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SUNTJAYi AUGUST 14i 1004 II ih J t 11 I Y Ur > THE RATS OF THE LURONNE 9 A OunA Happy Inspiration and a Triumph Over Red Tape From M French Lost 41 Thore waa a general clearing up on board tho corvetto La Luronne During the sixteen years In which sho had done duty In the waters of Alexandria tho Luronnt had already been subjected to a number of overhauling but now a despatch had from tho Ministry ordering a final disarmament of the vessel at the navy yard of Toulon And thl won why for two days the rat concealed within her hospitable sides had lived In a mortal panic Their fright waa not entirely unwarranted for during forty eight hours Scrgt Madtireo who had several trouser linings and three or four cm Indefatigably Had they eaten anything those rascals Mndurco would have been enjoying a good Income If ho had received 20 eoue for each time that the commissary who was making- an inventory of the appointments of the hlp had been obliged to write in the column headed Causo of Loss the words Eaten by rots Maduree could not get over the voracity of tho animals Ho consoled himself however with the thought that neither would rats get over and was deep In these reflections was the voice of the Lieutenant In the twinkling of an the sergeant was on the In the presence the Lieutenant an and A the commissary who were making an In Maduree said the Commander how many cannons hove wo on board Four sir answered the sergeant astonished by the Have never been more than four You ought to know You have been on board the Luronno longer than tho rest It poems to me sir that I hoard It said that once upon a time there were five but I have never soon more than four my- self sir 1 Well You see said the Commander turning to the commissary must be some error in the former Inventories some pap r may have boon lost It is very strange that none of your predecessor had foot and It to that It escaped your notice It Is abso nec irregularity should be remedied and I count on you to out the matter When Urn Inspection was over Comm into his cabin where ho shut himself and to go model official At tho end of four hours of powers of darkness ex- claimed a fix And tomorrow morning at 8 oclock all the papers on board are to be taken and signed by the commander What is to be The dinner hour this mono but the commissary poorly weight of a leaving tho he sent for Maduree- A You know the books h raid to the Give mf a lift will not We find the cannon There is no help for It At your service Maduree replied themselves to dig into tho records but with no results passed light of the lamp in the first rays of and still they had no to the cannon The commissary began to feel the perspl 1 rom pairs of ehoe to avenge had slaulhtered I e t Ion of of us J u J ban I the with we of a exhausting he found he f loge dine t f later I I and two men with set Hour loud l i 4 p 4 1 I J 1 1 k 1 j I 4 i i 1 1 I I sir I A over work nothing 4 I ¬ ¬ UMBRELLA CURE FOR DOGS I think I got square with a couple of said the suburban resident whose keeps him out till 2 oclock foul of tho 8 P 0 A The haunt my street and the moment my footstep they set up a barking which wakes up all the neighbors and sets them wondering what form of dissipation keeps me out so late Well I was carrying an umbrella un- rolled last night and an inspiration struck me One brute a cross groined fox terrier a I walked close up to him he dop nit without bat I I I I I standing In fringE of shadow about I i t t A 5 I every morning an4 that running J 4 was the snarling and yapping your ears ¬ ration of anguish standing In drop- on his What should The commander had given him plainly to understand that he have to the blmvp for this Irregu larlty In books be sure hn had not lout the cannon but It was his to verify books when they wero turned to him Ji WaR a serous business very serious Tht unfortunate Forthlntou already saw In Imagination his future and the disappearing forever from his dishonored But how to explain It he exclaimed There ought to mention of In the The i per must have lost or destroyed Who rejoined im- mediately mounting his rots eaten the confounded Those confounded beasts are ca- pable of anything true tli unhappy Fortblnlou whose c In nee attrIbuted to those personal enemies of Ma dureo Suddenly up What sprung in his brain heavy with a he did not I wrote in a firm hand a few words on a page of isis report Then handing the paper to I What do you say to that be asked in a triumphant tone read and his grow bright with amusement You think that will pass he with an anxious look In his face It must Besides the commander- will not have to read It he signs and when Is once In the of the Department no one will look through it later a left the ship carrying to the offices of the navy Luronne by the and the commander everything in order tho latter had sir And Commissary Fortblnlou returned to his hands His conscience was not however entirely un IK I V connected with the service he was called to the yard his uneasi- ness was to be noticed One morning his anxiety was As he a corridor department building ho ran across a friend a grave glasses who said to Therel You are in time Th re port on the inventory of Luronne has come back I see it Certainly would amuse you You find It in office The commissary followed his friend A ran over his back whoa sealed at a desk he began with trembling to turn over the wher- ever he recognized his own handwriting seemed to interest more than the rest and suddenly ho a of relief whioh two of tho clerks to turn and look This Is what the commissary read First tho following written- in his own hand of Losses UiTXXUL LOST Nature of Object Deli Lou Caul of Lett One Cannon Unknown br Opposite In tho column headed Re wore these words written in the Ministerial handwriting Approved In view of the curiosity of the Minister of the Nary bar the the fat ante to the column to column the of or ho eye ask M tie report on the inventorY of ae trouble on height the rom lit rs ce upon a Cue naIl D some unflnlshed followed from series misdeeds seized his pen and the sifts Eaten ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ You know the odd flapping and It mckee when no it quickly sir I was astonished at the That gave a low growl of alarm and turned a In to get away Ho ran clear Into tho middle of a vacant before he stopped- I tried it a later on a nondescript animal that come bellowing at me a stretch under some trees Af 1 dashed the umbrella open his riots to sharp yHps of agony and Im sure lie running fc got clear off th was I recommend tho umbrella cure for dogs Try It fet I the nol ou a a I TIOW II the of my ex ten range suddenly opened urn changed atartled myself success MANS SCENT WHAT DEER FEAR 1 WiLUsiAjmc Me Aug OforgeCupen of Boston who Is taking an outing in the Maine his and irt spendIng It in baa learned- at least one fact about deer whioh has not been recognized by hunters or natural- ists I think I have demonstrated said Mr that it la not man hut the smell which causes the deer to take alarm To prove my hypothesis I have placed which had been worn by members no the deer could smell frightened as If a living human being garments wood heat Cap cote 1 tem and In badly te often every case the animals have I ¬ More than this I have proved that to whtrlls of enuring thorn to sneeze violently and the way- a man han Inhaled red pepper- or tobacco dust So soon as the human odor reaches a feeding deer it will wrinkle the flesh sur- rounding its and curl its upper the front of tb upper Jaw Then it shakes Its head tho when annoyed by flies after which it begins to sneeze The conduct of tl deer indicates ex- treme annoyance of terror and- I am that when the animal Tuna It FO to from the odor which the atmosphere- and brought on a fit of of a he net w Intend dOC the mdfl human being irritant the ¬ < ¬ MENDING OF MRS ILL TOPS It is a pWsant picture that Mrs Bllltopa said Mr Bllltopa au she sits a in her big easy rocker at the open window la tho cool and quiet the slots f the window as to shut ut the sun but not the light and air quietly with her mending comfortable she looks as she sits there and very pleasing to the eye and seems the very embodiment of tran quillity but presently Ezra she sayH youve lmply got to PTS mo some money for Columbuss stock f Ings Ive mended and mended till theyre all covered darns hit feet and I darn them any And I need money for and then she enumerates a long list of she ought to get right away up M hegan with youve simply got to give mo some money How was that to come from the tranquil sitting there plying the needle And then Its all very well to mend she goes on hut there comes a time when Its a waste of time to mend See the time It took me yesterday to darn and mend and patch Amerlcaas pajamas Why Its a sin and a Its d actually Im ashamed to end our things to the wash I dont know what they must think of them all darns patches And think of the might do If I didnt have t spend mending and how Im delayed about everything 1 you its all very well to mend- but there a time when its simply of time to mend and Ive got to have I money 1 a shock to me to 1 domestic picture that Un presents M at rom I bUy she the wit bur thing he f sham mend men the I I hut and ting Era a- lto Its a ° hare tat tn and for I presents I I 1 I 1 q c lsd I all Urns 1 tell I And sort float the moment the pleasing she ¬ her comfortable and apparently- the embodiment of guess Ive got to shell out the money THE CHESTER N Y Aug IS Say said the Irrepressible citizen who comes with- out any credentials but his word from over toward Pochuck Its pretty hard to lose ISO in these tough times aint It Hard Hard to lose It said the landlord Easiest thing in But to get 90 to lose To get it Theres comes In If dogs that give down 50 pups it atntl sold the Pochuck chron- icler sitting down In the easiest chair with- a wave of his hand toward the landlord that was plainly meant to impress him with the fact that perhaps ho had not regarded- the matter in the light of that contingency- Not If you have kind o dogs It alntl Tut tutl Tut tut said Parmer Bill Leonard who lives Goose Pond Mountain Cows aint worth any more than Even good cows the Pochuck man Cows Of aintl But whats cows coons do they Cows give and yen Kit cheese and em but If you leave It to the cows where would you como In for coons If silence gives consent tIre man from Pochuck had the best of the contention and he slgnalllzed his appreciation of the fact by cracking three fingers at once he bock to the beginning and It pretty hard to lows 60 In these tough times specially when it stole right out of a feUer1 bud and b got back Shady I her th han the dow that ant cur toy Co dow Ten went cat ¬ ¬ WHO DIDNT RILL STROBELOFF Fate of a Nihilist Who Wavered as Related by the Rev Adolph Roeder THEM AN The death of De Plehvo said the Rev Adolph Boeder of Orange N J reminds me of a very curious incident whloh brought- me In touch with the murder of Strobeloff the Russian Chief of Pollen who was killed by tho Nihilists In tho Boa It was a peculiar thing to happen to an American citizen and the Incidents- In their order make a complete and finished story such as one doesnt oftcp encounter in real life One day In 1887 a man sat on a bench in a park in Baltimore planning the best way to commit suicide Ho had sat on the bench all night lie had no money ho knew no one in America he had been unable to get work and he thought that he had got all out of life that was coming to him In the morning a workingman on his way to work noticed that the man was in trouble and spoke to him They fell Into conversation and It ended in the working mans sending him to me a minister being at all considered a private charity or ganization- The man just at break fast commit after breakfast anyway arid then he could tell mo his story He unfolded a curious tale He gave lila name AS Nikola Honokcl and said ho sort of a houseof north Germany his mother was a Russian and a the Czar When he loft school in a burstof youthful enthusiasm he joined tho as was then At the very first ho Joined lots wore who Strobeloff and the lot fell on him His nerve was not to It and he the country knowing well that was from society He went to South America and put money abut role buM tie wa- ste tot meting tim sr fled b ¬ ¬ into a mining claim which ho was work a partner The partner all his and ran away one night Ho walked eighty miles to coast got a berth his on a The came to Baltimore where he was his money had received no answer to his letters home there ho was He took down the Almanach de Gotha and his family tree and record make story any the lees but I could see fellow erf education and acquainted with many languages I a and between us we found him some and put him In tho of He very grateful and promised to repay all we on he had done no however he dis- appeared It was a hot day in we made the rounds hos- pitals thinking ho might have been over come with wo not find him we shook hands congratulated- each other that tho not been a costly one and dismissed it as one moro case misplaced But a few that I received a letter from a lawyer This sold that ho had a remittance of sev- eral hundred dollars for Nikola Henckel from lila and said ho understood I could him Information of Nikola Henckols whereabouts Wo to think Henckels story the matter wee put on the case He turned his atten- tion to Russians In the city For some reason or other suspicions- were directed a certain shoemaker with a basement shop Ho not this shoemaker drunk and In con of It to know pretty well what had The shoemaker had accosted Henckel on some pretext and had Invited him Into had other work howe Tat pupil ha boa mhht lad A out of or hap discharged He no Baltimore Police detective his dillon the story him ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ THE FLAW IN HIS SYSTEM As the suburban train was on the of pulling out of the city in the of a smart downpour the bank cashier was seen frantically tearing down the street He dashed Into the sUtlon threw himself in a dank and bedraggled heap upon the last step of the last car dragged- his heavy length up the steps to the plat form shook himself drenched terrier mournfully took 10 Panama and dumped about a quart of rain from the crown thereof and then cursed quietly under his Then the car and sat down apologetically a corpulent and placid featured he knew who was a millionaire Pretty sharp shower remarked the millionaire looking him over with the uncharitable and slightly patronizing glance of n very dry man at a very wet one Vheros your umbrella The cashier meekly explained that he had no umbrella having loft tho article In question on the C40 oclock train down from town the night before Ho Intended- to pay a visit to the lost article room when the train got in and then ho supposed hed go buy another Gloomily The millionaire sniffed You must have money to burn he said Look at mo sir No man ever sees me wet and bedraggled and yet I bought an umbrella for twenty iver pint Ikea bet bide have o ¬ The cashier expressed his wonder and deep admiration- No sir not In twenty years reiterated- the big titan visibly expanding When- ever It looks squally and I want an um- brella I step Into the lost article room in some big station and I say to the charge of it Excuse me but I wonder If youvo seen my umbrella I left it on suck and train and I name a pretty wet day pretty wet train for then sure to nave a big choice of umbrellas What kind an umbrella was sir asks the chap black u see the majority of umbrellas have twisted I prefer em Well h gets m down one passes It out Is that It1 he says- I take It and over careful like and examine the handle critically and turn it this way and that open It very say uncertainly still sizing- it It mine but I think mine had a Well Is that it sir and out comes another After that they keep coming right along without I get of a bangup good ono and then I the hand I here it Is Now youre talking This Is umbrella sure enough It young man for out I go the chap In charge Jolly glad to get rid of It an urn Not me when theres a thousand cp- I luc 0 your I say Is just a ev- ery handle Well common a twisted call I lit ¬ ¬ feller citizens that lives kind 0 free an Its on the records that ho has been In the jug fer quite a spell three or four times Now Josh had been down to Cousin Marcolluss two or three times senco Jane Marias pups woo born an a prime jodge o dogs hed had hard to tear from that litter Geol nays he to Cousin Marcellus as ho was at them seems to me Id you the hull o the county seat If I had It one o them pups hn Then another thing feller from over there that knowed coon dogs had been an offered Cousin 175 fer one o thorn pups o Jane Marios but all of Marcellus couldnt think of It fer a minute an the feller had gone away most Ho when Cousin Marcelhm discovered that one of his was gone reasonln from circumstances an tho nntur Josh he thought he knowed- to wunst what had It All there is to it ho Josh from Feolln1 as sure o them facts that the was gone went down to was an told the landlord to sa- to him that he The land- lord says to that the feller had gone but that ho didnt have no pup with when ho went Did he it Cousin Marcel all brisked up with that now hod He didnt havo no pup D tell you ays the landlord Oh 1 see Cousin Maroollus Josh ha sneaked it to him eomers else he Cousin Marcellus druv up to the con lye an he 0 icr has stole the pup an I t h where ante M lust hop k In an ears rem sold the fellor the tavern feller Josh l ¬ poor fools in town only waiting for the wot day to go out ono for Oh excuse me he added hastily No Its all right cashier humbly bowled on and tho rain poured of umbrellas thats a pretty good look one got there in brooding accents did that ono I that ono lost sir said the millionaire expanding again I canto down to take 6 0 f ou it when I got off tho car and simply stopped in and a man a gentleman the cashier in preoccupied- tones that explains It asked the millionaire somewhat tartly dear replied the cashier blandly I dont want to or faith In system but simply umbrella know it among a thousand umbrella sniffed the millionaire suspiciously but I thought you sold you sir I left It on the 5 MO train said the cashier quietly It probably caught tho first train off cars They send back by the first ho explained was thoughtful for a moment then reached for tho umbrella and It to the cashier with certain marks of deference in his manner I dont know which Is the liar of tho two ho said but anyhow you the pot he looked out of the window and whistled while the rain poured fret Iran 0 C her ot mel lie sir our I d em tko hero drizzlin softly ¬ THE HOTEL CLERKS STORY The queerest thing that over happened to me said thn hotel clerk come oft when- I was on the night desk of a small hotel In a Connecticut town It was a second rate establishment mostly by drummers and the rather lonely at night There were stores all about and closed BO that after 10 oclock the only I place on the block open For that One night about half past 11 pleasant spoken well dressed young fellow and caked for a room We talked for a few minutes then I told him as tact- fully as I could that as he didnt havo any baggage he would have to pay In advance All right he said It out of Ho handed me a pulled out the money drawer to change- It There was my revolver In plain sight and another one with It The second gun had been left In his room by a departing frequent thy ron kept a In money Tae tat I revolver the ¬ guest and Id tucked It Into tho drawer mine for want of a better plane to put ItWhat do you want with two revolvers asked tho stranger- Oh said I joshing suppose some one should como In and find me with tho till out and got one gun and start to hold mo up Id have another handy My God Whats that tho stranger and pointed to the window Its an mo I lookod When I looked back tliero wits tho stranger with back against and covering me with extra revolver over and got out of the till Suppose said he that I should grab to hand over the till and that If make a move to got your gun Ill scatter t tho gun you hI revolver you werent nowand your nil would your extra revolver then said I I told you are holding ft cover tell brains over be suppose truthfully that his shop to have a cool drink It Once in the was overpowered and gagged by two men him bound and gagged in that shop for two days we wore a Russian vessel and took him correspondence afterward I ascer- tained Whether for poetic justice or because they thought it or for reason the Russian Government Russia was in a state of excitement over the killing of Strobeloff When Henokel ran the task Vera Sassoulltoh volunteered- She shot the chief of police dead at the foot of the statue of Alexander She was executed almost immediately but of course the Government was to apprehend all that hod been involved in The two men who had captured Honckel turned States evidence and him of having Intended to murder the Chief of Their evidence was taken but were taken also and sentenced to Siberia Honckel was condemned to death but through the Influence of his mother the sentence was commuted to exile to Siberia and all three were sent It would have been a study for a psychologi- cal novelist those men away to Siberia together story to me was true In particular name was as Victorias name was Guelph But In Europe be would be known M Well was seventeen About a I heard that Henckel had escaped and was coming to America I here was nearly- a now and I am afraid have miscarried I am afraid the man who didnt kill Strobeloff will die In Siberia a bud him him on boar ali henckel but over t the a ever the e which I sal not give It would be lien okel took kill turned him recognized ear ¬ on me hasnt been loaded for a month and has a broken And while that won being telegraphed through his brain I my own and him It would show wit on he said and he laid unloaded revolver And now will give me suppose and to Ill leave It to u enough to puzzle any man Had he tried to hold me or was it just a fool game of hisSomehow I couldnt make up mind So I gave him his change and him to his room I on It all without nearer a conclusion- But next morning things happened cleared matter 11 oclock chambermaid reported that couldnt answer from room to which I had assigned the stranger hadnt been touched There was an window to tho fire escape In the hall Furthermore the boss mo to how Id hap- pened to turn over a counterfeit ten my cash dow my I quit of you that guess Ill this gnaw wasnt ¬ DAVID B HILLS LUCftY COAT Some people are wondering what coat exSenator David B Hill will wear at tho coming State convention A man who knows him says he has a lucky coat which he may trot out for the occasion Bald this man- I was present when David B Hill made his on the Mollneuz appeal J bo wore an old serge sack coat It looked as though It had served its term on a street coat then had been worn for several at least in the office It was out of shape and needed agent In on effort to discover the reason I know must underlie his I asked several men who know and at last found who although he is neither- a nor a sees muoh of Mr Hill In private you think he said was the reason tho pleader wore that coat Because he lucky His friend says Hill has had that coat years and a firm conviction that it brings him good luck whenever he wears more con- fidence In himself when this old garment covers his shoulders than when any other covering acton ne ¬ an ho to Josh Josh my pup I dunno says Lost a The ono you snooped last night I snoop no pup says Josh Honest says See Hplnklerl says Joshs what was on I kin stand your runnln In a now or home a chicken says sho If youve sunk to poor little blind pups says site then I want to says I yo I haint no Mag blind Seems to- me Id know It if I had says Why consarn it says Cousin One o my pups gone an consekently you must a ill vou took whores the you got fer that pup Pony up Why Josh slashin his hat on the ground Im BO nigh sartln that I halnt no pup an It fer money that almost wlllln to let you mo says Josh Cousin parities the pup or Ill have to Jug you an bo says Josh So Cousin Maroellus went an a warrant an had Josh arrested an drug Josh had out the night before thought that the Instead o to tho Squires- an beln a witness for Josh on went- a book on the mountain The sorcumstanoM was all Josh at the them an Josh pup Why Cousin M ne- M wife Meg had out an an ten M tel he- M It an It to M says moneY I M arch he- M says the Squire 1ap known best she to together an the on the o far the when who terln I to b- utt who come heerd gem snooped sold feller Josh Mag before was huckle was Grand should come the Squires ONE KINDNESS DESERVES ANOTHER Revenue of the Widow Whose Pet Cst Was Poisoned by a Neighbor From Itu frtnek r which is so hard toward u whereof I speak had showed heel kind even generous- to Mmo de Blentruffe Having Inherited a small fortune sufficient to support her for life she spent her undisturbed quiet and happiness company of the janitors wife Mrs Blanche an old friend from England Miss Antoinette Komtorchett and a gray Angora cat that responded to the name of Mlnouchon and had no equal as a mouser The domestic affaire of the had no Interest for her the did not trouble her and polities was to her an almost unknown world When 1 have told you she had at tho ma- ture ago without what Ill ness or even an Infirmity Is that she always road without glasses and regularly par- took of her four day and had her dolly walk you admit that she rare good fortune and that she reason to be happy- It goes without saying that such happi- ness could not avoid exciting jealousy and giving rise to much the amiable neighbors of Mme de Blentruffd In talking about her some of them of calling her simply by her name preferred to employ disagreeable such as that woman or that Others credited her fortune with the questionable origins of which the honorable by far was theft Stilt others were amazed at the fact that the the house had not yet shown them the door It Is to be understood of course that by this em phasized monosyllable they referred to her and her pet cat Among her Implacable enemies might be family Qaluchord The wife spent her days in gossiping and the husband his In naps but there was this that while she did not leave the loft the office Burning with an almost Carthaginian Mme Galuchard comprised under malediction Mme de Blentruffo and her oat Mlnouchon vowing Inces- santly with set teeth that some day or would cook their soup for piano on which her sometimes played threw hrr into fits of mad rage which were accentuated only by the of the cat She had already demanded the execution of the animal and every Urns the poor old lady had formally refused to comply with the demand denying the charge that her pet attracted all the tomcats of the neigh- borhood Fat oren day count tat ave mea enjoy got epithet mot away mot ting thor hat oth- ers tem meg in- stead ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ THREE LAWYERS IN A FIX It Is a rule In tho Circuit Court of the States that attorneys who have the necessary certificate to practise before it may as a matter of courtesy be admitted on motion of some attorney already qualified This is called being moved In Concerning this practice a well known attorney recently told this story I wont up the other day before Judge Brown and found our friend B little uneasy on of the he had a case to had just found out from the clerk that he wasnt on the and couldnt do any business until I told him I would move him in and while I was getting ready to do it in comes C my old and I told him It said he Ill bet M you arent Unit te- a aunt roll pre abut a ourll member A MAST OF THE CONSTITUTION 1 BANOOB Me Aug 18 The mute of the frigate Constitution whose 100th anniver- sary was celebrated recently at Boston wore cut In Waldo county Me and on old settler Fowler relates this story- of that lumbering operation- In the town of Unity on land now by C C Fowler tim stump Is still out well authenticated tra- dition says of the Constitutions masts once stood a giant of the forest towering high above all other trees I well remember hearing old settlers describe the tree and tho manner of hauling it Colby owed her ¬ OIIONO Mo Aug quick negoti able value said Forest Edgar Ring tho tlmbor standing on the wild lands of Maine Is worth more than all the other holdings in the State We have more than 25000300000 board foot of which should be worth at least 4 a thousand on the stump Then wo have millions of feet In second growth pine some of which In very largo to say nothing of hemlock and hemlock bark To this we must add the young timber 13In loner ¬ TIME WHEN JOSH WAS NOT GUILTY Thats what Cousin Marcellus Merrlweother thought tother mornln when he discovered that he couldnt figger it out any other way but that wr s Jest the fix be was in When I tell you never was etch a coon In country- as Cousin Merrlweathors dog Jane Maria then Im tellln you there never was setch a coon dog anywheres Why he naked a feller that offered him 100 fer Jane only a week ago and prospects she had In future which prospects there was no dlsguisin he asked this toiler Cousin Marcollus did if he hadnt a mistake and was dlckerln far a that Cousin Marcellus had fer sale Tf Its the homes you moan says Cousin Marcellus well close the dicker right now says he But If Its Jane Maria poof Setch was the standln o Jane Maria And lost week she added to Cousin Mar cclluss live stock the pups that stood him em was BO Cousin tolls me and Idont see no rea- son in the world he as well a said a hundred He was tickled all to Cousin Marcellus was but when he went out second day after the come to take a look at em he was knocked way down in the see that one o pups was Mebbe mowt a heard somethln Mid Josh now an then from Cousin Maroellua Josh is o1 tat thor cog Marl pat mae In far one of at Jet dump abut U it don a on or f I 50 apiece every promised tiat I over bet haint make no dtffeceaoe Josh is feller that lives bsct the five mile one ruTiij ¬ pressing and tho creases between the and the lapels indicated that it spent not a little on a hook Item of apparel struck me as especially as exGovernor Is not Known as a dresser and as I never before saw a lawyer plead before such a In any except formal of Appeals In a short coat no how new or It may bo Hut was not only In but in a short coat that was all but ragged and needed the touch of the tailors cur It is a hrh of etiquette to the maier sin- gular considered before ¬ Mag Sho was all het an red as a best had her berry basket on her arm Squire says Is It too for mo she went on with her All I to is she I went huckleberry on the tain an I run agln a under a bush stiff oa o wood I clubbed its tread in on tItan I seen that it had swallered notnethln big That sort 0 give mo an Ideo Mebbe idee aint but I thought It mowt bo a feather- In Joshs cap If I out whether It was or notThen she turned her basket down on the table an dumped out a tremendous blacksnake A hump half way down tho snake hacked up as fur an it had gone an sho says My IdfHi Is that tins hump mowt ac lw Maroplluss pup that seems to be tho plaintiff In this case says she Well the Squire that tho prisoner Is entitled to benefit o the admit the evidence says he So they cut the snake open an as- sure on ahummln evidence saved the prisoner hump was Cousin ISO Joshua says the Squire dis- charged but you must be more keerful to be moro keerfu says hn Josh said he would wi an wont home leavln Cousin Mnrcollim the man that ever was 0 how easy It was to have dogs that give down 50 on how It was to 50 In those tough times specially when It was stole out of a an couldnt be got back late to a ooh In this hero pup rTe said It Mag M Ys that back hip M M 01 Tat mot wnt an was sar seem ¬ ¬ Not being able to encompass by open the revenge Whloh she desired resolved to accomplish it by force and by means of the darkest machinations One day entirely by chance of a of broad crust soaked in arsenic was thrown in h way of the Innocent Minouchonwho was lag over the stairs and incapable pooting the perfidiousness of the human race she thought she had found a tidbit and hastened to sample It Alas An hour later she died In fearful agony and her little white Angora soul soared straight to the regions there U no pain and the remembrance of the of world is effaced and vanishes- in the vibrating splendor of the sky Her her as been a human being She had a handsome box made and white in placed her idolized companion with a new round her her secretly bulled in a corner of the nearest When these sad duties wore accomplished she had only ono thought how to the monster her Her suspicions soon fell on the repulsive Mmo who to puffed with satisfaction over some In and cruel Unfortunately the latter had no love of which she might be hit and Tl 1 1 to the death of one Innocent being by killing or Injuring another a punishment equal to the crime she gave no was the case The thing to be noticed was that the bought a dozen rat traps traps which she caused set in her apartments But then since the assas tho poor cat had left the rodent tribe the house it was for her to com- bat the animals and the neighbors did not trouble themselves about Mine Oaluch ard of all A later the latter sho could uniformed messenger brought her a large box and that It was paid for that she would find some beautiful shawl a boa haps a gown hastened- to Horrors Hardly had she lifted the cover a swarm of little ani the room and crowded in the corners leaving tho paralyzed woman half dead of the truffe Madame You killed cat by giving him arsenlo AM this kindness deserves another I make you a present of my mice men rd r our plo wader i won the help victor Mme do over her plan for a long and at one o Angora Itt wu at home and what new Mme Kita mal Jumping bounding and box wu a by M- e do flea here with of Miss Antoinette was too hearted time last fancied had busy thinking a leaping across note signed ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ I took him and w looked at the book and lo and behold I wasnt a mom rt t ho would move In Just then I had an Idea and In a spirit I bet him 3 he wasnt a member Just the who had move us in in a bunch This brings to salad the fact that it was his to adroit tod to practise beforo the Circuit Court of this by of the Minnesota branch of certain young lawyer con- nected with the case from punishment for contempt Although he La- combe for when proceedings were begun to were and the Court decided that It ber Then sid it He it we bTJoT he want n ten ought on laugh te cur a well arne oton would all right took referred to the bookand member either and finally ue ¬ It took eighteen oxen to It and one In a separate sled to keep the rum cheer the hearts of the men who had come by Invitation with their to haul the stick to the cook where It was landed and afterward floated to tidewater on the Eennebeo Tho Is much decayed by and defaced by the of seekers after Is enough left to mark the place where the tree tree was said to be what Is a 32Inch mast and while not a beauty and length as well oa for Its at the mon par oxen axe too large a they get time once frequently cut In those days was COLLEGE MEN IN THE WOODS which are not yet big enough to cut but which Is coming on so rapidly that In many townships It is making for Its owners from 5 to fl per cent every year Now If you will add to these the vast areas of hard- woods many of which are very valuable for flooring and cabinet work you have a combined valuation that will nearly pay- off tho entire Government debt It Is a realization of this fact that Is lead- Ing owners of forest lands to give more and more protection from fire to their holdings Several of tho men who hove large hold- ings In wild lands have contributed to hire men to patrol tho woods constantly from late In May until the fall rains set in The average pay of these patrolmen- Is about 160 a day and all found Tho outdoor life and the strange scenr have induced college students and students- of natural history topics to stck this kind of employment so that Instead of having Frenchmen from Canada or Indians from Old Town on duty tho fire watch of Maino is composed of young men of cduoaticn an employee grows xvrnry of the nolltudn and gives up his job cn ac- count of homesickness but a majority ore delighted with the work and say they are the only persons In the world re- ceive pay while enjoying on outing It IR away nil end of a gyrnnnsirin fcr In training said nn umlergradunto front Harvard No man can do his duty OK a fire rnt l Qd kcrp any Veil on his bonon 1 am carrying an axe a big blanlrt nnd five or six lays rntlrns rn my Itch most of tin time and 1 do net ccrr- my thirty or forty a day I J down for leafing I find that simple feeds Ftnrd by in much better hirlrn jcii bunt Inecri crn brrml and tea art my ntandaidn and when I cannot find strips f law salt jerk that are tnt and Hwria MTVP rs When ono line to leg IIIK bin I In hack for a tinio he Uictrrm mnioiitt about in a big hud A hall prmd of Imcon and a pint of cortiirt nl the r to Iw rooked cn lark cm flit K 01 o In the form of a bed Kcnd me longer titan a nt Young or Parkers These two with a tf hot tea that is strong and bout to win medals or mcst anything ow keeping a chap tin bin mlA I all at a I of I urN I or lap t t tim t fi ins tit restzturruts < das t at v tries milk I ¬ ¬ ¬ ° <
