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To Name spri:aaGeId's -Four Hundred.

~ it.a bafn seyen years slEce q a-ae
Boo "ls printed, and il that time there
have tecu iuaEy social changes. ! Sore
have dropped cut of the charmed circle.
cG23e q tEe buds have developed into
n~l.troils, WE:!e others are still serving
Us bridesmaids. And ON of the pie
heians have acquired property or gained
culture and are knocking for admission
At society's gate. All that is needed is
official recC g~lition. We need Il Blae
Book, the stars to indicate the grade Of
patricians. It viii be we'll for the COM
piler to remain unidentified until the
book has been published, and then, as
III the previous case, to promptly leave
town-to 60 far away and stay away.
The Price & Lee company, which has
been compiling dry and accurate direc-
tories OF Springfield, has the tenierity
to that it is prepared to CLASH
fy Springfield society. The preliminary
circulars arc out. Now is the time to
get into line if you want a three star
grade i'll TIL armament of the Four
Hundred. The Blue Book enumeration
has not started Oh her rounds yet En-
terrain and 30 to entertainments. The
sheep and goats are to be divided, and
it may again be seven years before an
other Blue Beck division is made
Springfield (Lass.) Republican.
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engaged for q few nights at Marseilles.
and her frs; thought on arriving there
was to inquire where CHE could order hcr
favorite dish. She was recommended to
%patronize . humble just Ey
the thcater. and going there gave her
order il person.
At 8 O'Clock, as arralAed, mine hest
called his serving maid. and placing i
gigantic tuIetl IL Ter Lanes .cld her -
take It tc Line. c. on tho sage. lc
added ;!!ut orders had been give. to ID
her pass y IL Ier bowl, :,htl oa i..e
girl a-s.ra.tc .sat She lecoCa1.a
II. caLtafr.cas sens her of N!tn tho soap
Livery l9lr $3.50 Wy lv.C-2 Tx servant
carrying sacred r.cul OF tic st@.,
when s2Gtitl.J bstnocn tie wings nc
caa@.It si3kt C the Irina DELTA, who
was Singing tho l-aa.o CT TIC 14,ss act G:
"~t.,c::."
TaTsnswGoa and Lis betro:hod were
l1sc ule~t !, ten.n ia passionate sco5e
witch h.i. W eozsn lite -cgr:-in w.4ol tic
naiu entered tic placed tic turecn 81
TIC lcosiy hanG il font al tho fountain.
THEN lt1Gi4s up tie cover and ~pianslns
IL & spoon s4,e exclaimed to the ssupe-
tac;io:! q III cea and audience alike:
"Lc-sl@s, your pardon for interrupt
ing .yor, - and tic l'iy, put here's
tac soap. H-LuaGal I!t-Esits.
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INDIAN JOHNS NERVE
ADVENTURE OF a RAFTMAN WlTE A
CARGO OF INTERCOLLEGIATE

The Death Dealing Graz. Was Deserted by
Its EeEul.r Grew, and .AwSEI Things
Might Have happened but Tor the Cour-
age and Skill IS q Pilot Shown By John.
"John Jetfersy. CT Indian John, as
he Was called, Who died near Tionic-
ia, Pa, the ether day said G. p. Mc-
Dcr1nott, Q western Pennsylvania lum-
bcrcperatlr, was Ct the last Of the
old time Allegheny river pilots, the
men Who guided tie immense pine RATS
firm the headwaters to Pittsbrrg in the
days before the big steam mills and
the railroads came into the wilderness
and made rafting 4 thing of the past.
Ho was IL Indian Of the Cornplanter
family, and must have been well Oh to-
ward 100 years old. They tell hundreds
Of tales Of Indian Johns exploits as a
raftsnlan, a calling that was attended
with constant danger and great hard
ship. I remember we'll enc act of his
that showed the GOODNESS and bravery
Of the man.
1T was in the days when the lower
Pennsylvania oil districts were supplied
with nitroglycerin from the isolated
factories in the woods Of Warren and
Mexican counties. The explosive wasn't
manufactured elsewhere in the region
then to any extent. The nitroglycerin
was run down the Allegheny in stiletto
shaped boats 80 feet long and 4 feet
wide. Each boat carried about 10, 900
pounds Of the stuff. and each boat was
manned by two men. They ran swiftly
i'll the current. and the weight of their
cargo was SO great that in case Of a col
lision between one Of these boats and
other craft i'll the river the chances were
10 to / that it would be followed by
horrible consequences, and everything
else on the river gave them a wide
berth.
1.-THE men who ran these nitroglycerin
boats had strict orders to tie I'D wher-
ever night overlook them and not to
run a minute after dark. These men, as
may well be imagined, were absolutely
without fear and managed their death
bearing craft with a ~nonchalance and
independence that were a source Of per-
petual terror to the crews Of ordinary
boats, to raftmen and to the citizens Of
the towns past which they ran or near
which they tied up.
ION occasion the crew of a nitro
glycerin boat were overtaken by dark
ness at a lonely spot where there was
nothing but deep woods ON either side.
The night was cold, and it is presumed
that the men were hungry. The men
were Jake Barry and Dick Spooner, bet
ter known as Devil Dick, from his
recklessness in handling nitroglycerin
while hauling it in wagons to the mills
or in unloading it. It is known that
these were the men, because they had
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SOUND. / GIoaeIy scanned the ground
around, bit l could see nothing, and,
Though I listened. while the perspiration
came OF il big beads, though it vas a
cool night for India, the sound was not
repeated.
had begun to think that l was mis-
taken and that my nervousness had
alarmed lie and was laughing at E1y
fears, when once more I heard distinctly
tho sound as Of 4 camel's soft foot, al
most noiseloss. Wheeling aroand the
next moment, / saw for AZ instant 4 fig
ure stealing toward me IL the shadow Of
the temple tower and hardly To lie dis
cernca from it. /. was between ne and
my friends. but what was it: Much
larger than a man it seemed. Should /
fire and give tGe alarm, or should I
wait: "a those days we hac only Eluzz!e
leaders, arc to fro without the shot to-
lrg meant 60 have nothing but tho bay
onet Ia depend c.. / ln.aad ny lnue.1eg
ana fired. No motion, ana i reloaded
while the guard hurried down freal
camp and AL was hustle and preparation.
OoinS Cautiously ioIWt-Ic We 1Oand
what appeared IL the DIM light to lie 4
black bear, but pulling it into the noon-
light a large crooked blade shoue cut
from I OF its paws. The next Dag We
found a hole IL the ground, which il
the day was covered by & stone slab,
leading down to a canal which connect
ed with tie tank il the temple. and il
this canal were the bodies Of three Of
our sentries, with their threats cut.
Tho mystery Of the floating body was
solved. -Chicaso Timcs-EIeraid.
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Grave Ecooys aad Skis.

Tire siege had lasted altogether sc
days. End there had Geen 50 men killed
and GO woucded. The sepoys dad SUI
fered greatly from want Of food, as to
eat EcIsefesh like the officers would
have been against their creed, and the
CHI lGd long run out. They lad only
half rations Of flour, and when the relief
came, they were weak and emaciated
frcm wan Of food and sleep, but their
endurance and pluck were most ad,nira-
bic. The sikhs especially showed extraor-
binary nerve. The worse the outlook
tho cheerier they grew. They would sit
all day cleaning their rifles, with a
quiet smile, as though the anticipation
of defeat mad never entered their mind.
They felt sure, they said, that the gov
eminent WoEld not desert them and
that in due time help would come. A
one of them tersely pat it, "The arm CT
the government is slow, but it reaches
very far" Indeed, no praise can be too
great for the Sikhs, who were the very
backbone CT tie defense. They net on
ly endured hardship and privation with
out a murmur, but they fought with q
quiet. dignited courage that in itself in
spired confdence.-''The Chitral Cam
paign," by Thompson.
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Gsnto0oux 5eutVlei.
CRACKERS FOUND ALL OVER.
Wanderers of the Tribe In tine West and
North A. Well AZ the So>th.

Wanderers Of the Tribe In the West and
North as Well as the So>-th.
you'll find crackers in other parts
Of the country than the SOUTH said tho
tall, grizzled sea captain like man at the
inn. "I've seen them in every land
yes, and on Long Island. l take it the
cracker belongs to a class by himself.
The crackers, all the way from the foot
hills of the Alleghanies III Lancaster
county, Pa, to the mountains Of Geor-
gia, are, as / take it, tho descendants Of
men from the north Of Ireland. Some
of them reached this state from Canada
and went south by way Of tho old Cher
~ Valley turnpike into Pennsylvania,
and thence into Maryland and Virginia
They are tie best Of the cracker tribe
They still have scme CT tic religion
they started with and "a renna-t OF eli
ergy.
You find q southern c. western.
cracker now and then with q gced New
England name. There was an ca.Iy New
England emigration to tic south. / a4et
oEt il the mCl-tains OF Missouri q
cracker who was d direct descendant OF
the old provincial governor Of rfasaa-
cEusotts, E~nGicot!. lie bore tie family
name ard had 4 trace CT tic New lag
lancer i'll his face, thoueh lie coatd lei-
Their read lics write. He had, however,
his sraDdfataer's diploma from harvard
college. TIE grandfather Lad removed
to Lcrth Carolina, and part CT perhaps
all # the family had Gri:ted west and
finai!- lctcaed Missouri. The crackers
had & way CT tlaveliEg along the MOAN.
tain valleys from state 10 state, and 9
COCO lnaly went into Tennessee ana
Georgia. low York sun.
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started down the river with q boatload
CT nitrocivcecir, which tEcy never de-
liyercd at its destination. and they were
not seen in the oil regions again. It is
supposed that after being overtaken by
darkness they decided to keep on until
they rot neal to Brady's Bend village
before they tied up. OF this l am posi-
tive, ;nyhow-it was a dark night. l
know this because | was a passenger on
one Ct my RATS, which Indian John was
plotting, and we wcrc making for
Brady's Bend ourselves fer the night.
We were nearing the place, and the raft
was being gradually pulled ashore, when
we heard some enc shout out Of the
darkness not far astern:
Jump!'
sThen we heard two splashes i'll the
water. We didn't know what it meant.
We couldn't see anything behind us,
and the r,en On the raft kept pulling il
for shore. Then cut Of the darkness an
object bore down upon us dinlly, scraped
the hind end cf the raft and came gently
Ci tiCNfi -, S4IuAIS 1loAoelN GSAy o1Si-s1 tiN
side C the r;,ft. Then enc of our men
yelled:
"'A torpedo boatH
"Flr q moment we were all terrier
stricken, bat qai1EIy saw that all dam
ger t. - from the beat Wa past. Ey-
eryJhtrc ,was rlsin to cs The boat
had lccn Gba.u,.1.cd ~ its crow vhel
they discovered Is ahead il tins dark
ness and csrectcd the collision that
would have relt Us to atoms. But h.
dian john thought quicker and farther
ahead tnan We Cid. Like Il fash he
thought it out that if that boat went on
down the river with its cargo Of de-
straction it would surely come il CON
tact with something atioat or ashore
with consequences horrible to contem-
plate. He no sooner thought than he
acted. Tic boat had gone on past us,
OR rather our raft, drifting shoreward,
had parted from the boat. 1t was no
longer visiblc-at least to me. Indian
John Jumped overheard and likewise
disappeared. 1t could not have been
more than ten seconds when the old In
dams voice shouted to Us from some
where out III the river:
"''Me set it him! Nc run it him III
and tic!'
end so he did. lie guided the nitro
glycerin boat through the darkness that
! was LytEis time utterly impenetrable,
and brought it to shore at a place Of
safety. When it is known that a slight
miscalculation Ct distance or locality
might have brought that deadly craft
into forci5le collision with a rock on
the shore or bottom, and its pilot would
have been scattered to the winds, the
nerve and Skill it required for that old
river man to voluntarily take the risk to
avert possibly greater loss of life and
destruction may be imagined.
whether Jake Barry and Devil Dick
succeeded il getting ashore or whether
they were drowned no one ever knew.
IT they did get ashore, they didn't show
themselves IL Brady's Bend. If they
had, after the news got around, they
might Just as well have been drowned
or staid III their boat and been blown
up, fer they never would have seen day
light again. New York Sun.
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Not the Place For the Som.

A famous French prima donna wien
acting delights i'll a big basin of soup,
smoking hot and we'll favored with
grated cheese. Ga one occasion she was
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The Novel With a Problem.

The fiction of recent years has been
criticised as being too much given to the
study Of problems, the solution of intri-
cate questions concerning life and char.
acter. But this feature of fiction is an
indication of the mental activity which
Graves something more than mere en-.
tertainment. The novel with problem
appeals to the desire for something
which stirs the energies of the mind and
furnishes food for thought The differ
ence between a first class volume OF fc-
ton and work Of philosophy ia this
respect is that the latter requires mental
activity while the former starts it and
keeps it going. 1t is mistake to sup
pose that fiction is always perterred be-
cause it needs no thought. With very
large class of intelligent readers it is en-.
ioyed because it sets them to think.
ing without having to apply whip and
spur to their minds.-The AdUance.
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A Strange Story of a Ring.

1t is stated upon what appears to be
good authority that in one of the parks
in the Spanish capital city OF Madrid a
magnificent ring hangs by silken cord
about the neck of the statue of the Maid
of Almodma, the patron saint of Madrid.
This ring, though set with diamonds
aud pearls, is nevertheless entirely un.
guarded. The police pay no attention
to it, nor is there any provision made
for watching it by special officers, be-
cause it is not believed that any thief,
however daring, would venture to appro-
pirate it to his own use; and when the
history of the ring is considered, it is
hardly to be wondered at that supersti-
tious people prefer to give it wide berth.
According to the story that is told of it,
the ring was made for King Alfonso
XII, the father of the present boy King
of Spain. Alfonso presented it to his
cousin Mecedes on the day of their be-
trothal. How short her married. life
was all know; and on her death the
King presented the ring to his grand
mother. Queen Christina. Shortly af-
forwards Queen Christina died. and the
King gave the ring to his sister. the In
fanta del Pillar, who died within the
month following. The ring was then
given to the youngest daughter of Due
de Montpesier. In less than three
months she died. and Alfonso. by this
time fearing that there was some un-
lucky omen connected with the bauble,
put It away in his own treasure box. In
less than year the King himself died,
and it was deemed best to put the ring
away from all the living. Hence it was
hung about the neck OF the bronze effigy
OF the Maid of Almodma. where il appears
to be as safe as though surrounded by a
Gordon of police. - Harper's Round
Table.
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NEW BOOKS.
Mary Anderson's Memories.


"a Few Memories" BY Mary Anderson
MADAME de Navarro) With six portraits,
syo, cloth. ornamental, gilt top. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
This volume will be a surprise to
many of its readers, and very pleasant
surprise also. 1t is one of the most IN
pretentious and yet charming books of
the season. Nine. de Navarro says: 81
will not plead the apology for publishing
these few recollections. that friends-I
might add, strangers-have urged me to
do 80. That excuse is worn threadbare,
and it would not be true to say that it is
that which has induced me after five
happy years of married life and retire
ment to write this short memoir" The
writer has intended her recollections of
professional life for the benefit mainly of
young women with aspirations after
career on the stage. The reading public.
however. will share in the pleasure of
her work, for every page is interesting
and abounds in anecdote and reminis.
cence which captivate the attention of
IL reader.
Nine. de Navarro begins her memories
with an account of her early days in
Louisville. and gives very frank state
ment of the obstacles and difficulties
which she had to overcome to enter upon
her professional career. From this
point the biography unfolds the story of
her notable triumphs on the stage, not
suppressing the failures and reverses
which she encountered. The story of
her early struggles is very interesting
and reveals how necessary hard work
and perseverance is to ensure success
even when attended with native gifts
and genius.
The biography is not made heavy by
unimportant details of the authors life,
but embraces the salient points of an in
teresting career in fresh and attractive
style. 1t especially noteworthy for the
brief accounts which are given OF the
celebrated men and women with whom
Miss Anderson came in contact in this
country and in Europe. Among these
may be mentioned Gen. Sherman, Long
fellow, Wilkie Collins, Lord Tennyson,
Robert Browning. Lowell and Glad
stone, with Edwin Booth. John McCul-
Tough, Sarah Bernhardt. and Henry
Irving, among notable actors. The vol
ume, with its glimpses of these distin-
guished characters, has a distinct liter.
airy flavor and contains many fresh and
charming anecdotes of the great person
ages mentioned.
The Memories close with the retire
ment of Miss Anderson from the stage
when she became Nine. de Navarro in
1899. Since that time the gifted and
amiable author has resided at Tunbridgs
Wells in England. Her work, with all
it's unpretentious character. is a charm
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New Biography of Bayard Taylor.

New Biography OF Bayard Taylor.
Bayard Taylor. BY Albert H. Smyth. Ameri-
can Men of Letters Series Boston: Hough-
ton. Mifiin g. Co.
This biography OF Bayard Taylor
comes none too soon to revive memories
of one who made large contributions to
American literature at a time when
there was greater need than at present
of diligent workers in the field of Amer
lean letters. The rapid passage of time
and the development of new writers
makes Bayard Taylor already only
name with the new generation. yet
within the memory of men not old,
Bayard Taylor was popular, almost
famous writer. His books of travel, be-
ginning with Views Afoot," were widely
read and generally admired, and after
Lonefellow and Whittier. he ranked well
with the younger brood of our poets.
He was busy and industrious writer
and traveller who comprised a vast
amount Of the territory of the globe ard
wrote interestingly of what he saw and
heard. He closed his career as Minister
to Germany and died unexpectedly in
the prime of life, beloved by many
friends and sincerely mourned in bis
own land and in Germany where he was
widely esteemed and always popular.
Mr.. Smyth's biography of Bayard Tay
lor is very satisfactory piece of work
and is we'll worthy Of its interesting sub
iect. 1t is biography of Taylor and
more,-a review of the entire field of
American literature during the period
of Bayard Taylors literary activity We
come to know Taylor and his contem.
poaries quite we'll as we follow the pages
of Mr.. Smyth's memoirs. The general
estimate of Bayard Taylor as a man and
writer which is here given, we believe
will endure; it is just and in no wise ex-
travagant. The pleasing and popular
writer, traveller. novelist and poet; the
busy editorial writer for the New York
Tribune; the translator of Faust and the
lovable friend and mpanion, is here
described with the discrimination which
belongs to just and accurate biography.
The volume compares favorably with the
excellent memoirs which have pre-
coded it in the American Men of Letters
series. Chicago: A. G, McClurg & Coz
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through it, that nothing is filthy, and
that the unity of law resides in and en-
mobiles everything.
The French chemists have shown US
that il you go down low enough in de.
gree of heat nature is dead. Below a
certain degree no life exists. Go high
enough and nature becomes a gas-a
breath-a spirit. 1t almost seems a
mere accident that the world is Grass
and heavy.
Nature the AIl-Mother.
The soul of man is the center of all
things and traces of it are wrought into
every fiber of existing things. Nature is
mother of US all. and it is religion which
makes us long to go back to her. We
kill this in the school with technicalities.
A lot of words hide the all-mother from
her child. We should teach in simple
Anglo-Saxon words, which are all full
of love, born out of the love of nature.
One of the barriers which shuts the
child away from her is our impertinent
and intrusive degree of exactness. We
should never permit ourselves to forget
that maxim OF Aristotle's: Don't be
more exact in teaching anything than
the nature of the subject demands"
The old rule has been to do each bit of
work so thoroughly that there would
never need to be any going back. This
is utterly false and vicious. We should
hint to the child first. and at the first
proper time go back again and give
larger glimpse of truth, and so over in
overwhelming circles, full of deeper and
deeper meaning. growing as the child
grows.
What does the word teach" mean?
Its first meaning is leisure, room and
time for the soul to grow. Yet school is
the last place to which we go for rest. 1t
is full of worry and work. Instead of
following the law of interest and making
the child happy, we make discipline of
the will-create an artificial, wicked dis
cipline of the will. This is the devil in
the garden Of Eden, the idea that the
child must be Injured to bear pain and
WEAKNESS and discomfort to prepare him
for life. James Russell Lowell used to
tell a story of the theorizer who was very
fond of eating elder ducks, and who said
that after much investigation he had
found just the right way to feed them to
bring out the flavor of the meat and fat.
An interested friend inquired as to his
method. and he said: "Well. it's celery.
Celery is Just what is wanted-but un-
fortunately the derned things won't
ever eat itv'
Four Lines of Human Culture.
There are four great lines of human
culture. The first is art. Art means
fidelity to nature. 1t is sometimes mere
copy Of form, penetration to its meaning
but it is always dependent upon love
Of nature. Science is the second line,
Its root is in love of nature. All great
discoveries were lovers of nature, and
any scientist who succeeds must love
nature. Literature is the third great
element of culture. Mythology, the
fountain mead of literature, is based upon
the personifcation of objects. Nearly
all words, etymologically considered, go
back to names of nature objects. The
foundations of literature are dug deep
in the earth. Lastly, religion. 1t. too,
goes back to nature.-Address at Child
Study Congress IN Chicago.