Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 April 1895 — Page 2

SINCE YESTERDAY. The mavis sang but yesterday A strain that thrilled through autumn's dearth; . He read the music of Ids lay In light andleaf, and heaven and earth; The wind-flowers by the wayside swung, Words of the music that was sung. In all his song the shade and sun Of earth and heaven seemed to meet Its joy and sorrow were as one, Its very sadness was but sweet; He sang of summers yet to be; You listened to the sons with inc. The heart makes sunshine in the rain, Or winter in the midst of May, And though the mavis sings again His self-same song or yesterday, I find no gladness in his tonej To-day I listen here alone. And e'en our sunniest moment takes Such shadows of the bliss we knew To-day his throbbing song awakes But wistful, haunting thoughts of youj Its Tery sweetness is but sad, You gave it all the joy it had. A. St. J. Adcock.

brown cheeks, and

CABMEN.

EX GERTRUDE B. MTDTiAKD.

AtfJUJi stood m the door of the

cook-house, her

hand shading her eyes, and

gazed intently over the prairie toward the West. The level rays of the sun cast a rosy glow on her gave a reddish

tinge to the coal-blaek hair falling straight over her shoulders, after the manner 'of married women of her tribe. Carmen was a Spanish Indian half-breed, and a beauty. Sho was known at Star Camp as Jake Einger's squaw-wife. Whea Jake came back from Mexico, after the troable about his knifing Longhaired Ike had blown over, he brought this woman with him. Jake was not a man to be lightly questioned. He kept his affairs to himself, and his hand was ever ready to his pistol when he was pressed beyond his liking; but it was whispered among the boya that he had stolen his dusky bride from her mother's lodge on the night that was to have consummated her nuptials with Big Grizzly, the young Apache chief. Jake was kind to her in a fashion that decidedly astonished the men best acquainted with his fierce and gleomy character. As for Carmen, her soft, brown eyes followed her rough lord with the steady faithfulness of a dog ; no white wife could have been so gentle or so helpful as this savage girl. ; She had been alone for a week now, while the herders were off on the range, rounding up the horses for their yearly branding. To-night she looked for them home. There was a sound of baking sizzling in the big fryingpan, brown-jacketed potatoes peeped from their hiding place in the hot ashes, and Carmen left the door for a moment to peep into the oven at the biscuit coloring delicately inside. Carmen cooked well, and the boys found her presence a welcome on, freeing them of irksome stewing over the stove when they rode home tired and hungry. She glanced through the window as she rose from her biscuit inspection, then hastily returned to her post in doorway. Far oft on the edge of the prairie a tiny moving cloud made its appearance, creeping snail-like toward her ; gradually it rolled and swelled and came rushing over the intervening plain, taking shape into rounded puffs ever falling and renewing. "La caballadal" she murmured, in a satisfied tone. At last there came a thunder of quick hoof-beats, and then the excited herd dashed after their leader into the big corral. The heavy gates banged, the chain rattled over the staple. Five hungry men sprang from their saddles, and, hastily picketing their ponies, made a bee-line for the cook-house. They greeted Carmen with boisterous jollity, flung themselves upon their benches, and, without further ado, began to devour the food set before them. 'Hey ! this coffee is prime, my Carmen!" "Some white woman taught

yer ter make biscuits, gal!" "Say, Jake, you bet it's fine to get back to Carmen's cookin'!" vociferated one and another, as, the edge of their appetites dulled,';they began to ply their knives more slowly. Carmen paid no attention to their rough compliments. She was standing behind her husband's chair, actirg as waitress when occasion required, at other times fingering his sombrero or timidly touching his tousled curls. Each man was duly supplied with edibles; but the crispest bacon and brownest biscuit found their way to Jake Einger's plate, until finally he looked up and announced : ' 'Is ve had enough 1 Now eat, yourself." The men rose from the table and scattered to their evening ocenpa;ion ; only Jake remained, smoking in ihe doorway, while Carmen sat down io her meal of fragments. As the last slouching figure vanished toward the cabins, he turned to the woman with a slow smile, and asked in Mexican: "Has it been lonely theselays, cara mia?"

It is alwavs night in my heart

when thou art gone, O my husband I"

Then, still in the soft Mexico tongue, they talked together of such things as made up their life of the

range happenings, of the morrow s

ornrlr. of what thev would buy m

Alamito when the herds were driven

in to be sold.

Lastlv. as Jake rose and knocked

the ashes from his pipe, he remarked,

in English;

"To-morrow and Friday's the brandin, but Saturday I'll make the boys get out the plow en lis us a tire-break. The RTftss is uncommon long jest now, en it's dryin fast. Ef we don't look out, we'll have the whole camp goin' up in smoke. " He stiode through the starlit dusk toward his sleeping shack, and Carmen, shutting softly the door of the cook-hou?e, followed slowly in the same direction. The air felt stifling and oppressive. A stiff breeze came out of the south, but its hot breath filled the frame with uncomfortable languor. Old Tom Griliin, standing in the door of the boys' shack, halloed to Jake as he passed him. Carmen slipped by them and into her own little shanty. "Look her, Jake," growled old Tom. in nn undertone, "the boys is snoozin' a'ready, but I can't turn in for thiukin' er that pesky long hoss-fed out yander. With this here breeze, a fire cud come a-gallopin' what d'yer say ter vou'n me goin' out now and burnin' off a bit ? J est f er luck ! " "Pshaw, Tom, 'taiu't so awful dry yet, neither. Turn in, man, en quit

botherin . After the brandm's done, j we'll up and plow a good breakin'. t

You bet I'm tired, en I ain't no mind 7

ter go burnin' off this time o night." He turned on his heel and disappeared into the smaller cabin. Old Tom shook his head. "Them boys ain't keerful enough," he muttered; "seems to me them critters yander air oneasy." He glanced once more toward the corral, where an unusual stamping and pawing seemed to confirm his words ; once more he shook his head doubtfully; then, after a look all round the horizon, where no uncommon sign was manifest, he at last sought his bunk. Tired nature soon drowned his fears in sleep. Five hours later a slim, red tongue reached over the crest of the knoll that bounded tli8 horizon of Star Camp to the south. It writhed this way and that among the long grass stems. Another and another followed it, then a wall of flame, reaching east and west as far as the eye could follow, rose over the ridge and bore down, with race-horse speed, upon the

devoted little settlement below.

Jake Einger stirred uneasily in his

sleep, and flung a protecting arm over the quiet figure beside him. A

glare of lurid light filled the little room with the brightness of noonday ; but still they slept on. Outside in the corral, horses were snorting and

stamping, their wild eyes staring at the distant but swift coming danger. The animals picketed on the prairie

tugged at their stout ropes, rearing

and screaming.

Old Tom Griffin, waked by the ris

ing clamor, sprang with a bound to

the door. "Fire ! Fire I he shouted.

"Quick, out of this, or ye'll smother

like rats in a hole !"

Four half-clad figures rushed out

into the night, and Dick Elland beat on Jake Einger's door, calling: "Up! Up ! if ye value your lives !"

Eoused from his heavy slumber,

Jake stumbled across the floor;

trembling, Carmen followed close be

hind.! One look at the oncoming demon brought Jake to his wandering senses. "A back-fire, quick, you idiots!" he bawled, and made a break for the cook-house. Old Tom laid a powerful, restraining hand on his shoulder. "Too late, my lad!" he shouted above the din of the frantic penned-in herd. "That furnace ud reach us afore 'twas even started." Indeed, the fiery breath of the advancing flames already scorched their faces. 'We must trusb to our good horseflesh !" spoke up Dick Elland, quickly. A rush for the picketed ponies in an instant more each man was riding for his life. Jake Einger was first in the saddle ; he curbed his frightened steed with one strong arm, and with the other swung Carmen's light form to a seat behind him. It was old Tom who stopped at the corral, snatched the chain from its hook, and, flinging wide the gates, gave freedom to the poor, crazed creatures within the walls. Fear lent wings to their feet the ridden and the riderless together dashed eagerly toward the dark northern horizon, where, miles away, lay safety in the cool waters of the Brazos.

No one looked back in time to see how, with a leap and a roar, the hungry flames pounced on the deserted buildings, and, in one short moment, licked up every trace of man's handiwork. On and on, mile after mile of dry prairie slipping back from their swift-beating hoofs, sped the fleeing band.

Anxious faces turned now and then

to see if they kept their Btart from

their evil pursuer. It was Carmen, cowering on old General's back Car

men, clinging with a clutch of despair to Jake's shoulders who turned the oftenest. It was Carmen who first noticed that the short distance so

terribly, hopelessly short between them and the eddying flame-cloud was lessening. She shrieked aloud in her terror, but Jake bade her sternly:

"Take courage ! It's only two miles

more to the river.

Only two miles ! but the pace was

telling. The work-weary and laden ponies were already distanced by the

flying herd. Old General, with his

double burden, still kept his placo in

the van, but Jake could feel he was

weakening.

Nearer and ever nearer swept the destroying element. Slower and

slower seemed to move the panting

and straining horses. A mile a half-mile now but

quarter to safety I Could they make

it? The fire was pressing them close

ly ; the stinging smoke blinded men

and horses ; their skins parched and

cracked in the awful heat. Inch by inch old General lost his frontage ; in

vain Jake plied tho spur, in vain he sworo and he pleaded j tho good old horse was spent. In one last, despairing glauce backward, Jake eaw thtit tho flames wera upon them; his bravo beast still staggered forward, but at that pace nothing could save them. Carmen's face was buried on his shoulder. With parched lips tho man muttered : "At least wo die together !" A wild scream ran through the pall of grass smoke. Old Tom on the river-bank heard it "Adios, caro mio, one alone may be savod!" The clinging arms relaxed ; relieved of the woman's weight, the horse sprang forward. For a second her figure stood haloed, as her hair and light garments blazed upward; then the swirling billowu shut out the terrible picture. Jake Einger covered his eyes and fell forward on General's neck. He did not know that his hair was singed and his clothes already smoldering as his horse plunged into the Brazos. Ho did not know that his comrades lifted him gently up the opposite bank as the fire swept to the water's edge and died iuto sudden darkness. But when he came back to consciousness, then he knew that Carmen had given her life for him. Argonaut.

AN INDIAN SCHOOL.

WISE W011D3.

A still tongue will tell in the end. Look out for retributive injustice. The mortal who is not sensitive is cruel. There is a great deal of human nature in a mule. Do not expect the worst, but be pre pared for it. Tempt:.. uu i the beauiniul doorway to a wretched interior. A blunt truth is sometimes sharper than a two edged sword. It isn't what we think we are that other people think we are. If one would be just he must begin with good nature as a basis. It is easier to be polite to our creditors than it is to our debtors. Give every man a chance, and if he loses give him another chance. So few women are great geniuses because so many women are so nearly that. It is rarely necessary to say about others anything you could not say to them. "A word to the wise is sufficient." A word to the fool is more than he wants. There is not a wide margin between saying a mean thing and doing a mean thing. A great man may stand on the top of the ladder and be in a hole at the same time. There are always some weak-minded people to applaud any man who knows how to boast. Something more than finite power is needed to prepare mankind for an

infinite condition.

A man will follow a' word with a

blow, while a woman will follow a blow with a great many words.

A woman sets her mind to do a thing

without thinking whether other peo

ple's minds are set that way or not.

It isn't always the man who hag

money who has a smiling countenance ; it's the man who wants to borrow it.

Whether a deed is a crime or merely

a mistake depends very largely upon

the relationship we bear to the person who committed it.

Waited Ten Hours For His JL'icturo. The other morning an English lady

who desired to take the portrait of a

ragged but "picturesque" Moor whom

she met on the street m Algiers, got

him in position, but found upon examination that she had neglected to

bring an important part of her kodak. So she ran back to the hotel, two blocks away. She there met some dear friends from London who had just arrived ; so she forgot all about the Moor and the kodak. After dinner, 8 o'clock, she remembered; so with an escort she hurried to the spot. There the old Moor sat, just as she had left him, facing the instrument.

"Longtime take picture, he said.

He had been there since 10 o'clock a. m, of that day, but the business of sitting still suited him. The English lady, of course, gave him a penny to go and buy a farm with. Chicagr Post.

Magnetic Sand. A remarkable experiment has re

cently been made near Orange, N. J.,

on the Eagle Kook hue of the bubui ban

Traction Company with some magnetic sand from the ore-separating works

of Thomas A. Edison, at Ogden. Mr.

Edison had the idea that tho sand

would have more effect in preventing the slipping of the wheels than the ordinary sand. The experiment was tried during a snowstorm on the Eagle Bock line, where the grades are excessive and tho difficulties of operating it in the snow are enormous. The experiment proved a complete success, the sand making a perfect electrical connection with tho rails, and no slip being noted. Atlanta Constitution.

EDUCATING OUSICY IUTPILS IX WAYS OV CIVILIZATION.

What is Don for Indians of Uoth fcjexes at tho Carlisle (Penu.j School Developing ioth JSody and Mind.

The Tone Tells the Talc. In tho Chinese language the meaning depends more on tho tone in which the word is spoken than on the word itsolf. Tho same word may have a dozen entirely different meanings according to the tone in which it is spoken. This fact not only makes it difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese, but retards Chinose progress by making it hard to keep an accurate and easily translated record of thought. On such a record more than on any other one thing progressive civilization depends. New York World.

COMMENCEMENT at Carlisle isn't like a commencement V J nuywhere else on earth, except it bo in one of the other Bchools like unto that of Carlisle, a dozen or so of which are scattered over the United, States; offshoots of the Carlisle plan, and devoted to instructing the remnant of tho aboriginal inhabitants how to trim ideas instead of arrows, and to eat with forks instead of fingers. Carlisle was the pioneer proving grouud of this method of solving the "Indian problem," and Captain Pratt, of the Tenth Cavalry, the father of tho method, during a long and varied experience among Indians on the plains, and afterward, when in charge of the unruly prisoners taken in the war of 187-1-75, and transferred to Fort Augustine, found that Indians have hearts and souls, an;l he found, too, that they are amenable to kindly influences and eager to le.iru. Then it was that the educational seed sprouted, out of which Carlisle has

! grown. Sixteen years ago, after hard j labor, the old, abandoned Carlisle I barracks, half .a mile from the city of Carlisle, Penn., almost a ruin, relic of j Ecvolutionary day.?, was reluctantly i turned over to him by the Interior Depurtmen:-, and he was told to get on to the reservation with his small I red men and stay there, as the people

in the vicinity, staid old Quakers and thrifty Germans, didn't like the near

proximity of the aborigines, and were disposed to spoil his fun if he didn't keep them well in hand. Captain Pratt's idea was at that time an experiment. His idea was to teach tho Indians English, and to give them a primary education and some knowledge of common and practical Industry, thus affording them means of self-support among civilized people. When Carlisle opened its doors there entered it less than eighty Indians, got together only by a mighty effort. Now there are nearly 800 Indian pupils m the commodious, comfortable quarters at Carlisle, and they represent fifty-five tribes. Every industry and many arts and sciences are taught at Carlisle. The boys ai e trained to be tinners, tailors, cobblers, blacksmiths, harnessmakers, carpenters, cabinetmakers, wagonmakers and farmers, as their tastes run, each youth being permitted to take up for his trade the one that he likes beat. The girls learn, besides books, all the womanly accomplishments, such as sewing, washing, ironing, darning, mending, baking, etc. Boys and girls alike are instructed in music, drawing, painting and the other arts, and alike they serve half of each day in the school room and the other half in one of the industrial classes. For their services in these classes a few cents a day is paid each student, and these and the "outing" earnings amount in the aggregate to nearly $25,000 a year, all of which is placed to the credit of each individual earning it, and it can be drawn upon at will, under slight restrictions. There is a regular cashier, whose duty it is to care for this fund, and it is quite amusing to watch the students draw upon their bank account. They have bank books, which are models of neatness. An Indian seems to take naturally to penmanship and figures, j There are some things that the students of Carlisle could teach the people who talk of "civilizing" them. The young ladies seldom or never wear any other head covering than a bright scarf, and in the evening their glossy and well-kept black hair is fully in evidence, with a bit of bright ribbon or a flower coquettishly adjusted in it. The Indians love everything that is bright and beautiful, and the flower man that comes out every morning reaps a rich harvest from them. Indian children are naturally devout. The belief in a higher power seems to be born in them and finds expression in the Sabbath-Bchool, Y. M. C. A. and the King's Daughters. The little silvei cross that sets them apart from all others is a common ornament. The children are left to choose their own church. Services are held in the chapel every Sunday, but those who desire to attend services in the town of Carlisle, half a mile away, are chaperoned and cared for. It is the desire that all the students attend services somewhere, but it is never made obligator y. The love of the beautiful is shown in many ways. In the neat dormitories everything is as clean as soapsuds can make it, and pretty rugs, pictures and pieces of artistic handiwork, made by the owners themselves or purchased with their own spending money, adorn the rooms. The great dining rooms are furnished with white table linen and silver, neat china and and glass ware. Everything that appeals to the sense of tho beautiful is furnished.

The "outing system" is ono of the great institutions of Carlisle. When the school was first established it was objected that it would be a nuisance to the surrounding farmers, who seemed to have an idea that tho students would go on foraging expeditious when they got tired of tho restrictions of the school. Now those same formers are tumbling over each other to get Indian boys to work for them in the summer. That the boys are thoroughly imbued with a progressive spirit is Bhown in the fact that when Congress positively refused to make approjjriations for needed additions to the buildings for the boys, and for an

amusement hall, tho students went to; Captain Pratt; and told him that they would give $1800 of their earnings for the proposed improvements if he could raise the rest. Ho accepted the proposition, and the improvements Avero made. Tho Carlisle boya are handsomely uniformed and splendidly drilled in all evolutiousand in marching, though they carry no guns. Their perfectly fitting uniforms are mudo by their own tailor, assisted by Indian boys who are learning that trade. Everything tho Indian students wear is made by themselves. The girls have a light, airy sewing room, and make all their own clothes also. Washington Star.

0UE WIT AND HUMOR.

HAPPY HrfS BY THE FUNNY WRITERS.

A Horse That Eats Pic. Leonard Jacobs, a pie peddler, has one of the most remarkable horses in Connecticut, says tho Baltimore American. Others towns have boasted of ho rsen that chew tobacco and chew gum, but Jacobs' s horse will eat pie. The horse is twenty-three years old. Jacobs's pies come from Now Haven, packed in cases, and in transportation some of them get broken and cannot be sold. One day Jacobs threw a broken pio on the ground near the horse's head. The animal smelted it," touched it with his tongue, lapped it up and ate it with a relish. Then Jacobs began to feed pies to the horse. The horse soon got to like them, and would even refuse oats when pie was to be had. The habit has grown on him, nntii now, when Jacobs says "pie" to him, the horse will turn his head and wink expectantly. He has a decided preference for mince pies, and the more raisins and currants and cider there are the better he is pleased. Apple pie is not a great favorite with him. Most bakers' put grated nutmeg into the apple pie, and that doesn't seem to agree with the equine taste. Pumpkin pie he, likes, and cranberrv tarts are an es-;

pecial delight. Peach, apricot, berry! and prune pies are acceptable, bus unless the prunes are stoned he wilj not, touch prune pie after the firsi bite. The horse is fat, click and youthful in his movements, and J acobs expects to keep him on the pie: cart until he is lorg past the age when most horses are turned out to grasa for the rest of their days, or are carted to the horse cemetery by the side of the murky waters of the Naugatuck Eiver. ii i1. j. 11, L. Stevenson's Prayer, The British Weekly publishes the text of a prayer, composed by the late Eobert Louis Stevenson, the novelist. This prayer, it appears, was read aloud to Mr. Stevenson's family on the night before his death at Samoa in December last. The prayer is as follows: "We beseech Thee, O Lord, to behold U3 with favor. Folk of many families and Nations aie gathered together in the peace of this roof. Weak men and women subsisting under the cover of Thy patience. Be patient still. Suffer us yet a while longer, with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavors against evil suffer us a while longer to endure and, if it may be, help us to do better. Bless to us our extra mercies, and if the day comes when these must be taken, have us play the man under affliction. "Be with our friends. Be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest, and if any awake temper to them the dark hours of watching, and when the day returns to us our sun and comforter, call us with morning faces and morning hearts, eager to labor, eager to bo happy, if happiness shall be our portion, and if the day be marked to sorrow, strong to endure it. "We thank Thee, and praise Thee, and in the words of Him to whom this day is sacred, close our oblation." What Smallpox Can Do. At the time of the announcement of vaccination by Jenuer smallpox caused more than one-tonth of all the death of the human race. Fifty million peo-i pie died in Europe from smallpox during the eighteenth century. In the sixteenth century the disease appeared in Mexico, and 3,500,000 of the population yielded up their lives in a few years, leaving some provinces almost depopulated. In 1707 in Iceland 18,000 died in one year, the entire population being but 50,000. Seventy per cent, of the people of Greenland died of smallpox iu 1734. Smallpox is the most fearful disease with which the human race has ever been scourged. Macaulay tells us it was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, and leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power. "If a modern traveler," says Dr. Hyde, "could be transported to London in the early part of the present century, no peculiarities of architecture, dress, or behavior would be so conspicuous as ths enormous number of pock -marked faces he would encounter at every turn." It spared

neither rich nor poor, and even in- j vaded the palace of the King. Medi- j cal Eecord. I

A Dark Insinuation Asking Too Much A Uttlo learning I.i a Dangerous Quantity A Hard Full l'lotdum and Jetsam,

COUFLE OF TEXas darkys met, and began talking over matters and things. "How Is ole Col. Jones comin' on,

what used to own you before the war? He Is so old he must be gettin childish and losin' his reasonln' powers." "Don't know nufhain't seed him since

fin' about him

befoah las' Christmas." "Why, what's the matter?" "Ain't grot no use for sich ole gemmans. Last time I was dar I fotched him a bis? fish I had cotehed. I tole him of ho would gimme a table knife I would scrape an' clean de fish for him. What do yous s'pose he said?" "Asked yer ter come and get a dram and chat awhile about ole times on de ole plantation?" "No, sah ; he told me ef I couldn't borrow a table knife from some ob de nabors dat he would rather clean de fish hisself." "What did he mean by dat ar?" "I s'pose he was afeared I'd be keerless in handin' de knife- back when I got done wid it." The other darkey rubbed his chin and remarked : "I sees by dat ar dat de ole man's still got de use of his reasonin' powers." Texas Sittings.

A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing. "I'se gwinter take this medicine right back to de drug sto'! I tole 'em I wanted it fer my wife, an' here dey ia

give me a bottle er som' kinder stua what wuz put up fur somebody else ole Gineral Debility who eber he is." Texas Sittings.

A Hard PclL A Massachusetts official who spent several years in Kentucky tells the story of a judge somewhat given to bibulosity. After a night with the boys the judge was considerably "how come you so," and for a lark the mischief lovers reversed the wheels on his honor's old cradle shape wagon, putting the fore wheels behind and the hind wheels in front, thus raising the fore part of the wagon to an unwonted eminence. When he reached home, near morning, his wife naturally wanted to know where he had been all night.

JC ".T 0 " Vtones:

started in good season, but it was ten miles and up hill all the way." Boston Transcript.

He Was Sensitive. "You are an ignominious ass." "Look here, I'll not stand that. I'll see my lawyer and have him sue you for libel." "I ought not to have used such language. Here is a quarter. Let us call it square." "No, sir, never! You don't know me. When a man calls me an ignominious ass I never compromise under fifty cents."

A Liquid Ltc x

Moldy Mike Where did yeh ste4,thl3

bottle o whisky ? 'Tain t very good.

Tough Tim Snaked it up at that house yonder. I've tasted better. Hello! What's this written on this bit o' paper that's pasted on it: "Liquid Lye!" Moldy Mike Well, I've allowed all along that if the stuff pretended to be good whisky, it wasn't tellin the truth.

Asking Too Much. Weary Walker Will you not be so kind as to assist me with a little money? "I'd never give anything to a big, stout, healthy man like you," replied Mr. Uptown. "Well, do you suppose I'm going to

Au Invalid's Alarming Amusement. I find iu a Boston newspaper a little item which may be calculated to cause well-defined shudders in several localities out of the Hub even in New York. The item is to the effect that in Cambridge the other day a small girl was seen picking bits of paper out of a barrel of household refuge that was waiting in tho street to be removed by the city department, and when asked what she could be doing said sho was hunting up torn letters for her sister, who was Biok. "Sha amuses herself," explained the child, "pasting the pieces together and reading 'em!" If this style of amusenienl for invalids is to become at all common the time would seem to b at hand when "Burn this" should be tht standing precept of correspondent! who are at all squeamish as to wh reads their letters. -New York World

get the galloping consumption from the couple of pennies you might give me?" retorted the indignant crossroads tour ist. Texas Sittings.

I'soil No l.urger Ones. " In this cage," said the keeper, "we have a splendid specimen of the Pelecanus amerieanus, or American pelican. It is noted, as you see, for the enormous size of its bill" "I don't see anything remarkable about it." observed the man who had. just settled with the gas company, pass ing on. Chicago Tribune.