Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 December 1895 — Page 6

THE BETTER CHOICE.

QV little do wo gaze on nature's fa I Too much Lave dwelt in colleges and town?. iWhpre man pursues the miserable race ; Of wealth ami more bouk learning. The jj muse frowns K On him whose footsteps o'er the breezy downs Seldom have pressed; our need is solitude, i For the harh dissonance of the city I drowns jThose dreams of virtue, loveliness and good, (Which in tlie breast of youth, however I fctiflcd, brood. i Uiet us arise and shake away the dust on; rick and pavement from our Hying feet. ormer visions irom rcniemoranee thrust. 2 And even forgot that once we trod the st reef. Up in the mountains haply we may f meet . - vThose glorious fancies that still shun thej L throne; P The rill's wild music, tremulous and i sweet. 4 nVill lend a softer cadence to our son?. JThi? cataiar ts eurbless strength may j touch us to be strong. LA ml flowers and perfumes and untainted . air And forest preen with dark cathedral I glooms. tAnd tlie fleet birds, whose mission is to bear "Nature's truo music on their outspread nliimcs. And mossy banks and overhanging blooms .Of trailing honeysuckle tliese shall teach L- Our tcngues toLrcathe the passion that J consumes The inmost spirit, and we shall learn a I speech 4Wilf-pei.rr:il enough all human hearts to f rearh. r Sports AtieM. THANKFUL 'TILDY. II E storekeeper': horse had coinpli .aTTiV'. monted his oats bv od the . r". warnn to k kindling wood: but he had also demolished a fence with which ' a 'cottager had tmdeitakfn to close a path that had ibeen free for a generation, ami the old settlors who met at the store to talk it ver were not .so sympathetic as they" anight have been. "Aain't iiothin' so bad, but It could be whs, Isaac." asserted Cap'n Pomeroy, who was deaf and dogmatic. "The lioss might 'a missed that air feneeV the argued, with the conlidence of one rwho is seldom contradicted, "lie might 'a' sie weil into the main road n tramped 011 a young one, whereas, you bein tselee'inan. he's saved you 'u' Pilsbury jtho job of bavin' the fence took down, consequently!' "That don't pay me for ten bushel o corn," the storekeeper ventured to sug"st. ; 'Hoy?" J ''Ten bushel o' corn!" the storekeeper repeated. Then, as Cap'n Pomeroy snarled disapproval, and the others peented equally ready to question his public spirit he hastened to add: "Oh. I'm glad V you be that the fence is down; I don't begrodgo the corn, not any to speak of. I ain't a-goin to say I'm glad I lost it. though; can't erpect ine tew. can ye:" k- Iley V F "'Tildy Peters would hev," another speaker put in. He had entered fo quietly chat the storekeeper jumped aside, surprised, and thereby pave him in opening to the most coveted corner, close to the cracker-barrel. It was a rplaee that the storekeeper found It afer to reserve for a toothless patriarch, but since the thing was done he ftiiatle the best of it. , "What's that about 'Tildy, Uncle 'Aaron';" he inquired. "Oh. tli ain't no great of a story nlKuit her. It wuz her gin'ral disposi,tion. s ye might say. that made me ttpcak tqi. 'Thankful 'Tildy, everybody called her." : "She n' her man lived over on the old Ha scorn place. Lived there till soinomiieres 'bout '00, 'n' then they movd nit West, 'n last I heard of 'em Sim found a gold mine '11' they v.az big as any toads in tin puddle. I s'picion gold mines must lay on top o' the ground out in that country, Sim never would 'a, dug fer onenot in his right mind, he wouldn't. "Lazier 'n Sam Hill, he wuz. a rays plaunin out waysto save work, 'if let! in things go while be figgered on V111. l)iln't hevt no downright bad liabits. ye know. Jest plain lazy wuz what aihil him. His part o' the place looked like l'oorhouse Corner. Hers rwuz different, mind ye, n so was she. Never no liens roosted on her while 'whe wuz inventin' a aig gatherer, I bate !ye! j "YouM V thought she'd worried About Sim's bein so easy goln"; but ye an't tell nothiif about women folks. JFor all she wuz so spry, nolKly over ilieerd her find fault. It wuz all t'other way. If he did somethiu' or didn't do !twuiethiif that stirred up a muss, she nTays fished 'round till the found a rMessin' In It. "I rVollect her proceedin's one time, n I guess 't wuz the only time, that Kim did somethin like work. 'Twixt one tiling 'if another, he kep' It up for nigh a fortnit. Fust it wuz to git rid of a wood chuck that had growed up fond 1 ' garden sass. Sim didn't have no utate fair election o' veg'tables when the woodchuck sot In, but putty soon they begun to look like the fag end o' desolation. The critter wotddif t touch Anything with p'ison In it. Sim tried tolm, faithful. Looked as though th unly thing to do wuz to dig him out i "I d'know whether you ever started to oncarth a woodchuck? I hev; It's uusier talked u'i?ut than done. A good

V,Tv.t; running away. lie ' lia' suitcm1 his wP&ZL'' 10:1,1 ovo" sovoral

smart woodchuck d burrer to Chlny, j

ir you coma ne-aa mm straight uown. Sim followed this one's trail 'bout thirty foot, 'n' then he didn't 'pear to be 'any nearer the woodchuck's bedroom 'n' he wuz at first "When Sim quit diggin. 'count o takin a crick in Iiis back, I f'r one didn't feel to blame him. 'T wuz jest about the time he quit that a story got 'round, consamiif old ,t5 a.. - - - THE OLD snxTi.Kns wno STOKE. MET AT TnE Cap'n Iascom. Some says it started with a shipmate o' his, that knowed certain, that the Cap'n brung home a good deal o' money from his last cruise. He had money, wasn't no doubt o' that, but when he died the only vallybles that wuz found on him wuz a silver thre'pence 'n' a snuffbox. Jim IJnscom, that was his brother, lived 'n' died without any clew to any more. IJut this 'ere story had it that the Cap'n had a belt full when he left Portland to come home, the last time, '11 must 'a. brought it to the Island. "So whilst the crick wuz gittin' out of his back, Sim he pupposcd to do some prof'table meditatin. Didn't seem to him the Cap'n would 'a' hid his money in the house, f'r Aunt Polly would hev found it (she was a master hand for lindin' out things that didn't belong to her, Aunt Polly was). Over 'n above that. Sim concluded the Cap'n wouldn't take it to the barn. That hail been burnt down since the Itascoms time, anyhow; seemed s if an old sailor d rut her hev his belongiifs outdoors, where the' was landmarks, as it ware, 'n when Sim got it narrered down to this, he 'lowed he could spot the place. "ThU wuz a big boulder, right anigh the stone wall where Sim had been a -diggin for woodchuck. It weighed three ton. mobbe. No livin man could 'a' got under it to hide anythin! But Sim wouldn't l"t that stump him, a'ter he made up his mind. He dug round the aidges a little, 'if found some angleworms u' saw-bugs, 'n tinadc a big hole down in the lower no'theast corner o the rock. "Tildy didn't say nothin' ag'in his foolishness. Fact is, I cal'late, she didn't know tho whole of it. Prob'ly Sim didn't tell her he wuz aimin' to oncovcr the univarse, their part of it. to find buried treasures. I know he didn't give her no warnin when he touched the tiling off, f'r he told me so. She wuz in the but fry, gittiif ready to churn, when he lighted his fuse and laid down behind tlie stone wall. "Well, sir! Sim done a good enough job. that time. That air boulder went off like tlie crack o' doom 'n busted into more 'n forty million pieces. Sim could hear 'em a-rippin' an' a-tearin' for an hour, seemed to him, 'if he didn't hardly dast to git up 'if lind out what he had done. "When ho did wipe the dust out of his eyes 'if peek over tho wall, he see that one piece o' rock had knocked down the chimbly, 'n another had sailed clean through the buU'ry winder 'if he wuz jest uarvin himself to go in 'n pick up his wife vhen, lo 'n' behold! she stuck her head out "She looked kind o' onsettled, wha'; with a cut on her forehead 'if the skim milk runnhf out of her hair, 'u' I guess fur a minute Sim thought he wuz go in to git his come-uppanee. But she wuz stariu every which way 'if didn't seem to see him. Sim thought she wuz gone looney. He wuz gittiif ready to ask her, when all of a sudden she p'inta him to a streak of somethin' that wuz licketty-splittiu out o' sight "'Ain't that nice, Sim! she says. 'You've broke up that old woodchuck, ain't ye? "No!" Uncle Aaron added crustily, a moment later (one of the small boys had asked a question and spoiled his climax). "Xo, consarn ye! Tae' wa'n't nothin' under the boulder. Detroit Free Press. Millions in It. . A German who had vainly tried to make a fortune In many ways at last fell ill. But on what the doctor declared to be his deathbed an idea with millions In It struck him. He sent for a lawyer and dictated a will, 'in which he bequeathed vast sums of money to his wife, his family, and various charitable institutions. The lawyer, a notorious talker, spread tho tidings, and great was the chagrin of numerous acquaintances to think how they had neglected to pay court to the dying millionaire. Our strategist wart not so 111 as the doctor supposed, and presently ho recovered. Then it was that fortune-hunters 'begged hlra to Invest their money, urged him to accept loans, and gave him a credit second to none' In the city. At first ho coyly refused these flatterJng testimonials, but was gradually forced to relent, and, having lived In clover for a considerable time, has just f ailcd-for an enormous sum. No More Kscnpf . After filling the post of prison warden for ten years Bruschlnl adopted tho profession of grave digger. "What led you to change your occupation?" Inquired a friend. "The circumstance that in my.. new employment I have no escape to fear." II Papagallo.

REPORTS OF CHIEFS.

SECRETARIES REVIEW WORK AND MAKE SUGGESTIONS. Herbert Wants More Battle Ships and Torpedo lioats KckcU Tells All About Banks Luuiont la Pleased with the Condition of the Army. Affairs of a Nation. The total number of national banks organized since June !', lSiKl, has 1m';i r.0,'i. There were in nrtive operation on Oct. ."51 l,71ö, with an authorized capital stok of oiil.l.'i.JH-", represented by 1 1 M shareholder: average number of shares. Ü.l'Id: shareholder. 77. The total amount of their irct;lati'n outstanding was 2 l.'!.s.s7. .'!. of wlii h amount 815Mi.lSM.lMil was secured by United States bonds, and 8-',..7'M.ii;!) by lawful money deposited with tke Treasurer of the Tinted States. During the report year forty-thre b.;nks were organized, located iu twenty different States, with an agresrate capital stock of Sl.StM.IKiO. Of these new banks twenty-eight, with a capital sto ; k of ?L,.."."!u.KMi, are in the northern and northwestern section of the country, and fifteen, with a capital stock aggregati ig 8l.::t;M.MM, hi the south and southwest. Tlie number of banks organized during the year was less than ÖU per i nt. of tho yearly average. There was a net increase during the year of 81,.771.Ö'.7 in the amount of circulation secured by bonds ami a gross increase of So,."..ö"lo in the total circulation. Of the o.71o banks iu active operation. 2.1MM, with a capital stock f ,i '.720.8.TJ, are in the northern and northeastern halt" of the country, and SI 4. with a capital stock of 810i;,N4S.!i."o. in the south and southwest. There are U.r.ll national banks located east of the M ississippi liiver, with a capital stock of 8.7,7.il:.7JJ'J. and 1,lOt West of the Mississippi. with a capital stock of Si :!.". m;i ,'..m . The number of banks leaving the system by reason of the expira t ion of tiiHr corporate existence was four. Din ing the CALLING wirkte Uncle Sam--Hi, '.here! (let out of that! back yard! Chicago Tribune. year ending Oct. öl, lS'.M. the corporate existence of twenty-eight banks will expire. In tlie succeeding tT. years, from IS'.M to 15XIÖ. the corporate existence of NSJ banks will expire. The number of banks leaving the system during the year through voluntary liquidation was liftyone. having a capital stock of '.Wo.lUO and circulation of 8 1 . 1 "- " Receivers for thirty-six banks have been appointed during the year. The aggregate capital stock of these banks was $. i,l!öö, and their circulation -Sl.-000.401'. Of these banks, two, with a capital stock of ?-!"" ,mj , were reported last year as being in voluntary liquidation, and nine, with a capital stock of 8-,7. "i0. h K), were of the number of banks which closed their doors in lS'.K'I and subsequently resumed business, but through continued business depression and the slow character of their assets were unable to meet their obligations, and were thus compelled to go into insolvency. The following amendments to the law are recommended: "1. That the Comptroller be empowered to remove officers of national banks for violations of law and mismanagement. "2. That loans to executive officers and employes be restricted and made only upon the approval of the board of directors. "3. That the. assistant cashier, in the absence of the cashier, be authorized to sign the circulating notes of the bank and reports of con lition. "4. That some classed" public officers be empowered to administer the general oaths required by the national-bank act. "5. That bank examiners be required to take an oath of office and execute a liond. Mi. That upon a day in each year, to he designated by the Comptroller, he directors of national banks shall be required to make an examination of the affairs of the banks and submit to the Comptroller a report. "7. That the Comptroller be authorized to issue circulating notes to the par value of the bonds deposited by them with the Treasurer of the Cnited States to secure such notes. "S. That the semi-annual tax on circulating notes of national banks be reduced to one-fourth of 1 per cent, per annum." LAMONT'S It K PORT. Some Chancen Recommended Mat' tcrs Are Generally satifoctory. In his annual report Secretary Lamoat shows the effective strength of the army to be 10,084 of all arms. The new law regulating enlistments has greatly improved the personnel of the army, and has not impeded required enlistments. Of 7,780 men recruited during the year 5,318 were native born. The strictness of the examinations, physical, mental and moral, mny bo measured from the fact thatoS.-l!) applicants were rejected. The addition of two companies to each of twenty-fire infantry regiments, and two fodt batteries to each of tire artil-

lery regiments is recommended. Fonr companies is the size command recommended for one officer's control. Increase from SIX) to Ü.IMMI yards in effectiveness of small nrms is noted. The battalion organization of State militia is commended. 1'or the contemplated increase in force 81.1'(M).o?d will be required annually. Over 8Ö.1 n H i.i mm redaction of expense for regular force, per year, has been effected. It is said the staff force of officers is too great, nearly one-third of the .$..im5,..ö7i of salaries going to this cl iss. Tho present chiefs of bureaus in the staff organization of the army are pronounced capable and eSücieiit men. in every way worthy of the responsible places they occupy and zealous in tie faithful performance of duty'. But a plan to insure retirement after a term of years, and promotion of next in rank, is recommended. The relations betwe n regular army and State militia are most gratifying. At need, over PmI.imhi volunteers, equipped for active duty in the highest sense, could be placed in the fiH.l within forty-eight hours. ( 'onsiderahl. space is tilled by the Secretary in considering the questions of seacoast defenses, dynamite guns. etc.. and river and harbor improvements and numerous other subjects are considered. SIXKBTAKY HlIKBl.KT'S DKSIIM'.

Two More Battleships and Twelve Torpe:lo lioats If ecoin mi-nilcd. Secretary Herbert, in his annual report, shows the progress made during thyear in the construction of ( lovernment cruisers, and speaks in high praise of tie; workmanship on the new navy. He also outlines the work under contract, and says : "An inspection of tlie relative strength of navies will furnish, it is believed, all the argument now needed for the continuation of the building program heretofore indicated by the action of Congress. We are not in want of oidiivirv unarmored cruisers or of gunboats, but we are lamentably deficient in torpedoboats. and we certainly need nero battleships. An inspection of tlie building programs t' other nations will demonstrate that the lessons taught at Valu and YA'oi Ilai Wei have tended to contirm tlie belief of naval experts throughout the world in iho ellicacy of these two classes of vessels. HIM OFF. You're getting altogether too near my T respectfully recommend the construction of two battl'-diips and at least twelve torpedoboats. The gratifying progress made by our manufacturers of steel and our shipbuilders and the competition among them has enabled the department during the last two years to contract for gunboats and torpedoboats at a very large reduction from former prices. The price per ton for the gunboats Machias and Castine. conti.icted for in April, 1S'.M was 8-"'n-.s''i. the avenge price of the three gunboats contracted for in January. lSIll, and of the six others just let 'nit to contract is 8---.81 per ton, a saving of 8S0..VJ per ton. or !'(' per rent, of the price of the ships. The price of the I'ricsson, contracted for in October. IS'.II, was 8:U0.s:i per ton. The average juice of the six torpedoboats contracted for in is;. is 87(ii.rS per ton, a reduction of 8 17! .!!" per ton. or of about I'll per cent, in the price of the boats. These prices compare very favorably with the prices for similar work done abroad." Secretary Herbert devotes considerable space to consideration of armor plates, ordnance, projectiles, submarine, boats, automobile torpedoes, etc., and to improvements 'in the business methods of the department. In Chinese; Villages. Mr. Wcldon and I often went Into tin' villages, walking between the fields of' shivering rice, but far offener the villagers came to see us in our houseboat men, women, babies, dogs and all. Always some little side canal, the ofMiootof the main waterway, was the only street between or before the village houses. There was always the towpath. but the best route was by a second path leading behind tho houses. By following that we passed through tho farms and yards. We saw the men and women thrashing ihe rice by beating a log with bandfulls of it to scatter the kernels on the ground. We saw the fanners turning the soil over and breaking it up laboriously, or punching; holes In the thick clay, dropping seeds In them, and then smearing the holen over with a rake. We went into the Inner courts of the better houses, and noted how the men. and even the tiniest baby boys, thrust themselves forward to greet us, while the women and girls slunk behind or merely peeped through the doorways and open windows tho latter being Elizabethan contrivances, framed for little panes of oiled paper or the enamelled inner coating of seashells. White goats, woltish dogs, common-sense chickens, hump-backed cows ami nose-led buffaloes make up the animal life that is so painfully missing in Japan and so abundant in China. The Luciferlans, au early Christian sect, took their name from Lucifer, tht) Bishop of CagliarL

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FICTION OUTDONE. -

A Girl's Sudden Fancy for an Old Man at a Kcccption. sometimes you meet with such s.'orles' as that of Col. James P. Stanford In a play or a novel which unfolds what is seemingly an utterly Improbable train of events. To Col. Stanford it seems like a terrible nightmare; so much so, Indeed that he is said to bo ruined in body and mind. lie left bis young bride of two months some fortylive years ago to go to South America. News soon came saying that she was dead. lie wrote many letters and got no answers. Then he met with reverses and disappointments, and It was many years beforo ho saw the United States again. Cor the last twenty years ho has been a lecturer on tlie lecture courses of the towns and smaller cities. At a reception given to him in Morrlstown. Pa., recently, be met a young woman to whom lie took a great fancy. They became so friendly that the lecturer told her the sad story of bis early life. He bad meant no more than to touch a girl's sentiment with tho story of a young bride's death. But she supplied it with a sequel as astonishing and calmly cruel as the climax: of one of Thomas Hardy's short stories, and tlie mere telling of which would wring tho heart of the least sentimental of maids. -Isn't it strange?" she said. "My grandfather's name was the same as yours, and he left bis bride to go to South America. But he, and not his bride, died." A few direct questions and the long lost father knew the truth. . lie led the young woman to one side and asked: "Is your grandmother still living V "When the young woman, who was as yet quite unconscious of what the answer meant to tho charming, gray-haired man before her, said that bis wifo was dead he nearly swooned, and since that moment his friends speak of him as being no longer himself, lie has met the daughter who was unborn when he left his young wife, and who is now a mature matron of 44, but seems to be unable to recover from the shock of the news about his wife-of the thought that she had lived so many years after he supposed that she was dead. He. has cancelled all of hi? lecture engagements, and will retire to his home in Wheaton, 111., and his daughter and granddaughter will do all in their power to make bis last days comfortable. Turtle-Kgg; Butter. Th Amazon and its aflluents aliound In turtles, says Dr. Kidder, in his "Brazil and the Brazilians." In September and October, the months when the eggs are deposited, the streams will be fairly speckled with turtles, paddling their clumsy carcasses up to their native sandbar. They lay from eighty to one hundred and twenty eggs every other year. Turtle egg butter is a substance peculiar to this part of the globe. When tho turtles come to the sard beaches to lay their eggs, so great are their numbers that the noise of the!r shMis .striking against each other in rush Is said to bo sometimes heard at long distances. Their work commences at dusk and ends with the following dawn. During the daytime the inhabitant collect these eggs and pile them up in heaps, like the stacks of cannon ball seen at a navy yard. These heaps are often twenty feet in diameter, and of a corresponding height. While yet fresh tlie eggs are thrown into wooden canoes or other large vessels and broken with sticks and stamped line with tho feet. Water is then poured on, and the whole is exposed to the rays of tho sun. The heat brings the oily matter of the egg's to tho surface, from which it is skimmed with cuyas and shells. After this it is subjected to a moderato heat until ready for use. When clariiled, it has the appearance of butter that has been melted. It always retains the taste of fish oil, but la mucii prized for seasoning by tlie Indians and those who are accustomed to its use. It is conveyed to market in earthen Jars. In earlior times It was estimated that nearly two hundred and fifty millions of tunic eggs were annually destroyed for the manufacture of this inauteigo. The government now regulates tho tmtle egg harvest, so that there may not be such wholesale destruction. There are some extensive beaches which yield two thousand pots of oil annually, fcach pot contains five gallons, and requires about twenty-live hundred eggs, which would give a total of live million tggs destroyed in one locality. Ijooking Forward to Conflict. It has been noticed, that for some time past there have been mysterious purchases of old helmets of the cavalry regiments stationed along the eastern frontier of Trance. It is supposed these purchases are made on account of the German cavalry scouts, as. In case of hostilities, wearing tho French helmet, and with their great cloaks hiding their uniform, it would be easy for them to reconnoitcr positions quietiy. Worst of All. "There's nothing worse in this world than ostentation," said Carraway. "Oh, yes, there Is," said (iorse. "Bostontatlon Is much worse." "What Is Boston tation?" "Ostentation plus Boston.v said Garra way. Harper's Bazar. Short Acquaintance. Flora (at the seaside) What sort of a fellow is he, anyway? Julia I don't know. I've only been engaged to him since last evening.Life. Crane that ldfts 150 Tonn. It 1s said that tho largest crane In the world Ls at the Krupp Iron works. It lifts and turns a weight of 150 ton.

MIXED FILLY WITH WIFE.

I Talk of a KacI nc Man Who IiraffsetS About Both. i A certain Houston racing nvan was married some months ago. He also Is the proud possessor of a tine --year-old lilly that has made five and a half furlongs in 1 :m'J, and he expects her to d better at the next races. He has named thefillyafter his wife and both of them ere dear to his heart. A Houston Post man, who ran across him, found him Xjito willing to talk. "Yes," he said. "I am the happiest man in Texas. Bessie and I are keeping house now. and getting quite well settled down. That lilly of mine Is going to do wonders yet. Bessie takes as much interest in her a.s I do. You know, I have named her for my wife. She's a thoroughbred.. I tell you. It's a 1'iie sight to see her trotting around at home." "Who. the lilly V" "No, my wife. She's gn;ng to bet twelve dozen pairs of kid gloves on Bessie next time she goes In. I havo but one objection to her. She goes with her head on one shh and, o course, cross-legged, and tears off her shoes." "Your w-w-wife?" r "No; what's the matter with you? Tlie? filly. It pleases me very much to havo my friends inquire abonr Bessie. Sh-i is get tin g to bo quite a favorite. I hart hard work to get Iter, too. She trots double wit ho;: t a break." "The lilly, you mean':"' "Xo. my wife. 1 took Bessie out driving with thr filly yesterday. Bessie?'. a daNy. She's a little high in one shoulder and a trifle stiff in one leg, but her wind is all right. What do you think of her back';" "Beally, I- T I never had the pleasure of meeting your wife, but I have no doubt--" "What nro yon talklnsr about? I Tnean the filly. The raos come off just on tho anniversary of our marriage. The races are going to 1? a big thing. You know Ave have been married just a. year. I expoi-r. Bessie to do wonders. There's a newcomer going to be here that we are looking for with much intenst. You must, really come out i:nd e- our first event." "I-I-I -really, it would be indelicate. 1 you mus: really excuse nie I never saw anything of the kind; I I "Oh. there's nothing wrong about horse races. They're line sport. So long, now. I've got to go and ia.kc Bes sie out and sweat her a little." .-V A Horse's Tail. In well-formed horses the tail should he strong at the root, rising high from the croup, the direction of which it follows. When this is horizontal the tail is gracefully carried, especially when the horse is moving. With powerful, good-shaped horses it is often carried upward, or even curved over the back, especially when the horse is livery. Tlie health and strengt1.! of the animals are, according to popular notions, indicated by the resistance the tail offers to manual interference and by the way ia which it is carried. To some extent also it affords an indication of tbo horse: disposition. - -V fidgety horse. usually has the Fa?l, like the cars, always in motion; wLn about to kick, the tail is drawn downward between the legs; wiien the anl-' mal is fatigued or exhausted then it Is drooping and frequently tremulous; and with some horses, whoa galloping, is it swung about in a circular manner or lashed from side to .side. Thero can scarcely be any doubt also that, like the tail of birds, it as.siis in tho horse's movements, as when the animal is galloping in a small circle, or rapidlj turning round a corner, it is curved to the inner side. With well-bred horses the hair of the tail is comparatively fine and straight, and often grows to such a length that it reaches the ground; coarse-bred horses may also have the hair long, but then it is usually very thick and strong, -ami more or less frizzly, though soft curly hair may occasionally be noticed in the tail of thoroughbred horses. In some horses there is a tendency to shedding of the tail hair t his. like that of the mane, tail, forelock, fetlocks and some other parts, is permanent, and not shed at certain seasons. ns in other regions of tho body); the horse is then, said to be "rat-tailed," and there Is a popular saying to the effect that such a horse is never a bad one. In other in stances the tail ha'.r falls off except at the end of the dock, where it forms a tuft, and the horse is then 'Vow-tailed" or "mule-tailed." TT : L Ihitirely Satisfactory. In a late social encounter Charley covered himself with glory. He was caught napping on a porch of the summer resort. A pair of soft little hands covered his eyes, and a sweet voice commanded, "Guess who it Is." Nothing very dreadful for Charley in this, you think; but then, you don't know that Charley was engaged to two girls, and, for the life of him. couldn't decido which voice it was, w Inch made the situation very embarrassing. A wrong; guess would lead to complications awful to think of. But a happy thought Inspired Charley, and be announced, "It's the dearest, sweetest little girl iti all the world." "Oh, you lovely boy!" gurgled the satisfied one, as she removed her hands. And now Charley thinks of applying for a foreign ministry, frcTiug that his talents would be wasted In any other than a diplomatic field. 'A Next Best Thine. Willie E. Kent-Can't you let me ouT this afternoon to attend my grandiuj" funeral? Staldto Home Not very we'd; but yon can slip out now and then to look at thV score. New York World. ? When the first baby Is about a year old, almost all the money In the house xnay be found in the baby's bank.