Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 40, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 December 1908 — Page 9

DOG’S DAY IS OVER AT LEAST SO THINKS ONE WEARY PILGRIM. . I ; 1 Writing In Tribulation and Sorrow H Recounts His Sufferings and Consigns the Whole Race to Perdition. •'I have come 'to tli’cbneltision “-said- • the weary pilgrim, who was in a shocking* humor, “thet this world j would worry along some bow if they wan't no dogs. ’Course, long ago they had their, uses, though I ain’t never . had no use fer ’em. “The monks-of Saint Bernard kep’ a lot of big dogs one time-, an’ named th’ place’ in' honor, of th’ beasts. An’ the monks would send them out on bad nights an” try to lose them, but alius some tourist, ’ud find th’ stray an’ lug him back home. Each dog carried a little barrel of booze on" his collar an’ in that way made himself pop’lar with total strangers. Thefn days air past now. They have moved th’ Swiss Tyrol to th’ Chicago amusement parks. So th’ dogs, bein’ out of a job, air no more use to nobody. “Oh, 'yes I alius hev a dog about. But from greetin’ him with shoe leather an’ profanity every time he make a plumb fOol of hisself I'm wore to a Bhadder,,. An’ every time .1. am—hn reaved of a dog by some blame dog thief I vow 1 Won’t never hev another. \But it neve- ain’t very long till someone els.e sticks me for a thoroughbred pointer with a pedigree made on th’ spur o’ th' moment. “I brought one home th' other night and put him in a nice box- of straw. He waited till I was abed and then he set. tip th' worst lament, you ever heard. I went down an’ shut, him.,in th’ barn. Three minutes later I put him in t.h’ henhouse. Xo ' good. He was back under th’ winder recitin’ th’ works of Edgar Aallan Poe as .per several times previous. Then 1 went down an’ turned a washtub over thet pup an’ set on it. i lit a pipe an’ held down thet wailini monster fer three hours. Then th’ ol’ woman head outer h’ winder an’

I nevAr thought of that. It worked fine. “They say a dog is man’s best friend. Thet's all right, but you never kin tell which mam I bed a „ large freckled kyoodie once—thet would run th' grocer hoy off th' place, chase th’ new minister up a apple tree, scare th' wash lady into gallopin' conniption fits an' then escort h frowzy tramp tip 'to tii’ house a-waggin’ his tail plumb uT>.to his-ears. I got,, sore et thet dog when lie halted me one night an’ jus’ wouldn't lei me come anigh th' house. I -got an armful of paving stones an’ hed bust two holes in th' kitchen wall w'en i discovered in th' most natural way in Hi' world diet th’ dog was liehind. me chaw-in' my leg. An’ only thet mimin' the brute lied let a bill" collector walk right, into th’ house “Yes, sir. th' dog bes outlived his usefulness. Alt dogs has, from th’ bow-legged bulldog to. th’ monkeyfaced pug? Doggone the doggone dog'’'' G. \ Thompson, in Chicago Dailv News. ’

A Favorite Resort. Marienbad. whither King Edward goes for his- annual “cure," was almost unknown a century ago, It was virtually discovered hv Dr. Hehr, who published a booklet in 1813 describing the marvelous results upon patients of bis who bad been drinking the waters. But Dr. Nehr recommended that all invalids repairing to Marienbad should take their beds with them, because no accommodation whatever was then provided in, ?uch a. sequestered-spot. ~ Matters bad not much improved in 1820. when Goethe visited .Marienbad ajjd drank rile waters, for he'wrote to aTrfeii'.T " I r.vHoFtr T 'Wetm In ' the Ajnerlean solitudes,'-where, the forests are cut .town 'o build up a city within three years.” Nearly 20,000 valetudinarians now annually make pilgrimage to Marienbivd Dundee Advertiser. — —" ' First Universal Language. One of the earliest and most confl--ftetrHat l oini>tfe-io-eskabHsh2&-on.i versa;L| language' on the' lines of the moderj) Esperanto "was that of Sir Thomas Uruuhart. wlio in 1G53 issued his “introduedion to- a universal language which for variety of diction in each part of speech, sin niounteth all the -languages of the world.’,' An expect apt ' public was bidden to look out for subsequent vulnuTes. but they never .ar J -ri-V'd .4i.frl.mii Wilkins who nourished j about 'be snmb period, bad his own i ideas labout a universal language, but. j they did' not mat-t’Hnlfcd?. He was' an optimist fit' the first degree,-and was j firmly convinced that it would be pos- I ST) til- tir-comumtrtcate with the - moon,l --HvmedifrS of flyiiiu machines, | —; -Q ~-"r- < :;:y- ---,. .—_ Not Charlie's.. Gum. '"Vow. rfia.rl.ie," said thd'sweqf-faced little. woman. “be forty you come into gJ-hnidavr don't vou —think it ' would be Tifce to-take’yciitr gum .out of youi mouth?” ‘Yessum; but it ain't niiii’e, it's my ; - "**- ’• The Size of It. Daggir (reading. the'morning paper) ' —l see that a knist, has <i grip on the South' African^mlnes, '.-and that ft ds - ■likely-the price of diamonds will go * * up. _ ■ Mrs. Daggs—\\ nat a siiamSl How do-these monopolists expect ua poor . folks to live? , -I

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s£ek treasure of lafitte. Its Hiding Place Has Been Pointed Out in Dreams of Ghosts. Since, the French privateer and smuggler, .lean La fine, sailed the high sea- brought bis treasures to the gull coast and buried them now and ilieu it happens that some sensation arii*‘s as to their inmied-iate whereabouts, says (lie Houston Post.. 'I hiiiv four ,Veins 'ago llit*, pirate of - Th r- gull', i-7alAu-. .q'as.called anhgaj.~ ihi in a* dream to Dr. Beazly, and, rather roughly taking, him by (he collar, told hint to co,me with" hint and he would sliow him where there were gold and silver-and diamonds buried. T}ie doctor in liisnlream followed his midnight visitor 'Mini he directed him , id a cori<Un" place in the collage,-.which was t(jen the Beazly home and occupied by the’ family, and designated the spot under which lies the muchI taikltd-of .wealth of Urh privateer. The doctor, having the*sanredreatn repeated twice in (be same night., -be- [ eiime wide* awake after Lafitte'a third i visit and much ifiterested'r"‘the result ! being that he. did, and perhaps, too, ! very- shortly, afterward, begin .digging I’ under the house in pursuit of the I treasure. i | ' After getting to the deptjj of four ! or live feet lnt.found nothing of any j moment except-a very unusual stone in this part of the world, where nothing of its kind was ever peon here. Had he kept on possibly the treasure might have been found and the restless spirit -of Lafitte, wherever it inay.be, might have been released from this burden (if secrecy, a burden from which, seemingly, he wished to

he relieved, as another visit has been made in the same house, and this time in a dream Lafitte appears in the f>ro3once of a: lady, urging her to get the lost jewels, gold and silver. After all .those years Dr. Beazly hasat last consented to have, someone else who believes in. the undertaking joiii. hint to .find tile treasures, and they have made arrangements .satisfactory to all'parties concerned and now, in a -short* tilife, Mr. McKay, a banker at La Porte, being the associate mentioned, will begin operations to find the snrfys stowed "deep down under tlr old house.

tlons in his Lqndon town house,” said a New York MficOrator, “were opened to a few of us during our summer convention at the South Kensington Museum. "Among Mr. Morgan’s treasures there was an old .book-that I liked for it's quaintness. This book, which was splendidly bound, was Hoptoun’s ‘Concordance of Years.' It was a ehrohob .agy..of : and-lvcopied. a few of these events down. We have .none such now. Listen.” The decorator then read: 1116. The moon seemed turned into 'bloodc. ' 1128. Men wore haire like women. 1233. Four sunnes appeared, beside a true sunne, of a red cViloure. - ‘ 16.3 L Fiends were seen speake unto ■men as they traveled. 1401. A red birde with a girl’s head .seen thrice in'-'-Loinlon. 4 4-77'. A blazing star on Palm Sunday near the sun.

From Prehistoric Days. The burial place of an adult, probably 'oTTbeTfsTone Age, was excavated in the island of Tiree, one of the Hebrides. The body had been placed- In tlie smallest, possible compass, on its light sMtt with knees drawn up to th-p.-chin, but rather breast downwards. The relics around and upon the skele ton are in liantiony with the theory, dedticible from the position-in. which the body had been placed, that the burial belongs to a-'very early period. The condition, of the bones and the relics is so gflodtlfat they could be -readily set up in a -museum in the ■ original position. Discoveries . have also. de recently -In the. IklaiidL >i ('nil An important fin’d Svas* fha7~ of a set of 3fi'sinall. ftp ply -mad o Hint—implenients, -probably. ’ of'.„the Bronze age. The objects include one -of the most beautifully-made flint arrow* points, of a type more common in Ireland than Scotland. x He Was Interested. ?lt was so nicy of you to see me home," she said. "I. hops the trip has not been very tiresome to**you.” "0h,.n0. not at all. not at all,” he replied: - - "In fart, it has been rather interesting.” ~ - ■—-gjfau eanmd. know 1 iiiW-'Clml 1 . ijuu“ ■ have made me, 110 you really mean it, Mr. Wovt-hwad- ' 1 shall lie delighted to have you. call a't any time. Can’t yuu point; over to-morrow evening? I it-11 tile first- timed Tver saw .yob"that Wn'-'Were tleoliuml. t n jjci -111 11 c - "Excuse me, Miss .Oldtin-. I am afraid vriVi didn't quite’" finders!and. I have .*i*n:ir 1 the trip interesting because I ■ | -i’ bad. lie- .iini: ’ foolish a •xei l i ■'ciue'ilts in—Gt-e - trolley cars-ecu iiiti- way. I find that the ’car's irre’ everTrimrs--fiiiiii:' . the rhymed oijes which the advertis>i's have, goniposecl themselves.” .Stenographers' Secrets. Stenographers will be interesied in uitmni., de.uU-um in- New...V-ofTo Uv,,. Ajiijeh il was'decided, ilia! a 'sio.iifjg- ■ may mit b'. ■: - - .-11 ..... ns -. 1 lie kic uv -..■■■■ aid 'lid < undo? or'_s business'.-A yWdg lady in a brok-', er’s office -wad summoned to t<-II wiui'f • she- knew - about .if- by a ri val broker. Her .employer sued, for an' ifijiinetion..bjlt tli*‘ justice detlioil .the injifnetion. ,Very few"jgirls would wiHingß beii-'a v . any confideppe. however, unless comfilled to do so. , .

IN TOILS FOR FAIR RESULT OF A PROPOSAL OVER THE ’PHONE. ' v. Wljy Bangs Is Not as Joyful as an Accepted Man Should Be—Answer Not From His Adored 0 One. . -BaagiL beautiful blush lighted up Mrs. Prunes’ boarding house on every occasion that sentiment was under discussion. You h-i;, Bangs was" in love’ love was in Bangs; it. penetrated his whole system; he saw and felt nothing else but love. ' -.- Bangs hadn’t fallen in love; he.had risen,, and now' he was at the top notch; he was balancing on his-toe on the top rung, and be found it quite hard to maintain his balance. Yet he was a cool-headedf young man—except on the love proposition. Josephine w-as her name,, and It was enough to hear Bangs pronounce it I to know that he loved her passion.; j ate]}'. j Among other drawdiacks which kept I Bangs from declaring his ' love was that Josephine had a molli'er. An austere woman, she wasn’t passionate over Bangs, because Bangs s;is only a drygoods salesman. Her husband hat 1 been a plumber before Josephine's I mother got hold of him and made him raise the price and keep it, there. Several times she bad snubbed him, i and Battgs—went- as cheerfully to her j house as one does to an icehouse in I winter. | One nighL himself up and -was about to-pitch into a pro posal, when, suddenly, soft 1> V - with a swish of skins, .fosephin'e's mother, entered the room and :+nt down. .be tween them. The hot words froze in his mouth, while Josephine's mother was gazing -passively tliroii vli her lorgnette and.•looking at him as -she would Kav. studied a water color in | an art gallery.. It was all off that night. .Ban: knew it. Again, in- tried “to siTp'.ui a word' W j two of lovd edgewise—but no —Jo 1 sephine's mother was there X knriw when se e

sat behind his” 'Counte'r figure a way out. A" light broke sir'denjy upon him.’ ,Rpshing eagerly to .the 'phone, he called Josephine's houses "O. I’m so . glad it’s you, Josephine. Don’t interrupt me. I’ve something to say and 1 must say it quickly. I love you. Josephine, I love you. Will you marry me?” . . lie presstiti, the receiver .to his ear and listened-Intently for her soft, cooing "Y-y-y-es-s.” Suddenly he slammed the receiver down and looked about like a hunted animal. " \\ oil. I’ll birr blamed.” he gasped, as soon as lie could. “I—l thought it was -Josephine and, there, it was her mother. What'shall 1 do?” Ail Bangs did was to blush and bite his finger nails. In'fact, that was about all there was left’ for him to do now.

Island Home of the Jews. Elephantine .is an island of the Nile, where archaeologists are finding an | cietit curiosities. A sort of sanctuary decorated with miniature obelisks and j covering'-a spot which was used for , i burying the bodies of sacred animals . : was found. These animals proved to |. he ranis carefully mummified and" | buried in .sarepphagi of granite. The ; wrap pings of, the niunindes are gilded | qti.id ornamented with painted scenes of a mythological character and bear inscriptions. The ram was among the : sacred animals of Egypt, and seems to. j have'- been' .especially saoTrd—-fyi—the-] j principal deity of the island. Maui ' .fragments o! texts liave been- found : Tln.d ..axe. inscribed upon pieces of ■ “7ii r'v" 'aid k uo'Vvii "as” nkitaTir i insei'-iptiuus -it re -in.' hieroglyphic,.' Cop--1 tic. Greek and Arab. They show .that ' as far hack as the fifth"oenffiry, Bi | Hie, island .was inhabited, by Jews. | j Papyrus,inscriptions had proved this i. fact, but the new discoveries, show jusj what quarter belonged to the Jews. 1 According to the records, a Jewish , temple must have existed in this locality and now is being looked for by 1 the in vesflga toi s. ! , —'-77- r- : ' • ’I Time and Sex Have Changed, Men nowadays are ashamed -ah- j iwicl at el v .t.-li'an'i d —of tendering to i women tny of tlie—little delicate at j i tentions aiuh courKisies that ' in' .the ! nasi endeared them lo womanhood. A I man now raises, his hat to a -.woman, j j riot as a tri.bui h” to the sex, a sign o-l. | ; resp'ecT and observance, but min e . as. ' ‘tin- enforced 'fulfiliment of an ii ksinm | ' duty. Where are. the graceful curves; 1 and Ifniifyishes "of 'the hat, the " . bail;, the deep how and cmirtjy- sun!--df ri i■ seventeenth, nay evtuf tie- • i rti: eeiiili century? Tiien it. was" aph > i": to ineef'n*}nan in the street; one ieltone's sway of sex. Who is now iircihv ! to acknowledge a hideous sfiiirk nnd n g!.tiil’gimr_ touch of a hal hi iin ' -Eondon Judy. I-■ ' , ' ■ . " •• -1 ..7 Justifiable-Inferences, ■Eai-tner Paster-Jot (tuscussifig ’"or- | a.tu; e- w it-h t-he itew. -hoarder) Th-t-' • ■ Wiiz one linnk t.Bet mv son 1 i I : JjT ; a iit'uuj. of, when t’ bu n till - .j . atifiut swattin’ an' biflir' ail' hiA“d —’, ”()nK ofthose fe" ; fpaiices, I ' presume. ‘ ■ Do you recall wliere the scene was laid? " *, ;We]]^T took it l7hc 4 Jersey s’nry. ; from the' Vitimy of-ii,’- Twuz called ‘Tlie Thiee Vl.uski etci s *. Puck, , 1

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SNAKES SWAYED BY TUNES. "WedriTig of the Green” “Boyne Water” Another. There are some residents of the soho section o*f BellevNle, N. J., who are said to believe tlijs story, which is being told there, says the Now York World. Mrs. P. P. Scully -was hanging !clothes on the line'in her yard when she happened to whistle a few bars.pfher favorite air, "The Wearing of the Green-.” To her amazement a whip snake glided from the woodpile near by, halted and seemed fascinated by the music! When Mrs. Scully ceased whistling the snake vanished in the wpodpile. ‘ • On her husband's return from ? the copiier works, where he is 'employed, Mrs. -Scully told him how unwittingly : she had played snake charmer. . “There are others,” laughed Scully, and he went to the yard and whistled “The Wearing of the Green.” In a few moments the snake appeared and seemed greatly -to enjoy Scully’s wind music. Since then all the Sctiilys, young and old, have been whistling to ' the snake, which has become quite tame.' 7 . , . ... . . Recently James Ryan, a native of | Ulster, moved near the banks of the Morris canal and next' door to the Scullys. Ryan was cutting grass in his yard Saturday when he chanced Ito whistle “Boyne Water.” He had heard of Scully’s snake and so was hot surprised when a whipsnake appeared. ‘You’re a nationalist reptile, but I'll make you dance to my music,” exclaimed Ryan. Hearing the tune the angry Scully strode from his house and loudly whis tied “The Wearing of the Green.” Out from the wood wriggled a whip snake as much like the other as are iWo blackthorns of the same growth The snakes attacked each other fierce iy. Scully and Ryan were about to pitch into each other when their wives in tervened. The snakes doubtless would have fought to the death, but Scully grabbed Parnell's tall and Ryan seized \Y ill ia 111 of Orange's Jai 1 and • they* tore the snakes apart. One made for the - woodpile. 'The other crawled under a ' small sired.

the sturgeon fishery in the Fraser river was an important industry. One million pounds of fresh sturgeon packed in ice was shipped east, annually, A ■ very considerable amount of sturgeon roe was shipped each year to Europe, to be manufactured into caviare. The steurgeon then almost entirely disap peared from the river, and only, a few —barely enough to supply the local demand —-were taken. The disappearance of-this fish has been attributed--to overfishing. During the last half of July the sturgeon have appeared in large numbers. Nearly ail are small and would easily pass through the stiiisoon nets, but a vry large ninnln• have become' entangled in the salmon gill nets.' These, are supposed io .!■" is; in !■ to Hie 'water' in. all • eai !',:(! i-liey have not been killed. i n-lei ibe law and the regulations tf*' no sturgeon under four fie-t in length, nip,' ii ■ sold in markets here, nor shipped abn ml. The tisliei men have, therefore, no temptation to fail to return to the water all fish under this -length which they have not been obliged t.f kill to got them out of Iheir'uets. Oik- night recently a sturgeon eleven feet long, weighing-more than 500 bounds, was taken In a salmon net.

The Frogs. Proceeding with my studies of’nattire l could not le-lp hut be struck with the idiocy of the fFogs. .They .-.were much a jarined- by my approach, j. and leaped frantically, but instead of I leaping away from me they leaped | J .toward, me, many i[f, them, and even : ;.. ahaj.rcJ;,.m.ev-... ... .............,, There was one.frog especially, who. J in the niost fatuous manner hiiHed \ r-hHftsrlf- against mv legs,xt;puiit.e.diy.::-• 1 "Whpar.e you such a fool.?” ! asked, i at length. - '‘That is eas;i> —answered,'’ reidied - the frog, with admirable courtesy. “You are perhaps not aware of what j -4c nevertheless: a fact., that American ! "TrogsT'with 1 UFTxcT.'ptttiriW j 1 families in New Jersey, arc descended I [from the frog who would a-wooing go, : whether Ws another would let hini or [ no. lii; Q’ther words, our idiocy is . ' here'llhary." p■' ig- n-Tint '•KmgiH!t-'i-r^-i4rd‘.' "•; Thr Home People. 1 MDSt 11I' "rts 1 '7iirah'l' i -.rrTTt"iTTTgln—to find ; in our own l.iousVlmld miiehmore 111:111 |; we look lor, It is. necessarj lor tliosj- i I who would live happily ■ together ’(hat ! ! fhey should try to show- their best to ; 1 dne ■'another. ~ ’■ They Simula t.lYh l, ireßt j . of their’minds. -All; th ings should he * in- common. Every pleasant pleasant experienc’d, whether it be of books or of life, ought to be shared. Existence is maintained at a much lower level of happiness than it should be, simply because those who are bound by the closest natural ties do j not know how to make’ each other I happy—grudge the time that should. I. be given to the arranging of the soul. ! —-(Jlaudhis Cleas. , 7 A Substitute. The Buxom ItcPo.. \vh ; v do s ilw> tattooed man run ,about Hie stave at, 1 every performance"’ _ Tlie Tihv Tot —The manager a'rier- - ■ - . ■ 6, 1 : tistd nun ing .pictures. . u-nd > -emarafus didn't an if-',—lia'; .-r.'W W - "v

EFFECTS OF DRUGS ? VARIED VISIONS FOLLOW USE OF MEXICAN MESCAL. Feeling Throughout it One of Enjoyment Alternate Delight and Despair Attend the Indulgence in Haschisch. ■"An tsarimanfQr with the-. Mexican drug mescal is rewarded by many andvaried visions. Before him flit myriads of dainty butterfly forma; -glistening, iridescent, fibrous wings of insects, revolving vessels on whose highly polished concave surface of mother-of-pearl many strange and vivid hues play. There are elaborate sweetmeats In endless and appealing variety, and living arabesques of gorgeous hues and superhuman design. He may take up a pen for the pur_pose of making notes, but will, find himself unable—ttmise—iti A pencil, however, proves easy of manipulation. As he writes his paper Is covered' with a soft, golden light, and hist hands, seen indirectly, appear bronzed, scaled, fantastically pigmented and flushed with red. Tiring of the visions, he may light the gas, which immediately fills the room with a glorious radiance, while wonderfully colored shadows of red, green and violet flit here and there. Generally, it is. said,,no feeling of depression or physical discomfort follows the dream, A medical experimenter in Kentucky,. soon after taking a large dose of haschisch, began to feel very excited; a feeling of finer joyousness possessed him; all fatigue seemed banished forever, and his mind ran riot, one bizarre idea after another rapidly passing through his mind. 1 .at- r his brain "S?'-med split in two parts, one of which urged him to the performance of' comic gestures, • while the. other as insistently hinted, an impending death, and suggested restraint -and instant medical-advice, \Virile waiting for a doctor he experienceq alternate spells of lucidity, . H-mi p-udods when-aiL-connections, be.tween hims’eif and the outside world . "seemed to’ be *severed, when a chaos j of. disjointed - ideas and wild reveries 7 obses^K im. The limatlon of these

appeared a hopeless "ttTslT to follow tlie minute hand of- his watch during its infinite round: long before the 60 seconds had elapsed he gave up the stupendous task in deep despair. • The departure of the doctor synchronize;) with the return of the feeling of impending death, now most horribly intense. He imagined himself surrounded by grotesque, menacing, . cruel-visaged .monsters. He felt himself expanding. dilating, dissolving into space, as tie ascended steep precipices, covered ; with Brobdignagian creatfires somewhat like lizards, overhanging enor- : mous abysses, the' while he was overwhelmed by a horrible; rending, unut- : terable despair. The Habits of Wolves. The range of a pair of wolves is an ! area of from six to ten miles square. When the hunter learns that wolves have been seen and heard in a her- j -tain loealiu: it, may take,several days , of scouting before the dogs can be got on the trail. Tlie hunter must look sharp for signs in soft or sandy places _anfl ajong creeks and streams. —The—old ladv wolf will, as a rule, j go to the nearest'' water to drink { when leaving the den, or go to get ! a ’drink as she returns from the hunt before going to the den, and its locality is often found on account of liiat habit. A wolf track can be distinguished from that of a dog, because the two front toenails are set further ahead, making the track more | pointed.. When .wolves are running | and especially if frightened, these toes j spread .apart, making a track that at .a. hasty, :xlHceJuks ..very, imuch .1 i ka,- - i the. track of a deer—Fur NeWs> ,* ." ——— .1 In Shakespeare’s Time. The big yellow "moon climbed abovS | the .trees, —--Re -ean-fui-. -Romeo,” cautioned the~t fair Juliet, "if hears you there ■ will be trouhle." "But what ohfection has he to me?" I .———— ----- 1 'said •k'o’nieo. somewhat piqued- ’’Didn't you tell him 1 move in the-best of society?" a "Yes. dear, bm ho insists that you are only a climber.” And then anil there Romgn.decided to cut out the balcony scene and make J .love out uti the lawn.

New Answers to Old Question*. Restaurant. Patron —What is good to-day." Otto 0 ; Waiter- Nothing, sir.. The table 4'hoth is a .rehash, of yesterday’s menu, and tlfe a •ta carte has been -in the.icebox since 'Uhiirsday. lint von can getosHfHP-nice chops and stealsup at Smith's case . Going, sir? Good day, sir. Puck. Awkward Mistake. Mrs. UpmoreGnvaking a call)—Why, this is your latest i)liqto_g?aph, isn't It? It’s an excellent likeness .Qf -you, ■hut it isn't so? bahy. Wasn’t he — ** . . Mrs. ilyghmus—'Bbe idea’ Did you think, the little darling in mv tap, was baby?. -That’s Fido! , ’ Had Only One Think. ..Mrs. Benham —Second thoughts are Best ' . . e genham-rT/know, it: I thought only once when I asked you to marry me..

BEES .MAKE FRUIT GROW. 7 * Honey the Ltast of the Profits from Busy Insects. Honey producing is only one of the missfons of;the bee. Indeed, for actual profit, the is’but a minor item. Some years ago I moved to a small place up the Hudson river. I wanted a bee farm and selected for that purpose a spot among apple, cher'-y and plum trees, some of which had never borne fruit, others none for years "past -- YTylandTonTt (imne T7iiT£tlimrt“ down certain trees, as they were worthless, and he intended putting out some-fine nursery stock. Being busy I did not cut the trees down. They blossomed freely and of course we paid no further heed to them than to break blooms by the armful when we wanted floral decorations.

The cherry trees were, much to the owner’s astonishment, loaded with very large, perfect fnllt. He could not understand it; such a not happened for years. Early in the autumn while waiting for a swarm of bees to I observed a number of fine apples upon one of the smaller condemned trees. When the landlord’s attention was called”to them he was completely mystified and called in his neighbors to see the wonder. f* Later we gathered from this tree • nearly a barrel of the finesj. full plppins ever seen in that vicinity. Nb argument would convince the man that “them pesky bees” had anything to do with the yield of fruit on the place. He insisted that some sort of fertilizer must have been used. Since that time I have demonstrated by scores of experiments that trees which had for many seasons borne little good fruit,,or possibly none at all, ..liaYe been brought .uliTqYrhigh-gtand-aril of producin'! by the presence of bees: They carried the pollen, fertilized the blossoms and a bountiful harvest was the result. Regardless of the honey crop, every fruit grower should have a few -colonies of bees. If when the hiooni season is past there is so little nectar in rrrijtseason fiouVrs ihat the bees must be fed it is a decided economy to feed them, as in cases where a strict account lias been kept Hi eCash vaiue of orchard products alone has §0 -i„gjgtntij-e.—Suburb-

No Fences in Belgium. In beautiful Belgium there are no fences. Neither are there hedges, as in England. The boundaries of the fields are raised up by fairly high | earth banks, and the roads are cut j I out of them,, as it. were, so that when j 1 you are walking in the country you I are down in a sort .of valley, with low j green banks on either side of you. j The things that are chiefly cultivat- j . ,ed in Belgium are tlie beet root, for \ making the cheaper kind of sugar, you know, and you can see field upon field of their reddy-green . leaves j stretching on either side of you as you walk along Flax is also much grown over, there, and in summer time the fields are such a pretty sight when the pale blue j flax blossoms are out--in full bloom. ‘ ! Belgian asparagus is .also renowned J all over Europe. It-has white instead of purple-green lips, like.our home- 1 grown asparagus! Women Who Write at Home. About one woman in 100 keeps up heir, nyiaid after marriage. although they may have passed years of their own time and spent many dollars belonging to their fathers in study. The number that drops off in art is eyeri .greater, but writing has a fascination difficult to resist. A great deaFor the writing done by women comes from homes, morp or less comfortable and happy. Much of it is the’ kind not easily duplicated and it would be nonsense to compel such women to forget their talents. .Many a son has-been . . fitted for Alia life wyii-.k’ by. the ability . of his mother to earn money at a steady- rate. : Holland’s Queen Domineering. Holland’s queen, Wilhelmina, has exalted notions of her royal authority. She is said to interfere in a most personal way, with the conduct of Thatch, . foreign relations. She looks upon the Dutch' colonies' as, in some sort; tlie private appanages’ of the house of Orange. Her prodigious personal popularity 1 - with . every class of her subject s saves her from- some of the consequenoe's of her unconstitutional tendencies. —-—> —-- —•-

Mount McKinley’s Difficulties. over the climber usually arrives fresh and unfatigued at the base of the peak Ini wishes to storm, and as.a .rule begins his ascent at a high altitude. On Mount McKinley, as described by a writer in Outing, it is the opposite. There are 2? miles <d rugged foothills and glaciers to he crossed —with -■heavy- packs--- before the base of the—mountain is reached, and then the climber is confronted by 18,000 feet: df rock and ice. , Surely Heated. Blobbd- —He’s a hot-headed-indiyid-, ual. isrr’jt he? - Slobhs —riot-headed? Why, that fellmt is."so hot-headed that he- has to w-oar a - stove-pipe liat in midsummer. And Yet. They Make Fun of Them. ■Mr: .Foggy > Londo.n —What. causes '.tlie (feli.ghifully clear weather you' ■havi>-in Xew York? ' ■ Mr Man liattaa- Skyscrapers, dear boy. —Life. •*

WAR IN THE DESERT WHERE TRIBES MINGLE, IN . FIERCE' CONFLICT. Traveler Describes Scenes of Carnag® That Accompanied the Conveying of Caravan Across the Vast Waste of Arid Land. Lieut Boyd Alexander describes an -hTrirfriTt "0 f l 'Trarrfl-trr t nva-r- *' Previous—to my work ,t*n Lake Chad I had the ..-fortune—tq~ witness -a . Tubu raid upon the Mecca caravan. At that. time the Vo districts, wept- in a most unsettled state; natives went about fully armed and only traveled by night for fear of the Tifbus," who. were on tlie warpath. These people are the nomad robbers of the Sahara and lead a c,amp life. Armed with long spears and mounted on small, quick ponies and camels, they cover long distances, concentrating suddenly when a raid is contemplated, afterward to scatter and hs quickly disappear. Many of the lawless .Mobbur are their worthy allies, , acting as spies and sharing a portion : of the spoils. While the last great Mecca caravan was traveling through this country, escorted by the kachella of Yo and his horsemen, it was heaV- | ily ambushed near Bulturi, a two-days’ march from Yo. The Mobburs opened j the attack by flights of poisoned ar- : rows,'“"while the Tabu horsemen ; charged on the flanks, cutting off numi bers of the flocks of the caravan, i which spread over two miles of road and numbered 700 people and nearly 1,000 cattle. “With the loss of 12 men and 30 horses killed, the kachella, who had f eight Spear wounds, with his 100' horsei men, kept the enemy at bay and un- ' der the protection of darkness brought i lie harassed ctmtvan into Bulturi, where for five days the Tubus hemmed it in-. On thd fourth day th® kachella managed to get a runner through, to me. and begged me to I come and rescue him. Accordingly, with all the arrow men and horsemen i could muster at. Yd, I reached Bui* uiri in time to relieve him- At daybreak we move3 out. of town, prepared : to tight our way back to Yo. It was j . splendid to see (lie kachella, a man 'j "over six feet —In-height, mount his I horse and receive the homage Os his

Tffvrir,nr,. ■aM shook their bows at him; then th® horsemen, clad in cloaks ornamented with patches of color, upon horses dressed in thick arrow-proof coats, came on in line and raising their i spears. above their heads formed | round him. "For nearly two days a running fight ensued and the caravan toiled painfully along, enveloped Th the dust of charging horsemeYi. It was a picturesque sight. Whole families a were there, driving their flocks and carrying with them all their worldly belongings and their,. children, perched on the backs of bullocks and camels. Among the pilgrimage there traveled pale-faced Fulanis. Jiusas from Sokoto, • handsome, dark-skinned people from Melle and Timbuktu and many ntallatus. or priests, turbaned and and clothed in white, walked, calm and heedless of the danger, incessantly telling their heads. When close to -Yo the Tubus. cleared off and the kachella’s warriors concentrated and advanced past me in a long line toward the town and then the women and children crowded round the king, asking the news. All night long the hours were broken' by the waif of women calling upon their dead; men to return.^ The First Bareback Rider.Riding on a broad pad strapped on riding >is comparatively new, It was no longer ago than 18ul, on the Fourth of July, that E. B. Washburne’s circus, playing in Boston, was packed to suffocation by the announcement spread broailcast. v tliat, Vin’ that “particular 'day " for the first time in the-history of the world, a man would ride three times around the ling standing upright on. the bareback of a galloping horse! The rider, Robert Almar, actually accomplished this feat, and also he cartied an American flag, which he waved, thereby arousing tremendous enthusiasm. Contrast that with the present when there, .are scores of riders who can turn a somersault on horseback, ,A clever boy can be taught in about, three days, to stand up on a horse and ride around the ring.— Everybody’s.. , . !.

New Walk Adopted. | Notable is the way tlie modern girl T 1 s^aTTvTng7TFTsMId^TTRnTt _ inrx _ ‘*fath'er~ | tired slouch,” and it is the fitting complement., of the costume slie wears. This is what in Paris }s called the "petit -costume d’homme,” consisting | of a shrtrt, scant skirt, a loose halfj fitted coat, nvitlr & diower run through tliu buttonhole,, and a tiig hat worn on (‘ the hack of the 'head. Wherever one '.sees this combiitaiinn one seek also ; the gait seemingly induced by it —a | sort of devil-may-care slouch supposed- : iy Mmitatiye of the easy-going mascu- ' line, ‘and far fromToyely or alert. ■ * 1 Unfortunate Choice of Words. ' The earnest reformer, after much ■,:pe rsieffort, had rounded up an au-" dleiTce- of j,Uphqes, and tdounted the ! platform re address them # “My friends.” lie said, with his most engaging smile, '.'in the present crisis in-affairs a situation presents itself—” i . . p.ut here his auditors vanished. .They didn’t know what the situation | but they knew they didn’t wapt It - : • -- t ■