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An Educeelonal Ineldsat.

Miss Knox. New York teacher, viii
probably think twice before she sl,anks
{ small boy again. The other day Eddie
Mullane, aged five years, invested !
nickel In toy bomb. and put In i rear
pocket Of his trousers. During school
hours Eddie became unrnly and Eas
called up for punishment Whack went
Miss Knox's palm against the broadcast
part Of Eddie's body. and then came :
loud explosion, followed BY cry from
Eddie and shrek from his teacher.
The other teachers rushed into the
rcsm, and when the smoke cleared
away the major portion Of Eddie's
knickerbockers was missing and his
waist was found to be- ON Are. Nil
Knox had : blackened and burned hand,
and the sleeves OF her dress wss badly
singed. Eddie had his two brothers q
the same school. and one Of them made
sash Of his overcast and k3ok EddIa
home His mother says he win s. r.
school again - soon " he On olf - 4
bsnch - HrQQklyn EaSlA
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in it's folds, Marsden fred both barrels
into the scaly body. The coil relaxed,
and instantly Sans club (Which he had
never let go) came crashing down upon
the hideous head once. more. This
time the blow was mortal. The snake
writhed for moment, and then lay
dead.
me hab de five pound now," cried
Sam, grinning.
'.And I'll have the snake" said Lieu
tenant Marsden.
And he kept his word; for the stuffed
skin, fully seventeen feet in length,
adorned his little cabin aboard the
Britannia for many day after.-David
Ker, in Golden Days.
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MOTHERS SON.

NV son is great, is good and wise,
lie has both land and gold;
Iwaik in shades Of love and Joy
: woman now grown old;
Beauty was mine Of form and face,
Fullness Of JOY and grief,
The sacred love OF my dear son
Is iife's one garnered sheaf
o, he is tall, and full Of strength,
Has won him a fair wife,
Childrcs about him fairer still
-s=- Istlae 10y and care to LIE;
Not one can crowd me from his heart
,2or push me to the wall -
His smile still says: tOf all the loves
Mothers was first OF ALL
Never forgotten In power nor care,
Nor love in days Of yore
Brought to my heart such love and praise,
No votive Offering more.
He comes each morn when duty calis--
Turns from them all for this
AGive me morning greeting dear,
y Yours is tho lucky kiss -
Hive in dreams Of all that's past
Babyhood's gleefnl life;
Beyish blunders ambitious aims,
ri Manhood's stirring ana strife.
Closer and closer his dear arms fold
As life seems almost done;
Sarret words say IN his ear:
Mothers lover and son.
--Buch Hill, In Detroit Free Press.
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RARE OLD BOOKS.
Nobody Reads Thorn, still They Sell Fc
FabuIOus Sums.

Nobody Reads Them, Still They Sell For
Fabulous Sums.
Perhaps an antique bookstore with
its musty volumes will put one in COM
munication with the murky past quicker
than any thing under the sun.
A big tome bound in old yellum, and
stamped with the letters H. d. ",
brings up Agincourt, Catherine of France
and the corpulent Falstaff. 1t belonged
TO Henry v. Of England.
Nodoubt the hands that clasped those
of the royal French woman thumbed the
leaves and made the Juvenile dog-ears.
1t may be, as the volume is a ponderons
one, Henry had somebody hold it for
him.
What reading do you suppose Henry
delighted in? Apuleius' Golden Ass9
No. Waltzing Made Easy? No; nor a
parley vous Francois pocket companion.
Henry's literary meat was History OF
the French Academy" served in the
language he masticated so numerically
when he did his famous wooing
The book to-day is. worth only few
dollars, while three volumes of sermons
by the Mathers who raked Satan fore
and aft when they were on earth, refuse
to be purchased for less than $500. Old,
dusty, dirty and crumbling are theleaves,
aye, very like the clay OF the authors.
1t is doubtful If anybody could be hired
to read them at space rates.
missalof four centuries ago, about
half the size OF small prayer book is
beautifully done, although the evidence
Is clear that perspiring thumbs fondly
pressed its pages. You may have it for
$25.
Boston almanacs of $50 years ago,
when people did not know much about
spelling in print and when compositors
had to set up hsping I for an COM
mand sums that would keep family in
coal and -four for six months at least.
Sheer at this rubbish, il you will, be-
cause after handling it you are Obliged
to-. use soap and water. No doubt the
critic who reviewed them when they
were first published, sneered at them.
Time has sneered at them too, but they
have stood it pobly, and now when their
owners ask fat prices for them, these
volumes are INDICATED, while the long
defunct author never knows the cold
cash he lost by not continuing to live
until the present.
A copy Of the second book ever printed
with date can be had for $40, 900, a sum
that would alleviate much suffering.
;cnvert at least one heather, buy food
Tor the hungry, or elect Congressman
In most distri It's
A copy Of the first book ever printed,
date or no date, bound or unbound, dog
cared, thumb-stained, torn, moth-eaten
or illegible, is worth ~ \ impossible to
say, for the volume has dropped Of tho
shelf Of time and landed nobody knows
where A suitable reward viii ha given
tho finder - DostOn Globe.
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nice place on a hot summer night, with
the mosquitoes buzzing all round you,
and not breath of air stirring; nor
would you enjoy it much in the heat and
glare of noon, with the sun roasting
YOU black and the dust peppering you
all over.
But II you were to get up very early,
out to Governors garden
(which lies about mile from PoEt-of-
Spain, the capitol of the island), and sit
down ON the smooth grass in the shade
Of some giant tree, with palms hum
dred feet high towering on every side,
and bright-plnmaged -humming birds
lowering over the great bell-fowers all
round you, and the fresh morning
breeze coming in from the sea, and the
first rays of sunlight streaming through
the purple shadows of the great mount
eains overhead, you would soon make up
your mind that Trinidad was not such
an unpleasant place after all.
Theresis one part of the island, how
ever, which is not an agreeable place at
any time, and where, even in the cool
of the morning, you are pretty certain
not to meet too many visitors.
Between Port-of-Spain and the little
seaport of San Tornado, somewhat farth-
er-down the western coast Of the island,
lies wide belt Of swamp, as gloomy
and dangerous as any in Florida
Under the dismal shadow of the huge
dark trees, around which unwholesome
troopers twist themselves like coillng
snakes, Turk black, foul pools, around
which the leathery mangroves grow
thick and rank, while the hideous cry
OF the bullfrog, half croak and half bell
low, echoes necessarily through the
ghostly silence.
Muddy creeks and channels cross each
other in every directions; and even the
upper ground-what little there is Of it.
is so oozy and spongy that any one who
had ventured into this frightful morass
would have left his footprints in the
treacherous soil as plainly as in the sand
of the seashore.
All the inhabitants Of the country
around the big Bayou" as this dreary
place was called, knew and dreaded 1t.
In the< brightest and clearest weather
1t always looked gloomy and grim.
The mulattoes who lived on the hills
above it, when they glanced down into
it at nightfall and saw the white fever-
mist rising from the rank, oozy soil like
steam from kettle, shook their heads
z=fFFfta nfHttered te=eaeh= othersthat they
we're lucky to be high up out of the way
of all that.
No canoe ever ventured into that hor-
rible maze of--black, Shiny, tide1ess
water-channels, whore the hugo saw
toothed alligators lay watching for their
prey,
II now and then native hunter dared
to risk the passage of the Bayou, he
kept looking sharply to right and left
at every step, lest some wild beast
should pounce down upon him from the
lhteFlaeed boughs overhead, or some
venomous serpent dart out upon him
from the long grass in which he stood
waist-deep; nor did he ever feel quite
safe till he had left the last thieket a
good way behind
Altogether, the Big Bayou was not at
s! all the kind of place where one would
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..HA. SEE DEERE.

nave expected to meet any one who had
anywhere else to go; and still less
could one have thought that a brisk
young officer Of the British navy, set
Ting foot on shore for the frst time
after two months cruise, would turn
ms back upon the breezy hills and
beautiful plantations to march straight
on into this dreary swamp
This, however, was just what Lieu
!, tenant Alfred Marsden, Of the
britannia, had done; and here he was,
.tamping through the gloomiest part OF
sne morass With his dousle-barreled
rlhe on his shoulder, and "Black Sam,
me boldest and most skillful among the
negro hunters Of the island, following
close at his heels. =
This looks q likely place for big
snakes, SAM said Marsden. glancing
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A COLOSSAL PROJECT.
The Proposed Drainage OF the Great vails
of Mexico.

of Mexico.
The drainage of the great valley OF
Mexico, which has at last been def
nitely undertaken, will be one OF the
most interesting works in the history Of
engineering. whether we look at the
stupendous proportions Of the project,
or at the magnitude OF the sanitary ad-
yantages which will accrue from its
completion A sanitary engineer would
say that the capacious valley, in the
middle OF which lies the City Of Mex
leo. was. notwithstanding its fertile soil
and admirable climate not intended by
nature for the habitation Of teeming
population 1t is deep cup-like de-
preston. surrounded by q mountain RAM
part and possessing no natural outlet for
water or sewerage. Nevertheless, for
many centuries, not only since the Span
ish conquest but in Aztec and the ST II
remoter Toltecstimes the valley has
been densely peopled. The result is
that the ground on which the large
cities stand reeks with corruption. and
the adjacent stagnant lakes are clogged
with age-long accommodations OF filth,
engendering the most dangerous MAS
matte and typhoidal conditions. II the
masses OF the Mexican people were not
in the habit OF drinking pulche instead
Of water, they would be continually
decimated, for it is impossible in the
City Of Mexico to procure pure drinking
water except by distillatiou. Under the
Spanish Vicereys, an attempt was made
70 drain the valley, and a tunnel for
tn at r,irnnaa WAS RYAN thrnurh ono ~
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eFNsoNAL AND IMPEasoNAL.


Ne Goblet the French statesman
never allows himself ~ Be inter
viewed. He thinks the prsctioe has
arisen through vanity and desire TOR
publicity.
There are sixteen colored Jockeys
In this country who receive from y, 500
TO Is, 900 year. There Is MOI . colored
minister in the country, Bishop Or
pastor, who receives a. much - the
least expert Of those Jockeys
Mr.. chauncey NJ. Dcpew disposes Of
the contents Of his daily mail with the
aid of his private secretary and two
stenographers, one Of whom ID negro.
This man is said TO be unusually cona-
petent, and to DO treated with great re-
spect not only by Mr.. Depew. but BY
every body with whom no comes in cnu-
tact.
Mrs Morton, wife Of the Vice
President, IL not only . beautiful
woman, but kindly and gracious one.
She has, moreover, sweet and we'll
| trained voice and a-.cspacity 20 touch
the right conversational note under dit
acult circumstances. Notwithstanding
her wealth and her sumptuous way OF
entertaining, her Ave young daughters
are brought up in the most rigid sim
plicity OF dress and habit
In pronouncing the name Of the
millionaire Scotch ironmaster the ac-
sent Is on the second syllable Car-nAy-
gle. This is shibboleth in Western
Pennsylvania by which the stranger
from the East is readily detected. Mr..
Carnegie himaelf is also quit stickler
for the correct pronunciation, and 1t is .
poor introduction to him to show ignor-
ance OF it. In any case, however, he -
not readily approached, for, like most
rich men, he is pestered by persons who
would assist him to get rid Of his sur
plus wealth.
Tho editor Of leading German
journal recently visited this country.
On his return to Germany he said in his
newspaper: Nowhere have I seen %
many beautiful women as in America,
| Including even old ladies with white
hair. The native American girl, espec-
tally II of English or Scotch descent
is tall and slender, generally blonde,
with regular features and small hands
and feet The complexion Is often pale;
rarely do they have the fresh color Of .
| Viennese girl. The most beautiful girl !
have ever come across in my life saw
| in New York store. She was an Amer
lean Of Spanish descent and OF dazzling
beauty.
AN eccentric character who had ac-
quired fortune in Australia recent
ly died In England. He spent
his money very freely He pnr-
chased valuable articles and invar-
iably destroyed them. A gold watch
was smashed up the moment 1t
was bought the back of . silver watch
was wrenched of so as to be more con-
venient for winding up, the straw was
taken out Of new easy chair, shelves
out Of the house for frewood, clocks
broken up and thrown away, bread
burned daily in the fire, legs Of mutton
and sides of bacon were buried in the
garden, valuable plants and trees were
bought and chopped up. He built .
| greenhouse and knocked 1t to pieces
He died poor man and was buried by
the parish.
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There is at present one man on the
force who reaches the maximum height.
The average weight as nearly as can be
calculated without accurate eomputa-
ton, is about 1870 pounds and the aver
age chest measure a trifle over 81 inches.
Chicago Tribune.
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keenly round him. Il hope we shanY
meet with any Of them =

keenly round him. II hope we shanY
meet with any Of them.S
! I. No hope meet dem berry much, sar, !.
replied Sam, with broad grin.
why, are you so fond OF snakes
then? hate them like poison
mo fond OF snake, sar, but berry
fond OBJ de Gubberment reward for.
ebbery big snake killed. Five pound
big lump money for poor black man.
Ha! see derew
The lastswords were spoken In a mhis-
per, while Sam, stepping in front Of the
Lieutenant, made sign to him to re-
main perfectly still.
For some distance ahead OF them the
long grass was crushed down into the
earth, as II some one had been dragging
log or coil Of rope through it; and
this kind Of trail seemed to lead into a
thick bed Of tall reeds ON the edge Of
one OF the deepest and glonmiest pools.
Snake. sarr' whispered Sam, with a
face as bright as II he had just met his
oldest and dearest friend.
Marsden cooked his rife, but the me-
gro waved him back, saying:
49, ohoou, cdEs y pOSt YOU no Kill
snake fust shot? nebber see him again.
Me glib him settler wild dis land he
fiourished the long, heavy club which
he carried in his brawny HANDY.
"S'pose he too strong for me den you
make shoot"
So saying, he went forward into tho
reeds, stepping as cautiously as If tread
ing on eggs, with his club uplifted to
strike.
All ut once he stopped short, and
Marsden, peering from behind his
shoulder, saw on the ground a huge
specified mass, very much like thick
rope coiled round and round.
But a second glance showed Marsden,
right in the center of all the successive
rings, the fiat, shining, 1ozenge-shaped
head of the great python snake
cole fellow asleep" chuckled Sam.
me wake him little bit"
Down came his club on the serpent's
head with thump like the thrasher's
fail; but in his eagerness he struck
somewhat aside, and instead of killing
the snake outright, only gave it a very
severe bruise
Instantly the vast bulk reared itself
up with a sharp, angry hiss, and, before
poor Sam could draw back, the terrible
coils were around his body.
But the snake, half stunned by the
blow, had not the full command of its
strength, and before it could crush Sam
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DRIFT OF OPINION.

DO you think Harrison will get
second term?' ''On the contrary
think the people would be willing to
commute his first. IN. Y. Sun.
On the basis of the vote at the re-
cent election the Democrats will carry
both Rhode Island Congressional dis.
tricts in November. Albany IN. "
Argus.
The ninety-eight per cent. pro-
tected starch manufacturers having
formed trust, they coolly tell Uncle
Samuel to ''keep his shirt on, Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
Not long ago some of Mr.. Ran
dalls old Philadelphia friends raised a
fund Of $4,000, which they offered him
as mark OF their respect for him. But
he respectfully declined to accept it.
He could not receive money reward
for doing his public duty. Buffalo Cou-
rier.
Governor Campbell says thu
steady Republican losses in Ohio arc
due to the young men, who are almost
solidly on the Democratic side there.
1t is very much SO everywhere. The
young voters are not declining to look
at the new moon out of reverence for
that ancient institution, the old one.-
Boston Herald.
County convention after county
convention2in Illinois instructs its dele
gates to vote to make the nomination
Of John II. Palmer for United States
Senator in open convention. There is
no longer any doubt that the Gladstone
of Illinois will be so nominated, and
when so nominated hesiwill carry the
State against Farwell or any other mill
ionaire the Republicans can induce to
open his barrel. st. Louis Republic.
Some carpet manufacturers OF
Philadelphia told the House committee
on ways and means that the. proposed
increase of the duty on carpet woods
would make -the. raw material for in
grain carpets cost more than the carpets
now sold for in the open market These
manufacturers have yet to be indicted
into the philosophy of this style of leg
islation, that 1.-THE higher the duty the
lower will be the price to consumers. r.
Boston Transcript
= For Sale Everywhere. = Quay's
Soap. Quay's Soap. For Sale by all
Druggists! 81 used your soap with
great effect in the .last campaign. p
benjamin Harrison. II know just how
your soap is made and heartily recon-
mend it. John Wanamaker. IF I had
more Of your soap should not now sbe
in the soup. III. B. Foraker. Quay's
Soap. Best in the World for Political
Complexions.--N. Y. Commercial Ad-
yertiser..
Mr.. Isaac Clements. stout and
able-bodied Republican politician, has
been appointed pension agent in Chica-
go In the place of the. widow of brave
Colonel Mulligan, the famous command
er of the Mulligan Guards, who was
killed in battle. Our soldier President
was not ashamed to make this change,
and ex-Congressmen Clements was not
man enough to refuse the place. But
such . transaction ought to open the
eyes Of the veterans.-Rock Islander.
where VIII You Get the Remedy
TOO much corn observes the Phila-
delphia Press, has made corn cheap
and cut the farmers profits, and the
remedy Is not in more corn, but in more
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A DANGEROUS SPOT.
Black Sam at Close Quarters with
q Boa-Constrictor.

MoNG all the
West Indian Is
lands there are
few more beanti-
full than Trini-
dad, which lies
so close to the
northwest coast
of South Amer
lea that on q
clear day you
IAN s o Q the
mainland quite
plainly. y.
You might not
-
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Crooks or saucepans made OF hre
clay are best to use whom cooking oat-
meal, custards, etc Nothing sticks to
thu sides Or bottom Of then. = Tae
Hansekeeper
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There is one boarding house mistress
In Maine who is not in the habit Of get
ting left. When some Of the boarders
began to brace their constitutions against
the enervating spring weather with
tonics she posted this notice: ssAll
boarders who build up their .appetites
artificially will be charged 20 per cent.
additional. Augusta journal.
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TO- large, then let those who have fat
ten ID on the taria for 81 long time LEI
the farmers 70 TO the head Of the tabl&
Memphis tTenn.l Appeal.
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John Jacob Aston was credited with
having the most expensive fiunkies in
New York. HE imported" them ali
himself and was proud Of them:
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"a CHEERFUL PICTURE.


4
The wife of the Future VIII BE the Home
Keeper OF Home-Maker.
The teacher of the future will prob
ably differ greatly from the teacher Of
the present. The new education will
require something more than mere text
book knowledge. She will have to be
practical as we'll as erudite, because our
schools will be institutions for training
boys and girls to become husbands and
wives.
The girl of the future will be taught
that her chief mission in life is to be-
come the home-keeperof a home-maker,
and that she was created to marry. Not
that it is her privilege or her fate to do
SO, but that 1t is her duty.
She will be taught that she must as
sumo the responsibility of keeping a
home properly, training children and
aiding in maintaining high social
standard in the community in which she
lives. Her training will be such as to
fit her for these duties.
. The girl of the period will not be IA
vorably impressed with this forecast,
nor will the fashionable mother of the
period, but the tendencies of the times
are to these ends and they are bound to
come, and the sooner the better.
1t is the strong, vigorous, Industrious
woman that makes the happy wife, and
the man who gets her is fortunate. She
may not wear as small q shoe or glove,
sing and play as we'll, or dress and en-
terrain as nicely as her dainty sister.
but she'is comparatively free from pains
and nervous twitching. She sleeps we'll,
rats we'll and lives we'll Her hosns-is
better kept. her husband better satiss
fiedsand her children better raised.
The well-developed, well-trained wom.,
an is at par now, and it will not be long
until she will command large premium.
Then your pretty, fragile, dainty Great
ures will take, their places on the old
maid list and sit and sing and play
themselves to sleep. Pittsburgh Ga.
zette.
Flower Bonncts win He the Rage.
Flower bonnets will be more than
ever in vogue the coming season, and
for very dIessy wear these appear to be
a mere wreath of beautiful blossoms
mounted upon what looks to be few
briers and foliage lightly interlaced,
this floral network form ng what is
called the bonnet portion. Pretty mod
els made entirely Of Neapolitan violets
are seen in all the shops They look
very dainty and are wonderfully mex
pensive. These bonnets arc not formed
of the stiff, artificlal-looking violets,
but the soft double blossoms, dclicately
shaded, and often pcrfumed with the
0aor Of the natural violet N. X. Post
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When Columbus frst appeared upon
the stage ae made his egg-slt Texas
6ifting8
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where win You Get the Remedy !.

'.Too much corn, observes the Phila-
delphia Press, has made corn cheap
and cut the farmers profits, and the
remedy is not in more corn, but in more
factories, which the Mckinley bill win
give" What sort of factories is the
Mckinley bill going to '.give?" It GER
tainly will not give any more carpet
factories II President John L. Houston,
Of the Hartford Carpet Company, Is to
be believed, and he ought to be, for no
is Republican and came very near be-
ing Republican Congressman instead
of Mr.. Simonds. Mr.. Houston and other
carpet manufacturers say In effect that
theduty on carpet woods would shut up
their factories, and this would not help
the Western farmer who Is cons family
producing more and more. ~ Providence
JpsrnaL
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Instantly the vast bulk reared itself
up with sharp, angry hiss, and, before
poor Sam could draw back, the terrible
coils were around his bod y.