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To Detect Blind ImDOstOrs.

Sometimes criminals feign to be deaf
and dumb. If the impostor can write
he may be detected by the ingenious
plan adopted by Able Secard, an
old French scientist. When the deaf
and dumb are taught to write they are
taught by the lip. The letters are only
known to them by their form. and
their value in any word can be under
stood only by their exact relative posi-
ton with respect to each other. A
half-educated impostor will spell his
words or divide them incorrectly, and
the errors in spelling will always have
reference to sound, thereby indicating
that his knowledge has been acquired
through the ear and not alone through
the lip. A man who had detied all
other means of detection wrote several
sentences in which the spelling was
obviously due to errors produced by
| sound of words. That showed he must
have heard them pronounced. Able
| Secard concluded that the man was an
impostor without seeing him, and he
subsequently confessed the imposi ton.
Standard.
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Time, near midnight; the sound, a
hard, shocked whisper up those upper
stairs. Down came Mrs. Jones to Mr..
his door, trembling. scarlet, but tri-
umphant.
Now, ma'am, will you still believe
| was dreaming! Listen yourself at
that r~-reprobate's door"
"Ha! ha! my dear boy" came the
silvery tones of "Dottie" from within.
I'm such a nice little sweetheart, Ell?
But | must play lead, you know-never
mind the wife. Ta-ra-ra-"
lWelby. Bother her she can't
act"
lDottie, repeating after a slight pause
and from the other end of the room.
Bother her-she can't act"
There, ma'am," whispered Mr.. Bar
net; what do you say now?'
That We'll see with our own eyes,
sir. Hush! he won't hear the door"
She softly opened it wide enough for
them to peep in-she owe Mr.. Barnet's
shoulder, perhaps to conceal her face.
Mr.. Barnet nearly stiffened where he
stood. His worst fears were confirmed.
Welby stood backing the door. The
table and chairs were pushed aside,
and to and fro the other end of the
space vas gliding the prettiest, tiniest
lady. scarcely four feet high, and rich
~ dressed. She turned slowly each
time, waved her tiny hand, said: Il am
the leading lady," and glided across,
turning again in the same way. 1t was
too much for Mr.. Barnet's propriety
and morals.
You barefaced, audacious scamp
the old bachelor cried, bursting right
in, in a blaze of Indignation. "How
dare you. sir, bring into a decent house
such a shameless
"Whew!'' said Mr.. Welby, swinging
round with dancing eyes and low bow,
''as-the fair Miss Dottie. leading lady
of Welby's Troupe of Automatic Pho
~nographic M~arionettes.'
Table au! and collapse of Mr.. George
Barnet.
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INFLUENCE,

I woLder il ever a wave GIBBS out but It breaks
on ! distant shore,
Or fall any tears
But the faces of years
Are stained through the evermole:
I wonder i ever a day is born or an evening tc
twilight steals,
But they have a mark
Thro' the gathering dark
In the point of their golden wheels:
! wonder il ever a v word is said, or even a song
is sung,
But their souls live on
When their sounds are gone
In the palace Of silence hung:
! wonder if ever a life is lived but its being
gives sweet to some,
But its hands touch still
And it's dream voice will
Speak after its lips are dumb:
And so it may be. thou forgotten one, when the
cup of thy life is filled,
That the world drinks up
From the shattered cup
Whatever and all that Is spilled.
Southern Collegian.
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HUMOROUS.

-Bessie-"He was very impudent.
He put his arm around me twice"
Jessie-'Humph! He must have had
a very long arm"
q can dispose of a whole boat-load
of Sailors" remarked the whale, but
it's when | swallow their yarns hat I
feel worsted."-Elmira Gazette.
Mr.. Gotrox-''That COMPOUNDED
rheumatism is making my leg ache
~awfully." His Nephew-'sEr-you bet
ter have it pulled. Jour
nal.
Favored. - Brassey 1.-THE wicked
stand in slippery places" Fender
THAT is rather rough on Il preacher.
He has more slippers in ibis house than
any man in town."-Truth.
II have" said Teddy Dickens, "a
verwy bad habit OF talking to myself
Indeed she responded, Il have often
heard of people who were their own
enemies. w Star.
lis this dog a real Irish settero?"
"Ah, ma'am, av you could hear him
bark, you'd not ashk thot QUESTION.
Bark, doggy, bark, and show tn Teddy
your brogue.'-Harper's Bazaar.
Don't you think Peterson wears
extremely loud jewelry?:" Eyes, for
I've heard the ~jeweler ask him five diff
ferent times for his pay, and he didn't
even notice him."-Inter-Ocean.
objectionable Offensa Thrown
Jack over. have you, Kitty?' Eyes"
II thought you loved him." 81 did.
but l discovered hat he bought the
candy he sent me at a grocerv."-Buf-
falo Express.
Mrs. Snaggs-s'I wonder what
makes young Mr.. Manchester bald at
his age Snaggs--"It is hereditary"
'.How so?" "Both his father and grand
father were born bald."-Pittsburgh
Chronicle Telegraph.
-Judge-"You are here on a charge
of stealing wood. and are liable to pay
a fine. Do you plead guilty or not
guilty?" Prisoner-'That depends,
your honor. whether the fine is a big
one or not!"-La Famille.
Happily Deceived. Dear me"
said the carrot, sit is pitiable to see the
way in which we useful vegetables are
outshone. l heard just now that two
thirds of the male inhabitants of the
civilized world use tobacco" sOr, at
least responded the sarcastic cabbage,
'they think they do" Washington
Star.
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garments, as his door wa ajar. It al
ways was, by the by. Why. there was
young Welby going out. Yes, the door
shut; and what was more, it hadn't
opened again to that young man at ten
o'clock.
This wa really looking serious, and
Mr.. Barnet pursed his respectable lips
as he slowly retired to his dormitory-
quite a quarter of an hour late.
Il shall just lie awake and watch"
muttered the old gentleman as he got
into bed, which was next the thin
partition wall. IF that young scamp
is going to-ahem-keep all sorts of
improper hours-really, anything might
happen next, and my character be COM
promised"
But Morpheus was not to be so easily
eluded, and Mr.. Barnet dozed for a
solid half hour. He was awakened by
a burst of laughter from the sitting
room next his apartment. Mr.. Barnet
sat up, rubbing his eyes. utterly indig-
nant at such nocturnal orgies. He had
indeed actually raised his hand to give
an angry knock at the wall, when a
sound broke on his ear which made the
remaining hairs O. his respectable old
head stand on end with horror.
A silvery feminine laugh and voice
from that next room!
There was no mistake about it; no
disordered nightmare or half-waking
fancy in the matter. A giddy laugh
and a pretty voice, that said saucily
and very distinctly:
My dear fellow, of course I know
you are dead gone on my little self, but
"'Oh, my, fe for shame,
What will your wife say
What will your wife say"
This adaptation of an out.of-date
music-hall song was sung. and Mr..
Barnet fell back on the pillows gasp
ing for breath.
Then came Welby's stifed laugh
again and his voice delightedly:
That's fine, Dottie. my love! What
a boom we shall make of the affair at
this rate! Well ciew up now, though.
I'm tired"
So the selfish scamp diIn'teven think
that his wicked companion might be
tired too. Was he going to let her out
see her homeo
But in vain the scandalized old gen.
tleman listened for any such indica'
tons. All he heard was the sound OF
a box-lid being shut down. Slipping
out of bed to the door, which he softly
opened an inch so as to peep. he saw
Welby pass quietly out into his very
small bedroom and in three minutes he
could be heard snoring.
Then that creature in the sitting
room would slip out of the house pres
emily! q
Good Heavens! What a shameful
scandal the whole thing is" gaspee
poor Mr.. Barnet, creeping back to bed
What could he do but speak to Mrs
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EVIL COMPANY.
1t Is a Coal That Blackens Even When It
Does Not Burn.

Does Not Burn.
The following beautiful ~allegory is
translated from the German: Sophro-
Mus, a wise teacher, would not suffer
even his grown-up ions and daughters
to associate with those whose conduct
was not pure and upright.
Dear father said the gentle Eula-
liza to him n day, when he forbade
her. in company with her brother. to
visit the volatile Lucinda dear
father, you must think us very childish,
il you imagine that we should be ex-
posed to danger by it."
The father took in silence a dead coal
from the hearth, and reached it to his
daughter.
at will not burn you my child; take
it"
Eulalia did so, and behold, her beau
tiful white hand was soiled and black
ened, and, as it CHANGED, her white dress
also.
1--WE can not be too careful in holding
GOALS said Euialia. in veXation.
Eyes. truly" said the father. "You
see, my child, that Goals, even if they
do not burn, blacken; so it is with the
company of the vicious ~. Y. Ledger.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

1t is reported that Emilio CASTELAR,,
the Spanish patriot. statesman and
scholar, has been invited to deliver the
grafton at the opening Of the Worlds
fair next May. The choice would seem a
good n in every way. He has profound
interest in and extensive knowledge OF
republican institutions, and is one of
the most scholarly men of the day.
Great regret is felt in Austria, espe-
cially in Vienna, over the death of Dan
lei Splitter, the novelist, and one of the
brightest writer's of the Vienna press.
His satirical vienna P~romenades" first
made him famous in the land of his
birth. He was often compared with
Heine. Among his other works are
'Dr. Herenrecht' and 'Verliebter Wag-
~nerianer." Splitter vas born in 1855.
Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz has re-
turned to literary work, after many
years of benevolent labor as president
of the Woman's Educational and In
dustrial Union. She is preparing a
book of essays advocating woman's
work outside of the home as a means of
home development and improvement.
Mrs. Diaz is giving a series Of Human
ity Talks before enthusiastic gather
ings of women.
Josiah Quincy, who is so frequent a
visitor to Mr.. Cleveland, could hardly
be mistaken for a fashionable New
Yorker, though his tall, slight figure
and g~ood-looking, youthful face give
him considerable distinction. He
dresses quietly and well, but does not
share the New Workers. detestation of
knees in the trousers, and probably
never knows whether or not the cut of
his garments is fashionable.
"A story is going the rounds to the
effect that Christopher Lyman Magee,
the Pittsburgh politician, now lives on
the estate from which he was often
driven as a playing, barefoot boy. This
treatment SO enraged him that he de-
termined to buy the property when he
grew up. His success in life has en-
also to build one of the handsomest
homes in Pittsburgh on the place.
Mr.. John Hay questions the state
ment that "Mr. Blaine inherited his
eloquent. magnetic eyes from his
mother Mr.. Hay thinks he possessed
the Blaine eye and the Blaine nose of
four generations ago. These, Mr..
Blaine's most striking features, are
said to De wonderfully like those of a
brother of his paternal grandfather,
which have been preserved in a crayon
portrait copied and enlarged from q
miniature.
Queen Victo<ia will send to the
Worlds fair a water-color, a picture of
Spot" (her favorite fox terrier, and
various sketches of Balmoral done with
her own hands, some, of which come
from the walls of the private dining
room of the castle. Princess Louise
and Princess Beatrice also send pic
lures. Princess Christian sends some
very fine specimens of needlework, exc
cuted with the most consummate skill
and ingenuity. There will also be a
sachet, copied from a piece of Grape,
worked by theuqueen. which was in a
prominent place at the Guelph exhibit
ton of not long ago.
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words to even allude to such audacious
improperly?
~Tap-tap-tapf
Its ten o'clock, sir" came Mrs.
Jones resonant tones outside the door.
"Eh-ah-no-dear me-yes, I'll be
down soon, ma'am," cried MIR. Barnet,
starting up in alarm.
Mrs. Jones retreated, giggling, but
she looked as solemn as a Judge when.
later, Mr.. Barnet sent for her, and
with much stammering got out that
she was quite mistaken about his next
20 neighbours character. Nothing
less than the evidence of his own
senses would make him say so, but he
had heard last night, near midnight,
ma'am, a girls voice-yes, it was a
music hall girl, Mrs. J%ones;' and then
the old gentleman told her what he
had heard, to his utter standardization.
Mrs. Jones couldn't believe but Mr..
Barnet was mistaken. Mr.. Welby was
certainly not married, and couldn't be
guilty of such improper conduct as
having in a lady visitor SO late.
Il heard it ma'am, I tell your cried
Id1. 1dI1Cl DOlG1c was ucT udllt.
Good Heavens. What is that sea mp's
occupation?'
"Why, sir, he's an entertainer, Their
that's all, and must have been re'ears-
ing over by hisself for his new enter
tainment." She was smiling.
Good gracious. a play-actor, you
mean?" cried the Mortified ledger.
That's it, then. By himself, indeed,
Mrs. Jones. / heard the woman's very
voice and words. It's a scandal. ma'am,
and / won't stop"
well, sir, I'll just be on the watch
tonight on the top landing. and if you
hear anything again, step out and call
up to me, and we'll see for ourselves $
said Mrs. Jones.
To this MIR. Barnet agreed. and Mrs.
Jones retired-but up to the first floor
lodger's room. If worthy Mr.. B. had
listened he might have heard peal upon
peal of stiied laughter.
4 X 4
Mrs Jones! Come-he-re-quickr'
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Thibodaux Sentinct.
SHE DROPPED HER MlTTEN,
And Was Angry Because the Deaf Old
Man misunderstood Her.

And Was Angry Because the Deaf Old
Man misunderstood Her.
1t was just six o'clock, and the a
was packed with people going home.
She carried some bundles, and in her
efforts to handle them and save them
from crushing she dropped her mitten.
She saw it go, but was powerless to
stay its decent, and it went down in
successive stages in a triangular space
between herself, a man who looked over
her head, and an individual who was
deaf.
There goes my mitten!'
The deaf man leaned over and said:
ttEh?'
my mitten-mitten-it fell down"
"Well, We can't git it, mum. Y'll have
to wait till the car gifts to the end of
the line, SO the conductor kin pull up
the floor"
ssrn do nothing OF the kind. Be
sides, | amt goin' to have all these
people walkin on it for half an hour.
Haven't we got another oneo?" said
the deaf man.
Course I've got another one," and
she wiggled the hand encased in her
other mitten.
The deaf man saw the movement,
and knowing that women often carry
car fare inside their hand coverings,
reached over and pulled her mitten off
for her.
Then she screamed.
The conductor was the only man
who could edge his way to the scene of
trouble.
Whats the matter here?"
Lady dropped her nickel, and can't
pick it up" said the deaf man.
Didn't drop my nickel-dropped my
mitten,' said the lady with the pack
ages.
said she had another one" pursued
the deaf man, but she lied"
You're an old door post" said the
woman with one mitten.
Queer how folks go travelin' about
town with only one nickel" said the
deaf man.
"They get along better'n people with
no ears" said the woman who didn't
drop her nickel.
WAS that all the money yer husband
give YEP" asked the deaf mar in a tone
of sympathy. Gle must be a regul'r
brute"
IF he was here now he'd eat you up
81 s'pose them's collars and cuffs she's
been doin' up and is goin' to deliver
'em," said the deaf man to the passen-
gers.
Then the conductor said "Fare,
please" and the woman gave up a
nickel that she had been carving in
her mouth.
Thought it was in yer mitten," said
the deaf man.
'You don't know how to think" said
the
wonder why she didn't carry 'em
both in her mouth?" said the deaf man.
"You ought to stuff both your own
mittens in yer mouth" said the woman.
Amt We afraid ye'l swaller yen
nickel hat way some time?.' asked the
deaf man.
'If l do / reckon it won't injure my
hearin'," said the woman.
Then the conductor got down on the
floor and recovered the woman's init
ten and she got off at the next cross
ing, wondering why some people didn't
carry ear trumpets.
The deaf man said by way of enlight
ening the other passengers: Il guess i
was her mitten instead of her nickel
that she dropped Chicago News Rec
ord.
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"A Sp anish student, going out with
a party to shoot rabbits, was told not
to talk, lest he should brighten the rab.
bits. When the timid creatures ap-
peared, he uttered an exclamation in
Latin, which frightened them away
and, upon his companions blaming
him he said: 'sWho could have sup
posed that rabbits understand Latin??'
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An Old Scran.Rook.

"What was that book you were read
ing just now, Johnny? 1t was labeled
the Marquis of Queensberry's Rules
"Oh-er-that?" Johnny replied.
t"That was nothin' but an old scrap.
book."-Washington Star.
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Little Mabel-"Mamma, don't you
think / can teach Fido to talk?'
Mamma-'sNo, dear; what made you
think you couldo" Little Mabel
"Well, when / gave him his dinner he
growled just like you say papa does
when his meal doesn't please him.
Inter Ocean.
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Her Rebuke.

Larkin tat telephone)-Hello!
New girl tat centraD-Is that the
way to address a lady who is a perfect
stranger to you, sir?-Elmira Tele-
gram.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-11-23
sects In the British Puujab.

There are said to be 33 crores of
gods in the Hindoo pantheon, and
putting the crore at 1000, 900, even
allowing for the depreciation of the
rupee, this is a large supply. In the
British Punjab there L said to be
only 1000 sun worshipers, a state
ment painful to believers in the solar
theory of myth. For it is plain that
serpents, rivers, the earth and ances-
tors, not to speak of Yogis, must sup
ply more mythology than the sun, if
the figures be correct. AT all events
all these denominations live very
peacefully together, but do not burn
each other for their very striking
differences of theological opinion.
This proves that they are wiser than
our recent ancestors. No Cd would
put a fellow creature to the torture
like Archbishop Spottiswood with
Father Oglive) for being a sweep.
Yet sweeps differ as much from Dds
as Episcopalians from Jesuits.-Lon.
don News.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-11-23
"
SUMMONS.
No stock sold without venting.

In the Justices Court Of Fort Maginnis
Township, County OF Fergus. State OF Mon
tana, before Emil Plum, Justice Of the
Peace.
Craig Sample, Plaintiff, ~. Watson and
Weaver, Defendants, Summons.
The State of Montana to the above
ma med defendants, Greeting:
You are hereby summoned to be and APP
pear beione me, Emil Plum, a Justice Of
the Peacc in aud fur the County of Fergus,
at my Office in Fort Magiunis, on the 9Th
day al December, A. ID. 1893, at / O'Clock
p. m. of said day, then and there to make
answer To the complaint Of Craig Sample.
the above "a med plaintif. in u civil action
to recover the sum OF one undred and
twenty-five dollars for b performed
two months and fifteen days wages at $50
per month-and in default thereof iudg-
ment will he rendered against yUu, Watson
IL Weaver. the allow named defendants,
for the sum OF one hundred md tvs ent y-hve
dollars and costs of suit in you behalf eN-
pended.
Given under my hand this 23rd day of
October A. D.. 1888 MIL PLUM,
Justice of the Peace of said Township.
First publication October "a. 1893.
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The Pygmies Of Spain.

AS might have been expected the
dwarf race of Morocco and the Atlas
has been traced to Europe, and fairly
pure types are found in Spain, espe-
cially in the province of Corona.
These people + only 3 feet z inches
to 3 feet 8 inches high and L other
wise characterized bya yellow skin,
broad, square faces, Mongolian eyes
and red hair of a woolly texture.
Specimens of them T occasionally
to be seen in the markets of Sala-
manca, and there is said TO be a num-
Der in the Col de Tosas and the valley
of Ribas, several hours by rail from
Toulouse. 1t is not improbable that
the Monaghan eye, which is observed
in a small percentage of Welsh and
English people, is derived by inherit.
ance from the Iberian pygnies OF a
common ancestry.--Cassel's Maya
zine.
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A BIT OF

Sing, sing. you sweet bird. my yellow canary.
You friend of my silent hoursi
However the moodsof the household may vary
There's a bright note from you. my yellow ca
nary:
Your song soon follows in showers
Surprising the telephone call is most trying.
Or the organ grinder is heard.
Or unwelcorne care Is knocking and prying
Till we sill aver we would rather be dying.
Still you trin and trip it. my birdl
In the hush of summer when robins are doing
Your MARBLE rolls clear in a tune.
When callers are tanning and laughing and
pressing,
And l am a tropical yawn half disclosing,
Your CHEEKY roulade is a booni
You like my caressing. my glance and ~
praising,
You hop and you perk, don't you. Dick?
Your intelligent ways are simply amazing;
The whole day long you are never caught
lazing,
For you peck and you sing double quickr'
But at dusk you mount the perch of your
choosing
To dream through n sleep of the JUST"
You tuck your head in to avoid risk of losing.
And each fairy feather stands guard while
you're snoozine.
Dick, you look like a star of gold Dust
Rose II. Lathrop in Ladies' Home Journal
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The Professor Was willing.

A college professor, whose house
was just beside a dormitory inhabit-
ed by a rather fast set, one night
was awakened by an enormous clat-
ter. On the professors steps was a
much befuddled student banging the
knocker, kicking the door, and rails
ing a row generally. and above was
the nightcapped head of the profess
or, vainly trying to make himself
heard above the din. Finally there
came a lull. What do you want"
called the exasperated professor.
Want t stay here all night" said
the student. We'll" said the pro-
fessor. IF it'll do you any good, stay
there!" and he slammed down the
window.-Boston Budget.
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Found In Nearly Every village.

There is generally somebody's
lady as a rule-in each district, on
whom its finest malaprops are IA
thered, sometimes quite unfairly. 1t
is she who is reported to have made
that speech about the glories of her
fathers house, up to the door of which
there ana''revenue of populartrees, T"
she who asked her daughter to play
that little ''malady" she had learned
at the cemetery, and she again who
pronounced Mr.. Brown as proud as
Luther" while the tuft hunting Mr..
Smith was such a toby" he deserved
to be ''tattooed" at his club. Dear
Mrs. Malaprop, what should we do
without hers-London Globe.