Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 October 1897 — Page 3

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WALTZ STILL REIGNS, BUT DANCERS' POSITIONS /VRE ALTEREDi

Cloae Dancisj to Be No Longer Tolerated. Side Attitude Also Modified Hoppy "Waltzing Condemned—Profession Favor»

Return to Old Time Methods.

The waltz Is safe. Society may settle Vack and breatbe a sigh of relief. Thi: American Society of Professors of DanoSng, whose session has jusfclosed, lias not condemned the most popular round dance, notwithstanding ail telegraphic reports to the contrary. "I find," said an emlnent^professor of the terpsiohorean art the other day, "that society people have practically gone into mourning over those tales about our society having condemned the waltz. They ore 6illy and reprehensible falsehoods, and I assert in answer to them that the American Society of Professors of Dancing would not take such a radical and ill advised step. "The society did, however, condemn the position that many assume when engaged in waltzing or two stepping. To be plain, I refer to the immodest and ungraceful attitude which brings two young people as close to each other bb they can possibly be and move their feet in any sort of harmony at the same time. "This fad for close position dancing has amounted to a verituble craze and has reached the point where mothers and fathers have come to the dancing in6truotor and asked him not to teach their ohildren any such pastime. "We have been laboring to that end for a year or more, and the guild is emphatio in its declarations against the extremely olese attitude. The proper position is for the man to stand erect, but bent slightly forward on the balls of his feet, his right hand resting lightly at the waist line of his partner—not in the least assuming a position indicating an embrace—the left hand on a line with the ofaest and holding the tips of the lady's fingers delicately but firmly. There should be no angles of the arms or body, and, above all, there should exist an appreciable distance between the dancers. We do not advocate an awkward interval of space, for that is disastrous to good form in dancing, bat the width of a man's band should separate the couple. Auother and Important deoree of the society in regard to the waltz position re that •which is aimed at the so called side position in round dnnoing. We say that the extreme side attitude is incorrect and favor a position more conventional and much easier. This is about half side opposite each other) which renders dancing smooth and graceful. "A third point, equal in Importance to those I have mentioned, is our utter condemnation of fast, hoppy and gallopy waltzing. The society does not approve of alarmingly slow dancing, whioh is vulgar, but it frowns upon the bitchy, bobbing and rapid step. The custom that was affected by some dancers of holding the liancvs near or against the man's shoulder to avoid striking passing couples has long been poor form and never was correct. "And now as to the new dances, let me assure all devotees of the art that they will not find any of them ou the programme of the recberohe ball. The Boston dip, the

Yale and Harvard dips, whioh are very late, are simply offshoots of the waltz, polka, galop or two step. They may find some local favor and will be popular among the younger dancers, who are partial to t'anoy steps, but the four dances just mentioned will get the social seal of approbation. The old polka—the one, two and one, two, three kind—has been wonderfully popular at the swell watering plaoes this season and will be ifruch in vogue at this winter's functions, but the waltz will still lead in general popularity and oould not be dethroned if a dozen societies of dancing should issue as many edicts against it," "The society never decreed that the waltz must go," said another well known authority on dancing. "The convention simply passed a resolution that the present form or mode of waltzing is wrong. We believe that all the best features of the waltz are being destroyed by mingling in the galop or two step movement. The orchestras are partly to blame for this because they play regular two step or redowa music for the waltz. This compels the danoers to aocomroodste their steps to the music, and what is the result—a sad and ungraceful mixture that basliardiy a feature of the old glide waltz. I believe that the younger people—the dollege youths, for instance—who dance when and as often as they may, are responsible largely for the passing of the real waltz. Society does not wish to see it deteriorate Dor to lose any of its old and time honored charms. "The waltz of today and that professionally favored and taught is the rather slow, gliding step, without any hop and with the accent in accord with the waits rhythm. "It is solely the position assumed hy most waltzers that the convention objected to so strongly. The waltz will live as long as dancing continues to be a popular and approved diversion. I regard the extremely close attitude as immodest and almost vulgar, and this is what our leading instructors are trying to eradicate. There is a happy and easy medium that we will teaoh, and this will be the one that the best people are to take up. I know that this is true because we get instructions to this effect from the parents of the children whom we are educating in dancing. Why, I would never give up teaching the waltz in my school, no matter if It were condemned. I have attended many meetings of the national sooiety, and I never heard a hint about relegating the waltz to sooial disapproval or oblivion. Sucii a step would be very silly and of no particular effect. The sooiety has from time to time criticised the position assumed while daucing, and at the convention just closed a strong resolution on this point was passed, but it is^ ridiculous to think that the assembly of dancing masters would aim a blow at the queen of all dances."—Chicago Times-Herald... v.

•TWO POOL STATESMEN.

Senators Who Seem Immune From the Discomforts of Rent. There are two men in the senate whose smooth exterior never seems to bo disturbed by the heat of a long day's session. They are as unlike in personal appearanoe as two men can be. One is from the coldest extreme of the east the other is a typical southerner.

They are Hale of Maine and Chilton cf Texas. Hale never adopts the neglige of summer attire. His vest is buttoned high his coat fits smoothly over his shoulders his collar is stiff and white his tie exactly in place, and his trousers are properly ereased. The immaculate neatness of his attiro never is disturbed by the h«»t that, causes other senators to abandato their Tests and slouch into crash suits. Th6 •taroh in bis linen seems to be waterproof, and the heat never loosens a button in Lis Test. The color of his complexion is habitual and gives no testimony jigatnst the temperature. His sack suit firs as suugly and ^monthly as in a fashion iffcite.

Chilton abandons the vest, but his attire bars the suggestion that it is on aceonnfc of the heat. His white shirt front is starched as stiff as a board ami shines like china. His collar is always firm and fits tie In place, and be wfcars along frock cost •nd trousers of very light brown diagonal as stiff and firm as any made for winter wear. The long skirts of his w»at soma down to bis knees in a straight line, without a sag or a wrinkle, and the two edges come just close enough together in I to show a strip of white shirt bososa

about 8 inches wide from bis trousers belt to bis collar. Both coat and trousers bold their shape and position as if just from under the tailor's iron, and even the excitement of debate does not disturb their cool composure. Their substantial fabric seems to defy the moisture of perspiration. The trousers refuse to bag at the knees, nnd the coat acknowledges no limpness, sHch as other coata yield to the heat— Washington Star.

BASS SLAPPED SEB FACE.

Rowing on Lake, a Tonne Lady 1s Sainted hy a Fish. A young man and woman were out rowing on the big lake in Prospect park, Brooklyn, on a recent afternoon. -They were moving slowly about ten yards from the shore. The young man was at the oars, and the young woman sat in the stern with the ends of the tiller ropes in her lap. Suddenly there was a splash, something black sailed through the air, and then the woman waved her hands frantically in the air and shrieked.

The black thing was Sopping around the bottom of the boat. The young man dropped the oars and put bis foot on it. Then be made a oloser investigation and discovered that his prisoner was a black bass. It was a big fellow, fully 12 inches long and weighing between three and four pounds. The fish, according to its nature, was jumping, either In frolic or for flies, and, leaving the water at an inopportune moment, landed in the boat. The young woman deolared that the flBh struck her full In the face first, then dropped to her lap, whence she brushed it to the bottom of the .boat. Her shrieks brought a dozen other boats alongside, and the bass was held up for general inspection. It was then thrown overboard, and the rowing parties went on their various ways.—New York Sun.

KISSED SENATOB HOAB.

toast Men Were Envious, hat the Old Solon Blushed. A good story comes by, way of North Adams, Mass., where it was told with much zest by the little groups of people as tbey chatted together before and after the exercises attendant upon the recent dedication of the new State Normal sohool.

Senator Hoar, being present at the exercises, was asked to make a talk to the school children.

When he had concluded a happy little speech, the senator asked the privilege of shaking hands with the smallest girl present. A little tot went to him and presented a very small hand, and then the distinguished man asked, for further favor, that she kiss him.

The delighted farmer who hiid been spokesman for the picnickers saw his chance. "We have here the prettiest and best teacher in the town," he said, "and I think she should kiss Senator Hoar too."

And no sooner had he spoken than a pretty young woman stepped forward and administered a salute whioh roused the envy of his friends as it brought the color to the face of the astonished senator.

A Doctored Dollar.

A seedy old man walked into a store at Matteawan, N. Y., one day recently, and, exhibiting an old silver dollar, said be bad been offered 185 for it by a stranger. He said he bad carried the ooin for many years and did hot attaoh any special value to it. The merobant saw that the dollar bore the date 1804. He took it to the cashier of the Matteawan National bank, who informed him that only four pieces of that issue were in existence. Three of tbem are owned by collectors, and the last one sold for $1,800.

The coin was finally bought from the stranger for $50. It was shown to several experts, who had no doubt of ite genuineness, but a close examination showed that the date had originally been 1801, but had been changed to 1804. The speculators were greatly crestfallen, but managed to resell the coin to a dealer for $55.

The stranger who-sold tbem the dollar is said to have swindled many people in the same way.—New York World.

Maternal Love.

The devoted attachment of the mother to her young is known to exist in every range of life, a fact which proves that "self preservation is not tbe first law of nature," for even the most fragile being which flees from man and other enemies disregards personal safety and will fight until death when the safety of its helpless offspring Is concerned. An adder ftould hardly be selected as a type of loving affection, yet we hear a story of one which, when approached, gave a fearful hiss,, and at this signal foor little addgtf instantly glided down her throat fo?. protection. Waiting to shelter them from the menacing danger, she lost time in getting away, nnd the narrator of the story was able to kill her.—Philadelphia Times.

Opening Court With Prayer. One of the learned justices of the Maine supreme court, than whom no man better knows how to appreciate a really amusing thing, was holding court at Ellsworth, and, according to honored custom, called in a local clergyman to open the session with a supplication to heaven. This worthy gentleman came, and after a chat with the justice preoeoded wwiddress the giver of all good

and*perfect4Bings

glory."—Bangor

thus.

"Almighty God, we beseech thee to bestow upon the presiding justice the wisdom which he so greatly needs!" It is said that the same judge once opened court after prayer wfeioh began this way: "O Lord, we pray thee to overrule the decisions of the court, to thine own honor I and

CommerciaL

Poetry Is Mot an Art.

To sum all up, poetry is not a skill, a pleasantry, a device, an art. It is the secret life and light without which not anything was made that is made, writes Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney in The Ladies' Home Journal. It is the saoredness of being. In it there are these three: Sense, soul, spirit —nature, life, revelation. Such is the trinity of inspiration. A perfect poem is natural, human and divine.

Ceremonies.

A very ceremonious Spaniard, when asked why he was not present at the funeral of a certain personage, replied: "Because be owed mo a call."—"Humor of Spain."

The Song of Whest

I had dreams when days were darkest, in the loneliness of night— I was dreaming of the gleaming and the streaming of the light— And the sod that whispered secrets to the blossom and the leaf Sent me shimmering, shining sunward to the splendor of the shoaf-

The winds that tossed my tresses sang of treasures manifold, And dew and star and sunlight gave their glory to gold, And I heard a far rejoicing, and the tempest 1 flags were furled -j And my golden banners rippled all my riches round the world.

I I heard the songs of cities and in the shadowed dells The ringing and the singing of all the golden bells,

For I wove the bine sky's beauty, the sunlight and the rains, 1 In an answer to the valleys and the pleading oi the plains.

I have sweetened fervid summers, I have star red the winter's rooW And gladdened liMaaee'witk garlands and madt the'hearth ifees glow, And lay story la my gtory. and my triumph i» complete They inarch beaeachiiay banners to the thrill iu sang, of wheat. —PraftSrte BtemtosAeCWeageBiw-Heral*

fEKKE tlAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER

'KING ELECTRICITY.

FARMER DUNN PREDICTS A REVOLUTION FOR EARTHLY FOLKS.

Tbe Whole Atmosphere Soaked With Electricity—The Day Coming: When It Will Supply Light, Beat "and Motive Power.

Coal a Curieelty.

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JElias B. Dunn, the Weather observer, has been studying atmospberioelectricity. Tbe sergeant, as they usefi to call bim, tbe farmer, as they call bim now, said that he will live to see the day when eleotrlcity, collected from the atmosphere and stored by some means which an Edison or a Tesla will have to devise, will revolutionize the world.

The prophet expects that cities will be lighted and heated by atmospberio electricity that railway trains and cars will be run, lighted and heated by It .that coal will become a curiosity that steam beating will bo granny talk to the children of the next generation that the telegraph and telephone companies will lose their monopolies that war will become a farce, because a touch, of electricity will make the British grenadiers or the German Uhlans or the Scotch highlanders sit down on the cold ground powerless that even the dreams of communication with the inhabitants of Mars will become realities, and that a man will be able to strike up electricity as he doefc a parlor matoh.

There will be no more trolley strikes, because there will be no more trolleys. Mankind will tap the atmosphere for almost every convenience or necessity, except food and clothing, and even the clothing will be woven and the food cooked by atmospheric eleotrioity. Street cleaning will be as easy as the magician's "Presto, change!" and everybody will live comparatively happy ever after.

Mr. Dunn is sure that his ideas are practical and practicable. The atmosphere is his constant study, and having introduced general humidity to the publio as tbe principal element in uncomfortable days he has determined that the most potent element for good in tha air we breathe shall no longer be wasted. "Why," he said, "thewhole atmosphere is soaked with eleotricity. Tha earth, as is well known, is a storehouse of electric'ity, That it passes from the clouds to tbe earth we can see in every thunderstorm.

Earth is a good conductor, especially damp earth, and water is the best conductor possible.

Every person is possessed of body eleotricity. The vital force is all in the eleotrioal power you contain in your body. When the day is damp, you become weakened through the loss of your bodily eleotricity, because the atmosphere is a greater conductor of the electrical fluid than your body, and oonscquently what is in your body will pass to this moist, damp air. "That is tbe cause of that tired feeling. This passing of the electricity to the atmosphere enervates you to such a degree that a pereon in a naturally weak state will collapse or become much worse by the loss of this bodily electricity. "The atipospbere being oharged with electricity, and the earth being a storehouse for it, if there were some controllable method of storage devised by which you could draw off a moderate amount of electrioity at will and keep that foroe on tap all the time, with an appliance by whioh power could be generated—and there Is no reason why that can't be done —then atmospheric-electricity would make all the wheels in tbe world go roqnd. "Tbe coal barons would be done up," said Farmer Dunn savagely, thinking of the coal bill for his house in Brooklyn. "There would be.no more need of cooL There ought to be enough electrioity iu the atmosphere to supply light and heat as well as to do all the work except the housework. I'm *iraid it won't do away with the servant girl question, though it will modify it. I expect to live to see the day of atmospheric electrioity en tap. It will run everything on earth. "It is well^kno.wh^^ha.t there is a greater number of the early morning, say from 1 a. -fij/'fe-ita. m., than at any. other time. Dic^eB^ was aware of that, but he didn't knotft&e reason. You remember that poor ol^Peggotty, in 'David Copperfield,' wej^t but with the tide. That's right. And it isin the early morning, that the daily ebb of the atmosphere occurs, when the daily atmospheric pressure is least. If at that time the atmosphere is in a state of saturation, very heavily charged with humidity, then the electric foroe leaves a person's body and flows to the atmosphere, greatly debilitating him when he is in a weakened condition. Now, should a person in that state be kept in extremely dry surroundings, so that he could be furnished with an adequate supply of artificial electricity and at the same time have the humidity reduced, there would be, in my opinion, a greater chance of prolonging life. "If the doctors

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supply in such circumstanoes artificial electricity instead of natural, it would probably be very beneficial. Just think of itl Here we are, spending millions of dollars to generate eleotricity, when it is all around us, and we are breathing itl Here's another thing: When a current of electricity is generated, where does it go? It can't die. It is somewhere. I should judge that it is simply adding to the amount of electricity in tbe atmosphere. "It is natural to suppose that as long as the earth is given to us for useful purposes the atmosphere was not given for nothing. Of course it.gives us health and breath, as the earth gives us what we eat, but since the atmosphere contains electricity, and we can use the earth as a power for carrying it, as is done by telegraph companies, why not use the electricity in the atmosphere? "Once begin to use it, and there is no telling where it would end. War with atmospheric electricity as a faotor would have to cease. The problem of signaling to Mars would be" solved. With atmospheric electricity in control we could communicate with all the inhabited planets. "—New York World.

CALAMITY IS KLONDIKE.

Kor# Fearful Tidings Fran the Goldea Frozen Land. "I have just returned from Seattle, Wash.," said John H. Lansahan of Charlotte, N. C., "and have learned all that I want to know about the trip to Klondike. The gold crazed people who are just now making tfaeir way to the western sea coast cities, with the hope of being able to catoh a vessel bound for Alaska, baTe no idea of what awaits them. "In Seattle there are hundreds of persons waiting for a steamer. Many who have been there for some weeks and have been unable to secure passage are now retracing their footsteps and returning to tbe homes tbey left only a short while ago amid feverish exoitement and impatience. They come back from the west a sad and sorry lot, but when the true story of this winter*8 suffering in the gold region becomes known tbey will be thankful that they were nnable to take the trip. "Tales of harrowing experiences are being breaght back from Alaska by every vessel that returns from that region to Seattle. Tbe latest news, and probably the worst, is .that tbe winter season has already set in at Dawson Gity, and that Intense oeld is prevailing throughout tbe Klondike territory. Word has come to the anxiokps goM:%a«kers that several of tbe largest stores in Bawton City have closed their doora fM^tbe simple reason that they have aotbUig Aor* to sell. "Theft sfoek hae been exhausted at fabnlous/prices. and tbey are usable to obtain any mere gaedt. Insyiteof this warning,

and with starvation staring tbem in the face, the prospective gold miners are still willing to rush in and trust to luck. It Is appalling to think of bow many poor devils will perish in the Klondike before the bright tun of next spring brings relief to the half frozen persons who have managed to live the winter through."—New York Tribune.

CONSIDERATE (J0HVI0TS.

FUteea lean In Prison, bat Unwilling to Sne for Pardon. Charles and Harris Hubbard have just completed a' 20 year sentenue each in the Missouri State prison and have been released. They went to the prison In September, 1882, and consequently ppent 15 years in tbe institution, that period being threefourths of tbe sentence of 30 years. Tbey were donvicted of robbery in Franklin county.

Both of tbe men have exceptional prison records.. Against the elder brother, Charles, there is not a single charge of infraction of tbe prison rules, and Harris has only six marks during the 15 years, and those are for offenses of the most trivial character.

Before the "holiday pardons" were granted the last Fourth of July the brothers sent for Warden Starke and begged him not to submit their names to Governor Stephens. Tbey declared that they would rather servo out their time than to stand in the way of some other long term prisoner gaining his freedom. They had only a few months more, they argued, and they thought the pardons should go to those who had no hope of liberty except through executive clemency. They even wrote a letter to Governor Stephens asking that he entertain no application for a pardon for them. They were dressed out and left for Frankli%county.—Kansas City Times-

BUTFALO CATTLE.

'Breeding From Bisons Promises to Become

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Important Industry.

Albert and Charles Huber, living a few miles south of Durand, Wis., have a herd of about 35 full blooded bisons and some 18 crossed bnlls and heifers. About six years ago they were hunting in the western part of North Dokota and captured alive three young bisons—a bull and two cows—and these tbey brought to their farm here. The animals grew and throve amazingly, and are pastured in an inolosure of about 400 acres rnn'ning down to the valley of Rose creek, where they have ample room and shelter.

Experiments were made early with crossed breeds, and it has now been found th'ab tihe cross is very successful, the half breeds combining the docility of the domestic animals with the endurance and large siae of the bison. They are also very fine fuy producers and grow to maturity in lesr time than domestio cattle. The flesh of crossed animals is very palatable, and the fur has all the good, qualities of that of- tbe bison and is softer and more silky. Tha crossed breeds can stand far more exposure in winter than can the native ootf. Tbe Hubers believe they have a fortune in their herd If they can continue its inoreaso a few years longer. lip* •JsC-MS,1:.". :•i*"}: A

First Colored Woman La^yit. Lutie A. Little, a 24-year-old negress, with a bright faoe and intelligent e^es, entered the oriminal oourt room at HenS phis the other morning and presented her duly authenticated claims to the privilege of practicing the law in the oourt of Tennessee. She was admitted to the bar without a question. She is the first representative of her sex of any color to be itted to the bar of Tennessee. ftSbe only colored woman in the stytl} Ucapsed to practice laiv, aniJv-.it is said slj^irtle only colored' vir.ofnan ra-Yha tJnited States that is a member of ^he bar. —Atlanta Constitution.

Kisses His Fupils.

State Superintendent of Publio Instrne-tion-£triker of Kansas is charged with the responsibility of deciding wbetberit is lj% moral for a schoolteacher who is tniU^^4 to hug and kiss the big girls in his during leisure hours. A teacher b^' ine name of Edlok, in Butler county, Iwa^mmitted this sin, and after a trial bX^lbe 6obool board, tfhich aoquitted bim .ofoljny immoral act, a number of the patrcfassof the sohool who have grown daughters have appealed the case to the state superintendent. That official says he has no jurisdiction in hugging and kissing cases.—Exchange.

The Telephone In Tibet.1

The telephone has been introduced Into the palace of the grand lama at Tibet, who is thus enabled to issue his encyclicals orally and at long range, ringing off dissent and'remonstrance in case any schismatic within his pontificate were disposed to offer them. To complete the modernizing of hip court and papacy, the bioycle should now be introduced, the grand lama leading the procession.

it, ^Will Grow Camphor Trees. Secretary Wilson of tbe agricultural department said the other day that arrangements would be made by the department for the thorough introduction of the camphor tree in Florida. H^ added there was no doubt that tbe tree would be a success there, as it had already passed tbe experimental stage. The department will give all possible enoouragement in the way of supplying seed and young trees, and Mr. Wilson prediots that the country will soon be producing a sufficient supply of camphor for Its own needs. He also announced bis purpose to adopt a policy for the enoouragement of the growth of the English walnut, the tree of which will, he thinks, do well anywhere south of Washington.— Chlcagd Post, i,

V" •. Zola Is Still Ambitious. With tbe first meeting of tbe French 'academy Smile Zola, as usual, returned to tha attack and wrote a letter 'announcing that be would be a candidate for the seats both of Henri Meilhao and the Due d'Auruale.

This double barreled campaign has caused considerable discussion and will possibly alienate from Zola some of bis former supporters. His eandidacy for the succession to tbe Duod'Aumale is regarded as decidedly oheeky. Meilhac being a literary man, Zola could quite properly aspire to his stat, but tbe Duo d'Aumale represented rather tbe aristocratic patrons of art than tbe makers of literature.

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HEBE AND THESE.

Kansas City has 9,000 employees in Its packing houses and stockyards.

Twelve young Abyssinians selected by tbe negus are on their way to St. Petersburg to be educated.

AIftisfc of the university students at Oakland, Cal., cost one of the young men tbe greater part of his upper lip.

Citiiens of Kendrfck, Tala oounty, Ida., bave been obliged to fight large numbers of bears which have invaded their orchards nightly, owing, it is said, to failure of the wild berry crop in the mountains.

It is said that August was tbe banner month in the history of Bar Harbor. ||g

A young whale weighing about 8,000 pounds was captured the other day off SkLdeford Peal, Me. •. -m

A Waterville (Me.)»an is reported blind tbe result of swallowing a piece of tobscea be war chew ii*g.

1. 1897

PUN FOR COWBOYS.

GAMES IN WHICH MEN AND PONIES ENGAGE ON PUNCHERS' DAYS.

Tests of Skill That Would Not Do For Ordinary Riders—A Sort of To* of War With a Beautiful Shock at the End of

It—Joy Unalloyed.

In a ms9tlng of Texas and Oklahoma cow punefcors last season after the work was done ft was proposed to feave a "cow punchers' day." "Let's stretch a few ropes," said one of them.

The men were lying idly about In camp when this announcement was made, but in a twinkling they were on their feet saddling horses, tightening girths and preparing for action in general. Before an easterner could have bridled his horce the men had divided into two opposing sides. One man from each side had unslung his rope, one end of whioh was firmly secured to the horn of his saddle. The loo*»e ends of the two ropes were then tied together, thus leaving the two riders joined to each other by about 100 feet of rope fastened to their saddle horns. They took their stand facing tlio same way and only a few feet apart, leaving the rope slack between them. Suddenly, as if at a signal, they put spurs to their ponies and dashed off at full speed. For awhile the ropo trailed in a double ourve, but gradually tightened as the two riders began to tyrn each to the outside and away from each other. Finally the motion ceased, each horse pulling against the other in such a way that neither had the advantage.

The strain on the ropes was tremendous, but tho ropes, constructed to stand the pulling of a maddened steer, stood this test also. The plucky little ponies panted and tugged and strained their nerves against each other. Their riders had all they could do to encourage their animals and to keep them in such a position as to retain their own seats. Had either pony turned his back squarely for a fair pull, tbe rider would have been brushed off by the rope immediately. It was a tost that required fine horsemanship, a steady hand and a practiced eye. It was a well fought battle, and the speotators cheered it lustily. For some minutes neither pony seemed able to pull the other, but gradually the Texas pony seemed to gain the advantage.

For over an hour such contests went on, with fortune favoring sometimes one side and sometimes the other.

The last thing of the day as well as the. last of all punchers' days was what might be called a tug of war contest, a -general conflict, answering, unintentionally enough, to the melee of ancient tournaments. It was held in the evening. Three ropes were twisted together into one thick cable, as the occasion required threefold powejr of resistance. Some eight or ten single fopes were fastened to each Elide of the cable, the other ends being attached to the saddle horns of the riders, the Texan crowd on one side and the Oklahoma crowd on the other. The battle began with a straight tug, one side against the other. Ponies and men, every nerve quivering, were pulling as if life and death depended on the ftruggle. Some were heaving against the ropes as they would in pulling a heavy load in harness. Others were pulling backward, with the long rope stretching away in front of them. The threefold cable held firm.

Now one side gave way a few feet and now the other. Soon, however, it became evident that the Texans were being outpulled. Then the scene changed. The Texans swung round and round to entangle their opponents and brush them from their saddles. This movement was met by a counter movement. Whichever can get outside in this contest has the advantage hence it is evijjent a long rope is a boon. Shorty Wilkus is doing his best to push a big Texan back. He is doing nobly, but now two Texans get together and swing around at full speed squarely against him. He and his horse go down together. He gets on his feet again amid the hurly burly of horses and men and dodges outside unharmed to safety. His riderless horse regains its feet and rushes on in tho melee, adding to the confllsion and entanglements. Now all system vanishes ropes sweep men from the saddle horses become entangled and go down yells, cheers, shouting, swearing, shooting, are fearful. Finally it is discovered that two Texans still retain their places, while all the Oklahoma saddles are empty. This settles it. The Texans have won.

Bloody noses, black eyes, bruised faces and tattered garments were visible everywhere after the fun, and the ponies were as badly used up as the men. Yet none was killed, and no one was seriously hurt. The bost of good feeling and fellowship prevailed. The men sat around the big campfire, over which a newly killed cow was roasting on a huge spit, and laughed and joked over the incidents of the day. Their joy was unalloyed.—Henrietta (Tex.) Cor. New York Sun.

CLAY'S GREAT VALEDICTORY.

All Who Heard His Pathetic Farewell to the Senate Shed Tears. John F. Coyle writes of Henry Clay'n farewell to the senate in The Ladies' Home Journal, regarding it as the most dramatic event ever witnessed in the United States senate. Almost from tbe opening words of the famous valediotory the vast assemblage of people were in tears, and the "great commoner" was frequently interrupted by tbe sobs of bis auditors. "The scene was Indeed impressive as Mr. Clay pronounced the concluding words of bis farewell to public life," says Sir. Coyle. "He stood for a moment after in reverential attitude, while all about him strong men, swayed by the magnetic power of the great orator, wept in silence. The husb£? suspense of infense feeling and attention pervaded the crowded assemblage as the famous statesman, with lowering eyes, resumed his seat. For several moments tbe silence was unbroken. Senators sat as if in the shadow of some Impending calamity. Men of all parties seemed equally overcome by tbe pathos and majesty of tbe great statesman's farewell.

As Mr. Clay rose to leave the chamber after adjournment, whioh directly followed bis address, and after be bad said farewell to all the other senators, be encountered Mr. Calhoun. The eyes of tbe whole assemblage were fixed on these two old friends and old political antagonists. There was a pause in tbe demonstration which awaited Mr. Clay. The moment of suspended anticipation was almost pain-* (qL For live years they bad been attract­

ed, and tbe only words whioh bad passed between them had been those harshly spoken in debate. Blit now as they met the old time came over them. They remembered only the politioal companionship of 80 years' ifcndlng. The intervene ing differences whioh bod chilled their hearts toward each other were forgotten. Tears sprang their eyes. They shook each other cordially by tbe hand, interchanged a'God bless you!'and parted. The released suspense which awaited this tear* ful scene found vent in shouts and cheers, which were taken tap by the crowds cutside tbe senate chamber, expecting Mr. Clay's appearance. He was surrounded by tbe waiting thousands on his way to his carriage, and throngs followed bim evev to bis boteL^ .-v*

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Whcf/'Lady Burton was traveling alone in Brazil, after three months roughing it in the interior she arrived at Rio Janeiro in a plight which might excuse any one for not recognizing her. Her boots were in shreds, her dress In slits, her bat in ribbons, and ber face, much swollen by exposure, waa of a reddish mahogany l^o.

On arriving she was told that the Estrangeiros hotel, where she had left her maid and luggage, was full, and so she wont to the next best bouse in town. The landlord, seeing before him only a ragged woman, pointed across the road to a little tavern where sailors' wives were wont to lodge. "My good woman," said he, "I think that will be about your place. Not here." ".Well," she responded, "I think I shall stay here all tho same."

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Step by step he backed away, pulling his opponent with him. Seeing he was beaten if he relied on brute force, the Oklahoma man determined to see what strategy would do. Keeping the rope always taut, he galloped around the circumference of a circle of whioh his antagonist was the center and the rope a radius. First he galloped in one direction and then in the opposite. Then be stopped altogether and slackened the rope. His only hope was to brush his antagonist out of his saddle with the rope, and as long as his opponent faced him squarely ho could not do this. •Once more the Oklahoma puncher slacks tbe rope, his opponent's pony turns slightly, and quick as a flash tbe rope has swung around, and tho Texan is lifted clear of his saddle and thrown violently to the ground. "Hurt, Bill?" asks one of his own men as the defeated puncher remounts and joins his side"Naw." "Well, you oHghter be. You oughter have your neck broke for gettin tricked that way."

Very muoh amazed, he showed her an attic room, but she would have none of it and insisted on engaging one of his best rooms. Entering It, she said: "Now be kind enough to send this letter for me to the Estrangeiros." ^,

In reply to tbe letter came the maid, a roost imposing functionary, with the luggage nnd letters. After a bath and a change of garments Lady Burton rang tha bell to order supper, and the landlord himself appeared. "Did that woman come to tako apartments for you, madam?" ho asked humbly. "I beg your pardon. lain afraid I waa rude to her." "I am that woman," retnrnod Lady Burton, smiling. "But you need not apologize, for I saw myself in the glass, and I do not wonder at your suspicions."—« Youth's Companion.

A Rural Love Story.

"Yes," said the village gossip, "John wuz always n-pesterin of Sue about marry* in of him, un she'd done told him 'No* more times'n I oould tell you." "You don't 6ay!" "Hit's true aspreachin. Well, you know John carries the mail?" "Yes, I've hearn tell he does." "An las' Wednesday wnt a week Sue wuz a-travelin long with him, goin ter town, when John ups an says*ef she didn't make up ter marry him he'd make tho hofis run down hill tell all three of 'em wuz drownded in tho bottomer the river." "Do tell!" "That's what! But what do you reckon Sue did?" if "Lord knows!" "Caught John by the collar, jerked him outen the buggy, grabbed up a live rattlesnake what wuz a-sleepin by the roadside an lambasted John with it tell he couldn't stand." "Laws a-maesy!" "Then nhe stomped the snake ter death, an John he took ter his bed, whar he laid fer two weeks, an Sue got sorry fer him an nussed him an killed a beef tar make stew fer him, an now what do you reckon?" "I dunno!" "She's a-goin ter marry him!"—Atlanta Constitution.

An Oxford Scholar.

Mr. Geoffrey Dawling scumbled into my room with awkward movements nnd equivocal sounds, a long, lean, confusetf, confusing young man, v?ith a bad complexion and large, protrusive teeth. He bore, in its most indelible pressure, the postmark, as it were, of Oxford, and aa soon as he opened his mouth I perceived in addition to a remarkable revelation of gums that the text of the queer communication matched the registered envelope. He was full of refinements and angles of dreary and distinguished knowledge. Of bis unconscious drollery his dress freely partook. It seemed, from the gold ring into whioh his red necktie was passed to the square toe caps of his boots, to conform with a high sense of modernness to the fashion before the last. There were moments when his overdone urbanity, all suggestive stammers and interrogative quavers made him scarcely intelligible, but I felt him to be a gentleman, and I liked the honesty of his errand and the expression of his good, green eyes.—Henry James' "Glasses."

Cotton In Surgery.

Tho fact is noted in a technical Journal of the already considerable as well as rapklly increasing quantity of cotton fiber that is annually consumed in the mannfecture of absorbent cotton for surgical uses. The process of preparing tho raw ootton for such purposes is given as follows: After boiling in a solution of potash, which eliminates all the greasy and waxy matter, the residue ootton is placed in a sooalled "whlzzer" and dried. Being then treated to the mediating process by the use of such antisoptics as diluted corrosive sublimate and carbolic acid, tbe cotton is plaoed upon cards and run into laps, being thus made ready for the market, whero it brings a comparatively high price. Prepared according to this method, the ootton is in admirable cond'tion for-the stanching and covering of wounds, and in the sickroom is regarded ase qually valuable In its simple and effective action, absorbing, as it doe6, all moistures witW great readiness.

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Tlie Lawyer's Benelactor.

Who is the greatest benefactor of the legal profession? Professor Wood of the Edinburgh oh air of conveyancing the otbei day told his students how at a dinner oi English oountry solloitors the oldest practitioner present was asked to propose the greatest benefactor of the profession as a toast and how he rose and said: "Gentlemen, fill up your glasses. Here's to the man who makes bis own will!"—Westminster Gazette.

A Costly Walking 8U«ste.

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