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TEXAS.
SUNRISE. .
Hie world is speaking to me this fair morn.
Its voice is sweet and strong and manifold;1 4
It has a freshness as of one new born.
It has a wisdom as of one grown old.
And I would catch its faintest undertone.
The dreamy murmur of this white-lipped sea.
The browsing cattle with their shadows thrown
To westward from the hillocks on the lea;
That softened outline of the morning hills
Against the shining of the eastern sky,
The sunlit vapor which the hollows Alls,
The shadows which athwart the vapor lie.
Ah, what can mean this manifold clear voice.
Which speaks and waits my. eager questioning»
It seems at first to only say “Rejoice.”
Then comes a doubt it savs some de -p/ar thing
—H. F. Horton, in Good Words.
CLEVERLY TRAPPED.
Incident in My Early Experi-
ence as a Detective.
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Daring th^ first three years of my
career as a selective I had some singu-
lar Jobe given roe to work on. and the
manner in which one- of them was
worked, and the development of the
case, may interest the reader.
About three miles outside the limits
of a large' city in Pennsylvania stood a
large farm-house. There had been ^ a
murder committed there, and whisky
had played havoc with an heir, and the
house had stood vacant for three years
before I saw it The farm had passed
Into the hands of a New Yorker on a
mortgage, and he seemed to have for-
gotten all about it. ' Naturally enough
the cry of “Haunted bouse” was raised
and presently you could not have hired
a neighbor to enter the house in the
-day-time. There were people living
within a quarter of a mile of the place,
and by-and-by they began to tell some
queer stories. On two occasions par-
ties of three or four went out from the
city to stop in the honse all night, but
in each instance they were driven away
by strange noises .before midnight I
lived in a toi^n forty miles from the
haunted honse, and consequently heard
nothing of it
I had a case against an absconding
treasurer. He had the funds of a large
and prosperous lodge in his hands, and
got away with $3,000 belonging to it
He furthermore borrowed about $2,000
of hfs friends, and got $300 more on a
forged draft. This occurredJn a town
about thirty miles from the haunted
house. The defaulter had bought a
railroad ticket for Chicago, and had
left behind him, as if by accident a
parcel addressed to a party in the Gar-
den City. It ought to have been reas-
oned that this party was he under
another name, and that be had gone to-
Chicago as fast as steam could carry
hfm. but I reasoned just the opposite.
He had gone without his trunk or cloth-
ing, but when I came to overhaul his
things, his landlady figured out that
two clean shirts, several collars, a stout
pair of boots, and an old suit of clothes
were missing from the honse. The boots
and old suit had belonged to a boarder
who died months before.
There were three highways leading
out of the town. I worked two of them
without success. On. the third I sooh
found a farmer who had seen a foot
traveler resembling ray man pass on
the evening he absconded. Five miles
farther on I became positive of his
identity. He walked all -that night
with only two- brief halts before mid-
night to inquire about roads, but once
on bis trail I soon picked up plenty of
pointers. The absconder's name was
Kelly, and he was a keen, shrewd fel-
low. He had planned tbe embezzle-
- ment and escape weeks ahead, and he
followed ont a regular programme. He
left town dressed as a laborer, and
carrying a valisg. He had a light felt
hat, a black felt hat and a cap. and
about once in ten miles he exchanged
hi£ headgear. He was a smooth-faced
man, but he had provided himself with
a goatee, and side whiskers.’ ’I thus
heard of him once as a smooth-faced
young man wearing a cap and having
one arm in a sling; next as a youngish
man with a goatee and a black hat;
again as a full-whiskered man with a
light hat. I Confess that I was badly
pujftled and about ready to despair
when I came to a farm-house where he
had stopped for dinner. He was then
smooth faced and wore a cap, and
• claimed to be an agent for a windmill
company whose rights had been in-
fringed on, and who were taking steps
Is collect royalty.,
When Kelly entered the kitchen for
dinner a hired boy of color, who was
not permitted to eat with the family,
. was left in the sitting room. His curi-
osify regarding the cqntents of the
valise was aroused, and ho picked the
lock and overhauled them. He was
careful not to say any thing of this to
the family, but when I came along on
my errand I soon discovered that he
and was twelve days about it. I fol-
lowed him mile by mile, and owing to
a severe stoim was thirteen days. I
traeefl.him into the suburbs of the city
and there lost him, and, though I
had the help of three or four . lrtral
officers, we got no further trace of him.
A*t length we heard of a person a hun-
dred mites.away who bore Kelly’s de-
scription, and I was about to start
after him when I overheard the follow-
ing conversation in a restaurant:
-§o the boys who went to the haunted .
House got a scare?” ■' -
“An awful scare. I guess a new
ghost has taken possession.”
“What did they see or hear?”
“Saw doors open and heard groans
and various other noises.”
“W< 11« its funnv.”
“Yes.”
It may seem strange to you that I at
once, decided that I had located Kelly
again. It was quite probable tl^at he
had known of the haunted houses for
years, as its fame was widespread, and
the fact of a new ghost showing up
just at this time - made me suspicious.
That night at ten o’clock, accompanied
by a local defective, I visited the place.
It was a rambling big farmhouse, situ-
ated twenty rods from the highway,
amt the ground around was grown up
to weeds and bushes. All the windows
were broken, and some of the doors
stood open, and a more gloomy place
I never saw. We entered hy a rec”
door and found the floors rotting away
and the plastering crumbling off. We
pushed on to. the sitting room, where
the young men had stationed them-
selves the night before, and here found
some blocks of wood to sit down on.
There was a doorway leading into the
front hall, but the door was gone.
There was a doorway to the parlor,
and the door was partly open. As we
looked into the parlor I swung'the door
to and fro, and knew from the move-
ment that the hinges had been freshly
oiled.
When we came to inspect the cellar
we found little but cobwebs- and dust.
Each of ns had a lantern, and each in-
spected for himself. At one. corner of
the cellar I found an old oyster can in
a queer position. It seemed to be stick-
ing to the floor above, but after a close1
examination, without, however, touch-
ing it with my hands, I made up my
mind that it was held up there by a
cord. I said nothing to my companion
about this, nor about another discovery
made in the front* hall. At one spot,
where the plaster was off from base to
and I had a feeling that it was Kelly:
It was just in the line with his other
sharp tricks. I did not tell my . com-
panion what I suspected nor what I
intended-to do, but! had all my plans
laid before morning. . The old house-
Was two and,a half story, and whoever
was hiding ther« was likely to be in
the,g;ij^-et. It was also likely that this
kad a
piece loosened his tongue, and he told
me of tbe hais and false whiskers.
After that 1 had no trouble in follow-
ing Kelly, no matter which disguise lie
assumed. There was a direct highway
from the town he left to the city with
ceiling, I canoA^ight of a wire behind
the laths. ThS^ffed up and dowri, and
the lower end was probably attached
to some object We did not go up
stairs. The front stairs had never been
finished, and the back ones were so di-
lapidated that we hesitated to trust
them” with our weight By* eleven
o’clock we had taken onr seats in the
sitting room, eyes and ears alert ahd
ready for any emergency. There was
no lock or catch on the door opening
into the parlor, but it was shut The
two windows lqoking ont of the room
had been boarded up. We placed our
lanterns in a corner, and as we watched
and waited the room was in semi-dark-
ness and the house as still as death,
v It-must have been near midqight
when the performance opened. We
suddenly caught the faint notes of jfuu-
sic. and the sounds lasted for two or
three-minutes. I was satisfied that the
sounds came from a jewsharp. My
companion whispered that two female
voices were singipg, while a guitar
played ap accompaniment. The music
had scarcely die'd away when the parlor
door opened as noiselessly as the swing
of a coffin lid. I was perfectly satisfied
that it was the work of human hands,
but I was startled. I had not told the
defeotiye that I expeeted to find Kelly
in the house. I had simply said that I
expected to make an important discov-
ery. Whqn the door swung open the
man started up in alarm and whispered:
“Great heavens! Let us be gone!”
I put my hand on his arm and waited
-for the next move.. In about a minute
we heard a tunk! tunk! tank! oh the
cellar stairs. I knew that the sound
w:ts made by the oyster can being low-
ered a few inches from the floor and
drawn up again by the string, biit my
companion rose to his feet, wheeled
half around, and whispered:
“Look out for yourself! The cussed
thing is coming up out of the cellar!’'
“Keep still—listen!” I replied, and
when the can had “tanked” one for
each step the sound ceased. Then Ihe
parlor door slowly .and silently swung
to. As, I have told you. I was dead
sure;that all these tilings were caused
bybtiman Agency, and yet I felt a
creeping of-my flesh, and my forehead
was damp with perspiration. The de-
tective with me was as br*ve a man as
ever took up a trail, but such was the
effect ui>on him that his face was as
white as snofr, his teeth chattered, anti
he clutched me and pleadingly
claimed:
“If we stay here another minute we
are both dead men!”
I sat down anil drew him down bed-
side me, and as I did so the parlor doo?
garret was -reached from the second
story by-adadder. If the person was
Kelly, oiv .any other sharp fellow, the
ladder ivmild be drawn up, or any one
showing This head tibove the scuttle
would receive a" rap. If I got a squad
of men and-surrounded the house the
•bccivpant-t might. get off. by som^ un-
known-way,: or find, a hiding place un-
known to us. If we failed to find any
one the whole city would hold us up to
ridicule.. - ' .
There was no window in the garret
at tfie back end of .the house. It was
hardly daylight- before I approached it
from that direction, entered the place*
with great caution, and hid myself
away beneath the kitchen stairs. I ex-
pected the occupant of'the garret would
come down before noon, but he did not
show up. It was a dark and gloomy
day in the fall, with . frequent, rain
squalls, and about two o'clock in the
afternoon I crept up-st'airS in my stock-
ing feet,* entered a room near where the
garret scuttle, was located, and began
playing the ghost for some one else’s
benefit. I had brought along a mouth
organ, and I sounded and hung on to
a few lonesome notes several times
over. Pretty 3oon I heard a slight
movement overhead. Then I took a
fiddle string, made one end fast to a
nail, and when I had hauled taut I
picked the string with my th-unb nail.
I sent forth- complaining sounds, and I
added a few sighs and groans. The
sounds above me became plainer, and
I knew that some one was listening at
the scuttle.
I gave him a few more notes scratched
on the wall and floor, and in a few
minutes a ladder was thrust down from.
4he scuttle. A few deep-drawn groans
on my part brought a mart down the
ladder, and as he reached the foot of it
I coltared him. aIt was Kelly. He who
had played ghost on Others had himself
fallenVntd the trap. He screamed right
out at sight of me, and he did n-ot. get
his nerve back until I had him outdoors.
He fully believed for the time that a
spirit made the sounds. The case was
about as I had figured. He had planned
to come to the house, and he intended?
to remain thpre several weeks. He had.'
affixed, cords to the' tap of the parlor
door to swing itr, and had arranged for
ali the sounds Ave hritrd. If 1 felt elated
he felt very sheepish as an offset, and
when sentenced to two years in State
prison for his Crime, he said to me:
“It isn’t .that.l was caught, but that I
was outwitted and bamboozled. Why,
man, I had that whole plan in my head
for months, and I'd have bet a hundred
to one that I’d get safe off. Just think
what a fool I was to take up^uarters
iu a haunted house,,and then let some
one play the ghost on me!”—N. Y. Sun.
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DUTY'S PLAIN PATH.
Why Boston’* Cultured Maids Take au
Interest iri Dakota's Little Ones.
Dakota Man (in Boston)—I have just
received-, a letter from a friend in Bliz-
zardville asking me to engage a school
teacher, and I thought perhaps you—
Boston Girl (haughtily)—That will
do, sir. Do you suppose any woman
• FRESH FASHION NOT^S.
Hints and Sucfg-estlons on Themes Pleasing
to the Fair sex.
White -wool waistcoats appear on
many dark wool costumes.
Pointed caps at the top of sleeves and
epaulettes remain in favor.
High standing collars to gowns
divide favor with low and rolling col-
lars. .
Old rose plush is'a favorite trim-
ming. material for white China silk
dresses.
Tea green in a greht many shades is
WOODEN TOOTHPICKS.
A Little Machine That Makes Six Millions
of Them Krery Bay.
As he stood beside a little machine
, that was sending out a perfect cyclone
of toothpicks, some. 10,000 of them -a
minute', Mr. E:-T- Edgectmib* the title
niember of the firm, related liis experi-
ence in the tbpthpick business:
“I was foijmerly a nieehart.ieal expert
in the employ of tlie Haverh'oiti Ma-
chine Conipany. I was with that con-
cern a number of years, mastering
many details and ideas about raa-
exceiulinglv popular in spring- dress chinery, for which I hold a most de- ;
goods. j cided t;^te. In fact, it is mV hrtbbv. A
C Moire, China' silk a*d plush are 4 few vents agfelleftmy position with the
few years agb I left my position with the
beautifully combined in many ‘spring Haverholil company and Went to *Me
becoming to brunettes aud French
blondes.
There is no hint from abroad that the
Psyche coiffure is adopted,
comes a .success it will prove that.
America can set a fashion in
dressing.
of culture and refinement would con-
sent to leave Boston?'
“Blizzardville is a lively place, in
summer.” ,
“No doubt. Houses painted, red,
yellow and green, I suppose?”
“Not all. Paint costs money.”
“Thermometer goes tq twenty below
aero in Winter. I suppose?”
“Yes, in nice weather it gets up to
twenty below quite often, after Christ-
inas.”;' .. '; V" ; . .. -
*■ “Gets ilp! Good, very good. dfelightr'
ful prospect! And no (heaters, operas,
concerts or., lecture the whole year
around?'’ ;
“Well, Deaeon Lunkhead generally
gives us a little lecture at the Friday
evening prayer meeting.” . . v
“Ami you think any woman in her
senses will consertt to bury herself in
such a place? Wliat became of the
school teacher you had before? Did “she
freeze to death or commit suicide?”
“No, indeed-. She got married. They
get nparried off so fast we Can't keep
our schools open.” , '
“Oh! The poor Uttlc children musn't
be allowed'to grow up in ’ ignorance.
I’ 11 go. ’ ’— Oinah d- World.
costumes. t . .
A pretty fashion in spring dresses'is j
to combine checked and pfain, or
striped and plain silks in them.
Selvages woven trt form borders, of
skirts and draperies are - a feature in
many kinds of new spring'goo/is.
The large quantity of yellow shades
used in spring millinery mhkes it very
| chaoic Falls, where I formed a machine
company. Later I went into the tooth-
pick business with Mr. Harry D. Crergh-
j ton, of Philadelphia, as my par ner.
We succeded pretty well in our venture,
till all of a sudden we found that the
toothpick combination had frozen us
put. This combination practically eon-
■ trolled all the toothpick business of the
United States, and when it refused to
supply us with toothpicks. we found
ourselves in a bad position. We had a
If it be-' large number of orders to fill, and not
a pick’to fill them with. Iu this-ex-
hair- trernity I went to work to get up a
. - toothpick machine of my own, and you
Small buttons of gilt and of silver, see the result of my labor before you.
cloth .covered and silk crochet, are med' Thiq »™chine manufactures about six
for fastening waistcoats and decorating million picks per day. and they are
the cuffs and. collars of dresses that are about as Sood Plcks M th<?re are in the
tripled with gold, silver,, silk or mo-
hair braid.
Qnarttities of silver and gold braid,
put'on in row’s that form Vs and oth r
market.” ' .
He took up a handful of picks from
the bin into which they were being
poured from the mouth of the machine,
and handed one to tife reporter for ex-
i o,,
and ii lihe v*rlfcal lines on the waist- the enJ sharpened oil like a ehtsel.
coats are nsed on both outdoor and in- fn0<1 fu°.ks m,1e?d th.e, r<*0~r
door irowns thought, and his view is evidently the
The”big bows of wide glace ribbons l>ub'iov “ind- to judge Iron, the fact
that adorn the huge Directory bonnets that the factorv has ord ahead for
tjiat there is an effort to popularize this. lts ent,fe production of tue next, five
spring are the most aggressive decora-
tions that we have seen in years. They
look as if they were swearing‘at the^toothpick was made. Well, fet’s begin
years.
j “But you wished to
at the first stage of the process.
“The world we use is birch and ma-
ple. It must be green, clear and straight
grained. We get it from all along the
line of the Main (JentraL It comes in
fonr-foot logs, which we saw into six
and a quarter inch pieces. These are
put into barrels in the steaming room,
where they remain for about three
hours, coming ont as soft as leather. ,
He picked up a piece of thin veneer
and exhibited its pliability by twisting
it carele-sly in the way one would a
strip of ribbon:
“The charging of the
steam drives out, all the sap; and then
it is ready for the veneer machine, the
bark having been removed. Here is
the veneer machine in operation,” and
he indicated a piece* of mechanism
much like a lathe, similar to the veneer
machine placed in this instrument and
out comes two long serpents of veneer
or ribbons of wood, the grain ranning
across the stripi which are'allowed tci
squirm around on the floor till after the
for old ladies^ The colors preferred f°PThey°are then'wound up on large
are seal and ,Havan browns, dark and ^ each spooi carrying about a
olive greens. Gobelin blues; and black. hundrfcd fwet or so of veneer. Tfie reels
The new ginghams for the ihcoming art; the ammunition with which the
season are finer in finish, coloring,and toothpick machine is loaded. The end
combinations, of pi aided and barred Gf the veneer is placed in the Gatling-
effeets that hay-6 been seen for years, gun-like apparatus, and shoot ouf at
Indeed, they closely resemble the new the muzzle in a scattering volley. A
plaided silks that are brought out for small boy picks them up into drying
parts of costumes amt the bands, cuffs, *4 boxes, with wire, bottoms. 1 hey are
beholder, the wearer and the bonnet all
at the same time.
There is a great deal of talk about
long classic deaneries and Directoire
styles, but far .all that the larger num-
ber of gowns made up in thf-leading
houses this spring have well-looped
bonflant draperies, peaked bodices, and
have steels in the back breadths to givo
greater apparent aptitude to the full
underskirts.
A lovely tea gown is composed of old
rose bengaline for the back breadths
and sleeves, pale straw:colored ben-
gal ine for the front, the Henrj II. puffs
in the armhole and the'fillirig of the
Sla^h at the .waGt, while the bands that
decorate the whole are -of tea green
plush, embroidered with gold thread
ami spangled with gold.
The favorite dreAes for elderlv
women are made of moire for. the skirt
and of Henrietta cloth, cashmere, China
silk, bengaline or surah for the polo-
rtaise, arid the polonaise is the faVoritti
form of upper garment and draperies
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—In this country nearly three dol-
lars' worth of milk,- cream, butter and
cheese together are sold and consumed
to every dollar’s wonh of beef. The
market far dairy products is practically
inexhaustible.
—It is said that the biggqst quill
toothpick factory in the world is near-
Paris.'. It was originally a quill p$n
factorv. but when these went out of
general ,use the factory turned to the
\ toothpick business, and now makes.
20,000,000 annually:
—According to eminent French:
authority, the proper temperature itt
well-ventilated places is as followsr
Nurseries, asylums and schools, 69 de-
grees; workshops,.barracks and prisons,
50: -hospitals,- 61 to 64; theaters and
lecture rooms.' 66 to 69.
—A writer«op “The Climate of the y-
Lake Region,” (extending from Lake
Ontario, to Lake Superior), after digest-
ing the meteorological records of the
past fifty years, predicts intolerably
hot summers far that region in 1894,
1905, and 1917, and exceedingly cold
winters in 1901, 1912 and 1923.
—Manufacturers complain that the
African rubbers now received do not
yield,when strained and cleaned, more
than thirty to thirty-five per cent, pure
rubber gum, owing to the natives adul-
terating with sawdust, b.irkdnst, etc.,
to overcome the inconvenient stickiness^
of the juice.
1 —An automatic chess recorder has.
bpen produced by Dr. Wurstemberger,
of Zurich. An ingenious electrical ar-
rangement prints on a strip of paper
the index number and letters of the
square from and to which the piece is
moved, and moves of the black pieces
have a different place on tbe tape from
those of the white.
—‘It is found that smoke, as it issues
from the muzzle of & heavy gun, can
be almost instantaneously precipitated
by meads of a simple electrical ap-
paratus. The invention is based upon
the researches of Professor Tyndall,
Lord Rayleigh and Professor Lodge in
the action of electricity upon floating
dust and vapor, and it should be of
considerable military value.
—At a recent meeting in London Dr.
E. P. Th wing stated that Americans are
more susceptible to the influence of
alcohol than Englishmen, and more
affected by tobacco than Hollanders,
Turks or Chinese. This he attributes to
au increased sensitiveness of tbe nerv-
ous system, induced by tbe high pres-
sure life of this country. Doubtless the
climate, also, has much to do with it.
wood with \- —The salt moan tains of Nevada, the
salt island iu Louisiana, as well as va-
rious other deposits of chloride of so-
dium in different parts of the world, are
almost absolutely pufe chloride of
sodium. Of 22.28 per cent of salts
found in Great Salt Lake, the remarka-
ble preportion of 20.19 per cent, i#
found to be pure chloride of sodran^
and yet many of tbe streams rtrnniag
in to tbe lake eon Lain vastly larger quan-
tities of other salts. - _ ■
—Investigations with regard to the
prevalence of destructive inseHaf have
jed to curious ^nd interesting discov-
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know how a
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The Golden Mean.
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collars, and decorative effects , of tea
gowns that are made of two pale neh-
tral tints. >' . • •
America does give^ome fashions to
Europe. ChiltL'en here are dressed to
a great extent in the Kate Greenaws\y
styles, and latterly Parisians are ■be-
ginning to put those long-skirted, shorf-
waisied. quaint gowns and cloaks and
big hoods on their little ones, and, with
the generosity of that polite and genial
people, they order them of their dress-
ynakers ,as .“American gowns, coats’
and bonnets” for children.
. It is a new fancy in tailor gowns to
hnVe the fmrit Breadth and waistcoat
of some pale tint of clo'th, while the
back and side breadths, the bodice .and-
sleeves are of dark doth. Lor instance^
chamois and Gobelin blue, chamois and
tapestry green, coachman’s drab and
red, gray and seal brown, aye combined
in such gowns, the decorative effects
being supplied by pinked out Vandykes
and revers. metal braids and buttons.
The figuring on the India and China
silks grow larger and more eccentric
as the season advances. Sonic are
flowered in large, loose, all-over jardin-
iere patterns, others have palm leaf and
fan designs, sleigh bells, gronps of
dots, clusters, stripes and bars of-dots,
chain links, overlapping rings, forked
lightning streaks, loose-lying grasses
in vanishing effects; circlfes, mrmy s, and
placed on a hot air draught, fanned by
a blower, and in twenty minutes they
are dry as a bone.
“In the boxing room a half-doaen
girls stand at tables and put up a'bout
five cases a day, one hundred boxes in
a case, for which they are paid eighteen
cents a case. The work is nbt hard,
and an expert can make gfod wages.”
—Lewiston, (Me.) Jour nettop 1;?
A CLEVER STRATAGEM.
1 > ■
How Telegraph Wires Hare Been, aqd
-Are, Protected in Chill.
When the electrical telegraph was
first introduced into Chili^a ‘stratagem
was resorted to in order to guard the
posts and wires against 'damage on
the part of the Araucanian Indians
and maintain the connection between
strongholds on the frontier. ' There
were at (he time between forty and
fifty captive Indians in the Chilian
camp. General Pinto called them to-
eries. It is settled beyond all question
that the insects increase with the ad-
vance of civilization. The reason at
this is supposed to be because civilized
communities raise more fruits, grains
and vegetabjes for insects fa live on
than a state of nature supplies: Every
vegeLVble product and every variety of
fruit and flowers, have their special in-
sect retainers, so to speak, that live and
thrive on them. The entire loss occa-
sioned by insects in the United State* is
estimated at about $150,000,000 a T***1V
the annual loss on cotton alone being
$15,000.000._____ ■
CO-OPERATIVE MINING.
A Peculiar Ch'swe Society Wlileh la Orsr
Two Centuries Old,
•4A friend gives me a most interest-
ing aCcounL” writes a correspondent,
“of a Chinese community which he
visited in 1862, in the interior of Borneo.
There were some six hundred of them
engaged in working a-gold mine on the
co-operative- system. The profits were ^
divided into shares, of which every *
coolie had one Other members of th*
community had more shares, according
to their relative usefulness and duties.
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gethcr, and pointing to the telegraph For instance, the schoolmaster had
Mi-Fid got—That's a terrible cough of
yours Snugly? Wliat you doing.for’ it*
Snugly—Wejl, yesterday I went to - .
see Dr. Hnstlem, and he tofcl me to go 1 Greek and Oriental designs, and almost
to the mountains as soon as I could every figure and flower pattern that ca^
stand the weather there, where the in- i be cpn'ceived.
wires Jib saidV, “Do you sec those
wires!”’ “Yes, General.” “Very good.
I want you not to go near or touch
*theru; for if yon db, your hands will be
held, and you will be unable to get
away.” The Indians smiled incredu-
lously. Then the General made them
ea,eh'jn »succession take Hold of, the
wires at both ends of an elec.tric bat-
tery in full operation. After which he
three shares, the engineer who super-
intended the water supply, five shares,
and so on. Every thing wa* done in
the most systematic way; the members
submitted to the most strict discipline
for the public good. A* an example of
this, he said that h* went ft* see the
workings, and, as he was the second
European who had ever vrsitad the
place, some of the coolies with not nn-J
exclaimed; “I command you to let.go'! natural curiosity suspended their
the -wire!” can’t; my hands are for a moment to gaze at him. A»ovep
seer who saw this at once rushed up
and lashed the idlers with a rattan
vigor.iting air
secret. The sight of a silVec* opened again, and from, the front, hall
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came groans ami siLrhs and dull sounds
of (s struggle. I knew' that the wire 1
had seen w.as being worked behind the
laths, but my companion could, stand
no more. He seized both lanterns ami
started but, and I had to go along or
the haunted house, but be did not keep b<- left in the dark. When clear of the
it. He would branch off here and there ■ Louse he made a run for the highway,
and make a half circle to come hack xnd I found him on the further side of
again. One or two nights be slept in I it wVu I came np. . :
bWhat’s the matter?” t asked.
“Good Clod, man, hut my nerves .are.
all gone!” he gasped. “I wouldn’t
stop in that house another, five minutes
for all the riioney in the State!’’
I was satisfied that all the noises had
beeij made by human agency. Some
oue had taken possession of the house,
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would brace me up.
Now, I've .just Conie from Dr. ■ Von
Culm, -ahd he says I must-live in
Florida, when* the soft ami balmy
breezes will -soothe my excitable tem-
perament, * • .
Mi-Kidiret—Ami 'what are you going
te - j)'.' ■ .. ■
Snugly—I'm going to split tire differ
The medium shades that prevail in
the new bengalines, China silks, moires
and other spring dress fabrics ate all
shades of green, from ivy and myrtle to
moss, reseda, tea, Nile, water, sage,
pistache and absinthe. all shades;'of
benumbed,” said the Indian. The\iat-
tery was then stopped and tbe man r©-
lenscM. Not Ibng afterward the Gen-
eral restored them to liberty, giving
them strict injunctions to keep the
secret, and not’to betray it to their
countrymen on any account This had
the desired effect, for as might be ex-
pected; the experiment was related “ip
blue, baby. Gobelin, w.tter ami opaline, -j the strictest confidence” to every man
pearl grays,to smoke grays, coaehnian’s!
drab, ecru, beige, old po se, roceudre
epfcey stay in 'Detroit, and -lake some or ashes of roses, pale .terra cotta or ;f.<»(*
persimmon, ami .pinkish; opfilim? tints
of the tribe, and the telegraph has ever
since.remained uninolest-ed.—Electrical
Review.\ /
barns, and so I fast track of him for a
few Lours. On another occasion his
feet becqme sore and he lay by at a
tavern for two days, aud then I actually
got ahead of him.
While the towns were only thirty
miles apart, Kelly traveled all of one
hundred mile* iu making the distance,
comfort.—ftelro t Erie Press.
—Voupg Mr. Sissy (to pretty; cousin')
-—“lfa yon-kfiovv,; Mamie, that I have all
nirli ilVnfade to order?” lh'city cou-ili
— vTii-’y'-. are l>\ cly, Charley. 1 sup-
the. dealers don't 'caiTy such a
small .-izv i'ii stock’. '-~Eptch-
,v,.o .
—iVhej e' one dollar is rcUirned—to
tile Tien-ury of the United States by a
man with ill conscience, .a million dol-
lars ;ire fa*pi wilt by men who have no
conscience. —.V. O. 1‘icauuut. *
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introduced hi shot effect* iu .all tiro
neutral colors. — .V. Y Sun. .1
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—As a rule conip.ists -h »uUl be prc-.
pared a length <»f tiipe befare.itsing iu .
proportion to the roughness ami coarse-
ness of the materials. Not less than
si\ week' will Ik* required under favor-
able circitmstaiirpes Tor, the averago
liutterials used in eoniposting to fa*conie
broken ddwn by fermentation ^ftd de-
composition, so as to permit of.*”liforui
mixing and eaAv distribution
Albert Frazer escaped from the
| Michigan penitentiary, and a reward
was offered for his capture. His wife
was having hard time in getting
along, so he induced her to deliver him
•iip in order t<< get the reward. She did
so ami Frazer went hack to the prison
happy jn the consciousness of having
done allj he could under the circum-
stances to provide for his family.
, —A man discovers wdien lie isn’t1
wanted by a tardy process of reason.
Tb® ■"'man discovers it instiuctively.
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roost unmercifully and m»d* them
stitne work. They had a moslf con^
plete organization. They had married
Dyak wives, and there were schools for
the children and provision for widow*
and orphans. Elaborate rules w«r*
drawn up td regulate the.soeiMy; ac-
counts w6re kepi, which every member
was entitled to inspoeL and meeting
were held at stated interval*, ‘hi which
the accounts were laid before tbe so-
ciety and every member had a right fa
ask questions a* to the management.
At any time three members could insist
on a special meeting being called if
any thing, in theiropinion. was not go-
ing on satisfactorily. Every half year
they had a winding up of accounts. The
debts of the society for food, etc., and
the expenses of manageinqnt were first
paid, and then the balance was divided :
amoug the members according to tbeir j
shares. My host said the *oeiety Imd
been in existence for more than two*
hundred years.”—-St James
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