Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 July 1897 — Page 3

TRAMP WITH A HOBO.

TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY'S EXPERIENCE WITH A PERIPATETIC FREE LIVER.

Tramped Three Hundred Miles In Vagrant Style With the Cork Legged Jfaa—Episodes In the I«ives of Those Who Think the World Owes Them a Living.

This is the history of the nino days' pilgrimage of Wesley Douglas, who is 10 years old and bos seen the world. From New Haven to Binghamton he traveled, 300 long miles, iu the company of a man -with a cork leg. At Binghamton he fell into the hands of the police, who'telegraphed to his home and sent him on in charge of the trainmen. Ho was met atjJtJieHoboken (N. .T.) station the other evening by hia etepfather and taken back to New Haven, a very sad faced and apprehensive young traveler. "You're a nice one, aren't/joti?" was the stepfather's greeting at the train. "Running oway like this and frightening your mother and sister half to death. They're at home crying. What do you think of yourself?"

The thoughts of Wesley Douglas were too-painful for words. He dug one grimy fist into his eye, wabbled it about a bit and made indeterminate sounds in his throat. By the time he got on the ferryboat he was feeling better, and he proceeded to a relation of his adventures as follows:

As I was out spinning ,top on Spring Etrcrt Iir.lf block from our hons8, a man came along kind of limpy. He took me by the hand and said: 'Come on, young one.'^ •. 'Where to?' I says. 'With me,' he says. 'We're going traveling.' "First off I thought I'd yell, but there wasn't anybody around to hear. 'What's the use?' I thought. 'Besides he might lick me. He's bigger'n me.' We went along, the man going limp, limp, pretty fast and me most running sometimes to keep up. Bimeby I says to him: 'What makes you walk so funny?' "'I've got a oork leg,'he says. 'Wait till we get away, and I'll let you see it. You can stick pins into it.' .... 'Won't it hurt?' I says. 1 'No,' he says 'it's cork, and it ain't got no feelings at all.' "After that I didn't mind going with him. Bimeby we stopped, and he let me stick a pin into his cork leg, so I knew it was oork, but the other one wasn't, 'cause

I stuck the pin into that by mistake, and he was awful mad. We caught on to a freight train and went on to Bridgeport, hiding around in a lumber car. It was kind of fun. The man with a cork leg he «ays: 'You're my kid now. If anybody asks you, you tell 'em that.' I'll treat you all right, and you'll get enough to eat. Can you sing or dance or do a turn to make a little easy money?' "I told him I oouldn't sing or danoe niuob, but I could do a turn. I thought he meant turn a handspring, bo I threw a couple of good ones, but he laughed and said he didn't mean that. I ain't sure where we slept that night,, but I guess it was a barn. The cork legged man had money, and we had a pretty good breakfast. He asked me how I liked traveling. I told him I liked it all right. 'We ain't got money enough to travel In a sleeper,' he says, 'but the president of this railroad's a friend of mine, and he's going to send a train through tonight for us to go on. So we'll just loaf around here and then walk down the road a piece.' "We walked till I got tired and then •Tested. When it began to get dark, we caught on a train, but the train stopped an awful long time, and when I woke up a brakeman was going to hit the oork legged man with a club. 'Don't hurt the kid,' says the cork legged man. 'Hit me, but don't hurt the kid.' "The brakeman put his club down. 'Is that your kid?' be says. 'Poor little devil!

Well, go on get eut of there.' And he gave me 10 oents. 'That's what you're for, kiddy,' says the man to me. 'You'll be a good pal. We're bully old hoboes, yon and me.' 'What's a hobo?' I sayg. 'I an,' be says. 'I'm a hobo, and we're on the alrouit, you and me.' "So we went on, and next night we slept in New York. It was a great, big room, with lots of men sleeping in it, and the bobo said it was the Bowery. There was railroad trains running by the windows all night. In the morning the man in the next bed says to the. cork legged man: 'Hello, 'boI Where'd you pick up the nipper?' 'He's my pal,' says the bobo, 'and we're going to pad the hoof down to the old barn.' 'All the boys are there,' the other man says. 'What can the kid do? Going to learn him a patter?' S 'Time enough,'says the cork legged man. Then he took me out in the street and took out 2 cents and held 'em in his hand. Every man that came by he says: 'Please give me 3 cents to take me and my boy down on the elevated.' "Folks'd look at me, and most all of them would give him a nickel or a dime.

He said there would have been moro if I hadn't looked so chipper. One man gave him a nickel and took 2 oents in change, and the hobo swore just like ho did when I stuck the pin in his wrong leg. He got a good lot of money, and we went over the ferry. He called it Jersey. We walked out into the country and got another train, but we got put off that. I was awful tired, so we walked slow till we oame to a place where there was 100 men, I guess, like the place on the Bowery, only it was out in the cofintry. He said it was the old barn, and the other men were all hoboed, and I was a hobo and their good old jpal, 6osomo of 'em patted me on the back, and they gave me a good place to sleep. Next dny a man the corked legged man called Joe oame along with us. We caught a ride on a wagon, but most of the way we walked. Once we came to a house, and •Joe says we would ask them for something jto eat, but the hobo, he pointed to two flat rocks set on a fencepost, and he says to we: 'Now, you're a h«w30, and ybii want to know the hobo signs. That means there's a dog in the bouse and ic*3 no good.' "A little ways further on we saw a bis«uit stuck on a wire fence near a house. IJoe says: I "'That means no graft there.' "'Let's try the kiddy,' says the cork legged man. 'Here, kiddy, go and ask .'em for a band out. Tell 'em you're hungry*' "The lady says, 'Poor little boy!' and .gave me pie and cake and lots of things, as I told her I'd take some to my father and brothor, and she let me. They laughed when I came back and said I Was a obrker. ,jKfe slept in an empty caboose that night,

Ofe, I nearly forgot. Before we found the caboose the two men went and looked at ft bouse and pushed on the doors, but a dog barked, and they didn't go in. 'That'd be two years iu the jug,' the eork legged man says, but I didn't know what he meant. Next day we got a freight train. Then we walked some more, and one house where we stopped they gave us a lot to eat. 'That's a bully hand out,' said the bobo. 'We ought to put a mark on this. There ain't any here, or maybe it blew gown.' "They took a stick and stuok it in the (round and tied another one across it. That means you can get things to eat there. There's a lot of things to learn when you're going to be a tramp. It was that nigbt we got to Bingham ton oa an­

other train, and we went to a hotel there and slept, but next night we slept down by the river under a boat. Joe and the cork legged man begged some money, but not muoh. 'This is no good,'the cork legged man Bays. We'll go on south.' "We were going to thecare wnen a po-. lioeman stopped us and says to Joe and the other hobo: 'Where did you get that boy?' 'He's my kid,' the cork legged man says. 'I'm his dad.' 'Is that so?' the policeman asked me. 'a*o, it ain't,' I says, for I was awful tired of walking, and I'd learned enough to be a hobo on my own hook. 'Iran away from home with him.' "They locked us all up. A big roan they said was the chief of police talked with me very nice, and I told him where I lived and how I came there. He said he'd send word home. I went to court, and the hoboes went to court, and the judge was going to send them to jail, but I told him they didn't steal me. So they let them go. The cork legged hobo, he says: 'I was good to you, Kiddy, and you threw me down. You ain't a good pal,' and that made me feel sorry. "After awhile tbey put me on the train, and the brakeman aiaid he'd break my neck if I tried to run away, bnt he was awful, good to me, and I had a good time coming down on the train. But I aij^J ever going to run away any more." "You aren't," replied bis father, in answer to whose queries the history of travel bad been brought out little by little— "that is, unless you can esoape from the Reform school."—New York Sun.

LAEGE METEORIC STONE.

Found by Abner Erskine on Hi# Farm Near Bowling Green, O. A monster aerolite or meteoric stone, probably the largest ever found in the state, was lately discovered on the A bner Erskine farm, near Bowling Green, O. The molten mass Is about 6 feet long and 8 feet in diameter, being of an odd, cylindrical shape, and will weigh at least a ton. On the outside is a fused blaok crust separated from the inner mass by a well defined line. The formation has decidedly a metallic appearance, resembling iron also the presence of sulphur can easily be tfeteoted.

The owner of the farm on which the queer specimen was found says that some 15 years ago, shortly after a large meteor had passed over, he discovered down in his woods what he supposed to be a large stone, and thought it singular that he had never observed it before, as the top stuck out of the ground about ten inches, and he walked over the very same ground hundreds of times.

A few days ago Mr. Erskine related to an oil man the story of the strange appearing stone and the peculiar circumstances under which he found it. The oil man at once suspected that it was a meteoric formation, and with a gang of laborers dug out the mass, which had buried itself into the earth about four feet deep.—Cincinnati Enquirer. _____

A Gift to Emperor William. Emperor William of Germany is soon to receive what is thought to be the largest pair of elk horns in the world as a gift from Hans Leiden, German consul of the Netherlands and director of the zoological garden of Cologne. They were mounted recently at Colorado Springs and sent to Berlin, where they will be formally presented to the emperor, to be placed by him in his hunting room or celebration hall.

The antlers measure 19 feet from tip beam to tip beam aorossthe skull and have a spread of 62 inches. They have a beam length of 67 and 67 inches respectively, and the longest prongs are from 22 to 23 inohes in length. There are 12 prongs in all, and including the beams they have a total length of nearly 30 feet.

The largest elk horns known to exist prior to the discovery of these are in the British faiuseum in London. The elk on which the antlers grew that are to be presented to Emperor William was killed in the White River country in western Colorado by an old French hunter named Monjean.—New York Mail and Express.

Printer's Devil's Perspicacity. It has been recently reported that Mr. R. S. £roythe, now of Melbourne, was a boy in a London printing offloe at the time when the edition of Emerson's essays edited by Thomas Carlyle was going through the press. With a premonition doing extraordinary credit to a printer's devil, be divined the after value of the proofs, with their marginalia and annotations, and quietly gathered them in after they had been discarded by the printers. They are now bound and in bis possession, forming one of the most interesting memorials of the friendship of the great seers of Concord and Chelsea anywhere in existence.—New York Tribune.

She Married Her Father-in-law. .Tames Williams was married to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lizzie Williams, at the family residence in St. Louis the other day. The groom is 90 years old. His bride is the wido4v of bis eldest son and is about 40 years old. Tbo couple, accompanied by two of the bride's daughters, are said to have left for the east on a tour for the summer.

Mr. Williams is quite wealthy, and for some time has been too feeble to manage his estate. That duty was performed by the Mississippi Valley Trust company. The old man baa a daughter living. He felt -perfectly able to choose for himself without any one's consent. Mrs. Lizzig Williams has been twice married. When her second husband died, she went to reside with her father-in-law and kept house for him until their marriage.

The Rays Locate a Bullet. By means of the rays Dr. William F. Seidlsr recently so clearly located a bullet in the body of 14-year-old Bertram Nelson in Newark, N. J., that he drew a diagram of it, and then mude an incision in the boy's back and easily .extracted it. The boy was accidentally shot by his 16-year-old brother Clarence a month previously while they were having a mock duel in their homa They did not know that tbere was a ball cartridge in one of the revolvers. The bullet entered Bertram's right breast, went through hia lung and lodged in his took just outside nl the third rlw

The Missed One.

I miss yon, doar, in the springtime, wnen the willows blossom whitely. When the sloe boughs bloom and bourgeon and the blackbirds build and sing. When over the sky of azure the white fringed clouds pass lightly,

When violets wake in the woodlands and the corn blades freshly spring.

But I miss you, too, in summer, when the waves break on the shingle, When the languid lilies' perfume is wafted upon the breeze, When ernamy and pink and fragrant the roses nod in the dingle,

When the kingcups turn the meadows to glistening and golden seas.,

And I miss you more in autumn, "when In rustling cornfields yellow Reapers sing their lays of gladness, when the plovers loudly call, When the woods are gold emblazoned, and the apple orchard* mellow,

And the bramble red and purple where the ripened berries fall.

But most of all 1 qluk you when the snowflakes white are flying. When the days are dark and dreary and the nights are long and drear. When through leafless forest OTanches winds are sadly sobbing, sighing—

Then it iff I think I miss you. oh. the most of all, my dear! —Kxchaagit.

THE MODERN WCjfAN.

INTERESTING LECTURE DELIVERED BY DR. LEON HARRISON.

Woman's Influence Purifies Passion. Sweetens Toll, Stimulates Ambition and Befines Civilization—The Ideals of Feminine

Usefulness.

In the presence of a large audience at Temple Israel Dr. Leon Harrison delivered his lecture on the theme "The Modern Woman." Dr. Harrison said:.

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If men represent the prose, women represent the poetry of humanity. They turn houses into homes. They are the idols of domestic worship. They cultivate the graces and gentler arts of life. Their influence purifies passion, sweetens toil, stimulates ambition and refines civilization. Musio and 6ong were sounded in their praise, power acknowledged the strength of weakness, intellect bowed down at the feet of beauty. Woman is not only mother of the man, bnt author of the gentleman and master of both.

History will never fully record how this unseen influence has quiokened philosophers, Inspired poets, encouraged aspiring genius and directed even the policy of empires. 'Tis said that under kings women govern under queens, men. They are often the power behind the throne. Little hands fashion great destinies.

I realize how tremendous is the task assumed by a public teacher when he undertakes to consider "woman." John Stuart Mill practically gave it up. He declared that no man has ever known any woman that even a husband does not fully know his own wife: that our love of praise and fear of blame ever unconsciously make us pose before our closest associates and hide the absolute reality. Many a husband may agree with John Stuart Mill, yet the unsophisticated may venture to conjecture where he cannot assert, and standing on the platform of common experience not 6fcray too widely from the truth*

Common experience! That is called history and reveals the gradual emancipation of womanhood from masculine brutality. Flocks and herds and women were originally possessed as chattels. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house," runs the old commandment, "nor his wife, nor his cattle." They gradually rose to the level of slaves. They were valued as useful and salable animals. They began to be purchased and owned by a husband.

They built houses, plowed fields, supported their masters and were the beasts of burden of the community. The ancient world was bated upon human slavery and female subjugation. It was built upon rotten foundations. From the Jews the Christians had borrowed their exaltation of womanhood. The patriarchs' wives were their^artners and equals. Prophetesses kindled the popular heart into glowing fervor, and Judaean queens commanded Jewish allegiance.

For many dark oenturies wives and mothers were apparently regarded as necessary evils, until at the Crusades the world burst into sentimental song until the age of chivalry glorified love, idealized womanhood and transformed mediaeval superstition into the gallantry of knighthood.

We have now extended our horizon, we have enlarged our view, we have sunk the stereotyped, conventional woman of your and my experience into the historical figure, rising from the dust throughout the ages, breaking the yoke from her neck, mounting without effort on the floodtide of public enfranchisement until wo behold her today. £he has freed herself from the right of might by the might of right.

Honor the voluntary celibates that consent to perpetual loneliness rather than stoop to a degradation, enjoy a conventional happiness, and yet feel their self respect and honor oozing out through every pore of the skin. The capacity for independence and a broad, practical culture should fit every woman for the ideals of feminine usefulness, and they are:

First.—The home. The old idea is that when two are made one, man is that one: that, as the old Spanish proverb says, "When two ride on horseback, one must ride behind." This might be countenanced in countries where there is one absolute head of tbe state and correspondingly one absolute head of the home. But what need is there of a monarch in a land where there are 10,000,000 sovereigns, and, strangely enough, 10,000,000 subjeots, 10,000,000 masters and

10,000,000

servants, the rulers

identical with the ruled and the governors with the governed? Pattern your household after your country. Both command and obey. Both rule and both serve. In a word, solve the domestio problem by practicing self government.

Woman is, furthermore, the active agent in philanthropy and the warmest supporter of religion. Her broader education would make her more practical in the ode and more intellectual in the other. Intelligence would substitute for sentiment in almsgiving means of self help, and for emotion in religion logical conviction and moral fiber.

There is a wide field opening for womanhood. There are great opportunities unfolding themselves. A more thorough culture alone is needed to equip these potent workers with practical sagacity, sound judgment and consistent purpose. "An ounce of mother," says the Spanish proverb, "is worth a pound of clergy.1' The future of the world is in the hands of its feminine guardians. The happiness of man is dependent upon his helpmate. Its citadel is home. Its shrine is the hearthstone. Our home is more than our castle it is our palace, for glory as well as defense. It means satisfaction in experience and joy in remembrance. Home is harmony breathed through two lives as instruments in full accord, imperfect at first and discordant, yet slowly blending, as husband prizes wifo and wife husband, until at last she sets herself to man like perfect musio unto noble words.—St. Louis Republic.

Nervous Children.-

The mother says that-this child is nervous. He should never hear this said of himself. He will soon learn to use the expression as an excuse for naughtiness. Train him to regular habits of life, secure for him simple, wholesome food, see that he gets plenty of sleep, that his nerves are not disturbed by teasing-by others, and in all probability he will cease to manifest nervousness, especially if he never hears older people talk about being Rervoas Womankind.

When You Spill Ink. a

A method of removing spilled ink is first to take up as muoh as possible with a spoon and then pour some milk on the plaoe. This will mix with the remaining ink and must also be taken up with a spoon, and this must be repeated until the milk is hardly colored with ink at all. Then wash the place with cold water and wipe dry with a cloth.

It Banished Her Wrinkles. §§g| A woman who has had her wrinkles banished by the physical culture process tolls how it was done. The system is as follows:

First Course.—Smile as broadly as pos slble, place three fingers on the bunched up part of the cheek then allow the features to relax suddenly, raising the fingers at the same time. Tbe fingers should be plaoed high on the cheek bone, so that the muscles, when smiling, will push against them, giving the desired resistance necessary to the enlargement of the tissues. Repeat this process until tired.

Second Course.—Smile broadly again, but this time, instead of allowing the corners of the mouth to be curved upward,

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fey ft ti&ra in a straight line toward

tbe center of the cheeks then place the I

two thumbs on each corner of the mouth and wo&the corners backward and fear-

ward by relaxing and contracting the THEY MAY BE FOUND IN^HE NEIGW mouth. BORHOOD OF CHARLESTON. Third Course.—Press the lower Hp upward, and it will be seen that tbe ehln will be raised and become bard crook the forefinger so as to make a halL circle and put it over the point of the chin, pressing it against the latter as it rises and relaxing the pressure Instantly as it assumes the normal position. In this exercise the teeth should be kept closed.

These exercises are designed not only to do awny with

wrinkles

that have appeared,

but to prevent their inroads as long as possible.*-"Chicago Times-Herald.

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". Tricks of Dregs. »'1 It is,a very common trick with dress makei^ and milliners to take the belt and maKers ana

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milliners wj uum umj uei« —_

"I always use them over and

A very puerile deception one would think, and not worth the trouble.—New York Tribune. jW

The Broom Should Hang.

Some of the daintiest housekeepers neglect to enforce the rule that a brush or broom sKoliId never be stood brash part down on "the floor, where the straws or hairs gather dust or dampness. Every one of these articles should hang from its own hook, and as this is apt to bring the soiled part against the wall it is well to stretch a breadth of muslin or calico along the wall from the floor up, so that even the washboard is protected from stain. The muslin, of course, is washed whenever necessary. As all brooms and brushes are not provided with "hangers" a Yankee Woman has invented a contrivance which can be fitted to any handle. It is a wire loop, with a string attached, and whein the string once grips the handle, the loop is fceady for use. The invention oosts but a few cents and is of real value in hanging troublesome whisk brooms, brushes, umbrellas and the various impediments which were born to be hung.

The First Tooth.

Youtf^B^others, watching eagerly for the "first tooth," should remember the average baby does not cut any teeth until the end of the sixth or seventh month. The teeth, which usually make their appearance first are the two in the center of the fewer jaw. The corresponding ones in the upper jaw follow two or three weeks later. Baby is a year old, as a rule, before tho first double teeth appear and reaches the ripe age of 18 to 20 months before the diffioult feyeteeth come. As soon as all of a child's teeth have appeared they should be brushed daily with a small soft brush

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Polish For Shells.

pen when they are lying on the seashore. To remedy this, and to give them a more lustrous appearance, they should be brushed over with the white of an egg, or with

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Heal Excitement.

"•Yes," said the meek looking man, "I've no doubt you've had some great hunting experiences in the west." "I have, indeed!"

Buffalo hunting"— '"Sure!" "And bear bunting"— S ""Of cdursel" ""Well, yon just come around and let

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had forgotten all about it. Snipleigh—What are you writing? Poorpeigh—A treatise on memory.bany State

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Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learnin^and stiffn^s of ^ra^lo^ po-

as there aw tews be soci.

MASY WILD BEASTS."

*3 Talk at the Table. Talking is one of the best of all recrea- bear, the bay lynx or wildcat, the gray tions, and the woman who understands fox, the Virginia deer, the raccoon, the tbe art possesses a most useful and enjoy- possum, the gray rabbit, the swamp rab able accomplishment. No dinner table Is bit, the polecat or skunk, the mink, the well appointed without good talkers, and Canada otter, the fox squirrel (three vathe basis of interesting conversation is rieties), the Carolina gray squirrel, the reality. After a course of London dinners flying squirrel, four species of rats, four Sir Walter Scott said: "The bishops and species of mice and three species of grout the lawyers talked better than the wits"— mole or shrews. All these are found in that is, the wits talked for the sake of considerable numbers, while some, eren of talking, and the church and the law had the larger and more important, are very something to talk about. Yet specialties abundant. and hobbies are not admissible at a dinner In addition to these the common seal is table, and a woman who can only talk of an occasional though rare visitor in tbe her own-fad has no business In sooiety. harbor, while the panther, the beaver and She ought to write a pamphlet or go on the wolf have become extinct in thisth the ldtftura platform, for any conversation ouit within one or two generations, th' at the dinner table that is a strain on the latter having been killed within 80 miles attention or patience soon becomes a bore, of the city in the memory of men now livIndeed one of the chief elements of pleas- ing. If wo extend our circle to includ ant company'is

readiness to talk or to be tbe limits of the state, we must enlarge

talked to on any rational subject. our list by eight or ten moro species, such The »ost charming talkers let a bright as the red fox, the woodcbuck or ground listener see their thoughts in formation, hog, the muskrat, the ground 6quirrel and for talk that has been prepared has a ready several others, while the panther, wolf and madeflatnfisS. It is the aerated thought beaver may possibly be still found very of the moment that has the sparkle, and a rarely in the wild regions of the Blue Ridge, good talker finds the right word by in- Of all these unfamiliar neighbors the gtinot, as a clever horse on a bad road al- black bear is by far the most interesting, ways puts his foot in the right plaoe. Strange as it may seem, he is not a rare This fact makes the good talker alBO a survival or an occasional visitor, but a good listener, because her best conversation constant inhabitant and quite as abundant will follow brightly and instantly tbe as any of his family in any part of the lead that others give it, and it prevents world except the huge white seal huntii.^ likewise the worst of all conversational savage of the ice floes. Indeed he is far faults—monopoly

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Twenty-®** Varieties Within Radios of Twenty Miles—The Black Bear Is Abundant A Ride Through the Tingled

Mans of the Swamp.

The truth kt that if a cirel® Be described, with the city hall as a center and a radius of 15 or 20 miles, there may bo found within its limits at least 25 different species of wild animals, several of them in sufficient numbers to make their capture for the sake of their skins a profitable employment. The list consists of the black

more abundant in- some of our near river swamps than tbe terrible "silver tip" or grizzly in any part of the Rockies.

Deep in the rocesses of the densest canebrakes, beneath the shadows of the ances

hat linings which bear the stamp of the tral cypresses or under the roots of soma great French artists and use them over fallen patriaroh of the oak knolls, he again with bonnets and gowns of their makes his lair as comfortably as In the own niabufacture, and even milady is not rock shelters of the Blue Ridge. His tracks, infrequently guilty of the same deception, like huge, misshapen, human footmarks, "I simply oan't throw away my dear may be seen in the mud of the creek ban-is Worth Itfelts/' said a fashionable girl the in the more secluded portions of the other

swamps,

ovei? efeain, and I have a Virot hat lining sum and the coon," the otter, squirrel, whleh' has done duty for half a dozen hats, deer and other dwellers under the cypress. When'I! take off my hat in a friend's house to arr&nge my hair, it has a very good effect, doU't you know. I don't actually say that it is a Virot hat, but I toss it on the bed oi* chair with the inside up." "I wonder how Estelle A. can afford to get her best dresses from Doucet," remarked oi% young woman to another. "How do you know that she does? I don't believe it," answered the other incredulously. "Oh, I know it is true," said the first speaker, "for I have seen the trademark on them myself!" "My dear little innocent," answered her more astute companion, "she gets those belts from her married sister, who really does get her clothes from Paris, and puts them on her American made frocks."

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You may visit these gloomy haunts of his daily for years without seeing any more of him, though he may often see you, for he moves but 6hyly in daylight, little of which at' best penetrates the dank and moss hung gltiom of his favorite reisort.

To ride through the tangled mazes of the swamps on an August day is a weird and difficult experience, and you would never dream of the varied and exuberant life whioh teems around you. If the river is "down"—and only then can you ride'at all—you may leave the oak ridges and venture, though not safely without guide, through the narrow and tortuous trails which lead through the cane, your horse fetlock deep in 6ticky mud, the rough and lancelike leaves of the bamboo brushing your face, and myriads of mosquitoes, huge, black and savagely blood thirsty, assailing you at every step. On every side the spectral trunks of the cypress tower above you, clothed in great twisted vin«js and crowned 100 feet in the air with tl.e long, drooping festoons of the Spanish moss, while impenetrable thickets of tangled briers forbid the least departure from the path. In winter you would be almost deafened by the quacking of countless multitudes of mallard ducks, but now not a sound is to be heard save the droning of insects and the occasional offer of some invisible warbler to sell you a "ticket to the railroad cheap. "And yet hundreds of keen eyes are watchiug you.

Flat on the highest limb of some tall cypress the gray squirrel is peering at you through the moss. So close that you have almost ridden over him, crouched close to the cool, damp leaves of his bed, an old buck has been watching your every movement, his velvet covered horns laid back on his graceful neck. The great liquid eyes of the woodcock are all about you. A flock of turkeys is noiselessly scuttling away with drooping wings and necks stretched out, while a dozen or two of wood ibises, motionloss as if carved in white and black marble, are noting your progress and guessing your purpose from the limb of some dead giant far beyond the range of your rifle. And yet you think yourself alone.

But the bear knows better, for he has been watching you, too, and not liking this human Intrusion on his wild domain he has dropped from his erect posture and is heavily ambling off through the thickest undergrowth to some more private haunts, it may be ten miles away. Suddenly he stops and sniffs the air, for he has heard the grunting of a pack of half wild pigs, and he has a Teutonic weakness for raw ham, unrestricted by any fear of trichinosis. If the hogs are down the wind, he knows that they will soon catch his scent, and continues on his way without further regarding them. But if they are to windward, he recognizes a chanoe,

Shells frequently lose a good deal of their natural polished appearance wben they are kept in the house as ornaments, am uiur*.*, ——, for of course they are not exposed to the* and promptly takes it. Stretching his huge air and get dry in a way that cannot hap- black body on the ground, lie lays his head

on his fore paws and awaits developments. Nearer and nearer come the grunters, rooting as they go among the rustling dead leaves and stopping from time to time to

water in which a little gum arable has munch an acorn or crack a half gnawed been dissolved. When dry, they may be hickory nut. Nearer and neurer they come, polished with a leather. their little slanting eyes too busily searching for toothsome morsels to notice the •t Mince Pie. ,£ shaggy mass whioh is almost hidden by

cup sultana raisins, half cup jeliy or marmalade, a lemon, a cup brown sugar, a teaspoonful salt, half teaspoonful cinnamon, half teaspoonful allspice, half nutmeg. Chop the meat, which should first be stewed until tender chop the apple, and then mix all thoroughly and bake between two orusts.

A cud cooked meat, 2 cups apple, half the dense undergrowth, until ope is within a few feet of the watchful gormand. There is a sudden rush, a long squeal of pain and terror, a chorus of frightened grunts and pattering hoofs, and poor piggy lies eruBhed ana bleeding under the stroke of that remorseless paw.

No doubt bruin catches even the wary turkey by device that I have known him to practice on domestic poultry when venturing too near his captive chain—namely, scattering his food as a bait and pretending sleep until they fed upwithin_reach of his deadly stroke.—Charleston News and Courier.

THE TEXAS RANGERS.^

A Curious Militia Whioh the State dup* ports For Special Purposes.

-Well yon just come arounu ana let There are at present about 200 rangers my wSteke you house hunting and bar- in Texaa They ^e ^parated into wmpsgain hunting with her. Then you'll begin and are kept on the borders for the most part. They live in tbe open air the year round. Nearly every night in tbe year, rain or shine, they have only the sky for a roof and the bare ground for a bed.

to know what excitement is."—Washington Star.

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so busy on that new book of mine that I J" £°Udo. ^d^dds faced. Thev an is to be done and odds faced. They are made up of the flower of Texas manhood.

A wild, yelling, cursing cowboy is looked upon with oontempt by them." They depend upoa thair six shooters and carbines, their coolness and marksmanship, tbe known courage of their rjporadee and tbe fact that they are backed by the law of the

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any sheriff in Texas*---They hold. more. They are not bound by county lines. Tbey may summoc a posse at any-time to assist them in making arrests.

The section which the rangers police is larger iu area than all of New .England, and it is of such a character that were it not for their work it* would be given oVcr to lawlessness and disorder The rangers are sent to those sparsely settled sections of the country where opportunity for es-s cape from the regular peace officers is afforded. Whrnever a sheriff is unable to cope with lawlessness, hfe calls ou_the governor, and tne rangers are sen? to tako charge. Mary times is the past has the governor of Texas ordered the rangers to go to counties where the sheriff was in sympathy with the lawless element, and in such cases they have acted independently and without regard to thto Wishes of the sheriff or other officers.

The rangers are paid $40 a month, and their rations and arms and ammunition are furnished by the state. They provide their own horses, the state paying for them if they are killed. They are unincumbered wi'h baggage. Tbey will take the saddle at a moment's notice to go on a scout of a month's duration. They have no uniform. They have no military discipline, as discipline is generally understood, but they obey their officets and will go with them t° certain death without a inurmur.—llemphis Avalanche.«

AROUSED HIS SUSPICIONS.

Conditions Which Made the Small Boy Dl trnstful of the M^Jor. It was in an up town playhouse. The major, who was managing the show, can in with his wife and a small boy. The boy was just the size boy to ask questions. There were not more than 100 people in ..... the house, and vacant seats were every-

where. The major and his wife and the small boy bad just got, seated when the small boy whispered: "How is this for a house, major?" "It's very good, my boy," said the major, and Mrs. Major smiled.

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The boy wns silent perhaps flve minutes. Then he whispered again: "Say, major, are all the seats 6old?" "They are all «:old, my boy," said the major, looking bored, while Mrs. Major^ ., couldn't repress a smile. ,:I

Again the boy was silent. He looked all around gravely and finally got up and Vchanged his seat to one next to Mrs. Ma- k' jor. The majcr had in the meantime whispered to his wife: "It doesn't draw. The house is all pa-^/:. P°r-" &

When the boy sat down by Mrs. Majorf^y fhe said: "Say, I wondei? whose seat I'm in?"

Mrs- Major only smiled, and the boyj^Vr said: "Say, major,"do you know whose seat iSH:

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I'm sitting in?" "I do not, my boy," said the major. Then followed a silence of ten minutes. The show bar begun in the meantime, jpf'# The boy leaned over and whispered loud enough for even the empty seats to hear: ,t "Say, major, 1 think you're faking."

Mrs. Major ohlvered with emotion. Mr. Major looked daggers, and the boy re-"f sumed his survey of the vacant 6eats.— New York Sun.

Unknown Macedonia.

Macedonia is practically as unknown the general public as the great Unshapen Land in which dwelt the three Gray sisters who helped Perseus on hia errand of death. Even the well informed politician who oould comfortably piok his way through central Africa is very often unable to tell the difference between a Pomak and a Zinzar, a Yooryk and an Arnaut or to say whether they are fruits, implements or peoples. Not only is the geography of the country a highly complicated and un-'f satisfactory study, seeing that nearly every district, river, lake and town is known by at least two wholly different names, the one Turkish and the other Slavonian, Greek or Albanian, both of which are oc-, casianally

from the few maps we'

possess, but the ethnography is more bewildering than a Chinese puzzle, and no man born of woman can ever hope to solve the problems It offers in a way that will satisfy the peoples of eastern Europe. In spite of a railway net of about 600 miles, communications with the interior are not avisi-,i: merely primitive and painful, but highly^ dangerous. It is practicaily impossible to,, visit any of the outlying and many of the 1 main districts without an escort of Turkish zaptiehs, and sometimes even a few Arnaut cutthroats, as a homeopathic precaution over and above. There are places in Macedonia, especially in the oountiy be-^

t.ween tbe river Vardar, on the one aide, arid the Drin and M0#ava on the other, which have been untrodden by European feet since the days when warlike Samuel was king, about 900 years ago.—Contemporary Review. ..

He ran up stairs and again told tbe story. "My God!" tho frightened woman answered, and fhe rushed out of the house, and was running breathlessly down Broadway when, by chance, she met her son at Forty sixth street discussing politics with some friends.

When she returned home, Hhe found that her pocketbook, which she had left on the mantel, together with several pieces of jewelry, had been stolen.—New York Heraid.

One of Naples' Peculiarities. At Naples the other day, in one of th6 most frequented of the small streets opening into the Toledo, a German lady had her pocket pinked of her purse. She raised a cry and snatched the portemonnaie from the band of tbe thief, who then ran away eight in front of a policeman.. A gentleman passing at the moment asked the policeman why be did not pursue tbe pickpocket. The policeman replied, "Why should I run after him when he did not get tbe purse?" "But he is a ihiof," exclaimed the gentleman. "Eh," answered the brave policeman, "there arfe s5 many of that sort here, sir."—London News

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The governor of TexasIs the chief officer of the rangers. What he says is law to them. The sheriff, th^police, the militia must not stand in thdfr way if the rangers

It Is probably not a very well known fact that the shedding of tears keeps the eyes cool. Such is the case, however, and no COOl, oUuH luw uaaC) u9 auu uy uiuoti uvu owumi mattfer bow hot the head may be, go long have ortieta trosritin governor. The ran m»411 liA mm! tfVAMi 4 •ilI iSi Va—lllf* IUIWMP

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Tricks of Thieves.

Professional thieves are never at loss for a new trirk. There aro so many new tricks in tl.e professionally dishonest man's vocation that we aro often led to believe that ii he displayed the same energy in a legitimate business, he would soon becomo a millionaire.

A few days ago a well dressed young. man rushed excitedly into a fashionable flathouse up town and addressing the first woman he met, hurriedly exclaimod: "Madam, your 6on has just been ruafii::.'^^ over by a cable car at Broadway and Fortieth street, and is dying." "You are mistaken," replied the woman he addressed. "I have no son. It may be the lady on the floor above."

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Saffaeioas Sage.

One of the stories told of Russell Sago is that when a thief one day dropped a bill near him la order to draw hip attention from counting some money he had drawn at tbe bank Mr. Sage put his foot on the bill, thanked his informant, finished his count, stowed his own money securely, away and thqn smilingly put the thief's bill also in his pocket. __