction of being the subject of long study and investigation on the part of a German university professor. Hut "The Number Nine” is the title of a long and learned article in a recent edition of "Am Urquell,” by Prof. Reinhold, at present rector of the University of Berlin. "In early times,” writes the professor, “the first uneven number (3) and its multiple (9) were considered of especial importance, likewise all numbers which contained 9. Heathen philoso-

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the Southwestern Plains.

The wild steers are brought upon the grounds Itefore the spectators in a herd and rounded up and held by the raqueros near the judges' stand, says the San Jose Mercury. Three judges are appointed, two timekeepers and a tlagmun. The contestant, mounted on a thoroughly trained horse, is stationed at a point twenty-five yards from the flagman. When all are ready the vaqueros single out a steer and with a yell such as only cowboys can give they start him across the line by the flagman at break-neck speed. Just as

THE GUILEFUL SMUGGLER. '

A STRANGE CASE. How an Enemy was Foiled.

The following prnphlc st, foment will tic rr:ul with intense interest: "1 lanuot dcsorltie

legends of nations, the religions of modern peoples, all go to prove the holiness or sanctity of the number 9. In ancient Germanic life, in poetry, in religion and law, the number 9 is met everywhere. It still has its influence in German customs and German belief,

thi' numb, creepy sensation t hat exTstod in my In the Scandinavian mythology we find arms, handa ami legs. I had to rub and beat groups of nine walkyries, nine dises,

nine giant mermaids or women of the sea, nine mothers of the god Heimdell. nine virgins of the Menglod-Kreyju and nine dwarfs. In the middle ages nine heroes were usually grouped together, as is to he seen on the beautiful fountain at Nuremburg and the llunse salon of the Cologne city hall, in the poetry of the fifteenth century groups of uine arc favored. Proofs of this are to be found in the festival plays, Nos. 3S and 47 of the Keller collection, and in the poem: ‘The Nine Poor Wanderers' of Huns Sachs. There were nine judges in Icelandic and Germanic law, known as ‘the nines.’ In Lucerne there existed until IT'J.I the nine men who sat in judgment on ordinary police cases. Nine children were formerly looked on as the idea) number !< >r a family. * * * Kven animals are named in old tales in groups of nine. In a German fairy tale

phers, or Christian mystic writers, the he passes the "dead line the flagman

tboio parts until they were sore, tooverrome in a measure the dead feeling that had taken possession of them. In addition. I had a strange weakness In my hack amt around my waist, together with an Indescribable 'gone' feeling in my stomach. Physicians said it wascreeping paralysis, from which, according to their universal conclusion, there is no relief. Once it fastens upon a person, they say.it continues its Insidious progress until it reaches a vital point and the sufferer dies. l>uch was my prospect. 1 had been doctoring a year and a naif steadily, but with no particular benefit, when I saw an advertisement of lir Miles' Restorative Nervine, procured a bottle aj»d began using It. Marvelous as it may seem, but a few days had passed before every lilt of that creepy feeling had left me, and tliere has not been even the slightest Indication of Its return. if now feel as well as l ever did. and have gained ten pounds in weight, though 1 had run down from 170 to 137. Four others have used Hr. Mites'Restorative Nervine on my recomendation, and it has been as satisfactory In their cases as in mine."—James Kane, La nuo, O. Hr. Miles' Restorative Nervine Is sold by ail druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct by the Hr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind . on receipt of price, il per bottle, six bottles fort."), express prepaid. It is free from

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swings itis flag down as a signal for [ the cowboy to start. His spurs no j sooner touch the horse's flanks than he is off with a jump and rapidly catching up with the steer. A whirl or two of j the lariat over his head and then the | noose darts out and neatly drops over | the head of the steer. This done the rider draws the rope along the right side of the animal and reining his horse bo the left, at right angles to the course of the animal, brings the rope across the hind legs of the animal. The rope is then wrapped about the pommel of the saddle and all slack is taken up. Throwing his weight with the horse from the steer, the animal's head is drawn around to the right, his hind legs crowded forward^ and almost as quick

as a flash he is lying in a heap. This operation is usually performed

so quickly as to he an entire mystery to the steer as to how he lost his footing. By a little strain the rope is slipped from under the hind legs of the steer up to the front legs, which arc then drawn in front of hint and close to his head. The rope being fust to the pommel of the sadtlle. the pony is set back on it. and. bracing himself, stands

nine birds quarrel over the wishing' as firm as a post. The rider leaps off,

TR7TINS OF THE Missuri'Kansas&TexasRy NOW UC.N SOLID BETWEEN ST. LOUIS ^ HOUSTON, GALVESTON ^ SAN ANTONIO THE OLD RELIABLE ROUTE via HHNNIBKU IS STILL CONTINUED WITH WAGNER SLEEPERS and CHAIR CARS from CHICAGO TO ALL PRINCIPAL POINTS IN

i "lock. They say in Tysol: ‘When nine ! parents meet there is a witch among j them.’ We also find nine a favored j number for those people who make a ] sacrifice of human beings and animals.''

SACRIFICES TO THE SEA.

Mystic Kltet* of Indians In Propitiation of

the Great Spirit of the Waters.

To the adventurous globe trotter who has climbed the rock path to the sailor's church of Notre Dame de la Garde, dominating the I'hcnician port of Marseilles, the potent influence of sacrifices and offerings for perils passed and to come must be no old story, stirs Lieut. J. 1). Jerrold Kelley, in describing "The Superstitions of the

Sea." in the Century.

There is a pathos, even for the worldly. in the quaint ships and galleons, in the rusting marlinspikes and shattered tiller heads, swinging to the mistral, in reverential offering before the shrines. These graces after danger, these insurances against evil to come, circle the world. No people have escaped the influence of such hopes and thanks. Our Indians were fettered by them, and no ceremonious offerings were more common than those which went to appease the angry Spirit of the Waters. On the upper tributaries of the Mississippi, the Indians, with occult rites, gave tribute of tobacco from a beetling cliff to the Great Spirit of the River, and to the winds that smote the waters with blasts from the caverns of the jealous gods. Algonquins in the north, Aztecs, sons of Atahualpa and Marco Capac, in the south—all blew incense out of their pipes, and strewed upon the currents and tideways just such offerings of tobacco as, in our more subjective days, we give | with lost meanings to the minor gods who rule the man's hour in our feasts.

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A DOLLAR IN THE WALLET. It Is an Influence That I.ends a Charm

to Life.

The stars they shine serener ami with greater luminosity when a fellow isn't struggling with his impecuniosity. The lofty sky is bluer and the meadow grass is greener, and the ills of life are fewer, and our life itself serener; and we feel a glorious courage and the fates cannot appall it when we feel the solid hacking of a dollar in our

wallet.

Oh, the quiet air of twilight is more brightly luminiferous, and the incense from the flowers is more sweet and odoriferous; and the zephyrs blow more sweetly and our food is more nutritious, and we're conscious more completely that our breakfast is delicious; and we feel that life's no fizzle, as the pessimists misenli it, wnen we have the satisfaction of a dollar in our

wallet.

All our woes are less appalling and our joys are less ambiguous, and all life’s happy meadows are so lush-like and irriguous; for a glass of pure, cold phospha tastes as sweet as balm of Gilead, and brown bread is like ambrosia Horrior tells of In the “Iliad;" and we feel that life's a poem manger what the cynics call it, and we feel supremely blessed with a dollar in our

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STRONG MEN OF OLD. In Good Old I>Ayi) T/iere Were Loin of Ilrawn and Miiftcle to He Found. Philip, count of Kirchberg, was so strong that he could drive a nail into the wall with one of lifs fingers, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Spaniard named Pedro, who emigrated to Naples in 1555, drove nails into the wall with his forehead. Potowka, a Polish colonel, mashed horseshoes with his hand. Valentine Einsiedel, count of Schwarzenberg, and Curtof Leutzow, a Mecklenburg nobleman, did the samp thing with ease The latter could carry a tun of wine and throw silver coins with such force against an oak tree that the edge imbedded itself in the bark. Frederick of Hazstein, who lived at Limburg in 1303, could lift an aum (forty English gallons) of wine and

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and in a moment is binding the feet of the prostrate steer with a short rope which he carries about his waist. This done, he signals to the judge, and time is taken from the drop of the flag until the contestant's signal is given. After the cowboy throws up his hands he is not allowed to return to his steer. No assistant is allowed at any time. Often when a heavy strain is put on the rope it breaks and horse and rider have a hard fall. Should the horse fail to keep the rope tight after the rider leaves him the steer is very liable to regain ins feet, and it is quite frequently the case that he makes for the rider the first instant. It is always a case of skill and nerve against strength, and of the thousands of stockmen who are earning a livelihood in the saddle hut few can tie a wild steer down without assistance. The best time in steer tying was made by Charley Meadows at the fair in Arizona in 1888. according to the territorial rules. He accomplished the feat in the very short time of fifty-nine seconds and in this the steer was given one hundred yards start. Doe Gordon afterward tied a steer in forty-eight seconds, but with a

fifty-yard start.

Tailing-down is the funny part of the cowboy tournament, and always creates merriment with all. The wild steer is given a good start, and in this event it is generally desired that the animal shall be a little hostile, perhaps killed some fine colts and caused little folks to walk around a quarter section of land in order to get home from school. He comes down the track on a lively run. and just as he is thinking about turning on the cowboy and horse and bluffing them out. the cowboy reaches out and grasps the steer's tail. By a magic twist and pull of that appendage to one side and then letting go suddenly, the steer seems to lose his equilibrium and falls headlong, sometimes rolling completely over two or three times. As soon as he recovers his feet he makes a plunge, with head down, at the horse anil rider nearest, hut another cowboy has ridden up in the rear and takes the irate steer by the tail, giving him another tumble. Three or four falls take the vim from him and the steer slowly wends his way to the herd, a reformed bovine.

AN IMMENSE ROCKING STONE.

The Htranite Discovery of Two Strolltne

Kiigliithitien In the Sclily lutes.

An interesting discovery has been made in the isles of Seilly. The famous logan, or logging stone, within a mile or two of the Land's End, has been one of the sights of West Cornwall for many years, and thousands of tourists have, under the direction of the local guides, been able with a slight exertion to set the heavy mass of granite in motion, so evenly is it poised. But the logan rock is put entirely in the shade, says a late London dispatch, by the discovery at Peninnis. St. Mary’s, Seilly, of what is believed to be the largest logging stone in Britain. Its existence was disclosed quite by accident. Edward McDonald and a friend were strolling around Peninnis when a squall of wind and rain came on. antj they sought shelter by the side of an enormous mass of rock. While leaning against it Mr. McDonald fancied he felt the rook vibrate, and an examination was made with the result that the two young men found that by their combined strength the mass could easily be made to move. Some time was spent by them in proving their discovery and measurements were taken. The rock is pyramidical in shape and of the following dimensions: Mean breadth, 11 feet; length, 19 feet; height, 21 feet; circumference, 55 feet, and 08 feet over all. It contains 4,389 cubic feet, and is estimated to weigh about 320 tons. It has since been visited by a large number of persons who have confirmed the discovery. It is remarkably well balanced and can be put in motion by one person, the momentum continuing after the power has lieen withdrawn. It lias been called the McDonald logginw stone A simi-

A Content of Wits in Which the Won ah Usual. It was the lady of the hou.se herself who answered the bell ut one of the palatial residences on Woodward avenue, says the Detroit Free Press, the housemaid living engaged in peeling pineapples for preserves. “What do you want?” she asked of the person on the doorstep, an impul-sive-looking man with a roll of rugs under one arm. "Nh,” said the impulsive one. “Not so loud. I’ve got some rugs here that I will sell yon for a song—only you musn't let anybody know.” “Why—are they stolen?” The person made a speaking trumpet with one hand and whispered in a sepulchral tone: “No—smuggled.” “Come right in,” said the lady, and she ushered him into the hall. Carefully closing the door, she invited him to display his wares. He did so. and as the rugs were spread out on the hall floor their dainty richness filled her witli longing. "You tire sure they were smuggled?” f>he asked, in an anxious tone of voice. "Certain sure, ma'am.” he answered. “I smuggled them myself and you can have them for five dollars apiece, which is less than half what they would cost you at any store in the city." "Then that is all you need, Robert,” she said turning to a gentleman who stood in the shadow beneath the stairs; “the man admits that he's a smuggler, and all you’ve got to do is to report him ut the custom house.” The person with the rugs turned pale. “For Heaven's sake don't do that, ma'am," said the man. "I've got a sick wife and four small children at home who are dependent on me for bread. Take the rugs for two dollars and a half apiece and let me go.” "But my husband is a custom house officer,” she said, "we can't let you go." “Have mercy,” he pleaded; "take them for two dollars and a half and say no more about it.” “Justice is inflexible,” said the husband; "I must do my duty.” "Call it two dollars,” moaned the self-confessed smuggler, "and spare me.” The husband and wife communed apart, the latter evidently pleading for the poor wretch. At the end of their conference the money was silently counted out to the smuggler, the door was opened and he was permitted to go. And the next day when tnadame priced the same kind of rug at the stores on Woodward avenue she found that they would have been dear at a dollar apiece.

SWISS OPINION OF AMERICA. A Lund of Strange Extremes, Nonsensical I'rtile and Keekless Money Hettlng. A well-known Swiss writer, who visited the world’s fair and was then forced to remain here for some time on account of illness, has joined the long list of foreigners fur whom “America” has been a favorite subject for “dissertation.” In a recent issue of the Neue Zuricher Zeitung, one of the most famous Swiss journals, under the headline. "What Is America?” he wrote: “America Is a land compared with which Europe is only a peninsula; the United States form a country compared with which the European kingdoms arc pygmies. America is the land of unmeasured distances and dimensions: the land of dollars and electricity; the land where the prairies are more extensive, the rivers mightier, the waterfalls deeper, ttie bridges longer, the lightning expresses faster, the catastrophes more terrible than in any other country in the world. It is the land where in a single railroad accident—and one occurs every few days —more people lose their lives than in Europe in a whole year. It is the land where the houses ore higher, the "jailbirds" more numerous, the rich richer, the poor poorer, the millions greater, the thieves more during, the murderers more shameless, the educated fewer, the teeth more generally false, the corsets narrower, the diseases more deadly, corruption more general, * * * the summers warmer, the winters colder, the fires hotter, the ice thicker, time more precious, t he men more nervous, than in any country in our pastoral Europe. It is the land where the old men are younger and the young men older, the negroes blacker, the whites more yellow, than in any other place. It is the land of immeasurable natural wealth. In short, it is the land of extraordinary contrasts, of strange extremes, of nonsensical pride, of reckless money hunting, of senseless craze for gain—the land of the colossal and the pyramidal—of course, in the opinion of Americans. How many have gone from our peaceful home to the land of false hopes to seek riches, fortune and better life, and have been lost—either in the gutters of the great cities or the sands of the prairies? How many have been glad, when poor and deserted and Ifroken in heart and soul, to sail back to their native land?”

Had Them Fit her W ay. In his "Recollections of<a Virginian,” Gen. Dabney IL Maury tells of an old lady in Fredericksburg who was reduced to taking in hoarders in order to make both ends meet. On one occasion of peculiar stress the larder was so empty that the good lady tixik to her bed and summoned her servant. "Nancy, ’ she said, “there's notlpng in the house for my boarders to eat except mush. But give them that. If they are Christians they will accept it in resignation and thankfulness. And if they are not Christians, it is a deal too good for them.”

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