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sportsmen at least don't like the way he
did IT,
He is quoted as saying in his defense
that he wanted the race postponed until
the committee and he could come to an
agreement about the points he raised
in his letter concerning the interference
of the excursion fleet. He said that he
asked Mr., Garfield and Mr.. Busk, who
called upon him on Wednesday night, to
postpone the race.
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SlIdli HAL.
"a. CASS Garfield,

Then Dunraven went out to the San
dy Hook Lightship with no intention Of
sailing, and didn't sail He saved him
self another defeat, but American
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Welcomed with Enthusiasm.

Vienna, Sept. 13.-Emperor Francis
Joseph arrived in Vienna this afternoon
from Stettin, where he witnessed the
annual manoeuvres of the German
troops. An immense crowd of people
awaiting his arrival at the station well
coined him most enthusiastically.
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Miss East lat an Oklahoma baID-
Pardon me for treading on your toe,
sir Alkali Ike acknowledgements
nom! Not-a-tall, 1 assure you! Par
don me for havin' toe.-Puck.
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A Rich Tramp's Peculiar Purse.

Wooden-legged Dick is in Washing.
ton and announces his intention OF
going South. Dick has tramped in
every State in the Union, and an &C.
count of his forlorn appearance, hob
bling on badly made wooden substi-
tute for a leg, has received more
favors than usually fall to the lot OF q
tramp. Aside from an occasional
spree, he has no expensive habits, and
saves every dime that is given him.
The result is that he has grown fairly
we'll of. but does not allow that fact
to interfere with his wandering habits.
He is we'll known to the tramps
throughout the country, for the rea-
son that he will never wear his wooden
leg when asleep. Taking it of, the
man removes the top, secures pistol
that he carries in it, and sleeps will
the leg for pillow, and the pistol
where he can reach it handily. The
reason for this is that his wealth, con.
sisting OF roll of bills. the possession
of which would be envied by many a
man supposed to be rich, is kept in
side the leg, and Dick does not intend
to take any chances of its disappearing
while he is asleep. No one knows how
much money is carried in this peculiar
safe deposit vault. but it is popularity
supposed to be enough to Duy'a COM
Portable home if the tramp ever con.
cludes to settle down. Washington
Stor
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Names of Carriages.

The fact that the first coach ever
brought to this country-it being i'm
ported by Colonel Delaney Kane,
son.in.law of Commodore Vanderbilt,
some twenty years ago-was named by
its owner "the tally-ho" is not any
more justification for twisting the
meaning and enlarging upon the i'm
portance of the word, 80 as to make 1T
refer to coaches generally considered,
than it would be to call all yachts
"Alvas" because Vanderbilt chooses to
call his boat by that name. The word
"tally.ho" is used in aperverted sense
as applied to coaching. 1t is a'hunting
term, pure and simple.
Take the common expression that
you hear on every siae. 'tMr. So.
and.so has just passedby in his drag. "
Now, q man up III such things would
expect to see person go by with a
swell four.in.hand tournout. Drag is
the name applied to coach when it
is used privately. As soon as four
finland coach is put into public ser.
vice and fare is charged for riding
upon it, it ceases to be o drag and be-
comes coach, just as a hanson when
driven publicly becomes hanson
cab.
Another common mistake is the call
ing of two horses team instead OF
pair. A pair of horses is never team
unless hitched tandem. A team is
something more than a pair, such as
tandem, unicorn, four-in-hand, etc.,
and to hear people talk abouta pair of
horses as team is quite as bad as to
hear a person say, "John, put that
single set of harness on the bay" A
single set of harness is an impos-
sibility, as it takes double equipment
for set.
Used in the sense of the word trap
is another expression which you never
hear except in the very Yankee States:
1t seems to be generic name for all
kinds of traps, and nothing IS too low
ly or too lofty to apply the term to.
A name almost az general as rig in
its significance is "dog cart" 1t
seems as if anything having two
wheels should be given this name, ac-
cording to the notion here. The only
thing that should be given that name,
however, is two-wheel cart having a
box under the seat, called dog box,
for the reception of dogs, guns, game
and such things. ."
You very seldom hear the arrange
ment of one horse in front OF two
spoken of as unicorn; it is more
usually called "spike," yet this is
the slang name for it. Properly speak
ing, q. "spike" is the name that should
be applied to such teams as you find
working in iron Or dray wagons, when
the driver rides the near. horse and
drives the lead horse with jerk line.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Mining by Fire.

J. O. Hestwood, who is well.known
in this city, returned from Alaska on
the last trip OF the Alaska Comm mercial
Company's steamer to San Francisco,
arriving in this city on Monday night.
Mr.. Hestwood has some mining claims
on the upper Yukon, near Forty-Mile
City. He left that point iI the early
part of September, and it took him
over month to get home. He came
1000 miles down the Yukon to st.
Michaels, on the coast, then down to
Unalaska, and from there across to
San Francisco.
"About 700 people went into the
upper Yukon country last season."
said Mr.. Hestwood, "by way Of
Juneau, making their way over the
mountains ct Chilkat Pass, then on
the ice over tie great lakes for 300
miles; from there they had to go 400
miles further by boat, when they
reached Forty-Mile City. There has
been great deal of activity in the
mines at Forty-Mile. 1t was demon
strated last winter that these mines
can be worked as proftably in the
winter as in summer, in fact, at much
less expense. This is done by the use
of fire. A hole is sunk by fire down
to the pay streak, the earth being
thawed out by the heat. The dirt is
then hoisted by windlass and left on
top of the ground and is washed out
in the spring. opened up quite q
rich claim this season on Glacier
Greek, and have men employed this
winter burning. expect to take in
prospecting machinery next spring,
which will enable me to locate the pay
streak in the gulch in comparatively
short time. By using this machinery
hole twenty-five feet deep can be
sunk in day, when eighteen inches a
day by burning is pretty good days
work. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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TEMPER INcE AND HEALTH.

A paragraph In the Government Gazette
OF Australia throws light upon phase OF
the temperance reform that Is we'll worth
the study of every true lover Of his country
and his race. It occurs In the annual report
of the Assistant Government Statist upon the
Vital Statistics of Greater Melbourne. re-
Gently published. Dealing with the decrease
In the death rate Of the metropolis, which
has been going on during the past few years,
the statist says: SIT has also been Influenced
by the beneficial effects on the genera!
health OF plain living, absence OF luxury and
increased sobrlety and temperance, as evil
denced by the arrests for drunkenness Gin
the whole colony having fallen of by thirty
Der cent. since 1880. and the revenue from
splrituous liquor excepting the newly i'm
posed excise duty on beer) from :es54 900 in
1S90-1 to s576, 900 in 1854; or by thirty
three per cent, Notwithstanding an increase
in the rates Of duty" From statistics IN
this same report 1t is further evident that
with the loss OF drink revenue there has
been loss of sickness and OF death.
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Bodies Petrified in Lava.

When the pick used by the excavat.
or at Pompeii gives forth a hollow
sound when striking the great bed of
lava. care is Immediately taken to open
the cavity that is known to be near.
Into this cavity liquid plaster of Paris
is poured. The cavity serves as a mcld,
and the plaster soon hardens. When
the lava has been removed the statue
obtained usually proves to be that of
woman or man in the agonizing cou-
vulsions of death, the limbs conferred
and the features drawn out of shape,
just Us they were when the person was
overtuken by the flood of red-hot lava
1890 years ago.-New York Adver-
tiser.
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and wood wind instruments, and by

and wood wind instruments, and by
dint of searching as many women
might be discovered in generation as
might be trained to handle the brass
and wood wind sections in an orches-
ira, but the some argument will apply
to them as to their sisters OF the nd
die. It is one thing to be able to per-
form solo well and quite another to
sustain a position in an orchestra. 10
appear before the public for twenty or
thirty minutes incidentally and play
sonata and concerto is no test what
ever of the capacity to work steadily
in an orchestra from two to three
hours at stretch, attention concen'
trated on a conductors desk, and this
point of performance having been
reached through months OF arduous
rehearsal. The most capable and In.
telligent of women can never become
factors in an orchestra of any serious
aims for this reason.
It boots little to argue the question
of feminine capacity to handle one IN
strument better or worse than the
other. Taking it for granted that wo-
man could accomplish as good results
with every other instrument of the
orchestra as she can with the violin,
her physical incapacity to endure the
strain of four or five hours day re.
hearsal. followed by the prolonged
tax of public performances, will bar
her against possible competition with
male performers. She may learn to
play the trombone if she please just
as we'll as the fiddle, but she will never
arrive at playing it in an orchestra
throughout works of special moment,
which have demanded consistent and
protracted labor for their study. The
female violinist who laudably divides
honors with her male brethren is we'll
equipped technically for a good posi-
ton in an orchestrs. There are doz-
ems of young women who play we'll
enough for an orchestral place. But
even were o mixed orchestra of men
and women together condition prob.
able enough to consider, about how
many works of novelty and magnitude
in q year would the ordinary woman
find herself physically equipped to
carry through rehearsal? Not more
than third, probably, of what men
are able to do. Women for solo work
can increase their repertoire by de-
grees OF their own arbitration. re-
hearsing how and when they please
but the grinding tax of rehearsals with
an orchestra which undertakes the
production of several weighty novel
ties each season, together with keep
ing in the best order, long list OF
standard works, would send her phys
ical forces completely to the wall.
Musical Courier South Africa).
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CAVE DISCOVERED IN NEW JERSEY.
Large Underground Chamber Opened on
Farm Near Phillipsburg.

There are a number Of men at work quarry
ING stone on the Carpenter farm, a short dis.
tance from Philltpsburg. N. j.. and one OF
the men struck his crowbar into what ne
thought was q piece Of stone, when TO ms
surprise the crowbar went into the eartn
and disappeared. This led to an tnvestiga-
tion. and a mammoth cave was discovered.
So far as the explorations Of the cave nave
zone. it has been found that there Is MAN
Chamber of about $50 feet in diameter:
branching of from which are a NUMBER OF
passages. From some Of these there Is o
rush of air, which leads to the bshet tnae
there is an opening to the cave somewhere.
Great pieces of something which looks IKE
petrifed wood have been taken from the
cave, and there are millions OF staiact,Ess, T,:
some Of them marrelously beautiful. Inc
specimeps taken out have been sent 70
philadelphia for examination BY geoioSists'
antinunrians and archaeologists. :.
The farm is owned by Mr.. Carpenter, pui
at present is being conducted by Howard
Richards, who is trying to purchase II IRON
its original owner. 1t is believed that the
find ia Of great value from scientific stanl-
point, and may net the ownsra large price.
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CROWD 1T OUT,

Life is very much a matter OF emphasis.
Just rs some books, according to Bacon, are
to be tasted, others to be swallowed, while
some few should be chewed and digested, 80
it is with objects OF interest and pursuit.
Some things may without injury slightly oc
cupy us. which would inevitably. degrade US
were we to become wrapped up in them. II
men would sit down quietly with their con-
science and settle on the things of primary
Importance, and the pursue those things with
all diligence, letting their matters fall into the
background, the occupation OF the preacher
would be gone. II men would edit their
lives with half as much painstaking as q
good newspaper is edited, crowded out and
crowding in according to fixed ruling
principle instead of following the whims OF
the hour, We should see better results. They
would care less about conditions and moro
about conduct, less about dollars and moro
about duties, less about leasures and more
ahout principles, less about fortune and more
about iai,hfulness, less about trouble and
more about truth.
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CONVERTED BARKEEPERs.

"Bill" Fife, the drummer evangelist" !"
who for the last five or six years has had O.
phenomenal success In revival meetings in
North Carolina and other Southern States.
has Just closed three weeks revival at Wins
ton, N. c., after t'converting the whole
town" There were more than one thousand
converts. including all the saloon-ownars
and barkeepsrs in the place, and now the
business men and citizens generally are asked
whisky business, which they propose to DO
by going into other businesses. United
States Dstrlct-Attorney R. B. eileen, who Is
one OF the converted, has started move
ment in aid of these men. They are to be
assisted in disposing ottheir stocks Of liquor
how, 1t has not yet been decided upon
and then the business men will be asked to
give all the e1-barkeepers positions in the
different lines OF business.-New York Post.
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S0Iirrels and Fruit.

Squirrels arc very abundant in
some places this year, and we hear BY
letters from friends that they are
troubling fruit in q new way. I t
growers of pears complain most. The
squirrels do not eat the fruit, but
kuaw into it to reach the seeds, which
they devour as choice morsel. OF
course this makes the fruit worthless,
as it quickly decays. Squirrels are
enemies to the fruit grower in another
way. They destroy the eggs and
young of insect-eating birds, and thus
keep down the numbers Of the fruit
growers best helpers. Boston Guilt
YAtvl.
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THE SILKEN SKIRTS.

Silk petticoats are stiffened with
many cords stitched in their overlap
ping frills, and sometimes very pill
able wire is run in the facing just
above the narrow pinked ruche which
finishes the foot of the incest skirts.
This is practical and sensible fash
ion, for it gives just the support need
ed fox the full-srown skirt, holding it
out so as to be much more comfort
able in walking. The richest bro.
cades are employed for these handsome
petticoats, all those for evening wear
are made of all delicate tints, and
elaborateIy trimmed with pink ruffles
under Hounces of lace. Gayly plaided
taffetas are made up in inexpensive
petticoats for street wear and it real.
ly seems the best use to put them to,
as they are only effective for Innings,
or where CLINT only of thei- mixed
colors is disclosed. Fer waists they
are very trying, and look no better
than plain gingham, which they so
closely resemble. -Demorest's Maya
zine.
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cHILDHo,4oD.MAxHoop.5

40 2 -
This life Is the childhood Of, which yonder
life Is the manhood. AS the childhood is, 30
shall the manhood be. We are making
heaven now. By building into ourselves
principles, by creating in our souls holy
tastes, we are rearing the wall of jasper, and
paving the streets OF gold, and Identifying
the eternal mansions. / believe iheaveuto
be inst this "a new settingof the principles
we are mastering, and working into our per
sonalities, and embodying incur works and
character, here and now. By doing well our
fragmentary duties day by day We are getting
ready to sing the new song Of heaven. This
musician who had large number
Of pupils. 1t was his purpose at the
end of a specified time to give O grand con-
cert, ct which his fayorite pupil was to be the
conspicuous figure. There was one among
the others to whom was given fragmentary
work. No part Of his instruction seemed To
have the lesst connection with any other
part It was dull work, but he practieed
upon the dull fragments and fought diseour-
agements. he did his best aud forced the
whole man into the work. When the day Of
celebration came, he was. chosen as the Ia
vorite pupil. He felt that he did not know. q
ly he took his place at the instrument; but
when the score which he was to play was
placed before him he throbbed and thrilled
with delight to find that all Of the
completed work was made up OF
the fragments which he had mastered, and
which were now perfectly arranged. This
gave him courage. and 80 he performed In
suoh way as deservedly to win the plaudits
Of the great audience. Weare that musician
When we go hence we shall find that the,
fragmentaIy Christian earth-iife, with Its
principles and Its loves and Ats Christ-spirit,
Is that out of which heaven is made. Heaven
is the holy life of earth glorifed and per-
fectly arranged and grandly transfgured. -
Rev. David Gregg, D. D., in .'The Heaven
life - = a.. 'r.s9 .2r 4, ,essi. Z, i
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TOLD OF JOHN B. DRAKE.

The Chicago Evening Post tells number
of characteristic stories about the late John
B. Drake, for 80 many years proprietor OF
the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. On one
occasion travelling man saw him so into q
little room behind the key box frame and
drink some water. as was his habit. and ne
accosted the little man: "Say, John. why
don't you patronize the bar-drink mlnera!
water, cider or some such thing. instead OF
that plain water? If owned this place. I'd
have the best, you cnn bet" ~ had to
break the ice out of the water-bucket wiuter
mornings, and melt it to get drink" re-,
piled Mr.. Drake. "when I was boy. and
somehow lust plain. clear water out OF
white pitcher does me quite well.'
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THE NORMANDY WAY.

An American traveller in Normandy says
that In country tavern he found the follow
ing printed card on the wall detailing the
law of that land against intoXication: "After
two formal condemnations for scandalous
do not count). the offender. ipso facto, in
ours the following disabilities: C) Loss Of
his vote, ,(2) may not be vo!sd for, (9) may
not serve on Il jury, (D may not exercise any
administrative faculty, such as acting as
executor Of a will, and (5) loses the right to
carry arms"
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ELECTED THE CHINESE GIRL.

For the first time in the history Of
the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, a foreigner has been elected to
fill class Office. At the class election
of the '96 medics Miss Mary Stone was
chosen as Vice. President. About ten
years ago Miss Howe, missionary to
China from the United States, picked
up two little vaifs-Mary Stone and
Ida Kahn. at this time the girls were
heathens, but Miss Howe put them in
a missionary school and taught them
to speak and read English, and soon
converted them to the Christian re-
ligion. Mary proved brilliant stu
dent and after three years study IN
the mission was able to read and write
English perfectly. Knowing the brill
liant mind of her pupil, Miss Howe de-
termined to bring her to America for
a college education. Mary Stone and
Ida Kahn, her companion, left Kin
kiang, China, with three Chinese boys
under Miss Rowe's care. On arriving
in this country the party was allowed
to enter without trouble, so much did
they resemble English people. They
started at once for Ann Arbor, and
Miss Stone and Miss Kahn and two of
the boys took the entrance examina-
tions and all passed with high honors
and are still studying at Ann Arbor in
the university. Miss Stone entered
the medical department and soon
showed herself to be an apt scholar
Chicago mes.Herald.
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yAIuE DAILY PRAYER.

We are in touch with the Invisible every
hour; in His hand our breath l., and HIS are
ali our ways We talk with Him when we
pray. This Is the holy secret of our prayer.
we have but to believe to see this secret. not
necessarily to understand it, only to know
that this is its mysterious quality, its match
less splendor, in ORDER to feel the need and to
recognize the worth Of daily prayer.-Rollin
Savyar D. D.
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The Smallest Bank in London.

One of the little historic banks of
London-Praed's, of Fleet street-has
closed its doors, the partners with
whom it amalgamated having removed
to larger premises. 1t was the small
est bank within the city limits, and,
like "Rogers, Gliding & Co.," nour-
ished poet. Mackworth Praed was,
in his way, almost as we'll known and
admired as Samuel Rogers. London
News.
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DETRIMENTAL TO EVERYBODY.

Governor Hughes. O. Arizona. il his
annual message 10 Tim Secretary o; the ln-'
ter:or, urges the bap;shment Of ths liquor
traffic from that Territory. One Of the
reasons he gives is. that it costs the Govern
ment more than the revenue derived from it.
What is poor policy for Territory is also
Sbor policy for State. The sale OF intoNi,
Indians. and in fact Is :! ca J. OF misery 70
even animals
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THE GIRLS OF JERUSALEM.

OF social life the girls OF Jerusalem
know nothing absolutely nothing,
writes Edwin S. Wallace, United
States Consul at Jerusalem, in the
Ladies' Home Journal. They occa-
sionally meet, few together, and ap.
pear to enjoy each others company a
little. They talk about their house.
hold work-which is really everything
they know-and indulge in some light
gossipy chat about friends, though
their gossip is never OF harmful
kind. In conversation they show
some little animation and spirit, but,
being ignorant and illiterate, they
have no idea of grammatical form of
expression. Occasionally cards, dom
inoes and checkers are played, but the
native girls have little inclination for
any pastime involving mental effort.
Such things as dances, fetes and fairs
are unknown to the girls of Jerusalem ;
occasionally they are taken on fam
lily picnic to some olive orchard near
their homes where they pass part OF
the day. From these and all similar
gatherings men are barred. There is
absolutely no commilgling of the
sexes. For girl to appear at any as.
senblage where there are men would
be regarded rs audacious and shock.
ing. No Jerusalem girl would do such
a thing; she would not dream Of com.
mitting SO fatal breach in the un-
written, though well-deined, law gov.
erning the conduct OF her sex. So
strict is this law, or custom, of exclu'
sion that under no circumstances
would girl attend the wedding OF
her brother to which were hidden
guests outside the immediate families.