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THE WHITE MOUSE,
TRANSLATED FOR THE DISPATCH.


The mouse hole in the great house at the
city gate was no ordinary mouse hole. 1t
was made almost before the house itself was
finished, and since then many happy fami-
lies had lived there. The present owner
had added some Improvements to the orig
inal hole. Among others he had constructed
an opening, leading directly into the large
new pantry, from which such dainties as
cheese and cake could be easily carried, and
thus the old opening in the kitchen cup
board, where now only dishes were kept,
fell into disuse. Peace and plenty always
reigned in this mouse home, where the kind
father and mother taught wisdom and pru-
dence to their children, who soon learned
the art of securing food, and at the same
time of avoiding traps.
There was one little mouse who could
not join her brothers and sisters in their ex-
cursions to the pantry. That was Blanche,
the youngest of the family, and the pride
and pet of her parents. Instead of a gray
coat, such as the other children had,
Blanche s fur was as white as snow. and for
this reason she was never permitted to
leave her home..
''For," her mother had said to her, "you
are SO beautiful that if anyone should see
you, you would be stolen away from us, and
never again be allowed to return to your
home. Think what sorrow that would cause
U.S.
But If Blanche was deprived of visits to
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road poked few miles further through the
brown plains; the houses of Kit Carson
were torn down and moved to the new
terminus, and so it went on, and the cities
of day had soon left only q station and a
dug-out or two, up to which the coyotes
sneaked impudently as of yore.
There are numerous rattlesnakes and the
hideous centipedes-six inches long and
with scores of black-fanged legs-but the
most dreaded creature in all that wilderness
is the skunki The natives are mortally
afraid of these pretty but unpleasant fef-
lows, and declare that their bite is sure
death. The bite of any animal-even man
when in rage is highly poisonous, and I
daresay the black-and-white terror of the
plains largely deserves his bad repute. He
is very ready to attack men. The widest
laugh ever had was at a lonely rancho one
moonlit night when we all slept out of
doors. / awoke to see the undressed
ranchero fleeing about the house as though
the very deuce were after him yelling ''mur-
derp' at every jnmp, and big striped
skunk Looping after him, in great apparent
enjoyment of the race.
Very Near to Starvation.
NY stomach is never likely to forget those
DAYS across the Colorado plains. Meals were
procurable only at tne Iar-apart sectlon
houses-and such mealsi Had it not been
for the rifle 1 should probably have been
starved out. As for the sleeping, the softest
beds to be found-and the only clean ones
were the sand and the grass; and upon them
1 stretched my sleeping bag nightly, writing
till late by the wayering fire of grass and
little roots, and then turning over for so
sweet sleep as beds of down seldom know.
NY feet, too, shared the adversity, though
now so tough. In hunting was continually
stepping-when my eyes were busy-into
patches of the prickly pear, and more than
once the maddening needles pierced shoes
and foot. Once, when stumbled and fell
several feet into such patch, hundreds of
the sting-like daggers went half an inch
through either SOLE. pointing forward. 1
could not cut off the shoe and walk bare
foot 100 miles to a store, and to walk in
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Life's End.

No beings do forever last;
All follow their predestined way,
Some living long, some dwindling fast
Existing for q single day.
The inner shapes the outer frame,
More simple here, there more refined;
Their Makers wisdom loud proclaim
The most of all, the human kind
These under Natures wise control,
Do in perfection highest stand,
And wander on to reach their goal,
The grave, in near or distant land.
Mans days are measured here on earth,
Old age he seldom doth attain,
Oft from the moment OF his birth
In childhood, or advanced in age
Do various dangers us surround,
In peace, and on worlds noisy stage,
We threatened are, by Ills around
Some illnesses one can resist
Far easier in younger years;
They vanish then with lesser fears,
Aud disappear like in mist.
But after great and constant strife,
With hostile, inner racking foes,
An end is put TO human life,
Our eyes we then forever close.
In life we e'er must try our best,
In peace to live and thus to die,
The body though on earth finds rest,
Our soul finds happiness on High
DR. L. GUHzBURa.
XXX. stabsartz, Vienna, Austria.
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15SS-A NOCTURNAL EPISODE.

One day, late in November, an old man
might have been seen riding along one Of
the country roads that led from the city Of
K. He was seated in rickety, old nom
descript vehicle, which was drawn by a
despised, yet patient beast of burden. The
animal was old and decrepit, so their prog
ress was slow, and it was quite dark when
they arrived home. So familiar was the old
gentleman with the premises that he didn't
stop to procure o lantern, but embarrassed
his animal in the dark and drove him into
the inclosure which had been poruioned off
tor him in the barn. The next morning the
man went to the barn and found that he
had, in the darkness, driven his lame old
animal into tree, where he had remained
all night. What variety of tree was it7
q: a. -; ETHYL.
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MOSQUITOES CAN KILL.

A Little Child Was Once Smothered BY the
New jersey Insects.
New York Press.l
Men now living and not yet 40 years of
age remember that during one summer the
mosquitoes on the Barnegat Bay marshes
became so numerous as to cause the death
of COW by their continued and furious at
tacks. Nor did they stop there A toddling
child living adjacent to one of those mea-
dows wandered out of the house one day and
was attacked by swarm of mosquitoes
which seemed to contain millions. With
fury scarcely equaled by tribe of enraged
Sioux on the warpath the insects beset the
child. In an instant her ears ard mouth
were filled with the pests and she was
smothered to death by them before her al
most frantic parents, at the imminent risk
of their lives, rescued her corpse from the
vicious and deadly onset.
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1904 MUTILATIoN.

A disciple of Houdin was showing his skill.
Causing things to appear or vanish at will;
When, taking plant from garden bed
From whose ripen seeds silken boards ap-
pear,
With stroke of his knife he cut of a third,
When q most miraculous thing occurred;
For the part that was sundered stood up on
its feet,
Ready either to battle, to frolic, or eat;
While that which was left more fragrant had
To our fathers and mothers Familiarity
But puzzler's eye would see to-day
Instead of plant in battle array
Two quadrupeds-with a maiden between
Sitting at ease like a fairy queen.
Then the gleam of the blade as it flashed in
air
Revealed a lake diminutive, fair
Beside whose brink a vision stood
Of an ancient king. not wise nor good
Who ruled in Israel in days of old,
Of whose life and death the Bible has told.
Still another stroke, the third and last,
The Jewish king was a thing of the past,
While another beast his freedom had gained
And only sweetheart to us remained;
AS have one and care not for another,
leave her with you my puzzling brother.
NJ. G. WooDFoRD.
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A RATTLEsNAKE IN SCHOOL.
1t Frightened the Teacher and Pupils and
Put Them to Flight.

8 fT1gnCeubu
Put Them to Flight.
Cincinnati Enquirer.l
The other day when the teacher and
pupils of District No. Z, of Clay township,
Auglaize county, arrived at the schoolhouss
they found large rattlesnake quietly
DOING on one of the desks. The lady
teacher and the young scholars, none over
10 years of age, attacked the reptile with
sticks, when it suddenly rose, ratified
furiously, and sprung at them-the first
evidence they had that it was a rattlesnake.
pSs 1ms was who sbot aod
the frightened teacher and scholars went
back to work.
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SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS.

Puzzles for the Little Folks That VIII Keep
Their Brains Busy for Most of the Week
They Solve Them Correctly-Home
Amusements.
Adoress communications for this department
TO e. Z. CHADBoURs, Le,viston, Maine
15S5-A MECHANICS OUTFIT.
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IFAIIyTyvI 1]VIyt1IIp
16S6-CHARADE.

16S6-CHARADE.
First
am, Imust confess
Quite dainty in my dress,
ana parted in the middle is my hafn
although am not vain,
lsport slender cane,
VI patent leather shoes have q pair.
My collars all are high,
The neckties that I buy,
Are such as every primal oughtto wear.
love the pretty girls,
Their dimples and their curls,
My greatest joys to court a maiden fair.
II ever you should chance
To drop into dance,
Pretty sure you'd be to find me there.
Nen.
Oh, it is small, 1 know,
But everywhere go,
Yes, though scour the earth
Far from my place of birth,
Until find some drear, deserted spot.
Beneath the northern star,
Or in some desert far,
Where by no troublous mortals am vexed;
Yet in these solitudes,
Where solemn stiffness broods.
still must ever feel that am ne1
In busy marts of trade,
Where bargains sharp are made,
And men pursue the shining bubbles, gold
There am always seen,
With face of varied mien;
The fortunes have made can not be told.
Strange it may seem to you,
But often it is true
I'm seen beneath the feet Of those Who
dance;
And ever am found
At the tables square or round,
Where gamblers WOO the tickle goddess,
Chance.
Whole.
"Perfection's pink am I,
Never seen by mortal eye,
Though sought for like the famed phflos-
piers stone;
But still the truth is plain
That, though the search Is vain,
In, striving for me man has better grown.
H. G. LOUGHLIu.
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15S9.-POT POURRI.

Iransposition
Final than the sapphire's glow,
Softer than the ruby's fire,
Milder than the blossoms blow,
Prime, thy fair hues all admire.
Reversal
Though mother son, or loving wife
Should come the wretched prime to see.
Yet for the sake of each dear life,
Alas! by him they fined must be.
Mutation
Ye gods, whose statues of fair stone
Stand in the storied land of Greece,
Say, tell me why thy power is gone,
And in thy shrines broods silent peace,
No more the gifts of goods or gold
Are dedicated to thy name;
No treasures more thy temples hold,
And men heed not thy claim.
ALp1NE
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u. Il
crawled backward on my stomach some
hundred yards 10 the foot OF my low ridge
and then, behind its shelter, started on a
dog trot up the Tayine.
His Labor for His Palms.
For half mile or so this shelter lasted
and thence / had to crawl fiat on nv face
from sagebrush to cactus and from cactus to
sagebrush, for fully a mile, dragging the
rife along the ground, and frequently
stabbed by inhospitable cactus leaves At
last, only 300 yards away, l pushed the
Winchester over a little tuft of blue stem:
but before nay eye could run along the sight
the buck gave q quick stamp, and off went
the four like the wind. Ii was a very sore
hunter that clambered stiffly to his feet and
shook an impOtent fist at those vanishing
specks, already half mile away, and
limped back TO where the flag and coat were
lying.
But ill-luck can never outweary persever-
ance; and couple of hours later came my
revenge. just as my head came level with
the top Of an unusually high swell a sight
caught my eye which made me drop as if
shot. There in the hollow, not over $50
wards away, were three antelope grazing
from me-au old buck, with two-inch
pTongs on his antlers, young buck, and
sleek doe. BY coed luck they did not sus-
pect my presence, and it must have been
minutes that | watched the pretty creatures
through tuit Of grass before [ pulled the
trigger. rs the smoke blew back past me
saw the old buck spring high in the air, run
a few rods, and pitch forward upon the
earth. Ills companions stood bewildered
for a second, unknowing which way to run,
and that hesitation was fatal to the young
buck. BE started north, but before he had
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WRITTEN FOR THE DrsrATcH.1
NIGHTINGALE

Who rides so late
On specter steed
At frantic speedf
Who seeks the castle gatef
A phantom on a spectre steed
Unclad in robe or mail
| Rides in the moonlit vale.
Pale Rider, stay thy course,
Rein in thy milk-white horsei
Fast barr'd the castle gate; 81.
Rein in thy specter mate;
Thy knock will not avail,
Thy midnight errand fail.
Pale Rider, halt! Draw night
Who is it rides, and why?
DEATH
I'm Death, and this my steed,
Thy song hath checked our speed,
For since that morn, Mans natal morn,
When Time first struck q jubilee,
The glad salute to earth's first-born,
The masterpiece of Deity,
A song and music stays the course
OF Death and his pale specter horse.
NIGHTINGALE
A birth brings joy; the natal breath
May not bring joy to thee, o Death.
The groan, the wall to thee belong,
'Tis not for thee the voice of song.
NATURE
When Adam took his place -
AS first-born OF his race, f-:
Glad shouts broke out on high
And music shook the sky;
Glad shouts like sounding years
Re-echoed 'mong the spheres;
From Orion to Pleiades,
From Polar star to southern seas
The loud resounding anthems rise
Along the gamut of the skies;
Till sun and star eXultant sang,
Joy to the world! Good hail, Mani
NIGHTINGALE
Such songs the angels bend to hear, =,
But fall discordant on Deaths ear:
DEATH sfr
When all the morning stars =
Sang with the Sons of God,
My strong red steed fell down
In terror and amaze,
While myself grew cold with fear.
When silence reigned again on high
Deaths horse rose up as white as snow,
And Death since rides on pale horse.
Fer since the song of stars
A song will halt my steed.
NIGHTINGALE 20
Wnen Death, song-lulled forgets to ride,
And lays his horrid spear aside, t6L
Then failing heart and clouded brain 80.
May turn to hope and life again. 81 :,
oh, that the stars might ever sing 81
To stay the hand of Terror'5 King;
Sing on, sing on, ye burning throng,
Fill time and space with shout and song.
But what thy errand this fair night2
Who gains by this thy tardy fightf
DEATH
Yon castle gray that stands
Like sentinel on guard,
Shall ope its gates to me.
Within its guarded granite hall,
The inner chamber of the hold,
Where rests the angel of the ark,
I'll take my stand in spite of bars. 4
This night fair Lady Estmere dies.
Her babe newborn lies on her breast;
Through it I'll strike her to the heart
Thy song detained me one brief hour
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1591-DIAMOND.

l.. In Pittsburg. 2. A basket. g. More
imperfect. 4. A saddler. (Obs.) 5. Relat-
ing to the Garden of Eden. g. Numbers of
a sect of heretics of the sixth century. T.
Ravelins. s. A town of Austria Hungary
9. One who sets price. 10. A French ar
ticle. IL. In dispatch. IRON MASK.
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WE call at residence with upholstery SAM
pies and furnish. estimates on work.
HAUGH B KEENAN,, 80 Water street.
81
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HOUSEHOLD goods packed and stored.
HAUGH & KEENAN,, SO and 81 Water st.
su
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L While she has felt the tnr1lflng gov
Ofmother for her first-born child,
Thus making life a sweeter JOY,
And death harder, keener pang.
1 hear her wild appeal to God
To spare her life to love and guard
| The child that nestles in her arms.
Her grief would melt heart OF stones
Sir Estmere weeps in wild despair;
The knight may weep, the lady die,
For man must weep, and all must die
But what is grief to me?
I'm Death, and this my steedl
Ihasten to fair Estmere's side;
Thou and thy song hath stayed
Her flight to Paradise.
She dies within the hour;
Pm Death, and this my steedI
NIGHTINGALE
Stay, o Deathi I'll sing to theel
I'll sing to thee all night,
I'll warble all the day;
New songs Ill make,
Fresh chorals wake,
If thou wilt only stay.
Stay, o Deathl III sing to theel
Oh let thy pale tired steed lie down
Beneath the greenwood tree,
And let me thy worn senses drown
With midnight melody;
A bed upon the clover heath
Is softer than the couch of death.
Stay, monster, stayi o grim .despairi
He's gone! He's gone! Deaths gonel
That dying mother bars my throat,
Her awful cry, her wailing prayer
Would drown the peal of 1oudest note.
Woe, woe is mel Deaths gonel
CHORUS OF SPIRITS
Around the castle turrets sweep
The birds Of i'll omen,
The winds around the gables weep,
And ghosts stalk in the glen;
The owlet on the heath
Despairing boots in wild alright,
The dogs are bowling at the sprite
That haunts the house of death
THE FATEs-
Come to the hall Of death,
Come to the house of woe tonight
And gaze upon the pale cold face
Turned to the weeping stars.
GRIEF
The shadows darken on bier,
A burning censor sadly swings
Where weeping angels guard the dead
With folded arms and dropping wings.
All, gentle mother, where art thou?
Hushed is thy voice and cold thy hand;
weep tn feel no more thy touch:
Come back, come back, from shadowland.
NATURE
No knight ever led in the van
No hero or leader of man,
Fer conquered on land or the wave
But sprang from q mother as brave.
A nerve from the mothers true heart
Will stretch DER the land and the sea,
Though myriads of leagues may part,
At the end of that nerve will be
Her child, her truant child astray.
NIGHTINGALE
Harkl above the castle dome
Sweet music bursts from fari
List l hear the mothers voice
Like echo from a star.
Death no more shall stay her song,
Nor grief shall choke her voice;
Forever on the hills of Joy
She'll wander and rejoice,
PrTTsBURG, June Ii. q. A WooD.
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1593-TRANSPOSITIoN.
Isn't it strange
That you can change
The sweetest female name you know
Into word,
Cruel abhorred,
Whose wrongs have drenched the world with
woef @. BEHs.
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15S7-RIDDUH.

A parasite beneath the sea,
A parasite upon the land,
cling to rocks tenaciously,
And cling to all of open hand.
In commerce, art and surgery,
In home-life, too, I'm priced;
But by the courteous in society
I surely am despised! II. B. 81.
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ANSWERS.
l175-Ar investigations, including those
conducted in, private, are inconvenient to
law-breaking individuals.
Z 1576-Astronomers
l57T-I Miss, take, mistake. 2. Sham, rock,
shamrock. 8. Kit, ten, kitten. 1. Pa,
amount, paramount. 8. Shad, owe, shadow
6. For, bears, forbears.
15IS-Rat-e.
1579-Blac cksmith
l5eu-date, ate
15si-Cottage, inn, hut, shed, barn, hotel,
house, mansion, palace, cabin.
15Sa-Sin-g.
LOSS G RA N G E
E A L M
Z D o
NJ D I O
A O o II
A TIv u
bsA-Lasting.
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CHAPTER II.

RUDG1NG up the
long, smooth aecliv-
ity, pausing now and
then for a shot at the
Fl ock of sandhill
cranes that purred far
overhead, L stepped
across the imaginary
line into Colorado
my fifth State-and in
the cool, enchanted
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1592-A BEAU's sTRATEGEM

1592-A BEAU's sTRATEGEM.
A bashful beau who wooed belle,
The love he bore her blushed to tell:
And, thinking of an artful move,
On paper thus expressed his love:
The maiden, with a ready will,
Took up the beau's discarded quill,
And in one sentence, pithy, short,
She perpetrated this retort:
2 r u
WIN. WILSON.
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4 Typical Floating Town.

Kit Carson, which 1 reached that night.
was sad example of the "foating towns"
of early Colorado. When it was the ter
minal of the track it was rough, busting
place Of 5000 people. But soon the rail-
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THREE-THOUSAND MILE WALK,
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH IY C, F. Ir,t,1s.

run 100 feet another bullet broke his spine.
Before another cartridge could iump from
magazine to barrel the doe was out of sight,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-10

to eat and suffer
a q ain. I took a
little Of your med
iCine, and Rltmuch
better, and a fter
taking a little more
August Flower my
Dyspepsia disap-
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THE SOUTH.

THE first license to a sugar producer
under the bounty clause of the new tar
iff law was issued on the 1st to Edward
II. Cunningham, of Sugarland, in the
Third district of Texas.
AN accident happened to the cruiser
Chicago just as she was leaving the
Portsmouth, Va, navy yard for Boston
where she was to take part in the naval
maneuvers. She broke the cross head
guide of her port engine and will re-
main at Portsmouth to repair the dam
age.
THERE is a rumOr curreEt to the effect
that the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Arkansas Pass road Officials of the
former road have recently made a tour
of inspection of the latter.
The silver jubilee of the Rt Rev.
Joseph KANE, Roman Catholic bishop
Of Wheeling, w. Va, was celebrated in
magnificent style on the ID Among
those present were Bishop Phe1an, of
Pittsburgh, and Bishop Van Dever, Of
Richmond, Va; Vicar-General Tierney,
Of Richmond, and Afngr. J. T. Sullivan
THREE students Of the Woodstovn
Catholic college, St Mary's county, Nd d,
wero struck dead by lightning while IN
their beds at night Several others were
injured
Ok the Kanawhs & Michigan railway.
near Charleston. w. Va, a passenger
train was wrecked on 3 burned trestIe.
Fourteen persons were killed and dfty-
eight injured
GALVESTON wss swept by a gale for
three days. Waters OF the gulf were
driven inland.
FEHE broke out in ". T. Harvey &
Co.'S lumber yard at Columbus, Ga,
and SIS, 900 worth Of lam Der in the yards
was destroyed. The fire swept an en-
tire block and the total loss win prob
ably amount to 500, GOO; insurance about
S67. 600
VOTE8s under the new constitution of
Mississippi are required 70 register at
least four months before election
Registration returns have been received
to make it reasonably certain that for
the first time since RECOMMENDATION a.
majority OF the legal voters Of the state
are white.
MOSES Bros bank at Montro'merv.
Ala, has suspended payment. The as
sets viii amount to more than the liza
bilities.
A TORNADO wrecked the walls of the
penitentiary at Baton Rouge. La, on
the eth Ten cOnvicts were killed aud
a numbs injured Much other damage
was done in the Louisiana capital on
the same day tornadoes were reported
in Mississippi