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The largest kangaroos ,ro 49,,
me"uahs, or boomers, BY the Au<, saed
natives and their flesh is considsraa.1sa
great dcllcacy, in flavor somrtb;naVv
Young "enl>on. For this reasnn ;, Ike
h = creatures are hunted '. ss;
Killed III large numbers. They are r "'a
Shy. and not very easy to catch. hu wi!
cunning bu>hncn hide them.elr"o'.' me
the thrket, ana when their uususnsa 10
mo prey approaches they hurl S }'s
INFO its body. The wounded ksnr ,aaee
springs of with tremendous leans " b'.
soon becomes exhausted, and f all ' "N
the turf. "''S W
II brought to bay, this gentle no, !.
Will defend itself vigorously. With NG W.
back planted firmly against a trea a ~: :
his been known to Keep of an arm, ~ i.
dogs for hours. D; dealing them terr terri n
Bows with lis strong hind feet. rn v'1
IL" arriva, OF tie hunter with his w.t." Du
pu: an end to the contest. A. o, I"u
times the Kangaroo. being An exnar
swimmer. will rush into the water r an;
il !. venturcsonic dog dares to follow s
will seize him and hold his head un,a
water till he is drowned 'e
! kangaroos are often brought to zoo
logical gardens, and are con,entpd y
captivity SO long as they have plenty q
corn, roots and fresh hay to eat.-H,
! Hcr's l0uNg Heople.
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not he rented on any terms. In the

not be rented on any terms. In the
County of Essex alone fifty Thousand
acres are left untitled; the farmers have
gone to London and hired out as help
ers 10 the stables 1t London hOrss-own.
ers at 81 week. In view Of the fac;s,
III is not Surprising that, At the recent
meeting Of the Farmers Alliance, a dele
gate was for adopting some principles
~ the Land League. There seems to
be no probability Of any "let up" ior
these tillers Of the soil. The cause of
the stringency was clearly set forth by
Messrs. Read ard PcIl, who visited this
country last summer to inquire into tho
prospects Of the United States and
found them to be ehyiabe. The com.
1n'ssiancrs were agreed that, SO long rs
his country enjoys 10 present prospect.
" in grain and cattle, the English pro.
ducerS will have difficulty in making Il
living Mr.. Read was not afraid of the
Competition Of European countries;
"whal with their overwhelming arn,' 3,
their WORKOUT soil, and their debts, the
British Garu,er has nothing " fear from
them. but from the ingenious and indus
.riou, People Of thu West n serious com
| petition has to he met. and the question
i, how his can bc>, b. d me"
To this question no. satisfactory an
sSer has yet been iolnA.-New York
SIN. lv4 ID
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Our Young Folks.
HIS MANY NAMES.

NEVER il boy had 50 many names;
they cari him Jimmy. and jim. and james.
JrchS and Jamie; ana well he knew
" no II was lnat wanted him, too.
The boys in the street ran after him,
Shouting ont loudly. '.|im. Hey, J-i-nl-m.
nil the echoes, ii,tlc and big.
Seemed 70 be- dancing Il Jim Crow jig.
And It'll" Mabel ONT ii the hall
"Jim-inH' linl-Wg" would >W"C!ly call,
| nlll he answered. ami let her know
Where she might lind him; She loved him Sc.
Grandpnpa, VIII" WAS dienit:c1.
And hc,H his head With an air Of pride.
l}lun h .irrr III Hnril-lng names.
And mad" the most that Er rut..I OF ".l-l!c-S.
But il pay, g, or want cd hin,
Crisp nlN curt WAS the summons jim.
That would nuar IT" hos on III. crl.snli run
Much faster ruii if &c mad SAID" My son.
Mddy OElynn coUli never, il seems,
taiI thin uuytling else i,iIt "Jccln>.
And when the ii!Ir$", old Mrs. Nc\ys",
Called hin "Jamic,' ii sounded nice.
But swCctcr and dcarcr than all the rest.
Wa, the ONE pet Name that h" liked the best
"Dav.inT.' he lcnr,! il whaicr r he was at,
For meme but his mother called him that.
-JuSl hin, iioiId,d, N 81. AtchotHS.
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DOWN TEE RIVER.

years old. who lived with his parents
on the bank OF the River Thames in
England. One day after dinner he
went to the waters edge to play.
Seeing u small boat tied to big
stone by rope, he pulled the boat up
to the shore. ''What nice little
boat" said he, IL will get into il,
and rock it, rs l once saw g big boy
do.'
So he got into the boat and began
to rock it. The boat got Loose and
driiled down the river. Walter did
not notice this until he was quite a
distance from the shore; then, turn
ING round, he saw what had happened.
Every moment the current was carry
ing him further from home.
Walter was not timid 10y. and,
instead Of crying. he began to reason in
this way: 1.-The boat doe, not IcaA. Ii
is safe and sound. There are no waves
to make me afraid. The wind does not
blow. Here on seat is thick
blanket. In this box is u loaf of bread
and a knife. The wafer OF the river is
good to drink, and here is Il tin mug.
think will not cry, but hope for the
best"
So he sat down. He called to some
people on the shore; but they did not
hear him. He stood up and waved his
hat to a man in a passing boat, and
| cried, ''Help, help!' But the man
thought it was some little fellow MAX
ing fun Of him
Meanwhile Walters mother had be.
come anxious. She ran down to the
river, and followed his foot.tracks tc
the edge of the water. Then she ran
back to her husband; but he was not in
the house. In about an hour he came
back, and she said, "Quick, quick
Get boat, and call John to help YOU
Walter is drifting down the river in thai
little green boat, l am sure"
MIR. Dale ran out of the house, calleC
his man John, and they went down t
the bank. Here they took good fas
boat, pulled it out into the stream, an>
began to row with the current.
1t was getting late. A mist wa
creeping over the great city of London
They could hardly see the tall stores
the masts and steeples on one side. Bu
on they went, rowing swiftly with thci
good oars, us if for dear life.
They looked out sharply on both side
to catch Il sight of the little green boat
At last, when they had roWed about tw
miles, with the tide in their favor, Nj
Dale cried out, IL see it! see it! But
All! it is empty. l see no sign Of DO
in it. What can have become of poe
Walter?'
On they rowed, and at last came II
with the boat. Still no Walter was t
, be seen. The poor father was in DE-
spair, when all at once Walter startc
up from under the great blanket, whel
he had been hiding. He cried Out
"Here Fam, papa, safe and sound!'
"Oh, you little rogue: Come hel
and let me pull your ears!' They a
;; got back to their home in time for
late tea, which mother had kept war
. for them. Walter was kissed and the
cui'ed; but the cuffs were so tende
) that they made him laugh even MOI
than the kisses.--Nursery.
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A Suggestion to Young Probabilities.

HERE Is Il suggestion Which, VT
would make in behalf of a suffering
public to the successor to Old Probabil.
tiles, and that is to come down from
his high perch and tell us what oex'
pect in the atmosphere where Other
mortals live. All over this city, on
Wednesday, the thermometers were re-
cording a temperature from fifteen to
twenty degrees below zero, whereas
the Signal Service tells US it was but
five degrees below. This difference,
which has always marked its records
is caused by the persistence Of the Gov
eminent officials in taking their observ'
ations at an altitude of from sixty TO
one hundred feet above US, where they
strike 4 different stratum Of cold from
that on the ground. In winter it is
warmer where they take their record,
and in summer it is cooler. Their record
of temperature is unqucstionably right
at that altitude. but what people want
to know is the temperature where 1hey
live. When the thermometer is twenty
Or thirty below in the streets, where
they are walking and freezing thelr
ears and noses, it is no consolation 70
know that it is ten below q hundred
feet above them. because they can
neither walk nor work up there. Equal
", in summer, when they are painting
and swclterinp with the heat and sue
cumbing to sunstroke, with the ther'
mometer at ninety-tive and one
hundred, it is no consolation 70
know that it is only c!shly
q hundred feet above them. ihe!
don't know what to make Of it in either
case. The whole discrepancy crows
out of the fact that in the free breeze'
blowing at that altitude in summer II -
cooler, Just as it is colder in winter ..
the earth's surface. No one will o'ec'
to the Signal-Servicc keeping a scIen i
ti!ic and confidential record hunafeu
feet up in the air for purposes OF iulu.o
reference, or as the basis Of theories
but it isexpensivc work, ard the ~"
pie arc pa, ing their money for in MO ma.
ton rs to the cold and heat on inc SUI
tace, and the newspapers are exPena
iny their money for telegraphic repq1I';; !,
every quotation in which is false ,;1 l.. :.
creating constant confusion and d'ssas
isiaction, and undermining the poPu's'
confidence in the integrity OF theflllo'h Nv
eters. There is, as we have salo' hv u;,;
lection to the record Young Prcoap n,,t
ties is making in his lofty percn.,: :, y ho
reoplc will never be satisfied "h'a ~
also gives them q record OF temporary. ,he;,
where they live, move and have 'ne''
being.-CAicago Tribune.
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The Kangaroo.

In the large island of Australia-an
island 50 vast as to be ranked as a con.
tinent-n nature has produced q singular
mcnagerie.
The first discoveries of this country
must have stared in Amusement at the
strange sights which met their eyes.
There were wi'dernesses of luXuriant
and curious vegetable growths, in
habitcd by large quadrupeds which ap-
peared as bipeds; queer little beasts
with bills like Il duck, ostr;ches covered
with hair instead of feathers, and legions
of odd birds, while the whole woods
were noisy with the screcching and
prating OF thousands OF paroqucts and
cOckatOOs.
The largest and oldest Australian
quadruped is the kangaroo, a member
of that strange family, the Marsupialia,
which are provided with pouch, or
bag, in which they carry their little
ones until they are strong enou. Oh to
scamper about and take care OF them
selves.
The Acknowledgement head of this
strange creature, and its short forc-legs,
are out of all proportion to the lower
part Of its body. which is furnished with
a very long tail, and its hind-legs.
which are large and very strong. 1t
stands erect rs tall as man, and moves
by q succession of rapid jumps, pro-
PEELED by its hind-fect. its fore paws
meanwhile being folded across its
breast. \ large Kangaroo will weiy h
fully two hundred pounds, and will
cover as much as sixteen fec, at one
jump.
The body of this beast is covered
with thick, soft, woody fur of Il grayisi.
brown color. 1t is very harmless and
inottensivc, and it is very pretty sight
to see q little group OF kangaroos feed
ing quietly ina forest clearing. Their
diet is entirely vegetable. They nibblc
grass or leaves, or cat certain kinds OF
roots, the stout, long claws OF their hind
feet serving thema as a convenient pickaN
to dig with.
The kangaroo is a very tender and
af1ectionate mother. When the baby
is born it is the most helpless creature
Imaginable, blind, and not much bigger
than newborn kitten. But the moth
er lifts it carefully with her lips, and
gently deposits it in her pocket, where
it cuddles down and begins to grow,
This pocket is its home for six or seven
months, until it becomes strong and
wise enough to fight its own battles ir
the woodland world. While living il
its mothers pocket it is very lively. Il
is very funny to see a little head emerg
ing al of sudden from the soft fur o.
the mothers breast, with bright eyes
peeping about to see what is going or
in the outside world; or perhaps moth
ing is visible but a little tail waggine
contentedly, while its baby owner i!
hidden from sight.
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Five Gents.

SWELL, my boy said Johns em-
ploycr, holding out his hand for tho
change, "did You get what | sent you
tor??'' wv
"Ies, SIR said John; land bp,s
is the change. but | don't understand
it. The lemons cost twenty.eisS,
cents, and there ought to be twcnfv.
two cents change, and there's on|v
seventeen
"perhaps made mistake in giving
you the money!
mo, sir; counted it over in the
hall, to be sure it was all right
Then perhaps the clerk made mis-.
take in giving You the changer
. Bat John shook his head: "No. sir.
1conntcd that too. Father said we mnsf
always count our change before We
leave store"
Then how in the world do you &C.
count for the missing five cents5 How
DO YOU expect me to believe such queer
story as that?''
Johns cheeks were red, but his
voice was firm: IL don't account for
it, sir; | can't. All | know is that it is
So" ~
"Well, it is worth good deal in this
world to be sure of that. How do YOU
account for that Iivc-cent piece that is
hiding inside your coat. sleeve?"
john looked down quickly and
caught the cleaning bit with little
Cry of pleasure. "Herc you are'' he
said. Nov it is ill right. Icou!ln't
imagine what had become of that five.
cent piece. | knew l had it when
started from the store.'
There are two or three things that
I know now," Mr.. Brown said, with
satisfied air. Il know you have been
taught to count your money in coming
and going, and to tell the exact truth,
whether it sounds well or not-three
important things for IN errand-boy. !
think Ill try you, young man, without
looking any farther
At this John cheeks grew reddel
than ever. He looked down and up
ard finally he said, in a low voice, y
think l ought to tell you that l wanted
the place SO badly | almost made upmy
mind to say nothing about the change
if you didn't ask me-
Exactly said Mr.. Brown; land il
you had done it YOU would have lost the
situation; that's all. !! needaboy about
me who can be honest over five cents.
whether he is asked questions Or not
Tile RanSy.
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How "RObin Adair" Played an I'm.
pOrtant Part IN q Real Romance.

AND now " Robin Adair" has devel-
oped another pretty little romance,
which runs thus: Four years ago a New
York gentleman, aged 20, of musical
tastes, attended a meeting of the Orange
County Musical Association in Middle
town, and was much impressed with the
appearance of young lady who sang
the song "Rohin Adair.'' She was not
a great singer, by any means, but she
sang tastefully and with feeling. 1t was
a case Of love at first sight on the part
of the gentleman. During the evening
he managed to secure an introduction
to the lady, but in the hustle and en-
element of the occasion he misunder-
stood the name. A short chat with her
not only deepened the impression the
lady had already made on his suscepti-
bic heart, but during the brief interval
of conversation he learned that she. like
himself, was only visitor in that sec.
ton. He was called next morning sud-
denly to New York, and in the haste of
departure was unable to get her name
and address. The next chapter of this
true story opens at Asbury Park in July
last, with the hero summering at a
watering-place hotel there. Strolling
about, the second day after his arrival,
he passes near the parlor door Of his
hotel and hears a voice, accompanied
by piano, singing "Robin Affair."" A
flood Of memories rush into his brain,
and instantly the fair.haired girl OF
Middletown rises to his fancy's view
and host of tender thoughts are re-
vived. OF course he enters the parlors,
and, though the lady's back was toward
him, the voice and song he knew were
hers. A convenient mirror enables him
70 see her face and her to catch a glimpse
of his. She knew him at once. She, too
had been wounded by the archer, Cupid
and it seems she had never forgotten
the face. She began the next verse
hesitated, faltered, and, breaking down
rose from the piano, declaring she could
sing no more that night. OF course
their old acquaintance, with q few pc
lite formalities, was renewed, and in {
few minutes they were strolling arm il
arm on the piazza Of the hotel, with M
one to modest them and no bright moon
light to disclose her bushes or his cage
and happy face. What he said ant
what she answered is not precisely
known, but the nature of the interview
i may be inferred from the fact that thu
twain were made one during the earl,
= days of November. And this is not tn
first time Is Robin ,Adair" has opened
! the gates hymeneal.-Elmir. IN. y,
Free Press.
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..h I6l|i9:|1al !, 7h!a,;;, z 4|;;ii.,W!

rHE calling togetherof the English
PAIRING 4o0g ID ssjrltr TIM the
date @ which It had been prorogued is
undoubtedly caused by the Irish dis
tarh9ffy+ Hrx Gla3sPY's ciryraar,
snmd eiAE T. PSI beet 81 Jan
MARS enAd&tc& thai i'm ortant>Nsia
ness viii be entered upon as soon as they
assemble. The session promises to be
nMIUl1Sa ri &II| eoss h %s:
The Government will at once grapple
with the Irish question, and will una
ee.GH last a6tWd it csSl Hh p,acasse
the Land League, and it is not probable
that any measure the Ministry may pro.
.PAsa will ,fec9iEe the hearty support Of
the Conservatives, unless, indeed, it be
% tht direction of coerci6k. MI. Bright
mas expressed hisopinion that force is
10 remedy 1t may be no remedy for
bad MEpQt4 md .disoonteat, but It is q
most effective remedy for assassination
and "Beycottine. . Moreover. il seems
10 be " 6nlypThcGtable remedy.
Another and not less difficult problem
GIN ss. =. .,teetsn & tss
ehst Parnelhsm = approaching in England.
- hard un6s A1vs forced farmers IA
seriously consider their position. and
their ideas on this subject have been
feely expressed at the agricultural
meetings, which took place ali
err dtbel csuutTy early in Decem.
i Is plain that both landlord, and
!: asasae sre In 9 4uandsry. In the mid.
seael western, and southern counties
81 ofe ase thousands Of acres which car
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"reminiscences of OLD Californians,

l KNEW two neighbors, old Califor-
mans, who had about equal fortunes.
They were both old settlers, both rich,
and both much respected In that fear
full year, $50, when the dying aud des-
.<litute Immigrants literally crawled on
hands and knees over the Sierra, trying
to reach the Settlements, one of these
men drove all his cattle up to the noun
tains, butchered them, AID fed the starry
ing. He hsd his Mexicans pack all the
mules with flour, which at that time cost
almost its weight in gold, and push on
night and day over the mountains to
meet the strangers there and feed them,
SO that they might have strength to
reach his house, where they could have
shelter ard rest. The.other man, cold
sa css'iMs saw bis oppyrtunty and
smbracedit He FatAt. homesabd sold
all his wheat aud mules and meat, and
with the vast opportunities for turning
money to account-in that new country
soon Became almost aipriEce in fortune.
But his generous neighbor died beg
gar in Idaho, where he had gone to try
ts4ssy anotheEfortune.2 He literally
hadnpt monsyehopgh to buy Stroud;
Id aghe didd anphe straok@a BY the
roadside, he was buried'without even so
much as pine.board coffin.
lsaW Via grave there ONLY last year.
Some 'bntihad sbtl up &idHh kra.tite
stone at the head. And that is ali. No
1ame-not even q letter or q date.
1 Nothing. /, Bpt that bQWlder vas fash
ioned blythe hand of Almighty God, and
in the little seams and dots and mossv
scars that cover it He can read ,he
fubric that chronicles the secret virtues
OF this lone dead man on the snowy
mountains of Idaho. :
The children of the q Prince" are in
Paris. Upheld. by his colossal wealth.
their kykssesm 10 enlbrk cs tbsunfvetsal
world. He is my friend He buys all
my books, and reads every line I write;
When he comes TO this sketch he will
understand it. And he ought to under,
stand, too, that all the respect, adhira.
ton, and love which the new land once
gave these two men gathers around and
| lis buried beneath that moss grown gran
ito stone; and that I know, even with al
his 'show of splendor, that his heart i!
- cold and empty IS that dead man.,
and.-Joaauia Ailler, In, Tie ,CalHior
MAN. ekHl
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{. living in Psspe@sl. Daylight.

I fHAD been O,tS some hours when /
met my companion, and hailed him with
" Good morning." He answered with
I" Good evening" We both agreed the
hour was seven, but differed as to its be.
ing q. m. or p. m. was convinced it
was the morning Of the morrow, where
as Brown was persuaded it was yester-
day evening. A never-setting sun plays
strange pranks with ones reckoning of
tima.-Seebohn's s. Siberia in Eu7oDe. -
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Former Severe Winters.

NEW YEAR 5 DAY IN 1904 Will be re-
membered as long as any man or woman
is living who undertook to make or re.
ceive calls on that festive occasion, or
who was obliged to give up the idea of
doing either, as hundreds were, just by
reason Of the low state of the thermom.
etcr and the high state of the wind. On
Thursday, the last day Of December,
there was Il tremendous snow storm that
extended all through the Northwest, and
this was followed by gale that almost
took ones breath away. On Friday
morning, January l, the thermometer
stood ut twenty below in Chicago, and
in the course Of the next twenty-four
hours it got down to %. 1t was 80 at
Oshkosh, 81 at Rockford, 80 at Du-
buque, 2G at kankakee, 3S at st. Paul,
30 at Milwaukee, 30 at Galena, 25 at St.
Louis, and 81 at Fort Smelling. Rail-
road trains hardly ran at all for three or
four days, and business throughout all
this part Of the country was practically
suspended.
The winter of 1866 was, in the East
ern States, almost q reproduction of the
famous season Of 1880. The cold
wave passed all over the United States
on the 23d and. oath of December, and
severe cold weather continued for almost
three months. On the 10th of January,
following heavy snow-storm, the tenn
perature was 50 degrees below zero in
Chicago, 10 below at Washington, and
20 at Fort Smelling. At Woodstock, in
Vermont, the temperature fell to As de-
grees below, and at Enfield, N. H.,
Fryeburg, Me-, and many other places,
the mercury was frozen solid. 1t was
jocularly proposed at the time, in view
Of what had happened in the Maine
town, to change its name to Freeze.
| burgh. Large quantities of snow lay in
Washington from New Years to the
middle of March, and ice covered the
Potomac for the same period. Long
Island Sound was closed to navigation
from January % to February q, and the
harhor of New York was much Obstruct
ed by ice.
The most memorable storm, accom-
panied by exceptionally low tempera
tu!e, that has ever taken place in Iii
nois, however, was in the early part O.
1854. One incident of this storm is vel
remembered. The members of the Leg
islature had been to Chicago on an OK
cursion, and were just returning t,
Springfield on the recently-c CONSTRUCTED
Chicago e. Alton Road, when the train
OF over 800 passengers, met the begin
ming of the snow.storm at Joliet.
grew more and more violent, and tn,
wind shifted to the southwest and blew
blizzard" until, just as it was be
coming dark. the engine stuck in
snow-bank, about five miles south of tn
station-house, which was the only build
Ing where the village of Dwig ht nov
stands, and there it remained all night
The next morning the passengers brok
up an emigrant car for fuel, and for foo
they were obliged to content themselve
BY eating quantity of oysters, cut i
frozen chunks from the cans whic
were luckily IN the baggage. car, on thei
way to be served up at q reception
which Governor Matteson was to civ
that evening to the coming Assembly
men in Springfield. 4. There was the
nothing more to eat, and no fuel to sta,
up the locomotive, and no possibility {