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TRAPPING MOSQUITOES.
They Cnhnot Get Their Bills Ont While You
Hold Your Breath.

Iucy CunnOb NreL I1enr bIlIA Ouk While Ynu
Hold Your Breath.
Three or four men were sitting on the
piazza of a seaside cottage smoking. 1t was
evening. The stars were as thick in the sky
as freckles on red-headed girls face. The
waves came in on the beach with a swish
swash-swosh just as they have done ever
since the second day Of the creation.
More piercing than the song of the waves
were the notes and more multitudinous than
the stars of heaven the number of the mos
quitoes that haunted that piazza, ard every
one OF them was "looking for blood" The
men had ceased smoking for fun. They
now puffed their pipes and cigars to keep
the mosquitoes away.
Something funny about mosquitoes"
said one rather absent minde6ly.
Eyes, rather" was the drawing reply.
Funny how much blood it takes to fill
one Of them up"
"No, but honest now; do you know that if
a mosquito d get his bill down into your
hand he cant pull it out while you hold
"Don't believe it,
at is true. however, for have tried it.
"Bet you the cigars mosquito can take
his bill out at any time he wants to do it,
and we will try it right here. 1t is go?''
"It is, and I'll let them try"
A lamp was lighted and the cigars put
out, and all waited. In less than minute
g mosquito had placed himself on Toms
hand and began operations.
"Now," said Tom, and placed the fore
finger of his other hand down close to the
mosquito. It did not bulge. He placed
his nail against the abdomen of the insect
and whirled it around. Still it remained
fixed.
You can do it every time" said Tom as
he killed the mosquito and drew long
breath.
1t is fact. Go and try it.
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A COSTLY CHRONOMETER.
Sixty Thousand Dollars the Sum Mr.. Astor
Paid for the Instrument.

Sixty Thousand Dollars the Sum Mr.. A.,or
Paid for the Instrument.
From the ocean.l
In the early days of the direct tea trade
with China importers were anxious to Sc
cure the earliest cargoes of a new crop.
The fastest clipper ships were engaged in
the trade. Great haste In loading them was
followed by hot race to reach New York
first. The first cargo brought the best price
and large profits. The successful captain
was always rewarded, so every known aid
to navigation was adopted.
The young Captain of one of Mr.. A Store
clippers bought, on one of his trims. a new
chronometer, and with its aid made ouick
passage and arrived first. He put the urice
OF 1t into the expense account of the trim.
but Mr.. Astor threw it out, insisting that
such items of expense for new TANGLED mo-
tions could not be allowed. The Captain
thereupon resigned and took service with a
rival line. The next year he reached port
long before any competitor, to the great de-
light and profit OF his employers and the
chagrin of Mr.. Astor. Not long after thew
CHANGED to meet, and Mr.. Astor inquired:
by the way, Captain, how much did that
chronometer cost you?"
"Six hundred dollars; and may I inouire
Mr.. Astor, how much it has cost Jou?''
Sixty thousand dollars"
The moral is plain.
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names for Que railroad station. Some bother
for new visitors is caused thereby. 1t was
only last evening that I saw British tourist
and his daughter interestedly viewing the
prismatic fountain in the grounds Of the
Pennsylvania Club.
"And what place might this be?" the
man asked of one of the policemen whom
the authorities assign to friendly duty
around this famous gambling house.
This is the West End, SIR" was the re-
ply. "and that building is the Pennsylvania
Club"
"But is the Pennsylvania Club at the
West End, and are there two of them?
Half an hour ago we saw Pennsylvania
Club at Hollywood"
1t was the same establishment. He had
approached it from the other side. There
was a time when the West End Hotel was
in Long Branch, but the proprietors secured
a postofice and railway station there, nam
ing both West End. Later, John Hoey
made his enormous investment in Holly
wood, an adjacent park, and by donating the
ground and edifice for a new station, he has
induced the railway people tocall it Holly
wood and West End. He is now pushing
hard for a separate postofice, to be called
HOLLYWOOD.
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CHAPTER II.

THINGS THAT THE MOON sHoNE ON.
The viands Of the supper at Camp Nine
teen differed hardly any from those of its 10
predecessors, and the sameness of the fare
had begun to offend those of the party ac-
customed to any degree of luxurious variety;
but this time there was one feminine eater,
and her presence made the occasion almost
eonvivial banquet. Deuce Low had a
seat on the rough bench at the end of the
table with the magnates of the camp. She
was at the right hand of Boss Donald,
the chief Of the party. Next to her on the
other side was Will Brown, who regarded
her as his own guest, and his courtesies
Kept Donald, who was not q smooth man.
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like that of jack-in-a-box caricature that the
girl exclaimed, like surprised child, "Oh,
that's funnyp" and one of her fee. leaped
clear off the ground in little caper of mer
riment. The object of her glee displayed no
resentment. He was amiably drunk. and
disposed to crafty, with all particulars
about himself, the curiosity which he had
aroused.
"My names Old Jugg Brown" he SEN
tentiously said, addressing himself directly
to the girl, and speaking as a human e1-
hibit in museum might in lecturing on it
self II was born Brown, and now they
call me Old Jugg because I'm such an al
mighty hard drinker. Yes, I'm Old Jugg
Brown. and this young gentleman is my
proud of me. He's reformin' me-Will is
but got hold of bottle O. whisky, and
I've been drinkin' here in the brush"
He told this as something that had casually
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as no man other than practiced handler Of
gambling chips would be likely to. He
seemed about to toss 1t back to the lender,
or donor, but slipped it into a vest pocket
instead, and blithsomely said: my daugh-
ter Is genius sir-a genius. She sings
she dances-she will go into Oklahoma. my
young friend, like revelation Of melody
and disclosure of grace. 1t may be that
her talent must submit to offensive environ
ment for awhile. and, indeed, may confess
that our immediate expectations as TO
Wealth City are centered in a concert hall
said to have just been opened there; but all
Oklahoma is ours. and we shall speedily
possess it. Jack High, sir, and-and-"
"Call her Deuce Low" was the sleepy
suggestion from Old Jugg Brown in the
bushes.
"Jack High and. Deuce Low" cried the
shabby adventurer, exhilarated by the pos
session of an unearned dollar, and he was
about to impulsively declare that the card
checked himself, and chose other language.
''They will conquer prosperity in Oklaho-
ma-will Jack High and Deuce Low-Oh,
yes"
The appetizing fragrance of coffee came
from the opened kettle on the stove. and the
two cooks were seen to be active IN putting
the meal on the table.
will they sell two surpers fora dollar?"S
Deuce Low asked, raising her eyes to Will
Brown; and when he did not answer in
stantly, she eagerly suggested: well,
then, say one supper and half?" She
rolled partly over and rested her chin in
her palms. while her elbows settled into the
turf. 'I'd rather get half a supper than
none"
Will Brown felt like boyish playfelllow
of this coaxing little creature, notwith-
standing his % years, and he stood with
arms akimbo, looking down into her wist-
full face, with juvenile impulse to share
with her whatever he had to eat.
81 don't think you can buy any suppers
here" he said, because we don't make .
business of selling them. But We'll feed
you for nothing" His glance turned to Jack
High, and he less Hospitality added: "And
you, too. But in that case what use is my
dollar to you? You might pay it back
now, you know, and get it off your mind"
A droll leer prefaced Jack Highs reply:
"You're right as can be. I'll satisfy the
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TWO H0ODO0ED WATCHES.
Timepieces That Break Their Springs With
Astonishing Regularity.

Timepieces That Break Their Spring. with
Astonishing Regularity.
Lewiston Journal.1
Jeweler Doten, of Auburn, tells the latest
story about the curious breaking of main
springs In watches. Friday a man came in
with watch to have the spring replaced.
The jeweler put in new one and hung the
watch up. No sooner had he done so than
along came another man with q watch whose
handspring was broken and which was of
the same firms make as the first one. He
put good handspring in this, as he had in
the other, and hung'the watch up beside it.
1t was but few minutes bsfore the main
springs in both watches broke, one Of the n
in 10 pieces and the other in 13 They bad
broken within two seconds of each other.
He took them down and put in them two
of the best mainsprings he had in tie shop.
but in less than IL minutes one of them
broke, and during the night the other did
each being in many pieces. This
he was wondering whether to try
1t again or furnish the owners with new
thinking it might be cheaper,
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A GHOST WORRIES AN EDITOR.
Mysterious Sounds That Scared a News.
paper Man Into Illness.

Mysterious Sounds That Scared q News.
paper Man Into Illness.
Atlanta Journal.1
Augusta has an editor who was scared
into several weeks illness by ghost. One
of the reporters on the paper tells of it in
print. The sickness is over with now, and
the cause of it has just leaked out. The
name of the editor who suffered himself to
be SO badly frightened is not given, but 1t is
pretty good ghost story and is given for
what it is worth.
During reconstruction times a resident of
Augusta was arrested by the military au-
thority, and put under guard in the Pal
fnetto House, which stood then where the
Chronicle office now is. One guard kept an
eye upon the imprisoned citizen. During
the night the muff1ed tread of the sentry
was brought to halt by fatal knife thrust.
After brief struggle the guard was dead
and the prisoner liberated. To this day it
has never been learned who did the killing.
1t happened one night some eight weeks
ago that one of the Chronicle editors found
1t necessary to remain at his desk after the
rest OF the force had gone home. He was
engaged busily writing, when he heard
low muffied noise. Thoughts of the story
of the Yankees murder came back to him,
He listened intently. He heard the almost
noiseless steps of the avenger. Then he
heard the noise as the guard was borne
down, the death cry as the knife blade
reached vital part, the hurried steps of
the fleeing iberator and hDerated-the edi.
tor was in a delirium.
1t was more than the poor newspaper fell
low could stand. Weary with work, fraiI
In mind and body after hours of labor. he
gave completely away. In his helpless
condition visions of his high tariff articles,
OF his pilfered leading essays, of his whole
life, came up before him. He reached
home, but was thrown into bed, where he
remained for weeks. The incident had
nearly killed him. The story is told in the
Chronicle over the signature of Mr.. w. c.
Casey, one of the brightest newspaper re-
porters on the Georgia press.
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happened to him-something regretable, and
yet nothing that he could have been ex-
pected to prevent. He held up the half
emptied bottle, and svayed with it to and
fro, until the son took it from him and
smashed it on stone. He regarded this
summary action alphabetically until the
aroma Of the spilled whisky reached his
nose, and then he shifted feebly, his bland
smile changed to q grotesque pout, and he
sank slowly down into the bushes as though
an invisible hand was shutting him down
into his box.
was saying that we meant to get to Wealth
City before night" the strutting stranger
resumed. "We understand that Wealth
City is a new name for sudden place-the
name about day old, and the place some
thing like a week. I will not conceal the
fact that we are-in a sense-well, call us
fortune seekers-and we haven't yet found
it. May be it is in Oklahoma, and what we
wish is to get there. At this moment" and
here he snapped a thumb and finger of each
hand airily, 1--WE are tired, we are hungry,
and we are penniless."
Will Brown was not unaccrstomed to
wandering adventures in similar plight,
and he would have repulsed this man,
doing it not the less decidedly because
politely; but at that instant the girl settled
to the ground, very limp and prone, but
falling into far too graceful pose to make
it possible e'that she was careless about it.
Her fatigue was pitifully genuine. however,
and the sight of beauty in distress
although also in rags-was an appeal which
Will made no effort to resist.
You're welcome to a dollar" he said, |
holding forth coin instinctively toward
the girl, but relinquishing it to the ready
hand of her less charming parent. IF
you'll give me your name,' be added, in
sudden attempt to give to his sentimen-
tality q strictly commercial turn, "I'n
make a memorandum of the loan, and ex-
pect you to pay it sooner or later"
"My name?" was the forcedly glib re-
sponse, 20, yes, my name. Well, you see,
We are travelling incognito. Poverty is
ever sensitive, you know-ever sensitive.
In the last shutting Of the cards, somehow,
we've been dealt clear out of the game.
ought to be q winner, but-heighol Well,
call me by what name you please
'"Call him Jack High, came drowsily
from the bush.
'tI'll call you Jack High" :" assented Will
Brown, making an entry in q notebook,
"and, Jack High, you owe me one dollar
Jack High twiried the dollar, and made
u pass deity ia and ont bstyssp bis fingers,
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from treating her with fiippancy which her
worn clothes and battered father would
otherwise have melted. Directly across the
table was Jack High at elbows with blackly
whiskered foreman, or contractor, named
Aleck Wiams, whose part in the expedi-
ton was to provide workmen and CONVEX,
ances for transporting and planting the tel
egraph poles. Jack was loquacious and
Wiams was reticent, so they were paired
happily for supper conversation, because
nearly all the speech was by one and the
listening almost wholly bv the other. From
further down the long table, even from
where the merest manual laborers sat at the
other end, came glances of curiosity and
caused by the tsttsred girl to whom WI
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but wonder when I saw the forms of
these at times almost convulsed with emo
tion. Each had well-thumbed Hebrew, Bible
in his hand, and from time to time the
party broke out into a kind of chant, an old
gray-haired man acting as leader, and the
rest coming in on the refrain. The chant
was in a strange tongue, but as translated it
is as follows:
Leader-For the palace that lies desolate.
Responsive sit in solitude and mourn.
Leader-For the walls that are destroyed.
Responsive sit in solitude and mourn.
Leader-For our Majesty that is departed.
Responsive sit in solitude and mourn.
Leader-For our great men who lie dead.
Response-We sit in solitude and mourn.
Leader-For our priests who have stumbled.
Responsive sit in solitude and mourn.
Leader-For our kings who have despised
him
Responsive sit in solitude and mourn.
The effect of this chant cannot be appre-
ciated without hearing it. The old men,
the weeping women who kiss the stones Of
the wall that separates them from what was
once the site of Solomon's temple, and
which is even now the holiest part on the
earth to the Jew, the genuine feeling ex-
pressed by all and the faith that they show
in thus coming here week after week and
1t is indeed one of the strange sights of this
strangest of cities.
BECOMING OWNERS OF THE SOIL.
There are number of agricultural colonies
In different parts of Palestine. There is an
agricultural school near Jaffa, which has
more than 200 pupils, and there are eight of
these agricultural colonies. One of their
farms near Jaffa has 28, 900 acres. 1t is sit
uated on the plains OF Sharon, where the
Philistines lived, and it has tens of thous-
ands OF vines.a and olive trees. The Turks
are very much averse to selling land to the
Jews, but the latter show themselves to be
as good farmers as they are business men.
and the terraced condition of the hills
about Jerusalem shows that the Holy Land
was far better cultivated under them than
it has been under their conquerors. A
large amount of land just outside of the
city of Jerusalem is now either in the
hands of the Jews or of their charitable in
stltutions. Mr. Behar, the head Of the
Rothschild schools, tells me they have lust
bought the Jerusalem Hotel and will add IL
to their school. Sir Moses de Montefiore,
who managed the fund left by rich New
Orleans Israelite, built many good houses
for Jews on the road between Bethlehem
and Jerusalem, and there are a number of
Jewish hospitals.
Among the people who confidently be-
lleye that the Jews will soon again own
Palestine is colony of 10 persons who live
In flne house Quilt on the very walls of
} Jerusalem and who are known as ''the
Americans. These people are not Jews
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Hook and Key East. Changes are frequents
ly made in them, at that, and it is only this
season that Avon-by-the-Sea is substituted
for the old-fashioned Key East. Wealth
and fashion are whimsical, you know, and
will not tolerate the commonplace in
nomenclature any more than in other
things. So uniform is the pretentiousness
at Long Branch that the sight of a latter
demalion girl playing in the water from
hydrant with her bare feet was a sight to
make me stop and look. The modish chill
dren may take off their shoes and stockings
for the surf, but the line for such indul-
gence is drawn fors them at the bluff, and
dozen of them were watching this unconven-
tional youngster with positive envy.
A PUZZLED BRITISH TOURIST.
But was writing about the ftful and
sometimes foolish names of the differ
ent portions of Long Branch. Just now
there is something of controversy over two
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12-Thirty thousand
out of the 40, 900
people in Jerusalem
are Jews, and the
Israelites bid fair to
become the predomi-
nant peoplei in Pales-
tine. The Turkish
Government, which
has for ages pro-
hibited them for liv-
ing longer than three
weeks at a time in
the Holy Land, is
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under the influence of the foreign govern
ment relaxing its restrictions and at present
the Jews are coming here by the hundreds.
They are engaging in business and they now
control great part of the trade of Jeru-
salem. Some of them feel that the day
when the prophecy of the Bible that they
shall again inhabit their land shall be full
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RESERVED FOB THE NEPHEW.
A Remark Tint Was Neatly Turned By Gen
ernl Sam Houston.

A Remark Tint Was Neatly Turned By Gen.
ernl Sam Houston.
Atlanta Journal.l
At a banquet General Sam Houston was
naming the Presidents and their character
istics, and omitted Monroe's name. A
nephew Of Monroe asked:
General, what have you to say Of my
uncle?"
General H.-o, Mr.. Monroe was a very
agreeable companion"
Monroe-Why, General, you might as
well call him 49, fool. and be done
with it.
General H.-No. reserve that compli-
ment for the nephew.
TIE above was told by DR.. Markham, at
Huntsville, Tex, where General Houston
died and was buried !
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GAMBLING AT THE BRANCH.

It would be unsuitable to write a column
about Long Branch without paying some
attention 10 the gambling, which remains
foremost, assertive and characteristic feature
ofthe place. A portly, middle-aged man,
broken in health and impaired in mind, is
seen mingling in the chance assemblages.
That is the notorious Phil DAILY, the propri-
etor of the Pennsylvania Club, and for years
so dominant in local politics that the police
and other officials were servile in the inter
est of his law breakage. In those days he
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She Can OutrIde a Comanche.

Miss Johanna Kemler, belle of Para
disc Valley, Nevada, has set out for Paris.
She rides any animal that wears hair, and
hoofs, and cares no more for a saddle than
does wild Indian. She is as much at
home on the side of galloping steed as on
his back. With her horse at full speed she
can pass under his neck and come up on the
other side, a feat that few Comanches care
TO undertake..
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at all. They are Christians who have
come here from different parts of the
United States, and more especially from
Chicago. to await the fulflment of the
prophecy that God will regenerate the
world, beginning at Jerusalem. They be-
lieve that this day is close at hand, and
they say that it has begun in the Jews COM
ing back to Palestine. They see its fulfil
ment in the improvements that are going
on in Jerusalem, and cite the new roads
that have been built over the country as
one of the evidences of il. They are evil
IDENTIFY people of means as well as OF refine
ment and culture. When L visited them
the other day talked with several of them
and found them intelligent and we'll edu.
Gated. 1 asked one as to. their belief. and
was answered that they took the Bible as
their guide, and that they had come to Jeru-
salem to endeavor TO follow its precepts
while living upon its walls. They have no
particular creed, and one of them said, when
asked as to this, that there is too much
preaching and too little good living. They
do no missionary work, and say they have
not yet felt called upon to preach. They
spend much of their time in Bible study
and singing, and are much respected among
the foreigners who reside in Jerusalem.
A REAL ESTATE BOOM.
There is no doubt, however, that Jerusa-
lem is improving. The most of its streets
are now well psyed and the sanitary con,
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The Letter of rhe Law.
New Haven Pallsdium.I

As the city ordinance reads, every dog
shall wear q muzzle between the LIST of June
and the 1st of August. A muxsle can be
put onto dog as the owner likes and yet
be within the letter of the law. A muzzle
can be put upon the tail of 9 canine, and
II It can only be made to STAY. the dog ia all
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LII that is Long
Branch is not so
called. The extern
sion of the i'm
mense summer pop
ulation has gone
go far beyond the
limits of the orig
inal Long Branch
that no less than
16 distinct names
FOR railway sta
tions, and post
Offices are in use
between Sandy